Caption transcript for The Stones Cry Out (2012): “Cities of the Past” (7/12)

• 00:12 (♪ "The Stones Cry Out" ♪)
• 00:22 Male Singer: ♪ IF NO ONE STANDS TO SPEAK, ♪
• 00:29 ♪ IF NO ONE PRAYS, ♪
• 00:33 ♪ 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 THIS IS AN ARCHAEOLOGICAL LOOK
• 00:56 AT THE BIBLE.
• 00:57 WE TOOK THAT TITLE FROM THE
• 00:59 SCRIPTURE IN LUKE 19:40 WHERE
• 01:01 JESUS IS COMING INTO JERUSALEM,
• 01:03 THE DISCIPLES
• 01:04 ARE YELLING, "HOSANNA!"
• 01:05 AND THE PHARISEES SAY,
• 01:06 "STOP THEM!"
• 01:07 AND HE SAID,
• 01:08 "YOU KNOW, IF THEY DIDN'T,
• 01:09 THE VERY STONES WOULD CRY OUT."
• 01:11 IT'S A SPIRITUAL PRINCIPLE
• 01:12 FOR US ABOUT THE HONOR
• 01:14 THAT WE HAVE IN WORSHIPPING
• 01:15 THE KING OF KINGS.
• 01:16 BUT TODAY, IN OUR DAY, THE VERY
• 01:18 ROCKS IN ISRAEL ARE CRYING OUT.
• 01:20 THEY'RE DISCOVERING, EVERY DAY,
• 01:23 ARCHAEOLOGICAL PROOF
• 01:25 THAT THE BIBLE IS REAL
• 01:26 AND THAT THE JEWS HAVE BEEN
• 01:27 IN THE LAND FOR A LONG TIME.
• 01:29 ONE OF THE THINGS WE'RE GOING
• 01:30 TO SEE IN THIS PROGRAM
• 01:31 IS THE REALITY
• 01:32 OF JESUS' BACKGROUND,
• 01:34 THAT HE LIVED IN NAZARETH,
• 01:36 NEAR SEPPHORIS,
• 01:37 WHICH WAS A GREEK CITY
• 01:38 NAMED AFTER ALEXANDER THE GREAT.
• 01:40 AND IN THAT CULTURE,
• 01:41 HE LEARNED SOME OF THE WORDS
• 01:43 AND SOME OF THE PHRASES
• 01:45 THAT HE LATER WOULD USE
• 01:46 IN HIS PARABLES
• 01:47 AND USE IN HIS TEACHINGS.
• 01:48 SO IT'S A FASCINATING LOOK
• 01:49 AT THE WAY THE HE WAS VERSED
• 01:51 IN THE JEWISH MINDSET
• 01:53 AND THE GREEK MINDSET.
• 01:54 Katharine: WONDERFUL...
• 01:55 IT'S SO RICH.
• 01:56 IT'S SO EXCITING
• 01:57 TO BRING YOU THESE STORIES
• 01:58 AND THESE DOCUMENTARIES
• 02:00 OF WHAT GOD IS DOING.
• 02:02 WE'RE DOCUMENTING THAT GOD
• 02:03 IS ALIVE TODAY, THROUGH HIS WORD
• 02:05 AND THROUGH THE VERY SCRIPTURE,
• 02:07 AND THE VERY STONES THAT ARE
• 02:08 CRYING OUT; SO THANK YOU SO MUCH
• 02:10 FOR YOUR CONTINUED SUPPORT
• 02:11 OF THESE MESSAGES.
• 02:13 AND WE LOVE TO BRING THEM TO YOU
• 02:14 AND I KNOW
• 02:15 YOU LOVE TO HEAR THEM.
• 02:17 Myles: YEAH,
• 02:18 IT'S A VERY RICH SERIES.
• 02:19 WE'RE GLAD TO BE BRINGING IT
• 02:20 TO YOU.
• 02:21 SO NOW LET'S GO TO TOM McCALL
• 02:22 WITH MITCH PILCER IN ISRAEL.
• 02:27 Tom: SEPPHORIS,
• 02:28 ZIPPORI IN HEBREW,
• 02:29 IS LOCATED IN THE CENTER
• 02:31 OF THE LOWER GALILEE, SOME
• 02:32 4 MILES NORTHWEST OF NAZARETH.
• 02:35 AS SEEN FROM NAZARETH,
• 02:37 AN ANCIENT STRUCTURE ACTS AS
• 02:39 A GRAVESTONE MARKING
• 02:40 THE REMAINS
• 02:41 OF THIS ONCE-GREAT CITY.
• 02:45 A MAGNIFICENT METROPOLIS OF
• 02:46 THE GRECO-ROMAN TRADITION,
• 02:49 THIS PRESTIGIOUS GOVERNMENTAL
• 02:50 CENTER WAS ALSO A HUB
• 02:52 OF JEWISH RELIGIOUS ACTIVITY.
• 02:54 IT HAD A THRIVING
• 02:55 AGRICULTURAL TRADE,
• 02:56 BOASTED EXQUISITE MOSAICS
• 03:00 AND HAD AN IMPRESSIVE THEATRE.
• 03:04 MITCH, CAN YOU DESCRIBE FOR US
• 03:06 WHERE WE ARE RIGHT NOW?
• 03:08 Mitch: WELL, WE'RE ABOUT
• 03:09 A KILOMETER EAST OF THE SITE
• 03:10 OF THE ANCIENT CITY OF ZIPPORI,
• 03:12 WHICH WE CAN SEE
• 03:13 ON THE FAR HILLSIDE THERE.
• 03:15 AND OVER THERE
• 03:16 AND INTO OVER THERE AND
• 03:17 ABOUT 3 KILOMETERS TO THE EAST,
• 03:18 YOU CAN SEE
• 03:19 THE MODERN CITY OF NAZARETH
• 03:21 RISING ON THE HILL.
• 03:23 Tom: WELL, THAT WAS WHERE JESUS
• 03:24 WAS RAISED, IN NAZARETH.
• 03:26 WHAT ASSOCIATIONS WOULD HE HAVE
• 03:27 HAD WITH ZIPPORI, OR I GUESS
• 03:30 IT'S ALSO KNOWN AS SEPPHORIS?
• 03:32 Mitch: WHEN JESUS WAS GROWING UP
• 03:33 OVER THERE IN NAZARETH, IT WAS
• 03:35 A REALLY SMALL TOWN, NO MORE
• 03:37 THAN A FEW HUNDRED PEOPLE.
• 03:38 BUT ZIPPORI, AT THAT TIME,
• 03:40 WAS GOING THROUGH
• 03:41 ITS GREATEST PERIOD OF BUILDING.
• 03:44 IT BECAME EVENTUALLY A CITY
• 03:45 OF TENS OF THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE.
• 03:48 JESUS, HIMSELF, WE CAN ONLY
• 03:49 SPECULATE, BUT WHEN WE TALK
• 03:51 ABOUT THE FATHER OF JESUS,
• 03:52 JOSEPH, BEING A CARPENTER,
• 03:54 "CARPENTER" IS POSSIBLY A SLIGHT
• 03:56 MISTRANSLATION OF THE GREEK WORD
• 03:59 "TEKNOS," OKAY?
• 04:01 A TEKNOS CAN REALLY MEAN
• 04:02 ANYTHING AND MOST LIKELY
• 04:03 MEANT MAYBE "A BUILDING WORKER."
• 04:05 Tom: HE WAS IN CONSTRUCTION WORK
• 04:06 OF SOME KIND.
