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Caption transcript for Joshua (2023): “At Shiloh” (7/8)

• 00:01 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: There is a King Jabin. It's a dynastic name, and he
• 00:06 will mobilize a federation of northern Canaanite peoples, to use that term broadly,
• 00:11 and there will be a battle royal.
• 00:16 David Hart: Joshua had to face the ultimate foe
• 00:18 before obtaining victory.
• 00:19 How did he succeed?
• 00:21 Find out today on "Our Jewish Roots."
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• 01:00 David: Thank you for joining us today.
• 01:02 I am David Hart.
• 01:03 Kirsten Hart: I'm Kirsten Hart.
• 01:04 Joshua Colson: I'm Joshua.
• 01:06 Caleb Colson: And I'm Caleb.
• 01:07 [speaking in Hebrew]
• 01:08 Welcome, friends.
• 01:10 Joshua: Welcome.
• 01:11 Guys, this week, I love a good villain in the story.
• 01:13 Now, not for the sake of it being bad, but I love to see
• 01:16 what happens to the villain when he faces off with someone good.
• 01:19 Kirsten: This is really good and evil.
• 01:21 This is good guy, bad guy.
• 01:24 You know, the word "greige" is out.
• 01:27 I don't know if you've heard that.
• 01:28 We've been painting walls at our home and one of my favorite
• 01:31 colors is greige, 'cause it's not really dark,
• 01:34 it's not really light.
• 01:35 It's kind of right in the middle.
• 01:37 But this story's not greige.
• 01:39 It's black, it's white.
• 01:40 It's good and evil.
• 01:42 Caleb: And that's not a popular message today, guys.
• 01:44 People don't wanna know there's good and evil in the world.
• 01:46 They wanna live in that relativism, that gray zone, just
• 01:50 like modern superhero movies.
• 01:52 All the bad guys are just misunderstood villains,
• 01:54 you know?
• 01:55 There's no real evil in the world, but there is real evil in
• 01:57 the world, and this King Jabin is a bad dude and he gathers
• 02:00 this coalition of all these kings of the northern front for
• 02:04 this final conflict against the Israelites, and we know God
• 02:07 is gonna be on the side of the Israelites.
• 02:10 Kirsten: And he always will be.
• 02:12 Caleb: He always will be.
• 02:13 David: I think about Hollywood making evil look like,
• 02:16 ah, it's okay, everything's good,
• 02:18 no bad, no evil.
• 02:20 Caleb: But that's not the case with God, and we wanna be
• 02:22 on the side of good, on the side of the Lord every time.
• 02:25 God gave the nations a chance to repent,
• 02:26 but they chose not to, and this is their downfall.
• 02:29 David: That's right.
• 02:30 Right now, let's go to Dr. Seif's teaching
• 02:32 on location in Israel.
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• 02:52 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: The southern campaign had gone
• 02:53 remarkably well, much to the chagrin of the locals.
• 02:58 So you might recall, sometime prior, the Israelites were in
• 03:01 dread fear because the locals were so tall,
• 03:04 and they felt like grasshoppers.
• 03:06 But here, the fortunes of wars has shifted.
• 03:09 The southern federation of Canaanite peoples had been
• 03:13 decimated, and word gets up north and there's trouble
• 03:17 in River City.
• 03:19 There's a King Jabin.
• 03:20 It's a dynastic name, and he will mobilize a federation of
• 03:25 northern Canaanite peoples, to use that term broadly,
• 03:29 and there will be a battle royal.
• 03:34 Before I show you from the Scripture,
• 03:36 let me pull out a map.
• 03:38 It's not your modern garden-variety map but something
• 03:41 that might have been used akin to what had been used by the
• 03:45 locals when they fought here many, many, many years ago.
• 03:51 And just to show, if you will, this is the Mediterranean.
• 03:55 The Romans called it Mare Nostrum, I know that I'm getting
• 03:58 ahead, called "Our sea."
• 04:01 And the reason why I mentioned it, is that Jabin here, at
• 04:05 Hazor, was so famous that ancient documents inform of
• 04:09 political alliances that he had with the states out into the
• 04:13 sea, Phoenicians, the Cretans, in Cyprus, and he was well
• 04:19 connected politically, as I noted earlier,
• 04:22 with all the peoples round about.
• 04:24 And he is going to mobilize his energies to hold at bay these
• 04:30 encroaching Israelites that are there with a sense of a divine
• 04:34 mandate that God has spoken to Moses and directed them onward,
• 04:40 and Joshua is going onward.
