Will Yitzhaq Hayutman reveal the occult holographic third temple?
Yitzhaq Hayutman states, “I’ve always thought of myself as God’s architect” but, pray tell, to which “God” is he referring?*
Hayutman is a cybernetics (“the creation of lifelike processes in machines”) expert and tech investor who:
…wants to position an airborne hologram over the Dome of the Rock [in Jerusalem], a gold-capped shrine that’s one of the most holy sites in Islam. “The blimp will go there,” Hayutman says pointing into the blue. “And eventually the Messiah will come.”
Illustration by Kenn Brown
But, pray tell, to which “Messiah” is he referring? Apparently, any—as we shall see.
Do you ever have one of those days? You know which sort: your boss yells at you, you get upset and cut someone off on the highway, they get angry and kick the dog when they get home, the dog bites the mail-carrier, she goes home and is a jerk to her husband…and this goes round and round in a perpetual cycle of negativity which is spread form one to the other until, finally, it all ends up in the Middle East!
Well:
For 1,500 years, Jews, Christians, and Muslims have fought for control of this 35-acre plateau in the heart of Jerusalem. The dispute remains one of the main obstacles to peace in the Middle East. Jewish teachings say that a temple must be built here – many say on the exact spot where the Dome now stands – in order to induce the arrival of the Messiah and the coming of peace on Earth.
Fundamentalist Christians interpret this to mean the Second Coming of Christ and actively encourage Jewish building efforts. Muslims categorically oppose any encroachment on their holy site, from which they believe Mohammed ascended to heaven to receive the Koran.
Yitzhaq Hayutman believes that via his technology we can have both the Dome and the Temple so as “to realize the prophecy right now.” This is where the holographic Temple comes into play:
Hayutman wants to set up an array of high-powered, water-cooled lasers and fire them into a transparent cube suspended beneath a blimp. The ephemeral, flickering image, he says, would fulfill an ancient, widely revered Jewish prophecy that the temple will descend from the heavens as a manifestation of light.
In conjunction to this project and as a means to raise funds, Yitzhaq Hayutman also plans a “virtual temple within a massively multiplayer online role-playing game. The goal is for thousands of people to join in its construction on the Web”:
For him, the Bible is a Read Me file for Earth 2.0. Some think he’s out of his mind, but in a region where extremists often set the agenda, Hayutman is preparing to click the Install button…
“God has given me a mission,” Hayutman says…”I am here to show that the temple can be rebuilt peacefully and in such a way that it will bring the beginning of a new age.”
Yitzhaq Hayutman partner in this project is Ohad Ezrahi who was an ultra-orthodox Rabbi (“a neo-Hasidic kabbalistic rabbi”) who was all but excommunicated and thus started his own community. His bookshelves are lined mostly with books on Kabbalah—Jewish mysticism:
As Ezrahi and Hayutman developed the game, some of that kabbalism seeped in. It’s still there, in dozens of esoteric riddles and puzzles…Players navigate the narrow streets and bustling marketplaces trying to uncover and decipher Christian, Jewish, and Muslim scriptural clues relating to the end-times.
They can choose to kill each other, but they won’t be able to move to the next level if they do. The goal is to unlock the secret that will induce the coming of a messiah – whether players believe he will turn out to be the Christian Jesus, the Jewish Moshiach, or the Muslim Mahdi.
Have you ever noticed that within various TV shows about battling the occult the heroes fight the occult via the occult? They use the occult to fight the occult.
Have you ever noticed something similar within reality TV shows pertaining to the supernatural/occult? Shows about hauntings, ghosts, etc. have the researchers engaging in necromancy (communicating with the dead), employing psychics, etc. Also, shows wherein contestants win by enduring a night in a supposedly haunted location have them actually performing occult rituals in order to attract the dead, ghosts, demons, etc.
Where is the line between life imitating art and art imitating life? Fictional movies, TV shows and books are not just fictional. Sure, they may depict fictional stories which occur to fictional characters but they are, after all, written by people who hold to real life worldviews and who write these worldviews into their fiction.
And, by the way, if someone denies writing their worldview into their fiction then that is their, or part of their, worldview: that the do not do such a thing. They are then actually writing a form of their nihilistic worldview into their fiction.
A notable example is Philip Pullman who wrote cute children’s stories about bears in armor, etc. Yet, what did he admit about his series His Dark Materials a trilogy of which one story is The Golden Compass? (see Atheism’s Sales Pitch to Children):
I was telling a story which would serve as a vehicle for exploring things which I had been thinking about over the years…Despite the armoured bears and the angels, I don’t think I’m writing fantasy. I think I’m writing realism. My books are psychologically real… I’m trying to undermine the basis of Christian belief…
My books are about killing God…
Director and actor Kevin Smith stated:
…I’ve got’em sitting there, whip a little message at’em, whip a little moral at’em, whip a little of what my view of the world is because that’s what ever good film maker does. And we’ll lead the world into the 21st century, and I’ll make a profit on their backs.
I suppose when I was writing V for Vendetta I would in my secret heart of hearts have thought: wouldn’t it be great if these ideas actually made an impact?
So when you start to see that idle fantasy intrude on the regular world… It’s peculiar. It feels like a character I created 30 years ago has somehow escaped the realm of fiction.
And on it goes.
Yitzhaq Hayutman and Ohad Ezrahi have done likewise:
It’s possible, according to Hayutman, that the game itself may be the realization of prophecy. “The Book of Revelations describes a New Jerusalem which will encompass the entire Earth,” he says, citing Revelation 21. “The online, worldwide virtual reality version of Jerusalem is the only thing that could fulfill that requirement. The digital version of the city would exist in Germany or Indonesia at the same time it exists in Jerusalem itself.”
Ezrahi states:
We were going to hook players up to biofeedback sensors and throw demons at them if they got angry.
Yitzhaq Hayutman met with Yossi Tsuria:
…the executive vice president of NDS, a News Corp. company that enables the delivery of movies and TV shows to 34 million cable and satellite subscribers around the world…He’s in charge of strategy and technology…he was part of one of the most ambitious plots to destroy the Dome of the Rock [when he was “young and stupid”]…Tsuria explains that NDS is moving into new kinds of interactive television.
Hayutman chimes in with “interactive psychological and social systems.”
Overall, what will become of this is certainly unknown but that there are various disturbing aspects to it is crystal clear. From the calling forth of which ever messiah heeds the call in order to inaugurate a new age, to a worldwide “game” of occultism whereby demons are thrown at you.
Can you imagine: the Temple is displayed, a messiah makes an appearance but then looks at the Temple, sees that it is a mere hologram and said, “Hey, wait a minute!”
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* Joshua Davis, “Apocalypse Now – How a hologram, a blimp, and a massively multiplayer game could bring peace to the Holy Land,” Wired, issue 12.04, April 2004 AD