Priests to train on Temple Model

From Israel today - Focus on Jerusalem

This article was on Israel Today website in late October 2003

For several months, Jewish experts have been working on a replica of the Third Temple in the blazing heat near the Dead Sea. The Jewish community of Mitzpe Yericho, between Jerusalem and Jericho, is home to the model, which is built on a 1:1 scale. Covering an area of 25,000 square meters (269,000 square feet), it will function as a training site to prepare priests (kohanim) for service in the Third Temple in Jerusalem.

Backers of the project say the Jewish people are waiting for the Redemption and must prepare themselves for the coming of the Messiah.

 “After the Six Day War in 1967, when the Temple Mount was finally in our hands again, we all hoped for the building of the Third Temple,” said the rabbi of Mitzpe Yericho, Yehuda Kreuser, who oversees the Temple model. “However, this did not happen. Political considerations aside, we were not prepared to restore the priestly service in the Temple. Now we would like to prepare ourselves for that eventuality.”

Rabbi Kreuser says the Temple service must be approached with fear and trembling because it is most holy.

“Someone who makes mistakes in the priestly service in the Temple can be punished with death,” he says. The rabbi bases this on Numbers 18:1: “So the Lord said to Aaron: ‘You and your sons and your father’s household with you shall bear the guilt in connection with the sanctuary; and you and your sons with you shall bear the guilt in connection with your priesthood.”

Among the Biblically mandated tasks of the priests are offering sacrifices, inquiring of God concerning His will, handing down judicial and ritual rulings, accompanying the Holy Ark, and teaching the Divine commandments to the people. The regulations for the sanctified work of the Temple priests were codified in rabbinical writings many years ago. A man who wants to serve as a priest in the Temple must be extremely responsible,’ explained Rabbi Kreuser. “It is not a job for everyone. The Temple priests are the ambassadors of the Almighty on earth.’

NOTE: As the next two articles will demonstrate; a clear Masonic presence is in the land of Israel.  I believe it is Masons who will in fact be involved in financing and building the next temple. 

As many false religions of the world are now uniting and we even see within Christian circles an acceptance of the thought that the God of the Muslims and the God of Christians and Jews is the same; we can see that a stage is being set for the worship of the Masonic "Architect of the Universe"  in the rebuilt temple. 

This I believe will be part of the abomination of desolation, and the betrayal of the Jewish people as well.  Especially in light of the recent announcement by Kabbalist Rabbi, Yitzchak Kaduri calling all Jews to Israel "for the building of the Temple and revelation of our righteous Mashiach (Messiah).” These events taken together certainly serve as an indicator that the plans for the rebuilding  of the third temple are clearly in motion.