End-times
prophecy watchers are marveling over a news report out of Jerusalem this week
that the Altar of the Lord has been reconstructed by the Temple Institute. The
Institute, based in the Old City of Jerusalem, announced it has finished
building an altar that is essentially “ready for use” in sacrificial services. The
altar is the most ambitious project to date toward the goal of rebuilding the
Jewish Temple. The massive outdoor altar, which took several years to build,
can be operational at little more than a moment’s notice. The altar is the last
major component needed for the long-obstructed sacrifices to resume in a future
Jewish temple. Read complete article at -- http://www.wnd.com/2015/03/holy-altar-constructed-for-third-jewish-temple/
The witnesses, laying their coats at the feet of Saul, were the men that would cast the first stones at Stephen in Acts 7. Why did they all lay their coats at Saul’s feet? The Talmud contains a very interesting account of the act of stoning that may provide the answer. “When the trial was over, they take him [the condemned person] out to be stoned. The place of stoning was at a distance from the court, as it is said, ‘Take out the one who has cursed.’ [i] A man stands at the entrance of the court; in his hand is a signaling flag [Hebrew sudarin = sudar , ‘scarf, sweater’]. A horseman was stationed far away but within sight of him. If one [of the judges] says, ‘I have something [more] to say in his favor,’ he [the signaler] waves the sudarin , and the horseman runs and stops them [from stoning him]. Even if [the condemned person] himself says, ‘I have something to say in my favor,’ they bring him back, even four of five times, only provided that there is some substance to...
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