End Time pieces falling in place: Israel's sealing off of the Al-Aqsa Mosque very significant. Plans to rebuild Solomon's Temple may be underway

End Time pieces falling in place: Israel seals off  the Al-Aqsa Mosque. Plans to rebuild Solomon's Temple may be underway

One of the key signs to watch out for in Christian eschatology is the abomination of desolation that would be performed at the temple in Jerusalem. Bible prophesy watchers have been baffled on how this prophesy will come to pass as the site. This is because where the original temple of Solomon once stood has been under the control of the Muslims. The Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Dome of the Rock on the Temple Mount were built exactly on the Holy of Holies of the temple. It has therefore became obvious that for the prophesy to be fulfilled, Muslims must be evicted from the site and the temple rebuilt. Yesterday Israel sealed off the Al-Aqsa Mosque. This is a significant step demonstrating Israeli power over the temple area.



In the recent past there has been increasing calls for the rebuilding of the temple by the Jews.
Palestinian Muslims, however committed a grave mistake that could plunge the region into another round of war that could usher in the "Peacemaker", when they tried to assassinate Rabbi Yehuda Glick in Jerusalem, one of the proponents of the rebuilding of the temple, Wednesday.

This prompted Israeli police to kill the Palestinian man suspected of shooting and wounding the right-wing Israeli activist in west Jerusalem, on Thursday. Tension rose  between Jews and Arabs over a flashpoint holy site in the city. Subsequently, the Al-Aqsa Mosque for the first time since 1967 was sealed off by Israeli authorities.

The mosque has remained partially sealed with only Muslims older than 50 years allowed entry to the mosque.
"The Palestinian, who was the main suspect in the Wednesday night attack, was eliminated at his home in the Abu Tor (neighbourhood) of Jerusalem by police special forces following an exchange of fire," Israeli police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld told AFP.

Locals identified the man as 32-year-old Moataz Hejazi who was released after a decade in an Israeli prison in 2012.

He was suspected of being behind an attack on the US-born Yehuda Glick, as he left the Menachem Begin Heritage Centre, near the walled Old City, in an apparent assassination attempt. Glick is part of a movement to grant Jews greater access to a sensitive Jerusalem holy site known to Jews as the Temple Mount and to Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary.He was attending a conference on the subject at the time of the shooting, said Moshe Feiglin, a prominent lawmaker in Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party.

A spokesman for the centre said Hejazi had worked at a restaurant there. Feiglin said a man approached Glick outside the conference and spoke to him in “heavy Arabic-accented Hebrew”. He then opened fire at point-blank range and fled.

“The writing was on the wall, the ceiling and the windows. Every Jew who goes up to the Temple Mount is a target for violence,” said Feiglin, who pledged to visit the sacred site on Thursday morning, a move seen as a provocation by Palestinians.

Glick, 48, remains in a serious but stable condition, doctors said Thursday.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas recently called for Jews to be banned from the site, urging Palestinians to guard the compound from visiting Jews, who he referred to as a “herd of cattle” by any available means. Abbas however called the sealing of the mosque a “declaration of war”.

"This dangerous Israeli escalation is a declaration of war on the Palestinian people and its sacred places and on the Arab and Islamic nation," his spokesman Nabil Abu Rudeina quoted him as saying.
"We hold the Israeli government responsible for this dangerous escalation in Jerusalem that has reached its peak through the closure of the Al-Aqsa mosque this morning," he added.