Caption transcript for Abraham: Father of Faith — “The Sacrifice” (8/8)

• 00:01 (♪ Theme Music ♪)
• 00:24 ( Speaking Hebrew )
• 00:29 ( Speaking Hebrew )
• 00:32 ♪ ♪
• 00:49 Myles: SHALOM AND WELCOME TO
• 00:50 ZOLA LEVITT PRESENTS.
• 00:52 I'M MYLES WEISS.
• 00:53 Katharine: AND I'M
• 00:54 KATHARINE WEISS AND WE WANT
• 00:55 TO WELCOME YOU TO OUR SERIES
• 00:56 ON THE LIFE OF ABRAHAM.
• 00:57 Myles: WE'RE SO GLAD TO BE
• 00:58 COMPLETING THIS BECAUSE
• 00:59 IT'S SUCH A POWERFUL CONCLUSION.
• 01:02 I FEEL LIKE I'VE COME TO KNOW
• 01:04 THESE CHARACTERS AND IT'S ALMOST
• 01:06 SAD TO SAY GOODBYE TO THEM.
• 01:08 BUT WE'VE REALLY SEEN THE LIFE
• 01:09 OF REDEMPTION PLAYED OUT.
• 01:10 Katharine: WELL, WE NEVER SAY
• 01:11 GOODBYE; WE JUST HAVE TO CLOSE
• 01:12 THIS SERIES, BUT WE'LL CONTINUE
• 01:14 TO GLEAN FROM THE LIFE
• 01:16 OF ABRAHAM BECAUSE
• 01:17 HE'S THE FATHER OF FAITH,
• 01:18 HE'S THE FATHER
• 01:19 OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE
• 01:20 AND HE'S THE FATHER
• 01:21 OF THE CHURCH BY FAITH.
• 01:22 ABRAHAM WAS CHALLENGED BY GOD
• 01:25 IN GENESIS 22,
• 01:27 "TAKE NOW THY SON,
• 01:29 THINE ONLY BEGOTTEN SON,"
• 01:31 AND HE IS VERY CLEAR ABOUT
• 01:33 WHAT GOD IS ASKING HIM TO DO
• 01:35 AND HE SAYS, "HERE I AM, LORD."
• 01:37 YOU KNOW, TEN TIMES THE LORD
• 01:40 CALLS OUR ATTENTION TO
• 01:42 THAT HE'S CALLING HIM HIS SON.
• 01:44 I MEAN, SO MANY TIMES
• 01:45 HE KNOWS THAT OUR DEEPEST TESTS
• 01:47 COME FROM THE MOST INTIMATE LOVE
• 01:49 THAT WE HAVE WITH EACH OTHER.
• 01:50 Myles: THAT'S REALLY TRUE.
• 01:51 THE SCRIPTURE SAYS IN VERSE 18,
• 01:53 ( Speaking Hebrew )
• 02:07 AND THAT'S WHAT WE SEE
• 02:08 ABRAHAM DOING.
• 02:09 THIS IS A STORY OF A PROMISE,
• 02:11 A SON, A SACRIFICE
• 02:13 AND A RESURRECTION,
• 02:14 AND IT POINTS TO
• 02:15 A GREATER RESURRECTION TO COME,
• 02:18 THE LIFE OF YESHUA HA MASHIACH.
• 02:20 LET'S PICK UP OUR STORY
• 02:21 RIGHT NOW.
• 02:25 Narrator: AND IT CAME TO PASS
• 02:26 AFTER THESE THINGS
• 02:29 THAT GOD TESTED ABRAHAM.
• 02:33 ( Speaking Hebrew)
• 02:52 Narrator: AND GOD SAID,
• 02:53 "TAKE NOW THY SON,
• 02:55 THINE ONLY SON ISAAC
• 02:58 WHOM THOU LOVEST, AND GET THEE
• 03:00 UNTO THE LAND OF MORIAH
• 03:02 AND OFFER HIM THERE
• 03:04 FOR A BURNT OFFERING
• 03:05 UPON ONE OF THE MOUNTAINS
• 03:07 WHICH I WILL TELL THEE OF."
• 03:09 THEN ON THE THIRD DAY,
• 03:12 ABRAHAM LIFTED UP HIS EYES
• 03:14 AND SAW THE PLACE AFAR OFF.
• 03:28 ( Speaking Hebrew )
• 03:49 Myles: GENESIS 22,
• 03:51 THE TEST COMES TO ABRAHAM.
• 03:53 WHEN GOD TESTS,
• 03:54 HE CALLS US BY NAME.
• 03:56 HE HAS SURGICAL PRECISION
• 03:57 AND HE USES OUR NAME.
• 03:59 YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU'RE TESTED,
• 04:00 WHEN I'M TESTED, IT COMES
• 04:02 WITH THAT PERSONAL TOUCH
• 04:04 AND THAT'S WHAT HAPPENS HERE
• 04:05 WHERE GOD CALLS HIM.
• 04:07 AND ABRAM'S RESPONSE IS
• 04:09 " HINENI," "HERE I AM."
