Caption transcript for Jehovah’s Treasure: Part 1 (1/3)

• 00:03 IN A REMOTE TUNNEL DEEP WITHIN THE JUDEAN DESERT
• 00:07 AN UNSOLVED MYSTERY OF A PRICELESS TREASURE.
• 00:15 IT STARTED WITH ABRAHAM
• 00:17 WAS ASSEMBLED BY MOSES
• 00:19 ENSHRINED BY KING SOLOMON
• 00:23 ITS FAME WOULD SUMMON KINGS AND BECKON PHARAOHS
• 00:27 ITS GLORY RAVAGE FOREIGN GODS
• 00:34 WHAT WAS THE SOURCE OF THIS MIGHT?
• 00:38 IS HISTORY ABOUT TO UNLEASH ITS DESERT SECRETS?
• 00:48 THE QUEST FOR THE TEMPLE TREASURES
• 00:51 AND THE ARK OF THE COVENANT...
• 00:53 JEHOVAH'S TREASURE
• 01:01 HEARTY SHALOM TO ALL OF YOU
• 01:03 JEFFREY SEIF HERE
• 01:05 WELCOME TO A SPECIAL, VERY SPECIAL EDITION OF ZOLA LEVITT PRESENTS.
• 01:11 THIS WILL BE THE FIRST IN A THREE PART TREATMENT OF THE BIBLE'S LOST TREASURES.
• 01:18 WE'RE GOING TO GO EXPLORE THE WORLD OF THE SINAI,
• 01:22 MAKING OUR WAY TO JERUSALEM
• 01:24 AS WE LOOK FOR THE ARK OF THE COVENANT AND THE TEMPLE TREASURES.
• 01:28 OFF WE GO NOW ON LOCATION.
• 01:36 (Narrator) THE JUDEAN DESERT IN CENTRAL ISRAEL
• 01:39 EVER-CHANGING,
• 01:41 EVER THE SAME,
• 01:43 TIMELESS
• 01:45 ARCHAEOLOGIST OREN GUTFELD HAS COME HERE TO UNRAVEL AN ENIGMA
• 01:49 THAT HAS THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL COMMUNITY PUZZLED.
• 01:53 BETWEEN 1947 AND 1956,
• 01:56 THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS WERE DISCOVERED NEARBY IN THE CAVES OF QUMRAN.
• 02:02 ONE PARTICULAR SCROLL HINTS THAT THERE ARE TEMPLE TREASURES
• 02:06 BURIED WITHIN CLOSE PROXIMITY TO THIS DESERT ROAD.
• 02:11 WE ARE AT THE (SPEAKING HEBREW), SHILOH VALLEY.
• 02:14 UNDER THE FORTRESS OF HYRCANIA,
• 02:16 A FORTRESS THAT WAS BUILT BY THE HASMONEAN
• 02:19 AND REBUILT BY HEROD THE GREAT IN THE END OF THE 2ND CENTURY B.C. AND THE 1ST CENTURY B.C.
• 02:26 AND WE ARE DIGGING ACTUALLY TWO TUNNELS.
• 02:30 VERY, VERY INTERESTING TUNNELS THAT WE'RE DIGGING FOR A FEW YEARS NOW.
• 02:38 (Narrator) RISING HIGH ABOVE GUTFELD'S TUNNELS ARE THE ROCKY SLOPES OF MOUNT HYRCANIA.
• 02:44 ATOP THE MOUNTAIN RESTS THE REMAINS OF THE STONE FORTRESS,
• 02:49 ONE OF SEVEN SUCH STRONGHOLDS BUILT IN THE 1ST AND 2ND CENTURY B.C.
• 02:54 IT WAS A SETTING FIT FOR A KING.
• 02:57 COMPLETE WITH AN AQUEDUCT, A SWIMMING POOL, AND FRESH WATER
• 03:02 WHICH FLOWED FROM A SPRING LOCATED 10 MILES AWAY IN THE HOLY CITY OF JERUSALEM.
• 03:12 (David Dolan) I'M UPON THE MOUNT OF OLIVES AND BELOW ME IS THE TEMPLE MOUNT.
• 03:18 (Narrator) AUTHOR/JOURNALIST DAVID DOLAN MOVED TO JERUSALEM IN 1980.
• 03:22 (David Dolan) THE SAUDI ARABIAN GOVERNMENT IS SPENDING OVER 1 MILLION DOLLARS
• 03:25 PUTTING ON A NEW GOLD TOP ON THE DOME OF THE ROCK SHRINE BEHIND ME.
