ALL ROADS LEAD TO THE 3RD TEMPLE
THE PATH OF THE
PILGRIMS
Mike Huckabee
Inauguration Speech
by Luis B. Vega
vegapost@hotmail.com
www.PostScripts.org
There is the old cliché that ‘All Roads lead to Rome’. In this
case, Biblically and prophetically, ‘All Roads lead to the
Temple’. In this case, the 3rd Temple. How so? On September
15, 2025, there was the very interesting dedication or
inauguration of the Pilgrim Road in Jerusalem. It was the
pathway of the Pilgrims that led from the Pool of Siloam in
the lower quarter of what is the City of David to the upper
platform where the Temple once stood and will again. This Path
of the Pilgrims was the occasion where the Jews and visitors
would sing the ‘Songs of Ascent’.
After being ritualistically purified in the Pool of Siloam, a
Pilgrim would then walk the Path to present the offerings on
the Temple Mount. This archaeological discovery proves without
a doubt that the Temple was not in the lower section in the
heart of the City of David. And on the occasion of its
excavation, it will be made open to the General Public as
evidence of how the Jews were in the Promised Land, some 3000
Years.
In fact, one will highlight that numerical value of 3000 as it
would again come-up in 1 of Trump’s postings. It had to do
with his 20-Point Peace Plan in which he commented that the
‘3000 Year Catastrophe’ would be over soon. That it would be
replaced by an ‘Eternal Peace’. As Students of the Bible, one
will realize that this ‘Eternal Peace’ will only and can only
come through Jesus, the Prince of Peace and Israel’s true
Messiah, etc.
But what one wishes to comment on is how on this occasion of
the inauguration led by Netanyahu, the speech given by the
U.S. Ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee was very timely and
one would say, even prophetic. However, he did not go there as
one will and comment on several of Huckabee’s statements. Here
is a short introduction to who Mike Huckabee is. Michael Dale
Huckabee is an American Politician, Diplomat, and Baptist
Minister serving as the 29th United States Ambassador to
Israel since 2025.
He is a Member of the Republican Party. He served as the 44th
Governor of Arkansas from 1996 to 2007 and ran for his Party's
Presidential Nomination in both 2008 and 2016. He is a devout
Christian and supports Israel, out of Biblical allegiance and
its New Testament Jewish Roots. As to the argument of whether
Christians should or should not support the Modern ‘Zionist’
State of Israel? That is for another debate. Here is the
transcript of the approximate 8 Minute speech.
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MIKE HUCKABEE SENDS BIBLICAL MESSAGE TO THE WORLD!
What an honor to be here, for
this incredible ceremony.
Mr. Prime Minister, Secretary Rubio; all of the wonderful
people who made this possible by their generosity,
contributing to something that is historic. And something that
is a ‘Living Memorial’ of what GOD has done.
It was 4000 years ago, here in this city, on Mount Moriah,
where GOD chose His People. He not only chose a People, but He
chose a place. And then He chose for the People in this place
a purpose. The People were the Jewish People. The place was
Israel. And the purpose was to be a Light to the World. And to
show that we do not have to look for GOD, because He is
looking for us.
And that is what separates the long history of why this city
is so important. It is also a reminder to us that this
little-bitty sliver of real estate on the vast Planet Earth,
is the most contested piece of land in all of human history.
Not because of just those who want it, but because of those
who do not want the Jewish People to have it.
But tonight, something is extraordinary that we celebrate.
For, 3000 Years ago, David established his Kingdom here. And
2000 Years ago, the world through the Romans decided, ‘We will
get rid of the Jews’. And they destroyed this place. And they
scattered the Jewish People across the Planet.
But that was not the end of the story. Tonight, we are sitting
here because the story is not just alive, it is more alive
than perhaps it has been in the 4000 Years that GOD chose His
People, His place, His purpose. And it is an extraordinary
thing to behold.
