Hezekiah's son Manasseh, however, was much different from his father; during his reign of the early and middle seventh century (2 Kings 21:4-9), Manasseh made innovations to the Temple cult.

This concept of priesthood allowed a revival of the purity taboos associated with the Temple cult and priesthood of the Hebrew Bible.

Jim Jones, leader of the People's Temple cult, committed mass suicide in Jonestown, Guyana in 1978, was born in Crete in 1931.

Yet he certainly taught the relativity of earthly authority, and even that by his bringing in of God's kingdom the Mosaic law and Temple cult ceased to be final.

One of the more dubious distinctions awarded Redwood Valley is it being the home of Jim Jones' Peoples Temple cult for a short time.

Plus Jim Jones and his People's Temple cult....

Specific teaching interests include Temple cult and Hebrew Bible, Dead Sea Scrolls and New Age thought.

The Sadducees, whose teachings were so closely connected to the Temple cult, disappeared.

Translation, in Jim Jones' Peoples' Temple cult, where Jones and his followers would all die together and move to another planet and live blissfully.

On 25 December 1977, a WPVP newspaper called The Beacon and edited by Brindley Benn published an expose of the People's Temple cult which had established a compound called Jonestown in Guyana.