When the opportunity comes to speak for Jesus and the Word of God, do we take the opportunity when it is distinctly uncomfortable?
Yes, I guess so. This week has been a week of discomfort for all of us. And yet, the Scriptures relate to the day and have something to say. Similarities are present, but not the exact, same thing.
After Jesus died, The Temple was filled with the multitudes. Thanks to Josephus, we know adding up the Sacrifices Josephus' accounting gives, the multitude in The Temple of Jerusalem was 2 million people.
Acts 5:12-26 ~ Look! The men whom you put in prison are standing in the temple and teaching the people.” Then the captain with the officers went and brought them, but not by force, for they were afraid of being stoned by the people.
Painting, by Tadema
Acts 5:12-26
Now many signs and wonders were regularly done among the people by the hands of the apostles. And they were all together in Solomon's Portico. 13 None of the rest dared join them, but the people held them in high esteem. 14 And more than ever believers were added to the Lord, multitudes of both men and women, 15 so that they even carried out the sick into the streets and laid them on cots and mats, that as Peter came by at least his shadow might fall on some of them. 16 The people also gathered from the towns around Jerusalem, bringing the sick and those afflicted with unclean spirits, and they were all healed.
17 But the high priest rose up, and all who were with him (that is, the party of the Sadducees), and filled with jealousy 18 they arrested the apostles and put them in the public prison. 19 But during the night an angel of the Lord opened the prison doors and brought them out, and said, 20 “Go and stand in the temple and speak to the people all the words of this Life.” 21 And when they heard this, they entered the temple at daybreak and began to teach.
Now when the high priest came, and those who were with him, they called together the council and all the senate of the people of Israel and sent to the prison to have them brought. 22 But when the officers came, they did not find them in the prison, so they returned and reported, 23 “We found the prison securely locked and the guards standing at the doors, but when we opened them we found no one inside.” 24 Now when the captain of the temple and the chief priests heard these words, they were greatly perplexed about them, wondering what this would come to. 25 And someone came and told them, “Look! The men whom you put in prison are standing in the temple and teaching the people.” 26 Then the captain with the officers went and brought them, but not by force, for they were afraid of being stoned by the people.
Even in the Syrian suburb, the little country of Judea, the Roman Empire flooded vast fortunes into the country. In the plentiful abundance of life, Pontius Pilate regularly had riots with the Jews.
A Rabbi from Lycantra was extremely upset to see all this. He feared. He is an eyewitness beyond the Gospels and Josephus to the First Easter.
The United States Congress is 16.5 Acres. A big building.
The population of the world in 2021 is 7.8 Billion People.
On the first Easter, 2 million people took over the Temple. 33 A.D., The Second Temple, a massive project of Herod surrounding a building interior coating of Gold, had been being improved upon for 75 intense years of construction. The Temple wasn't ever really closed, but you can bet they had areas marked off with ropes and would only have loved to have known about large plastic, orange cones.
At the Time of the First Easter, The Temple of Jerusalem was 36 Acres.
The Population of the world in 33 AD was 230,882, 000.
Below, the Temple, The Royal Portico and the Hulda Gate are 36 acres. The drawing points out the surrounding buildings.
Temple Mount is and was Massive.
Psalm 118
24 This is the day that the LORD has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it.
25 Save us, we pray, O LORD! O LORD, we pray, give us success!
Is 36 Acres rather a guess? No. Not at all.
Is there really an Indiana Jones? Charles Warren handled the actual Jack the Ripper case with the best tools England had. He was invited to do something very unusual. To climb under the Temple archaeology, see what was intact and report on the Gates.
The Survey of Western Palestine /Excavation of the 2nd Temple of Jerusalem
by Col. Sir Charles Warren, K.C.M.G., R.E.,
and
Capt. Claude Reigner Conder, R.E.
The Committe of the Palestine Exploration Fund, Inc
1, Adam Street, Adelphi, London, WC., England, 1884.
by Col. Sir Charles Warren, K.C.M.G., R.E.,
and
Capt. Claude Reigner Conder, R.E.
The Committe of the Palestine Exploration Fund, Inc
1, Adam Street, Adelphi, London, WC., England, 1884.
Below is a published report by Warren of actually doing the measuring of The Second Temple.
In the Blue Link Provided.
Thursday, January 31, 2019
Can you imagine yourselves being a rioter?