Tonight, I am reminded of the day
that the Embassy was dedicated in 2018. I was so grateful to
President Trump for making the bold and courageous decision
that despite all of the opposition across the Planet, he was
going to move the U.S. Embassy to Yerushalayim, as he should.
Other Presidents promised it, but they always found a reason
to back away. President Trump made a promise, and he kept the
promise.
And on the day that we were here, and I was overwhelmed with
emotion as I sat at the dedication of the Embassy having moved
to Jerusalem, there was a young man in the crowd, and he was
exuberant. He was an American, and he was looking around and
he said,
‘Wow, I have been
waiting 20 Years for this to happen!’
Sheldon Adelson, who along with his wife Miriam who is here
tonight, are major contributors to this incredible Excavation,
Sheldon, who I absolutely adored because he was one of the
funniest men I have ever known. When the young man said, ‘Wow,
I have waited 20 Years for this!’ Sheldon, in his very dry way
just looked and said,
‘Son, we have been
waiting 2000 Years for this’.
What a great reminder that the Jewish People are a ‘Patient
People’. And tonight, there is something extraordinary, truly
extraordinary to celebrate. It was David, the King and the
Psalmist who said in Psalm 137 in verse 5:
‘If I forget you,
O Yerushalayim, may my right hand forget its skill’.
The Jewish People never forgot, that this was their Land,
their home, their undivided, indisputable, indigenous Capital
from Eternity. And tonight, something truly extraordinary
happens. It is often said that ‘History is to a civilization
what memory is to the individual’.
If any of us were to wake up tomorrow and not remember where
we lived, or who we were, or who that woman is that is living
in our house because we did not know her to be our Wife;
Amnesia is a horrible thing to have.
Because one is disoriented, lost, completely unable to make a
connection, just to the simplest things of life. But history
is to a civilization what memory is to the individual. And
tonight, this is a celebration of the history of Yerushalayim.
There is a verse in the New Testament in Luke, verse 40 of
chapter 19, and it says this,
‘If the Crowds
keep quiet, the Stones will cry out’.
If the Crowds do not acknowledge it, the Stones will cry out.
Tonight, the Stones are crying out. The Crowds may say it, but
the Stones absolutely and 100% validate that the Jewish People
not only belong here now but they have belonged here for 4000
Years since the time GOD said to Abraham, ‘This is yours, take
good care of it. And you will be a Blessing to the People
around the Earth’. And even to those of us who are not even
Jewish. He says,
‘Those who bless
Israel will be blessed. And those who curse Israel will be
cursed’.
And I come here tonight because I rather have a Blessing than
a Curse. I recognize that this extraordinary Excavation is not
just dust and stone. It is a ‘Living Speech’ in which GOD is
crying out through the very Stones to say to the world.
This magnificent Excavation, this extraordinary piece of
Archeological Mastery, is a validation and a truth. And it is
shouting from the ‘Top of the Mountain’ that this is indeed
the Eternal Home of the Jewish People, the Jewish State. And
the People who rightly belong here. And tonight, the rest of
the world comes to say,
‘Welcome home, and
may no one ever, ever attempt to take your home from you. It
is yours’.
And those of us who are not Jewish, we thank you. For giving
all of us a foundation of morality and decency and
civilization upon which our own faith is built. For without
yours, we do not have one. As I often tell my Jewish friends,
‘You can be Jewish, you do not need me’. But I cannot be who I
am in my faith, without the debt of obligation that I owe to
you for having listened to GOD.
And been willing to be obedient
to Him when He called you to this place, as His people for his
eternal, everlasting purpose. And I salute you and join you
tonight in the celebration of this wonderful, magnificent,
incredible reminder that GOD never has been finished with
Israel. And He never will be. This is the Eternal Home that He
has chosen.
God bless you all.
