The Temple Mount Institute of Jerusalem Readying For Messianic Age

 Nadene Goldfoot                                          

The Temple Institute, known in Hebrew as Machon HaMikdash (Hebrew: מכון המקדש), is an organization in Israel focusing on the endeavor of establishing the Third Temple. Its long-term aims are to build the third Jewish temple on the Temple Mount, on the site occupied by the Dome of the Rock, and to reinstate animal sacrificial worship.  

Although Orthodox Judaism generally agrees that the Temple in Jerusalem will and should be rebuilt, there is a substantial disagreement about whether this should occur by human or divine hands. The Temple Institute interprets the opinion of the Rambam (Maimonides) as saying that Jews should attempt to build the Temple themselves, and have a mitzvah (obligation) to do so if they can. The Rambam's opinion, however, is a controversial one and has aroused substantial opposition.

The Temple Institute's view of the Rambam's opinion is not universally accepted by Maimonides scholars. According to seventeenth-century Rabbi Yom Tov Lipman Heller in his commentary on the tractate Yoma, the Rambam did not say that any Jew can build the future Temple, only the Messiah.

The Temple Institute aspires to reach this goal through the study of Temple construction and ritual and through the development of actual Temple ritual objects, garments, and building plans suitable for immediate use in the event conditions permit its reconstruction. It runs a museum in the Jewish Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem in Israel. 

It was founded and is headed by Rabbi Yisrael Ariel. Rabbi Yisrael Ariel, founder and head of the Temple Institute, served in the paratrooper brigade which liberated the Temple Mount in the Six Day War of 1967, and was one of the first soldiers to reach the Mount. Rabbi Ariel was the Rosh Yeshiva and spiritual leader of the city of Yamit in the Sinai, which was dismantled as part of the peace accords with Egypt. Rabbi 

Ariel is a scholar of great renown, and is also the author of many Hebrew works, including the highly acclaimed "Atlas of the Biblical Boundaries of the Land of Israel."

Its current director general is Dovid Shvartz, and the International Department is headed by Rabbi Chaim Richman. New York billionaire Henry Swieca has supported the institute. The Israeli government has also provided funding.

As part of its ongoing effort to prepare for a future rebuilt Temple, the Temple Institute has been preparing ritual objects suitable for Temple use. Many of the over ninety ritual items to be used in the Temple have been made by the Temple Institute.

As of June 2008, a major project of the institute was the creation of the sacred uniform of the Kohen Gadol, the High Priest, and the ordinary priests. This project, the culmination of years of study and research, had already been underway for several years. The High Priest's Hoshen (breastplate) and Ephod have been completed. The Tzitz, the golden crown of the High Priest, was completed in 2007.  The Temple Institute is designing the garments for the lay priests intended for purchase by Kohanim. 

 (Most Cohens know they are Cohens as their fathers pass on this fact orally to their sons), but today we can also proved this by DNA testing.  The Y haplogroup would read as J1 or something very close to it.  We had a relative, a Hochfeld, who was  a Cohen-knew this and served as a Cohen in the synagogue as one of the 1st readers.  DNA testing proved this to be correct.  

 Stanley and his family in early days, wife was Rebecca Finger.  Interesting that she married a Goldfoot.  Stanley was a writer, known for his "Letter to the World" defending Israel.  Shortly after moving to Palestine, he joined the Stern Group    and was their Chief of Intelligence.  I visited him at a hotel and at his beautiful home in Jerusalem.  He told me we were related to the Vilna Gaon of Lithuania.  He was the 1st publisher of "The Times of Israel." Chaim Herzog worked for him.  Age 69 when I met him,  he had white curly hair, tall, lean, energetic, healthy, had a mustache, and a British/South African accent.  When I met him, his 2nd wife was Helen Stutzen or Saffer.  

My 3rd cousin, Stanley Goldfoot (b: 1914 Johannesburg, South Africa-d: 2006 Jerusalem), was a member of this group before 1980 when I made aliyah to Israel.  He showed me their plans that he had rolled up in a scroll.  Today on youtube, I saw a video made by "rapture revealed," a Christian group watching their actions, of the group's Succot activities this year.  They mentioned seeing the water libation, something done before the building of such a Temple.  

