The Amman declaration demands the Temple Mount for Islam alone
Foreign ministers from more than a dozen Arab and Muslim nations met in Amman, Jordan, on August 5.
The meeting produced a 15-point declaration against Israel.
The ministers declared that every Israeli measure in Jerusalem is null and void. The ministers also declared that East Jerusalem is the capital of a future Palestinian state.
The most aggressive point was religious: the declaration says the entire Temple Mount compound, all 144 dunams (about 14 hectares), is a place of worship exclusively for Muslims.
The signers include Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Qatar, Iraq, Algeria, Tunisia, Somalia and Morocco, plus Turkey, Indonesia, Pakistan and Malaysia.
The group announced a permanent mechanism and a media platform to document alleged Israeli violations and present them to international organizations.
The group also called for a joint session at the UN General Assembly in September to increase pressure on Israel.
Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi warned that an Israeli takeover of the compound could be imminent, and he said that tampering with the site could ignite a religious conflict across the whole Muslim world.
The trigger was July 23, when Israeli minister Itamar Ben-Gvir ascended the Temple Mount with more than 2,000 Jewish worshippers.
The oldest property deed in history
The phrase “exclusively for Muslims” deserves a history lesson.
King Solomon built the first Temple on that mount about 3,000 years ago, a full thousand years before Islam existed.
Rome destroyed the second Temple in the year 70. The Temple Mount is the holiest site in Judaism. The Western Wall, where millions pray today, is only the retaining wall of that ancient Temple platform.
Since 1967, Israel has controlled the city but allowed the Waqf, a Jordanian Islamic foundation, to administer the compound.
Non-Muslims may visit during limited hours, but only Muslims may pray there.
The arrangement is remarkable. The Jewish state won the war, yet Jews cannot pray at their own holiest site.
The Amman ministers call this arrangement “the status quo” and accuse Israel of destroying the status quo. In reality, their declaration demands something darker: the official erasure of Jewish history.
Even Google Translate has surrendered to that narrative, because the translator replaces the Jewish name of the mount with the name “Esplanade of the Mosques.”
The persecutors present themselves as protectors
The Amman declaration claims to defend Christian holy sites and Christian worshippers.
The claim is hard to take seriously.
Pakistan imprisons Christians under blasphemy laws, and mobs have burned entire Christian neighborhoods.
In Somalia, conversion to Christianity can mean death. Algeria has closed dozens of Protestant churches. Egyptian Copts have buried their martyrs for decades. Turkey converted the Hagia Sophia, once the greatest church in Christendom, into a mosque in 2020.
Meanwhile, Israel is the one country in the Middle East where the Christian population grows and worships in freedom.
The governments that persecute Christians at home now present themselves as their protectors in Jerusalem.
That is not diplomacy. That is hypocrisy with a UN agenda.
The nations move toward Jerusalem
While the Amman bloc issues declarations, a quiet counter-current keeps growing.
President Trump (@realDonaldTrump) recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel in December 2017 and moved the American embassy there in May 2018.
The critics predicted a regional explosion. The explosion never came.
Today the United States, Guatemala, Honduras, Kosovo, Paraguay, Papua New Guinea and Fiji all keep embassies in Jerusalem, and Fiji opened its embassy in September 2025.
More nations are on the way.
Argentine President Javier Milei promised to open his country’s embassy in Jerusalem during 2026.
Costa Rican President Laura Fernandez told Israeli President Isaac Herzog that she wants to return the Costa Rican embassy to Jerusalem, and both governments already agreed to open a Costa Rican trade office with diplomatic status in that city.
The newest name is Colombia. President-elect Abelardo de la Espriella takes office on August 7.
De la Espriella confirmed that Colombia will open its embassy in Jerusalem, and his team suspended the previous government’s plan for an embassy in Palestine.
During his campaign, De la Espriella promised to defend the Judeo-Christian principles of Western civilization.
The pattern is clear: the nations that honor the Bible keep moving toward Jerusalem.
What the Bible says about that mount
For Christians, the Temple Mount is not just disputed land. It is the place where Bible prophecy will be fulfilled.
The apostle Paul warned about a final deceiver, the man of lawlessness, “who opposes and exalts himself against every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, proclaiming himself to be God” (2 Thessalonians 2:4).
Paul opened that warning with the words “let no one deceive you in any way.”
Jesus Himself pointed to the same location: “So when you see the abomination of desolation spoken of by the prophet Daniel, standing in the holy place, then those who are in Judea must flee to the mountains” (Matthew 24:15-16).
For a temple to be desecrated, a temple must exist.
For eighteen centuries, skeptics mocked these prophecies because the Jewish people had no land.
Then Israel was reborn in 1948. Then Israel recovered Jerusalem in 1967.
Today an institute in Jerusalem has already prepared the priestly garments and vessels, and red heifers arrived by airplane from Texas.
Pastor John MacArthur used the books of Daniel and Ezekiel to teach that history ends with “the restored temple of the millennial kingdom.”
MacArthur preached that the survival of the Jewish people, by itself, proves that God still has promises to fulfill.
The ministers in Amman believe a declaration can decide the future of that mount forever.
Scripture says otherwise.
They chose the wrong decade to threaten Israel
The Amman bloc demands UN pressure at the exact moment when the alliance between America and Israel stands at its strongest point in decades.
Since October 2023, the enemies of Israel have fallen one by one.
Hamas is militarily shattered. Hezbollah lost its leader and its command structure. The Assad regime in Syria collapsed.
In June 2025, President Trump sent American bombers against the Iranian nuclear program and left that program in ruins.
The countries that once threatened to destroy Israel now write press releases instead.
“America First” means clarity: no UN committee dictates the capital of our closest ally.
Trump proved that telling the truth about Jerusalem brings no punishment, and the nations that followed him have prospered.
Declarations fade, but the God of Israel keeps His promises. ???????? ???????? ✝️
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