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• 00:03 IN A REMOTE TUNNEL DEEP WITHIN THE JUDEAN DESERT
• 00:07 AN UNSOLVED MYSTERY
• 00:09 OF A PRICELESS TREASURE.
• 00:15 IT STARTED WITH ABRAHAM
• 00:17 WAS ASSEMBLED BY MOSES
• 00:20 ENSHRINED BY KING SOLOMON
• 00:23 ITS FAME WOULD SUMMON KINGS AND BECKON PHARAOHS
• 00:27 ITS GLORY RAVAGE FOREIGN GODS
• 00:34 WHAT WAS THE SOURCE OF THIS MIGHT?
• 00:38 IS HISTORY ABOUT TO UNLEASH ITS DESERT SECRETS?
• 00:48 THE QUEST FOR THE TEMPLE TREASURES
• 00:51 AND THE ARK OF THE COVENANT...
• 00:53 JEHOVAH'S TREASURE
• 00:59 HEARTY SHALOM TO ALL OF YOU
• 01:01 JEFFREY SEIF HERE
• 01:03 PLEASED TO WELCOME YOU AGAIN TO ANOTHER EDITION OF ZOLA LEVITT PRESENTS.
• 01:07 AND IN THIS SERIES WE'RE PRESENTING THE THIRD OF A THREE PART TREATMENT
• 01:11 OF A MINI SERIES THAT WE HAVE ENTITLED "JEHOVAH'S TREASURE".
• 01:17 THERE'S LOTS OF TREASURES IN GOD'S WORD.
• 01:20 WE IN THIS SERIES DIG UNDER THE EARTH FOLLOWING ON THE HEELS OF ARCHAEOLOGISTS AND JOURNALISTS
• 01:25 AS WE SEARCH FOR GOLD AND SILVER AND TEMPLE ARTIFACTS.
• 01:30 IN THIS PARTICULAR PROGRAM WE BEGIN NOW LOOKING AT SOME FACTS IN BIBLICAL ART WORK...
• 01:35 GOD'S LOVE FOR THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL.
• 01:38 OFF WE GO NOW TO LOOK AT JEHOVAH'S TREASURE, HIS PEOPLE
• 01:41 AND HOW HE SPEAKS TO THEM AND WORKS WITH THEM IN THE BYGONE ERA.
• 01:48 (Narrator) IN THE JOURNEY FROM THE SINAI TO JERUSALEM
• 01:51 THE ARK OF THE COVENANT HAS BEEN THE SOURCE OF LIFE AND DEATH NOW FOR NEARLY 450 YEARS.
• 01:59 THROUGH DESERTS AND RIVERS...
• 02:02 OVER MOUNTAINS AND CANYONS...
• 02:06 INTO THE VERY TEMPLE OF A FOREIGN GOD.
• 02:12 (David Dolan) KING DAVID HAS A VISION.
• 02:14 HE WANTS TO BUILD A PERMANENT HOUSE FOR THE LORD JUST NORTH OF HIS PALACE ON MOUNT MORIAH.
• 02:18 AFTER ALL IT'S HERE THAT ABRAHAM OFFERED UP HIS SON ISAAC
• 02:22 AND WHERE JEHOVAH RENEWED HIS COVENANT WITH ABRAHAM TO BLESS HIS SEED FOREVER.
• 02:27 WHAT MORE FITTING PLACE COULD THERE BE
• 02:29 TO BUILD A HOUSE OF REST FOR THE ARK OF THE COVENANT?
• 02:32 DAVID WOULD PROCEED WITH HIS PLANS,
• 02:34 BUT THE ACTUAL CONSTRUCTION OF THE TEMPLE WOULD BE LEFT TO HIS SON AND ISRAEL'S NEXT KING...
• 02:39 SOLOMON
• 02:42 (Narrator) KING SOLOMON PROCEEDS WITH HIS MISSION TO CONSTRUCT A TEMPLE WORTHY OF HIS FATHER'S VISION.
• 02:48 HE WILL USE 3,300 FOREMAN AND 80,000 STONE CUTTERS.
• 02:55 HEWN OF LOCAL LIMESTONE,
• 02:57 THE MAGNIFICENT STRUCTURE WILL BE FASHIONED AFTER THE PATTERN OF MOSES' TABERNACLE.
• 03:02 ITS INNER WALLS COVERED WITH PURE GOLD.
• 03:05 THE GOLDEN MENORAH, TABLE OF SHEWBREAD AND ALTAR OF INCENSE
• 03:09 WILL CONTINUE TO BE THE FOCAL POINT IN THE AREA CALLED, "THE HOLY PLACE",
• 03:14 AS WILL THE SMALLER GOLD AND SILVER VESSELS USED IN THE SERVICE OF THESE ARTIFACTS.
