Rebuilding of the temple?

Question

from a Jewish veiwpoint. When the temple is rebuit, how will the preist be selected. Are they still suppose to be Levites? or do you beleive that the Messiah will come when that happens? Thank you for explaining it to me.

I'm a christian, I know what we believe, I was wondering about Jewish beliefs.

Answer 1

The rebuilding will coincide with the presence of the Messiah. There are many who claim to be descended from priests and levites and, presumably, when the time comes, a method of determining who is what will be made available. Additionally, these events will usher in a new age of prophesy and it is through that prophesy that the High Priest will be selected.

Answer 2

The Classical Jewish idea is that the next Temple will descend nearly fully formed from Heaven, in fulfillment of the verse, "The Temple of the L-rd shall appear in its place." Then the doors from the previous temple, which our sages say miraculously sank into the Earth before the Romans destroyed the last Temple, will ascend out of the ground and fill the doorways. The Messiah, who the Midrash Rabbah says will be older than 80 years old, will then put them on their hinges.

Today there are Levite families and Priest families. Many of them probably aren't really Levites and Priests, but most of them are. Tradition says that the Messiah will be able to tell who's who by his sense of smell; but his judgements will be confirmed by the High Priest with the Urim and Thumim.

There's an arguement amongst the classical commentators over whether the Levites will fill their old duties, or whether the first born sons will fill the Levitical duties, the Levites be promoted to Priests, and Moses will be the High Priest. Guess we'll have to wait and see.

Answer 3

Good point earlier about the Muslim's Dome of the Rock. Even if the re-building of the Temple was not thwarted by THAT, I doubt Israeli leadership would do it in the near future, since SO many Christians consider that one of the things necessary for the so-called "Rapture", Apocalypse, Second coming of Jesus and great battle between him and the "Anti-Christ" (yeah...it DOES sound like LOTR!)....

Though the Jews don't believe in all that, they're probably hesitant to find out whether Christians will descend on them to reclaim the Holy Land as theirs! They have enough enemies hounding them. Though not all Christians believe in the Rapture, and so on, enough of them do to pose a threat to Jews!

There was an excellent show about all this, including an analysis of the Book of Revelations, in a show on the National Geographic Channel. It will be repeated and it's WELL worth watching!

Answer 4

The location of the temple is exactly located where the dome of the rock is right now.
The dome of the rock is the second holiest place for the muslims.
Destrying it would enrage muslims and drive them nuts.
Good luck trying to destroy it and rebuilding the temple...
So no the messiah isn't coming back anytime soon....

Answer 5

It is all irrelevant now because Frodo destroyed the Ring of Power.

Answer 6

the messiah already came...the temple will be rebuilt in the time of the antichrist in tribulation period

Answer 7

the rebuilding of the Temple is one of the last Bible prophesies that will be fulfilled before Jesus returns.
Watch out when it is.......

Answer 8

http://www.truthnet.org/Endtimes/7/
everything to need to know about it..theres a lot.

Answer 9

http://www.aish.com/literacy/concepts/All_About_the_Messiah.asp