Hello to all that reads this,
Went to Nazareth this morning – This is where Mary’s (Jesus’ mother) Well is. They have built a church around the well. We went into the service as it was Sunday for us.
Pretty awesome to walk where Jesus was raised as a boy. This is where Jesus read from Isaiah then said this has been fulfilled in your eyes today and they did not get it. They missed the Lord. (I pray that when the Lord speaks to you, you will not miss it like Nazareth did)
We went to Mount precipice or cliff where Jesus was ministering and the crowd pressed (religious leaders) to push him off and He walked right through them.
Read Luke 4:14-30
As we were going through Nazareth we went by the place where Jesus performed His first miracle of turning water into wine. Read John 2
Left Nazareth and went to Kfar Kedem – This is a Kibbutz that is middle class and modern. They have an event that takes about 3 hours to go through. It gives you the life style of how Israel lived 2000 years ago. (clothing and food) Took Cindy on a donkey ride maybe like Mother Mary had 2000 years ago. This Kibbutz brings school children there so they can experience what it was to be Jewish 2000 years ago. At there little farm, Cindy and I held a baby sheep around my neck like a shepherd would have done.
When we left the kibbutz we went by the mountain called “Horns of Hittim” This place was where the crusaders had their greatest battle. The movie “The Kingdom of Heaven” was about this battle.
Then we went by what is called the Mount of Transfiguration. (Talk about mind and spirit overload)
Read Luke 9:27-36 and Mark 9:2-13
We ended the day with going to a GREAT site: Ein Harod (Gideon’s Spring)
From biblical times to recent history this one spot has been a place where armies gathered prior to battle, where great battles were fought, and where an army in the making, trained.
The Spring of Harod flows from Gideon's Cave. This is the place where Gideon gathered his men before fighting the Midianites. Judges 7:1 describes the scene. Wow, what a GREAT site. That’s it for this blog. More later.
Pastor Johnson