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The Temple Mount is an important
religious site for Judaism, Islam, and

Christianity. At the center of the site
lies the Dome of the Rock.

Adjacent to it is the Al -Aqsa Mosque,
which has a massive prayer hall with

enough space to accommodate about 5 ,000
worshippers.

On the western side of the Temple Mount
is the Western Wall, also known as the

Wailing Wall.

While Jews refer to it as the Temple
Mount, Muslims refer to it as the Haram

-Sharif, or Al -Aqsa Mosque compound, or
simply Al -Aqsa.

Judaism teaches that the Temple Mount is
where the world began.

It teaches that this is where God asked
Abraham to sacrifice Isaac.

It teaches that this is where Solomon
and Herod's temple stood.

It also teaches that this is where the
third temple will someday be built.

This site is held as the holiest site in
Judaism, more holy than the Western

Wailing Wall.

Muslims believe that the Dome of the
Rock lies where the Prophet Muhammad

ascended to heaven on his horse, Barak.

This makes it the third holiest site in
Islam, after Mecca and Medina.

Christians considered the Temple Mount
to be an important site due to its

significance in the Old Testament and
because Jesus would have spent time

Additionally, Christians believe that
the Temple Mount plays a crucial role in

Bible prophecy.

According to 2 Thessalonians 2, it is
prophesied that during the end times,

Antichrist will enter the temple and
declare himself God.

As a result, many people believe that a
third temple must be built for these

events to occur.

However, the question remains, where
will this third temple be built?

Bob Kernuke is a former FBI -trained
police investigator and served as a SWAT

team member.

He is now a biblical investigator,
international explorer, and best

author with a compilation of 12 books.

He has participated in over 70
international expeditions, searching the

over for lost locations described in the
Bible. These journeys include searching

for the real Mount Sinai in Egypt and
Saudi Arabia, exploring in Turkey along

with Apollo 15 astronaut Jim Irwin for
the remains of Noah's Ark. He has

the Ark of the Covenant from Israel to
Egypt and across the Ethiopian

Off the coast of Malta, his research
team found the probable four anchors

Paul's shipwreck as described in Act 27.

His latest extensive research efforts
have been in Israel.

in search of the true temple site of
Herod, along with the actual location of

Golgotha.

This documentary will explore the Bible,
history and archaeology,

and uncover incredible discoveries in
Jerusalem that change everything we know

about the true location of the temple.

Around 3 ,500 years ago, God freed the
nation of Israel from their bondage in

Egypt. The Israelites had been captives
for centuries and were eagerly waiting

for a deliverer to come and bring them
back to the land that God had promised

their father Abraham 400 years earlier.

God raised up a man named Moses to lead
his people out of Egypt, but because of

their unbelief, They were made to wander
in the wilderness for forty years.

During this time, God gave the nation of
Israel a holy law that included precise

instructions for a tabernacle that they
were to make exactly as instructed.

God told the Israelites, Make me a
sanctuary, that I may dwell among them.

This tabernacle had no permanent home.

until King Solomon fulfilled David's
desire to build a permanent house for

Lord during his reign in 957 B .C.

This magnificent building, known as
Solomon's Temple, stood for nearly 400

years. However, God's judgment came upon
Jerusalem by the hand of the Chaldeans,

because Israel had broken their covenant
with God.

After 70 years of captivity, God put it
in the heart of Cyrus, the king of

Persia, to allow Israel to return to
their land and rebuild their temple.

God restored Israel to their land and
instructed them to rebuild their temple

and wait for the coming Messiah to bring
a new covenant to the house of Israel.

The second temple was constructed by
Zerubbabel, although it was considered

inferior to its predecessor.

the second temple remained standing for
several centuries.

Herod the Great, who ruled from 37 B .C.
to 4 B .C., was well known for his

building skills.

He undertook a renovation project to
restore the temple to its former glory,

which was completed shortly before the
birth of Jesus Christ.

Jesus introduced the new covenant to the
house of Israel.

Unfortunately,

The Jews did not accept Jesus as their
Messiah.

As a consequence of their rejection,
Jesus declared judgment on Jerusalem and

predicted the destruction of the temple.

He further prophesied that not a single
stone of the temple would be left upon

another.

In 70 AD, the temple was destroyed
exactly as Jesus had prophesied.

This event led to the scattering of the
Jews throughout the world.

which is known as the Diaspora.

Since then, Jerusalem has been the most
disputed piece of land on earth, with

its ownership being fought over for
nearly 2 ,000 years, enduring numerous

battles and bloodshed.

Throughout history, various groups of
people have occupied and conquered the

city, and the exact location of the
temple has been completely lost.

For more than a millennium, The Temple
Mount has been considered as the

traditional site of Solomon and Herod's
Temple.

While various theories have been
proposed to pinpoint its exact location,

people agree that it is indeed situated
there.

But is this belief rooted in historical
fact, or is it merely tradition?

Bob Cornuke has devoted many years
searching for the lost temples of

Herod. He believes that the Bible,
history, and archaeology all indicate a

different location in Jerusalem than
what is traditionally believed.

His quest for the true location was
inspired by his reading of Matthew 24,

Jesus prophesied the destruction of the
second temple.

The Bible does talk about the
destruction of the temple clearly in

And Jesus went out and departed from the
temple.

And his disciples came to him for to
show him the buildings of the temple.

And Jesus said unto them, See ye not all
these things?

Verily I say unto you, There shall not
be left here one stone upon another that

shall not be thrown down.

The Bible prophesies quite a bit about
the destruction of Jerusalem. It was

prophesied in the Old Testament, in the
book of Micah. It talked about Jerusalem

being like a plowed field.

Jesus himself prophesied the destruction
of Jerusalem in Matthew 24 in the

famous Olivet Discourse where he said
there would not be one stone left upon

another. The Bible prophecy is very
clear that Jerusalem would be destroyed,

that is exactly what happened.

Total and complete eradication.

Like you take a tree and lift it up in
the forest, roots and all, and cart it

off and throw it away somewhere.

It's totally going to be gone.

And so Jesus says those stones will be
totally destroyed down to the last one.

Not one stone will last. Well, today we
have thousands of stones up there, some

of them as big as a truck cab. And the
Jews around Jerusalem today say, Jesus

wrong because we still have those stones
up there. They know scripture.

They know what Jesus said, and they're
saying, hey, Jesus said every stone

should be thrown down. We should pay
attention with what Jesus said, because

every stone was thrown down.

If Jesus said that every stone of the
temple was thrown down, how could the

stones from the western wall be from
Herod's temple?

Either Jesus was wrong, or perhaps those
stones were not part of the temple at

all.

Historian Flavius Josephus.

is the only witness that we have a
record of who lived during the

the temple.

And he wrote that the temple was
completely destroyed after 70 AD.

He said that if he had not personally
been in Jerusalem during the war and

witnessed the demolition by Titus of the
temple that took place there, he

wouldn't have believed it ever existed.

Josephus was a Jewish general that
became

A Roman historian, he must have been a
smart guy, he must have been known for

his writing, because then he was asked
by the Romans to write the history of

area.

Famed Jewish historian Flavius Josephus
was born in Jerusalem in 37 AD,

not long after Christ's crucifixion. The
son of a priest, he became a Pharisee,

a military commander in the Jewish
resistance, and an eyewitness to

destruction. In 70 AD, Josephus' works
provide valuable details that do not

survive in other records.

For instance, most of our knowledge of
Herod's temple, which Christ often

visited, comes from Josephus.

When he started writing history, he made
sure that everything he talked about

geographically was precise.

And so we can be reasonably certain that
he had a clear sense of the appearance

of the place, the general dimensions of
the place, the types of ceremonies and

other functions that took place at the
Temple Mount.

He was given King Herod's court records
to use as a resource for his writings.

And they gave him carte blanche. Oh
yeah, anything Josephus wants, they just

wrote up the permission slip and
anything he wanted he got.

While every historian is fallible and
must be read with care, historians can

very helpful, especially when they
report first -hand knowledge.

Caesar gave orders that they should now
demolish the entire city and temple.

It was so thoroughly laid, even with the
ground, by those that dug it up to the

foundation.

But there was left nothing to make those
that came thither believe Jerusalem had

ever been inhabited.

When you look at the historical
evidence, the destruction of Jerusalem

exactly like Jesus said it would happen.
There was not one stone left upon

another. When the Romans burned down the
temple, they wanted to get all that

gold and everything that melted down to
those rocks, and so they stripped

everything down to the foundations.

It was just like Jesus said, there
wasn't one stone left upon another.

During the Roman -Jewish War of 66 to 70
AD, the temple was demolished down to

the bedrock, likely due to the immense
value of the gold that adorned its

Flavius Josephus wrote, The entire face
was covered with gold.

And when the fire caught, the gold would
melt, and it would seep in between the

rocks. The whole floor of all of the
temple area where the sacrifices were

flaps in it so that the blood from the
animals could flow down and then be

flushed away.

Well, the gold melted and went in there
also.

Many Jews hid gold and silver within the
walls of various structures, thus

raising the city with fire.

The Roman army literally ripped every
building apart, stone by stone, to

the massive treasures of gold and silver
that melted into the cracks and

crevices of various bricks.

Josephus describes how Titus removed a
phenomenal amount of gold and silver and

plentifully distributed among them.