• 03:19 EVEN MORE GOLD AND SILVER WILL BE STORED IN THE ADJACENT TEMPLE TREASURY.
• 03:24 AND JUST AS IN THE TABERNACLE,
• 03:27 THE ARK OF THE COVENANT WILL BE PLACED IN A SEPARATE GOLDEN ROOM
• 03:31 AT THE BACK OF THE TEMPLE CALLED, "THE HOLY OF HOLIES."
• 03:35 NEARLY 500 YEARS OLD THE ARK IS FINALLY HOME.
• 03:45 UNDER KING SOLOMON ISRAEL BECOMES ONE OF THE RICHEST NATIONS IN THE WORLD.
• 03:49 THE EMPIRE GROWS AND FLOURISHES AS IT NEVER HAS BEFORE,
• 03:53 BUT THIS GOLDEN AGE WILL BE SHORT LIVED.
• 03:56 THE DEATH OF KING SOLOMON IN 926 B.C. BRINGS ABOUT TROUBLED TIMES.
• 04:03 THE KINGDOM IS DIVIDED,
• 04:05 WARS ARE FOUGHT AS RUTHLESS KINGS COME AND GO.
• 04:08 FOREIGN KINGDOMS MARCH TOWARD JERUSALEM, BURNING AND PILLAGING
• 04:12 AS THEY ULTIMATELY ENTER THE GATES OF THE HOLY CITY.
• 04:19 IT'S AT SOME POINT DURING THIS TURBULENT PERIOD
• 04:22 THAT THE ARK OF THE COVENANT DISAPPEARS FROM THE PAGES OF THE BIBLE.
• 04:37 IN 586 B.C. JERUSALEM AND THE TEMPLE ARE COMPLETELY DESTROYED
• 04:42 BY THE ARMIES OF KING NEBUCHADNEZZAR.
• 04:45 THE GREATEST LANDMARK OF ABRAHAM AS SEED BECOMES SMOLDERING CINDERS.
• 04:50 NOW BABYLON'S WALLS 300 FEET IN HEIGHT ENCIRCLE THE EXILED CHILDREN OF ISRAEL.
• 04:56 THE SMALLER TEMPLE TREASURES CONSISTING OF OVER 5,000 GOLD AND SILVER VESSELS
• 05:02 HAD BECOME THE SPOILS OF WAR.
• 05:08 48 YEARS PASS AND THEN ANOTHER SURPRISING TWIST OF FATE...
• 05:12 THE BABYLONIANS THEMSELVES BECOME CAPTIVE TO CYRUS THE 2ND, KING OF THE PERSIAN EMPIRE.
• 05:18 IN THIS DECREE INSCRIBED IN CUNEIFORM
• 05:22 CYRUS GRANTS PERMISSION FOR ALL EXILES IN BABYLON TO RETURN TO THEIR HOMELAND.
• 05:27 THE ISRAELITES ARE FREE TO LEAVE,
• 05:29 THEY'RE GIVEN THEIR TEMPLE TREASURES
• 05:31 AND ARE ACTUALLY ENCOURAGED TO REBUILD THEIR HOUSE OF GOD IN JERUSALEM.
• 05:38 (David Dolan) THEIR RETURN WILL COME IN STAGES.
• 05:40 THE 1ST AND LARGEST GROUP IS LED BY ZERUBBABEL, WHO BECOMES THE GOVERNOR OF THE PROVINCE.
• 05:46 HE LAYS THE FOUNDATION FOR A RATHER MODEST TEMPLE WHICH PALES IN COMPARISON TO SOLOMON'S.
• 05:51 BUT IT WILL EVENTUALLY SERVE AS A HOME
• 05:54 FOR THE VERY SAME LOADED GOLD AND SILVER VESSELS THAT HAVE BEEN TAKEN TO BABYLON.
• 06:00 WHILE THE BIBLE SPEAKS OF THE TEMPLE TREASURES
• 06:03 BEING RESTORED TO THEIR RIGHTFUL PLACE ON THE TEMPLE MOUNT,
• 06:06 IT SAYS NOTHING ABOUT THE ARK.
• 06:07 AS FOR THE COVENANT, IT WILL REMAIN IN EFFECT
• 06:11 AS REFLECTED IN THE PRAYERS OF CONFESSION AND REDEDICATION.
• 06:17 YOU'VE PROBABLY HEARD IT SAID BEFORE THAT GOD WANTS TO HAVE A RELATIONSHIP WITH YOU.
• 06:23 THERE'S A BIBLICAL TERM, A THEOLOGICAL TERM FOR THAT RELATIONSHIP.
• 06:27 IT'S CALLED "COVENANT".
• 06:29 NEW TESTAMENT READERS ARE FAMILIAR WITH THE NEW COVENANT
• 06:32 AND ARE AWARE THAT THERE IS AN OLD COVENANT.
