Скачать или смотреть The Pilgrims' Way up to the Temple | Bible Trek – Jerusalem in the New Testament Series – 02

Three times a year, crowds would have flooded into the city of Jerusalem for festivals. After ritual washing, they would walk up the steps to the temple. Jesus and his disciples, singing psalms as they walked, would have used these steps to ascend the Temple Mount for worship and teaching.

𝗥𝗘𝗙𝗟𝗘𝗖𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡

𝗤𝘂𝗶𝗰𝗸 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱
Psalm 121

𝗜𝗻 𝗮 𝗻𝘂𝘁𝘀𝗵𝗲𝗹𝗹
‘My help will come from the Lord, who made heaven and earth.’
Psalm 121.2 (ESV)

𝗟𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱
Ancient Jewish Law prescribed that men should visit the Temple in Jerusalem at festival times, three times a year.

At Passover the pilgrims remembered God delivering them from Egyptian bondage. The second festival recalled God revealing his commandments to his people at Mount Sinai. The third commemorated the Israelites living in temporary dwellings after their escape from Egypt.

In Jesus’ day, pilgrims from across ancient Israel flooded the streets of Jerusalem at festival times. Before ascending to the Temple Mount, they started off with ritual washings by the Pool of Siloam. The steps they walked were discovered less than 20 years ago, when a sewage pipe burst in East Jerusalem. Archaeologists arrived not long after the engineers.

As a result, we can now see the Pilgrims’ Way, a stretch of steps a third of a mile long, climbed 2,000 years ago by countless pilgrims, among them Jesus and his disciples.

𝗦𝘁𝗲𝗽𝗽𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗰𝗹𝗼𝘀𝗲𝗿
When embarking on a road trip, the choice of music is essential.

The ancient Israelites had songs for the road too. Three times a year they made the trip to Jerusalem, spending much of their time ascending. A good soundtrack would have been essential! 

The songs of ascent are found in the Psalms (Psalm 120–135). They were sung, not as distraction but as worship. They were sung because life has its troubles and pressures and can feel like a real climb. 

The most important thing when we feel overwhelmed and feel the road getting harder and heavier is to remember who we are and where we’re headed. That is what these songs did – they reoriented struggling Israelites and they can do the same for us today. 

Read Psalm 121 now. Whatever your journey, whether you’re flying down the road or barely seeing the way forward, God is with you. Walking every step, helping you, and guiding you. He who guards you never sleeps …

𝗝𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗻𝗲𝘆𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝗻
Read on to find out more about pilgrims’ songs in Bible times:

God’s protection: Psalm 121
Arriving at the Temple in Jerusalem: Psalm 122

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