The Temple Mount and Land of Israel Faithful Movement
Encircled the Temple Mount in Jerusalem at Pesach 5765 (2005)
Blowing Trumpets Like Joshua in Jericho

An Exciting Pilgrimage to the Temple Mount With the Omer Offering

In the year 2489 after the creation of the Universe, 40 years after the exodus of the Children of Israel from Egypt, and after they had crossed the Jordan River in a miraculous way, on the 14^th of Nissan they made the Pesach Sacrifice and celebrated Pesach and ate matzah as G–d had commanded them as a memorial of the exodus. At the same time, the manna that G–d had fed them in the wilderness all the way from Egypt ceased and they ate only from the produce of the Promised Land.

Immediately after the Pesach festival Joshua and the children of Israel faced their first challenge, the liberation of the first city on the west side of the Jordan. The G–d of Israel appeared to Joshua and told him to circle the city with his army once each day for 6 days and 7 priests were to blow on shofars. On the 7^th day, the wall would fall and Jericho would be captured. The Ark of the Covenant was carried behind the priests blowing the shofars. On the 7^th day, as the G–d of Israel promised, the walls fell and Jericho was captured.

This godly event took place a few thousand years ago. On the 3^rd day of Pesach this year, 17 Nissan 5765, Tuesday 26^th April 2005, at 9:30 a.m., The Temple Mount and Land of Israel Faithful Movement had the same feeling like Joshua and the Children of Israel telling them to start to surround the walls of G–d’s holy mountain, to blow with trumpets and that G–d would walk with them until the walls of hatred which surround the Temple Mount would fall. They felt that they were to do it each time they came to His holy mountain. It was the first time that they circled the walls. The trumpets blew all over and especially in front of the gates of the Temple Mount. We felt the presence of the G–d of Israel among us. When we stood in front of the gate of the Temple Mount which is today called the Cotton Gate and which is the closest gate to the site of the Holy of Holies and underneath which to this day is located the Ark of the Covenant waiting for the Children of Israel, we felt its presence amongst us as in the time of Joshua. On the Day of Jerusalem which will be on the 28^th of Iyar, 6^thof June, the Temple Mount Faithful Movement will again circle the gates and walls of the Temple Mount blowing trumpets and then again and again on other occasions until the walls of the enemy fall and the Temple Mount is open to the Children of Israel to be purified and the Temple rebuilt. This is a godly redemptional event which is going to be the climax of the redemptional process which Israel is experiencing at this time..

"Blowing the silver trumpets in front of the gates of the Temple Mount and its walls"

This exciting event started a day earlier when the Faithful cut the omer from the fields of Israel exactly as our forefathers did to be brought as a love offering to our Beloved G–d of Israel. The last winter was blessed with much rain and the blessings of G–d on Israel and the harvest was very good with well-developed kernels. We also collected earth from the Gaza Strip and northern Samaria, the two holy areas of the land of Israel that Ariel Sharon is preparing to “disengage” from as a great sin and evil in the eyes of the G–d of Israel who gave the land to Israel alone in an eternal covenant and commanded them not to give it to anyone, especially not to the cruel enemies of Israel, the so-called “Palestinians”.

"Ze'ev Bar tov and Gershon Salomon cutting the Omer from the fields of Israel and preparing them
in sheaves to carry them to the Temple Mount as an offering to the G-d of Israel."

On the 3^rd day of Pesach, the Faithful, carrying with them the omer and the symbolic earth from Gaza and northern Samaria, made a pilgrimage and marched to the Temple Mount together with a model of the Temple. It was the morning of the priestly blessings when hundreds of priests blessed thousands of Israelis and, through them all the people of Israel, in front of the Western Wall of the Temple Mount renewing a Biblical tradition when the priests blessed the people of Israel , not outside the Temple Mount, but in side the Temple on the Temple Mount. It was no accident that we chose this day of the priestly blessing to make our pilgrimage to the Temple Mount. It is one of the most exciting events of the festival of Pesach. At the same time it was so sad to see the priests making the blessing outside the Temple Mount instead of on the Temple Mount as G–d expects of them.

Many people joined the Faithful and stood excitedly around the omer and the model of the Temple. The omer was not seen in this holy place for almost 2000 years since the destruction of the Temple in 70 C.E. Here and now this event again became a part of the reality of Israel. They could at least see the model of the Temple which awakened them to pray and act for the rebuilding of the Temple itself as a reality in our lifetime.

"On the day after the omer was cut, it was carried to the Temple Mount.
Gershon (left) is making the blessing over the omer and speaking to the pilgrims and the people of Israel."

"The model of the Temple located in the area of the Temple Mount attracting
the attention of the crowd and the pilgrims."

The media from Israel and all the world covered the event and we hope that they shared it with everyone in the world as was done in Israel.

The gates of the Temple Mount were still open to Israelis in the early morning but were closed at 9:00 a.m. for security reasons as the authorities of Israel stated. We could only march to the western gate of the Temple Mount together with the omer and the model of the Temple. Despite the fact that the gate was closed we felt that we did well in the eyes of G–d and had fulfilled His commandment to our forefathers and to our generation and as an opening for when the omer will soon be again carried to the rebuilt Temple which, no doubt, will be reconstructed in our lifetime as G–d expects of us to do. No gate can stop the march of the G–d of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob back to His holy mountain and to His rebuilt house. The earth that we carried with us from Gaza and Samaria was spread on the holy mountain symbolising the undivided unity of all the parts of the land around the Temple Mount and that the disengagement of these holy parts of the land of Israel will never happen. The G–d of Israel will not allow it.

"Blowing the trumpets in front of the western gate of the Temple Mount
while carrying the omer and spreading the earth from Gaza and northern Samaria"

"Marching with the blue and white flags of Israel around the walls of the Temple Mount "

The Hallel Psalms of the Pesach festival were again said and heard on the holy mountain of G–d as in the time of our forefathers. While the trumpets were blown again all the Faithful again swore faithfulness to the G–d of Israel, His holy mountain, Jerusalem and the holy land of Israel.