Welcome back to
Bible prophecy seminar
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digging up the
future, Bible prophecy expose.
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We are glad that Tony
Moore has been with us.
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Has it been a blessing
to you listening to Tony?
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It's been great.
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And, you know, tonight's
lecture is one of my favorite
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and it's gonna be
looking at Christ,
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looking at the
footsteps of Christ,
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and we've looked at the Nile,
we've been to Egypt with Tony,
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we've been many
different places.
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Tomorrow night we are
going to be our seminar,
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we're going to
be in Iraq or Iraq
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I guess it's
the way to say that.
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And we are gonna be looking
at when Iraq ruled the world.
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That's gonna be fascinating
and I hope that you can bring
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your friends
back tomorrow evening,
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but tonight more
important than even Iraq
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is looking at
where Christ walked.
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Would you agree with that?
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So let's just ask
the Lord's presence
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as we consider this important
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and heartwarming
topic this evening.
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Let's bow our heads together.
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Father in heaven,
today we are indeed grateful
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that we can be digging up
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as it were the
past, but also the future.
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We can be looking at the past
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where our Lord
walked this evening,
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it can guide us in the presence
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and present and
hopefully also for the future.
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We ask that Your
presence would be with here,
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be with Tony Moore as he
speaks with us this evening,
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give him Your
words and Your wisdom
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and we thank You
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and we come in Your
all powerful name, amen.
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We have been blessed
the last few evenings
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with Rafael Scarfullery.
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Some of you
asked about his music,
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we are gonna be making
some of that available to you,
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but this evening let's listen
as he plays that wonderful hymn
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that reminds us of our
Lord "Nearer Still Nearer."
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Again I want to say thanks
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for that
wonderful music, Rafeal.
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I have totally enjoyed
that. What a beautiful number.
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We praise God for your talents
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and your gifts that
He has given to you.
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Well, tonight we
want to take a journey
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in the footsteps of Jesus.
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I'm gonna ask this question.
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How many have you
been to the Galilee?
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Okay. Wow.
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More to Galilee than
to Egypt? That's great.
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Well, tonight we are
going to be traveling
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throughout the land
that Jesus traveled in.
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And I hope it brings
back memories for you.
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Positive memories
of when you were there.
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And if you hadn't been there,
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I want you to be all
just to imagine the places
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where Jesus walked and taught
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of all the presentations
that I'll be giving here.
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This is my favorite
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because I get
to talk about Jesus
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and the most
wonderful stories ever told.
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I have to compact
a lot of material.
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I'm actually
writing a series right now
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on the 20 presentations,
just on the life of Jesus.
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So we are gonna try not
give you all 20 tonight.
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But we are going to
give you a little tour
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and I hope that will
forever live in your mind.
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Tonight, I want to take
you in a fascinating journey
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to the near east in
the footsteps of Jesus.
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We want to visit the
land where He was born,
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where He's been His childhood,
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where He gave us
wonderful teachings.
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It's been known for centuries
as the Land of Palestine.
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Now why is it called
the Land of Palestine?
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Because the
philistines lived there.
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Exactly.
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It was also known
as the Land of Canaan.
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Any idea why it was
called the Land of Canaan?
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'Cause Canaanites
live there, of course.
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Well, actually
Canaan means red purple
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and they would dye
for the Murex Shell
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off the coast in
the Mediterranean Sea
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and they would take the
gland out of Murex Shell
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and they would snatch it
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and that's how
they made purple dye.
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It was so expensive,
only royalty could afford it.
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And so it was known
as the land of red purple
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or the Land of Canaan.
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Now this land is a small land
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and that's from the
first scene that stands out.
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From Old Testament Times,
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it was known form the headwaters
of the Jordan River at Dan
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down to the south in a
place called Beersheba.
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A distance of about 140 miles.
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That means this
land is slightly larger
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than the
American State of Vermont.
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Yet this small region
contains snowy mountain peeks
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and the lowest
bottom earth the Dead Sea.
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It has lush coastal plains
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which reach out in
almost touch barren deserts.
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It's a void of
natural resources,
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it'sValgarde by
inhospitable climate,
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it possessive some of earth's
most forbidding landscapes
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and yet it is known as the land
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that God promised to Abraham.
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What it lacks in
natural resources
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was made up in a
strategic location?
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You see, it's the only
intercontinental land bridge
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between the three continents
of Europe, Asia and Africa.
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It connected the Indian
Ocean with the Atlantic Ocean
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via the Red Mediterranean Sea.
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And so it was
very, very strategic.
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As a matter of fact, the
great empires of the past.
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We have talked about Egypt.
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In our next presentation,
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we will talk about
ancient Mesopotamia or Iraq.
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These were the
great powers of the past
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and to go between
Egypt and Mesopotamia
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or Iraq or Babylon,
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you had to travel right through
this little strip of land
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just a 140 miles long
and about 50 miles wide.
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Now the first thing that happens
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when most people
go to this land is
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that they are kind of
surprised, not because so small,
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but they are kind of
shocked by what they see.
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My wife was so shocked
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because she was
expecting to find a land
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flowing with milk and honey
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and what she saw
was a bunch of rocks.
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She said, "Oh, they
doesn't flow in milk and honey.
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It's terrible looking."
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It happens to almost
everybody who goes there.
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And so of course, people say
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"Well, of course the land
has changed through the years."
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Well, actually
there is no evidence
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that the rain fall
amounts have changed
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that much through the years.
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The archeological
evidence does not say
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there has been
significant change,
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so what do we mean
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a land flowing
with milk and honey.
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Well, where do
we get milk? Cows.
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Where do they get
milk? Goats, okay.
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Where do you get honey? Bees.
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Where do they get honey?
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They didn't keep
bees back in Bible times.
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Once in a while
someone like Samson
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might find some in the carcass,
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but they didn't
really cultivate these,
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but what they did do
they raised, they grew grapes.
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And they would boil the
grapes down to a thick paste
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that's called dope
and or honey, okay?
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And so then they
could reconstitute the paste
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and they make grape to you,
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so the land for growing
grapes and raising goats.
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Much like Southern
California where I live,
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not like North Carolina
where I grew up, all right?
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And perhaps that's the problem.
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We compare this
land with our land,
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with Canaan in the
summer is all green
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instead of with
Southern California
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or New Mexico or Texas
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and so there are
some lush plains,
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but they are
very, very few and far
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between
especially by US standards
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or at least, eastern
standards of the United States.
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And perhaps that's the problem.
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We should be really comparing it
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with other areas,
Texas, New Mexico, California.
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Well, that's
geographical background.
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I want to take you to the
land in the footsteps of Jesus.
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We want to begin
tonight in Bethlehem.
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Now Bethlehem is interesting
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because Bethlehem
means house of bread
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or house of the baker.
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So significant that
Jesus the bread of life
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will be born in
the house of bread
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or house of the baker, isn't it?
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And so this was a land of David,
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it was a home of
Boaz and Ruth and David.
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Gospel of Luke says that Joseph
and Mary came to Bethlehem
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before she gave birth to Jesus.
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And we have a quote
here on the screen from Luke,
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"In those days Caesar
Augustus issued a decree
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that a census should be
taken of the entire Roman world,
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and everyone went to
his own town to register.
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So Joseph and Mary went
down to a town in Nazareth."
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I'm sorry.
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"So Joseph also went up
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from the town of
Nazareth in Galilee to Judea,
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to Bethlehem the town of David,
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He went there to
register with Mary."
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Well, this city was
a small town and then--
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This town was a small town
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in antiquity was
built on a ridge of granite
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and today it's also a small town
about five miles from Jerusalem.
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Animals were
actually kept in caves.
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Most people
started living in caves.
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And if you got a
real more wealthy,
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you build your
house on top of the cave,
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but you still bring your animals
inside of your house at night.
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You bring them
in for protection,
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you wouldn't once
want you to steal them,
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also in the
winter time for warmth.
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And so we still see that
people live this way today,
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they still bring
their animals in.
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Now we think about Jesus
and being born in a barn.
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And we like to think
about Christmas cards
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out of all these
nice wooden mangers.
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And European
artists were very used
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to all this
wood and so built it,
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but in that part of the
world there is not many trees.
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So mangers were
actually carved out of stone.
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And so in every home would
it basically down the basement,
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they will have a stone manger,
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a feeding trough
or a watering trough.
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And the Bible tells us
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that Jesus was born
and placed into a manger.
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It would have been
more of a manger like this.
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And so Jesus was most likely
more and there in the cave.
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As we go to Bethlehem, we
want to go to manger square.
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This is the centre of the
town for the modern tourist.
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This is the
church of the nativity.
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It was originally built by
Constantine's mother Helena
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who also built the
church of the Holy Sepulcher.
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We talked about in the
previous episode on Jerusalem.
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As she just came, she
searched out the area.
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This is where they
said Jesus was born.
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Was it the place? I don't know.
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But it's certainly is beautiful
that she has built that.
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And this is the oldest
church in the Bible lands.
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Now pay attention to
this, it's kind of interesting.
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You see, oldest
church in the bible
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and you see the Persians
came through the seventh century
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and they destroyed
all of the churches
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that had been
built in the Babylon
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except the
church of the nativity.
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Now why would
Persians not destroyed
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the church of the nativity?
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Let me say it again.
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Why would Persians not
destroy the church of nativity?
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Well, they went in
and they were Persians
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and they came in and they
saw mosaics of the Wise Men
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who were from
the region of Persia.
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And they said, "Our
guys have already been here.
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We can't destroy this
place." And they preserved it.
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So this is the oldest
church in the Bible lands
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has these
fabulous columns of marble
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just a wonderful
area to go and visit.
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And as you go into the church,
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you go down underneath
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the Rostam Area
there underneath the stage
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and you go down to
where there is a cave
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and a crypt and
they covered all the way
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and here there is a silver
star and hasn't latent here
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Jesus Christ was
born of the virgin Mary.
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Was it the place? I don't know.
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I know that I have personally
full back the tapestries
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and you can see
that it was a cave
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and certainly was
a cave in antiquity.
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The important thing to me
as it preserves the memory
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that Jesus was born in
this part of the world.
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And that's important.
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Now a lot of people
who go to the Bible lands
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they get disappointed
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because every where
you go there is a church.
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And they say, "Ha, like Galilee
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because I get up to Galilee
and there is no churches."
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And you know what I tell people?
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I thank the Lord
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that there are
churches built on these sights
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because if there wasn't a church
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in apartment
building or shopping mall,
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it leaves the
church preserves the memory
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of where these
stories took place
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or the vicinity of the stories.
