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Caption transcript for Eretz Israel (The Land of Israel): “Fighting for the Promised Land” (5/8)

• 00:09 LOOK TO THE NORTH
• 00:12 THE SOUTH
• 00:15 THE EAST
• 00:18 THE WEST
• 00:25 ALL THE LAND WHICH THOU SEEST
• 00:28 TO THEE WILL I GIVE IT
• 00:30 AND TO THY SEED FOREVER.
• 00:34 INDEED... HE WHO WATCHES OVER ISRAEL
• 00:37 WILL NEITHER SLUMBER NOR SLEEP.
• 00:56 HEARTY SHALOM TO ALL OF YOU.
• 00:58 JEFFREY SEIF HERE
• 00:59 PLEASED TO WELCOME YOU AGAIN
• 01:00 TO AN EDITION OF ZOLA LEVITT PRESENTS.
• 01:04 HAVE YOU EVER HEARD THE OLD SONG "ONWARD CHRISTIAN SOLDIERS"?
• 01:07 WELL WE'RE ALL ABOUT ONWARD JEWISH SOLDIERS.
• 01:11 WHY DO I SAY THAT?
• 01:12 BECAUSE WE'RE LOOKING AT JOSHUA.
• 01:16 WITH THE POWER TRANSITION FROM MOSES TO JOSHUA,
• 01:21 HE WAS VESTED WITH RESPONSIBILITY
• 01:23 TO LEAD THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL
• 01:25 ONWARD INTO THE LAND OF ISRAEL.
• 01:28 THE STORY OF JERICHO IS THE MOST FAMOUS
• 01:31 BUT IT'S NOT THE ONLY ONE.
• 01:33 OFF WE GO NOW TO HAZOR IN THE NORTH
• 01:36 WHERE A BATTLE ROYAL WAS FOUGHT
• 01:38 TO ENABLE THE ISRAELITES TO SECURE THEIR GOD GIVEN HOLDINGS.
• 01:46 AND JOSHUA TOOK HAZOR AND SMOTE THE KING THEREOF WITH THE SWORD,
• 01:51 FOR HAZOR BEFORE TIME WAS THE HEAD OF ALL THOSE KINGDOMS.
• 01:56 AND THEY SMOTE ALL THE SOULS THAT WERE THEREIN WITH THE SWORD
• 02:01 UTTERLY DESTROYING THEM.
• 02:03 AND HE BURNT HAZOR WITH FIRE.
• 02:06 SO JOSHUA TOOK THE WHOLE LAND
• 02:08 ACCORDING TO ALL THAT THE LORD SAID UNTO MOSES.
• 02:12 AND JOSHUA GAVE IT FOR AN INHERITANCE UNTO ISRAEL
• 02:15 ACCORDING THE THEIR DIVISIONS BY THEIR TRIBES.
• 02:19 AND THE LAND RESTED FROM WAR.
• 02:27 I CAN ALMOST HEAR THE SOUND OF TRAMPLING BOOTS...
• 02:29 SWORD AGAINST SWORD
• 02:31 AS THE GREAT CONFLAGRATION TOOK PLACE IN NORTHERN ISRAEL,
• 02:36 A PLACE THAT WE'RE EDGING OUR WAY TOWARDS
• 02:39 STEP BY STEP BY STEP.
• 02:41 COME WITH ME NOW.
• 02:42 WE'RE LOOKING AT YESTERDAY.
• 02:44 LET'S VISIT IT TODAY...
• 02:46 THE BATTLE OF HAZOR.
• 03:35 IT TOOK A LONG TIME
• 03:36 FOR THEM TO GET HERE.
• 03:39 ON THE WAY THERE WERE
• 03:40 VARIOUS BATTLES WITH TRANS JORDANIAN KINGS.
• 03:43 THERE WAS THE FAMOUS BATTLE OF JERICHO.
• 03:46 THERE WAS THE NECESSITY OF DEFEATING THE COALITION OF SOUTHERN CANAANITE PEOPLES
• 03:53 AND THEN IT WAS TIME TO TAKE THE BATTLE TO THE NORTH
• 03:57 AS GOD'S PEOPLE WERE SECURING THEIR PLACE IN GOD'S LAND.
• 04:03 LET ME SHOW YOU ON THIS MAP.
• 04:05 SO WE'RE LOOKING AT A PICTURE HERE
• 04:07 OF THE WORLD IN JOSHUA'S DAY.
• 04:10 WE HAVE THE GREAT SEA SO CALLED
• 04:12 THE MEDITERRANEAN
• 04:13 THE JORDAN RIVER
• 04:15 BIBLE READERS ARE FAMILIAR WITH THIS...
• 04:16 AND OF COURSE THE PEACEFUL SEA OF GALILEE.
