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APPENDIX
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The author of An Eight Part Peace
Proposal for Greater Jerusalem notes that the tense situation along the Temple Mount in Jerusalem is a constant reminder of
the urgent need for peace through better understanding rather than peace through sheer strength.
Ignorance of the Bible is behind the fevered notion of blowing up the Dome of the Rock and the
Al Aqsa Mosque and then putting in their place the next Jewish temple simply because the Temple Mount is truly the historic
place where the first two temples were once located.
Furthermore,
the frequently repeated assertion that the Temple Mount with its Western Wall, or Wailing Wall, is the holiest place in Judaism
is absolutely untrue. Nowhere in Torah (also called the Pentateuch, or the first five books of the Bible) is there any
mention of Jerusalem let alone a temple anywhere in Jerusalem. And to a Jew, the Torah is God's law and blueprint
for all mankind's peaceful existence.
Only the
plain truth can set us free: Israel's next, prophesied temple belongs between Beth El and Hai, about 10 miles
north of the old city of Jerusalem. This is where Abraham first called upon the Lord and made an altar to Him.
(Genesis 12:8) And this is the place that Jacob later called "the house of God" and "the gate of heaven."
(Genesis 28:17) This is also where the Almighty subsequently told Jacob that "Israel shall be thy name."
(Genesis 35:10) Indeed, the Torah tells us this place called Beth El is endued with a spiritual significance so
sublime that it is beyond compare!
 Marker
high above shows approximate location of prophesied Beth El temple site to northeast of Ramallah, and marker at bottom of
photo shows the historic location of the first and second temples on the Temple Mount, or Haram Ash Sharif, including the
Dome of the Rock and Al Aqsa Mosque. This aerial view is from Google Earth. On the other hand, the story of how David came upon and bought the Temple Mount site in Jerusalem is from the Book
of Chronicles, which, strictly speaking, is not a book of the Torah and therefore has less authority than a book of the Torah
such as the Book of Genesis.
Note well that it was not until after the ancient Israelites had rejected the Almighty
Himself as their King (I Samuel 8) and had set a man (Saul) to be king over themselves that their jealous Lord by and by put
the idea of a temple into the head of Saul's successor, King David. (I Chronicles 17) Shortly afterwards,
David's diabolical decision to take a census of the Israelites -- a people foretold in Genesis to be numberless like the
stars in the sky or the sands of the sea or the dust of the earth -- again provoked the Almighty's long lasting wrath.
Thus it was the Almighty's wrath that ultimately led David to the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite and it was the
Almighty's wrath that caused David to buy this land for a temple site (I Chronicles 21), where his son Solomon was later
to build the first temple.
And so the discovery by David of the Temple Mount site, previously known as the threshingfloor
of Ornan the Jebusite, was part of the enactment of divine retribution against David and the Israelites. This is an
amazing but true fact recorded in Scripture.
Moreover, the entire chain of events that led David to this place,
known then as the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite but now known as the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, was the direct result
of a choice made by David at the behest of the prophet Gad (I Chronicles 21:11-13); this circumstance is not in accord with
the positive command in Deuteronomy 12:5, to seek the habitation of the Almighty, a "place which the Lord your God shall
choose."
Biblical scholars are naturally inclined to be skeptical about the future Beth El temple site --
if indeed they are aware of it at all -- because they are conditioned to believe that the Temple Mount site in Jerusalem is
theologically as well as historically or archaeologically axiomatic and any attempt to gainsay such conventional wisdom must
be the work of a crackpot, an eccentric or even Satan himself; indeed, they point to II Chronicles 7:1, the dedication of
Solomon's temple, to clinch their point about the Temple Mount site:
"Now when Solomon had made an end
of praying, the fire came down from heaven, and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices; and the glory of the Lord
filled the house."
Moreover, II Chronicles 7:12 is even more explicit:
"And the Lord appeared
to Solomon by night, and said unto him, I have heard thy prayer, and have chosen this place to myself for an house of sacrifice."
