Caption transcript for The Stones Cry Out (2012): “A Tale of Two Temples” (2/12)

• 00:01 (♪ "The Stones Cry Out" ♪)
• 00:08 ♪ ♪
• 00:22 Male Singer: ♪ IF NO ONE STANDS TO SPEAK, ♪
• 00:28 ♪ IF NO ONE PRAYS, ♪
• 00:34 ♪ THESE VERY STONES CRY OUT ♪
• 00:40 ♪ "I AM." ♪♪
• 00:46 Myles: SHALOM AND WELCOME
• 00:47 TO ZOLA LEVITT PRESENTS.
• 00:48 I'M MYLES WEISS.
• 00:49 Katharine: AND I'M
• 00:50 KATHARINE WEISS, AND WE'RE
• 00:51 SO EXCITED ABOUT THESE PROGRAMS.
• 00:52 I LOVE SEEING THE BIBLE PROVEN
• 00:55 THROUGH THE VERY STONES
• 00:56 THAT ARE CRYING OUT.
• 00:57 Myles: THAT'S EXACTLY RIGHT.
• 00:58 YOU KNOW, JESUS HIMSELF SAID
• 00:59 IN LUKE 19:40 THAT IF
• 01:01 THE DISCIPLES DIDN'T PRAISE HIM,
• 01:03 THE VERY STONES WOULD CRY OUT.
• 01:05 AND EVEN TODAY THE STONES
• 01:06 ARE CRYING OUT IN ISRAEL.
• 01:08 ARCHAEOLOGY IS VERIFYING
• 01:10 THE REALITY OF THE BIBLE.
• 01:11 Katharine: WE LOVE BRINGING YOU
• 01:12 THESE BIBLICAL PERSPECTIVES,
• 01:14 AND HAVE BEEN BRINGING THEM FOR
• 01:15 DECADES BECAUSE OF YOUR SUPPORT.
• 01:18 SO CONTINUE YOUR SUPPORT
• 01:19 SO WE CAN BRING YOU
• 01:20 THESE TIMELY TESTIMONIES
• 01:23 OF WHAT GOD IS DOING.
• 01:24 HE HAS RESERVED TREASURE
• 01:26 TO TESTIFY OF HIS GREATNESS.
• 01:28 Myles: EXACTLY RIGHT.
• 01:29 JUST THIS DAY HE'S UNEARTHING
• 01:31 NEW TRUTHS FROM THE BIBLE
• 01:33 IN THE LAND.
• 01:34 AND OUR RESOURCE THIS WEEK
• 01:35 IS A JERUSALEM JOURNEY STONE.
• 01:38 IT'S A PIECE OF ART MADE
• 01:40 OUT OF STONE FROM JERUSALEM.
• 01:42 YOU'LL RECOGNIZE IT
• 01:43 IF YOU'VE BEEN TO ISRAEL,
• 01:44 AND WE'LL MAKE THAT AVAILABLE
• 01:45 LATER IN THE PROGRAM.
• 01:47 Katharine: BUT NOW WE GO
• 01:48 TO TOM McCALL WITH YAAKOV BILLIG
• 01:49 ON THE TEMPLE MOUNT.
• 01:52 Yaakov Billig: AFTER TWO YEARS
• 01:53 OF EXCAVATION, WE UNCOVERED
• 01:55 THE MAIN STREET OF JERUSALEM
• 01:57 GOING FROM NORTH TO SOUTH
• 01:59 ALONGSIDE THE TEMPLE MOUNT.
• 02:01 ON THE DRAWING
• 02:02 WE CAN SEE THIS STREET
• 02:04 ALONGSIDE THE WESTERN WALL
• 02:05 OF THE TEMPLE MOUNT.
• 02:07 HERE IT IS DOWN BELOW.
• 02:09 WE UNCOVERED A SECTION
• 02:10 200 FEET LONG AND IT GOES
• 02:13 ALONGSIDE THE WESTERN WALL,
• 02:14 THE RETAINING WALL
• 02:15 OF THE TEMPLE MOUNT
• 02:16 WHICH IS RIGHT OVER HERE,
• 02:19 PRESERVED UP TO 15 STONES HIGH.
• 02:22 IN THE WESTERN WALL,
• 02:23 WE CAN SEE THE REMNANTS
• 02:24 OF A VERY LARGE ARCH NAMED AFTER
• 02:27 AN AMERICAN EXPLORER,
• 02:29 EDWARD ROBINSON,
• 02:30 ROBINSON'S ARCH.
• 02:32 THE ARCH WAS PART OF A SERIES
• 02:34 OF ARCHES WITH A STAIRCASE
• 02:36 LEADING UP INTO ONE OF THE GATES
• 02:39 INTO THE TEMPLE MOUNT,
• 02:41 DURING THE DAYS OF THE TEMPLE,
• 02:42 THE END OF THE 1st CENTURY B.C.
• 02:44 TILL THE YEAR 70 A.D.
• 02:48 ON EITHER SIDE OF THE STREET,
• 02:49 WE CAN SEE THE ENTRANCES
• 02:51 INTO SHOPS.
• 02:53 THIS WAS, LIKE I SAID,
• 02:54 A SHOPPING CENTER.
• 02:56 WE CAN SEE THE REMNANTS
• 02:57 OF THE SHOPS DOWN HERE BELOW
• 02:59 AND CAN ASSUME THAT SOME OF THE
• 03:02 SHOPS SERVE AS MONEYCHANGERS,
• 03:04 OTHERS COULD HAVE SOLD
• 03:06 PITA OR BREAD OR SPICES
• 03:09 OR MILK OR CHEESE
• 03:11 OR SOUVENIRS FOR THE TOURISTS
• 03:13 OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT.
• 03:15 WE CAN IMAGINE, IF WE SORT OF
• 03:16 RESTORE LIFE ON THIS STREET,
• 03:18 YOU CAN IMAGINE
• 03:19 THAT THERE WERE THOUSANDS OR
• 03:20 HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE
• 03:21 WHO WALKED HERE, DAY AFTER DAY,
• 03:24 AS PART OF THE LOCAL RESIDENTS
• 03:26 DOING THEIR SHOPPING,
• 03:27 PILGRIMS WHO CAME TO SEE
• 03:29 THE TEMPLE AND PRAY TO THE LORD
• 03:31 AND PROBABLY ALSO SIGHTSEERS
• 03:32 AND TOURISTS WHO CAME TO SEE
• 03:34 ONE OF THE WORLD'S TREASURES...
• 03:36 THE TEMPLE.
• 03:39 Tom: YAAKOV CAN YOU TELL ME
• 03:40 ABOUT THESE LARGE STONES
• 03:42 THAT HAVE BEEN STACKED UP THERE?
• 03:46 Yaakov: FINE...THESE ARE
• 03:49 SOME OF THE ORIGINAL STONES
• 03:50 THAT WERE ORIGINALLY BUILT
• 03:53 ON THE WESTERN WALL.
• 03:56 WHAT WE SEE OF THE
• 03:57 HERODIAN WESTERN WALL IS MAYBE
• 03:59 40% OF THE ORIGINAL HEIGHT.