We can conclude from Josephus' writings
that this is why the temple was so

thoroughly demolished. The Romans wanted
the gold. Why else would they have torn

down every stone, as the Bible
describes?

We know gold and silver melt in fire,
and the Jewish temple was burned to the

ground by the Romans.

Another historical account of the
destruction of Jerusalem is written by

historian and Catholic bishop Eusebius
of Caesarea.

As a friend of Constantine, he was
granted access to the imperial archives

had the opportunity to study a wide
range of documents.

His writings are fascinating, as they
include extensive quotations from long

-lost sources, which cover one of the
most critical periods in history that we

have little information on today.

The hill called Zion and Jerusalem

The building there, that is to say the
temple, have been utterly removed or

shaken in fulfillment of the word.

When we read Eusebius, he talks about
the stones of the very temple being

off and being used for public works. How
sad that must have been for those in

Jerusalem to see the temple, the beloved
temple, the holy temple, being

dismantled block by block.

down to the very foundations.

It was completely and totally
eradicated.

The Romans took complete control of
Jerusalem in 70 AD, and from that point

had total control until about 330 AD.
The big question is, where

did the Roman soldiers live during this
time?

History tells us they lived in the Roman
fortress.

But the problem is, that no one has
found one brick of this Roman fortress.

We're talking over 300 years and they
haven't found one stone from the Roman

fort just because it's been sitting in
front of their eyes all this time.

The Antonia Fortress was originally
built by Herod the Great in Jerusalem

between 37 B .C. and 4 B .C. It served
as a military barracks.

for the 10th Roman Legion, also known as
Legio Expertensis.

The fortress was an impressive
architectural feat, essentially a city

city. Its primary purpose was to
safeguard the Second Temple and to serve

symbol of Roman power to anyone who
dared to challenge the might of the

Empire. Additionally, it provided a
place of refuge for Roman soldiers

times of unrest.

and was instrumental in maintaining
peace and order during the Roman

of Jerusalem.

Although Herod rebuilt and likely
expanded the Antonia Fortress, it had

previously existed as the Barras. This
was a Greek word for tower that John

Hyrcanus built to replace the previous
citadel or fortress that had defended

temple even before Nebuchadnezzar's
destruction of Jerusalem.

Modern scholars tend to downplay the
importance of the Antonia Fortress,

describing it as a relatively small
annex located at the northwest corner of

Temple Mount complex.

But is this depiction accurate?

When you go to the Israel Museum, and
they have the very good model of the

but one of the areas that is inaccurate.

is going to be that they have a small
Antonio Fortress at the northwestern

corner of the Temple Mount.

The model that we have at the Israeli
Museum today is almost laughable, and I

hate to be that harsh in that cutting,
but it is flawed in so many

ways. Turisco, they're believing that
what they're seeing is an accurate

depiction.

But if you look at it and study the
Bible, it is wrong on a lot of levels.

They needed to put this Roman fort
somewhere because no one's found one

it. So if this is the Temple Mount, they
say that has to be the place of the

Roman fort. Even though there's no
foundations there, an artist drew it in.

in every textbook you'll see in the
world, just like this and that size.

And so he put the temple where he wanted
the temple.

the Roman fortress where he wanted to
put it. He put roads in where he thought

that they should go.

He just let his imagination go wild.

If you've never seen the Grand Canyon, I
said, draw the Grand Canyon.

It's a deep hole in the ground, and it's
kind of pretty. You'd have a million

different people drawing. You'd have a
million different opinions.

He had one opinion, and that
unfortunately became the opinion that

What they're seeing is somebody from the
imagination of a man, which I think is

completely wrong. I think his
understanding of what it was like back

completely in error.

The traditional view of Fort Antonio
only takes up about three acres of real

estate. But how could the 10th Roman
Legion live in such a small space?

For there always lay in this tower a
Roman Legion.

There were 6 ,000...

Soldiers and a legion and 4 ,000 support
personnel. What you're seeing marching

towards you is about, to the gap you're
going to see in a moment, is about 600

guys. So 10 times what you see here is
how many soldiers there were over there,

with an additional 4 ,000. Now, would
they fit in that little area up there,

which is about the size of this church
auditorium?

No, it's ridiculous.

And then we see Josephus saying also,
now as to the Tower Antonio, it might

comprised of several cities.

What happened to the Roman fortress
Antonia after the destruction of

Was it also destroyed along with the
temple?

According to historical records, General
Titus returned to Rome after the

fighting ended and left Legio X for
Tensis stationed in Jerusalem.

Their role was to suppress any remaining
resistance in Judea and maintain Roman

rule over the region.

The fate of the fortress was documented
by Josephus in his book, War of the

Jews. He recorded the speech given by
Eleazar Ben -Yair, the commander of the

besieged fortress at Masada.

Where is this city, Jerusalem, that was
believed to have God himself inhabiting

therein? It is now demolished to the
very foundations, and hath nothing but

monument of it preserved.

I mean the camp of those Romans that
hath destroyed it, which still dwells

its ruins.

Let me distill it down. He's saying that
the one thing that's still existing in

Jerusalem is the Roman fort, and
everything else is torn down. There was

couple of little small walls. There was
a couple of little small towers here and

there, but it looked like Hiroshima
after the atomic bomb. It was level.

But yet this glorious fort is still
there, according to Eliezer.

And think about it, the Romans had forts
that were usually about 36, 37 acres.

They were very large, high -walled
structures throughout the whole world.

Rome conquered somewhere, they
established a well -fortified fort. But

that the Roman fortress was not
destroyed. It still stands upon the

Jerusalem.

The Romans aren't going to destroy their
own fort that they made, and they're

going to need it afterwards after
rebellion is crushed.

So they didn't destroy their fort. Well,
that's what we have today as far as the

Temple Mount. People say, oh, that big
high -walled structure you've seen in

Jerusalem with the gold dome where they
believe the temple is, that's the place

of the temple?

Absolutely not.

That was a Roman fortress.

When he entirely demolished the rest of
the city,

What does a Roman fort look like? Well,
we can go back in history and we can see

through drawings or through actual
foundations.

And even today we have models of the
Roman fortress. And they were the size

several cities.

Here's one drawing, and you can see it
has granaries and hospitals. It had the

place for the officers' quarters. It had
places for the soldiers' barracks. It

would have had possibly courthouses,
libraries, places for the horses, the

military equipment, all that kind of
storage that you would find in a huge

military presence, whether today or long
ago with the Romans.

Here we have an aerial view of an
ancient Roman fort, and you can see it's

rectangular in shape.

We see Roman forts and models. If you go
today to Europe, you'll go to the

visitor centers of some of these ruins,
and they build these models. And a lot

of these models are actually built after
the ruins that were in these different

places throughout Europe and the Middle
East.

And the interesting thing is they all
seem to be very similar in that they're

rectangular in shape, which if you
really look at the Temple Mount today,

rectangular in shape.

And it has the very size and complexion
as what you see in these Roman forts

throughout the world.

To house that many people, you need a
relatively large area.

And we found some previous settlements
of

Roman legions that, just by coincidence,
occupy

an area almost exactly the same size as
a temple mount.

One of the artists and a pretty good
historian himself superimposed

an encampment of a different Roman
legion on top of the Temple Mount, and

fit almost exactly.

There's no way we can see what Jesus and
his disciples were looking at in his

day. He said it's all going to be gone.

And some of the things that we're
looking at over in the traditional

could have been seen in Jesus' day.

I don't know how these people go on
their tours with their Christian tour

and they point to that wall and say,
this is the wall of the temple when

says, every stone will be thrown down.
You can't have that. You can't reconcile

that. I believe that Jesus was 100 %
right in his prophecy and that every

was thrown down. As Josephus says in
history, as Eliezer, as Josephus, they

say that it's complete and totally
annihilated.

So we've got to go with what the
evidence shows and what history says.

was 100 % right. And those stones up
there were not thrown down because

the stones from the Roman fortress
Antonia.

is one of the earliest recorded
Christian witnesses to visit the Holy

He or she is, in fact, the only
eyewitness from 70 AD to 370

AD to document the existence of Port
Antonio in Jerusalem.

We have people from history, such as the
Bordeaux Pilgrim. The Bordeaux Pilgrim

in 333 was right here.

The Bordeaux Pilgrim was a pilgrim that
came to Jerusalem.

wrote and gave us a description as to
where the Roman fortress existed.

In 333 A .D., the anonymous Christian
pilgrim from Bordeaux described the only

structure of significance located east
of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre as

having walls, plural, where Pontius
Pilate had his house. The praetorium is

where the Lord's case was heard before
he suffered.

In the Roman world at the time, The word
praetorium was another synonym for the

residence of the Roman general who had
his abode in the center of a military

camp of the legions.

The notation is that from the Church of
the Holy Sepulchre, while the Bordeaux

pilgrim looked east, he or she saw the
Roman fort.

And set in the periphery of the view was
this massive fort due east of where the

Church of the Holy Sepulchre is located.

We're in a tower next to the Church of
the Holy Sepulchre. Quite high, gives us

a great vantage point. But you can see,
if you scan your eyes going to the east,

you see what the Bordeaux pilgrims saw.

And that is the area today which is
called the Dome of the Rock.

The portal program said, looking east,
you see the Roman fort stretched out

before you. That's what we see right now
today, is we see the Dome of the Rock,

which is not the place of the temple.
It's the place of the Roman fort,

according to an eyewitness in the year
333 A .D.