-Mike Huckabee
U.S. Ambassador to Israel
https://il.usembassy.gov/ambassador-mike-huckabee
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Commentary
Indeed, Jerusalem is a ‘Living Memorial’ of how YHVH has
staked His claim on Earth with it. According to the Bible, it is
the only place on Earth where YHVH placed His very Name on it.
It is understood that the very topography of Jerusalem’s 3 main
valleys are formed like the letter ‘Shin’. And it was on Mount
Moriah where Abraham was put to the test in obeying the request
by YHVH to sacrifice Isaac, the ‘Son of Promise’, etc.
And based on one’s interpretation of the Bible, the typology and
topography are synchronized at this place and time where the
Greater Abraham, the Father and the Greater Isaac, the Son,
Jesus actually carried that Willing Offering to restore the
broken relationship YHVH had with Adam in Eden. Jerusalem is the
place where the Creator in the flesh died, rose and ascended
back to Heaven.
And it is from Jerusalem that Jesus, along with His Bride at His
Side and the Armies of Heaven will descend to. Thus, it is true
that Jerusalem is the most contested Real Estate in the world
because the Power of Evil, of Lucifer, will gather the Nations
to prevent it from happening. Although Lucifer was defeated at
the Cross of Calvary, so long as there is Space, Time and
Matter, he thinks he has a fighting chance to change the course
of his doomed destiny.
One would agree that it is about how the Nations have now
gathered as ‘One’, like with the Tower of Babel against Israel.
And it is because the Nations do not want the Jewish People to
have what YHVH promised to Abraham, the Land, the City and the
Temple or House in which YHVH would dwell, ‘in the midst of His
People’, etc. Huckabee mentioned now from the City of David,
some 3000 Years ago, the United Kingdom of Israel was forged.
And it was King David that prepared the materials for his Son,
Solomon to thereafter contract the House of YHVH on Mount
Moriah. That piece of land was purchased by David in 2 Samuel
24:18-25 from Araunah. It was the Threshing Floor for winnowing
Wheat. And it was there that the Plague was staved-off due to
David’s Sin for having allowed himself to pridefully count his
Army that YHVH prohibited him from doing so.
This is another piece of topographical evidence of how the
Temple could not have been placed in the lower section that was
Davids’ Citadel as the winds were greater at the top of Mount
Moriah, etc. It is noted that King David purchased the entire
property for 600 Shekels of Gold. But then there is a factor of
50 Shekels of Silver in the payment. Now what Huckabee mentioned
is how then the Romans dispersed the Jews throughout the world.
This is where he failed to mention why? It was for their
disobedience and unfaithfulness. And that the Roman Diaspora was
actually the 2nd major one aside from the Babylonian one. This
also does not account for the permanent exile of the 10 Northern
Tribes that was called ‘Israel’. Huckabee then went on to say
that the Jewish People are a ’Patient People’. Well, technically
but one would rather argue that YHVH is a Patient GOD with them
and the world for that matter.
The Stones that did not Cry-Out
What one was surprised to hear was how Huckabee interjected,
very diplomatically, a verse from the New Testament. No doubt,
at the mere mention of that, perhaps made the entire Jewish
audience squeal in their seats. However, the verse was
appropriate and in context of the archaeological excavation and
dedication. It was the verse about how when Jesus rode into
Jerusalem as the King of the Jews, the Elders of Zion told Jesus
to reprimand His Disciples and the Crowd for chanting the
following.
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37 When he came near the place where the road goes down
the Mount of Olives, the whole crowd of Disciples began
joyfully to praise GOD in loud voices for all the miracles
they had seen:
38 ‘Blessed is the
King who comes in the Name of the LORD!’ ‘Peace
in Heaven and Glory in the Highest!”
39 Some of the Pharisees in
the crowd said to Jesus, ‘Teacher, rebuke your Disciples!’
40 ‘I tell you’, He
replied, ‘if they keep quiet, the Stones will cry out’.
