Proof?

Being in Israel and seeing all of these sites, accurate to the biblical story you begin to see that this place is so historically accurate that you must ask “What are you going to do with all of this spiritually?” I believe Christianity is linked more to specific history than any other religion. It is about ages and places and kings and kingdoms and cultures and buildings and wreckage and movement and things that we know happened…even if we are a historian and not a Christian. So what do you do with the other stuff? It makes a strong apologetic. If you accept the Bible as mostly historically accurate, even in its’ predictive nature, what do you make of its’ spiritual veracity? Can you accept one and not the other?

We followed this with a trip to the potential site of the Last Supper. Honestly, this lacked really anything interesting in itself. The message from the Upper Room in John 14-17 preps the disciples for his imminent exit. He promises to send the Spirit, calls on the disciples to abide in Him, and gives the promise that the world will hate you on behalf of me.

Two things made this site interesting:
1. We were promised that if we got through this site quickly we would eat at Burger King...Yes Israeli Whoppers. Order: 1 Whopper meal, 1 Whopper, (no cheese we're kosher in this country pal) 1 medium drink...$24
2. The parking lot was extremely small and up a one lane- that was actually a two-lane street, up a little hill. By the time we returned to our bus the lot was filled with two buses like a mid summer day game at Wrigley. To leave the parking lot bus after bus drove in reverse down the hill. We finally squeezed out.

The Upper Room site was above what is called David's Tomb but it is unlikely that David was buried there. We didn't have time to see it, though I wish we would have.

The Hinnom Valley is the biblical place called GeHenna. Here garbage would have been burned and it would have smelled with the stench of rotting burning garbage. This is the picture of Hell biblically which Jesus refers to as Gehenna.

In the afternoon we went to the Israel Museum. Here we saw a model of Jerusalem as it would have been in Herod's day. Here we learn that the normal public entrance to the Temple Mount would have been up the Southern Steps. Which might have run all the way down into the City of David near Hezekiah's Tunnel. The fragments of the Dead Sea Scrolls are here in a place named "The Shrine of the Book" which is a white building shaped like the pots the scrolls were discovered in.