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Caption transcript for The Stones Cry Out (2012): “Archaeology and the Scriptures” (6/12)

• 00:02 (♪ "The Stones Cry Out" ♪)
• 00:24 Male Singer: ♪ IF NO ONE STANDS TO SPEAK, ♪
• 00:29 ♪ IF NO ONE PRAYS, ♪
• 00:34 ♪ THESE VERY STONES CRY OUT, ♪
• 00:41 ♪ "I AM." ♪♪
• 00:46 Myles: SHALOM AND WELCOME
• 00:47 TO ZOLA LEVITT PRESENTS.
• 00:49 I'M MYLES WEISS.
• 00:50 Katharine: I'M KATHARINE WEISS.
• 00:51 Myles: WE ARE CONTINUING OUR
• 00:52 SERIES "THE STONES CRY OUT."
• 00:55 THIS IS AN AMAZING TIME.
• 00:56 WE GET TO LOOK INTO
• 00:57 THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL FINDS
• 00:58 THAT ARE VERIFYING
• 00:59 THE TRUTH OF THE BIBLE
• 01:01 AND THE JEWISH PRESENCE
• 01:02 IN THE LAND.
• 01:03 Katharine: IT'S NICE TO SEE ZOLA
• 01:04 IN THE LAND AND TOM INTERVIEWING
• 01:06 THE ARCHAEOLOGISTS ABOUT
• 01:08 THE FINDS THAT THEY'VE FOUND.
• 01:09 AND IT'S SO ENCOURAGING
• 01:11 TO HAVE THESE STORIES
• 01:12 TO BRING TO YOU, SO THANK YOU
• 01:14 FOR YOUR GIFTS OF FUNDS.
• 01:15 THANK YOU
• 01:16 FOR YOUR CONTINUAL SUPPORT OF
• 01:17 WHAT THIS MINISTRY STANDS FOR.
• 01:19 Myles: YES.
• 01:20 NOW LET'S GO TO TOM McCALL
• 01:21 ON LOCATION
• 01:22 AT THE ROCKEFELLER MUSEUM
• 01:23 IN ISRAEL.
• 01:26 ♪ ♪
• 01:32 Tom: VASSILIOS, TELL ME ABOUT
• 01:33 WHERE WE ARE RIGHT NOW.
• 01:35 Vassilios: WELL, WE'RE IN
• 01:36 THE CENTRAL COURT
• 01:37 OF ROCKEFELLER MUSEUM;
• 01:38 A MUSEUM WHICH WAS BUILT IN 1935
• 01:43 BY THE BRITISH MANDATE,
• 01:45 IN ORDER TO EXHIBIT
• 01:46 THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL FINDS
• 01:48 FROM DIFFERENT SITES
• 01:49 WHICH HAVE BEEN EXCAVATED
• 01:50 SINCE THEN, AND ALSO TO BE IN
• 01:53 THE CENTER OF THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL
• 01:56 ACTIVITIES,
• 01:57 THE DEPARTMENT OF ANTIQUITIES.
• 01:59 AND, ACTUALLY, IT WAS THE MUSEUM
• 02:03 IN WHICH ALL THE FINDS FROM
• 02:06 ALL THE IMPORTANT EXCAVATIONS
• 02:07 DONE UP TO 1935
• 02:12 HAVE BEEN EXHIBITED HERE.
• 02:14 Zola: A 20-YEAR
• 02:15 FIELD ARCHAEOLOGIST AND EXPERT
• 02:18 IN EARLY CHRISTIAN CHURCHES,
• 02:20 PROFESSOR TZAFERIAS
• 02:21 HAS ALSO STUDIED THE BIBLICAL,
• 02:23 HELLENISTIC, ROMAN, BYZANTINE
• 02:25 AND MIDDLE AGES.
• 02:27 WITH ALL THE PLACES TO DIG
• 02:28 IN THE WORLD, WE ASKED HIM
• 02:30 WHY SO MANY NATIONS CAME
• 02:31 TO THE TINY LAND OF ISRAEL.
• 02:34 Vassilios: CHRISTIANITY
• 02:35 AND JUDAISM WERE FOUNDED HERE
• 02:38 AND ALL THE EVENTS
• 02:41 WHICH ARE CONNECTED
• 02:42 WITH THE OLD TESTAMENT
• 02:43 AND THE NEW TESTAMENT
• 02:44 TOOK PLACE IN THIS SURROUNDING.
• 02:47 SO, EVERYONE IS COMING HERE
• 02:49 TO SEE, UNDERSTAND
• 02:51 AND SEE WHAT IS HAPPENING;
• 02:54 NOT ONLY ARCHAEOLOGISTS,
• 02:55 BUT ALSO HISTORIANS
• 02:56 AND EVEN THEOLOGIANS.
• 02:58 Tom: WHAT ARE SOME OF
• 02:59 THE INSTITUTES, THE MAJOR ONES
• 03:00 THAT ARE INVOLVED?
• 03:01 Vassilios: WELL, FIRST OF ALL,
• 03:02 A LOT OF VISITORS
• 03:04 FROM THE UNITED STATES
• 03:05 AND THAT'S...I MEAN,
• 03:06 THEY WERE THE FIRST
• 03:07 TO COME HERE;
• 03:08 BRITISH INSTITUTES...
• 03:10 ALTHOUGH, LATELY,
• 03:12 THE BRITISH INSTITUTE,
• 03:13 PARTLY OUT OF
• 03:14 FINANCIAL DIFFICULTIES,
• 03:16 THEY HAVE NOT INCREASED--
• 03:19 DECREASED THEIR INTEREST
• 03:21 IN THIS COUNTRY.
• 03:22 BUT THE FRENCH AND THE ITALIANS
• 03:24 AND THE SPAIN,
• 03:25 EVEN FROM JAPAN...
• 03:26 INSTITUTES ARE COMING EVERY
• 03:28 SUMMER WITH THEIR STUDENTS
• 03:30 AND EXCAVATE.
• 03:31 AND ABOVE ALL, OF COURSE,
• 03:33 THE INSTITUTES,
• 03:34 THE ACADEMIES FROM ISRAEL...
• 03:36 FIVE UNIVERSITIES...
• 03:37 THEY DO HAVE
• 03:38 ARCHAEOLOGICAL DEPARTMENTS
• 03:39 AND EVERY DEPARTMENT IS INVOLVED
• 03:41 IN SOME EXCAVATION.
• 03:43 AND, OF COURSE,
• 03:44 THE ANTIQUITIES AUTHORITY.
• 03:46 WE'RE DOING MOST OF THE WORK
• 03:48 IN THE FIELD OF WHAT WE CALL
• 03:52 "THE SALVAGE EXCAVATION."