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And so, it's a very
special place to go.
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I really enjoy
going there so much.
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Well, the Wise Men
followed the start at Jerusalem
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where they met King Herod.
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After they left,
the sages of Jerusalem
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were called in by King Herod
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and he said, "Tell
me what's going on."
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And they quoted a prophecy.
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They quote in Micah 5:2.
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"But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah,
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though you are small
among the clans of Judah,
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Out of you will come for me
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one who will be
ruler over Israel,
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whose origins are from
of old, from ancient times?"
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So when the sages
were put under the test,
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they knew exactly where Messiah
will be born in Bethlehem.
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Well, the Wise Men
went and they visited Jesus,
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it's at least
six weeks have passed
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because he's
already went to the temple,
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he's already went to the temple
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then registered after
the 40 day period there
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and so several weeks have passed
and they bring their gifts--
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What was it?
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Gold and frankincense and myrrh
and these tremendous commodities
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paid the expenses
of the Holy family
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as they went down into Egypt
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and they took
care of the expenses
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until after the
death of King Herod.
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Now Herod was so incensed
over the fall of a rival king
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that he ordered the
massacre of all male children
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living there in
Bethlehem two years and under.
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This marked his character well.
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You see, Herod in
the feel of Jealousy
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ordered his beautiful executed.
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He had her
mother and her brother--
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I'm sorry. The
high priest drowned.
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He had three of his sons
killed, two by strangulations.
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Since he wouldn't eat pork,
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his good friend
Caesar Augustus said,
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"I would rather be
Herod's pig than his son."
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Well, all in the distance
we can see the Herodion,
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this was built by King Herod
and it's a fabulous building.
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I want to just tell
you a quick little story,
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don't have much time.
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We've talked about potshots.
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A number of years ago
there were some tourists there
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and near the old pot
tops on cans in the old days,
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you know, and people
you wouldn't do this,
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but some of the people would
just throw them on the ground,
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and this
tourist is walking along
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finds a pot top
there on the ground
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and she kicked it with her foot
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and then she bend
over and picked it up
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and it wasn't a pot top at all,
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it turned out to
be a silver earring
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from one of Herod's wives.
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That was found
here in the Herodion.
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He uses as his summer
fortress or summer palace.
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He was a greatest
builder of antiquity,
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he had a swimming
pool down at the bottom,
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he was a fabulous builder,
but he built many other places.
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Here we see
Masada, he built Machairas,
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he had these
fortresses all around in case
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you would try to
attack him and kill him
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and so he also built Caesarea,
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he named this greatest port
on the east of Mediterranean
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after he has
been a factor Caesar.
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And then of course,
he expanded the temple
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as we talked about
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in our
presentation on Jerusalem.
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He was a part of the
biggest builder of all time.
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Well, the family
went down to Egypt
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and then when they returned
the Lord instructed them
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not to go back to Bethlehem,
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but to return to
their home in Nazareth.
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Now Nazareth was not
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one of the favorite
places of the rabbis,
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up in the northern part
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they were far
away from Jerusalem
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and so they didn't
tend to follow the tours.
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As a mater of fact
one rabbi cried out,
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"Galilee! Galilee!
Though that hate us the Torah."
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And one of the worst villages
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that quoted they didn't love
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the Torah they
said was Nazareth.
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And it was to that village
that God shows a young woman
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who was to become
the mother of Jesus.
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She was engaged to a carpenter.
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This young woman had
probably just in her puberty
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if she was typical of
the girls of her time,
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probably 13 or 14 years old
just entered in her puberty.
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She had a wonderful
character and a lovely spirit.
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Now the Church
of the Annunciation
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in the Nazareth marks the spot
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where tradition says the
ancient Gabriel appear to her
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with her a heavenly message.
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And what the message was?
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Bible says, "The angel said
to her, do not be afraid, Mary,
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you have found favor with God.
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You will be with child
and give birth to a son,
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and you are to give
him the name Jesus."
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Oh, I love the story of Mary.
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Down below the present
day church there are caves
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that they believe that
Mary's family lived in.
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We don't know if it's true,
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but we do know
that this sight here
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that's on the
screen is a well of Mary.
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This was the only spring,
00:19:37.79\00:19:39.36
that the only source
of water in Mary's day
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so certainly she
would have come here
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and she would have
come here to draw water
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and so it's very
moving to go there.
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Well, as I went
through the City of Nazareth,
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I was exploring
the city with my camera
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I saw this pregnant lady
and immediately I thought
00:19:53.53\00:19:56.32
of scandal
living in honors society
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becoming pregnant out of
wedlock what do this mean?
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We will monetize a story
00:20:02.90\00:20:04.61
from this side
of the 21st century,
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but it would have
been terribly difficult
00:20:07.13\00:20:09.13
for her and her family.
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I saw these children all dressed
in their uniforms for school
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and I thought about Jesus
how He went to the synagogue
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and how He was cursed
by the rabbis in Jerusalem,
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and He was only 12 years old
00:20:20.78\00:20:22.11
and how His mother
had taught Him the Torah.
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And the Hebrew Scriptures,
homes have changes very little
00:20:24.68\00:20:28.47
during the past 2,000 years.
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Jesus probably
grew up in a one room,
00:20:30.95\00:20:33.44
mud brick house, ruffed
with mud covered red mass.
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They don't even
having a sleeping mats
00:20:38.41\00:20:40.06
where they lay out
during the night for sleeping,
00:20:40.09\00:20:43.05
very simple house as
you can see on the screen
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kind of a
courtyard in the middle
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and they lay out their mats
00:20:48.53\00:20:50.22
and they would have
their simple utensils
00:20:50.25\00:20:52.95
for eating and cooking
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and then they would move those
00:20:54.50\00:20:55.79
and that's where He
would sleep at night.
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Homes have changed very little.
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Each home would have a loom
00:20:59.01\00:21:00.24
where can weave their garments
00:21:00.27\00:21:02.57
that they would wear by day
we will keep them warm by night.
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And of course, some
infinite soul created this shelf
00:21:05.81\00:21:09.84
where you could actually
keep things in your house.
00:21:09.87\00:21:12.99
Each home would probably
have a little bronze, mirror
00:21:13.02\00:21:15.24
and some little jars like
00:21:15.27\00:21:16.44
we have shown you
here on the table.
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They could keep the oils
00:21:17.81\00:21:18.84
and the precious
things that ladies would have.
00:21:18.87\00:21:20.93
And so the basic house
really hasn't changed very much
00:21:20.96\00:21:23.45
during the past
2,000 years in the village.
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Well, Jesus when He
is about 30 years old,
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He left Nazareth, He
left the carpenter shop
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and He began to
journey down to the Jordan
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where John the
Baptist was teaching
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and preaching and baptizing.
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He walked through the
hills on to the Elle of gardens
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to the trio that
lead down to Tiberius
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he then scattered
around the Sea of Galilee
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as he made us way down
00:21:42.37\00:21:43.81
to the God, to
the Jordan valley.
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Today, this is a no man's land.
00:21:46.14\00:21:48.25
It's a carefully patrolled area
00:21:48.28\00:21:49.97
between Jordan and
Israeli held West Bank.
00:21:50.00\00:21:53.35
Everyday this road is
patrolled looking for footprints
00:21:53.38\00:21:56.22
any evidence of infiltrations,
heavily laid with mines,
00:21:56.25\00:22:00.01
but when Jesus walked
down there were no mines,
00:22:00.04\00:22:02.11
there were no fences
because Rome ruled all.
00:22:02.14\00:22:05.12
Rome ruled all.
00:22:05.15\00:22:07.30
Jesus continued on
down to the fricative Jordan
00:22:07.33\00:22:11.07
and to a place near Jericho.
00:22:11.10\00:22:13.75
Now today the lake and
river have largely been drained
00:22:13.78\00:22:17.10
due to the
intensive agricultural program
00:22:17.13\00:22:20.02
that's carried on by
both Jordan and Israel.
00:22:20.05\00:22:23.87
In ancient times,
00:22:23.90\00:22:24.93
however the River
Jordan overflowed its banks
00:22:24.96\00:22:26.74
and could be a very,
very dangerous place.
00:22:26.77\00:22:28.85
There were wild animals
00:22:28.88\00:22:29.91
that would live
there in the Gore
00:22:29.94\00:22:31.49
in the thicket of the Jordan.
00:22:31.52\00:22:33.56
Today it's a
wonderful place to go down.
00:22:33.59\00:22:35.92
There is a place near
the outlet of the Red Sea
00:22:35.95\00:22:38.30
of the Sea of Galilee
where tourist love to come
00:22:38.33\00:22:41.78
and here we have some
Greek orthodox pilgrimages
00:22:41.81\00:22:44.73
that have come to make a
journey of the life time.
00:22:44.76\00:22:47.10
They are being
baptized by immersion
00:22:47.13\00:22:48.99
you can see if your
joy that's on their face.
00:22:49.02\00:22:51.64
It's very
impressive to go there,
00:22:51.67\00:22:53.40
but personally I
prefer this little spot
00:22:53.43\00:22:55.90
that I have found
on one of my journeys,
00:22:55.93\00:22:58.83
it's a little quite
place south of Buchan
00:22:58.86\00:23:01.59
and I was able to pull
over my rental car and went out
00:23:01.62\00:23:04.86
and it's kind of dangerous
00:23:04.89\00:23:05.96
because as I
went down to the door
00:23:05.99\00:23:07.76
there were Israeli tanks
00:23:07.79\00:23:08.91
that were covered
with camouflage nets
00:23:08.94\00:23:10.86
on the right side
and the left side,
00:23:10.89\00:23:12.21
but anyway I got out here
00:23:12.24\00:23:13.91
and I was there by the
Jordan I saw that white bird
00:23:13.94\00:23:16.85
and immediately I
thought about the dove
00:23:16.88\00:23:20.02
because Jesus was baptized.
00:23:20.05\00:23:21.61
You remember
Luke Chapter 3 says,
00:23:21.64\00:23:23.19
"And the Holy
Spirit descended on him
00:23:23.22\00:23:24.99
in bodily form like a dove.
00:23:25.02\00:23:26.88
And a voice came from heaven,
00:23:26.91\00:23:28.09
'You are my son, whom I love,
with you I am well pleased.'"
00:23:28.12\00:23:32.31
And wow, that was a
special moment for me.
00:23:32.34\00:23:34.71
Now that Jordon is
not the clearest of rivers
00:23:34.74\00:23:36.98
or the largest of rivers.
