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Caption transcript for The Stones Cry Out (2012): “Cities of the Past” (7/12)

• 00:13 (♪ "The Stones Cry Out" ♪)
• 00:23 Male Singer: ♪ IF NO ONE STANDS TO SPEAK, ♪
• 00:30 ♪ IF NO ONE PRAYS, ♪
• 00:34 ♪ THESE VERY STONES CRY OUT ♪
• 00:41 ♪ "I AM." ♪♪
• 00:47 Myles: SHALOM AND WELCOME
• 00:48 TO ZOLA LEVITT PRESENTS.
• 00:49 I'M MYLES WEISS.
• 00:50 Katharine: AND I'M
• 00:51 KATHARINE WEISS.
• 00:52 Myles: AND WE ARE THRILLED TODAY
• 00:53 TO CONTINUE OUR SERIES
• 00:54 "THE STONES CRY OUT."
• 00:55 THIS IS AN ARCHAEOLOGICAL LOOK
• 00:57 AT THE BIBLE.
• 00:58 WE TOOK THAT TITLE FROM THE
• 01:00 SCRIPTURE IN LUKE 19:40 WHERE
• 01:02 JESUS IS COMING INTO JERUSALEM,
• 01:04 THE DISCIPLES
• 01:05 ARE YELLING, "HOSANNA!"
• 01:06 AND THE PHARISEES SAY,
• 01:07 "STOP THEM!"
• 01:08 AND HE SAID,
• 01:09 "YOU KNOW, IF THEY DIDN'T,
• 01:10 THE VERY STONES WOULD CRY OUT."
• 01:12 IT'S A SPIRITUAL PRINCIPLE
• 01:13 FOR US ABOUT THE HONOR
• 01:15 THAT WE HAVE IN WORSHIPPING
• 01:16 THE KING OF KINGS.
• 01:17 BUT TODAY, IN OUR DAY, THE VERY
• 01:19 ROCKS IN ISRAEL ARE CRYING OUT.
• 01:21 THEY'RE DISCOVERING, EVERY DAY,
• 01:24 ARCHAEOLOGICAL PROOF
• 01:26 THAT THE BIBLE IS REAL
• 01:27 AND THAT THE JEWS HAVE BEEN
• 01:28 IN THE LAND FOR A LONG TIME.
• 01:30 ONE OF THE THINGS WE'RE GOING
• 01:31 TO SEE IN THIS PROGRAM
• 01:32 IS THE REALITY
• 01:33 OF JESUS' BACKGROUND,
• 01:35 THAT HE LIVED IN NAZARETH,
• 01:37 NEAR SEPPHORIS,
• 01:38 WHICH WAS A GREEK CITY
• 01:39 NAMED AFTER ALEXANDER THE GREAT.
• 01:41 AND IN THAT CULTURE,
• 01:42 HE LEARNED SOME OF THE WORDS
• 01:44 AND SOME OF THE PHRASES
• 01:46 THAT HE LATER WOULD USE
• 01:47 IN HIS PARABLES
• 01:48 AND USE IN HIS TEACHINGS.
• 01:49 SO IT'S A FASCINATING LOOK
• 01:50 AT THE WAY THE HE WAS VERSED
• 01:52 IN THE JEWISH MINDSET
• 01:54 AND THE GREEK MINDSET.
• 01:55 Katharine: WONDERFUL...
• 01:56 IT'S SO RICH.
• 01:57 IT'S SO EXCITING
• 01:58 TO BRING YOU THESE STORIES
• 01:59 AND THESE DOCUMENTARIES
• 02:01 OF WHAT GOD IS DOING.
• 02:03 WE'RE DOCUMENTING THAT GOD
• 02:04 IS ALIVE TODAY, THROUGH HIS WORD
• 02:06 AND THROUGH THE VERY SCRIPTURE,
• 02:08 AND THE VERY STONES THAT ARE
• 02:09 CRYING OUT; SO THANK YOU SO MUCH
• 02:11 FOR YOUR CONTINUED SUPPORT
• 02:12 OF THESE MESSAGES.
• 02:14 AND WE LOVE TO BRING THEM TO YOU
• 02:15 AND I KNOW
• 02:16 YOU LOVE TO HEAR THEM.
• 02:18 Myles: YEAH,
• 02:19 IT'S A VERY RICH SERIES.
• 02:20 WE'RE GLAD TO BE BRINGING IT
• 02:21 TO YOU.
• 02:22 SO NOW LET'S GO TO TOM McCALL
• 02:23 WITH MITCH PILCER IN ISRAEL.
• 02:28 Tom: SEPPHORIS,
• 02:29 ZIPPORI IN HEBREW,
• 02:30 IS LOCATED IN THE CENTER
• 02:32 OF THE LOWER GALILEE, SOME
• 02:33 4 MILES NORTHWEST OF NAZARETH.
• 02:36 AS SEEN FROM NAZARETH,
• 02:38 AN ANCIENT STRUCTURE ACTS AS
• 02:40 A GRAVESTONE MARKING
• 02:41 THE REMAINS
• 02:42 OF THIS ONCE-GREAT CITY.
• 02:46 A MAGNIFICENT METROPOLIS OF
• 02:47 THE GRECO-ROMAN TRADITION,
• 02:50 THIS PRESTIGIOUS GOVERNMENTAL
• 02:51 CENTER WAS ALSO A HUB
• 02:53 OF JEWISH RELIGIOUS ACTIVITY.
• 02:55 IT HAD A THRIVING
• 02:56 AGRICULTURAL TRADE,
• 02:57 BOASTED EXQUISITE MOSAICS
• 03:01 AND HAD AN IMPRESSIVE THEATRE.
• 03:05 MITCH, CAN YOU DESCRIBE FOR US
• 03:07 WHERE WE ARE RIGHT NOW?
• 03:09 Mitch: WELL, WE'RE ABOUT
• 03:10 A KILOMETER EAST OF THE SITE
• 03:11 OF THE ANCIENT CITY OF ZIPPORI,
• 03:13 WHICH WE CAN SEE
• 03:14 ON THE FAR HILLSIDE THERE.
• 03:16 AND OVER THERE
• 03:17 AND INTO OVER THERE AND
• 03:18 ABOUT 3 KILOMETERS TO THE EAST,
• 03:19 YOU CAN SEE
• 03:20 THE MODERN CITY OF NAZARETH
• 03:22 RISING ON THE HILL.
• 03:24 Tom: WELL, THAT WAS WHERE JESUS
• 03:25 WAS RAISED, IN NAZARETH.
• 03:27 WHAT ASSOCIATIONS WOULD HE HAVE
• 03:28 HAD WITH ZIPPORI, OR I GUESS
• 03:31 IT'S ALSO KNOWN AS SEPPHORIS?
• 03:33 Mitch: WHEN JESUS WAS GROWING UP
• 03:34 OVER THERE IN NAZARETH, IT WAS
• 03:36 A REALLY SMALL TOWN, NO MORE
• 03:38 THAN A FEW HUNDRED PEOPLE.
• 03:39 BUT ZIPPORI, AT THAT TIME,
• 03:41 WAS GOING THROUGH
• 03:42 ITS GREATEST PERIOD OF BUILDING.
• 03:45 IT BECAME EVENTUALLY A CITY
• 03:46 OF TENS OF THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE.
