The Temple Mount--Where it IS. Where it ISN'T. What is it FOR? 

I was standing on the temple mount in Jerusalem in 2012 when our tour guide casually mentioned that this was Mount Moriah. When he said those words, I felt chills!!! I immediately recognized the significance of that Holy Mountain!

My wife gave me your book - Where God Came Down - Absolutely fantastic. Every person of faith should own this book!

Let’s pray for this beautiful Jewish archeologist who was interviewed that his heart, eyes, and ears would know Jesus is the messiah, died, and rose for him! ❤

I came for the archeology, stayed for the sermon❤❤ was so beautiful that ending brother❤❤❤

Praise be to The Lord for people like you! I'm a pastor and you have enriched my sermons with this wonderful study. I'm also a teacher in High School. This is just helpful. I will totally share this.

Every time I watch your videos, I learn something. It is strange that anyone would think that isn't the temple site.

Hope you and your family are well. Pray for peace in Jerusalem

The conversation around minute 11 reminded me of … “And he answered and said unto them, I tell you that, if these should hold their peace, the stones would immediately cry out.”

Pray the good Lord continues to bless you and your family with protection so you may keep up the teaching of all the great things about Jesus and the Bible

Been watching your videos for about 6 months now and every time I watch one I’m so impressed by your ability to teach and structure this content. Always entertaining and digestible. Keep up the great work man 👊

Ive been a Christian since childhood. I love prophecy. I've never understood (until this video) the DIFFERENCE between the Temple and the Temple MOUNT. Thank you so much for this information. God bless you and your work.

EXCELLENT as usual. For those who enjoy a great read, The Jewish War by Josephus should be on your list. I would add an abridged copy, as the original has a great deal of filler (speeches & declarations & redundant heroic praise).

you keep waking up my asleep heart , you are opening my eyes. Jesus is alive , Thank You Sir

I had the pleasure of accompanying you & Sean McDowell with my daughter’s High School group back in 2009 or 10. It was by far the best tour I have ever been on. I was fortunate to go to Israel again in 2017 with my church which was great but not nearly as archeological as your tour was. Your tour made a lasting impression on me I will never forget. I enjoy your videos so much and believe you teach with impactful evidence! Thank you. I am a Bible Study leader and often refer people to your videos. Praying for all in Israel. God Bless.

Made me cry. Thank you 🙏. Praise Jesus.

The videos on this channel are VERY well done. It is so easy to see that the history of the BIBLE is accurate. Hopefully, some day I will make it over to view these structures for myself. I also recommend the book featured. It is an excellent read that again shows the true history.

I live for new Expedition Bible videos! One of the best channels on RU-vid! Praying for your family’s safety

I really appreciate your videos. There is always something God speaks through them to me.

I love watching you putting the scriptures and archeology together. It is fascinating! I remember a time when I thought archeology and the Bible could not be put together. You do it with research and Biblical knowledge. I appreciate you and your work.

Thank you for always sharing the gospel in your videos. Really ties everything together!

This guy offers some of the best biblical history in detail! I love to watch his videos which brings me closer to Christ!!!! I am so grateful for who I have come to be through all the adversities that I put myself through. And your message lets me know, I am on the one and only path to Salvation. Blessings

Wow, I was always a person who believed that the temple was not on the mount. But your evidence and clear explanation have definitely changed my mind. Great video!

Joel, I praise the lord that you and your family have remained safe during this time and I pray that God will continue to watch over you. I appreciate all you do to educate us on the archaeology evidence that continues to show the truth of scripture. I remember you once mentioned that you were working on a 2nd book. I hope that project is going well and I look forward to it. Do you have a time frame of when you might release that book? God bless and stay safe!

Watched this a few times and get something new out of it. The fact Rabbi said, It's not that God got his meat, it's that that dead animal should be me. I love that explaination.

Thank you for finally uploading a video, I've been worried about you since the attack on Israel!! Please stay safe, be well and continue to do the Lord's work in the middle east. Praying for you!!

I absolutely love your videos! They are well produced and easy to follow. I so want to visit the places that Jesus walked on earth and literally cry when I see these videos. I can’t wait to be with Him!!😊

I have been a Christian for a little over 3 decades. I'm in tears as once more I'm reminded that by his sacrifice we are saved and allowed beyond the curtain to have an up-close and personal relationship with him. Thank you for your fine work and dedication that is brought to use thru this channel. God bless.

Thank you, Joel Kramer, for your extensive work and the wonderful and extremely helpful videos you have produced. Your work has greatly blessed me, and I share your videos with many people. The LORD bless you and keep you. Mike in Oregon

I'd so like to give this one two thumbs up!!! Thanks, once again for your perspective. The message of salvation in the Temple Mount archeology.