• 04:07 Mitch: HE WAS IN CONSTRUCTION
• 04:08 WORK AND IT'S VERY LIKELY THAT
• 04:09 EVERY MORNING IF THERE WAS WORK
• 04:10 IN CONSTRUCTION IN THE BIG CITY
• 04:12 OF ZIPPORI, ALL THE MEN OF
• 04:14 NAZARETH AND THEIR CHILDREN WHO
• 04:16 WERE ABLE TO WORK, WOULD LOAD UP
• 04:17 THEIR DONKEYS WITH THEIR TOOLS
• 04:18 AND THEIR LUNCH,
• 04:19 AND TAKE THE HOUR RIDE
• 04:20 TO THE WEST AND REACH ZIPPORI,
• 04:22 WHERE THEY WOULD WORK,
• 04:23 IN ORDER TO BUILD
• 04:25 THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE CITY.
• 04:26 Tom: THERE WAS A BUILDING BOOM
• 04:27 GOING ON, AS IT WERE,
• 04:28 UNDER HEROD ANTIPAS DURING MANY
• 04:31 OF THE EARLY YEARS OF JESUS.
• 04:33 NOW, IN FRONT OF US,
• 04:35 WE HAVE THESE LARGE HOLES.
• 04:37 DO THEY HAVE SOME SIGNIFICANCE?
• 04:39 Mitch: THIS IS SOMETHING THAT,
• 04:40 THERE IS NOTHING LIKE IT
• 04:42 ANYWHERE ELSE IN ISRAEL.
• 04:43 IT IS AN UNDERGROUND
• 04:44 WATER RESERVOIR,
• 04:45 OVER 250 METERS LONG,
• 04:48 CAPABLE OF HOLDING OVER
• 04:49 4,000 CUBIC METERS OF WATER.
• 04:51 THE ANCIENT RESIDENTS OF
• 04:52 ZIPPORI, THEY BUILT AQUEDUCTS
• 04:54 TO CARRY WATER FROM SPRINGS
• 04:56 NEAR NAZARETH WHERE IT FILLED UP
• 04:58 THIS RESERVOIR HERE
• 04:59 AND IT GUARANTEED THEM
• 05:00 A PERMANENT SUPPLY OF WATER,
• 05:02 WHICH WAS SOMETHING
• 05:03 THAT WAS NECESSARY IN A
• 05:04 SOPHISTICATED CITY LIKE ZIPPORI,
• 05:05 WITH ITS BATH HOUSES,
• 05:07 ITS PUBLIC FOUNTAINS
• 05:08 AND ITS GREENERY.
• 05:11 Zola: JOSEPHUS,
• 05:12 THE ANCIENT JEWISH HISTORIAN,
• 05:14 REFERRED TO SEPPHORIS
• 05:16 AS THE ORNAMENT OF THE GALILEE.
• 05:18 FEW PLACES IN ISRAEL
• 05:19 CAN TRIUMPH SUCH MASTERY
• 05:21 OF THE MOSAIC FLOOR.
• 05:23 NUMEROUS MOSAICS
• 05:24 DATING FROM THE TIME OF CHRIST
• 05:25 HAVE BEEN UNEARTHED HERE.
• 05:31 Zola: A GROUP OF ISRAELI
• 05:32 CHILDREN APPLY THEIR SKILLS
• 05:33 TO CREATING MINI MOSAICS.
• 05:35 THE CHILDREN FIRST SKETCH OUT
• 05:36 THEIR DESIGN IN THE MOIST
• 05:37 PLASTER MIXTURE, THEN PLACE
• 05:39 THE SMALL COLORFUL STONES
• 05:41 INTO THE LAYOUT.
• 05:47 WHILE THE ANCIENT MOSAICS
• 05:49 REPRESENT THE GRECO-ROMAN
• 05:50 INFLUENCE HERE,
• 05:52 IT IS IN THE RUINS
• 05:53 OF A CROWDED RESIDENTIAL AREA
• 05:55 THAT THE STONES ATTEST
• 05:56 TO A THRIVING JEWISH CULTURE.
• 06:00 Mitch: WHAT WE'RE WALKING
• 06:01 ON HERE NOW IS PROBABLY
• 06:03 THE MOST ANCIENT STREET
• 06:04 THAT'S BEEN DISCOVERED
• 06:05 IN ZIPPORI TO THIS DAY.
• 06:06 Tom: MITCH, DO YOU SUPPOSE THAT
• 06:08 JOSEPH AND MARY AND JESUS MIGHT
• 06:09 HAVE WALKED ON THIS VERY STREET
• 06:11 IN ZIPPORI?
• 06:12 Mitch: WELL, IF THEY
• 06:13 VISITED SOME OF THE POORER
• 06:14 RESIDENTIAL SECTIONS,
• 06:15 I WOULD IMAGINE.
• 06:16 AS YOU CAN SEE, THIS ISN'T
• 06:17 EXACTLY A WIDE BOULEVARD
• 06:18 OVER HERE.
• 06:19 THE HOUSES ON ONE SIDE ARE VERY
• 06:21 CLOSE QUARTERS FACING THE HOUSES
• 06:23 ON THE OTHER SIDE.
• 06:24 AND INSIDE OF THE ENTIRE
• 06:25 EXCAVATIONS HERE, YOU CAN SEE
• 06:27 THE REMAINS OF ALL THE STONES.
• 06:30 Tom: YEAH, THERE ARE SO MANY
• 06:31 STONES ALL AROUND HERE
• 06:33 THAT HAVE BEEN UNCOVERED.
• 06:34 WHAT ARE THESE, MITCH?
• 06:35 Mitch: WELL, THEY'RE THE BOTTOM,
• 06:36 THE VERY BOTTOM FOUNDATIONS
• 06:38 OF THE HOUSES WHICH WERE
• 06:39 MOST LIKELY TO HAVE BEEN
• 06:40 MAYBE 2 OR 3 STORIES HIGH
• 06:42 AND VERY CLOSE TO EACH OTHER.
• 06:44 THERE ARE OVER 80 HOUSES
• 06:45 JUST IN THIS SMALL SECTION
• 06:46 THAT WE'VE DUG UP OVER HERE.
• 06:49 Tom: THAT'S A PRETTY LARGE
• 06:50 POPULATION THAT MIGHT HAVE LIVED
• 06:51 IN AND AROUND THIS AREA HERE.
• 06:52 Mitch: EACH HOUSE, EVEN THOUGH
• 06:53 IT WASN'T VERY BIG,
• 06:55 THEY PROBABLY HAD AT LEAST
• 06:56 A DOZEN PEOPLE LIVING IN IT,
• 06:57 INCLUDING ON THE SECOND STORIES,
• 06:59 SLEEPING ON THE ROOFS.
• 07:00 SO, IF YOU LOOK AT 80 HOUSES,
• 07:02 YOU'RE SEEING OVER 1,000 PEOPLE
• 07:03 WHO MIGHT HAVE LIVED RIGHT
• 07:04 IN THIS SECTION HERE.
• 07:06 Tom: LET'S TAKE A WALK OVER HERE
• 07:07 AND SEE SOME OF THE DETAILS
• 07:09 OF THESE HOUSES.
• 07:14 Mitch: FOR INSTANCE,
• 07:15 THE FIRST THING THAT
• 07:16 WE PASS OVER HERE, AS WE ENTER
• 07:17 INTO A COURTYARD SEPARATING
• 07:18 SEVERAL OF THE HOUSES...
