Caption transcript for The Stones Cry Out (2012): “The Jerusalem That Was” (4/12)

• 00:01 (♪ "The Stones Cry Out" ♪)
• 00:23 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.
• 00:51 Myles: AND WE ARE THRILLED TODAY
• 00:52 TO CONTINUE OUR SERIES,
• 00:53 "THE STONES CRY OUT."
• 00:54 THAT VERY SCRIPTURE
• 00:55 IS TAKEN FROM JESUS SPEAKING
• 00:57 IN LUKE 19:40 WHEN THE DISCIPLES
• 00:59 WERE WELCOMING HIM INTO
• 01:01 JERUSALEM ACCORDING TO PROPHECY
• 01:03 AND THOSE AROUND SAID,
• 01:04 "OH, STOP THEM;
• 01:05 MAKE THEM BE QUIET."
• 01:06 AND HE SAID,
• 01:07 "IF THEY DID NOT PRAISE ME,
• 01:08 THE VERY STONES WOULD CRY OUT."
• 01:09 AND WE HAVE THE PRIVILEGE
• 01:11 OF CRYING OUT TO THE LORD
• 01:12 IN WORSHIP TODAY, AS DO YOU,
• 01:15 BECAUSE HE IS KING.
• 01:16 WELL, THE STONES LITERALLY ARE
• 01:18 CRYING OUT IN ISRAEL BECAUSE
• 01:19 ARCHAEOLOGY IS VERIFYING
• 01:21 THE TRUTH OF THE BIBLE.
• 01:23 IN FACT, THESE PROGRAMS
• 01:24 WERE ORIGINALLY MADE IN 1996
• 01:27 AND THEY REALLY DO SPEAK TO
• 01:30 THE REVISIONIST HISTORIANS,
• 01:31 AND THE REPLACEMENT THEOLOGIANS
• 01:33 WHO ARE TRYING TO SAY THAT
• 01:34 THE JEWS HAVE NEVER BEEN
• 01:35 IN THE LAND; IT'S ALL MADE UP.
• 01:36 Katharine: OR THEY'RE NEWCOMERS
• 01:37 TO THE LAND...
• 01:38 Myles: EXACTLY, AND THE VERY
• 01:39 STONES ARE SPEAKING
• 01:40 TO THE DIFFERENCE.
• 01:41 Katharine: RIGHT, IT'S ACTUALLY
• 01:42 SUCH A WONDERFUL OPPORTUNITY
• 01:45 TO SEE THESE PLACES AND TO SEE
• 01:47 THAT THE STONES REALLY ARE
• 01:49 VALIDATING THE SCRIPTURE
• 01:51 AND BRINGING IT HOME TO US
• 01:53 THAT DAVID WAS A REAL PERSON.
• 01:55 AND SO WE CAN DO THIS ONLY BY
• 01:56 CONTINUING WITH YOUR SUPPORT AND
• 01:59 WE'LL CONTINUE ON TO BRING YOU
• 02:01 THESE WONDERFUL MESSAGES
• 02:03 ABOUT WHAT GOD IS DOING
• 02:04 IN THE LAND TODAY.
• 02:05 HE'S UNEARTHING THINGS
• 02:06 EVEN AS WE SPEAK.
• 02:07 EVERY TIME WE GO,
• 02:08 THERE'S NEW FINDS.
• 02:10 Myles: RIGHT, WE WERE THERE WHEN
• 02:11 THE POOL OF SILOAM WAS FOUND.
• 02:12 IN FACT, SINCE THESE PROGRAMS
• 02:13 WERE DONE, FINDS CONTINUE TO BE
• 02:15 DONE THAT ARE JUST CONTINUING
• 02:17 TO SAY THE BIBLE IS REAL,
• 02:19 GOD MEANS WHAT HE SAYS
• 02:21 AND HE IS THE RETURNING KING.
• 02:22 Katharine: HE EVEN STIRS UP
• 02:23 THE FAITH OF THE ARCHEOLOGISTS.
• 02:25 Myles: RIGHT, THEY ARE
• 02:26 ENCOURAGED BY THE VERY THINGS
• 02:27 THAT THEY FIND.
• 02:28 SO NOW LET'S GO TO TOM McCALL
• 02:30 WITH PROFESSOR RANDY COOK.
• 02:34 ♪ ♪
• 02:38 Tom McCall: RIGHT NOW WE'RE IN
• 02:40 A MARVELOUS ARCHAEOLOGICAL SPOT,
• 02:44 THE CITY OF DAVID.
• 02:45 CAN YOU DESCRIBE WHAT WE SEE
• 02:48 AROUND US HERE?
• 02:49 Randy Cook: THIS IS THE ORIGINAL
• 02:51 CORE OF THE ANCIENT CITY
• 02:52 OF JERUSALEM, JUST BELOW
• 02:53 THE WALLS WHICH ARE ONLY
• 02:55 ABOUT 450 YEARS OLD NOW.
• 02:57 BUT THIS IS WHERE
• 02:58 IT ALL STARTED.
• 02:59 RIGHT BELOW US IS
• 03:00 THE GIHON SPRING
• 03:01 AND THE EARLIEST REMAINS
• 03:03 IN THE AREA ARE RIGHT THERE.
• 03:04 SO WHEN DAVID CAME AND FOUND
• 03:06 THE CITY OF THE JEBUSITES,
• 03:08 THIS WAS THE AREA
• 03:09 THAT HE ATTACKED.
• 03:10 SOMEWHERE IN THIS VICINITY
• 03:12 GENERAL JOAB CAME IN THROUGH
• 03:13 THE WATER SYSTEM AND GOT INSIDE
• 03:14 THE CITY AND DAVID THEN
• 03:15 MADE IT HIS CITY.
• 03:18 Zola: THE CITY OF DAVID LIES
• 03:19 JUST SOUTH OF THE PRESENT-DAY
• 03:21 OLD CITY OF JERUSALEM.
• 03:23 IT WAS HERE THAT DAVID
• 03:24 ATTACKED THE JEBUSITES
• 03:26 3,000 YEARS AGO.
• 03:28 II SAMUEL 5:8 ATTESTS:
• 03:44 Tom: SO THIS AREA IS PART
• 03:46 OF THE OLD CITY THAT DAVID
• 03:49 CAPTURED AND MADE HIS CAPITAL.
• 03:51 AND ALL THIS AROUND HERE,
• 03:54 UP AND DOWN THIS HILL,
• 03:55 IS PART OF THAT PERIOD.
• 03:58 Randy: THE WALL ITSELF
• 03:59 PROBABLY RUNS SOMEWHERE
• 04:00 JUST ABOUT UNDER OUR FEET.