• 04:11 HE'S READY TO DO WHATEVER IT IS
• 04:13 GOD IS ASKING HIM,
• 04:15 BUT HE DOESN'T REALIZE
• 04:16 THAT IT'S GOING TO BE
• 04:17 ONE OF THE GREATEST TESTS THAT
• 04:18 WE EVER READ ABOUT IN THE BIBLE,
• 04:20 BECAUSE IT'S A PICTURE
• 04:22 OF SOMETHING THAT GOD HIMSELF IS
• 04:24 GOING TO DO FOR YOU AND FOR ME.
• 04:27 AND IN THIS CHAPTER WE SEE--
• 04:29 AND IN THIS PART OF THE STORY,
• 04:30 WE SEE THAT ABRAHAM IS ASKED
• 04:32 TO TAKE HIS SON, HIS ONLY SON
• 04:35 WHOM HE LOVES, CALLED BY GOD,
• 04:37 "YITZCHAK," "LAUGHTER,"
• 04:39 AND TO BRING HIM BEFORE THE LORD
• 04:42 FOR SACRIFICE.
• 04:43 IT'S UNFATHOMABLE THE PATHOS,
• 04:47 THE PAIN, THE DIFFICULTY
• 04:49 OF BEING CALLED TO DO
• 04:51 SOMETHING LIKE THIS.
• 04:52 IT'S BEYOND HUMAN COMPREHENSION
• 04:54 AND THAT'S WHY THAT HEBREW WORD
• 04:56 "NA" IS USED.
• 04:58 WHEN HE SAYS AKHSHAV,
• 04:59 WHEN HE SAYS "NOW,"
• 05:00 HE USES THE ANCIENT WORD "NA."
• 05:02 IT'S USED 60 TIMES
• 05:04 IN THE OLD TESTAMENT
• 05:05 BUT ONLY 4 TIMES IS IT USED
• 05:07 WHEN IT'S IN RELATIONSHIP OF GOD
• 05:10 SPEAKING TO A HUMAN,
• 05:13 BECAUSE IT IS SO BEYOND
• 05:14 HUMAN COMPREHENSION.
• 05:16 AND THAT'S WHAT'S
• 05:17 HAPPENING HERE.
• 05:18 HE'S ABOUT TO ASK ABRAHAM
• 05:19 TO DO SOMETHING THAT...
• 05:21 I DON'T KNOW, COULD YOU DO IT?
• 05:22 COULD I DO IT?
• 05:23 WE'RE NOT SURE.
• 05:25 BUT ABRAHAM HAD TO DO IT BECAUSE
• 05:27 IT WAS A PICTURE OF HIMSELF
• 05:29 PORTRAYING GOD THE FATHER
• 05:31 AND HE DIDN'T KNOW THAT ISAAC
• 05:33 WAS PORTRAYING GOD THE SON.
• 05:36 SOMETIME LATER,
• 05:37 HE WOULD UNDERSTAND THAT.
• 05:39 BUT, FOR NOW, ALL HE KNEW
• 05:41 IS THAT HE WAS BEING TESTED,
• 05:42 CALLED BY GOD TO COME UP
• 05:44 TO MOUNT "MOREH-YAH"...
• 05:46 TWO WORDS: "MOREH," "YAH":
• 05:52 THIS MOUNTAIN:
• 05:53 GOD IS THE TEACHER.
• 05:55 GOD IS MY TEACHER.
• 05:56 AND ON THIS VERY MOUNTAIN,
• 05:58 GOD WILL INSTRUCT US
• 06:00 AND WILL TEACH US
• 06:02 ABOUT SACRIFICE AND WILL ALSO
• 06:04 SHOW US, DOWN THROUGH THE AGES,
• 06:07 THE CALLING THAT IS GOING TO
• 06:08 COME TO WHOSOEVER WILL COME
• 06:11 TO THE SACRIFICED SON.
• 06:13 THIS IS THE PLACE WHERE
• 06:16 THE PICTURE OF THE PROMISED SON,
• 06:18 OF THE MESSIAH,
• 06:19 WILL BE PLAYED OUT IN SCRIPTURE
• 06:21 IN A WAY THAT WILL FOREVER
• 06:23 INDELIBLY BE PUT IN THE PAGES
• 06:25 OF SCRIPTURE FOR YOU AND I
• 06:26 TO KNOW THAT WHEN THAT SON
• 06:29 WOULD COME CENTURIES LATER,
• 06:31 HE WOULD BE THE PROMISED LAMB,
• 06:34 THE SON OF GOD,
• 06:35 THE LAMB WHO TAKES AWAY
• 06:36 THE SIN OF THE WORLD
• 06:37 AND IT WAS RIGHT HERE
• 06:39 AT MT. MORIAH, MOREH-YAH.
• 06:41 THE TWO WORDS ARE INTRODUCED
• 06:42 HERE FOR THE FIRST TIME
• 06:43 IN SCRIPTURE.
• 06:45 THE WORD "LOVE" IS INTRODUCED
• 06:47 AND THE WORD "WORSHIP"
• 06:48 IS INTRODUCED.
• 06:49 AND IT WILL BE
• 06:50 A THREE-DAY JOURNEY.
• 06:52 SOMETHING ABOUT THREE DAYS
• 06:54 THAT WE'LL SEE LATER ON
• 06:55 IN SCRIPTURE AS WELL;
• 06:57 IT WOULD BE ON THE THIRD DAY
• 06:59 WHEN JESUS WILL BE RESURRECTED.
