Part 3 Where was Jesus crucified? - Jesus the Passover Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world.
This part will have two other sections which I will include with this blog.
Part 3a Jerusalem as God’s capital city and her cleansing by water and blood.
Part 3b Who Owns the Temple Mount the Real Owner is God through the Tribe of Judah.
This next part may rattle some people's cages or beliefs
about where Jesus was crucified.
When you read what I have to say below and look up
the web links you will see that people have been lied to down
the years about where Jesus was really crucified and
buried and rose again from.
So please read what I have written below with a prayerful
and open heart.
This next part may rattle some people's cages or beliefs
about where Jesus was crucified.
When you read what I have to say below and look up
the web links you will see that people have been lied to down
the years about where Jesus was really crucified and
buried and rose again from.
So please read what I have written below with a prayerful
and open heart.
Part 3 Where was Jesus Crucified?
The Lord Jesus died outside the walls of Jerusalem most possibly this would have been on the Mount of Olives
Hebrews 13:10-14
10 We have an altar from which those who serve and worship in the tabernacle have no right to eat.
11 For when the blood of animals is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest as a sacrifice for sin, the victims’ bodies are burned outside the limits of the camp.
12 Therefore Jesus also suffered and died outside the [city’s] gate in order that He might purify and consecrate the people through [the shedding of] His own blood and set them apart as holy [for God].
13 Let us then go forth [from all that would prevent us] to Him outside the camp [at Calvary], bearing the contempt and abuse and shame with Him.
14 For here we have no permanent city, but we are looking for the one which is to come.
The role of the false witnesses in the trial of Jesus
⦁ Let’s back up a little to His trial in the law of Moses Deuteronomy 19:15-21 it states that if anyone has an accusation against anyone they were to air their grievances in the presences of God, the judges (elders) and the priests.
Deuteronomy 19:15-21
However if the witness was a false one what they wanted done to the one they were accusing it was to be done to them the false witness.
So if they wanted that person killed for being an idolater and they themselves were the ones committing this sin and after careful examination it was proved the one accusing the other person is a false witness well it was they who would be put to death.
⦁ As in the case of Jesus He was brought before the Sanhedrin in a hastily arranged hearing, being in a room within the temple walls - this was called the stone chamber- He was technically standing in the presence of God being in the temple He was before the elders and the priests.
They arranged false witnesses against Him whose testimony couldn’t even stand up.
Interesting Jesus says in these verses below that those coming against Him to arrest Him, He likens them to coming out against a thief with sticks and staves.
Then in the time of His coming Jesus will come against His enemies like a thief see also Matthew 24:42-44,
1 Thessalonians 5:2-5, 2 Peter 3:10, Revelation 3:3, Revelation 16:15.
Matthew 26:55-66
When Jesus challenged His accusers to ask His disciples about His teachings they struck Him for speaking against the High Priest which He wasn’t and even His own disciples couldn’t stand for Him but denied Him.
John 18:19-24
Even God was silent and did not defend His Son as they had this Kangaroo court in the temple before God but God the Father and God the Son were working together to allow Him Jesus to go to the cross so that He could bear the punishment for sin upon His own self for mankind’s sake which included Israel. John 18:1-27, Matthew 26:57-67 Mark 14:53-65.
Getting back to where Jesus was crucified.
⦁ From my research on where the Lord was crucified as He was crucified outside the camp of Israel that means He was taken outside the walls of Jerusalem (Hebrews 13:11-14) to die on the cross for the sins of the world and He would have to be facing the temple not be crucified behind the temple on the western side of it.
The church of the Holy Sepulchre is behind where the Temple once stood. In other words it is to the west of the Temple not to the east of it. It is within the walls of the city of Jerusalem in the old quarter not outside the walls of the city. As Hebrews 13 states Jesus died outside the gates of the city not within the gates of the city.
Scripture bears out that anything to do with sin had to be burned outside the camp or in the case of the red heifer to be killed outside the camp of Israel to the east of the Tabernacle then later on the temple/s in Jerusalem. More on this further down.
The place where they say Jesus was crucified, buried and rose again is not correct.
It is in the wrong place. According to the things I have read on the net about this the place where this church now stands it was once a noted rabbi's grave and then it was made into a pagan temple to Juno by the Romans when they sacked Jerusalem.
Also another point to consider if the Romans crucified Jesus in the city of Jerusalem proper it would have been a riot for the Jews would not have allowed this to take place.
I also read that the Romans normally crucified people near the place where they arrested them and Jesus was arrested in a garden. John 19 mentions that near the place where Jesus was crucified and later was buried there was a garden. See reference to this further down.
So Jesus would have to be facing the temple on the eastern side of the temple looking west towards the sanctuary ie the front of the temple.
The Sanctuary would have been facing towards the east and Jesus on the cross would have been looking towards the Sanctuary but facing westwards from the cross.
Jesus as a type of the Red Heifer
Numbers 19:1-22
Also notice that the sprinkling of this water of cleansing/ purification had to be done on two days the third and the seventh day.
The person doing the sprinkling of this water with hysop had to be a clean person. Jesus is that clean person for He has been sanctified and He is the only one pure enough to cleanse us spiritually from our sins.
John 17:16-20
16 They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
17 Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.
18 As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world.
19 And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth.
20 Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word;
I believe that the two days mentioned are significant for this relates to Christ, His death, resurrection and second coming for those who have been cleansed by His blood and water of purification the water that came out of His side and the word that is preached.
For He cleanses us from being spiritually dead separated from God. The ashes of a heifer cleansed people from touching dead bodies.
Christ's death does more than doing a surface cleansing. He cleanses us from all uncleanness of the heart. For Jeremiah states that the heart is sick.
Jeremiah 17:9-10
Also Jesus will come back on the seventh day or the time before the seventh day begins of the time God has allowed for man. Psalm 110 speaks of the womb of the morning. This refers to the new day in God when He begins His rule on the earth.
Psalm 110:1-7
Men have had six thousand years to rule on the earth. The seventh day the seventh thousand years period belongs to God to rule on the earth. Remember with God one day is as a thousand years.
2 Peter 3:8
8 But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
For it is His rest just like He rested on the seventh day when He created the world from His labors.
So too there will be a physical and spiritual rest for God and the earth when Jesus returns to rule on the earth for a thousand years or the day of the Lord.
This is when He brings salvation in full and we gain our glorified bodies both those who are asleep in Christ and those who are awake and are caught up to be with Him.
It also states in Numbers 19 that if anyone does not cleanse themselves with the ashes of the red heifer in the way that God prescribes. That these people were to be cut off from being among the congregation of Israel for they have defiled the sanctuary of God.
So too this applies for those outside of Christ when He returns if they do not accept His cleansing His salvation through the blood of His atonement then they too will be cast out because they are unclean spiritually dead in their sins still.
