I smell something rotten on the Temple Mount (Vanity)

Free Republic | Feb 17 07 | American in Israel

[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.

[festus]

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.
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What if the Arabs are generating an excuse to start another all out war?

So you think the arabs are up to no good and looking to start all out war ?

[festus]

That was before the crucifixion. At the crucifixion the veil of the temple was torn from top to bottom showing the way into the Most Holy was made clear by the sacrifice of Christ.

So in theory the ark would now be benign.

Not that I'd actually walk up and touch it to test my theory mind you...........

[American in Israel]

Did dig out the gas masks, as a retired general told me the syrians are lining up sarin gas rockets right now. What is it about Nazi's and poison gas?

[American in Israel]

Actually, the new covenant fufilled the old covenant. God does not change his mind. Do not forget that the names on the foundations stones of the new jerusalem are all jewish names, and the gates are named after the 12 tribes.

You become part of the family by adoption, you do not replace it...

[Richard Kimball]

If the Muslims find the Ark, and they are able, they will destroy it, if they're able. It's part of their faith to destroy all other religions. The US press won't run photos, but they use headstones from other cultures as paving stones.

[353FMG]

No argument there.

[BlackVeil]

the golden dome mosque, the one made from an ancient Byzantine church

That mosque - the Dome of the Rock -was built as a mosque and never seems to have been a Byzantine Church. It was used as a Catholic Church, during the Crusader era.

I think that if the foundations of the mosque were undermined back in 2003, it would not still be standing.

[Salem]

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[BlackVeil]

Interesting illustration. A Templar Seal, showing the Dome of the Rock in the Latin Kingdom, when it was a Church - note the cross on top. It was a church, under Templar control, for about 100 years.

[SevenofNine]

OH BOY I think something going happen I hear way too much stuff on other sites AII

[SevenofNine]

BE NICEEE ROFL now that funny LMAO let throw in Klington empire

[M. Espinola]

"I smell something rotten on the Temple Mount"

Jihadist fanatics inciting a 3rd intifada.

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[PRePublic]

The clever Jihadists' attempt to be Putting a "holy site" flava into their EMPTY REASONS CUP FULL OF HATRED, is not so good for Israel.

[taildragger]

Could this be Glenn Beck's Archduke Ferdinand moment he keeps warning us about?

[holyscroller]

I've never heard of Wyatt's website. What is the address? Thanks.

[Cvengr]

During the Church Age, the only holy temple is the body of the believer, where the Holy Spirit indwells, providing the temple for Christ who is one with the Father. There are no holy buildings during the church age, but isn't it interesting how counterfeits will seek to contrive false doctrines upin their own false edifices erected in the name of counterfeit worship.

[bearsgirl90]

Hiding the Mercy seat under Golgathat . . . and the hole the central cross was in . . . cracked--evidently during the earthquake of the Crucifixion . . . and His Blood ran down through that crack onto THE MERCY SEAT hidden beneath it. Where it still is.

I've never heard that before. Wow. More information, please?

[Cvengr]

I'm always amazed how quickly some of us will forget our Lord and Savior Himself is not only Jewish, but King of the Jews. On the contrary, isn't it equally as revealing how those who seek to counterfeit His plan, so quickly associate Judaism with things antichristian?

[Quix]

Plenty of truth in your statements.

But there are some Biblical mysteries about what God is going to do with the Temple in the end times . . .