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Alright everybody, welcome to Shure Foundation Baptist Church.
If you could find your seats and grab your blue songbooks
and turn to page number 601.
We're going to be singing the Battle Hymn of the Republic.
Welcome to Shure Foundation Baptist Church.
If you could find your seats and grab your blue songbooks
and turn to page number 601.
We're going to be singing the Battle Hymn of the Republic.
🎵Music🎵
Song 601, the Battle Hymn of the Republic.
Let's sing it together on the first.
Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord.
He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored.
He hath loosed the fateful lightning of his terrible swift sword.
His truth is marching on.
Glory, glory, hallelujah.
His truth is marching on.
Song 601, let's sing it out on the second.
I have seen him in the watchfires of a hundred circling camps.
They have builded him an altar in the evening dews and damps.
I can read his righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps.
His day is marching on.
Glory, glory, hallelujah.
His truth is marching on.
On the third.
He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never sound retreat.
He is sifting out the hearts of men before his judgment see.
Oh, be swift my soul to answer him.
Be jubilant my feet.
Our God is marching on.
Glory, glory, hallelujah.
His truth is marching on.
In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea.
With the glory in his bosom that transfigures you and me.
As he died to make men whole he let us die to make men free.
While God is marching on.
Glory, glory, hallelujah.
His truth is marching on.
Amen.
Good to see you brother.
Alex, would you open us up for a word of prayer?
Dear heavenly father, thank you for our church here.
We thank you for all the people that have come today.
And praise to those that couldn't believe it.
And we ask you to bless our service here as we worship you.
And fill us all with the Holy Spirit.
And fill the house with the Spirit.
Amen.
Amen. Our second song is 493, Onward Christian Soldiers.
Song number 493, Onward Christian Soldiers.
Song 493, let's sing it out together on the first.
Onward Christian soldiers marching as to war.
With the cross of Jesus going on before.
Christ the royal master leads against the foe.
Forward into battle see his banner go.
Onward Christian soldiers marching as to war.
With the cross of Jesus going on before.
On the second at the sign of triumph.
Satan's host a flea.
On then Christian soldiers on to victory.
Hell's foundations quiver at the shout of praise.
Brothers lift your voices loud your anthems raise.
Onward Christian soldiers marching as to war.
With the cross of Jesus going on before.
Like a mighty army moves the church of God.
Brothers we are treading where the saints have trod.
We are not divided all one body we.
One in hope and doctrine one in charity.
Onward Christian soldiers marching as to war.
With the cross of Jesus going on before.
Onward then ye people join our happy throng.
Blend with ours your voices in the triumph song.
Glory, laud and honor unto Christ the King.
This through countless ages man and angel sing.
Onward Christian soldiers marching as to war.
With the cross of Jesus going on before.
Amen. Good singing at this time we'll have our announcements.
Good morning welcome to Church Foundation Baptist Church.
Let's take our bulletins and go through some announcements.
Apparently somebody turned 50.
That was me.
I just want to say thank you to everybody for wishing me a happy birthday.
Yeah I turned 50 on Friday and Miss Jessica 29.
So happy birthday Miss Jessica.
Are you.
OK.
Someone's raising their hand already I thought she needed a bulletin.
Oh yeah.
If you need a bulletin raise your hand.
She's queuing me.
All right.
Good.
At least queuing herself.
But thank you everybody for this.
This is really nice.
I really appreciate it.
After church we're going to have some ice cream and cake.
So feel free to have as much as you want because there's plenty of it.
So we'll all get our sugar rush right before we go out soul winning.
So just don't have a crash at the door.
All right.
Let's look at our verse of the week.
It says and it and he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water that bringeth forth his fruit and his season.
His leaf also shall not wither whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.
Psalm 1 3 great scripture there and on our inside page there we have our service time Sunday morning service 10 30 a.m.
so the evening service 3 30 p.m. Thursday Bible study 6 30 p.m.
I have been going through a foundation series I'm going to hold that for this week and next week I'll be in Indianapolis so I won't be able to preach it.
But when I come back I'll pick back up on that.
I'm going to preach is just a standalone sermon this morning about the location of the Temple Mount which is just going to be it's not going to be just a Bible study will be preaching.
But I just felt the need to preach that.
And then Sunday evening tonight will be in Joshua chapter number 10 and it'll be how the sun stood still.
There's it's kind of a famous chapter in the Bible and Josh was taking on the king of Jerusalem and his friends that he calls to help him.
So it's a it's an interesting chapter.
So we'll be there tonight and Sony will have today at 1 p.m.
The maps are already in the WhatsApp group if you if you're not in our WhatsApp group and you have started coming to our church please see me and I'll make sure you get in or you can see my wife and make sure you get in the maps are there already.
So but if you need to just meet on site you can meet on site at 120 or you can be in here or else we'll make sure you get paired up with somebody and get you a map if you're not in the WhatsApp group.
So that's the WhatsApp Sony group that we have.
So there's other opportunities to go.
To go sowing was the below.
Those are the respective leaders of those groups and the praise report we've had 24 salvation so far this month.
So doing well there and the attendance from last week is listed below there.
The New Testament challenge where we're deep.
We're almost there.
You're almost at the finish line hopefully.
And you got your challenge almost finished.
Yet till the end of the month to get that done.
Email me.
Let me know you got it done and you'll receive a prize afterwards.
So next week will be the one year anniversary for our church plant in Indianapolis.
And that'll be the first and second.
Second there's a sowing on Saturday meeting at the church building at 930 at 10 o'clock.
We'll go out sowing from 10 to 1230.
1230 will be lunch that will be provided afterwards.
And then bowling at 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.
And that is free also.
But please just email brother Justin Zong at Sure Foundation Indy at or I think it's S.F.E.C.
Indy at gmail dot com.
But you can just look it up on the Web site also if I'm wrong about that.
But anyway then the next day I'll be preaching the morning ordination service for him.
And then I'll be preaching with Brother Jim Pastor Jim Weeb and we'll do a combo preaching in the evening.
And I'll try to keep it short.
I said try and that's going to be good to see Pastor Weeb there.
And have a great weekend celebrating the one year.
You only get one one year anniversary.
So it's a big it's a big deal.
If you can be there please please come.
And if you need more details just get with Brother Justin Zong.
So then our Sweetheart Banquet is we're gearing up for that.
Pastor Weeb will be here for that also.
And he'll be preaching for us on the night of the Sweetheart Banquet which I believe starts at 4 30 p.m.
And we'll do all the things we regularly do.
We'll be eating food and it's a night for us for married couples to come and enjoy themselves and and dress.
We dress up with a Western theme this year.
We always pick a theme.
So you're welcome to dress up like that if you want to.
And then we are having the not so newlywed game afterwards which eventually leads people to sleeping on the couch.
So it gets pretty it gets pretty competitive.
I'll just say that.
But it's not meant to split people up.
We don't want you to fight afterwards.
So just it's supposed to be fun.
So just keep that in mind.
The King James Conference is off in the distance but this month has flown by so fast that it's it'll be upon us soon enough.
So but we're getting ready for that.
And the other stuff is off in the distance.
Also we're family integrated that means the children infants are welcome during the church services of course.
And but use the mother baby room dad baby room for your convenience.
The other rules are listed below.
We also have let's see the giving information down at the bottom of the page.
And then we have Nick Ritchie's having a birthday on the twenty ninth.
Where's Nick at.
All right.
Happy birthday.
How old are you going to be.
Twelve.
Wow.
So you're considered a tween now is that how that works.
Next year teenager.
Right.
I don't know.
Is that offensive to people.
I don't know.
Sorry.
He's already turning red over there so.
Anyway.
Well happy birthday Nick.
Let's go ahead and sing happy birthday to Nick.
Happy birthday to you.
Happy birthday.
God bless you.
Happy birthday to you.
Mazel tov.
No I'm just kidding.
Just kidding.
All right.
That's all I have for announcements.
Go ahead sing another song and then we'll receive the offering.
And yes the cake and ice cream is after the service.
Am I right about that.
You guys are the ones that planned it.