• 03:53 BECAUSE OF THE DEVELOPMENT
• 03:55 IN THIS COUNTRY,
• 03:56 WHICH IS VERY RAPID,
• 03:57 AND MANY SITES
• 03:58 HAVE BEEN DESTROYED IN
• 04:00 THIS PROCEDURE OF DEVELOPMENT,
• 04:02 WE'RE COMING TO SAVE THIS
• 04:05 AND TO EXCAVATE AND TO SAVE THE
• 04:07 INFORMATION FROM THESE SITES.
• 04:09 WE'RE NOT SAVING THE SITES,
• 04:11 BECAUSE EVENTUALLY THEY'LL BE
• 04:12 DESTROYED BY THE BULLDOZERS
• 04:14 BUT WE SAVE THE INFORMATION
• 04:17 AND THE EVIDENCE
• 04:18 THEY ARE GIVING TO US.
• 04:19 SO WE'RE DOING A LOT OF WORK.
• 04:22 Tom: ARCHAEOLOGY HERE IN ISRAEL
• 04:23 HAS HAD A VERY FASCINATING PAST
• 04:26 FOR SOMETHING OVER 100 YEARS,
• 04:28 I GUESS,
• 04:31 AND MANY IMPORTANT DISCOVERIES
• 04:32 HAVE BEEN MADE.
• 04:33 DO YOU THINK THERE IS MUCH OF
• 04:35 A FUTURE FOR ARCHAEOLOGY HERE?
• 04:37 Vassilios: WELL, FIRST OF ALL,
• 04:39 WE EXCAVATE FOR 100 YEARS NOW
• 04:42 AND I CAN SAY THAT WE'VE
• 04:44 EXCAVATED ONLY NO MORE THAN
• 04:48 15% OF OUR PAST.
• 04:51 IF YOU LOOK ON THE SITES
• 04:53 WHICH HAVE BEEN EXCAVATED
• 04:54 50-60 YEARS AGO, ONLY
• 04:56 SMALL PORTIONS OF THE SITES
• 04:58 HAVE BEEN EXCAVATED
• 04:59 AND THE REST IS LEFT
• 05:00 FOR THE POSTERITY.
• 05:01 SECONDLY, MANY OF THE SITES
• 05:03 WHICH HAS BEEN EXCAVATED
• 05:04 JUST YEARS AND YEARS AGO,
• 05:07 NOW WE HAVE TO COME BACK AGAIN
• 05:09 AND CHECK IF THE ASSUMPTIONS
• 05:11 FROM THOSE ARCHAEOLOGISTS
• 05:12 WHO WORKED 30, 50,
• 05:15 OR EVEN 100 YEARS AGO...
• 05:17 IF THEIR ASSUMPTIONS WERE RIGHT.
• 05:18 SO, WE HAVE TO CHECK
• 05:19 AND UPDATE OUR KNOWLEDGE.
• 05:21 SO, DON'T WORRY...
• 05:23 THERE IS WORK FOR THE
• 05:24 ARCHAEOLOGISTS OF THE FUTURE.
• 05:26 ♪ ♪
• 05:31 Zola: A SPLENDID TESTAMENT
• 05:33 TO THE WORK OF THE ISRAELIS
• 05:34 IS THE TOWER OF DAVID,
• 05:36 OR DAVID'S CITADEL.
• 05:37 NOW A MUSEUM,
• 05:38 ITS MASSIVE WALLS,
• 05:40 MAJESTIC RAMPARTS
• 05:41 AND IMPOSING TOWERS REMAIN
• 05:43 AS AN ORACLE
• 05:44 OF JERUSALEM'S HISTORY.
• 05:46 I STOPPED OUTSIDE
• 05:47 TO GIVE AN ABBREVIATED STORY
• 05:48 OF THIS ONE-TIME FORTRESS.
• 05:51 WELL, I'M STANDING
• 05:52 IN A TURKISH ARCHWAY
• 05:54 ON A KIND OF A PORTICO
• 05:56 IN FRONT OF AN ANCIENT BUILDING,
• 05:58 A BUILDING REBUILT MANY TIMES,
• 06:00 THE KIND OF BUILDING
• 06:01 THAT MAKES JERUSALEM WHAT IT IS
• 06:02 AND THE KIND OF BUILDING
• 06:03 YOU DON'T HAVE IN YOUR CITY
• 06:04 PROBABLY.
• 06:05 WELL, ( Chuckles )
• 06:06 VERY FEW CITIES IN THE WORLD
• 06:07 CAN BOAST OF SUCH A PLACE
• 06:10 THAT HAS SO MANY PERIODS
• 06:11 AND SO MANY DIFFERENT PEOPLES
• 06:12 ASSOCIATED WITH IT.
• 06:14 TO BEGIN WITH,
• 06:15 IT WAS KING HEROD'S PALACE
• 06:16 AND HE BUILT TOWERS
• 06:18 TO FAMILY MEMBERS, AND SO ON.
• 06:20 THESE TOWERS ARE STILL HERE.
• 06:23 WHEN TITUS AND THE ROMANS
• 06:25 DESTROYED THE CITY,
• 06:26 AND, OF COURSE,
• 06:27 KING HEROD EXISTED IN
• 06:28 THE PERIOD OF THE 1st CENTURY;
• 06:29 IN THE PERIOD OF JESUS,
• 06:30 AND SO ON, THEN THAT
• 06:32 WAS CONQUERED IN 70 A.D.
• 06:34 THE CITY WAS CONQUERED
• 06:35 AND TITUS, THE ROMAN GENERAL,
• 06:37 ORDERED THE PLACE RAZED.
• 06:40 I MEAN, IT WAS DESTROYED.
• 06:42 THIS BUILDING
• 06:43 WAS LARGELY DESTROYED,
• 06:44 BUT HE LEFT THE TOWER STANDING
• 06:46 AND THE HERODIAN STONES;
• 06:48 THOSE NEAT STONES
• 06:49 WITH THE BORDERS ON EACH ONE
• 06:51 THAT FIT TOGETHER
• 06:52 WITHOUT MORTAR.
• 06:53 A BEAUTIFUL BUILDING HEROD DID.
• 06:54 THOSE STONES WERE LEFT IN PLACE
• 06:57 AND NEVER TORN DOWN.
• 06:59 THE ROMANS GAVE THEM OVER
• 07:01 TO THE BYZANTINE CHRISTIANS
• 07:03 WHO ARE ALSO ASSOCIATED
• 07:05 WITH THIS BUILDING.
• 07:06 THIS BUILDING IS JUST INSIDE
• 07:08 THE JAFFA GATE
• 07:09 IN THE OLD CITY OF JERUSALEM.
• 07:11 SO IT IS A CENTRAL AND
• 07:12 IMPORTANT SITE TO JERUSALEM.
• 07:15 THE BYZANTINES GAVE WAY
• 07:16 TO THE MUSLIMS
• 07:17 AND IN THEIR PERIOD
• 07:18 THEY OCCUPIED THE BUILDING.
