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It Ain’t Over Til It’s Over – Is it over?
Harold was shot through the eye with an arrow and fell along with his kingdom. Today we have an English Prince named William, not Harold.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Hastings
More to our point, mentioned in DaVinci Code by our schoolmate Dan Brown, Friday 13 October 1307, King Philip of France, deeply in debt to the two-century old Knights Templars, mass arrested the Bankers of the Crusade to seize their wealth and stop their power.
Grand Master Jacques de Molay was tortured and burned alive at the stake facing Notre Dame Cathedral with his hands together in prayer. He called out from the flames that the Pope and King would soon meet him again before God. Pope Clement died a month later and King Philip died in a hunting accident before the end of the year.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knights_Templar
The once poor Knights Templar (their crest was two knights on a horse describing them as Soldiers of Christ) became rich powerful bankers, builders and architects of the New World Order who invented letters of credit and cheques.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Aqsa_Mosque
Knights Templar captured the Mosque of Al Aqsa, where Muhammad fled from Mecca on the Night Journey and prayed for triumphant return. Al Aqsa neighbors the Dome of the Rock, the oldest Muslim building in the world (from 691), where Muhammad ascended from The Rock on the Mount.
These buildings were intended for pilgrims and became political hot potatoes.
Jerusalem fell to the Romans in 70 AD/CE and to the Muslims in 637. They changed hands to the Augustinians and Knights Templar during the Crusades, and back to Saladin, the chivalrous Kurd Sunni Muslim, in 1187.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saladin
