337: Leen Ritmeyer – A Place Called Golgotha

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Welcome to good Chris selfie and
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this week’s talk.
Everyone, it’s Jason Hensley and

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this week we’re going to listen
to a talk by brother Lane

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Rittmeyer given at the Ontario
Winter Bible School in 2010.

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This is the last in his series
on the power of Bible places and

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their lessons for us now.
I think the whole series is

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great, so if you get a chance,
go ahead and listen to that.

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But this class is really good
for just capping off the whole

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series and the ideas that he’s
really trying to bring out.

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Essentially, what he’s looking
at is events that happened in

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this biblical place and also
what you can learn from the

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surroundings of that area.
So it’s really exciting because

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it brings together a lot of
pieces of the Bible and really

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helps to make a place come
alive.

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So I hope that this helps give
you a vision, a little bit

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bigger picture of the land of
Israel and of the places where

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these things that we read about
took place.

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And ultimately through that
vision helps make these things

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real.
This final class is about

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Golgotha, as you can probably
figure out from the name, and it

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just traces through the
different things that took place

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at Golgotha.
And I think one of my favorite

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things about this class is the
way that Brother Lane brings out

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the Hebrew and some of the
nuance that’s going on in the

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Hebrew.
So I think you’ll find that

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exciting.
I hope you enjoy it, and I hope

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that these lessons really
resonate with you and that you

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are thus motivated to be able to
see these places in your mind

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and recognize the reality of
them and what happened there.

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So here we go.
This is Brother Lane Rittmeyer,

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a place called Golgotha.
Yesterday we followed Jesus from

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Jerusalem when he went to that
city of Ephraim where he

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meditated on the life of Gideon.
And then he went to Bethabara.

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And then he followed his path
from Bethabara up to Bethany,

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where he stayed in the House of
his friends Martha, Mary, and

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Lazarus and their father Simon
de Lape.

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The following day he would have
left that house and he went up

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to Jerusalem and he passed by
Bethpage.

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Bethany means the House of good
figs.

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Bethpage means the House of
unripe figs.

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And there he took that donkey
way, which was a fulfillment of

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another ancient promise.
But you won’t have time to go

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into that.
And then when he came to the top

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of the Mount of Olives, which
you can see right here, there’s

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a beautiful mount, especially in
twilight.

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He was now standing here on the
top of the Mount of Olives.

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And here is the path going down
if you go to Luke chapter 17

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sorry Luke 19 and there we read
the verse 29 came to pass.

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When I was come night to
Bethfage and Bethany to mount

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called Olives.
He sent 2 disciples saying Go

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into the village over against
you in the which you are

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entering you shall find a cold
tie.

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Never man yet said, Lose him,
and bring him hidden.

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If any man ask you, Why do you
lose him?

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Thus shall he say unto him,
Because the Lord of him has need

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sustained the Greek.
And they that were sent went

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their way, and found even as he
said unto them, unless they were

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losing the cold, the owners
thereof said unto them, Why lose

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ye the cold?
And he said, The Lord of him has

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need.
And they brought him to Jesus,

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And they cast their garments
upon the cold, and they set

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Jesus down, and as he went they
spread their clothes in the way.

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And when he was come nigh, even
now at the descend of the Mount

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of Olives, the whole multitude
of the disciples began to

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rejoice and praise God with a
loud voice for all the mighty

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works that they had seen.
Well, the fact by an insisted

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that they put on their their
clothes on their donkey and on

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the road reminds us very much as
when Elisha was sent to anoint

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Jehu king of Israel, because
they also they heard and they

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took their clothes and spread
their clothes under him and said

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that blue trump said Jehu is
king by putting you garments on

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on a donkey or on the road and
underneath the person, the Lord

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Jesus Christ or you in the past.
It’s an honour which you give to

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kings and it’s obvious that the
people wanted to proclaim him

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king to get rid of the Roman
domination and to be a free

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people one again, once again.
And that was the accusation

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written on his cross.
This is Jesus of Nazareth, the

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King of the Jews.
But we see how fickle people

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are, brethren and sisters.
They were praising God and the

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next two days later they said
crucify him.

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But we are here at the very top
of the descent when Jesus went

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down to Jerusalem and we want to
stay there for a little bit

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because the associations of the
Mount of Olives and that

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particular spot where he stood,
which is directly opposite the

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temple.
When you’re there, we try to

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enter into the mind of Jesus.
What would have gone through his

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mind knowing the Scriptures,
what should go through our mind

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by my sisters when we stand
there.

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But when you’re on the top of
the Mount of Olives, that is

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what you see.
You see the Temple Mount, the

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beautiful Golden Temple where
which stood there and Herod

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stood.
Here’s the the Golden Gate.

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I remember when the disciples
sat on the Mount of Olives in

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Matthew 24 and Luke 21 said
Master, behold the buildings of

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the temple.
And he said not one stone shall

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be left upon another.
But they saw something like

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this.
There was a golden faced temple

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which at the height of our 20
Storey high building.

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These were the buildings of the
temple.

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They were built around it which
the Antonia Fortes on the

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northwest where corridors are
going all around here in the

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royal store.
And here’s the Shushan Gate, the

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eastern gate with the lower
gate, the myth gate gate, and

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the path going down into the
Kidron Valley.

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And that was the temple.
They would have seen something

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similar at least when they
looked over the Temple Mount

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from the Mount of Olives.
But Jesus mind pregnant sisters

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would have gone over the whole
history, I believe of the city

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of Jerusalem and where does it
start?

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It start with Genesis chapter
14.

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Then after Abram had we spoke
about this earlier, brought back

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Lot, Melchizedek, the king of
Salem, the king of righteous as

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the king of peace, brought forth
bread and wine, and he was the

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priest of the Most High God.
And these would have known from

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Psalmont and 10 that thou art a
priest forever after the order

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of Melchizedek, because he
instituted the bread and the

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wine which we celebrate every
Sunday.

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But it was first of all
instituted by Melchizedek.

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And this is a model which we
built in, in which the students

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in Heritage College.
And you can see Abram coming

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back here with Lot and
Melchizedek coming down the

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mountainside and the king of
Sodom.

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And a wonderful meeting took
place right beside the Gaeon

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spring, the spring of living
waters which reflect the word of

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God.
Pregnant sisters and there must

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have been an amazing event as a
was passing by through the Kidon

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Valley just below the top of
Mount Moriah he wonder if he

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knew what was going to happen
next.

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If you go to Genesis chapter 14
and there’s something amazing

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there, I believe, because after
now Kiszek and verse 18 brought

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forth bread and wine and he was
the priest of the most high ale

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and he blessed Abraham
immediately after that event we

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have Genesis 15.
Have you ever connected the two

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things?
It says after these things now

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doesn’t mean to say 10 years
later.

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It could have been immediately
after this word.

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After these things occurs many
times, especially in the book of

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Genesis.
I mean, we’ve looked at one

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event and now we’ve got to look
at the next event.

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Where would Abram F stay now?
The city of Melchizedek was too

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small to accommodate all his
army.

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He would probably have encamped
on Mount Moriah.

