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

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• 01:25 WERE ORIGINALLY MADE IN 1996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