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Originally Posted by coksiw
Do they jews need a temple to do animal sacrifice?
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Mormons, and some Rabbis are as confused as you are about temples. You ask the question
"Do the Jews need a temple to do animal sacrifice?" Yes, to be halakha the temple must be built in a specific location. One that was appointed by God Himself. It was God who told Solomon where to build his temple
2 Chronicles 3:1. The temple was to be built on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.
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Originally Posted by coksiw
Can't they just build the Tabernacle?
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Biblically? No.
1st Kings 8 to
1st Kings 9 explains the importance of the temple in its correlation to the people. In
1st Kings 8:46-51 explains that if the people sin, and are taken into captivity in a foreign land (they aren't instructed to build a tabernacle) they are to pray towards only one place, and one building, that is the City of Jerusalem and the Temple of Solomon. Yet, since the advent of Christ, His birth, His ministry, His death, burial, and resurrection. The establishment of His Body the Church. He is the New Jerusalem, the Temple, the Rock, cut out of the mountain which engulfs the entire world.
Hence why Jesus said "but I say unto you, that in this place is one greater than the temple."
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Originally Posted by coksiw
BTW, they have been doing animal sacrifices already with priests and levites for at least 6 years, during passover as far as I know.
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Again, "they?" Biblically they are nothing more than the rank and file of humanity. Who need Christ as anyone else on the planet. Biblically they aren't priests and they are certainly not Levites by any stretch of the imagination. The Bible defines who was to work in the temple. Unless you possess the Urim and Thummim or obtain the priest and Levite genealogy. Building the temple, sacrificing red heifers, doves, or lambs are unbiblical.
Ezra 2:62-63 pretty much sends your would-be priests and Levites to the cleaners.
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Originally Posted by coksiw
They probably already did the red heifer too but just didn't say anything to avoid turmoil with neighbors. The Temple Institute indeed said they would be doing it before passover, and then, passover is over, and no news whether they did it or not.
Just watch the Temple Institute youtube channel.
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Hosea 4:6
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.