This is the Location of the Tabernacle of David. It was north of Zion, the city of David. Jerusalem was really made up of three sections. They is Zion that is south of the Temple Mount, Jerusalem west of the Temple Mount and the Temple Mount. Today it has expanded north of the Temple Mount including the location of the crucifixion.
Then Solomon began to build the House of Yahuah at Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where Yahuah appeared unto David his father, in the place that David had prepared on the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite. 2 Chronicles 3:1
What this verse didn't say is the sight where Abraham was about to sacrifice his son.
Today we know that the Temple Mount is 1,540 feet on the east wall of the Mount. We know that Solomon's Temple Mount was 500 cubits by 500 cubits. This would be 729 feet and 2 inches in Hebrew Cubits. The Hebrew long cubit would be 850 feet and 858 plus feet in the Egyptian cubit. 1540 feet minus Solomon's Temple Mount would leave 810 feet 10 inches remaining on the short Hebrew cubits. About 680 feet remaining on the Egyptian cubit. We also know that there was a space between Solomon's Temple Mount and the Fort. This was connected by a bridge. In other words, the Temple Mount was divided in half. It was the Temple Mount to the South and the Fort to the North.
It is said that Herod the Great expanded the Temple Mount from 17 acres to 36 acres. 17 acres would be 860.53 ft x 860.53 ft. The south wall of the Temple Mount today is 920 feet. But this was expanded by Herod the Great to the south and to the west.
Placement of the Temple north of the Dome of the Rock or on the location of the Dome of the Rock would be incorrect. The Temple without the outer court would be between the Dome of the Rock and the Al-Aqsa Mosque. The Al-kas fountain could be the ancient source of water for Solomon's Temple. Without digging up the Temple Mount, a person with a tape measure could calculate Solomon's Temple Mount from the southeast corner of the Temple Mount starting with the oldest foundation stones just a few feet north of Herod the Great's southeast corner. The stone that is part of the bottom step of the outer steps on the northwest side of the Dome of the Rock would be that of the Fort. But yet it could help with the north boundary of Solomon's Temple Mount.
The question now is, when will the Tabernacle of David be rebuilt? That would be on the sight of Solomon's Temple Mount. Amos 9 may have the correct answer.
Amos 9
1 I saw Yahuah standing upon the altar: and He said, Smite the lintel of the door, that the posts may shake: and cut them in the head, all of them; and I will slay the last of them with the sword: he that flees of them shall not flee away, and he that escapes of them shall not be delivered.
This sounds like the year 70 in Jerusalem but this still could be in the future.
2 Though they dig into hell, thence shall mine hand take them; though they climb up to heaven, thence will I bring them down:
Digging into hell could be those that hid in the Jerusalem sewer where the blood of the sheep flowed after the sacrifice as in 70 C.E. Climbing up into heaven would have a future context to it. Prophecy is not effected by Time. In other words, this verse could come true again.
3 And though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out thence; and though they be hid from my sight in the bottom of the sea, thence will I command the serpent, and he shall bite them:
Mount Carmel was the center of idol worship. It was also the place where Elijah confronted the false prophets of Baal (I Kings 18). Israel of today has submarines. The Serpent is Satan, the master of the Antichrist.
4 And though they go into captivity before their enemies, thence will I command the sword, and it shall slay them: and I will set mine eyes upon them for evil, and not for good.
In other words, there is no safe place in any time. This could be Nazi Germany and still could be the future.
5 And Adonai Yahuah of Hosts is he that touches the land, and it shall melt, and all that dwell therein shall mourn: and it shall rise up wholly like a flood; and shall be drowned, as by the flood of Egypt.
It was Yahusha Hamashia that walked the streets of Jerusalem. But this verse has a future context. The land shall melt is to say the earth will dissolve or flow away. In other words, tera forming.
6 It is he that builds His stories in the Heaven, and has founded his troop in the earth; he that calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out upon the face of the earth: Yahuah is His name.
When they asked if Yahusha was Yahuah, he answered, I Am. John 8:58 “Yahusha answered them: 'I solemnly declare it: before Abraham came to be, I AM.” Another thing to remember is Yahusha will bring New Jerusalem down out of Heaven. This will be a 1500 mile high, wide and high city city in our solar system. Perhaps it will be in the fourth dimension as well.
7-8 Are you not as children of the Ethiopians unto me, O children of Israel? saith Yahuah. Have not I brought up Israel out of the land of Egypt? and the Philistines from Caphtor, and the Syrians from Kir? Behold, the eyes of Adonai Yahuah are upon the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from off the face of the earth; saving that I will not utterly destroy the House of Jacob, saith Yahuah.
