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(Sergio) So, we're driving on Mount Carmel right now.
It's a very large territory, very large mountain.
It starts at the west of Jezreel Valley
and stretches all the way to the sea, the Mediterranean.
And if you look behind me
at how the structure of the ground is,
it's so hilly up the mountain, with cliffs and rocks
and a small area with not too tall trees.
So, you can imagine
when Elijah said, gather all the people,
it wasn't that easy to get up here.
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We just drove all the way from Megiddo, Tel Megiddo,
to Mount Carmel where Elijah revealed God's glory
to all those Baal worshippers
and slaughtered them down the River Kishon.
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This is the edge of Mount Carmel,
its east edge,
which overlooks the Jezreel Valley,
the entire valley,
with Mount Megiddo right there at the end
with River Kishon running down here.
It flows all the way to Megiddo and to Tabor
through Jezreel Valley.
So right here, Elijah was showed God's glory
through the consumption of his altar and his sacrifice,
through all the wetness of his wood and the altar,
and the trench around it.
What's interesting are the names. Think about it.
Elijah, who is Eliyahu or Eli'yah, "My God is Jehovah."
And then Mount Carmel. What is carmel? It is "kerem."
Kerem is a vineyard or a vine.
Who is the vine? Jesus is the vine.
He's the vine, and we're the branches.
Right? Like in the Book of John it says.
So, think about it.
Kishon is "yakosh".
Yakosh, Hebrew root word for "ensnarement."
So, the River of Kishon resembles ensnarement,
the place of ensnarement. That is the meaning of it.
Elijah, "God is Jehovah,"
is revealed on the place of the vine, Jesus.
And then those who did not believe
were taken down to the place of ensnarement.
How is this the real place?
How do we know that this is the place?
A few factors come into the picture.
First, the River Kishon is right next to this place.
And from the story in the Bible,
we know that the River Kishon was right next to this place.
Second, people worshipped on high places,
so this and another place, here on Mount Carmel,
are the only highest places in the area.
But what makes this one more special than the other one
is that they found an old well in this one
that dates back to the days of Elijah.
And they believe that this is the place
where they even took the water from
to use for the sacrifices.
(Sergio) So, once again, at the top of the mountain
we've got a church.
Can you make a guess what kind of church this is?
If you said Catholics, you are correct.
One more cool thing about the Kishon River
is its history.
The place of ensnarement.
The Kishon River is the most dirty river in Israel.
In fact, it is so dirty
that when Shayetet, Shalosh esre,
the Shayetet 13, the elite military unit,
were training for 40 years in this river,
after 40 years, they discovered that, statistically,
the people that trained in this river
have very high cancer rates.
It got that bad that the Ministry of Defense
issued a compensation for their families.
And why is it so dirty?
Because all the factories
dump their chemicals into the river.
In fact, in certain places of the river,
they had fire on top of the river
because it was so concentrated with fuel
that the water was just lit up, and they had to put it out.
Okay. Hi there.
Today, I would like to do something special
for this edition of "Trips in Israel."
Because it's Mother's Day,
I would like to introduce you to my mother.
Her name is Ora,
and Ora in Hebrew means "light."
And indeed she is light
because she brought the light to my life.
When I was 14 years old, she asked me:
Would you like to accept Jesus Christ as your personal Savior?
And I said yes.
So thanks to her and my dad,
to whom I'm eternally grateful for this gift.
And, now...
my mom is going to congratulate all the mothers
of The Superior Word Church
with Mother's Day, in Hebrew.
Ready?
(speaking Hebrew)
And now I would like to show you
how we truly celebrate Mother's Day here in Israel.
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