FLORIDA
September 1st
I headed for Florida and was received by Gerry and Melinda. I spoke at their
church; First Baptist church Dover and we were able to get more children
sponsors. Praise God.
HOLY LAND EXPERIENCE
The truth is
that this was the most fascinating place I have ever seen in my life that
brings a live the picture of the Bible days. I mean it made the Bible come alive.
Among the many well-built and well maintained are; the garden of Eden,
Bethlehem, garden of Gethsemane, Jerusalem, Calvary hill and Nazareth.
THE BIBLE
The first
place we visited was the place that explains the origin of the the Bible and
it’s authenticity as the work of God.
The Bible is
the most read book, the narrator said as he started his 55 minute tour through
different apartments that explained how the Bible came into existence up to
today.
Later on
they started making scrolls from reeds and they would write scripture
manuscripts and later on started using paper. He told us that as the truth of
the word of God started to spread the enemy started to fight and many scrolls
were burnt. Somehow a few were preserved and could be passed on.
The original
scripts were written in Hebrew and later on the New Testament in Greek. John
Wycliff the first man to translate the Bible put it in the language the
ordinary man can read so that the work can spread in the Roman Empire. He translated the N.T into Italian since that
was the language spoken in Rome. Martin Luther influenced the church to read
the Bible and the Bible was translated in German.
Today the
Bible is the most read book in the entire Universe.
THE TOUR THROUGH THE HOLY LAND EXPERIENCE
We started
the tour with the Garden of Eden with the Ark of the Covenant
and all the
animals. Then the Tabernacle of Moses. There was this Old Testament priest that
took us step by step through the temple worship of those days. Right from the
alter of sacrifice where Jews would start their worship by sacrificing a lamb.
Then the basin where they would wash their hands lest they die. God is a holy God
so they had to be pure before they enter the Holy place. Then you would enter
the Tabernacle and the first thing would be the table of unleavened bread. Then
the table of seven candle sticks and finally the alter of incense. From here
you enter through the curtain to the Holy of Hollies and only the High priest
was allowed to enter this place and once every year with blood to atone for the
sins of the nation. In here you would find the Ark of the Covenant that
contained tablets of the Ten Commandments, the pot of Manna and Aaron’s rod
that budded. The whole this was awesome!![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9B2c555wGegOM8lk_oemEqmi1uPTVEngrbVlO_CCkmADmsONgjT7LzvQC6H1hylABbOtegJLzF0FGEjQlg0iSpdsQqAh3NxeU1B6VsZmtAA6q4uDblTxFW7OJX1NJLexSKmmI8aopFyQ/s320/Bethelehem.JPG)
After this
Bethlehem, where Jesus was born from. It has all these beautiful replicas of
baby Jesus, Mary and Joseph plus the shepherd, Angels and the wise men with
their camels. It all looks beautiful.
Then,
Nazareth where Jesus grew from. It has a very short entrance depicted in the
bible times as the eye of the needle; Camels had to stay outside thus Jesus
giving the parable being so hard for the camel to go through the eye of the
needle.
Then
Jerusalem as it was in the days of Jesus, with all the beautiful places like
the Solomon Temple which though it was destroyed by the Babylonians, it was rebuilt
by Herod and it was very beautiful covered with Gold. This was later destroyed by
the Romans under the command of Emperor Titus and in order to remove all the
Gold they removed it brick by brick and stone by stone just like Jesus had
prophesied.
This is amazing!
Then we saw where Jesus made the first miracle of turning water into wine at the wedding of Cana of Galilee.
At the end
of the days, I said this was worth it. Thank God my friends Gerry and Melinda
came up with this plan; it was both educating and inspirational. Glory to God!
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