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organisations involved in facilitating the rebuilding of the Jewish Temple. 1257
Together with Thomas Ice, their earlier book, Ready to Rebuild 1258
demonstrates that this is not a theoretical or fringe subject but one in which
significant numbers of Christians, together with religious Jews, are already
actively participating in the firm conviction that the Temple will be rebuilt very
soon. While Jews for Jesus insist that they do not endorse the activities of
any particular Jewish group committed to rebuilding the Jewish Temple, they
nevertheless provide information on, and direct Internet links to, eight Jewish
organisations some of which have been implicated in attempts to seize the
Temple Mount, destroy the Al Aqsa Mosque and Dome of the Rock, rebuild
the Jewish Temple and re-institute Temple worship, priesthood and sacrifices.
These include the Temple Institute and Temple Mount Faithful. 1259 Gershon
Salomon is the controversial figurehead of the movement and founder of The
Temple Faithful. Zhava Glaser, of Jews for Jesus, praises Salomon for his
courage to talk about ‘the most important subject in the Jewish religion.’
‘His credentials as an Israeli patriot are impeccable, beginning at age
eleven when he was arrested by the British authorities for putting up
Zionist posters during their occupation of Israel. He has stood up for
what he believes to be true ever since ... one must take Salomon
seriously. Nine thousand people are on his “Temple Mount Faithful”
membership list.’ 1260
Speaking as a guest of the ICEJ, at the Christian Zionist Congress in 1998,
Salomon insisted:
‘The mission of the present generation is to liberate the Temple Mount
and to remove - I repeat, to remove - the defiling abomination there ...
the Jewish people will not be stopped at the gates leading to the
Temple Mount ... We will fly our Israeli flag over the Temple Mount,
which will be minus its Dome of the Rock and its mosques and will
have only our Israeli flag and our Temple. This is what our generation
must accomplish.’ 1261
1257 Randall Price, The Coming Last Days Temple, (Eugene, Oregon, Harvest House, 1999),
pp616-644; Randall Price, ‘Time for a Temple? Jewish Plans to Rebuild the Temple.’
Friends of Israel Gospel Ministry http://www.foigm.org/img/timetemp.htm
1258 Thomas Ice & Randall Price, Ready to Rebuild, The Imminent Plan to Rebuild the Last
Days Temple, (Eugene, Oregon, Harvest House, 1992).
1259 Rich Robinson, ‘Israeli Groups Involved in Third Temple Activities’ Jews for Jesus
Newsletter 10, (1993), http://www.jewsforjesus.org
1260 Zhava Glaser, ‘Today’s Rituals: Reminders or Replacements’ Issues, 8, 3.
1261 Nadav Shragai, ‘Dreaming of a Third Temple’, Ha’aretz, 17 September (1998), p3, cited
in Price, Coming, op.cit., p417.
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