Israel Expedition with Calvary Chapel Vero Beach

• Depart CCVB for MIA 

• Overnight flight to TLV

• Arrive Tel Aviv Ben Gurion Airport

• Dinner & overnight in Netanya

• Caesarea Maritima, where Cornelius received a vision which prompted him to send for the   Apostle Peter (Acts 10)

• Megiddo, the Armageddon Battlefield of Revelation 16

• Nazareth Village, a recreation of Nazareth during biblical times

• Drive by Cana, the site of Jesus’ first miracle

• Overnight Sea of Galilee

• Mount of Beatitudes

• Capernaum, the site of the home Peter

• Lunch at restaurant in Tiberias area (restaurant name will be provided by Pastor Gallagher)

• Boat ride on the sea of Galilee (depart from and return to Tiberias)

• Magdala, the hometown of Mary Magdalene which boats the remains of a first century synagogue

• Yardenit, Jordan River Baptismal site, where there is an opportunity to be baptized

• Overnight Sea of Galilee

• The Valley of Tears which was the site of a crucial battle during the 1973 Yom Kippur War between Israel and Syria

• Drive by Mt Hermon, a possible site of Jesus’ transfiguration

• Drive by Nimrod Castle, a Crusade-era fortress

• Caesarea Philippi, the site of Peter’s confession that Jesus is “the Messiah, the Son of the living God” (Matthew 16)

• Tel Dan, ancient home of the tribe of Dan (Judges 18)

• Headwaters of the Jordan River

• Beth She’an, ancient city to the wall of which King Saul’s body was fastened by the Philistines (1 Samuel 31)

• Gideon’s Spring, where Gideon chose 300 men for battle

• Qasr al Yahud, where Jesus was baptized by John the Baptist

• Dead Sea

• Overnight Dead Sea

• Masada, mountaintop fortress that served as the site of a famous zealot last stand

• Ein Gedi, a natural oasis where David hid from Saul in a cave, and spared his life (1 Samuel 24)

• Qumran, an archaeological site previously the home to the Essenes, and the places where the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered

• Overnight Jerusalem

• Temple Mount

• St Anne’s, a well-preserved crusader church

• Pool of Bethesda, where Jesus healed a disabled man (John 5)

• Mount of Olives, which provides an incredible view of Jerusalem

• Palm Sunday Road, which Jesus walked as he entered Jerusalem on Palm Sunday

• Garden of Gethsemane, where Jesus spent the night before his crucifixion

• Southern Steps of the temple, which Jesus himself would have used

• City of David (Jeremiah’s Cistern, Hezekiah’s Tunnel, Pool of Siloam)

• Western Wall Tunnels

• Overnight Jerusalem

• Yad Vashem, Israel’s Holocaust Museum

• Israel Museum, including a scaled model of Jerusalem and the Dead Sea scrolls

• Elah Valley, where David killed Goliath

• Beth Shemesh, site of a battle between Amaziah of Judah and Jehoash of Israel (2 Kings 14)

• Philistine Country

• Shepherd’s fields, where the angels appeared to the shepherds announcing Jesus’ birth

• View of Bethlehem

• Overnight Jerusalem

• Mount Zion, a hill which served as the site of the Last Supper and the coming of the Holy Spirit upon the disciples

• Gallicantu, believed to be the site of Jesus’ appearance before Caiphas

• Jerusalem’s Jewish quarter

• Herodian Mansion, believed to have been home to a family of senior priests

• Western Wall, also known as the Wailing Wall

• Antonia Fortress, military headquarters built by Herod the Great, believed to be the site of Jesus’ appearance before Pontius Pilate

• Via Dolorosa, traditionally held to be the route Jesus took to the cross

• Calvary, the site of Jesus’ crucifixion

• Garden Tomb, a possible site of Jesus’ burial and resurrection

• Late night/early morning flight home

• Arrive home at MCO

• Transfer from MCO to CCVB