Yeah, we couldn't enter the Holy of Holies in class. Speaking of which, you should totally check out http://virtualscriptures.org/virtual-new-testament/. It's this amazing app that lets you look around places in the New Testament, like Temple Mount and the Pools of Silom. Seriously, check it out. My mind was blown by how amazing it is. Even the curtain in the temple moves after you go through it.
Anyways, we talked about the early life of Christ this week. Did you know that the words to More Holiness Give Me go really well with the tune to Away in a Manger? Anyways, we talked a lot about Greek and how some of the words may not have translated well. Did you know that 'inn' also could be translated as 'guest chamber'. In Greek, the word is katalyma, and every house of decent size had one. So when it says that "there was no room for them in the inn," (Luke 2:7) what it probably actually means is that none of their family would let them stay- hence they were probably disowned. Brother Griffin mentioned that it's interesting that the Son of God would be born to a woman who was despised and rejected of men, a woman of sorrows and acquainted with grief.
Also, did you know that there was an aqueduct that flows from Bethlehem into Temple Mount that they used to clean the waste out of the temples? So the waste was thrown on the east side of the alter. Then there would be water that would wash most of it into drains, which would flow to a stream to the east of the temple. And guess what else is to the east of Temple Mount? Gethsemane. There is so much more symbolism in the law of Moses than I ever thought there was. Also, when you pluck a turtledove, there would be a drop of blood in every pore. Isn't that symbolism just amazing?
So every class, Brother Griffin ends by saying, "Know that you are loved." And I just want to pass that on to you- know that you are loved.
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