Welcome back to
the Prophecy seminar.
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We're glad that
you're here this evening.
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Have you had a good day?
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And I'm glad,
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it's a little bit
cooler, aren't you?
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I mean you don't
want to be digging--
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doing archeological
things when it's so hotter.
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So we're glad this evening
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that its a
little bit cooler here
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and we're glad
though that even though
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it's can be warm or hot outside
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because we've air
conditioning and heat hear
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the, the
temperatures kind of controlled
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and that's a blessing.
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Well, let's just ask the
Lord to be with us this evening,
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as we again study
little bit about archeology
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but now making the
shift into Bible Prophecy.
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Let's bow our heads and
ask the Lord to be with us.
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Father in heaven,
we're thankful this evening
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that You have promised
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were two or three are
gathered in Your name,
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You will be in the mist.
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And we come in Your name asking
for Your presence to be here,
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asking for Your Spirit to guide
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each part of
tonight's presentation.
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And we give You all the
glory and all the praise,
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and we come in the all
powerful name of Jesus, amen.
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We've been blessed each evening
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by the music of
Rafael Scarfullery
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and again this evening,
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we're going to be blessed
with a special number by Rafael.
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I just want to say
big thank you to Rafael.
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Amen.
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Now I'm going to
tell you a little secret.
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I think it was just yesterday
or the day before I said to
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actually its Dr. Scarfullery
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he is, he is a trained
guitarist, for performance.
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I said look "I would
like to have this song."
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He says "well I
haven't played that before
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but I will see if I can come
up with a composition for you
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and an arrangement of that."
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And so the next thing I know
he had all of this scores out
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and he was
writing out the music.
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And that's the first time
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it's been
performed just for you.
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Aren't you special?
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What a blessing and
that was just great.
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Thank you, so much.
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And Tony is
coming up now, I want to,
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especially welcome
him back this evening.
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And this is
actually the last evening
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and I'm so delighted
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that you have been
here in Wichita with us.
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Thank you so much
for coming and coming
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and being part of this seminar.
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Well thank you for
inviting me, pastor.
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I have enjoyed being
here very, very much.
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It's been terrific.
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Great, you know,
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how many of you
think it's been great
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that he is been here?
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And we are gonna
listen of course tonight with,
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with rapt attention.
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But at the
beginning of the break,
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how many of you think
he would like to get back
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home to his wife?
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We're gonna take
up an offering to see
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if we can get
him half way there.
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And we're just
gonna take a love offering
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at just before the next thing.
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And I already warned
you of that last night
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so you now have been planning.
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So thank you so much
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and we're are looking
forward to tonight talk.
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Well, thank you, pastor.
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It's been great to be with you.
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We've been able to
survey some of the great
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civilization of the past.
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We've been to Egypt
and we've been to Jerusalem
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and all through
the, the world of Jesus.
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And tonight we're
going to ancient Iraq.
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And tonight it's gonna typical
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because we're gonna
go back to ancient Iraq
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and we're gonna look at,
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where the beginning
of human civilization
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really develops in Ancient Iraq.
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And then it's
gonna kind of come down
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and we'll see a
transition to the future
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because the name of this seminar
has been Digging up the Future.
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So we've been digging
up quite a few artifacts
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and looking of some facts
or anythings from the past.
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And we're gonna do
that again this evening
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and then we're gonna transition
to some things of the future.
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So anyways it's
been a joy to be with you
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and to spend this
time here in Wichita
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in the centre of the nation.
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It's been a real delight.
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Well, this evening
we want to go to the map
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and as we go to map
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I'm asking the
question where is Iraq?
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Now before August of 1990
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less than one in four Americans
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could find the Persian
Gulf on the map, all right
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and even fewer could
find that nation called Iraq.
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Even though it was
in the news everyday
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because of the long
and bitter and bloody war
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with its neighbor
Persia to the east or Iran.
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But that all
changed when Saddam Hussein
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invaded the oil
rich country of Kuwait
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and George Bush Sr.
drew a line in the sand.
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Pretty soon all of our
attention was focused there.
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And that is only
continued at our time today.
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Before the invasion of Iraq,
before the invasion of Iraq
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it was only an Arab country
on the other side of the world
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were they outspoken leader
who had an ego larger than life.
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But then came Operation
Desert Shield and Desert Storm
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and with over
500,000 American troops
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transported to the
deserts of the Persian Gulf,
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Saddam Hussein in Iraq
became a household word
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in the United States.
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And since the U.S.
led invasion of Iraq
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the map of Iraq has
become an all too familiar side
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in most of our homes.
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Now the juries still out
on the long term effects of
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replacing the Ba'ath
Party which by the way meant
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renaissance or
the democratically,
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democratically
elected government.
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Because of the charged political
nature of this current conflict
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I'm going to avoid the present
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but I want tonight to
pull back the curtain of time
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and look back into the past
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because this is a very
important part of world
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its where
civilization actually developed.
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Now Saddam
Hussein had a grand vision
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of presiding over
a Pan-Arab Empire.
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During the 20th century
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the Arab countries had
been very, very divided.
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I can still remember
doing the first intifada
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being in Jerusalem.
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And during the
first intifada the,
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the young people
made the shopkeepers
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close their shops at 11 o'clock.
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But someone like me,
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who would just find a
shopkeeper he wanted to talk to
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and so he would
invite me in for tea
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and we go in and we sit down
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and we drink tea
and discuss politics.
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And I can still remember
the shopkeeper talking about
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his dreams for Pan-Arab Empire
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and I said "how could
you have a dream like that?
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You guys are
fighting all the time.
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All these Arab
Nations are fighting."
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And he looked at me
with very prosaically
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and he said don't you
know, where this comes from?
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And I said "well,
obviously not, tell me."
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And he said this
goes back to Lord Balfour,
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the Balfour Codes.
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The British created all of
these little different kingdoms
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and put different
tribes in charge of countries
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so they would
fight against each other.
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But this is not our
history and the past
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and we don't want
it to be our future.
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Well, it was a
history lesson for me.
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And it was true.
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In the past there was
a great Pan-Arab Empire.
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It stretched from Pakistan
in the east all the way to,
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to Turkey in the west and
it reached down into Egypt
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and part of North
Africa and it was ruled
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by one leader over a
great period of time.
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Yes, Iraq used its oil revenues
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to amass the fourth
largest army in the world.
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It hoped to reunite Muslims from
all these different countries
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and backgrounds especially
throughout the Arab world.
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It hoped to unite them
to become a major player
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in world politics.
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Like Salahadin and Suleiman
the magnificent before him
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Saddam Hussein
hoped to forge people
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from diverse backgrounds
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put down by a common religion
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into one nation into
one cohesive power block
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that it will be difficult
for the west to control.
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Now the Ottoman Empire
was a last Muslim empire,
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the last great Pan-Arab Empire.
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And it's not really Pan-Arab
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because the Turks
were not really Arabs.
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But it was the
last great Muslim empire
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and it came to an
end during World War I.
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But so many Arabs
especially the Middle East
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the poor nations,
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they longed for their
former glory to be revived.
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And they believed
that Saddam Hussein
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would be the one to
unite all different groups
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together under one flag.
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That's why the Palestinians
were siding with him
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during the first
into the first Gulf War.
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And they were hoping that
this would be their moment
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of renaissance, a
movement of revival.
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Well, Salahadin Hussein
appealed to their imagination
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by comparing
himself to Nebuchadnezzar
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and Salahadin the two
great Iraqi leaders of the past.
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Now this harkened back to
a far more glorious period
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when an indeed
Iraq ruled the world.
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You see Saddam conspired himself
to Saladin the great warrior
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who was also from the village
of Tikrit interesting enough.
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Now Salahadin
became the Sultanate Egypt.
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And he would be destined to
rule over the whole Arab world.
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He led a Muslim army
right to the gates of Jerusalem
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and defeated the crusaders
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and took Jerusalem
from the Christians
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and placed it into
the hands of the Muslims.
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Saddam also styled himself
as the Neo Nebuchadnezzar
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the new Nebuchadnezzar
who was also from Iraq down.
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Nebuchadnezzar who was he?
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Well, he was a king
back in the 6th century BC
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who conquered most of
the world at that time.
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He was the king who went down
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and defeated the
Jews in Jerusalem
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and captured Jerusalem
in the days of Jeremiah.
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And so here with these two great
military leaders of the past
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and Saddam Hussein styled
himself in their traditions.
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Babylon was once the most
beautiful city upon the earth.
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The hanging gardens of Babylon
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were one of the seven
wonders of the Ancient world.
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Saddam Hussein restored
the Ancient Palestinians
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in city of Babylon.
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They're laid
desolate for over 2,000 years.
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Now he wasn't doing
it because he was really
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in the archeology and art.
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He was doing it as
a political statement.
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He was styling himself as
the new birth of Nebuchadnezzar
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and he even had a great festival
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when he host of
the Babylon festival.
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It drew tens of thousands
of visitors every year.
