tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26776851577279775252024-02-07T16:26:07.684-08:00PALMERTravel through time ...Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger46125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2677685157727977525.post-32132036726337543952017-12-14T04:39:00.000-08:002018-01-22T01:56:31.722-08:00Ashdod - Fall of Dagon<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRu-HlNOZXtxdsvRoD-5sDcqS8HcicK_g024IbSEK-AyULgSyBHuTzCjY-wX41an-OyvWZiN5kcgSzDwaARELHQ4bfxqz3jheVJeHvUCDVngP1T1yXu6H4ltEf7JQ-o8gikpeQsoRZa9nK/s1600/Israel.ico" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="60" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRu-HlNOZXtxdsvRoD-5sDcqS8HcicK_g024IbSEK-AyULgSyBHuTzCjY-wX41an-OyvWZiN5kcgSzDwaARELHQ4bfxqz3jheVJeHvUCDVngP1T1yXu6H4ltEf7JQ-o8gikpeQsoRZa9nK/s1600/Israel.ico" width="60" /></a><br />
Ashdod is an ancient Philistine city, the pride of the civilization of Dagon's admirers and the last refuge of the non-afflicted Nephilim. Today, from those mysterious creatures, there was nothing left (fake and false photoshops of supposedly giant skeletons do not count). Picturesque ruins on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea are the remnants of a medieval citadel of Arab rule. But written sources shed light on the events that took place here thousands of years ago.<br />
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<i> "as they hope for in getting us under their power, let us leave them an example which shall at once cause their astonishment at our death, and their admiration of our hardiness therein" </i><br />
<i>... </i> <i>Those others were nine hundred and sixty in number, the women and children being withal included in that computation. This calamitous slaughter was made on the fifteenth day of the month Xanthicus [Nisan]</i>..<br />
(Flavius Josephus "War of the Jews")<br />
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Now remember what Jesus warned 40 years before these events:<br />
<i>And when ye shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that the desolation thereof is nigh.
Then let them which are in Judaea flee to the mountains... </i><br />
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Chillon Castle located on the shores of Lake Geneva, right at the foot of the Alps. This monument with over 1'000 years of history, has always inspired artists and writers, from Jean-Jacques Rousseau to Victor Hugo and Lord Byron, from Delacroix to Courbet.<br />
The oldest parts of the castle have not been definitively dated, but the first written record of the castle is in 1005. It was built to control the road from Burgundy to the Great Saint Bernard Pass. From the mid 12th century, the castle was summer home to the Counts of Savoy, who kept a fleet of ships on Lake Geneva. The castle was greatly expanded in 1248 by Peter II.<br />
Chillon castle is protected by a sea from one site. The land side is equipped with defence towers and a wall walk.<br />
Discover wall paintings from the 14th century, which you can see in the bedroom of the duke or the big suitcase collection. The four ceremonial halls give you the impression of the medieval life.<br />
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<i>There are seven pillars of Gothic mould,<br />In Chillon's dungeons deep and old,<br />There are seven columns, massy and grey,<br />Dim with a dull imprison'd ray...</i><br />
Lord Byron, 1816Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2677685157727977525.post-84577563434500115242015-04-23T12:38:00.001-07:002015-04-23T12:38:59.948-07:00Akkerman Fortress<br />The fortress of Akkerman is located on a promontory inside the estuary (liman) of the Dniester River, some 15 km from the point where the river enters the Black Sea. With a circumference of over 2 km, an area of 9 hectares, double walls, a ditch 13 m. deep, and 30 towers still standing, it is one of the most remarkable architectural and cultural monuments of the Black Sea region.<br /><div align="justify" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;">
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Akkerman fortress was variously known as Moncastro or Cetatea Alba. It is built on top of the remains of ancient Tyras, a Greek trading settlement founded in the 6th c. BC by colonists from Miletus in western Anatolia. In the 2nd c. AD Tyras was a Roman frontier post, and it survived until the 3rd c. when it was destroyed by the Goths. Thereafter the site was in Byzantine, possibly Ruthenian, and Genoese hands, before being held for a century by the principality of Moldavia. In 1484, the fortress was conquered by the Ottoman sultan Bayezid II (r. 1481-1512), and for most of a period of more than three hundred years, until the Russian Empire annexed it in 1806, Akkerman was held by the Ottomans. It became part of a chain of massive strongholds protecting the Black Sea-the 'Ottoman lake'-and its coasts from attackers from the north, first Ukrainian Cossack raiders and forces of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, and then in the 18th c. those of the Russian Empire. Given its strategic location on one of the two great rivers that flow south from the steppe into the Black Sea-the other is the Dnieper-it was among the most forbidding of the fortresses that stretched in an arc from the Danube to the Sea of Azov, and is one of the best-preserved.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2677685157727977525.post-79365588807148904562015-01-10T02:07:00.003-08:002015-01-10T02:07:59.247-08:00BETHLEHEM - Milk Grotto<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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Bethlehem, Milk Grotto (Grotto of the Lady Mary)<br />
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Bethlehem, the city where Jesus was born. Shepherds’ Field and Grotto. Church of the Nativity. Cave of the Nativity<br />
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The town was first mentioned in Hvizdets Polish property acts in 1373. The Catholic community existed in this region since at least the 15th century. First Bernardine Monastery in Hvizdets was wooden, it was founded in 1715. But after 13 years the church burned down and in its place in 1734 built new brick monastery. At the same time, the town Hvizdets built a large wooden synagogue, since more than half of its inhabitants were Jews. And they are quite peacefully coexisted with the Catholics. This is due to the Polish rulers of the city.<br />
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Unfortunately, the synagogue has not survived to our time, most of the Jewish population died in hvizdets ghetto during the Nazi occupation. But monastery, also repeatedly burned and destroyed, remains to this day. However, its modern look and finish it acquired in the early twentieth century, when the bell tower was rebuilt and monastery tower.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2677685157727977525.post-88012854539299470992014-09-17T01:30:00.000-07:002014-09-17T01:32:31.298-07:00Lubart's Castle<div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
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Lutsk castle walls built on the orders Lubart - the son of the Grand Lithuanian prince Gediminas. He married the daughter of Grand Prince of Galicia-Volyn principality Andrew Y. II and in 1340 was as follows Galician prince and later moved his capital here. 12-meter brick wall thickness of 3 meters and the tower described in the Gothic style. Their strength and courage defense was the key to inaccessibility of the fortress. During the following centuries the castle withstood numerous assaults and sieges.<br />
