The Bible describes the Holiest of Holies (or Most Holy Place) as the innermost, sacred room of the Tabernacle and Temple where God’s presence dwelt (past tense), containing the Ark of the Covenant, restricted to only the High Priest, and only once a year. Today men from every cult, religion and power hungry fascist regime wish to obtain these ancient artifacts.
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Leviticus 16:2 And the Lord said to Moses, “Tell Aaron your brother not to come at any time into the Holy Place inside the veil, before the mercy seat that is on the ark, so that he may not die. For I will appear in the cloud over the mercy seat.
According to this, close proximity to GOD, the TRUE GOD, can be deadly.
But,” HE said, “you cannot see MY FACE, for no one may see ME and live.” Exodus 33:20
GOD’s True Foundation!
1st Peter 2:4-5 As you come to HIM, a living stone rejected by men but in the sight of GOD chosen and precious, you yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to GOD through YEHOSHUA haMOSHIACH.
GOD tells us that HIS HOUSE, HIS TEMPLE, is SPIRIT. YEHOSHUA said, God is spirit, and HIS worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in Truth.” John 4:24
During The Era Of The Temple
Hebrews 9:6-10 With things so arranged, the cohanim (priest) go into the outer tent all the time to discharge their duties; 7 but only the cohen hagadol (High Priest) enters the inner one; and he goes in only once a year, and he must always bring blood, which he offers both for himself and for the sins committed in ignorance by the people. 8 By this arrangement, the Ruach HaKodesh (the Holy Spirit) showed that so long as the first Tent had standing, “the way” into the Holiest Place (YEHOSHUA) was still closed.
Interesting, the word translated in English as “stand” or “standing” was from #4714 stasis, a Greek word, which is derived from the base of histemi; “to cause to stand”, position (or existence); by implication; also a popular uprising; figuratively, controversy — dissension, or insurrection.
Let’s re-examine verse 8
8 By this arrangement, the RUACH HAKODESH (the Holy Spirit) showed us that so long as the first Tent remained standing, (figuratively), “the way” into the Holiest Place was still not dis-closed.
You must see the truth, before you can live it.
9 This symbolizes the present age and indicates that the conscience of the person performing the service cannot be brought to the goal by the gifts and sacrifices he offers.
10 For they involve only food and drink and various ceremonial washings — regulations concerning the outward life, imposed until the time for God to reshape the whole structure.
The English word “conscience,” translated from the Greek word suneidésis #4893, describes a soul conscious of sin, one cognitive in distinguishing between what is morally good or bad, prompting him or her toward the former and shunning the latter, commending the one, and condemning the other;
The English word, “reshape” is from the Greek word diorthosis #1357, it is a derivative of G5717 meaning to straighten thoroughly. A correction, amendment, or reform.
In biblical Greek lexicons and concordance systems, G5717 is a grammatical code indicating a verb in the pluperfect tense. A verb tense used to describe an action that was finished before another in the past.
In ancient classical Greek and early medical texts, diorthosis was used in a physical sense to describe setting a broken bone or straightening a misshapen limb to restore it to its natural position.
In Biblical Theology: It appears exactly one time in the New Testament in Hebrews 9:10. It describes the “time of reformation” or “new order”—the Messianic structural shift where the temporary Old Covenant laws were straightened out and fulfilled by the permanent New Covenant of YEHOSHUA haMOSHIACH.
What Do Christians Believe?
Many evangelical Christians link the Temple Mount to biblical prophecy, believing that a future third temple must, or will be built in connection with the second coming of Jesus.
In discussions on platforms like Facebook, opinions differ widely. Many Evangelical and dispensational Christians believe a future Jewish temple (a third Temple) must be rebuilt on the site as part of end-times prophecy before the return of Jesus; though this is not biblically accurate.
According to the Bible, the Temple Mount (Mount Moriah) was the earthly dwelling place of GOD’s presence. It was the sacred site where Abraham prepared to sacrifice Isaac, King David purchased the threshing floor for an altar, and King Solomon built the First Temple. YEHOSHUA also visited, taught, and prophesied its destruction there.
1st Corinthians 1:17 The Messiah did not send me to baptize. He sent me to tell the Good News, and to tell it without using the language of human wisdom, in order to make sure that HIS death is not robbed of its power.
YEHOSHUA Is GOD’s Way!
(The Only Way)
John 1:14 And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.
