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The Temple Mount Faithful Movement Letter to the
Pope
The Temple Mount Faithful Movement sent a letter to the pope
demanding the immediate return to Israel of the Temple menorah,
vessels and treasure. A call to everyone in the world to send such a
letter to the Pope.
Be’ezrat HaShem
With the help of G-d
Pope John-Paul II
The Vatican
Rome
22 January 2004
Sir,
A call from the G-d and people of Israel:
Immediately return the Temple menorah, vessels and treasures to
Yerushalaim!
In the Name of the G-d of Israel, you are requested to immediately
return the Jewish Temple Menorah and other Temple vessels and
treasures to Jerusalem, to the soon-to-be-rebuilt Temple. As you
well know, in 70 CE the Romans occupied the City of G-d, Yerushalaim,
and the Land of Israel and destroyed the Holy Temple of the G-d of
Israel in Yerushalaim. They took away with them to Rome the holy
Seven-Branch Menorah from the Temple and many other holy Temple
vessels and treasures used by the Jews in the worship in the Temple.
The evil emperor, Titus, who destroyed the Temple and burned it,
built his Triumphal Arch in Rome on which is depicted the Menorah
and other vessels carried by Jewish captives. Since this terrible
event in the history of Israel and mankind, we know very well that
the Menorah, the vessels and the treasures that were taken to Rome
have remained in the vaults of the Vatican. Travellers and visitors
to the Vatican throughout history have reported seeing them.
This is the time to return these articles to Israel. Today, Israel
is the most exciting fulfilment of G-d's endtime prophecies and
promises. The climax of this prophetic time will be the soon
rebuilding of the Temple exactly as the prophets of Israel
prophesied.
This godly endtime event with Israel started in 1948 when the G-d of
Israel and the Universe fulfilled His promises to Israel, redeemed
them and regathered them to the land and re-established the kingdom
of the G-d and people of Israel in the same land that He promised to
them in an eternal covenant that He made with Abraham, Isaac and
Jacob and their seed. The prophetic Word and promises of the G-d of
Israel and the Universe became a reality:
"Again the word of the L-rd of hosts came to me, saying, Thus says
the L-rd of hosts; I was zealous for Zion with great zeal, and I was
zealous for her with great fury. Thus says the L-rd: I have returned
to Zion, and will dwell in the midst of Yerushalaim; and Yerushalaim
shall be called the City of Truth; and the mountain of the L-rd of
hosts the Holy Mountain. Thus says the L-rd of hosts: Old men and
old women shall again dwell in the streets of Yerushalaim, and every
man with his staff in his hand for the fullness of days. And the
streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in its
streets. Thus says the L-rd of hosts: If it is marvellous in the
eyes of the remnant of this people in these days, should it also be
marvellous in my eyes? says the L-rd of hosts." (Zechariah 8:1-8)
Before all the world, G-d showed in an exciting and miraculous way
that He had never divorced His beloved wife, Israel, as the physical
powers and nations which have destroyed Israel and persecuted them
over the past 2000 years have thought. He showed to everyone that He
is not a man who makes an eternal covenant with his wife and then
divorces her and takes another wife in her place:
"But Zion says, The L-rd has forsaken me, and my L-rd has forgotten
me. Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have
compassion on the son of her womb? Yes, even they may forget, but I
will not forget you. Behold, I have engraved you upon the palms of
my hands; your walls are continually before me. Your children shall
make haste; your destroyers and those who destroyed you shall go
away from you. Lift up your eyes around, and behold; all these
gather themselves together, and come to you. As I live, says the
L-rd, you shall surely dress yourself with them all, as with an
ornament, and bind them on you, as a bride does. For your
destruction and your desolate places, and the land of your
destruction, shall now be too narrow for your inhabitants; and those
who swallowed you up shall be far away. The children who were taken
away from you shall say again in your ears, The place is too narrow
for me; give me room to dwell in. Then shall you say in your heart,
Who has borne me these, seeing I have lost my children, a solitary,
an exile, and a wanderer to and fro? and who has brought up these?
Behold, I was left alone; these, where have they been? ... Fear not;
for you shall not be ashamed; neither be confounded; for you shall
not be put to shame; for you shall forget the shame of your youth,
and shall not remember the reproach of your widowhood any more. For
your Maker is your husband; the L-rd of hosts is his name; and your
redeemer the Holy One of Israel; He is called the God of the earth.
