The New Beach Cafe

 On Tuesday it was - allegedly - hotter here than South India!  It was certainly HOT.  We met up with friends and tried out the new beach cafe.  It was very nice.  And we had another visitor in the morning - Butterfly Richard - who came to photography the Clifden Nonpareil and stayed for a cup of tea and a catch up.

We seem to have set up a Butterfly and Moth Seaside Cafe of our own, as Col put out a small saucer of cotton wool soaked with a honey and water solution - and they loved it!

Are we getting back to normal?  Yes and no.  It is still uncertain Covid-wise...  I have a friend calling in and we may have a coffee on the balcony if the weather is balcony-friendly.  She came and in fact we had tea and cake - banana bread,  It was a lovely warm September afternoon.  She left us some grapes from her garden, some different cream to help with my skin problem, and a copy of our new brochure: Enjoy Life Forever.  I am so pleased to have a copy.

Its strange to have people dropping in for coffee again.  Its been a long time.  Oh and I also got a call from one of the congregation elders - a lovely upbuilding shepherding call.   So a very pleasant afternoon all in all.

In my Tuesday blog, I discussed this strange prophecy at Luke 21:20,21 where Jesus said: “However, when you see Jerusalem surrounded by encamped armies, then know that the desolating of her has drawn near. Then let those in Ju·deʹa begin fleeing to the mountains, let those in the midst of her leave, and let those in the countryside not enter into her,"

And I want to add these two verses from Matthew:   “Therefore, when you catch sight of the disgusting thing that causes desolation, as spoken about by Daniel the prophet, standing in a holy place (let the reader use discernment), then let those in Ju·deʹa begin fleeing to the mountains." - Matthew 24:15,16

So, why not go BEFORE Jerusalem was surrounded - and before the disgusting thing was actually standing in the holy place?   Well, secular history gives us the answer.  

This information is from our website JW.org:

"The meaning of Jesus’ words became clear many years after he had spoken them. In the year 66 after Christ, Roman armies led by Cestius Gallus came to Jerusalem to stop a Jewish rebellion. When the Jewish rebels, known as the Zealots, hid inside the temple, Roman soldiers began to destroy the temple wall. Those Christians who remembered Jesus’ instructions knew what all of that meant. They understood that the pagan Roman army carrying its idolatrous flags outside the temple wall was the “disgusting thing” standing in “a holy place.” It was time for Jesus’ followers to “begin fleeing to the mountains.” But how would they get out of a city that was surrounded by enemies? Something unexpected was about to happen."

https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/402012284?q=zealots&p=par

How could they get out of a city that was surrounded by the enemy - and such a formidable one too?

To be continued...