Couldn't help think with
all this salt all around me.
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When Maria first
turned on the radio dial
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and she heard AWR.
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The message was "ye
are the salt of the Earth."
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It changed her life.
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Stay tuned and find out how.
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As we zigzag through Israel,
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we begin to discover
that much of the land
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is little more
than barren desert.
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The question arises,
what happened to Canaan?
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The land flowing
with milk and honey.
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One of the great clusters so big
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that it took two
men to carry them.
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Where were the lion
like the one Samson killed
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find food
enough to survive today
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or how about the
bear David killed,
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this seems to suggest a
land almost tropical in nature.
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This is not that land.
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I asked this very
question of biblical scholars
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and their
answers were interesting
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but there was no solid
consensus to my questioning.
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One fact is sure.
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We found no lions,
bears, or gigantic grapes.
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The Dead Sea, as
it is known today,
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has had several
names throughout history.
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The Salt Sea, The Sea
of Sodom, the Sea of Lot,
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the Sea of Asphalt,
and the Stinking Sea.
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Some of the crusaders
called it the "Devil's Sea."
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I'm here at the Dead Sea,
1,350 feet below sea level.
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If you don't count
everything under the ocean,
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this is the lowest
place on planet Earth.
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It's actually
dead, completely dead.
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They used to call it
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the Numbers
Chapter 34, the Salt Sea.
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Maria and Ludmila, thank
you for joining us today.
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So both of you
ladies grew up in communism,
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is that correct? Yes, Yes.
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Can you share a
little bit with me
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of what living in communism
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or living under
communism was like?
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Of course, it was a good life.
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We were atheists and we didn't
know or hear about any God.
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I didn't believe in
Christ, but my whole life,
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I did wish I
could purchase a Bible,
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but there was
nowhere to get one.
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How many years did you live
before you found Jesus Christ?
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Not very long of
course, my neighbor Ludmila
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asked me to
attend church with her.
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After a few days, I ended
up going to church with her.
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My son was an
alcoholic at the time.
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So she offered
to pray and we did.
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And now my son
doesn't even notice alcohol
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and now I praise
God, the one and only God.
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Foreign language
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Just through the power
of prayer, he quit alcohol.
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Only God could have done this.
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I took him to so many meetings
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nothing worked for him,
but Christ changed his life.
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Maria, why did
you go to her home
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and tell her that
God could help her son?
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I was attending
church for a while,
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I finished my
Bible courses in 1991.
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Later, I heard
about Voice of Hope
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and that they
offered Bible courses.
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So I decided to write to them.
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Foreign language
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Later, they sent me
a book about the Bible,
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and they asked for a small fee,
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of course I sent
the money right away.
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Foreign language
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Later that same year,
I received my assignment,
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and I was extremely
happy to have received them.
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Foreign language
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In 1992, I finished
them and was offered
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to attend a
meeting for the graduates.
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Foreign language
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Why did you ever think that
Jesus could heal an alcoholic?
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Foreign language
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You know, I always
believed that not only
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alcoholic problems
but many more problems.
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He didn't only
have drinking problems,
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he had problems
with the neighbors,
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lawsuit and other problems.
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And I told her to
pray and ten days later,
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things have calmed down.
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Foreign language
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It was crazy because
they were being charged,
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but in the end
they received the money.
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Because the shore, the Dead Sea
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is the lowest point on earth,
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there is no place
for the water to flow.
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Here it sits and
evaporates at a rate of about
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7 million tons of water a day,
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causing the salt
content to increase.
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The salinity of the
water ranges from 26% to 35%.
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There isn't even
much water flowing in now
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because the Jordanian government
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is taking all the
water to irrigate above.
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Matter of fact many of
these areas are drying up
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and would already be
dry have been not channeled
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some areas to continually
feed water to the area.
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Apparently, Sodom and Gomorrah
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are located
somewhere here in the area
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below the water
line at this point.
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It's interesting to
know that during that time,
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Sodom and Gomorrah
when Abraham's nephew
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was called by the
angels out of Sodom.
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The wife came and
instructions of the angels
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were do not look
back, do not look back.
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But he couldn't help at
her heart was still in Sodom,
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she turned and she
became a pillar of salt,
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rather fitting for the Dead Sea
because it is so full of salt.
