Give a Cheer
From my trip to Israel in 2011. Journaling reads, "When we left Dan, we traveled to Caesarea Philippi. This is the site where Jesus shared with his disciples the profound and powerful truth that darkness, evil, and hell itself have nothing on him. Here was the location of what was referred to in his day as “the gates of hell.” It was a spot where a pagan temple dedicated to the god, Pan, once stood. It was carved out of the bedrock at Caesarea Philippi.
When Jesus visited here, he asked his disciples who people were saying that he was (Matthew 16). They said that some believed he was John the Baptist, others thought he was Elijah, and others thought he was one of the prophets. Jesus asked them, then, who do they say that he is. Peter replied, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.” Jesus said to him, “You are right…you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell will not prevail against it.” The word that he used that was translated “rock” is a word that referred to bedrock – like the kind that they would have seen in the mountain side in Caesarea Philippi. He wanted them to know that the “gates of hell” – the symbol and representation of incredible evil and darkness, which included even human sacrifice – this would not prevail against the church that was built on the bedrock of Christ. It was such an awesome reminder for us that no matter how dark or fallen or broken things are or seem – as ones who are in Christ, we have power in Him to overcome it."
Photo collage from Kerri Bradford.
Sketch: Allison Davis
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