1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:02,700 13. Well, Josh would you mind 2 00:00:02,700 --> 00:00:06,800 grabbing the maps? And we'll get into that soon or 3 00:00:06,800 --> 00:00:09,600 brother, Kevin, Maybe. I'll help you get it. 4 00:00:09,600 --> 00:00:10,900 Set up. If we don't put in the right 5 00:00:10,900 --> 00:00:14,000 place, it's slides and don't need that to happen. 6 00:00:14,700 --> 00:00:17,700 Let me get, let me get this set up and then we'll get started 7 00:00:17,700 --> 00:00:24,000 into this tonight. I do limbo through the door. 8 00:00:26,700 --> 00:00:28,700 Very good. Yeah. 9 00:00:30,700 --> 00:00:32,000 Yeah, right. Here is perfect. 10 00:00:32,100 --> 00:00:33,600 Yeah. Yeah, right there. 11 00:00:34,600 --> 00:00:37,800 Gotcha. Yep. 12 00:00:38,100 --> 00:00:38,900 That's perfect. Thank you. 13 00:00:40,200 --> 00:00:44,200 All right. Turn it a little bit so I can 14 00:00:44,200 --> 00:00:46,600 see it though. Is that in front of the screen 15 00:00:46,900 --> 00:00:48,200 that's going to keep you guys from being able? 16 00:00:48,200 --> 00:00:49,500 See I'm gonna move this over there. 17 00:00:51,500 --> 00:00:55,100 See if we can take the piano out this me times that better. 18 00:00:56,400 --> 00:00:59,400 All right. I need to turn it a little bit 19 00:00:59,400 --> 00:01:00,900 more so that I can see it over there. 20 00:01:01,600 --> 00:01:04,800 I can't really see it either. Very good. 21 00:01:06,700 --> 00:01:07,900 Good, we're on. All right. 22 00:01:11,900 --> 00:01:14,700 Let me see here, make sure. Okay, Judean Wilderness, that's 23 00:01:14,700 --> 00:01:15,900 where we're going to. We're going to talk about the 24 00:01:16,100 --> 00:01:18,700 part of the Judean Wilderness. Anybody know what happened in 25 00:01:18,700 --> 00:01:20,700 the Judean Wilderness? Give me a couple things that you 26 00:01:20,700 --> 00:01:23,000 can remember. Maybe about what happened in the 27 00:01:23,000 --> 00:01:40,200 Judean Wilderness, but Ryan. King Saul, yep. and getting Yep, 28 00:01:40,200 --> 00:01:40,900 exactly. Right. 29 00:01:40,900 --> 00:01:42,400 That's one of the things that happened in the Judean 30 00:01:42,400 --> 00:01:43,200 Wilderness. What else? 31 00:01:44,100 --> 00:01:46,000 There's a lot. There's a lot. 32 00:01:46,000 --> 00:01:47,200 Some that we've already talked about brother. 33 00:01:47,200 --> 00:01:49,700 Kevin. Jesus was tempted in the 34 00:01:49,708 --> 00:01:52,200 wilderness for 40 days in the Judean Wilderness, right? 35 00:01:52,400 --> 00:01:54,600 That's a nice one. Anything else that you can think 36 00:01:54,600 --> 00:01:58,400 of we're going to look at them. So hopefully by the end of 37 00:01:58,400 --> 00:02:01,500 tonight you'll know all of them. But yeah. 38 00:02:05,400 --> 00:02:07,800 Jacob would have been not in the Judean Wilderness. 39 00:02:07,800 --> 00:02:10,400 He was, he would have been more in the, in, the southern, the 40 00:02:10,400 --> 00:02:13,900 Negev Wilderness. But Wilderness, your clothes. 41 00:02:14,700 --> 00:02:15,800 All right, let's get into it then. 42 00:02:15,900 --> 00:02:17,800 Okay. So did you did Wilderness and 43 00:02:17,800 --> 00:02:19,600 I'm going to zoom in on this map just a little bit. 44 00:02:19,600 --> 00:02:21,800 All right. Did you did Wilderness runs from 45 00:02:21,800 --> 00:02:25,400 the north of Jericho to the southern end of the Dead Sea? 46 00:02:25,500 --> 00:02:28,300 Okay, here we are. Here's Jericho right up in this 47 00:02:28,300 --> 00:02:30,400 area here and it oh there's Jericho. 48 00:02:30,400 --> 00:02:32,800 Its tiny little dot on there. You can come look at it later if 49 00:02:32,800 --> 00:02:34,200 you want to but it runs all the way. 50 00:02:34,400 --> 00:02:36,100 Here. And if you if you were able to 51 00:02:36,500 --> 00:02:38,600 come in closer, let me see if this gives. 52 00:02:38,600 --> 00:02:39,900 It doesn't really give it to you. 53 00:02:40,000 --> 00:02:42,200 You can see it on this map if you come a little bit closer, 54 00:02:42,300 --> 00:02:43,800 but you can kind of see, all right? 55 00:02:43,800 --> 00:02:47,600 Look in this area right here and see how it Stan right in there. 56 00:02:47,600 --> 00:02:51,000 Now, almost all of this is to, this is Desert is Sharia course, 57 00:02:51,000 --> 00:02:55,300 all of this is Desert area. What is this area called that 58 00:02:55,300 --> 00:02:58,200 little triangle section? The - right? 59 00:02:58,200 --> 00:03:02,400 What does - mean itself? South means South. 60 00:03:02,400 --> 00:03:04,700 Right? What is this right here? 61 00:03:07,200 --> 00:03:10,400 The Red Sea. What is this Mediterranean Sea? 62 00:03:10,400 --> 00:03:13,700 What is this Sea of Galilee? What runs from the Sea of 63 00:03:13,700 --> 00:03:17,600 Galilee all the way down to this, the Jordan River and what 64 00:03:17,600 --> 00:03:19,400 is this? The Dead Sea? 65 00:03:19,500 --> 00:03:22,600 Very good. All right, what is this area of 66 00:03:22,600 --> 00:03:26,300 the Wilderness called Wilderness of Zin? 67 00:03:26,300 --> 00:03:27,800 All right. What's the one below that in 68 00:03:27,800 --> 00:03:31,400 this area Wilderness of Paran? All right, so we're going to add 69 00:03:31,400 --> 00:03:34,400 one more thing to it. All right, let's just Judean 70 00:03:34,400 --> 00:03:36,800 Wilderness and the Judean Wilderness runs basically from 71 00:03:37,100 --> 00:03:40,300 Didn't this area all the way up to the top corner right by 72 00:03:40,300 --> 00:03:41,900 Jericho. All right, and that red area 73 00:03:41,900 --> 00:03:46,200 right there in lies on the western side of the lower Jordan 74 00:03:46,200 --> 00:03:50,200 Valley and the Dead Sea area. So you would think actually, 75 00:03:50,200 --> 00:03:55,600 that it would be fairly well watered, because of the the fact 76 00:03:55,600 --> 00:03:59,600 that it's it's so low a lot of it's It's so low compared to the 77 00:03:59,600 --> 00:04:04,000 rest of rest of Israel, but it really is very dry and very 78 00:04:04,000 --> 00:04:06,200 barren. Not much there. 79 00:04:06,300 --> 00:04:09,800 It's about 60 miles. Long about 13 miles wide and so 80 00:04:10,000 --> 00:04:12,400 gives you kind of an idea here. Does anybody remember? 81 00:04:12,400 --> 00:04:15,400 Okay, so this is basically, this is the southern tip of Israel. 82 00:04:15,400 --> 00:04:17,600 This is the, I'm sorry, the northern tip of Israel. 83 00:04:17,600 --> 00:04:19,100 This is the southern tip of Israel. 84 00:04:19,200 --> 00:04:20,700 Does anybody remember what I said? 85 00:04:20,700 --> 00:04:25,300 It's a, the, the whole nation of Israel is about the size of in 86 00:04:25,300 --> 00:04:28,100 the United States, Alex Massachusetts? 87 00:04:28,100 --> 00:04:31,200 So, it's really, it's, I mean, on the actual map of the United 88 00:04:31,200 --> 00:04:34,800 States is very, very, very tiny, even on the map of that whole 89 00:04:35,100 --> 00:04:37,000 Malaria. It's very, very tiny. 90 00:04:37,300 --> 00:04:39,600 I can pull this away and let you look at it again, real quick. 91 00:04:39,600 --> 00:04:44,000 Just to remind you of how small it actually is even in that even 92 00:04:44,000 --> 00:04:47,300 in that whole region, right? But it is very, very small 93 00:04:47,300 --> 00:04:50,800 compared to their ghosts. Don't go anywhere on me. 94 00:04:50,900 --> 00:04:54,100 All right. So so, so you have Jordan Saudi 95 00:04:54,100 --> 00:04:56,100 Arabia Egypt. I mean, Egypt is massive. 96 00:04:56,100 --> 00:04:58,500 Just all down in this area. Syria, turkey. 97 00:04:58,800 --> 00:05:00,200 And here's a little Israel right here. 98 00:05:00,300 --> 00:05:02,100 That's it. That's all of Israel. 99 00:05:02,100 --> 00:05:06,000 So, it's very, very, very small compared to Basically, any other 100 00:05:06,000 --> 00:05:08,700 Nation. I mean, we have how many states 101 00:05:08,700 --> 00:05:11,200 in the United States that are actually bigger than the nation 102 00:05:11,200 --> 00:05:13,600 of Israel, quite a few. Right? 103 00:05:13,900 --> 00:05:19,400 And so, very, very small but obviously, God blessed it and 104 00:05:19,600 --> 00:05:21,200 many, many things that have happened there. 105 00:05:22,700 --> 00:05:24,400 I think we're good. I hopefully that's the case. 106 00:05:24,500 --> 00:05:30,700 But 60 miles, long 13, miles wide 60 miles from here. 107 00:05:30,700 --> 00:05:33,100 I mean, it doesn't even get you to Williamsburg probably right? 108 00:05:33,100 --> 00:05:35,700 Maybe maybe just about to Williamsburg, so you're not 109 00:05:35,700 --> 00:05:39,100 talking very long at all. But it's a it's a pretty pretty 110 00:05:39,100 --> 00:05:40,700 big area. So there you go. 111 00:05:40,800 --> 00:05:44,100 The Jordan River Jericho qumran. What do you remember about 112 00:05:44,100 --> 00:05:47,900 qumran? The dead sea caves, right? 113 00:05:47,900 --> 00:05:50,100 That's where they. That's where the really found 114 00:05:50,100 --> 00:05:53,400 the Dead Sea Scrolls, you have Dead Sea of and Getti of Masada. 115 00:05:53,400 --> 00:05:55,300 All of those are things that we talked about already. 116 00:05:55,300 --> 00:05:57,100 All of those are in the Judean Wilderness. 117 00:05:57,700 --> 00:06:01,300 All right there along that that eastern coast of the Dead Sea. 118 00:06:01,500 --> 00:06:03,500 So we're going to get into a few of those, all right even though 119 00:06:03,500 --> 00:06:06,200 the Judean desert is dry and Barren it was it was settled 120 00:06:06,200 --> 00:06:08,800 long before recorded history began. 121 00:06:09,000 --> 00:06:12,600 Now when I say recorded history we have a lot of a lot of 122 00:06:13,000 --> 00:06:15,400 obviously we go all the way back to Creation in the Bible, right? 123 00:06:15,400 --> 00:06:19,000 So Nobody was there. When creation happened, Adam and 124 00:06:19,000 --> 00:06:21,400 Eve didn't write down a diary of what was going on in the Garden 125 00:06:21,400 --> 00:06:23,600 of Eden, right? They weren't recording history. 126 00:06:23,700 --> 00:06:29,100 God gave that to to I was going to say Abraham but Moses when he 127 00:06:29,100 --> 00:06:31,200 wrote the first five books of the Bible, right? 