Replica Of Solomon's Temple In Brazil

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And Jesus replied to him, Foxes have holes and the birds of the air have lodging places, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay His head (Matthew 8:20 )
In the last days....For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, proud,...(2Tim. 3: 2)
"Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, [sup]20[/sup] but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. [sup]21[/sup]For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.(Matt. 6:19-21)
"No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money. (Matt. 6:24)
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[b]Solomon's Temple in Brazil would put Christ the Redeemer in the shade[/b]
[color="#666666"][font="arial][size="2"]Huge replica planned for Sâo Paulo would be twice the height of the iconic statue of Jesus in Rio de Janeiro[/size][/font][/font][/color]
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[color="#333333"][font="arial][size="2"]Church members say the planned temple would be twice the height of the Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro. Photograph: Danny Lehman/Corbis[/size][/font][/color]
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[color="#333333"][font="arial][size="2"][font="arial]One of the world's largest and most controversial Pentecostal churches has been given permission to build a $200m (£130m) replica of Solomon's Temple in [url="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/brazil"]Brazil[/url]'s economic capital, São Paulo.[/font][/size][/font][/color]
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[font="arial]The 10,000 capacity "mega-church", which is the brainchild of Brazil's Universal Church of the Kingdom of God, will also house a replica of the Ark of the Covenant and be built according to "biblical orientations".[/font]

[font="arial]According to the Estado de São Paulo newspaper, planning permission was granted this week and church officials say it should be completed in four years.[/font]

[font="arial]"We are preparing ourselves to build the temple, in the same mold as Solomon's," the church's leader and founder, Bishop Edir Macedo said in a televised service, posted on his blog. "[Solomon's] Temple … used tonnes of gold, pure gold ...We are not going to build a temple of gold, but we will spend tonnes of money, without a shadow of doubt."[/font]

[font="arial]Macedo said his church had signed an $8m contract to import stones from Israel. "We have signed the contract and commissioned the stones that will come from Jerusalem, just like the ones that were used to build the temple in Israel; stones that were witnesses to the powers of God, 2,000 ago," he said. "It is going to be a knock-out, it is going to be beautiful, beautiful, beautiful — the most beautiful of all. The outside will be exactly the same as that which was built in Jerusalem."[/font]

[font="arial]The 55-metre high temple, the equivalent of an 18-storey building, would tower over central São Paulo and be "twice the height of [Rio's] Christ the Redeemer statue", the blog said.[/font]

[font="arial]The project, drawn up by Brazilian architect Rogério Silva de Araújo, includes a car park for 1,000 vehicles, TV and radio studios, and classrooms for 1,300 children.[/font]

[font="arial]Founded in Brazil in 1977, the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God claims an estimated 8 million followers in 180 countries worldwide, with a TV channel and a free newspaper, the Folha Universal, which it says has a weekly print run of 2.5m. The church claims its leader's blog receives up to 4m hits a month.[/font]

[font="arial]The church supports so-called "prosperity theology" – by which acts of faith including donations are rewarded with material wealth.[/font]

[font="arial]In 2009, São Paulo's public prosecutor accused 10 senior members of the church, including Macedo, of siphoning off billions of dollars of donations to buy cars and property. Macedo, who denied the charges, owns a $45m private jet.[/font]

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[gregg]

Why put a wrench in the motor?
if a church or denomination wants to build a 30 million dollar coffie shop, thats great. if i don't support it with my money, i souldn;t have a say.and who knows they might ship the coffie in on a jet. and who does what with the money is thier business.if i am not involved. i think its great that some believers want to exspress their joy and show the whole world. i never heard a word about saddam building his palaces or rich people building their mansions. but only the ones who support the joy of living for christ are critizised. if it isn't working for you let it work for them.prosperity. in love son of great joy

 

[JohnDB]

Well...considering the spiritual state of Brazil at the moment...I'm OK with it.

The thing isn't going to be a real Jewish temple in any fashion.

