The temple of
Aphrodisia lay in shambles.
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The Communist Party in shambles.
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Lidia was a youth
Communist Party leader.
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She found Jesus Christ.
Her life is not in shamble.
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Later you'll hear the
rest of the story. Stay tuned.
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It has been said
that you can't put
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a shovel in the ground in Turkey
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without finding an
artifact of the ancient world.
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Neolithic farmers first
populated the Meander Valley
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as early as 5,800 B.C.
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This fertile valley
became the sight of a shrine
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to the mother goddess
of fertility and crops.
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Later during the
second century B.C.,
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the site was
dedicated to Aphrodite,
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the goddess of love
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and the town was
given the name Aphrodisia.
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I've got to tell you
when I walked over the hill
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and I saw this, it
almost took my breath away.
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It's so beautiful.
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The architecture, the design,
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everything is
tremendous but what is it.
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It's the gateway to
the temple of Aphrodite.
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Herein Aphrodisia is
the name of the city.
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About 80,000 population
I'm told, give or take a few.
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It is located near the
modern village of Geyre.
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Geyre was
originally built on the ruins
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but it was relocated
a few miles to the East
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to allow for the excavation.
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I was told that in the 1950s
this was an entire village.
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People still lived here.
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But then a huge earthquake hit
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and virtually
wiped out the village
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at which time the government
decided to move everybody.
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They moved them off the site
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and they began
this massive excavation
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and it's amazing
what they turned up.
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The lavish building program
in the city's civic centre
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was initiated and largely
funded by Gaius Julius Zoilus,
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a local who had been a
slave of Gaius Julius Caesar
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and set free by Octavian.
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When Zoilus
returned to his native city,
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now a freed man
endowed with prestige
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and rich
rewards for his service,
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he shrewdly
directed the city to align
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with Octavian in his power
struggle against Mark Anthony.
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This ensured
Octavian's lasting favor
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in the form of
financial privileges
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that allowed
the city to prosper.
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In 74 B.C., the Romans
defeated the Pontic Greek ruler
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and Aphrodisia was
rewarded for its loyalty.
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I'm standing in one of
the homes here in Aphrodisia
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and I don't know
where the bedrooms are.
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I don't know where the
bathroom is or the kitchen.
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But what I do know is
this is one big house.
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Lidia, you have a beautiful name
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and it's a biblical
name. Tell me how you got it?
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I was born in a family
that didn't believe in Christ.
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My name was given
to me by my father.
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My father named me Lidia.
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So your entire
family was atheist?
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Yes. And my father was
part of the Communist Party.
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So you didn't believe
in anything until age 50?
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Yes. I didn't believe in Christ.
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I was youth leader in
the Communistic Party.
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I believe in the
communistic idea.
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I believe that one
day here in my county
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we would build
communism, in this I believed.
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Now at age 50,
you were baptized.
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What happened all
these years in between?
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Tell me a
little more about that.
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When I got baptized
and even before that
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I heard on the radio
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that there is a radio
station that mails you a Bible
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and during that time I
read a lot of literature.
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During those days I realized
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that there was
something other than this life.
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I believe that a human can't
just die and that's the end.
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I was aware of what
was going on in this world.
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I knew there was a Bible
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and I knew there was
people who believe in Christ.
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I was starting to become
very curious about their belief.
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So I decide to
write to the radio station
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and receive the Bible.
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I didn't understand the
Bible so I gave up on it.
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Later I got baptized and decided
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to continue
reading the Old Testament.
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Yet, all I understood
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was that God was
very strict and mean.
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Later after I
read the Old Testament
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I decide to start
reading the New Testament.
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I enjoyed fictional books
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and the New Testament
appeared to me fictional.
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I started liking to
read the New Testament.
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There were a few
things I didn't understand.
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Like when it
talked about the churches
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and Apostle Paul and
Peter but I continue reading.
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When I start attending church,
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people would
help me act properly
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and show me
where to get the candle
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and how to get it lit.
