Nathaniel Buzolic Instagram – Jewish pilgrims from all over the world will visit this wall in Jerusalem to lift up prayers to G-d. On a Friday evening this location will be flooded with Jewish believers who have come to celebrate the beginning of the sabbath & honor the very name of G-d who instructed them to keep sabbath & uphold it for all time. The commandment is simple – to enter into G-d’s rest on the final day of the work week. To keep it holy. The wall pictured above was built as a retaining wall By Herod also known as ‘Herod the great’ an edomite who was a Jewish convert & a Roman appointed King to rule in Judea over 2,000 years ago. He was the King who ruled when Yeshua was born in Bethlehem, the king who instructed to Kill all male Jewish babies born in that period from fear of them being the messiah, and rightful heir to rule on King David’s throne. The 1st and 2nd Jewish temples were built above this retaining wall. Both were destroyed by foreign empires. Today the wall is treated as a holy site because it’s the closest point Jewish people can come to feel a connection to what once sat above these walls. The Holy of Holies. The holy of holies is considered to be the place where G-d’s presence dwelt in the midst of everyday Jewish religious life. Today the dome of the rock, an Islamic monument which was built by Abdul Malik in 691AD sits in this location where the Jewish temple once stood. I appreciate the longing that Jewish believers hold to, having a great desire to come as close as possible to where G-d’s presence once was. A wall that acts as a physical marker to bring people closer to G-d in prayer because G-d himself chose this place as holy. But my question is this What walls have many believers built up around their hearts to actually prevent them from coming closer to G-D’s presence? As a follower of Yeshua haMashiach. I see a time and a place where people do long for a deeper relationship with G-d, but often not at the cost of truly seeking it out through His word & ways. Every individual must read & clearly understood G-d through what G-d himself has spoken through His law & His prophets. This is not a untold mystery but rather a treasure we must seek first