Can stones speak out?

At the foot of the extended Western Wall of the Temple Mount in the Old City of Jerusalem lay a large pile of multi-ton stones. That rubble has lain in that spot for two-thousand years, since the day the Roman legions destroyed the Temple and levered those stones off the mount in 70 AD. It happened just as Yeshua had predicted, “Not one stone shall be left upon another that shall not be cast down.”

But during those two millennia of Jerusalem’s desolation, the hot desert winds had completely covered those large building blocks with layers of dirt, making them invisible to the eye. It was only after the Six-Day War in 1967 that Jewish archaeologists were able to enter the Old City and excavate the mound and discover the rubble from the Second Temple buildings. In shocked amazement, all beheld those huge worked building stones exactly as they had fallen on the ninth day of the Hebrew month of Av in 70 AD, cracking the pavement below.

As the workers removed the tons of earth that reached some eighteen feet up the Western Wall, one of the workers suddenly uncovered some ancient Hebrew writing carved into that wall. Like a scene from “Raiders of the Lost Ark,” the archaeologist cleared the soil away to behold the engraved words, “When your eyes see this, your heart will rejoice, and your bones shall flourish like the grass.” It was the prophetic words from the final chapter of the scroll of Isaiah 66:14, originally penned in the 8th century BC.

But that was only the first half of the verse, which continues on to say, “For the hand of YHVH shall be revealed unto His servants, and His fury unto His enemies.” This discovery came to light immediately following the miraculous defeat of the overwhelming invading Arab armies who had come to destroy the young and restored Jewish state, but instead succeeded in returning Jerusalem to its original owners after two thousand years of dispersion and exile. It was that same unlikely victory that also returned the lands of Judah and Samaria to its former landlords where lay their forefathers’ tombs, from Hebron all the way to the Jordan River. This being the bone of contention occupying the powers of this world to this day.

So yes, it appears that the stones can speak, still there for all to see, and very much deliver a relevant message concerning our times and seasons- to those with ears to hear.