1. ULDAH MINISTRY
LETTER TO THE
BROTHERS AND
SISTERS IN CHRIST
【THE TEMPLE MOUNT】
The word of the LORD came to me: “Son of man,
take a stick of wood and write on it, ‘Belonging to
Judah and the Israelites associated with him.’ Then
take another stick of wood, and write on it, ‘Ephraim’s
stick, belonging to Joseph and all the house of Israel
associated with him.’ Join them together into one stick
so that they will become one in your hand.
“when your countrymen ask you, ‘won’t you tell us
what you mean by this?’ say to them, ‘This is what the
sovereign LORD says: I will take the Israelites out of
the nations where they have gone. I will gather them
from all around and bring them back into their own
land. I will make them one nation in the land, on the
mountains of Israel. There will be one king over all of
them and they will never again be two nations or be
divided into two kingdoms. They will no longer defile
themselves with their idols and vile images or with any
of their offences, for I will save them from all their
sinful backsliding, and I will cleanse them. They will
be my people, and I will be their God.
“ ‘My servant David will be king over them, and
they will all have one shepherd. They will follow my
laws and be careful to keep my decrees. They will live
in the land I gave to my servant Jacob, the land where
your fathers lived. They and their children and their
children’s children will live there forever, and David
my servant will be their prince forever. I will make a
covenant of peace with them; It will be an everlasting
covenant. I will establish them and increase their
numbers, and I will put my sanctuary among them
forever. My dwelling place will be with them; I will be
their God, and they will be my people. Then the
nations will know that I the LORD make Israel holy,
when my sanctuary is among them for ever.’ ”
EZEKIEL 37:21-28.
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We believe in one GOD, in three
persons; FATHER, SON and
HOLY SPIRIT. We regard the
Bible (both Hebrew Bible and
New Testament) as the only
infallible authoritative
WORD OF GOD.
HULDAH MINISTRY aims to return
to the Word Of God, founded on
Hebrew background and to interpret
it from Hebraic perspective,
acknowledging that Jesus is a Jew
and the Jewish-ness of His teaching
as a continuation from the Hebrew
Bible. The Ministry also aims to put
His teaching into practice, to have a
closer relationship with the Lord,
Jesus Christ, and to regularly have
a Christian fellowship so that this-
worldly kingdom of God will
materialise in the midst of the
followers of Jesus here and now, as
well as earnestly seeking Christ's
Return to establish the otherworldly
Kingdom of God on earth.
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Two thousand years ago, shortly before His last Feast of Passover on earth, Jesus Christ
wept over Jerusalem which He loved, gazing across the Kidron Valley from the Mount of
Olives; ‘if you, even you, had only known on this day what would bring you peace—but now
it is hidden from your eyes. The days will come upon you when your enemies will build an
embankment against you and encircle you and hem you in on every side. They will dash you
to the ground, you and the children within your walls. They will not leave one stone on
another, because you did not recognize the time of God’s coming to you’ (Lk. 19:41-44).
Jesus came to the Jews as their prophesied Messiah but they failed to recognize Him and
rejected Him. The terrible outcome was foretold by Jesus, and in 70 CE, when the Romans
besieged and took Jerusalem, Christ’s predictions were actually fulfilled along with some of
the Old Testament prophets’ prophecies. The Second Temple was torn down brick by brick
and a century later, after Christ’s death, the city of Jerusalem was eventually ploughed flat by
the Roman Emperor Hadrian as Micah prophesied: ‘Therefore because of you, Zion will be
ploughed like a heap of rubble, the temple hill a mound overgrown with thickets’ (Mic.
3:12). Around 132 CE, Emperor Hadrian built the pagan city ‘Aelia Capitolina’ as a Roman
colony on the site of Jerusalem that had been in ruins since 70 CE. Soon after Hadrian’s plans
of rebuilding a temple for a Roman deity, especially Jupiter Capitolinus in Jerusalem, a revolt
broke out under Simeon ben Kosiba. The Romans managed to suppress this Bar Kokhba revolt
(132-135 CE), and Hadrian became determined to erase Judaism from the province.
Circumcision was forbidden, Judea was renamed “Syria Palaestina” and Jews were banned
from entering the city through her gates. According to archeological excavations, the temple
mount was used for Roman pagan worship after the destruction of the Second Temple.
Since then on, enemies of the Jews continue to cause destruction on the Temple Mount so
that the fact that the Temple of the Lord once stood there would be completely eliminated. In
1530 CE, the Ottoman Turks closed up the East Gate of Jerusalem to prevent the Jewish
Messiah from entering as prophesied. However, ironically, such an action only served to fulfill
Ezekiel’s prophecy: ‘Then the man brought me back to the outer gate of the sanctuary,
the one facing east, and it was shut. The LORD said to me, “This gate is to remain shut
because the LORD, the God of Israel, has entered through it’ (Eze. 44:1-2).
