Mount Moriah

Mount Moriah (Temple Mount, Haram esh-Sharif, Arauna’s Threshing Floor, Ornan’s Threshing Floor)

Mountain on which the Temple of Jerusalem is built. It is often mentioned in the work of Maria Valtorta. It is historically the site of Abraham’s sacrifice.

Inhabitants or Natives

All devout Jews, priests, members of the Sanhedrin, Pharisees, Sadducees, etc.... One is not born there, one comes there and sanctifies oneself, ... or one is lost there ...

Description

Mount Moriah is inseparable from the Temple of Jerusalem:

"I beg you to recall what we all do, from the earliest childhood, when entering Jerusalem. Where do the eyes rush to? To Mount Moriah crowned by the triumph of marble and gold of the Temple."

Maria Valtorta even describes the various smells that prevailed there.

"A sweet incense fragrance that prevents the smell of other less pleasant odors you can perceive on the summit of Moriah, that is, the perpetual, I would say the natural odor of flesh slaughtered and consumed by fire, burnt flour, burning oil which always lingers up there, more or less strong, but always present because of the continuous holocausts"

Several times, Jesus protests against the corruption that prevailed at this place, among the ruling class and the merchants.

“The mud! But does it come from outside, or does it overflow from the top of Moriah onto the city and all Israel?”.

Soon before his Passion, the Master gives this recommendation addressed both to Jews and Samaritans:

“It would be better if you were faithful to the living Temple which is neither on Moriah nor on Garizim, but which, being divine, is universal”.

Notable Events

Each time Jesus and the apostolic group come to Jerusalem, they go to pray at the Temple, then Jesus teaches at the gate of the Gentiles’ court.

Name

Mount Moriah, Moriah, Haram esh-Sharif, Arauna’s Threshing Floor, Ornan’s Threshing Floor, the Temple Mount

Where is it mentioned in the work?

The mount is mentioned more than thirty times in the work.

EMV 169.7.

EMV 265.10.

EMV 337.1/2.

EMV 509.4 EMV 518.1.

EMV 558.6.

EMV 604.14.

Learn More About This Place

Excerpt from the Geographical Dictionary of the Gospel Salton Maria Valtorta, by Jean-François Lavère:

Abraham

Place where Abraham offered his son Isaac as a sacrifice.

David

Arauna’s threshing floor is another name for Mount Moriah, on which the Temple of Jerusalem was built. David bought from Araunah the Jebusite, his threshing floor and oxen to offer a sacrifice to God.

Jesus mentions Arauna’s threshing floor three times. The first time when he instructs his Apostles at the beginning of his ministry, not hiding their future destiny. “Truly I tell you, you will not finish, you and your successors, going through the streets and towns of Israel before the Son of Man comes. For Israel, because of its dreadful sin, will be scattered like chaff caught by a whirlwind and spread across the earth. And centuries and millennia, one after another and more, will succeed each other before it is gathered again on Arauna’s threshing floor, the Jebusite’s’'”.

Later, it is in the synagogue of Chorazin that the Master challenges the notable people present: “Arauna replied to David: ‘Let the king, my lord, take and offer as he pleases. Here are the oxen for the burnt offering, the cart and the oxen’s yokes for the wood; this is all, O king, that Arauna gives to the king.’ And he added: ‘May the Lord God accept your vow!’ .. But the king replied: ‘It will not be as you wish. No. I want to pay cash and I do not want to offer to the Lord my God burnt offerings that have cost me nothing’”... “Do you understand the meaning?” “This is found in the second book of Kings, when the holy king bought Arauna’s threshing floor ... But we do not understand why you said it. Here there is no plague and there is no offering to be made. You are not a king… We mean: you are not yet one.” “Truly your minds are slow to understand symbols, and your faith is uncertain. If it were sure, you would see that I am already King as I have said, and if you had a quick intuition, you would understand that there is a very serious plague here, more than the one that tormented David. You have the plague of unbelief that makes you perish”.

One last time, while He is brought on the evening of the Passion before the High Priest Caiaphas, Jesus testifies: “I will take my scepter and with it, like with a winnowing fork, cleanse the threshing floor”. The allusion here is discreet but could not escape Caiaphas.

Solomon and Herod

At the place planned by his father David, Solomon built the first Temple, which was destroyed by the Babylonians in 586 BC. Just before our era, Herod restored the second Temple and made it a majestic building.

Explore

• 31° 46’ 39’’ N / 35° 14’ 08’’ E /
• +745m

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Notes and References

Article written based on the Geographical Dictionary of the Gospel Salton Maria Valtorta, by Jean-François Lavère.