• 04:43 We're going to hear from Amnon Ben-Tor,
• 04:46 professor Hebrew University, who's going to talk
• 04:49 a little bit about Hazor,
• 04:51 and then I wanna talk a little about the tribal area roundabout
• 04:55 and then open up the Bible to consider the story.
• 05:00 Amnon Ben-Tor: We have a huge destruction
• 05:02 of the Canaanite city.
• 05:03 Wherever we dig, whether it is on the Acropolis, whether it is
• 05:07 in the Lower City, the Canaanite period ends with a huge
• 05:11 destruction, sometimes more than a meter of debris, ashes, wood,
• 05:18 bricks, fallen bricks, mutilated statues, and the like.
• 05:24 Which indicates, first of all, that the disaster was
• 05:27 human-made, it's not a earthquake because no earthquake
• 05:29 would mutilate the statues in a systematic way.
• 05:32 So it was manmade and, by now, we can narrow it down to about
• 05:39 the middle of the 13th century B.C.
• 05:42 If we're talking about biblical sites, Hazor is
• 05:45 the number one site.
• 05:47 There is no other which could even get close,
• 05:49 because if you're talking just about the period which we have,
• 05:54 you want the Canaanites, you have them.
• 05:55 You want the destruction of Joshua, you have.
• 05:58 You want judges, you have.
• 06:00 You want Solomon, you have.
• 06:02 You want Jeroboam, you have.
• 06:04 You want Ahab, you have.
• 06:05 You want--you have.
• 06:07 You can show.
• 06:09 You can have the debate at Hazor.
• 06:11 You can show this is the date which, according to the Bible,
• 06:14 was built by Solomon in the time of Salomon.
• 06:17 Now you tell me it was not.
• 06:18 Let's argue about it.
• 06:20 You see what I mean?
• 06:22 But there's no other site which has that many strata which are
• 06:26 somehow related to the biblical narrative.
• 06:30 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: I have here, Hazor in a bolder, darker
• 06:35 print, and roundabout in a lighter print, a notation of the
• 06:39 tribes who, after the conquest of the south and the north and
• 06:44 some other ancillary battles, eventually are going to go to
• 06:48 the--their inheritance.
• 06:50 And I wanna note that there was an inheritance that was given to
• 06:52 the people of Israel in this land, an inheritance that was
• 06:56 yesterday, today, and continues on into tomorrow.
• 07:00 Well, speaking of yesterday, today, and tomorrow, let's open
• 07:03 up the eternal Word and consider something
• 07:07 of what's noted therein.
• 07:10 And where else would I wanna go but to the book of Joshua,
• 07:14 the 11th chapter.
• 07:16 It's always nice to see how biblical archeology corroborates
• 07:20 the biblical text.
• 07:22 We're going to consider a great war that was fought here in
• 07:25 Hazor, and you can even see the burn marks.
• 07:29 The biblical testimony is very clear that there was esh,
• 07:33 a Hebrew word for fire, and it's noted in the bricks,
• 07:38 it's noted in the mud, even many years later.
• 07:42 These stones are crying out and saying,
• 07:45 "You can trust this literature."
• 07:47 Well, what does the text say?
• 07:49 In Joshua chapter 11, verse 1: "It came to pass, that Jabin
• 07:54 King of Hazor heard these things."
• 07:57 Jabin was a dynastic name that had gone on for centuries.
• 08:00 What things did he hear?
• 08:02 He heard about the Israelite conquest of the south, and he
• 08:08 was not a happy camper.
• 08:10 We read on in the literature, he mobilizes peoples roundabout
• 08:15 and there is a battle royal that is fought here.
• 08:20 We're told in verse 10, however, difficulties notwithstanding,
• 08:24 that Joshua, he was successful in his endeavors, and that Hazor
• 08:29 was struck and the king was struck with the edge of the
• 08:33 sword, an expression that denotes victory.
• 08:37 We're told in verse 12: "All the cities of the kings,
• 08:42 and all their kings, Joshua took and struck."
• 08:46 Again, a battle royal, a battle that went to the Hebrews.
• 08:52 I want you to look with me please, we're told in verse 18
• 08:55 that war went for a long time.
• 08:57 Not every trial in life goes away just like that.
• 09:00 Sometimes you have to walk it out.
• 09:02 But there's a positive end result.
• 09:04 Go with me, please, to verse 23.
• 09:05 We're told that Joshua took the whole land according--
• 09:11 Now, this is important to me.
• 09:12 It's not just a war.
