Good Morning Jerusalem - Sunrise- Mt. of Olives,

What a way to begin the last day in Jerusalem.  Our wake up was 6 a.m.  I called the desk for a 5:30 wakeup since i wanted to see the sunrise over this City of God.  So the Lord and I woke up at 4:50 and i set here awaiting the sun to rise over East Jerusalem, Mount of Olives, Temple Mount and the rest of the city.

For those who know me, I am not typically without words.  Well, this morning I could only praise God, be humbled by his Goodness and Grace and grateful I have been so blessed to come to the Holy Land a 2nd time but more importantly this time with Pastor Lon Solomon.  I am overwhelmed and you will be to if you ever have the opportunity to visit here on a pilgrimige.  I can't imagine there being a more down to earth, caring, Man of God who works any harder than Pastor Lon and his Israeli contact Monte.  Monte, like most of our guides is a Christian, having accepted Christ as his Saviour, after guiding Lon's groups thru the entire Holy Land over the past 17 years.

Okay, for now I will shut up and hope the photos i am trying to attach come thru. 


I hope to continue posting for a long time and it will take a month at least to try to do justice to my experiences here. I also have video of many, many of the sites we visited and a long video of Sunday just letting it record the sights and sounds of Old Jerusalem.

God Bless You today and every day.

Ricky Lamkin

Full Day at the Temple Mount

Good day to you friends,

Again, events are happening so quickly i cannot keep up the posts I want to send.  Yesterday I simply was unable to provide info on the Garden Tomb, Garden of Gethsemane or the Church of All Nations which is the location of the rock on which Jesus actually prayed just before he was arrested. The apostles, Peter, James and John, as I recall were napping in the Garden some 50 yards from where Jesus sweated like blood of what he was about to experience.


So, I plan to provide information and photos of those sites when time allows even if it is after return to the U.S. on Friday of this week. Keeping up with days is a challenge over here.

Anyway, today we visited the Temple Mounts, were able to see the Eastern Gate from the inside, visit St. Anne's church which is the location of the church of Mary's mother, the only Crusader church in existence which was used by the Muslems after they defeated the Crusaders; the Upper Room, King David's tomb, the Hula Steps where Peter healed the cripple man, the Bethesida Springs, and on and on.

So for today it is photos. As my friend Gary Garth said, photos do alot more than text sometimes, or something like that. I hope you enjoy

ral

Sunrise in Jersusalem

I keep loosing post so enough said. Here is photos of Sunrise this Monday October 25, 2010

INCREDIBLE

Ok Pilgrims,, I dont know really how the photo of me at St. Anne's Church got in there but I started and finsihed with the best photo of the sunrise over the City of David,

Have a Blessed Day

Ricky A. Lamkin

lost blog of temple mount, etc

ok between tonight and in the a.m. i will find my abbreviated post from today,'


instead you get photos

ok i tried, to tired and early rise for Qumran, Dead Sea and Masada  and   En Gedi

4 major archaeological treasurers of Israel

So in addition to the engraved silver ammulates with the insription of Number 6:23 there is also housed what is known as the Tel Dan stele which is the only mention in the world of King David other than the bible.  This was found in the remains of an Assyrian King and thus proves King David's army fought in the Northern portion of Israel, acutally the North east region agains an Assyrian King.  Next was the actual ossuary of Caiaphas, the high priest who condemned Jesus and the original Pontius Pilate stone from Caesarea where he lived permanently. As before, he was needed in Jerusalem 3 times per year when those stiff necked, rebellious Jews were having their high holidays such as the big one, Passover.

I am attempting to attach relevant photographs. I was able to take a couple of pictures when the muesum guards told us they would look the other way for a proper consideration.  But this one bleach blonde tiger was unrelenting as a bird dog on a quail.  She wouldnt even allow us to video tape the ossuary, or the Pilate Stone.  However, due to modern marvels of he cell phone camera they items were captured but won't be displayed until someone with much more technical savvy gets ahold of my phone and this laptop

enjoy

This is a photo of an acutal clay jar which was found in the caves of Qumran

Photo taken inside the Israeli museum of the acutal ad run in the New York Times depicting the sale of 4 Dead Sea Scrolls

Photo of the Military official and the antiquities  expert at the site of the caves

your guess is as good as mine

typical clay jar found in caves which preserved the scrolls

ral

More Israeli Museum, Tomb and Garden

In May 1948, the United Nations voted to recognize Israel as a nation and provided it's suggested borders. The buildup to the vote found Great Brittian terrible mad at the leaders of the new State of Israel and it basically did all it could to support the Arabs by sharing intelligence, munitions and even giving that entitly control over some of it's areas. 

Israel had only a toe hold in the land but they were thrilled to finally be recognized as a state since 70 A.D. when the Roman army literally flattened Jerusalem and drove the Jews from the land as had been sought by many nations and Kings since the time of Joshua.

Within 1 or 2 days of the formation of the State of Israel, a shepard discovered near Qumran the most incredible archeological find in the history of the world.  Ultimately, many of the artifacts ended up in the Israeli Museum.  What is significant was the display of iron clad proof that the Holy Bible is real, the prophecy of Christ was true and was fulfilled at the single moment in time when they all came together.

So, the 4 items of most significant importance are located in the museum.    As in my last post, the oldest written biblical quotation  in existence, from 650 B.C. was found which conclusively proves the Old Testament is as accurate today as when it was written. Of course, the Scroll of the Book of Isaiah is the drop dead certainly of the validity of the word of God.  Next, in the museum is the