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report was. So he was terribly affrighted, and went out, and built a propitiatory
monument of that fright he had been in; and this of white stone, at the mouth of the
sepulchre...(Antiquities 14.7.1).

The physical "Shekinah" put the fear of God in Herod and his surviving men and, frankly,
"scared the hell" out of them!

YEHOVAH's "Shekinah" remained in the Temple all through the life and death of Yeshua
and up to the year 66 A.D. -- when it was seen leaving the Temple and alighting on the Mount of
Olives. Notice!

There is also another reason why Christians in the first century were very interested in the
Mount of Olives. This is because it was believed that the Shekinah Glory of God which
supposedly dwelt inside the Holy of Holies at the Temple left the sanctuary and went to
the Mount of Olives and hovered over that spot at the time of the Roman/Jewish War
which ended in A.D. 70. The fact that the Shekinah Glory left the old Temple and
migrated to the top of the Mount of Olives was an important event to Eusebius [church
historian and scholar A.D. 260?-340?]. -- Secrets of Golgotha, by Ernest L. Martin. 1988:
ASK Publications, Alhambra, CA. P. 83.

In Eusebius' book Proof of the Gospel we find this passage --

Believers in Christ congregate from all parts of the world, not as of old time because of
the glory of Jerusalem, nor that they may worship in the ancient Temple at Jerusalem,
but...that they may worship at the Mount of Olives opposite to the city, whither the glory
[the Shekinah Glory] of the LORD [YEHOVAH, YHVH] migrated when it left the
former city. (Book VI, Chapter 18 (288)).

According to Eusebius the "Shekinah" Glory left the Temple and hovered over the Mount
of Olives during "the siege of Jerusalem" (66 A.D. to 70). However, Eusebius was not the only
observer who mentioned that the "Shekinah" Glory left the Temple before the destruction of the
Temple and hovered over the Mount of Olives. A Jewish rabbi named Jonathan -- who was an
eyewitness to the destruction of Jerusalem -- said the "Shekinah" Glory left the Temple and for
three and a half years

"abode on the MOUNT OF OLIVES hoping that Israel would repent, but they did not;
while a Bet Kol [a supernatural voice from heaven] issued forth announcing, Return, O
backsliding children [Jer. 3:14]. Return unto Me, and I will return unto you [Mal. 3:7],
when they did not repent, it said, I WILL RETURN TO MY PLACE [Hosea 5:15]"
(Midrash Rabbah, Lamentations 2:11). -- Secrets of Golgotha, by Ernest L. Martin. 84.

There was yet another writer who recorded the fact of the "Shekinah" presence of YEHO-
VAH God moving from the Temple in Jerusalem just before the war with the Romans. Josephus
mentioned that in the Spring of 66 A.D. some astonishing events took place within the Temple. He
recorded three miracles associated with YEHOVAH's "Shekinah" and the Temple -- and each one
showed clearly that the "Shekinah" was departing from the Holy of Holies. In Wars VI, 290 he

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