Greetings, WLBC Family!
Yet another great day in the land where Jesus walked. We started off the day with a visit to the oldest part of Jerusalem- the City of David on Mount Zion- where we saw what is almost certainly the ruins of King David’s palace. He would have had a pretty nice view from there, and that fact certainly did not turn out well concerning Bathsheba.
Next, we descended into the water tunnel chiseled into the rocks during the time of King Hezekiah (700 BC). This was done in order to ensure that Jerusalem would have water if the city were under siege (2 Kings 20:20). We descended down into the tunnel and then walked in cool water about knee-high for 1800 feet in pitch black darkness. Thank goodness they supplied us all with flashlights. Incidentally, my pictures didn’t turn out too well down there, so I may have to rely on some commercial shots to illustrate when the time comes for my “slideshow” of the trip.
The end of Hezekiah’s tunnel lets out into the Pool of Siloam. This was where Jesus told the man blind from birth to go wash (John 9:1-12).
We then visited the Upper Room. The room you see today was built in the Middle Ages, but the site is almost certainly the location of the Upper Room.
Our afternoon site was rather sobering and emotional. It was a visit to Yad Vashem (“a memorial and a name”), which is Israel’s Holocaust Museum. No further words are necessary.
Tomorrow is our free day in Jerusalem. I think I’ll hole up in the hotel room and better organize my pictures… or maybe not. No, I’ll be venturing back over to the Old City for further exploration.
Pictures include:
1. Ruins of David’s Palace on Mount Zion
2. A shot looking upward toward David’s Palace
3. The Pool of Siloam (poor quality… crowded!)
4. The Upper Room (poor quality… crowded!)
[These pictures follow this post – Rick]
Shalom,
PD