• 06:36 THE OLD COVENANT, OR THE TERM, KIND OF SORT OF SOUNDS LIKE IT IS OUTDATED;
• 06:40 THAT'S THE OLD AND WE HAVE THE NEW.
• 06:43 THE COVENANTS IN THE OLD TESTAMENT AS WITH THE NEW,
• 06:48 ARE GOD'S ETERNAL PLEDGE TO HIS PEOPLE.
• 06:51 WE'VE BEEN FOLLOWING THIS STORY WITH ARCHAEOLOGISTS, HISTORIANS, JOURNALISTS,
• 06:56 AS WE'RE LOOKING THROUGH THE OLD TESTAMENT TEXTS AND EXPLORING THAT WORLD.
• 07:01 WE'VE LOOKED AT THE BIBLICAL WORLD AND WE'VE LOOKED AT THE LITERATURE.
• 07:04 AND OFF WE GO TO LOOK SOME MORE.
• 07:14 (Ian Stern) 500 YEARS HAVE ELAPSED FROM THE TIME OF ZERUBBABEL TO THE TIME OF KING HEROD.
• 07:18 KING HEROD RULED FROM 37 TO 4 B.C.E.
• 07:24 AND HE BUILT IN HIS PERIOD OF TIME ONE OF THE MOST MAGNIFICENT STRUCTURES IN THE WORLD.
• 07:28 HE ACTUALLY REBUILDS THE 2ND TEMPLE.
• 07:32 RIGHT NEXT TO ME OVER HERE, ARE THE WALLS,
• 07:34 THE RETAINING WALLS OF THAT TEMPLE
• 07:35 AND THEY BEAR THE CHARACTERISTICS OF HERODIAN MONUMENTAL BUILDINGS.
• 07:39 THAT IS TO SAY, THEY HAVE MARGINS, THERE'S DRY MASONRY,
• 07:43 AND THEY'RE ALL RECESSED ONE STONE FROM THE OTHER.
• 07:48 (Narrator) THE IMMENSE SIZE OF THESE STONES IS BETTER APPRECIATED UNDERGROUND,
• 07:51 ALONG THE BASE OF THE WESTERN WALL.
• 07:54 CHIEF ARCHAEOLOGIST OF JERUSALEM, JOHN ZELIGMAN.
• 07:59 (John Zeligman) THIS HUGE STONE BESIDE ME IS WHAT'S CALLED THE MASTERCOURSE OF THE TEMPLE MOUNT.
• 08:02 IT'S THE STONE THAT PROVIDES THE STABILITY, THE STRUCTURAL STABILITY TO THE TEMPLE MOUNT.
• 08:06 EACH HUGE STONE IS ABOUT 35 FEET BY ABOUT 9 FEET IN HEIGHT.
• 08:10 AS TO THE INSIDE DEPTH WE DON'T QUITE KNOW,
• 08:12 BUT THIS IS THE LARGEST STONE WE HAVE IN THE TEMPLE MOUNT
• 08:14 AND POSSIBLY ONE OF THE LARGEST STONES THAT EXIST IN ANY ANCIENT SITE IN THE WORLD.
• 08:17 AND OF COURSE HOW IT'S MOVED,
• 08:19 THE SIGHT IS A REAL CONUNDRUM FOR ARCHAEOLOGISTS.
• 08:26 IT WAS SAID OF KING HEROD'S TEMPLE,
• 08:28 "HE WHO HAS NOT SEEN THE TEMPLE OF HEROD HAS NOT SEEN A BEAUTIFUL BUILDING."
• 08:33 "HE WHO HAS NOT SEEN JERUSALEM AND ITS GLORY HAS NOT SEEN A BEAUTIFUL CITY."
• 08:41 THIS IS THE TEMPLE OF JESUS' TIME.
• 08:43 AS IN SOLOMON'S TEMPLE THE GOLDEN ARTIFACTS AND VESSELS
• 08:46 WILL SERVE THEIR PLACE BEFORE THE LEVITICAL PRIESTS.
• 08:49 BUT THE HOLY OF HOLIES WILL BE EMPTY.
• 08:52 THE ARK HAS DISAPPEARED.
• 08:57 (Ian Stern) WE'RE STANDING ON THE STREET HERE THAT JESUS WOULD'VE WALKED
• 09:00 AND WE'RE APPROXIMATELY 100 YARDS AWAY FROM WHERE THE TEMPLE ONCE STOOD.
• 09:04 THE SHOPS OVER HERE TO MY LEFT WERE THE SHOPS THAT THOUSANDS OF PILGRIMS WOULD HAVE VISITED
• 09:09 ON THE 3 TIMES A YEAR THAT THEY MADE PILGRIMAGE INTO JERUSALEM,
• 09:12 ON PASSOVER, ON SHAVUOT, AND ON SUKKOT.
