Caption transcript for Conquest of Canaan: “The Battle of Jericho” (2/8)

• 00:01 ♪♪♪
• 00:15 ♪♪♪ Joshua Colson: Well, hey everybody, I'm Joshua.
• 00:17 Caleb Colson: And I'm Caleb.
• 00:18 Israel Hanna: And I'm Israel Hanna.
• 00:19 Caleb: Actually he's like Moses. Joshua: Yeah, he is.
• 00:21 Israel: Oh, thank you for bringing me across the Jordan.
• 00:23 Caleb: Oh, you are welcome. Israel: Finally.
• 00:25 Joshua: Look, it's your 3,500th anniversary.
• 00:26 I figured it's only right for you to finally
• 00:28 just get a peek at it.
• 00:29 Israel: That's wonderful, gimme a hug.
• 00:30 Joshua: It's not exactly in pristine condition anymore, but
• 00:32 you get the idea, right?
• 00:33 Caleb: Take a look at what's happening this week on the
• 00:35 Bearded Bible Brothers.
• 00:36 ♪♪♪
• 00:46 ♪♪♪
• 00:56 ♪♪♪
• 00:59 Caleb: Wow, look at that.
• 01:02 This is the view that Moses saw.
• 01:05 God brought him to the top of a mountain to view the Promised
• 01:08 Land, except I think he had a clear day.
• 01:11 Shoshannah Colson: And incredible vision.
• 01:12 Caleb: Incredible vision.
• 01:13 I believe God gave him eagle eye vision, you know, to see across
• 01:16 the land.
• 01:17 I mean, there's the tip of the Dead Sea, right there, the
• 01:20 northern tip.
• 01:22 I just wish Josh was here to view this with us.
• 01:24 Shoshannah: He's missing out.
• 01:25 Caleb: Hold on.
• 01:27 Hold on, let me see if I can get him online.
• 01:28 He's getting better.
• 01:30 Josh.
• 01:31 Joshua: Oh. Oh.
• 01:32 Caleb: How you feeling, bud?
• 01:34 Joshua: Good morning, brother. Oh, thank you for waking me up.
• 01:39 Oh, starting to feel a little bit better.
• 01:41 I don't think I have as much vomit in my beard today.
• 01:44 Caleb: Dude, we made it to Mount Nebo.
• 01:46 This is where Moses died.
• 01:48 You gotta take a look at this.
• 01:49 Hold on.
• 01:51 Joshua: Ooooooh, sandstorms and the haze.
• 01:56 I think I see Jawas.
• 01:58 It is just as beautiful as I imagined it was going to be.
• 02:01 Caleb: I just imagine the pain that the Israelites felt when
• 02:06 Moses never came back down the mountain.
• 02:09 They waited and waited.
• 02:10 Scripture says they waited, you know, 30 days after that moment.
• 02:14 And he was their leader.
• 02:16 I mean, yeah, there were some rough times, they wanted to
• 02:18 stone him a lot, but they still had that love for him because he
• 02:21 was the one who brought them to freedom.
• 02:23 Yes, it was God himself, but he was their voice.
• 02:27 There's so many times that they could have heard directly from
• 02:29 God, Shoshannah, but they chose to use a vassal instead.
• 02:33 They said, "You speak to God for us, Moses, and we'll listen."
• 02:36 They were too afraid to hear from him themselves.
• 02:38 Joshua: Hey, hey.
• 02:40 Caleb: What's that, Josh?
• 02:41 Joshua: Do they still have that awesome replica of the bronze
• 02:43 snake up on the pole?
• 02:45 Caleb: Yeah, of course they have the bronze snake here.
• 02:47 All right, he wants to see the snake.
• 02:48 Hold on, up, up, down a little bit, a little bit right.
• 02:51 No, hold up, right.
• 02:52 Caleb: Deuteronomy 34:1-4.
• 02:55 "Then Moses went up from the plains of Moab to Mount Nebo, to
• 02:59 the top of Pisgah, which is across from Jericho.
• 03:03 And the Lord showed him all the land of Gilead as far as Dan,
• 03:07 all Naphtali and the land of Ephraim and Manasseh, all the
• 03:11 land of Judah as far as the Western Sea, the South, and the
• 03:15 plain of the Valley of Jericho, the city of palm trees, as far
• 03:19 as Zoar.