• 04:03 BEFOREHAND, WHEN THE WALL WAS
• 04:04 CONSTRUCTED, IT REACHED ABOUT
• 04:07 35 METERS ABOVE STREET LEVEL.
• 04:11 NOW, WHEN THE WALL
• 04:12 WAS CONSTRUCTED,
• 04:14 ALL THESE STONES WERE WAY UP
• 04:16 HIGH UP THERE ON THE TOP.
• 04:17 AND WHEN THE ROMANS DECIDED
• 04:19 TO DESTROY THE TEMPLE MOUNT,
• 04:21 THEY JUST DISLODGED THEM
• 04:22 AND ROLLED THEM DOWN,
• 04:23 ONE AFTER THE OTHER.
• 04:25 AND THIS IS WHAT'S LEFT
• 04:27 OF THE PILE OF THE DESTRUCTION
• 04:28 OF THE WESTERN WALL STONES.
• 04:31 Tom: SO THESE HAVE BEEN HERE
• 04:33 SINCE THE YEAR 70?
• 04:36 Yaakov: THESE HAVE BEEN HERE
• 04:37 SINCE THE YEAR 70,
• 04:38 MAYBE A BIT LATER.
• 04:40 I GUESS THE ROMAN SOLDIERS,
• 04:41 IN THEIR LEISURE,
• 04:42 TOOK ONE OR TWO STONES EVERY DAY
• 04:44 AS THEIR PROJECT AND CONTINUED
• 04:46 TO ROLL THEM DOWN UNTIL THEY
• 04:48 JUST COULDN'T GET ANY MORE.
• 04:51 Zola: THE TEMPLE,
• 04:52 WITH ITS ADJOINING STRUCTURES,
• 04:54 WAS THE LARGEST HOLY SANCTUARY
• 04:56 EVER CONSTRUCTED BY HUMAN HANDS.
• 04:59 THE MASSIVE STONES USED
• 05:00 FOR ITS RETAINING WALLS WEIGH
• 05:02 BETWEEN FOUR AND FIVE TONS EACH.
• 05:05 THERE WERE SEVERAL
• 05:06 DIFFERENT METHODS USED TO MOVE
• 05:07 LARGE STONES 2,000 YEARS AGO.
• 05:10 NEAR THE EXCAVATION SITE,
• 05:12 THREE STONE MOVING MACHINES
• 05:13 HAVE BEEN RECONSTRUCTED
• 05:15 AND ARE NOW ON DISPLAY.
• 05:17 THE FIRST MACHINE CONSISTS OF
• 05:19 TWO LARGE WHEELS WHICH ARE MADE
• 05:20 TO FIT ON TWO OPPOSING SIDES
• 05:22 OF THE STONE.
• 05:24 THE ALMOST IMMOVABLE STONE
• 05:25 BECAME A ROLLING WHEEL THAT
• 05:27 COULD TRAVEL A LONG DISTANCE.
• 05:30 THE SECOND METHOD USED A SLED.
• 05:32 LARGE STONES OR SMALLER ONES,
• 05:34 LIKE THE ONES WE SEE HERE,
• 05:35 COULD BE MOVED BY PUSHING
• 05:37 THE SLED FORWARD OVER
• 05:38 THE ROUNDED LOGS UNDERNEATH.
• 05:40 THE LOGS WOULD BE ROTATED
• 05:41 FROM BACK TO FRONT
• 05:42 AFTER THE SLED HAD ROLLED OVER
• 05:43 THEM TO KEEP THE PROCESS GOING.
• 05:46 THIS LAST MACHINE,
• 05:48 AN ANCESTOR OF THE MODERN CRANE,
• 05:50 LIFTED LARGE STONES
• 05:51 AND PUT THEM IN PLACE.
• 05:53 THIS MODEL, HOWEVER,
• 05:54 IS INCOMPLETE SINCE PULLEYS
• 05:56 HAVEN'T BEEN PUT IN PLACE YET.
• 05:58 IT'S IMPORTANT TO USE PULLEYS
• 05:59 SINCE THE WEIGHT OF A STONE
• 06:01 COULD BE REDUCED BY 50%
• 06:03 EACH TIME A PULLEY WAS ADDED.
• 06:05 THEREFORE, A STRONG GROUP OF
• 06:06 WORKERS PULLING ROPES THREADED
• 06:08 THROUGH A SERIES OF PULLEYS
• 06:10 COULD LIFT A VERY LARGE STONE
• 06:11 AND PLACE IT
• 06:12 WHEREVER IT NEEDED TO GO.
• 06:16 Yaakov: NOW, IN OUR PROJECT,
• 06:18 WE WANTED TO REVEAL
• 06:19 THE FIRST HALF OF THE STREET.
• 06:22 DOING SO, WE HAD TO REMOVE
• 06:24 THE TOP LEVELS
• 06:25 OF LATER CONSTRUCTION
• 06:26 OF THE MOSLEM PALACES,
• 06:27 BYZANTINE HOMES, ROMAN HOMES;
• 06:29 AND THEN GO DOWN THROUGH
• 06:30 THE RUBBLE TO REVEAL THE STREET.
• 06:32 SO HERE WE HAVE A NICE SEGMENT
• 06:34 OF STREET LEVEL AS IT HAS BEEN
• 06:38 PRESERVED UNDERNEATH THE RUBBLE.
• 06:40 WELL, BACK THERE, WE WANTED
• 06:41 TO KEEP HALF OF THE SITE
• 06:44 SHOWING THE NEXT CHAPTER;
• 06:45 THE FATE OF THE MAGNIFICENT
• 06:46 CITY OF JERUSALEM
• 06:48 WITH A PILE OF STONES TRAGICALLY
• 06:50 COVERING THE MAGNIFICENT CITY.
• 06:52 Tom: SO THAT'S WHAT
• 06:53 ALL OF THIS LOOKED LIKE
• 06:54 WHEN YOU FIRST STARTED HERE.
• 06:56 Yaakov: EVEN HERE, WE HAD A MUCH
• 06:57 LARGER PILE DUE TO THE COLLAPSE
• 06:58 OF THE ARCH BECAUSE HERE YOU CAN
• 07:01 SEE ABOVE US IS ROBINSON'S ARCH.
• 07:03 AND WHEN THE ARCH CAME DOWN,
• 07:04 THERE WAS A HUGE PILE OF STONES
• 07:06 THAT COVERED THIS WHOLE SPACE
• 07:08 BETWEEN THE BASE OF THE ARCH
• 07:10 AND THE PART OF THE ARCH
• 07:11 AND THE WALL.
• 07:12 AND WHEN THE ARCH WAS BROKEN,
• 07:14 IT HAS A MUCH HARDER EFFECT
• 07:16 THAN ONE STONE AFTER THE OTHER
• 07:17 BEING ROLLED DOWN,
• 07:18 BECAUSE WHEN THE ARCH IS BROKEN,
• 07:20 THE WHOLE MASS THAT WAS
• 07:21 CONNECTED AND LOCKED
• 07:23 HIGH IN THE SKY COMES DOWN
• 07:25 WITH A TREMENDOUS FORCE
• 07:26 AND HERE YOU CAN SEE
• 07:27 THE EVIDENCE OF THE IMPACT.
