For decades, one of the preeminent signs that watchers have been waiting to see is a renewed passion among the Jewish people with the Temple Mount. Not the casual political kind. Not the academic kind. A real passion. A return of the Temple to the national imagination. When that returns, the story changes. When that returns, the prophetic clock accelerates.
Now look at what just happened this week.
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The Temple Institute in Jerusalem recently publicly posted the following: “These heavy IDF tractors operating in Gaza are all proudly and wisely raising the flag of the Holy Temple – Beit HaMikdash! During the war our IDF soldiers discovered a picture of the Dome of the Rock in every home they entered. Now the Gazans can see the flag of the Holy Temple, ‘a house of prayer for ALL nations’ (Isa. 56:7) flying high in the Gazan skies!”
This is more than a morale-boosting photo op. This is Temple Mount messaging aimed right at the spiritual stronghold Israel has been confronting for decades.
The Dome of the Rock is not just architecture. It is a spiritual stake planted over the most contested ground on earth. And the Temple Institute is now openly celebrating the image of Temple flags flying over Gaza in direct contrast to pictures of the Dome of the Rock being found inside homes there. That is a spiritual confrontation being made visible on the world stage.
Something is changing inside Israel. For years, the Temple topic was fringe, politically dangerous or socially taboo. But here it is, posted publicly and proudly, tied directly to the war. Here it is being lifted not by politicians or rabbis or activists alone, but by Israel’s soldiers operating tanks and tractors in an active combat zone.
When soldiers start flying Temple flags, you cannot ignore that. That is a signal.
The Temple must exist again. The sacrifices must return. The Scriptures say this will all be literal. And for that to ever happen, Israel must want it. Israel must imagine it. Israel must remember what it is.
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This is not the rebuilding. But this is the remembering. And remembering is where the future becomes inevitable.
James Lasher, a seasoned writer and editor at Charisma Media, combines faith and storytelling with a background in journalism from Otterbein University and ministry experience in Guatemala and the LA Dream Center. A Marine Corps and Air Force veteran, he is the author of The Revelation of Jesus: A Common Man’s Commentary and a contributor to Charisma magazine.
