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Trailblazers; KINGDOM ADVANCEMENT COMING FORTH
Topic Started: May 12 2014, 06:59 AM (591 Views)
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LINDA MARSHALL
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KINGDOM ADVANCEMENT COMING FORTH

May 12, 2014

I was in prayer and reminded of something that I heard in the early winter of last year: " The winter will be longer than expected." When I heard this, I realized that God was speaking not just to the natural conditions of the season but that the words carried spiritual significance, as well. Then the Lord said to me: " Don't think that things are behind, for they are right on time. For I am the God of time and timing and have entered into time. "
Later I had a vision and saw a white kite flying close to the ground, being tossed by strong winds and gusts. Then suddenly, it began to ascend upward off the ground almost effortlessly, rising up higher and higher by unseen currents in the atmosphere. The Lord said, " My winds are blowing across the earth. I am releasing My Spirit, that the work of My Kingdom may be accomplished in this hour."

" I am blowing on hearts today. There are those who have been prepared for this day in order to set the course for the days ahead and My Kingdom advancement. They are being lifted, like the kite that you just saw."
" Many are like Joseph, who was trained and tried in the crucible of affliction, until the appointed time of release. There are those like Esther, who have been called for a time such as this, to stand before the King, and make supplication and intercession for My people."

"I am raising up, those who will be known as "trailblazers," and will be carriers of My presence who will prepare the way, for a great and mighty harvest to come. For I have been preparing them in the secret place, and many of them will suddenly step onto the scene, much like John the Baptist, after a preparatory time in the wilderness. They are being called to go forth and as they do, stumbling blocks, that have held many in captivity, will be removed, as the way of holiness is prepared. "

" They will be "end time" revivalist, prophetic voices in the land: those who understand the times and seasons and will be a catalyst for Kingdom Advance, as they will prepare the way, for others to follow. They will appear to be ordinary men and women. However, they will possess extraordinary courage, strength, integrity, and ingenuity. They are those who walk in the counsel of My Word and by My Spirit. Many of them are even now receiving their assignments in this hour. Each is particularly and uniquely gifted and equipped, to establish My Kingdom purposes. You will begin to see them come forth over the next several months, " says the Lord.

Ezekiel 37:9
Genesis 41:13, 39-41
Esther 4:14, 5:2-3
Isaiah 40:3-5, 31
Isaiah 62:10


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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFIbXAkbbko
THE LANGUAGE OF JESUS IS LOVE
beautiful/listen&enjoy.....





antibody - any of numerous Y-shaped protein molecules produced by B cells as a primary immune defense, each molecule and its clones having a unique binding site that can combine with the complementary site of a foreign antigen, as on a virus or bacterium, thereby disabling the antigen and signaling other immune defenses.

Let Me inject you with My antibodies of love. They will capture every particle that is foreign within your heart and set all to right. They will destroy the enemy’s work and increase the wonder that I am bringing about within your heart.

Yes. I have My very own antibodies of love and I want to give you a good injection of them right into your heart. It will not hurt a bit. All you need say is that you are willing, eager, to have Me do this. They will go to work immediately and perform on your behalf a wonderful cleansing, attaching to those things within your heart that are alien to Me and My work.

I will start immediately after you give Me the go ahead. I will begin as soon as you tell Me of your willingness to have this wonder performed on your behalf. It will be awhile before you will realize that the antibodies have done their work, but you will realize it in good time and you will be pleased. You will know a wonderful freedom within. You will positively soar at the wonder of what has taken place on your behalf.

I am your God and I have an injection of antibodies that I would like to give to you. Will you say “yes” to this injection? I will perform it Myself. I will oversee the process Myself. All you need do is give Me the go-ahead. Will you do that? Will you give Me the go-ahead with this new work that I wish to perform? Will you willingly accept this injection of antibodies that I wish to give you directly into your heart of hearts?

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THE TRUMPET by BILL BURNS:
http://ft111.com/
I hear the Lord saying, regarding this great struggle that you have been involved in, consider the life of the butterfly for he must struggle and continue to struggle until he comes out and breaks himself out of the bondage that has been placed to hold him in a position of birthing. This has not been a bad place because you will come forth, and you will walk out. You will bring God into the situation more profoundly than you ever have before. And, your struggles with regard to that situation that you are thinking of in this moment will be resolved as you break out and gain flight even as the butterfly does. It is the season to come forth.

