The domed chapel at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher is called the Holy Edicule and is built above the site
where Jesus was believed to have been buried in a tomb. (William Booth/The Washington Post)
Posted on 06/20/2016 5:06:50 PM PDT by Swordmaker
JERUSALEM — Work has begun to save the holiest shrine in Christendom. It won’t be a simple patch-and-paint job.
This is the alpha and omega of restoration projects.
They are going to repair Christ’s tomb — with titanium bolts.
Over the next nine months, a team of Greek conservationists will restore the collapsing chapel built above and around the burial cave where the faithful believe that Jesus was buried and rose from the dead after the Crucifixion.
To fix the chapel, which is buckling under its own weight, the crew will have to enter a few square meters of the ruins of the first-century tomb.
It is called the Holy Rock.
To get there, they will clean centuries of candle soot left from votive lamps; they will reset and anchor the imported marbles; and they will inject 21st-century stabilizing mortar into 12th-century masonry from the Crusader times.
I do NOT want to seem sacrilegious but why does it not seem like there is a Monty Python sketch in that headline somewhere?
Is there a blue shirt-wearing stinky-butt-in-the-air muslime on the roof?
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Good catch. . . maybe he's just a normal, everyday pervert peeking into the ladies' room?
An obummer tranny?
Zooming way in, he has a design on his shirt that might be a red cross on a white shield.
Nah! That one'd be IN the ladies' room. . .
I am with you...
I pray they do a better job than NH did with the Old Man.
Doesn’t matter - Yeshua is not there. He Is Risen. Why venerate an empty tomb?
I was thinking “Temple of Doom” myself.
Maybe a mid-east version of a “kick me” (”behead me”) sign on his back. . .those crazy muzloids.
Looks like it is a stinky-butt-in-the-air muslime praying, but the shirt emblem is weird.
Either it is a stinky-butt-in-the-air muslime praying or it is an obummer backer peeking into the men’s room.
Do they really need to do all that? I mean, it's only a flesh wound!
Some doubt that the Holy Sepulchre Tomb is the actual “rich man’s” tomb described in the gospel. A more beautiful and not as highly venerated, is a nearby tomb located in a lovely garden, and is called the Garden Tomb. The atmosphere there is very different from the old dingy ugly Sepulchre. Pilgrims can be seen all about the beautiful Garden, which was also an ancient olive press. There is singing of praise songs, worship, and taking communion going on. A sign in the garden plainly says, He is not Here, He is Risen. The difference between the two tombs is overwhelming. (In very close proximity is the Hill of the Skull, where it is said Jesus was crucified—Calvary)
http://www.gardentomb.com/galleries/skull-hill.php
Christians also bow down and even prostrate themselves in worship.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Jerusalem_Holy_Sepulchre_BW_7.JPG
It shows the reinforcing structure already present to keep it from crumbling.
Definitely one lurking about...
...and so it shall be, that the number of bolts shall be three.
After installing the first and second bolts, there shall then be a third bolt added.’ So that the total of the bolts be three.
There shall be one more bolt than two, and one bolt less than four, with the final bolts bring three.
Five is right out!
That’s for sure.
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