
“A Man Crucified”
On display at the Rockefeller Museum in Jerusalem, a man’s heel bone that was pierced by a nail is the first archaeological proof of Roman crucifixions in Israel.
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Caption transcript for The Stones Cry Out (2012): “A Man Crucified” (11/12)
- 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 CONTINUING OUR
- 00:53 SERIES, "THE STONES CRY OUT."
- 00:55 THIS IS AN ARCHAEOLOGICAL LOOK
- 00:57 AT THE BIBLE, REALLY VERIFYING
- 00:59 THE TRUTH OF THE BIBLE
- 01:01 AS WELL AS THE REALITY
- 01:02 OF THE JEWISH PRESENCE IN
- 01:04 THE LAND FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS,
- 01:06 THINGS THAT ARE BEING DISPUTED
- 01:07 TODAY.
- 01:08 ANOTHER THING THAT'S BEEN
- 01:09 QUESTIONED IS WHETHER
- 01:10 THE CRUCIFIXION WAS REALLY TRUE
- 01:11 BECAUSE IT'S SUCH
- 01:12 A HORRIBLE DEATH.
- 01:13 AND IN THIS PROGRAM,
- 01:14 IT'S VERY SOBERING; WE'RE GOING
- 01:16 TO SEE EVIDENCE OF CRUCIFIXION
- 01:18 WHICH IS BEING UNEARTHED
- 01:19 IN OUR ERA.
- 01:20 REALLY, IT'S QUITE SOBERING
- 01:23 AND YOU'RE GOING TO SEE THE
- 01:24 MEDICAL EFFECTS OF CRUCIFIXION
- 01:26 AND THE HORRIBLE MEANS
- 01:28 THAT IT WAS OF EXECUTING PEOPLE.
- 01:30 Katharine: AND WHAT JESUS
- 01:31 WENT THROUGH FOR OUR SALVATION.
- 01:32 Myles: EXACTLY...WHAT
- 01:34 HE SACRIFICED ON OUR BEHALF.
- 01:36 THIS IS A VERY TOUCHING PROGRAM,
- 01:38 SO I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO YOU
- 01:39 SEEING THIS AND HEARING BACK
- 01:40 FROM YOU ABOUT IT.
- 01:41 Katharine: RIGHT, IT'S ALMOST...
- 01:43 YOU DON'T WANT TO TURN AWAY,
- 01:45 BUT PREPARE YOURSELVES
- 01:47 FOR THIS PROGRAM BECAUSE
- 01:48 YOU'LL SEE THE PRICE THAT
- 01:50 JESUS PAID FOR BOTH YOU AND I,
- 01:52 AND ALL HUMANITY,
- 01:54 TO HAVE RELATIONSHIP WITH HIM.
- 01:55 WE WANT TO MAKE YOU AWARE OF
- 01:57 AN OFFER THAT WE HAVE FOR YOU.
- 02:00 IT'S "DISCOVERING
- 02:01 YOUR JEWISH ROOTS."
- 02:02 IT'S A NINE-CD BIBLE STUDY AND
- 02:04 IT'S A WONDERFUL IN-DEPTH STUDY
- 02:06 AND WE JUST WOULD LOVE YOU
- 02:07 TO GET IT
- 02:08 AND LEARN ABOUT YOUR ROOTS
- 02:10 IN YOUR CHRISTIAN FAITH.
- 02:12 Myles: EXACTLY, THE CHRISTIAN
- 02:13 FAITH HAS ROOTS IN JUDAISM
- 02:15 AND IN JEWISH LIFE.
- 02:16 THIS IS A GREAT STUDY
- 02:17 THAT WILL HELP YOU WITH THAT.
- 02:18 SO LET'S GO TO ISRAEL
- 02:20 WHERE TOM McCALL INTERVIEWED
- 02:22 ANTHROPOLOGIST JOE ZIAS.
- 02:28 ♪ ♪
- 02:31 Tom: JOE, I UNDERSTAND
- 02:32 YOU'VE BEEN STUDYING
- 02:33 THE FIELD OF CRUCIFIXION
- 02:34 FOR A LONG TIME.
- 02:36 CAN YOU TELL ME HOW RARE
- 02:38 WAS CRUCIFIXION AS A MEANS
- 02:40 OF EXECUTION IN ANCIENT TIMES?
- 02:43 Joe: WELL, ACTUALLY,
- 02:44 IT WAS VERY COMMON.
- 02:46 WE KNOW THAT THEY DID IT
- 02:47 FOR PERHAPS 800 YEARS.
- 02:48 THEY DID IT THROUGHOUT EUROPE,
- 02:50 NORTH AFRICA, WESTERN ASIA,
- 02:52 GREAT BRITAIN.
- 02:54 I THINK THE QUESTION IS NOT
- 02:55 WHO DID IT; THE QUESTION IS,
- 02:56 IS THERE ANYBODY
- 02:57 WHO DIDN'T DO IT?
- 02:58 AND WE KNOW THAT THE FIGURES
- 02:59 PROBABLY RUN, I WOULD SAY,
- 03:02 PERHAPS EVEN MAYBE OVER 100,000.
- 03:04 Tom: 100,000 PEOPLE PERHAPS--
- 03:06 Joe: DURING A PERIOD
- 03:07 OF 800 YEARS.
- 03:08 WE KNOW, FOR EXAMPLE, ON ONE DAY
- 03:09 IN ROME THEY CRUCIFIED
- 03:10 6,000 PEOPLE IN ONE DAY.
- 03:11 IT GIVES YOU AN IDEA OF
- 03:12 HOW FAST THEY COULD DO IT,
- 03:14 HOW EFFICIENT THEY COULD DO IT.
- 03:16 Tom: WELL, WE KNOW THE ROMANS
- 03:17 USED IT EXTENSIVELY.
- 03:19 DID OTHER CULTURES USE IT
- 03:21 AS WELL?
- 03:22 Joe: EVERYBODY USED IT, THOUGH,
- 03:23 THERE WERE EXCEPTIONS, LIKE,
- 03:24 FOR EXAMPLE, WITH THE JEWS.
- 03:26 THE JEWS CRUCIFIED UNDER VERY,
- 03:28 VERY WELL-DEFINED CIRCUMSTANCES
- 03:31 AND THAT WAS FOR GOING OVER
- 03:32 TO THE ENEMY, FOR PEOPLE
- 03:33 WHO WERE TRAITORS.
- 03:35 YOU WERE KILLED FIRST BY STONING
- 03:37 AND THEN AFTER YOU WERE DEAD,
- 03:38 YOU THEN WERE HUNG FROM A TREE.
- 03:39 Tom: WHY WOULD YOU HANG SOMEONE
- 03:41 AFTER THEY HAD BEEN KILLED?
- 03:43 Joe: YOU HAVE TO REALIZE
- 03:44 THAT BACK IN THOSE DAYS,
- 03:45 PEOPLE LIVED IN COMMUNITIES
- 03:46 WHERE EVERYBODY KNEW EACH OTHER
- 03:48 AND THIS WAS TO GOING
- 03:49 TO HUMILIATE THE FAMILY
- 03:50 OF THE INDIVIDUAL, THE PEOPLE
- 03:51 WHO WERE INVOLVED IN THIS.