• 04:02 YOU CAN SEE THIS LONG STRUCTURE
• 04:03 THAT GOES ALL THE WAY
• 04:04 TO THE TOP.
• 04:05 ARCHAEOLOGISTS BELIEVE THAT
• 04:06 THAT HELD A KIND OF
• 04:07 A RETAINING WALL FOR A PLATFORM
• 04:09 AND POSSIBLY THE PALACE ITSELF
• 04:12 WAS RIGHT ABOVE THAT.
• 04:14 Zola: AN ARTIST'S RENDERING
• 04:15 PORTRAYS THE AREA
• 04:16 SOME 3,000 YEARS AGO.
• 04:18 NOTE THE RETAINING WALL,
• 04:19 STILL PRESENT TODAY,
• 04:20 WHICH MOST LIKELY
• 04:21 SUPPORTED THE PLATFORM ON WHICH
• 04:23 KING DAVID'S PALACE STOOD.
• 04:25 ONE CAN IMAGINE KING DAVID
• 04:27 KEEPING WATCH OVER HIS CITY
• 04:28 FROM A LOCATION
• 04:29 WHICH WOULD ALLOW EASY
• 04:31 VIEWING OF THE HOMES BELOW,
• 04:33 DWELLINGS WHOSE UNIQUE DESIGN
• 04:35 LEAVE THE DISTINCT MARK
• 04:36 OF ISRAELITE LIFE IN THE LAND.
• 04:39 Randy: NOW, THE FOUR-ROOM HOUSE
• 04:40 IS SOMETHING THAT
• 04:41 IS VERY TYPICALLY ISRAELITE.
• 04:43 IT COMES IN SHORTLY AFTER
• 04:44 THE ISRAELITES COME TO THE LAND
• 04:46 AND IT LASTS RIGHT UP UNTIL
• 04:47 THE TIME THAT NEBUCHADNEZZAR
• 04:49 DESTROYS JERUSALEM.
• 04:50 WE ALSO HAVE A COUPLE OF THEM
• 04:52 DURING THE PERIOD FOLLOWING
• 04:54 THE BABYLONIAN CAPTIVITY.
• 04:55 SO, IT'S A VERY TYPICAL
• 04:57 ISRAELITE STRUCTURE.
• 04:58 THEREFORE, ANYTIME YOU FIND IT,
• 05:00 YOU'RE PROBABLY IN SOME KIND
• 05:01 OF AN ISRAELITE CONTEXT.
• 05:03 Tom: AND IT WAS SPECIFICALLY
• 05:05 DURING WHAT IS SOMETIMES CALLED
• 05:06 THE FIRST TEMPLE PERIOD,
• 05:08 ROUGHLY FROM THE TIME OF SOLOMON
• 05:11 UNTIL THE BABYLONIAN
• 05:12 DESTRUCTION, IS THAT CORRECT?
• 05:14 Randy: RIGHT, THE EARLIEST
• 05:15 HOUSES ACTUALLY PREDATE THAT
• 05:16 A LITTLE BIT AND GO BACK
• 05:17 TO THE TIME OF THE JUDGES.
• 05:19 Tom: WHENEVER YOU FIND
• 05:20 ONE OF THESE THINGS, IT MEANS
• 05:21 THAT THE EARLY ISRAELITES
• 05:23 DWELT THERE,
• 05:24 NOT SO MUCH THE CAANANITES
• 05:25 OR THE PHILISTINES
• 05:26 OR ANY OF THOSE OTHER GROUPS,
• 05:28 BUT THIS WAS AN ISRAELITE HOUSE.
• 05:29 Randy: YEAH, IT'S NOT TO SAY
• 05:31 THAT NOBODY ELSE COULD HAVE
• 05:32 LIVED IN THEM, BUT IT'S
• 05:33 SOMETHING THAT APPARENTLY
• 05:34 THE ISRAELITES DEVELOPED
• 05:35 AND WAS VERY DISTINCTIVE
• 05:37 OF THEIR LIVING AREAS.
• 05:39 THAT'S THE KIND OF HOUSE
• 05:40 THEY LIVED IN.
• 05:41 Zola: THE CESSATION
• 05:42 IN FOUR-ROOM CONSTRUCTION
• 05:45 COINCIDES WITH THE DESTRUCTION
• 05:46 OF JERUSALEM BY
• 05:47 KING NEBUCHADNEZZAR
• 05:49 IN THE YEAR 586 BC.
• 05:51 II KINGS 24 PROVIDES
• 05:53 THE PROOF TEXT:
• 06:04 LIKEWISE, THE REAPPEARANCE
• 06:05 OF THE FOUR-ROOM HOUSE
• 06:07 SUPPORTS EZRA 1:
• 06:25 DR. McCALL AND RANDY COOK
• 06:27 CONTINUE THEIR INVESTIGATION
• 06:28 OF THE FOUR-ROOM HOUSE.
• 06:30 Tom: RANDY, I THINK
• 06:31 THERE'S AN EXAMPLE OF ONE
• 06:32 OF THESE FOUR-ROOM HOUSES.
• 06:34 CAN YOU SHOW ME SOME
• 06:36 OF THE DETAILS
• 06:37 ABOUT THAT STRUCTURE?
• 06:38 Randy: SURE.
• 06:39 FIRST OF ALL, KEEP IN MIND
• 06:40 THAT NOT ALL FOUR-ROOM HOUSES
• 06:41 HAVE FOUR ROOMS.
• 06:42 JUST LIKE TODAY, IF YOU GET
• 06:43 ANOTHER KID, YOU'VE GOT
• 06:44 TO ADD ANOTHER ROOM.
• 06:45 SO SOMETIMES THERE'LL BE FIVE
• 06:46 ROOMS, SOMETIMES THREE ROOMS.
• 06:47 BUT, THE BASIC PATTERN
• 06:49 REPEATS ITSELF OVER AND OVER.
• 06:50 THERE ARE THREE LONG ROOMS
• 06:53 AND ONE BROAD ROOM.
• 06:54 SO, AS YOU COME IN,
• 06:55 YOU COME INTO A LONG ROOM.
• 06:57 Tom: LET'S GO TAKE A LOOK AT
• 06:58 ONE OF THESE FOUR-ROOM HOUSES.
• 07:04 Tom: I UNDERSTAND, RANDY,
• 07:05 THAT THE PEOPLE THEN
• 07:06 DID A LOT OF LIVING
• 07:07 ON THE ROOFTOPS BACK THEN.
