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Caption transcript for Joshua: “At Shiloh” (7/8)

• 00:03 male announcer: Welcome to "Our Jewish Roots" with
• 00:05 insightful Bible teaching from Israel with Dr. Jeffrey Seif.
• 00:10 This week, we see the battle for the land of Canaan nearing
• 00:14 its end on "Joshua: More Than a Conqueror."
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• 00:55 David Hart: Welcome to "Our Jewish Roots."
• 00:57 I'm David Hart.
• 00:58 Kirsten Hart: I'm Kirsten Hart.
• 01:00 Jeffrey Seif: I am Jeffrey Seif and we are going back
• 01:03 to a special place at the first: Hazor, a capital, the principal
• 01:09 area in northern Israel, and a great battle was fought
• 01:13 and won there with God's help.
• 01:15 David: So we're in week seven.
• 01:17 What's next for Joshua?
• 01:18 Jeffrey: Well, we're carrying on with highlights of
• 01:21 his ministry, his ups and his downs, and what a battle it was.
• 01:26 We're finishing in short order.
• 01:27 We're just going through the highlights of his life.
• 01:31 Kirsten: As he's conquering. Jeffrey: Yes.
• 01:32 Kirsten: That Holy Land that God told him to do.
• 01:34 David: Let's go to northern Israel right now
• 01:35 for Dr. Seif's teaching.
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• 01:56 Jeffrey: The southern campaign had gone remarkably
• 01:58 well, much to the chagrin of the locals.
• 02:02 So you might recall sometime prior, the Israelites were in
• 02:05 dread fear because the locals were so tall and they
• 02:09 felt like grasshoppers.
• 02:10 But here, the fortunes of wars has shifted.
• 02:13 The southern federation of Canaanite peoples had been
• 02:17 decimated and word gets up north and there's trouble
• 02:21 in River City.
• 02:23 There's a King Jabin, it's a dynastic name, and he
• 02:26 will mobilize a federation of northern Canaanite peoples,
• 02:32 to use that term broadly, and there will be a battle royal.
• 02:38 Before I show you from the Scripture, let me
• 02:41 pull out a map.
• 02:42 It's not your garden variety map.
• 02:45 It's something that might have been used, akin to what had been
• 02:48 used by the locals when they fought here many, many,
• 02:53 many years ago.
• 02:55 And just to show, if you will, this is the Mediterranean.
• 02:58 The Romans called it Mare Nostrum.
• 03:02 I know that I'm getting ahead, called Our Sea.
• 03:05 And the reason why I mentioned it is that Jabin here at Hazor
• 03:09 was so famous that ancient documents inform of political
• 03:14 alliances that he had with the states out into the sea,
• 03:18 Phoenicians, the Cretans in Cyprus, and he was well
• 03:23 connected politically, as I noted earlier, with all
• 03:25 the peoples round about.
• 03:29 And he is going to mobilize his energies to hold at bay these
• 03:34 encroaching Israelites that are there with the sense of a divine
• 03:37 mandate that God has spoken to Moses and directed them onward
• 03:43 and Joshua is going onward.
• 03:46 We're going to hear from Amnon Ben-Tor, professor, Hebrew
• 03:52 University who's going to talk a little bit about Hazor and then
• 03:56 I wanna talk a little about the tribal area round about and then
• 04:00 open up the Bible to consider the story.
• 04:04 Amnon Ben-Tor: We have a huge destruction of
• 04:06 the Canaanite city.
• 04:07 Wherever we dig, whether it is under acropolis, whether it is
• 04:11 in the lower city, the Canaanite period ends with a huge
• 04:15 destruction, sometimes more than a meter of debris, ashes, wood,
• 04:22 bricks, fallen bricks, mutilated statues, and the like, which
• 04:28 indicates first of all, that the disaster was human made.
• 04:32 It's not a earthquake because no earthquake would mutilate
• 04:34 the statues in a systematic way.
