Next US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth called for new Jewish temple at Al-Aqsa
Middle East Eye: Donald Trump’s choice as the next United States defence secretary has called for the building of a third Jewish temple on the site of Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem.
Pete Hegseth, a former TV show host, was picked by the incoming US President Trump for the role following his election victory earlier this month.
Hegseth has previously touted his avowedly pro-Israel credentials, which derive in part from his fundamentalist Christian beliefs.
Speaking at an event in Jerusalem in 2018 he said there was “no reason why the miracle of re-establishing the temple on the Temple Mount isn’t possible”, using the Israeli name for the raised plateau in occupied East Jerusalem where Al-Aqsa Mosque stands.
“I don’t how it would happen, you don’t know how it would happen, but I know that it could happen – and a step in that process is the recognition that facts and activities on the ground truly matter,” he said at the event, which took place at Jerusalem’s King David Hotel. Read More…
Opinion: Evidently our post on the 3rd Temple on Friday got a lot of attention, there was a definite increase in the average number of views. One of our members commented to me that he is concerned the post will scare people about the president and that Daniel 9:26 tells us the Antichrist will come from revived Rome or today’s European union, and he would come from obscurity.
I am reminded that the name Trump has English and German origins. I am also reminded that Donald Trump is enormously popular in Israel, got a significant Muslim vote on November 5, and survived a wound in the head (ear) on July 13, 2024 in PA (Rev. 13:4).
“And I saw one of his heads as if it had been mortally wounded, and his deadly wound was healed. And all the world marveled and followed the beast.”
But there is no way to say DJT was mortally wounded on July 13, 2024, or that Satan entered him and caused a false resurrection. Also, there is no way to convince anyone that Donald Trump is from obscurity, as is Antichrist Daniel 7:8:
“I was considering the horns (kings), and there was another horn, a little one, coming up among them, before whom three of the first horns were plucked out by the roots.”
Biblical prophetic events cast shadows before them.
In the Prophecy Today broadcast from Saturday, the late Dr. Jimmy DeYoung Sr., teaching about the Temple Mount said, “There will be a Temple there. Once Satan comes to power he will allow the Jewish people to build a temple in Jerusalem, on the Temple Mount. And what does he do? He walks into that temple, sets himself above God because Satan who energizes the Antichrist says I will be worshipped in Jerusalem.”
Talk by non-Jews of building the 3rd Temple and the rise of a powerful world leader is an indication that events are stage-setting for the fulfillment of the next prophetic event: the removal of the Holy Spirit and the rapture of the church He indwells.
“For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only He who now restrains will do so until He is taken out of the way. 8 And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will consume with the breath of His mouth and destroy with the brightness of His coming.”