Good Morning All!
We then went to the Dome of the Rock / Temple Mount. We hadn't been up close so it was an amazing site. Very beautiful. To this day, non-Muslims are not allowed to enter the interior of the building. But it was still an amazing site. Muslims believe this to be the site where Mohammad rose to heaven. Christian tradition identifies the site as where Jesus was tried.
Happy Easter!
It's actually 2:30 PM here, but it's 6:30 AM Easter Sunday back in Minnesota (and I think in Peru for Christa :))
Today was a great day, we went to the sunrise service at the Garden Tomb. We got there a little before 6 am and there was a huge line. But we had good seats. We couldn't see the band, they were down by the tomb. But we were in the 3rd row next to the spot where they did all of the readings.
The service was excellent. There was a perfect mix of contemporary songs and traditional ones. I'm sure you sang My Redeemer Lives or Thine Be the Glory too.
The sermon did a great job of tying in the location we were without making it a big spectacle. He spoke about this book called Dates in History That Changed the World. In the book it lists Jesus' death, but not the resurrection. When the resurrection should be there because the death of Jesus paid for our sins - but it was God accepting that sacrifice that signed off on that deal with having him rise 3 days later.
It was a really good service.
We then went to the Dome of the Rock / Temple Mount. We hadn't been up close so it was an amazing site. Very beautiful. To this day, non-Muslims are not allowed to enter the interior of the building. But it was still an amazing site. Muslims believe this to be the site where Mohammad rose to heaven. Christian tradition identifies the site as where Jesus was tried.
From here we went to Hezekiah's Tunnel. Used 2700 years ago to supply the city with water, you can still walk through the water tunnel for about 580 yards - with water still flowing! We started to do this, but the water was getting up to our knees and they expected it to reach our hips. So we backed out to take the dry route. But the 20 feet we did in the water tunnel was pretty cool.
After that we went to The Room of the Last Supper. The room was quite beautiful, but there wasn't anything inside other than all of the people.
Afterwards we did Ramparts Walk - which is a narrow walkway on top of the Old City's walls. We could look out all of the old shooting niches and it really made it easy to feel like what it could have been like back then.
Now onto a nice evening of eating and shopping!
Happy Easter!
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