More and More People are beginning to realize that the so-called "Temple Mount", is actually Fortress Antonia. It housed about 6000 Troops and 4000 Support Staff. Which does make the Jews praying at the Western Wall, praying at the wrong location, as it is actually the western wall of Fortress Antonia. How can the Jews be so WRONG? After being in exile for about over a 1000 years, they came back to Jerusalem in 1212 A.D.
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- 1212: 300 Rabbis from England and France settle in Jerusalem.
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They then formed a Sanhedrin, to decide Where the TEMPLE was Located, and Mount Zion was located. There was FOUR LOCATIONS in question as the being the true Location of the TEMPLE, so they had to VOTE and the vote fell on the Wrong Location, which is how the so-called Temple Mount got PICKED.
Mt. Zion was another mistake, as it was due South of the Al-Aqsua Mosque and they absolutely forgot the MOUNT MORIAH was the name of the entire Ridge, from north of the Dome of the Rock, all the way south of the Pool of Siloam.
They had another heated debate on the MOUNT ZION was located. Yet, again they picked the WRONG Location. Mt. Zion is actually was where the TEMPLE Was LOCATED, smack dab in the middle of Mt. Moriah. SO YES, Solomon, built it on Mt. Moriah, and specifically on the single Peak of Mt. Zion, which was just a flat top wooded Hill with LARGE Threshing Floor on top.
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The man Ornan was farming this probably a wheat crop, with 4 Grown Sons. Which tells me, an ex-Nebraska Farmboy, THEY HAD A BIG FIELD. So the most likely type of Threshing Floor, was the DOUBLE, with a BEDROCK BASE as in the example above, the best BASE for a THRESHING FLOOR. It does not say it was a DOUBLE, but from my own estimation, that would be the most like. GOD INTENDED Solomon to build a TEMPLE plus the Complex there, and that size was needed to build it all.
1 Chronicles 21:15-27 (ASV)
15 And God sent an angel unto Jerusalem to destroy it: and as he was about to destroy, Jehovah beheld, and he repented him of the evil, and said to the destroying angel, It is enough; now stay thy hand. And the angel of Jehovah was standing by the threshing-floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
16 And David lifted up his eyes, and saw the angel of Jehovah standing between earth and heaven, having a drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth, fell upon their faces.
17 And David said unto God, Is it not I that commanded the people to be numbered? even I it is that have sinned and done very wickedly; but these sheep, what have they done? let thy hand, I pray thee, O Jehovah my God, be against me, and against my father's house; but not against thy people, that they should be plagued.
18 Then the angel of Jehovah commanded Gad to say to David, that David should go up, and rear an altar unto Jehovah in the threshing-floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
19 And David went up at the saying of Gad, which he spake in the name of Jehovah.
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And Ornan turned back, and saw the angel; and his four sons that were with him hid themselves. Now Ornan was threshing wheat.
21 And as David came to Ornan, Ornan looked and saw David, and went out of the threshing-floor, and bowed himself to David with his face to the ground.
22 Then David said to Ornan, Give me the place of this threshing-floor, that I may build thereon an altar unto Jehovah: for the full price shalt thou give it me, that the plague may be stayed from the people.
23 And Ornan said unto David, Take it to thee, and let my lord the king do that which is good in his eyes: lo, I give
thee the oxen for burnt-offerings, and the threshing instruments for wood, and the wheat for the meal-offering; I give it all.
24 And king David said to Ornan, Nay; but I will verily buy it for the full price: for I will not take that which is thine for Jehovah, nor offer a burnt-offering without cost.
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So David gave to Ornan for the place six hundred shekels of gold by weight.
26 And David built there an altar unto Jehovah, and offered burnt-offerings and peace-offerings, and called upon Jehovah; and he answered him from heaven by fire upon the altar of burnt-offering.
27 And Jehovah commanded the angel; and he put up his sword again into the sheath thereof.
So the 5 grown men working would have the ability to manage more than one Threshing Floor, or a VERY BIG ONE.
PLUS look at the PRICE DAVID PAID. Already FLATTENED, Ready to BUILD upon it, the entire TEMPLE COMPLEX. THEREFORE, GOD CHOSE THE PERFECT GROUND TO BUILD ON. AND THE so called TEMPLE MOUNT is not IT, as there is not LEVEL enough ground to build a THRESHING FLOOR.
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Right picture, Steps led no where, so it was walled up by the Ottoman Turks.
So I Painted in the duo Doorways, to show where they could be:
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Above: Artist depiction of Jesus near the judgment seat of Pontius Pilate on the steps between the Temple and the imposing walls of Fortress Antonia, his Roman guards waiting below. To avoid defilement on Pesach, his disciples did not enter the fortress (John 18;28). It was from these same steps that the Apostle Paul addressed an angry crowd in Acts 21:34-40. Image, top left: Jesus on Trial at Fortress Antonia. Pilate’s seat of judgment was elevated, and located just outside the Praetorium in Fort Antonia. Here Pilate interrogates as members of the Sanhedrin look on. Illustration by Balage Balogh
https://popular-archaeology.com/article/antonia-the-fortress-jerusalem-forgot/
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Two more brief things, Under the stair cases, was an entrance to the TENTH Legion Stables.
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Jeremiah 26:18 (HCSB)
. . . ‘This is what the LORD of Hosts says: Zion will be plowed like a field, Jerusalem will become ruins, and the temple mount a forested hill.’
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