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Gershon Salomon praying the Hallel prayers on the Temple Mount.

1,934 years after the Temple has lain in ruins and the Jewish people have been exiled, The Temple Mount and Land of Israel Faithful Movement made a pilgrimage and marched to the Temple Mount during Pesach 2004. They brought with them an Omer offering to the G-d of Israel as well as ground from Gaza, Samaria, and Judea, symbolising the deep connection of these Biblical areas of the land of Israel to the focus of the land, on the Temple Mount, and to all the other part of the Promised Land. This was done at a time when the Arab and Islamic nations, as well as most of the world, is in the midst of a campaign to take these holy areas of the land of Israel turn them into a foreign 'Palestinian' state of terrorists and murderers.

On Monday, 5 April 2004, a few hours before the start of the Feast of Pesach, a symbolic Passover sacrifice was performed on the Mt. of Olives in front of the Holy of Holies, the location of which was so close and was seen so clearly from the place where the sacrifice was performed. Despite the fact that it was a symbolic sacrifice — in accordance with Biblical law a full sacrifice can only be held on the Temple Mount — it again renewed the most important event of the Pesach holiday that our forefathers were strict to hold on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem thousands of years until the Temple was destroyed in 70 CE. Even after the destruction they made efforts to perform the Passover sacrifice on the Temple Mount.

Through these exciting events, endtime prophecy again became a reality on the most holy place in the world: the heart, soul, and focus of the G-d and people of Israel. For so many years the Temple Mount has been separated from its children — the people of Israel — and the Shekinah has mourned, longed for, and missed them so much. So the children of Israel again made a pilgrimage as their forefathers did.

Faithful members in front of the Western Wall on their way to the Temple Mount.

After more than three years during which the Temple Mount was closed, the Israeli Government re-opened it for our march and the Faithful went up onto the Temple Mount with great excitement in their hearts and tears in their eyes, feeling so strongly the presence of the Shekinah of the G-d of Israel. In front of the place of the First and Second Temples we felt so deeply the significance of the godly endtimes in which we are now living in Israel. We felt that time is short and that the march of the endtime Faithful Movement of G-d is the march of the prophetic endtime plans and vision of G-d towards their fulfilment in our lifetime.

The main message of this march was that the Arab Islamic foreigners and enemies who are still on the Temple Mount are now experiencing their last days on the most holy place in Israel. Not they, their allies, nor anybody else in the world, can prevent the march of the G-d and people of Israel back to the place where the house of G-d will soon be rebuilt. This will be the climax of the major godly endtime event which has been taking place in Israel before the eyes of all the nations since 1948 when the State of Israel was reestablished in the same land of the covenant by major godly miracles.

Many thousands of Israelis in front of the Western Wall in the midst of the priestly blessing and the pilgrimage of the Temple Mount Faithful Movement.

In front of the holy mountain we could feel the presence of G-d so strongly calling on everyone of us and Israel saying:

"And the angel who talked with me said to me, Proclaim, saying: Thus says the L-rd of hosts; I am zealous for Jerusalem and for Zion with a great zeal. And I am very much displeased with the nations that are at ease; for I was only a little angry, and they furthered the affliction. Therefore thus says the L-rd: I have returned to Jerusalem with mercies; my house shall be rebuilt in it, says the L-rd of hosts, and a measuring line shall be stretched over Jerusalem. Proclaim further, saying, Thus says the L-rd of hosts; My cities shall again overflow with prosperity; and the L-rd shall yet comfort Zion, and shall yet choose Jerusalem." (Zechariah 1:14-17)

This exciting and holy event was held by The Temple Mount and Land of Israel Faithful Movement on the 17 Nissan 5764, the third day of Pesach, (Thursday, 8 April 2004), beginning at 9:00 AM. Actually, the event started a day earlier on Wednesday when members of the Movement went to the fields of Israel to cut the Omer, the first grain, to fulfil one of the most important commandments of G-d in the Torah which our forefathers did for thousands of years as an important part of Temple worship at Pesach.

"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" (Leviticus 23:9-11a)

Yehudit Shish from the Movement youth cutting the grain for the Omer. The scene is like a Biblical scene.	Yoel Adler from the Movement's leadership cutting the grain for the Omer.	Ze'ev bar Tov from the Movement's leadership cutting the grain for the Omer.
Cutting the Omer from one of the fields of Judea to bring it as an offering during the march of the Faithful to the Temple Mount during Pesach.

Yehuditi Shish collecting earth from the area of Judaea to scatter it on the Temple Mount symbolizing the deep link between Judea, Samaria, Gaza, the Temple Mount, and all the land of Israel.

