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Here is a better Picture of the the City of David, back when it was also know as JERUSALEM.
So the OPHEL was in the middle of Mount Moriah the ridge. It was a on a single high hill, called Mount Zion.
What everyone wants to Call the Temple Mount, the Temple was NEVER THERE. Some how over the centuries
they lost track of where everything was, and the ROMANS, tore everything down to where NO STONE STOOD ON ANOTHER.
After the Jews came back in the mid 400's A.D., they lost the sight of the where the TEMPLE Location, some thought it was
on the highest hill, so the Rabbi's had an election, and CHOSE the wrong Site. Probably because they had forgotten that
Mount Moriah, was the Name of the RIDGE, and not the name of a single high point on that Ridge.

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Look what I just found:

This is a Roman Triumphant Arch Panel, could mean the original was on a Roman Arch, if it was a real event.
This Copy of it was by the artist Beth Hatefutsoth, and in the Victory Parade, Soldiers were carrying the Menorah, after 70 A.D.

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The measurements of Ezekiel's temple are incomplete. This means someone must add to God's word to build it. Or God alone can build it. It also means it is a symbol of Christ, God's temple built without hands. It also means any who offers animal sacrifices denounce Christ and go to hell with no chance of forgiveness according to Hebrews 6. Even if you intend to offer sacrifices if it is built.
 

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I found the Original Arch Panel. YES, it was paraded in ROME.

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The measurements of Ezekiel's temple are incomplete. This means someone must add to God's word to build it. Or God alone can build it. It also means it is a symbol of Christ, God's temple built without hands. It also means any who offers animal sacrifices denounce Christ and go to hell with no chance of forgiveness according to Hebrews 6. Even if you intend to offer sacrifices if it is built.
I think that is where the golden measure of faith (the unseen) used in parable comes in .The measure of faith. God's witness .

Thousand year = a unknown not revealed as does 144, 000.= all the believers redeemed by the lamb old and new.

Designed for those who walk by faith. Not for those of the number, the measure of man that literalizes the signified understanding and miss out on the golden measure..

Mans witness / One inch = One inch . One day = one day

2 Corinthians 10:11-13 King James Version (KJV) For we dare not make ourselves of the number, or compare ourselves with some that commend themselves: but they measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves among themselves, are not wise. But we will not boast of things without our measure, but according to the measure of the rule which God hath distributed to us, a measure to reach even unto you.


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My brothers and sisters in Jesus Christ, you can see the top of mount Zion, glory to God, in the diagram of section F. 1. of the Temple Mount & Land of Israel Faithful Movement article "Location of the Temple and the Holy of Holies on the Temple Mount: ..." on templemountfaithful dot org.

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It is the slight crest, glory to God, around one third of the way from the north side of the Al-Aqsa Mosque to the Foundation Stone, currently under the Dome of the Rock. Remember, it was the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite (1 Chronicles 21:28-30, 22:1). So it could not have been the top of the mountain, called the Foundation Stone today. Glory to God. It is 250 great cubits due south of the Foundation Stone (Ezekiel 40:21,23,36,47, 43:13,14,16,17), then 120 great cubits due west from there (Ezekiel 43:13,14,16,17, 40:47,49, 41:2,4). Glory to God.
 

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The measurements of Ezekiel's temple are incomplete. This means someone must add to God's word to build it. Or God alone can build it. It also means it is a symbol of Christ, God's temple built without hands. It also means any who offers animal sacrifices denounce Christ and go to hell with no chance of forgiveness according to Hebrews 6. Even if you intend to offer sacrifices if it is built.
All of the explicit verbiage and all of those precise measurements and descriptions......And it's only symbolic? Doesn't make sense to me.
 

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My brothers and sisters in Jesus Christ, you can see the top of mount Zion, glory to God, in the diagram of section F. 1. of the Temple Mount & Land of Israel Faithful Movement article "Location of the Temple and the Holy of Holies on the Temple Mount: ..." on templemountfaithful dot org.

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It is the slight crest, glory to God, around one third of the way from the north side of the Al-Aqsa Mosque to the Foundation Stone, currently under the Dome of the Rock. Remember, it was the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite (1 Chronicles 21:28-30, 22:1). So it could not have been the top of the mountain, called the Foundation Stone today. Glory to God. It is 250 great cubits due south of the Foundation Stone (Ezekiel 40:21,23,36,47, 43:13,14,16,17), then 120 great cubits due west from there (Ezekiel 43:13,14,16,17, 40:47,49, 41:2,4). Glory to God.


You had better look at what the videos I posted, where Archaeologists have findings over the last two or three years. The Temple Mount is the WRONG LOCATION. IT BELONGS in the CITY OF DAVID, and That LOCATION was also called JERUSALEM in the Old Testament time, and on into the New Testament. The so-called TEMPLE MOUNT was actually Fortress Antonia at the time of CHRIST. The JEWS were all killed or exiled in 70 A.D. massacre, and the ROMANS left the old City JERUSALEM with NO STONE LAYING ON TOP OF ANOTHER, in fact all of Jerusalem (the CITY OF DAVID) looked like Plowed field. One historian looking North from where the TEMPLE was, said, all I could see was the FORTRESS ANTONIA, no city WALLS or anything in the Old Jerusalem.

