Caption transcript for “Mystery of the Holy Waters”

• 00:01 Joshua Colson: Previously on “Bearded Bible Brothers.”
• 00:03 Hirchie Schaffner: Ah! Joshua: Got it, ha!
• 00:05 Caleb Colson: The Essenes, they
• 00:07 were this cult believers of a very harsh version of Judaism.
• 00:10 Christian Widener: They actually recorded these Dead Sea Scrolls.
• 00:12 Caleb: Mhm.
• 00:13 Joshua: The Essenes believed that the Second Temple was gonna
• 00:15 be destroyed as well.
• 00:17 Caleb: They were actually looking for a Messianic figure,
• 00:19 the Messiah, to come, and he was gonna help them build a
• 00:22 third temple.
• 00:23 Hirchie: They also knew that there would be a fourth
• 00:25 temple built by God.
• 00:26 Joshua: I’m surprised they got so many details right.
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• 00:58 Joshua: Help, somebody!
• 01:01 Stop!
• 01:05 Joshua: Oh boy, we’re gonna need another temple.
• 01:09 Joshua: Adventure beckons me, but the true prophetic
• 01:13 destruction of my people brought on by the Third Temple, it’s
• 01:16 what motivates me to press on.
• 01:18 There are many missing steps, elements needed to complete
• 01:22 before the Jewish people can even begin the construction of
• 01:24 the Third Temple.
• 01:26 Well, yes, they need the temple treasures, they need the Ark of
• 01:28 the Covenant and a spotless red heifer, but the one most
• 01:33 important element missing is the holy grail.
• 01:37 Caleb: Josh, we need holy waters, not the holy grail.
• 01:40 You know, living waters.
• 01:42 Joshua: Brother, everybody knows that the holy water is in the
• 01:46 holy grail.
• 01:48 What am I doing here?
• 01:50 It’s the cup of Christ.
• 01:51 Really, you’re the theologian?
• 01:52 Anywho, the holy grail.
• 01:55 And I’m gonna find it.
• 01:56 I’m gonna drink out of it, shh.
• 02:03 Caleb: All right, Josh, let’s get back to the story.
• 02:06 We’re visiting a barely known site of Solomon’s Pools in the
• 02:10 West Bank.
• 02:11 Why do people rarely come here?
• 02:12 Because it’s under control by the Palestinian Authority.
• 02:15 We can’t discuss the coming Third Temple without uncovering
• 02:18 how they got living water all the way to the Temple Mount in
• 02:21 the past.
• 02:22 Without living water, there is no sacrificial system, no water
• 02:25 of cleansing with the ashes of a red heifer, and no purifying the
• 02:28 priests or mikvah baths for the worshippers.
• 02:32 Caleb: Wow, we made it here to the pools of Solomon.
• 02:35 They gave us an amazing welcome.
• 02:38 Where’d you get that coffee?
• 02:39 Joshua: You didn’t get coffee?
• 02:41 This is a pool of Solomon coffee.
• 02:42 You should count yourself in need.
• 02:45 Caleb: These three reservoir pools are direct evidence of a
• 02:48 massive construction project that was used to send millions
• 02:51 of gallons of water into Jerusalem.
• 02:53 These pools hold 75 million gallons total, and they would
• 02:56 travel by two aqueducts into Jerusalem to bring fresh water
• 03:00 to the temple, so they always had living water.
• 03:03 Caleb: This is the second pool, is it not, this is the
• 03:05 middle pool?
• 03:07 Christian: Yeah, this is the middle pool and really, one of
• 03:09 the things that–you know, there’s a lot of discussions
• 03:12 about how old these pools are.
• 03:14 There’s a lot of archaeological evidence to say they at least
• 03:17 must go back to the time of the Hasmoneans, that they, you know,
• 03:20 were certainly in the time of Herod because he built off the
• 03:22 aqueducts here and carried it to the Herodion.
• 03:25 But, you know, one of the things that you wanna have to
• 03:28 understand about Jerusalem is it also needed water, and this was
• 03:30 the source of water for Jerusalem.
• 03:32 They have a Gihon Spring there that provides a little bit
• 03:34 of water.
• 03:35 It’s actually got some seasonal flow, it’s not really a
• 03:38 giant spring.
• 03:39 Caleb: So it dries up in the season?