• 07:01 WELL, IT WAS A THREE-DAY
• 07:02 JOURNEY FOR ABRAHAM AND ISAAC
• 07:04 AND GOD IS PERFECTLY PORTRAYING
• 07:07 THAT WHICH HE WILL DO
• 07:08 IN THE FUTURE WHEN HE WILL MAKE
• 07:10 A PROVISION FOR YOU AND FOR ME,
• 07:12 THAT THE TIME IS COMING
• 07:15 WHEN WHOSOEVER WILL
• 07:16 CAN CALL UPON THE NAME
• 07:17 OF THE LORD AND BE SAVED.
• 07:19 AND SO ISAAC BECOMES THE PICTURE
• 07:21 OF YESHUA HA MASHIACH,
• 07:24 JESUS CHRIST, JESUS THE MESSIAH.
• 07:27 IT'S AN AMAZING STORY
• 07:29 AND WE CAN ONLY IMAGINE WHAT
• 07:31 ABRAHAM MUST HAVE BEEN FEELING
• 07:33 AND THE WONDER THAT ISAAC
• 07:34 WAS EXPERIENCING AS WELL, WHEN
• 07:36 HE WAS ABOUT TO, IN OBEDIENCE
• 07:38 TO THE FATHER, LAY DOWN HIS LIFE
• 07:42 AND PICTURE FOREVER
• 07:44 THE SACRIFICE TO COME WHICH IS
• 07:46 THAT ONCE-AND-FOR-ALL SACRIFICE
• 07:49 FOR YOU AND FOR ME.
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• 08:27 ( Speaking Hebrew )
• 08:38 (♪ Dramatic Music ♪)
• 09:29 ( Speaking Hebrew )
• 10:07 Myles: I DON'T KNOW
• 10:08 IF THERE'S EVER BEEN
• 10:09 SUCH PATHOS IN THE SCRIPTURE
• 10:13 OF A MAN BEING CALLED
• 10:15 TO SACRIFICE HIS OWN SON
• 10:17 AND ONLY FAITH THAT HE WOULD BE
• 10:19 RESURRECTED COULD ALLOW ABRAHAM
• 10:21 TO FOLLOW THE WORD OF THE LORD
• 10:24 AND TO FOLLOW THROUGH ON THIS
• 10:26 WITH SUCH OBEDIENCE
• 10:27 AND SUCH FAITH.
• 10:28 IT'S OVERWHELMING TO THINK ABOUT
• 10:30 THE FACT THAT ABRAHAM
• 10:31 ACTUALLY CAME UP THIS MOUNTAIN
• 10:33 TO DO THIS DEED ACCORDING
• 10:35 TO THE WORD OF THE LORD.
• 10:36 AND WHAT ABOUT THE SON?
• 10:38 WHAT ABOUT THE VOLUNTARY
• 10:39 SACRIFICE OF THE SON?
• 10:41 IT'S SUCH A PICTURE
• 10:42 OF THE MESSIAH, SUCH A PICTURE
• 10:44 OF WHAT YESHUA WOULD DO
• 10:46 AS THE LAMB WHO TAKES AWAY
• 10:47 THE SIN OF THE WORLD.
• 10:49 EVEN THE WAY IT'S PHRASED
• 10:50 IN HERE, IT SAYS IN GENESIS 22,
• 10:54 ( Speaking Hebrew )
• 11:00 "GOD HAS PROVIDED FOR ME
• 11:02 IN THIS PLACE,"
• 11:03 OR "GOD WILL PROVIDE."
• 11:05 GOD SEES WHAT WE NEED.
• 11:06 IT'S A PICTURE OF WHEN THE RAM
• 11:08 WAS CAUGHT IN THE THICKET
• 11:09 BECAUSE ISAAC WAS ASKING,
• 11:10 "WHERE'S THE SACRIFICE?
• 11:12 WHAT'S GOING ON HERE?"
• 11:13 AND WHEN THE RAM CAME
• 11:14 AND WAS CAUGHT IN THE THICKET,
• 11:15 THE WORD OF THE LORD CAME AS GOD
• 11:18 PROVIDING FOR HIMSELF A LAMB.
• 11:21 I LOVE THE WAY
• 11:22 THE KING JAMES SAYS IT.
• 11:23 YOU KNOW, IN THE LATIN VULGATE,
• 11:24 IT SAYS, "GOD PROVIDES."
• 11:26 IN THE SEPTUAGINT,
• 11:27 THE GREEK BIBLE,
• 11:28 IT SAYS THAT "GOD SEES."
• 11:30 TAKEN TOGETHER IT MEANS
• 11:31 THAT GOD SEES AND PROVIDES
• 11:33 THAT WHICH IS NEEDED.
• 11:34 AND I LOVE THE WAY
• 11:35 THE KING JAMES SAYS IT:
• 11:39 AND ISN'T THAT WHAT HE DID?
• 11:41 ONLY THE PURE BLOOD
• 11:43 OF A SINLESS LAMB COULD
• 11:45 TAKE AWAY THE SIN OF THE WORLD.
• 11:47 AND SO THIS PICTURE OF ABRAHAM
• 11:50 AND YITZCHAK IS PICTURE
• 11:52 FOR THE AGES.
