The Jerusalem Day Festival Parade to the Temple Mount by The Temple Mount and Land of Israel Faithful Movement in 5765 (2005) Took Place at a Very Critical Time in the Redemption of Israel

June, 2005

Israel is now experiencing a very critical time of redemption in her end-time history. On one hand we are now experiencing the most exciting time of redemption of the people and land of Israel. On the other hand, in these critical days we are experiencing the birth-pains of redemption. It was prophesied and we know that it is a clear sign that time is short and that the complete redemption of Israel is soon to come. We also know that the return of the land to Israel is coming through suffering but we are ready for everything and we trust in G–d and His prophetic promises of redemption.

With our own eyes we are seeing the fulfilment of end-time prophecy; the dream of the G–d and people of Israel and His great prophets is daily becoming a reality. The people of G–d are again a nation in the land of the covenant and are again called by the same name that G–d gave to them - Israel. Jerusalem is again the eternal capital of the G–d and people of Israel and the Temple Mount, the hill of G–d, the location of the First and Second Temples, the most holy place and the heart and soul of Israel and all the world, is again under the sovereignty of the G–d and people of Israel; and so many preparations have been started in Jerusalem for the rebuilding of the eternal house of the G–d of Israel. The Jewish People which was exiled from their holy land and spread all over the world by so many enemies is again being regathered to their holy land exactly as the prophets prophesied. Visitors from all over the world who come to see this exciting miracle can again hear the voices of Israeli children playing in the streets of Jerusalem and the Hebrew language is on their tongues. Elderly Israelis walk in the streets of this city of G–d exactly as the prophets prophesied.

“Again the word of the Lord of hosts came to me, saying, Thus says the Lord of hosts; I was zealous for Zion with great zeal, and I was zealous for her with great fury. Thus says the Lord: I have returned to Zion, and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem; and Jerusalem shall be called the City of Truth; and the mountain of the Lord of hosts the Holy Mountain. Thus says the Lord of hosts: Old men and old women shall again dwell in the streets of Jerusalem, and every man with his staff in his hand for the fullness of days. And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in its streets. Thus says the Lord of hosts: If it is marvellous in the eyes of the remnant of this people in these days, should it also be marvellous in my eyes? says the Lord of hosts. Thus says the Lord of hosts: Behold, I will save my people from the east country, and from the west country; And I will bring them, and they shall dwell in the midst of Jerusalem; and they shall be my people, and I will be their God, in truth and in righteousness. Thus says the Lord of hosts: Let your hands be strong, you who hear in these days these words by the mouth of the prophets, who spoke on the day that the foundation of the house of the Lord of hosts was laid, saying that the temple might be built.” (Zachariah-9)

“Behold, the days come, says the Lord, when the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him who sows seed; and the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and all the hills shall melt. And I will bring again the captivity of my people of Israel, and they shall rebuild the ruined cities, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and drink their wine; they shall also make gardens, and eat their fruit. And I will plant them upon their land, and they shall no more be plucked up out of their land which I have given them, says the Lord your God. For there shall be the seed of peace; the vine shall give her fruit, and the ground shall give her produce, and the heavens shall give their dew; and I will cause the remnant of this people to possess all these things. (Amos 9:13-15) For there shall be the seed of peace; the vine shall give her fruit, and the ground shall give her produce, and the heavens shall give their dew; and I will cause the remnant of this people to possess all these things. (Zechariah 8:12)

“Thus says the Lord of hosts: It shall yet come to pass, that there shall come people, and the inhabitants of many cities; And the inhabitants of one city shall go to another, saying, Let us go speedily to entreat the favour of the Lord, and to seek the Lord of hosts. I will go also. And many peoples and strong nations shall come to seek the Lord of hosts in Jerusalem, and to pray before the Lord. Thus says the Lord of hosts: In those days it shall come to pass, that ten men from the nations of every language, shall take hold of the robe of a Jew, saying, We will go with you; for we have heard that God is with you.” (Zechariah 8:20-23)