Remember God says in the end of Joel 3 and Zechariah 14 that no unholy person will come upon His holy mountain. The temple in the millennial kingdom is to be holy and those who serve within it must be holy too.
Also Revelation 22 states that the wicked will stay wicked and the righteous will remain righteous.
Joel 3:17
17 So shall ye know that I am the Lord your God dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain: then shall Jerusalem be holy, and there shall no strangers pass through her any more.
Zechariah 14:20-21
Hebrews 9:11-15, 23-28
11 But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building;
The tabernacle then the temple faced east so for the blood to be sprinkled towards the tabernacle then later on towards the temple.
They had to be to the east of the tabernacle or across from the temple in other words they would have to be facing west to be able to sprinkle the blood of the slain heifer towards the front of the sanctuary which faced eastewards, and later on the front of the temple which faced eastwards.
That is why I state that where the church of the Holy Sepulchre is in the wrong place because it is to the west of where the temple stood. It is behind it.
They did take the red heifer over the brook Kidron to offer her up before the Lord on the Mt of Olives.
The heifer was killed on the Mt of Olives on a mount called the Mt of Atonement outside the east gate of the temple.
So it is possible that Jesus died near the actual place where they killed the red heifer across from the temple facing it from the Mt of Olives to the east side of the Temple which is the front of the Temple.
I have put web links about the red heifer sacrifice at the end of this blog post for you to look up.
⦁ So it would stand to reason that our Lord too would have been taken over the brook Kidron and sacrificed/ crucified on or near the brow of the Mt of Olives overlooking the main thoroughfare leading into Jerusalem and facing the eastern part front of the Temple Sanctuary at the same time.
Jesus had to die facing the temple
⦁ Jesus completed the task and at the end when Father’s wrath against sin was satisfied He said it was finished and gave up the ghost.
John 19:29-30
29 Now there was set a vessel full of vinegar: and they filled a spunge with vinegar, and put it upon hyssop, and put it to his mouth.
Matthew 27:50-54
⦁ As I had stated I had done some research on the net about where our Lord must have been crucified and buried and a number of reliable websites have pointed to a strong possibility that He was crucified and buried on the Mt of Olives.
They also give very strong documentary evidence as to the reason why and how the early Christian church used to go and visit the place of His crucifixion and burial and resurrection place on the Mt of Olives.
I believe that this is correct as He also ascended to heaven from the Mount of Olives hence proving that He had triumphed over sin and death and He is coming back to this spot in triumph as King of all Glory to rule from Jerusalem for His millennial kingdom.
⦁ Also King David left Jerusalem over the Mt of Olives when fleeing from his son Absalom 2 Samuel 15
⦁ God had Abraham offer up Isaac on this very same mountain the Mt of Olives which would have faced Jerusalem the future temple mount, this was the mountain
⦁ God showed Abraham which mountain to offer Isaac up on as in the distant future His own dearly beloved Son will die on the cross for man’s sins on this mountain and will come back one day to the earth on this mountain and will enter Jerusalem from this mountain. Genesis 22:1-19, Zechariah 14:1-9, Acts 1:9-11.
He will also enter the millennial temple which will be on top of Mt Zion from the east see Ezekiel chapters 43 & 44 I have put the verses in above section on the Red Heifer.
⦁ Jesus was taken out of Jerusalem to be crucified and events that happened at His death. He was taken out of the city to be crucified,those who passed by on the way into the city reviled Him, the women who followed Him stood afar off. If He was crucified where they say He was crucified and buried and rose again from where the church of the Holy Sepulchre stands how can people stand afar off for it will be in the city how could people pass by and finally in John 19 it states that where He was crucified it was near the city.
Matthew 27:31-33, 39
25 And he released unto them him that for sedition and murder was cast into prison, whom they had desired; but he delivered Jesus to their will.
John 19:38-42
Part 3a Jerusalem as God’s capital city and her cleansing by water and blood
⦁ God always had intended to have Jerusalem as His capital city from which to rule as she is the earthly representation of the heavenly Jerusalem. However one day the two will be joined and made one as the earthly Jerusalem will be totally cleansed by the water and blood that comes from our Lord’s side Isaiah 4:4-6, Jeremiah 33:5-9
⦁ When she is cleansed she will be made new and called by a new name Isaiah 62: 1-7, the city of righteousness Jeremiah 33:15-16, and the Lord is there. Ezekiel 48:35.
⦁ God had the tent of meeting at Shiloh with the Ark of the Covenant through the time of the judges up until He dealt with the house of Eli and moved the Ark away from Shiloh by allowing it to be taken captive by the Philistines see I Samuel 2:12-6:21.
⦁ So that He could have the Ark returned back to Israel and placed in another place other than Shiloh the Lord had the Ark of the Covenant placed in the house of Abinadab on the hill 1 Samuel 7:1-2 for nearly one hundred years.
⦁ The Lord was waiting until the time was right for a king to be raised up through whose line He would come later to earth to be born as man in the man Christ Jesus.
⦁ God was waiting for the time when He could move the Ark into Jerusalem and He did this through King David a man after His own heart and ancestor of His Son through the human side.
⦁ God was moving things into place so that eventually He can send His Son to earth to be born of a woman but He needed to raise up a royal dynasty through whom His Son will come through the line of Judah.
⦁ He needed to have His spiritual base in Jerusalem as well as His civil rule which is a combination of the priestly religious through the temple and the civil government through the throne.
⦁ This can only be done in one person who is both God and man and have the right to be King and priest and that is His Son Jesus who can fit both roles as He alone can take away the sin of the world and forgive those who sin who call upon Him. Anyway the Lord used David to bring the Ark up to Jerusalem and He used David’s son Solomon to build the temple.
Part 3b Who Owns the Temple Mount the Real Owner is God through the Tribe of Judah
⦁ David also bought the threshing floor over which the Angel of the Lord stood when God was judging Israel for a sin they had committed against Him when David took a census of the number of people in his army.
⦁ God was about to punish Jerusalem but relented when David saw the Angel of the Lord and he fell on his face to worship he bought the threshing floor from Araunah the Jebusite so that David could offer to God sacrifices, he paid for this threshing floor in both gold and silver which symbolize divinity and redemption. (The original residents of Jerusalem they were called Jebusites they lived in Jerusalem before David conquered the city and made it his own please see 2 Samuel 5:6-14)
⦁ God owes no man any money for the temple mount David was used by the Lord to pay for the whole of Mt Moriah on which the two temples stood and a third temple will stand again and of which ridge the Mt of Olives is part of.
⦁ He owns this piece of land fair and square in other words this land belongs to the Jewish people more importantly it is owned by the house of David the Tribe of Judah and it is for the temple to be built by King Solomon see 1 kings chs 5-9 for God to be worshiped in on this very spot and for His Son to be sacrificed for the world’s sins.