• 03:21 Then the Lord said to him, 'This is the land which I swore to
• 03:24 give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob,' saying, 'I will give it
• 03:28 to your descendants.'
• 03:29 I have caused you to see it with your eyes, but you shall not
• 03:33 cross over there."
• 03:36 Caleb: All right, look at that.
• 03:38 The bronze serpent.
• 03:41 Man, yes, this is not where it happened.
• 03:43 Even Josh knows this is not where the event took place, but
• 03:46 it's a powerful reminder of what sin leads to.
• 03:50 Sin leads to death, but also the redemption of Yeshua here as
• 03:54 they have that monument down there, "Just as Moses lifted up
• 03:56 the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be
• 03:59 lifted up."
• 04:01 And this is the promise of our redemption Shoshannah, even
• 04:03 though people would fail like Moses, God still made a way for
• 04:07 his sins to be forgiven.
• 04:09 It was just one mistake.
• 04:10 What's up with that?
• 04:11 Shoshannah: One mistake.
• 04:13 Dude hit a rock when he was supposed to be speaking to it.
• 04:14 He tried to recreate what God already did through him like he
• 04:17 already hit a rock before and water came out.
• 04:19 And instead of doing this new thing God asked of him, he
• 04:22 reacted out of anger and it led to him never getting to see the
• 04:25 Promised Land.
• 04:26 Caleb: Obedience matters.
• 04:28 I mean, it really does, even sometimes when we think we're
• 04:29 doing something good, to help out God, or just do it our own
• 04:33 way, and we have good intentions.
• 04:35 God just wants obedience just like to Saul, He said through
• 04:37 Samuel, "Obedience is better than sacrifice."
• 04:41 Okay, you can give God all these gifts, but if your heart is not
• 04:44 obedient to Him, it doesn't matter to Him.
• 04:45 That's all he wants.
• 04:47 Joshua: Obedience is better than sacrifice.
• 04:49 You look at Moses, who is faithful his entire life,
• 04:52 leading this group of people for decades as they continued to do
• 04:55 what was wrong.
• 04:57 But in that knee jerk reaction, in that moment, he didn't listen
• 05:00 to God, and he paid the price for it.
• 05:03 Regardless of how we feel, our job is to do what God said.
• 05:08 Nothing else.
• 05:09 Caleb: Well, this is where you show up, Josh, because before
• 05:12 Moses went to the top of the mountain, he didn't come
• 05:15 thinking, "Oh, everything's gonna be cool."
• 05:17 He knew he was coming to his death.
• 05:18 God said, all right, you're gonna be gathered to your
• 05:20 fathers, but before you do that, he said, you need to take Joshua
• 05:24 in sight of all the people, commission him.
• 05:27 This is very important.
• 05:28 There had to be a passing of the baton that people saw visually.
• 05:32 They needed to know that God was backing this new leader, and he
• 05:35 was already Moses's servant for decades, you know, serving him
• 05:39 faithfully, and now he was gonna step into the role of being the
• 05:43 man who brought everyone into the Promised Land and that's
• 05:46 so important.
• 05:47 But now it's time, it's time, Josh, to enter the
• 05:50 Promised Land.
• 05:52 I hope you're getting better because we gotta cross the
• 05:53 Jordan River and make that path that the Israelites took many
• 05:57 years ago, right, let's go, this way.
• 06:02 Caleb: Joshua 1:1-4.
• 06:04 "After the death of Moses, the servant of the Lord, it came to
• 06:07 pass that the Lord spoke to Joshua son of Nun, Moses'
• 06:11 assistant, saying: 'Moses, my servant is dead.
• 06:15 Now therefore, arise, go over this Jordan, you and all this
• 06:19 people, to the land which I am giving to them--the children
• 06:23 of Israel.
• 06:24 Every place that the sole of your foot will tread upon, I
• 06:27 have given to you, as I said to Moses.'"
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• 07:02 Caleb: Our resource for this program, the book,
• 07:04 "The Mountains of Israel: The Bible & the West Bank,"
• 07:08 by Norma Archbold.
