I’ve added a short video clip so you can get an idea of the Ziggurat. I also added a few pictures. Great day shooting footage for the Abraham movie with brick makers, the temple that Abraham saw with his own eyes, and a lot more.
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Footprints of God DVD’s
Bethel Israel
It was off the beaten track and in a Jewish settlement in the Palestinian area. This is the traditional place where Jacob fell asleep with his head on a stone and had a dream of a ladder going to heaven with angels ascending and descending.
St. Chromatius wrote, “The Ladder is the Cross of Christ: Through the resurrection of Christ the way was opened. Therefore with good reason the patriarch Jacob relates that he had seen in that place a ladder whose end reached heaven and that the Lord leaned on it.
Very awesome to stand on the very place this happened!
“The ladder fixed to the ground and reaching heaven is the cross of Christ, through which the access to heaven is granted to us, because it actually leads us to heaven. On this ladder different steps of virtue are set, through which we rise toward heaven: faith, justice, chastity, holiness, patience, piety and all the other virtues are the steps of this ladder.
If we faithfully climb them, we will undoubtedly reach heaven. And therefore we know well that the ladder is the symbol of the cross of Christ. As, in fact, the steps are set between two uprights, so the cross of Christ is placed between the two Testaments and keeps in itself the steps of the heavenly precepts, through which we climb to heaven.” Sermon 1.6.
Jesus is the one mediator of the New Covenant – to provide access for sinful men to reach a holy God. He and His Cross are the ladder between heaven and earth. As Scripture says, “For there is one God, and one mediator also between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, who gave Himself as a ransom for all, the testimony given at the proper time. (1 Tim 2:5). (By the way, this verse has nothing to do with the Communion of Saints or asking for the intercession of the saints!)
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Steve at Isaac's Tomb in Mosque in Hebron
Janet and I have been in Israel the last 10 days working on the script for our new Footprints of God DVD on Abraham. It will be entitled “Abraham, Father of Faith and Works.”
Besides writing we have been driving around Israel and the Palestinian areas to review all of the places related to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
Finding Sodom at tip of Dead Sea
In two days will be flying to Iraq to start our filming at Ur of ancient Mesopotamia and along the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers. Then we move on to Haran Turkey to film several segments there. The rest of the filming will be done in June in Israel and the Palestinian Territories.
We plan to have the movie released by Christmas of 2014. Please pray for us and our crew and Ignatius Press that is funding this huge 10-part documentary series.
If you’d like to learn more about our project or help support it financially you can visit our website at www.FOGHELP.com. We have a tax-deductible account set up through Ignatius Press that is helping fund the project.
(Video inside Machpelah in Hebron with Tombs of Abraham and Sarah, Isaac and Rebekah, Jacob and Leah.)
Quiz question: what is the only place where we know the whole Trinity walked on the face of the earth?
Don’t look at the comments below and tell you’ve figured out for yourself :-)
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