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View from the Old City with
modern-day Jerusalem in the
background

Going up to

Jerusalem

It's time to ascend to the Holy Land

By AnaRina Heymann, Director: Align With Zion
Photos: Max Richardson Photography
erusalem was rated the fastest-growing Unbeknownst to most, the true location of of Israel. All of these historic events are deeply
tourist destination in 2019, with Israel ancient Biblical Jerusalem, the City of David – interlinked with each other.
welcoming a record-breaking 4.55 million situated 200 yards south and outside the walls “And many peoples shall go and say: 'Come
visitors. Ben Gurion Airport is struggling of what is known today as the Old City – was ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the
Jto keep up with the exponential tourist only rediscovered 150 years ago, three jubilee L-RD, to the house of the G-d of Jacob; and
influx and has been undergoing a nine billion cycles ago, in 1867. The true location had He will teach us of His ways, and we will walk
shekel upgrade since 2017. A high-speed slowly faded into obscurity over a 2,000-year in His paths.' For out of Zion shall go forth
train between the airport and the holy city of period. the Torah, and the word of the L-RD from
Jerusalem was inaugurated just over a year Jerusalem.” - Isaiah 2:3.
ago, and the highways are continually under Fifty years after the city’s rediscovery in 1867, Aliyah is the term currently used to describe
construction to compensate for the rapid Britain’s General Edmund Allenby liberated the immigration of Jews to Israel. This in itself
growth. But this should not come as a shock, Jerusalem from the Ottomans in 1917, is the prophetic fulfillment of the ingathering
after all, urban planners were sufficiently following the Balfour Declaration. After yet of the exiles. The word “aliyah” is Hebrew
forewarned about this – 2,800 years ago! another 50 year cycle, the city was reunited for ascension, to “go up.” It preceded the
The memo itself can be found on every Bible in 1967. It therefore came as no surprise that
believer’s bookshelf. after a third jubilee cycle, President Trump modern-day usage of the word by about
3,300 years and was originally used for the
officially acknowledged Jerusalem as the ascension or pilgrimage to Jerusalem during
“Go through, go through the gates, clear ye Eternal Capital of the Jewish People in 2017. the three Biblical festivals of Pesach (Passover),
the way of the people; cast up, cast up the Shavuot (Feast of Weeks) and Sukkot (Feast of
highway, gather out the stones; lift up an In the same decade that Jerusalem was Tabernacles).
ensign over the peoples.” - Isaiah 62:10. rediscovered, Eliezer Ben-Yehuda resuscitated
the Hebrew language. In the same time period, Jerusalem was the heart, and the Temple
Israel is preparing itself for this reality, as the we then witnessed the first Aliyah wave as the was the inner and most important chamber
world’s focus is drawn toward Jerusalem. Jewish people started their return to the Land of that heart. As the Jewish People continually

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