We had a very meaningful time at Caesarea Philippi which is in the extreme North of the country. It was a large cave out of which a spring came that flows down to the Sea of Galilee. The Greeks and Hellenistic Jews had made it a place of worship to the god Pan. It was here that Jesus asked Peter, “Who do you say that I am”. Peter responded, “You are the Christ, the son of the living God!” Jesus was impressed with his answer and said, “You are Peter (little rock) and on this stone (Huge, bedrock stone) I will build my church. This didn’t refer to Peter, it referred to the acknowledgement that Jesus really is God. Then he said, “The gates of Hell” would not prevail against the church he would build. This major cave, full of idols and pagan worship, was a symbol of the gates of Hell. This was Jesus taking his message to the very heart of darkness. It was moving.
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