Saturday in the Israeli Museum, Garden Tomb and Garden of Gethsemane--Whew!!!

Good morning friends in America,

I am frightened that this posting actually seems to work.  I trust it does.  After a night at the Leondardo Hotel in Jerusalem, we head out to the Israeli Museum. Until 2 months ago all that was available to be viewed was the Dead Sea Scrolls and the replica of the Old City from the days of King Herod, etc.  Now the entire museum is open to the public and even Lon had not been thru it although he had studied it's contents before our arrival.

So we arrive about 9:15 and their are 3 tours booked to get in this morning. Of course, Lon and his local Israeli tour operator, Monty, has it greased where we get in first because we are lined up first.  Lon gives us about 15 minutes of introduction and facts to consider which will be available to us when we have completed the tour.

there are 4 items in the museum which provide evidence which can be defended of the existence and factual history of the bible.  Likely in an incorrect order are sivler amulates engraved with priest pray found in Numbers 6:23 whhich is the oldest inscription of bible verse ever found dating to 600 b.c.

top of the Israeli museum

this is a replica of the City of David which was a very small portion of what became the old city under King Solomon since King David was not allowed to build the City of the Lord.

Here is photo of me at the exact model of the old city of Jerusalem which is the first stop at the museum

This is where the Dead Sea Scrolls are housed and no one will get to see them but we get to see an exact replica which was photographed by a world reknown photographer before the schools began their wayward journey thru many countries and interst groups before being bought under cover of a gentile after an ad appeared in the New York Times.  The Israeli antiquities people had the lookout for any of the scrolls and when the ad appeared a Jewish man, who looked caucasion presented himself as Mr. Green and paid $250,000.00 in the late 40s or early 50s, which was a chunk of change then to get them most important biblical find since the time of the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus,  See the scroll of the book of Isaiah was completely intact and it dated to the 600s b.c. and you all know prophecy of Christ in that book. So, i am attaching some photos of the artifacts from the muesum and hope they explain much of what i can't properly describe.