The Phoenicians were
an important people who
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occupied the
country we now call Lebanon.
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They were master mariners and in
the 7th century B.C. succeeded
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in sailing right
around the coast of Africa.
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In the 10th century B.C. they
supplied King Solomon of Israel
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with cedars of Lebanon. They
also provided him with skilled
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workmen to build his
magnificent temple in Jerusalem.
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Their border stretched as
far south as Haifa in Israel.
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That's where we are now to film
our story of the Phoenicians.
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The ancient Phoenicians had four
main cities along the coastline.
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Right up in the north, there
was Byblos and then a little
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farther south was
Berytus, later known as Beirut.
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And then further south were
Sidon and then further south
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was the city of Tyre. And of
course their territory extended
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as far south as
what we now call Hata.
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Let me tell you something
about the city of Byblos.
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It's got quite an
interesting background.
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It was a city where a lot of
trading was done from and they,
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the ancient mariners of the
Mediterranean, the Phoenicians,
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sent their wares all
over the Mediterranean.
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Now among other products which
they traded, there was the item
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which was much in demand, and
that was the Papyrus leaves for
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leaves of writing for
inscribing their messages on.
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And so they purchased these
from Egypt and transported them
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all over the Mediterranean.
However the time came when these
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wily traders decided they
might as well get in on the
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manufacturing act. And
so instead of importing the
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made papyrus, sheets, they
imported the papyrus stalks
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from Egypt and made
them into the papyrus sheets.
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Well, the Phoenicians kept on
making these Papyrus sheets and
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distributing them down to the
Greek period and naturally when
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the Greeks came on the scene,
they gave this city the name
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that they had in Greek for
a scroll or a book, and that
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is the word, Byblos. And that
of course is where we get our
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English word, Bible from.
And so you see, we've got words
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going right back
to the Phoenicians.
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Well, let me tell you something
about the southern cities of
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Sidon and Tyre. They were
mainland cities but they were
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both built out on an island. In
other words, they had a mainland
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city and in time of danger they
could withdraw to these island
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cities and inasmuch as
they were masters of the
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Mediterranean they were secure
there. They never had a really
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good army. And so they didn't
depend on their land forces, but
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simply withdrew to their island.
Well, various nations tried
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to conquer them. And there was
no problem with the land cities
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on the coast. The Assyrians,
for instance came and conquered
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the mainland city,
the Babylonians came.
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Nebuchadnezzar besieged
Tyre for 13 years but they just
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laughed at him from their island
city. And then came the Persians
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actually they succeeded
in getting into the city by
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subterfuge, but finally
they were driven out, too.
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And so it was down until the
time of Alexander. But around
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the 5th century B. C. a bible
prophet, Ezekiel, made a very
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striking prophecy. And
I'd like to read that to you.
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Its in Ezekiel chapter
26, and in verse 3 onwards.
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It says, Therefore thus
says the Lord God, Behold I am
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against you, oh Tyre, and will
cause many nations to come up
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against you. And they shall
destroy the walls of Tyre and
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break down her towers and
also scrape her dust from her
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and make her like a top of a
rock. It shall be a place for
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spreading nets in the midst
of the sea. The will lay your
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stones, your timber and your
soil in the midst of the water.
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You shall never be rebuilt.
Well, now there must have been
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a lot of people who thought,
Aha, we know this won't work
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because any nation that comes
against Tyre they just don't
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succeed because they just simply
go over to their island city.
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But when Alexander the
great came there in 332 B.C. and
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the people of Tyre defied him,
They simply withdrew to their
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island city; but Alexander
wasn't the sort of man who would
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take No for an answer. And
its very interesting the way he
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besieged this city. Well,
Alexander came to the mainland
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city of Tyre and it
wasn't difficult to conquer it.
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But like the other conquerors,
he found it difficult when he
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came to the island, because
the people of Tyre just withdrew
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to the island and defied him.