• 03:41 Christian: Yes, and so in order for Jerusalem to really to grow,
• 03:43 it had to have water.
• 03:45 And this is the primary source of water.
• 03:47 And we know that Solomon built also aqueducts and pools of
• 03:51 water and water systems, and so there’s a lot of reason to be
• 03:55 thinking about these pools as we look back based on, you know,
• 03:59 even the accounts in Ecclesiastes that it talks about
• 04:01 him building pools of water and bringing them.
• 04:04 But Jerusalem would not have existed in any kind of large
• 04:07 size without these pools.
• 04:09 This is the source of water.
• 04:11 It goes from here all the way to the lower aqueduct that fed to
• 04:15 the Temple Mount, which would have been needed for sacrifices.
• 04:17 It also fed to the Damascus Gate and the whole northern part
• 04:20 of Jerusalem.
• 04:22 So there were two main sources of water that for all times that
• 04:25 we can know about the history of Jerusalem, besides the early
• 04:28 Canaanite days, it must have had a greater source of water than
• 04:31 what we see there presently today.
• 04:33 Caleb: Ecclesiastes 2:4-6, “I [Solomon]
• 04:36 undertook great projects: I built houses for myself and
• 04:40 planted vineyards.
• 04:41 I made gardens and parks and planted all kinds of fruit trees
• 04:45 in them.
• 04:46 I made reservoirs to water groves of flourishing trees.”
• 04:50 Joshua: You know, these trips are always incredibly easy to
• 04:52 disseminate all the information that we’re trying to
• 04:54 tell everyone.
• 04:55 Like when we showed up to this shoot and the head of all the
• 04:57 Palestinian antiquities and history got us on speakerphone
• 05:01 and spent 30 minutes telling us exactly what the truth was and
• 05:05 how we got to disseminate it.
• 05:07 In fact, we had people filming us the entire time and following
• 05:10 us to make sure that we gave them their interpretation of
• 05:12 the story.
• 05:14 So we had to create a barricade between them and Caleb and
• 05:17 anyone on camera so that we could actually give you the real
• 05:19 truth of what happened.
• 05:21 I was that barricade.
• 05:23 Caleb: What I really want to know is why is this important to
• 05:25 the temple?
• 05:26 I mean, obviously it was completely necessary to have
• 05:28 living waters, but what is this connection to even the
• 05:31 future temple?
• 05:33 Christian: Right, well, you couldn’t have gotten going with
• 05:35 sacrifices at the temple location, the way that we
• 05:39 understand temple service, without a really good source
• 05:43 of water.
• 05:44 And the source of water that’s there had to be continuously
• 05:47 fed, and you don’t have that with the Gihon Spring.
• 05:50 You don’t have the ability to get that water.
• 05:52 So this really had to be there from the beginning of the
• 05:55 temple’s service.
• 05:57 And so as I was trying to put together the whole story on, you
• 06:01 know, where was the temple located and looking at ties with
• 06:04 Solomon, this is part of that story.
• 06:07 And it’s part of the things that I started questioning about, you
• 06:11 know, what the experts were saying, this looks like it
• 06:14 matches the accounts.
• 06:16 And so, you know, finally, why does an engineer have to write,
• 06:19 you know, a book called “The Temple Revealed,” right?
• 06:22 Because I just–I don’t think that the Bible is being used as
• 06:25 the number one, you know, source of information for people’s
• 06:30 understanding of the archaeological evidence that
• 06:32 we have.
• 06:34 And without that, you’re going to draw, I think, some wrong
• 06:36 conclusions and you’re going to miss what the Bible has been
• 06:39 showing us right in, you know, in front of our faces.
• 06:42 And you know, like the accounts of Solomon riding 50 furlongs to
• 06:47 go to his pools.
• 06:48 Caleb: That’s right, Josephus talked about it.
• 06:50 Every day, he rode in his chariot down here because it
• 06:52 was–it wasn’t just the pools, there was a whole garden that he
• 06:55 had here.
• 06:56 It was beautiful.
• 06:58 Joshua: Josephus, “Antiquity of the Jews.”
• 06:59 “There was a certain place about fifty furlongs distant from
• 07:01 Jerusalem, which is called Etham, very pleasant it is, in
• 07:04 fine gardens, and abounding in rivulets of water; thither did
• 07:07 he [Solomon] use to go out in the morning, sitting on high [in
• 07:11 his chariot.]”
