Succoth March - 2004

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b’ezrat HaShem, With the help of G–d

The Temple Mount Faithful Movement Made a Pilgrimage to the Temple Mount on 18 Tishrei 5765 (3rd October 2004)
The Pilgrims of the Faithful Movement Drew the Holy Water from the Pool of Siloam in the City of David

On the 18th Tishrei 5765, during the Feast of Succoth, the Temple Mount Faithful Movement conducted an exciting pilgrimage to the Temple Mount in Jerusalem and then marched to the Pool of Siloam to fulfil another exciting tradition from Temple times. These events were an important part of the campaign of the Movement relating to its mission to build the Third Temple in our lifetime. It was another important step in its activities to accomplish G-d's end-time mission to rebuild His holy house in the times in which we are now living which G-d chose to bring about all His end-time plans in Israel as an opening for the godly end-time revolution all over the world.

On the morning of this day the Faithful Movement, toghether with other Israelis who joined them, marched to the Temple Mount accompanied by the model of the Temple, reconstructed vessels, the flags of the Temple and the Star of David, which were carried and placed in front of the Temple Mount. It was also the morning of the Priestly blessing so many thousands of Israelis who came to be blessed by the priests as in Temple times could see the model of the Temple and the vessels and be instructed by the Faithful concerning the Temple, its courts and worship. They were also informed about the construction of the Third Temple and encouraged to call on the Israeli Government to purify the Temple Mount and to immediately start with the building of the Third Temple. They were all so excited to again see the construction of the Temple, not as a vision for the distant future, but as a reality in our lifetime that the Faithful Movement is doing everything to bring about.

Priestly Blessing

The Priestly Blessing in front of the Western Wall of the Temple Mount
"The Lord bless you, and keep you; The Lord make his face shine upon you, and be gracious to you;
The Lord lift up his countenance upon you, and give you peace." (Numbers6:24-26)

The members of the Movement, together with friends from outside Israel, who have started fulfilling Isaiah's end-time prophecy and the prophetic Word of G-d that "My house will be a house of prayer for all nations" (Isaiah56:7), entered the Temple Mount and surrounded the location of the Dome of the Rock, which is the location of the Holy of Holies of the First, Second and Third Temples. They marched on the Temple Mount with joy in their hearts that they could fulfil the commandment of G-d from the Torah to make a pilgrimage and again to walk there after almost 2000 years that the Jewish people were exiled from their most holy place - the place which was and will always be their heart soul and eternal focus which they swore to never forget when they were taken into exile by their enemies. In every house in the exile they left an unfinished portion on the eastern wall to remind them of the destruction of the Temple and Jerusalem and the land that they loved so much which was given to them by the G-d of Israel in an eternal covenant. Their prayers from the four corners of the world to where they were scattered were directed towards the Temple Mount, the hill of the G-d of Israel where He dwells. Even in death they were buried facing the Temple Mount in Jerusalem waiting for their resurrection when Mashiach comes to take them back to the promised land and to rebuild the Temple so that their beloved G-d will again dwell in the midst of their lives in His house on Mt. Moriah where that could worship and love Him again as their forefathers did and He can bless them as He did to their forefathers. Their prayers, hopes and desires for the rebuilding of the Temple, which were their main prayers symbolising all their hopes for a national and spiritual redemption. When we walked on the Temple Mount we felt we were the messengers of hundreds of generations in the exile who did not have the privilege of being with us at this exciting moment and to see for themselves the redemption of Israel and the rebirth of the Israeli nation and state. It was so exciting to walk on the place where Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, King David, the other kings of Israel and the prophets of Israel and many millions of Israelites walked over the last 4000 years since G-d blessed, anointed and dedicated Mt. Moriah to be His holy mountain and the location of His holy house, the Temple.

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The Faithful marching up to the Temple Mount with the model of the Temple, with a priest blowing the shofar all the way.


