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Chapter 12: Upper Galilee

Connect…

Do you know where Hell is? Do you think it is a real place or a spiritual place? Today we are going to
take a journey to the entrance of Hell. Back in the Bible days, there was a place that the pagans thought
was the very entrance to a place called Hades or Hell. Here they built temples to various Gods and the
Caesars and worshipped them. They offered sacrifices at this place. Jesus decided to take his disciples
to the entrance of Hell and asked them some important questions. Let’s take a journey to this place and
see what Jesus asked them…

Objectives…

1. The student should be able to share what happened at each location on our journey today.

2. The student should be able to explain how God miraculously designed the entire country to become
the land of “milk and honey.”

3. The student should be able to describe a cross section of the country north to south to see how the
various elevations influence climate and other environmental conditions.

The Lesson ...

The upper Galilee straddles the present-day
northern Israel to the border of Lebanon,
from the Mediterranean Sea to Hula Valley to
the east. It contains approximately 180
square miles.

Banias (Caesarea Philippi)

Banias was a pagan community located at the
foot of Mt. Hermon, the tallest mountain and
northernmost corner of Israel. The Jordan
River begins here in dramatic fashion, though
it was even more dramatic in ancient times.

The river begins today at the base of a great
cliff. Before an earthquake on New Year’s Day
in 1830, the river came out of a great opening
in the cliff, a cave that appeared to be full of a
never-ending supply of water. While two

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