“I will make them…. to know that I loved you” – Revelation 3:9 in the Context of Acts 10 and the House of Shammai Pharisees

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Sadly, due to a lack of First Century context, Revelation 3:9 has been used for a long time as a “proof text” that somehow the Jews who we see in modern times are not truly Jews at all but this is a dangerous fallacy. In this letter to the ekklesia at Philadelphia, it is written:

“Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee.”

To turn this into a diatribe against all Jews is pure anti-semitism, but fortunately for us, we know historically the identity of the “Synagogue of Satan” – namely, the Pharisees of the House of Shammai.  During the 90 years before the destruction of the Second Temple (may it be rebuilt in our days!) the Sanhedrin council of the Jews (think Supreme Court) was controlled by a group of Pharisees known as the House of Shammai. Unashamedly anti-Gentile, they enacted 18 edicts which were called by their opposition, the more Gentile-friendly House of Hillel, as shameful as the building of the golden calf at Sinai. What was so shameful about these edicts which were so hated that we no longer even have a copy of them? They specifically made it illegal for a Jew to have close dealings with Gentiles, even those Gentiles who kept the commandments and worshiped the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob – like Cornelius the Centurion. A Jew could not enter into their house (see Acts 10), nor could they eat at the same table (which was the controversy in Galatia) with someone unless they became circumcised and converted formally to the religion of Judaism. Although Hillel was very favorable to allowing Gentiles to be grafted in to the Body of believers, Shammai was not and these rulings made a literal legal wall of separation. The opinions of the House of Shammai were so distasteful to the first century Hillel Rabbis that Yevamot 16A records an instance of a man calling his own brother the “first born of Satan” for siding with the House of Shammai on an interpretation of law! (see Falk, pg 118)

John, being a Jew, knew this – and Yeshua (Jesus) also used this language throughout the gospels. So that covers the context of the Synagogue of Satan. But the accusation goes further, saying that they aren’t even Jews! Where else do we hear that language? From another member of the House of Hillel – Paul – in Romans 2

“25 For circumcision verily profiteth, if thou keep the law: but if thou be a breaker of the law, thy circumcision is made uncircumcision. 26 Therefore if the uncircumcision keep the righteousness of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be counted for circumcision? 27 And shall not uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfil the law, judge thee, who by the letter and circumcision dost transgress the law? 28 For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh: 29 But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.”

Paul states here very clearly that circumcision means nothing if a man is a transgressor of the law, and that if one keeps the law, it is as though he is circumcised. But what does this have to do with Shammai and his followers not being true Jews? Namely this – Torah clearly states that the wall of separation and the edicts of Shammai, and any racism or form of second-class citizenry in the Kingdom of Heaven is a transgression of the Law (Ex 12:49, Lev 24:22, Num 15:16, 29). In addition, it is blasphemy, because it misrepresents the equity and integrity of our great God and King – exalting instead a human bloodline. They were circumcised, but they were seriously encroaching upon the rights of the King to determine the citizenship of His own Kingdom and Paul says that they are “not Jews” and that they are lying to claim otherwise.

As for the rest, we need the context of Acts 10 and the outpouring of the Spirit on the family of the righteous Roman Centurion Cornelius and his entire household. This is very important to grasp because in my opinion we are heading into the latter day outpouring of the Spirit, the likes of which has not been seen in almost 2000 years. Right now we are dealing once more with the very situation that Peter found himself in, in both Acts 10 and Galatians 2. There is rising up a spirit of Shammai once more, just as we are seeing the spirit of Antisemitism growing stronger – they are flip sides of the same bad penny and neither one can be tolerated within the Body.

Now, Peter was raised under the 18 edicts and didn’t question them (If you want a fuller workup of this, I covered it in detail in King, Kingdom Citizen) – he really believed it was flat out wrong to go into a Gentile’s house (Acts 10:28) and it took a shocking vision from Heaven to even get him to begin to question it. It took an act of the Holy Spirit to get him to see how wrong it was. for when the Spirit fell on non-Jews, Peter had to admit that God was no respecter of persons (Acts 10:34-5) but accepts everyone who fears Him and does righteousness. This was huge for a first-century Jew to admit this and in chapter 11 other Jews have a fit with him over it until they too are presented with the evidence! Paradigms, the mindsets we do not question, are hard to break and this one was REALLY hard to break.

