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Bible

study tours

in Israel

A deeper understanding of God's W or d

By Omer Eshel
srael is considered to be one of the most It is written in the book of Genesis (13:17): “Go, undergoing excavations for over a century, yet
visited tourist destinations in history, and walk through the length and breadth of the nothing of importance was found from the era
since the dawn of mankind, many visitors land, for I am giving it to you”. Walking through in which Jesus was alive for the one simple
and pilgrims have passed through. The Israel, seeing the places where miracles reason – they were digging in the wrong place.
Ibible indicates that the first biblical traveler occurred in the footsteps of Abraham, Isaac, Construction of the hotel’s foundation began
in the land of Israel was Abraham, with the Jacob, David Solomon, Isaiah and Jesus is in 2009, where the Synagogue of Magdala
reason for his crossing into Israel being the nothing short of divinity. was discovered – the very same synagogue in
Divine Order. This connection is only achieved on a study which Jesus himself taught.
Since the age of Abraham, hundreds of millions tour for it exposes visitors to a vast amount of Jesus returned to Galilee in the power of the
of people have traveled throughout Israel, biblical material, linking geographical, biblical Spirit, and news about him spread through
with over four million tourists now entering and archaeological contexts. By connecting the whole countryside. [15] He was teaching
the country annually, an incredible number these three elements, the traveler will come
compared to the country’s population of nine to the conclusion, on his own, that the bible in their synagogues, and everyone praised him
million people. reads true. (Luke 4:14-15). As it was a synagogue which
was destroyed in 66 AD, and never rebuilt, we
However, Israel is not only a tourist destination. During one particular study tour, I was talking can conclude that it is the synagogue used by
It can not be compared to the French Riviera to a traveler during visiting Magdala, located Jesus and his disciples.
or Cancun in Mexico. The reason for many on the shore of the Sea of Galilee. Magdala
journeying to Israel is that it’s the land written was accidentally discovered during the In my conversation with the traveler, I presented
about in the bible, the holy land, of which there construction of a hotel back in 2009. Next him with archaeological findings and analyzed
is no other. to it is an archaeological site which had been the biblical text for him.

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