Caption transcript for Jehovah’s Treasure: Part 2 (2/3)

• 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
• 00:19 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?
• 00:48 THE QUEST FOR THE TEMPLE TREASURES
• 00:50 AND THE ARK OF THE COVENANT...
• 00:52 JEHOVAH'S TREASURE
• 00:59 HEARTY SHALOM TO ALL OF YOU
• 01:00 JEFFREY SEIF HERE
• 01:02 PLEASED TO WELCOME YOU TO ANOTHER EDITION OF ZOLA LEVITT PRESENTS.
• 01:06 WE'RE PRESENTING HERE THE SECOND OF A THREE PART TREATMENT
• 01:09 OF A SERIES CALLED "JEHOVAH'S TREASURE".
• 01:12 THEREIN WE FOLLOW ARCHEOLOGISTS, JOURNALISTS AND OTHERS
• 01:16 THAT TAKE US TO THE BIBLICAL WORLD AND SEARCH FOR LOST TREASURES
• 01:21 THE GREATEST OF WHICH OF COURSE...
• 01:23 THE GREATEST TREASURE OF ALL IS GOD'S COVENANT PEOPLE.
• 01:26 LAST WEEK WE WENT UP TO THE JORDAN,
• 01:29 NOW WE CROSS IT WITH JOSHUA
• 01:31 AS WE CONTINUE THE STORY IN THE BIBLICAL WORD.
• 01:41 (Narrator) AND AS THEY THAT BEAR THE ARK WERE COME ONTO JORDAN,
• 01:46 THE WATERS WERE CUT OFF
• 01:51 AND ALL THE ISRAELITES PASSED OVER ON DRY GROUND UNTO JERICHO.
• 01:54 AND THE PEOPLE ENCAMPED IN GILGAL ON THE EAST BORDER OF JERICHO.
• 02:02 AT THAT TIME THE LORD SAID UNTO JOSHUA,
• 02:04 "MAKE THEE SHARP KNIVES AND CIRCUMCISE AGAIN THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL THE 2ND TIME.
• 02:12 RABBI URI EINEHORN.
• 02:15 WELL, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT
• 02:16 THE 2ND CIRCUMCISION IN THE JEWISH HISTORY,
• 02:18 THE 1ST ONE WAS BEFORE THEY LEFT EGYPT,
• 02:20 THEY WANDERED 40 YEARS IN THE DESERT
• 02:22 AND AT THAT TIME THEY COULDN'T CIRCUMCISE THEMSELVES.
• 02:24 IT WAS A VERY HARSH ATMOSPHERE,
• 02:26 SO WHEN THEY CAME BACK INTO THE LAND OF ISRAEL
• 02:29 THEY HAD TO CIRCUMCISE THEMSELVES AGAIN.
• 02:32 THIS WAS A COVENANT WITH GOD AND SO THERE WAS A MASSIVE CIRCUMCISION.
• 02:36 IT SAYS THAT THEY CIRCUMCISED THEMSELVES MEANS,
• 02:38 EACH ONE CREATED A KNIFE AND CIRCUMCISED THE OTHER PERSON.
• 02:42 THAT'S WHAT WE TALK ABOUT THE 2ND CIRCUMCISION, 2ND MASSIVE CIRCUMCISION.
• 02:48 FOR THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL THE CONQUEST OF JERICHO WAS KEY TO THE PENETRATION OF CANAAN.
• 02:52 SO FORMIDABLE WERE JERICHO'S WALLS
• 02:55 THAT 40 THOUSAND ISRAELITE SOLDIERS WOULD NOT EVEN ATTEMPT TO PENETRATE THE MIGHTY CITY.
• 02:59 GOD HAD OTHER PLANS.
• 03:01 "AND YE SHALL COMPASS THE CITY 6 DAYS."
• 03:04 "AND THE 7TH DAY YE SHALL COMPASS THE CITY 7 TIMES"
• 03:09 "AND THE PRIESTS SHALL BLOW THE TRUMPETS AND SHOUT WITH A GREAT SHOUT"
• 03:15 "AND THE WALL OF THE CITY SHALL FALL FLAT."
• 03:22 TODAY ARCHAEOLOGISTS ARE DIVIDED ON WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENED HERE AT JERICHO.
• 03:27 YET THE BIBLICAL ACCOUNT IS SUPPORTED WORD FOR WORD
• 03:31 BY THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS FOUND IN THE NEARBY CAVES OF QUMRAN.
• 03:36 MEANWHILE, A SHORT DISTANCE AWAY...A LINGERING OF MYSTERY.