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People from around
from world would come in
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and they'd be in hotels in
Baghdad and they would go out
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and get into their
buses, their air condition buses
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and shoot down 50
miles down to Babylon.
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Yes, its just 50 miles
from Baghdad on the Tigress
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to Babylon on the Euphrates.
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They would go down and it
was a great time of propaganda.
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Now Iraq has a
lengthy and rich culture.
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It dates back to the very
dawn of human civilization.
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The arid land was
watered by two rivers
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the Tigress and
the Euphrates River.
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The soil lying between
them is known as Mesopotamia.
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It's a Greek word and it means
the land between the two rivers.
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And here we can
see the Euphrates River
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and the Tigris River coming down
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and this territory in
between was very, very fertile.
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Now to the north
of the Tigris River
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there are mountains
high, high mountains.
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Today is the Kurdistan and
most of if you wanting to--
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that kind of put
into modern times.
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Down in the south side of
Euphrates it's all desert.
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And then we can see
there is the Persian Gulf.
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So there is only one
little strip of arable land
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and it's between
these two rivers.
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And so this is
where civilization
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actually develops the
land between the rivers.
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Now you can see on the map
that the both the Euphrates
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and the Tigris river flow
out of the mountains of Turkey.
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They flow from
the north in the west
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they flow nearly a
1000 miles before they unite
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and dump into the
Persian Gulf near Basra.
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If you're
following modern times,
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it was called Ur
back in Ancient times.
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And so we can see
on the screen again
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there is a little green strip
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and it's kind of a
term that was coined
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at the turn of the last
century the Fertile Crescent.
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You see mountains here,
water here, desert here,
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mountains here, water here
and there is one little strip
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of fertile
territory that goes across.
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Starts down in Mesopotamia
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comes up goes
across part of Turkey
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comes down
through Syria and Lebanon
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and then down through Israel
and then down the Nile Valley.
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This was the Fertile Crescent,
this was the only place
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where you could
sustain life by agriculture.
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So it was very, very important--
00:19:04.72\00:19:06.19
wars that they
fought through out centuries
00:19:06.22\00:19:08.40
and millenniums over that area.
00:19:08.43\00:19:10.50
So there is a floodplain here
sweltering deserts to the south
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towering
mountains to the north water
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and so the Fertile
Crescent was the place
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with a constant flow of water.
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The rich fertile
fields in the mist of desert
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it was a
perfect for agriculture.
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Spreading northward
from the delta marshes
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of the Shatt-al-Arab waterways,
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settlements of
farmers developed.
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And they were
organized into communities.
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With the invention of irrigation
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the civilization
quickly developed
00:19:36.61\00:19:38.45
and they were able to
grow more and more to crops
00:19:38.48\00:19:40.30
to have surplus of their crops
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along the bank
of the two rivers.
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Most scholars believed
this convergence of the rivers
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to be the location
of the Garden of Eden
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because two of the four
rivers are mentioned in Genesis
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as Tigris and Euphrates.
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According to the Bible another
major event took place here
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and that is to the north
of the mountains of Ararat.
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And so when Noah's Ark
would have come to rest
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then the people
would have descended
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down from the mountains
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and it have would
come down into the plain
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between the
rivers into Mesopotamia.
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And indeed we
find that this is where
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human
civilization first develops
00:20:15.97\00:20:18.17
in the land between the rivers.
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The Bible actually
says "As men moved eastward
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they found a plain in
Shinar and settled there.
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They said to each other, 'Come,
00:20:27.60\00:20:28.93
let's make bricks and
bake them thoroughly.'
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They used brick instead of
stone, and tar for mortar."
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Now Moses had to write
that because down in Palestine
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it's all rocks.
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But when you go over
to Iraq or Mesopotamia
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there're no rocks, okay.
00:20:41.67\00:20:43.62
And so they had to
use clay and make bricks.
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And so he said
come let us make bricks
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and bake them thoroughly.
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They used bricks instead
of stones and tar for mortar.
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"Then they said,
'Come let us build a city,
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with a tower that
reaches to the heavens,
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so that we may make
a name for ourselves
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and not be scattered over
the face of the whole earth.'
00:21:01.03\00:21:04.87
" This of course
is a fascinating story
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of the tower of Babel.
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It was located near
the Euphrates in Babylon.
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Now for the information
as I said to the readers.
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Moses said "hey, you know,
they don't have stones there,
00:21:15.33\00:21:17.96
they had to use, they had
to use clay, make bricks."
00:21:17.99\00:21:21.37
And indeed that's what
the buildings were built with.
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According to the Bible Noah's
descendants moved into a plain
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of Shinar or
Sumer, a Shinar or Sumer.
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They began to built cities
with great towers in them.
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And indeed the
spate of the archeologist
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has confirmed that
indeed this took place,
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civilization
develops on this plain.
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Well, the
introduction of irrigation,
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vast quantities of
grain could now be produced
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to be more
efficient and irrigation
00:21:49.62\00:21:52.04
that people had
to work together.
00:21:52.07\00:21:53.95
Various clans came together
00:21:53.98\00:21:55.67
and they were loosely
organized into villages
00:21:55.70\00:21:57.67
and then into cities and towns.
00:21:57.70\00:22:00.75
The surplus of
agriculture permitted people
00:22:00.78\00:22:02.85
to diversify their occupations.
00:22:02.88\00:22:05.99
Some emerged as artisans
00:22:06.02\00:22:07.96
and some were working in
a metal works and textiles
00:22:07.99\00:22:11.44
and ultimately
some are managing trade.
00:22:11.47\00:22:14.12
As life became more prosperous
00:22:14.15\00:22:17.05
they needed to keep
track of their surplus
00:22:17.08\00:22:19.39
so the Sumerians
invented writing.
00:22:19.42\00:22:22.80
Since they had virtually
no wood or stone or metal
00:22:22.83\00:22:25.36
they build their
cities out of abundant clay
00:22:25.39\00:22:27.81
and sealed it
with pitch or bitumen
00:22:27.84\00:22:30.00
which seeps to the surface
in this part of the world.
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Clay was pressed into
molds and then it was taken out
00:22:33.32\00:22:35.64
and baked in the hot sun
00:22:35.67\00:22:36.83
and then they could use it
for building their buildings
00:22:36.86\00:22:38.79
for their houses and
their city buildings, temples
00:22:38.82\00:22:41.97
and that's the way it developed.
00:22:42.00\00:22:44.28
Here another major
invention happened,
00:22:44.31\00:22:47.06
as they
developed the pottery wheel
00:22:47.09\00:22:49.78
to make more
uniformed containers.
00:22:49.81\00:22:52.81
And then some enterprising
individual was looking at that
00:22:52.84\00:22:56.04
pottery wheel
spinning and they thought
00:22:56.07\00:22:59.21
what if we turned it side
ways and put another wheel on it
00:22:59.24\00:23:03.17
and hooked it to few oxen.
00:23:03.20\00:23:06.24
And then they discovered that
they could not carry five times
00:23:06.27\00:23:09.32
what the oxen could
drag on sledge behind it.
00:23:09.35\00:23:12.55
And so they invented
the wheel here in Sumeria.
00:23:12.58\00:23:16.31
And so the culture
developed and it grew
00:23:16.34\00:23:19.85
and now they could
grow more surplus crops
00:23:19.88\00:23:22.79
and the traders now could
export their surplus crops
00:23:22.82\00:23:25.46
to foreign distant
markets, for raw materials
00:23:25.49\00:23:28.27
not available in the plain.
00:23:28.30\00:23:30.84
From the north they were
ever to import lapis lazuli,
00:23:30.87\00:23:34.19
copper, gold, from Persia
they imported copper and tin,
00:23:34.22\00:23:38.08
from India they imported
wood and ivory and carnelian.
00:23:38.11\00:23:42.18
The cities of
Mesopotamia grew and prospered.
00:23:42.21\00:23:45.27
To assist the farmer
they developed calendars
00:23:45.30\00:23:48.41
based on the lunar
month and the solar year.
00:23:48.44\00:23:52.62
Now they where now
able to know when to plant
00:23:52.65\00:23:55.65
and how to predict their harvest
00:23:55.68\00:23:57.45
and as I looked
up into the night sky
00:23:57.48\00:23:59.11
they began to see the
outlines of the various animals
00:23:59.14\00:24:01.97
and they gave them names.
00:24:02.00\00:24:03.28
You know them
today as the zodiac.
00:24:03.31\00:24:06.34
And so this developed
here in ancient Sumer.
00:24:06.37\00:24:09.84
To keep track of their trade
00:24:09.87\00:24:11.20
they invented
mathematical system based on 60.
00:24:11.23\00:24:13.89
We still have the reminiscent
of it in our 60 minute hour
00:24:13.92\00:24:16.83
and in our 360 degrees circle.
00:24:16.86\00:24:18.95
This all developed
right here in Mesopotamia.
00:24:18.98\00:24:21.76
They also invented
writing using the raw material
00:24:21.79\00:24:24.15
that was so abundant there clay.