Scholars ignore that, and I don't know
why scholars ignore it other than it

doesn't fit with their paradigm. They
probably wrote a book about the temple

being on the Temple Mount, and they
don't want to accept this information.

That cannot be the place of the temple.
The Bordeaux Pilgrim tells us that that

was a Roman fort due east of here.

So this is where we have to follow. We
have to follow the clues like

through history that will lead us to the
ultimate truth.

Another significant proof that the
Temple Mount was once the Roman fortress

be found today only a few feet from the
Western Wall.

If you take a guided tour underground,
you will see the inscription FRET, F

-R -E -T, carved into the wall, which is
short for FRETENSIS, which was the

10th Roman Legion.

What we have here...

It's an amazing inscription that says
the 10th Roman Legion.

And this is solid, solid evidence,
inscription evidence, which inscriptions

usually the silver bullet of
archaeology. Very few inscriptions in

shows and says that this is the 10th
Roman Legion. Well, it's very

because we find it to be located.

Here's the Western Wailing Wall here.

So what do we have?

60 feet away is where the inscription is
that says the 10th Roman Legion,

which would have marked the entryway
into their fort.

This inscription is strong evidence that
it was, in fact, the Fortress Antonio

and not the temple. The temple correctly
should be in the City of David where

the Bible and history says it should be.

One of the...

tenets of the military that were always
taught is to control the high ground.

And so as you look at the geography of
that area, it becomes

apparent that the high ground in that
area in and around the

Jebusite city was Mount Moriah.

So from just a pure military
perspective, I would want to put

my camp on the highest ground I could,
which back then was Mount Moriah.

For if we go up to this Tower of
Antonia, we gain the city, since we

be upon the top of the hill.

If we look at Josephus' writing, we get
the significant clues as to where the

temple... is really located he talks
about a bridge going 600 feet north from

the temple connecting to the fortress
antonio so the romans could keep control

and watch on and have access to the
temple area if there was some kind of

rebellion now as to the tower of antonia
it was situated at the corner of two

cloisters of the court of the temple of
that on the west and that on the north

Josephus' writings talk about the Roman
fortress being a guard to the temple,

literally higher in elevation.

It was so large that, in fact, he says
you could not see the temple if you

approached Jerusalem from the north.

The Tower of Antonia was the only place
that hindered the sight of the temple on

the north.

There's another clue from the Bible that
talks about the Roman...

fortress being in a higher elevation
than the temple.

There is a story in the book of Acts
that describes when the commander of the

Roman soldiers quickly deployed troops
from the fort down to the temple to

rescue the apostle Paul from a riotous
situation.

One interesting fact that we see in the
Bible that tells us a little bit about

Fort Antonia and its location in
relation to the temple can be found in

The Jews, which were of Asia, when they
saw him in the temple, stirred up all

the people and laid hands on him, crying
out, Men of Israel, help!

This is the man that teacheth all men
everywhere against the people and the

and this place, and further brought
Greeks also into the temple, and hath

polluted this holy place.

And all the city was moved, and the
people ran together, and they took Paul

drew him out of the temple.

And as they went about to kill him,
Tidings came unto the chief captain of

band, that all Jerusalem was in an
uproar, who immediately took soldiers

centurions and ran down unto them.

That's the key word.

They took soldiers and centurions and
ran down to them.

Right above us here is what I think is
the Roman fort. The steps would have

right down to here.

So what we see going on here is the
Apostle Paul, he gets arrested, they

down the steps to get him, they're
taking him back up to the castle, and he

stops on the steps somewhere in that
area, and he preaches to all those Jews

that were in an uproar because he was in
the temple.

And as Paul was to be led into the
castle, he said unto the chief captain,

speak unto thee?

So right here, as they're getting ready
to go to the castle, and then in verse

40, And when he had given him license,
Paul stood on the stairs and beckoned

with the hand unto the people.

So we see that after the Romans come
down to the temple to arrest Paul,

taking him back up, and while he's on
the stairs somewhere in this area, he

looks down over the temple area, and he
preaches to the Jews.

There is a very interesting writing by
Josephus in his book, The War of the

Jews, where he tells us exactly where
the eastern cloister of the temple was

located. In describing these ancient
walls of the city of David, he says they

went around to the Pool of Siloam.

Then it says the walls turned east, and
then the walls

went coming up in a northerly direction.

And then it intersected with the Ofla.

And that is the place, he said, is where
the eastern cloister of the temple is.

That's a mic drop moment when I found
that in Josephus' writings. He gave me a

map leading me directly and exactly and
precisely where the temple is.

Now that wall went southward, having its
bending above the fountain Siloam.

But it also bends again towards the east
at Solomon's Pool and reaches as far as

a certain place, which they call Ophla,
where it was joined to the eastern

cloister of the temple.

And this is actually where history
collides with his words.

And it paints a picture for me that
tells me clearly, clearly, Josephus is

saying, where the Ophla is, is the Ophla
of the ancient wall.

that that's where the eastern cloister
of the temple was. He was an eyewitness

in the first century.

So here's an eyewitness, not some
scholar in the 21st century, but an

in the first century saying the temple
was right here, and there's no arguing

what he's saying. He's either lying or
he's telling the truth, and this is the

place of the temple of Solomon and
Herod.

Any police investigator?

with any modicum of talent, could have
figured that one out a long time ago.

historians have ignored that. Scholars
have ignored that.

Because it gives a different narrative.
It says the temple is in the city of

David and not upon the Temple Mount. So
it was ignored.

But I didn't ignore it. I followed it.
And it led me right to where I believe

the temple should be.

So, if historical and biblical evidence
places the Roman fort, On the Temple

Mount, why do most people today believe
that this is where the Temple was

actually located?

After 70 AD, the Jews were banished from
Jerusalem, and all remembrance of the

Temple was removed.

Over time, the people forgot, and the
history was lost.

We don't have a definitive location of
where the temple is. Even upon the

Mount, people are arguing where it was
up there. We do not know where the

is. When people were debating where the
temple was in the 4th century, we had

several places were being suggested as
where the temple was.

They just looked up and saw this big,
huge monument, and it was the Roman

Fortress Antonia, which was still
existing.

And they said, that has to be the place
of the temple.

And people have said this over and over.

and over and over throughout the years.
Thus it becomes history, when it's

nothing more than speculation and
tradition.

One important event that promoted the
Temple Mount, being the location of the

Temple, was the invasion of Jerusalem by
the Crusaders.

When the Crusaders came over here and
breached the walls in July of 1099, at

behest of Urban II, the Pope, it was a
holy war saying, if you go fight, you'll

have eternal life.

You don't have to go through purgatory.

So these farmers and knights and
everybody amassed in this huge army,

here, overrun the walls, and killed
everybody in sight, and they took back

was once the Roman fortress.

The Muslims had it. This was controlled
by the Muslims.

And on the top of what we see is that
big gold dome today. It was kind of a

pewter -colored den, and it had a
crescent moon on the top of it, the

Islam. And the crusaders went up, tore
that off, put a cross up there, wired it

up there and called it Temple of Domini,
which means the house of the Lord.

That was the little match that lit the
roaring forest of tradition on fire that

that is the temple. And from this point
on, we have people telling about it

generation after generation after
generation to the point that it's not

contested.

July 15, 1099.

Seventy years after the Crusaders
conquered Jerusalem, a Jew from Spain,

Benjamin of Tudela, visited Jerusalem
and wrote, The Western Wall is one of

walls of the Holy of Holies.

This emphatic statement seemed to seal
the tradition, and from that point on,

it has been virtually unchallenged.

We have tradition saying that it's
there.

and not fact.

The Bible, however, takes us in a
different vector. The Bible pulses down

600 feet to Guillaume Springs, and that
is in the city of David. That's the

place of the temple.

Years ago, I sat in the office of
Herschel Shanks, who is the

editor of Bible Archaeology Review, the
most prestigious

Bible archaeology magazine ever.

And he said to me, he said, Bob, 95 % of
all places that we go to in

Jerusalem, archaeologically speaking,
are wrong.

But we know one place for sure.

There's no doubt about it.

None at all.

And that's where the Temple of Solomon
and Herod

One day, someone hands me a book.

A book by Ernest Martin.

And he said the temple is in the city of
David.

He got his news from Benjamin or Ori
Mazur, which were the grandfathers of

archaeology in Jerusalem.

And they told him, the temples are in
the city of David.

We cannot write a book about it.

We cannot tell anybody in the press
about it, but we are digging up the city

David, and we have evidence to show that
the temple is in the city of David.

He said, why don't you tell people? He
says, our lives will be ruined. Our

careers are over with. Our families will
be attacked in Jerusalem going against

such a beloved. You understand that
people in Israel are beloved of that

If we say anything, we'll be destroyed.

So I started on a journey of testing it
through, not tradition, but through the

lens of biblical verses.

And I become almost obsessed with
finding out the truth.

Could all these people for all these
years be wrong? Could the temple be in

city of David? And I believe, and I'm
going to make a proclamation right here

from this stage,

Mistake in archaeological history has
been made by saying that the temple is

on the Temple Mount.

Being a former police investigator, I
used to put my heart and soul into every

investigation. I wanted to find the
truth. I did not want to put the wrong

in jail.

God forbid.

So when I started doing research on the
temple and where the temple is located,

I realized this is God's lost city.