The grain which we cut was very beautiful - tall and full. This was as a result of the blessings of G-d on the land of Israel and a winter with much rain as a gift from G-d. It reminded us of the situation of the land in the Biblical times and the blessings of G-d on the land to be a land of milk and honey. This was after almost 2,000 years of destruction and foreign control in the land when the land became like a wilderness because of the law of G-d — which said that the land can be a land of milk and honey — only when Israel dwells in the land. Now when Israel has been brought back to the land by G-d , the land has again become a land of milk and honey. We were so grateful to bring the first fruits of this blessing as an offering to G-d on His holy mountain in Jerusalem. This is an offering of thanks, appreciation, and love. On Thursday morning the Omer was carried in baskets to the Temple Mount. The earth that we brought from Judea, Samaria, and Gaza was scattered around the holy site of G-d. This symbolised the deep connection between the G-d, the people, and the land of Israel. This renewed Biblical event moved the hearts of everyone.

The model of the Temple surrounded by Faithful members on the way to the Western Gate of the Temple Mount.

The model of the Temple which was carried to the Temple Mount and the Western Wall and the Western gate of the Temple Mount was another exiting event. The message was that the Temple should immediately be rebuilt. We brought the model with us to this holy place as an opening for the fulfilment of the desire of 1,934 years of longing by the Jewish people and many other friends of the G-d and people of Israel all over the world. The model was surrounded by many pilgrims who showed a deep interest with regard to the beauty of the building and the worship in it. We shared with the pilgrims that we had already started to prepare the architectural plans for the Third Temple and that large cornerstones are ready for the start of the building process.

In front of the Western Gate of the Temple Mount, with our faces towards the site of the Holy of Holies, like our forefathers we again swore faithfulness to the G-d of Israel, His holy mountain, and Jerusalem.

"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)

Priests of the Faithful Movement covered with the flags of the Temple, praying the priestly blessing on the pilgrims of the Faithful in front of the Western Gate of the Temple Mount.

Like the pilgrims in the time of the First and Second Temples we prayed the Hallel Psalms (Psalms 113-118). These exciting Psalms were also heard in front of the other gates of the Temple Mount by the pilgrims from the Faithful Movement and the other pilgrims who joined them when we went around the gates and walls of the Temple Mount. This was accompanied by the Levites who played the music as in the times of the Temple. This was a special moment when the Shekinah heard the pilgrims praying and singing:

"I will offer to you the sacrifice of thanksgiving, and will call upon the name of the L-rd. I will pay my vows to the L-rd now in the presence of all his people, In the courts of the L-rd's house, in the midst of you, O Jerusalem. Hallelujah!" (Psalms 116;17-19)

The Pesach pilgrimage was an important stage in the campaign of the Movement for the rebuilding of the Temple. One month from now, on 19 May, the Temple Mount Faithful Movement will again march from Ammunition Hill — where many Israeli soldiers gave their lives for the liberation of Jerusalem and the Temple Mount — to the Temple Mount on the day commemorating the liberation of Jerusalem in 1967. Time is short and we know that we have to continue to conduct our holy campaign even more intensively and to bring to pass the prophetic and godly endtime revolution on the holy mountain of G-d and to remove the pagan foreigners from the site of the Holy of Holies and from all the holy mountain of Zion. The Jerusalem Day march will be another important stage in this holy campaign. We shall do everything to ensure that the exciting prophecy of Isaiah will soon become a reality on the Temple Mount and in Jerusalem:

"Awake, awake; put on your strength, O Zion; put on your beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city; from now on there shall no more come to you the uncircumcised and the unclean. Shake yourself from the dust; arise, and sit down, O Jerusalem; loose yourself from the bands of your neck, O captive daughter of Zion. ... How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him who brings good news, who announces peace; who brings good news of good, who announces salvation; who says to Zion, Your God reigns! The voice of your watchmen is heard; together shall they sing; for they shall see eye to eye, when the L-rd returns to Zion. Break forth into joy, sing together, you ruins of Jerusalem; for the L-rd has comforted his people, he has redeemed Jerusalem. The L-rd has made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations; and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God." (Isaiah 52:1,2,7-10)

Everyone is called on to participate in this historic event and to march with the Temple Mount Faithful Movement to the Temple Mount through the historical streets of Jerusalem. We are living at a very godly and exciting time in the history of Israel. Expect major godly events in the near future.

Gershon Salomon being interviewed by the local and world media, sharing the goals of the Pesach march to the Temple Mount and the need to immediately rebuild the Third Temple.

Gershon Salomon leading the Pesach march of the Temple Mount Faithful Movement up to the Temple Mount.

[ Published: 19 April 2004 ]