• 03:31 (Narrator) HE RESIDES WITHIN CLOSE PROXIMITY TO THE WALLS OF THE OLD CITY
• 03:34 AND REPORTS REGULARLY ON THE EVENTS OF THE REGION.
• 03:39 UNREST IN THE AREA HAS BEEN A FREQUENT REALITY,
• 03:42 BUT FOR DAVID, THE OPPORTUNITY OF LIVING IN THIS ANCIENT, HOLY CITY HAS BEEN REWARD ENOUGH.
• 03:51 (David Dolan) JERUSALEM, A PLACE THAT CONJURES UP THOUGHTS AND EMOTIONS OF BIBLICAL PROPORTIONS
• 03:54 AND ITS VERY HEART IS LOCATED RIGHT BEHIND ME.
• 03:58 THERE IS PERHAPS NO OTHER SIGHT ON EARTH THAT IS ANY MORE HOLY OR ANY MORE FOUGHT OVER.
• 04:03 IT'S REFERRED TO EARLY IN THE BIBLE AS MOUNT MORIAH
• 04:07 AND LATER CAME TO BE CALLED THE TEMPLE MOUNT.
• 04:10 TOPOGRAPHICALLY IT'S NOT MUCH OF A MOUNT,
• 04:13 BUT THE ACCOUNTS OF WHAT HAPPENED HERE ARE MORE THAN MONUMENTAL.
• 04:18 WE'RE TOLD THAT AT ONE POINT IN TIME, THE LORD GOD, JEHOVAH CHOSE THIS LITTLE TRACK OF LAND
• 04:24 TO BE HIS VERY RESIDENCE ON PLANET EARTH.
• 04:27 THE TEMPLE BUILT TO HONOR HIM CONTAINED PRICELESS ARTIFACTS USED IN WORSHIP...
• 04:31 A VERITABLE TREASURE HOUSE OF GOLD AND SILVER.
• 04:35 AND CENTRAL TO IT ALL WAS THE MOST HOLY OBJECT THE WORLD HAS EVER KNOWN...
• 04:39 THE ARK OF THE COVENANT.
• 04:41 THIS IS THE ACCOUNT OF THAT PRICELESS TREASURE.
• 04:44 HOW IT WOUND UP HERE IN JERUSALEM
• 04:46 AND ITS ENDURING SIGNIFICANCE IN THE 21ST CENTURY.
• 04:52 (Narrator) AND THE LORD SAID UNTO MOSES,
• 04:54 MAKE AN ARK OF WOOD,
• 04:56 OVERLAY IT WITH PURE GOLD,
• 04:59 MAKE UPON IT A CROWN OF GOLD ROUND ABOUT,
• 05:02 AND THOU SHALT MAKE FOUR RINGS OF GOLD
• 05:04 AND STAVES AND TWO CHERUBIM.
• 05:07 AND I WILL COMMUNE WITH THEE FROM ABOVE THE MERCY SEAT, FROM BETWEEN THE TWO CHERUBIM
• 05:12 OF ALL THE THINGS THAT I WILL GIVE THEE UNTO THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL.
• 05:31 WE'RE LOOKING AT TEMPLE TREASURES, TRUE.
• 05:34 THE GREATEST TREASURE OF ALL IN THE BIBLE, ACCORDING TO THE BIBLE, ARE THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL.
• 05:39 AND WE WANT TO LOOK AT THAT STORY.
• 05:41 AND OLD FRIEND, CBS CORRESPONDENT, DAVID DOLAN HELPS TELL THAT STORY.
• 05:45 HE IS AN OLD FRIEND OF MINE,
• 05:48 AN OLD FRIEND TO THIS MINISTRY
• 05:50 AND NEW FRIEND OF YOURS NOW AS WE HEAR HIM AS WE CONTINUE TO LOOK AT JEHOVAH'S TREASURES.
• 05:57 (David Dolan) ACCORDING TO THE BIBLICAL TEXT
• 05:59 THE STORY OF A COVENANT WITH THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL BEGINS LONG BEFORE MOSES.
• 06:06 EARLY IN THE BOOK OF GENESIS,
• 06:08 THE BIBLE TELLS US OF A LONG JOURNEY MADE BY ABRAHAM AND HIS WIFE SARAH.
• 06:12 REACHING A FOREIGN LAND NAMED CANAAN GOD REVEALS HIS PLAN
• 06:16 FOR AN EXTENSIVE NATION TO ORIGINATE WITH ABRAHAM'S SEED.
