11 July 2015
~ 24 Tammuz 5775
Torah Parashah - Pinchas -
B’midbar
(Numbers) 25:10-30:1
RSTNE p 127
We are going to switch gears - as several
things happened this week - that I feel I must teach something else this
Shabbat. I plan to return to those next
week - as Yah leads. :)
I am going to share some things I learned
from a teaching by Tom Stapleton on the 3rd Temple.
**
Torah Parashah Pinchas -
B’midbar
(Numbers) 25:10-30:1 RSTNE p 127
This parashah starts in 25:10
but let’s start to read at
B’midbar 25:1-18 p 127
(Rabbi Foreman has some good teachings on
Pinchas you can watch on the internet.)
What is going on in this chapter?
Remember that Balam told Balak the king of
Moav - that he didn’t have to have him (Balam) speak a curse... just hang
around the Israelites and they will curse themselves with your daughters.
And here it is happening...
What god does the Torah say they are
worshiping?
Ba’al-Peor.
a demon of hasatan.
What did they do to worship Ba’al-Peor...
(spoken gently).... as near as i can tell ...
it is about exposing the parts of one’s body that most persons would prefer to
keep covered. And it is about the sexual
act... but there is much reference to sodomy.
Disgusting...
So in vs 4 Yah told Moshe to “take all the
heads off the people and hang them up...
and in verse 5 He tells the judges to do the
actual killing.
And then in vs 6 where are the people
weeping?
-
“at the door of the Tabernacle of the
congregation”
Now I don’t know for sure what they are
weeping about...
could it be all their grief from family and
friends dying ?
or are they weeping b/c there is worship of
Ba’al-Peor going on?
AND where is it going on AT?
It can be at least inferred that it is going
on IN the Tabernacle.
Notice in verse 6 it was in the sight of
Moshe and all the people....!
And Pinchas - grandson of Aharon... got up...
and took a spear...
and killed them both.
It is suggested in many commentators that he
could kill them both because they were actually doing this abomination act at
the time Pinchas killed them.
Pinchas...
Mike Clayton says of Pinchas ... “This is the man whose life
should be an example to us. Pinchas
never let his guard down. He stood as
his grandfather Aharon had done once
before, between the living and the dead.
may we follow his example.”
I feel like Pinchas did what many are afraid
to do - stand up for what is of YHWH and cleanse the Tabernacle!
I say this in a time when more and more
churches are changing their statements
of faith...
And what happened to Pinchas?
verses 12-13
“Therefore say, See, I give to him My Brit of
shalom.. 13 And he shall have it, and his zera after him, even the brit of an
everlasting priesthood; because he was zealous for his Elohiym and made keporah
(blood atonement) for the children of Yisra’el.”
= A Covenant of Shalom....
So what do we know about the covenant of
Shalom?
The first thing i thought of was...after
Avram had won the battle with the kings of the area...
The Melchizedek - who was Shem at the
time....
is referred to as melech of Salem... in
English
but in Hebrew it is a shin-lamed -mem = SHALOM.
B’re’shiyt 14:18-19
p 17
“And Melchizedek melech (king) of Salem (Shalom) brought out
lechem (bread) and wine: and he was a cohen (priest) of El-Elyon (YHWH). 19 And he blessed him, and said, Blessed be
Avram to El-Elyon, Possessor of the shamayim and earth.”
~
Yeshayahu (Isaiah) 54:10
p 338
YHWH is talking to His people...
“For the mountains shall depart, and the
hills shall be removed; but My chesed (kindness or goodness) shall not depart
from you again, neither shall the brit
(covenant) of My shalom (peace) be removed, says YHWH that has rachamim
(mercy) on you.”
Yechezkel (Ezekiel) 43:25 p 420
“And I will make with them a brit of shalom,
and will cause the evil beasts to cease out of the land; and they shall dwell
safely in the wilderness, and sleep in the woods.”
Yechezkel 37:26
p 424
“Moreover I will make a brit of shalom with
them; it shall be an everlasting brit with them: and I will place them, and multiply them, and
will set My Kadosh Place in their midst le-olam-va-ed (forever or until a time
not yet seen).”
