Wednesday, July 23

Can't Get Enough

It's been a couple days and a lot has happened so I'll try and remember everything...

Yesterday we left Bursa and headed for Pamukkale, 7 hour drive...blah...the cool thing was we drove through, what was formerly known as, Thyatira, Smytria, and Laodicea...if you know the book of Revelation you may recognize those as 3 of the 7 churches that John wrote letters too...we hit up Ephesus tomorrow

In Pamukkale we went to the hot springs that left white calcium deposits, its hard to explain...google it...it's cool

My awww moment there was the fact that in Revalation 2 and 3 John is writing the letters to the churches and in the one to Laodicea he saws "you are neither hot nor cold-you are lukewarm so I spit you out of my mouth" (that's from memory so I don't know how exact it is) that was because the hot springs produced the hot water up there, and when it got to Laodicea it was lukewarm and then the next town it got to it was cold...it was a cool way to see the bible actually being played out with nature that I got to see...

We then got to walk through the ancient city of Heiropolis and Necropolis (the grave yard) lots of awesome stuff...but again too hard to explain

Today we went to the ancient city of Aphroditas, that again was really awesome and it had a stadium there that is the best preserved stadium from the Roman time period, it was huge...holding 15,000...a lot, especially for back then

It's hard to type every detail and it would make it too long...tomorrow we head to Ephesus that is the one of the best preserved cities from that time period

Peace

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Sounds pretty cool. Thanks for the updates.

Josh Burcham said...

Sounds crazy busy. I'll see you Sunday.