Today we are traveling to the lowest place on the earth, the Dead Sea. Our guide, Isaac, said that when we are asked “How low can you go?” We can answer, “We’ve been there!” : )
On the way we went to the site in the Wilderness of Judea where John the Baptist baptized Jesus. It is also the place where Joshua and the nation of
Israel entered the promised land to conquer Jericho. It is where Elijah and Elisha crossed the Jordan and Elijah was taken up in the fiery chariot.
To get here we came down the Jericho road and saw Jericho was is the oldest and lowest city that’s still occupied on the earth. Both Babel and Ninevah are just piles of rubble. It is a Palestinian town today. We also came through the Judea Wilderness where Jesus spent 40 days during His temptation.
We left that section of the Jordan river and went to Qumran where the Dead Sea scrolls were discovered in 1947 by a bedoin shepherd boy looking for a lost sheep. It was the greatest archeological find in recent years concerning The Scriptures. A complete copy of the Book of Isaiah 2500 years old was found and it matched word for word the contemporary Hebrew version of the Bible. This was significant because it dispelled the idea that the Scripture has changed through the centuries as it was copied.
Now off to Masada!
Keep praying! More later!