• 03:40 MEMBERS OF GUTFELD'S CREW GATHER BY THE NEW TUNNEL TO STUDY A SURVEY OF THE AREA.
• 03:47 CAVE NUMBER 66 IS MENTIONED IN THE BOOK BY JUST ONE SENTENCE.
• 03:49 IT DOESN'T SAY ANYTHING ABOUT WHAT'S IN THE CAVE.
• 03:52 THAT'S WHEN THEY DUG AND FOUND IT EMPTY AT 130 METERS DEEP.
• 03:56 AND WHERE WE ARE NOW IS WHERE THIS BLUE LINE THAT WAS NEVER MENTIONED.
• 04:00 IT'S A NEW ARCHAEOLOGICAL DIG.
• 04:02 IT NEVER MENTIONED ANY OF THE SURVEYS.
• 04:04 AND WHAT MADE OREN DIG HERE?
• 04:08 AND NOW?
• 04:10 AND WHY?
• 04:14 (David Dolan) THE ARK OF THE COVENANT HAS FINALLY MADE IT
• 04:16 ACROSS THE JORDAN RIVER INTO THE PROMISED LAND,
• 04:19 BUT IT WON'T FIND ITS HOME HERE IN JERUSALEM FOR MANY YEARS TO COME.
• 04:22 THIS MYSTERIOUS GOLDEN ARK IS BEGINNING TO GET A REPUTATION,
• 04:27 EVEN AMONG SOME OF ISRAEL'S ENEMIES.
• 04:29 THEY'VE HEARD ABOUT THIS GOD OF THE ISRAELITES.
• 04:32 HE'S MADE SOME KIND OF A PACT WITH HIS PEOPLE...
• 04:35 APPARENTLY CHOSEN TO SEE THEM THROUGH DESPITE THEY'RE HARDENED HEARTS.
• 04:40 SHILOH IS LOCATED IN THE HEARTLAND OF THE COUNTRY BARELY 20 MILES FROM JERUSALEM.
• 04:44 IT WOULD BECOME THE CENTER OF WORSHIP FOR SOME 400 YEARS.
• 04:48 THE TABERNACLE WILL BE ERECTED HERE IN THIS QUIET UNINHABITED VALLEY.
• 04:54 ALL OF THE ARTIFACTS USED IN WORSHIP REMAIN INTACT.
• 04:58 THE 7 BRANCHED GOLDEN MENORAH,
• 05:01 ALTER OF INCENSE,
• 05:03 THE TABLE OF SHEWBREAD,
• 05:06 EACH WITH A SPECIFIC PURPOSE OVERSEEN BY SPECIFIC PRIESTS FROM THE TRIBE OF LEVI.
• 05:15 ONCE A YEAR ON THE DAY OF ATONEMENT THE HIGH PRIEST HAD THE VENERABLE TASK
• 05:20 OF PARTING AN IMMENSE LINEN CURTAIN TO ENTER THE HOLY OF HOLIES.
• 05:26 TO BE IN THIS ROOM WAS TO BE IN THE PRESENCE OF ALMIGHTY YAHWEH, JEHOVAH.
• 05:36 EVERY MOVE IS PLANNED, EVERY STEP CALCULATED.
• 05:40 THEN HE SHALL KILL THE GOAT OF THE SIN OFFERING THAT IS FOR THE PEOPLE
• 05:45 AND BRING HIS BLOOD WITHIN THE VEIL
• 05:48 AND SPRINKLE THE BLOOD WITH HIS FINGER 7 TIMES UPON THE MERCY SEAT,
• 05:53 FOR IT IS THE BLOOD THAT MAKETH AN ATONEMENT FOR THE SOUL.
• 06:09 YOU PROBABLY HEARD IT SAID THAT A CHURCH REALLY ISN'T ABOUT STICKS AND BRICKS,
• 06:13 IT'S NOT ABOUT THE STEEPLE...
• 06:15 IT'S ABOUT THE PEOPLE,
• 06:16 IT'S ABOUT US THE PEOPLE OF GOD.
• 06:18 WHAT'S TRUE CONCEPTUALLY IN THE NEW TESTAMENT IS ALSO TRUE IN THE OLD.
• 06:23 OH YES A MASSIVE TEMPLE WAS BUILT AND THERE WERE LOTS OF TREASURES
• 06:27 BUT THE GREATEST TREASURE OF ALL FROM GOD'S PERSPECTIVE
• 06:30 IS ISRAEL, THE APPLE OF GOD'S EYE.