- 03:53 Tom: IT WASN'T TO EXECUTE THEM,
- 03:54 THEY HAD ALREADY BEEN EXECUTED,
- 03:55 BUT TO--
- 03:56 Joe: THEY WERE DEAD, THEY WERE
- 03:57 DEAD AND THEN HUNG FROM A TREE.
- 03:58 Tom: HOW, ACTUALLY,
- 03:59 DID DEATH OCCUR
- 04:02 WHEN A PERSON WAS CRUCIFIED?
- 04:04 Joe: THIS IS SOMETHING WHICH IS,
- 04:05 UNTIL LATELY, VERY, VERY,
- 04:07 I THINK, MISUNDERSTOOD.
- 04:10 WE KNOW THAT, FOR EXAMPLE,
- 04:11 IF I WERE TO TAKE A YOUNG MAN,
- 04:12 IF I WERE TO HANDCUFF HIM
- 04:14 AND HANG HIM FROM A BEAM
- 04:15 BY HIS HANDS, HE'S DEAD
- 04:17 WITHIN AN HOUR OF ASPHYXIATION.
- 04:19 IF YOU HOLD HIS FEET DOWN,
- 04:21 SO HE CAN'T PULL HIMSELF
- 04:22 UP AND DOWN,
- 04:24 HE'S DEAD WITHIN 6-10 MINUTES.
- 04:25 Tom: SO IT MAKES A LOT
- 04:26 OF DIFFERENCE IF THE HANDS
- 04:28 ARE UP ABOVE THE HEAD.
- 04:29 Joe: EXACTLY.
- 04:30 ON THE OTHER HAND, IF THE HANDS
- 04:32 ARE EXTENDED IN THIS FASHION
- 04:33 HERE, YOU HAVE NO PROBLEMS
- 04:35 BREATHING WHATSOEVER.
- 04:37 THERE WERE EXPERIMENTS DONE
- 04:38 IN NEW YORK.
- 04:39 COLLEGE STUDENTS VOLUNTEERED TO
- 04:40 GO ON A CROSS WITH SEAT BELTS.
- 04:42 THEIR WHOLE PHYSIOLOGICAL
- 04:44 RESPONSE WAS MONITORED.
- 04:45 Tom: PEOPLE ACTUALLY VOLUNTEERED
- 04:46 TO BE CRUCIFIED TEMPORARILY
- 04:48 THEN.
- 04:50 Joe: THERE WERE STUDENTS
- 04:51 UP THERE FOR 45 MINUTES,
- 04:52 WHICH HAD NO PROBLEMS
- 04:53 WHATSOEVER WITH BREATHING;
- 04:54 SO ALL THE THEORIES
- 04:55 ABOUT BREATHING DIFFICULTIES
- 04:57 ARE CORRECT ONLY IF YOUR HANDS
- 04:59 ARE ABOVE YOUR HEAD.
- 05:00 IF YOUR HANDS ARE OUTSPREAD,
- 05:01 THE BODY GOES INTO WHAT'S CALLED
- 05:03 "HYPOVOLEMIC SHOCK."
- 05:04 IT'S ONE OF THE TYPES OF SHOCK.
- 05:06 AND YOU EVENTUALLY,
- 05:08 WHAT HAPPENS IS THE SYSTEM
- 05:09 METABOLICALLY, PHYSIOLOGICALLY
- 05:10 SHUTS DOWN, AND THEN,
- 05:12 YOU EVENTUALLY DIE.
- 05:13 NOW, I CAN KEEP YOU UP THERE
- 05:14 FOR HOURS, DAYS.
- 05:19 WE KNOW, FOR EXAMPLE,
- 05:20 OF A CASE IN BETHLEHEM
- 05:21 WHERE THERE WERE THREE FRIENDS
- 05:22 OF JOSEPHUS WHO WERE BEING
- 05:24 CRUCIFIED IN BETHLEHEM...
- 05:25 BEEN ON A CROSS, I THINK,
- 05:26 FOR TWO DAYS.
- 05:27 AND HE WENT TO THE AUTHORITIES
- 05:29 AND THEY SAID, "TAKE THEM DOWN."
- 05:31 HE WENT THERE
- 05:32 AND TOOK THEM DOWN.
- 05:33 ONE OR TWO OF THEM
- 05:34 LIVED HAPPILY EVER AFTER.
- 05:35 SO IT DEPENDS UPON, REALLY,
- 05:37 THE SADISTIC INGENUITY
- 05:38 OF THE EXECUTIONER.
- 05:39 HE CAN MAKE IT FAST.
- 05:40 HE CAN MAKE IT SLOW.
- 05:41 Tom: SO IN THIS KIND OF SHOCK,
- 05:43 WHAT HAPPENS TO THE SYSTEMS
- 05:45 OF THE BODY?
- 05:47 Joe: YEAH, WHAT HAPPENS IS IT
- 05:48 METABOLICALLY--THESE THINGS
- 05:50 AND PHYSIOLOGICALLY,
- 05:51 THESE THINGS START TO SHUT DOWN,
- 05:52 OKAY, IN THE WHOLE--
- 05:55 WHOLE PHYSIOLOGICAL PROCESS,
- 05:56 THE BREATHING,
- 05:57 THE BLOOD CIRCULATION
- 05:58 AND SO ON AND SO FORTH.
- 06:00 NOW WHAT'S INTERESTING
- 06:01 ABOUT THIS IS IF YOU REMOVE
- 06:03 THOSE CIRCUMSTANCES
- 06:04 WHICH ARE CAUSING YOU
- 06:05 TO GO INTO HYPOVOLEMIC SHOCK,
- 06:08 YOU CAN REVIVE THE PERSON TODAY,
- 06:09 WE KNOW CLINICALLY
- 06:10 IN ABOUT 75% OF THE CASES,
- 06:12 WHICH IS THE REASON WHY
- 06:15 JOSEPHUS COULD GO TO BETHLEHEM,
- 06:16 REMOVE THESE INDIVIDUALS,
- 06:17 AND ONE OR MAYBE TWO OF THEM
- 06:20 SURVIVED.
- 06:21 THE OTHER THING IS,
- 06:22 I THINK THIS POINTS OUT THE FACT
- 06:24 THAT IN JUDAISM, ONE WAS
- 06:26 REQUIRED TO GO TO THE GRAVE
- 06:27 OF THE DECEASED THREE DAYS
- 06:28 AFTER THE PERSON DIED.
- 06:30 THE REASON IS THAT TRYING
- 06:32 TO CLINICALLY DEFINE DEATH,
- 06:34 EVEN TODAY,
- 06:35 FOR THE INEXPERIENCED PERSON,
- 06:37 IS VERY DIFFICULT.
- 06:39 AND SO BACK IN ANTIQUITY,
- 06:41 ACCORDING TO JUDAIC LAW,
- 06:43 THREE DAYS AFTER YOU WERE DEAD,
- 06:44 SOMEBODY WENT TO THE TOMB.
