Leen Ritmeyer – The Power of Bible Places and their Lessons for Us – Class 1 – But thou Bethlehem Ephratah

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This is the 2010 Ontario Winter
Bible School.

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Our speaker for this second
session is Brother Lane

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Rittmeyer from Cardiff, Wales.
His theme this week is The Power

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of Bible Places and their
Lessons for us.

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This is his first class and the
subject of this class is But

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Thou Bethlehem Ephrata.
The reading was taken from

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Deuteronomy Chapter 11, verses
1:00 to 12:00.

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Dear brethren and sisters in the
Lord Jesus Christ, it’s.

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Great to be with you.
Especially at this time of the

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year, it’s wonderful to come
aside from the world and to

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concentrate on the word of God.
Our thoughts are with our

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brethren, sisters in in England,
in Castleton, where a similar

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northern winter study which my
sister, which my wife Kathleen

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and myself set up some 40 years,
14 years ago, are still going

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on.
And they’re also.

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Studying the Word of God.
Away from the distraction of

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this world, other subject for
this afternoon is Buddha

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Bethlehem Ephrata.
I first want to speak a few

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words about the land of Israel,
especially as a teaching aid.

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We read in this verse 12 that
Israel is a land which Yaadai

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Elwin cares for.
The eyes of Yaadai Elwin are

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always upon it from the
beginning of the year even unto

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the end of the year.
What a remarkable statement.

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Although we’ve lived there, I’ve
lived there for 20 years in the

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land of Israel, mainly in
Jerusalem.

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We often thought that God is
always looking at this land.

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So Israel, we believe, has been
created, especially by God as a

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teaching aid to teachers,
spiritual lessons.

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But we lived in the land.
A lot of our time was taken up

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with work in archaeology because
both my wife Kathleen and

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myself, we are archaeologists.
And as I said yesterday, so

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today we met.
Our lives have been in ruins and

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but.
It was a variable.

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Very enjoyable.
Way to spend your time.

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When you work in archaeology,
you find all sorts of

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interesting things.
And I never forget the day that

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I dug up my wife Kathleen on
Mount Zion, the most wonderful

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find I ever made.
But while we were working there

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and raising a family, we always
looked at the land through the

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eyes of the Bible.
But later on we became more

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deeply aware of the spiritual
significance of certain places

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in the Bible.
Some places we could time and

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again, the Bible is actually
full of geographical places and

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why are they there?
Why should we read that you

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travel from A to B and not get
out on Atlas and look at those

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places and see the significance
of those places.

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Recently we’ve been making maps
for our work of all sorts of

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Bible events and especially of
the life of Christ.

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And during those five sessions,
I want to look at the life of

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Christ, but through the places
where he had been, which he

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visited some of them time and
again, and make us realise that

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before we had laptops and
projectors and whiteboards and

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blackboards and all sort of
artificial materials, God had

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already designed the land as a
teaching aid.

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And that’s the way we learn to
look at it.

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So what do we know about the
land?

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Well, it lies at the junction of
the great land masses of, of

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Europe.
Here’s Europe, here’s Asia, and

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here’s Africa.
And the land of this is right in

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the middle of it, a very
important location.

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If you go to Genesis chapter 48,
then Jacob says this.

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After he had blessed Joseph in
verse 15 and said Elovim, before

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whom my father’s Abram and Isaac
did walk, the Elovim which fed

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me all or shepherded me all my
life long unto this day, the

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Angel which redeemed me from all
evil, blessed the lads, if I’m

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Amanasa, and let my name be
named on them, and the name of

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my father’s Abram and Isaac.
Let them grow into a multitude

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in the midst of the earth,
because that’s where Israel is

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located.
And that is why, I suppose it’s

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often in the news because of its
central location.

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Even today, almost all every day
on the front page of the

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newspapers, Israel is mentioned.
It’s also reinforced by the

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sounds.
If you go to Psalm 74 now, you

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can see this centrality of the
land of Israel in the purpose of

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God.
It says that in verse 12.

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For Elavim is my king of old
working salvation in the midst

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of the earth.
I believe the commas are the

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wrong place.
Elavim is my king but of old

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from a long time ago he’s been
working salvation in the midst

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of the earth and that’s why
Abram was sent to that land.

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It was a special location with
all its challenges.

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If you look at this map, then we
can see that the ancient land of

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Israel was located in between
Egypt on the South and the other

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empires of Assyria and Babylon
and Persia to the North East.

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And it’s all acted as a land
bridge between these empires and

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it shaped their history.
And sometimes God used the

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enemies of Israel to punish her
whenever that was necessary.

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The land has also been called a
sanctuary and an observatory.

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If you look at the.
Boundaries of the land and on

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the east and on the South we’ve
got deserts, on the West is the

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Mediterranean Sea and in the
north very high mountains.

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So it’s a land of isolation,
just like we have isolated

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ourselves from the world so we
can serve God without

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distraction.
It’s isolation with its

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strength, but also its weakness
because it was still possible to

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make contact with the neighbors
who frequently used Israel as a

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land bridge.
When Egypt fought against the

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Syria, they went through Israel
and Babylon fought against

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Egypt, they went through the
land of Israel.

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So despite its isolation, there
was also a lot of contact with

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the neighboring countries.
And throughout its history, the

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land of Israel has been opened
to cultural changes and social

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influences from nearly all
points of the campus.

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So God used this location to
give Israel an opportunity to be

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as separate people who would
separate themselves unto God,

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but also to see if they trusted
Him or rather in the nations

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that were around them.
In Jeremiah 2 and WAS 18, we can

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see the reference which is made
to the location of Israel and

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how they viewed and used the
land.

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In chapter 2 of Jeremiah and
verse 18, the prophet speaks

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against Israel.
In verse 17 he says, Hast thou

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not procured this unto thyself
in the Taoist forsaken Yahweh

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thy alabin, when he let thee, By
the way, how did they forsake

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him?
What has thou to do in the way

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of Egypt to drink the waters of
Sihor?

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What is there to do in the way
of Assyria to drink the waters

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of the river?
They were not content to live in

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isolation in a land flowing with
milk and honey, but it was

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plentiful water and food
available.

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They had to go to the way of
Egypt, they had to go to the way

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of Assyrian, and they were
condemned for it.

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So Israel had its strength.
And it also has its weaknesses.

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Just as we as Christadelphians,
we’ve also been placed in the

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sanctuary of our ecclesia.
Brethren and sisters look upon

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it as a sanctuary where we can
be isolated away from the world,

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where we can serve God and
encourage Vangadeh without

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distraction.
It was easy for Israel, if they

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wanted to, to go to Egypt or to
go to Assyria.

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It’s easy for us to go to the
world.

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We walk on the computer, we are
in the world at just a touch of

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a button and we can see all the
evil that is in the world.

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Or do we?
Use it and whatever means of

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communications we have to
strengthen the brotherhood.

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But looking at the land itself,
in a very small area, there are

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all sorts of different types of
vegetation, of soils and of

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climate.
You can divide the land into

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four different strips.
We got a coastal plain very

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clearly marked out along the
coast with flat and very fertile

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land.
They get a central mountain

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range, high and lofty.
There are no major roads going

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right through that central
mountain range.

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They got a deep and dark Jordan
Valley, which ends in the Dead

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Sea.
And then we got the other side

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of Jordan.
And it often depends.

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Where you live?
What influence that that may

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have on your life in the truth?
Let’s go to two Judges.

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Let’s first look here at the
coastal plain.

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I’ve seen this one before.
So here’s the coastal plain.

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It’s for the tribe of Asia and
Zebulon and Efraim lived.