• 07:20 THE TURKS CAME IN THEIR TIME;
• 07:22 1517 TO 1917.
• 07:26 AND IN 1917,
• 07:28 CLOSE TO WHERE I'M STANDING,
• 07:29 GENERAL ALLENBY,
• 07:31 THE BRITISH COMMANDER
• 07:32 WHO TOOK THE CITY AT THAT TIME
• 07:36 ANNOUNCED
• 07:37 THAT THE BRITISH TROOPS
• 07:39 HAD TAKEN JERUSALEM.
• 07:41 THEY HAD TAKEN THE PLACE
• 07:42 WITHOUT FIRING A SHOT.
• 07:44 THIS WAS MORE OF A NEGOTIATED
• 07:47 SETTLEMENT AND JERUSALEM WAS
• 07:49 GIVEN OVER TO A BRITISH MANDATE
• 07:51 AT THAT TIME.
• 07:53 WHAT HAS BECOME OF THE BUILDING
• 07:55 SINCE THEN?
• 07:56 WELL, THE BRITISH MANDATE
• 07:57 GAVE WAY TO THE JEWISH ENTRY
• 08:01 INTO JERUSALEM IN 1948
• 08:03 WHEN THE U.N. PARTITIONED
• 08:04 THE LAND
• 08:05 AND A PORTION OF JERUSALEM
• 08:08 GIVEN TO THE JEWS.
• 08:09 THEN, THERE WAS
• 08:11 THE WAR OF INDEPENDENCE
• 08:12 AND THE 1956 WAR WITH THE ARABS.
• 08:15 THE 1967 WAR IS VERY IMPORTANT
• 08:17 TO JERUSALEM
• 08:18 AND TO THIS BUILDING,
• 08:19 BECAUSE AT THAT TIME
• 08:20 THE JEWS CAME THROUGH HERE,
• 08:22 CONQUERED EAST JERUSALEM
• 08:23 AND OCCUPIED
• 08:24 THIS PART OF THE CITY.
• 08:25 AND, IN DOING SO,
• 08:26 THEY ACQUIRED WHAT WAS LEFT
• 08:29 OF THIS BUILDING...
• 08:30 A HOLLOWED-OUT STRUCTURE
• 08:31 WITH HIGH WALLS AND THE TOWER
• 08:33 STILL IN PLACE
• 08:34 BUILT BY KING HEROD
• 08:35 AND HEROD'S STONES
• 08:37 ALL THE WAY AROUND
• 08:38 STILL STANDING,
• 08:39 STILL RELIABLY HOLDING UP
• 08:40 THE WALLS.
• 08:41 AND THE JEWS BUILT HERE
• 08:42 A VERY SPLENDID MUSEUM
• 08:44 AND THEY CALLED THE PLACE
• 08:45 "DAVID'S TOWER,"
• 08:46 BUT IT DOESN'T REALLY GO BACK
• 08:48 TO KING DAVID,
• 08:49 BUT THE TOWERS THERE,
• 08:50 THEIR ENORMITY AND SPLENDOR,
• 08:52 REMINDED THE JEWS
• 08:54 OF THE PERIOD OF KING DAVID.
• 08:55 AND IT'S ALWAYS BEEN CALLED
• 08:57 "DAVID'S TOWER"
• 08:58 OR "DAVID'S CITADEL."
• 08:59 THIS OLD BUILDING,
• 09:00 WHICH HAS SEEN
• 09:01 SO MANY COMINGS AND GOINGS,
• 09:02 SO MANY PERIODS,
• 09:03 FROM THE PAGAN ROMANS
• 09:05 TO THE CHRISTIANS,
• 09:06 THE BYZANTINES TO THE MUSLIMS
• 09:08 AND FINALLY THE BRITISH
• 09:10 AND THE JEWISH...
• 09:11 IS STILL UP FOR NEGOTIATIONS
• 09:14 AND HOPEFULLY THERE WILL NOT BE
• 09:17 TOO MUCH USE OF THIS SORT AGAIN
• 09:19 IN WHATEVER BEFALLS THIS PLACE
• 09:22 IN THE FUTURE.
• 09:23 HOWEVER THE NEGOTIATIONS GO,
• 09:25 THIS BUILDING WILL BE HERE.
• 09:26 WE'LL SEE IT AGAIN.
• 09:27 WE'LL RECORD IT
• 09:29 AND IF THE LORD TARRIES
• 09:30 1,000 YEARS, I'M SURE
• 09:31 WE'LL STILL BE STANDING HERE
• 09:32 TO RECORD THE EVENTS
• 09:34 OF WHATEVER HAPPENS
• 09:35 IN THE INTERIM PERIOD.
• 09:37 ♪ ♪
• 09:38 WHEN WE RETURN,
• 09:39 WE'LL GO INSIDE THE CITADEL
• 09:41 AND SPEAK WITH BOB MULLINS,
• 09:42 AN AMERICAN ARCHAEOLOGIST
• 09:44 LIVING AND WORKING IN ISRAEL.
• 09:45 WE'LL LEARN HOW HIS YEARS
• 09:47 OF SIFTING THE SANDS
• 09:48 HAVE AFFECTED HIS FAITH.
• 09:50 Bob: IT'S REALLY BEING ABLE
• 09:52 TO PUT MYSELF IN THE PLACE
• 09:53 OF AN ANCIENT ISRAELITE,
• 09:56 TO STAND IN THE HOUSE
• 09:57 THAT THEY STOOD IN, TO SEE LIFE
• 09:59 FROM THEIR PERSPECTIVE.
• 10:01 AND THIS, REALLY, I THINK,
• 10:03 BRINGS ARCHAEOLOGY
• 10:04 TO MUCH MORE OF A HUMAN LEVEL.
• 10:06 ♪ ♪
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• 10:40 PLEASE CONTACT US FOR MORE INFORMATION.
• 10:44 ♪ ♪
• 11:20 Katharine: ISRAEL...
• 11:21 WHEN YOU COME WITH US,
• 11:23 YOU WILL COME
• 11:24 TO SOME OF THESE DIGS
• 11:25 AND SEE FOR YOURSELF
• 11:26 THE TREASURES
• 11:27 THAT ARE IN THE EARTH
• 11:28 AND THAT HAVE BEEN DISCOVERED
• 11:29 FOR THIS TIME
• 11:30 TO ESTABLISH ISRAEL
• 11:32 AND ITS RIGHT TO THE LAND.
• 11:34 AND THIS LITTLE BOOKLET
• 11:35 IS WONDERFUL, TOO, MYLES.
• 11:36 Myles: RIGHT...THIS IS
• 11:37 "ISRAEL'S RIGHT TO THE LAND."
• 11:38 IT IS WRITTEN BY DAVID HOCKING
• 11:39 AND IT'S OUR OFFER
• 11:40 FOR THIS WEEK.
• 11:41 IT WILL REALLY HELP YOU.