• 07:09 Randy: YEAH, WE'RE ACTUALLY
• 07:10 COMING DOWN THE STAIRCASE
• 07:12 FROM THE UPPER STORY
• 07:13 AND DOWN TO THE FRONT DOOR
• 07:15 OF THE FOUR-ROOM HOUSE.
• 07:16 OUTSIDE HERE IS A SMALL MORTAR.
• 07:20 THIS WOULD BE THAT PLACE WHERE
• 07:21 THEY WOULD WORK TO GRIND CORN
• 07:23 OR GRAINS AND THEN, OF COURSE,
• 07:26 COOK IT INSIDE.
• 07:28 WHY DON'T WE COME ON IN
• 07:29 THE FRONT ROOM?
• 07:30 THIS IS THE FRONT DOOR
• 07:32 AND WE'RE INTO THE MAIN PART
• 07:34 OF THE BUILDING WHERE THERE ARE
• 07:36 THREE LONG ROOMS AND THEN
• 07:38 ANOTHER ROOM AROUND THE BACK
• 07:40 OVER HERE, WHICH IS CALLED
• 07:41 A BROAD ROOM.
• 07:42 Tom: SO THERE'S THIS ROOM HERE,
• 07:45 THE MIDDLE ROOM, BEDROOM OVER
• 07:48 THERE AND THEN THE BACK ROOM.
• 07:49 Randy: AND THAT'S WHERE YOU GET
• 07:51 THE IDEA OF FOUR ROOMS.
• 07:52 BUT, AGAIN, REMEMBER,
• 07:53 SOMETIMES FIVE, SOMETIMES THREE.
• 07:54 A LOT OF THE LIVING IS ACTUALLY
• 07:56 UP HERE ON THE UPPER FLOOR.
• 07:58 Tom: AND THERE'S ANOTHER ROOM
• 08:00 ATTACHED ON THE BACK.
• 08:02 Randy: YEAH, ARCHAEOLOGISTS
• 08:03 FOUND EVIDENCE OF AN OUTHOUSE
• 08:05 BACK AROUND THE CORNER.
• 08:06 Tom: WHAT WAS THE SITUATION
• 08:08 WITH THE CEILING AND THE ROOF?
• 08:10 HOW WAS IT STRUCTURED?
• 08:11 OF COURSE, IT'S COLLAPSED
• 08:12 AND WE CAN'T SEE IT HERE.
• 08:14 Randy: THERE WOULD HAVE BEEN
• 08:15 ANOTHER WALL TO THIS SIDE OF US
• 08:16 WHICH HAS BROKEN AWAY
• 08:17 IN THE DESTRUCTION AND YOU CAN
• 08:18 SEE A BACK WALL AND, OF COURSE,
• 08:20 FOR THE BACK ROOM, EXTRA WALLS.
• 08:23 THESE PILLARS WOULD HAVE HELD UP
• 08:24 SOME KIND OF WOODEN STRUCTURE
• 08:26 WITH PROBABLY A THATCHED ROOF
• 08:27 OR PERHAPS MORE OF A PERMANENT
• 08:29 WALKWAY OVER THERE TO GET INTO
• 08:31 AN UPPER STORY BUILDING
• 08:33 OR A ROOM BEHIND.
• 08:35 THE OPEN AREA THROUGH THE MIDDLE
• 08:36 WAS, OF COURSE, LEFT OPEN
• 08:38 SO THAT THE SMOKE AND EVERYTHING
• 08:39 COULD ESCAPE FROM HERE.
• 08:40 Tom: SO, HOW MUCH OF
• 08:41 THE ROOF AREA COULD ACTUALLY
• 08:42 BE USED BY PEOPLE UP ON TOP?
• 08:45 Randy: NOT A LOT.
• 08:46 THEY PROBABLY HAD SOME KIND OF
• 08:47 A WOODEN STRUCTURE THAT WOULD
• 08:48 BEAR THE WEIGHT OF A PERSON
• 08:50 TO BE ABLE TO GET BACK AND THEN
• 08:51 THE BACK SIDE OF THE BUILDING
• 08:52 MOST LIKELY DID HAVE
• 08:53 A MORE PERMANENT STRUCTURE.
• 08:55 Tom: I UNDERSTAND
• 08:56 THIS HOUSE HAS A NAME.
• 08:58 Randy: THIS IS THE HOUSE
• 08:59 OF ACHIEL.
• 09:00 IT'S NOT VERY OFTEN WE FIND
• 09:01 THE NAME ON THE MAILBOX,
• 09:02 BUT IN THIS CASE, THEY DID FIND
• 09:03 A PIECE OF BROKEN POTTERY
• 09:05 WITH HIS NAME ON THE POTTERY.
• 09:07 Tom: AND WHAT WAS THE DATE
• 09:09 THAT THEY GIVE THIS?
• 09:10 Randy: THIS IS SOMETIME LATER
• 09:11 THAN THE TIME OF DAVID, BECAUSE,
• 09:12 YOU SEE, IT'S CUT BACK
• 09:13 INTO THIS SLOPE, BUT IT IS STILL
• 09:15 DURING THE ISRAELITE PERIOD,
• 09:16 PROBABLY SOMEWHERE
• 09:17 AROUND THE 800s.
• 09:19 Zola: TO HELP CLARIFY,
• 09:21 THIS SKETCH SHOWS THE LAYOUT
• 09:22 OF THE HOUSE OF ACHIEL:
• 09:25 THREE LONG ROOMS RUNNING
• 09:26 PARALLEL TO EACH OTHER
• 09:28 AND HERE THE BACK ROOM
• 09:29 KNOWN AS THE "BROAD ROOM."
• 09:31 FOR OUR EXAMPLE, TOM AND RANDY
• 09:33 ARE STANDING IN THE FIRST
• 09:34 OF THE THREE PARALLEL ROOMS,
• 09:35 APPROXIMATELY HERE.
• 09:38 THIS RE-CREATION OF
• 09:39 A FOUR-ROOM HOUSE
• 09:40 AT TEL AVIV'S ERETZ MUSEUM
• 09:42 ALLOWS ONE TO STEP BACK TO
• 09:44 THE TIME OF DAVID AND SOLOMON.
• 09:47 THIS HOME REPRESENTS
• 09:48 A COLLECTION OF DESIGN ASPECTS
• 09:49 GLEAMED FROM THE EXCAVATION
• 09:51 OF NUMEROUS FOUR-ROOM HOUSES.
• 09:54 TYPICAL FURNISHINGS OF THE TIME
• 09:55 ARE DISPLAYED, AS WELL AS
• 09:57 THIS SPECIALLY DESIGNED BOWL
• 09:59 FOR THE WASHING OF FEET.