128 00:06:31,200 --> 00:06:33,000 Moses. Wasn't there when Adam and Eve 129 00:06:33,000 --> 00:06:34,400 lived. So obviously, he got it from 130 00:06:34,400 --> 00:06:37,000 somewhere, right? God gave that to him, God gave 131 00:06:37,000 --> 00:06:39,200 him all those things to be able to write down, but it was not 132 00:06:39,200 --> 00:06:40,800 recorded history. Okay? 133 00:06:40,800 --> 00:06:43,200 So, this area has been settled for a long, long time. 134 00:06:43,300 --> 00:06:45,500 Now, as we, as we kind of go through some of these pictures, 135 00:06:45,500 --> 00:06:48,200 think about Think about these place because I'm really only 136 00:06:48,200 --> 00:06:50,600 going to give you one picture when we get to this idea, but 137 00:06:50,600 --> 00:06:53,000 that's where Jesus fasted and prayed in the wilderness for 40 138 00:06:53,000 --> 00:06:55,300 days and 40 nights. You know, he went into the 139 00:06:55,300 --> 00:06:56,800 Judean Wilderness, that's where he went. 140 00:06:56,800 --> 00:07:00,500 I mean look how dry and Barren. I mean the reason why he fast it 141 00:07:00,500 --> 00:07:02,100 is really there was nothing to eat. 142 00:07:02,100 --> 00:07:04,900 It's not like he can just get up, go pick a fruit off the 143 00:07:04,900 --> 00:07:07,100 tree, eat it while he was out there praying or something like 144 00:07:07,100 --> 00:07:08,300 that. It's just, there was nothing 145 00:07:08,300 --> 00:07:11,600 there for him to eat because of how dry and Barren it is. 146 00:07:11,600 --> 00:07:14,100 So, but it's been there for a long time. 147 00:07:14,200 --> 00:07:18,000 Now, Jericho, we're going to talk about Go next week, but 148 00:07:18,000 --> 00:07:24,100 Jericho dates to possibly 3500 BC, it's the oldest city in the 149 00:07:24,100 --> 00:07:27,000 Judean desert, the oldest continually inhabited city in 150 00:07:27,000 --> 00:07:28,900 the world. If you see that right there, 151 00:07:28,900 --> 00:07:32,700 which I'm I can't see that. But Jericho is says Jericho the 152 00:07:32,700 --> 00:07:35,100 oldest city of the world. That's the Elijah spring 153 00:07:35,100 --> 00:07:36,600 Fountain. That's right. 154 00:07:36,600 --> 00:07:39,300 There in the city of Jericho, it's a tourist trap is really, 155 00:07:39,300 --> 00:07:41,100 what it is. That's where you go to, go to 156 00:07:41,100 --> 00:07:43,900 Jericho, you can go through the town and stuff to which I'll 157 00:07:43,900 --> 00:07:45,100 show you a bunch of that tomorrow. 158 00:07:45,100 --> 00:07:49,800 But I say Possibly 3500 BC because that that really is, you 159 00:07:49,800 --> 00:07:53,400 know, Real History. The according to what we find in 160 00:07:53,407 --> 00:07:57,100 the Bible in according to what we have by those who have Usher, 161 00:07:57,100 --> 00:08:01,200 is one of them who put together a lot of dates, he figured based 162 00:08:01,200 --> 00:08:04,000 on all the things that we have in the Bible that that the world 163 00:08:04,000 --> 00:08:09,600 was created in 4004 BC, which puts the world at between six 164 00:08:09,600 --> 00:08:13,400 and seven thousand years old. Not millions of years like like 165 00:08:13,400 --> 00:08:17,800 Evolution tries to claim so to say that it dates possibly to 166 00:08:17,800 --> 00:08:20,400 3500 BC. I mean that's about the oldest 167 00:08:20,400 --> 00:08:24,500 recorded, human history that we have other than maybe obviously 168 00:08:24,500 --> 00:08:27,400 Mesopotamia and Adam and Eve and all that stuff. 169 00:08:27,400 --> 00:08:29,200 But obviously they were kicked out of the garden. 170 00:08:29,200 --> 00:08:32,600 They were moved and so they was not continually inhabited, but 171 00:08:32,799 --> 00:08:35,100 they claimed to be the oldest city in the world. 172 00:08:35,100 --> 00:08:38,000 Whether they are or not, whether they're the continued know, the 173 00:08:38,000 --> 00:08:40,400 oldest continuously inhabited city in the world? 174 00:08:40,400 --> 00:08:42,200 Who knows? We know what happened at Jericho 175 00:08:42,200 --> 00:08:43,799 though, right? What happened to Jericho? 176 00:08:44,800 --> 00:08:47,100 The walls fell down, right? And we're going to look at some 177 00:08:47,100 --> 00:08:50,900 evidence that they have found that that very that point, very 178 00:08:50,900 --> 00:08:53,100 much to the fact that the walls fell down. 179 00:08:53,400 --> 00:08:59,200 And, and the evidence is still there today, but even when they 180 00:08:59,208 --> 00:09:01,900 took Jericho, they still went in and have it at the city, right? 181 00:09:01,900 --> 00:09:04,900 So Jericho is the oldest inhabited continually inhabited 182 00:09:04,900 --> 00:09:08,200 city in the world and Getti. And I'm just this is kind of a 183 00:09:08,208 --> 00:09:10,100 little bit of a review for us because we've already talked 184 00:09:10,100 --> 00:09:12,300 about a lot of these. But in Getty is in the Judean 185 00:09:12,300 --> 00:09:14,400 Wilderness, another notable place that dates. 186 00:09:14,600 --> 00:09:17,800 To about the same time as Jericho obviously, there's not a 187 00:09:17,800 --> 00:09:21,100 lot of people, not a lot of civilization in and Getti, but 188 00:09:21,200 --> 00:09:23,400 people have lived there because it is, it's a spring, it's a 189 00:09:23,408 --> 00:09:25,500 place to go get water. It's a place where you can get 190 00:09:25,500 --> 00:09:29,400 fresh water in the desert. So people have have inhabited 191 00:09:29,400 --> 00:09:33,000 and Getti for quite some time. Sodom and Gomorrah date back to 192 00:09:33,000 --> 00:09:35,300 that ancient time as well. Sodom and Gomorrah is in the 193 00:09:35,300 --> 00:09:37,600 Judean Wilderness. Its kind of read the very tip of 194 00:09:37,600 --> 00:09:41,300 it but that's where Sodom and Gomorrah is that is known as 195 00:09:41,300 --> 00:09:45,300 Mount Sodom right there. A lot of that is salt Dates back 196 00:09:45,300 --> 00:09:47,000 to that time. Now, here's something that's 197 00:09:47,000 --> 00:09:48,900 pretty interesting, that I want to point out to you. 198 00:09:49,200 --> 00:09:51,500 In Genesis, chapter 13, and verse number 10. 199 00:09:52,200 --> 00:09:56,700 Now, when Abraham and lot, we're getting ready to separate, 200 00:09:57,500 --> 00:10:01,700 Abraham gave lot the option where he wanted to go, right? 201 00:10:01,800 --> 00:10:03,400 And this is where we find verse number 10. 202 00:10:03,600 --> 00:10:07,100 Lot lifted up his eyes and beheld all the plain of Jordan 203 00:10:07,100 --> 00:10:09,500 that it was well, watered everywhere. 204 00:10:10,400 --> 00:10:13,400 Before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden 205 00:10:13,400 --> 00:10:16,600 of the Lord, like the land of Egypt as thou comest unto his or 206 00:10:17,400 --> 00:10:19,800 so. Here, lot is looking at Sodom 207 00:10:19,800 --> 00:10:21,800 and Gomorrah, that's where he went, right? 208 00:10:22,000 --> 00:10:25,200 He's looking at Sodom and Gomorrah and saying wow, look 209 00:10:25,200 --> 00:10:28,500 how well watered that plane is so it seems pretty. 210 00:10:28,500 --> 00:10:31,600 It's pretty evident that that God changed the climate of the 211 00:10:31,600 --> 00:10:35,300 Judean Wilderness after he destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah and 212 00:10:35,300 --> 00:10:37,800 and you know the surrounding cities around there. 213 00:10:37,900 --> 00:10:40,000 The Bible says that used to be like a well-watered garden. 214 00:10:40,100 --> 00:10:43,000 Arden. So we don't have any pictures of 215 00:10:43,000 --> 00:10:44,700 what it used to look like, right. 216 00:10:44,700 --> 00:10:47,900 But we do know this fact, turn over to Ezekiel. 217 00:10:48,400 --> 00:10:52,300 We've looked at these Passages at this passage before, but I 218 00:10:52,308 --> 00:10:53,600 think it's worth looking at it again. 219 00:10:54,000 --> 00:10:58,500 Ezekiel chapter 47, Ezekiel chapter 47. 220 00:11:01,500 --> 00:11:06,800 And look at verse number 6, Ezekiel 47, and verse number 6. 221 00:11:06,800 --> 00:11:09,200 And he said unto me, son of man hast, thou seen this. 222 00:11:09,600 --> 00:11:11,900 And he brought me and cause me to return to the brink of the 223 00:11:11,900 --> 00:11:14,300 river. Now, when I had returned behold 224 00:11:14,300 --> 00:11:17,300 at the bank of the river, were very many trees on the one side 225 00:11:17,300 --> 00:11:20,900 and down the other then said he unto me these Waters issue out 226 00:11:20,900 --> 00:11:24,300 toward the East Country and go down into the desert and go into 227 00:11:24,300 --> 00:11:27,300 the sea, which being brought forth into the sea, the waters 228 00:11:27,300 --> 00:11:29,700 shall be healed and it shall come to pass that. 229 00:11:29,700 --> 00:11:31,900 Everything that liveth Each moveth. 230 00:11:31,900 --> 00:11:34,300 Whithersoever, the river shall come shall live. 231 00:11:34,300 --> 00:11:36,600 There shall be a very great multitude of fish because these 232 00:11:36,600 --> 00:11:38,800 water shall come through there for, they shall be healed. 233 00:11:38,800 --> 00:11:42,500 And everything shall live whether the river cometh, that 234 00:11:42,500 --> 00:11:45,100 shall come to pass that, the rich that the Fisher's shall 235 00:11:45,100 --> 00:11:50,200 stand upon it, from in Getty, even unto n a, and a Glam, they 236 00:11:50,200 --> 00:11:51,700 shall be a place to spread forth. 237 00:11:51,700 --> 00:11:54,000 Nets, their fish shall be according to their kind as the 238 00:11:54,000 --> 00:11:56,000 fish of the great sea exceeding, many. 239 00:11:56,100 --> 00:11:59,700 So we know this that God is going to cause the Judean 240 00:11:59,700 --> 00:12:02,600 Wilderness to flourish again in the Millennial reign of Jesus 241 00:12:02,600 --> 00:12:05,000 Christ. Everywhere that that river goes, 242 00:12:05,000 --> 00:12:06,600 the Bible says there's going to be life. 243 00:12:06,700 --> 00:12:08,200 Not just the waters are going to be healed. 244 00:12:08,200 --> 00:12:10,300 The Bible says, the Waters of the Dead Sea are going to be 245 00:12:10,300 --> 00:12:13,000 healed, and they'll be just as many fish in the Dead Sea as 246 00:12:13,000 --> 00:12:16,000 there are in the Red Sea, or the Mediterranean Sea. 247 00:12:16,000 --> 00:12:18,500 Sorry, the great sea. The Bible calls the 248 00:12:18,500 --> 00:12:20,600 Mediterranean Sea. The great see many times. 249 00:12:20,900 --> 00:12:23,500 And so, there's going to be the same number of fish in the Dead 250 00:12:23,500 --> 00:12:26,300 Sea in the millennial Kingdom. God's going to heal those 251 00:12:26,300 --> 00:12:28,800 Waters, and everywhere. The river runs, it's going down 252 00:12:28,800 --> 00:12:30,700 into those Waters. There's going to be life again 253 00:12:30,700 --> 00:12:34,300 and even Mentions and Getty in there, and obviously right there 254 00:12:34,300 --> 00:12:36,900 in and get you have a little bit of life, but all the way around 255 00:12:36,900 --> 00:12:39,400 and sort completely surrounding all of that is just dead. 256 00:12:39,400 --> 00:12:40,900 It's Barren because it's Wilderness. 