- 06:46 Tom: SO THEY HAD TO VERIFY THE--
- 06:48 Joe: THEY HAD TO VERIFY IT
- 06:49 AND WE EVEN KNOW OF A CASE,
- 06:50 FOR EXAMPLE, WHERE THE JEWS
- 06:51 WENT TO THE TOMB
- 06:52 AND THE GUY WAS NOT DEAD.
- 06:53 HE HAD GONE INTO SOME TYPE
- 06:54 OF A COMA AND EVIDENTLY
- 06:56 IT WAS BECAUSE OF THAT
- 06:57 THE JEWS REALIZED THAT,
- 06:59 HALACHICALLY,
- 07:01 YOU HAD TO VISIT THE TOMB
- 07:02 THREE DAYS AFTER THE DEATH.
- 07:04 Zola: THE IMPORTANCE
- 07:05 OF THE THIRD DAY
- 07:06 IS EMPHASIZED IN MATTHEW 27,
- 07:08 WHICH STATES THAT:
- 07:24 JESUS HAD ADDRESSED THE
- 07:25 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE THIRD DAY
- 07:26 WHEN HE TOLD HIS DISCIPLES
- 07:28 THAT THE SON OF MAN WOULD BE
- 07:29 DELIVERED TO THE GENTILES
- 07:31 TO MOCK AND TO SCOURGE
- 07:32 AND TO CRUCIFY HIM
- 07:34 AND THE THIRD DAY
- 07:36 HE SHALL RISE AGAIN.
- 07:38 Tom: WELL, WE UNDERSTAND
- 07:39 THAT OFTEN DURING CRUCIFIXION,
- 07:42 THE LEGS OF THE VICTIM
- 07:44 WOULD BE BROKEN.
- 07:46 WHAT WAS THE PURPOSE IN THAT?
- 07:47 Joe: ONE OF THE THINGS WHICH
- 07:48 THEY WOULD DO TO PROLONG IT
- 07:51 IS THAT THEY WOULD TAKE A PIECE
- 07:52 OF WOOD ABOUT THIS WIDE...
- 07:56 ABOUT THIS LONG....
- 07:57 THEY WOULD PUT UNDERNEATH
- 07:58 THE BUTTOCKS.
- 07:59 AND WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IS
- 08:00 THE INDIVIDUALS WOULD USE
- 08:01 THEIR ARMS AND THE LEGS
- 08:02 TO PUSH THEMSELVES UP
- 08:03 ON THE CROSS.
- 08:04 AND YOU CAN SIT THERE
- 08:05 FOR MAYBE A MINUTE OR TWO,
- 08:07 YOU CAN INHALE-EXHALE,
- 08:08 BUT WHAT HAPPENS,
- 08:09 EVENTUALLY YOU'RE GOING TO SLIP.
- 08:10 AND WHAT HAPPENS IS
- 08:11 THAT ONCE YOU STEP DOWN,
- 08:12 THE PROCESS THEN STARTS
- 08:13 ALL OVER AGAIN.
- 08:15 SO, TO MAKE DEATH MUCH QUICKER,
- 08:16 WHAT YOU DO IS
- 08:17 YOU BREAK THE LEGS AND THEY THEN
- 08:18 CANNOT USE THE LEGS TO PULL
- 08:19 THEMSELVES UP ON THIS LITTLE--
- 08:22 IT'S CALLED A SEDULUM.
- 08:24 SO WHAT IT DOES IS, AGAIN,
- 08:25 IN TERMS OF THE BODY
- 08:26 GOING INTO SHOCK,
- 08:27 IT'S GOING TO HASTEN DEATH.
- 08:29 Tom: SO THAT WAS A MEANS
- 08:30 OF HASTENING DEATH.
- 08:31 Joe: OF HASTENING A DEATH,
- 08:32 AGAIN, YOU HAVE TO REALIZE
- 08:33 THERE MAY BE HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE
- 08:36 WAITING IN LINE, FOR EXAMPLE,
- 08:38 THE CASE IN ROME,
- 08:39 WHERE YOU'VE 6,000 PEOPLE.
- 08:40 YOU'VE GOT TO DO IT FAST
- 08:42 AND YOU CAN'T BE WAITING THERE
- 08:45 THE REST OF YOUR LIFE.
- 08:46 SO THESE WERE WAYS, I THINK,
- 08:48 FOR THE ROMANS SOLDIERS--
- 08:49 IT WAS ALWAYS A THREE-MAN,
- 08:50 AN EXECUTION TEAM--THIS WAS
- 08:52 WAYS OF SPEEDING UP THE PROCESS.
- 08:54 Zola: ON THE DAY OF JESUS'
- 08:55 CRUCIFIXION, THE ROMAN SOLDIERS
- 08:57 BROKE THE LEGS
- 08:58 OF THE TWO THIEVES,
- 08:59 IN ORDER TO ASSURE THEIR DEATH
- 09:00 BEFORE THE ONCOMING SABBATH.
- 09:02 "BUT WHEN THEY CAME TO JESUS,
- 09:04 AND SAW THAT HE WAS DEAD
- 09:05 ALREADY,
- 09:06 THEY BRAKE NOT HIS LEGS:
- 09:08 BUT ONE OF THE SOLDIERS
- 09:09 WITH A SPEAR PIERCED HIS SIDE,
- 09:11 AND FORTHWITH CAME THERE OUT
- 09:13 BLOOD AND WATER.
- 09:15 FOR THESE THINGS WERE DONE,
- 09:17 THAT THE SCRIPTURE SHOULD BE
- 09:18 FULFILLED, A BONE OF HIM
- 09:20 SHALL NOT BE BROKEN."
- 09:22 AND AGAIN ANOTHER SCRIPTURE
- 09:23 SAITH, "THEY SHALL LOOK UPON HIM
- 09:25 WHOM THEY HAVE PIERCED.
- 09:27 Tom: JOE, I UNDERSTAND YOU'VE
- 09:29 MADE A VERY RARE FIND OF AN
- 09:33 EXAMPLE OF A CRUCIFIED PERSON.
- 09:40 WHEN WAS THIS FOUND
- 09:41 AND WHAT WERE THE CIRCUMSTANCES
- 09:43 AROUND ITS FINDING?
- 09:45 Joe: OKAY, IN 1968
- 09:48 A COLLEAGUE OF MINE WAS DIGGING
- 09:49 HERE IN JERUSALEM.
- 09:51 IT WAS ONE OF THESE ACCIDENTAL
- 09:52 FINDS AND HERE WERE A SERIES
- 09:55 OF OSSUARIES IN A JEWISH TOMB
- 09:57 GOING BACK TO THE TIME
- 09:58 OF CHRIST.
- 10:00 AND IN ONE OF THE OSSUARIES,
- 10:01 THEY FOUND A HEEL BONE.
- 10:02 IT'S WHAT'S CALLED
- 10:03 A "CALCANEUM" OF AN INDIVIDUAL.
- 10:05 AND WHAT'S UNIQUE ABOUT THIS,
- 10:07 IF YOU LOOK VERY CLEARLY,
- 10:08 YOU CAN SEE THIS IS
- 10:09 AN INDIVIDUAL WHICH HAD A NAIL
- 10:11 WHICH IS DRIVEN LATERALLY
- 10:13 THROUGH A PIECE OF WOOD.