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You get cities like Tyre and
Akko, Haifa, Dorsis, Aria and so

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on.
But what does it say in Judges

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Chapter 1?
Sometimes we’re going to be a

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bit too comfortable in our lives
at the cost of our spiritual

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strength.
In Judges chapter 1 and verse

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29, talking about the people
that lived in the coastal plain

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in the Philistine country,
Ephraim in verse 29 did not

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drive out the Canaanites that
dwelt in Gaza, but the

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Canaanites dwelt in Gaza among
them.

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Now did Zebulun drive out the
inhabits of Kitron nor the

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inhabits of Nakhalo, but the
Canaanites dwelt among them

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became tributaries.
It’s getting worse with Ashen,

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who didn’t drive out the
inhabits of Ako, nor the

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inhabits of Zaiden, nor Akhlab,
nor Akhsiv, nor Khalban, nor

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Afiq, nor Ryob.
But the Asrites dwelt among the

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Canaanites as a minority, the
inhabitants of the land, for

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they did not drive them out.
Our ecclesias.

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And are we ourselves, brain and
sisters, strong in faith or weak

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in conviction, like the
asteroids, the Ephraimites, the

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Donites and the Zebulonites, who
did not drive out the

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Canaanites?
Do we have the inner strength,

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brain and sisters, to overcome
our enemies?

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Do we believe in the power of
good?

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Are we overcome of evil, or can
we overcome evil with good?

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But then we look at the central
mountain.

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Range.
And then you get a total

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different lifestyle.
You see Kaidas, a city of

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refuge, Nazareth where Jesus was
born, Mount Tabor, a rallying

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place of Deborah and Barack,
Shechem, the 1st place where

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Abel meant to Shiloh, and the
Tabernacle stood, Bethel, where

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God appeared to Jacob in a
dream, Jerusalem where God.

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Caused his name to.
Dwell Bethlehem, where Jesus was

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born in Hebron, another city of
refuge.

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So in between Dam and Bathsheba
we’ve got this mountain range

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and that is much more suited for
spiritual life away from the

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attractions of the world.
So this characterised by

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isolation and by strength.
The Philistines were in the

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plane, they couldn’t capture the
Israelites who were in the

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mountains.
And so we need to make our

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eccleses also bastions of
strength, keeping ourselves

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undefiled by the world.
But then we have the deep and

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dark Jordan Valley, part of the
Great Rift Valley here, and we

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get places like Down and Hatsour
and Adam and Southern and

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Jericho and the Dead Sea itself.
It speaks of corruption from

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beginning to end, from Caesarea,
where they had a idol worship,

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and up to Jericho and Sodom,
which were destroyed.

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It’s a pleasure we should
remember Lot’s wife.

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When we travel this valley later
this evening we can see or

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tomorrow we will see, there’s a
picture of life itself.

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The name Jordan Yarden in Hebrew
means the descender.

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It starts high peninsula where
there’s snow melts.

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And we get lovely waterfalls,
but it ends up in the Dead Sea

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into death itself.
Sudden became an example of acts

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of eternal damnation by fire
because of its sexual

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orientation.
We live in very similar times

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and are we affected by it?
And then we have the other side

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of Jordan, where the Rubenites
were living and half type in

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Ghana and half type of Manasseh,
and only a few places are there,

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Remus, Gilead and Raba of the
Ammonites and Bezer and Golan, 3

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cities of refuge.
When the Tsionoviso came out of

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the desert of Sinai after 40
years of wandering, then the 2

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1/2 tribes of Ruben gathered
Manasseh, half of Manasseh, who

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first of all helped the other
tribes during 5 long years to

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conquer the Canaanites.
Then they went back home and

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they became content to live
there in splendid isolation in

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beautiful countryside, very
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There we like to concentrate on
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Barack who were fighting against
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They called all the tribes, but
who did come, or rather, who did

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not come?
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Jordan, look what it says.
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The Prince of Issachar, they
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and also Barack.
He was sent on foot into the

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valley.
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great thoughts of heart.
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sheepfolds to hear the bleatings
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They had a lovely lifestyle,
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that creates the searchings of
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Shall we go?
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Shall we help our bread and
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Or shan’t we help our bread and
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lifestyle.
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and not be bothered about other
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need of nothing or are we like
the mountain dwellers of

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Issachar and Naftali?
People who jeopardy their lives

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unto the death in the high
places of the field in the time

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of Deborah and Barack.
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by where we choose to live.
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inheritance.
When you go there, you feel

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alive.
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helps figure out figuring out
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And once said.
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If you know the Bible, you feel
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he said.
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the better you are able to
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But I’m not going to give you a
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Topography or geography?
Let’s listen to the words of

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Robert Roberts.
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Thank you.
Robert Roberts wrote in In

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Nazareth Revisited,
topographical coincidences run

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through the whole plan of the
Bible.

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The offering of Isaac on Mount
Moriah required that Jesus

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should be offered there also.
The birth of David at Bethlehem

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required the same thing of.
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David’s flight of the Mount of
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Israel’s rebellion seems to find
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Gethsemane that he also has
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by that mount, a counterpart in
Christ coming back to the Mount

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of Olives before his
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There’s much more to that.
We ask ourselves, is it because

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of the fact that it’s written?
It’s a land that Yahweh cares

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for?
In Hebrew it means he has

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searched it out.
You see more beautiful countries

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perhaps New Zealand is a
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but now God chose Israel.
The eyes of Yaad I Alwin are

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always upon it from beginning of
the year until the end of the

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year.
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But from our study of it, it
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specially designed to teach the
great lessons which God wanted

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to teach mankind, especially the
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And the more you look into it,
the more you see that there’s a

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like a stage set prepared for
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itself on that stage.
It’s truly the land of promise.

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Abel Must Talk was told to walk
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breadth of it, and all the great
men of scriptures have done

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that.
Jesus walked through the land in

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his teaching and in his healing.
We learn many lessons if he walk

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in their footsteps.
So if you walk around the States

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yet, it gives you an idea of the
script of the drama that is

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going to be produced there, and
it’s the same.

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If you walk through the land.
You get that idea when you read

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through scriptures.
When you read phrases.

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Such as as mountains are round
about Jerusalem, so shall round

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about them.
Let’s fear him.

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She will less stable among the
mountains and come or by the sea

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be with that Jesus must needs go
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Why I must be in my father’s
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Those all geographical
references to very important

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places.
Sometimes God causes or His

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threshing floor.
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prophets, because the Jezreel
and the Iolong valleys, they

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seem to be created as
battlefields where Josiah lost

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his life.
So the whole lie of the land has

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teaching for its people and for
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There are places of such
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they appear again and again in
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There’s one place you’ve come to
later on.

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The Christ went back time and
time and time again because he

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got comfort from that particular
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Not from the physical treason,
the shrubs and the river that

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was there, but from the
associations that place had

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built into it.
Jesus said I must walk today and

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tomorrow, and to be a Hebrew
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Let’s go to Genesis chapter 12.
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first Hebrew.
In Genesis 12 and verse 6, we

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read that Abraham, Abraham
passed through the land unto the

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place of Shechem, unto the
plain, or the oak of Mooram

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passing through.
That’s the Hebrew word for

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Hebrew.
Who?