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And then in chapter 15 God
appears to him and he says, fear

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not Abraham in first one I’m thy
shield and I exceeding great

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reward.
And he was said, Lord Yahweh,

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what will thou give me, seeing I
go childless and the steward of

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my house is this early age of
Damascus.

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He said, behold to me thou was
given no seed, and the one born

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in my house is mine heir.
He was asking for a son.

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And I believe Ben says he was on
Mount Moriah when he asked for

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that, for that, that request.
And then in verse 5, God brought

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him forth abroad in if the camp
of Abel was somewhere here, he

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may have walked to the top of
the Mount Moriah.

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And God brought him forth
abroad.

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And he said, look now towards
heaven, and tell the stars if

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they’ll be able to number them.
And he said unto him, So shall

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thy see be.
And he believed in Yahweh and he

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counted him to him for
righteousness.

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But I believe when this is that
chapters connected to chapter 14

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would make great sense that the
promise of a son has been given

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on Mount Moriah itself.
Anyway, at least it is something

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for you to think about because
we aren’t told exactly where it

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was.
And the next chapter 16, we are

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back in Sarah’s 10s.
And so a few chapters later,

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when the sisters or after these
promises of a son have been

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given, and that great sacrifice
took place where he defied all

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those animals because all the
abrid built and he built an

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altar there later on.
And it became the altar where

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which David built.
It became the altar of all the

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temples by the sisters.
All these associations in there

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are there.
But now let’s go to Chapter 22

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because it came to pass after
these things when Isaac was born

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and Godhead, I believe,
rejuvenated Abraham and Sarah so

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that they could bring forth the
son.

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And now comes chapter 27 after
these things that eleveen he

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tempted, he tried Abram and 17
Abraham.

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He said, Behold, here am I take
now thy son, thine only son

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Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get
it into the land of Moriah, and

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offer him therefore a burnt
offering upon one of the

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mountains, which I will tell
thee of.

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The name Moriah, brethman
sisters, means the teaching of

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Yah.
And we know that Avon believed

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God that he was able to raise
him up from the dead, as we have

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told him.
Hebrews Chapter 11.

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That teaching on the mount of
teaching Mount Moriah, is the

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resurrection of the dead.
The man word shechem means

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getting up early and bearing the
burden.

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Now Abraham rose up early, he
got on his shoulder and he

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pushed himself up and he put the
wood on the shoulder of Isaac,

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also a burden bearer.
They sell at his ass to two of

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his young men with him and
Isaac’s son claimed the wood for

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a burnt offering and rose up and
bent on the place of which Alwin

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had told him.
It must have been a very

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difficult journey, very hard to
hear, but he got up early in the

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morning and he did it asking no
questions.

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Jacob called Joseph said, look,
very brethren are He got up and

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he went.
And then we read in verse 4.

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Then on the third day Abram
lifted up his eyes and he saw

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the place afar off.
But you go to that place where

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the sisters here it is, this
coming from the South is the 1st

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place where you can see Mount
Moriah in the Temple Mount, see

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Jerusalem in the Temple Mount
and near the city of Naukis,

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that is is in a bowl.
They call it the Sacred Bowl and

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the mountains round about it.
You can’t see it from fire.

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You’re almost on top of it and
suddenly that it’s all in front

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of you.
So to say he saw the place far

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off from 10:10 or 20 miles
further away doesn’t make any

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sense.
Isn’t 1 kilometre to go and

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you’re there.
That’s a very special word.

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The word afar off because David
used the very sane word, but he

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translated it very differently.
Then Abram lifted his eye and

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saw the place afar off.
That word afar off his Merhak in

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Hebrew.
And God gave those wonderful

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promises to David in the book of
chronic on Samuel says thou has

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spoken also to thy servants
house for a great while to come.

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It’s the same word in Hebrew
brethren, sisters, Merhak.

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So it is not the physical
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but God made Abraham look into
the future to that greatest

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sacrifice that was also brought
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Because here we see a mosaic
floor portraying the events of

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Genesis 22.
He will see Abraham, he’s his

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name, Avraham lifting up Itzhak,
there is Isaac.

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I think Isaac was a bit bigger
than to be able to pick him up

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his one hand, he carried all the
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And then we see the man which is
thorns in what is a thorn Bush

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and the little black cloud hides
the Angel.

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You can’t portray the Angel.
The hand represents the Angel,

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the Angel saying, Alti slack,
don’t send your hand to slay

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Isaac and hear the two servants
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And the great thing is, if you
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the sisters, it’s much stronger
in the Hebrew.

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Abel said it to his young men,
Abide here with the S and I, and

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the lad will go Yonder and
worship, and we will come again

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to you.
He’s speaking in the plural.

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We didn’t say I am coming back.
No, we, Isaac and myself will

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come back to you.
His faith in the resurrection is

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expressed here because God has
said that his siege on inherit

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the land forever.
Well, how can he give a promise

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like that?
If he was going to kill Isaac, I

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would believe that even if God
was gone, he had to kill.

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God would have to raise him from
the dead to fulfil those

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promises.
Think of that R.E.M.

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Brethren, sisters, that R.E.M
that was caught in a thicket by

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his horns, that was a thorn
Bush.

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That ram, by getting his head in
the thorn Bush, he got thorns in

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his head.
And Jesus stood before those

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Roman shelves, they put a crown
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It’s a fulfilment of the type of
the ram that were thick at that

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thorn which is called Sabah.
It’s a thorny Bush and you can

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see a ram which is horn in the
thicket.

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When he says Eli, Eli lama
sabakhtani, it doesn’t mean in

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the Hebrew why thou have
forsaken me, because that will

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be azaftani.
Sabak is that thicket.

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It means the horns of the Rambo
court.

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It represents humanity and
Christ never felt the humanity

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of Himself greater than when He
was hanging on that tree.

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God never forsook His Son when
he says Eli Eli Lama SA Bahtani.

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He doesn’t.
He doesn’t use the word Yahweh.

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He doesn’t use the word Elohim.
He used the word ail.

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Ail is my ail and ail means
power.

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He said actually my power, my
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Why has thou thicketed me?
Because I said thorn Bush

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neutralized the power of the
ram.

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So the power which Jesus had,
which was given to him when he

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was baptized in Bethabara, when
the Holy Spirit came upon him

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and I was ebbing away.
Otherwise he could not have died

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with their sisters.
So God never forsook him like

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the Father of Gideon never
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But we need to understand
exactly what did Jesus say?

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My power, My power?
Why have you forsaken me?

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Why is my power now caught up in
this thorn Bush of humanity?

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Because in the beginning He
could still come down from the

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cross, but a few hours later
that would not have been

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possible.
It was necessary that His power

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went away from him so that he
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And then in Genesis 22, after
the events in verse 14, look

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what it says there.
Abram called the name of that

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place because the power of that
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It says in in the English
Jehovah, Jehovah.

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It’s a bad translation and it’s
Yahweh and it’s not yeh.

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It is Yeh God will provide.
Well, you can.

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There’s an interpretation.
It says in the Hebrew, the heart

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that’s in the mountain Yahweh,
yere shall be seen.