⦁ God owns the whole earth but He will be in no man’s debt and He had this land paid for by his chosen king David. No one can accuse the Israeli people of stealing this land or not paying the owners of the land the money as the Lord bought it from Araunah the Jebusite who owned the temple mount originally. 2 Samuel 24:11-25, and 1 Chronicles 21:14-30
2 Samuel 24:16-25
16 And when the angel stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to destroy it, the Lord relented of the evil and reversed His judgment and said to the destroying angel, It is enough; now stay your hand. And the angel of the Lord was by the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.
18 Then Gad came to David and said, Go up, rear an altar to the Lord on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.
19 So David went up according to Gad’s word, as the Lord commanded.
20 Araunah looked and saw the king and his servants coming toward him; and [he] went out and bowed himself before the king with his face to the ground.
21 Araunah said, Why has my lord the king come to his servant? And David said, To buy the threshing floor from you, to build there an altar to the Lord, that the plague may be stayed from the people.
22 And Araunah said to David, Let my lord the king take and offer up what seems good to him. Behold, here are oxen for burnt sacrifice, and threshing instruments and the yokes of the oxen for wood.
23 All this, O king, Araunah gives to the king. And Araunah said to the king, The Lord your God accept you.
24 But King David said to Araunah, No, but I will buy it of you for a price. I will not offer burnt offerings to the Lord my God of that which costs me nothing. So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.
25 David built there an altar to the Lord and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. So the Lord heeded the prayers for the land, and Israel’s plague was stayed.
1 Chronicles 21:14, 16-30
14 God sent an angel to Jerusalem to destroy it, and as he was destroying, the Lord beheld, and He regretted and relented of the evil and said to the destroying angel, 16 It is enough; now stay your hand. And the angel of the Lord stood by the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
18 Then the angel of the Lord commanded Gad to say to David that David should go up and set up an altar to the Lord in the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
19 So David went up at Gad’s word, which he spoke in the name of the Lord.
20 Now Ornan was threshing wheat, and he turned back and saw the angel; and his four sons hid themselves.
21 And as David came to Ornan, Ornan looked and saw him, and went out from the threshing floor and bowed himself to David with his face to the ground.
22 Then David said to Ornan, Grant me the site of this threshing floor, that I may build an altar on it to the Lord. You shall charge me the full price for it, that the plague may be averted from the people.
23 Ornan said to David, Take it; and let my lord the king do what is good in his eyes. I give you the oxen also for burnt offerings and the threshing sledges for wood and the wheat for the meal offering. I give it all.
24 And King David said to Ornan, No, but I will pay the full price. I will not take what is yours for the Lord, nor offer burnt offerings which cost me nothing.
25 So David gave to Ornan for the site 600 shekels of gold by weight.
26 And David built there an altar to the Lord and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings and called upon the Lord; and He answered him by fire from heaven upon the altar of burnt offering.
27 Then the Lord commanded the [avenging] angel, and he put his sword back into its sheath.
28 When David saw that the Lord had answered him at the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite, he sacrificed there.
29 For the tabernacle of the Lord, which Moses made in the wilderness, and the altar of burnt offering were at that time in the high place at Gibeon.
30 But David could not go before it to inquire of God, for he was afraid of the sword of the angel of the Lord.
⦁ It is the Muslims who are trespassing on the temple mount and it is they who should be paying rent to the Jewish people for the use of that land for their mosque which sits on the land where the third temple should go and it will be built again one day.
This third temple will be built sometime soon in the very near future as I have written in other blog posts that the people of Israel have the artifacts to go into the temple. They have priests in training. You can look this up on the following website.
http://www.templeinstitute.org/
The Temple Institute
https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2014/04/10/israeli-institute-prepares-priests-for-jerusalems-third-temple
Israeli institute prepares priests for Jerusalem Third Temple.
The Third Temple will be built just before the beginning of the time of the 70th week of Daniel. This is when the sacrifices will be offered up to God and the priests will be doing their priestly duties in the temple. For the temple has to be in existence at this time because the two witnesses of Revelation will be prophesying under the power of the Holy Spirit during this false peace period and John is told to measure those who worship within the temple but not outside it in the court of the Gentiles.
Revelation 11:1-4
I do tend to call this third temple the Tribulation Temple for the antichrist will sit in this temple and rule the earth from the holy of holies in this temple. By the time he does this he will be totally possessed by satan and will place the abomination of desolation in the holy place where the sacrifices once took place.
⦁ Though the Antichrist will sit briefly in this temple the Lord will root him out when He returns to the earth and He will cleanse this temple so that He can sit in the temple once more. Isaiah 66:6, Ezekiel 13:13-27, 2 Thessalonians 2:4, Revelation 19:19-21.
Isaiah 66:6
6 A voice of noise from the city, a voice from the temple, a voice of the Lord that rendereth recompence to his enemies.
Malachi 3:1-6
⦁ In regards to historical evidence of the Lord dying on the mount of Olives on the cross and rising again from this spot after being buried there too, I will put here excellent web sites for people to look up as others have done the home work and written more in depth on this interesting topic, so I will let them have their say, rather than me taking from them what they have done on this topic.
Websites of Jesus being crucified on the Mt of Olives
Where in Jerusalem did Jesus die, was buried and rose again.
http://www.hope-of-israel.org/wherejer.htm
http://askelm.com/doctrine/d920401.htm
http://www.cortright.org/locatcru.htm
http://www.reformation.org/6-changes-of-constantine.html
The second Temple an interesting web site about the Second Temple aka Herod’s Temple
http://www.mycrandall.ca/courses/NTIntro/JerusalTempl4.htm
The Red Heifer and the crucifixion
http://www.greatcommission.com/TheRedHeiferandtheCrucifixion.html
The Red Heifer Bridge
http://templemountlocation.com/redHeiferBridge.html
The Mount of Olives and Jewish Tradition
http://www.koladonai.org/ph/index.php?option=com_content
Next blog post will be Part 4.
The Lord Jesus died outside the walls of Jerusalem most possibly this would have been on the Mount of Olives
Hebrews 13:10-14
10 We have an altar from which those who serve and worship in the tabernacle have no right to eat.
11 For when the blood of animals is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest as a sacrifice for sin, the victims’ bodies are burned outside the limits of the camp.
12 Therefore Jesus also suffered and died outside the [city’s] gate in order that He might purify and consecrate the people through [the shedding of] His own blood and set them apart as holy [for God].
13 Let us then go forth [from all that would prevent us] to Him outside the camp [at Calvary], bearing the contempt and abuse and shame with Him.