- 10:14 WE CAN STILL SEE TRACES
- 10:15 OF OLIVE WOOD HERE
- 10:16 AFTER 2,000 YEARS.
- 10:17 IT THEN WENT LATERALLY
- 10:19 INTO THE HEEL,
- 10:21 AND THEN WHAT HAPPENED...
- 10:22 Tom: NOW, THAT'S A--
- 10:24 Joe: THIS IS THE RIGHT HEEL.
- 10:25 Tom: --THE RIGHT HEEL
- 10:26 OF A HUMAN FOOT WITH A NAIL
- 10:30 THROUGH THE MIDDLE OF IT
- 10:32 AND THERE'S EVIDENCE OF
- 10:34 A PIECE OF WOOD--
- 10:35 Joe: A PIECE OF WOOD HERE.
- 10:36 Tom: --ON THE OUTSIDE.
- 10:37 Joe: OKAY, LET ME GO AHEAD
- 10:38 AND EXPLAIN IT TO YOU, PERHAPS,
- 10:39 IN A DIFFERENT WAY AND MAYBE
- 10:40 IT'LL MAKE IT MUCH CLEARER.
- 10:41 WE HAVE A NAIL HERE.
- 10:42 THIS IS ABOUT 11.5 CENTIMETERS
- 10:44 LONG; THIS WAS MORE OR LESS
- 10:45 THE LENGTH OF THAT NAIL.
- 10:46 Tom: THAT'S TYPICAL
- 10:47 OF THE ROMAN-SQUARED SHAPE
- 10:51 OF THE NAIL BODY ITSELF.
- 10:53 Joe: CORRECT.
- 10:55 WHAT THEY DID WAS THAT THEY
- 10:56 DROVE THIS THROUGH
- 10:57 A PIECE OF OLIVE WOOD.
- 10:58 IT THEN FUNCTIONS AS A WASHER.
- 11:00 NOW THAT YOU HAVE IT
- 11:01 THROUGH THE PIECE OF WOOD,
- 11:03 THEY THEN WOULD TAKE THE HEEL
- 11:04 OF THE INDIVIDUAL.
- 11:06 IT THEN PENETRATED THE HEEL
- 11:08 GOING IN FROM THE OUTSIDE.
- 11:10 AND IN THIS CASE HERE,
- 11:11 WHAT SEEMS TO BE OCCURRING,
- 11:12 THEY THEN NAILED HIM
- 11:14 TO THE TREE; AND WHAT HAPPENED,
- 11:16 AGAIN LEFT FOOT OVER HERE,
- 11:18 RIGHT FOOT OVER HERE,
- 11:20 WHAT HAPPENED, IT SEEMS THAT
- 11:22 WHEN THIS WENT INTO THE TREE,
- 11:24 THE NAIL BENT
- 11:25 AND IT FISH-HOOKED.
- 11:27 Tom: YOU MEAN IT HIT
- 11:28 AN OBSTRUCTION OF SOME KIND
- 11:29 OR A KNOT OR SOMETHING?
- 11:30 Joe: EXACTLY...PERHAPS A KNOT
- 11:31 IN THE WOOD OR SOMETHING HARD
- 11:32 IN THE WOOD.
- 11:33 WHEN IT FISH-HOOKED, IT THEN
- 11:34 BECAME IMPOSSIBLE TO REMOVE IT,
- 11:35 SO THAT'S THE REASON.
- 11:36 IF YOU LOOK AT THIS HERE,
- 11:38 WHAT YOU'RE SEEING HERE,
- 11:39 YOU SEE HOW THE THING IS BENT
- 11:40 OVER HERE AND THIS SIMPLY
- 11:42 MAKES IT IMPOSSIBLE TO REMOVE
- 11:45 SO THEY BURIED THIS INDIVIDUAL
- 11:47 WITH THE NAIL IN HIS FOOT.
- 11:48 Tom: NORMALLY, I SUPPOSE
- 11:49 THE NAIL WAS REMOVED,
- 11:51 IF IT COULD BE, IN MANY CASES.
- 11:54 Joe: YOU HAVE TO REALIZE THAT
- 11:55 WHAT YOU'RE LOOKING AT HERE,
- 11:56 YOU'RE LOOKING AT THE ONLY CASE
- 11:57 IN THE WORLD.
- 11:58 THERE IS NO OTHER CASE,
- 11:59 WHATSOEVER, WHERE WE HAVE
- 12:01 DIRECT PHYSICAL EVIDENCE
- 12:02 OF CRUCIFIXION.
- 12:04 THE REASONS I THINK ARE TWO;
- 12:05 ONE THING IS THAT MOST PEOPLE
- 12:06 WERE PROBABLY TIED TO CROSSES.
- 12:08 IF YOU LOOK AT THE GOOD THIEF
- 12:09 AND THE BAD THIEF,
- 12:10 THEY'RE ALWAYS TIED; JESUS IS
- 12:11 THE ONLY ONE THAT'S NAILED.
- 12:12 Tom: SO NAILING
- 12:13 WAS NOT ALWAYS COMMON.
- 12:14 Joe: I THINK IT MAY HAVE BEEN
- 12:15 THE EXCEPTION.
- 12:16 I THINK IT MAY HAVE BEEN
- 12:17 THE EXCEPTION TO THE RULE,
- 12:18 FIRST OF ALL, JUST IN TERMS OF
- 12:19 ECOLOGY, IN TERMS OF HAVING TO
- 12:20 CONTINUALLY RECYCLE THE CROSS IF
- 12:22 YOU ARE CONTINUALLY NAILING IT.
- 12:25 AFTER A FEW CRUCIFIXIONS,
- 12:26 YOU HAVE TO MAKE ANOTHER CROSS.
- 12:28 IF YOU TIED THEM UP THERE--
- 12:29 AGAIN, THERE'S NO RELATIONSHIP
- 12:30 WHATSOEVER BETWEEN
- 12:31 BEING NAILED OR TIED; THE BODY'S
- 12:33 GOING TO GO INTO SHOCK.
- 12:34 Tom: SAME THING HAPPENS.
- 12:35 Joe: SAME THING HAPPENS.
- 12:36 THE OTHER THING IS WE KNOW
- 12:37 FROM JEWISH SOURCES THAT THERE
- 12:38 WAS PROBABLY A BRISK TRADE
- 12:41 GOING ON IN NAILS OF PEOPLE
- 12:44 WHO HAVE BEEN CRUCIFIED.
- 12:45 Tom: WHY WOULD SOMEBODY WANT
- 12:46 A NAIL FROM SOMEBODY WHO HAD
- 12:48 BEEN CRUCIFIED?
- 12:49 Joe: ACCORDING TO
- 12:50 THE JEWISH SOURCES,
- 12:51 ACCORDING TO THE MISHNAH,
- 12:53 THERE WERE THREE THINGS
- 12:54 THAT A JEW COULD CARRY
- 12:55 IN HIS POCKET ON SHABBAT.
