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Hopefully you have a deep and faithful relationship with God even before those odds come, because undoubtedly they will come. Perhaps in the form of illness, family troubles, financial, even death…are you ready? Yesterday, we went to two contrasting sites, Hezekiah’s tunnel and Masada. Hezekiah trusted in the Lord and from the beginning did what …
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Sorry I haven’t posted, but there really is too much to see and the many steps taken, leaves us so tired, until the next morning, where we rise early to do it all over again in another section of the Old city of Jerusalem. walls of Jerusalem in the background tombs overlooking the city, including …
There was certainly alot on the agenda today, from reflective moments at the annunciation church in Nazareth to the crypt in St. Joseph’s, to pondering Christ’s dispute with the Nazarene’s at Mount Precipice; it was certainly a full day, but nothing could be as tickling as the fish who ate my body in the Jordan …
Continue reading “Didn’t expect to feed fish with my feet today!”
At the foot of Mount Hermon (but make no mistake, you’re still really high up into the mountain), there is an underground freshwater stream that emits from the mountain side. The water gently flows so clearly that you can see swarms of fish. That in itself is interesting, because what in the world are they …
This allows you to go off the beaten path or in this case way north to Mount Hermon, where you can play hide and seek in the coolest fortress in all of Israel. Soaring high into the sky, is a massive feat of engineering whose enormous blocks of stone makes you wonder: “how in the …
Continue reading “Seeing Israel by car is the best way by far!”
When you first see it, it looks like a spaceship! With glass windows all around it, you’re thinking no way that’s Peter’s house. And you’d be right, it’s actually a modern Catholic church built right on top of Peter’s humble abode that you can see from above and from the side. Excavations have revealed fishhooks, …
bacon, ham, etc. anything that has to do with pigs due to Levitical laws. As we looked at the cliff, and the burial caves, it became easy to imagine the demons entering the pigs and the whole herd rushing down the side of the cliff into the lake of Galilee and drowning. Excavations have uncovered …
Continue reading “Go to any Jewish supermarket and you won’t find…”
When you first look at the sea of Galilee or Lake Tiberias, it’s pretty big and majestic coming off the hill. Yet today, I see boats on it and I can actually see the boats docking on the other side, so it’s not that big as well. My point being, the crowds could see where …
Battles on the plains of Megiddo! They had to be insane! Today hit 100 degrees and it’s the middle of October. If they wore any kind of armor I think the battle lasted 5 minutes. Kill or be killed. A final battle here? Certainly lots of land!
We arrived at the beginning of Sukkot, the feast of tabernacles, where the Jews remember their 40 years of sleeping outside in the wilderness, their deliverance from Egypt and their coming into the promised land. Yet it so much more than that! It also looks forward to the worshipping of Hashem now and not yet. …
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