Alexander was 7 months trying
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to solve this problem. And what
he did was to take all these
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stones out of the buildings,
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all the material
out of the buildings
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on the mainland and dump them
into the sea. And so he started
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building out a causeway. It grew
longer until finally it reached
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the island itself. Then
Alexander, leading his troops,
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launched an attack and was
able to conquer the island.
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He was very angry that he'd been
held up for such a long time
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and sold thousands of
the people of Tyre to slavery
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to pay for his
soldiers during this time.
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Well, what about the
archaeologist's work?
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I talked to the archaeologists
who were working on the old site
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today, because in the meantime
the causeway which Alexander
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build had been built up by the
flotsam and jetsam washed up by
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the sea and today the modern
city of Tyre is built, not only
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upon the island but on
the causeway, as you can see.
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But the archaeologists have
been working on the old site.
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And what have they found?
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I asked the archaeologist there
Have you found anything from
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the old biblical city of
Tyre? His reply surprised me.
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He said, No, and we never will.
I said, Why? Well because he
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said, The mainland has sunk down
so that the old stratum in which
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the biblical city was
built, is now below sea level.
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And whenever we dig down to
that level the water comes in
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and fills up the hole. He said,
We will never find the old city
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of Tyre. Remember what the bible
says? Though you are sought for
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you will not be found.
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Ahab was probably the
worst king that the 10 tribes of
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Israel ever had. And
that is saying a lot.
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You know its sometimes said that
the kings of Judah in the south
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some were good and some were
bad. But of Israel it is said,
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Some were bad and
the rest were worse.
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Well, Ahab was about the worst.
Now it was his father, Omri who
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built the city of Samaria which
was built on that hill up there.
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And we're told just how it all
happened here in the 1st book of
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Kings chapter 16 and in verse 23
where it says, in the 31st year
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of Asa king of Judah,
Omri became king of Israel.
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And he bought the hill of
Samaria of Shemer for 2 talents
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of silver, then he built on the
and called the name of the city
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which he built, Samaria, after
the name of Shema, owner of the
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hill. And so this was the city
of Samaria. And it was here that
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one of the most dramatic
incidents in the history
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of the bible occurred.
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Well, we're up on top
of the hill of Samaria now.
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Only this happens to be
the Roman section. You see
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Herod the Great built the city
here and he named it after the
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Roman emperor, Augusta
Caesar, whose title was Sebaste
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and so this is now known as
Sebaste. This is part of the
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form. It is interesting
to notice these columns,
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Do you see up here how it is
lighter color and then a darker
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color? Well, that's where
it was buried. This is all they
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excavated, just the tops
were protruding above the ground
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level. So Herod, of course, had
the inevitable theater for the
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amusement of the crowd. And he
also built a temple to Augustus.
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Now the temple is gone.
All you can today are the steps
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leading up to the temple.
But it must have been a very
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magnificent temple. But of
course what is of most interest
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most relevant to us today is the
palace of Ahab. Because that's
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most relevant to the
story we're discussing.
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Well, this is about all that
is left of the palace of Ahab
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in Samaria. And its rather
interesting to notice what the
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biblical prophet said about this
in Micah chapter one, and in
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verse 6, it says, Therefore
I will make Samaria a heap of
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ruins in the field. Well, look
at that. Just a heap of ruins.
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Places of planting a vineyard.
Right up on top here there is a
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vineyard. I will pull down
her stones into the valley and
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I will uncover her foundations.
Well, I'm not sure whether
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this is referring to what
the Assyrians did when they
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destroyed Samaria and exposed
its foundations or whether its
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referring to the work of the
archaeologists. But in either
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case, certainly the foundations
have been uncovered, and you
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can just look around these ruins
and see them and over there
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are the
foundations of Ahab's palace.
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So, I'm sitting right beside
Ahab's palace and this is where
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the drama happened. Between them
Ahab and his wicked wife Jezebel
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had plunged the nation
into idolatry, Baal worship.