• 03:49 JESUS, HIMSELF, WE CAN ONLY
• 03:50 SPECULATE, BUT WHEN WE TALK
• 03:52 ABOUT THE FATHER OF JESUS,
• 03:53 JOSEPH, BEING A CARPENTER,
• 03:55 "CARPENTER" IS POSSIBLY A SLIGHT
• 03:57 MISTRANSLATION OF THE GREEK WORD
• 04:00 "TEKNOS," OKAY?
• 04:02 A TEKNOS CAN REALLY MEAN
• 04:03 ANYTHING AND MOST LIKELY
• 04:04 MEANT MAYBE "A BUILDING WORKER."
• 04:06 Tom: HE WAS IN CONSTRUCTION WORK
• 04:07 OF SOME KIND.
• 04:08 Mitch: HE WAS IN CONSTRUCTION
• 04:09 WORK AND IT'S VERY LIKELY THAT
• 04:10 EVERY MORNING IF THERE WAS WORK
• 04:11 IN CONSTRUCTION IN THE BIG CITY
• 04:13 OF ZIPPORI, ALL THE MEN OF
• 04:15 NAZARETH AND THEIR CHILDREN WHO
• 04:17 WERE ABLE TO WORK, WOULD LOAD UP
• 04:18 THEIR DONKEYS WITH THEIR TOOLS
• 04:19 AND THEIR LUNCH,
• 04:20 AND TAKE THE HOUR RIDE
• 04:21 TO THE WEST AND REACH ZIPPORI,
• 04:23 WHERE THEY WOULD WORK,
• 04:24 IN ORDER TO BUILD
• 04:26 THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE CITY.
• 04:27 Tom: THERE WAS A BUILDING BOOM
• 04:28 GOING ON, AS IT WERE,
• 04:29 UNDER HEROD ANTIPAS DURING MANY
• 04:32 OF THE EARLY YEARS OF JESUS.
• 04:34 NOW, IN FRONT OF US,
• 04:36 WE HAVE THESE LARGE HOLES.
• 04:38 DO THEY HAVE SOME SIGNIFICANCE?
• 04:40 Mitch: THIS IS SOMETHING THAT,
• 04:41 THERE IS NOTHING LIKE IT
• 04:43 ANYWHERE ELSE IN ISRAEL.
• 04:44 IT IS AN UNDERGROUND
• 04:45 WATER RESERVOIR,
• 04:46 OVER 250 METERS LONG,
• 04:49 CAPABLE OF HOLDING OVER
• 04:50 4,000 CUBIC METERS OF WATER.
• 04:52 THE ANCIENT RESIDENTS OF
• 04:53 ZIPPORI, THEY BUILT AQUEDUCTS
• 04:55 TO CARRY WATER FROM SPRINGS
• 04:57 NEAR NAZARETH WHERE IT FILLED UP
• 04:59 THIS RESERVOIR HERE
• 05:00 AND IT GUARANTEED THEM
• 05:01 A PERMANENT SUPPLY OF WATER,
• 05:03 WHICH WAS SOMETHING
• 05:04 THAT WAS NECESSARY IN A
• 05:05 SOPHISTICATED CITY LIKE ZIPPORI,
• 05:06 WITH ITS BATH HOUSES,
• 05:08 ITS PUBLIC FOUNTAINS
• 05:09 AND ITS GREENERY.
• 05:12 Zola: JOSEPHUS,
• 05:13 THE ANCIENT JEWISH HISTORIAN,
• 05:15 REFERRED TO SEPPHORIS
• 05:17 AS THE ORNAMENT OF THE GALILEE.
• 05:19 FEW PLACES IN ISRAEL
• 05:20 CAN TRIUMPH SUCH MASTERY
• 05:22 OF THE MOSAIC FLOOR.
• 05:24 NUMEROUS MOSAICS
• 05:25 DATING FROM THE TIME OF CHRIST
• 05:26 HAVE BEEN UNEARTHED HERE.
• 05:32 Zola: A GROUP OF ISRAELI
• 05:33 CHILDREN APPLY THEIR SKILLS
• 05:34 TO CREATING MINI MOSAICS.
• 05:36 THE CHILDREN FIRST SKETCH OUT
• 05:37 THEIR DESIGN IN THE MOIST
• 05:38 PLASTER MIXTURE, THEN PLACE
• 05:40 THE SMALL COLORFUL STONES
• 05:42 INTO THE LAYOUT.
• 05:48 WHILE THE ANCIENT MOSAICS
• 05:50 REPRESENT THE GRECO-ROMAN
• 05:51 INFLUENCE HERE,
• 05:53 IT IS IN THE RUINS
• 05:54 OF A CROWDED RESIDENTIAL AREA
• 05:56 THAT THE STONES ATTEST
• 05:57 TO A THRIVING JEWISH CULTURE.
• 06:01 Mitch: WHAT WE'RE WALKING
• 06:02 ON HERE NOW IS PROBABLY
• 06:04 THE MOST ANCIENT STREET
• 06:05 THAT'S BEEN DISCOVERED
• 06:06 IN ZIPPORI TO THIS DAY.
• 06:07 Tom: MITCH, DO YOU SUPPOSE THAT
• 06:09 JOSEPH AND MARY AND JESUS MIGHT
• 06:10 HAVE WALKED ON THIS VERY STREET
• 06:12 IN ZIPPORI?
• 06:13 Mitch: WELL, IF THEY
• 06:14 VISITED SOME OF THE POORER
• 06:15 RESIDENTIAL SECTIONS,
• 06:16 I WOULD IMAGINE.
• 06:17 AS YOU CAN SEE, THIS ISN'T
• 06:18 EXACTLY A WIDE BOULEVARD
• 06:19 OVER HERE.
• 06:20 THE HOUSES ON ONE SIDE ARE VERY
• 06:22 CLOSE QUARTERS FACING THE HOUSES
• 06:24 ON THE OTHER SIDE.
• 06:25 AND INSIDE OF THE ENTIRE
• 06:26 EXCAVATIONS HERE, YOU CAN SEE
• 06:28 THE REMAINS OF ALL THE STONES.
• 06:31 Tom: YEAH, THERE ARE SO MANY
• 06:32 STONES ALL AROUND HERE
• 06:34 THAT HAVE BEEN UNCOVERED.
• 06:35 WHAT ARE THESE, MITCH?
• 06:36 Mitch: WELL, THEY'RE THE BOTTOM,
• 06:37 THE VERY BOTTOM FOUNDATIONS
• 06:39 OF THE HOUSES WHICH WERE
• 06:40 MOST LIKELY TO HAVE BEEN
• 06:41 MAYBE 2 OR 3 STORIES HIGH
• 06:43 AND VERY CLOSE TO EACH OTHER.
• 06:45 THERE ARE OVER 80 HOUSES
• 06:46 JUST IN THIS SMALL SECTION
• 06:47 THAT WE'VE DUG UP OVER HERE.
• 06:50 Tom: THAT'S A PRETTY LARGE
• 06:51 POPULATION THAT MIGHT HAVE LIVED
• 06:52 IN AND AROUND THIS AREA HERE.
• 06:53 Mitch: EACH HOUSE, EVEN THOUGH
• 06:54 IT WASN'T VERY BIG,
• 06:56 THEY PROBABLY HAD AT LEAST
• 06:57 A DOZEN PEOPLE LIVING IN IT,
• 06:58 INCLUDING ON THE SECOND STORIES,
• 07:00 SLEEPING ON THE ROOFS.