Not with radio and television studios inside the place. Parking lot OK...fine...
Classrooms and storerooms and sleeping quarters are OK too.

The only thing about this place that is going to be the same as the Temple that Solomon or Herod the Great commissioned is the outside shape and appearance of the place.

Missing of course is going to be the altar and the bronze sea and the Mikvehs.

The stone may come from Israel...but the blueprints are coming from anywhere else but there.

 

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Sao Paulo is one of the poorest, filthiest, violent and most miserable cities in a nation of spiritually oppressed communities. I've been to that nation a couple of times and am here to testify that its a spiritual sewer. The memory of it makes me shiver.

It can be truly said that the place is worse than the ghettos of India (and I've been there too).

If somebody wants to build a holy place in that sesspool, then let them try. Personally I think they should just ignite an atomic bomb.

That being said, I must admit to any who read this that God put me in a situation while I was there. I met true Christians who are so light and gentle in their spirit that one can understand how God would restrain His hand from leveling those pest holes forever. I met those who are truly the salt of the earth in that place and thereby learned the meaning of the phrase. If not for them and the grace which sustains them I am certain that God would exercise His divine right of destruction and wipe the earth clean of it the way a man wipes a plate (and I've seen Him do that too). He would be entirely right to do so.

I stand in awe of the grace of God and His personal exercise of restraint. He is to be admired for that, if nothing else.

If someone wants to build a huge pretentious object there let them. It will do no good.
I believe in letting a man do what he wants even if I think he's on the wrong track.

It's the hearts of men that matter, not buildings.

 

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[font="Verdana][size="-1"]FROM WND'S JERUSALEM BUREAU[/size][/font]
[font="Palatino][color="#000000"]Jewish group rips church plans for Temple Mount replica
[/color][/font][font="Palatino][color="#000000"]'This mockery stands in diametric opposition to everything the holy site represents'
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Temple Mount

JERUSALEM – A Jewish Temple organization has slammed as "a hubris-inspired act of self-aggrandizement" controversial plans by a Pentecostal church to reportedly build a $200 million replica of the First Temple in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

"This planned church is a mockery which stands in diametric opposition to everything that the Holy Temple of Jerusalem represents," Rabbi Chaim Richman, director of the international department of the Temple Institute, stated in a press release.

"The Bible, bequeathed to the world by the Jewish people, emphasizes the preeminence of Jerusalem and its spiritual and prophetic role in the future of both Israel and all mankind," Richman said.

"We are witness today to the phenomenon of nations that seek to de-legitimize Israel's connection to Jerusalem. This planned megachurch represents the next logical step, the de-legitimization of the significance of Jerusalem altogether," he said.

Richman slammed the reported plans by the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God as a "cynical and manipulative attempt to morph the Bible's universal message into its own self-serving agenda."

According to the U.K. Guardian, the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God will construct a church in Sao Paulo based on King Solomon's Temple, including a replica of the Ark of the Covenant at its center.

"We are preparing ourselves to build the temple, in the same mold as Solomon's," Bishop Edir Macedo, the church's leader and founder, was quoted as saying in the report.

"[Solomon's] Temple … used tons of gold, pure gold. ... We are not going to build a temple of gold, but we will spend tons of money, without a shadow of doubt," said Macedo.

Macedo told the British newspaper his church had signed an $8 million contract to import stones from Israel.

"We have signed the contract and commissioned the stones that will come from Jerusalem, just like the ones that were used to build the temple in Israel; stones that were witnesses to the powers of God, 2,000 years ago," he said. "It is going to be a knockout, it is going to be beautiful, beautiful, beautiful – the most beautiful of all. The outside will be exactly the same as that which was built in Jerusalem."

While the Temple Institute criticized Macedo's plans, Richman's group, based in Jerusalem, focuses on preparation for the rebuilding of the Third Temple in its biblical location - the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. The Institute has been preparing ritual objects suitable for Temple use. Many of the more than 90 ritual items to be used in the Temple have been remade to the highest standards the Temple Institute....story continues

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