In addition to a variety of items required for service within the Temple, the institute has attempted to locate a parah adumah (red heifer) consistent with the requirements of Numbers 19:1–22 and Mishnah Tractate Parah for purposes of taharah (purification) necessary to enter the Temple sanctuary proper in most circumstances. In recent years, the institute identified two candidates, one in 1997 and another in 2002. The Temple Institute had initially declared both kosher, but later found each to be unsuitable.  Stanley Goldfoot died in 2006 before finding a Red Heifer.  

Stanley would have been excited about the Red Heifers that have arrived in Israel already  on Thursday, September 15, 2022, 5 PM, 5 perfect, unblemished red heifers arrived in Israel from the USA. A modest ceremony was held at the unloading bay of the cargo terminal at Ben Gurion airport, where the new arrivals were greeted and speeches were made by the incredible people who have put their hearts and souls and means into making this historic/prophetic day become a reality.  They were needed before any Temple could be built.  

This year they had a special moment according to their web page.  A Temple Mount Moment is the joint project of the Temple Institute and the High on the Har organization. Temple Mount experts and co founders of High on the Har, Dr. Melissa Jane Kronfeld and Rabbi Yehuda Levi present each week fascinating facts and insights about the Temple Mount and the Holy Temple, its past, present and future!

It seems that many watched the water Libation, another act that must occur before building the 3rd Temple. On Tuesday, a full-dress reenactment of the water libation as it was performed in the Temple was held in Jerusalem with several hundred participants led by Kohanim in priestly garb, accompanied by Levites playing musical instruments. (Levites can be determined by DNA as well).  Levites also know who they have been for hundreds of years as being from the tribe of Levi but not a direct descendant of Aaron, brother of Moses).  

The event began at Shaar Hashpot (the dung gate) in Jerusalem’s Old City where participants joined Kohanim (priests) in Biblically mandated vestments and Levites with musical instruments, also wearing special vestments. The musically gifted Levites led the ceremony with joyous music on drums, violin, guitar, and clarinet, winding down ancient walkways into the valley below the Temple Mount. The crowd sang and danced as they passed from the archaeological remains of the ancient City of David, through an Arab village, to the Shiloach (Siloam) Spring which was used in Temple times. The procession was punctuated by stops during which four-foot-long pure silver trumpets were sounded.                               

The event was overseen by Rabbi Yisrael Ariel (the founder of the Temple Institute), Rabbi Dov Lior, Rabbi Aryeh Shtern (the chief rabbi of Jerusalem), Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu, Rabbi David Chai HaKohen, Rabbi Ra’am Hakohen, Rabbi Menachem Bornstein, Rabbi Uri Cherki, and other distinguished rabbis.  

Christians have been working with Temple Mount members and cousin Stanley was one involved.  Cooperation  has developed between evangelicals and Jews around the prospect of rebuilding the Temple. Many premillennialist evangelicals, especially since the 1980s, consider this task to be of special interest. A number of evangelical writers and activists have considered the rebuilding of a Jewish temple to be an essential event of the apocalyptic era. The 1980s saw the beginnings of efforts to prepare for that project, with conservative evangelicals offering financial aid and moral support to groups of observant Jews, some of them ultra-Orthodox, intent on rebuilding the Temple. The attempt to rebuild the Temple on the Temple Mount, where its former ruins are said to be located, necessarily affects Muslims, who also have an interest in the site. The chapter then looks at evangelical attitudes toward them and highlights Arab attitudes toward evangelical–Jewish relationships.

In 1993, Stanley was the lecturer at the Temple Mount.  The Jerusalem Temple Foundation

    Stanley Goldfoot  (Audio File missing)

Then:  This article below represents only a brief summary of the voluminous material gathered by the task force since the Nov. 4, 1995 assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.