~~
Interesting that Pinchas has ZEAL
This word is a kof-nun-aleph
and means jealous, zealous, or jealous anger
It is nearly the same word as JEALOUS in the
same verse
which is a kof-nun-aleph- hey
and means - ardor, zeal, jealousy, jealousy
resulting from the wrath of YHWH.
~
It is easy to be the one weeping... but who will STAND up and be ZEALOUS for
YHWH?
~~~~~~~~~~**********************~~~~~~~~~~~
This is mostly from a
teaching by
Tom Stapleton of www.endtimesprophecy.com
The 3rd temple ~~
Mr Stapleton says....
something that is very intriguing to me...
“In order to be truly
fair - YHWH has to give back to hasatan all that he was - including his
beauty... etc....”
I don’t know if this
is in the Word - certainly not spoken like that...
but it seems probable
to me - as YHWH over and over again -
makes sure that things are done perfectly and in order...
And i believe He
won’t leave any room what so ever for hasatan to have a “wasn’t fair” claim...
So if Mr Stapleton is
correct - that YHWH will give back his amazing beauty...
think about this....
If that be the
case...we’ve here on this earth, mostly not seen spiritual beings...
so hasatan - the
former worshiper of YHWH - will be incredible!
-
soooo beautiful....
And if it is the “way
best” and most amazing being we’ve ever seen... and he is sitting in the
temple...
yes, that is what i
said - sitting in the temple... claiming to be YHWH...
What will people
think?
Unless we really
really know the TRUTH... we will be deceived !!!
~~
Does Torah (whole
bible) say there will be a 3rd Temple?
Mattityahu 24:1-2 p
698
Y’shua said not one
stone will be left on another.
“Not one stone on
another.”
Now think about this
for a minute.
I am asking you to do
some application of what we are reading here...
“Not one stone on
another”
If this is true...
what is a lie in the world??
= The western wall is
not a wall of the Temple...
We know that “the
western wall” is actually a wall left from the Roman Anatolian Fortress... and
that the temple was lower.
It was not on the top of the hill - that is
where pagan’s worship - on the top of the hill.
We also know that
archeologists have found what hey believe to be buildings that went with the
temple - places where animals were put before sacrifice etc...
In the City of
David... not on the top of hill - but near it. !!
If Torah says “not
one stone on top of each other... How can anyone believe that is the temple
wall?!!!
Mattityahu 24:
15 p 699
“When you therefore
shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniyel the navi
(prophet), STANDING in the Beit HaMikdash, (whoever reads, let him
understand.)”
I always thought that
the abomination of desolation was an act - something they did... like sacrifice
a pig on the altar.
In reality it is much
worse...
This says “When you
therefore shall see the abomination of desolation STANDING in the Beit
HaMikdash...”
are you kidding me?
-
Been here all
along... CJB says...
“the abomination of desolation
STANDING in the Holy Place.”
This is a being -
STANDING....!!
Clearly there is a
temple... there has to be a temple ...
Y’shua says there
will be another one...
...but what we need
to figure out is.....
Is He talking about
YHWH ‘s plan for HIS temple
or is Y’shua talking
about what the enemy will do??
If Y’shua is talking
about what the enemy will do... = then this is a warning about a
deception!
wow!!
Mattityahu 24:34 p 700
“Truly I say to you, This tribe shall
not pass, until all these things are fulfilled.”
Mr. Stapleton
says... but when it says...
“All Scripture will
be fulfilled”...
.......we need to
understand - look at context and try to see what YHWH was saying...
context - after resurrection Y’shua said - all things
must be fulfilled written in law and prophets and psalms concerning me.
- so he qualified
it!!
All things CONCERNING
HIM!!
He makes a good point
D’varim (Deut)
30:19- “Choose life”
If i choose life -
would all promises be fulfilled? YES.
but if i choose
unbelief - the promises given... will not be fulfilled
~
The curtain temple
was torn from top to bottom indicating power from above...
indicating the temple
service had come to an end...
there was no meaning
any more b/c what the system was pointing to - had come and died...
so in that sense -
all those scriptures of Him coming - were fulfilled...