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The Dead Sea is not a
prominent part of biblical times
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like the Sea of
Galilee to the north.
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Its most important
role was as a barrier,
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blocking traffic to
Judah from the east.
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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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We broadcast
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Here is another story of
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Kaluram was a poor field
laborer near Gujarat in India.
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Finding his work
tedious, Kalu purchased
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a small radio to
relieve the boredom.
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One day, he came across a
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It was from
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After listening for a few days,
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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
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is not always safe,
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when approaching
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However, through the efforts
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he has trained, nearly 1,000
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Just a little away
from the Dead Sea here,
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on the northwestern shore,
right behind me is Qumran.
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The area where two young
men have their sheep in 1947,
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as they're watching
them, they're throwing rocks
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here and there and all of
a suddenly they throw them
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in a little cave
and they hear a sound.
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They discovered pottery
jars and in those pottery jars
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were scrolls, the greatest
discovery was they found
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most of the Book of Isaiah.
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What a phenomenal discovery
right here in the caves.
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Between 66 and 70
A.D., Judah was in revolt.
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Rome had occupied
Israel since 63 B.C.,
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and throughout years, the Roman
procurators collected taxes
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for the Roman Empire
and kept any tax gathered
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above the quota set by Rome.
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Around the time
of the birth of Jesus
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a new group arose among
the Jews called the Essenes.
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All indications are
that they were a very
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jealous group of
political extremist.
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It is thought that they
were a branch of the Pharisees
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who conformed to the most
rigid rules of Levitical purity.
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Eventually a group of the
Essenes gathered in Qumran,
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where they lived a
very strict and pious life.
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Some in the group prescribes
making copies of scriptures.
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Why do you believe
in the power of prayer?
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Many people go to
church but they don't really
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believe in the
power of prayer that much,
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why do you believe?
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You know, God has
answered to so much in my life.
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I trust Him.
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A lot of people were
saying that this isn't
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the right
religion and they told me,
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I believe in the wrong God.
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You know, I was sitting
and debating on this subject,
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I pray and ask God to
guide me in the right direction
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and to provide
me with the Bible.
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Foreign language
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I heard His voice, He
said, "you believe is true
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and the Bible shall be yours."
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I believed that voice, I
knew I believe in the right God,
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and I knew I would
tell the word of God's Son.
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Foreign language
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We've had a game
kind of like a lottery,
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where we wrote our
name in a piece of paper
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about 20 minutes after I prayed.
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Foreign language
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They picked my name
and said, here is a Bible,
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keep this Bible and let it stand
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out from the rest of your books.
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Foreign language
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And when I hold the
Bible, I start to cry.
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I'm not sure
what people thought,
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but I cried very hard.
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Foreign language
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Jesus would walk
through an entire village
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and He would heal
everyone in the village.
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You took that story,
you took those statements,
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and you brought
them to your neighbor,
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that's what so exciting.
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Yes, You know,
before I got baptized,
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my husband was against it.
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So I decided to
explain the miracle
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that had just happened.
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And he then later said,
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this is your
business, do as you wish.
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Get baptized and
go to your church,
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I have enough
miracles to write a book.
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During the
revolt of 66 to 70 A.D.,
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the Essenes hid
many of the scrolls
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in the caves of Qumran,
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in an attempt to
preserve them from the Romans.
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The views from
this cave here in Qumran
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are absolutely
spectacular, I can look
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all the way out
over the Dead Sea.
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Well, basically located
here on the northwestern shore,
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this is the sight of the
area, one of the most exciting
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biblical
discoveries of all times.
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In 1947, the story
goes here in Israel,
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listen young boys
were playing in the area
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as they tended their
sheep, they started climbing up
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the hills here into the caves,
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but they noticed that
one of the sheep was missing.
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So they began their
search for this one lost sheep,
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they continued the
search cave after cave,
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and finally they thought they
heard something in one area,
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throw a rock down into
that area and they listen.
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Soon they could
hear the little sheep
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as they went to retrieve him.
