CLOTHES
FOR THE ANTICHRIST
Dr. Allen M. Barber
December 4, 2007
The Temple
Institute in
The words,
“Holy for
God” are engraved on it as commanded in
Exodus 28:36. Rabbi
Yisrael Ariel,
Director of the Institute explained the Halakhic (legal aspects)
for
temple
worship. “The temple artifacts are to be fashioned in purity
and until we have
the ashes of the Red Heifer to purify the temple instruments,
then they
are
fashioned in impurity, said Rabbi Ariel.”
“Until we have the ashes of the Red Heifer, even
the high priest would
have to serve in the Holy of Holies on the Day of Atonement in a
state
of
impurity.” He also explained that until the vessels of the
temple are brought
into the temple, they are not considered hekdesh
or consecrated.” In further commenting on the tzitz,
he said “the new one is an improvement on one made several
years ago in that it has a backpiece in accordance to some
Jewish
commentators
and the Jewish historian, Josephus. In addition, it has a
locking
mechanism
that prevents the headplate from slipping off the high
priest’s head and can be
adjusted to fit different sizes.”
Rabbi
Ariel also said they are working on 120 sets of garments for the
regular
priests” who take care of the daily temple duties. Moreover,
they are working
on the architectural designs for the third temple, which
apparently
will have
modern computers – something Solomon and Herod’s
temples did not have of
course.
Rabbi Ariel
noted
that while the
“dreamers” he calls them
are meeting in
No doubt
so-called
Christian Zionists
are celebrating this
“great announcement” that the third temple is about
to become a reality, but I
say why celebrate something our Lord has nothing to do with? Judaism is a relic of the
past, which Christ
Himself abolished in His death and resurrection. The headdress
the TI
has made
for the next high priest will be worn by the Antichrist, and a
third
temple if
erected, will be dedicated to him. The tzitz
is clothes for the Antichrist!
How does the
book
of Hebrews address
this news from the
Temple Institute? Let’s take a look:
Hebrews
4:14-16
NIV
14
Therefore, since we
have a great high priest who has gone
through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold
firmly
to the faith
we profess. 15 For we do not have a high priest who is unable
to
sympathize
with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in
every way,
just as
we are — yet was without sin. 16 Let us then approach the
throne of grace with
confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to
help us in
our time
of need.
Hebrews
5:1-10
NIV
1
Every
high
priest is
selected from among men and is appointed to represent them in
matters
related
to God, to offer gifts and sacrifices for sins. 2 He is able
to deal
gently
with those who are ignorant and are going astray, since he
himself is
subject
to weakness. 3 This is why he has to offer sacrifices for his
own sins,
as well
as for the sins of the people. 4 No one takes this honor upon
himself;
he must
be called by God, just as Aaron was. 5 So Christ also did not
take upon
himself
the glory of becoming a high priest. But God said to him,
"You
are my
Son;
today I have become
your Father."
6 And he says in
another place,
"You are a priest forever,
in the order of Melchizedek."
7
During the
days of
Jesus' life on earth, he offered up prayers and petitions with
loud
cries and
tears to the one who could save him from death, and he was
heard
because of his
reverent submission. 8 Although he was a son, he learned
obedience from
what he
suffered 9 and, once made perfect, he became the source of
eternal
salvation
for all who obey him 10 and was
designated by God to be high priest in the order of
Melchizedek.
Hebrews 7:1-28 NIV
1This
Melchizedek
was
king of
11
If
perfection could
have been attained through the Levitical priesthood (for on
the basis
of it the
law was given to the people), why was there still need for
another
priest to
come — one in the order of Melchizedek, not in the order of
Aaron? 12 For when there is a change of the
priesthood, there must also be a change of the law. 13
He of
whom these
things are said belonged to a different tribe, and no one from
that
tribe has
ever served at the altar. 14 For it is
clear that our Lord descended from
"You are a priest forever,
in the order of Melchizedek."
