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Little Things
In 1970 Roy Trevivian, BBC radio producer and broadcaster, made a five day stay in and around Jerusalem. What follows were his impressions (slightly edited for space). In 2009 mine mirrored his.
“For many years I had believed that Jesus Christ had actually lived in Palestine. Being in Jerusalem for five days confirmed in a much deeper way that JESUS CHRIST DID IN FACT LIVE. Little details corroborated what was in the Bible. I had always thought that the idea of Jesus riding into Jerusalem on the first Palm Sunday on a donkey was incongruous. But in Jerusalem in 1970 I saw lots of grown men riding about on donkeys and it didn't look incongruous at all. “The Garden of Gethsemane, is the best point outside Jerusalem where you can sit or stand to look at Jerusalem. And it seemed obvious to me that this  was exactly the place Jesus would want to be as He contemplated all that would happen to Him if He obeyed God. For what was to happen would happen in Jerusalem or just outside and in the Garden of Gethsemane you can sit and gaze down on Jerusalem as it lies there laid out like a painting before your eyes.“Then there was Emmaus where two disciples met Jesus after the Resurrection, The Bible says that Emmaus is three score furlongs away from Jerusalem. It is, I checked it on the speedometer of the taxi. These and many other tiny details corroborated over and over again the truth of the Bible story. As we were driving around we spotted a group of buildings down a track so we stopped the car, got out, walked down the track and knocked on the door. It looked like a farmhouse. The man who opened the door invited us in and introduced us to his wife and children I asked him if he was a farmer. He was. I asked him if he had a cowshed and could we see it, and he said he had and we could have a look at it. “The cowshed was a cave. Inside there was a cow and a donkey and a  manger. I learned from the farmer that the erection of farm buildings began with first finding a cave which would be warm and dry in winter and cool in summer. Then the store sheds and domestic quarters for the family were built on to the cave. There was no room in the domestic quarters for Joseph and Mary - but the cave was perfectly all right. In fact, Mary and Joseph and the baby would be more comfortable in the cave than in the little house already full with the family and other visitors”.(Reprinted from St. Martin's Review, London WC2,1970)Forty years later, in 2010, my reactions in Jerusalem and Israel were the same as Trevivian’s. Liitle things stood out to make real what had, before, only been a story. {SM} Talk, if you wish, to your/our/any Minister about the above. It could be a defining moment for you. |
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