Eilat, Israel - Feast of Tabernacles 2015

 

Eilat was the first city we journeyed to once we entered Israel from Jordan. We checked into our very nice hotel, Herod's Eilat. We then made our way on foot to the boardwalk for our dinner cruise on the Red Sea. Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Israel and Egypt were within our range of vision from where we were on the Red Sea. Wow! We prayed, prophesied and worshipped from this very strategic and prophetic vantage point. There was a strong wind that began to blow over us as we worshipped. It was an amazing experience.

Eilat is a southern Israeli port and resort town on the Red Sea, near Jordan. Its beaches are noted for their calm waters. Eilat is part of the Southern Negev Desert, at the southern end of the Arava, adjacent to the Egyptian village of Taba to the south, the Jordanian port city of Aqaba to the east, and within sight of Saudi Arabia to the south-east, across the gulf.

Biblical period Eilat - Wikipedia

Eilat is first mentioned in the Hebrew Bible in the Book of Exodus. The first six stations of the Exodus are in Egypt. The 7th is the crossing of the Red Sea and the 9th–13th are in and around Eilat, after the exodus from Egypt and crossing the Red Sea. Station 12 refers to a dozen campsites in and around Timna in Modern Israel near Eilat. When King David conquered Edom, which up to then had been a common border of Edom and Midian, he took over Eilat, the border city shared by them as well. The commercial port city and copper based industrial center were maintained by Egypt until reportedly rebuilt by Solomon at a location known as Ezion-Geber (I Kings 9:26). In 2 Kings 14:21–22 "All the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in the room of his father Amaziah. He rebuilt Elath, and restored it to Judah, after his father's death." And again in 2 Kings 16:6: "At that time the king of Edom recovered Elath for Edom, and drove out the people of Judah and sent Edomites to live there, as they do to this day."





View from room. Saudi Arabia in the distance on the far left covered in haze. Jordan is immediate left not covered with haze.



 

Egypt in the distance covered in haze.

 

 

 

Herod's is the large building on the left close to the center of the picture.

 

 

 

Samuel

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