Understanding the Word

The Temple Mount, as seen from the top of the Citadel. The Dome of the Rock stands on the former site of the Temple. In the background you can see the Mount of Olives.

I am constantly amazed at how you can learn more from Scripture every time you read it. In the past two days, I have listened to Psalm 48 being explained by two very godly men, and then I have walked in the very city talked about in the psalm. Along with that, the students are memorizing the psalm for class and I want to memorize it as well, so wherever I go, I hear it being recited. I can't imagine a better way to "study" God's Word.

"Great is the LORD and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in His holy mountain. Beautiful in elevation, the joy of the whole earth, is Mount Zion on the sides of the north, the city of the great King. God is in her palaces; He is known as her refuge. For behold, the kings assembled, they passsed by together. They saw it, and so they marveled; they were troubled, they hastened away. Fear took hold of them there, and pain, as of a woman in birth pangs, as when You break the ships of Tarshish with an east wind. As we have heard, so we have seen in the city of the LORD of hosts, in the city of our God: God will establish it forever. We have thought, O God, on Your lovingkindnesses, in the midst of Your temple. According to Your name, O God, so is Your praise to the ends of the earth; Your right hand is full of righteousness. Let Mount Zion rejoice, let the daughters of Judah be glad, because of Your judgments. Walk about Zion, and go all around her. Count her towers; mark well her bulwarks; consider her palaces; that you may tell it to the generation following. For this is God, Our God forever and ever; He will be our guide even to death." Psalm 48 NKJV

This is my buddy, Eitan, and I at the airport picking up the students.

My friends, Yuma and Yerimiah.