People have been trying to figure out
this thing for a long time.

And so I decided to look at it in a
different lens. I started pulling pieces

together out of history, out of the
Bible, out of eyewitnesses such as

And I was alarmed to find that
everything...

was like a riptide pulling me down
southward to the city of David.

The city of David is a 12 -acre plot of
land south of the Temple Mount.

3 ,000 years ago, the city of David had
an estimated population of only around 2

,000 people.

To understand the history of the city of
David, we must go back to 1003 B .C.,

when King David arrived in Jerusalem and
found a city called Jebus, which the

Jebusites inhabited.

We have to go back to 2 Samuel, way,
way, way back in time. In 2 Samuel 5 -7

says, Nevertheless, David took the
stronghold of Zion.

The same is the city of David.

I want to paint a picture. Right where
I'm standing right now, there was deep

walls. And these deep walls we can see
today, and you'll see those today, these

deep walls go down from a deep height,
going down into the Kidron Valley.

These stones here are stones that go up.

They actually are these support walls or
these ramparts or defensive walls for

the city of David.

They originally belonged to the
Jebusites.

Now, the Jebusites lived in this area.
You see this area?

Here's about 12 acres. It's really not
too impressive.

That was very small, and all around it,
there was sort of barren wasteland.

At the time, the Jebusites had control
over this area, but it had water. This

underground, it's hard to describe, but
it's under the stone, subterranean water

source. It's a siphon spring that comes
out, and then it's channeled out through

the stone. This water just keeps
gurgling up from within it, and this is

David wanted.

the Jebusites stood on these ramparts
and looked down at David, who was

up, probably thinking, how am I going to
conquer this place that's so well

defended? And David was down with his
men, and even the Jebusites mockingly

laughed down and said, hey, even the
blind and lame could defend this place.

Ha, ha, ha, you can't take us.

But David, not too long after that,
maybe even hours after that, went into a

water shaft, came up and...

took the city of David. Now, what does
the Bible say about it? When David took

the city of David, it was called the
stronghold of Zion.

Zion's the key word. Z -I -O -N. Zion is
the key word that's a common

denominator in solving this problem.

So Zion, it says here, is the city of
David.

2 Samuel chapter 5 -7 equates the name
the stronghold of Zion to the city of

David. Those names are interchangeable.

They are the same place.

Another proof of this can be found in 1
Kings 8, 1, where the Bible tells us

again that the city of David is Zion.

Then Solomon assembled the elders of
Israel in Jerusalem, that they might

up the ark of the covenant of the Lord
out of the city of David, which is Zion.

So now that we know that Zion is the
city of David, what does the Bible say

about Zion?

So shall ye know that I am the Lord your
God dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain.

My holy mountain. My holy mountain is
the temple.

Zion is in the city of David.

For the Lord hath chosen Zion.

He hath desired it for his habitation.

This is where the temple is, Zion, where
the temple place is.

Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill
of Zion.

Come ye and let us go up to the mountain
of the Lord.

to the house of the God Jacob.

For out of Zion shall go forth the law
and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.

Send thee help from the sanctuary and
strengthen thee out of Zion.

Praise waiteth for thee, O God in Zion.

We shall be satisfied with the goodness
of thy house, even of thy holy temple.

The Lord of hosts shall reign in Mount
Zion.

The Lord dwelleth in Zion.

Eusebius, the church father, said from
the 4th century, the hill called Zion

Jerusalem, the building there, that is
to say the temple, the Holy of Holies,

in Zion.

Zion is really the common denominator
that we should follow.

But historians and scholars today define
Zion as being more of a widely used

area. In fact, the identity of Israel is
Zion.

At the time when the Bible was written,
Zion was the city of David.

And Zion, the Bible tells us, is the
place of the temple without question.

So David dwelt in the fort and called it
the city of David.

When David took over the Jebusite
fortress, God came to him and said,

David, buy the threshing floor.

In other words, throughout history, I
want no discussion that who owns this

land. It's going to be bought by you and
it's going to be a holy precinct. And

I'm going to build my temple there. And
where was the threshing floor?

Inside the city of David, the Jebusite
fortress.

And Gad came that day to David and said
unto him, Go up, rear an altar unto the

Lord in the threshing floor of Arana,
the Jebusite.

And so the threshing floor is a very,
very important place to have in any

It's supposed to be the most important
place.

We see these photos here of threshing
floors around the world. And what's

amazing to me, let's go back to that
prior one. You see the hill behind it?

You see this threshing floor with the
hill behind it? You see this threshing

floor with the hill behind it?

We have the threshing floors positioned
in very strategic places that have just

enough wind, the right amount of wind to
blow away the wheat from the chaff.

Usually they're not on top of a mountain
because they had enough bone -jarring

labor in those days to go up and add to
their workload by going to the top of a

mountain. So it was a place that was
easier to get to and had the ample

of wind.

And so that's where the threshing floor,
in fact, some threshing floors even

were in buildings that we find
throughout the ancient world.

After purchasing the land, Solomon began
building the house of the Lord.

in the threshing floor of Ornan the
Jebusite.

You know, the Bible, surprising to a lot
of people, tells us exactly where the

temple should be.

In 2 Chronicles 3 .1, it says it needs
to be where the threshing floor of Ornan

the Jebusite is.

Then Solomon began to build the house of
the Lord at Jerusalem in Mount Moriah,

where the Lord appeared unto David his
father, in the place that David had

prepared in the threshing floor of Ornan
the Jebusite.

So when you put all those together, we
can see Zion, Mount Moriah, the city of

David, they're all one place.

The city of David at the time was the
Jebusite fortress conquered by David.

And it was there on the threshing floor
in that area in the city of David that

the temple was built according to the
Bible.

So if the Bible clearly states... that
Solomon's temple was constructed within

the limits of the Jebusite fortress,
specifically in the threshing floor of

Ornan the Jebusite, how can there be any
dispute about the fact that Solomon's

temple was built in the city of David?

How did it become a city lost?

The city of David was forgotten for so
many years because the temple was

completely destroyed.

Because it was abandoned.

The Jews were outcasts. They were
quarantined from Jerusalem.

Life went on hundreds and hundreds of
years in between of people being

completely gone. Generations never even
seeing where the temple or told where

the temple is.

And it just got forgotten. It got lost.

You know that we lost where Jamestown
was. The first settlement in America got

lost. We didn't know where it was until
a few years ago when the archaeologists

found it.

Just as with Jamestown, as time passed,
no one knew where the city of David was.

And since the stronghold of Zion was in
the city of David, Zion had also

vanished. So historians erroneously
moved Zion to another spot in Jerusalem

without any substantiated reason.

When you go to the holy city today, road
signs will point to the upper city, and

the signs read, Zion.

with an arrow pointing away from Zion's
actual original location in the city of

David.

The city of David was so completely
forgotten that during the Byzantine

even Jerusalem's biblical name Zion
shifted to the southern portion of the

Western Hill, which is called Mount Zion
to this day.

People often wonder...

how we could get something as
significant as the temple of God, how we

its location wrong.

But it's important to note that it
wasn't until about 100 years ago or so

they actually discovered the true
location of Mount Zion.

So if we could get the most important
mountain in the Bible wrong all these

years, could it be that we would get the
location of the temple wrong as well?

For almost 2 ,000 years, Zion and the
city of David have been buried and

forgotten. The southern part was made
into a quarry by Hadrian, who wanted the

city so mangled that it would be forever
dismissed from memory.

In the days of King Ahaz, the prophet
Micah foretold of this destruction in

about 730 BC.

This prophecy specifically said that
Zion would be plowed like a field.

and that it would be completely lost.

Micah's prophecy was certainly not
popular with the political leaders and

priests of his day. However, the
specifics of this prophecy are truly

incredible, because his words were
completely fulfilled almost 800 years

Therefore shall Zion for your sake be
plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall

become heaps.

The mountain of the house is the high
places of the forest.

This is a very clear prophecy, that it
was going to be plowed like a field, and

that is exactly what history records
happening.

We see in the book of Micah that a time
was going to come where Jerusalem was

going to look as though nothing had been
there. It would be heaps and a forest.

Some say that was in 70 A .D. Others
think it may have been in 132 A .D.

when there was another famous revolt
known as the Bar Kokhba revolt.

And what's interesting about that, the
Romans were so tired of all these

rebellions by the Jews who kept wanting
to rebuild that temple, he decided we

need to eliminate the memory of
Jerusalem from there. And so they

and plowed Mount Zion.

I mean, it was down to the dirt.

He ended up building a temple to Jupiter
in that spot where the temple once

stood. This was his way of trying to
remove the remembrance so the Jews

keep trying to take that spot.

and build a temple there, and then
eventually what he did is they changed

name of that land to Palestine.

If you look at these walls, it's obvious
it's never happened here. These walls,

they go back, some of them, to before
the time of Christ. They're still

one upon another, so there's no way this
area ever could have been plowed, could

have become a forest.

There's absolutely no evidence of that
anywhere in this Temple Mount area.

Nobody's plowing up there, but it
fulfilled the prophecy here in the city

David. Plowed like a field. They took it
down to the very foundations, to the

very soil. It said it would become heat.
So there's no doubt in 2 ,000 years a

landscape can change a lot, but when a
purposeful effort was taken to change

layout, to hide what was there, there's
no reason to doubt that the landscape

looked quite a bit different than it
does today.

