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Wednesday, May 17 The Medditeranean Coast
Today we traveled from the Sea of Galilee to the Medditeranean Coast. Driving in Israel is not like driving here. The main insturment on an Israeli car is the horn. Our rental van has a very nice horn, but I am a novice at its use compared to the other drivers.
It is honk, honk. Then watch out for that car cutting in. Or the motorcycle going between cars that are traveling at 120 kilometers an hour (you do the math). Best of all may be watching people somehow park three cars in a space
for one while someone else is backing out. All the cars here have their door mirrors hinged so that there can be an extra three inches to squeeze between cars. The drivers just reach out the window, pull their mirror in, squeeze by the other car (usually with a stone wall on the other side), and then snap the mirror back into place.
And so we drove to Megiddo, the town that stood at the head of the Armegeddon Valley for thousands of years. The water tunnel is an amazing engineering feat. It is a place that stands on the edge of much end time prophecy. A place that has seen warfare for centuries.
Then we drove on to the coast to climb to the top of Mount Carmel. On this mountain, Elijah faced several hundred prophets of Baal. His call to the Isrealites there that day was, "How long will you hop from foot to foot?" How long will you worship Baal one day and Jehovah God the next? Foot hopping is still very popular.
We then went down the coast and stopped for long enough for everybody to play in the water a while. Wade. Pick up shells. Enjoy the sun and the blue Medditeranean. Be children again for just a while.
Our last stop was Caeseara, the port city built by Herod the Great. Herod, Pilate and other Roman rulers lived here in oppulence. They had palaces and temples to Roman gods inculding the emperor.
Peter came here to bring the message of Christianity to a Roman soldier named Cornelius. So began the church with those who were not Jews.
Paul sat in the prison here for two years. He was tried by the Roman rulers. We looked at the ruins of Herod's palace, the ruins of the hippodrome, the ruins of the theatre. Ruins everywhere. The message of Peter and Paul remains.
Wednesday, May 17 The Medditeranean Coast
Today we traveled from the Sea of Galilee to the Medditeranean Coast. Driving in Israel is not like driving here. The main insturment on an Israeli car is the horn. Our rental van has a very nice horn, but I am a novice at its use compared to the other drivers.
It is honk, honk. Then watch out for that car cutting in. Or the motorcycle going between cars that are traveling at 120 kilometers an hour (you do the math). Best of all may be watching people somehow park three cars in a space
for one while someone else is backing out. All the cars here have their door mirrors hinged so that there can be an extra three inches to squeeze between cars. The drivers just reach out the window, pull their mirror in, squeeze by the other car (usually with a stone wall on the other side), and then snap the mirror back into place.
And so we drove to Megiddo, the town that stood at the head of the Armegeddon Valley for thousands of years. The water tunnel is an amazing engineering feat. It is a place that stands on the edge of much end time prophecy. A place that has seen warfare for centuries.
Then we drove on to the coast to climb to the top of Mount Carmel. On this mountain, Elijah faced several hundred prophets of Baal. His call to the Isrealites there that day was, "How long will you hop from foot to foot?" How long will you worship Baal one day and Jehovah God the next? Foot hopping is still very popular.
We then went down the coast and stopped for long enough for everybody to play in the water a while. Wade. Pick up shells. Enjoy the sun and the blue Medditeranean. Be children again for just a while.
Our last stop was Caeseara, the port city built by Herod the Great. Herod, Pilate and other Roman rulers lived here in oppulence. They had palaces and temples to Roman gods inculding the emperor.
Peter came here to bring the message of Christianity to a Roman soldier named Cornelius. So began the church with those who were not Jews.
Paul sat in the prison here for two years. He was tried by the Roman rulers. We looked at the ruins of Herod's palace, the ruins of the hippodrome, the ruins of the theatre. Ruins everywhere. The message of Peter and Paul remains.
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