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Ava?
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let’s go to verse 15.
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thou seest to D will I give it,
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Now make thy seed as the dust of
the earth, so that if a man can

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number the dust of the earth, so
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Arise and be a Hebrew walk
through the land, in the length

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of it and in the breadth of it,
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So in these studies, we’re going
to look at some examples of what

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we call the power of Bible
places, especially those

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connected with the life of our
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And we’re going.
On a journey, because life is a

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journey by the sisters, we go
from one place to another, from

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one event to another, and so did
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So let’s start at the very.
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appeared to to Zacharias in the
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There was in this map you can
see that in the gospels we first

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meet Gabriel who appears to
Zacharias in the temple, and

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then later on we meet the same
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He goes to Mary in Nazareth and
then Mary goes to visit

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Elizabeth in the Hill Country.
Of Judah, what is the importance

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and how do people react in the
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Now if you look at the temple
itself, Gabriel in the temple he

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appeared unto Zechariah, and he
says, Thy prayer is heard, and

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thy wife Elizabeth shall bear
thee son, and thou shalt call

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his name John.
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appearing at a particular time
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extremely important.
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reconstruction of the Temple
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The Golden Gate is here
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Wall and right in the middle to
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It was as high as 20 Storey
multi Storey building nowadays,

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all covered over with gold and
all the buildings which had

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different functions built around
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Right in front of the temple and
you can see the temple itself

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standing, that beautiful golden
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Josephus, the historian said.
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Olives early in the morning and
the sun rose up, the sun that

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was reflected by the gold of the
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It was a magnificent building.
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Father, despite the fact that it
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In front of it was the court of
the women, also called the

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treasury where Jesus did most of
his teaching and all the

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buildings of the temple which
the disciples pointed out when

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they sat on the Mount of Olives.
In this courtyard many things

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happened is where Jesus talked
about the woman who had cast 2

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mites in a treasury.
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presented as a baby, where where
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the prophet were meeting with
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He would see 15 semicircular
steps where the Levite used to

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sing their songs, and beyond
there was the temple itself, an

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absolutely very imposing and
magnificent building.

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That was inside this building
where the Angel Gabriel

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appeared.
He appeared in the Holy of

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Holies, standing on the right
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What does that mean?
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on the West side of the holy
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The right side is almost the
southern side because E is

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forward, so right is South and
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So he stood in between the out
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because he represents the word
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And Zacharias was standing there
at the out of incense, which

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represents prayer.
It says in Psalm 141, my prayer

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shall be set forth before thee
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The apostles in Acts chapter 3
went to the temple at the hour

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of prayer, at the hour of
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That’s where Gabriel appeared to
Zechariah who was offering

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incense.
But it’s more to that because in

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the temple.
The priest served for two weeks

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and he was serving according to
the order of Abijah and every

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morning they cast lots for its
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There were all sorts of things
had to be done.

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The altar outside had to be
cleaned and brought, wood

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brought for the sacrifices
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Inside the Holy Year, 5 priests
went in.

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One was offering incense, but
before one had cleaned the out

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of incense, another one went out
to get the coals of the out of

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burnt offerings.
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lampstand and the 5th did
general duty, but to offer

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incense was the most coveted.
Lot to receive and because

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everyone wanted to do it, once
you had done it, you could never

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do it again.
So Zechariah got the chance of

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his lifetime.
He got a lot of incense in the

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temple and that’s why he prayed
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Of course God can hear our
prayer always, but this was this

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particular time and a particular
place to say a prayer to be

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almost sure that God will hear
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He must be waiting for this
opportunity to pray to God for a

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son in his magnificent temple,
most beautiful building in in

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the land of Israel and in
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So you think?
Wow, I can.

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Pray to God, and I expect an
answer.

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And he got an answer.
Cable shall thy prayer is heard,

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and thy wife Elizabeth shall
bear thee a son, and thy shall

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call his name John, as you read
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And then he didn’t believe it.
How is it possible, pregnant

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sisters, you waited all your
life to be in a particular

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place, to offer incense and to
say your prayers, asking for

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something that seems impossible,
and then Angel appears and you

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don’t believe it and he was
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So he couldn’t even say the
blessing, which I said every day

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after the offering of incense.
Here you can see 5 priests

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standing there.
Here’s the incense offering

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priest after the They’ve been
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They came out, all five of them.
They raised up their hands, all

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5, as you can see there in the
model, and they said the

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blessing the Zechariah was done.
So we don’t know what he would

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have said, but we do know what
he was supposed to have said,

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because every day those priests
said in unison the same blessing

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of number six, verse 24 to 26.
Yaweh, bless thee and keep thee.

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Yaoh, make his face shine upon
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Yaoh, lift up his countenance
upon thee and give thee peace.

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That’s what they said every day.
I’ve got made his face shine

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00:29:10,800 –> 00:29:13,840
upon Zecharias.
He was gracious unto him.

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He heard his prayer.
And then he didn’t believe it.

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00:29:18,960 –> 00:29:21,400
And we can mean a very similar
situation by the sisters.

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We read the word of God and we
commit our life to God and we

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00:29:25,240 –> 00:29:28,560
pray to God.
But do we always recognise it?

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00:29:28,560 –> 00:29:31,720
And are we thankful when?
We get an answer to our prayer.

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00:29:32,360 –> 00:29:34,120
Or do we?
Just subscribe to certain

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00:29:34,120 –> 00:29:39,040
circumstances that we got what
we wanted after all and the

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00:29:39,160 –> 00:29:43,160
contrast between Gabriel being
in the temple.

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And the later being sent to
Nazareth could not have been

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grated because Nazareth,
although we got to look much

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00:29:50,880 –> 00:29:55,400
more at Nazareth tomorrow, God
willing, Gabriel now, after

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00:29:55,400 –> 00:29:57,920
having been in that beautiful
temple and being met with

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00:29:58,000 –> 00:30:04,040
unbelief, was now sent to a
little village in Galilee named

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00:30:04,120 –> 00:30:07,160
Nazareth.
That’s what it looks like today.

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00:30:07,160 –> 00:30:10,440
You can see the Jesuit Valley to
the South of it and it’s quite a

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large city nowadays, but.
In those times it was a small

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city.
Here’s a photograph of Nazareth

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about 100 years ago, and that’s
what it looked like.

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I believe in the time of the
Lord Jesus Christ.

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A small village inside a bowl,
surrounded by mountains,

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isolated, poor.
And that’s where Gabriel was

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00:30:31,520 –> 00:30:34,000
sent.
Not to the magnificent temple in

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Jerusalem, to a little village,
to a little girl.

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And a very different reception
he got.

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00:30:43,240 –> 00:31:06,580
Because we go to Luke chapter 1,
we read there in verse 26 now in

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the sixth month, I mean after
his appearance to Zechariah the

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00:31:10,780 –> 00:31:14,700
Angel Gabriel, and his name
means the mighty man of God.

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00:31:15,420 –> 00:31:20,100
He was sent from God unto a city
of Galilee named Nazareth to a

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virgin.
Espoused to a man whose name was

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Joseph of the House of David,
and the Virgin’s name was Mary.

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00:31:30,440 –> 00:31:33,280
Her names are very important in
the Bible.

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Mary had a Hebrew name.
In Hebrew she would have been

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called Miriam, and her name
means exalted.

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Her name doesn’t come from Mara
or bitterness.

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Her name was Miriam.
Even in the Greek New Testament,

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she’s called Miriam.
And indeed she was exalted.

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00:31:50,800 –> 00:31:54,080
And how did the Angel greet her?
In verse 28?

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00:31:54,080 –> 00:31:59,240
The Angel came in and to her in
a humble house in a humble

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00:31:59,240 –> 00:32:02,920
village far away from the
magnificent city of Jerusalem,

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00:32:02,920 –> 00:32:08,720
he said, Hail or rejoice, thou
highly favoured, the Lord is

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00:32:08,720 –> 00:32:12,200
with thee, Blessed art thou
among women.

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00:32:13,800 –> 00:32:16,360
Now, she’s never been greeted
like that in her life.

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00:32:18,040 –> 00:32:19,840
She wasn’t used to be greeted
like that.

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00:32:19,840 –> 00:32:24,320
And then we read in verse 29 she
was troubled at this saying and

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00:32:24,880 –> 00:32:28,960
cast in her mind, what men of
salutation this.

