Salem Becomes Temple Site: Later, when the Jebusite city of Salem came into the hands of King David, it became the City of David, Jerusalem. He purchased the threshing floor of a Jebusite for the future House of the Lord.

Modern-day Temple Sites: Later, through the modern-day restoration of the gospel, buildings were erected as Houses of the Lord.

Cities Become Temple: As mentioned in the previous chapter, in the future, the temples will return to the Stakes of Zion, and, in fact, some cities will become temples. So, in addition to the title "Houses of the Lord," there will be "Cities of the Lord."

Jews Pray For Temple Restoration: In year 70 when Titus destroyed Jerusalem, the Jews lost their temple and the city of Jerusalem. Ever since, religious Jews have prayed three times daily at each meal and at other times for the rebuilding of the temple. Three traditions have developed: First, some think the temple will come from heaven as the Messiah manifests himself (prefab?). The second is that few Jews think of destroying the present Moslem shrine, the Dome of the Rock, and the nearby Al Aksa mosque and build the temple as last remembered. The third has some truthful possibilities when in recent decades, the late Rabbi Abraham HaKohen Kook referred to a tradition of a "latter-day Joseph" and quoted the twelfth century Rabbi Moses Maimonides, who said about a latter-day Joseph, ". . . to him will be given the keys of the gathering of Israel, he will restore Temple worship."

Keys and Temple Work Restored: Latter-day Saints claim to be descendants of ancient Joseph and testify that the keys of the gathering of Israel and temple work have been restored. They also know that the Jews will build the temple in Jerusalem. At the beginning of the century, when Latter-day Saint President John Taylor showing Baron Rothschild a Latter-day Saint Temple, Rothschild asked, "Elder Taylor, what do you mean by this temple? What is the object of it? Why are you building it?" President Taylor answered, ". . . One of your prophets said--The Lord whom ye seek shall suddenly come to his temple . . . sir, will you point me out a place on the face of the earth where God has a temple?" Rothschild said, ". . . Do you consider that this is that temple?" President Taylor answered, "No, sir, it is not. . . . The Lord has told us to build this temple so that we may administer therein [ordinances] for our dead and also to perform some of the sacred matrimonial . . . covenants that we believe in . . . which are among the . . . most ennobling principles that God ever revealed to man."