Ezra Chapter News Today

The point to note is that thrones were set up for the Ancient of days to take His seat before the judgment began. To make matters even clearer, the thrones were said to have wheels (Daniel 7:9), making it clear that they are mobile thrones which can move and which apparently did move.This movement was from the Holy to the Most Holy portion of the heavenly sanctuary. Recall, also, that Jesus Christ, signified as the Son of man, was brought to the Ancient of days for the judgment to begin.

The moment Jesus Christ died (after declaring that it is finished) something happened in Jerusalem to indicate that the temple there was no longer what it used to be. A new era in God’s programme for humanity had begun.

A large Religious Zionist congregation in North America slightly amends the standard text of the blessing for the State of Israel authored by Rav Yitzchak Herzog and Rav Ben Zion Hai Uzziel, the chief rabbis of Medinat Yisrael at the time of its founding in 1948. Instead of describing Medinat Yisrael as “reishit tzemichat geulateinu” (the beginning of the flowering of our redemption), it adds the word “shetehei” (that it should become) reishit tzemichat geulateinu.