On Oct. 16, Israeli police turned back members of the Temple Mount and Land of Israel Faithful Movement, as they attempted to enter the Dome of the Rock to anoint the cornerstone of a Third Temple. It was an extraordinary provocation, given that, for the previous 17 days, the Israeli military and police had been waging a round-the-clock shooting war against Palestinian protesters, armed mostly with stones. Dozens of Arab demonstrators had already been killed, and Jerusalem was about to explode in religious warfare.

An earlier press release by the Temple Mount Faithful had claimed that "the event has the approval of the Israeli authorities and will be protected by the Israel security forces."

The press release, written by Faithful leader Gershon Salomon, proclaimed, in blood-curdling language, "Now it is the time to rebuild the House of G-d on the holy Temple Mount, the location of the First and Second temples. G-d is ready for this and He expects Israel to re-liberate the Temple Mount from the pagan Arab worshippers and to rebuild His house to again be the heart, soul, and focus of Israel and all the nations. . . . Come and see for yourself what G-d is doing with Israel at this great time and be a part of this major end-time event."

To me, this is NOT blood curdling language, though for a secular person may be scary.  

So time marches on toward the year 6,000 and we find that the Temple building may be in the coming forecast.  What can happen within the next  year or by the next 17 years?  

Dr. McCall has most recently been Professor of Theology and Scholar-in-Residence at Asbury University. Prior to this, he served for sixteen years as Professor of Biblical and Systematic Theology at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois, where he was also the Director of the Carl F. H. Henry Center for Theological Understanding. During this same time, he held an appointment as Professorial Fellow in Exegetical and Analytic Theology at the University of St. Andrews.

Dr. Thomas McCall, Christian Church leader asked Salomon when the Temple would be built.  Gershon Salomon, was the leader when I was in Israel in 1980-85 and still leader of the 1996-famous group in Israel called the Temple Mount Faithful, as he referred to Satan in the Sanctuary, the first book that Zola and McCall wrote together (long ago, it seems) in 1973.

The cooperation  developed between evangelicals and Jews around the prospect of rebuilding the Temple. Many premillennialist evangelicals, especially since the 1980s, consider this task to be of special interest. A number of evangelical writers and activists have considered the rebuilding of a Jewish temple to be an essential event of the apocalyptic era. The 1980s saw the beginnings of efforts to prepare for that project, with conservative evangelicals offering financial aid and moral support to groups of observant Jews, some of them ultra-Orthodox, intent on rebuilding the Temple. The attempt to rebuild the Temple on the Temple Mount, where its former ruins are said to be located, necessarily affects Muslims, who also have an interest in the site. What were the evangelical attitudes toward them and Arab attitudes toward evangelical Jewish relationships?

“Yes, but you made the foundation stone,” McCall replied, as if he needed to remind Salomon of the most significant thing, from a prophetic point of view, that he had ever done. We laughed, but this exchange launched a discussion that lasted for over thirty minutes about the future Temple in Jerusalem. 

Interesting that there are evangelical Christians who respect Jews and back us while there are others who feel Jews are not longer necessary and believe they have taken our place in the religious world.  This shows up in the politics of the USA as well.  Religion and politics, both subjects we shouldn't talk about with friends, as they say.   

Resource:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ekZ-rGeyos   water libation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Temple_Institute

https://templeinstitute.org/

https://academic.oup.com/nyu-press-scholarship-online/book/21864/chapter-abstract/181890230?redirectedFrom=fulltext

https://israel365news.com/355457/reenactment-of-the-water-libation-held-to-prepare-for-the-third-temple/

http://www.templemount.org/goldfoot/index.html

https://larouchepub.com/other/2000/temple_mount_2743.html

https://www.levitt.com/essays/temple

HOW TO KNOW THE MOSHIACH

Nadene Goldfoot
                                                                       

Aluf Bar Kokhba, thought to be the Messiah in 132 CE

    Jews have been under duress many times throughout the centuries and the hope has always been to be delivered from these horrific situations by the Moshiach/Messiah.  The name messiah or in Hebrew, Moshiach, has gone through a transition in itself, from being just the annointed one such as a king who has received Divine sanction or a High Priest.  In post-exilic times such as the Babylonian Exile when Nebuchadnezzar carried away the Tribe of Judah majority population to Babylon in 597-586 BCE and they were kept there for 70 years, the word Messiah came to mean anyone with a special mission from G-d, like the patriarchs, prophets, the Jewish people, even someone such as King Cyrus the Mede  of Persia who sent the Babylonian Jews back to Jerusalem.  

