Yesterday, on the way out of the Old City, I had to run the key back to the room. When I was on my way back to the car, a Muslim woman was screaming because she was claiming to being mis-handled by Israeli guards.
I had spotted some camera crews and was in the middle of asking one guy if I could give an American Christian perspective, and was half-way through my explanation (pre-filming) when the unrest broke out and all the media people (two video cameras and at least one with normal cameras) flocked over to the woman who was yelling, and Israeli guards rushed in to do crowd control.
This comes after speaking to several arabs and jews alike who complain the the media covers nothing but violence, and that most of the population wants peace and truth in reporting. One news crew crew was from the netherlands. After my challenging them not to just air the “bad news”, they interviewed me and I got to say the following. Pray that it is aired somewhere!:
That it is clear that all the tension in the city is due to pride and religion.
That Jesus came to deal harshly with both, and bring God to “Tabernacle” within us, in the form of the Holy Spirit. He spoke against the religion of his day that still causes all the conflict today.
That man does not have to do any religious acts to win God’s approval. He loves us just as we are, and our sins are paid for.
That although Jerusalem is beautiful and interesting, it is not a “holy site” for Christians, because all that stands today is what was built during the Crusades, it is really a museum for the Crusade architecture. We don’t get any “closer to God b