SMALL STRAWS IN A SOFT WIND by MARSHA BURNS:
Set a watch for an attack that will bring your honor and integrity into question. Don't be surprised if the enemy uses someone you have been able to trust in the past to disparage your character. You can do preventative warfare and break the assignment before it actually causes any harm, but you will have to exercise your discernment and spiritual authority, says the Lord. Nahum 2:1 He who scatters has come up before your face. Man the fort! Watch the road! Strengthen your flanks! Fortify your power mightily.
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A cord of blue
Num 15:38

May 12, 2014






A cord of blue. Num 15:38 (R. V.)

THROUGHOUT their generations the Israelites were bidden to wear it. It is the symbol of depth, of love, of Heaven. The azure sky, the glacier-rift, the deep lake, the far horizon, the eye of the hopeful, buoyant, tender nature – all tell the same story of deep and constant love, which mirrors below God’s heaven of love above. Therefore to wear this cord of blue was to be kept in mind of the eternal and unseen. No outward symbol is needed by us. The very best, after awhile, becomes tame and commonplace. We get so accustomed to it that it ceases to stir our thoughts. But if we will intrust ourselves to the Holy Spirit, He will teach us all things, and keep us always in mind. He is the blessed Remembrancer, whose mission is to bring Christ to our thought and keep Him there, the prominent object of our soul’s vision.

The object of this cord of blue was to restrain the people from going about “after their own heart and their own eyes.” We need to be kept from the same, that we may walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. In our resolutions, our energies, our acts of consecration, our Christian activities, we are all too apt to go at the dictates of our heart and eyes. May God forgive us! It has been the source of our perpetual failure and defeat. There is. a more excellent way. Let us ask the Holy Spirit to keep the blue cord of the Christ-memory ever before our gaze, that we may become utterly absorbed in His beauty and glory, in doing His will, and in executing His commands. Let us seek to be bound to our Master, who is Love, by that same cord, that we may never for a moment forget the demands of the unseen and eternal.
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Oh, the Depth…
by T. Austin-Sparks


Transcribed from a message given in December, 1958. The spoken form has been retained verbatim.

In the gospel by Matthew, chapter 13, chapter 13 and verse 5:
“And others fell upon the rocky places where they had not much earth: and straightway they sprang up because they had no deepness of earth. And when the sun was risen, they were scorched, and because they had no root, they withered away.”

The letter to the Romans, chapter 11, at verse 33:
“Oh, the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments, and His ways past tracing out!”

We immediately recognise that contrast, those three statements in the Matthew portion: “not much earth”, “no deepness of earth”, “no root”, and then: “Oh the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God!”

It may seem just a little out of place today not to speak on the season, but spiritual need is always in season, and that is always with us. And I have it on my heart just to say a brief word, a simple word on this matter of depth. “Oh the depth…”.

In this parable of our Lord, with which we are so familiar, called the parable of the sower, in this second phase of the sowing and its result, the Lord puts his finger upon something that is nothing less than a tragedy when it is remembered what the tremendous potentialities of the Word of God are. You come to the end of the parable and you see in what was in the Word that was sown. It was no different Word sown among the thorns or on the rocky ground from that sown on good ground. In every case and instance, the potentialities were the same; no difference in the Word.

Mighty, wonderful things are possible from the Word of God in the heart. And yet, with all those great potentialities and possibilities, here is a receiving, a receiving – it comes to them just as it came to the others, a receiving – and all that was possible was missed.

The tragedy of shallowness… what a tragedy! So the Lord puts His finger upon that which is so contrary to His own nature and His own thought; so contrary to God. Oh, the depth of God! How deep God is! How deep God goes.

Here perhaps there is a link with the present remembrance to what depth the Lord Jesus came down and went! How deep God has gone. The breadth and the length and the height and the depth of the knowledge-surpassing love of God! How profound is the love of God! How deep God is! “The depth of the riches of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments, and His ways past finding out!” That’s God! That’s His nature. And over against that is this tragic shallowness… contrary to Him… missing all that could have been.

