I am trying to give you more information about the History surrouding the Location of original Temple, and anything new about Archeologists diggings, and the future Third Temple Location. I think most would agree that the signs are everywhere that the FINAL ACT of GOD FULFILLING HIS PROPHECIES is about to commence.
I know, we already have the Wars and Rumors of War, the Earthquakes in diverse places, the Pestilances (Diseases the Kill), Ethnic Groups rising up against other Ethnic Groups, etc. Archeologists (including one Jewish Archeolgists) have found evidence that the original Temple location was about 900 meters to the South of the Dome of the Rock, on the original Mt. Zion in modern day City of DAVID. At the time of Christ that site was the Southeast Corner of Jerusalem. The Jews forgot that part of their History was that, after the destruction of the Temple in 70 A.D., the Romans built a Temple to Jupiter on the site of Solomon's Temple. Thus when Simon the Prince of Judah and his forces overthrew the Romans in 132 A.D., Simon declared the original Temple Mount DEFILED, and turned the original Mt. Zion into a Rock Quarry, and lowered Mt. Zion to the height of the surrounding City of David, throwing the rock into the Valley to the South, creating a level road bed access from the South, to Jerusalem. Israel's Antiquities Authority is currently examing the archeological discoveries in the City of David to determine the validity of the Archeologists discoveries. When validated, that location has never been under the control of the Palestinians, and therefore the building of the Third Temple can begin immediately.
So the Rapture may happen long before I am 84, if not, males in my family usually die in their 60's or 70's of heart attacks.
I forgot to mention that in ancients times Mount Zion referred to the City of of DAVID, and more specifically a hill in City of David which was the real TEMPLE MOUNT. After the return of the Jews 400 A.D. from being scattered when the Roman Army retook Jerusalem destroying it YET AGAIN in 135 A.D. No such Hill remained in the City of DAVID, and thus the Western Hill was selected as the Mount Zion, and Mount Moriah was chosen as the Temple Mount via election by Committee of Rabbis, which is where the Dome of the Rock is located. At that time apparently , NOBODY bothered to research what Simon bar Kokhba, Prince of Judah did during his short reign between 132 A.D. and 135 A.D. when He was killed by the Roman Invaders. Thus the leveling of Mount Zion remained a mystery for centuries. Until some records were found, written by Histiorians, revealing that Simon had ordered the Temple Mount leveled, because it was Defiled by the first Temple to Jupiter in the Jerusalem area. Then after retaking Jerusalem in 135 A.D., Emperor Hadrian ordered yet another Temple of Jupiter be built and it was placed where the Dome of the Rock is today, which only added to the confusion.
That curved Street winding up to just below that Southern Wall of today's Jerusalem, almost ending directly below that Steel Domed Mosque; is called the Central Valley Road. That hotel or whatever it is, where the line going down from the City of David is just south of where they think the TEMPLE belongs. Notice it is a wooded Area just past that Hotel-like building:
Jeremiah 26:18 (HCSB)
[SUP]18 [/SUP] “Micah the Moreshite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah and said to all the people of Judah, ‘This is what the LORD of Hosts says: Zion will be plowed like a field, Jerusalem will become ruins, and the temple mount a forested hill.’
The original Temple Mount (Mount Zion) was probably a little higher than that Hotel-like building. That Central Valley Road was a stream fed by the same Underground stream that supplies water to the Gihon Springs, which is a little ways to the right and up from that Hotel-like building. The Threshing Floor that David bought for the Temple Sacrifices would have been near the back of the temple, with a slotted groved channel leading down to that Central Valley Stream to wash away the blood.
I know, we already have the Wars and Rumors of War, the Earthquakes in diverse places, the Pestilances (Diseases the Kill), Ethnic Groups rising up against other Ethnic Groups, etc. Archeologists (including one Jewish Archeolgists) have found evidence that the original Temple location was about 900 meters to the South of the Dome of the Rock, on the original Mt. Zion in modern day City of DAVID. At the time of Christ that site was the Southeast Corner of Jerusalem. The Jews forgot that part of their History was that, after the destruction of the Temple in 70 A.D., the Romans built a Temple to Jupiter on the site of Solomon's Temple. Thus when Simon the Prince of Judah and his forces overthrew the Romans in 132 A.D., Simon declared the original Temple Mount DEFILED, and turned the original Mt. Zion into a Rock Quarry, and lowered Mt. Zion to the height of the surrounding City of David, throwing the rock into the Valley to the South, creating a level road bed access from the South, to Jerusalem. Israel's Antiquities Authority is currently examing the archeological discoveries in the City of David to determine the validity of the Archeologists discoveries. When validated, that location has never been under the control of the Palestinians, and therefore the building of the Third Temple can begin immediately.
