The time is coming closer when the Jews will accept a king
in place of the king they rejected 2000 years ago. They
also seek the power to "control the calendar" ... perhaps
in order to change laws and times as prophesied.

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Hear ye, hear ye: Sanhedrin seeks David's scion as king

Yaakov Katz, THE JERUSALEM POST    Jan. 12, 2005

Will Jews begin proclaiming "Long live the king" in the near future?

According to a group of 71 Jewish scholars who met this week in the
Old City of Jerusalem in the form of a modern-day Sanhedrin - a
duplicate of the religious tribunal which convened during the time 
of the Second Temple - a coronation day is growing closer.

As one member of the group put it, "We would have liked it to happen
yesterday. But we are willing to wait until tomorrow."

There hasn't been a genuine Sanhedrin in Israel for nearly 1,600
years; the last one to be proclaimed was in France, by Napoleon, 
for political gain. Shortly after the establishment of the State 
of Israel, religious affairs minister Judah Leib Maimon raised 
the notion of reinstituting the ancient body, to no avail.

The group composed largely of Kahane sympathizers that gave itself the
name Sanhedrin in October, however, met Sunday to discuss the creation
of a Jewish monarchy in the State of Israel.

For the past several years a group called the Monarchists has
conducted extensive research into the lineage of several families in
an effort to discover who has the closest bloodline to the biblical
King David - a requirement for any future Jewish king.

Rabbi Yosef Dayan from Psagot, known for his recent threats to place 
a death curse on Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, is said to be a leading
candidate to become the "king of Israel."

"Dayan has the best lineage to King David," several members of the
Sanhedrin told The Jerusalem Post. They say he has two documented
ancient sources which draw a direct line between him and the males 
in his family to King David some 3,000 years ago.

"Many people can show they are descendants of King David, but they
cannot show that the line is only male," one Sanhedrin member
explained. "That makes Dayan the leading candidate to become king."

The Monarchists have consulted with non-Jewish experts on lineage.
They concurred that, without a doubt, Dayan is a direct descendent 
of the House of David.

The only question now is how to establish the Jewish monarchy in 
spite of the presiding democratic government.

"There are two possibilities," Dayan explained. "The first is that 
the nation or a majority from within will want the monarchy and will
uproot the presiding democratic government."

The second, more realistic option, he said, is "the one cited by
Maimonides - and that is that no one will know how it will be until 
it happens."

Some of the other ideas discussed at the Sanhedrin meeting included
the construction of an altar on the Temple Mount to be used for the
Passover Offering during the upcoming holiday.

One of the ideas, members said, is to climb the Mount and build the
altar within minutes and sacrifice the lamb before security forces can
stop them. Another, said leading Sanhedrin member Baruch Ben-Yosef, is
to pray for a tsunami-like disaster on the Mount.

"In one second, God wiped out 150,000 people," he said. "Who knows?
Maybe he'll help us if we show him we are ready."

Participants also discussed Ben-Yosef's idea of reinstating the
Sanhedrin's authority to announce Rosh Hodesh, the beginning of 
the new lunar month.

"It is very important to reinstate the Sanhedrin's authority to
announce the month, because it will force people to understand that
God gave us the power to control the calendar and our own destiny,"
Ben-Yosef said.

Source: Jerusalem Post Online Edition...
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/
JPArticle/Printer&cid=1105418785934


Cheers, Steve..

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