• 07:01 SO, IF YOU LOOK AT 80 HOUSES,
• 07:03 YOU'RE SEEING OVER 1,000 PEOPLE
• 07:04 WHO MIGHT HAVE LIVED RIGHT
• 07:05 IN THIS SECTION HERE.
• 07:07 Tom: LET'S TAKE A WALK OVER HERE
• 07:08 AND SEE SOME OF THE DETAILS
• 07:10 OF THESE HOUSES.
• 07:15 Mitch: FOR INSTANCE,
• 07:16 THE FIRST THING THAT
• 07:17 WE PASS OVER HERE, AS WE ENTER
• 07:18 INTO A COURTYARD SEPARATING
• 07:19 SEVERAL OF THE HOUSES...
• 07:21 OBVIOUSLY THIS IS A WELL.
• 07:23 Tom: WHAT'S THE HISTORY
• 07:24 OF THIS WELL?
• 07:25 Mitch: WELL, THE HISTORY
• 07:26 IS INTERESTING, AND JUST
• 07:27 IN THE RESPECT THAT WHEN WE WERE
• 07:29 EXCAVATING THIS, LAST SUMMER,
• 07:32 WE'VE ACTUALLY MANAGED TO LOWER
• 07:33 SOMEBODY DOWN TO THE BOTTOM
• 07:34 OF IT, AND HE WAS DIGGING
• 07:36 IN WHAT WAS THE MUD, WHERE
• 07:37 MANY OF THE WOMEN WHO LIVED
• 07:39 AROUND HERE PROBABLY DROPPED
• 07:40 THEIR EARTHENWARE VESSELS
• 07:42 OVER 2,000 YEARS AGO.
• 07:44 AND THEY DROPPED INTO THE WATER
• 07:45 AND THEY WEREN'T BROKEN.
• 07:46 WHEN WE PULLED THEM OUT,
• 07:47 THEY WERE COMPLETE.
• 07:49 WE PULLED OUT OVER A DOZEN
• 07:50 VESSELS, LIKE THIS,
• 07:51 THAT LOOK MAYBE NO DIFFERENT
• 07:52 THAN THE DAY THEY WERE
• 07:53 DROPPED HERE, 2,000 YEARS AGO.
• 07:55 Zola: SEPPHORIS
• 07:56 WAS WELL KNOWN AS A CENTER
• 07:57 OF JEWISH RELIGIOUS ACTIVITY.
• 07:59 IN THE 2nd CENTURY,
• 08:00 THE SANHEDRIN,
• 08:01 THE HIGHEST JEWISH COURT,
• 08:03 ADJUDICATED HERE.
• 08:05 AND THE MISHNA, A COLLECTION
• 08:06 OF JEWISH ORAL LAWS
• 08:07 WAS CODIFIED HERE
• 08:08 AROUND 200 A.D.
• 08:11 THE ANCIENT COMMUNITY'S REMAINS
• 08:12 REVEAL ADDITIONAL EVIDENCE
• 08:14 OF THAT JEWISH HERITAGE.
• 08:15 Mitch: WHAT LOOKS LIKE A BATHTUB
• 08:17 IS, IN FACT, AN ANCIENT
• 08:18 RITUAL JEWISH BATH...A MIKVAH.
• 08:21 Tom: THAT WOULD INDICATE
• 08:22 THAT THERE WERE JEWISH PEOPLE
• 08:23 THAT LIVED HERE.
• 08:24 Mitch: PRIESTS WHO WORKED
• 08:25 IN THE TEMPLE IN JERUSALEM
• 08:26 BUT LIVED HERE IN ZIPPORI.
• 08:28 Tom: SO, THE PRIESTS
• 08:29 DIDN'T JUST LIVE IN JERUSALEM,
• 08:30 THEY LIVED IN OUTLYING CITIES,
• 08:32 LIKE ZIPPORI, ALSO?
• 08:33 Mitch: IT'S WRITTEN IN
• 08:34 THE SOURCES, IN THE MISHNA, THAT
• 08:35 ONE OF THE PRIESTLY FAMILIES,
• 08:37 THE HODIAH FAMILY,
• 08:39 THEY LIVED HERE IN ZIPPORI
• 08:40 AND WHAT WE SEE HERE
• 08:41 IS THE EVIDENCE.
• 08:42 THERE'S ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE
• 08:43 CONNECTING THEM,
• 08:44 BECAUSE NOBODY ELSE WOULD HAVE
• 08:45 A USE OF OVER 40 MIKVAHS IN
• 08:48 THIS SMALL RESIDENTIAL QUARTER.
• 08:49 OKAY?
• 08:50 AND, IN FACT,
• 08:51 YOU CAN SEE THERE'S A WALL
• 08:52 SEPARATING THE TWO HOUSES.
• 08:54 WE HAVE ONE MIKVAH HERE AND
• 08:55 WE HAVE ONE MIKVAH RIGHT HERE,
• 08:56 IN THE NEIGHBORING HOUSE.
• 08:57 Tom: I THINK I'D LIKE
• 08:58 TO STEP DOWN HERE AND SEE WHAT
• 09:00 IT'S LIKE TO BE IN A MIKVAH.
• 09:02 Mitch: WELL, IF YOU'D BE
• 09:03 GOING DOWN INTO THIS MIKVAH
• 09:04 A FEW THOUSAND YEARS AGO, YOU'D
• 09:05 ALREADY BE MOSTLY UNDER WATER,
• 09:06 BECAUSE THE LEVEL OF THE WATER
• 09:08 WENT ALL THE WAY UP TO THE TOP.
• 09:09 Tom: IT WOULD BE UP TO MY CHEST,
• 09:10 JUST ABOUT?
• 09:11 Mitch: UH-HUH AND THE PLASTER
• 09:12 YOU ARE SEEING HERE IS
• 09:13 THE ORIGINAL PLASTER THAT
• 09:14 REMAINS FROM 2,000 YEARS AGO.
• 09:15 Tom: AND THE PRIEST WOULD
• 09:16 GO BELOW THE WATERS AND COME UP.
• 09:18 Mitch: HE WOULD GO
• 09:19 BELOW THE WATER.
• 09:20 HE WOULD HAVE TO COMPLETELY
• 09:21 IMMERSE HIMSELF THREE TIMES, AND
• 09:22 THAT WAY HE WOULD BE PURE AGAIN
• 09:23 IN ORDER TO CONDUCT SERVICES.
• 09:26 Zola: TOM AND MITCH MOVE ON
• 09:27 TO THE PINNACLE OF FINE ARTS
• 09:28 IN SEPPHORIS...THE REMAINS OF
• 09:30 ITS ONCE-MAGNIFICENT THEATRE.
• 09:36 Mitch: WE'RE NOW FOLLOWING
• 09:37 THE PATH OF THOUSANDS
• 09:39 OF ANCIENT RESIDENTS OF ZIPPORI
• 09:41 FOR OVER 250 YEARS, AS WE GO
• 09:43 THROUGH THE MAIN ENTRANCE
• 09:45 OF THE THEATRE OF ZIPPORI.
• 09:46 Tom: MY THERE'S A MARVELOUS VIEW
• 09:48 OF THE VALLEY DOWN BELOW.