• 06:22 (Narrator) AND THE LORD SAID TO ABRAM,
• 06:24 "LOOK NOW TOWARD HEAVEN AND COUNT THE STARS IF THOU'D BE ABLE TO COUNT THEM,"
• 06:28 "SO SHALL THOU SEED BE."
• 06:31 "I AM THE LORD THAT BROUGHT THEE OUT OF UR OF THE CHALDEES, TO GIVE THIS LAND, TO INHERIT IT."
• 06:41 (David Dolan) SIX CENTURIES PASS,
• 06:43 THEN ONE DAY THE VOICE OF GOD WOULD BE HEARD AGAIN.
• 06:53 WHILE ATTENDING SHEEP MOSES WOULD HEAR A VOICE FROM A BURNING BUSH.
• 07:02 "MOSES, COME NOW THEREFORE AND I WILL SEND THEE UNTO PHAROH"
• 07:07 "THAT THOU MAYEST BRING FORTH MY PEOPLE, THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL OUT OF EGYPT."
• 07:11 "AND THIS IS MY MEMORIAL UNTO ALL GENERATIONS."
• 07:21 (David Dolan) IT WOULD TAKE TIME AND GOD'S ORCHESTRATION OF TEN DREADFUL PLAGUES
• 07:25 BEFORE PHARAOH'S HEART WOULD BE SOFTENED.
• 07:28 ULTIMATELY THE TENTH PLAGUE CALLS FOR THE DEATH OF EVERY 1ST BORN CHILD IN EGYPT.
• 07:33 HOWEVER, GOD INFORMS THE ISRAELITES THAT THEIR CHILDREN WILL BE SPARED
• 07:38 IF THE BLOOD OF A SACRIFICIAL LAMB IS SPREAD UPON THEIR DOORPOSTS.
• 07:42 FOR THE EGYPTIANS IT PROVES TO BE THE FATAL BLOW.
• 07:46 PHARAOH IS CRUSHED, THE ISRAELITES ARE FREED,
• 07:49 AND THE ORDINANCE OF PASSOVER ESTABLISHED FOREVER.
• 07:55 (SPEAKING HEBREW)
• 08:04 (SINGING HEBREW SONG: "MA NISHTANA")
• 08:23 AND IT CAME TO PASS AT THE END OF 430 YEARS
• 08:27 THAT ALL THE HOSTS OF THE LORD WENT OUT FROM THE LAND OF EGYPT.
• 08:31 AND THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL JOURNEYED FROM RAMSES
• 08:34 ABOUT SIX HUNDRED THOUSAND ON FOOT THAT WERE MEN BESIDE CHILDREN.
• 08:43 (David Dolan) UP UNTIL THIS TIME ALL OF GOD'S COVENANTS HAVE BEEN VERBAL.
• 08:47 HE'S PROMISED FOR INSTANCE THAT THERE WILL NEVER AGAIN BE A FLOOD LIKE THE ONE ENDURED BY NOAH AND HIS FAMILY.
• 08:52 HE'S MADE A VERBAL PACT WITH ABRAHAM, ISAAC, AND JACOB.
• 08:58 HOWEVER, IT'S DURING THIS WILDERNESS EXPERIENCE
• 09:00 THAT THE ISRAELITES WOULD RECEIVE THEIR FIRST PHYSICAL MANIFESTATION OF GOD'S COVENANT,
• 09:05 THE TEN COMMANDMENTS,
• 09:07 WRITTEN ON TABLETS OF STONE THAT WOULD ULTIMATELY BE PLACED IN THE ARK OF THE COVENANT.
• 09:13 (Narrator) IN THE 4TH CENTURY A.D.
• 09:15 THE BYZANTINES DESIGNATED A MOUNTAIN IN THE SOUTHERN PART OF EGYPT'S SINAI PENINSULA
• 09:19 AS 'THE MOUNT SINAI'.
• 09:22 THE DESIGNATION OF JABAL MUSA OFTEN REFERRED TO AS "SAINT CATHERINE'S"
• 09:27 HAS BEEN LARGELY UNQUESTIONED, UNTIL RECENTLY.
• 09:30 AMERICAN ADVENTURERS LARRY WILLIAMS AND BOB CORNUKE
• 09:34 NOW CLAIM THAT JABAL AL LAWZ IN NORTHWESTERN SAUDI ARABIA
• 09:37 IS THE SITE WHERE MOSES RECEIVED THE TEN COMMANDMENTS.