00:23:37.01\00:23:38.35
Today it's only a stream,
but it was here in this river
00:23:38.38\00:23:40.96
that Jesus was
baptized by John the Baptist.
00:23:40.99\00:23:44.42
And here was the God said,
"This is My Son whom I love
00:23:44.45\00:23:51.69
with him I'm well pleased."
00:23:51.72\00:23:54.65
that "Jesus was
then lead by the spirit
00:23:55.63\00:23:57.99
into the wilderness."
00:23:58.02\00:23:59.31
Jesus was led up
into the wilderness
00:23:59.34\00:24:00.64
to be tempted by the devil.
00:24:00.67\00:24:01.99
Matthew 4:1,
immediately he left the serenity
00:24:02.02\00:24:06.00
and the security of John
the Baptist in the Jordan.
00:24:06.03\00:24:08.94
He began his steepest
sin up into the wilderness
00:24:08.97\00:24:11.59
to the place where he was
to be tempted by the devil.
00:24:11.62\00:24:14.12
Now this wilderness I used
to read about in the Bible.
00:24:14.15\00:24:16.35
I thought it was
like Oregon, all right?
00:24:16.38\00:24:18.56
You know, all those trees,
you know, the Paul Bunyan type,
00:24:18.59\00:24:21.32
but it really is
better the desert
00:24:21.35\00:24:23.74
because it's a deserted area.
00:24:23.77\00:24:25.61
There aren't any trees.
00:24:25.64\00:24:26.67
This is a terrible
wild place for this.
00:24:26.70\00:24:28.88
There is nothing.
00:24:28.91\00:24:30.59
He went up to be
tempted by the devil
00:24:30.62\00:24:32.97
where the
wilderness of temptation.
00:24:33.00\00:24:34.84
Now here on the screen,
00:24:34.87\00:24:36.68
it's a little
difficult to make out,
00:24:36.71\00:24:37.93
but can you see this?
00:24:37.96\00:24:39.21
These orthodox priests have
carved out and made this area,
00:24:39.24\00:24:44.19
this monastery where they
have lived on precipitous cliff
00:24:44.22\00:24:47.14
of the Jordan River
Valley above Jericho.
00:24:47.17\00:24:51.46
And this is to commemorate
00:24:51.49\00:24:53.58
the story of Jews
being there for 40 days.
00:24:53.61\00:24:55.98
Now the Jordan River at
this location near Jericho
00:24:56.01\00:24:59.55
is a 1,000 feet below sea level.
00:24:59.58\00:25:01.78
This is 3,000
feet above sea level,
00:25:01.81\00:25:03.96
so you scale a
cliff 4,000 feet up, okay?
00:25:03.99\00:25:07.75
And these monks have been there
00:25:07.78\00:25:10.57
keeping alive the story of
Jesus fasting in the wilderness.
00:25:10.60\00:25:15.95
Well, after he
fasted for 40 days
00:25:15.98\00:25:18.91
the Bibles tells us
that the devil came to him
00:25:18.94\00:25:21.45
and while he was
hungry in an intense seed
00:25:21.48\00:25:24.02
and he tempted him to
turn the stones into the bread.
00:25:24.05\00:25:26.72
Now the stones aren't
like the stones here in Kansas.
00:25:26.75\00:25:29.07
They're really
flat and they're round
00:25:29.10\00:25:30.79
and they look like the
little Palestinian loaves.
00:25:30.82\00:25:33.41
And you can imagine
if you are in the sun
00:25:33.44\00:25:34.80
and you see that
and you are hungry.
00:25:34.83\00:25:36.20
You could think it's
like Peter bread and,
00:25:36.23\00:25:39.55
but Jesus met him
00:25:39.58\00:25:40.85
and said, "Man does
not live on bread alone,
00:25:40.88\00:25:44.23
but on every word that
comes from the mouth of God."
00:25:44.26\00:25:46.66
Mathew 4:4.
00:25:46.69\00:25:48.43
Then the Bible
says Jesus was taken
00:25:48.46\00:25:49.88
to the pinnacle the temple
00:25:49.91\00:25:51.31
and he was encouraged
to reveal his divine powers
00:25:51.34\00:25:54.18
by throwing himself down,
00:25:54.21\00:25:56.16
but Jesus had
chosen to live as a man
00:25:56.19\00:25:59.34
and he would not
use his God powers
00:25:59.37\00:26:01.22
for shower your
selfish purposes.
00:26:01.25\00:26:04.10
And so he said to the old devil,
00:26:04.13\00:26:06.05
"Do not put the Lord
your God to the test."
00:26:06.08\00:26:09.63
Matthew 4:7.
00:26:09.66\00:26:11.71
I have often
wondered if the devil took
00:26:11.74\00:26:13.31
Jesus there to the edge
of the Jordan River Valley
00:26:13.34\00:26:16.56
and there's just
there is nothing growing
00:26:16.59\00:26:18.56
in the wilderness
and then you look down
00:26:18.59\00:26:20.49
and you see the Jordan River
and it's coming down in it,
00:26:20.52\00:26:23.71
there is a City of
Palms called Jericho.
00:26:23.74\00:26:27.17
And there in Jericho,
Herod had his winter palace
00:26:27.20\00:26:31.62
and it was in
white cleaning marble.
00:26:31.65\00:26:33.18
I wonder if the old devil
took him right to the edge
00:26:33.21\00:26:35.42
and pointed down
to that green oasis
00:26:35.45\00:26:37.73
with that white
marble palace of Herod
00:26:37.76\00:26:41.78
and said, "If you worship me
00:26:41.81\00:26:44.14
I'll give you all the
kingdoms of the world."
00:26:44.17\00:26:46.23
But you know what Jesus said?
00:26:46.26\00:26:47.92
Matthew 4:8,
"Again, the devil took him
00:26:47.95\00:26:50.20
to a very high mountain
and showed him all the kingdoms
00:26:50.23\00:26:52.46
of the world and their splendor.
00:26:52.49\00:26:53.71
All this I will give you, if
you bow down and worship me."
00:26:53.74\00:26:57.24
And of course Jesus once
again read him the scripture
00:26:57.27\00:27:01.30
and said, "Away from me, Satan!
00:27:01.33\00:27:03.77
For it is written,
you shall worship the Lord
00:27:03.80\00:27:06.66
your God, and him
only shall you serve."
00:27:06.69\00:27:09.46
Jesus left the desert, He
returned to the Jordan River
00:27:09.49\00:27:13.48
where John identified
Him as the Lamb of God,
00:27:13.51\00:27:18.07
remember that? John 1:29.
00:27:18.10\00:27:20.74
"The next day John saw
Jesus coming towards him
00:27:20.77\00:27:22.84
and said,
"Look, the Lamb of God,
00:27:22.87\00:27:24.82
who takes away
the sin of the world."
00:27:24.85\00:27:28.15
Some of the disciples overheard
that some of John's disciples
00:27:28.18\00:27:31.73
and they began to follow Jesus.
00:27:31.76\00:27:33.77
Oh, John, the
disciple John, the young John
00:27:33.80\00:27:39.61
when he is an
old man in his 90s,
00:27:39.64\00:27:41.78
he writes a gospel called John
00:27:41.81\00:27:43.62
and he still
remembers the day it happened
00:27:43.65\00:27:45.85
and he still remembers the
hour says about the ninth hour
00:27:45.88\00:27:48.81
when I first
heard that about Jesus.
00:27:48.84\00:27:50.62
Changed his life.
Incredible, isn't it?
00:27:50.65\00:27:52.88
He began to follow.
00:27:52.91\00:27:53.94
Well, the Bible
says they went up
00:27:53.97\00:27:55.01
to a village up in Galilee
in your Nazareth called Cana.
00:27:55.04\00:27:58.19
There was a wedding there
00:27:58.22\00:27:59.25
and there Jesus
performed his first miracle
00:27:59.28\00:28:01.61
turning water into sweet wine.
00:28:01.64\00:28:04.40
There is a church
that's built there today
00:28:04.43\00:28:06.23
commemorates a stories
00:28:06.26\00:28:07.73
and the church is
an Orthodox Church
00:28:07.76\00:28:11.44
and there is also a Roman
Catholic Church next to it,
00:28:11.47\00:28:14.23
there's some very large
clay pots there that help us
00:28:14.26\00:28:18.88
to envision the size
of the pots of the water
00:28:18.91\00:28:22.22
that Jesus changed into wine.
00:28:22.25\00:28:23.71
It's very special to be there.
00:28:23.74\00:28:25.17
On my visits, I met
this priest he insisted
00:28:25.20\00:28:27.13
I come into his church
and drink from his well
00:28:27.16\00:28:29.18
because it was the
only well on those days.
00:28:29.21\00:28:31.34
And so that
would've been the water,
00:28:31.37\00:28:33.21
the source of water at least
00:28:33.24\00:28:34.40
that Jesus would've
used for that miracle.
00:28:34.43\00:28:36.73
When Jesus
returned to his home town,
00:28:36.76\00:28:38.57
Nazareth His
fame had preceded him.
00:28:38.60\00:28:40.94
He was invited
teaching the synagogue
00:28:40.97\00:28:43.60
on the Sabbath day.
00:28:43.63\00:28:44.66
Now the passage they
were reading that day
00:28:44.69\00:28:46.73
was from Isaiah the prophet,
00:28:46.76\00:28:49.96
and Luke records this
and it's quoting from Isaiah,
00:28:49.99\00:28:54.69
"The spirit of
the Lord is on me,
00:28:54.72\00:28:56.20
because he has anointed me
to preach good news to the poor.
00:28:56.23\00:28:59.71
He has sent me to proclaim
freedom for the prisoners
00:28:59.74\00:29:02.19
and recovery of
sight for the blind,
00:29:02.22\00:29:04.40
to release the oppressed,
00:29:04.43\00:29:05.73
to proclaim the
year of the Lord's favor.
00:29:05.76\00:29:08.88
Then he rolled up the scroll,
00:29:08.91\00:29:10.06
gave it back to the
attendant and sat down."
00:29:10.09\00:29:12.03
That's a little
different, isn't it?
00:29:12.06\00:29:13.40
Because He was sitting in
the seat of Mosses to teach.
00:29:13.43\00:29:15.40
He stood up to
read the scripture
00:29:15.43\00:29:16.50
and He sat down to teach.