• 07:12 God, that’s a terrible translation.
• 07:14 Christian: And of course, with this much water, you’re going to
• 07:15 have a fantastic garden, right?
• 07:17 But it–but it’s not just the garden here, it was you couldn’t
• 07:21 have life, you know, like we talked about, in Jerusalem
• 07:24 without a source of water like this.
• 07:26 It just wasn’t enough to support, you know, a giant city
• 07:29 and all the temple services with the Gihon Spring itself.
• 07:33 Caleb: So what you’re saying is it had to have been built at the
• 07:35 same time as the First Temple period, or it wouldn’t have
• 07:38 existed at all?
• 07:39 Christian: That’s right.
• 07:40 All of that, you know, it’s like the irreducible complexity
• 07:42 argument, you know, it’s like you need all of these things
• 07:45 together in order to have what we see there.
• 07:47 And, you know, this is again, only the middle pool, we have
• 07:50 another pool down below–.
• 07:51 Caleb: The lower pool.
• 07:53 Christian: Which might be later, that might be an addition.
• 07:55 But certainly, we have two giant pools of this magnitude here and
• 07:59 even the third pool, you know, all these pools were
• 08:02 continuously maintained and held up for, you know, 3,000
• 08:07 years, basically.
• 08:09 And so you’re gonna have all kinds of different layers of
• 08:11 repairs and construction that’s going on here.
• 08:14 But, you know, what we see here is evidence that this was part
• 08:20 of the original developments and the growth of Jerusalem.
• 08:23 Caleb: Yeah, and it was in continuous use, like you said,
• 08:27 until 1967 when they cut it off.
• 08:29 So imagine it was so well done, it was so well constructed, for
• 08:33 3,000 years, it took care of people, and absolutely necessary
• 08:38 because of the dry desert climate where people needed
• 08:40 water continuously.
• 08:42 So this is magnificent evidence for your case and a magnificent
• 08:47 find, archaeologically, that is forgotten.
• 08:50 Caleb: The evidence for this site being the main source of
• 08:52 living water for Solomon’s Temple is pretty strong.
• 08:55 There couldn’t have been a sacrificial system in operation
• 08:58 in Jerusalem, let alone enough water to sustain the population,
• 09:01 as the 12 tribes would pilgrimage to worship there,
• 09:04 without the aqueduct system that originated here.
• 09:08 Caleb: This is an incredible site.
• 09:10 I’m still blown away how much water can be held in these
• 09:13 reservoirs, these three reservoirs.
• 09:16 Thanks for taking us here and explaining all this stuff.
• 09:18 Christian: Yeah, no, my pleasure.
• 09:19 It’s millions of gallons of water here that it would have
• 09:21 been needed for Jerusalem.
• 09:23 I’m excited to go see where these–where these aqueducts
• 09:26 take us to.
• 09:27 Caleb: All right, but the sun is setting now, so we’re gonna have
• 09:29 to go to Jerusalem tomorrow morning and see if we can trace
• 09:32 the path of where these water channels reached all the way
• 09:35 to Jerusalem.
• 09:37 Joshua: Sweet, can I bring my inner tube?
• 09:39 Caleb: Why not?
• 09:40 Joshua: Like, can I–can I go down the aqueduct,
• 09:41 like sitting on a tube?
• 09:43 Caleb: I don’t know if that’s the safest thing.
• 09:44 It’s kind of dried up now.
• 09:45 Hirchie: I think you should try it anyway.
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• 11:03 Christian: Here we are at the Western Wall Plaza, the Kotel,
• 11:06 and here we can see actually behind us on the steps that are
• 11:10 over there going up to the Mount Zion, the Jewish quarter, is the
• 11:14 remains of an aqueduct that goes all the way back to the pools of
• 11:18 Solomon that we saw.
• 11:19 And it ran across this mountain behind us, it comes around, and
• 11:23 these are actually the remains of the bridge that went from the
• 11:26 Temple Mount over to the Mount Zion.
• 11:29 It traveled through here and fills the aqueducts of the
• 11:32 Temple Mount for use of living water on, you know, temple
• 11:36 sacrifices and all that kind of stuff, that they would bring up
• 11:38 using a wheel and somehow up onto the Temple Mount, and
• 11:42 that’s recorded in “The Mishnah,” when they say that.