• 04:36 So it was manmade and, by now, we can narrow it down to
• 04:42 about the middle of the 13th century BC.
• 04:47 If we're talking about biblical sites, Hazor is
• 04:50 the number one site.
• 04:51 There is no other which could even get close because if you're
• 04:55 talking just about the period which we have,
• 04:57 you want the Canaanites.
• 04:59 You have them.
• 05:00 You want the destruction of Joshua.
• 05:01 You have.
• 05:03 You want judges. You have.
• 05:04 You want Solomon. You have.
• 05:05 You want Jeroboam. You have.
• 05:08 You want Ahab. You have.
• 05:09 You want-- You have.
• 05:11 You can show.
• 05:12 You can have the debate at Hazor.
• 05:15 You can show this is the gate which, according to the Bible,
• 05:18 was built by--in the time of Solomon.
• 05:21 Now, you tell me it was not, let's argue about it.
• 05:23 You see what I mean?
• 05:24 But there--there's no other site which has that many strata
• 05:29 which are somehow related to the biblical narrative.
• 05:34 Jeffrey: I have here Hazor in a bolder, darker print, and
• 05:40 round about in a lighter print, a notation of the tribes who,
• 05:44 after the conquest of the south and the north and some other
• 05:49 ancillary battles, eventually are going to go to their
• 05:52 inheritance and I wanna note that there was an inheritance
• 05:56 that was given to the people of Israel in this land, an
• 05:58 inheritance that was yesterday, today, and continues on
• 06:02 into tomorrow.
• 06:04 Well, speaking of yesterday, today, and tomorrow, let's open
• 06:08 up the eternal Word and consider something of what's
• 06:12 noted therein.
• 06:14 And where else would I wanna go but to the book of Joshua,
• 06:18 the 11th chapter.
• 06:20 It's always nice to see how biblical archeology
• 06:23 corroborates the biblical text.
• 06:25 We're going to consider a great war that was fought here in
• 06:29 Hazor and you can even see the burn marks.
• 06:32 The biblical testimony is very clear that there was esh, a
• 06:36 Hebrew word for fire, and it's noted in the bricks,
• 06:42 it's noted in the mud, even many years later.
• 06:45 These stones are crying out and saying, "You can trust
• 06:50 this literature."
• 06:52 Well, what does the text say?
• 06:54 In Joshua chapter 11, verse 1: "It came to pass that Jabin king
• 06:56 of Hazor heard these things."
• 07:00 Jabin was a dynastic name that had gone on for centuries.
• 07:04 What things did he hear?
• 07:06 He heard about the Israelite conquest of the south and he
• 07:11 was not a happy camper.
• 07:14 We read on in the literature: he mobilizes peoples round
• 07:18 about and there is a battle royal that is fought here.
• 07:24 We're told in verse 10, however, difficulties notwithstanding,
• 07:28 that Joshua, he was successful in his endeavors and that Hazor
• 07:33 was struck and the king was struck with the edge of
• 07:37 the sword, an expression that denotes victory.
• 07:42 We're told in verse 12: "All the cities of the kings,
• 07:45 and all their kings, Joshua took and struck."
• 07:49 Again, a battle royal.
• 07:52 A battle that went to the Hebrews.
• 07:56 I want you to look with me please.
• 07:57 We're told in verse 18 that war went for a long time.
• 08:01 Not every trial in life goes away just like that.
• 08:04 Sometimes you have to walk it out.
• 08:06 But there's a positive end result.
• 08:08 Go with me please to verse 23.
• 08:10 We're told that Joshua took the whole land according--now
• 08:15 this is important to me.
• 08:16 It's not just a war.
• 08:18 We're told that it's according to all that the Lord
• 08:20 had said to Moses.
• 08:22 There's divine promise in this.
• 08:25 This is called the Promised Land because from on
• 08:28 high it's commended.
• 08:29 A certain place is commended to a certain people.
• 08:32 We're told because the Lord said to Moses, "And Joshua gave it as
• 08:37 an inheritance to Israel according to their divisions."