After the exile there was a prophetic vision of the universal establishment of G-d's kingdom associated with the ingathering of Israel under a scion of King David's house who would be the Messiah.  While Rome occupied Jerusalem 100 years before Romans burned down the Temple and Jerusalem, the hope of the Messiah was very strong.  
                                                      

King David was said to be a gingy; having reddish hair. 

He was expected to be a descendant of King David who would break the alien yoke and establish a Golden Age.  King David  ruled from 1010 to 970 BCE.  He was a descendant of the kinsmen of Naomi  and Boaz of the tribe of Judah.  This probably means a direct descendant, and David had at least 9 wives; perhaps more, but not as many as Solomon had for he had a 1,000.  RASHI, the biblical commentator, was a direct descendant. RASHI (Rabbi Solomon Yitzhak-ben Isaac) was born in 1040 in France, and many Jews of today are his descendants.  I have him on my own tree due to DNA findings.   

1  kinsman of Naomi Boaz b: in Bethlehem
.. +RUTH of Royalty b: in Moab d: in Bethlehem
. 2  Oved Obed Judah b: in 11th century BCE
..... 3  father of David; Jesse b: in Bethlehem
......... +Ithra's Daughter d: in father J1-Arab line
......... 4  Zeruiah
......... 4  [1] King of Israel David b: 1030 in 1000 BCE Bethlehem d: in 960 BCE
............. +Bathsheba b: in Giloh, Judah
......... *2nd Wife of [1] King of Israel David:
David's son was King Solomon.  After he died the kingdom split into two parts, the North, which was taken by Assyrians in 721 BCE, and the South, which were the tribes of  Judah and parts of Benjamin.  Solomon's descendants ruled from the House of David with his son, Rehoboam to Zedekiah when Judah fell and many were taken to Babylon.  
                                                         

Aaron was the 1st priest
selected by Moses of the Tribe of Levi,
full brother of Moses

This is the Age of DNA.  Many Jews carry the DNA Y haplotype of the Cohen line.
Cohens were the direct descendant of Aaron, the brother of Moses, who was a Levite.  A descendant of Aaron might have the surname of Cohen or perhaps not.  They will have the DNA tag of being a J-M267 or something very close to this.  

The Book of Samuel describes God's repudiation of a monarchic line arising from the northern Tribe of Benjamin due to the sinfulness of King Saul, which was then bestowed onto the Tribe of Judah for all time in the person of King David. So David was from the tribe of Judah, the one most remaining today, for Jews are from Judah.  The Moshiach will be a Jew with the male haplotype of J-M267.  This is my deduction, not a prophecy.  I might add that some of us Jews do have different haplotypes, but mostly run in the E, R1, G, I, J1, lines.  
                                                   

There was a widespread Jewish Revolt going on from 115 to 117 CE and the Messiah was wanted then.  During the last revolt against the Romans  after the end in 70 CE, appeared Aluf (General) Bar Kokhba (Simeon Bar Kosiba) nephew of Rabbi Eleazar of Modiin and reputedly of Davidic descent, who fought against the Romans in order to re-take Jerusalem and did in 132.  He held it for 3 years, a miracle in those days against the strongest army of the world, but was killed in battle.  Everyone thought he was the Moshiach.  

