1 So by the seventh month (SEPT–OCT 538 B.C) Israel had moved back to their own hometowns. At that time all the people met together in Jerusalem and were all united as one man. 2 Then Jeshua (son of Jozadak) and the Priests with him, along with Zerubbabel (son of Shealtiel) and the people with him, built the Altar of YAHUAH, the Alahim of Israel, so that they could offer sacrifices on it. They built it just as it says in the Law of Moses, YAHUAH’S servant. THE ALTAR WAS TOP PRIORITY SO THEY COULD START THE ALL-IMPORTANT SACRIFICIAL SYSTEM, UNDERSTANDING THAT WITHOUT SHEDDING OF ANIMAL-BLOOD - HARMONY, RELATIONSHIP AND PEACE WITH YAHUAH WAS NOT ACHIEVABLE. AND THIS WAS BECAUSE WITHOUT BLOOD SACRIFICE, CLEANSING FROM THEIR SINS WAS IMPOSSIBLE. SO THE STENCH OF UN-ATONED-FOR GUILT HAD BEEN POLLUTING THE JEWISH EXILES FOR NEARLY 100 YEARS AND MANY WERE ANXIOUS TO HAVE THIS BURDEN LIFTED ! SO WHAT DOES THIS SAY ABOUT THE 95% OF JEWS WHO CHOSE TO STAY IN CAPTIVITY, SETTLING FOR THE DEAD-RELIGIOUS 'JUDAISM' BEING PUMPED OUT FROM THE SYNAGOGUES ?? 3 These Jewish builders were afraid of the other people living near them, but that didn’t stop them. They built the Altar on its old foundation and offered burnt offerings on it to YAHUAH. They offered sacrifices in the morning and in the evening again (like before). 4 Then they celebrated the Festival of Tabernacles just as the Law of Moses said, offering the right number of burnt (ASCENDING-NEAR) offerings for each day of the festival. 5 After that they began offering the continual burnt offerings each day and the offerings for the New Months and all the other festivals that were commanded by YAHUAH. The people also began giving any other gifts they wanted to give to YAHUAH. 6 So on the first day of the seventh month, these Israelites again began offering sacrifices to YAHUAH. This was done, even though YAHUAH’S Temple had not yet been built up again.
CONSTRUCTING THE TEMPLE AGAIN WOULD TAKE YEARS OF PLANNING AND WORK, BUT THEY WERE IN A BIG RUSH TO BEGIN SACRIFICING AND HAVING FESTIVALS (TO FEEL HIS LOVE & FORGIVENESS), AND THEIR GOAL WAS TO GET THE ALTAR READIED IN TIME FOR TABERNACLES. THIS IS GOOD LOGICAL THINKING, AND IT REFLECTS THEIR DESIRE TO BEGIN DOING THE MOST IMPORTANT PART OF THEIR SCRIPTURE-WORSHIP: SACRIFICING ON THE ALTAR ... TO GET CLEAN ! LIKEWISE AFTER OUR IMMERSION AND DIVINE HEART OPERATION, WE ARE NEW CLEAN VESSELS READY TO HAVE THE ETERNAL INCORRUPTIBLE SEED OF YAHUSHA’S SPIRIT PLANTED WITHIN US, WHICH OPENS A PORTAL TO HIS PRESENCE UPON THE ARK OF OUR BLOOD-SPRINKLED HEARTS - MAKING US HIS NEW LIVING TEMPLES. THEN ONE OF THE FIRST THINGS WE DO UPON COMING OUT OF THE WATER IS TO ALIGN OUR LIFESTYLE WITH YAHUSHA’S WORD, STARTING WITH APPOINTED TIMES/FEASTS/SABBATHS .... CLEAN LIVING JUST AS OUR HUMAN BODIES CAN ONLY BECOME HIS NEW LIVING TEMPLES THROUGH A SUPERNATURAL ENCOUNTER (IE NO LITERAL, PHYSICAL FIRE OR CLOUD CAN BE SEEN) - WE ALSO OBSERVE YAHUSHA’S SET-APART FEASTS SUPERNATURALLY TOO (NOT DOING THE OLD-SHADOWS - NOW FULFILED - BUT GATHERING IN SINCERITY AND TRUTH IN LOVE).
YAHUSHA’S LIVING WORDS MUST MATURE AND SHINE FROM HIS LIVING TEMPLES, NOT IN MIMIC-QUOTING OF TEXTS AND `LETTER OF THE LAW` TYPE SHADOWS BUT THROUGH A NEW AND LOVING OBEDIENT BEHAVIOUR! NOW THERE'S A TIME-JUMP OF ABOUT 17-18 YEARS : 7 Then those who had come back from captivity gave money to the stone-cutters and carpenters. They also gave food, wine, and olive oil. They used these things to pay the people of Tyre and Sidon to bring cedar logs from Lebanon. They wanted to bring the logs in ships to the seacoast town of Joppa as they did for the first Temple. King Cyrus of Persia gave permission for them to do this.
8 So in the second month (APRIL–MAY, 536 B.C) of the second year after they came to the Temple in Jerusalem, Zerubbabel (son of Shealtiel) and Jeshua son of Jozadak began the work. Their brothers, the Priests, Levites, and everyone who came back to Jerusalem from captivity began working with them. They chose Levites who were 20 years old and older to be the leaders in the building of YAHUAH’S Temple. 9 These were the men who supervised the work of building YAHUAH’S Temple: Jeshua and his sons, Kadmiel and his sons (the descendants of Judah), the sons of Henadad and their brothers, the Levites. 10 The builders finished laying the foundation for YAHUAH’S Temple. When the foundation was finished, the Priests put on their special clothing. Then they got their trumpets, and the sons of Asaph got their cymbals. They all took their places to praise YAHUAH. This was done the way King David of Israel had ordered in the past. HOW EXCITING IS IT WHEN WE GATHER TOGETHER IN ONE MIND AND ALL TOGETHER PRAISE YAHUSHA IN ONE VOICE! 11 They sang songs of praise and thanksgiving, taking turns in singing each part, declaring, "YAHUAH is good and His loving-kindness for Israel endures forever.” Then all the people cheered, giving a loud shout and praised YAHUAH because the foundation of the set-apart Temple had been laid. 12 But many of the older Priests, Levites and family leaders, who could remember seeing the first Temple, began to cry aloud. And they howled while the others there were shouting for joy. 13 The sound could be heard far away. All of them made so much noise that no one could tell the difference between the shouts of joy and the crying.
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