Introduction to the Holy Land

HOLY LAND TOUR

October 18-28, 2015

Hosts:Pastor Jerry HunterDr. Harry Morgan

$3,497(includes all tips & taxes)

from NYC

Where Jesus Walked

INTRODUCTION

UPPER GALILEE

LOWER GALILEE

CANA

NAZARETH

MEGIDDO

MEDITERRANEAN

MASADA

QUMRAN

JERICHO

JERUSALEM

INTRODUCTION:

• Significance of the Holy Land

• Geography

• History of Israel

Leviticus 27:30 And all the tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land or of the fruit of the tree, is the Lord’s. It is holy to the Lord.

Why is the land of Israel called

THE HOLY LAND?

Leviticus 11:45 For I am the Lord who brings you up out of the land of Egypt, to be your God. You shall therefore be holy, for I am holy.

Zechariah 2:12 And the LORD will take possession of Judah as His inheritance in the Holy Land, and will again choose Jerusalem.

Genesis 2:11-14

Ezekiel 5:5 “Thus says the Lord GOD: ‘This is Jerusalem; I have set her in the midst of the nations and the countries all around her.

Ezekiel 38:12 “…who dwell in the midst of the land” (lit. the navel of the world).

Geography of Israel

4 nations surrounding

Israel

ISRAEL and . . .

Geography of Israel

DEAD SEA1,407’ below

sea level

Mt. Hermon 9,232’ above

sea level

Geography of Israel

NorthMt. Hermon

SouthNegev

Geography of Israel

EastJordan River

WestMediterranean

Sea

Brief History of Modern Israel

1860 First neighborhood, Mishkenot Sha'ananim, built outside Jerusalem's walls.

Brief History of Modern Israel

1897 First Zionist Congress convened by Theodor Herzl in Basel, Switzerland

Brief History of Modern Israel

1909 First kibbutz, Degania, and first modern all-Jewish city, Tel Aviv, founded

Brief History of Modern Israel

1917 400 years of Ottoman rule ended by British conquest; British Foreign Minister Balfour pledges support for establishment of a “Jewish national home in Palestine”.

Brief History of Modern Israel

Weizmann was also a biochemist who developed the acetone–butanol–ethanol fermentation process, which produces acetone through bacterial fermentation. His acetone production method was of great importance for the British war industry during World War I. He founded the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel and was instrumental in the establishment of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Chaim Azriel Weizmann was a Zionist leader and Israeli statesman who served as President of the Zionist Organization and later as the first President of Israel. He was elected on 16 February 1949, and served until his death in 1952. Weizmann convinced the United States government to recognize the newly formed state of Israel.

Brief History of Modern Israel

1918-1948 British Rule

Brief History of Modern Israel

1939-1945 Holocaust in Europe

Brief History of Modern Israel

1948 May 14 State of Israel proclaimed

Brief History of Modern Israel

1967 Six-Day War

At the end of six days of fighting, previous cease-fire lines were replaced by new ones, with Judea, Samaria, Gaza, the Sinai peninsula and the Golan Heights under Israel's control. As a result, the northern villages were freed from 19 years ofrecurrent Syrian shelling; the passage of Israeli and Israel-bound shipping through the Straits of Tiran was ensured; and Jerusalem, which had been divided under Israeli and Jordanian rule since 1949, was reunified under Israel's authority.

Brief History of Modern Israel

1973 Yom Kippur War

Three years of relative calm along the borders were shattered on Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement), the holiest day of the Jewish year, when Egypt and Syria launched a coordinated surprise assault against Israel (6 October 1973), with the Egyptian army crossing the Suez Canal and Syrian troops penetrating the Golan Heights. Two years of difficult negotiations between Israel and Egypt and between Israel and Syria resulted in disengagement agreements, according to which Israel withdrew from parts of the territories captured during the war.

Brief History of Modern Israel

1976 Operation Entebbe

An Air France plane with 248 passengers was hijacked by a Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine hijacker.

The operation took place at night. Israeli transport planes carried 100 commandos over 2,500 miles (4,000 km) to Uganda for the rescue operation. The operation, which took a week of planning, lasted 90 minutes. 102 hostages were rescued. Five Israeli commandos were wounded and one, the unit commander, Lt. Col. Yonatan Netanyahu, was killed.

Brief History of Modern Israel

1979 Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty

Prime Minister Menachem Begin and President Anwar Sadat awarded Nobel Peace Prize.

Brief History of Modern Israel

1991

Israel attacked by Iraqi Scud missiles during Gulf war.Operation Solomon, airlift of Jews from Ethiopia.

Brief History of Modern Israel

1991 Operation Solomon

The operation was kept secret by military censorship. In order to accommodate as many people as possible, airplanes were stripped oftheir seats and up to 1,122 passengers were boarded on a single plane. Many of the immigrants came with nothing except their clothes and cooking instruments, and were met by ambulances, with 140 frail passengers receiving medical care on the tarmac. Several pregnant women gave birth on the plane, and they and their babies were rushed to the hospital.

Brief History of Modern Israel

Why am I going to Washington? Because, as prime minister of Israel, it’s my obligation to do everything in my power to prevent the conclusion of a bad deal that could threaten the survival of the State of Israel.

2015 March 3

Benjamin (Bibi) Netanyahu addresses the U.S. Congress

Regathering of Israel

Isaiah 43:5–65 Fear not, for I am with you; I will bring your descendants from the east, and gather you from the west; 6 I will say to the north, ‘Give them up!’ And to the south, ‘Do not keep them back!’ Bring My sons from afar, and My daughters from the ends of the earth—

Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

Anti-Semitism has returned to Europe within living memory of the Holocaust. Never again has become ever again.

Anti-Semitism has always been, historically, the inability to make space for differences among people, which is the essential foundation of a free society. That is why the

Oct. 2, 2014

politics of hate now assaults Christians, Bahai, Yazidis and many others, including Muslims on the wrong side of the Sunni/Shia divide, as well as Jews. To fight it, we must stand together, people of all faiths and of none. The future of freedom is at stake, and it will be the defining battle of the 21st century.http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=9&ved=0CE4QFjAI&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnn.com%2F2015%2F02%2F16%2Feurope%2Fanti-semitism-in-denmark%2F&ei=legoVYOnKoqeNqu9gfgM&usg=AFQjCNFCklbp3yY-CAuyqi9gHCWb57-weg&sig2=GiLuYlWBcssnLZgzLBr91A&bvm=bv.90491159,d.eXY

Jerry HunterAssociate Pastor of the Greenville Alliance Church

Greenville, PA 724-588-7167