GEOLOGICAL AND TRIBULATION FEATURES ON ISRAELI TOUR PATHS
PART 2
Netanya to Tiberias – Normal Second Day of Tours
Netanya is a city in the Centre District of Israel and is the capital of the Sharon plain.
It is located between the ‘Poleg’ stream and Wingate Institute in the south and the ‘Avichail’ stream in the north.
Its 14 kilometres (8.7 mi) of beaches have made the city a very popular tourist resort. Today the city houses a notably large population of English-speaking immigrants from the United Kingdom, USA, and Canada. According to the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), at the end of 2007 the city had a total population of 176,500. The city mayor is Miriam Feirberg. The city is expected to reach a population of 350,000 by 2020. The city name has sometimes been spelled Nathania.
The idea to create the settlement of Netanya was drawn up at a meeting of the Bnei Binyamin association in Zikhron Ya’aqov. The location was decided upon near the ancient site of Poleg and it was decided for it to be named for the Jewish American philanthropist Nathan Straus who devoted much money to activities in Israel. In 1928, members of Bnei Binyamin and Hanote, an organisation set up after Strauss was informed of the establishment of the settlement, are said to have purchased 350 acres (1.4 km2) of Umm Khaled lands.
There remains today, however, considerable controversy amongst Palestinian and Israeli interpretation about whether land was sold (primarily from non-resident Arab land holders) during the British Mandate.
Made vulnerable by its proximity (14 km, 9 mi) to the Palestinian city of Tulkarm, Netanya has suffered from numerous Palestinian attacks aimed at Israel, including, notably, an attack in March 2002 which has come to be known as the Passover Massacre. Since 2004 and the construction of Israeli West Bank barrier number of attacks decreased significantly in Netanya as in Jerusalem, Afula, Tel-Aviv and other major cities.
From Natanya to Caesarea you will travel north along the track the massive Islamic Jihad assault will be moving south from Lebanon along the bases of the high bluffs you will be seeing to your right. The forces of Antichrist will attack Israel with a two pronged attack to “divide and conquer.” One prong will be directed from the north out of Syria down the strip of land from the eastern base of the Samaritan Mountains to the Jordan River Bank, headed like a spear toward Jericho, and then east across to Jerusalem. The other prong from Lebanon will drive south in a very narrow band along the opposite side of the Samaritan Mountains, digging in to hold their position as they spearhead south, leaving a dug-in defensive like behind their southward advance from Accra to east of Tel Aviv. As this prong drives south, the Palestinians will be driving north out of the Gaza Strip in a northward prong to link the two prongs together east of Tel Aviv.
As the northern prong from Lebanon is pushing south along the base of the Samarian Mountain Bluffs, the Palestinians will be launching thousand of smuggled and homemade rockets and missiles, as well as thousands of mortars, over the heads of their comrades in the foothills below, and all these projectiles will be headed for all the Israeli coastal cities from Haifa to Tel Aviv, where 70 percent of the total Jewish population is located. The Antichrist will have absolutely no desire to see the United States involved in this war in face to face combat, so he will allow the United States to airlift the Israeli into the Negev without attacking their aircraft, and te forces of Islam will occupy the coastal plains.
I have told people for 35 years that the U.S. would not fight the Antichrist in a ground war in Israel, and I am more convinced of it now than ever before.
I could care less what Obama says, wait and see what he does!
We will see the Roman Aqueduct which carried water from springs in the hills to the Capital city of Caesarea. There is a minor underwater fault off the shoreline just south of the end of the aqueduct, which may have produced an earthquake at one time to cause the collapse of the aqueduct from there into Caesarea.
We will turn northeast from the coastal road near Caesarea toward Tiberias. As we turn if you look northwest out over the Mediterranean you will be gazing over a vast new gas field discovered under the Sea off the shore of Israel.
It was reported in the article which follows. This is a very important recent discovery.
Begin Article from Israel National News
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Offshore gas field near Israel larger than first reports
Israel National News:
A massive natural gas find off the coast of Haifa which was lauded as capable of fueling all of Israel for 15 years is actually more than 60 percent larger than originally estimated, according to the American partner in the drill, Noble Energy Inc.
Israeli companies Isramco Negev 2, Delek Drilling, Avner Oil Exploration, and Dor Gas Exploration had the majority of the stake on the dig – named Tamar-1 – which is estimated at a potential of 5 trillion cubic feet of natural gas. That estimate is up from January, at which time the partners believed the well contained 3 million cubic feet of gas.
