Judaism and Zionism are 100% incompatible, vol. II, pt. II: the Temple and priesthood
Spoiler: sneak peak at the seven trumpets!
BTW: this was pt. I of this second “volume”:
The less expansive topic of this posting will focus on a different dynamic that recently came to mind: the Second Temple and the implicating consequences of its destruction in 70 A.D.—long story short, if you recall from this post…
…Jews have always been traditionally defined as a religion—the “ethnic”/“racial” categorization of Jews as a nation by bloodline is a Nazi/Zionist propaganda concept of relatively recent fictitiously conjured imaginations lacking any pretext of creativity. Zionist laying of claim to 1/2) “representing the Jewish people” and 2/2) a “majority-Jewish state” necessitate the definition of Jews as a race, because: a) neither biblical nor Talmudic Judaism are compatible with Zionism, and b) most so-called “Jewish” Zionists (Judeo-Nazis) are not religious to begin with.
Cabalistic Zion(az)ism’s irreconcilable remoteness from Talmudic values
Remember: Zionism in its “core” ideological comprisal is an outgrowth of Kabbalism/cabbalism/qabalism,1 a form of occultism co-opting Judaism yet is as equally of Mosaic Jewish substance as your pack of Skittles are real chunks of fruit. Zion(az)ism is NOT intrinsically rooted in so-called “Talmudic”2 “Jewish supremacy”3 despite what various Romanist/antisemitic loudmouths repetitively claim. It is no surprise therefore that the proliferation and glorification of Zionism within the “Jewish” community in the post-World War II era coincided with a decline in Talmudic Judaism adherence and into increasingly secular preoccupations—of course, the cabalistic/esoteric core is for the “initiated” insiders to understand in full, while to the outside Judeo-Nazism is presented as a form of biblically messianic utopia.
Although Talmudic “Judaism” obviously deviates from the pure biblical Mosaic Judaism, it nonetheless acknowledges the fundamental principle that God and God alone possess the sole authority to restore the kingdom of Israel, and that for Jews to assume the vested right to build their own “Jewish” state is rank blasphemy of the highest order in rebellion against Jehovah.4
Remember: Old Testament Judaism necessitated the existence of a literal Temple as the cornerstone of Mosaic customs and observance. No Temple = no Judaism. So the Judeonazis have long decided in recent decades that it’s time to “take matters into their own hands” and build a Third Temple of their own:5
So it apparently only took a mere nearly-two thousand years of dispersed wandering to realize that they were supposed to reconstruct the Temple completely without any divine permission from Jehovah whatsoever. Or maybe this Zionist project is a complete anathema to even rabbinical Talmudic precepts, let alone the true character of the Bible. Let’s take a look at what the Scriptures say!
From type to antitype: how facts so plainly head-on debunk Zionazism!
When the Lord Jesus Christ (Adonai) condemned the Pharisees’ and scribes’ moral hypocrisies, a stark warning was given to that generation of Judeans (Jews):6
Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell? Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them ye shall kill and crucify; and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city: that upon YOU may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar. Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this generation.
And:7
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not! Behold, your house is left unto you desolate. For verily I say unto you, Ye shall not see me henceforth, till ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.
The usage of “desolate” here is most interesting if we look at Christ’s words to His Apostles Peter, Andrew, James, and John,8 about the signs of the Second Coming and of the end of the world:9
When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:) then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains: let him which is on the housetop not come down to take any thing out of his house: neither let him which is in the field return back to take his clothes.
And in Luke’s Gospel account:10
And when ye shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that the desolation thereof is nigh.
Let’s also examine the quoted Daniel prophecy:11
And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined. And he12 shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
In Jesus’s words at Matthew 24, He said, “this generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled,”13 and therefore the fulfillment—at least in “type”—necessitated its completion in the 1st century before the generation that lived cir. 27-31 A.D. perished. The almost-universal concurrence is that the “desolation” was met in 70 A.D. when the Roman Army sieged Jerusalem and destroyed the Temple—the Jewish Christians of Jerusalem fled to Pella and survived because they heeded Christ’s warning. Meanwhile the Sadducee, Essene, and Zealot sects were entirely obliterated by the massacre of Jerusalem’s residents, with only a fraction of the Pharisees emerging unscathed to subsequently formulate a new rabbinic definition of “Judaism” without an earthly Temple system left standing (“your house is left unto you desolate”).