• 11:44 But it’s like right here, you can see that you have the
• 11:47 elevation that’s needed to fill this with water.
• 11:51 You needed that from the beginning of the time that this
• 11:53 whole plaza was built.
• 11:54 I mean, it’s just–you know, it’s amazing, all this
• 11:56 infrastructure that had to be made in order to build God’s
• 11:58 temple here, even from the very beginning.
• 12:01 Caleb: That’s a lot of work to get that done.
• 12:04 Caleb: 2 Chronicles 7:11-16, “When Solomon had finished the
• 12:09 temple of the Lord…the Lord appeared to him at night and
• 12:12 said: ‘I have heard your prayer and have chosen this place for
• 12:15 myself as a temple for sacrifices…Now my eyes will be
• 12:19 open and my ears attentive to the prayers offered in
• 12:22 this place.
• 12:23 I have chosen and consecrated this temple so that my Name may
• 12:28 be there forever.
• 12:29 My eyes and my heart will always be there.'”
• 12:33 Christian: That passage in 2 Chronicles 7 is so important to
• 12:36 understand when you’re wondering like why do people come to pray
• 12:39 at this wall, right?
• 12:40 Why do they come to pray here?
• 12:41 It’s not that, you know, God doesn’t hear you when you pray
• 12:43 anywhere else, it’s just that there’s a special promise that
• 12:46 God made to hear you when you do pray from this place.
• 12:49 Caleb: It’s important because he says, “Pray toward me.”
• 12:52 And even when Daniel was captive all the way in Babylon, said he
• 12:58 went–or even in Elam and all the different places he was
• 13:00 taken, he went to his window and prayed three times a day toward
• 13:04 this place, because they believed that God could hear.
• 13:06 Joshua: As was his practice.
• 13:08 Caleb: As was his practice.
• 13:09 Joshua: It wasn’t just that he was crying out for help, but he
• 13:11 did it on the regular, and I think that’s something to
• 13:13 remember for us.
• 13:15 We need a regular commitment of relationship, not just a
• 13:19 get-out-of-jail-free prayer when we’re in trouble.
• 13:21 Christian: Absolutely, and it’s praying to God.
• 13:22 It’s not praying to the stones, right?
• 13:24 It’s praying towards this place.
• 13:26 Caleb: Yep, not praying toward a Kaaba.
• 13:28 Christian: Right.
• 13:29 Hirchie: And it’s also not ritualistic.
• 13:31 Caleb: Yes, it’s not.
• 13:32 Hirchie: It is a regular thing, but it’s not just a ritual.
• 13:34 I mean, even like, you know, Jesus said, don’t just have vain
• 13:37 repetitions, but like to come with your heart before him in
• 13:40 worship and in that attitude of adoration and relationship, so
• 13:44 important, man.
• 13:54 Joshua: The ancestral Jewish heritage of Jerusalem is
• 13:56 under attack.
• 13:57 The world, the United Nations, and most importantly, the
• 14:00 Palestinian Authority, want to rewrite the history of the
• 14:03 Jewish people.
• 14:04 They want to disinherit them from their land of Israel that
• 14:06 God gave to them, and they want to do this in many
• 14:08 different ways.
• 14:10 But there’s one really big problem.
• 14:11 You can rewrite and change history all you want, but you
• 14:13 know what doesn’t change?
• 14:15 Archaeology, that’s right, the rocks.
• 14:17 They’re right there, and they’ve been there the entire time.
• 14:19 And what have they found on the Temple Mount?
• 14:21 They found a Hebrew temple, pre-existing the Dome of the
• 14:26 Rock and Al-Aqsa for like centuries!
• 14:30 I hate to tell you this, the Palestinians are the squatters.
• 14:33 Joshua: We are currently adjacent to the City of David
• 14:37 archaeological site in what was once known as the Givati
• 14:40 Parking Lot.
• 14:41 Guess who’s not parking here anymore?
• 14:43 Not Givati, only archaeologists, why?
• 14:45 Because they discovered ten civilizations deep right here,
• 14:49 going all the way back to the 10th century kings, all the way
• 14:51 to early Islamic period.
• 14:53 So guess what?
• 14:54 Can’t hang out here now, unless you’re getting out
• 14:56 awesome artifacts.
• 14:58 Caleb: Yeah, this pottery is really how they kind of know
• 15:00 that it goes back to the 10th century.