The team will keep their drilling rig in the area for two more wells they believe may be present as well.
Isramco shares, which have skyrocketed 736 percent since the start of the year, were 7.2 percent higher on Wednesday morning compared with declines of over 2 percent in the broader market.
Delek Drilling is up 6.4 percent as of Wednesday morning, with Avner up 4.8 percent. Conglomerate Delek Group (DELKG.TA), the parent of Delek Drilling and Avner, is up 5.9 percent.
Meanwhile the Obama administration continues to throw obstacles in the way of such production off the US mainland by extending a 30 year comment period for another six months, because the anti energy groups that support Obama need more time
to find excuses not to produce domestic energy or have our governments receive over a trillion dollars worth of royalties. And this does not even consider all the jobs that would be created by the exploration and production effort. These are evident jobs the Democrats have no interest in.
Posted by Merv at 10:23 AM
End Article
I will not include information about the biblical sites I have visited countless times since my first trip to
the Holy Land in 1952.
The guides of all the tours are very proficient at their profession, and will tell you enough to fill your heads for quite a spell.
My area of expertise lies in the geology of Israel as it relates to prophecy in the Bible. As a student of prophecy, a graduate of a military academy, and a retired analyst from the National Security Agency, I‘m better qualified in fields of theology, prophecy, and military tactics, but tour guides are more qualified in archeology and historical events related to the Bible.
I have heard the same lectures so many times they are coming out my ears. I try to stay out of their way and let them do what they are best qualified to do. I will be happy to answer all questions you might have after the evening meal.
There will be times you
will see me doing something else while you are listening to the tour guide lecture. I will be engaged in making a film when this happens. I will be sure each one-some or two-some gets a copy after we put it all together when we get home.
Revelation 16:16-19 – And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon. [17] And the seventh angel poured out his vial into the air; and there came a great voice out of the temple of heaven, from the throne, saying, It is done. [18] And there were voices, and thunders, and lightnings; and there was a great earthquake, such as was not since men were upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake, and so great. [19] And the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell: and great Babylon came in remembrance before God, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath.
When we arrive at Tel Megiddo you will move about the ancient site associated with the final Revelation battle of Armageddon after you have seen a model of it. It is one of the most important archaeological mounds in Israel. Tel Megiddo contains the remains of historic Megiddo, a fortified city that sat strategically on the ancient trunk road from Egypt to Syria and Mesopotamia. Megiddo has served as an important junction and battlefield throughout history. It is mentioned in an Egyptian document over 3,500 years old, was one of the chariot cities of Kings Solomon and Ahab, and was the site where Josiah, King of Judah, fell in battle. In 1918 the British defeated the Turks here and in 1948, during the War of Independence, the Israelis overcame invading Arabs forces at nearby Mishmar Haemek.
In the New Testament book of Revelation, Megiddo is identified as the site of the last great battle of the world, Armeggadon, a corruption of the Hebrew Har Megiddo. Excavations have uncovered the ruins of 25 cities dating from 4,000 to 400 B.C.E. Ruined structures, now visible, belong to the fortified “chariot city,” built by King Solomon in the 10th century B.C.E. An ancient water system, dating from the 9th sentury B.C.E., is well preserved and a remarkable piece of engineering. It consists of a large shaft, sunk 120 feet through rock, meeting a tunnel cut more than 200 feet to a spring outside the city.
The spring was hidden by a wall and camouflaged by a covering of earth.
From the Tel of Megiddo one can look north across the wide plain frequently called Ha Emeg (“the valley’) for short. It extends from the bay north of Haifa southeast to the Jordan Valley and separates the hills of Samaria and Galilee. The Bible refers to as “the Esdrelon Plain.” Many refer to it as the Jezreel Plain, particularly in its southernmost portion where it enters the Jordan. There is a deep geological fault in the center of the valley that extends northwest to southeast down the length of the entire valley. It will be a great earthquake during the Tribulation Period along this fault that destroys a large segment of the Antichrist’s army. It is the only geological fault in Israel that extends off the great Jordan Valley Rift fault, which extends all the way to the Mediterranean Sea. You can look across the valley and see Nazareth and Mount Tabor. We will travel over the fault as we pass across the valley on our way to Nazareth. After leaving Nazareth we will head northeast to Tiberias. We will descend rapidly as we head down into the Deep Rift Valley of the Jordan just before we reach Tiberias. We will pass over the rift fault as we descend.
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