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I tried to do everything
correctly but nothing about me
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and my life changed and I
then start to question myself.
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So God led you there.
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You said, He is
working on your heart,
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what happened next? How
did this journey continue?
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Later it happened like this.
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The radio was my
main source of information
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more than
television or anything else.
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I heard
announcement on the radio
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that a Christian church
is going to have a service.
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So I asked one of my coworkers
and she agreed to go with me.
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When I got
reconnected with the Bible
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I was really looking for source
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and can start
explaining things to me
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because I don't
understand everything.
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So I asked my coworkers
let's go and so we went.
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This city was built
near a marble quarry
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that was extensively exploited
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in Hellenistic
and Roman periods.
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And sculpture and
marble from Aphrodisia
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became famous
in the Roman world.
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Many examples of statuary have
been unearthed in Aphrodisia
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and some representations
of Aphrodite of Aphrodisia
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also survive from other
parts of the Roman world.
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As far away as Portugal.
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The coffins or
sarcophagus are everywhere here.
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I asked why? Well,
this was the location
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they actually made them.
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They fashioned
them. They carved them.
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They're
intricate. They're beautiful.
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Only the very rich,
however, could afford them.
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So people came from all over
to buy their last resting place.
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This is a statue of the
high priest of Aphrodite.
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Phenomenal work and, you know,
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nobody says you
can't touch it, either.
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I'm ready to run my race.
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Wow, I guess I got
further goal than I thought.
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This is perhaps one
of the best preserved
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stadiums in the world.
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One couple spent
ten years cataloging
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every single stone in here.
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They've checked out
every seat they've looked at,
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every
inscription, many are very old,
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others are later
graffiti basically.
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But it's massive.
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I can't even begin to
show you how large it is.
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Holds over 30,000 people.
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People used to run here.
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I think back to Paul saying,
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these people ran
for a corruptible crown
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but we run for an
incorruptible crown.
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We run for the race
that gets us to heaven.
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That's what Paul
was talking about.
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That's what Paul
was looking forward too.
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And that's what he was
looking for each one of us too
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To meet in
heaven rather than just
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run a race here
in a massive stadium.
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How did God lead you
to where you're today?
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When we arrive to the church
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we found out it
was a Baptist Church.
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We didn't care. I
really enjoyed going there.
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They explained the Bible.
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I start taking my grandson
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who was five years
of age at the time.
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I went there for
about half a year.
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Later I stopped going.
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Until the day a big
boom happened in my life.
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I decided to turn
back to the Bible.
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I came face-to-face
with life and its problems.
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In continuation all
this happened moments after.
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My grandson was
getting older. He turned 15.
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He decided to move out not
knowing his father very well
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and having constant arguments
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and misunderstanding
with his mother.
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Even though he was just a teen
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his decision was
to leave the house.
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I look at that as
a tragedy in my life.
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Figured I didn't
raise my daughter right
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and I didn't have a
big impact on their lives
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and consider that a tragedy.
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I decided that once we find
him I will leave this family.
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So did you find your
grandson? We found him.
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Praise the Lord for
that. Praise the Lord.
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So this was the turning
point in your life? Yes.
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You're in a new
state with Christ,
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a new position
with Christ today.
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What changed in that now?
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How did you
arrive where you're now?
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I know when I went to the church
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I came outside and
readthe announcement
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and Alexander Antonyuk
is going to have a lecture.
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So I started attending.
I went to all his lectures.
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I had question about Saturday.
I didn't understand it.
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I wanted to know
why I was blessed.
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Why Vania came home.
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I just had so many
questions stored inside
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and it was bugging me.
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And later my main
question was about Saturday.
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Because Saturday is talking
about through the whole Bible.
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Then I started handing
out invitation to those
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who used to attend church
but decided to stop coming.
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Later I met Lidia
and it was a miracle.
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She introduced me
to "Voice of Hope"
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and to start studying the Bible.
