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Today seemed to go by very, very quickly. Everything, from morning until this evening’s service, felt rushed. Maybe I’m just tired, I don’t know, but it did all seem to go by quickly.I woke up a little bit early (6:00 am) and wrote down all my thoughts from yesterday so that I wouldn’t forget. Then I showered and jumped on the shuttle bus without breakfast. That may have been a mistake as I was very hungry up until lunch — which is unusual for me as I rarely have breakfast. Hmmmm…
Anyhow, Ken Medema blew me away again and was my favorite part of the morning sessions. Both speakers grew in my heart an amazing love and new understanding of Israel, the Jewish people, and Jerusalem. Powerful stuff.
During the evening session, President Jack Hayford spoke to us about the six things Jerusalem reflects from the Bible and at the end we all anointed each other for “breakthrough anointing”. Whew! Also, before Pastor Jack shared, the musician that did all the flute-like sounds on “The Passion of the Christ” performed. Here’s some clips of music featured during today’s sessions…
I have a renewed sense of pride in the Foursquare movement. Pastor Jack is probably the best living example I’ve seen of an anointed servant leader. He personally approached me again this evening and encouraged me and blessed me with a short conversation as he was getting out of his V.I.P. taxi from the evening session. That made my day! (smile)
The afternoon of touring went by very quickly. There were cool-looking box lunches waiting for us on our seats when we arrived after the morning session. We literally had about 5-minutes to chow the included 2 sandwiches, plum, cupcake, salad, and water. I couldn’t finish before we got to our first stop, which was the Shrine of the Book museum.
Upon our arrival, we first visited the model city of old-Jerusalem — a very cool site to see. The model recreates Jerusalem in A.D. 66, when Israel was at it’s greatest and just before it’s fall. Here’s some video…
The second big part of our visit to this museum was visiting the actual Shrine to the Book, where scrolls and artifacts found in the mountains of Qumran were on display. We weren’t allowed to take pictures, so I don’t have much to share with you visually from that experience. Same with the next stop…
The next site we were rushed to was Yad Vashem, or the Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Authority. This museum is the Jewish people’s memorial of the six million that were murdered during the holocaust. Obviously, this wasn’t a “light” visit, and I found myself almost ready to vomit while walking through the whole thing. What a disaster and a terrible mark on history. At the end of the tour, we walked through a special darkened walkway with candles lit to represent all the children’s lives that were lost. Many were teared up after the visit.
It was a little too warm for me when I got back to the room so I took off my shirt immediately and was too tired to put it back on as I finished filming my finals thoughts for the day. Don’t worry, I shot from the head up!