- 12:56 YOU KNOW THAT ON SHABBAT
- 12:57 JEWS WERE NOT ALLOWED TO CARRY
- 12:58 ANYTHING IN THEIR POCKETS,
- 12:59 NO MONEY,
- 13:01 BUT THERE WERE THREE EXCEPTIONS:
- 13:03 ONE WAS THE TOOTH OF A JACKAL;
- 13:05 THE OTHER WAS AN EGG
- 13:06 FROM A LIZARD; AND THE THIRD
- 13:07 THING WAS A NAIL OF A MAN
- 13:09 WHO HAD BEEN CRUCIFIED.
- 13:10 EVIDENTLY THESE THINGS
- 13:11 WERE SUCH POWERFUL AMULETS
- 13:14 THAT THESE WERE IN THAT CATEGORY
- 13:15 OF EXCEPTIONS WHICH YOU COULD
- 13:17 CARRY ON SHABBAT.
- 13:18 THEY WERE THAT POWERFUL.
- 13:20 SO THE EVIDENCE SEEMS TO SUGGEST
- 13:21 THERE WAS PROBABLY
- 13:22 A BRISK TRADING GOING ON
- 13:23 OF MEN WHO HAD BEEN CRUCIFIED
- 13:26 WITH THE NAILS.
- 13:27 Tom: SO THERE WAS A RELIGIOUS
- 13:28 REASON FOR WANTING A NAIL.
- 13:31 Joe: I WOULDN'T SAY RELIGIOUS,
- 13:33 I WOULD SAY A SUPERSTITIOUS
- 13:34 REASON IS WHAT IT WAS,
- 13:35 IT WAS SUPERSTITIOUS.
- 13:36 Tom: AND THAT'S WHY
- 13:37 YOU WOULDN'T FIND MANY BONES
- 13:40 WITH NAILS IN THEM
- 13:41 FROM CRUCIFIED PEOPLE.
- 13:42 Joe: I'M SURE...I'M SURE.
- 13:44 Tom: IT WAS A RARE THING,
- 13:45 BUT THEY COULDN'T REMOVE
- 13:48 THIS NAIL...
- 13:49 Joe: BECAUSE IT WAS BENT.
- 13:50 Tom: BECAUSE IT WAS BENT.
- 13:52 AND SO IT HAS BECOME ONE OF THE
- 13:54 RARE FINDS THAT HAS BEEN MADE.
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- 15:30 ON THE TOUR.
- 15:31 I THINK ACTUALLY HAVING
- 15:32 A MARRIED COUPLE ON TOUR
- 15:33 HAS JUST EVEN DEEPENED
- 15:36 THAT INTIMACY; THE ONE THING
- 15:37 I WANT TO TALK ABOUT TODAY
- 15:38 IS JUST HOW YOUR INTIMACY IS
- 15:40 GOING TO DEEPEN WITH THE LORD
- 15:42 WHEN YOU COME ON TOUR AND TO SEE
- 15:43 A MARRIED COUPLE LIKE MYLES
- 15:45 AND KATHARINE WHO HAVE SERVED
- 15:46 THE LORD SO FAITHFULLY
- 15:47 AND WHO ARE TRULY ONE.
- 15:49 WE SEE MESSIANIC JEW
- 15:50 AND CHRISTIAN COMING TOGETHER
- 15:52 AND WHAT I TELL PEOPLE, MYLES,
- 15:54 IS THAT I WENT TO
- 15:55 DALLAS SEMINARY FOR FIVE YEARS.
- 15:56 WE NEVER TALKED ABOUT ISRAEL.
- 15:57 I DIDN'T KNOW IT WAS IMPORTANT,
- 15:59 AND WHEN I TOOK MY FIRST TRIP
- 16:00 OVER THERE, I FELT LIKE
- 16:03 WHEN I WAS AT THE WESTERN WALL,
- 16:05 JUST AN ANALOGY I SAY IS I FELT
- 16:06 THAT MY RELATIONSHIP WITH
- 16:08 THE LORD WENT FROM A DATING
- 16:10 TO A MARRIAGE RELATIONSHIP.
- 16:11 YOU KNOW, IN SCRIPTURE,
- 16:13 IT TALKS ABOUT "A KNOWING"
- 16:14 AND THERE IS A KNOWING
- 16:15 AND WE ARE SO THRILLED
- 16:17 AND WE'RE PRIVILEGED THAT YOU,
- 16:19 OUR VIEWERS, WOULD WATCH
- 16:20 OUR SHOW SO FAITHFULLY,
- 16:21 BUT THERE IS JUST SOMETHING THAT
- 16:23 CANNOT BE TRANSLATED THROUGH
- 16:24 THAT SCREEN THAT THE PEOPLE
- 16:26 ARE GOING TO FEEL OVER IN ISRAEL
- 16:27 TO THEM, IT'S UNBELIEVABLE.
- 16:29 Myles: IT IS ABSOLUTELY TRUE.
- 16:30 WE HAD ONE PASTOR COME WITH US
- 16:32 AND HE SAID I WISH I HAD
- 16:34 EXPERIENCED THIS 35 YEARS AGO
- 16:36 IN SEMINARY; WHY DID I WAIT
- 16:37 MY WHOLE MINISTRY LIFE TO FIND
- 16:39 THIS DEPTH IN THE WORD
- 16:41 AND THIS RICHNESS IN THE BIBLE
- 16:43 BY COMING TO ISRAEL.
- 16:44 SO IT REALLY DOES
- 16:45 DEEPEN EVERYTHING.
- 16:46 Tracie: IT DOES AND ONE THING
- 16:47 ABOUT OUR TOURS, PEOPLE NEED
- 16:48 TO KNOW, MYLES, THAT NOT
- 16:49 EVERY TOUR--MOST DON'T
- 16:50 ACTUALLY--HAVE
- 16:52 MESSIANIC JEWISH GUIDES
- 16:53 AND SO IT'S THAT KNOWLEDGE.
- 16:55 FIRST OF ALL, NOT ONLY DO THEY
- 16:56 NOT HAVE MESSIANIC JEWISH GUIDES
- 16:58 MOST DON'T HAVE TOUR PASTORS
- 16:59 SO WE HAVE A MESSIANIC JEW
- 17:00 TOUR PASTOR, YOU AND KATHARINE
- 17:02 THERE, OPENING THE WORD
- 17:04 DEVOTIONALLY AND THEN THERE IS
- 17:05 SOMETHING--THERE IS SOMETHING
- 17:07 IN ISRAEL...
- 17:08 THE PRESENCE OF THE LORD.
- 17:10 IT'S UNSPEAKABLE.
- 17:11 HIS PRESENCE IS THERE.
- 17:12 THE FIRST DAY ON OUR TOUR,
- 17:14 WE TAKE A BOAT RIDE
- 17:15 IN THE SEA OF GALILEE
- 17:16 AND I TELL YOU SOMETHING,
- 17:17 PEOPLE ARE SO LOOKING FORWARD
- 17:19 TO THE BAPTISM THAT AFTERNOON
- 17:20 THEY DON'T EXPECT IT TO BE
- 17:21 SO OVERWHELMING, TEARS JUST
- 17:24 FLOWING DOWN WHEN YOU ARE
- 17:27 ON THAT BOAT AND YOU HEAR
- 17:30 IN THE BACKGROUND, A SONG
- 17:31 PLAYING "IT'S ALL ABOUT YOU,
- 17:32 JESUS" AND YOU EXPERIENCE
- 17:34 AND YOU CAN ALMOST SEE
- 17:36 THE SCRIPTURE UNFOLDING
- 17:37 RIGHT BEFORE YOUR VERY EYES
- 17:38 AND WE WOULD LOVE YOU TO COME
- 17:39 WITH US ON TOUR.