• 10:01 Tom: WHAT DID THE PEOPLE DO
• 10:03 IN THESE ROOMS?
• 10:04 Randy: FREQUENTLY,
• 10:05 ONE OR THE OTHER OF THESE SIDES
• 10:06 WOULD HAVE A THATCHED ROOF
• 10:07 AND THEN THERE WOULD BE ANIMALS
• 10:08 THAT WOULD BE BROUGHT IN
• 10:09 FOR PROTECTION AND SAFETY
• 10:10 AT NIGHT AND ALSO PROVIDE
• 10:12 SOME INDOOR HEATING.
• 10:13 THE MAIN CENTER ROOM,
• 10:15 RIGHT THROUGH HERE,
• 10:16 WAS WHERE THEY ACTUALLY DID
• 10:17 COOKING AND PREPARING OF FOOD.
• 10:20 THERE WOULD BE A WINE PRESS,
• 10:21 OR OLIVE PRESSES,
• 10:22 SMALL FAMILY ONES
• 10:23 INSIDE THIS AREA.
• 10:24 Tom: WERE THERE DISTINCT
• 10:25 FUNCTIONS FOR THE SIDE ROOMS?
• 10:27 Randy: SOMETIMES THESE WERE
• 10:28 ACTUALLY WALLED OFF INTO ROOMS,
• 10:30 SOMETIMES IT WAS ANIMALS'
• 10:31 QUARTERS OR MAYBE JUST STORAGE
• 10:32 FOR TOOLS.
• 10:33 THE BACK ROOM WAS A LITTLE BIT
• 10:35 MORE OF A PERMANENT SHELTER.
• 10:36 AND IT HAD SOME KIND
• 10:38 OF A DOORWAY THAT COULD PROBABLY
• 10:39 BE CLOSED AND SECURED.
• 10:40 Tom: WAS THAT MORE LIKE
• 10:41 THE BEDROOM, SO TO SPEAK,
• 10:43 WHERE THE PEOPLE WOULD SLEEP?
• 10:44 Randy: RIGHT, I THINK
• 10:45 PROBABLY DURING THE WINTERTIME,
• 10:47 FOR SURE, THEY WOULD BE IN THERE
• 10:48 FOR PROTECTION
• 10:49 FROM THE ELEMENTS.
• 10:50 BUT DURING THE SUMMERTIME,
• 10:51 WHEN IT'S HOT, THEY PROBABLY
• 10:52 SLEPT UP ON THE ROOF A LOT MORE.
• 10:54 Tom: THEY REALLY DID SPEND
• 10:55 A LOT OF TIME UP ON THE ROOF.
• 10:56 Randy: TOM, THERE'S PROBABLY
• 10:57 A VERY INTERESTING OLD TESTAMENT
• 10:58 CORRELATION HERE.
• 10:59 SINCE WE'RE RIGHT UNDERNEATH
• 11:00 DAVID'S PALACE AREA,
• 11:02 WE'RE IN AN ISRAELITE HOUSE.
• 11:04 IT'S FROM A DIFFERENT
• 11:05 TIME PERIOD, BUT IT DOES
• 11:06 PROBABLY NICELY ILLUSTRATE
• 11:08 THE CASE WITH BATHSHEBA WHO WAS
• 11:09 UP ON THE ROOF, BATHING IN
• 11:10 CLEAR VIEW OF THE PALACE AREA.
• 11:13 Zola: ARCHAEOLOGY ONCE AGAIN
• 11:15 BEARS OUT SCRIPTURE,
• 11:16 ILLUSTRATING HOW DAVID COULD
• 11:18 HAVE EASILY SPIED BATHSHEBA
• 11:19 ON HER ROOFTOP.
• 11:20 THE SETTING IS DESCRIBED
• 11:22 IN II SAMUEL 11:2.
• 11:34 WE COULDN'T HELP BUT WONDER
• 11:35 ABOUT OTHER FAMOUS BIBLICAL
• 11:37 CHARACTERS AND IF THEY, TOO,
• 11:38 WOULD HAVE LIVED
• 11:39 IN SIMILAR HOMES.
• 11:40 Tom: IS IT POSSIBLE THAT SOME
• 11:41 OF THE GREAT PROPHETS
• 11:43 OF THE FIRST TEMPLE PERIOD
• 11:46 MIGHT HAVE LIVED IN A HOUSE LIKE
• 11:47 THIS: LIKE JEREMIAH, ELIJAH,
• 11:50 SOME OF THOSE GREAT PROPHETS?
• 11:52 Randy: I DON'T THINK
• 11:53 IT'S JUST POSSIBLE,
• 11:54 I THINK IT'S HIGHLY PROBABLE.
• 11:55 THIS WAS THE KIND OF HOUSE
• 11:56 THAT ISRAELITES LIVED IN
• 11:57 DURING THAT TIME.
• 11:58 THERE IS ONE REFERENCE IN ISAIAH
• 12:00 TO THE TIME OF HEZEKIAH WHEN
• 12:02 HEZEKIAH WAS PREPARING FOR
• 12:03 THE DESTRUCTION THAT HE KNEW
• 12:05 WAS COMING HIS WAY, TOO,
• 12:06 FROM THE ASSYRIANS
• 12:07 AND SENNACHERIB DID, IN FACT,
• 12:08 COME TO JERUSALEM.
• 12:10 IT SAYS THAT HEZEKIAH TORE DOWN
• 12:11 THE HOUSES, NUMBERED THE PEOPLE,
• 12:14 THAT WOULD BE FOR TAX PURPOSES,
• 12:15 AND THEN HE USED THAT MATERIAL
• 12:16 AND THAT MONEY TO BE ABLE BUILD
• 12:18 A SPECIAL WALL FOR PROTECTION
• 12:20 AGAINST SENNACHERIB.
• 12:21 AND IT WOULD HAVE BEEN ONE OF
• 12:22 THESE KINDS OF HOUSES THAT
• 12:23 ISAIAH WAS REFERRING TO.
• 12:24 Tom: ALSO, I UNDERSTAND,
• 12:25 SOLOMON UTILIZED PEOPLE'S HOUSES
• 12:29 THAT WERE UP AGAINST THE WALL
• 12:31 TO INCREASE THE STRENGTH.
• 12:32 WHAT WAS THAT ALL ABOUT?
• 12:34 Randy: WELL, ONE OF THE OTHER
• 12:35 VERY INTERESTING TIE-INS WITH
• 12:36 THE ISRAELITE FOUR-ROOM HOUSE
• 12:37 HAS TO DO WITH HOW
• 12:38 THE CASEMATE WALL DEVELOPED.
