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The Israeli government is planning the construction of a bridge that goes from the Wailing Wall to the Temple Mount. An earthquake destroyed the old bridge in 2006. The Palestinian Authority wants Israel to stop planning the bridge construction because, according to them, the Temple Mount does not belong to the Israelis and the Jewish Temple is a myth so the Jews have no right to build anything there. President of the Palestinian National Authority Mahmoud Abbas’ Chief of Staff Rafiq Al Husseini (makes you appreciate names like “Jim” and “Bob”) said, “Jerusalem is Muslim. The blessed Al Aqsa mosque and Harem Al Sharif [Temple Mount] is 100% Muslim. The Israelis are playing with fire when they threaten Al Aqsa with digging that is taking place” [1].

There is an old expression that says, “Never let the facts get in the way of a good story.” That appears to be a Palestinian Authority slogan. Chief Palestinian Justice Taysir Tamimi, “who is considered the second most important Palestinian cleric after Muhammad Hussein, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem,” said, “About these so-called two Temples, they never existed, certainly not at the Haram Al- Sharif (Temple Mount). Israel started since 1967 making archaeological digs to show Jewish signs to prove the relationship between Judaism and the city, and they found nothing. There is no Jewish connection to Israel before the Jews invaded in the 1880s” [2]

History proves the Palestinians’ objections to Jewish rights to the Temple Mount to be false. The completion of Solomon’s Temple, the first Temple in Israel, came in 959 B.C [3]. That was approximately 1,500 years before the birth of Muhammad who is the founder of Islam. The Bible records the building of this Temple in the book of I Kings. “And it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel had come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over Israel, in the month of Ziv, which is the second month, that he began to build the house of the LORD” [4]. “And in the eleventh year, in the month of Bul, which is the eighth month, the house was finished in all its details and according to all its plans. So he was seven years in building it” [5].

Construction of the Second Temple, as discussed in the book of Ezra, began in 536 B.C., two years after Jewish exiles returned to Jerusalem from Babylon. Its completion was in February of 515 B.C" [1].Now the Temple was finished on the third day of the month of Adar, which was in the sixth year of the reign of King Darius” [6]. During the time of the Roman Empire, King Herod refurbished it even further, but then in A.D. 70, the Romans, led by Titus, destroyed it as Jesus predicted almost 40 years prior. When Titus returned to Rome victorious, they built an arch in his honor that is still there to this day. The engraving on the arch displays objects that the Romans stole from the Temple, which again the Muslims say never existed, at the time of its destruction [1].

 The Western Wall or “Wailing Wall” is the only part of the Second Temple still standing today. “The wall stands more than 70 feet high and is constructed of stones each weighing in excess of a ton each. It is hard to miss evidence like those stones, but millions the world over accept the lie that the two Temples never existed. There is more historical evidence of a Jewish Temple then there is for the existence of Muhammad, the founder of Islam” [1].

Denying the blessed ties between the Jews and the Temple Mount is completely ignoring history. Then again, America’s own history revisionists do not seem to have a problem doing that if truth does not fit their agendas. History does not matter. All that matters is what the popular opinion happens to be. If President Bush blatantly lied about going into Iraq, then he lied even if the facts cannot prove it. If former president Bill Clinton did not have the opportunity to get Osama Bin Laden when the Sudanese government offered him to us, then apparently that did not happen. Even though there is tape of Clinton in his own words saying that the Sudanese government offered Bin Laden to the United States (that people like Sean Hannity have played on his radio show plenty of times in the past by the way), then that did not happen…even if we have irrefutable proof that it did.

Similarly, if the Temple Mount never belonged to the Jews, despite thousands of years of history that proves it does, then that is fine with the history revisionists. It is more convenient for people to believe that Israel stole the Temple Mount and the land of Israel from the Palestinians because Israel claims that God gave the rights to the Temple Mount and the land of Israel to them. Therefore, to acknowledge that means one would have to acknowledge the God of the Bible as being real, which would make them accountable to him. They do not want that. Therefore, the Arabs and many non-Arabs choose to accept a lie rather than embrace the truth. Effectively, they have “exchanged the truth of God for a lie” [7].

SOURCES

1.     Hal Lindsey Report: June 13, 2008

2.     http://worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=44446

3.     Life Application Study Bible’s I Kings outline

4.     Holy Bible: I Kings 6:1 NKJV

5.     Holy Bible I Kings 6:38 NKJV

6.     Holy Bible: Ezra 6:15 NKJV

7.     Holy Bible: Romans 1:25 NKJV