Pray For the Peace of Jerusalem

My Dad, a Navy Veteran of WW2 and Korea, was a wonderful photographer. Because of this skill, which he learned in one semester at the old Boston Trade High School, he became the Official Ship's Photographer on the USS Dade. The Captain gave him his own darkroom on-board, and Dad was instructed to make three prints of every picture: one for the Navy, one for the Captain, and one for himself. Because of this, I grew up looking at original, unpublished, pictures of WW2. It was part of my childhood.

One picture caught my eye. It was a building, round with three roofs, one on top of the other. I asked Dad what it was.

"Oh, that's the "Temple of Heaven, in Peking. I took that picture when we were on a secret trip to deliver Chinese Nationalist soldiers to fight the Communists."

Well THAT was pretty amazing! But I kept looking at the little B&W photo and wondered how that little, stumpy, unadorned building could POSSIBLY be "The Temple of Heaven". Surely, Heaven was much bigger, more spacious, more beautiful, and more exciting than THAT!

Rahab, the Harlot of Jericho, probably knew less about the Israelites than I did about Red China in 1957. But she had HEARD about the God of Israel. And from what she had heard, she KNEW that He was the REAL God, and she calls Him "The God of Heaven." It was her way of acknowledging that He is the Only One.

Come and Pray For the Peace of Jerusalem, For Our FRiends in Need, For Persecuted Believers, and For Our Beloved Nation.

HAPPY AND HEALTHY NEW YEAR!

God Bless America!

Blessings To All Who Visit This Garden of Prayer.

This Symbol Represents Christians in The Middle East, who desperately need our Prayers.

Hallelujah and Amen

ML/LTOS

Joining in prayer. God bless.

(Hope you have all those photos in your treasure box! Great memories)

While the tradition states that David's mother was named Nitzevet bat Adael, this is not in the Biblical text. The woman who is, and who is automatically associated with David's ancestry, is Ruth.

Ruth is so closely connected to David that while she was his great-grandmother on his father's side, it's really as if she were his mother. It's not entirely incorrect to say that Ruth is David's mother.

I like to reread this article every couple of months. It ties in with your post about the women having questionable pasts, explaining what is the purpose of the sketchy origins:

WHY DAVID MUST COME FROM THE MOST REVILED NATION

Amen, left that other site

I remember back in 1966 watching a show called “The Time Tunnel” where the heroes were “lost in time” - leaping from one place in history to another. Though they could be watched from the control room of this top secret project.

One episode the two landed outside Jericho and were taken in by Rahab, the Harlot/Innkeeper. And the scientists watching in the 20th century cracked open a Bible to Joshua and read about the two spies, which were their boys.

Of course, they all spoke English - another miracle. ;)

Joining in prayer for the Peace of Jerusalem.

Agreeing in prayer.

PRAYERS ASCENDING ON HIGH FOR
THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM!
And for the Preservation of the Valiant
Israeli Nation!

_ ND as soon as we had heard these
things, our hearts did melt, neither did there remain any more courage in any man, because of you: for the LORD your God, he is God in heaven above, and in earth beneath."

________________________________ Joshua 2:11 (KJV)

PRAYERS ASCENDING ON HIGH For ML In This Time Of Tribulation.

PRAYERS ASCENDING ON HIGH For A Rapid Recovery For ML’s Mom.

PRAYERS ASCENDING ON HIGH For A Rapid Recovery For Our Own Yorkie.

PRAYERS ASCENDING ON HIGH For A Rapid Recovery For Our FRiend Uri'el2012.

PRAYERS ASCENDING ON HIGH For The Safety Of Our Gallant Troops And For The Success Of Their Vital Mission.

PRAYERS ASCENDING ON HIGH For The Repose Of The Souls Of Our Embassy Staff In Libya Who Were Assassinated 11 September 2012.

PRAYERS ASCENDING ON HIGH For The Deliverance Of Our Beloved Nation From The Lion’s Mouth.

PRAYERS ASCENDING ON HIGH For Our Brethren Of All Faiths Throughout The World Suffering Persecution.
We pray in particular on behalf of our brothers and sisters in Syria, Iraq, Egypt, Libya and throughout the Mideast. The members of the oldest of our Christian Communities, some of which date from the days of the Apostles, suffer under cruel, merciless and unrelenting persecution. They are Orthodox and Catholic, Protestant and Evangelical, Coptic, Pentecostal, and Baptist. To the persecutors, we are all "Nazarenes."