41 As he approached
Jerusalem and saw the city, he wept over it
42 and said, ‘If you, even
you, had only known on this Day what
would bring you Peace—but now it is hidden from your eyes.
43 The days will come upon
you when your Enemies will build an embankment against you and
encircle you and hem you in on every side.
44 They will dash you to the
ground, you and the children within your walls. They will not
leave one stone on another, because you
did not recognize the Time of GOD’S coming to you’.
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Now, there are those Students of the
Bible that put some ‘prophetic stock’ in number associations and
meaning. Such is the very notion of how the Songs of Ascent
could be corresponding to years. This was 1st considered by the
late J.R. Church. Now, what Huckabee failed to mention was the
context of the verse. It was how, precisely for this reason of
how the Stones would ‘Cry-Out’ that Jesus was the Messiah that
YHVH exiled His Earthly People, the Jews.
One considers that in that light of
numerical association, one could suggest the possible
verse-to-year association from Luke 19:45-48. Here is that
section of what Jesus said the reason was why the Land, the City
and the Temple would be completely destroyed. And that He, Jesus
would not come back until His Earthly People, the Jews would say
what the Elders sought to censor as they do to this very day.
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19:45 When
Jesus entered the Temple Courts, he began to drive out those
who were selling.
19:46 'It is written', he said to
them, 'My House will be a House of Prayer’; but you have made
it ‘a Den of Robbers'.
19:47 Every
day he was teaching at the Temple. But the Chief Priests, the
Teachers of the Law and the Leaders among the people were
trying to kill him.
19:48 Yet
they could not find any way to do it, because all the people
hung on His words.
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No doubt, many Jews in the audience knew and know exactly
what the context of Huckabee’s reference to Luke 19 was really
all about. Next, Huckabee mentioned how, based on the Abrahamic
Covenant, the provision of the Land Grant is established, as
recorded in Genesis 15. As a Student of the Bible, one
wholeheartedly agrees and supports. But Huckabee made it seem as
though the Jews took care of it as prescribed by YHVH. This was
and is not the case.
And it is why the entire Middle East and now the whole world is
in this mess. The other misinterpretation of Scripture, in one’s
opinion, is how most Evangelical Christians parrot the Axiom,
‘Bless Israel and be blessed. Curse Israel and be cursed’. This
is not the case. This is one way that the Modern State of
Israel, being secular politically, is given a ‘Pass’ by its
Christian supporters. However, even this support is now waning
in light of the Gaza War of 2023. In one’s opinion, Israel’s
prerogative to defend itself, which it has to has been an
‘Over-Killed’. Pun intended.
Nonetheless, according to Biblical Prophecy, Israel has
returned, although in unbelief and will be there to stay and not
be exiled ever again. One does subscribe to the notion that
Israel is indeed the Fig Tree Nation and Generation that will
see the return of their Messiah. And it will be them, as Living
Stones that will be made to cry-out, that Jesus is the Messiah.
This will come at a high price as 2/3rd’s of them will perish in
this coming Holocaust 2.0.
Presently, contrary to Huckabee’s characterization of the Jewish
People, no they have not been ‘obedient’. They are in fact in
direct opposition to the Gospel and gave up their Messiah to be
murdered by the Romans. That is how bad and low the descendants
of Abraham stooped to. It is in keeping with the prophetic
typology of how the Sons of Jacob sold their very own Brother,
Joseph for 20 pieces of Silver, just like Jesus was for 30
pieces of Silver, etc.
Based on the Abrahamic Covenant, YHVH’s Earthly People do have
the Birth-Right to the Land, the City and the Temple. It will be
established when Jesus returns to its greatest extent as
promised. One thing that one would agree, concerning the Modern
Israel spiritual state is that YHVH is not done with them. This
is what the Last Week of Daniel, the 7 Years will be for. Israel
will unfortunately have to go through the Refiner’s Fire.
