Sanhedrin Asks Putin and Trump to Build Third Temple in Jerusalem
By Adam
Eliyahu Berkowitz
“Thus saith Hashem to His anointed,
to Cyrus, whose right hand I have holden, to subdue nations before him, and to
loose the loins of kings; to open the doors before him, and that the gates may
not be shut.” Isaiah 45:1 (The Israel Bible™)
Rabbi
Hillel Weiss, spokesman for
the Sanhedrin, contacted Breaking Israel News to announce that the election of
Trump, who has promised to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel,
coupled with Putin’s expressed desire for the Temple to be rebuilt, prompted
the Jewish court to send a letter offering the two the opportunity to act as
modern-day Cyrus figures: non-Jewish
kings who recognize the importance of Israel and the Temple.
Cyrus
the Great, King of Persia in the sixth century BCE, announced in the first year
of his reign that he was prompted by God to make a decree that the Temple in
Jerusalem should be rebuilt.
“Thus saith Koresh
king of Paras: All the kingdoms of the earth hath Hashem, the God of heaven,
given me; and He hath charged me to build Him a house in Yerushalayim,
which is in Yehuda.” Ezra
1:2
Cyrus
sent the Jews under his rule back to Israel with a considerable sum of money
with which to rebuild the Temple. The Sanhedrin plans to call on the two world
leaders to take up this ancient Biblical decree and support the Jewish people
in their holy mission.
Rabbi
Weiss explained that the US elections have made the eternal Jewish dream a very
real possibility.
“We
are poised to rebuild the Temple. The political conditions today, in which the
two most important national leaders in the world support the Jewish right to
Jerusalem as their spiritual inheritance, is historically unprecedented,” Rabbi
Weiss told Breaking Israel News.
The
Sanhedrin’s letter notes that Trump’s upset victory was due to his support of
Jerusalem, and reminds Trump of his campaign promise to move the
US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, effectively recognizing the city as the
capital of Israel. The Jerusalem Embassy Act, passed in Congress in 1995,
initiated the moving of the embassy, but has been vetoed since then by every American
president. The Sanhedrin calls on Trump to withhold the veto after he takes
office.
The
Sanhedrin also recalled Putin’s connection to the Temple in its letter. During
his third official trip to Jerusalem in 2012, Putin paid a late-night visit to
the Kotel (Western Wall). When he arrived at the holy site, the Russian leader
stood in silence for several minutes, offering up a personal prayer, after
which he read Psalms from a Russian-Hebrew prayer book.
An
Israeli bystander called out in Russian, “Welcome, President Putin.” Putin
approached the man, who explained the importance of the Temple Mount and the
Jewish Temple. Chadrei Charedim, an Orthodox
Hebrew news site, reported that Putin responded, “That’s exactly the reason I
came here – to pray for the Temple to be built again.”
Watch
the video of Putin in Jerusalem: https://youtu.be/fKo0AQNZCSc
After
this remarkable exchange, the Sanhedrin sent a letter to Putin calling on him
to fulfill his prayer. At the time, President Putin did not respond to the
Sanhedrin’s request, but now that the incoming US president is a potential ally
in the project, the Sanhedrin believes it is time for Putin to take an active
role in rebuilding the Temple.
In
addition to its requests concerning the Temple, the Sanhedrin is also calling
on Putin and Trump to renew the 1920 League of Nations resolution known as the San Remo treaty, which
essentially enabled the creation of a Jewish State by dividing the Ottoman
Empire. It incorporated the Balfour Declaration, issued by Great Britain in
1917, which gave official recognition and backing for the establishment of
Israel.
US
President Calvin Coolidge ratified the San Remo agreement in 1925, thus making
recognition of a Jewish State legally binding by US law. The Sanhedrin
emphasized that it is imperative at this time, when the Palestinian Authority
is attempting to rewrite world history by campaigning against the
Balfour declaration, to strengthen the historic American commitment to the
State of Israel by readopting the agreement.
Rabbi
Weiss emphasized that supporting the Jewish claim to Jerusalem would bring
benefit Russia and America, as well as the entire world.
“The
leaders of Russia and America can lead the nations of the world to global peace
through building the Temple, the source of peace,” Rabbi Weiss explained. “This
will offset the disgraceful UNESCO resolutions that are the root cause of increasing
terror and violence.”
Last
month, the United Nations Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization
(UNESCO) passed two resolutions denying any
connection between the city of Jerusalem and the Jewish people, ceding to
Islam a religious monopoly on many of Judaism’s holiest sites.
Source: Breaking
Israel News, via Last
Days Watchman
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