00:24:24.18\00:24:26.39
This happened down
at Uruk around 3000 BC.
00:24:26.42\00:24:29.35
At first it was very simple.
00:24:29.38\00:24:30.90
What they did is they would,
they would use a round ball
00:24:30.93\00:24:33.85
to represent a token
00:24:33.88\00:24:35.11
and so if they
were sending somebody
00:24:35.14\00:24:36.92
with the five loads of grain,
00:24:36.95\00:24:38.80
they would have five
little round balls or tokens
00:24:38.83\00:24:41.61
and they would put
it into a clay envelop.
00:24:41.64\00:24:43.73
And so the person
would then go down and,
00:24:43.76\00:24:45.68
and but had he lost
anything along the way,
00:24:45.71\00:24:48.79
the person was unsure.
00:24:48.82\00:24:50.10
And so they
would break the envelop
00:24:50.13\00:24:52.21
and open the envelop up
00:24:52.24\00:24:53.38
and then find the
five little tokens.
00:24:53.41\00:24:55.42
Well, that wasn't
efficient and so someone said,
00:24:55.45\00:24:58.17
"why don't we
just draw five tokens
00:24:58.20\00:25:00.99
on the piece of the envelop
00:25:01.02\00:25:02.60
and then we don't
have to break it all."
00:25:02.63\00:25:04.39
And so they did that.
00:25:04.42\00:25:05.45
And then they said well,
00:25:05.48\00:25:06.92
why do we even put the
tokens inside the envelop
00:25:06.95\00:25:08.70
lets just draw five
on the outside of a block
00:25:08.73\00:25:11.23
a little peace of clay.
00:25:11.26\00:25:13.68
And that's the
way writing developed
00:25:13.71\00:25:15.93
here in Sumer down at Uruk
00:25:15.96\00:25:19.84
many thousands of
years ago around 3000 BC.
00:25:19.87\00:25:23.61
As writing became more abstract
00:25:23.64\00:25:25.51
they no longer used the stylus
00:25:25.54\00:25:28.16
they began to
use a little wedge,
00:25:28.19\00:25:30.97
wedge to read and
they were able to use that
00:25:31.00\00:25:33.03
and they developed writing.
00:25:33.06\00:25:34.64
And you can see
it up on the screen.
00:25:34.67\00:25:36.45
It kind of
looks odd, doesn't it?
00:25:36.48\00:25:38.44
This was very unusual
whenever they first these,
00:25:38.47\00:25:42.98
these they first began
appearing in European museums
00:25:43.01\00:25:45.88
they began to say
it looks like birds
00:25:45.91\00:25:47.90
walking on wet sand.
00:25:47.93\00:25:50.07
And the wedge is,
in Latin is cuneus
00:25:50.10\00:25:53.15
and that's word comes
down cuneiform writing.
00:25:53.18\00:25:55.68
And this is what they did.
00:25:55.71\00:25:56.75
Now even though the
writing looks very strange,
00:25:56.78\00:25:59.16
it is very interesting
that often times in messages
00:25:59.19\00:26:02.15
meant the same thing.
00:26:02.18\00:26:03.75
Here's a little piece of
clay that had writing on it
00:26:03.78\00:26:06.80
and it say's "your loving
wife who has had a child,"
00:26:06.83\00:26:10.56
it was signed by her.
00:26:10.59\00:26:11.92
Well, you know it's a
same kind of communication
00:26:11.95\00:26:13.85
that we do today.
00:26:13.88\00:26:14.92
But the methods
might have changed.
00:26:14.95\00:26:16.31
Now we might email
but there they're writing
00:26:16.34\00:26:18.39
these little wedges
in the cuneiform style.
00:26:18.42\00:26:21.84
Here we have a
photo of scribal school
00:26:21.87\00:26:24.37
from a place called Marah.
00:26:24.40\00:26:25.56
You can see the long benches
00:26:25.59\00:26:27.40
where the scribes
would sit in training.
00:26:27.43\00:26:29.60
You can see the little
basins here on the side,
00:26:29.63\00:26:33.54
these basins
would have clay in them.
00:26:33.57\00:26:35.47
They could take
the clay and mold it.
00:26:35.50\00:26:37.22
It was very writable and they
could do their little writings.
00:26:37.25\00:26:39.82
This is where
they do practicing,
00:26:39.85\00:26:41.21
learning how to write and read.
00:26:41.24\00:26:44.25
And so it was
very, very important
00:26:44.28\00:26:46.60
as it develops
here in this area.
00:26:46.63\00:26:48.19
Well, there were no
natural barriers in the valley.
00:26:48.22\00:26:50.70
There was nothing to
prevent bands of raiders
00:26:50.73\00:26:53.19
from coming out of the deserts
and attacking along the river.
00:26:53.22\00:26:56.61
So they to defend themselves
they had to built cites
00:26:56.64\00:26:59.07
which in time became
more and more important
00:26:59.10\00:27:01.46
because they had things to loose
and so the cities developed,
00:27:01.49\00:27:05.02
they became more
and more bureaucratic.
00:27:05.05\00:27:07.08
So to protect themselves
they elected a big man
00:27:07.11\00:27:11.87
a chief that's
where it comes from.
00:27:11.90\00:27:13.80
They elected a
big man or a chief.
00:27:13.83\00:27:16.24
And now the city state
had some one to lead them.
00:27:16.27\00:27:20.60
Now the city
states were weakened
00:27:20.63\00:27:22.17
because they were
constantly fighting
00:27:22.20\00:27:25.63
with the next city state.
00:27:25.66\00:27:26.69
And so we're not one unified
people there in the plain,
00:27:26.72\00:27:28.37
many different peoples they
are fighting over irrigation
00:27:28.40\00:27:31.35
and land rights and
it goes back and forth
00:27:31.38\00:27:34.32
until around 2340 BC.
00:27:34.35\00:27:38.77
There is a man by the
name of Sargon of Akkad.
00:27:38.80\00:27:42.26
He sweeps through Mesopotamia.
00:27:42.29\00:27:44.61
He is not Sumerian but
he is of somatic origin.
00:27:44.64\00:27:47.83
He raises from
low humble origins
00:27:47.86\00:27:51.66
lowly breathy
conquerors all of Sumer.
00:27:51.69\00:27:54.49
He extends his empire all
around to the Mediterranean Sea.
00:27:54.52\00:27:57.77
He rules for 50 years.
00:27:57.80\00:28:00.34
And he builds many cities
including the city of Nineveh
00:28:00.37\00:28:04.40
which is near Mosul today.
00:28:04.43\00:28:06.54
Alternately he
unites all of Mesopotamia
00:28:06.57\00:28:08.94
as a single
nation under one ruler.
00:28:08.97\00:28:12.40
Now somewhere
along the Euphrates
00:28:12.43\00:28:14.53
he built his capital or Akkad.
00:28:14.56\00:28:17.11
The Akkadian rulers
would be ultimately assimilated
00:28:17.14\00:28:20.33
by Samarian culture.
00:28:20.36\00:28:22.37
Although they writing was
Akkadian was used as to write
00:28:22.40\00:28:26.21
the writ of royalty and commerce
00:28:26.24\00:28:28.19
for centuries to
come Sorgan city was lost.
00:28:28.22\00:28:34.42
You see, he defiled the
chief Sumerian god at Nippur.
00:28:34.45\00:28:38.71
The God's
according to the legend
00:28:38.74\00:28:40.81
wound to
obliterate Akkad for all time
00:28:40.84\00:28:43.70
and so far there curse
is lasted for 40 centuries
00:28:43.73\00:28:47.58
we still don't
know where Akkad is.
00:28:47.61\00:28:50.40
The descendants of
Sorgan ruled for 100 years.
00:28:50.43\00:28:53.55
They were then
overran by fierce warriors.
00:28:53.58\00:28:56.74
They came down from
the Zagros Mountains.
00:28:56.77\00:28:59.87
The Zagros Mountain this
is modern day Kurdistan, okay.
00:28:59.90\00:29:04.15
They came down from
the Zagros Mountains
00:29:04.18\00:29:06.88
and they overran the area
00:29:06.91\00:29:08.82
and it was a very, very
difficult time for them.
00:29:08.85\00:29:12.27
The empire was broken
into little tiny city states.
00:29:12.30\00:29:16.24
But around 2100 BC
00:29:16.27\00:29:18.20
there was one last
cast of Sumerian dominants.
00:29:18.23\00:29:21.44
There was another king
who developed down here
00:29:21.47\00:29:24.09
near Ur the very important
city down by the Persian Gulf.
00:29:24.12\00:29:28.02
His name was Ur Narru.
00:29:28.05\00:29:30.42
Ur Narru revitalizes
ancient Sumerian culture.
00:29:30.45\00:29:35.12
He was a great king, he build
a giant Ziggurat in the city.
00:29:35.15\00:29:40.16
Now the Ziggurat
was a high place.
00:29:40.19\00:29:42.25
And he built a giant
Ziggurat to the moon God.
