On Wednesday I spent about four hours at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, and even that wasn’t long enough to see all the interesting stuff. There are four bits to peruse: archaeology (not just in Israel, but throughout the world), things reflecting Jewish life, art (including Impressionist...
12Then David said to Uriah, “Wait here today also, and tomorrow I will let you depart.” So Uriah remained in Jerusalem that day and the next.13Now when David called him, he ate and drank before him; and he made him drunk. And at evening he went out to lie on his bed with the...
If you are asking yourself if Jesus did this on purpose, of course he did. Jesus shared the meaning with his disciples with full disclosure. They knew Him to be the messiah, and just in case they needed the clarification of the parable, He gave it to them. (For reference take a look...
Man has thus been warring with one other from the beginning of time, and it will not cease until Jesus comes back to set up His Millennium Kingdom from the city of Jerusalem. And until that glorious event finally occurs, we will all have to put up with a certain amount of evil from ...
God calls us to repent, to choose to follow Jesus and to join ourselves to his Body, the Church. See also: The Gospel Message* (PowerPoint) The Story of Salvation Why be Catholic? Did Israel Steal Land from the Palestinians? Wisdom of the Bible If I Forget You, O Jerusalem… The 61...
That is why the Gospel of Jesus Christ speaks of a Body of Christ and a community of saints. And it's also why the New Jerusalem is a city, which is a single entity formed from the original contributions of many free citizens. Its purpose is to govern and uphold the wider world (...
As Jesus approached Jerusalem and saw the city, He wept over it / and said, “If only you had known on this day what would bring you peace! But now it is hidden from your eyes. / For the days will come upon you when your enemies will barricade you and surround you and hem you ...
Why did Jesus Christ have to suffer? Essentially, Jesus Christ suffered and died because of sin—not His own sin, but the sins of all of mankind. Notice the prophet Isaiah’s description of Christ’s suffering: “Who has believed our report? And to whom has the arm of the LORD been ...
35He did this to make what the prophet had said come true: “I will use parables when I speak to them; I will tell them things unknown since the creation of the world.” Jesus Explains the Parable of the Weeds 36When Jesus had left the crowd and gone indoors, his disciples came to...
). He offers humanity a life with him, the source of all life. But if humanity turned away from him, they would die because nothing can live away from God. Yet that is exactly what humans choose. God didn't introduce death into the equation; humanity did. God’s problem (and ours)...