• 09:44 STILL OTHERS BELIEVE THAT HAR KARKOM IN ISRAEL'S NEGEV DESERT IS A MORE LIKELY SITE.
• 09:51 THERE'S IN FACT SUBSTANTIAL ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND TOPOGRAPHICAL EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT THE CASE.
• 09:56 ITALIAN PROFESSOR, EMMANUEL ANATI.
• 09:58 (Emanuel Anati) WELL, I ARRIVED TO THE SITE BY PURE MISTAKE.
• 10:03 I FELL IN LOVE WITH THIS MOUNTAIN, BECAUSE OF THE LANDSCAPE OF THE ROCK ART,
• 10:10 OF THE MONUMENTS.
• 10:12 IT WAS CLEAR FROM THE VERY BEGINNING THAT THIS IS A HOLY MOUNTAIN.
• 10:18 SO WE WENT ON AND ON FOR 4 YEARS DOING RESEARCH ON THIS MOUNTAIN
• 10:25 BEFORE WE EVEN STARTED THINKING ABOUT THIS MOUNTAIN.
• 10:32 (Narrator) ANATI IS PROFESSOR OF PALAEO-ETHNOLOGY
• 10:35 AND IS RENOUN FOR HIS EXPERTISE IN ANCIENT ROCK ART.
• 10:40 SHACHAR SHILO HAS ACCOMPANIED ANATI ON NUMEROUS EXCAVATIONS AT KARKOM.
• 10:46 (Shachar Shilo) WE HAVE TO REMEMBER THAT THIS PLACE IS LOCATED VERY CLOSE TO WADI PARAN.
• 10:48 THE ANCIENT, BIBLICAL WADI PARAN IS SUGGESTED TO BE
• 10:51 ONE OF THE ROUTES POSSIBLE FOR A HUGE NUMBER OF PEOPLE TO GO FROM EGYPT, NORTHERN PARTS,
• 10:57 ALL THE WAY VIA, THROUGH THE SINAI DESERT, THROUGH THE NEGEV,
• 11:02 AND OF COURSE TO THE PROMISED LAND OF CANAAN.
• 11:06 AS IT MENTIONED HERE IN THE BOOK OF EXODUS, IT SAYS...
• 11:09 AND I'LL READ IT IN HEBREW...
• 11:11 (SPEAKING HEBREW)
• 11:16 MOSES WAS WALKING WITH THE FLOCK OF JETHRO, THE HIGH PRIEST OF MIDIAN.
• 11:20 (SPEAKING HEBREW)
• 11:25 AND HE WENT TO HOREB, THE MOUNTAIN OF GOD, TOWARDS THE DESERT.
• 11:30 (Narrator) AS THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL JOURNEY THROUGH THE WILDERNESS
• 11:33 THEY ARE ENCOUNTERED BY NOMADIC DESERT TRIBES; THE AMALEKITES, AMORITES, AND MIDIANITES,
• 11:40 THE CENTRAL MOUNTAIN IN PROXIMITY TO THESE TRIBAL ENEMIES...HAR KARKOM.
• 11:47 (Emanuel Anati) IT'S A HOLY MOUNTAIN FULL OF ROCK ART WHICH HAS SIMILARITIES WITH THE BIBLICAL ACCOUNTS,
• 11:53 WITH SHRINES, HOLY PLACES ALL OVER THE PLATEAU,
• 11:59 AND OVER 120 TEMPORARY VILLAGES AT THE FOOT OF THE MOUNTAIN.
• 12:04 NOW I MUST PUT IT CLEAR
• 12:07 THAT TO ME THIS MOUNTAIN CORRESPONDS TO THE BIBLICAL DESCRIPTION OF MOUNT SINAI.
• 12:18 AND MOSES WROTE ALL THE WORDS OF THE LORD'S
• 12:20 AND HE ROSE UP EARLY IN THE MORNING AND BUILT AN ALTAR UNDER THE HILL AND 12 PILLARS
• 12:25 ACCORDING TO THE 12 TRIBES OF ISRAEL.
• 12:30 (Narrator) TODAY 12 PILLARS OF STONE STAND IN CLOSE PROXIMITY TO HAR KARKOM.
• 12:35 AND ADJACENT TO THE STONES,
• 12:37 THE REMAINS OF WHAT COULD VERY WELL HAVE BEEN AN ALTAR.
