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In 333 AD., there was an
anonymous pilgrim called the
Pilgrim of Bordeaux who
traveled to Jerusalem. He
wrote that he looked EAST
from the location of the
Church of the Holy Sepulcher
(built three years later) and
all he could see was the old
Roman fort. This was 350
years BEFORE the Dome of
the Rock was built, which was
completed in 691 AD. He
identified what is called the
Temple Mount today as Fort
Antonia. If you go to Jerusalem today, you will see Jews worshipping Jehovah at the Western Wall,
located by the blue arrow in the picture on the next page. Jews believe that this is what remains of the
western wall of Herod’s temple.

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According to Eusebius, a 3 -century historian, “The hill called Zion and Jerusalem, the building there,
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that is to say, the temple, has been utterly removed or shaken.” This means completely destroyed or
utterly gone. As Christ prophesied, “Not one stone shall be left upon another that shall not be thrown
down.” Josephus (who was alive at the time of the destruction of the temple) said, “It was so
thoroughly laid even with the ground by those that dug it up to the foundation, that there was left
nothing to make those that came thither believe it had ever been inhabited.” Eleazer Ben Jair, the
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commander at Masada, wrote: “It (Jerusalem) is now demolished to the very foundations, and hath

9 http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/eusebius_de_10_book8.htm
10 http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/jewishtemple.htm
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