• 09:49 Mitch: WELL, UNFORTUNATELY,
• 09:50 FOR THE ANCIENT RESIDENTS
• 09:52 OF ZIPPORI, THE VIEW WAS BLOCKED
• 09:53 FOR THEM BY THE WALL OF THE BACK
• 09:56 OF THE THEATRE, THAT WE SEE
• 09:57 IN FRONT OF US OVER HERE,
• 09:59 AND THEY WERE ONLY ABLE
• 10:00 TO SEE THE BACK OF THE STAGE.
• 10:01 Tom: HOW MANY PEOPLE
• 10:02 COULD SIT IN THE THEATRE?
• 10:04 Mitch: THE CAPACITY CROWD HERE
• 10:05 WAS ABOUT 4,500 PEOPLE,
• 10:08 WHICH IS QUITE SOMETHING WHEN
• 10:09 YOU CONSIDER THAT ZIPPORI ITSELF
• 10:10 ONLY HAD ABOUT 30,000 RESIDENTS
• 10:12 AT THE TIME THAT IT WAS BUILT.
• 10:14 Tom: AND WOULD THEY JUST SIT
• 10:15 WHERE WE CAN SEE THE STEPS,
• 10:17 OR WAS IT LARGER THAN THAT?
• 10:19 Mitch: WELL, THE STEPS
• 10:20 YOU'RE ONLY LOOKING AT HERE
• 10:21 ARE THE LOWER MEZZANINE.
• 10:22 OKAY?
• 10:23 IN FACT, RIGHT WHERE
• 10:24 I'M STANDING HERE AND ABOVE ME,
• 10:25 WOULD BE A WHOLE OTHER LEVEL
• 10:26 OF THE THEATRE, INCLUDING
• 10:28 STONE AND WOODEN SEATS.
• 10:30 Tom: AND HOW OLD
• 10:31 IS THIS THEATRE?
• 10:32 WHEN WAS IT BUILT?
• 10:33 Mitch: THERE'S A LOT
• 10:34 OF SPECULATION THAT, IN FACT,
• 10:35 THERE WAS A MUCH OLDER CULTURE
• 10:37 OF THEATRE HERE IN ZIPPORI.
• 10:40 Tom: EVEN AT THE TIME OF JESUS,
• 10:42 WHICH WOULD HAVE BEEN 60 OR SO
• 10:44 YEARS BEFORE THE BUILDING HERE.
• 10:47 Mitch: WE TRY TO WONDER WHY THEY
• 10:48 WOULD BUILD SUCH A GRAND THEATRE
• 10:50 IN A PLACE, UNLESS THERE WAS
• 10:51 A BIG DEMAND FOR THE THEATRE.
• 10:52 OKAY?
• 10:53 IT MUST HAVE MEANT THAT
• 10:54 THERE MUST HAVE BEEN SOME
• 10:55 KIND OF SMALLER STRUCTURE THAT
• 10:56 ACCOMMODATED THE THEATRE AND,
• 10:58 IN FACT, EVEN FROM WHAT WE KNOW
• 11:00 FROM JESUS HIMSELF,
• 11:01 WE CAN ASSUME
• 11:02 THERE WAS A THEATRE IN ZIPPORI.
• 11:04 Tom: WHAT ARE SOME OF THE THINGS
• 11:05 THAT THE GOSPELS BRING OUT
• 11:06 THAT MIGHT SUGGEST
• 11:07 THAT JESUS HAD BEEN EXPOSED
• 11:08 TO THIS KIND OF CULTURE?
• 11:10 Mitch: OKAY, FOR ONE, HE USES
• 11:11 LOTS OF GREEK WORDS, OKAY;
• 11:13 GREEK WORDS WHICH HE WOULD HAVE
• 11:14 NO WAY TO PICK THEM UP
• 11:16 IN A LITTLE TOWN OF NAZARETH.
• 11:17 HE WOULD HAVE TO COME TO A CITY
• 11:18 WHERE THERE WAS A SIZABLE
• 11:20 GREEK POPULATION
• 11:21 AND HE EVEN USES WORDS THAT
• 11:23 ARE CONNECTED TO THE THEATRE,
• 11:24 LIKE HYPOCRITE.
• 11:25 HYPOCRITE WAS A TERM
• 11:26 THAT MEANT ACTOR, MOSTLY,
• 11:28 AND SOME OTHER MEANINGS.
• 11:29 ALSO, WE CAN TAKE INTO ACCOUNT
• 11:31 WHEN WE SEE EVEN LIKE
• 11:32 HIS STAGING, THE WAY THAT HE
• 11:33 SET UP THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT.
• 11:35 OKAY?
• 11:36 IT WAS DONE IN THE WHOLE STYLE
• 11:37 OF THE THEATRE.
• 11:39 Zola: MITCH'S REFERENCE
• 11:40 TO STAGING INFERS THAT
• 11:42 JUST AS AN ACTOR WOULD
• 11:43 DELIVER HIS LINES
• 11:44 FROM THIS STAGE TO THE AUDIENCE
• 11:45 ABOVE, JESUS, TAKING A PAGE
• 11:48 FROM THE SEPPHORIS THEATRE,
• 11:49 MOST LIKELY DELIVERED
• 11:51 HIS SERMON ON THE MOUNT
• 11:52 FROM BELOW THE HILLSIDE
• 11:54 AT THE MOUNT OF BEATITUDES.
• 11:56 PREVIOUS PROGRAMS
• 11:57 HAVE DEMONSTRATED HOW THE SOUND
• 11:58 RESONATES EFFORTLESSLY
• 12:00 UP THE HILLSIDE.
• 12:02 ( Speaking Hebrew )
• 12:06 >> BLESSED ARE THE MEEK FOR
• 12:08 THEY SHALL INHERIT THE EARTH.
• 12:10 ( Speaking Hebrew )
• 12:16 >> BLESSED ARE THEY
• 12:17 WHICH DO HUNGER
• 12:18 AND THIRST AFTER RIGHTEOUSNESS
• 12:20 FOR THEY SHALL BE FILLED.
• 12:22 Zola: FROM THIS EXAMPLE,
• 12:23 "THE SERMON BELOW THE MOUNT"
• 12:25 MIGHT HAVE BEEN
• 12:26 A MORE APPROPRIATE TITLE FOR
• 12:27 CHRIST'S MAGNIFICENT TREATISE
• 12:29 ON GODLY LIVING.
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• 13:05 ♪ ♪
• 13:13 ♪ ♪
• 13:39 Myles: WE WOULD LOVE TO HOST YOU
• 13:40 IN ISRAEL, KATHARINE AND I.
• 13:42 IT'S OUR PLEASURE
• 13:43 TO BRING YOU TO ISRAEL.
• 13:44 WE'VE BEEN THERE OVER 20 TIMES
• 13:45 AND IT NEVER GETS OLD.
• 13:46 TRACIE, OUR TRAVEL MANAGER,
• 13:47 IS WITH US.
• 13:48 TRACIE, WHAT'S GOING ON NOW
• 13:49 WITH OUR TOURS?
• 13:50 Tracie: IT'S GREAT TO SEE YOU,
• 13:51 MYLES.
• 13:52 ONE THING I LOVE TALKING ABOUT,
• 13:53 I KNOW ESPECIALLY WITH YOU
• 13:54 AND KATHARINE BEING PASTORS
• 13:55 25 YEARS, IS WE HAVE
• 13:57 A SPECIAL OFFER FOR GROUPS,
• 13:58 OFTENTIMES PASTORS,
• 14:00 AND I TAKE ADVANTAGE OF IT.
