1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:05,000 No one can agree on who built Gobekli Tepe, and to make things 2 00:00:05,000 --> 00:00:07,280 worse, I have a brand new theory. 3 00:00:07,400 --> 00:00:11,200 OK, before you dismiss this theory is being bonkers, I first 4 00:00:11,200 --> 00:00:15,440 need to show you why I'm unsure of the other theories and also 5 00:00:15,480 --> 00:00:18,400 why somebody else is trying to hide the evidence. 6 00:00:18,680 --> 00:00:23,000 Let's put theory #1 to the test that primitive hunter gatherers 7 00:00:23,000 --> 00:00:27,120 built Gobekli Tepe. In October 1994, in a little 8 00:00:27,120 --> 00:00:31,120 town in Turkey, a local farm was plowing his feet when suddenly 9 00:00:31,120 --> 00:00:34,920 he found an unusual shaped stone peering through the ground. 10 00:00:35,120 --> 00:00:37,720 The farmer looked closer, brushed away some of the dirt, 11 00:00:37,760 --> 00:00:41,760 only to realise that it might be part of a much larger structure 12 00:00:41,840 --> 00:00:45,080 that was beneath the ground. Word quickly spread until the 13 00:00:45,080 --> 00:00:48,160 highly esteemed German archaeologist Klaus Schmidt 14 00:00:48,240 --> 00:00:51,040 arrived with a team and began excavating the area. 15 00:00:51,200 --> 00:00:54,720 But what he found stunned the entire world. 16 00:00:54,840 --> 00:00:58,440 Guys, you've got to get this to understand why it's so 17 00:00:58,440 --> 00:01:01,680 fascinating to discover who built Gobekli Tepe. 18 00:01:02,040 --> 00:01:06,400 As Schmidt and his team began to dig, they found 4 circular 19 00:01:06,400 --> 00:01:09,600 enclosures covering 4000 square feet of lamp. 20 00:01:09,760 --> 00:01:13,240 Each was made-up of monoliths and T shaped pillars weighing 21 00:01:13,240 --> 00:01:16,920 between 40 to 60 tons. Some of these pillars reached 22 00:01:16,920 --> 00:01:19,480 impressive heights as large as 6 meters. 23 00:01:19,720 --> 00:01:24,280 So take all of that into your mind and now let this fact, all 24 00:01:24,280 --> 00:01:28,280 four of these massive structures are angled perfectly to the 25 00:01:28,280 --> 00:01:30,600 brightest star in the sky, Sirius. 26 00:01:30,880 --> 00:01:33,920 Wait a second, am I the only one who wants to know how primitive 27 00:01:33,920 --> 00:01:36,840 people who our school teachers would tell us they were only 28 00:01:36,840 --> 00:01:39,000 capable of operating stone tools? 29 00:01:39,000 --> 00:01:42,720 How is it that these guys had the knowledge of mathematics and 30 00:01:42,720 --> 00:01:46,440 astronomy to line up all of these pillars to the star of 31 00:01:46,440 --> 00:01:48,880 Sirius? And also, how did they have the 32 00:01:48,880 --> 00:01:52,000 strength to lift one of these monoliths from the nearest 33 00:01:52,000 --> 00:01:54,680 limestone quarry at the bottom of the hill all the way to the 34 00:01:54,680 --> 00:01:56,840 top of the peak? That would be a journey that 35 00:01:56,840 --> 00:02:01,320 would take 50 men at least one week to transport each pillar. 36 00:02:01,520 --> 00:02:04,960 Oh, and by the way, this was all done without a wheel, because 37 00:02:04,960 --> 00:02:08,520 the invention of a wheel only came 4000 years later. 38 00:02:08,840 --> 00:02:11,200 I hear you though. It's not impossible. 39 00:02:11,200 --> 00:02:14,960 But for me personally, the intricate carvings do offer a 40 00:02:14,960 --> 00:02:18,120 different perspective of who built Gobekli Tepe. 41 00:02:18,400 --> 00:02:20,680 But we'll come to that a little later. 42 00:02:20,720 --> 00:02:23,680 I wonder whether I should tell you this because for reasons I 43 00:02:23,680 --> 00:02:27,840 am later going to disclose, I very much doubt the accuracy of 44 00:02:27,840 --> 00:02:31,520 the dating of Gobekli Tepe. However, this does prove that 45 00:02:31,520 --> 00:02:34,880 something is a little off here with the hunter gatherer theory. 46 00:02:34,920 --> 00:02:38,920 When Klaus Schmidt conducted radiocarbon dating on the stone 47 00:02:38,920 --> 00:02:44,000 structure, his results claimed that the monoliths were 11,600 48 00:02:44,000 --> 00:02:47,760 years old, which is absolutely insane when you remember that 49 00:02:47,760 --> 00:02:51,560 mainstream experts believe that hunter gatherers emerge from the 50 00:02:51,600 --> 00:02:54,440 Ice Age. Then discovered farm and only 51 00:02:54,440 --> 00:02:59,280 built settlements in ancient Mesopotamia 6000 years after the 52 00:02:59,280 --> 00:03:02,280 supposed date that Gobekli Tepe was built. 53 00:03:02,520 --> 00:03:06,720 OK, I can hear exactly what some of you are thinking is that? 54 00:03:06,720 --> 00:03:08,840 Really. The earliest evidence. 55 00:03:08,880 --> 00:03:12,160 Of the first civilization. Well, yes, it is. 56 00:03:12,200 --> 00:03:15,880 But there's also a proposed theory that 20 kilometers away 57 00:03:15,880 --> 00:03:19,160 from the Potbelly Hill, which by the way is the translation of 58 00:03:19,160 --> 00:03:21,760 Gobekli Tepe. Well, here, in this supposed 59 00:03:21,760 --> 00:03:25,600 location here, apparently it was the first evidence of some kind 60 00:03:25,600 --> 00:03:28,880 of agriculture. But even this was 1000 years 61 00:03:29,000 --> 00:03:32,240 after our mysterious structure was meant to have been built. 62 00:03:32,600 --> 00:03:35,320 Now, do you see why the dates just aren't adding up? 63 00:03:35,440 --> 00:03:38,400 Well, there's more I'll say on this later, but right now, isn't 64 00:03:38,400 --> 00:03:41,720 it kind of difficult to believe that this primitive civilization 65 00:03:41,720 --> 00:03:44,920 is responsible for building Gobekli Tepe when the builders 66 00:03:44,920 --> 00:03:48,320 clearly understood advanced technology and mathematics, but 67 00:03:48,320 --> 00:03:52,040 somehow they didn't know at the same time how to simply farm a 68 00:03:52,040 --> 00:03:54,520 field? I was really taken aback when I 69 00:03:54,520 --> 00:03:58,440 also found out that even the man himself, Klaus Schmidt, had no 70 00:03:58,440 --> 00:04:00,760 idea what Gobekli Tepe was used for. 71 00:04:00,800 --> 00:04:04,680 Except he knew one thing. It wasn't a domestic settlement. 