We walked on this holy ground, the holiest place in the world, the location of the Garden of Eden where G-d created Adam and Eve and mankind, with prayers from the bottom of our hearts and pleadings to the Holy One of Israel to remove from the holy hill of the G-d and people of Israel their Islamic enemies who had built mosques as a revolt against the G-d of Israel and continue their pagan worship while their faces are directed to Mecca, thousands o f kilometres to the Temple Mount, and the backs to the holy site of the temple. We prayed to stop this terrible desecration of the holy hill of the G-d and people of Israel and to give the Israeli the strength and courage to remove the enemy of mankind from the Temple Mount, to purify it and to immediately start with the rebuilding of the end-time Temple of G-d to again be a house of worship of our Beloved G-d for Israel and for all the nations.

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"The Halel Psalms prayed by a Levite."


It was also sad to see the destruction and desecration that the Moslems had done to the last remains of the First and Second Temples, the dearest holy treasure of Israel and all mankind, which the Israeli Government was not strong enough to stop. Th Israeli Government is afraid to do so because of the reaction of 1.5 billion Moslems and possibly most of the world instead of trusting the call of G-d to do so, to trust Him and not to fear any human being even if it is all the world. It was so sad to see the two new mosques that they had built in the area of "Solomon's Stables" and the beautiful and exciting Hulda entrance to the Temple Mount which were an important part of the Second Temple complex. It was also sad to see the preparations to build a third mosque on the Temple Mount along the eastern wall and in this way to complete what they believe will be the physical conversion of the Temple Mount from a Jewish to an Islamic site. They also believe that in this way they can stop the coming of Mashiach through the Eastern Gate. Many years ago they blocked and covered the Golden Gate and located a cemetery outside the eastern wall of the Temple Mount for the same purpose. They are deluded to think that by all of these barbaric activities and stupid means they can prevent the coming of Mashiach, the redemption of the holy hill of G-d, the rebuilding of the Temple and the redemptional process which is now taking place in Israel. Like all the Israelis we felt that despite all of this, time is short and that the Moslems on the Temple Mount, like all over the land of Israel, are experiencing their last days and time on the holy hill of G-d and the long Arab occupation of Mt. Moriah will soon be ended, the Temple will soon be rebuilt and Mashiach will soon come. No human power can challenge G-d's end-time plans to rebuild His house and to redeem Israel and all the world.

At this special moment the Temple Mount Faithful Movement swore to continue their godly and historical campaign to bring about all G-d's end-time plans for Israel and all the world and, at its centre, the rebuilding of the Temple and the coming of Mashiach ben David.

In a later assembly, Gershon called on the Israeli nation and their friends all over the world to be a part of this cause, to stand with the Faithful Movement and to help it to make it a reality in our lifetime, exactly as the G-d of Israel expects of all of us to do. He called on the Israeli Government to answer the call of G-d and not to fear any human power but to trust Him and to remove the Islamic enemy from the Temple Mount which tries to prevent the redemptional activities of G-d with Israel, together with their pagan shrines. He called on them to purify the Temple Mount and to immediately rebuild the Temple to be a house of prayer, worship, and love and to be a centre of morality for Israel and all the world. He called on the Israeli leadership to stop the Arab destruction on the Temple Mount with no fear of any anti-godly power and to trust only the G-d of Israel. He called on the Israeli worshippers at the Western Wall to no longer pray and worship in front of the wall which represents exile and destruction but to go up to the right place on the Temple Mount and to pray and worship in the real place, the site of the First, Second, and Third Temples, as G-d expects them to do. He explained to the Israelis that the time of exile and destruction is over and that Israel should be a part of the redemption time in Israel and to worship on the holy hill of G-d and not outside the hill and to immediately start the rebuilding of the Temple. He called on them to trust only in the G-d of Israel, on His Word, and promises to redeem them and to rebuild the Temple as the climax of the prophetic times in which we are now living. Only this will open the door for the coming of Mashiach ben David. He called on them to perform the traditional priestly blessing on the Temple Mount in the place where the G-d of Israel dedicated for this and only there will He accept and answer their prayers. He stated that the rebuilding of the Temple will do the opposite of their fears and will bring about the love of all the nations for the people of Israel and that they will finally respect the godly task of Israel to be "a holy nation, a kingdom of priests and a treasure among all the nations." (Isaiah19:5,6) Only the rebuilding of the Temple will allow the Israeli nation to fulfil their mission among all the peoples. He also said that now, more than at any time in the past, at a time when almost all the world wants to take the Temple Mount, Jerusalem and the holy land away from Israel, Israel should remember what G-d taught and promised them thousands of years ago - "Thrice in the year shall all your males appear before the Lord God, the God of Israel. For I will cast out the nations before you, and enlarge your borders; nor shall any man desire your land, when you shall go up to appear before the Lord your God thrice in the year." (Exodus34:23,24)