Look at this oval here that you see.
That oval, that is where the city of

is. Up above is where the yellow out
there, that is where the Temple Mount

Do you see the fields that are being
plowed there?

You see those terraces?

You can see almost the farmers out there
plowing that.

There's no plowed fields up above, up on
the Temple Mount. But here in the city

of David, we have the fulfillment of
Micah's prophecy.

This photo here is the most intriguing
of the photos to me, and I'll tell you

why. This is speaking to us from history
that we don't have today when we look

at Jerusalem. Jerusalem is the jumble of
buildings in a lot of respects.

But through the lens of this
photographer, he's opened up a world

speaks volumes of Bible history.

This fulfills the prophet's view of
where the temple would be.

This does not.

The search for the true location of the
biblical city of David was one of the

stated objectives of the Palestinian
Exploration Fund since its establishment

1865.

Archaeological exploration for the city
of David began in 1867 by Master

Freemason Charles Warren, whom the
Palestinian Exploration Fund sent to

for the Ark of the Covenant.

During his exploration, he made some
remarkable discoveries, such as ancient

fortifications and a vertical shaft that
he believed Joab used to take over the

Jebusite fortress.

Today it's known as Warren's Shaft,
descending from the slanted tunnel.

to an apparent water source dating to
the time of David.

In 1880, an inscription was found by
some boys that changed history forever.

It would be one of the most important
finds ever made in Israel and

mark where the ancient city of David was
located.

The Siloam inscription was discovered
by...

One or two boys, Jewish boys, who went
to take a swim at the Pool of

Siloam at the southern end of the city
of David.

It was fed by water coming out from the
rocks, from an opening in the rock, and

they were curious, and they went in.

Pretty brave little lads, because they
had to go quite a bit in, in this dark

maw of a cave filled with water, running
water.

And after six or seven meters, that is
18, 20 feet, one of them

saw on the wall an inscription,
something inscribed.

He didn't know what it is or to decipher
it.

And they went to the teacher, a German
working as a missionary in Jerusalem by

the name Konrad Schick.

One of my pupils, when climbing down the
southern side of it, stumbled over the

broken bits of rock.

and fell into the water.

On rising to the surface, he discovered
some marks like letters on the wall of

rock. I set off with the necessary
things to examine his discovery.

The inscription talks about this is the
place the Hezekiah's men met while they

were building the tunnels. They came
from two different directions, and they

connected right at this spot. It was a
memorial stone showing where they came

and met, creating this long tunnel.

It actually commemorates The moment of
encounter of two groups

of rock cutters who cut a tunnel from
both sides.

So it commemorates the moment, the last
three cubits to be cut, which is about a

meter and a half, five feet.

And then the final blow of the act, they
saw the water coming and it flowed from

the source to the pool.

And this was such an exciting moment
that it had to be documented.

And this tunnel worked until today. You
were in the water, were you?

So 2 ,700 years, maybe a little more, of
a project which still

works. And when Hezekiah saw that
Sennacherib was come and that he was

to fight against Jerusalem, he took
counsel with his princes and his mighty

to stop the waters of the fountains
which were without the city. And they

help him.

So there was gathered much people
together who stopped all the fountains

brook that ran through the midst of the
land, saying, Why should the kings of

Assyria come and find much water?

Hezekiah also stopped the upper
watercourse of Gion and brought it

to the west side of the city of David.

And the rest of the acts of Hezekiah and
all his might and how he made a pool

and a conduit and brought water into the
city.

Are they not written in the book of the
Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?

And sure enough, right down there is
where they found what's known as

Tunnels, right there in the city of
David. It was that discovery that

that this area was the city of David.

And by law, in the 1880s, everybody
should have said, here's where the

is. We found Hezekiah's Tunnel. We found
the Gion Springs.

But they didn't. They didn't do a thing.

Why? Because tradition was poured over
it, and they don't want to change.

Tradition is such a strong thing.
Tradition is mentioned 14 times in the

and it's all negative.

It's all negative. We shouldn't follow
traditions. We should follow the Word of

God.

The discovery of the Siloam inscription
in Hezekiah's tunnel was a significant

event because it confirmed the biblical
narrative and provided the exact

location of the city of David.

Israeli archaeologists Rani Reich and
Eli Shukran excavated in the city of

from 1995 to 2012.

Their work led to some of the most
significant archaeological discoveries

made in Jerusalem.

Their excavations revealed that the
entrance to the Gihon Spring was heavily

fortified with a massive tower.

They also uncovered the remains of the
Pool of Siloam.

made a very unusual discovery.

He found an ancient structure only a few
feet from the Gihon Spring, which is

perhaps the greatest discovery ever
found in Israel.

Here's my good friend Eli Shukaron, who
was the director of archaeology in the

city of David for many, many years.

He spent a large portion of his life in
the dark here, digging away day by day,

coming to work in the morning, digging
all day, taking out tons and tons of

debris.

When I first met Elias Shukran, I said,
hey, I think there should be something

underground here.

I think this is the place where
Solomon's temple was. Of course, he

that was true.

He said, well, now that you've said it,
there's something that's amazing that I

want to show you.

And he took me down this little weedy
path here and opened up this door.

The hinges just...

squeak with rusty protest and went
inside and it was dark with cobwebs and

sandbags and it was an archaeological
site that was live.

This ancient structure is known by a few
informal names, such as the Matzivah

Temple, Temple Zero, or Melchizedek's
Temple.

It is believed to date back to the time
of Abraham.

even before the City of David was
constructed.

Although rarely mentioned and closed off
to the public,

the site has significant implications
when considering all the facts.

In 1909, Montague Parker discovered the
northernmost room, but he never

uncovered the rest of the site.

Shukron continued excavations to the
south and found additional rooms all

quarried in the bedrock.

This area was excavated in 2010.

And we came and every two meters, every
six feet, we did excavation. We did all

the construction.

So we moved part by part by part by
part.

And what we found? We found a very, very
important area.

The site is oriented towards the east,
which is a common characteristic of

Judean temples, and faces the same
direction.

in which the tabernacle and the first
temple faced.

It features a staircase that leads to a
flat surface carved into the bedrock.

Several small rooms are aligned next to
one another on the surface.

These rooms were designated for animal
sacrifice, grain and olive pressing, an

altar, and a stone monument known as a
matzivah.

It took them 20 years, I think, of
just...

every day like a mole going down on the
ground and working down there, countless

untold hours of misery, taking all that
dirt out. But what he's uncovered is an

amazing find. He's truly a great guy and
a good friend of mine. Do we agree on

all this?

No. We are in the city of David now,
above the Gihon Spring. We are in the

temple that was found in 2010.

And this is a very, very important
temple because it's the beginning of

worshipping God in Jerusalem, in the
city of David, here where we are. Go

to the time of Melchizedek before 3
,700, 3 ,800 years ago.

It is truly remarkable to discover a
site that has been so well preserved.

According to Eli Shukran, the altar and
everything else was excavated exactly as

we see it today.

You can see.

The line of the stone, this is the wall.
But all that you have inside of the

wall, between the rock and the wall, you
can see all the stone.

Covering all the air, it was covering
like that. Someone buried this place.

When the site was buried, artifacts were
left behind, indicating when it was in

use and when it was covered up.

What's happening in that cave, we found
a lot of ceramic, a lot of pottery.

Why? Because before the...

covered before they bury it, they clean
all that room, and they put everything

inside. And what we found, we found here
pottery go back to the Middle Bronze

period. And the layer, the pottery,
after before two years ago, they did

carbon -14 baking.

And then they found that the layer that
I say that this will go back to the

middle bronze period is also the proven
by carbon -14 dating.

So take the carbon -14 dating, take the
pottery all together, take the finding

that we found in here, and then we
understand that we are in a very

place. And all that go back to the Bible
and what the Bible tell us. And then we

start to understand that the Bible talk
about what we have here.

We have the pillar, the house of God.

And what is the pillar?

If you're reading Genesis 28, verse 22,
the pillar, the house of God.

And this stone, which I have set for a
pillar, shall be God's house.

So that stone that someone set up as a
pillar and a stone around it, this is

what the Bible said, the house of God.
So this is the most important place in

this temple.

Eli Shukrin says that this pillar is
just like the one that is described in

Genesis 28, when Jacob had a dream of a
ladder reaching up to heaven in Bethel.

And Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and
he said, Surely the Lord is in this

place, and I knew it not.

And he was afraid and said, How dreadful
is this place!

This is none other but the house of God,
and this is the gate of heaven.

And Jacob rose up early in the morning,
and took the stone that he had put for

his pillows, and set it up for a pillar,
and poured oil upon the top of it.

Eli Shukran believes that Melchizedek
set this stone up in Jerusalem, just

Jacob did in Bethel.

So what is the ask of God? What are you
doing to the ask of God? You are

anointed with olive oil. Why are you
producing that olive oil? Here in the

place.

And you can see that the olive press,
well, you take the olive, you're

the olive, you put the olive in the
sack, and then you put the sack on the

of the pit, and then you get the branch
of the wood inside to the hole, and then

with the weight, and then you're
pressing, then what we call a cold

then you have around between 10 to 20 %
olive oil, and jumping to the top, you

collect it. Olive oil, you must use it
immediately.

You cannot wait with olive oil.