Shallowness is always unsubstantial; it never, never stands the test and goes through – always unenduring – for a time, and then… it’s all gone. Always unprofitable; missing what God intended.

Now, you see, if God is like this – and if there is something in what the Lord Jesus says and means in the parable of condemnation, deploring such a state – what should we expect of God? What should we expect? We should expect nothing other than if God really gets a chance and has a way to His end, He will go very deep, and He will take us very deep. And it does prove to be like that. I’m quite sure that there are many here now who know that that is true. It is a word not only that is true to experience, but it is a word that explains so much. The Psalmist cried: “Thy way was in the deep…” and it always is. God’s way is always in the deep!

God will always seek to take us down into the depths in order that He might reproduce in us the things that are true of Himself. We have said just now that shallowness is that which is not substantial. Now, the one thing that that Psalmist was always saying about the Lord was that He was his Rock; his Rock. What a lot the Psalmist owed to the fact that he had discovered the Lord to be his Rock – something that could not be moved, could not be shaken, to be relied upon, to be dependable, always there: “Thou art my Rock!” That is the Lord.

Dear friends, the Lord does want to reproduce His own character in us: to make us dependable, reliable, substantial; that we are there, and always there, and always there and can always be found there – not moved! In order to do that, He has to take us into the depths. He is that Himself, because He is so deep.

Enduring… He is the eternal God; He abides forever. There is a word, you know, that brings us right into touch with that: “He that doeth the will of God shall abide forever.”Abide forever! So easily moved away aren’t we? Unabiding. The Lord Jesus was ever stressing this: “Abide in Me”, abide, keep settled down! But you don’t if you live on the surface, you know that quite well; nothing that lives on the surface abides, it is carried away so easily by whatever comes along. It is only those who, to use the words of a prophet, twice employed: “dwell deep”, “dwell deep”. Only so shall we endure and abide.

Things of greatest value are not found on the surface at all. The real treasures are in the deep. You have to go deep for the pearls and the jewels – dig deep. The things that really are of value are not just superficial things found strewn anywhere and everywhere, you have to search deeply for them.


When the Lord was describing the Land for His people, the Land of Promise, the Land of their inheritance, He told them that there were treasures there, but they’d have to dig for them, they’d have to dig for them: “Out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass”. Nothing that really is of value comes easily. Well, we know that, in every sphere of life it does not come easily, but we have to go deep. The Lord, then, is always seeking to deepen and deepen; He is in quest of depth. And because of the importance to the Lord of all these features of depth, depth is always a costly thing. It’s always a costly thing.

The fact is, and we know it so well, that we never do make deeper discoveries of the Lord, only through very deep trial, very deep testing, very deep suffering. These treasures are “treasures of darkness”; there are always treasures somewhere in the darkness, there are always precious things somewhere down in the depths where the Lord leads us; it’s like that.

This essential of God in His people, all that it means of real depth unto the abiding and unto full fruitfulness, it comes only by way of deep trial and suffering. That explains the ways of the Lord with us; it really does! We wonder why the Lord does plough so deep, and not allow us to abide in our superficiality.

Now, here’s Paul – a great example always of every kind of Divine truth and Divine way and working and method – here is this man, out of very deep ways with God, and God’s very deep ways with him, crying, “Oh the depth of the riches… Oh the depth of the riches! How unsearchable! Past finding out!” There’s really, though sometimes we think we have touched bottom, there is nearly no touching bottom in this matter; there is always something more to discover, but every time, something more of deepening in us. It’s like that.

Now, the way of man and the way of the world is the shallow way, isn’t it? To get things as cheaply as possible, and as easily as possible, and as quickly as possible, with as little cost as possible – that’s the way of our nature. We want it like that, and we don’t like the other way. But that is a mark, it’s a mark of something of Divine character missing. It is! It just shows how devoid of the character of God human nature is and this world is. And all God’s ways of enrichment demand the countering of our natural desires, inclinations, propensities to have it all so easily. That is our way; it is the way of man.