• 07:29 THIS IS THE ARCH HITTING THE
• 07:31 PAVEMENT AND DOING THIS DAMAGE.
• 07:34 SO HERE THE PAVEMENT FRACTURED
• 07:36 A BIT, BUT IT'S ALL HERE.
• 07:38 SOME HAS SUNKEN DOWN A BIT.
• 07:40 BACK THERE WHERE THE STORES WERE
• 07:42 YOU CAN SEE THE STORES ARE GONE.
• 07:44 THEY'VE BEEN CRASHED
• 07:46 AND KNOCKED UNDERGROUND
• 07:47 BY THE FORCE
• 07:48 OF THE COLLAPSING ARCH.
• 07:51 Zola: A FEW STEPS FROM WHERE
• 07:52 THE STONES FELL, THE SHOPS
• 07:53 ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE STREET
• 07:55 NEEDED ONLY LIGHT PATCHWORK
• 07:56 TO BE RESTORED TO THE CONDITION
• 07:58 YOU SEE HERE.
• 07:59 THEY WERE SO WELL PRESERVED
• 08:01 THAT YOU COULD STILL SEE
• 08:02 NOTCHES CARVED INTO
• 08:03 THIS STONE THRESHOLD.
• 08:05 THESE WERE FOR THE HINGES
• 08:06 OF THE WOODEN DOOR
• 08:07 USED BY THE MERCHANT WHENEVER
• 08:09 THE SHOP OPENED OR CLOSED.
• 08:12 Tom: WAS THERE ANY UNDERGROUND
• 08:13 TUNNELS THAT WERE IN THIS AREA?
• 08:17 Yaakov: WE HAVE
• 08:18 THE DRAINAGE SYSTEMS.
• 08:19 A STREET LIKE THIS,
• 08:20 BEING DOWN IN THE VALLEY,
• 08:22 THE TYROPEAN VALLEY, WAS DOWN
• 08:24 BETWEEN THE TEMPLE MOUNT
• 08:25 ON ONE HAND AND THE UPPER CITY
• 08:26 ON THE OTHER HAND.
• 08:28 AND NATURALLY, AFTER IT
• 08:29 WOULD RAIN, ALL THE RAINWATER
• 08:30 WOULD CONVERGE DOWN HERE.
• 08:33 BUT THE SHOP OWNERS
• 08:34 WOULDN'T APPRECIATE
• 08:35 IF THEIR STORES WERE FLOODED,
• 08:37 SO THE LOCAL CITY ENGINEERS
• 08:40 HAD TO CONSTRUCT
• 08:41 UNDERGROUND DRAINS.
• 08:43 AS PART OF THE DRAINAGE SYSTEMS,
• 08:44 WE HAVE ALSO SOME LITTLE ITEMS
• 08:46 HERE, LIKE WE HAVE
• 08:47 THE NICE BIG STONE OVER THERE
• 08:49 WITH THE SLITS TO LET
• 08:50 THE RAINWATER THROUGH; BUT THEN,
• 08:52 IF IT ALL GETS BOGGED UP
• 08:54 BY THE MUD THAT WOULD FLOW
• 08:55 WITH THE RAINWATER,
• 08:56 THERE IS A NICE-SIZED MANHOLE
• 08:59 MADE OF STONE.
• 09:00 IT TAKES AN IRON FIST TO
• 09:01 LIFT OUT AND HAVE THE WORKERS,
• 09:04 THE LOCAL MUNICIPALITY WORKERS
• 09:05 GO DOWN AND CLEAR OUT THE DIRT
• 09:07 THAT SORT OF BLOCKED IT UP
• 09:09 BECAUSE OTHERWISE
• 09:10 IT JUST WOULDN'T WORK.
• 09:11 Tom: AN ANCIENT MANHOLE COVER.
• 09:13 Yaakov: ANCIENT MANHOLE COVER.
• 09:14 BUT IT'S STILL IMPRESSIVE
• 09:17 AND MAYBE EVEN MORE IMPRESSIVE
• 09:20 THAN THE MODERN SUBSTITUTE.
• 09:22 Tom: THERE'S A LOT OF ACTIVITY
• 09:24 GOING ON BEHIND US.
• 09:25 CAN YOU TELL US
• 09:26 WHAT THESE WORKMEN ARE DOING?
• 09:27 Yaakov: FINE...ONCE THE BULK
• 09:29 OF THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXCAVATION
• 09:31 IS OVER, WE WANT TO OPEN UP
• 09:32 THE SITE TO THE TOURISTS,
• 09:34 SO EVERYONE CAN COME IN
• 09:35 AND EXPERIENCE THE EXCITEMENT
• 09:36 THAT WE HAD IN OUR EXCAVATION
• 09:38 AND LEARN ABOUT THE SITE.
• 09:40 AS PART OF LANDSCAPING THE AREA
• 09:42 AND OPENING IT UP
• 09:43 FOR THE TOURISTS, WE HAVE TO
• 09:44 SORT OF MANEUVER HERE
• 09:46 WITH DIFFERENT WALKWAYS.
• 09:48 SO CERTAIN AREAS HAVE TO LIFTED,
• 09:50 OTHERS HAVE TO BE DUG,
• 09:52 AND THIS IS SORT OF
• 09:55 A COMPLETION, A MINOR COMPLETION
• 09:57 OF THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXCAVATION
• 09:59 HERE.
• 10:00 I WOULD SAY THE MAJOR DIGGING IS
• 10:01 DONE WITH A LARGER PICK AND HOE.
• 10:04 THE MORE DELICATE WORK
• 10:05 HAS TO BE DONE
• 10:06 WITH A LITTLE PICK AND TROUGH.
• 10:10 THE DIRT IS COLLECTED INTO
• 10:11 BUCKETS, LOOKING FOR ARTIFACTS.
• 10:13 AS THE WORK GOES ON,
• 10:15 IF THERE'S AN ARTIFACT FOUND,
• 10:16 THEN IT'S COLLECTED
• 10:17 EITHER IN A BUCKET OR A BOX,
• 10:19 REGISTERED, MARKED DOWN WITH
• 10:21 A DESCRIPTION WHERE IT CAME FROM
• 10:23 SO WE CAN RELATE TO IT LATER
• 10:24 IN OUR REPORT.
• 10:27 Tom: NOW WE UNDERSTAND
• 10:28 THAT YOU FOUND A LARGE PILLAR
• 10:30 WHILE YOU WERE GOING THROUGH
• 10:32 THE EXCAVATIONS.
• 10:34 TELL US ABOUT THIS PILLAR.
• 10:36 Yaakov: I'D SAY THIS PILLAR IS
• 10:40 THE MAJOR FIND OF THE DIG,
• 10:44 SINCE THE PILLAR IS A MUSEUM
• 10:46 PIECE WHICH CAN RELATE TO YOU
• 10:48 THE STORY OF THE SITE'S HISTORY.
• 10:51 THE ORIGINAL FUNCTION
• 10:52 OF THE PILLAR WAS PROBABLY
• 10:53 IN THE HERODIAN CONSTRUCTION OF
• 10:55 THE TEMPLE MOUNT'S ENVIRONMENT
• 10:57 BECAUSE THERE'S EVIDENCE THAT IT
• 10:59 WAS A VERY, VERY LARGE PILLAR.
