Luxor, Egypt

       Once thing I have learned again on this trip is if you ask a question and they answer yes quick…That means no or anything but yes…It can mean what ever the guide don’t understand which is very little.We saw the Valley of the Kings in Luxor where the dying Kings in there best imagination saw a naturally formed pyramid and had their grave dug deep into the mountain so they could live there till judgment day. Many Kings where in these deep tombs dug into solid rock with all there history carved in to the walls and ceilings like writing on paper using every square inch of wall. It is amazing !!! I have a better of understanding  why God was and still is against idols; the idolatry in Egypt was awful and God brought the children of Israel out of it is a great miracle that cannot be fully understood even after having seen all we saw. Idolatry was there life, work, honors, achievement's, sleeping, eating, trust, there glory !!! Egypt is the oldest kingdom on Earth and was completely taken over to these gods for everything for thousands of years. This is a little picture of the entrance to the Karnak in Luxor temple, 144 ram idols.

 

Look at these temple columns and walls. Writings on everything except the floors.There are hundreds of these columns in this temple 40 to 50 feet tall and I think there was around 18 Acres of this back in the days when the king and his kingdom used this for worship for the elite of the day in the days of Ramses 11 Oh, I love to serve a Jealous God that is real and full of Truth and Love and Mercy !!! Thank you for Jesus who died for me and paid a way that changes our life from inside out !!!!!!!!!!! The religion we see deeply engrained here is all external and nothing inside…Same as the walls and temples we visit, the same as it has always been…My Lord