Rebuilding of Jerusalem Temple. - Preparing grounds - 3

In his Four Letters addressed to the Jewish people, Julian recognized their dire situation and appealed to them to join him in his campaign. That's a vast difference from the Persian ruler Cyrus, who had only allowed the Jews to rebuild the Temple; Julian virtually ordered them to do so, and perhaps, upset by their initial hesitation, appointed Alypius, a pagan native of Antioch and his best friend, to supervise the work. The news was, no sooner spread abroad than contributions came in from all hands. The Jewish women stripped themselves of their most costly ornaments to contribute towards the expense of the building. The emperor also, who was no less impatient to see it finished, in order to encourage them in the undertaking, told them he had found in their mysterious sacred books that this was the time in which they were to return to their country, and that their temple and legal observances were to be restored. He gave orders to his treasurers to furnish money and every thing necessary for the building, which would require immense sums: he drew together the most able workmen from all quarters, and appointed for overseers persons of the highest rank, placing at their head his intimate friend Alypius, who had formerly been Pro-prefect of Britain; charging him to make them labour in this great work without ceasing, and to spare no expense. The Jews were doubtless divided between those who believed that Julian was a saviour and those who remembered Rabbi Simon Ben Eliezer's warning against the youthful enthusiasm of the second generation after the Bar Kochba disaster: If children tell you: Go, build the Temple - do not listen to them. All things were In readiness, workmen were assembled from all quarters; stone, brick, timber, and other materials, in immense quantities, were laid in. The Jews of both sexes and of all degrees bore a share in the labour; the very women helping to dig the ground and carry out the rubbish in their aprons and skirts of their gowns. It its even said that the Jews appointed some pickaxes, spades, and baskets to be made of silver for the honour of the work. But the good bishop St. Cyril, lately returned from exile, beheld all these mighty preparations without any concern, relying on the infallible truth of the scripture prophecies: as, that the desolation of the Jewish temple should last till the end; and that one stone should not be left on another; And being full of the spirit of God, Cyril foretold, with the greatest confidence, that the Jews, so far from being able to rebuild their ruined temple, would be the instruments whereby that prophecy of Christ would be still more fully accomplished than it had been hitherto, and that they would not be able to put one stone upon another, and the event justified the prediction. Till then the foundations and some ruins of the walls of the temple subsisted, as appears from St. Cyril: and Eusebius says, the inhabitants still carried away the stones for their private buildings. These ruins the Jews first demolished with their own hands, thus concurring to the accomplishment of our Saviour's prediction. Then they began to dig the new foundation, in which work many thousands were employed. But what they had thrown up in the day was, by repeated earthquakes, the night following cast back again into the trench. And when Alypius the next day earnestly pressed on the work, with the assistance of the governor of the province, there issued, says Ammianus, such horrible balls of fire out of the earth near the foundations, which rendered the place, from time to time, inaccessible to the scorched and blasted workmen. And the victorious element continuing in this manner obstinately and resolutely bent as it were to drive them to a distance, Alypius thought proper to give over the enterprise. This is also recorded by the Christian authors, who, besides the earthquake and fiery eruption, mention storms, tempests, and whirlwinds, lightning, crosses impressed on the bodies and garments of the assistants, and a flaming cross in the heavens, surrounded with a luminous circle. The order whereof seems to have been as follows. This judgment of the Almighty was ushered in by storms and whirlwinds, by which prodigious heaps of lime and sand and other loose materials were carried away. After these followed lightning, the usual consequence of collision of clouds in tempests. Its effects were, first the destroying the more solid materials, and melting down the iron instruments; and secondly, the impressing shining crosses on the bodies and garments of the assistants without distinction, in which there was something that in art and elegance exceeded all painting or embroidery; which when the infidels perceived, they endeavoured, but in vain, to wash them out. In the third place came the earthquake which cast out the stones of the old foundations, and shook the earth into the trench or cavity dug for the new;

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[BoudiccaBlanc]

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"361 CE: Neoplatonist Julian the Apostate becomes Roman Emperor and attempts to reverse the growing influence of Christianity by encouraging other religions. As a result, Alypius of Antioch is commissioned to rebuild the Temple in Jerusalem and Jews are allowed to return to the city."--Wikipedia

[nijjhar1]

@BoudiccaBlanc Thanks for your information. Please send the link for my knowledge.

[72Yonatan]

Sahibji:

Julian was a neoplatonic pagan, not a Christian, and he could not have been allowed to build the third temple, because it was decreed in Heaven that there should be an exile of the children of Israel and that exile was not yet over.

But we are not in the intermediate period between the end of the third exile and the period of the Moshiach. No one has the precise goods on this topic, especially a Sikh who thinks he is a Christian. And Satguru is a name for God, not a human being.

[nijjhar1]

@72Yonatan Hi Brother,

I am not a Christian but I believe in Jesus and preach Christianity.

What could I be?

What happened when Julian asked Jews to rebuild the Temple?

[senjeki]

@nijjhar1 this prophecy now is the fact that bible is true so that believed Jesus as your saviour and God..... All prophecy must be fulfill before Jesus came down... God send his only son to SAVE us as Yahweh gaves the fulfillment his promise in his friend Abraham... So take the Chances to REPENT SINS and turn back to Jesus!!! I WARNING you if you rejects his invitation believed in him!!!

[nijjhar1]

@senjeki Hi Brother,

He came again and gone. People of spirit know Him.

[BoudiccaBlanc]

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"363 C.E.: The Galilee earthquake of 363 together with the re-establishment of Christianity's dominance following the death of Julian the Apostate at the Battle of Samarra ends attempts to rebuild the Temple in Jerusalem."--Wikipedia

[BoudiccaBlanc]

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Either the Temple Mount will be divided and a temple built on the ruins of al-Aqsa

OR

Something will destroy both al-Aqsa and the Dome (earthquake? stray missle?)

As a Christian; I view the Dome of the Rock and a Third Temple as "abominations" (of desolation) The former as a prefigurement of the later (which will be built in the end-time).

[BoudiccaBlanc]

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Most scholars and archaelogists think that the Jewish temples were located below the site of al-Aqsa mosque*

Some of you might be interested in the following

"Temple Location on the Mount in Jerusalem Part 1/6"

watch?v=_UEQwx3L2wI

"Temple Mount, Dome of Rock, Real site over Gihon Spring"

watch?v=lyXrshJ2kq0

*(al-Aqsa = green dome Dome of the Rock = gold dome)

Note-The Ark of the Covenant was removed from the Temple before the Babylon invasion It never sat in the 2nd T

[kang738]

temple mount never existed it pure imagination.

[truedupbabyblue]

bless you