Danny H (26 Feb 2013)
"Guess where O's ice statue will stand..."


 
Dear John and Doves,
 
As if O's presence in the Holy City on the 10th of Nisan alone isn't alarming enough, there was an extra bit of strange news surrounding his visit that caught my eye. They will make an image in his likeness made from ice. It will stand in Jerusalem as well at the site of the second annual Ice Festival held at Jerusalem's former main train station, now called the Old Train Station, located at a street called David Remez (named after the first signatory of the Israeli declaration of independence, who passed away in 1951). Looking for this Old Train Station site in Google maps revealed some telling details:
 
-The location happens to be exactly 1 statute mile in a straight line from the Dome of the Rock mosque on the Temple Mount.
 
-It's directly adjacent to Gehenna, the place translated as "Hell" in our bibles, south of the Old City. Jesus used the word Gehenna 11 times to describe the opposite to life in the Kingdom.
 
-Directly opposite of it across the Gehenna valley is Mount Zion.
 
-When we draw a 1 mile long line from where O's statue will stand to the Dome of the Rock mosque it goes through the Gehenna valley, straight through the Upper Room on Mount Zion where Last Supper took place. This is also the site where the Holy Spirit descended upon the disciples on the day of Pentecost and the location of the birth of the first Christian church. The distance from the Old Train Station site to the Upper Room is 666 metres. Next the line crosses the Jewish Quarter of the Old City, followed by the Western Wall before reaching the center of the Dome of the Rock mosque on the Temple mount.
 
You can use Google maps to check all this for yourself. Exciting times we're in!