• 12:42 AND THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL SACRIFICED PEACE OFFERINGS
• 12:45 AND MOSES TOOK THE SACRIFICIAL BLOOD AND SPRINKLED IT ON THE PEOPLE AND SAID,
• 12:50 "BEHOLD THE BLOOD OF THE COVENANT,"
• 12:53 "WHICH THE LORD HATH MADE WITH YOU CONCERNING ALL THESE WORDS."
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• 15:06 AND TALK ABOUT INFORMATION
• 15:07 AND TALK ABOUT IMPORTANT,
• 15:09 IF YOU THINK THE INFORMATION IN THIS SERIES
• 15:13 THAT DEALS WITH THE LOST TREASURES, JEHOVAH'S TREASURE,
• 15:17 THE TEMPLE ARTIFACTS, AND MORE...
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• 15:25 "JEHOVAH'S TREASURE"
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• 15:30 (David Dolan) IT WASN'T ENOUGH THAT THIS COVENANT WAS INSCRIBED IN STONE.
• 15:34 IN ORDER TO ENSURE THAT IT ENDURED FOR MANY GENERATIONS,
• 15:37 MOSES WAS NEXT TOLD THAT THE TABLETS SHOULD BE PLACED IN A SPECIAL CHEST.
• 15:42 IN HEBREW THE WORD IS "ARON."
• 15:44 OUR ENGLISH TRANSLATION THROUGH THE LATIN WORD, "ARCA" IS "ARK."
• 15:47 GOD MADE IT VERY CLEAR TO MOSES JUST HOW HE WANTED THIS HOLY TREASURE CONSTRUCTED.
• 15:55 (Narrator) AND THEY SHALL MAKE AN ARK OF ACACIA WOOD.
• 16:00 ACACIA TREES GROW IN SINAI'S DESERT PLAINS
• 16:02 AND ALTHOUGH THE WOOD IS LIGHT WEIGHT,
• 16:04 IT IS HARD AND EXTREMELY DURABLE.
• 16:06 THE FRAMEWORK OF THE HOLY ARK WILL BE FASHIONED ON THIS VERY WOOD.
• 16:11 BEZALEL IS THE CRAFTSMAN.
• 16:14 HIS ASSISTANT IS THE OHOLIAB.
• 16:17 AND BEZALEL OVERLAID THE ARKWITH PURE GOLD WITHIN AND WITHOUT
• 16:21 AND MADE A CROWN OF GOLD ONTO IT ROUND ABOUT.
• 16:25 AND HE CAST FOR IT 4 RINGS OF GOLD TO BE SET BY THE 4 CORNERS OF IT.
• 16:32 AND HE MADE STAVES AND OVERLAID THEM WITH GOLD
• 16:35 AND HE MADE THE MERCY SEAT OF PURE GOLD.
• 16:39 AND THE CHERUBIM SPREAD OUT THEIR WINGS ON HIGH
• 16:42 AND COVERED IT WITH THEIR WINGS OVER THE MERCY SEAT.
• 16:45 AND MOSES COMMANDED THE LEVITES,
• 16:48 "TAKE THIS BOOK OF THE LAW AND PUT IT INSIDE THE ARK OF THE COVENANT OF THE LORD YOUR GOD."
• 16:57 (David Dolan) YOU MIGHT WONDER...WHERE DID ALL OF THAT GOLD COME FROM?
• 16:59 AFTER ALL THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL HAD BEEN SLAVES IN EGYPT FOR OVER 400 YEARS.
• 17:05 WELL, THE BIBLE SAYS THAT AFTER A PERIOD OF TIME
• 17:08 THE EGYPTIANS WERE CONVINCED THAT MOSES WAS RIGHT.
• 17:11 THESE HEBREW SLAVES ACTUALLY WERE CHOSEN BY THEIR GOD.
• 17:15 FEARFUL OF MORE DEATH THAN ADDITIONAL PLAGUES
• 17:18 THE EGYPTIANS GLADLY OFFERED TO SEND THE ISRAELITES ON THEIR WAY,
• 17:22 GRANTING THEM AS MUCH GOLD AND SILVER JEWLRY AS THEY DESIRED.
• 17:27 IN ADDITION TO THE ARK
• 17:28 THERE WOULD BE OTHER ARTICLES FASHIONED OF GOLD, SILVER, AND BRASS.
• 17:31 ALL TO BE UTILIZED IN WORSHIP WHILE IN THE DESERT
• 17:34 AND AFTER THEY ULTIMATELY ARRIVED IN CANAAN.
