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The researcher made the point that the Temple did not include the rock which is now housed by the Dome. But this has always been rather obvious. If the rock, which Abraham is thought to have tied Isaac on, were inside the Temple, surely that would have been mentioned in the Bible's very detailed descriptions of the Temple and its contents. It was not.

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Good place to bump this thread.

And from an earlier post, I kinda like using the mooselimb diminutive because, well, it’s famous by now that a moose bit someone’s sister once, here on FR.

If the rock, which Abraham is thought to have tied Isaac on, were inside the Temple, surely that would have been mentioned in the Bible's very detailed descriptions of the Temple and its contents. It was not.

That may be, but AFAIK it isn't critical to a correct interpretation of bible prophecy whether it is or not. Mt Moriah was of course where Abraham offered Issac for a sacrifice but was stopped by God before the knife fell, and I think the Temple Mount has definitely been identified as that same mountain, or more accurately hill. The bible tells us that Jesus will descend to that mountain when he returns to earth as King to rule Israel as David's heir, and to reign over all the earth as Israel's Messiah.

It also foretells that when his feet touch the mountain it will split and one half will shift to the south and the other to the north, opening a waterway from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea. That seems to be such a unrealistic prediction that many prophecy "experts" fail to mention it, but I believe that if God foretold it it will come to pass. After all, a crucified man rising from the dead after 3 days in a grave also seems extremely unrealistic but I have no problem with that fact either. We're talking about an infinitely intelligent, infinitely powerful, omniscient Creator God here, not that drug induced vision of a cruel, vindictive "god" who was created in the demented mind of an Arab pedophile in a desert cave 14 centuries ago .

I don't get upset over new archaeological "finds" and "new information" that claims to disprove the bible accounts of the past and/or prophecies of the future. Whatever future scenario the bible actually foretells, as opposed to what some claim it foretells, WILL come to be reality all in good time, and no one but the Father knows the time when those events will occur.