However, a caveat concerning Solomon's temple on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem is included at the end of the Almighty's
covenant with Solomon (II Chronicles 7:19-22) and it is reproduced here with the author's own emphasis added in italics:
"But if ye turn away, and forsake my statutes and commandments, which I have set before you, and shall go and
serve other gods, and worship them; Then will I pluck them up by the roots out of my land which I have given them; and
this house, which I have sanctified for my name, will I cast out of my sight, and will make it to be a proverb and a byword
among all nations. And this house, which is high, shall be an astonishment to every one that passeth by it; so that
he shall say, Why hath the Lord done thus unto this land, and unto this house? And it shall be answered, Because
they forsook the Lord God of their fathers, which brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, and laid hold on other gods,
and worshipped them, and served them: therefore hath he brought all this evil upon them."
History of
course shows us the doom that was prescribed not only for the first and second temples in Jerusalem, but also for the ten
tribed House of Israel which was carried away and made to disappear by the Assyrians when the first temple was still standing,
and for the House of Judah which the Babylonians carried away but later, by the decree of the Persian King Cyrus, was allowed
to return to Jerusalem and build the second temple, the remains of which are mistakenly revered by Jews throughout the world
to this day.
It is also important to understand that the Koran makes clear reference to the destruction of the
first temple by Nebuchadnezzar in 586 B.C. and of the second temple by Titus in 70 A.D. and the revelation concludes:
"It may be that your Lord may yet show mercy unto you." (Sura Bani Isra'il 17, Ayat 4-8) These
hopeful words were spoken directly to the Children of Israel through the prophet Muhammad more than five centuries after Jerusalem
fell to the Romans! Can "your Lord" be so different from Muhammad's Lord? Do not Christian, Jew
and Muslim all believe there is one God, the Lord of Lords and King of Kings? But if only the Children of Israel would
be guided by the Torah and only the Torah and realize their full potential in Beth El!
Unfortunately, as of the
date of this writing, 7 March 1996, there is still no temple in Beth El, which still remains the headquarters for the military
authority of what is left of the Israeli occupied West Bank. Are these militant Zionists, whose "Iron Fist"
tactics have been successfully countered by the Palestinians' intifada, really the descendants of Abraham, by whom "shall
all families of the earth be blessed"? (Genesis 12:3)
Stubborn habits and old traditions die hard.
For example, a Lubavitch Rabbi in New York City, Abraham Stone (770 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, New York 11213), wrote in a
newspaper article published by the Jewish Press of 19 November 1993 (page 64) that the Beth El location cited above from Genesis
28:17 is in fact the Temple Mount in Jerusalem and that this scripture proves that the Temple Mount is where the third temple
should be built! Stone acknowledges that this scripture is the authoritative source giving the right location for the
temple, which is quite correct. But he insists that Beth El is the Temple Mount location in Jerusalem, which is an assertion
that is simply not supported by Scripture!
Indeed, Beth El is cited as early as Genesis 12, as pointed out above,
well before any mention of Jerusalem in the Bible. Beth El appears again and again in Genesis, whereas Jerusalem does
not appear anywhere in the Torah (or first five books of the Bible)! In I Kings 12:25-29, Jerusalem and Beth El are
mentioned in the same context as two different place names, the latter being the place where the rebel King of Israel set
up a golden calf so as to keep his subjects from returning to worship at the first temple on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem
in the rival Kingdom of Judah. Clearly the Temple Mount in Jerusalem and Beth El are two different places, and Genesis
28:17 tells us, as even Rabbi Stone has already affirmed, Beth El is the place that the Almighty chose for his habitation!
Rabbi Stone took a supercilious tone in a telephone conversation on this all important topic of the correct location
for Israel's next temple and did not deign to reply to the author's follow-up letter on the same subject, in which
he made the following additional points beyond those already expressed in his first letter to the rabbi:
First,
David, in Psalm 48:2, seems to give special significance to the northern reaches of Jerusalem, where Beth El is, when he indited
these words:
"Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion, on the sides of the
north, the city of the great King."
A diplomatic approach to this subject may very well be that the greater
metropolitan area of Jerusalem could include Beth El in the final peace agreement between the Arabs and the Israelis. The
spiritual significance of Jerusalem the city will not be diminished a whit by recognition and acceptance of Beth El as the
next temple site.
