The Temple Mount and Land of Israel Faithful Movement Made a Pilgrimage to the Temple Mount During the Festival of Succoth Together With Friends From All Over the World.
The Pilgrims Also Marched to the City of David to Draw the Holy Water from The Pool of Siloam Exactly as was Done in Temple Times.
On the 16th Tishrei 5766 (19th October 2005), during the Feast of Succoth, a Pilgrimage feast to the holy mountain of G–d in Jerusalem, at a very special time in the history of Israel, the Temple Mount Faithful Movement conducted an exciting pilgrimage to the Temple Mount and then marched to the Pool of Siloam to fulfil another exciting tradition from Temple times.
Friends and members of the Faithful Movement from all the world marched together with the Faithful and other Israeli pilgrims were. Their dream was to march to the Temple Mount together with the Faithful Movement in a feast when G–d called on them to make a pilgrimage to His holy hill. The Word of G–d in Zechariah became a reality - “And it shall come to pass, that everyone who is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall go up from year to year to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, and to keep the Feast of Booths.” (Zechariah 14:16) It was also an opening for the fulfilment of the prophetic Word of G–d through Isaiah - “Also the sons of the stranger, who join themselves to the Lord, to serve him, and to love the name of the Lord, to be his servants, every one who keeps the sabbath and does not profane it, and all who hold fast to my covenant; Even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer; their burnt offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted upon my altar; for my house shall be called a house of prayer for all peoples.” (Isaiah 56:6,7)
These events were an important part of the campaign of the Movement relating to its mission to build the Third Temple on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem in our lifetime on the same location of the First and Second Temples. It was another important step in the activities of the Faithful Movement to accomplish G–d’s end-time mission to rebuild His holy house in the end-times in which we are now living when G–d has chosen to bring about all His end-time plans in Israel as an opening for the godly end-time revolution all over the world. When we stood on the holy place we felt that the exciting end-time prophecy of Isaiah began to become a reality in our lifetime.
“The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem. And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the Lord's house shall be established on the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow to it. And many people shall go and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths; for from Zion shall go forth Torah, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. And he shall judge among the nations, and shall decide for many people; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, nor shall they learn war any more. O house of Jacob, come, and let us walk in the light of the Lord.” (Isaiah 2:1-5)
In the morning the Faithful Movement and its friends marched to the Temple Mount accompanied by a large model of the Temple, reconstructed vessels for the Third Temple, the 2 silver trumpets, a shofar and the flags of the Temple and Israel. It was also the morning of the Priestly Blessing when many thousands of Israelis came to be blessed by the priests as in Temple times.
It was an exciting moment when the prayers of the pilgrims to the Temple Mount were heard all over the holy hill of G–d especially the traditional Hallel Psalms which are read on the 3 pilgrimage festivals.
“Open to me the gates of righteousness; I will go into them, and I will praise the Lord; This is the gate of the Lord, into which the righteous shall enter. I will give you thanks; for you have answered me, and you have become my salvation. The stone which the builders rejected has become the head stone of the corner. This is the Lord's doing; it is marvellous in our eyes. This is the day which the Lord has made; we will rejoice and be glad in it. Save us, we beseech you, O Lord! O Lord, we beseech you, send us prosperity! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord; we have blessed you from the house of the Lord. God is the Lord, who has shown us light; bind the sacrifice with cords, to the horns of the altar. You are my God, and I will praise you; you are my God, I will exalt you. O give thanks to the Lord; for he is good; for his loving kindness endures for ever.” (Psalm 118:19-29)
In his word to the people of Israel and mainly to the leadership, Gershon Salomon called on the Israeli Government to immediately remove the Arab Islamic enemy of the G–d and people of Israel, to remove their pagan shrines, to purify the Temple Mount and to rebuild the Temple exactly as G–d expects of us to do and to open a great and godly time for all mankind. He prayed to the G–d of Israel to encourage the government of Israel to implement full sovereignty on His holy hill and no longer allow the enemies to desecrate His holy place and Name.