For the L-rd has called you as a woman forsaken and grieved in
spirit, but a wife of youth, Can she be rejected? says your God. For
a small moment have I forsaken you; but with great mercy will I
gather you. In overflowing wrath I hid my face from you for a
moment; but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on you, says
the L-rd your redeemer." (Isaiah 49:14-21; 54:4-8)
The prophetic rebirth of Israel is not an accident or regular event
in the life of mankind. This is the climax of the long history of
more than 4000 years since the establishment of the covenant between
G-d and Israel. Israel is a clear creation of G-d among the nations
for an eternal godly purpose. Israel was re-established by G-d to
fulfil this mission among the nations to which G-d anointed her when
He made the covenant with Abraham and his seed to be a "holy nation,
a kingdom of priests and a treasure among the nations". (Exodus
91:5,60) This is the godly task of Israel in these exciting times in
which we are now living. The G-d of Israel expects of you to respect
this task and mission of Israel. He also expects you to accept the
Word and historical promise of G-d that the Messiah will come, not
to the Vatican or any other place, but to Yerushalaim, to the Temple
which will be rebuilt only by Israel and that the Temple Menorah,
vessels and treasures can no longer be hidden and be in captivity in
the basements of the Vatican but should be immediately returned by
you to Yerushalaim to be located in the Third Temple which is soon
to be rebuilt by Israel. They will prepare for the coming of
Mashiach ben David, welcome him and be located in the correct place
in the Temple. This will be your opportunity and even the biggest
privilege of your life to do so and at the same time, by this act,
to ask forgiveness in the name of those who came from Rome,
destroyed the house of the G-d of Israel, the Temple, and robbed all
its holy treasures, taking them to Rome.
The rebuilding of the Temple by Israel and the coming of Mashiach
ben David to it is the most important and exciting part of the
endtime prophecies of the prophets of Israel. The significance of it
will be that we have relocated the G-d of Israel, the G-d of
Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, His laws, values, principles and way of
life at the centre of the life of His people and all mankind in
Yerushalaim.
The Word of G-d in this exciting and prophetic time, exactly as
prophesied thousands of years ago, is that the redemption of the
people and land of Israel at this time is a condition and opening
for the redemption of all the world. This time will not start unless
the Third Temple is built by Israel in Yerushalaim on the same
location as that of the First and Second Temples on the Temple Mount
and that the Temple Mount will be purified and all the foreigners
removed from this place together with their foreign worship. Then
this will become the godly focus of all mankind exactly as G-d told
us through His prophets:
"The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and
Yerushalaim. And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the
mountain of the L-rd's house shall be established on the top of the
mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations
shall flow to it. And many people shall go and say, Come, and let us
go up to the mountain of the L-rd, to the house of the God of Jacob;
and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths; for
from Zion shall go forth Torah, and the word of the L-rd from
Yerushalaim. And he shall judge among the nations, and shall decide
for many people; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares,
and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword
against nation, nor shall they learn war any more. O house of Jacob,
come, and let us walk in the light of the L-rd." (Isaiah 2:1-5; cf
Micah 4.1-4)
This is not a vision for the distant future but a very clear actual
and practical plan of G-d for the time in which we are now living.
What G-d is now doing for Israel in the land of Israel is an opening
for this and the biggest event ever which will take place in our
lifetime. The Israeli Zionist revolution of our time was brought
about by G-d as a foundation on which will be built all the endtime
promises of G-d to Israel and all mankind and the Temple, the House
of G-d in the midst of it. The desire of G-d for this which was
expressed so excitingly in His Word to Israel: "And let them make a
sanctuary and I will dwell among them" (Exodus 25:8) which is very
soon to come to pass and this time it will have a significance to
all mankind because now He will also dwell among all His creation.
I am sending this letter in the name of the G-d of Israel and the
Universe, the G-d of my forefathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, Who
together with His people Israel is now rebuilding His kingdom in the
land which He promised to them. The Temple Mount and Land of Israel
Faithful Movement, which is the endtime vessel of G-d to fulfil His
prophetic endtime vision, is today answering the call of G-d to
them: go to the Pope and tell him in my name - let my holy Temple
Menorah, vessels and treasures go! Return them immediately to my
people in Yerushalaim. We are looking forward to you answering this
call of G-d and immediately returning them to Yerushalaim to the
Temple which will soon be rebuilt.