Second, in this same regard it should also be noted that Ezekiel prophesied there would be among
the portions finally allotted to the twelve tribes one separate portion comprising land for the sanctuary of the Lord, for
the priests of the sanctuary, for "a profane place for the city, for dwelling, and for suburbs," and the remainder
for the prince. (Ezekiel 48:7-22) Inasmuch as this extra portion contains a sacred place "for the sanctuary
of the Lord" as well as "a profane place for the city, for dwelling, and for suburbs," it cannot be more clear
that the sanctuary is not supposed to be located inside the city!
Third, Ezekiel, upon beholding from his vantage
point on a high mountain the vision of the future temple, indicates that there was "as the frame of a city on the south,"
which must be old Jerusalem as the center of the new Jerusalem. (Ezekiel 40:2) Isn't it clear that if Jerusalem
appeared just to the south of Ezekiel, then Ezekiel stood just to the north of Jerusalem? And isn't Beth El located
just to the north of the old city of Jerusalem?
Is it only a coincidence that Ezekiel, in his vision of the future
temple, stood in or near Beth El, the very same place that Jacob called the "House of God and the Gate of Heaven"
after the Almighty had begun to communicate to Jacob in a dream the spiritual significance of the place?
Rabbi
Stone later retreated somewhat from his Beth El is Mount Moriah (or his Beth El is the Temple Mount) position when, in
the Jewish Press of 1 December 1995 (page 9), he quoted from Rashi, the preeminent Biblical commentator who lived in the European
diaspora from 1040 to 1105 A.D., that, with reference to the account of Jacob at Beth El in Genesis 28:17, "Mt. Moriah
(the Temple Mount) was uprooted and was brought to the site where Jacob was lying." Unbeknownst to Moses himself
not to mention modern day geologists and archaeologists, Stone's assertion is sheer nonsense that only compounds
ignorance and promotes confusion on a truly vital question on which the peace of Jerusalem hinges and must therefore be totally
rejected!
Whereas Jesus did say, "If ye have faith, and doubt not, ...if ye shall say unto this mountain,
Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; it shall be done" (St. Matthew 21:21), so too is it true that there are
none so deaf as those who will not hear. What a pity indeed, for a rabbi to turn away from such an important message
enshrined in his very own Scripture! As Jesus said, "Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets:
I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil." (St. Matthew 5:17)
That the Temple Mount in Jerusalem is associated
with Divine retribution echoes throughout history. Beyond the aforementioned destruction of the first temple by the
Babylonians and then of the second by the Romans pursuant to the Almighty's promise of punishment as expressed in chapter
26 of Leviticus and reiterated in the previously cited caveat of II Chronicles 7:19-22 right after Solomon's dedication
of the first temple, the Evangelist Matthew (St. Matthew 24:1-2) records that Jesus Christ himself put a curse on the
temple in Jerusalem when, shortly before his arrest, he looked at the buildings of the temple on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem
and told his apostles: "See ye not all these things? verily I say unto you, There shall not be left here
one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down."
If one were to take Jesus fully at His word as mankind
fast approaches the twenty-first century and bears witness to the ever unfolding progress in the technologies of modern warfare,
one must acknowledge that this prophecy of total destruction has not yet been completely fulfilled despite the best efforts
of the Jews and their Roman conquerors under Titus; for the Western Wall, being part of Herod's refurbishment of the second
temple, was standing when Jesus uttered his malediction against "the buildings of the temple" and it is still standing
today!
Can it be that the remainder of this curse may yet prove to be causeless and therefore will not come if
there is a change of hearts and people seek for and go to Beth El, the habitation of the Almighty that He Himself has chosen
through his prophets?
