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

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