18
The
former
regulation is set aside because it was weak and useless 19(for
the law
made
nothing perfect), and a better hope is introduced, by which we
draw
near to
God. 20 And it was not without an oath! Others became priests
without
any oath,
21 but he became a priest with an oath when God said to him:
"The
Lord
has
sworn
and will not change
his mind:
'You are a
priest
forever.'"
22 Because of this oath, Jesus has become the
guarantee of a better covenant. 23 Now there have been
many
of those
priests, since death prevented them from continuing in office;
24 but because Jesus lives forever, he has a
permanent priesthood. 25 Therefore he is able to save
completely those who
come to God through him, because he always lives to intercede
for them.
26 Such a high priest meets our need
— one who
is holy, blameless, pure, set apart from sinners, exalted
above the
heavens.
27 Unlike the other high priests, he does not need to offer
sacrifices
day
after day, first for his own sins, and then for the sins of
the people.
He
sacrificed for their sins once for all when he offered
himself. 28 For
the law
appoints as high priests men who are weak; but the oath, which
came
after the
law, appointed the Son, who has been made perfect forever.
Hebrews
8:1-13
NIV
1 The point of what we are saying is this: We do have
such a high priest,
who sat down at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty
in heaven,
2 and
who serves in the sanctuary, the true tabernacle set up by
the Lord,
not by man.
3 Every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and
sacrifices,
and so it
was necessary for this one also to have something to offer. 4
If he
were on
earth, he would not be a priest, for there are already men who
offer
the gifts
prescribed by the law. 5 They serve at a
sanctuary that is a copy and shadow of what is in heaven.
This is why Moses
was warned when he was about to build the tabernacle: "See to
it that
you
make everything according to the pattern shown you on the
mountain." 6 But
the
ministry Jesus has received is as superior to theirs as the
covenant of
which he is mediator is superior to the old one, and it is
founded on
better
promises. 7 For if there had been
nothing wrong with that first covenant, no place would have
been sought
for
another. 8 But God found fault with the people and said:
"The
time is
coming, declares the Lord, when I will
make a new covenant with the house of
Please read
these
passages carefully
and allow them to sink
down into your spirit and mind so you will not be deceived by
all the
hype
coming from so-called Christian Zionists like John Hagee and Pat
Robertson who
would have you believe
Now let’s
examine each of
these passages in the book of
Hebrews and find out what God says about the office of “High
Priest:”
1. Hebrews
4:14-16
This passage
says
we (the Church
– Christians) have a
priest; no, a great high priest, Jesus the Son of
God, who has ascended
through the heavens back to the Father’s throne. Because of
this truth, we must
hold firmly to our faith – that Jesus suffered for us, the
righteous for the
unrighteous, was tempted on all points as we are, yet never once
sinned, laid
his life down for us by shedding His blood upon the cross –
something no high
priest of Israel has ever done in the past or will do in the
future,
and is now
at the right hand of the Father. Because of this, we can now
come
boldly to the
throne of grace and find help in time of our need. Jesus Christ
has
opened the
way to God and we no longer need an earthly high priest to
intercede
for us in
a physical temple. To believe otherwise is “backward
theology” – looking to the
past to an old obsolete covenant that cannot atone for even a
“nat.”
2.
Hebrews
5:1-10
The Aaronic
Priesthood instituted by
Moses had to offer
annually a blood sacrifice not only for the people on the Day
of Atonement, but also for himself
since he was a sinner the
same as they were. However, Jesus Christ was made our High
Priest by
God who
declared him a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.
Who was
Melchizedek? Some
theologians teach he
was the preincarnate Christ whom Abraham met after defeating
four
Canaanite
kings in battle. The book of Jasher
says Shem was Melchizedek. Whether he was Shem or Jesus
preincarnate,
the
symbology is that he was no ordinary priest from the Aaronic
lineage.
No, he
was superior to it. To this Melchizedek, Abraham paid tithes
from the
spoils of
war (Chapter 7). Jesus is the source of eternal salvation to all
who
obey Him
because He suffered under the law by keeping it fully not once
having
broken
any commandment. Thus, He was perfected in that the law had no
case
against Him
to accuse Him as a sinner. The law easily accuses us for we have
broken
every
law of God. Sin is the sting of the law in that it demands
death.