• 08:43 What do we note from the biblical text?
• 08:46 We note that there was a battle, a battle royal that raged.
• 08:50 And we know that it went to Israel.
• 08:53 And it wasn't just the good fortunes of war but rather it's
• 08:55 God himself leading a particular people to a particular place
• 08:59 to accomplish his particular purposes.
• 09:18 announcer: Our resource this week: the series, "Joshua:
• 09:20 More Than a Conqueror," on DVD.
• 09:23 This eight-program series reveals how Joshua went from spy
• 09:26 to Moses's apprentice and then became the faithful leader
• 09:30 of the Israelites during the conquest of the land of Canaan.
• 09:34 With dramatic reenactments, Bible teaching from Dr. Seif,
• 09:37 insight from Chaim Malespin, music, and much more.
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• 11:03 David: Right now, let's go back to Israel where Joshua
• 11:05 is distributing land to the 12 tribes.
• 11:13 Joshua: Canaan has proven to be everything
• 11:14 promised by Adonai.
• 11:17 Just as lush as it was when Moses sent Caleb and me
• 11:21 to scout the land.
• 11:24 And now the time has come to partition the land
• 11:27 to the tribes of our people.
• 11:30 Eleazar the priest joins me on this hallowed occasion.
• 11:36 Just as we've done in Gilgal, we have gathered in Shiloh
• 11:40 to cast lots for the land that the Lord has given us.
• 11:46 Eleazar: We do so to confirm what Adonai said in ages past
• 11:48 to Jacob and then to Moses.
• 11:51 It will not be Joshua nor I who will decide.
• 11:55 It will be the Lord God of Israel.
• 11:58 Joshua: You've surveyed the land.
• 12:01 You know it well.
• 12:03 We've gathered in Shiloh to cast lots for Judah, Ephraim,
• 12:08 and the half tribe of Manasseh.
• 12:11 They have already received their portions this side
• 12:13 of the Jordan.
• 12:15 Eleazar: Gad, Reuben, and the half tribe of Manasseh have
• 12:19 acquired their portions over the Jordan to the east
• 12:22 as was pledged by Moses.
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• 12:35 Eleazar: Benjamin.
• 12:36 Joshua: The land between Judah and Ephraim.
• 12:45 Eleazar: Simeon.
• 12:47 Joshua: The land within Judah, with the cities
• 12:51 and villages encircling Bathsheba.
• 13:01 Eleazar: Zebulun.
• 13:04 Joshua: The land as far as Sarid, then to the north
• 13:07 to the valley of Jiphthah El.
• 13:14 Eleazar: Issachar.
• 13:16 Joshua: The land from Jezreel, reaching to Tabor.
• 13:24 Eleazar: Asher.
• 13:29 Joshua: The land from Mount Carmel to the city of Tyre.
• 13:37 Eleazar: Naphtali.
• 13:40 Joshua: The land from the terebinth tree in Zaanannim to
• 13:44 the Jordan and the Chinnereth.
• 13:54 Eleazar: And Dan.
• 13:56 Joshua: The land from Zorah to Joppa.
• 14:09 Eleazar: And to you, Joshua, son of Nun, we give Timnath
• 14:15 Serah in the hill country of Ephraim, just as you requested.
• 14:25 Jeffrey: It was a dream come true.
• 14:27 His mission complete, Joshua would spend the last few years
• 14:30 of his life in the green heartland of Israel within the
• 14:33 boundaries given to his tribe, Ephraim.
• 14:38 We've come here to Shiloh many times before as it is
• 14:42 such an important biblical site.
• 14:44 And this time especially, because it's central to
• 14:47 the very land allotted to Joshua.
• 14:51 It happened that the Lord blessed the land with rain on
• 14:53 our visit so we found shelter within some ancient ruins
• 14:57 while outside, it poured.
• 15:03 Jeffrey: Everyone in Israel prays for rain and I'm good with
• 15:07 that but I say, "Lord, why today here in Shiloh where we
• 15:12 have a special TV program?"
