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Feb 16th, 2010
The Church of All Nations or the Church of the Agony. This church has a massive mosaic on its western facade. Sixteen nations helped fund this building in 1919.
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Feb 16th, 2010
St. George’s monastery, built in 480 A.D. on the spot where an angel announced to St. Joachim that his childless wife had conceived and was to bear the Virgin Mary. Elijah is said to have lived here three and a half years, fed by ravens.
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Feb 16th, 2010
The Qumron caves in which were found the Dead Sea Scrolls.
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Feb 16th, 2010
The Garden Tomb just outside the Old City Walls north of the Damascus Gate near the city, as John relates in chapter 19:20. British General Gordon, a student of the Bible, identified this tomb in 1883. Other caves in the area were found containing...
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Garden of Gethsemane: These olive trees in the garden of Gethsemane date back 2300 years and grafted in branches will produce fruit 30+ years faster than planting new seedlings. Paul’s metaphor in Romans 11 came vividly to mind.
“If the...
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Jan 17th, 2010
The Shrine of the Book housing the Dead Sea Scrolls. The building is designed in the form of a lid on a jar containing Dead Sea Scrolls.
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Jan 17th, 2010
A silver star of fourteen points, inscribed in Latin, “Here Jesus Christ was born of the Virgin Mary.” Next to the recess is the “Holy Manger” hewn out of stone. Nearby is the milk grotto where a drop of Mary’s milk fell...
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Jan 17th, 2010
The Jordan River
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Jan 17th, 2010
Herod’s Temple. This sacred place was the center for the national worship of Yahweh, thus a “House for the Name of the Lord God.”
The Temple Mount at Herod’s time: Looking from the east the court of the Gentiles flank both...
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Jan 17th, 2010
The Temple area cleared by Muslims in 691 A.D. to accommodate construction of the Dome of the Rock. The Rock it covers is the rock upon which Abraham laid Isaac to sacrifice him as commanded. Muslims assert that Ishmael was placed on this rock and...
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Jan 17th, 2010
The church of Mary Magdalene, built by Alexander in honor of his mother. It has seven gold-plated onion-shaped domes and spires.
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Jan 17th, 2010
The Crusaders Knights’ halls discovered twenty-five feet underground. The refectory fo the order of St. John, largest hall of the “Knights Hospitalers.”
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Jan 17th, 2010
The columns along the main street in Bethshan with the tel in the background on which was an acropolis and the Temple of Zeus. These columns suggest the immensity and beauty of the colonnaded streets and buildings in the city.
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Jan 17th, 2010
One of the parchments of the Dead Sea Scrolls in the Shrine of the Book.
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Jan 17th, 2010
Devout Jews at the wailing wall.
Tassels – Tallits of blue thread were dyed with the fluid of a small snail and were very expensive. Jesus’ clothes would have been valuable having these blue tallits, so the Roman soldiers gambled for them. ...
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Jan 17th, 2010
The rock on which Jesus placed the loaves and fish to feed the 5,000 inside the church of the Multiplication.
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Jan 17th, 2010
Joppa at sunset.
Joppa, conquered by Thutmose III of Egypt n the fifteenth century B.C. Joppa is one of the oldest port cities in the Holy Land. King Hiram, David’s friend and ally, shipped cedar lumber to Solomon by way of this port.
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Jan 17th, 2010
Dominus Flevit (the Lord wept), a unique building with its dome shaped like a tear. This is the place thought to be where Jesus paused to look at Jerusalem and wept. A mosaic of a hen gathering chicks under her wing is in front of the altar.
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Jan 17th, 2010
Judas betrays Jesus with a kiss.
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Jan 17th, 2010
The Theater at Caesarea complete with its air conditioning system and sunken stage to portray ships sailing about using water from the Mediterranean Sea.
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Jan 17th, 2010
Jesus and Mary at the 4th station on the Via Dolorosa (way of suffering).
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