Randall Niles and his son, Griffin, take you on a Field Trip to Israel in November/December 2008. With rental car and GPS, the Niles boys go on a trek through ancient Israel, including Joppa, Caesarea, Megiddo, Hazor, the Galilee region, the Dead Sea, Qumran, and Jerusalem. For more on the sites of ancient Israel, please visit http://www.AllAboutArchaeology.org
4. But Jonah ran away from the LORD and
headed for Tarshish. He went down to
Joppa, where he found a ship bound
for that port. (Jonah 1:3)
5. “Cornelius, God has heard your prayer
and remembered your gifts to the poor.
Send to Joppa for Simon who is called
Peter. He is a guest in the home of
Simon the tanner, who lives by the
sea.” (Acts 10:31-32)
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8. The next day Peter started out with them,
and some of the brothers from Joppa went
along. The following day he arrived in
Caesarea. Cornelius was expecting them
and had called together his relatives and
close friends. (Acts 10:23-24)
12. “You have appealed to Caesar. To
Caesar you will go!”
(Festus to Paul in Acts 25:12)
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18. Then they gathered the kings together
to the place that in Hebrew is called
Armageddon. (Revelation 16:16)
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21. When they had crossed over, they landed at
Gennesar. And when the men of that place
recognized Jesus, they sent word to all the
surrounding country. (Matthew 14:34-35)
25. Again Jesus began to teach by the lake. The crowd
that gathered around him was so large that he got
into a boat and sat in it out on the lake, while all the
people were along the shore at the water's edge. He
taught them many things by parables… (Mark 4:1-3)
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28. Now when he saw the crowds, he went up on a mountainside and sat down.
His disciples came to him, and he began to teach them saying:
“Blessed are the poor in spirit,
for theirs is the kingdom of
heaven. Blessed are those who
mourn, for they will be comforted.
Blessed are the meek, for they will
inherit the earth.
“Blessed are those who hunger
and thirst for righteousness, for
they will be filled. Blessed are the
merciful, for they will be shown
mercy. Blessed are the pure in
heart, for they will see God.
“Blessed are the peacemakers, for
they will be called sons of God.
Blessed are those who are
persecuted because of
righteousness, for theirs is the
kingdom of heaven.”
(Matthew 5:1-10)
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33. Then he went down to
Capernaum, a town in
Galilee, and on the
Sabbath began to teach
the people. They were
amazed at his teaching,
because his message
had authority. (Luke 4:31-32)
Jesus left the
synagogue and went to
the home of Simon.
Now Simon's mother-
in-law was suffering
from a high fever, and
they asked Jesus to
help her. So he bent
over her and rebuked
the fever, and it left
her. (Luke 4:38-39)
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35. And you, Capernaum, will you be lifted up to the
skies? No, you will go down to the depths. If the
miracles that were performed in you had been
performed in Sodom, it would have remained to this
day. (Matthew 11:23)
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39. Then Jesus said to the crowds and to his
disciples: "The teachers of the law and the
Pharisees sit in Moses' seat. So you must
obey them and do everything they tell you.
But do not do what they do, for they do not
practice what they preach. (Matthew 23:1-3)
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44. Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you,
Bethsaida! If the miracles that were
performed in you had been performed in Tyre
and Sidon, they would have repented long
ago in sackcloth and ashes. (Matthew 11:21)
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47. Here is the account of the forced labor King Solomon
conscripted to build the LORD's temple, his own palace,
the supporting terraces, the wall of Jerusalem, and
Hazor, Megiddo and Gezer. (1 Kings 9:15)
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49. “Hazor will become a haunt of jackals,
a desolate place forever. No one will
live there; no man will dwell in it.”
(Jeremiah 49:33)
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55. The high places, however, were not removed,
and the people still had not set their hearts on
the God of their fathers. (2 Chronicles 20:23)
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60. When Jesus came to the region of Caesarea
Philippi, he asked his disciples, “Who do
people say the Son of Man is?”
They replied, “Some say John the Baptist;
others say Elijah; and still others, Jeremiah
or one of the prophets.”
“But what about you?” he asked. “Who do you
say I am?”
Simon Peter answered, “You are the Christ, the
Son of the living God.”
(Matthew 16:13-16)
70. When the people of Jabesh Gilead heard of what the Philistines
had done to Saul, all their valiant men journeyed through the
night to Beth Shan. They took down the bodies of Saul and his
sons from the wall of Beth Shan… (1 Samuel 31:11-12)
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87. And David went up from there and lived
in the strongholds of En Gedi.
(1 Samuel 23:29)
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93. “Since we, long ago,
my generous friends,
resolved never to be
servants to the
Romans, not to any
other than to God
himself, who alone is
the true and just Lord
of mankind, the time
is now come that
obliges us to make
that resolution true in
practice.”
Eleazar, leader of the
Jews on Masada
(Josephus, The
Jewish War, Book 7,
Ch. 8, Par. 6)
113. When he came near the place where the road goes down the
Mount of Olives, the whole crowd of disciples began joyfully to
praise God in loud voices for all the miracles they had seen:
“Blessed is the king who comes in the name of the Lord!”
(Luke 19:37-38)
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120. Each day Jesus was teaching at the
temple, and each evening he went out
to spend the night on the hill called the
Mount of Olives… (Luke 21:37)
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124. Then Jesus went with his disciples to a place
called Gethsemane, and he said to them, “Sit
here while I go over there and pray.” (Matthew 26:36)
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126.
127. This is what the LORD says: “I will return to Zion and
dwell in Jerusalem. Then Jerusalem will be called
the City of Truth, and the mountain of the LORD
Almighty will be called the Holy Mountain.”
(Zechariah 8:3)
Then I looked, and there
before me was the Lamb,
standing on Mount Zion…
(Revelation 14:1)