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Day 12- Temple Mount, Hezekiah's Tunnel
TEMPLE MOUNT: SAW BAR MITZVA'S TAKING PLACE AND PUT PRAYERS IN THE WAILING WALL.
Hezekiah's Tunnel, just me... Layton has too much claustrophobia and couldn't do it at the last minute and would not have made it anyway. It was sooo cool to do! Tight squeeze and cold water and a HUGE hike back but it was worth it!
Model City. This is so amazing. I wish we could have seen this before we started the tour so that we knew where we were going at each place. It was FREEZING and windy all day!
Jerusalem Museum was not that great since time was limited and we were too tired to see all of it.
The Holocaust Museum- Interesting but not enough time to see it all once again. Very interesting though and what we did see I will never forget, especially the shoes...
We had dinner a the hotel and watched a robbery or something out of the window below our hotel. The man ran for it and got caught and got arrested and a mob almost broke out in a riot for about 2 hours... Interesting day.
Can't believe we were at the TEMPLE MOUNT today! Wasn't too spiritual but it was interesting and I am most grateful for all of today!
Other thoughts written about Garden of Gethsemane:
8AM - (Noises of morning in the big city with all the sounds) read Frederick Furrar: The Life of Christ Book- also Joshua Lawrence Chamberlin (the quote given by Michael Wilcox on my 50th birthday video) Garden is an Olive Orchard. THIS IS THE PLACE FOR SURE that Christ suffered the atonement. Matt: prayer- (Christ said watch with me = means to be there or comfort me)possibility of not going through it from Matthew. Mark's prayer: watch Abba is like daddy & father is more respectful: begging, appealing, Luke 22 Christ came here often... "if thou be willing".. hinting prayer. John 18 : doesn't recite anything bout the the prayer. Peral of Great Price - 7:40 Encoh
Listen to Niel Diamond: Dry your Eyes song.
Gethsemane- Gratitude- Empathy but we can't take away the pain, we can only ease it.
From the agenda:
Today we reached the spiritual pinnacle of our pilgrimage as we retraced the footsteps of our Savior during the last hours of his life and felt the deep appreciation these places create for the sacrifice of the Son of God. We began on Mt. Zion at the traditional site of the Upper Room where the Last Supper was shared with devoted apostles. We visited St. Peter in Gallicantu, the possible site of the cock's crowing and the Palace of Caiaphas where Jesus was tried. From there we descended into the Kidron Valley to visit Gethsemane, the Garden of the Savior's deepest prayers. In the afternoon we entered the Old City and continued the last hours of the Savior's life. We then visited The Church of St Anne where the Pools of Bethesda were located. Here Jesus commanded the impotent man to take up his bed and walk. We visited the Convent of the Sisters of Zion, the location of the Antonia Fortress where Pilate tried the Savior. Our highlight day concluded at Golgotha and the Garden Tomb where we had time to ponder the Resurrection and final triumph of Christ. The day concluded at the Olive Tree Hotel.
My notes:
Upper room- last supper , John 13-17. 1st John reiterates teaching "when our heart is suffering, look outward & comfort them. John 14 John 12-27, windows of his soul- Savior comforts others when won heart is troubled. chap 17 intercessory prayer. who he thought of on the cross- his mother, thief's.....bread & water represent physical and spiritual death. Love of God, love of fellowmen- how to show it, He washed their feet it counts. Joy is natural result of obedience. Savior did by action and we should also. comforter teaches you truth and brings back to memory.
St Peter & Galicontu- Peter denies Christ- Ciaphas Palace- cock crows and Peter makes an all or never comment "never say this". IN OUR LIVES DON'T GO TO CIAPHAS PALACE! The most dangerous place Peter could go was to Ciaphas Palace because he din't think he would ever deni Christ. Then he did 3 times! John 18 Luke 22 Christ look at Peter after the cock crows and reminds Peter "He told me so" We can be wiser if we don't go to Ciaphas Palace. We may not be as strong as we think we are! The Cistern at Ciaphas Palace. Jerimiah was in a mud hole prison like this because he wouldn't deny Christ.
Old City Jerusalem: Jesus is brought here to Pilot. John 18:28 "but" enters you into the world of compromise. Pilot encouraged compromise. Luke 23 - Pilot sent Jesus to Harod (at the Jaffa Gate)- he send Jesus back to Pilot- He condemns Jesus but pardons/condemns him but scourge John 19 . ALL BUT'S LEAD TO COMPROMISE PATH!
GARDEN TOMB & CALVARY I am the BEGINNING (the tomb) & THE END (Calvary) Psalm 22- Be thou not far from me. two words- requests- I THURST
DEATH- 4-6 Revelation last chapter, last verses.
Mary came to the tomb in grief & sorry- Jesus said Mary-...
3 token of atonement-
1- Christ said touch my side (means intimacy)
2- christ was submitted- his hands (means wonder)
3 Christ's feet- (meant adoration- difference between thank and praise)
ADORATION says FOCUS ON GIVER OF GIFT
THANKSGIVING says FOCUS ON THE GIFT
MATT: Fear not ye- he is risen, come see the place where the Lord lay.