• 12:40 THE CASEMATE WALL
• 12:41 IS A PARALLEL WALL.
• 12:42 Tom: WE SAW THOSE IN HATZOR,
• 12:44 THE CASEMATE WALL.
• 12:45 Randy: OKAY, WELL,
• 12:46 JUST INSIDE THE WALL AT HATZOR,
• 12:47 YOU COULD HAVE SEEN ALSO
• 12:48 THE REST OF THE FOUR-ROOM HOUSES
• 12:50 WITH THAT BACK BROAD ROOM
• 12:51 BEING THE FORMATION
• 12:53 OF THE PARALLEL WALLS,
• 12:54 AND THEN THE CASEMATE WALL
• 12:55 BUILT UP ABOVE THAT.
• 12:57 Zola: THE REFERENCE TO
• 12:58 THE CASEMENT WALL IS FOUND
• 12:59 IN ISAIAH 22:10:
• 13:08 ONCE AGAIN, WE SEE
• 13:09 ARCHAEOLOGICAL DISCOVERIES
• 13:11 MIRROR WHAT IS WRITTEN
• 13:13 IN SCRIPTURE.
• 13:15 COMING UP, LIFE AND AFTER LIFE,
• 13:17 AN INTRIGUING SIMILARITY
• 13:18 BETWEEN THE FOUR-ROOM HOUSE
• 13:20 AND AN ISRAELI BURIAL CHAMBER.
• 13:25 AND LATER, OF ALL
• 13:26 THE GREAT MIDDLE EAST CITIES
• 13:27 FROM THE ANCIENT WORLD,
• 13:28 ONLY JERUSALEM STILL THRIVES.
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• 14:52 Myles: KATHARINE AND I WOULD
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• 16:11 THAT'S REALLY WHAT IS EXCITING
• 16:12 ABOUT OUR TRIPS.
• 16:13 Myles: WELL, IT'S BEEN OUR JOY,
• 16:14 KATHARINE AND MINE,
• 16:15 TO BE ON THESE TOURS
• 16:16 AND TO HAVE THAT
• 16:17 PERSONAL TOUCH WITH PEOPLE
• 16:18 AS YOU SAY.
• 16:19 ONE THING THAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
• 16:20 ABOUT IS THIS MACCABEAN COIN
• 16:22 THAT WAS FOUND.
• 16:23 IT WAS JUST THE FIRST OF MANY
• 16:25 THINGS WE'RE EXPECTING TO FIND.
• 16:26 IN FACT, IT'S SO EXCITING TO BE
• 16:28 CONNECTED TO THE ARCHEOLOGICAL
• 16:29 FINDS IN ISRAEL THAT WE'VE
• 16:31 STARTED A FUND CALLED
• 16:32 "THE TEMPLE MOUNT FUND."
• 16:34 IF YOU SEND US A DONATION FOR
• 16:35 "THE TEMPLE MOUNT FUND,"
• 16:37 NOT ONLY WILL WE BE ABLE TO HELP
• 16:38 THE ARCHAEOLOGISTS
• 16:39 WITH THEIR WORK, WE'LL SEND YOU
• 16:41 THIS CERTIFICATE OF APPRECIATION
• 16:43 THAT SAYS THAT YOU HAVE BEEN
• 16:44 PART OF THE UNEARTHING
• 16:46 OF THE VERACITY OF THE BIBLE
• 16:47 AND THE JEWISH PRESENCE
• 16:49 IN THE LAND.
• 16:51 IT'S JUST A ONCE-IN-A-LIFETIME
• 16:52 OPPORTUNITY, SO WE REALLY WANT
• 16:53 TO THANK YOU, TRACIE,
• 16:54 FOR BEING HERE.
• 16:55 AND THANK YOU FOR COMING
• 16:56 TO ISRAEL WITH US.
• 16:57 IT WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE,
• 16:58 I GUARANTEE IT.
• 16:59 NOW LET'S GO BACK TO ISRAEL
• 17:01 AND CONTINUE WITH OUR PROGRAM.
• 17:02 ♪ ♪
• 17:09 Randy: ISRAELITE TOMB STRUCTURE
• 17:11 IS VERY, VERY DISTINCTIVE.
• 17:13 IT'S SOMETHING THAT OCCURS IN
• 17:14 ABOUT 800 SOME TOMBS HERE
• 17:15 IN THE JERUSALEM AREA AND IT
• 17:17 FOLLOWS THE SAME BASIC PATTERN
• 17:18 DURING THE FIRST TEMPLE PERIOD.
• 17:20 YOU HAVE A MAIN ENTRY,
• 17:22 WHICH IS KIND OF THE WORK AREA;
• 17:24 YOU HAVE A COUPLE OF
• 17:25 SIDE CHAMBERS AND THEN
• 17:26 A CHAMBER TOWARD THE BACK.
• 17:27 SO, YOU HAVE THE ONE, TWO,
• 17:29 THREE LONG ROOMS
• 17:30 AND ONE BROAD ROOM.
• 17:31 THE PATRIARCH IS THE FIRST ONE
• 17:32 TO BE BURIED AT THE BACK.
• 17:34 THE CHILDREN AND THE WIFE,
• 17:36 OR OTHERS, WOULD BE LAID
• 17:37 ON EACH SIDE.
• 17:38 THE PERSON COMING IN
• 17:39 TO DO THE BURYING
• 17:40 WOULD STAND IN THE MIDDLE THERE
• 17:41 TO PREPARE THE BODY.
• 17:43 Tom: WHAT ELSE HAS BEEN FOUND
• 17:44 HERE THAT HELPS ARCHAEOLOGISTS
• 17:45 UNDERSTAND THE LIVES OF THE
• 17:47 PEOPLE AND DATE THE PERIODS?
• 17:49 Randy: WELL, ONE OF THE THINGS
• 17:50 THAT YOU FIND
• 17:51 IN EVERY ARCHAEOLOGICAL DIG,
• 17:52 ARE PIECES OF BROKEN POTTERY.
• 17:54 IT'S INDESTRUCTIBLE AND ONE
• 17:56 OF THE NICE THINGS ABOUT IT,
• 17:57 IN TERMS OF DATING, IS THAT YOU
• 17:59 CAN GENERALLY FOLLOW
• 18:00 A PRETTY CLEAR CHRONOLOGY.
• 18:02 IT MAY BE A RELATIVE CHRONOLOGY,
• 18:04 BUT YOU CAN DEFINITELY SEE
• 18:05 A PROGRESSION IN DATES AND TIME.