• 04:19 WHAT WE'RE NOT SO FAMILIAR WITH IS THE NORTHERN CAMPAIGN.
• 04:23 A PLACE THAT WAS NOT SO PEACEFUL.
• 04:25 A PLACE CALLED HAZOR.
• 04:27 RIGHT HERE.
• 04:28 AND WE'RE GOING TO VISIT THAT VERY PLACE.
• 04:57 THE SOUTHERN CAMPAIGN HAD GONE REMARKABLY WELL ...
• 05:01 MUCH TO THE CHAGRIN OF THE LOCALS.
• 05:03 AS YOU MIGHT RECALL,
• 05:04 SOME TIME PRIOR THE ISRAELITES WERE IN DREAD FEAR
• 05:07 BECAUSE THE LOCALS WERE SO TALL
• 05:09 AND THEY FELT LIKE GRASSHOPPERS.
• 05:11 BUT HERE THE FORTUNES OF WAR IS SHIFTED.
• 05:14 THE SOUTHERN FEDERATION OF CANAANITE PEOPLES HAD BEEN DECIMATED.
• 05:18 AND WORD GETS UP NORTH.
• 05:21 AND THERE'S TROUBLE IN RIVER CITY.
• 05:23 THERE'S A KING JABIN,
• 05:25 IT'S A DYNASTIC NAME,
• 05:26 AND HE WILL MOBILIZE A FEDERATION
• 05:29 OF NORTHERN CANAANITE PEOPLES,
• 05:32 TO USE THAT TERM BROADLY.
• 05:34 AND THERE WILL BE A BATTLE ROYAL.
• 05:38 BEFORE I SHOW YOU FROM THE SCRIPTURE,
• 05:40 LET ME PULL OUT A MAP.
• 05:42 IT'S NOT YOUR MODERN, GARDEN VARIETY MAP
• 05:45 BUT SOMETHING THAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN USED AKIN TO WHAT HAD BEEN USED BY THE LOCALS
• 05:51 WHEN THEY FOUGHT HERE MANY, MANY, MANY YEARS AGO.
• 05:56 AND JUST TO SHOW IF YOU WILL,
• 05:57 THIS IS THE MEDITERRANEAN.
• 06:00 THE ROMANS CALLED IT MARE NOSTRUM...
• 06:02 I KNOW THAT I'M GETTING AHEAD...
• 06:04 CALLED "OUR SEA".
• 06:06 AND THE REASON WHY I MENTIONED IT
• 06:08 IS THAT JABIN HERE AT HAZOR WAS SO FAMOUS
• 06:12 THAT ANCIENT DOCUMENTS IN THE FORM OF POLITICAL ALLIANCES
• 06:16 THAT HE HAD WITH THE STATES OUT INTO THE SEA...PHOENICIANS,
• 06:20 THE CRETANS IN CYPRUS,
• 06:22 AND HE WAS WELL CONNECTED POLITICALLY AS I NOTED EARLIER
• 06:26 WITH ALL THE PEOPLES ROUND ABOUT.
• 06:29 AND HE IS GOING TO MOBILIZE HIS ENERGIES
• 06:32 TO HOLD AT BAY THESE ENCROACHING ISRAELITES
• 06:36 THAT ARE THERE WITH A SENSE OF A DIVINE MANDATE
• 06:39 THAT GOD HAS SPOKEN TO MOSES AND DIRECTED THEM ONWARD.
• 06:44 AND JOSHUA IS GOING ONWARD.
• 06:47 WE'RE GOING TO HEAR FROM AMNON BEN-TOR,
• 06:51 PROFESSOR AT HEBREW UNIVERSITY.
• 06:53 HE'S GOING TO TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT HAZOR
• 06:56 AND THEN I WANT TO TALK A LITTLE ABOUT THE TRIBAL AREA ROUND ABOUT
• 07:00 AND THEN OPEN UP THE BIBLE TO CONSIDER THE STORY.
• 07:05 WE HAVE A HUGE DESTRUCTION OF THE CANAANITE CITY.
• 07:07 WHEREVER WE DIG,
• 07:09 WHETHER IT IS ON THE ACROPOLIS,
• 07:11 WHETHER IT IS ON THE LOWER CITY,
• 07:13 THE CANAANITE PERIOD ENDS
• 07:15 WITH A HUGE DESTRUCTION,
• 07:17 SOMETIMES MORE THAN A METER OF DEBRIS...
• 07:20 ASHES, WOOD, BRICKS...