However Prince Simon, had a REVOLT in 132, primarily because the Romans built a Temple to Jupiter, on top of the ORIGINAL Temple Mount defiling even the Bed Rock. He was successful in KICKING the Roman 10th Legion out of the country and then became RULER.
So Prince Simon bar Kokhba became Prince of Israel for 2.5 or 3.5 years. Some say his death as in 135 A.D., and others say he was killed in battle in 136 A.D.
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One of the first things he did as Ruler of ISRAEL, in 132 A.D., was to order the Original Temple Mount, on the south end of the OPHEL, turned into a Rock Quarry, because the Flat Mound was DEFILED by having a Pagan Temple built on it by the ROMANS. That Hill was also known as Mount Zion, where the TEMPLE WAS during Jesus TIME. So when the ROMANS CAME BACK, in 135, THEY CAME BACK IN FORCE, with 10 Roman Legions, and overwhelmed the forces of Simon bar Kokhba, 580,000 Jews perished in the war all the battles ant running through a village, killing everyone in site. After their murder spree of the Jews in ISRAEL, and sent the rest of the survivors into exile, and they did not come back to ISRAEL until About 363, and in 438 A.D., when the Empress EUDOCIA removed the ban on Jews' praying at the Temple Site, they were back in Jerusalem. But WHERE WAS IT LOCATED. The Rabbi's had a divided opinion, between FOUR different locations was where the TEMPLE WAS. They HAD A VOTE, and more people voted for the current location, and falsely LABELED IT the TEMPLE MOUNT, because, they had forgot that SIMON ORDERED THE ORIGINAL BE REMOVED and Quarried for rock, to make a Southern Road more Passable. MOUNT ZION was no longer a visible location, so they thought the Highest hill was IT.

It is starting to look like the JEWS today are INSISTING IT HAS TO BE UP WERE THE DOME OF THE ROCK IS, and IT NEVER WAS THERE.
And maybe that is GOD's Plan, because the 3rd TEMPLE is where Antichrist will sit in the holy of holies and call himself god, demand worship. So Maybe GOD does not want it Built on the REAL LOCATION. I have been keeping up with the lastest videos from YouTube, some of the earlier videos in the beginning of this tread are no longer there. Unknown Reason, for their removal. But the LASTEST videos are there, from May of 2019 on, and some are very eye opening. IT BELONGS IN THE CITY OF DAVID some 800 Feet further South.
 

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My brothers and sisters in Jesus Christ, you can see the top of mount Zion, glory to God, in the diagram of section F. 1. of the Temple Mount & Land of Israel Faithful Movement article "Location of the Temple and the Holy of Holies on the Temple Mount: ..." on templemountfaithful dot org.

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It is the slight crest, glory to God, around one third of the way from the north side of the Al-Aqsa Mosque to the Foundation Stone, currently under the Dome of the Rock. Remember, it was the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite (1 Chronicles 21:28-30, 22:1). So it could not have been the top of the mountain, called the Foundation Stone today. Glory to God. It is 250 great cubits due south of the Foundation Stone (Ezekiel 40:21,23,36,47, 43:13,14,16,17), then 120 great cubits due west from there (Ezekiel 43:13,14,16,17, 40:47,49, 41:2,4). Glory to God.



Like I already said the City of DAVID was CALLED JERUSALEM at the time of CHRIST.
The Temple was bigger at that time, be the Court of the Gentiles was LEFT OUT by this artist.
All on the Walled City on the North, was Fortress Antonia, housed 6000 soldiers and 4000 support staff, of the Roman 10th Legion.
You see that long covered double bridge, was a QUICK WAY for the Roman Soldier to get down to TEMPLE, to quell any rebellion.
Josephus measured it to be 600 from the outer wall to the Temple Complex and the wall the southwest corner to Fortress Antonia.
YES, that means the Western Wall were the Jews Pray, is not the western wall of the TEMPLE, it is the western wall of Fortress Antonia.
The temple would have look more like this:


That gate on the East Site the Golden Gate, should be to the left a bit, because Josephus during one of the Religious Holidays, said when he standing in that GATE when all the doors and gates were open, he could see the curtain of the Holy of Holies from that GATE. Artist must not read JOSEPHUS. They get that GATE in the wrong location almost every time. In case you never Heard of Josephus, he is the most famous Historian, born 37 A.D. and died in 100 A.D. So he was there in Jerusalem before the ROMANS tore down the Temple.