- 17:41 Myles: THANK YOU, TRACIE.
- 17:42 THIS IS REALLY PART OF WHAT
- 17:43 WE'RE TRYING TO DO HERE
- 17:44 AT ZOLA LEVITT MINISTRIES.
- 17:46 WE WANT TO DEEPEN
- 17:47 YOUR RELATIONSHIP WITH THE LORD.
- 17:48 WE WANT TO HELP YOU TO KNOW
- 17:50 MORE ABOUT THE BIBLE
- 17:51 AND TO UNDERSTAND THE SCRIPTURES
- 17:53 FROM A HEBRAIC MIND-SET AND ALSO
- 17:54 TO JUST ENRICH YOUR FAITH.
- 17:56 NOW ONE WAY THAT YOU CAN DO THAT
- 17:57 IS THROUGH OUR OFFER THIS WEEK,
- 18:00 OUR RESOURCE THIS WEEK IS
- 18:01 "DISCOVERING OUR JEWISH ROOTS."
- 18:03 THIS IS A NINE-CD SET THAT WILL
- 18:05 HELP YOU TO REALLY CONNECT
- 18:07 THE OLD TESTAMENT AND THE NEW,
- 18:09 TO UNDERSTAND THE LANGUAGE
- 18:10 OF HEBREW AND THE WAY
- 18:12 THAT JEWISH MIND-SET INFUSES
- 18:14 THE BIBLE; NOT JUST
- 18:15 THE OLD TESTAMENT BUT ALSO
- 18:16 INTO THE NEW TESTAMENT
- 18:18 AND HOW THE JEWISHNESS
- 18:19 OF THE GOSPEL COMES THROUGH
- 18:21 ONCE YOU SEE THINGS
- 18:22 FROM THE HEBREW MIND-SET.
- 18:23 THIS IS A GREAT RESOURCE.
- 18:25 WE WANT TO MAKE IT AVAILABLE
- 18:26 TO YOU.
- 18:27 WE REALLY LOVE BRINGING YOU
- 18:29 THESE PROGRAMS.
- 18:30 KATHARINE AND I HAVE BEEN
- 18:31 THRILLED TO BE PART
- 18:32 OF THIS MINISTRY.
- 18:33 WE WANT TO SEE IT NOT ONLY GROW
- 18:35 AND CONTINUE BUT WE'RE LOOKING
- 18:37 FOR REACHING THE NEXT
- 18:38 GENERATION, WE'RE LOOKING
- 18:39 FOR COLLEGE AGE AND YOUNGER
- 18:41 PEOPLE TO COME TO KNOW YESHUA
- 18:43 AS THE JEWISH MESSIAH.
- 18:45 WE'RE HOPING THAT
- 18:46 ZOLA LEVITT MINISTRIES WILL NOT
- 18:47 ONLY MAINTAIN WHAT WE'VE DONE
- 18:49 THAT'S BUILT ON THE FOUNDATION
- 18:50 THAT ZOLA LAID, BUT ALSO
- 18:53 BECAUSE IT'S BUILT ON
- 18:54 THE FOUNDATION OF GOD THAT IT
- 18:56 WILL INCREASE UNTIL WE SEE
- 18:58 THE DAY APPROACHING AS WE SEE
- 19:00 THE DAY OF THE LORD COMING.
- 19:01 AND HE'S COMING.
- 19:02 SO NOW LET'S GO TO TOM McCALL
- 19:04 WITH ANTHROPOLOGIST JOE ZIAS.
- 19:08 (♪ Somber Music ♪)
- 19:15 Tom: HOW DOES ALL OF THIS, JOE,
- 19:17 RELATE TO THE MOST IMPORTANT
- 19:18 CRUCIFIXION THAT WE KNOW OF,
- 19:20 THE CRUCIFIXION OF JESUS?
- 19:22 Joe: THIS IS A QUESTION
- 19:23 WHICH IS FREQUENTLY ASKED
- 19:26 AND I WOULD SAY THAT IT
- 19:27 PROBABLY IMPACTS VERY LITTLE.
- 19:31 THE REASON IS IF YOU LOOK
- 19:32 AT THE NEW TESTAMENT,
- 19:33 IT SAYS JESUS WAS CRUCIFIED...
- 19:35 END OF SENTENCE.
- 19:36 IT DOESN'T SAY HOW.
- 19:37 IT DOESN'T SAY THREE NAILS,
- 19:38 FOUR NAILS.
- 19:40 THE WHOLE QUESTION OF NAILING
- 19:41 OF THE FEET IS SOMETHING WHICH
- 19:42 IS VERY, VERY QUESTIONABLE.
- 19:44 IT SIMPLY SAYS HE WAS CRUCIFIED.
- 19:47 I THINK WHAT IT DOES,
- 19:48 IT FORCES US TO GO AND REALIZE
- 19:50 THAT MANY PEOPLE WERE CRUCIFIED.
- 19:52 IT WAS A VERY CRUEL
- 19:54 FORM OF PUNISHMENT.
- 19:57 IT WASN'T JUST SOMETHING WHICH
- 19:58 WAS FOR JESUS AND CHRISTIANS;
- 20:02 EVERYBODY DID IT FOR
- 20:03 A VERY, VERY, VERY LONG TIME.
- 20:05 SO THESE ARE TYPES OF QUESTIONS,
- 20:07 I THINK, WHICH ONE ASKS.
- 20:09 THE OTHER THING IS,
- 20:10 WHICH IS VERY CLEAR,
- 20:11 IT FORCES US TO GO AND ASK
- 20:13 QUESTIONS ABOUT ALL THOSE
- 20:14 PICTURES WE'VE BEEN LOOKING AT
- 20:15 FOR OVER A THOUSAND YEARS.
- 20:18 ONE THING WHICH IS CLEAR
- 20:20 WHEN YOU'RE LOOKING AT
- 20:21 CRUCIFIXION SCENES, WITH
- 20:22 THE EXCEPTION OF VERY, VERY FEW--
- 20:24 AND I'VE BEEN LOOKING AT THIS
- 20:25 FOR YEARS--WHEN YOU'RE LOOKING
- 20:27 AT CRUCIFIXION SCENES,
- 20:28 YOU'RE LOOKING AT THEOLOGY.
- 20:30 YOU'RE NOT LOOKING AT HISTORY.
- 20:31 CASE IN POINT, IT'S IMPOSSIBLE
- 20:35 TO CRUCIFY A PERSON
- 20:36 THROUGH THE HANDS.
- 20:37 Tom: THROUGH THE PALMS
- 20:38 OF THE HANDS?
- 20:39 Joe: THE PALM OF THE HANDS.
- 20:40 Tom: THAT'S WHERE WE
- 20:41 NORMALLY SEE IT IN PICTURES.
- 20:42 Joe: THAT'S WHERE YOU'D ALWAYS,
- 20:43 WITH ONE OR TWO EXCEPTIONS.