72 00:04:04,760 --> 00:04:08,280 So let's go over to Schmidt's friend Graham Hancock, and let's 73 00:04:08,280 --> 00:04:12,240 hear his theory on who he thinks builds the Potbelly Hill. 74 00:04:12,280 --> 00:04:14,920 I can't help feeling that's precisely what Gobekli Tepe is. 75 00:04:14,920 --> 00:04:18,959 It's a, it's a time capsule, it's a memorial to a lost time. 76 00:04:19,640 --> 00:04:23,520 And and I think that what we're looking at in that whole, the 77 00:04:23,520 --> 00:04:29,720 whole area is the outcome of contact with an earlier largely 78 00:04:29,720 --> 00:04:31,840 lost civilization. I think it passed on its 79 00:04:31,840 --> 00:04:36,320 cultural genes right there in that, in that area of Turkey and 80 00:04:36,320 --> 00:04:39,120 down into the Jordan Valley. That the creature, whatever it 81 00:04:39,120 --> 00:04:42,080 is, Jamie, that one that's sort of black and white, that image 82 00:04:42,280 --> 00:04:44,360 in the center says Visual Arts Cork. 83 00:04:44,480 --> 00:04:48,040 Yeah, that one's amazing. It's amazing they cut away the 84 00:04:48,040 --> 00:04:51,440 whole pillar to leave to leave that creature there, which 85 00:04:51,440 --> 00:04:54,400 itself is hard to identify. Is it a crocodile? 86 00:04:54,560 --> 00:04:57,560 How do they speculate that these people did this stuff? 87 00:04:58,760 --> 00:05:00,560 You can't. You can't do stuff with stone 88 00:05:00,560 --> 00:05:02,640 tools. So they use harder stone to 89 00:05:02,640 --> 00:05:04,800 carve this stone. That's the argument. 90 00:05:04,800 --> 00:05:07,440 And they is there evidence of these stones? 91 00:05:07,680 --> 00:05:10,320 No, not that I'm aware of. There are, there are there are 92 00:05:10,320 --> 00:05:13,880 some so-called pounding stones, but I find it difficult to see 93 00:05:13,880 --> 00:05:16,880 how pounding stones, how pounding away could have created 94 00:05:16,880 --> 00:05:20,960 this very fine result. It doesn't make a whole a whole 95 00:05:20,960 --> 00:05:24,920 lot of sense to me. Theory #2 Gobekli Tepe was built 96 00:05:24,960 --> 00:05:27,800 by some lost ancient civilization. 97 00:05:27,800 --> 00:05:30,360 One thing you and I can be sure of, and it's this. 98 00:05:30,360 --> 00:05:33,320 We know very little about these huge pillars. 99 00:05:33,400 --> 00:05:35,880 After all, the entire structure has only been known to the 100 00:05:35,880 --> 00:05:39,480 archaeological community for the last 50 years, and yet the area 101 00:05:39,480 --> 00:05:42,040 has been steeped in tradition for centuries. 102 00:05:42,080 --> 00:05:44,760 Take a look at this. This is the top of the Potbelly 103 00:05:44,760 --> 00:05:48,000 Hill, and it is here that local communities have performed A 104 00:05:48,000 --> 00:05:51,600 ritual where they'd walk around the tree several times, each 105 00:05:51,600 --> 00:05:54,280 with a piece of cloth. They then take their cloth and 106 00:05:54,280 --> 00:05:56,200 they tie it to one of the branches. 107 00:05:56,240 --> 00:05:59,560 Each cloth was meant to represent a wish that they would 108 00:05:59,560 --> 00:06:02,440 like to be granted. So again, I'll ask you, what 109 00:06:02,440 --> 00:06:04,200 goes through your mind when you hear that? 110 00:06:04,520 --> 00:06:08,680 I think it obviously points to some ancient mystical beliefs. 111 00:06:08,840 --> 00:06:12,480 And something I did forget to mention is that Gobekli Tepe is 112 00:06:12,480 --> 00:06:16,560 actually 6000 years older than Stonehenge, which is also 113 00:06:16,560 --> 00:06:18,800 believed to be a place of mysticism. 114 00:06:18,960 --> 00:06:22,720 This has LED some people to claim that Gobekli Tepe is the 115 00:06:22,720 --> 00:06:25,600 world's oldest temple. Have you thought about? 116 00:06:25,600 --> 00:06:28,680 This though so. The mainstream opinion is that 117 00:06:28,680 --> 00:06:31,880 the primitive builders constructed this structure, and 118 00:06:31,880 --> 00:06:35,600 yet the same people who hold this view are very hesitant to 119 00:06:35,600 --> 00:06:39,320 uncover more of Gobekli Tepe to make a solid conclusion. 120 00:06:39,360 --> 00:06:43,760 I mean, this really baffles me. How can anyone say for sure what 121 00:06:43,760 --> 00:06:48,200 it is when only 10% of this site has been excavated, but 122 00:06:48,200 --> 00:06:52,720 geophysical surveys show us the presence of 20 or more large 123 00:06:52,720 --> 00:06:54,760 enclosures buried beneath the ground? 124 00:06:54,960 --> 00:06:56,400 Are you imagining this right now? 125 00:06:56,400 --> 00:07:01,120 90% of the entire monument is still underground, and there 126 00:07:01,120 --> 00:07:04,440 have been no real advancements in archaeological digs since 127 00:07:04,440 --> 00:07:07,320 2014. I am going to choose my words 128 00:07:07,320 --> 00:07:10,600 carefully now. But out of the 43 pillars that 129 00:07:10,600 --> 00:07:14,360 have been excavated, what is it that leads Graham Hancock and 130 00:07:14,360 --> 00:07:17,920 other guests on the Joe Rogan podcast to state that Gobekli 131 00:07:17,920 --> 00:07:21,880 Tepe was likely built by an ancient civilization? 132 00:07:22,080 --> 00:07:25,160 Well, it's because of these intricate carvings. 133 00:07:25,240 --> 00:07:27,760 It's essentially. You remember once again that the 134 00:07:27,760 --> 00:07:31,440 belief of mainstream academia is that hunter gatherers, they 135 00:07:31,440 --> 00:07:35,640 could produce interesting cave art, But megalift structures 136 00:07:35,640 --> 00:07:38,600 with a solar calendar? Well, for those guys, it was 137 00:07:38,600 --> 00:07:41,520 believed that that would be way too advanced for them to 138 00:07:41,520 --> 00:07:44,600 accomplish. Now, for people who actually do 139 00:07:44,600 --> 00:07:48,360 believe that the people before us weren't as smart, this for 140 00:07:48,360 --> 00:07:52,240 them is very perplexing. And in 2024, researchers 141 00:07:52,240 --> 00:07:56,520 proposed that certain carvings on Pillar 43 at Gobekli Tepe 142 00:07:56,640 --> 00:08:03,200 were actually trying to record a comet impacts around 10,840 BC. 143 00:08:03,200 --> 00:08:06,640 Hey, do I need to remind you that I have big question marks 144 00:08:06,640 --> 00:08:09,240 about this? But it's OK, I will get to that 145 00:08:09,240 --> 00:08:12,000 later. Right now, however, listen to 146 00:08:12,000 --> 00:08:15,120 one of the most incredible things about Quebecly Tepe. 147 00:08:15,320 --> 00:08:19,080 The most advanced and the most intricate carvings are actually 148 00:08:19,120 --> 00:08:22,560 on the oldest pillars. As the pillars get newer, the 149 00:08:22,560 --> 00:08:26,720 designs get less complex. I am sorry I never told you this 150 00:08:26,720 --> 00:08:29,680 earlier, but archaeologists quick realized different 151 00:08:29,680 --> 00:08:32,039 enclosures were built at different times. 