Gershon called on the Israeli leadership to immediately cancel the false and anti-godly covenants made with the most cruel enemies of the G-d and people of Israel, the so-called "Palestinians," the Road-Map and the disengagement plans of the Ariel Sharon which cam as a result of weakness and lack of trust in the G-d of Israel, according to which Israel should give away parts of the land which was given to Israel alone in an eternal covenant and to remove the Israeli settlements which are the most important fulfilment of the call of G-d to the people of Israel to settle the destroyed land and to rebuild it for the honour of G-d. He said that this was a terrible rebellion against the G-d of Israel and a new destruction of the holy land. He called on the Israeli Government to obey the eternal commandment of G-d to Israel - "Take heed to yourself, lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land where you go, lest it be for a snare in the midst of you; But you shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their Asherim. For you shall worship no other god; for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God;" (Exodus 34:12-14)

He called on Prime Minister Sharon to intensively continue the great redemptional event of resettling the holy land of G-d by the people of G-d exactly as the G-d of Israel promised thousands of years ago - "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." (Amos 9:13-15)

After this part of the pilgrimage event, the Faithful members marched from the Temple Mount to the end of Hezekiah's tunnel which was built 2800 years ago to bring the water into the City of David to be used by the population of Jerusalem when the city was surrounded by enemies. We marched to the city of David with the priests and Levites playing traditional music on the same path where kings David and Solomon marched when they brought the ark to the Temple Mount and the Temple. We marched to the same place where our forefathers marched during the Feast of Succoth to fulfil another exciting traditional event when the many thousands of pilgrims marched to Hezekiah's tunnel to draw the water with exciting prayers and then to march back to the Temple to pour out the water on the altar, dedicating it to G-d with prayers of thanksgiving and praying to Him for much rain on the land of Israel in the coming winter. In Biblical times, as much as today, Israel was an agricultural land. They also prayed in front of the altar to the G-d of Israel to bless all the world. This exciting parade and ceremony is described in historical sources as the most exciting and joyful event in the life of Israel. All the streets of Jerusalem were lit up with many lights. The High Priest and the other priests, dressed in their beautiful garments, walked in front of the pilgrims together with the king of Israel. The priests were followed by the Levites playing on their musical instruments, praying and singing the Psalms. Jerusalem was almost empty of people as they joined the marchers dancing all the way from the Temple to Hezekiah's tunnel. The tradition passed from generation to generation. The historical sources state that all who had never seen this event had never seen a joyful celebration.

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"A priest, together with part of the group, preparing to draw the water from the Siloam Pool at the end of Hezekiah's tunnel."


The Temple Mount and Land of Israel Faithful Movement re-enacted this exciting event as with other events which were held in the Temple and the land of Israel in Biblical times. The City of David, which is again being settled by many Israeli families, again experienced this joyful and exciting event after almost 2000 years. At the Pool of Siloam the water was drawn by the priest in vessels reconstructed for use in the Third Temple. The ceremony was performed with prayers, joy and thanks to the G-d of Israel Who gave us the privilege of living in this exciting generation of redemption and the soon rebuilding of the Temple and the renewal of this exciting event. In front of the beautiful mountains of Jerusalem which surround the city like the G-d of Israel surrounds and protects his people, Israel, the exciting prayers to the G-d of Israel were again heard as in the time of King David. The Psalms from the Temple were again heard by his faithful children and the mountains of Jerusalem were the holy witnesses to a great prophetic end time event in the life of the people of Israel.