257 00:12:40,900 --> 00:12:44,500 So very interesting. Now here's something that's 258 00:12:44,500 --> 00:12:46,400 interesting as well and we've already mentioned this. 259 00:12:46,400 --> 00:12:49,600 I pointed it out even just a little bit ago, but the qumran 260 00:12:49,600 --> 00:12:51,800 caves. How did those how did those come 261 00:12:51,800 --> 00:12:53,000 about? What we're actually talking 262 00:12:53,000 --> 00:12:55,200 about. The debt of the Dead Sea Scrolls 263 00:12:55,500 --> 00:12:59,500 in the teens Sunday school class, but the S scenes lived in 264 00:12:59,500 --> 00:13:04,500 the Judean Wilderness from about 200, BC to around 68 ad. 265 00:13:04,900 --> 00:13:08,000 What do you know that happened around 68 ad? 266 00:13:08,000 --> 00:13:10,600 It wasn't exactly in 68 but it was right near there. 267 00:13:11,300 --> 00:13:12,800 I'll give you a hint. It was in 70. 268 00:13:15,600 --> 00:13:18,900 Yes the second temple. Herod's temple was destroyed in 269 00:13:18,900 --> 00:13:22,500 70 AD. So the S scenes lived in the 270 00:13:22,500 --> 00:13:26,900 Judean Wilderness from about 200 BC to about 68 ad. 271 00:13:27,000 --> 00:13:29,200 There were spiritually devoted group, who left Jerusalem, 272 00:13:29,200 --> 00:13:33,200 because of the fact that they thought that the priesthood have 273 00:13:33,200 --> 00:13:36,400 become corrupt. So they devoted themselves to 274 00:13:36,600 --> 00:13:41,100 basically making sure that priesthood stayed uncorrupted if 275 00:13:41,100 --> 00:13:43,500 you will, but then they also devoted themselves to making 276 00:13:43,500 --> 00:13:48,000 copies of Of the Bible. They didn't have the ability to 277 00:13:48,000 --> 00:13:51,000 just go to a printing press and hit copy and make copies of the 278 00:13:51,000 --> 00:13:55,300 Bible, they had to, they had to painstakingly copy every single 279 00:13:55,300 --> 00:13:58,600 word in every single letter. And by the way, if they found a 280 00:13:58,600 --> 00:14:02,100 single mistake in any of those things, they destroyed the 281 00:14:02,100 --> 00:14:05,300 entire script. So if you knew that you were 282 00:14:05,300 --> 00:14:09,900 going to get to the end of the entire book of Isaiah and you 283 00:14:09,900 --> 00:14:12,900 made a mistake, you had to start all over, guess what you're 284 00:14:12,900 --> 00:14:15,200 going to do? You're going to Make sure that 285 00:14:15,200 --> 00:14:17,500 you do not make any mistakes, right? 286 00:14:17,500 --> 00:14:20,300 So that's what they did and in those caves then. 287 00:14:20,400 --> 00:14:22,700 So here's what happened, they devoted themselves to copying 288 00:14:22,700 --> 00:14:24,700 and translating the Bible. When they saw the nation of 289 00:14:24,708 --> 00:14:28,400 Israel, falling to the Romans. In 68 ad, they hit all of those 290 00:14:28,400 --> 00:14:32,200 things in clay pots and went up into the mountains into those 291 00:14:32,200 --> 00:14:34,100 caves. Now they had, they had lived in 292 00:14:34,100 --> 00:14:36,000 the Judean Wilderness that they were familiar with where 293 00:14:36,000 --> 00:14:38,700 everything was that they knew pretty good hiding places. 294 00:14:38,700 --> 00:14:42,300 Obviously it stayed hidden for close to two thousand years, 295 00:14:42,600 --> 00:14:44,300 right? They hid it in 11 different, 296 00:14:44,400 --> 00:14:46,500 Caves. Now some of them were found so 297 00:14:46,500 --> 00:14:48,800 they might have actually hit them in more of those caves. 298 00:14:49,100 --> 00:14:51,200 Some of them were found, some of them were destroyed by the 299 00:14:51,200 --> 00:14:53,900 Romans, but there was many that we're not and that's what they 300 00:14:53,900 --> 00:14:56,800 were discovered in the 1950s and the 1960s. 301 00:14:57,000 --> 00:14:59,200 And that's where they found. All of those, what's known as 302 00:14:59,200 --> 00:15:03,600 the Dead Sea Scrolls, there was there was there was parts of 303 00:15:03,600 --> 00:15:06,900 every single book in the Old Testament except for I believe 304 00:15:06,900 --> 00:15:10,500 Esther which really just proves that even all the way back. 305 00:15:10,500 --> 00:15:13,700 Then what we have as the Canon of our scripture was the Canon 306 00:15:13,700 --> 00:15:16,200 of scripture about. And two, it was the same books 307 00:15:16,200 --> 00:15:20,000 of the Bible that we consider to be the books of the Bible today. 308 00:15:20,300 --> 00:15:24,100 But one and one was very, very interesting or very important, I 309 00:15:24,100 --> 00:15:26,000 should say was the Isaiah scroll. 310 00:15:26,100 --> 00:15:30,400 They found a copy of the book of Isaiah and all 66 chapters were 311 00:15:30,400 --> 00:15:32,600 there and you can find that still today. 312 00:15:33,300 --> 00:15:36,100 These so these translated manuscripts are called the Dead 313 00:15:36,100 --> 00:15:40,100 Sea Scrolls, 11 caves to, in 1947 and 1956. 314 00:15:40,800 --> 00:15:45,100 And these pieces of the scroll scrolls are actually Here's an 315 00:15:45,100 --> 00:15:50,600 amazing thing, as well. God gave the Jews, the, the job, 316 00:15:50,600 --> 00:15:54,000 and the responsibility of protecting and preserving his 317 00:15:54,000 --> 00:15:57,400 word, right? And all these years later, 2000 318 00:15:57,400 --> 00:16:01,700 years later, the Jews in the Israel Museum in the Shrine of 319 00:16:01,700 --> 00:16:04,600 the book, as it's called, it's a little, it's part of the Israel 320 00:16:04,600 --> 00:16:07,600 Museum, it's in a separate building, but here they are 321 00:16:07,600 --> 00:16:10,400 having copies of the preserved word of God and they have the 322 00:16:10,400 --> 00:16:13,200 entire Isaiah scroll there as well, which I showed you 323 00:16:13,200 --> 00:16:16,600 pictures of that before. Or that all the way around, that 324 00:16:16,600 --> 00:16:18,700 big gets a copy that they have there. 325 00:16:18,700 --> 00:16:21,200 They have the original. What they have on display is a 326 00:16:21,208 --> 00:16:24,700 copy but John the Baptist spent a lot of his time in the Judean 327 00:16:24,700 --> 00:16:26,100 Wilderness. In fact, I want to look at a lot 328 00:16:26,100 --> 00:16:28,900 of different passages with that. So let's go to Isaiah chapter 329 00:16:28,900 --> 00:16:32,600 40. John the Baptist he was 330 00:16:32,600 --> 00:16:35,200 prophesied as the Forerunner of Jesus Christ. 331 00:16:35,500 --> 00:16:39,100 Now, here's another interesting, again, I mentioned this to the 332 00:16:39,100 --> 00:16:42,000 young people this morning, so they're getting it twice, but 333 00:16:42,000 --> 00:16:44,400 this is, this is just, this is an interesting thing as well. 334 00:16:44,700 --> 00:16:46,600 You read through the book of Isaiah and I would say that 335 00:16:46,600 --> 00:16:49,500 Isaiah probably more than any other book in the Old Testament 336 00:16:49,800 --> 00:16:52,500 prophesied about the coming Messiah, right? 337 00:16:52,500 --> 00:16:55,800 Especially when you read Isaiah 53 and all of those things that 338 00:16:55,800 --> 00:16:59,800 we find out about Christ in Isaiah 53, but all of that was 339 00:16:59,800 --> 00:17:03,000 there. R and all of that dates back to 340 00:17:03,700 --> 00:17:06,800 several hundred years before Christ. 341 00:17:07,500 --> 00:17:10,200 Right? So it's not like Jesus Christ 342 00:17:10,200 --> 00:17:11,900 came along. And somebody thought, oh, it 343 00:17:11,900 --> 00:17:15,099 would be cool to write this as if Jesus Christ was going to 344 00:17:15,099 --> 00:17:18,800 come and all of this was fulfilled, right? 345 00:17:18,800 --> 00:17:20,800 And what that's not what happened, all of these things 346 00:17:20,800 --> 00:17:24,599 were pre-written and that that the that what they found in 347 00:17:24,599 --> 00:17:28,099 those caves there in qumran, in the Judean Wilderness, proves 348 00:17:28,300 --> 00:17:31,100 that all of that was pre written, Before Jesus Christ 349 00:17:31,100 --> 00:17:33,500 came so everything that was prophesied about him. 350 00:17:34,600 --> 00:17:38,200 He fulfilled, right? And we find a prophecy in Isaiah 351 00:17:38,200 --> 00:17:41,900 40 of John the Baptist. So Isaiah chapter 40 and verse 352 00:17:41,900 --> 00:17:45,600 number 3, the voice of him that crieth in the wilderness 353 00:17:45,600 --> 00:17:49,300 prepare, ye the way of the Lord, make straight in the desert, a 354 00:17:49,300 --> 00:17:51,900 highway for our god. Well, let's look in a couple 355 00:17:51,900 --> 00:17:53,800 different passages. I want to look at Matthew, Mark 356 00:17:54,100 --> 00:17:56,200 and Luke so turn to Matthew chapter 3. 357 00:17:57,400 --> 00:18:01,500 Matthew chapter 3. John the Baptist and here's part 358 00:18:01,500 --> 00:18:03,100 of the Judean Wilderness as well. 359 00:18:03,200 --> 00:18:06,000 John, the Baptist preached repentance in the wilderness of 360 00:18:06,000 --> 00:18:10,500 Judea, Matthew chapter 3. This is, these are, this is all, 361 00:18:10,500 --> 00:18:13,400 if you think about it this way, it's all fulfillment of 362 00:18:13,400 --> 00:18:15,200 Prophecy. And not only that, but it was a 363 00:18:15,200 --> 00:18:18,900 direct quotation in a lot of cases of the Fulfillment of that 364 00:18:18,900 --> 00:18:20,700 prophecy. Now, you got to think that 365 00:18:20,700 --> 00:18:24,000 Matthew Mark, Luke John Paul Peter, all of them knew the Old 366 00:18:24,000 --> 00:18:27,200 Testament, very well that was their Bible, that was what they 367 00:18:27,200 --> 00:18:29,600 would have studied, especially Paul being a Pharisee. 368 00:18:29,700 --> 00:18:31,600 Everything else. I mean, by the time, they were 369 00:18:31,600 --> 00:18:34,500 12 years old, the young Jewish boys had to memorize the first 370 00:18:34,500 --> 00:18:38,400 five books of the Bible and to know the first, they had to 371 00:18:38,400 --> 00:18:41,000 memorize the law. They had to know all of it, and 372 00:18:41,000 --> 00:18:43,400 they did do that, so they would have known it very well. 373 00:18:43,400 --> 00:18:46,000 So when they're writing these things down and talking about 374 00:18:46,000 --> 00:18:50,800 hey this is this. This man is exactly the same 375 00:18:50,800 --> 00:18:52,800 person that was prophesied about in Isaiah. 376 00:18:52,800 --> 00:18:55,700 Of course, they're going to use the exact same phrases. 377 00:18:55,700 --> 00:18:58,400 They knew him, right? But Matthew chapter 3 and verse 378 00:18:58,400 --> 00:19:01,900 number 1 in those days, Days. Came John, the Baptist preaching 379 00:19:01,900 --> 00:19:05,200 in the wilderness of Judea and saying, repent. 380 00:19:05,200 --> 00:19:07,000 Ye for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand. 381 00:19:07,300 --> 00:19:09,200 For this? Is he that was spoken of by the 382 00:19:09,200 --> 00:19:14,200 prophet who You say a saying the voice of one crying in the 383 00:19:14,200 --> 00:19:16,800 wilderness prepare? Ye the way of the Lord make his 384 00:19:16,800 --> 00:19:19,300 paths straight, is that sound pretty familiar? 