My First Trip To Israel: Visiting Jerusalem's Old City (Part 1) | Sheila Walsh | TBN Israel

I mean the Jewish quarter is full of Jewish people pushing quarters are full of Christians the Muslim quarters full of Muslim people and they live here in a quite a crowded environment and it has these very unique Logistics that you'll sort of see as you walk through of how you get around I mean these are the streets the citizens a museum exhibit I mean people get to their home into the shop coming down the street all my life I've longed to visit Israel I could only imagine what a fantastic experience that would be to actually walk where Jesus walked and now for the first time I'm about to set off on that trip and I want to take you with me we'll fly from here in the U.S to Tel Aviv Israel's main Port City will drive to Tiberius by the Sea of Galilee to magdala to the Mount of Beatitudes and of course to Jerusalem and the Mount of Olives I'm going to meet some new friends who'll take me to places I'd never find them my own and unpack the depth of stories I've known since I was a child growing up in Scotland I'm so excited well there's no better place to start than in Jerusalem the capital city of Israel today I'm going to be joined by Marty shoshani who's going to take me through the ancient Gates and into the old city of Jerusalem let's walk where Jesus walked [Music] thank you [Applause] [Music] thank you [Music] well I made it I'm finally here in Jerusalem I am so excited a little jet lagged and totally wearing the wrong shoes and if you ever come to Israel wear flat shoes behind me can you see this I love Jerusalem I have to get a photo of that but I'm waiting for a friend who's going to come meet me and his name is mati and actually here he is hey Sheila oh thank you for meeting me here good to see you this is amazing hey welcome to Jerusalem all my life I've wanted to come and this is the first time that my feet have been on this soil well listen this is the place to start yeah we're right in the heart of Jerusalem the old city is behind us we're about to walk down through Jaffa gate and see what this city has to offer before we go into the old city is there any way you take a picture of me and talk to the sign let's do it let me just figure this out three two perfect let's do this [Music] okay I'm taking your arm when we go down here because you know what I'm thinking I'm thinking there's any markets in here but maybe I should change my shoes I think that's a good idea I'll say this for the the benefit of people visiting this country the people who chose these stones for the city didn't really think it through they're beautiful beautiful but they're not very practical no not if you're wearing ridiculous Footwear like mine so we're in what we call the Christian quarter there are four quarters to the old city of Jerusalem Christian quarter The Armenian quarter who's also are also Christian the Muslim Porter and the Jewish quarter and the Christian quarter has the majority but not all of the churches in the old city and there are a lot of them there's a church for every denomination and a church for every type of Christianity Under the Sun wow and many of them share even the same uh space like the Church of the Holy Sepulcher I believe has eight denominations at least represented there and do people live in this part yeah so it's not just a place where they come people definitely live here I mean the Jewish quarter is full of Jewish people pushing quarters are full of Christians the Muslim quarters full of Muslim people and they live here in a quite a crowded environment and it has these very unique Logistics that you'll sort of see as you walk through of how you get around I mean these are the streets this isn't a museum exhibit I mean people get to their home into the shop coming down the street to the fourth quarters look together quite peaceably for the most part you know we are in the Middle East after all yeah and religion is a really good topic to pick a fight over sure coming that way in America too historically speaking it's full of people from all kinds of you know all places of of Life all religions that live together for the most part in a very peaceful way fascinating place to live should I think the number one order of business yeah aside from more content yeah is getting you a better pair of shoes for the city absolutely and there's right the place for you over here perfect hey stupid person needs better shoes not stupid you're prepared for the streets of West Jerusalem not this side of the city awesome yeah I I go with with these what you said yeah thank you but I can get your tune I'll get this okay here oh I love that thank you that color fits perfectly with your outfit I think that's perfect I would love to wear them now we'll take a bag for the other shoes I'm about five inches shorter but way great but a whole lot safer a whole lot safer so what do we owe you 100 chicken is fine all right I got it oh what a gentleman I'll bill you later it's okay okay guys thank you thank you so much you probably saved my life this should be a smoother sailing from now I could dance Oh What A Difference [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] Shalom Mr Zach hi this is my friend Sheila oh thank you nice to meet you I love your store very good thanks very good this is beautiful Sheila this is not for tourists this is the real deal these are not toys these are the real items you know used in Jerusalem through the time of the second temple until this time yeah is there anything you could show me actually I just got this oh wow pottery anointment so the lady that broke the anointment on Jesus feet something like this it was something similar to this this is priceless yes no it actually has a price feeling but it has a narrow neck easy to break oh wow it's very fragile I love these kind of things it's been buried in the