Temple mount & model city
Hezekiahs Tunnel
Jerusalem Museum,
Holocaust Museum
Michael Wilcox gives last lecture and leaves for TOFW conference.
A wreck & robbery outside our hotel-
BROCHURE NOTES:
Hezekiah's Tunnel
"So there was gathered much people together, and they stopped all the fountains, and the brook that flowed through the midst of the land, saying: 'Why should the kings of Assyria come, and find much water?" (2 Chronicles 32:4)
Fear that the abundant water flowing outside the city could be used by the Assyrian army gave King Hezekiah of Judah no rest. He therefore diverted the water of the Gihon to a tunnel cut through the belly of the rock.
Hezekiah's tunnel led the water to the Shiloah Pool, built within the walls in the southern part of the city (2 Chronicles 32:30). The winding tunnel was hewn simultaneously from both sides for a length of approximately 533 meters. The height differential between the source of the spring and the end of the tunnel is a mere 30 centimeters (an average slope of 0.06 percent)- a truly amazing feat of engineering: "Now the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and all his might, and how he made the pool, and the conduit, and brought water into the city, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?" (2 Kings 20:20)
In 1880, an inscription in ancient Hebrew script was discovered about six meters from the end of the tunnel. It describes the last moments of the complex tunneling operation and the dramatic encounter between the two groups of diggers. "While the hewers wielded the axe, each man toward his fellow, and while there were still three cubits to be hewn, there was heard a man's voice calling to his fellow, for there was a fissure in the rock on the right and on the left. And on the day of the tunneling the hewers hacked each man towards his fellow, axe upon axe. And there flowed the water form the source to the pool for two hundred and a thousand cubits. And a hundred cubits was the height of the rock above the heads of the hewers."
The Shiloah (Siloam) Pool:
"The other events of Hezekiah's reign, and all his exploits, and how he made the pool and the conduit and brought the water into the city, are recorded in the Annals of the Kings of Judah" (2 Kings 20:20)
No conclusive remains of Hezekiah's Pool have been discovered, but it probably stood at the base of the Central Valley. Hezekiah enclosed the pool between the wall of the city of David and the new wall that he built around the Western Hill: "You made also a basin between the two walls for the water of the old pool." ( Isaiah 22:9)
In 2004, remains of a magnificaent pool from the late Second Temple period were uncovered here- the Shiloah Pool Steps descended from four sides to the floor of the pool. The steps are overlaid with stone, and underneath them are the remains of an earlier pool dating from the Hasmonean era. The pool appears to have extended across the entire area of the present-day orchard, covering approximately three dunams (50x60 meters). Texts from the Second Temple period mention the Shiloah Pool in the context of temple ceremonies: "How was the Water Libation performed? He (the priest) would fill a golden flask hoding three logs (a liquid measure) with water from Shiloah..." (Mishnah Sukkah 4:9) The special stepped structure of the pool has led excavators to posit that pilgrims used it as a ritual bath to purify themselves before ascending to the Temple.
The Jerusalem Archaeological Park
The Jerusalem Archaeological Park reveals the most amazing discoveries of Jerusalem during the Second Temple period. At the feet of the Southern Wall of the Temple Mount, in the area known as the Ophel, the visitor can climb up the original steps of the Hulda Gates that lead to the Temple Mount.
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| We were here in the early morning before the crowds really started coming to try to feel the spirit . Layton had a wonderful spiritual experience here and has been able to share that with all of our children. |
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| These trees are 2000 years old or more and would have definitely been here when Christ was praying in the garden. |
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| Trying to gather pebbles from the dirt to bring home. |
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| The caretaker on duty |
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| Apparently that lady on the left didn't like waiting for us to take a photo - |
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| cemetery |
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| JERUSALEM GARDEN OF GETHSEMANE (MATTHEW 26:36-56) CAIAPHAS PALACE 1ST TRIAL - PETER'S DENIAL (MATTHEW 26:57-75) GARDEN TOMB/ROCK OF SKULL (MATTHEW 27,28) ASCENSION TO HEAVEN (LUKE 24:50-51, ACTS 1 :9-12) |
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| We enjoyed walking through the streets very much- so interesting |
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| Gag- y Cats were everywhere but they said that they let them roam because they take care of the rodents- ok |
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| Climbing up to the upper room where Jesus had the Last Supper |
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| One of many claiming to be the Birth Place of Mary |
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| So hot down here |
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| OK seriously? Me? Yes, even I was coaxed into trying a piece of bread off of the street vender. Was not too bad either except for the part about not knowing if it had been dropped off his cart or not or whatever... oh well... for the experience, right? |
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| nervous. |
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| I did it! |
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| So darling! Little Jewish girls climbing down the stairs on the street after school alone. |
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| Nice fountain on my head.... |
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| Probably not appropriate but oh well? |
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| This is ROCK OF SKULL (MATT. 27-28) where Christ was crucified. The place would have been at the bottom there where the bus parking lot is now. |
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| I loved this place and could feel the Spirit so strong, I did not want to leave. Some on our tour had lost husbands and loved ones and they felt so close to the Spirit as well. |
A VERY LONG BUT GLORIOUS DAY
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| Back to the Hotel |
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