So am I right about that though.
Yeah.
OK.
Cake and ice cream after the service.
All right.
Our next song is song number three hundred ninety two.
It is well with my soul.
In the blue him book song number three hundred ninety two.
I need everybody to step it up for pastors late birthday now.
On the chorus.
When I go down the ladies go first.
Then the men follow after song three hundred ninety two.
It is well with my soul.
Song three nine two.
Let's sing it together on the first.
When peace like a river attendeth my way.
When sorrows like sea billows roll.
Whatever my lot thou has taught me to say.
It is well.
It is well with my soul.
It is well.
With my soul.
It is well.
It is well with my soul.
Beautiful singing.
You didn't let me down on the second.
The Satan should buff it.
The trial should come.
Let this blessed assurance control.
That Christ has regarded my helpless sustain.
And has shed his own blood for my soul.
It is well.
With my soul.
It is well.
It is well with my soul.
My sin oh the bliss of this glorious thought.
My sin not in part but the whole.
Is nailed to the cross and I bear it no more.
Praise the Lord.
Praise the Lord oh my soul.
It is well.
With my soul.
It is well.
With my soul.
Amen.
Good singing on the last.
And Lord hates the day.
When my faith shall be sighed.
The clouds be rolled back as a scroll.
The trump shall resound.
And the Lord shall descend.
Even so.
It is well with my soul.
It is well.
With my soul.
It is well.
With my soul.
Amen.
Great singing.
Brother Mikey, would you bless you all for being with us?
Thank you.
Underneath the seat in front of you, Genesis 22.
Genesis 22, the Bible reads,
And it came to pass after these things that God did tempt Abraham and said unto him,
Abraham, and he said, Behold, here I am.
And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah,
and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell of thee.
And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him.
And Isaac his son, and clave the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went unto the place of which God had told him.
And on the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw the place afar off.
And Abraham said unto his young men, Abide ye here with the ass, and I and the lad will go yonder in worship,
and come again to you.
And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering, and laid it upon Isaac his son,
and he took the fire in his hand and a knife, and they went both of them together.
And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and said, My father, and he said, Here am I my son.
And he said, Behold the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?
And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering.
So they went both of them together.
And they came to the place which God had told him of, and Abraham built an altar there,
and laid the wood in order, and bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar upon the wood.
And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son.
And the angel of the Lord called unto him out of heaven, and said, Abraham, Abraham, and he said, Here am I.
And he said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou anything unto him,
for now I know that thou fear'st God, seeing thou has not withheld thy son, thine only son from me.
And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold, behind him a ram caught in a thicket by his horns.
And Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering in the stead of his son.
And Abraham called the name of that place Jehovah Jireh, as it is said to this day,
In the mount of the Lord it shall be seen.
And the angel of the Lord called unto Abraham out of heaven a second time, and said,
By myself have I sworn, saith the Lord, for because thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thine only son,
that in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of heaven,
and as the sand which is upon the sea shore.
And thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies.
And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed, because thou hast obeyed my voice.
So Abraham returned unto his young men, and they rose up and went together to Beersheba.
And Abraham dwelt at Beersheba.
And it came to pass after these things that it was told Abraham, saying,
Behold, Milcah, she hath also borne children unto thy brother Nahor.
Haz is first born, and Buz is his brother, and Camuel, the father of Aram, and Chezd, and Hazo, and Phildash, and Jilaf, and Bethuel.
And Bethuel begat Rebekah, these eight Milcah did bear to Nahor, Abraham's brother.
And his cocking-bine, whose name was Rehama, she bear also Teba, and Gaham, and Thahash, and Machach.
Brother Eli, we pray for us.
Amen. So I'm preaching about where the correct location of the Temple Mount is.
And you're like, well, I thought we kind of already knew that.
Well, I mean, if you've ever seen pictures of Jerusalem, there's this big place that they call the Wailing Wall,
and that's where the Jews kind of do this thing and stick little pieces of paper in it,
and they think that that's part of the original temple.
Now, it's not part of the temple, but it is the retaining wall that the Temple Mount,
it goes around the Temple Mount, the mountain called Moriah.
And we'll get to that here in just a second, but that is what is traditionally known as where the temple was originally built,
and in this chapter where Abraham takes Isaac.
Now, you're like, well, how do you know that for sure?
Well, I mean, this is not something, like when people came to visit Solomon after he built the temple there,
people came from all over the world to see this great, magnificent temple.
And it's kind of something that's hard to lose.
And there's a lot of controversy by some people,
and one of the guys' names that I've watched some of his material,
I've watched his documentary a few times just to try to get a grasp on what he's actually trying to say,
but there are conspiracy theorists out there that would purport that the Temple Mount in Jerusalem is not the real Temple Mount,
that it was actually built in the city of David at this place called Gihon, which is the Gihon Spring.
It's a natural spring that you would get a water source from.
And it makes sense that, of course, when the children of Israel were surrounded on all sides,
they still had a water source that they could use.
But this guy, Bob Cornuke, he's like an amateur archaeologist.
He's a retired FBI agent, and he likes to go do these Indiana Jones-type places.
He goes to places and tries to figure out where these biblical sites were.
He went to try to find Noah's Ark, and he claims to have found the anchors from Paul's shipwreck on the island of Malta,
or off the coast of the island of Malta.
And I personally don't believe that Paul even shipwrecked on that island anyway,
because I think the Bible is pretty clear that he was in the Aegean Sea,
that that's where they were actually at, and there's another island called by the same name in the Book of Acts.
So, I mean, it's kind of hard to find something that's not in the right location,
but that's just my personal opinion on that,
and I think that that's what the Bible teaches, that they were in the Aegean Sea.
So, anyway, but that's neither here nor there.
But he's kind of come up with this half-baked logic that the Temple Mount was in the city of David,
which is below where the Temple Mount location is.
But if you just look at pictures, you can even pull up your smartphone and just look at what the Temple Mount looks like.
It's this huge platform, and that's where the temple was put,
where Solomon built the original temple after he became king,
and then that was destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar, and completely obliterated 70 years later.
Nehemiah comes, and he builds the second temple on the exact location where that other temple was.
It wasn't as big, it wasn't as magnificent as the old temple,
but it was still, you know, it suited the needs that it was built for.
And then Herod, which is Herod, the Herod that tried to kill baby Jesus,
renovated that area and added on to it.
Now, you can see, if you look at pictures of the retaining wall, you can see different eras of adding on to the retaining wall.
And those eras are Solomon, Nehemiah, and Herod the Great.
They're clearly different eras, but this guy will say that that was the fortress Antonia,
and that was this Roman, where all the Romans were kept, the Roman legion was kept on top of that,
and that the temple was below that at this Gihon spring.
So, normally this is not something I preach a whole sermon about,
but I kind of brought it up in my sermon last week and got a little blowback over that,
and was called the stupidest preacher ever or something for saying that.
But really, I mean, most people do believe that traditionally that is where the temple mount is,
where I said it was, and there's a lot of problems with claiming that it's in a different place,
and the Bible is actually what I used to preach that sermon.
The only part I went to the internet for was to show how far away the temple mount is from the Gihon,
which is about a half a mile away from it.
And what I was preaching about was the Gibeonites had surrendered themselves to Joshua,
and they said that we'll be your servants, and so Joshua cursed them to be bond servants,
which their duty was to hew wood and supply the water for the children of Israel,
and specifically, in two verses it says that they were to bring water to the tabernacle of the congregation.
So their service was to bring water to Israel, because the priests didn't have to wash themselves in this water,
and they had to wash, I mean, they were killing lots of animals and slaughtering them,
so they had a full-time job, all their people had this full-time job of hewing wood and drying water,
and I was saying, well, they could take that water from the spring and take it that half mile any time they wanted to,
because this guy is saying that you have to have the temple next to running water,
and I was thinking, well, the Bible never says that.
There's lots of people in here that's read their Bible cover to cover.
Does the Bible ever say that you have to be next to a source of running water?
But this is what this guy says, and basically this guy says a lot of stuff that's not in the Bible.
