Well this year's
biblical Feast
of Tabernacles
Celebration in Israel
also marks the 50th
anniversary of the Six Day War.
As Chris Mitchell reports,
CBN's docudrama, "In Our Hands,"
is taking festival goers back
in time for that amazing story.
Gordon Robertson says, if you
don't understand the history,
you can't understand
today's headlines.
And I think that's part of
the purpose of "In Our Hands,"
not only to commemorate
and celebrate
what these soldiers
did 50 years ago,
but also to help
educate and inspire us.
CHRIS MITCHELL: "In Our Hands,
The Battle for Jerusalem"
follows the lives of
the paratroopers who
captured the old city in
the Temple Mount in 1967.
We are sitting on a ridge
overlooking the old city.
DAVID PARSONS: We said
this is the proper way
to tell the story when it's
done with the paratroopers that
actually fought for the
city and with actual footage
and the re-enactments
like "In Our Hands,"
it's the perfect narrative, the
perfect way to tell the story.
CHRIS MITCHELL: ICEJ vice
president, David Parson,
says, that's why they made
the film a central feature
of this year's feast.
DAVID PARSONS: We're
going to have several
of the paratroopers
that are in the film,
"In Our Hands," Israel Harel
and some of the others,
on stage to honor them.
It's a great moment for us.
CHRIS MITCHELL: Parsons
said, Christians
shouldn't forget the
significance of a United
Jerusalem.
DAVID PARSONS: If
the city was still
divided like it was for those
19 years of Jordanian occupation
and you came here
to visit, you'd
have to go through all
sorts of checkpoints.
What's so wonderful
now to be able to come
to a united and open, free
city and to celebrate this now.
And even the prophetic
significance,
what it means in
God's timetable,
it's like Jerusalem
is God's time piece.
CHRIS MITCHELL: Feast
participants enjoyed the film.
AARON BRAUNSTEIN: This film
was absolutely spectacular
dramatization,
great performances.
It's really
touching and help us
to love more inside and
the people of this land.
CHRIS MITCHELL:
They also received
DVDs to take home
and spread the word.
KONI: I'm even thinking
of taking it back home
and screening it for my
youth and also at the church.
But I think this video
will have a huge impact.
I really weep many
times when I saw it.
And I thought that I really want
to bring this film to Finland
to see the reality of what
happened here in 1967.
PAULA: It spoke to me, and I
will hide this to my heart.
And it helps me
to pray even more.
I even were to
pray for Jerusalem
and for the peace of Jerusalem.
CHRIS MITCHELL: Chris
Mitchell, CBN News, Pais Arena,
Jerusalem.
