Jerusalem 4:30 a.m. Local Time
The streets of the Holy Land’s capital city are mostly empty as people are just starting to rise for another God-given day. Early risers move about in near-darkness, setting up market tents, hauling carts of goods, fingering prayers shawls as they begin their morning routines.
It’s too early for the the good-neighborly jokes and teasing to begin; too quiet for much more than whispers and grunts. As they move sleepily about in almost complete silence, we can only assume that they are patiently awaiting something--the discovery of coffee.
Waiting is not at all new to the inhabitants of the Holy Land. Long ago, their ancestor Abraham waited decades for God to fulfill His promise of a son. After a vacation nightmare in Egypt, the Israelites were finally able to get a flight home through the desert, where they faced forty years of detours and delays.
While coffee is still a long way off, the patient Israelites have something else on their minds, a promise that has been a long time coming. Generations of waiting and watching seem about to pay off and the excitement is building to a fever pitch, although not quite this early in the morning. The race for Messiah is to about to begin.
Jonah Ammitai, Good News Weekly, reporting.
The streets of the Holy Land’s capital city are mostly empty as people are just starting to rise for another God-given day. Early risers move about in near-darkness, setting up market tents, hauling carts of goods, fingering prayers shawls as they begin their morning routines.
It’s too early for the the good-neighborly jokes and teasing to begin; too quiet for much more than whispers and grunts. As they move sleepily about in almost complete silence, we can only assume that they are patiently awaiting something--the discovery of coffee.
Waiting is not at all new to the inhabitants of the Holy Land. Long ago, their ancestor Abraham waited decades for God to fulfill His promise of a son. After a vacation nightmare in Egypt, the Israelites were finally able to get a flight home through the desert, where they faced forty years of detours and delays.
While coffee is still a long way off, the patient Israelites have something else on their minds, a promise that has been a long time coming. Generations of waiting and watching seem about to pay off and the excitement is building to a fever pitch, although not quite this early in the morning. The race for Messiah is to about to begin.
Jonah Ammitai, Good News Weekly, reporting.