• 06:34 IN THE NEW TESTAMENT THE PEOPLE OF THE GOD WERE PURCHASED AT A VERY GREAT COST.
• 06:39 GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD THAT HE SENT HIS SON INTO THE WORLD TO SHED HIS BLOOD.
• 06:43 AND EVEN THE IDEA OF BLOODSHED IS NOT NEW TO THE NEW TESTAMENT.
• 06:47 IN FACT IN THE OLD TESTAMENT AS WELL GOD MADE A COVENANT WITH THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL
• 06:52 THROUGH THE SHEDDING OF BLOOD.
• 06:55 IN FACT THE WORD "COVENANT" IN HEBREW "BERIT".
• 06:58 IT SAYS "KARAT BERIT" IN THE HEBREW...HE CUT A COVENANT.
• 07:03 AND IT HARKS TO THE IDEA OF THE SACRIFICE THAT GOD WOULD HAVE MADE FOR HIS COVENANT PEOPLE.
• 07:08 AND WE'LL SPEND MORE TIME ON THAT STORY NOW AS WE JOURNEY ON.
• 07:14 (David Dolan) THE BIBLICAL PERIOD THAT FOLLOWS JOSHUA'S DEATH IS KNOWN AS "THE TIME OF THE JUDGES".
• 07:18 THE FORMATIVE NATION SEEKS TO ESTABLISH ITSELF,
• 07:21 MOVING EVER WESTWARD THROUGH THE LUSH HILL COUNTRY.
• 07:24 HERE THEY'LL ONCE AGAIN ENCOUNTER A CONSORTIUM OF ENEMIES
• 07:28 AND HERE THEY'LL FALL
• 07:30 PREY TO THE BECKONING OF FOREIGN GODS.
• 07:33 IN PRESENT DAY ASHKELON,
• 07:35 EVIDENCE HAS BEEN FOUND OF ISRAEL'S ARCH ENEMIES,
• 07:38 THE PHILISTINES.
• 07:39 ARCHAEOLOGIST, IAN STERN.
• 07:43 (Ian Stern) THE PHILISTINES WERE PART OF A MASS MOVEMENT OF PEOPLES IN THE 13TH CENTURY B.C.E.
• 07:47 MAKING THEIR WAY FROM GREECE TO THE AREA OF SOUTHERN CANAAN,
• 07:51 SETTING UP 5 CITIES KNOWN AS THE "PHILISTINE PENTAPOLIS".
• 07:54 THEY BROUGHT WITH THEM A WELL TRAINED ARMY.
• 07:56 AN ARMY CONSISTING OF ARCHERS,
• 07:58 CONSISTING OF CALVARY,
• 07:59 AND CHARIOTEERS.
• 08:01 THEY ALSO BROUGHT WITH THEM DISTINCTIVE POTTERY FROM GREECE.
• 08:04 IT WAS INEVITABLE THAT THESE PEOPLE WOULD EVENTUALLY CLASH
• 08:07 WITH THE ISRAELITES IN THE MOUNTAINS.
• 08:09 THE ISRAELITES INCHED THEIR WAY DOWN FROM THE MOUNTAINOUS AREA, TOWARDS THE COASTAL PLAIN,
• 08:14 MEETING WITH THESE PHILISTINES IN A NORTHERN CITY,
• 08:17 IN A PLACE THAT WAS CALLED "APHEK."
• 08:20 (Narrator) NOW ISRAEL WENT OUT AGAINST THE PHILISTINES TO BATTLE.
• 08:23 AND PITCHED BESIDE EBENEZER AND THE PHILISTINES PITCHED IN APHEK.
• 08:28 AND THE PHILISTINES PUT THEMSELVES IN ARRAY AGAINST THE ISRAEL.
• 08:32 AND WHEN THEY JOINED BATTLE ISRAEL WAS SMITTEN BEFORE THE PHILISTINES.
• 08:37 AT APHEK ISRAEL WOULD LOSE TWO BATTLES, 34 THOUSAND LIVES
• 08:44 AND MOST TRAGICALLY THE ARK OF THE COVENANT.
• 08:55 (David Dolan) IT WAS BAD ENOUGH THAT THE ISRAELITES SHOULD LOSE THEIR BATTLE AT APHEK.
• 08:59 TO LOSE THE ARK OF THE COVENANT TO THE PHILISTINES?...
• 09:02 IT WAS UNHEARD OF.
• 09:04 NOTHING COULD BE MORE DISHEARTENING OR SO IT WOULD SEEM.