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00:32:28,960 –> 00:32:34,080
Should be the message of a
Saviour being born of a virgin

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00:32:34,440 –> 00:32:36,720
would not have been strange to
her, because she knew the

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00:32:36,720 –> 00:32:40,400
prophets that a virgin shall
conceive and bear a son.

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00:32:41,200 –> 00:32:44,320
By the fact that it was Gabriel
there which first appeared to

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00:32:44,320 –> 00:32:51,000
Zechariah, now came to her.
And she only thought why me

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00:32:52,960 –> 00:32:57,280
after she heard the message of
Gabriel, she only asked one

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00:32:57,280 –> 00:33:00,840
question.
She says how shall this be

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00:33:01,040 –> 00:33:04,800
seeing I know not a man.
It’s a wonderful lifestyle.

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00:33:04,800 –> 00:33:08,200
This girl lived a very faithful
girl in Israel.

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00:33:08,560 –> 00:33:11,280
But this was not a question out
of unbelief, as.

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00:33:11,560 –> 00:33:14,600
The question of Zacharias was
who didn’t believe and asked for

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00:33:14,600 –> 00:33:17,240
a sign.
Her question was perfectly

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00:33:17,240 –> 00:33:20,800
reasonable and therefore in
verse 37, the Angel.

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00:33:20,800 –> 00:33:25,120
In verse 35 says, after her
question in verse 34 says, the

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00:33:25,120 –> 00:33:27,720
Holy Spirit shall come upon
thee, and the power of the

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00:33:27,720 –> 00:33:30,840
highest shall over shadow thee.
Therefore so that holy thing

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which shall be born of thee
shall be called the Son of God.

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00:33:33,160 –> 00:33:39,160
And then he also says, Behold
thy cousin Elizabeth, she has

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00:33:39,160 –> 00:33:43,040
also conceived a son in her old
age, and it’s a six month with

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her who is called barren.
For be God nothing shall be

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00:33:47,000 –> 00:33:52,480
impossible.
I should have remembered Abe.

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00:33:52,480 –> 00:33:56,320
Man, Sarah, is anything too hard
for the Lord?

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00:33:57,440 –> 00:34:02,120
Sarah laughed in unbelief.
But how did Mary react?

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00:34:02,640 –> 00:34:07,760
She says, Behold the handmaid of
the Lord, be it unto me

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00:34:07,840 –> 00:34:13,040
according to thy words.
And sometimes you get a far

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00:34:13,040 –> 00:34:17,360
better reception, brethren, as
sisters, as the the Angel Gable

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00:34:17,360 –> 00:34:22,960
did in humble dwellings with
poor people rather than in that

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00:34:23,000 –> 00:34:26,960
mighty beautiful gold covered
temple in Jerusalem.

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00:34:30,159 –> 00:34:32,280
But now the next place you’re
going to visit, we’re going to

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00:34:32,280 –> 00:34:35,600
follow Mary.
What would you do?

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00:34:35,600 –> 00:34:38,560
If you were a girl.
How old was she, 18/19/20?

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00:34:38,560 –> 00:34:42,480
I don’t know young.
She didn’t go to a father and a

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00:34:42,480 –> 00:34:45,199
mother because I think she was
an.

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00:34:45,199 –> 00:34:51,040
Orphan already at that time the
age of Gabriel, intimated to her

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00:34:51,840 –> 00:34:56,440
that she should go to Elizabeth.
He says, Behold, thy cousin

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00:34:56,440 –> 00:34:58,640
Elizabeth.
She also conceived, so why would

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00:34:58,640 –> 00:35:03,080
you say so?
If not saying well go and visit

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00:35:03,160 –> 00:35:08,880
Elizabeth and that was the most
important visit, not just to

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00:35:08,880 –> 00:35:13,600
have a woman where she can share
experiences with, but also the

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00:35:13,600 –> 00:35:17,240
place where Elizabeth lived had
great.

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00:35:17,240 –> 00:35:21,640
Significance I believe in the
life of the Lord Jesus Christ,

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00:35:24,120 –> 00:35:27,200
but Mary was a wonderful woman
when we read.

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That she cast in her mind all
the things which she heard.

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00:35:31,280 –> 00:35:35,160
She didn’t always understand it,
but she didn’t start arguing.

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00:35:35,400 –> 00:35:38,200
She just kept those things in
her heart.

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00:35:39,120 –> 00:35:41,560
And it’s a wonderful call that
you have by the sisters.

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00:35:41,560 –> 00:35:44,920
We don’t understand everything.
Instead of arguing about it,

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00:35:45,360 –> 00:35:48,240
just store it away.
Read about it.

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The word cast in her mind in
Greekis dialogizoma.

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00:35:53,440 –> 00:35:55,800
It means to have a dialogue with
yourself.

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00:35:56,040 –> 00:35:59,680
So we read the scriptures and we
think about it, we meditate on

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00:35:59,680 –> 00:36:02,800
it and we either come to a
conclusion or we wait.

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00:36:02,800 –> 00:36:06,440
But it’s there all the time.
Mary kept all those things and

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00:36:06,600 –> 00:36:09,720
pondered them in their heart.
And that’s the beautiful frame

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00:36:09,720 –> 00:36:12,800
of mind which God must have
loved.

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00:36:13,320 –> 00:36:18,080
He must have chosen her for that
quality to become the mother of

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00:36:18,080 –> 00:36:21,360
His Son.
She was the only suitable woman

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00:36:21,880 –> 00:36:27,040
to share parenthood with God.
She must be an an amazing person

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00:36:27,520 –> 00:36:32,600
because she knew He knew that
she would teach the young mind

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00:36:32,600 –> 00:36:36,040
of Jesus in all the things that
he needed to know.

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00:36:38,280 –> 00:36:41,720
But how do you go to Elizabeth?
Where did she live?

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00:36:42,520 –> 00:36:46,400
We just thought she lived in the
Hill Country of Judah.

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00:36:47,440 –> 00:36:55,080
Is it important to know?
But who were Zacharias and

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00:36:55,120 –> 00:37:00,200
Elizabeth actually, and why did
Gable say that she should go

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00:37:00,200 –> 00:37:02,840
there?
What is the power of the Bible

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00:37:02,840 –> 00:37:09,400
place where Elizabeth and
Zechariah lived well?

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00:37:10,080 –> 00:37:13,360
I’ve got a.
Few places here that Mary arose

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00:37:13,360 –> 00:37:16,840
and went into the Hill Country,
into the city of Judah, which.

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00:37:16,840 –> 00:37:19,840
City was it?
If you ask anybody in Israel

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00:37:20,080 –> 00:37:23,280
where did John the Baptist grow
up, they say and Cairan just to

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00:37:23,280 –> 00:37:26,000
the West of Jerusalem.
It’s only built on tradition.

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00:37:26,000 –> 00:37:30,080
There’s no historical
documentation for that at all.

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00:37:30,720 –> 00:37:33,160
But.
If you just look at these

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00:37:33,160 –> 00:37:35,840
passages, you can look at the
screen, you can look them up in

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00:37:35,840 –> 00:37:38,720
your Bible.
We read there that there was in

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00:37:38,720 –> 00:37:41,680
the days of Herod, the king of
Judea, Luke 1 and five, a

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00:37:41,680 –> 00:37:45,520
certain priest called Zecharias.
He was off the course of abaya

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00:37:46,480 –> 00:37:48,880
and his wife was of the
daughters of Aaron.

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She wasn’t just a nobody, she
was a daughter of Aaron.

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00:37:54,640 –> 00:37:58,400
Tim speaking about the
importance of the Levites.