- 20:46 WE'VE KNOWN SINCE THE 1940s
- 20:48 A FRENCH DOCTOR TOOK--
- 20:50 HE WAS A SURGEON.
- 20:51 HE TOOK ARMS OF PEOPLE
- 20:52 WHO'D BEEN AMPUTATED,
- 20:54 FIXED THEM TO A CROSS,
- 20:55 PUT WEIGHTS, HE FOUND OUT
- 20:56 THAT MORE THAN 80 POUNDS,
- 20:58 IF THE NAIL'S HERE,
- 20:59 THE BODY CAN'T BE SUPPORTED.
- 21:01 Tom: WHAT HAPPENS?
- 21:02 Joe: IT JUST RIPS OUT
- 21:03 BECAUSE THERE'S NOTHING HERE.
- 21:04 YOU HAVE TO REALIZE,
- 21:05 THAT FROM THIS POINT ON,
- 21:06 WHAT YOU HAVE HERE IS NOTHING
- 21:07 BUT FLESH AND MUSCLE.
- 21:09 Tom: SO IT'D JUST PULL OUT
- 21:10 FROM THE FINGER AREAS.
- 21:11 Joe: IT JUST PULLS OUT.
- 21:12 IF THEY DID NAIL
- 21:15 AND WE'VE KNOWN THIS NOW
- 21:16 FOR ABOUT 400 OR 500 YEARS.
- 21:19 WE DIDN'T HAVE TO WAIT UNTIL
- 21:20 THIS FRENCH DOCTOR TOLD US
- 21:21 IN THE 1940s; WE'VE KNOWN,
- 21:22 SINCE, I THINK, THE 16th CENTURY
- 21:25 THAT THE NAIL HAS TO GO
- 21:26 THROUGH THE WRIST.
- 21:28 FRENCH ARTISTS--ITALIAN ARTISTS
- 21:31 WERE PUTTING CADAVERS ON CROSSES
- 21:33 FOR ARTISTIC REALISM AND THEY
- 21:34 REALIZED IN THE 16th CENTURY
- 21:36 IF THE NAIL DOESN'T GO
- 21:37 THROUGH HERE...
- 21:38 THE BODY CAN'T BE SUPPORTED.
- 21:39 SO RULE NUMBER ONE,
- 21:41 IF THEY ARE USING NAILS,
- 21:42 IT HAS TO GO RIGHT IN HERE.
- 21:43 Tom: WHAT HAPPENS WHEN
- 21:44 IT'S IN THE WRIST THERE?
- 21:45 WHAT KEEPS IT FROM COMING OUT?
- 21:47 Joe: OKAY WHAT YOU HAVE HERE,
- 21:48 YOU HAVE TWO BONES HERE.
- 21:49 YOU HAVE WHAT'S CALLED
- 21:50 THE ULNA AND THE RADIUS.
- 21:51 AND THE NAIL GOES BETWEEN
- 21:52 THE ULNA AND THE RADIUS.
- 21:54 THEN YOU HAVE THE SMALL BONES
- 21:56 HERE IN THE HAND WHICH ARE
- 21:58 FULLY ARTICULATED AND THIS WAS
- 21:59 WHAT YOU WERE SUSPENDED FROM.
- 22:01 Tom: AND THAT WOULD HOLD
- 22:02 THE WEIGHT OF THE PULL.
- 22:03 Joe: THAT WOULD HOLD.
- 22:04 IT WOULD HOLD SOMEONE
- 22:05 LIKE YOU OR SOMEONE LIKE ME.
- 22:06 THE OTHER THING WHICH YOU
- 22:07 HAVE TO REALIZE IS THAT
- 22:08 IN THE NEW TESTAMENT,
- 22:10 IT DOESN'T MENTION THREE NAILS,
- 22:11 FOUR NAILS, FIVE NAILS;
- 22:13 IT SIMPLY SAYS HE WAS CRUCIFIED.
- 22:14 Tom: YES.
- 22:15 Joe: NOW WHY DID THEY USE
- 22:16 THREE NAILS?
- 22:18 THEY USED THREE NAILS,
- 22:19 IT REPRESENTS THEOLOGY:
- 22:21 THE FATHER, THE SON
- 22:22 AND THE HOLY GHOST.
- 22:23 THE OTHER THING IS BY USING
- 22:24 THREE NAILS ON THE FEET,
- 22:26 WHAT YOU DO IS THAT YOU
- 22:27 CROSS THE FEET SO THAT YOU GET
- 22:28 ANOTHER CROSS IN.
- 22:31 THE OTHER THING IS THAT YOU HAVE
- 22:32 TO REALIZE, PEOPLE WHEN THEY
- 22:33 WERE CRUCIFIED, THEY WERE NAKED.
- 22:34 IF YOU LOOK AT THE GARMENT
- 22:35 WHICH JESUS IS WEARING
- 22:36 IT'S GENERALLY WHAT,
- 22:37 CROSS-SHAPED.
- 22:40 IT GOES THROUGH THE CROTCH,
- 22:41 UP AROUND THE WAIST.
- 22:43 SO WE SEE IN THE EARLY,
- 22:44 EARLY DAYS OF CHRISTIANITY,
- 22:46 IT TOOK THEM A WHILE BEFORE
- 22:47 THE ARTIST DECIDED, "OKAY, THIS
- 22:48 IS HOW IT'S GOING TO BE DONE,"
- 22:50 BUT AGAIN IT'S THEOLOGY,
- 22:52 IT'S NOT HISTORY.
- 22:53 (♪ Somber Music ♪)
- 23:07 ♪ ♪
- 23:40 ♪ ♪
- 24:00 Myles: VERY SOBERING AND REALLY
- 24:01 BRINGS HOME THE JEWISHNESS
- 24:03 OF JESUS AND WE SEE THAT
- 24:06 THE SACRIFICE WAS SO INCREDIBLE
- 24:09 THAT THIS WAS JUST A GRUESOME
- 24:11 DEATH THAT WAS PERPETRATED
- 24:13 BY THE ROMANS AND OTHERS
- 24:14 IN THAT ERA.
- 24:16 WE GET SO MUCH OF OUR
- 24:17 UNDERSTANDING OF WHO JESUS IS
- 24:19 FROM THE GREAT PAINTINGS AND
- 24:20 MASTERPIECES OVER THE CENTURIES
- 24:23 AND HE'S ALWAYS SORT OF
- 24:24 A BLOND, BLUE-EYED
- 24:25 SCANDINAVIAN-LOOKING JESUS
- 24:27 AND YET WE SEE THIS WAS
- 24:28 A VERY JEWISH MESSIAH
- 24:30 WHO CAME ACCORDING TO PROPHECY
- 24:33 AND LAID DOWN HIS LIFE
- 24:34 FOR YOU AND FOR ME.
- 24:36 Katharine: TO HAVE ETERNAL LIFE
- 24:37 SO THAT WE CAN KNOW HIM
- 24:39 AND SHARE THAT LIFE THAT
- 24:40 HE WANTS US TO HAVE WITH HIM.
