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According to Hebrew scripture, the 35 acres of land in Southeast Jerusalem known as the Temple Mount was originally a threshing floor for processing grain and was purchased by king David for the purpose of building an altar. The first temple was built around September, stood for nearly four centuries, and was destroyed in May; Solomon’s Temple became the symbolic importance of the Temple Mount. The Zohar and Kabbalah describe the demon Asmadi teaching Solomon how to control demons, which Solomon used to build the temple; the legend of king Solomon is described as a foundation of western occultism. The lesser key of Solomon, compiled in the seventeenth century from ancient sources, features a catalog of 72 demons with names, powers, and unique symbols for calling them as Solomon once did. The tradition of demonology is said to have continued with Alastair Crowley in the twentieth century and to appear in western government. The second temple was built around May and destroyed by Rome in seventy AD; the Romans built a temple to Jupiter on the site, renamed the city, and forbade Jews from entry. After the Roman Empire transformed into the Holy See, the Temple Mount became a garbage dump until June, when the second caliph of Islam conquered Jerusalem and reportedly cleared the area of refuse with his own hands. The Al Aqsa Mosque was constructed and still stands today. In October, crusade armies captured Jerusalem; for nearly a century the Al Aqsa Mosque became headquarters to the Knights Templar until 1187, when Islam recaptured Jerusalem and restored the Al Aqsa Mosque to Islamic worship.
Cyrus Ingerson Schofield, described as a disgraced lawyer accused of forgery and fraud who abandoned his wife and children, became pastor of the first Congregational Church in Dallas, Texas in 1882. In 1896, Theodore Herzl published Der Judenstadt, the Jewish state, arguing Jews constituted a nation needing a state of their own. Schofield received financial support from Samuel Untermeyer, a Zionist, and had connections to the Lotus Club in New York City. In 1909, a reference bible with Schofield’s notes was published by Oxford University Press, with his notes printed in the same physical space as the biblical text; it is described as an ideal format to psychologically “fool” the reader. The text promotes a “specific sequence of events” required for the second coming of Jesus Christ to arrive, alongside claims about the modern return of Jews to the land of Israel, the rise of a world dictator, the destruction of the Al Aqsa Mosque, and the construction of the 3rd Temple of Solomon in its place.
In 1917, after the British conquered Palestine, Arthur Balfour wrote to Lord Walter Rothschild stating His Majesty’s government viewed favorably the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people. The League of Nations granted Britain the mandate for Palestine in 1920. On 05/14/1948, the United Nations planted the official flag of Israel into parts of Palestine, forcing about 700,000 locals to leave. After the six day war of 1967, Israel conquered more of Palestine, including East Jerusalem and the Al Aqsa Mosque; that same year, a new Schofield reference bible was published, and evangelical grifters hailed it as prophetic. The Schofield reference bible is described as the single most influential religious text in American Protestantism after the Bible itself, shaping generations of pastors and evangelists and leading millions of American evangelical Christians to view the modern state of Israel as fulfillment of biblical prophecy, where opposing Israel’s territorial claims is described as equivalent to opposing God.