ISRAEL WATCH: 11.7.20 - Temple Priests Prepare To Serve In Rebuilt Temple With New Training School.................

Temple Priests Prepare To Serve In Rebuilt Temple With New Training School................. Along with the prophets Jeremiah, Ezekiel and Zephaniah, Rabbi Amichai Cohen of Tzfat in the Galilee is a descendant of Aaron, the first High Priest of Israel. These male descendants are known as kohanim. I hereby take your fellow Leviim from among the Israelites; they are assigned to you in dedication to Hashem, to do the work of the Tent of Meeting; Exodus 18:6 Among traditional Jews, the lineage of male descendants of Aaron the High Priest is carefully preserved. Interestingly, over 98% of Jewish men who identify as kohanim, and who have had their DNA tested, have a specific genetic marker in common. Certain vestigial laws apply to kohanim today, but when Jerusalem will once again have a Temple, their priestly roles will become significantly more influential. Cohen and his partner, Rabbi Peretz Rivkin, want to prepare the living descendants of Aaron the High Priest to be ready to step into their Biblically-mandated roles as soon as the Third Temple is operational. Together, the two men are launching Kehuna Academy, an online community and school for learning about the service of the Kohanim in preparation for the Third Temple. Kehuna is the Hebrew word for priesthood. Rivkin currently runs Igud HaKohanim, a NewYork-based non-profit educational organization devoted to educating the world about the importance of the Biblical priesthood. Cohen explained that, since the Second Temple was destroyed nearly 2,000 years ago, kohanim today lack the practical knowledge to conduct the Temple service. He shared with Israel365 News that generations of major rabbis have spoken about the importanceof this education. Until his death in 1933, Rabbi Yisrael Meir HaKohen Kagan, popularly known as the Chofetz Chaim, oversaw a learning program in Poland to prepare kohanim for the Temple Service. Prior to the launch of Kehuna Academy, no such program has existed for the past 100 years. As we get ever closer to the rebuilding of the temple, the need for kohanim to learn the relevant laws has become more acute. Practically speaking, the Kehuna Academy, "aims to be a resource center for groups of kohanim from around the world," explained Cohen. They want to encourage kohanim to create local groups. "Most don't know where to start," Cohen shared. "We aim to bea resource center, so they can have a curriculum to study from." He elaborated that, "Kohanim don't currently have the organization, the united front which kohanim should have. Because of my experience creating a school that students from all over the world can connect to, I saw the value and have the ability to unifykohanim worldwide. Someone needs to do it. It needs to happen. This consciousness needs to get out there and it really requires a team to do this." Kehuna Academy will begin instruction in English and expects to quickly expand to Hebrew. It's a grassroots organization and suitable volunteers and donors are most welcome. Rivkin commented about the role of non-Jews in the development of this project. They are looking for donors, Jews and non-Jews, who are willing to contribute "b't'mimut (with pure intentions). You have many goyim t'mimum (God-fearing gentiles) as well.They want to connect with God. In Yechezkel (Eziekiel), all the nations of the world have their spot around the Third Mikdash (Temple)," he elaborated. Cohen is aware that the thought of animal sacrifice "rubs people the wrong way." In fact, there is a difference of opinion among rabbinic scholars about whether or not animal sacrifices will be part of the Third Temple. In any case, "The ideas are reallyvery deep," he said reassuringly. The Kehuna Academy "will not just train kohanim in the external laws, but will connect them to a much deeper place." Another debate concerns the architecture of the Third Temple. The Temple Institute of Jerusalem promotes the idea that the Third Temple will be physically similar to the Second Temple. In chapters 40-47, the prophet Ezekiel describes his vision of the dimensions of the Third Temple in a way that significantly varies from the structure of the Second Temple. "We disagree [with the Temple Institute] very strongly about the architectureof the Third Temple. Part of our agenda is to push Ezekiel's Third Temple," Cohen asserted. Originally published at Breaking Israel News - reposted with permission. Israel and election 2020 - By Terry James - https://www.raptureready.com/2020/11/05/israel-and-election-2020-by-terry-james/ Election results still aren�t settled as I write this. Presidential Election 2020 is, in my many decades of experience, unlike any other. And this is in no way hyperbole. I know I don�t have to convince you of the truth of that statement. Those of you who read these columns have lived through everything from Donald Trump�s 2016 election untilthis present hour. Little in the four intervening years has not been strange and, to use KJV terminology, extremely �vexing.