Centuries later, the Temple Mount in Jerusalem became the objective point of numerous military
expeditions from Europe, which are known as the Crusades or Holy Crusades; the blood and money and toil expended for these
cruel and crazy and futile ventures can only be viewed as the product of ignorance combined with misguided fervor or religious
fanaticism. In these dark pages of history, the wrong temple site became a most worthy goal of Europe's royalty,
nobility and aristocracy, and even lent its name to the religious military order called the Knights Templars; thus their acquisition
of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem became one of their justifications for war; indeed, it is noteworthy that even today the
putative heir to the now defunct throne of the Hapsburgs, Otto von Hapsburg, still styles himself, among many other titles
listed in the European edition of Who's Who, "King of Jerusalem"! So does King Juan Carlos of
Spain have the additional title "King of Jerusalem"! Throughout the remainder
of the Middle Ages, ignorance of the correct site for the next Israelite temple remained pervasive. But then in the
early seventeenth century, there appeared a glimmer of truth and of hope. John Milton, in his Paradise Lost
(Book I, 400-405), clearly indicates two different temple locations -- one right and one wrong -- when he composed these inspired
words about the false god Moloch:
"...the wisest heart
Of Solomon he led by fraud to build
His Temple right against the Temple of God
On that opprobrious Hill, and made his Grove
The pleasant Valley of Hinnom, Tophet thence
And black Gehenna called, the Type of Hell."
Milton's genius clarifies the Almighty's commandment
to Ezekiel, "...show the house to the house of Israel..." (Ezekiel 43:10); to obey such a command, the prophet
must be able to distinguish between two vying temple sites that are in close proximity to each other, as are Beth El and the
Temple Mount. Indeed, if the correct temple site were so very obvious to all, then there would be no need for a prophet
to "show the house to the house of Israel"! Likewise, were the whole world -- even the very elect -- deceived
as to the correct location for the next temple, as is the case today with the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, then a prophet would
surely be needed to set the matter straight and to "show the house to the house of Israel." Otherwise, the
wrong choice, "the Type of Hell," would continue to be made without any warning to the Almighty's chosen
people.
It must be understood that Ezekiel was among the Jewish captives when the House of Judah fell to the Babylonians
along with Jerusalem and the first temple. But the House of Israel, to whom Ezekiel was charged to "show the house,"
had already been made to disappear at the hands of the Assyrians more than one hundred years before the Babylonian captivity.
Ezekiel was never in direct contact with the House of Israel when he prophesied and his prophecies are therefore for the end
time.
Hence, there is reason to conclude that Ezekiel's charge to "show the house to the house of Israel"
is somehow related to or at least compatible with Jesus's instructions to his apostles to "...go rather to the lost
sheep of the house of Israel." (St. Matthew 10:6)
Furthermore, the Christian concept of a spiritual
temple actually comprising the faithful and the elect and indeed Jesus Himself need not preclude the idea of a physical Israelite
temple, just as John the Baptist's express need for baptism by Jesus did not preclude John's baptism of Jesus; for,
as Jesus said, "Suffer it to be so now: for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness." (St. Matthew
3:13-15) Building the next temple in Israel will indeed fulfill all righteousness, but only if the right location in
Beth El is chosen!
But the choice of the wrong location -- on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem -- for the next temple
in Israel remains a constant threat to world peace. In this very decade right before the twenty first century we have already
faced a controversy of parallel proportion with the still pending threat of Jewish extremists blowing up the Dome of the Rock
so as to build in its place on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem the third Jewish temple; I refer to the destruction of the Babri
Mosque in the Hindu holy city of Ayodhyatoday on 6 December 1992, which resulted in brutal rioting throughout India between
Hindus (82% of a total population of 844 million) and Muslims (12%). The Babri Mosque was built in the sixteenth century
and is said to stand on the site of an old Hindu temple that marks the birthplace of the Hindu god Ram. As Hindus clamored
to destroy Al-Babri the Government of India gave assurances that the mosque would be protected. Suddenly, however, the
Indian Government was faced with a fait accompli and all the promises of protection were proved to be empty words. Will
history repeat itself in another part of the world where the Mayor of Jerusalem, Ehud Olmert, said just before his election
victory over long time Jerusalem Mayor Teddy Kollek: "Do I say we have to wipe out the Dome of the Rock?
I say, on the contrary, I'll do everything to invest in the quality of life of the Arab residents, much more than Teddy
did. Teddy did nothing in this area." Will we rise one day to find another fait accompli and proof that Mayor
Olmert's words had no meaning behind them? Or, does Mayor Olmert disguise a conviction that the third Jewish temple
on the Temple Mount will be an investment in the quality of life of the Arab residents?