Now, dear friends, this, this matter of depth, this matter of depth and of deepening into God and by God, constitutes a feature of the great battle that the Lord’s people are always in.

As an illustration and an instance of this, remember the Lord Jesus as He stepped across that line from His thirty years of private, hidden life, into the public vocation and mission for which He had come. And the enemy, clearly discerning with that intuition common to spirits, recognised quite well why He had come and for what He had stepped across that line that day: to become the Lord of Creation, the Prince of this world, the Ruler of the kingdoms. He recognised that and offered that prize to Him along superficial lines; superficial lines… compromise: “Take this easier way, You can have it; You can have it all if You will only take this way that I suggest. You are going the hard way! You are going the deep way, You are going the costly way; but You can have it all without that!” Superficial… see? The superficial way for a kingdom. But what a Kingdom it would have been! It would not have lasted; it would not have endured; it would not have been of that substantial order of eternity. And that’s what the enemy wanted: to rob of that deep, deep reality that God meant.

And the Lord Jesus saw the snare and accepted the deep way – and oh, how deep it was… that way of the Cross, to the very depths, to the very depths. But what a Kingdom! An everlasting kingdom, an enduring kingdom; He has it! It will endure throughout all generations, forever and ever. The deep way is the real way. The enemy is always trying to rob of depth, that is the point – to make things easier. He is always trying to make things superficial; all so happy, and so pleasant; so nice, all on the surface, all looks so lovely and so enjoyable, and seems to be so good; but the point is: At what cost has it been secured? And is there a peril that something of the depth is being surrendered? For that’s the realm of value and of conflict: depth!

For this reason (and it’s striking I know what sounds like a melancholy note) for this reason the Lord does have to bring His own things, His own Divine, sacred things, into a realm of tremendous suffering in order to preserve and increase their depth. Make no mistake about it! The question will always arise: At what cost did you come by that? That determines whether it is real with you.

I was thinking much about that incident (and with this I’ll close) in the life of Elisha. We know and have heard many things about it. One thing has impressed me as I have been thinking over it again recently. When the Lord sent him to the woman, you remember, and the child was given by Divine act. And the prophet went away and it fell upon a day, the child was stricken and died. The woman asked her husband to saddle the ass for her to go and fetch the prophet, and off she went.

She found him, told him her trouble, and he sent Gehazi with his rod, back. Gehazi… his servant, with the rod. And I never can help my imagination from getting to work as I see Gehazi… a man for which I have the utmost contempt from all I know of him in Scripture: taking that rod and in some professional way, conceited way, going to the situation, entering into the death chamber and putting the rod upon the child; and nothing happened. Trying it perhaps at some other angle, and still nothing happened; nothing happened. But the woman saw through Gehazi, and she said: “I am not going with Gehazi; I am not going without you! You’ve got to come.” She had come to Elisha. He went, and you know how he entered in and stretched himself upon that child: hands to his hands, eyes to his eyes, and lips to his lips. Stretched himself.

Now, you know the whole story, but what has impressed me is this: the Lord, the Lord in this scene was sovereignly at work. And the principle there undoubtedly was this: that here in this child was represented the very fruit, meaning, and value of that woman’s life, if you will allow her to represent the church. And the child: the very meaning of her life, the very fruit of her life, the very testimony of her life, the only thing for which now she had to live – something that was a matter of life or death with her. And the Lord touched that, touched that in order to bring out this great, this wonderful, this profound truth: that everything in the church has got to become a matter of life and death. No play-acting by any Gehazi’s! No merely formal, professional conduct with the rod; no mere words, no mere performances. Only the man, the man who is brought right into the thing in heart, so that this matter is with him a matter of his own ministry, of his own life, of his own testimony… brought into the agony and the anguish of this thing; not standing aside like a Gehazi and acting objectively, but this thing involves his very life, his very ministry, his very testimony, and his very anointing. If God doesn’t do this, then Elisha had better give up everything! He is brought into the agony and anguish of this situation.

God has touched something that is not just a matter of his professional ministry, it’s a matter of the justification of his life; he is brought into it like that. God is going deep. And dear friends, God does that; make no mistake about it. Make no mistake about it!

