Isaiah Hopes Temple Mount Police Don’t Find ‘A House Of Prayer For All Nations Except Jews’ Early Draft

“Hope I disposed of it properly; wouldn’t want it falling into the wrong hands.”

Jerusalem, February 20 – Israel’s leading prophet during the latter First Temple period disclosed today his concerns that law enforcement authorities many centuries from now might get hold of the wrong version of his visions about universal worship of the one God, and misapply his not-finalized phraseology to prevent his people from engaging in said worship at the one location on Earth dedicated to it.

Isaiah, son of Amotz, admitted feeling some anxiety over the language he used in an earlier draft of prophecy that in its authorized form reads, “I will bring them to My holy mount; I will gladden them in the house of My prayer; their burnt offerings and their sacrifices will be welcomed on My altar, for My house will be called a house of prayer for all the nations.” The earlier draft adds the phrase, “except Jews,” a textual quirk that the seer attributes to a moment of distraction. If future police find the earlier version, he fears, they might seize on it to keep Jews from praying at their holiest site despite the fulfillment of his other prophecies regarding the restoration of Jewish sovereignty over all of Jerusalem and the Holy Land.

“Not sure what I did with the first draft of chapter fifty-six,” muttered the prophet to no one in particular. “Hope I disposed of it properly; wouldn’t want it falling into the wrong hands.”

Isaiah acknowledged that oppressors of his people through the generations will try to separate them from their homeland and its sacred sites, both to assert dominance and to minimize the potential for the undermined divine legitimacy that continued Jewish sovereignty implies for those claiming to displace Jews as God’s chosen nation. “Still, I’d like to think that when the prophecies of redemption and ingathering come true, Jews will know better than to prevent other Jews from praying at the Temple Mount,” he mused. “It would be kind of backwards, and really perverse I guess is the word, for Jewish-run police in a Jewish state asserting Jewish sovereignty over the Jewish homeland to prevent Jews from engaging in the one thing the place is meant to facilitate more than anything else, a direct relationship with the Almighty. I’ll check the whole room again just to make sure it isn’t lying around where someone who misunderstands will find it. I’d hate to think what would happen if the wrong people get their hands on it.”

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