• 07:20 OBVIOUSLY THIS IS A WELL.
• 07:22 Tom: WHAT'S THE HISTORY
• 07:23 OF THIS WELL?
• 07:24 Mitch: WELL, THE HISTORY
• 07:25 IS INTERESTING, AND JUST
• 07:26 IN THE RESPECT THAT WHEN WE WERE
• 07:28 EXCAVATING THIS, LAST SUMMER,
• 07:31 WE'VE ACTUALLY MANAGED TO LOWER
• 07:32 SOMEBODY DOWN TO THE BOTTOM
• 07:33 OF IT, AND HE WAS DIGGING
• 07:35 IN WHAT WAS THE MUD, WHERE
• 07:36 MANY OF THE WOMEN WHO LIVED
• 07:38 AROUND HERE PROBABLY DROPPED
• 07:39 THEIR EARTHENWARE VESSELS
• 07:41 OVER 2,000 YEARS AGO.
• 07:43 AND THEY DROPPED INTO THE WATER
• 07:44 AND THEY WEREN'T BROKEN.
• 07:45 WHEN WE PULLED THEM OUT,
• 07:46 THEY WERE COMPLETE.
• 07:48 WE PULLED OUT OVER A DOZEN
• 07:49 VESSELS, LIKE THIS,
• 07:50 THAT LOOK MAYBE NO DIFFERENT
• 07:51 THAN THE DAY THEY WERE
• 07:52 DROPPED HERE, 2,000 YEARS AGO.
• 07:54 Zola: SEPPHORIS
• 07:55 WAS WELL KNOWN AS A CENTER
• 07:56 OF JEWISH RELIGIOUS ACTIVITY.
• 07:58 IN THE 2nd CENTURY,
• 07:59 THE SANHEDRIN,
• 08:00 THE HIGHEST JEWISH COURT,
• 08:02 ADJUDICATED HERE.
• 08:04 AND THE MISHNA, A COLLECTION
• 08:05 OF JEWISH ORAL LAWS
• 08:06 WAS CODIFIED HERE
• 08:07 AROUND 200 A.D.
• 08:10 THE ANCIENT COMMUNITY'S REMAINS
• 08:11 REVEAL ADDITIONAL EVIDENCE
• 08:13 OF THAT JEWISH HERITAGE.
• 08:14 Mitch: WHAT LOOKS LIKE A BATHTUB
• 08:16 IS, IN FACT, AN ANCIENT
• 08:17 RITUAL JEWISH BATH...A MIKVAH.
• 08:20 Tom: THAT WOULD INDICATE
• 08:21 THAT THERE WERE JEWISH PEOPLE
• 08:22 THAT LIVED HERE.
• 08:23 Mitch: PRIESTS WHO WORKED
• 08:24 IN THE TEMPLE IN JERUSALEM
• 08:25 BUT LIVED HERE IN ZIPPORI.
• 08:27 Tom: SO, THE PRIESTS
• 08:28 DIDN'T JUST LIVE IN JERUSALEM,
• 08:29 THEY LIVED IN OUTLYING CITIES,
• 08:31 LIKE ZIPPORI, ALSO?
• 08:32 Mitch: IT'S WRITTEN IN
• 08:33 THE SOURCES, IN THE MISHNA, THAT
• 08:34 ONE OF THE PRIESTLY FAMILIES,
• 08:36 THE HODIAH FAMILY,
• 08:38 THEY LIVED HERE IN ZIPPORI
• 08:39 AND WHAT WE SEE HERE
• 08:40 IS THE EVIDENCE.
• 08:41 THERE'S ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE
• 08:42 CONNECTING THEM,
• 08:43 BECAUSE NOBODY ELSE WOULD HAVE
• 08:44 A USE OF OVER 40 MIKVAHS IN
• 08:47 THIS SMALL RESIDENTIAL QUARTER.
• 08:48 OKAY?
• 08:49 AND, IN FACT,
• 08:50 YOU CAN SEE THERE'S A WALL
• 08:51 SEPARATING THE TWO HOUSES.
• 08:53 WE HAVE ONE MIKVAH HERE AND
• 08:54 WE HAVE ONE MIKVAH RIGHT HERE,
• 08:55 IN THE NEIGHBORING HOUSE.
• 08:56 Tom: I THINK I'D LIKE
• 08:57 TO STEP DOWN HERE AND SEE WHAT
• 08:59 IT'S LIKE TO BE IN A MIKVAH.
• 09:01 Mitch: WELL, IF YOU'D BE
• 09:02 GOING DOWN INTO THIS MIKVAH
• 09:03 A FEW THOUSAND YEARS AGO, YOU'D
• 09:04 ALREADY BE MOSTLY UNDER WATER,
• 09:05 BECAUSE THE LEVEL OF THE WATER
• 09:07 WENT ALL THE WAY UP TO THE TOP.
• 09:08 Tom: IT WOULD BE UP TO MY CHEST,
• 09:09 JUST ABOUT?
• 09:10 Mitch: UH-HUH AND THE PLASTER
• 09:11 YOU ARE SEEING HERE IS
• 09:12 THE ORIGINAL PLASTER THAT
• 09:13 REMAINS FROM 2,000 YEARS AGO.
• 09:14 Tom: AND THE PRIEST WOULD
• 09:15 GO BELOW THE WATERS AND COME UP.
• 09:17 Mitch: HE WOULD GO
• 09:18 BELOW THE WATER.
• 09:19 HE WOULD HAVE TO COMPLETELY
• 09:20 IMMERSE HIMSELF THREE TIMES, AND
• 09:21 THAT WAY HE WOULD BE PURE AGAIN
• 09:22 IN ORDER TO CONDUCT SERVICES.
• 09:25 Zola: TOM AND MITCH MOVE ON
• 09:26 TO THE PINNACLE OF FINE ARTS
• 09:27 IN SEPPHORIS...THE REMAINS OF
• 09:29 ITS ONCE-MAGNIFICENT THEATRE.
• 09:35 Mitch: WE'RE NOW FOLLOWING
• 09:36 THE PATH OF THOUSANDS
• 09:38 OF ANCIENT RESIDENTS OF ZIPPORI
• 09:40 FOR OVER 250 YEARS, AS WE GO
• 09:42 THROUGH THE MAIN ENTRANCE
• 09:44 OF THE THEATRE OF ZIPPORI.
• 09:45 Tom: MY THERE'S A MARVELOUS VIEW
• 09:47 OF THE VALLEY DOWN BELOW.
• 09:48 Mitch: WELL, UNFORTUNATELY,
• 09:49 FOR THE ANCIENT RESIDENTS
• 09:51 OF ZIPPORI, THE VIEW WAS BLOCKED
• 09:52 FOR THEM BY THE WALL OF THE BACK
• 09:55 OF THE THEATRE, THAT WE SEE
• 09:56 IN FRONT OF US OVER HERE,
• 09:58 AND THEY WERE ONLY ABLE
• 09:59 TO SEE THE BACK OF THE STAGE.
• 10:00 Tom: HOW MANY PEOPLE
• 10:01 COULD SIT IN THE THEATRE?
• 10:03 Mitch: THE CAPACITY CROWD HERE
• 10:04 WAS ABOUT 4,500 PEOPLE,
• 10:07 WHICH IS QUITE SOMETHING WHEN
• 10:08 YOU CONSIDER THAT ZIPPORI ITSELF
• 10:09 ONLY HAD ABOUT 30,000 RESIDENTS
• 10:11 AT THE TIME THAT IT WAS BUILT.