Eben HaShetiyah
Did you know: The Foundation Stone (Eben HaShetiyah) which is believed to sit underneath the roof of the the dome of the Rock; and is revered in Jewish tradition as the center of the world and the spot where the Holiest of Holies once stood, is also in Islamic tradition the point of the Prophet Muhammad’s ascension to heaven.
It would appear that many feeble, il-informed men believe, that whoever owns or controls this plot of land owns access to God.
Did you know: that the Temple Mount, located in the Old City of Jerusalem, was claimed as part of East Jerusalem for a future state by Palestinians?
Zionist Jews took control of the area in 1967 and claimed all of Jerusalem as its capital, a conquest that was never recognized internationally.
The United Nations maintains that Israel’s annexation of East Jerusalem violates international law against acquiring territory by force. The UN views East Jerusalem as occupied Palestinian territory.
Currently Men Believe…
The Foundation Stone (known in Hebrew as Even ha-Shetiyah) is the exposed piece of sacred bedrock located at the center of the Dome of the Rock on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. It is viewed as the spiritual center or navel of the world by multiple faiths.
During the 12th century, the Crusaders captured Jerusalem and converted the Dome of the Rock into a Christian church called the Templum Domini (Lord’s Temple).
The structure inspired the architectural layout for round churches across Europe and served as the namesake headquarters for the Knights Templar before Muslims regained control of the city.
According to Wikipedia…..
Early Muslim writings argue that the Dome of The Rock, completed in 691, was the sight of the Holiest of Holies and therefore was the location of the Foundation Stone.
The History by the 9th-century writer al-Tabari has Ka’b Al-Ahbar, a Jewish convert to Islam, asking the caliph Umar to build a mosque over the rock, to which Umar responds, “O Ka’b, you are imitating the Jewish religion!” Al-Tabari then identifies the rock with the place where the Romans had “buried the temple (bayt al-maqdis) at the time of the sons of Israel.
The time of the sons of Israel- Is a timeline, interpreted as 430 years, starting from the covenant/promises made to Abraham until the Exodus.
The History of the Prophets and Kings, more commonly known as Tarikh al-Tabari or Tarikh-i Tabari or The History of al-Tabari is an Arabic-language historical chronicle completed by the Muslim historian.
True Believers Have The Living Stone; YEHOSHUA!
Hebrew 4:14-16 Since then we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, YEHOSHUA, the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession. For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin. Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.
Pirqe de Rabbi Eliezer (9th century) also wrote: Rabbi Ishmael said: In the future, the sons of Ishmael (believed to be Arabs but could easily include Edom, since the two were very closely associated) will do fifteen things in the Land of Israel. They will fence in the breaches of the walls of the Temple and construct a building on the site of the sanctuary.
He also curiously said; They would bring two kings (or conflicting forces) who would fight over the land until the wicked one falls.
Pirqe – is a Hebrew word that means “chapters of” or “divisions of.” It is most commonly found as the first part of the title Pirqe Avot (a collection of Rabbinic teachings).
Today, no single entity owns the Temple Mount; instead, sovereignty and management are split under a delicate “Status Quo” Agreement. Israel holds overall political sovereignty and security control, while the Islamic Waqf manages the daily religious affairs under Jordanian oversight.
What a balancing act this is…
The Status Quo..
in Jerusalem became a set of historical legal arrangements originating from the 18th-century Ottoman decrees that regulate the possession, management, and rights of various religious communities at shared holy sites. It prohibits unauthorized alterations to ownership, structures, or religious practices among different denominations.
According to the Institute For Middle East Understanding, “While Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claims he has no intention of changing the “status quo” in the Noble Sanctuary, his cabinet and Likud party are filled with Temple Mount extremists, his government funds organizations whose openly declared goal is to build a Jewish temple in the Noble Sanctuary, and Israeli public schools teach Jewish children to yearn to do the same.”
Unfortunately, the Ashkenazim continue to fight over a physical god, and a physical temple, completely unaware that GOD is SPIRIT, and HIS true worshipers, worship HIM in SPIRIT and in TRUTH!
But the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in Spirit and Truth, for the Father is seeking such people to worship HIM. John 4:23
+972 Magazine records that, For much of the past decade, religious Jews have been trickling onto the Temple Mount/Haram al-Sharif in the Old City of Jerusalem — considered the holiest site in Judaism and one of the holiest in Islam — in violation of a fragile, decades-long “status quo” at the compound.
Yet over the past few months, and particularly since the establishment of the Bennett-Lapid government, the number of Jews who have entered the compound has reportedly grown dramatically.
Obtained from: The Temple Mount movement is soaring under Israel’s new government.