• 09:08 BUT THE BIBLE RECORDS THAT DURING THIS PERIOD OF THE JUDGES,
• 09:11 THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL HAD REVERTED TO IDLE WORSHIP.
• 09:15 THEY WERE NO LONGER LISTENING TO THEIR COVENANT GOD.
• 09:18 IN THE ABSENCE OF LEADERS LIKE MOSES AND JOSHUA, EVEN THE PRIESTHOOD HAD BECOME CORRUPT.
• 09:32 (Narrator) THE CAPTURED ARK OF THE COVENANT WOULD BE TAKEN INTO THE PHILISTINE TEMPLE IN ASHDOD.
• 09:37 BEING A PEOPLE OF THE SEA
• 09:39 THE PHILISTINES BASED THEIR CHIEF DEITY ON A CREATURE FROM THE SEA.
• 09:43 AND SO IT WAS, ON THIS EXTRAORDINARY EVENING
• 09:47 THAT THE HOLY ARK SHARED A ROOM WITH A FOREIGN GOD...
• 09:53 NAMED "DAGON" THE FISH GOD.
• 09:57 THIS WAS A NIGHT FOR FATEFUL CONFRONTATION.
• 10:27 WHEN THE PHILISTINES AROSE EARLY IN THE MORROW MORNING,
• 10:30 BEHOLD DAGON WAS FALLEN UPON HIS FACE TO THE EARTH BEFORE THE ARK OF THE LORD
• 10:36 AND HIS HEAD AND BOTH PALMS WERE CUT OFF.
• 10:40 AND THE MEN OF ASHDOD SAID,
• 10:42 "THE ARK OF THE GOD OF ISRAEL SHALL NOT ABIDE WITH US FOR HIS HAND IS SORE UPON US".
• 10:48 AND GOD SMOTE THE CITY OF ASHDOD AND THEY SENT THE ARK OF GOD TO EKRON.
• 10:58 (David Dolan) FOR SEVEN MONTHS THE ARK WOULD TRAVEL FROM ONE PHILISTINE CITY TO ANOTHER.
• 11:02 AT EACH SITE THE RESULTS WERE THE SAME,
• 11:05 PLAGUE AND DEATH SUCH AS THE PHILISTINES HAD NEVER KNOWN BEFORE.
• 11:08 IT HAD BECOME QUITE CLEAR THAT THEY COULD NOT HARNESS THE MIGHT OF THIS ISRAELITE GOD,
• 11:14 WHO THEY PERCEIVED MUST BE LIVING IN THIS TROUBLESOME GOLDEN BOX.
• 11:18 CLEARLY THE ARK HAD TO BE RETURNED TO ITS RIGHTFUL OWNERS.
• 11:23 OF COURSE THE QUESTION WAS, WERE THE ISRAELITES REALLY READY FOR THE ARK'S RETURN?
• 11:28 HAD THEY LEARNED ANYTHING IN ITS ABSENCE ABOUT THE GOD WHO DELIVERED THEIR FOREFATHERS OUT OF EGYPT?
• 11:35 THEY WOULD SOON FIND OUT.
• 11:37 IN A WIERD TWIST OF FATE THE PHILISTINES DECIDED TO RETURN THE ARK.
• 11:41 WELL, SORT OF.
• 11:44 THEY FIGURED IF AN UNMANNED CART COULD MAKE IT ALL THE WAY BACK TO THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL,
• 11:48 IT WOULD BE A SIGN THAT THE ARK RIGHTFULLY BELONGED TO THE ISRAELITES.
• 11:52 MIRACULOUSLY THE UNMANNED CART FINDS ITS WAY TO BETH SHEMESH, A CITY OWNED BY THE LEVITES.
• 12:01 (Narrator) AS THEY WERE REAPING THEIR WHEAT HARVEST
• 12:03 THEY LIFTED UP THEIR EYES
• 12:05 AND SAW THE ARK
• 12:06 AND REJOICED TO SEE IT.
• 12:07 AND THEY TOOK THE WOOD OF THE CART AND THE COWS THEREOF
• 12:10 AND OFFERED A BURNT OFFERING UNTO THE LORD.
• 12:18 (David Dolan) UNFORTUNATELY THERE WERE STILL SOME MORE LESSONS TO BE LEARNED.
• 12:22 MOSES HAD BEEN GIVEN SPECIFIC GUIDELINES REGARDING THE HANDLING OF THE HOLY ARK.
• 12:27 RESPECT WAS PARAMOUNT.