00:29:42.28\00:29:45.08
And this was trying to go
00:29:45.11\00:29:46.96
and just imagine
this its totally flat land
00:29:46.99\00:29:49.21
where they're trying to
get up high up to the heavens.
00:29:49.24\00:29:52.00
And it hovered some
70 feet above the plain.
00:29:52.03\00:29:55.64
Today, it is the
most perfectly preserved
00:29:55.67\00:29:59.01
Ziggurat in Iraq
or in Mesopotamia.
00:29:59.04\00:30:02.68
I listened with
of great interest
00:30:02.71\00:30:05.25
during the first Gulf War
00:30:05.28\00:30:06.71
because Saddam Hussein
parked many of his MIG jets
00:30:06.74\00:30:09.78
right around that
Ziggurat down by Ur.
00:30:09.81\00:30:12.60
He was hoping the Americans
wouldn't risk sending a bomb
00:30:12.63\00:30:15.76
and blowing up one of the
great archeological treasures
00:30:15.79\00:30:18.22
of the past and of
course they didn't.
00:30:18.25\00:30:20.99
And so it is still there.
00:30:21.02\00:30:22.61
Well, this Ur was
also the city of Abraham,
00:30:22.64\00:30:30.56
Abraham.
00:30:30.59\00:30:32.22
I thought Abraham was
a Jew, say Abraham a Jew.
00:30:32.25\00:30:37.38
Who do Jews come from anyway?
00:30:40.25\00:30:44.94
Who would be the
first Jew? Judah, okay.
00:30:44.97\00:30:49.31
So Abraham-- Judah
00:30:49.34\00:30:50.75
that would be where Jews come
from the tribe of Judah, okay.
00:30:50.78\00:30:54.09
Was Abraham an Israelite?
00:30:54.12\00:30:57.63
Who would be
the first Israelite?
00:30:57.66\00:30:59.84
Jacob because his neighbors
changed from Jacob to Israel.
00:30:59.87\00:31:03.29
So what in the
world was Abraham?
00:31:03.32\00:31:06.53
He was an Iraqi right?
00:31:06.56\00:31:08.64
Now they call him
an Ur of the Chaldeans
00:31:08.67\00:31:11.46
but actually he was
from the region of Iraq.
00:31:11.49\00:31:15.05
He was an Iraqi.
00:31:15.08\00:31:16.13
It must be the God
loves Iraqis right?
00:31:16.16\00:31:18.24
I believe God
loves Iraqi, don't you?
00:31:18.27\00:31:20.34
Yeah, I believe
God loves all peoples.
00:31:20.37\00:31:22.05
And so Abraham
comes down from Ur
00:31:22.08\00:31:24.94
but he is called
Abraham the Hebrew.
00:31:24.97\00:31:30.64
And as many scholars say
that Hebrew means to crossover
00:31:30.67\00:31:36.69
because Abraham crossed over.
00:31:36.72\00:31:39.62
Now in Abraham's
day Ur was a great city.
00:31:39.65\00:31:43.28
They had running
water, they had sewers,
00:31:43.31\00:31:46.66
they educated their children.
00:31:46.69\00:31:48.59
It was a fabulous city.
00:31:48.62\00:31:50.95
Children had
learned to read and write
00:31:50.98\00:31:52.87
its royalty were
buried in great style.
00:31:52.90\00:31:55.43
I want to bring up
couple of pictures here
00:31:55.46\00:31:56.89
from the royal cemetery of Ur
00:31:56.92\00:31:59.11
excavated by Sir
Leonard Woolley in 1922.
00:31:59.14\00:32:03.04
Here we can see
some fabulous things
00:32:03.07\00:32:05.14
that were discovered there.
00:32:05.17\00:32:06.20
This, this head
dress of the queen
00:32:06.23\00:32:08.99
isn't that fabulous?
00:32:09.02\00:32:10.24
But look at this bull
00:32:10.27\00:32:11.66
this was a bull harp
the lapis lazuli eared.
00:32:11.69\00:32:15.21
It's just fabulous
and they found all kinds
00:32:15.24\00:32:18.27
of wonderful
artifacts there in the tomb.
00:32:18.30\00:32:21.80
They also found 74
skeletons in the death pit
00:32:21.83\00:32:25.44
and its amazing that
one of the individuals
00:32:25.47\00:32:29.50
who was buried with the royalty
actually was buried was alive
00:32:29.53\00:32:34.85
and they had music until the end
00:32:34.88\00:32:36.59
because they had the fingers
00:32:36.62\00:32:38.63
right on the
strings of the harp playing
00:32:38.66\00:32:41.56
until they expired in the tomb.
00:32:41.59\00:32:44.85
Well, there was some
other wonderful finds
00:32:44.88\00:32:46.66
that include this golden
helmet dated back to 2100 BC.
00:32:46.69\00:32:50.60
But in spite of all
their vast commercial
00:32:50.63\00:32:53.96
architectural and
artist accomplishments
00:32:53.99\00:32:56.41
the people turned
away from the one true God,
00:32:56.44\00:32:59.34
the Creator of the heaven earth.
00:32:59.37\00:33:01.18
They turned their back
and began to give homage
00:33:01.21\00:33:03.73
to gods of stone
and wood and clay.
00:33:03.76\00:33:07.17
And since the immortal
worship of Ishtar was based here
00:33:07.20\00:33:10.75
God called
Abraham the son the Terah
00:33:10.78\00:33:13.33
to leave Ur to
crossover, to become a Hebrew
00:33:13.36\00:33:18.22
and to follow him
to the Promise Land.
00:33:18.25\00:33:21.27
And so he it took from Ur
this great city of learning
00:33:21.30\00:33:24.85
and Abraham left and followed
00:33:24.88\00:33:27.37
the true God to
the land of Canaan.
00:33:27.40\00:33:29.87
Now Abraham and his clan
00:33:29.90\00:33:31.69
would have journeyed
up to the Euphrates River.
00:33:31.72\00:33:33.67
They would have passed ancient
Babylon with its ziggurat,
00:33:33.70\00:33:36.58
there the tower of Babel.
00:33:36.61\00:33:37.98
They would have passed that some
ziggurats was over 300 feet high
00:33:38.01\00:33:41.88
they say was composed
of seven stories going up
00:33:41.91\00:33:45.38
and then on the top
there was a an altar
00:33:45.41\00:33:49.03
to Bel Marduk with
chief Babylonian God.
00:33:49.06\00:33:54.21
Abraham didn't stay in
Babylonian he pressed on
00:33:54.24\00:33:58.03
but the family reached
the caravan city of Horan.
00:33:58.06\00:34:02.02
And as they reached
the caravan city of Horan
00:34:02.05\00:34:04.12
they paused there
until his father died.
00:34:04.15\00:34:08.02
His father died and then
God called him, "Abraham,
00:34:08.05\00:34:10.45
this is not the place."
00:34:10.48\00:34:11.82
And so he continued his
journey and he journeyed
00:34:11.85\00:34:14.70
on down into the Promise
Land to the land of Canaan
00:34:14.73\00:34:18.43
and God established
him in the land of Canaan
00:34:18.46\00:34:20.68
where his descendants
would ultimately settle.
00:34:20.71\00:34:23.37
Abraham is known has
00:34:23.40\00:34:24.55
the friend of God
the khalil of God.
00:34:24.58\00:34:27.43
He is looked upon
as a spiritual father
00:34:27.46\00:34:29.64
of the three manifesto religions
in this part of the world
00:34:29.67\00:34:32.31
Judaism and
Christianity and Islam.
00:34:32.34\00:34:34.83
This was a last
era for ancient Sumer
00:34:34.86\00:34:38.39
where people
learnt to read and write
00:34:38.42\00:34:40.48
and they foundation there
it calmly began to crumble,
00:34:40.51\00:34:44.50
agricultural fell into decline,
00:34:44.53\00:34:46.32
the soil was
reached to its fertility,
00:34:46.35\00:34:48.54
fruits surpluses dwindled
and soon there was unrest
00:34:48.57\00:34:54.32
and once again they
were battling and fighting.
00:34:54.35\00:34:57.31
And around the
time of Abraham's birth
00:34:57.34\00:35:00.85
sumatic nomads
began to come down
00:35:00.88\00:35:03.87
and overrun the area.
00:35:03.90\00:35:05.92
They established their capital
00:35:05.95\00:35:07.42
down at
Babylon, down at Babylon.
00:35:07.45\00:35:10.41
Now the Sumerians and
their culture would vanish
00:35:10.44\00:35:13.45
for thousands of years.
00:35:13.48\00:35:15.23
The very name Sumer
was not known until the end
00:35:15.26\00:35:18.91
of the 19th
century by modern people.
00:35:18.94\00:35:22.09
Vanished from the
face of the earth,
00:35:22.12\00:35:24.23
vanished from the
face of the earth.
00:35:24.26\00:35:25.84
However the sixth king
00:35:25.87\00:35:27.59
of this dynasty was
very, very important.
