VilaDelaRosa

DeadSea

1300 below sea level

MtCalvery

This is the only picture I took, it's the only real tomb in the church built on the site 

GardenIfGeshemeni

CityOfDavid

Hezekiahs tunnel

PoolOfSilom

The pool is now a gardenIt is  is where Jesus told the blind man to rub the mud on his eyes and he was healed ... Jesus said get up and walk go in sin no more, John 9:1-12

PoolsIfBesaida

This is where Jesus told the paralitic to get up and walk John 5:1-9

MountOfOlives

From the top we walked down the the Garden of Gethsemane 

CiapiasHouse

Where Peter denied Jesus 3x

This is the dungeon Jesus was kept in until he was sent to Pilot . We went down in another way, but Jesus was lowered down with a rope.

DessertOfNegev

Bedwings live here and helped people to cross the dessert

Qumran

FAI'm Dead Sea scroles 

Found 1947 by bedwings boy 

7 scroles found

Sold for $7. 

Book of Isaiah ... sold in NY

Over 2000 yr old

Excavation 1952-1994

They found 1000 more

1)many of them...copy of Hebrew bible

2) Hebrew language 

3 Esseens

John the Baptist 

Hid them to go fight in Jerusalem 

Taught repentance b4 baptism

Angetti

Oasis where David escaped Saul and cut his robe

African Rift

6000 ft from Israel to Africa 

Masada

      King Herod palace for vacations...built synagog for the Jewish guest

Josephus

Bethlehem

UShepherds field this is the place they are sure that shepherds kept their sheep outside Bethlehem .  They would have stayed up in the caves too.

These steps Jesus walked to get to the garden of Gesemeni and to carry his cross

CaaniniteGate

Abraham passed through here when he told the king Sarah was his sister!

TempleMount

Mt Moriah is the mountain the temple was built on . King Herod built the Temple Mount by raising the walls and filling it in . 

God is present with us...Jesus is a type temple...last temple is the New Jerusalem 

Praying at the inside wailing wall that is closest to the holy of Hokies!!  Takes three months to get in 

TelMegiddo

Roman toilets

Amazing history here!...first built by the Caanonites then King Solomon then King Ahab

Rock walls are 4000 something

years old!!!

Crazy...😳

Ahab built the tunnel from the old water source into the city ... we walked through it ... all hand chiseled !!!

Jerusalem

Entering the city

Bedwings

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