Pray For the Peace of Jerusalem

My brother-in-law, who grew up near Salem MA, was an "Extra" in a movie about The Salem Witch Trials. He got paid to appear in raggedy period clothing, with hair and beard disheveled, in a crowd calling for death to the witch. (we often joke that he was also in a similar scene in Monty Python and The Holy Grail, but that wasn't him!). One doesn't need extraordinary acting skills to be an Extra, but it's a paycheck, and something to share with the grandkids many years later.

Modern filmmakers are less likely to hire Extras, as CGI can produce millions of life-like images of people. But, to me, it is not the same.

One of the most awesome scenes in the movie "The Ten Commandments" was the depiction of this Chapter. Filmed on location in Egypt, it involved a massive set, thousands of "Extras", and even members of the Royal Egyptian Cavalry riding their chariots. Here is a link to the scene.

The Pylons in this scene were over 100 feet high, and the Director, Cecil B. DeMille, suffered a significant heart attack while adjusting a camera. He lived to tell the tale, and it has become part of the movie's lore.

In the movie, the fictitious character of Dathan (played brilliantly by Edward G. Robinson) shows us that, no matter how wonderful a movement or cause, there are always malcontents and complainers that cause trouble. There are lots of flocks and herds in this scene as well. That is because, all during the Plagues, when Pharaoh kept reneging on his promises to let the People go, Moses kept insisting that not only his people go, but their flocks and herds as well. And Moses is leading this massive group of people and animals out front, on foot, with his staff, like a Shepherd.

Come and Pray For the Peace of Jerusalem, For Our FRiends in Need, For Persecuted Believers, and For Our Beloved Nation.

"He was delivered up for our trespasses and raised for our justification." (Romans 4:25)

God Bless America!

Blessings To All Who Visit This Garden of Prayer.

This Symbol Represents Christians in The Middle East, who desperately need our Prayers.

Hallelujah and Amen

ML/LTOS

PRAYERS ASCENDING ON HIGH FOR
THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM!
And for the Preservation of the Valiant
Israeli Nation!

"The Israelites Leaving Egypt"
David Roberts - 1828

_ he called for Moses and Aaron
by night, and said, Rise up, and get
you forth from among my people,
both ye and the children of Israel;
and go, serve the LORD, as ye have said.

Also take your flocks and your herds, as ye have said, and be gone; and
bless me also.

And the Egyptians were urgent upon the people, that they might send them out of the land in haste; for they said, We be all dead men.

And the people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneadingtroughs being bound up in their clothes upon their shoulders.

And the children of Israel did according to the word of Moses; and they borrowed of the Egyptians jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment:

And the LORD gave the people favour in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they lent unto them such things as they required. And they spoiled the Egyptians.

And the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot that were men, beside children.

And a mixed multitude went up also with them; and flocks, and herds, even very much cattle.

And they baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they brought forth out of Egypt, for it was not leavened; because they were thrust out of Egypt, and could not tarry, neither had they prepared for themselves any victual.

Now the sojourning of the children of Israel, who dwelt in Egypt, was four hundred and thirty years.

And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred and thirty years, even the selfsame day it came to pass, that all the hosts of the LORD went out from the land of Egypt.

It is a night to be much observed unto the LORD for bringing them out from the land of Egypt: this is that night of the LORD to be observed of all the children of Israel in their generations.

___________________________________________ Exodus 12:31-42 (KJV)

PRAYERS ASCENDING ON HIGH For ML In This Time Of Tribulation.

PRAYERS ASCENDING ON HIGH For A Rapid Recovery For Our Own Yorkie.

PRAYERS ASCENDING ON HIGH For A Rapid Recovery For Our FRiend Uri'el2012.

PRAYERS ASCENDING ON HIGH For The Safety Of Our Gallant Troops And For The Success Of Their Vital Mission.

PRAYERS ASCENDING ON HIGH For The Repose Of The Souls Of Our Embassy Staff In Libya Who Were Assassinated 11 September 2012.

PRAYERS ASCENDING ON HIGH For The Deliverance Of Our Beloved Nation From The Lion’s Mouth.

PRAYERS ASCENDING ON HIGH For Our Brethren Of All Faiths Throughout The World Suffering Persecution.
We pray in particular on behalf of our brothers and sisters in Syria, Iraq, Egypt, Libya and throughout the Mideast. The members of the oldest of our Christian Communities, some of which date from the days of the Apostles, suffer under cruel, merciless and unrelenting persecution. They are Orthodox and Catholic, Protestant and Evangelical, Coptic, Pentecostal, and Baptist. To the persecutors, we are all "Nazarenes."

My prayers always. God bless.

Praise God and thank you for your always needed posts!

Half of America is prayer for President Trump.
He won the majority of legal votes. And the one who cares about the American people, justice, and the United States Constitution.

In GOD WE TRUST.
Amen.

Hallelujah and Amen

Amen

My Dad and his pickup truck were extras in a 1977 movie filmed in my hometown. (He got $5 a day more than his pickup truck.)
(Christmas Miracle at Caufield-—about coal miners in Appalachia, which looked nothing like MT. Starring Kurt Russel, John Carradine, Barbara Babcock, Mellisa Gilbert.)

But it was nothing like your story of being an extra on The Ten Commandments. Something really big.

Joining in prayer, left that other site, for the Peace of Jerusalem and for our beloved America. And may God have mercy on us.