When you are out of photos to post on a blog, you are "out of photos". On Sunday, September 6th, I was scheduled to meet a tour bus from a church in Colorado. They were bringing blankets, afghans, and comforters for the upcoming winter. At CFI, we will distribute these to the elderly, poor, and needy. So I decided to take my camera and create some new photos of my trip to the airport. Below is Highway One just as we are leaving Jerusalem heading west.
Beer Sheva to the south. Haifa to the north. We are headed due west to Ben-Gurion Airport close to Tel Aviv.
Highway One thru the Judean Hills is full of hills and curves. The next photo I was able to take was at the bottom of the Judean Hills where you see an exit sign to Bet Shemesh (House of Sun). Bet Shemesh is where the two milk cows pulled the Ark of the Covenant in a wagon from the land of the Philistines which is near modern day Gaza today. The men of Bet Shemesh made a tragic mistake and looked inside the Ark. He struck down some of the men of Beth-shemesh because they had looked into the ark of the LORD. He struck down of all the people, 50,070 men, and the people mourned because the LORD had struck the people with a great slaughter. 1st Samuel 6:19.
Today we are headed to Tel Aviv and not Modi'in where 2170 years ago the Macabbees hid in the caves in order to fight. Their subsequent victory and cleansing of the Temple is still remembered today with the Hannukah Holidays (Feast of Dedication). The Lord Jesus observed this holiday. Then came the Feast of Dedication at Jerusalem. It was winter, and Jesus was in the temple area walking in Solomon's Colonnade. John 10:22-23.
My airport exit.
Checkpoint to get into airport.
Highway inside the airport towards Terminal 3.
Ben-Gurion Airport.
Departures and arrivals to the the right. Today we will go to the left where the buses go.
Bus of Christian tourists that brought blankets for the winter.
They also gave CFI a nice check for our other projects. Since Communities Under Attack (me) was driving, surely some of that will be designated for the families of Sderot.
Grapefruit trees growing in the airport by the bus parking lot.
Back to Jerusalem.
Judean Hill in the background as we head east to Jerusalem.
You have to watch the slow trucks on Highway One. There are many curves and sometimes they are going very, very slow up to Jerusalem. After these things there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. John 5:1.
Approaching Jerusalem.
" O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, just as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you would not have it! Luke 13:34.
Central Bus Station in Jerusalem.
Making my way to the City Center.
Intersection of Gershon Agron and King George in the City Center. The bus on the left of me and the car on the right of me both had a green light. But since I was in the middle lane waiting to turn left, my light was red. Driving in Jerusalem keeps an old man thinking.
Where "new meets old". Intersection of Gershon Agron and King David. Modern luxury apartments and shopping on the left at Mamilla. Luxury hotel, David's Citadel, on the right. Two blocks away in the center you can see the Old City of Jerusalem with the ancient walls.
Tour Bus #99 turning in front of me. It is a good way to see major sites of Jerusalem.
Riding the clutch at the hilly intersection of King David and Jaffa. The Old City in view.
Shivtei Israel (Tribes of Israel) Road. CFI's former offices where here 5 years ago.
Young Orthodox man at corner of Shivtei Israel and Ha Neviim (The Prophets) Street.
Finally arriving at CFI.
New parking lot entrance.
From the CFI Rose Garden.
Blankets before I unloaded.
Banner in the stairway of CFI.
Banner at reception desk.
Banner in reception lobby.
CFI waiting area with cutout of Ruth, the gentile woman who identified herself with the Jews. But Ruth said, "Do not urge me to leave you or turn back from following you; for where you go, I will go, and where you lodge, I will lodge. Your people shall be my people, and your God, my God. "Where you die, I will die, and there I will be buried. Thus may the LORD do to me, and worse, if anything but death parts you and me." Ruth 1:16-17.
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