Posted on 12/03/2013 2:28:36 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
JERUSALEM — A small but growing movement by Jewish activists demanding the right to pray at the site of their destroyed temple, in the heart of this disputed capital’s Old City, is creating a potentially explosive clash with the Muslim world, which considers the spot holy and bans Jews from public worship there.
Each week, hundreds of Jews ascend the creaky wooden ramp built above the Western Wall and enter what is often called the most contested real estate on Earth. Many then embark upon a game of hide-and-seek with their police escorts — whispering forbidden prayers while pretending to talk into cellphones, and getting in quick but banned bows by dropping coins and then bending to pick them up.
Their proposals, long dismissed as extremist, are now being debated in the Israeli parliament and embraced by an expansionist wing in the ruling coalition government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
These political leaders, many in Netanyahu’s party, want Israel to assert more, not less, control over the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Old City, including the place known to Jews as the Temple Mount and to Muslims as Haram al-Sharif, or the Noble Sanctuary.
“We’re looking for it to be divided between Jews and Muslims,” said Aviad Visoli, chairman of the Temple Mount Organizations, which claims 27 groups under its umbrella. “Today, Jews realize the Western Wall is not enough. They want to go to the real thing.”(continued)
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Not before most of the Nation of Israel is destroyed...
Can you cite the Bible source please. Thank-you.
“is creating a potentially explosive clash”
Citizens of a nation wanting to do something legal at a holy site in their own country, is *not* “creating a potentially explosive clash”.
If anyone is doing so, it is the people who attack them. Violent aggression is *never* justified by being offended at someone else praying.
Unlike the Catholic religion, that plan is not derived from a single verse but from a plethora of scripture...
The largest single battle with the combined armies of the world will soon take place in Israel...The bible speaks of 2 coming World Wars in Israel...During battle, people will be standing there with the flesh immediatly peeled off their skeletons...Their eye ball will become burned out of their skull before they hit the ground...Some people will get so hungry, they will eat their own children...People will literally go crazy out of fear...
The battlefield will be so huge, it will take 7 years to clear all the dead bodies...
Yet, only a remnant will survive...
AMEN!
And the same can be said about the cave of Machpelah in Hevron.
Signed, Sealed, Delivered, and Duly Recorded.
Yep, you got it!
God and I say the same thing...I did NOT say they will all be pulled up from their land...In fact, I didn't say any would be pulled up from their land...
What I was saying is that there will be world wide devastation; first with world war(s) and then with the wrath of God on Earth...And it's centered on Israel...
IF you look, you will see I said there will be a remnant that survive, in their own land...
Since there has been no red heifer for almost two thousand years, most Jews (except the very young) are in a state of ritual impurity from contact with dead bodies. According to the Torah, such people may not enter certain precincts on the Temple Mount. There is disagreement as to whether the location of these precincts is known with certainty today.
By nature and inclination I am a "build the Temple now!" kinda guy. But I have learned that it's much more complicated than that and I am trying to adopt a more Halakhic orientation.
One of the people pushing this is Moshe Feiglin, whom I have long supported (I used to post a lot of his stuff here). However, Moshe is sort of an American-style libertarian who wants religion to be private. What he wants is not so much a Halakhic Torah State as a Jewish version of early America, where orthodox religion is ingrained in the culture to such an extent that state enforcement is not needed. He has even assured homosexuals in Israel that he will respect their "rights." Why someone with this type of secular conservative/privately Orthodox political ideology would advocate Jewish sovereignty over the Temple Mount (which is the very heart and soul of public Torah Theocracy) is beyond me.
As a pro-Jewish, pro-Israel Christian, I am 100% behind those efforts.
Sorry, I misinterpreted your post!
I cannot give an opinion on the Halakhic issue of ascending to the Temple Mount. But I do know one thing, it should not be left up to the Waqf! It is a Jewish issue, to be solved by the religious Jewish authorities.
OK.......
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