The antitypical Temple
Literal Jewish “types” were but shadows signifying New Testament fulfilled “antitype”—the kingdom of God (the true Zion14) is within15 the repenting, faithful believer in Jehovah redeemed by the shed blood of the Lamb of God. As Paul explained to the Corinthian church:16
Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.
He in fact even repeats17 this emphasis in the same letter:18
What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.
Not to mention a third time in Paul’s second letter to the Corinthians,19 plus also to the Ephesians!20 And as for the eternal Temple in the everlasting kingdom?21
And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it.
Levitical priesthood overthrown
Remember, the chief conspirators of the crucifixion were of the earthly Levitical priesthood—Caiaphas was “high priest that year”22 in 31 A.D.—the ruling Sadducaic elites persistently remained hardhearted and would not heed God’s messengers, in 34 A.D. “stopping their ears” and ordering the execution of Stephen.23
With the fulfillment of the sacrificial lamb in the atoning blood of the Lamb of God sacrificed once and for all,24 no more a need was there for the earthly Levitical priesthood, especially one so abominably withdrawn from Jehovah:25
If therefore perfection were by the Levitical priesthood, (for under it the people received the law,) what further need was there that another priest should rise after the order of Melchisedec, and not be called after the order of Aaron? For the priesthood being changed, there is made of necessity a change also of the law.
Jesus, after all:26
…sprang out of Juda; of which tribe Moses spake nothing concerning priesthood. And it is yet far more evident: for that after the similitude of Melchisedec there ariseth another priest, who is made, not after the law of a carnal commandment, but after the power of an endless life. For he testifieth, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.
And Christ:27
…because he continueth ever, hath an unchangeable priesthood.
Epilogue: the first and second trumpets
In the historicist school of biblical eschatology, the traditional hermeneutical approach—do correct me if I’m wrong—was to view the first four of the seven churches, seals, and trumpets as corresponding to concurrent eras of time:
Ephesian era: 31 — cir. 100 A.D.: from the formation of the church in Acts to the death of the last Apostle, John
Smyrnean era: cir. 100 — 313 A.D.: intense era of Pagan Roman persecution from the death of John into the ascension of Constantine
Pergamenean era: 313 — 538 A.D.: papal syncretic compromise instituted by Constantine and his successors, merging of church and state
Thyatirian era: 538 — 1517 A.D.: darkening of the sun of righteousness28/light of the world29 within the Holy Roman Empire until Luther’s Reformation
In more recent times, many “academic”/“professional” theologians of the historicist fold attempt to shift the first four trumpets’ applicable time frames into the late Roman Empire beginning cir. the fifth century, arguing that the first trumpet allegedly cannot correspond to the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 A.D. because the prophesied events according to v. 1:1 only pertain to “things which must shortly come to pass,” and therefore 70 A.D. is out of the picture since the Revelation was given to John the Apostle at the island of Patmos cir. 95-96 A.D.30
However, this argument is evidently the product of a fallacious quotemine: in the same first chapter of Revelation, John is instructed:31
Write the things which thou hast seen, and the things which are, and the things which shall be hereafter…
IOWs, the Book of Revelation—at the time of its penning cir. 95 A.D.—indeed references events which already occurred. Therefore this single effort by “modern scholarship” to discredit the “70 A.D. fulfillment of the first trumpet” viewpoint is debunked. Let’s anyways look at the first and second trumpets:32
The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.
And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea: and the third part of the sea became blood; and the third part of the creatures which were in the sea, and had life, died; and the third part of the ships were destroyed.
Within relatively recent generations of historicist eschatological analysis, there appears an even split between two views: a) the “traditional” collation of timeline between the churches/seals/trumpets and corollary that the first trumpet was a judgment against Jerusalem and the second against Rome; and b) identifying them as the later attacks on Rome respectively from the Alaric and Vandal tribes.33
The latter identification is—unless sound evidence is shown otherwise—a patently unnecessary deviation from the traditionally observed timeline collation between the churches, seals, and trumpets. Let’s also briefly first identify the symbolisms here, because the trumpet’s judgment descriptions are symbolic and not literal:
tree = individual person34
grass = flesh of man35
mountain = kingdom/nation36
sea(s) = waters = peoples, multitudes, nations, tongues37
ships = economics/markets38
In summary, the first trumpet in its plainly stated description encapsulates a tremendous loss of life though in partial pouring of “thirds” whereby a significant number of individual people (trees) perish and the flesh of man (grass) is destroyed. The second trumpet highlights a tumultuous nation (burning mountain) being plunged into a densely populated multitude of peoples (sea), destroying in partial terms a significant number of lives and economic prosperity (ships).
