This is just crazy. I can't believe Israel is letting them get away with it--they're destroying history...
Hmmm. Let me see has this happened before
-Buddhas in Afghanistan.
Of course:
http://www.contenderministries.org/middleeast/tmdestruction.php
Ironically, the Palestinian Authority and the Islamic Waqf may unwittingly be aiding in the fulfillment of prophecy. Besides desecrating a holy site, this hollowing-out of the Temple Mount has significantly weakened the structures that once supported the Jewish Temples, and which have withstood thousands of years of earthquakes. Should this structure actually collapse, several prophecies stand to be fulfilled.
In Matthew 24:2, Jesus tells us, when speaking of the Temple, that "not one stone will be left upon another, that shall not be thrown down". A total collapse of the Temple Mount would certainly fulfill this prophecy. Should such an event occur, the entire Arab world would be outraged. It would be viewed as an Israeli plot by most of the world, and could prompt an Islamic retaliation of epic proportions. Just such an Islamic invasion is prophesied in the Bible, and is sometimes referred to as the war of Gog and Magog. This war, to be fought on all sides against Israel, will result in the complete destruction of the invading armies. God will supernaturally protect Israel while eliminating the enemy in spectacular ways. The Islamists may be setting the stage for their own destruction and the beginning of the seven year tribulation when God's judgments will rain down on a lost and evil world; a world that, no matter how they tried, could not break the covenant made between the God of the universe and His chosen people, the Jews.
The Israelites are Gods chosen people. The Jews are Israelites, but not all Israelites are Jews. Jews are of one tribe and one tribe only-Judah.
The stage is being set, IMO.
Nice link you provided!
Ummm, of the 2nd Temple of Jesus day, within 40 years "not one stone will be left upon another, that shall not be thrown down" was fulfilled, by Titus complete utter destruction of the Temple in AD 70. Only foundation retaining walls (like the Wailing Wall) at the edge of the site remain. The Temple was burned first, and golden instruments melted between the stones, so the Roman army pried apart the very foundation stones of the temple to extract the gold, completely fulfilling that part of Jesus' prophecy.
This certainly doesn't minimize the utterly atrocious barbaric behavior of the Arab Wafk...who probably disturbed rubble left alone since Titus' legions. The amazing thing is the whole world, except for a few Jews, have been silent about it. Think for a minute had the shoe been on the other foot (Israeli Jews despoiling an ancient Mosque site... of ANY significance) and you'd of had the whole Moslem world, Europe and the UN ready to Israel.