Temple Mount Faithful's Hanukkah demonstration

An Exciting Hanukkah Event of the Temple Mount and Land of Israel Faithful Movement in Modi’in the Ancient City of the Maccabees, the Old City of Jerusalem and a March to the Temple Mount on the 8th Day of Hanukkah



The Temple Mount and Land of Israel Faithful Movement performed an exciting event on the eighth day of Hanukkah, Monday the 2nd of Tevet 5766 (2nd January 2006). This event occurred in Modi’in the ancient city of the Maccabees, the Old City of Jerusalem and the Holy Temple Mount the hill of the G–d of Israel. It was one of the most important events of the Faithful Movement and an important stage in our historical struggle and campaign for the rebuilding of the Temple on Mount Moriah in Jerusalem the holy location of the first, second and the third Temple.

It is not an accident that we chose these three holy places for our Hanukkah march to the Temple Mount. These places symbolize so much the struggle of the heroic Maccabees 2173 years ago for the liberation of the Temple Mount from the Greek pagan foreign control and the purification of the Temple from this pagan desecration of the Temple after the Hellenistic Greeks located their idol in the midst of the Holy of Holies. This was the focus and the climax of the Maccabees goal when they began their revolt to liberate Jerusalem and the Land of Israel from Greek rule. They knew that only the liberation and purification of the Temple, the Temple Mount and Jerusalem, the capital of the G-d and people of Israel will open the door for the liberation of all parts of the Land of Israel from Greek rule. They could not live with the shameful and painful situation that the Holy House of G-d and His name were so desecrated and was occupied by pagan foreigners. They felt that their heart and soul was in captivity and as long as this terrible situation continued there was no meaning for them to live. They were ready to sacrifice their lives to relocate their Creator and Father, G–d of Israel, in the midst of their lives on the Temple in Jerusalem.

The Temple Mount Faithful Movement felt the same when they made their Hanukkah march to the Temple Mount. Although the Temple Mount, the heart and the soul of the G-d and the people of Israel were liberated in the g-dly heroic Six Days War in 1967 and it again came under the sovereignty of Israel, the weak leadership of Israel allowed the Arab Muslims to continue their pagan worship on the holy hill of G-d and their desecration of G-d’s Holy Name and the Holy of Holy. The Temple Mount Faithful Movement, like the Maccabees, felt that there was no meaning to their lives as long as this terrible situation continued. We felt the tears of the G–d of Israel in heaven because of what the leaders of His people did. We heard the call of G-d and we immediately answered it. At the same time G–d felt our tears and broken hearts because of this situation. He answered our prayers and call to Him when He anointed and chose us to do our historical g-dly campaign to immediately change this shameful situation and like the Maccabees to reliberate the holy hill of G–d from Arab Islamic pagan presence and worship, to purify it, to rebuild the Temple, to place the G–d of Israel in His Holy House to be a house of prayer and worship for Israel and all the nations exactly as G–d called us to do: “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 56:7).
Like the Maccabees we know that this will open the door for liberation of all parts of the promised land to Abraham and his seed Israel from Arab Islamic presence, violence and desecration and bring to pass all G-d’s end-time prophetic plans exactly as He shared with us through His prophet Isaiah: “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” (Isaiah 2:2-4).

When we began our exciting event on the eighth day of Hanukkah we knew that our g-dly campaign was to open a new g-dly end-time era in the life of Israel and all the nations exactly as the exciting prophecy of Isaiah. So, it was not an accident that we made it in Hanukkah, the holy day of the Maccabees, we chose to make it on the eighth day of Hanukkah so that we could light all eight candles of the Hanukkah menorah and we would carry with us to the Temple Mount in Jerusalem a lot of g-dly light that would remove the Arab Islamic darkness from the holy hill of G–d and Jerusalem.

Our holy event started on the morning of that day at Modi’in in front of the tombs of the Maccabees by lighting the eight candles of the Hanukkah menorah and the torch of the Maccabees which we decided to carry to Jerusalem and the Temple Mount. It was an exciting moment and we felt the presence of G–d among us and His love to His faithful children. When Ze’ev Bartov from the leadership of the Faithful Movement read from the book of the Maccabees the historical and g-dly statement and message of Shimon the Maccabe, the son of the High Priest Matityahu who started the revolt against the Greeks: “we did not take the foreign land but the land that G–d gave only us in an eternal covenant thousands of years ago and this holy land of Israel was robbed from us by foreigners and now G–d returned it to us by His miracles and noone in the world has any right to it besides Israel the people of G–d”, we felt the presence of the spirit of Shimon the Maccabe among us stating this g-dly eternal message again with the whole world especially with our Arab Islamic enemies who want to rob again from us the land that G–d gave only to Israel in an eternal covenant. We knew that this eternal message to the entire world cannot be changed because only the word of G–d is eternal and will come to pass.