I have been worried about you and your beautiful family! I’ve been checking your channel every day my friend! May God continue to Bless you and your family 🙏🏽🌎

At first I thougth that the jewish archeologist is a christian. Very sad, that he has the evidence before his eyes and still doesn't want to believe... I had tears in my eyes during the last minutes of the video. You always present Jesus's sacrifice so emotionally. Thank you, brother. God bless you. 🙏

The thing with your theory…with such a small Antonia fortress, how could they fit an entire legion of 6,000 in such a small fortress? Josephus describes the fort quite well, and such a tiny fort basically connected to what’s believed to be the Temple Mount essentially goes against what he said in his work

Joel, I love the facts of history that prove that our Bible is, in fact, true! To be able to not only hear about it but to visually see all these places that our Lord lived and walked during His time here on earth is just so amazing. Since I will never be able to walk in His footsteps, every place in Israel that you visit and explore means so much! It enables me to visualize Him and His disciples there in those very locations! Thank you so much for being my eyes and ears in that tiny little piece of land that has so much meaning and importance!! ❤

Your videos are what got me into Christian apologetics. Love how science always ends up confirming what is written in the Bible.

AND HOW DO YOU ENTER IN??!!....through the blood of JESUS....A Christian feels that to their very core every time we hear it....Thank you GOD!!!!!!

That pile of stones next to the temple mount is an incredible witness to the fulfillment of Jesus' prophecy. There is no doubt that Jesus saw what was coming and described it perfectly - not one stone will be left upon another but all will be cast down. It's a powerful visual evidence that Jesus was and is the very Son of God.

Joel, I just purchased your book on Amazon tonight. I can't wait to start reading it tomorrow! Your amazing videos and the reviews of the book had me sold.

Always enjoy these informative Expedition Bible videos. Many thanks

This is from Ethiopia. Thank you, sir, for your great deed. May Jesus have mercy on you.

Would love to see you travel to Saudi Arabia to show us the twelve wells of Elim (Where Moses met Zippora), and the site where the wayward Israelites built an altar of the golden calf which Moses destroyed and ground into dust, as well as the12 pillars built by Moses next to an altar where Moses relayed the covenant, and the Split Rock of Moses. And, of course, the real Mount Sibai (Jebel Al-Lawz) Egypt also has the spot where the Israelites entered the Red Sea when God parted it for them to cross in Yam Suph (Nuweiba beach).

We’re the Temple now! But I love the history of anything to do with the Bible! I bought your book too❤️

As I was watching and listening to you going over the details of Abraham and Isaac, as I have heard many times before. I had to pause it because I was suddenly overwhelmed by the grace and mercy of Almighty God. For at that moment, I truly understood God's love for me. With tear covered cheeks, I thank God for sacrificing His Son Jesus Christ 🙏

Just ordered your book. I think I'll make it available on our website too! I pray the Jewish archeologist will come to Jesus!

what's amazing is that the 1st temple in Solomon's time was constructed according to the "Golden Geometric Ratio" way long before the Greeks, Romans, Arabs, and Medieval Franks were able to utilize the geometric ratio techniques in their architecture, arts, and construction 500 and 1400 years later.

I love learning from your videos, and that you are in this place using the scriptures and trust in God to guide your findings. You help to make things clear and understandable, thank you!

Awesome commentary. Clear cut understanding, explaination and interpretation of both the old and new Testament linking up to Jesus The Messiah. Thanks and God bless you for preaching the True Gospel of Jesus Christ our Lord and Saviour.

I am so glad I found your channel. I love Jesus Christ and I love that he has blessed you to bring the truths of His Word to ALL of us who are here to learn. AMEN!

Genesis 22 never says it is Mount Moriah, but “a mountain of which I will tell you in the land of Moriah”. There is every possibility that this hill was not the Temple Mount of today, but Golgotha, the Hill of Calvary on which Christ was crucified. But I guess we’ll just have to wait and see - good film, thanks.

I love that you always share the gospel in your videos. I all these videos. BTW, I first saw you on Sean McDowell's channel.

כל התהילה לאלוהים ולמשיחו ישוע אנו נראה את ברכתו של אברהם מלאה לכל העמים. אמן

Beautiful. Thank you for this awesome presentation of this biblical truth and the practical application of your archeological study.

What can wash away my sin? Nothing but the blood of Jesus!

I cannot thank you enough. I knew these facts but let me tell you: His Story never grows old. HalleluYah.

You have a strong connection to the Holy Spirit in the way you conduct your investigation I admire it so much! Stay safe out there I honestly believe Jesus is smiling at your efforts. ❤❤❤

Hello from Kenya! Thanks so much for this content. A few times I have led groups from the US to the holy land tour. It is so enriching and refreshing to go through your teaching. God bless you!

