It has been in the planning for years..Bible prophecy cannot be stopped .. It is not a new idea
In 1992 Randall Price and I wrote a book about current efforts in Israel to rebuild Israel’ s Third Temple called Ready to Rebuild.[1] One of the key Israelis leading the charge to build Israel’ s next Temple, that we featured in the book is a man named Dr. Gershon Salomon. Dr. Salomon is head of an organization called The Temple Mount Faithful which he founded to do anything they can to attempt to rebuild the Jewish Temple. My wife and I were privileged to have him in our home for a meal a few years ago. Gershon, as he is known by his friends, was recently in the news in Israel, as he usually is this time of the year.
Dr. Salomon began to be known to some Americans as a result of his bold initiative to lay the cornerstone of the Third Temple in October 1989. At that time he tried to drive a truck up the Temple Mount carrying a 4.5 ton cornerstone in an effort to provoke his fellow countrymen to rise up and undertake the rebuilding of the Temple. Instead, it served only to provoke the Arabs. The next year (October 1990), when Gershon attempted his laying of the cornerstone, 19 Palestinians were killed when it was rumored throughout the Islamic quarters that the Israeli “infidels” were taking over the Temple Mount. This incident demonstrated to many around the world the importance of the Temple Mount to Arab and Jew.
No matter how much the Temple Mount in Jerusalem in thought by Arabs to be significant to them, it pales in comparison to the passion that religious Jews have for that 35 acre piece of real estate. Nothing captures that passion as much as the following Jewish expression:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/812504.Ready_to_Rebuild