14 For here we have no permanent city, but we are looking for the one which is to come.
The role of the false witnesses in the trial of Jesus
⦁ Let’s back up a little to His trial in the law of Moses Deuteronomy 19:15-21 it states that if anyone has an accusation against anyone they were to air their grievances in the presences of God, the judges (elders) and the priests.
Deuteronomy 19:15-21
15 One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin, in any sin that he sinneth: at the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall the matter be established.
16 If a false witness rise up against any man to testify against him that which is wrong;
17 Then both the men, between whom the controversy is, shall stand before the Lord, before the priests and the judges, which shall be in those days;
18 And the judges shall make diligent inquisition: and, behold, if the witness be a false witness, and hath testified falsely against his brother;
19 Then shall ye do unto him, as he had thought to have done unto his brother: so shalt thou put the evil away from among you.
20 And those which remain shall hear, and fear, and shall henceforth commit no more any such evil among you.
21 And thine eye shall not pity; but life shall go for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.
So if they wanted that person killed for being an idolater and they themselves were the ones committing this sin and after careful examination it was proved the one accusing the other person is a false witness well it was they who would be put to death.
⦁ As in the case of Jesus He was brought before the Sanhedrin in a hastily arranged hearing, being in a room within the temple walls - this was called the stone chamber- He was technically standing in the presence of God being in the temple He was before the elders and the priests.
They arranged false witnesses against Him whose testimony couldn’t even stand up.
Interesting Jesus says in these verses below that those coming against Him to arrest Him, He likens them to coming out against a thief with sticks and staves.
Then in the time of His coming Jesus will come against His enemies like a thief see also Matthew 24:42-44,
1 Thessalonians 5:2-5, 2 Peter 3:10, Revelation 3:3, Revelation 16:15.
Matthew 26:55-66
55 In that same hour said Jesus to the multitudes, Are ye come out as against a thief with swords and staves for to take me? I sat daily with you teaching in the temple, and ye laid no hold on me.
56 But all this was done, that the scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled. Then all the disciples forsook him, and fled.
57 And they that had laid hold on Jesus led him away to Caiaphas the high priest, where the scribes and the elders were assembled.
58 But Peter followed him afar off unto the high priest's palace, and went in, and sat with the servants, to see the end.
59 Now the chief priests, and elders, and all the council, sought false witness against Jesus, to put him to death;
60 But found none: yea, though many false witnesses came, yet found they none. At the last came two false witnesses,
61 And said, This fellow said, I am able to destroy the temple of God, and to build it in three days.
62 And the high priest arose, and said unto him, Answerest thou nothing? what is it which these witness against thee?
63 But Jesus held his peace, And the high priest answered and said unto him, I adjure thee by the living God, that thou tell us whether thou be the Christ, the Son of God.
64 Jesus saith unto him, Thou hast said: nevertheless I say unto you, Hereafter shall ye see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of heaven.
65 Then the high priest rent his clothes, saying, He hath spoken blasphemy; what further need have we of witnesses? behold, now ye have heard his blasphemy.
66 What think ye? They answered and said, He is guilty of death.
John 18:19-24
19 The high priest then asked Jesus of his disciples, and of his doctrine.
20 Jesus answered him, I spake openly to the world; I ever taught in the synagogue, and in the temple, whither the Jews always resort; and in secret have I said nothing.
21 Why askest thou me? ask them which heard me, what I have said unto them: behold, they know what I said.
22 And when he had thus spoken, one of the officers which stood by struck Jesus with the palm of his hand, saying, Answerest thou the high priest so?
23 Jesus answered him, If I have spoken evil, bear witness of the evil: but if well, why smitest thou me?
24 Now Annas had sent him bound unto Caiaphas the high priest.
⦁ The false witnesses should have been put to death and not Jesus yet He even took the rap for the false witnesses who spoke against Him falsely which was against their own law. They broke their own law to put Jesus to death. Even God was silent and did not defend His Son as they had this Kangaroo court in the temple before God but God the Father and God the Son were working together to allow Him Jesus to go to the cross so that He could bear the punishment for sin upon His own self for mankind’s sake which included Israel. John 18:1-27, Matthew 26:57-67 Mark 14:53-65.
Getting back to where Jesus was crucified.
⦁ From my research on where the Lord was crucified as He was crucified outside the camp of Israel that means He was taken outside the walls of Jerusalem (Hebrews 13:11-14) to die on the cross for the sins of the world and He would have to be facing the temple not be crucified behind the temple on the western side of it.
The church of the Holy Sepulchre is behind where the Temple once stood. In other words it is to the west of the Temple not to the east of it. It is within the walls of the city of Jerusalem in the old quarter not outside the walls of the city. As Hebrews 13 states Jesus died outside the gates of the city not within the gates of the city.
Scripture bears out that anything to do with sin had to be burned outside the camp or in the case of the red heifer to be killed outside the camp of Israel to the east of the Tabernacle then later on the temple/s in Jerusalem. More on this further down.
The place where they say Jesus was crucified, buried and rose again is not correct.
It is in the wrong place. According to the things I have read on the net about this the place where this church now stands it was once a noted rabbi's grave and then it was made into a pagan temple to Juno by the Romans when they sacked Jerusalem.
Also another point to consider if the Romans crucified Jesus in the city of Jerusalem proper it would have been a riot for the Jews would not have allowed this to take place.
I also read that the Romans normally crucified people near the place where they arrested them and Jesus was arrested in a garden. John 19 mentions that near the place where Jesus was crucified and later was buried there was a garden. See reference to this further down.
So Jesus would have to be facing the temple on the eastern side of the temple looking west towards the sanctuary ie the front of the temple.
The Sanctuary would have been facing towards the east and Jesus on the cross would have been looking towards the Sanctuary but facing westwards from the cross.
Jesus as a type of the Red Heifer
Numbers 19:1-22
1 And the Lord spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,
2 This is the ordinance of the law which the Lord hath commanded, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, that they bring thee a red heifer without spot, wherein is no blemish, and upon which never came yoke:
3 And ye shall give her unto Eleazar the priest, that he may bring her forth without the camp, and one shall slay her before his face:
4 And Eleazar the priest shall take of her blood with his finger, and sprinkle of her blood directly before the tabernacle of the congregation seven times:
5 And one shall burn the heifer in his sight; her skin, and her flesh, and her blood, with her dung, shall he burn:
6 And the priest shall take cedar wood, and hyssop, and scarlet, and cast it into the midst of the burning of the heifer.
7 Then the priest shall wash his clothes, and he shall bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he shall come into the camp, and the priest shall be unclean until the even.
8 And he that burneth her shall wash his clothes in water, and bathe his flesh in water, and shall be unclean until the even.
9 And a man that is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer, and lay them up without the camp in a clean place, and it shall be kept for the congregation of the children of Israel for a water of separation: it is a purification for sin.
