The Temple Mt embodies the struggle between Isaac+ Ishmael

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Posted by Bible Probe on September 14, 2005 at 15:29:23:

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I have been inside the Dome of the Rock, and can tell you there is a threshing stone there. I was allowed to walk down into the cave-like hole in the rock. My Muslim guide told us that hole (where grain fell through) was made by Mohammed as he went to visit heaven. Knowing it was the threshing rock David bought, "I just grinned and snickered".
/s/Steve K - BibleProbe.com

Back in the earlier days of David, when he numbered the people contrary to the express demands of God, the Lord told him he would give him a choice of three consequences: (1) famine for three years; (2) war for three months in which his enemy would prevail, or (3) pestilence for three days. David chose the last to get it over with. In three days 70,000 of the elders of Israel were dead by the pestilence.

David then prayed to God to stop the pestilence. God appeared to him there. It was on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite. That was where the temple of Solomon was built, in memory of that event. That locat1on (mount Moriah) is also where Abraham had his test to see if he would sacrifice his son, as a type for our Father in heaven sacrificing his only begotten son in the flesh for the sake of mankind.

Prophecy speaks of the restoration of the temple in Jerusalem in the last days.

But the question is - will God allow animal Sacrifice in the Temple after His Son already fulfilled the requirement with His Blood?

What took place in that temple was essentially a massive slaughterhouse of animals. There was literally a river of blood flowing from the temple because of all the animal sacrifices that took place as part of the Law of Moses -- which law Christ fulfilled and superceded -- which law was given to the Israelites in the first place because of their hard-heartedness. They wanted ritual (having come from the very gaudy Egyptian culture in which ritual was everything), so God gave them the desires of their heart. What God had first wished to give them was very simple. He wished for everyone of them to purify their own hearts and come into his very presence, but that scared them, so they told Moses, "No, you go talk to him and tell us what he says."

"Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD at Jerusalem in mount Moriah, where the LORD appeared unto David his father, in the place that David had prepared in the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite." (2 Chronicles 3:1)

Muslim vague reference. It must be noted that even inside the mosque, Muslims face Mecca to pray. History has no record of Mohammed ever even setting foot in Jerusalem.

"Glory be to Him who did take His servant for a Journey by night from the Sacred Sanctuary to the farthest Sanctuary, whose precincts We did bless...." (The Koran, Sura Al-Isra 17:1)

God’s Threshing Floor

For thousands of years, the most disputed threshing floor in the world has been Jerusalem’s Temple Mount on Mount Moriah, known as Har HaBayit in Hebrew (Mountain of the House [of the Lord]) and al-Haram-al-Sharif in Arabic (The Noble Sanctuary).

This is the place where Abraham offered his son Isaac as a sacrifice (Genesis 22). The Koran, however, claims it was Ishmael, Abraham’s son by Sarah’s Egyptian handmaid Hagar, whom God told Abraham to sacrifice!

Today, the Mosque of Al Aksa and the Dome of the Rock sit on the Temple Mount, marking the third holiest site in Islam. Moslems believe that “Al-Aksa,” which means “the distant place,” is the site visited by Mohammed in a night vision.

But this “distant place” could have been anywhere since the Koran does not mention Jerusalem (al-Quds in Arabic) by name. In fact, the name “Jerusalem” never appears in the Koran! And though it’s historically proven that both sacred Jewish Temples stood on this highly contested piece of real estate, neither Jews nor Christians are permitted to pray here.

Those of us who believe what’s written in the Bible know that God Himself chose this place and sent Abraham there to sacrifice Isaac. And we’re amazed at Abraham’s stunning faith that “God will provide for Himself the lamb for the burnt offering” (Genesis 22:8), and so He did.

Some 1,000 years later, King David conquered Jerusalem, a Jebusite city at that time, and with it, the mountain fortress of Zion. David was proud of his victory and his success in uniting the 12 tribes of Israel into one kingdom.

In the joy of victory, David ordered a census of the people, which God judged as sin, and sent a major epidemic to punish the king’s disobedience. Then the prophet Gad brought the Word of the Lord to David, telling the king to build an altar on Mount Moriah and offer sacrifices to atone for his sin and bring an end to the plague of death among the Israelites. That’s when David bought the threshing floor on Mount Moriah from Araunah the Jebusite.

The Jebusite offered to give King David the threshing floor, but the king insisted on paying the full price of 50 shekels of silver (2 Samuel 24:18-25).

After the atoning sacrifice, God poured out His grace and brought the plague to an end. In the same way that the Lord accepted Abraham’s willingness to sacrifice his beloved son Isaac, God accepted King David’s sacrifice too. So this mountain is called Moriah, which means “visible from afar” or “the mountain of myrrh.”

Three places in the Holy Land were not conquered in war by the Jewish people, but were purchased according to the law of the Land. And these are the very places the Moslems want to take from the Jews:

Abraham paid 400 shekels of silver for the Machpela Cave (now the Tomb of the Patriarchs) in Hebron to bury his wife Sarah. (Genesis 23:16)

The Israelites bought a place in Shechem (today’s Nablus) for 100 coins to bury Joseph’s bones. (Genesis 33:19)

David bought the threshing floor on Mount Moriah for 100 shekels of silver, so the Temple could be built there.

It is significant that on a threshing floor, wheat is threshed until the grain falls out, after which it is winnowed to separate the wheat from the chaff. Threshing floors are built on an elevated site to allow the wind to blow away the light husks, leaving the heavier grain behind.

Threshing floors were also used for pagan images and rituals. On Jerusalem’s Temple Mount, the pagan edifices must cease to exist before God establishes His Third Temple there. The abomination of desolation (Matthew 24:15) must be removed.

So a cosmic showdown is unfolding over the Temple Mount, according to the prophet Zechariah (chapters 12 and 14). This dispute goes far beyond Israel and the Palestinians. Israel will face an onslaught from the entire world, with the Moslems leading the holy war against the Jews.

The Temple Mount embodies the struggle between Isaac and Ishmael

Reference:
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