The stakes are very high
indeed. The source of all the strife, upon close examination, emanates from the "elephantiasis of intellect and
atrophy of emotion" resulting from traditional beliefs that sometimes prevent clear understanding of Scripture and the
collective wisdom of the ages. Thus, a temple site proposed by a man (King David) is preferred to the temple site revealed
by God to Jacob and Ezekiel!
Here it would be good to consider that the prophets foretell the advent of three rather
distinct peoples to the land of Israel near the end time: the return of the House of Judah, the return of the House
of Israel and the intrusion of the people of Gog and Magog. The choice between the right and wrong locations for the
next temple represents a way to separate, so to speak, the tares from the wheat among them.
The House of Judah
largely consists of those Israelites of the Babylonian captivity who kept their Sabbath-keeping identity and Hebrew language
intact. They are descended from the tribes of Judah and Benjamin and Levy, which made up the Kingdom of Judah that
the Babylonians took into captivity. They are the survivors of the Babylonian exile and the Roman occupation and their
descendants are known today as the Sephardic Jews.
The House of Israel consists of the ten tribes of the breakaway
Kingdom of Israel, which were taken away by the Assyrians and made to disappear more than one hundred years before the more
familiar Babylonian captivity described above. (See II Kings 17) The prophet Amos foretold that this House of
Israel would be mingled among the gentiles (Amos 9:9) and it was Jesus Christ who indicated that the whereabouts of the House
of Israel were unknown to the Sanhedrin when he bade his apostles to "go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel."
(St. Matthew 10:6)
Thus it was the House of Judah only that kept its distinctive Sabbath keeping identity and Hebrew
language intact and is therefore known as the Sephardic Jewry of today. The House of Israel, though still heir to the
promises just like the House of Judah, does not for the most part have a Torah based Sabbath keeping identity or Hebrew
speaking facility today because the descendants of these ten tribes of Israel lost these traits during the Assyrian captivity
and subsequent assimilation into northern and western Europe. Even so, the spirit of the prophet Ezekiel will eventually
show them the house that the Lord God of Israel has chosen for Beth El.
Gog and Magog include the Khazars, who
are described by the Encyclopaedia Judaica as a national group of general Turkic type whose conversion to Judaism is dated
as far back as 730 C.E., when the Khazars consecrated a tabernacle on the Mosaic model over 1260 years ago. After
the fall of the Khazar Empire, these Jews moved west into eastern and central Europe. The Encyclopaedia Judaica states:
"In spite of the negligible information of an archaeological nature, the presence of Jewish groups and the impact
of Jewish ideas in Eastern Europe are considerable during the Middle Ages. Groups have been mentioned as migrating to
Central Europe from the East or have been referred to as Khazars, thus making it impossible to overlook the possibility that
they originated from within the former Khazar Empire."
These Jews of the Khazar conversion are among the Turkic
people of Gog and Magog and are known today as the Ashkenazi Jews of central and eastern Europe, whereas the Jews descended
directly from the House of Judah are, as stated above, principally the Sephardic Jews. The Sephardic Jews are of Semitic
origin just like the Arabs and the Ashkenazi Jews are of Turkic and European origin; it is indeed ironic that the term "anti-Semitism"
arose among these Turkic Khazar-derived Ashkenazi Jews in Europe.
Thus, when these identities are firmly established
in one's mind, one readily understands the prophecy of Ezekiel (Ezekiel 39:2) wherein a remnant of one-sixth of Gog will
survive and be brought from the north to the mountains of Israel. This is the extermination of the Ashkenazi Jews at
the hands of the Nazis and the Zionist emigration out of Europe into Palestine, which is commonly mistaken for the ingathering,
or the prophesied return of the House of Judah and the House of Israel to the Holy Land.
Thus has this militant
Zionism of a decidedly Ashkenazic cast usurped in one fell swoop both the promise of a scepter to Judah and the real Jews
of the House of Judah (Genesis 49:10) and the birthright promise to Joseph's sons (Genesis 48:20) and the descendants
of the "lost ten tribes" of the House of Israel. One only needs to take an objective look at Zionism today
to know the import of the question that God commanded Ezekiel to ask of Gog (Ezekiel 38:14): "Thus saith the Lord
God; in that day when my people Israel dwelleth safely, shalt thou not know it?" Just turn on your television set
to the world news to find out the answer to God's own reality-check for the people of Gog who have usurped the name of
Israel and with their cruel and crazy full spectrum fraud and force have made the name of Israel to stink in the assembly
of nations!