• 07:24 FALLEN BRICKS,
• 07:25 MUTILATED STATUES AND THE LIKE
• 07:28 WHICH INDICATES FIRST OF ALL
• 07:30 THAT THE DISASTER WAS HUMAN MADE
• 07:32 ITS NO EARTHQUAKE
• 07:34 BECAUSE NO EARTHQUAKE WOULD MUTILATE THE STATUES IN A SYSTEMATIC WAY,
• 07:37 SO IT WAS MAN MADE.
• 07:39 AND BY NOW WE CAN NARROW IT DOWN
• 07:42 TO ABOUT THE MIDDLE OF THE 13TH CENTURY B.C.
• 07:46 IF WE'RE TALKING ABOUT BIBLICAL SITES,
• 07:49 HAZOR IS THE NUMBER ONE SITE.
• 07:51 THERE IS NO OTHER WHICH COULD EVEN GET CLOSE
• 07:54 BECAUSE YOU'RE TALKING JUST ABOUT THE PERIOD WHICH WE HAVE
• 07:58 ...YOU WANT THE CANAANITES?
• 07:59 YOU HAVE THEM.
• 08:01 YOU WANT THE DESTRUCTION OF JOSHUA?YOU HAVE.
• 08:02 YOU WANT JUDGES?YOU HAVE.
• 08:04 YOU WANT SOLOMON?YOU HAVE.
• 08:06 YOU WANT JEROBOAM?YOU HAVE.
• 08:08 YOU WANT AHAB?YOU HAVE.
• 08:10 YOU WANT PEKAH?YOU HAVE.
• 08:11 YOU CAN SHOW...
• 08:13 YOU CAN HAVE THE DEBATE AT HAZOR.
• 08:16 YOU CAN SHOW THIS IS THE GATE WHICH ACCORDING TO THE BIBLE
• 08:18 WAS BUILT BY SOLOMON AT THE TIME OF SOLOMON.
• 08:21 NOW YOU TELL ME IT WAS NOT?
• 08:23 LET'S ARGUE ABOUT IT.
• 08:24 YOU SEE WHAT I MEAN?
• 08:25 BUT THERE'S NO OTHER SITE WHICH
• 08:28 HAS THAT MANY STRATA WHICH YOU HAVE SOMEHOW RELATED TO THE BIBLICAL NARRATIVE.
• 08:35 I HAVE HERE HAZOR IN A BOLDER, DARKER PRINT.
• 08:41 AND ROUND ABOUT IN A LIGHTER PRINT
• 08:43 A NOTATION OF THE TRIBES
• 08:45 WHO AFTER THE CONQUEST OF THE SOUTH AND THE NORTH AND SOME OTHER ANCILLARY BATTLES
• 08:51 EVENTUALLY ARE GOING TO GO TO THEIR INHERITANCE.
• 08:54 AND I WANT TO NOTE THAT THERE WAS AN INHERITANCE
• 08:56 THAT WAS GIVEN TO THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL IN THIS LAND,
• 08:59 AN INHERITANCE THAT WAS YESTERDAY, TODAY
• 09:02 AND CONTINUES ON INTO TOMORROW.
• 09:05 WELL SPEAKING OF YESTERDAY, TODAY AND TOMORROW
• 09:08 LETS OPEN UP THE ETERNAL WORD AND CONSIDER SOMETHING OF WHAT'S NOTED THEREIN.
• 09:14 AND WHERE ELSE WOULD I WANT TO GO BUT TO THE BOOK OF JOSHUA, THE 11TH CHAPTER.
• 09:20 IT'S ALWAYS NICE TO SEE HOW BIBLICAL ARCHAEOLOGY
• 09:23 CORROBORATES THE BIBLICAL TEXT.
• 09:26 WE'RE GOING TO CONSIDER A GREAT WAR THAT WAS FOUGHT HERE IN HAZOR
• 09:31 AND YOU CAN EVEN SEE THE BURN MARKS.
• 09:34 THE BIBLICAL TESTIMONY IS VERY CLEAR THAT THERE WAS "EISH",
• 09:38 A HEBREW WORD FOR "FIRE".
• 09:40 AND IT'S NOTED IN THE BRICKS,
• 09:43 IT'S NOTED IN THE MUD EVEN MANY YEARS LATER.
• 09:47 THESE STONES ARE CRYING OUT
• 09:49 AND SAYING "YOU CAN TRUST THIS LITERATURE".
• 09:52 WELL WHAT DOES THE TEXT SAY?
• 09:54 IN JOSHUA CHAPTER 11, VERSE 1,
• 10:02 JABIN WAS A DYNASTIC NAME THAT HAD GONE ON FOR CENTURIES.
• 10:05 WHAT THINGS DID HE HEAR?
• 10:07 HE HEARD ABOUT THE ISRAELITE CONQUEST OF THE SOUTH
• 10:12 AND HE WAS NOT A HAPPY CAMPER.