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But time takes its toll. Since the late 16th century increase in capacity and the number of guns in wars reduces the value of castles and walls. Lutsk castle suffered damage and survived several fires. In the 19th century, when Lutsk was ruled Muscovy, was ordered to disassemble the towers and walls of bricks for construction. However, the Gothic brickwork was so strong that many hollow of her failed. Therefore, to have survived the main outlines of the legendary building, which is now protected as a monument of architecture and history of national importance.<br />
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Image Entrance Tower of Lutsk castle can be seen on the back of 200 grn banknotes.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2677685157727977525.post-33788098929904884592014-09-09T05:06:00.000-07:002014-09-09T08:03:11.572-07:00Monastery of the Discalced Carmelites (Berdychiv) <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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The monastery was founded in 1627 by Janusz Tyshkevych - Kyiv governor and chief steward of the Kyiv region. First, he gave the monks his castle, and in 1634 by strong walls, construction began on the church walls. For 8 years, in 1642 the monastery was built, but in 1648 the Carmelites were forced to leave and go in Lviv, fleeing the troops of Bohdan Khmelnytsky, , which freed Berdychiv and surrounding cities.<br />
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In the early 18th century after the rebellion barefoot monks returned to the monastery and rebuilt and reinforced fortress and built a new church in the Baroque style. Led construction architects from Poland and Germany, and attracted to painting artist from Italy. From the mid-18th century the monastery was active printing, which became known issue "Berdychivsky Calendars". 1768 Moscow army destroyed the fortress, and in 1832 by order of the Russian tsar closed convent school and printing. 1866 Russian governor-general expelled monks and monasteries located in the police and army. In the early 20th century, Catholics began rebuilding abandoned buildings of the monastery, and after the Civil War they were again damaged. 1925 the Bolsheviks founded the fortress historical museum, the monastery was saved from total destruction. Finally in 1991 he was again returned to the Catholic monks.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2677685157727977525.post-58429685443797538532013-05-18T03:33:00.000-07:002014-09-09T05:07:08.223-07:00Jerusalem remembered...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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2008/2012<br />
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<b>Kyiv, July 27, 2012</b><br />
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Orthodox procession on the day of arrival Kirill, Patriarch of Moscow<br />
the song "That's a new day has come"<br />
by Andrew Lukashina and Sergey Saveliev<br />
video: GoPro HD HERO 2Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0Киев, город Киев, Украина, 0200050.4501 30.523450.12657 29.891686 50.77363 31.155113999999998tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2677685157727977525.post-60878810078495887942012-01-21T13:36:00.000-08:002014-09-06T00:22:27.329-07:00Chernigov, Transfiguration Cathedral (XI century)<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOt9-NKA-K9RCd7OcFBxkAD9tp7CRQUQ4BwVeQWQSgH6bo7fb9znF2rprtNwRstMLpo02mmY4jnqU4tlciPtKTGG0DvKLhCVfI6TprguakaGG3EfMwZRybch_bHhQa96XLul1S_sW6u3Vi/s1600/Ukraine.ico" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOt9-NKA-K9RCd7OcFBxkAD9tp7CRQUQ4BwVeQWQSgH6bo7fb9znF2rprtNwRstMLpo02mmY4jnqU4tlciPtKTGG0DvKLhCVfI6TprguakaGG3EfMwZRybch_bHhQa96XLul1S_sW6u3Vi/s1600/Ukraine.ico" height="60" width="60" /></a><br />
Winter all around became extraordinarily fabulous ...<br />
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Mosque Ar-Rahma (Mercy) - first mosque in Kiev - officially opened on 2 December 2011.<br />
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Architect: Alexander KomarovskyUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2677685157727977525.post-26763982586486896282010-09-30T08:25:00.000-07:002014-09-06T00:28:08.546-07:00From Byblos to the Bible<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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One of the oldest cities in the world - it is the Phoenician <b>Byblos </b>(bible. Ebal) - a city on the Mediterranean coast. It is 30 km from Beirut - capital of Lebanon. 4000 years ago it was one of the largest ports of the ancient world and probably the largest center of commerce <i>papyrus</i>.<br />
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Greeks, one of the main consumers of the papyrus, also called it <i>byblos </i>- the name of the city, where it was brought to this material for writing. Papyrus produced in Egypt, from cane growing in abundance in the Nile Delta. But the writing of the Egyptians did not differ a large spread - even in Egypt, it was available to few, and beyond the language of the pharaohs did was unknown.<br />
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Phoenicians from the city of Byblos, who were particularly interested in the development of trade with various nations, simplified the Egyptian symbols, after which they become easier to distinguish and reproduce on papyrus. In all such symbols have 20 each of which meant a speech sound. These symbols can be written words of any language, any nation. Later, the Greeks perfected the alphabet of Byblos, which consisted only of consonants. They added to it 5 letters denoting vowel sounds. In this form, the Greek alphabet became the basis for the Latin - the progenitor of the European languages, and later - and Slavonic writing.<br />
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Also from the city of Byblos occur and Greek words such as <i>biblion </i>- book, <i>bibliotec </i>- library - the repository of books. And of course the <i><b>Bible </b></i>- which means "a collection of books."Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2677685157727977525.post-62444730963341216992010-04-19T05:25:00.000-07:002014-09-06T00:31:27.058-07:00Bulgaria: Testament of a monk<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
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<i style="font-weight: bold;">John of Rila </i>(876-946) was a monk and hermit who lived for twelve years alone, among the wild beasts, in the caves and in the hollow of a tree. He later settled in the depths of the mountains Rilski. But over time, people still found it. They came to John with their concerns, and he prayed for them, healing the sick, casting out evil spirits and teaching spiritual instruction for right living. So the monk appeared followers - disciples, who founded the Rila Monastery </div>
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Shortly before the death of John of Rila wrote to his disciples, "Testament", in which he called to store the holy faith and avoid the false and wicked doctrines..<br />