But if you don’t believe he was Messiah - then
wouldn’t you want to set up a sacrificial system again? - YES!!
They know the temple
has to be up and running - in action and operation for the Messiah to come -
they know that so they want to rebuild.
Mr Stapleton spoke in
detail about believing Shaul wrote the book of Ivrim/Hebrews... and about who
Shaul is...
And says “if anyone
knew what was going on with the Temple - Shaul should have...”
Yochanan (John)
4:20-21 p 757
“Our ahvot (fathers)
worshipped on this mountain; and yet You say, that in Yahrushalayim is the
place where men should worship. 21 Y’shua said to her, Woman, believe Me, the
hour comes when you shall neither in the is mountain, not at Yahrushalayim,
worship the ABBA.”
If he said this in
the temple - what would they do? - probably stone him.
Y’shua’s saying -
there is a day coming when there will be worship in those places - but it WILL
NOT BE WORSHIP OF YHWH!!!
~
Acts 20:1-7 p 799
This is Shaul’s
journey back to Jerusalem...
Look at names of
cities -
a guy from Berea, a
couple people from Thesloniqyah, Aristarchos and Secundous, and Gaios, and
Derbie, and Asia
= delegation of reps
going to go back to Jerusalem for Shavuot!
stopped in
Philippi...
others waited in
Troas...
They sailed away from
Philippi after the days of unleavened bread..
What is Shaul
doing??...
-Could it be , he was
keeping the feast of Unleavened Bread ... in Philippi... worshiping YHWH -
notice - they weren’t
in Jerusalem...
doesn’t it say in
Torah you have to be in Jerusalem to keep festivals....?
why was Shaul keeping
Pesach outside of Jerusalem?
There was also a
body of
believers in Troas...
Yochanan (John)
2:16-18 p 755
They ask for a sign... a matter of authority.. he had just said you’
have made my Father’s house a house of merchandise...
He just told them he
was the son of YHWH!!
and then they asked
for a sign...
later he said.. the
one who is raised from the dead - you will not believe
just before raising
Lazerous and himself.
no sign would
convince them...
Reality is - this is
very important
-- We have to be open
to the fact that - “I/we could be mistaken”...
He told them he was
the son of YHWH and - they didn’t get it...
Mattityahu
21:12-13 p 695
Matt 21:41 p 696
- There is going to
be an end to temple service/temple destroyed.. .and give the service to others.
Acts 6:11-12 p 784
the rumor was out -
and the thing i know about rumor is that usually there is enough truth that it
might be believable...
The rumor was - that
that Shaul and others were speaking against the law and against Moshe..
Mr Stapleton suggest
that - in the end times- the ones with
the Truth will be accused of speaking against Moshe and the law.
Acts 6:13-14 p 784
Now Shaul speaks
against the holy place - the temple!
so probably there
will be those in the end of days who get accused of that....
= those of us who
believe that we should not go to the 3rd temple!!!!!
~
If the sacrificial
system had come to an end --- and the
disciples were preaching that ---they would have been looked on as blaspheming
...
.... if they were
teaching the true lamb had come and the temple service was done....!!
Acts 21:21 p 800
-
they didn’t
understand Shaul here....
maybe there are
lessons we need to learn here!!
Ivrim (Hebrews) 7:12
p 817 = end of Levitical priesthood.
Heb 13:10 p 823
“We have an altar,
from which they have no right to eat, who serve the earthly Tent of Meeting.”
Again we see Shaul
teaching against the customs of the people
He is saying that
because they were all about the animal sacrifice ... they missed Y’shua’s
sacrifice.
Heb 10:1 p 820
system/priesthood/ -
everything represented something - the heavenly jerusalem...
= the offerings are
useless... the offerings don’t cleanse you
but the one who they
represent does...
Heb 10:4-9
The whole system has
passed away... when Y’shua comes and dies...
and he renews the
system that he had in the first place - melchizedek.
Mat 23:37-38
Y’shua says once they
reject him as the Messiah - the presence of YHWH would be gone..
so why would you go
there to offer sacrifice there?
the earthly system
had come to an end...
