Part 3: Who Are the Pharisees Today? The Rise of Rabbinic Judaism and the Return of the Lie
From the Series: “The Lie of the Chosen: Pharisees, Talmud, and the Antichrist Spirit” eFireTemple.com The Temple Fell, but the Lie Survived In 70 CE, the Second Temple in Jerusalem was destroyed. The priesthood collapsed. The sacrifices ended. For many, it was the end of ancient Judaism. But the Pharisees survived . They rebranded. They became the rabbis — and the system they created would not be based on the Torah alone, but on something entirely different: The Oral Law. The Talmud. Rabbinic Judaism.
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From the Series: “The Lie of the Chosen: Pharisees, Talmud, and the Antichrist Spirit” eFireTemple.com The Temple Fell, but the Lie Survived In 70 CE, the Second Temple in Jerusalem was destroyed. The priesthood collapsed. The sacrifices ended. For many, it was the end of ancient Judaism. But the Pharisees survived . They rebranded. They became the rabbis — and the system they created would not be based on the Torah alone, but on something entirely different: The Oral Law. The Talmud. Rabbinic Judaism. And what they preserved was not just tradition, but the very spirit Jesus had denounced — a spirit of control, deception, legalism, and spiritual inversion. The spirit of Antichrist did not vanish — it evolved. 1. From Pharisee to Rabbi: The Transformation of Power After the Temple was destroyed, the Sadducees (the priestly elite) disappeared. The Essenes and Zealots were wiped out.
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