BibleSearchers Reflections - The Israeli capital city of Jerusalem was swarming with police and security officers over the 2010 Pesach week as a reported 600,000 Jewish and Christian Israelites came to the Western Wall to pray and beseech the G-d of Israel for peace and security. One month earlier, the Hurva Synagogue was dedicated after it was rebuilt for the third time, therefore revealing the ancient 18th century prophecy of the Vilna Gaon that when the Hurva Synagogue is destroyed twice and rebuilt the third time, the Third Temple in Israel will be constructed.
With the dedication of the Hurva Synagogue, several weeks of riots by the Palestinians erupted with the resultant lockdown of the Temple Mount to only Muslim men over 40 years of age over the fear of a Jewish conspiracy to take control of the Temple Mount. In a season of heighten tensions, the police were deployed in large force along the Western Wall, eastern Jerusalem and the cities’ public malls and parks. Even the American government went radical as noticed in article, “The Hurva” and “The White House” as insane American and International political pressure was being forced upon the Netanyahu government to stop all construction not only in Shomron and Judea but also in East Jerusalem, and virtually capitulate by giving away the central region of the Land of Israel to the Palestinians, a land that has already been given by the G-d of Israel to the returning Lost Tribes of the House of Israel.
Amidst all the great throngs of people, Yehuda Glick, the recent Director General of the Temple Institute, and Noam Federman were stopped, interrogated, and arrested, according to some reports in separate incidents, under the suspicion that they were planning to sacrifice goats upon the Temple Mount along the side of the Old City of Jerusalem. Part of this suspicion was that one month earlier the Temple Institute had sued the State of Israel to allow them to start ritual sacrifice over Pesach on the Temple Mount. They also offered for the first time in two thousand years, to purchase a subscription for a portion of a Pesach Lamb to be eaten on Passover 2010, if they were permitted to begin the ritual sacrifices of the Passover Lamb.
Rumors were that Federman, known as a rightist activist, was suspected of planning to ritually slaughter a lamb in the newly constructed Hurva Synagogue located near the Temple Mount. When he was found with a goat, the police thought that only a lamb could be slaughtered and released him after questioning him, but took the goat to the Agricultural Development Unit in the Agriculture Ministry.
Israeli Attorney Noam Federman, an Israeli Patriot Settler and Wife
Shortly afterwards, Federman was arrested once again near Dung Gate in possession of another young goat. As he later told the Ynet news reporters, “I come here to observe the holiday mitzvot. It's a shame and a disgrace that the police are trying to stop Jews from going up to the Temple Mount and offering a sacrifice for the Passover holiday." There was also a report that a group of young girls were making their way to the Temple Mount with a fourth young goat.
Noam Federman, an Orthodox Jew, today lives in the city of Hebron. He was formerly a leader of the Kach Party, formed by Rabbi Meir Kahane in 1971, and after winning seats in 1988, was barred from participating in the elections for a seat in the Knesset in 1988 because the Kahanists were thought to be too radical, too anti-globalist and too non-conformist.
If the Israeli Knesset had adhered to the vision of the Kahanist, taking control of the Temple Mount before the Oslo Peace Accord, refusing to participate in a “Land for Peace” negotiations with a people whose leadership refuses to take from their Charter the total annihilation of the Jewish people, they, nor possibly the world would not be facing the existential fear of a world Islamic Jihad. America would not be today looking for assimilation under Islamic Sharia law rather than the Torah law, the foundation of Western rule of law built upon the principles of the Torah shared with them by the Jews and the Lost Tribes of the House of Israel.
Instead the Kahanists were charged with inciting racism and unwillingness to participate in the future vision of “Two-States” solution living peaceably in the Land of Israel before there was even an Oslo Accord. They understood the biblical truism that they as G-d’s chosen people were to remain separate as a “covenanted people” for any assimilation into the nations of the world would only seek their own Jewish extinction.
Noam was born to a Jewish family whose living legacy as Jewish patriots are no less well known than the Jewish Zealots in 1st century CE who repeatedly sought to retake the throne of Judah away from the Herodian government. His father, David Federman was a Lehi fighter that was arrested by the British forces governing the region under the British Mandate by the League of Nations. He was deported to Ethiopia because of his nationalistic views and while there became prison cell mates with the future Prime Minister of Israel, Yitzhak Shamir.
They were truly G-d’s patriots who like Yahshua HaNotzri (Jesus the Nazarene) and Yahshua’s uncles and cousins who were the leading Jewish Zealots, lived in the Roman province of Judea yet fought physically or spiritually for freedom against Roman oppression. Yet, they, at the same time, lived their lives above and beyond the letter of the law. They believed the Land of Israel was sacred and the sanctity was only preserved if the “chosen ones” kept the Torah to its fullest dimensions.
Noam himself has been held in administrative detention several times for defying the governing laws of the State of Israel he felt were in violation with the Torah law given to the Hebrews by the G-d of Israel at the mount called Sinai. In the year of 2002, Noam was falsely accused of transporting explosives with the intention to blow up an Arab girl’s school in Eastern Jerusalem and was kept in house arrest for over six months. The charges were later dropped but he also successfully sued the State of Israel for false arrest.
An attorney by profession, the State even sought to remove his law license for having a life-style “with a past as rich with disturbing the peace”. As a father of nine children, he became internationally known for having his home, built without a license in Kiryat Arba, near Hebron torn down by the State of Israel in the middle of the night.
Yehuda Glick, on the other hand is highly respected and honored as one of the Jewish leaders in Jerusalem. He was the former director of the Temple Institute that only two years earlier he presided over the “First fitting” of the Jewish Priests as they were Preparing their Holy Temple Garments that was held in Jerusalem for the first time in over two thousand years.
