1 00:00:01,800 --> 00:00:05,900 All right, turn your Bibles tonight to Joshua chapter 10. 2 00:00:06,000 --> 00:00:08,400 Joshua chapter 10, the Kevin's got the idea. 3 00:00:08,400 --> 00:00:10,400 You might want to move up a little closer if you want to be 4 00:00:10,400 --> 00:00:13,400 able to see these especially, especially while the Sun's still 5 00:00:13,400 --> 00:00:15,900 out, kind of bright might be a little bit hard to see. 6 00:00:15,900 --> 00:00:20,800 So, move up if you want to and getting a place where you can 7 00:00:20,800 --> 00:00:24,100 see this pretty well. We talked about Ashkelon last 8 00:00:24,100 --> 00:00:27,100 week, and we talked about gas last week and I'd planned to get 9 00:00:27,100 --> 00:00:29,600 to La Quiche. It's a lot of times it's 10 00:00:29,600 --> 00:00:31,900 pronounced lakish. We pronounce it lakish kind of I 11 00:00:31,900 --> 00:00:35,500 guess in the English pronunciation its Lucky session. 12 00:00:35,500 --> 00:00:39,100 Actually they have that really. It's more like a lot quiche if 13 00:00:39,100 --> 00:00:43,000 you were going to say it in Hebrew but it's everybody 14 00:00:43,000 --> 00:00:44,900 pronounces it like that there's really not any other 15 00:00:44,900 --> 00:00:48,100 pronunciation as far as you know, I've mentioned last week 16 00:00:48,100 --> 00:00:50,500 that that sometimes there Are different pronunciations, 17 00:00:50,500 --> 00:00:53,700 different spellings and things like that depending on where you 18 00:00:53,700 --> 00:00:55,200 are, where you're from there in Israel. 19 00:00:55,200 --> 00:00:57,800 But lucky she's always pronounced the same way so 20 00:00:58,300 --> 00:01:00,700 that's what we'll call it and that's probably what I'll always 21 00:01:00,700 --> 00:01:02,800 call it from now on when I read it in the Bible, I've heard it 22 00:01:02,800 --> 00:01:08,000 so many times now but very very interesting things that happened 23 00:01:08,000 --> 00:01:10,600 here. So this is a The Visitor Center 24 00:01:10,600 --> 00:01:12,400 was actually not open the day that we were there. 25 00:01:12,400 --> 00:01:15,100 I don't know if I think, I think it's actually brand new so I 26 00:01:15,107 --> 00:01:18,500 don't even know if it had been opened period yet but that's 27 00:01:18,500 --> 00:01:22,700 that Remember somebody? Somebody tell me what it what a 28 00:01:22,708 --> 00:01:26,000 tell is this is tell lucky shush, Alex. 29 00:01:32,100 --> 00:01:34,500 Yeah. So a mound, basic a man-made 30 00:01:34,500 --> 00:01:36,000 Mound. That's the, that's an easy way 31 00:01:36,000 --> 00:01:38,900 to say. It's a man-made Mound because it 32 00:01:38,900 --> 00:01:42,400 was torn down a city was built and usually, it was already on 33 00:01:42,400 --> 00:01:44,800 some kind of a little bit of a mound because that's that gave 34 00:01:44,800 --> 00:01:46,600 it a little bit of a strategic position. 35 00:01:47,200 --> 00:01:50,800 And then that City got destroyed somehow or they abandon it 36 00:01:50,800 --> 00:01:52,500 somehow and it fell into disrepair. 37 00:01:52,700 --> 00:01:55,300 They completely covered it up and then took the materials that 38 00:01:55,300 --> 00:01:57,300 were there and built on top of it, and then covered it up and 39 00:01:57,300 --> 00:01:59,700 built on top of it. So many of these tells have 40 00:01:59,700 --> 00:02:02,100 layers and layers of civilization underneath of them. 41 00:02:02,200 --> 00:02:04,900 This one is a pretty obvious picture of a tell. 42 00:02:05,500 --> 00:02:08,800 Really you can, you can kind of tell when it's not a man-made 43 00:02:08,800 --> 00:02:11,200 Mound, especially because most often. 44 00:02:11,400 --> 00:02:14,600 It's just this mound of dirt in the middle of a middle of a 45 00:02:14,600 --> 00:02:16,500 field or something like that, right? 46 00:02:16,900 --> 00:02:19,900 But this is kind of as you're approaching La Quiche from the 47 00:02:19,900 --> 00:02:25,900 outside lucky, she was actually a Canaanite City and it was a 48 00:02:25,900 --> 00:02:28,100 Canaanite city that was conquered by Joshua. 49 00:02:30,100 --> 00:02:32,600 Speaking of Joshua, it's not moving anymore. 50 00:02:34,100 --> 00:02:35,400 I don't know what I'm doing wrong. 51 00:02:35,900 --> 00:02:39,300 Am I reaching you? Is it moving back there? 52 00:02:40,300 --> 00:02:44,300 Nothing's happening. There we go. 53 00:02:44,300 --> 00:02:46,800 Okay, great view of it right there, as well. 54 00:02:47,500 --> 00:02:49,400 I'll explain what you're looking at here in just a second. 55 00:02:49,400 --> 00:02:52,400 But let me, let's read this. In Joshua, chapter 10 and verse 56 00:02:52,400 --> 00:02:56,900 number 31, The Joshua course, this is as they're, they're 57 00:02:56,900 --> 00:02:59,700 coming into the land. In fact, let me do this. 58 00:02:59,700 --> 00:03:04,500 Let me show you on this map. We're lucky she is. 59 00:03:04,600 --> 00:03:08,800 Alright, so here is the Sea of Galilee, okay? 60 00:03:08,900 --> 00:03:10,900 This is the northern, this is Mount Hermon. 61 00:03:10,900 --> 00:03:12,200 This is the north half of Israel. 62 00:03:12,200 --> 00:03:16,300 Try to get in a place where everybody can see it and there's 63 00:03:16,300 --> 00:03:18,000 two sides to this map. If you want to come, look at 64 00:03:18,008 --> 00:03:19,600 this one, doesn't really have a lot of places. 65 00:03:19,600 --> 00:03:23,900 This is more of a topography map of like the mountains in the 66 00:03:24,200 --> 00:03:25,900 Ali's and all that stuff. By the way, I don't know if I've 67 00:03:25,900 --> 00:03:30,500 mentioned this or not but the Dead Sea is the lowest place in 68 00:03:30,500 --> 00:03:33,500 the world. The lowest spot in the world and 69 00:03:33,500 --> 00:03:35,600 the Sea of Galilee is not too far behind it. 70 00:03:35,600 --> 00:03:37,300 As far as far as being a low place. 71 00:03:37,300 --> 00:03:39,900 But anyway, this is the this is the Sea of Galilee course. 72 00:03:39,900 --> 00:03:42,700 The Jordan River runs all the way down into the Dead Sea and 73 00:03:42,700 --> 00:03:46,000 then the Dead Sea doesn't have any outlet and that's why it's 74 00:03:46,000 --> 00:03:48,000 the Dead Sea. There's no, there's nothing 75 00:03:48,000 --> 00:03:50,200 alive in the Dead Sea. Of course, then all the way down 76 00:03:50,200 --> 00:03:53,100 here is the little finger. In fact, Let me, let me, let me 77 00:03:53,100 --> 00:03:56,100 show you this map. So you can get a, maybe a 78 00:03:56,100 --> 00:03:58,500 broader picture of what everything looks like. 79 00:03:58,600 --> 00:04:03,300 Okay, this is the entire land of Israel and Egypt and Jordan and 80 00:04:03,300 --> 00:04:05,700 Saudi Arabia and turkey and Syria. 81 00:04:05,800 --> 00:04:08,100 So this is, that's the entire region. 82 00:04:08,200 --> 00:04:10,200 All right. And that's that'll give you a 83 00:04:10,200 --> 00:04:12,100 pretty good view of what everything looks like here. 84 00:04:12,100 --> 00:04:15,400 So, Israel is basically here, of course, all of this is 85 00:04:15,400 --> 00:04:17,100 Mediterranean Sea. Okay. 86 00:04:17,100 --> 00:04:20,500 Here's Cyprus. But all of this is the land of 87 00:04:20,500 --> 00:04:23,500 Israel and kind of cuts off about right here and then and 88 00:04:23,500 --> 00:04:26,300 then back up this Sway. So all the way down this Edge, 89 00:04:26,300 --> 00:04:28,400 pretty much is Jordan all the way down here. 90 00:04:28,400 --> 00:04:30,500 Saudi Arabia. All the way here is Egypt, this 91 00:04:30,500 --> 00:04:33,300 is the Sinai, Peninsula, right here, which remember the 92 00:04:33,300 --> 00:04:35,000 children of Israel wandered in the wilderness? 93 00:04:35,000 --> 00:04:37,800 That was the area part of the area, where they wandered. 94 00:04:38,600 --> 00:04:41,200 Here's the here's the main Red Sea, and then you've got the two 95 00:04:41,200 --> 00:04:43,300 fingers that are coming off of that and those are actually 96 00:04:43,300 --> 00:04:47,600 considered the Red Sea as well, but one of them, forget what the 97 00:04:47,600 --> 00:04:52,200 what this golf is called Gulf of Suez, I think, is what the one 98 00:04:52,200 --> 00:04:54,200 on the left side is this is the Gulf of Aqaba. 99 00:04:54,300 --> 00:04:56,400 Aqua bra. If you're from the Jordan side 100 00:04:56,400 --> 00:04:59,000 is the Gulf of a lot if you're from the Israel side. 101 00:04:59,000 --> 00:05:02,900 So Israel calls it a lot, Jordan calls it Aqua bra on maps. 102 00:05:02,900 --> 00:05:05,600 Most the time, it's labeled as Aqua but they both have they 103 00:05:05,600 --> 00:05:08,600 both have access to that area. But really, there's a there's 104 00:05:08,600 --> 00:05:10,700 kind of an imaginary line, that's drawn right down the 105 00:05:10,700 --> 00:05:14,200 middle, and Israel has one half of it and Jordan has the other 106 00:05:14,200 --> 00:05:16,800 half of it, but to give you an idea then. 107 00:05:16,800 --> 00:05:18,900 So that's that's where you looking at everything. 108 00:05:20,500 --> 00:05:23,200 In a full picture. Now, this is so this is the top 109 00:05:23,200 --> 00:05:25,500 of that little finger right here. 110 00:05:25,600 --> 00:05:28,600 All right, let me pull this back up, this this, what you're 111 00:05:28,600 --> 00:05:30,900 looking at, on the very bottom, there's the top of this finger 112 00:05:30,900 --> 00:05:33,500 on this side, okay? To give you a picture. 113 00:05:34,000 --> 00:05:37,700 And again, the land of Israel is really not all that big in 114 00:05:37,700 --> 00:05:43,100 total, but Allah quiche. Okay, here's here is, here's 115 00:05:43,100 --> 00:05:44,900 Ashkelon. This is what we talked about 116 00:05:44,900 --> 00:05:47,000 last week, right? Here's a shadow. 117 00:05:47,000 --> 00:05:51,100 That's another one of the major cities of the Philistines like 118 00:05:51,100 --> 00:05:53,900 Keisha is right here. Okay, and I know you can't see 119 00:05:53,900 --> 00:05:55,300 it. It's too small for you to see 120 00:05:55,500 --> 00:05:58,000 but, but the Dead Sea, the Mediterranean Sea. 121 00:05:58,000 --> 00:06:01,400 It's not quite halfway, but it's about that far. 122 00:06:01,500 --> 00:06:02,900 All right, that's what we're talking about. 123 00:06:02,900 --> 00:06:06,900 So obviously, you're near the bottom, then the give K, this is 124 00:06:06,900 --> 00:06:10,500 then to give this is the, this is the desert area where the 125 00:06:10,500 --> 00:06:12,900 children of Israel wandered in the wilderness and all of that 126 00:06:12,900 --> 00:06:15,300 stuff, and of course, then they crossed over the Jordan. 127 00:06:15,600 --> 00:06:18,800 The Jordan River into the land of Canaan and that's when they 128 00:06:18,800 --> 00:06:20,500 started their conquest of Canaan. 129 00:06:20,700 --> 00:06:25,100 What was the first one that they came to and Concord Jericho, 130 00:06:25,100 --> 00:06:26,500 right? Jericho was the first one. 131 00:06:26,500 --> 00:06:28,800 What was in second one? Hey I. 132 00:06:28,800 --> 00:06:30,000 Yeah. And then they get into all the 133 00:06:30,000 --> 00:06:32,300 rest of them after that. But lucky she is one of those 134 00:06:32,300 --> 00:06:35,400 places that they came and and remember it was the land of 135 00:06:35,400 --> 00:06:36,800 Canaan. Right. 136 00:06:36,800 --> 00:06:41,900 So who owns it or whoo-hoo the Canaanites, right? 137 00:06:41,900 --> 00:06:43,000 Yeah. The land of Canaan, the 138 00:06:43,000 --> 00:06:45,900 Canaanites. So it was a Canaanite City when 139 00:06:45,900 --> 00:06:48,300 Joshua and the children of Israel came up to it. 140 00:06:48,300 --> 00:06:51,500 There in Joshua chapter 10, verse 31 and Joshua pass from 141 00:06:51,500 --> 00:06:54,100 Libya and all Israel with him unto Lakeisha. 142 00:06:54,200 --> 00:06:56,200 And encamped against it and fought against it. 143 00:06:56,200 --> 00:06:59,200 And the Lord delivered location to the hand of Israel, which 144 00:06:59,200 --> 00:07:02,400 took it on the second day and smote it with the edge of the 145 00:07:02,400 --> 00:07:04,400 sword and all the souls that were there in. 146 00:07:04,400 --> 00:07:06,900 According to all that he had done to live NE. 147 00:07:06,900 --> 00:07:11,800 So it was within the territory that was allotted to to Judah. 148 00:07:11,800 --> 00:07:17,300 And I have another map here that has all of the tribes of Israel 149 00:07:17,300 --> 00:07:21,900 listed on it. So this is all the land that was 150 00:07:21,900 --> 00:07:25,100 allotted to the tribe of Judah and you Look at this afterwards 151 00:07:25,100 --> 00:07:26,400 as well. It's a pretty interesting little 152 00:07:26,400 --> 00:07:28,000 map. But this is a this kind of a 153 00:07:28,008 --> 00:07:30,600 breakdown of all the different tribes and what they were given 154 00:07:30,800 --> 00:07:34,800 the land of Judah had the land that and of course then the 155 00:07:34,800 --> 00:07:37,000 Judean Wilderness, does anybody know? 156 00:07:37,300 --> 00:07:39,400 And we're going to look at this as well but anybody know what's 157 00:07:39,400 --> 00:07:41,500 significant about the Judean wilderness? 158 00:07:42,600 --> 00:07:46,700 In the New Testament. Jackson. 