A division of the Temple Mount coming soon?

This Israeli news article is a must read for all who believe in the prophetic Scriptures.

Hamas last night issued an official response to Israeli lawmaker Amit Halevi’s (Likud) proposal to change current policy on the Temple Mount. According to Halevi’s plan, the Temple Mount would be divided into Muslim and Jewish sections and control of the holy site by the Jordanian Waqf would end.

Halevi suggests that Muslims should continue to pray at Al-Aqsa Mosque on the southern end of the complex. “If they pray there, it doesn’t make the entire Temple Mount a holy place for Muslims. It wasn’t and won’t be,” the politician said in an interview with the Israeli news portal Zman Israel. Halevi made it clear that the entire plateau is sacred to the Jews and the Dome of the Rock is where the Temple once stood.

While dividing the Temple Mount may not yet be the position of a majority of the Israeli public, I believe that Israel and its neighbors will eventually agree to share the sacred platform. In Revelation 11, Scripture seems to point to a partitioning of the Temple Mount that will allow for the Torah sacrifices to be resumed after an interruption of 19 centuries, yet without expelling Muslims from the site entirely.

“Then I was given a reed like a measuring rod. And the angel stood, saying, ‘Rise and measure the temple of God, the altar, and those who worship there. But leave out the court which is outside the temple, and do not measure it, for it has been given to the Gentiles (Revelation 11:1-2a).’”

If this seems like fantasy, remember that the idea of a revived Jewish State in their ancient homeland was also once seen as ridiculous.