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And most of the people had gone
along with it. But there were
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a few pious worshipers of
Jehovah or Yahweh who still
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worshipped the God of Israel.
And one of these was a vigorous
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young man by the name of Elijah.
No doubt, he'd been praying
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for a reformation and it
came. God gave him a message
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and so he came right over
here to the palace of Ahab,
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strode past the palace guards
and stood before the astonished
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king with an alarming message.
He said, Thus says the Lord,
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There shall be no dew
nor rain except at my word.
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And before the king could gather
his thoughts, Elijah turned on
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his heels and strode out of
the palace. Now this was a real
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challenge to the supposed God
Baal, because he was the weather
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god. If anyone could control the
elements, you know, the wind,
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the rain, and the dew, well
Baal was the one that should
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have been able to do it. And so
this was really a challenge to
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Baal worship. But it happened
there was a drought, a terrible
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drought for 31/2 years. No
rain, no dew all the brooks
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dried up and there was
just no water anywhere. And Ahab
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was at his wits end. He tried
to apprehend Elijah, searched
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all over the place for him,
thought if he could get rid of
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Elijah, he'd get rid of
the drought. Foolish reasoning
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of course, but anyway that's
what he did. But it was a Elijah
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who brought the whole drama to a
climax. One day he stood before
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the king once more and when Ahab
saw him he said, Are you the one
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that's troubling Israel? And
Elijah said, It is not I but you
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and your fathers house because
you have forsaken the worship
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of Yahweh. Then Elijah said,
Gather all Israel together,
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to mount Carmel and would you
believe it? The king passively
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went along with it.
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And so Elijah and all the
prominent people of Israel
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gathered together on mount
Carmel. Below was spread out
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the plain of Jezreel, and as
Elijah stood there a lone figure
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before that vast multitude, his
voice rang out over the assembly
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How long halt ye between two
opinions? If the Lord be God,
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then follow Him, but
if Baal, then follow him.
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and nobody said a word.
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Now, there were two important
issues involved in this conflict
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First, when Ahab was
first confronted by Elijah, Ahab
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said to him, Are you the
one that's troubling Israel?
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And Elijah said, It's not me,
but it's you and your father's
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house in that you have forsaken
the commandments of the Lord.
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You see there was an issue
of commandment keeping involved
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here. Second, Elijah said to
Ahab, How long halt ye between
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two opinions. You can't sit on
the fence. You've got to make up
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your mind what to do. Now
with those two issues in mind,
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let us follow the conflict.
There was Elijah standing before
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that great congregation
and he made a very reasonable
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proposition to them. He
said, Now look, you take 2 bulls
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and you offer one to Baal
and call upon him to consume it
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by fire. And I will offer one to
the Lord or Yahweh and I'll call
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on him to bring down
fire. And whichever god answers,
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he is the true God. That
was fair enough, wasn't it?
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And of course the people
just had to agree to that.
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And so the prophets of Baal
set up their altar and then they
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slew the animal sacrifice
and started their prayers.
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The whole day they were at it.
Cutting themselves with knives
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yelling and calling on Baal,
and after all, Baal was the
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weather god. He should have
been able to send down a bolt
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of lightening as quick as
anything. But it didn't happen.
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And at last, discouraged and
very unhappy with the situation
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they had to withdraw from the
conflict. And then Elijah simply
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stood by his altar and prayed.
And he said, Oh, Lord God of
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Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and
he prayed a very simple prayer
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and suddenly there was a
bolt of lightening flashed from
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heaven. It burned up the whole
sacrifice. Elijah had a whole
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lot of water poured on that
and it just consumed the water
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and everything and so all
the people were constrained to
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acknowledge the Lord, Yahweh,
He is God. Yahweh, He is God.
