Join me as we discover
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the secrets of the
Cave of the Seven Sleepers.
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To sleep 200 years,
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that's a long nap
by anybody's standards.
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I'm here in the
foothills of Seljuk, Turkey.
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It's an area that's
surrounded by several caves
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and legend has it
that around 2nd century
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or the 3rd century A.D.
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There were seven young
men who had a love for God.
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They were Christians,
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but Decius the
emperor had other plans,
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he was not a Christian.
He didn't like Christians.
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He called everybody
together for one particular day
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and wanted them to
bow down to their idols.
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On this particular occasion,
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as he asked everybody to come.
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These seven young men
who were soldiers came
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but they would not bow down.
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The emperor was,
well, he was very upset.
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He stripped them of
their military rank.
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He stripped them of
their military uniforms
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but he said, you know fellows,
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because of your military service
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I'm going on a
campaign and when I come back
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you better be ready
to bow down to my idols.
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These brave young
soldiers for Christ
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counseled among themselves.
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What was the
best course of action?
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They finally decided that
they would hide themselves
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in the caves and the caverns
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right up here in the foothills.
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They would dress
someone in pauper's clothes,
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send them to
the city to buy food
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and that's the way they existed.
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However, when the
emperor came back,
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he discovered that
they had not recanted,
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they would not recant.
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He gathered
workers from all over.
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They came up to this location.
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They began
putting stone after stone
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in front of the cave
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until finally the cave
was in complete darkness.
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Legend has it that
God caused a deep sleep
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to fall upon these young men
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and they slept
for 200 hundred years.
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At the end of 200 years
around that time a farmer
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needed stones
to build his house.
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He came up to this area
and began removing stones
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from the cave
entrance. He found a little box.
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The little box
contained an interesting story.
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It was written by two Christians
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who actually were the workers
for the emperor secretly.
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Secret Christians who wrote down
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the whole story
of these young men
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to memorialize them in what
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they figured was
their death sleep.
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Well, after all the
stones were removed,
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the young men woke up.
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They just thought
it was another day.
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They dressed.
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One put on his pauper's clothes,
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went down into the
village to buy food.
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But when he paid for the food,
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they looked at it,
there was something strange.
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This was a 200
hundred year old coin.
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They thought he must
have stolen some treasure.
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They grabbed the young man.
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They took him up
to this location.
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Because he said, no,
no, no, this was, this was,
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where I've been living.
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They looked and they
found all these men were alive.
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Now what was very interesting
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is the old farmer who
built a house next door.
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He had heard the
story too he came.
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He shared what was in the box
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that these young men
had been resurrected.
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Resurrection in town
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they had been
discussing the resurrection.
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They were all now Christians.
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They no longer had persecution
but they're all Christians
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fighting over the resurrection.
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There really wasn't a
resurrection they said.
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But indeed
there is evidence now.
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These seven young men had
been resurrected to new life.
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So legend has it.
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After the day of excitement
and celebration had passed,
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God again caused a sleep
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to fall upon these
young men in their cave.
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Since that time
they built a church here
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to memorialize that occasion.
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Not only is it mentioned
in legend here in Christianity
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but the Qur'an even
mentions this very legend.
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Galena, thank
you for inviting me
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to your office today.
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I'm very happy to
see you here in my office
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as well as my co-workers
from the Bible school.
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Now, I think I
heard of you the other day
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when I was talking to Lyudmila.
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She said, she walked clear
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across town to talk to you. Yes.
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And I heard about
her end of the story.
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Tell me your end of the story.
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Lyudmila is one of many people
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that came to visit
our Bible school here.
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Foreign language
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We have the privilege of
having a lot of people come
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and because we have
a local radio station.
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In other words, you
have a lot of people
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like Lyudmila, who
come to the studio here
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and to talk with you?
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Foreign language
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Yes, the people here in Tula
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have the opportunity to all us
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and schedule a date to come in.
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Foreign language
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And we gladly invite them.
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When people call
you or talk to you,
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what do you do? Walk
me through that process.
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Foreign language
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We invite them.
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We sit them on a
sofa in our hallway
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or even here in the office.
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Foreign language
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Usually people
come into the office
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with their
problems, not only because
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they're curious what
is going on in the office?
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Foreign language
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People in our country
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were really
turned away from Christ.
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Like in other
countries they have the Bible,
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but here they have us
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to help them
answer their questions.
