Palestinians (and much of the Arab world) claim that the Land of Israel, Jerusalem, and the Temple Mount are the rightful property of Islam. That’s just plain hogwash. In fact, the Koran doesn’t even mention Jerusalem, and that city has never been a national capital of any Muslim political or religious entity. On the other hand, a thousand years before the false prophet Mohammed was even born,
God had revealed in a Bible prophecy that the Temple Mount, Jerusalem, and the West Bank would be restored to Jewish sovereignty in 1967.
Predictive prophecy in the Bible has one purpose, to validate the authority of God over the affairs of mankind. June 7th is the anniversary of the most important Bible event prophesied in ancient times that has seen fulfillment in modern times. On that date in 1967, during the Six-Day War, brave paratroopers from the IDF (Israel Defence Forces) 55th Paratroopers Brigade liberated the Temple Mount and Old City Jerusalem from Jordanian forces, placing the ancient site of Solomon’s Temple and the Old City of Jerusalem under control of a sovereign Jewish people for the first time in more than 2,000 years. That liberation was a major prophetic fulfillment of the chrono-specific prophecy in Daniel 8:13-14 …
Then I heard one saint speaking, and another saint said unto that certain saint which spake, How long shall be the vision concerning the daily sacrifice, and the transgression of desolation, to give both the sanctuary and the host to be trodden under foot? And he [the angel of God] said unto me [the prophet Daniel], Unto two thousand and three hundred days [the word that appears as “days” in the King James version is actually two Hebrew words בקר ערב, ‘erev boqer in the original Hebrew Masoretic text, which are more accurately translated as the phrase evening-morning]; then shall the sanctuary* be cleansed [returned to its rightful state, i.e., returned to Jewish possession]… (Daniel 8:13-14 KJV).The phrase “evening-morning” in verse 14 is prophetic language for a night (check out Exodus 27:21 which uses the exact same Hebrew words used in Daniel 8:14, the only two places in the entire Bible that exact syntax is used), and, because of the chronological requirements in this Hebrew prophecy, it specifically means the Passover night. The chrono-specific prophecy in Daniel 8 specifies 2,300 Passovers between its beginning event in verse 6 (the Battle of Granicus that happened in 334 BCE) and its ending event in verse 14 (the restoration of the sanctuary to Jewish sovereignty that happened in 1967 CE).
Apparently no Bible scholars recognized the importance of the liberation of the sanctuary* as a biblical prophecy-fulfillment event when it happened. That’s because many Bible scholars back then and in recent years don’t actually believe in a Living God who controls history. Even today, many expositors continue to ignore its prophetic and eschatological significance, although the details can be verified in documented history. Anti-Jewish prejudice also accounts for some of the reluctance among Christian theologians, especially in Europe, to consider that God is still working his will through his people Israel.
However, as I explain in Chapter One of my book, Daniel Unsealed, (available free in PDF format, see “Free Books” link at bottom of page) the return of the Temple Mount and Old City Jerusalem to the Jews on June 7, 1967,** was the event that signaled that God had unsealed the Book of Daniel for this generation, and it provided the key for undertsanding all of the chrono-specific prophecies in Daniel that explain the history of the Jews, Jerusalem, and the Anointed One of Israel.
You can read Chapter One of Daniel Unsealed as a stand-alone booklet available in print and digital formats for a nominal price, and as a FREE download in PDF format (see links below).
Excerpt from the Book: For two-thousand years, from the time that the Romans expelled the Jewish people from their homeland in the Land of Israel, Jews around the world have been closing their annual Passover observance by shouting “Next year in Jerusalem!” In that phrase, the yearning of the Jewish people for return to the land of their forefathers, and for the advent of the age of the Messiah, is expressed around Seder tables year after year. The first part of that hope was realized with the partition of Palestine by the United Nations in 1947, followed by the founding of the State of Israel in 1948. Then, on June 7, 1967, the third day of the Six-Day War, Israeli troops liberated Old City Jerusalem and its sacred Temple Mount from foreign control, an event that brought the longed for Jewish holy sites under sovereign control of an independent Jewish people living in Eretz Israel. The dawning of the age of Messiah suddenly started to seem like an imminent possibility. The capture of Jerusalem by Israel was considered a “miracle” by both Jews and non-Jews back in 1967. The tiny nation of Israel had overcome impossible odds to defeat the armies of five large Arab nations arrayed against it, nations whose Islamic leaders had sworn to push the Jewish people into the sea. With the suddenness of the liberation event and by the scope of the overwhelming victory by Israel over its enemies, many people were convinced that the coming of the age of the Messiah was truly at hand. Israel celebrated its victory with singing and dancing, and much of the world rejoiced with them for a season. Since that day forty-plus years ago, however, the world, including much of world Jewry, has forgotten the euphoria and sense of optimism that surrounded the liberation of Jerusalem and the Temple Mount, and, for many Israelis, Messianic hopes have been dimmed by the reality of coping with daily life in a troubled Middle East. Even more disheartening is the lack of understanding among both Jews and non-Jews about the transcendent importance of what happened in 1967. The liberation of Jerusalem and the Temple Mount was the fulfillment of an ancient biblical prophecy recorded more than 2,500 years ago in the Book of Daniel, chapter 8, verses 13-14. The prophecy clearly predicted both the liberation event and the time that the liberation event would take place. The interpretation of that amazing Hebrew prophecy is explained in detail in the Chapter One excerpt reprinted from your author’s book, Daniel Unsealed.
(*) The word “sanctuary” is used in various places in the Hebrew Scriptures to describe the Temple area, Jerusalem, and/or the entire Land of Israel.
(**) Jewish people celebrate the liberation of the Temple Mount and Old City Jerusalem using the Jewish calendar (normally 354 days in length), which is not synchronous with the 365-day-long Gregorian calendar. On the Jewish calendar in 1967, the liberation of Jerusalem occurred on the 28th day of the month of Iyyar, so that Jewish-calendar date is celebrated as “Jerusalem Day” in Israel and among Jews elsewhere around the world. However, the 28th of Iyyar falls on a different date on the modern Gregorian calendar each year, whereas June 7 remains a fixed Gregorian date from year to year.
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