Be Very Careful About the Blood of Yeshua and Ron Wyatt 

The place where Ron Wyatt claims Yeshua was crucified is NOT scriptural.

 

Yeshua represents the “Red Heifer”, and it was always sacrificed on the Mount of Olives. The Red Heifer had to be placed on the Miphkad alter where GOD could in line of sight see the sacrifice, and the sacrifice had to be placed on the alter in a way that it was looking into the temple at GOD.

 

 

(1) Miphkad Altar and Red Heifer Sacrifice

Both Torah and Mishnah clearly declare that the "third" altar of the Temple was located on the Mount of Olives, and it was here that the Red Heifer was slain. Moreover, there was already a significant site halfway up the Mount of Olives a thousand years before Jesus was crucified (2 Samuel 15:32). Since the Red Heifer sacrifice represents the sacrifice of the Son of God, it is certainly a good possibility that his death took place on "Upper" Mount Moriah.

 

(2) The Political Reason

Had Pilate crucified Jesus on a major pilgrim route, a road into the city, this would have made a statement – and quite a loud one – to future would-be "kings". In fact, according to the Roman writer Quintillian, "Whenever we crucify the guilty, the most crowded roads are chosen, where the most people can see and be moved by this fear. For penalties relate not so much to retribution as to their exemplary effect."

The Roman road to Jericho followed approximately the same track as the road at the time of David, and would have been the perfect location for any public execution making a political statement.

Yes, the strategic location of the Mount of Olives, especially in the middle of a major religious holiday, would have maximized the impact of Jesus’ execution. Note also that Jesus began his "triumphal entry" at "Bethphage on the Mount of Olives" (Matthew 21:1).

 

(3) Visual suitability

Apart from the Temple Courts themselves, only from the Mount of Olives – across the Kidron Valley from the Temple Mount – would anyone have a clear view of the Temple curtain, which tore at Jesus’ death, and which the Gospels say the centurion saw. In one sense the site of the crucifixion depends on the sight of the Temple! In Matthew 27 we read

 

 

If Ron Wyatt claims that Yeshua was crucified to the North of the temple Mt., I don’t know whose blood he found.

Let us all be very careful concerning the deceptions of the evil one, it will and is taking the world into its snare.

 

 

Peace and blessing;

Rob in Fla.