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Because Abraham looked into the
future, he saw the place afar

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off.
He knew that the greater Son of

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God himself, his only begotten
son, would be sacrificed on that

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mountain.
In the mount Yahweh shall be

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seen, and all that would have
gone through the head of the

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Lord Jesus Christ.
When he was standing on the top

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of that Mount of Olives and
looking over Jerusalem, He would

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have come forward in his mind to
the time of David.

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When David had built a city here
he was his palace, but outside

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he is the top of the mountain.
And next it was a threshing

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floor, and he built an altar
there that became the altar for

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the beautiful temple which King
Solomon had built.

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And so the city grew through the
ages, but the place of the alt

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always remained the same.
It was the city of David.

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This is the city of Solomon in
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The city was made very, very
large.

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All the western hill was now
included in the limits of

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Jerusalem.
Now originally it was only on

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the eastern hill.
The old city is built on two

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hills, the eastern hill and the
western hill.

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And God’s purposes was the
eastern hill, that’s where the

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city of Melchizedek cross, the
city of David as where Sonam

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built a temple.
But later it was extended and

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Hezekiah built a big wall around
it and he joined the city

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together.
That’s what it says in Psalm 22.

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Jerusalem is a city that is not
compact, that is joined

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together.
Hezekiah joined the Western Wall

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with Heston Hill to the east
wall by this massive city wall

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which has been excavated as
well.

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And after the exile, Nehemiah
first, Ezra came back, Richard

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Rebel and Joshua, they built the
altar first.

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And only 20 years later another
temple was built and Nehemiah

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built the city walls and that’s
it again developed until you

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come to the time of Christ.
And this is the city which he

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saw.
There’s a huge temple complex, a

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beautiful gold covered temple,
but still that altar there in

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front.
Here’s the Siloam pool where

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Jesus healed the blind man.
Here is the palace of Pilate,

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the Praetorium where Jesus stood
before Pilate.

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And somewhere here is the palace
of the high priest.

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And we’re going to follow the
root of the Lord Jesus Christ in

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those last days.
But when he was standing still

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on the top of the Mount of
Olives breadness, I think he

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would have thought about the red
heaven.

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In Numbers chapter 19 we read
about the red heifer.

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Let’s go to Numbers chapter 19
and in verse 2.

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This is the ordinance of the law
which Yahweh had commanded,

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saying, Speak on the children
official, that they bring thee a

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red heifer without spot, without
blemish, upon which never came a

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yoke, or Christ was without spot
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And he shall give her unto
Eliezer the priest, that he may

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bring her forth without the
camp, and Montreal Slayer before

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his face.
And Eliezer the priest shall

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take off the blood of his
finger, and sprinkle off her

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blood directly before the
Tabernacle of the congregation.

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7 times Montreal burn the heifer
in his sight.

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Her skin, her flesh, her blood
with her dung shall he burn.

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And the priest shall take cedar
root and hiss up and scout and

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cast it into the midst of the
burning of the heifer.

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And then they would take first
then the ashes of the heifer

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heifer.
They put it in a bowl of water.

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And if a person need to be
purified, you sprinkled that

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person with the ashes of the red
heifer.

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But it says in verse 4 the blood
was sprinkled directly before

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the Tabernacle, and they did the
same thing in the time of the

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Lord Jesus Christ, as you can
read in the Mishnah.

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There was a place on the Mount
of Olives right opposite the

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temple just before you go down,
and that is where they sacrifice

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the red heffer.
So Jesus would have thought

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about that red heffer.
And you can read in Hebrews

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Chapter 9 with the blood of
bulls and of goats and the ashes

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of the heffer sprinkling the
unclean.

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It was sacrificed on the place
where he was.

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Brethren and sisters, if it
sanctifies to the pure enough

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the flesh, how much more shall
the blood of Christ, who through

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the eternal spirit of himself,
without spot to God, purge your

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conscience from dead, works to
serve the living God?

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Because standing on the spot
where they read Heather was

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sacrificed from time to time,
Jesus knew that he would have to

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shed his own blood.
And there’s another association

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there with the Mount of Olives.
On the Yom Kippur, the Day of

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Atonement, a priest would bring
2 almost identical looking goats

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and present him before the high
priest at the foot of the steps

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that lead up to the porch of the
temple.

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And while they were standing
there before the high priest,

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the high priest would cast lots.
And they’ve made lots again

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today, brethren, sisters, they
have a little box here and to

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see lots.
And this is La Azazel for the

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scapegoat and a priest here
standing with the two goats.

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He had drawn his lot, holed up
the Azazel, and that goat would

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get a scarred thread round his
horns.

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But then the priest would,
because he’s facing the temple

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here.
Then he would turn the goat

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around when it’s faced the
people.

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And he had put his hand on the
head of the goat, and he laid

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all the things of the hen on the
head of the goat.

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Adesigners booked the temple,
right.

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A more marked type of Christ
could not have been conceived,

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as He was brought forth by Pilot
and stood before the people just

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before He was about to be let
forth, bearing the iniquity of

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the people.
He said, Behold the scapegoat,

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Pilot says, Behold the man.
And so by the sisters that

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scapegoats, as you can read in
Leviticus 16, he shall bear upon

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him all the iniquities unto a
land not inhabited.

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I think I mentioned this before.
He shall let the goat into the

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wilderness.
But the Hebrew says He shall

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bear upon him all the iniquities
16 of his, 22 of his into a land

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cut off.
It’s the same word that is used

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in Isaiah 53.
He was cut off out of the land

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of the living.
So it’s not only the association

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with the red heffer, but also
with the scapegoat, because that

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was brought out of the temple,
went across the Kedong Valley,

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passed by Gethsemane, went up
that path where Jesus was

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standing at the top.
All those things by the scissors

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would have gone through his
head.

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And the more we know scriptures
and the more we know what

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happened at particular places
where the Lord Jesus Christ was,

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the more we can enter into his
mind.

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And here it is then that
scapegoat and will place his

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hands on the head of the
scapegoat who symbolically

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carried away the sins of the
people into a land cut off

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Leviticus 1622.
And Isaiah says that he was cut

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off same word out of the land of
the living.

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So if you remember then where
this is the red heaven and the

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scapegoat, the types of what the
Lord Jesus Christ was now going

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to fulfil.
And so when he walked down that

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path, and you can still do that
today, is our son Benjamin and

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our daughter-in-law Claire
walking down that path as Jesus

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did.
So he would have thought Bradley

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sisters, that was the day that
David fled from his son Absalom

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because he crossed the Kedon
Valley and went over the Mount

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of Olives.
You can read the whole story

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there.
And Jesus knew that he was going

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to be rejected by his brethren
also.

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But as David came back the
second time as king, he would

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have taken comfort.
But as David also came back the

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second time to be king of
Israel, so Jesus also would come

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back the second time.
King of Israel would have

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thought then about the root of
the scapegoat, the root of the

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red heifer.
But at the bottom of this road,

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brethren, sisters, is
Gethsemane.

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And that’s where Jesus went
next.