• 11:01 THE SECOND PHASE OF ITS LIFE
• 11:02 WAS IN THE ROMAN PERIOD.
• 11:05 THE ROMANS CHISELED IT DOWN
• 11:06 TO A NARROWER CIRCUMFERENCE AND
• 11:09 ENGRAVED A LATIN INSCRIPTION:
• 11:17 THE PILLAR WAS ERECTED
• 11:18 BY THE 10th ROMAN LEGION
• 11:20 WHO CONQUERED JERUSALEM
• 11:22 AND WAS LATER STATIONED HERE.
• 11:25 THE THIRD PHASE OF THE PILLAR
• 11:26 WAS JUST ANOTHER BUILDING STONE
• 11:28 IN ONE OF THE UMAYYAD PALACES
• 11:30 HERE.
• 11:31 TOGETHER THEY TELL US THE STORY
• 11:32 OF JERUSALEM'S HISTORY
• 11:34 AND ITS MORE DOMINATE EVENTS.
• 11:37 IT'S NOT JUST A REGULAR STONE.
• 11:38 IT TALKS TO YOU.
• 11:39 IT HAS AN INSCRIPTION
• 11:41 AND HAS A STORY TO TELL US.
• 11:43 ANOTHER VERY IMPORTANT
• 11:44 INSCRIPTION HERE HAS BEEN FOUND
• 11:46 BENEATH THE CORNER
• 11:47 OF THE TEMPLE MOUNT.
• 11:50 THE TOP CORNERSTONE HAD
• 11:51 A HEBREW INSCRIPTION THAT ANY
• 11:53 FIRST GRADERS REALLY COULD READ
• 11:55 AND IT SAID, "TO THE HOUSE
• 11:56 OF THE TRUMPETING."
• 11:57 AND WE KNOW
• 11:58 FROM JOSEPHUS FLAVIUS AND WE
• 11:59 KNOW FROM THE TALMUDIC TEXT
• 12:02 THAT ON THE CORNER
• 12:03 OF THE TEMPLE MOUNT,
• 12:04 ONE OF THE PRIESTS WENT
• 12:06 TO BLOW A TRUMPET TO ANNOUNCE
• 12:09 WHEN SATURDAY, SHABBAT,
• 12:12 WOULD FALL, THE EXACT MOMENT
• 12:14 FROM WHEN WORK WAS FORBIDDEN.
• 12:16 AND IMMEDIATELY WHEN SATURDAY
• 12:18 WAS OVER, THEY BLEW THE HORN
• 12:19 AGAIN TO TELL PEOPLE,
• 12:21 "YOU'RE FREE TO DO
• 12:22 WHATEVER WORK YOU'D LIKE."
• 12:23 Tom: AND THEY WOULD STAND
• 12:24 RIGHT ON THAT--
• 12:26 Yaakov: ON THE PINNACLE.
• 12:27 Tom: --PINNACLE OF THE TEMPLE.
• 12:28 Yaakov: AND BLOW THE HORN
• 12:29 AND I'M PRETTY SURE THAT THERE
• 12:31 WASN'T A HOUSE IN JERUSALEM
• 12:32 THAT DIDN'T HEAR THE HORN
• 12:34 THAT WAS BLOWN WAY, WAY HIGH UP
• 12:35 ON THE TOP OF THAT CORNER.
• 12:38 Zola: THERE WAS ANOTHER BUILDING
• 12:39 REFERRED TO IN SCRIPTURE
• 12:40 THAT HAD A SIMILAR DESIGN TO THE
• 12:42 TEMPLE OF THE LORD IN JERUSALEM.
• 12:44 WHEN WE RETURN, WE'LL TAKE YOU
• 12:46 TO THE DIGS ATOP MT. GERIZIM
• 12:48 AND EXAMINE THE REMAINS
• 12:49 OF THE SAMARITAN TEMPLE.
• 12:53 ♪ ♪
• 13:10 ♪ ♪
• 13:28 Katharine: ISRAEL...
• 13:29 THERE'S NOTHING LIKE GOING
• 13:30 AND SEEING THE LAND OF THE BIBLE
• 13:31 COME ALIVE.
• 13:32 AND THE OFFER THAT WE HAVE
• 13:33 FOR YOU THIS WEEK
• 13:35 IS THE "JERUSALEM STONE"
• 13:36 AND IT'S A LITTLE PIECE
• 13:37 OF THE STONE THAT YOU CAN HAVE
• 13:39 IN YOUR HOME.
• 13:40 IT'S SUCH A BLESSING TO BE
• 13:41 A PART OF THE LAND AND THEN
• 13:43 TAKE SOMETHING HOME WITH YOU.
• 13:45 PEOPLE THAT HAVE COME ON TOUR
• 13:47 WITH US HAVE ACTUALLY PICKED UP
• 13:48 STONES ALONG THE WAY, AND SO
• 13:50 THAT'S WHY WE WANT TO BRING
• 13:51 THE STONE DIRECTLY TO THEM.
• 13:53 Myles: RIGHT, EXACTLY, AND THIS
• 13:54 "JERUSALEM JOURNEY STONE,"
• 13:55 YOU CAN RECEIVE BY ITSELF
• 13:56 OR AS PART OF OUR
• 13:58 "PRO-ISRAEL PACKAGE."
• 14:00 TAKE A LOOK AT THIS.
• 14:02 Announcer: SHOW YOUR SUPPORT FOR ISRAEL
• 14:03 WITH THE "PRO-ISRAEL PACKAGE."
• 14:06 FOR YOUR GIFT OF $48 OR MORE, YOU'LL RECEIVE:
• 14:08 A 3' x 5' FLAG OF ISRAEL;
• 14:11 FOUR PRO-ISRAEL BUTTONS;
• 14:13 A "PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM" BUMPER STICKER;
• 14:16 "ISRAEL'S RIGHT TO THE LAND" BOOKLET;
• 14:18 A "JERUSALEM JOURNEY STONE";
• 14:20 "BROKEN BRANCHES" BY ZOLA LEVITT;
• 14:22 AND A TWO-FLAG LAPEL PIN.
• 14:24 CALL AND ASK FOR THE "PRO-ISRAEL PACKAGE"
• 14:27 OR VISIT US AT LEVITT.COM.
• 14:33 Myles: ALL OF OUR RESOURCES ARE
• 14:34 AVAILABLE ONLINE AT LEVITT.COM
• 14:36 OR YOU CAN CALL US
• 14:37 AT 1-800-WONDERS
• 14:39 TO RECEIVE ANY OF THEM.
• 14:40 I LOVE THAT "PRO-ISRAEL PACKAGE"
• 14:41 BECAUSE ESPECIALLY IN THE DAY
• 14:43 IN WHICH WE'RE LIVING WE REALLY
• 14:44 WANT REMINDERS THAT WE NEED
• 14:46 TO STAND WITH ISRAEL
• 14:47 AND THE JEWISH PEOPLE.
• 14:48 Katharine: AND TO HAVE
• 14:49 THESE THINGS IN YOUR HOME
• 14:50 IS SUCH A BLESSING.
• 14:51 TO HAVE THE JERUSALEM STONE
• 14:53 CAN REMIND YOU OF THE PLACE
• 14:54 THAT YOU LOVE SO MUCH.
