Ok everyone, I went on a sweet field trip ever today!!
It started off with nervous anticipation and ended
with a stomach full of delicious pizza.
How perfect is that??
So today we went to the City of David.
The city of David is basically ancient Jerusalem, dating back
to the time of Melchizedek. We watched a 3d movie about the city and then
we walked over to these grates that look down to the excavations
of the ancient city.
We saw the foundation or bedrock of a huge government building
of David. It was really amazing!
We also saw excavations of the wall that used to surround the city.
They used this thing called a millo which is a stepped
structure to hold up the side of a hill which
has a structure on it. The millo is still intact and pretty big, it was
really neat to look at and realize that something so ancient can still be standing. After we looked at some more excavations we started out trek through Hezekiahs tunnel!
This tunnel was dug to supply water to the growing
part of the city.
There is a natural spring called the Gihon Spring which
the tunnel is fed by.
The tunnel allows for the passage of water from one side
of the city to the other, it is 1/3 of a mile long and
it was chiseled out of the bed rock under the city from both sides
so the workers met in the middle.
You can see the chiseling marks throughout the tunnel!
The tunnel was about 3 feet wide ish and the ceiling height varied from me
ducking a little bit at times to as high as 20 feet. It
was such a pleasant walk!
The water was mid calf most of the time and came up to about the
top of my knee at the end, the water was
chilly but not icy, as I was expecting. I wore
my boardshorts so no clothing got wet, such a good idea!
The tunnel ended in this pool where we took some fun pictures and then
walked to this other pool, the pool of Siloam.
The pool of Siloam is the pool where Jesus healed the blind man.
He had the blind man mix mud, spit, and the dirty pool waters where many
people had bathed and put it in his eyes.
Our teacher asked us why we thought He healed the blind man this way
and then he read a quote by president Kimball.
The basis of the quote was that the Lord healed the blind man through spit, mud, and dirty water because it proved that he was healed through the power of God.
If He had used herbs and oil then people could
have contested that his healing was due to the
herbs and oil but no one can contest the hand of God
when mediums like mud are put in an eye and then blindness is gone.
I thought that was really cool!!
I got some sweet pictures but those will have to wait!
Have a great day!
It started off with nervous anticipation and ended
with a stomach full of delicious pizza.
How perfect is that??
So today we went to the City of David.
The city of David is basically ancient Jerusalem, dating back
to the time of Melchizedek. We watched a 3d movie about the city and then
we walked over to these grates that look down to the excavations
of the ancient city.
We saw the foundation or bedrock of a huge government building
of David. It was really amazing!
We also saw excavations of the wall that used to surround the city.
They used this thing called a millo which is a stepped
structure to hold up the side of a hill which
has a structure on it. The millo is still intact and pretty big, it was
really neat to look at and realize that something so ancient can still be standing. After we looked at some more excavations we started out trek through Hezekiahs tunnel!
This tunnel was dug to supply water to the growing
part of the city.
There is a natural spring called the Gihon Spring which
the tunnel is fed by.
The tunnel allows for the passage of water from one side
of the city to the other, it is 1/3 of a mile long and
it was chiseled out of the bed rock under the city from both sides
so the workers met in the middle.
You can see the chiseling marks throughout the tunnel!
The tunnel was about 3 feet wide ish and the ceiling height varied from me
ducking a little bit at times to as high as 20 feet. It
was such a pleasant walk!
The water was mid calf most of the time and came up to about the
top of my knee at the end, the water was
chilly but not icy, as I was expecting. I wore
my boardshorts so no clothing got wet, such a good idea!
The tunnel ended in this pool where we took some fun pictures and then
walked to this other pool, the pool of Siloam.
The pool of Siloam is the pool where Jesus healed the blind man.
He had the blind man mix mud, spit, and the dirty pool waters where many
people had bathed and put it in his eyes.
Our teacher asked us why we thought He healed the blind man this way
and then he read a quote by president Kimball.
The basis of the quote was that the Lord healed the blind man through spit, mud, and dirty water because it proved that he was healed through the power of God.
If He had used herbs and oil then people could
have contested that his healing was due to the
herbs and oil but no one can contest the hand of God
when mediums like mud are put in an eye and then blindness is gone.
I thought that was really cool!!
I got some sweet pictures but those will have to wait!
Have a great day!
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