• 11:53 IT'S A PICTURE OF
• 11:54 THE SINLESS LAMB WHO WOULD COME
• 11:56 AND TAKE AWAY THE SINS
• 11:58 OF THE WORLD, BE SACRIFICED
• 12:00 FOR YOU AND FOR ME,
• 12:02 AND RESURRECT SO THAT YOU AND I
• 12:04 COULD FOLLOW HIM.
• 12:06 HE'S THE FIRSTFRUITS,
• 12:07 AND WE WOULD FOLLOW HIM
• 12:08 AND HAVE ETERNAL LIFE.
• 12:09 SO FOR EVERYONE
• 12:10 WHO SAYS "YES" TO YESHUA,
• 12:13 ETERNAL LIFE IS WHAT FOLLOWS.
• 12:15 WHAT A STORY.
• 12:16 WHAT AN AMAZING UNFOLDING
• 12:19 OF GOD'S PROMISE
• 12:20 AND GOD'S FULFILLMENT.
• 12:22 GOD'S PROMISE, GOD'S PROPHECY,
• 12:24 GOD'S PROPHECY
• 12:25 AND HIS ABSOLUTE DESIRE,
• 12:28 WILLINGNESS AND ABILITY
• 12:30 TO BRING TO PASS THAT WHICH
• 12:32 HE WANTS TO HAPPEN IN YOUR LIFE
• 12:34 AND IN MINE.
• 12:35 EVEN WHEN WE THINK ALL IS LOST,
• 12:37 WHEN WE THINK IT'S TOO LATE,
• 12:38 WHEN WE THINK THE PROMISE
• 12:39 HAS BEEN LOST,
• 12:40 WHEN WE THINK THAT THINGS
• 12:41 CAN NEVER WORK OUT,
• 12:43 GOD PROVIDES HIMSELF A LAMB.
• 12:47 AND SO WE SEE
• 12:48 THE STORY OF MESSIAH
• 12:49 PICTURED IN THE STORY
• 12:50 OF ABRAHAM AND ISAAC.
• 12:54 (♪ Music ♪)
• 13:27 Katharine: ISRAEL...
• 13:28 WHEN YOU COME TO ISRAEL,
• 13:29 IT'S AN INVESTMENT
• 13:30 IN YOUR SPIRITUAL LIFE.
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• 13:34 WE'D LOVE TO HOST YOU.
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• 13:39 AND SHE'LL SET YOU UP.
• 13:40 Myles: THAT'S RIGHT.
• 13:41 WE HAVE SUCH WONDERFUL TOURS.
• 13:42 AND THE PEOPLE, THE FEEDBACK
• 13:44 THAT WE GET IS SO POWERFUL,
• 13:45 THEY FEEL IT'S
• 13:46 A LIFE-CHANGING EXPERIENCE.
• 13:47 Katharine: IT IS, YEAH.
• 13:49 Myles: AND IT ALWAYS IS FOR US
• 13:50 AS WELL; WE LOOK FORWARD
• 13:51 TO HOSTING YOU IN THE LAND.
• 13:52 TO KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON HERE
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• 13:59 UP-TO-THE-MINUTE NEWS MAGAZINE
• 14:01 WITH NEWS ABOUT ISRAEL,
• 14:03 BIBLE LESSONS, IT REALLY DOES
• 14:05 THE WORK OF SIFTING THROUGH
• 14:07 THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA
• 14:08 AND BRINGING OUT THE FACTS
• 14:09 AND THE FIGURES THAT YOU NEED
• 14:10 TO KNOW IN THE FACE OF WHAT
• 14:12 WE'RE LOOKING AT THESE DAYS
• 14:14 THROUGH THE MEDIA.
• 14:15 ALSO THIS WEEK OUR OFFER IS
• 14:17 ABRAHAM, FATHER OF FAITH,
• 14:19 THE VERY SERIES
• 14:20 THAT WE'RE PRODUCING NOW,
• 14:21 THAT YOU'RE SEEING RIGHT NOW,
• 14:22 THIS IS THE ONE
• 14:23 THAT IS AVAILABLE TO YOU.
• 14:24 OUR ANNOUNCER WILL TELL YOU
• 14:26 HOW TO GET AHOLD OF IT
• 14:27 LATER ON IN THE PROGRAM.
• 14:29 WELL, WE ARE IN THIS INCREDIBLE,
• 14:32 POIGNANT TIME WHERE ABRAHAM
• 14:35 IS SAYING GOODBYE TO SARAH.
• 14:36 Katharine: RIGHT.
• 14:37 Myles: AND IT'S AT THE PLACE
• 14:38 OF CONFLICT OR CONCERN
• 14:40 EVEN TO TODAY.
• 14:41 THE CAVES OF MACHPELAH
• 14:43 ARE STILL BEING DISPUTED.
• 14:45 Katharine: WE GOT TO TAKE
• 14:46 OUR VIEWERS UP TO THIS AREA
• 14:48 AND THEY GET TO SEE
• 14:50 THE CAVE IN HEBRON.
• 14:53 Myles: IT'S SUCH A LONG-TERM
• 14:54 LOVE AFFAIR BETWEEN THE TWO
• 14:56 OF THEM, AND SO THIS BECOMES
• 14:57 SUCH A POIGNANT
• 14:58 AND BITTERSWEET MOMENT
• 14:59 AS ABRAHAM BURIES HIS WIFE.
