The vast majority of Christians visiting the Holy Land of Israel, only visit the “Dead Stones” sites like the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem built over the site where it is believed that Jesus was born. The “Living Stones,” the Palestinian Christians, who live there are only heard by a fraction of the tourists to Israel. Dr. Darryl DelHousaye, Chancellor of Phoenix Seminary asked Tom Compton of We Hold These Truths to provide a video with messages from “Living Stones of the Holy Land” that will serve as a supplement for members of the tour that he is leading to Israel.
Rev. Alex Awad in front of Bethlehem Bible College
Included in this video are two inspirational presentations by Rev. Alex Awad, who was the pastor of the East Jerusalem Baptist Church and Dean and professor at Bethlehem Bible College and Sami Awad of the Holy Land Trust.
Sami Awad with the Holy Land Trust in Bethlehem.
And today in 2014, a Jewish scientist named Eran Elhaik, Ph.D., has proven with mitochondrial DNA, published as recent as 2013, that those who call themselves Jews today are in no way descendant from the Jews of original Israel. That bloodline has been gone for over a millennium. Most of the modern people who live in the state called Israel are descendant from ancient European women. The rest of today’s Jews evolved from the Arabian middle east, Spain and Africa, where they migrated to escape persecution. (edit)