• 12:32 (Narrator) AND HE SMOTE THE MEN OF BETH SHEMESH, BECAUSE THEY HAD LOOKED INTO THE ARK OF THE LORD.
• 12:35 EVEN HE SMOTE OF THE PEOPLE 50 THOUSAND AND 3 SCORE AND 10 MEN.
• 12:49 (David Dolan) DESPITE GOD'S CONTINUED EFFORTS TO COMMUNE WITH HIS COVENANT PEOPLE,
• 12:54 THEY JUST DIDN'T SEEM TO GET IT.
• 12:56 THEIR EXUBERANCE WAS SO MUCH LIP SERVICE.
• 12:59 THEIR ACTIONS PROVED THAT THEY WERE QUITE CONTENT LIVING IN PRIDE.
• 13:03 IN THE ABSENCE OF ANY SPIRITUAL AUTHORITY,
• 13:05 THE ARK WOULD BE PLACED IN A PRIVATE RESIDENCE AT A PLACE CALLED KIRIATH-JEARIM.
• 13:12 "Boker tov" "Boker tov"
• 13:16 (Narrator) AND THE MEN OF KIRIATH-JEARIM CAME AND FETCHED UP THE ARK OF THE LORD
• 13:21 AND BROUGHT IT INTO THE HOUSE OF ABINADAB IN THE HILL
• 13:25 AND SANCTIFIED ELEAZAR, HIS SON, TO KEEP THE ARK OF THE LORD.
• 13:29 AND IT CAME TO PASS WHILE THE ARK ABODE IN KIRIATH-JEARIM
• 13:33 THAT THE TIME WAS LONG, FOR IT WAS 20 YEARS.
• 13:43 (Ian Stern) WE'RE STANDING ON A HILLTOP NOT FAR FROM JERUSALEM
• 13:46 THAT WAS IDENTIFIED IN 1838 BY EDWARD ROBINSON AS THE PLACE OF ANCIENT KIRIATH-JEARIM,
• 13:51 THE TOWN OF THE WOODS,
• 13:53 THE SITE WHERE THE ARK OFTHE COVENANT RESIDED FOR 20 YEARS.
• 13:56 HE BASED HIS DECISION OR HIS IDENTIFICATION ON THE FACT THAT
• 13:59 WE'RE STANDING BETWEEN THE TRIBAL AREA OF JUDAH AND THE TRIBAL AREA OF BENJAMIN.
• 14:04 THIS WAS REINFORCED BY THE FACT THAT RIGHT HERE IN FRONT OF US
• 14:07 WE HAVE A MOSAIC FLOOR DATING FROM THE 5TH CENTURY; PART OF WHAT WAS A BYZANTINE CHURCH.
• 14:12 WHAT WE KNOW OF THE BYZANTINE PERIOD IS THAT MANY CHURCHES WERE BUILT
• 14:15 AND THOSE CHURCHES WERE BUILT TO MARK A BIBLICAL EVENT
• 14:19 VERY POSSIBLY HERE THE PLACE WHERE ABINADAB AND ELEAZAR,
• 14:23 THE GUARDIANS OF THAT ARK FOR 20 YEARS, HAD THEIR HOME.
• 14:26 ALSO IN THIS SPOT IS A CHURCH BUILT IN 1924, THE CHURCH OF OUR LADY OF THE ARK OF THE COVENANT,
• 14:32 ALSO MARKED IN THAT SAME SPOT.
• 14:35 BUT WHAT WE DO KNOW IS IT WAS IN THIS AREA THAT THE MOST VALUABLE TREASURE IN THE WORLD,
• 14:39 THE ARK OF THE COVENANT,
• 14:41 RESIDED FOR 20 YEARS BEFORE DAVID BROUGHT IT WITH HIM TO JERUSALEM.
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• 17:20 WE DIG ISRAEL
• 17:22 AND WE DO IT SHOVEL BY SHOVEL.
• 17:24 COME AND LET'S LOOK AT SOME TUNNELS AND JOIN ARCHAEOLOGISTS TODAY.
• 17:34 (Oren Gutfeld) I BELIEVE THAT NOT THE PEOPLE WHO HAD HIDDEN THE TREASURES MADE THE TUNNEL
• 17:39 BECAUSE THE ESSENES OR SOMEONE ELSE WHO HID THE TREASURES COULDN'T DO SUCH A HUGE PROJECT.
• 17:49 THIS PROJECT CONNECTS TO SOMEONE VERY, VERY RICH, VERY HEALTHY, VERY IMPORTANT.