385 00:19:19,900 --> 00:19:23,300 It's exactly what was what was prophesied in Isaiah right now. 386 00:19:23,600 --> 00:19:25,400 How is it? Well, it's Isaiah in the Old 387 00:19:25,400 --> 00:19:26,700 Testament. Isaiah says, in the New 388 00:19:26,700 --> 00:19:29,800 Testament, it's the translation. One of them was, it was coming 389 00:19:29,800 --> 00:19:31,100 from Hebrew. The other one was coming from 390 00:19:31,100 --> 00:19:32,600 Greek. That's the difference. 391 00:19:32,600 --> 00:19:36,900 Turn over to Mark, chapter 1. Mark chapter 1, you see that in 392 00:19:36,900 --> 00:19:45,100 a few other places, Joseph and Joseph, Elijah, or Elijah and 393 00:19:45,100 --> 00:19:46,700 Elias, right? You see that? 394 00:19:46,700 --> 00:19:49,200 It's just the difference in the translation, ones, being 395 00:19:49,200 --> 00:19:51,300 translated from Hebrew. The other ones, being translated 396 00:19:51,300 --> 00:19:54,500 from Greek, same person, and it's not a mistake at all. 397 00:19:54,500 --> 00:19:59,200 Mark chapter 1 and verse number 4, John did baptize in the 398 00:19:59,200 --> 00:20:02,500 wilderness and preached. The baptism of repentance for 399 00:20:02,500 --> 00:20:04,800 the remission of sins, turn over to Luke Chapter 7. 400 00:20:05,700 --> 00:20:08,400 Luke chapter 7 and I have those up there by the way, if you want 401 00:20:08,400 --> 00:20:11,800 to write those down and look at them later, I know a lot of you 402 00:20:11,800 --> 00:20:14,100 are kind of taking notes on this, so you can, you can do 403 00:20:14,100 --> 00:20:16,400 that. But Luke chapter, 7, and verse 404 00:20:16,400 --> 00:20:19,500 number 24. And when the messengers of John 405 00:20:19,500 --> 00:20:22,200 were departed, he began to speak unto the people concerning John. 406 00:20:22,200 --> 00:20:24,800 What went ye out into the Wilderness for to see a reed 407 00:20:24,800 --> 00:20:28,100 shaken with the wind but what went ye out for to see a man 408 00:20:28,100 --> 00:20:30,200 clothed in soft, raiment, behold, they which are 409 00:20:30,200 --> 00:20:34,300 gorgeously appareled and live delicately are in King's courts. 410 00:20:34,600 --> 00:20:36,400 But When she got for the see a profit. 411 00:20:36,400 --> 00:20:38,000 Yes. Into you much more than a 412 00:20:38,000 --> 00:20:39,600 Prophet. This is he of whom it is 413 00:20:39,600 --> 00:20:41,900 written. Behold, I send my messenger 414 00:20:42,000 --> 00:20:45,700 before thy face which shall prepare thy way, before thee 415 00:20:45,900 --> 00:20:50,200 for, I say unto you among those that are born of women, there is 416 00:20:50,200 --> 00:20:52,900 not a greater Prophet than John the Baptist. 417 00:20:52,900 --> 00:20:55,900 But he that is least in the kingdom of God is greater than 418 00:20:55,900 --> 00:20:57,900 he. And all the people that hurt him 419 00:20:58,200 --> 00:21:01,700 and the publicans Justified God being baptized with the baptism 420 00:21:01,700 --> 00:21:04,600 of John. Now, that's very interesting in 421 00:21:04,600 --> 00:21:06,800 this Passage and maybe you have it in there. 422 00:21:06,800 --> 00:21:09,600 What color are those words are in red, right? 423 00:21:09,600 --> 00:21:11,300 Which means there they are spoken by. 424 00:21:11,300 --> 00:21:14,100 Who Jesus Christ? I mean, talk about High. 425 00:21:14,100 --> 00:21:17,300 Praise number one. Jesus is saying this is the 426 00:21:17,300 --> 00:21:19,900 exact same person that was prophesied about an Isaiah. 427 00:21:20,000 --> 00:21:21,400 But number two there is none gray. 428 00:21:21,400 --> 00:21:23,800 I mean that's that's High Praise obviously coming from Jesus 429 00:21:23,800 --> 00:21:26,300 Christ but that's where John the Baptist was and he preached that 430 00:21:26,300 --> 00:21:28,000 repentance in the wilderness of Judea. 431 00:21:28,400 --> 00:21:30,900 Now John the Baptist baptized in the Jordan River. 432 00:21:31,000 --> 00:21:33,100 Let's look at a few more here. Matthew chapter 3. 433 00:21:34,000 --> 00:21:37,700 Don't over to Matthew chapter 3. And we have a couple, will stay 434 00:21:37,700 --> 00:21:40,400 in the same passage just to make it a little bit easier for us. 435 00:21:40,600 --> 00:21:43,500 But John the Baptist baptized in the Jordan River. 436 00:21:44,000 --> 00:21:45,600 That's a little section of the Jordan River. 437 00:21:45,600 --> 00:21:46,900 We didn't we didn't actually go there. 438 00:21:46,900 --> 00:21:52,100 This is, not my picture but it still gives you a pretty good 439 00:21:52,100 --> 00:21:54,300 idea of what the Jordan River looks like the Jordan River. 440 00:21:54,300 --> 00:21:57,100 Is not a clean River at all. It's in fact, it's a very dirty 441 00:21:57,100 --> 00:21:59,800 River. You really can't see down into 442 00:21:59,800 --> 00:22:03,300 it much at all. But Matthew chapter 3 and verse 443 00:22:03,300 --> 00:22:07,300 number Five says, then went out to him Jerusalem and all Judea 444 00:22:07,300 --> 00:22:10,900 and all the region round about Jordan and were baptized of him 445 00:22:10,900 --> 00:22:12,700 in Jordan, confessing their sins. 446 00:22:12,800 --> 00:22:14,700 Now, think about this. Okay? 447 00:22:14,900 --> 00:22:17,300 The Judean Wilderness is all right in this area. 448 00:22:17,300 --> 00:22:20,000 The Jordan River flows into the Dead Sea right here. 449 00:22:20,200 --> 00:22:22,900 So all of that area, the Judean Wilderness were John. 450 00:22:22,900 --> 00:22:25,200 The Baptist would have been, that's why they were coming to 451 00:22:25,200 --> 00:22:27,900 him and the closest thing that they could be baptized in was 452 00:22:27,900 --> 00:22:29,700 the Jordan River. So that's why they went there. 453 00:22:29,900 --> 00:22:33,400 It was, it was right there. In fact, Jesus Christ. 454 00:22:33,500 --> 00:22:36,400 Self was even baptized in the Jordan River in the same 455 00:22:36,400 --> 00:22:39,400 passage, just a few verses later in verse 13. 456 00:22:40,400 --> 00:22:44,100 Then come with Jesus From Galilee to Jordan unto John Now, 457 00:22:44,108 --> 00:22:48,100 where's Galilee the galileans up here, right? 458 00:22:48,100 --> 00:22:51,400 Jesus comes all the way down to where John was at there in the 459 00:22:51,408 --> 00:22:54,300 wilderness. He comes down from Galilee to 460 00:22:54,300 --> 00:22:56,500 Jordan unto John, to be baptized of him. 461 00:22:56,800 --> 00:22:59,400 But John forbad him saying I have need to be baptized of 462 00:22:59,400 --> 00:23:01,200 thee. And that income without to me, 463 00:23:01,700 --> 00:23:04,800 Jesus answering said unto him, suffer it to Be so now, for 464 00:23:04,800 --> 00:23:07,200 thus, it becometh us to fulfill all righteousness, then he 465 00:23:07,200 --> 00:23:10,500 suffered him Jesus, when he was baptized went up, straightway 466 00:23:10,500 --> 00:23:13,200 out of the water and lo, the heavens were opened unto him and 467 00:23:13,200 --> 00:23:15,300 he saw the spirit of God descending like a dove and 468 00:23:15,300 --> 00:23:18,700 lighting upon him and lo a voice from Heaven saying this is my 469 00:23:18,700 --> 00:23:23,000 beloved Son in whom I'm well pleased how interesting that we 470 00:23:23,000 --> 00:23:26,300 have, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, all right there 471 00:23:26,300 --> 00:23:28,600 in that same passage and we talked about, you know, we 472 00:23:28,600 --> 00:23:31,000 baptized and he told us to baptize in the name of the 473 00:23:31,000 --> 00:23:33,400 father and of the son and of the Holy Spirit, right? 474 00:23:33,500 --> 00:23:36,000 But all three of them were present there at the baptism of 475 00:23:36,000 --> 00:23:38,000 Jesus. Obviously, Jesus was the son. 476 00:23:38,200 --> 00:23:40,300 Holy Spirit, descended on him in the form of a dove. 477 00:23:40,300 --> 00:23:42,900 And God the father said, this is my beloved Son in whom I am. 478 00:23:42,900 --> 00:23:44,800 Well pleased. So you have all three of those 479 00:23:44,800 --> 00:23:48,000 things there at the time that Jesus was baptized. 480 00:23:48,100 --> 00:23:51,500 But then after Jesus was baptized he immediately was led 481 00:23:51,500 --> 00:23:53,500 into the Wilderness to be tested. 482 00:23:53,500 --> 00:23:54,900 In fact, let's go. Look at that real quick. 483 00:23:54,900 --> 00:23:57,600 I'm not going to read the whole passage but Luke chapter 4 and 484 00:23:57,600 --> 00:24:02,300 verse number 1 gives us a pretty good idea of exactly what's 485 00:24:02,300 --> 00:24:07,600 happening there. Luke chapter 4, and verse number 486 00:24:07,600 --> 00:24:11,000 one, and Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost returned from Jordan 487 00:24:11,400 --> 00:24:14,300 and was led by the spirit Into the Wilderness. 488 00:24:14,800 --> 00:24:17,800 Verse number two, being forty days, tempted of the devil. 489 00:24:17,800 --> 00:24:21,600 And in those days, he did eat nothing when they were ended, he 490 00:24:21,600 --> 00:24:23,200 afterward hungered. And then, of course, that's when 491 00:24:23,200 --> 00:24:25,400 the devil came to him and tempted him, a turn these stones 492 00:24:25,400 --> 00:24:27,400 into bread. Hey, jump off the Pinnacle of 493 00:24:27,400 --> 00:24:29,000 the temple and let the Angels catch you. 494 00:24:29,000 --> 00:24:31,500 Hey, I'll give you everything. If you bow down to me, right? 495 00:24:31,500 --> 00:24:34,600 And Jesus answered with scripture every single time and 496 00:24:34,600 --> 00:24:36,900 it's a great Story. The point is not the story 497 00:24:36,900 --> 00:24:38,400 tonight. It's the point is to show you. 498 00:24:38,400 --> 00:24:41,800 This is where Jesus would have been at when he was let out into 499 00:24:41,800 --> 00:24:46,000 was not, not not necessarily this particular place but I 500 00:24:46,000 --> 00:24:50,800 will, I will show you next week in Jericho, you can see. 501 00:24:50,800 --> 00:24:54,000 And we actually went up there on a cable car to the Mount of 502 00:24:54,000 --> 00:24:56,600 Temptation. The place where Jesus supposedly 503 00:24:56,600 --> 00:24:59,200 was tempted by the devil. When he showed him all of this 504 00:24:59,200 --> 00:25:02,900 stuff and said it can all be yours and you know I always used 505 00:25:02,900 --> 00:25:05,200 to think how can the devil offer him. 506 00:25:06,200 --> 00:25:09,000 These things they belong to him. Anyway, he's God right. 507 00:25:09,000 --> 00:25:12,200 But but the devil is the prince of the power of the air. 508 00:25:12,200 --> 00:25:14,000 The devil has free reign on this earth. 509 00:25:14,000 --> 00:25:15,000 Right? And essentially, what he's 510 00:25:15,000 --> 00:25:16,500 saying is, I'll turn all that over to you. 511 00:25:16,500 --> 00:25:19,700 If you kneel down before me, he always wanted to be worshipped. 