share a belief that there is one major area that they claim as their Holy Land. The Jews and the Christians claim Jerusalem‚ Israel as there Holy Land while the Islamic people claim Mecca‚ Saudi Arabia. These places are where the people believe that God has left for them. In Jerusalem there are many battles about who should have the rights to this land. There are two parts in Jerusalem. There is the New City and the Old City. In the Old city there are many temples‚ one of the most important being
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The Dome of the Rock known as Qubbat As-Sakhrah‚ found in Jerusalem‚ was built by the order of Umayyad Caliph Abd al-Malik between AD 687 and 691. Engineers‚ Raja ibn Haywah‚ a muslim theologian from Beit She’an‚ and Yazid Ibn Salam‚ a non-Arab and a Jerusalem native‚ were tasked to build the Dome of the Rock. Historically‚ it is one of the most iconic monumental buildings in the early Islamic history and is an excellent artistic creation of mankind. It became the symbol of unity of the three monotheistic
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as one. It took about a year to gather Crusaders. The first Crusade lasted two years and achieved its objectives in the Holy Land. The Crusaders slaughtered the Turks and halted their expansion. Then they marched into Palestine and captured Jerusalem and massacred the city. The Crusaders had allied themselves with many unstable forces in the region. And when they assisted a Muslim ruler in attacking Damascus‚ there payback was that ruler launching a jihad against them. This event caused
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extreme lengths to get it. Maybe it was stealing something from a store‚ or lying to a parent in order to go out with friends. For the Muslims‚ Jews‚ and Christians from 1096 AD- 1200 AD‚ they would go to extreme lengths in order to have power over Jerusalem‚ the Holy Land for all three of these religions. These three would persecute‚ rape‚ and even kill each other in order to own the Holy Land. The Crusades had a more negative than positive effect on the world because people all over the world were
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the following. Paul and the Jerusalem Council In the book of Acts‚ Luke records two separate trips Paul made to Jerusalem to discuss doctrinal matters with the head Messianic leaders Peter and James. The first incident is recorded in Acts 15. Here‚ as the story goes‚ there had been a disagreement as to whether the Gentiles believers needed to be circumcised. So Paul and Barnabas were sent to Jerusalem to find an answer to the question. When they came to Jerusalem the elders
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as a cultic festival‚ a day center almost exclusively on the Temple in Jerusalem. According to tradition‚ all females from 12 years old and males from 13 years old must fast. Sukkoth is a biblical holiday celebrated on the 15th day of the month of Tishrei (varies from late September to late October). It is one of three biblical mandated festivals on which Hebrew were commanded to make a pilgrimage to the temple in Jerusalem. It follows the solemn holiday Yom Kippur‚ or Day of Atonement. The Sukkoth
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The response of Ezra and Nehemiah to the sins of the Hebrews is a blueprint of the actions of what a truly righteous person should do. Ezra‚ a scribe and priest‚ led the people of Israel back to Jerusalem after being in exile‚ learned that the nation of Israel‚ even the priests and the Levites had committed the sin of intermingling and intermarrying with pagans‚ which was in contrary to the laws given them by Moses. However‚ rather than leave them to their own devices and certain punishment from
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contains messages of divine judgment against Judah and Jerusalem‚ as well as against other nations. It addresses a rare concentration of references to central issues in the history of ancient Israel. Idolatry‚ violence‚ and deception abound in Judah when Zephaniah began prophesying. Zephaniah ’s prophesying made it clear that Yahweh would execute vengeance upon unrepentant wrongdoers. His adverse judgments would be visited not only upon Judah and Jerusalem‚ but also upon other peoples: the Philistines‚ Ammonites
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Theme of Missions in the NT God has always been a God concerned with missions. In the Old Testament His desire was for Israel to share Him with the entire world. Israel was not interested in this mission. They grew to hate the pagan world. God himself came to earth in the form of man to be a mission-model for us. Jesus came to “seek and to save the lost” (Luke 19:10). He then required all who followed him as a disciple to do the same. Jesus told his disciples in Matthew 4:19 to “come‚ follow
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When the Christians lost the temple at Jerusalem at its destruction in A.D. 70‚ what did they do? They left. The bigger question‚ then is: Why did they leave? Part of the reason goes back to Israel’s original purpose to be the light of the world (Exodus 19:6). Before this time the Church had been spending its time in Jerusalem‚ preaching to the Jews‚ only. Now‚ through the destruction of Jerusalem‚ God was calling His people to go‚ away from those who rejected the message‚ to the Gentiles (Acts 22:21
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