• 14:01 BUT, PASTORS, IF YOU CAN GET
• 14:02 10 PAYING PASSENGERS TO COME ON
• 14:04 OUR TOUR, YOU COME TOTALLY FREE.
• 14:07 A LOT OF TIMES WE WANT YOU TO
• 14:08 GET 20 PAYING PASSENGERS SO THEN
• 14:10 YOU CAN BRING YOUR SPOUSE.
• 14:11 AND SO WHAT THAT DOES, MYLES,
• 14:14 IS THEY CAN COME ON THE TOUR AND
• 14:15 YOU KNOW HOW HARD PASTORS WORK.
• 14:17 I'VE WORKED WITH PASTORS FOR
• 14:18 MANY YEARS AT JOHN MAXWELL'S
• 14:20 MINISTRY AND THEY JUST...
• 14:21 TIRELESS...
• 14:22 PASTORS, YOU WORK TIRELESSLY.
• 14:23 COME ON OUR TOUR
• 14:24 AND LET US DO THE WORK.
• 14:26 FIRST OF ALL,
• 14:27 LET US DO THE LOGISTICS.
• 14:28 I WILL HANDLE EVERYTHING
• 14:29 FOR YOUR GROUP.
• 14:30 AND THEN, MYLES AND
• 14:31 KATHARINE, THEY ARE GOING
• 14:32 TO OPEN THE WORD DEVOTIONALLY.
• 14:34 THEY CAN DO AS MUCH
• 14:35 OR AS LITTLE AS THEY WANT.
• 14:36 Myles: EXACTLY.
• 14:37 Tracie: I KNOW WE HAVE TWO
• 14:38 PASTORS ON OUR UPCOMING TOUR
• 14:39 AND THEY'RE GOING TO BAPTIZE IN
• 14:40 THE JORDAN RIVER BUT THAT'S IT.
• 14:41 OTHERWISE, THEY'RE GOING TO
• 14:42 LEAVE THE TEACHING
• 14:43 TO OUR MESSIANIC JEWISH GUIDE.
• 14:44 MOST TOURS DON'T HAVE THAT.
• 14:46 WE ARE ALWAYS GUARANTEED
• 14:47 A MESSIANIC JEWISH GUIDE
• 14:48 ON OUR TOUR.
• 14:49 YOU AND KATHARINE ARE THERE
• 14:50 TO WORD DEVOTIONALLY AND IT'S
• 14:52 JUST--IT'S A JOY, AND SO
• 14:53 I WANT TO INVITE YOU TO DO THAT,
• 14:54 PASTORS; GIVE ME A CALL.
• 14:56 Myles: THANK YOU, TRACIE.
• 14:57 IT'S REALLY--IT'S OUR PLEASURE
• 14:58 TO WORK WITH PASTORS
• 14:59 AS A TEAM EFFORT.
• 15:00 AND, LIKE TRACIE SAYS,
• 15:02 YOU CAN DO AS LITTLE OR AS MUCH
• 15:04 AS YOU WANT TO ON OUR TOURS.
• 15:05 WE'LL HANDLE THE HEAVY LIFTING,
• 15:06 BUT WE'D LOVE TO HAVE YOU THERE
• 15:07 TO OPEN THE WORD WHEN YOU
• 15:08 WANT TO AND TO WORK WITH US
• 15:10 IN CONCERT.
• 15:12 ONE OF THE WAYS THAT OUR VIEWERS
• 15:14 CAN REALLY GET UP TO SPEED ON
• 15:16 THE JEWISH ROOTS OF THE FAITH
• 15:17 IS WITH OUR INSTITUTE
• 15:18 OF JEWISH-CHRISTIAN STUDIES.
• 15:21 WHEN YOU'RE COMING TO THE LAND,
• 15:22 WHEN YOU'RE WATCHING
• 15:23 THESE PROGRAMS, YOU REALLY WANT
• 15:24 TO GO DEEPER IN THE WORD.
• 15:25 THIS IS A BIBLE COLLEGE LEVEL
• 15:26 COURSE.
• 15:27 IT'S TAUGHT BY DR. JEFF SEIF
• 15:29 AND ZOLA LEVITT
• 15:30 AND IT REALLY WILL BRING YOU
• 15:31 INTO AN UNDERSTANDING
• 15:32 OF THE WORD WITH
• 15:33 THE HEBRAIC MINDSET
• 15:35 THAT YOU MIGHT NOT HAVE
• 15:36 BEEN TAUGHT IN SEMINARY,
• 15:37 YOU MIGHT NOT HAVE BEEN TAUGHT
• 15:38 IN YOUR CHURCH.
• 15:39 THIS WILL DEEPEN YOUR ROOTS,
• 15:40 I GUARANTEE IT.
• 15:41 YOU CAN SEE
• 15:42 ON THE COVER OF THIS,
• 15:43 IT SAYS "OHR EMET," THE LIGHT
• 15:45 AND TRUTH OF THE WORD, IN HEBREW
• 15:46 AND IT REALLY WILL DO THAT
• 15:47 FOR YOU.
• 15:49 IN FACT, LET'S HEAR A TESTIMONY
• 15:50 FROM SOME OF OUR STUDENTS
• 15:51 THAT HAVE TAKEN THIS COURSE...
• 15:52 RIGHT NOW.
• 15:54 I STRONGLY ENCOURAGE ANYONE
• 15:56 WHO TAKES THEIR RELATIONSHIP
• 15:58 WITH THE LORD SERIOUS...
• 16:00 YOU KNOW, WHEN HE TALKS
• 16:01 ABOUT YOU BEING LEAST
• 16:02 IN THE KINGDOM
• 16:03 OR GREAT IN THE KINGDOM,
• 16:04 STUDY TO SHOW YOURSELF
• 16:05 APPROVED...
• 16:06 GET THE COURSE...
• 16:08 DO ALL 12 LESSONS
• 16:10 AND TAKE IT SERIOUSLY.
• 16:12 LIKE, YOU KNOW, YOU WENT
• 16:13 TO COLLEGE TO GET YOUR DEGREE.
• 16:15 THIS IS NO DIFFERENT.
• 16:16 AND THIS IS A BETTER DEGREE.
• 16:19 ONE THAT'S NOT ON PAPER,
• 16:20 ONE THAT'S WRITTEN ON
• 16:21 THE TABLETS OF YOUR HEART.
• 16:23 WELL I MEAN IF YOU'RE GOING TO
• 16:24 UNDERSTAND THE WHOLE MESSAGE
• 16:27 OF THE NEW TESTAMENT,
• 16:28 AS WELL AS THE OLD TESTAMENT,
• 16:29 YOU'VE GOT TO CONNECT IT
• 16:32 WITH ITS ORIGINAL CONTEXT,
• 16:35 WHERE IT CAME FROM,
• 16:36 AND THE INSTITUTE
• 16:37 SHOWS YOU THAT
• 16:38 IN A VERY DETAILED WAY
• 16:41 THAT CAN BE BENEFICIAL
• 16:42 TO BOTH BEGINNER
• 16:44 AND ONE WHO'S SEASONED
• 16:45 IN THEOLOGY.
• 16:47 YOU JUST REALLY LEARN THE BIBLE
• 16:49 AND CHRISTIANITY
• 16:50 AND WHERE WE CAME FROM
• 16:51 IN HEBREW ROOTS.
• 16:52 AND SO IT'S TAUGHT
• 16:53 FROM A MESSIANIC PERSPECTIVE.