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Well, not just the Levites.
She was a daughter of Aaron the

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00:38:01,720 –> 00:38:07,640
high priest.
And then in Chronicles 24, let’s

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turn there because it’s
important that we realise whom

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00:38:11,680 –> 00:38:14,160
we are dealing with.
Why did Gable Saint Mary to

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00:38:14,160 –> 00:38:16,640
speak to Elizabeth?
I was like, why?

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00:38:16,640 –> 00:38:18,000
I couldn’t say a thing, of
course.

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But in One Chronicles 24 we read
about the divisions of the sons

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of Aaron, the native and Abiyu,
Eleazar and Isthmar.

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Native and Abiyu died before the
father and had no children.

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Therefore Eleazar and Isthmar
executed the priest office.

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What did David do with those two
families?

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00:38:43,480 –> 00:38:47,040
The families descendants of
Aaron the high priest.

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00:38:47,520 –> 00:38:52,080
He distributed them both Zadok
of the sons of Eliezer and

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00:38:52,080 –> 00:38:56,320
Ahimelech, the sons of Isthmar,
according to their officers in

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00:38:56,320 –> 00:38:59,800
their service.
And so first five, they were

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00:38:59,800 –> 00:39:04,000
divided by lot 1 sword with
another for governors of the

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00:39:04,000 –> 00:39:06,600
sanctuary, governors of the
House of God.

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00:39:07,160 –> 00:39:10,400
They were the sons of Eliezer.
And the sons of Isthmar,

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00:39:10,680 –> 00:39:12,680
grandsons of Aaron the high
priest.

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00:39:13,840 –> 00:39:17,560
And so they divide into 24
different orders so that they

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would go around in two years for
two weeks and serve in

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Jerusalem.
And in verse, the 8th order in

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00:39:24,840 –> 00:39:30,760
verse 10 belonged to Abijah.
The Zechariah belonged to that

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00:39:30,760 –> 00:39:37,720
order, an order of the sons of
Aaron, and that is why he served

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00:39:37,720 –> 00:39:42,480
in the temple.
In verse 19 we read of the same

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00:39:42,480 –> 00:39:44,880
chapter.
These were the orderings of

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00:39:44,880 –> 00:39:48,760
them, the sons of Aaron, in
their service to come into the

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00:39:48,760 –> 00:39:52,560
House of Yahweh according to
their manner, and to under Aaron

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00:39:52,560 –> 00:39:56,280
their father as Yahweh Elimovico
had commanded them.

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Well, Mary Elizabeth described
as a daughter of Aaron, but

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00:40:01,760 –> 00:40:06,080
Zacharias was a son of Aaron,
and therefore they lived in the

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city of Aaron in a place called.
The city in the Hill Country of

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Judah.
If you go to Joshua chapter 21,

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we can find out where it is
exactly.

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00:40:24,960 –> 00:40:29,400
There’s only one city of all the
Leviticus cities and of all the

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00:40:29,400 –> 00:40:34,440
cities in Judah that was called
a city in the Hill Country of of

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00:40:34,440 –> 00:40:37,280
Judah.
Remember how Tim explained that

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00:40:38,200 –> 00:40:42,720
Jacob said I was scatter Levi in
Israel about one of the cities

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00:40:42,720 –> 00:40:46,320
where they lived.
We read about in verse 11.

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So verse 10 for connecting the
children of Aaron of the

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families of the Koethites, who
of the children of Levi had the

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00:40:55,800 –> 00:40:58,600
first Lord.
They gave to them the city of

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00:40:58,600 –> 00:41:04,280
Arban, the father of Anak, which
is Hebron in the Hill Country of

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00:41:04,280 –> 00:41:09,360
Judah, the only city that is
called a city in the Hill

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00:41:09,360 –> 00:41:12,960
Country of Judah with the
suburbs thereof ground about it.

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That’s where they lived.
That was a city given to Aaron

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00:41:17,360 –> 00:41:20,080
the high priest and his
descendants, and that’s where

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00:41:20,080 –> 00:41:25,520
Elizabeth and Zechariah lived,
and that is where Mary went.

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00:41:27,720 –> 00:41:31,400
It also became a city of refuge,
as you read in verse 13, as they

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00:41:31,400 –> 00:41:34,320
gave to the children of Israel
of Aaron the priest, Hebron as

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00:41:34,320 –> 00:41:38,120
the suburbs to be a city of
refuge for the Slayer.

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00:41:39,080 –> 00:41:43,320
So it’s the most important place
where they lived.

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00:41:45,280 –> 00:41:49,960
Or the interesting thing, of
course, is that Mary and

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00:41:49,960 –> 00:41:54,600
Elizabeth were cousins.
How is that possible?

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00:41:55,080 –> 00:41:57,200
Because Mary came from.
Judah.

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00:41:57,720 –> 00:42:01,720
At least her father did because
you can read in Matthew chapter

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00:42:01,720 –> 00:42:05,120
one that Jacob father was a
direct descendant of David

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00:42:05,360 –> 00:42:09,000
through Solomon.
How could she have been cousins

619
00:42:09,320 –> 00:42:17,520
with a daughter of Aaron if not?
Mary’s mother was a sister to

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00:42:17,520 –> 00:42:22,200
the mother of Elizabeth.
So Mary’s mother must have been

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a daughter of Aaron also.
And it’s the most beautiful

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00:42:26,360 –> 00:42:30,080
thing we can get out of this
whole indication of the Angel

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00:42:30,080 –> 00:42:32,360
Gabriel of Mary to go to
Elizabeth.

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00:42:33,240 –> 00:42:40,840
Because we can learn from an
incident that Mary’s father was

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00:42:40,840 –> 00:42:42,360
on the line of the kings of
Judah.

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00:42:42,840 –> 00:42:44,840
Her mother was a daughter of
Aaron.

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00:42:45,080 –> 00:42:50,080
He got the two tribes, Levi and
Judah, coming together in this

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00:42:50,080 –> 00:42:54,760
family in Mary.
And it is wonderful because

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Jesus Christ is going to be king
and priest.

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He could claim to be king
through Mary’s father.

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He could claim to be priest
through Mary’s mother.

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He’s both king and priest.
My brother Tim spoke about the

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00:43:12,960 –> 00:43:19,000
zeal of the sons of Levi, but
Jesus said the zeal of thine

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00:43:19,000 –> 00:43:22,800
house has eaten me up.
Where did he get that zeal from?

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00:43:23,440 –> 00:43:29,320
If not from the family line of
Erin, the zeal by which they

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00:43:29,880 –> 00:43:34,880
they’re the zeal of God to do
away with iniquity and his evil.

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00:43:35,960 –> 00:43:42,880
So Hebron Wellness Sisters is
the city of Erin and many other

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00:43:42,880 –> 00:43:45,760
things happened in this city.
You can just.

639
00:43:45,960 –> 00:43:48,840
Go through the history.
But first of all, before we look

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00:43:48,840 –> 00:43:54,560
a bit further into Hebron, if
just think of that journey, a

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00:43:54,560 –> 00:43:58,200
girl who’s just met an Angel who
says she’s got to be pregnant

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00:43:58,960 –> 00:44:01,640
and go and see your cousin
Elizabeth.

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00:44:02,400 –> 00:44:07,920
She had to travel 190 kilometres
from Nazareth all the way

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00:44:07,920 –> 00:44:11,720
through Jordan Valley by Jericho
and Jerusalem, Bethlehem and go

645
00:44:11,720 –> 00:44:14,640
to Hebron.
Now that is quite a distance

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00:44:14,640 –> 00:44:19,600
just walking from here where we
are all the way to Hamilton and

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00:44:19,600 –> 00:44:22,520
back again.
Well, I’m sure there was no snow

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00:44:22,520 –> 00:44:25,200
in those days, but still quite,
quite a bit of a journey.