We encounter this mindset again in Galatians 2, where we see that Peter is refusing table fellowship to the former Gentiles in response to peer pressure – years after Acts 10. In fact, as I cover in King, Kingdom, Citizen – Galatians is a book entirely about whether or not Gentiles had to become Jews in order to be accepted as full Kingdom citizens and Paul proved that they did not. The Spirit of Shammai, however, was not going to die easily and we are seeing it again in these last days. Gentiles who have turned their backs on the world, who are keeping the testimony of Messiah and are keeping the commandments of God, are being reduced by some to second-class citizens. They are being told they have no right to keep the commandments at all, or that if they do they must keep them according to the traditions of men. They are being denied an equitable place at the table, and they are being accused of boasting against the natural branches, the Jews, for even suggesting that there is equity between Jew and former Gentile within the Kingdom. They are being shamed because of a lack of pedigree, because of being born into the “wrong” bloodline.

But it is not boasting when one recognizes that God is no respecter of persons, it is instead upholding the honor of God as a God of equity. Boasting happens when one suggests that the Jews have been replaced!  Replaced? May it never be – not replaced but joined together with the former Gentiles into the commonwealth of Israel spoken of in Ephesians 2.

Just as Rosa Parks was not boasting against that white man when she refused to stand up and relinquish her seat, but was standing on the integrity of the Constitution, so those who insist that we are fellow citizens and not second class citizens of the Kingdom of Heaven are not boasting but relying on the integrity of the Constitution of the Kingdom, the Torah.

And this is why I believe we are heading into the second outpouring of the Spirit – because once more we see those who keep the testimony of Yeshua and the commandments being kept apart from the same mindset that Hillel compared to the golden calf. It has to happen, in order for God’s honor to be upheld and His equity to be witnessed, the Spirit is going to have to fall equally upon Jew and former-Gentile believer alike, in a public and unmistakable way.

Now back to Rev 3:9b

“Behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee.”

This is not, as some have portrayed it, Jews being forced to worship Gentiles and admit they were right – this is God shaming those who have shamed Him in calling His honor and equity into question, in encroaching upon the rights of the King to determine His own subjects, a Father to adopt children, and a God to reward His worshipers with integrity. This has nothing to do with the former-Gentiles and everything to do with those who would misrepresent His righteous, just, merciful and generous character. God will rectify the insult – again, this isn’t about us but about Him. He will shame and put into their place those who have forfeited their citizenship by encroaching upon His authority.

The outpouring has to come, but perhaps not for the reasons we have been taught. I believe it is not merely about imbuing us with power but also about re-establishing His honor and shaming those who would, in their zeal to promote their own bloodlines, blaspheme His character.

Falk, Harvey “Jesus the Pharisee: A New Look at the Jewishness of Jesus” 1985 – specifically chapter 7



Confronting Pseudo-Archaeological Memes Pt 1 – Does IHS really refer to the Isis-Horus-Set Trinity?

The Egyptian "trinity" of Horus (the hawk-headed god of the sky, personification of the living Pharaoh), Osiris (the dead god of the underworld, personification of the mummified and dead Pharaohs), and Isis (the protector goddess). In order - son, husband, wife.(Pictured: The Egyptian “trinity” of Horus (the hawk-headed god of the sky, the personification of the living Pharaoh), Osiris (the dead god of the underworld, the personification of the mummified and dead Pharaohs), and Isis (the protector goddess). In order – son, husband, wife.)

So, I have been spending a lot of time (and a bit of money) researching ancient Egypt as a part of my Bible context studies. It is incredibly fascinating watching Egyptian mythology pop up throughout not only the first five books of the Bible (the Torah) but also in the Psalms and Prophets – really, throughout the Bible because Egypt was a big player and Israel could not get enough of Egypt! At the end of this blog, I will be sharing some of the books I have been reading.

Now, when I read books on context, I don’t waste my time with most of the stuff out there written about “Babylonian religion” because the overwhelming number of books were not written by archaeologists or scholars but by everyday people who may or may not have done their homework. I stay away from those because I don’t want to “muddy the waters” and I concentrate instead on the enormous amount of primary source material – ancient documents, inscriptions, hieroglyphics, idols, etc.

