Going forth therefore . . .

Hebrews 13: 10-13 says, “We have an altar, whereof they have no right to eat which serve the tabernacle.
[11] For the bodies of those beasts, whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest for sin, are burned without the camp.
[12] Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate.
[13] Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach.”

Jordan explains, “The whole issue in the Book of Hebrews is to explain and motivate Israel. The Believers in Israel are not to go back to the Mosaic system of the old covenant but to go on outside. Leave the temple, leave Judaism, go on to Christ and the new covenant, which Christ is going to inaugurate when He returns.

“They are warned strongly and severely in Hebrews: ‘Don’t go back to the old covenant,’ and they’re motivated by all that Jesus Christ does, and is, to go on to the new covenant. They’re to leave the shadow and go on to the reality--the new and living way, the perfection that’s in Christ: ‘Put your eyes upon the Lord Jesus Christ; He’s the one with the more excellent glory, the higher alternative than angels, Moses, Joshua and Aaron, because He’s got a better sacrifice.’

“You know why they’re going to need that? In that tribulation that temple’s going to be rebuilt. All of the Old Testament sacrifices, the Mosaic Law system, are going to be reestablished in the tribulation.

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“I’ve told you about the brother, an orthodox Jew down in Selma, Alabama, that I used to visit with. Old Henry was a Jew who was caught up in Germany in WW II. He hid from the Nazis, hiding in ditches and in culverts under the roads. He hid in Belgium for three years while the Nazi occupation was going on, and a Belgium couple hid him in their attic day and night. He had to hide in fields and in culverts. He finally got out of there and into the U.S., and he was the only orthodox Jew in the whole area and I got to be good friends with him.

“I’d take my Hebrew Bible over to his place and he’d get his Hebrew Bible, and they were the same ones. His Hebrew Bible was just like a King James Bible, just a different language. He taught me an awful lot about it. He loved to study the Old Testament, and I sat there one day in his living room and talked to him about the Lord and he said, ‘Let’s don’t talk about that Jesus.’ He didn’t want to hear about the Lord.

“And I said, ‘Henry, I want to describe somebody to you. There’s a guy one day going to take over in Jerusalem,’ and I described the rebuilding of the temple, the reinstitution of the animal sacrifices of the Mosaic system. I said, ‘They’re going to take the Book of Leviticus and reinstitute the priesthood and the sacrifices.’

“I said, ‘Henry, I want to ask you, as a 20^th Century, enlightened, sensitive, modern American--if they start those animal sacrifices over there next week, would you get on an airplane and go over there and offer an animal sacrifice?’

“And he sat there for a minute, and he thought, and he looked at me and said, ‘Yes.’ You could have knocked me right off the seat when he said that! I never would have thought anybody would have went and done something like that. Not an enlightened, 20^th Century American! Educated man.

“That’s what they’re going to face in that tribulation. They’re going to have that system reestablished and you know what’s going to happen? Those Jews are going to start going back over there and reestablishing . . .

"I asked him, ‘Who is that man that’s doing all that, Henry?’ He said, ‘That’s my Messiah.’ I said, ‘No, Henry, that’s the phony one.’ I was describing to him, not Jesus Christ, but the Antichrist, and that’s what’s going to happen.

“These Jews, they’re going to have it, they’re going to see it, and it’s going to be going again. ‘C’mon guys, our religion, our temple is reestablished and the sacrifice,’ and the pressure’s going to be on those Jews in the tribulation to go back to that.”