Matt 24:1-2
(At this point
teacher said we look and see temple stones still standing! “ - NO!!!!) :(
=a call to leave
Jerusalem....
We are supposed to be
sowers - not supposed to be the reapers...
just plant the seed!
They were teaching
about the heavenly
jerusalem... that is what we should look at - not earthy one!!!
It looks like hasatan
is using OT prophecies about temple in Jerusalem and telling them to go there
and worship there....
Problem was - they
misunderstood the prophecies.
so could it be at the
end of time...
there is
misunderstanding so at end of time -a believer could end up worshiping
something they should not.
We are not looking to
go to Jerusalem - EVER- until new
Jerusalem comes down
- The counterfeit
always shows up ahead of time
heb 13:15-16 p
823
= The altar that
levites have - has no right to worship
at since Y’shua died.
Why are they giving
thanks to him?
We praise Him for
what HE has done for us....
they were praising
for what the animal sacrifice has done for us. !!
Who believes that
before Messiah comes - there will be a temple in Jerusalem ?
i do...
is it YHWH’s? How will we know for sure that is is Abba’s
house?
~~
Luke 21:24 - the time of the gentiles… gentiles in control
and hasatan will come… as Messiah -
(Tom says- as beautiful
as he was… so that when people even LOOK at him they will become convinced that
he (hasatan) - after all he will be acting like Messiah… or representing
himself as Messiah…
they will all be
deceived…
Rev 11:2 p 917 - temple given to gentiles
Dan 12:11 p 447
daily service taken
away … and “the abomination that makes desolate set up”
well, look at -
2 Thess 4 “Who opposes and exalts himself above all that
is called Eloah , or that is worshipped; so that he is showing himself AS
Eloah, sits in the Hekel (temple, set apart place, holy of holies) of Eloah, declaring himself to be Eloah.
Now look at
Matt 24:15
"When you
therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniyel the
navi, STANDING in the Beit HaMikdash, (whoever read, let him understand)”
~~~
There will be a new
temple in Jerusalem... and you need to know if you are going there or not.
I AM NOT.
The point is that the
abomination of desolation is hasatan being worshiped by the MANY
deceived ones…
and it will be EASY
to be deceived!! - just by looking!!
--UNLESS we KNOW what
the Word says!!
Rev 11:7-8 p 917 city
referred to as Sedom and Egypt…
Luke 21:20-21 p 750
- don’t even look
back b/c if you look on this being you will be deceived (is what tom says…
not sure this is Biblical…but makes some sense)
Dan 11:45 -12:1 p 447
Malachi 3:2-3 -
purify the sons of levi - people think the Levite system is still intact - and
that the Messiah will come and purify the Levites who will be working in the 3rd
temple!
They say that since
all scripture must be fulfilled - and this wasn’t at Messiah’s first coming -
it will be at his second coming.
but when Elijah is on
the mountain - what was actually the proof that it was YHWH…=== fire came down
from heaven…
why was the top of
Moriah chosen for the temple?….David had offered a sacrifice and fire came down
and consumed it and he said….surely this is the house of Yah.
remember when solomon
dedicated Temple at feast of Tabernacles - fire came down
YHWH shows up when he
approves something -
-so we should be able
to… if fire comes down from heaven not he alter in Jerusalem - surely that
would prove that it is YHWH’s order.
If you saw fire come
down in the temple - wouldn’t you believe it?
Prophecies say ...
Rev 13:13-14 p 920-
prophecies say - If
hasatan is going to be in jerusalem ... do you think he would miss out on the
“proof positive that it is YHWH’s order in the temple?”….
how many people will
be deceived if they saw something like that - fire from heaven....?
The TRUTH is this...
If you are listening
and following people that are going to take you to the 3rd temple..
....you need to start
helping them understand that is not the direction you and they want to go…
b/c if we are deceived.. the deeper we go in
more of the deception it becomes… more difficult to get out and find/ see
the truth!
~
Every one needs to
study this… and make a decision on what you are going to believe and on
what “line” you get in to what “temple”
Torah says that only
those who follow the lamb…
So....we need need to
understand this and help others to understand this…
Amein
