href=”http://www.goarticles.com/cgi-bin/showa.cgi?C=54040″>Wor ldwide Church of God members could understand how Ambassador Auditorium, a concert hall in Pasadena, California, could formerly serve as “God’s House,” how can some be so proud and stubborn and blind to fail to RECOGNIZE that God would place His Name where He only and always has: on the TEMPLE Mount! (Zechariah 1:16). God says He’ll accept the Temple, so shouldn’t we? (Haggai 1:8).
It ought to be understood that since GOD has restored Israel to the Land (part of the prophesied restoration and process of redemption of the Land and lives of Israel), Israel must build the Temple. After all, IT IS A COMMAND. “And let them make me a Sanctuary that I may dwell among them” (Exodus 25:8). God has never revoked that command for NATIONAL ISRAEL! (Malachi 4:4). It is the greatest national command, the grandest mitva that is woefully ignored!
The Temple serves as a unifying national symbol, a central focus for the knowledge and worship of the true God (Micah 4:2). It encourages us to remember to keep the biblical fes tivals of God, and to send representatives to Jerusalem to celebrate before the LORD, following the letter and the spirit of the Law and the Prophets (Deuteronomy 16:16; Zechariah 14:16).
But how can Israel reclaim the Temple Mount without starting a war? Presently that most holy site is