00:35:27.62\00:35:29.40
His name was Hammurabi.
00:35:29.43\00:35:31.42
Hammurabi ruled
Babylon for 42 years.
00:35:31.45\00:35:34.66
He was unusual
00:35:34.69\00:35:35.76
because of all of the
laws that he established.
00:35:35.79\00:35:39.06
He had a code over 300 royal
decisions covering offences
00:35:39.09\00:35:43.63
ranging from adultery to murder,
00:35:43.66\00:35:45.64
with holding wages from employee
00:35:45.67\00:35:48.87
or felling a
neighbor's date palm.
00:35:48.90\00:35:51.28
He forged the Babylon Empire
00:35:51.31\00:35:53.25
that swallowed up
old Sumerian civilization
00:35:53.28\00:35:56.27
and once again
Mesopotamia was a single nation.
00:35:56.30\00:36:00.37
Now this plain
was so much like Egypt
00:36:00.40\00:36:02.25
that we looked at
previous presentation.
00:36:02.28\00:36:04.83
Remember, Egypt it had no,
00:36:04.86\00:36:07.03
it had all these
natural defenses,
00:36:07.06\00:36:09.45
it had the deserts on each side
00:36:09.48\00:36:11.64
and it had the cataract
down at the south of Aswan,
00:36:11.67\00:36:14.25
the Mediterranean at the north.
00:36:14.28\00:36:15.36
But there were no
natural defenses here.
00:36:15.39\00:36:17.64
And so whoever got stronger
00:36:17.67\00:36:19.17
and whoever had
the best armaments,
00:36:19.20\00:36:20.76
they would come and
overrun the other people
00:36:20.79\00:36:22.28
and so was constantly going
back and forth, back and forth.
00:36:22.31\00:36:25.83
Nomads swarming
out of the desert,
00:36:25.86\00:36:28.15
other times armies descending
down from the mountains.
00:36:28.18\00:36:31.39
Sumerians gave
way to the Akkadians
00:36:31.42\00:36:33.97
who gave way to the Babylonians
00:36:34.00\00:36:35.84
then surely after
the death of Hammurabi
00:36:35.87\00:36:37.98
the Babylonian empire began
to disintegrate and once again
00:36:38.01\00:36:41.75
there was a chaos and turmoil
in the land between the rivers
00:36:41.78\00:36:47.54
until a new people rose in
the banks of the upper Tigris
00:36:47.57\00:36:52.95
they were called the
Assyrians not Syrians
00:36:52.98\00:36:55.76
but the Assyrians a ferocious
people, a violent people.
00:36:55.79\00:37:00.16
Their very professional was war.
00:37:00.19\00:37:03.44
They had little trouble
overcoming the people there.
00:37:03.47\00:37:07.17
They came down and attacked,
00:37:07.20\00:37:09.04
they have very
little arable land
00:37:09.07\00:37:10.81
they came from the
mountains and so they came down
00:37:10.84\00:37:12.94
and overcame the people
their profession was war.
00:37:12.97\00:37:17.20
They were disciplined,
they worshipped a god Asher
00:37:17.23\00:37:22.31
who was the very god of war.
00:37:22.34\00:37:24.43
This God was symbolized
by tree represent fertility
00:37:24.46\00:37:27.13
but first and
foremost he was the god of war.
00:37:27.16\00:37:30.05
And war became part
00:37:30.08\00:37:31.60
of the national
religion of Assyria.
00:37:31.63\00:37:34.19
Yet until the archeologist
began to uncover the remains
00:37:34.22\00:37:38.02
of their cities and palaces
knowledge of the Assyrians
00:37:38.05\00:37:42.02
was based mainly upon accounts
that you read in the Bible.
00:37:42.05\00:37:45.94
They founded the cities
with the extensive cities
00:37:45.97\00:37:48.64
of Nineveh and Nimrud
when they were discovered
00:37:48.67\00:37:50.58
and excavated
frightening relieves
00:37:50.61\00:37:53.60
of their warfare were found.
00:37:53.63\00:37:56.10
Cities being sacked under
the watchful eye of a king,
00:37:56.13\00:38:00.58
prisoners being
impaled upon sharp spikes,
00:38:00.61\00:38:03.70
enemy rulers being flayed alive
or they were tied to the ground.
00:38:03.73\00:38:07.23
Birds flying away with heads,
00:38:07.26\00:38:09.00
decapitated bodies
floating down the rivers,
00:38:09.03\00:38:11.03
it was a terrible
scene, a terrible scene.
00:38:11.06\00:38:13.93
The Assyrians
became experts in war.
00:38:13.96\00:38:17.25
They combined the power of
advanced military technology
00:38:17.28\00:38:20.17
with the ruthless discipline
narrowly applied to one end
00:38:20.20\00:38:24.07
dominating the world.
00:38:24.10\00:38:25.94
They believed they
were on a divine mission
00:38:25.97\00:38:28.42
as one of their kings
00:38:28.45\00:38:29.95
Assurhaden related in
this inscription he said,
00:38:29.98\00:38:32.78
"The gods
commissioned me against any land
00:38:32.81\00:38:34.83
that sinned
against the god Asshur.
00:38:34.86\00:38:37.04
Asshur the father of
the gods empowered me
00:38:37.07\00:38:39.27
to de-populate and re-populate,
00:38:39.30\00:38:41.72
to make broad the
boundary of the land
00:38:41.75\00:38:44.72
of the God of Asshur."
00:38:44.75\00:38:47.23
Depopulation or deportation
00:38:47.26\00:38:49.56
became at
trademark of the Assyrians.
00:38:49.59\00:38:51.91
It's estimated during
the 9th centaury that they,
00:38:51.94\00:38:54.57
they move four to five
million people from their homes
00:38:54.60\00:38:59.14
and put them in other places.
00:38:59.17\00:39:00.85
One of the people they
moved was the Israelites
00:39:00.88\00:39:04.13
and they brought other
people into the land of Israel
00:39:04.16\00:39:06.84
and they assimilated and
they became the Samaritans
00:39:06.87\00:39:09.73
that we talked
about in the last episode
00:39:09.76\00:39:12.07
the woman of the
world was a Samaritan woman.
00:39:12.10\00:39:14.39
The Good Samaritan
story we also talked about.
00:39:14.42\00:39:17.47
These people when
they would the Assyrians
00:39:17.50\00:39:21.34
would just move people around
00:39:21.37\00:39:23.21
so they wouldn't
have their bearings
00:39:23.24\00:39:24.89
and they would be
very hard for them
00:39:24.92\00:39:26.52
to be able to
fight against them.
00:39:26.55\00:39:28.09
And so they did this
ethnic cleansing you might say.
00:39:28.12\00:39:32.40
Well they were
terrible leaders that developed
00:39:32.43\00:39:35.27
Tigleth-Pilesser you
know that would be a good name
00:39:35.30\00:39:37.46
for rottweiler
isn't it here in Kansas.
00:39:37.49\00:39:39.69
Tigleth-Pilesser come, I mean,
these were ferocious kings,
00:39:39.72\00:39:43.18
Ashur-nasir-pal,
Ashurbanipal I should say.
00:39:43.21\00:39:46.19
Shalmanessar.
00:39:46.22\00:39:48.19
Sargon that we
talked about earlier,
00:39:48.22\00:39:50.46
Sennacherib these were
names that people shattered
00:39:50.49\00:39:53.83
when they heard
their names uttered.
00:39:53.86\00:39:56.75
Sennacherib is of courses
the king that we spoke about
00:39:56.78\00:39:59.97
when we talked about
Jerusalem because he came down,
00:40:00.00\00:40:02.85
he conquered all of Judah
00:40:02.88\00:40:04.50
basically, took
as we talked about.
00:40:04.53\00:40:06.86
He came to the
very gates of Jerusalem.
00:40:06.89\00:40:09.77
And Hezekiah cut the
gold off of the temple doors
00:40:09.80\00:40:12.91
and gave it as
tribute to Sennacherib.
00:40:12.94\00:40:16.16
But remember Hezekiah he
repented they had a revival
00:40:16.19\00:40:21.80
he also believed in
faith and works as we saw.
00:40:21.83\00:40:23.79
Remember, he
build the broad wall
00:40:23.82\00:40:25.08
and he dug tunnel
underneath did all those things.
00:40:25.11\00:40:27.23
But he was praying
and Isaiah led a revival
00:40:27.26\00:40:30.27
and the Lord delivered Jerusalem
00:40:30.30\00:40:33.28
from the hand of Sennacherib.
00:40:33.31\00:40:35.54
Its amazing it was 1,000
miles from Assyria down to Egypt
00:40:35.57\00:40:39.02
and yet Egypt paid
tribute to Sennacherib.
00:40:39.05\00:40:42.11
But the city of
Jerusalem was to delivered.
00:40:42.14\00:40:45.11
Sennacherib put this on
his inscription of his prison.
00:40:45.14\00:40:47.90
He said I had "Hezekiah
the Jew 'shut up like a bird
00:40:47.93\00:40:51.54
in a royal cage'"
in a city Jerusalem.