159 00:07:49,000 --> 00:07:51,400 Yeah, there's there's there's several things he had John, the 160 00:07:51,407 --> 00:07:54,000 Baptist was in the Judean Wilderness, Jesus spent 40 days 161 00:07:54,000 --> 00:07:55,700 and 40 nights in the Judean Wilderness. 162 00:07:56,200 --> 00:07:59,000 And then in the course, the Temptation was right after that 163 00:07:59,600 --> 00:08:01,600 and I'll show you some pictures of the Judean Wilderness. 164 00:08:01,600 --> 00:08:03,600 It's a lot more mountainous, then you would think it would 165 00:08:03,600 --> 00:08:06,000 be. But anyway, this is this is 166 00:08:06,000 --> 00:08:09,800 where Joshua came and some of these. 167 00:08:09,900 --> 00:08:11,800 And so I'm going to I'm going to go through these slides pretty 168 00:08:11,800 --> 00:08:14,200 quickly once we get to some of these because I'm going to kind 169 00:08:14,200 --> 00:08:17,100 of give you some things as I'm telling you, this story that are 170 00:08:17,100 --> 00:08:18,700 going to be on the slides later on. 171 00:08:18,900 --> 00:08:21,000 But lucky she actually became Israel. 172 00:08:21,000 --> 00:08:23,600 Second largest city. It was very, very heavily 173 00:08:23,600 --> 00:08:26,100 fortified very strategically located. 174 00:08:26,100 --> 00:08:29,600 I'm going to show you some pictures off the backside, not 175 00:08:29,600 --> 00:08:32,500 of Lucky shush, but when we get to some of these others and you 176 00:08:32,500 --> 00:08:35,700 can actually see the Strategic position that that they were 177 00:08:35,700 --> 00:08:38,400 actually in. Actually, no, it is, it is in 178 00:08:38,400 --> 00:08:40,200 the, it isn't lucky. She, and I'll show you that when 179 00:08:40,200 --> 00:08:44,100 we get up to the top of like uh but you're only seeing a very, 180 00:08:44,100 --> 00:08:48,400 very small part of the actual city right there, it actually. 181 00:08:48,800 --> 00:08:51,600 Because it gets you get up to the top of that hill and then it 182 00:08:51,600 --> 00:08:54,000 goes back that way. So you really can't see it from 183 00:08:54,000 --> 00:08:55,900 where we're looking at. You'll be able to tell as we get 184 00:08:55,900 --> 00:08:59,900 further into it, but There's maybe a little bit further back. 185 00:08:59,900 --> 00:09:02,500 All right, I think I think we have a picture here in just a 186 00:09:02,500 --> 00:09:06,300 minute of what it actually would have looked like when it was 187 00:09:07,100 --> 00:09:08,700 fully constructed and everything else. 188 00:09:09,900 --> 00:09:12,800 And let me back up a little bit. Okay, I'm going to point this 189 00:09:12,800 --> 00:09:15,800 out to you and you'll have to remember it okay on the far 190 00:09:15,800 --> 00:09:20,000 right side of that. Tell you see what looks like a 191 00:09:20,008 --> 00:09:22,500 bunch of rocks that have fallen down, right? 192 00:09:23,000 --> 00:09:25,200 Okay. I'm going to point that out to 193 00:09:25,200 --> 00:09:27,400 you because it's going to be significant later, all right? 194 00:09:27,600 --> 00:09:29,400 Right. I'll remind you about what that 195 00:09:29,400 --> 00:09:34,800 is but this is again, this is so where you see those the, the 196 00:09:34,800 --> 00:09:38,200 stone wall right there that's going up, which obviously, you 197 00:09:38,200 --> 00:09:41,100 know, the and the guide said, man, this is all brand-new, this 198 00:09:41,100 --> 00:09:43,500 is beautiful and it was actually very very nice the way they did 199 00:09:43,500 --> 00:09:45,400 it with the pathway going up there and everything else. 200 00:09:45,500 --> 00:09:47,100 But that would have actually been the main entrance to the 201 00:09:47,100 --> 00:09:49,600 city. And remember last week, I talked 202 00:09:49,600 --> 00:09:55,100 to you about some some different four-chambered Gates and things 203 00:09:55,100 --> 00:09:56,200 like that. I'm going to give you a picture 204 00:09:56,200 --> 00:09:59,100 of that here just a minute. This is actually some of the old 205 00:09:59,100 --> 00:10:00,900 wall. Now here's something that you'll 206 00:10:00,900 --> 00:10:04,500 notice, and you're going to have to look really close to be able 207 00:10:04,500 --> 00:10:06,000 to see it. I might as umm did a little bit 208 00:10:06,000 --> 00:10:08,100 more but you see this black line right here? 209 00:10:08,900 --> 00:10:10,600 See that and it actually goes all the way up. 210 00:10:10,600 --> 00:10:14,400 You might not be able to see it all that well, but they do this 211 00:10:14,400 --> 00:10:17,200 in almost every place. They put a black line there to 212 00:10:17,200 --> 00:10:20,700 show you where they started building a reconstruction, 213 00:10:20,700 --> 00:10:24,700 everything below that black line is original everything above, it 214 00:10:24,700 --> 00:10:27,400 would have been rebuilt with stones that they found. 215 00:10:27,500 --> 00:10:29,800 It's not like they're, you know, making stones are going to get 216 00:10:29,800 --> 00:10:33,600 them somewhere else, but you can actually kind of see the 217 00:10:33,600 --> 00:10:36,500 difference in the construction in those, you know, in that wall 218 00:10:36,800 --> 00:10:39,900 and really the difference is that was all reconstructed later 219 00:10:39,900 --> 00:10:41,900 on so you could get a better picture of what it actually 220 00:10:41,900 --> 00:10:43,700 looked like. But then, so, you know what's 221 00:10:43,700 --> 00:10:45,400 original? And what's not, they put a 222 00:10:45,400 --> 00:10:48,300 little black line, right there, and kind of, like, at our line 223 00:10:48,300 --> 00:10:50,900 or something like that. That's actually what the, what 224 00:10:50,900 --> 00:10:53,600 the city would have looked like, and you can imagine imagine 225 00:10:53,600 --> 00:10:58,000 coming up to that City. Not only do you have archers and 226 00:10:58,000 --> 00:11:02,500 everybody else with stones, you know, they sling and stones and 227 00:11:02,500 --> 00:11:05,200 shooting arrows, but they would have boiling hot. 228 00:11:06,900 --> 00:11:09,500 Olive oil that they would dump over the edge as people were 229 00:11:09,500 --> 00:11:11,200 coming. I mean, it was, I mean for you 230 00:11:11,200 --> 00:11:13,700 to actually take over a city, that's why so many times. 231 00:11:13,700 --> 00:11:16,700 They actually would lay Siege to a city and try to starve the 232 00:11:16,700 --> 00:11:19,600 people out or, you know, do all the things because it was, I 233 00:11:19,600 --> 00:11:22,900 mean, you lost you would lose a lot of men going up to a city 234 00:11:22,900 --> 00:11:27,600 like that, so like it. Lucky's was a Canaanite. 235 00:11:27,600 --> 00:11:31,400 City was conquered by Joshua, that is a picture of sennacherib 236 00:11:31,400 --> 00:11:33,300 which he'll be significant in just a minute. 237 00:11:34,400 --> 00:11:36,300 There you go. There's a there's where it's at 238 00:11:36,300 --> 00:11:39,900 in relation to the Dead, Sea and Gaza and everything else. 239 00:11:39,900 --> 00:11:41,500 I pointed it out to you there on the map. 240 00:11:42,400 --> 00:11:44,500 It heavily fortified strategic location. 241 00:11:45,000 --> 00:11:47,600 And it was actually located on that major road that went from 242 00:11:48,000 --> 00:11:51,000 Mesopotamia to Egypt. And so that's, that's another 243 00:11:51,000 --> 00:11:54,700 reason why it was such a. So there's there's a couple 244 00:11:54,700 --> 00:11:57,300 things about every tell that you'll find out. 245 00:11:57,500 --> 00:11:59,700 There were always located next to a source of water. 246 00:12:00,300 --> 00:12:02,600 They're always located in a strategic position. 247 00:12:03,000 --> 00:12:05,600 And what's the third one? Oh, come on. 248 00:12:05,600 --> 00:12:08,600 You should know it. I can't remember, I don't know. 249 00:12:08,900 --> 00:12:12,000 But there was always, there was three things and I can't 250 00:12:12,000 --> 00:12:13,300 remember the third one it'll come to me. 251 00:12:13,300 --> 00:12:14,700 But, but that was two of the main things. 252 00:12:14,700 --> 00:12:16,800 They were always located in a strategic position. 253 00:12:16,800 --> 00:12:19,600 Because number one, they wanted to be in a place where they 254 00:12:19,600 --> 00:12:22,900 could charge some kind of money to allow people to pass through, 255 00:12:22,900 --> 00:12:25,300 but also they wanted to be in a position where they could easily 256 00:12:25,300 --> 00:12:27,900 defend themselves. So, many times, these tells are 257 00:12:27,900 --> 00:12:31,100 up in a place where you can see for miles in every direction. 258 00:12:31,400 --> 00:12:33,700 Of course, you know, this is there wasn't really, a chance of 259 00:12:33,700 --> 00:12:37,000 a missile, coming through the air in the 700s BC, right? 260 00:12:37,200 --> 00:12:39,800 You would be able to see a cloud of dust coming if there was an 261 00:12:39,800 --> 00:12:42,100 Army or chariots, or something like that. 262 00:12:42,100 --> 00:12:44,800 And obviously, you have guys that are up on those walls that 263 00:12:44,800 --> 00:12:47,800 are looking for that and would give them plenty of time to be 264 00:12:47,800 --> 00:12:49,700 prepared for an enemy that's coming. 265 00:12:50,500 --> 00:12:53,500 That's what the my love lucky chouette, the administrative 266 00:12:53,500 --> 00:12:56,400 Palace in the background and that City actually had a double 267 00:12:56,400 --> 00:13:02,000 wall again for the same reason, protection mostly, but you had 268 00:13:02,000 --> 00:13:04,000 to get over the First wall. And if you got over the First 269 00:13:04,000 --> 00:13:05,400 wall, then you had to deal with everybody. 270 00:13:05,400 --> 00:13:08,600 That was on the second wall to. So Very, very heavily fortified 271 00:13:08,800 --> 00:13:12,400 and that's that's the that's the reconstructive drawing. 272 00:13:12,400 --> 00:13:15,800 So the path that I pointed out to you, is actually the path 273 00:13:15,800 --> 00:13:18,500 that you see that goes up to that main gate, which I'm going 274 00:13:18,500 --> 00:13:21,300 to show you in just a minute, but you can actually see how big 275 00:13:21,300 --> 00:13:24,800 the city itself really was. It was not a small City at all. 276 00:13:25,100 --> 00:13:27,800 And again, I'll show you. You can see the palace in the 277 00:13:27,808 --> 00:13:29,400 background, pay attention to that. 278 00:13:29,400 --> 00:13:31,600 Because I'm going to show you where the palace where the 279 00:13:31,600 --> 00:13:35,500 palace ruins are today. But you can actually see how big 280 00:13:35,500 --> 00:13:38,000 that Palace is. And so The time of Solomon, the 281 00:13:38,000 --> 00:13:40,600 Jews built roads that led to the gate, so it would give them 282 00:13:40,600 --> 00:13:42,100 further protection. Really? 283 00:13:42,100 --> 00:13:45,600 If an enemy was going to try to get in through the gate, now 284 00:13:45,600 --> 00:13:48,700 they had to come up that road and it funnel them into a tiny 285 00:13:48,700 --> 00:13:52,700 narrow little place, and it gave the gave the, you know, the 286 00:13:52,700 --> 00:13:56,300 people in the city, even a more strategic Advantage. 287 00:13:56,300 --> 00:13:58,200 Not only, you know. So so they're either gonna have 288 00:13:58,200 --> 00:14:00,900 to try to come up the sides of it, which is almost impossible. 289 00:14:00,900 --> 00:14:04,000 I mean, even if you were able to make it to the top of the dirt 290 00:14:04,000 --> 00:14:06,500 area, now you got to try to scale straight up walls, while 291 00:14:06,500 --> 00:14:08,900 you're being shot. Shot at and hot oil dumped on 292 00:14:08,900 --> 00:14:11,900 you, right? So I mean it was not, I mean 293 00:14:12,100 --> 00:14:14,900 these were very well fortified places so they had to get, they 294 00:14:14,900 --> 00:14:17,900 had to get creative on how they, how they attack to these things. 295 00:14:17,900 --> 00:14:19,600 And, of course, that's what we're going to see in just a 296 00:14:19,600 --> 00:14:21,000 minute. But the enemy would be under 297 00:14:21,000 --> 00:14:24,200 Fire from the walls during the entire Advance toward the gates. 298 00:14:25,100 --> 00:14:28,300 Israel was a military Nation, they had their, their Mighty 299 00:14:28,300 --> 00:14:29,800 Men. They understood fortifications 300 00:14:29,800 --> 00:14:32,100 and fighting and all the stuff you see that under Joshua. 301 00:14:32,100 --> 00:14:36,400 Especially they would have seen how well fortified the Canaanite 302 00:14:36,400 --> 00:14:39,200 cities were Right. They would have, they would have 303 00:14:39,200 --> 00:14:41,000 known what they fought against. They would have known. 304 00:14:41,100 --> 00:14:42,600 That's a weakness. We don't want to do that. 305 00:14:42,600 --> 00:14:44,500 All that was good. We want to make sure we do that. 306 00:14:44,500 --> 00:14:47,500 So, and not to mention that they're taking these cities that 307 00:14:47,500 --> 00:14:49,000 are already pretty well fortified. 308 00:14:49,000 --> 00:14:51,500 So even if some of the wall gets broken down, all they have to do 309 00:14:51,500 --> 00:14:54,900 is rebuild a little section of wall and now they have it and 310 00:14:54,900 --> 00:14:57,600 obviously they had God on their side as well, but no matter how 311 00:14:57,600 --> 00:15:00,100 Valiant and well-trained of God was against them, they were 312 00:15:00,100 --> 00:15:02,700 defeated and that happened. Many many times that happened in 313 00:15:02,700 --> 00:15:04,400 our quiche and that's what we're going to talk about. 