• 15:02 SO LET'S GO BACK TO OUR STORY
• 15:04 AS WE SEE ABRAHAM SAY GOOD-BYE
• 15:06 TO HIS WIFE OF MANY YEARS
• 15:08 AT THE CAVES OF MACHPELAH.
• 15:15 Narrator: SARAH DIED IN HEBRON
• 15:17 IN THE LAND OF CANAAN
• 15:19 AND ABRAHAM PAID
• 15:20 400 SHEKELS OF SILVER
• 15:22 FOR THE CAVE OF MACHPELAH
• 15:24 FOR A BURYING PLACE.
• 15:26 ABRAHAM BOUGHT THE FIELD
• 15:27 OF MACHPELAH AND THE CAVE
• 15:29 THEREIN AND ALL THE TREES
• 15:32 THAT WERE IN THE FIELD.
• 15:35 (♪ Woman Singing In Hebrew ♪)
• 16:00 ♪ ♪
• 16:12 ( Speaking Hebrew )
• 16:50 Myles: THE STRUCTURE YOU'RE
• 16:51 SEEING IS HERODIAN STONE,
• 16:52 TYPICAL STRUCTURE BUILT BY HEROD
• 16:55 2,000 YEARS AGO VERY SIMILAR TO
• 16:57 WHAT WE SEE AT THE WESTERN WALL.
• 16:59 AND THIS STRUCTURE IS BUILT
• 17:01 OVER THE CAVE AT MACHPELAH.
• 17:03 WE ARE IN HEBRON AT THE HEART
• 17:06 OF THE HEART OF ISRAEL,
• 17:07 AND THIS IS SOME OF THE MOST
• 17:08 CONTESTED REAL ESTATE
• 17:10 IN THE WORLD BECAUSE THIS IS
• 17:12 WHERE THE STORIES OF THE BIBLE
• 17:14 COME TO LIFE.
• 17:15 THIS IS WHERE THE JEWISH
• 17:16 PRESENCE IN THE LAND IS REALLY
• 17:20 ARCHAEOLOGICALLY PROVEN
• 17:22 AND IT'S VERIFIED AND THIS WHY
• 17:24 THERE'S BEEN SUCH CONTESTING
• 17:26 OVER THIS PLACE.
• 17:28 THIS LAND WAS BOUGHT BY ABRAHAM
• 17:31 TO BURY HIS WIFE SARAH.
• 17:33 HE PAID 400 SHEKELS AT THE TIME.
• 17:35 THAT WAS AN ENORMOUS AMOUNT
• 17:37 OF MONEY.
• 17:38 EPHRON THE HITTITE OFFERED IT
• 17:41 TO HIM, THINKING THAT THERE'S
• 17:42 NO WAY THAT HE WOULD TAKE IT
• 17:44 BECAUSE THE PRICE
• 17:45 WAS SO OUTRAGEOUS.
• 17:46 BUT ABRAHAM ONCE AGAIN WOULD NOT
• 17:48 BE FOUND AS SOMEONE WHO ALLOWED
• 17:50 THE PAGAN WORLD TO SUPPLY
• 17:52 FOR HIM AND SO HE PAID
• 17:54 FOR THIS PLACE,
• 17:55 ANOTHER INSTANCE OF WHERE
• 17:57 OUR ANCESTORS, THE ANCESTORS
• 17:59 OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE
• 18:01 HAVE PAID TO BE HERE.
• 18:03 DAVID RULED FROM HERE
• 18:04 FOR SEVEN AND A HALF YEARS.
• 18:06 THIS IS CONSIDERED THE SECOND
• 18:07 MOST HOLY SITE IN JUDAISM
• 18:09 BECAUSE OF THE PATRIARCHS
• 18:11 BEING BURIED HERE.
• 18:12 IT'S A VERY IMPORTANT PLACE
• 18:14 AND REALLY CONTESTED
• 18:15 BY THE NEIGHBORS.
• 18:17 IN 1929 THERE WAS
• 18:19 A HORRIBLE MASSACRE HERE.
• 18:21 TO THEIR SHAME THE BRITISH
• 18:22 WAITED FIVE HOURS BEFORE SENDING
• 18:24 REINFORCEMENTS HERE IN ORDER
• 18:26 TO RESCUE THE JEWISH PEOPLE
• 18:28 FROM THIS MASSACRE.
• 18:30 AND I BELIEVE THAT THE DECLINE
• 18:31 THAT TOOK OVER
• 18:32 THE BRITISH EMPIRE
• 18:33 IS DIRECTLY RELATED TO
• 18:35 THEIR ABANDONMENT OF ISRAEL
• 18:37 OVER THE LAST CENTURY.
• 18:39 YOU KNOW, WE'RE STANDING AT THIS
• 18:40 SACRED PLACE AND REMINDING YOU
• 18:42 THAT THIS IS WHERE
• 18:43 THE PATRIARCHS ARE BURIED.
• 18:45 THIS IS A VERY,
• 18:46 VERY IMPORTANT PLACE.
• 18:47 NO WONDER THE JEWISH PEOPLE
• 18:48 HAVE COME BACK HERE
• 18:49 FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD
• 18:51 AND THEN FROM WITHIN ISRAEL
• 18:52 HAVE MOVED HERE
• 18:53 TO THIS VOLATILE PLACE
• 18:55 IN ORDER TO STAND AS
• 18:57 A LIVING WITNESS OF THE REASONS
• 19:00 WHY THE JEWISH PEOPLE BELONG
• 19:02 IN THIS LAND.