00:40:51.57\00:40:54.70
But it was Sennacherib
because he was unable
00:40:54.73\00:40:56.76
to conquer the
city it was delivered.
00:40:56.79\00:41:00.18
Yes it was a
terrible time a terrible time.
00:41:00.21\00:41:05.66
Great the higher the
glory and power however
00:41:05.69\00:41:09.79
Sennacherib empire came to
an end the Assyrians vanished
00:41:09.82\00:41:13.27
from history
great military machine
00:41:13.30\00:41:15.48
has sworn through
Iraq through out history.
00:41:15.51\00:41:18.33
Those strange name Shalmanessar
00:41:18.36\00:41:20.28
and
Tigleth-pilesser and Sennacherib
00:41:20.31\00:41:22.52
they built some of the ferocious
military machines of antiquity.
00:41:22.55\00:41:25.08
They swept the region
destroying all who resisted
00:41:25.11\00:41:28.17
and demanding tribute
from all who surrendered.
00:41:28.20\00:41:31.80
But when their cup became full
00:41:31.83\00:41:33.59
they too removed off
the stage of history.
00:41:33.62\00:41:37.84
Nabopolassar brought the Neo
Babylonian Empire to its height.
00:41:37.87\00:41:42.41
He built his
palace at old Babylon.
00:41:42.44\00:41:45.70
He extended his empire 605 BC,
00:41:45.73\00:41:50.32
his son Nebuchadnezzar defeated
00:41:50.35\00:41:52.89
the Egyptian king Necho
down at Carchemish in Syria.
00:41:52.92\00:41:58.53
Nebuchadnezzar brought the city
00:41:58.56\00:41:59.93
of Babylon to its zenith.
00:41:59.96\00:42:01.59
He decorated the city as no
other city ever been decorated.
00:42:01.62\00:42:05.17
Those famed
hanging gardens of Babylon
00:42:05.20\00:42:07.59
were one of the seven
wonders of the ancient world.
00:42:07.62\00:42:10.26
He built the
gardens to console a wife
00:42:10.29\00:42:12.67
from the mountains of media.
00:42:12.70\00:42:14.38
She longed for the
green mountains of her youth
00:42:14.41\00:42:17.77
in that flat dry
land of the desert valley.
00:42:17.80\00:42:22.56
Now the Euphrates ran through
the ancient city of Babylon
00:42:22.59\00:42:25.77
provided water for
drinking and irrigation.
00:42:25.80\00:42:28.31
The river also assisted
in the defense of the city.
00:42:28.34\00:42:32.39
a lot of history tells
us it had great double walls
00:42:32.42\00:42:34.85
some 85 feet thick,
11 miles long outer walls
00:42:34.88\00:42:39.24
and outer mode
added to the defenses.
00:42:39.27\00:42:41.42
Babylon was the
largest city of antiquity
00:42:41.45\00:42:44.77
sprawled over a thousand acres.
00:42:44.80\00:42:47.54
Nebuchadnezzar restored
the glory of the ancient city
00:42:47.57\00:42:52.08
by creating what is known
as the Neo Babylonian Empire.
00:42:52.11\00:42:56.04
And its interesting is we noted
00:42:56.07\00:42:57.69
that Saddam
Hussein styled himself
00:42:57.72\00:42:59.98
has the new Nebuchadnezzar,
00:43:00.01\00:43:03.51
the new Nebuchadnezzar.
00:43:03.54\00:43:05.12
Like his name says Saddam
00:43:05.15\00:43:07.14
was dreaming of
ruling over a great empire.
00:43:07.17\00:43:10.79
When
Nebuchadnezzar attacked Judah
00:43:10.82\00:43:12.98
she turned to Egypt for help.
00:43:13.01\00:43:15.27
It was just a matter of time
00:43:15.30\00:43:16.33
until Nebuchadnezzar
was the solo ruler
00:43:16.36\00:43:18.49
over the entire
area including Egypt.
00:43:18.52\00:43:21.47
Its a interesting Bible
verse Daniel 1:1 it says,
00:43:21.50\00:43:26.12
"In the third year of the reign
of Jehoiakim king of Judah,
00:43:26.15\00:43:30.06
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon
00:43:30.09\00:43:31.89
came down to
Jerusalem and besieged it."
00:43:31.92\00:43:34.37
Now I often referred the
Bible as a tale of two cities
00:43:34.40\00:43:37.08
because we first read about
00:43:37.11\00:43:38.94
these two cities in
the Book of Genesis.
00:43:38.97\00:43:41.48
Its not called
Babylon there is called Babel
00:43:41.51\00:43:45.42
where they built that tower.
00:43:45.45\00:43:47.09
It's not called
Jerusalem its called Salem
00:43:47.12\00:43:50.62
where there was a
priest king name Melchizedek
00:43:50.65\00:43:52.53
that Abraham paid tithe to.
00:43:52.56\00:43:54.61
So the first place
to read about Babylon
00:43:54.64\00:43:56.22
in Jerusalem is in Genesis.
00:43:56.25\00:43:57.87
The last place to read
about them is in Revelation
00:43:57.90\00:44:00.53
and in between we see this
titanic struggle if you please
00:44:00.56\00:44:03.55
between the two
cities or the two cultures
00:44:03.58\00:44:06.21
or the two gods
Babylon and Jerusalem.
00:44:06.24\00:44:11.25
King of Babylon came to
Jerusalem and besieged it.
00:44:11.28\00:44:16.29
He took
trophies back to Babylon.
00:44:16.32\00:44:19.08
He took vessels from
the temple of Yahweh.
00:44:19.11\00:44:22.66
And he took living trophies
from the princess of Judah.
00:44:22.69\00:44:27.53
Daniel and three of his friends
were among the exiles in 605 BC.
00:44:27.56\00:44:32.83
Nineteen years
later in the summer of 586
00:44:32.86\00:44:37.34
he returned to
Jerusalem to put down a revolt.
00:44:37.37\00:44:40.38
He sacked the city.
00:44:40.41\00:44:42.06
He destroyed the
temple of Solomon
00:44:42.09\00:44:45.00
and deported the people
00:44:45.03\00:44:46.52
who remained there
including Jeremiah the prophet.
00:44:46.55\00:44:49.45
Here on the screen we
see a section of the wall
00:44:49.48\00:44:53.48
from the days of Hezekiah.
00:44:53.51\00:44:55.60
This wall was
destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar
00:44:55.63\00:44:59.65
when he had a siege
rams battering the wall.
00:44:59.68\00:45:03.35
And here on the screen
00:45:03.38\00:45:04.63
you'll actually see
Babylonian spearheads
00:45:04.66\00:45:07.33
expended in that
battle of 586 BC.
00:45:07.36\00:45:10.98
Yes, it happened, it happened
00:45:11.01\00:45:13.56
and it's very interesting
to notice the commentary
00:45:13.59\00:45:16.67
that Daniel the
prophet gives in Daniel 1:2.
00:45:16.70\00:45:20.03
He says, "And the Lord."
00:45:20.06\00:45:21.98
Notice it's capitalized
it mean there is Yahweh.
00:45:22.01\00:45:24.65
"And the Lord delivered
Jehoiakim king of Judah,
00:45:24.68\00:45:28.29
into his hand, along
with some of the articles
00:45:28.32\00:45:30.38
from the temple of God.
00:45:30.41\00:45:31.85
These he carried off
00:45:31.88\00:45:32.91
to the temple of
his god in Babylonia
00:45:32.94\00:45:34.96
and put in the
treasure house of his God."
00:45:34.99\00:45:36.85
Now that's amazing
because to the naked eye
00:45:36.88\00:45:39.87
it looks like who
is the strongest God.
00:45:39.90\00:45:42.25
Who is the strongest
God of the naked eye?
00:45:42.28\00:45:44.79
Bel-Marduk
because he has defeated
00:45:44.82\00:45:47.60
the god Yahweh down in Jerusalem
00:45:47.63\00:45:49.61
because they have been captured
00:45:49.64\00:45:51.39
and they had now been
taken off in captivity.
00:45:51.42\00:45:54.32
And so to the naked eye
when he was looking at it,
00:45:54.35\00:45:56.63
who is the
strongest God? Bel-Marduk.
00:45:56.66\00:45:59.44
Because you always you know
you haven't fall for your God.
00:45:59.47\00:46:03.97
And yet Daniel
confirms what Jeremiah said.
00:46:04.00\00:46:08.09
And he said no
the Lord delivered
00:46:08.12\00:46:12.79
Jehoiakim king of
Judah into his hand.
00:46:12.82\00:46:16.17
It wasn't because
they were stronger
00:46:16.20\00:46:18.06
or better or had a better god,
00:46:18.09\00:46:20.83
our God delivered He
allowed us to heaven.
00:46:20.86\00:46:24.29
He actually sent this as
a punishment upon His people
00:46:24.32\00:46:28.49
because they
turned their back on Him
00:46:28.52\00:46:30.31
and were worshiping idols.
