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The Temple Mount in Jerusalem is the most disputed and important piece of land in the entire world. Jews believe that the Third Temple will be built there. This of course creates a tremendous problem at the Temple Mount is occupied by Islam. The Dome of the Rock presently sits in this location.

The fact that there are Jews moving towards the restoration of Temple Worship in Jerusalem provides another sign we are in the last times. According to the Bible, the Third Temple will be constructed. While the Jews believe this is necessary for their Messiah to come, scripture reveals the Third Temple that will actually be the location where the Antichrist proclaims his divinity to the whole world.

It seems the time frame for these events is just around the corner.

July 2 - Jews inch towards their Temple

Article: Israel And The Last Days

Another step on the long road towards the restoration of Temple Worship in Jerusalem was reportedly taken Monday with the opening of a new workshop in which robes will be manufactured for practicing priests. According to a report in The Jerusalem Post Wednesday, a number of Kohanim, (Jews in the Cohen family line who trace their ancestry back to Aaron, the first High Priest) have already had measurements taken for the biblically-described vestments.

The new workshop was inaugurated by the Temple Institute which is situated in Jerusalem's old City, just a stone's throw from the Temple Mount - the site of the first and second temples and the place where, according to the Bible, the Third Temple will be built to welcome the Messiah.

Over the years the institute has worked to create - in strict accordance with the biblical pattern - many of the implements required for Temple worship, including the golden seven-branched Menorah, the Table for the Show Bread, and the Breast-Plate, Crown and Robe for the High Priest.

Fully one-third of all the commandments handed down to the Jews through Moses cannot be kept without a functioning Temple, said the Post.

Many Jews (and a growing number of Christians) believe that just as God is keeping His millennia-old promise to reconstitute the scattered people of Israel in their ancient homeland, He will follow through on His pledge to restore the Temple they have been without since Rome razed it to the ground nearly 2000 years ago.

This divine design will not be thwarted despite the fact that Islamic control extends over the Temple Mount to this day, and while Muslims the world over threaten violence and mayhem if the Jews try to build on the site.