So what primary source material do we have on Egyptian mythology? Well, more than we have from any other culture – and the material is in better condition because of the climate and burial rites of the ancient Egyptians. This brings me to a claim I have been seeing out there by people who want to promote the idea that the IHS symbol we see in churches stands for the “Trinity” of Isis, Horus, and Set. We are going to look at the evidence, and when the evidence disproves the accusations, the accusations have to be discounted, no matter how interesting they are or how much trust we have invested in them.

Let me teach you about Egyptian trinities – they were Father, Mother, Son trinities. These were family units – husband, wife, and child. No Holy Spirit. Heck, the father can even be dead as a doornail. No virginity required. Virginity wasn’t something highly prized by Egyptians, especially not when people were married, and extra-especially not in their gods and goddesses and anyone who has read the texts knows that the Egyptian pantheon was anything but sexually moral and in fact, they were highly incestuous. The Egyptians not only had trinities, but they also had an Ogdoad (the eight creators of the world, also referred to as the first eight to emerge from the primordial sea) in Upper (Southern) Egypt and the Ennead (a grouping of nine gods – including Isis, Osiris, Horus, and Set).

Now, I am not going to go into great detail here, but the entire idea of a trinity of Isis, Horus, and Set is ludicrous from both the Ancient Near Eastern, Egyptian, and even modern standpoint because of one small problem. Set spent the overwhelming majority of his time being the mortal enemy of both Isis and Horus – his sister and nephew. The stories of the battles between Set and Horus are not for those with weak stomachs – I read them once and that is enough for me. Why were Isis and Horus perpetually warring with Set? Because Set killed his brother Osiris – the husband/brother of Isis and father of Horus. Did Isis and Horus ever hook up with Set and make amends and agree to be worshiped together? Absolutely not, and truth be told, Set was the most hated god in the Egyptian pantheon because Osiris (for the bulk of Ancient Egyptian history) was the most beloved. You see, after Set killed Osiris, Osiris became the dead god of the underworld – caring for those who had gone into the afterlife.

What IHS does stand for is a matter of debate but one thing is certain – no one at any time would have cause to worship Isis, Horus and Set together. Isis was beloved as a protector goddess, Horus was beloved as the sky god and was identified with the living Pharaoh of Egypt, Osiris was beloved as the protector of the dead – but Set was abominated by Egyptians and apart from being worshiped early on, his cult fell into disrepute and he was pretty much universally hated as the enemy of pretty much every decent god out there.

So, why did I write this? Because I see a very damaging tendency out there to attack what we hate at all costs – and even if that cost is the truth itself. Memes lie – all the time and especially about archaeology. And authors don’t always fact check before they write their books, especially if “everyone knows it’s true.” The prophet Jeremiah prophesied we would proclaim that “our father’s have inherited lies” (16:19) and it is true – but we must beware that in combating the lies we don’t fall for other lies. If we cannot verify the information from a scholarly source, from actual archaeology, how can we afford to believe it, put our faith in it, post it on social media, and preach it?

Now, I just gave you the Reader’s Digest version that is fit for children to read but now I will show you my methodology. I saw the accusation on the meme, and knowing very little hard data about Egyptian mythology I went on the internet and found conflicting information depending on agendas with no real source material given. So, that was the last time I was going to try that. I bought some books on Ancient Egyptian and ANE mythology written by people with actual credentials in the field of archaeological study. I ignored the popular and largely sensational books that offered me nothing but conjecture and went to those who were studying the primary source material and who were backed by peers in the field. Anyone can write a book, and say whatever they want! But scholars are subject to peer review, and they are not as quick as most people to destroy the data – because their peers will catch them and expose them.

Be sure to check out the related posts about the word Lord, Lord and God, Christ, Yahweh, and Amen.

So here are some of my books that are readily obtainable and pretty easy reading.

Watterson, Barbara –  The Gods of Ancient Egypt. Watterson is an Egyptologist with a PhD from Liverpool University

Mercatante, Anthony – Who’s Who in Egyptian Mythology. I really liked this one and it included translations of several folktales which were incredibly helpful with my understanding of how ancient Egyptians thought.  His book has the backing of Dr Robert S Bianchi, who holds a PhD in Egyptian Art.

Walton, John – Ancient Near Eastern Thought and the Old Testament. Not a lot of information as this book was not intended to be specifically Egyptian, but it is just such an important book that I always promote it. He holds a Masters in Biblical Studies and a PhD in Hebrew and Cognate Studies, He is a professor of Old Testament Studies at Wheaton College.