• 18:07 Tom: WOOD DOESN'T LAST,
• 18:08 PAPER DOESN'T LAST,
• 18:09 NONE OF THOSE THINGS LAST,
• 18:10 BUT POTTERY DOES.
• 18:12 Randy: ONE OF THE PROBLEMS
• 18:13 WITH OLD TESTAMENT DATING
• 18:14 IS YOU DON'T HAVE COINS UNTIL
• 18:15 ABOUT THE 5th CENTURY B.C.
• 18:17 SO, FOR MOST OF
• 18:18 THE OLD TESTAMENT PERIOD,
• 18:20 WE DON'T HAVE THAT TO HELP US
• 18:21 WITH SOME MORE ABSOLUTE DATING.
• 18:23 THEREFORE, ARCHAEOLOGISTS
• 18:24 HAVE TO RELY HEAVILY ON POTTERY.
• 18:26 Tom: WHAT KIND OF POTTERY HAS
• 18:27 BEEN LOCATED IN THIS DIG HERE?
• 18:30 Randy: PERHAPS ONE OF
• 18:31 THE EASIEST THINGS FOR US
• 18:32 TO UNDERSTAND IS THE DEVELOPMENT
• 18:33 OF THE CLAY LAMP.
• 18:36 THE LAMPS THAT WERE FOUND HERE
• 18:37 WERE VERY TYPICAL
• 18:38 OF THE ISRAELITE PERIOD.
• 18:40 SOME OF THESE HOUSES, OF COURSE,
• 18:41 HAVE THEM GOING ALL THE WAY BACK
• 18:43 TO ABOUT 1100 B.C., 1000 B.C.
• 18:45 WHICH WOULD BE THE TIME
• 18:46 OF DAVID.
• 18:47 THIS PARTICULAR CASE,
• 18:48 MOST OF THE POTTERY WAS
• 18:49 FROM THE 8th TO 9th CENTURY B.C.
• 18:52 Tom: DOES BIBLICAL ARCHAEOLOGY
• 18:54 HELP A CHRISTIAN TO DEVELOP
• 18:56 HIS FAITH?
• 18:57 Randy: IT CERTAINLY DOES, TOM.
• 18:59 I THINK THAT IF NOTHING ELSE,
• 19:02 IT CERTAINLY HELPS US
• 19:03 TO BE ABLE TO PUT THE BIBLE
• 19:04 BACK INTO ITS CONTEXT.
• 19:06 LIVING IN AMERICA 2,000 YEARS
• 19:07 AFTER THE TIME OF CHRIST,
• 19:09 WE KNOW LITTLE OR NOTHING
• 19:10 ABOUT OLD TESTAMENT LIVING.
• 19:12 AND TO BE ABLE TO COME AND SEE
• 19:13 THAT AND SEE HOW THE PEOPLE
• 19:15 LIVED, AND THEN AS YOU READ
• 19:16 THE SCRIPTURES, IT JUST
• 19:17 MAKES IT COME ALIVE.
• 19:18 IT MAKES SO MUCH MORE SENSE
• 19:19 AND THAT'S GOT TO STRENGTHEN
• 19:20 YOUR FAITH.
• 19:22 Zola: JUST AS THE PRESENCE
• 19:23 OF THE FOUR-ROOM HOUSE
• 19:24 HELPS TO AFFIRM THE CREDIBILITY
• 19:26 OF THE BIBLE, SO DOES
• 19:27 THE CITY OF JERUSALEM ITSELF.
• 19:29 AS A GREAT CITY
• 19:30 OF THE MIDDLE EAST
• 19:31 FROM ANTIQUITY, STILL LIVED IN,
• 19:34 IT ATTESTS TO THE CERTAINTY
• 19:35 OF BIBLICAL PROPHESY.
• 19:37 FOR EXAMPLE,
• 19:38 JOEL 3:20 DECLARES:
• 19:46 ISRAEL ARCHAEOLOGIST
• 19:47 DANNY BAHAT,
• 19:48 AND A TEAM OF SCHOLARS,
• 19:49 AS A PART OF THE CELEBRATION
• 19:51 OF JERUSALEM'S
• 19:52 3,000th BIRTHDAY,
• 19:53 CONSTRUCTED THIS MODEL
• 19:54 REPRESENTING THE CITY OF DAVID
• 19:56 JUST PRIOR TO ITS DESTRUCTION
• 19:58 IN THE YEAR 586 B.C.
• 20:00 WE NOW STEP BACK 2,600 YEARS
• 20:02 AS DANNY BAHAT DESCRIBES THIS
• 20:04 MOST MAGNIFICENT OF CITIES.
• 20:07 Danny: THE FOUNDATIONS
• 20:08 OF JERUSALEM START NEXT TO
• 20:10 THE ONLY PERENNIAL SPRING
• 20:11 AROUND JERUSALEM,
• 20:12 WHICH IS DOWN HERE.
• 20:13 THAT'S THE SPRING OF GIHON
• 20:15 AND IT WAS HERE THAT JERUSALEM
• 20:16 WAS FOUNDED, SOMEWHERE
• 20:18 IN THE 10th CENTURY B.C.,
• 20:20 IN ITS PRESENT SHAPE,
• 20:21 SURROUNDED BY CITY WALLS.
• 20:23 WE KNOW THAT IT WAS FOUNDED
• 20:24 EARLIER ALREADY
• 20:26 IN THE 4th MILLENNIUM B.C.,
• 20:27 WHICH MEANS JERUSALEM, IS TODAY
• 20:29 6,000 YEARS OLD.
• 20:31 WHEN DAVID CONQUERED JERUSALEM,
• 20:33 IT REACHED ONLY AS FAR AS HERE.
• 20:35 AND HERE ON THE FOUNDATIONS
• 20:36 OF AN OLDER PALACE, HE BUILT
• 20:38 HIS OWN PALACE WHICH IS HERE.
• 20:40 THAT PALACE WAS NAMED IN
• 20:42 THE BIBLE "THE CITADEL OF ZION,"
• 20:45 AND THIS IS WHERE IT EXISTED
• 20:46 FOR QUITE A WHILE.
• 20:49 Zola: TURNING TO THE ARTIST'S
• 20:50 PORTRAYAL OF THE CITY
• 20:51 RULED BY DAVID AND SOLOMON,
• 20:54 DAVID'S PALACE IS SHOWN HERE.
• 20:56 FURTHER TO THE NORTH,
• 20:57 DAVID'S SON CONTINUED
• 20:58 HIS FATHER'S LEGACY.
• 21:00 Danny: KING SOLOMON DECIDES
• 21:01 TO BUILD THE TEMPLE.