10 And he that gathereth the ashes of the heifer shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even: and it shall be unto the children of Israel, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among them, for a statute for ever.
11 He that toucheth the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days.
12 He shall purify himself with it on the third day, and on the seventh day he shall be clean: but if he purify not himself the third day, then the seventh day he shall not be clean.
13 Whosoever toucheth the dead body of any man that is dead, and purifieth not himself, defileth the tabernacle of the Lord; and that soul shall be cut off from Israel: because the water of separation was not sprinkled upon him, he shall be unclean; his uncleanness is yet upon him.
14 This is the law, when a man dieth in a tent: all that come into the tent, and all that is in the tent, shall be unclean seven days.
15 And every open vessel, which hath no covering bound upon it, is unclean.
16 And whosoever toucheth one that is slain with a sword in the open fields, or a dead body, or a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days.
17 And for an unclean person they shall take of the ashes of the burnt heifer of purification for sin, and running water shall be put thereto in a vessel:
18 And a clean person shall take hyssop, and dip it in the water, and sprinkle it upon the tent, and upon all the vessels, and upon the persons that were there, and upon him that touched a bone, or one slain, or one dead, or a grave:
19 And the clean person shall sprinkle upon the unclean on the third day, and on the seventh day: and on the seventh day he shall purify himself, and wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and shall be clean at even.
20 But the man that shall be unclean, and shall not purify himself, that soul shall be cut off from among the congregation, because he hath defiled the sanctuary of the Lord: the water of separation hath not been sprinkled upon him; he is unclean.
21 And it shall be a perpetual statute unto them, that he that sprinkleth the water of separation shall wash his clothes; and he that toucheth the water of separation shall be unclean until even.
22 And whatsoever the unclean person toucheth shall be unclean; and the soul that toucheth it shall be unclean until even.
⦁ Christ is a type of the red heifer as well. For the ashes of the heifer were to cleanse people from touching dead bodies. Also notice that the sprinkling of this water of cleansing/ purification had to be done on two days the third and the seventh day.
The person doing the sprinkling of this water with hysop had to be a clean person. Jesus is that clean person for He has been sanctified and He is the only one pure enough to cleanse us spiritually from our sins.
John 17:16-20
16 They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
17 Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.
18 As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world.
19 And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth.
20 Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word;
I believe that the two days mentioned are significant for this relates to Christ, His death, resurrection and second coming for those who have been cleansed by His blood and water of purification the water that came out of His side and the word that is preached.
For He cleanses us from being spiritually dead separated from God. The ashes of a heifer cleansed people from touching dead bodies.
Christ's death does more than doing a surface cleansing. He cleanses us from all uncleanness of the heart. For Jeremiah states that the heart is sick.
Jeremiah 17:9-10
9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
10 I the Lord search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.
Christ rose on the third day, He took His blood into the heavenly sanctuary to cleanse the heavens and to atone for all sin to be placed on the Mercy Seat of the Ark of the Covenant ie the throne of God in heaven in the temple's Holy of holies in heaven.Also Jesus will come back on the seventh day or the time before the seventh day begins of the time God has allowed for man. Psalm 110 speaks of the womb of the morning. This refers to the new day in God when He begins His rule on the earth.
Psalm 110:1-7
1 The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool.
2 The Lord shall send the rod of thy strength out of Zion: rule thou in the midst of thine enemies.
3 Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power, in the beauties of holiness from the womb of the morning: thou hast the dew of thy youth.
4 The Lord hath sworn, and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.
5 The Lord at thy right hand shall strike through kings in the day of his wrath.
6 He shall judge among the heathen, he shall fill the places with the dead bodies; he shall wound the heads over many countries.
7 He shall drink of the brook in the way: therefore shall he lift up the head.
Men have had six thousand years to rule on the earth. The seventh day the seventh thousand years period belongs to God to rule on the earth. Remember with God one day is as a thousand years.
2 Peter 3:8
8 But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
For it is His rest just like He rested on the seventh day when He created the world from His labors.
So too there will be a physical and spiritual rest for God and the earth when Jesus returns to rule on the earth for a thousand years or the day of the Lord.
This is when He brings salvation in full and we gain our glorified bodies both those who are asleep in Christ and those who are awake and are caught up to be with Him.
It also states in Numbers 19 that if anyone does not cleanse themselves with the ashes of the red heifer in the way that God prescribes. That these people were to be cut off from being among the congregation of Israel for they have defiled the sanctuary of God.
So too this applies for those outside of Christ when He returns if they do not accept His cleansing His salvation through the blood of His atonement then they too will be cast out because they are unclean spiritually dead in their sins still.
Remember God says in the end of Joel 3 and Zechariah 14 that no unholy person will come upon His holy mountain. The temple in the millennial kingdom is to be holy and those who serve within it must be holy too.
Also Revelation 22 states that the wicked will stay wicked and the righteous will remain righteous.
Joel 3:17
17 So shall ye know that I am the Lord your God dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain: then shall Jerusalem be holy, and there shall no strangers pass through her any more.
Zechariah 14:20-21
20 In that day shall there be upon the bells of the horses, Holiness Unto The Lord; and the pots in the Lord's house shall be like the bowls before the altar.
21 Yea, every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah shall be holiness unto the Lord of hosts: and all they that sacrifice shall come and take of them, and seethe therein: and in that day there shall be no more the Canaanite in the house of the Lord of hosts.
Ezekiel 43:1-12
1 Afterward he brought me to the gate, even the gate that looketh toward the east:
2 And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel came from the way of the east: and his voice was like a noise of many waters: and the earth shined with his glory.
3 And it was according to the appearance of the vision which I saw, even according to the vision that I saw when I came to destroy the city: and the visions were like the vision that I saw by the river Chebar; and I fell upon my face.
4 And the glory of the Lord came into the house by the way of the gate whose prospect is toward the east.
5 So the spirit took me up, and brought me into the inner court; and, behold, the glory of the Lord filled the house.
6 And I heard him speaking unto me out of the house; and the man stood by me.
7 And he said unto me, Son of man, the place of my throne, and the place of the soles of my feet, where I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel for ever, and my holy name, shall the house of Israel no more defile, neither they, nor their kings, by their whoredom, nor by the carcases of their kings in their high places.
8 In their setting of their threshold by my thresholds, and their post by my posts, and the wall between me and them, they have even defiled my holy name by their abominations that they have committed: wherefore I have consumed them in mine anger.
9 Now let them put away their whoredom, and the carcases of their kings, far from me, and I will dwell in the midst of them for ever.
10 Thou son of man, shew the house to the house of Israel, that they may be ashamed of their iniquities: and let them measure the pattern.
11 And if they be ashamed of all that they have done, shew them the form of the house, and the fashion thereof, and the goings out thereof, and the comings in thereof, and all the forms thereof, and all the ordinances thereof, and all the forms thereof, and all the laws thereof: and write it in their sight, that they may keep the whole form thereof, and all the ordinances thereof, and do them.
