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So Ben GVIR declared that Israel has restored sovereignty on the Temple Mount. During Jerusalem Day at the highly contested holy site, ahead of the annual flag march through Jerusalem's Old City, Ben GVIR ascended the Temple Mount and publicly celebrated what he described as an increased Israeli control over the area. In remarks posted on social media, he stated that the Mount is now in our hands and credited stronger security measures and deterrence policies for what he called one of the quietest Ramadan periods in years. And we have another one here. Rabbi Eliyahu, time for a synagogue on the Temple Mount. Rabbi Eliyahu, who is a prominent Israeli rabbi, is calling for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and government leaders to advance the establishment of, of a synagogue on the Temple Mount. Speaking during the Jerusalem Day event, standing opposite of the Temple Mount, Rabbi Eliyahu declared that the Islamic structures currently on the site are connected to Israel's long exile and insisted that the first and Second Jewish temples once stood there and that a future Third Temple will one day stand there again. He argues, until such a temple is rebuilt, excuse me, a synagogue should be established there in the meantime. And then lastly, Heredi rabbi issues a rare Temple Mount ruling. Rabbi Breitowitz, who is a senior lecturer there in Jerusalem, recently addressed the complex issue of ascending the Temple Mount according to Jewish law. While noting that he personally has never ascended the mountain, remains cautious. He acknowledges that there are areas considered permissible for ritually impure individuals to enter, provided that they avoid the location traditionally associated with the holiest of holies, near the Dome of the Rock. Now, Mondo, three articles in less than five days. I mean, this, this certainly speaks volumes of where we stand prophetically, or at least I think so, right? But when you hear Israeli officials openly declaring sovereignty over the Temple Mount, how significant is to, is this to you prophetically?
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Oh, man, this, this is, this is phenomenal. It's, it's one of the things that I think for those in the prophecy world, you know, that, that take the scripture in a pretty straightforward way. This is something that we've been waiting for. Honestly, when you go back to even 100 years ago, there were many people, and even further, you go back, Let me just say this, that if you go back to the early church, I mean, many people, you know, try to say that, know the Bible doesn't teach, you know, anything about a future physical temple and that church history never taught, that's just false. We go back to Irenaeus, Hippolytus, others certainly 100% taught, you know, from 200 A.D. on, that in the future time there would be a rebuilt temple in Jerusalem which would be polluted by the physical person of the Antichrist. I mean, I know there's a lot of discussion right now that, you know, there's a lot of discussion between those that are maybe covenant theologians or, or other, who are amillennialist. And this is, this is why we do what we do. Because on our website and just encourage people to check it out, they can go to prophecywatchers.com temple I made it real easy and I ask, I talk about this exact thing and whether it's crazy for us to believe that a temple, a physical temple would be rebuilt. And I give all the scriptures and stuff, but I also give the extensive church history. So I put that out there simply to say it is extremely prophetically important because of, of what the Bible says and what we've been waiting for and others even again going back 100 years before the Jews were around, even before the Jews recaptured Jerusalem during the Six Day War in 19 or the Temple Mount specifically during the Six Day War of 1967. So when we see these things happen and we can talk a little bit more about the, of politically as well about it, but when this happens, we just go, look, the scripture says this is going to be the case. Many people, not at all many in church history have expected and made comments that the Bible teaches us. And so now that we're seeing the trend, the status quo begin to shift, I think. Come on. Okay, this is it. This is it. This is the prophetic developments that we've been waiting for.
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It's absolutely wild. And when we see Rabbi Eliyahu specifically stating that the Third Temple will be there, you know, when, when you hear religious leaders speaking publicly about the Temple, you know, how close do you think we are to, you know, serious preparations for this future temple structure?
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Well, that, you know, that's a great question because, you know, in, in my Red Heifer book, I, I talked about what has changed, especially, you know, the red heifers themselves. I mean, that, that helps us to understand that there's developments that are happening by these religious Jews, the religious Orthodox Jews. So that tells us. So when in seeing at the time frame. Well, that's pretty hard to know. But what we do know is from 1967, you know, basically you had the Temple Mount Faithful by Gershon Solomon, who, he began the, the Temple Mount Faithful movement. He just actually passed away in the past coup. And then in the 80s, you had the Temple Institute begin to develop very specifically and so when you talk about timing, what do we see? Well, there was a big lull between 1967 and let's say 1987. So you got 20 years there. And then once the Temple Institute was, was developed, founded, they began to create everything that the priesthood would need or a functioning temple would need. So when we say timing, most of the preparation has already been completed. In fact, they, they are currently making stones. They got to make those outside of the city. They're making stones for the temple structure. They are, they have, they're having periodic meetings for the, for the Levitical priests who are doing music. They have all the garments, they have the, the, the menorah, the golden menorah. So preparation there is well underway. And so what, what I talk about again in my Red Heifer book is simply to say what has been lacking is not the religious preparation because they actually try to bring an animal up every so often to do a Passover thing on the Temple Mount and they have been forbidden. But what's missing? There's two things that have been missing. One is the rabbinic status quo, which you're just discussing, and the second one has been the political status quo. And so those two things have shifted over the past many years. I would say probably in the past 10 years, you 15, you've seen the rabbinic movement shift. We could talk more about that, as you saw in the articles. But the political shift has been even more pronounced and quickly because Itamar Ben Gvir, the security minister there, in, in December of 22, they all got voted in this latest administration, got voted in, in November of 22. Well then the government got form, founded and formulated basically in December, Netanyahu and others. And it's the most religious government that has ever existed in the history of Israel. And lo and behold, enter Itamar Ben Gavir, this guy who is again the, the Security Minister. The first day of their administration, he went on the Temple Mount. Now he's pushing the envelope and that's why he gets a lot of attention in some of these articles, because he has not stopped now for over three years, pushing the envelope as it relates to the status quo of the Temple Mount. So I don't think it's going to change. I don't think it's going to go backwards at all. So as it relates to timing, it's, it's getting more and more, more and more, more and more movement in speed just again in the last three years. So what does that say for the next three years? I guess we'll Find out.
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Yeah, I mean, you know, speaking politically, you know, in the, in the article, he referenced that a synagogue being placed on the Temple Mount. Now, do you think that a synagogue being placed on the Temple Mount could be a stepping stone, you know, psychologically and even politically, toward a larger temple presence in the future?
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Oh, a th percent. Yes. Because what, what's been happening again, these two paths, the religious path and the political path. Well, the religious path, you know, Ben Gav, not only is he part of the government, but he's also an Orthodox Jew. So as he's been going up there, he also is part of security. So the security in the past has been very, very strict about Jews. Jews are currently, at least according to status quo, are not allowed to pray up there or do any pr. There is a religious bowing down or singing or anything. That has been the way it's been since 1967. But Ben Gavir made it his goal to change that, and he has, because he's in charge of security now. So he is. He's putting in place security apparatus, apparati, if you want to say it plural, to help protect them. So when they go up now, they have a. A force with them, and so they're able to pray, they're singing, they're bowing down, and. And so that is changing the status quo. And they're also showing that they are not specifically interrupting the, the worship at the Alaska mosque.