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

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