Ezekiel’s Tomb and Synagogue
to be destroyed
One piece of evidence that the Bible you read today is historically true; is that we have proof that the people who wrote the Bible really existed.
And soon, one of these Bible truths will be “covered” up by a Muslim mosque.
The tomb (and synagogue) of the Biblical Prophet Ezekiel, where for centuries Jews came to pray, is being desecrated and replaced by a Muslim mosque.
Jews praying at the tomb in 1932, today less than 10 Jews remain in Iraq.
Ezekiel was a great teacher and prophet. He taught that the revival of the nation of Israel could only come through the revival of each individual. Ezekiel always taught that God was always ready to forgive the sinner who shows sincere repentance.
Ezekiel’s who was born into a priestly family in Jerusalem encouraged the Jews to build synagogues in Babylon, and to keep the spirit of Judaism alive in this culture of idol worship.
After Ezekiel died, Jews made an annual pilgrimage to his synagogue and tomb between Rosh HaShannah (New Year) and Yom Kippur (the Day of Atonement) when the a special Torah scroll (of the Book of Ezekiel) written by the prophet’s own hand was read.
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The tomb and synagogue are located south of Baghdad in the village of Al-Kifl, Iraq. It was being renovated by untrained Iraqi workers when they erased an ancient Hebrew inscription.
Ezekiel's Tomb
On Israel’s army radio, Professor Shmuel Morre, Israel Prize Laureate in Arabic Literature and Professor Emeritus at Hebrew University of Jerusalem said, the historical damage is irreversible and likely premeditated. “There are Muslim elements that are attempting to erase the Jewish character of the tomb," he stated in a recent Haaretz report.
The Iraqi news agency Ur News reported that the Hebrew inscriptions and ornamentations are being, or have been, removed by the Iraqi government under the pretext of restoring the site.
However, according to Arutz Sheva, “sources in Baghdad say that the Iraqi government plans to turn it into a mosque and erase all Jewish markings.”
Islamist
Minneret near the tomb
On January 15, 2010, the Jerusalem Post stated that Ur News reported Iraq's Antiquities and Heritage Authority plans to build a huge mosque on top of the tomb. , remember in the Bible it says that Abraham came from the land of “Ur.”
Alfassa said that Iraq’s Antiquities and Heritage Authority “has been pressured by Islamists to historically cleanse all evidence of a Jewish connection to Iraq - a land where Jews had lived for over a thousand years before the advent of Islam.”
Although the vast majority of Iraq's Jewish community left approximately 60 years ago, when Israel once again became a nation in fulfillment of the prophecy Isaiah 66, Jews have lived in Iraq since the Babylonian exile starting in 605 BCE.
The country is, therefore, rich in Jewish religious sites. In fact, outside of Israel, Iraq has more Jewish heritage sites than any other nation, including the burial places of Ezra, Daniel, Nehemiah, Nahum and Jonah.
We must remember and take to heart the teachings and prophecies of Ezekiel. One of his most important prophecies is Chapter 37, where he prophesies the Holocaust and the return of the Jewish people in 1948 to their new homeland, Israel.
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Ezekiel Prophesied the coming restoration of Israel in chapter 37:
"Then said he unto me, Prophesy unto the wind, prophesy, son of man, and say to the wind, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live.
So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up upon their feet, an exceeding great army.
Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we are cut off for our parts.
Therefore prophesy and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, O my people, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel.
And ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I have opened your graves, O my people, and brought you up out of your graves,
And shall put my spirit in you, and ye shall live, and I shall place you in your own land: then shall ye know that I the LORD have spoken it, and performed it, saith the LORD."
Between the time of this prophecy in Ezekiel 37 and the Holocaust; the Second Temple was destroyed in 70AD (37 years after Yeshua’s death and resurrection), and the Jews were dispersed to the four corners of the earth. However, many still lived in Babylon.
By the third century, Babylonia became the center of Jewish scholarship – it was there that the Babylonian Talmud was created. Today this is the main Jewish book of study.
In the 7th century, the religion “Islam” was created, and the situation for the Jewish people began to change. Jews were subjected to special taxes, restrictions on their professional activity, and anti-Jewish incitement among the masses.
In 1950, two years after Israel became a nation (mass immigration from Europe after the holocaust referred to in Ezekiel’s prophecy above), the Iraqi parliament finally allowed the Jews to leave, and the Israeli government succeeded in airlifting approximately 110,000 Jews to Israel in Operations Ezra and Nehemiah. Today, it is estimated that there are less than 10 Jews living in Iraq.
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