Saturday, May 17, 2008

First day of the tour, May 15th, we departed the hotel right at 8:00 am and went to visit Korazim. This is the city where Jesus said that Sodom and Gomorah would be better on the day of judgment than it because if they had heard what they heard, they would have repented. Some sixty synagogues facing the wrong way, north, instead of Jerusalem, which is south of the Galilee. The graven images inside the synagogue.

We then had lunch at kibbutz Kfar Blum. From there we went on to visit Tel Dan (or Laish), the northern most city in Israel. We can look across and see Lebanon. We also visited the Golan Height, and heard the story of Eli Cohen, a man the Mossad planted in Syria's highest leadership echelon, ...

It was pointed out to us that all tombs in a Jewish cemetery would have the feet of the people being buried point toward Jerusalem so that when Messiah comes, they just get up and go without any need for GPS.

Next day, May 16, we visited Mt. Carmel, where the prophet Elijah called down fire from heaven to consume the sacrifice and slew 450 of the Baal's prophets....

Had boxed lunch and we visited Ceasarea Maritima, the Roman sea port, Herod's palace, the Hippodrome where we had Kay's teachings, ....

May 17, we visited Meggido, or Har Meggido, the site of Armageddon, where the nations will gather to go to war ....

We had lunch in Nazareth, which is now an Arab town. The fresh dates for desert tasted so good that I no longer want the dried ones. Brought the seeds home, hope to grow a tree in my backyard!

We went to the site on the bank of the Jordan where Jesus was baptized by John the Baptist .... I had my Jordan Baptism. Check my Facebook for the pictures.

May 18, we went to Capernaum, the synagogue where Jesus read the Torah, where the house of Peter and the healing of his mother in law took place, and there is a Catholic church on site, then the mount of Beatitudes, lunch with the sisters of the convent, spaghetti and potatoes, we also got to see the Jesus' boat, then we were transported by boat back to our hotel in Tiberius and went to dinner at Decks at night.

May 19, we visited the ruins of Bet She'an, one of the ten of the ten cities composed the Roman decapolis at Jesus' time. We saw the Roman bath houses and how people then led a life of such unconstraint behaviors, .... Then we were on our way up to Jerusalem, stopping by and had lunch at Genesis Land. Along the way, we saw the border fence with Jordan, which still had plenty of land mines all along, though it is all mapped, unlike it is on the Golan Heights or along the border with Lebanon.

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