For the present the al-Aqsa Mosque sits on the Temple Mount without regard to the
importance of the ancient site of the Jerusalem Temple. The al-Aqsa Mosque was originally
built as a small prayer house by the Rashidun caliph Umar. Later it was rebuilt and expanded
and completed in 705 CE. In 746 the mosque was completely destroyed by earthquake and
rebuilt in 754 and again in 780. In 1033, another earthquake destroyed most of the mosque and
two years later another mosque was built there, which remains to the present-day.
A recent report by “Haarets.com” on 21st Feb. writes the following concerning the
excavations of the Roman city Aelia Capitolina: ‘In the history of Jewish Jerusalem, Aelia
Capitolina is the very embodiment of defeat and destruction - a reminder of the humiliation of the
Second Temple's destruction, which erected a pagan temple in its place. This image has distanced Aelia
Capitolina from the fathers of Israeli archaeology, who were naturally drawn to the ornate, Jewish city
that preceded it. "No one concealed Aelia Capitolina, but we wanted to talk about the Second Temple,"
says Dr. Ofer Sion, of the Antiquities Authority. "Aelia Capitolina was an accursed city, a city from which
we were banished. It was more idealistic to excavate the Second Temple." Almost all of the
archaeologists who study Aelia Capitolina call it "an elusive city." As opposed to the Jerusalem of
Second Temple times that preceded it, Aelia Capitolina has not been entirely unearthed during the many
excavations that have been performed in the city since 1967. The residents of Aelia Capitolina did not
leave written texts like the works of Flavius Josephus during the Second Temple era or of Christian
travelers in the following period. It is known that the Roman city was established by Emperor Hadrian
between 130 and 140 AD. After the Bar Kochba revolt of 135, Jews were forbidden to enter the city. Its
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Jerusalem for 200 years.’
The site under the Temple Mount has been the most sought after spot for archeological
excavation. Any archaeological discoveries therein would without doubt vindicate biblical history
throughout the past 2900 years. There has been, however, a threat over a decade that flagrant
excavation at the hands of the Muslim authority would tear out a significant portion of the
archeological heart of the Mount. “Arutz Sheva” on 24th Feb. reports a warning of plans to unite
all the mosques on the Temple Mount into one: ‘Archaeologist Dr. Eilat Mazar warned on Thursday
about the plans of the Muslim religious authority, the Waqf, for the Temple Mount…Mazar said that for the
past 12 years, the Waqf has constantly built on the Temple Mount in an attempt to implement its final plan:
the establishment of a huge mosque on the Mount. “There is no order there and no one to uphold the law,”
she said. “No one can enforce the law there. Not the Israel Antiquities Authority, not the Nature and Parks
Authority and not the city of Jerusalem. The police are there but they are precluded from enforcing.” The
Temple Mount was left in the hands of the Waqf following Jerusalem’s reunification in 1967, a decision of
then-Defense Minister Moshe Dayan. The Waqf has taken advantage of this and removed every sign of
ancient Jewish presence at the most Jewish holy site. At the entrance, a Waqf sign says, “The Al-Aqsa
Mosque courtyard and everything in it is Islamic property”. Police, in an attempt to appease the Waqf,
discriminate against Jews. They limit the number of Jewish worshippers allowed on the Temple Mount at
one time in order to prevent conflict with Muslim worshippers. They often close the Mount to Jews in
response to Muslim riots – despite evidence that Muslim riots have been planned in advance for the specific
purpose of forcing Jews out. Mazar, a member of a group of Israelis who work to prevent the destruction of
antiquities on the Temple Mount, said that the State Comptroller wrote a report which exposed serious
findings about Israeli authorities’ inability to enforce the law on the Temple Mount, but noted that the report
has remained confidential to this day…She warned that the excavations of antiquities being performed on
the Temple Mount by the Waqf may lead to disaster…Mazar added, “I do not accept the argument that this
could lead to a world war. The Temple Mount is at the center of Jerusalem. We’re not harming the Muslim
rituals. We only want to enforce the law and order so that a disaster can be prevented. The Waqf cannot be
trusted. If something collapses there the Western Wall may also be damaged, because the Temple Mount is
on a round hill and its edges will be in danger.”… “We know that the Waqf’s goal is to unite all one the
mosques, and unfortunately today it is far from being just an illusion,” she said. “We will definitely weep over
this plan in the future”’. Israel has controlled Jerusalem since the 1967 Six-day War. However, the
Temple Mount has remained under the charge of the Muslim religious authority, the “Waqf”. It s
said that the excavation on the site has now begun, and that the dirt and rock from the site have
been dumped in to the stream bed at the bottom of the Kidron Valley. In its 26th Feb. report, the
same Israel National News. com “Arutz Sheva” also discloses the fact that the Israeli
ombudsman’s report on the temple Mount is hidden from the public: ‘For centuries, Jews have
remembered the destruction of their holy Temple by crushing a glass at weddings or leaving unpainted a
patch of wall in their homes. Rabbi Isaac Levy, of the Har Etzion hesder yeshiva and an Israeli rabbinic
expert on the Temple Mount, has told Arutz Sheva that a detailed report on the situation at the Temple
Mount in Jerusalem, written by Israel's ombudsman, has been kept under wraps at the request of Israel's