314 00:15:04,900 --> 00:15:08,800 So Micah in fact, Micah chapter 1 and Verse number 13, says o, 315 00:15:08,800 --> 00:15:12,400 thou inhabitant of La Quiche. Bind The Chariot to the Swift 316 00:15:12,400 --> 00:15:15,100 Beast. She is the beginning of the sin 317 00:15:15,300 --> 00:15:18,500 to the daughter of Zion for the transgressions of Israel were 318 00:15:18,500 --> 00:15:20,900 found in thee. Well, who's she thought? 319 00:15:20,900 --> 00:15:24,800 Who's he talking about found in who lucky shush? 320 00:15:24,800 --> 00:15:27,100 Right? The sins of Israel were found in 321 00:15:27,100 --> 00:15:30,200 Lakeisha and so he said that Lucky shoes were the 322 00:15:30,200 --> 00:15:32,600 transgressions of Israel were found and he's course he's 323 00:15:32,600 --> 00:15:34,400 referring to the idolatry. And Israel. 324 00:15:34,500 --> 00:15:37,100 How many times do we see in the New Testament? 325 00:15:37,500 --> 00:15:40,800 That God told them to stay away, from the Canaanite Gods, stay 326 00:15:40,800 --> 00:15:42,600 away from intermingling and everything else. 327 00:15:42,600 --> 00:15:47,400 And they always went after bail. And after Ash ask Todd in all 328 00:15:47,400 --> 00:15:51,000 these other gods, right? And how many times it got have 329 00:15:51,000 --> 00:15:53,100 to punish them for going after these other gods. 330 00:15:53,200 --> 00:15:54,600 But that's exactly what happened here. 331 00:15:56,000 --> 00:15:59,700 Oh, there's Michael 113. But you see the city there as 332 00:15:59,700 --> 00:16:01,300 well. Now sennacherib was the king of 333 00:16:01,300 --> 00:16:05,000 Assyria. He led a campaign into Judah in 334 00:16:05,000 --> 00:16:08,000 701 BC. All right. 335 00:16:08,500 --> 00:16:13,400 Now sennacherib this is 2nd Chronicles 31, king of Assyria 336 00:16:13,400 --> 00:16:16,100 came and entered into Juna Judah, and encamped against the 337 00:16:16,100 --> 00:16:18,500 fence cities and thought to win them for himself. 338 00:16:18,700 --> 00:16:21,500 Now again this is pretty significant because a lot of 339 00:16:21,508 --> 00:16:25,300 people try to Discount the fact that there really was an Israel 340 00:16:25,300 --> 00:16:29,100 or that, they were a force to be reckoned with or that they were 341 00:16:29,100 --> 00:16:32,500 some, you know, some kind of prize, but sennacherib who is 342 00:16:32,500 --> 00:16:35,400 one of the greatest Kings in that era, wanted Israel for 343 00:16:35,400 --> 00:16:38,000 himself. And again, for a Lot of reasons. 344 00:16:38,000 --> 00:16:40,700 And as we get up into Jerusalem and Galilee area and all this 345 00:16:40,700 --> 00:16:43,500 stuff, we'll talk a little bit more about that, but to put it 346 00:16:43,500 --> 00:16:46,000 in perspective. Hezekiah was the king during 347 00:16:46,000 --> 00:16:48,100 that time. Hezekiah was in his 14th year. 348 00:16:48,100 --> 00:16:50,400 As the king Hezekiah was a pretty good King. 349 00:16:50,600 --> 00:16:53,600 They had a few things that he did that were that were serious 350 00:16:53,600 --> 00:16:57,800 mistakes but the seeds of lucky she is mentioned in second 351 00:16:57,800 --> 00:17:01,500 Kings, chapter 18, verse 14, through 17. 352 00:17:01,700 --> 00:17:03,800 In fact, here's what I'd like you to do turn over to Second 353 00:17:03,800 --> 00:17:07,400 Chronicles 32. Because that's that's also where 354 00:17:07,400 --> 00:17:09,800 it's mentioned. And I want to read a little bit 355 00:17:09,800 --> 00:17:16,700 of that passage actually. But sennacherib was it was the 356 00:17:16,700 --> 00:17:20,800 king of Assyria and see if I can show it to you on the map here. 357 00:17:22,200 --> 00:17:24,700 This is not really an it doesn't have the old. 358 00:17:27,900 --> 00:17:31,900 It's not labeled on here, at least that I can see anyway, but 359 00:17:32,600 --> 00:17:35,500 all the land that Israel had taken over and I should have 360 00:17:35,500 --> 00:17:38,100 looked at it ahead of time, but all the land that Israel had 361 00:17:38,100 --> 00:17:41,600 taken over and had conquered from the Canaanites and from the 362 00:17:41,600 --> 00:17:44,300 Assyrians and the jebusites and the Hittites, and all those that 363 00:17:44,300 --> 00:17:46,100 got mentioned over and over and over again. 364 00:17:46,300 --> 00:17:48,200 Well, now they're starting to want some of their land back and 365 00:17:48,208 --> 00:17:53,300 this is Generations later. But second chronicles, 32, and 366 00:17:53,300 --> 00:17:56,300 verse number 1, after these things, and the establishment, 367 00:17:56,300 --> 00:17:59,700 they're of sennacherib Bob King of Assyria came and entered into 368 00:17:59,700 --> 00:18:03,100 Judah and encamped against the fenced cities and thought to win 369 00:18:03,100 --> 00:18:05,400 them for himself. Now this is interesting because 370 00:18:05,400 --> 00:18:10,700 again Archaeology is backing up the Bible. 371 00:18:11,800 --> 00:18:14,400 There's not a question that sennacherib was a king who lived 372 00:18:14,400 --> 00:18:19,900 and had great might And his name, his his name is right 373 00:18:19,900 --> 00:18:22,700 there in the Bible and it says that he wanted to come and take 374 00:18:22,700 --> 00:18:24,300 the Israelites in his for himself. 375 00:18:24,500 --> 00:18:26,500 What we're going to read a little bit more of that passage 376 00:18:26,500 --> 00:18:28,400 in a minute. But in fact, let's read it right 377 00:18:28,400 --> 00:18:31,600 now, verse number 2. And when Hezekiah saw that 378 00:18:31,600 --> 00:18:34,300 sennacherib was come and that he was purpose to fight against 379 00:18:34,300 --> 00:18:37,000 Jerusalem. Now guy here is let me let me, 380 00:18:37,000 --> 00:18:39,100 let me show you this so you can see. 381 00:18:39,200 --> 00:18:43,900 Okay, La Quiche is here. Okay, here's Lucky's Jerusalem 382 00:18:43,900 --> 00:18:47,700 is here, so you're not talking You're really talking about 383 00:18:47,700 --> 00:18:52,400 probably 15 or 20 miles which for an army is nothing, right? 384 00:18:52,400 --> 00:18:56,900 I mean they can March 15 or 20 miles in you know, maybe the 385 00:18:56,900 --> 00:19:00,600 better part of a day less even as an army marching. 386 00:19:00,600 --> 00:19:02,800 If they were on a mission, they could get there in half a day if 387 00:19:02,800 --> 00:19:07,300 they had to. So he saw, and he realized that 388 00:19:07,300 --> 00:19:09,500 snacker was getting ready to come up and fight against 389 00:19:09,500 --> 00:19:11,300 Jerusalem. He took counsel with his 390 00:19:11,300 --> 00:19:13,500 princes, and his mighty men to stop the Waters of The 391 00:19:13,500 --> 00:19:16,200 Fountains, which were without the city, and they did help him. 392 00:19:16,700 --> 00:19:19,300 So there were was gathered, much people together who stopped all 393 00:19:19,300 --> 00:19:21,200 the fountains in the brook that ran through the midst of the 394 00:19:21,200 --> 00:19:23,300 land saying, why should the kings of Assyria come and find 395 00:19:23,300 --> 00:19:25,600 much water? Also, he strengthened himself 396 00:19:25,600 --> 00:19:27,600 and built up all the wall that was broken. 397 00:19:27,600 --> 00:19:29,500 And by the way, we're going to look at some of this stuff a 398 00:19:29,508 --> 00:19:33,100 little bit later when we get to Jerusalem and raise it up to the 399 00:19:33,100 --> 00:19:35,800 towers and another wall without and repaired Millo, and the City 400 00:19:35,800 --> 00:19:38,500 of David and make darts and shields in abundance and they 401 00:19:38,508 --> 00:19:41,600 set Captain War over the people and gather them together to him 402 00:19:41,600 --> 00:19:44,500 in the street of the Gate of the city at speak, comfortably to 403 00:19:44,500 --> 00:19:46,500 them saying, be strong and courageous. 404 00:19:46,600 --> 00:19:49,900 And Be not Afraid nor dismayed for the king of Assyria, nor for 405 00:19:49,900 --> 00:19:51,200 all the multitude that is with him. 406 00:19:51,200 --> 00:19:55,100 For there being more with us, than with him, with him is an 407 00:19:55,100 --> 00:19:57,500 arm of flesh. But with us is the Lord, Our 408 00:19:57,500 --> 00:19:59,800 God, to help us and to fight our battles. 409 00:19:59,900 --> 00:20:03,200 And the people rested themselves upon the words of Hezekiah king 410 00:20:03,200 --> 00:20:05,700 of Judah. After this, did sennacherib King 411 00:20:05,700 --> 00:20:09,500 of Assyria, sent his servants to Jerusalem, but he himself laid 412 00:20:09,500 --> 00:20:12,500 Siege against lucky. She and all his power with him, 413 00:20:12,900 --> 00:20:15,900 onto Hezekiah king of Judah and unto all Judah that were at 414 00:20:15,900 --> 00:20:18,100 Jerusalem saying Saying thus saith sennacherib king of 415 00:20:18,100 --> 00:20:19,200 Assyria. We're on. 416 00:20:19,200 --> 00:20:21,800 Do you trust that you abide in The Siege in Jerusalem? 417 00:20:22,200 --> 00:20:24,900 This is right here, this is exactly what we're talking 418 00:20:24,900 --> 00:20:27,000 about. And so, he laid Siege against, 419 00:20:27,000 --> 00:20:29,600 like, quiche 14th year. I went, I went the wrong way. 420 00:20:30,700 --> 00:20:32,600 The hill at that location was situated on. 421 00:20:32,600 --> 00:20:35,000 This is actually I told you that this is from Brother. 422 00:20:35,000 --> 00:20:38,400 David Cloud, dr. David clouds think so some of 423 00:20:38,400 --> 00:20:39,800 his are mixed in here a little bit. 424 00:20:41,800 --> 00:20:45,400 So, to avoid a direct assault on The City Gate, of course, for 425 00:20:45,400 --> 00:20:46,800 the reasons that we just talked about. 426 00:20:46,800 --> 00:20:49,200 There was not much of an opportunity to actually directly 427 00:20:49,200 --> 00:20:51,300 Assault. The City Gate, the Assyrians 428 00:20:51,300 --> 00:20:54,500 built a Siege ramp up, the southwest corner of the hill to 429 00:20:54,500 --> 00:20:56,300 attack the walls at a weaker point. 430 00:20:57,000 --> 00:21:00,300 Now that was something that was really not heard of at that 431 00:21:00,300 --> 00:21:01,800 point. But you remember that picture 432 00:21:01,800 --> 00:21:05,900 that I showed you that was where the siege ramp was and literally 433 00:21:05,900 --> 00:21:08,400 what they did is they just went and got all kinds of dirt and 434 00:21:08,400 --> 00:21:11,400 stone and anything they could find and they laid it next to 435 00:21:11,600 --> 00:21:14,700 the city so they can walk right up the walls right up that see 436 00:21:14,700 --> 00:21:16,700 dreamt that they made and walk right over the walls. 437 00:21:16,900 --> 00:21:19,900 But what are they going to do? Nothing that the Israelites can 438 00:21:19,900 --> 00:21:23,700 do at that point. All right, so and not to mention 439 00:21:23,700 --> 00:21:26,000 it will talk about this in a little bit but they had they 440 00:21:26,000 --> 00:21:28,800 there was a lot of men. There was a they had they had 441 00:21:28,800 --> 00:21:32,000 all kinds of military instruments when it comes to 442 00:21:32,600 --> 00:21:35,000 Shields to protect them. And that's what they did. 443 00:21:35,200 --> 00:21:37,300 The shields were there, protecting them from anything 444 00:21:37,300 --> 00:21:40,300 that they threw at them from the city as they were building this 445 00:21:40,300 --> 00:21:43,600 Siege ramp. And And they had they shot back. 446 00:21:43,600 --> 00:21:46,600 They had arrows and slings and everything else. 447 00:21:46,600 --> 00:21:49,400 So from the Syrian side, the siege of lucky she is described 448 00:21:49,400 --> 00:21:53,400 in a series of best reliefs found in scenarios Palace and 449 00:21:53,400 --> 00:21:55,100 Nineveh. Now that's where that's where 450 00:21:55,100 --> 00:21:58,000 snacker of came from the Assyrians Nineveh was the 451 00:21:58,000 --> 00:21:59,500 capital of Assyria. Here. 452 00:21:59,500 --> 00:22:01,100 We were talking about that in a little bit too, because we 453 00:22:01,100 --> 00:22:07,000 actually went to the city that Jonah fled to Joppa and you 454 00:22:07,000 --> 00:22:08,900 start to hear some of the things about the Assyrians. 455 00:22:08,900 --> 00:22:13,800 They were ruthless evil people. Ooh and no wonder Jonah ran the 456 00:22:13,800 --> 00:22:18,000 other direction. But Nineveh was worsen akram's 457 00:22:18,000 --> 00:22:23,300 Palace was at and it was so significant to him what he did 458 00:22:23,300 --> 00:22:27,500 there at La Quiche that he actually lined the entire inside 459 00:22:27,500 --> 00:22:30,400 of one of his rooms in his palace with best reliefs. 