• 11:42 IT WILL EQUIP YOU
• 11:43 TO SPEAK TO FRIENDS AND FAMILY
• 11:44 ABOUT GOD'S PLAN
• 11:46 FOR THE LAND ITSELF
• 11:47 AND THE JEWISH PEOPLE.
• 11:48 IN FACT, THIS IS PART
• 11:50 OF OUR "PRO-ISRAEL PACKAGE."
• 11:51 IT HAS A NUMBER
• 11:52 OF INTERESTING ITEMS IN IT.
• 11:53 LET'S GO TO VIDEO
• 11:54 THAT WILL TELL YOU A LITTLE BIT
• 11:55 ABOUT THAT PACKAGE NOW.
• 11:57 ♪ ♪
• 11:59 Announcer: SHOW YOUR SUPPORT FOR ISRAEL
• 12:00 WITH THE "PRO-ISRAEL PACKAGE."
• 12:03 FOR YOUR GIFT OF $48 OR MORE, YOU'LL RECEIVE:
• 12:05 A 3' x 5' FLAG OF ISRAEL;
• 12:08 FOUR PRO-ISRAEL BUTTONS;
• 12:10 A "PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM" BUMPER STICKER;
• 12:13 "ISRAEL'S RIGHT TO THE LAND" BOOKLET;
• 12:15 A "JERUSALEM JOURNEY STONE;"
• 12:17 "BROKEN BRANCHES" BY ZOLA LEVITT;
• 12:19 AND A TWO-FLAG LAPEL PIN.
• 12:21 CALL AND ASK FOR THE "PRO-ISRAEL PACKAGE"
• 12:24 OR VISIT US AT LEVITT.COM.
• 12:30 Myles: I'M GLAD THAT WE CAN
• 12:31 PRESENT TO YOU SOMETHING LIKE
• 12:32 THE "PRO-ISRAEL PACKAGE,"
• 12:33 ESPECIALLY IN THE DAY
• 12:34 IN WHICH WE'RE LIVING.
• 12:35 YOU KNOW, THESE PROGRAMS WERE
• 12:36 ORIGINALLY PRODUCED IN 1996.
• 12:38 SINCE THAT TIME THERE HAVE BEEN
• 12:40 MORE AND MORE DISCOVERIES
• 12:41 IN THE LAND.
• 12:42 WE WERE THERE
• 12:43 WHEN THE POOL OF SILOAM
• 12:44 WAS DISCOVERED,
• 12:45 AND THEY KEEP FINDING
• 12:46 MORE EVIDENCE OF THE TRUTH
• 12:47 OF THE BIBLE.
• 12:49 Katharine: THE FAITH THAT COMES
• 12:50 FROM SEEING THAT THE BIBLE IS
• 12:51 GOD'S ACCURATE DIALOGUE TO US.
• 12:55 NOT ONLY IS HE TALKING TO US
• 12:57 FROM THE SCRIPTURE, BUT THEN
• 12:58 HE TELLS US WHERE TO DO AND DIG.
• 12:59 Myles: YES...EXACTLY.
• 13:01 SOME PEOPLE MAY NOT KNOW
• 13:02 WHO ZOLA IS.
• 13:03 HE'S THE FOUNDER
• 13:04 OF THIS MINISTRY.
• 13:05 HE BEGAN THIS BACK IN THE 1970s.
• 13:07 IT'S BEEN ONE OF THE PREMIER
• 13:08 FORERUNNING MINISTRIES
• 13:09 TO BRING THE MESSAGE OF ISRAEL
• 13:12 AND THE TRUTH OF THE CONNECTION
• 13:13 BETWEEN THE CHURCH AND ISRAEL
• 13:15 TO THE AIRWAVES AND TO ANYONE--
• 13:17 TO WHOSOEVER IS INTERESTED.
• 13:19 IT'S OUR PRIVILEGE
• 13:20 TO KEEP BRINGING THAT TO YOU,
• 13:21 AND WE APPRECIATE
• 13:22 YOUR GIFTS OF FUNDS
• 13:23 THAT ALLOW US TO BRING
• 13:24 THESE QUALITY PROGRAMS TO YOU
• 13:26 IN OUR DAY.
• 13:27 LET'S GO NOW TO BOB MULLINS
• 13:29 WITH ZOLA ON LOCATION
• 13:31 AS BOB MULLINS SPEAKS
• 13:32 ABOUT THE CONNECTION
• 13:33 BETWEEN ARCHAEOLOGY AND FAITH.
• 13:36 ♪ ♪
• 13:38 Bob: WELL, THE FIRST EXCAVATION
• 13:40 THAT COMES TO MIND
• 13:41 IS THE FIRST DIG
• 13:42 I EVER WORKED ON MYSELF IN 1972.
• 13:45 A LITTLE PHILISTINE OUTPOST
• 13:46 JUST NORTH OF TEL AVIV,
• 13:48 THE NORTHERN OUTSKIRTS
• 13:49 OF TEL AVIV CALLED TEL QASILE.
• 13:51 Zola: ALONG THE MEDITERRANEAN--
• 13:52 Bob: ALONG THE MEDITERRANEAN
• 13:53 COAST...EXACTLY.
• 13:54 THIS SITE WAS BEING EXCAVATED
• 13:56 BY AMICHAI MAZAR,
• 13:58 WHO WAS WRITING HIS DOCTORATE
• 13:59 DISSERTATION ON THIS
• 14:00 PARTICULAR PHILISTINE SITE.
• 14:03 AND IN THE SUMMER
• 14:04 I HAD JOINED THE EXCAVATION;
• 14:05 WE STARTED EXCAVATING AT
• 14:07 THE HIGHEST POINT OF THE MOUND
• 14:09 AND EVENTUALLY CAME ACROSS
• 14:10 EVIDENCE
• 14:11 FOR A PHILISTINE TEMPLE.
• 14:12 Zola: OHH...
• 14:13 Bob: WHICH IS THE ONLY, REALLY,
• 14:16 ONE OF THE FEW EXAMPLES
• 14:17 WE CAN POINT TO OF
• 14:18 A PHILISTINE PLACE OF WORSHIP.
• 14:21 NOW WHAT WAS MOST INTERESTING
• 14:23 ABOUT THIS PARTICULAR SHRINE
• 14:25 WAS THAT THE FLOOR PLAN,
• 14:26 THE DESIGN OF THE SHRINE,
• 14:29 WAS SIMILAR TO THE TEMPLE
• 14:30 DESCRIBED IN THE BOOK OF JUDGES
• 14:32 WHERE SAMSON WAS PLACED
• 14:33 BETWEEN TWO PILLARS
• 14:34 AND PUSHED AWAY THE PILLARS
• 14:37 AND THE ROOF FELL IN ON THEM.
• 14:38 Zola: THE WHOLE THING FELL DOWN.