• 14:56 THE FLAG, THE PINS, EVERYTHING
• 14:58 JUST IS SUCH A BLESSING.
• 15:00 AND WE NEED YOUR GIFTS OF FUNDS
• 15:01 MORE THAN EVER,
• 15:02 SO WE CAN BRING YOU
• 15:03 THESE MESSAGES RIGHT INTO
• 15:05 YOUR HOME, RIGHT TO YOUR FAMILY,
• 15:07 RIGHT TO YOUR SMALL GROUP,
• 15:08 AND YOU CAN GATHER
• 15:09 AND HEAR WHAT'S GOING ON
• 15:11 IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND
• 15:12 UP-TO-DATE NEWS ARTICLES, RIGHT?
• 15:15 Myles: IT'S REALLY TRUE.
• 15:16 WE REALLY NEED TO COUNTERACT
• 15:18 THE DISINFORMATION THAT'S COMING
• 15:20 THROUGH THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA
• 15:21 AND WE HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY
• 15:22 TO DO THAT WITH YOU HERE.
• 15:24 SO PLEASE SUPPORT US IN WHAT
• 15:26 WE'RE DOING ESPECIALLY IN
• 15:27 THIS DAY THAT WE'RE LIVING IN.
• 15:28 SO LET'S GO TO KEN WITH HIS
• 15:31 INTERVIEW WITH RONEN BITAN,
• 15:32 THE ARCHAEOLOGIST ON SHECHEM,
• 15:34 ON MT. GERIZIM.
• 15:36 IT REALLY MAKES ALIVE
• 15:38 THE SCRIPTURE FROM JOHN 4:20
• 15:40 WHERE THE SAMARITAN WOMAN CAME
• 15:41 TO JESUS AND SAID, "WHERE DO WE
• 15:43 WORSHIP, HERE OR IN JERUSALEM?"
• 15:44 AND HE SAID THE HOUR WAS COMING
• 15:47 WHEN THOSE WHO WORSHIP GOD
• 15:48 WOULD WORSHIP HIM
• 15:49 IN SPIRIT AND IN TRUTH.
• 15:54 Ken: NOW, YOU HAVE JUST
• 15:55 AN INCREDIBLE DIG GOING ON HERE.
• 15:56 HOW MANY WORKERS ARE INVOLVED
• 15:58 IN THE PRESENT DIG?
• 15:59 Ronen: IN THE PRESENT DIG,
• 16:00 WE HAVE BETWEEN
• 16:01 60 TO 100 LABORERS EVERY DAY.
• 16:05 ALL OF THEM ARE COMING FROM
• 16:06 THE VILLAGES AROUND SHECHEM
• 16:09 AND ALSO WE HAVE
• 16:10 A FEW ARCHAEOLOGISTS COMING FROM
• 16:12 THE SAME VILLAGES, PEOPLE
• 16:13 FROM THE ARAB UNIVERSITIES
• 16:15 IN SHECHEM AND IN AMMON.
• 16:17 Ken: SO DO YOU FEEL
• 16:19 THAT IN REBUILDING THIS REPLICA
• 16:20 OF THE TEMPLE THAT IT WAS BUILT
• 16:22 TO THE SAME SIZE,
• 16:23 THE SAME DIMENSIONS
• 16:24 AS THE TEMPLE IN JERUSALEM?
• 16:26 Ronen: YES, WE SEE IT
• 16:27 EVEN IN THE DIGGINGS NOW.
• 16:28 WE CAN FIND IT.
• 16:29 THE GATES ARE COMPLETELY
• 16:31 THE SHAPE OF THE GATES THAT
• 16:33 ARE MENTIONED IN THE SCROLL,
• 16:35 IN THE TEMPLE SCROLL,
• 16:36 FOUND BY YIGAEL YADIN.
• 16:38 Ken: AND ARE THEY WORKING
• 16:39 AT DIFFERENT PERIODS,
• 16:40 THE HELLENISTIC, THE BYZANTINE
• 16:42 AT THE SAME TIME?
• 16:43 Ronen: USUALLY,
• 16:44 THE BYZANTINE IS BUILT
• 16:45 OVER THE HELLENISTIC PERIOD.
• 16:48 SO USUALLY THEY ARE WORKING
• 16:49 IN BOTH OF THEM, CLEANING
• 16:51 THE BYZANTINE AND THEN WE CAN
• 16:53 SEE THE HELLENISTIC PERIOD DOWN.
• 16:55 Ken: WELL, IT'S JUST
• 16:56 AN INCREDIBLE SITE.
• 16:57 I THINK WE'RE ESPECIALLY
• 16:58 INTERESTED IN SEEING
• 16:59 WHAT REMAINS THERE MIGHT BE
• 17:00 OF WHERE THE TEMPLE WAS.
• 17:01 CAN WE GO TAKE A LOOK
• 17:02 AT THOSE SPOTS?
• 17:03 Ronen: YES, LET'S GO.
• 17:04 Ken: GREAT.
• 17:07 ( Workers Speaking Hebrew )
• 17:12 ♪ ♪
• 17:21 Ken: SO, RONEN,
• 17:22 WHAT DO WE HAVE NOW?
• 17:23 Ronen: WELL, WE HAVE HERE
• 17:24 AN ARAMAIC INSCRIPTION
• 17:26 FROM THE 3rd CENTURY B.C.
• 17:28 IT'S FROM THE TIMES
• 17:29 OF THE TEMPLE,
• 17:31 LET'S SAY 2,300 YEARS AGO.
• 17:34 WE CAN SEE HERE THE NAME
• 17:35 SHIM'ON ...SIMON.
• 17:38 THIS STONE IS NOT IN THE--
• 17:41 IT IS IN THE SECOND USAGE.
• 17:42 AS YOU CAN SEE,
• 17:43 IT'S NOT IN THE ORIGINAL PLACE.
• 17:44 IT IS INSIDE THE BYZANTINE WALL
• 17:47 AND THEY TOOK THE STONES--
• 17:48 THE STONE WAS NICE;
• 17:50 IT WAS SQUARE AND THEY TOOK IT
• 17:52 AND USED IT AGAIN AS A BUILDING.
• 17:54 IT HAD NO MEANING FOR THEM
• 17:56 FOR THIS INSCRIPTION.
• 17:57 Ken: SO IT'S REALLY JUST
• 17:59 ANOTHER EVIDENCE THAT THIS IS
• 18:00 IN FACT THE LEGITIMATE LOCATION
• 18:01 FOR THE TEMPLE.
• 18:03 Ronen: YES, BECAUSE IT IS
• 18:04 WRITTEN HERE " HEKDESH."
• 18:06 THAT MEANS "SACRIFICE".
• 18:07 IF HE SACRIFICES, HE HAS
• 18:08 TO GIVE IT TO A HOLY PLACE,
• 18:10 A HOLY PLACE
• 18:11 WHERE THE TEMPLE WILL BE.
• 18:13 Ken: WELL, WHERE ARE WE NOW?
• 18:15 Ronen: WELL, WE REACH NOW
• 18:16 THE PRECINCT.
• 18:17 THIS IS THE GATE
• 18:18 OF THE SACRED PRECINCT.
