After the First Temple was destroyed in 586 BCE by the Babylonians.There is no evidence of any kind to suggest that Moslems of Mohammed's day recognized the Mount as anything other than a Jewish holy site.The ten lost tribes were the ten of the Twelve Tribes of Israel that were said to have been exiled from the Kingdom of Israel after its conquest by the Neo-Assyrian Empire circa 722 BCE. Alexander the Great took control of Jerusalem in 332 B.C.While it stood, Jews were required to make a pilgrimage to Jerusalem three times a year. About 50 years after that, the Persian King Cyrus allowed Jews to return to Jerusalem and rebuild the Temple. The Babylonians occupied Jerusalem in 586 B.C., destroyed the Temple, and sent the Jews into exile. His son, Solomon, built the first holy Temple about 40 years later.
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" It would be difficult to think of a more absurd notion. While there is nothing new or noteworthy about hyperbole coming from the Arab world, what makes this different is that Moslem leaders have been engaged in ongoing efforts to change the situation "on the ground." Ominously for our civilization, the Mount's Moslem officials (Waqf), with backing from Mecca and elsewhere in the Moslem world, are attempting to destroy an archeological and biblical heritage and subvert the historical record in the service of transitory political goals.In 1886, British explorer Captain Charles Wilson undertook the most comprehensive survey of Jerusalem in modern times, noting, "No one has ever questioned that the Temple formerly stood within the Haram-es-Sherif. Photo: Marry Harrsch/Flickr The Temple Institute has just ordered production of the plans needed to build a new Jewish Temple in Jerusalem.How are we, as concerned laypersons and scholars, to regard the current Moslem actions at Jerusalem's Temple Mount? Although a mount of evidence provides strong bases for a Jewish connection to that holy site—in fact the oldest and most storied connection, official Arab Moslem policy contends that no such connection exists. The movie supports the theory the Ark was lost in Egypt. The Ark of the Covenant created for the Hollywood movie Indiana Jones and Raiders of the Lost Ark.
Before 638 CE—a rather late date in the history of that region—there was no Islamic presence in Jerusalem. In fact, Moslem and Arab history also confirms Warren's declaration. They both contain voluminous reference to the temples, from their construction to the events in the life of Jesus.
Typical are the words of these Iranian clerics that the Mount is a "sacred place only for Muslims, around the globe." The Jerusalem mufti (or Moslem spiritual leader) regularly insists that Jewish or Christian prayer never will be allowed on the Mount, as it is strictly a Moslem holy site. Arab political and Moslem religious organizations re-affirm that outrageous claim at regular intervals. As recently as 1930, in its official "Guide to al-Haram al-Sharif," Jerusalem's supreme Moslem authority states: "Its identity with the site of Solomon's Temple is beyond dispute." The historical record is replete with like statements by Arab leaders, yet all from a time before the Arab world became obsessed with the State of Israel and its ongoing failed attempts to eradicate it from the nations of the world.More indicative of official Arab Moslem policy today are assertions such as those emanating most Fridays from mosques throughout the Middle East that there was no Jewish Temple on the Mount. When they rejected his proffered apostasy in 624, Mohammed strictly forbade all Moslems from facing Jerusalem when they prayed—a ban enforced on Al-Aqsa worshippers, as well, who face Mecca. Mohammed himself had no regard for Jerusalem, except for a brief time while he courted Arabia's Jews, anticipating that they would flock to his teaching.
This was one of the passageways used by ancient worshippers to access the Temple. The first was the Eastern Hulda Gate. In a conscious attempt to make the Mount more hospitable to greater numbers of Moslem worshippers, the Waqf, in 1996, converted two Second Temple era structures into a new 1.5-acre mosque.
In 1997, the Waqf built a second new mosque, destroying another ancient passageway, the Western Hulda, to do so. This small room, only 32.5 square feet in area, is now used for Moslem prayer. It also encompasses the area known as Jesus' Cradle, the site where the 40-day-old Jesus was presented in the Temple. Located under the Mount's current surface, it was used by ancient Temple priests to store vestments and other items.
Moreover, they were able to identify the Mount's distinguishable dusty gray soil, containing a variety of stones, from different ancient periods mixed with contemporary material.A survey of the Kidron site, for instance, dated by three respected archeologists, found ten percent of the recovered pottery shards to be from the First Temple period and another twenty-five percent to be from the Second Temple period. Volunteers, however, from students to some of Israel's most renowned archeologists, were able to recover many ancient artifacts that the Waqf sought to destroy. It sometimes made archeological examination difficult, if not impossible. Temple artifacts were ripped from the Mount and, at first secretly, dumped in several places throughout Jerusalem, most prominently in the Kidron Valley just east of the city walls but also in El Azaria and the municipal city dump.The material often was mixed intentionally with modern-day garbage in an attempt to cover up these actions. Mount police also reported observing a Second Temple (516 BCE to 70 CE) era arched water channel being dismantled during this period.
One Waqf employee, who participated in the 1996 construction, testified that workers finding stones with decorations and inscriptions were ordered to turn them over to the Waqf. And the deliberate destruction of history has gone even further. Archeologists searching through the dumps also recovered a pillared figurine leg that they dated conclusively to the First Temple period.This evidence, however, presents a serious obstacle to Waqf assertions: hence, the secret dumps. The earliest fragment found dates from the eighth century BCE, almost a millennium and a half before the Moslem conquest.
Others showed ancient pillars and ashlars, cut as alleged above, which were later used as pavement slaps and building stones. One picture, for example, showed an industrial stone cutting saw on the Mount, partially covered to obscure its presence. Clandestine photographs were taken which then confirmed the employee's statement. The Waqf employee specifically identified stones marked with a five-pointed star, used as far back as the second century BCE by the Hasmonean dynasty.
In fact, it can then be alleged, as it has been in the Arab media, that the found artifacts did not originate on the Mount.Parallel with the Mount's de-Judaization are current efforts to Islamicize it, led by Sheik Rayadh Salah and the Israeli Islamic movement. The problem, as articulated by the Israeli Antiquities Authority (the government agency responsible for protecting antiquities throughout Israel), is that the archeological value of these finds drops drastically when they are removed from their original sites. Archeologist Zachi Zweig calls the stone "the first archeological evidence of monumental architecture in the Temple Mount that can be positively dated to the Second Temple period." Noted archeologists have compared it in style to that identified in the Triple Gate at the Mount's southern wall by Israeli archeologist Benjamin Mazar. Some archeologists, however, believe that the most significant artifact ever recovered from the Temple Mount is a carved marble lintel found in the Kidron dump in 2000. This most likely came from a secondary wall running parallel to the eastern perimeter wall.
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