• 17:55 MAYBE EVEN A KING, ONE OF THE HASMONEAN KINGS OR SOMEONE WHO RELATES TO HEROD THE GREAT.
• 18:02 AND THEN NOW I BELIEVE THAT IT'S SOMEHOW CONNECTED TO A TOMB
• 18:07 AND PERHAPS USED IN SECONDARY USE TO HIDE THE TREASURES THAT ARE MENTIONED IN THE COPPER SCROLL.
• 18:15 (Narrator) AN INTRIGUING PARALLEL HAS EMERGED.
• 18:17 GUTFELD'S TUNNELS SEEM TO CLOSELY RESEMBLE THOSE FOUND IN THE EGYPTIAN PYRAMIDS.
• 18:23 (Oren Gutfeld) IN A SECTION IT LOOKS LIKE A PYRAMID
• 18:26 ALTHOUGH THE FORTRESS OF HYRCANIA OR THE MOUNTAIN OF HYRCANIA IS NATURAL OF COURSE.
• 18:31 BUT IF YOU LOOK IN THE SECTION
• 18:34 YOU CAN SEE THAT THE TUNNEL GOES DOWN 35 DEGREES
• 18:38 LIKE IN THE PYRAMIDS EXACTLY UNDER THE TOP OF THE HILL LIKE A PYRAMID ACTUALLY.
• 18:46 (Narrator) AND THERE'S PERHAPS YET ANOTHER CONNECTION WITH EGYPT'S GREAT PYRAMID.
• 18:49 AT HIGH NOON ON THE SUMMER SOLSTICE
• 18:51 AN ANGLE CAST BY THE LIGHT REFLECTED OFF THE PYRAMID
• 18:54 INTERSECTS THE LIKELY SIDE OF THE RED SEA CROSSING, THE JORDAN RIVER CROSSING, AND BETHLEHEM.
• 19:01 IS IT A COINCIDENCE THAT THIS SAME LINE PASSES THROUGH HYRCANIA,
• 19:06 THE SIDE OF GUTFELD'S MYSTERIOUS TUNNELS?
• 19:09 A SHORT DISTANCE FROM HYRCANIA IN THE CAVES OF QUMRAN IS AN OASIS CALLED EIN-GEDI.
• 19:17 STILL TODAY, AS IF OUT OF NOWHERE,
• 19:19 THIS REMARKABLE REFUGE SURPRISES VISITORS WITH LAVISH WATERFALLS AND HIDDEN CAVES OF ITS OWN.
• 19:26 IT'S HERE THAT ONE OF ISRAEL'S GREATEST LEADERS
• 19:30 WOULD READY HIS HEART FOR THE DIRECTION HIS PEOPLE SO DESPERATELY NEEDED.
• 19:37 DAVID...
• 19:38 SHEPHERD, MUSICIAN, WARRIOR...
• 19:42 NOW KING OF ALL ISRAEL.
• 19:46 "I HAVE FOUND DAVID MY SERVANT."
• 19:49 "MY MERCY WILL KEEP FOR HIM FOREVER MORE."
• 19:52 "AND MY COVENANT SHALL STAND FAST WITH HIM."
• 19:55 "HIS SEED SHALL ENDURE FOREVER AND HIS THRONE AS THE SUN BEFORE ME."
• 20:02 (David Dolan) WITH ISRAEL'S LEADERSHIP AGAIN IN CAPABLE HANDS
• 20:05 YOU'D THINK THAT THINGS WOULD RUN SMOOTHLY FOR A CHANGE.
• 20:09 UNFORTUNATELY, IN HIS ENTHUSIASM TO HAVE THE ARK BROUGHT HERE TO JERUSALEM,
• 20:14 KING DAVID APPARENTLY FORGETS SOME VERY IMPORTANT DETAILS.
• 20:18 FIRST OF ALL THE JOB OF TRANSPORTING ANY HOLY TREASURE
• 20:22 SHOULD BE LEFT SOLELY IN THE HANDS OF THE PRIESTS.
• 20:25 SECONDLY, IT SHOULD NEVER BE TOUCHED EXCEPT BY THE PRIESTS.
• 20:29 TO ABIDE BY THIS LAW MEANT LIFE.
• 20:32 TO BREAK THIS LAW MEANT DEATH.
• 20:37 (Narrator) AND THEY BROUGHT THE ARK OUT OF THE HOUSE OF ABINADAB AND SAT IT UPON A CART.
• 20:40 AND UZZAH AND AHIO, THE SONS OF ABINADAB DROVE THE CART.