He appeals to history as his sources, he appeals to Josephus,
but even like when he appeals to Josephus, he's saying things like,
well, they said, Josephus said that the Romans took Jerusalem down to the foundations.
Well, if you take the temple down to the foundations, the foundation would be that platform on the Temple Mount.
That's not talking about, because Jesus made the prophecy of not one stone would be left upon another,
so the Jews, he's saying that the Jews today will say, well, Jesus lied,
because all those great stones are still left upon another at that wall,
and he said, so that must mean that that wasn't the temple,
and I would agree with that, because it isn't the temple.
It's the retaining wall and the foundation for the temple to be put upon,
and so what Jesus was right, because if you took all those stones,
at the bottom of it would still be a layer of stones,
then they'd have to flip, what, flip those over onto the level ground,
and then they would be all flipped over? Is that what you're saying?
If you're not going to be able to flip all those stones over, he was talking about the actual stones for the temple,
and I'll get to that at the end of the sermon, but that's essentially what,
I mean, I'm going to just prove beyond the shadow of a doubt that the temple was not at the Gihon Springs,
and why is this important?
Well, false doctrine, no matter how minuscule it might seem,
more false doctrine comes out of it.
If you have the pre-trib rapture as your foundational doctrine of end times,
then that's why they get all the other stuff wrong, too.
That's why they say, it's just for the Jews. No, it's not.
The church is not going to be there. Yes, it is.
So, that's, see, they have that one problem where they say the church will not be here when the end times happens,
and that's not true.
We will be here if the Bible says that he'll make war with the saints.
Who are the saints? Save people.
They're not Saint Augustine and Saint Christopher and whatever other Catholic saint you want to talk about.
So, anyway, let's see.
This also, this sermon might help stop more people from getting fleeced by charlatans that are pushing this ridiculous crap,
because, you know, hey, we just need more money.
We need more money.
Hey, we need to give to the temple foundation so we can,
because, look, if you say the temple is not going to be built back upon the place where it belonged,
because, look, the temple means nothing to us.
We are the temple of God.
So, it means nothing to us except for Bible prophecy says that there will be another temple,
and that the Antichrist will go in and proclaim himself to be God.
And so, yes, it does mean something.
Is that really going to be the temple of God?
Well, it'll be the temple of God in their minds, in some people's minds.
But that location is the location that everybody believes it.
The Muslims believe it's the right location.
That's why they built that mosque there.
They built it there so that the Jews won't rebuild a temple there,
and that's them stopping the Jews from being able to have a temple there.
They're doing it to be trolls.
The ultimate troll is to stop them from building something that they don't want there.
They know it's not at Gihon at the bottom of where the city of David is.
They know that.
That's why Hadrian built this abomination on the top of there.
He built these statues on there, one of him and one of some goddess or something.
He did that in like 125 or something like that AD.
People know where the temple mount is.
Hadrian knew where it was.
He built that right there, 125 years after Christ.
So, people have always known where it was.
And this is a charlatan tourist trap type of thing.
And here's the other thing, is that if you get the wrong location on the temple,
or the temple's supposed to be,
you're going to get the wrong location of where everything else is around that area.
And you're like, well, what difference does it make whether we think Golgoth is here or there?
It doesn't really make that much of a difference,
but you are wrong, and there are people that are actual archaeologists
that have studied these things, real archaeologists, not amateur archaeologists,
but real archaeologists that have studied these things.
And like the Church of the Holy Sepulcher,
yeah, it's controlled by Catholics or Greek Orthodox or something like that,
and they have all these weird statues and all these crosses everywhere,
but that doesn't mean that they're wrong about the location
because multiple things have been built upon each other.
They've dug down and found all these different buildings
that have been built upon that same place.
Usually in archaeology when something's been built upon multiple structures,
it's because it was for a reason.
And all over the quote-unquote Holy Land you find these things.
So let's look down at our Bibles at Genesis chapter 22 verse 2.
The Bible says, and he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac,
whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah,
and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains
which I will tell thee of.
So he said, one of the mountains, because there are little,
you know, you've got the Mount of Olives there,
you've got the mountain of Gibeah that's about six miles away from there,
you've got other little hills all over the place,
and he says there's a specific one, and it's in the land of Moriah.
So there's only two places where the word Moriah appears in the Bible,
and this is one of them, okay?
So this is where Abraham was going to sacrifice Isaac.
What is this picture? Well, it pictures Christ being sacrificed for us.
Abraham was being tested.
He was about to slay his own son, his only begotten son,
you know, as far as the picture is for us,
which pictures God the Father allowing his son to be sacrificed for all of our sins.
But the key thing I want you to take away from this passage here, though,
is that get thee into the land of Moriah.
So he told him to go to a specific place.
Now let's turn to Genesis chapter 14, verse 18.
I'm going to have you go to a few short verses,
and then we're going to look at a couple lengthy passages for context,
because, you know, context is important,
and it's important that we get the context of some of these passages,
because some of the things that this guy purports are, like,
you know, pretty strange interpretations of the Bible,
and then he tries to take things out of context in a couple places.
So I just want to give some context in some of these,
but Genesis 14, 8 is when Melchizedek comes and meets Abraham
after the slaughter of the kings.
It says in Genesis 14, 18, it says,
And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine,
and he was the priest of the most high God.
See that place, that word Salem there?
Later, that place is going to be called Jerusalem.
Those are one and the same place.
Okay, so Melchizedek came and met Abraham in that location called Salem.
Now, look at Psalm chapter 76, verse number 2,
because this is important,
because Abraham is sent to Moriah in Genesis chapter 22,
and he's kind of been close to that location before,
because look at what Psalm chapter 76, verse 2 says.
It says, In Salem also is his tabernacle and his dwelling place in Zion.
So Salem, it says, is his tabernacle, so,
and his dwelling place Zion.
So the hill of Zion is, you've probably heard that term, the hill of Zion.
That is where the tabernacle is going to be put, the temple more specifically,
and that word is Salem there, you see that?
Now look at Hebrews chapter 7, verse 1,
Hebrews chapter 7, verse 1,
all the way back forward in the New Testament,
Hebrews 7, verse 1, the Bible says,
For this Melchizedek king of Salem, priest of the most high God,
who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings,
and blessed him, to whom also Abraham gave a tenth part of all,
first being by interpretation king of righteousness,
and after that also king of Salem,
which is king of peace.
So, Melchizedek, when he met Abraham in this place,
the place is called Salem,
but like I said, later it's going to be called Jerusalem.
In our chapter tonight in Joshua,
the king of Jerusalem is who is going to stir up these other five kings,
and this is who Joshua is going to utterly destroy in the chapter tonight,
and his name is Adonai Zedek, not Melchizedek,
and so you have a similar name,
but Adonai means Lord,
and so he calls himself Adonai Zedek,
and this guy's Melchizedek means what?
It interprets there for us right there,
it says king of righteousness,
so the other guy is going to be called the Lord of Righteousness.
That's what his name means, but he's anything but righteous.
So, anyway, I just wanted to point out that in Psalm 76 2,
it's saying that Salem is his tabernacle,
his dwelling place is in Zion.
Now, that just kind of lays a little bit of groundwork
so you can kind of understand a little bit going forward,
but turn to 2 Samuel 24 verse 18.
This is a little bit more lengthy of a chapter,
but it's not too bad.
I wanted to see.
Yeah, it's just like maybe seven or eight verses or something,
but 2 Samuel 24 18.
So, what am I trying to prove here?
Well, I'm trying to prove that the temple is on Mount Moriah, okay,
and I will be able to prove that very easily here in a minute,
but what this guy Bob Cornuke is saying is that,
no, the temple is not on Mount Moriah.
Well, he might be saying it's on Mount Moriah,
but he's saying that Mount Moriah is in the city of David,
but that's a lower place than where it actually is,
which is where the Temple Mount is right now.
They're saying it's in a different place
than it actually is being purported.
So, 2 Samuel 24 verse 18, it says,
And Gad came that day to David and said unto him,
Go up, rear and altar unto the Lord,
in the threshing floor of Arona the Jebusite.