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Foreign language
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Now, Lyudmila
sounded like you almost
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took her by the hand and you
connected her with the pastor
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and church and
fellowship and Bible studies.
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But yet you say,
that's, you do that a lot.
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Foreign language
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The case of
Lyudmila was different.
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Foreign language
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Usually people would sit down,
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explain me their problems
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and we would try to help them
with the best of our ability.
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Foreign language
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But she was different.
She was very open and brave.
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Foreign language
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Now, I understand you
get a lot of, a lot of mail.
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Our regional director said,
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sometimes it's,
it's bags full of mails.
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Yes, we get about a
thousand letters a month.
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For the time that
we have been working
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we received about
half a million letters.
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But we reply and
send out twice as much
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because there are those
who either forgot about us
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or they lost the connection.
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We send them
letters to remind them
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and to offer our
Bible school again.
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As you can see AWR is
frontline mission radio.
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Our first priority is to travel
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where missionaries cannot go.
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We broadcast
thousands of hours each day
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in 70 major
languages of the world.
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AWR has the capability
and capacity of blanketing
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almost 80% of the
world's population.
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Not only do we
broadcast via shortwave radio
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but our signal
is on over 1000 FM
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and AM stations
around the world as well.
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Our podcast
subscribers, Internet users,
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satellite downlinks
are growing rapidly.
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Evidenced by the hundred
thousand plus emails, letters
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and phone calls we
receive each and every year.
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Yes, AWR is your mission radio.
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No walls and no borders for AWR,
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that means changed
lives and changed hearts
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around the world because
God is using the airwaves of AWR
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to reach people everywhere.
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Here is another story of
hope from Adventist World Radio.
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Kalu Ram was a poor field
laborer near Gujarat in India.
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Finding his work tedious,
Kalu purchased a small radio
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to relieve the boredom.
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One day he came across a
program talking about Jesus.
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It was from
Adventist World Radio.
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After listening for few
days, Kalu looked for a pastor
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who could tell
him more about Christ.
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Soon convinced of
the Christian truth,
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Kalu was baptized and
became an outreach leader
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in his hometown and
the surrounding area.
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Witnessing in
predominantly Hindu towns
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is not always safe
and Kalu was once attacked
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when approaching
a town to preach.
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However, through
the efforts of Kalu
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and the
volunteers he has trained
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nearly 1,000 people
have accepted Christ.
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Adventist World Radio
shares the Hope of Christ
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with millions
of people everyday.
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For more
information visit awr.org.
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The miracle was
apparently first described
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by Bishop Stephen of Ephesus,
sometime between 448 and 451.
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It seems to have
been immediately accepted
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and perhaps in part
because of its usefulness
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for a current
controversy having to do
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with the
resurrection of the body.
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The grotto associated
with the Seven Sleepers
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became a highly venerated site
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and a major place of pilgrimage
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from the 5th to
the 15th century.
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Many people were buried in
the grotto with the sleepers.
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A brick church was built
above the seven original tombs
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with mosaic
floors and marble facing.
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A large dome mausoleum
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was added to the
cave in the 6th century.
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Excavations were
carried out in the grotto
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between 1927 and 1930.
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Intriguingly, the
archeologists discovered
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that the cave complex
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predates the legend
by several centuries.
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That abundance of
lamps found in the grotto
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date from before the 5th century
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and not all of
them are Christian.
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It is interesting to know
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that a cave of
the Seven Sleepers
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can be found not in Ephesus only
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but also in Jordan and Syria
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and near the
ancient city of Tarsus.
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In each place the
story is told differently
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with a link to a
sleep ranging from a hundred
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up to three hundred years.
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Do you see the Holy
Spirit at work in your ministry?
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Foreign language
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Yes, it's undisputable
that the Holy Spirit works.
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I've seen miracles
through the radio program
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and overall the radio in
my life is very important.
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Foreign language
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That's why I could say
that I came here to work
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for the Voice of Hope.
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What's the most
rewarding part of your work?
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Foreign language
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This job between the walls
of this ministry is inspiring.
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I love this job.
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Before this I
worked as an engineer.
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Foreign language
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I finally found out
about church and about God.
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I communicated with
them for about a year or two.
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This was very
interesting and inviting for me.
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Foreign language
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But my friends and my relatives
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thought it was a
terrible place to be
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and thought it was illegal
and tried to save me from it.