• 07:09 A profound ignorance exists today concerning the land of
• 07:12 Israel thanks to a false picture presented by news media.
• 07:15 The so-called Palestinians claimed their land was stolen by
• 07:18 invading Jews.
• 07:19 Learn the true origins of Judea and Samaria, the incorrectly
• 07:23 named West Bank, and why this territory belongs to the
• 07:26 Jewish people.
• 07:27 Call 1-800-WONDERS, or visit levitt.com for "The Mountains
• 07:30 of Israel."
• 07:36 Caleb: Joshua 2:1, "Then Joshua son of Nun secretly sent two
• 07:41 spies from Shittim.
• 07:43 'Go look over the land,' he said, 'especially Jericho.'
• 07:47 So they went and entered the house of a prostitute named
• 07:50 Rahab and stayed there."
• 07:54 Caleb: Well, we finally made it to Jericho and it feels good to
• 07:56 be here.
• 07:58 We're in territory that's called the West Bank.
• 08:00 leaves a dirty taste in your mouth, you know, it's really
• 08:03 called Judea and Samaria.
• 08:04 This is territory given to the tribe of Judah.
• 08:07 There's a lot of misbranding going on that's not biblical
• 08:10 truth, but we like to clear things up.
• 08:12 That's why we came here to tell the true story of Joshua and the
• 08:15 battle of Jericho.
• 08:16 Joshua: Jericho is sitting there as the big baddie.
• 08:18 First thing when you enter the Promised Land, you gotta get
• 08:20 through me, bud.
• 08:21 I'm 800 feet below sea level.
• 08:23 That's right. My air tastes bad.
• 08:24 It tastes like Grandma's basement.
• 08:26 I am 3,500 feet below the level of Jerusalem.
• 08:29 You don't use--you're not used to fighting here.
• 08:30 I'm 17 miles away.
• 08:32 What are you gonna do with me?
• 08:33 It was a fortress to be dealt with, but this is the oldest
• 08:37 walled city in the world according to archaeologists.
• 08:40 Israel: Not only the oldest, but the strongest militarily, it was
• 08:43 fortified in a way that considering attacking it
• 08:47 was ridiculous.
• 08:48 Caleb: So let's take a look at how bad, how fortified this tell
• 08:52 really was.
• 08:54 Israel: All right we're off.
• 08:57 Caleb: Joshua 2:2-3, "The king of Jericho was told,
• 09:00 'Look, some of the Israelites have come there tonight to spy
• 09:03 out the land.'
• 09:05 So the king of Jericho sent this message to Rahab: 'Bring out the
• 09:07 men who came to you and entered your house, because they have
• 09:10 come to spy out the whole land.'"
• 09:13 Caleb: You know, some historians and archaeologists believe that
• 09:16 Rahab actually held an inn, some like a brothel.
• 09:20 Either way, everyone came into her house that was international
• 09:23 traveler outside the city, but she saw something different in
• 09:26 these two spies, and this prostitute with a heart of gold
• 09:30 decided to hide these Hebrews under flax on her rooftop.
• 09:35 And then when the officials of the city were gone, she brought
• 09:38 them out.
• 09:40 And she told them why she saved their lives.
• 09:42 She gave this statement of faith that we talked about last week.
• 09:46 Her belief that the God of Israel was the one true God,
• 09:49 that he was gonna wipe out all these enemy gods, but she still
• 09:53 needed an assurance of safety for her own house.
• 09:56 Joshua: So she went to the spies and she begged them.
• 09:58 She said, "You have to spare my family," and they made a pact,
• 10:01 an agreement, a covenant, a commitment, our lives for
• 10:04 your lives.
• 10:05 And the agreement was that once the fighting starts,
• 10:08 that she had to hang a scarlet piece of cloth outside of the
• 10:11 window and that way they would know which one was her family
• 10:14 and she would be spared.
• 10:15 Then the spies, as she helped them escape, returned to Joshua
• 10:19 with the news of what had to be done.
• 10:23 Caleb: ''Truly the Lord has delivered all the land into
• 10:25 our hands, for indeed all the inhabitants of the country are
• 10:28 fainthearted because of us."
• 10:31 Caleb: Hebrews 11:30-31, "By faith the walls
• 10:34 of Jericho fell, after the army had marched around them for
• 10:38 seven days.
