What Is This World Coming To?

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From the Mount of Beatitudes we passed Mt Hermon

then thru  Dan - a kibbutz community.   It was a refugee city in 1967.

We passed thru several orchards on the way to Caesarea-Phillipi.   Avocado, apple and orange groves and cotton fields and wheat.  We also crossed the former Syrian border headed up to the Golan Heights.

Below is where Jesus asked Peter who he was and he replied; “You are the Christ the son of the living God!”  it is also the place where Jesus cast out the demon Legion.   The Cave is part of the temple of pan.  The water there was cool and sweet.

The roller on the ground is called the sand verses, and it presses bible verses in several languages into the sand.

From there we went to Capernaum, the hometown of Jesus.   There were several excellent stone carvings, Peter’s house and the synagogue across the street from Peter’s house.

We had a late lunch on the shores of the Sea of Galilee it was a magnificent view.

Next was the Heptapegon also know as the church of the Multiplication.   Where Jesus fed the 5000.

To round out a very full day we took a late afternoon - twilight boat ride on the Sea of Galilee.  The Dock for the “The Jesus Boat” and the Museum (Yigal Allon Museum)  where on the hotel premises where we stayed at the Kibbutz  Nof Ginosar.   The pictures of the Boat towards the end are of the 2000 year old boat discovered in 1986 in the mud.  A fuller history can be found here and here.

Tired and minds swimming with all the sights we retired for the evening.

Here is a link to a good map of Israel in the 1st century.