- 24:42 Myles: EXACTLY, AND FOR THE JEW
- 24:44 AND ALSO TO THE GREEK,
- 24:45 HE CAME FOR JEWS AND GENTILES,
- 24:47 NO MAN TOOK HIS LIFE BUT HE CAME
- 24:49 AND LAID IT DOWN SO THAT
- 24:50 THE JEWS AND ALSO THE NATIONS
- 24:52 COULD COME TO KNOW HIM,
- 24:53 BRILLIANT, WONDERFUL SAVIOR.
- 24:55 Katharine: MYLES, THIS RESOURCE
- 24:56 THAT WE HAVE,
- 24:57 "DISCOVERING YOUR JEWISH ROOTS,"
- 24:58 REALLY HELPS US TO UNDERSTAND
- 25:01 THE FOUNDATION OF OUR FAITH
- 25:03 AS CHRISTIANS.
- 25:05 IT REALLY HELPS US TO SEE
- 25:07 THE FEASTS OF THE LORD.
- 25:09 IT'S AN IN-DEPTH STUDY
- 25:10 OF THE FEASTS OF THE LORD.
- 25:12 AND YOU ALWAYS TEACH, MYLES,
- 25:14 THAT THERE IS A PERSONAL
- 25:16 MEANING, A PROPHETIC MEANING,
- 25:17 AND A LITERAL MEANING.
- 25:18 Myles: YOU'VE BEEN
- 25:19 LISTENING TO ME.
- 25:20 Katharine: I HAVE!
- 25:21 Myles: THAT'S RIGHT,
- 25:22 THERE'S A HISTORICAL MEANING,
- 25:23 THERE'S A PERSONAL MEANING
- 25:24 AND A PROPHETIC MEANING TO
- 25:25 ALL THE TEACHINGS IN THE WORD
- 25:26 AND ESPECIALLY
- 25:27 AROUND THE FEASTS.
- 25:28 THIS IS A REALLY GOOD
- 25:29 INTERIM TEACHING.
- 25:30 IF YOU ARE NOT READY FOR
- 25:31 THE INSTITUTE AND YOU THINK THAT
- 25:33 MAYBE THAT'S TOO INTENSE,
- 25:34 THIS MAY BE A REALLY GOOD
- 25:35 INTERMEDIARY STEP,
- 25:37 BECAUSE ITS NINE-CDS, IT GOES
- 25:39 THROUGH REALLY CONNECTING
- 25:40 THE OLD TESTAMENT AND THE NEW
- 25:42 THAT WILL HELP YOU IN YOUR WALK
- 25:43 OF FAITH...IT REALLY DOES.
- 25:45 Katharine: I ALSO WANT
- 25:46 THE VIEWERS TO REMEMBER THAT
- 25:48 WE'VE ALL SUFFERED A LITTLE BIT
- 25:50 OF A SETBACK MAYBE FINANCIALLY
- 25:51 DURING THIS TIME AND SO THAT'S
- 25:53 WHY WE'RE BRINGING THIS EXTRA
- 25:54 LITTLE ASKING OF YOU TO HELP US
- 25:58 DURING THIS TIME BECAUSE
- 26:00 WE NEED YOUR RESOURCES SO MUCH
- 26:01 SO WE CAN TAKE YOU TO ISRAEL
- 26:04 AND BRING YOU THESE MESSAGES
- 26:05 FROM THE LAND.
- 26:07 IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT
- 26:09 THAT WE KEEP THIS MINISTRY GOING
- 26:11 FOR THAT REASON.
- 26:12 Myles: WE'VE BEEN IN MINISTRY
- 26:13 FOR 30 YEARS AND I WAS
- 26:14 REALLY IMPRESSED WHEN WE CAME
- 26:15 TO ZOLA LEVITT MINISTRIES
- 26:17 THAT THERE'S NOT
- 26:18 A WASTED DOLLAR HERE.
- 26:19 WE REALLY SEE THE MONEY
- 26:20 BEING STRETCHED
- 26:21 AND USED APPROPRIATELY.
- 26:23 WE'VE SEEN, REALLY, RESOURCES
- 26:25 USED THE WAY THEY'RE DEDICATED
- 26:26 AND DESIGNATED AND ESPECIALLY
- 26:29 DURING THIS TIME RIGHT NOW
- 26:30 WITH WHAT'S HAPPENING
- 26:31 IN THE MIDDLE EAST,
- 26:32 WHAT'S HAPPENING IN ISRAEL,
- 26:33 WE REALLY WANT TO STAND WITH
- 26:34 ISRAEL AND THE JEWISH PEOPLE
- 26:36 AND WE REALLY WANT TO BE ABLE
- 26:37 TO BRING YOU THE MOST
- 26:39 HIGH-QUALITY PROGRAMS
- 26:41 THAT WE CAN, SO WE APPRECIATE
- 26:43 YOUR HELP AT THIS TIME.
- 26:45 AND UNTIL WE SEE YOU AGAIN,
- 26:47 WE WANT TO REMIND YOU ALWAYS,
- 26:49 SHA'ALU SHALOM YERUSHALAYIM
- 26:51 Katharine: PRAY FOR THE PEACE
- 26:52 OF JERUSALEM.
- 26:55 HERE'S A LOOK AT
- 26:56 WHAT IS COMING UP NEXT WEEK
- 26:57 ON "THE STONES CRY OUT."
- 27:00 ♪ ♪
- 27:04 Dr. Danny Bahat: BEFOREHAND,
- 27:05 WHEN THE WALL WAS CONSTRUCTED,
- 27:07 IT REACHED ABOUT 35 METERS
- 27:10 ABOVE STREET LEVEL.
- 27:11 Zola: IT MEASURES 300 YARDS
- 27:13 IN LENGTH BY 80 YARDS IN WIDTH
- 27:15 AND WAS ONE OF THE LARGEST
- 27:16 GATHERING PLACES
- 27:18 FOR PUBLIC EVENTS,
- 27:19 SUCH AS CHARIOT RACES
- 27:20 AND ATHLETIC COMPETITIONS.
- 27:22 Ronan Betan: THE BURN
- 27:23 FROM THE SACRIFICES
- 27:25 DURING THE TIMES OF THE TEMPLE
- 27:27 Zola: THIS STONE INSCRIPTION
- 27:28 ASSERTS THE HISTORIC VALIDITY
- 27:30 OF THE JUDEAN PROCURATOR,
- 27:32 PONTIUS PILOT.
- 27:34 Avraham Biran: "BEIT JUDAH"...
- 27:35 "BEIT"..."HOUSE"...
- 27:37 "DAVID"...
- 27:39 "HOUSE OF DAVID"
- 27:40 >> AND WHEN THE ROMANS DECIDED
- 27:42 TO DESTROY THE TEMPLE MOUNT
- 27:43 THEY JUST DISLODGED THEM
- 27:45 AND ROLLED THEM DOWN
- 27:46 ONE AFTER THE OTHER.
- 27:51 Male Singer: ♪ LORD GOD, CREATOR OF HEAVEN ♪
- 27:59 ♪ LORD GOD, WE BRING FORTH YOUR PRAISES ♪
- 28:07 ♪ THE EARTH STANDS A TRIBUTE TO GLORY ♪
- 28:15 ♪ STONES TELL YOUR WONDERFUL STORY. ♪♪
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