Early in his ministry, Jesus and his disciples traveled to Nain, a small town south of Nazareth and very near to Shunem. When they arrived, they saw a funeral procession for a young man who was the only son of a widow. “And he came and touched the bier and they that bare him stood still. And he said, Young Man, I say unto thee, Arise. And he that was dead sat up and began to speak. And he delivered him to his mother!” Luke 7:14-15. Elisha was very highly revered in Nain because he had raised an only son from death centuries before and delivered him to his grieving mother. This was in Shuneum, less than two miles away. See our Israel Tour page for other...
Read MoreGlimpse of the Past – LDS Church History Sept 8-15
September 9, 1838 (Sunday) – Captain William Allred, of Far West, frustrated the plans of the mob by arresting three men who were bringing guns and ammunition from Richmond, Ray Co., Mo., to the mobbers in Daviess County. September 15, 1843 (Friday) – Joseph Smith opened the Nauvoo Mansion as a hotel. September 9, 1850 (Monday) – The act of Congress providing for the organization of the Territory of Utah was approved. September 15, 1850 (Sunday) – The first branch of the Church in Scandinavia was organized in Copenhagen, Denmark, with fifty members. September 13, 1912 (Friday) – Col. Theodore Roosevelt, ex-President of the United States, addressed a vast throng at Ogden as he passed through on his way to...
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JOPPA – means (“height,” “beauty”) Joppa is immediately south of Tel Aviv and is a part of “greater” Tel Aviv. It is 30 miles south of Caesarea and 40 miles northwest of Jerusalem. It has a recorded history of 3,500 years. Under Solomon, Jaffa became Jerusalem’s seaport (too shallow to be a great port as passengers & cargo had to be loaded to smaller boats off shore). During the Jewish rebellion of 66 A.D., 8,000 Jews were killed here. Crusader Richard the Lion-Hearted built an immense citadel here, but an army under Saladin managed to take it and slaughtered 20,000 Christians in the process. It was razed by Napoleon in 1799 and later rebuilt by the Turks. Janne Sjodahl, a Mormon missionary in the 1880s, baptized two Arab men into the Church, near the place where Peter had his vision extending the Gospel to non-Jews. The first Zionist pioneers of the 19th century entered the Promised Land through Jaffa harbor, but the harbor is scarcely used today. On the top of a hill near the seashore is the Monastery of Saint Peter, marking the traditional site of Peter’s vision of the great sheet; and nearby is a small mosque in the little alley close to the lighthouse, built on the traditional site of the House of Simon the Tanner. See our Israel Tour page for other...
Read MoreGlimpse of the Past – LDS Church History Sept 1-7
September 3, 1842 (Saturday, Nauvoo) – Another effort was made to arrest Joseph Smith without legal process. His house was searched, but he eluded pursuit, and afterward kept himself hid for some time in the house of Edward Hunter. September 3, 1847 (Friday) – Mormon Battalion solders returning home were met on the Truckee River with word from Pres Brigham Young for those who had no means of subsistence to remain in California to work during the winter and come to the Valley in the spring. About half of the company then returned to California. September 1, 1850 (Sunday) – A small branch of the Church was organized in Dublin, Ireland, by Elder Edward Sutherland. September 2, 1855 (Sunday) – The Ute and Shoshone Indians met in front of the Deseret News office, Salt Lake City, and entered into a treaty of peace. September 7, 1863 (Monday) – Pres. Brigham Young’s woolen factory, on Canyon creek, commenced running. September 2, 1877 (Sunday) – The funeral of Pres Brigham Young took place in the large Tabernacle, Salt Lake...
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