A FEW DAYS OF SIGHTSEEING, GOING SOUTH AND EAST IN FLORIDA

Gary and I have been fighting colds since returning from Port Charlotte.  I have been more successful than he in getting over it.  In spite of the cold and or sinus infection, Gary still took a Saturday to go south to the Carlisle South Car Show in Zephyrhills.  He was quite intrigued with this entry.

 

When he was telling our SS teacher about it, Lee took the wind out of his sales by telling him that they are made from a kit.  But he enjoyed seeing it anyway.  Lee is a body shop owner here and should know these kind of things, though.

We spent the next week rather quietly, doing the mundane, such as laundry, grocery shopping and reading.  On Tuesday we went to a show here in the Park with Cactus Jack and the Cadillacs to hear 50's and 60's music.  T'was okay, but not the best that we have heard.  Many were dancing though!!

We planned a few days away for the first week in March where we headed south and east.  Wednesday we began with a stop at the Kissimmee Welcome Center and Museum and then went on to TBN's Holy Land Experience. 

After purchasing our tickets and getting ready to enter the park  through the gate above, I turned when I spotted someone from Ohio and our old home church!!  Surprise, Jerry!!  And here comes Betty with Darin's mother-in-law down the sidewalk also.  They had just arrived three days earlier for a break in weather!!  We caught up with them a little later and managed to get a good picture. 

We started inside with a Drama presented on stage in the Church of All Nations.  "Legna", Angel spelled backwards. 

There were many displays of interest, including much heavily gilt furniture and buildings and walkways trimmed in gold, which we think was to depict Heaven. Rooms of many displays, though we did not get through all of them. 

Church of All Nations with Baptismal Pool in front.

Front area of Living Word Prayer Gardens

Crystal Living Waters and Ten Commandments

Sample from the replica of the Temple of Jerusalem
during the reign of Herod, 66 A.D.



The world's largest indoor model of Jerusalem (A.D.66) with explanation of the city's landmarks and Christ's final days in the city.

There was so much to see and study, but we did not get through half of it in our time frame.  Of what we did see, the Scriptorium impressed us the most.  It was an hour tour of room after room (climate controlled) displays of authentic and ancient artifacts from around the World, collected and donated by one couple for this display.  There were samples from 66A.D. to the Bibles that we use today.  There were samples of scrolls, stone tablets, translations in Latin, Hebrew, Greek, German, Old English, to name a few.  The Gutenberg, Martin Luther's translation, and others.  There was more than we will ever remember, but there was narration about all of it.  I left with the impression that God's Word has survived two thousand years and is still spreading and in many more languages, why should we think that man might destroy it?  Thus I am reconsidering what I had thought about the Bible being destroyed before Christ's return.  I am thinking that if God preserved it since it's first inception, why wouldn't he preserve it through to the end of time?  Though I feel that it might become very obscure and difficult to find, I doubt that man can totally destroy it.  Being obscure, would be reason enough to have His Word hidden in our hearts and mind though!!

The final thought left with us - - -

We left and went on to find a motel for the night and to get ready to go out for dinner.
Check in again soon and we will continue our four days of travel and sight seeing. 
Weather has been awesome for us most of the time.  Much upper 70's and low 80's with just one day of light rain off and on.  God Bless!!