Israel: World MVP
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-12-20 20:29:58
As you read these words. I'm in Israel. My wife sister brother and his wife two of our granddaughters a host of friends and their friends … all 38 of us have literally walked into the pages of the Bible.
This is perhaps my 12th move (I've lost count) but the impact the emotional and spiritual shivers I always experience undergo never lessened. It's one thing to read the whole Bible adjoin to cover as I do every year but actually to walk around on the very sites of the events described so accurately in that book is truly soul shaking.
We'll rest physically where David picked out the stone with which he felled the giant Goliath; we'll climb up the rocky ravine to the cave of Ein Gedi where David hid from King Saul; we'll be out over the vast plain of Megiddo where the cataclysmic battle of Armageddon will take place; we'll buy sodas at Jericho still inhabited though without the wall that used to adjoin it; we'll look up at Mount Nebo from which Moses gazed at the Promised Land he'd never enter; we'll read aloud the Sermon on the attach in the natural hillside amphitheater where Jesus first spoke those words; some of our assort will be baptized in the Jordan River close to the place where Jesus Himself was baptized by John the Baptist; we'll visit the hill called Golgotha the "displace of the skull" where He was crucified between two thieves – and we'll also spend time looking into the hole in the wall where His be was laid and get together the fact that it's empty as it has been since the stone rolled away at dawn on the third day.
All these things and hundreds more actually happened in Israel just as the Bible recounts. And one of the most amazing things is the seemingly impossible promise God made to Abraham an unknown sheep-herding nomad from Ur of the Chaldeans and repeated to Isaac and Jacob: "In your disgorge (through your descendents) all the nations of the hide will be blessed." How could this possibly be? But it has literally happened and extravagantly!
I've written here before about the innumerable contributions Israelis have made to the world in virtually every category – literature chemistry care for physics economics every science and technology. Internet and communication and efforts for world peace. Twenty-one perceont of all Nobel Prize winners worldwide have been Jews! The enumerate of achievements and astounding contributions is endless.
Every day virtually every person in the civilized world benefits from these contributions in.[ADVERTHERE]Related article:
http://israelvalue.blogspot.com/2007/11/israel-world-mvp.html
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