ground for millennia and we're connecting right now to something that someone at the time of Christ several thousand years ago was using on a daily basis I love that connection yet to work with antiquities you know and to but you know get something from the time of Christ you must be a very respected man in this area God is good to me God is good to man yes yes wow thank you welcome nice to have you good to see you thank you so much yeah I'm loving this Old City [Music] see you [Music] so surely many people have this concept that Christianity sort of started in Israel and left yeah but it never really left you know let's say if you're thinking about the the first century all the Disciples of Christ they remain or the majority of them remain in the land and they built a community here and for centuries those people remained in the land wow and they sort of evolved to what the sun hasn't and some of these early churches reflect that uh these early churches were built based on the stories that the locals were telling about this is the place I heard it from my father who heard it from his father and we've been here ever since so this is falafel it's made out of chickpeas and a bunch of other spices yeah herbs is really good yeah fried I would love to try it for people who work a hard physical uh Labor Day oh so not for me so for me and you maybe a couple bites yes we love some thank you okay sure thing in one one shape or another you can find it all over the Middle East wow Falafel for the first time oh what do you think I love it it's pretty good that's good thank you let's go Sheila it was really good that was quite good but I don't think I could eat the whole thing I mean that's quite filling so she lets that out from the Christian quarter down into the Jewish quarter all the way to the Western Wall oh I'd love to we're going this way I'd love to do that [Music] [Music] Sheila this is the Western Wall the most holy place to the Jewish people and right above it one of the holiest places to the Muslim people I mean this for for us people of Faith people of the Bible in this land this is a CL as close as it gets to the beginning of the story explain why so right behind us is what is the supporting wall of herod's Temple and right above it would have been the holy of holies uh Solomon's Temple atop which was built herod's Temple uh you know then the next Temple the Temple of those who came back to the land so going way back you're talking the Ark of the Covenant you're talking the presence of God yeah yeah I mean after all the traveling throughout the region it all lands here on this Hilltop right behind us and David City Solomon City Jerusalem throughout the centuries this is the heart of it all and it remains that way and there's a reason that people have fought and thought and prayed and cried over this place it's because of the significance of that because this place you know God's story culminates in a physical place and action in people and that place those actions those stories start and end where we're standing I love this [Applause] now because of the core of that gives me chills the core of the Jewish and belief always I mean always every single moment in history there's a belief of the Messiah coming it's not whether they're you know the Messiah is Yeshua Jesus it's whether they're it's that's it's just the question of the identity of the Messiah there's no question that there needs to be a messiah and there's still that long in that yearning definitely with Orthodox Judaism today okay that was fascinating um it was Lively it looks Lively I want to ask you about when I think of I'm part of the church in America but this is seen in other countries too and I think sometimes there can be a mentality of just come Jesus and just get us out of here as opposed to understanding that often it is through suffering and hardship that we experience the Life of Christ I often say that Christ could have risen without the scars of crucifixion but I think scars are proof that God heals and I know that in my own life yeah I would 100 agree I know I would say that that Israel and like let's call it the Jerusalem experience is where it all comes together why do you think that there's so many encouragements in scripture not just encouragement commands to pray for the Peace of Jerusalem to pray for Israel well one because Jerusalem needs peace yeah the city exemplifies this this point of tension and contention and and friction that is is so there are so many layers to it the political and the ethnic and the religious and you know the biblical narrative it all comes together in this one place people look at it they look at what's happening in this land and because they care about it both on just the human level but also on the fact that what happens here is proof of God's plan and this line exemplifies it and people that come through this land get to experience that they get to see that again it's a real country it's it's a real country with real problems real people you know the streets smell just like anywhere else but this is where God promises that things will happen and when they do there's a unique significance that doesn't exist elsewhere auntie thank you so much for taking time out of your crazy busy life and your family to be with us and sharing so much I'm so grateful thank you for listening to me rant on oh I could do it all day but now I think I'm gonna go and see if I can go to the women's side um and maybe say a prayer there it's a must [Music] this is Jerusalem's holiest site it's the only remains of the retaining wall surrounding the Temple mount the site of the first and second temples the first was destroyed by Babylonians over 500 years before the birth of Christ and the second was destroyed in 1870 by Romans men and women pray in separate areas the women's area is smaller in fact in 2016 the Israeli government planned a space where