• 14:39 SO, IT WAS SUPPORTED,
• 14:40 THE ROOF WAS SUPPORTED
• 14:41 BY TWO PILLARS IN THE--
• 14:42 Bob: THE ROOF WAS SUPPORTED BY
• 14:43 TWO PILLARS ACCORDING TO JUDGES
• 14:46 WITH THIS TEMPLE IN GAZA.
• 14:48 AS WELL AS WHAT WE FOUND IN
• 14:50 OUR EXCAVATIONS AT TEL QASILE.
• 14:52 ALTHOUGH THERE THE TEMPLE
• 14:53 IS MUCH SMALLER IN SIZE...
• 14:54 BUT STILL THE SAME FLOOR PLAN,
• 14:56 THE SAME DESIGN.
• 14:57 Zola: SO, EVIDENTLY
• 14:58 THE ARCHITECT FOLLOWED
• 14:59 A SIMILAR PLAN TO THE TEMPLE
• 15:01 THAT SAMSON WAS IN.
• 15:02 Bob: EXACTLY.
• 15:03 Zola: YEAH.
• 15:04 Zola: THE BIBLE PASSAGE
• 15:05 REFERRED TO IS JUDGES 16:29:
• 15:30 THIS SKETCH,
• 15:31 BASED ON ARCHAEOLOGICAL FINDS,
• 15:33 SHOWING THE TWO PILLARS
• 15:34 OF THE DESIGN
• 15:35 OF THE PHILISTINE TEMPLE
• 15:37 GIVES PROOF OF THE VALIDITY
• 15:38 OF THIS SCRIPTURE.
• 15:40 WERE THERE OTHER SITES THEN
• 15:41 THAT ILLUMINATED THE SCRIPTURE
• 15:44 FOR YOU?
• 15:45 Bob: THERE ARE SEVERAL.
• 15:46 PROBABLY ANOTHER ONE
• 15:47 THAT COMES TO MIND
• 15:48 IS RIGHT HERE IN JERUSALEM.
• 15:50 IN 1977 I WORKED IN A SMALL AREA
• 15:53 OF THE JEWISH QUARTER.
• 15:55 NOW UP TO THAT TIME
• 15:56 THERE WAS DEBATE AMONG SCHOLARS
• 15:58 AS TO WHETHER THE JERUSALEM OF,
• 16:01 LET'S SAY,
• 16:02 ISAIAH AND HEZEKIAH'S TIME
• 16:04 WAS LIMITED TO WHAT IS KNOWN
• 16:06 AS THE EASTERN HILL,
• 16:07 AN AREA OF THE CITY
• 16:08 WHICH WAS JERUSALEM
• 16:10 IN THE TIME OF SOLOMON,
• 16:11 OR WHETHER IT HAD GROWN
• 16:13 TO A MUCH GREATER EXTENT,
• 16:14 EVEN REACHING
• 16:15 AS FAR AS JAFFA GATE
• 16:16 AND THE CITADEL MUSEUM
• 16:18 WHERE WE ARE LOCATED RIGHT NOW.
• 16:19 Zola: YES, UH-HUH.
• 16:20 Bob: WHAT BECAME VERY CLEAR
• 16:21 IN THESE EXCAVATIONS
• 16:23 IS THAT INDEED THERE WAS,
• 16:24 IN HEZEKIAH AND ISAIAH'S TIME,
• 16:27 AN EXPANDED JERUSALEM
• 16:28 ALL THE WAY OUT TO JAFFA GATE.
• 16:30 WHICH MEANS
• 16:31 THAT DURING THAT TIME
• 16:33 AS WELL AS AT THE TIME
• 16:34 THAT JERUSALEM WAS DESTROYED
• 16:35 BY THE BABYLONIANS IN 586,
• 16:37 JERUSALEM WAS A 150-ACRE CITY
• 16:40 RATHER THAN A CITY OF,
• 16:42 LET'S SAY, OF 40 ACRES,
• 16:43 WHICH WAS THE SIZE
• 16:44 OF SOLOMON'S CITY.
• 16:46 SOME SCHOLARS, UP UNTIL THEN,
• 16:48 WERE STILL BELIEVING
• 16:49 THAT JERUSALEM NEVER GREW
• 16:50 BEYOND SOLOMON'S BOUNDARIES.
• 16:53 Zola: SO ARCHAEOLOGY,
• 16:54 IN THAT CASE, REALLY DID ENRICH
• 16:57 YOUR KNOWLEDGE OF SCRIPTURE
• 16:58 AND IT ALSO VERIFIED IT.
• 17:00 Bob: EXACTLY...EXACTLY.
• 17:01 I THINK FOR MANY ARCHAEOLOGISTS
• 17:03 IT...THESE ARE BOTH SIDES
• 17:05 OF INTEREST.
• 17:06 ON THE ONE HAND,
• 17:07 MANY ARCHAEOLOGISTS WANT TO SEE
• 17:09 CORRELATIONS
• 17:10 BETWEEN THE BIBLE AND HISTORY
• 17:13 AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL REMAINS.
• 17:15 ON THE OTHER HAND,
• 17:16 THEY'RE INTERESTED
• 17:17 IN THE WHOLE PICTURE;
• 17:18 NOT JUST ANSWERING
• 17:19 HISTORICAL QUESTIONS
• 17:20 AND PROBLEMS,
• 17:21 BUT UNDERSTANDING LIFE
• 17:22 ON ALL OF ITS LEVELS;
• 17:24 INCLUDING:
• 17:25 HOW DID THE PEOPLE LOOK?
• 17:26 WHAT DID THEIR HOUSES
• 17:27 LOOK LIKE?
• 17:28 WHAT KIND OF FOODS
• 17:29 DID THEY EAT?
• 17:30 HOW DID THEY PREPARE
• 17:31 THEIR FOODS?
• 17:33 WHY DID THEY BUILD
• 17:34 THEIR TEMPLES
• 17:35 IN THE WAY THEY DID?
• 17:36 TO WHAT DEGREE
• 17:37 DID CLIMATE AFFECT
• 17:38 THE WAY THAT PEOPLE LIVED?
• 17:39 THESE ARE ALL LARGER QUESTIONS
• 17:40 THAT ARCHAEOLOGISTS
• 17:41 ARE INTERESTED IN.
• 17:42 AND IN THE PROCESS,
• 17:43 YOU ARE ALWAYS FINDING
• 17:45 HISTORICAL DETAILS
• 17:47 IN ARCHAEOLOGICAL FINDS
• 17:48 THAT WILL HAVE DIRECT BEARING
• 17:50 ON THE BIBLE.
• 17:51 AND WHEN WE MAKE
• 17:52 THOSE CONNECTIONS,
• 17:53 IT CAN BE VERY NICE.
• 17:54 Zola: OH, I'M SURE.
• 17:55 BUT, HOW DO YOU DETERMINE
• 17:56 WHAT PEOPLE ATE, FOR EXAMPLE?
