Watched a special the other day where there are quite a few who now think that the Temple was never at the site where the Mosque is.
The Rock under that thing is not a threshing floor where the Temple was built. That rock may very well be the place where Jesus stood before Pilate.
The Mosque is on the site of a Roman fort which was never destroyed when the Romans destroyed the Temple and the rest of the city.
At least that is what many now believe.
That Rock may also be the resting place
Of The Ark,
And where Abraham ‘Sacrificed’ Isaac.
IIRC
Funny how many manys believe that essential elements of Jewish history never happened. Holocaust, slavery in Egypt, the location of the Temple...
It’s not an archaeological find. It’s been the center of Jewish hopes and prayers for thousands of years. The rock is referenced in Talmud and Zohar. The second intifada was started after the Waqf illegally took two-thousand-year-old Jewish artifacts from the Temple Mount and threw it in the city dump. Ariel Sharon then visited the Temple Mount with his full entourage, to assert Jewish sovereignty over the site, and after Fatah begged Hamas long enough, they started an intifada on the pretext of Sharon’s exhibition. The wall and the Temple Mount has been the center for pilgrimages since the Temple was destroyed. With all due respect to your special, I’m sure it’s very...fashionable.
Jerusalem’s Dome of the Rock, was known as Mount Moriah in ancient times.Maybe now that the WAfq has been dislodged, scientists may be allowed access to study the ancient workings inside of the Mount itself.
Alexander Sitchin makes a case that it was a space re-entry
navigation center, and that there are still workings beneath Mount Moria that are evidence of communications hardware.But no one has been allowed access to investigate.
Below is an excerpt from the larger article on space vehicle re-entry plots and their geometry.
Link: Stairway to Heaven
https://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sitchin/stairway_heaven/stairway14.htm
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From its beginnings, Jerusalem encompassed three mountain peaks; from north to south, they were
Mount Zophim
Mount Moriah ( Dome of the Rock Jerusalem)
Mount Zion
Their names bespoke their functions:
the northernmost was the “Mount of Observers” (it is now called in English Mount Scopus)
the middle one was the “Mount of Directing”
the southernmost was “The Mount of the Signal”
They are still so called in spite of the passage of millennia.
The valleys of Jerusalem too bear telltale names and epithets. One of them is named in Isaiah the Valley of Hizzayon, the “Valley of Vision.” The Valley of Kidron was known as the “Valley of Fire.” In the Valley of Hinnom (the Gehenna of the Greek New Testament), according to millennia-old legends, there was an entrance to the subterranean world, marked by a column of smoke rising between two palm trees.
And the Valley of Repha’im was named after the Divine Healers who, according to the Ugaritic texts, were put in the charge of the Goddess Shepesh. Aramaic translations of the Old Testament called them “Heroes”; the Old Testament’s first translation into Greek called the place the Valley of the Titans.
Of the three Mounts of Jerusalem, that of Moriah has been the most sacred. The Book of Genesis explicitly states that it was to one of the peaks of Moriah that the Lord directed Abraham with Isaac, when Abraham’s fidelity was tested. Jewish legends relate that Abraham recognized Mount Moriah from a distance, for he saw upon it,
“a pillar of fire reaching from the earth to heaven, and a heavy cloud in which the Glory of God was seen.”
This language is almost identical with the biblical description of the descent of the Lord upon Mount Sinai.
The large horizontal platform atop Mount Moriah—reminiscent in layout of the one at Baalbek, though much smaller—has been called “The Temple Mount,” for it had served as the site of the Jewish Temple of Jerusalem (Fig. 159). It is now occupied by several Muslim shrines, the most renowned of which is the Dome of the Rock.
The dome was carried off by the Caliph Abd al-Malik (seventh century A.D.) from Baalbek, where it adorned a Byzantine shrine; it was erected by the caliph as a roofing over an eight-sided structure he had built to encompass the Sacred Rock: a huge rock to which divine and magical faculties have been attributed from time immemorial.
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