152 00:08:32,039 --> 00:08:36,440 The newest ones uncovered they claim are 10,500 years old and 153 00:08:36,440 --> 00:08:39,559 that is why they believe that Gobekli Tepe was built 154 00:08:39,559 --> 00:08:43,400 strategically for a purpose and they also believed it was used 155 00:08:43,400 --> 00:08:46,000 for a time period of around 1000 years. 156 00:08:46,080 --> 00:08:49,560 So what does all this mean? Well, according to their dating 157 00:08:49,560 --> 00:08:52,720 system, and again, I do have some reservations, but what they 158 00:08:52,720 --> 00:08:57,040 are proposing is that these intricate carvings came 6000 159 00:08:57,040 --> 00:08:59,520 years before the invention of writing. 160 00:08:59,640 --> 00:09:03,240 This obviously leads Graham Hancock and others to speculate 161 00:09:03,240 --> 00:09:06,800 that there was an ancient civilization with a lost form of 162 00:09:06,800 --> 00:09:09,680 knowledge or technology, especially in the realm of 163 00:09:09,680 --> 00:09:11,440 astronomy. Kind of similar to what we 164 00:09:11,440 --> 00:09:14,360 previously discussed in our videos on the pyramids. 165 00:09:14,400 --> 00:09:17,400 OK, so let's ask the obvious question here. 166 00:09:17,440 --> 00:09:20,000 Is there any evidence to support such a claim? 167 00:09:20,120 --> 00:09:24,680 We'll take a look at Pillar 43. It points to the Scorpius 168 00:09:24,680 --> 00:09:27,800 constellation. And when you even just glance at 169 00:09:27,800 --> 00:09:30,600 the drawing, it doesn't take a genius to figure out that they 170 00:09:30,640 --> 00:09:34,640 are depicting a scorpion here. Now watch carefully, because if 171 00:09:34,640 --> 00:09:38,440 we put the same drawings on a star map with the sun of the 172 00:09:38,440 --> 00:09:41,720 vulture's wings in the same placement as our sun in the 173 00:09:41,720 --> 00:09:46,000 night sky, we can suddenly see all of the constellations fall 174 00:09:46,000 --> 00:09:50,480 into place, perfectly lining up with incredible precision. 175 00:09:50,480 --> 00:09:53,960 Between you and me, if I had to choose which was my second 176 00:09:54,120 --> 00:09:57,640 favorite theory for who built Gobekli Tepe, it would be this 177 00:09:57,640 --> 00:09:59,560 one. And I would not be surprised 178 00:09:59,560 --> 00:10:02,440 whatsoever if these guys were the ones who really were 179 00:10:02,440 --> 00:10:05,960 responsible for this megalith structure and that is the 180 00:10:05,960 --> 00:10:09,040 Goliath like creatures theory. So over to you. 181 00:10:09,040 --> 00:10:13,360 Do you think our third theory giants are responsible for 182 00:10:13,360 --> 00:10:16,200 building Gobekli Tepe? Do you think that that could 183 00:10:16,200 --> 00:10:19,800 make any possible sense? Well no one can deny that 184 00:10:19,800 --> 00:10:23,680 whoever built this site were what we call antediluvians, 185 00:10:23,680 --> 00:10:27,600 meaning they existed before the worldwide judgement that fell on 186 00:10:27,600 --> 00:10:30,240 the earth. Every ancient culture talks 187 00:10:30,240 --> 00:10:34,240 about water covering the face of the earth and they also speak of 188 00:10:34,240 --> 00:10:38,120 huge figures that also want wronged are very earth. 189 00:10:38,200 --> 00:10:41,040 You may want to write this down for further research, but a few 190 00:10:41,040 --> 00:10:45,720 months ago we did a deep dive on the antediluvian structures like 191 00:10:45,720 --> 00:10:48,960 Stonehenge, the Callanish Stones and the Great Pyramids. 192 00:10:49,160 --> 00:10:52,760 And you guys, well at least the vast majority of you, you agreed 193 00:10:52,760 --> 00:10:56,800 with my position that these giant like creatures or the 194 00:10:56,800 --> 00:11:01,080 watchers may be responsible for who built these structures, 195 00:11:01,160 --> 00:11:05,240 which is of course contrary to what we're all commonly taught. 196 00:11:05,400 --> 00:11:08,200 But if you do study the Bible and the accounts from ancient 197 00:11:08,200 --> 00:11:11,560 cultures around the world, it's not hard to imagine that these 198 00:11:11,560 --> 00:11:14,240 guys existed. And it explains how these 199 00:11:14,240 --> 00:11:16,200 impossible structures were built. 200 00:11:16,440 --> 00:11:19,400 And if you want to find out why this makes total sense, you 201 00:11:19,400 --> 00:11:21,960 really should check out the video on this topic. 202 00:11:22,000 --> 00:11:23,720 And I've left a link in the description. 203 00:11:23,720 --> 00:11:27,280 Hey, big news everyone. Quebecly Tepe is even older 204 00:11:27,280 --> 00:11:30,400 though than all of the these antediluvian structures, with 205 00:11:30,400 --> 00:11:34,000 many archaeologists claiming it's the older structure on 206 00:11:34,000 --> 00:11:36,480 earth now. That doesn't answer the question 207 00:11:36,480 --> 00:11:38,360 though. Why do people believe that 208 00:11:38,360 --> 00:11:41,600 giants built it? Well I'm so glad you asked. 209 00:11:41,680 --> 00:11:44,560 A popular theory by archaeologists is that Gobekli 210 00:11:44,560 --> 00:11:47,840 Tepe was purposely built and then it was buried. 211 00:11:47,840 --> 00:11:50,840 Some people believe that giants were responsible for this 212 00:11:50,840 --> 00:11:53,280 because they wanted to preserve what was on it. 213 00:11:53,280 --> 00:11:57,560 Some even state that this site was used for post Edenic 214 00:11:57,640 --> 00:12:00,840 worship, place of idol worship and ritual. 