Since then there have been many appearing at bad times thought to be the Moshiach.   
                                                 

  
Maimonides (Moses Ben Maimon or RAMBAM) wrote a letter to the Yemenites in 1172 describing the messianic doctrine and included this in his 13 articles of faith for Judaism so we are to have this faith. He was a philosopher, halakhist and medical writer who died in 1204 who had left Spain for Palestine.   It was he who established our 613 rules or precepts from the Torah.  

"And if a king shall arise from among the House of David, studying Torah and occupied with commandments like his father David, according to the written and oral Torah, and he will impel all of Israel to follow it and to strengthen breaches in its observance, and will fight God's wars, this one is to be treated as if he were the anointed one.

 If he succeeded and built the Holy Temple in its proper place and gathered the dispersed ones of Israel together, this is indeed the anointed one for certain, and he will mend the entire world to worship the Lord together, as it is stated: "For then I shall turn for the nations a clear tongue, so that they will all proclaim the Name of the Lord, and to worship Him with a united resolve (Zephaniah 3:9)."                                            

Pictured is a rendition of Solomon's 1st Temple

              Building the 3rd Temple is something that remains to be done.  When I 
made aliyah in 1980, I met my 3rd cousin, Stanley Goldfoot, who was involved
in doing this.  He belonged to a Temple group who had blueprints for the Temple,
and I learned that others were working on all the aspects needed to be done. 
This is a hot potato issue.  I highly doubt if they will build on the Temple Mount
where Muslims have built over the spot where the 2nd Temple had stood.  The 
Temple Mount is policed by our next-door neighbor, Jordan.  A war would break
out if Israel did.  Is the Temple group planning on building and having if finished
by 2021?  

Even though the eventual coming of the messiah is a strongly upheld belief in Judaism, trying to predict the actual time when the messiah will come is an act that is frowned upon. These kinds of actions are thought to weaken the faith the people have in the religion. So in Judaism, there is no specific time when the messiah comes. Rather, it is the acts of the people that determines when the messiah comes. It is said that the messiah would come either when the world needs his coming the most (when the world is so sinful and in desperate need of saving by the messiah) or deserves it the most (when genuine goodness prevails in the world).                          

This belief was upheld until our age of computers. and of creating 

Rips created a Bible Code for the computer by

 feeding the  Torah into a computer. 

                                          

A common modern rabbinic interpretation is that there is a potential messiah in every generation. The Talmud, which often uses stories to make a moral point (aggadah), tells of a highly respected rabbi who found the Messiah at the gates of Rome and asked him, "When will you finally come?" He was quite surprised when he was told, "Today." Overjoyed and full of anticipation, the man waited all day. The next day he returned, disappointed and puzzled, and asked, "You said messiah would come 'today' but he didn't come! What happened?" The Messiah replied, "Scripture says, 'Today, if you will but hearken to his voice.'"

A Kabbalistic tradition within Judaism is that the commonly discussed messiah who will usher in a period of freedom and peace, Messiah ben David, will be preceded by Messiah ben Joseph, who will gather the children of Israel around him, lead them to Jerusalem. After overcoming the hostile powers in Jerusalem, Messiah ben Joseph, will reestablish the Temple-worship and set up his own dominion. Then Armilus, according to one group of sources, or Gog and Magog, according to the other, will appear with their hosts before Jerusalem, wage war against Messiah ben Joseph, and slay him. His corpse, according to one group, will lie unburied in the streets of Jerusalem; according to the other, it will be hidden by the angels with the bodies of the Patriarchs, until Messiah ben David comes and brings him back to life.

^{Kabbala was an avenue in Judaism from the 1600s, found in Safed,} 

^{Palestine.Little} did they realize how prophetic this would be about hostile powers in Jerusalem, or

^{expecting Temple worship to be re-established.}  

The last Messiah heard from was in 1889 when a pseudo-messiah declared himself in Yemen.                         

