We made it to Israel. 26 of us ventured the nearly 6000 miles from Michigan in the USA to the land of Israel. We left Philadelphia at at about 9:15 PM Sunday night, October 31 and arrived in Tel-aviv at 1:15 PM Israel time. We picked up our bags and immediately went to tour the ancient city of Joppa. Joppa was Israel’s Mediterranean sea port in Ancient times. It’s name comes up frequently in the texts of Scripture as the location of significant events. It was to Joppa that Solomon floated logs from the forests of Lebanon in order to build God’s Holy temple. (2 Chronicles 2:15-16) It was in Joppa that Jonah set sail in the OPPOSITE direction of Nineveh when God told him to call Nineveh to repentance – and he was swallowed by a big fish. (Jonah 1ff) It was in Joppa that Peter raised Tabitha from the dead (Acts 9:36-42) and then received the dream in the home of Simon that Tanner that he was to go to the Centurion named Corneleus and proclaim that the Good News about Jesus was not just for the Jews it was for the Gentiles as well. (Acts 9-10-11)
One spot… so rich in history!!! … All of it with one common thread – John writes, “but these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.” John 20:31 Just as Jesus’ servant raised the corpse of Tabitha up from death he seeks to take us by the hand and give us forgiveness, abundant life, and ultimately eternal salvation.
2 comments:
o my goodness is that the actual whale that swallowed Jonah? (:
If there is a next time, I shall not miss it!
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