<b>Abstain from worldly interests carefully and always remember why you came out of the world, and why you have ignored all worldly.</b></div>
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John said that the love of money is the root of all evil and idolatry.<br />
<b>Because for the hermit is not wealth in gold and silver, but in abject poverty, the rejection of svovevoliya, and in deep humility.</b><br />
John emphasizes that it is not his commandments, and Christ, who said to his disciples, and through them to all those who renounced the world: </div>
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<span style="color: #990000;">Do not possess neither gold, nor silver, nor brass in your purses, nor scrip for your journey, neither two coats, neither shoes, nor yet staves: for the workman is worthy of his meat</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;">.</span><br />
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John assured that God will never leave us, in hardships, but will give everything you need for life. But the devil, wanting to destroy our soul, will do its best to tempt us.</div>
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<b>For from the beginning, when I came into this wilderness, the cunning enemy tried to tempt me pious king sent me a lot of gold. For God's sake, I refused to see him, because I knew it Thu machinations of Satan. I did not take, but sent it to those who sent him, because I thought, "If I wanted to have gold and silver things, and the like, why would I come to this terrible and impenetrable wilderness, where I do not found the people, but only the wild beasts? So I saved myself from the machinations of the crafty adversary...</b></div>
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John encourages students to unity, to the love between them, and warns against attempts to rise above the other.</div>
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John, who was educated at the monastic life and read in Greek works of the Holy Fathers, tells the teacher Ephrem the Syrian (IV century)<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="color: #990000;">:</span><br /><br /><b>...if all you wish for power and start to dominate, and all want to be in charge, and all - teachers, as well as legislators and teachers, and between you increase competition, quarrels, disputes, jealousy, gossip, arrogance, jealousy, and other passions, you know, that Christ is not among you, for Christ is not a teacher of discord and dissension, but of peace and unity<span style="color: #990000;">. </span></b></span></span><br />
Those who sow discord, strife and temptations, the ascetic izganyat commands from their collections so they do not cause more damage to everyone.<br />
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Finally John advises Bart learn more works of the Holy Fathers, and comply with established rules of the Church, as well as to promote new converts to increase faith and help them to get rid of pagan rituals, obscene and evil customs, they hold even after the adoption of the holy faith. Because they do it out of ignorance, because it is necessary to bring it to them.<br />
<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /><i>Fully read "Testament John of Rila" </i></span></span></i><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><i><a href="http://www.pravoslavieto.com/docs/sv_otci/sv_Joan_Rilski_Zavet.htm" style="color: #990000;">here</a></i></span></i><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><i> (in Bulgarian) </i></span></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;"><b>Messemvria - a city on the island</b></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;">.</span></b><br />
The ancient city founded by the Thracians Messemvria, a thousand years BC It is located on poluvostrove length less than a kilometer. Since it connects the mainland through a narrow isthmus. Since ancient times, it was a significant port and trading center on the Black Sea. After 500 years the Greeks colonized the peninsula, and in the 72 th BC - Romans, after which the city for a long time has lost its meaning.<br />
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Since the beginning of our era, the city is mentioned in the legend of Penelope, the daughter of Macedonian (Thracian) king Licinius. Even as a child, she learned about the teachings of Christ from his teacher Apeliana, and when she grew up, it was baptized by Timothy - disciple of the Apostle Paul. Since then, it became known as Irene. Irina's mother gladly accepted the good news from his daughter, but her father began to demand the worship of pagan gods. Irina refused than Licinius very irritated, but eventually was called and he and three thousand of his subordinates. And Irina began to preach the gospel and in other cities of Thrace, visited it and Messemvria. From her sermon addressed approximately ten thousand people. Lord, through Irina healed the sick and performed miracles, and it is not just to get rid of persecution.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2677685157727977525.post-9885142822922189652010-01-22T01:40:00.000-08:002014-09-06T00:31:45.250-07:00Bulgaria: Rila Monastery<b style="color: #990000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJWkd5bE0Wffv0Py3pkpRXWo6xX7fiaDo2mOjG-hhcg5BMlagwOzRJK-EwkqFc3ZbJAIod5g3CP42_hhUcEZn1iRbxqQDuU3kKsJSPaFAZ3nul326P4wVwZ8_DqRNwXYfRpcMcxVy-ne-T/s1600/Bulgaria.ico" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJWkd5bE0Wffv0Py3pkpRXWo6xX7fiaDo2mOjG-hhcg5BMlagwOzRJK-EwkqFc3ZbJAIod5g3CP42_hhUcEZn1iRbxqQDuU3kKsJSPaFAZ3nul326P4wVwZ8_DqRNwXYfRpcMcxVy-ne-T/s1600/Bulgaria.ico" height="60" width="60" /></a></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">This famous monastery built Bulgarian students of St. John of Rila (876-946). </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">The name comes from an array of Rila mountain.</span></span><br />
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We know that this happened in the city of Bethlehem, in the cave where they kept cattle.<br />
Also read in the Gospel of the three wise men:<br />
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<span style="color: #990000;"><i>When Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of King Herod, the wise men came to Jerusalem from the east and say where that is born King of the Jews? for we have seen his star in the east and have come to worship him. Upon hearing this, King Herod was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him. And he had gathered all the chief priests and scribes of the people together, he demanded of them where Christ should be born? And they said unto him, In Bethlehem of Judaea: for thus it is written by the prophet: </i></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><i>And you, Bethlehem, land of Judah, are not least among the rulers of Judah, for out of you will come a ruler who upaset my people Israel. </i></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><i>Then Herod called the Magi secretly and found out from them what time the star appeared, and he sent them to Bethlehem, and said, Go and search diligently for the child, and when you find it, let me know, so that I may come and worship him. They had heard the king, they departed. And lo, the star, which they saw in the east, went before them, till it came and stood over where the young child was. When they saw the star, they rejoiced with exceeding great joy, and went into the house, they saw the young child with Mary his mother, and they fell down and worshiped him; and opening their treasures, they offered him gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh. And having been warned in a dream not to return to Herod, they departed into another by their country</i></span><span style="color: #990000;">. </span>Gospel of Matthew, Chapter 2</div>