• 15:02 Hirchie: Yeah, along with this pottery, they found over
• 15:04 hundreds, 200-some Byzantine coins under Emperor Heraclius,
• 15:10 and then you’ve got Queen Helena, her domain down here.
• 15:14 One of the most amazing parts, that’s biblically accurate, is a
• 15:18 pot that has an engraved name of Nathan-Melech, a servant of the
• 15:22 king, that actually is found in 2 Kings.
• 15:26 Caleb: So we have biblical accuracy here, but they also
• 15:29 found an extra-biblical story that did happen.
• 15:32 They found the fortress of Acra, a watchtower, fortified walls.
• 15:37 And within that fortress, they found minted coins with a
• 15:39 trident symbol that matched the reign of Antiochus
• 15:43 Epiphanes before.
• 15:44 You guessed it, the Antichrist who committed the first
• 15:48 abomination of desolation, he was here.
• 15:51 That’s an eerie foreshadowing of the abomination to come, guys.
• 15:56 Caleb: Guys, the real reason why I wanted to come here, the
• 15:59 others don’t know, is that over there, there’s an entrance to an
• 16:02 underground passageway.
• 16:04 It’s an ancient water canal that passed under the Pilgrim’s Road.
• 16:08 It led from the Pool of Siloam, all the way up to the temple.
• 16:11 Now, it gets a little claustrophobic in there,
• 16:13 everybody’s tired from climbing steps, but I think it’s going to
• 16:15 be really cool, and I want to show you what it looks like.
• 16:19 Caleb: Psalm 134, “A Psalm of Ascents,” underground edition.
• 16:24 “Behold, bless the Lord, all you servants of the Lord, Who by
• 16:28 night stand in the house of the Lord!
• 16:31 Lift up your hands in the sanctuary, and bless the Lord.
• 16:34 The Lord who made heaven and earth Bless you from Zion!”
• 16:38 Caleb: How is Josh fitting through here?
• 16:40 That’s what I wanna know.
• 16:42 Joshua: Howdy, y’all, let’s go on a hunt for archaeology.
• 16:44 Follow me.
• 16:46 Caleb: Well, this’ll be good.
• 16:47 Joshua: Oh, my gosh.
• 16:49 Oh, okay, never mind.
• 16:51 Caleb: Well, this is narrower than I thought.
• 16:56 Our camera operator, Harry, could not see where he was going
• 17:00 till he realized he was still wearing his sunglasses.
• 17:03 Not recommended when you’re passing–when you’re passing
• 17:07 through this ancient water canal tunnel beneath the
• 17:11 Pilgrim’s Road.
• 17:13 It gets crazy.
• 17:15 Joshua: Well, let’s just say the claustrophobia is not intense
• 17:18 enough to explain what we just went through.
• 17:21 I was contorted like a small pygmy animal of any kind going
• 17:26 through that.
• 17:28 When you picture that this is the sewage system, right, in
• 17:31 ancient Israel, when you think of Indiana Jones and he’s going
• 17:33 through looking for, you know, the Ark of the Covenant, and
• 17:35 there’s all those rats going everywhere in Venice underneath
• 17:38 the deal, this is worse.
• 17:40 This is worse, but guess what?
• 17:42 Somebody had to make that, isn’t that right, Doctor?
• 17:44 Christian: Yeah, actually, I didn’t think it was that bad.
• 17:47 Joshua: Aww, 6’8″, 315 pounds, bad.
• 17:51 Christian: But you know, coming through here now is a whole heck
• 17:53 of a lot easier because they’d cleared this all out.
• 17:56 When people first discovered it, you could barely pass through,
• 17:58 if at all.
• 18:00 But the cool thing is, is that this is a drainage channel area
• 18:03 and all kinds of things got washed down and filled in these
• 18:07 holes to kind of tell us about how old it is and that this is
• 18:10 the temple times.
• 18:12 Caleb: That’s right.
• 18:13 The things that they found here, tons of Second Temple period
• 18:16 minted coins.
• 18:18 Imagine people are walking in the streets and the coins fall
• 18:20 out of their pocket and it rolls down to the sewer.
• 18:22 It’s all happened to us, it happened to people back then.
• 18:24 But they also found a extravagant artifact, this
• 18:28 golden bell that used to be on the high priest’s hem of his
• 18:32 garment, you know, to ring when he went into the holy of holies.
