Garner Ted
Armstrong Evangelistic Association
Temple in Jerusalem
Abomination of Desolation
Temple News Story 04-2
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Temple Mount Wall Collapses After centuries with no structural problems, suddenly walls in the southern area of the Temple Mount are collapsing. Israeli archaeologist Eilat Mazal, who heads a committee for preventing the destruction of antiquities on the Temple Mount, said that the collapsed wall looks terrible and might cause a series of collapses. It is not the first time that something critical has happened on the walls of the Temple Mount recently. On Tisha B’Av 2001 a huge bulge formed on the southern wall of the Temple Mount. The bulge measured 25 meters high and tens of meters wide running westward from the south-eastern corner (the Pinnacle of the Temple) to an area below the El Aqsa mosque which is built on the southern wall of the Temple Mount. The ancient Herodian wall bulged as much as 90 cm. The archaeologists and engineers who checked the bulge that there is a great danger that the wall will completely collapse and , together with it, the El Aqsa mosque which stands on it. This could happen when the Moslems are praying in the mosque. They also stated that even if the bulge is repaired it will not hold for long and the wall will collapse in any case. However, Jordanian engineers were finally brought in to repair the southern wall. It was so special that the bulge happened immediately after the Temple Mount Faithful had carried the cornerstone for the Third Temple to the area in front of the southern wall of the Temple Mount and immediately after this day the bulge increased in size. There is no doubt that this was the Hand of G–d which will no longer suffer the foreign pagan Arab Islamic existence on the Temple Mount, their terrible desecration of His holy hill and their efforts to destroy the holy remains of the First and Second Temples and in this way convert the holy hill of the G–d and people of Israel to an Islamic site and deny the existence of the Temples on the Temple Mount. For this reason they also changed the so-called Solomon’s Stables and the Hulda hall and entrance from the Second Temple complex into Islamic mosques. We should mention that not long before the appearance of the bulge on the southern wall, a crack appeared in the eastern wall not far from the original, real Eastern Gate which is also called the Shushan Gate or Golden Gate. In their 2002 diggings from the inner side of the eastern wall, G–d surprised them by revealing the Shushan Gate. The Arabs who were digging there understood the significance of the appearance of this godly gate through which they knew so well that Mashiach ben David would enter. As a result they immediately covered it up again. In recent years water suddenly appeared in the historical area of the Temple. Water again appeared in 2002 on one of the stones of the Western Wall. The Moslems on the Temple Mount who could not stop the water redirected it under the ground. Through this water the prophecy of Ezekiel 47 concerning the water which would come out from the Temple Mount and flow to the Dead Sea area as a sign of redemption in the end-times, started to become a reality - "And he brought me back to the door of the house; and, behold, waters flowed from under the threshold of the house eastward; for the front of the house faced to the east, and water run out from beneath the right side of the house, at the south side of the altar. ... And by the stream, upon its bank, on this side and on that side, shall grow all trees for food, whose leaf shall not wither, nor shall its fruit fail; it shall bring forth fresh fruit every month, because the waters for them flow from the sanctuary; and their fruit shall be for food, and their leaves for healing." (Ezekiel47:1,12) Since the Arab Islamic foreign occupation of the land of Israel, Jerusalem and the Temple Mount, after building the mosque and Dome of the Rock, it was a Jewish tradition that in the time of the redemption of Israel when the people of Israel again dwell in the land and the State of Israel is re-established, the G–d of Israel will cause a strong earthquake which will completely remove these foreign houses of pagan worship from the Temple Mount and the Temple Mount will be ready for the rebuilding for the building of the Third Temple A few days ago, scientists stated that a very strong earthquake will occur in the coming future and the epicenter of the earthquake will be on the Temple Mount and the Old City. The prophet Zechariah prophesied about an earthquake which would take place in the end-times - "And his feet shall stand on that day upon the Mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the Mount of Olives shall be split in its midst toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall be moved toward the north, and half of it toward the south. And you shall flee to the valley of the mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach to Azal; yes, you shall flee, like you fled from the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah; and the Lord my God shall come, and all the holy ones with you. And it shall come to pass on that day, that there shall not be bright light nor thick darkness; But it shall be one day which shall be known to the Lord, not day, nor night; but it shall come to pass, that at evening time there shall be light." (Zechariah14:4-7) Zechariah also prophesied about the water that would go out from Jerusalem as another sign of redemption and then G–d would be the One G–d of all the universe and all the nations who will accept Him and then strangers will no longer be on the Temple Mount - "And it shall be on that day, that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem; half of them toward the eastern sea, and half of them toward the western sea; in summer and in winter shall it be. And the Lord shall be king over all the earth; on that day the Lord shall be one, and his name one. ... and on that day there shall not be Canaanite any more in the house of the Lord of hosts." (Zechariah14:8,9,21b) The collapse of walls on the Temple Mount and all the other signs that were mentioned above are very clear signs which will appear more and more on the Temple Mount as a clear message from G–d that the foreign pagan presence on the Temple Mount is about to be removed and G–d has started to prepare His holy hill for Israel to purify it and to build the Temple. The Hand of G–d appears again and again in Jerusalem and the Temple Mount, like all over the land of Israel, calling the Israeli Government to do what He expects of them to do, to purify the Temple Mount and immediately rebuild the house of G–d as the climax of the exciting redemptional times in which we are now living in Israel which will open the Eastern Gate for the coming of Mashiach ben David. I call on the Israeli Government to fulfill its main end-time task which will bring Israel and all the world to the highest level of their history. Israel and its government cannot run away from their godly task. G–d is determined to accomplish all His redemptional end-time plans with Israel and all the world. As in the Biblical history of Israel when He did not allow the people of Israel and their leadership to run away from the task which He gave this nation when He created them more than 4000 years He will not allow Israel and its governments to run away from their godly tasks at this exciting and critical godly time in which we are now living. As was prophesied thousands of years ago, the redemption of Israel and all the world will come to pass, the G–d of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob will return to Jerusalem to dwell there and, from Jerusalem, spread and establish His kingdom all over the world - "Again the word of the Lord of hosts came to me, saying, Thus says the Lord of hosts; I was zealous for Zion with great zeal, and I was zealous for her with great fury. Thus says the Lord: I have returned to Zion, and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem; and Jerusalem shall be called the City of Truth; and the mountain of the Lord of hosts the Holy Mountain. ... Thus says the Lord of hosts: Behold, I will save my people from the east country, and from the west country; And I will bring them, and they shall dwell in the midst of Jerusalem; and they shall be my people, and I will be their God, in truth and in righteousness. Thus says the Lord of hosts: Let your hands be strong, you who hear in these days these words by the mouth of the prophets, who spoke on the day that the foundation of the house of the Lord of hosts was laid, saying that the temple might be built. ... Thus says the Lord of hosts: It shall yet come to pass, that there shall come people, and the inhabitants of many cities; And the inhabitants of one city shall go to another, saying, Let us go speedily to entreat the favour of the Lord, and to seek the Lord of hosts. I will go also. And many peoples and strong nations shall come to seek the Lord of hosts in Jerusalem, and to pray before the Lord. Thus says the Lord of hosts: In those days it shall come to pass, that ten men from the nations of every language, shall take hold of the robe of a Jew, saying, We will go with you; for we have heard that God is with you." (Zechariah 8;1-3,7-9,20-23)
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