Wailing Wall starting to collapse?

[yod]

Temple Mount Wall Collapses
12:23 Sep 25, '03 / 28 Elul 5763

One side of a wall in the Temple Mount compound - completely visible to Western Wall worshippers - collapsed on Tuesday, uncovering an area of some 40 square meters of dirt and fill.

One side of a wall in the Temple Mount compound - completely visible to worshippers at the Western Wall - collapsed on Tuesday, uncovering an area of some 40 square meters of dirt and fill. The wall belongs to the Islamic Museum on the Temple Mount, a building to the right and above the worshipers at the Western Wall, identified by a small gray dome.

Archaeologist Dr. Eilat Mazar, a member of the Committee to Prevent the Destruction of Temple Mount Antiquities, said that the collapse is connected with the illegal construction works being carried out on the Temple Mount by the Moslem Waqf. Speaking with Yisrael Medad on Arutz-7's "Freedom of Broadcast" program, Dr. Mazar said that these works have been ongoing for many years without supervision by either the Planning and Construction authorities or the Antiquities Authority.

"No one is concerned about preserving the ancient compound," she said, "nor has anyone mapped, surveyed or buttressed the hollow areas under the Temple Mount and under the mosques... It is frightening to think of this collapse, and of what could happen in the future when many tens of thousands of people visit the Temple Mount, and tractors and trucks - and all of this atop hollow areas that have never been professionally checked. This collapse should be a warning bell. If a catastrophe occurs, the whole world will blame Israel."

She said that opening the compound to Jewish visitors is "just the beginning; pressure must be exerted in order that the supervisory authorities do what they are supposed to. The press must get involved in this cause."



(comment: What if the Dome of the Rock sinks into the mud?) :prayer:

[sojeru]

the eastern gate would then be opened because it is now sealed by the moslems

[SonWorshipper]

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Section of wall after collapse (photo: IsraelNationalNews.com)




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Section of wall before collapse (photo: IsraelNationalNews.com)






Last December, WorldNetDaily reported a huge bulge had developed in an outer southern wall on the 37-acre Temple Mount, (http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=30023) the holiest site in Judaism. Israel waited for Jordanian engineers to repair it.

The Temple Mount is the foundation of the Jewish Temple that was destroyed in 70 A.D. by the Romans. Because it is the only remnant of the foundation, it is considered the holiest site for observant Jews – perhaps the only true holy site. Muslims claim it is the third holiest in their faith because two mosques were constructed on the site hundreds of years later. Despite the fact the Temple Mount is the only real estate in the world revered by Jews, Israel has turned over day-to-day administration of the area to the Waqf, an Islamic trust with close ties to Yasser Arafat's Palestinian Authority.



A year-long dispute between Israel and the Waqf over who will fix the bulge was solved in October with a decision to involve the Jordanian engineers, who inspected and took a sampling of the protruding wall.

A report the engineers subsequently issued recommended replacing some of the eroding stones in the 2,000-year-old wall to prevent it from future collapse.

Israeli archeologists believe the bulge and the new wall collapse are due to unauthorized Waqf construction at an underground area known as Solomon's Stables, located on the other side of the wall. Reports say Muslim authorities are constructing yet another mosque at the Jewish holy site.

Faulty drainage was cited by the Antiquities Authority as the probable cause for the bulge in its report, issued last year.

Prior to the establishment of the Palestinian Authority in 1994, Jordan was in charge of maintenance at the Temple Mount. In the years since, the PA, seeking to gain a foothold in Jerusalem, ousted both the Jordanian-appointed Waqf director and the Jerusalem mufti – both of whom had for years quietly cooperated with Israel – and replaced them with its own people.

Fearing renewed Palestinian violence, police barred non-Muslims from entering the Temple Mount for nearly two years after Ariel Sharon's controversial visit in September 2000, leaving the area without any archeological supervision. In recent weeks, non-Muslim tourists have been permitted back with police or military escorts. (http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=33355)

Newsweek has called the southern wall "The Armageddon wall," because the old rocks help support an enormous stone platform that holds the Al Aqsa Mosque and the Dome of the Rock, among Islam's most sacred shrines. Should it collapse, some archeologists fear a doomsday effect – dead worshippers, perhaps in the thousands, riots throughout the Middle East and charges that Israel is responsible.

World Net Daily Story (http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/printer-friendly.asp?ARTICLE_ID=34776)


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Sounds ominous.

[SonWorshipper]

More pictures ( extreme close-ups) and other articles here:


http://www.bibleplaces.com/templemountbulge.htm

[SonWorshipper]

Can you hear it? Thunder in the distance ....................:)

[yod]

Hear it?

I'm going to see it in about a week....and I'm going up on the Temple Mount on October 14th

again...I could use some prayer ya'll...

I don't think I can go up there without raising my hands in praise

[yod]

the eastern gate would then be opened because it is now sealed by the moslems
the Eastern Gate is on the completely opposite side of the Mount from here. It is sealed and also has a muslim graveyard running almost the entire length of the Eastern wall....

as if any of that could stop the Messiah from entering?



:bow:

[sojeru]

right, its just with everything on top collapsing, what would stop the jews from clearing all that out?
thus, the gate will be clean ofcourse only after 7 years from the time of clearing....hmmm intresting.

[SonWorshipper]

Can you hear it
Thunder in the distance
When we worship
The Lion of Judah roars
Strongholds crumble all around us ;)
In the presence of our Lord

There'll be vict'ry in the camp
At the shout of El Shaddai
Every enemy will flee
From the fire in His eyes
Every captive will be freed
In this year of Jubilee
When we hear the shout of El Shaddai!:clap:
Listen to this song click here (http://www.audiblefaith.com/pages/sg201184)