• 09:15 THESE STONES ONCE STOOD AS HIGH AS THE TOP OF THOSE TREES OVER THERE.
• 09:18 AND IN THE YEAR 70 THE ROMAN LEGIONS CAME, DESTROYED THE TEMPLE
• 09:22 AND THREW THESE STONES DOWN ONTO THE PAVEMENT IN FRONT OF US.
• 09:25 HERE THEY STAND AS TESTIMONY TO THAT ROMAN DESTRUCTION IN THE YEAR 70.
• 09:30 (Narrator) TODAY NEARLY 2000 YEARS AFTER THE ROMANS PLUNDERED THE WALLS OF JERUSALEM,
• 09:35 A REMNANT OF KING HEROD'S SPLENDID TEMPLE STILL REMAINS.
• 09:39 THIS PART OF THE WESTERN WALL IS OFTEN REFERRED TO AS THE "WAILING WALL".
• 09:43 TEARS ARE SHED HERE.
• 09:45 BUT THERE ARE SHOUTS OF JOY AS WELL.
• 09:47 AT THE AGE OF 13 EVERY JEWISH BOY NO MATTER WHERE HE LIVES IN THE WORLD IS BAR MITZVAHED.
• 09:53 AND IF THE FAMILY CAN OBSERVE THIS FESTIVE OCCASION HERE AT THE WALL...ALL THE BETTER.
• 09:58 ON THIS DAY A BOY BECOMES A SON OF THE COVENANT.
• 10:05 (David Dolan) OUR STORY OF THE ARK OF THE COVENANT BECOMES EVEN MORE INTRIGUING
• 10:08 WHEN WE NEXT CONSIDER ITS MYSTERIOUS WHEREABOUTS.
• 10:11 IF YOU'LL SEARCH THE INTERNET
• 10:13 YOU'LL FIND THERE ARE OVER 2 1/2 MILLION ITEMS TO BE FOUND RELATED TO THE ARK,
• 10:18 NEARLY ALL OF THEM HAVING TO DO WITH ITS DISAPPEARANCE.
• 10:21 TO REVIEW, WE KNOW THAT IT WAS FIRST PLACED INTO SOLOMON'S TEMPLE IN 950 B.C.
• 10:27 IT REMAINS THERE FOR SOME 365 YEARS BEFORE THAT TEMPLE IS DESTROYED AND PLUNDERED BY THE BABYLONIANS IN 586 B.C.
• 10:35 THERE'S LITTLE REFERENCE MADE TO THE ARK DURING THIS PERIOD.
• 10:39 IT'S DURING THE REIGN OF KING JOSIAH IN 622 B.C. THAT WE READ ABOUT IT FOR THE LAST TIME.
• 10:45 SO WHAT HAPPENED TO THIS MOST VALUABLE TREASURE IN HISTORY?
• 10:49 LET'S LOOK AT SOME OF THE THEORIES.
• 10:54 (Narrator) SHORTLY AFTER KING SOLOMON'S DEATH, JERUSALEM IS BESIEGED BY THE EGYPTIAN PHAROH, SHISHAK.
• 11:00 AND HE TOOK AWAY THE TREASURES OF THE HOUSE OF THE LORD AND THE TREASURES OF THE KING'S HOUSE.
• 11:06 NO ONE IS SURE WHAT THESE TEMPLE TREASURES CONSISTED OF
• 11:11 ALTHOUGH HOLLYWOOD MOGULS HAVE GONE IN FORTUNES OF THEIR OWN
• 11:14 BASED ON THE NOTION THAT THE TREASURE'S INCLUDED THE ARK OF THE COVENANT.
• 11:22 IN THE YEAR 1099 THE CRUSADERS MARCHED INTO JERUSALEM
• 11:27 CONVERTING THE ISLAMIC DOME OF THE ROCK INTO A CATHEDRAL
• 11:31 THAT WOULD SERVE AS THEIR HEADQUARTERS WITHIN THE HOLY LAND.
• 11:36 SOME BELIEVE THAT KNIGHTS TEMPLAR EXCAVATED UNDERGROUND CHAMBERS WITHIN THE TEMPLE MOUNT
• 11:41 IN SEARCH OF THE ARK AND THE TEMPLE TREASURES.
• 11:45 THIS THEORY HAS THE KNIGHTS FINDING THE ARK AND THE TREASURES,
• 11:48 THEN WHISKING THEM AWAY TO SOUTHERN FRANCE.
• 11:51 ONE OF THE MORE POPULAR THEORIES SUGGEST THAT KING SOLOMON HAD A SON BY THE VISITING ETHIOPIAN QUEEN SHEBA.
