Surprise of the Day

TABOR:  A mountain of warriors and carpenters

Judges 4  and Mark 6:3

Fact Of the Day 

This is the mountain to which Deborah, prophetess and fourth judge of the new Israelite nation, was told by God to lead her army so God could destroy the giant Canaanites there. When the Canaanites arrived, God caused a wadi to flood and wash their chariots and army away.

Some eleven centuries later, carpenters briefly became lumber jacks and went to this mountain to cut down trees and replenish their supply of lumber.  Nazareth was in the foothill of Mount Tabor.  One of those lumber jack carpenters was undoubtedly Jesus in his teens and twenties.