460 00:22:30,400 --> 00:22:32,300 All right. And let me see, that's that's 461 00:22:32,300 --> 00:22:34,500 actually how big it is. Now that's that's actually in 462 00:22:34,500 --> 00:22:36,500 the British museum. They have a lucky shroom in the 463 00:22:36,500 --> 00:22:40,300 British museum but in the Israel Museum where we went and I'll 464 00:22:40,300 --> 00:22:42,700 show you some pictures of these. As we get closer, there's going 465 00:22:42,700 --> 00:22:48,800 to be a couple of them on here, but they've actually recreated 466 00:22:48,800 --> 00:22:52,300 reconstructed it if you will and put portions of that in the 467 00:22:52,300 --> 00:22:55,300 Israel Museum which we were able to see, they found the actual 468 00:22:55,300 --> 00:22:59,600 ones and put them in the British museum where you can see. 469 00:22:59,600 --> 00:23:03,200 And again, these bass reliefs depicting, great detail, 470 00:23:03,200 --> 00:23:07,000 everything that happened at La Quiche and it lines up exactly 471 00:23:07,000 --> 00:23:12,600 with the Bible's account or so. As an artist rendering now 472 00:23:12,600 --> 00:23:15,400 that's wrong because that actually shows them and makes it 473 00:23:15,400 --> 00:23:16,900 look like they're going in, through the front gate. 474 00:23:16,900 --> 00:23:20,300 They didn't actually put it there, you can see exactly where 475 00:23:20,300 --> 00:23:22,800 it was that. But here's here's part of the 476 00:23:22,800 --> 00:23:27,200 best reliefs, all right? And so it's just this big long 477 00:23:27,200 --> 00:23:30,000 picture. It's almost like it's almost 478 00:23:30,000 --> 00:23:32,800 like if you were to take a movie and take every scene from the 479 00:23:32,800 --> 00:23:35,300 movie and make a picture out of it, that's essentially what they 480 00:23:35,300 --> 00:23:37,200 were doing. But you can see then the 481 00:23:37,200 --> 00:23:40,300 Assyrians attacked was slings. They attacked with the arrows. 482 00:23:40,600 --> 00:23:43,900 They They pushed five battering engines up. 483 00:23:43,900 --> 00:23:46,600 The Siege ramp to destroy the walls in there. 484 00:23:46,600 --> 00:23:49,200 It's kind of hard to see. I'll try to give you a second to 485 00:23:49,200 --> 00:23:51,300 look at these. I want to want to keep moving 486 00:23:51,300 --> 00:23:53,800 but it really, really interesting things. 487 00:23:53,800 --> 00:23:57,700 I mean and and number one the artistry for them to be able to 488 00:23:57,700 --> 00:23:59,500 depict exactly what's happening here. 489 00:23:59,500 --> 00:24:02,200 You can see it. That's a little bit closer view 490 00:24:02,200 --> 00:24:05,500 of it but you can see. So here's the here's the 491 00:24:05,500 --> 00:24:09,400 battering ram and that's what they used to get up into it. 492 00:24:09,900 --> 00:24:12,600 Let's see. Yeah, the city wall into 493 00:24:12,600 --> 00:24:15,200 Defenders are on the top. Okay, there's a little bit of 494 00:24:15,200 --> 00:24:18,000 labeling on here, but the Assyrian archers are here. 495 00:24:18,100 --> 00:24:21,400 The captives, the battering engines are here and you can see 496 00:24:21,400 --> 00:24:24,300 there's a guy in that battering Engine with an arrow that he's 497 00:24:24,300 --> 00:24:27,100 getting ready to shoot up there. Of course the long spear thats 498 00:24:27,100 --> 00:24:28,900 hanging off the front. That's what they would have used 499 00:24:28,900 --> 00:24:32,300 to just knock the walls down and they're completely protected in 500 00:24:32,300 --> 00:24:35,200 there, so it worked really well. But there's the, there's the 501 00:24:35,200 --> 00:24:38,600 crew with the battering rams for soldiers and Archer, and a 502 00:24:38,600 --> 00:24:41,400 shield, holder and operator for the Rams bettering our ERM 503 00:24:41,600 --> 00:24:44,100 Amanda doused, the tank with water to extinguish the fire 504 00:24:44,100 --> 00:24:45,600 bombs that were being thrown from the woman. 505 00:24:45,600 --> 00:24:47,700 They had, they were prepared. They had everything that they 506 00:24:47,700 --> 00:24:50,300 needed. There's a little bit closer. 507 00:24:50,300 --> 00:24:53,800 Picture of that. The Jewish prisoners are. 508 00:24:53,800 --> 00:24:55,400 So here's some of the things that they did, the Jewish 509 00:24:55,400 --> 00:24:58,800 prisoners were impaled and you can see him hanging on the top 510 00:24:58,800 --> 00:25:01,900 of the spears, right? That's from saying the Assyrians 511 00:25:01,900 --> 00:25:04,200 were not nice people. In fact, here's some other ones. 512 00:25:04,600 --> 00:25:08,500 There were flayed alive. I mean, they literally cut them 513 00:25:08,800 --> 00:25:11,300 and peel their skin off. While they were, while they were 514 00:25:11,300 --> 00:25:14,300 still alive the same way that you would gut a deer or 515 00:25:14,300 --> 00:25:17,300 something, right? Their heads were cut off. 516 00:25:18,100 --> 00:25:21,000 On fact, actually have a pile of heads. 517 00:25:21,000 --> 00:25:23,500 A lot of the Jews heads were Keep them piles. 518 00:25:23,600 --> 00:25:26,900 And that little thing that you see down there is a pilot Jewish 519 00:25:26,900 --> 00:25:29,400 heads that were all cut off during the during this battle. 520 00:25:29,400 --> 00:25:31,300 And all of these things are being depicted on the wall. 521 00:25:31,400 --> 00:25:33,000 Think he wasn't proud of what he did. 522 00:25:33,400 --> 00:25:36,600 He was proud of it, then the survivors were driven away as 523 00:25:36,600 --> 00:25:38,700 slaves, and their goods were confiscated. 524 00:25:38,800 --> 00:25:40,700 In fact, I'm going to tell you about Masada. 525 00:25:40,900 --> 00:25:43,700 Not going to do it tonight, but Masada is another one where they 526 00:25:43,700 --> 00:25:48,000 knew the reputation, and they were so set on not being 527 00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:50,500 captured and we'll talk about that. 528 00:25:50,500 --> 00:25:55,600 But but they were not nice to the Purrs Isaiah 316 through 26 529 00:25:55,600 --> 00:25:57,600 die. Men shall fall by the by The 530 00:25:57,600 --> 00:26:00,500 Sword, and I'm Mighty and War and our gate shall lament and 531 00:26:00,500 --> 00:26:03,200 mourn and she being desolate shall sit upon the ground. 532 00:26:03,200 --> 00:26:06,200 Talking about lucky, she surviving Jewish leaders were 533 00:26:06,200 --> 00:26:09,000 brought before sennacherib as he sat on his throne, of course 534 00:26:09,000 --> 00:26:10,300 they were, you know, they were leaders. 535 00:26:10,300 --> 00:26:13,400 So they were made to Bow before him and all these other things. 536 00:26:13,600 --> 00:26:15,800 And again, all these are part of those bass reliefs that are 537 00:26:16,200 --> 00:26:18,900 located there, but the panel is inscribed with the words 538 00:26:18,900 --> 00:26:23,000 sennacherib king of the world, king of Assyria, Uh set upon a 539 00:26:23,000 --> 00:26:25,500 throne in the captives of lucky she passed before it. 540 00:26:25,600 --> 00:26:28,100 That's what it says. On the on the best relief there 541 00:26:28,100 --> 00:26:30,800 underneath those pictures amazing it were made to Bow 542 00:26:30,800 --> 00:26:32,900 before their captors. Now think this is also pretty 543 00:26:32,900 --> 00:26:35,600 interesting to notice their appearance they had short hair, 544 00:26:35,800 --> 00:26:38,400 of course there were roads but they had, you know beards and 545 00:26:38,400 --> 00:26:41,700 short hair. Here's a little bit closer, 546 00:26:41,700 --> 00:26:45,900 picture of it. Those are the leaders being 547 00:26:45,900 --> 00:26:48,500 carried away and you see this guy, the front being made to Bow 548 00:26:48,500 --> 00:26:51,500 before sennacherib. There's some copies of the best 549 00:26:51,500 --> 00:26:53,000 relief. That's actually some of the ones 550 00:26:53,000 --> 00:26:56,300 from the Israel Museum. Those are just copies of what 551 00:26:56,300 --> 00:26:58,200 they have in the in the British museum. 552 00:26:58,200 --> 00:27:01,800 That's the actual real thing. But So there's the seed rent 553 00:27:01,800 --> 00:27:05,500 there's The City Gate, lots of excavations have been done in 554 00:27:05,500 --> 00:27:09,000 Lucky since the 1930s and they found all kinds of things there 555 00:27:09,800 --> 00:27:15,000 and and really just everything that they see perfectly lines up 556 00:27:15,000 --> 00:27:18,500 with the Bible account and with snack ribs account. 557 00:27:18,500 --> 00:27:20,800 So they know that this is the place and that's the remnant of 558 00:27:20,800 --> 00:27:23,800 the front gate. That's left there is that there 559 00:27:23,800 --> 00:27:26,700 is The Siege ramp, okay? Now this is, this is zoomed in a 560 00:27:26,708 --> 00:27:29,400 little bit of the picture that I showed you before, but that's 561 00:27:29,400 --> 00:27:31,600 the actual Siege ramp. They walked It right up the side 562 00:27:31,600 --> 00:27:34,900 of that thing and right over the walls and of course these the 563 00:27:34,900 --> 00:27:36,300 battering rams and everything else. 564 00:27:36,500 --> 00:27:39,600 Now this is standing up there at the top that's what the siege 565 00:27:39,600 --> 00:27:44,500 ramp look like from from above. I'm going to point this out to 566 00:27:44,500 --> 00:27:46,800 you in just a second and it'll actually be a slide where you 567 00:27:46,800 --> 00:27:50,100 can see it but but you go all the way down the hill and then 568 00:27:50,100 --> 00:27:51,400 you start to go back up the hill. 569 00:27:51,400 --> 00:27:54,700 And actually now it's a it's a cow Farm. 570 00:27:54,700 --> 00:27:57,600 They milked cows and everything else there, but that's actually 571 00:27:57,600 --> 00:28:00,600 worse than a crib had stationed himself. 572 00:28:00,800 --> 00:28:03,400 Of during The Siege so he can watch everything that was 573 00:28:03,400 --> 00:28:05,200 happening. Far enough away that he was away 574 00:28:05,200 --> 00:28:07,400 from the danger, but he could still see everything going on. 575 00:28:07,700 --> 00:28:11,100 That's another picture of The Siege ramp and you can just see 576 00:28:11,100 --> 00:28:13,100 all the different depressions and things like that in the 577 00:28:13,100 --> 00:28:17,700 ground from where he was at. In fact, the the gray area of 578 00:28:17,700 --> 00:28:20,100 there is actually where that Barn is that and that's where 579 00:28:20,100 --> 00:28:22,200 sennacherib was sitting there. Watching the entire thing, 580 00:28:22,800 --> 00:28:26,200 watching them build the siege ramp watching them, you know. 581 00:28:27,400 --> 00:28:29,600 Tear everybody out of there and then bring them before him, 582 00:28:29,700 --> 00:28:31,300 another picture of The Siege ramp there. 583 00:28:32,700 --> 00:28:35,000 So there's the neck rubs location during the seeds that's 584 00:28:35,000 --> 00:28:37,500 where he was situated. And of course this little thing 585 00:28:37,500 --> 00:28:40,100 here what you're looking at is the gate that's going all the 586 00:28:40,108 --> 00:28:44,700 way up to the top. They found all kinds of stuff 587 00:28:45,200 --> 00:28:48,900 sling, Stones, 850 arrowheads, lance-heads, all kinds of other 588 00:28:48,900 --> 00:28:51,500 things, proving that there was a very serious battle that took 589 00:28:51,500 --> 00:28:53,900 place there. Those are some of the stones 590 00:28:53,900 --> 00:28:56,400 that they would that they would. Oh and in fact the next one is 591 00:28:56,400 --> 00:28:58,700 there's a size of a man's fist compared to those stones. 592 00:28:59,200 --> 00:29:01,200 So they're big. I mean if you got hit with one 593 00:29:01,200 --> 00:29:02,800 of those things you're not You're not going to live. 594 00:29:02,800 --> 00:29:05,900 If you got hit in the head especially but again, 595 00:29:05,900 --> 00:29:09,100 arrowheads, those are all on display at the British museum. 596 00:29:11,400 --> 00:29:15,500 And there's so that's the gate that was fully excavated 13 feet 597 00:29:15,500 --> 00:29:20,800 tall, 80 feet wide and 80 feet deep, the largest known gate of 598 00:29:20,800 --> 00:29:23,400 the first temple period. So this is first temple. 599 00:29:23,400 --> 00:29:28,900 Period goes all the way back to the 700s BC and that's where 600 00:29:28,900 --> 00:29:33,800 talking there, but six-chambered gate and actually see the 601 00:29:33,800 --> 00:29:38,200 picture of that from the top. You can, you can very clearly 602 00:29:38,200 --> 00:29:40,600 see three of the chambers. And the other three chambers 603 00:29:40,600 --> 00:29:42,200 would be on the other side, okay? 604 00:29:42,200 --> 00:29:45,400 Now the ones that are on the, if you're looking at it, the ones 605 00:29:45,400 --> 00:29:47,700 that are on the right side are original. 606 00:29:47,700 --> 00:29:51,500 The ones that are on the left side are rebuilt. 607 00:29:51,500 --> 00:29:53,400 So you could actually see what it looked like. 608 00:29:53,400 --> 00:29:55,900 And obviously, you can kind of tell that from there but they 609 00:29:55,900 --> 00:29:57,300 would do all kinds of things in there. 610 00:29:57,400 --> 00:29:59,300 It would, they would, they would use it for storage. 611 00:29:59,300 --> 00:30:01,400 They would more than likely the first. 612 00:30:01,400 --> 00:30:04,900 First two would be soldiers would be stationed in there so 613 00:30:04,900 --> 00:30:07,000 if anybody's trying to come Through the gate, they would be 614 00:30:07,000 --> 00:30:10,100 able to stop them there. They would have used it for 615 00:30:10,700 --> 00:30:14,700 business City business. You know, any number of things 616 00:30:14,700 --> 00:30:17,200 that would have happened there, there's a picture of It from the 617 00:30:17,208 --> 00:30:19,300 ground there, and as you're walking up, you can see the 618 00:30:19,300 --> 00:30:20,400 chambers. All right. 