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Let’s go to John chapter 18.
So after Jesus had spoken all

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those words of John 17, then he
went over with his disciples

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over the book Ketron.
There was a garden into the

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which he entered and his
disciples, but it wasn’t really

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00:28:39,720 –> 00:28:41,800
happening then when he went down
the first time.

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But a few days later he will be
there in Gethsemane.

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00:28:44,840 –> 00:28:46,480
And what does it mean by the
sisters?

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00:28:47,280 –> 00:28:52,400
Gethsemane is only the Greek
form of the Hebrew Gatsmanim.

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00:28:53,120 –> 00:28:56,720
It means the Press of the olive
oil.

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And we need to understand how an
olive press works because that

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process of getting an olive
produce eventually that oil was

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a very harsh process.
So we’ve seen then that Jesus

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came down from Gethsemane and
you one slide behind.

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Here’s Gethsemane.
He came down that path.

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00:29:23,120 –> 00:29:26,960
It comes down right here and
here is Gethsemane.

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It means an olive press, and
here is one example is in

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00:29:32,320 –> 00:29:36,880
Capernaum, that many all over
the country, it’s a huge wooden

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00:29:37,400 –> 00:29:41,800
basin with kind of an upright
stand and a hole in the middle

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00:29:42,160 –> 00:29:45,480
because a wooden beam goes
through the hole of that roller

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00:29:46,000 –> 00:29:48,800
that was turned around over
those olives.

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00:29:48,800 –> 00:29:51,680
I remember one of our little
boys and for the first time

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00:29:51,680 –> 00:29:56,120
showed him in the olive press
and I told him that the olives

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00:29:56,120 –> 00:29:59,360
get picked off the tree and
they’re put here in this basin

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00:29:59,760 –> 00:30:02,600
and then a wheel runs over it to
crush it.

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So a little boy says, wow, if I
was an olive, I’d be dead.

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And and that’s it.
It’s the first phase of

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00:30:12,760 –> 00:30:17,280
producing the Holy Spirit, of
which the olive oil is a type.

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So first of all, the oils get
crushed.

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They need to be broken open and
then they need to be pressed.

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And there are two ways of doing
that in the Old Testament

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00:30:26,880 –> 00:30:30,160
period.
In both, they put those crushed

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00:30:30,160 –> 00:30:34,160
olives in a round basket.
They stacked them up in the Old

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00:30:34,160 –> 00:30:38,960
Testament period underneath a
heavy stone and a huge lever, a

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huge beam with massive stones
hanging on it.

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And slowly, slowly, that would
press the oil out of those

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00:30:46,200 –> 00:30:49,040
crushed olives.
And here in the second temple

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00:30:49,040 –> 00:30:53,120
period, they had a contraption
out of stone or of root and a

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00:30:53,120 –> 00:30:56,840
screw.
And that’s pressed down and down

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and down on all those baskets
that were filled, just a crushed

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olive.
So eventually the olive oil

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00:31:03,720 –> 00:31:05,640
comes out.
I mean, nobody says that olive

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00:31:05,640 –> 00:31:09,960
oil is a type of the Holy
Spirit, which can only produce

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00:31:09,960 –> 00:31:14,000
it through crushing and
pressing.

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And that’s why Jesus had to be
in the Garden of Gethsemane.

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So it’s good to think sometimes
about the literal process by the

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sisters of the Garden of
Gethsemane, the garden of the

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00:31:27,920 –> 00:31:31,200
oil press, because that was the
process which Jesus is going to

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00:31:31,200 –> 00:31:36,760
go through right now.
After he was arrested in

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00:31:36,760 –> 00:31:38,880
Gethsemane, we skipped now the
days in between.

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He was brought to the palace of
the high priest.

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Look at John 18 and verse 13.
After he was arrested in

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Gethsemane, they led him away to
Anas first, where he was

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father-in-law, to Caiaphas,
which was the high priest.

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00:31:55,640 –> 00:31:58,600
The same hour.
Now Caiaphas was he which gave

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00:31:58,600 –> 00:32:02,320
counsel to the Jews that was
expedient for one man to die for

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00:32:02,320 –> 00:32:05,720
the people and Sinai.
Peter followed Jesus and so did

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00:32:05,720 –> 00:32:08,840
another disciple, and that
disciple was known unto the high

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00:32:08,840 –> 00:32:12,160
priest and went in with Jesus
into the palace of the high

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00:32:12,160 –> 00:32:15,920
priest.
Let us go back to slides.

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We we made a map, one of our
Bible charts to show exactly

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00:32:21,960 –> 00:32:25,480
that path of the last day of the
Lord Jesus Christ.

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00:32:25,480 –> 00:32:29,400
Here’s the Garden of Gethsemane.
He would have walked alongside

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00:32:29,440 –> 00:32:31,080
the east side of the Temple
Mount.

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00:32:31,440 –> 00:32:33,760
Go through the myth Gad Gate.
There was the gate through which

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00:32:33,760 –> 00:32:36,640
the red heffer and the scapegoat
was led out.

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00:32:37,040 –> 00:32:40,760
Then he came round the double
gate Plaza and then he went here

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00:32:40,760 –> 00:32:42,400
to the palace of the high
priest.

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00:32:43,240 –> 00:32:48,880
From there he was led to Pilot,
who stayed in the old palace of

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00:32:48,880 –> 00:32:51,800
King Herod the Great.
He had this Jackman seat there

504
00:32:51,800 –> 00:32:55,200
called the Praetorium.
From there he went to Herod

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00:32:55,200 –> 00:32:58,440
Antipas, who lived in the
Hasmonean Palace.

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00:32:58,800 –> 00:33:02,520
From the Hasmonean Palace, back
to Pilot again, and then to Goa

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00:33:02,520 –> 00:33:04,920
Costa.
Some people think it’s here,

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00:33:05,240 –> 00:33:12,000
some people think it’s there.
I think it’s somewhere else, but

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00:33:12,280 –> 00:33:16,200
never mind.
Professor Avigad, during his 10

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00:33:16,200 –> 00:33:19,840
year long excavations in the
Jewish quarter, uncovered a

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00:33:19,840 –> 00:33:24,560
massive building and I was later
put in charge in the restoration

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00:33:24,800 –> 00:33:27,960
of this building.
It’s an absolutely massive

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00:33:27,960 –> 00:33:30,880
building.
The professor called it the

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00:33:31,040 –> 00:33:35,000
palatial mansion.
It’s occupied about 5 1/2

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00:33:35,000 –> 00:33:39,240
thousand square feet.
It was a huge building which was

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00:33:39,240 –> 00:33:43,640
had all the rooms centred around
a stone courtyard and it’s the

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00:33:43,640 –> 00:33:46,680
main reception room.
But I’ve also decorated with

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00:33:46,680 –> 00:33:50,200
stucco or with fresco.
There are bathrooms here and

519
00:33:50,200 –> 00:33:52,680
this particular one, it’s four
MIC fat.