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00:44:25,440 –> 00:44:29,760
And to do that.
All on her own, in a time when

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00:44:29,760 –> 00:44:36,520
travel was not always very safe.
Must have proved to her, to us

651
00:44:36,520 –> 00:44:40,200
to prove.
That she completely trusted in

652
00:44:40,200 –> 00:44:42,760
God.
If she was chosen by God to

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00:44:42,760 –> 00:44:46,560
become the mother of His Son,
that He would look after her

654
00:44:47,160 –> 00:44:49,960
wherever she went, as long as
she didn’t tempt the Lord.

655
00:44:50,760 –> 00:44:52,800
But other things happened in in
Hebron.

656
00:44:53,560 –> 00:44:56,120
It was the burial place of of
the patriarchs.

657
00:44:56,400 –> 00:45:00,240
You know that Abraham, he bought
of the sons of Head a burial

658
00:45:00,240 –> 00:45:03,120
place to bury Sarah.
And he himself was buried there,

659
00:45:03,400 –> 00:45:06,960
as are Isaac and Rebecca, Jacob
and Leah.

660
00:45:07,520 –> 00:45:10,920
The city was conquered.
I think you can read quite a few

661
00:45:10,920 –> 00:45:14,800
references here by Caleb, the
son of Gefenne was given to

662
00:45:14,800 –> 00:45:16,880
Aaron.
But it also was a city of

663
00:45:16,880 –> 00:45:19,400
refuge.
And finally David was crowned

664
00:45:19,400 –> 00:45:22,880
king there.
How many associations are there

665
00:45:23,120 –> 00:45:27,360
in that city?
So we saw early that God told

666
00:45:27,360 –> 00:45:30,280
Abram, Arise, walk through the
land, in the length of it, and

667
00:45:30,280 –> 00:45:32,920
in the breadth which I would
give it, and unto thee.

668
00:45:33,880 –> 00:45:38,840
And although Jesus was not yet
born, he was there with her,

669
00:45:39,080 –> 00:45:43,440
wasn’t he?
And later, when he grew up, she

670
00:45:43,440 –> 00:45:46,960
would have told him when he was
a little bit older about that

671
00:45:46,960 –> 00:45:49,080
journey while he was still in
the room.

672
00:45:50,680 –> 00:45:55,320
She would have told him that the
Angel told her to go there to

673
00:45:55,320 –> 00:46:00,280
bring home to this young boy
Jesus his connections with

674
00:46:00,280 –> 00:46:04,920
Abraham, with Isaac and Jacob,
with David and the ironic

675
00:46:04,920 –> 00:46:10,080
priesthood, and that he’s going
to be king and priest in Israel.

676
00:46:10,400 –> 00:46:13,920
All the city brothers and
sisters, Abram and his family

677
00:46:13,920 –> 00:46:15,920
buried there.
The city of the high priest.

678
00:46:16,200 –> 00:46:18,640
David was crowned king there and
now Jesus.

679
00:46:18,640 –> 00:46:22,960
God was indicated all these
things to Jesus even before he

680
00:46:22,960 –> 00:46:25,720
was born.
Let me know that your wife’s

681
00:46:25,720 –> 00:46:28,960
going to give birth.
Don’t you make preparations, buy

682
00:46:28,960 –> 00:46:31,560
cot, buy little baby clothes,
and prepare everything.

683
00:46:31,560 –> 00:46:36,720
So God was preparing for His Son
Jesus by showing him the root

684
00:46:36,920 –> 00:46:40,640
and the connections which he had
with the fathers of old today.

685
00:46:40,640 –> 00:46:43,120
Of course you can.
Go there to the Tomb of the

686
00:46:43,120 –> 00:46:48,120
Patriarchs, a building rebuilt
by King Harry the Great in the

687
00:46:48,120 –> 00:46:51,800
typical Herodian style.
Inside, as you can see on this

688
00:46:51,800 –> 00:46:53,680
drawing, there’s a Crusader
church.

689
00:46:53,680 –> 00:46:57,880
So it’s a site holy for for
Jews, actually for Muslims also

690
00:46:57,880 –> 00:47:00,200
who also pray there, and for
Christians.

691
00:47:00,240 –> 00:47:03,880
But somewhere underneath that
platform, if you could only make

692
00:47:03,880 –> 00:47:06,000
a hole in that surrounding.
Wall.

693
00:47:06,360 –> 00:47:11,880
There is the double cave where
Abram and Isaac and Abraham and

694
00:47:12,160 –> 00:47:17,120
and Sarah and Isaac and and Leah
and and Rachel and and or Jacob

695
00:47:17,120 –> 00:47:20,760
and Leah were buried.
So what a place it was not just

696
00:47:21,000 –> 00:47:24,560
a randomly chosen place when the
Asia told her to go to death.

697
00:47:24,600 –> 00:47:28,760
No, it was to make sure that
Jesus understood all the

698
00:47:28,760 –> 00:47:32,400
connections with the royal House
of David and the high priesthood

699
00:47:32,640 –> 00:47:37,240
of of Aaron.
But then he was going to be born

700
00:47:37,280 –> 00:47:41,720
in Bethlehem, the verse says.
Out of thee shall he come forth

701
00:47:42,040 –> 00:47:44,480
unto me, that is to be a ruler
in his realm.

702
00:47:46,400 –> 00:47:49,880
How was it just a randomly
chosen cave where Mary gave

703
00:47:49,880 –> 00:47:51,600
birth to Jesus?
You can go to Bethlehem

704
00:47:51,600 –> 00:47:54,160
nowadays.
I mean I went there just after

705
00:47:54,160 –> 00:47:57,160
the 6th day war in 1967.
Spent the whole night there

706
00:47:57,920 –> 00:48:00,360
watching those priests.
The Bishop was a big mice on his

707
00:48:00,360 –> 00:48:03,800
head, having a plastic door in
his hand and little door at his

708
00:48:04,000 –> 00:48:06,080
legs, legs crossed in the hands.
Like this.

709
00:48:06,360 –> 00:48:08,800
He was walking through the door,
through the church, followed by

710
00:48:08,800 –> 00:48:12,720
a whole row of priests with
staging hand and boom, boom,

711
00:48:12,760 –> 00:48:16,200
boom, just to impressed the
people that came to visit there.

712
00:48:16,520 –> 00:48:18,560
And I just couldn’t go back to
the kibbutz where I was.

713
00:48:18,560 –> 00:48:21,400
So I stayed all the night in
that, in that cave there where

714
00:48:21,400 –> 00:48:23,960
Jesus was supposed to be born
with a silver star.

715
00:48:23,960 –> 00:48:25,760
On the floor.
Well, Jesus was not born in a

716
00:48:25,760 –> 00:48:28,520
cave, and there was no Silver
Star when he was born there at

717
00:48:28,520 –> 00:48:30,480
all.
And so that makes you just

718
00:48:30,480 –> 00:48:33,080
wonder, well, is it important
for us to know at all where he

719
00:48:33,080 –> 00:48:37,080
was born?
The fact that he was born, that

720
00:48:37,080 –> 00:48:40,160
he became the saviour of the
world, is surely more important.

721
00:48:42,320 –> 00:48:45,680
But still a thing by instances
that we can learn a lot from

722
00:48:45,680 –> 00:48:49,000
Bethlehem.
First of all, the Romans were in

723
00:48:49,000 –> 00:48:53,080
power and if you go to Luke
chapter 2 we can see what forced

724
00:48:53,160 –> 00:48:54,800
them.
They were living in Nazareth in

725
00:48:54,800 –> 00:48:58,320
the wrong place.
Jesus could not have been born

726
00:48:58,880 –> 00:49:05,560
in Nazareth.
In chapter 2 we read they came

727
00:49:05,560 –> 00:49:08,120
to pass in those days, that they
went out for a decree from

728
00:49:08,120 –> 00:49:10,400
Caesar Augustus that all the
world should be taxed.