Through use of a Bible Code, a rabbi has discovered 2021 to be the year that the Moshiach will appear from his interpretation.  This is the Age of the Ingathering of Jews from all corners of the world to Israel, and that Israel has been re-born.  It is the Age of DNA as well.  It's also an age when Israel faces extinction, having a bottleneck of survivors from the Holocaust and now facing extinction from Iran's threats.  Muslims do live by a code of honor of needing to warn a country before they attack it.  They have warned.  It is the Age of Atomic weaponry with the Atomic bomb and Hydrogen bomb.  It is normal for Jews to hold in their hearts the hope of the appearance of the Moshiach to bring peace to this planet and change people's hard hearts to contented ones, but without the use of drugs.  

Resource:
The New Standard Jewish Encyclopedia
https://en.shalomfromg-d.net/2019/06/03/where-does-messiah-come-from/?gclid=CjwKCAjw9vn4BRBaEiwAh0muDOM1cK9D5VXscZS6dbIfG4UsXZ6N0Gm1T4f2B0x-KcRcBT3_r3nwihoCwcYQAvD_BwE
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messiah

Jews Waiting For The Moshiach

Nadene Goldfoot
                                                                           

The world is, according to Jewish history, 5,779 years old.  We use that on our calendars.   We're all Homo Sapiens who go back farther than written history over 100,000 years ago, but we feel that a special spark entered our mankind about this far back. We people are all connected to each other through our mothers who were but a handful of women living  tens of thousands of years ago.  It was only about 10,000 years ago that mammoths ruled the lands with cavemen and women.  They now say that Jews come from 4 unrelated women as well some time ago.  

One of the greatest movies I remember was   10,000 BC which is now   a 2008 American epic adventure film from Warner Bros. set in the prehistoric era, about the journeys of a prehistoric tribe of mammoth hunters. 

I love books by Jean M. Auel like THE SHELTERS OF STONE

Biblically:  
"First, we know that the entire human race consisted of eight individuals at the end of the Flood, around 2350 BC. (This was about 4,369 years ago.) This was one “family,” but four were women who married into Noah’s line. So the maximum number of family lines who brought their genes onto the Ark was five (four potentially unrelated women, and one line of men. 
                                                       

Landed on moon 50 years ago
in 1969

We're at the height of the world's technical inventions and intelligence.  We've been to the moon, have sent a space ship to Mars, can give a person a new heart if his has worn out, such capabilities!  Yes, but the world is in desperate need of Messianic redemption.  So many belonging to Judaism, Christianity and Islam are waiting and expecting THE MESSIAH at any time now as this is considered THE END TIMES.  Maybe it's because things can't get any worse along with these great inventions.  We've got not only the atom bomb but the hydrogen bomb where we could blow up this lovely planet or at least harm it for centuries and make it unlivable.  

People are at the point of hating each other though these 3 religions are meant to foster love and care for each other.  What is lacking, here?   What seems to be man's base nature, anyway?  Religion is supposed to make them better people.  The United States has been at each other's throats with an impending Republican Democrat Civil War.  The Middle East is constantly unsettled, now with Iran trying to take over the world, and Russia is involved with Venuzuela!  What a love affair that is turning out to be with the electric lights continually going out in this South American country.  
                                                     

Israeli doctors at Gaza fence giving medial aid

How are we to help the coming of the Messiah?  The best way is to love all humanity generously, and this already proves to be impossible for the whole world to follow.  Jews are also told that we need to keep the mitzvot of the Torah as best as we can, and to encourage others to do so, as well.  Perhaps the 10 basic rules are those to work on.  They are still hard to follow, even after Moses gave them to us about 3,300 years ago.  Our math skills may be great but not our inner empathy skills that separate us from our Neanderthal genes.
What other explanation can I give and still be nice?

The qualities of the Messiah as seen in Jewish literature  will be:
                                                       

1. Born to human parents, have normal physical attributes like other people.  No supernatural qualities like Superman and will not be a demi-god as seen in Greek narratives.  

