For May 23, 2026
The Gates of Hades by Greg Holmes, D.MIN – Director of Missions serving 17 churches
IN NORTHERN CENTRAL ISRAEL , the area allocated under Joshua to the tribe of Dan, there is an ancient site of pagan worship near the headwaters of the Jordan River as they flow down the watershed of Mt. Hermon. A short walk up a small rise brings you to a multi-level stony bench with an ochre-colored rock cliff face, perhaps an irregular one hundred fifty feet high stretching over a horizontal expanse of four hundred yards or so. There are a handful of bas-relief figures of pagan gods carved into the rocks, some slightly larger than a man, several approaching thirty feet high by fifteen feet wide. At the left is a circular pool of water, the opening of a cave known as the entry to Hades, the underworld of the dead.