• 11:58 AT THE AGE OF 19 THIS SON, MENELIK, BECOMES THE KING OF SHEBA
• 12:02 AND HAS THE ARK REMOVED FROM SOLOMON'S TEMPLE TAKING IT TO ETHIOPIA.
• 12:07 ACCORDING TO THE RESIDENTS OF AKSUM, ETHIOPIA
• 12:10 THE ARK PRESENTLY RESIDES IN A LOCAL CHURCH
• 12:14 AND IS OVERSEEN BY A CARETAKER PRIEST WHO GUARDS IT 24 HOURS A DAY.
• 12:23 IN AN AMAZING UNDERSTATEMENT PRINTED IN HIS OWN PUBLICATION
• 12:27 THE LATE AMERICAN RON WYATT CLAIMED TO HAVE FOUND THE ARK IN 1982.
• 12:33 HE SAYS HE SAW IT HERE IN WHAT HE CALLS 'JEREMIAH'S GROTTO',
• 12:38 WHICH HAPPENS TO BE BELOW THE SITE THAT SOME REVERE AS 'GOLGOTHA' ON MOUNT CALVARY.
• 12:44 WYATT'S EXCAVATION ALSO HAPPENS TO REST WITHIN THE BOUNDARIES OF JERUSALEM'S GARDEN TOMB.
• 12:50 CURATOR OF THE GARDEN TOMB,
• 12:51 VICTOR JACK.
• 12:53 (Victor Jack) WELL RIGHT WHERE I'M SITTING
• 12:55 IS WHERE RON DUG HIS HOLE TO GO DOWN AND EXCAVATE UNDER THIS ROCK.
• 13:00 AND THIS WALL WASN'T HERE, THAT'S ALL BEEN SORT OF LANDSCAPED SINCE,
• 13:05 BUT HE DUG HERE ON 2 OR 3 OCCASIONS AND WENT DOWN UNDER THE ROCK.
• 13:09 AND I WAS HERE WORKING AS A CHAPLAIN WHEN HE WAS DIGGING.
• 13:15 (Narrator) WYATT CLAIMS TO HAVE FOUND OTHER TEMPLE TREASURES AS WELL
• 13:18 SUCH AS THE ALTAR OF INCENSE AND THE TABLE OF SHEWBREAD,
• 13:21 BUT THE REPORTS FAN A GROWING FIRE,
• 13:25 FEARS OF ENGULFING THE MIDDLE EAST IN A POTENTIAL HOLY WAR,
• 13:28 THE WORK IS CEASED,
• 13:30 THE EXCAVATION COVERED WITH DIRT.
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• 14:12 THAT WANTS TO MAKE THE TRIP TO ISRAEL SHOULD DO SO?
• 14:15 YES...IT IS WORTH THE TRIP.
• 14:17 IT IS WORTH THE TIME.
• 14:19 IT IS WORTH THE MONEY.
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• 14:22 OH...I TELL YA
• 14:23 ...I'M SO HAPPY THAT I CAME.
• 14:25 IT'S JUST SUCH A PRIVILEGE TO BE ABLE TO COME
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• 14:46 THE COVENANT LAND.
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• 14:49 GOD'S COVENANT PEOPLE HAVE BEEN VISITING IT FOR MILLENNIA
• 14:54 AND REPORTING EXPERIENCES THAT DEFY ARTICULATION.
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• 15:02 PEOPLE ARE SO VERY BLESSED.
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• 15:57 "JEHOVAH'S TREASURE",
• 16:00 A THREE PART SERIES.
• 16:01 AND IN THE DVD SET THAT WE'LL SEND THERE'S LOTS OF MATERIAL
• 16:06 THAT DIDN'T MAKE IT INTO THE THREE 30 MINUTE PROGRAMS.
• 16:09 OFF WE GO NOW TO SEARCH OUT "JEHOVAH'S TREASURE".
• 16:15 (Narrator) THIS RECENT AERIAL IMAGE OF THE TEMPLE MOUNT
• 16:17 WAS CAPTURED USING STATE OF THE ART THERMAL IMAGING.
• 16:20 IT IS THE ONLY KNOWN DOCUMENTATION OF WHAT APPEARS TO BE A SUBSURFACE PASSAGEWAY.
• 16:26 SOME ARCHAEOLOGISTS BELIEVE IT FUNCTIONED AS A DRAIN
• 16:29 AND WAS USED BY THE PRIESTS IN THE SERVICE OF THE TEMPLE.
• 16:34 (David Dolan) TUNNELS, DRAINS, GATEWAYS, EVEN MEETING HALLS,
• 16:37 THEY ALL EXIST UNDER THE TEMPLE MOUNT.
• 16:40 AND ALL VERY CONVENIENT PLACES IT WOULD SEEM TO HIDE TEMPLE TREASURE.