According to statistics published by Yaraeh, an Israeli organization that promotes Jewish entry to and prayer on the Temple Mount/Haram al-Sharif, around 10,000 Jews have entered the compound over the past three months — a 35 percent increase compared to previous years.
Yaraeh’s data also shows that in August, the proportion of Jews who entered the compound was 85 percent higher than in the same month in 2020, and 137 percent higher than in August 2019. In July of this year, the number of Jews who entered the compound was 76 percent higher than in July 2020. Yaraeh’s statistics account for both visits to the compound as well as prayers and Torah lessons at the site, which did not take place before, and which violate the so-called status quo.
Jewish sources have debated the precise location of the rock…
Benjamin of Tudela wrote (c. 1170) that the site was in front of the Dome, on the site of the Western Wall. The Travels of Benjamín of Tudela. 1180, and Travels of a Student of the Ramban (c. 1400) state that “on the Temple Mount stands a beautiful sanctuary which an Arab king built long ago, over the place of the Temple sanctuary and courtyard.”
Obadiah Bartenura says in a 1488 letter from Jerusalem that “I sought the Foundation Stone [which marks] the former place of the Ark of the Covenant, and many told me that it is beneath a tall and beautiful dome which the Arabs built in the Temple, but the space beneath this dome is secured, such that no man may come to it, that is to say, to the place of the Foundation Stone, for the dome is very large.”
David ben Solomon ibn Abi Zimra was convinced (c. 1570) that “under the dome [on the Temple Mount] – lay the Foundational Stone, undoubtedly – which the Arabs call al-Sakrah“.
Hebrews 9:11-12 But when Messiah appeared as a high priest of the good things that have come, then through the greater and more perfect tent (not made with hands, that is, not of this creation) he entered once for all into the holy places, not by means of the blood of goats and calves but by means of his own blood, thus securing an eternal redemption.
Why Men have Fought And Died To Own This Plot Of Land!
Many religions have learned that under the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, lies a vast complex subterranean network of ancient vaults, cisterns, and natural caves carved into the bedrock. This includes the underground prayer hall known as Solomon’s Stables and the Well of Souls, a cavern directly beneath the sacred Foundation Stone.
The subterranean areas of the Temple Mount are divided into several notable structures and natural features, many of which carry deep historical and religious significance!
What About The Ark Of The Covenant?
A replicated image of the Ark of the Covenant
The exact location of the Ark of the Covenant is unknown, and its final fate remains one of history’s greatest unresolved mysteries. There is no verified physical evidence pointing to where the ark is today, though several major traditions and theories attempt to explain what happened to it.
Men seem to believe that through owning things, which were used in the past as religious conduits, or spiritual guides, they can somehow obtain a powerful advantage over other men. Men travel the world seeking ancient artifacts, sacred structures, burial sights, famous landmarks, rare earth even mummified corpses.
Instead of actually seeking GOD, they wish to own HIM.
Or something connected to HIM.
The Famous Stone!
Sitting directly beneath the Dome of the Rock is believed to be the Foundation Stone, considered the holiest site in Judaism and heavily revered in Islam. Underneath this stone lies a partly natural, partly man-made cave known as the Well of Souls. Medieval Islamic legends suggest that the spirits of the dead gather here to await Judgment Day. During the Crusader era, Christians revered it as the inner sanctum of the former Jewish Temple.
Currently, those who follow The TRUTH, understand that “YEHOSHUA haMoshiach” is the TRUE TEMPLE. When HE returns, we will gather there. YEHOSHUA said, “I AM the Way, the Truth, and the Life! No one comes to the Father except through me.” John 14:6;
Solomon’s Stables
1st Kings 4:26 Solomon had four thousand stalls for chariot horses, and twelve thousand horses.
Located in the southeast corner of the compound, a massive underground area consisting of a series of vaulted archways and pillars. Originally built during the Second Temple period as a substructure to expand the Temple Mount platform, it gets its name from the Crusaders, who stabled horses there.
In 1996, the Muslim religious authority (the Waqf) renovated the space and converted a large portion of it into a 900-square-meter underground prayer hall known as the El-Marwani Mosque.
Isaiah 28:16 So this is what the Sovereign Lord says:
“See, I lay a stone in Zion, a tested stone,
a precious cornerstone for a sure foundation;
the one who relies on it will never be stricken with panic.
GOD’s Foundation!
No one can lay any other foundation than the one already laid, which is YEHOSHUA the Messiah. 1st Corinthians 3:11
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