215 00:12:00,960 --> 00:12:04,560 Now I find this fascinating but there is a story about the 216 00:12:04,560 --> 00:12:08,080 Callanish stones on the Isle of Lewis and that is that they were 217 00:12:08,080 --> 00:12:11,760 once giants who refused to accept Christianity and then 218 00:12:11,760 --> 00:12:14,160 they were judged and thus turned to stone. 219 00:12:14,240 --> 00:12:18,840 This obviously is bonkers but a similar folk tale is told about 220 00:12:18,840 --> 00:12:22,280 the large T shaped pillars at Quebecli Tepe that they were 221 00:12:22,280 --> 00:12:25,880 once human deities. Now, please don't misunderstand 222 00:12:25,880 --> 00:12:27,480 me. I obviously don't think that 223 00:12:27,480 --> 00:12:31,240 that was true, but I do think that a plausible explanation for 224 00:12:31,240 --> 00:12:35,720 its building could involve some kind of massive creature like a 225 00:12:35,720 --> 00:12:36,960 giant. Why? 226 00:12:37,040 --> 00:12:39,240 Well, the unavoidable conclusion is this. 227 00:12:39,280 --> 00:12:43,880 Gobekli Tepe is 7000 years older than the accepted date for the 228 00:12:43,880 --> 00:12:46,480 pyramids. It's twice as old as Stonehenge, 229 00:12:46,480 --> 00:12:50,960 and it's 50 times larger, spanning an impressive 20 acres. 230 00:12:51,080 --> 00:12:53,880 So if there's mystery around Stonehenge, how? 231 00:12:53,880 --> 00:12:55,960 Much more. Mystery then surrounds the 232 00:12:55,960 --> 00:12:58,400 Potbelly hill. But wait, there's more. 233 00:12:58,680 --> 00:13:03,480 The site contains at least 20 huge circular enclosures, and as 234 00:13:03,480 --> 00:13:06,080 you know, only four have been uncovered. 235 00:13:06,120 --> 00:13:10,520 But an estimated 200 T shaped limestone pillars remain buried. 236 00:13:10,720 --> 00:13:14,400 Using geophysical surveys, they've calculated that these 237 00:13:14,400 --> 00:13:18,920 pillars are all 20 feet tall, with some fallen pillars in the 238 00:13:18,920 --> 00:13:22,800 ground weighing as much as 50 metric tons. 239 00:13:22,880 --> 00:13:26,040 I mean, come on, guys. Yes, of course it's possible 240 00:13:26,080 --> 00:13:29,520 that primitive humans built this structure without a wheel or 241 00:13:29,520 --> 00:13:31,640 machinery or even the knowledge of farming. 242 00:13:31,680 --> 00:13:35,240 But when you consider the size, the weight and the mathematics 243 00:13:35,240 --> 00:13:38,240 of this project, do you not think that they might need 244 00:13:38,240 --> 00:13:42,280 something else to help them build it, like a supernatural 245 00:13:42,280 --> 00:13:44,440 creature which is mentioned in the Bible? 246 00:13:44,720 --> 00:13:48,320 And yes, I will say, as I often say in my videos, I could be way 247 00:13:48,320 --> 00:13:50,440 off with this. But the question does need. 248 00:13:50,440 --> 00:13:53,640 To be asked. How do we untangle all of this? 249 00:13:53,880 --> 00:13:57,720 Well, let's see if our final theory provides an answer on who 250 00:13:57,720 --> 00:14:01,680 built Beckley Tepe the Jimmy Corsetti theory. 251 00:14:01,800 --> 00:14:05,000 Jimmy Corsetti from Bright Insight YouTube channel has 252 00:14:05,000 --> 00:14:06,960 really made me think. He believes they are 253 00:14:06,960 --> 00:14:09,960 deliberately slowing down excavation on the site. 254 00:14:10,200 --> 00:14:11,960 How can he make such a statement? 255 00:14:12,040 --> 00:14:15,440 Well, the official owners of Gobekli Tepe have planted 256 00:14:15,560 --> 00:14:19,160 orchard after orchard of a protective kind of olive tree, 257 00:14:19,160 --> 00:14:21,520 which cannot just be cut down by anybody. 258 00:14:21,600 --> 00:14:24,200 And you can imagine the archaeological community, they 259 00:14:24,200 --> 00:14:27,280 were very concerned about thousands of trees being planted 260 00:14:27,320 --> 00:14:29,960 over the older structure on earth because as we've talked 261 00:14:29,960 --> 00:14:34,600 about already, 90 to 95% of it is still hidden underground. 262 00:14:34,640 --> 00:14:37,360 And the roots of these trees would surely damage or 263 00:14:37,360 --> 00:14:40,520 accelerate the decay of these ancient structures below the 264 00:14:40,520 --> 00:14:42,600 earth. Now, am I the only one here who 265 00:14:42,600 --> 00:14:45,480 finds all of this a little bit baffling? 266 00:14:45,560 --> 00:14:48,440 After all, you don't need a degree in horticulture to know 267 00:14:48,440 --> 00:14:50,920 that these roots are highly destructive. 268 00:14:50,920 --> 00:14:53,880 And they can cut through, they can grow through stone or even 269 00:14:53,880 --> 00:14:56,640 concrete. So here's the answer we all want 270 00:14:56,640 --> 00:14:59,880 to know. Why are they doing this and why 271 00:14:59,880 --> 00:15:02,880 are they being so slow to excavate the rest of Gobekli 272 00:15:02,880 --> 00:15:05,440 Tepe? Well, the fact is, this guy's no 273 00:15:05,440 --> 00:15:09,200 real progress has been made since 2014 when Klaus Schmitz 274 00:15:09,200 --> 00:15:12,920 first completed his excavation. I mean, how do we not know that 275 00:15:12,920 --> 00:15:16,600 one artifact hidden below the ground out of the 90% that is 276 00:15:16,600 --> 00:15:18,360 totally buried? How do we not know that this 277 00:15:18,360 --> 00:15:21,240 could be the one greatest discovery that we've ever found? 278 00:15:21,280 --> 00:15:24,520 It could explain so much about our ancient history. 279 00:15:24,640 --> 00:15:27,880 OK let's just slow down for a minute because there is actually 280 00:15:27,880 --> 00:15:31,240 one suggestion question and we could just give them the benefit 281 00:15:31,240 --> 00:15:34,000 of the doubt Because they say one reason they are not 282 00:15:34,000 --> 00:15:39,040 excavating is because in 150 years time they do plan to do 283 00:15:39,040 --> 00:15:42,560 another archaeological dig. And they say the reason for this 284 00:15:42,560 --> 00:15:45,280 is they will have better technology that could protect 285 00:15:45,280 --> 00:15:48,440 the ruins from getting damaged as they seek to unearth this 286 00:15:48,480 --> 00:15:51,360 ancient structure. Whilst that does seem like a 287 00:15:51,360 --> 00:15:54,760 genuinely good reason, it doesn't explain the massive 288 00:15:54,760 --> 00:15:58,240 amount of olive trees that they have planted over the sites and 289 00:15:58,240 --> 00:16:02,080 also so it doesn't explain the giant tourism centre which again 290 00:16:02,200 --> 00:16:07,000 with its huge roof covers and prevents further excavation. 