You are not correctly identifying the location of the second Temple, and are confusing the Wailing Wall with having been part of the Temple. It wasn't. It was actually the foundation support of the Fortress of Antonia, which was the barracks for the Roman soldiers in Jerusalem, directly opposite from the Second Temple, where they were able to oversee the Temple operations. The Temple was further south on Mount Zion.
Christ correctly prophesied that every stone within Jerusalem would be laid "even with the ground" in Luke 19:44. The Wailing Wall today is not an exception to Christ's prediction, since demolishing a building to be "even with the ground" means that the entire structure is demolished which is built upon the foundation stones at ground level that hold it up. Jerusalem was built upon unevenly-graded terrain, after all. The "Wailing Wall" was part of what surrounded the "crawl-way space" of the Fortress of Antonia, so to speak. It wasn't part of the structure itself sitting on top of it, which was laid "even with the ground", as Christ predicted.
Mystery Babylon WAS Old Jerusalem. John's description in Revelation 18:24 of Mystery Babylon (guilty of the blood of the prophets, saints, and the slain of the earth) was a precise duplicate of Christ's Matthew 23:34-37 description of Old Jerusalem as the one guilty of the blood of the prophets, and of all the blood of the righteous shed on the earth from Abel until Zacharias.
Mystery Babylon in Revelation 17:18 was said to be "that great city which reigneth over the kings of the earth". When John referred to "that great city", he was referring back to the first time he mentioned "the great city where also our Lord was crucified" in Revelation 11:8. Unless you wish to state that Jesus was not crucified at Jerusalem, this is proof positive that Old Jerusalem where Christ was crucified was the same as Mystery Babylon, guilty of killing the prophets and the shed blood of the righteous from Abel until Zacharias. When Old Jerusalem became the "betrayer and murderer" of Christ our high priest representative, they essentially became guilty of the slain blood of everyone who was "IN Christ". The murder of a nation's ambassador is the equivalent of an offense against the entire nation he represents.
There is no other religious site in the world as holy as the Western Wall, or “Wailing Wall”. The western support wall of the Temple Mount is located in the Old City of Jerusalem.
Is The Wailing Wall Part Of The Second Temple?
Yes.
"It is believed by Jews that the Western Wall of the Second Temple of Jerusalem (destroyed by the Romans in 70 CE) is the only surviving structure of the Herodian Temple built during Herod Agrippa’s reign (37 BCE-4 BCE)."
Source:
Is The Wailing Wall A Part Of The Jewish Temple? – chicagojewishnews.com
The Western Wall, located in the city of Jerusalem, is the most religious site in the world for the Jewish people. It is the remaining part of the Second Temple of Jerusalem.
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24 Wailing Wall Facts: An Ancient Structure In Jerusalem! (kidadl.com)
The Western Wall is a 2,000-year-old retaining wall built on the western side of the temple mount in Jerusalem.
Source:
What is the significance of the Western Wall / Wailing Wall in Jerusalem? (compellingtruth.org)
I really hate to keep saying....."YOU are wrong, AGAIN, and again and again but you are".
Bible study reveals that in Ezek. 5:9, ....
“And I will do in thee that which I have not done, and whereunto I will not do any more the like”.
The
context will show that this verse has to do with the destruction of Jerusalem by the Babylonians under Nebuchadnezzar. But please note, God said the He would “not do any more the like”.
In other words, we read here God’s promise that He will never again destroy Jerusalem. This verse alone should prove that Jerusalem is not mystery Babylon.
That kind of messes up the idea that Mystery Babylon which is destroyed in 1 hour is Jerusalem.
Let us first consider the passage that speaks of “Mystery Babylon”. We read in Rev. 17:3-5, “So he carried me away in the Spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns. And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication: And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH”.
From what I have read by those who believe that “Mystery Babylon” is Jerusalem, it seems that most assume that the mystery associated with the woman who represents the great city is which city she represents. It is imperative that we understand from Scripture exactly what the mystery was that was associated with this woman.
Verses 3-5, quoted above, tell us that John saw a woman sitting on a beast. In verse 7 the angel said to John, “I will tell thee the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carrieth her…..”. Verses 8-17 reveal the meaning of the mystery of the beast, and verse 18 reveals the mystery of the woman herself. We read in that verse, “and the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth”. The mystery associated with the great city is not which city the woman represents, it is that the city reigns over the kings of the earth. If the mystery was which city the woman represented, the angel would have revealed the name when he revealed the mystery in verse 18. But he did not, he revealed the fact that the woman represents a city that reigns over the kings of the earth. Again, the mystery is not which city the woman represents, the mystery is that the city she represents “reigneth over the kings of the earth”.
We are now ready to ask the question: Which great city did the woman represent? The upper case letters in the woman’s name as given in the KJV are not, of course, part of the Greek manuscript, they are the interpretation by the translators. The phrase “the mother of harlots and abominations of the earth” is a description, not a name. I suggest therefore, that that phrase not be included in the name of the woman. But what about the word “mystery”, is that part of her name? It might be helpful to note that the NASB has in verse 5, “and on her forehead a name was written, a mystery, BABYLON THE GREAT……..”. But let us get the answer to our question from Scriptures themselves rather than any one particular translation.
If we include the word “mystery” in the woman’s name, it implies that it is the name of the city that is a mystery or secret. That is to say, the phrase “Mystery Babylon” implies that the woman does not represent Babylon itself, but that “Babylon” is put for some other city. But as we learned in Rev. 17:18, the mystery is not which city she represents, but that she will reign over the kings of the earth. Therefore, I believe that the phrase “Mystery Babylon” as it appears in the KJV is quite misleading and that the word “mystery” should not be included in the woman’s name.
If we leave off the word mystery, which is not part of her name, and we leave off the description “the mother of harlots and abomination of the earth” we have the woman’s name as “BABYLON THE GREAT”. So the woman’s name that will appear upon her forehead will be “BABYLON THE GREAT”. And the mystery as to what the woman represents is that the great city will reign over the kings of the earth.
The point of all this is to show that there is no Scriptural reason to say that the woman, whose name is “BABYLON THE GREAT” is any city other than Babylon. We are told her name and we are told the mystery surrounding her. Neither includes any hint of Jerusalem. Further, if we do see this woman as representing Jerusalem we have a woman representing a city which represents a different city. That makes no sense. In short, I believe that the woman represents the city of Babylon.
Source:
IS JERUSALEM “MYSTERY BABYLON”? – Right Word Truth
