GOOGLE MAPS: ROOM OF LAST SUPPER / DAVID’S TOMB / ISRAEL MUSEUM / ISRAEL HOLOCAUST MUSEUM / VALLEY OF ELAH
OLD CITY – ROOM OF LAST SUPPER
The Upper Room… this location isn’t a 100% or A+ location. We do not know if THIS upper room is THE upper room but it is one like it. It gives you an idea of what the scene could’ve looked like for Jesus and His disciples.
A couple of things happened in “The Upper Room”:
- The final Passover Seder or “Last Supper”. It was in the Upper Room that the disciples were told to prepare the Passover meal. It was here that Jesus went through the entire seder showing His disciples explaining how the elements relate to Him. The disciples would not fully understand until much later.
- After Jesus ascended into Heaven, the disciples went back to Jerusalem to the Upper Room. There they chose someone to replace Judas.(Acts 1:12-26)
There is debate on whether the disciples were in the Upper Room or at the Temple on the Day of Pentecost at the moment the Holy Spirit filled them all. The term “house” in Acts 2:2 could mean temple. That’s house Jesus referred to it often and that’s where most people would be during this feast anyway.
DAVID’S TOMB
I’m not going to lie, this place was weird for me. I wanted to look around more but there were people worshipping and praying at the coffin. It just felt odd.
CHRIST CHURCH JERUSALEM
So what do you do after a weird experience? You go get coffee at the local place.
The coffee shop is part of Christ Church Jerusalem. We were able to hear some history from one of the locals while visiting. It is considered the first Protestant church in the Middle East.
Christ Church Jerusalem has a museum on site complete with a model of Jerusalem. Here we learned the legacy of Michael Solomon Alexander, the first Anglican Bishop who entered Jerusalem.
CHRISTIAN QUARTER
Shopping in the Christian Quarter of Jerusalem on David St. and Christian Quarter St.
Shopping down the streets as we head toward the Jerusalem Archaeological Park by the Western Wall.
JERUSALEM ARCHAEOLOGICAL PARK
SOUTHERN STEPS
ISRAEL MUSEUM
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem houses the Shrine of the Book which was built as a repository for the first seven scrolls discovered at Qumran in 1947. The unique white dome embodies the lids of the jars in which the first scrolls were found. These scrolls are known as the Dead Sea Scrolls and are over 2000 years old dating from the third century BC to the first century AD. No cameras are allowed inside the Shrine today. It is amazing to me that the scrolls, written around the time of Jesus, have been hidden since the destruction of Jerusalem and were found around the same time Israel recently became a nation again. Look at God bringing His Word and His people back to His land at the same time!
THE MODEL CITY
The The Model of Jerusalem in the Second Temple Period depicting Jerusalem in 66 AD just before its destruction in 70 AD. It is currently located at the Israel Museum and is on a scale of 1 to 50 (1/4 inch = 1 foot). It took seven years to finish this model with a cost of about one million dollars.
THE HOLOCAUST MUSEUM
Yad Vashem is the Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem on Mt Herzl. We happened to be there on Holocaust Remembrance Day and it was packed. We were asked to not take pictures and to be respectful, so you won’t find any photos from me until the end of the museum.
THE VALLEY OF ELAH
Finally we come to the last stop of the day…the Valley of Elah. This valley is the location of the historic battle between David and Goliath found in 1 Samuel 17.
Why did David choose five smooth stones before going to fight Goliath?
Here are some ideas:
- David wasn’t sure how many it would take. Maybe he needed at least that many to take down beasts coming after his sheep.
- Goliath had brothers. David may have wanted to be prepared for them.
- Five is the number for “grace” in the Bible. David was saved by grace with only one sacrifice.
Theresa Haigler 