Mount Moriah

Mount Moriah.

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 remember what we all have done, since our childhood, entering Jerusalem. Where do our eyes turn? To Mount Moriah, triumphantly crowned with the marbles and gold of the Temple."

Maria Valtorta even describes the various smells that prevailed there.

"the smell of incence spreads pleasantly overwhelming every other less pleasant odour which one can smell at the top of the Moriah, that is, I would say, the perpetual smells of meat slaughtered and consumed by fire, of burnt flour, of burning oil, which are always perceptible up there, more or less strongly, because of the continuous holocausts."

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

“Mud! Mud! But is it rising from outside, or from the top of Moria is it flowing over the town and all over 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 that is neither on the Moria nor on the Gerizim, but 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.

GRM 169.7.

GRM 265.10.

GRM 337.1/2.

GRM 509.4 GRM 518.1.

GRM 558.6.

GRM 604.14.

Learn More About This Place

Excerpt from the Geographical Dictionary of the Gospel According to 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. “I solemnly tell you that you and your successors will not have covered all the roads and all the towns in Israel before the Son of Man comes. Because on account of its dreadful sin Israel will be scattered like chaff by a whirlwind, and will be spread all over the earth and centuries and millennia will go by before it is gathered again on the threshing-floor of Araunah the Jebusite.”

Later, it is in the synagogue of Chorazin that the Master challenges the notable people present: “Araunah replied to David: ‘Let the lord my king take and offer as he likes. Here are the oxen for the holocaust, the threshing-sled and the oxen’s yoke for the wood; Araunah, O king, gives all this to the king’. And he added: ‘May the Lord your God accept your offering’. But the king replied and said: ‘It shall not be done as you wish. No. I will pay you in money, as I will not offer the Lord my God holocausts that cost me nothing’” [...] “Have you understood the meaning?” “That is the second book of the Kings, when the holy king bought the threshing floor of Araunah… But we do not understand why You recited it. There is no pestilence here and no sacrifice to be offered. You are not a king… We mean: not yet." "I solemnly tell you that your minds are slow in understanding symbols and your faith is uncertain. If it were certain, you would see that I am already King, as I said, and if your understanding were quick, you would realise that there is a plague here that is more serious than the one that worried David. You are afflicted by the plague of unbelief, which causes you to perish.”

One last time, while He is brought on the evening of the Passion before the High Priest Caiaphas, Jesus testifies: "And I am about to take My sceptre and with it, as with a winnowing-fan, I will clear 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 According to Maria Valtorta, by Jean-François Lavère.