Israel 2012

Israel is the homeland of our faith (Jewish and Christian).  Our family visited Israel in 2012, and learned much about the land, its people, our Bible and our faith.  We took some pictures (I shared in a July 2012 blog).  The links are as follows:

Pictures of Jerusalem – https://plus.google.com/photos/115544123164287975321/albums/5761726037763508785?authkey=CKjs4fbz6MOBsQE

Pictures from the rest of Israel - https://plus.google.com/u/1/photos/115544123164287975321/albums/5761026986035271169?authkey=COqExoL17_GkVw

Chelsea & I look forward to returning to Israel in September.  We will visit some of the same areas, and some new areas.

Our trip will begin in Tel Aviv, and go south into the Shephelah where many historic (and current) battles took place.  We will visit the valley where David fought Goliath, where Gideon fought the Moabites, and where the Maccabees fought.  We will get to see the landscape which made this area so important to defend ... or to conquer.

We will travel south to Beersheba, where Abraham lived.  This is the desert.  Perhaps we will get to drink some water out of one of the Patriarch's wells.  We will visit Arad, the Wilderness of Zin, and the dead sea.  We will spend one night in a Bedouin tent.  We will climb Masada (lots of walking on this trip), visit Qumran, and EnGedi.

From this point we will travel north to Galilee.  At present this is a more peaceful area.  We will walk where Jesus walked ... both along the Sea of Galilee, on the road to Nazareth, and climbing Mt. Arbel.  We will travel to points north: Dan and Cesarea Philippi.  We will go east to Gamala.  Then west to Megiddo, Mt. Carmel, and south to Jerusalem.

Our tour with http://biblicalisraeltours.com/ will end in Jordan where we will see Mt. Nebo and Petra.

Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.