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.
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I forget the guy's first name--someone up thread has a comment.
But he became a lay archeologist in his later years. Claimed to be digging around under Golgatha--the one by the bus station . . . and to have stumbled into--with a lot of painstaking effort, actually--into tunnels and angel guarded rooms . . . and even the Ark of the Covenant--took a video of it--but realized that the video would not be safe so left it too with the angels . . . And that the crack that evidently happened with the quake at the Crucifixion went right through the hole of the evidently central Cross . . . and allowed Christ's blood to flow down onto the Aark of the Covenant Mercy Seat. I think he may have even scraped some of the blood for analysis but I'm not sure. No report of such analysis.
Anyway--he sealed things up after touching base with Israeli officials and all agreeing it was not time yet.
Then he died.
Some have asserted he was a charlatan. And some folks carrying on his website have in subsequent diggings failed to confirm his earlier claims under golgatha, evidently per an above post.
But his discovery of ancient Egyptian chariot wheels in the dead sea on both sides of the Dead Sea where the most logical crossing for Moses would have been--that discovery has stood up.
Personally, I think Christ's blood on the Mercy seat sounds like something God would do. We shall see eventually if it's really true or not.
About all I recall.
I have it in my mind his name was James Wyatt
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He was Ron Wyatt.
Great recall Quix. It was James Wyatt.
http://www.returnofthenephilim.com/RonWyattTestimony.html
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James Wyatt = Ron Wyatt
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Thanks for your kind repies.
And, Jo, for your kind question.
. . . how am doing . . . other than furious with Microsoft? Still battling the slowly improving chest congestion and the 100% UNneed of a lower digestive tract rotorooter?
LOL.
Tried to save a word file in Html and the Office 2003 html editor was not loaded. Couldn't be found on the CD. coudn't get any help at the Microslop site ......... and keyboard software or some such is acting up . . . though system scans clean...........
Computers are wonderful except when they are exasperating.
Your kind msg blesses me however
hitting each key 1-2 dozen times to get it to register does not bless me.
Forgive my ignorance, but is that the Ark of the Covenant? I've never seen a picture before.
Ping to self to read thread later.
No wonder I haven't heard from you in a while. I loathe computer wars. I happen to be what is called an "electric" person. This means I have an electical charge that sometimes causes havok with electronics.
When my computer goes fizzy, I hollar for my husband. All he has to do is walk in the room and the computer obeys. Makes me look really dumb.
I have broken all of my calculators, about four sewing machines and can never wear a watch. Poor MIL bought me so many. Oh well, we all need to be unique in some way.
Sorry about your health. What are you doing for both types of ... er ... congestion?
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Try also Ezekiel somewhere around ch 39 or 40 - describes the trib temple just after the war of gog/magog
There is no way the ark would harm a Christian. The ark symbolized God's presence with His people. If you are a Christian you are indwelt by the Holy Spirit (God), and therefore are already in God's presence.
However, should it be found, a Christian should treat it with great respect. Some think it is the finding of the ark that will trigger the Jews to build the temple. Exciting times are ahead.
The book of Daniel in the Bible, in reference to the "seventieth week" (the soon-to-come 7-year Tribulation), mentions, "...in the midst of the week he (the Antichrist) shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease..." Many including myself believe this means the temple will have been rebuilt in Jerusalem and old-testament animal sacrifice will have resumed. I've wondered what it would take to have the mosque removed so the temple could be built. Looks like the Muslims may help.
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