• 10:13 Tom: AND WOULD THEY JUST SIT
• 10:14 WHERE WE CAN SEE THE STEPS,
• 10:16 OR WAS IT LARGER THAN THAT?
• 10:18 Mitch: WELL, THE STEPS
• 10:19 YOU'RE ONLY LOOKING AT HERE
• 10:20 ARE THE LOWER MEZZANINE.
• 10:21 OKAY?
• 10:22 IN FACT, RIGHT WHERE
• 10:23 I'M STANDING HERE AND ABOVE ME,
• 10:24 WOULD BE A WHOLE OTHER LEVEL
• 10:25 OF THE THEATRE, INCLUDING
• 10:27 STONE AND WOODEN SEATS.
• 10:29 Tom: AND HOW OLD
• 10:30 IS THIS THEATRE?
• 10:31 WHEN WAS IT BUILT?
• 10:32 Mitch: THERE'S A LOT
• 10:33 OF SPECULATION THAT, IN FACT,
• 10:34 THERE WAS A MUCH OLDER CULTURE
• 10:36 OF THEATRE HERE IN ZIPPORI.
• 10:39 Tom: EVEN AT THE TIME OF JESUS,
• 10:41 WHICH WOULD HAVE BEEN 60 OR SO
• 10:43 YEARS BEFORE THE BUILDING HERE.
• 10:46 Mitch: WE TRY TO WONDER WHY THEY
• 10:47 WOULD BUILD SUCH A GRAND THEATRE
• 10:49 IN A PLACE, UNLESS THERE WAS
• 10:50 A BIG DEMAND FOR THE THEATRE.
• 10:51 OKAY?
• 10:52 IT MUST HAVE MEANT THAT
• 10:53 THERE MUST HAVE BEEN SOME
• 10:54 KIND OF SMALLER STRUCTURE THAT
• 10:55 ACCOMMODATED THE THEATRE AND,
• 10:57 IN FACT, EVEN FROM WHAT WE KNOW
• 10:59 FROM JESUS HIMSELF,
• 11:00 WE CAN ASSUME
• 11:01 THERE WAS A THEATRE IN ZIPPORI.
• 11:03 Tom: WHAT ARE SOME OF THE THINGS
• 11:04 THAT THE GOSPELS BRING OUT
• 11:05 THAT MIGHT SUGGEST
• 11:06 THAT JESUS HAD BEEN EXPOSED
• 11:07 TO THIS KIND OF CULTURE?
• 11:09 Mitch: OKAY, FOR ONE, HE USES
• 11:10 LOTS OF GREEK WORDS, OKAY;
• 11:12 GREEK WORDS WHICH HE WOULD HAVE
• 11:13 NO WAY TO PICK THEM UP
• 11:15 IN A LITTLE TOWN OF NAZARETH.
• 11:16 HE WOULD HAVE TO COME TO A CITY
• 11:17 WHERE THERE WAS A SIZABLE
• 11:19 GREEK POPULATION
• 11:20 AND HE EVEN USES WORDS THAT
• 11:22 ARE CONNECTED TO THE THEATRE,
• 11:23 LIKE HYPOCRITE.
• 11:24 HYPOCRITE WAS A TERM
• 11:25 THAT MEANT ACTOR, MOSTLY,
• 11:27 AND SOME OTHER MEANINGS.
• 11:28 ALSO, WE CAN TAKE INTO ACCOUNT
• 11:30 WHEN WE SEE EVEN LIKE
• 11:31 HIS STAGING, THE WAY THAT HE
• 11:32 SET UP THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT.
• 11:34 OKAY?
• 11:35 IT WAS DONE IN THE WHOLE STYLE
• 11:36 OF THE THEATRE.
• 11:38 Zola: MITCH'S REFERENCE
• 11:39 TO STAGING INFERS THAT
• 11:41 JUST AS AN ACTOR WOULD
• 11:42 DELIVER HIS LINES
• 11:43 FROM THIS STAGE TO THE AUDIENCE
• 11:44 ABOVE, JESUS, TAKING A PAGE
• 11:47 FROM THE SEPPHORIS THEATRE,
• 11:48 MOST LIKELY DELIVERED
• 11:50 HIS SERMON ON THE MOUNT
• 11:51 FROM BELOW THE HILLSIDE
• 11:53 AT THE MOUNT OF BEATITUDES.
• 11:55 PREVIOUS PROGRAMS
• 11:56 HAVE DEMONSTRATED HOW THE SOUND
• 11:57 RESONATES EFFORTLESSLY
• 11:59 UP THE HILLSIDE.
• 12:01 ( Speaking Hebrew )
• 12:05 >> BLESSED ARE THE MEEK FOR
• 12:07 THEY SHALL INHERIT THE EARTH.
• 12:09 ( Speaking Hebrew )
• 12:15 >> BLESSED ARE THEY
• 12:16 WHICH DO HUNGER
• 12:17 AND THIRST AFTER RIGHTEOUSNESS
• 12:19 FOR THEY SHALL BE FILLED.
• 12:21 Zola: FROM THIS EXAMPLE,
• 12:22 "THE SERMON BELOW THE MOUNT"
• 12:24 MIGHT HAVE BEEN
• 12:25 A MORE APPROPRIATE TITLE FOR
• 12:26 CHRIST'S MAGNIFICENT TREATISE
• 12:28 ON GODLY LIVING.
• 12:32 Announcer: FOR INSIGHTFUL PERSPECTIVES ON ISRAEL AND BIBLE PROPHECY,
• 12:37 ASK FOR OUR FREE MONTHLY NEWSLETTER,
• 12:39 "THE LEVITT LETTER."
• 12:41 AT LEVITT.COM, YOU CAN READ THE NEWSLETTER,
• 12:44 WATCH THE TV PROGRAM, OR VISIT OUR ONLINE STORE.
• 12:48 STAY CURRENT WITH US ON SOCIAL MEDIA
• 12:50 VIA FACEBOOK AND TWITTER.
• 12:52 COME WITH US ON A TOUR OF ISRAEL OR PETRA
• 12:55 OR A CRUISE TO GREECE AND EPHESUS.
• 12:58 PLEASE CONTACT US FOR MORE INFORMATION.
• 13:04 ♪ ♪
• 13:12 ♪ ♪
• 13:38 Myles: WE WOULD LOVE TO HOST YOU
• 13:39 IN ISRAEL, KATHARINE AND I.
• 13:41 IT'S OUR PLEASURE
• 13:42 TO BRING YOU TO ISRAEL.
• 13:43 WE'VE BEEN THERE OVER 20 TIMES
• 13:44 AND IT NEVER GETS OLD.
• 13:45 TRACIE, OUR TRAVEL MANAGER,
• 13:46 IS WITH US.
• 13:47 TRACIE, WHAT'S GOING ON NOW
• 13:48 WITH OUR TOURS?
• 13:49 Tracie: IT'S GREAT TO SEE YOU,
• 13:50 MYLES.
• 13:51 ONE THING I LOVE TALKING ABOUT,
• 13:52 I KNOW ESPECIALLY WITH YOU
• 13:53 AND KATHARINE BEING PASTORS
• 13:54 25 YEARS, IS WE HAVE
• 13:56 A SPECIAL OFFER FOR GROUPS,
• 13:57 OFTENTIMES PASTORS,
• 13:59 AND I TAKE ADVANTAGE OF IT.