The following are some factoids
about the discovery of the Pilgrim’s Road taken from excerpts
that the
https://cityofdavid.org.il/en posted
online.
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-The ancient Pool of Siloam was discovered in the south of
the Biblical City of David, at the confluence of the Kidron
River with the valley at the end of the 19th Century.
-It was part of the excavations by Bliss and Dickey, members
of the British Palestine Exploration Fund, (P.E.F.).
-Despite their excavations in and
around the Shiloh (Siloam) Church, the ancient Pool of Siloam
remained unexcavated for many years, until 2004.
-The Pilgrimage Road was
rediscovered in 2004 after a sewage pipe burst in the middle
of the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan.
-The Pool of Shiloah, from which
visitors can begin their walk along the ancient path, was
first built during the reign of Hezekiah (715–687 BCE) to
provide water to the city.
-Hezekiah built an underground tunnel bringing waters from the
Gihon Spring to the Pool of Siloam.
-The road’s length is approximately 600 meters (almost 2,000
feet).
-The pathway was originally 8 meters wide (26 feet) allowing
for the multitudes to make their way up to the worship
celebrations.
-The Pool of Shiloah was also in
use during the time of Jesus.
-In the Gospel of John we learn
that Jesus sent ‘a man blind from birth’ to the Pool in order
to complete his healing.
-Also known as the Stepped
Street, thousands, if not millions, of Jewish pilgrims once
ascended along the ancient path to reach the Temple.
-According to Ari Levy, manager at the Company for the
Reconstruction and Development of the Jewish Quarter in
Jerusalem’s Old City, it was in fact the infamous governor of
Judea Pontius Pilate who built the Pilgrimage Road.
-According to Flavius Josephus, a
1st-century Romano-Jewish Historian, at its peak, nearly 3
million people visited Jerusalem during the main Jewish
pilgrimage festivals.
-‘This is the living heart of Jerusalem, this is the 5th
Avenue, this is the Champs-Élysées’, said Dr. Yiftah Shalev,
co-director of excavations for the Israel Antiquities
Authority.
A House of Prayer for the Nations
And during the Millennial Kingdom, Israel will be exalted as
the Head of the Nations as promised. But it will be ruled by
Jesus that will be ruling from the House of YHVH there on top of
the Temple Mount. And it will be expanded to accommodate the
throngs that will be sent from the Nations to pay their
respects. It will be a foretaste of how thereafter, in the New
Heaven and the New Earth, the very House of YHVH will come down
from Heaven in how the dimensions will fuse to become one.
That will be a spectacle to behold.
It was, is and will be from the Euphrates to the Nile. ‘From the
River to the River, Israel will be Free’. Those that wrote
Trump’s post knew exactly why they used that year specifically,
the 3000 Year factor. It was the start of the Golden Age of
Israel, the reign of Solomon when the borders of Israel expanded
and the Temple was built and all the world came to pay homage to
Solomon.
It was essentially predictively
programming that out and it is going to happen based on the
Bible. What Huckabee could have elaborated but perhaps not as it
would have been too politically 'hot' was how the Pilgrim's Path
did not only lead to the Temple in Jesus' day but will again to
the 3rd Temple. It is literally the 'next step' that has been
laid down in a prophetic foreshadowing of what is to come next,
the 3rd Temple.
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Books
THE 3RD TEMPLE
The Olivet Discourse foretells a
Prophetic Outline that involves the Restitution of 3 Factors
that have to be in place before Jesus' 2nd Coming, 1 is the
3rd Temple. It is ready.
THRONE OF SATAN
Jesus warned that in the Last
Generation, just before His Return to Earth, a False Jewish
Messiah would enter into the Temple and sit in the Ark of the
Covenant, the Throne.
COVENANT WITH MANY
In the Bible, it teaches that in the
End of Days, a World Leader will emerge that will ‘Confirm a
Covenant with the Many’. What is that ‘Confirmation’? And who is
the Many?