• 18:36 I mean, that means a high priest walked over here, he lost the
• 18:38 gold bell.
• 18:40 They found a clay inscription that verified the purity of
• 18:43 an offering.
• 18:44 But tragically, they found a Roman sword.
• 18:47 And the story, as Josephus goes, is that during 70 AD when the
• 18:51 Romans break in through Jerusalem’s walls, they’re
• 18:54 destroying, killing everybody, people tried to come down here
• 18:57 to hide from them, and they literally lived down here in the
• 19:01 pitch black with their families until the Romans figured out.
• 19:04 And they brought people in on that end, soldiers on that end,
• 19:07 soldiers on this end, met them in the middle and they just
• 19:09 massacred all the people.
• 19:11 It’s a tragic, tragic story.
• 19:13 Joshua: To be clear, to this day, I could barely make it
• 19:15 through, if even at all, so not much has changed since what you
• 19:18 were talking about.
• 19:20 Caleb: There you go. Christian: Yeah, for sure.
• 19:21 Joshua: How would you even swing a sword at anybody in there?
• 19:23 What are you–like, your arms are just, “I’m gonna get you,”
• 19:24 “No, I’m gonna get you,” like–?
• 19:26 Hirchie: The Romans did that quick jab, maybe a short stab.
• 19:29 Caleb: Poking, yeah, skewer.
• 19:31 Hirchie: Terrible.
• 19:41 Caleb: Hi, guys, I know it sucked going through that
• 19:43 narrow passage.
• 19:45 I should have warned y’all in advance.
• 19:47 Joshua: You said nothing.
• 19:48 Caleb: But here we finally made it.
• 19:50 This is what I wanted everybody to see.
• 19:52 This–these are the foundation stones to the Western Wall.
• 19:55 This is the–the Western Wall goes all the way back here to
• 19:58 here, and the bedrock of Mount Moriah, literally, is right
• 20:03 down here.
• 20:04 That is insane!
• 20:05 We can never see it, but it’s right here.
• 20:07 Christian: And I think how high this wall goes here, you know,
• 20:10 we’ve got 40, 50 feet from here where we just continue going up
• 20:15 that southern, southwest end of the wall with these giant ashlar
• 20:19 stones that again, I think go back all the way to the time
• 20:22 of Solomon.
• 20:23 But they’re hidden from view, you don’t see–like you just see
• 20:25 a little bit of the stone that’s above, above ground.
• 20:28 When you realize how much stonework is really down here
• 20:31 and in addition to that, all these drainage channels that we
• 20:33 came through, all that stonework, which, you know,
• 20:37 that’s the common stonework.
• 20:38 Here you can see we’re coming to a much finer stonework, now
• 20:41 we’re moving from the common to the holy and so this is, you
• 20:44 know, a lot higher level of craftsmanship and work.
• 20:48 But it’s still–the massive amount of stonework that was
• 20:50 needed because at the same time you put in the temple and you
• 20:53 put in the walkway, all these structures, right, all come
• 20:57 together at the same time.
• 20:59 You don’t just have the temple, but you don’t have any
• 21:00 supporting structure.
• 21:02 Why did it take Solomon 20 years to build this whole
• 21:03 temple complex?
• 21:05 Because he had to not only do the Temple Mount as a place to
• 21:08 put the temple, build the temple itself, but also all the
• 21:11 supporting structures.
• 21:12 The drain channels, the walkways, you know,
• 21:15 it’s phenomenal.
• 21:16 That’s why he needed 150,000 men.
• 21:18 Joshua: So about how tall is this wall below the surface of
• 21:21 the ground?
• 21:22 Christian: You can be 30, 40 feet below ground level at some
• 21:25 of these spots.
• 21:27 Joshua: That makes so much sense, that this wall is still
• 21:29 remaining then throughout history.
• 21:30 For it to be dug that deep below the ground and all the way up, I
• 21:33 don’t even know how you knock this down with
• 21:34 primitive weapons.
• 21:36 Christian: Yeah, that’s what Josephus actually wrote.
• 21:37 I think people have read him to be talking about Herod.
• 21:40 But I think, no, he’s clearly talking about Solomon,
• 21:42 and he said, “He built these walls all–for all
• 21:44 time immovable.”
