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Posted on 02/17/2007 9:15:45 AM PST by American in Israel
There is a real problem being stirred up by the Arabs over the Temple Mount, and I for one think they are up to something no good. Perhaps I am just being paranoid, but the amount of smoke they are generating over this access ramp is far too much for the weight it will carry on its own.
A Little background would help what I am trying to say.
Remember back when the Rabbis of Jerusalem announced that they believed that the Arc of the Covenant was buried in the Temple Mount? Within three months we had Arafat tearing out the whole south western corner of the temple mount with a bulldozer and rock crusher. He claimed that he was just expanding the Mosque.
However, the "great expansion" project seems never to have been completed. A huge earthen ramp was dug, and then paved over with flag stones. But no great Mosque expansion seems to ever have been put in place. I chalked it up to the standard Muslim smoke and mirrors, as Arafat went on a treasure destruction hunt.
But during his little engineering foray he succeeded in pushing out the retaining walls that make up the temple mount. This was no easy achievement, as the stones are huge, and the walls are double thick as they are made hollow with a passage way between the walls. In order to push the outer walls out of place, he had to completely displace the inner walls so far as to push the outer ones out too. The damage he did digging behind the retaining wall with a bulldozer was not just limited to the walls. He caused structural damage to the Al Asque Mosque at the same time. It was reported in the newspapers that the dome of the mosque had cracked.
The Israeli’s closed the area right below the mosque at that time to tourist traffic for fear the mosque could collapse on the tourists.
Also two years ago there was an earthquake that cracked the golden dome mosque, the one made from an ancient Byzantine church. This mosque is not considered “holy”, it is the smaller silver domed mosque in the south west corner that is the religious shrine. The golden dome is just a political statement that Islam dominates over Christianity and Judaism. Written in the inside of the dome in Arabic is a statement that Allah is god, Mohammad is his messenger and that god had no son.
But the worship takes place not in there, but where Arafat was digging, in the silver domed Al Asque.
This is what is fishy: In the three years since the damage has been done to both mosques, the Arabs have built scaffolding around the gold domed mosque and spent many months repairing it. But they have NOT repaired the silver mosque! What they have done, for the last few years is claim that the Jews are secretly digging in the night to damage the mosque.
We know that Arafat did not replace the ancient drainage system after he dug up that area of the temple mount. And in fact, after his digging the water began to run during rains from under the walls of the temple mount and it was running brown as soil was being undermined by the rain. We also know that a retaining wall on the far side of the mosque from Arafat’s dig collapsed outward two years after he dug his huge hole. If that was caused by Arafat’s dig, he had to have displaced the entire mosque foundation.
Now suddenly, in the heavy rains of this season, the Arabs are claiming that the Jews are attacking the Al Asque Mosque because they are digging some holes to bedrock 75 yards away from the Mosque, and not even in the temple mount, but in the area outside the temple mount. And they are not just doing what has been the standard “secret Jewish plot stuff” but rioting in the city and calling for war. There are 2000 riot police camped in the old city right now and they have had to be there all week!
What if the Arabs are generating an excuse to start another all out war? What if they decided to let, or even help the mosque collapse after setting a track record of complaints to try to fix the blame on the Jews?
I smell something rotten in all this strong Arabic propaganda against the archeological dig being done by Israel. And I for one would not want to be a “worshiper” on the temple mount in the coming months. It would be just like the Muslims, to pull the mosque down on their congregation during prayers, for the glory of the martyrdom in the name of Jihad.
Hang on to your hats folks, I think things are about to get interesting.
I'm not familiar with this. Could you elaborate please?
Interesting points. Scary, too. Part of the mohammedans' plot to bring on the Final War, no doubt.
I have a question, though [coming only from my almost total lack of knowledge about the history of the Temple Mount--definitely not challenging you]. If the Ark was there, would it not have been found a long time ago?
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Excellent answer! You gave me goosebumps.
May God protect Israel!
Stay safe.
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Oh, that's just COOL!
Amen!
Wow, thanks for posting that verse!
Its not a rumor, you can go visit most of the temple stuff that has been built. However the Al Asque mosque is not in a postion that would interfere with the placement of a new temple as it is tucked away over in the corner.
According to scripture, all that is needed to place the tabernacle is to build an altar and place a tent. The origonal temple was portable. While the temple may indeed be rebuilt, it is not necessary to fufill prophetic scripture. What is necessary is that a corner stone be placed and the altar built.
That could be done in one day.
Blessings!
ROFL, there sure is a lot of that laying around the temple mount!
Okay. Thanks for the info.
Stay safe!
That's good news! Thanks. Mxxx
Nam Vet
Revelation 11:19 And the temple of God was opened in heaven, and there was seen in his temple the ark of his testament: and there were lightnings, and voices, and thunderings, and an earthquake, and great hail.
Agreed.
Don't know if I missed this poste earlier, or not.
Thx.
imho,
That scene could be from any number of points in the unfolding, future scenarios.
That is, the Ark could be hidden on earth, found, put in rebuilt temple; abomination of desolation looms; the Ark's removed to Heaven etc. . . . any number of scenarios, imho.
Thx.
As you can see, the idea that replacing an old ramp with a new one is going to knock down a building 70 yards away is insane.
But that insanity and Islam often in the same place.
It may be anti-religous, but it is pro-deathcult. If you are a Muslim over here, you can literally get away with murder, but if you are a Jew, don't get caught throwing a cookie, or wearing a politicaly incorrect t-shirt! Months of prisons, Lawyers and court dates.
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