1 291 00:16:07,000 --> 00:16:10,640 cynical view has a very different reason for why all of 292 00:16:10,640 --> 00:16:14,640 this has happened. They say it's all about money 293 00:16:14,840 --> 00:16:19,800 because in 2018 70,000 visitors went to Gobekli Tepe, but by 294 00:16:19,800 --> 00:16:24,920 2024 that number had increased to nearly 1,000,000 visitors. 295 00:16:25,040 --> 00:16:28,600 Well, of course tourism, it makes money, but archaeology on 296 00:16:28,600 --> 00:16:32,720 the flip side, that costs money and that is why tourism seems to 297 00:16:32,720 --> 00:16:35,720 remain the priority and also. Perhaps why they are. 298 00:16:35,720 --> 00:16:39,320 Keeping parts of it buried because it builds the plot and 299 00:16:39,320 --> 00:16:41,840 it increases the mystery of Gobekli Tepe. 300 00:16:42,160 --> 00:16:46,560 On the 12th of June 2024, Jimmy Corsetti released a post on 301 00:16:46,560 --> 00:16:50,160 Twitter pointing out this issue and since then the site owners 302 00:16:50,160 --> 00:16:53,520 have admitted that the tree roots were indeed damaging the 303 00:16:53,520 --> 00:16:58,040 ruins below and so they have carefully uprooted 1000 trees 304 00:16:58,160 --> 00:17:01,520 and planted them in an area away from Gobekli Tepe. 305 00:17:01,760 --> 00:17:06,359 Jimmy also has a very interesting theory of who he 306 00:17:06,359 --> 00:17:10,560 believes built Gobekli Tepe, and I want to take it even further 307 00:17:10,560 --> 00:17:14,280 than where Jimmy took it. However, if Noah's ark existed, 308 00:17:14,319 --> 00:17:17,400 many believe that it was crashed onto Mount Ararat, which is also 309 00:17:17,400 --> 00:17:19,480 in Turkey. And something fascinating is 310 00:17:19,480 --> 00:17:22,720 that in the Bible, in Genesis 820, some of the first verses 311 00:17:22,720 --> 00:17:25,200 after Noah emerged from the flood is that he was said to 312 00:17:25,200 --> 00:17:28,680 have constructed an altar to the Lord where he sacrificed some of 313 00:17:28,680 --> 00:17:31,160 every clean animal and some of every clean bird. 314 00:17:31,280 --> 00:17:33,920 Gobekli Tepe is in Turkey, and every single one of those 315 00:17:33,920 --> 00:17:37,560 pillars annotates animals. And some have suggested that it 316 00:17:37,560 --> 00:17:40,880 could be Noah's altar. Now that could be one reason why 317 00:17:40,880 --> 00:17:43,880 they won't want to excavate it. It's absolutely critical you 318 00:17:43,880 --> 00:17:47,920 understand just how much animals feature in the artwork of the 319 00:17:47,920 --> 00:17:50,000 structure. There are two big limestone 320 00:17:50,000 --> 00:17:53,080 pillars facing each other, and on the various other pillars are 321 00:17:53,120 --> 00:17:55,840 carvings of animals of nearly every kind. 322 00:17:55,840 --> 00:17:59,560 There are wild donkeys, gazelles, snake, scorpions, 323 00:17:59,560 --> 00:18:03,240 foxes, big cats, vultures, wolves, wild boars, lizards and 324 00:18:03,240 --> 00:18:05,280 fish. And by the way, many of these 325 00:18:05,280 --> 00:18:08,600 animals are not indigenous to the area, which suggests a 326 00:18:08,600 --> 00:18:13,640 knowledge of faraway places or even that the builder himself 327 00:18:13,640 --> 00:18:16,280 knew each of these animals personally. 328 00:18:16,280 --> 00:18:19,680 So let me ask you a question. Have you pieced our puzzle 329 00:18:19,680 --> 00:18:23,560 together yet? Jimmy Corsetti believes Noah may 330 00:18:23,560 --> 00:18:27,400 have built Gobekli Tepe. Wow, that's a plot twist and a 331 00:18:27,400 --> 00:18:29,440 half, Joe. Well, it it is, but would you 332 00:18:29,440 --> 00:18:31,920 like to hear why Jimmy makes such a claim? 333 00:18:31,960 --> 00:18:34,600 Well, apart from all of the carved animals being seen as 334 00:18:34,600 --> 00:18:37,720 symbolic of the animals of Noah's Ark, we know that the 335 00:18:37,720 --> 00:18:41,880 Bible teaches that Noah's Ark came to rest on the mountains of 336 00:18:41,880 --> 00:18:45,960 Ararat and what is 300 miles South of Ararat in Turkey 337 00:18:45,960 --> 00:18:50,080 itself, Gobekli Tepe. So Cassetti argues that it could 338 00:18:50,080 --> 00:18:52,360 have been built as a place of remembrance. 339 00:18:52,360 --> 00:18:56,200 And he even cites Bible verses on the Joe Rogan podcast. 340 00:18:56,360 --> 00:18:59,520 So just a minute here on the largest podcast in the world, 341 00:18:59,520 --> 00:19:02,800 they are suggesting the oldest structure on earth could have 342 00:19:02,800 --> 00:19:07,360 been built by Noah in the Bible. Well, I do have to say this. 343 00:19:07,360 --> 00:19:10,880 Now, there is a contradiction here, which I do want to come to 344 00:19:10,920 --> 00:19:13,880 in just a second. But first I want you to take a 345 00:19:13,880 --> 00:19:18,280 look at this particular pillar. Again, this is pillar 43, 346 00:19:18,280 --> 00:19:22,440 perhaps the pillar with the most speculative theories surrounding 347 00:19:22,440 --> 00:19:23,880 it. So here's the thing. 348 00:19:23,880 --> 00:19:27,200 When I heard Jimmy and Rogan discussing this, it made me 349 00:19:27,200 --> 00:19:30,440 think entirely differently about Quebecli Tepe. 350 00:19:30,760 --> 00:19:33,440 I mean, what if Noah was trying to preserve the story of what 351 00:19:33,440 --> 00:19:35,720 happened to him for future generations? 352 00:19:35,720 --> 00:19:38,880 And what if he really did carve out those images of Quebecli 353 00:19:38,880 --> 00:19:40,960 Tepe? After all, he'd know how to use 354 00:19:40,960 --> 00:19:44,640 tools after building an ark. OK, let me stop you right there 355 00:19:44,640 --> 00:19:48,920 though, because I want you to know we really must tread very 356 00:19:49,040 --> 00:19:51,880 carefully here. This is of course not to be 357 00:19:51,880 --> 00:19:55,560 taken as gospel truth, and like I said earlier, we could be way 358 00:19:55,560 --> 00:19:58,400 off about all of this. But when you do consider this 359 00:19:58,480 --> 00:20:02,640 theory, it does put a different perspective on Pillar 43, for 360 00:20:02,640 --> 00:20:06,240 instance, at the bottom of the pillar, do you notice that, man? 361 00:20:06,400 --> 00:20:08,160 I mean, is that a picture of death? 