• 20:44 AND WHEN THEY CAME TO THE THRESHING FLOOR
• 20:47 UZZAH PUT FORTH HIS HAND TO THE ARK OF GOD AND TOOK HOLD OF IT.
• 20:51 AND THE ANGER OF THE LORD WAS KINDLED AGAINST UZZAH AND GOD SMOTE HIM THERE FOR HIS ERROR.
• 20:57 AND THERE HE DIED BY THE ARK OF GOD.
• 21:05 (Ian Stern) WE'RE STANDING HERE IN AREA 'G' OF THE CITY OF DAVID EXCAVATIONS,
• 21:09 A SITE WHERE 3,000 YEARS AGO, DAVID AND HIS MEN WERE GOING TO CONQUER THE CITY,
• 21:14 WHICH WAS AT THAT TIME THE CAPITAL OF THE JEBUSITES.
• 21:17 THE JEBUSITES HAD PLACED THEIR LAME AND THEIR BLIND
• 21:20 ON THE WALLS AND GATES OF THE CITY MOCKING DAVID'S ARMY.
• 21:23 DAVID INGENIOUSLY, WITH THE HELP OF HIS COMMANDER AND CHIEF JOAB,
• 21:28 GO THROUGH WHAT IS CALLED IN THE BIBLE, THE "TSINNOR", THE WATER TUNNEL.
• 21:32 THEY CLIMB THROUGH THE WATER TUNNEL, ENTER INTO THE CITY,
• 21:35 AND THEN RUN TO THE WATERGATE
• 21:37 OPENING THE CITY UP ALLOWING DAVID'S ARMY TO COME THROUGH
• 21:40 MAKING THIS AT POINT THE CITY OF DAVID.
• 21:43 BEHIND US OVER HERE IS A STEP STONE STRUCTURE
• 21:45 AND ABOVE THAT STRUCTURE A PALACE, PROBABLY THE PALACE OF DAVID HIMSELF.
• 21:50 IT WAS IN THIS CITY THAT DAVID LATER ON WOULD BRING THE ARK OF THE COVENANT
• 21:55 WHERE IT WILL EVENTUALLY HAVE ITS FINAL RESTING PLACE.
• 22:02 (Narrator) DESPITE HIS PALATIAL SURROUNDINGS,
• 22:04 DAVID HAD COME TO REVERE HIS SOURCE.
• 22:06 "HE HATH GIVEN FOOD UNTO THEM THAT FEAR HIM."
• 22:09 "HE WILL BE EVER MINDFUL OF HIS COVENANT."
• 22:11 "HOLY AND REVEREND IS HIS NAME."
• 22:15 THIS TIME DAVID WOULD DO IT RIGHT.
• 22:17 HE WOULD BRING THE ARK TO THE CENTER OF THE CITY
• 22:20 BEING CAREFUL TO DO SO IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE COMMANDMENTS GIVEN TO MOSES.
• 22:24 THUS BEGAN THE PROCESS THAT TRANSFORMED THE JEBUSITE STRONGHOLD INTO JERUSALEM,
• 22:31 THE HOLY CITY.
• 22:33 THEN ON THAT DAY DAVID DELIVERED FIRST, THIS PSALM...
• 22:37 "BE YE MINDFUL ALWAYS OF HIS COVENANT,"
• 22:40 "THE WORD WHICH HE COMMANDED TO A THOUSAND GENERATIONS,"
• 22:43 "EVEN OF THE COVENANT WHICH HE MADE WITH ABRAHAM AND OF HIS OATH UNTO ISSAC"
• 22:49 "AND HATH CONFIRMED OF THE SAME TO JACOB FOR A LAW,"
• 22:52 "AND TO ISRAEL FOR AN EVERLASTING COVENANT."
• 23:04 IN THIS WEDDING CELEBRATION JUST OUTSIDE OF JERUSALEM
• 23:07 THE SPIRIT OF DAVID ENDURES.
• 23:29 (Rabbi Yaakov Kleiman) THE COVENANT IS AN AGREEMENT THAT IS TOTALLY IN EFFECT.
• 23:32 IT'S LIKE THE WEDDING RING BETWEEN THE GROOM AND THE BRIDE,
• 23:36 SO THE RELATIONSHIP
• 23:37 IS BETWEEN GOD AND MANKIND
• 23:39 AND THE JEWISH PEOPLE
• 23:41 PARTICULARLY AT SINAI.
• 23:42 THE ARK OF THE COVENANT OR ACTUALLY THE "LUCHOT",
• 23:45 THEY CALLED THE TABLETS OR THE TEN COMMANDMENTS,
• 23:47 IS THE SYMBOLIC RING.