• 18:19 WELCOME TO THE SACRED PRECINCT
• 18:20 OF MT. GERIZIM.
• 18:21 NOW, IT'S A LITTLE HARD
• 18:23 TO SEE THE GATE,
• 18:24 BUT IF YOU COME WITH ME,
• 18:25 I'LL SHOW YOU.
• 18:27 THIS IS ONE SIDE OF THE GATE.
• 18:29 THIS IS ONE WALL.
• 18:30 AND YOU HAVE THREE SMALL WALLS,
• 18:32 MAKING, LIKE, SOME KIND OF
• 18:33 SMALL ROOMS OR CELLS INSIDE IT.
• 18:35 Ken: NOW DO THEY USE CONCRETE
• 18:36 OR ANYTHING TO HOLD
• 18:37 THESE WALLS TOGETHER?
• 18:38 Ronen: NO, BUT THERE WAS
• 18:39 SOME KIND OF A CEILING OVER IT;
• 18:42 MAYBE AN ARCH.
• 18:44 WHEN SOMEONE CAME INSIDE--
• 18:46 IGNORE THIS WALL
• 18:47 WHICH IS LATE BYZANTINE WALL.
• 18:49 WHEN SOMEONE CAME
• 18:50 FROM THIS DIRECTION,
• 18:51 THEY USED TO WALK ALL THIS WAY
• 18:52 UP THERE.
• 18:54 AND THEN IF A CONQUEROR COMES,
• 18:56 YOU CAN ATTACK HIM FROM THE SIDE
• 18:58 IF YOU'RE STANDING INSIDE
• 18:59 THE SMALL ROOMS.
• 19:01 THIS KIND OF A GATE
• 19:04 WILL NEVER BE SEEN
• 19:05 IN THE HELLENISTIC PERIOD
• 19:07 AND NO OTHER PLACE
• 19:08 BECAUSE IT BELONGS TO THE
• 19:09 FIRST TEMPLE PERIOD WHICH ENDED
• 19:11 ABOUT 400 OR 500 YEARS BEFORE.
• 19:15 YOU WILL ONLY SEE IT
• 19:16 IN TWO PLACES: ONE IS HERE.
• 19:18 THE OTHER ONE YOU CANNOT SEE,
• 19:19 BUT IT IS IN JERUSALEM.
• 19:22 HERE YOU CAN SEE
• 19:23 DOWN THE BYZANTINE PAVEMENT,
• 19:25 YOU CAN SEE ANOTHER PAVEMENT
• 19:26 WITH IRREGULAR STONES
• 19:28 NOT AS THE BYZANTINE PAVEMENT.
• 19:31 THIS PAVEMENT ALSO WE CAN SEE
• 19:33 THE CEMENT INSIDE IT.
• 19:34 THIS PAVEMENT WAS USED
• 19:36 FOR THE TEMPLE PAVEMENT.
• 19:38 THIS IS FOR THE YARD
• 19:39 THAT WAS AROUND THE TEMPLE.
• 19:42 IN THE SAME PLACE AFTER THAT
• 19:43 WHEN THEY BUILT THE CHURCH,
• 19:44 THEY PUT THE PAVEMENT OVER IT,
• 19:45 AND LOOK HERE,
• 19:46 YOU CAN SEE THIS IS DOWN
• 19:48 AND THE BYZANTINE PAVEMENT
• 19:49 IS UPWARDS FROM THAT.
• 19:51 NOW IF YOU WILL LOOK HERE
• 19:53 ON THIS SIDE, YOU WILL BE ABLE
• 19:56 TO SEE DOWN HERE, THESE ARE
• 19:57 THE STONES, THE ORIGINAL STONES,
• 19:59 PROBABLY OF THE TEMPLE.
• 20:01 LOOK HOW HUGE THEY ARE.
• 20:03 IT NEEDS ABOUT 10 MEN TO CARRY
• 20:05 WITH WOOD STICKS AND EVERYTHING
• 20:07 AND EACH STONE THAT BIG.
• 20:10 THEY ARE THROWN NOW IN A FIELD
• 20:12 OVER THE BEDROCK, AND OVER THEM,
• 20:14 YOU CAN SEE THE FILL
• 20:16 OF THE GROUND, AND OVER IT,
• 20:18 THE BYZANTINE PAVEMENT IS BUILT.
• 20:20 THIS IS WHAT YOU ARE STANDING ON
• 20:21 RIGHT NOW.
• 20:22 Ken: SO AGAIN, COMPARING
• 20:23 THE TEMPLE THAT WOULD BE
• 20:25 IN JERUSALEM TO THE TEMPLE
• 20:26 THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN HERE,
• 20:27 WOULD THE STONES HAVE BEEN
• 20:28 OF SIMILAR SIZE, DO YOU BELIEVE?
• 20:30 Ronen: YES, THEY WERE.
• 20:31 IN BIG BUILDINGS
• 20:32 YOU NEED TO USE BIG STONES
• 20:34 TO HOLD A BIG CEILING.
• 20:36 Ken: NOW ARE THESE LIMESTONES?
• 20:37 Ronen: THESE ARE NOT LIME;
• 20:38 THIS IS CALLED "NARI."
• 20:39 THIS IS THE NATURAL STONE
• 20:40 OF THE MOUNTAIN.
• 20:41 THEY WERE PROBABLY TAKEN
• 20:43 FROM THE BEDROCK.
• 20:44 THERE WAS SOME KIND OF CRAWLWAY
• 20:45 SOMEWHERE HERE
• 20:46 AND LOOK AT THE BEDROCK.
• 20:47 IN ALMOST EVERYWHERE,
• 20:49 WE SEE SOMEONE SMASHED IT,
• 20:52 PUT IT STRAIGHT.
• 20:55 Ken: I GUESS THERE'S NO WAY
• 20:56 OF KNOWING WHAT PORTION
• 20:57 OF THE TEMPLE THIS WOULD BE.
• 20:58 Ronen: NO, NO...WE CANNOT KNOW
• 20:59 BECAUSE THIS IS ONLY A FILL.
• 21:02 WE CANNOT KNOW
• 21:03 WHAT HAPPENED HERE.
• 21:04 WE NEED TO OPEN ALL THIS AREA.
• 21:05 THIS IS WHAT WE'RE GOING TO DO
• 21:06 NEXT; WE'RE GOING TO OPEN
• 21:08 ALL THIS AREA AND SEE HOW
• 21:09 THE PAVEMENT MEETS
• 21:11 THE REMAINS OF THE WALLS
• 21:13 AND MAYBE WE WILL BE LUCKY
• 21:15 TO FIND THE WALL HERE.
• 21:16 NOW, LOOK AT THE BACK OF US.
• 21:21 YOU CAN SEE HERE PEOPLE WORKING,
• 21:22 TAKING FROM THE BYZANTINE ROOMS
• 21:25 THEY ARE SIFTING THE GROUND
• 21:27 TO FIND--
• 21:28 ( Worker Speaking Hebrew )
• 21:30 LOOK AT THIS.
• 21:31 THESE ARE BONES PROBABLY USED
• 21:33 FOR THE SUPPER OR THE DINNER.
