Welcome to the program today.

Mono Gonzalez here in studio with pastor and Dr. Larry Alas.

I just love saying that.

And he's going to be joining us on our trip to Israel in March of 2023.

And so because we are here filming a few other programs,

I wanted to take advantage of his experience and knowledge of being in Israel.

So you're going to join us, which is great. I am really looking forward to being in Israel, especially with you. Bob's going to go with us. Yep, Bob and Chris. You come. So it's going to be a good time. Yep. How many times have you been? Enough that I don't know how many times I've been there. Isn't that a great answer? I mean, I've been there seven times,

so I'm still in single digits, but I have spent, when I was there, I spent a whole month there,

which was great doing archaeology and traveling the whole, the whole land. I mean, I had

another buddy of mine who was another archaeology student. We ran into a car, and we drove like

1,200 miles,

12 kilometers anyway, because they deal in kilometers in a week, just crisscross and everything.

Where did you do your excavations?

I participated at Gath, which is everybody knows Goliath is from Gath, the Philistine City down in the, really in the central

part, not too far from a place that we're going to go, which is the, the, the, the, the,

Elah Valley where David and Goliath had the, had their fight, if you can call it that.

And so just west of there is the city of Gath, Telesafi, is what it's called today.

It's going to be a good time. I know that

we're going to go to Temple Mount. Now that's one of my favorite places at Temple Mount. The Temple

Institute will go on a tour through the Temple Institute and we'll go down through some of those

tunnels that are around the edge of the Western Wall and under it.

Yeah.

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