Dead Sea, Judean wilderness and Samaria

Sorry so long to post some pictures. As relationships are being built, there's not much time to blog except for sleep time! We took a wonderful trip to the Dead Sea this past week.

The Judean hills are spectacular this time of year.

Splashes of green like soft carpet.

Happy sheep feeding on the spring grasses.

This was exciting. We were in the lowest part of the earth here, near Jericho. It's also the area where John the Baptist was baptizing people for repentance. In humbleness, Yeshua was baptized here, picking up those sins that others left in the River. We also know this to be the area where Elijah crossed the River and went up into the clouds. And this is where the Israelites crossed the Jordan River into the Land of Israel. Notice the valley between the mountains. Continuing on through this valley would take the Israelites to the Mount of Blessing and the Mount of Cursing where the covenant would be renewed with the 2nd generation out of Egypt at Shechem.

Interstingly enough, our Jewish friend told us everything green we saw in this area was edible. We munched the salty herbs along the way.

And here, my friends, is the Land the Israelites walked on. We took off our shoes and walked on this holy ground. Moses would only have seen this Land from across the Jordan on Mount Hor. The second generation of Israelites were also circumcised here.

It's a good Land, flowing with milk and honey!

An abandoned tank from some previous war.

Dead Sea and Jordan in the background.

More of the same.

Across the Dead Sea to Jordan.

We avoid these many, many busses! But happily, many people are in the Land!

Spectacular shots of the Judean wilderness.


More splashes of green. An awesome view.

A bedouin camp in the valley below.

Have I showed you this one yet?

Flowers are coming to life everywhere.

The wall of protection, sad but necessary to preserve life.

A checkpoint.

Ooops! Wrong turn!

One of many mountain tops where fires were once built to signal Rosh Chodesh (New Moon) clear to those in Babylon.

Beautiful evening entering into Samaria.

Numbers 10:10 "Also in the day of your gladness, in your appointed feasts, and at the beginning of your months, you shall blow the trumpets over your burnt offerings and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings; and they shall be a memorial for you before your Elohim: I am YHWH your Elohim."

Our guys blow the specially made silver trumpets for New Moon.