The Holy City…

 The Holy City, 

A friend of mine has been  traveling and sharing amazing pictures wherever they have gone…while in Israel, she sent pictures as well…

I think the tour guides must have a set route, as the pictures she took, could have been mine or my family’s…similar plants, angles, backgrounds…

Whenever I see the panorama view of Jerusalem, the song, “The Holy City”, sounds in my mind…it is so regal sounding …and gives my goose bumps…

Solomon’s dedication of the temple in Jerusalem…it must have been a very moving  moment…

 Then Solomon summoned to Jerusalem the elders of Israel, all the heads of the tribes and the chiefs of the Israelite families, to bring up the ark of the Lord’s covenant from Zion, the City of David. 

And all the Israelites came together to the king at the time of the festival in the seventh month. 

When all the elders of Israel had arrived, the Levites took up the ark, and they brought up the ark and the tent of meeting and all the sacred furnishings in it. 

The Levitical priests carried them up; and King Solomon and the entire assembly of Israel that had gathered about him were before the ark, sacrificing so many sheep and cattle that they could not be recorded or counted. 

The priests then brought the ark of the Lord’s covenant to its place in the inner sanctuary of the temple, the Most Holy Place, and put it beneath the wings of the cherubim. 

The cherubim spread their wings over the place of the ark and covered the ark and its carrying poles. These poles were so long that their ends, extending from the ark, could be seen from in front of the inner sanctuary, but not from outside the Holy Place; and they are still there today. There was nothing in the ark except the two tablets that Moses had placed in it at Horeb, where the Lord made a covenant with the Israelites after they came out of Egypt. The priests then withdrew from the Holy Place. 

All the priests who were there had consecrated themselves, regardless of their divisions. All the Levites who were musicians—Asaph, Heman, Jeduthun and their sons and relatives—stood on the east side of the altar, dressed in fine linen and playing cymbals, harps and lyres. They were accompanied by 120 priests sounding trumpets. 

The trumpeters and musicians joined in unison to give praise and thanks to the Lord. Accompanied by trumpets, cymbals and other instruments, the singers raised their voices in praise to the Lord and sang:“He is good;his love endures forever.”

Then the temple of the Lord was filled with the cloud, and the priests could not perform their service because of the cloud, for the glory of the Lord filled the temple of God. “But will God really dwell on earth with humans? The heavens, even the highest heavens, cannot contain you. How much less this temple I have built! Yet, Lord my God, give attention to your servant’s prayer and his plea for mercy. Hear the cry and the prayer that your servant is praying in your presence. 

 May your eyes be open toward this temple day and night, this place of which you said you would put your Name there. 

May you hear the prayer your servant prays toward this place. 

Hear the supplications of your servant and of your people Israel when they pray toward this place. 

Hear from heaven, your dwelling place; and when you hear, forgive.

2Chr.5.2-21

 The next day the great crowd that had come for the festival heard that Jesus was on his way to Jerusalem. They took palm branches and went out to meet him, shouting,“Hosanna!”“Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!”“Blessed is the king of Israel!” Jesus found a young donkey and sat on it, as it is written: “Do not be afraid, Daughter Zion;see, your king is coming,seated on a donkey’s colt.”

John.12.12-15

Thank YOU….

The Holy City…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tld1MZ2F4GA