619 00:30:20,400 --> 00:30:23,200 I'm going to show you some pictures pretty quickly of those 620 00:30:23,200 --> 00:30:25,700 chambers but you can see see how the chambers are there. 621 00:30:26,100 --> 00:30:27,400 All right. And then and then, where that 622 00:30:27,400 --> 00:30:30,700 fence is your actually, this, this is kind of the main gate 623 00:30:30,700 --> 00:30:32,900 area, then when you walk in there, you actually get into the 624 00:30:32,900 --> 00:30:35,200 six, Chambers, the six-chambered areas. 625 00:30:37,200 --> 00:30:39,500 Right here. So this is the everything on the 626 00:30:39,500 --> 00:30:42,700 left is pretty much original. Everything on the right is 627 00:30:42,700 --> 00:30:46,000 pretty much rebuilt with materials that they found there 628 00:30:46,000 --> 00:30:49,000 but you see they're not huge rooms but they're pretty big. 629 00:30:49,000 --> 00:30:53,000 I mean you think about 80 feet I mean this Auditorium front the 630 00:30:53,000 --> 00:30:56,600 back is like 53 feet or something like that so if you 631 00:30:56,608 --> 00:31:00,600 have a gate that's 80 feet deep there's quite a bit of room in 632 00:31:00,600 --> 00:31:03,900 it, right? There's that's what more of what 633 00:31:03,900 --> 00:31:05,700 it would look, what it looked like inside there. 634 00:31:09,000 --> 00:31:12,000 That's looking at it once you're through the gate looking back at 635 00:31:12,000 --> 00:31:14,300 it. There's some of the different 636 00:31:14,300 --> 00:31:16,000 little Chambers in there. That's, that's a lot of the 637 00:31:16,008 --> 00:31:18,700 original stuff on the original side. 638 00:31:19,300 --> 00:31:20,900 All right? There you go, some, some more of 639 00:31:20,900 --> 00:31:23,400 the actual Chambers and how they would have looked back then. 640 00:31:24,000 --> 00:31:27,400 All right. That is the ruins of the palace 641 00:31:27,700 --> 00:31:30,400 that we looked at and told you to kind of keep that in your 642 00:31:30,400 --> 00:31:31,900 mind. That's what's left of it. 643 00:31:32,200 --> 00:31:34,200 There is that's Lucky's from the top. 644 00:31:34,600 --> 00:31:38,600 So I am up standing right there. I was not, I was not even all 645 00:31:38,600 --> 00:31:42,200 the way over where the siege ramp was not quite as far over 646 00:31:42,200 --> 00:31:45,100 as that, but You can see how actually opened that would have 647 00:31:45,100 --> 00:31:47,500 been and how many, how many things they would have been able 648 00:31:47,500 --> 00:31:49,800 to fit their, you see the path that's going there. 649 00:31:49,800 --> 00:31:52,300 And it's and it's very hard to tell probably from where you 650 00:31:52,300 --> 00:31:53,600 are, but those are people on there. 651 00:31:54,000 --> 00:31:57,700 So that'll give you a kind of a bigger better picture of it and 652 00:31:57,800 --> 00:31:59,600 of how it actually, how big it actually is. 653 00:31:59,700 --> 00:32:01,200 This is somebody walking right here. 654 00:32:01,600 --> 00:32:03,200 Okay, somebody walking in that corner. 655 00:32:04,300 --> 00:32:07,200 I guess that's the only two but this this year would have been 656 00:32:07,200 --> 00:32:09,600 where the palace was. All of this would have been 657 00:32:10,300 --> 00:32:15,200 houses for the most part and places of business things like 658 00:32:15,200 --> 00:32:18,600 that. I'll just go through these kind 659 00:32:18,600 --> 00:32:20,300 of quickly and give you some more of these pictures. 660 00:32:22,800 --> 00:32:26,500 So this is looking and talking about a strategic location, 661 00:32:26,600 --> 00:32:28,500 okay? That's the Judy and Highlands 662 00:32:28,500 --> 00:32:31,300 there in the background that you're looking at, but you can 663 00:32:31,300 --> 00:32:34,700 see from miles and miles and miles from the top of that, that 664 00:32:34,700 --> 00:32:37,900 tell. And again for very obvious 665 00:32:37,900 --> 00:32:40,900 reasons, they wanted to be able to see anything that was coming. 666 00:32:41,800 --> 00:32:45,100 These are some of the ruins of the houses, that would have been 667 00:32:45,100 --> 00:32:47,400 in there. And they've done a lot of 668 00:32:47,400 --> 00:32:49,900 excavations through there, that's kind of looking from the 669 00:32:49,900 --> 00:32:51,500 back. Looking back up at the top, 670 00:32:51,500 --> 00:32:54,600 where the palace Was again for a couple of reasons. 671 00:32:54,600 --> 00:32:56,900 The palace was built higher number one, it gave it a little 672 00:32:56,900 --> 00:32:58,700 bit more of a strategic position. 673 00:32:58,800 --> 00:33:00,800 They would have to take the lower spots first, if there were 674 00:33:00,800 --> 00:33:03,700 trying to conquer it before they got to the Palace but also 675 00:33:03,800 --> 00:33:08,100 remember they didn't have air condition or anything like that. 676 00:33:08,100 --> 00:33:11,400 And so the higher you were the more likely you were to be 677 00:33:11,400 --> 00:33:16,500 exposed to some more air flow and what it made it cooler 678 00:33:16,600 --> 00:33:20,500 during the summer for the for the king, there's the palace but 679 00:33:20,500 --> 00:33:23,400 a lot of Kings actually had went Enter Palace isn't summer 680 00:33:23,400 --> 00:33:25,800 palaces, and they would, you know, depending on what season 681 00:33:25,800 --> 00:33:27,300 it was. They would go there because it 682 00:33:27,300 --> 00:33:29,100 was a lot more comfortable and they could do whatever they 683 00:33:29,100 --> 00:33:30,100 wanted. So they did it. 684 00:33:31,100 --> 00:33:34,100 That's actually what the palace would have looked like, I took a 685 00:33:34,100 --> 00:33:36,700 picture of it didn't turn out really great so I didn't put it 686 00:33:36,700 --> 00:33:38,900 in here. But see that little hole on the 687 00:33:38,900 --> 00:33:44,100 top, it actually had an overlay of of the existing structure 688 00:33:44,100 --> 00:33:45,700 that still there with the palace. 689 00:33:45,700 --> 00:33:47,700 On top of it. Not a great picture, but that's 690 00:33:47,700 --> 00:33:50,200 what the palace would have looked like they're in the 691 00:33:50,200 --> 00:33:54,500 middle of La Quiche. That's looking down from like 692 00:33:54,500 --> 00:33:58,600 quiche and so you can see again how just how vast that area. 693 00:33:58,600 --> 00:34:01,300 Is the Judy and Highlands again are in the background but just 694 00:34:01,300 --> 00:34:05,200 gives you a picture of how strategic that position really 695 00:34:05,200 --> 00:34:08,100 was and how much they could see as things were coming. 696 00:34:09,500 --> 00:34:12,699 Now, this was one of those chambers the benches where the 697 00:34:12,699 --> 00:34:16,400 judges in the city Elder set are still there, you can still see 698 00:34:16,400 --> 00:34:18,800 them, that's what extent means. But those are the benches that 699 00:34:18,800 --> 00:34:22,300 Beersheba at the Beersheba gate, but the ones that Lucky's were 700 00:34:22,300 --> 00:34:25,699 very, very similar to that and I actually had an arm arm rest on 701 00:34:25,707 --> 00:34:28,300 those. There's some of the excavations 702 00:34:28,300 --> 00:34:30,800 that we're going on there like quiche and everything that they 703 00:34:30,800 --> 00:34:34,100 found their backs, everything up to the Bible says, from the 704 00:34:34,100 --> 00:34:35,800 idolatry. And they found all kinds of 705 00:34:35,808 --> 00:34:38,400 little figurines of Baal and all kinds of stuff. 706 00:34:38,400 --> 00:34:41,000 All kinds Kinds of things that they found that that proves 707 00:34:41,100 --> 00:34:45,000 exactly what the Bible says. That that this was kind of a 708 00:34:45,000 --> 00:34:47,900 seat of idolatry and God was going to destroy it and 709 00:34:47,900 --> 00:34:49,600 obviously you see that's exactly what happened. 710 00:34:50,100 --> 00:34:53,000 So Mike identified locations the place where the transgressions 711 00:34:53,000 --> 00:34:56,800 were found and of course, Northern Israel is idolatry and 712 00:34:56,800 --> 00:35:02,200 they found all of that stuff. But obviously than Josiah, he 713 00:35:02,200 --> 00:35:06,100 removed the high places break the pillars cut down the after I 714 00:35:06,100 --> 00:35:08,200 break in pieces. The Brazen serpent that Moses 715 00:35:08,200 --> 00:35:10,600 had made for under those days. The children of Israel did burn 716 00:35:10,600 --> 00:35:14,700 incense to and he called it. The who stood on this is pretty 717 00:35:14,700 --> 00:35:18,600 interesting to, they found a toilet in the bail chamber, but, 718 00:35:18,600 --> 00:35:22,100 but we're eating second Kingston and 27 how that Jake who made 719 00:35:22,100 --> 00:35:24,400 the bail Temple and Samaria into a toilet. 720 00:35:24,800 --> 00:35:26,100 And I think that's pretty interesting. 721 00:35:26,200 --> 00:35:29,200 That's, you know, likeness of what it would have been. 722 00:35:29,700 --> 00:35:32,900 Me, let me, let me have you turn 21 last passage here in second 723 00:35:32,900 --> 00:35:40,100 Kings chapter 19. One last passage about. 724 00:35:44,600 --> 00:35:48,800 Brother, Josh while we're doing this, can you go to the next 725 00:35:48,800 --> 00:35:52,500 one? Second Kings, 19 verse 32. 726 00:35:53,100 --> 00:35:55,600 Therefore thus said the Lord concerning the king of Assyria, 727 00:35:55,600 --> 00:35:58,600 who is the king of Assyria. Sennacherib. 728 00:35:58,700 --> 00:36:00,100 He shall not come into this city. 729 00:36:00,100 --> 00:36:05,500 What city? No Jerusalem, he conquered 730 00:36:05,500 --> 00:36:07,500 lucky, shush. He's talking about Jerusalem 731 00:36:07,500 --> 00:36:10,100 there, he's not going to come into Jerusalem and God God's 732 00:36:10,100 --> 00:36:12,000 talking Hezekiah here. I should have should have give 733 00:36:12,000 --> 00:36:14,500 you a little background but he shall not come into this city, 734 00:36:14,600 --> 00:36:17,600 nor shoot an arrow there. Nor come before it was Shield 735 00:36:17,600 --> 00:36:20,600 nor cast a bank against it. What's a bank against it? 736 00:36:22,100 --> 00:36:23,300 Yeah. Siege ramp, right? 737 00:36:23,300 --> 00:36:25,600 I mean, God's talking about exactly what just happened in 738 00:36:25,600 --> 00:36:28,900 the quiche, right? And God saying, that's not going 739 00:36:28,900 --> 00:36:32,100 to happen to Jerusalem. Jerusalem were Hezekiah. 740 00:36:32,100 --> 00:36:34,000 Was that was actually experiencing somewhat of a 741 00:36:34,008 --> 00:36:38,000 Revival like quiche didn't and so God destroyed them. 742 00:36:38,200 --> 00:36:41,400 But he told Hezekiah it's not going to happen here by the way 743 00:36:41,400 --> 00:36:44,100 that he came by the same, shall he return? 744 00:36:44,300 --> 00:36:48,200 Well, sennacherib was a powerful powerful King and he had a huge 745 00:36:48,200 --> 00:36:50,800 army with him, and they were just rolling over these places. 746 00:36:51,200 --> 00:36:53,200 What's to keep him. From coming into Jerusalem 747 00:36:53,500 --> 00:36:56,100 nothing but God, right? But God said the same way that 748 00:36:56,100 --> 00:37:00,200 he came in as the same way that he's going to go out and shall 749 00:37:00,200 --> 00:37:02,700 not come into this city. Say at the Lord, for I will 750 00:37:02,700 --> 00:37:06,000 defend this city to save it for my own sake and for my servant 751 00:37:06,000 --> 00:37:08,800 David sake and it came to pass that night. 752 00:37:09,000 --> 00:37:11,800 That the angel of the Lord went out and smote in the camp of the 753 00:37:11,800 --> 00:37:18,000 Assyrians and 104 score and 5,000, it's 185 thousand men. 754 00:37:18,600 --> 00:37:20,900 And when they arose early in the morning behold they were all 755 00:37:20,900 --> 00:37:24,000 dead Corpses. So sennacherib king of Assyria 756 00:37:24,000 --> 00:37:26,600 departed and went and returned and dwelt at Nineveh. 757 00:37:26,800 --> 00:37:30,600 He came back, went back the same way that it came in and it came 758 00:37:30,600 --> 00:37:33,500 to pass as he was worshipping. And the house of Nish Rock his 759 00:37:33,500 --> 00:37:36,200 God that Ajram Alec and Sherry sir. 760 00:37:36,200 --> 00:37:39,800 His sons smote him with the sword and they escaped into the 761 00:37:39,808 --> 00:37:43,300 land of Armenia and Sr had in his son, reigned in his stead. 762 00:37:43,400 --> 00:37:47,200 So God said, okay snacker of you can go ahead and take like 763 00:37:47,200 --> 00:37:49,100 quiche there, they've sinned against me, they've turned 764 00:37:49,100 --> 00:37:51,700 against me, you're not coming into Jerusalem and that night. 765 00:37:51,900 --> 00:37:55,100 Right as they Camp. God killed 185 thousand 766 00:37:55,100 --> 00:37:56,700 Assyrians. He woke up the next morning and 767 00:37:56,700 --> 00:38:00,000 it's just nothing but a see a dead bodies, and he cut his 768 00:38:00,000 --> 00:38:02,900 losses and went back to Nineveh and when he was worshiping in 769 00:38:02,900 --> 00:38:06,100 the house of his God, his sons, his own Sons came in and killed 770 00:38:06,100 --> 00:38:09,700 him. If that's not God's hand on his 771 00:38:10,300 --> 00:38:14,700 chosen nation and on his City Jerusalem, I don't know what is 772 00:38:16,000 --> 00:38:19,600 All right, don't over the 1st. Samuel 17 is a very familiar 773 00:38:19,600 --> 00:38:21,400 story to you. Oh let me show you this. 774 00:38:21,400 --> 00:38:23,900 While you're turning over that groover in National Park is 775 00:38:23,900 --> 00:38:26,400 actually, and this is just very, very short, we stopped here on 776 00:38:26,408 --> 00:38:28,500 the way through this is actually an Amphitheater. 