� Strangest of all regarding this election are the dynamics within the matters involved. Donald J. Trump has had everything imaginable thrown at his presidency�and some thingsso profoundly evil as to defy anything approaching political normalcy. None of it has touched him. We�ve expressed many times in these articles how Trump seems impervious to and even invulnerable against anything his political enemies and even the minions of Satan canmanage against him. The election of 2016 presented, according to all political hacks�and all polls�insurmountable odds against Trump winning. This was the case up until 9 o�clock on that electionnight. But when the electioneering dust settled, the political pundits all had to sadly report that the woman the Democrats had chosen to coronate as president had gone down to electoral landslide defeat. The rage then exploded across the nation and the world. The globalist-elites� grand plans for America�thus for the world�had been stopped cold in their tracks. Trump hadone thing in mind. Well, two things: 1) To drain the swamp that was Washington, DC, and 2) To �Make America Great Again!� Neither could then nor now be tolerated by the powers and principalities of Ephesians 6:12. Those powers and principalities, both human and demonic, had had their power and control diminished. It could not stand, and their rage became, as often described, �unhinged.� We who viewed all this through the prism of Bible prophecy understood that this fury that seemed to make Trump�s human enemies do things that bordered on totally irrationalwas the result of their throwing off all godly restraints. The opposition party, in fact, voted audibly to kick God out of their party platform. Romans 1:28 thus observably set in, and the rage went wild. There was the Russian collusion hoax brought against Trump twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, for years. The political witch hunt went on until the $40 millionMueller investigation had to admit, finally, that Trump wasn�t guilty of even the slightest infraction. The Democrat side of the House of Representatives impeached him for something that a White House recording plainly showed was a non-impeachable matter, with the president�slegitimate call to a Ukrainian official. Still, the phony trial went on for months. Taken to its full course, the inevitable not-guilty verdict made the unhinged party on the left look for all to see to be the evil minions they are. These were the major actions used to assault Mr. Trump. If we dig in a bit, we can present hundreds of less dramatic attacks from the Democrats and their henchmen and henchwomenin the mainstream press. The assaults, as you will remember, were unrelenting. The question, then, to consider�and I believe it to be one of a profound nature as we move farther into this fleeting age: Why, after all of this, in which nothing couldremove this president from the Oval Office, no matter what was attempted, does it now appear that he will be removed by the mere electoral process? This, despite the blatant evidence that his opponent is obviously mentally challenged as proven every time hespeaks for any length of time in public. Why are voters�at least half of them�so deluded as to elect the radicals who want to remake America into something akin to the old Soviet Union? More profound than this is the question: Why has the Lord of Heaven suddenly seemed to take his hand off, which had so obviously been on this man He miraculously put inthe White House? It is especially a profound question, because God�s greatest end-times indicator, His chosen people, Israel, is at the very heart of things accomplished by one Donald J.Trump. He promised to move the US Embassy from Tel Aviv after declaring Jerusalem as Israel�s capital from America�s perspective. This is something other presidents had promisedbut never did. Trump did keep the promise to recognize Jerusalem as Israel�s capital. He has kept practically every promise he has made�to Israel�to the American people. There is no doubt that this is God�s man for this hour at the close of the Age of Grace(Church Age). Why has God decided, as it appears He has as of this writing, to remove him from earth�s most powerful office? Why, if it does happen, would the Lord of Heaven replace himwith a person who, being mentally ill, seems to represent, through his incapacity, the entire reprobate (upside-down) spiritual and mental capacity of his political party? Israel must be considered in all this. I haven�t the answers�just the questions. It will be our wonderful God who will provide those answers when He chooses. VISIT: PROPHECY WATCHER WEEKLY NEWS: HTTP://PROPHECY-WATCHER-WEEKLY-NEWS.BLOGSPOT.COM