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Based on this text, we can assume that the wise men came to the King who was born in Bethlehem. Traditionally, and depict this event:<br />
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We see that those who drew these pictures, no doubt: the wise men came to Bethlehem, and even on the same night when Christ was born. Shows a cave, animals, baby in a manger ... Although it is written that the wise men came to the house.<br />
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<span style="color: #990000;"><i>When they were gone, - an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream, saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and be thou there until I bring thee word: for Herod will seek the young child to destroy him. He got up, took the child and his mother by night and departed into Egypt: And was there until the death of Herod: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying, Out of Egypt have I called my son. Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the wise men, was exceeding wroth, and sent and slew all the male children in Bethlehem and in all the coasts thereof, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had ascertained from the wise men. </i></span>Gospel of Matthew, Chapter 2<br />
Question: why Herod ordered the destruction of babies in Bethlehem from two years old? The answer here: <span style="color: #990000;"><i>time which he had ascertained from the wise men. </i></span><br />
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Hence, Herod did not know exactly when he was born his rival, the new King of the Jews. He only knew that the birth was going to happen in Bethlehem, and the time when the star appeared in the sky, behind which were the wise men. Therefore, he admitted that the star, the news of the birth of the new King, maybe even two years ago. What did the the wise men two years - it is clear - they were in the way, followed the star from afar, from the East (as the researchers believe - from Persia). But it is clear that the Holy Family might not be as much time in the cave with the animals. Yes, and a child aged two years, does not require a finding in a manger :)<br />
Here we have to remember why and how Mary and Joseph were in Bethlehem? They came from Nazareth in the census because of their race comes out of this town. Of course, after the census and the birth of a child, they had to go back to Nazareth. Not immediately - because according to the law of Moses on the eighth day of a newborn baby boy should be cut off, and after days of purification to come to the temple:</div>
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<span style="color: #990000;"><i>And when eight days were fulfilled to circumcise the child, gave him the name Jesus, named of the angel before he was conceived in the womb. </i></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><i>And when the days of her purification according to the law of Moses, they brought him to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord </i></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><i>as prescribed in the law of the Lord, Every male that opens the womb, to the Lord; </i></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><i>And to offer a sacrifice according to that which is said in the law of the Lord, A pair of turtledoves, or two young pigeons. </i></span>The Gospel of Luke, chapter 2<br />
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After Jerusalem Joseph and Mary was no more need to go back to Bethlehem, so they are back to where they came from:<br />
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<span style="color: #990000;"><i>And when they had performed all things according to the law of the Lord, they returned into Galilee, to their own city Nazareth. </i></span>The Gospel of Luke, chapter 2<br />
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So Herod was wrong in thinking that the new King of the Jews still is still in Bethlehem, but the wise men and more followed the star that led them exactly to the child, that is - in the home of Joseph and Mary in <b>Nazareth</b>!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2677685157727977525.post-20075255121768918852009-12-10T14:05:00.000-08:002014-09-06T00:28:20.294-07:00LEBANON. Tyr: the prophecy has come true!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHDG3dcxI2xwgx27u3EMTYnS2GJT1r97fEfwECJ73E3f7P4F2HjhlRif4G-40-nSckI6xfqA9bIRtzsxKSFtH22mbTWm3ShuRim3eqg6M9lv8gGzDXyZaO_veWPr2k_IWMHTzAOdWQMRU8/s1600/Lebanon.ico" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHDG3dcxI2xwgx27u3EMTYnS2GJT1r97fEfwECJ73E3f7P4F2HjhlRif4G-40-nSckI6xfqA9bIRtzsxKSFtH22mbTWm3ShuRim3eqg6M9lv8gGzDXyZaO_veWPr2k_IWMHTzAOdWQMRU8/s1600/Lebanon.ico" height="60" width="60" /></a><br />
It is time to talk about the Bible prophecies were fulfilled in the fate of nations and peoples, cities and civilizations.<br />
Here's a riddle: the city of Tyre. In ancient times, was the largest commercial city in the Mediterranean. The Bible mentions many times. And now he is in Lebanon, on the beach. Many ruins remained around there, what to see, but ... it ruins the later, Roman buildings.<br />
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And the biblical Tyre left no stone unturned, literally. In its place now - smooth rock. How could this happen?<br />
It was like:<br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><i>In the eleventh year, on the first day of the first month, the word of the Lord to me: </i></span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;"><i>Son of man, because Tyre said concerning Jerusalem, "and! well! he crushed - the gates of the peoples; He appeals to me; Fill; He is devastated, "- for thus saith the Lord God: Behold, I will - on you, O Tyre, and will raise up against you many nations, as the sea causeth his waves to come. </i></span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;"><i>And they shall destroy the walls of Tyre and break down her towers; I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her a bare rock. Place for the spreading of nets in the midst of the sea will be; for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD: and it shall become a spoil to the nations. And her daughters which are in the field shall be slain by the sword, and they shall know that I am the LORD. For thus saith the Lord God: Behold, I will bring against Tyre from the north Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, king of kings, with horses and chariots, and with horsemen, and his army, and much people. Thy daughters he beat a sword and want a fort against thee, and against thee nasyplet shaft and put shields against you; and thy walls pridvinet battering rams and your towers will destroy their axes. From the set of his horses their dust shall cover thee, and the noise of the horsemen and chariots wheels thy walls shall shake, when he shall enter into thy gates, as men enter into a broken city. Hoofs of his horses he istopchet all your street, and your people will break the sword, and thy down to the ground. </i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><i>And plunder your riches, and make a prey of thy merchandise, and destroy thy walls, and break thy pleasant houses: and thy stones and thy timber and thy will be thrown into the water. </i></span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;"><i>And the noise of thy songs, and the sound of your harps will not be heard. I will make you a bare rock, you'll place to spread nets upon; thou shalt be built no more: for I the LORD have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD. </i></span><br />
