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

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