• 10:15 WE READ ON IN THE LITERATURE HE MOBILIZES PEOPLES ROUND ABOUT
• 10:19 AND THERE IS A BATTLE ROYAL THAT IS FOUGHT HERE.
• 10:25 WE'RE TOLD IN VERSE 10, HOWEVER,
• 10:26 DIFFICULTIES NOTWITHSTANDING,
• 10:29 THAT JOSHUA...HE WAS SUCCESSFUL IN HIS ENDEAVORS
• 10:33 AND THAT HAZOR WAS STRUCK
• 10:35 AND THE KING WAS STRUCK WITH THE EDGE OF THE SWORD...
• 10:38 AND EXPRESSION THAT DENOTES VICTORY.
• 10:42 WE'RE TOLD IN VERSE 12,
• 10:51 AGAIN...A BATTLE ROYAL.
• 10:53 A BATTLE THAT WENT TO THE HEBREWS.
• 10:56 I WANT YOU TO LOOK WITH ME PLEASE...WE'RE TOLD IN VERSE 18 THE WAR WENT FOR A LONG TIME.
• 11:02 NOT EVERY TRIAL IN LIFE GOES AWAY JUST LIKE THAT.
• 11:05 SOMETIMES YOU HAVE TO WALK IT OUT.
• 11:07 BUT THERE'S A POSITIVE END RESULT.
• 11:09 GO WITH ME PLEASE TO VERSE 23,
• 11:10 WE'RE TOLD THAT JOSHUA TOOK THE WHOLE LAND ACCORDING...
• 11:16 NOW THIS IS IMPORTANT TO ME...
• 11:17 ITS NOT JUST A WAR...
• 11:19 WE'RE TOLD THAT ITS ACCORDING TO ALL THAT THE LORD HAD SAID TO MOSES.
• 11:22 THERE'S DIVINE PROMISE IN THIS.
• 11:26 THIS IS CALLED "THE PROMISED LAND" BECAUSE FROM ON HIGH IT'S COMMENDED...
• 11:30 A CERTAIN PLACE IS COMMENDED
• 11:32 TO A CERTAIN PEOPLE.
• 11:33 WE'RE TOLD, BECAUSE THE LORD SAID TO MOSES
• 11:44 WHAT DO WE NOTE FROM THE BIBLICAL TEXT?
• 11:47 WE NOTE THAT THERE WAS A BATTLE...
• 11:49 A BATTLE ROYAL THAT RAGED AND WE KNOW THAT IT WENT TO ISRAEL.
• 11:53 AND IT WASN'T JUST THE GOOD PORTIONS OF WAR
• 11:55 BUT RATHER IT'S GOD HIMSELF LEADING A PARTICULAR PEOPLE
• 11:58 TO A PARTICULAR PLACE
• 12:00 TO ACCOMPLISH HIS PARTICULAR PURPOSES.
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• 12:55 (JEFF SPEAKING)
• 12:56 THIS IS A MODEL OF THE BURMA ROAD.
• 12:57 A STRATEGIC ROAD FOR SURVIVAL
• 12:59 CONSTRUCTED BY ISRAELI FORCES DURING THE WAR OF INDEPENDENCE.
• 13:03 DAVID DOLAN JOINS US NOW TO TELL US MORE ABOUT THAT ROAD
• 13:07 AND A MIRACULOUS STORY AGAINST ENCROACHING ARAB FORCES.
• 13:13 THE DAY AFTER THE
• 13:14 UN PARTITION PLAN
• 13:15 WAS APPROVED IN NEW YORK
• 13:17 THE FIGHTING
• 13:18 OVER THIS LAND BEGAN.
• 13:19 IRREGULAR ARAB FORCES FROM IRAQ,
• 13:21 FROM SYRIA, FROM JORDAN,
• 13:23 FROM LEBANON AND FROM EGYPT
• 13:25 CROSSED OVER.
• 13:27 OTHERS CAME FROM LIBYA
• 13:28 AND FURTHER AWAY
• 13:29 TO HELP THE LOCAL ARABS...
• 13:30 THE FAYDEEN
• 13:32 IN THE BATTLE AGAINST THE JEWS.
• 13:33 THE BRITISH WERE STILL HERE
• 13:35 BUT THEY MOSTLY STOOD ON THE SIDELINES
• 13:37 AND LET THE JEWS FIGHT FOR THEMSELVES.
• 13:39 BUT THEY HADN'T ALLOWED THE JEWISH COMMUNITY HERE TO BRING IN HEAVY WEAPONS.
• 13:43 THEY HAD NO AIRCRAFT.
• 13:44 THEY HAD NO ACTUAL TANKS.
• 13:46 THEY JUST HAD THE ARMS THEY WERE MANUFACTURING THEMSELVES...
