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Efforts by rabbis to see a third temple built intensify

by Jordan Hilger, Worthy News Correspondent

(Worthy News) – Rabbis in Israel are calling for the reinstitution of the temple service as a means of averting plagues, pointing to the Passover sacrifice that saved the Israelites in Egypt as a model for understanding current events.

A request to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu by the Temple Mount Organizations for the Aaronic priests to be allowed to perform the Korban Pesach sacrifice of a lamb on the Temple Mount was finally denied, but not before being forwarded to Internal Security Minister Gilad Erdan.

“We hereby appeal to all who are able to act and act for renewal of the Temple service in general, and the Passover offering in particular,” the letter, which Breaking Israel News reports was endorsed by major rabbis and religious leaders, reads.

The rabbis, among whom were Rabbi Schmuel Eliyahu, the Chief Rabbi of Safed and member of the Chief Rabbinate Council, and the rabbinical judge Rabbi Benayhu Brunner, also expanded on their theology of sacrifice in light of current events.

“We know that it is in the power of the Temple service to remove God’s anger from Israel,” the letter claims. “The merit of this mitzvah will save all involved from all tribulation, affliction, and disease, just as the first Passover offering in Egypt protected Israel from the Angel of Death.”

The rabbis further promised that efforts to build the temple for this purpose would, therefore, proceed “in a compulsory and more intensive way,” and that the religious leadership would “endeavor to do so this year, in the face of the terrible epidemic.”

A third temple in Jerusalem, Christian prophecy scholars understand, is the site of a “strong delusion” (2 Thessalonians 2:11) that “would deceive even the elect, if that were possible” (Matthew 24:24).