• 21:35 PROBABLY SOMEONE ATE
• 21:36 THESE ANIMALS.
• 21:38 HERE YOU CAN SEE NAILS
• 21:39 AND OTHER METAL PARTS
• 21:41 COME FROM THE SAME TIME.
• 21:43 NEAR IT WE CAN SEE--
• 21:45 Ken: NOW AGAIN, WE'RE TALKING
• 21:46 THE BYZANTINE PERIOD NOW.
• 21:47 Ronen: YES, WE ARE TALKING ABOUT
• 21:48 EVERYTHING HERE IS BYZANTINE;
• 21:49 EVERYTHING THAT YOU SEE.
• 21:51 THESE ARE THE REMAINS OF
• 21:52 THE STORING JARS THEY HAD HERE.
• 21:53 Ken: APPROXIMATELY 100 A.D.?
• 21:54 Ronen: THIS IS
• 21:55 ABOUT 400 OR 500 A.D.
• 21:57 Ken: 500.
• 21:58 Ronen: YES.
• 21:59 THEY ALSO USED GLASS.
• 22:00 THESE ARE THE REMAINS
• 22:01 OF THE ANCIENT GLASS.
• 22:03 AND MOST OF ALL WE FIND HERE
• 22:04 AS MANY AS THIS; THESE ARE
• 22:06 FROM ONE DAY OF WORKING,
• 22:07 ABOUT 30 OR 40 COINS ALL OF THEM
• 22:10 FROM THE BYZANTINE PERIOD.
• 22:12 Ken: AND WHAT ARE THESE MADE OF?
• 22:13 Ronen: THEY ARE ALL MADE
• 22:14 FROM BRONZE, BUT WE ALREADY
• 22:17 FOUND HERE A FEW GOLD PIECES.
• 22:19 AWESOME.
• 22:22 Ken: WELL, THAT'S FASCINATING.
• 22:23 WOULD THEY HAVE HAD
• 22:24 DIFFERENT-SIZED COINS
• 22:27 FOR DIFFERENT PURPOSES?
• 22:29 Ronen: YES, A FEW OF THEM
• 22:31 ARE HUGE AS THIS BIG....
• 22:33 I'M SORRY,
• 22:34 BUT WE DO NOT HAVE THEM TODAY.
• 22:37 Ken: SO THEY'RE FINDING BONES,
• 22:38 THEY'RE FINDING COINS.
• 22:39 Ronen: YEAH...HERE YOU CAN SEE
• 22:40 ANOTHER INTERESTING THING.
• 22:42 THIS IS A PIECE OF IVORY
• 22:44 FROM A SMALL FIGURINE JUST AS
• 22:46 IN THE CHURCHES OF TODAY.
• 22:48 AND HERE YOU CAN SEE THE REMAINS
• 22:50 OF A CANDLE; AN OLIVE OIL LAMP.
• 22:54 THEY NEEDED A LAMP HERE
• 22:55 AND A LIGHT IN THE EVENING
• 22:57 AND THIS IS THE OLIVE OIL LAMP,
• 22:58 THE REMAINS YOU CAN SEE HERE.
• 23:01 Ken: ALL RIGHT,
• 23:02 WELL, THAT IS FASCINATING.
• 23:03 WHAT ELSE IS IN THIS AREA
• 23:04 THAT WE CAN LOOK AT?
• 23:05 Ronen: OVER THERE WE CAN SEE
• 23:06 THE REMAINS OF THE TEMPLE.
• 23:10 WE ARE REACHING NOW
• 23:11 THE BURNED AREA.
• 23:13 YOU CAN SEE HERE THE BURN LAYER
• 23:14 ALL OVER THIS AREA.
• 23:17 IT IS THE BURN
• 23:19 FROM THE SACRIFICIAL
• 23:21 DURING THE TIMES OF THE TEMPLE.
• 23:23 Ken: THE SACRIFICE?
• 23:25 Ronen: DURING THE TIMES OF
• 23:26 THE TEMPLE--LOOK HERE, THE ASH.
• 23:30 LET'S GO NOW
• 23:31 AND SEE THE AREA ITSELF.
• 23:34 THE ALTAR WAS PROBABLY
• 23:35 SOMEWHERE HERE.
• 23:36 WE DIDN'T DISCOVER IT YET,
• 23:37 BUT LOOK INSIDE HERE.
• 23:39 THIS GROUND IS SO BLACK.
• 23:41 IT IS FULL WITH THE REMAINS,
• 23:44 REMAINS OF THE TREES BURNED
• 23:46 AND REMAINS OF THE BONES
• 23:49 OF ALL THESE ANIMALS
• 23:50 THAT WERE SACRIFICED HERE.
• 23:52 LOOK AT THIS.
• 23:53 THIS IS A PIECE OF A GOAT.
• 23:56 Ken: WHAT KIND OF ANIMALS
• 23:57 DID THEY SACRIFICE?
• 23:58 Ronen: WELL, THEY SACRIFICED
• 23:59 ONLY PIGEONS, ONLY GOATS,
• 24:02 AND ONLY SHEEP.
• 24:03 THIS IS ACCORDING TO WHAT
• 24:04 IS WRITTEN IN THE BIBLE.
• 24:07 Ken: SO THIS WOULD NOT BE THE
• 24:08 ACTUAL LOCATION FOR THE ALTAR.
• 24:11 IT WOULD HAVE BEEN THE DISCARDS
• 24:13 OF WHAT WAS USED AT THE--
• 24:14 Ronen: SOMEBODY THREW HERE
• 24:16 ALL THE REMAINS FROM THE ALTAR.
• 24:18 PROBABLY HE DID IT BECAUSE
• 24:19 THEY WERE HOLY AS THEY DO TODAY
• 24:21 TO TORAH BOOKS.
• 24:22 THEY WILL NEVER THROW THEM AWAY
• 24:24 TO THE GARBAGE.
• 24:25 THEY WILL ALWAYS BURY THEM.
• 24:26 THIS IS PROBABLY
• 24:27 WHAT THEY DID HERE.
• 24:28 THEY BURIED ALL THESE REMAINS
• 24:31 AND THEN THEY PUT GROUND
• 24:33 ALL OVER IT.
• 24:34 IT WAS HOLY; THEY COULDN'T
• 24:35 JUST THROW IT AWAY.
• 24:37 THEY HAD TO GET RID OF IT
• 24:38 SOMEHOW TO BUILD HERE.
• 24:39 SO THIS IS WHAT THEY DO,
• 24:40 THEY BURIED IT.
• 24:42 Ken: AND HOW MANY SACRIFICES
• 24:44 WOULD THERE HAVE BEEN IN A DAY
• 24:46 OR A WEEK.
• 24:47 Ronen: IN A TEMPLE THERE WERE
• 24:48 PROBABLY ABOUT 100 OR MAYBE MORE
• 24:51 SACRIFICES EVERY WEEK.
• 24:55 Ken: WELL, THIS HAS BEEN
• 24:56 A FASCINATING TOUR
• 24:57 YOU'VE GIVEN US.
• 24:58 I JUST WANT TO THANK YOU
• 24:59 ONCE AGAIN FOR YOUR TAKING
• 25:01 THE TIME TO DO THIS WITH US.