• 13:49 LIGHT ARMS FOR THE MOST PART.
• 13:51 THE ARABS WERE CONVINCED THAT THEY WOULD SWIFTLY DEFEAT THE JEWS
• 13:55 AND THERE WOULD BE NO JEWISH STATE
• 13:56 WHEN THE BRITISH LEFT IN THE MIDDLE OF MAY.
• 13:59 THE FIGHTING BECAME FIERCE IN FEBRUARY AND MARCH.
• 14:02 TIBERIUS WAS CAPTURED ON APRIL 19TH...
• 14:05 HAIFA ON APRIL 23RD.
• 14:07 THE FIGHTING SPREAD DOWN TO THE TEL AVIV AREA.
• 14:10 JAFFA WAS CAPTURED BY THE JEWISH FORCES ON MAY 12TH.
• 14:14 MEANWHILE PALESTINIANS, ARABS STARTED TO FLEE THEIR HOMES IN GREATER NUMBERS.
• 14:18 SOME 20,000 HAD FLED BY MAY 15TH.
• 14:22 THEY WERE CONVINCED THEY WOULD SOON COME BACK TO THEIR HOMES
• 14:25 AFTER THE WAR WAS EASILY WON BY THE ARAB POWERS AROUND THEM.
• 14:29 THE ROAD TO JERUSALEM...
• 14:30 THE MAIN ROAD CONNECTING TEL AVIV AND THE COASTAL AREAS
• 14:33 TO THE JEWISH COMMUNITY IN WESTERN JERUSALEM
• 14:35 WAS CUTOFF IN THE FIERCE BATTLES.
• 14:37 IT WAS THEN RE-OPENED
• 14:39 BUT AFTER THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE ON MAY 15TH THE JORDANIAN ARMY...
• 14:43 THE JORDANIAN ARAB LEAGUE FORCES JOINED THE BATTLE.
• 14:47 THEY WERE VERY WELL TRAINED BY THE BRITISH.
• 14:49 THEY CIRCUMVENTED JERUSALEM
• 14:51 AND CAME DOWN THE HILL TO THE LATRUN JUNCTION.
• 14:54 FIERCE BATTLES TOOK PLACE THERE
• 14:56 AND THEY DEFEATED THE JEWISH FORCES
• 14:58 AND AGAIN THE ROAD WAS COMPLETELY CLOSED.
• 15:00 NO SUPPLIES WERE GETTING UP TO THE JEWISH COMMUNITY IN JERUSALEM.
• 15:04 FOOD WAS SHORT.
• 15:06 WATER WAS RUNNING OUT.
• 15:07 MEDICINES WERE RUNNING OUT.
• 15:08 SO THE JEWS OPENED AN ALTERNATIVE ROUTE
• 15:11 AND WE'RE STANDING AT THE SITE WHERE THAT BEGAN.
• 15:13 IT WAS DUBBED "THE BURMA ROAD"
• 15:15 AFTER THE GREAT ROAD THAT WAS OPENED DURING WORLD WAR II
• 15:18 BY THE ALLIES CONNECTING BURMA TO CHINA.
• 15:20 AND IT SUCCEEDED IN BRINGING SUPPLIES AROUND THE MAIN ROAD UP INTO JERUSALEM.
• 15:25 AND YOU CAN SEE PART OF THE ROAD BEHIND ME HERE.
• 15:28 THE BATTLES WERE FIERCE.
• 15:30 AND BY THE MIDDLE OF JUNE THE ARABS HAD TIRED OF THE BATTLE
• 15:33 THEY WERE NOT FIGHTING VERY WELL ANY MORE.
• 15:36 THE JEWS WERE CONTINUING TO FIGHT BACK WITH STRENGTH.
• 15:38 HISTORIANS SAY IT'S BECAUSE THE JEWS WERE FIGHTING FOR THEIR LIVES.
• 15:42 THEY KNEW THEY'RE COUNTRY WAS GOING TO BE DESTROYED IF THEY LOST THIS WAR.
• 15:46 MANY OF THEM WERE HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS
• 15:49 THAT LITERALLY GOT OFF OF THE BOATS FROM EUROPE
• 15:51 AND WERE GIVEN A GUN AND TOLD TO GO TO THE WARFRONT.
• 15:54 THEY'RE MOTIVATION WAS EXTREMELY HIGH.
• 15:56 A TRUCE WAS DECLARED ON JUNE 10TH.
• 15:59 DURING THIS PERIOD OF FIGHTING
• 16:00 ANOTHER TWO TO THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND PALESTINIANS HAD FLED THEIR HOMES.