And David's, according to the saying of Gad,
went up as the Lord commanded.
So, what's happened here is that David has numbered the people
and God got anger with them
and he gave them three choices, basically.
And David chose to fall into the hands of the Lord
because God would be merciful.
He didn't want to fall into the hands of man,
so he decided to fall into the hands of the Lord.
And to appease God's anger,
he's told to go to this threshing floor of Arona the Jebusite.
And that's what the seer told him to do.
Look at verse 20.
And Arona looked and saw the king and his servants
coming on toward him.
And Arona went out and bowed himself before the king
on his face upon the ground.
And Arona said, Wherefore is my Lord?
The king come to his servant and David said,
To buy the threshing floor of thee,
to build an altar unto the Lord,
that the plague may be stayed from the people.
And Arona said unto David,
Let my Lord the king take and offer up
what seemeth good unto him.
Behold, there be oxen for burnt sacrifice
in the threshing instruments and other instruments
for the ox for wood.
All these things did Arona as a king give unto the king.
And Arona said unto the king,
The Lord thy God accept thee.
And the king said unto Arona, Nay,
but I will surely buy it of thee at a price.
Neither will I offer burnt offerings unto the Lord my God,
of that which doth cost me nothing.
So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen
for fifty shekels of silver.
And David built there an altar unto the Lord
and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings.
So the Lord was entreated for the land
and the plague was stayed from Israel.
And you're like, well what does that have to do with anything?
Well, this is the story where David goes
and this is not where David,
because if you remember Joab goes and takes the fortress of Zion.
He tells Joab to go up
and then he takes this castle of Zion.
Is this the castle of Zion right here?
No, this is the threshing floor of this Arona, the Jebusite.
So this is not the location that David took.
This is not the fortress that David took.
David lives in that fortress.
David lives in that castle
and that is called the city of David.
And so there's the old city of David,
which was a little bit,
obviously it's different than what Jerusalem looks like now.
But Jerusalem, but that hill is not,
that hill is where this is right here,
where Arona the Jebusite was threshing wheat.
But the tabernacle that Moses made at the Gihon,
the tabernacle that Moses made
being at the Gihon spring
when Solomon was made king
is a theory that this Bob Cornute guy proposes.
That Solomon was ordained and oil was poured upon his head
and that he was ordained at this place called Gihon.
That is true that he was ordained there.
But they try to say, well,
it says that that's where the tabernacle was then
so that's where the temple has to be,
that's where the temple was too.
Because at the time that Solomon was ordained as the king,
when David was dying,
there was, you know, there was,
the temple was not there at that time.
There was no temple.
There was the tabernacle that Moses had made.
So, but they'll say, well, no,
the tabernacle of Moses that Moses built was there at Gihon.
And that's not true.
So, and let me prove that to you
by, let's turn to 1 Chronicles chapter 21.
We haven't gotten there in my Bible study yet,
but this part is really important for you
to understand why it can't be at Gihon.
Why the temple was not, the temple was not built there.
And the Bible says and proves this.
Look at 1 Chronicles chapter 21 verse 18.
The Bible says, then the angel of the Lord commanded Gad,
this is a parallel passage basically,
and it says, then the angel of the Lord commanded Gad
to say to David that David should go up
and set up an altar unto the Lord
in the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
And David went up at the saying of Gad
which he spake in the name of the Lord,
and Ornan turned back and saw the angel
and his four sons with him hid themselves.
Now Ornan was threshing wheat.
And as David came to Ornan,
Ornan looked and saw David
and went out of the threshing floor
and bowed himself to David with his face to the ground.
Then David said to Ornan,
Grant me the place of the threshing floor
that I may build an altar therein unto the Lord.
Thou shalt grant it me for the full price
that the plague may be stayed from the people.
So right now there's a plague going on
and the angel of the Lord is killing people
because of the sin of counting the people.
And all in all the angel of the Lord
I think killed about 70,000 people
so David's in like a rush here
to make God happy and appease him
because of this sin.
And this is what David's told to do.
Go to this specific place.
And it says in Ornan, verse 23,
said unto David, take it to thee
and let my Lord the king do
that which is good in his eyes.
Lo, I give thee the oxen also for burnt offerings
and the threshing instruments for wood
and the wheat for the meat offering.
I give it all.
So he's trying to do a nice thing.
He's trying to give it to David.
But David doesn't want to do that.
It says, and the king said to Ornan,
nay, but I will verily buy it for the full price
for I will not take that which is thine for the Lord
nor offer burnt offerings without cost.
So David gave to Ornan for the place
600 shekels of gold by weight
and David built there an altar unto the Lord
and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings
and called upon the Lord
and he answered him from heaven by fire
upon the altar of burnt offerings.
So this is an extra special type of offering
that happens here and the fire comes down
upon this altar and that doesn't always happen.
So it says, and the Lord commanded the angel
and he put up his sword again in the sheath thereof
at the time when David saw that the Lord had answered him
in the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite
then he sacrificed there.
Pay close attention to this part, okay?
For the tabernacle of the Lord
which Moses made in the wilderness
and the altar of the burnt offering
were at that season in the high place of Gibeon.
Does it say it was at Gihon?
Where does it say that the tabernacle
that Moses made was?
Right there.
It says Gibeon.
That's six miles from Jerusalem.
That is not the spring, okay?
It says but David could not go before it
to inquire of God for he was afraid
because of the sword of the angel of the Lord.
So to say that this place
is the same exact location as Gihon
the Bible proves that that's not true.
I mean I should be able to say case closed
let's bow for prayer and let's go home.
But I'm gonna just prove it even more, okay?
Now let's turn to 1 Kings chapter 32.
1 Kings 1, 32, excuse me.
So it's very specific though.
The tabernacle of the Lord
which Moses made in the wilderness.
Now David did take and make a different tabernacle
but it wasn't the tabernacle that Moses made.
Remember he takes the ark
and puts it into the city of David.
I agree with you on that, okay?
But that's where he kept the ark of the covenant
and that was kept separately from where the altar
where the sacrifices were kept at that time.
That's where Samuel sacrificed.
Remember Samuel would go on his circuit
and then when he'd come back he'd come back to Gibeah.
That's where Saul was born.
That's where Saul was ordained
as the first king of Israel was in Gibeah
where the high place was.
That's where the tabernacle was kept for all those years.
Now look at 1 Kings 1, 32.
It says, and King David said,
call me Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet
and Benaniah the son of Jehoiada
and they came before the king.
So this is the point where Solomon's about to get ordained
as the king of Israel, okay?
It says, the king also said unto them,
take with you the servants of the Lord
and cause Solomon my son to ride upon mine own mule
and bring him down to Gihon.
Now, I mean, if this is where the tabernacle was,
let's just think about this logically for a second.
If this is where the tabernacle of the congregation
that Moses built was,
why wouldn't he say take him down
to the tabernacle of the congregation?
Isn't that more important than Gihon?
I mean, why wouldn't you just say
the tabernacle of the congregation?
Isn't that more holy than some spring?
Of course it is.
But he's saying take him to this specific location
called Gihon.
This isn't some clue to help us
to find out where the tabernacle is
because I just got done telling you where it was.
It's still here.
You're like, well, it could have moved by now.
Well, let's find out.
We'll find out here in just a minute,
but look what it says in verse 34.
And let Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet
anoint him their king over Israel
and blow you the trumpet and say,
God save King Solomon.
Then you shall come up after him
that you may come and sit upon my throne
and he shall be king in my stead
and I have appointed him to be ruler
over Israel and over Judah.
And Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada,
answered the king and said, Amen.
And the Lord God of my lord, the king,
say so too.
As the Lord has seen with my lord, the king,
even so be he with Solomon
and make his throne greater
than the throne of my lord, King David.
So Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet,
Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada,
and the Cherithites and the Pelethites
went down and caused Solomon
to ride upon King David's mule
and brought him to Gihon.
And Zadok the priest took an horn of oil
out of the tabernacle and anointed Solomon.
So this is where they'll say,
aha, you're wrong.