• 16:54 YOU'RE GOING TO GET
• 16:55 A LOT OF HEBREW.
• 16:56 YOU'RE GOING TO GET A LOT
• 16:57 OF JEWISH TERMS AND IT'S ALL
• 16:58 GOING TO BE REALLY GREAT.
• 16:59 MOST OF THE CHURCHES
• 17:00 I'VE BEEN TO
• 17:01 HAVE DONE A FAIRLY GOOD JOB,
• 17:04 I THINK, IN EXPLAINING
• 17:06 THE NEW TESTAMENT TO ME.
• 17:07 THEY--EVERYONE'S VERY CONCERNED
• 17:09 ABOUT THE NEW TESTAMENT
• 17:11 AND I CAN UNDERSTAND WHY.
• 17:13 IT'S THE NEW TESTAMENT
• 17:14 THAT GOT ME SAVED.
• 17:15 BUT THE OLD TESTAMENT...
• 17:17 ZOLA USED TO SAY--
• 17:19 I REMEMBER WATCHING HIM
• 17:20 WHEN HE WAS ALIVE--
• 17:21 HE USED TO SAY...
• 17:22 "THE OLD TESTAMENT IS THE GARDEN
• 17:25 AND THE NEW TESTAMENT
• 17:26 IS THE FLOWERS."
• 17:28 SO YOU HAVE TO DIG IN THE GARDEN
• 17:29 TO UNDERSTAND WHY THE FLOWERS
• 17:30 CAME FORTH.
• 17:34 Myles: THOSE TESTIMONIES
• 17:35 ARE SO ENCOURAGING.
• 17:36 I THINK YOU CAN REALLY SENSE
• 17:38 THAT TO LEARN THE OLD TESTAMENT
• 17:40 AND THE NEW TESTAMENT TOGETHER
• 17:41 IS UNLIKE ANY OTHER
• 17:42 INDIVIDUAL TEACHING
• 17:43 YOU'LL GET IN A LOCAL CHURCH.
• 17:45 YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU SIGN UP
• 17:46 FOR THE INSTITUTE
• 17:47 OF JEWISH-CHRISTIAN STUDIES
• 17:49 YOU CAN TAKE ONE CD OR THREE.
• 17:51 YOU CAN TAKE ALL 12 COURSES.
• 17:52 YOU CAN DO IT AT ANY PACE
• 17:54 THAT WORKS FOR YOU
• 17:55 AND YOU REALLY COME THROUGH IT
• 17:56 WITH THE SENSE OF UNDERSTANDING
• 17:58 THE ENTIRE BIBLE
• 17:59 AND REALLY KNOWING
• 18:00 THE CONNECTION
• 18:01 BETWEEN THE OLD TESTAMENT
• 18:02 AND THE NEW IN A WAY
• 18:03 THAT YOU NEVER HAVE BEFORE.
• 18:04 IT'S VERY ENCOURAGING
• 18:05 AND VERY STRONG TEACHING.
• 18:08 YOU KNOW, I WANT TO ENCOURAGE
• 18:09 YOU, ALSO, DURING THIS SEASON,
• 18:11 TO HELP US TO CONTINUE
• 18:12 TO BRING YOU THESE RESOURCES,
• 18:14 TO BRING YOU THESE PROGRAMS,
• 18:15 THIS HIGH-QUALITY
• 18:16 ON-LOCATION TEACHING,
• 18:18 THE DRAMAS FROM ISRAEL;
• 18:19 ALL OF THE THINGS
• 18:20 THAT WE TRY TO BRING YOU...
• 18:21 THE UP-TO-THE-MINUTE NEWS.
• 18:22 WE REALLY NEED YOUR PARTNERSHIP
• 18:23 DURING THIS SEASON.
• 18:24 WE NEED YOUR HELP.
• 18:25 SO PLEASE CONTINUE
• 18:26 TO SUPPORT US.
• 18:27 WE WANT TO NOT ONLY
• 18:28 CONTINUE WHAT WE'RE DOING,
• 18:29 WE WANT TO INCREASE
• 18:30 WHAT WE'RE DOING
• 18:31 IN THE DAYS AHEAD.
• 18:33 AND NOW, LET'S GO TO TOM McCALL
• 18:34 WITH AN EXPERT
• 18:35 ON THE PHILISTINES.
• 18:39 Prof. Seymour Gitin: IT'S
• 18:40 A FASCINATING STORY,
• 18:41 BECAUSE AS WE EXCAVATE
• 18:42 LAYER BY LAYER BY LAYER,
• 18:44 WE SEE, AFTER 100 OR 200 YEARS,
• 18:47 LESS OF THE ETHNIC MARKERS
• 18:50 THAT WOULD INDICATE
• 18:51 AN AEGEAN ORIGIN.
• 18:52 SO, BY THE YEAR,
• 18:53 LET'S SAY 1,000 BCE,
• 18:56 WHEN WE KNOW
• 18:57 FROM THE BIBLICAL STORY
• 18:58 AND FROM OTHER SOURCES,
• 18:59 THERE WAS A GREAT BUILD-UP
• 19:01 OF POWER INLAND.
• 19:03 WE CALL THAT
• 19:04 THE UNITED MONARCHY.
• 19:05 WE TALK ABOUT THE PERIOD OF SAUL
• 19:08 AND DAVID AND SOLOMON.
• 19:10 THE PHILISTINES LOST
• 19:11 THEIR GEOPOLITICAL
• 19:13 AND ECONOMIC IMPORTANCE
• 19:14 AND WE SEE THAT RECORDED
• 19:16 IN THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL RECORD.
• 19:18 FOR INSTANCE, AT EKRON,
• 19:19 THIS HUGE SITE,
• 19:20 ONE OF THE LARGEST SITES
• 19:22 IN THE BIBLICAL PERIOD,
• 19:24 SOMEWHERE ABOUT 1,000 BCE,
• 19:26 MUCH OF THE CITY IS DESTROYED
• 19:28 AND WHAT POPULATION IS LEFT
• 19:30 RECEDES TO A SMALL 10-ACRE AREA.
• 19:33 THE CITY HAD BEEN AT LEAST
• 19:34 50 ACRES IN SIZE BEFORE THAT.
• 19:36 AND FOR ABOUT 250 YEARS,
• 19:39 THE CITY REMAINED QUITE SMALL
• 19:41 AND UNIMPORTANT.
• 19:43 Zola: THE BOOK OF JUDGES
• 19:44 STATES;
• 19:56 ADDITIONALLY,
• 19:57 I SAMUEL DECLARES;
• 20:07 ALTHOUGH UNCERTAIN AS TO
• 20:08 WHICH PASSAGE DESCRIBES
• 20:09 THE DESTRUCTION SEEN
• 20:10 IN THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL FINDS
• 20:12 OF EKRON,
• 20:13 THE BIBLE PLAINLY ACCOUNTS FOR
• 20:14 THE INTERMITTENT ISRAELITE
• 20:16 DOMINION OVER THE PHILISTINES.
• 20:19 THE BIBLE ALSO MENTIONS
• 20:20 A SUBSEQUENT INVASION OF JUDAH
• 20:22 AND ISRAEL BY A FORCE
• 20:23 FROM THE EAST.
• 20:25 THE BOOK OF II KINGS ASSERTS;
• 20:33 THIS OCCURRED
• 20:34 IN THE 8th CENTURY BC.
