Articles tagged with: Jewish
19 August 2011: Last Chance for a Temple?
I find it terribly confusing, but for some Christians, the rebuilding of the temple is everything. And some of those folk have the power to make it happen. Here’s the raw text from the King James Bible:
24 Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.
25 Know therefore and understand, [that] from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince [shall be] seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.
26 And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of …
Kabbalah and 2012
The Jewish calender suggests a similar event to the ancient Mayan calendar, suggests Nina Amir:
…the idea that humanity or the world at large is about to undergo some sort of transformation does not represent a new idea. For instance, the ancient Jewish mystics predict a change as well, but the world transformation they see coming doesn’t happen for another 231 years.
The current Jewish year is 5769, which means it is 227 years out if synch with the Mayan end date. Could they be discusssing the same event, but over thousands of years one party has got their dates wrong?