00:29:16.53\00:29:17.82
The eyes of
everyone in the synagogue
00:29:17.85\00:29:19.35
were fastened on him
00:29:19.38\00:29:20.57
and He began by saying to them,
00:29:20.60\00:29:22.42
"Today this scripture is
fulfilled in your hearing."
00:29:22.45\00:29:25.02
And they said Hallelujah, right?
00:29:25.05\00:29:27.28
The Messiah is here right?
00:29:27.31\00:29:28.71
No.
00:29:28.74\00:29:30.30
Bible says they were curious,
00:29:30.33\00:29:33.15
they grabbed Him and they
took Him out of the synagogue
00:29:33.18\00:29:35.64
and they took Him out
to the brow of the hill
00:29:35.67\00:29:39.18
to throw Him over and kill Him.
00:29:39.21\00:29:42.14
But his time has not yet come,
00:29:42.17\00:29:43.70
so He slipped
through their hands
00:29:43.73\00:29:46.11
and He escaped and he
went down to Capernaum
00:29:46.14\00:29:49.78
where He began to teach
down by the Sea of Galilee.
00:29:49.81\00:29:54.25
He left Galilee's-- He left--
00:29:54.28\00:29:56.35
Nazareth saying,
"No prophet is accepted
00:29:56.38\00:29:58.73
in his own home town."
00:29:58.76\00:30:00.16
He went out to Capernaum.
00:30:00.19\00:30:01.22
Now Capernaum would
become known as his own town.
00:30:01.25\00:30:05.13
This became the
place of his residence.
00:30:05.16\00:30:07.87
And Jesus move down there,
00:30:07.90\00:30:09.31
He established His ministry
there for the next few years.
00:30:09.34\00:30:11.91
He has one of the most
ideal climates in the land,
00:30:11.94\00:30:14.91
but that's not
why Jesus went there
00:30:14.94\00:30:16.20
because of the climate,
00:30:16.23\00:30:17.96
He went there because
of a strategic importance.
00:30:17.99\00:30:20.14
You see, in those
days the Great Trunk Road,
00:30:20.17\00:30:23.51
what is it Interstate 70
00:30:23.54\00:30:24.99
kind of went
through their, all right?
00:30:25.02\00:30:26.40
And the Great
Trunk Road went there
00:30:26.43\00:30:28.33
and connected
Egypt down the south
00:30:28.36\00:30:29.93
with the Damascus in the north
00:30:29.96\00:30:31.24
and it went right
through Capernaum.
00:30:31.27\00:30:33.20
And so Jesus wanted
to be on the trade rows.
00:30:33.23\00:30:35.36
He wanted people
passing in those caravans
00:30:35.39\00:30:37.59
to pick up the
stories of what He was doing.
00:30:37.62\00:30:40.12
And so He
positioned Himself there.
00:30:40.15\00:30:42.19
You can see the Via
Maris, the milestone.
00:30:42.22\00:30:45.06
There is a roman
roll the way of the sea.
00:30:45.09\00:30:47.36
And so this is where Jesus went
and established His ministry.
00:30:47.39\00:30:51.75
Capernaum was also the home port
00:30:51.78\00:30:53.85
of Andrew and
Peter, James and John.
00:30:53.88\00:30:56.17
And one day Jesus came
00:30:56.20\00:30:57.47
by as they were
cleaning their nets
00:30:57.50\00:30:59.48
and He said, "Follow
me and I'll make you.
00:30:59.51\00:31:03.28
Fishers of men and
they left their nets
00:31:03.31\00:31:06.14
and became full
time disciples of Jesus."
00:31:06.17\00:31:08.67
The ruins of the synagogue
00:31:08.70\00:31:10.16
here in Capernaum
are very interesting.
00:31:10.19\00:31:12.20
The ruins of the white--
00:31:12.23\00:31:14.11
You can see the
white stones here
00:31:14.14\00:31:15.41
that's from the third century,
00:31:15.44\00:31:16.47
but down at the bottom
00:31:16.50\00:31:17.53
you can see the
black basalt stones.
00:31:17.56\00:31:19.83
This is the foundation of
the first century synagogue
00:31:19.86\00:31:23.35
that was built
by a Roman Centurion
00:31:23.38\00:31:28.20
who's servant Jesus healed
by speaking the word, right?
00:31:28.23\00:31:32.95
By just speaking a word.
00:31:32.98\00:31:34.21
Well, that was a synagogue
00:31:34.24\00:31:35.36
and that was a new
synagogue the foundation of it
00:31:35.39\00:31:37.79
are new synagogue on
the old foundation walls.
00:31:37.82\00:31:40.22
Jesus used this as a source
of His teaching in ministry.
00:31:40.25\00:31:45.09
This was a home of
another woobies disciple.
00:31:45.12\00:31:48.28
Another disciple he
would call very soon.
00:31:48.31\00:31:50.06
Now this disciple would not be
00:31:50.09\00:31:51.33
very well accepted
because of his profession.
00:31:51.36\00:31:53.85
He was a republican,
right? I mean I'm sorry.
00:31:53.88\00:31:57.38
You are the publican. Publican.
00:31:57.41\00:31:58.97
I got to get that straight.
00:31:59.00\00:32:01.15
He was a publican,
he was a tax collector.
00:32:01.18\00:32:02.69
Now most of us don't
say you our children.
00:32:02.72\00:32:04.21
Now, children, when you grow up
00:32:04.24\00:32:05.29
I hope you can be a
tax collector, right?
00:32:05.32\00:32:08.66
And especially at this time
00:32:08.69\00:32:10.03
because tax
collectors were considered
00:32:10.06\00:32:12.25
working for the enemy.
00:32:12.28\00:32:14.31
Do you know that a
tax collector in Jesus day
00:32:14.34\00:32:16.57
could not go in
synagogue to worship?
00:32:16.60\00:32:19.04
A tax collectors testimony
00:32:19.07\00:32:20.42
was not permitted
in the court of law.
00:32:20.45\00:32:23.08
They are considered as
unclean like a pig or a dog.
00:32:23.11\00:32:28.06
And yet, Jesus was about to call
a tax collector to follow Him,
00:32:28.09\00:32:32.31
that tax
collectors name was Levi.
00:32:32.34\00:32:34.48
Now it's interesting.
00:32:34.51\00:32:35.90
Jesus knew that
this guy name Levi
00:32:35.93\00:32:37.52
which means join in Hebrew
00:32:37.55\00:32:38.97
that he wouldn't
be very well accepted
00:32:39.00\00:32:41.68
because, you know, Jesus
has some interesting disciples.
00:32:41.71\00:32:45.54
They had two names Simon.
00:32:45.57\00:32:46.81
Simon Peter and what
was the other Simon name?
00:32:46.84\00:32:50.36
Simon the Zealot.
00:32:50.39\00:32:51.95
He was jealous for Jesus, right?
00:32:51.98\00:32:53.27
That why he was
called the Zealot?
00:32:53.30\00:32:54.40
No.
00:32:54.43\00:32:55.67
He was part of the Sakkara.
00:32:55.70\00:32:57.31
Remember I talked
about them in Jerusalem
00:32:57.34\00:32:59.02
the guy who into the
two cliffs of bullets
00:32:59.05\00:33:03.29
from the machine gun
into the Palestinians.
00:33:03.32\00:33:05.52
The part that dagger man,
they care this daggers around
00:33:05.55\00:33:08.79
and they go and if they
saw Romans soldier in the crowd
00:33:08.82\00:33:10.70
they just stricken
or they saw someone
00:33:10.73\00:33:13.31
who was
cooperating with the enemy
00:33:13.34\00:33:16.35
they will take him out.
00:33:16.38\00:33:17.90
And so one of Jesus' disciples
00:33:17.93\00:33:19.16
is actually part
of this Sakkara Group.
00:33:19.19\00:33:23.00
Amazing, that Jesus would choose
00:33:23.03\00:33:25.30
a man like that
to be a disciple.
00:33:25.33\00:33:28.14
Jesus knew that Simon the
Zealot would never accept Levi,
00:33:28.17\00:33:32.46
so he gave him a new name.
00:33:32.49\00:33:35.10
He gave him a
new name of Matthew.
00:33:35.13\00:33:38.13
Do you know what Matthew means?
00:33:38.16\00:33:40.12
Gift of God. Don't you love it?
00:33:40.15\00:33:43.65
It's pretty hard
for me look down my nose
00:33:43.68\00:33:45.17
and say, "Hey,
Gift of God, all right.
00:33:45.20\00:33:47.25
It's hard to look down your nose
at somebody him a gift of God.
00:33:47.28\00:33:50.23
Jesus wanted every
time that Simon the Zealot
00:33:50.26\00:33:52.61
or Simon Peter
called Matthew to dinner,
00:33:52.64\00:33:54.76
but they knew that
he was a gift of God.
00:33:54.79\00:33:58.73
And you know what?
You too are a gift of God.
00:33:58.76\00:34:02.13
You know, the Bible says
00:34:02.16\00:34:03.19
we will all receive
a new name and glory.
00:34:03.22\00:34:04.72
Levis already received his
name from Jesus, hasn't He?
00:34:04.75\00:34:08.48
Isn't that like Jesus?
00:34:08.51\00:34:10.45
And what a gift
for God Matthew was.
00:34:10.48\00:34:13.02
You know, He give us
the most detailed gospel,
00:34:13.05\00:34:15.10
all His fabulous
quotations and prophecies
00:34:15.13\00:34:17.75
from the Old Testament
00:34:17.78\00:34:18.84
how to fulfill them in the life
of Jesus was special, special.
00:34:18.87\00:34:24.08
That's just
like Jesus, isn't it?
00:34:24.11\00:34:26.18
Well, you know, the lake
the Sea of Galilee was a scenes
00:34:26.21\00:34:28.60
for so many of Jesus'
teachings and miracles.
00:34:28.63\00:34:30.46
Great crowds came one day.
00:34:30.49\00:34:32.20
Jesus was teaching the
crowd, it was so great,
00:34:32.23\00:34:34.05
they were pressing
and that He had to step
00:34:34.08\00:34:35.56
into a boat,
probably Peter's boat
00:34:35.59\00:34:39.78
and there up in the
boat He taught the crowds,
00:34:39.81\00:34:42.67
and then after they taught,
00:34:42.70\00:34:44.51
he said let's
push off into the water
00:34:44.54\00:34:46.46
and they went off into the water
00:34:46.49\00:34:48.09
and there they
caught a big haul of fish.