THAT HIGHEST HILL IS SUPPORTED BY THE BIBLE as Fortress Antonia, where the DOME OF THE ROCK IS:

Acts 21:30-36 (HCSB)
30 The whole city was stirred up, and the people rushed together. They seized Paul, dragged him out of the temple complex, and at once the gates were shut.
31 As they were trying to kill him, word went up to the commander of the regiment that all Jerusalem was in chaos.
32 Taking along soldiers and centurions, he immediately ran down to them. Seeing the commander and the soldiers, they stopped beating Paul.
{This certainly makes sense, as proof that the 600 foot double covered bridge was there.}

33 Then the commander came up, took him into custody, and ordered him to be bound with two chains. He asked who he was and what he had done.
34 Some in the mob were shouting one thing and some another. Since he was not able to get reliable information because of the uproar, he ordered him to be taken into the barracks.
35 When Paul got to the steps, he had to be carried by the soldiers because of the mob’s violence,
36 for the mass of people followed, yelling, “Take him away!”
 

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Here is another account, where the JEWS actually broke down the Bridge between the between the TEMPLE and Fortress Antonia. This account is recorded in one of Josephus history books, but it proves the Covered bridge between the Temple and the Fortress was a reality. AND my GUESS the was shortly before the army of SIMON bar Kakhba actually came in and kicked the Romans out of the country in 132 A.D. So hostilities between the People in the TEMPLE and the ROMANS was reaching a fever pitch.

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Now as be was long in deliberating about this matter, a sedition arose among the people within the city; Aristobulus's party being willing to fight, and to set their king at liberty, while the party of Hyrcanus were for opening the gates to Pompey; and the dread people were in occasioned these last to be a very numerous party, when they looked upon the excellent order the Roman soldiers were in. So Aristobulus's party was worsted, and retired into the temple, and cut off the communication between the temple and the city, by breaking down the bridge that joined them together, and prepared to make an opposition to the utmost; but as the others had received the Romans into the city, and had delivered up the palace to him, Pompey sent Piso, one of his great officers, into that palace with an army, who distributed a garrison about the city, because he could not persuade any one of those that had fled to the temple to come to terms of accommodation; he then disposed all things that were round about them so as might favor their attacks, as having Hyrcanus's party very ready to afford them both counsel and assistance.
The Works of Flavius Josephus. - END QUOTE.

 

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WHAT IS A COLONNADE ?
A Covered bridge such as these.
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Here is another account, where the JEWS actually broke down the Bridge between the between the TEMPLE and Fortress Antonia. This account is recorded in one of Josephus history books, but it proves the Covered bridge between the Temple and the Fortress was a reality. AND my GUESS the was shortly before the army of SIMON bar Kakhba actually came in and kicked the Romans out of the country in 132 A.D. So hostilities between the People in the TEMPLE and the ROMANS was reaching a fever pitch.

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Now as be was long in deliberating about this matter, a sedition arose among the people within the city; Aristobulus's party being willing to fight, and to set their king at liberty, while the party of Hyrcanus were for opening the gates to Pompey; and the dread people were in occasioned these last to be a very numerous party, when they looked upon the excellent order the Roman soldiers were in. So Aristobulus's party was worsted, and retired into the temple, and cut off the communication between the temple and the city, by breaking down the bridge that joined them together, and prepared to make an opposition to the utmost; but as the others had received the Romans into the city, and had delivered up the palace to him, Pompey sent Piso, one of his great officers, into that palace with an army, who distributed a garrison about the city, because he could not persuade any one of those that had fled to the temple to come to terms of accommodation; he then disposed all things that were round about them so as might favor their attacks, as having Hyrcanus's party very ready to afford them both counsel and assistance.
The Works of Flavius Josephus. - END QUOTE.

I agree that illustration is correct, although I believe that the Temple may have been at a somewhat lower level. To a large extent this mystery has indeed been resolved.
 

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I agree that illustration is correct, although I believe that the Temple may have been at a somewhat lower level. To a large extent this mystery has indeed been resolved.

The ARTIST drew the raised platform so that the it was equal to the level of Fortress Antonia. The Romans did not RUN OVER to the temple to save PAUL, is says the RAN DOWN to save Paul. THERE IS NO REFERENCE IN THE BIBLE THAT IT WAS ON A RAISED PLATFORM either.

This Artist that drew the below picture, has the Temple on the ground Level on top of the OPHEL as small hill, called MOUNT ZION, but he left out the Court of the Gentiles.



So if you combined this below size of the Temple with this Fortress Antonia, and corrected the Eastern Golden Gate to be dead center to the TEMPLE, at eye level, and finished the courtyard between the two, the TEMPLE COMPLEX and Fortress Antonia, then it may be more accurate.



See that red circle, that is supposed to be Fortress Antonia, that held the Roman 10th Legion with almost 10,000 Troops and Staff members. LOL

Now here is a FINISHED Courtyard between the two, which would be ROMAN STYLE.