I absolutely love your videos and all your work. Thank you for taking the time to flesh out all of these sites and verses so that more people may believe!

The ram who’s head is stuck in the thicket who took the place of Isaac is like us with Christ who’s head was also covered in thorns and took our place on the cross for the sins of mankind! God is good!

Jesus is the "Temple" for the believer that has the gift of faith to believe in the imputed righteousness of the Lord Jesus Christ alone."

I have watched a lot of your videos but this one has truly touched my heart. I’ve been a Christian for a very long time but I’m understanding more and more each day. This video has given me a better understanding of the Temple Mount and the ripping of the curtain. Thank you for teaching this to me, you’ve enhanced my Christian journey. God Bless you

My animals even teach me about God. I loved my hunting dog but he loved ro roll in dead animals and until he was bathed he had to stay away from me not because i didnt love him anymore but because i didnt want what he had on him on me or near me. I would bathe him and he would do it again and again until i just left him in his pen longer and longer because I so tired of bathing him. I relaized how God felt everytime I had to bathe him and i tried to be merciful knowing i was like my dog everytime I lied or cussed i was rolling in sin and needed a bath. I wished it didnt take a life to be cleansed from sin but I am so glad Jesus did what had to be done to save us all. We owe him our lives and eternal love and respect.

No longer a need to cry at the wall my friends, Jesus Christ is the way, the truth and the life! Praying for the Jewish people to see the truth! 🙏✝️

This content is great, I will be binging this channel! Does anyone else think that this guy has an incredible speaking voice? Someone should commission him to read the Bible for an app or something.

I'm on the side that believes the last Temple was located in the city of David, as mentioned several times in scripture.

God just led me to this channel and I am just thrilled! Wonderful & informative video and I can hardly wait to watch more! New subscriber also! 🫶🏼🙏🏻

My favorite YT Subscription. Bravo, Joel for pointing the way, clearly to Jesus, Israel's One and only Messiah. Soon to return. Isaiah 53.. All our Hope.

This video is perfectly done... Wow!! I find it exciting and pleasing to the eye the way you guys reconstruct structures and boundaries with computer simulation. I'm subscribing. 🙏🙏🙏

Thank you so much for the important work you do in encouraging Christians world wide.

Jesus said I am the way, the truth, and the life

You have done an outstanding job helping us to understand the significance of the temple mount. How you brought in the rabbi and historian to help explain the comment JESUS made about all the bldgs Blocks being thrown down. Honestly I've always been a little fuzzy on that whole subject. I've always loved the old testament and among Christians now days that really seems rare. I believe in all of the Bible and instead of taking the easy way out and saying don't worry about the old testament thats all fairytales, you only need to focus on the new testament. I just can't believe that's what GOD wants of us. There is a lot of hard to understand situations and alot that SEEMS unrealistic ,but someone that looks at it through the eyes of a Christian and an educated person like you, that does the work that you have, has really done me and I'm sure,ALOT of others a real service. I can't wait to see more of your programs. God bless you . Thank you again.

I LOVE this video and everything that leads from these conversations. It is 100% clear that Jesus Chris (The Messiah of Israel) is THE Almightly God of Israel and ALSO the God of the gentiles - ONE God to two distinct groups clearly described in the Bible - The Jews and the Gentiles. Prasie Almighty God for his perfect and unadulterated WORD. Amen

Thoughts and prayers for Israel and for your safety. Another great video. I hope to visit before the Lord calls me home.

These videos are fabulous!

Thanks for your work and this video Joel! Praise Jesus for the atoning work of His precious blood and the propeciation He has provided. It is as He Himself said "FINISHED"!

Thank you for your amazing ministry! I’ve watched almost every video you’ve created on RU-vid, and have been blessed by your work. Many of us may never get to go to Israel to see the history of the Israelite people, and where the Messiah Jesus lived, died, and rose again - conquering sin, death, and the grave, and offering eternal life for those who choose to believe He is the One and only Son of Almighty God! Blessings to you, your family, and all those you love and hold dear! Eucharisteo 🙏⚓️❤️

This video was very meaningful to me. I have been on a Christian tour of Israel in 2006 but it takes years to process and for God to reveal the scriptures and the meanings. We need to remember that the Lord God Almighty is very precise and as His Plan for the Ages unfolds we are going to be astonished of the work of God to prove His Sovereignty and the working out of His plans. Already the fulfillment of so many prophecies is evidence of this. We are going to see so many more biblical artifacts such as the hidden Arc of the Covenant revealed. Almighty God is our strength, our Rock and our Redeemer and the Glory will undeniably prove and bring Glory to Him for Salvation, Redemption, and deliverance from Evil. 🔥✝️🔥💝

I love when people use science to prove biblical places and events rather than to disprove it for God gave us knowledge of science with out him we would have no way to prove his existence but if you need proof of his existence all you have to do is open your heart to him and he will show you he exist

Thank You Jesus for The Blood that You gave up for our sins. Praise You Forever!

