That is INCORRECT. There were no seats or chairs within the temple of God at Jerusalem. The High Priest could not sit down within the temple on earth. In contrast Christ sat down at the right hand of God after entering into the heavenly Temple, having finished His work of redemption.
That is remarkable.
Can you believe it?
Praise the Lord.
How I would have loved to be a fly on that wall.
"Then he rolled up the scroll, gave it back to the attendant and sat down. The eyes of everyone in the synagogue were fastened on him. He began by saying to them, “Today this scripture is fulfilled in your hearing.” - Luke 4:20
Declaring the favorable YEAR of the Lord in 27 AD. 62 and 7 weeks from the Artaxerxes Decree to restore and to rebuild. The TIME was fulfilled.
"Moses seat" is a reference to the Jewish synagogue, in which the scribes and Pharisees expounded on the Torah: "The allusion is not to the chairs in which the sanhedrim sat in trying and determining causes, but to those in which the doctors sat when they expounded the law; for though they stood up when they read the law, or the prophets, they sat down when they preached out of them: this custom of the synagogue was observed by our Lord;" -- John Gill's Commentary.
I know there's a lot written about it.
I remember reading a story from the Old Time Jewish writings about how Moses did actually have a wooden chair with slots in the side that stored all the scrolls of the Laws of God.
What is the Chair of Moses (the Seat of Moses)?
The chair of Moses was a phrase used by Jesus in
Matthew 23:2 to signify the place of authority that the
Scribes and
Pharisees had in interpreting
The Law and exercising their authority over the
Jewish people. They are the ones who would tell the people of Israel what the law of
Moses "really" meant. The phrase is found only in this verse. In Greek, the phrase is Μωσέως καθέδρας (Moses kathedras), and is literally "Moses' seat." It is translated as "Moses' seat" in the ASV, KJV, ESV, NET, NIV. The translation is "chair of Moses" in the HCSB and NASB. - Matt Slick.
What is the Chair of Moses (the Seat of Moses)? | CARM.org
Matt Slick is a cool name.
There's also an interesting note by a Baptist Minister, arguing this chair of Moses with a Catholic Priest.
“’The scribes and the Pharisees sit on Moses' seat; so practice and observe whatever they tell you, but not what they do; for they preach, but do not practice’” (Mt 23:2-3).
First, it should be noted that nowhere in the actual text is the notion that the Pharisees are
only reading the Old Testament Scripture when sitting on Moses’ seat. It’s an assumption gratuitously smuggled in from a presupposed position of
sola Scriptura.
Secondly, White’s assumption that Jesus is referring literally to Pharisees sitting on a seat in the synagogue and reading (the Old Testament only) and that alone—is more forced and woodenly literalistic than the far more plausible interpretation that this was simply a term denoting received authority.
It reminds one of the old silly Protestant tale that the popes speak infallibly and
ex cathedra (
cathedra is the Greek word for seat in Matthew 23:2) only when sitting in a certain chair in the Vatican (because the phrase means literally, “from the bishop’s chair”; whereas it was a
figurative and idiomatic usage).
Jesus says that they sat “on Moses’ seat;
so practice and observe whatever they tell you.” In other words: because they had the authority (based on the position of occupying Moses’ seat), therefore they were to be obeyed. It is like referring to a “chairman” of a company or committee. He occupies the “chair,” therefore he has authority. No one thinks he has the authority only when he sits in a certain chair reading the corporation charter or the Constitution or some other official document.
https://catholicconvert.com/documents/ChairOfMosesArmstrong.doc
It almost sounded like Jesus was telling us to do what the Pharisees were telling us, to do the Laws, as long as they SAT in Moses' seat.
As to what Davy said about Paul's prophecy of a literal temple in Jerusalem in the future, that is correct, since the Antichrist will not only set up the Abomination of Desolation in the Holy Place within that temple, but will also sit within it and claim to be God. While this third temple has not been sanctioned by God, it is still called "the temple of God" by Paul to confirm that it is a temple in Jerusalem.
I can't really show you what the Abomination of Desolation is right now.
The note would be too long.
But the "holy place", that Jesus was talking about in Matthew 24, is not inside a temple built by human hands anymore.
(Let The Reader Understand)
And even though I know this talk of the Law can tend to leave a bad taste in some people's mouths, there may be a way to show that this is actually what Paul was talking about in 2 Thessalonians. That the man of sin taking this seat, this place of authority, was the forsaking of the ways of Moses.
"He will oppose and will exalt himself over everything that is called God or is worshiped, so that he sets himself up in God’s temple, proclaiming himself to be God. - 2 Thessalonians 2:4
And in the verse just before that, Paul's talking about the falling away:
"Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; - 2 Thessalonians 2:3
The falling away, the rebellion that precedes. That word for rebellion is Strong's G646-apostasia.
According to Blue Letter Bible, the only other time that word is used in the NT is in Acts 21:21.
Act 21:21
"And they are informed of thee, that thou teachest all the Jews which are among the Gentiles to forsake
G646 Moses, saying that they ought not to circumcise
their children, neither to walk after the customs.
Teaching the Jews to forsake the ways of Moses.
That pretty much looks like what the Man of Sin is doing right now, teaching the many tribes and nations and tongues.
Taking over the chair, the authority, of Moses.
Rising up to the Place of His Sanctuary.
And by default, claiming that he is God.