00:46:30.34\00:46:32.37
And so Daniel says
"wait a minute look deeper,
00:46:32.40\00:46:35.07
look deeper the Lord delivered
00:46:35.10\00:46:39.11
and we might wonder why on earth
00:46:39.14\00:46:41.23
with the lord Yahweh delivered
the king of the Holy city
00:46:41.26\00:46:45.60
and delivered the
vessels from the temple
00:46:45.63\00:46:47.75
the only temple that bore
His name in the entire world
00:46:47.78\00:46:50.48
into heathen
king from Babylonia.
00:46:50.51\00:46:53.71
A tyrant been on
ruling the world.
00:46:53.74\00:46:56.69
Where Jeremiah
24-- Jeremiah 27:4-7
00:46:56.72\00:47:00.62
actually "God calls
Nebuchadnezzar His servant."
00:47:00.65\00:47:06.96
His servant? Yes, His servant.
00:47:06.99\00:47:10.31
He says
"Nebuchadnezzar is my servant."
00:47:10.34\00:47:12.59
He refers to Nebuchadnezzar
92 times in the Bible,
00:47:12.62\00:47:15.67
refers to his
capital Babylon 165 times.
00:47:15.70\00:47:19.77
You know as I read
this fascinating story
00:47:19.80\00:47:21.56
I'm convinced of
God's love for Babylon
00:47:21.59\00:47:24.86
and for people who live there.
00:47:24.89\00:47:26.15
I'm convinced of God's
love for the king of Babylon.
00:47:26.18\00:47:29.06
He sent a message of mercy
to Nineveh and she repented.
00:47:29.09\00:47:33.39
God sent the prophet
Daniel down to live in Babylon
00:47:33.42\00:47:37.41
so he could
witness to this Iraqi king.
00:47:37.44\00:47:40.13
So he could share
with him the good news
00:47:40.16\00:47:41.84
of the God of heaven.
00:47:41.87\00:47:44.52
Daniel was sent to reach
00:47:44.55\00:47:46.91
the kings heart
with the good news.
00:47:46.94\00:47:49.38
The Book of Daniel chronicles
how Yahweh the lord worked
00:47:49.41\00:47:53.90
and worked and worked
00:47:53.93\00:47:55.34
to try and
reach the kings heart.
00:47:55.37\00:47:58.51
In chapter 1 there is a
jihad there is a holy war
00:47:58.54\00:48:00.97
between Babylon and Jerusalem.
00:48:01.00\00:48:03.32
It appears as
though the Babylonian god
00:48:03.35\00:48:05.19
is superior to
the god the Hebrews
00:48:05.22\00:48:06.88
but Jeremiah and
Daniel and far as we say no
00:48:06.91\00:48:09.90
it's not at a defeat for the God
00:48:09.93\00:48:12.01
because our God
because He is inferior
00:48:12.04\00:48:14.47
our God is allowing us to happen
00:48:14.50\00:48:15.95
as a punishment on His people
00:48:15.98\00:48:17.98
who've turned their backs on Him
00:48:18.01\00:48:20.14
and are worshiping idols.
00:48:20.17\00:48:22.69
As Daniel walk 1,500 long miles
00:48:22.72\00:48:26.25
retracing the
foot steps of Abraham
00:48:26.28\00:48:28.70
up through
Lebanon, up through Syria,
00:48:28.73\00:48:30.72
around through Turkey
down the Euphrates River
00:48:30.75\00:48:33.39
he must been asking why.
00:48:33.42\00:48:34.96
Can you imagine the soldiers?
00:48:34.99\00:48:36.35
Yeah, your god Yahweh
he is some god isn't he?
00:48:36.38\00:48:39.33
Yeah, don't you think?
00:48:39.36\00:48:40.50
Yeah that's what being
said as they were walking along.
00:48:40.53\00:48:43.21
And probably most of the exiles
are totally demoralized by this.
00:48:43.24\00:48:47.89
But you see Daniel he would
sit at the foot of Jeremiah
00:48:47.92\00:48:51.70
and the schools of the prophets.
00:48:51.73\00:48:53.92
And Isaiah had written some
things about this earlier on.
00:48:53.95\00:48:57.54
And Jeremiah taught
his students about that.
00:48:57.57\00:49:00.30
And Daniel
remembered that and so
00:49:00.33\00:49:02.14
he was just
praying as he was walking
00:49:02.17\00:49:03.78
those 1,500
miles back to Babylon.
00:49:03.81\00:49:06.62
He was praying Lord, why?
00:49:06.65\00:49:09.42
Use me as Your witness,
use me to make a difference
00:49:09.45\00:49:12.66
there in the court of
Babylon, use me Lord, use me.
00:49:12.69\00:49:18.22
Daniel settled into
the school of Babylon
00:49:18.25\00:49:20.16
and soon he discovered
00:49:20.19\00:49:21.59
why he have been brought
to the court of the king.
00:49:21.62\00:49:24.55
Here you
graduate summa cum laude
00:49:24.58\00:49:28.69
from the University of Babylon.
00:49:28.72\00:49:29.90
He had been praying for the king
00:49:29.93\00:49:31.47
and as result to Daniels prayers
00:49:31.50\00:49:33.27
God sent a dream to the king
00:49:33.30\00:49:35.04
and it shook the king up.
00:49:35.07\00:49:36.10
He didn't knew
what was going on.
00:49:36.13\00:49:39.27
God of heaven confronted
an in Iraqi king in a dream.
00:49:39.30\00:49:43.31
The king was
concerned about the future,
00:49:43.34\00:49:44.90
he didn't know what it meant.
00:49:44.93\00:49:46.54
Would his kingdom
survive? Would he be overthrown?
00:49:46.57\00:49:50.14
Would his children
be killed as it happens
00:49:50.17\00:49:52.24
so often in
plain of Mesopotamia?
00:49:52.27\00:49:55.00
What would be the future?
00:49:55.03\00:49:57.42
And one night while
the king was sleeping
00:49:57.45\00:49:59.86
the God of heavens
sent a dream to him.
00:49:59.89\00:50:03.05
And the king was startled by.
00:50:03.08\00:50:04.31
He woke up and he
couldn't remember the dream.
00:50:04.34\00:50:06.71
And so the king really
what any of us would do
00:50:06.74\00:50:09.05
he called in
all of his wise men,
00:50:09.08\00:50:10.57
all the people he
pays to know the future
00:50:10.60\00:50:13.72
and he said "hey,
you guys are smart
00:50:13.75\00:50:15.68
that's what I pay you for.
00:50:15.71\00:50:17.31
I dreamed something
incredible last night
00:50:17.34\00:50:18.72
but I can't remember
can you tell me what it was?
00:50:18.75\00:50:21.65
And they said it is a trap."
00:50:21.68\00:50:24.39
And, you know,
how can we tell you
00:50:24.42\00:50:26.00
what you dreamed last
night we weren't with you.
00:50:26.03\00:50:28.08
You tell us what's' your
dream we'll tell what it meant.
00:50:28.11\00:50:29.54
He said, well it's gone from
me but its really important.
00:50:29.57\00:50:32.82
And then he began to suspect
a wrath because, you know,
00:50:32.85\00:50:35.28
he pays and to know the future.
00:50:35.31\00:50:36.70
And if they can know the
future they must know the past.
00:50:36.73\00:50:38.93
And so he thinks it
must really be bad news
00:50:38.96\00:50:40.96
because you're not telling them
00:50:40.99\00:50:42.11
what you dreamed
about last night.
00:50:42.14\00:50:43.53
And so he says
"you better tell me
00:50:43.56\00:50:45.34
or I am gonna kill each
one of you and not only you
00:50:45.37\00:50:48.54
but your wives and children too.
00:50:48.57\00:50:50.37
And then I gonna
knock your houses down
00:50:50.40\00:50:52.20
and your whole
memory will be forgotten.
00:50:52.23\00:50:53.48
So you better tell me
what I dreamed last night."
00:50:53.51\00:50:55.24
And they said "this is too much.
00:50:55.27\00:50:56.81
You know no kings ever
asked for anything like this.
00:50:56.84\00:50:59.21
You know we can't do this."
00:50:59.24\00:51:01.43
Well, Daniel was not
brought in at this time
00:51:01.46\00:51:05.10
he was a junior wise man
but he gets word of this.
00:51:05.13\00:51:07.38
And you know what devil
was trying to do, won't you?
00:51:07.41\00:51:09.59
He was trying to kill
Daniel, right before he ever got
00:51:09.62\00:51:12.64
a chance to
witness to Nebuchadnezzar.
00:51:12.67\00:51:14.48
And so Daniel hears about
and he goes to his friends
00:51:14.51\00:51:17.44
and notice what he says here
00:51:17.47\00:51:18.92
it is on the
screen Daniel Chapter 2
00:51:18.95\00:51:20.54
"Then Daniel
returned to his house
00:51:20.57\00:51:22.07
and explained the
matter to his friends.