See, the tabernacle's right there.
But does it say it's the tabernacle
that Moses built?
Is that what it says?
It doesn't even say that they got it
from right at that location,
but you know, say it is,
but it says the tabernacle and anointed Solomon.
It could have been that they got it
from the tabernacle and brought it there,
but I mean, let's just say for argument's sake
that it's true that there was,
that maybe that's where David
kept the Ark of the Covenant at that time.
I don't know if that's actually true or not,
but it does say that they took a horn of oil
out of the tabernacle and anointed Solomon.
It says, and they blew the trumpet,
and all the people said, God save King Solomon.
So, but they could say, well, you know,
it got moved from Gibeon to this location,
and you're wrong, Pastor Thompson.
Okay, well let's just turn to 2 Chronicles 1
and we'll see if that's true.
Because this takes place
after Solomon is king.
2 Chronicles 1, chapter 1, verse 1.
And Solomon, the son of David,
was strengthened in his kingdom,
so he's already king, right?
Would you agree with that?
And the Lord his God was with him
and magnified him exceedingly.
Then Solomon spake unto all Israel,
to the captains of thousands and of hundreds,
and to the judges and to every governor in all Israel,
the chief of the fathers.
So Solomon and all the congregation with him
went to the high place that was at Gibeon.
Oh, why would they do that?
Why would they go there?
Because I thought the temple,
I thought the tabernacle was at Gibeon.
For there was the tabernacle of the congregation of God,
which Moses, the servant of the Lord,
had made in the wilderness.
Oh, whoa, guess what, it's still there.
It's not at Gibeon.
Which Moses, the servant of the Lord,
had made in the wilderness.
Whoops.
That's kind of hard on your theory, isn't it, Bob Cornuke?
It's kind of hard on the theory of the people
that say, oh, the tabernacle was at,
I mean, yeah, a tabernacle might have been there,
but it wasn't this tabernacle.
It wasn't the tabernacle that Moses made in the wilderness,
because that's the one that was in Gibeon,
at the high place.
It says, verse one, I mean, are you tracking with me here?
Okay, hopefully you understand what I'm talking about here.
All right, 2 Chronicles chapter one, verse four, it says,
but the ark of God had David brought up
from Kerjath-jurim.
To the place which David had prepared for it,
for he had pitched a tent for it at Jerusalem.
What is another word for a tent?
Yeah.
That might have been what was at Gihon.
I don't know if it was at Gihon or not,
but there was another tent.
It just wasn't the tent of the congregation
that Moses built.
Two completely different things.
I mean, that proves it beyond the shadow of doubt,
would you agree?
That Gihon and, you know,
Gihon is not the location where the tabernacle
that Moses built was at.
Plain and simple.
And it says, moreover, let's hear some more proof,
moreover the brazen altar that Bezalel, the son of Uri,
the son of Hur, had made,
he put before the tabernacle of the Lord,
and Solomon and the congregation sought unto it,
and Solomon went up thither
to the brazen altar before the Lord,
which was at the tabernacle of the congregation
and offered a thousand burnt offerings on it.
Where was this place at?
Gibeah.
Gibeon.
Not at Gihon.
I thought it,
because this guy says the temple and the tabernacle
had to be at Gihon.
Well, what about when they were wandering
in the wilderness for 40 years?
Duh.
Come on.
I mean, they probably just went to a place
that was pretty close to water,
but they didn't have to be at water.
The Bible never says that anywhere.
That is just made up.
It's not true.
Yeah, it's probably convenient,
but now that you've got the Gibeonites,
they can get water and bring it to the tabernacle, okay?
Obviously, having it at the spring of Gihon
probably would have been, you know, handy.
And there were sacrifices that were done by David
in the city of David,
but that's not where he was told to do it.
That's not where it was being done at that time,
because the tabernacle,
I mean, but David did have some liberties
in some of the things he did.
There's no doubt about that.
Why was he allowed to bring the Ark of the Covenant
into the city of David and keep it under that tent?
Because David was a man after God's own heart,
and God's heart was to eventually bring
all those things together in Jerusalem.
There's no doubt about that.
But at this time, that's not where it was.
And even into Solomon's reign for a while,
that's not where, you know, it was not there.
And the spot where Ornan the Jebusite was
was not at Gihon either.
So let's look further down.
It says in verse seven,
In that night did God appear unto Solomon
and said unto him,
Ask what I shall give thee in Solomon,
and said unto God,
Thou hast shown great mercy unto David my father,
and hast made me to reign in his stead.
Now, O Lord God,
let thy promise unto David my father be established,
for thou hast made me king over a people
like the dust of the earth in multitude.
Give me now wisdom and knowledge
that I may go out and come in before this people,
for who can judge this thy people that is so great?
And God said unto Solomon,
Because this was in thine heart,
and thou hast not asked riches, wealth, or honor,
nor the life of thine enemies,
neither yet hast asked long life,
but hast asked wisdom and knowledge for thyself,
that thou mayest judge my people
over whom I have made thee king.
Wisdom and knowledge is granted unto thee,
and I will give thee riches and wealth and honor,
such as none of the kings have had that,
have been before thee,
neither shall there any after thee have the like.
Then Solomon came from his journey
to the high place that was at Gibeon to Jerusalem.
So, obviously, Jerusalem was not where he was.
He was at Gibeon, right?
Isn't that what the Bible says right there?
From before the tabernacle of the congregation.
So he was at the tabernacle of the congregation
when he was at Gibeon, and it was not in Jerusalem.
Is that pretty clear from the text right there?
And he reigned over Israel.
Now look at chapter three, verse one.
Second Chronicles chapter three, verse one.
I know you're like,
you're beating this horse to death, Pastor Thompson.
Well, I mean, sometimes the horse has to be beaten, okay?
Sometimes it has to be stomped out.
And just, I mean, just to be beaten to the deadly death.
Anyway, Second Chronicles chapter three, verse one,
the Bible says,
Then Solomon began to build the house of the Lord.
Where at?
At Jerusalem.
Where?
In Mount Moriah.
Not Gihon.
Because if it was at Gihon, wouldn't he just say,
at Gihon, like he said, hey, take,
take Solomon and ordain him, you know,
anoint him king in Gihon.
No, it says Moriah.
This is the only other place where it says Moriah in the Bible.
And it says,
Where the Lord appeared unto David his father
in the place that David had prepared in the threshing floor,
of Ornan the Jebusite.
So where is Mount Moriah?
It's the same place that God appeared and said,
hey, this is where I want you to do the sacrifice.
It's the same place as the threshing floor
of Ornan the Jebusite.
And so it does not say the Gihon Spring, does it?
Wouldn't it connect that at some point?
Don't you think God would make it pretty clear
that that's where it was?
But no, he's making it clear from Genesis chapter 22
and yeah, there might not be a lot of connections,
but there is one.
Go into the land of Moriah and then here it is
connecting it here and telling us exactly where it is.
It's in Jerusalem.
And more specifically, it's in the threshing floor
of Ornan the Jebusite.
So the tabernacles in Gibeon
and Mount Moriah is where he wants to build the temple.
He began to build the house of the Lord at Jerusalem.
At Jerusalem in this specific location, Mount Moriah.
Now look at Second Chronicles chapter five, verse number one.
Second Chronicles chapter five, verse number one.
All this guy's conjecture about where the temple really was
is just complete garbage.
It's just him, like, he throws out a verse
and it's like, yep, this is where Solomon got chosen
to be the king or whatever.
He got anointed to be the king
and that's where the temple mount was.
Like, what?
Why don't you actually read what the Bible says?
He doesn't even use the right Bible version
so it's kind of hard for him to figure it out, I guess,
but you would think that someone would do a little research
before they just jump into this with both feet,
but the Bible's pretty clear about this, I thought.
So look at, let's see, where are we at?
Second Chronicles five, one, it says,
thus all the work that Solomon made
for the house of the Lord was finished.
Now, I'm showing you this because of context.
So, Solomon finishes the house of the Lord.
He builds the house of the Lord.
Where was he building that?