• 10:40 By faith the prostitute Rahab, because she welcomed the spies,
• 10:44 was not killed with those who were disobedient."
• 10:48 Israel: So it's interesting we're standing here in this
• 10:50 place in the north where they say Rahab the harlot's house
• 10:53 actually when the walls came tumbling down.
• 10:56 She was the one that actually hid the spies away and was
• 11:00 rescued from the disaster, the downfall of Jericho itself, and
• 11:04 ends up being in the Messianic line that gives birth to Yeshua.
• 11:09 Caleb: Isn't that crazy how God grafts in a unclean
• 11:14 Gentile woman who ends up having a relationship, a marriage with
• 11:20 someone from the tribe of Judah and eventually becomes King
• 11:23 David and Yeshua's line.
• 11:25 And all this here is just amazing evidence that just
• 11:28 screams biblical accuracy of what's going on.
• 11:33 Joshua: You know, at the northernmost wall, the story
• 11:36 goes and the walls came tumbling down.
• 11:38 If you ever sang that in the felt board class, I think they
• 11:40 call that Sunday school.
• 11:42 They found something interesting.
• 11:43 The German archaeologists found that of all these massive walls
• 11:46 that have indeed tumbled down, there was one portion of the
• 11:49 wall on this northern side, as we just pointed to,
• 11:52 Rahab's house, that did not tumble down.
• 11:56 God's commitment to her was resolute.
• 11:58 When they marched around the walls, and they let out a shout.
• 12:01 All of the walls fell to the ground except for the one spot
• 12:04 that was promised would be saved.
• 12:07 And as these two just spoke about the genealogy, not only
• 12:09 that, but in one decision, Rahab ensured that she would
• 12:13 become the great great great great great great great
• 12:15 grandmother of Yeshua.
• 12:17 You may think today that you're out of it.
• 12:18 You may think you've done too much.
• 12:20 You may think there's no hope for you, but all it takes is one
• 12:23 choice and the Father can use you to do incredible things.
• 12:27 Caleb: Joshua 5:13-15, "Now when Joshua was near
• 12:31 Jericho, he looked up and saw a man standing in front of him
• 12:36 with a drawn sword in his hand.
• 12:38 Joshua went up to him and asked, 'Are you for us or for
• 12:42 our enemies?'
• 12:43 'Neither,' he replied, 'but as commander of the army of
• 12:46 the Lord I have now come.'
• 12:49 Then Joshua fell face down to the ground in reverence, and
• 12:51 asked him, 'What message does my Lord have for his servant?'
• 12:55 The commander of the Lord's army replied, 'Take off your sandals,
• 12:59 for the place where you are standing is holy,' and Joshua
• 13:02 did so."
• 13:04 Joshua: Joshua's got a predicament.
• 13:06 As any good leader, he goes, "What am I supposed to do?"
• 13:09 And instead of just thinking under his own power, he goes out
• 13:11 to walk around and to take a breath, and all of a sudden he's
• 13:14 approached by someone.
• 13:16 Now this someone isn't an angel like many people might have
• 13:19 suggested before.
• 13:20 We know this because that angel doesn't go,
• 13:21 "Stop worshiping me."
• 13:23 You know, we actually believe that he encountered a theophany
• 13:26 of Yeshua in this time period who gives him the information,
• 13:31 that confidence needed to say what you gotta do, bud, is go
• 13:34 march around that wall.
• 13:35 Think of that for one second.
• 13:37 Yeshua meets Yehoshua face to face in this moment as he gives
• 13:43 them the orders for what would become one of the most
• 13:45 incredible stories ever told.
• 13:48 Caleb: The name means absolutely everything, Josh, you know.
• 13:52 Originally Joshua's name was Hoshea or Hosea, which
• 13:55 means salvation.
• 13:57 It was God Himself who renamed him in Moses's presence.
• 14:00 He named him Yehoshua, which is Joshua.
• 14:03 And really that is the name of Yeshua Jesus.
• 14:06 We read in Nehemiah 8:17, when he gives an account of Joshua.
• 14:10 He calls him Yeshua ben Nun instead of Yehoshua bin Nun
• 14:13 because Yeshua was just a nickname.
