In today’s blog I would like to share with you a lesson from the landscape. What can we learn from the geography of the location where our Saviour was baptised? Do we know where Yahshua was baptised? According to the gospel of Matthew, Yahshua was baptised in the...
The oldest known map of the Holy Land can be found at the St George Church in Madaba, Jordan. On the floor of this church is a beautiful mosaic which dates back to the 6th Century AD. The mosaic is known as the Madaba Map. It is the oldest surviving original...
Last week an ABC news article appeared on my Facebook feed. The article was about the opening up of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to tourists. We have previously written about this change in Saudi policy in the blog article Saudi Arabia Opens its Doors. However, this...
During our recent trip to Israel we read Psalm 23 in the landscape from which David drew his inspiration. Our interpretation of scripture is influenced by the images we hold in our mind. This is especially true when it involves landscape. In this blog post I...
In May of this year we had the privilege to travel to Israel for three weeks where we attended the Historical & Geographical Settings of the Bible program run by Jerusalem University College. It was an amazing time of both learning and making new friends from all...
This week we read of an event that occurred on the evening of the 27th of September 2019 . On this night Saudi Arabia announced that it was opening its doors to tourists from approximately 50 countries. Saudi Arabia is an ultra conservative muslim kingdom. Entry to...
Jericho, situated near the Dead Sea, is both the lowest and the longest continually inhabited city in the world. As such Jericho can be seen to represent the 'ways of man' or 'man's government'. Jericho was the first city to fall upon Israel's entering into the...
The encounter between the Israelite spies and Rahab (Joshua 2) occurred just before the Israelites crossed the Jordan River - in order to take possession of the Promised Land at the time of Passover (Joshua 5). This account provides a blueprint for us today - as...
As reported in the Biblical Archaeology Magazine a mosaic has recently been discovered in Huqoq, Israel, depicting two Israelite spies carrying a cluster of grapes upon their shoulders - illustrating Numbers 13:23. The shoulder is commonly associated with strength and...