• 09:14 We're told that it's according to all that the Lord
• 09:16 had said to Moses.
• 09:18 There's divine promise in this.
• 09:21 This is called the Promised Land,
• 09:23 because from on high, it's commended--
• 09:25 a certain place is commended to a certain people.
• 09:29 We're told because the Lord said to Moses:
• 09:31 "And Joshua gave it as an inheritance to Israel
• 09:36 according to their divisions."
• 09:40 What do we note from the biblical text?
• 09:42 We note that there was a battle, a battle royal that raged.
• 09:46 And we know that it went to Israel.
• 09:48 And it wasn't just the good fortunes of war, but rather it's
• 09:51 God himself leading a particular people to a particular place
• 09:55 to accomplish his particular purposes.
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• 10:13 Caleb: Guys, not only were the Israelites outnumbered by
• 10:16 King Jabin and his coalition, but they had these high-tech
• 10:20 vehicles of war, Josh.
• 10:22 They had chariots, they had cavalry.
• 10:24 The Israelites just had these puny little weapons, and so God
• 10:27 gives them a battle plan to hamstring the horses and to burn
• 10:32 the chariots, which most rabbis believe that they did
• 10:36 the surprise attack at night.
• 10:37 They had to sneak up and cut the tendons of these horses and burn
• 10:40 their chariots and then it set the armies
• 10:42 of the wicked into disarray.
• 10:44 They're fleeing toward their cities.
• 10:46 It says Joshua himself conquered Hazor.
• 10:48 He burned it with fire, and they took all these cities down
• 10:52 and they obtained victory.
• 10:53 It was a long time coming.
• 10:54 You had 100-year-old Joshua at this point, after fighting 7
• 10:57 years, but they swept up all these kings in one fell swoop.
• 11:01 It was amazing.
• 11:02 Joshua: After the 7 years of fighting, the Bible declares
• 11:04 that Joshua conquered 31 of those Canaanite kings
• 11:08 that he faced.
• 11:09 I don't know how many kings y'all guys have destroyed.
• 11:11 Thirty-one's a big deal.
• 11:12 And God finally says, "You know what, Josh?
• 11:14 You've been working really hard.
• 11:16 You're getting kind of old.
• 11:17 I'm gonna go ahead and cut you some slack.
• 11:19 I want you to separate the land, divide it up
• 11:21 to the 12 tribes of Israel.
• 11:23 There are still guys you've got to hunt down and fight.
• 11:25 I want them to go ahead and do that."
• 11:27 And so Josh's job, Joshua's job was to go ahead and delineate
• 11:30 that land so that the 12 tribes could then go out and spread
• 11:33 that--go out and hunt those people down.
• 11:35 Caleb: Take that act of faith themselves.
• 11:37 Joshua: Now the question you have to ask yourself is
• 11:39 we know that Joshua was more than a conqueror.
• 11:40 He was diligent.
• 11:42 But what did the 12 tribes do?
• 11:43 How did they pick up that task?
• 11:45 Caleb: Well, they failed at that,
• 11:46 and that's the next episode we're gonna
• 11:48 talk more to the failure of their victory at
• 11:50 taking the land, but this brings me to an important point, Josh.
• 11:54 You know, in Genesis, talks about the days at Peleg
• 11:57 the land was divided.
• 11:59 It's--most people take that to believe, okay, there was
• 12:01 continental drift or something that happened after the time of
• 12:04 Noah, but if you look into these rabbinical writings, these
• 12:08 extra-biblical sources, which aren't, you know, Scripture
• 12:10 but, like, the book of Jubilees, book of Enoch.
• 12:12 The book of Jubilee states that God had Noah cast lots
• 12:16 and divide the land amongst the territories of Ham, Shem,
• 12:19 and Japheth, his sons, so the land was divided
• 12:21 amongst the territories.
• 12:23 Well, the interesting thing is that Shem got the territory what
• 12:26 we would call Canaan from the Brook of Egypt
• 12:28 all the way up to Lebanon.
• 12:30 The land of Israel was originally Shem's.
• 12:33 But here you have Canaan, the already cursed grandson of Noah
• 12:36 comes up and he decides to sit down and squat on Shem's land,
• 12:40 on that territory.
• 12:42 And thus, when God called Abram out of Ur of the Chaldeans to
• 12:46 the Promised Land, he was just returning the land
• 12:48 that was rightfully his.
• 12:50 It just blows my mind.
• 12:52 That was originally God's plan for Shem.
