Nearly
five years ago, a woman came to me and asked me if I had ever heard “Trumpets”
from the sky. At first I thought she was crazy—then in 2012, videos started
cropping up of these sky noises—science calls them Sky quakes. Honestly, I have
never heard them, except on my PC—but I do think they are real.
Fast forward
to today…Last night I posted a video of circular clouds with strange noises
like trumpets from the sky. A former student asked me “How do we know it’s the
ACTUAL Tomb of Jesus?” and “How do we know this video is real?” First off, I
want to apologize for posting that video without researching it further. Come
to find out it was for an advertising company—however, even though that is the
story behind the video; there is a deeper happiness that comes from the video—a
greater awareness. Yes, the church was duped into thinking that the videos were
real, but can’t God use that to bring more awareness to Himself?
For centuries, no one looked inside — until last week, when a
crew of specialists opened the simple tomb in Jerusalem’s Old City and found
the limestone burial bed where tradition says the body of Jesus Christ lay
after his crucifixion and before his resurrection. For 60 hours, they collected samples, took
photographs and reinforced the tomb before resealing it, perhaps for centuries
to come.
A site known as the Garden Tomb is said by some to
be the site of the crucifixion, while the Church of the Holy Sepulcher is more
commonly deemed by Christians to be the place where Jesus was buried and rose
again. At the time, it was outside the Old City, but the wall was later moved
to include the church and its famous tomb.
The marble shrine, known as the Aedicule, was built in its
existing form in 1810 during the Ottoman era and has been crumbling lately. But
only after pressure from the Israelis did the three religious communities that
jealously share the church, Greek Orthodox, Armenian Orthodox and Roman
Catholic, agree to a renovation that began last spring. Fredrik
Hiebert, National Geographic's archaeologist-in-residence says "We can't
say 100 percent, but it appears to be visible proof that the location of the
tomb has not shifted through time, something that scientists and historians
have wondered for decades."