• 14:00 BUT, PASTORS, IF YOU CAN GET
• 14:01 10 PAYING PASSENGERS TO COME ON
• 14:03 OUR TOUR, YOU COME TOTALLY FREE.
• 14:06 A LOT OF TIMES WE WANT YOU TO
• 14:07 GET 20 PAYING PASSENGERS SO THEN
• 14:09 YOU CAN BRING YOUR SPOUSE.
• 14:10 AND SO WHAT THAT DOES, MYLES,
• 14:13 IS THEY CAN COME ON THE TOUR AND
• 14:14 YOU KNOW HOW HARD PASTORS WORK.
• 14:16 I'VE WORKED WITH PASTORS FOR
• 14:17 MANY YEARS AT JOHN MAXWELL'S
• 14:19 MINISTRY AND THEY JUST...
• 14:20 TIRELESS...
• 14:21 PASTORS, YOU WORK TIRELESSLY.
• 14:22 COME ON OUR TOUR
• 14:23 AND LET US DO THE WORK.
• 14:25 FIRST OF ALL,
• 14:26 LET US DO THE LOGISTICS.
• 14:27 I WILL HANDLE EVERYTHING
• 14:28 FOR YOUR GROUP.
• 14:29 AND THEN, MYLES AND
• 14:30 KATHARINE, THEY ARE GOING
• 14:31 TO OPEN THE WORD DEVOTIONALLY.
• 14:33 THEY CAN DO AS MUCH
• 14:34 OR AS LITTLE AS THEY WANT.
• 14:35 Myles: EXACTLY.
• 14:36 Tracie: I KNOW WE HAVE TWO
• 14:37 PASTORS ON OUR UPCOMING TOUR
• 14:38 AND THEY'RE GOING TO BAPTIZE IN
• 14:39 THE JORDAN RIVER BUT THAT'S IT.
• 14:40 OTHERWISE, THEY'RE GOING TO
• 14:41 LEAVE THE TEACHING
• 14:42 TO OUR MESSIANIC JEWISH GUIDE.
• 14:43 MOST TOURS DON'T HAVE THAT.
• 14:45 WE ARE ALWAYS GUARANTEED
• 14:46 A MESSIANIC JEWISH GUIDE
• 14:47 ON OUR TOUR.
• 14:48 YOU AND KATHARINE ARE THERE
• 14:49 TO WORD DEVOTIONALLY AND IT'S
• 14:51 JUST--IT'S A JOY, AND SO
• 14:52 I WANT TO INVITE YOU TO DO THAT,
• 14:53 PASTORS; GIVE ME A CALL.
• 14:55 Myles: THANK YOU, TRACIE.
• 14:56 IT'S REALLY--IT'S OUR PLEASURE
• 14:57 TO WORK WITH PASTORS
• 14:58 AS A TEAM EFFORT.
• 14:59 AND, LIKE TRACIE SAYS,
• 15:01 YOU CAN DO AS LITTLE OR AS MUCH
• 15:03 AS YOU WANT TO ON OUR TOURS.
• 15:04 WE'LL HANDLE THE HEAVY LIFTING,
• 15:05 BUT WE'D LOVE TO HAVE YOU THERE
• 15:06 TO OPEN THE WORD WHEN YOU
• 15:07 WANT TO AND TO WORK WITH US
• 15:09 IN CONCERT.
• 15:11 ONE OF THE WAYS THAT OUR VIEWERS
• 15:13 CAN REALLY GET UP TO SPEED ON
• 15:15 THE JEWISH ROOTS OF THE FAITH
• 15:16 IS WITH OUR INSTITUTE
• 15:17 OF JEWISH-CHRISTIAN STUDIES.
• 15:20 WHEN YOU'RE COMING TO THE LAND,
• 15:21 WHEN YOU'RE WATCHING
• 15:22 THESE PROGRAMS, YOU REALLY WANT
• 15:23 TO GO DEEPER IN THE WORD.
• 15:24 THIS IS A BIBLE COLLEGE LEVEL
• 15:25 COURSE.
• 15:26 IT'S TAUGHT BY DR. JEFF SEIF
• 15:28 AND ZOLA LEVITT
• 15:29 AND IT REALLY WILL BRING YOU
• 15:30 INTO AN UNDERSTANDING
• 15:31 OF THE WORD WITH
• 15:32 THE HEBRAIC MINDSET
• 15:34 THAT YOU MIGHT NOT HAVE
• 15:35 BEEN TAUGHT IN SEMINARY,
• 15:36 YOU MIGHT NOT HAVE BEEN TAUGHT
• 15:37 IN YOUR CHURCH.
• 15:38 THIS WILL DEEPEN YOUR ROOTS,
• 15:39 I GUARANTEE IT.
• 15:40 YOU CAN SEE
• 15:41 ON THE COVER OF THIS,
• 15:42 IT SAYS "OHR EMET," THE LIGHT
• 15:44 AND TRUTH OF THE WORD, IN HEBREW
• 15:45 AND IT REALLY WILL DO THAT
• 15:46 FOR YOU.
• 15:48 IN FACT, LET'S HEAR A TESTIMONY
• 15:49 FROM SOME OF OUR STUDENTS
• 15:50 THAT HAVE TAKEN THIS COURSE...
• 15:51 RIGHT NOW.
• 15:53 I STRONGLY ENCOURAGE ANYONE
• 15:55 WHO TAKES THEIR RELATIONSHIP
• 15:57 WITH THE LORD SERIOUS...
• 15:59 YOU KNOW, WHEN HE TALKS
• 16:00 ABOUT YOU BEING LEAST
• 16:01 IN THE KINGDOM
• 16:02 OR GREAT IN THE KINGDOM,
• 16:03 STUDY TO SHOW YOURSELF
• 16:04 APPROVED...
• 16:05 GET THE COURSE...
• 16:07 DO ALL 12 LESSONS
• 16:09 AND TAKE IT SERIOUSLY.
• 16:11 LIKE, YOU KNOW, YOU WENT
• 16:12 TO COLLEGE TO GET YOUR DEGREE.
• 16:14 THIS IS NO DIFFERENT.
• 16:15 AND THIS IS A BETTER DEGREE.
• 16:18 ONE THAT'S NOT ON PAPER,
• 16:19 ONE THAT'S WRITTEN ON
• 16:20 THE TABLETS OF YOUR HEART.
• 16:22 WELL I MEAN IF YOU'RE GOING TO
• 16:23 UNDERSTAND THE WHOLE MESSAGE
• 16:26 OF THE NEW TESTAMENT,
• 16:27 AS WELL AS THE OLD TESTAMENT,
• 16:28 YOU'VE GOT TO CONNECT IT
• 16:31 WITH ITS ORIGINAL CONTEXT,
• 16:34 WHERE IT CAME FROM,
• 16:35 AND THE INSTITUTE
• 16:36 SHOWS YOU THAT
• 16:37 IN A VERY DETAILED WAY
• 16:40 THAT CAN BE BENEFICIAL
• 16:41 TO BOTH BEGINNER
• 16:43 AND ONE WHO'S SEASONED
• 16:44 IN THEOLOGY.
• 16:46 YOU JUST REALLY LEARN THE BIBLE
• 16:48 AND CHRISTIANITY
• 16:49 AND WHERE WE CAME FROM
• 16:50 IN HEBREW ROOTS.
• 16:51 AND SO IT'S TAUGHT
• 16:52 FROM A MESSIANIC PERSPECTIVE.
• 16:53 YOU'RE GOING TO GET
• 16:54 A LOT OF HEBREW.