00:34:48.12\00:34:51.45
Several years ago,
because of a drought
00:34:51.48\00:34:55.59
and because of all
the intensive irrigation
00:34:55.62\00:34:57.51
the water level and
Sea of Galilee drought
00:34:57.54\00:35:00.37
and guess what
they found in the mud.
00:35:00.40\00:35:02.99
A first century boat.
00:35:03.02\00:35:05.47
Was it Peter's
boat? Probably not.
00:35:05.50\00:35:07.13
But it was a boat much
like Peter would have been in.
00:35:07.16\00:35:09.46
And we can see the
boat here on the screen
00:35:09.49\00:35:11.75
and this is a boat much
like Peter would have been in.
00:35:11.78\00:35:14.30
A boat much like
Jesus would have slept in
00:35:14.33\00:35:16.81
when the storm was coming.
00:35:16.84\00:35:18.79
Well, I can tell you this.
00:35:18.82\00:35:19.85
I have been on
the Sea of Galilee
00:35:19.88\00:35:21.18
and we've had
beautiful calm mornings
00:35:21.21\00:35:24.11
with by evening time
00:35:24.14\00:35:25.34
the ferocious
winds are whipping down.
00:35:25.37\00:35:27.13
As a matter of fact, wind
surfing is a favorite sport
00:35:27.16\00:35:29.50
today on the Sea of Galilee.
00:35:29.53\00:35:31.25
It whips right down
the Plain of Gennesaret
00:35:31.28\00:35:33.26
and comes down to the water,
00:35:33.29\00:35:35.37
two miles from
Capernaum was Togba.
00:35:35.40\00:35:38.13
Church was built
there that commemorated
00:35:38.16\00:35:39.64
the miracle of Jesus performed
the feeding 5,000 people
00:35:39.67\00:35:43.19
with just a few
loaves and fishes.
00:35:43.22\00:35:45.31
There is a large rock here
00:35:45.34\00:35:46.88
and it serve as an alter
marking the traditional spot
00:35:46.91\00:35:49.94
where Jesus
broke bread and fish.
00:35:49.97\00:35:52.54
In 350 AD, a
church was built over,
00:35:52.57\00:35:54.81
the present church
dates back to the 1980s,
00:35:54.84\00:35:56.92
but it's on the
foundation of the old one
00:35:56.95\00:35:58.45
and that mosaic that
you saw on the screen
00:35:58.48\00:36:00.98
that mosaic actually
dates back to the century.
00:36:01.01\00:36:04.93
It's one of the most
perfectly formed mosaics
00:36:04.96\00:36:07.12
in the country today.
00:36:07.15\00:36:08.79
Outside of this church there
is an interesting baptistery
00:36:08.82\00:36:11.95
showing that this--
That at this particular time
00:36:11.98\00:36:14.61
the actually
baptized by immersion
00:36:14.64\00:36:17.30
interesting enough, isn't it?
00:36:17.33\00:36:19.08
And so my son is
there in that picture
00:36:19.11\00:36:20.89
he is ready to be baptized,
00:36:20.92\00:36:21.99
but there was no water.
00:36:22.02\00:36:24.34
Well, there is an ancient garden
00:36:24.37\00:36:27.14
showing that the practice
was immersions I mentioned.
00:36:27.17\00:36:29.83
I thought about Peter
00:36:29.86\00:36:31.31
as I saw these
brothers casting their nets
00:36:31.34\00:36:33.97
as I walked
around the Sea of Galilee
00:36:34.00\00:36:35.41
one day they were
casting their nets
00:36:35.44\00:36:37.26
and they were rewarded
by these interesting fish,
00:36:37.29\00:36:39.36
a very small fish,
00:36:39.39\00:36:40.62
but you know
what they call them?
00:36:40.65\00:36:41.99
Saint Peter's
fish. Saint Peter's fish.
00:36:42.02\00:36:45.54
Interesting, isn't it?
00:36:45.57\00:36:47.02
Well, you know,
it's so wonderful
00:36:47.05\00:36:48.64
to be there on
the Sea of Galilee.
00:36:48.67\00:36:50.27
This rock commemorates
the place where Jesus prepared
00:36:50.30\00:36:53.10
that fish
breakfast for the disciples
00:36:53.13\00:36:55.15
after the resurrection
and He met with them.
00:36:55.18\00:36:57.89
So many stories about Jesus.
00:36:57.92\00:36:59.74
This is impressive
because this is the hill
00:36:59.77\00:37:02.80
where tradition
says Jesus fed the 5,000
00:37:02.83\00:37:05.98
and He gave the
Sermon on the Mount.
00:37:06.01\00:37:08.15
Now what's unusual about this
is it's a natural amphitheatre.
00:37:08.18\00:37:11.66
I've had two groups there
00:37:11.69\00:37:12.73
and I can stand
way down by the road
00:37:12.76\00:37:14.29
almost on the shore of Galilee
00:37:14.32\00:37:15.90
and had to go almost
all the way up to the church
00:37:15.93\00:37:18.74
and they can hear me
speaking without amplification.
00:37:18.77\00:37:21.61
Jesus chosen
natural amphitheatre
00:37:21.64\00:37:23.91
to address these big crowds
of people that had gathered.
00:37:23.94\00:37:26.84
It's very interesting.
00:37:26.87\00:37:27.90
Well, this church on
the hill that commemorates
00:37:27.93\00:37:30.23
that beatitude is a
beautiful Roman Catholic Church
00:37:30.26\00:37:32.72
built by
Mussolini, don't figure.
00:37:32.75\00:37:35.60
Any way, it's a
beautiful spot to look back down
00:37:35.63\00:37:38.86
over the Sea of Galilee
and provides a wonderful view
00:37:38.89\00:37:41.84
and there was
wonderful just to pause there.
00:37:41.87\00:37:43.59
I spent many of Sabbaths
sitting there and reading
00:37:43.62\00:37:46.28
Sermon on the Mount
00:37:46.31\00:37:47.34
pondering the words of
Jesus in the beatitudes.
00:37:47.37\00:37:50.89
Several miles around the lake
is the big City of Tiberias,
00:37:50.92\00:37:54.90
and I wonder if that
was what Jesus had in mind
00:37:54.93\00:37:57.15
and he said a city set
on a hill cannot be hidden.
00:37:57.18\00:38:01.53
It was a real place
that he was pointing to.
00:38:01.56\00:38:03.98
Yes, it was a fabulous place.
00:38:04.01\00:38:07.79
Jesus went up from Galilee
00:38:07.82\00:38:10.91
to a place called
Caesarea Philippi now.
00:38:10.94\00:38:13.33
And I first started
my Biblical journey.
00:38:13.36\00:38:15.34
I didn't know that
Caesarea Philippi in Caesarea.
00:38:15.37\00:38:18.23
But Caesarea Philippi
was very, very special place.
00:38:18.26\00:38:21.08
Here is a first
place that Jesus proclaimed
00:38:21.11\00:38:23.76
His Messiahship to His dispels.
00:38:23.79\00:38:25.68
Today it's known as Banias.
00:38:25.71\00:38:27.59
Anciently it
was known as Panias,
00:38:27.62\00:38:29.17
you see in Arabic there is
no P, so they call it Banias.
00:38:29.20\00:38:33.01
It's one of the three
sources of the Jordan River.
00:38:33.04\00:38:34.81
The water comes gushing out
from it use to be out of a cave,
00:38:34.84\00:38:38.32
now just kind of
springs up from the ground,
00:38:38.35\00:38:40.46
but in ancient times this
was a cannon of high place
00:38:40.49\00:38:43.43
where Baal was worshipped.
00:38:43.46\00:38:45.09
Then Alexander
the great came through
00:38:45.12\00:38:46.65
and they began
to worship pan there
00:38:46.68\00:38:48.57
and in Jesus day, Herod
had built a temple to Caesar.
00:38:48.60\00:38:55.13
Thus it was
called Caesarea Philippi.
00:38:55.16\00:38:58.05
So here is our
Canaanite high place,
00:38:58.08\00:38:59.58
where Baal is
worshiped, Pan was worshiped,
00:38:59.61\00:39:01.19
Caesar was
currently being worshipped
00:39:01.22\00:39:02.79
and Jesus takes the disciples
00:39:02.82\00:39:04.72
and that's
where ask the question
00:39:04.75\00:39:06.11
who men say that I'm,
00:39:06.14\00:39:08.31
and that's where he first
reveals as Messiahship to them
00:39:08.34\00:39:11.11
and in fact he is
saying I'm above Baal.
00:39:11.14\00:39:13.95
I'm above Pan
and I love Creaser.
00:39:13.98\00:39:16.60
And of course, Peter
said you are the Messiah,
00:39:16.63\00:39:20.94
the son of the living God,
00:39:20.97\00:39:22.63
Jesus accepted
the worship there.
00:39:22.66\00:39:25.79
So fabulous
place to go for visit.
00:39:25.82\00:39:26.85
Here on the screen is
something very interesting
00:39:26.88\00:39:28.53
the other source
of the Jordan River
00:39:28.56\00:39:29.91
there is a dam,
this was actually
00:39:29.94\00:39:31.63
a 4,000 year of Canaanite gate
00:39:31.66\00:39:34.47
that was discovered until dam
00:39:34.50\00:39:36.52
and of course, Jordan means
descending from them, okay?
00:39:36.55\00:39:41.22
Descending from
dam the re-sender.
00:39:41.25\00:39:43.38
Well, we have to go back down
00:39:43.41\00:39:45.36
and look at some
of the other stories
00:39:45.39\00:39:46.98
that take place as we
leave Caesarea Philippi.
00:39:47.01\00:39:49.27
We go down to Mount Tabor.
00:39:49.30\00:39:50.89
This was a hill rising
up from the Jezreel Valley
00:39:50.92\00:39:53.39
as we have seen many of
the Old Testament stories,
00:39:53.42\00:39:55.71
including the Deborah
the prophet and Barak,
00:39:55.74\00:39:58.57
but today as visited the cause.
00:39:58.60\00:40:00.03
This is a place
that many people believe.
00:40:00.06\00:40:01.66
Jesus took Peter, James
and John upon to a high hill
00:40:01.69\00:40:04.26
and there he was
transfigured before them
00:40:04.29\00:40:06.74
and of course there Moses
and Elijah appeared to him.
00:40:06.77\00:40:10.33
It's
interesting that Peter said,
00:40:10.36\00:40:12.82
"The Lord, can we build a church
or shrine to commemorate this?"