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Foreign language
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They tried to scare
me, tried telling me
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that there were
sacrifices being made in church.
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Foreign language
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Then one day a radio
station came on the air
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and I realized
that this weren't people
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hiding in basements,
there were people coming out
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and speaking about
God over the radio.
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Foreign language
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At that time,
evangelistic meetings
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were at the center of town.
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I went there to see for myself
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if those people really did that.
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Foreign language
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When I went there
I saw Peter Kulakov,
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Nikolay Nikolaevich
Metlov and they amazed me.
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Foreign language
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I was astonished with their work
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and the hope
that they give people.
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I as well wanted to
do something for Christ.
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Foreign language
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I wanted to help
with what they were doing.
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You first thought we
were sacrificing children
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and whatever other crazy things,
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but then you found
AWR on the radio dial.
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You want to see it for yourself
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and now here you are 16 years
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and you're doing
all the Bible studies
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and leading others to Christ.
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Foreign language
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Yes, this story with Lyudmila
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is exactly how I came
to this radio station.
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Foreign language
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She did the same thing.
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What made you turn on the radio
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and you heard the radio program?
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Foreign language
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I have a radio
receiver here in my office.
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Foreign language
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I would like to
show you this radio.
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It has three channels.
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Here are two wires,
one is the power wire
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and the other one is
used to plug into a receiver.
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So tell me what was
that first time like
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when you turned on the
radio program and you heard it.
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What did, what happened?
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Foreign language
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I wanted to be with Christ.
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I was interested to
know more about these people
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who were praising the Lord.
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Foreign language
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They talk about
Christ and give people hope.
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For me that was a lot
00:16:04.86\00:16:07.13
and it was
turning point in my life.
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Foreign language
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The influence of the Greek Gods
00:16:13.10\00:16:14.63
and the culture was pervasive.
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The myths and beliefs
of Ephesians were rooted
00:16:16.33\00:16:19.00
in the stories
of the Olympic Gods.
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Even today myths
about different cultures
00:16:21.30\00:16:23.56
and religions skew
the thinking of many
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who seek the truth.
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Stories of strange beliefs
are told to scare people away.
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The Olympic Gods of
Greece were found representing
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all over the
Eastern Roman empire.
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The Greeks worship 12
major Gods and Goddesses.
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Zeus was considered
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the most powerful
of the Greek Gods.
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The Greeks built temple
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to shelter the
Gods from the elements.
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The worship of these gods
can be seen in the temples
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built throughout the empire.
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Were you an atheist at the time,
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you're an engineer, and
you had a lot of education.
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But were you an atheist
or what did you believe?
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Foreign language
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That was interesting
because I was atheist
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and at the moment I
lived with my grandparents.
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I always tried proving to
them that there was no God.
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I told them that
Gagarin went out of space
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and he didn't see God up there.
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Foreign language
00:17:19.40\00:17:22.00
I'm pretty sure that the reason
00:17:22.00\00:17:24.13
why I came to
Christ is because I still
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contained roots
from my grandparents.
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I believe having
them as a believers
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made it easier for
me to turn to Christ.
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Foreign language
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They were too
scared to tell us about God
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that time were hard.
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People were getting
persecuted for believing
00:17:44.33\00:17:47.93
and acknowledging Christ.
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Foreign language
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I know they prayed for us.
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And they were
asking God to open up to us
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later in our future.
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And through the
radio this happened.
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Foreign language
00:18:04.63\00:18:07.16
We had a Bible in our family.
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It was gift to my grandfather
at the end of the seminary.
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Oh, oh, my!
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Foreign language
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The Bible was printed
before the revolution.
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Printed before the revolution?
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Foreign language
00:18:31.50\00:18:33.96
My grandfather
finished the seminary in 1950
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and the Bible was a gift
right after that was done.
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Foreign language
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But I found out
after I became a Christian,
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they never told us
because they were afraid.
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Foreign language
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Through the radio waves of AWR,
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God is reaching
people around the world.
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We would like to offer you
an edition of Making Waves.
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It's four of our episodes
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brought to you
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God is speaking to hearts,
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the hearts of the listeners
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00:19:08.73\00:19:11.73
We hope that you'll
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Here is another story of
hope from Adventist World Radio.
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Igor and Fatlana
unlike some other Russians
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have seen nothing but hard times
00:20:05.30\00:20:07.40
since the fall of communism.