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And so that's when Elijah
said, Alright now get all these
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prophets of Baal and take
them down there and put them in,
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the lot of them. So they took
the prophets of Baal and thus
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was a great reformation
brought about in Israel.
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Well, so much for the story of
Elijah and the prophets of Baal.
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And this statue on top of
Mount Carmel commemorates this
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event. Now this whole story has
a very interesting application
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to the days in which we live.
You know, there's a prophecy
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in the book of Malachi and
in chapter 4, where it says,
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in verse 5, Behold I will
send you Elijah the prophet
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before the coming of the great
and dreadful day of the Lord.
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Now does that mean that Elijah
himself is going to come here in
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person? We're
going to see Elijah?
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No, when you analyze the
other statements in the biblical
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account, you figure out what its
all about. For instance, in the
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book of Matthew, chapter 11,
and in verse 14, Jesus Christ
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said concerning John the
Baptist, And if you are willing
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to receive it, he is Elijah
who is to come. So if the Jewish
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people had only accepted
the message of John the Baptist,
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predicting the coming of
Jesus Christ, then He would have
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fulfilled this prophecy about
the coming of Elijah before the
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great and dreadful day of the
Lord. But, it had to be reserved
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for another time. So then what
is the implication? In Luke,
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chapter 1, and in verse
17, It says concerning John
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the Baptist, He will also
go before him in the spirit and
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in power of Elijah. And
the disobedient will be turned
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to the wisdom of the just to
make ready a people prepared for
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the Lord. Now that is
the purpose of Elijah.
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That was the purpose of John
the Baptist. And that is the
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purpose of God's message in
the world today. To make ready a
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people prepared for the Lord.
And I think that the Lord is
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going to come soon. And so
we should be expecting a message
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such as this preparing a people
for the coming of the Lord
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a message which will go in the
spirit and the power of Elijah.
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Now, I just want to ask
you a question. You do plan on
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keeping God's
commandments, don't you?
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You know, that's what the
Elijah message is all about,
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bringing people back to
the commandments of God,
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to all of his commandments
including the true Sabbath Day.
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So, you do intend
to keep it don't you?
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But when? Some people say,
Well I do. But not just now.
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You know, James has something to
say about that. And I think its
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worth listening to. I'm reading
in James, chapter 4, and in
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verse 13, Come now you who say,
Today or tomorrow whereas you do
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not know what
will happen tomorrow.
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You just can't leave it until
tomorrow because you don't know
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what tomorrow is going to be.
In the book of Proverbs, and in
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chapter 27 and in verse 1,
it says, Do not boast about
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tomorrow. For you do not
know what a day may bring forth.
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Please don't wait until
tomorrow The best time to decide
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Remember, Elijah said, How long
halt ye between two opinions?
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Don't sit on the fence. Why
not decide now. That's the right
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time to decide. There are many
perils associated with delay.
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Here is one of them. Jesus
mentions it in John, chapter 12,
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and in verse 35. He says, a
little while longer the light is
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with you. Walk while you have
the light lest darkness overtake
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you. There are some people
who say to me, Yea, I can see it
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I can see it very plainly,
Yea the 7th day is the Sabbath.
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But I just can't keep it
today. And they leave it.
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And after a while they say to
me, Oh, well you know, I don't
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see it that way at all now.
Why? Because they've discovered
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some new views on the matter?
No. But because the light which
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they had has gone out in
darkness. And that's Jesus said
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would happen. So its
rather a dangerous thing.
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I like to take the
admonition that Paul gives us in
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2 Corinthians 6 and in verse
2 where he says, Behold now
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is the accepted time. Behold
now is the day of salvation.
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That little word, Now, is a very
important one and the bible uses
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it often. And so Elijah says,
How long halt ye between two
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opinions? And Paul says,
Now is the accepted time.
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Our next program is one that
I'm sure you've all been waiting
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for, Tutankhamun's treasures
and the exciting discovery
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of his lost tomb.
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