More evidence of the Fall

More evidence of the Fall April 25, 2015

 

Golan map
You’ll need to click on this map to make it actually useful. And preferably to then click it one again to make it still larger.

 

We spent much of yesterday upon in the very northern reaches of modern and historical Israel, near the ancient cultic site of Dan.  (Israel was described as stretching from Dan in the north to Beersheva in the south, or, when it was merely the northern kingdom, from Dan to Bethel.  Jeroboam put calf-idols in both the latter locations.)  And we also spent quite a bit of time in the famous Golan Heights, contested territory between Israel, which has occupied them since the Six Day War in 1967, and Syria.

 

While on the Heights, looking down over the abandoned town of Qunaytira toward Damascus, we heard at least two mortars go off — identified as such by two former military men in the group (one a forty-year veteran who spent much of his time in the Army Special Forces) and saw two military jets off in the distance, shortly accompanied by two large columns of smoke.  They could have been Israeli jets, but I doubt it.  I expect that they were Syrian government jets going after anti-Asad rebels.

 

The U.N. Special Observer team stationed about thirty feet from where we were standing — Swedish soldiers, from the sound of them — had been idly chatting until then, but were instantly following the whole thing with a high-powered telescope and entering notes into a computer at high speed.

 

Meanwhile, in other news, two of our neighbors and closest friends — who’ve actually visited Israel with us, among other places — report that they’re okay in Nepal, where they were traveling as tourists, but that half of their hotel has collapsed.

 

Mortality is fun, isn’t it?

 

Posted from Tiberias, Israel

 

 


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