Israel of today is Judea. The House of Jacob is more or less every nation that the British had relationships with. These are the unsaved people remaining in the time of tribulation. Ethiopians, Syrians and Palestinians could be Israelites also.
9 For, lo, I will command, and I will sift the House of Israel among all nations, like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth.
These are the saved, believers in Yahusha Hamashia and also Israelites.
10 All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword, which say, The evil shall not overtake nor prevent us.
In other words, the prideful will die in war. Building a Temple will not save them.
11 In that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen, and close up the breaches thereof; and I will raise up his ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old:
This is the key verse. It's after the Great Tribulation the Tabernacle of David will be rebuilt. In my opinion when Herod the Great rebuilt the second Temple, he defiled the Temple. Building a Temple today as a pride filled event is unholy. Or building a Temple at the cost of hating your neighbor is unholy.
12 That they may possess the Remnant of Edom, and of all the heathen, which are called by my name, saith Yahuah that does this.
It's Ethiopians, Syrians, Palestinians, English speaking nations, all the tribes of Israel under Yahusha that will build the True Temple during the millennium.
13 Behold, the days come, saith Yahuah, that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that sows seed; and the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and all the hills shall melt.
This verse is saying Climate change. The growing season will be 12 months a year. The dry rocky ground will become tillable. Jerusalem is on the African plate. This leads me to believe that the Sahara Desert will become green.
14 And I will bring again the captives of my people of Israel, and they shall build the waste cities, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and drink the wine thereof; they shall also make gardens, and eat the fruit of them.
There has been many cities through time that have been abandoned. When Yahusha Hamashia returns, the population will increase. Locations around the world will be needed. The KJV translation of captivity is a bad choice of variation of the Hebrew word. What Elohiym is saying is that He will bring the captives of the Israelites back and they will live in a beautiful environment. Verse 15 confirms this.
15 And I will plant them upon their land, and they shall no more be pulled up out of their land which I have given them, saith Yahuah Elohiym.
This is Yahuah's promise to the Israelites. They will be back in Israel and the outermost areas around it This is where the Ezekiel prophecy comes in. The dimensions of the Temple in Jerusalem becomes a huge problem if they want to build it before Yahusha's return. You cannot prematurely build a grand Temple complex and expect to have eternal security just because of prophecy.
Ezekiel's Temple Mount is 500 reeds by 500 reeds. Five hundred reeds are about equal to 5,500 feet. 5500 feet by 5500 feet takes up over 1 square mile square. It's also said the Temple Mount could be a mile high. The area dedicated to the temple is about 52 miles long and 21 miles wide. This would take Jerusalem to the Jordan River. Also after the Tribulation waterways will change. The Mount of Olives will split in two from east to west. A wide valley will form so that one half of the Mount shall move northward, and the other half southward. What is interesting is that the fault line runs north and south. This is just opposite of what we would expect. In other words, we cannot for tell where Yahusha Hamashia will want things. If Yahusha's Temple Mount is a mile high cube, what is interesting is the multiple layers inside the Cube. It will be a foreshadowing of New Jerusalem.
You know Antichrist will pretend to establish the Temple that is said to last forever. We know dimensions in the Ezekiel verses below. The Apostle John was told to measure the Temple but the dimensions was not written down. We do know he used a reed, not a cubit. Also note that the outer court belongs to the non-jewish nations and Jerusalem will overrun by non-jews. The Apostle John saw the Antichrist's Temple. The one that is built prematurely.
When the man completed taking measurements inside the temple, he took me out through the lower eastern gate and began measuring around the temple complex. He took his measuring reed and measured the entire east side. It was 875 feet long. He measured the north, south, and west sides; and they, too, were each 875 feet long. He measured the temple complex on all four sides. The wall around it formed a square 875 feet by 875 feet. It served to separate the sacred from the common. Ezekiel 42:15-20
In other words, the Temple complex will be bigger than Herod the Great's Temple. It will spill over from the true location onto the location of the Fort.
And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein. But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months. Revelation 11:1-2
Notice that the Antichrist's Temple's outer court is overwhelmed by those unbelievers in Yahuah. Inside the Temple will be corrupted also. The image of Antichrist will be inside where the Ark of the Covenant would be.
Antichrist's Temple will be surrounded by what is now and is not what is today, the United Nations' Troops. This could be the occupation of the outer court and the whole city of Jerusalem. Note that there is no Fort, no occupation of a one world government when Yahusha Hamashia is on the Throne in Jerusalem. In the Order of Melchizedek, Yahusha Hamashia will be King of Kings and High Priest of Priests.