• 16:05 MOST OF THEM DIDN'T GO TO OTHER COUNTRIES THOUGH;
• 16:07 THEY WENT TO THE AREAS THAT THE PARTITION PLAN DESIGNATED FOR A JEWISH STATE.
• 16:11 THEY WENT TO FAMILY HOMES IN JUDEA AND SAMARIA.
• 16:14 THEY WENT TO HOMES IN THE GAZA STRIP AND OTHER AREAS.
• 16:17 BUT ABOUT A THIRD WENT TO JORDAN AND TO LEBANON
• 16:20 AND TO SYRIA AND OTHER PLACES.
• 16:22 FIGHTING RESUMED ON JULY 8TH
• 16:25 AND LASTED TILL JULY 18TH.
• 16:26 ANOTHER TWENTY TO THIRTY THOUSAND ARABS FLED THEIR HOMES DURING THIS TIME.
• 16:30 AND THIS WAS THE ONLY TIME THAT THE ISRAELI FORCES DELIBERATELY
• 16:34 EVACUATED SOME OF THE ARABS FROM THEIR HOMES.
• 16:37 THAT WAS IN TWO TOWNS...
• 16:38 RAMLA AND LYDDA
• 16:40 RIGHT NEXT TO THE VITAL BEN-GURION AIRPORT,
• 16:42 THE ONLY AIRPORT IN THE COUNTRY AT THAT TIME.
• 16:46 THERE WAS ANOTHER CEASE FIRE AS I SAID, IN JULY,
• 16:49 AND THAT LASTED UNTIL MID OCTOBER WHEN FIGHTING BEGAN AGAIN.
• 16:54 AND DURING THIS TIME,
• 16:55 THIS THIRD PERIOD OF FIGHTING,
• 16:57 THE JEWS SUCCEEDED IN RE-OPENING THE ROAD FROM TEL AVIV TO JERUSALEM
• 17:01 AND THIS BURMA BYPASS WAS NO LONGER SO ESSENTIAL.
• 17:04 MORE PALESTINIANS FLED THEIR HOMES DURING THIS TIME.
• 17:08 THE UN SAID THAT THE TOTAL PALESTINIAN REFUGEE FLIGHT WAS 726,000.
• 17:14 THE ISRAELIS SAID IT WAS MORE LIKE 600,000
• 17:17 SINCE, AS I SAID, MANY HAD GONE BACK TO FAMILY HOMES,
• 17:20 HADN'T REALLY BECOME REFUGEES AT ALL.
• 17:23 THE ARABS PUT THE NUMBER AT OVER A MILLION.
• 17:26 600,372 JEWS LOST THEIR LIVES DURING THIS WAR.
• 17:31 BY FAR THE GREATEST DEATH TOLL IN ANY OF ISRAEL'S WARS...
• 17:33 ONE PERCENT OF THE POPULATION...
• 17:35 2,004 OF THOSE WERE CIVILIANS.
• 17:51 WE'RE REQUIRED TO GO THROUGH A MIKVAH, A RITUAL BATH,
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• 20:11 SPEAKING OF FOCUS...
• 20:12 AT THE END OF THE PROGRAM
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• 20:32 WELL OFF WE GO NOW...
• 20:33 DAVID DOLAN JOINS ME IN HAZOR
• 20:36 AS WE CONSIDER A BATTLE ROYAL ONCE FOUGHT IN NORTHERN ISRAEL.
• 20:44 DAVID, IT'S LIKE THINGS NEVER CHANGE.
• 20:46 JEWS ARE ALWAYS FIGHTING FOR A RIGHT TO BE IN THIS REAL ESTATE.
• 20:49 ABSOLUTELY AND YOU KNOW WE'VE JUST BEEN TALKING ABOUT THE ANCIENT BATTLES
• 20:53 HERE IN THE LAND AND THE MODERN BATTLES.
• 20:55 I'M LOOKING OUT AT THE GOLAN HEIGHTS HERE FROM HAZOR
• 20:59 AND THAT IS FIGURED IN WHAT? TWO...THREE WARS SO FAR?
• 21:03 MAYBE ANOTHER ONE IN THE FUTURE...
• 21:05 MAYBE ANOTHER FEW IN THE FUTURE.
• 21:06 IT HASN'T CHANGED.
• 21:08 THE ARAB WORLD, THE MUSLIM WORLD WANTS TO SEE ISRAEL DESTROYED.
• 21:12 SO MANY OF THEM THEY KEEP SAYING IT.
• 21:14 THEY'VE TRIED SEVERAL TIMES AND FAILED
• 21:16 GOING BACK TO THE TIME OF JOSHUA
• 21:18 AND IT LOOKS LIKE THERE'S GOING TO BE MORE ATTEMPTS.
• 21:21 I'M A BIBLE GUY...