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The Goddess Artemis,
sometimes known as Diana
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was one of the
most widely venerated
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of the Ancient Greek deities
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and one of the oldest in Greek
mythology of the classic period.
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Artemis was often described
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as the daughter
of Zeus and Leto,
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the twin sister of Apollo.
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She was Hellenic
goddess of forests and hills,
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childbirth,
virginity, fertility, the hunt.
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And she was often
depicted as a huntress
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carrying the bow and arrows.
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The first shrine
to the Goddess Artemis
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was built around 800 B.C.
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It was built on a swampy
area near the Ephesus River.
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Within its walls
they kept a precious stone
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believed to have
fallen from Jupiter.
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In reality it was
probably just a meteorite.
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The temple itself was
rebuilt several times.
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In July 356 B.C. an
Ephesian named Herostratus
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wanted his name to
be remembered forever
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so he burned down the temple.
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After that
incident it became a rule
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that if anyone
dare speak his name
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they would be murdered.
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A famous architect named
Scopus began the new temple.
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It was 425 feet
long and 225 feet wide.
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It was adorned with beautiful
marble and held 36 columns.
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The inside contains artwork,
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engravings and elegant statuary.
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This temple was
destroyed many years later
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by the Gauss and
was never rebuilt.
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It was originally the
size of a football field
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but now all the remains
of the Temple of Artemis,
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the goddess of
fertility is one single pillar.
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And on top of it,
nesting birds to boot.
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Here is another story of
hope from Adventist World Radio.
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My name is Benjamin Schoun,
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President of
Adventist World Radio.
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Let me tell you about
our work in North Korea.
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A nation
governed by a powerfully
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repressive communist regime
00:17:33.96\00:17:36.00
where any form of evangelism
is strictly forbidden.
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Adventist World Radio
makes daily short wave
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broadcast to North Korea
spreading the Hope of Christ
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to a nation utterly
devoid of Christianity.
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It is extremely rare
that we make any contact
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with listeners in North Korea.
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However through communication
with North Korean refugees
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we're encouraged to know
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that people are
listening to our programs.
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We pray that our
listeners in North Korea
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will receive God's word
and find salvation in 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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As you can see AWR is
frontline mission radio.
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Our first priority is to travel
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 1,000 FM and AM stations
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around the world as well.
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Our podcast
subscribers, internet users,
00:18:52.60\00:18:55.46
satellite downlinks
are growing rapidly.
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Evidenced by the
hundred thousand plus emails,
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letters and phone calls we
receive each and every year.
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Yes, AWR is your mission radio.
00:19:04.93\00:19:08.23
No walls and no borders for AWR,
00:19:08.23\00:19:10.83
that means change lives
00:19:10.83\00:19:11.93
and changed
hearts around the world
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because God is
using the airwaves of AWR
00:19:13.80\00:19:17.23
to reach people everywhere.
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The city of Aphrodisia was known
for the goddess of fertility
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and his worship centered
around the Temple of Artemis.
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But what occurred
here is a great example
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of the
transforming power of Christ.
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Sometime later in its
history the citizens no longer
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wanted to be
associated with Aphrodite,
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the goddess of fertility.
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So they changed the name to
Stauropolis, city of the cross.
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This place was so beautiful
I begin to think about it
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and realized in all its
beauty what the Christians
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may have been
giving up at Paul's time.
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I said may, because
some vasilated back and forth
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but those who had the vision
00:20:04.43\00:20:07.16
that they're
seeing a better world
00:20:07.16\00:20:08.70
than it is spoil
this one for them.
00:20:08.70\00:20:11.50
They left all
this with no problem.
00:20:11.50\00:20:13.70
They even went to the lions
into death for Jesus Christ.
00:20:13.70\00:20:17.70
The gospel
transformed much of the city
00:20:22.43\00:20:24.80
and not only did
they rename the city
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but they rebuilt
the temple into a church
00:20:26.70\00:20:29.00
in the form of a giant cross.
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The temple of Aphrodite
was built in about 100 B.C.