• 15:14 It is special but, you know what?
• 15:17 So is rain.
• 15:18 If there wasn't rain we wouldn't have any of these
• 15:21 goodies right here.
• 15:23 We wouldn't have 'em today and they surely wouldn't have had
• 15:26 them yesterday, they were all farmers and they relied
• 15:30 on the produce of the earth.
• 15:33 In fact, "mayim," the word for water, is related to the word
• 15:37 "shamayim" or heavens.
• 15:39 The point is you look at the rain, this outpouring,
• 15:43 as blessings.
• 15:44 Even in biblical literature we talk about the outpouring of
• 15:47 the Holy Spirit, "Lord, pour out your blessings,"
• 15:51 and it's water language.
• 15:52 And it harks to this agrarian language.
• 15:56 Well, we're in the thick of it here in Shiloh, a fascinating
• 16:01 place today, and an important place yesterday in Joshua's day.
• 16:06 We're told, in fact, in the 18th chapter that when the battles
• 16:11 had run their course, Joshua led the Israelites and they knocked
• 16:16 out the backbone of the local Canaanite resistance.
• 16:22 And now it's time to divide up the tribes.
• 16:26 They get their parcels of real estate, their inheritances.
• 16:29 We're told in the 18th chapter: "[speaking Hebrew]
• 16:37 And that the whole congregation of the children of Israel
• 16:42 assembled themselves together at Shiloh.
• 16:45 [speaking Hebrew]
• 16:50 And they gathered themselves,
• 16:52 they assembled themselves, at the tent of meeting."
• 16:55 And this is where it was, you know?
• 16:57 In fact, before Jerusalem became the religious center, it was
• 17:01 Shiloh for hundreds and hundreds of years and it all starts here.
• 17:06 And the reason why they gather here is that when they're
• 17:09 looking to carve out the land, we want the good Lord to lead in
• 17:14 the apportionment 'cause, you know, people get jealous.
• 17:17 "Well, so and so got better than me, this and that," and we're
• 17:20 looking for God's hand even in setting up things like that.
• 17:24 Thus, land was divvied out by lot.
• 17:28 There's a sense in which let providence, let good fortune,
• 17:31 decide who gets what.
• 17:33 And that's how the game was played.
• 17:35 We're told in verse 10, specifically, to read
• 17:39 here in the Hebrew,
• 17:41 "[speaking Hebrew]
• 17:46 And Joshua," we're told, "cast lots for them at Shiloh,
• 17:52 [speaking Hebrew]
• 17:55 before the face of the Lord, before the Lord.
• 17:57 [speaking Hebrew]
• 18:02 And with that then, Joshua divided up the land
• 18:07 [speaking Hebrew]
• 18:11 to the children of Israel by their tribes,
• 18:15 by their divisions."
• 18:17 And so it is, as I'd said, when it came to dividing up the land,
• 18:20 it was determined by providence, not by, you know, jockeying
• 18:26 for position, who gets this real estate, who gets that.
• 18:29 Well, this is a story from yesterday.
• 18:32 It really begs the question, "What does it mean today?"
• 18:37 And it's worth spending some time on that because there's
• 18:40 a difference in the way the respective two testaments
• 18:43 are oriented.
• 18:45 I say that because in the New Testament Christians are
• 18:48 promised that our commonwealth is in heaven and the good Lord
• 18:53 in the 14th chapter of the Gospel of John said, "I go there
• 18:56 to prepare a place for you."
• 18:59 So for the Christian, the principal inheritance is on
• 19:03 the other side of the grave.
• 19:06 For the Hebrew, the principal inheritance is here,
• 19:10 and here it's divided up.
• 19:12 And many Christians have trouble with the territorial dimension
• 19:17 to Old Testament religion.
• 19:19 That is to say, it's tethered to real estate,
• 19:23 it's tethered to land.