In the church, in the church that is according to God, God will touch something in the individual life. He may touch a husband; He may touch a wife; He may touch a child – a beloved child – in order to get us out of this merely formal, detached kind of association with His things, and make everything an agony! An agony! If the church doesn’t come in on our behalf now, well, you see, the dearest thing in life is threatened.

God has wonderful ways of making things real, making things real; of destroying superficiality. Do you follow? I feel it is a very solemn word from the Lord, but a word that we all need to recognise. The Lord is not, not going to have shallowness and superficiality; He is going to touch the depth until it is a matter of anguish.

Everything is in the balances in this issue whatever it may be, whatever it may be – a business situation, a home situation, a personal situation, a church situation – everything is in the balances now: how this goes. The Lord simply draws us in. And I have a feeling the Lord is going to do things like that, to save from the matter-of-course kind of things, taking things for granted, and to bring about a more deadly, solemn reality with us all. It will be by deep ways, but oh, it will be worthwhile afterward.

That lad became the embodiment of the power of His resurrection. And it’s something, you know, to have that testimony enshrined and embodied, something indestructible and abiding there, substantial there: the power of His resurrection! Who can undo that? That is forever; forever! But it comes by this way: “Thy way, oh God, was in the depths…”; “Oh, the depths of the riches…” is the point: the riches. Listen to the word; it will explain things that are going to happen to you, perhaps soon, and it may be a saving word.











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To hear with my heart
To see with my soul
To be guided by a hand I cannot hold
To trust in a way that I cannot see
That's what faith must be

When the universe fell from His fingertips
He decided He wanted some fellowship
But the man and the woman would not submit
So He made a better way

When the moment was right He sent His own son
And He opened the way so that everyone
Could have hope and believe that when time was done
He'd be able to make us one

To hear with my heart
To see with my soul
To be guided by a hand I cannot hold
To trust in a way that I cannot see
That's what faith must be

Now I understand that there is a key
It's Jesus in me, a reality
That God is in Christ and that Christ's in me
That with faith I see what is unseen

To hear with my heart
To see with my soul
To be guided by a hand I cannot hold
To trust in a way that I cannot see
That's what faith must be
That's what faith must be
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The Way Of Abraham In Faith
by Oswald Chambers
May 12, 2014

He went out, not knowing whither he went.” ‘
Hebrews 11:8


In the Old Testament, personal relationship with God showed itself in separation, and this is symbolized in the life of Abraham by his separation from his country and from his kith and kin. To day the separation is more of a mental and moral separation from the way that those who are dearest to us look at things, that is, if they have not a personal relationship with God. Jesus Christ emphasized this (see Luke 14:26).

Faith never knows where it is being led, but it loves and knows the One Who is leading. It is a life of Faith, not of intellect and reason, but a life of knowing Who makes us “go.” The root of faith is the knowledge of a Person, and one of the biggest snares is the idea that God is sure to lead us to success.

The final stage in the life of faith is attainment of character. There are many passing transfigurations of character; when we pray we feel the blessing of God enwrapping us and for the time being we are changed, then we get back to the ordinary days and ways and the glory vanishes. The life of faith is not a life of mounting up with wings, but a life of walking and not fainting. It is not a question of sanctification; but of something infinitely further on than sanctification, of faith that has been tried and proved and has stood the test. Abraham is not a type of sanctification, but a type of the life of faith, a tried faith built on a real God. “Abraham believed God”.

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Wow! :wow: Proof of the Bible...


The very passage ways that the heir to our Lord and King walked through...amazing! Yet again, a reminder that the just shall walk by faith for without faith it is impossible to please God.


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Israeli archaeologist says he's found citadel captured by King David
Published May 06, 2014·
Associated Press
May 1, 2014: Eli Shukron, an archeologist formerly with Israel's Antiquities Authority, walks in the City of David archaeological site near Jerusalem's Old City. The dig, which began in 1995, uncovered a massive fortification and pottery shards that date to 3,800 years ago. Shukron says this is the legendary citadel captured by King David in his conquest of Jerusalem. But archaeologists are divided on identifying Davidic sites in Jerusalem, the city he is said to have made his capital. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)

JERUSALEM – An Israeli archaeologist says he has found the legendary citadel captured by King David in his conquest of Jerusalem, rekindling a longstanding debate about using the Bible as a field guide to identifying ancient ruins.