• 16:55 YOU'RE GOING TO GET A LOT
• 16:56 OF JEWISH TERMS AND IT'S ALL
• 16:57 GOING TO BE REALLY GREAT.
• 16:58 MOST OF THE CHURCHES
• 16:59 I'VE BEEN TO
• 17:00 HAVE DONE A FAIRLY GOOD JOB,
• 17:03 I THINK, IN EXPLAINING
• 17:05 THE NEW TESTAMENT TO ME.
• 17:06 THEY--EVERYONE'S VERY CONCERNED
• 17:08 ABOUT THE NEW TESTAMENT
• 17:10 AND I CAN UNDERSTAND WHY.
• 17:12 IT'S THE NEW TESTAMENT
• 17:13 THAT GOT ME SAVED.
• 17:14 BUT THE OLD TESTAMENT...
• 17:16 ZOLA USED TO SAY--
• 17:18 I REMEMBER WATCHING HIM
• 17:19 WHEN HE WAS ALIVE--
• 17:20 HE USED TO SAY...
• 17:21 "THE OLD TESTAMENT IS THE GARDEN
• 17:24 AND THE NEW TESTAMENT
• 17:25 IS THE FLOWERS."
• 17:27 SO YOU HAVE TO DIG IN THE GARDEN
• 17:28 TO UNDERSTAND WHY THE FLOWERS
• 17:29 CAME FORTH.
• 17:33 Myles: THOSE TESTIMONIES
• 17:34 ARE SO ENCOURAGING.
• 17:35 I THINK YOU CAN REALLY SENSE
• 17:37 THAT TO LEARN THE OLD TESTAMENT
• 17:39 AND THE NEW TESTAMENT TOGETHER
• 17:40 IS UNLIKE ANY OTHER
• 17:41 INDIVIDUAL TEACHING
• 17:42 YOU'LL GET IN A LOCAL CHURCH.
• 17:44 YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU SIGN UP
• 17:45 FOR THE INSTITUTE
• 17:46 OF JEWISH-CHRISTIAN STUDIES
• 17:48 YOU CAN TAKE ONE CD OR THREE.
• 17:50 YOU CAN TAKE ALL 12 COURSES.
• 17:51 YOU CAN DO IT AT ANY PACE
• 17:53 THAT WORKS FOR YOU
• 17:54 AND YOU REALLY COME THROUGH IT
• 17:55 WITH THE SENSE OF UNDERSTANDING
• 17:57 THE ENTIRE BIBLE
• 17:58 AND REALLY KNOWING
• 17:59 THE CONNECTION
• 18:00 BETWEEN THE OLD TESTAMENT
• 18:01 AND THE NEW IN A WAY
• 18:02 THAT YOU NEVER HAVE BEFORE.
• 18:03 IT'S VERY ENCOURAGING
• 18:04 AND VERY STRONG TEACHING.
• 18:07 YOU KNOW, I WANT TO ENCOURAGE
• 18:08 YOU, ALSO, DURING THIS SEASON,
• 18:10 TO HELP US TO CONTINUE
• 18:11 TO BRING YOU THESE RESOURCES,
• 18:13 TO BRING YOU THESE PROGRAMS,
• 18:14 THIS HIGH-QUALITY
• 18:15 ON-LOCATION TEACHING,
• 18:17 THE DRAMAS FROM ISRAEL;
• 18:18 ALL OF THE THINGS
• 18:19 THAT WE TRY TO BRING YOU...
• 18:20 THE UP-TO-THE-MINUTE NEWS.
• 18:21 WE REALLY NEED YOUR PARTNERSHIP
• 18:22 DURING THIS SEASON.
• 18:23 WE NEED YOUR HELP.
• 18:24 SO PLEASE CONTINUE
• 18:25 TO SUPPORT US.
• 18:26 WE WANT TO NOT ONLY
• 18:27 CONTINUE WHAT WE'RE DOING,
• 18:28 WE WANT TO INCREASE
• 18:29 WHAT WE'RE DOING
• 18:30 IN THE DAYS AHEAD.
• 18:32 AND NOW, LET'S GO TO TOM McCALL
• 18:33 WITH AN EXPERT
• 18:34 ON THE PHILISTINES.
• 18:38 Prof. Seymour Gitin: IT'S
• 18:39 A FASCINATING STORY,
• 18:40 BECAUSE AS WE EXCAVATE
• 18:41 LAYER BY LAYER BY LAYER,
• 18:43 WE SEE, AFTER 100 OR 200 YEARS,
• 18:46 LESS OF THE ETHNIC MARKERS
• 18:49 THAT WOULD INDICATE
• 18:50 AN AEGEAN ORIGIN.
• 18:51 SO, BY THE YEAR,
• 18:52 LET'S SAY 1,000 BCE,
• 18:55 WHEN WE KNOW
• 18:56 FROM THE BIBLICAL STORY
• 18:57 AND FROM OTHER SOURCES,
• 18:58 THERE WAS A GREAT BUILD-UP
• 19:00 OF POWER INLAND.
• 19:02 WE CALL THAT
• 19:03 THE UNITED MONARCHY.
• 19:04 WE TALK ABOUT THE PERIOD OF SAUL
• 19:07 AND DAVID AND SOLOMON.
• 19:09 THE PHILISTINES LOST
• 19:10 THEIR GEOPOLITICAL
• 19:12 AND ECONOMIC IMPORTANCE
• 19:13 AND WE SEE THAT RECORDED
• 19:15 IN THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL RECORD.
• 19:17 FOR INSTANCE, AT EKRON,
• 19:18 THIS HUGE SITE,
• 19:19 ONE OF THE LARGEST SITES
• 19:21 IN THE BIBLICAL PERIOD,
• 19:23 SOMEWHERE ABOUT 1,000 BCE,
• 19:25 MUCH OF THE CITY IS DESTROYED
• 19:27 AND WHAT POPULATION IS LEFT
• 19:29 RECEDES TO A SMALL 10-ACRE AREA.
• 19:32 THE CITY HAD BEEN AT LEAST
• 19:33 50 ACRES IN SIZE BEFORE THAT.
• 19:35 AND FOR ABOUT 250 YEARS,
• 19:38 THE CITY REMAINED QUITE SMALL
• 19:40 AND UNIMPORTANT.
• 19:42 Zola: THE BOOK OF JUDGES
• 19:43 STATES;
• 19:55 ADDITIONALLY,
• 19:56 I SAMUEL DECLARES;
• 20:06 ALTHOUGH UNCERTAIN AS TO
• 20:07 WHICH PASSAGE DESCRIBES
• 20:08 THE DESTRUCTION SEEN
• 20:09 IN THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL FINDS
• 20:11 OF EKRON,
• 20:12 THE BIBLE PLAINLY ACCOUNTS FOR
• 20:13 THE INTERMITTENT ISRAELITE
• 20:15 DOMINION OVER THE PHILISTINES.
• 20:18 THE BIBLE ALSO MENTIONS
• 20:19 A SUBSEQUENT INVASION OF JUDAH
• 20:21 AND ISRAEL BY A FORCE
• 20:22 FROM THE EAST.
• 20:24 THE BOOK OF II KINGS ASSERTS;
• 20:32 THIS OCCURRED
• 20:33 IN THE 8th CENTURY BC.
• 20:35 SURPRISINGLY, ARCHAEOLOGY SHOWS
• 20:37 THE DOMINATION OF JUDAH
• 20:39 WAS EKRON'S DELIGHT.