• 12:55 Joshua: Well, he had a lot of plans for him and there was
• 12:57 a lot of weird things that went on with squatters.
• 12:59 But let's find out exactly what happened as we cut back
• 13:01 to see this delineation to the 12 tribes.
• 13:08 Joshua: Canaan has proven to be everything promised
• 13:10 by Adonai.
• 13:12 Just as lush as it was when Moses sent Caleb and me
• 13:16 to scout the land.
• 13:19 And now the time has come to partition the land to the tribes
• 13:23 of our people.
• 13:25 Eleazar, the priest, joins me on this hallowed occasion,
• 13:31 just as we'd done in Gilgao.
• 13:34 We have gathered in Shiloh to cast lots for the land
• 13:38 that the Lord has given us.
• 13:41 Eleazar: We do so to confirm what Adonai said in ages past
• 13:44 to Jacob and then to Moses.
• 13:47 It will not be Joshua nor I who will decide;
• 13:50 it will be the Lord God of Israel.
• 13:55 Joshua: You have surveyed the land.
• 13:57 You know it well.
• 13:59 We have gathered in Shiloh to cast lots for Judah, Ephraim,
• 14:04 and the half-tribe on Manasseh.
• 14:06 They have already received their portions this side
• 14:09 of the Jordan.
• 14:11 Eleazar: Gad, Reuben, and the half-tribe of Manasseh have
• 14:15 acquired their portions over the Jordan to the East,
• 14:19 as was pledged by Moses.
• 14:30 Eleazar: Benjamin.
• 14:31 Joshua: The land between Judah and Ephraim.
• 14:40 Eleazar: Simeon.
• 14:43 Joshua: The land within Judah, with the cities and
• 14:46 villages encircling Bathsheba.
• 14:56 Eleazar: Zebulun.
• 14:59 Joshua: The land as far as Sarid, and to the north
• 15:02 to the valley of Jiphthahel.
• 15:08 Eleazar: Issachar.
• 15:11 Joshua: The land from Jezreel reaching to Tabor.
• 15:19 Eleazar: Asher.
• 15:24 Joshua: The land from Mount Carmel to the city of Tyre.
• 15:33 Eleazar: Naphtali.
• 15:36 Joshua: The land from the terebinth tree in Zaanannim
• 15:40 to the Jordan and Chinnereth.
• 15:49 Eleazar: And Dan.
• 15:51 Joshua: The land from Zorah to Joppa.
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• 16:04 Eleazar: And to you, Joshua, son of Nun, we give Timnath
• 16:09 Serah in the hill country of Ephraim, just as you requested.
• 16:20 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: It was a dream come true.
• 16:22 His mission complete, Joshua would spend the last few years
• 16:25 of his life in the greet heartland of Israel,
• 16:28 within the boundaries given to his tribe, Ephraim.
• 16:33 We've come here to Shiloh many times before as it is such
• 16:37 an important biblical site.
• 16:39 And this time, especially, because it's central to the very
• 16:43 land allotted to Joshua.
• 16:46 It happened that the Lord blessed the land with rain on
• 16:49 our visit, so we found shelter within some ancient ruins
• 16:53 while outside it poured.
• 16:58 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Everyone in Israel prays for rain,
• 17:01 and I'm good with that but I say, "Lord, why today here
• 17:05 in Shiloh where we have a special TV program?"
• 17:10 It is special, but you know what?
• 17:12 So is rain.
• 17:14 If there wasn't rain, we wouldn't have any of these
• 17:16 goodies right here.
• 17:17 We wouldn't have 'em today, and they surely wouldn't have
• 17:21 had them yesterday.
• 17:22 They were all farmers, and they relied on the produce
• 17:27 of the earth.
• 17:28 In fact, ma'im, the word for water,
• 17:31 is related to the word "shamayim" or heavens.
• 17:34 The point is you look at the rain, this outpouring,
• 17:38 as blessings.
• 17:39 Even in biblical literature, we talk about the outpouring of the
• 17:43 Holy Spirit, Lord, pour out your blessings, and it's water
• 17:46 language and it harks to this agrarian language.
• 17:51 Well, we're in the thick of it here in Shiloh, a fascinating
• 17:56 place today, an important place yesterday in Joshua's day.
• 18:01 We're told, in fact, in the 18th chapter that when the battles
• 18:06 had run their course, Joshua led the Israelites and they knocked
• 18:11 out the backbone of the local Canaanite resistance
• 18:16 and now it's time to divide up the tribes.
• 18:21 They get their parcels of real estate, their inheritances.
