our morning starts with breakfast at 6:15 and at 6:55 we gather under a tree for the morning meditation and prayer. after this we got on the bus and they took us to the other side of the Galilee and we visited the place where the zealots lived when the Romans staged combat. the zealots had a fanatical commitment to the word of God. make sure you have a tour member tell you the story when they come back. the picture of the pointed hill on the right is where they lived when the romans attached them. they said bloodshed was terrible. history tells us the blood ran down this mountain like a stream. the picture in the middle is where they had their synagogue for the studying of the Torah!
we are studying a lot of history during the time Jesus came into this world to show the mess he faced. this place was a horrible place to live. there was destruction and blood shed all over the place. make sure you have a tour member explain how the word of God was studied. the jews show an amazing amount of respect to the Torah! very challenging. we also studied the text jesus used and were shown when in the old testament it was used before jesus preached it. the picture on the left is the road to Damascus about 5 miles south of the Syrian boarder. Jesus walked up here from galilee with his disciples. our minds are on information overload!!!!
our last place was where the god of fertility was worshiped. here they had goats heads and the most lewd stuff i ever heard. i could never write about the horrific stuff they did here. this place the bible calls Cesarea phillipi. jesus brought his disciples up here before he died. ask a member to tell you what Jesus preached here to his disciples. its a wow, now you know what he meant when he said, "take up his cross and follow me...." i can't even begin to unpackage this awesome truth.
the last picture is the collection of water packs after we come back from hiking all day and the restaurant has food ready........bite!!!!
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