• 17:37 THE TOTAL AMOUNT OF GOLD COLLECTED FROM THE ISRAELITES AMOUNTED TO OVER 1 TON.
• 17:42 OF SILVER 3 3/4 TONS
• 17:44 AND OF BRONZE 2 1/2 TONS.
• 17:50 HERE ALONG THE NORTHWEST SHORE OF THE DEAD SEA
• 17:53 MORE THAN 800 BIBLICAL AND EARLY JEWISH DOCUMENTS HAVE BEEN FOUND IN THE CAVES OF QUMRAN.
• 17:58 THE LANDSCAPE HERE IS POCKMARKED WITH NUMEROUS CAVES
• 18:02 ONE OF WHICH IN 1952 PRODUCED A SCROLL UNLIKE ANY OTHER THAT HAD EVER BEEN FOUND.
• 18:07 LYING AGAINST THE WALL OF CAVE NUMBER 3 WAS AN EXTRAORDINARY COPPER SCROLL BROKEN IN TWO,
• 18:15 ITS PIECES WEDGED ONE ON TOP OF THE OTHER.
• 18:18 THE FIND BECAME HEADLINE NEWS.
• 18:20 HOARDS OF FABULOUS VALUE WERE WAITING TO BE FOUND.
• 18:27 AFTER A METICULOUS PROCEDURE OF CUTTING THE COPPER INTO 23 SECTIONS,
• 18:31 SCHOLARS DETERMINED THAT IT LISTED 63 HIDDEN TREASURES.
• 18:36 SOME BURIED IN JERUSALEM AND SOME IN A NEARBY JUDEAN DESERT
• 18:39 WHERE OREN GUTFELD IS PRESENTLY UNEARTHING HIS TUNNEL.
• 18:44 (Professor Hanan Eshel) HERE WE SEE A TREASURE WHICH STARTS...
• 18:46 (Narrator) PROFESSOR HANAN ESHEL, A LEADING EXPERT ON THE COPPER SCROLL.
• 18:50 (Professor Hanan Eshel) I BELIEVE THAT THE TREASURE MENTIONED IN THE COPPER SCROLL
• 18:53 ARE DEALING WITH THE TABERNACLE.
• 18:56 WE'RE SPEAKING WITH THE TREASURE THAT ARE DESCRIBED IN LEVITICUS, IN NUMBERS, IN EXODUS...
• 19:02 THOSE ARE THE TREASURE THAT MOSES AND BEZALEL WERE DOING IN THE DESERT AFTER THE EXODUS.
• 19:09 WE HAVE A VERY DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF WHERE THEY WERE HIDDEN
• 19:13 AND WE HAVE DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF HOW BIG THEY WERE.
• 19:19 WE'RE SPEAKING HERE ABOUT AN ENORMOUS AMOUNT OF SILVER AND GOLD AND SOME VESSELS,
• 19:25 WHICH ARE MENTIONED IN THE RABBINIC LITERATURE AS VESSELS THAT HAD TO DO WITH THE TEMPLE.
• 19:33 (Narrator) TUNNELS SUCH AS THIS HAVE BEEN FOUND NOWHERE ELSE IN ALL OF ISRAEL.
• 19:39 THE WORK IS TEDIOUS.
• 19:41 THE MISSION DAUNTING.
• 19:44 BUT GUTFELD IS RESOLUTE.
• 19:46 HE WILL NOT BE DETERRED IN HIS SEARCH FOR A MEANINGFUL LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL.
• 19:56 (Oren Gutfeld) WE'RE EXCAVATING IN A TUNNEL THAT WE STARTED TO DIG ONLY YESTERDAY.
• 20:00 THIS IS THE EASTERN TUNNEL OF 2 TUNNELS THAT WE'VE FOUND HERE PREVIOUSLY.
• 20:06 AND THE WESTERN ONE WE DUG IN THE PAST
• 20:09 AND NOW WE'RE GOING TO CHECK THIS TUNNEL TO SEE IF IT'S GOING DOWN LIKE THE OTHER ONE.
• 20:16 THE WESTERN TUNNEL WHICH TOOK 4 YEARS TO UNEARTH
• 20:19 IS LOCATED JUST 200 METERS FROM THE ONE IN WHICH GUTFELD IS PRESENTLY DIGGING.
• 20:24 ITS ENTRANCE HAD BEEN TEMPORARILY COVERED
• 20:26 TO PREVENT FLOODING FROM THE ADJOINING CREEK BED OR "WADI."
