Nettie from Roodepoort writes:
I read Melaney from Roodepoort’s letter in the 22 January edition of the Roodepoort Record, titled Indeed, they certainly walk among us.
I would just like to say, there is nothing ‘weird’ about your friend.
I am 69 years old, and I proudly announce that I have also been to Bethlehem. I have walked among the olive trees and I have walked where Jesus walked and seen where He was born. I have been to the Mount of Olives. I have walked the streets to Golgotha. I fact, I have been all over Jerusalem.
All this I have accomplished without leaving my home. How? By losing myself in a Christian travel documentary DVD on Israel. And by losing myself in the Bible books about Jerusalem and Bethlehem …. imagining myself to be there in reality.
And by virtual travel using Google Earth on my computer, which puts you right in the centre of Bethlehem or any other place on Earth.
One does not have to be anywhere physically when you cannot afford to travel, but one can easily do so with the help of audiovisual and technological means.
Perhaps your friend travelled there in a dream or vision, or perhaps she wanted to go to Bethlehem so passionately that she actually imagined she had been there.
As a Christian I wish with all my heart I could visit Jerusalem and Bethlehem to walk physically in the footsteps of Yeshua, but for now, I can only do so on Google Earth while awaiting His return.
