Beit Shean — This city was the capital of the Decapolis situated in the Herod Valley (a southern extension of the Jezreel Valley) between Mt. Gilead on the east and Mt. Gilboa on the west. The OT city was just the large hill in the middle, and it was on the walls of that smaller OT city that Saul and his sons were hung after being found dead by the Philistines. The NT made that hill its Acropolis (high place), and built their downtown market (the agora) below it with the city extension surrounding it. The NT ruins give us an excellent glimpse of a Roman city (like Corinth or Ephesus), with the theater (dramas), amphitheater/circus (gladiators), hippodrome (races), public latrine, public bathhouse, the two N/S and E/W main streets and agora, acropolis, and many other ruins. Its so well-preserved because a massive earthquake destroyed it, and it was simply evacuated (not conquered and plundered) The most important stone in every stone arch is the one in the very middle called the capstone. The capstone was possibly what the biblical writers had in mind when they wrote of the cornerstone. Without a perfect cornerstone, the arch was doomed. Christ is the cornerstone rejected by the builders, but accepted and found perfect by all those who exercise faith. Without Him, life does not work. #chbcisraeltour Day 6
Posted on: Sat, 01 Feb 2014 19:36:26 +0000
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