As for what God says of Isreal….read Isaiah 49:15-16; Jeremiah 33:19-22; Jeremiah 33:25-26; Amos 9:8-15.

Zechariah 12;13; and 14 appears fast upon us…..and it seems Zechariah 14:16 will be realized……

Finally, believers all pray “Even so, come Lord Jesus.” Revelation 22:20

Further thoughts: There aren’t any Sadducees or Essenes or Sicarii etc left; the Pharisees almost won that argument. But not totally. If they’re going to re-establish Sanhedrin, they should install some Karaites on it. Karaites are Jews who do not follow Pharasaic halakha; that is, they don’t use the Mishna, Talmud, and other such law books.

The issues between the Pharisees (of whose tradition I follow) and the Sadducees are enormous. The written law concerning the first 5 books of the Hebrew Bible (aka the Torah) is simply not complete nor meant to be. Oral law is necessary, and the Sadducees rejected ALL oral (traditional) law. There are explicit Biblical commands applying to Jews concerning all kinds of thing with NO details “You shall slaughter these animals in the manner which I show you”, “shall be on the doorposts of your house” and “for frontlets between your eyes”. No details about kosher slaughter, the requirements concerning the knife. No details about the mezuzah (the box on the doorposts of Jewish homes) and its contents (passages from the Torah written on parchment by a qualified scribe), no details on WHAT is placed between the eyes. What KIND of blue is put on the threads on the corners of garments and what are those threads and how are they made? The Torah, to use an analogy, is properly seen as Cliff Notes to the lecture at Mt. Sinai… great as a refresher but NOT intended to be a complete reference book. But if you don’t attend the lab or have someone who did show you the specifics, it’s impossible to get it. After-the-fact, most commentators see that it seems G-d intentionally recorded the Bible in ways that would FORCE discussion and wrestling with it for generations, requiring oral transmission, and not render it a dusty cookbook of observances gathering dust.

Anyway… I don’t mean to stifle discussion or debate, but the issue of suggesting that a legitimate Sanhedrin was involved with the murder of anyone, let alone Jesus, can be perceived as if someone accused your grandfather of participating in a lynching.

I once rented a room from an old man who was sodomized by a gang of Russians coming home from church because he had the gall to be walking on the street on the night of December 24… and be Jewish. He was 9. He spent every Christmas with all the lights off in his apartment.

Does the lynching of Leo Frank suggest that the US Supreme Court or the Georgia court system was responsible?

Mobs are not synonymous with the authorities and they can get out of hand. That’s what makes them mobs.

WAY too many people are still around who have been at the violent giving or receiving end of the “Christ killer” epithet. I’m young, just 42, and remember it during a simple game of dodgeball when I was in public high school–mentally taking note to NEVER let my eye completely off the guy. I was nominally Jewish in my observance at the time. Aside from my taking off for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, there was little to distinguish my behavior from that of any other student… I ate the school lunches, was a jock, a bit of a class clown, and an honor student. I don’t know what I did to “trigger” the core of the hate my classmate was taught, but hate can run deep and stirring it by suggesting that the Roman-beseiged (go read your Josephus as to how bad it was, then) Sanhedrin, per se, had it in for someone is problematic to say the least. Consider the Roman Legions at your door, famous for levelling cities and enslaving entire nations. That context is simply missing from Mark and Luke, neither of whom were eyewitnesses and were written nearly half a century after the traumatic events.

Anyway…

Present cultural and moral crises should UNITE religiously-oriented people of faith versus the secular onslaught.

When the Messiah comes (or comes back!), no doubt he’ll judge us on how we treated each other, not on how we argued about the circumstances of those days. And when those messianic prophecies are finally fulfilled in total (peace on earth, end of religious strife, end of famine, etc.) we should all be too busy being grateful.

May G-d bless you, La Shawn.

“We said what Ezekiel prophecied that the Sanhedrin {Jewish Rabbi Court of 71 Elders, first established by Moses} would be re-established in Israel. Will this be the same Sanhedrin mentioned specifically in the prophecies of Ezekiel? Yes we believe so. Here is why. The Rabbi’s will change. As covered in my book “Shekinah Prophecy” those Rabbi’s who will end up being on this Court are mentioned by name. This must first occur before the Ezekiel’s Temple is built.”

Interesting indeed LB

“Pray without ceasing” (1 Thes. 5:17)

(www.ou.org/about/judaism/sanhedrin.htm) The Sanhedrin took pains avoid execution.

I haven’t heard of any of the rabbis mentioned in the article, so I wouldn’t give it much weight. Also, it is hard to have a “Supreme Court” without minor courts which would be required to hear cases, first. City courts would require groups of 23 judges.

By the way, there’s an interesting Christainity Today article (www.ctlibrary.com/ct/1998/apr6/8t4048.html) Jesus v. Sanhedrin which notes: Because Israel at this time was a puppet Jewish state under the jurisdiction of the Roman Empire, the Sanhedrin did not possess the legal power to …

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By definition, at that time, THAT Sanhedrin, or those who might have called themselves a Sanhedrin, had alreadly lost authority.

For instance, with the re-establishment of the Sanhedrin it will become possible to address the issue of only a man being able to grant his wife a divorce.

Many, many issues of Jewish law will be addressable now.