AGAIN the artist put the Temple on a Pedestal, and I think it was at ground level, because the BIBLES says the Romans RAN DOWN to the Temple to save PAUL. Plus almost NOBODY Artist read Josephus' account that from the GOLDEN GATE he could see the curtain of the Holies of Holies when all the doors were open. So all that DOORS had to line up with the Golden Gate.

Here is an imagine I have been trying to find for a very long time, as I have seen it before, a could not find it when I wanted to post:
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There is the DOUBLE COLONNADES CLOSE UP, but they are not 600 feet long, plus see the three doors leading under Fortress Antonia. That HAD TO BE THE ENTRANCE TO THE STABLES. That is just south of the City Wall that USED TO BE THE FORTRESS Antonia. WHY IS NO ONE DIGGING THERE ? ? ? If they can prove via road apples, that it was once a STABLE, wouldn't that PROVE that it was Fortress Antonia? WHO WOULD PUT A STABLE UNDER THE TEMPLE COMPLEX ? ? ?

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If the South Wall is in the same LOCATION as South Wall of Fortress Antonia, then right at the tip or the RED ARROW, should be the entrances to the Stables of Fortress Antonia. Dig down to the level of the Time of Christ, should expose remnants of a STABLE, in my opinion.
 

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Found a better view of where the Entrances were, to the suspected STABLES. IT IS RIGHT ACROSS THE HIGHWAY FROM THE CURRENT location of the PARKING LOT DIGS:

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AlSO, here is an even better close up. Right at the tip of the Arrow is a bush or shadow, with could be Dig starting Point.
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See the two stair cases, that used to lead to the entrances to Fortress Antonia.
It has to be the TWO STAIR CASES in this drawing:
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One stair case on the left side of the Stable Entrances and one stair case on the right side of the Stable Entrance. See the top of the wall above the Stable Entrances left of the Red Arrow, sticking up in the above Photo, two or three feet. So you would only have to dig down about 6 feet and back in a little ways to find out if it was used as a STABLE or NOT.

Yes I stare at these kinds of picture or photos a lot, to try to figure out what objects must have been used for. In one of the recent videos by Director of Global Communications, Jerome Spiehlman (not sure how he spells his name) in the City of David, remarks how the STONES on the Pilgrimage Road by the SANDALS on the feet of those traveled to the so-called TEMPLE MOUNT, wore those Stones smooth. HE TOTALLY IGNORED that the ROMAN SOLDIERS, 6000 in number, must have send out almost NUMEROUS Patrols, perhaps as often every hour of every Day and Night, to keep a constant PRESENCE in the City, marching down that SAME so-called Pilgrimage Road, down into the Temple Complex, on the Court of the GENTILES, out the Southern Gate of the TEMPLE, down into the City of David, also called JERUSALEM at that TIME. They would have Marched all the way down to at least the Pool of Siloam, and BACK in an HOUR. EVEN IF a minimum of 20 men on that ONE TYPE of Patrol, it would used, it would only take 480 men to cover that PATROL duty ever hour of every day and night. AND THEY HAD TO KEEP 6000 Soldiers BUSY, so it would be feasible that they used 50 men per PATROL That would keep 1200 men per day. IF YOU HAD TO WALK THAT PATROL ONE HOUR PER DAY, as Part of their Duties, every Day. The Jews do not even want to think what 6000 soldiers had to do to keep BUSY. BUT PATROLLING a rebellious City would have been PRIORITY NUMBER ONE.
 

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FORGOT THESE TO SENTANCES ABOVE.
We know there were ENOUGH Miltary Sandals marching up and down that road, to wear those stones smooth on the so-called Pilgrimage ROAD North of the modern day CITY OF DAVID. I think saying they were Pilgrims on the way to the so-called Temple Mount, is pure speculation and wishful thinking.
 
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VCO, running down a bridge is a lie from the pit of hell. The word of God explains that they ran "down" (Acts 21:32, 23:10) the "stairs" (Acts 21:35,40) from the castle (Acts 21:34,37, 22:24, 23:10,16,32), that was later torn down (Matthew 24:2, Mark 13:2).

The two places in the word of God where it says "mount Zion" (Hebrews 12:22, Revelation 14:1) in the New Testament, is talking about the mount Zion in heaven. All of the rest of the scriptures in the old testament (2 Kings 19:31, Psalms 2:6, 48:2,11, 74:2, 78:68, 125:1, Isaiah 4:5, 8:18, 10:12,32, 16:1, 18:7, 24:23, 29:8, 31:4, 37:32, 40:9, Lamentations 5:18, Joel 2:32, 3:17, Obadiah 1:17,21, Micah 4:7 (except for Deuteronomy 4:48, that is talking about in northern Israel (Deuteronomy 3:8,9)) talk about the mount, where the temple is about to be built - where the first two temples were built (not in Zion (1 Kings 8:1, 2 Chronicles 5:2)) - only slightly bigger (built with a great cubit (Ezekiel 40:5, 41:8, 43:13) instead of a cubit (Deuteronomy 3:11, 2 Chronicles 3:3, Revelation 21:17) measurement)).