• 20:36 SURPRISINGLY, ARCHAEOLOGY SHOWS
• 20:38 THE DOMINATION OF JUDAH
• 20:40 WAS EKRON'S DELIGHT.
• 20:43 Seymour: AND THE PHILISTINE
• 20:44 STATES, WHICH WERE
• 20:45 SO PRODUCTIVE, THEY GAVE
• 20:46 A CERTAIN LEEWAY.
• 20:48 THEY GAVE THEM A CERTAIN
• 20:49 SENSE OF INDEPENDENCE
• 20:50 AND THEY MADE THEM
• 20:51 VASSAL STATES, WHICH MEANS
• 20:52 THEY MORE OR LESS CONTROLLED
• 20:54 THEIR OWN TERRITORY.
• 20:57 NOW, EKRON THEY CHOSE
• 20:58 AS THE CENTER FOR
• 21:00 THE LARGEST OLIVE OIL
• 21:01 PRODUCTION ANYWHERE INDICATED
• 21:04 OR FOUND TO DATE
• 21:05 IN THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST.
• 21:06 Tom: OLIVE OIL PRODUCTION.
• 21:07 Seymour: THAT'S RIGHT...
• 21:08 IN THE 7th CENTURY CITY.
• 21:10 THIS WAS A CITY THAT WAS
• 21:12 SUDDENLY BUILT UP
• 21:14 IN THE ASSYRIAN PERIOD
• 21:15 AND EKRON WENT FROM A SMALL,
• 21:18 UNIMPORTANT CITY
• 21:19 IN THIS MEDIAN PERIOD
• 21:21 THAT I TALKED ABOUT BEFORE,
• 21:22 SUDDENLY EXPANDED
• 21:23 TO ABOUT 85 ACRES.
• 21:25 WE HAVE THUS FAR, IN EXCAVATING
• 21:28 ABOUT ONLY 4% OF THE SITE
• 21:30 AND OF COURSE SURVEYING
• 21:31 ALL OF THE TOP REMAINS,
• 21:33 FOUND 115 OLIVE OIL
• 21:36 INSTALLATIONS.
• 21:38 Zola: IT IS BELIEVED
• 21:39 THE PHILISTINES PRODUCED
• 21:40 SOME 290,000 GALLONS
• 21:42 OF OLIVE OIL A YEAR,
• 21:43 MOSTLY FOR EXPORT.
• 21:45 HOWEVER, LIKE THE OIL BEING
• 21:47 PRESSED FROM THE OLIVES,
• 21:48 THE PHILISTINE CULTURAL LIFE
• 21:50 WAS BEING SQUEEZED OUT
• 21:52 AS THE AEGEAN IMMIGRANTS
• 21:53 ASSIMILATED THE TRADITIONS
• 21:54 OF THOSE AROUND THEM.
• 21:56 SEYMOUR AND HIS TEAM UNCOVERED
• 21:58 ARTIFACTS WHICH COMMUNICATE
• 21:59 THIS INFLUENCE.
• 22:01 THIS FOUR-HORNED INCENSE ALTAR
• 22:03 WAS ONE OF THEM.
• 22:04 Seymour: NOW, I'M SURE
• 22:05 YOU WANT TO KNOW WHAT
• 22:07 A FOUR-HORNED INCENSE ALTAR,
• 22:09 WHICH IS TYPICAL OF ANCIENT
• 22:10 ISRAELITE RELIGION THAT WE KNOW
• 22:12 ABOUT FROM THE BIBLE
• 22:13 AND WE KNOW ABOUT FROM
• 22:15 ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXCAVATIONS
• 22:16 AT ISRAELITE SITES,
• 22:17 WHAT THIS IS DOING AT EKRON.
• 22:20 IT'S NOT FOUND AT ANY OTHER
• 22:21 PHILISTINE CITY IN THE PERIOD.
• 22:24 OUR THEORY IS THAT
• 22:25 THE PHILISTINES SURVIVED
• 22:26 SO LONG,
• 22:27 FROM ABOUT 1200 TO 600 BCE,
• 22:30 THAT'S ABOUT 600 YEARS,
• 22:32 BECAUSE THEY WERE VERY FLEXIBLE.
• 22:34 WHENEVER A NATION CONFRONTED
• 22:36 THEM OR CONQUERED THEM,
• 22:37 THEY ADAPTED SOMETHING
• 22:39 OF THAT CULTURE
• 22:40 AND THEY WERE FLEXIBLE ENOUGH
• 22:41 TO SURVIVE.
• 22:43 BY THE TIME WE COME TO
• 22:45 THE GREAT GROWTH PERIOD,
• 22:46 THE ZENITH OF EKRON
• 22:48 IN THE 7th CENTURY,
• 22:49 IT'S VERY HARD TO FIND
• 22:51 ANYTHING LEFT OVER
• 22:53 FROM THEIR ANCESTORS
• 22:55 THAT HAVE AN AEGEAN MOTIF,
• 22:58 OR AN AEGEAN THEME ABOUT THEM.
• 23:00 Zola: EGYPTIAN CULTURE WAS ALSO
• 23:02 REPRESENTED IN EKRON'S RUINS.
• 23:04 THIS MAGNIFICENT GOLDEN COBRA,
• 23:06 CALLED A "URAEUS",
• 23:09 ONCE ADORNED THE CROWN
• 23:10 OF AN EGYPTIAN PHARAOH.
• 23:11 ALSO UNEARTHED WAS WHAT
• 23:13 SEYMOUR BELIEVED TO BE
• 23:14 THEIR MOST IMPORTANT FIND,
• 23:16 A STONE INSCRIPTION
• 23:17 FROM EKRON'S TEMPLE COMPLEX.
• 23:19 Seymour: AND WHAT IT SAYS,
• 23:20 VERY BRIEFLY, IS THAT THIS IS
• 23:23 A "BET", A HOUSE OR A TEMPLE,
• 23:25 PERHAPS A SHRINE, BUILT,
• 23:28 "BINAH", BY ACHISH
• 23:30 WHOM WE IDENTIFY WITH IKAUSU
• 23:32 OF THE NEO-ASSYRIAN TEXT
• 23:34 WHO WAS THE SON OF PADI,
• 23:37 WHO IS THE SON OF SO AND SO,
• 23:38 AND SO AND SO, AND SO AND SO,
• 23:40 ALL OF THESE WONDERFUL NAMES,
• 23:42 AND THEN WE COME ACROSS
• 23:43 THE WORD "SAR" WHICH IS THE WORD
• 23:47 FOR KING, OR RULER OF EKRON.
• 23:53 THIS TEMPLE WAS BUILT
• 23:54 TO A GODDESS, HIS GODDESS,
• 23:57 THE GODDESS OF ACHISH OR IKAUSU
• 24:00 AND MAY THERE BE BLESSING
• 24:01 AND LONG LIFE, ETC.
• 24:03 NOW, WHY IS THIS INSCRIPTION
• 24:04 SO IMPORTANT?
• 24:06 ACTUALLY, IT'S THE FIRST TIME
• 24:08 AN INSCRIPTION HAS BEEN FOUND
• 24:10 IN PLACE "IN SITU,"
• 24:12 ON AN EXCAVATION,
• 24:13 IN WHICH THE DATE
• 24:15 IS NOT IN QUESTION.
• 24:16 THIS WAS FOUND IN
• 24:17 THE NEO-BABYLONIAN DESTRUCTION
• 24:19 OF 603 BCE.