520
00:33:52,680 –> 00:33:56,320
Oh, ritual bath for bathing, one
here, one there and two below

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00:33:56,600 –> 00:34:00,080
the courtyard and the staircase
going down and you can walk

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00:34:00,080 –> 00:34:03,360
through the palace.
And today, because it’s been

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00:34:03,360 –> 00:34:06,440
open to the public and if you
know your scriptures, you can

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00:34:06,880 –> 00:34:11,400
imagine exactly what happened
when Jesus stood before Anas.

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00:34:12,159 –> 00:34:15,480
Now Anas was the high priest,
but not really because Caiaphas

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00:34:15,480 –> 00:34:19,800
was the high priest.
See, Anas was only high priest

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00:34:19,800 –> 00:34:25,440
from 680 to 1580.
And then he was that was the the

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00:34:25,440 –> 00:34:27,520
time the Romans gave him to be
high priest.

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00:34:28,400 –> 00:34:31,400
And it had another neck, another
high priest and another one and

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00:34:31,400 –> 00:34:34,840
another one.
Actually all the five sons of

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Anas the high priest became high
priest one after the other.

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00:34:38,679 –> 00:34:42,600
So I can imagine Anas the great
behind the scenes telling his

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00:34:42,600 –> 00:34:45,719
sons what to do, and then he
went through his five sons and

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00:34:45,800 –> 00:34:49,000
had no more sons then his
son-in-law, Caiaphas became high

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00:34:49,000 –> 00:34:51,679
priest in the time of the Lord
Jesus Christ.

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00:34:52,239 –> 00:34:58,320
But Jesus was led to Anas first.
He was the major power figure,

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00:34:58,480 –> 00:35:02,520
the Eminence Greece of the high
priesthood, and he stood before

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00:35:02,520 –> 00:35:06,440
him, I believe, in this
reception room which we restored

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00:35:08,120 –> 00:35:11,080
and I made a reconstruction
drawing of this magnificent

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00:35:11,080 –> 00:35:14,000
building, the most beautiful
room ever excavated in Jerusalem

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00:35:14,200 –> 00:35:15,840
and in the whole of the land of
Israel.

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00:35:16,080 –> 00:35:19,840
It is 6 metres wide and 11 1/2
metres wide.

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00:35:19,840 –> 00:35:22,200
That was the reception room of
the High priest.

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00:35:22,200 –> 00:35:25,080
And I believe that Jesus stood
before the high priest in this

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00:35:25,080 –> 00:35:28,360
particular room.
And if you can follow me, then

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00:35:28,360 –> 00:35:33,000
you can understand that Peter
was also because John knew the

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00:35:33,000 –> 00:35:37,520
high priest and he went into the
palace and so and he took in

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00:35:37,520 –> 00:35:41,920
Peter also.
Now in that centre courtyard we

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00:35:41,920 –> 00:35:45,360
read in John 18 and verse 18.
And the servants and the

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00:35:45,360 –> 00:35:49,560
officers stood there who had
made a fire of coals were just

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00:35:49,560 –> 00:35:53,240
cold and they warned themselves.
And Peter stood with with them

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00:35:53,240 –> 00:35:56,800
and warned himself.
So he’s our daughter-in-law

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00:35:56,800 –> 00:36:02,240
Claire with a pretend fire, the
rucksack there and people were

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00:36:02,280 –> 00:36:05,760
warming themselves in the court
charge because to warm the rooms

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00:36:06,320 –> 00:36:08,880
you can’t make a bonfire in the
room because everything gets

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00:36:08,880 –> 00:36:11,280
black.
They brought charcoal in from

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00:36:11,280 –> 00:36:14,440
the Mount of Olives that they
brought and they they heated it

558
00:36:14,440 –> 00:36:18,280
up and they had bronze braziers
in which the the burning coals

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00:36:18,280 –> 00:36:21,240
were put in and once had stopped
smoking and they put them in the

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00:36:21,240 –> 00:36:25,280
different rooms and Peter was
there and we know all how the

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00:36:25,280 –> 00:36:29,520
cock grew three times and Jesus
looked at Peter.

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00:36:29,520 –> 00:36:31,200
How is that possible?
By the sisters?

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00:36:31,640 –> 00:36:34,400
There’s only one place where
that is possible.

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00:36:35,520 –> 00:36:38,000
We are sending that.
The husband of our daughter

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00:36:38,000 –> 00:36:41,440
Claire stands there next to my
own picture here on the wall

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00:36:41,440 –> 00:36:44,000
when I was doing the
restoration, standing in the

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00:36:44,000 –> 00:36:46,840
place right in the centre of
this building where we believe

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00:36:46,880 –> 00:36:52,480
Jesus stood and Peter moved away
from the fire because they

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00:36:52,920 –> 00:36:56,520
thought he was a gallery.
But if you stand exactly in the

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00:36:56,520 –> 00:36:59,400
centre of the reception room,
there are two doorways you can

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00:36:59,400 –> 00:37:02,840
look through.
If you stand in the one corner

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00:37:03,400 –> 00:37:07,920
of that courtyard, you can look
right into the reception room.

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00:37:08,520 –> 00:37:10,920
And then the Lord turned and
looked upon Peter.

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00:37:11,200 –> 00:37:13,560
And Peter remembered the word of
the Lord, how He had said it to

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00:37:13,560 –> 00:37:16,840
him before the cockroach.
Thou shalt deny me thrice.

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00:37:17,680 –> 00:37:21,240
And so being sisters here in the
place in this corner of the

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00:37:21,240 –> 00:37:25,840
courtyard which we restored, you
look through the entrance hall,

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00:37:26,120 –> 00:37:29,640
through this doorway and right
in the centre there Jesus stood.

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00:37:30,400 –> 00:37:34,240
I put the Bible up from there in
a one place where you can stand.

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00:37:34,760 –> 00:37:38,600
And then Peter remembered the
words of Jesus with 17 before

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00:37:38,600 –> 00:37:40,560
the cock crowed, I shall deny me
thrice.

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00:37:40,560 –> 00:37:42,280
And we went out.
And that’s bitterly.

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00:37:43,560 –> 00:37:45,720
Yeah.
And so it’s amazing by my

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00:37:45,720 –> 00:37:48,040
sisters.
Once the two were there and one

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00:37:48,040 –> 00:37:50,560
of the brothers who knew the
Scripture stood in that place

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00:37:50,560 –> 00:37:53,480
and he broke down because he
said we all stood there.

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00:37:54,280 –> 00:37:56,960
We’ve all denied the Lord Jesus
in our life.

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00:38:06,320 –> 00:38:09,680
And so from the palace of the
high priest, Jesus brought to

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00:38:09,680 –> 00:38:11,480
pilots, where he stood before
him.

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00:38:12,640 –> 00:38:16,640
And it’s all amazing by the
sisters to follow those that

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00:38:17,040 –> 00:38:21,400
were way to go Gotha.
He went to Herod Antipas and

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00:38:21,400 –> 00:38:24,720
back to pilots, and then he was
brought out to go Gotha.

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00:38:24,720 –> 00:38:28,400
Now there are arguments where go
Gotha is, but actually it

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00:38:28,400 –> 00:38:32,040
doesn’t matter.
We are told that he was brought

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00:38:32,040 –> 00:38:36,400
to a place of a skull and that’s
the important thing.