00:40:12.85\00:40:17.68
And the voice of God spoke
and they fell to the ground,
00:40:17.71\00:40:20.11
but of course today
there is a shrine and a church
00:40:20.14\00:40:22.69
and mosaics
commemorate Moses and Elijah
00:40:22.72\00:40:26.00
appearing to Jesus
on top of that mount.
00:40:26.03\00:40:29.06
Well, across the valley
the small village of Maine,
00:40:29.09\00:40:31.56
here Jesus
performed one of His most
00:40:31.59\00:40:33.83
touching miracles
raising the son of a widow.
00:40:33.86\00:40:37.28
Isn't that like Jesus?
00:40:37.31\00:40:38.82
Interrupting a
funeral in process?
00:40:38.85\00:40:41.54
This church keeps the
memory of that story alive.
00:40:41.57\00:40:45.34
Now it was closer to go
from Galilee to Jerusalem
00:40:45.37\00:40:49.65
by going down the
central mountain spine,
00:40:49.68\00:40:53.03
but you had to go through
the land of the Samaritan
00:40:53.06\00:40:55.66
so most Jews wouldn't do that
00:40:55.69\00:40:57.01
because they
didn't like Samaritans.
00:40:57.04\00:40:58.68
Samaritans, we will talk
about them tomorrow evening
00:40:58.71\00:41:01.34
and the presentation on Iraq,
but Samaritans were kind of
00:41:01.37\00:41:04.39
an amalgamation of
other groups of people
00:41:04.42\00:41:06.40
and the old Israelites.
00:41:06.43\00:41:08.12
The Syrians have
mingled them together.
00:41:08.15\00:41:09.99
And so the Jews
didn't like the Syrians
00:41:10.02\00:41:11.78
be out of the Samaritans
because they have half breeds
00:41:11.81\00:41:14.35
and yet Jesus chose to go
down the central mountain spine
00:41:14.38\00:41:18.36
and He stopped at a
place called Shechem,
00:41:18.39\00:41:20.87
today it's called Nablus.
00:41:20.90\00:41:22.41
And there was a well
there that was dug by Jacob.
00:41:22.44\00:41:27.26
And He stopped at Jacob's well
and the disciples were hungry
00:41:27.29\00:41:30.51
so He sent them in
the town to get something
00:41:30.54\00:41:32.20
and here it was noon,
hottest part of the day
00:41:32.23\00:41:34.71
probably hot just
like it was here in Kansas
00:41:34.74\00:41:37.01
a couple of days ago
over 100 degrees over,
00:41:37.04\00:41:39.43
and Jesus was
sitting there by the well
00:41:39.46\00:41:41.97
and loe and behold a
woman comes up to draw water.
00:41:42.00\00:41:45.83
What on earth is
she doing at noon?
00:41:45.86\00:41:47.58
It's a hot part of the day.
00:41:47.61\00:41:48.86
You know, most women
when you draw your water.
00:41:48.89\00:41:52.82
If you need water
when will you draw
00:41:52.85\00:41:54.54
in the morning, early at night,
00:41:54.57\00:41:56.38
when you work in your
garden, morning late you know,
00:41:56.41\00:41:58.92
morning, early
morning, late in the evening.
00:41:58.95\00:42:00.94
She is there
because she is an outcast
00:42:00.97\00:42:03.99
and so she comes at noon.
00:42:04.02\00:42:05.96
Jesus reads her
story right away,
00:42:05.99\00:42:07.48
He reads your life
and He ask her for drink
00:42:07.51\00:42:10.00
and she say, "How
is it that you are Jew
00:42:10.03\00:42:11.81
and you are
asking me for a drink?"
00:42:11.84\00:42:13.50
Well, number one,
men didn't really talk
00:42:13.53\00:42:15.01
with woman they didn't know
00:42:15.04\00:42:16.07
and Jews didn't talk
with Samaritans of all things.
00:42:16.10\00:42:19.82
And you know what Jesus said?
00:42:19.85\00:42:21.33
"If you only knew who
it was you are talking to,
00:42:21.36\00:42:23.70
you would ask me for a drink
00:42:23.73\00:42:25.80
and I would give
you living water."
00:42:25.83\00:42:28.96
She said, "My Father Jacob dug,
he dug this well along time ago
00:42:28.99\00:42:32.97
and you can give
something better than he gave."
00:42:33.00\00:42:35.67
Well, Jesus then
revealed her life to her.
00:42:35.70\00:42:38.65
She is
impressed, he is a prophet.
00:42:38.68\00:42:40.42
She goes back in
the town and says,
00:42:40.45\00:42:42.09
"Hey, come here a man who told
me everything I've ever done."
00:42:42.12\00:42:45.36
And they came back
and they listen to Jesus
00:42:45.39\00:42:46.98
and they believed
not because of her words,
00:42:47.01\00:42:49.29
but because of what
they heard Jesus say.
00:42:49.32\00:42:51.23
Isn't it like Jesus?
00:42:51.26\00:42:52.37
You know, Jesus breaks
right through the culture
00:42:52.40\00:42:54.26
to those that people have.
00:42:54.29\00:42:55.34
He breaks through
the culture of barriers.
00:42:55.37\00:42:57.21
He addressed a woman.
00:42:57.24\00:42:58.29
He addressed a
woman from the Samaritans.
00:42:58.32\00:43:00.89
He broke down those
bridges that people had built.
00:43:00.92\00:43:04.39
The Jesus saw a woman who
was right for the harvest,
00:43:04.42\00:43:08.66
her decedents still
live on Mount Gerizim today.
00:43:08.69\00:43:11.25
They posses an
ancient copy of the Torah,
00:43:11.28\00:43:14.06
they still
sacrifice a Passover lamb.
00:43:14.09\00:43:16.45
Here on the screen we can
see this interesting picture.
00:43:16.48\00:43:18.88
This is actually Jacob's well.
00:43:18.91\00:43:20.72
You can see they've got
a bucket of water coming up
00:43:20.75\00:43:22.61
and the flash is
actually reflecting off
00:43:22.64\00:43:24.79
of the water in the bucket.
00:43:24.82\00:43:26.48
And it's pretty
impressive to drink it,
00:43:26.51\00:43:27.80
but of course when you drink it,
you see that really drinks it
00:43:27.83\00:43:30.68
and then they pour
back into the well.
00:43:30.71\00:43:33.18
You may go, no.
00:43:33.21\00:43:35.47
And thousands of people
00:43:35.50\00:43:36.53
who have been
drinking this water any way.
00:43:36.56\00:43:40.31
It's still worth
drinking from to go there.
00:43:40.34\00:43:43.59
It's the same well that Jacob
would have built long, long ago.
00:43:43.62\00:43:48.81
Well, her decedents were still
there on Mount Gerizim today
00:43:48.84\00:43:53.28
and they possess some
ancient copy of the Torah
00:43:53.31\00:43:58.72
and that reminds
me of a trick question
00:43:58.75\00:44:01.08
that some people came along
and ask to you this one day
00:44:01.11\00:44:03.00
they said, "Which is
the greatest commandment?"
00:44:03.03\00:44:04.51
Remember that?
00:44:04.54\00:44:05.72
And Jesus invented
something really new.
00:44:05.75\00:44:07.35
He said, "You know, you
should Love the Lord your God
00:44:07.38\00:44:09.13
with all nor heart and with all
nor soul nor your mind, right?"
00:44:09.16\00:44:11.68
No. He quoted the Shema here.
00:44:11.71\00:44:14.12
"O Israel the Lord
our God the Lord is one,
00:44:14.15\00:44:15.64
and you shall love the Lord
your God with all your heart
00:44:15.67\00:44:17.20
and all your soul
and all your mind."
00:44:17.23\00:44:19.62
And the second
commandment where I can do it,
00:44:19.65\00:44:21.10
you shall love
your neighbors yourself.
00:44:21.13\00:44:22.43
He quote Moses again.
00:44:22.46\00:44:24.11
And I said,
"Yeah, that makes sense.
00:44:24.14\00:44:26.30
That makes a lot of sense,
00:44:26.33\00:44:27.36
but the trick question
was who is my neighbor, right?
00:44:27.39\00:44:33.26
Who is my neighbor?
Well, Jesus told a parable.
00:44:33.29\00:44:38.05
We quote in the
tenth Chapter of Luke
00:44:38.08\00:44:39.53
which answered this question.
00:44:39.56\00:44:40.79
"And the parable a man was going
down from Jerusalem to Jericho."
00:44:40.82\00:44:43.91
Those words are
very true, by the way.
00:44:43.94\00:44:45.72
Jerusalem's 25,000
feet above sea level,
00:44:45.75\00:44:47.98
Jericho is a
thousand feet below sea level,
00:44:48.01\00:44:50.10
3,500 foot decent and 15 miles
00:44:50.13\00:44:53.06
a man went down from
Jerusalem to Jericho.
00:44:53.09\00:44:55.67
Now many people who
go there they're pointing
00:44:55.70\00:44:57.75
to this modern kiosk
along the modern highway,
00:44:57.78\00:45:00.45
but the real high, the real road
have gone down the Wadi Qelt
00:45:00.48\00:45:03.72
and He was then
walking down the Wadi Qelt
00:45:03.75\00:45:06.28
that we can see
on the screen here
00:45:06.31\00:45:07.74
and as he walk
down the Wadi Qelt
00:45:07.77\00:45:09.93
and if you ever
walk that you know
00:45:09.96\00:45:11.14
what I'm talking of
there is just caves everywhere
00:45:11.17\00:45:12.86
and robbers would hide in there.
00:45:12.89\00:45:14.41
And so Jesus told the story
about this man was going down
00:45:14.44\00:45:17.28
and as robbers jumped
out and they beat him up
00:45:17.31\00:45:19.54
and they stole his
money, they left him for dead.
00:45:19.57\00:45:22.08
And then he had a good
fortune that a priest came by
00:45:22.11\00:45:25.07
and the priest came by and said,
00:45:25.10\00:45:26.43
"My priest, God
has reviled this to me,
00:45:26.46\00:45:28.10
I must take care
of this man, right?
00:45:28.13\00:45:30.11
Don't worry. It might be a trap?
00:45:30.14\00:45:32.62
He walked on the other side.
00:45:32.65\00:45:33.84
Then I came down and he said,
00:45:33.87\00:45:35.19
"Oh, you know, I'm on my
way to temple I can't stop.
00:45:35.22\00:45:38.22
And then a
lonesome Samaritan came by.