• 19:03 REMEMBER, THE TITLE DEED,
• 19:04 ABRAHAM BOUGHT IT.
• 19:06 IT'S VERIFIED IN THE SCRIPTURE.
• 19:07 AND HISTORY VERIFIES IT,
• 19:09 BOTH SACRED AND SECULAR HISTORY
• 19:12 VERIFIES THESE STORIES.
• 19:13 THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE AREA
• 19:16 ALSO BEARS WITNESS
• 19:17 TO THE JEWISH PRESENCE HERE.
• 19:19 AND FINALLY, THE REALITY
• 19:21 OF CONQUEST, THE FACT THAT
• 19:22 THE JEWISH PEOPLE HAVE BEEN
• 19:23 ATTACKED HERE AND HAVE WON
• 19:25 THIS AREA BACK FROM
• 19:27 THEIR ENEMIES AT THOSE TIMES,
• 19:29 IS ANOTHER EVIDENCE
• 19:31 OF THE JEWISH PRESENCE HERE
• 19:32 AND THE RIGHT FOR US TO BE HERE.
• 19:35 THIS IS AN AMAZING PART
• 19:36 OF THE STORY, INCREDIBLE TIME.
• 19:38 THERE WAS GRIEF FOR ABRAHAM
• 19:40 LOSING HIS PRINCESS BRIDE,
• 19:42 HIS PRINCESS SARAH OUT OF WHOM
• 19:44 THEY WERE TOLD KINGS WOULD COME.
• 19:47 AND THAT HAS BECOME THE TRUTH.
• 19:49 AND SO WE'RE LIVING IN THE DAY
• 19:50 AS WE LOOK TO THE COMING
• 19:51 OF MESSIAH, WHEN THE STORY GOES
• 19:53 ALL THE WAY BACK TO ABRAHAM,
• 19:56 THE FATHER OF FAITH.
• 20:00 Katharine: YOUR TEACHING WAS
• 20:01 SO INFORMATIVE ABOUT WHAT
• 20:03 THE JEWISH PEOPLE HAVE FACED,
• 20:04 THE BRITAINS TURNING THEIR BACK
• 20:05 ON THEM AND WHAT'S REALLY
• 20:08 FRUSTRATING TO ME, MYLES,
• 20:10 IS THAT THE JEWISH PEOPLE
• 20:11 AREN'T ALLOWED TO GO
• 20:12 TO THE CAVE OF MACHPELAH
• 20:14 ACCEPT FOR CERTAIN TIMES
• 20:16 DURING THE DAY BECAUSE
• 20:17 IT'S A DISPUTED TERRITORY.
• 20:18 Myles: IT'S SO OUTRAGEOUS.
• 20:19 Katharine: YEAH.
• 20:20 Myles: IT'S REALLY INCREDIBLE.
• 20:21 YOU KNOW WHEN WE HAD A CHANCE
• 20:22 TO GO UP THERE AND SPEAK WITH
• 20:24 THE JEWISH COMMUNITY SPOKESMAN
• 20:27 FOR HEBRON WHO ACTUALLY WAS PART
• 20:29 OF THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL DIGS
• 20:31 THAT UNEARTHED THE ACTUALITY
• 20:33 OF THE JEWISH HISTORY THERE.
• 20:35 AND SO HE WAS THERE
• 20:37 FOR THE VERIFICATION OF IT.
• 20:38 THAT'S WHY IT'S SO AMAZING
• 20:39 THAT THE WORLD IS TELLING US
• 20:41 THAT WE'VE NEVER BEEN THERE,
• 20:42 THAT THIS DOESN'T GO BACK TO
• 20:43 THE TIME OF ABRAHAM AND THEY'RE
• 20:45 TRYING TO REWRITE HISTORY.
• 20:46 BUT, IN FACT, THIS IS HISTORY,
• 20:49 ARCHAEOLOGY, IT'S PROVEN.
• 20:51 AND SO WE DID HAVE A CHANCE
• 20:53 TO SPEAK WITH
• 20:54 THE JEWISH COMMUNITY SPOKESMAN.
• 20:55 LET'S GO TO MY INTERVIEW
• 20:56 WITH HIM IN HEBRON.
• 20:59 Myles: WE HAVE SO MUCH
• 21:01 MISINFORMATION IN AMERICA
• 21:03 ABOUT THE SO-CALLED "WEST BANK."
• 21:05 TELL US ABOUT WHAT THIS IS
• 21:06 AS THE HEARTLAND OF ISRAEL.
• 21:09 Noam Arnon: WELL, IT'S NOT
• 21:10 THE WEST BANK BECAUSE THERE
• 21:11 IS NOT ANY RIVER AROUND.
• 21:12 YOU SEE THERE'S NOT ANY BANK
• 21:14 AND RIVER; MAYBE A--
• 21:16 BUT THIS IS THE HEARTLAND
• 21:19 OF THE HOMELAND
• 21:22 OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE.
• 21:23 IT'S JUDEA AND SAMARIA HILLS.
• 21:26 YOU SEE, 90% OF THE SITES
• 21:29 MENTIONED IN THE BIBLE
• 21:31 ARE LOCATED IN THESE HILLS,
• 21:33 JUDEA AND SAMARIA.