Once, at the age of 6, joined all my neighborhood children help tear down a lovely home being carefully constructed over an empty lot with a creek. We had enjoyed the lot, with huge Willow trees and large rocks. It was always shady, and you would always meet more kids seeking relief from the Texas summer. A day of Protest and at the age of 6 years old, we were looters and rioters. As we all carried home a chunk of the building materials, I told this group of little kids, teenagers and tweens, we'd had fun. We should do more things together. Everyone agreed. Maybe softball.
The builders of the home hired a guard to protect the property; my three other six-year-old friends and I became very good friends with the kindly, elderly man. After a few weeks, the man asked us did we know who had looted. All 3 little blond heads said no. The man explained to us that it was wrong, and it had been an expensive vandalism. I went home to discuss it with my mother.
She said she didn't remember the board I had dragged home, didn't I put it back. I said yes, we didn't really have a need for a board. Actually, one of the teenagers helped me unload the wood by taking it off my hands. She asked me how many teenagers had been involved, and I said every kid in the neighborhood had been there. She said something to the effect she knew teenagers were behind it all. I said not really, everyone showed up, for something to do.
Adults were told to look in their backyard for building materials. Some materials returned. It never happened again, even later when more houses were built. A lot of the building material was just gone.
This was parents willing to talk to other parents. It took some frank discussions.
The builders of the home hired a guard to protect the property; my three other six-year-old friends and I became very good friends with the kindly, elderly man. After a few weeks, the man asked us did we know who had looted. All 3 little blond heads said no. The man explained to us that it was wrong, and it had been an expensive vandalism. I went home to discuss it with my mother.
She said she didn't remember the board I had dragged home, didn't I put it back. I said yes, we didn't really have a need for a board. Actually, one of the teenagers helped me unload the wood by taking it off my hands. She asked me how many teenagers had been involved, and I said every kid in the neighborhood had been there. She said something to the effect she knew teenagers were behind it all. I said not really, everyone showed up, for something to do.
Adults were told to look in their backyard for building materials. Some materials returned. It never happened again, even later when more houses were built. A lot of the building material was just gone.
This was parents willing to talk to other parents. It took some frank discussions.
Later, in college I dated someone from my childhood neighborhood. I found out a man asked teenagers to work for him. My date told me the theft from our garage was this man and his hired teenagers. The almost theft of our boat was this man and his teenagers. They had tried to hire my date, who had a very wise father and escaped. This man had put together the day at the house. He wasn't for protests, he was a thief, and he was a ruin to teenagers. Not every unplanned event is innocent.
We have to be diligent and not swept up into wrong.
Really. Wrong is going to try to press us. Don't go there.
After Hurricane Ike, in Houston, grocery stores opened for minute time frames in the morning. HEB allowed shoppers to go in, in groups of 18 shoppers. If you'd seen the mayhem in the stores before the Hurricane, you'd understand why. So, every day, the electricity was off in town, Edward, my husband, would head over to HEB. Then on the third morning, a police cruiser showed up as the forty or so people waited for the store to open. The police car opened the mike and said, "HEB was unable to open this morning." People were a little surprised and looked at the police car in astonishment. No one said a word. So, the Police car repeated the message and said it was time to disperse. After a moment's pause, the humorous police said, "Time to disperse, we think you all will riot." The very dangerous suburban engineer types looked at each other in frank astonishment. One man looked at the others and said, "I'm Not Rioting! Are you?"
Are we interested in the multitudes who flooded the Temple?
A model of Solomon's Portico, from the First Temple until the Second Temple fell 70 A.D. And the back corner is Antonia Fortress, Herod's Fortress complete with jail.
Many signs and wonders were regularly done among the people by the hands of the apostles
Surely, the Temple officials, the bureaucracy were stunned. So much so - they let the rabble in to the Temple discussing Jesus. Worshiping Jesus.
Can you imagine this? It's frankly incredible, but accurate. The Temple officials let the followers of Jesus Christ the LORD, meet in the Temple grounds. They had signs up saying foreigners would be killed beyond certain points.
"No foreigner is to enter within the balustrade and embankment around the sanctuary. Whoever is caught will have himself to blame for his death which follows." Both Greek (above and there are 2 Greek signs discovered) and Latin versions of this warning were posted at regular intervals (around the balustrade). The engraved block of limestone is about 22 inches high by 33 inches long. Each letter was nearly 1 1/2 inches high and originally painted with red ink against the white limestone. Part of another sign was unearthed in 1936. Currently, located in the Archaeological Museum of Istanbul, Turkey. It is a fairly well-known and understood archaeological find, labeled CIJ 2.1400Rather more obscure is CIJ 2.1404 The Theodotus Inscription. Not all the Second (or First) Temple is completely understood. 75 centimeters long.