At the location of the threshing floor
of Ornan the Jebusite in Jerusalem at Mount Moriah, okay?
Not Gihon, but he was building that there
and it took him years to accomplish this task,
but this is another thing that this bozo says.
He says that,
he says that this chapter right here
is talking about they're just doing a festival.
That's it.
They just took the stuff out
and did a little festival real quick
and then they went back to the city of David.
Let's read this and I'll show you
what it actually says, though.
Thus all the work that Solomon made
for the house of the Lord was finished
and Solomon brought in all the things
that David his father had dedicated
and the silver and the gold and all the instruments
put he among the treasures of the house of God.
Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel
and all the heads of the tribes
and the chief of the fathers of the children of Israel
on to Jerusalem to bring up the Ark of the Covenant
of the Lord out of the city of David, which is Zion.
So what's he doing?
He's taking it out of the city of David
and where's he taking it to?
He's gonna take it to Jerusalem.
Isn't that what it said at the beginning?
He's taking it to Jerusalem.
So that means that the temple is not in the city of David.
If you're taking all that stuff out that was made,
you're taking it out of the city of David
and where's the temple being built?
Mount Moriah.
So Mount Moriah is not where the city of David is.
I mean it's pretty plain, right?
But this is what they do to cover this up,
all just talking about a festival.
Well that festival is not just a festival,
it's a feast that's required for people to attend
and it's a feast of tabernacles in the seventh month.
So anyway, that is what they were doing
and Solomon was probably just using this festival,
hey we're gonna dedicate the house of the Lord
but this is probably a good time to do it, right?
So Solomon takes all this time, builds it,
gets all this stuff together and around the context,
if you just look at the chapter surrounding this,
it's like he's building the house of the Lord
but we're just supposed to believe that this chapter
is spelling out all this stuff that they're gathering
together to take to the house of the Lord
but it was just a little festival that they're doing
and they brought all the stuff back to the city of David.
That's just twisting scripture.
Let's read on.
It says, wherefore all the,
so they take it out of the city of David which is Zion,
wherefore all the men of Israel assembled themselves
unto the king in the feast which was in the seventh month
and all the elders of Israel came
and the Levites took up the ark
and they brought up the ark
and the tabernacle of the congregation
and all the holy vessels that were in the tabernacle,
these did the priest and the Levites bring up.
Where did they bring it up to?
Probably the mountain that they built the temple on?
But anyway, I'll just let the Bible speak for itself
here in a few minutes.
Also, King Solomon and all the congregation of Israel
that were assembled unto him before the ark
sacrificed sheep and oxen which could not be told
nor numbered for multitude
and the priest brought in the ark of the covenant of the Lord
unto his place, and it specifically says where?
To the oracle of the house into the most holy place
even under the wings of the cherubims.
So the oracle is the spot, the holiest place,
that's where the ark of the covenant was supposed to go.
For the cherubims spread forth their wings
over the place of the ark
and the cherubims covered the ark
and the staves thereof above
and they drew out the staves of the ark
that the ends of the staves were seen from the ark
before the oracle but they were not seen without
and there it is unto this day.
So it sounds to me like it was a permanent move, doesn't it?
Because if they're saying,
oh, this is just a little festival
and they took everything back,
well, why does the Bible say,
and there it is unto this day?
Is it because it was just a short move for the festival?
No, it's because this is where they were moving
all the stuff they were taking.
They took the tabernacle that Moses built
and they brought all that stuff
into the permanent house of the Lord
because there still had to be the curtains around everything.
All those things that were built
had to be put back into their places.
There was nothing in the ark save the two tables
which Moses put there in at Horeb
when the Lord made a covenant with the children of Israel
when they came out of Egypt
and it came to pass when the priests were come
out of the holy place
for all the priests that were present
were sanctified and did not wait by course.
Also, the Levites, which were the singers,
all of them of Asaph and of Heman and Jedithon
with their sons and their brethren
being arrayed in white linen,
having cymbals and salt trees and harps,
stood at the east end of the altar
and with them 120 priests sounding with trumpets.
It came even to pass as the trumpeters and singers
were as one to make one sound
to be heard in praising and thanking the Lord
and when they lift up their voice with the trumpets,
and cymbals and instruments of music
and praise the Lord saying,
for he is good, for his mercy endureth forever,
then, what does it say there?
The house was filled with a cloud,
even the house of the Lord.
Sounds like it's a permanent place, doesn't it?
It's not the tabernacle of the congregation anymore.
It is the house of the Lord
because it's the temple, the permanent structure.
This is not a temporary move, folks.
Temporary move, folks.
That is why Bob Cornuke is full of baloney
and his belief that the temple is in a different location.
It's just, he's a charlatan.
And this is what these kind of hucksters like to,
they like to have little tours in Israel
so they can just say, well, this is not the right spot.
Let me take you to this little spot over here
where the temple actually was.
And then they get all these people
to believe they're garbage
and they can take them to the new Golgotha
and the new place where Jesus' tomb was,
where they actually aren't.
They'll just take you to a place that says,
well, that kind of looks like a skull,
so let's just take you to the Golgotha.
But they already know where that place is.
It's very well established.
And you look like an idiot
when you're going against actual archeologists
that have looked into these things and dug into them.
It's like, yeah, the Jews lie, though.
Maybe it isn't on the Temple Mount.
Yeah, but there's also Christians that know it's true.
It's not like the Jews are the only ones that know it's true.
The Muslims know it's true.
Everybody knows it's true.
And are there things that could be disputed?
Are there things that are probably wrong?
I'm sure there are.
But where Jesus is crucified and where Golgotha are,
that's not in question.
And then once you say, hey, it's in this different location,
that just turns everything on its head
of where the settled places actually are.
So it says, so the priest could not stand to minister
by reason of the cloud, for the glory of the Lord
had filled the house of God.
So look, to say that this is a festival or something,
right in the middle of him building the temple,
and then the next chapter after this,
he's dedicating the temple.
It's like, what are you talking about?
He prays this prayer and dedicates everything.
Go ahead and turn to chapter six, verse 20.
It says, and this is Solomon's prayer in dedicating
the house of the Lord here.
It's not the festival.
It's just turning to the next events of it.
I'm not gonna read the whole chapter,
but just a few verses here.
It says that thine eyes may be opened upon this house
day and night upon the place where thou hast said
that thou would put thy name there to hearken
unto the prayer which thy servant prayeth
toward this place.
Hearken therefore unto the supplications
of thy servant and of thy people Israel,
which they would make toward this place.
Hear thou from thy dwelling place, even from heaven.
Yeah, oh by the way, God does have a dwelling place,
and yes, he does live in heaven.
And when thou hearest, forgive.
So, I mean, here's Solomon praying and dedicating
this temple.
So, let's turn back.
Actually, let's not turn back.
So, I mean, it's very clear where Mount Moriah is.
The Bible identified it for us,
and the threshing floor of Ornan, the Jebusite,
is in the same exact spot where Abraham
was gonna sacrifice his son.
That's where God wanted the temple to be built,
and that's where David's heart led.
Obviously, David did these things,
and he was a man after God's own heart.
Now, again, this is like,
these things are being purported by complete bozos
that have no clue about real archeology.
And I'm not saying I'm an expert on it.
I'm not an expert on it,
but it's obvious if you just watch
or read any books about it.
Don't get sucked into, you know,
look, I'm all for getting sucked into
some conspiracy theories because 9-11 was an inside job.
Everybody knows that.
All right, there is, you know,
a cabal of certain people with tiny hats
that do control a lot of the things in our world
because their father is the devil.
And there's obviously a lot of weird conspiracies out there,
but one of those things is not the Temple Mount, okay?
So not everything is a conspiracy, all right?
There are a lot of them, though, trust me,
but one of those things is not the flat earth, all right?
The earth is not flat.
So, but like I said earlier,
and I want to take you just through a few more spots,
go ahead and turn to Matthew chapter 24.
And I start off by saying that
all false doctrine leads to other false doctrine,
and a false location can also lead to other false locations.
You're like, this doesn't seem like
it's very important, Pastor Thompson.