Sincerely,
Gershon Salomon
Chairman, The Temple Mount and Land of Israel Faithful Movement
It is now three weeks since we sent the letter to the Pope in the
Vatican in Rome with a copy to the Vatican Embassy in Israel. As of
now, no answer or response has been received. Everyone who receives
this letter or who reads it on the Website is called on to send
their own letter to the Pope demanding that he immediately return
the Temple Menora and vessels to Israel. Please also ask your
friends, family, and acquaintances to also send letters. The Pope
should know that there are millions of people in the world who
demand that he do so. Please write to him that he must not ignore
this demand and that he must do what a great emperor before him did.
Cyrus the Persian King obeyed the commandment of G-d and returned
the vessels of the First Temple which Nebuchadnezzar, the king of
Babylon, carried off when he destroyed the First Temple in
Jerusalem. The G-d of Israel and the Universe blessed him for this
exactly as He promised to Abraham and his seed, Israel: "I will
bless those who bless you and curse those who curse you" (Genesis
12:3). Cyrus was so blessed and appreciated by G-d for what he did
that He even called him His messiah (anointed - in Hebrew
"messiah"):
"Thus says the L-rd to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I
have held, to subdue nations before him; and I will loose the loins
of kings, to open before him doors and gates; and the gates shall
not be closed; I will go before you, and make the hilly places
level; I will break in pieces the gates of bronze, and cut in sunder
the bars of iron; And I will give you the treasures of darkness, and
hidden riches of secret places, that you may know that I, the L-rd,
who call you by your name, am the God of Israel. For Jacob my
servant's sake, and Israel my elect, I have called you by your name;
I have surnamed you, though you have not known me. I am the L-rd,
and there is no one else, there is no God beside me; I girded you,
though you have not known me; That they may know from the rising of
the sun, and from the west, that there is none beside me. I am the
L-rd, and there is no one else. I form the light, and create
darkness; I make peace, and create evil; I the L-rd do all these
things." (Isaiah 45:1-7)
Cyrus even encouraged the Jewish people to rebuild the house of G-d
in Jerusalem, set them free from their captivity and sent them to
the land of Israel and Israel:
"And in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the
L-rd by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, the L-rd stirred
up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, so that he issued a
proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing,
saying: Thus says Cyrus king of Persia, The L-rd God of heaven has
given me all the kingdoms of the earth; and he has charged me to
build him an house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Who is there
among you of all his people? His God be with him, and let him go up
to Jerusalem, which is in Judah, and build the house of the L-rd God
of Israel, he is the God, which is in Jerusalem. And whoever remains
in any place where he sojourns, let the men of his place help him
with silver, and with gold, and with goods, and with beasts, beside
the freewill offering for the house of God which is in Jerusalem.
Then rose up the chiefs of the fathers' houses of Judah and
Benjamin, and the priests, and the Levites, with all those whose
spirit God had stirred to go up to build the house of the L-rd which
is in Jerusalem. And all those who were around them strengthened
their hands with utensils of silver, with gold, with goods, and with
beasts, and with precious things, besides all that was willingly
offered. Also Cyrus the king brought forth the utensils of the house
of the L-rd, which Nebuchadnezzar had brought from Jerusalem, and
had them put in the house of his gods; And Cyrus king of Persia
brought them forth, by the hand of Mithredath, the treasurer, and
counted them to Sheshbazzar, the prince of Judah. And this is the
number of them: thirty basins of gold, one thousand basins of
silver, twenty nine knives, Thirty bowls of gold, silver bowls of a
second sort four hundred and ten, and other utensils one thousand.
All the utensils of gold and of silver were five thousand four
hundred. All these Sheshbazzar brought up when the exiles were
brought up from Babylon to Jerusalem." (Ezra 1)
In your letters, please ask the Pope to also obey the commandment of
G-d and to return to Israel the Temple Menorah and vessels which
were taken to Rome from the Second Temple after it was destroyed in
70CE. Tell him that G-d will not allow him to ignore His commandment
to him at this critical time of the redemption of Israel and the
Third Temple. G-d will no longer allow the Temple Menorah and
vessels to remain in Rome. If they are not immediately returned
willingly they will be returned to Israel under the judgement of the
G-d of Israel and the Universe.
Everyone who writes to the Pope about this matter will be blessed by
G-d and will have an important part in the redemption and rebuilding
of the endtime Temple of G-d in Jerusalem. If possible, please send
us copies of your letters to the Pope.
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