JERUSALEM’S TEMPLE MOUNT
THE HOAX OF THE MILLENNIUM!
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Recently, on April 19, 2010, seated in my sister’s living room in Jerusalem – across the street from an Arab village and a little distance from the “Western Wall” – we were watching the somber yearly ceremony of the Memorial Day for the fallen dead soldiers and citizens of Israel’s wars. The distinguished speakers: The President, Prime Minister, the Chief of Staff and Israel’s Chief Rabbis were all delivering emotionally-packed, fiery and moving speeches. The Chief Israeli Army’s Cantor deeply stirred the hearts of many with his chanted, soulful eulogy for the dead. Many were in tears. Staring intently at the background, behind the honorable leaders of Israel, the “Western Wall,” or “Wall of Tears” stirred my disturbed thoughts, which swept me back in time through my mind’s eye to that very location – two Millennia ago – to the Jewish citizens of the second Temple era of Jerusalem. I felt that I knew what the down-trodden inhabitants of the beloved city would have felt and thought had they been present at that somber place and moment with the modern people of Jerusalem and Israel at that Memorial Day. I knew they would have been in total shock and disbelief, not at what was taking place, but at the location where it was happening. Later on we shall elaborate. Earlier that very day, I took the bus to the “Western Wall.” Once reaching that hub that for centuries has evoked and stirred the passionate Jewish yearnings and feelings for their beloved ancient city and sacred “Wall,” I deliberately turned my back to it, crossed to the other side of the street, and walked down a bit towards the ancient ruins of the City of David. I entered the busy compound, which was crowded with hundreds of school children, citizens, soldiers and tourists. I felt like ‘I have arrived.’ Why? We’ll find that out later. Recently I received an E-mail, from a Palestinian scientist, which included a letter written by Sigmund Freud who was responding to the pleading of a Jewish friend to help Jews with the cause of a Jewish attempt to establish a State in the ancient homeland. Freud was not favorable to this idea, though he was sympathetic to the Jewish cause for seeking their homeland. What caught my eye was this revealing statement by Freud: “… I concede with sorrow that the baseless fanaticism of our people is in part to be blamed for the awakening of Arab distrust. I can raise no sympathy at all for the misdirected piety which transforms a piece of Herodian wall into a national relic; thereby offending the feelings of the natives…” (Emphases mine). What did Freud mean by “Herodian Wall becoming a National Relic” and “misdirected piety”?
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There seem to be no other place on earth, if desecrated or conquered, that could inflame and arouse the intense passions of countless of devout believers. Jews, Christians, or Muslims feel the ultimate focal point of their uncompromising desire for dominion and presence in that “most holy place” is the reason for the ever explosive tinder box in the turbulent Middle East. The “ground zero” of this focal point is “The Temple Mount” in Jerusalem. The Crusaders marched on Jerusalem to “liberate it and “The Temple Mount” from the Muslim “infidels.” Salah a- Din marched on Jerusalem to re-conquer it and “The Temple Mount” from the Christian “infidels.” In the “Six Day War” Jews have finally reclaimed the city and their “Temple Mount” from the Muslim “infidels.” Ever since, Jews, Christians, and Muslims have never given up their non-negotiable intense desire to have an absolute dominion over The Holy City and “The Temple Mount.” Jews have religious and historic reasons for maintaining absolute control over Jerusalem and especially “The Temple Mount.” Christians have similar feelings. Muslims maintain, according to their beliefs, that Jerusalem is holy because their prophet Muhammad has ascended up to Heaven from the mosque located in “The Temple Mount.” Shockingly as it may sound, though Jerusalem is “The Holy City,” what is believed to be the location of “The Temple Mount” is nothing, though unintentionally, but a hoax – the “Hoax of the Millennium.” In the pages of this work, this ‘audacious’ contention to many, will be amply proven, beyond the shadow of a doubt, from the pages of the Bible as well as from faithful historic accounts of Jews, contemporary non- Jewish historians, Christian and Muslim recorded and preserved accounts.
About the Author
Mike Joseph was born in 1944 to a strict Biblically oriented Orthodox Jewish family in British Aden Yemen. In 1949 his entire family moved to Israel, after a local Arab Pogrom took the lives of his mother and three young brothers. In 1963 the author moved to Paris, France to study French and work in the Fashion industry. In late 1965 the author moved to New York where, about four years later, a change in his religious convictions led him to a community practicing both the Old and New Testament teachings and laws of the Bible. From 1970 to 1975 the author served on the faculty of a local private college in Pasadena, California – teaching both modern and Biblical Hebrew to both students and ministers on Sabbatical year. At the same time, the author attended classes and graduated with a B.A. degree in Liberal Arts – with a major in Theology. After graduation in 1975 and later ordination, Mr. Joseph began his service in the Field Ministry in the local Pasadena area congregations. Through the years, Mr. Joseph has published and written four books and dozens of articles about Biblical, historic, and various subjects in human relationships. The author is a frequent guest speaker on several Radio Talk shows, both in the United States and other countries, as well as a guest speaker in several conventions. He presently attends in a local congregation in the West valley area of San Fernando Valley, California. The author also lectures on Bible Law and various subjects from both Old and New Testaments on various websites around the world and the internet website: www.teachingthelaw.org