729
00:49:10,680 –> 00:49:14,040
This Texan was first made when
Sirenius was governor of Syria

730
00:49:14,280 –> 00:49:18,200
and all went to be taxed,
everyone into his own city.

731
00:49:18,200 –> 00:49:19,720
You’re going to just go where
you wanted to.

732
00:49:20,360 –> 00:49:25,440
So Joseph, he had to go up from
Galilee, another long journey

733
00:49:25,440 –> 00:49:28,920
which Mary had done before, out
of the city of Nazareth into

734
00:49:28,920 –> 00:49:32,480
Judea and to the city of David,
which is called Bethlehem

735
00:49:32,480 –> 00:49:36,160
because he was of the house and
lineage of David to be taxed or

736
00:49:36,160 –> 00:49:40,440
enrolled with Mary, his espoused
wife, being great wish child.

737
00:49:41,920 –> 00:49:44,080
Well, that must have been a very
uncomfortable journey.

738
00:49:44,200 –> 00:49:46,920
If you’re almost nine months
pregnant and you’ve got to

739
00:49:46,920 –> 00:49:49,600
travel about 100 kilometres on
the back of a donkey shaking

740
00:49:49,600 –> 00:49:51,520
around.
That was not very comfortable,

741
00:49:51,520 –> 00:49:55,040
but it was determined that
Jesus.

742
00:49:55,040 –> 00:49:58,760
Had to be born in Bethlehem and
so they had to go there.

743
00:49:59,880 –> 00:50:02,640
Going there through the hot
Jordan Valley, like going from

744
00:50:02,640 –> 00:50:05,240
here to Toronto, 100 mile long
journey.

745
00:50:05,720 –> 00:50:07,600
It’s a very long distance.
And then they.

746
00:50:07,600 –> 00:50:11,240
Arrived there to give birth to
the Son of God and there was no

747
00:50:11,240 –> 00:50:15,680
place for them to stay in.
The only available place for the

748
00:50:15,680 –> 00:50:19,160
Son of God was to be born in a
dirty stable which you had to

749
00:50:19,160 –> 00:50:22,920
share with animals.
It wasn’t a romantic Christmas

750
00:50:22,920 –> 00:50:26,320
postcard stable at all.
You only hope that there were

751
00:50:26,320 –> 00:50:30,200
some women capacity enough to
help her with her childbirth,

752
00:50:30,200 –> 00:50:31,480
otherwise Joseph would have been
the only.

753
00:50:31,480 –> 00:50:34,160
Support in those dire
circumstances.

754
00:50:34,360 –> 00:50:37,600
That’s how the Son of God was
born, pregnant sisters.

755
00:50:39,080 –> 00:50:41,000
So what is the importance about
Bethlehem?

756
00:50:41,880 –> 00:50:43,720
That’s the journey.
Then he had to undertake that to

757
00:50:43,720 –> 00:50:47,720
leave Nazareth, go to Bethshan
through the Jordan Valley,

758
00:50:48,200 –> 00:50:51,960
crossover Bethabarra, and have
that steep climb up from Jericho

759
00:50:51,960 –> 00:50:55,120
to Jerusalem and then go to to
Bethlehem.

760
00:50:56,720 –> 00:50:58,160
Well, you can see Bethlehem
today.

761
00:50:58,160 –> 00:51:00,520
It’s quite a large city all over
here.

762
00:51:00,920 –> 00:51:04,480
And here’s the centre of
Bethlehem, where Jesus was born

763
00:51:07,080 –> 00:51:08,000
and Joshua.
Came into the.

764
00:51:08,000 –> 00:51:11,200
Land we can read in chapter 6.
He conquered Jericho.

765
00:51:12,080 –> 00:51:15,440
He cursed the city so that it
became a city of death.

766
00:51:16,080 –> 00:51:19,720
Nobody lived in Jericho anymore.
But remember Rahab and the

767
00:51:19,720 –> 00:51:24,960
family, the only person that was
saved, she married Salman of the

768
00:51:25,360 –> 00:51:30,200
tribe of Judah, and they must
have settled in Bethlehem when

769
00:51:30,200 –> 00:51:34,520
Judah captured first its
inheritance and later we know

770
00:51:34,520 –> 00:51:37,720
that.
Let’s go to Ruth in Chapter 4.

771
00:51:55,640 –> 00:51:59,800
Here we have the the Redeemer
Boaz in verse 9 saying to the

772
00:51:59,800 –> 00:52:02,600
eldest and to all the people
that were in the gate.

773
00:52:02,600 –> 00:52:05,600
You have witnesses this day that
I have bought all that was

774
00:52:05,600 –> 00:52:09,080
Elimelechs and all that was
Killians and Maclons of the hand

775
00:52:09,080 –> 00:52:11,200
of Naomi.
Moreover, Ruth don’t know by

776
00:52:11,200 –> 00:52:14,120
this the wife of Maclon have I
purchased.

777
00:52:14,600 –> 00:52:18,280
To be my wife, To raise up the
name of the dead upon his

778
00:52:18,280 –> 00:52:21,200
inheritance, That the name of
the dead be not cut off from

779
00:52:21,200 –> 00:52:24,200
among his brethren and from the
gate of his place.

780
00:52:24,200 –> 00:52:29,200
Ye are witnesses this day.
And so Ruth was there.

781
00:52:29,440 –> 00:52:33,040
She became the great grandmother
of David, and she was redeemed

782
00:52:33,120 –> 00:52:36,560
by Boaz, the type of Christ and
Gentile.

783
00:52:36,560 –> 00:52:40,640
Ruth is one of the four women
that are mentioned in Matthew

784
00:52:40,640 –> 00:52:44,840
chapter one in the genealogy of
Jesus, a Gentile woman.

785
00:52:45,360 –> 00:52:49,440
Just amazing.
So Jesus was born in Bethlehem

786
00:52:50,520 –> 00:52:52,800
just as David was born in
Bethlehem.

787
00:52:53,200 –> 00:52:56,960
David was anointed king in
Bethlehem by Samuel the prophet,

788
00:52:58,040 –> 00:53:02,080
and so the place is so important
in all the associations.

789
00:53:02,560 –> 00:53:04,640
We can go back earlier in
history.

790
00:53:04,800 –> 00:53:10,560
Let’s go to Genesis chapter 35.
What can we learn there about

791
00:53:10,920 –> 00:53:26,360
Bethlehem in verse 18?
Over 16 for connection Here’s

792
00:53:26,360 –> 00:53:31,960
another family who’s a pregnant
woman travelling down to

793
00:53:31,960 –> 00:53:34,960
Bethlehem just like Joseph and
Mary did about 2000 years later

794
00:53:34,960 –> 00:53:38,640
on their journey from Bethel.
Over 16 There was better little

795
00:53:38,640 –> 00:53:39,720
way.
To come to effort.

796
00:53:40,120 –> 00:53:42,480
And Rachel travelled as she had
hard labour.

797
00:53:42,480 –> 00:53:45,120
And it came to pass, when she
was in hard labour, that the

798
00:53:45,120 –> 00:53:48,680
midwife said unto her, Fear not,
thou shalt have this son also.

799
00:53:49,200 –> 00:53:51,520
And it came to pass, as her soul
was in departing.

800
00:53:51,760 –> 00:53:56,000
For she died, that she called
his name Benoni, but his father

801
00:53:56,000 –> 00:53:59,680
called him Benjamin.
And Rachel died and was buried

802
00:53:59,680 –> 00:54:02,560
in the way to effort, which is
Bethlehem.

