We stayed in the Old City today, so we walked everywhere instead of taking our bus. One of the first things we did was see the church that houses what people think is the real "upper room" where Jesus had his last supper. The church was smaller but still beautiful and we were introduced to one of the women who lives there and helps run the place. She told us some of the history of the church and then took us down to the upper room. The reason we had to go downstairs to get to it is because of how many years old the place is. Downstairs for us now is what was upstairs 2000 years ago. Then we went to our biggest site of the day, the burnt house.
The burnt house was really a site to see. It is a basement from a house that was around when the second temple was burned in 70 A.D. The basement walls are still somewhat intact and there were many items such as pots and spear heads that were found in the rooms. We watched a video portraying what it might have been like for the family that lived there. It is thought that the family was priests because of the pots and incense found in the basement. That was my favorite site of the day.
Our last major site was the Temple Institute. Here we learned all about the temple, the articles of the temple, different sacrifices, and how there are plans for a third temple. We actually saw the plans and the structure and found out that articles for the third temple have already been in the making for some years now. It was all very interesting and somewhat confusing at the same time. It is kind of scary to think that so many people are actually giving money to build this third temple....the Jews are only waiting until they can gain back control of the Temple Mount.
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