Well, when you're getting hooked out of money,
I'm being sucked into stuff that, you know,
you could be spending your money on stuff that matters, actually.
You're like, what does this matter?
Well, there's people that,
they want that other temple built
so that Jesus can come back,
which I don't think that we should be putting,
or investing our money into something
that's going to bring the Antichrist coming faster.
I mean, that's just stupid beyond all belief.
But that's part of the reason, I think,
that this whole movement thing has happened,
and I'm not saying that everybody that's into this,
that's why they want it to happen, I'm not saying that,
but that is part of the reason why people are into it.
There is this temple foundation where people,
actual Christians give
to this temple foundation to try to get the temple built,
because that will usher in the Antichrist,
who will bring about Jesus Christ.
Really, really weird thing to do,
but some people just buy this stuff hook, line, and sinker.
And then, of course, if you get sucked into this,
you're going to get sucked into the fake tourist trap.
And look, I think it'd be cool to go see some of this stuff.
Not the fake stuff, but the actual stuff.
I think it'd be cool, but I don't want to go over there
and be lied to.
There are biblical sites that I think would be cool to go see
and there's some of those sites over there
that would be dangerous to go see,
if you're by yourself or something, especially at night.
But there's some places over there
that people don't even go look at.
There's places that are really famous places
that Abraham was at and there's places built around it
and nobody goes and sees it.
Really cool spots.
You're like, why is this a big deal?
Well, the other thing is is that there are some people
that believe that a temple doesn't even have to get built
and that there won't be another temple built,
which is ridiculous because
it's just what the Bible teaches, folks.
I mean, there will be another temple built.
And our cue that we are in for sure in the end times
is when the Antichrist reveals himself
and says that he is God.
Then we know for sure we're at the midpoint
of the final seven years.
That's what we know for sure.
Which is interesting because
the next feast in the,
because the feast kind of,
the feast of the Lord kind of show us doctrine
and the next thing, like when you go to the feast,
the next thing is the blowing of the trumpets
to warn about the Antichrist.
That's our next warning.
And that is the midpoint.
We don't get warned three and a half years earlier.
We get warned at the midpoint,
which is kind of interesting.
So that kind of matches with what the Bible says, though,
doesn't it?
Because that's when we know for sure.
Are we supposed to look unto Jesus?
Of course we're supposed to look unto Jesus.
He told us to look for these certain signs
but he says that the end has not come yet
even after showing us all this stuff.
Matthew chapter 24, though, look at verse number one.
The Bible says that Jesus went out
and departed from the temple,
so his disciples are showing him the temple
and his disciples came to him for to show him
the buildings of the temple
and Jesus said unto them,
see not these things?
Verily I say unto you,
there shall not be here one,
or left here one stone upon another
that shall not be thrown down.
That retaining wall that's at the temple mount,
they pushed every single stone,
every single piece of those buildings
off the western wall into the corner
and those stones are still there today.
You can Google them right now if you want to.
That's what I said last week when I was preaching about it.
Just Google stones from the temple that got pushed off.
Titus, the general that went against
and destroyed the temple
and killed everybody there,
made sure that every single stone
was thrown off that temple mount.
It's still there today.
I've watched videos where they're interviewing
on those stones.
But this guy, Bob Cornuke, says,
well Jesus is being called a liar
because those retaining walls
have not been thrown down,
so that can't be the temple.
It's not the temple.
It's the retaining wall
that the platform that the temple sat on was on.
He didn't say the retaining wall would be thrown down.
Look at what it says.
See the buildings of the temple.
Look at what it says.
See not these things.
Verily I say unto you,
there shall not be left here one stone upon another
that shall not be thrown down.
How do you throw the last piece down of the retaining wall?
Explain that to me.
Do you have to dig a hole
and then just roll the last one into a trench
and then the prophecy is fulfilled?
Where are you gonna throw all the rest of them?
I mean, just look at pictures of it.
It's a humongous structure.
You can see where it was built upon three times.
Solomon, Nehemiah, Herod.
It's just a fact, folks.
And you're not gonna be able to hide that.
And the city of David has been completely dug up.
It's been completely excavated.
They've searched all over.
There's no stones from the temple there.
So where'd they all go?
Please explain that part to me.
Where'd they get thrown down to?
But see, they just wanna say that the retaining wall
is actually part of the temple and it's not.
And it's really clear right here.
He's talking about, if he says thrown down,
thrown down to where?
Off the top of the mountain,
off the top of the retaining wall.
That's what it's talking about.
Now skip down to verse 15.
When you therefore see the abomination of desolation
spoken of by Daniel the prophet,
stand in the holy place.
Whoso readeth, let him understand.
Now, there's even people that will say,
hey, the abomination of desolation's already happened.
They'll say, well, this is Antiochus Epiphanes.
This is what Daniel was talking about.
Well, that's one shadow fulfillment of it.
And I would say that Titus destroying Jerusalem,
that's a shadow fulfillment of it.
But is that the only fulfillments of it?
No, there's gonna be another fulfillment of this.
And Jesus is not just talking about
unsaved Jews that have rejected him.
Why is he telling his disciples this?
It's because it's something for in the distant future also.
It's not just a warning for the Jews.
Why is he gonna warn the Jews about this great tribulation
when he's set out to destroy them?
Like, hey, I'm gonna destroy those miserable sinners.
I'm gonna destroy those miserable people.
But hey, let me warn you about it real quick.
No, they're not gonna get the,
they fought to the death to defend the temple.
They went to Masada, got destroyed there.
He's warning his people.
Let me prove that to you.
Skip down to verse number 16.
It says, then let them which be in,
yeah, you're already in 16.
Anyway, then let them which be in Judea
flee into the mountains.
Let them which is in the housetop
not come down to take anything out of his house.
Neither let him which is in the field
return back to take his clothes
and woe unto them that are with child
and them that give suck in those days.
But pray that your flight be not in winter
neither on the Sabbath day.
For then shall be great tribulation
such as was not since the beginning of the world
to this time no nor ever shall be.
So are we supposed to believe
that the great tribulation has already happened?
The great tribulation was just against
these Jews in 70 AD.
They got their city destroyed and their temple destroyed.
That's the great tribulation.
No.
The great tribulation is going to happen
when the final seven years happens.
And the final seven years,
people call that the tribulation period
but the whole thing isn't the tribulation.
That's why I call it the final seven years.
It's not seven years of tribulation.
We need to get that brainwashing out of our minds.
It's just the 70th week of Daniel
and people are like,
well where does it say that it just continues,
pauses and continues?
Well, I'll tell you why,
because it hasn't happened yet.
That's why it hasn't happened yet.
These things have not happened.
This whole great tribulation,
people being beheaded for their faith like this
explains later on.
It says, except those days should be shortened,
there should be no flesh saved.
What, no flesh in Jerusalem or no flesh in the world?
It says, but for whose sake?
The Jews' sake, are they the elect?
Well, according to Zionism,
yes it is the Jews.
But we know that the elect are those that are saved people.
He's not warning the Jews,
he's warning the saved.
For the elect's sake,
those days shall be shortened.
And that's what I'm talking about.
One false doctrine leads to another false doctrine.
And the saved people are being duped by this garbage
and they'll say,
well that's not gonna be me
because I'm gonna be in heaven with Jesus
because the pre-trib rapture.
No, that's not what it's saying.
It's saying, hey for the elect's sake,
those days shall be shortened.
Because otherwise nobody would be left alive.
Look at 2 Thessalonians 2.
2 Thessalonians 2.
We're almost finished here.
We've got one more place to go after this
and then we'll be done.
2 Thessalonians chapter 2, verse number 1.
What has to happen before Jesus comes back?
Well, the Bible teaches us this also.
And Jesus also,
I didn't go to that verse in Matthew chapter 24,
but Jesus said it's after the tribulation
that he comes back.
And there's signs in the heavens.
The heavens are rolled back like a scroll.
Distress in the sun, moon and stars,
all this other stuff.
But look at 2 Thessalonians chapter 2, verse 1.
It says, now we beseech you brethren.
Oh yeah, and by the way,
did Jesus come back yet?