• 19:24 Even when you observe that, and I hope you see it's clearly--I
• 19:28 hope you see it clearly because for my money it is clearly to be
• 19:32 observed, but even when you see it clearly in the literature,
• 19:36 you read about it back then, it really begs the question,
• 19:39 "How can someone bring this forward and apply it to today?"
• 19:44 In other words, what is the story for the ancient Jew have
• 19:47 to do with you and it's a reasonable story, to my
• 19:50 way of thinking.
• 19:52 Does the notion of a defined inheritance only relate to them
• 19:56 then with a heavenly bound inheritance for us today?
• 20:02 Or can the believer in Jesus think in terms of an inheritance
• 20:06 for today?
• 20:07 Well, by way of application let me commend this to you.
• 20:10 If you were a farmer in ancient Israel, the fact that you had
• 20:15 land apportionment meant that you had a place to ply a trade
• 20:19 and enjoy good success in response to your labors.
• 20:24 Those of us that aren't agrarian still have to go out in the
• 20:28 world and we want the Lord to lead us to good success
• 20:30 in our respective vocations.
• 20:34 The word "vocation" comes from the Latin vocatio; we get the
• 20:37 word "voice" from that and it harks to when someone looks
• 20:41 inside they feel the Lord's beckoning them to be an auto
• 20:44 mechanic, a doctor, a nurse, a police officer, a housewife,
• 20:47 whatever it is.
• 20:49 Whatever you feel that inkling toward, whatever the Lord leads
• 20:52 you to do, you wanna find good success in the doing.
• 20:56 And to that end, that story in our world relates to the story
• 21:02 in this world right here, whether it's the fruits here,
• 21:07 whether it's the instruction here, whether it's the life that
• 21:10 you're living there on the other side of that lens in your living
• 21:13 room, can God lead you to a place where you can make a
• 21:18 difference and carve out some space for yourself in life
• 21:21 to enjoy good success in life?
• 21:24 I think, friends, the answer to that question in no
• 21:28 uncertain terms is yes.
• 21:33 There's a good God.
• 21:34 In fact, in the New Testament Jesus says that he'll lead us.
• 21:37 He's a shepherd who leads us to pasture and we hear his
• 21:40 voice behind us saying, "This is the way.
• 21:44 Walk in it."
• 21:45 Friends, walk with God and you, like the Jew back then,
• 21:50 you today can find your place in your Promised Land and you too,
• 21:58 like Joshua, can be more than a conqueror.
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• 23:59 at Shiloh this last time.
• 24:00 Jeffrey: But I enjoyed the fact we had a roof over our head
• 24:02 when we did that segment.
• 24:04 David: I have a question: Shiloh or Shiloh?
• 24:06 Jeffrey: Ah, whatever.
• 24:08 Shiloh, Hebrew, Shiloh is the norm these days but, you know,
• 24:11 what a place.
• 24:13 I mean, that was the capital, the spiritual center, the
• 24:16 spiritual nexus of Israel long ago before Jerusalem,
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• 25:58 Jeffrey: Well, you're kind to say that.
• 26:00 I give a talk.
• 26:01 I don't wanna correct on air, I don't correct my wife,
• 26:03 I don't wanna correct yours.
• 26:05 You're the ones that bring us there.
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• 26:21 Kirsten: Well, we do appreciate your rich insight
• 26:24 and teaching us why it's vitally important that we go in that
• 26:29 Old Testament and learn so much, especially from Joshua.
• 26:33 Jeffrey: Well, I appreciate that you're super-gracious.
• 26:35 I mean that sincerely.
• 26:37 Kirsten: Well, thank you.
• 26:38 David: Can you tie it all together today about Joshua,
• 26:40 what he's been through so far in the series?
• 26:42 Jeffrey: He's been through hell on his way to heaven,
• 26:44 to put it bluntly.
• 26:45 There's battles to be fought and he got his game face on, his
• 26:49 faith up, and he rolled the dice against an uncertain future
• 26:52 and won at the end of the day.
• 26:54 And he's able to go to his reward inasmuch
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