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They discovered
pottery jars and in those jars
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were some scrolls,
they took out the scrolls,
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they headed to Jerusalem,
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they found an
antiquities dealer,
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there they traded in the
scroll for a few Shekels,
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but the antiquity dealers
thinking that they weren't
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anything special
that they were just
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another forgery threw it aside.
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Sometime later,
there was a archeologist
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that came through and he found
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this old dust covered
area in the corner, the scroll,
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one of the Isaiah
scrolls, he began looking at it.
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It was indeed a
discovery of all time,
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because most of the
Book of Isaiah was there
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they came and they
discovered so many more scrolls
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that validated God's word
from thousands of years ago.
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There is some evidence
that some of the Essenes
00:16:32.73\00:16:34.96
may have been among the Zealots
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who took refuge at Masada.
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Right about here, the highest
point of Masada, Herod's palace.
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He built this
palace in about B.C. 37,
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he lived here on
and off until B.C. 4.
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Check out these views,
I mean, it's all desert,
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but it's beautiful,
and these were the views
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from Herod's palace.
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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
from around the world.
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God speaking to hearts,
the hearts of the listeners
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of AWR, exciting stories.
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We hope that you'll
share those with friends
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and neighbors, acquaintances,
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anyone you come in contact with.
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Join us to Make
Waves, it's completely free.
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Right now the
information is on your screen.
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For your free,
no obligation DVD,
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write to Adventist World
Radio, 12501 Old Columbia Pike,
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That number again
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Here is another story of
hope from Adventist World Radio.
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Juang lay wide awake
in his dark jail cell.
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A Chinese man
imprisoned in Thailand.
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He had no family or
friends to visit him.
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Recently, Juang had begun
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listening to the programs
of Adventist World Radio.
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The message of
God's love and forgiveness
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had so much appealed to him
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because he had
plenty to be forgiven of.
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Forced to become a child
soldier in Burma when just 13,
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Juang had
committed many terrible sins.
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He escaped into Thailand,
but quickly wound up in jail.
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Now alone in his cell,
Juang had ample time to wonder,
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"Would God really forgive him?"
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Adventist World Radio
shares the hope of Christ
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with millions of people every
day in their own languages.
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For more
information, visit awr.org.
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After Rome destroyed Jerusalem
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and the Second
Temple in 70 A.D.,
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the great revolt ended,
except for the surviving zealots
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who fled Jerusalem to
the fortress of Masada.
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Masada has found its
way into the history books
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as perhaps one of
the greatest struggles
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in all of human times
over freedom or slavery.
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Elazar ben Yair and
his band of 960 men,
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women and children
came up to this fortress.
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This area that had
been established by Herod
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many years before, and withstood
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the Roman legions, then
onslaught for so long a time.
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But finally, when
it looked like defeat
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was right at the doors,
they took each other's life
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because they
would rather go in death
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by each other's hands
than slavery to the Romans.
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What a time? What a people?
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You told me your
first time Jesus Christ,
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you were tuning to
the radio dial to AWR,
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I guess and you
found the gospel message.
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Foreign language
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It was early and I was
cooking in the kitchen,
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heard the radio and
over the radio it mentioned
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that I was eligible
to receive a free book
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that contains Bible stories.
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So I wrote them a letter
and I received their book.
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And later, they
offered Bible studies,
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so that's when I
start the Bible courses.
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Foreign language
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I remember what they
said on that day, they said
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that salt preserve things and
likewise Christians should act
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like salt and
preserve this world
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from rotting
away because of sin.
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So hearing Jesus say, "Ye
are the salt of the Earth."
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That changed your life.
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Foreign language
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I always listen to sermons,
but this just kept me going
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and I always wanted to
learn more about Christ,
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the sermons touched
my heart and I decided
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that I wanted to be
a part of this church.
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Foreign language
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At AWR, we'd like to
say we are making waves,
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radio waves that
travel out and touch hearts
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like your heart, your
life and then you in turn
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continue to make
waves as you share
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with your neighbors and friends,
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bringing them
too to Jesus Christ.
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Foreign language
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And I went around talking to
everyone about Voice of Hope.
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Foreign language
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I tried to pass
and over 30 people
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passed this class for sure.
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I am now leading a Bible class
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and 72 people passed
my class. Thank the Lord.
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Foreign language
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Praise the Lord,
So if we had time,
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we'd have all kinds
of stories, Wouldn't we?