• 14:16 So it's very interesting that his name means Yahweh is
• 14:20 salvation, Yehoshua, and so many times I believe Joshua got
• 14:25 discouraged because even from day one when we went to the
• 14:28 presence of a tent meeting, he saw Shekinah and first thing God
• 14:32 says, "Be strong Joshua, have courage," and throughout the
• 14:37 book of Joshua over and over again, God keeps on telling him,
• 14:40 Joshua, be strong, have good courage.
• 14:42 We already knew he was a man of faith, but God kept on having to
• 14:46 speak it into him, to reiterate to him, to build him up
• 14:49 with life.
• 14:50 Because he was about to take on a task that was a mirror
• 14:54 of Yeshua.
• 14:55 He was about to bring the children of Israel from this
• 14:58 desert which represents our lives in this natural world into
• 15:02 the Promised Land, which is a representation of heaven, and
• 15:05 that is why Yehoshua Yeshua is so important to the story.
• 15:10 Joshua: Joshua 6:2-5, "And the Lord [this theophany of Yeshua]
• 15:13 said to Joshua, 'See, I have given Jericho into your hand.
• 15:17 Its king, and the mighty men of valor.
• 15:19 You shall march around the city, all of you men of war:
• 15:22 you shall go around the city once.
• 15:25 This you shall do six days, and seven priests shall bear seven
• 15:28 trumpets of rams' horns before the ark.
• 15:30 But the seventh day you shall march around the city seven
• 15:32 times, and the priest shall blow the trumpets.
• 15:35 It shall come to pass, when they make a long blast with the rams'
• 15:38 horn, and when you hear all the sound of the trumpet, that all
• 15:41 people shall shout with a great shout; then the wall of the city
• 15:44 will fall down flat.
• 15:46 All the people shall go up, every man straight before him."
• 15:50 Caleb: I think it's very interesting, the archaeological
• 15:53 evidence for the story of Jericho is all around us.
• 15:55 Now, there's always contention with the enemy trying to lie
• 15:58 about dating methods and things, yet the story is here, and as
• 16:02 you can see down, the depth of this is so hard to imagine.
• 16:06 I mean, if we fell, we would be dead, it is so deep, so
• 16:08 many layers.
• 16:10 And they've discovered that burnt layer that would be during
• 16:13 the mid 15th century when the Israelites came here--actually
• 16:16 it would be, what, 1406 BC?
• 16:19 That was there, they found burnt layer.
• 16:21 They found ash.
• 16:22 They even found giant storage jars of barley of grain because
• 16:26 it was the harvest season.
• 16:28 They got all the barley in and then it was burnt up all
• 16:31 around them.
• 16:33 Now if the siege had been long and the Israelites, you know,
• 16:36 years long, they would have eaten all the storage jars, it
• 16:39 was such a snap event that all the food was left behind when it
• 16:44 was destroyed.
• 16:45 They even found the walls like Josh described.
• 16:48 These walls were imposing because there are two layers
• 16:50 of walls.
• 16:52 There's the inner city and then there's this acropolis that had
• 16:54 the second wall of the city.
• 16:55 Just the first wall, Josh, you had a tell
• 16:57 of dirt and then the wall on top of it made of brick, mud brick,
• 17:02 that was 40 feet tall, and it was so thick with dirt first,
• 17:08 and then all that there--you couldn't do a battering ram
• 17:11 because you couldn't get high enough to batter through the
• 17:12 wall part because there's so much earth from the tell.
• 17:16 And all that instead of, you know, if there was an earthquake
• 17:19 came, Josh, and would shake the walls, it would be in pieces
• 17:21 instead the walls went, rip, flat, and that's what
• 17:24 archaeologists found here just surrounding this, flat walls to
• 17:28 where the Israelites went straight up to the top,
• 17:32 except for that one point where Rahab's house was.
• 17:35 This is evidence, I don't care what people say about the
• 17:38 dating record.
• 17:39 There's true evidence even right now, guys, it's really hard.
• 17:42 We're in the Palestinian territory.
• 17:44 Palestinian Authority controls this site.
• 17:46 In the most recent years they've been covering up the evidence
• 17:50 that would verify this biblical claim.
