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This is fascinating!     I'm posting 2 blogs today.  I have been gone, and haven't posted for a couple of weeks.   I was at this tomb in April 2018.  I took some pictures, but wasn't able to upload them here.  Perhaps another time! Finding the Lord’s Tomb By  Frances Stones  · April 14, 2022 Images by Scot Facer Proctor. In the history and wellbeing of all mankind two of the most important events ever to occur were the sacrifice of the life of Christ, the Son of God, and His subsequent resurrection, without which we would all be lost. Only He had the power to lay down His life and take it up again. The scriptures tell us that His death was so horrific that darkness prevailed over the face of the earth (Luke 23: 44; 3 Nephi 8: 20-23). Truly the light of life had gone out. His body was destined to be “cast into a common grave for executed criminals” (‘Jesus the Christ’ by James E. Talmage, p. 664). It surely would have been disposed of in ...

This photo above shows a large arena where the Romans held many chariot races. This is in Caesarea.    In those days, their courts were held in public, and this is in a large amphitheater, near the Mediterranean Sea. This bottom row of stone dates clear back from New Testament times.  The rest of the amphitheater has been made more recently.   This is likely where the Apostle Paul  appeared before King Agrippa, after he  was in prison for 2 years.   It tells the story in Acts 25 and 26, especially in 26:28, after Paul tells his conversion to the King, and the King tells him:  "Almost thou persuadest me to be a Christian." More ruins in Caesarea.  This was a sanctuary for the Kings, especially Herod, and he had a great palace there.  He knew the public in Jerusalem didn't like him, and he liked to come to the palace here, where he felt more safe from the anger of the people in Jerusalem.  This city and harbor were built u...