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I have a lot of experiences.
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So you witness to Ludmila,
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and Ludmila, you're
right here with us today.
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You saw the
power of Jesus Christ,
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change your son
from an alcoholic.
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And then he stopped a neighbor
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who had a lawsuit against
you, please tell me more.
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Foreign language
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I really trust him and
now I can wait for Saturday.
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I finished the
Bible classes in two weeks
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and right away
decided to get baptized.
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Foreign language
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God helped me with everything
and I mean everything.
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I was always in debt
and then they told me
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to donate to the
church and I was shocked
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because I didn't
have enough for myself.
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But as soon as I started giving,
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I started having extra money.
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Foreign language
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So you continued experiencing
the blessings of God.
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Yes, I believe in Christ,
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and He helps me
out a lot, a lot.
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These 960
Zealots held out against
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Rome's Tenth
Legion for three years.
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The actual number of
the Romans who joined
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in the battle varies
greatly among historical sources
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but regardless
of the final count,
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the Zealots
withstood the might of Rome.
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The Zealots had been
fighting a guerrilla war
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against Rome
since the year 6 A.D.
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And Rome was determined
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to break the small
group of defiant Jews.
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Here in the
mountain top of Masada.
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The Jewish people thought
it was an impregnable fortress,
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they were actually zealots,
because they wanted to fight
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against the Roman
government, the tyranny,
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the slavery of
the Roman government.
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Down right
behind me, you can see
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some of the roman encampments.
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Could have been
20,000 Roman soldiers
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surrounding this area.
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They began building this
ramp with all of the slaves
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that they'd brought alone.
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The Zealots began casting down
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stones with fire, boiling oil.
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I would imagine today
that they excavated this area,
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they may find a lot of bones.
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Who knows what else.
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In the foreground over there
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you see a theater amphitheater.
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That area is used by
the Israeli soldiers today,
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they come here to swear
their allegiance to Israel.
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They come here because
this is meaningful to them.
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To fight for
what they believe in,
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to fight for their
country, to fight for honor,
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as the people of Masada did.
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Maria and Ludmila in our
story today were neighbors.
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The power of answered
prayer was an important
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factor in their coming to
God in both of their situations.
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Maria became a Christian first.
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She heard the Voice
of Hope radio broadcast
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and she studied
the Bible course.
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But then she attended
an evangelistic series,
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and at that meeting the pastor
had two Bibles to give away.
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Her big concern in attending
those meetings was to find
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the church that
was true to the Bible.
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Well, you heard the story.
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Her name was drawn,
she received the Bible
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and what a confirmation
that was for her heart.
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Ludmila, also
experienced answered prayer.
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She prayed earnestly
with Maria for her son
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who was caught in
the trap of alcoholism.
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And after praying
earnestly for some time,
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he was delivered.
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Then she had a
problem with her neighbor,
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and that also was solved as
a result of answered prayer.
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The thing that I
like about their stories,
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Maria told us at the
very first AWR program
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that she heard back in 1991,
was on the subject of salt.
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You are the salt of the
Earth, the pastor preached.
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And from her
thinking, she began to focus
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on the
preservation, qualities of salt.
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I'm standing
here by the Dead Sea,
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you can see all
the salt that is here.
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Yes, we need to be
the salt of the Earth
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but not all
concentrated together like this.
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In order for a
salt to be effective,
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it needs to be spread
out and used and mixed.
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And in this case, we need to mix
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among the people of the world.
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That's what AWR is
doing through its ministry.
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You can help AWR
sprinkle the salt
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of God's word around the world.
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From Russia to the Dead Sea,
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no matter where you are
the waves of AWR can reach.
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I hope you'll partner with us
00:27:09.30\00:27:10.43
in reaching
people for Jesus Christ.
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Give us a call right now,
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1-866-503-3531
or you can write us
00:27:13.83\00:27:18.33
at 12501 Old Columbia Pike,
Silver Spring, Maryland 20904.
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Or you can log on to
our website at www.awr.org.
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Thank you for watching.
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And please join us
again for another exciting
00:27:31.23\00:27:33.33
gospel adventure
because around the world,
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AWR is Making Waves.
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