Standing on the rooftop of Tantur Ecumenical Institute, I am only a few hundred meters from the Bethlehem checkpoint. If I turn around, I am only 5.8 kms from the Old City of Jerusalem. Therefore, if I were to have stood right where I am at Tantur for the past 4,000 years, I would have seen with my own two eyes:
Abraham and Isaac on their way to Mt. Moriah (now Jerusalem)
Ruth, perhaps, gleaning the fields of Boaz.
Samuel on his way to Bethlehem to anoint a shepherd boy named David.
David and his Men on the way to make Jerusalem his capital city.
The three wise men on their way into Bethlehem to visit a newborn named Jesus.
Joseph and Mary taking Jesus to the Temple to consecrate him.
As I stare out from the rooftop of Tantur, it boogles my mind, what has happened on this very road!
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