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The first part of Ezekiel speaks specifically about the Babylonian king.<br />
And turned it in 586 BC (about a year). But by the time of Nebuchadnezzar troops entered the city, the inhabitants of Tyre fled with all the goodness of the island, which was not far from the shore. It saved them because Nebuchadnezzar had no ships to cross - he was advancing on dry land.<br />
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Further, for 240 years, the city of Tyre remained destruction, and its residents continued to live on the island. And in 333 BC granted to them ... Alexander the Great! But, having come to the place of glory of Tyre, he found there only ruins. On the island, he also could not attack -<br />
residents were warned about his offense and built a powerful underwater barriers (artificial reefs), these fences were so arranged that the tides could not bring them with sand. Alexander understood - when you try to attack from the sea, ships, he would lose the fleet. Here residents relax, they say, it worked! Had passed! But they underestimated the resourcefulness of Alexander:<br />
for the first time in the history of military sieges and he came up with an original way to get them, to build a road between the mainland and the island, and to make her army to the island to get to the treasure.<br />
But, imagine, in those days, when there was no mining trucks and mining machines, which take as much Fabric? Very simple: Fabric ... they took out of the city of Tyre, lay in ruins.<br />
Alexander sent to this business all his huge army, and they, stone by stone, brick by brick, timber for log, all carried and thrown into the sea. And it still was not enough! Then they scraped the whole earth, to hard rock, and also thrown into the sea.<br />
So exactly, in fine detail, the prophecy of Ezekiel! At the site of Tyre remained bare rock.<br />
Think about it: the prophet, who lived long before these events, could not by itself come up with such a story. This God has determined in advance and announced, to teach a lesson to those who gloats over the suffering of others and even tries to extract from it the benefit:<br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;"><i>because Tyre said concerning Jerusalem, "and! well! he crushed - the gates of the peoples; He appeals to me; Fill; for it is spoiled. "</i></span><span style="color: #cc0000; font-style: italic;">..</span><br />
Так его жители, наследники славы Тира, пали от меча Александра и его войска, а все их сокровища, накопленные за много столетий торговли и процветания, достались завоевателям. <br />
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So its inhabitants, the heirs of glory of Tyre, with the sword of Alexander and his army, and all their treasures accumulated over many centuries of trade and prosperity, went to the conquerors.<br />
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So Alexander forever changed the geography of the Mediterranean coast of Lebanon: the island turned into a peninsula :)<br />
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That is on the peninsula and is a modern small Lebanese city of Tyre. But this place used to be just an island and not a place of ancient Tyre. So the prophecy that Tyre will be no more built up, also celebrated. At the site of the ancient Thira no nothing, just rock on which now, as in the prophecy was written, the fishermen dried network.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2677685157727977525.post-14695856831946135252009-11-24T03:45:00.000-08:002014-09-06T00:22:55.168-07:00Apostle Andrew - founder of Kyiv?<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOt9-NKA-K9RCd7OcFBxkAD9tp7CRQUQ4BwVeQWQSgH6bo7fb9znF2rprtNwRstMLpo02mmY4jnqU4tlciPtKTGG0DvKLhCVfI6TprguakaGG3EfMwZRybch_bHhQa96XLul1S_sW6u3Vi/s1600/Ukraine.ico" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOt9-NKA-K9RCd7OcFBxkAD9tp7CRQUQ4BwVeQWQSgH6bo7fb9znF2rprtNwRstMLpo02mmY4jnqU4tlciPtKTGG0DvKLhCVfI6TprguakaGG3EfMwZRybch_bHhQa96XLul1S_sW6u3Vi/s1600/Ukraine.ico" height="60" width="60" /></a><br />
There is a famous legend about the founders of Kiev: according to her they were brothers Kyi, Schek and Horeb. And also mentioned their sister Lybid. But if we consider the facts impartially, it turns out that no evidence of the real existence of these brothers do not. A Lybid - and at the name of the river that runs through Kiev ...<br />
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So if Kyi, Schek and Horeb - a legend, what it stands for and how it was really the case? Is there information?<br />
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But there is a story related to the Apostle Andrew (the First Called) - that he is the founder, in my opinion, though in his time the city was not yet - he speaks only of the mountains and the city of the future. And this is the 1st century BC In contrast to the fairy tale about three brothers and sister, Andrew - a real historical person. And his journey has left its mark on the whole route - and in the Crimea, and the top on the Dnieper River, in the place where now Kiev, as well as to compare notes - where Novgorod and ... famous ancient monastic cloister.<br />
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Of course, there are various historical data on travel of the Apostle Andrew, but absolutely exclude his stay in the Crimea, Ukraine and northern Russia did not. He sowed in these lands Word and it sprouted! Of course, if you believe in the spontaneous generation of life on earth, for you it's not an argument, but for everyone else it is clear that if there's something grown, somebody planted it :) If there is a church - and this is not architecture and the people who believed in Jesus Christ, and only then built temples - somebody they paid. Chronicles say that this "someone" - the Apostle Andrew, the brother of Simon (Peter).<br />
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There is a version that the story of three brothers - a product of the transformation of the symbolic message of the Apostle Andrew, spoken near the hills on which later came my city.<br />
Andrei was his style handwriting. Before Jesus called him, Andrew was a disciple of John the Baptist. And John the Baptist, as you know, came in the spirit and power of Elijah. What was characteristic of Elijah? He was an Old Testament prophet, he was a staff and the mantle, which he then left to Elisha. Part of his ministry was associated with Mount Sinai, where Moses spoke with God and received the commandments of the law. This is the mountain where there was the presence of God, where there was a burning bush. This mountain smoked and trembled from it also came the thunder.<br />
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1 <b>Staff</b>. <i>Thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me </i>Ps. 22: 4.<br />
