Gathering Stones in the Holy Land
There is a traditional teaching in the Middle East regarding the creation of the world. When God created the earth and all therein, He sent forth the angels to the four corners of the world with the products of the creation. The story is traditionally passed down that the angel carrying stones tripped in Israel and dropped all the stones there.
How true. Most of Israel is generously decorated with three types of rocks. There is basalt, the result of volcanic activity in the Golan Heights where twelve mountains were formed from twelve volcanoes. There is limestone produced from the compression of sands over time, and there is flint.
God certainly knew what He was doing when He gave His chosen people the following passage in The Holy Bible:
To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: ... A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together. (Ecclesiastes 3:1, 5a)
For 5,900 years, the stones of Israel have been cast away by nature in earthquakes, weather, and by the hand of man. That was the time that God provided to cast stones away. But, beginning about one hundred fifty years ago, there came a time for man to gather those same stones together again. That is when archaeology became a passion to men in the area known as the Holy Land.
This is the story of "gathering stones" in the life of Jesus Christ.
How true. Most of Israel is generously decorated with three types of rocks. There is basalt, the result of volcanic activity in the Golan Heights where twelve mountains were formed from twelve volcanoes. There is limestone produced from the compression of sands over time, and there is flint.
God certainly knew what He was doing when He gave His chosen people the following passage in The Holy Bible:
To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: ... A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together. (Ecclesiastes 3:1, 5a)
For 5,900 years, the stones of Israel have been cast away by nature in earthquakes, weather, and by the hand of man. That was the time that God provided to cast stones away. But, beginning about one hundred fifty years ago, there came a time for man to gather those same stones together again. That is when archaeology became a passion to men in the area known as the Holy Land.
This is the story of "gathering stones" in the life of Jesus Christ.
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