Mt. Nebo in present-day Jordan marks a bitter-sweet spot for one of the Bible’s most recognizable heroes. In this mountain, God showed the promised land to Moses. But he was forbidden to lay foot on it. He could only gaze.
A pilgrimage to the Holy Land cannot be called that without a visit to the place most revered by three of the world’s biggest monotheistic religions: the walled city of Old Jerusalem.
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Mount of Olives in Jerusalem is, by and large, a cemetery. But it is no ordinary cemetery. Most of Israel’s important people both now and of the olden days have been buried in the slopes of Mount of Olives. It is the very spot where the Jews continue to wait for their Messiah to come and meet them in all glory on Judgment Day.
To us Christians, Mount of Olives holds a lot more significance.
We spent our first day after arriving in Jerusalem not in Jerusalem but in the formerly little town and now city of Bethlehem.
Bethlehem, of course, is famous as the birthplace of Jesus Christ. It is one of the most important places in the entire Christendom. Continue reading
NOVEMBER 14, ISRAEL. It has been seven days since we left Manila to begin our Pilgrimage to the Holy Land and it the fourth day since we entered Israel via the Taba border in Egypt. Earlier in the day we begun our day-long journey from Tiberias City in the Galilee region to our ultimate destination, Jerusalem. Along the way we passed by the squeeky clean City of Haifa, the ancient Roman city of Caesaria, and the business and commercial capital, Tel Aviv.
By around 4 o’clock in the afternoon we finally reached the outskirts of the City of Jerusalem. But we were not to enter the city outright. Continue reading