• 18:25 We're told in the 18th chapter:
• 18:28 [speaking in Hebrew]
• 18:33 "And that the whole congregation
• 18:36 of the Children of Israel assembled themselves
• 18:38 together at Shiloh."
• 18:41 [speaking in Hebrew]
• 18:45 "And they gathered themselves, they assembled themselves
• 18:48 at the tent of meeting."
• 18:50 And this is where it was, you know?
• 18:52 In fact, before Jerusalem became the religious center,
• 18:56 it was Shiloh for hundreds and hundreds of years,
• 19:00 and it all starts here.
• 19:02 And the reason why they gather here is that when they're
• 19:05 looking to carve out the land, we want the good Lord to lead in
• 19:10 the apportionment, 'cause you know, people get jealous.
• 19:12 "Well, so-and-so got better than me, this and that."
• 19:15 And we're looking for God's hand, even in setting up things
• 19:19 like that.
• 19:20 Thus, land was divvied out by lot.
• 19:23 There's a sense in which let providence, let good fortune,
• 19:27 decide who gets what.
• 19:29 And that's how the game was played.
• 19:31 We're told in verse 10, specifically,
• 19:34 to read here in the Hebrew,
• 19:36 [speaking in Hebrew]
• 19:42 "And Joshua," we're told,
• 19:44 "cast lots for them at Shiloh"
• 19:48 [speaking in Hebrew]
• 19:50 "before the face of the Lord--before the Lord."
• 19:53 [speaking in Hebrew]
• 19:58 "And with that, then, Joshua divided up the land."
• 20:03 [speaking in Hebrew]
• 20:06 "To the Children of Israel,"
• 20:08 by their tribes, by their divisions.
• 20:11 And so it is, as I'd said, when it came to dividing up the land,
• 20:16 it was determined by providence, not by, you know, jockeying for
• 20:21 position, who gets this real estate, who gets that.
• 20:25 Well, this is a story from yesterday.
• 20:27 It really begs the question: What does it mean today?
• 20:31 And it's worth spending some time on that because there's a
• 20:35 difference in the way the respective two testaments
• 20:38 are oriented.
• 20:40 I say that, because in the New Testament
• 20:42 Christians are promised that our commonwealth is in heaven
• 20:47 and the good Lord in the 14th chapter of the Gospel of John
• 20:50 said, "I go there to prepare a place for you."
• 20:55 So, for the Christian, the principal inheritance
• 20:58 is on the other side of the grave.
• 21:01 For the Hebrew, the principal inheritance is here.
• 21:05 And here, it's divided up.
• 21:07 And many Christians have trouble with the territorial dimension
• 21:13 to Old Testament religion.
• 21:14 That is to say, it's tethered to real estate,
• 21:17 it's tethered to land.
• 21:20 Even when you observe that, and I hope you see it's clearly--
• 21:23 I hope you see it clearly, because for my money,
• 21:26 it is clearly to be observed,
• 21:28 but even when you see it clearly in the literature,
• 21:31 you read about it back then, it really begs the question:
• 21:34 How can someone bring this forward
• 21:37 and apply it to today?
• 21:39 In other words, what does the story for the ancient Jew
• 21:42 have to do with you?
• 21:44 It's a reasonable story, to my way of thinking.
• 21:47 Does the notion of a "defined inheritance" only relate
• 21:50 to them, then, with a heavenly bound inheritance for us today,
• 21:56 or can the believer in Jesus think in terms of an inheritance
• 22:01 for today?
• 22:02 Well, by way of application, let me commend this to you.
• 22:06 If you were a farmer in ancient Israel, the fact that you had
• 22:11 land apportionment meant that you had a place to ply a trade
• 22:15 and enjoy good success in response to your labors.
• 22:19 And to that end, that story in our world relates to the story
• 22:25 in this world right here.
• 22:28 Whether it's the fruits here, whether it's the instruction
• 22:31 here, whether it's the life that you're living there on the other
• 22:35 side of that lens in your living room, can God lead you to a
• 22:39 place where you can make a difference and carve out some
• 22:43 space for yourself in life to enjoy good success in life?
• 22:48 I think, friends, the answer to that question in no uncertain
• 22:52 terms is yes.
• 22:56 There's a good God.
• 22:57 In fact, in the New Testament, Jesus says that he'll lead us.
• 23:00 He's a shepherd who leads us to pasture.
• 23:03 And we hear his voice behind us, saying,
• 23:05 "This is the way, walk in it."
