“Temple
Denial, is also denial of the Gospels,” says former Israeli Ambassador to the
US Michael Oren. Although the current Temple Mount debate focuses on Jewish and
Muslim worship, the holy site also has religious significance to Christians.
Who practices their religion on the Temple Mount is a very different question
to who can stake religious claim to the holy site. Last week Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu met with Jordan’s King Abdullah and US Secretary of State
John Kerry to discuss the recent incidents of terror provoked by the
Temple Mount debate. “Following Thursday's talks" Jordanian Foreign
Minister Nasser Judeh told reporters, "firm commitments were made to
maintain the decades-old status quo that allows only Muslims to pray at
Al-Aqsa.” For Christians, as for Jews, the “status quo” which forbids them
to pray on the Temple Mount, is rooted in the notion that no Jewish Temple ever
existed on the Temple Mount in the first place. Read the complete article at --
http://www.jpost.com/Christian-News/Christians-Jews-and-the-Holy-Mountain-382585?utm_source=Newsletter+11-23-2014&utm_campaign=Newsletter&utm_medium=email
The witnesses, laying their coats at the feet of Saul, were the men that would cast the first stones at Stephen in Acts 7. Why did they all lay their coats at Saul’s feet? The Talmud contains a very interesting account of the act of stoning that may provide the answer. “When the trial was over, they take him [the condemned person] out to be stoned. The place of stoning was at a distance from the court, as it is said, ‘Take out the one who has cursed.’ [i] A man stands at the entrance of the court; in his hand is a signaling flag [Hebrew sudarin = sudar , ‘scarf, sweater’]. A horseman was stationed far away but within sight of him. If one [of the judges] says, ‘I have something [more] to say in his favor,’ he [the signaler] waves the sudarin , and the horseman runs and stops them [from stoning him]. Even if [the condemned person] himself says, ‘I have something to say in my favor,’ they bring him back, even four of five times, only provided that there is some substance to...
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