362 00:20:08,280 --> 00:20:10,880 Then at the top, you tell me. What do you see at the top of 363 00:20:10,880 --> 00:20:13,000 the pillar? Some say that these are just 364 00:20:13,000 --> 00:20:16,840 three handbags, but I think it looks an awful lot like an arc 365 00:20:17,000 --> 00:20:20,120 or even waves crashing over on the creatures. 366 00:20:20,120 --> 00:20:22,920 The same can be said about pillar 56 where you can see 367 00:20:22,920 --> 00:20:26,360 waves again and then it seems like the animals are running and 368 00:20:26,360 --> 00:20:30,000 then on pillar 53 you can see. Waves at the top and then waves 369 00:20:30,000 --> 00:20:32,800 at the bottom, almost surrounding one creature. 370 00:20:32,880 --> 00:20:35,960 But again, these are just opinions of mine. 371 00:20:36,120 --> 00:20:38,920 I do wonder though, this creature here that's represented 372 00:20:38,920 --> 00:20:42,800 on pillar 43, is that meant to be the dove that flew out of 373 00:20:42,800 --> 00:20:44,320 Noah's? Ark and brought back. 374 00:20:44,360 --> 00:20:48,600 An olive branch again, I'm not so sure, but it is interesting 375 00:20:48,600 --> 00:20:52,160 to dwell on just for a moment. There is another theory relating 376 00:20:52,160 --> 00:20:54,720 to the Book of Revelation that I'd like to hear your opinion 377 00:20:54,720 --> 00:20:56,680 on. But first, let's talk about the 378 00:20:56,680 --> 00:20:58,720 dating systems. And why is is there a 379 00:20:58,720 --> 00:21:01,040 contradiction between Noah's alter? 380 00:21:01,040 --> 00:21:03,880 And yet at the same time, when we think about the age of 381 00:21:03,880 --> 00:21:06,880 Gobekli Tepe, mainstream archaeologists will tell you 382 00:21:06,880 --> 00:21:12,120 that Gobekli Tepe is 11,600 years old, and that figure comes 383 00:21:12,120 --> 00:21:15,840 mainly from radiocarbon dating. The idea is simple. 384 00:21:15,840 --> 00:21:19,080 On the surface, living things absorb carbon from the 385 00:21:19,080 --> 00:21:22,680 atmosphere, including tiny amounts of radioactive carbon 386 00:21:22,680 --> 00:21:24,920 14. When they die, they stop 387 00:21:24,920 --> 00:21:28,400 absorbing it and the carbon 14 starts to decay. 388 00:21:28,760 --> 00:21:32,120 This is because we know that it only has a half life of around 389 00:21:32,120 --> 00:21:37,760 5700 and. 30 years meaning. Half of it decays in that time. 390 00:21:37,880 --> 00:21:40,880 Scientists measure how much is left, and then they estimate how 391 00:21:40,880 --> 00:21:43,320 long ago it was that the Organism died. 392 00:21:43,440 --> 00:21:45,600 It sounds clever, right? But here's the thing. 393 00:21:45,600 --> 00:21:49,360 That whole system relies on some major assumptions. 394 00:21:49,400 --> 00:21:52,440 It assumes that the rate of decay has never changed and that 395 00:21:52,440 --> 00:21:55,680 the amount of carbon 14 in the atmosphere has always been 396 00:21:55,680 --> 00:21:59,080 stable, and also that we know exactly how how much was in the 397 00:21:59,080 --> 00:22:02,120 sample to begin with. But what if those assumptions 398 00:22:02,120 --> 00:22:04,000 were wrong? What if the conditions in the 399 00:22:04,000 --> 00:22:06,080 past were dramatically different? 400 00:22:06,200 --> 00:22:08,760 That would totally throw off the results. 401 00:22:08,880 --> 00:22:13,200 And if something started with much less carbon 14, or if decay 402 00:22:13,200 --> 00:22:16,400 rates were faster due to atmospheric factors that we 403 00:22:16,400 --> 00:22:20,280 don't fully understand well, it would look way older than it 404 00:22:20,280 --> 00:22:23,040 really is. So when they say Gobekli Tepe is 405 00:22:23,080 --> 00:22:28,240 11,600 years old, I do take that with a very large pinch of salt. 406 00:22:28,480 --> 00:22:31,680 From a biblical perspective, I believe human history only 407 00:22:31,680 --> 00:22:36,400 stretches back about 6000 years, maybe 10,000 years at a stretch, 408 00:22:36,400 --> 00:22:39,720 which means this site could perhaps fit in with that time 409 00:22:39,720 --> 00:22:41,400 frame. And I can see some of you are 410 00:22:41,400 --> 00:22:44,400 shaking your head right now, but it actually does make a lot of 411 00:22:44,400 --> 00:22:46,040 sense when you look at it this way. 412 00:22:46,080 --> 00:22:50,200 You've got early humans right after a huge reset in history, 413 00:22:50,200 --> 00:22:53,920 settling down, rebuilding and producing incredibly 414 00:22:53,920 --> 00:22:57,680 sophisticated structures far earlier than secular history 415 00:22:57,680 --> 00:23:00,280 allows for. We also know that the first 416 00:23:00,280 --> 00:23:04,880 proper civilizations in summer in southern Mesopotamia emerged 417 00:23:04,920 --> 00:23:09,520 around 4000 BC, which lines up quite nicely with the biblical 418 00:23:09,520 --> 00:23:12,160 timeline to sites like Gobekli Tepe. 419 00:23:12,160 --> 00:23:15,640 They don't challenge the Bible. They actually fit into the 420 00:23:15,640 --> 00:23:18,800 picture of ancient people spreading out and restarting 421 00:23:18,800 --> 00:23:21,920 society with the knowledge that they already had. 422 00:23:22,080 --> 00:23:25,840 OK, while you're busy making up your mind on the age of Gobekli 423 00:23:25,840 --> 00:23:29,800 Tepe, I'm going to add a bonus thing theory to our list. 424 00:23:29,880 --> 00:23:33,560 It is almost unbelievable, but some people are stating that 425 00:23:33,560 --> 00:23:36,720 Gobekli Tepe could be one big cartoon. 426 00:23:36,720 --> 00:23:40,720 Cut out a cartoon which is proclaiming future prophecies 427 00:23:40,720 --> 00:23:43,920 listed in the Bible. How can such a statement be 428 00:23:43,920 --> 00:23:46,600 made? We'll observe pillar 27 in 429 00:23:46,600 --> 00:23:49,000 enclosure C. You probably already know that 430 00:23:49,000 --> 00:23:52,000 this is the most intricate carving at Gobekli Tepe. 431 00:23:52,280 --> 00:23:54,000 But did you know that a minority. 