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• Jerusalem, the Eternal Capital of Israel Cultures & Community
• Jerusalem's history is long. Five thousand years ago, a group of settlers chose to make their homes on the steep ridge called the Ophel, south of the Old City. 2000 years later, David captured it from the Jebusites. He brought the Holy Ark, establishing...  moreJerusalem's history is long. Five thousand years ago, a group of settlers chose to make their homes on the steep ridge called the Ophel, south of the Old City. 2000 years later, David captured it from the Jebusites. He brought the Holy Ark, establishing forever its sanctity for the Jewish people.
  
  "Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem." Zechariah 12:2
  
  Four thousand years of Jewish history: In around 1600 BCE Abraham offered his son Isaac as a sacrifice on Mount Moriah, stayed only by the angel's hand. Almost a thousand years later, David captured the city and in 833 - 826 BCE, Solomon constructed the First Temple. In 371 BCE, the Jews returned from their exile in Babylon and in 349 BCE completed the building of the Second Temple. Then the Greeks, under Alexander the Great, took the city. Antiochus ruled, desecrating the Temple until the Maccabees liberated it. Once captured again, it would be in 11 BCE that Herod finished reconstructing the Second Temple.
  
  Jerusalem's history continued to be a story of conquest and destruction by an endless chain of occupiers lusting for this precious jewel the Romans, the Greeks, the crusaders, the Egyptian Mamelukes, the Ottoman Empire, the British Mandate, the Jordanians. Jewish soldiers reunited the city in the Six-Day War in 1967, to end the diaspora that began in 70 AD. So many heroes, who gave their lives so that the Jewish people could again dwell in the Eternal City.
  
  Revelation 21:9-11 speaks of this city!
  “Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls full of the seven last plagues came and spoke with me, saying, ‘Come here, I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb.’38 And he carried me away in the Spirit to a great and high mountain, and showed me the holy city,39 Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven40 from God41 having the glory of God. Her brilliance was like a very costly stone, as a stone of crystal-clear jasper.”
  
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• • Lisa Schultz (owner)
  • Jessica Schultz (officer)
  • Gabriele Day (officer)
  • Walt Leuci (officer)
  • John Houk (officer)
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  • Last updated June 23, 2021