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Published: September 24th 2008
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Today we embarked on a day long tour of Galilee. A few highlights:
1.) Many of the Bethel family came out onto the sidewalk to greet us. There are 30 members, serving about 1,300 Witnesses, but they had 2,800 at the Memorial. They gave us back issues in Hebrew.
2.) In Caesarea, we saw the Hippodrome, Herod's Palace, and the very room where Paul appealed his detention to Caesar.
3.) Elijah challenged the prophets of Baal to a contest on Mount Carmel. After they failed to arouse Baal to accept their sacrifice, Elijah drenched his altar with fire. Then, with a single prayer, fire from heaven devoured the offering and the altar itself. Elijah and his men then executed the false prophets of Baal.
4.) An army of 32,000 was reduced to 10,000, then down to only 300 at this very spot. Gideon retained the soldiers who kept watch while drinking, and then went on to defeat an army of 135,000 men.
5.) Standing where Ahab's Palace was in Jezreel, there is still a vineyard down below. There is a spring inside that knot of trees, which is probably why Ahab coveted it so much.
6.) We drove through Nazareth, and up to the Nazareth cliff. When Jesus declined to perform a miracle for the amusement of the townsfolk, they rushed him to this cliff and tried to throw him over.
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back to the sun standing still comment-are you getting your b's and d's mixed up ? is this a test? or am I just confused? we're really enjoying the pictures. Dad says Hi