Mt. Carmel

The Carmelite Church is built on the site believed to be where Elijah faced off with the Baal and Ashoreth priests (1 Kings 18:17-40), and Mr. Carmel does fit in with the geographical details in the bible. In Israel, churches or monuments are built on the sites where supernatural events are believed to have occurred.) Baal and Ashoreth were fertility gods.



I tried to capture the view off Mt. Carmel, these pictures can't do it justice. there were sand storms out in the desert, so though Israel doesn't get the winds common in the sand storms, the air gets very thick.