More About the Galilee

Its cool this morning and it feels great. Its even trying to rain.  Its Friday and I'm facing a free weekend! hmmm, what should I do?  Oh, and its Halloween weekend isn't it? How nice, I wonder what you all will be doing. Here we'll be of course observing the sabbath on friday and saturday, and i think sunday we are having a "fall festival" whatever that means.  But we're all gonna dress up in our costumes and what not.  I'm going to be a columbian drug lord. it should be a lot of fun.
Well as promised, i am writing more on my trip to the Galilee...
Hmm, where did i leave off...
Oh dear, i only got to Caesarea...that was our first stop of the entire trip! I have a lot to write about.  And I have been purposely omitting all of the theological lessons i've learned from the land.  I've left them out for different reasons but i hope i get to share them with all of you.  I guess i should add a few into my blog.
Well, our second stop on Saturday (the first day) was on top of the Carmel Range, on Mt. Carmel.  The focus of the day was the Jezreel Valley and we looked at all the high points and surround the valley.  This stop really wasn't that exciting.  We looked at some Old Testament stories of things happening in the valley and of course read the stories in light of the geographical realities.  So it was good up there.
here are some pictures

This is the Canaanite god Baal. Mt. Carmel is his mountain

Jezreel Valley

us in awe of the valley

Alrighty, moving on...Our next stop was pretty interesting. We stopped at the ancient site of Megiddo. Its an important place in ancient history.  Thutmose III said "taking Megiddo is like taking 1,000 cities" So theres the value of Megiddo.  Megiddo is also thought by some to the place of the Armageddon.  There are different reasons why and such but Dr. Wright says Megiddo is probably just another name for Jerusalem.  After that we went to another spot in the valley and I can't remember where we were and what we talked about. lol.  SO, that was Saturday.  Caesarea was by far the best spot of the day and I definitely have more to say about it, but Ill have to save it for later.

Don't be too much of a pagan this weekend