Prayers to God in wrong spot? (Temple Mount location 'misplaced'?)

WND ^ | February 23, 2015 | Leo Hohman

[Perseverando]

It has been called the most contested plot of land in the world — the fissure at which three major faiths come together, and break apart.

There have been holy wars fought over it and holy writ foretelling of battles yet to come. It’s Jerusalem’s Temple Mount.

But what if history got it wrong? What if the spot where Solomon built the first Jewish Temple, and Herod built the second, was actually about 600 feet to the south, in a place known as the ancient City of David?

Enter Robert Cornuke. He travels the world solving Bible mysteries: Noah’s Ark, the Ark of the Covenant, he’s studied them in depth. Now, he’s obsessed with the Jewish Temple.

His self-deprecating sense of humor and easy-going style have helped him gain access to some of the world’s most sensitive archaeological sites.

But don’t be fooled.

He attacks each mission with the doggedness of a street cop skilled in investigations. That’s because he was a street cop for nearly a decade in California before a three-hour gun battle with a man holed up with 700 rounds of ammo some years ago caused him to rethink his career options.

His new book, “Temple: Amazing New Discoveries that Change Everything About the Location of Solomon’s Temple,” is turning heads in scholarly circles for its pure audacity.

To suggest that the traditional Temple Mount, where Jews have prayed at the Wailing Wall and where Muslims pray at the Dome of the Rock, is actually not the holy ground they believe it to be, is sacrilege to many historians and archaeologists, not to mention clerics.

Yet, his case is so well researched that it’s hard to ignore. Many are reading, and re-reading, perhaps hoping to find some obvious blunder that would allow them to discount its conclusion.

[xeno]

I'd be interested to know who had this idea in the 1980s. The earliest I know of is Ernest Martin's book The Temples that Jerusalem Forgot published in 2000.

[xeno]

The Jewish historian Josephus mentions the remaining Roman Fortress among the ruins in The Wars Of The Jews Or The History Of The Destruction Of Jerusalem, Book VII, Chapter 8, Section 7
http://www.sacred-texts.com/jud/josephus/war-7.htm

"Where is this city that was believed to have God himself inhabiting therein? It is now demolished to the very foundations, and hath nothing but that monument of it preserved, I mean the [ROMAN] camp of those that hath destroyed it, which still dwells upon its ruins"

[Pelham]

The Wailing Wall would be the base of the Roman fort if Cornuke is correct.

[FreedomStar3028]

Then why is the wailing wall considered part of the temple?

[JohnBovenmyer]

God works in mysterious ways!

[Radix]

Mark 13 specifically mentions the ‘buildings of the temple,’ and as I read things, a wall is not a building.

[xeno]

The Wailing Wall is considered part of the temple because over time people forgot where the Temple really was. Then in the 1500’s an influential Rabbi misidentified the place.

[jjotto]

http://www.worldofthebible.com/Documents/Where%20was%20the%20Temple%20Located2.pdf

[American Constitutionalist]

It says 600 feet south of the current location.
One would think not to the left or right, but 600 feet south of the current location.
Fire from heaven ( perhaps a meteorite ? ) will hit and destroy the Muslim dome of Satan.

[Vinnie]

You can bet the Muslims will claim it as their own because a Muslim
once walked by the plot of ground.

[Gene Eric]

So prayer apart from the wall is less significant?

[montag813]

The Dome of the Rock is a hemorrhoid on the site, and must be removed, or covered up by a new Temple.

[jjotto]

Wailing Wall is a retaining wall to make the Temple Mount more level. Easy to see in long shots of the Temple Mount. It is not a freestanding wall of the Temple itself.

Cornuke’s theories are theological, not archaeological.

[Revelation 911]

I came across a web site a few years back that would print your submitted prayers and then someone would place them in the wall for you...kinda neat considering we are 1/2 a world away.

My pal was dying at the time and when I told him what I had done, he drew great peace from that

[SisterK]

you are correct
repeat a story often enough, and folks will take it for fact

[Vendome]

That’s really kewel...

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[Buggman]

I don’t think it fits. There’s no room for the Court of the Gentiles, Solomon’s Portico, and it puts the Temple right on top of the City of David rather than north of it.

[dangus]

I know what the wailing wall is. But since this guy believes the Temple wasn’t where we currently believe it to be, that would imply that the wailing wall isn’t what we beliebe it to be.

But thanks. And to all the other commenters

[odawg]

“that the Temple will be rebuilt”

It could be “a” temple, not the Temple. The Temple was destroyed and I don’t think God will sanctify another temple because Jesus did away with animal sacrifices.