TEMPLE INSTITUTE REENACTS THE PASSOVER
(Friday Church News Notes, April 10, 2015, www.wayoflife.org, fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143)
In its ongoing effort to prepare for the Third Temple, the Temple Institute has reenacted the Passover. Called “a drill,” it was performed by “priests in training.” The reenactment video narrator says: “Jerusalem is already rebuilt. All that is left for us is to make every effort toward the renewal of the divine service and the fulfillment of the divine destiny of the people of Israel. This is what the Passover Seder is really all about. This is the real Passover Seder. May we merit to bring the Passover offering this year in the rebuilt Jerusalem. Blessings for a happy and kosher Passover from the Temple Institute in Jerusalem.” This is both exciting and sad. It is exciting because it is such a dramatic sign of the times and the imminent Rapture, but it is sad because it reflects the spiritual blindness in which Israel still dwells. The real Passover is Jesus Christ, the one identified by John the Baptist as “the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world” (John 1:29), and there will be no peace for Israel until she recognizes this reality. (See www.ritmeyer.com for photos of the reenactment and link to the Temple Institute video.)