• 21:46 And you look at this, this is definitely for all
• 21:48 time immovable.
• 21:50 Joshua: Hold on, I’ll fix it really quick.
• 21:51 Christian: Yeah, push harder.
• 21:53 Caleb: Ain’t going anywhere, Josh.
• 21:54 Joshua: No, it’s not having it, no.
• 21:55 Should have stretched.
• 21:57 If I stretched first, if I stretched first, maybe.
• 21:58 Caleb: Well done, Solomon.
• 21:59 Caleb: 1 Kings 7:9-10, “All these were of costly stones cut
• 22:03 to size, trimmed with saws, inside and out, from the
• 22:07 foundation to the eaves, and also on the outside to the
• 22:10 great court.
• 22:11 The foundation was of costly stones, large stones, some ten
• 22:15 cubits and some eight cubits.”
• 22:18 Joshua: You know, just the size of this massive wall right here,
• 22:22 seeing the artifacts, the age of them all around, and the size of
• 22:25 these stones.
• 22:26 When you look at these stones, Dr. Christian, what do you see?
• 22:28 Christian: Yeah, I see the stones that 1 Kings 7 is talking
• 22:31 about, costly stones, dressed stones, stones that are sawed.
• 22:36 You know, stones of 8 cubits and 10 cubits, you know, this is the
• 22:39 kind of stonework that I think we’re being–is being described
• 22:43 in the Bible, and you look here and you go, “Yeah, that’s a
• 22:45 costly stone, that’s a sawed stone, that’s a stone of 8 to
• 22:49 10 cubits.”
• 22:50 I mean, it just blows my mind to look at this work and think
• 22:53 about the amount of manpower that it would have taken to
• 22:56 build something like this, and it’s just incredible.
• 22:59 But what’s more incredible is that the Bible is telling us
• 23:02 something fantastic, and we come here and we see
• 23:04 something fantastic.
• 23:06 Joshua: So you’re saying the cost of the stone, the amount of
• 23:07 work put into it.
• 23:09 There’s a temple up top, not a mosque.
• 23:10 Christian: A hundred percent.
• 23:12 Joshua: This is commitment for the house of God.
• 23:13 Christian: Yeah, that’s incredible.
• 23:15 Caleb: Look at this, all the way from here down to the end.
• 23:19 It just keeps going, going, this is one stone, guys, oh.
• 23:24 Joshua: I don’t know if I wanna see the guy that picked that up.
• 23:27 Caleb: Psalm 81:3, “Blow the shofar at the New Moon, at the
• 23:31 full moon, on our feast day.”
• 23:35 Caleb: Look at all these fallen stones, the destruction from the
• 23:38 Second Temple.
• 23:39 And Trumpeting Stone, this is quite a gem that was discovered
• 23:43 right here.
• 23:45 Christian: Yeah, it has written in Hebrew, “From the place of
• 23:47 trumpeting,” and so we can see it’s–it fell from this corner,
• 23:51 another one of the pinnacles of the temple, right?
• 23:53 And then how do you know that that was the temple location?
• 23:55 Well, that’s where they were trumpeting, that’s where they
• 23:56 would blow the shofar, right?
• 23:58 Besides the amazing amount of work that goes into the
• 24:01 structure, that you go, “What do you do with this–you know, that
• 24:04 kind of work for?”
• 24:06 It’s when you’re trying to dedicate it to God.
• 24:07 Caleb: Well, that’s pretty important, and that verifies
• 24:09 that there was indeed a temple on this Temple Mount.
• 24:12 Christian: Yeah, 100%.
• 24:14 Caleb: Acts 3:1, “One day Peter and John were going up to the
• 24:17 temple at the time of prayer–at three in the afternoon.
• 24:21 Now a man who was lame from birth was being carried to the
• 24:24 temple gate called Beautiful, where he was put every day to
• 24:27 beg from those going into the temple courts.”
• 24:31 Christian: All right, guys, so what we’re looking at here is
• 24:34 the other gate that survived the destruction of the temple.
• 24:37 It’s the southern gate, and here’s the entryway for it.
• 24:42 You can see it’s all covered up in stone, but it’s literally the
• 24:45 place that John and Peter came, they entered in.
• 24:48 There was a lame man and they said, “Gold and silver, we
• 24:50 don’t have.
• 24:52 You know, what we have, we’ll give to you.”
