Moving on to Mount Hermon we stopped at a tourist stop and watched a movie about the war in the 1960s. The movie was about twenty minutes long, spoken in Hebrew with English subtitles. It consisted of actual footage of the battle and testimonies from the Israelite soldiers. The battle involved forty Israeli tanks verses five hundred Syrian tanks. They fought through the night but the Israelite soldiers had no night vision equipment and had never trained in the dark. However, even with the overwhelming odds, Israel won. God is still watching over His chosen country. We ascended to the top of Mount Hermon and gazed over the Valley of Tears where the battle had taken place forty years earlier. Some of the other tourists were complaining about taking the time to visit a place that really had nothing to do with Jesus and His life on the earth. But I loved this visiting parts of Israel’s recent history, especially the testimony of God’s power and I noticed myself falling in love with the country and God’s people. From the mountain we could see the Road to Damascus, where Paul walked and where the story of the Good Samaritan took place. After a relaxing lunch, we went to a high place where thousands of years ago the people worshiped the pagan god Pan. The Bible refers to this place as “the gates of hell.” It is a spring. The water comes out of the mountain and flows into the Banias River that is one of two headways to the Jordan River. This high place was where the people sacrificed their children the Pan god. Talk about an eerie place. We walked a little ways to a town that archeologists have uncovered called Laich. Here they have uncovered a gate where Abraham had to walk through on his journey to the Promise Land. So many incredible places all wrapped up in one day!
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