Holy Land - Israel

Most everyone desires to go to the Holy Land sometime during their Christian Pilgrimage. I would like to share with you my visit to Israel, Jordan and Egypt.

Visiting Israel, retracing the footsteps of Jesus, is more then just a journey, it is a pilgrimage to the very source of faith. "Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth..." Psalms 48:2

Wherever you set foot, you are stepping on ground with Biblical associations, on the side of some great event that helped to shape history - a land held sacred to Jew, Christian, and Muslim.

It is the land of the Patriarchs, buried in Hebron; of Moses, who on Mt. Sinai received the Ten Commandments - the basis of a universal moral code; of Elijah who confounded the idolators on Mt. Carmel, and of Isaiah and Jeremiah, and the other Prophets who spoke the word of God after him. It is the land of the Kings of Israel - David, who made Jerusalem his capital, Solomon his son, who built the first Temple there.

Itis the land of Jesus...Bethlehem, where he was born, Nazareth, Cana , Mount Tabor, the River Jordan, the Sea of Galilee, Capernaum, the Mount of the Beatitudes, and finally the culmination of it all, the core of the Holy Land - the eternal city of Jerusalem encompassing the Church of the Holy Sepulchre and the Garden Tomb, the Via Dolorosa, the Garden of Gethsemane on the Mount of Olives and the room of the Last Supper on Mount Zion.

And on Mount Moriah, the Temple Mount, stand two of Islam's most holy shrines - the Dome of the Rock and the Mosque of El Aqsa...and Judaism's holiest shrine of all - the Western Wall, all that remains of the Temple.

And the Dead Sea Scrolls, a Hebrew manuscript record discovered after 2000 years in the caves of Qumeran.