Wilkinson, Richard S – Reading Egyptian Art. This book is very cool on many levels and it is fun now being able to make out a lot of hieroglyphics. Because Isis, Osiris, Horus and Set are so important, you will find them throughout. He is an Egyptologist with 25 years in the field, Regents Professor Emeritus, PhD, Arizona State University.

For more insights on how to study the context of scripture, check out my youtube channel where I just started short weekly teachings on how and why to study Biblical context for yourself.



Video Series

Hey all,

So now for something completely different.  In addition to my blog posts, I will be doing two different types of videos. On Tuesdays I will be doing a video series teaching people how to learn to study for themselves, how to be able to tell if their teacher is studying, how and when and where to ask questions, and how to tell a good source from a bad source – I will be teaching by example as I go through a specific book that is a popular source for some Hebrew Roots and Messianic teachers, and we will see if it is a good or bad source, only time will tell! I will also be using three great teachers – Rico Cortes of Wisdom in Torah, Lee Miller of House of David Fellowship and Joseph Good of Hatikva ministries – in order to show you how to find and investigate good sources. Fridays I will be talking about developing fruit as believers. I started it up last week on my youtube channel and I will be making topical playlists.

My teachings will be geared towards newcomers, just like my books. I am laying foundation here – not doctrinal foundations, but equipping people to function in the perilous world of online teachings and webpages dedicated to proving everything under the sun. How can you tell true from false when people are “proving” entirely opposite positions? Well, I am going to try to show you how to do just that.



A Nation of Priests and Kings Pt 2 – The Individual Mandate to do Justice and Righteousness

priestking(I am leaving this blog up not because it is entirely accurate – I have since learned that the “kings and priests” is actually rendered better a “kingdom of priests” but otherwise, our call to justice and righteousness is the same – we study and keep learning, eh?)

This is a follow up to my ancient Near Eastern explanation of the Biblical phrase “a nation of Kings and Priests” – which is so easily misunderstood and twisted. I have decided to add to it because not only were the Israelites, as a nation, given the relationship with YHVH that in the ancient world was reserved only for kings and priests, but they were also uniquely given a mandate to perform the types of righteous and just acts that in the rest of the world were only demanded of incoming kings.

In the ancient Near East, kings were expected to do certain things when coming to the throne – acts that were required by the Torah (the first five books of the Bible) of all citizens of God’s Kingdom. Earthly kings were expected to forgive debt, free slaves, punish oppressors, and take care of the “least of these” – the poor, widowed, and orphan – upon ascension to the throne in order to establish themselves as righteous and just rulers. Once established, they often had no desire to ever repeat that sort of kingly generosity again! Forgiving debt and freeing slaves and punishing wealthy merchants who were cheating their customers and robbing widows houses was not the sort of thing that made ANE kings popular with the wealthy and powerful men in their kingdom – but it did go a long way towards establishing their honor and reputation among ” the rabble.”

Now these were the unwritten laws of the Ancient Near East, an absolute expectation of an incoming monarch (which should make King Rehoboam’s refusal in I Kings 12 to provide tax relief seem all the more shocking and the subsequent splitting of the Kingdom make much more sense – even heathen kings would have provided that tax relief!) – but certainly not the expectation upon the actions of everyday citizens, who had no desire to free their slaves unless a new king forced them to, or to stop foreclosure on the land of a widow, or to forgive the debts owed to them – and it certainly wasn’t the sort of act that was on any sort of schedule – but YHVH changed that in Torah Law, the constitution of the Kingdom of Heaven.

The Kingdom of Heaven operates on a seven year cycle when it comes to the release of debts (Deut 15:1-3) and the release of slaves (Ex 21:2). Ancestral land sold in order to pay debts was to be restored to the family in the Jubilee year (a 50 year cycle – Lev 25: 13-16, 27:24). The Israelites were always commanded to take care of the widowed, poor and orphaned (Ex 22:22-24, Deut 14:29) and every three years there was a special tithe given just for their upkeep so that there would never be an Israelite truly impoverished and starving (Deut 26:12). Equal weights and measures in business dealings were a continual commandment (Lev 19:36, etc.). The guilty, and not the innocent, were to be punished for their crimes (Deut 22:25-27). Neither the rich nor the poor were to be favored in court cases (Ex 23:6, Lev 19:15). Female prisoners of war could not be mistreated and during times of war (Deut 21:10-13), a city must be given the opportunity for surrender before being attacked (Deut 20:10-12). Foreigners had to be treated with equity and could not be persecuted (Ex 22:21, 23:9).