00:45:38.25\00:45:42.74
And the lonesome Samaritan
was not worried about it
00:45:42.77\00:45:46.03
being a trap and
here was his enemy the Jew
00:45:46.06\00:45:50.32
and he went down
and he nursed the man
00:45:50.35\00:45:53.06
and he poured oil
and wine on to his wounds
00:45:53.09\00:45:56.48
and then he put
him on his donkey
00:45:56.51\00:45:57.67
and they carried them to an den,
00:45:57.70\00:45:59.40
he told the
innkeeper to take care of him
00:45:59.43\00:46:01.10
and he gave him money to take
to pay his expenses he said.
00:46:01.13\00:46:03.44
If there is
anything else you need
00:46:03.47\00:46:04.50
when I come back
I'll take are of it.
00:46:04.53\00:46:07.02
And then Jesus gets to the point
00:46:07.05\00:46:10.05
that people are
listening to the story there.
00:46:10.08\00:46:11.72
They are listening
to what he is saying
00:46:11.75\00:46:13.68
and then Jesus asks the
million dollar question.
00:46:13.71\00:46:16.71
Which of these three do
you think was a neighbor
00:46:16.74\00:46:19.55
to the man who fell
into the hands of robbers?
00:46:19.58\00:46:23.01
I can't even say the word.
00:46:23.04\00:46:25.53
They said, "An
expert in the law replied,
00:46:25.56\00:46:27.50
the one who had mercy on him."
00:46:27.53\00:46:28.72
We can't even say Samaritan,
still hard to get it out.
00:46:28.75\00:46:33.41
And Jesus said,
"Go and do likewise."
00:46:33.44\00:46:38.76
Isn't that like Jesus?
00:46:38.79\00:46:40.73
He broke through the culture
00:46:40.76\00:46:41.95
to booze of His
days spoke to foreigners.
00:46:41.98\00:46:44.85
He said Pedigree is not nearly
00:46:44.88\00:46:46.39
as important as
what's in the person heart.
00:46:46.42\00:46:48.81
He spoke to woman,
00:46:48.84\00:46:49.87
He shared the good news
that He brought to earth.
00:46:49.90\00:46:52.73
Did you know that that woman
at the well was the first person
00:46:52.76\00:46:55.25
He revealed His Messiahship to?
00:46:55.28\00:46:57.82
That woman that we
believe is a prostitute,
00:46:57.85\00:47:00.16
a Samaritan prostitute.
00:47:00.19\00:47:02.49
Jesus told a very
practical religion.
00:47:02.52\00:47:04.30
He said, "Love your neighbors
and even love your enemies."
00:47:04.33\00:47:10.75
It's so sad today that Jesus
words have fallen on deaf ears
00:47:10.78\00:47:15.01
in this part of the world,
but you know what else is sad?
00:47:15.04\00:47:18.97
It's fallen on
deaf ears even here
00:47:19.00\00:47:21.12
in which he taught, hasn't it.
00:47:21.15\00:47:23.99
Jesus said to love your enemies
00:47:24.02\00:47:27.12
love your
enemies Jesus in Jericho
00:47:27.15\00:47:30.76
and count of
blind man by the gate,
00:47:30.79\00:47:33.00
compassionately he reached
out and touched his eyes.
00:47:33.03\00:47:36.06
The man received his sight,
here Jesus encounters Zacchaeus
00:47:36.09\00:47:39.03
and there is a
tree that's pointing
00:47:39.06\00:47:41.19
to as a sycamore
tree there in Jericho.
00:47:41.22\00:47:43.29
And he looked up and he saw
00:47:43.32\00:47:44.64
that little short tax collector.
00:47:44.67\00:47:46.65
And remembers what he said?
00:47:46.68\00:47:48.01
"Zaccheus, you come down,
I'm going to your house today!"
00:47:48.04\00:47:53.08
Poor the people were just
00:47:53.11\00:47:54.74
they were
whistling when that happened.
00:47:54.77\00:47:56.66
That was
unbelievable to go and eat.
00:47:56.69\00:47:59.54
You see meals
are covenant meals.
00:47:59.57\00:48:01.22
He was accepting
Zaccheus in a covenant way
00:48:01.25\00:48:05.01
as He ate that meal
and he was criticized
00:48:05.04\00:48:06.93
for touching the untouchable
00:48:06.96\00:48:08.17
through eating
with the outcasts.
00:48:08.20\00:48:11.17
Jesus responded by saying,
00:48:11.20\00:48:13.21
"I have come to seek and
to save those who are lost."
00:48:13.24\00:48:18.80
He told so many parables
to counter the criticism,
00:48:18.83\00:48:21.61
but none so beautiful as
that of the one lost sheep.
00:48:21.64\00:48:24.69
You know the whole
country is so pastoral,
00:48:24.72\00:48:27.08
doesn't matter if
you are up in the north
00:48:27.11\00:48:28.59
where the Jews are and
the foothills of Mount Hermon
00:48:28.62\00:48:31.49
everything is so
beautiful with all the grass
00:48:31.52\00:48:33.32
or if you are
down there in the south
00:48:33.35\00:48:34.94
with the better one to dry
hills Negev and the wilderness.
00:48:34.97\00:48:37.81
The Sheppard
tenderly cares for his sheep.
00:48:37.84\00:48:40.79
Now, I shot these
pictures of some sheep
00:48:40.82\00:48:45.49
and up in the Galilee
area was a drew's Sheppard
00:48:45.52\00:48:49.08
and I always thought seep
are very, very docile animals
00:48:49.11\00:48:51.86
you know, but I've
taken these pictures.
00:48:51.89\00:48:53.41
You guys, that one right in
the bottom left hand corner.
00:48:53.44\00:48:56.52
I had a pair of flip flops
on and I'm taking this picture
00:48:56.55\00:48:59.65
and this sheep comes
up and bites my foot.
00:48:59.68\00:49:03.77
It actually draws blood.
00:49:03.80\00:49:05.97
I'm one of the few
people to be attacked by a sheep
00:49:06.00\00:49:07.66
in Israel I guess, but any
way it was very surprising,
00:49:07.69\00:49:11.33
but Sheppard would
still love their sheep
00:49:11.36\00:49:13.41
in spite of all
of that, of course.
00:49:13.44\00:49:15.40
And Jesus tells a story about
a Sheppard He had 100 sheep.
00:49:15.43\00:49:18.73
Remember the story?
00:49:18.76\00:49:19.95
And then we came
into the sheep farm
00:49:19.98\00:49:22.51
and he counted them 98, 99,
00:49:22.54\00:49:25.17
one was missing, he
left the hunt to 99.
00:49:25.20\00:49:27.98
He went out to
look for that lost sheep
00:49:28.01\00:49:30.47
and he looked and
he looked and he looked
00:49:30.50\00:49:32.22
until finally he
discovered that lost sheep
00:49:32.25\00:49:34.12
and he got that lost sheep
he gave him one ton lashing,
00:49:34.15\00:49:36.88
you stupid sheep,
you better don't do this,
00:49:36.91\00:49:39.28
you could have been killed
out her and so what he did?
00:49:39.31\00:49:41.48
No, no.
00:49:41.51\00:49:44.51
He bent over
and he picked it up,
00:49:44.54\00:49:46.14
put it on His shoulders,
00:49:46.17\00:49:48.04
carried it back,
rejoicing they found
00:49:48.07\00:49:52.11
that one sheep
that had been lost.
00:49:52.14\00:49:55.05
And remember the punch line?
00:49:55.08\00:49:56.68
Jesus said, "I tell
you, there is great rejoicing
00:49:56.71\00:50:00.05
in heaven when
one sinner repents.
00:50:00.08\00:50:03.58
That's Jesus, that's
what Jesus is all about.
00:50:03.61\00:50:08.12
Well, toward the
closing of His ministry
00:50:08.15\00:50:10.24
His footsteps let
Him back to Bethany.
00:50:10.27\00:50:11.94
It's just a mile-and-a-half
from Jerusalem over the hill,
00:50:11.97\00:50:14.19
over the Mount of Olives.
00:50:14.22\00:50:15.41
It's a home of Mary
and Martha, Lazarus.
00:50:15.44\00:50:17.88
He loved to
visit with his friends.
00:50:17.91\00:50:20.11
He loved to visit with them.
Martha was a best cook in town.
00:50:20.14\00:50:22.60
Mary had an incredible
faith and she had been delivered
00:50:22.63\00:50:25.57
from the life of sin
by Jesus and Nazareth.
00:50:25.60\00:50:27.49
What a joy it was.
00:50:27.52\00:50:28.55
He loved just to hang
on the words of Jesus.
00:50:28.58\00:50:30.40
Jesus love to be
with His friends there.
00:50:30.43\00:50:32.82
There are so unlike
those wily scribes in the law
00:50:32.85\00:50:35.94
who constantly
trying into entrap Jesus.
00:50:35.97\00:50:38.63
Bethany, Jesus s
could just kind of relax
00:50:38.66\00:50:40.31
and mutual friends in
the confront their home.
00:50:40.34\00:50:42.83
And one day Jesus got word
00:50:42.86\00:50:44.34
that His good
friend Lazarus was sick.
00:50:44.37\00:50:46.71
He was sick. Jesus
didn't go by the way.
00:50:46.74\00:50:49.54
He tarried for four days.
00:50:49.57\00:50:51.77
And they got word
that Lazarus had died.
00:50:51.80\00:50:55.07
Lazarus had died
they've been buried there
00:50:55.10\00:50:56.50
in the family tomb in
Bethlehem, in Bethany.
00:50:56.53\00:51:00.72
He was buried in the
family tomb Jesus arrived
00:51:00.75\00:51:02.60
and there were
mourning and they were crying
00:51:02.63\00:51:04.35
over the loss of
their brother and friend
00:51:04.38\00:51:05.83
and Martha came
to Jesus, remember?
00:51:05.86\00:51:07.51
She said, "Lord,
if you have been here,
00:51:07.54\00:51:08.85
my brother wouldn't have died."
00:51:08.88\00:51:11.07
And He said, "I'm the
resurrection of the life."
00:51:11.10\00:51:13.64
If you believe you are gonna
see some really great things.
00:51:13.67\00:51:15.91
She said, "But Lord, if you'd
only been here he will be life."
00:51:15.94\00:51:18.73
Remember the story?
Jesus takes an alt to the tomb.
00:51:18.76\00:51:21.54
He says, "Role the stone away."
00:51:21.57\00:51:22.60
They said, "But,
Lord, you can't do that
00:51:22.63\00:51:24.27
because it's already stinking.
00:51:24.30\00:51:26.65
It's been four days."