Olive oil played a significant role in
the tabernacle and the temple. It was

considered sacred and used as holy
anointing oil to sanctify priests, the

tabernacle, and its holy furnishings.

Additionally, fresh olive oil was used
for lighting lamps inside the temple,

symbolizing God's presence that would
light up the world.

It only makes sense that this temple
would indeed have an olive press.

Next to the olive press, Shukran
discovered a storage room with many

jars.

This is a stowed jar room.

I found there a lot of jars broken on
the floor.

And this room was covered with a
plaster.

Let's go to the other plaster here.

Yeah. This is a plaster.

So we're talking about room, that we
have a jar in that room, and for...

What purpose do we have that jar with
olive oil?

Before you sacrifice the animal, you
need to skin the animal.

How do you skin the animal?

By hanging the animal.

For hanging the animal, what we need to
build?

Tripods. On that tripod, they hang the
animal, skin the animal, prepare the

animal before they put them on the
altar.

But this is the place where they hang
the animal.

Here we can see a hole.

When they tie the baby goats, baby
sheep, before they put them on the

and this is where they tie them, baby
goats, baby sheep here, you'll see the

hole here in this corner.

And here we can see a place where you're
collecting the blood.

And here we can see the cave that we
already talked about.

The hole for the animal.

And then you can see some hole there,
this is for the grain of the seed of the

wheat, to make a bread.

Bread is another essential requirement
for the tabernacle and the temple.

It was to be present continually.

What we have in this room, we have a
platform.

On that platform they build an altar
made by stone and cut in stone.

And here we can see the channel. This
channel collects all the blood that came

from the altar and then you collect it
here.

Okay, by some bowl or something that
you're collecting that kind of blood

came from the altar.

And it's fantastic.

You hang the animal, you skin the
animal, you sacrifice the animal here,

collecting the blood here, where you are
very close to the spring, to the water.

This is just fantastic. And where you
are? In the city of David.

I don't think it's a coincidence that
they found evidence of a temple and

they did sacrifices, sure enough, right
here in the city of David.

And it's fantastic.

This fantastic finding, because it takes
us to the beginning of worshiping God.

This is why Eli calls this Temple Zero.

Because the first temple that we know
about is Solomon's temple.

The second temple we know about is
really, well, Zerubbabel, but perfected

Herod. So maybe this was the temple
before. In fact, where was

Solomon coronated king?

So Zadok the priest brought him to
Gihon.

and took an horn of oil out of the
tabernacle and anointed Solomon.

Is it possible that the temple that he
discovered is where Solomon was

coronated? It's right there at Gion.

And they blew the trumpet, and all the
people said, God save King Solomon.

Nearly a thousand years before Solomon
was anointed king, in Genesis 14, there

is a passage that talks about a
mysterious figure named Melchizedek.

According to the Bible, Melchizedek was
the priest of the Most High God and the

King of Salem, which later became Jebus,
and now known as Jerusalem.

And the king of Sodom went out to meet
him after his return from the slaughter

of Keterlaomer, and the kings that were
with him at the valley of Sheve, which

is the Kingsdale.

And Melchizedek, king of Salem, brought
forth bread and wine, and he was the

priest of the Most High God. And he
blessed him and said, Blessed be Abram

the Most High God, possessor of heaven
and earth.

And blessed be the Most High God, which
hath delivered thine enemies into thy

hand. And he gave them tithes of all.

According to the Bible, Melchizedek
blessed Abraham and God for the victory

Kedorlaomer. In return, Abraham gave him
a tithe of all the spoils he had

received from the battle.

This event took place in the Valley of
Sheveh.

which is also known as the Kingsdale or
Kings Valley.

Scholars have suggested that this
location is believed to be the Kidron

which runs adjacent to the mysterious
Temple Zero.

The only other mention of the Kingsdale
is in 2 Samuel 18, where Absalom erected

a pillar.

Absalom reared up for himself a pillar,
which is in the Kingsdale.

and he called the pillar after his own
name, Absalom's Place.

Today in the Kidron Valley, next to
Temple Zero, stands a pillar known as

Absalom's Pillar.

According to Josephus, Benjamin of
Tudela, and other historians, this

built as a monument to Absalom.

However, recent studies date the
structure to the 1st century AD.

Regardless, this monument, is
traditionally associated with Absalom,

location in the king's valley.

There is also a possibility that the
present pillar is a reconstruction of a

previously damaged one.

Either way, the reference to
Melchizedek's meeting Abraham in the

Genesis 14 raises the question of
whether Temple Zero was the temple where

Melchizedek was the priest.

Melchizedek is undoubtedly one of the
most enigmatic characters in Scripture.

Mentioned in only three books of the
Bible, little is known about him, except

that he was a priest and king, a unique
combination shared only by Jesus.

His name means King of Righteousness,
and according to Hebrews 7 .3, he had no

parents or bloodline.

Without father, without mother, without
descent.

having neither beginning of days nor end
of life, but made like unto the Son of

God, abideth a priest continually.

From these passages, many propose that
Melchizedek was a pre -incarnate

appearance of Jesus Christ.

Notice how in Genesis 14, we see
Melchizedek offering Abraham bread and

after his victory, which is a perfect
representation of communion.

The bread symbolizes the body of Christ,
while the wine represents his blood.

Others argue that Melchizedek was a man,
simply a type of Christ.

Regardless, this fascinating event
between Melchizedek and Abraham took

Salem, in the Valley of Sheveh, feet
away from a temple that was discovered

2010 by Eli Shukran.

In Salem also is his tabernacle.

and his dwelling place in Zion.

Water is the most essential part of any
civilization.

People have to have water, so they'll
build where the water is located.

And the only water in Jerusalem is in
the city of David at the Gihon Spring.

And this is where Jerusalem began.

Jerusalem was born on that hill, was
founded and later made

into the temple city and the capital of
the house of David.

We are in the city of David. This is the
beginning of Jerusalem, started here

where we are.

And we're talking about the beginning of
Jerusalem by the finding here.

Everything started here around the Gihon
Spring. The people came here because of

water. People came here because this
place where we are standing now.

Were it not there, let's say, if that
spring would have emanated in another

place in modern Jerusalem, I can imagine
that the entire story would have

started there.

Water is...

And it dictates the place where people
started their villages, which turned

later into cities, etc.

When attempting to determine the
location of the tabernacle, the Gihon

plays an important role.

In 1 Kings 1, Solomon was brought to the
Gihon Spring, to the very spot where

the priest entered the tabernacle.

It is also where the Ark of the Covenant
was held.

So Zadok the priest went down and caused
Solomon to ride upon King David's mule

and brought him to Gion.

And Zadok the priest took an horn of oil
out of the tabernacle and anointed

Solomon. People read that. I go, did you
hear what that just said? The

tabernacle is in the city of David. He
took a horn of oil from the tabernacle

and anointed Solomon.

The only place that could be is in the
city of David.

It's my conjecture.

And only my conjecture. But it makes, I
think, logical sense that if David

brought the ark to the area of the Gion
Springs, and he had the ark there and

the tabernacle there, that this is the
holy precinct in which...

the future temples would be built,
laminated on top of one another because

a holy place. It's a holy pin in the
ground, the surveyor's pin in the ground

thing. This is the place where I want
the temple. I wanted it when it was in a

tent with David. I want it when it comes
to Solomon. I want it when it comes to

Zerubbabel. I want it when it comes to
Herod.

It is generally accepted that all
temples were constructed in the same

location as one another.

And it makes sense.

that they were built in the only spot
where Jerusalem gets its water.

Jerusalem in ancient times got its water
from two places. One was the Gihon

Springs.

The Gihon Spring is the Karstic Spring.

That means that it is not fed by a local
water -saturated

stone layer.

but by the underground crevice of
fracture which reaches its place from an

unknown direction, probably several
kilometers north of the city.

The other place they got their water
were two aqueducts were brought from

Bethlehem into these aqueducts, which
fed the water to the Romans. The Romans

couldn't put so much as a tow into the
Gion Springs, which is where, because it

was holy water.

So what'd they do? They brought in water
from South Bethlehem. They piped it in

through, and you can still see these.

rotted out pipes where the water came
and that fed the Romans. And so scholars

will say to me, Bob, there's 10 ,000, 20
,000 acre cisterns underneath the

Temple Mount. They had plenty of water
to wash themselves for the priestly

duties in the temple. No, you had to
have running water. It could be stagnant

water with moths and bugs and debris in
it and waste and whatnot. It had to have

been running water.

Running water is vital to understanding
the true location of Solomon and Herod's

temple. The area near the Dome of the
Rock has a concentration of 36 or 37

cisterns, but it has no running water.

It needed so many cisterns because it
was a Roman fortress.

Having water is a basic necessity in a
Roman fortress.

Every fortress needs and stores water
for everyday use or in case of a siege.

Soldiers need water for many reasons,
especially when occupying a territory.

So the Romans built an aqueduct from
Bethlehem to the Temple Mount because

couldn't use the Temple's holy water,
which was only 600 feet away in the

Spring. You had to build the Temple in a
place where it received the fresh

water. The only place that could be is
in the City of David over the Gihon

Spring.

In 2014, David Amet and Shimon Gibson
published an article about ancient

aqueducts bringing water to Jerusalem.

They found no evidence of any aqueducts
built between Bethlehem and Jerusalem

before 140 BC.

