Israel is the center of the world, in Israel Jerusalem is the center, and in Jerusalem, The Temple Mount is the center, which makes it the center of the entire world.

It's a Spiritual thing, that is why the fight about the most expensive real-estate is so intense!

The Temple Mount is the only thing that is occupied in Israel!

This city that was Divinely set apart to represent the great mercy and peace of our Creator with mankind, has suffered what has been a seemingly endless struggle to live up to its Divine Mandate, to be a city of peace and prayer for all nations.

She has been the subject of violence, siege, destruction and rebuilding, only to see this cycle repeated once again. Two magnificent Temples were built, only to see them destroyed by the Babylonians (Where modern Iraq is), and the Romans.

And following the Bar Kochba revolt that ended in 135 CE, Emperor Hadrian ordered Jerusalem to be gutted of all governmental power, her people driven out, and the city renamed as “Aelia Capitolina,” to honor Jupiter, and Israel was renamed “Syria Palestina,” which means “Land of the Philistines.”

Such insults endured right through the time of the British Mandate period, in which the entire land of Israel was simply referred to as “Palestine.” The ironic truth about this spiteful moniker is the Jewish people in the land were the ORIGINAL people to be referenced as “Palestinians!”

This shows how the contempt of anti-Semitism’s spirit was conferred upon the Jewish people to bear the name of their adversaries, who existed in the prior millennia when Scripture was being written to bear witness of Israel’s legitimacy, and God’s sovereign hand upon her people.

Despite these insults, the Jewish people have persevered, with some that remained in the land, and those who were dispersed, all the while longing to return to their homeland. Given the persecution over the past 2,000 years, along with the horrors of the Holocaust in Europe, Israel’s story of the Jewish people becoming an independent, self-governing nation was restored on May 14, 1948.

Jerusalem – An Eternal Struggle for an Eternal City