The Testimony of The Future Temple

The Testimony of the Future Temple to the Good News of Israel and Her Messiah

Ezekiel 37:15-27 The LORD will gather the children of Israel. Judah and Israel will be joined into one kingdom - never to be separated again, with one King - from the line of David (v.24). 

The Lord will then make an everlasting covenant of peace with those He has gathered (v.26). “My tabernacle also shall be with them; . . . The nations also will know that I, the LORD, sanctify Israel, WHEN My sanctuary is in their midst forevermore.” 

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Noah's Terrible Rainbow

Danger and might are related to success and security in the Land of Israel...

Prov. 30:8
 As “danger and might” are related to success and security in the Land of Israel, we can see that there is a continuum of faith reaching from G-d’s provision for our daily needs on one end to atonement on the other end— as on Yom Kippur.  And we see that this continuum of faith in G-d's provision reaches to the ultimate redemption itself, as pointed to by the story of Purim. Along this whole continuum we desire the hand of G-d to not appear too lavish nor too severe in providing what we need, in order that our thanksgiving be perfect, without doubts and without confusion, directed entirely and only to G-d.

It is only through His blessings...

“It is only through His blessings, as our verse, (Prov. 10:22), says, that the land provides its fruits," (see linked title for this post).  Rabbi Avraham Greenbaum, (commenting on chapter 30 vs. 7-9), brings out that the understanding of this subject in chapter 30 is King Solomon speaking in his later years, when his wisdom has become the wisdom of repentance. Solomon prays, “Provide my needs so I will be neither poor nor rich, lest I become haughty and deny God or so poor that I steal, lie and take His name in vain.” How can we, together with All-Israel, learn the wisdom of this repentance, even if it only an hour out of our whole life time, where we completely trust G-d alone to provide all our needs body and soul? May the Land of Israel teach faith in G-d to all nations.

There was a boy, a very strange enchanted boy...

I am reminded by the rabbi’s commentary above, (see linked title for this post), of the lyrics to a song that was popular in the 1960s. “There was a boy, a very strange enchanted boy, and he did wander very far over land and sea”. At the end of his wandering, at the end of the song, we are told the greatest thing the boy ever learned was just to love and be loved in return. It seems that Cain never learned this repentance. The Jewish People, however, who also have wandered, have ceased to wander and may be well on the way to becoming an example to the nations of the lessons of repentance and love.

“0f every tree of the garden you may freely eat…” Trust G-d with all your soul...

“0f every tree of the garden you may freely eat…” Trust G-d with all your soul to provide and care for you. “And of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you shall not eat of it…” Do not depend upon your own intelligence to sustain your life, instead of the wisdom of G-d. “For there is a way that seems right to a person but its destination is death".

There Must Be A Corporate Death Before The Resurrection

My work is the service of the salvation of Israel through the death and resurrection of Yehoshua her Mashiach, through which all works of the Torah are accepted by God and without which no works of the Torah can be accepted by God.

For in Adam all die, and the Israelite is not delivered from the fatherhood of Adam to the fatherhood of Abraham completely by the promise of the covenant alone.  Rather, the covenant must be fulfilled.  And how can it be fulfilled unless it is fulfilled corporately?  All must die corporately in Adam and not only individually, for this is the sentence of God, the Creator of Adam.  

The individual’s death cannot atone for their soul without the death of the encompassing soul of Adam in which each and all individual souls of the children of Adam were created.  Yet in the death of the corporate soul, the encompassing soul of Adam, there is no promise of the resurrection of the dead.  This hope of resurrection was given to another by covenant from God, to Abraham and his offspring.  It is this covenant that cannot realize its promise unless it is fulfilled.  Only when one came and prayed for the forgiveness of all the seed of Abraham, making even his own lifeblood and offering of prayer for them, could it be that it was possible that God, the Creator of Adam, chose to anoint this Master of Prayer as the new corporate soul of Adam, both in death and in resurrection from the dead.  

For, on account of this prayer, God accepted the death of this soul descended from Abraham, as being not just an individual death but a corporate death.  For this death, representative of the death of Israel, was in accordance with the covenant word of God, made to be a consequence of Adam’s sin.  

In accepting this God was removing Adam from the position of representing all humanity, and was anointing, through a new creation of redemption, the one who prayed for all the offspring of Abraham as the corporate representative of humanity in Adam’s place.  In this covenant of God it was, therefore, possible that there should be a promise of the resurrection of the dead.  And because it was the promise that God gave to Abraham, to Issac and to Jacob, God raised Yehoshua from the dead to inherit eternal life, as the first among all the offspring of Abraham.