432 00:23:54,000 --> 00:23:56,600 And I will just stop here and say I'm not buying this 433 00:23:56,600 --> 00:24:00,240 personally, but a minority believe it might be depicting a 434 00:24:00,240 --> 00:24:03,760 creature described in Revelation 13 verse two. 435 00:24:03,880 --> 00:24:06,280 OK, you guessed it. We've got to go back to the 436 00:24:06,280 --> 00:24:09,720 infamous pillar 43. So what's the deal with this 437 00:24:09,720 --> 00:24:13,680 pillar and Revelation according to this small group of people? 438 00:24:13,760 --> 00:24:16,480 Well, I've heard it proposed by someone that the Vulture that 439 00:24:16,480 --> 00:24:20,240 seems to be holding a ball could be representing A vulture 440 00:24:20,240 --> 00:24:24,840 holding a hailstone or even an Angel holding a hailstone. 441 00:24:24,920 --> 00:24:28,160 And this is the hailstone that we hear about, which will fall 442 00:24:28,160 --> 00:24:29,600 on the. Earth when the Angel. 443 00:24:29,600 --> 00:24:32,400 Blows his first trumpets. Another theory is that the 444 00:24:32,400 --> 00:24:35,280 scorpions that are seen on this pillar and on the other pillars 445 00:24:35,360 --> 00:24:38,840 could be the scorpions that are described in Revelation 9 verse 446 00:24:38,840 --> 00:24:40,520 3. Have you heard this before 447 00:24:40,520 --> 00:24:43,160 though? They also claim that the Vulture 448 00:24:43,160 --> 00:24:46,400 could represent the birds that fly in the midst of heaven which 449 00:24:46,400 --> 00:24:50,240 will be called down at one point to feast on the remains which is 450 00:24:50,240 --> 00:24:53,840 mentioned in Revelation 19. Whilst that could be a 451 00:24:53,840 --> 00:24:57,000 possibility guys, I. Really do find it hard to. 452 00:24:57,000 --> 00:24:58,360 Believe. But I beg you. 453 00:24:58,480 --> 00:25:01,000 Please tell me what? Do you think about these 454 00:25:01,000 --> 00:25:03,760 different theories? Was the Book of Revelation 455 00:25:03,760 --> 00:25:06,080 carved out on the? Potbelly Hill years. 456 00:25:06,080 --> 00:25:09,760 Before it was written as a sort of prophecy, was it put there as 457 00:25:09,760 --> 00:25:12,800 a warning of impending doom that was going to come down? 458 00:25:12,880 --> 00:25:15,240 On the earth or do you believe that it was an. 459 00:25:15,240 --> 00:25:18,800 Altar built by Noah and his family after they emerged off 460 00:25:18,800 --> 00:25:23,360 the mountains of Ararat? Or was it built by smart people 461 00:25:23,360 --> 00:25:26,040 like a lost ancient civilization? 462 00:25:26,200 --> 00:25:29,520 Or was it? Even laid there by the watchers, 463 00:25:29,600 --> 00:25:31,320 right? If you really push me in a 464 00:25:31,320 --> 00:25:33,720 corner and you asked. Me what is my? 465 00:25:33,720 --> 00:25:35,680 Opinion on what? Theory do I think? 466 00:25:35,680 --> 00:25:38,280 Is most credible. Well, supposing the dates are 467 00:25:38,280 --> 00:25:41,720 wrong about Gobekli Tepe, which I personally think they are, I 468 00:25:41,720 --> 00:25:44,760 think maybe, just maybe, they could be a few thousand years 469 00:25:44,760 --> 00:25:46,720 out. After all, as a young earth 470 00:25:46,720 --> 00:25:50,880 creationist, earth could be anywhere from 6000 to 10,000 471 00:25:50,880 --> 00:25:52,080 years old. Well. 472 00:25:52,080 --> 00:25:53,760 If. That is the case. 473 00:25:53,800 --> 00:25:56,040 I personally. Wouldn't be surprised. 474 00:25:56,120 --> 00:25:58,480 If it was built. By Noah. 475 00:25:58,680 --> 00:26:01,800 Or if it wasn't built by Noah, it could have at least been 476 00:26:01,800 --> 00:26:05,080 built by someone who knew Noah or wanted to recount the 477 00:26:05,080 --> 00:26:06,960 narrative of God's judgment on the earth. 478 00:26:07,080 --> 00:26:10,520 Especially since the earliest books of the Old Testament are 479 00:26:10,520 --> 00:26:13,080 full of descriptions about animals. 480 00:26:13,080 --> 00:26:16,160 So it would make sense. That these builders also put an 481 00:26:16,160 --> 00:26:19,400 emphasis on animals too. Something else that I really 482 00:26:19,400 --> 00:26:22,440 should have told you about earlier is a recent white paper 483 00:26:22,440 --> 00:26:25,080 by researchers. They were analyzing Gobekli 484 00:26:25,080 --> 00:26:29,000 Tepe, and it suggests that Pillar 18 May contain the 485 00:26:29,080 --> 00:26:31,640 earliest written word in human history. 486 00:26:31,680 --> 00:26:37,280 And remarkably, that word simply could be God, carved at the very 487 00:26:37,280 --> 00:26:41,160 center of the enclosure and distinct from all of the animal 488 00:26:41,160 --> 00:26:44,160 symbols around it. The inscription that led some to 489 00:26:44,160 --> 00:26:48,080 speculate that Gobekli Tepe wasn't just a ceremonial site. 490 00:26:48,280 --> 00:26:51,640 But it was actually. A place of worship or even a 491 00:26:51,640 --> 00:26:55,360 dedicated altar, perhaps supporting the theory or the 492 00:26:55,360 --> 00:26:58,520 connection that we've talked about of the huge biblical event 493 00:26:58,680 --> 00:27:01,480 involving Noah. So just take all of that into 494 00:27:01,480 --> 00:27:03,320 your mind. That Gobekli Tepe. 495 00:27:03,520 --> 00:27:06,480 Might be the oldest. Structure on earth, and it might 496 00:27:06,480 --> 00:27:10,240 hold the first word that was ever to be written on earth, the 497 00:27:10,240 --> 00:27:13,000 word God. You almost couldn't write this 498 00:27:13,000 --> 00:27:16,440 stuff, if you catch my drift. But another option is what my 499 00:27:16,440 --> 00:27:20,680 friend suggested that once mankind emerge from Eden, that 500 00:27:20,680 --> 00:27:23,920 they would have a supreme intelligence, that they would be 501 00:27:23,920 --> 00:27:27,160 even smarter than we are today. He actually put it like this. 502 00:27:27,160 --> 00:27:30,480 He said technology has made us less smart. 