512 00:25:19,700 --> 00:25:22,400 Like, God, didn't he the devil? Satan did, and that's why he 513 00:25:22,400 --> 00:25:24,600 fell from heaven. He wanted to be, he wanted to be 514 00:25:24,600 --> 00:25:28,700 up there with God and ahead, Jesus, knelt down and bowed to 515 00:25:28,700 --> 00:25:31,000 the devil. Number one, he's a liar, he 516 00:25:31,000 --> 00:25:32,500 probably wouldn't have given it to him anyway. 517 00:25:32,800 --> 00:25:36,400 But number two, he would have given to the Devil? 518 00:25:36,600 --> 00:25:40,900 What only belong to God. And so it was the devil's to 519 00:25:40,900 --> 00:25:43,500 give away. Essentially he's got, he's got 520 00:25:43,500 --> 00:25:45,100 free reign on this earth right now. 521 00:25:45,400 --> 00:25:48,900 And he wasn't saying, you know, I own all this stuff, I'll give 522 00:25:48,900 --> 00:25:50,800 it to you. He was saying basically, hey the 523 00:25:50,800 --> 00:25:53,900 devil has the power right now to have free reign on this Earth. 524 00:25:54,200 --> 00:25:56,100 And he's the prince of the power of the air and all of these 525 00:25:56,100 --> 00:25:58,100 other things. And he was offering to give that 526 00:25:58,100 --> 00:26:00,300 to Jesus. If you would just kneel down, of 527 00:26:00,300 --> 00:26:02,400 course, Jesus answered with scripture and said it is 528 00:26:02,400 --> 00:26:04,400 written, right? And that's how we ought to 529 00:26:04,400 --> 00:26:07,600 answer every time as well. So let me show you this is part 530 00:26:07,600 --> 00:26:08,800 of the Judean Wilderness as well. 531 00:26:08,800 --> 00:26:14,300 This is known as Wadi celt and monasticism spread throughout 532 00:26:14,300 --> 00:26:16,600 that area in the centuries after the apostles. 533 00:26:17,200 --> 00:26:22,100 And it was, it was the beginning of apostasy and really a lot of 534 00:26:22,100 --> 00:26:25,300 those false religions came around after that, right? 535 00:26:25,300 --> 00:26:27,600 You have a lot of people that say, well, why can't we just get 536 00:26:27,600 --> 00:26:30,200 back to being all one? Religion, look how it was for 537 00:26:30,200 --> 00:26:31,800 the apostles. They didn't have Baptists and 538 00:26:31,800 --> 00:26:34,100 methodists and Presbyterians and all of these other things. 539 00:26:34,500 --> 00:26:37,500 Well, no, they didn't, because It was not, I mean a lot of that 540 00:26:37,500 --> 00:26:39,700 apostasy hadn't grown up yet. Right? 541 00:26:39,700 --> 00:26:43,400 There was nothing, you know, it was Jesus Christ and and he was, 542 00:26:43,500 --> 00:26:45,800 he was the truth. He was giving the truth. 543 00:26:46,000 --> 00:26:49,500 So they lived as close to the truth as they possibly could 544 00:26:49,500 --> 00:26:51,100 when Jesus was on this earth, right? 545 00:26:51,100 --> 00:26:53,800 So, yes, it would be a wonderful thing for all Christians to get 546 00:26:53,800 --> 00:26:55,700 along. But apostasy comes in and you 547 00:26:55,700 --> 00:26:58,200 have to separate from that. That's why the Bible is filled 548 00:26:58,200 --> 00:27:00,300 with verses that tell us to stand for the truth. 549 00:27:00,300 --> 00:27:03,300 Stand for the word of God, avoid the false teachers, avoid these 550 00:27:03,300 --> 00:27:04,500 things. Why is that? 551 00:27:04,600 --> 00:27:07,300 Because they creep in In. They weren't necessarily mean, 552 00:27:07,300 --> 00:27:10,500 there was people there that that opposed Jesus and everything 553 00:27:10,500 --> 00:27:14,100 else, but he was Christianity. He was Christ, right? 554 00:27:14,100 --> 00:27:17,200 So there would have only been one Christianity when Jesus was 555 00:27:17,200 --> 00:27:21,200 here, but as soon as he left, People started allowing these 556 00:27:21,200 --> 00:27:23,100 false doctrines and everything else to creep in. 557 00:27:23,100 --> 00:27:26,400 So monasticism spread throughout the area in the centuries, after 558 00:27:26,400 --> 00:27:29,000 the apostles St. George's Monastery was built by 559 00:27:29,000 --> 00:27:33,200 monks in the 5th Century. And so, obviously, 5th Century 560 00:27:33,200 --> 00:27:35,900 ad at a place where they thought. 561 00:27:35,900 --> 00:27:39,900 Elijah was fed by Ravens. Now, obviously, Elijah was fed 562 00:27:39,900 --> 00:27:44,400 by Ravens somewhere, very likely, this was not the place, 563 00:27:44,900 --> 00:27:47,300 but that's why they end up building that Monastery. 564 00:27:47,300 --> 00:27:49,300 There, it's about two and a half miles. 565 00:27:49,400 --> 00:27:52,100 West of Jericho. It's a, it's breathtaking. 566 00:27:52,100 --> 00:27:55,600 I mean, how big this Gorge is, and it's called. 567 00:27:55,600 --> 00:27:58,600 Wadi celt. A Wadi is a place where water 568 00:27:58,600 --> 00:28:00,900 does not always run. It's a river but it's mostly 569 00:28:00,900 --> 00:28:03,700 dry. So why'd he killed is the name 570 00:28:03,700 --> 00:28:07,100 of this place and, and you'll see a lot of different Wadi. 571 00:28:07,100 --> 00:28:09,700 Whatever is in Israel. You see them all over the place. 572 00:28:10,800 --> 00:28:14,100 Israel has really one really big rainy season and during that 573 00:28:14,100 --> 00:28:16,600 rainy, season is when most of those rivers run. 574 00:28:16,800 --> 00:28:18,900 But during most of the rest of the year, there's nothing in 575 00:28:18,900 --> 00:28:20,200 them now there. A little bit of water. 576 00:28:20,200 --> 00:28:24,700 And this, you can kind of see it at the bottom there, but I need 577 00:28:24,700 --> 00:28:26,300 to get, I need to get moving, and we're going to get way 578 00:28:26,300 --> 00:28:29,100 behind here. We're already kind of behind, 579 00:28:29,100 --> 00:28:31,400 but you can see this. So, this, this is an area, this 580 00:28:31,400 --> 00:28:32,700 is part of the Judean Wilderness. 581 00:28:32,700 --> 00:28:34,300 It would have been like right near the top here. 582 00:28:34,300 --> 00:28:35,400 Of course, the Judean Wilderness. 583 00:28:35,400 --> 00:28:37,800 I told you runs all the way down to the bottom of the Dead Sea. 584 00:28:37,800 --> 00:28:41,000 This area was, was pretty much right in here Jericho. 585 00:28:41,300 --> 00:28:43,600 All right, let me maybe it'd be easier for me to point this out 586 00:28:43,600 --> 00:28:46,400 because it's pretty small. Here's Jerusalem. 587 00:28:46,600 --> 00:28:51,200 Here is Jericho and so, where we Were at was in between Jerusalem 588 00:28:51,200 --> 00:28:54,000 and Jericho right here. So all of this is still part of 589 00:28:54,300 --> 00:28:56,600 the Judean desert and if you look if you come up here and 590 00:28:56,600 --> 00:29:00,600 look at it afterwards, you can see it but beautiful, beautiful 591 00:29:00,600 --> 00:29:04,000 area but Jesus would have come through here quite a few times. 592 00:29:04,000 --> 00:29:06,800 The Bible talks about him traveling from Jericho to 593 00:29:06,800 --> 00:29:09,500 Jerusalem or you know in that Judean Wilderness Area. 594 00:29:09,500 --> 00:29:11,600 So you can kind of get a picture. 595 00:29:11,600 --> 00:29:14,300 There is located on the ancient Road, connecting, the Jordan 596 00:29:14,300 --> 00:29:17,300 Valley to Jerusalem and Beyond Jesus would have used this 597 00:29:17,300 --> 00:29:19,800 well-traveled world regularly. Talking. 598 00:29:19,800 --> 00:29:22,000 I mean you saw you see the pictures of how rugged all of 599 00:29:22,008 --> 00:29:23,900 that stuff is, right? There's not too many ways 600 00:29:23,900 --> 00:29:26,800 through that. So the, the one way that 601 00:29:26,800 --> 00:29:29,100 everybody would have taken Jesus would have taken if he was going 602 00:29:29,100 --> 00:29:30,800 through that area, which you did many times. 603 00:29:31,100 --> 00:29:33,500 So there's the old Jericho Jerusalem Road with the Mount of 604 00:29:33,500 --> 00:29:35,300 Olives that's visible in the distance. 605 00:29:35,600 --> 00:29:38,300 This is not exactly where we were at, but this is kind of 606 00:29:38,300 --> 00:29:40,000 this kind of give you a good picture of what it would have 607 00:29:40,000 --> 00:29:42,000 looked like there. That's the remnants of the old 608 00:29:42,000 --> 00:29:44,500 Roman Road because there was an Old Road there. 609 00:29:44,500 --> 00:29:47,900 The Romans came came by and built another road that was 610 00:29:47,900 --> 00:29:50,400 better, and it, and as still There today as well. 611 00:29:51,100 --> 00:29:54,100 But you can you can still kind of see this. 612 00:29:54,100 --> 00:29:58,600 That's the Jericho Road in the 1800's, just obviously a drawn 613 00:29:58,600 --> 00:30:00,200 picture of it to kind of show you what it looks like. 614 00:30:00,200 --> 00:30:02,800 But there's not a lot of roads to the Judean Wilderness. 615 00:30:03,100 --> 00:30:06,500 So if you wanted to go from Jericho to Jerusalem, that's the 616 00:30:06,508 --> 00:30:08,300 road. You would have had to take and a 617 00:30:08,308 --> 00:30:10,100 lot of other stops on the way in between as well. 618 00:30:10,100 --> 00:30:13,400 Talk about him, Harrods Aqueduct is visible as you descend down 619 00:30:13,400 --> 00:30:17,100 into that Wadi Herod was was known as the master builder 620 00:30:17,100 --> 00:30:19,300 haired builds Herod built so many things. 621 00:30:19,400 --> 00:30:22,100 It's and and not just built them, but built them very, very 622 00:30:22,100 --> 00:30:25,300 well, but I'll show you kind of that. 623 00:30:25,300 --> 00:30:28,300 Same Wadi that, I mean, the same Aqueduct that you're looking at 624 00:30:28,300 --> 00:30:32,100 right there is very, very tiny when you see when you back up. 625 00:30:32,100 --> 00:30:34,800 And I mean, it's hard for you to get a picture of just how big 626 00:30:34,800 --> 00:30:37,300 this place is. But I'll try to give you a 627 00:30:37,300 --> 00:30:39,800 little bit of it there. So this is kind of some more of 628 00:30:39,800 --> 00:30:41,400 that. There's there's the aqueduct 629 00:30:41,400 --> 00:30:45,600 there. I would, I would say that that 630 00:30:45,600 --> 00:30:48,500 Aqueduct is about the same width as maybe a sidewalk, it's not 631 00:30:48,500 --> 00:30:52,000 huge, but it's definitely not some tiny little, you know, 632 00:30:52,300 --> 00:30:55,400 stream of water. There you go, that's that. 633 00:30:55,400 --> 00:30:57,300 Give you a kind of good idea of what it looks like. 634 00:30:57,300 --> 00:30:58,500 How close is effect? This is a video. 