"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, 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)

"A Song of Ascents. When the Lord brought back the captivity of Zion, we were like men who dream. Then our mouth was filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing; then they said among the nations, The Lord has done great things for them. The Lord has done great things for us; we are glad. Bring back our captivity, O Lord, like the streams in the Negev. Those who sow in tears shall reap in joy. He who goes forth weeping, bearing the seed for sowing, shall come back with shouts of joy, bringing his sheaves with him." (Psalm 126)

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"Some of the youth of the Faithful Movement in the Pool of Siloam where the water comes from Hezekiah's tunnel."


This godly event brought strength, encouragement and a great hope to all of us. The presence of the G-d of Israel amongst us was so strong and was deeply felt in the hearts and spirits of everyone. He blessed it and He marched with us on the way to the soon rebuilding of His house on His holy mountain.

The Temple Mount and Land of Israel Faithful Movement, with a deep faith and trust in our Beloved G-d, is looking forward to the soon rebuilding of the Temple, the coming of Mashiach ben David and the complete redemption of Israel and all the world as G-d promised in His end time prophetic Word. We shall continue our historical godly campaign and activities to bring it about in our lifetime exactly as G-d expects of us. This is the desire of the G-d of Israel and his Word to His people, Israel; "And let them make me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them." (Exodus25:8) This is now His call to His prophetic end time vessel, the Temple Mount Faithful Movement, and we have the privilege of having answered it. We shall continue to answer it with all our dedication and devotion. Our lives will be completely dedicated to it. The G-d of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob Who was with our forefathers is and will again be with us. Everyone in Israel and all the world is called on to join, help and support the Temple Mount Faithful Movement at this critical time. This exciting call of G-d is to everyone in Israel and all over the world. What a great privilege G-d has given to all of us and to everyone in Israel and all over the world at this generation.

This is the place to share with everyone what a greatIsraeli rabbi, author and poet, Rabbi Yehuda Levi, who lived in the 12th century and made Aliyah to Jerusalem, wrote in his book Kuzari that the Temple will only be rebuilt when Israel has a complete and perfect desire to build it. We have this complete and perfect desire in our hearts and all of our bones. Let everyone in Israel have it in their hearts and encourage, support and be a part of this complete desire and bring it to pass in our lifetime exactly as the G-d of Israel expects of all of us.

In G-d we trust.


Hanukkah 5765 (December 2004)

On the 8th of December during the upcoming holiday of Hanukkah, The Temple Mount and Land of Israel Faithful Movement, together with friends from all the world who are coming to Israel for a special tour, will march to the Temple Mount from the Tombs of the Maccabees in Modi'in. This is the first of the eight days of the celebration of Hanukkah. The group will also tour through Biblical Israel together with Gershon Salomon, the Chairman of the Faithful Movement, from the 6th of December to 16th of December. This tour is still open to everyone to join. Everyone is called on to be a part of this exciting tour and march to the Temple Mount. This very special tour is the first of its kind and has never before been undertaken. The Temple Mount Faithful Movement decided to start this type of godly Biblical tour to fulfil the call of G-d to our end time generation.

"And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the Lord's house shall be established on the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow to it. And many people shall go and say, 'Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths.' For from Zion shall go forth Torah, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. And he shall judge among the nations, and shall decide for many people; 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." (Isaiah 2:2-4)

The G-d and people of Israel and the Faithful Movement is waiting for you in Jerusalem and the Holy Land of Israel. Don't miss this exciting Biblical event. Do not have any fears. The G-d of Israel will be with you. To join the tour, please contact Jon Klein as soon as possible at:

P.O. Box 181191
Casselberry, FL 32718-1191
U.S.A.

Tel:1-407-330-0302
Fax:1-407-330-0381
email:trip@templemountfaithful.org.

 


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