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The agriculture industry,
so vital to their rural town
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has plummeted,
leaving the area in poverty.
00:20:12.90\00:20:16.60
Watching their
dejected neighbors
00:20:16.60\00:20:18.50
fall to alcohol
abuse they were concerned
00:20:18.50\00:20:21.16
about the influence
such a hopeless society
00:20:21.16\00:20:23.80
would have on
their five children.
00:20:23.80\00:20:25.80
So they searched
for a positive influence
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for their family.
00:20:28.36\00:20:29.50
They founded in
Adventist World Radio.
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You are the brightest
light in our hard life
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they wrote to us.
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We are always looking
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Thank you for your
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I'm standing here in
the museum of Bergamum.
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Bergamum
actually is the new name
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for one of the
seven churches, Pergamos.
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Before me is the mockup
00:21:07.06\00:21:09.00
or the reconstruction
of the altar of Zeus.
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The real one is in Berlin.
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We'll go over there in
just a moment to check it out.
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Zeus was the God of all Gods.
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Upon the altar of Zeus, child
sacrifices, animal sacrifices
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it was not a pretty sight.
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But Zeus was the
most powerful God.
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Down here there are
depictions of the giants
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and different ones
doing battle with the Gods.
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Right over here you'll
see the one that the Germans
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actually remove
from the acropolis.
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It is beautiful but
it is very impressive.
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We're going to go
visit the one up in that area
00:21:43.46\00:21:46.03
at least where
they took it from.
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Tell me now today, when
you come across an atheist
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do you talk with an atheist.
00:21:52.43\00:21:54.13
What do you tell them?
00:21:54.13\00:21:55.80
Foreign language
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I have the
opportunity to tell stories.
00:22:01.03\00:22:04.13
I have a job where I
hear testimonies everyday
00:22:04.13\00:22:08.23
and people tell me
how their lives changed.
00:22:08.23\00:22:11.26
Foreign language
00:22:11.26\00:22:14.30
I hear stories that
I'm unable to retell
00:22:19.80\00:22:23.73
because they
are so mind blowing.
00:22:23.73\00:22:26.43
Foreign language
00:22:26.43\00:22:29.20
Is there one special
story that, I don't know, that
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just says, oh,
this is the story.
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It's so fantastic,
could you share that?
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Foreign language
00:22:38.50\00:22:42.63
We had a special event going on
00:22:42.63\00:22:45.03
and we decide to
make a few rewarding games
00:22:45.03\00:22:47.90
for those who donate money.
00:22:47.90\00:22:50.00
Foreign language
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It didn't
matter about the amount
00:22:57.13\00:23:00.40
as long as they were
our regular listeners
00:23:00.40\00:23:03.40
and made a small donation.
00:23:03.40\00:23:06.80
We never told them that
we were going to mention
00:23:06.80\00:23:10.30
their names in the program.
00:23:10.30\00:23:12.43
After this program a
lot of people brought us
00:23:12.43\00:23:15.76
they heard our program.
00:23:15.76\00:23:18.10
And in this
program there was a sister
00:23:18.10\00:23:21.36
who knew about our
program in Radio Russia
00:23:21.36\00:23:24.86
but didn't know
about Radio Mayak.
00:23:24.86\00:23:26.96
Foreign language
00:23:26.96\00:23:30.03
She came home on
Saturday after church
00:23:32.56\00:23:35.63
and saw a schedule.
00:23:35.63\00:23:37.26
She noticed that our
program was aired very late
00:23:37.26\00:23:41.96
in her time
over the Mayak Radio.
00:23:41.96\00:23:45.80
Foreign language
00:23:45.80\00:23:46.96
She was upset
and forgot about it.
00:23:46.96\00:23:50.13
For some reason she
couldn't sleep that night
00:23:50.13\00:23:53.56
and so she
remembered about the program
00:23:53.56\00:23:56.43
and turned the radio on.
00:23:56.43\00:23:58.06
Foreign language
00:23:58.06\00:23:59.90
And when she turned on her radio
00:23:59.90\00:24:02.56
she heard her name
and address announced.
00:24:02.56\00:24:05.90
It's amazing how
the Holy Spirit works.
00:24:05.90\00:24:08.90
Foreign language
00:24:08.90\00:24:11.93
I came across stories
like that all the time.