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It lasted till 500 A.D. when
the Christians took it over.
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The Christians
expanded the walls.
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They tore out parts.
00:20:46.36\00:20:47.66
They built larger
and then the Seljuk
00:20:47.66\00:20:52.03
they came in, took it over.
00:20:52.03\00:20:54.53
But look here,
here's one of the remnants
00:20:54.53\00:20:57.00
of the Christian church.
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Our lives are
rebuilt in much the same way.
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Christ takes the
ruins of our lives
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and rebuilds us into his temple.
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The temple in which He dwells.
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You're inviting
people to church?
00:21:16.30\00:21:18.00
Lily is inviting
people to church.
00:21:18.00\00:21:19.86
You run into each other.
00:21:19.86\00:21:21.56
She gives you Bible studies
00:21:21.56\00:21:23.36
and tells you to listen
to Adventist World Radio
00:21:23.36\00:21:26.20
and what happens in your life?
00:21:26.20\00:21:27.63
You know, I don't see this
as just meeting God on accident.
00:21:34.83\00:21:39.50
This was God's will and
it was His plan to bring me
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to this church and
to keep guiding me.
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Meeting God made this
turning point in my life.
00:22:01.60\00:22:05.16
I started going
to Adventist Church.
00:22:05.16\00:22:07.76
I love how my church goes
deep into explanation the Bible.
00:22:07.76\00:22:11.80
I started
listening "Voice of Hope"
00:22:23.20\00:22:25.50
but 15 minutes is not enough.
00:22:25.50\00:22:28.20
Please understand not enough.
00:22:28.20\00:22:30.93
This is amazing program.
00:22:30.93\00:22:32.93
They explain very simple
00:22:32.93\00:22:34.86
that this is just a
school here in earth.
00:22:34.86\00:22:38.23
This is all temporary.
00:22:38.23\00:22:40.20
Do you believe that AWR is
helping to spread the message
00:22:47.10\00:22:49.80
around the world
of Jesus soon return?
00:22:49.80\00:22:52.06
Without a doubt.
00:22:52.60\00:22:54.10
Do you think it make an impact
00:22:54.10\00:22:55.73
in many people's
lives here in Ukraine?
00:22:55.73\00:22:57.83
Yes, of course, I
see it at the church.
00:23:04.03\00:23:07.16
People come to
church and accept Christ.
00:23:07.16\00:23:10.26
I tell my close one to
turn off the television
00:23:20.96\00:23:24.20
to turn on the radio instead.
00:23:24.20\00:23:26.80
Listen to this amazing program.
00:23:26.80\00:23:29.56
They talk about family issue,
00:23:29.56\00:23:31.46
health, and talk about Christ.
00:23:31.46\00:23:33.63
God for me is love. He
is peace and happiness.
00:23:44.03\00:23:47.90
I have no parents. God
is the only one I have.
00:23:47.90\00:23:52.46
I have five
brothers but I communicate
00:23:52.46\00:23:54.96
with those that follow Christ
00:23:54.96\00:23:57.46
and I see that I
have more in common
00:23:57.46\00:24:00.16
with them
greater than my family.
00:24:00.16\00:24:02.76
When I feel bad
and when I am suffering
00:24:13.43\00:24:17.26
I turn to my God.
00:24:17.26\00:24:19.23
I fall and hug his
legs and God listens
00:24:19.23\00:24:23.70
and I know God is going to help
00:24:23.70\00:24:26.50
and He will
open up to my family.
00:24:26.50\00:24:29.16
So you're spreading
the waves of AWR? Yes.
00:24:36.66\00:24:41.13
Lidia, it's getting
hot and you're going to get
00:24:41.13\00:24:42.83
a sunburn maybe we should go.
00:24:42.83\00:24:44.66
Thank you so
much. Thank you so much.
00:24:46.96\00:24:49.00
Can I give you a hug? Yeah.
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Lidia was the leader of
the Communist Youth Party.