As I already stated, the first trumpet in the traditional historicist view is ascribed in fulfillment to the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 A.D.—the Judean nation as an earthly religious system crucified the Lord Jesus Christ and therefore faced the fruit of their unrepentant deeds; the exact pinpointing of the second trumpet in this hermeneutical framework—clearly a judgment against Pagan Rome (for its frequently intense persecution of the apostolic Christian church) somewhere between the second and early fourth centuries—is spotty, though likely was met in the Great Crisis of the Third Century when the Roman Empire politically from the top-down plunged into “Military Anarchy” and culminated in the kingdom’s brutal strife striking its relatively tight-populated residents with incredibly massive bloodshed, destroying also much of its economic fabric also.
There is perhaps a very good reason to stick with this traditional collation of timelines within the historicist eschatology—as Paul explained to the Romans:39
But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath, tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile; but glory, honour, and peace, to every man that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile: for there is no respect of persons with God.
In the “collated”/lined-up timeline viewpoint of the churches, seals, and trumpets, the sequence of judgments and the impacted subjects make sense: God first punishes the reprobates in the Jewish nation who had the most access to the truth40 and rejected it, and afterwards proceeds to punish the reprobates in the Gentile nations. This is also a persistent theme in the Old Testament, where (practically) every time whenever the Hebrews as a nation grievously sinned/apostatized, they were first punished, and afterwards were the Gentile nations—often their oppressors—humbled.
Anyways, the Eighth Day of the Feast of Tabernacles is approaching. I may very possibly publish at least one more article on Friday before Sabbath.
Joseph Brewda (Nov. 2, 1990), “The cult origins of the fundamentalists behind the ‘Temple Mount’ plot,” Executive Intelligence Review, vol. XVII, no. XLII, p. 36.
Talmud extracts cherry-picked to convey a quotemined and/or poorly translated guise of “Jewish supremacy” are almost definitely refuted canards.
“Neturei Karta,” Jewish Virtual Library.
Rachel Fink (Apr. 24, 2024), “Explained: The Israeli Extremists Who Want to Rebuild the Temple, and the Government Ministers Who Back Them,” Haaretz.
Matt. 23:33-36.
Matt. 23:37-39; Lk. 13:34-35.
Mk. 13:3-4.
Mk. 13:14-16; Matt. 24:15-18.
Lk. 21:20.
Dan. 9:26-27.
Here referring to the Messiah (Jesus Christ), NOT the Antichrist.
Matt. 24:34.
Lk. 17:20-21.
I Cor. 3:16-17.
Perhaps there could be a chiastic mirroring link here. I don’t know just yet. :)
I Cor. 6:19-20.
II Cor. 6:16.
Eph. 2:19-22.
Rev. 21:22.
Jn. 11:49-51, 18:13.
Acts 7.
Heb. 10:12.
Heb. 7:11-12.
Heb. 7:14-17.
Heb. 7:24.
Mal. 4:2.
Jn. 8:12.
Conrad Baker, “The Seven Trumpets,” p. 3.
Rev. 1:19.
Rev. 8:7-9.
Ángel Manuel Rodríguez (Jan. 2012), “Issues in the interpretation of the seven trumpets of Revelation,” Ministry Magazine.
Dan. 4:4-33.
Isa. 40:6; I Pet. 1:24.
Jer. 51:25; Dan. 2.
Gen. 1:10; Rev. 17:15.
Ezek. 27:25.
Rom. 2:8-11.
Jn. 14:6.
Not 100% at all. Maybe 50% at the most
You are incompatible with your brain cells it seems. Anti Zionist ideology . .
. Despite the Anti Israel bias in the UN bodies ; - ;The UN chief still explicitly declared that Israel has an undeniable right to exist to live in peace with its neighbours and security with its neighbours AND that the modern form of anti semitism is the denial of the existence of the State of Israel- the Jewish state. ( which is ANTI Zionism & ANTI Semitic if you say Israel has no right to exist as Jewish state ) Period! ……..