00:24:14.23\00:24:17.56
Foreign language
00:24:17.56\00:24:20.63
I lost contact of
some friends who I knew
00:24:20.63\00:24:24.40
and I lived with
in the same house.
00:24:24.40\00:24:28.06
Foreign language
00:24:28.06\00:24:31.50
I do programs by
letters a couple of times
00:24:31.50\00:24:34.73
and those people
who I lost can talk
00:24:34.73\00:24:37.36
when they start meeting me.
00:24:37.36\00:24:39.56
Foreign language
00:24:39.56\00:24:42.56
And they told me they
heard the radio station
00:24:44.80\00:24:48.56
and they heard my name.
00:24:48.56\00:24:50.43
Foreign language
00:24:50.43\00:24:53.40
They ask me questions about God
00:24:55.86\00:24:58.06
and where I work.
00:24:58.06\00:24:59.73
I know that it's God
ministry even in this way.
00:24:59.73\00:25:03.40
Foreign language
00:25:03.40\00:25:06.43
It was shocking and
interesting for them
00:25:08.90\00:25:11.93
to listen to my
voice on the radio
00:25:11.93\00:25:14.53
who they knew once
was not a Christian
00:25:14.53\00:25:17.70
and it became interesting
for them to start listening.
00:25:17.70\00:25:21.56
Foreign language
00:25:21.56\00:25:23.76
And when I met with
them they ask me where I work
00:25:29.10\00:25:33.00
and wanted to
know what kind of God
00:25:33.00\00:25:35.60
I'm talking about.
00:25:35.60\00:25:37.46
Galena, in our story today,
00:25:38.56\00:25:40.23
started out by
trying to convince to people
00:25:40.23\00:25:42.70
that there was no God.
00:25:42.70\00:25:45.10
After all the astronauts
have been to outer space
00:25:45.10\00:25:48.20
and they didn't see a God.
00:25:48.20\00:25:50.73
And can you believe
it when she first heard
00:25:50.73\00:25:53.06
about the Adventist Church,
people tried to tell her that
00:25:53.06\00:25:56.66
those people
offered child sacrifices.
00:25:56.66\00:26:00.50
But Voice of
Hope changed all that.
00:26:00.50\00:26:03.70
Galena has now been
working for 16 years
00:26:03.70\00:26:06.56
in the Voice of
Hope Bible School.
00:26:06.56\00:26:09.43
Helping people to
discover the truth about God.
00:26:09.43\00:26:13.16
I'm standing here in the area
00:26:13.16\00:26:14.86
of the ancient city of Pergamon
00:26:14.86\00:26:17.96
and New Testament
Book of Revelation tells us
00:26:17.96\00:26:21.56
that Pergamon is the place
where Satan had his temple.
00:26:21.56\00:26:25.70
In fact behind me
here is the altar of Zeus.
00:26:25.70\00:26:29.13
The chief God of the Greeks
and in fact they did offer
00:26:29.13\00:26:33.26
child sacrifices
here at this location.
00:26:33.26\00:26:36.86
The letter to the
church of Pergamon says that,
00:26:36.86\00:26:39.40
these people here
remain faithful and true to God
00:26:39.40\00:26:44.70
despite all the
environment around them.
00:26:44.70\00:26:47.50
Galena also lives
in the land of unbelief
00:26:47.50\00:26:50.80
and for all these many years
00:26:50.80\00:26:53.03
her work and witness
has lead many, many people
00:26:53.03\00:26:57.06
to find the true God.
00:26:57.06\00:26:59.66
That's a
challenge to us as well.
00:26:59.66\00:27:01.86
You and I need to
remain true and faithful to God
00:27:01.86\00:27:05.16
despite any influences
that may exist around us.
00:27:05.16\00:27:09.23
One way you can be
faithful is to help ministries
00:27:09.23\00:27:12.70
like AWR to uplift the truth
before this world of unbelief.
00:27:12.70\00:27:19.60
I'll be looking
for your contact.
00:27:19.60\00:27:22.50
AWR is your mission radio.
00:27:22.50\00:27:24.63
You would like
to partner with this
00:27:24.63\00:27:25.73
give us a call
today, 1-866-503-3531
00:27:25.73\00:27:31.93
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00:27:31.93\00:27:35.40
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00:27:35.40\00:27:38.93
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00:27:38.93\00:27:44.90
Thank you for watching
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00:27:44.90\00:27:47.00
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00:27:47.00\00:27:48.86
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