Why are we interested in the Holy Land?

Originally posted on January 31,2006

Why are we interested in the Holy Land?

We have been studying the Bible for more than twenty years.

The Bible contains the utmost important message pertaining to our relationship with the Almighty God. Salvation in a simple term is: how do you stand before God? Are you in a right relationship with Him?

The Bible has a lot of narrations of previous human-God encounters. The Biblical events contain a lot of names, time and places. It is a historical record of the old days.

We are often fascinated by the people in the Bible, how they were moulded by God from an ordinary person to becoming a man of God, bearing the godly marks that they truly had encountered the Living God. They bore witnesses through what they did, what they said, and how they lived their lives.

It is a pity that we could not learn more about these people beside what was recorded in the Bible. However, the places they trod still exist upon the face of the earth. Their marks can still be seen in these places with their life stories engraved in our hearts.

That is the first reason how we developed an interest in the Holy Land, so that we can understand the Bible a bit more: the spiritual message coupled with from the geographical, historical, archaeological and cultural points of view.

This is one of the primary objectives of our DVD series on Passion for Jesus.We should always bear in mind that the Bible is a living book written with a specific scope of background.

If we detach the Bible from its roots, then we would inevitably impose our 21st century view point upon it. It would not be a fair nor rightful treatment. We could be twisting the truth with ignorance, without being aware of our ignorance in the first place. In that case, we could be easily just adopting Christianity and swallowing in a whole lot of ‘Christian jargons’ without much understanding of the Biblical truth. It would be a pity to have the living water so close within reach, yet still perish in thirst because of not going out to drink the water.

May the Almighty God draw us to seek and follow Him.