Posted on 12/21/2004 7:09:06 AM PST by ZGuy
No theologian here, but I suspect God is not so easily swayed.
Sure, he might be angry that there is a pagan shrine on the Temple Mount, but the idea that God is giving the Paleo-Stinians power merely because they possess the territory is a bit totemistic to me.
I strongly believe that God is not "controlled" (bit strong of a word, can't think of another, perhaps "swayed" again or "influenced") by use of what is effectively a magic charm.
He looks through to the purpose, faith, and subservience to His will.
Let them be relocated outside the Temple Proper then, as a demonstration of Islam's peaceful nature. Yes, I am of course, being sarcastic.
The Mosques and their builders should be removed from the Temple Mount. Its a Sacred and Holy Place for Jews, just as Hagia Sophia is a Holy and Sacred Place for Christians.
The Muslims must be forced to vacate the many religious sites of other faiths which they have captured, desacrated and profaned.
Somehow flying airplanes into mosques come to mind........
Meanwhile, "the stone which the builders rejected" is become the chief foundation stone of the true, new abode of God on earth, His people. Christians.
Merry Christmas, all!
Or dropping nukes on Mecca.
Bad things can happen all around when one declares a holy war.
I don't disagre at all.
Yup...completely correct IMO.
Why blow it up? A fire truck full of pig pee would render that place as desolate as the souls of those who worship in those mosques.
Israel to Renovate Crumbling Entrance to Disputed Holy Site in Jerusalem's Old City
Eastern Temple Mount wall may collapse
Temple Mount Collapse? Southern Wall of Temple Mount
Jordanians to replace Temple Mount southern wall stones; western wall also bulging
Why aren't there any Messianic types digging tunnels under the mosques to fill with explosives which would be detonated around Friday afternoon sometime......?....
http://www.neveh.org/winston/parsha63/matosm.html
The Midrash relates how Eisav wanted to murder Ya'akov [after the latter secretly took the blessings meant for his brother. However, he worried that killing him outright would bring him capital punishment from the court of Shaim and Eiver. Therefore, he schemed to involve a third party in the assassination, which he did by marrying Machlas, daughter of Yishmael (Bereishis Rabbah 67:8)
According to the Midrash, Eisav had planned to incite Yishmael against Ya'akov. For, just as Ya'akov had usurped Eisav's role as the firstborn, Yishmael's younger brother -Yitzchak Avinu - had also pushed him out of the first position in Avraham's family. And, though his scheme was never fulfilled, apparently the groundwork was laid for collaboration between the descendants of Eisav and Yishmael to conspire against B'nei Ya'akov.
Thus, the Ya'akov-Eisav relationship is the paradigm, and the Yerushalayim-Caesaria relationship is a function of it. To control Yerushalayim, therefore, is to control Ya'akov, to a large extent, and to hold off the Final Redemption, as the following makes clear:
The following great idea of the [Vilna] Gaon became known: there are only two commandments which a person's entire body has to enter into in order to fulfill them: the commandment of succah, and that of Eretz Israel. This is hinted to in the posuk, "Then His Tabernacle (succo) was in Shalem, and His Dwelling in Tzion" (Tehillim 76:3). The Gaon adds that the commandment regarding succah requires one to construct it for this purpose, that is, to fulfill a positive commandment, and not to use that which previously existed. It is likewise with respect to Tzion, as it states in the Midrash on the posuk, "A redeemer will come to Tzion" (Yeshayahu 59:20). For, as long is Tzion is not yet built, the redeemer will not come. As Chazal have said, only "after Jerusalem is built, will the son of David will come" (Megillah 17b). According to the Midrash, the Ben Dovid will not come until Jerusalem is built. (Chapter 1:7)
"Why aren't there any Messianic types digging tunnels . . ."
Slackers.
AMEN and Merry Christmas
I have a friend who was an archeologist....The temple Holy of Holies was located almost 150 yds away from where the Dome of the Rock stands now....A new Temple could be constructed without destroying anything.
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