“A Psalm of Asaph. O God, nations have come into your inheritance; your holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps. ... Pour out your wrath on the nations that have not known you, and on the kingdoms that have not called upon your name. For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his dwelling place. ... And render to our neighbours sevenfold into their bosom their insult, with which they have insulted you, O Lord. So we your people and sheep of your pasture will give you thanks for ever; we will tell your praise to all generations.” (Psalm 79:1,6,7,12,13)
Gershon warned the government and people of Israel that the continuation of the desecration and destruction of the hill of G–d by the Arab Moslems and the fact that the Israeli Government does not stop it and remove them from the Temple Mount and has not started to rebuild the Temple is the reason for all the troubles that Israel is now experiencing. He stated that the destiny of Israel and all the world will be decided on the Temple Mount exactly as Haggai prophesied.
“Thus speaks the Lord of hosts, saying, This people say that the time has not yet come, the time that the Lord's house should be built. Then came the word of the Lord by Haggai the prophet, saying, ... Thus says the Lord of hosts; Consider your ways. Go up to the mountain, and bring wood, and build the house; and I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified, says the Lord. You looked for much, and, behold, it came to little; and when you brought it home, I blew it away. Why? says the Lord of hosts. Because of my house that lies in ruins, and everyone of you runs to his own house. Therefore the heaven above you have withheld the dew, and the earth has withheld its produce. And I called for a drought upon the land, and upon the mountains, and upon the grain, and upon the new wine, and upon the oil, and upon that which the ground brings forth, and upon men, and upon cattle, and upon all the labour of the hands.” (Haggai 1:2,3,7-11)
Gershon called for the prayers near the Western Wall to stop saying that they express and symbolise exile and destruction when foreign powers which controlled the land of Israel, especially Moslems, did not allow the Jews to go up on the Temple Mount and only allowed them to pray near the Western Wall which they called the Wailing Wall. He called on Israelis to go up and pray their prayers and receive the priestly blessings only on the Temple Mount exactly as G–d is expecting Israel to do and to stop the shameful situation when they are crying and weeping to G–d near the Western Wall outside the Temple Mount to redeem them and the Temple Mount which He already did it in 1967 and called them to return to His holy mountain, to rebuild His Temple and to come there as proud pilgrims and not as tourists as is done in a shameful way today. He stated that the G–d of Israel does not listen to or answer their prayers near the Western Wall but that He will do so when they come to the right place that He gave them - to the Temple Mount and His holy Temple. He stated that only when they do so will the prophetic Word of the G–d of Israel to His people through Ezekiel be fulfilled.
“And say to them, Thus says the Lord God: Behold, I will take the people of Israel from among the nations, where they have gone, and will gather them on every side, and bring them into their own land; And I will make them one nation in the land upon the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king to them all; and they shall be no more two nations, nor shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all;... And David my servant shall be king over them; and they all shall have one shepherd; they shall also follow my judgments, and observe my statutes, and do them. And they shall dwell in the land that I have given to Jacob my servant, where your fathers have dwelt; and they shall dwell in it, they and their children, and their grandchildren for ever; and my servant David shall be their prince for ever. And I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them; and I will place them, and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them for evermore. My tabernacle also shall be with them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. And the nations shall know that I, the Lord, sanctify Israel, when my sanctuary shall be in the midst of them for evermore.” (Ezekiel 37:21,22,24-28)
After this part of the event, the pilgrims marched to the City of David, past the historical place where King David brought the Ark of the Covenant to Jerusalem in his time and the palace of King David that was recently discovered in the excavations which are being undertaken in the City of David. (A special report on this will be sent later.) They came to the original Pool of Siloam that was also recently discovered. Over the past years the ceremony of the holy water (in Hebrew “nisuch hamai’im”) was done by the Faithful Movement at another small pool which was a part of the complex of Hezekiah’s tunnel that brought the water inside the City of David. The original pool from Biblical times that was discovered is much larger and this is the pool where the ceremony of the holy water was performed. It was also in this pool that the pilgrims used to immerse themselves according to Biblical law before they walked up to the Temple. It was an exciting moment to see for the first time in our lives this Biblical pool which was designed so beautifully. We stood in the same place where our forefathers, the kings and prophets, the priests and Levis and millions of Israelites had stood and immersed themselves to be clean when they came to the holy Temple of G–d which stood at the top of the mountain. It was exciting to perform the same ceremony that our forefathers had performed at a great time in the history of Israel and that G–d promised would again happen in the time in which we are now living. The water was drawn from the pool by a priest with the special vessels that were reconstructed to be used for this purpose when the Temple is rebuilt with the same prayers that our forefathers prayed when they performed this ceremony in the time when the Temple existed. The water was taken to the Temple Mount with the prayer and hope that next year it will be poured on the altar of the rebuilt Temple as our forefathers did together with the prayers for a blessed year with rain in Israel and all over the world.