When Jesus comes back, mount Zion and "the hill" (Isaiah 31:4) (called the Foundation Stone today) will be the highest in the area, as the surrounding land will be a plain (Zechariah 14:10). At the end of the 1,000 year reign of Jesus, during the "great earthquake" (Revelation 16:18), all of the world will be made a plain (with hills (Genesis 49:26)), including "the hill" (Isaiah 31:4) (called the Foundation Stone today), and mount Zion will be the highest mountain in the world (Psalms 61:2, 99:2) (without a temple (Revelation 21:22)). Then the New Jerusalem will come down from heaven (Revelation 21:2,10), and the mount Zion in heaven will come down and rest perfectly over the mount Zion of the world, becoming it (Romans 1:20, Hebrews 8:5, 9:23).

Glory to God.
 

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I found a map that Pictures Jerusalem at around 1000 B.C. Before the ROMAN FORTRESS, and which Jerusalem was also the City of David. So this was at the time that DAVID was wanting to built the Temple, but GOD told him NO. I show you this so that you will know that the City of David was also called JERUSALEM. There was NOTHING ON THAT HIGHEST HILL, because it was too far from the Spring at Gihon. NO LIVING WATER SOURCE (spring or river) is on the SO-CALLED Temple Mount.

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Jerusalem in the Time of David (c. 1010–970 B.C.)
About four millennia ago, Melchizedek was king of Jerusalem, which was then called Salem (Gen. 14:18). This was an unwalled city, which was taken over in c. 1850 B.C. by the Jebusites, who built a city wall around it and called it Jebus (cf. 1 Chron. 11:4).

King David captured this city after having ruled for seven years in Hebron (2 Sam. 5:5). The city was strongly fortified, especially the area around the Gihon Spring, where massive towers dating from this period have been excavated. The Jebusites were so confident of their fortifications that they taunted David, saying that even the blind and the lame would prevent him from capturing their city (2 Sam. 5:6).

However, Joab, David’s commander-in-chief, managed to secretly enter the city through its water system and open the gates for David to take control (1 Chron. 11:6). The Jebusite Citadel was destroyed and replaced by the “stronghold of Zion, that is, the city of David” (2 Sam. 5:7).

Later on in his life, David built an altar on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite, which stopped a plague sent by God upon Israel from reaching Jerusalem (2 Sam. 24:18–25). END QUOTE.

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Archaeological reconstruction of Jerusalem at the time of the united kingdom of Israel, circa 1000 BC. View roughly from East to West.

(Source: tecartabible.com) END QUOTE.

I think they did an excellent job on this map. The view is from the East (right side of the Map) to the West (left side of the Map).
Notice the building furthest NORTH, that would be King David's Palace.
 

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VCO, running down a bridge is a lie from the pit of hell. The word of God explains that they ran "down" (Acts 21:32, 23:10) the "stairs" (Acts 21:35,40) from the castle (Acts 21:34,37, 22:24, 23:10,16,32), that was later torn down (Matthew 24:2, Mark 13:2).

The two places in the word of God where it says "mount Zion" (Hebrews 12:22, Revelation 14:1) in the New Testament, is talking about the mount Zion in heaven. All of the rest of the scriptures in the old testament (2 Kings 19:31, Psalms 2:6, 48:2,11, 74:2, 78:68, 125:1, Isaiah 4:5, 8:18, 10:12,32, 16:1, 18:7, 24:23, 29:8, 31:4, 37:32, 40:9, Lamentations 5:18, Joel 2:32, 3:17, Obadiah 1:17,21, Micah 4:7 (except for Deuteronomy 4:48, that is talking about in northern Israel (Deuteronomy 3:8,9)) talk about the mount, where the temple is about to be built - where the first two temples were built (not in Zion (1 Kings 8:1, 2 Chronicles 5:2)) - only slightly bigger (built with a great cubit (Ezekiel 40:5, 41:8, 43:13) instead of a cubit (Deuteronomy 3:11, 2 Chronicles 3:3, Revelation 21:17) measurement)).

When Jesus comes back, mount Zion and "the hill" (Isaiah 31:4) (called the Foundation Stone today) will be the highest in the area, as the surrounding land will be a plain (Zechariah 14:10). At the end of the 1,000 year reign of Jesus, during the "great earthquake" (Revelation 16:18), all of the world will be made a plain (with hills (Genesis 49:26)), including "the hill" (Isaiah 31:4) (called the Foundation Stone today), and mount Zion will be the highest mountain in the world (Psalms 61:2, 99:2) (without a temple (Revelation 21:22)). Then the New Jerusalem will come down from heaven (Revelation 21:2,10), and the mount Zion in heaven will come down and rest perfectly over the mount Zion of the world, becoming it (Romans 1:20, Hebrews 8:5, 9:23).