These were not the ways of the Ancient Near East – this was a radical and continual mandate of each citizen to be both fair, generous and merciful. The Laws of God placed upon each citizen the obligation to do forever what earthly kings only did in order to curry favor with the people. The Code of Hammurabi, for example, had varying degrees of punishment based on who the victim of the crime was! The penalty for harming a rich man, or a priest, was exponentially higher than for doing harm to a peasant. But Israel’s law set all Israelites as equal in the eyes of the justice system – on par with ANE kings and priests when it came to personal worth, as well as in the personal responsibility to do justly and righteously.

And so, when we come into Covenant with this great God and King, we truly do become a nation of kings and priests – having the access to pray and make petitions, the obligation of exclusive worship in our obedience, the mandate to do justice and righteousness, and the personal worth ascribed by the rest of the world (and their gods) to the elite classes. And although it does not give us the physical priesthood and kingship as believers, it does in fact set us on par with the kings and priests of the world in terms of relationship.

As any physical kingship in the Kingdom of Heaven must come from the line of David through Solomon by Royal Grant, so the physical priesthood must come through Aaron – both are perpetual ordinances. But what we have been given, as believers, is an incredible testament to a merciful, just and righteous God – unlike any other the world has ever claimed to know. We have the spiritual access to our God that only the elite of the polytheistic world had with their gods, and we each have the obligations to behave as good kings in the midst of a crooked and corrupt world. Truly we serve a God and King like no other ever imagined.



Do we have the right to determine what qualifies as Admat Kedusha aka Holy Ground?

Image converted using ifftoanyWe were raised with the concept of our congregations being Holy Ground if they are dedicated to the Lord. The Hebrew for this is admat kedusha and we first see it mentioned when Moses is at Sinai before the burning bush in Ex 3:5. We see this word translated holy, kedusha, in reference to surprisingly few things in scripture – the people of Israel (as a whole, not individually), Sabbaths and Feasts (times), the Temple and the Land of Israel (places) and the tithe (a grant set aside for the actual genetic Levites) and the Temple furnishings (things). No people outside of those in Covenant are called holy, no times apart from His Sabbath and Feasts are declared holy and no place outside of the Land of Israel is declared holy. The commandment to “be holy as I am holy” in Lev 11:44 is a corporate commandment to a holy people to act according to their conferred status, as a reflection of the character and kedusha of their God.

There is a reason I am bringing this up, and it is because of a really excellent question I was asked last night about clean vs unclean in light of modern non-Temple times. The question was:

“How does cleanliness and uncleanliness relate to us today as the redeemed in Yeshua (Jesus). I will state I believe we should be abstaining from things that will make us unclean, such as the things we eat, etc, but obviously there are things that aren’t sin that bring uncleanliness.

My question is, according to your knowledge of the subject, how does uncleanliness affect us today when there is no earthly temple standing, and does it affect our relationship with Abba……. For instance, if I touch a corpse, with your current understanding do I lose some level of relationship with Abba, such as my prayers going unheard that day etc? Does Yeshua bring us a permanent state of cleanliness on a macro perspective?”

In order to even go in to the subject of kedusha and holy ground, I need to lay a foundation of the importance of clean vs unclean. Clean vs unclean is not usually about sin – in fact it almost never is, unless one is eating unclean foods or having sexual relations during a woman’s menstrual cycle. The most common reasons for being unclean in Temple times was marital sexual relations and a woman’s menstrual cycle, which are both tied to the blessing of bringing forth life and are functions we were created for. Ritual cleanness was tied to how closely a man or woman could approach the physical throne of God on earth. While describing the not yet existing third Temple, God tells the prophet Ezekiel this:

Ez 43:4-7a And the glory of the Lord came into the house by the way of the gate whose prospect is toward the east. So the spirit took me up, and brought me into the inner court; and, behold, the glory of the Lord filled the house. And I heard him speaking unto me out of the house; and the man stood by me. And he said unto me, Son of man, the place of my throne, and the place of the soles of my feet, where I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel for ever

Whenever there is a Temple, it will be the physical place of the throne of God and if you continue to read on in Ezekiel, you will see dimensions for a man-made Temple that has never been built.