Jesus, who
knew no sin, became sin in our place and by doing so fulfilled
the role
of High
Priest who mediated the blood before God in the Holy of Holies,
except
with His
own blood, not that of animals that could never remove the
penalty for
sin.
God, the Father,
declares Jesus the
eternal High Priest
unlike earthly priests who have to be replaced by a successor
since all
men
die, yet Jesus lives forever as High Priest.
3.
Hebrews
7:1-28
In this passage,
we
learn that
Melchizedek was both King of Righteousness
and Peace. Verse 3 implies that he
had no earthly
father or mother and no genealogy. Well, how can that be for
even Jesus
had an
earthly mother and he is listed in the genealogies of both
Matthew and
Luke?
This verse must be understood in the context of Verse 6. The KJV
version reads,
But he whose descent is not
counted from them
received tithes of Abraham. Therefore,
Melchizedek’s
genealogy is not counted or recorded by the biblical writer. He
is a
type of
Christ. The text does not say Melchizedek had no parents. It
implies
that he
appears out of nowhere in the Bible with no explanation of who
he was
or who
were his parents. This was inserted in the biblical text to make
him a
type of
Christ – one like the Son of God. Like Melchizedek, who
received tithes from
Abraham, although he was not of the tribe of Levi, who were set
apart
by God to
receive tithes from the people (they also had to pay tithes),
Jesus did
not
descend from the tribe of Levi, but from the tribe of
Verse 12 makes
an
important
statement: “When there is a change
of the priesthood, there must also be a change
of the Law.” Jesus
descended from
the tribe of
Jesus as our
high
priest does not
need to offer sacrifices daily
or annually, but has offered Himself once for all as the supreme
sacrifice for
our sins – He has perfected our salvation as a one-time event
extending into
the eternity of eternities world without end. The law was weak
in that
it could
not perfect our salvation, but the oath or promise appointed
Jesus, the
Son of
God, High
Priest par excellence –
nothing is superior to Jesus’ priesthood!
4.
Hebrews
8:1-13
In conclusion,
the
writer of Hebrews
(I believe Paul wrote
Hebrews) says he has established the point from Scripture that
Jesus is
our
high priest seated at the right hand of God in the heavens
ministering
in the
heavenly tabernacle on our behalf not one made by man on earth.
The
tabernacle
and temple on earth were to serve as a copy or shadow of what is
in
heaven
until the real high priest came to prepare the way for the true
spiritual
temple – the
The writer then
makes an important
statement: “If the Old
Covenant had been sufficient, then why was a new one
necessary?” Right here my
friends is the true “Replacement Theology” that
evangelical Zionists grossly
misunderstand. The New Covenant in the blood of Jesus has
replaced
completely
the old covenant of Judaism. Therefore, Judaism has passed away
and no
longer
needed or recognized by God for it was unable to perfect man in
taking
away his
sin. Read Verse 13: “By calling this covenant
“new” He has made the first one
obsolete; and what is obsolete and aging will soon disappear”
and it has. When
Hebrews was written, the temple in
Finally, notice
in
Verses 8-10, God
says He will make a new
covenant with the House of Israel and put his laws in their
minds and
write
them on their hearts. This
God did when
Jesus died on the cross for the sins of both Jew and Gentile and
later
sent the
Holy Spirit to indwell the hearts of all those who are
born-again by
the Spirit
and who become spiritual temples – the One New Man and true
House of God – the
Church of Jesus Christ!
The temple
attire
and artifacts the
Temple Institute is
making for the so-called third temple and priesthood are clothes for the Antichrist and a
dwelling place for his throne. Christians are not
to have anything to
do with this temple – we are not to support it with our money
or celebrate its
arrival in the
We have one High
Priest –
Jesus Christ and we are all part
of His spiritual temple – the Church and body of Christ. Why
get excited over a
dead relic of the past when we have the best God has to offer
– the Lord Jesus
Christ! It does not get any better than that!
The Lord bless
you
and give you
discernment.
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