"The Feast of Unleavened Bread shall you keep. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, in the time of the month Abib; for in the month Abib you came out from Egypt. ... Thrice in the year shall all your males appear before the L-rd G-d, the G-d of Israel. For I will cast out the nations before you, and enlarge your borders; nor shall any man desire your land, when you shall go up to appear before the L-rd your G-d thrice in the year." (Exodus 34:18,23,24)

This special pilgrimage will be undertaken at a very critical time in the time of the redemption of the people of Israel. It is a time of trouble in Israel, the Middle East, and all over the world when almost all nations have a desire for the land of Israel, Jerusalem, and the Temple Mount, They want to take them away from Israel and give them to the most evil enemies of the G-d and people of Israel, the so-called "Palestinians". The special significance of our pilgrimage to the Temple Mount is the only straight answer to this evil desire of all the nations: the rebuilding of the house of G-d and the pilgrimage to His holy hill will prevent the desire of all of them for the land of Israel exactly as G-d told us in His Word.

"For I will cast out the nations before you, and enlarge your borders; nor shall any man desire your land, when you shall go up to appear before the L-rd your G-d thrice in the year." (Exodus 34:24)

This will be the main call and message of the Faithful Movement to the Israeli Government during this year’s pilgrimage: rebuild the Temple immediately! This is the only answer to the pressure, the attacks, the wars, and evil desire of all the nations against the land of Israel. A real peace and love between the nations will only come when Israel fulfils this, her endtime task exactly as G-d commanded her.

"But in the last days it shall come to pass, that the mountain of the house of the L-rd shall be established in the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills; and people shall flow to it. And many nations shall come, and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the L-rd, and to the house of the G-d of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths; for Torah shall go forth from Zion, and the word of the L-rd from Jerusalem. And he shall judge between many peoples, and shall decide concerning far away strong nations; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, nor shall they learn war any more. But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree; and none shall make them afraid; for the mouth of the L-rd of hosts has spoken it." (Micah 4:1-4)

As we said, this pilgrimage will take place at a very special and prophetic time in the endtime history of Israel. Even the current troubles are a sign that time is short and we are very close to the rebuilding of the Temple and the coming of Mashiach ben David. It was prophesied and now is coming to pass stage by stage. The prophet Ezekiel shared these stages with us. In chapter 37 he prophesied the rebirth of Israel in the endtimes in which we are now living and the regathering of the Jewish People back to the Promised Land. This happened in 1948 and continues up to the present time. In chapter 38 and 39 Ezekiel prophesied the troubles which would occur in Israel when all the nations will come to take away the Land, Jerusalem, and the Temple Mount from Israel. The G-d of Israel will defeat them and judge them on the mountains of Jerusalem and the Land. In chapters 40 to 46 Ezekiel prophesied the building of the Third Temple and the renewal of the worship in the Temple. Ezekiel is not the only prophet who prophesied about the time in which we are now living. They all placed the rebuilding of the Temple at the center and as a key event in the redemption of Israel and then of all the world.

The endtime movement of G-d for this major event and His vessel is The Temple Mount and Land of Israel Faithful Movement. The pilgrimage and march of the Movement during this Pesach — the holiday of the redemption of Israel — will be directed toward the immediate fulfilment of the prophesies of Ezekiel.

On early Friday morning, the members of the Movement will go out to the fields of Israel to cut the Omer and to carry it as an offering to the G-d of Israel. This will be done exactly as G-d commanded Israel to do in the Torah, even as our forefathers did in the time of the First and Second Temples.

"And the L-rd spoke to Moses, saying, Speak to the people of Israel, and say to them, When you come to the land which I give to you, and shall reap its harvest, then you shall bring a sheaf of the first fruits of your harvest to the priest; And he shall wave the sheaf before the L-rd, to be accepted for you; on the next day after the sabbath the priest shall wave it. And you shall offer that day when you wave the sheaf a male lamb without blemish of the first year for a burnt offering to the L-rd. And the meal offering of it shall be two tenth deals of fine flour mixed with oil, an offering made by fire to the L-rd for a sweet savour; and the drink offering of it shall be of wine, the fourth part of a hin. And you shall eat nor bread, nor parched grain, nor green ears, until the same day that you have brought an offering to your G-d; it shall be a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings." (Leviticus 23:9-14)

This exciting event was renewed by The Temple Mount and Land of Israel Faithful Movement after the liberation of the Temple Mount in 1967. This important commandment is fulfilled again after almost 2,000 years during which it could not be done because of the destruction of the Temple and the exile of Israel. When the Faithful Movement undertake the pilgrimage march to the Temple Mount on Sunday, 20 April, the fourth day of Pesach, the Omer will be carried to the Temple Mount to offer it to the G-d of Israel on His holy hill as an important stage leading up to the rebuilding of the Temple.

The Faithful Movement will also carry a large Biblical model of the Temple to the Temple Mount to say to G-d that we are ready to build the Temple and as a message to the Israeli people and all the world. In front of the location of the First, Second, and Third Temples we shall pray the Pesach festival prayers. We will also pray for the immediate rebuilding of the Temple. In front of the Holy of Holies we shall swear faithfulness to the G-d of Israel, to the purification of His holy mountain and Jerusalem, and for His complete and undivided land that He gave to Israel in an eternal covenant. We shall swear faithfulness to the holy cause and to the great mission to rebuild His holy Temple and to make the land and people of Israel a Biblical land and a Biblical nation with a mission for all the nations. We shall pray for the endtime redemptional godly event which is now taking place in Israel and for its completion in our lifetime to be an opening for the redemption of all mankind. We shall pray for a real godly peace in Israel and all the world. We shall pray for all the dear and wonderful friends of the Faithful Movement and Israel who are standing with us with such faithfulness and devotion. We shall bless them from the most holy place in the world in the name of all the people of Israel and the members of the Faithful Movement. After almost 2,000 years again will be heard on the Temple Mount: "If I forget you, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning. If I do not remember you, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I do not set Jerusalem above my highest joy." (Psalm 137:5,6) However, the great difference is that it will now be sworn in a time of redemption very close to the great day of the rebuilding of the Temple and no longer at a time of destruction. It will be a statement in front of the G-d of Israel and all the world that we are ready for this great moment.

Later we shall march to all the gates and around the walls of the Temple Mount as Joshua did at Jericho blowing shofars and silver trumpets and praying that the walls of hatred will fall and that G-d will bless us to rebuild the godly walls of holiness and love. The flags of the Temple and the Star of David will be carried by the marchers and Biblical songs will be played sung by Levites. It will again be a Biblical endtime event as an opening for the worship in the Third Temple which will soon be rebuilt. Friends from outside Israel will march together with us who will come to fulfil the prophesy - "My House will be a House of Prayer for all nations." (Isaiah56) The presence of G-d will be with us on His holy mountain.

[ Published: 14 April 2003 ]