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How does the Bible, and particularly the New Testament, look at the Temple sacrifices? The answer might surprise you. Christians sometimes object to the thought of the Jewish People controlling the Temple Mount because they are wary of Temple sacrifices being reinstituted. Christians who otherwise support Israel are often uneasy about this idea. “Aren’t sacrifices contrary to the New Testament and to Jesus’ atoning death once and for all?” they wonder. The whole issue of the

We have established Jesus’ strong and deep affinity for Jerusalem and the Temple. However, maybe one of the strongest proofs of this holy bond is what we read about his disciples, after his ascension. Luke ends his gospel by writing: “Then he led them out as far as Bethany, and lifting up his hands he blessed them. While he blessed them, he parted from them and was carried up into heaven. And they worshiped him and returned to Jerusalem with great joy, and were continually in

Christians sometimes object to the thought of the Jewish People having sovereignty over the Temple Mount because the Jewish People might rebuild the Temple. In some popular Christian thought, a rebuilt temple in Jerusalem is somehow the ”temple of antichrist” (God forbid). That, however, is not correct according to the New Testament and biblical teaching. First of all, Cry For Zion is focused on Israel exercising its full, legal sovereignty and guaranteeing Jewish freedom on

Whatever Christian tradition of interpretation one subscribes to, one thing is clear: Jesus loved the Temple Mount—Mt Zion—where the holy House of God stood. It is well known that Jesus called it his “Father’s House.” His disciples even said that zeal for God’s Temple consumed him, and, like the weeping prophet Jeremiah, Jesus wept when he foresaw its destruction. “For Christians, as for Jews, the ‘status quo’ which forbids them to pray on the Temple Mount, is rooted in the [