It is Monday Jan. 10 already, that is just insane, i have been here a week already! WOW!!!
So today we had our first exam, going into it i was a little worried to be honest, but i found out that this test was not that bad and i think i did pretty good on it!!! So that was a good, and early, start to the day. Then we had a two hour lecture on what we will be going into this coming couple of days.
Tomorrow we will be traveling to Arad, this is in southern part of Israel and we will be staying over there for two nights and then returning to lovely Jerusalem! I am pretty excited for this trip especially on the last day because we are going to Qumran. For those of you who don't know the significance of this then you were obviously living in solitude for the last 70 years or something because in the 1940s at the Qumran sight the Dead Sea scrolls were found! This is possibly one of the greatest discoveries of all time, because of the fact that it gave us a lot of text from the Bible! It is the most important textual find in the history of findings in my book! Then we will be able to actually swim in the Dead Sea, that is going to be awesome!!! I cant wait for that, should be very...interesting to say the least!
After lecture today we had a free day all day so seven of us set out on a journey to see the other sight that claims Jesus was crucified and buried there instead of at the Holy Sepulcher. This place is called the Garden Tomb. In the 1800s some time late, this guy named Gordon looked out his hotel window and saw a face on the side of the rock! From that point on scholars have argued that below that spot Jesus was crucified there, and just 200 feet from there is a tomb inside of a garden, hence Garden Tomb, and that is said to be the tomb of Jesus. They say this because the man, Joseph of Aramathea, the one who asked Pilate to bury Jesus, was a very rich man and they found that at the spot of the tomb there was a garden owned by a very rich man around the time of Jesus! Now whether or not this is the real tomb of Jesus or the Holy sepulcher, which has its historical roots from the mid 100s AD, it doesn't really matter. Like the guy that was guiding us today, whether or not we believe where the tomb is it shouldn't make us feel any different about Jesus! We should love Him no matter what. Just because one place has a whole bunch of shriney things, the Holy Sepulcher, or the Garden tomb, doesn't mean that we can have more closeness to Jesus if we know where He was crucified. We shouldn't worship the places Jesus was but the man that Jesus was! We need to follow the one who saved every single one of us from sin because that is all that matters!
Love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, mind and strength! Love Him for who He is and not where He has been!
God Bless! DO GOOD!!!
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