• 25:02 Ronen: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
• 25:03 Ken: OKAY.
• 25:13 Myles: I KNOW THIS IS
• 25:14 STRENGTHENING YOUR FAITH TO SEE
• 25:16 HOW ARCHAEOLOGY IS VERIFYING
• 25:18 THE HISTORICITY OF THE BIBLE
• 25:19 AS WELL AS THE JEWISH PRESENCE
• 25:21 IN THE LAND.
• 25:22 IT'S SO UNDER ATTACK THESE DAYS:
• 25:24 "THE JEWS WERE NEVER THERE";
• 25:26 "THEY CAME LATER."
• 25:27 THE FACT IS THAT THE VERY STONES
• 25:29 ARE TELLING US ABOUT THE REALITY
• 25:31 OF THESE THINGS.
• 25:32 Katharine: YEAH, ARCHAEOLOGISTS
• 25:33 ARE LITERALLY SHOWING THE PAST
• 25:35 IN THE PRESENT AND MAKING IT
• 25:37 CLEAR HOW REAL THE BIBLE IS
• 25:39 AND HOW IMPORTANT IT IS TO STAND
• 25:41 WITH THE JEWISH PEOPLE
• 25:42 IN THIS TIME.
• 25:44 WE HAVE AN OFFER, IT'S CALLED
• 25:46 THE "JERUSALEM JOURNEY STONE."
• 25:47 IT'LL STRENGTHEN YOUR FAITH
• 25:49 TO HAVE A LITTLE PIECE
• 25:50 OF JERUSALEM IN YOUR HOME.
• 25:52 WE ALSO REALLY APPRECIATE
• 25:54 ANYTHING YOU CAN DO TO HELP US
• 25:55 BRING YOU THESE PROGRAMS.
• 25:57 WE LOVE GOING TO ISRAEL, TAKING
• 25:59 YOU WITH US THROUGH THE CAMERA,
• 26:01 AND THEN BRINGING THESE BACK
• 26:03 INTO YOUR HOME.
• 26:04 WE ALSO HAVE A PACKAGE
• 26:05 THAT WE WANT TO SHOW YOU.
• 26:06 IT'S CALLED
• 26:07 THE "PRO-ISRAEL PACKAGE"
• 26:08 AND WE KNOW IT'LL BE A BLESSING
• 26:09 TO YOU, SO TAKE A LOOK AT IT.
• 26:12 Announcer: SHOW YOUR SUPPORT FOR ISRAEL
• 26:14 WITH THE "PRO-ISRAEL PACKAGE."
• 26:16 FOR YOUR GIFT OF $48 OR MORE, YOU'LL RECEIVE:
• 26:19 A 3' x 5' FLAG OF ISRAEL;
• 26:21 FOUR PRO-ISRAEL BUTTONS;
• 26:24 A "PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM" BUMPER STICKER;
• 26:26 "ISRAEL'S RIGHT TO THE LAND" BOOKLET;
• 26:28 A "JERUSALEM JOURNEY STONE;"
• 26:30 "BROKEN BRANCHES" BY ZOLA LEVITT;
• 26:32 AND A TWO-FLAG LAPEL PIN.
• 26:34 CALL AND ASK FOR THE "PRO-ISRAEL PACKAGE"
• 26:37 OR VISIT US AT LEVITT.COM.
• 26:42 Myles: WE ARE SO GRATEFUL
• 26:43 TO THE LORD THAT WE GET
• 26:44 TO BRING YOU THESE PROGRAMS
• 26:46 AND THE ONLY WAY WE CAN DO IT
• 26:47 IS BECAUSE OF YOUR DONATIONS,
• 26:48 YOUR GIFTS OF FUNDS.
• 26:49 THESE ARE HIGH QUALITY PROGRAMS
• 26:51 COMING FROM ISRAEL.
• 26:52 ESPECIALLY IN THE DAY
• 26:54 IN WHICH WE'RE LIVING,
• 26:55 WE REALLY FEEL LIKE WE HAVE
• 26:57 A MANDATE TO COUNTERACT
• 26:58 THE DISINFORMATION THAT'S COMING
• 27:00 THROUGH THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA,
• 27:02 SO WE APPRECIATE ANYTHING YOU
• 27:03 CAN DO TO HELP US AT THIS TIME.
• 27:05 I THINK THE NEED
• 27:06 IS GOING TO INCREASE
• 27:07 AS WE SEE THE DAY APPROACHING,
• 27:08 NOT JUST THE NEED FOR FUNDS
• 27:10 BUT THE NEED FOR THE TRUTH
• 27:11 TO COME THROUGH THESE KINDS
• 27:13 OF PROGRAMS TO AMERICA
• 27:15 AND THE WORLD.
• 27:16 SO PLEASE STAND WITH US
• 27:17 DURING THIS TIME.
• 27:18 Katharine: BUT IF YOU HAVE
• 27:19 ANYTHING SMALL OR GREAT,
• 27:21 IT REALLY HELPS US
• 27:22 TO BE CAMERA-READY.
• 27:23 I MEAN WE WERE ABLE
• 27:24 TO ACTUALLY FILM ARCHAEOLOGISTS
• 27:26 THAT FOUND THE STONES.
• 27:28 THE PEOPLE THAT FOUND
• 27:30 DAVID'S STONE, I MEAN,
• 27:32 WE'RE GOING TO SEE LATER ON
• 27:33 AND COMING IN OUR SHOW
• 27:36 SOME OF THE AMAZING FOOTAGE
• 27:38 THAT WE COULDN'T GET
• 27:39 UNLESS WE WERE CAMERA-READY.
• 27:41 AND BY YOUR GIFTS OF FUNDS,
• 27:42 ALLOW US TO BE CAMERA-READY
• 27:44 SO WE CAN TAKE OUR CAMERAS
• 27:46 AND OUR CREW TO ISRAEL
• 27:48 AND BRING YOU THESE SHOWS.
• 27:49 SO THANK YOU FOR STANDING
• 27:50 WITH US; PLEASE CONSIDER
• 27:52 DOING MORE AT THIS TIME.
• 27:54 Myles: SO UNTIL WE SEE YOU AGAIN
• 27:56 PLEASE REMEMBER...
• 27:57 SHA'ALU SHALOM YERUSHALAYIM
• 28:00 Katharine: PRAY FOR THE PEACE
• 28:01 OF JERUSALEM.
• 28:04 Announcer: FOR INSIGHTFUL PERSPECTIVES OF ISRAEL AND BIBLE PROPHECY,
• 28:08 ASK FOR OUR FREE MONTHLY NEWSLETTER,
• 28:10 "THE LEVITT LETTER."
• 28:11 WHEN YOU CALL BE SURE TO ASK FOR OUR FREE CATALOGUE
• 28:14 WITH THE LATEST VIDEOS, BOOKS AND MUSIC.
• 28:18 OUR CORRESPONDENCE COURSE,
• 28:19 "THE INSTITUTE OF JEWISH-CHRISTIAN STUDIES"
• 28:21 INCLUDES READING PACKETS,
• 28:23 TEACHINGS CDs AND MAIL-IN TESTS.
• 28:26 THIS HAS BEEN A PAID PROGRAM, BROUGHT TO YOU BY: