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Great Links to
more in depth study see:
The Temple Mount In Jerusalem
(Maintained by Lambert Dolphin, Jim Milligan, and Michael Kollen )
Other Temple Links
Great New
Resource: Temple Notes Handout
(May be printed for group Bible study- see note at bottom)
Excerpts From The Prophecy Puzzle
Other Temple Links
Other Considerations
Jesus spoke of the abomination that maketh desolate, spoken of in Daniel
standing in the Holy Place.
Some say the abomination may be when the Jews begin blood sacrifice
again. Trodding the Blood of his Son Jesus underfoot. Some say, the Mosque of Oman is an
abomination because it is on top of the place for the Sons of Issac to do offerings.
Digs and Arc Site Speculations
- In The United States? Buried in a
government warehouse?
- The fictional movie "Raiders Of The Lost Arc" ends with the Ark
being stored in a huge secret warehouse full of boxes that say "Do Not Open."
- In Ethiopia? The
Sign And The Seal
- This book by Graham Hancock, East Africa correspondent for The Economist,
is summarized on the One World Magazine site. The Ethiopians have a story (history, they
say, not a myth) that Prince Menelik, son of Solomon and The Queen of Sheba, brought The
Ark to Ethiopia for safe-keeping and that it is in St. Mary's Chapel in Axum.
- Grant Jeffrey has a section on this also in his book, Armageddon:
Appointment With Destiny.
- In France? The Lost Ark, the Shroud of
Turin, and Enough Rope to Hang Myself
- From the June 2, 1997 issue of PropheZine, James BeauSeigneur contributes
an article adapted from his book, In His Image: Book One of The Christ Clone Trilogy,
from Selective House Publishers. He relates the Ark to the Shroud of Turin and wonders if
they weren't hidden in the tunnels under the Temple and later taken to France by the
Knights Templars. The Shroud moved on to Turin, Italy, but, as the author points out,
"...there is a secret society in France called the Prieure de Sion, which traces its
origins to the Knights Templar. The head of the society has been quoted as saying that he
knows where the Temple treasures are and that they will be returned to Jerusalem 'when the
time is right.'"
- In Heaven? The Missing
Ark
- John F. Elliott of Grace Ministries points out that In The book of The
Revelation John saw the Ark in the Heavenly Temple. Is that the same Ark or a Heavenly
Version?
- On Mt. Nebo? The Prophetic
Telegraph - No.78 January 1996
- This article, though favoring another view, reports that in 1982, a team
which included Tom Crotser, Jim Bollinger, and the astronaut Jim Irwin, claimed to have
found and photographed the Ark in a cave in Mount Nebo, the mountain where Moses viewed
the Promised Land before his death.
- In The Dead Sea Caves? The Qumran Legacy
- Archaeologist Vendyl Jones believed the Ark would be found near the place
the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered.
- In Jerusalem? Is the Ark in the
Dome of The Rock?
- Jack Van Impe reports in the August '96 edition of his Intelligence
Briefing report that an English archaeologist may have found the Ark in a stone niche
there.
- At Calvary?
 Another Possibility
- Ron Wyatt proposes the theory that the
Ark of the Covenant is buried in a cave under the place of the crucifixion of Christ where
His blood would drip onto the mercy seat.
- The January
1996 issue of the Prophetic Telegraph relates the same information.
- See also: "Discovered"
- Jonathan Gray
- Under The Temple Mount? Where Is The Ark?
- Thomas McCall says that Rabbi Shlomo Goren and Rabbi Yehuda Getz, the
rabbis in charge of the Western Wall area, are convinced that the Ark has been hidden in a
cave in the Temple Mount directly under the site of the Holy of Holies. Wherever it is,
the intense interest in it by Jewish Rabbis is a sign of the nearness of the Rapture. Zola
Levitt's Letter, January 1997.
- Where Is The Ark Of The
Covenant Now? (February '97)
- Written version of a recent broadcast by John Ankerberg. His guests
included Dr. Jimmy De Young who claims that a prestigious Rabbi told him he had actually
seen the Ark under the Temple area, but that they wouldn't bring it out yet because there
is not Temple into which to place it.
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Mount
Focus
Temple might be situated. There are
several possibilities for the place where the Temple will be rebuilt. Here are the main
theories:
- Where The Dome of The Rock stands
- This is the conventional view.
Archaeologist Dan Bahat represents this point of view. Everyone used to assume that the
Dome of The Rock had to be torn down before the Temple could be built, because the rock
was thought to be either the place of the Holy of Holies or of the Altar of Sacrifice. It
is unthinkable to destroy this shrine without bringing the greatest of all jihads, or
"holy wars" by all of Israel's Moslem neighbors.
( "The Coming Temple Update", Audio
briefing series, 1995)
- -Ancient accounts that the Temple was
visible from certain places, not from others, suggest that it was further south at
slightly lower altitude.
- - Radar discovery of proper
"voids" beneath the pavement in the southern part of the Temple Mount.
- - Level of ancient aqueducts. Aerial
infrared pictures of the Dome of The Rock showing a pentagonal structure below the shrine,
raising the possibility that this was part of the Antonia Fortress which was north of the
Temple.
- North of the Dome of The Rock
- This theory suggests that the new Temple
could be built north of the Dome of The Rock without tearing it down. This view is based
on the known location of the Eastern Gate ("The Golden Gate"), the location of
the Dome of the Tablets, and a line of stones. The Eastern Gate is the one into which
Jesus entered when He offered Himself as Messiah and was ultimately rejected by the
religious authorities of Jerusalem. It is thought to be the gate of the future coming of
Messiah into Jerusalem, so the Moslems have walled it up completely in the hopes of
keeping this prophecy from being fulfilled. Verification of the ancient position of the
Eastern Gate was made recently with the discovery of an arch from an older gate directly
below the existing one. The older gate may even date back to the time of Solomon. The Dome
of The Tablets is a cupola, also called Dome of the Spirits in Arabic. (Asher S. Kaufman,
"Where The Ancient Temple of Jerusalem Stood", Biblical Archaeology Review,
March/April, 1983. pp. 41-59)
Kaufman
is a faculty member in physics at Hebrew University. He has explored the Temple Mount more
than 100 times since 1974.
The newly discovered Western Gate,
underneath the present city is also interesting since it is on the same basic line which
could be drawn through the temple area.
This scenario would place the Dome of The
Rock in the outer court, the Court of The Gentiles. Perhaps this is why Revelation 11:1-2
says:
1 And there was given me a measuring rod
like a staff; and someone said, "Rise and measure the temple of God, and the altar,
and those who worship in it.
2 "And leave out the court which is
outside the temple, and do not measure it, for it has been given to the nations; and they
will tread under foot the holy city for forty-two months."
This could be the key to peace between
Israel and the Palestinians. Both want Jerusalem for their capitals. Both want control of
the Temple area. If an agreement could be made to allow the Palestinians to have a part of
Jerusalem, including the portion of the Temple Mount where their holy places stand, and
Israel would have the rest of Jerusalem, including the place where they can build the
Temple, the peace process might be completed.
- South of the Dome of The Rock
- This view is advocated by Tuvia Sagiv in
his paper "The Hidden Secrets of The Temple Mount", 1992. This is Chuck
Missler's preferred view now for several reasons.
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