• 24:21 THE DESTRUCTION CAUSED
• 24:22 BY THE KING NEBUCHADNEZZAR.
• 24:24 SO, WE HAVE AN INSCRIPTION
• 24:25 WHICH IS LIKE A SIGN POST.
• 24:27 IT SAYS AFTER 13 YEARS
• 24:28 OF EXCAVATION, ABSOLUTELY,
• 24:31 YOU WERE EXCAVATING EKRON.
• 24:33 Tom: SEYMOUR, WHAT HAPPENED
• 24:34 TO THE PHILISTINES
• 24:35 THAT HAD THIS CIVILIZATION?
• 24:37 Seymour: IN THE 7th CENTURY
• 24:38 WHEN THEY HAD THIS HUGE
• 24:39 INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX,
• 24:41 THIS GREAT CITY,
• 24:42 WHEN THEY REACHED THE ZENITH
• 24:43 OF ITS GROWTH,
• 24:45 ALL OF THESE FACTORS
• 24:46 OF OTHER COUNTRIES IMPACTED
• 24:48 SO HEAVILY THAT BY THE TIME
• 24:49 THE BABYLONIANS DESTROYED
• 24:51 THE CITY AND PHYSICALLY
• 24:52 REMOVED THE INHABITANTS
• 24:55 AND TOOK THEM EASTWARD
• 24:57 INTO BABYLON,
• 24:58 THAT THEY NO LONGER
• 24:59 HAD ANY CORE CULTURE LEFT
• 25:01 TO MAINTAIN THEMSELVES IN EXILE.
• 25:04 Tom: SO, THEY MORE OR LESS,
• 25:05 DISAPPEARED FROM THE FACE
• 25:07 OF HISTORY.
• 25:08 Seymour: WELL, WE DON'T HAVE
• 25:09 ANY EVIDENCE, ARCHAEOLOGICALLY
• 25:10 OR IN TERMS OF TEXT,
• 25:11 THAT IS SIGNIFICANT
• 25:12 THAT WOULD INDICATE
• 25:13 THAT THEY REALLY CONTINUE.
• 25:15 IT'S, MORE OR LESS, A PEOPLE
• 25:16 THAT DISAPPEARED LIKE
• 25:17 PERHAPS THE ANCIENT AMMONITES,
• 25:20 OR THE MOABITES,
• 25:21 OR THE EDOMITES,
• 25:23 LOST IN THE PAGES OF HISTORY.
• 25:34 (♪ Flute ♪)
• 25:56 Myles: I HOPE YOU'RE CATCHING
• 25:57 WHAT WE JUST SAW.
• 25:58 I MEAN, THAT IS SO INCREDIBLE
• 26:00 TO REALIZE THAT ALL THIS NOISE
• 26:01 THAT'S BEING MADE
• 26:02 ABOUT THE PHILISTINES
• 26:03 AND THE ARABIC PEOPLE
• 26:05 BEING DESCENDED
• 26:06 FROM THE PHILISTINES,
• 26:07 IT'S JUST MADE UP.
• 26:08 THE REALITY IS THAT
• 26:09 THE PHILISTINES
• 26:10 WERE FROM GREECE.
• 26:11 THEY WERE AN AEGEAN PEOPLE
• 26:12 THAT CAME HERE
• 26:13 AND THAT WERE WIPED OUT,
• 26:14 AND THERE'S NEVER REALLY
• 26:15 BEEN A CONNECTION
• 26:16 IN THE WAY THAT IT'S
• 26:17 BEING SAID POLITICALLY TODAY.
• 26:19 Katharine: ARAFAT USED
• 26:20 HIS OWN PEOPLE AS A PAWN.
• 26:21 Myles: IT'S REALLY SAD
• 26:22 BUT IT'S TRUE THAT THERE'S
• 26:24 BEEN THIS MISINFORMATION.
• 26:25 WE REALLY NEED TO KNOW
• 26:26 THE TRUTH.
• 26:27 WE REALLY NEED TO HEAR
• 26:28 THESE KINDS OF MESSAGES.
• 26:29 THAT'S WHY IT'S SO VALUABLE
• 26:30 THAT YOU'RE HELPING US
• 26:31 TO BRING THESE PROGRAMS,
• 26:33 ESPECIALLY IN THE DAY
• 26:34 IN WHICH WE ARE LIVING.
• 26:35 THERE'S SUCH DISINFORMATION
• 26:36 AND SUCH DEMONIZATION OF ISRAEL
• 26:38 AND THE JEWISH PEOPLE.
• 26:39 WE NEED REALITY
• 26:41 TO COME THROUGH THE MEDIA,
• 26:42 AND WE HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY
• 26:44 TO DO THIS WITH YOUR SUPPORT.
• 26:46 Katharine: AND, ALSO,
• 26:47 BY THIS RESOURCE THAT
• 26:49 WE OFFER YOU...
• 26:50 IT IS A BIBLE COURSE
• 26:52 AND IT IS "THE INSTITUTE
• 26:54 OF JEWISH-CHRISTIAN STUDIES'
• 26:57 AND IT IS AN IN-DEPTH STUDY
• 26:58 AND WHERE YOU CAN GET STARTED.
• 27:00 ZOLA AND JEFF BOTH TEACH ON THIS
• 27:01 AND I'VE LEARNED A LOT
• 27:03 FROM DIGGING INTO IT MYSELF
• 27:04 AND I KNOW YOU WILL TOO.
• 27:05 MYLES, YOU SAID A LOT;
• 27:07 THAT ISRAEL IS GOD'S TIMEPIECE.
• 27:10 AND IT WILL HELP US
• 27:11 TO UNDERSTAND THE SEASONS
• 27:12 THAT WE'RE IN.
• 27:13 AND IT WILL HELP US ALSO
• 27:14 TO UNDERSTAND WHAT GOD SAYS
• 27:17 ABOUT THE END-TIMES
• 27:18 AND HOW WE'RE CONNECTED WITH IT.
• 27:19 Myles: IT REALLY IS.
• 27:20 AND THIS IS SUCH
• 27:21 AN IN-DEPTH COURSE.
• 27:22 YOU CAN GET THIS A LITTLE BIT
• 27:23 AT A TIME OR
• 27:24 DO THE WHOLE COURSE.
• 27:25 YOU KNOW, I GRADUATED
• 27:26 FROM BIBLE COLLEGE
• 27:27 AND I HAVE A GRADUATE DEGREE
• 27:28 AND IT STILL IS
• 27:29 IMPRESSIVE TO ME.
• 27:31 THIS IS AN OLD TESTAMENT SURVEY,
• 27:32 NEW TESTAMENT SURVEY,
• 27:33 AND REALLY IS A DEEP STUDY
• 27:35 IN THE JEWISH ROOTS
• 27:37 OF YOUR FAITH
• 27:38 AND WE NEED THAT IN THESE DAYS
• 27:39 IN WHICH WE'RE LIVING.
• 27:41 AND SO...UNTIL WE SEE YOU AGAIN
• 27:43 WE ALWAYS WANT TO REMIND YOU,
• 27:45 SHAL'ALU SHALOM YERUSHALAYIM.
• 27:47 Katharine: PRAY FOR THE PEACE
• 27:48 OF JERUSALEM.
• 27:52 ♪ LORD GOD, CREATOR OF HEAVEN, ♪
• 27:59 ♪ LORD GOD, WE BRING FORTH YOUR PRAISES ♪
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