• 21:22 I'M A LOT ABOUT THE DIVINE WORD OF YESTERDAY
• 21:24 BUT YOU'RE HERE ON THE GROUND IN ISRAEL.
• 21:26 WHAT DO THESE WARS LOOK LIKE?
• 21:27 HOW DID IT UNFOLD?
• 21:29 WELL I COVERED THE LEBANON WAR JUST 25 MILES NORTH OF HERE INSIDE OF LEBANON.
• 21:34 I WAS THERE FOR THE BUILD UP TO IT,
• 21:37 THE ROCKETS COMING ACROSS THE BORDER PRETTY MUCH EVERY DAY,
• 21:40 I SAW THE KIDS RUNNING TO THE SHELTER.
• 21:42 I SAW WHAT LIFE IS LIKE
• 21:44 WHEN THERE'S NOT ACTUALLY WAR DECLARED BUT THERE'S NOT PEACE.
• 21:48 AND THAT'S THE PART OF THE STORY THAT OFTEN DOESN'T GET TOLD,
• 21:52 THAT THE ISRAELI PEOPLE HAVE SUFFERED THESE ALMOST CONSTANT ATTACKS
• 21:57 SINCE...WELL REALLY SINCE THE 1920'S...
• 21:59 NOT EVEN SINCE '48.
• 22:01 BUT OF COURSE '48 BEING THE WAR WITH THE LARGEST NUMBER OF CASUALTIES,
• 22:04 BUT ITS DRAMATIC...
• 22:06 ITS TOUGH TO LIVE LIKE THAT.
• 22:07 PEOPLE LOSE A SENSE OF THAT.
• 22:09 WE READ THE BIBLICAL TEXT.
• 22:10 THERE'S A LOT OF SWEAT AND BLOOD, ENERGY, DRAMA, PAIN, PASSION AND PLEASURE TOO
• 22:15 TO SEE GOD TO COME THROUGH AND GIVE GOOD SUCCESS YESTERDAY AND TODAY.
• 22:19 AND IT DOESN'T HAPPEN WITHOUT PAIN AND TEARS
• 22:22 AND BLOOD AND THE PRICE THAT'S PAID.
• 22:24 THIS COUNTRY IS GOOD ABOUT REMEMBERING THAT.
• 22:27 YOU GO FROM MEMORIAL DAY FOR THE FALLEN SOLDIERS
• 22:31 TO INDEPENDENCE DAY WITHIN A SECOND...
• 22:33 THEY'RE BACK TO BACK AS HOLIDAYS HERE.
• 22:36 AND THAT REMINDS EVERYONE OF THE PRICE.
• 22:38 YES IT SEEMS THAT THE BIBLE BECKONS US TO REMEMBER
• 22:40 BECAUSE THESE WARS ARE NOTED IN THE TEXT.
• 22:42 WHY IS IT THAT BIBLE PEOPLE FORGET...
• 22:44 FORGET THE JEWS...
• 22:45 FORGET ISRAEL...WHY?
• 22:46 THAT IS A GOOD QUESTION.
• 22:48 I THINK ITS SOMETHING THAT YOU WOULD PROBABLY HAVE A BETTER ANSWER FOR.
• 22:52 IT'S A SPIRITUAL MYSTERY REALLY.
• 22:54 IT SURELY IS.
• 22:55 YOU KNOW PAUL SPEAKS OF HOW JEWISH PEOPLE GOD LOVED
• 22:58 CAN LOOK AT THE BIBLICAL TEXT AND NOT SEE JESUS.
• 23:00 BUT MY QUESTION IS HOW CAN CHRISTIAN PEOPLE LOOK AT THE BIBLICAL TEXT
• 23:03 AND NOT SEE JEWS IN ISRAEL?
• 23:04 GO FIGURE...BLINDNESS.
• 23:06 I HAVE A FRIEND HERE, A JEWISH BELIEVER;
• 23:08 HE SAYS THAT PAUL SAID THAT A BLINDNESS WOULD FALL UPON THE JEWISH PEOPLE IN PART
• 23:12 UNTIL IT'S REVEALED WHO THEIR MESSIAH IS.
• 23:16 BUT HE SAYS THAT IT SEEMS TO HAVE FALLEN ON THE CHURCH IN TERMS OF WHO ISRAEL IS
• 23:20 AND THEIR COVENANT RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD.
• 23:22 AND THAT'S A SHAME
• 23:24 AND IT'S LED TO A LOT OF PERSECUTION AGAINST JEWS AND WARS AGAINST JEWS
• 23:27 EVEN HERE IN THE LAND THE CRUSADERS KILLED THOUSANDS OF JEWS.
