Pete Hegseth floats third Jewish temple in unearthed speech: 'It could happen'

Secretary of Protection Pete Hegseth floated the potential of a 3rd Jewish temple on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, in response to a just lately unearthed interview.

“There’s no motive why the miracle of the re-establishment of the temple on the Temple Mount isn’t attainable,” Hegseth mentioned throughout a 2018 speech on the Arutz Sheva convention in Jerusalem, in response to the Instances of Israel.

“I don’t understand how it might occur. You don’t understand how it might occur, however I do know that it may occur,” he continued. “A step in that course of, a step in each course of, is a recognition that details and actions on the bottom actually matter.”

“That’s why going and visiting Judea and Samaria and understanding that sovereignty — the very sovereignty of Israeli soil, Israeli cities, places — is a crucial subsequent step to exhibiting the world that that is the land for Jews and the Land of Israel,” he added.

Hegseth’s unearthed feedback come as President Donald Trump, who moved the U.S. Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem throughout his first time period, has proposed that the U.S. seize Gaza.

“The U.S. will take over the Gaza Strip, and we are going to do a [good] job with it, too,” Trump mentioned Tuesday throughout a press briefing with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

The reconstruction of the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem options prominently in some veins of Christian eschatology, although different Christians keep that Christ assumed the temple’s sacrificial system on Himself and rendered it pointless.

The First Temple, also referred to as Solomon’s Temple, was destroyed by the Babylonians once they conquered Jerusalem in 586 B.C.

Herod’s Temple, which was the second Jewish temple constructed in Jerusalem, was destroyed by the Romans once they sacked the town in A.D. 70, following a months-long siege.

The destruction of Herod’s Temple passed off roughly 40 years after Jesus Christ prophesied the occasion, in response to Matthew 24:2.

Christ’s declare that He would rebuild the temple in three days after its destruction was among the many accusations He confronted throughout His trial earlier than the Sanhedrin for blasphemy, in response to Mark 14:53–62.

Christ’s accusers failed to know that He was talking in regards to the temple of His physique, in response to John 2:19-21.

In accordance with modern Jewish historian Flavius Josephus, Herod’s Temple caught hearth and was destroyed after a Roman soldier tossed a torch by means of one in all its home windows.

Earlier than the Islamic Al-Aqsa mosque was constructed on the Temple Mount within the seventh century, a number of makes an attempt to rebuild the temple in Jerusalem failed, in response to modern historians.

Through the Bar Kokhba revolt towards Roman rule that lingered from A.D. 132-135, an try and rebuild the temple fizzled after the revolt failed.

Through the fourth century, Roman emperor Julian tried to rebuild the temple in A.D. 363 till employees gave up the challenge after Julian died, an earthquake shook Galilee and hearth erupted from the Temple Mount, in response to the Encyclopedia Britannica.