2. Genetically, from his father's side he will be descended from King David.  This means to me that his Y haplogroup will show he is of the Cohen gene, a J1 or J2 .  It's only now that we can tell for sure just what the line of Kind David would be, and even that is not 100% to be trusted.  We have not sampled his body's cells to find his haplogroup.  We are trusting in the fact that at least half the Jewish men today carry this haplogroup.  The fact is that most men of the Middle East also carry this haplogroup, which gives credence to the Torah saying that there was Ishmael who was a son of Abraham and that Esau went off to live with Ishmael's people instead of staying with his twin, Jacob and his father, Isaac.  This makes them our cousins.  
                                                   

Rabbi Samson Wertheimer

Right now, genetic testing is not used to declare anything legally.  How one can prove someone is of King David's line without it would need quite a well developed tree to remain readable with the care that the Torah has had.  There are such trees, but continuing on to this day is rare.  There is one on Rabbi  Elijah ben Solomon-who went by the name of THE GAON OF VILNA.  His parents were Rabbi  Shlomo-Zalman who died in 1758 and wife Treina.  Another was Rabbi Samson Wertheimer born 1658 in Worms, Germany.  The tree of RASHI is still in existence and may be the one used.  Rashi -Rabbi Solomon Yitzhaki ben Isaac-born in Troyes, France in 1040 had a tree that did go back to King David and this was well known and well-used.  RASHI was about the best known commentator of our Bible and is still quoted in our prayer books.  Rabbi Wertheimer connected to Rashi as many others did as well.  In biblical days,
your genealogy was very important.  Serving in court systems depended on it.  I connect to this same Rabbi Wertheimer as many others do, too.  

 He will be a rabbi in that he will lead the Jewish people in full Torah observance.  Anyone coming to change the Torah in any way will immediately be identified as a false prophet, and we've had our share of those in more than one claim in the past.  
                                                    

3.  Prophetic passages in the Bible speak of a descendant of King David who will rule Israel during the age of perfection.  This Messiah most likely will be a citizen of Israel.  We will recognize the Messiah by seeing who the King of Israel is at the time of complete universal perfection.   Therefore it will have a lot to do with who the president or prime minister of Israel will be then, or king for that matter if reverting back to kingship should happen.  

4.  What is his duty?  Role?  Messiah or Mashiach simply means the anointed one, a person in G-d's service who was anointed with oil as the initiation.  This is an ancient practice for every king and high priest was initiated into service with this prelude.  Prophecy from our prophets included a promise of a future age of perfection that would be of universal peace and the recognition of G-d.  This is because without G-d, the people would run amok and do wild things like sacrifice people in the hope for better weather, better crops, the appearance of herds of animals for food, and go wild during earthquakes with fear.  Today we again have many atheists who believe they have no need for the concept of a G-d in control of the world.  They have no concrete yardstick of measuring their behavior, which is something religion gives to others who do.  They have no answer to questions such as why do right or not do wrong other than their own civilization's rules.  The Mashiach's duty would be to establish the ushering in of this special period of universal peace.  
                                                  
  A.  He is to build the 3rd Temple.
                                                   

B.  He will gather all Jews back to the Land of Israel.  (This has been going on already with the Israeli government.  We still have yet to bring in some Pashtuns from Afghanistan, Pakistan and parts of India.  It may be that there are Christian groups from nearby neighboring states of Israel who also have a claim of being part of the Lost 10 Tribes or from the Babylonian Judaea, Benjamin group.)  Even the Palestinians may also claim to be Lost Tribal members.  The question is, do they want to become followers of the Torah?  Those that have already returned are.  Israel is a teeny state.  Need I say more?  I'm waiting on the Mashiach for that.  If some are left out, he is to do it. 

C. Usher in an era of world peace and end all hatred, oppression, suffering and disease.  That is one big order.  It would have to be of the END OF TIMES for that to be fulfilled.  Involved would have to be a melding of politics, psychology, sociology, the medical profession, and science.  We're getting close.  

For it says:  NATION SHALL NOT LIFT UP SWORD AGAINST NATION, NEITHER SHALL MAN LEARN WAR ANYMORE.  We can thank Isaiah's prophecy for that.  

