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Man of Olives is called Man of Olives for the thousands of olive trees that were all around it,

all on top of it, during the time of Jesus as well as earlier throughout the first

temple period. The olive tree was planted for the sole purpose of the olives who produced oil.

People did not eat olives in those days. Pickling olives is something that the world got used to

only in the last few hundreds of years. The olives themselves were used for several purposes.

In those days, they would use the olive oil for anointing people,

to treat skin and hair, as well as a burning material for lamps and of course,

cooking and seasoning food. Man of Olives is a mountain range that basically protects Jerusalem,

which is behind me, from the desert, which is on the eastern side of it.

Man of Olives goes all the way from the northern part, what it's called today,

Mount Scopus, from which where Titus Vespation scoped Jerusalem just before he destroyed it in 70 AD.

Then of course, there is the central portion, which is called olives, and the southernmost one,

which is called the Hill of Scandal, where we believe Solomon allowed his foreign wives to build

pagan, high places and altars for their foreign gods. Much of what is going on on the slopes of

Mount of Olives today is directly related to the valley which is below it. The valley behind us

is the valley of Kidron, known also in the Bible as the valley of Jehosephat. Jehosephat in Hebrew,

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