The dome of the rock needs to be destroyed. An altar to Satan has no place in such a holy place

Thank you for creating this🙌

5:45 But this isn’t necessarily true. 2nd chronicles doesn’t tell us that the same spot where Abraham went to sacrifice Isaac is exactly the same place where Solomon later built the Temple. Genesis states that Abraham went to sacrifice Isaac in the “land of Moriah” (also sometimes translated as “mountains” or “region” of Moriah) but doesn’t specify a specific mountaintop. Therefore, all we can 100% conclude is that both Abraham’s altar and Solomon’s temple were located in the land and/or mountains of Moriah. It’s true that they MAY have been located at the same mountaintop, but Scripture doesn’t explicitly say that.

Still waiting on the 3rd Temple I cannot wait.

Just discovered your videos today. Very impressed. Love the specifics (animations, arrows, precise explanations). Keep it up!

God, YHWH purposefully removed the temple from the Jewish and Christian’s hands. A blessed reminder that the temple is no longer a building, but the temple is inside our bodies. Where we should worship and sacrifice to Him. 🙏❤️💃

All muslims and nonbelievers need to repent and follow Jesus Christ, Yeshua, the true and living God; before it's too late. JESUS IS LORD. He was God in the flesh. He defeated death, the only one to do so, rose from the dead 3 days, and died for all of our sins. Jesus is the way, the life, the truth.

Thank You Lord Jesus. I love You with all the fullness of my heart. I can't wait to spend eternity with You.

Really enjoyed this. We have a small Bible school and we greatly benefit from your lifes work. Thank you.

No wonder we all should adore Him! Jesus, the name that calms our fears, that bids our sorrows cease….

The temple was not on the later proclaimed ‘Temple Mount’, that’s where a Roman fort stood. That thing that was connected to what people thought was the temple is not the fort, but a gate, it could not fit 6000 soldiers like a account from the time said. Other accounts prove that the fort was there and not the temple. Also Jesus said EVERY stone would fall. Also the hezekiah tunnels and the priest’s springs are below in the City of David. All what is left of THAT supposed temple location is an underground tunnel with a sacrificing stone and a few other things in rock. The crusaders were the dumb ones who started the idea that that hill was where the temple stood, and Jerusalem was slightly larger than people picture in videos.

Just found your channel and have loved every video. So amazing! Thank you for all you do. God is Great!

Very excellent credible information about exactly where and what the temple and temple mount and Mt Moriah means. Excellent information on the dates and the people and what took place at this exact information. Thank you so much.

After watching this I'm still convinced Bob Cornuke is right about the true location of the Temple.

The Jewish people have had a hard existence. I have absolute faith that our Lord will bring you peace someday.

The people *closest* to God (the disciples) recorded when the veil of the Holy of Holies opened up. The Jewish rabbis recorded the doors of the temple opening by themselves when our Savior died. Josephus the secular historian recorded the gates of the city of Jerusalem opening by themselves when Y’shua died.

I'm just getting back into my faith again and I remember studying this and that year 70 was so much blood shed it was pouring from the steps. It was awful. The Jewish people have suffered so much and don't want to mention the other.

If you think about it the temple was destroyed in 66 the passion of our lord was in the year 33. The words of Christ would be fulfilled, he said not one stone would be left upon another; The temple stood for another 33 years, just long enough for Christianity to be spread throughout the whole of the world.

Do you think the underground cisterns on the Temple Mount, would have been built by King Solomon too? During the dedication of the Temple, 1000s of sacrifices were made. The water supply there had no pressure. The Gihon Spring has been noted, that it had pressure to go up 3 stories, and was used by the priests. We also have Melchizedek the High Priest, and a location in the City of David, where sacrifices were made in a priestly order.

Inasmuch as the Al Aqsa mosque and the Noble Sanctuary are built ON TOP of the Second Temple, that would mean that the temple was there first and there were no muslims there at the time it was built.

JESUS SON OF GOD Please 🙏 have mercy on us. All Praise, Honor & GLORY be unto YOU!

It really makes me happy to see you have a lot of views in such a short amount of time on most all your videos !! Your channel is very successful and it should be ! You do excellent work on proving the Bible to be true & accurate history ! The Bible truly is the greatest history book of all time ! I'm truly shocked at just how many in the comments see these proofs yet they harden their hearts & reject the truth , sealing their own fate for all of eternity !! Its truly very sad indeed ! All glory to God & our Savior Jesus Christ !! 🙏 ✝️

I so respect all the research! The animations, the pictures, the descriptions, the explanations make history and God's word come alive. Thank you!