• 21:03 AND AS HE BUILDS THE TEMPLE
• 21:04 ON TOP OF MT. MORIAH,
• 21:05 WHICH IS A KIND OF
• 21:07 A DOME-SHAPED MOUNTAIN
• 21:09 IN THIS AREA JUST AWAY
• 21:11 OF THE CITY, THE PLACE
• 21:12 WHERE THE THRESHING FLOOR
• 21:14 OF THE LAST CANAANITE
• 21:16 AND JEBUSITE KINGS WAS LOCATED.
• 21:18 IN ORDER TO BUILD A TEMPLE
• 21:20 IN THIS PLACE, HE ACTUALLY
• 21:21 HAD TO SURROUND THE ENTIRE MOUNT
• 21:24 BY A CITY WALL,
• 21:26 WHICH YOU CAN SEE HERE.
• 21:27 AND IN THIS ENORMOUS AREA
• 21:29 HE ALSO INCLUDED HIS PALACE.
• 21:32 ACCORDING TO
• 21:33 THE BIBLICAL DESCRIPTION,
• 21:34 HIS PALACE WAS COMPRISED OF MANY
• 21:37 INNER COURTYARDS, LIKE THIS ONE,
• 21:39 EACH OF THEM
• 21:40 SURROUNDED PROBABLY
• 21:41 BY ALL KIND OF COLONNADES.
• 21:43 THE MOST IMPORTANT OF WHICH,
• 21:45 WHICH EXPLICITLY IS DESCRIBED,
• 21:46 IS THE STRUCTURE
• 21:47 WHICH WE SEE HERE,
• 21:48 WHICH IS THE HOUSE
• 21:49 OF THE FOREST OF LEBANON,
• 21:51 AS MENTIONED IN THE BIBLE,
• 21:52 PROBABLY BECAUSE
• 21:53 THE MANY COLUMNS WHICH
• 21:55 SUPPORTED ITS ROOF WERE MADE OF
• 21:56 THE CEDAR OF LEBANON.
• 21:58 Zola: I KINGS 7
• 22:00 HELPED DANNY AND HIS TEAM
• 22:01 CONSTRUCT THIS AREA.
• 22:03 IT GIVES AN EXACTING
• 22:04 DESCRIPTION OF SOLOMON'S HOUSE
• 22:06 OF THE FOREST OF LEBANON.
• 22:17 A CUBIT BEING APPROXIMATELY
• 22:19 18 INCHES,
• 22:20 THIS MAGNIFICENT BUILDING
• 22:22 WAS 150 FEET IN LENGTH
• 22:24 AND OVER 4 STORIES TALL.
• 22:26 HAVING THE PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
• 22:28 OF BUILDINGS IS ONE THING.
• 22:29 KNOWING WHERE TO PLACE THEM
• 22:30 IN RELATIONSHIP TO EACH OTHER
• 22:32 AND THE SURROUNDING LANDSCAPE
• 22:33 IS ANOTHER.
• 22:34 HOW DID THE TEAM OF SCHOLARS
• 22:35 OVERCOME THIS OBSTACLE?
• 22:37 Danny: OF COURSE, FIRST OF ALL,
• 22:38 WE'VE GOT THE BIBLE,
• 22:39 WHICH IS THE ONLY SOURCE WHICH
• 22:41 DESCRIBES MANY OF THE ITEMS
• 22:44 MENTIONED OR SHOWN ON THE MAP
• 22:46 WHICH WE HAVE HERE.
• 22:47 THE OTHER THING IS ARCHAEOLOGY.
• 22:49 AND I'D LIKE YOU TO SEE,
• 22:50 FOR EXAMPLE, THIS LITTLE CORNER
• 22:52 WHICH WE HAVE HERE, WHERE
• 22:53 BECAUSE OF THE EXCAVATIONS
• 22:55 CARRIED OUT IN THE '70s,
• 22:57 WE KNOW THAT THIS WAS AN AREA
• 23:00 WHERE THERE WAS KIND OF
• 23:01 ROYAL STORAGE.
• 23:02 SO WE KNOW THAT IT BELONGED,
• 23:04 OR FORMED A PART OF THE COMPLEX
• 23:06 OF THE PALACE AND SO ON.
• 23:08 NEXT TO IT, A LITTLE POSTERN
• 23:10 LED THE PEOPLE WHO WERE
• 23:11 CONNECTED TO THOSE STORES
• 23:14 DOWN ALONG THE TRAIL
• 23:16 ALL THE WAY DOWN TO THE VALLEY.
• 23:18 THE OTHER THING IS, OF COURSE,
• 23:20 ARCHAEOLOGY REFERRING TO
• 23:21 THE WATER SOURCES.
• 23:22 WE HAVE MENTIONED BEFORE
• 23:23 THE ONLY PERENNIAL SPRING,
• 23:25 THE GIHON SPRING,
• 23:26 AND THEN FROM HERE STANDS
• 23:28 THE FAMOUS SILOAM TUNNEL
• 23:30 OR HEZEKIAH'S TUNNEL
• 23:31 GOING ALL THE WAY DOWN
• 23:33 INTO THE POOL OF SILOAM,
• 23:34 WHICH IS FOUND DOWN HERE RIGHT
• 23:36 AT THE BOTTOM OF THE VALLEY.
• 23:38 Zola: THE BIBLE SPEAKS
• 23:39 OF A TUNNEL, OR CONDUIT,
• 23:41 USED TO SUPPLY WATER
• 23:42 TO THE INHABITANTS OF THE CITY.
• 23:44 THE BOOK OF II KINGS 20
• 23:46 AFFIRMS:
• 23:55 ADDITIONALLY,
• 23:56 FROM THE NEW TESTAMENT,
• 23:57 JOHN 9:7 RECORDS THE MIRACLE
• 23:59 OF JESUS HEALING A BLIND MAN
• 24:01 AT THE POOL OF SILOAM.
• 24:11 NOT ONLY DO THE STONES CRY OUT,
• 24:13 BUT HERE,
• 24:14 UNDER THE CITY OF DAVID,
• 24:15 A DARK TUNNEL AND
• 24:16 A SEEMINGLY QUIET POOL OF WATER
• 24:18 DECLARE THE TRUTH.
• 24:20 Danny: WE KNOW THAT DURING
• 24:21 THE TIME OF KING HEZEKIAH,
• 24:23 THE CITY EXPANDED BEYOND
• 24:25 ITS ORIGINAL WALLS.
