The site where Abraham took Isaac to be sacrificed is also where God brought an end to the plague which followed King David’s sinful census. It is also, therefore, where Solomon’s Temple was built. Later, it was where the Second Temple, where Jesus walked and taught, was built. Today, and for the past several centuries, it is the site of al-Aqsa mosque. And if that last details seems out of place to you compared to the site’s history, you’re not alone in thinking so. As we saw on Monday, many intend to restore that site to Jewish rule and the building of a new temple to the God of the Bible. So we have to ask ourselves: what makes a building a temple? Is it its location? Its contents? The words spoken inside it? Today on Something’s Happening Here we look at some data from the Old Testament and New about how God defines a temple, and whether a new building in Jerusalem would count as such, on our show titled, “The Third Temple, the Shekinah, and Warfare Over a Missing Box.”
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