Megoddo, Haifa, Caesarea

June 4 Day 12 we woke up this morning and are all packed to leave the beach resort Een Gev. "All good things come to an end."Today we will travel a lot we are going to the Migiddo. At Megiddo at one time or another the Egyptians, the Canaanites , the Israelites, the Assyrians, the Babylonians, and the Persians all had control of Megiddo. Each group fighting for nearly 4500 years to control this Pass. Another name is Armageddon if you have seen the movie The Source it tells much about the water system We are walking through the water supply tunnel which is now dry it's 180 steps down and 80 steps up. It is so hard to believe the things these people have been able to build and it still stands.
This is also the Palestine area and the Missionaries of the Church have been serving here since 1886. How ever they can not talk about the church even if asked as it is against the law. Very hard to do but they do have members who have gone other places and joined the church. We visited the graves of two young missionaries that died there. One of smallpox and one from typhus because of the Turkish law which declared that those who died of infectious disease had to be buried the same day . So there bodies are here.
Now we are going to Caesarea Maritima which is where we are going swimming in the Mediterranean. This aqueduct provided fresh water. It runs 6 miles to the seaport city of Caesarea. In Caesarea is the location of Herod's Theater it was built 20 BC and seats about 4000 and is still in use today. A small dungeon like room in Herod's palace. The apostle Paul may have been impriseoned in one of these rooms. read Acts 23-26