• 23:08 Friends, walk with God and you, like the Jew back then, you
• 23:13 today can find your place in your Promised Land,
• 23:19 and you, too, like Joshua, can be more than a conqueror.
• 23:28 Joshua Colson: I love what Jeff says here.
• 23:29 He's absolutely right.
• 23:31 God has a plan, a promise, a territory, for his sons and
• 23:35 daughters and 99% of the time there's a squatter there named
• 23:39 Satan who is waiting to try to convince you that it's not
• 23:42 yours, that God did not have good plans for you or anything
• 23:45 for you, and you have to fight.
• 23:47 So many times we get discouraged and we say,
• 23:49 "God, I thought you had a plan for me.
• 23:51 I thought that you had a place for me.
• 23:53 Why is these--this happening to me?"
• 23:55 But he says, "Stand up and fight."
• 23:57 He says this to Joshua in this story and he says this to you.
• 24:00 It is your responsibility to stand up and to claim the
• 24:05 territory that God has for you, not to back down to what the
• 24:08 enemy does or the plans that he has for you or the shots
• 24:11 that he takes against you, because that is your promise.
• 24:16 Kirsten: The plan in place is very interesting.
• 24:18 We all want a plan.
• 24:20 We all want a place.
• 24:21 And it's so hard to look at the Middle East right now,
• 24:26 with people, let's say the Palestinians, okay?
• 24:29 That have been there for a long time, they're saying, "This is
• 24:31 our land," and the Jewish people of 1948 on are saying,
• 24:36 "No, this is our covenant land."
• 24:38 So the Palestinians are saying to the Israelis,
• 24:41 "You all are squatters.
• 24:42 You think you can occupy this land.
• 24:44 It's ours."
• 24:45 Caleb: Which we know biblically is not true.
• 24:47 Interesting, our friend Sho'ul explained to us that
• 24:50 Palestinians, you know, come from Philistines, that term
• 24:53 which actually meant invaders.
• 24:55 They were seafaring invaders so when Palestinians going around
• 24:58 saying, "I'm Palestinian, I have a right to land,"
• 24:59 they're just saying, "We're invaders.
• 25:01 We're taking over this land," and it's a spiritual, I think,
• 25:03 declaration of that, but in all honesty, Palestinians, most of
• 25:07 them were refugees from Arab nations that were kicked out.
• 25:11 They were being annihilated.
• 25:12 They came to Israel, they were accepted with open arms.
• 25:14 Yasser Arafat, one of the famous PLO terrorist heads
• 25:18 of the Palestinians, he was Egyptian-born.
• 25:20 He wasn't, you know, born and raised in the land.
• 25:24 If--there's always been a small presence of Jewish people
• 25:27 in the land throughout history, even after 70 A.D.
• 25:30 when they were scattered.
• 25:31 And you see throughout history that, you know, there was
• 25:35 occupiers over the Jewish land.
• 25:38 Rome occupied Jewish land and the Emperor Hadrian renamed
• 25:42 Israel Palestine as a mockery to them in connection
• 25:45 to the Philistine people.
• 25:47 And so that term, you know, you had the Crusaders come in, the
• 25:50 Ottomans, you know, the Muslims, and so, yeah, there was a small
• 25:54 Arab presence that was there for a while, but all these people
• 25:57 that had held Israel under their dominion,
• 26:00 they were the occupiers.
• 26:02 They had their own home country, but this was God's country that
• 26:05 he gave to the children of Israel.
• 26:06 Kirsten: And I think what is fascinating, every time that we
• 26:09 go on tour to Israel, there's new discoveries
• 26:12 proving who the land belongs to.
• 26:15 And some of those discoveries are literally just inches
• 26:18 below the dirt.
• 26:20 Every time that we go to Israel, we see new things that have been
• 26:24 uncovered, literally from the dirt that prove
• 26:26 whose land it is.
• 26:28 We would love for you to go with us to the actual covenant land,
• 26:33 the land of Israel, and see these proofs--
• 26:37 shoot, that's not good English.
• 26:38 See the proof that God's land is called for the Israelis
• 26:43 and his hand is on there, so come with us.
• 26:46 We go two times a year.
• 26:47 David: I also just wanna say, guys,
• 26:49 we're finishing up this series.
• 26:52 So excited to have you all, not just as guests,
• 26:55 but at this table every time.
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• 27:04 to hear the insight from these Jewish guys right here.
• 27:07 It's time to go right now, so we end with?
• 27:10 Joshua: Shaalu shalom Yerushalayim.
• 27:12 David: Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.
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