April 2013: Third Jerusalem Temple imminent!

The First and Second temples, also known as Solomon and Herod’s temples were located on a piece of land referred to as the Temple Mount. This is the place where Almighty God chose to let the Divine Presence rest, where God gathered the dust to make Adam and the place where the ‘binding of Isaac’ took place.
Both temples were destroyed on the same day of the month on the Jewish calendar, the 9^th day of Av - albeit 656 years apart! Solomon’s Temple was far more impressive aesthetically and housed the Ark of the Covenant and thus the Shekinah or Divine Presence.
It is important to keep in mind then that since 70 AD (that’s a whopping 1943 years by now) there has been no Jewish temple. The closest Jewish people now get is to pray at the Kotel or Western Wall which is a remnant of the ancient wall that surrounded the Jewish temple’s courtyard. The Temple Mount proper was liberated from Jordanian control in the Six-Day War of 1967, but then returned by Israel to the custody of the Muslim Waqf (Jordan).
Israel, these days, is a daily feature in world news and it is hard to believe that a mere 70 years ago the State of Israel did not even exist! If someone wrote an article in 1930 stating that Israel will be a state or nation again, it would have been hard to believe. Now in 2013 and 65 years later, there remains an important outstanding matter for the Jewish people: the rebuilding of what would be the Third Temple.

http://www.news24.com/MyNews24/Third-Jerusalem-Temple-imminent-20130408