“But in the last days it shall come to pass, that the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be established in the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills; and people shall flow to it. And many nations shall come, and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths; for Torah shall go forth from Zion, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. And he shall judge between many peoples, and shall decide concerning far away strong nations; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, nor shall they learn war any more. But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree; and none shall make them afraid; for the mouth of the Lord of hosts has spoken it. For let all people walk everyone in the name of his god, and we will walk in the name of the Lord our God for ever and ever. (Micah 4:1-5 cf Isaiah 2;1-5)

“Also the sons of the stranger, who join themselves to the Lord, to serve him, and to love the name of the Lord, to be his servants, every one who keeps the sabbath and does not profane it, and all who hold fast to my covenant; Even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer; their burnt offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted upon my altar; for my house shall be called a house of prayer for all peoples.” (Isaiah 56:6,7)

It was 38 years ago in 1967 at the end of May and in early June that the Arab enemies of Israel surrounded  Israel on all sides. Their goal was to start another war against the people of G–d. They were sure that they could finally bring about their main goal of destroying Israel. They also blocked the Straits of Tiran in the Red Sea. It was a time of weakness among the Israeli leadership who even sent a message to King Hussein of Jordan (a part of the land promised by G–d to Israel where 2½ tribes, Gad, Reuven and Manasseh lived, which will again be a part of the land as G–d promised) not to attack Israel and Jerusalem in return for which they would not order the Israeli army to liberate Biblical Jerusalem. However, G–d had other plans for Israel and for Jerusalem and the land. He placed in the mind of King Hussein to attack Israel and the Temple Mount. Jerusalem, Judaea, Samaria and Gaza and the Golan Heights and the Sinai peninsula were liberated exactly as G–d planned for His people. This war was not merely an accident but a war of G–d to return the Biblical and holy areas of the land which for such a long time had been under Arab occupation and to start the second stage of His end-time plans to rebuild the Temple and to make the prophecies of Isaiah and Micah a reality in our lifetime.

I had the greatest privilege of my life to be with the unit of paratroopers which I commanded together with the other paratroop units which liberated the Temple Mount and the Biblical Jerusalem. It was after a critical time in my life after I had been seriously wounded in a battle in the Golan Heights against the Syrian enemy which had attacked the Israeli villages. In a great miracle, G–d, together with His brave Israeli soldiers, defeated the Syrians and saved my life. He appeared in my life on that critical day and promised me that He had not yet finished with me but that He had something great for me to do in my life. He surrounded me with His angels as the Syrians later testified. They told the UN observers that they saw the angels with their own eyes. After a year in hospital with terrible pains and struggling together with G–d Who stood with me to recover and to be ready for what He would tell me to do, I volunteered back to my unit using 2 crutches and G–d continued to heal me. In the Six-Day War I could already walk with one cane. The day of the liberation of the Temple Mount, when I excitedly stood with tears in my eyes together with the Israeli forces, 200 of whom who had sacrificed themselves for the G–d of Israel, His holy mountain and the citiy in the battle for Ammunition Hill and on the way to the Temple Mount and the Biblical Jerusalem, was an unforgettable day and a godly moment. Life stopped at this moment all over Israel when everyone heard General Motta Gur declared over the radio “The Temple Mount is again in our hands”. For almost 2000 years my people had dreamt of and prayed for this moment and here it had become a reality. We felt as if we were in the midst of a dream but it was reality. Like the soldiers around me, I felt the presence of G–d in my heart, soul and spirit and I could hear Him telling me that for that moment He had saved my life and that I should build His house.

These 2 godly events in my life became the motivation of my existence as G–d expected of me. I consider it the greatest privilege that someone can have in their life. I answered my beloved G–d’s expectations of me and I humbly said to Him that I was ready and that He should send me.

In another moment of weakness, which I consider part of the birth-pains of redemption, which the leadership brought on us by their own hands, the then Israeli Minister of Defence, Moshe Dayan, had the  Israeli flag with the Star of David removed from the top of the Dome of the Rock, the location of the Holy of Holies, where only a few hours earlier we had stood with tears of joy in our eyes, and placed it on the Western Wall of the Temple Mount which is the symbol of destruction and exile. At the same time, I felt that the most important stage of my life had started and that I had to start another battle and struggle to correct this sinful, anti-godly decision of Moshe Dayan and to liberate the Temple Mount from the enemy, to purify it and to build the eternal temple of G–d. Together with other Israelis who were faithful to G–d I founded The Temple Mount and Land of Israel Faithful Movement to be the end-time vessel of G–d and to bring about what G–d had dreamt of when He returned the Temple Mount to His children during that godly war.