• 20:29 THE TUNNEL DESCENDS AT A PERFECT 35 DEGREES FOR 130 METERS,
• 20:35 DEEP INTO THE VERY BOWELS OF MOUNT HYRCANIA.
• 20:38 GUTFELD'S DESCENT IS PRECARIOUS AT BEST.
• 20:44 OCCASIONALLY NICHES CAN BE FOUND
• 20:46 WHICH HELD OIL LAMPS FOR THOSE WHO DUG THE TUNNEL OVER 25 HUNDRED YEARS AGO.
• 20:54 (Oren Gutfeld) WE ARE HALFWAY IN THE TUNNEL
• 20:56 AND DURING THE EXCAVATION
• 20:58 AT THIS POINT
• 20:59 WE FOUND A FEW THINGS.
• 21:04 (Narrator) AMOUNG THE THINGS FOUND WERE THESE GOAT BONES.
• 21:07 SUBSEQUENT TO CARBON 14 TESTING DATED THE BONES TO 59O B.C,
• 21:11 VERY CLOSE TO THE END OF THE 1ST TEMPLE PERIOD.
• 21:18 (David Dolan) THE 1ST TEMPLE PERIOD IS THE MOST NOTABLY ASSOCIATED
• 21:20 WITH THE 1ST OF 3 TEMPLES THAT WOULD EVENTUALLY BE BUILT ON MOUNT MORIAH BEHIND ME.
• 21:25 IN OUR STORY OF THE ARK THIS 1ST TEMPLE WILL SERVE AS ITS EVENTUAL RESTING PLACE,
• 21:31 BUT BEFORE THAT CAN HAPPEN, THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL MUST MAKE IT TO CANAAN.
• 21:35 MOSES WAS TOLD TO BUILD A PORTABLE SANCTUARY,
• 21:38 ONE THAT WOULD ULTIMATELY BE USED IN A TORRID 40 YEAR TREK THROUGH THE BARREN WILDERNESS.
• 22:11 (Narrator) AS THE JOURNEY PROGRESSES
• 22:13 THE TABERNACLE WOULD BE CENTRAL TO THE LIFE OF THE ISRAELITES.
• 22:17 IT WILL BE OVERSEEN BY PRIESTS FROM THE TRIBE OF LEVI
• 22:20 AND SERVE AS THE HOME TO THE ARK WHEN IT'S NOT IN TRANSIT.
• 22:26 AND THE LORD SPAKE UNTO MOSES,
• 22:28 "EVERY MAN OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL"
• 22:30 "SHALL CAMP AROUND THE TABERNACLE SOME DISTANCE FROM IT."
• 22:34 "EACH MAN UNDER HIS STANDARD WITH THE BANNER OF HIS FATHER'S HOUSE."
• 22:39 IT WAS HERE IN A DESERT ENCAMPMENT
• 22:42 THAT THE ISRAELITES WERE TRANSFORMED FROM A SHAPELESS MASS OF PEOPLE
• 22:46 INTO A NATION WHO'S PROGRESS WOULD BE PRESCRIBED DOWN TO THE MINUTEST DETAIL.
• 22:52 THE COVENANT WAS TAKING FOLD.
• 22:59 (David Dolan) WHILE THE DIGGING CONTINUES IN GUTFELD'S EASTERN TUNNEL,
• 23:02 WE DESCEND EVEN FURTHER INTO THE WESTERN TUNNEL.
• 23:09 4 YEARS OF DIGGING.
• 23:11 INCH BY INCH,
• 23:13 HOPING UPON HOPE.
• 23:16 WHAT WOULD BE FOUND?
• 23:22 (Oren Gutfeld) WE ARE IN THE END OF THE TUNNEL.
• 23:25 IT'S REALLY A MYSTERY WHY THEY DID SUCH A HUGE PROJECT,
• 23:29 A HUGE TUNNEL...FOR NOTHING?
• 23:33 IT'S KIND OF A DEAD END.
• 23:35 WE TRIED TO DIG INSIDE THE WALL,
• 23:38 BUT WE UNDERSTOOD THAT IT'S A NATURAL WALL.
• 23:41 SO IT REMAINS A MYSTERY,
• 23:43 A REAL AN ENIGMA.
• 23:46 (David Dolan) GUTFELD IS NOT ALONE IN THE SEARCH FOR DESERT TREASURE.
