The Third Temple Tour in Jerusalem is run by a small society of Israelis. They believe that since God allowed Israel to become a nation for the third time, a third temple will certainly follow…

My tour guide is driving me through the territory called Dan, named for the specific area given to one of the twelve tribes of Israel. This is where Samson defended his people from their coastal…

Today I was not with my brother. I was instead taking one of the more standard, pop tours in the old city of Jerusalem, led by a young, Israeli tour guide, trained to discuss Jewish,…

Time and again on my tour of Israel (including repeated visits to the old city of Jerusalem) I have asked people about Golgotha. That word means “the skull” and is supposed to be the site…

Radical Muslims are very passionate about land, especially when they consider the land to be theirs and especially when they consider the land to be holy. Often, their definition of “holy land” merely means that…

In John Chapter Four, Jesus speaks with a Samaritan woman who brings up the age old conflict between Jew and Samaritan regarding the proper place of worship. In those days, even under the Romans, Jews…

The second to the last day, we settled up with our tour guide Jacob. I had been under the impression that he was going to take a credit card but evidently there was a translation…