The Book of Jubilees: The Torah Calendar eBook - Book - Page 17

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their priests(Pharisees and Sadducees) who exiled the true Aaronic Priests from the
Temple are called the “sons of darkness” as they conquered the Temple and
Judaea in 165 B.C. This battle will last until the very end times in their writings.
The Temple was the center of worship in Jerusalem. Though the Second Temple
no longer housed the ark of the covenant with Yahuah’s presence, it still received
His blessing until that time. Priestly courses continued such as that of Zacharias,
father of John the Baptist, in the course of Abijah(Abia) but the leadership in the
Temple, in all of Judaea and essentially the world in a spiritual sense had been
usurped by these “sons of darkness.” This was a fulfillment of the Psalm 83 war
in which David predicted the Temple, not even built at the time of his prophecy,
would be defiled by neighboring enemies in this exact sense.
For the Hasmoneans did not attack just the Greeks nor did they originate
in Judaea. They inhabited an area
called Modi’in which is across the
border into Dan controlled by
Samaria and the Philistines. They
were not Hebrews nor Israelites.
They were Samaritans who were
the replacements of the Northern
Tribes of Israel when they were
taken captive into Assyria since
around 700 B.C. This is why even
in Messiah’s parable of the Good
Modi’in was NOT in Judaea!
Samaritan(Lk. 10:25-37), what was
1770, Bonne Map of Israel. Rigobert Bonne 1727 – 1794. [12]
unthinkable in the paradigm of that
day, was that a Samaritan could be good. These replacements were brought into
the Northern Kingdom of Samaria and kept the name. They then attempted to
infuse the worship of Yahuah into pagan religions of their gods Ashima(Hashem),
Adrammelech (Melech/Molech/Ba’al) and others. However, this was never a sincere
gesture. It was a response to the land which had been rejecting them as they
were being attacked by wolves. They brought in a Levite Priest to teach them the
rituals of the Bible. Yahuah rejected this infusion as He always has(2 Chr. 17).
The Pharisees and Sadducees did not exist in Jerusalem until the so-called
Hasmonean Revolt in 165 B.C. You will find the Books of Maccabees as well as
Esther were not found among the Qumran scrolls because neither are scripture.
Both are the stories of what would become Zionism today. This was predicted not
only by David but identified in Revelation as Messiah discusses the Synagogue of
Satan who say they are Jews and are not but do lie(Rev. 2:9, 3:9). Even the term Jew
is fraud and it never should be used in scripture as it is not of Ancient
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