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Temple location clues in your Bible!

30/5/2018

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Your Bible provides many clues to the true location of Jerusalem's temples. Here are a just few...

Clue 1: In Ezekiel chapter 9 the prophet sees God's plan to clean up Jerusalem. Ministers of judgment are deployed to mark out the righteous and destroy those who have corrupted the city. In verse 4 they are instructed to 'go through the middle of the city' marking those who are corrupt. The slayers are to follow them to strike the offenders.  But note where they are to begin; God says, 'begin at my sanctuary.'  Those marked as corrupt were clearly within the city and the judgment was to begin at the very centerpiece of the city--the temple.

Clue 2: Another of Ezekiel's visions is that of the glory of the LORD abandoning the temple. It is in chapter 11 where in verse 23 he sees that 'the glory of the LORD went up from the middle of the city and stood on the mountain to the east' (Mt of Olives).
The glory of God dwelt in His house, the temple and it was from here in the middle of the city that the glory ascended .

Clue 3: A day came after the exile when the glory of God returned to the temple. Zechariah writes of it as God says, 'I will return to Zion and dwell in the middle of Jerusalem and Jerusalem shall be called the City of Truth, the Mountain of the LORD of hosts, The Holy Mountain' (see Zechariah 8:3). Clearly the temple was in the middle of the city--God in the midst of His people, not on some northern extension removed from it.

Clue 4: Psalm 122 is about Jerusalem as the City of God, the holy city where the 'Testimony of Israel' resides. The Testimony (Hebrew EDUTH) is the Law of Moses within the ark of the covenant around which the nation gathered to worship and honor God. Clearly this psalm was written after the building of Solomon's temple, but, importantly, places it within the boundaries of the city (see for example, v.7 'within your walls'). The words translated 'compact together' in verse 3 mean 'of a piece' or 'all joined together'. Temple and township were an inseparable entity. The temple was not remote from the township, up the hill some 200 meters to its north! Its location was the City of David, otherwise known as Zion.
 


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ZION: where the temple stood!

3/5/2018

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The Bible says it over and over, yet somehow a great myth has been entrenched and perpetuated; the myth is that the temple of Solomon stood on a prominence somewhere north of Zion!
Take just one reference among many; Psalm 74:2 ‘this Mount Zion where you have dwelt.’
And where was Mount Zion? It was the City of David as we are so clearly shown, ‘so David captured the fortress Zion, which is the City of David’ (2 Samuel 5:7, 1 Chronicles 11:5).
 
And here's another: Take a look at Psalm 76:2,3
Asaph the Psalm-writer employs the very ancient and earliest name for Jerusalem—Salem, the settlement and enclosure where Melchizedek dwelt (see Genesis 14:18)!
Asaph identifies ancient Salem with Zion and places the temple right there!
the accompanying picture shows the location, South of so-called Temple Mount by hundreds of meters. HOW COULD TRADITION GET IT SO WRONG? There is no Biblical evidence for the temple anywhere other than in Zion, The city of David. Read the full story in 'THE PLACE: where Jerusalem's temples stood' from
https://wipfandstock.com/the-place.html

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What people who've read THE PLACE are saying...

Marilyn Sams - author of The Jerusalem Temple Mount Myth: Ian Heard’s book adds a unique ....aspect to the growing movement of people accepting the City of David location for the temples in Jerusalem. His perspective .....brings many insightful possibilities to the table. Especially moving are his heartfelt expressions of faith in and love for the prophets and the Savior of the world'.
Pastor, Luke Yeghnazar of the Iranian Church of Los Angeles: Wonderful book. I trust it will be distributed widely. I read it with excitement. The reader will want to know what happens next. An exciting book to be read by Christians, Jews and others.

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The People is an enthralling and innovative approach, not only to telling old familiar stories but using narrative to portray, in a subtle but powerful way, the truth of good and evil in our world . . . There is good and evil, God and Satan, and in every human relationship/interaction and behavior a choice is to be made. The consequences, for those with the spiritual eyes to see, are clear. It is an exceptional and well written piece of work.” Allan Bull, Macquarie University, Sydney.