Response to an email
Paul, Please could you confirm or otherwise that the attached picture is a cliff/rock formation in the neighbourhood of Jerusalem. If it is then I believe this is where you will find the blood stains of Yeshua.
Roger.
Dear Roger Thank you for your email.
1, This is a digital image of a photo-shop production, this is NOT what it looks like. See the first attachment called Gordon’s Calvary, which even at best is hard to recognise. The problem with this Calvary (Gordon’s Calvary) is that it is (a) ‘relatively new’ and so not attested by history and (b) it is a fair way outside of the walls back in Yeshua’s days. (c) The Romans used to make a spectacle out of crucifixions. Yeshua was crucified near a well-traveled road, since passersby mocked him (Matthew 27:39; Mark 15:21, 29-30) as such this crucifixion happened just outside the city gates, for the bigger the crime or perceived crime the bigger the example would be made, I personally believe that Yeshua’s crucifixion was very close to the city gate.
(d) Also against Gordon’s Calvary is that this was a ridge not a separate hill — in Yeshua’s time. (e) Todays features that makes it look like a skull were not present back in the first century when Yeshua was nailed to the tree.
This calvary is also connected with the Garden Tomb which was originally cut out in about the eighth or seventh century B.C.E., in other words during the time of the late kings of Judah. Yet we know that tomb where Yeshua was laid was a “new tomb” (Matthew 27:60)
One idea of the rabbis was that “Adam was created from the dust of the place where the sanctuary was to rise for the atonement of all human sin,”and buried in that place so that sin should never be a permanent or inherent part of man’s nature (Genesis Rabba xiv) the latter is also mentioned by Jerome in a letter from 386 C.E.. (Please note that most Jewish traditions generally places the burial place of Adam in the Cave of Machpelah, (which means “Cave of the Double Tombs”) at Hebron where Abraham is also said to be buried) and not in Jerusalem.
Note that no Gospel states why Golgotha was called the “place of (the) skull” it could be because of a Jewish tradition that Adam’s burial place was there, or a similarity in landscape feature or something more remote like exposed sculls turn white, this hill was as white as Jerusalem stone. We simply do not know, as such I’ll wont be hunting for this or the ashes of the red heifer, or could that be a red herring.
Historical most religious places, such as the temple mount and Synagogues, Churches etc are handed over to the conquering authority who destroy them and or replace them with new religious connotations. The site of the traditional burial became a temple dedicated to (Venus) Aphrodite, the goddess of love, beauty and fertility, later this became the Church of the Holy Sepulcher. (Eusebius describes in his Life of Constantine how the site of the Holy Sepulcher, originally a site of veneration for the Christian community in Jerusalem, had been covered with earth, upon which a temple of Venus had been built.) The medieval Christian writer Yahya ibn Sa’id reported that everything was razed ‘except those parts which were impossible to destroy or would have been too difficult to carry away’.”The Church’s foundations were hacked down to bedrock.
Since 1980 we now have three sites for the tomb of Yeshua * The Church of the Holy Sepulcher, accepted by most Christians and scholars as built on the ground (including the Hill of Calvary or Golgotha) on which Yeshua was crucified and buried. * The Garden Tomb, discovered in the 19th century further outside of Jerusalem in Biblical times, is considered the ‘actual’ site of Yeshua’s grave by some protestant Christians. * The Talpiot Tomb, discovered in Talpiot, (even further outside Jerusalem), in 1980, which is alleged to have held the remains of Yeshua and Mary Magdalene, and some others. (http://www.jesusfamilytomb.com/)
We do not know the exact place, what we do know is what is important, the death, burial and resurrection of Yeshua, and when He will come back Soon Come Lord Yeshua Come Quickly.
2 Regarding the blood stains of Yeshua, it has been applied to the door of my heart (1 Peter 1:18-19 “For you know that God paid a ransom to save you from the empty life you inherited from your ancestors. And the ransom he paid was not mere gold or silver. He paid for you with the precious lifeblood of Messiah, the sinless, spotless Lamb of God.” ), just as the Passover Lambs where killed and the blood in was applied to the door of the houses just before the exodus in Egypt so to we must apply the Blood of the the sinless, spotless Lamb of God to our heart (Exodus 12:22 “You shall take a bunch of hyssop and dip it in the blood which is in the basin, and apply some of the blood that is in the basin to the lintel and the two door posts; and none of you shall go outside the door of his house until morning”.
To find an actual drop of blood of Yeshua, is not possible. And to even look for it is a waist of time. The better thing to do is to apply the blood to our lives
Blessings in Yeshua the second Adam, and spotless Lamb of God.
Paul
I have converted both images to one PDF see Calvary.pdf the top images is what Roger send me, the bottom is what it actually looks like.
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