galilee day 1

Saturday started our week long journey in Galilee, it was an amazing and life-changing week to say the least. I have so much to say and many pictures to share so I will be updating this blog throughout the upcoming days to share all of it.

Our first stop was Mukhraka, a mountain in the Mt Carmel Range. We could see many things from up here, the Mediterranean Sea, Jezreel Valley, and a possible site for 1 Kings 18. God sends fire from heaven and proves that Baal is not a true God. Reading this story at this site gave me chills, thinking of fire coming down from Heaven after a day of waiting for Baal, Elijah gave them benefit after benefit yet they were never able to pull through because there is only one true God who is capable of doing this and so much more.

Other sites we visited this day were

• Megiddo - A huge site that King Solomon fortified, we could see evidence of him having many horses, wives, silver and gold.

• Jezreel - The desire for more wealth caused many deaths and we see the fulfillment of Prophecy by Elijah, 1 Kings 21. 

• En Harod - Where Gideon choose his 300 men, one of my favorite passages because it shows that God often chooses to use the lowly and weak to humble and bring His people back to Him, Judges 6.

                   "But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong; God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are, so that no human being might boast in the presence of God." 1 Corinthians 1:27-29

       
How encouraging this is, if you make yourself high, God will humble you, and God uses all people to bring about His will for His divine kingdom.

• Nazareth - The boyhood home of Jesus, we stood on top of a cliff that they possibly took Jesus to throw him off after they had rejected him, Mark 6:1-6.

 Even after just one day I knew that I was going to love Galilee, it is very beautiful and definitely my favorite place we have been. Can't wait to share more with you!

On the way to one of our stops we were able to stop at a rolling stone tomb from the 1st century, one very similar to the one that Jesus was laid in. It was much smaller than I had imagined, my teacher actually said that the stone here is actually bigger than the average.