• 21:34 THIS IS THE REAL, REAL HOMELAND
• 21:36 OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE,
• 21:37 THE HISTORICAL
• 21:39 AND BIBLICAL HOMELAND.
• 21:40 NOW, JEWS LIVED IN HEBRON
• 21:42 FROM THE BEGINNING OF HISTORY,
• 21:44 FROM THE DAYS OF ABRAHAM.
• 21:46 THE JEWISH COMMUNITY HERE WAS
• 21:47 MASSACRED BY ARAB TERRORISTS
• 21:49 IN 1929.
• 21:51 THE JEWS HAVE BEEN MASSACRED,
• 21:53 RAPED, TORTURED,
• 21:56 AND THEN THE ARABS
• 21:57 DESTROYED THE COMMUNITY,
• 21:58 DESTROYED THE JEWISH QUARTER.
• 22:00 SO WHEN WE RETURNED FROM--
• 22:04 SO WHEN WE CAME BACK IN 1967,
• 22:06 WE WANTED ONE THING: TO RENEW
• 22:09 THE JEWISH COMMUNITY OF HEBRON.
• 22:11 AND THIS IS WHAT WE DID.
• 22:12 WE REALLY RENEWED THE PRESENCE
• 22:16 OF JEWS WHO LIVED IN HEBRON
• 22:17 FROM THE BEGINNING OF HISTORY.
• 22:19 I, MYSELF, I WAS IN CHARGE
• 22:22 OF THE EXCAVATIONS
• 22:24 OF THE SYNAGOGUE OF ABRAHAM
• 22:26 AND WE FOUND THE SYNAGOGUE
• 22:28 THAT WAS DESTROYED
• 22:31 AND BURIED BY THE ARABS
• 22:34 UNDER TONS OF TRASH AND DIRT.
• 22:36 SO THANK GOD WE DISCOVERED
• 22:38 THE PLACE, WE RENOVATED IT;
• 22:41 NOW IT'S, AGAIN,
• 22:42 IT'S A LIVING PLACE AND A VERY,
• 22:43 VERY BEAUTIFUL SYNAGOGUE.
• 22:45 Myles: YOU'RE AN EYEWITNESS TO
• 22:47 THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL VERIFICATION
• 22:50 THAT THIS IS A JEWISH PLACE.
• 22:52 Noam: THAT'S FOR SURE.
• 22:53 I HAD THE PRIVILEGE TO BE
• 22:56 ONE OF THE VERY, VERY FEW PEOPLE
• 22:58 WHO VISITED THE CAVE
• 22:59 OF MACHPELAH, THE ACTUAL CAVE
• 23:02 WHICH IS THERE BENEATH
• 23:03 THE HUGE JEWISH STRUCTURE.
• 23:06 AND I DISCOVERED THAT,
• 23:07 AND THERE IS THE CAVE THERE,
• 23:09 IT'S A DOUBLE CAVE, EXACTLY
• 23:10 AS MENTIONED IN THE BIBLE
• 23:12 AND WE FOUND THE REMAINS OF JEWS
• 23:15 FROM ABOUT 3,000 YEARS AGO.
• 23:19 NOW, WE DISCOVERED
• 23:20 IN THE TEL HEBRON, THE HILL
• 23:22 OF THE ANCIENT BIBLICAL HEBRON,
• 23:24 WE DISCOVERED A JEWISH HOME
• 23:25 FROM THE DAYS OF HEZEKIAH
• 23:27 THE KING, SO EVERYTHING
• 23:29 IS VERY, VERY CLEAR.
• 23:31 AND WHEN YOU SEE THE MONUMENT
• 23:32 ABOVE THE CAVE OF MACHPELAH,
• 23:35 THIS IS THE STRUCTURE
• 23:37 THAT WAS BUILT BY THE JEWS
• 23:39 2,000 YEARS AGO.
• 23:40 LET'S REMEMBER,
• 23:42 ISLAM DID NOT EXIST YET.
• 23:44 SO IT WAS BUILT
• 23:45 BY THE JEWISH PEOPLE HERE
• 23:46 IN THE LAND OF JUDEA.
• 23:48 THIS IS A JEWISH STRUCTURE.
• 23:50 SO I THINK IT'S RIDICULOUS
• 23:52 EVEN TO ARGUE ABOUT THAT.
• 23:54 EVERY SCHOLAR, EVERY PROFESSOR
• 23:57 IN THE WORLD WILL TELL YOU
• 23:59 THE SAME; THIS IS HISTORY.
• 24:01 THESE ARE FACTS.
• 24:02 IT'S NOT ANY--
• 24:05 SUBJECT TO ANY ARAB PROPAGANDA.
• 24:07 THIS IS A VERY, VERY CLEAR FACT.
• 24:11 Myles: GROWING UP IN NEW YORK,
• 24:12 IN A JEWISH HOME, HEBREW SCHOOL
• 24:14 THREE DAYS A WEEK,
• 24:15 BAR MITZVAHED,
• 24:16 EVERY ROSH HASHANAH,
• 24:17 EVERY NEW YEAR,
• 24:18 WE WOULD HEAR THE SHOFAR BLOW.
• 24:21 AND IT REALLY COMES
• 24:22 FROM THIS STORY.