It was an exciting event which will never be forgotten and an important stage in the campaign of the Faithful Movement to rebuild the Temple and to renew the Biblical days in our lifetime. It will be written in the books of history of the campaign and struggle for the temple that will soon be written. The members and friends from outside Israel who were an important part of this event will never forget it. As they stated, it changed their lives and they will share it with their children and grandchildren.
The Temple Mount and Land of Israel Faithful Movement is preparing itself for the Hanukkah event and the march to the Temple Mount from the tombs of the Maccabees who, in their time, answered the call of G–d and changed the history of Israel and saved the holy mountain of G–d in Jerusalem, the capital and people and land of Israel from destruction and assimilation in pagan Hellenism. The Temple Mount Faithful Movement continues the godly mission of the Maccabees and King David.
Everyone in the world is called on to stand with the Faithful Movement, to be a part of its holy cause and to help it to bring about this vision in the end-times in which we are now living exactly as G–d is expecting of us to do. Let us not miss this greatest privilege of our lives.
The 2 Cornerstones for the Third Temple were Carried by the Temple Mount Faithful Movement Along the Walls and Downtown Streets of Jerusalem During Succoth
In the early morning of the Succoth pilgrimage, The Temple Mount and Land of Israel Faithful Movement carried the 2 cornerstones for the Third Temple (each 6½ tonnes) along the walls and through the streets of downtown Jerusalem.
The original goal of the Faithful Movement was to carry them to the Temple Mount and lay them on the same location of the First and Second Temple and to start the process of the rebuilding of the Temple. We could not do so because of the fear of the Israeli Government of the Arab reaction. According to the resolution of the Supreme Court the authorities were ordered to allow us to drive with the cornerstones at least along the walls of Jerusalem and in the main streets of the city. It was not the first time that the cornerstones were taken to the southern gates of the Temple Mount and through the streets of Jerusalem and it will not be the last time. We shall not stop carrying them until the gates of the Temple Mount are opened for them and they will be layed on the right place and the process of the rebuilding of the Temple will start. We know that this godly event will become a reality in our lifetime and that the prophecy from Psalms - “The stone which the builders rejected has become the head stone of the corner. This is the Lord's doing; it is marvellous in our eyes. This is the day which the Lord has made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.” (Psalms 118:22-24) will be fulfilled and this fulfilment will be in the times in which we are now living. We know that it will be fulfilled. It is our task to act, to work and to fight for it and G–d will open the door for the cornerstones and the other stones for His Third Temple.
This event had a special significance and it brought to the hearts and attention of Israelis and people all over the world that this event of the rebuilding of the Temple is a major part of the end-times in which we are now living. It was an exciting event and after almost 2000 years cornerstones were again seen on the streets of Jerusalem so close to the Temple Mount and so close to the time when they will be laid on the holy mountain and the rebuilding of the Temple will be started. These 2 large and beautiful cornerstones were welcomed by the city of Jerusalem and the Jerusalemites with great excitement and clapping of hands. Historians will soon record this event as an important and major event done by the Faithful Movement as a major stage on the way to the rebuilding of the Temple. During the upcoming Hanukkah event the cornerstones will again be carried and we shall do everything and pray that this time they will be laid on the Temple Mount and start the rebuilding of the Temple. Everyone is called on to be a part of this event especially those who are in Jerusalem at that time.
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