November 13

Today we left Tiberius and drove to Nazareth. The city itself is quite dirty, though the Old City was really cool to see. On the way, we learned a little history about the Olive Tree, Jesus’ mother’s hometown (Kanna), and we were given a comparison between Nazareth during Jesus’ time and Nazareth today. There’s also a ton of Roman history in this area, obviously, but its just been really fun to learn about it here and see the influence in the old buildings. We then drove to the Jezreel Valley where more battles have been fought than any other place in the world. We drove to Megiddo, where the Battle of Armageddon is suppose to occur. We walked through some ruins and we got to walk down into a water cistern where there was a secret tunnel leading into the city from some springs! It was pretty cool. From Megiddo, we drove to Mt. Carmel and had a lecture about the Biblical significance there. Then we went to Haifa….which is beautiful! We saw the building that was hit by rockets launched from Lebanon two years ago. We also saw a Behai’i Moseleum, we were not able to go inside, but the botanical gardens and the view was AMAZING! Haifa is right on the coast of the Mediterranean. You can see Lebanon from there too!