12 This is the law of the house; Upon the top of the mountain the whole limit thereof round about shall be most holy. Behold, this is the law of the house.
Ezekiel 44:1-9
1 Then he brought me back the way of the gate of the outward sanctuary which looketh toward the east; and it was shut.
2 Then said the Lord unto me; This gate shall be shut, it shall not be opened, and no man shall enter in by it; because the Lord, the God of Israel, hath entered in by it, therefore it shall be shut.
3 It is for the prince; the prince, he shall sit in it to eat bread before the Lord; he shall enter by the way of the porch of that gate, and shall go out by the way of the same.
4 Then brought he me the way of the north gate before the house: and I looked, and, behold, the glory of the Lord filled the house of the Lord: and I fell upon my face.
5 And the Lord said unto me, Son of man, mark well, and behold with thine eyes, and hear with thine ears all that I say unto thee concerning all the ordinances of the house of the Lord, and all the laws thereof; and mark well the entering in of the house, with every going forth of the sanctuary.
6 And thou shalt say to the rebellious, even to the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord God; O ye house of Israel, let it suffice you of all your abominations,
7 In that ye have brought into my sanctuary strangers, uncircumcised in heart, and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary, to pollute it, even my house, when ye offer my bread, the fat and the blood, and they have broken my covenant because of all your abominations.
8 And ye have not kept the charge of mine holy things: but ye have set keepers of my charge in my sanctuary for yourselves.
9 Thus saith the Lord God; No stranger, uncircumcised in heart, nor uncircumcised in flesh, shall enter into my sanctuary, of any stranger that is among the children of Israel.
Revelation 22:10-12
10 And he saith unto me, Seal not the sayings of the prophecy of this book: for the time is at hand.
11 He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still.
12 And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be.
Please note too that Hebrews 9 mentions about the ashes of the heifer cannot clean from sin only Jesus can.Hebrews 9:11-15, 23-28
11 But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building;
12 Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.
13 For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh:
14 How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
15 And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.
23 It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.
24 For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us:
25 Nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place every year with blood of others;
26 For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.
27 And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:
28 So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.
For the red heifer had to be taken outside the camp to be sacrificed and her blood was sprinkled seven times towards the Sanctuary of the Tabernacle or temple in Jerusalem. The tabernacle then the temple faced east so for the blood to be sprinkled towards the tabernacle then later on towards the temple.
They had to be to the east of the tabernacle or across from the temple in other words they would have to be facing west to be able to sprinkle the blood of the slain heifer towards the front of the sanctuary which faced eastewards, and later on the front of the temple which faced eastwards.
That is why I state that where the church of the Holy Sepulchre is in the wrong place because it is to the west of where the temple stood. It is behind it.
They did take the red heifer over the brook Kidron to offer her up before the Lord on the Mt of Olives.
The heifer was killed on the Mt of Olives on a mount called the Mt of Atonement outside the east gate of the temple.
So it is possible that Jesus died near the actual place where they killed the red heifer across from the temple facing it from the Mt of Olives to the east side of the Temple which is the front of the Temple.
I have put web links about the red heifer sacrifice at the end of this blog post for you to look up.
⦁ So it would stand to reason that our Lord too would have been taken over the brook Kidron and sacrificed/ crucified on or near the brow of the Mt of Olives overlooking the main thoroughfare leading into Jerusalem and facing the eastern part front of the Temple Sanctuary at the same time.
Jesus had to die facing the temple
⦁ Jesus completed the task and at the end when Father’s wrath against sin was satisfied He said it was finished and gave up the ghost.
John 19:29-30
29 Now there was set a vessel full of vinegar: and they filled a spunge with vinegar, and put it upon hyssop, and put it to his mouth.
30 When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost.
⦁ To show that He met the criteria of God’s wrath against sin and that His sacrifice for sin was accepted by God, the curtain in front of the Sanctuary was torn in two and the graves were opened due to an earthquake and the dead rose - the righteous dead. Matthew 27:50-54
50 Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost.
51 And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent;
52 And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose,
53 And came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.
54 Now when the centurion, and they that were with him, watching Jesus, saw the earthquake, and those things that were done, they feared greatly, saying, Truly this was the Son of God.
⦁ All of this had to be done facing the temple or how else would those standing watching His crucifixion be able to notice these strange events and the centurion even exclaimed that Jesus must have been God’s Son. Matthew 27:45-54, Mark 15:33-39, Luke 23:44-49.⦁ As I had stated I had done some research on the net about where our Lord must have been crucified and buried and a number of reliable websites have pointed to a strong possibility that He was crucified and buried on the Mt of Olives.
They also give very strong documentary evidence as to the reason why and how the early Christian church used to go and visit the place of His crucifixion and burial and resurrection place on the Mt of Olives.
I believe that this is correct as He also ascended to heaven from the Mount of Olives hence proving that He had triumphed over sin and death and He is coming back to this spot in triumph as King of all Glory to rule from Jerusalem for His millennial kingdom.
⦁ Also King David left Jerusalem over the Mt of Olives when fleeing from his son Absalom 2 Samuel 15
⦁ God had Abraham offer up Isaac on this very same mountain the Mt of Olives which would have faced Jerusalem the future temple mount, this was the mountain
⦁ God showed Abraham which mountain to offer Isaac up on as in the distant future His own dearly beloved Son will die on the cross for man’s sins on this mountain and will come back one day to the earth on this mountain and will enter Jerusalem from this mountain. Genesis 22:1-19, Zechariah 14:1-9, Acts 1:9-11.
He will also enter the millennial temple which will be on top of Mt Zion from the east see Ezekiel chapters 43 & 44 I have put the verses in above section on the Red Heifer.
⦁ Jesus was taken out of Jerusalem to be crucified and events that happened at His death. He was taken out of the city to be crucified,those who passed by on the way into the city reviled Him, the women who followed Him stood afar off. If He was crucified where they say He was crucified and buried and rose again from where the church of the Holy Sepulchre stands how can people stand afar off for it will be in the city how could people pass by and finally in John 19 it states that where He was crucified it was near the city.
Matthew 27:31-33, 39
31 And after that they had mocked him, they took the robe off from him, and put his own raiment on him, and led him away to crucify him.
32 And as they came out, they found a man of Cyrene, Simon by name: him they compelled to bear his cross.
33 And when they were come unto a place called Golgotha, that is to say, a place of a skull,
34 And they that passed by reviled him, wagging their heads,
Mark 15:20-25, 29
20 And when they had mocked him, they took off the purple from him, and put his own clothes on him, and led him out to crucify him.