00:51:26.68\00:51:27.71
Remember the purpose?
00:51:27.74\00:51:28.77
They told about
tombs, they take him down,
00:51:28.80\00:51:30.12
they put him in that
cave and put the stone over
00:51:30.15\00:51:32.48
and put all spices on
because the body is gonna decay.
00:51:32.51\00:51:35.60
And he is says,
"It's already stinking,
00:51:35.63\00:51:36.66
it's already
routing in the tomb."
00:51:36.69\00:51:39.12
Role the stone away
00:51:39.15\00:51:41.22
and he spoke
those words, remember?
00:51:41.25\00:51:43.30
Lazarus come forth and
Lazarus stood in the tomb
00:51:43.33\00:51:48.70
and he came back to life.
00:51:48.73\00:51:50.47
And Jesus unwrapped him
and they were just rejoicing.
00:51:50.50\00:51:53.08
Wow,
00:51:53.11\00:51:54.14
this is considered the
crowning point of Jesus ministry
00:51:54.17\00:51:56.73
when He raised Lazarus from
the dead I want to tell you,
00:51:56.76\00:51:59.21
it's just as important
when He raises you and me
00:51:59.24\00:52:01.93
from the spiritual dead
as what He did for Lazarus.
00:52:01.96\00:52:05.88
Well, this flew in
the face of a group
00:52:05.91\00:52:08.19
of rulers named the Sadducees.
00:52:08.22\00:52:10.60
You see the Sadducees
didn't like the Pharisees.
00:52:10.63\00:52:12.52
Pharisees, they live the law
24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
00:52:12.55\00:52:15.66
Sadducees, they
were the power holders
00:52:15.69\00:52:17.19
of the high
priest, the chief priest
00:52:17.22\00:52:19.35
and they believe that there was
no resurrection from the dead.
00:52:19.38\00:52:22.74
When Jesus raised Lazarus
from the dead there was proof
00:52:22.77\00:52:24.65
that they were wrong
and so they laid aside
00:52:24.68\00:52:26.48
their scruples
with the Pharisees,
00:52:26.51\00:52:28.30
they are united
together for one purpose
00:52:28.33\00:52:30.28
destroying Jesus.
00:52:30.31\00:52:33.35
And it was just a matter of time
until they would arrest Jesus
00:52:33.38\00:52:39.27
and putting the lives to death.
00:52:39.30\00:52:40.88
Soon Jesus would make
His last trip to Jerusalem.
00:52:40.91\00:52:44.10
He will be arrested on friends
Olive Garden called Gethsemane.
00:52:44.13\00:52:47.51
Gethsemane simply
means the oil press.
00:52:47.54\00:52:49.32
The garden of the oil press.
00:52:49.35\00:52:50.50
He betrayed,
convicted in the morning.
00:52:50.53\00:52:52.53
Those tireless
feet that tried the land
00:52:52.56\00:52:55.42
and ministry for just
three-and-a-half years
00:52:55.45\00:52:58.03
on so many errands of mercy
will now be spiked to the tree.
00:52:58.06\00:53:03.73
Those lovely hands that
touch the eyes of the blind
00:53:03.76\00:53:07.02
and the ears of the deaf
will be stretched out on the bar
00:53:07.05\00:53:10.82
that mouth which
uttered the greatest teachings
00:53:10.85\00:53:13.09
ever heard would be
silenced in the tomb.
00:53:13.12\00:53:17.12
Just
three-and-a-half short years,
00:53:17.15\00:53:19.39
Jesus was arrested taken,
00:53:19.42\00:53:21.62
He was tried
before the Sanhedrin,
00:53:21.65\00:53:23.43
He was tried before Pilate,
00:53:23.46\00:53:26.43
He was sent to Herod the person
who executed John the Baptist
00:53:26.46\00:53:29.71
and He was sent
back to Pilate again.
00:53:29.74\00:53:31.79
Pilate said, "I
find no fault in him
00:53:31.82\00:53:33.85
and yet he was condemned
00:53:33.88\00:53:35.53
to go out to a
place with a skull."
00:53:35.56\00:53:37.84
He was placed a
place with the skull
00:53:37.87\00:53:39.52
just
three-and-a-half short years.
00:53:39.55\00:53:42.74
We talked about in our
presentation on Jerusalem.
00:53:42.77\00:53:45.20
You know, that doesn't
really matter garden tomb,
00:53:45.23\00:53:47.38
the church of
the Holy Sepulcher.
00:53:47.41\00:53:49.07
He was taken out to a place
where they executed people,
00:53:49.10\00:53:51.76
the purpose of the
cross, was a strike fearing
00:53:51.79\00:53:54.21
that leave you on a cross
00:53:54.24\00:53:55.81
and you cry out
for days and days,
00:53:55.84\00:53:57.66
it was a terrible experience.
00:53:57.69\00:54:00.07
Jesus was put on the cross,
hung between heaven and earth.
00:54:00.10\00:54:03.11
The law said, "Cursed is
everyone who is hung on a tree."
00:54:03.14\00:54:05.94
Jesus was hung on that
tree at the gate of Jerusalem.
00:54:05.97\00:54:11.42
Three-and-a-half short
years, but the incredible thing
00:54:11.45\00:54:14.78
is the story
doesn't end at the cross.
00:54:14.81\00:54:18.37
Jesus was hung
there on the cross,
00:54:18.40\00:54:20.04
but it doesn't end there
00:54:20.07\00:54:21.10
because the stone
was rolled away, right?
00:54:21.13\00:54:24.60
The stone was rolled away.
00:54:24.63\00:54:26.58
And I want to
tell you this evening,
00:54:26.61\00:54:28.21
there are
mausoleums in this land
00:54:28.24\00:54:30.27
to Samuel the prophet, to Jacob,
00:54:30.30\00:54:32.05
to Abraham, to
Rachel, to Joseph,
00:54:32.08\00:54:36.72
but there is no
mausoleum to Jesus.
00:54:36.75\00:54:41.43
There are mausoleums to Mohammad
in this part of the land,
00:54:41.46\00:54:46.03
but there is no place claiming
to have the bones of Jesus
00:54:46.06\00:54:49.95
because He came back to life
00:54:49.98\00:54:52.34
that door there on the
garden tomb says it all.
00:54:52.37\00:54:55.61
It says, "He is
risen. He is not here."
00:54:55.64\00:55:02.77
In 1987, I took a
five-week course in archeology
00:55:02.80\00:55:05.58
in Jerusalem by the
scholar William Shay.
00:55:05.61\00:55:08.75
We toured hundreds
of archeological sites.
00:55:08.78\00:55:10.78
We saw more sites
we never wanted to see.
00:55:10.81\00:55:13.38
We kind of almost became a joke.
00:55:13.41\00:55:14.68
Dr. Shay said, "What is that?
00:55:14.71\00:55:16.64
One or four in this right house
00:55:16.67\00:55:18.21
or be at temple
one of the other.
00:55:18.24\00:55:20.23
And about 50-50 chance
has seemed to being right.
00:55:20.26\00:55:24.68
Finally exam question came
00:55:24.71\00:55:26.83
I was taking
the class for credit
00:55:26.86\00:55:29.11
And the question was this,
what difference does it make?
00:55:29.14\00:55:33.57
As I thought about
that and pottered after
00:55:33.60\00:55:35.68
spending five weeks
with him traveling around
00:55:35.71\00:55:37.81
and looking all these sites,
00:55:37.84\00:55:40.04
I came up with
a two word answer.
00:55:40.07\00:55:42.24
It happened. It happened.
00:55:42.27\00:55:46.41
Now you have seen the land
where the story took place.
00:55:46.44\00:55:49.43
You've been able
to go in your minds
00:55:49.46\00:55:50.82
and eye retrace the
journey that Jesus made
00:55:50.85\00:55:53.55
and hear His teachings.
00:55:53.58\00:55:55.18
Now I'm gonna tell you
this evening that it happened.
00:55:55.21\00:55:58.15
It happened Jesus
came back to life on a day
00:55:58.18\00:56:00.55
that was just as
real as this day.
00:56:00.58\00:56:03.87
He came back to life
and He defeated death
00:56:03.90\00:56:05.99
and because of that He
offers to us life everlasting.
00:56:06.02\00:56:11.62
He defeated
death so we no longer
00:56:11.65\00:56:12.93
have to be afraid of it.
00:56:12.96\00:56:15.03
That's the Jesus. I
know He served in love.
00:56:15.06\00:56:18.98
Let's pray together.
00:56:19.01\00:56:20.04
Father in
heaven, thank You tonight
00:56:20.07\00:56:21.96
for the opportunity to follow
in the footsteps with Jesus.
00:56:21.99\00:56:24.69
What a wondrous thing it is.
00:56:24.72\00:56:26.56
Thank you so much for
allowing your son to come
00:56:26.59\00:56:28.77
and be born of Mary.
00:56:28.80\00:56:30.40
It's amazing
towards, it's just--
00:56:30.43\00:56:31.91
It can hardly fathom it.
00:56:31.94\00:56:33.54
But we thank You for it.
00:56:33.57\00:56:35.34
We thank You for
the great prophecies
00:56:35.37\00:56:36.83
that we've also talked about
that have confirm that story.
00:56:36.86\00:56:39.92
Jesus most of all, we thank You
00:56:39.95\00:56:41.19
that You not only
raise ladders from the dead,
00:56:41.22\00:56:43.41
but You came
back to life Yourself
00:56:43.44\00:56:45.00
and broke the bonds of death,
00:56:45.03\00:56:46.20
so we no longer
have to be afraid of it.
00:56:46.23\00:56:48.48
Thank You for that, Jesus.
00:56:48.51\00:56:50.39
And I pray that each one
00:56:50.42\00:56:51.85
who was hearing
this presentation
00:56:51.88\00:56:54.37
will come to know You as
that death defined savior.
00:56:54.40\00:56:58.83
They'll come to know
You as the living savior
00:56:58.86\00:57:00.81
that there's no
mausoleum keeping Your body
00:57:00.84\00:57:03.32
anywhere in this world,
00:57:03.35\00:57:04.89
that You're
alive for ever never.
00:57:04.92\00:57:06.97
We thank You for that
and we worship and adore You
00:57:07.00\00:57:08.92
because of it we
pray in Jesus' name, amen
00:57:08.95\00:57:12.77
Well, indeed it happened
00:57:12.80\00:57:14.20
and we want to
remind you of that.
00:57:14.23\00:57:15.93
God bless you all.
00:57:15.96\00:57:17.45