Last Days Temple in Jerusalem

I deeply appreciate your precision, your research, your lack of speculation. Of the many youtube channels I follow, I feel yours is consistently the most trustworthy. Thank you for your fantastic, reliable work!

Thank you for your gift of research and organizing your knowledge so the rest of us can receive a clearer view and gain better understanding. Blessings to you..

I was hoping you'd bring up the other possible location that with recent compelling archeological finds, including a natural spring within its walls, is actually right next to the currently assumed temple mount and that the current one is actually a Roman fort. According to the scriptures the Romans built a massive fort overlooking the Jewish temple to watch what the Jews were doing and was right next to it. Also the temple was built on a living spring. How wild would it be if this whole time they've been fighting over an old Roman fort.

This video is just what I needed to know about Jerusalem and the temples there. I have been using the LDS Library app like an audiobook playing the scriptures, and been playing the Old Testament multiple times. I feel like I am more connected to those old times, being interested in the Table of Showbread and the Ark Of the Covenant.

I just watched a video on the discovery of the Melchizedek Temple! It wasn't know that there was a temple before Solomon's. We live in such exciting times!

I’ve probably already told you this, but I really really appreciate all your hard work and research into this gospel topics. I really enjoy watching it and learning.

as an outsider, i really appreciate your perspective on this. While it's a long standing dream for us to rebuild the Beis haMikdash, there's actually a lot of things that still have to happen before it can come into play. While there is a lot of work being done by the Temple Institute and others, we are still quite a way away from it. For starters, there needs to be a red heifer (which has been making the news lately) in order to purify the building space itself as well as the instruments etc. The second factor that comes into play are the Kohanim and Leviim themselves. While we have plenty of both, the problem comes with ritual purity. And there's a whole lot technical legal details to get into here, but suffice it to say that while work is progressing it is not likely to happen today or even in the near future. As a religious Jew i've truly never understood why it has to be one or the other, either a temple or a mosque. From an historical perspective, there has been lot's of cases of buildings being co-used as both a mosque and a synagogue, including one currently in NYC. I guess we still have some growing up to do before we can reach the ideals set forth by our respective creeds. Many have actually speculated that with the third temple there will not be the animal sacrifices but only the grain, first fruits, and mincha (afternoon) offerings. This is likely, from the perspective of halacha. Even in the days of the earlier Beisei haMikdash animal sacrifice was not seen as the ideal, but rather an addition to the traditional formula of Tefilla, Teshuva, and Tzedakkah (prayer, repentence, and charity). The system of animal sacrifices was actually part of the latter, creating a system in which the poor were assured to have access to meat (here it is important to remember that during biblical times, Israel did not have a market economy or modern technology that makes food readily available throughout the year). The central point of the push to rebuild the Beis haMikdash in contemporary Jewish religious though is not to bring back the sacrificial system but rather to provide a central focal point for the Jewish people as well as the normalization of religious practice. One of the functions of the temple in biblical times (frequently overlooked by non-jewish readers) is to serve as a kind of supreme rabbinic court. There are currently a number of discrepencies both minor and major that in theory can't be rectified without this function. A prime example is whether or not rice and beans are prohibited on passover. The actual prohibition is on leavened grains, including grains that could have become leavened due to naturally occuring wild yeast. Some communities say that this only applies to the five grains grown in biblical israel (barley, rye, oats, wheat, and spelt), while other communities expand this to include rice , corn, and beans (not grown in ancient israel, and in the case of beans and corn unknown to ancient israel). due to the longstanding nature of this disagreement, it cannot be resolved until a higher central authority can examine the case. This is a minor example, and one that at most leads to some minor inconvenience for a week. There are certainly others with far more important implications to the community (such as issues surrounding religious divorce).

Brought tears to my eyes to continue to study the gospel. thank you!

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I'm intrigued by the theory that the temple mount is actually the roman fortress which had to be large enough to hold a legion of at least 6000 soldiers and that the temple was located off to the side in the city of David which until recently was hidden from the world. Either way I look forward to it's rebuilding as millions of people do.

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Loved the 5 min insert and the larger context. As a member of the The Church Of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints I was glad to read a copy of our policy of NOT proselytizing in Israel, Arab lands or Turkey. Very interesting.

I appreciate the history behind the temple mount.

Love these instructional videos!! So well researched and presented.

Thank you ! This has been very helpful. I am grateful for Come Follow Me lessons and Book of Mormon Central, now Scripture Central. I of the things that have been impressed on me is the importance of faith and patience. There are some things that have become more clear with time and study. While other things are not completely understood, yet it all has begun to fit together more peaceful. I feel at this time I can move forward feeling much better knowing that The Lord will teach us what we need to know when we need to know it 🙏. Thank you again this has been very helpful, I really liked the history lesson. I'm happy to learn how other religions and people are viewing our days and getting ready to move forward and accomplish the things they believe they should be doing when the time is right. A couple of years ago our wards Gospel Doctrine teachers (a couple teaching together) did know anything about the 2 missionaries in Jerusalem at the last battle before The Savior came on the Mount of Olives. I need to listen again because even though I did know about them, it's not quite clear - and I was thinking there were 3 instead of 2. The fact that they will be there is the take away & things well get clearer as we study and move forward. Thank you again.

Thank you for your beautiful & comprehensive presentation.

I really love the analysis of conditions that you put into your video work, it really helps de-mystify and helps bring prophecy into focus. We are commanded to read and ponder the scriptures but I appreciate the hard work that goes into narrowing down the conditions of the last days as much as we are able. It's quite uplifting to know that God's plan and the markers of His plan are there for us to see while we are so beset about with evil in this modern day, so much in fact it can be very demoralizing if you don't pay attention to God's work being accomplished and the signs thereof.

Very thorough. I was told similar things during my semester at the Jerusalem Center especially about the location just north of the Dome. Although I always believed there were 7 appearances of Christ in the Last Days (including the first vision and the Kirtland Temple). Perhaps the 4 appearances you discuss are 4 of 7 that more proximally relate to the second coming. Thank you for this and ALL your videos!

Yes!! The Temple could be built after the Mount of Olives is split! I’m not the only person to think this!! Thanks!

Love your videos and look forward to new ones when they come out. Thanks for your service!