Sacrilege of a Muslim Cemetery beneath a Pinnacle of Herod’s Temple!
June 2, 2007
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In New Testament times, while Herod’s Temple stood, sometimes the word ‘Temple’ applied only to the building housing the Holy Place and the Holy of Holies, but at times it referred to the outer walls and the entire temple platform they surrounded. In Luke 4:9, “a pinnacle of the temple” refers to the southeast corner of the temple wall, which stood high above a deep drop-off into the Kidron Valley.
It still stands there today east of the Al-Aksa Mosque. It is quite a climb up this very steep incline rising from the base of the Kidron Valley to the base of the wall below the pinnacle. It is on the slope below and to the north of it that the Muslims want
to link up with the Muslim cemetery by the Golden Gate.
I never realized how emphatic the Muslims were in having a cemetery in front of the Golden Gate, until one year when I went there after a period of very heavy rainfall. A huge grave with many skeletons in it had caved in to expose them in a very large container directly under the Golden Gate. I would guess there were 10 to 15 skeletons in this mass grave. I now realize that Muslims really thought this would keep the Jewish Messiah from making a Second Advent entry into Jerusalem through the Golden Gate. The next time I went back, a fresh cement layer had been poured over the sunken section containing the skeletons.
Luke 4:9-13 – And he brought him to Jerusalem, and set him on a pinnacle of the temple, and said unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down from hence: [10] For it is written, He shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee: [11] And in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone. [12] And Jesus answering said unto him, It is said, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God. [13] And when the devil had ended all the temptation, he departed from him for a season.
Since there is no biblical record of Jesus going to Tiberius, I assume he did not go there because Tiberius was built over a huge cemetery, and he would not have gone there because it was absolutely essential for him to keep every jot and tittle of the Law. But he has already kept every jot and tittle of the Law and offered himself as the sinless sacrifice for all my sins.
And the Law requirements concerning the rules governing the uncleanness associated with dead bodies is no longer applicable. But I will assure you there will be no dead bodies under the Millennial Gate when he passes through it after it has been completed.
Matthew 5:17,18 – Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. [18] For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.
Luke 16:17 – And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one tittle of the law to fail.
Luke 16:14-16 – And the Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things: and they derided him. [15] And he said unto them, Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your hearts for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God. [16] The law and the prophets were until John: since that time the kingdom of God is preached, and every man presseth into it.
Galatians 3:13,14 – Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree: [14] That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.
Colossians 2:13,14 – And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses; [14] Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross;
I Corinthians 1:18 – For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.
Romans 2:28,29 – For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh: [29] But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.
Colossians 2:9-11 – For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily. [10] And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power: [11] In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ:
The present Golden Gate will collapse and crumble into rubble after the two witnesses are caught up. The new Temple of Ezekiel 43 and its new Gate will be built after Messiah returns at his Second Advent.
Revelation 11:11-13 – And after three days and an half the Spirit of life from God entered into them, and they stood upon their feet; and great fear fell upon them which saw them. [12] And they heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them, Come up hither.
And they ascended up to heaven in a cloud; and their enemies beheld them. [13] And the same hour was there a great earthquake, and the tenth part of the city fell, and in the earthquake were slain of men seven thousand: and the remnant were affrighted, and gave glory to the God of heaven.
Ezekiel 43:1-5 – Afterward he brought me to the gate, even the gate that looketh toward the east: [2] And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel came from the way of the east: and his voice was like a noise of many waters: and the earth shined with his glory. [3] And it was according to the appearance of the vision which I saw, even according to the vision that I saw when I came to destroy the city: and the visions were like the vision that I saw by the river Chebar; and I fell upon my face.
[4] And the glory of the Lord came into the house by the way of the gate whose prospect is toward the east. [5] So the spirit took me up, and brought me into the inner court; and, behold, the glory of the Lord filled the house.
Begin ‘Israel Today’ Magazine Article
Israel stops Muslim burials near Temple Mount
Staff Writer
May 29, 2007
Israel has for the past several months been preventing Muslims from burying their dead in a patch of land outside the Temple Mount walls designated as an archeological site, reported Ha’aretz.
A Muslim cemetery already stretches along the south-eastern wall of the Temple Mount in an attempt to block the prophesied return of Israel’s Messiah through the Golden Gate.
A few years ago, local Muslims decided to extend the cemetery by taking over adjacent land belonging to Israel’s Antiquities Authority.
Jerusalem police originally refused to take action, fearing that halting the burials would lead to violent Muslim riots.
But a recent petition backed by leading Israeli academics, archeologists and political figures convinced the High Court and Internal Security Minister Avi Dichter to put an end to the illegal Muslim activity.
Top archeologists said the area the Muslims were trying to take over has huge historical significance. They hope to one day soon excavate there and learn more about the First and Second Temples that once stood on the location.
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