• 23:49 GROUND PENETRATING RADAR HAS RECENTLY BEEN USED HERE AT NEARBY QUMRAN
• 23:53 IN THE SEARCH FOR ADDITIONAL DEAD SEA SCROLLS.
• 23:56 THIS TECHNIQUE WILL ALSO BE USED BY GUTFELD
• 23:58 IN HIS QUEST TO SOLVE THE MYSTERY OF THE WESTERN TUNNEL.
• 24:05 (Narrator) THERE IS LITTLE CONSENSUS AS TO THE EXACT ROUTE THE ISRAELITES TRAVELED.
• 24:09 AS FOR THE GRUMBLING
• 24:11 IT WAS DEAFENING.
• 24:13 "YOU HAVE BROUGHT US OUT INTO THIS DESERT TO STARVE US TO DEATH."
• 24:18 TO WHICH FROM HEAVEN WAS HEARD,
• 24:21 "AT TWILIGHT YOU WILL EAT MEAT AND IN THE MORNING YOU WILL BE FILLED WITH BREAD."
• 24:28 AND SO IT WAS.
• 24:30 MANNA BY DAY,
• 24:31 A BREAD-LIKE SUBSTANCE,
• 24:33 AND QUAIL BY NIGHT.
• 24:36 WHEN MOSES STRIKES A ROCK WITH HIS STAFF, WATER SPRINGS FORTH.
• 24:55 SADLY MOSES' ULTIMATE DREAM WILL NEVER BE REALIZED.
• 25:00 IN HIS FINAL DAYS HE WILL AT LAST SEE THE JORDAN VALLEY FROM A DISTANCE
• 25:05 BUT HIS FEET WILL NEVER TOUCH THE PROMISED LAND.
• 25:10 IN HIS DYING MOMENTS MOSES WILL HEAR THE VOICE OF GOD ONE LAST TIME.
• 25:20 "THIS IS THE LAND WHICH I WILL GIVE UNTO THY SEED."
• 25:32 WE ARE ALL ABOUT WANTING TO MAKE BIBLICAL TELEVISION WORTH WATCHING.
• 25:38 AND WE HOPE YOU THINK THIS IS WORTH IT.
• 25:41 IT COST US A SMALL FORTUNE
• 25:44 TO FOLLOW THESE ARCHAEOLOGISTS AROUND, SEASON AFTER SEASON OVER A PERIOD OF YEARS
• 25:50 AS THEY'RE LOOKING TO DIG UP BURIED TREASURES.
• 25:54 AND IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE DIGGING UP OF THE BURIED TREASURES
• 25:58 WE WANTED TO CONSIDER THE TREASURE IN THE BIBLE,
• 26:00 THE COVENANT PEOPLE...
• 26:02 ISRAEL...
• 26:03 THE OBJECT OF GOD'S ATTENTION,
• 26:06 THE AFFECTION,
• 26:08 THE LOVE OF HIS HEART AND THE OBJECT OF THIS EYE.
• 26:11 THANK YOU FOR TURNING YOUR EYES AND HEARTS AND MINDS THIS WAY.
• 26:17 IN THE SERIES PROGRAM NEXT WEEK AND THE WEEK AFTER
• 26:20 WE'LL CONTINUE WITH OUR JOURNEY INTO THE BIBLICAL WORD
• 26:24 AND WE'LL GO TO THE BIBLICAL WORLD AND FOLLOW THEOLOGIANS,
• 26:28 JOURNALISTS, ARCHAEOLOGISTS, HISTORIANS...
• 26:33 AS WE GO DEEP INTO THE EARTH
• 26:35 AND AS WE GO DEEP INTO THE BIBLICAL WORD
• 26:38 AND BRING OUT TRUTHS THAT ARE LONG SINCE LOST
• 26:41 BUT WORTH THE HEARING IN THIS MODERN WORLD.
• 26:45 THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR GOING WITH US ON THE JOURNEY.
• 26:47 AND AS YOU GO NOW,
• 26:48 SHA'ALU SHALOM YERUSHALAYIM
• 26:51 PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM
• 26:54 JEHOVAH'S TREASURE,
• 26:56 THE QUEST FOR THE ARK OF THE COVENANT AND THE TEMPLE TREASURES
• 26:59 HAS BEEN A SPECIAL PRESENTATION
• 27:01 OF ZOLA LEVITT MINISTRY
• 27:03 JOIN US IN THE HOLY LAND FOR A TRIP OF LIFETIME.
• 27:06 YOU'LL LOVE IT...I PROMISE.