• 17:59 Bob: WELL, ONE THING WE CAN DO
• 18:01 IS WE CAN GO TO OTHER ANCIENT
• 18:03 TEXTS OUTSIDE OF THE BIBLE.
• 18:05 WE HAVE, FOR EXAMPLE,
• 18:06 RECIPES FROM BOTH EGYPT
• 18:08 AND MESOPOTAMIA.
• 18:10 WE KNOW FROM THE BIBLE
• 18:12 THE KINDS OF FOODS
• 18:13 THAT PEOPLE ATE;
• 18:15 THE WHEAT AND THE BARLEY AND,
• 18:16 OF COURSE, THESE SEVEN VARIETIES
• 18:18 OF THE LAND THAT ARE MENTIONED
• 18:19 IN DEUTERONOMY, CHAPTER 8.
• 18:21 WE CAN ALSO USE
• 18:22 SCIENTIFIC TESTS
• 18:24 THAT WILL TEST RESIDUE
• 18:26 INSIDE CONTAINERS,
• 18:27 SUCH AS COOKING POTS
• 18:28 OR STORAGE JARS,
• 18:29 AND THROUGH THIS WE CAN SAY
• 18:31 THAT A CERTAIN VESSEL CONTAINED
• 18:32 OLIVE OIL, OR WINE, OR CHEESE,
• 18:36 OR SOME OTHER SUBSTANCE.
• 18:38 Zola: HOW DO YOU VIEW THE DIETS
• 18:39 OF ANCIENT PEOPLE?
• 18:40 IS IT PRETTY GOOD?
• 18:41 IS IT--LIKE OURS...OR--?
• 18:44 Bob: THEY TENDED, OVERALL,
• 18:45 TO EAT MUCH LESS MEAT.
• 18:47 MEAT WAS MORE FOR
• 18:48 SPECIAL OCCASIONS.
• 18:49 MORE VEGETARIAN IN THEIR DIET
• 18:52 AND, I THINK, IN MANY WAYS,
• 18:54 PROBABLY MORE HEALTHY.
• 18:55 BUT, ON THE OTHER HAND,
• 18:57 WE CAN STUDY, FOR EXAMPLE,
• 19:00 IN THE CITY OF DAVID
• 19:02 WHERE THEY FOUND
• 19:03 AN ANCIENT TOILET; THEY FOUND
• 19:04 HUMAN FECES PETRIFIED
• 19:08 AND SURVIVING 3,000 YEARS.
• 19:10 AND WE KNOW THAT ALONG WITH
• 19:11 THE FOODS THAT THEY ATE
• 19:12 THEY ALSO INGESTED PARASITES
• 19:13 AND HAD ALL KINDS
• 19:14 OF INTESTINAL PROBLEMS.
• 19:16 WE CAN DETERMINE THESE.
• 19:18 WE ALSO KNOW, FOR EXAMPLE,
• 19:20 FROM CAVES NEARBY THE DEAD SEA
• 19:22 WHERE THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS
• 19:23 WERE FOUND
• 19:24 THAT COMBS SHOWED EVIDENCE
• 19:27 OF HEAD LICE.
• 19:28 SO, PEOPLE WOULD DEAL WITH
• 19:29 THESE KINDS OF PROBLEMS.
• 19:31 Zola: BOB, YOU MENTIONED
• 19:32 THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS.
• 19:33 WE'VE MADE A SERIES
• 19:34 ABOUT THOSE.
• 19:35 OF COURSE, THEY ARE WRITINGS
• 19:37 OF 200 YEARS BEFORE CHRIST
• 19:40 TO ABOUT 50 A.D.
• 19:44 Bob: MM-HMM.
• 19:45 Zola: CERTAINLY JEWISH WRITINGS
• 19:46 ABOUT JEWISH BOOKS,
• 19:47 BIBLE BOOKS, ETC.,
• 19:48 IN HEBREW AND ARAMAIC
• 19:49 AND SO ON.
• 19:50 BUT THESE WERE FOUND
• 19:51 DEEP IN THE WEST BANK.
• 19:52 Bob: MM-HM.
• 19:53 Zola: THE POLITICAL ISSUE
• 19:54 SEEMS TO BE
• 19:55 THAT THE ARAB PEOPLES
• 19:58 WHO ARE HERE
• 19:59 SAY THAT'S IN THEIR LAND,
• 20:00 SO IT BELONGS TO THEM.
• 20:02 Bob: THERE'S NO QUESTION
• 20:03 THAT THE PEOPLE THAT
• 20:04 WERE IN THE AREA OF QUMRAN,
• 20:07 IN THE AREA OF THE DEAD SEA,
• 20:08 WERE A JEWISH SECT;
• 20:09 MOST PROBABLY THE ESSENES.
• 20:11 BUT, AS YOU REFERRED TO,
• 20:13 WITH PALESTINIANS,
• 20:14 THERE IS THE FEELING
• 20:15 THAT THEY HAVE CLAIM,
• 20:18 LEGITIMATE CLAIM TO THE LAND,
• 20:19 AND SO THEY'RE LOOKING
• 20:20 FOR WHATEVER THEY CAN
• 20:21 IN THE WAY OF HISTORICAL DATA
• 20:23 THAT WILL GIVE THEM LEGITIMACY.
• 20:25 AND THIS IS A REAL PROBLEM
• 20:27 THEY'RE FACED WITH BECAUSE,
• 20:29 IN TERMS OF SIGNIFICANT
• 20:31 ARAB PRESENCE IN THIS COUNTRY,
• 20:32 WE CAN'T SPEAK OF MUCH
• 20:34 BEFORE THE COUNTRY IS CONQUERED
• 20:36 BY THE MUSLIMS IN 639 A.D.
• 20:39 NOW, WE DO HAVE
• 20:40 IN THE HEBREW BIBLE,
• 20:41 REFERENCES TO THE ISHMAELITES,
• 20:43 WHICH WOULD HAVE BEEN
• 20:44 PEOPLE OF ARABIAN DECENT
• 20:46 AND MOST CERTAINLY,
• 20:47 PEOPLE OF ARABIAN STOCK
• 20:49 WERE PRESENT IN VARIOUS POINTS
• 20:52 IN THIS COUNTRY.
• 20:54 BUT EN MASSE, AS A LARGE PEOPLE,
• 20:57 WE CAN'T REALLY SAY ANY EARLIER
• 20:58 THAN THE 7th CENTURY A.D.
• 21:00 Zola: SO, THAT WHEN PEOPLE SAY
• 21:02 THAT THE PALESTINIANS ARE
• 21:03 AN ANCIENT PEOPLE
• 21:04 WHO HAVE ALWAYS VIED
• 21:05 WITH THE JEWS FOR THE LAND...
• 21:06 THIS IS JUST A FABLE REALLY.
• 21:08 Bob: YES, IN A CERTAIN SENSE.