• 20:42 Seymour: AND THE PHILISTINE
• 20:43 STATES, WHICH WERE
• 20:44 SO PRODUCTIVE, THEY GAVE
• 20:45 A CERTAIN LEEWAY.
• 20:47 THEY GAVE THEM A CERTAIN
• 20:48 SENSE OF INDEPENDENCE
• 20:49 AND THEY MADE THEM
• 20:50 VASSAL STATES, WHICH MEANS
• 20:51 THEY MORE OR LESS CONTROLLED
• 20:53 THEIR OWN TERRITORY.
• 20:56 NOW, EKRON THEY CHOSE
• 20:57 AS THE CENTER FOR
• 20:59 THE LARGEST OLIVE OIL
• 21:00 PRODUCTION ANYWHERE INDICATED
• 21:03 OR FOUND TO DATE
• 21:04 IN THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST.
• 21:05 Tom: OLIVE OIL PRODUCTION.
• 21:06 Seymour: THAT'S RIGHT...
• 21:07 IN THE 7th CENTURY CITY.
• 21:09 THIS WAS A CITY THAT WAS
• 21:11 SUDDENLY BUILT UP
• 21:13 IN THE ASSYRIAN PERIOD
• 21:14 AND EKRON WENT FROM A SMALL,
• 21:17 UNIMPORTANT CITY
• 21:18 IN THIS MEDIAN PERIOD
• 21:20 THAT I TALKED ABOUT BEFORE,
• 21:21 SUDDENLY EXPANDED
• 21:22 TO ABOUT 85 ACRES.
• 21:24 WE HAVE THUS FAR, IN EXCAVATING
• 21:27 ABOUT ONLY 4% OF THE SITE
• 21:29 AND OF COURSE SURVEYING
• 21:30 ALL OF THE TOP REMAINS,
• 21:32 FOUND 115 OLIVE OIL
• 21:35 INSTALLATIONS.
• 21:37 Zola: IT IS BELIEVED
• 21:38 THE PHILISTINES PRODUCED
• 21:39 SOME 290,000 GALLONS
• 21:41 OF OLIVE OIL A YEAR,
• 21:42 MOSTLY FOR EXPORT.
• 21:44 HOWEVER, LIKE THE OIL BEING
• 21:46 PRESSED FROM THE OLIVES,
• 21:47 THE PHILISTINE CULTURAL LIFE
• 21:49 WAS BEING SQUEEZED OUT
• 21:51 AS THE AEGEAN IMMIGRANTS
• 21:52 ASSIMILATED THE TRADITIONS
• 21:53 OF THOSE AROUND THEM.
• 21:55 SEYMOUR AND HIS TEAM UNCOVERED
• 21:57 ARTIFACTS WHICH COMMUNICATE
• 21:58 THIS INFLUENCE.
• 22:00 THIS FOUR-HORNED INCENSE ALTAR
• 22:02 WAS ONE OF THEM.
• 22:03 Seymour: NOW, I'M SURE
• 22:04 YOU WANT TO KNOW WHAT
• 22:06 A FOUR-HORNED INCENSE ALTAR,
• 22:08 WHICH IS TYPICAL OF ANCIENT
• 22:09 ISRAELITE RELIGION THAT WE KNOW
• 22:11 ABOUT FROM THE BIBLE
• 22:12 AND WE KNOW ABOUT FROM
• 22:14 ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXCAVATIONS
• 22:15 AT ISRAELITE SITES,
• 22:16 WHAT THIS IS DOING AT EKRON.
• 22:19 IT'S NOT FOUND AT ANY OTHER
• 22:20 PHILISTINE CITY IN THE PERIOD.
• 22:23 OUR THEORY IS THAT
• 22:24 THE PHILISTINES SURVIVED
• 22:25 SO LONG,
• 22:26 FROM ABOUT 1200 TO 600 BCE,
• 22:29 THAT'S ABOUT 600 YEARS,
• 22:31 BECAUSE THEY WERE VERY FLEXIBLE.
• 22:33 WHENEVER A NATION CONFRONTED
• 22:35 THEM OR CONQUERED THEM,
• 22:36 THEY ADAPTED SOMETHING
• 22:38 OF THAT CULTURE
• 22:39 AND THEY WERE FLEXIBLE ENOUGH
• 22:40 TO SURVIVE.
• 22:42 BY THE TIME WE COME TO
• 22:44 THE GREAT GROWTH PERIOD,
• 22:45 THE ZENITH OF EKRON
• 22:47 IN THE 7th CENTURY,
• 22:48 IT'S VERY HARD TO FIND
• 22:50 ANYTHING LEFT OVER
• 22:52 FROM THEIR ANCESTORS
• 22:54 THAT HAVE AN AEGEAN MOTIF,
• 22:57 OR AN AEGEAN THEME ABOUT THEM.
• 22:59 Zola: EGYPTIAN CULTURE WAS ALSO
• 23:01 REPRESENTED IN EKRON'S RUINS.
• 23:03 THIS MAGNIFICENT GOLDEN COBRA,
• 23:05 CALLED A "URAEUS",
• 23:08 ONCE ADORNED THE CROWN
• 23:09 OF AN EGYPTIAN PHARAOH.
• 23:10 ALSO UNEARTHED WAS WHAT
• 23:12 SEYMOUR BELIEVED TO BE
• 23:13 THEIR MOST IMPORTANT FIND,
• 23:15 A STONE INSCRIPTION
• 23:16 FROM EKRON'S TEMPLE COMPLEX.
• 23:18 Seymour: AND WHAT IT SAYS,
• 23:19 VERY BRIEFLY, IS THAT THIS IS
• 23:22 A "BET", A HOUSE OR A TEMPLE,
• 23:24 PERHAPS A SHRINE, BUILT,
• 23:27 "BINAH", BY ACHISH
• 23:29 WHOM WE IDENTIFY WITH IKAUSU
• 23:31 OF THE NEO-ASSYRIAN TEXT
• 23:33 WHO WAS THE SON OF PADI,
• 23:36 WHO IS THE SON OF SO AND SO,
• 23:37 AND SO AND SO, AND SO AND SO,
• 23:39 ALL OF THESE WONDERFUL NAMES,
• 23:41 AND THEN WE COME ACROSS
• 23:42 THE WORD "SAR" WHICH IS THE WORD
• 23:46 FOR KING, OR RULER OF EKRON.
• 23:52 THIS TEMPLE WAS BUILT
• 23:53 TO A GODDESS, HIS GODDESS,
• 23:56 THE GODDESS OF ACHISH OR IKAUSU
• 23:59 AND MAY THERE BE BLESSING
• 24:00 AND LONG LIFE, ETC.
• 24:02 NOW, WHY IS THIS INSCRIPTION
• 24:03 SO IMPORTANT?
• 24:05 ACTUALLY, IT'S THE FIRST TIME
• 24:07 AN INSCRIPTION HAS BEEN FOUND
• 24:09 IN PLACE "IN SITU,"
• 24:11 ON AN EXCAVATION,
• 24:12 IN WHICH THE DATE
• 24:14 IS NOT IN QUESTION.
• 24:15 THIS WAS FOUND IN
• 24:16 THE NEO-BABYLONIAN DESTRUCTION
• 24:18 OF 603 BCE.
• 24:20 THE DESTRUCTION CAUSED
• 24:21 BY THE KING NEBUCHADNEZZAR.
• 24:23 SO, WE HAVE AN INSCRIPTION
• 24:24 WHICH IS LIKE A SIGN POST.