• 24:27 AND, INDEED, WE HAVE FOUND
• 24:29 IN THE EXCAVATIONS IN THE '70s,
• 24:32 WE HAVE DISCOVERED NOT ONLY
• 24:34 AN ENORMOUS CITY WALL,
• 24:35 THE ONE WHICH IS NAMED
• 24:36 "THE BROAD WALL"
• 24:37 IN THE BOOK OF NEHEMIAH,
• 24:39 BUT MANY REMAINS OF HOUSES
• 24:41 SPREAD ALL OVER, WHICH ARE
• 24:43 AN INDICATION TO THE FACT
• 24:44 THAT JERUSALEM COULD NOT
• 24:46 ANYMORE BE INCLUDED
• 24:48 IN ITS FORMER CITY WALLS,
• 24:49 AND IT SIMPLY BURST
• 24:50 OUTSIDE OF IT IN ORDER
• 24:53 TO EXPAND IT ALL THE WAY TO WHAT
• 24:56 WE CALL "THE WESTERN HILL,"
• 24:58 THE HILL WHICH SURROUNDS TODAY
• 25:00 THE ARMENIAN QUARTER,
• 25:01 WHICH IS FOUND IN
• 25:02 THE NORTHWESTERN CORNER,
• 25:03 TODAY'S MT. ZION,
• 25:05 WHICH IS THE AREA AROUND HERE,
• 25:08 AND THE JEWISH QUARTER
• 25:09 WHICH IS HERE.
• 25:11 ALL OF WHAT WE KNOW,
• 25:12 OR MOST OF WHAT WE KNOW
• 25:13 WILL COME FROM TODAY'S
• 25:15 JEWISH QUARTER, WHERE,
• 25:17 IN THIS MODEL WE HAVE PUT ALSO
• 25:20 SOME PALACES LIKE THIS ONE.
• 25:22 BECAUSE WE KNOW THAT
• 25:23 IN THE BOOK OF JEREMIAH
• 25:24 WE ARE TOLD
• 25:25 THAT THE LAST KINGS OF JUDAH
• 25:28 BUILT THEMSELVES LAVISH
• 25:29 AND SUMPTUOUS PALACES.
• 25:31 THE ONLY LOGICAL PLACE FOR
• 25:33 SUCH PALACES AFTER THE EXPANSION
• 25:35 OF THE CITY'S WEST WALLS WAS
• 25:37 ON THIS HILL, WHICH WE SEE HERE.
• 25:39 Zola: AT THIS POINT,
• 25:40 THE EVIDENCE IS OVERWHELMING
• 25:42 AS THE CRIES OF THIS
• 25:43 ANCIENT CITY'S STONES BUILD
• 25:45 TO A DIN OF SUPPORT FOR
• 25:46 THE VERACITY OF THE SCRIPTURES.
• 25:49 FOR THOSE WILLING TO LISTEN,
• 25:51 THIS CITY ON A HILL IS TRULY
• 25:52 A LIGHT UNTO THE NATIONS.
• 25:56 (♪ Flute & Harp ♪)
• 26:26 Katharine: THROUGH THESE
• 26:27 PROGRAMS YOU'RE SEEING HOW LONG
• 26:29 THE JEWISH PRESENCE HAS BEEN
• 26:31 IN THE LAND OF ISRAEL.
• 26:32 THE FOUR-ROOM HOUSE,
• 26:34 THE PROPHETS, THE PATRIARCHS...
• 26:37 WE'RE SEEING THE VALIDITY OF
• 26:38 THE JEWISH PRESENCE IN ISRAEL.
• 26:41 FOR CENTURIES THEY'VE BEEN
• 26:42 THERE, MYLES, AND ISLAM
• 26:43 IS FAIRLY NEW ON THE SCENE.
• 26:45 Myles: IT REALLY IS AND IT'S
• 26:46 AMAZING THAT PEOPLE ARE TRYING
• 26:47 TO REVERSE THAT AND SAY
• 26:48 THAT WE WERE NEVER THERE.
• 26:49 Katharine: EXACTLY.
• 26:50 Myles: AND IT'S JUST NOT
• 26:51 THE TRUTH; THIS IS THE TRUTH,
• 26:52 AND ARCHAEOLOGY
• 26:53 IS VERIFYING THAT.
• 26:55 ONE WAY THAT YOU CAN HELP US
• 26:57 TO CONTINUE TO FIND THESE
• 26:59 ARCHEOLOGICAL TREASURES
• 27:01 IS BY SUPPORTING OUR
• 27:02 "TEMPLE MOUNT FUND."
• 27:03 WE ACTUALLY HAVE A FUND THAT'S
• 27:04 DESIGNATED TO INCREASE THE WORK
• 27:07 OF THE ARCHAEOLOGISTS
• 27:08 IN THE LAND.
• 27:09 IN FACT, LAST TIME
• 27:10 WE WERE IN ISRAEL,
• 27:11 ONE OF OUR MEMBERS FOUND A COIN
• 27:13 FROM THE MACCABEAN TIMES.
• 27:14 IT'S SO INCREDIBLE TO BE PART
• 27:16 OF THAT, SIFTING THROUGH
• 27:17 THE RUBBLE FROM THE TEMPLE MOUNT
• 27:19 AND FINDING THESE AMAZING
• 27:20 TREASURES THAT VERIFY THE BIBLE.
• 27:22 THERE'S NOTHING LIKE IT.
• 27:23 Katharine: WE HAVE A BEAUTIFUL
• 27:24 CERTIFICATE THAT THEY CAN GET
• 27:25 WHEN THEY SUPPORT US
• 27:26 FOR THEIR HELP.
• 27:27 Myles: YES, IF YOU HELP US
• 27:28 WITH THE "TEMPLE MOUNT FUND,"
• 27:29 WE'LL SEND YOU A CERTIFICATE
• 27:30 THAT SAYS THAT YOU'VE BEEN
• 27:32 PART OF THE VERIFICATION
• 27:34 OF THE WORD THROUGH ARCHAEOLOGY.
• 27:36 IT'S REALLY WONDERFUL TO BE PART
• 27:38 OF THAT ESPECIALLY AS WE SEE
• 27:39 THE DAY APPROACHING.
• 27:41 UNTIL WE SEE YOU AGAIN,
• 27:42 REMEMBER,
• 27:43 SHA'ALU SHALOM YERUSHALAYIM.
• 27:46 Katharine: PRAY FOR THE PEACE
• 27:47 OF JERUSALEM.
• 27:51 Male Singer: ♪ LORD GOD, CREATOR OF HEAVEN ♪
• 27:58 ♪ LORD GOD, WE BRING FORTH YOUR PRAISES ♪
• 28:06 ♪ THE EARTH STANDS A TRIBUTE TO GLORY ♪
• 28:14 ♪ STONES TELL YOUR WONDERFUL STORY. ♪♪
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