The Theodotus inscription (CIJ 2.1404) was discovered in a Jerusalem cistern by R. Weill in 1913. It dates to the first century AD prior to the Temple's destruction. Significantly, the inscription reveals that three generations of priests served as the "rulers of the synagogue" (archisynagôgoi - the Greek word) mentioned in the dedication. Translation:Theodotus, (son) of Vettenus, priest and
archisynagôgos, son of an archisynagôgos,
grandson of an archisynagôgos, built
the synagogue for the reading of the law and
the teaching of the commandments, and
the guest-chamber and the rooms and the
water installations for lodging for those needing them
from abroad, which his fathers, the elders
and Simonides founded
And they were all together in Solomon's Portico.
During the night an angel of the Lord opened the prison doors and brought them out, and said, “Go and stand in the temple and speak to the people all the words of this Life.”
"Look! The men whom you put in prison are standing in the temple and teaching the people.”
Light of Jesus Christ - Shine. We Need You.
Abba, Father God,
Before You all desires are known and no secrets are hid.
Cleanse the thoughts of our heart
in the Glory of Jesus Christ and His Highest Name.
In His Righteousness, the prayers of the Righteous Availeth Much.
This New Year of 2021, Father God, it is effortless to give in to concerns.
And when I have concerns, my peace is to tell You, I'm worried, and I'm going to stay worried
until Peace decides to arrive. Sometimes not suppressing anxiety gives us permission just to be a little worried. And we feel better than putting jumping spring snakes back into the peanut can.
We will probably overcome a lot of our fears this year.
And some will ease out in time.
Historically, Father God, after Pandemic
people have strident emotions and don't bother with logic.
Speak calm to the wind and waves.
We all know You will Speak Peace again.
Dwell in me, Father God,
Help me to see more Heaven on earth
and be more Heaven on earth.
And in Joy of Your Strength, to seek You First.
Help us to See More Heaven by Seeing our Blessings,
We have a Vaccine, Covid will be leaving.
The Holidays are now part of the past and the time to have less Covid may arrive soon.
We can be diligent again, in our safety, with far less weariness.
We have fewer Holiday related things to do and can pray more.
Believing Like Corrie Ten Baum, we are in the Hands of our Loving Father.
We can choose Joy and we can choose Prayer.
We can fully recognize Pandemic brings out the worst in brains, and have Mercy and
more diligent intelligence.
We can renew our ideas and thoughts and not be told.
We can be grateful.
Psalm 105
Look to the Lord and His strength;
seek His face always.
5 Remember the wonders he has done,
his miracles, and the judgments he pronounced,
6 you his servants, the descendants of Abraham,
his chosen ones, the children of Jacob.
And Heaven and earth rejoice, and Heaven and earth Rejoice.
Oh Heaven and Heaven and Heaven and earth Rejoice.
Father God Fill us with Your Love
Let the Holy Spirit Work in Us.
Bless those we Love with Your Light and Life.
Jesus the Only Son of His Father.
Abba, Father God,
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.
For as we share abundantly in Christ's sufferings, so
through Christ we share abundantly in comfort too.
For everything that was written in the past was written for our instruction, so that through endurance and the encouragement of the Scriptures, we might have hope.
Now may the God of endurance and encouragement grant you harmony
with one another in Christ Jesus, so that with one mind and one voice you may
glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
In Jesus Christ,
The Ark of the Covenant is Within
Father God, Dwell within us and
those we Love.
Jesus help us in this Nation to be in Your Word and more Joyful.
Covered in God's Love,
President Donald Trump
Vice President Mike Pence
The Presidential Team
Dr. Anthony Fauci, Dr. Robert Redfield, Dr. Deborah Birx
and their families.
Governor Abbott and all 50 Governors and Legislatures.
Today and always Senator Tim Scott,
The end of trouble surrounding this Virus.
For Elliott and HIS continued Healing, to avoid this virus and
his loving family praying and helping him and Harby.
We believe Elliott is healed.
We pray for Dee and Wayne and their Kristy and David.
Father, the Truth, the Way and the Life for our Nation we pray.
We continue to pray for the Safety of All the Nation.
Thank You for rain and cooler temperatures on the Gulf of Mexico for us all.
Please continue to bless us. Amen in Jesus.
♔ Lord Jesus Saves! †
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