Glory to God.
VCO's superb analysis is undoubtedly correct. The latest and best archaeological findings indicate that indeed the city of David has been located and the boundaries defined, and there is absolutely no doubt whatsoever that the Temple is located within.

This video lays out all the facts for you. Enjoy!

 

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VCO, running down a bridge is a lie from the pit of hell.
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Glory to God.

You need to study some more, especially the videos that the Archaeologists posted over the Past TWO YEARS, pointing out specific finds they have uncovered. Mount Moriah is not a single peak, but it is the RIDGE running from North of the Dome of the Rock, all the way down to just east of the Pool of Shiloam. Mount Zion was a single peak, in the Mount Moriah Ridge, and it was a raised flat top hill about half ways down the Mount Moriah Ridge. King David bought that THRESHING FLOOR on that Mount Zion to built the TEMPLE ON, because only a flat level place could be used as a Threshing Floor. IT was not ever considered to use the so-called Temple Mount because it was not level, and NO LIVE RUNNING WATER WAS ON TOP of that part of Mount Moriah the RIDGE.

2 Chronicles 3:1 (NJB)
1 Solomon then began building the house of Yahweh in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah where David his father had had a vision—on the site which David had prepared—on the threshing-floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

Psalm 20:2 (NCV)
2 May he send you help from his Temple and support you from Mount Zion.

Jeremiah 50:28 (ESV)
28 “A voice! They flee and escape from the land of Babylon, to declare in Zion the vengeance of the LORD our God, vengeance for his temple.

Jeremiah 26:18 (GW)
18 “Micah from Moresheth prophesied at the time of Judah's King Hezekiah and said to all the people of Judah, ‘This is what the LORD of Armies says: Zion will be plowed like a field, Jerusalem will become a pile of rubble, and the temple mountain will become a worship site covered with trees.'

So a single Small peak with a flat top on the OPHEL, was called Mount Zion, which was the THRESHING FLOOR of Ornan the Jebusite that King David bought. Where the Dome of the ROCK is, has NEVER HAD A FLAT ENOUGH TOP to be used as a Threshing FLOOR. So the CORRECT TEMPLE MOUNT is on the southern end of the OPHEL, were Mount Zion used to be. Jews do not want to admit that in 438 A.D. when most of the Exiles returned, and the council of Jewish Rabbi's voted they Chose the WRONG SITE for the TEMPLE. Prince Simon bar Kokhba when he kicked the Romans out in 132 A.D., he ordered the original Temple Mount on the south end of the OPHEL, be turned into a Rock Quarry, because ROMANS defiled the bedrock by putting a Temple to Jupiter on the SITE of the utterly destroyed JEWISH TEMPLE. Hence Simon lowered the hill known as Mount Zion to be taken down to GROUND LEVEL, very few JEWS RECOGNIZED IT.

Hence the fulfillment of this PROPHECY:

Jeremiah 26:18 (NIV)
18 "Micah of Moresheth prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah. He told all the people of Judah, 'This is what the LORD Almighty says: "'Zion will be plowed like a field, Jerusalem will become a heap of rubble, the temple hill a mound overgrown with thickets.'

Here is the story of King David buying the Threshing Floor:

1 Chronicles 21:18-28 (HCSB)
18 So the angel of the LORD ordered Gad to tell David to go and set up an altar to the LORD on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
19 David went up at Gad’s command spoken in the name of the LORD.
20 Ornan was threshing wheat when he turned and saw the angel. His four sons, who were with him, hid themselves.
21 David came to Ornan, and when Ornan looked and saw David, he left the threshing floor and bowed to David with his face to the ground.
22 Then David said to Ornan, “Give me this threshing-floor plot so that I may build an altar to the LORD on it. Give it to me for the full price, so the plague on the people may be stopped.”
23 Ornan said to David, “Take it! My lord the king may do whatever he wants. See, I give the oxen for the burnt offerings, the threshing sledges for the wood, and the wheat for the grain offering—I give it all.”
24 King David answered Ornan, “No, I insist on paying the full price, for I will not take for the LORD what belongs to you or offer burnt offerings that cost ⌊me⌋ nothing.”
25 So David gave Ornan 15 pounds of gold for the plot.
26 He built an altar to the LORD there and offered burnt offerings and fellowship offerings. He called on the LORD, and He answered him with fire from heaven on the altar of burnt offering.
27 Then the LORD spoke to the angel, and he put his sword back into its sheath.
28 At that time, David offered sacrifices there when he saw that the LORD answered him at the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

Guess what they have found less than years ago, just north of the Palace of King DAVID, . . . that THRESHING FLOOR, with a low altar of sacrifice, and channel channel for the blood to run out.

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See the low 6" rock at the end of this blood channel. The sheep would be laid there, with it's legs tied, and it's neck right above the end of this blood channel. THAT IS AN ALTAR OF SACRIFICE. That was NOT on the so-called TEMPLE MOUNT, that was on the Southern end of the OPHEL.