• 23:49 SO WHEN THERE'S A MARRIAGE,
• 23:50 EVEN IF THE RING GET'S LOST OR TEMPORARILY MISPLACED,
• 23:54 THE MARRIAGE IS STILL VERY VITAL.
• 23:58 (Narrator) MEANWHILE, DEEP WITHIN OREN GUTFELD'S TUNNEL,
• 24:02 SOMETHING HAS BEEN FOUND...
• 24:04 PERHAPS A PIECE OF THE PUZZLE?
• 24:30 (Oren Gutfeld - laughing) NOW I NEED MONEY FOR A C-14 TEST.
• 24:37 (Narrator) TO GUTFELD EVEN ANIMAL BONES CAN BE CLUES,
• 24:40 FURTHER EVIDENCE THAT HIS TUNNELS DATE TO THE PERIOD OF TEMPLE TREASURE.
• 24:44 THE CLUES FROM THE COPPER SCROLL REMAIN PARAMOUNT, HOWEVER.
• 24:48 HIS TUNNELS ARE LOCATED IN THE SEKAKA VALLEY OR SHADOW VALLEY MENTIONED 5 TIMES IN THE SCROLL.
• 24:54 FURTHER SOME OF THE TREASURE IS SPECIFICALLY INDICATED
• 24:58 AS BEING LOCATED UNDER THE STEPS OF A TUNNEL.
• 25:05 IN THE JOURNEY FROM THE SINAI TO JERUSALEM
• 25:08 THE ARK OF THE COVENANT HAS BEEN THE SOURCE OF LIFE AND DEATH NOW FOR NEARLY 450 YEARS.
• 25:16 THROUGH DESERTS AND RIVERS...
• 25:18 OVER MOUNTAINS AND CANYONS...
• 25:22 INTO THE VERY TEMPLE OF A FOREIGN GOD.
• 25:29 AS A LITTLE BOY GROWING UP IN A JEWISH HOME I DIDN'T CELEBRATE CHRISTMAS, WE DID HANUKKAH.
• 25:35 AND I REMEMBER AS A YOUNGSTER OPENING UP PRESENTS, TREASURES
• 25:40 AND AS A LITTLE BOY, BEING SO ENTHRALLED, SO EXCITED.
• 25:44 SOMETHING ABOUT IT TOLD ME THIS IS A GREAT HOLIDAY BECAUSE OF THE JOY FROM THE TOYS.
• 25:51 WELL IT'S NOT ABOUT TOYS.
• 25:54 HERE WE ARE DIGGING INTO THE BIBLICAL WORD AND WE'RE IN SEARCH OF LOST TREASURES.
• 26:01 NEXT WEEK WE'RE GOING TO HEAR FROM INDIVIDUALS
• 26:05 WHO CLAIM THEY HAVE SEEN THE ARK OF THE COVENANT.
• 26:09 AND TALK ABOUT JOY...
• 26:11 TALK ABOUT A GLEAM IN THE EYE,
• 26:14 WE ARE DOING BIBLICAL ARCHAEOLOGY.
• 26:17 WE BELIEVE THIS IS TV WORTH WATCHING
• 26:20 AS WE LOOK FOR BIBLICAL TREASURES AND CONSIDER BIBLICAL PLEASURES.
• 26:26 BEFORE WE GO I WANT YOU TO KNOW
• 26:29 THAT GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD HE SENT HIS SON INTO IT.
• 26:32 AND THE GREATEST TREASURE OF ALL
• 26:34 WOULD BE THE TREASURE THAT'S HIDDEN IN YOUR HEART IN THIS EARTHEN VESSEL.
• 26:38 IF YOU WILL BUT INVITE THE LORD INTO YOUR HEART,
• 26:40 REPENT OF YOUR SINS,
• 26:42 THERE'S A GLORIOUS FUTURE FOR YOU.
• 26:45 WE LOOK AT THE FUTURE,
• 26:46 WE LOOK AT THE PAST...
• 26:47 THANKS FOR GOING WITH US ON THE JOURNEY
• 26:50 AND AS YOU GO NOW, SHA'ALU SHALOM YERUSHALAYIM
• 26:54 PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM
• 27:07 JOIN US IN THE HOLY LAND FOR A TRIP OF LIFETIME.
• 27:11 YOU'LL LOVE IT...I PROMISE.
• 27:13 FOR TOUR INFORMATION CALL 1-800-WONDERS