777 00:38:28,700 --> 00:38:31,200 Now, there's a difference between a theater and an 778 00:38:31,200 --> 00:38:35,300 Amphitheater, okay? You've probably you've heard of 779 00:38:35,300 --> 00:38:37,700 a theater and a lot of times somebody will come in and say, 780 00:38:37,700 --> 00:38:39,500 oh, look at the amphitheater, it's not an Amphitheater, it's a 781 00:38:39,500 --> 00:38:43,800 theater, a theater was something where they would perform plays 782 00:38:43,800 --> 00:38:46,700 and readings and things like that on a Stage and Amphitheatre 783 00:38:46,700 --> 00:38:49,200 is one where I had seating all the way around it, all right and 784 00:38:49,200 --> 00:38:51,400 that's what this was. Okay? 785 00:38:51,900 --> 00:38:54,400 Amphitheatre is a structure that typifies Roman culture. 786 00:38:54,400 --> 00:38:58,000 It was used for Gladiator. Combat public displays military 787 00:38:58,000 --> 00:39:00,600 training had enough seats for 3500 people. 788 00:39:01,800 --> 00:39:04,700 And that's all in Ruins. I mean a lot of the seating has 789 00:39:04,700 --> 00:39:07,100 been redone. It's just wooden back. 790 00:39:07,100 --> 00:39:10,600 Then it would more than likely have been Stone and all of them 791 00:39:10,600 --> 00:39:15,900 were but it was built on a foundation of a series of barrel 792 00:39:15,900 --> 00:39:17,700 vaults which you see those all the way through. 793 00:39:17,700 --> 00:39:20,100 And if you kept going around, you'd see him all the way around 794 00:39:20,100 --> 00:39:22,900 there. But the the Arches were used as 795 00:39:22,900 --> 00:39:25,500 service tunnels for the arena. And I'll show you one of those 796 00:39:25,500 --> 00:39:27,700 in a second. But the amphitheater was in use 797 00:39:27,800 --> 00:39:30,800 for over 200 years until his damaged by an earthquake in 83 798 00:39:30,800 --> 00:39:35,200 63. Old, this thing is, but there's 799 00:39:35,200 --> 00:39:36,400 the underneath of the amphitheater. 800 00:39:36,400 --> 00:39:38,000 That's where the animals were kept. 801 00:39:38,000 --> 00:39:40,900 So when they and, and again, lots and lots, and lots and lots 802 00:39:40,900 --> 00:39:43,200 of blood spilled in that, in that Arena, right there. 803 00:39:43,600 --> 00:39:46,900 Christians that were killed. Christians, that were made to 804 00:39:46,900 --> 00:39:49,400 fight each other Christians that were made to fight Gladiators 805 00:39:49,400 --> 00:39:51,400 Christians that were made to fight wild animals. 806 00:39:51,800 --> 00:39:54,600 That's where the wild animals would have been kept before they 807 00:39:54,600 --> 00:39:57,300 were released. So this is actually, this is the 808 00:39:57,300 --> 00:39:59,200 entrance. What you're seeing right here is 809 00:39:59,200 --> 00:40:02,700 the entrance into that. Into the amphitheater. 810 00:40:02,700 --> 00:40:04,200 And so this would have been here. 811 00:40:04,200 --> 00:40:07,600 If you went out that side, you would actually see the same 812 00:40:07,600 --> 00:40:11,500 Arena that we just looked at. There's some different that was 813 00:40:11,500 --> 00:40:14,100 that was a like a little trough that went all the way around it 814 00:40:14,100 --> 00:40:16,400 as a little bit of a way of protection that's looking at it 815 00:40:16,400 --> 00:40:19,800 from the outside a couple different pictures there. 816 00:40:19,900 --> 00:40:22,600 So it was a it was a real quick stop but it was a pretty 817 00:40:22,600 --> 00:40:25,700 interesting stop and we actually have some more good pictures of 818 00:40:25,700 --> 00:40:29,800 an Amphitheater here later on, but the valley of elah. 819 00:40:29,800 --> 00:40:33,200 And I'm going to try to cover this fairly quickly, but I want 820 00:40:33,200 --> 00:40:34,500 you to be able to see some of these pictures. 821 00:40:34,500 --> 00:40:41,100 So Really the the allow Valley. The valley of elah, it's It's 822 00:40:41,100 --> 00:40:43,700 called both but obviously what happened there. 823 00:40:43,700 --> 00:40:48,600 Does anybody remember Riley? David fought Goliath, right? 824 00:40:48,600 --> 00:40:50,400 And it's all still there. The battle between David and 825 00:40:50,400 --> 00:40:55,200 Goliath. 14 miles west of Bethlehem, where David came from 826 00:40:55,200 --> 00:40:57,100 that morning. What was he doing in Bethlehem? 827 00:40:58,500 --> 00:41:00,300 Then the Sheep right? That's what he did. 828 00:41:00,400 --> 00:41:04,700 He was just a young man. He won the kid but Bethlehem is 829 00:41:04,700 --> 00:41:07,300 right here. Okay, here's the Dead Sea. 830 00:41:07,400 --> 00:41:10,100 Here's the Mediterranean Sea. Here's here is lucky. 831 00:41:10,100 --> 00:41:14,500 She hears Bethlehem and it's not marked on this map where a law 832 00:41:14,500 --> 00:41:19,300 is at but 14 miles, west of Bethlehem, okay? 833 00:41:19,300 --> 00:41:23,200 So some were right in this area is where where the valley of a 834 00:41:23,200 --> 00:41:25,400 law is and where David fought Goliath? 835 00:41:27,300 --> 00:41:30,300 And you can kind of see it right there, there's there's Ashkelon, 836 00:41:30,300 --> 00:41:33,800 there's ashdod, there's ekron, there's gas, those were all 837 00:41:33,800 --> 00:41:37,300 those five, get Gaza Ashkelon ashdod, ekron and gather the 838 00:41:37,300 --> 00:41:40,100 five major Philistine cities and of course, this is right in the 839 00:41:40,100 --> 00:41:44,000 middle of it. So the the Egyptian I mean the 840 00:41:44,100 --> 00:41:48,100 Philistines and the Israelites were constantly at war with each 841 00:41:48,100 --> 00:41:49,200 other for a period of time there. 842 00:41:49,200 --> 00:41:52,800 But they wanted to push East and Conquer Israel's territory. 843 00:41:52,800 --> 00:41:55,000 And that battle was a major event in the war. 844 00:41:55,400 --> 00:41:57,400 Well, obviously, they were at a standoff You know, the story, 845 00:41:57,500 --> 00:41:59,500 right? But let's, let's look at verse 846 00:41:59,500 --> 00:42:02,100 number one, second first, Samuel 17 one. 847 00:42:02,400 --> 00:42:04,900 Now the Philistines gathered together their armies to battle, 848 00:42:04,900 --> 00:42:08,300 and we're gathered together at Soco, which is how you say that, 849 00:42:08,500 --> 00:42:12,500 which belongs to Judah and pitched between, So Co and has a 850 00:42:12,500 --> 00:42:15,400 car in FS, damn him. All right. 851 00:42:15,400 --> 00:42:17,500 Now, when I give you some pictures of this, okay? 852 00:42:17,900 --> 00:42:20,400 That's where it's labeled. There is where the Philistines 853 00:42:20,400 --> 00:42:22,400 were encamped. That was so cool. 854 00:42:22,600 --> 00:42:25,100 And then what you see down there in the middle, that wide-open 855 00:42:25,100 --> 00:42:28,000 field is the valley of elah ha. And then this hill, which didn't 856 00:42:28,000 --> 00:42:30,400 really have a name, is where Israel was camped. 857 00:42:31,000 --> 00:42:35,800 Well actually does it say that? Yeah, they It only says where 858 00:42:35,800 --> 00:42:39,600 the Philistines were at but they because they had a huge huge 859 00:42:40,100 --> 00:42:43,800 line and a huge position. So there's the allow Valley. 860 00:42:43,800 --> 00:42:48,000 Israel of course then verse number 2, Saul in the men of 861 00:42:48,000 --> 00:42:50,400 Israel were gathered together and pitched by the valley of 862 00:42:50,400 --> 00:42:53,100 elah and set the battle in Array against the Philistines. 863 00:42:53,300 --> 00:42:55,000 I've got some other pictures of this that I think is going to 864 00:42:55,008 --> 00:42:58,000 help you see it a little bit better in just a second. 865 00:42:58,000 --> 00:43:00,100 But verse number 3 and the Philistine stood on a mountain 866 00:43:00,100 --> 00:43:02,200 on the one side and Israel, stood on a mountain on the other 867 00:43:02,200 --> 00:43:04,600 side and there was a valley between them well in the Bible. 868 00:43:04,700 --> 00:43:06,900 As they stood on the mountain, they were actually standing on a 869 00:43:06,900 --> 00:43:08,600 mountain. I mean, it's not, you know, it's 870 00:43:08,600 --> 00:43:11,400 not Mount Everest, but it's high. 871 00:43:11,400 --> 00:43:15,000 It's really high and you'll see a picture of that in a second. 872 00:43:15,200 --> 00:43:20,000 There's so this is Israel was on the left Philistines were on the 873 00:43:20,000 --> 00:43:22,100 right? This is looking East toward 874 00:43:22,100 --> 00:43:23,500 Bethlehem. Okay? 875 00:43:24,200 --> 00:43:27,400 And here's some some some better pictures of it there, see how 876 00:43:27,400 --> 00:43:30,200 big that actually is the field and all of that stuff there so 877 00:43:30,200 --> 00:43:32,500 that the Philistines were up on this hill and Soco. 878 00:43:32,700 --> 00:43:34,800 There's the valley of your law and then you had Israel that 879 00:43:34,800 --> 00:43:37,000 were up here. And you think, you know, how 880 00:43:37,000 --> 00:43:40,100 did, how did Goliath here? I mean, how did the Israelites 881 00:43:40,100 --> 00:43:42,500 here, Goliath shouting well? Number one, there was no traffic 882 00:43:42,500 --> 00:43:44,500 noise, right? I mean, when you're standing 883 00:43:44,500 --> 00:43:46,600 there in the valley below, there's there's a road running 884 00:43:46,600 --> 00:43:48,800 right behind you, and you here. A lot of traffic and everything 885 00:43:48,800 --> 00:43:50,000 else. None of that would have been 886 00:43:50,000 --> 00:43:51,700 there. Of course, the Israelites were 887 00:43:51,700 --> 00:43:54,800 pretty scared and it's pretty obvious by the story that they 888 00:43:54,800 --> 00:43:56,600 were pretty scared of Goliath, right? 889 00:43:57,300 --> 00:44:02,600 We didn't actually do it but as I watched a video of a somebody 890 00:44:02,600 --> 00:44:06,800 that was that was there and his wife was standing up where the 891 00:44:06,800 --> 00:44:09,600 Israelites would have been and he ran all the way down into the 892 00:44:09,607 --> 00:44:13,500 valley about about a third of the way and he said, send me a 893 00:44:13,500 --> 00:44:14,900 man is why should I can hear you like? 894 00:44:14,900 --> 00:44:16,100 You're standing right next to me. 895 00:44:16,200 --> 00:44:18,000 So I'm going to go a little farther and he went to Two 896 00:44:18,000 --> 00:44:19,400 thirds of the way and same thing. 897 00:44:19,400 --> 00:44:21,100 He went all the way to the other side. 898 00:44:21,100 --> 00:44:24,700 He hollered send me a man to fight and she's like, I can hear 899 00:44:24,700 --> 00:44:27,100 you. And you can hear him and her 900 00:44:27,200 --> 00:44:29,800 talking to each other. I mean, they're yelling but not 901 00:44:29,800 --> 00:44:32,600 that loud. So you got a man like Goliath, 902 00:44:32,600 --> 00:44:37,000 who was as big as he was with probably a booming voice and and 903 00:44:37,000 --> 00:44:39,300 you know they would have understood that Goliath was no 904 00:44:39,300 --> 00:44:42,400 small guy and nobody would have wanted to fight him. 905 00:44:42,400 --> 00:44:44,500 So there's some more pictures of it. 906 00:44:44,500 --> 00:44:47,100 May be a little bit better picture of the the mountain that 907 00:44:47,100 --> 00:44:48,100 the Israelites. Were on. 908 00:44:48,100 --> 00:44:49,600 There you go. That's a lot better picture of 909 00:44:49,600 --> 00:44:51,400 it. That's our group. 910 00:44:51,400 --> 00:44:54,800 Somebody in our group brought a drone and I went a lot of fly at 911 00:44:54,800 --> 00:44:56,200 every place. You're not allowed to fly it 912 00:44:56,200 --> 00:44:58,200 into any of the national parks or anything like that. 913 00:44:58,200 --> 00:45:00,000 But actually gave us some pretty good perspectives. 914 00:45:00,200 --> 00:45:02,600 So I'm going to show you the the Eli Brooke here in just a 915 00:45:02,600 --> 00:45:04,300 minute. But I wanted to point it out 916 00:45:04,300 --> 00:45:07,700 with arrows on here so you can see this is actually a road that 917 00:45:07,700 --> 00:45:10,200 kind of keeps going there. So that you'll have Brooke 918 00:45:10,200 --> 00:45:14,200 starts here and goes around kind of back toward the mountain 919 00:45:15,100 --> 00:45:16,600 where the Israelites would have been at. 920 00:45:16,600 --> 00:45:19,600 But that's that is Brooke that David would have taken the 921 00:45:20,300 --> 00:45:24,000 stones out of obviously, it's dry most of the year. 922 00:45:24,000 --> 00:45:28,300 It's dry only for only during the really heaviest rainy 923 00:45:28,300 --> 00:45:30,200 season. Is there any water in that book? 924 00:45:31,100 --> 00:45:32,700 But there it is. That's the Brooke. 