• 21:10 THE ONLY THING
• 21:11 THAT ONE COULD SAY IS
• 21:12 THAT WHENEVER YOU HAVE,
• 21:13 LET'S SAY, A PEOPLE
• 21:14 LIKE THE ARABS COMING IN
• 21:16 AND TAKING CONTROL
• 21:17 OF THE HOLY LAND,
• 21:18 THERE IS GOING TO BE
• 21:19 INTER-MARRIAGE
• 21:20 WITH THE LOCAL POPULATION.
• 21:21 I WOULD NOT BE SURPRISED
• 21:23 IF SOME PEOPLE
• 21:24 THAT ARE CHRISTIAN-ARABS TODAY
• 21:27 DID NOT MARRY JEWISH-CHRISTIANS,
• 21:29 YOU KNOW, AND INTER-MARRY.
• 21:31 AND PROBABLY, EVEN IF
• 21:33 ONE WERE TO GO FURTHER BACK
• 21:34 YOU WOULD FIND A CERTAIN AMOUNT
• 21:35 OF INTER-MARRIAGE
• 21:36 AND MIXTURE OF BLOOD
• 21:37 WITH OTHER INDIGENOUS PEOPLE
• 21:39 OR PEOPLE THAT WOULD
• 21:40 COME THROUGH THIS COUNTRY
• 21:41 BECAUSE DON'T FORGET
• 21:42 THAT ISRAEL IS A LAND BRIDGE
• 21:44 BETWEEN THREE CONTINENTS.
• 21:46 Zola: YES.
• 21:47 Bob: AND SO ANYONE PASSING
• 21:48 BETWEEN ASIA, EUROPE AND AFRICA
• 21:50 IS GOING TO COME
• 21:51 THROUGH THIS COUNTRY.
• 21:52 SO, THERE'S ALWAYS BEEN
• 21:53 A LOT OF PEOPLE
• 21:54 FROM DIFFERENT BACKGROUNDS,
• 21:55 A LOT OF INTER-MARRIAGE
• 21:56 AND MIXING OF BLOOD.
• 21:57 Zola: BUT THE IDEA
• 21:59 THAT "PALESTINIAN" TODAY,
• 22:01 THAT TERM IS NOW USED
• 22:02 TO REFER TO ARABS IN THE LAND,
• 22:05 GOES BACK TO THE PHILISTINES.
• 22:07 Bob: EXACTLY, YEAH.
• 22:08 THAT'S WHAT'S BEEN CLAIMED.
• 22:09 AND THIS IS A PROBLEM
• 22:10 HISTORICALLY,
• 22:11 BECAUSE WHAT WE KNOW
• 22:12 IS THAT NEBUCHADNEZZAR,
• 22:15 WHO WAS THE KING OF BABYLON,
• 22:16 CONQUERED PHILISTIA IN 605.
• 22:19 AND FOLLOWING THAT
• 22:21 WE REALLY DON'T HEAR ANYTHING
• 22:22 ABOUT THE PHILISTINES.
• 22:23 Zola: THEY WERE ELIMINATED.
• 22:24 Bob: THEY WERE ELIMINATED
• 22:27 IN THE SENSE THAT PROBABLY
• 22:28 THOSE WHO WERE NOT KILLED
• 22:30 OR DEPORTED WERE ABSORBED INTO
• 22:32 THE LARGER JEWISH POPULATION.
• 22:35 OF COURSE, BY 586 WE HAVE MORE
• 22:38 DEPORTATIONS BY NEBUCHADNEZZAR
• 22:40 AND SO, HERE, TOO,
• 22:43 WE'RE DEALING WITH A PEOPLE
• 22:44 THAT HAVE DISAPPEARED
• 22:46 FROM THE STAGE OF HISTORY
• 22:47 AFTER A CENTURY OR TWO
• 22:49 AND WE CAN'T REALLY POINT
• 22:51 TO AN ETHNIC ENTITY
• 22:54 THAT WE CAN CALL PHILISTINES
• 22:55 ANYMORE.
• 22:56 NOW, WHERE WE START GETTING SOME
• 22:58 OF THE PROBLEMS IS THAT HADRIAN,
• 23:01 WHO WAS A ROMAN EMPEROR
• 23:02 AT THE 2nd CENTURY A.D.,
• 23:04 AFTER HE CRUSHED
• 23:05 THE 2nd JEWISH REVOLT
• 23:06 AGAINST ROME IN 135,
• 23:08 HE CALLED THIS COUNTRY
• 23:11 "PALESTINA;"
• 23:12 "PALESTINE" BASICALLY,
• 23:14 AS A WAY OF INSULTING
• 23:17 THE JEWISH POPULATION,
• 23:18 BY CALLING THE COUNTRY NOW
• 23:20 AFTER THEIR TRADITIONAL ENEMY
• 23:22 RATHER THAN THE NAME
• 23:23 IT HAD BEEN KNOWN UP TO THEN,
• 23:24 WHICH WAS JUDEA.
• 23:27 Zola: SO, HE PICKED THAT NAME
• 23:28 JUST, ALMOST, WELL,
• 23:30 POLITICAL REASONS.
• 23:31 Bob: EXACTLY...EXACTLY.
• 23:32 Zola: I'M GOING TO CALL THIS
• 23:33 PLACE "PALESTINE" TO REMIND YOU
• 23:34 OF YOUR OLD NEMESIS
• 23:35 THE PHILISTINES.
• 23:36 BUT THIS HAD NOTHING TO DO
• 23:37 WITH ARAB PEOPLE IN ANY WAY.
• 23:38 Bob: NO.
• 23:39 IN TERMS OF ETHNICITY, NO.
• 23:40 AND ESPECIALLY
• 23:41 SINCE THE PHILISTINES,
• 23:43 FROM WHAT WE KNOW
• 23:44 FROM SCRIPTURE,
• 23:45 AS WELL AS FROM ARCHAEOLOGY
• 23:46 AND HISTORICAL SOURCES,
• 23:47 WERE PEOPLE
• 23:48 OF THE AEGEAN ORIGIN.
• 23:49 THEY'RE NOT OF ARABIAN STOCK
• 23:51 AT ALL.
• 23:52 THEY WERE AN INDO-EUROPEAN
• 23:53 PEOPLE.
• 23:54 Zola: SO, THERE'S
• 23:55 JUST NO CONNECTION
• 23:56 WITH TODAY'S PALESTINIAN
• 23:57 BACK TO THE PHILISTINES.
• 23:58 Bob: IT'S PURELY
• 23:59 A POLITICAL CONNECTION.
• 24:01 Zola: IT WOULDN'T MAKE
• 24:02 A VERY GOOD CLAIM TO THE LAND.
• 24:03 Bob: NO, IT WOULDN'T.
• 24:04 Zola: OKAY...
