Beware The Rebuilding of the Temple in Jerusalem

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According to the Babylonian Talmud, ‘Our Rabbis taught: During the last forty years before the destruction of the Temple the lot [‘for the Lord’] did not come up in the right hand; nor did the crimson-colored strap become white; nor did the western-most light shine; and the doors of the Hekal (Temple) would open by themselves’ (The Soncino Talmud, tractate ‘Yoma,’ 39b).
According to both versions of the Talmud, between 30AD and 70AD, every night the gates of the Temple would open by themselves. In Yoma 39b, the Babylonian Talmud records that ‘Rabban Johanan [ben] Zakkai rebuked [the doors], saying: “O Temple, why wilt thou be the alarmer thyself? I know about thee that thou wilt be destroyed, for Zechariah b[en] I do has already prophesied concerning thee: ‘Open thy doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may devour thy cedars’.”’

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