The Coming Temple - Full Documentary

[kriss]

The Coming Temple - Full Documentary

Filmed in the Old City of Jerusalem, this ground-breaking documentary investigates the research of renowned Biblical archaeologists, Bob Cornuke, David Sielaff and Earnest L. Martin who claim that Solomon and Herod's Temples never stood on the Haram al Sharif, also known as the Temple Mount. If they are right, then there is nothing to stop the Jewish people building their long awaited for Third Jewish Temple in the actual site where the Temples once stood.

Mathew24: Then Jesus went out and departed from the temple, and His disciples came up to show Him the buildings of the temple.
2 And Jesus said to them, “Do you not see all these things? Assuredly, I say to you, not one stone shall be left here upon another, that shall not be thrown down.”

(this location is still a matter of debate)

[tim-from-pa]

Not really a Cornuke fan. This is that city of David theory which I believe was adequately disproven. In the area that they claim the temple was, the Greek Acra was found by archeologists and also an old stone structure by the late Eilat Mazar which she believed was the palace that King David built. This building was there in 1st temple times but the remains clearly was not that of the temple. So these two buildings could not exist there at the same time. In addition, the "Trumpeting Stone" was found exactly the same place it fell at the Robinson's arch area on the Southwest corner of the temple complex. This stone was marked in ancient Hebrew the "Place of the Trumpeting" which was up on the temple complex itself where the priest would blow the shofar. For the stone to be that far north of the city of David is pretty damning to that theory in and of itself.

The whole idea behind Cornuke's theory (which was really a Dr. Ernest Martin's theory that Cornuke promotes) is that the city of David has the only natural water source, namely the Gihon Spring.  That was the water source that he believes fed the temple, but Josephus stated that the water came from afar from Solomon's pools and came by conduit via what is now called Wilson's arch. (c.f. Ecclesiastes 2:6).  I will entertain a southern temple mount location south of the Dome of the Rock that most Jews presently believe was the site.  This is because that site is a higher elevation than Wilson's arch (as water does not run uphill) plus there were underground water channels found that would support a southern temple mount location.  However, it was still up on what is now considered the temple mount and not the city of David.  I usually like to remain open-minded about different theories, but one cannot change what was found (or as Eilat Mazar used to say, "let the stones speak")