Subject: A TRIP TO EGYPT AND ISRAEL
Mon
Feb 11

Dear Friends,

We are home.  I am home with this flu that is going around.  I had it
before we left and got it again in Egypt.  I have really been sick. 
Sure is a waste of time.

Our trip was physically very hard.  I lost 10 pounds and got sick.  I
am glad I went, but would not go back to Egypt.  It is a dirty, ungodly
country.  The smog in Cairo Egypt was terrible.  There are 17 million
people in that city and they just throw their trash in the streets. 
The Nile River is polluted.  I don't know how such a
people who built the pyramids regressed like they have.  If the Arabs
take over America, we will be a slum. 

And the noise pollution was terrible.  They chant their muslim  prayers
all day. Our tour guide (OVER THERE) was a Christian, and he was a fine
young man, but the ungodliness of the population is everywhere.  It was
a real example of the difference of "light" vs "darkness."   Jesus is
truly the Light!

Israel was clean and wonderful.  We could eat the food and drink the
water.  They were kind and loved us.  They may not believe in Jesus but
you can tell that God is in that land.  It snowed in Jerusalem while we
were there and it was cold, but we still toured.

The Sea of Galilee was  stormy and we went out on a boat a short
distance, but came back to shore.  The Bible is absolutely true about
the fact that you cannot be out on the Sea of Galilee in a boat without
the danger of dying.  We were amazed at the big waves and wind on that
Sea or lake.

The weather cleared in Israel at the end of the week and we went to the
Temple Mount on a beautiful morning.  It was a time with the Lord.  We
stood at the Golden Gate where Jesus will return. It is sealed because
the Muslims are concerned He will return! They even have one of their
graveyards outside the gate thinking no King will come through a
graveyard.  But Jesus is coming! It shows the muslim are concerned and
may believe there is a possibility He will come.  I stood and looked at
that Gate,and was very moved to think I was standing at the very place
where Jesus will enter Jerusalem again!

We did go into Bethlehem.  We had to let our Jewish guide out of the
bus, and our Arab bus driver drove us through the security gate.  That
high wall that you have been hearing about on TV is there, dividing
Palestine and Israel.  We then got a Christian guide when we got into
Bethlehem.  I was there twice before, once in l980 and again in l999
and there is a stark difference in Bethlehem since the Arabs have taken
it over.  There were hardly any tourists.

We ate in a cafe on the square where I ate before which was packed with
tourists, but today it was vacant except for us.  They have killed
their tourist trade.  The Christians in Bethlehem asked us to pray for
them, because they had no income now.  The Arab men on the manger
square glared at us.  We did not feel safeand clung together.  There were

beggar boys everywhere.  They hate Americans and Israel!!!!

There is so much I could say about this trip.  It has changed my life
in some ways.  I look at the lostness of the Arabs and the darkness. I
look at Israel; that tiny country amidst such turmoil.  If America does
not continue to support, Israel I believe God will judge us severely as
Americans.  The Israelite soldiers were such fine young men and women.
They are clean and disciplined and have great love for their land which
is something that is missing in America among some of our youth.

I rode back to Lubbock from Dallas on airline with an American Air
Force career soldier.  He said the Israelite pilots were the best in
the world.  They can fly planes like no one else!

Lastly,  we were asked everywhere about the Presidential race in
America.  There was great interest.  The Jews came up to us and asked
us many questions.  They said they do not want the Clintons again. 
They warned us that Obama is a muslim, not a Christian.

In Egypt, the Arabs said the same thing to us; they said Obama is
muslim and they are amazed that Americans would consider electing a
muslim President of America!!

I came home loving America even more!  Our country is a "light on a
hill."  Our streets are clean.  There are no chants all day. People are
kind and take their turn.  People over there pushed into line and were
rude.  They have never heard of the Golden Rule. They will stomp all
over you if they want to get in line.  I can see
now why Jesus' words of loving your neighbor and doing unto others,
what you would have them do unto you, were strange words to the lost. 

The Koreans (North??) were the worse about walking all over us or
trying to.  We take our Christian heritage for granted here in my
opinion.  We have sanctity of human life.  In Egypt, the Arabs don't
have any hope so I can see why they would bomb people and commit
suicide.  They smoked cigarettes everywhere!  I could
not breathe in Egypt and I think that is why I came down with the flu
again.  The smog was so bad at the pyramids, I could tell I was getting
sick.  I would gag on the fumes.

 

We need to pray for America and this election every day.
God bless,
Skeet