So, if there is no evidence of any
aqueduct on the Temple Mount during the

Temple period, where did they get their
water for Solomon's Temple?

For the priests to wash themselves
before their priestly duties within the

temple, it had to have been living
water, running water, spring water.

Thus, the Gion Springs would be
considered to be holy water.

Before the priests would go into the
temple, whether it be Solomon's temple

Herod's temple, they needed to be bathed
in spring water. The only spring water

in all Jerusalem is right here in the
Gion Springs.

There's absolutely no spring water on
the Temple Mount. There's no way that

would have washed themselves in the Gion
Springs and then walked a quarter of a

mile to a half of a mile to the Temple
Mount before they were allowed to go

the temple precinct, considered to be
purified.

Not only was water needed to wash the
priests and their priestly duties, but

read in Scripture sometimes they have
over 100 ,000 animals being killed at a

time.

We read in 1 Kings 8 that when Solomon
dedicated the temple, he sacrificed 22

,000 cattle and 120 ,000 sheep.

And they get rid of the blood. You know,
that amount of blood in there.

would putrefy and cause disease like we
can't even imagine.

You needed a means of getting rid of the
blood, and that would have been done by

the living water that we have in
Hezekiah's tunnel today. The Gion

have washed that away. Up on the Temple
Mount, slaughtering that amount of

animals, no way they could have washed
away the blood.

That's the key.

That's the silver nail in all this, is
that they needed to have running, living

water. And you don't have that on the
Temple Mount, but you have that in the

city of David, which is a requirement
for temple worship and for the priests

wash themselves.

If we go back to the time of David,
we're talking 3 ,000 years ago, you need

have water for the place of the temple.
The Bible talks about water.

at the temple it talks about it in
hecateus talks about an ancient

tacitus the dead sea scrolls many
sources talk about water coming up and

up from within the temple it is a unique
type of spring under pressure an

analogy is that it is like old faithful
at yellowstone park without the heat

it fills up then there's enough pressure
to push the water up up to the top of

the temple, and I have ten historical
non -biblical sources that say there was

flowing spring inside the temple.

When we look at the account of Aristeas,
a Jew from Egypt who visited Jerusalem

about 50 years after Alexander the
Great, he gave a detailed description of

temple, and we should be aware of what
he stated as an observer.

There is an inexhaustible supply of
water because an abundant natural spring

gushes up from within the temple.

A natural spring gushing up? You'll see
that spring.

Let's go down and take the camera and
we'll go down and see it. The water is

still running today.

The Roman historian Tacitus, roughly 400
years after Aristius, recorded that the

temple had a natural spring of water
that welled from its interior.

It contained an inexhaustible spring.

Tacitus says there was water inside the
temple in a fountain.

So all these things put together really
help contribute to the location of the

temple. Jewish scholars have long
believed in the existence of a fountain

the temple. The Jewish Encyclopedia
acknowledges this by stating that

phenomenon was the water supply, a
spring rising below the Holy of Holies.

It became an overflowing brook. The
Babylonian Talmud, compiled around 300

from earlier accounts, describes water
flowing from beneath the temple.

R. Phineas said,

The spring that issues from the Holy of
Holies.

R. Eleazar B. Jacob said, Hence go forth
the waters which will bubble forth

from under the threshold of the
sanctuary.

A fascinating description of a natural
spring situated within the temple was

found among the Dead Sea Scrolls in
Qumran.

This text, called the Temple Scroll,
offers valuable insights into the temple

and was written before its destruction
in 70 AD.

The papyrus reads, You shall make a
channel all around the laver within the

building. The channel runs from the
building of the laver to a shaft, goes

and disappears in the middle of the
earth, so that the water flows and runs

through it, and is lost in the middle of
the earth, and no one should touch it,

because it is mixed with the blood of
the Holocaust.

Zeb Vilney is a famous Israeli
geographer, author, and lecturer, who

book Legends of Jerusalem.

In this book, He cited a story from
Hebrew writings, saying, At that time a

great stream shall flow forth from the
holy temple, and its name is Gihon.

Scripture makes numerous references that
the temple in Jerusalem was a physical

representation on earth of God's
official residence in heaven. We read in

Bible that God has spring waters in his
heavenly residence.

For example, in Revelation we read,

And I, John, saw the holy city, New
Jerusalem, and he showed me a pure river

water of life, clear as crystal,
proceeding out of the throne of God and

Lamb.

And let him that heareth say, Come.

And let him that is athirst, Come.

And whosoever will, let him take the
water of life freely.

The symbolism on earth of the heavenly
house of God.

would not be complete without spring
waters being within the earthly temple.

The description of the river in God's
house in heaven and the expectation that

similar water feature must exist in the
earthly temple provides clear evidence

that God intended for the temple to be
built with access to spring water.

Of the temple in Jerusalem, the psalmist
states,

All my springs are in thee.

They shall be abundantly satisfied with
the fatness of thy house, and thou shalt

make them drink of the river of thy
pleasures, for with thee is the fountain

life. Even as far back as Moses and the
time of the tabernacle in the

wilderness, spring water was essential
in the purification ceremony for

Going as far back as Moses.

At Mount Sinai, when they had the Ark of
the Covenant and the tabernacle there,

they needed water. What did they do?
They didn't use any well water. They

running water from a rock. Moses struck
the water and water gushed out.

Even we know of the water source
traveling with them in the wilderness.

And so there's always been a requirement
for them to have running water for them

to wash themselves for the priest.

It's got to be running water, and that's
what you have in the Gilead Springs and

not on the Temple Mount.

Everywhere the tabernacle stopped, there
was water.

The water was not only for the people to
drink, but also for the purification of

the priests.

When we look at the future temple in
Ezekiel 47, it talks about water coming

forth from the holy place and flowing
out the right side of the altar.

and into the Dead Sea to make those
waters clean and fresh.

Afterward he brought me again unto the
door of the house, and behold, waters

issued out from under the threshold of
the house eastward, and the waters came

down from under from the right side of
the house, at the south side of the

altar. Then he said unto me, These
waters issue out toward the east

go down into the desert, and go into the
sea, which being brought forth into the

sea. The waters shall be healed.

A fountain shall come forth out of the
house of the Lord.

In that day there shall be a fountain
open to the house of David and to the

inhabitants of Jerusalem.

Living water shall go out from
Jerusalem, half of them toward the

half of them toward the hinder sea.

These passages demonstrate for us how
spring waters were connected to God's

dwelling places.

both the tabernacle and later the
temples.

You have to have running water, and it
has to come up within the temple. There

is no water up on the Temple Mount, the
traditional Temple Mount.

It's dry, parched, piece of stone up
there.

And if that's the case, why in the world
are people looking up on the Temple

Mount for the place of the temple? You
needed to have water. That's imperative.

It's compulsory that we have water in
the temple, and there is no water up on

the Temple Mount.

None.

Well, when Paul was speaking to the
Bereans, he called them noble.

And he said, hey, don't believe what I
say. I'm asking you as the audience

today, don't believe anything I say, but
check it against Scripture.

Then believe what I say.

Scripture will tell you if what I'm
saying is right or it's wrong. In Isaiah

.20, it says people will see what right
is wrong and wrong is right, that light

is dark and dark is light. They'll see
that sweet is sour and sour is sweet.

They won't see the truth.

We should be like the Bereans, noble in
our pursuit of truth. And the only way

to find out what truth is, is use the
final mediator in all this, which is the

Word of God.

Walk about Zion, and go round about her.

Tell the towers thereof.

Mark ye well her bulwarks.

Consider her palaces, that ye may tell
it to the generation following.

Psalm 48 gives us a really strong
pronouncement by God, and it's a really

admonition. We should teach following
generations.

where the temple was, where Zion was,
where the bulwarks are, where the

are, where the boundaries are. The Bible
is very, very strong about telling, and

people haven't done that.

They haven't studied where these things
were. When I read this verse, it really

propelled me on this search to try and
find the true location of the temple, to

find the boundary markers.

But a lot of people are going to have a
hard time accepting it because tradition

is like cement being poured over them.
And in time, it's just calcified and

hardened. And nothing will crack that.
Even the word of God won't even crack it

for them.

Even all this evidence won't crack it
for them.

But I believe we need to follow where
the Bible says because the Bible is

prophetically, contextually, and
historically accurate.

The Bible is God's revelation of himself
to man.

The Bible is the supreme standard by
which we should live, and the supreme

standard, if you want to use it, to find
things lost in Bible history.

And that's what I do. I use the Bible
for the supreme standard in my life and

my research for lost locations.

While the thought of rebuilding a temple
is exciting for a lot of people, in

reality, it's something that we as
Christians should be against.

We know from the Bible that when Jesus
died on the cross and he said, It is

finished, the veil of the temple...

was rent and twain.

Jesus was done with the things of the
temple. They are no longer needed. They

were never able to cleanse sins with the
sacrifice of animals, according to the

book of Hebrews.

And Jesus Christ came and replaced all
those things when he died on the cross.

And so the truth is, in the book of
Acts, what we see...

Are the Jews rejecting Jesus Christ?
They're rebelling against the law of

based on the preaching we see of Paul
and of Stephen and of Peter. They were

calling on the Jews to accept Jesus
Christ and follow that prophet that the

said he would raise up like unto Moses.

And when they rejected Jesus Christ and
remained...

attached to the temple.

