World War 3 Update: Is the Dome of the Rock the Third Temple?

My father’s house shall be called a house of prayer for all people.

– Jesus, Matthew 21:13, et al

The ferment and discord in the Middle East continues with a roller-coaster ride of escalation and de-escalation. One never knows from one moment to the next whether an event will lead to peace or war – particularly, world war.

A reconstruction of Iran’s role in Bible prophecy and the gospel of the kingdom has been elucidated in previous Peshers. The reader is encouraged to study them, as well.

Until now, we have not examined the role of Islam, other than in its more dubious expressions in the violent acts of extremists.

Let us begin with a few fundamental facts:

1. Muhammad was the son of Nestorian Christians, if not literally, certainly derivatively. Nestorian Christians emphasized the humanity of Jesus and viewed the expression – “the Son of God” – as more of an assignation of status than a description of essence. Like the Arians, Nestorians saw divine sonship as the result of an apotheosis rather than the reality of an incarnation.
2. Muhammad’s doctrine viewed Christ as Prophet and Messiah.
3. In spite of Rome’s bloody campaigns against the Jews, the Middle East was never purged of them. Large numbers of them lived in “diaspora” in places like Alexandria, Egypt, Parthia and in the Arabian peninsula. Many of these Jews converted to Islam because they found in it a common ground between Judaism and Nestorian Christianity. Muhammadism provided an irenic resolution between these two Abrahamic faiths.
4. At about this time, the iconography and the worship of images began to grip the Roman branches of Christianity: Orthodox and Catholic. By the 8th century, what has been called “Mystery Babylon” emerged. This was the period in which the Established Churches gained temporal power.
5. The Muslims viewed these expressions of Christianity as an apostasy of extraordinary wickedness.
6. With the aid of Muslim Jews and Muslim Christians, Jerusalem was recaptured and repopulated to form a new Jerusalem and in the course of time to build a new temple on the old temple site: the Dome of the Rock.
7. Often confused with the Mosque of Omar, this shrine is strictly a house of prayer for the faithful. The only confession required being, “I believe in one God, and Muhammad is his prophet.”
8. While of great historical and literary value, the Quran (Koran) cannot be ascribed as the work of Muhammad, nor is there any authentic and authoritative source of Muhammad’s teachings. Unlike the Gospels which contain the actual words and deeds of Jesus Christ, we have no such resource for Muhammad. What we have is secondary and anecdotal. Of course, this salient fact is hotly disputed among Muslims.
9. Regardless, as a place of prayer “for all people,” the Dome of the Rock fulfills the will of Christ when He cleansed the temple, as noted above.
10. All that remains for the Muslims to bring peace to the world is to open this place of prayer to the adherents of all Abrahamic faiths – strictly as a place of prayer, not one of teaching or ceremony.

The aspiration of Christian Zionists for a new temple where the Jewish sacrificial system and priesthood can be restored is an unnecessary and even dangerous heresy. It can be regarded as the penultimate revival of Satanism and threatens the world with the destruction of war in the name of this usurpation.

Future Peshers are planned for 2026 to dig into this deeper. In the meantime, the reader is invited to watch Professor Jiang’s world history lectures on Muhammadism:

And here:

I close with an excerpt from the Church Policy of the Cambrian Episcopal Church:

§16 The Peace of Jerusalem:

The violence and strife in the Middle East has demonstrated the failure of diplomacy and the inability of the three major religious groups – Christianity, Judaism, and Islam – to exert a peaceful moral influence upon their followers. Regrettably, all three groups seem resigned to a war of genocide to resolve this conflict.

The Desposyni teach that peace will come when they are entrusted with the leadership of these three religions. Following the plan found in the final chapters of Ezekiel (a book written for the post-Exilic and pre-Messianic period, yet still relevant for us today), the inhabitants of Jerusalem must be selected from all the nations of the earth according to a lottery system. Only these inhabitants of Jerusalem may sponsor and escort worshippers to the Holy Mount (Zechariah 8:22-23), which must be excavated of any structures and left clear for pilgrims to worship in the open air (Revelation 21:22). Only then will peace come.

All races and religions must relinquish their claims of exclusivity as “God’s chosen” and recognize that all people as individuals must “work out their own salvation with fear and trembling.”  As to temporal dominion, “the meek shall inherit the earth.” The meek are those who submit themselves to the burdens of family life, work hard, and live for the benefit of others.  When the human species finally learns this lesson – that personal advancement comes from service and not from schemes of deceit or coercion to exploit others – then the Kingdom of Heaven will come to Earth.

JWS, 11/23/25