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00:38:36,400 –> 00:38:41,000
Bretton, the sisters, what skull
was it?

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00:38:41,240 –> 00:38:46,040
Whose skull was it?
Where Jesus was crucified, The

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00:38:46,040 –> 00:38:52,000
place of a skull.
The traditions that when Christ

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00:38:52,000 –> 00:38:57,480
died, a blood of a drop of blood
trickle down on what the Jews

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00:38:57,480 –> 00:39:01,240
believe where Adam’s skull is
buried.

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00:39:01,440 –> 00:39:06,720
They believe that Adam’s skull
is buried on in Jerusalem just

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00:39:06,720 –> 00:39:10,600
north of Mount Morion, and he
momentarily became alive and

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00:39:10,600 –> 00:39:13,600
then he died again.
But they’re just legends.

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00:39:15,000 –> 00:39:19,080
But there’s a very powerful
connection with the skull, bread

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00:39:19,080 –> 00:39:22,360
and scissors if you turn to One
Samuel, chapter 17.

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00:39:30,440 –> 00:39:35,600
They’ve got the battle of David
with Goliath, a story which we

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00:39:35,640 –> 00:39:44,280
know very well indeed.
But we need to look pregnant

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00:39:44,280 –> 00:39:49,960
sisters, What motivated David?
Where did he get the courage

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00:39:49,960 –> 00:39:56,360
from to face this giant?
It says in verse 45.

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00:39:56,360 –> 00:39:59,040
Then said David to the
Philistine, Thou comes to me

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00:39:59,040 –> 00:40:03,720
with a sword and a spear and
with a shield, but I come to

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00:40:03,760 –> 00:40:08,480
thee in the name.
Of Yahweh, of armies, the

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00:40:08,680 –> 00:40:13,560
Elohim, of the armies of Israel,
whom thou hast defied, this day

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00:40:13,560 –> 00:40:17,360
will Yahweh deliver thee into
mine hands, and I will smite

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00:40:17,360 –> 00:40:18,800
thee and take thy heads from
thee.

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00:40:19,040 –> 00:40:22,000
Now give the carcasses of the
host of the Philistines this day

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00:40:22,000 –> 00:40:24,840
unto the fowls of the air and to
the wild beasts of the earth,

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00:40:25,320 –> 00:40:31,960
that all the earth may know that
there is a God in Israel.

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There is pregnant sisters.
It’s one word in Hebrew.

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00:40:37,480 –> 00:40:42,120
It is yesh.
His sole purpose was that to

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00:40:42,120 –> 00:40:47,000
show that there is yesh, a God
in Israel.

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00:40:47,000 –> 00:40:53,160
That’s the name of David’s
father and a brother in our

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00:40:53,160 –> 00:41:02,440
meeting, which is called Jesse.
Jesse means there is, and David

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00:41:02,440 –> 00:41:05,640
came to show who his real father
was.

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00:41:06,280 –> 00:41:09,320
Of course, Jesse was his father
from Bethlehem, but his real

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00:41:09,320 –> 00:41:14,200
father was in was God in heaven.
I’m come here to show that the

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00:41:14,360 –> 00:41:19,920
whole world may know that Jesse
that there is a God in Israel.

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00:41:21,680 –> 00:41:25,800
And after he’d killed the giant
in verse 54, David took the head

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00:41:25,800 –> 00:41:28,320
of the Philistine and brought it
to Jerusalem.

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00:41:29,000 –> 00:41:32,000
Why?
Why did he care that massive

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00:41:32,000 –> 00:41:35,840
head head and walked all the way
up the the the Valley of Elah

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00:41:36,160 –> 00:41:40,560
and go over Bethlehem and go to
Jerusalem and bury that head

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00:41:40,560 –> 00:41:43,880
there.
Now let us first come back to

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00:41:43,880 –> 00:41:46,360
him again.
What David did, he came to

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00:41:46,360 –> 00:41:53,280
declare the name of his father.
Saul didn’t know who he was.

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00:41:53,600 –> 00:41:57,480
He knew who David was, but he
didn’t know who David’s father

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00:41:57,480 –> 00:42:01,640
was.
He says three times about

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00:42:01,640 –> 00:42:06,280
David’s Luke in verse 56, the
king said in choir, Whose son is

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00:42:06,280 –> 00:42:09,960
this tripling of?
Verse 55.

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00:42:09,960 –> 00:42:12,920
First he said to Abner.
The captain told Abner, Whose

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00:42:12,920 –> 00:42:16,680
son is this youth?
The second one said, 56 Whose

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00:42:16,680 –> 00:42:20,520
son is this tripling?
Verse 58 Saul said unto him,

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00:42:20,640 –> 00:42:23,400
Whose son art thou, our young
man?

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00:42:24,240 –> 00:42:27,480
And David answered, I’m the son
of thy servant.

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00:42:27,960 –> 00:42:33,800
There is yes, he the
Bethlehemites, but Jonathan

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00:42:33,800 –> 00:42:38,160
understood all David said I’m
the son of our servant Jesse.

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00:42:38,400 –> 00:42:42,040
He would have listened to David
when he said there is a God in

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Israel because 1st 18 verse one.
It came to pass when he had made

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an end of speaking to soul, that
the soul of Jonathan was knit

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with the soul of David, and
Jonathan loved him as his own

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00:42:53,760 –> 00:42:56,360
soul.
When they made the end of

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00:42:56,360 –> 00:43:01,000
speaking, what did he say?
I am the son of the one who is.

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00:43:01,400 –> 00:43:04,480
And that is why this wonderful
friendship started between

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Jonathan and David.
And that skull was brought to

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Jerusalem.
Jerusalem.

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In that time there was only a
Canaanite city where the

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00:43:14,760 –> 00:43:17,480
Melchizedek city was.
It was on the eastern hill of

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Jerusalem.
And I believe he would have

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00:43:19,080 –> 00:43:24,560
buried that skull to the north
of that city bit north of Mount

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00:43:24,560 –> 00:43:29,640
of Mount Moriah.
If you go nowadays to Jerusalem,

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00:43:29,880 –> 00:43:33,120
the perpetual question we were
asked by Christian Delph is when

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00:43:33,120 –> 00:43:35,160
we lived there, where’s the tomb
of Jesus?

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00:43:35,160 –> 00:43:38,960
Is the Holy Sepulchre or the
garden tomb about the Holy

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Sepulchre?
Brandon sisters, this is David.

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00:43:41,880 –> 00:43:43,960
That’s the real skull we need to
think about.

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00:43:44,520 –> 00:43:47,480
But outside Jerusalem, at the
time of Jesus, there was the

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temple, and he is the first Law
and the second law.

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00:43:49,640 –> 00:43:52,320
There’s a garden gate and you
can go inside the Holy

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00:43:52,320 –> 00:43:54,280
Sepulchre.
The top of this rock is visible.

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00:43:54,480 –> 00:43:56,120
You can’t even put 3 crosses on
it.