635 00:30:58,500 --> 00:31:02,800 I think there we go. There's people walking down 636 00:31:02,800 --> 00:31:04,400 there. You can't even see him. 637 00:31:04,500 --> 00:31:07,400 There's the people are so tiny up there next to where that, 638 00:31:07,400 --> 00:31:10,400 monasteries at that. You can't even see them. 639 00:31:11,000 --> 00:31:13,000 Maybe you can, I don't know. You can kind of see him up in 640 00:31:13,000 --> 00:31:14,600 that top corner. I'll point, I'll point the 641 00:31:14,600 --> 00:31:16,000 people out to you in just a little bit. 642 00:31:16,000 --> 00:31:19,500 But you see how the water is not really flowing down there, just 643 00:31:19,500 --> 00:31:22,000 kind of huddled up. They we had they just kind of 644 00:31:22,008 --> 00:31:26,200 come through the rainy season when we went But there it is. 645 00:31:26,300 --> 00:31:28,200 There's the monastery. I'm going to. 646 00:31:28,300 --> 00:31:30,500 I'm going to show you some close up pictures of some of this, but 647 00:31:30,500 --> 00:31:32,600 I kind of give you a little bit of a video, overview of the 648 00:31:32,600 --> 00:31:33,500 whole thing. There you go. 649 00:31:33,900 --> 00:31:35,700 So, st. George's Monastery is at Greek 650 00:31:35,700 --> 00:31:38,800 Orthodox, cliff-hanging complex, that's carved. 651 00:31:38,800 --> 00:31:41,100 Just right into the sheer rock wall. 652 00:31:41,200 --> 00:31:44,800 So it's a, it really is an amazing feat of engineering. 653 00:31:44,800 --> 00:31:47,000 If you will, especially when you consider that was built in the 654 00:31:47,000 --> 00:31:52,500 5th Century ad and and and built in the literally in the middle 655 00:31:52,500 --> 00:31:55,700 of nowhere, the fact that they brought all the stuff, That they 656 00:31:55,700 --> 00:31:58,200 needed their for building and you know, just carved it all 657 00:31:58,200 --> 00:32:00,200 into the side of the rock. I mean, now when you think about 658 00:32:00,200 --> 00:32:03,600 it, they had plenty of time. Starting in the fourth Century. 659 00:32:03,600 --> 00:32:06,500 They began to live in a lot of the caves around there and Wadi 660 00:32:06,500 --> 00:32:09,600 celt and I'll put some arrows and this will kind of give you a 661 00:32:09,608 --> 00:32:12,100 picture. All right, down here is people, 662 00:32:12,100 --> 00:32:15,600 you see the people here. So it gives you just an idea of 663 00:32:15,600 --> 00:32:19,200 just how massive this is, but all the way throughout that 664 00:32:19,200 --> 00:32:22,000 whole area and this hike, I don't know, it took us probably 665 00:32:22,000 --> 00:32:25,900 what three or four hours to go from where Are we started at the 666 00:32:25,900 --> 00:32:30,300 monastery into Jericho and all the way along the whole route, 667 00:32:30,300 --> 00:32:33,400 you saw caves everywhere. So what happened was and I'll 668 00:32:33,400 --> 00:32:35,200 show you some more pictures as we go through there. 669 00:32:35,500 --> 00:32:37,900 But you can see, I mean, this one I should have zoomed in on a 670 00:32:37,908 --> 00:32:40,100 little bit more. That's actually like it's kind 671 00:32:40,100 --> 00:32:42,400 of built right into the side with a nice little archway 672 00:32:42,400 --> 00:32:45,700 entrance and everything else. So what these what these there 673 00:32:45,700 --> 00:32:46,900 you go. There's there's maybe a little 674 00:32:46,900 --> 00:32:50,000 bit better one. But what these monks did was 675 00:32:50,000 --> 00:32:53,700 they had the idea and this is what monasticism is all about 676 00:32:54,300 --> 00:32:59,800 these monks had I did that the more you beat yourself up, the 677 00:32:59,800 --> 00:33:03,400 more you are hard on yourself though, the the more difficult 678 00:33:03,400 --> 00:33:06,700 you made your life, the more you were paying for your sins, 679 00:33:06,900 --> 00:33:09,100 essentially. So they tried to make their 680 00:33:09,100 --> 00:33:11,500 lives as hard as they could possibly make them. 681 00:33:11,900 --> 00:33:15,000 So they put their houses up in these Hills and in these caves. 682 00:33:15,200 --> 00:33:19,800 So it was it was, it was just a very, very difficult strenuous 683 00:33:19,800 --> 00:33:22,600 hike to get there. And if you wanted to carry any 684 00:33:22,600 --> 00:33:25,500 kind of food or water, or anything of it was very Very 685 00:33:25,500 --> 00:33:27,900 hard to do that. And then they would just sit 686 00:33:27,900 --> 00:33:32,600 there in complete silence for days and days and days on end 687 00:33:33,100 --> 00:33:36,900 and meditate and do all these other things, as a way to try to 688 00:33:36,900 --> 00:33:40,700 earn God's favor and to pay for their sins, obviously, we know 689 00:33:40,700 --> 00:33:43,800 that none of that matters, it's Jesus Christ and him alone, and 690 00:33:43,808 --> 00:33:45,600 that's it. And so, all the stuff he think 691 00:33:45,600 --> 00:33:49,300 about all the things that they did that that were just, I mean, 692 00:33:49,600 --> 00:33:53,900 commendable humanly speaking for how difficult their life was, 693 00:33:53,900 --> 00:33:57,100 and how they made it through these, Things but worthless in 694 00:33:57,100 --> 00:33:59,400 the end because it counted for nothing, right? 695 00:33:59,400 --> 00:34:02,100 And how many of these guys at the end of all of that died and 696 00:34:02,100 --> 00:34:04,600 went to hell because they didn't get their sins forgiven, by 697 00:34:04,600 --> 00:34:06,100 Jesus Christ. They were trying to do what they 698 00:34:06,100 --> 00:34:09,300 could to forgive them themselves essentially and earn God's 699 00:34:09,300 --> 00:34:12,900 favor. So even there you can see and 700 00:34:12,900 --> 00:34:16,100 this one's hard to see, I should have zoomed in on that as well. 701 00:34:16,400 --> 00:34:22,000 See, this one right here has actually got wood and doors and 702 00:34:22,000 --> 00:34:24,400 things on it as well. It's very, very difficult to 703 00:34:24,400 --> 00:34:25,800 see. Maybe I'll try to go back to it 704 00:34:25,800 --> 00:34:27,100 later. I think I might actually have a 705 00:34:27,107 --> 00:34:32,000 little bit closer zoom in of it but what does that say? 706 00:34:32,699 --> 00:34:34,100 So a lot of them lived alone in caves. 707 00:34:34,100 --> 00:34:40,000 They met from Mass for mass and a communal meal every so often 708 00:34:40,000 --> 00:34:43,699 basically weekly they did it and eventually there were so many of 709 00:34:43,699 --> 00:34:45,699 them out there in these caves that they decided hey let's 710 00:34:45,699 --> 00:34:48,300 let's let's build a monastery. So that's what they did. 711 00:34:49,199 --> 00:34:52,000 So it was founded in the 5th Century by John of Thebes. 712 00:34:52,000 --> 00:34:55,300 He's an Egyptian, got a small band of five Syrian Hermits but 713 00:34:55,300 --> 00:34:57,300 settled around the cave where they believe the Prophet. 714 00:34:57,300 --> 00:35:01,000 Elijah was fed by the Ravens and that story is in 1st Kings 17, 1 715 00:35:01,000 --> 00:35:02,200 through 7. I'm not going to take the time 716 00:35:02,200 --> 00:35:07,600 to go there tonight but tradition also holds it that 717 00:35:07,600 --> 00:35:10,500 Elijah visited the cave by the monastery while he was traveling 718 00:35:10,500 --> 00:35:13,400 to the Sinai Peninsula. When he was fleeing from Jezebel 719 00:35:13,600 --> 00:35:16,100 after he had that confrontation with all the prophets of Baal 720 00:35:16,600 --> 00:35:20,300 and in fact, First Kings 19. One through three I wrote it 721 00:35:20,300 --> 00:35:23,100 down, just to save some time. Hey, have told Jezebel all that. 722 00:35:23,100 --> 00:35:25,700 Elijah had done it with all how he had slain, all the prophets 723 00:35:25,700 --> 00:35:27,500 with the sword. Then Jezebel sent a messenger 724 00:35:27,500 --> 00:35:30,400 unto Elijah saying, so let the god do to me and more. 725 00:35:30,400 --> 00:35:33,400 Also if I make not thy life as the life of one of them by 726 00:35:33,400 --> 00:35:36,800 tomorrow, about this time, when he saw that, he arose and went 727 00:35:36,800 --> 00:35:39,400 for his life and came to Beersheba which belongs to Judah 728 00:35:39,600 --> 00:35:43,500 and left his servant there. So the story about him being fed 729 00:35:43,500 --> 00:35:47,700 by the Ravens in that spot is very unlikely based on 730 00:35:47,700 --> 00:35:51,300 everything that That those that have researched it out have come 731 00:35:51,300 --> 00:35:55,000 up with the story of him going to this place when he was 732 00:35:55,000 --> 00:35:59,500 fleeing from Jezebel is very likely according to all of those 733 00:35:59,500 --> 00:36:01,300 who know that, I didn't study that myself. 734 00:36:01,300 --> 00:36:04,000 I don't know. But because I wasn't there 735 00:36:04,000 --> 00:36:06,300 either, but the arrow then I'm pointing to is actually where 736 00:36:06,300 --> 00:36:09,400 the monastery is. So all the way up, on the top of 737 00:36:09,408 --> 00:36:12,600 this hill is kind of where you, where we came in and you wind 738 00:36:12,600 --> 00:36:14,700 your way down to the bottom. And then you get over there to 739 00:36:14,700 --> 00:36:17,800 the right of the monastery is and then you start on this path. 740 00:36:18,100 --> 00:36:20,700 That's heading towards you. Rico, which I'll show you in a 741 00:36:20,700 --> 00:36:25,700 little bit but there's a few pictures of this just to try to 742 00:36:25,700 --> 00:36:30,200 give you an idea of how big this place is, and really how massive 743 00:36:30,200 --> 00:36:31,700 it is. It go back. 744 00:36:31,900 --> 00:36:33,300 Look at that. In that beautiful though. 745 00:36:33,700 --> 00:36:36,600 Just beautiful beautiful place, that's the Judean wilderness. 746 00:36:44,300 --> 00:36:48,200 So once we came down, got to that spot went to the mind. 747 00:36:48,200 --> 00:36:49,600 We didn't actually go into the monastery. 748 00:36:49,600 --> 00:36:52,700 We just walked past it, but then you start walking on that path, 749 00:36:52,700 --> 00:36:56,500 that goes toward Jericho. There's a, there's a pretty good 750 00:36:56,500 --> 00:36:59,000 picture of it to give you an idea of just looking straight up 751 00:36:59,000 --> 00:37:00,500 at it. How big it is hard. 752 00:37:00,500 --> 00:37:03,200 It's really hard to comprehend. That arrow is actually pointing 753 00:37:03,200 --> 00:37:05,600 to people. Hey, brother. 754 00:37:05,600 --> 00:37:08,000 Josh, can you turn the volume on for this next video? 755 00:37:09,100 --> 00:37:11,100 Just kind of give you an idea of what it sounds like with all the 756 00:37:11,100 --> 00:37:15,200 people walking on there. Just how dusty it Rocky, it is. 757 00:37:18,600 --> 00:37:20,800 Your volume. There we go. 758 00:37:24,600 --> 00:37:26,700 See how big that is? Those are all loving people look 759 00:37:26,700 --> 00:37:36,000 like ants that you see the path starts going that way. 760 00:37:36,600 --> 00:37:40,800 And it was actually it was pretty dangerous and the time we 761 00:37:40,808 --> 00:37:45,200 got to the end, the guide that was the Jewish guy that was with 762 00:37:45,200 --> 00:37:48,100 us and brother Cloud was like if we had known what it was going 763 00:37:48,100 --> 00:37:49,300 to be like we probably wouldn't have done it. 764 00:37:49,300 --> 00:37:51,000 In fact we're not ever doing that again. 