925 00:45:33,000 --> 00:45:35,300 I mean, it is. I mean, look at it. 926 00:45:35,300 --> 00:45:40,300 There's not much to it, right? And I brought back a bunch of 927 00:45:40,300 --> 00:45:44,000 stones from the from the brook and I've got them here. 928 00:45:44,000 --> 00:45:45,400 So I'll give one to every family. 929 00:45:45,400 --> 00:45:47,100 When we get finished tonight, you can pick one and take it 930 00:45:47,100 --> 00:45:49,900 home with you. And leave it sitting somewhere 931 00:45:49,900 --> 00:45:53,900 if you want to. There's the brook and the road 932 00:45:53,900 --> 00:45:56,900 actually keeps going the brook turns and goes back toward the 933 00:45:56,908 --> 00:46:01,100 mountain there. Again, there it is. 934 00:46:01,100 --> 00:46:02,600 That's where it turns and goes back. 935 00:46:02,600 --> 00:46:05,000 Very, very small. I mean, you think I don't know 936 00:46:05,000 --> 00:46:07,600 what and my mind, I don't know what I thought before because 937 00:46:07,600 --> 00:46:10,400 now this is all I see when I think about it, but I think as a 938 00:46:10,400 --> 00:46:12,800 kid, especially I thought it was this massive Brooke that he had 939 00:46:12,800 --> 00:46:15,400 to Wade through to get to the other side to go fight Goliath 940 00:46:15,400 --> 00:46:17,300 and he picked up some stones on his way past. 941 00:46:17,300 --> 00:46:19,900 Well, no, wonder he pick stones out of the brook, it was no 942 00:46:19,900 --> 00:46:22,900 water in it, you know, and it was very easy for him to just 943 00:46:22,900 --> 00:46:24,300 pick a few stones and keep going. 944 00:46:24,300 --> 00:46:28,100 So that's that's where it was at now. 945 00:46:28,300 --> 00:46:31,800 The Things. So, the hill that we were just 946 00:46:31,800 --> 00:46:34,700 looking at is the one right there, where it shows you that 947 00:46:34,700 --> 00:46:38,200 Israel was was that and then you have So Co and the valley of 948 00:46:38,200 --> 00:46:42,200 elah and then, but the Philistines Camp, the Philistine 949 00:46:42,200 --> 00:46:48,000 line went from Sokol all the way around to Oz a car. 950 00:46:50,500 --> 00:46:53,600 For, for David, to be able to go and fight Goliath and have a 951 00:46:53,600 --> 00:46:56,300 winner-take-all battle, was a huge Advantage for the 952 00:46:56,300 --> 00:47:00,000 Israelites. They were surrounded almost and 953 00:47:00,000 --> 00:47:01,600 the filler. I mean, you could just imagine 954 00:47:01,600 --> 00:47:04,800 everywhere you look there was Philistines camped and Israel 955 00:47:04,800 --> 00:47:07,700 was on that little spot right there and they didn't have a lot 956 00:47:07,700 --> 00:47:11,600 of people and I'm surprised the Philistines didn't just you know 957 00:47:11,900 --> 00:47:15,700 attack and you know take them over but what for obviously God 958 00:47:15,700 --> 00:47:17,900 knew what he was doing but Philistines gathered together 959 00:47:17,900 --> 00:47:20,700 their armies to battle and we're gathered together at so Yoko. 960 00:47:20,700 --> 00:47:24,200 Which belongs to Judah and pinched between pitch between So 961 00:47:24,200 --> 00:47:26,200 Co. And as a car, which is way way. 962 00:47:26,200 --> 00:47:30,200 And I'm going to show you a video here in a second. 963 00:47:30,300 --> 00:47:31,500 All right. This is it, okay? 964 00:47:31,500 --> 00:47:34,600 So this is the valley of elah. That's what we're looking at, 965 00:47:34,600 --> 00:47:36,200 right here. That's what we're standing in 966 00:47:36,500 --> 00:47:39,800 over here is Soco where the where the Philistines were at 967 00:47:41,400 --> 00:47:42,800 And it doesn't, it doesn't give you. 968 00:47:42,800 --> 00:47:44,200 I don't know why it gets so choppy. 969 00:47:44,800 --> 00:47:47,300 It works fine on my computer and we put it on that one back there 970 00:47:47,300 --> 00:47:49,900 and it gets choppy but look how wide that is. 971 00:47:49,900 --> 00:47:56,400 And it's just a bad but look how much land the Philistines had 972 00:47:56,400 --> 00:48:01,600 where all their people were. I was a car is the tallest spot 973 00:48:01,600 --> 00:48:06,400 right there. See that little that little spot 974 00:48:06,400 --> 00:48:09,000 in between the trees, that's that's as a car where the 975 00:48:09,008 --> 00:48:11,900 Philistines rat they had all of that land all the way around. 976 00:48:12,000 --> 00:48:14,800 Now, what you're going to see here is the is the mountain that 977 00:48:14,800 --> 00:48:17,100 the Israelites and where he's walking right, there is actually 978 00:48:17,100 --> 00:48:20,800 in the brook. But that's that's that's the 979 00:48:20,800 --> 00:48:23,800 spot that the Israelites had the Philistines, had everything else 980 00:48:23,800 --> 00:48:27,100 all the way around there. Pretty amazing, pretty amazing. 981 00:48:29,400 --> 00:48:32,900 So they gathered a hill on the northeast side That's the valley 982 00:48:32,900 --> 00:48:36,600 of elah in the middle. That's the Philistines 983 00:48:36,600 --> 00:48:39,200 northernmost flank that's Ozzy cos zoomed in as we were 984 00:48:39,200 --> 00:48:40,500 leaving. We were able to get some good 985 00:48:40,500 --> 00:48:43,500 pictures of it, just because it was so far away, it really was 986 00:48:43,500 --> 00:48:46,300 amazing. So, in fact, let's look back in 987 00:48:46,300 --> 00:48:49,500 first Samuel 17, verse number 4. And there went out a champion 988 00:48:49,500 --> 00:48:51,600 out of the camp of the Philistines named Goliath of 989 00:48:51,600 --> 00:48:54,300 gath, which we talked about and we were there, remember? 990 00:48:54,600 --> 00:48:56,800 Or we saw it whose height was six. 991 00:48:56,800 --> 00:49:00,000 Cubits, and a span. How tall is that? 992 00:49:01,800 --> 00:49:04,900 9 foot 9 inches pretty much. All right? 993 00:49:04,900 --> 00:49:08,400 And he had a helmet of brass upon his head and he was armed 994 00:49:08,400 --> 00:49:12,000 with a coat of mail, and the weight of the coat, was 5000 995 00:49:12,000 --> 00:49:17,100 shekels of brass. Guess, we don't have the actual. 996 00:49:17,900 --> 00:49:19,900 Oh yeah, yeah. Made of brass plates arranged 997 00:49:19,900 --> 00:49:22,500 like the scales of a fish that weight about 125 pounds. 998 00:49:23,000 --> 00:49:28,800 How much do you weigh Jackson? About that, right? 999 00:49:28,800 --> 00:49:31,200 Well, Bryan's 125. So imagine walking around with 1000 00:49:31,200 --> 00:49:35,000 Brian on your back. Now, you'd be dead, you know, I 1001 00:49:35,000 --> 00:49:37,400 don't do any of that, but I think Jackson's, I think roughly 1002 00:49:37,400 --> 00:49:43,400 125 no less than that. Okay, so, so, so carrying around 1003 00:49:43,400 --> 00:49:47,500 this coat of mail, that's that's even heavier than probably Alex 1004 00:49:47,500 --> 00:49:50,500 and Riley combined, right? I mean, that's, That's Heavy. 1005 00:49:50,800 --> 00:49:54,500 It's a big guy, I'm not gonna imagine how big Goliath must 1006 00:49:54,500 --> 00:49:58,000 have been but verse number 6, in the end, he had Greaves of brass 1007 00:49:58,000 --> 00:50:00,900 upon his legs and a target of brass between his shoulders and 1008 00:50:00,900 --> 00:50:03,100 the staff of his spear was like a Weaver's beam. 1009 00:50:03,500 --> 00:50:07,600 And the spears head weighed 600 shekels of iron 15 pounds. 1010 00:50:08,100 --> 00:50:10,600 And one bearing a shield went before him and he stood and 1011 00:50:10,600 --> 00:50:12,600 cried into the armies of Israel. Instead of them. 1012 00:50:12,600 --> 00:50:14,900 Why are you come out to set your battle in Array? 1013 00:50:14,900 --> 00:50:17,500 Am I not a Philistine? I'm not a Philistine and you 1014 00:50:17,500 --> 00:50:20,300 servants to Saul choose, you a man for you and let him come 1015 00:50:20,300 --> 00:50:22,600 down to me. If he be able to fight with me 1016 00:50:22,600 --> 00:50:24,600 and to kill me, then will be your servants. 1017 00:50:24,600 --> 00:50:27,200 But if I Prevail against him and kill him, then you shall be our 1018 00:50:27,200 --> 00:50:30,800 servants and serve us. The Philistine said I defy the 1019 00:50:30,800 --> 00:50:33,100 armies of Israel. This day, give me a man. 1020 00:50:33,200 --> 00:50:37,700 That we may fight together. So there's Goliath, defier 1021 00:50:37,700 --> 00:50:40,900 defied, the armies of Israel and he cursed them in the name of 1022 00:50:40,900 --> 00:50:42,000 his false gods. In fact. 1023 00:50:42,000 --> 00:50:44,000 Let's look at look at verse number 43. 1024 00:50:46,100 --> 00:50:48,300 I'm not I'm the wrong passage. Let me get there. 1025 00:50:49,900 --> 00:50:51,800 First Samuel 17, verse number, 43. 1026 00:50:53,500 --> 00:50:55,700 And the Philistine said on a David, am I a dog that they'll 1027 00:50:55,700 --> 00:50:59,200 come to me, with staves and the Philistine cursed David by his 1028 00:50:59,200 --> 00:51:02,800 Gods. So cursing cursing, and of 1029 00:51:02,800 --> 00:51:08,300 course, David understood that it was it was God's honor. 1030 00:51:09,000 --> 00:51:10,800 That was at stake. It was more than just that. 1031 00:51:10,800 --> 00:51:13,900 But verse 17 and 18 were or were there. 1032 00:51:13,900 --> 00:51:16,200 We can go back and look at that. Look at that passage, if you 1033 00:51:16,200 --> 00:51:18,300 want to look at it there where you can look at it up on the 1034 00:51:18,300 --> 00:51:20,300 screen. Jesse said in a David his son 1035 00:51:20,300 --> 00:51:23,200 take now for that brother and thief of this parched corn, the 1036 00:51:23,300 --> 00:51:25,400 Ten Loaves and run to the camp to thy Brethren. 1037 00:51:25,600 --> 00:51:28,700 Carry these ten Cheese's under the captain of their house of 1038 00:51:28,700 --> 00:51:31,600 their thousands and all thy Brethren fair and take their 1039 00:51:31,600 --> 00:51:33,400 pledge. See how they're doing, come back 1040 00:51:33,400 --> 00:51:36,800 and let me know, David Rose up early in the morning and left 1041 00:51:36,800 --> 00:51:39,300 the sheep with a keeper and took and went as Jesse had commanded 1042 00:51:39,300 --> 00:51:42,000 him and he came to the trench as the host was going forth to 1043 00:51:42,000 --> 00:51:45,400 fight each other for the battle. So David understood again that 1044 00:51:45,400 --> 00:51:48,000 the issue was God's testimony and he volunteered to fight. 1045 00:51:48,100 --> 00:51:49,300 David wasn't trusting in a sling. 1046 00:51:49,300 --> 00:51:51,800 He was trusting in living God and you read through some of 1047 00:51:51,800 --> 00:51:53,800 those other passages. And again, it's Saul there. 1048 00:51:53,800 --> 00:51:56,400 And for Samuel 17 might be helpful for you to read it 1049 00:51:56,400 --> 00:51:59,600 again, but all of, that's there. And basically, David said that 1050 00:51:59,600 --> 00:52:01,100 exact thing I'm not coming at you. 1051 00:52:01,100 --> 00:52:03,600 With, with all these things, I'm coming at you, in the name of 1052 00:52:03,600 --> 00:52:07,800 the Lord Jesus Christ, right? The Lord, Our God, but this is 1053 00:52:07,800 --> 00:52:13,100 good, verse 45 and verse 46. Then said, David to the 1054 00:52:13,100 --> 00:52:15,200 Philistine. Now, comes to me with a sword 1055 00:52:15,200 --> 00:52:17,300 and with a spear and with a shield, but I come to thee, in 1056 00:52:17,300 --> 00:52:20,500 the name of the Lord of hosts, the god of the armies of Israel. 1057 00:52:20,600 --> 00:52:24,200 Whom thou Hast defied this day, will the Lord deliver the end of 1058 00:52:24,200 --> 00:52:27,700 my hand and I will smite thee, and take dine head from thee. 1059 00:52:27,900 --> 00:52:30,000 Can you imagine Goliath hearing that? 1060 00:52:31,000 --> 00:52:34,400 Some you know, David's not a little kid by the way, a lot of 1061 00:52:34,400 --> 00:52:37,400 people, you know, a little Shepherd boy who 10, 12 years 1062 00:52:37,400 --> 00:52:40,000 old and he's out there, you know, I'm gonna take your head 1063 00:52:40,000 --> 00:52:42,200 from you, you know. He's that's not it mean David 1064 00:52:42,200 --> 00:52:44,800 was, you know, he was he was getting toward a grown man at 1065 00:52:44,800 --> 00:52:47,200 that point. But everybody could still tell 1066 00:52:47,200 --> 00:52:50,300 that he was a young man, right? And to hear. 1067 00:52:50,400 --> 00:52:52,700 I mean, this is their champion, and he's saying to him. 1068 00:52:52,700 --> 00:52:57,200 I'm going to take your head off and then he continues and I'll 1069 00:52:57,200 --> 00:53:00,400 give the carcass of the host of the Philistines this day under 1070 00:53:00,400 --> 00:53:02,000 the FAA. Fowls of the air into the wild 1071 00:53:02,000 --> 00:53:03,700 beasts of the earth that all the Earth. 1072 00:53:03,700 --> 00:53:06,200 May know that there is a God in Israel, that's a strong 1073 00:53:06,200 --> 00:53:10,000 statement and that is some serious Faith, because if 1074 00:53:10,000 --> 00:53:11,900 Goliath had gotten ahold of David, he could have snapped 1075 00:53:11,900 --> 00:53:14,800 them in half if he wanted to. But again, David wasn't this 1076 00:53:14,800 --> 00:53:16,400 little boy, that's, that's depicted. 1077 00:53:16,400 --> 00:53:17,400 In a lot of the children's stories. 