No.
2 Thessalonians 2, 1.
Now we beseech you brethren
by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ
and by our gathering together unto him,
that you be not soon shaken in mind
or be troubled neither by spirit nor by word
nor by letter as from us
as that the day of Christ is at hand.
It's not at hand.
It's not imminent.
Like all these pre-tribbers will say.
It's not.
Let no man deceive you by any means.
For that day shall not come
except there come a falling away first
and that man of sin be revealed,
the son of perdition.
This is talking about the antichrist.
He has to be revealed first.
He has not been revealed yet.
And I know everybody has their guesses
on who it is right now.
Well I think it's Barack Obama.
I think it's President Trump.
I think it's President Trump's kids.
People have all these ideas.
Big Mike is my bet, but
she didn't go to the inauguration
or he or whatever it is.
Didn't go to the inauguration.
There's all these rumors about that too.
Anyway, I'm kidding though.
But anyway, it says who poseth and exalteth
himself above all that is called God
or that is worshiped so that he as God
sitteth in, what's it say there?
The temple of God showing himself that he is God.
So there has to be a temple built, right?
But people will say, well it's talking about
in his own temple of his body.
What is the whole world waiting for right now?
What are all the Jews waiting for right now?
Are they waiting for the temple of their body?
No, everybody in the world knows exactly
what that big platform over in Israel represents.
Whether there's a mosque on it or not.
But people are like, well it'll probably
just get blown up, World War III.
Who knows what's gonna happen?
But one way or another, there's a temple
gonna be built on that spot.
And I don't know how that's gonna be accomplished.
Maybe they will build it in the city of David.
Who knows?
But that's not where the location is.
Now it's turned to Revelation 13.
I don't think it is gonna be in that location
because Revelation 13 is pretty specific
about where it's gonna be.
It says in Revelation 13, five, it says,
and there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things
and blasphemies and power was given unto him
to continue 42 months.
Now it's pretty interesting it says 42 months
because that's after he's revealed, right?
So he's revealed, like it says,
and that's the midpoint of the final seven years.
And then it says he continues for 42 months.
He leads these 10 kings in the end times for 42 months.
It says, and he opened his mouth and blasphemy against God
to blaspheme his name and his tabernacle
and them that dwell in heaven.
And it was given unto him to make war with the saints
and to overcome them and power was given him
over all kindreds and tongues and nations.
So it sounds like he's able to make war with us.
That matches everything else that I've ordered.
That matches everything.
So and he's given power over kindreds, tongues, and nations.
So he's ruler of the whole world.
Now skip to verse 14.
It says, and deceiveth them that dwell on the earth
by the means of those miracles which he had power to do
in the sight of the beast,
saying to them that dwell on the earth
that they should make an image to the beast
which had the wound by a sword and did live.
And he had power to give life into the image of the beast
that the image of the beast should both speak
and cause that as many as should not worship
the image of the beast should be killed.
This is what I think that the abomination of desolation is.
I believe it's some sort of statue that can,
some kind of image that can actually speak and think.
It's probably some kind of weird technology,
AI or something.
And before, you would never think that'd be possible,
but look at all the stuff they're making now.
I mean, it's pretty wild, right?
And it says, and he causeth all, both small and great,
rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark
in their right hand or in their foreheads
that no man might buy or sell,
save he that had the mark or the name of the beast
or the number of his name.
Here's wisdom.
Let him that hath understanding
count the number of the beast,
for the number is the number of a man,
and his number is six hundred threescore and six,
which is 666.
So, I mean, he's got all this power,
but maybe I skipped the verse that I was looking for.
Maybe I didn't add it to my notes,
but it says that he stands,
oh, no, no, no, it was in 2 Thessalonians.
So, the verse in 2 Thessalonians,
it says he stands in the holy place, right?
I was looking for the verse that says
that he stands in the holy place.
Matthew 24, 15, thank you.
Let's go back there real quick.
That's right, it's the abomination of desolation.
Thank you so much.
I knew I was reading it last night.
Okay, Matthew 24, verse 15, the Bible says,
What's the holy place?
Well, we went over those verses earlier, right?
That's the oracle.
That's the holiest place.
That's where Ornan the Jebusite,
the threshing floor was.
That is at the same location
that all the other temples were built at.
So, if that's the holy place,
he's gonna stand at the holy place.
Now, again, that stuff means nothing to us
as Christians now, necessarily,
but he's still telling us where it's at.
Isn't that interesting?
So, does that say he stands at the Gihon?
No, it says he stands at the holy place,
and that place was at Mount Moriah, right?
So, again, why is this important?
Well, the truth is important,
and when you start saying that there's no temple
that's gonna be built,
or that we need to build a temple in a different location,
then that is false doctrine.
Whether it's important or not,
it's not important for us that we feel like
we have to have a temple,
but no, the Antichrist is gonna go into the temple
and proclaim himself to be God.
The Jews are gonna freak out,
because they think that he's the Messiah
until he does that,
and then they're gonna be like,
whoops, maybe Jesus was the real Messiah, you know?
And then, of course, that's why they have to run
for the hills in Jerusalem,
because, look, things are gonna happen in Jerusalem.
That's what the Bible says.
That's where all this showdown is gonna take place there,
because he's gonna say that he's the Messiah.
He's gonna say that he's God,
and to say that that's not gonna happen is baloney.
It's baloney.
And to say that there doesn't have to be
another week, the final week on Earth,
yeah, why is it,
it's talking about these three and a half years.
I mean, I was preaching it.
I was preaching in Tempe,
and I was talking about how,
it talks about 70 children of Ahab.
The 70 children of Ahab had their heads cut off,
and they were both, they were put at the gate
in two separate piles of heads.
35 heads here, 35 heads here.
What do you think that's representing?
The 70th week of Daniel divided in two.
And what happens to people in the 70th week of Daniel?
Well, they get their heads cut off, don't they?
So, I don't know.
That's the picture, but anyway,
hopefully that wasn't too deep and over people's heads,
and I tried to explain it to the best of my ability,
but I just, you know,
it's just, the Bible is true,
it's gonna prove itself true,
and just don't fall for hucksters and charlatans
that will try to say that something is somewhere
that it's not, or try to just fleece you
for more money, more money, more money.
Give towards this, give towards that,
when it's pointless, it's worthless.
And really, we should just believe what the Bible says.
Let's pray.
Lord, thank you so much for the Bible
and how it can make everything clear for us.
I pray that you just bless the church today
as we go out soul winning,
and I pray that you just bless the service to come.
I pray that you would bless everybody in our church.
We thank you for bringing back all the sick folks
and people that have just been off visiting
and doing other things,
and I pray that you'd bless us
as we go our separate ways right now.
In Jesus' name we pray, amen.
All right, our last song is song number 138,
Now I Belong to Jesus.
Song 138, Judah, the Lion of the Tribe of Lambert
requested this, so I thought I'd oblige him.
Song 138, Now I Belong to Jesus.
Song 138, let's sing it together on the first.
Jesus, my Lord, will love me forever.
From Him no power of evil can sever.
He gave His life to ransom my soul.
Now I belong to Him.
Now I belong to Jesus.
Jesus belongs to me.
Not for the years of time alone,
but for eternity.
Once I was lost in sin's degradation,
Jesus came down to bring me salvation,
lifted me up from sorrow and shame.
Now I belong to Him.
Now I belong to Jesus.
Jesus belongs to me.
Not for the years of time alone,
but for eternity.
Joy floods my soul, for Jesus has saved me,
freed me from sin that long had enslaved me.
His precious blood He gave to redeem.
Now I belong to Him.
Now I belong to Jesus.
Jesus belongs to me.
Not for the years of time alone,
but for eternity.
Real quick before we close, I want to pray.
We're having cake and ice cream in the back.
They're going to cut the cake, but it's self-serve after that.
So I'll pray for that real quick and then we'll be dismissed.
Dear Father God, thank you so much for a wonderful day.
Thank you so much for everything you do for us, God.
Thank you so much for the in-depth sermon on the Temple Mount location.
God, I just pray that you would...