In the parade of The Temple Mount and Land of Israel Faithful Movement on Jerusalem Day this year, G–d gave me the privilege to again lead another great group of faithful Israelis from Ammunition Hill, through Biblical Jerusalem to His holy mountain. It was another battle and struggle in our godly historical and prophetic way and campaign to re-liberate the hill of G–d and to rebuild His house which will open a new historical and great godly stage in the history of Israel and all the world as a key event for all the other godly end-time events.

We marched along the same route of the soldiers in the Six-Day War on their way to liberate the Temple Mount and Jerusalem. When we stood in front of the bunkers on Ammunition hill where so many Israeli soldiers had given their lives for G–d, His holy house and city with such determination  to defeat the Arab enemy which for so many years had occupied the holy Jewish places,  we united our hearts and souls with these heroes and knew that nobody could stand before the determination of the G–d of Israel and His Israeli soldiers to bring about all His end-time plans with Israel. We were so excited and privileged to feel the prophetic promises of G–d becoming a reality in front of our eyes. He fought together with His Israeli soldiers exactly as He promised.

“Then shall the Lord go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.” (Zechariah 14:3)

When we arrived at the Jaffa Gate of the Old City on the way to the Temple Mount we felt that the soul and prayer of King David 3000 years earlier had again became a reality.

“A Song of Ascents of David. I was glad when they said to me, Let us go into the house of the Lord. Our feet shall stand inside your gates, O Jerusalem. Jerusalem is built as a city which is bound firmly together; There the tribes go up, the tribes of the Lord, as was decreed for Israel, to give thanks to the name of the Lord. For thrones of judgment were set there, the thrones of the house of David. Pray for the peace of Jerusalem; those who love you shall prosper. Peace be within your walls, and prosperity within your palaces. For my brothers and companions' sakes, I will now say, Peace be within you. Because of the house of the Lord our God I will seek your good.” (Psalm 122)

While this exciting Psalm was being prayed by the faithful members and the shofars and silver trumpet were being blown, we felt like King David himself was praying this exciting prayer on the way to the hill of G–d exactly as we were doing on that godly day.

At the Jaffa Gate plaza we demonstrated calling on the Israeli Government to immediately liberate the holy hill of G–d, to remove the enemy and its pagan shrines from the Temple Mount and to rebuild the Temple. We stated that it is a terrible sin and shame for Israel, and even for all the world, that the pagan enemy of the G–d and people of Israel should still exist on the hill of G–d and that they should continue their desecration of the most holy site of G–d. We warned the government that as long as the exile of the G–d of Israel from His holy hill and house continues the troubles and pains and even the judgement of G–d on Israel and all the world will continue. We called on the Israeli Government to fulfil the expectations of G–d of His people, Israel, when He returned the Temple Mount and Biblical Jerusalem to them in 1967.

At the same time we also demonstrated against the “disengagement” and plans of Ariel Sharon and his government to remove the Israeli villages from the Gaza Strip which is a part of the land which G–d gave to the tribe of Dan and from northern Samaria the land which G–d gave to the ten tribes of Israel. We warned the leadership of Israel that they are going to commit the greatest sin which they could commit when they give the land which G–d gave to His people, Israel, alone in an eternal covenant for a purpose and mission, to foreigners who are the cruelest enemy of the G–d and people of Israel. We stated that the G–d of Israel will never accept it and that Israel will pay a terrible price of blood when the enemy starts to attack Israel with more power and weapons after Israel’s withdrawal from these Biblical areas of the land.

At this important gate of Biblical Jerusalem , the Faithful Movement swore to never give up these areas of the holy land or any other pieces of the land which G–d gave to Israel in His eternal covenant with His people.