21 And they compel one Simon a Cyrenian, who passed by, coming out of the country, the father of Alexander and Rufus, to bear his cross.
22 And they bring him unto the place Golgotha, which is, being interpreted, The place of a skull.
23 And they gave him to drink wine mingled with myrrh: but he received it not.
24 And when they had crucified him, they parted his garments, casting lots upon them, what every man should take.
25 And it was the third hour, and they crucified him.
26 And they that passed by railed on him, wagging their heads, and saying, Ah, thou that destroyest the temple, and buildest it in three days,
Luke 23:25-34, 44-49 25 And he released unto them him that for sedition and murder was cast into prison, whom they had desired; but he delivered Jesus to their will.
26 And as they led him away, they laid hold upon one Simon, a Cyrenian, coming out of the country, and on him they laid the cross, that he might bear it after Jesus.
27 And there followed him a great company of people, and of women, which also bewailed and lamented him.
28 But Jesus turning unto them said, Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me, but weep for yourselves, and for your children.
29 For, behold, the days are coming, in the which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck.
30 Then shall they begin to say to the mountains, Fall on us; and to the hills, Cover us.
31 For if they do these things in a green tree, what shall be done in the dry?
32 And there were also two other, malefactors, led with him to be put to death.
33 And when they were come to the place, which is called Calvary, there they crucified him, and the malefactors, one on the right hand, and the other on the left.
34 Then said Jesus, Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do. And they parted his raiment, and cast lots.
And it was about the sixth hour, and there was a darkness over all the earth until the ninth hour.
45 And the sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was rent in the midst.
46 And when Jesus had cried with a loud voice, he said, Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit: and having said thus, he gave up the ghost.
47 Now when the centurion saw what was done, he glorified God, saying, Certainly this was a righteous man.
48 And all the people that came together to that sight, beholding the things which were done, smote their breasts, and returned.
49 And all his acquaintance, and the women that followed him from Galilee, stood afar off, beholding these things.
John 19:16-20
16 Then delivered he him therefore unto them to be crucified. And they took Jesus, and led him away.
17 And he bearing his cross went forth into a place called the place of a skull, which is called in the Hebrew Golgotha:
18 Where they crucified him, and two other with him, on either side one, and Jesus in the midst.
19 And Pilate wrote a title, and put it on the cross. And the writing was Jesus Of Nazareth The King Of The Jews.
20 This title then read many of the Jews: for the place where Jesus was crucified was nigh to the city: and it was written in Hebrew, and Greek, and Latin.
⦁ A garden near where He was crucified where He was buried.John 19:38-42
38 And after this Joseph of Arimathaea, being a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, besought Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus: and Pilate gave him leave. He came therefore, and took the body of Jesus.
39 And there came also Nicodemus, which at the first came to Jesus by night, and brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about an hundred pound weight.
40 Then took they the body of Jesus, and wound it in linen clothes with the spices, as the manner of the Jews is to bury.
41 Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden; and in the garden a new sepulchre, wherein was never man yet laid.
42 There laid they Jesus therefore because of the Jews' preparation day; for the sepulchre was nigh at hand.
⦁ Jesus ascending from the Mt of Olives or near Bethany Luke 24:50-51
And he led them out as far as to Bethany, and he lifted up his hands, and blessed them.
51 And it came to pass, while he blessed them, he was parted from them, and carried up into heaven.
And they worshipped him, and returned to Jerusalem with great joy:
Acts 1:6-12.
6 When they therefore were come together, they asked of him, saying, Lord, wilt thou at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel?
7 And he said unto them, It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father hath put in his own power.
8 But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.
9 And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight.
10 And while they looked stedfastly toward heaven as he went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel;
11 Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven.
12 Then returned they unto Jerusalem from the mount called Olivet, which is from Jerusalem a sabbath day's journey.
Part 3a Jerusalem as God’s capital city and her cleansing by water and blood
⦁ God always had intended to have Jerusalem as His capital city from which to rule as she is the earthly representation of the heavenly Jerusalem. However one day the two will be joined and made one as the earthly Jerusalem will be totally cleansed by the water and blood that comes from our Lord’s side Isaiah 4:4-6, Jeremiah 33:5-9
⦁ When she is cleansed she will be made new and called by a new name Isaiah 62: 1-7, the city of righteousness Jeremiah 33:15-16, and the Lord is there. Ezekiel 48:35.
⦁ God had the tent of meeting at Shiloh with the Ark of the Covenant through the time of the judges up until He dealt with the house of Eli and moved the Ark away from Shiloh by allowing it to be taken captive by the Philistines see I Samuel 2:12-6:21.
⦁ So that He could have the Ark returned back to Israel and placed in another place other than Shiloh the Lord had the Ark of the Covenant placed in the house of Abinadab on the hill 1 Samuel 7:1-2 for nearly one hundred years.
⦁ The Lord was waiting until the time was right for a king to be raised up through whose line He would come later to earth to be born as man in the man Christ Jesus.
⦁ God was waiting for the time when He could move the Ark into Jerusalem and He did this through King David a man after His own heart and ancestor of His Son through the human side.
⦁ God was moving things into place so that eventually He can send His Son to earth to be born of a woman but He needed to raise up a royal dynasty through whom His Son will come through the line of Judah.
⦁ He needed to have His spiritual base in Jerusalem as well as His civil rule which is a combination of the priestly religious through the temple and the civil government through the throne.
⦁ This can only be done in one person who is both God and man and have the right to be King and priest and that is His Son Jesus who can fit both roles as He alone can take away the sin of the world and forgive those who sin who call upon Him. Anyway the Lord used David to bring the Ark up to Jerusalem and He used David’s son Solomon to build the temple.
Part 3b Who Owns the Temple Mount the Real Owner is God through the Tribe of Judah
⦁ David also bought the threshing floor over which the Angel of the Lord stood when God was judging Israel for a sin they had committed against Him when David took a census of the number of people in his army.
⦁ God was about to punish Jerusalem but relented when David saw the Angel of the Lord and he fell on his face to worship he bought the threshing floor from Araunah the Jebusite so that David could offer to God sacrifices, he paid for this threshing floor in both gold and silver which symbolize divinity and redemption. (The original residents of Jerusalem they were called Jebusites they lived in Jerusalem before David conquered the city and made it his own please see 2 Samuel 5:6-14)
⦁ God owes no man any money for the temple mount David was used by the Lord to pay for the whole of Mt Moriah on which the two temples stood and a third temple will stand again and of which ridge the Mt of Olives is part of.
⦁ He owns this piece of land fair and square in other words this land belongs to the Jewish people more importantly it is owned by the house of David the Tribe of Judah and it is for the temple to be built by King Solomon see 1 kings chs 5-9 for God to be worshiped in on this very spot and for His Son to be sacrificed for the world’s sins.