Acts 21:28-40 (HCSB)
28 shouting, “Men of Israel, help! This is the man who teaches everyone everywhere against our people, our law, and this place. What’s more, he also brought Greeks into the temple and has profaned this holy place.”
29 For they had previously seen Trophimus the Ephesian in the city with him, and they supposed that Paul had brought him into the temple complex.
30 The whole city was stirred up, and the people rushed together. They seized Paul, dragged him out of the temple complex, and at once the gates were shut.
31 As they were trying to kill him, word went up to the commander of the regiment that all Jerusalem was in chaos.
32 Taking along soldiers and centurions, he immediately ran down to them. Seeing the commander and the soldiers, they stopped beating Paul.
33 Then the commander came up, took him into custody, and ordered him to be bound with two chains. He asked who he was and what he had done.
34 Some in the mob were shouting one thing and some another. Since he was not able to get reliable information because of the uproar, he ordered him to be taken into the barracks.
35 When Paul got to the steps, he had to be carried by the soldiers because of the mob’s violence,
36 for the mass of people followed, yelling, “Take him away!”
37 As he was about to be brought into the barracks, Paul said to the commander, “Am I allowed to say something to you?” He replied, “Do you know Greek?
38 Aren’t you the Egyptian who raised a rebellion some time ago and led 4,000 Assassins into the wilderness?”
39 Paul said, “I am a Jewish man from Tarsus of Cilicia, a citizen of an important city. Now I ask you, let me speak to the people.”
40 After he had given permission, Paul stood on the steps and motioned with his hand to the people. When there was a great hush, he addressed them in the Hebrew language:


READ IT FOR YOURSELF, they took PAUL outside the TEMPLE, in the COURT OF THE GENTILES, I presume, and were beating him to DEATH. THE QUICKEST WAY to get inside the COMMANDERS OFFICE, to where they were BEATING PAUL, just out side the doors of the TEMPLE, was the 600 foot Dual COLONNADES. Going the long way around such as to the eastern GOLDEN GATE, the troops would have had to fight the CROWDS, and would have taken them twice as long. NO ONE Outside the Roman 10th Legion, was allowed on the Colonnades, it was for QUICK access to the TEMPLE COMPLEX to break up a riot or rebellion.

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WHY WAS THE TEMPLE LOCATED ON THE LOWER HILL ? ? ?
THE TEMPLE HAD TO HAVE LIVING WATER to purify everything in the temple, including the priests. Living Water is defined by Jewish Law to be water from a SPRING or a RIVER. AND their is A SIPHON GIHON SPRING right below the TEMPLE.
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This is how the Temple Priest got the Gihon Springs to GUSH water in the TEMPLE. It was a NATURAL Siphon Spring one of the FEW in the world. The siphon tube is just above the sign "End of Sinkhole". It goes up into the inclined Tunnel so all the TEMPLE had to dig the large round hole down several meters, angle a tunnel to the towards the Inclined Tunnel below. A Siphon Spring happens when there is to small of an opening to accommodate the amount of water flow. Then it is for up to another opening in the rocks. So after the extension was put in the Tunnel, the Temple Priests all they had to do was PLUG the Natural Tunnel Exit was blocked by the rocks, and then the Spring Water flowed up hill and GUSHED OUT IN THE TEMPLE. Spring water as long as it is running, it used for Purification.


There is Nothing but Cisterns to supply water at the Dome of the Rock, water from a CISTERN is illegal to use to Purify anything, in the Temple. This drawing of the TEMPLE, Colonnades, and Fortress Antonia does not take in account that the GROUND USED TO BE A LITTLE HIGHER, before Prince Simon ordered the Rock that was the bedrock be removed. Therefore the Temple should be on a flat HILL several feet high. But the 600 feet per Colonnade was measured by Josephus the Historian. YES, the Colonnades WERE THERE, Josephus even recorded a battle between Romans Soldiers and Jewish Rebels ON THAT BRIDGE. The Romans won that battle.
 
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You need to study some more, especially the videos that the Archaeologists posted over the Past TWO YEARS, pointing out specific finds they have uncovered. Mount Moriah is not a single peak, but it is the RIDGE running from North of the Dome of the Rock, all the way down to just east of the Pool of Shiloam. Mount Zion was a single peak, in the Mount Moriah Ridge, and it was a raised flat top hill about half ways down the Mount Moriah Ridge. King David bought that THRESHING FLOOR on that Mount Zion to built the TEMPLE ON, because only a flat level place could be used as a Threshing Floor. IT was not ever considered to use the so-called Temple Mount because it was not level, and NO LIVE RUNNING WATER WAS ON TOP of that part of Mount Moriah the RIDGE.

