Jerusalem

Another blessed day in Jerusalem! We started with a walk through the City of David (*see 2 Samuel 5); and seeing the structure of the city, it’s easy to see how the story of David and Beth-Sheba took place.

Next was an adventure through the Hezekiah’s Tunnels. The tunnels are narrow, dark, filled with water, and a lot of fun to walk through! See video below to get an idea of what it’s like. Right as you walk out of the tunnels is the Pool of Siloam referenced in John 9 where Jesus heals a blind man.

At the next site, the Israel Museum, we saw a huge diagram of what the city of Jerusalem looked like in 70AD before the Temple was destroyed. And then inside the museum are the actual Dead Sea scrolls discovered in Kumran which we visited few days ago!

Our last stop for the day was a very sobering one as we visited the Holocaust Museum (Yad Ve’Shem). You can’t help but get emotional hearing the names of the children who died. It takes three months to read through the million names of Jewish children who died in Holocaust. And as we walked through the main museum, we saw images and videos of those who suffered and heard testimonies of those who survived that dark and evil period in history. Yet despite the immense loss and tragedy, God saved a remnant of the Jewish people. Am Yisrael Chai! (The nation of Israel lives!)