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00:43:56,120 –> 00:43:59,360
And they say that’s the place
where Christ was crucified.

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00:43:59,800 –> 00:44:03,720
I had to make this drawing
against my own ideas for the ESV

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00:44:03,720 –> 00:44:06,120
study Bible.
But then there you go.

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But there’s another place to the
north of the Old City near the

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Damascus Gate and the bus
station, and there you can see a

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00:44:13,640 –> 00:44:16,680
mount of formation with a kind
of a skull in it.

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But is that the skull the Bible
refers to by the sisters was the

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significance of a rock face
which was cut later after Christ

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00:44:24,560 –> 00:44:29,120
died already that he went to the
place called a school.

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00:44:29,760 –> 00:44:32,760
It’s a fulfillment, but it says
let’s go to Psalm 110.

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00:44:32,760 –> 00:44:34,720
And that’s what David
understood.

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Goliath was the was the head of
the great enemy of Israel who

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defied the name of the living
God of Israel.

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00:44:44,040 –> 00:44:50,520
And then it gets Psalm 110 David
understood, he says Yahweh said

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unto my Master, to my Lord,
talking about his seed, the Lord

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Jesus Christ.
He called him Master Adam in

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Hebrew, sit at my right hand
until I make thy enemies thy

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00:45:04,160 –> 00:45:06,440
fruitstool.
Let me read that he was going to

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make a priest in verse 4 after
the order of Melchizedek, that

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00:45:09,720 –> 00:45:12,560
in verse five he was strike
through kings in the days of his

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wrath.
And in verse six he shall judge

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00:45:15,640 –> 00:45:19,680
among the nations, He shall fill
the places with the dead bodies,

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00:45:19,960 –> 00:45:23,520
he shall wound the head of a
great country.

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It says in the Hebrew, just like
Goliath was the head of a great

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country of the Philistines, the
enemy of God, so in the last

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days there will be a head of all
the armies that come against

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00:45:33,640 –> 00:45:35,320
Jesus, and he will just crush
them.

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00:45:36,400 –> 00:45:42,920
And the proof of God’s power in
crushing the head of the enemy

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00:45:42,920 –> 00:45:48,560
of Israel was taking that skull
and burying it in Golgotha.

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00:45:49,200 –> 00:45:53,480
And therefore David overcame the
greatest enemy of his saw at his

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00:45:53,480 –> 00:45:56,440
time.
But Jesus overcame a much

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00:45:56,440 –> 00:46:01,840
greater enemy, death itself on
the place of the skull, the

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00:46:01,840 –> 00:46:07,160
skull of Goliath, which
foreshadowed his own burial

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00:46:07,160 –> 00:46:08,920
place.
It’s O’Brien.

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00:46:08,920 –> 00:46:13,680
And sisters, the Garden Tomb is
closer to my heart, although the

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00:46:13,680 –> 00:46:19,960
tomb which is there was already
700 years old when Christ died

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00:46:19,960 –> 00:46:22,760
and was buried.
So that cannot have been the

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00:46:22,760 –> 00:46:24,720
tomb.
But at least if you’ve been

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00:46:24,720 –> 00:46:27,880
there as a beautiful, quiet
garden, and you can walk around

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00:46:27,880 –> 00:46:30,880
to the benches to sit down and
you can open your Bible and read

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00:46:31,160 –> 00:46:34,560
and think about this great
event, the power of Gore Gotham.

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00:46:34,560 –> 00:46:37,880
And then Jesus was laid in a new
tomb.

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00:46:38,360 –> 00:46:40,400
A new tomb would have looked
like this.

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00:46:41,080 –> 00:46:44,600
It would have been only A1
chamber tomb with three benches

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00:46:44,600 –> 00:46:47,600
because the disciples and the
women had to bend down.

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00:46:47,600 –> 00:46:50,440
They saw the body lying right in
front of them.

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00:46:50,440 –> 00:46:53,040
But that tomb has not been
found.

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00:46:53,320 –> 00:46:56,520
Let’s go to John chapter 20
verse 5 and verse 8,

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00:47:08,340 –> 00:47:12,720
because everywhere it says so.
Peter who came first to the

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00:47:12,720 –> 00:47:15,520
sepulchre, John 20 verse 5, and
he’s stooping down.

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00:47:15,520 –> 00:47:17,280
He had to bend down a low
opening.

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00:47:17,280 –> 00:47:20,400
He saw the linen clothes lining,
and yet he bent not in.

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00:47:20,920 –> 00:47:23,800
Then comes Simon Peter following
him and bent into the sepulchre

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00:47:23,800 –> 00:47:27,440
and seized the linen clothesline
and the napkin that was about

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00:47:27,440 –> 00:47:29,600
the head, not lying with the
linen clothes, but wrapped to

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00:47:29,600 –> 00:47:32,360
get into place by itself.
That meant also the other

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00:47:32,360 –> 00:47:35,240
disciple is John, which came
first to the sepulchre and He

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00:47:35,240 –> 00:47:40,280
saw and he believed.
What did He see by the sister

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00:47:40,280 –> 00:47:43,880
that made Him believe?
I’ll go back to Lazarus in

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00:47:43,880 –> 00:47:52,200
Chapter 11 in John 11 and verse
44.

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00:47:53,320 –> 00:48:00,600
When Jesus raised up Lazarus in
verse 44 it says He that was

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00:48:00,600 –> 00:48:05,040
that came forth.
He was bound hand and foot with

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00:48:05,040 –> 00:48:11,000
grave clothes and His face was
bound about with a napkin and he

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00:48:11,000 –> 00:48:14,280
sent him loose him and let him
go.

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00:48:14,840 –> 00:48:19,400
He had to be loosed.
He was all tied up hovering over

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00:48:19,400 –> 00:48:22,080
his head.
He couldn’t see and he just came

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00:48:22,080 –> 00:48:25,480
mortal out of the grave.
And the proof is what John saw

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00:48:25,960 –> 00:48:28,520
because he need to help the
angels to take that head cloth

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00:48:28,520 –> 00:48:30,560
off his face so that he could
see what to do.

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00:48:30,800 –> 00:48:33,840
Then He could sit up with help
the angels take off all the

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00:48:33,840 –> 00:48:37,440
grave clothes, and then only
after He had appeared to Mary

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00:48:37,440 –> 00:48:41,280
Magdalene, then He went up.
He was close upon His

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00:48:41,280 –> 00:48:46,000
immortality and went up to His
Father, and then by the sisters

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00:48:46,600 –> 00:48:49,400
He went up.
The disciples sent before Him to

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00:48:49,400 –> 00:48:51,800
Galilee by appeared to them.
They would have gone over Betha

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00:48:51,800 –> 00:48:54,960
Barra, and they can imagine that
Jesus, if not embodied, then in

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00:48:54,960 –> 00:48:57,640
spirit, He would have again
crossed Betha Barra, where He

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00:48:57,640 –> 00:49:01,560
met the disciples and He gave
them the Great Commission, and

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00:49:01,560 –> 00:49:05,080
then He went back to Bethany.
He went back to Bethany.