503 00:27:30,520 --> 00:27:34,000 For instance, most people 70 years ago could figure out what 504 00:27:34,000 --> 00:27:38,960 sqrt 1600 was, and they could do that without using any type of 505 00:27:38,960 --> 00:27:41,320 technology. But if I ask you right now, 506 00:27:41,320 --> 00:27:46,160 without using any technology, can you tell me what sqrt 1600 507 00:27:46,160 --> 00:27:48,320 is? I'd imagine many of you can't, 508 00:27:48,400 --> 00:27:51,480 and neither can I. So maybe that's why the Pyramid, 509 00:27:51,480 --> 00:27:55,600 Stonehenge and Gobekli Tepe were built in such interesting ways. 510 00:27:55,760 --> 00:27:59,320 But of course, let's not rule out the what as builders either. 511 00:27:59,320 --> 00:28:02,360 But here's one. Question that will stomp you for 512 00:28:02,360 --> 00:28:06,280 hours and hours if you don't know the answer and it's this, 513 00:28:06,600 --> 00:28:09,840 who builds you? So after all the. 514 00:28:09,840 --> 00:28:13,320 Theories, the symbols, the carvings, the timelines, the 515 00:28:13,320 --> 00:28:15,880 talk of Noah and lost civilizations. 516 00:28:15,920 --> 00:28:19,640 We come to that final huge question, Who built you? 517 00:28:19,920 --> 00:28:23,200 It's a simple question, but so many don't know the answer 518 00:28:23,360 --> 00:28:25,240 because when you pull back all of the. 519 00:28:25,240 --> 00:28:26,720 Speculation. All of the. 520 00:28:26,720 --> 00:28:28,360 Stones. All of the science. 521 00:28:28,360 --> 00:28:31,080 This isn't just about Gobekli Tepe anymore. 522 00:28:31,080 --> 00:28:34,760 It's actually about you. Are you a product of randomness, 523 00:28:34,760 --> 00:28:37,320 cosmic chants? Or were you designed? 524 00:28:37,600 --> 00:28:40,440 Loved and formed. For a purpose. 525 00:28:40,560 --> 00:28:42,880 The Bible gives a stunning answer. 526 00:28:43,040 --> 00:28:48,240 It says, I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully 527 00:28:48,240 --> 00:28:50,840 made. You are not an accident. 528 00:28:51,080 --> 00:28:55,280 You were handcrafted by a God who knows you deeply and who 529 00:28:55,280 --> 00:28:59,520 wants to be known by you. And that changes absolutely 530 00:28:59,560 --> 00:29:02,840 everything. Because whiles Gobekli Tepe may 531 00:29:02,840 --> 00:29:07,360 carry echoes of long lost worship or judgment or survival, 532 00:29:07,360 --> 00:29:11,720 we have something they didn't. We have the gift of Jesus 533 00:29:11,720 --> 00:29:14,920 Christ, the revealed Savior of the world. 534 00:29:15,040 --> 00:29:17,600 We don't need to carve our stories into stone. 535 00:29:17,600 --> 00:29:19,920 God himself stepped. Into history. 536 00:29:19,920 --> 00:29:24,120 Not with cryptic animal symbols or mysterious monuments, but in 537 00:29:24,120 --> 00:29:28,200 flesh and blood. Jesus came to reveal who God is, 538 00:29:28,200 --> 00:29:30,800 not just as Creator, but as rescuer. 539 00:29:30,880 --> 00:29:33,720 Because here's the truth. Every single one of us has 540 00:29:33,720 --> 00:29:36,200 turned away from the God who made us. 541 00:29:36,240 --> 00:29:40,280 That's what the Bible calls sin. And like in the days of Noah, 542 00:29:40,320 --> 00:29:43,960 there is a judgment coming. But God didn't leave us 543 00:29:43,960 --> 00:29:46,600 hopeless. Just as Noah was given an ark, 544 00:29:46,800 --> 00:29:49,760 we've been given a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ. 545 00:29:50,240 --> 00:29:52,000 Jesus lived the life. We. 546 00:29:52,000 --> 00:29:54,960 Couldn't he died the death that we deserved? 547 00:29:55,040 --> 00:29:58,960 And he rose again so that we could have eternal life, not 548 00:29:58,960 --> 00:30:02,480 just later, but right now? Forgiveness. 549 00:30:02,520 --> 00:30:04,440 New life, peace. With the one who? 550 00:30:04,440 --> 00:30:07,560 Built you not through being religious, not through doing 551 00:30:07,560 --> 00:30:12,880 rituals, not by building altars, but by trusting in Jesus Christ, 552 00:30:12,920 --> 00:30:17,960 the Bible says in John 316. For God so loved the world that 553 00:30:17,960 --> 00:30:22,440 he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him 554 00:30:22,440 --> 00:30:25,680 shall not perish but have eternal life. 555 00:30:25,960 --> 00:30:30,120 And that invitation is for you. You don't need to stand at an 556 00:30:30,120 --> 00:30:33,920 ancient altar to meet God. You just need to bow your heart 557 00:30:34,040 --> 00:30:38,280 to Christ, the Son of God who took the judgment we deserved 558 00:30:38,440 --> 00:30:41,640 for our wrongdoing. He died in our place so that we 559 00:30:41,640 --> 00:30:44,000 wouldn't have to face that judgment ourselves. 560 00:30:44,000 --> 00:30:48,600 Our friend and Lord stepped in and took our place for us, being 561 00:30:48,600 --> 00:30:51,120 the substitute for our sin. And now? 562 00:30:51,120 --> 00:30:53,240 Because of what he. Did we can be. 563 00:30:53,240 --> 00:30:56,760 Forgiven and know God. Personally, just by believing in 564 00:30:56,760 --> 00:31:00,800 Him and asking him to save us and make us one of his children. 565 00:31:00,880 --> 00:31:03,920 So let me leave you with just one question one more time. 566 00:31:03,960 --> 00:31:07,960 And it's not about the ruins. It's about your soul who built 567 00:31:07,960 --> 00:31:10,360 you. And more importantly, will you 568 00:31:10,360 --> 00:31:13,880 trust in Him today? If the answer's no, it's simple. 569 00:31:14,000 --> 00:31:18,120 Just bow down right now and call on the name of Jesus Christ and 570 00:31:18,120 --> 00:31:22,880 say save me, wash away my sins. I know you made me, I know you 571 00:31:22,880 --> 00:31:26,360 love me, but I also know I need to be forgiven and saved. 572 00:31:26,440 --> 00:31:29,560 And only you can do that. And if you pray that prayer or 573 00:31:29,560 --> 00:31:33,160 something along those lines, the God who hears all things will 574 00:31:33,160 --> 00:31:35,240 save you instantly. Hey. 575 00:31:35,440 --> 00:31:38,040 But if you are already a Christian, or if you do need a 576 00:31:38,040 --> 00:31:41,440 little bit more convincing, well, there is some more 577 00:31:41,520 --> 00:31:45,800 breathtaking and even more baffling antediluvian structures 578 00:31:45,800 --> 00:31:48,600 that I told you about earlier. If you still haven't seen that 579 00:31:48,600 --> 00:31:51,680 video, you better click here right now.