1078 00:53:17,400 --> 00:53:19,000 He was a brave. Strong young man, had fought, a 1079 00:53:19,008 --> 00:53:21,200 lion had fought a bear. I mean, he's not a 10 year, old 1080 00:53:21,200 --> 00:53:23,700 kid out there. Watching sheep killing Bears, 1081 00:53:23,700 --> 00:53:27,800 right? So he's probably around the 18, 1082 00:53:27,800 --> 00:53:30,700 20 years old. He said that I went out after 1083 00:53:30,800 --> 00:53:32,600 Him smote him, delivered him out of mouth. 1084 00:53:32,600 --> 00:53:34,700 Caught him by the beard smote him, and slew him. 1085 00:53:36,000 --> 00:53:39,200 That's actually an Asian lion and we didn't get a chance to go 1086 00:53:39,200 --> 00:53:44,000 to the Israel Zoo. But the Jerusalem Zoo, the 1087 00:53:44,000 --> 00:53:47,800 Jerusalem Biblical Zoo has as many of them as are still alive 1088 00:53:47,800 --> 00:53:51,600 because there's some of them that are extinct animals that 1089 00:53:51,600 --> 00:53:54,000 are in the Bible. There's, there's the lion and 1090 00:53:54,000 --> 00:53:58,200 now there's a bear the Syrian brown bear is actually extinct 1091 00:53:58,300 --> 00:54:03,400 and Israel now, but but that's the type, that David fought and 1092 00:54:03,800 --> 00:54:07,100 it's not as big as a North American Grizzly but It's 550 1093 00:54:07,100 --> 00:54:10,700 pounds. If it took that thing on, By 1094 00:54:10,700 --> 00:54:13,600 himself. Can you imagine that? 1095 00:54:14,100 --> 00:54:15,500 And that's the Syrian brown bear. 1096 00:54:15,500 --> 00:54:16,700 You see? The hump on the back? 1097 00:54:16,700 --> 00:54:19,100 That's the mark of a grizzly. I mean, that's a big animal. 1098 00:54:19,500 --> 00:54:23,400 It's a big animal and David, David killed killed, the bear. 1099 00:54:23,600 --> 00:54:26,000 This is actually pretty interesting, the Byzantine 1100 00:54:26,000 --> 00:54:30,300 mosaics, because a lot of the Crusaders actually. 1101 00:54:30,400 --> 00:54:32,800 Okay, so here at Crusader night is fighting a Grizzly. 1102 00:54:33,000 --> 00:54:35,200 They are actually the ones that made them as think. 1103 00:54:36,000 --> 00:54:39,000 It was a way to prove your manhood and improve your honor 1104 00:54:39,000 --> 00:54:41,600 and your bravery to go out and kill a lion or bear with the 1105 00:54:41,600 --> 00:54:43,900 sword. So they killed so many of them, 1106 00:54:43,900 --> 00:54:47,800 there's nothing left and but they depicted that in the Mosaic 1107 00:54:47,800 --> 00:54:50,800 there, and that that Mosaic is actually in the, the Israel 1108 00:54:50,800 --> 00:54:52,700 Museum. I'll show you some pictures of 1109 00:54:52,700 --> 00:54:55,000 that a little bit later, but this is interesting as well. 1110 00:54:55,600 --> 00:54:57,800 You know, a lot of people telling the story, you know, put 1111 00:54:57,800 --> 00:54:59,700 Saul's armor on it. David was walking around like 1112 00:54:59,700 --> 00:55:01,800 this and he couldn't, you know, he couldn't handle it because he 1113 00:55:01,800 --> 00:55:04,400 was this little kid in the armor was too big, and he told Saul, I 1114 00:55:04,408 --> 00:55:08,200 can't wear that it was not that the armor was too big, he hadn't 1115 00:55:08,200 --> 00:55:10,100 proved it, and that's exactly what the Bible says there. 1116 00:55:10,100 --> 00:55:13,400 In 1st, Samuel 17 fact, if you want to look there and Verse 38, 1117 00:55:13,600 --> 00:55:16,300 right? Saul arm David with his armor 1118 00:55:16,300 --> 00:55:18,900 and he put on helmet of brass upon his head. 1119 00:55:19,000 --> 00:55:22,100 Also, he armed him with a coat of mail and David, girded his 1120 00:55:22,100 --> 00:55:25,400 sword upon his armor and his say, to go it fit him, he was 1121 00:55:25,400 --> 00:55:30,800 ready to go with that armor. For he had not proved it and 1122 00:55:30,800 --> 00:55:32,700 David said, unto Saul, I cannot go with these four. 1123 00:55:32,700 --> 00:55:35,600 Have not proved them, David put them off and he said I've never 1124 00:55:35,600 --> 00:55:38,200 really fought in this stuff, right? 1125 00:55:38,200 --> 00:55:40,900 I don't feel comfortable in and I don't feel like I can move 1126 00:55:40,900 --> 00:55:43,600 around the way that I need to. It's not that he they didn't fit 1127 00:55:43,600 --> 00:55:46,600 him or that he was this tiny little kid and Saul's big 1128 00:55:46,600 --> 00:55:49,100 Armory, you know, looks like a kid and his dad's boots or 1129 00:55:49,100 --> 00:55:52,100 something like that. He just he just he didn't proved 1130 00:55:52,100 --> 00:55:54,900 it so he didn't wear it. That's that's the only reason 1131 00:55:54,900 --> 00:55:58,600 why before David killed Goliath, he played his heart for Always 1132 00:55:58,600 --> 00:56:01,800 described as a man of war and a mighty Valiant man. 1133 00:56:02,100 --> 00:56:04,600 There you go. He was probably 18 to 20 years 1134 00:56:04,600 --> 00:56:07,200 old. Not, you know, I mean again not 1135 00:56:07,200 --> 00:56:09,700 you know, not some 40 year old hardened battle lawyer or 1136 00:56:09,707 --> 00:56:13,300 something like that, but he was not a little kid like he's often 1137 00:56:13,300 --> 00:56:15,300 depicted. Now this is this is the last 1138 00:56:15,300 --> 00:56:19,500 thing here and I wanted to get to shore. 1139 00:56:19,500 --> 00:56:23,000 I am because that's where that's where the the Philistine Army. 1140 00:56:23,000 --> 00:56:24,700 Fled. There's a lot of pictures there 1141 00:56:24,700 --> 00:56:26,500 that wanted to show you, and we're not going to come to do 1142 00:56:26,500 --> 00:56:28,700 that tonight. So but the care of Tree. 1143 00:56:28,700 --> 00:56:31,500 And that's right there in the valley of elah that's Azure. 1144 00:56:32,100 --> 00:56:36,100 So can't really tell, but where I was standing probably in that 1145 00:56:36,100 --> 00:56:39,500 picture was in the brook. So you walk down and you can 1146 00:56:39,500 --> 00:56:41,900 kind of see how it's starting to come back up, that's coming back 1147 00:56:41,900 --> 00:56:46,900 up the other side, but that there is a carob tree there in 1148 00:56:46,900 --> 00:56:50,300 the valley and little bit closer, picture of it, but the 1149 00:56:50,300 --> 00:56:52,500 seeds of the Caribou are actually used as a unit for 1150 00:56:52,500 --> 00:56:58,200 weight and measure so an ephah How do you, how do you figure 1151 00:56:58,200 --> 00:57:00,500 out how big an ephah is? Well, it was measured and 1152 00:57:00,500 --> 00:57:03,600 weighed based on the size of the carob seeds. 1153 00:57:03,600 --> 00:57:05,800 And so that's a carob tree there. 1154 00:57:06,100 --> 00:57:09,500 And I think, I think maybe I'll have another picture of one a 1155 00:57:09,500 --> 00:57:11,100 little bit later on. I don't think I actually got a 1156 00:57:11,107 --> 00:57:13,700 picture of a carob seed, nothing was growing at the time. 1157 00:57:13,800 --> 00:57:19,400 You know, it was green obviously, but you'll see if you 1158 00:57:19,400 --> 00:57:21,700 go in and look at some pictures of Israel. 1159 00:57:21,700 --> 00:57:24,000 And think that's the last one. Make sure. 1160 00:57:24,300 --> 00:57:26,500 Oh sure, Ryan. So well. 1161 00:57:26,700 --> 00:57:29,100 Do that one later. There's a lot there that I want 1162 00:57:29,100 --> 00:57:30,600 to show you. I think it's very interesting 1163 00:57:30,600 --> 00:57:36,800 and we're out of time, but Where was I going with that, right for 1164 00:57:36,800 --> 00:57:40,000 that. Does anybody remember what I 1165 00:57:40,008 --> 00:57:41,500 said? Go back and listen to it real 1166 00:57:41,500 --> 00:57:49,400 quick. Well, thanks everybody for 1167 00:57:49,400 --> 00:57:51,500 listening. No kidding. 1168 00:57:52,500 --> 00:57:55,100 The what? Sure. 1169 00:57:55,100 --> 00:57:56,800 Am. Which Edgewood that just popped 1170 00:57:56,800 --> 00:57:58,200 up and that's what distracted me. 1171 00:58:00,800 --> 00:58:01,900 The trees. Oh, that's what? 1172 00:58:01,900 --> 00:58:04,300 Okay, thank you. Everybody was listening, good. 1173 00:58:05,900 --> 00:58:10,300 If you go back to any pictures, let's say and you look up a 1174 00:58:10,300 --> 00:58:14,100 place you like, you might look up the valley of a law on Google 1175 00:58:14,200 --> 00:58:16,800 and it shows up and everything is brown. 1176 00:58:17,500 --> 00:58:21,400 And some of the places that we went, I didn't even recognize, 1177 00:58:21,400 --> 00:58:23,400 when I went to look it up because I was trying to, I 1178 00:58:23,400 --> 00:58:25,000 wanted to make sure that I had my location. 1179 00:58:25,000 --> 00:58:26,600 Correct. And so, I went to look it up and 1180 00:58:26,600 --> 00:58:28,600 I said, and I typed it in and I was like, even look like the 1181 00:58:28,600 --> 00:58:31,800 same place, everything's Brown. Well, a couple of weeks before 1182 00:58:31,800 --> 00:58:34,600 we went, they had a bunch of rain and just that quick, 1183 00:58:34,600 --> 00:58:37,800 everything turned green. I mean, few days before we came. 1184 00:58:38,100 --> 00:58:40,900 And so, I mean, you see how you can't see it anymore, but how 1185 00:58:41,500 --> 00:58:45,600 how beautiful that Valley and how green that Valley was and 1186 00:58:45,600 --> 00:58:48,500 how all the trees had their leaves on and everything else? 1187 00:58:48,500 --> 00:58:52,000 I mean, and they basically say that for for most of the time 1188 00:58:52,000 --> 00:58:54,800 through the winter doesn't get that cold, but everything's 1189 00:58:54,800 --> 00:58:57,700 Brown and dead and the rains hit and everything turns green 1190 00:58:57,700 --> 00:59:01,000 overnight. And so we hit a Beautiful, 1191 00:59:01,000 --> 00:59:06,100 beautiful time. It rained on our way from the 1192 00:59:06,100 --> 00:59:08,400 airport to our hotel, on the first night. 1193 00:59:08,800 --> 00:59:12,100 And then for two solid weeks, there was no rain in the rainy 1194 00:59:12,100 --> 00:59:15,200 season in Israel. It's a pretty amazing thing. 1195 00:59:15,800 --> 00:59:19,300 Brother Cloud said, he said I've been to Israel 10 times and 1196 00:59:19,300 --> 00:59:22,300 every time I pray that we'd have great weather and not have to 1197 00:59:22,300 --> 00:59:25,000 not be able to go see a place because of how because the rain 1198 00:59:25,000 --> 00:59:28,400 and he said in 10 trips here. Always right around the same 1199 00:59:28,400 --> 00:59:31,000 time. It's never rained once And 1200 00:59:31,000 --> 00:59:33,800 that's a pretty amazing thing. I mean, the guide our guide was 1201 00:59:33,800 --> 00:59:35,400 like, I can't believe it hasn't rained. 1202 00:59:35,400 --> 00:59:37,400 I mean, we always get rain during this time of year, at 1203 00:59:37,400 --> 00:59:40,200 least at least a day where he's like, I can't believe it, you 1204 00:59:40,200 --> 00:59:44,500 know, but God gave us that great weather and just, I mean, could 1205 00:59:44,500 --> 00:59:48,500 not ask for better skies for the pictures and everything else and 1206 00:59:48,500 --> 00:59:52,500 we just turned out beautifully. So anyway, I hope that's hope 1207 00:59:52,500 --> 00:59:54,500 that gives you a little bit better picture of what, you 1208 00:59:54,500 --> 00:59:56,700 know, I mean, how many times have you read the story of David 1209 00:59:56,700 --> 00:59:59,300 and Goliath and probably pictured in your mind? 1210 00:59:59,300 --> 01:00:01,700 What the valley looked like in? Everything else that's it. 1211 01:00:01,700 --> 01:00:04,700 That's what it looked like, and pretty amazing. 1212 01:00:04,700 --> 01:00:08,600 So if you want to go back and look at some of those pictures 1213 01:00:08,600 --> 01:00:10,600 again, but yeah, I guess you can go back and watch the live 1214 01:00:10,600 --> 01:00:13,500 stream or watch the watch the message again, if you wanted to, 1215 01:00:13,500 --> 01:00:16,500 but I posted a lot of these pictures on my Facebook. 1216 01:00:16,800 --> 01:00:19,900 So as soon as I'm out of Facebook jail or whatever they 1217 01:00:19,900 --> 01:00:22,700 call it, as soon as I get my account back, then you should. 1218 01:00:22,700 --> 01:00:25,800 I think you could still go on there and see it now but you can 1219 01:00:25,800 --> 01:00:27,500 you can go back and maybe look at some of those pictures, a 1220 01:00:27,508 --> 01:00:29,900 little closer, a little more closely and zoom in on them if 1221 01:00:29,900 --> 01:00:32,600 you wanted to. And whatever else but hope 1222 01:00:32,600 --> 01:00:34,300 that's helped. Let's pray. 1223 01:00:35,500 --> 01:00:36,800 And we'll be done father, we love you. 1224 01:00:36,800 --> 01:00:37,900 Can we thank you for your goodness? 1225 01:00:37,900 --> 01:00:42,100 I thank you for the way the Bible and archaeology, go 1226 01:00:42,100 --> 01:00:44,600 hand-in-hand and how we can trust the word of God. 1227 01:00:44,600 --> 01:00:48,500 Thank you so much for Reliable truth that we can stand on and I 1228 01:00:48,500 --> 01:00:51,600 pray that you help us to always trust it and print it out as we 1229 01:00:51,600 --> 01:00:55,800 go through these things that it would open up the Bible to us 1230 01:00:55,800 --> 01:00:58,100 and help us to see it in a different light and see it in a 1231 01:00:58,107 --> 01:01:01,900 different way maybe than we've seen it before and it helped us 1232 01:01:01,900 --> 01:01:04,200 to study the Bible. Thank you for all that you do 1233 01:01:04,200 --> 01:01:05,400 for us in Jesus. Name. 1234 01:01:05,600 --> 01:01:06,000 Amen.