• 24:26 IT SAYS AFTER 13 YEARS
• 24:27 OF EXCAVATION, ABSOLUTELY,
• 24:30 YOU WERE EXCAVATING EKRON.
• 24:32 Tom: SEYMOUR, WHAT HAPPENED
• 24:33 TO THE PHILISTINES
• 24:34 THAT HAD THIS CIVILIZATION?
• 24:36 Seymour: IN THE 7th CENTURY
• 24:37 WHEN THEY HAD THIS HUGE
• 24:38 INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX,
• 24:40 THIS GREAT CITY,
• 24:41 WHEN THEY REACHED THE ZENITH
• 24:42 OF ITS GROWTH,
• 24:44 ALL OF THESE FACTORS
• 24:45 OF OTHER COUNTRIES IMPACTED
• 24:47 SO HEAVILY THAT BY THE TIME
• 24:48 THE BABYLONIANS DESTROYED
• 24:50 THE CITY AND PHYSICALLY
• 24:51 REMOVED THE INHABITANTS
• 24:54 AND TOOK THEM EASTWARD
• 24:56 INTO BABYLON,
• 24:57 THAT THEY NO LONGER
• 24:58 HAD ANY CORE CULTURE LEFT
• 25:00 TO MAINTAIN THEMSELVES IN EXILE.
• 25:03 Tom: SO, THEY MORE OR LESS,
• 25:04 DISAPPEARED FROM THE FACE
• 25:06 OF HISTORY.
• 25:07 Seymour: WELL, WE DON'T HAVE
• 25:08 ANY EVIDENCE, ARCHAEOLOGICALLY
• 25:09 OR IN TERMS OF TEXT,
• 25:10 THAT IS SIGNIFICANT
• 25:11 THAT WOULD INDICATE
• 25:12 THAT THEY REALLY CONTINUE.
• 25:14 IT'S, MORE OR LESS, A PEOPLE
• 25:15 THAT DISAPPEARED LIKE
• 25:16 PERHAPS THE ANCIENT AMMONITES,
• 25:19 OR THE MOABITES,
• 25:20 OR THE EDOMITES,
• 25:22 LOST IN THE PAGES OF HISTORY.
• 25:33 (♪ Flute ♪)
• 25:55 Myles: I HOPE YOU'RE CATCHING
• 25:56 WHAT WE JUST SAW.
• 25:57 I MEAN, THAT IS SO INCREDIBLE
• 25:59 TO REALIZE THAT ALL THIS NOISE
• 26:00 THAT'S BEING MADE
• 26:01 ABOUT THE PHILISTINES
• 26:02 AND THE ARABIC PEOPLE
• 26:04 BEING DESCENDED
• 26:05 FROM THE PHILISTINES,
• 26:06 IT'S JUST MADE UP.
• 26:07 THE REALITY IS THAT
• 26:08 THE PHILISTINES
• 26:09 WERE FROM GREECE.
• 26:10 THEY WERE AN AEGEAN PEOPLE
• 26:11 THAT CAME HERE
• 26:12 AND THAT WERE WIPED OUT,
• 26:13 AND THERE'S NEVER REALLY
• 26:14 BEEN A CONNECTION
• 26:15 IN THE WAY THAT IT'S
• 26:16 BEING SAID POLITICALLY TODAY.
• 26:18 Katharine: ARAFAT USED
• 26:19 HIS OWN PEOPLE AS A PAWN.
• 26:20 Myles: IT'S REALLY SAD
• 26:21 BUT IT'S TRUE THAT THERE'S
• 26:23 BEEN THIS MISINFORMATION.
• 26:24 WE REALLY NEED TO KNOW
• 26:25 THE TRUTH.
• 26:26 WE REALLY NEED TO HEAR
• 26:27 THESE KINDS OF MESSAGES.
• 26:28 THAT'S WHY IT'S SO VALUABLE
• 26:29 THAT YOU'RE HELPING US
• 26:30 TO BRING THESE PROGRAMS,
• 26:32 ESPECIALLY IN THE DAY
• 26:33 IN WHICH WE ARE LIVING.
• 26:34 THERE'S SUCH DISINFORMATION
• 26:35 AND SUCH DEMONIZATION OF ISRAEL
• 26:37 AND THE JEWISH PEOPLE.
• 26:38 WE NEED REALITY
• 26:40 TO COME THROUGH THE MEDIA,
• 26:41 AND WE HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY
• 26:43 TO DO THIS WITH YOUR SUPPORT.
• 26:45 Katharine: AND, ALSO,
• 26:46 BY THIS RESOURCE THAT
• 26:48 WE OFFER YOU...
• 26:49 IT IS A BIBLE COURSE
• 26:51 AND IT IS "THE INSTITUTE
• 26:53 OF JEWISH-CHRISTIAN STUDIES'
• 26:56 AND IT IS AN IN-DEPTH STUDY
• 26:57 AND WHERE YOU CAN GET STARTED.
• 26:59 ZOLA AND JEFF BOTH TEACH ON THIS
• 27:00 AND I'VE LEARNED A LOT
• 27:02 FROM DIGGING INTO IT MYSELF
• 27:03 AND I KNOW YOU WILL TOO.
• 27:04 MYLES, YOU SAID A LOT;
• 27:06 THAT ISRAEL IS GOD'S TIMEPIECE.
• 27:09 AND IT WILL HELP US
• 27:10 TO UNDERSTAND THE SEASONS
• 27:11 THAT WE'RE IN.
• 27:12 AND IT WILL HELP US ALSO
• 27:13 TO UNDERSTAND WHAT GOD SAYS
• 27:16 ABOUT THE END-TIMES
• 27:17 AND HOW WE'RE CONNECTED WITH IT.
• 27:18 Myles: IT REALLY IS.
• 27:19 AND THIS IS SUCH
• 27:20 AN IN-DEPTH COURSE.
• 27:21 YOU CAN GET THIS A LITTLE BIT
• 27:22 AT A TIME OR
• 27:23 DO THE WHOLE COURSE.
• 27:24 YOU KNOW, I GRADUATED
• 27:25 FROM BIBLE COLLEGE
• 27:26 AND I HAVE A GRADUATE DEGREE
• 27:27 AND IT STILL IS
• 27:28 IMPRESSIVE TO ME.
• 27:30 THIS IS AN OLD TESTAMENT SURVEY,
• 27:31 NEW TESTAMENT SURVEY,
• 27:32 AND REALLY IS A DEEP STUDY
• 27:34 IN THE JEWISH ROOTS
• 27:36 OF YOUR FAITH
• 27:37 AND WE NEED THAT IN THESE DAYS
• 27:38 IN WHICH WE'RE LIVING.
• 27:40 AND SO...UNTIL WE SEE YOU AGAIN
• 27:42 WE ALWAYS WANT TO REMIND YOU,
• 27:44 SHAL'ALU SHALOM YERUSHALAYIM.
• 27:46 Katharine: PRAY FOR THE PEACE
• 27:47 OF JERUSALEM.
• 27:51 ♪ LORD GOD, CREATOR OF HEAVEN, ♪
• 27:58 ♪ LORD GOD, WE BRING FORTH YOUR PRAISES ♪
• 28:07 ♪ THE EARTH STANDS A TRIBUTE TO GLORY ♪
• 28:15 ♪ STONES TELL YOUR WONDERFUL STORY. ♪♪
• 28:23 CAPTION TECHNOLOGIES, INC. www.captiontech.com