The Temple Mount on Mt. Moriah is considered the most sensitive piece of real estate on the face of the earth. Abraham, in obedience to God, traveled there to offer his son Isaac as a sacrifice, then God provided a substitute.

A thousand years later, God directed King David to buy a threshing floor from Araunah (Ornan) and the surrounding land on Mt. Moriah as the spot for the first Jewish Temple, ultimately built by his son Solomon.

The 37 acres that comprise the Temple Mount is considered deeply sacred to Christians, Jews, and Muslims, with several Islamic holy sites there, including the Dome of the Rock and the Al-Aqsa Mosque.

Many Christians believe a third temple will be built on the site of Solomon's temple in line with Bible prophecies (Daniel 9:27), but the Mount is currently controlled by the Islamic Waqf of Jordan. Some maintain the Dome of the Rock is situated on the spot of the former Jewish temple, which creates a massive problem for plans to rebuild.

Any efforts by the Jewish people to construct their Temple on or near the Dome of the Rock could potentially trigger all-out war.

Christian Widener

Christian Widener, a PhD in mechanical engineering and formerly a professor at the South Dakota School of Mines, did a deep dive to discover the exact whereabouts of the former Temple in his new book, The Temple Revealed.

He didn't begin with any preconceived ideas about the location. "I wasn't trying to develop my unique view of where the Temple was located," he told God Reports.

"I wanted to know precisely where it was and could it be known reliably or not?" he says. "For many Christians the rebuilding of the temple signifies the final steps before the physical return of Jesus Christ to the earth."

There are four primary views as to where the Temple was originally located. The view with the greatest popular opinion places it in the middle of the Temple Mount platform—in the same place as the Dome of the Rock. The other views place it north of the Dome of the Rock, south of the Rock, or in the Ophel area south of the Mount, in the city of David near the Gihon Spring.

After exhaustingly sifting through the competing theories about the true location, Widener's conclusion is a modification of the view held by Dr. Asher Kaufman, a professor at Notre Dame, which located the Temple in the northern portion of the Temple Mount, with the Holy of Holies situated on the Dome of the Spirits (Tablets), which Widener convincingly demonstrates as the original threshing floor of Araunah.

"When God chooses a place for His foundation, they will not be lost and cannot be moved," Widener notes. The stone in question on the Temple Mount is roughly 10 feet in diameter, a flat piece of bedrock, its surface pockmarked by time, the elements, and the possible movement of an ox pulling a sledge in a circular fashion around it, separating the wheat from the chaff.

"Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone, a tested stone, a costly cornerstone for the foundation, firmly placed." -Isaiah 28:16

Like a datum point used by a heavenly builder, the entire Temple Mount platform was set to the level of this stone.

Widener goes a step beyond Dr. Kaufman in presenting the Temple's alignment with the Golden Gate, the gate that faces east, seen prominently when standing on the Mount of Olives. "The famed Golden Gate is the true eastern gate of the First and Second Temples and marks the east-west line of where the temple should be rebuilt."

"To make sure it would never be opened again, the Ottoman sultan Suleiman the Magnificent had it walled up in stone in 1541. It is reported that he sought to prevent the Messiah of the Jews and Christians from ever entering through the gate," he notes. (The gate had already been nailed shut for centuries when Suleiman walled it up.)

Eastern Gate

The 3,000-year-old gate has been shut for most the last 2,000 years, in line with a prophecy in Ezekiel 44: Then the man brought me back to the outer gate of the sanctuary, the one facing east, and it was shut. The LORD said to me, 'This gate is to remain shut...because the LORD, the God of Israel, has entered through it.'

Jesus, the Messiah of the Jews, rode through that gate on a donkey, in His triumphal entry into Jerusalem on April 6, AD 32, presenting Himself as King, fulfilling one of the most amazing prophecies in the Bible, contained in Daniel 9... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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