Dear John and Doves,

A few weeks ago I wrote a message about how O's then to be built ice sculpture would stand at a remarkable spot in Jerusalem in relation to the Dome of the Rock Mosque and some other places of interest: Gehenna (or Hell), Mount Zion, the Upper Room (where Last Supper took place) and the Western or Wailing Wall. A straight line, 1 mile in length, connects all of these places.

 

Since then we have seen the sculpture in his likeness:
http://www.cntraveler.com/daily-traveler/2013/03/photos-presidential-art-statues-obama-clinton-lincoln-reagan-wilson/_jcr_content/par/cn_contentwell/par-main/cn_colctrl/par-col2/cn_slideshow/item0.rendition.slideshowWideHorizontal.barack-obama-ice-sculpture-israel.jpg

 

Since O's visit I found out about something else worth mentioning. The well known Temple Intitute (that wants to rebuild the Jewish Temple) recently moved to a new location within the Jewish Quarter in Jerusalem. In fact, the opening took place just 5 days after O was in Jerusalem on March 27,2013. The new building is 3 times as large and contains a scaled down version of the inner sanctuary of the Holy Temple, including the Holy of Holies and the sacred vessels and vestments required for operation.

 

The page announcing the relocation (including an architectural blueprint, a bird's-eye depiction of the new center, and maps showing the new location):
http://www.templeinstitute.org/new-location.htm

 

Now, what's interesting is the location the Temple Institute chose to move to: it happens to be exactly on the 1 mile line connecting O's icy image to the holiest site in Judaism: the Foundation Stone at the heart of the Dome of the Rock Mosque. Making it even more noteworthy is the distance between the Foundation Stone and the Temple Institute: exactly 1,260 feet.

 

To make the information of my previous post and these new findings more comprehensible I put all of it in this screenshot from Google maps. You can go to Google maps yourself to check all of this. I don't know what it all means but I have a hard time believing this remarkable line-up, connecting dates and specific distances are all some sort of weird coincidence. 

 

The map: