What You Need Know, And What The Press Won't Tell You About Temple Mount

CAMERA/The Lid ^ | 7/6/09 | The Lid

[Shellybenoit]

Religion is at the heart of dispute over the Temple Mount, but maybe not the way you think. To the Jews it is the site of the Two Holy Temples erected to God. It is also one of only three places in the Tanach (the Jewish Scriptures) that talks about a financial transaction where a Jew purchased the land. Scholars believe the transaction was written about to show Jewish ownership of that land:

King David then bought the site from the Jebusites, as it is written (II Samuel 24:24):

"David bought the threshing-floor... for fifty pieces of silver."

Ever since then, the Temple Mount has been the eternal possession of the Jewish People (see II Samuel 24; I Chronicles 21).

Muslims on the other hand, seek deny that there was any Jewish Temple in Jerusalem. In fact it is part of their tradition to co-opt holy places of other religions to their faith. Despite the fact that the Quaran does not mention Jerusalem, they ascribe a mention of Muhammad visiting the "distant place" to the Temple Mount.

In this era of disinformation being accepted as truth, the mainstream media has accepted the lies about the Temple Mount, so to help you separate the truth from the chaff, below is What You Need Know, And What The Press Won't Tell You About Temple Mount:

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

I always wanted to know why The Owls can’t win a big game.

[Bluebeard16]

Weren’t there Jews in Mecca long before islam came along?

[nmh]

Yes.

[Bellflower]

Some think that The Temple and The Holy of Holies were not located where the dome of the rock currently is.

http://www.templemount.org/theories.html

http://www.contenderministries.org/prophecy/templelocationPF.php

[Shellybenoit]

yes true, but everyone believes it was on top of the mount

[Shellybenoit]

NHM David bought the threshing floor to serve as a place for the temple: And the king said unto Araunah: 'Nay; but I will verily buy it of thee at a price; neither will I offer burnt-offerings unto the LORD my God which cost me nothing.' So David bought the threshing-floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver. And Chronicles tells the same story 19. And David went up according to the word of Gad that he spoke in the name of the Lord. יט. 20. And Ornan returned and saw the angel, and his four sons who were with him hid themselves, and Ornan was threshing wheat. כ. 21. And David came up to Ornan, and Ornan looked and saw David, and he went forth from the threshing-floor, and he bowed down to David with his face to the ground. כא. 22. And David said to Ornan, "Give me the place of the threshing-floor, so that I may build thereon an altar to the Lord; give it to me for the full price, so that the plague be stayed from the people." כב. 23. And Ornan said to David, "Take for yourself, and may my lord the king do what seems good in his eyes. See, I have given the cattle for burnt offerings, and the threshing tools for [fire] wood, and the wheat for a meal offering; I have given everything." כג. 24. And King David said to Ornan, "No, for I will buy [it] for the full price, for I will not take what is yours for the Lord, and offer up burnt offerings for nothing." כד. 25. And David gave to Ornan for the place shekels of gold weighing six hundred. כה. 26. And David built an altar there to the Lord, and he offered up burnt offerings and peace offerings, and he called out to the Lord, and He answered him with fire from heaven on the altar of the burnt offerings.

[jeffc]

Some think that The Temple and The Holy of Holies were not located where the dome of the rock currently is.

Granted, there is alot of conjecture about the actual location of Solomon's Temple. Josephus wrote of the destruction by the Romans that the city itself was razed to the ground, so that not even a lifelong inhabitant would recognize it. Titus, the Roman commander, actually ordered the Temple to be left standing, but soldiers took matters into their own hands and burned it and tore down the blocks, so as to get the gold laid over them. Other reports say that parts of the temple still were visible from afar after it was all said and done.

As there still remained some small Jewish towns in the vicinity, it would seem that the location of Temple would never be in doubt, as it was very prominent in its location, and the fact that it was very important to all, or almost all, Jews. Even though most of the Jews were dispersed (the Diaspora), there still remained some in the Jerusalem area. They would go pray at a rock considered to be the base of the temple.

I believe the evidence shows that the Temple is where the dome of the rock sits now (note the deliberate use of lower-case letters), and that the Western Wall is the west retaining wall built by Hereod when he expanded the Second Temple built by Ezra in 515.

[Old Student]

“Weren’t there Jews in Mecca long before islam came along?”

Yes. Their failure to support Mohammed was one of the reasons he started attacking them, according to the histories I've read. Likewise Christians.

[Bluebeard16]

So the Jews have the right to reclaim Mecca and Medina. Just imagine the muslims with their dresses all in a twist.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Bellflower.

[Bellflower]

dome of the rock sits now (note the deliberate use of lower-case letters)..

Well Noted!

[Old Student]

“So the Jews have the right to reclaim Mecca and Medina. Just imagine the muslims with their dresses all in a twist.”

That would be “turn about is fair play” and the Middle East doesn't really work that way. It would be interesting to watch, though.