One cannot physically approach the throne of God in an unclean state or:

Lev 15:31 “Thus you shall keep the people of Israel separate from their uncleanness, lest they die in their uncleanness by defiling my tabernacle that is in their midst.”

Note that this applied to all the types of uncleanness from Lev 12 through 15, those applying to both male and female. Leprosy, seminal emission, normal sexual relations, childbirth, menstrual cycle, and any abnormal bodily discharge. And we know from the Talmud that men and women were held to the same exact standards during Temple times. A priest who had a seminal emission during the night had to immediately leave, mikveh and go home until sundown the next day. Men who had sexual relations were held to the same standards as menstruating women and were confined to the same courtyard on the Temple Mount. There were no double standards as we see in Messianic congregations today. In fact, let’s talk about the application of clean vs unclean in our local congregations.

We see very clearly in scripture that the highest level of uncleanness that still allowed you on the Temple Mount, but outside the Temple complex was corpse impurity. It was so severe that it took the ashes of the red heifer to cleanse a man or a woman from the impurity they naturally gained from lovingly preparing the corpses of their loved ones for entombment. Joseph of Arimathea would not have been able to eat of the Passover after touching the body of Yeshua because that meat had been sacrificed and was therefore holy, kedusha – and certainly no one would accuse him of sin. He would have gone to the priests at some time afterwards to be cleansed with the ash water in order to partake of the second Passover the next month.

So now we have a problem, if we are going to implement cleanliness standards in our congregations – (1) we are encroaching on the exclusive rights of YHVH to say what is and what is not admat kedusha, by taking it upon ourselves to decide and doing things according to our own understanding – but only God can set apart space (land) and and times as kedusha, not us; (2) we are misappropriating the reasons for separation as dictated in Lev 15 – the separation of the unclean, by degrees, from physically approaching the Temple, the physical throne of YHVH; (3) if we are going to exclude menstruating women and those who have birthed a child, we must also exclude anyone who has had a seminal emission the night before as well as any couple who engaged in sexual relations – not to mention anyone who has corpse impurity, which means no police, no firefighters, no doctors, nurses, EMT’s, hospice workers, soldiers who have seen action, or those who have suffered through the death of a loved one OR have even been in a house with a dead person (thanks Ryan White for that, see note at bottom).

Let’s face it – we are all pretty much unclean. We live in an unclean world, we have no access to the ashes of the red heifer, so pretending we are clean is a sham. Holding men and women to differing standards of kedusha,  in addition to being unscriptural in most cases (because we have no right to go beyond what is written nor to deviate from the intent of respecting the kedushah of the Holy place), is inaccurate weights, as we see in the Proverbs:

Lev 11:1 A false balance is abomination to the Lord: but a just weight is his delight.

So the next time you see a Pastor quiz women on their menstrual status, know that they have no standing to declare their congregations holy ground, and know that unless they are asking men about seminal emissions and couples about sexual relations, they have no leg to stand on. And if that Pastor has ever touched a dead body, they are really playing with fire because their uncleaness is far more serious than any menstruating woman – because there is no way currently to get rid of it.

Should we endeavor to lead clean lives? Yes, as much as possible, but we should also live informed lives and lives free from hypocrisy. We also have to face the fact that living in exile has its penalties, one of which is being unclean.

So now, back to the original question – no, our cleanness/uncleanness level has nothing to do with our relationship with God, only with how closely we can approach His physical throne on earth. Now that we have a Heavenly High Priest with 24/7 access to the Heavenly throne of the Father, our mediator/patron Yeshua (Jesus), we have access to the throne of grace without even having to approach the physical Temple. We don’t have actual physical access like a High Priest would, but we have access through Yeshua, who has direct access. Uncleanness, as Daniel Botkin once explained to me, is nothing more than a temporary disqualification from going to the Temple.

I hope that helps! I wrote about Niddah and the temporary Temple attendance disqualification in my book, The Bridge, if you need more clarification.

(Note: Thanks to Ryan White, who just added this – Num 19:14 clearly states that even being in a room with a dead body renders one ritually impure from corpse impurity, and needing the red heifer ashes after 7 days)