• 17:52 They've been filling up holes with dirt.
• 17:54 They've been tearing down stuff.
• 17:55 It's all because they don't want a Jewish claim to the land and
• 18:00 that is what we're here to tell the story of.
• 18:02 Joshua: And I want you to think about how God works.
• 18:05 God brings light and revelation.
• 18:07 In fact, the Bible says there's nothing hidden that won't
• 18:09 be revealed.
• 18:10 So you can look at the actions of people and you can say, does
• 18:12 this action follow God's heart and his precepts?
• 18:15 So if the people here are covering up and hiding, there's
• 18:19 a reason for that.
• 18:21 They're covering up and hiding the truth because the truth
• 18:23 supports the Word of God in the Bible, so don't for one second
• 18:27 believe the words of anyone who would try to cover up instead
• 18:30 of reveal.
• 18:33 Joshua: Joshua 6:15-16, "But it came to pass on the
• 18:37 seventh day that they rose early, about the dawning of the
• 18:40 day, and marched around the city seven times in the same manner.
• 18:43 On that day only they marched around the city seven times.
• 18:47 And the seventh time it happened, when the priests blew
• 18:49 the trumpets, that Joshua said to the people: 'Shout, for the
• 18:52 Lord has given you the city!'"
• 18:56 Caleb: Joshua 6:26, "Then Joshua charged them at that time,
• 19:00 saying, 'Cursed be the man before the Lord who rises up and
• 19:04 builds this city Jericho; he shall lay its foundations with
• 19:07 his firstborn, and with his youngest he shall set up
• 19:10 its gates.'"
• 19:12 Caleb: This is the mountain Jericho behind us, and you can
• 19:16 see the real Jericho around us, or at least this is what modern
• 19:19 Jericho really looks like.
• 19:21 This place is very interesting, because I have one last story
• 19:25 to tell.
• 19:26 The god that was worshiped here was the moon god Yarikh.
• 19:29 Jericho, you know, is the name of it.
• 19:31 The city was named after that patron god.
• 19:34 He had a wife, Nikkal, and they were this Canaanite family god
• 19:38 that was honored and deified here.
• 19:40 They would perform many ceremonies to these gods, you
• 19:43 know, child sacrifice was a big thing that God had a problem
• 19:46 with that the Canaanites performed.
• 19:49 And here to be blessed and to be honored to have continual
• 19:54 reproductive rights, they sacrifice their firstborn.
• 19:57 Many will say that never happened here.
• 20:00 Well, an archaeologist--
• 20:01 Joshua: Walter Garstang.
• 20:03 Caleb: Found just that.
• 20:04 He found that built within the walls of Jericho were jars.
• 20:08 And there are fetal skeletons in that jars placed upside down.
• 20:12 He also uncovered the same kind of jars we've seen at Tel Gezer
• 20:16 and Tel Megiddo.
• 20:17 We visited those places before, and the evidence of this was
• 20:20 documented in the Cambridge Sentinel, March 29th, 1930.
• 20:24 The truth and the evidence, the enemy continues to try to
• 20:27 cover up.
• 20:29 Now Joshua, his final act here
• 20:33 when he was going to leave the city was to curse the city.
• 20:37 He cursed that anyone who would try to return here, or would try
• 20:41 to rebuild these walls, their firstborn and their last born
• 20:45 child would be a resulted death of that act, because he
• 20:50 understood what they did here by sacrificing their children here.
• 20:54 Hiel of Bethel did that exact act, and his children died
• 20:58 because of it.
• 20:59 Then of course this happened in 1 Kings 16:34, around 875 BC.
• 21:05 It was God saying how serious it was.
• 21:07 He did not want this city to continue, but the Israelites did
• 21:11 rebuild that city, and it was still a functioning city at the
• 21:15 time of Yeshua.
• 21:16 Joshua: We look at this land, one of the most disputed lands
• 21:18 in the history of mankind.
• 21:20 We know that even today that will not be resolved.
• 21:22 In fact, this is going to go all the way to the very end.
• 21:26 But if you take a step back from all of the different
• 21:29 arguments, all of the different, quote-unquote, "facts and
• 21:31 figures," all the stories and evidence that we have, that
• 21:34 exists, that shows true ownership and you just look at
• 21:38 the wisdom of the situation and the land around me right now.
