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The Jerusalem Temple, the Divine Call, and Baseless Hatred and Love

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In the 25th year of the Babylonian exile, Ezekiel (Yechezkal) prophesied that the Holy Temple would be rebuilt. And while chapters 40–48 of Ezekiel describe that Temple in great detail, when the Second Temple was built, it did not follow the specifications set forth by Ezekiel. Jewish commentators argue that Ezekiel’s Temple was not built because it was intended to be an everlasting edifice connected with everlasting redemption.

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Counting the Omer: The Countdown to the Great End-Time Revival

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Today, is Pesach Sheni (Second Passover). This second Passover falls exactly 30 days after the day on which the Korban Pesach (Passover lamb) was brought to the Temple to be slaughtered for the Passover Seder and eaten in the evening with matzah (unleavened bread) and herbs. This holiday is unique from every other Jewish holiday. God provided it as a day of second chances in response to the plea of the Israelites who couldn’t keep Pesach (Passover) just like they had in Egypt the year before because they had become tamai (ritually unclean).

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Abbas Rejects Israel As a Jewish State

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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas was given a hero's welcome as he returned home from Washington. Hundreds of Palestinian Authority employees and schoolchildren gathered at his presidential office in Ramallah, thanking him for resisting United States President Barack Obama’s pressure to extend the US-brokered peace talks with Israel, which are set to end April 29, 2014. Before he left for Washington, similar rallies chanted slogans in his support, urging him not to yield to US pressure to make concessions with Israel for the sake of creating a two-state solution.

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Prophecy, Signs, and the Jewish Holidays: The Coming Blood Moon Tetrad

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Recently, there has been a surge of interest in heavenly signs relating to end-time Bible prophecy, partly due to John Hagee’s book, Four Blood Moons: Something Is About to Change. "A blood moon is when the Earth comes between the sun and the moon," Hagee writes. "And the sun is shining through the atmosphere of the Earth and casts up on the moon a red shadow. And so the moon appears to be red." Hagee connects key events in Jewish history to several sets of four lunar eclipses (scientifically called tetrads) that have occurred around Jewish holy days and significant events in Israel’s history.

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Jewish Prayer Rally at Western Wall Upholds Peace Negotiations

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Last Thursday, thousands of Israelis gathered in Jerusalem at the Western (Wailing) Wall to pray “for the salvation of Israel and the inheritance,” in the hopes of cancelling “Kerry’s verdict.” The prayer rally—which also was attended by the likes of Housing and Construction Minister Uri Ariel, Deputy Religious Minister Rabbi Eli Ben-Dahan, MK (member of parliament) Orit Struk and MK Moti Yogev—was a response to reports that the US Secretary of State John Kerry had proposed that Israel withdraw to the 1949 Armistice lines. “We came here to strengthen the prime minister in guarding the land of Israel,” said Rabbi Ben-Dahan. “Most residents of the country aren’t ready to divide Jerusalem, as is said to be proposed in the plan.”

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Is It True That Nobody Is Perfect?

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Whether prompted by the new year or by other moments unique to each person, it is not uncommon to assess what has passed in order to determine where there is room for growth or for better choices. To align our lives more closely to our ideas of perfection, we often make New Year’s Resolutions that include losing or gaining weight, saving or investing money, working out or working harder, and traveling more or traveling less.

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Israel in Prophecy: A Key End-Time Event – the Balfour Declaration

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Today, some Israelis and friends of the Jewish State around the world will mark the 94th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration, which is part of the fulfillment of end-time Biblical prophecy, and the amazing story of the rebirth of Israel as a nation. "Thus says the Lord God: 'Surely I will take the children of Israel from among the nations, wherever they have gone, and will gather them from every side and bring them into their own Land.'" (Ezekiel 37:21) The Balfour declaration (1917), which is named after Arthur James Balfour, the British Foreign Secretary during the World War 1, influenced the Jewish communities of the world to believe that Great Britain would support the creation of a Jewish state in the Middle East.

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