• 16:44 WE KNOW THAT DURING THE PERIOD OF SOLOMON'S TEMPLE
• 16:47 THERE WERE A NUMBER OF RUTHLESS KINGS WHO DESECRATED THE HOLY SITE.
• 16:51 IT SEEMS LIKELY THAT THE ARK AND THE TEMPLE ARTIFACTS
• 16:54 WOULD HAVE BEEN HIDDEN AWAY BY THE TEMPLE PRIESTS AT SUCH TIMES TO PROTECT THEM.
• 16:58 (Narrator) ARCHAEOLOGIST AVNER GOREN IS ALSO FAMILIAR WITH THE GATES AND TUNNELS UNDER THE TEMPLE MOUNT.
• 17:04 (Avner Goren) THERE WERE A FEW GATES THAT ALLOWED PEOPLE GET INTO THE TEMPLE MOUNT COURTYARD.
• 17:10 AND ONE OF THE GATES IS JUST HERE.
• 17:13 AND MATTER FACT
• 17:15 ONE OF THE CLOSEST PLACES THAT ONE WOULD BE ABLE TO GET TO THE HOLY OF HOLIES WAS HERE.
• 17:21 (Narrator) THIS GATE NOW CLOSED WITH CONCRETE, LEAD DIRECTLY TO THE TEMPLE.
• 17:26 IN 1981 RABBI YEHUDA GETZ, CHIEF RABBI OF THE WESTERN WALL
• 17:31 HAPPENED UPON THIS SITE AND IN A SECRET MISSION OF HIS OWN
• 17:35 SET ABOUT TO FIND THE LOST ARK OF THE COVENANT.
• 17:41 (Yehuda Getz) HE BELIEVED THAT IF THE ARK OF THE COVENANT IS BURIED HERE, HIDDEN HERE,
• 17:47 IT SHOULD BE AS CLOSE AS POSSIBLE TO THE HOLIEST PLACE,
• 17:50 JUST BELOW THE PLACE WHERE THE ARK WAS DURING THE TIME OF THE TEMPLE.
• 17:54 SO...IF SO, HE GOT VERY CLOSE TO THE PLACE HE BELIEVED THE ARK SHOULD BE.
• 18:03 (Narrator) AS RABBI GETZ INCHED EVER CLOSER TO THE HOLY OF HOLIES,
• 18:06 HE COULD CONTAIN HIS EXCITEMENT NO LONGER.
• 18:09 HE WOULD CALL HIS GOOD FRIEND AND CONFIDENT, GERSHON SALOMON.
• 18:15 (Gershon Salomon) IT WAS ONE OF THE NIGHTS THAT HE CALLED ME
• 18:18 AFTER MIDNIGHT AND TOLD ME,
• 18:20 "GERSHON YOUR DREAM IS GOING TO COME TO PASS."
• 18:25 "COME IMMEDIATELY,"
• 18:27 "WE'VE DISCOVERED THE TUNNEL WHICH WILL LEAD US TO THE LOCATION OF THE ARK OF COVENANT"
• 18:34 AND I CAME AFTER MIDNIGHT,
• 18:37 YOU KNOW, I HAD NO TIME EVEN TO PUT MY SHOES ON MYSELF.
• 18:41 I CAME TO THE PLACE AND WHAT I SAW IN MY EYES WAS VERY EXCITING.
• 18:47 IT WAS DARK AND IT WAS LIGHTED BY ELECTRIC
• 18:52 AND IT MADE THE STONE LOOK LIKE THEY ARE PAINTED WITH GOLD, YOU KNOW WHEN THE LIGHT FELL ON IT.
• 19:00 AND DESPITE OF THE GARBAGE AND THE DIRT AND THE WATER, THE UNCLEAN WATER WHICH WAS THERE,
• 19:09 WE COULD FEEL THE HOLINESS OF THE PLACE.
• 19:16 I STOOD THERE WITH TEARS IN MY EYES.
• 19:21 I HAD TEARS OF JOY OF EXCITEMENT.
• 19:27 (Narrator) THE TEARS WOULD SOON BE BITTERSWEET.
• 19:29 YEARS OF SECRET DIGGING SUDDENLY CEASE AS THE NEWS OF THE FIND IS LEAKED TO THE PRESS.
• 19:34 JERUSALEM NOW STANDS IN THE BRINK OF AN ARCHAEOLOGICAL FIRESTORM.
• 19:38 REPORTS SAY RABBI GETZ WAS DIGGING IN GROUND HELD SACRED BY MUSLIMS
• 19:43 AND HIS ACTIONS COULD CONCEIVABLY SPARK FURTHER WAR IN THE SURROUNDING REGION.
• 19:47 FURTHER, MUSLIMS REINFORCE THEIR CONTENTION THAT THE ENTIRE MOUNT IS THEIRS.
