As you can see in this picture the rock formation looks very much like a skull and tradition says that Jesus would have been crucified here. This location sits just outside the wall of the Old City and the Bible is clear that Jesus was crucified outside the city. Even today a graveyard sits atop this rock.
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| Golgotha – The Place of the Skull |
In this picture you see two of my dear friends, the Kights, exiting the EMPTY tomb.
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| Jerry and Joy Kight and Bro. Fred at the EMPTY tomb |
I snapped this picture of Kristin standing just inside the entrance to the EMPTY tomb.

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| Kristin in the Empty Tomb |


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| A few of our group awaiting our turn at the Garden Tomb |

The second place we went on our last day in Jerusalem was to the Israel Museum where we saw the model city of Old Jerusalem. It is quite a site to behold. We also went into the Shrine of the Book where the Dead Sea Scrolls are displayed.

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| Model City at Israel Museum |


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| Model city at the Israel Museum |
 Just a block or so away from the Israel Museum you could see the Knesset Building. This is where the Israeli government does business…kinda like the Capitol in Washington, DC.

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| Knesset Building |
 This picture shows the two men who put up with us for 10 days. On the left is our bus driver. He did not look more than 16 years old but swore that he was 25. Honestly, he maneuvered that bus through some places where there was not more than two hairs width between us and another bus or car. AMAZING. The man on the right was our guide. He was AMAZING as well! Thanks so much guys!!!
We also went to Yad Vashem. Yad Vashem is the Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem. NO WORDS! There are just no words to describe the atrocities that took place all those decades ago and are recounted in that place.
I spent four hours at Yad Vashem four years ago when I was in Israel and came away emotionally spent. We had a couple of hours there on this trip and the entire time I walked through I kept thinking, “How in the world does a person/people become so depraved that they have NO regard for human life? How does it happen?”
I watched a video showing U.S. and Allied soldiers using bulldozers to push bodies into mass graves. REAL BODIES! Dead Jewish human beings who had been needlessly slaughtered by a madman seeking to cleanse the human race! What in the world?!? God help us!! God help us!!
One of the most touching parts of Yad Vashem is the children’s memorial. You walk into a dark, circular room where mirrors line the walls. In the center of the room a glass column rises that reflects candles everywhere. A voice reads the names and ages of the more than 1 million children murdered in the Holocaust. SLAYS ME! Just slays me to think about it!
A quote that still is burned into my memory from my first time at Yad Vashem haunts me as our nation goes further and further away from God. It said, “Whatever a nation permits is what that nation will become.”
God in heaven, please forgive us for what we permit each and every day. Please turn us from our putrid sin and toward you. God help us! God help America.

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| Entrance to Yad Vashem |
 I love this piece of art in the gardens at Yad Vashem. It depicts God the Father holding emaciated Jews in His strong and loving arms. Even now I tear up looking at it.
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| Art at Yad Vashem |
 Thank you for taking time to ‘tour’ Israel with me. I’ll be back soon with something that the Lord has placed on my heart. Have a blessed Thanksgiving, my friends. 