00:51:22.10\00:51:23.55
He urged them to plead for
mercy from the God of heaven
00:51:23.58\00:51:26.53
concerning this mystery,
so that he and his friends
00:51:26.56\00:51:30.02
might not be executed
with the wise men of Babylon."
00:51:30.05\00:51:33.74
Well, I can tell you one
thing I bet that was some prayer
00:51:33.77\00:51:36.03
meeting to go don't you think.
00:51:36.06\00:51:37.81
And when your lives
on the line tomorrow
00:51:37.84\00:51:40.32
and so they
pray and they prayed.
00:51:40.35\00:51:43.79
And an amazing thing happened
00:51:43.82\00:51:46.20
the God of heaven
answered there prayer.
00:51:46.23\00:51:49.98
It goes on to say
"then was the secret revealed
00:51:50.01\00:51:52.94
to Daniel in a night vision.
00:51:52.97\00:51:55.73
Then was a secret reveal
the Daniel in night vision."
00:51:55.76\00:51:58.41
Wow, I think it was not
only a great prayer meeting
00:51:58.44\00:52:01.22
I imagine it was a
great praise meeting
00:52:01.25\00:52:02.85
when that
happened don't you think.
00:52:02.88\00:52:04.71
They were praising, thank you
Lord, for revealing this to us.
00:52:04.74\00:52:07.89
And can't just imagine you know
00:52:07.92\00:52:09.36
when Daniel goes
down and says "you know,
00:52:09.39\00:52:13.68
has anybody been able tot
tell the dream to the king."
00:52:13.71\00:52:16.51
Well, no I think
and it actually says
00:52:16.54\00:52:19.28
in the texts in the sorcerers,
00:52:19.31\00:52:20.90
magicians and
all these wise men.
00:52:20.93\00:52:22.13
Oh, no, no.
00:52:22.16\00:52:23.34
He said "well, the God in
heaven has revealed it to me."
00:52:23.37\00:52:26.83
You know now I remember these
were poised from the same God
00:52:26.86\00:52:29.30
that have been taunting
him on that 1,500 mile walk
00:52:29.33\00:52:31.70
but there was a, you
know, the God in heaven Yahweh.
00:52:31.73\00:52:33.63
You know that god I serve,
he revealed to him what it was.
00:52:33.66\00:52:37.25
I would go and
tell the king about it.
00:52:37.28\00:52:39.28
Well, this is fabulous
dream, a fantastic dream
00:52:39.31\00:52:42.11
because God not only answered
the concerns of Nebuchadnezzar
00:52:42.14\00:52:46.46
about the future it
actually unfolds the future
00:52:46.49\00:52:50.14
for over 2,500
years down to our day.
00:52:50.17\00:52:54.21
And Louis Torres has come
here to tell us about that.
00:52:54.24\00:52:58.08
He has this he has to
continue this seminars
00:52:58.11\00:53:00.39
and he unfolds
them, come up, Louis.
00:53:00.42\00:53:02.40
I want you to
introduce you to these folks.
00:53:02.43\00:53:05.47
Louis has actually come here
and he's gonna be leading you
00:53:05.50\00:53:08.38
in a seminar as
we unpack this dream.
00:53:08.41\00:53:12.42
And we talk about
this incredible dream
00:53:12.45\00:53:15.28
as a matter of fact I
think the next episode
00:53:15.31\00:53:16.96
is actually gonna be talking
just about that isn't it.
00:53:16.99\00:53:21.70
And they have you mike up here.
00:53:21.73\00:53:24.67
Okay, Louie,
welcome. Thanks so much.
00:53:24.70\00:53:28.23
I am a guest
here just like you are
00:53:28.26\00:53:29.96
but it's a great
group people to be with
00:53:29.99\00:53:31.85
and I know that you're
gonna have a tremendous joy
00:53:31.88\00:53:35.95
unpacking this dream
because it's tremendous.
00:53:35.98\00:53:38.36
I mean, God
reaching down talking
00:53:38.39\00:53:40.13
to an Iraq king like
that revealing it the dream
00:53:40.16\00:53:43.18
through Daniel
it's just wonderful
00:53:43.21\00:53:44.97
but it actually
reveals the future the world.
00:53:45.00\00:53:48.05
It's amazing,
the dream is amazing.
00:53:48.08\00:53:50.00
In fact, some dreams do
come true, is that correct.
00:53:50.03\00:53:55.28
Let me tell you about the
dream I had, strange dream.
00:53:55.31\00:53:58.49
I usually don't remember
dreams and I have to say that
00:53:58.52\00:54:01.99
I usually don't even
remember I have dreams.
00:54:02.02\00:54:04.72
Sometimes it's
better not to remember.
00:54:04.75\00:54:07.48
When I was a little boy
I had terrible nightmares
00:54:07.51\00:54:11.35
but I was in the up city.
00:54:11.38\00:54:12.76
I had been a
missionary in Palau.
00:54:12.79\00:54:16.21
How many of you know
where the Palau islands are?
00:54:16.24\00:54:18.27
Anyone of you know?
00:54:18.30\00:54:19.65
Is in the Pacific
Ocean, North Pacific.
00:54:19.68\00:54:22.89
And when I returned from Palau
00:54:22.92\00:54:25.32
I had a friend
who was a governor.
00:54:25.35\00:54:27.89
I left him in charge of
building a brand new church.
00:54:27.92\00:54:31.34
And what while I
was in New York City
00:54:31.37\00:54:33.71
I had a dream about him
00:54:33.74\00:54:35.00
that he would become president.
00:54:35.03\00:54:38.55
So, when I woke up
00:54:38.58\00:54:41.03
I thought about
writing to my friend.
00:54:41.06\00:54:44.74
Then I thought, silly me.
00:54:44.77\00:54:47.86
What if I write about the
dream and it doesn't come true?
00:54:47.89\00:54:52.21
So I hesitated, didn't
do anything about the dream
00:54:52.24\00:54:55.70
but it troubled me
00:54:55.73\00:54:56.85
and it troubled
me and it trouble me
00:54:56.88\00:54:58.76
and finally I
wrote to the governor.
00:54:58.79\00:55:02.69
And I said I had a dream
that you would become president
00:55:02.72\00:55:06.47
but my biggest concern was
that if he became president
00:55:06.50\00:55:10.08
he would not follow through
with the building of the church,
00:55:10.11\00:55:15.06
he become too busy.
00:55:15.09\00:55:16.95
So I sent the letter
never heard from him.
00:55:16.98\00:55:22.46
Two years later, I
received a telephone call
00:55:22.49\00:55:26.55
asked me to go to Palau
and to dedicate the church.
00:55:26.58\00:55:33.83
When I arrived
there a senator came
00:55:33.86\00:55:37.37
to the airport and picked me up.
00:55:37.40\00:55:39.21
I didn't even have
to go through customs.
00:55:39.24\00:55:41.55
And I thought it
was just quite unusual.
00:55:41.58\00:55:44.75
Finally they took me
too and the president place
00:55:44.78\00:55:50.09
and sure enough he
had become president.
00:55:50.12\00:55:54.46
And I said to him
why didn't you respond?
00:55:54.49\00:55:59.60
Why didn't you write back?
00:55:59.63\00:56:01.18
He said when I got the
letter I got scared to death
00:56:01.21\00:56:06.61
and I did not know what to do.
00:56:06.64\00:56:07.95
So--
00:56:07.98\00:56:09.01
Dreams do come
true. Dreams do come true.
00:56:09.04\00:56:10.98
Well, I know you're gonna be
talking to them about this dream
00:56:11.01\00:56:13.07
and in next episode,
its gonna be thrilling
00:56:13.10\00:56:15.07
as you see the great prophecies
of Daniel marching through time
00:56:15.10\00:56:18.68
and I want to
encourage all of you here
00:56:18.71\00:56:20.35
and all of you
watching to enjoy the seminar
00:56:20.38\00:56:22.67
that is going to
continue as we dig up the future
00:56:22.70\00:56:26.22
and looking at Bible prophecy.
00:56:26.25\00:56:28.15
A tremendous dream
you don't want to miss it.
00:56:28.18\00:56:30.39
Well, its time for us
to have a closing prayer
00:56:30.42\00:56:33.36
for this episode
before we wish you
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good-bye, good-tonight.
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Father in heaven, we thank
You so much for this opportunity
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to dig up the future
to look into the past.
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And as we are confronted
by this incredible dream
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of Nebuchadnezzar I pray
that You will bless Louis
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as he shares his
dream and unpacks
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the great prophecies
of the Bible with us.
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We, our hearts
are thrilled by that.
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We thank You that
you love all people
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and through Iraqis and Americans
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that You're
trying to reach every one
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with the good news of Your love
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and we thank You for
hearing our prayer tonight
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and for Your blessings
upon us in Jesusname, amen.
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Well, again it's been a
wonderful to be with you.
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Thanking you for allowing me
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participate with you of
a series here in Wichita
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and may God bless all of you.
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