• 19:56 THEY WILL PERMIT NO ARCHAEOLOGY IN THE AREA.
• 20:00 UNDAUNTED, ARCHAEOLOGISTS PERSEVERE AS BEST THEY CAN.
• 20:05 ARCHAEOLOGIST GABRIEL BARKAI.
• 20:08 (Gabriel Barkai) WE HAVE HERE SOIL WHICH COMES FROM FILLS.
• 20:13 FILLS INCLUDED MATERIAL FROM ALL PERIODS OF HUMAN ACTIVITY UPON THE TEMPLE MOUNT.
• 20:19 THE MOST STRIKING AND MOST IMPORTANT OF COURSE ARE THOSE FROM THE ANCIENT PERIODS.
• 20:25 1ST TEMPLE PERIOD, 2ND TEMPLE PERIOD, THE LATE ROMAN PERIOD,
• 20:30 EARLY CHRISTIAN PERIOD, AND THE EARLY ARABIC PERIOD.
• 20:37 (Narrator) ARCHAEOLOGISTS HAVE ALREADY UNCOVERED PRISTINE ARTIFACTS
• 20:39 REVEALING THE TREASURES OF THE TEMPLE MOUNT.
• 20:42 BARKAI'S FINDS BECOME ADDITIONAL PIECES TO THE REMARKABLE PUZZLE.
• 20:46 (Gabriel Barkai) AS THIS COMES FROM INSIDE THE TEMPLE MOUNT
• 20:49 WE MAY EVEN ASSUME THAT IT COMES FROM THE TEMPLE ITSELF.
• 20:54 ...NOW WHAT YOU'RE CLEANING ARE THE RIBS...
• 20:58 (Narrator) AND FINALLY AFTER 6 YEARS OF DIGGING...
• 21:01 OREN GUTFELD'S ENIGMA IS BEGINNING TO UNRAVEL.
• 21:04 HE HAS FOUND SOME MORE BONES IN THE NEW TUNNEL THAT DATE TO THE 2ND TEMPLE PERIOD.
• 21:09 THESE BONES ARE HUMAN.
• 21:15 (Narrator) ENCOURAGED BY THE FIND,
• 21:17 GUTFELD CALLS UPON SOME SPECIALISTS FROM THE UNITED STATES
• 21:20 TO ELECTRONICALLY PROBE BEYOND THE VISIBLE WALLS OF THE TUNNEL.
• 21:23 THIS IS GPR, GROUND PENETRATING RADAR.
• 21:29 (Oren Gutfeld) WE ARE LOOKING FOR HIDDEN CHAMBERS
• 21:31 THAT MIGHT BE BEHIND THE WALLS.
• 21:33 IN THE PYRAMIDS THEY FOUND WITH GPR EQUIPMENT ABOVE THE CEILING OF THE TUNNEL, A CHAMBER.
• 21:41 SO I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO SEE IF THE GPR TEAM WILL FIND SOMETHING LIKE THAT IN OUR TUNNEL.
• 21:48 (Narrator) AT FIRST THE RESULTS ARE LESS THAN PROMISING
• 21:50 AND THEN ON THE TEAM'S LAST DAY...AN ANOMALY APPEARS BELOW THE TUNNEL'S FLOOR.
• 21:57 (Specialist) WE'RE JUST RUNNING IN TIME,
• 21:58 INSTEAD OF USING THE WHEEL WE'RE IN TIME,
• 22:00 SO ITS CONTINUOUSLY COLLECTING AS IT'S SITTING ON THE FLOOR.
• 22:03 SO WE HAVE THESE STRONG READS.
• 22:06 WE'RE SENDING A SIGNAL DOWN CONTINUOUSLY AND WE GET A STRONG CHANGE IN DIALECTIC
• 22:12 SOMEWHERE AROUND 3 FEET, RIGHT IN HERE.
• 22:18 (Narrator) STRONG CHANGES IN THE SCULP'S READING COULD VERY WELL MEAN HIDDEN CHAMBERS.
• 22:22 AND HIDDEN CHAMBERS NO MATTER WHERE THEY MAY BE FOUND IN ISRAEL
• 22:26 COULD MEAN HIDDEN TREASURE.
• 22:30 (Specialist) IN ARCHAEOLOGY WE ALWAYS SAY THAT IN THE LAST HOUR,
• 22:37 IN THE LAST MOMENT OF THAT HOUR YOU ALWAYS DISCOVER THE THINGS.
• 22:41 IT'S ALWAYS WORKED THAT WAY.
• 22:44 IT'S JUST A RULE.
• 22:47 (Narrator) HOPE SPRINGS ETERNAL IN THIS LAND OF PROMISE.