00:24:57.70\00:25:01.00
In that job her
task was to bring
00:25:01.00\00:25:03.73
other young people
into the communist ideology.
00:25:03.73\00:25:07.20
In that ideology they believed
00:25:07.20\00:25:09.53
that the world was gonna
become a better and better place
00:25:09.53\00:25:13.00
but somehow that
didn't happen in her life.
00:25:13.00\00:25:16.43
She began to sense a
need for something more
00:25:16.43\00:25:20.80
and then a little while
later her grandson became lost.
00:25:20.80\00:25:25.56
They didn't know
whether he was kidnapped
00:25:25.56\00:25:27.36
or whether he ran away but
they began searching for him
00:25:27.36\00:25:30.66
and searching and it was a
very stressful time for her.
00:25:30.66\00:25:34.90
Interestingly
enough some of the people
00:25:34.90\00:25:37.10
who sought to
help her were believers
00:25:37.10\00:25:39.90
and they advised her
to go to church and pray.
00:25:39.90\00:25:43.63
Time passed and then
one day she was in a house
00:25:43.63\00:25:46.96
and she met the
lady who was the director
00:25:46.96\00:25:50.36
of our Voice of
Hope Bible School.
00:25:50.36\00:25:53.76
She was giving out
invitations to the Bible school
00:25:53.76\00:25:56.63
and she gave one to Lidia.
00:25:56.63\00:25:58.46
Lidia decided that she would
like to study those lessons
00:25:58.46\00:26:02.36
and so she began
and her life began
00:26:02.36\00:26:05.10
to take a dramatic change.
00:26:05.10\00:26:07.30
At that time she also
listened to the radio programs
00:26:07.30\00:26:10.13
"The Voice of Hope" and
she enjoyed them so much
00:26:10.13\00:26:12.90
they were so clear
and easy to understand.
00:26:12.90\00:26:16.63
Finally, the day came
when she made her decision
00:26:16.63\00:26:21.10
to accept Jesus Christ as
her savior and to be baptized.
00:26:21.10\00:26:26.56
You know, Lidia, is
an example of deep change
00:26:26.56\00:26:30.30
from one opposite
extreme to another.
00:26:30.30\00:26:33.06
It's sort of like the
temple here in Aphrodisia.
00:26:33.06\00:26:37.06
The temple was once
built for a mythical pagan god.
00:26:37.06\00:26:41.50
But then in 500 A.D. it
was changed to become a church.
00:26:41.50\00:26:46.73
And the sign says,
it was a radical change,
00:26:46.73\00:26:49.63
took a lot of
effort and a lot of work,
00:26:49.63\00:26:52.76
that's what
happens in our lives.
00:26:52.76\00:26:54.83
Sometimes change isn't easy
00:26:54.83\00:26:57.36
but yet that's what
God is calling us to do
00:26:57.36\00:27:00.26
and I hope you will follow
00:27:00.26\00:27:02.10
that path of change in
your life toward Jesus Christ.
00:27:02.10\00:27:07.96
I invite you to help AWR to
be able to bring this message
00:27:07.96\00:27:14.26
of change to more and
more people around the world.
00:27:14.26\00:27:18.23
The radio waves of AWR
00:27:18.93\00:27:20.73
are reaching around the world.
00:27:20.73\00:27:22.96
If you'd like to help
spread the gospel message
00:27:22.96\00:27:24.93
of Jesus Christ soon return.
00:27:24.93\00:27:26.63
Give us a call 1-866-503-3531
or you can write us
00:27:26.63\00:27:33.13
at 12501 Old Columbia Pike,
Sliver Spring, Maryland 20904
00:27:33.13\00:27:39.76
or logon to the
website www.awr.org.
00:27:39.76\00:27:45.70
And thank you for watching.
00:27:45.70\00:27:46.86
Please join us again for another
exciting gospel adventure
00:27:46.86\00:27:49.93
because around the
world AWR is making wave.
00:27:49.93\00:27:53.80