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.
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.