Trip Overview & Itinerary

Travel Day (Arrive in Tel Aviv)

Day 1

Caesarea – the place where Paul first took the message of the gospel to the Gentiles (Link to Post)
Mount Carmel – the mountain on which Elijah confronted the prophets of Baal (Link to Post)
Megiddo – a strategic city overlooking the gathering place for the world’s end-time armies (Armageddon) (Link to Post)
Mount Arbel – a stunning vista of the Sea of Galilee and sites of Jesus’ public ministry (Link to Post)
Magdala – the hometown of Mary Magdalene and a newly discovered Archaeological site. Visit the only first-century synagogue to have been found around the Sea of Galilee. (Link to Post)

Day 2

Boat Ride – Sea of Galilee – cross the Sea of Galilee in a replica of a boat from Jesus’ time (Link to Post)
Mount of Beatitudes – the traditional place where Christ delivered His message on the Beatitudes (Link to Post)
Capernaum – the town and synagogue where Jesus preached during His Galilean ministry (Link to Post)
Baptism in the Jordan River – a unique opportunity to be baptized or re-dedicated in the Jordan River (Link to Post)
Church of the Primacy of St. Peter – a Franciscan church on the northwest shore of the Sea of Galilee that commemorates and marks the spot of where Jesus appointed Peter chief among the Apostles. (Link to Post)

Day 3

Kursi Overlook – the traditional site where demons entered the swine after being cast out of the demoniac (Link to Post)
Tel Dan – the northernmost city of Israel and the location of one of Jeroboam’s golden calves (Link to Post)
Caesarea Philippi – where Peter professed, “Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.” (Link to Post)
Banias Waterfall – the headwaters of the Jordan River (Link to Post)
Golan Heights – a view of Paul’s route to Damascus and the modern-day battlegrounds of the Golan Heights (Link to Post)

Day 4

Beth She’an / Scythopolis – the ruins of a Roman city, and the site where the Philistines displayed the bodies of King Saul and his sons (Link to Post)
Qumran – the desert caves where the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered (Link to Post)
Dead Sea – experience the most float-able body of water in the world (Link to Post)

Day 5

Masada – the impenetrable fortress where Jewish zealots made a final stand in their revolt against Rome (Link to Post)
Ein Gedi Oasis – Overlook – a view of the waterfalls and desert caves where David, in his exile, encountered King Saul (Link to Post)
Wadi Qilt – the wilderness where Jesus was tempted by Satan (Link to Post)
Mount of Olives – a hill overlooking Jerusalem from the east where Jesus ascended to heaven (Link to Post)
Garden of Gethsemane – the traditional location where Jesus prayed and was betrayed (Link to Post)

Day 6

Israel Museum – the home of Israel’s greatest archaeological treasures (Link to Post)
Roman Cardo – the ancient Roman main street through the Old City (Link to Post)
Temple Mount – where the second Jewish Temple once stood, now home of the Dome of the Rock and Al-Aqsa Mosque (Link to Post)
Southern Temple Steps – part of extensive excavations that have unearthed steps from the time of Jesus leading up to the Temple Mount (Link to Post)
City of David/ Hezekiah’s Tunnel/ Pool of Siloam – the original site of King David’s capital of Israel/ historic and amazing tunnel dug by Hezekiah to survive the Assyrian siege of Jerusalem/ the pool built by King Hezekiah where Jesus sent the man born blind to be healed (Link to Post)

Day 7

Yad Vashem – Israel’s memorial to the six million Jews killed in the Holocaust (Link to Post)
Bethlehem – Church of the Nativity – traditional site of the birth of Jesus (Link to Post)

Day 8

Pool of Bethesda / St. Anne’s Church – the pool where Jesus healed an infirm man (Link to Post)
Antonia Fortress/ Via Dolorosa/ Church of the Holy Sepulchre – the traditional location where Jesus was beaten and mocked with a crown of thorns/ the “way of the cross” leading to the traditional site of Jesus’ crucifixion/ the traditional site of Jesus’ crucifixion (Link to Post)
Garden Tomb – a memorable communion service and an ancient tomb similar to the one in which Christ was buried (Link to Post)

Travel Day: Back to Charlotte