765 00:37:51,000 --> 00:37:52,600 I was like well at least we got to do it. 766 00:37:52,700 --> 00:37:58,000 But so they venerate the bones of dead Saints as holy relics, 767 00:37:58,100 --> 00:38:00,700 and they think that it has that blessing power. 768 00:38:00,700 --> 00:38:04,400 So the chief relic of Saint George's Monastery, is the Skull 769 00:38:04,400 --> 00:38:07,400 and Bones of George's of gazebo which is st. 770 00:38:07,400 --> 00:38:09,300 George all the way back. In the fifth century, they have 771 00:38:09,300 --> 00:38:11,200 his skull which that's the top of his skull. 772 00:38:11,200 --> 00:38:14,300 That round thing is the top of his skull and run underneath 773 00:38:14,300 --> 00:38:17,100 that has his bones. They believe it has power to 774 00:38:17,100 --> 00:38:18,600 bring blessing and everything else. 775 00:38:18,700 --> 00:38:21,700 And again all completely man-made nowhere in the Bible. 776 00:38:21,700 --> 00:38:24,900 Do we find that? So here's some pictures. 777 00:38:24,900 --> 00:38:27,600 This is this is this is give you some pictures of what Wadi celt 778 00:38:27,600 --> 00:38:31,300 looks like and very, very likely Jesus, would have seen exactly 779 00:38:31,300 --> 00:38:34,500 the same view that you're looking at right here because 780 00:38:34,500 --> 00:38:39,900 that was on the route from Jerusalem to Jericho, just just 781 00:38:39,900 --> 00:38:41,700 beautiful beautiful scenery, though. 782 00:38:42,800 --> 00:38:46,500 I'll give you a few pictures, alright, you may be able to see 783 00:38:46,500 --> 00:38:47,900 this. You may not depends on how good 784 00:38:47,900 --> 00:38:51,100 your eyes are, right in the dead center of that picture in the, 785 00:38:51,200 --> 00:38:53,200 in the, in the little Notch of that V. 786 00:38:53,300 --> 00:38:57,100 You see that all the way at the very top in the blue sky, 787 00:38:57,100 --> 00:39:01,400 there's the tiny little pin. Needle type thing. 788 00:39:01,700 --> 00:39:05,400 It was a massive structure that was kind of the archway that you 789 00:39:05,400 --> 00:39:07,900 went into to get down to all of that stuff. 790 00:39:07,900 --> 00:39:11,300 I mean, it was big and it's just a tiny tiny little dot there. 791 00:39:11,400 --> 00:39:14,000 Just to give you some perspective, there you go, 792 00:39:14,000 --> 00:39:16,000 beautiful. And as you go through it mean, 793 00:39:16,000 --> 00:39:18,300 maybe you can kind of keep an eye out for it, but as you go 794 00:39:18,300 --> 00:39:21,100 through them and you see little caves dotted everywhere. 795 00:39:21,400 --> 00:39:24,300 Here's a cave right here, there's a couple caves right 796 00:39:24,300 --> 00:39:26,800 over there cave all the way in that far Corner. 797 00:39:26,900 --> 00:39:29,800 Here's a cave, the head, some that were down here. 798 00:39:30,000 --> 00:39:32,800 And as we're walking, I was like no wonder these guys pick this 799 00:39:32,800 --> 00:39:34,300 place for caves. I mean, if you're going to sit 800 00:39:34,300 --> 00:39:37,700 in a cave by yourself for hours and days on end, that's a great 801 00:39:37,700 --> 00:39:40,300 place to do it. It just beautiful, beautiful, 802 00:39:40,300 --> 00:39:43,900 beautiful scenery there. Look in there, you see some 803 00:39:43,900 --> 00:39:47,200 more, I don't know exactly which ones are just natural caves and 804 00:39:47,200 --> 00:39:49,400 which ones are ones that they dug out and we're using as a 805 00:39:49,408 --> 00:39:52,900 place for their, you know, meditation. 806 00:39:52,900 --> 00:39:58,900 But Beautiful area. A lot of caves up in that area. 807 00:39:58,900 --> 00:40:00,900 See him all kind of doubted all the way through out there. 808 00:40:05,000 --> 00:40:07,600 There's there's that's that's the tail end of our group 809 00:40:07,600 --> 00:40:08,900 walking down there. You see him? 810 00:40:09,700 --> 00:40:12,000 I just got to show you how big this whole thing is. 811 00:40:14,100 --> 00:40:17,500 I have a few places that are that are set out like that the a 812 00:40:17,500 --> 00:40:21,300 lot of Christian groups make that trip and they use that as 813 00:40:21,300 --> 00:40:24,300 kind of a place for preaching if you will. 814 00:40:24,300 --> 00:40:26,300 I don't know exactly what they would use it for. 815 00:40:26,300 --> 00:40:30,300 But so all the way and I didn't I didn't put a lot of them in 816 00:40:30,300 --> 00:40:32,600 there but she that cross that's on the top of that little pillar 817 00:40:32,600 --> 00:40:34,100 right there. Those are dotted. 818 00:40:34,100 --> 00:40:38,000 Kind of all the way throughout that whole area and that is made 819 00:40:38,000 --> 00:40:41,400 for people who suppose they're doing pilgrimages to Jerusalem 820 00:40:41,700 --> 00:40:44,800 because the the trip and I'll mention this, let's just move on 821 00:40:44,900 --> 00:40:50,100 but the trip from Jericho to Jerusalem was only about 20 822 00:40:50,100 --> 00:40:52,000 miles, but the terrain is so rugged. 823 00:40:52,000 --> 00:40:56,500 We took, it took at least a day if not more to get from Jericho 824 00:40:56,500 --> 00:41:00,300 to Jerusalem, which, okay, here you go, perfect example, right 825 00:41:00,300 --> 00:41:02,300 there. All right, there's Jerusalem. 826 00:41:02,600 --> 00:41:04,000 You see, that's the Mount of Olives. 827 00:41:04,000 --> 00:41:07,000 You see, Bethenny and then you can see how it just goes all the 828 00:41:07,000 --> 00:41:11,500 way, down the Jericho Road to Jerusalem, 20 winding miles, and 829 00:41:11,500 --> 00:41:14,500 the reason why Jericho I'm like, why do you, why would they want 830 00:41:14,500 --> 00:41:16,400 to go to Jericho? Well, part of, it was Jericho, 831 00:41:16,400 --> 00:41:19,700 was a was a pretty Hub. But that was kind of the bottom. 832 00:41:20,000 --> 00:41:22,600 So once you got the Jericho, you could kind of go to other places 833 00:41:22,600 --> 00:41:26,100 from there and you see how it kind of it stops being Rocky and 834 00:41:26,100 --> 00:41:27,900 you see the Jordan River Valley coming down. 835 00:41:27,900 --> 00:41:31,200 It was a lot easier for them to go from Jerusalem down to 836 00:41:31,200 --> 00:41:33,400 Jericho. And then up that Jordan River 837 00:41:33,400 --> 00:41:36,300 Valley to go into any of these other places rather than trying 838 00:41:36,300 --> 00:41:38,700 to hike through all of those, you know, mountains up and down 839 00:41:38,700 --> 00:41:40,200 everything else. So they would take that road 840 00:41:40,200 --> 00:41:42,500 down to Jericho and then make their way up. 841 00:41:42,500 --> 00:41:46,100 So this this one might give you, okay. 842 00:41:46,100 --> 00:41:51,100 There's Jericho Road in No one. That's an actual picture kind of 843 00:41:51,100 --> 00:41:52,600 give you an idea of what that looks like. 844 00:41:52,800 --> 00:41:55,500 So as they travel to Jerusalem, now this is this is going into 845 00:41:55,500 --> 00:41:57,100 the Bible again. And I'm not going to read this 846 00:41:57,100 --> 00:42:00,600 but Jesus and form the disciples about his death, the disciples 847 00:42:00,600 --> 00:42:02,800 started to strive about who's the greatest in the kingdom of 848 00:42:02,800 --> 00:42:05,700 God. That was all on that road from 849 00:42:05,700 --> 00:42:10,600 Jericho to Jerusalem. And so actually this this is 850 00:42:10,600 --> 00:42:13,300 pretty interesting here traveling from Jericho to 851 00:42:13,300 --> 00:42:17,400 Jerusalem is always described as a sending up to Jerusalem and 852 00:42:17,500 --> 00:42:19,300 I'm from Jerusalem down to Jericho. 853 00:42:19,300 --> 00:42:22,600 Was always talked about going down to Jerusalem. 854 00:42:22,700 --> 00:42:24,100 In fact, turn over to Luke chapter 10. 855 00:42:24,100 --> 00:42:26,700 I'm not going to get there yet. Luke chapter 10 and verse 30. 856 00:42:26,700 --> 00:42:30,900 We're going to read in just a minute, but it's actually very 857 00:42:30,900 --> 00:42:31,900 interesting. And here's why. 858 00:42:31,900 --> 00:42:33,600 In fact, I think I have a, there you go. 859 00:42:33,700 --> 00:42:37,000 Look at this, there's Jerusalem, there's the Kidron Valley, the 860 00:42:37,000 --> 00:42:39,100 Mount of Olives, they call that the shoulder you have the Roman 861 00:42:39,100 --> 00:42:42,800 Road, a scent that the Crusader, for its the ascent of adumim. 862 00:42:43,100 --> 00:42:45,700 And then Jericho Municipal Jericho residential, I mean, 863 00:42:45,700 --> 00:42:49,600 look at the difference. So, when the Bible says, they 864 00:42:49,600 --> 00:42:52,700 ascended up to Jerusalem, I mean, they were ascending up to 865 00:42:52,700 --> 00:42:56,300 Jerusalem when they ascended down, or went down to Jericho, 866 00:42:56,400 --> 00:43:00,200 they were going down to Jericho. And so the ascent from Jericho 867 00:43:00,200 --> 00:43:06,600 to Jerusalem is 3425 feet, I mean, a mile is 5280, so you're 868 00:43:06,600 --> 00:43:10,000 not talking a full mile, but that's two-thirds of a mile high 869 00:43:10,000 --> 00:43:12,500 twice. I mean, so it's only 20 miles. 870 00:43:14,200 --> 00:43:16,700 Jerusalem is 2600 feet above sea level. 871 00:43:16,700 --> 00:43:20,800 Jericho is 800. 35 feet below sea level so it was a very very 872 00:43:20,800 --> 00:43:25,600 strenuous rugged, hike walk, whatever you want to call it but 873 00:43:25,600 --> 00:43:28,900 that gives you a great diagram of what the road looked like 874 00:43:28,900 --> 00:43:31,100 from Jerusalem. All the way down to Jericho. 875 00:43:32,600 --> 00:43:35,800 So that was a favorite, haunt of Roberts as Jesus described in 876 00:43:35,800 --> 00:43:37,900 the parable of the Good Samaritan, right? 877 00:43:37,900 --> 00:43:40,500 So there you are. Luke chapter 10 and let's look 878 00:43:40,500 --> 00:43:44,000 at verse number 30. Jesus answering said a certain 879 00:43:44,000 --> 00:43:47,400 man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho. 880 00:43:48,000 --> 00:43:49,800 Make sense. When you read that now, right? 881 00:43:50,100 --> 00:43:53,800 It wasn't just on a map Jericho Jerusalem is north and Jericho 882 00:43:53,800 --> 00:43:56,000 is South. The he was going down to 883 00:43:56,000 --> 00:43:59,800 Jerusalem are down to Jericho, sorry, and he fell among 884 00:43:59,800 --> 00:44:02,900 Thieves, which stripped him of his raiment and wounded, him and 885 00:44:02,900 --> 00:44:05,700 departed. Leaving him half dead by chance. 