Following Jesus in Jerusalem #2: 1st century Jerusalem Model

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrif7fwPn8g

WHAT STOOD ON TEMPLE MOUNT?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFj4bd-SEo8

THE THIRD TEMPLE WILL BE BUILT SOON, BUT NOT WHERE YOU THINK! Terri Buckingham Living Water Press

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQEJcsyI0Us

Bob Cornuke's Temple Discovery Presentation on Site in Jerusalem | Living Passages Christian Travel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oBWNp6Rq9s

The Temple Mount and Fort Antonia

Mouse over the various sections of the diagram to obtain a short description of that area. 

By Ernest L. Martin, PH. D., April 1998

We all remember the proverb that a picture is worth a thousand words. This is so true. When we are able to view a site that we have been reading or hearing about, the historical and architectural information associated with the area becomes much more meaningful and the subject better understood. That is certainly the case with the Temple built by Herod the Great that existed in the time of Christ Jesus along with the adjacent fortress that dominated the landscape known as Fort Antonia. The truth is, no one in modern history (nor for the past 1900 years) has actually witnessed the complex of buildings that comprised the Holy Sanctuary and the fort that was built to protect it. This is one of the reasons why I have wanted to present to all of you on the ASK mailing list the first general view of what the Temple and Fort Antonia looked like to the inhabitants of Jerusalem during the time of Jesus. Once we recognize the actual situation of the two structures that I show in the illustrations, and once you realize their dimensions, many points of teaching that we observe in the New Testament will make much better sense to us. In a word, a true perspective of those two buildings that occupied the greater part of northeastern Jerusalem (west of the Mount of Olives and the Mount of Offense) will provide a panoramic view that will show the sheer beauty and majesty of the Mother City of the Jews in the early part of the first century. Without doubt, it was a splendid and awesome display of architectural grandeur at its best. My new book "The Temples that Jerusalem Forgot" will present the full and interesting details.