police department. The report was researched and written at the urgent request of the Committee for the
Prevention of Temple Mount Antiquities' Destruction, a group of archaeologists and scholars concerned
about wanton excavations at the site. The police claim, Rabbi Levy was told by the committee's lawyer,
that its publication might cause rioting and be a danger to the public order…Most of the damage was done
to the underground space which the Crusaders had termed “Solomon’s Stables”. Israeli authorities did not
negate the Wakf's proposal to convert the “stables” into an Islamic praying area, called “massalam”. An
underground chamber with two pillars and an arch from the Second Temple period has already been turned
into a mosque, said Rabbi Levy, and the rumors of plans to unify the mosques so as to cover the entire
outdoor area are true…The Romans reduced the temple to rubble to erase any trace of the troublesome
Jews, and may have built a pagan temple of their own on the site. In Byzantine times, the area housed a
church; the Arabs built their own holy sites on top of those of their defeated enemy. And they now want to

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finish the job by erasing any trace of earlier Jewish life…Twelve years ago, on October 7, 2000, Arabs
armed with pick-axes and hammers attacked Joseph’s tomb, Judaism’s fourth holy site, smashing the stone
structure and ripping it apart, brick by brick. They burned Jewish books and religious articles and
subsequently began to attempt transforming the site into a mosque. The same holds true of the Temple
Mount in Jerusalem, where Israeli governments have failed to stand up to wanton Palestinian acts of
desecration. It’s the greatest crime of all – a religious and cultural crime of historic proportions. UNESCO
cried when the Taliban bombed the two Buddhas in Bamyan. But this time the UN didn’t say a thing. In
Jerusalem, the Arabs are committing an archaeological crime intolerable to any cultured person, regardless
of his political identity. Let’s call it archeological Holocaust’. These articles reveal how cautious the
Israeli Knesset’s State control committee has been to release the report for security reasons, in
fear of possible social and political ramifications.
Just across the Kidron Valley from the Temple Mount, Jesus gave the so-called “Olivet
Discourse” on the Mount of Olives, which all three of the synoptic gospels record, and in which
He foretold of the end time events leading up to His return, so-called “His Second Coming”.
Jesus grieved at what would happen to His beloved city Jerusalem, yet, He gave an assured hope
of His return in the future to His puzzled disciples, when he will once again be worshipped in His
holy city. His prophecies about the ruin on the Temple Mount have so far been kept to this day:
‘O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I
have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but
you were not willing. Look, your house is left to you desolate. For I tell you, you will not see me
again until you say, “blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord’ (Mt. 23:37-39). The
quote from Ezekiel at the beginning of this letter is a glorious prophecy of the messianic rule on
earth by Jesus Christ. It is the time when God Himself will reign over the earth from the centre of
the world, Jerusalem, as the Lord foretold of this glorious day to Ezekiel: ‘Son of man, this is the
place of my throne and the place for the soles of my feet. This is where I will live among the
Israelites forever. The house of Israel will never again defile my holy name— neither they nor
their kings—by their prostitution and the lifeless idols of their kings at their high places’ (Eze.
43:7). We, believers of Jesus Christ are awaiting this day when He comes back again to complete
His promises, while Jews are anxiously awaiting their Messiah’s arrival as well. The Greek term
of His ‘coming’ is ‘parousia’, which is most frequently used for the return of Jesus Christ in the
New Testament. Christ’s future arrival from heaven would convey the idea of ‘parousia’ and this
word signifies the event of His arrival but not the process of coming. In the Olivet Discourse
recorded in Matthew 24, Mark 13 and Luke 21, Christ taught His disciples a picture of what will
happen between his departure and His coming. What He mentioned first was a warning of
deception in the last days, which the apostles also reflected in their teachings by warnings of
deception and false teaching in the church. Next, Christ warned about the hearing of wars and the
rumours of wars, ethnic groups fighting against other ethnic groups, and also natural disasters;
famines and earthquakes in various places taking place. But He also taught His disciples not to be
alarmed by these because these things must happen as the ‘beginning of birth-pains’ but the end
is still to come. Today, the ‘birth pains’ are happening all around the world, especially rumours of
wars in the Middle East in everyday news. This concept of birth pains is from the Hebrew Bible,
where the Messiah’s arrival is described as Israel “giving birth” to the Kingdom of God. Isaiah
foresaw the moment of the birth of Zion in a day: ‘…Can a county be born in a day or a nation
be brought forth in a moment? Yet no sooner is Zion in labour than she gives delivery?” says
the LORD… ’ (Isaiah 66:7-11). Isaiah’s illustration shows how quickly the end will be ushered
in once that period of birth-pains ends. Christ further taught in His Olivet Discourse, that there
will then be the so-called ‘Great Tribulation’; persecution and death, great falling of faith in
Christ among believers, appearance of the false prophet and the false Christ, and the increase of
wickedness. Then, after the final proclamation of the eternal gospel of Christ in the whole world,
the end will come.