• 24:05 I WANT TO TALK TO YOU
• 24:06 NOT JUST ABOUT POLITICS,
• 24:07 NOT EVEN JUST ABOUT ARCHAEOLOGY,
• 24:09 BUT ABOUT FAITH.
• 24:10 Bob: YES.
• 24:11 Zola: BECAUSE YOU'RE A CHRISTIAN
• 24:12 AND YOU DIG INTO THIS SOIL,
• 24:13 WHICH IS A GREAT PRIVILEGE,
• 24:14 I'M SURE.
• 24:15 Bob: IT IS.
• 24:16 Zola: A MINISTRY.
• 24:17 YOU GET KNOWLEDGE
• 24:18 AND IT BUILDS YOUR FAITH
• 24:19 DOESN'T IT?
• 24:20 Bob: YES; WHAT I ENJOY MOST
• 24:22 ABOUT ARCHAEOLOGY,
• 24:23 EVEN MORE THAN TRYING TO ANSWER
• 24:25 SPECIFIC HISTORICAL QUESTIONS
• 24:27 SUCH AS WAS THERE AN EXODUS,
• 24:29 OR A CONQUEST
• 24:30 AND THESE KINDS OF THINGS THAT
• 24:31 ARE VERY MUCH AT THE FOREFRONT
• 24:32 OF CONTROVERSY TODAY.
• 24:34 IT'S THAT BROAD PICTURE.
• 24:36 IT'S REALLY BEING ABLE
• 24:37 TO PUT MYSELF IN A PLACE
• 24:39 OF AN ANCIENT ISRAELITE,
• 24:41 TO STAND IN THE HOUSE
• 24:43 THAT THEY STOOD IN, TO SEE LIFE
• 24:45 FROM THEIR PERSPECTIVE.
• 24:47 AND THIS, REALLY, I THINK,
• 24:48 BRINGS ARCHAEOLOGY
• 24:49 TO MUCH MORE OF A HUMAN LEVEL
• 24:51 IS THAT I REALIZE THAT,
• 24:53 YOU KNOW THEY STRUGGLED
• 24:54 WITH THE SAME ISSUES
• 24:55 I STRUGGLE WITH
• 24:56 AND IN MANY WAYS
• 24:57 THEY HAD IT TOUGHER THAN ME,
• 24:58 BECAUSE WE LIVE
• 24:59 IN VERY COMFORTABLE,
• 25:00 HEATED HOMES
• 25:02 WITH WALL-TO-WALL CARPETING.
• 25:05 THESE PEOPLE LIVED
• 25:06 IN MUD-BRICK HOUSES THAT
• 25:07 WERE ABOUT A FOURTH OF THE SIZE
• 25:08 OF MANY OF OUR HOMES.
• 25:10 THEY WERE COLD, LEAKY,
• 25:12 THIS TIME OF THE YEAR
• 25:13 WHERE WE GET RAINFALL
• 25:14 AND COLD WINDS.
• 25:15 I'M SURE MANY PEOPLE SUFFERED
• 25:17 FROM THE COLD AND THE RAIN
• 25:18 AND DIED OF DISEASES.
• 25:21 SO, THERE WAS FOR THEM, TOO,
• 25:23 A REAL STRUGGLE OF FAITH.
• 25:26 WHAT DOES IT MEAN
• 25:27 TO REALLY TRUST IN GOD?
• 25:28 THAT GOD IS HERE TO MEET
• 25:29 MY NEEDS WHEN IT SEEMS
• 25:32 THAT SOMETIMES THE ODDS OF LIFE
• 25:34 ARE SO MUCH AGAINST ME.
• 25:35 AND SO, I CAN SEE LIFE
• 25:37 FROM THEIR PERSPECTIVE
• 25:38 AND THAT IN ITSELF WILL ENRICH
• 25:40 MY FAITH.
• 25:41 ♪ ♪
• 25:48 Myles: IT'S ALWAYS GREAT
• 25:49 TO SEE ZOLA.
• 25:50 HE'S GREATLY MISSED.
• 25:51 HE FOUNDED THIS MINISTRY
• 25:52 IN THE '70s,
• 25:53 GRADUATED TO HEAVEN
• 25:54 A FEW YEARS AGO
• 25:55 AND WE'RE GRATEFUL
• 25:56 TO BE CARRYING ON
• 25:57 THE LEGACY OF HIS WORK HERE
• 25:58 AT ZOLA LEVITT MINISTRIES.
• 25:59 Katharine: HE HAD A LOVE
• 26:00 FOR ISRAEL, MYLES.
• 26:02 AND WE KNOW THAT OUR VIEWERS
• 26:03 HAVE A LOVE FOR ISRAEL TOO.
• 26:05 Myles: EXACTLY.
• 26:06 THAT'S WHY OUR RESOURCE
• 26:07 THIS WEEK IS
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• 26:48 WAY TO STAY IN TOUCH WITH US
• 26:49 HERE AT THE MINISTRY
• 26:50 IS THROUGH "THE LEVITT LETTER."
• 26:51 WE ARE PRIVILEGED TO WRITE
• 26:52 FOR THIS.
• 26:53 IT'S GOT UP-TO-THE-MINUTE NEWS
• 26:54 FROM ISRAEL.
• 26:55 IT REALLY OVERCOMES
• 26:56 THE DIS-INFORMATION
• 26:57 THAT YOU'RE HEARING
• 26:58 ON MAINSTREAM MEDIA.
• 26:59 THERE'S A HEBREW LESSON.
• 27:01 THERE'S LESSONS ON STEWARDSHIP.
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• 27:10 Katharine: IT'S OUR GIFT TO YOU
• 27:11 BECAUSE WE WANT YOU
• 27:12 TO STAY INFORMED
• 27:13 WITH WHAT'S HAPPENING TODAY.
• 27:14 WE NEED TO KNOW
• 27:15 WHAT GOD IS SAYING
• 27:17 AND WHAT THE WORLD IS SAYING
• 27:19 AND THEN DECIPHERING IT
• 27:20 BETWEEN THE TWO.
• 27:21 SO WE THANK YOU
• 27:22 FOR YOUR CONTINUED SUPPORT OF US
• 27:25 AND OF THIS MINISTRY
• 27:26 AS WE GO FORWARD
• 27:27 IN THIS TIME IN FAITH
• 27:30 KNOWING THAT GOD IS THE KEEPER
• 27:31 OF ISRAEL.
• 27:32 HE NEITHER SLUMBERS NOR SLEEPS,
• 27:34 AND IT'S OUR JOB TO BE WATCHMEN
• 27:36 ON THE WALL
• 27:37 AND TO BE THE VOICE FOR HIM
• 27:39 IN THIS HOUR.
• 27:40 Myles: AMEN.
• 27:41 THAT'S RIGHT.
• 27:42 AND SO AS WE LEAVE YOU TODAY
• 27:43 WE WANT TO REMIND YOU PLEASE...
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