• 23:21 (David Dolan) THE ILLUSIVE ARK AND TEMPLE TREASURES,
• 23:23 CERTAINLY ONE THE GREATEST MYSTERIES OF THE AGES.
• 23:27 PERHAPS IN TIME SCIENCE WILL BETTER ENABLE ARCHAEOLOGISTS
• 23:30 TO PENETRATE THEIR VISION OF THESE AGELESS STONES.
• 23:34 MAYBE ADDITIONAL DEAD SEA SCROLLS WILL BE FOUND
• 23:36 TO SHED LIGHT ON THE ENIGMA OF THE TEMPLE TREASURES.
• 23:40 AS FOR THE COVENANT, WELL IT SEEMS TO HAVE SURVIVED THE TEST OF TIME.
• 23:47 (Narrator) A PLEDGE MADE WITH MOSES WAS ONE OF MANY RECORDED THROUGHOUT THE PAGES OF SCRIPTURE.
• 23:52 FROM NOAH TO ABRAHAM TO DAVID,
• 23:55 JEREMIAH THE PROPHET SPEAKS OF A NEW COVENANT IN WHICH GOD SAYS,
• 24:00 "HE WILL PUT MY LAW IN THEIR INWARD PARTS AND WRITE IT IN THEIR HEARTS."
• 24:06 STILL LATER THE BOOK OF HEBREW SAYS,
• 24:09 "FOR THIS REASON CHRIST IS THE MEDIATOR OF A NEW COVENANT."
• 24:22 FROM AGE TO AGE HAS IT BREAKING ALL BARRIERS OF TIME AND SPACE.
• 24:29 THE BIBLE PRESENTS A CREATOR WHO REACHES OUT TO A WANDERING, OFTEN PERPLEXED CREATION
• 24:36 AND SOLEMNLY REAFFIRMS HIS PROMISE.
• 24:43 "AND I WILL GIVE THEE THE TREASURES OF DARKNESS AND HIDDEN RICHES OF SECRET PLACES"
• 24:48 "THAT THOU MAYEST KNOW THAT I JEHOVAH AM THE GOD OF ISRAEL."
• 25:22 LET ME BEGIN MY CLOSE BY SAYING THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU
• 25:28 TO OUR SUPPORTERS AND FRIENDS WHO THROUGH DONATIONS HELPED US TO MAKE JEHOVAH'S TREASURE,
• 25:36 AN EXPENSIVE SERIES FOR US AND A LONG ONE.
• 25:39 WE THOUGHT IT WAS ALL WORTH IT
• 25:41 AND WHY IS THAT?
• 25:43 BECAUSE WE BELIEVE THROUGH THE DRAMAS WE'RE ABLE TO DUST OFF THE BIBLICAL STORY
• 25:47 AND HELP YOU TO SEE IT AS WELL AS HEAR IT.
• 25:50 AND THROUGH WORKING WITH ARCHAEOLOGISTS
• 25:53 AND GOING TO SITES THAT PEOPLE DON'T SEE
• 25:55 WE CAN TAKE YOU UNDER THE EARTH AND GO ON A FASCINATING TREASURE HUNT.
• 26:01 SPEAKING OF TREASURE
• 26:03 LET ME SAY THE GREATEST TREASURE OF ALL FOR MY MONEY ISN'T THE LITERAL ARK OF THE COVENANT
• 26:10 AS FASCINATING AS THAT IS,
• 26:13 THE GREATEST TREASURE OF ALL IN SO MANY WAYS IS THE TREASURE THAT WE CARRY.
• 26:19 AND WHAT DO I MEAN BY THAT?
• 26:21 IN 2 CORINTHIANS, CHAPTER 4, VERSE 7,
• 26:23 PAUL SAYS THAT WE HAVE THIS TREASURE IN EARTHEN VESSELS.
• 26:29 I DON'T KNOW HOW DIRTY YOUR EARTHEN VESSEL IS.
• 26:33 SIN AND CIRCUMSTANCE HAVE A WAY OF SULLYING PERSON'S INWARD BEINGS.
• 26:40 BUT THAT SAID,
• 26:41 BY VIRTUE OF ASKING JESUS INTO OUR HEARTS AND PLEADING FORGIVENESS
• 26:44 WE CAN BE CLEANED UP AND WE CAN IN FACT HOUSE JEHOVAH'S TREASURE.
• 26:50 THANK YOU FOR GOING WITH US ON THE JOURNEY.
• 26:52 AND AS YOU GO NOW,
• 26:54 SHA'ALU SHALOM YERUSHALAYIM
• 26:56 PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM
• 27:08 JOIN US IN THE HOLY LAND FOR A TRIP OF LIFETIME.
• 27:11 YOU'LL LOVE IT...I PROMISE.
• 27:14 FOR TOUR INFORMATION CALL 1-800-WONDERS