See the low 6" rock at the end of this blood channel. The sheep would be laid there, with it's legs tied, and it's neck right above the end of this blood channel. THAT IS AN ALTAR OF SACRIFICE. That was NOT on the so-called TEMPLE MOUNT, that was on the Southern end of the OPHEL.

Acts 21:28-40 (HCSB)
28 shouting, “Men of Israel, help! This is the man who teaches everyone everywhere against our people, our law, and this place. What’s more, he also brought Greeks into the temple and has profaned this holy place.”
29 For they had previously seen Trophimus the Ephesian in the city with him, and they supposed that Paul had brought him into the temple complex.
30 The whole city was stirred up, and the people rushed together. They seized Paul, dragged him out of the temple complex, and at once the gates were shut.
31 As they were trying to kill him, word went up to the commander of the regiment that all Jerusalem was in chaos.
32 Taking along soldiers and centurions, he immediately ran down to them. Seeing the commander and the soldiers, they stopped beating Paul.
33 Then the commander came up, took him into custody, and ordered him to be bound with two chains. He asked who he was and what he had done.
34 Some in the mob were shouting one thing and some another. Since he was not able to get reliable information because of the uproar, he ordered him to be taken into the barracks.
35 When Paul got to the steps, he had to be carried by the soldiers because of the mob’s violence,
36 for the mass of people followed, yelling, “Take him away!”
37 As he was about to be brought into the barracks, Paul said to the commander, “Am I allowed to say something to you?” He replied, “Do you know Greek?
38 Aren’t you the Egyptian who raised a rebellion some time ago and led 4,000 Assassins into the wilderness?”
39 Paul said, “I am a Jewish man from Tarsus of Cilicia, a citizen of an important city. Now I ask you, let me speak to the people.”
40 After he had given permission, Paul stood on the steps and motioned with his hand to the people. When there was a great hush, he addressed them in the Hebrew language:


READ IT FOR YOURSELF, they took PAUL outside the TEMPLE, in the COURT OF THE GENTILES, I presume, and were beating him to DEATH. THE QUICKEST WAY to get inside the COMMANDERS OFFICE, to where they were BEATING PAUL, just out side the doors of the TEMPLE, was the 600 foot Dual COLONNADES. Going the long way around such as to the eastern GOLDEN GATE, the troops would have had to fight the CROWDS, and would have taken them twice as long. NO ONE Outside the Roman 10th Legion, was allowed on the Colonnades, it was for QUICK access to the TEMPLE COMPLEX to break up a riot or rebellion.

WHY WAS THE TEMPLE LOCATED ON THE LOWER HILL ? ? ?
THE TEMPLE HAD TO HAVE LIVING WATER to purify everything in the temple, including the priests. Living Water is defined by Jewish Law to be water from a SPRING or a RIVER. AND their is A SIPHON GIHON SPRING right below the TEMPLE.

This is how the Temple Priest got the Gihon Springs to GUSH water in the TEMPLE. It was a NATURAL Siphon Spring one of the FEW in the world. The siphon tube is just above the sign "End of Sinkhole". It goes up into the inclined Tunnel so all the TEMPLE had to dig the large round hole down several meters, angle a tunnel to the towards the Inclined Tunnel below. A Siphon Spring happens when there is to small of an opening to accommodate the amount of water flow. Then it is for up to another opening in the rocks. So after the extension was put in the Tunnel, the Temple Priests all they had to do was PLUG the Natural Tunnel Exit was blocked by the rocks, and then the Spring Water flowed up hill and GUSHED OUT IN THE TEMPLE. Spring water as long as it is running, it used for Purification.

There is Nothing but Cisterns to supply water at the Dome of the Rock, water from a CISTERN is illegal to use to Purify anything, in the Temple. This drawing of the TEMPLE, Colonnades, and Fortress Antonia does not take in account that the GROUND USED TO BE A LITTLE HIGHER, before Prince Simon ordered the Rock that was the bedrock be removed. Therefore the Temple should be on a flat HILL several feet high. But the 600 feet per Colonnade was measured by Josephus the Historian. YES, the Colonnades WERE THERE, Josephus even recorded a battle between Romans Soldiers and Jewish Rebels ON THAT BRIDGE. The Romans won that battle.
Josephus' private interpretation does not come under the hearing of faith. The genealogy of the seed ended with Jesus. The flesh of a Jew has served the temporal.

The abomination of desolation a temple made with human hands lost its abiltlty to deceive mankind. Satan fell from deceiving all the nation, that one must become a Jew. They were cut off. A terrible tribulation for the flesh of a Jew one like never before or ever again ,many are still crying out to rock for the proper Son of man Jesus. They deny both the father and the Son .Can't have on without the other.


God does not live in temples made with human hands . We are the temple made not with human hands. we have the treasure of his power in us .Not of Us.

As a parable for the time present (wilderness). He designed one that could move from place to place nation to nation the gospel to the world . When they reached the destination ,it reverted back to the true temple not made with human hands in respect to those who walk by faith typified by the temporal in the wilderness.