men and women could pray together but one year later that was voted down remember [Music] [Music] gosh I have to tell you for my first day in Israel this has been amazing and to be here in Jerusalem I want you to share with you a little of the reason behind this trip and why it was so important to me this is not for me a sightseeing trip it's a sign seeing trip do you know that there's well theologians disagree but anywhere between 300 and over 400 prophecies in the Old Testament pertaining to the coming Messiah but the tragedy is when Jesus was born here his own people didn't recognize him and having Jerusalem in the background I was studying this before we even started out for the day but this is what it says in Matthew 23 verse 37 says o Jerusalem Jerusalem the city that kills the prophets and Stones God's Messengers how often have I wanted to gather your children together as a hen protects her chicks and now look your house wouldn't let me you know it reminded me of a story my mom told me I was born in a small town on the west coast of Scotland and my mom was a farm accountant she would do the accounts for the farmers and for the Shepherds and one night in one of the Farms there was a terrible fire and all the buildings that the animals were housed in were burned to the ground and so it's the following morning and they're walking through the farm you yard looking all the devastation trying to make an assessment of the next step and they're lying on the path in front of them was a mother hen badly badly charred and the farmer knew that the hen had passed and so he just very gently with his foot just kicked out the way and underneath were six live chicks this mother had literally spread her wings over her little ones and given her life so that they could be saved and do you know that that is what Jesus did there's such a gap between the Holiness of God and the sinfulness of you and me and that's why Jesus came one of the fun things I got to do today walking through the old city of Jerusalem was Matty took me to a place where he introduced me to a friend of his and it reminded me of of a story but it gave it so much fresh meaning you'll probably remember seeing it was just a little jar that was from the time of Christ really Priceless but it reminds me of this story that we find in John's gospel and is to do with a family of some of Jesus closest friends Lazarus and Mary and Martha this is John chapter 12. it says six days before the Passover celebration began Jesus arrived in Bethany the home of Lazarus the man he'd raised from the dead a dinner was prepared in Jesus honor and that's one of the things I've come to understand even in my first day walking in the footsteps of Jesus that's how they share Fellowship here together over a meal they sit together and share fellowship and talk while Martha served in Lazarus was among those who ate with him then Mary took a 12-ounce jar of expensive perfume made from essence of nard and she anointed Jesus feet with it wiping his feet with her hair and the house was filled with the fragrance some of my favorite theologians say that it was very probable that Mary and Martha were not married or had lost their husbands because they were living with their brother Lazarus and so for Mary this jar filled with this Priceless nard this perfume really in some ways was her future it's like you and I might put Savings in the bank like kind of like a retirement this was Mary's retirement until she met Jesus and he became her future even at the beginning of this I don't know if you have a personal relationship with Jesus and honestly none of this for me is about religion religion has brought so much damage to this world this is all about relationship with Jesus and what scripture very clearly says in the Book of Romans it says whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved not might be not naming certain kinds of people it doesn't matter if you come from a palace or you live rough on the streets when you recognize that Jesus came as the Son of God to bridge the gap between us and our Holy Father and you call on his name then your name is written in the Lamb's Book of Life but let me just say this one thing sometimes I think within our culture we think well I I'll make a decision you know I'll go forward I'll ask Jesus into my heart and then you think well all I have to do after that is I'll show up for church as often as I can and I'll make sure I have a Bible no that's not what Jesus looks for he wants you and me to be all in Jesus came to make disciples not just people who signed a form and said yes he wants you and I to be all in 24 7 serving Jesus I can't wait to show you some of the other places we're going to have an opportunity to go this week but in case is just even one of you and you don't know this Jesus could I pray a simple prayer with you and you wherever you are you could just pray at line by line with me if you've decided that you want to become a disciple of Jesus Christ and live the rest of your life for him pray pray this with me dear Jesus I believe you are the son of God I believe that you came that you died on a cross and you rose again from the dead I know I'm a sinner and I ask you to forgive me for my sin I want to follow you for the rest of my life all in 24 7. thank you for coming thank you for making me your child in Jesus name I pray amen hey I'm Matthew susani and thank you for watching the TBN Israel YouTube channel we hope this video gave you greater understanding of Israel and her people if you haven't already subscribe to our Channel and hit the notification Bell so you never miss a video we'd love to hear from you so be sure to share what you've learned and ask your questions and comments below and invite your friends to join the conversation

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Length: 22min 55sec (1375 seconds)

Published: Thu Jul 06 2023