Day 3 Wed Caesarea by the Sea, 2000 year old Herod's Theatre and more!

Day 3 - As predicted by Shawn, speaking from experience, most of our group reported waking up at 2am or 3am local time. Our bodies are still adjusting.
WEDNESDAY, June 27
We have learned so much from our guide, Tisha! There is so much history that I have taken notes on and want to share with you, but because of time and limited internet coverage from my room I am being brief for these first few days.
Tonight we are staying on the shore of the Sea of Galilee. We have learned that it is 7miles wide by 13 miles long. We will be driving around this area for the next couple of days, but these are the grounds Jesus walked so many days of his life. He hung out on THESE shores with fishermen!
We went to the ruins of Caesarea by the Sea.

MVCA students at Arena, Mediterranean Sea backdrop

We started our morning off sitting on the stone seats that made up the arena where people would have watched chariot races. The students read scriptures that apply to THIS VERY GROUND! The scriptures are literally coming alive to us! There are so many proofs that support the Bible and we are seeing and touching them!

We sat on this 2000 year old arena where audiences would have once watched chariot races and olympic games and Shawn unpacked each scripture that pertained to this specific area of  the land

Students read the passages that were relavant (Melissa)

Students reading (Alexis)

Reading of scripture in thsi arena (Gavin); you can see the center of the track in the sand behind him.

We made our way to "Herod's Theatre". This 2000+ year old theatre has amazing acoustics. How they figured this out with so few resources is amazing!

Isn't this amazing?! Thousands of years ago! They still have questions as to how they built much of what they built!

Justin reading a relavant scripture. Worship team preparing down on the stage.

The Vomitorium into the theatre...Notice the arch

Daniel plays guitar, while Robert and Shallie lead worship in this 2000 year old Theatre in Caesarea by the Sea built by Caesar and sat in by people such as Pontius Pilot and Herod! As Justin would say "no big deal" 

The acoustics in this theatre were amazing! How did they do it?