Staff was Elijah and John the Baptist. Staff was also at St. Andrew.<br />
(Below I will mention from the chronicles and legends about a staff Andrew)</div>
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<b>About wand and a staff of the Apostle Andrew. </b><br />
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"... not once mention the" iron rod with the image of the Holy Cross, which the apostle has always relied. "Not far from Nicaea in Bithynia" Blessed Apostle. Andrew, having overthrown the infamous statue of Artemis, put there life-giving image saving Cross. "Further to the east, in Paphlagonia" he chose a place of prayer, easy to build an altar, and sanctified it by erecting a sign of the Holy Cross. "<br />
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We must understand that Epiphanius tried to justify icons and crosses as objects of worship, as in his time on the admissibility of this debate was in full swing.<br />
I think that the Apostle Andrew could not walk with the cross and hoisting crosses - in the 1st century on crosses crucified on the cross, crucified Lord Jesus Christ himself, as well as many of his first disciples. Even stranger was the faith of the Jews the idea of deification items. Another thing - the rod and staff. Shepherd of the sheep went with staffs, Moses had a staff, by which God showed his power. Prophets also had staffs, as a lot of go. The kings had a wand, which meant their power.<br />
And if still in the 9th century continued debate about the crosses and icons, in the 1st and they did not exist :)<br />
In fact the rod and staff - are one and the same. But there is in Russian language (even in his Old Church Slavonic version) is another word that means the same thing as the rod or staff. The word is:</div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><b>KYI ! ! ! </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Of course, today it is associated more with a game of billiards than a shepherd or a king :) </b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><b>But in the past, long before the advent of billiards: </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><b>KYI - m. Old. SOUTH. Rec. stick, walking sticks, staffs, wands; crutch komlyastaya stick, blackjack, mace; sowing. sib. Dolbnya, pusher ... Pool cue, pusher, ... (Dictionary Dahl)</b></span></div>
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<u>1) stick, mace; (Staff) obsolete. cue </u><br />
<u>2) (for a game of pool) cue</u><br />
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Now once again read the chronicle:<br />
"getting up in the morning," he Decrees of his disciples on the mountain near laying predicts about having to be here Veliko and many churches, climbs mountains, bless them, and to put an end, and then continues its way to Novgorod<span style="color: green;">... </span><br />
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About crosses I wrote above, this is impossible. What could actually deliver (hoist) St. Andrew? He put his staff, his staff, his cue. And on the mountain, where it happened, and later built a fortification, and eventually the city of Kiev!<br />
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So, cue - it is not the elder brother of the three, and the cue (stick, rod) Andrew, with whom he went to the prophet Elijah. And he symbolically hoisting where founded and proclaimed anything meaningful. In this case - spiritually founded the city of Kiev, the city of Christians, the city where God's grace shone and the city, where there was a lot of churches.<br />
What does Cheeks and Horeb?<br />
With Horiv easier. Horeb - she Sinai - the mountain of God, which God of the burning bush spoke to Moses, to whom he gave the Ten Commandments, because even this mountain symbolizes God's law. Apostle Andrew, Peter's brother, before he called Jesus, was a disciple of John the Baptist, who came in the spirit and power of Elijah. Elijah is to know the Lord as at Horeb, where he revealed to him in a quiet trends:</div>
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<span style="color: #990000;"><i>And he said, Go forth, and stand upon the mount before the LORD, and behold, the LORD passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and brake in pieces the rocks before the Lord, but not in the wind; and after the wind an earthquake, but the Lord is not in the earthquake; after the earthquake a fire, but not in the fire the Lord; and after the fire a still small voice. </i></span>3 Kings 19</div>
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In the Middle East, and came from Andrew, pastors from childhood go with staffs. Also, in general, all the prophets and pilgrims. Staff was also a symbol of power (and scepter originates from the staff).<br />
Recently re-read a certain book about ancient Kyiv, which was published in 1983. Author - Professor PP Talochka (now Academician), in Soviet times was considered a specialist in the history of Kiev. Its main value - lots of pictures :) Also presented research predecessors. How many were there? Yes hundred typed. All and sundry, starting with Nestor, and in the west and in the east, put forward their own, original hypothesis on the basis of Kiev. But the stories have very little. Half tried to procrastinate the names of three brothers, guessing from what they are first-people, the other half is stupid deduced founders of their ethnic group (the Huns, Gotti, Vikings, Sarmatians, etc.) The mystery remains. More or less established fact that Kiev was founded no earlier than the 1st century AD and after the 5th. In the 80 years anniversary of the celebrated 1500 book of the same date and was timed. But even Nestor relied only on two stories: the Apostle Andrew, and three brothers.<br />
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So Horeb - not brother Kyi and no man, but the name of the mountain (which is the Sinai or Mosaic Mountain). This mountain is Horeb is thought from the 4th century, on the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt. Not far from the foot is probably the oldest Christian monastery - St. Catherine. It among other things contains a unique manuscripts of the biblical texts. Pilgrims at night back to the mountain to meet at the top of the dawn. If at sunrise is absolutely clear that is not often, the pilgrims expect to see about what he saw Moses, when God promised to show him the Promised Land from afar (Israel), to which he will not go down.<br />
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However, it is not easy to see for another reason - it may not be that mountain. For example, Paul writes that Mount Sinai is in Arabia. Some also believe that it is in Jordan.<br />
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But the most important in the history of the mountain - the presence of God or the Shekinah (Heb. Dwelling).<br />
Presence in the form of goryaschekgo bush, in the form of a pillar of fire and of the cloud, in the form of an angel, which Moses had even seen one from the back! Shekinah at Horeb familiar and Elijah ...<br />
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It turned out there is a version similar to the one to which I am inclined, but Cheeks it is interpreted as a snake:</div>
