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My question is this.
Was the wailing wall
a remnant of the temple
or of a wall around it?

How does that line up
with the scriptures
( in three gospels )
that not one stone would
be left on top of another?

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You're referring to the
Lord's prophecy in
Matthew 24:2.

Most experts say the
so-called wailing wall
was part of the Temple Mount
foundation and was underground at the time.

It supports the Temple Mount
on top of which the Temple
was built.

But some believe the
Temple Mount we see today
is not the one upon
which the Temple was built.

They say this mount was
built over the original
by the Roman Emperor
Hadrian,
and the original was actually
much lower in elevation.

There's some interesting
evidence to support
this view.
If it's true, the Holy of Holies
of Herod's Temple would
have been just behind
the wall where Jews
now go to worship.

However you see it,
when the Roman soldiers
broke through the
boundary walls in 70 AD,
they set fire to the
Temple furnishings.

The rising heat caused
the gold sheets covering
the timbers in the ceiling
to melt. 1/2

The melted gold ran
down the walls into
the cracks between the stones.

After the fire burned out,
they tore the Temple apart
stone by stone
to get the gold,
until there was not
one stone left standing
upon another.

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