That was rebellion against God. And they
were warned about these things in the

book of Hebrews and in the preaching
that we see in the book of Acts. And as

result of their rebellion, eventually
God gave them 40 years, but eventually

brought judgment on Jerusalem and he had
the temple destroyed because he didn't

want them going back to those things. He
wanted them coming to Jesus Christ.

But Christ being come and high priest of
good things to come.

by a greater and more perfect
tabernacle, not made with hands, that is

not of this building, neither by the
blood of goats and calves, but by his

blood he entered in once into the holy
place, having obtained eternal

for us.

For if the blood of bulls and of goats
and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling

unclean sanctifieth to the purifying of
the flesh, how much more shall the blood

of Christ, who through the eternal
Spirit offered himself without spot to

purge your conscience from dead works to
serve the living God.

Animal sacrifices were once deemed
necessary until the perfect and final

sacrifice was made.

This sacrifice was made by Jesus Christ,
who offered himself a ransom for all.

He was the ultimate sacrifice.

He was wounded for our transgressions.
He was bruised for our iniquities. The

chastisement of our peace was upon him,
and with his stripes we are healed.

When Jesus died in our place, he bare
our sins in his own body on the tree.

His blood purifies and cleanses us from
all of our sins.

We are sanctified through the offering
of the body of Jesus Christ once for

The things of the temple were meant to
be temporary. They were intended to

remind Israel of their sinful condition
and their need for a cleansing Savior.

These practices were designed to lead
them towards Jesus Christ and help them

recognize him as the Messiah, who would
be the final sacrifice for their sins.

For the law, having a shadow of good
things to come, and not the very image

the things, can never with those
sacrifices, which they offered year by

continually, make the comers thereunto
perfect.

For it is not possible that the blood of
bulls and of goats should take away

sins.

This is the essence of the entire new
covenant, as the law could never save us

on its own.

The sacrifice of Jesus Christ marked the
end of all sacrifices.

Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh
away the sin of the world.

Jesus Christ is the Lamb of God. His
sacrifice on the cross was the final and

perfect sacrifice that all sacrifices of
the Bible pointed to and represented.

It is through his death, burial, and
resurrection that we can have eternal

if we believe in him.

This is why the temple was completely
destroyed in 70 AD.

There is no more need for the
sacrificial system or the temple.

We, as believers, are now considered the
temple of God.

The subject of the temple location is
something that's a fascinating subject

many reasons, but I think one of the
reasons Christians are interested in

is because we believe, according to
Bible prophecy, that another temple is

to be built someday.

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.

And while a lot of people get excited
about the thought of the rebuilding of a

temple, the truth is, it's actually a
bad thing, because according to Bible

prophecy, it's going to be the
Antichrist, or the beast.

That causes the temple to be rebuilt.
And I believe when he does this, this

be a rebellion against God. God took
those things away. And for 2000 years in

rebellion, they've been trying to bring
them back. And God doesn't want them

brought back. But we believe one day the
world will unite in their rebellion

with the Jews against Jesus Christ.

And we'll rebuild a temple that will not
be a holy temple. It will not be.

The temple of God, it will be the temple
of the beast.

And when that happens, we believe it's
during that time of great tribulation

that God is going to pour his wrath out
on this earth. It will be a united

rejection and rebellion against Jesus
Christ.

Will people ever accept the fact that
the city of David is the place of the

temple? A lot of people won't, no matter
what you say.

But a lot of the young people I'm
talking to in Jerusalem are saying,

cool. I show them the evidence. They go,
yes. A lot of tour guides come up to me

and say, I can't say this to my groups.
But you're right. The temple has to be

in the city of David.

I have scholars from universities coming
up to me and saying, and I'm having

even contrarians come up to me and say,
well, you make a good case there. You

have to have running water.

So what's going to happen in the future
is going to be very exciting because

once the Jews figure out.

the correct location of the temple is in
the city of David, and they own that

land, they could build a temple.

The future holds the mystery of where
the third temple will be built, whether

will be on its traditional site or in
the city of David.

But with the passage of time, the answer
will surely be unveiled as the end of

the world draws nearer.

If we're correct on this, it has huge
implications prophetically.

to when the Antichrist is going to
return, when the temple is going to be

rebuilt. To me, it's fascinating.

To me, I'm seeing the Bible come to life
in ways I've never dreamt possible.

And when I have done research on where
the temple is located in every page I've

turned, it points like a flaming arrow
to the city of David.

It gets me pretty excited. Why is God
allowing this to come to the forefront

now? Why didn't it become real popular
100 years ago? Because the evidence has

been there.

I can only conject that right now we are
in very interesting times and that the

Bible is literally coming to life right
before our eyes.

Hi, I'm Pastor Tommy McMurtry from
Liberty Baptist Church in Rock Falls,

Illinois, and I'm privileged to be
standing here today on the Mount of

the city of Jerusalem.

This is an amazing city with a lot of
great history, but the most important

event in all of history that I want to
talk about happened here 2 ,000 years

where Jesus Christ came and he made a
way to heaven for fallen man.

And I want to tell you right now how you
can know 100 % for sure that you're on

your way to heaven when you die.

Now, the Bible does tell us that some
bad news, and that is in Romans 3, 23,

all have sinned and come short of the
glory of God. It also says in Romans

chapter 3, as it is written, there is
none righteous, no, not one.

holy law and God being the holy God that
he is, he demands payment for sin. And

there is a penalty for sin. The Bible
tells us in Romans 6, 23, it says for

wages of sin is death.

That is a just payment.

And that is what we owe. And when the
Bible talks about death, it's not just

talking about a physical death. It's
talking about a spiritual death. The

says in Revelation and death and hell.

were cast into the lake of fire, which
is the second death.

And you and I, we deserve to die and go
to hell because of our sins.

But thankfully, the Bible also tells us
in John 3 .16, it says, For God so loved

the world that he gave his only begotten
Son, that whosoever believes in him

should not perish, but have everlasting
life.

God sent his perfect righteous son,
Jesus, who lived a completely sinless

because he was born of a virgin. He was
the son of God.

And Jesus Christ died on the cross. Now,
why did he die on the cross? Because

the wages of sin is death. And that
payment had to be made by a righteous

It couldn't be made by us. And if we
die, we'd stay dead for all eternity.

the Bible tells us that three days
later, Jesus.

rose again from the dead.

Now, while he came and he paid that
great price, what does he ask of us?

Well, as I said in Romans 6 .23, it
says, For the wages of sin is death, but

gift of God is eternal life through
Jesus Christ our Lord.

God sent Jesus as a gift to mankind.

And salvation, it's not something that
we can earn through any good works. It's

not something we can earn through any
religious rituals.

The Bible teaches that the way to
salvation is through faith.

The Bible says without faith, it's
impossible to please Him. We can't

with our works, but we can please Him
with our faith.

And the Word of God tells us that God
sent Jesus to pay for the sins of

And He did it. And He died, He was
buried, He rose again. And the Bible

that if we will believe on Him, He will
give us salvation.

We will be imputed.

the righteousness of Christ or credited
with Christ's righteousness instead of

our own.

That's good news, ladies and gentlemen.
In fact, that's our only hope if

salvation is free. We can't earn it. And
our only hope is if salvation is

eternal. And the Bible teaches us that
salvation is eternal.

The area behind me, it's known as the
Temple Mount area. And somewhere in this

area, there used to be a temple where
they offered sacrifices for sins. But

Bible teaches that the blood of bulls
and goats couldn't take away sins. But

Jesus Christ, being a better high priest
and a better sacrifice, he came and he

made a one -time payment for sins. And
the Bible tells us in the book of

that he is able to save them to the
uttermost that come to him. He saves us

he saves us.

forever. Once you're saved, you can
never lose your salvation because our

salvation, it's not about what we do.
It's about what Jesus Christ already

And so in order to receive it, all you
must do is believe and then you can call

on him and ask him for that free gift of
salvation.

The Bible tells us in Romans 10, 13, for
whosoever shall call upon the name of

the Lord shall be saved.

It's that simple.

Now the question is, do you believe it
or do you not believe it? And if you do

believe it, just in the best way you
know how, just acknowledge that you're a

sinful person to God.

Ask him to forgive you and give you
salvation.

And I promise you he'll do that.

Romans 10, 9 says that if thou shalt
confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus

shalt believe in thine heart that God
hath raised him from the dead, thou

be saved.

For with the heart man believeth unto
righteousness, and with the mouth

confession is made known unto salvation.

So I hope you'll do that right now. I
hope you'll put your faith and trust

completely in him. Don't trust in your
works.

Don't trust in anything you do. Trust in
what Jesus Christ did for you here 2

,000 years ago. He died on the cross and
paid for your sins. He loves you and he

wants to give you eternal life
completely free and he'll never take it

Thank God for that precious gift. And
thank you so much for watching. I hope

this was a help to you.

If you believe that message you just
heard, you can call on the Lord right

to receive the gift of eternal life.

Right now, if you'll pray, believing in
your heart, you will be saved.

Just pray, Dear Lord Jesus, I know I am
a sinner and I deserve to pay the

penalty for my own sins, but I don't
want to go to hell when I die.

I want to be with you in heaven.

I believe you died on the cross and rose
again for me.

Please forgive my sins and come into my
heart. I accept your gift of salvation.

I believe in you and trust in you alone
as my Savior to take me to heaven when I

die. Thank you, God, for your love.

Amen.