• 21:42 We're standing right now in Jericho in the West Bank in this
• 21:46 land that the Palestinians have claimed as their own, and yet
• 21:49 look at the land around you.
• 21:50 It is covered in trash, in garbage.
• 21:53 It has been discarded.
• 21:54 They can yell and they can scream and they can say that
• 21:56 Israel has no rights.
• 21:58 Yet they show the true evidence of where their care and belief
• 22:00 is when you look around you and you see that no care, no love,
• 22:03 nothing is given, no signs of ownership, no sign of
• 22:05 parenthood, nothing.
• 22:06 That's the type of thing I find around me, yet they fight for
• 22:08 this land as though it's a part of their being, as though if
• 22:11 it's taken away from them, they will lose everything, and yet
• 22:13 they don't take care of it.
• 22:15 They don't show any true love for it.
• 22:17 It's just a mantra that they're fighting for because it's
• 22:20 something that they have to have.
• 22:22 That's what the enemy is.
• 22:24 The enemy comes to steal, kill and destroy.
• 22:25 He comes to covet that that he doesn't have.
• 22:28 He comes to accuse.
• 22:29 He comes to take something that doesn't belong to him, and it
• 22:32 only works when you give up your birthright.
• 22:36 But when God's given you something, and he's ordained it
• 22:39 to be yours, you grab a hold of it and you fight for it, because
• 22:43 that is yours.
• 22:45 It's your covenant, it's your birthright, and this is Israel's
• 22:49 land, not because anyone deserves it, but because the God
• 22:52 of the universe who created it says, "I have given it
• 22:55 to Israel."
• 23:00 Caleb: All right guys, I got a plan.
• 23:01 Israel: What?
• 23:02 Caleb: You know when Joshua and the children of Israel marched
• 23:04 around the wall and then they got the city.
• 23:06 Palestinian Authority owns Jericho right now.
• 23:08 The West Bank, I say we march around this Jericho, and I
• 23:12 expect to see some results.
• 23:14 Israel: I need to tell you, Caleb, that my friend and I and
• 23:16 a few others marching around a $9.5 million dollar building
• 23:20 which we now own today as a result of marching around it.
• 23:24 It works.
• 23:25 It is powerful.
• 23:26 Let's do it.
• 23:28 Joshua: All right, well, I got my big feet.
• 23:29 Moses, would you lead the way?
• 23:30 Israel: I would most like to.
• 23:32 Caleb: Moses gets to lead us for the first time.
• 23:33 Israel: Here we go now.
• 23:34 Caleb: Whoo-oh, that's a dangerous stick.
• 23:36 Israel: How many times are you going around?
• 23:38 Seven?
• 23:39 Caleb: I say seven is pretty good.
• 23:40 Israel: Yeah.
• 23:42 Joshua: Ha-ha.
• 23:48 Joshua: After the Canaanite and Amorite dominion over the land,
• 23:51 the next big baddies, the tough guys of the land, the Egyptians,
• 23:55 show up on the scene to take over Canaan.
• 23:57 Caleb: That's right.
• 23:58 That's why we decided to come here to Beit Shean.
• 24:00 If you dig deep enough here, yeah, you see Roman ruins
• 24:04 round about.
• 24:05 This was the Roman city part that you see.
• 24:07 But underneath those Roman ruins was a massive Egyptian
• 24:11 administrative complex.
• 24:12 In fact, they found a really fancy statue of Ramesses III
• 24:18 here, they've even found inscriptions from other reigns
• 24:21 of Seti I and Ramesses II.
• 24:24 So this was a big hot spot for the Egyptians to set up
• 24:27 headquarters, take the monies from the Canaanites, and run
• 24:30 things smoothly in Canaan.
• 24:32 Joshua: Hm-hm, pretty smart.
• 24:35 Whoa.
• 24:36 Well, look at this.
• 24:38 See my mom from up there.
• 24:39 Hey mom, I can project.
• 24:41 Caleb: You know, guys, Egypt first gained dominion over
• 24:43 Canaan proper in the mid 1500s BC when Thutmose III had this
• 24:48 climactic battle at Megiddo in which they held dominion over
• 24:52 all the city states of Canaan.