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00:49:06,360 –> 00:49:09,880
He looked. 24.
It says He led him out as far as

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00:49:09,880 –> 00:49:13,800
to Bethany and lifted up his
hands and blessed him.

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00:49:14,440 –> 00:49:17,080
When He had spoken these things
while they beheld, He was taken

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00:49:17,080 –> 00:49:19,360
up in the cloud, received them
out of their sight.

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00:49:19,720 –> 00:49:22,920
But on the top of the Mount of
Olives, right in the sight of

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00:49:22,920 –> 00:49:25,000
the old city, is the Tower of
Dissension.

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00:49:25,680 –> 00:49:28,760
People don’t read carefully.
Bretton sisters.

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00:49:29,600 –> 00:49:33,320
He didn’t go up to heaven in
full view of the city.

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00:49:33,560 –> 00:49:39,720
He went as far as Bethany, who
was living in Bethany by the

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00:49:39,800 –> 00:49:43,720
sisters.
That’s where his friends lived,

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00:49:44,520 –> 00:49:49,680
Martha and Mary and Lazarus.
And I believe that he went to

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00:49:49,680 –> 00:49:53,120
his father from the House of his
friends.

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00:49:53,640 –> 00:49:56,240
And that is a wonderful thing.
And then the Angel said in next

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00:49:56,240 –> 00:49:59,240
chapter 1 why do they gaze up
into heaven?

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00:49:59,240 –> 00:50:01,720
The same Jesus which is taken up
from you in heaven.

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00:50:01,720 –> 00:50:05,360
So, so come in like manner as
you see him go in heaven.

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00:50:06,000 –> 00:50:09,120
And then they returned unto
Jerusalem from the mount called

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00:50:09,120 –> 00:50:11,240
Olivet.
So we need to know those places,

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00:50:11,240 –> 00:50:13,840
brethren, sisters.
And I lived for two years in

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00:50:13,840 –> 00:50:17,160
Bethany.
I know the place took me about

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00:50:17,160 –> 00:50:20,920
20 minutes every morning to walk
from our house, which is here

771
00:50:21,160 –> 00:50:23,760
all the way up the back of the
Mount of Olives until you come

772
00:50:23,760 –> 00:50:27,280
to the top, you go down to Kilon
Valley and here I’ve worked and

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00:50:27,280 –> 00:50:30,520
my wife’s Kathleen as well, and
that journey’s printed on my

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00:50:30,520 –> 00:50:33,840
mind because I’ve must have
walked it hundreds of times.

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00:50:35,000 –> 00:50:39,040
So Ben insisted we need to
prepare ourselves for the return

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00:50:39,040 –> 00:50:43,440
of our Lord because He will come
back to the Mount of Olives with

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00:50:43,440 –> 00:50:45,680
Christ.
We have walked through the land,

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00:50:46,040 –> 00:50:47,560
the length of it and the breadth
of it.

779
00:50:47,560 –> 00:50:50,840
We’ve been in Bethlehem and
witnessed God’s Providence in

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00:50:50,840 –> 00:50:55,800
having prepared a birthplace for
his Son in his own inheritance.

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00:50:56,320 –> 00:50:59,480
We see why God chose Nazareth,
that humble village in the

782
00:50:59,480 –> 00:51:02,960
north, far away from the
distractions of the world, as

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00:51:02,960 –> 00:51:05,600
the best place for the education
of His Son.

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00:51:06,760 –> 00:51:10,120
The woman of Samaria gave us
hope as Gentiles to be grafted

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00:51:10,120 –> 00:51:13,960
into that natural olive tree of
Israel which was predicted by

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00:51:13,960 –> 00:51:17,640
Jacob, and he contemplated the
place where Jesus was baptised

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00:51:17,640 –> 00:51:20,440
and better.
Bahra reflected on the need to

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00:51:20,440 –> 00:51:25,720
revisit our own baptism time and
time again, as the Lord Jesus

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00:51:25,720 –> 00:51:31,120
Christ did when we lie at bed at
night, so we have time to think

790
00:51:31,120 –> 00:51:35,360
for a quiet moment.
We could also be Hebrews if we

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00:51:35,360 –> 00:51:38,680
use the Scriptures in our mind.
That was to help the scripture.

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00:51:38,680 –> 00:51:43,400
We can pass through the land on
which Yao’s eyes are resting

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00:51:43,400 –> 00:51:45,840
continually.
You could think of other

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00:51:45,840 –> 00:51:49,080
journeys in the Bible.
The journey of Abraham is think

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00:51:49,080 –> 00:51:52,480
about the journey, the exodus
from Egypt, the journey of the

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00:51:52,480 –> 00:51:56,480
messenger in Revelation 2 and
three visiting the seven

797
00:51:56,480 –> 00:52:00,680
ecclesias in Revelation.
We also are on a long journey by

798
00:52:00,720 –> 00:52:05,720
the sisters on the pilgrimage to
Zion and we should often think,

799
00:52:05,760 –> 00:52:11,080
how are we going to get there?
By God’s grace, Jeremiah says,

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00:52:11,080 –> 00:52:13,720
let Jerusalem come into your
mind.

801
00:52:15,080 –> 00:52:17,560
And Jacob spoke about his
pilgrimage.

802
00:52:17,840 –> 00:52:20,360
He counted every day of his
life.

803
00:52:20,360 –> 00:52:25,480
He said to Pharaoh, the days of
the years of my pilgrimage are

804
00:52:25,480 –> 00:52:29,680
130 years.
And David wrote in the sounds

805
00:52:29,960 –> 00:52:33,760
that thy statutes have been my
sons in the House of my

806
00:52:33,760 –> 00:52:36,680
pilgrimage.
We are on a journey, brethren,

807
00:52:36,680 –> 00:52:40,800
sisters in the Kingdom, If I got
grace, we’ll be able to serve

808
00:52:40,800 –> 00:52:43,280
and help the Lord Jesus Christ
as king and priest.

809
00:52:43,280 –> 00:52:46,880
It says in Jeremiah again, in
those days and in that time says

810
00:52:46,880 –> 00:52:49,760
Yahwah, the children of Israel
shall come, they and the

811
00:52:49,760 –> 00:52:52,680
children of Judah together,
going and weeping.

812
00:52:52,920 –> 00:52:56,120
They shall go and seek Yahwah,
the Elohim.

813
00:52:56,400 –> 00:53:00,000
They shall ask the way to Zion
with their faces did a word

814
00:53:00,000 –> 00:53:03,440
saying, Come and let us join
ourselves to Yahweh in a

815
00:53:03,440 –> 00:53:06,920
perpetual covenant that shall
not be forgotten.

816
00:53:08,200 –> 00:53:11,240
So even if He can’t physically
be in Israel when the sisters or

817
00:53:11,240 –> 00:53:14,760
in the surrounding countries, we
can take the abundant lessons

818
00:53:14,960 –> 00:53:18,640
which Yahweh has embedded in the
lands as he which He has

819
00:53:18,640 –> 00:53:21,400
searched out for His own
children.

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00:53:37,520 –> 00:53:39,640
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