Zelda's Blog - Monday, 1 September, 2008

Monday, 1 September, 2008 (224 views, Write a Comment)

According to Arutz Sheva and the widely disseminated Arab Moslem postion that the Temple Mount is not Jersualem has been debunked - by the Supreme Moslem Council (Waqf) of Jersualem, in a Temple Mount guide published in l925.

The Jerusalem based Temple Institute (http://www.templeinstitute.org) states that it has found a copy of the official l925 Supreme Moslem Council Guide Book to Al Haram Al Sharif (the Moslem name for the Temple Mount).  The Waqf, on page 4, states, "Its identity with the site of Solomon's Temple is beyond dispute.  This, too, is the spot accordingly to universal belief, on which 'David built there an altar unto the Lord, citing the source in 2 Samuel XXIV,25.

Also, on page l6 the pamphlet makes reference to the underground area in the south east corner of the Mount, which it refers to as Solomon's Stables. "Little is known for certain of the history of the chamber itself," the guide reads.  "It dates probably as far back as the construction of Solomon's Temple.  According to Josephus, it was in existence and was used as a place of refuge by the Jews at the time of the conquest of Jerusalem by Titus in the year 70 A.D."

Rabbi Chaim Richman of the Temple Institute writes that the pamphlet provides proof that the Waqf's current position is a departure from traditional Muslim belief. "In recent years, he writes, "the Moslem Waqf has come to deny the historic existence of the Holy Temple, claiming that the Temple Mount belongs solely to the Moslem nation, and that there exists no connection between the Jewish nation and the Temple Mount.  It is clear from this pamphlet that the revised Waqf position strays from traditional Moslem acknowledgment of the Mount's Jewish antecedents."

"The current denial of historical reality is merely one tool in the war being waged by the Moslems against the God of Israel and the entire 'infidel' world," Richman declares.

The new Palestinian/Arab position on Jerusalem states the PA Mufti Sabri, "The 'Al Buraq' Wall (the Western Wall) is a part of the Al Aqsa Mosque.  The Jews have no relation to it.

The Temple Mount in Jerusalem was the site of the two Jewish Holy Temples, the first being built by King Solomon in 832 BCE, close to l500 years before Islam was founded.  The Temple stood for over 400 years and after the 70 year Babylonian Exile, a Second Temple was built on the same site.  Until the Romans conquered the entire land and destroyed the Second Temple, the Holy Temples stood on this site (l,000 years). Although the Romans, Byzantines, Moslems, Christians, Turks, British and other took control over the intervening centures, Jerusalem and the Temple Mount were always the focus of Jewish religious and national yearnings, and continued to be the Jews' "capital" even while in exile.  Jerusalem was liberated in the Six Day War of l967 and the Temple Mount area and all of Jerusalem, placing it under Jewish control once again after a hiatus of l900 years.

Jews have not been able to pray on the Temple Mount ever since they gave control to the Waqf and only prayed there on the first Tish B'Av after the liberation of Jerusalem.

Knowing the historic information of the Temple Mount and other holy sites will give you the confidence to stand up for what is true and help you bring the truth to those who do not believe.

All of the holy sites in Jerusalem are open to every religion for access and prayer.