D. The Mashiach is to spread universal knowledge of the G-d of Israel, which will unite humanity as one.  As it says, "GOD WILL BE KING OVER ALL THE WORLD--ON THAT DAY, G-D WILL BE ONE AND HIS NAME WILL BE ONE.  The prophet Zechariah said that one.  This covers the fact that Jews have not prophesied at all, were not permitted by the laws of the new Roman Christian church.  Since then, every religion under the sun has been busy proselytizing to us Jews!  We haven't  appreciated this one iota since it hasn't shown any respect for our religion, which happens to be the parent religion of both Christianity and Islam, by the way.  So this last position on the Mashiach's list of to do's makes even me nervous.  I have a Christian friend who has been doing just this; and he follows Judaism, the Torah, studies it with a group, and remains a Christian.  He's a great person.  Perhaps this is what the Mashiach is to do, what his end goal is to be.  We cannot expect more.  I have a lady friend nearby who is also of the same belief.  So people are starting to inquire about the Torah and respect it.  I don't think we could have found even 2 people like this 100 years ago.  

It will not be easy to find the Mashiach.  If an individual fails to fulfill even one of these conditions, then he cannot be THE MASHIACH.  

The Mashiach we await will be the greatest prophet in our history, 2nd only to Moses.  This causes problems.  Prophecy can only exist in Israel when the land is being lived in by a majority of world Jewry, a situation which has not existed since 300 BCE.  Right now there are 6 million Jews living in Israel.  
                                                      

We have about 6 million in Israel and 6 million in the USA and 2 million elsewhere in the world, many of which are still in Europe.  During the time of Ezra when the majority of Jews refused to leave Babylon where they had been taken to by the Babylonians in 597 and again in 586 BCE, prophecy came to an official end upon the death of the last prophets-Haggai, Zechariah and Malachi.  

Conditions today as far as anti-Semitism goes, is very bad throughout the world.  Europe again is the scene of a great deal of serious anti-Semitism.  The UN is one of the greatest producers of this thinking.  This is why such a little teeny state has gained such interest to people.  It's one reason why some people care what is happening to 0.02% of the world's population-the Jews. 
                                                           

One apparent sign is that the Jewish people have returned to the Land of Israel and made it bloom again.  A major movement is  that of young Jews returning to Torah tradition.   I've seen this happen in my own city and even in my own family.  I myself had made aliyah to Israel in 1980 and was able to stay for over 5 years.  As Jews become interested in their religion, hatred and accusations are developing such as in our own USA Congress against Jews and Israel.  
                                                   

Judaism is not a belief in miracles.  It's the history of the personal eyewitness experience that our ancestors had, all the men, women and children who stood at Mount Sinai 3,300 years ago.  What happened there were no miracles.  Our belief is not in miracles as then we would have lingering doubts.  Miracles can be performed through magic tricks.  What one might consider a miracle that he pulled in the desert he did because of necessity-and using some kind of basic science, and not as proof of his prophecy. We're a people who have been discouraged from believing in such things as miracles that are used as a base to cause a belief.  
                                                     

 This comes to us through Maimonides, who was MOSES BEN MAIMON who was born in 1135 and died in 1204.  He was a philosopher, halakhist and medical writer.  Born in Cordova, Spain, he would be a Sephardic Jew.  He and his family escaped the Almohade persecutions.  See, anti-Semitism way back then in Spain was happening.   He arrived in Palestine in 1165 at age 30.  One thing he studied was logic;  our thinking skills.  He established a list of the 613 Precepts.  He suffered from the Crusades, kept from  settling in Palestine, so he and his family went to Egypt and later became the physician to the viceroy of Egypt.  He died at age 70 and was buried in Tiberias.  All his life he was a writer about Judaism.  

I remember reading about several rabbis who were walking about looking at the small children, and asking themselves if this could be the Mashiach.  One never knows.  

Resource:  The New Standard Jewish Encyclopedia
The SEVEN DAUGHTERS OF EVE  by BRYAN SYKES
http://www.aish.com/print/?contentID=48892792&section=/jw/s, Rabbi Shraga Simmons, 5 pages.