On our way from Jerusalem Jaffa Gate through the narrow streets of the Old City everyone could feel that G–d is in control and that He will never allow even the leadership of Israel, and definitely not foreign powers who are pressurising Israel in these days, to give away the land to its enemies. We felt that the G–d of Israel was marching with us on our way to the Temple Mount.

In the early morning, as well as later, Arabs gathered on the Temple Mount to demonstrate against the Temple Mount Faithful Movement on their way to the Temple Mount. They demonstrated against the Israeli sovereignty over the Temple Mount which was given back to His people in 1967 for ever. They threw stones at Israelis who walked on the Temple Mount and in the streets of the Old City. 2 Israelis were lightly injured and many Arabs were arrested and all were expelled from the Temple Mount. Because of this Arab riot the Israeli authorities closed all the gates of the Temple Mount so that when at the end of our march we came to the Temple Mount we could not enter as we had earlier been promised by the authorities. Again it was an act of weakness by the Israeli authorities instead of, as should always be the case especially after such a riot by the enemies, demonstrating that Israel is determined to exercise its sovereignty on the most holy place of G–d and to show them and all the world that they trust in the G–d of Israel and that they will never allow the Arab violence and their pagan presence on the most holy place of Israel.

However, the Temple Mount Faithful Movement and its members did not give up. Despite the fact that we held our gathering in front of the western gate of the Temple Mount we felt that nobody could block our spirits. They were on the Temple Mount. We felt that the expectations of G–d of His people, Israel, would soon be fulfilled and that a new leadership of vision and faith will do what they have to do at this critical time of redemption and liberate the Temple Mount, remove the pagan enemy from there and build the Temple.

Our festival Jerusalem Day prayers and the pure and loud sound of the trumpets and the shofars were heard all over the Temple Mount. We knew that G–d heard it and accepted it with love. In this holy place we swore complete and perfect faithfulness to G–d, to His holy mountain and to the holy capital and land of Him and His people, Israel.

“If I forget you, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning. If I do not remember you, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I do not set Jerusalem above my highest joy.” (Psalm 137:5,6)

When, together with my friends and many other Israelis and friends from outside Israel, I prayed at this most holy place the prayer of our beloved King David we had tears of excitement and joy in our eyes while we knew that time is short and soon the G–d of Israel will dwell in His rebuilt house on His purified holy mountain and that Maschiach ben David is soon to come. While we prayed these words we felt the presence of G–d so strongly saying to us that His end-time event of the redemption of Israel is irreversible and that we should be strong to overcome all the birth-pains of redemption and that soon we will celebrate together the great day of the complete redemption of His people, Israel, and of all the world.. Our hands should be strong to continue our godly campaign and work.

“Of David. I will praise you with my whole heart; before princes I will sing praise to you. I will worship toward your holy temple, and praise your name for your loving kindness and for your truth; for you have magnified your word above all your name. In the day when I cried you answered me, and strengthened me with strength in my soul. All the kings of the earth shall give you thanks, O Lord, when they hear the words of your mouth. And they shall sing in the ways of the Lord; for great is the glory of the Lord. Though the Lord is high, he regards the lowly; but the arrogant he knows from far away. Though I walk in the midst of trouble, you will revive me; you shall stretch forth your hand against the wrath of my enemies, and your right hand shall save me. May the Lord fulfil his purpose for me! Your loving kindness, O Lord, endures for ever; do not forsake the works of your own hands.” (Psalm 138)

This was a very exciting day in the history of the campaign of the Temple Mount Faithful Movement for the building of the eternal house of G–d on the Temple Mount, for making Israel again a Biblical nation with a Biblical mission and for bringing about all the end-time plans of G–d for Israel and all the world. Our godly activities and work will continue even more intensively in the near future as we feel that time is so short. The great day of the complete redemption and the rebuilding is soon to come. Everyone in Israel and all over the world is called on to have this greatest privilege of life and to be a part of it and to stand with the Faithful Movement and assist it in its godly and historical campaign. Let us not miss it. G–d is with us.

In G–d we trust.

SOURCE: Temple Mount Faithful