886 00:44:05,700 --> 00:44:07,300 There came down a certain priest, that way. 887 00:44:07,300 --> 00:44:09,700 And when he saw him, he passed by on the other side. 888 00:44:10,000 --> 00:44:13,100 Likewise a levite when he was at the place came and looked on him 889 00:44:13,100 --> 00:44:16,200 and passed by on the other side, but a certain Samaritan. 890 00:44:16,200 --> 00:44:18,900 As he journeyed came where he Was and when he saw him, he had 891 00:44:18,900 --> 00:44:21,200 compassion on him and he went to him and bound up his wounds 892 00:44:21,200 --> 00:44:24,400 pouring in oil and wine, and set him on his own Beast, brought 893 00:44:24,400 --> 00:44:27,800 him to an inn and took care of him and on the morrow, when he 894 00:44:27,800 --> 00:44:30,400 departed, he took out two pence and gave them to the host and 895 00:44:30,400 --> 00:44:32,000 said, take care of him whatsoever. 896 00:44:32,000 --> 00:44:34,400 Thou spendest more, when I come again, I'll repay thee. 897 00:44:34,900 --> 00:44:37,200 Which now of these three thinkest thou was neighboring to 898 00:44:37,200 --> 00:44:41,100 him that fell among the thieves. And he said, he that showed 899 00:44:41,100 --> 00:44:43,500 Mercy on him. And then Jesus said unto him go 900 00:44:43,500 --> 00:44:45,900 and do thou likewise. Now this is a couple things here 901 00:44:45,900 --> 00:44:47,000 that I think are pretty interesting. 902 00:44:47,000 --> 00:44:50,200 Number one, That was a road that was obviously a well-traveled, 903 00:44:50,500 --> 00:44:53,100 right? Priest goes by levite, goes by 904 00:44:53,600 --> 00:44:55,800 the Samaritan goes by, and he says, hey, if you need anything 905 00:44:55,800 --> 00:44:59,300 else, when I come back, I'll give you more money, right? 906 00:44:59,300 --> 00:45:02,600 So very, very real traveled Road and they knew it was rugged, you 907 00:45:02,607 --> 00:45:05,600 couldn't just run away and run into a store or something like 908 00:45:05,600 --> 00:45:08,000 that. So, it was a place that robbers 909 00:45:09,000 --> 00:45:14,600 would always Come in. Now, this is so the end of the 910 00:45:14,600 --> 00:45:17,300 Good Samaritan st.george's monasteries where we were at, 911 00:45:17,300 --> 00:45:19,500 and we went from St, George's Monastery to Jericho. 912 00:45:19,500 --> 00:45:24,300 So our little, the little, the little way that we took was kind 913 00:45:24,300 --> 00:45:28,500 of the end of that route. The in of the Good Samaritan is 914 00:45:28,500 --> 00:45:33,800 the traditional place and I say traditional because really any 915 00:45:33,800 --> 00:45:38,600 site that was recognized in the Bible, the Catholics really came 916 00:45:38,600 --> 00:45:43,300 in and built a church on it and So is it the actual place? 917 00:45:43,400 --> 00:45:44,900 Some of them, maybe some of them. 918 00:45:45,300 --> 00:45:47,900 Most of them probably are not but, you know, it was somewhere 919 00:45:47,900 --> 00:45:52,300 close because a lot of these, a lot of the, a lot of these 920 00:45:52,300 --> 00:45:55,100 Catholic churches in these Catholic Cathedrals and things 921 00:45:55,100 --> 00:45:59,100 like that were built five, six seven, hundred years, after 922 00:45:59,100 --> 00:46:01,700 these things happen. So there were a lot closer to 923 00:46:01,700 --> 00:46:06,200 that time than we are, right? So especially even like well, 924 00:46:06,200 --> 00:46:09,300 we'll get into this later. But the road runs through the 925 00:46:09,308 --> 00:46:11,200 Judean Wilderness. That's the Jericho Road. 926 00:46:11,700 --> 00:46:14,900 Jericho Jerusalem Road, as it leaves Jericho Herod, built the 927 00:46:14,900 --> 00:46:18,300 Fortress called Cypress Cypress to guard the road. 928 00:46:18,400 --> 00:46:20,600 I'm going to this Cypress on the top corner there. 929 00:46:20,800 --> 00:46:23,200 I'm going to show you some pictures of that when we talk 930 00:46:23,200 --> 00:46:25,300 about herod's Palace and Jericho next time. 931 00:46:27,000 --> 00:46:30,200 But the old Jerusalem, Road means reticent, there's 932 00:46:30,200 --> 00:46:32,200 different tribes. That's actually where the tribes 933 00:46:32,200 --> 00:46:35,100 were split up. But there's the road into 934 00:46:35,100 --> 00:46:38,200 Jericho and obviously there's a big white arrow pointing at 935 00:46:38,200 --> 00:46:39,600 Jericho so you know where that's at. 936 00:46:39,600 --> 00:46:42,500 But that would have been what they saw as they came in, and 937 00:46:42,500 --> 00:46:45,000 you can kind of see how it how it opens up into a big 938 00:46:45,000 --> 00:46:48,200 wide-open. Plain and as we traveled, 939 00:46:48,400 --> 00:46:50,400 obviously Jericho kept getting bigger and bigger. 940 00:46:50,500 --> 00:46:52,300 Now where that arrow is actually pointing. 941 00:46:52,300 --> 00:46:56,400 Okay, you see you see the city of Jericho And the City of 942 00:46:56,400 --> 00:46:59,700 Jericho is huge today, compared to, especially the way that it 943 00:46:59,700 --> 00:47:01,500 was back in the in the time of the Bible. 944 00:47:01,700 --> 00:47:04,400 But if you in fact I'll point this out to you on here. 945 00:47:05,700 --> 00:47:07,200 Right here. Okay? 946 00:47:07,200 --> 00:47:10,300 And right in this area here is where herod's Palace was. 947 00:47:10,700 --> 00:47:13,200 I'm going to show you all the pictures of herod's Palace and 948 00:47:13,200 --> 00:47:17,100 everything else later was just Summer Palace these Kings. 949 00:47:17,100 --> 00:47:18,500 Obviously, we're very, very wealthy. 950 00:47:18,500 --> 00:47:21,100 They had Winter Palace has that would stay warmer in the winter 951 00:47:21,100 --> 00:47:22,800 and summer palaces. That would stay cool in the 952 00:47:22,808 --> 00:47:24,600 summer. That's how they did it because 953 00:47:24,600 --> 00:47:26,300 obviously they didn't have heating and air condition, so 954 00:47:26,300 --> 00:47:31,600 they would do it that way. And so anyway, There's Jericho 955 00:47:31,800 --> 00:47:34,900 that Ascent that, that red Ascent is actually all the way 956 00:47:34,900 --> 00:47:37,100 up at the top. So, this, this kind of that big 957 00:47:37,100 --> 00:47:40,200 arch that comes down. It's not that steep but that's 958 00:47:40,200 --> 00:47:43,200 where that red Ascent was and you know, cars and things like 959 00:47:43,200 --> 00:47:44,400 that. Actually can hit that road and 960 00:47:44,408 --> 00:47:46,400 come that way. Way we took you'd never get a 961 00:47:46,408 --> 00:47:50,500 car down there, there's Jericho, I think that's okay. 962 00:47:50,700 --> 00:47:53,600 Let me go back here real quick. There's there's Jericho there. 963 00:47:53,600 --> 00:47:55,200 This is the reticent that comes down. 964 00:47:55,200 --> 00:47:58,800 This is the road that we were taking that that Jesus probably 965 00:47:58,800 --> 00:48:00,300 would have at some point been on. 966 00:48:01,800 --> 00:48:05,400 And that little that little hump if you will that I just pointed 967 00:48:05,400 --> 00:48:11,200 out was right there and we'll show you that as we get into 968 00:48:11,200 --> 00:48:13,300 next week. So on the way into Jericho, 969 00:48:13,300 --> 00:48:15,900 Jesus would have seen herod's magnificent Palace city of 970 00:48:15,900 --> 00:48:19,300 Jericho was given to her by the Roman Emperor Octavian in 30 BC. 971 00:48:19,600 --> 00:48:24,100 Now, all you see now is basically the ground level and a 972 00:48:24,107 --> 00:48:26,000 few things that were dug down below the ground, some of the 973 00:48:26,000 --> 00:48:29,700 pools and things like that but I'll show you that so Whitey 974 00:48:29,700 --> 00:48:33,200 celt right now. Big River. 975 00:48:33,300 --> 00:48:35,300 If you will that runs down through the middle of that. 976 00:48:35,400 --> 00:48:37,700 That's it right there. That's where it comes out and 977 00:48:37,700 --> 00:48:40,900 Herod use that as a way for drawing sources of water and 978 00:48:41,000 --> 00:48:43,300 everything else. So last one this is 979 00:48:43,308 --> 00:48:45,400 reconstructed. Drawing their of herod's Palace 980 00:48:45,400 --> 00:48:48,100 in Jericho. You can see and I'll show you 981 00:48:48,100 --> 00:48:50,800 these again next week but you can see how small the city of 982 00:48:50,800 --> 00:48:54,100 Jericho is compared to what it looks like today that entire 983 00:48:54,100 --> 00:48:57,000 plane is nothing but houses and buildings and everything else 984 00:48:57,700 --> 00:49:00,400 today. But that's modern Jericho not 985 00:49:00,400 --> 00:49:04,600 not ancient Jericho The way that it was that but amazing amazing 986 00:49:04,600 --> 00:49:05,700 place I believe. That's yeah. 987 00:49:05,700 --> 00:49:11,900 So yeah, gives you a gives you a much better picture of what you 988 00:49:11,900 --> 00:49:13,900 think of. When you think of Jesus going 989 00:49:13,900 --> 00:49:17,000 into Wilderness, John the Baptist in the wilderness them 990 00:49:17,000 --> 00:49:20,300 traveling from Jericho from Jerusalem to Jericho and a few 991 00:49:20,300 --> 00:49:23,100 of those places in between so quick review. 992 00:49:23,100 --> 00:49:28,600 All right, what is this? Mediterranean Sea, what's this? 993 00:49:29,600 --> 00:49:32,200 Sea of Galilee, what's this? That's see. 994 00:49:32,200 --> 00:49:35,800 Whats this red. See, what is this whole triangle 995 00:49:35,800 --> 00:49:38,700 called? - what's the top half? 996 00:49:39,900 --> 00:49:43,700 Wilderness of Zin the bottom half Wilderness supper, and what 997 00:49:43,700 --> 00:49:49,300 is this called? Nope, the are of a valley, very 998 00:49:49,300 --> 00:49:50,500 good. The art of a valley. 999 00:49:50,500 --> 00:49:52,000 I didn't I didn't do that at the beginning. 1000 00:49:53,200 --> 00:49:56,900 What is the river that runs from Sea of Galilee to the Dead Sea? 1001 00:49:57,600 --> 00:49:59,800 Jordan River and what's this area right here? 1002 00:50:01,700 --> 00:50:04,200 The Judean Wilderness. The Judean Wilderness, very 1003 00:50:04,200 --> 00:50:07,400 good. All right, let's pray and we'll 1004 00:50:07,600 --> 00:50:10,400 go ahead and stand, and when we get to the end, we'll sing Our 1005 00:50:10,400 --> 00:50:12,900 Song and be dismissed. Father, we love you. 1006 00:50:12,900 --> 00:50:14,100 Give me a thank you for the word of God. 1007 00:50:14,100 --> 00:50:16,400 I thank you for the way that it can come alive to us. 1008 00:50:16,400 --> 00:50:17,700 Got to thank you for the opportunity. 1009 00:50:17,700 --> 00:50:20,900 We have to be able to do this and pray that you just continue 1010 00:50:20,900 --> 00:50:23,100 to use it to help us understand the Bible, even more. 1011 00:50:23,400 --> 00:50:25,400 Thank you for all that you do for us in Jesus name.