Friday March 8, 2019
The Tribe of Dan
Friday, after the visit at Katzrin, we went on a mid-morning climb to the area of the Kingdom of Israel known as Dan.
Dan became a center of pagan worship which is an affront to God. From the top of the hill you can see parts of Israel, Lebanon, and Syria.
Pagan Worship
While in the area of Dan, we also saw the pagan temple that King Jeroboam built (after the split into the Northern Kingdom of Israel and the Southern Kingdom, of Judah) to keep his subjects from traveling to Israel’s temple in its capital city of Jerusalem. He feared that they would defect to the Kingdom of Judah. He told them to worship the golden calves. King Ahab and Queen Jezebel, generations later, restored the area and made it center of pagan worship.
Around noon on Friday we went to Caesarea Philippi where Jesus asked his disciples “who do people say that I am?” And Peter made the confession of faith. In earlier times it was the center of cultic worship of the god Pan at his temple shown in the photos and video.
It was thought that the cave opening was the portal to Hades. Pan was portrayed as having the legs and horns of a goat and became the image that many think of for the Devil. I stood in front of the gateway to Hades (the Gates of Hell) where many people of that era believed it was the portal to the underworld.
The following journal articles are of my research for various design and painting projects planned. The intial posts are of Israel and Eygpt.