• 24:54 You know, he was the same Pharaoh that is said to have
• 24:57 killed all the baby boys in Egypt when he found that the
• 25:01 Israelites were a threat to his rule.
• 25:03 Well, the Egyptians set up their territory mainly in
• 25:06 the lowlands.
• 25:08 They had administrative centers in Jaffa and Megiddo here in
• 25:11 Beit Shean.
• 25:12 And they were mainly about accepting tribute from these
• 25:15 territories, you know, their administration was not as
• 25:19 dominating as one might say, but they still installed these
• 25:22 Vassal kings over the territory to make sure that they stayed
• 25:26 in line.
• 25:27 They had a great influence over the Canaanites when it came to
• 25:30 the gods that they worship.
• 25:31 That's why you see temples even here, there's Egyptian temples
• 25:35 that are littered about that people have found here with
• 25:38 these articles and icons that people incorporated into their
• 25:41 pantheon of gods.
• 25:43 Now by the time you come to Amenhotep II, which we believe
• 25:46 is the Pharaoh of the Exodus, he had a problem on his hands.
• 25:50 He just lost his workforce, which was the Israelites, and
• 25:53 the Israelites were heading to Canaan, his territory that he
• 25:56 held under dominion as a vassal state.
• 25:59 We have documentation, Joshua, Amenhotep II quickly tries to
• 26:02 outrun the Israelites into Canaan.
• 26:04 He gathers the workforce of Apiru.
• 26:06 These are slaves, these are nomads, some Canaanites, brings
• 26:10 them back to Egypt to try to restructure.
• 26:12 He knows that he cannot contend with the Israelites.
• 26:15 Therefore, when the Israelites come into Canaan, everything's
• 26:18 ripe for the picking.
• 26:19 There is not very many contingencies of Egyptians left,
• 26:23 and that's really God's plan when he sent the ten plagues to
• 26:26 really cripple the Pharaoh because he knew that the
• 26:28 Egyptians held Canaan under dominion.
• 26:31 It was a genius plan so that mainly the Egyptians in the
• 26:35 lowlands might have been a few that survived, and that is the
• 26:38 territory according to the book of Judges that the Israelites
• 26:41 weren't successful in obtaining the territory of the
• 26:43 Promised Land.
• 26:45 Joshua: I love that the plan is, okay, Israelites go out.
• 26:47 He's like, uh-oh, I need more workers.
• 26:48 He goes and gets more workers from the place that would have
• 26:50 fought them on their way out.
• 26:52 So now they got nobody fighting them as they're going forward,
• 26:53 and just open, open, open, open them.
• 26:55 Genius.
• 26:56 Caleb: God's master plan.
• 26:57 Joshua: It's also they get too greedy.
• 26:59 Like I'm only gonna set up the city to get me some sweet money.
• 27:01 All right, you're a shakedown city and you're a
• 27:02 shakedown city.
• 27:06 Caleb: It's important to realize that God doesn't do anything
• 27:09 by accident.
• 27:10 Yes, he sent the ten plagues on Egypt to show his power.
• 27:13 Each of the plagues was a mockery of an Egyptian god,
• 27:16 showing that He was the supreme God, El-Elyon.
• 27:19 But even when you look at the grand scheme of things, he
• 27:22 wanted to cripple the Egyptian government, their power and
• 27:25 dominance, because he was leading his people straight for
• 27:28 the Promised Land, which was controlled by Egypt.
• 27:31 And why would God bring his people out of Egypt only to
• 27:33 bring them back into contests with the Egyptians?
• 27:36 That's why he brought them to their knees, and just like with
• 27:40 the Canaanites that were fighting amongst each other,
• 27:42 giants versus giants in the time of Abraham, he was clearing the
• 27:46 way far in advance to keep his covenant promises to Abraham,
• 27:51 getting rid of giants, getting rid of Egyptians, and then he
• 27:53 brought his people, which all they had to do was obey him and
• 27:56 clear out the rest of the Canaanites.
• 27:58 We'll see what happens.
• 28:00 And as you go, don't forget to sha'alu shalom Yerushalayimm.
• 28:04 Joshua: Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.
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