Caesarea, Mt. Carmel, Megiddo, Nazareth, Gaililee

October 28 (11pm)

We left Jerusalem at 7:30 this morning and traveled to the Galilee region. Our first stop was  Caesarea. This is the site of an opulent port city that Herod the Great built. He planned, directed, and completed in his lifetime many great projects. Think palaces, temples, ports, aqueducts,....the list goes on; and all on a grand scale. The only other person I know who could pull off this type of planning  would be my sister Sharon. He has her beat though, because he did it all without the help of Excel spreadsheets. The Mediterranean Sea was very beautiful and the sky was clear blue. We left there and traveled toward Mt. Carmel. On the way up, we stopped and ate at a restaurant owned by a Syrian Druze family. The food was great. Very different. Next, we arrived at the summit of Mt. Carmel where Elijah challenged Jezebel's prophets of Baal in  order to show the people that there is only one God and it wasn't Baal. My  grandson Ethan would say it was the ultimate "smack down". From there, we went down into the Jezreel valley and to the archeological site of Megiddo. This is where many people believe the battle of Armegeddon will take place. No matter how you interpret  Revelations, the underlying theme of the book is hope and assurance.  The believer can be comforted that in the end, God's kingdom will prevail and things will be better. Our last stop of the day was at Nazareth. This is the place where The angel Gabriel appeared to Mary and told here she would be the mother of the Messiah. We went to the top of the ridge overlooking Nazareth and the Jezreel  Valley for some Bible study and saw a beautiful sunset. We got to the En Gev kibbutz around 6p.m. 
We will be staying here for for the next few days while we explore the Galilee region. 

Herod the Great's port city of Caesarea on the Mediterranean Sea

Sunset from the Nazareth ridge overlooking the Jezreel Valley

(Problems with wifi last night. I gave you two pictures since this was late)