So the Rapture may happen long before I am 84, if not, males in my family usually die in their 60's or 70's of heart attacks.
I forgot to mention that in ancients times Mount Zion referred to the City of of DAVID, and more specifically a hill in City of David which was the real TEMPLE MOUNT. After the return of the Jews 400 A.D. from being scattered when the Roman Army retook Jerusalem destroying it YET AGAIN in 135 A.D. No such Hill remained in the City of DAVID, and thus the Western Hill was selected as the Mount Zion, and Mount Moriah was chosen as the Temple Mount via election by Committee of Rabbis, which is where the Dome of the Rock is located. At that time apparently , NOBODY bothered to research what Simon bar Kokhba, Prince of Judah did during his short reign between 132 A.D. and 135 A.D. when He was killed by the Roman Invaders. Thus the leveling of Mount Zion remained a mystery for centuries. Until some records were found, written by Histiorians, revealing that Simon had ordered the Temple Mount leveled, because it was Defiled by the first Temple to Jupiter in the Jerusalem area. Then after retaking Jerusalem in 135 A.D., Emperor Hadrian ordered yet another Temple of Jupiter be built and it was placed where the Dome of the Rock is today, which only added to the confusion.
As for Jerusalem, the Jews were exiled and prohibited from entering the city{135 A.D.}. The name of the city was changed to Aelia Capitolina and according to later sources, temples were erected to Jupiter and Aphrodite (42). A later source notes a list of public buildings built by Hadrian in Jerusalem. One of them was called "the square" (43). The temple to Aphrodite was built at the site of the present Church of the Holy Sepulcher. As for the location of the Temple to Jupiter, little is known. There are researchers who doubt if a temple to Jupiter was built at all on the Temple Mount (44).
http://www.templemount.org/mtmoriah.html#10.
Solomon built the temple on the threshing floor David bought. {Archeologist think they have found a piece of that threshing floor.} The Dome of the rock is the highest point of the temple mount. Threshing floors were never built on hills, but in curved valleys, {The back side of the TEMPLE complex outer wall in the City of David would be a curved Valley called the Central Valley.}; like directly under the Al Kas Fountain. Under the dome of the Rock, was where the Fortress of Antonia stood. In 135 AD, Hadrian filled in about 50 feet of earth over top of where the temple stood and enlarged the temple mount and built a temple of Jupiter where we see the Dome of the rock today. In 325 AD Constantine tore down the Temple of Jupiter and assumed Hadrian built the temple of Jupiter on top of the spot where the temple of Solomon once stood {False assumption that the Dome of the Rock location is where the Temple belongs.}. Constantine built an octagon church on the site. In 700 AD the Muslims found the foundations of Constantine's octagon church and built the dome of the Rock we see today.
The Temple in Jerusalem over the threshing floor which is presently under the Al Kas fountain
The Temple in Jerusalem over the threshing floor which is presently under the Al Kas fountain
WIKIPEDIA: The term Mount Zion has been used in the Hebrew Bible first for the City of David (2 Samuel 5:7, 1 Chronicles 11:5; 1 Kings 8:1, 2 Chronicles 5:2) and later for the Temple Mount, but its meaning has shifted and it is now used as the name of ancient Jerusalem's Western Hill.
That curved Street winding up to just below that Southern Wall of today's Jerusalem, almost ending directly below that Steel Domed Mosque; is called the Central Valley Road. That hotel or whatever it is, where the line going down from the City of David is just south of where they think the TEMPLE belongs. Notice it is a wooded Area just past that Hotel-like building:
Jeremiah 26:18 (HCSB)
[SUP]18 [/SUP] “Micah the Moreshite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah and said to all the people of Judah, ‘This is what the LORD of Hosts says: Zion will be plowed like a field, Jerusalem will become ruins, and the temple mount a forested hill.’
The original Temple Mount (Mount Zion) was probably a little higher than that Hotel-like building. That Central Valley Road was a stream fed by the same Underground stream that supplies water to the Gihon Springs, which is a little ways to the right and up from that Hotel-like building. The Threshing Floor that David bought for the Temple Sacrifices would have been near the back of the temple, with a slotted groved channel leading down to that Central Valley Stream to wash away the blood.