• 24:53 And they said, “Get up and walk,” and he got up and walked.
• 24:59 Joshua: Right there.
• 25:00 Christian: You know, right here, and this goes in the
• 25:01 long hallway all the way up into the temple.
• 25:05 And these are the steps that they would have ascended, going
• 25:07 all the way back to the Pool of Siloam.
• 25:10 Right after they’ve washed, they’ve ascended, and then up
• 25:13 through here, it also connects to Solomon’s Portico.
• 25:17 Caleb: Oh, wow!
• 25:18 Christian: And so the whole scene of Acts 3 was played out
• 25:22 right here.
• 25:24 Caleb: That’s incredible.
• 25:26 You can definitely see it.
• 25:28 They tried to cover it up.
• 25:29 It doesn’t work.
• 25:33 Caleb: Guys, this was quite a day, quite an adventure.
• 25:36 We got to see a lot of evidence of past temples to help us
• 25:39 better understand that third temple that I believe is gonna
• 25:42 be built up there as well.
• 25:43 But still, for me, I’m a very visual guy, and to really, you
• 25:47 know, see and witness where those temples stood, I think we
• 25:51 have to get on top of the Temple Mount itself.
• 25:53 Joshua: Brother?
• 25:54 Caleb: What?
• 25:56 Joshua: Last time when you said, “Josh, we only have to
• 25:57 do this once.
• 25:59 We go up to the Temple Mount, we film some stuff illegally.
• 26:00 You sing the Shema a few times, never again.”
• 26:03 What happened to never again?
• 26:05 Caleb: We got a new message that matters on the Temple Mount.
• 26:08 Joshua: What about the Spirit goes everywhere?
• 26:09 Like we can sing it from here and it’s just as
• 26:11 good, and then, nah.
• 26:12 Caleb: Well, we’ll have someone distract the Jordanian Waqf
• 26:15 while we get some really good shots.
• 26:16 Who else is with me, huh?
• 26:18 Hirchie: How much walking is involved?
• 26:20 That’s what I wanna know, because we just walked 25,000
• 26:23 miles today.
• 26:24 Caleb: Okay, we’ll take a good night’s sleep and then we’ll go
• 26:27 up in the morning.
• 26:28 Christian: I can’t wait.
• 26:29 This is exciting, guys.
• 26:31 Joshua: I knew he was gonna be on your side.
• 26:32 Hirchie: I mean, I’m here, so–
• 26:33 Joshua: You know the Temple Mount cats are agents, right?
• 26:35 They turned us in last time.
• 26:36 That’s why you–argh, I want your word that I’m getting a
• 26:40 good night’s sleep.
• 26:41 Caleb: You’re getting a good night’s sleep.
• 26:42 Hirchie: Two whole hours.
• 26:46 Joshua: Next week on the “Bearded Bible Brothers.”
• 26:48 Caleb: This place is so big, 36 acres.
• 26:51 It is the largest structure that–like this that’s ever been
• 26:54 built anywhere.
• 26:55 Joshua: There’s gonna be an actual man, he’s gonna be this
• 26:57 Antichrist figure.
• 26:59 It’s a literal prophecy.
• 27:00 Christian: It’s been sealed up for 2,000 years.
• 27:02 Eventually, this is gonna get opened back up when the
• 27:04 Messiah returns.
• 27:06 Caleb: That’s why we like to refer to this aka Tribulation
• 27:09 Temple as the Temple of Doom, because this is the most
• 27:11 horrifying act that the Jews will ever witness in
• 27:14 all history.
• 27:16 Caleb: To the shock of no one, most world governments have
• 27:19 turned against Israel, but unfortunately, so have many
• 27:22 church congregations.
• 27:24 Very few ministries are supporting the Jewish people or
• 27:27 teaching the truth about Israel in God’s covenant plans.
• 27:30 Joshua: In fact, if you scroll through social media, you’ll see
• 27:32 feed after feed of churches teaching that the Jewish people
• 27:35 are not God’s chosen people and not the fulfillment of
• 27:38 a covenant.
• 27:39 At Zola Levitt Ministries, we’ve been preaching the same message
• 27:41 for 47 years, why?
• 27:43 Because God’s message does not change.
• 27:45 The Jewish people are his chosen people, but he also made a way
• 27:48 for the Gentile to be grafted in.
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