The Sacrificial Goat or Lamb
Even this Jewish Third Temple is highly controversial, as reading in the reader comments to the article titled, “Future Temple Jewish Priests get Fitted for Holy Garments”, for many Jews believe that the future temple can only be built by the coming Messiah. That still does not preclude a temporary Temple, called the Tribulation Temple, Masonic Temple, the Rothschild’s Temple, or the Abomination Temple. It gives us pause that G-d’s intentions are never known exactly to us in advance.
Yehuda has also, in the past, been singled out and arrested when he was standing in line to ascend to the Temple Mount during the few hours that it is open to the Jewish public. Once he was told that he could not “ascend” to the Temple Mount until he had a psychiatric evaluation. Even to this day, the Jews that are prepared to ascend in sanctity having taken the halakhic preparations of immersion in a mikveh (ritual bath) as prescribed by those rabbis who permit visiting the Mount. Even so, it is usually the orthodox Jews, who are singled out and occasionally arrested as opposed to gentiles or Christian tourists who are permitted to walk up to the Temple Mount with minimal consideration of its sanctity to the G-d of Israel.
Known in Hebrew as the Machon HaMikdash, the Temple Institute is well known around the world as an Orthodox Jewish organization that is focused on the reestablishment of the Third Temple in Jerusalem, however controversial that may be. It is their expectation that the Third Jewish Temple will be built on the Temple Mount, according to Wikipedia, on the site that is currently occupied as the Dome of the Rock. It is there that they plan to reestablish the animal ritual sacrifices someday in the future. As so, they have spent decades researching all the ritual objects, garments of the priests, plus the building plans for the construction if the temple since its founding by Rabbi Yisrael Ariel.
Even this Jewish Third Temple is highly controversial in Jewish circles, as reading in the reader comments to the article titled, “Future Temple Jewish Priests get Fitted for Holy Garments”. Many Jews believe that the future temple can only be erected by the future Messiah. Yet, that does not explain the enigmatic verse in Daniel that suggests at the consummation (prophetic completion) at the end of days that a “prince” shall enact a seven year peace pact with the rabbinic “Great Ones”, that reads:
Daniel 9:25, 27 – “Know there and understand that from the going forth of the command to restore and rebuild until Messiah the Prince, there shall be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks:…
And after the sixty-two weeks, Messiah shall be cut off, but not for Himself; and the people of the prince who is to come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end of it shall be with a flood, and till the end of the war desolations (World War I and II, two Iraqi wars, War against Terror (Islamic Jihad) as GoguMagog I, possibly a future Psalms 93 (Islamic War against Israel), Zechariah 9 (Destruction of Damascus, Lebanon and Gaza), and Ezekiel 37’s Gogu-Magog War II) are determined.
Then he (Little Horn of Daniel 8) shall confirm a covenant with many (Great Ones of Israel and with the Quartet (United Nations, Europe, Russia, China) for “one week” (Sabbatical Week of Years); but in the middle of the week, he shall bring an end of sacrifice and offering and on the wing of abomination shall be one who makes desolate (Little Horn) even until the “consummation” (Return of the Powers of Light) which is “determined” (Appointed Time by the G-d of Israel) is poured out on the desolate (Destruction of the Powers of Darkness with the returning Messiah).”
As with all prophesies in the past, that were literally fulfilled, the biblical principles suggest that at the time of the end “which is determined” by the Eternal One of Israel, all mini-dramas, or rehearsals in the past will be replayed again at the end of the age in one giant prophetic vortex. How will the sacrifices and offerings be brought to an end, if ritual animal sacrifices were not instituted prior to the coming of the Messiah? To do so, they would have to recover the ancient Wilderness Sanctuary or complete the building of a Third “Tribulation” Temple in Jerusalem. A literal exegesis of scripture cannot explain it any other way.
How the G-d of Israel will steer the Jews and the Lost Tribers of the House of Israel and mix up all our human perceptions and realities, we do not know. He is Sovereign and our role is to learn, observe, and to obey. Who are we to suggest whether the G-d of Israel is truly giving us literal visual word pictures today to help us create our future realities? But He might be doing just that! It might take a Third Tribulation Temple in Jerusalem to hasten the coming of the Messiah. With the great disappointment when it is desecrated with an abomination of desolation, it may impels even us Lost Israelites to begin supporting our tribal cousins, the Jews, to call upon the Name of the L-rd for reclamation, redemption, and restoration at the end of days. Yet, the prophets do days, that there will be a day, when they and us will collectively seek to form that national unity to do what their rabbinic leaders agree is their covenantal duty, so that they may have “emuna”, faith in the Sovereignty of G-d so that they will call upon the Eternal One of Israel, and listen as He, the great “I am”, may have the privilege to answer, for He does promise, “when you call upon Me, I will answer.”
It appears that redemption usually comes on the heels of great social and climatic divide and at a moment of time when there is no one else to call upon, not even America, but the G-d of Israel. It’s too bad that we, as one family could not do this earlier; the Leftist Jews, the Rightist Jews, and the Globalist Jews and the Orthodox Jews and the Lost Tribes of the House of Israel. HaShem (The Name) does not prevent us from using our free will but He may be impelled to engineer the events in our personal and collective lives until we are given choices we cannot refuse.
Credit to the Jerusalem Post – “Federman detained with Goat in Car” – March 29, 2010
Credit to Shmulik Grossman with Ynet News – “Rightists arrested over Pesach Sacrifice” – March 29, 2010
By Jonathan Pollard with Israeli Insider – “Noam Federman – The Fight for Israel’s Soul” – April 25, 2004
By Ze’ev Ben-Yechiel with Israel National News – “Future Temple Jewish Priests get Fitted for Holy Garments” – July 3, 2008