Temple Mount / Noble Sanctuary: an explosive situation
[ by Charles Cameron — “the most contested piece of real-estate on earth” ]
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On the one hand:
On the other..
End-Time Battle for the Temple Mount
As Jews fasted on Tisha B’Av (Av 9) mourning the destruction of the First and Second Temples, hundreds of Jewish visitors made pilgrimage to the Temple site.
In preparation for Jews visiting the Mount on the annual fast, armed Muslim youth barricaded themselves in the Al-Aqsa Mosque. Several dozen Arab masked rioters attacked Israeli police, hurling rocks and setting off fireworks into the crowd of responders, wounding several officers.
After defusing the situation and arresting three to six participants, Israeli police found a trove of makeshift weapons in the Al-Aqsa Mosque — Molotov cocktails, firecrackers, concrete blocks, stones, and planks, with which they planned to attack Jewish mourners. [ .. ]
One of those mourners was Agriculture Minister Uri Ariel, who has in the past emphasized that there is a “need to build a real Temple on the Temple Mount.”
scripturally..
Isaiah 2:2–3:
In the last days, the mountain of the Lord’s Temple will be established as the highest of the mountains; it will be exalted above the hills, and all nations will stream to it. Many peoples will come and say, “Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the Temple of the God of Jacob.”
and / or..
Qur’an 17.1:
Exalted is He who took His Servant by night from al-Masjid al-haram to al-Masjid al-Aqsa, whose surroundings We have blessed, to show him of Our signs. Indeed, He is the Hearing, the Seeing.
and in not unrelated news:
Israel Detains Meir Kahane’s Grandson, a Scion of Jewish Militancy
He has the pedigree: Meir Ettinger is a grandson and the namesake of Meir Kahane, the slain American-Israeli rabbi considered the father of far-right Jewish militancy. [ .. ]
He also has the ideology: In a series of Bible-quoting blog posts that amount to a manifesto, Mr. Ettinger calls for the “dispossession of gentiles” who inhabit the Holy Land and the replacement of the modern Israeli state with a new “kingdom of Israel” ruled by the laws of the Torah.
“The key is not to seek to delay the explosion,” he wrote on July 22, “but to try to bring it on as soon as possible and on our own initiative.”
Scott:
August 6th, 2015 at 3:09 pm
Charles, I’m sure you are also aware of the apocalyptic verse in the book of Daniel about the abomination of desolation – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abomination_of_desolation
Charles Cameron:
August 6th, 2015 at 6:03 pm
Yes. In fact somewhere, perhaps in storage, I have a 400-page book on the topic by (if I recall) a Seventh Day Adventist. I miss my library, half of which is in boxes on my (new apartment) floor.
Charles Cameron:
August 6th, 2015 at 6:03 pm
I just posed this in another topic here on ZP, but it fits here as well.. especially that opening phrase: “The Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his Temple”:
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I omce had the pleasure of attending a private concert with Emma Kirkby, at the home of my long-ago friend Todd Barton, may his music flourish.
Scott:
August 8th, 2015 at 9:01 pm
Charles, we just moved also, and most of my books are similarly in boxes. I feel your pain! I was very much into reading books about the Eschaton in 1996 or so, before I realized how often they were wrong and inaccurate (the 10 horns were the 10 nations of the EU…except I noted the EU had more than 10 nations, and so on)
Charles Cameron:
August 8th, 2015 at 10:20 pm
Hi Scott:
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Boxes, oy.
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It was about that time that I joined the ECCHST Ecclestiastical History mailing list, and said I was hoping to write a book listing all the “antichrists” that people had identified at one time or another across the centuries.
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Brenda Brasher pointed Stephen O’Leary to my post, and he sent me an email saying he’d just published a book on the topic with Oxford University Press. That book was his now classic Arguing the Apocalypse — and it turned out that he lived about four blocks from my place, which led to our becoming best friends, and his introducing me to Richard Landes and the Center for Millennial Studies…
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… whose “last hurrah” conference on Apocalyptic Hopes, Millennial Dreams and Global Jihad I recently attended.