• 24:23 IT COMES FROM THE STORY
• 24:24 OF ABRAHAM AND ISAAC,
• 24:25 HOW WHEN ABRAHAM BOUND ISAAC UP,
• 24:28 GOD PROVIDED HIMSELF A RAM
• 24:30 IN THE THICKET.
• 24:31 AND HE PROVIDED THAT SHOFAR.
• 24:33 HE PROVIDED THE RAM
• 24:34 FOR THE SACRIFICE WHICH GAVE US
• 24:36 THE SOUND AND THE PICTURE
• 24:38 OF GOD'S PROVISION.
• 24:40 AND I'M JUST AMAZED
• 24:41 AT THE QUALITY OF THIS STORY,
• 24:43 HOW IT REALLY SPEAKS
• 24:45 OF GOD'S GREATER SON.
• 24:47 AND IT SPEAKS OF REDEMPTION
• 24:48 FOR THE WHOLE EARTH; IT COMES
• 24:49 THROUGH THE JEWISH PEOPLE.
• 24:50 Katharine: YEAH,
• 24:51 IT'S A PROMISED LAND
• 24:53 AND IT'S A PROMISED SEED.
• 24:55 AND GOD HIMSELF HAS SHOWN US
• 24:56 HIS PROVISION ON THE TOP
• 24:58 OF THE MOUNTAIN.
• 24:59 HE MADE A PROVISION.
• 25:01 HE SAID THE LORD WILL PROVIDE
• 25:02 HIMSELF A LAMB.
• 25:04 AND HE DID THAT FOR ALL OF US.
• 25:06 Myles: HE DID.
• 25:07 AND ABRAHAM AND SARAH,
• 25:08 THEY WALKED IMPERFECTLY,
• 25:09 BUT THEY WALKED
• 25:10 CONTINUALLY COMING BACK TO GOD,
• 25:12 CONTINUALLY LOOKING UP
• 25:14 AND DOING LIKE WE NEED TO DO,
• 25:16 LOOKING UNTO JESUS, THE AUTHOR
• 25:17 AND FINISHER OF OUR FAITH.
• 25:18 Katharine: AND WE NEED TO
• 25:19 REMEMBER THAT IN OUR OWN LIVES
• 25:21 THAT EVEN THOUGH
• 25:22 THE JEWISH PEOPLE MIGHT NOT
• 25:23 BE PERFECT AS A PEOPLE GROUP,
• 25:26 GOD IS STILL KEEPING COVENANT
• 25:27 WITH THEM AND WE WANT TO BE
• 25:29 ON THE RIGHT SIDE
• 25:30 OF THE COVENANT, THAT WE'RE NOT
• 25:31 ON THE CURSING SIDE,
• 25:33 WE'RE ON THE BLESSING SIDE.
• 25:35 AND WE WANT TO BE
• 25:36 IN THE BLESSING OF THE LORD.
• 25:37 Myles: RIGHT, HE SAID, "I WILL
• 25:38 BLESS THOSE THAT BLESS YOU
• 25:39 AND CURSE THOSE THAT CURSE YOU,"
• 25:41 AND WE'VE SEEN THAT
• 25:42 THROUGHOUT HISTORY.
• 25:43 AND THIS STORY SHOWS US THAT.
• 25:45 AND YOU KNOW, I'M JUST STRUCK
• 25:47 BY THE PERFECTION IN THE PICTURE
• 25:50 OF MESSIAH THAT'S IN ISAAC.
• 25:53 EVERYTHING ABOUT IT JUST REALLY
• 25:54 SPEAKS OF HIS SACRIFICE TO COME,
• 25:57 AND THAT ONCE AND FOR ALL,
• 25:58 GOD WOULD PROVIDE HIMSELF AS
• 26:00 THE PERFECT LAMB FOR ALL OF US.
• 26:02 WE'RE REALLY IN THAT SEASON NOW
• 26:04 WHERE ANYONE CAN CALL UPON
• 26:05 THE NAME OF THE LORD.
• 26:06 Katharine: YOU KNOW, MT. MORIAH,
• 26:08 THE MOUNTAIN WHERE ABRAHAM
• 26:10 TOOK UP ISAAC IS THE PLACE
• 26:12 THAT'S CONTESTED THE MOST.
• 26:14 IT'S THE MOUNTAIN, HA MAKOM,
• 26:16 "THE PLACE."
• 26:17 Myles: YEP, IT'S REALLY TRUE
• 26:19 AND WE'RE SEEING THAT CONTEST
• 26:20 CONTINUE BUT GOD WINS
• 26:22 IN THE END; WE KNOW THE STORY.
• 26:23 WE KNOW THAT HE IS RETURNING AS
• 26:25 THE LION OF THE TRIBE OF JUDAH.
• 26:27 AND SO WE'RE LOOKING FORWARD
• 26:30 TO THAT DAY; WE WANT TO WORK
• 26:31 WHILE IT IS YET DAY,
• 26:32 BUT WE'RE LOOKING FORWARD
• 26:33 TO THE COMING OF THE KING.
• 26:35 AND SO, AS WE GO TODAY,
• 26:37 WE WANT TO REMIND YOU, PLEASE,
• 26:39 SHA'ALU SHALOM YERUSHALAYIM.
• 26:41 Katharine: PRAY FOR THE PEACE
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