With regard to the United Nations, where both the United States (a land literally flowing with milk
and honey) and the Ashkenazi dominated State of Israel (Gog) have conspired to frustrate either the passage or implementation
of one Security Council resolution after another with regard to the Arab-Zionist dispute, one should be aware of the Almighty's
displeasure as expressed through Ezekiel (Ezekiel 5:7): "...neither have done according to the judgments of the
nations...." Such haughty disregard for the decent opinion of mankind is just one reason for the Almighty to turn
against the real Israel as well as Gog! Here are all the reasons, with the author's own emphasis added in italics:
"Because ye are multiplied more than the nations that are round about you, and have not walked in my statutes,
neither have kept my judgments, neither have done according to the judgments of the nations that are round about you;
Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I, even I, am against thee, and will execute judgments in the midst of thee in
the sight of the nations." (Ezekiel 5:7-8)
But enough of this foreboding tone and concentration on the
Almighty's curses and more about the blessings that were also promised as part of the bargain between the Almighty and
His chosen people. Whereas these blessings on the seed of Abraham in general as well as on the Israelites in particular
are indeed racial in nature, there is also a spiritual dimension that must be given paramount importance in the foregoing
consideration of identities, be they of Gog and Magog or of Israel or of Judah or of indeed most anyone else. Thus
it was said by St. John the Baptist (St. Matthew 3:9):
And think not to say within yourselves, we have Abraham
to our father: for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.
Virtually
anybody is eligible to belong to the Abrahamic family and be heirs to the promises made to Abraham. For example, even
a Lubavitch Jew whose origins are from Khazaria via central and eastern Europe, and therefore fits the Ashkenazic Gog and
Magog type, may nevertheless transcend the terrible prophecies made concerning Gog and Magog by living according to the Golden
Rule and obeying all the commands of the God of Israel.
Likewise, it is also very important to understand
that when the land of Israel is finally divided among the tribes of Israel, Ezekiel states:
"ye shall divide
it by lot for an inheritance unto you, and to the strangers that sojourn among you, which shall beget children among you:
and they shall be unto you as born in the country among the children of Israel; they shall have inheritance with you among
the tribes of Israel." (Ezekiel 47:22)
Surely in the vast sweep of history this end time prophecy of an ancient
Hebrew prophet concerning "the strangers that sojourn among you" applies today to the indigenous Arab population
of historic Palestine. The Turkish government has preserved the Ottoman Empire records of Arab land ownership in historic
Palestine, which one may consider to be the default setting before the imposition of discriminatory restrictive covenants
after land sales to Jews and, later, outright ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from their lands.  After all is said and done, the Almighty is still the Judge and the Executioner for better or for worse; those who live
in His favor will be the ones who look for and find the place that the Almighty has chosen for his habitation, which is Beth
El. But the false impostors and others who do not look for and find -- or do not believe when shown -- the correct location
for Israel's next temple are sowing the wind and will reap a whirlwind.
Finally, it is worth adding that the
Lord of Israel's jealousy was aroused by Samuel's fulfillment of a positive command written in the Book of Deuteronomy
(17:15), to set a man as King of Israel. Being King of Israel is certainly no easy matter; perhaps being King of
a truly democratic and integrated State of Jerusalem with one capital and one citizenship and a maximum range of settlement
and opportunity for Jews, Muslims and Christians alike is more in keeping with the spirit of prophecy, particularly the spirit
of Ezekiel, as just set forth above in Ezekiel 47:22. At any rate, being the first to know and understand and actually
expound on where the next Israelite temple really belongs is a very good beginning. This is the only way for a Jew to
perform the mitzvah of all mitzvahs. A Christian skeptic need only remember the words of Jesus to Nicodemus: "If
I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things?" (St.
John 3:12) And a Muslim can relax as the danger of an assault on the Dome of the Rock and the Al-Aqsa Mosque goes away.
Everybody will be happy!
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