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

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