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<span style="color: green;">Today, most historians refuse to see in Kie, Cheek and Horeb founders of Kyiv. Mindful of the fact that Kiev is going on in the image and likeness of Jerusalem, the researchers point to the biblical origin of a number of names of Kiev, in particular, mountain Horivitsy. </span><br />
<span style="color: green;">Remember: "Moses was tending the flock of Jethro, father in law, the priest Maliamskogo. </span><br />
<span style="color: green;">Once he led the flock behind the wilderness, and came to the mountain of God, Horeb "(Exodus) </span><br />
<span style="color: green;">God revealed himself to Moses and said, "I will be with you here's the sign that I have sent thee: When thou hast brought forth the people (My) of Egypt, you shall serve God on this mountain." </span><br />
<span style="color: green;">Moses, wanting to make sure that God is really in front of him, asked to reveal the miracle. </span><br />
<span style="color: green;">And the Lord said to him: "What is that in your hand?" </span><br />
<span style="color: green;">He replied: Wand. </span><br />
<span style="color: green;">The Lord said, Cast it on the ground, and it became a serpent. </span><br />
<span style="color: green;"> One of the values named Kiya - Wand, staff. </span><br />
<span style="color: green;">Cheeks in Old Church Slavonic - the serpent, the dragon. </span><br />
<span style="color: green;">In other words, and Horeb (g.Horiv) and Cheek (serpent) and McDermott (Rod), argue in favor of such an interpretation of the legend of three brothers. </span><br />
<span style="color: green;"> Creation of Kiev, as a second Jerusalem, or rather in his biblical image, perhaps was the reason for naming one of Kiev's mountain Horeb, and other Scheck (in memory of turning the rod in the serpent). </span><br />
<span style="color: green;">The very name of Kiev, could be perceived as a sign, a hint, a sign from above. </span><br />
<span style="color: green;">Wand, staff - a symbol, a sign. </span><br />
<span style="color: green;">Over time, Mount Horeb turned into Horivitsu, Cheeks in Schekavitse, and gave its name to the river LYBID sister three founders of the city..</span><br />
In general, the idea is the same, the only difference is in the interpretation of cheek.<br />
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<b>Shekinah </b>- God's presence (at Horeb) - here, in my opinion, the possible significance of the name Cheeks. If Cheek - the name of Prince, then to the question whether it would meet the mountains: Mount Shchekina.<br />
A Shchekina very consonant with the word Shekinah.<br />
Wand (Kyi), mountain (Horeb) and God (the presence of).<br />
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Lybed do not cause a lot of questions - is the name of the river, and now it is there, but has become so small that the partially imprisoned in tonel and partially extends over the surface (near the railway station) in the form of a small stream. River respectively. feminine, and therefore became a legend as the name of his sister.<br />
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Thus the prophecy of the Apostle Andrew the future great city was transformed into the legend of Kia, Cheek and Horeb, which preserved the essence of his message.<br />
What is this message? It is referred to in the chronicles:</div>
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<span style="color: green; font-size: medium;"><b>Dnepr same in Pontus sea flowing three mouths, and that sea reputed Rusko, as taught by his holy Apostle Andrew, Peter's brother, as a tale. Andrew, teaching in Sinope, came in Korsun [Crimean Chersonesos] and saw that near the mouth of the Dnieper thereof, would go forth to Rome, and came to the mouth of the Dnieper, and from there went up along the Dnieper and on the occasion was under the mountains on the banks. Morning as he stood up and said to his disciples: </b></span><br />
<span style="color: green; font-size: medium;"><b>"You see these mountains and only knows how to still shine mountains grace of God, there is a great degree, and many of the church was erected." </b></span><br />
<span style="color: green; font-size: medium;"><b>Having ascended a mountain these things, blessed them, and prayed to God with tears. </b></span><br />
<span style="color: green; font-size: medium;"><b>These same mountains are where then built Kiev. From there, Andrew went to Rome itself</b></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: green;"><strong>.<br /><span style="color: black; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal;"></span></strong></span></span></div>
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The prophecy was fulfilled exactly the Apostle: already 1,500 years the city of Kiev, it is revealed God's grace and erected many churches!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2677685157727977525.post-68081587247286663462009-10-24T07:18:00.000-07:002014-09-05T11:31:40.442-07:00Father Frost or Santa Claus?Father Frost - the favorite of the kids and the character of many tales, an essential attribute of the New Year celebration in the post-Soviet space.<br />
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So, Santa Claus - its western equivalent?<br />
It turns out that this is not so zovsem. After all, Santa Claus - is St. Nicholas. He, unlike Father Frost, the mythical and very real character. However, he lived far away from the north, in a fairly warm latitudes.<br />
Nicholas lived in 3-4 century a.d. and was Bishop of Lycia, an ancient state, which in his time was the capital in the city of Myra (Demre). (see my last review Demre - Santa Claus) Then it was a Roman province in Asia Minor, today - part of the Turkish province of Antalya, famous for its resorts and hotels.<br />
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So, who is dearer to you: Father Frost or Santa Claus?Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2677685157727977525.post-32172073100979661242008-09-01T02:30:00.000-07:002014-09-05T12:13:38.827-07:00ISRAEL <span style="color: #cc0000;"><b><i>Pilgrimage to the Holy Land</i></b></span>
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The Holy Land ... Still it's called "The Promised Land" - the land that God promised to Abraham and his descendants. It is also the birthplace of our Savior - Jesus Christ.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2677685157727977525.post-69683776410405071262008-08-31T12:00:00.000-07:002014-09-06T00:03:33.124-07:00ISRAEL. Jerusalem - from Zion to the Temple Mount<span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRu-HlNOZXtxdsvRoD-5sDcqS8HcicK_g024IbSEK-AyULgSyBHuTzCjY-wX41an-OyvWZiN5kcgSzDwaARELHQ4bfxqz3jheVJeHvUCDVngP1T1yXu6H4ltEf7JQ-o8gikpeQsoRZa9nK/s1600/Israel.ico" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRu-HlNOZXtxdsvRoD-5sDcqS8HcicK_g024IbSEK-AyULgSyBHuTzCjY-wX41an-OyvWZiN5kcgSzDwaARELHQ4bfxqz3jheVJeHvUCDVngP1T1yXu6H4ltEf7JQ-o8gikpeQsoRZa9nK/s1600/Israel.ico" height="60" width="60" /></a></span><br />
<span style="color: darkred;"><span style="font-size: 20px; line-height: 23.2000007629395px;"><b>The Wailing Wall</b></span></span> <br />
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<span style="color: #990000;"><b>Zion. The coffin of King David. Zion Gate. Wailing Wall.</b></span><br />
2000 years have passed since he came to earth the Son of God, Jesus Christ.<br />
2000 years, there is His Church and the Gospel of Him preached to all nations.<br />
But many of his own people did not accept their Messiah then. Soon, the Temple was destroyed, as well as the whole of Jerusalem, and several centuries in its place erected a Muslim mosque.<br />
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Leaving only a small section of the wall adjacent to the Temple. Today, it has become a place of weeping, a place of prayer of the Jews awaiting the coming of the Messiah and the rebuilding of the Temple.<br />
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<span style="color: #990000;">On your walls, O Jerusalem, I have appointed watchmen who never hold their peace day nor night. Oh, ye that make mention of the Lord! no rest, - </span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;">give him no rest, till he establish, and till he make Jerusalem a praise in the earth.</span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"> </span>Isaiah 62<br />
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<span style="color: darkred;"><span style="font-size: 20px; line-height: 23.2000007629395px;"><b>Mount Zion</b></span></span> <br />
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<span style="color: #990000;"><b>Church "Mary of Zion", the Room of the Last Supper, the Room of the descent of the Holy Spirit</b></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;">.</span></b><br />
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After the Resurrection, Jesus appeared to the disciples another 40 days and finally commanded them not to diverge from Jerusalem, but to expect fulfillment of the promise of the Father. And then ascended.<br />
Because the students continued to meet every day in the upper room.<br />
And after ten days the Jews had to celebrate <i>Shavuot </i>- Pentecost and fruits. It was one of the three main temple prazdnkov in Israel. <i>Shavuot </i>means "seven weeks" potmou what exactly seven weeks after the exodus of the Jews from Egypt, the Lord appeared to Moyse on Mount Sinai and gave him commandments, the Torah.<br />
Like every year, in those days in Jerusalem were many pilgrims - from all over Judea, as well as other areas in the coordinate lived scattered Israelites:<br />
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<span style="color: #990000;"><i>Parthians and Medes and Elamites and residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia, Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya about Cyrene, and strangers of Rome, Jews and proselytes, Cretans and Arabians</i> ... </span>Acts of the Apostles 2<br />
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But this time, the incredible happened. In the upper room with the apostles of Christ and his mother Mary Eogo were gathered together and the other disciples, vseogo approximately 120 people. Suddenly there arose a great noise and wind:<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;">...</span><span style="color: #990000;"><i>And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them. And they were all the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance</i>. </span>Acts of the Apostles, 2<br />
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What were these languages? I have listed above, how many different aliens was expected that day in Jerusalem. So each of them he heard the familiar language of the country where he came from!<br />
It was incredible, because all the disciples of Jesus, who had gathered in the upper room, came from Galilee and could not know so many different languages and dialects. So on the day of Pentecost, God fulfilled the promise given in the Old Testament:<br />
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<span style="color: #990000;"><i>And afterward, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons shall prophesy, and your daughters; your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions. </i></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><i>And also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days will I pour out my spirit. And I will show wonders in the heavens and on the earth, blood and fire and pillars of smoke. The sun shall be turned into darkness and the moon - in the blood, before the coming of the day of the Lord, the great and terrible. And everyone who calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved; for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as the LORD hath said, and in the remnant whom the LORD shall call.</i> </span>Joel 2<br />
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And the Holy Spirit came upon a large crowd of students and performed their heavenly forces. Apostles and disciples of Christ began to do many miracles, heal the sick, raise the dead, cast out demons and prophesied. Church was born and began to grow rapidly.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2677685157727977525.post-26893204797144500942008-08-30T00:53:00.000-07:002014-09-06T00:47:28.967-07:00ISRAEL. Jerusalem - from the Holy Sepulchre to the Chapel of the Ascension<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRu-HlNOZXtxdsvRoD-5sDcqS8HcicK_g024IbSEK-AyULgSyBHuTzCjY-wX41an-OyvWZiN5kcgSzDwaARELHQ4bfxqz3jheVJeHvUCDVngP1T1yXu6H4ltEf7JQ-o8gikpeQsoRZa9nK/s1600/Israel.ico" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRu-HlNOZXtxdsvRoD-5sDcqS8HcicK_g024IbSEK-AyULgSyBHuTzCjY-wX41an-OyvWZiN5kcgSzDwaARELHQ4bfxqz3jheVJeHvUCDVngP1T1yXu6H4ltEf7JQ-o8gikpeQsoRZa9nK/s1600/Israel.ico" height="60" width="60" /></a><br />
<span style="color: darkred;"><span style="font-size: 20px; line-height: 23.2000007629395px;"><b>He is risen!</b></span></span> <br />
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<span style="color: #990000;"><b>Temple of the Holy Sepulchre, Mount Olives, Chapel of the Ascension.</b></span><br />
Christ's death stunned his students and delighted his enemies. Followers, thus ending their disappointed hopes for the coming of the King of the Jews and the Redeemer of Israel, began to disperse from Jerusalem to their homes. But the Pharisees and the chief priests feared even after the death of Christ, remembering the prophecy of the resurrection in three days. Because they turned to Pontius Pilate, who ordered to guard the tomb in which they buried the body of Jesus.<br />
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<span style="color: #990000;"><i>Now after the Sabbath, at dawn on the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulcher. And behold, there was a great earthquake, for an angel of the Lord descended from heaven and came and rolled back the stone from the door, and sat upon it; His appearance was like lightning, and his raiment white as snow; And for fear of him the keepers did shake, and became as dead men; But the angel said to the women, he said, do not be afraid, for I know that ye seek Jesus, which was crucified He is not here - he is risen, as he said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay, and go quickly, and tell his disciples that he is risen from the dead and is going ahead of you into Galilee; there shall ye see him. Behold, I have told you. </i></span><br />
Matthew 28<br />
Thus began a new era in which life defeated death, when the love of God is the salvation of the people, when the Son of God is risen! He became our Passover, the deliverance from sin and eternal death. And everyone who believes in Jesus will not perish, but have eternal life.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0