⦁ God owns the whole earth but He will be in no man’s debt and He had this land paid for by his chosen king David. No one can accuse the Israeli people of stealing this land or not paying the owners of the land the money as the Lord bought it from Araunah the Jebusite who owned the temple mount originally. 2 Samuel 24:11-25, and 1 Chronicles 21:14-30
2 Samuel 24:16-25
16 And when the angel stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to destroy it, the Lord relented of the evil and reversed His judgment and said to the destroying angel, It is enough; now stay your hand. And the angel of the Lord was by the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.
18 Then Gad came to David and said, Go up, rear an altar to the Lord on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.
19 So David went up according to Gad’s word, as the Lord commanded.
20 Araunah looked and saw the king and his servants coming toward him; and [he] went out and bowed himself before the king with his face to the ground.
21 Araunah said, Why has my lord the king come to his servant? And David said, To buy the threshing floor from you, to build there an altar to the Lord, that the plague may be stayed from the people.
22 And Araunah said to David, Let my lord the king take and offer up what seems good to him. Behold, here are oxen for burnt sacrifice, and threshing instruments and the yokes of the oxen for wood.
23 All this, O king, Araunah gives to the king. And Araunah said to the king, The Lord your God accept you.
24 But King David said to Araunah, No, but I will buy it of you for a price. I will not offer burnt offerings to the Lord my God of that which costs me nothing. So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.
25 David built there an altar to the Lord and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. So the Lord heeded the prayers for the land, and Israel’s plague was stayed.
1 Chronicles 21:14, 16-30
14 God sent an angel to Jerusalem to destroy it, and as he was destroying, the Lord beheld, and He regretted and relented of the evil and said to the destroying angel, 16 It is enough; now stay your hand. And the angel of the Lord stood by the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
18 Then the angel of the Lord commanded Gad to say to David that David should go up and set up an altar to the Lord in the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
19 So David went up at Gad’s word, which he spoke in the name of the Lord.
20 Now Ornan was threshing wheat, and he turned back and saw the angel; and his four sons hid themselves.
21 And as David came to Ornan, Ornan looked and saw him, and went out from the threshing floor and bowed himself to David with his face to the ground.
22 Then David said to Ornan, Grant me the site of this threshing floor, that I may build an altar on it to the Lord. You shall charge me the full price for it, that the plague may be averted from the people.
23 Ornan said to David, Take it; and let my lord the king do what is good in his eyes. I give you the oxen also for burnt offerings and the threshing sledges for wood and the wheat for the meal offering. I give it all.
24 And King David said to Ornan, No, but I will pay the full price. I will not take what is yours for the Lord, nor offer burnt offerings which cost me nothing.
25 So David gave to Ornan for the site 600 shekels of gold by weight.
26 And David built there an altar to the Lord and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings and called upon the Lord; and He answered him by fire from heaven upon the altar of burnt offering.
27 Then the Lord commanded the [avenging] angel, and he put his sword back into its sheath.
28 When David saw that the Lord had answered him at the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite, he sacrificed there.
29 For the tabernacle of the Lord, which Moses made in the wilderness, and the altar of burnt offering were at that time in the high place at Gibeon.
30 But David could not go before it to inquire of God, for he was afraid of the sword of the angel of the Lord.
⦁ It is the Muslims who are trespassing on the temple mount and it is they who should be paying rent to the Jewish people for the use of that land for their mosque which sits on the land where the third temple should go and it will be built again one day.
This third temple will be built sometime soon in the very near future as I have written in other blog posts that the people of Israel have the artifacts to go into the temple. They have priests in training. You can look this up on the following website.
http://www.templeinstitute.org/
The Temple Institute
https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2014/04/10/israeli-institute-prepares-priests-for-jerusalems-third-temple
Israeli institute prepares priests for Jerusalem Third Temple.
The Third Temple will be built just before the beginning of the time of the 70th week of Daniel. This is when the sacrifices will be offered up to God and the priests will be doing their priestly duties in the temple. For the temple has to be in existence at this time because the two witnesses of Revelation will be prophesying under the power of the Holy Spirit during this false peace period and John is told to measure those who worship within the temple but not outside it in the court of the Gentiles.
Revelation 11:1-4
1 And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein.
2 But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.
3 And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.
4 These are the two olive trees, and the two candlesticks standing before the God of the earth.
I do tend to call this third temple the Tribulation Temple for the antichrist will sit in this temple and rule the earth from the holy of holies in this temple. By the time he does this he will be totally possessed by satan and will place the abomination of desolation in the holy place where the sacrifices once took place.
⦁ Though the Antichrist will sit briefly in this temple the Lord will root him out when He returns to the earth and He will cleanse this temple so that He can sit in the temple once more. Isaiah 66:6, Ezekiel 13:13-27, 2 Thessalonians 2:4, Revelation 19:19-21.
Isaiah 66:6
6 A voice of noise from the city, a voice from the temple, a voice of the Lord that rendereth recompence to his enemies.
Malachi 3:1-6
1 Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the Lord of hosts.
2 But who may abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appeareth? for he is like a refiner's fire, and like fullers' soap:
3 And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver: and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto the Lord an offering in righteousness.
4 Then shall the offering of Judah and Jerusalem be pleasant unto the Lord, as in the days of old, and as in former years.
5 And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the Lord of hosts.
6 For I am the Lord, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed.
Or more than likely he will replace this man made temple with the one He has already built that Ezekiel saw in his vision of the temple in Ezekiel chapters 40-48.⦁ In regards to historical evidence of the Lord dying on the mount of Olives on the cross and rising again from this spot after being buried there too, I will put here excellent web sites for people to look up as others have done the home work and written more in depth on this interesting topic, so I will let them have their say, rather than me taking from them what they have done on this topic.
Websites of Jesus being crucified on the Mt of Olives
Where in Jerusalem did Jesus die, was buried and rose again.
http://www.hope-of-israel.org/wherejer.htm
http://askelm.com/doctrine/d920401.htm
http://www.cortright.org/locatcru.htm
http://www.reformation.org/6-changes-of-constantine.html
The second Temple an interesting web site about the Second Temple aka Herod’s Temple
http://www.mycrandall.ca/courses/NTIntro/JerusalTempl4.htm
The Red Heifer and the crucifixion
http://www.greatcommission.com/TheRedHeiferandtheCrucifixion.html
The Red Heifer Bridge
http://templemountlocation.com/redHeiferBridge.html
The Mount of Olives and Jewish Tradition
http://www.koladonai.org/ph/index.php?option=com_content
Next blog post will be Part 4.
Part 4 The Glorification of the Lord after His resurrection
Part 4a Who May eat of the Lord’s Passover that we now call Communion?
Part 4b In the New Testament until present this memorial unto the Lord of His death unto He comes is Holy and should be treated as such