Gershon Salomon shared his words in front of the tombs of the Maccabees about the g–dly heritage of the Maccabees and said that this heritage is actually more important now than at any time in the past. He called on the people of Israel to awake and to create a leadership of vision, faithful to the G–d of Israel and to His word. He called his people not to miss the great opportunity and privilege that G–d gave to our generation to bring to pass all His prophetic end-time plans with Israel and the world. He called them to be a part of the fulfilment of this G–d ly end-time vision that will open a wonderful age in the life of Israel and the whole world under His Kingdom, values, and morals.

The way from Modi’in to Jerusalem started when the youth ran with the torch of the Maccabees to be carried to Jerusalem and the Temple Mount. We made our way to Jerusalem in the same path of the battles of the Maccabees against the Romans through the mountains of Beit Horon. It was an exciting biblical area which inspired all of us.

When we arrived at Jerusalem we demonstrated in the midst of the plaza of the Jaffa Gate in the old city of Jerusalem. We again lit the eight candles of the Hanukkah menorah by the torch of the Maccabees. When we swore faithfulness to Jerusalem that will never be divided again and robbed from us we felt the presence of King David and his word among us: “I was glad when they said to me, Let us go into the house of the Lord. Our feet shall stand inside your gates, O Jerusalem. Jerusalem is built as a city which is bound firmly together; There the tribes go up, the tribes of the Lord, as was decreed for Israel, to give thanks to the name of the Lord. For thrones of judgment were set there, the thrones of the house of David. Pray for the peace of Jerusalem; those who love you shall prosper. Peace be within your walls, and prosperity within your palaces. For my brothers and companions' sakes, I will now say, Peace be within you. Because of the house of the Lord our God I will seek your good” (Psalm 122).

Gershon stated in the name of the G–d and the people of Israel that Jerusalem and the holy land of Israel will never fall again or be divided again and we shall sacrifice our lives to avoid it or to allow a foreign so called ‘Palestinian’ state in the midst of Israel, the Temple Mount and Jerusalem, as President Bush, the United Nations, the European Union, our Arab and Islamic enemies and most of the world wish and putting pressure on the weak leadership of Israel to made it happen. He stated in the ears of the people of Israel and the whole world that only the eternal word of G–d and His decision thousands of years ago to give this land, Jerusalem and the Temple Mount only to His people Israel will come to pass.

From Jaffa Gate the Faithful marched through the narrow streets of the old city to the Temple Mount. In front of the holy hill of G–d we again lit the eight candles of the Hanukkah menorah from the torch of the Maccabees with the same prayers that the Maccabees prayed when they arrived at the Temple Mount to liberate it. It was an exciting moment and we felt so strongly the presence of G–d among us so close to the Holy of Holies that is today desecrated by the Dome of the Rock as in the time of the Maccabees when the pagan idol of the Greeks desecrated the same most holy place. We swore to give our lives if necessary for the removal of the Arab Islamic enemy and his pagan shrines from the holy Temple Mount, to purify the holy hill of G–d and to immediately rebuild the Temple as G–d so much desires. Gershon called on the government of Israel to immediately fulfill this expectation of the G–d of Israel from His people Israel. He stated that only this act will bring Israel to a situation where all of our enemies will be defeated and instead of pressure which is now upon Israel from the whole world will come love and appreciation to the people of G–d from the entire world. He started that this is a condition for the opening of G–d ‘s end-time era all over the world exactly according to His word through His prophet Isaiah (Isaiah 2:2-4). He called upon the government and the people of Israel not to miss this major privilege that G–d gave to our generation to be the generation of the fulfilment of all of G–d’s end-time prophetic plans. He calls upon all the world to stand with and encourage Israel who was called and chosen by G–d to be His messenger to fulfill all His end-time vision and to stop any pressure that comes from all over the world. He blessed and thanked so much the friends of the Faithful Movement from outside of Israel who participated in this important g–dly event and opened by this the fulfilment of the end-time vision of the prophet Isaiah and Micah that all the nations will flow to Jerusalem to the G–d of Jacob and His holy mountain.

The Temple Mount and Land of Israel Faithful Movement will continue intensively with our g–dly campaign and the G–d of Israel who was with our Forefathers will continue to be with us and we shall continue to serve Him and all His end-time plans with Israel and with the whole world with all our hearts and devotion. G–d will win His end-time battle against all His enemies who want to stop Him and His people Israel on their way in the Holy Land to establish G–d’s end-time Kingdom and His values and morals from Jerusalem to all over the world. In G–d we trust and He will be with us! Everyone is called to give his hand and to stand with and encourage the Faithful Movement in their holy campaign to bring to pass this holy vision in the life of our generation.



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