The claim by Eli Shukron, like many such claims in the field of biblical archaeology, has run into criticism. It joins a string of announcements by Israeli archaeologists saying they have unearthed palaces of the legendary biblical king, who is revered in Jewish religious tradition for establishing Jerusalem as its central holy city -- but who has long eluded historians looking for clear-cut evidence of his existence and reign.




The present-day Israeli-Palestinian conflict is also wrapped up in the subject. The $10 million excavation, made accessible to tourists last month, took place in an Arab neighborhood of Jerusalem and was financed by an organization that settles Jews in guarded homes in Arab areas of east Jerusalem in an attempt to prevent the city from being divided. The Palestinians claim east Jerusalem, captured by Israel in 1967, as the capital of a future independent state.

Shukron, who excavated at the City of David archaeological site for nearly two decades, says he believes strong evidence supports his theory.

"This is the citadel of King David, this is the Citadel of Zion, and this is what King David took from the Jebusites," said Shukron, who said he recently left Israel's Antiquities Authority to work as a lecturer and tour guide. "The whole site we can compare to the Bible perfectly."

Most archaeologists in Israel do not dispute that King David was a historical figure, and a written reference to the "House of David" was found in an archaeological site in northern Israel. But archaeologists are divided on identifying Davidic sites in Jerusalem, which he is said to have made his capital.

Shukron's dig, which began in 1995, uncovered a massive fortification of five-ton stones stacked 21 feet wide. Pottery shards helped date the fortification walls to be 3,800 years old. They are the largest walls found in the region from before the time of King Herod, the ambitious builder who expanded the Second Jewish Temple complex in Jerusalem almost 2,100 years ago. The fortification surrounded a water spring and is thought to have protected the ancient city's water source.

The fortification was built 800 years before King David would have captured it from its Jebusite rulers. Shukron says the biblical story of David's conquest of Jerusalem provides clues that point to this particular fortification as David's entry point into the city.

In the second Book of Samuel, David orders the capture of the walled city by entering it through the water shaft. Shukron's excavation uncovered a narrow shaft where spring water flowed into a carved pool, thought to be where city inhabitants would gather to draw water. Excess water would have flowed out of the walled city through another section of the shaft Shukron said he discovered -- where he believes the city was penetrated.

Shukron says no other structure in the area of ancient Jerusalem matches what David would have captured to take the city. The biblical account names it the "Citadel of David" and the "Citadel of Zion."

Ronny Reich, who was Shukron's collaborator at the site until 2008, disagrees with the theory. He said more broken pottery found from the 10th century BC, presumably King David's reign, should have been found if the fortification had been in use then.

Shukron said he only found two shards that date close to that time. He believes the reason he didn't find more is because the site was in continuous use and old pottery would have been cleared out by David's successors. Much larger quantities of shards found at the site date to about 100 years after King David's reign.

Reich said it was not possible to reach definitive conclusions about biblical connections without more direct archaeological evidence.

"The connection between archaeology and the Bible has become very, very problematic in recent years," Reich said.

Critics say that some archaeologists are too eager to hold a spade in one hand and a Bible in the other in a quest to verify the biblical narrative -- either due to religious beliefs or to prove the Jewish people's historic ties to the land. But other respected Israeli archaeologists say recent finds match the biblical account more than naysayers claim.

Shukron, a veteran archaeologist who has excavated a number of significant sites in Jerusalem, said he drew his conclusions after nearly two decades exploring the ancient city.

"I know every little thing in the City of David. I didn't see in any other place such a huge fortification as this," said Shukron.

The biblical connection to the site is emphasized at the City of David archaeological park, where the "Spring Citadel" -- the excavation's official name -- has been retrofitted for tourists, including a movie projected on a screen in front of the fortification to illustrate how it may have looked 3,800 years ago. The City of David -- located in east Jerusalem -- is one of the most popular tourist sites in the holy city, with 500,000 tourists visiting last year.
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