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[[Image:Hinnom.JPG|right|thumb|300px|This valley is called "Hinnom" in Hebrew and "Gehenna" in Greek. Gehenna is often translated as "Hell" in English.]] | |||
==The Shame of Jerusalem:== | ==The Shame of Jerusalem:== | ||
Old Jerusalem was a walled city with many gates. At the southern end of Jerusalem, at the lowest part of the city, is the Dung Gate. The Dung Gate once carried refuse from the city down into the Valley of the Son of Hinnom. It was in this valley that the Israelites sacrificed their children to pagan gods (causing them to “pass through the fire”) and built their high places. It is because of this history that the Hinnom Valley is often typed to hell. All of Jerusalem’s evil seemed to flow here, both natural and spiritual. | Old Jerusalem was a walled city with many gates. At the southern end of Jerusalem, at the lowest part of the city, is the Dung Gate. The Dung Gate once carried refuse from the city down into the Valley of the Son of Hinnom. It was in this valley that the Israelites sacrificed their children to pagan gods (causing them to “pass through the fire”) and built their high places. It is because of this history that the Hinnom Valley is often typed to hell. All of Jerusalem’s evil seemed to flow here, both natural and spiritual. | ||
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==The Unclean Bread== | ==The Unclean Bread== | ||
[[Image:Brown_bread.JPG|right|thumb|150px|God told Ezekiel to take brown bread, and make it even browner...]] | |||
God told the prophet Ezekiel to make bread, and he gave him a recipe that you can find in Ezekiel 4:9. In the scriptures, bread often represents the body of Jesus Christ. This parallel seems to work until God tells Ezekiel to take his own dung, and add it to the bread. This is too disgusting for Ezekiel, and he tells God that won’t do it, because he has never eaten anything “unclean”. So God relents and lets Ezekiel add cow manure to the recipe instead. | God told the prophet Ezekiel to make bread, and he gave him a recipe that you can find in Ezekiel 4:9. In the scriptures, bread often represents the body of Jesus Christ. This parallel seems to work until God tells Ezekiel to take his own dung, and add it to the bread. This is too disgusting for Ezekiel, and he tells God that won’t do it, because he has never eaten anything “unclean”. So God relents and lets Ezekiel add cow manure to the recipe instead. | ||
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==The Roman Soldier and the Wine== | ==The Roman Soldier and the Wine== | ||
[[Image:Sponge_and_Stick.JPG|right|thumb|250px|A screenshot from the film "The Gospel of John", distributed by www.visualbible.com]] | |||
In the hours before his death, soldiers hit Jesus, spit on Jesus, scourge Jesus, ridicule Jesus, lay thorns on his head, force him to carry his cross, nail him to the cross, and gamble over his clothes. Every soldier in this story carries out the sentence of judgment on Jesus. Just before Jesus died, he said “I thirst”. A soldier hears Jesus, and dips a sponge in wine and extends it on a stick for him to drink. | In the hours before his death, soldiers hit Jesus, spit on Jesus, scourge Jesus, ridicule Jesus, lay thorns on his head, force him to carry his cross, nail him to the cross, and gamble over his clothes. Every soldier in this story carries out the sentence of judgment on Jesus. Just before Jesus died, he said “I thirst”. A soldier hears Jesus, and dips a sponge in wine and extends it on a stick for him to drink. | ||