• 23:31 YES AND YOU KNOW THROUGH WHAT WE'RE DOING TOGETHER,
• 23:33 MAY GOD BLESS OUR LABORS TO DISPEL THAT DARKNESS
• 23:37 AND SET A LITTLE LIGHT FROM THE BIBLICAL TEXT.
• 23:54 WHEN IT COMES TO GOD'S PLAN FOR THE JEWISH PEOPLE IN ISRAEL
• 23:57 NOT EVERYBODY GETS IT.
• 23:59 RAHAB DID, HOWEVER,
• 24:01 IN FACT THIS NON-JEWISH WOMAN USES HER INFLUENCE TO HELP FACILITATE A GREAT VICTORY
• 24:08 AT A PLACE CALLED JERICHO.
• 24:11 NOT LONG AFTER IT THE BATON WAS PASSED FROM MOSES TO JOSHUA.
• 24:15 JOSHUA LED A CAMPAIGN AT JERICHO...A FAMOUS STORY.
• 24:20 THERE'S SONGS SUNG ABOUT IT.
• 24:22 AND NOW THE LATE ZOLA LEVITT AND DR. THOMAS MCCALL ARE GOING TO TALK ABOUT IT.
• 24:27 OFF WE GO NOW TO JERICHO.
• 24:31 WHAT A BLESSING
• 24:32 GOD GAVE TO RAHAB.
• 24:34 AND THE PARALLELS
• 24:36 THAT WE COULD DRAW
• 24:37 ARE REALLY VERY OBVIOUS.
• 24:39 WE NEED TO BE...
• 24:42 THERE NEED TO BE
• 24:42 MORE PEOPLE LIKE RAHAB.
• 24:44 AND WE SHOULD BELIEVE
• 24:47 LIKE RAHAB DID
• 24:48 THAT GOD HAS GIVEN THE LAND TO THEM
• 24:50 AND WE SHOULD DO EVERYTHING WE CAN TO HELP THEM.
• 24:52 THIS PARADE OF PILGRIMS
• 24:54 ARRIVING IN THESE BUSES,
• 24:56 PULLING UP TO THESE ANCIENT SITES ALL DAY LONG
• 24:59 SHOULD ALWAYS STAND BEHIND ISRAEL.
• 25:03 IT'S A SAD THING BECAUSE IN SOME QUARTERS TODAY,
• 25:06 EVEN IN SOME SEMINARIES
• 25:08 THERE ARE PEOPLE PULLING AWAY FROM THE IDEA OF ISRAEL BEING A FULFILLMENT OF PROPHECY.
• 25:11 THAT'S SIMPLY NOT BIBLICAL
• 25:13 AND IT'S EASY WHEN YOU COME HERE TO SEE THAT.
• 25:37 IT'S A GREAT STORY ISN'T IT?
• 25:39 WE BEGAN TODAY UP IN HAZOR TO THE NORTH.
• 25:43 WE FINISHED UP WITH A LITTLE FOCUS ON JERICHO
• 25:46 WHICH WOULD BE RIGHT OVER HERE.
• 25:48 MY POINT IN THE MAP IS TO NOTE
• 25:50 THAT GOD WORKED THROUGH THEIR EFFORTS WITH A NET RESULT THAT ISRAEL CAME INTO HER OWN.
• 25:56 AND THEN THE LAND WAS DIVIDED UP.
• 25:58 EACH OF THE TRIBES WENT TO THEIR RESPECTIVE INHERITANCE.
• 26:02 THEY CONTRIBUTED TO THE WAR EFFORT
• 26:04 AND THEN ASHER AND NAPHTALI TO THE NORTH AND SO FORTH...
• 26:07 JUDAH AND SIMEON...
• 26:09 YOU KNOW THESE NAMES IF YOU'RE A BIBLE READER.
• 26:11 WHAT I WANT YOU TO KNOW AS WE GO OUT OF THIS PROGRAM
• 26:14 IS THAT GOD GIVES AN INHERITANCE TO THOSE THAT SERVE HIM.
• 26:18 I HOPE YOU'RE MINDED TO DO SO BY THE WAY.
• 26:20 IF YOU ARE THERE WILL BE TRIALS ALONG THE WAY
• 26:24 BUT GREAT IS GOD WHO LEADS US ON INTO VICTORY.
• 26:28 NEXT WEEK WE'LL CONSIDER SOME VICTORIOUS KINGS...
• 26:30 WE'LL LOOK AT DAVID AND THEN SOLOMON THAT HAD SOME VICTORIES AND DEFEATS FOR THAT MATTER...
• 26:35 BUT THAT'S ANOTHER STORY.
• 26:36 AS YOU GO NOW,
• 26:38 SHA'ALU SHALOM YERUSHALAYIM
• 26:40 PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM