Security forces were gearing up for more anticipated violence ahead of Friday Muslim prayers at Jerusalem’s Temple Mount as police announced 60 people were arrested overnight on suspicion of planning violence.

There was also a confrontation with Palestinians where they tried to break a gate down that Israeli police had previously placed on a closed area.

The Gate of Mercy, or Golden Gate, on the eastern side of the Temple Mount, was sealed by Israeli authorities in 2003 because the group managing the area had ties to Hamas.

And it has been kept closed to stop illegal construction work there by the Waqf, which Israeli officials believe has led to the destruction of antiquities from periods of Jewish presence in the area.

Palestinians tried to break the gate that Israel placed on the closed area last week after the Muslim Waqf religious council broke into the area and held prayers there.

Reportedly, the Jordanian government, which controls the Waqf, enlarged its council from 11 to 18 members, and for the first time, Palestinian Authority officials and religious leaders were installed in the body, which has historically been made up of individuals closer to the Jordanian monarchy.

The Jerusalem Temple Mount, the location of the biblical Jewish Temples, and now of the Al-Aqsa Mosque and Dome of the Rock shrine, in recent years has become an epicenter of tensions between Israelis and Palestinians.

The Biblical prophecies foretell that Jerusalem and the Temple Mount will be the epicenter of Last Days events at the end of this age. And Signs of the Last Days happening there now show us we are nearing the end of this age and the coming of Lord Jesus.

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