803
00:54:03,160 –> 00:54:06,280
And Jacob said the pillar upon
her grave, that’s the pillar of

804
00:54:06,280 –> 00:54:10,840
Rachel’s grave unto this day.
And then he journeyed and spread

805
00:54:10,840 –> 00:54:15,560
his tent toward the Tower of
Ida, another very important

806
00:54:15,560 –> 00:54:22,520
place in Bethlehem.
To go back to Mary, that she was

807
00:54:22,520 –> 00:54:25,200
in the stable.
She had just given birth.

808
00:54:27,720 –> 00:54:31,680
I’ll be present at the birth of
my children to be with my wife

809
00:54:31,680 –> 00:54:34,120
Kathleen.
And I’m sure the last thing she

810
00:54:34,120 –> 00:54:37,680
found and have a group of angels
coming in and telling you what

811
00:54:37,680 –> 00:54:40,880
they had seen is just not be
quiet and get over the

812
00:54:40,880 –> 00:54:42,400
experience of having given
birth.

813
00:54:44,200 –> 00:54:50,120
But why did the Angel appear to
shepherds, and not to carpenters

814
00:54:50,760 –> 00:54:53,520
or to fishermen or to
stonemasons?

815
00:54:55,080 –> 00:54:59,080
The shepherds in Bethlehem whom
those angels appeared may not

816
00:54:59,080 –> 00:55:04,480
have been ordinary shepherds at
all, according to ancient Jewish

817
00:55:04,480 –> 00:55:08,960
sources.
The Tower of Ida or Migdal Edde

818
00:55:09,520 –> 00:55:16,480
we just read about in Genesis 35
in verse 21, the tower of Ida.

819
00:55:16,480 –> 00:55:22,680
Means the tower of the flock.
That’s where Jacob camped after

820
00:55:22,680 –> 00:55:24,960
Rachel had died and Benjamin was
born.

821
00:55:27,280 –> 00:55:38,480
Now we know that if you go to
Micah chapter 4, that was most

822
00:55:38,480 –> 00:55:41,480
people say why the Jews had to
be born in Bethlehem, not

823
00:55:41,480 –> 00:55:49,720
because of Micah.
Most people say I was he was

824
00:55:49,720 –> 00:55:52,600
born in in Bethlehem and they
quote Micah first stood, but

825
00:55:52,600 –> 00:55:56,200
thou Bethlehem Ephrata doda by
little among the thousands of

826
00:55:56,200 –> 00:55:58,760
Judah, yet out of this shall he
come forth unto me.

827
00:55:58,760 –> 00:56:01,480
That is the ruler in Israel.
Whose going forth had been

828
00:56:01,480 –> 00:56:06,280
promoted from everlasting.
But to understand the shepherds,

829
00:56:07,200 –> 00:56:10,000
then you go to chapter 4 and
verse 8.

830
00:56:10,960 –> 00:56:15,880
And thou tower of the flock.
Same place where Jacob pitched

831
00:56:15,880 –> 00:56:20,400
his tent after Rachel had died.
Back in the same place.

832
00:56:21,760 –> 00:56:23,520
What does it say about that
place?

833
00:56:23,880 –> 00:56:26,600
It’s a stronghold of the
daughters of Zion.

834
00:56:28,120 –> 00:56:31,760
And to thee shall it come the
first dominion.

835
00:56:32,280 –> 00:56:35,480
The Kingdom shall come to the
daughter of Jerusalem.

836
00:56:35,960 –> 00:56:38,360
Where?
In the tower of the flock.

837
00:56:40,720 –> 00:56:47,080
Now we know from other sources
that in this particular place a

838
00:56:47,080 –> 00:56:51,800
flock was kept looked as very
special flock by very special

839
00:56:51,800 –> 00:56:56,680
shepherds because from that
flock, every day two lambs were

840
00:56:56,680 –> 00:56:58,840
taken to be sacrificed in the
temple.

841
00:56:59,720 –> 00:57:02,920
And those shepherds had to make
sure that those lambs had no

842
00:57:02,920 –> 00:57:06,040
broken legs, no missing tail or
ear or whatever.

843
00:57:06,040 –> 00:57:10,200
And if you were a.
Shepherd And you’ve got all

844
00:57:10,200 –> 00:57:13,960
those lovely lambs around you,
and every day two were taken

845
00:57:13,960 –> 00:57:16,560
away to be killed on the art.
They said, well, what is all

846
00:57:16,560 –> 00:57:19,320
this about?
It would set you thinking,

847
00:57:19,320 –> 00:57:21,320
wouldn’t it?
Would they have thought about

848
00:57:21,320 –> 00:57:23,800
the lamb that was?
Slain from the foundation of the

849
00:57:23,800 –> 00:57:27,400
earth.
It was to those shepherds that

850
00:57:27,400 –> 00:57:30,680
were wondering about the Lamb
that was going to be slain of

851
00:57:30,680 –> 00:57:35,160
the world that he appeared, and
they announced, as it says here

852
00:57:35,160 –> 00:57:38,240
in verse 8, the Kingdom shall
come to the daughter of

853
00:57:38,240 –> 00:57:40,320
Jerusalem.
That’s why the angels went to

854
00:57:40,320 –> 00:57:45,160
those shepherds, and that is the
beauty of Bethlehem.

855
00:57:47,160 –> 00:57:52,120
So Mary, it’s much to ponder
about, to think about, as she

856
00:57:52,120 –> 00:57:55,560
would have thought and meditated
on it and kept it in her heart.

857
00:57:56,160 –> 00:58:01,000
And she would have taught Jesus
all about the circumstances of

858
00:58:01,000 –> 00:58:04,640
the announcement by the Gabriel,
the Angel Gabriel, of her visit

859
00:58:04,640 –> 00:58:08,960
to Elizabeth, her birth in
Bethlehem, and the visit of the

860
00:58:08,960 –> 00:58:13,840
Angel.
But now there was all the

861
00:58:13,840 –> 00:58:16,000
references about the tower of
the flock.

862
00:58:16,520 –> 00:58:19,000
Use the shepherd’s field.
You can go to the shepherd’s

863
00:58:19,000 –> 00:58:21,200
field now.
Not quite sure.

864
00:58:21,200 –> 00:58:23,120
Whether this is?
The tower of the flock, because

865
00:58:23,120 –> 00:58:25,760
there’s a Catholic one, there’s
a Greek one and a Latin 1.

866
00:58:25,760 –> 00:58:28,480
So you can take your, your,
your, your pick.

867
00:58:28,840 –> 00:58:35,360
But what is more important is
where was the inn and what do

868
00:58:35,360 –> 00:58:37,800
you know about this table where
she was born?

869
00:58:39,080 –> 00:58:46,320
And there’s a fantastic lesson
here in showing out God had 1000

870
00:58:46,320 –> 00:58:52,040
years beforehand prepared a
place for Jesus to be born.

871
00:58:54,320 –> 00:58:56,640
Let’s go to second Samuel.
Chapter 19

872
00:59:06,900 –> 00:59:09,300
is after the rebellion of
Absalom.

873
00:59:12,780 –> 00:59:14,760
Absalom.
Was slain.

874
00:59:16,160 –> 00:59:22,360
David mourned for him, but then
he went back home and he wanted

875
00:59:22,360 –> 00:59:32,240
to take Barcelonae with him.
He says There in verse 33, the

876
00:59:32,240 –> 00:59:35,920
king said unto Barcelonae, Come
down over with me, and I will

877
00:59:35,920 –> 00:59:39,760
feed thee with me in Jerusalem.
Barcelonae said unto the king,

878
00:59:39,920 –> 00:59:42,600
How long have I to live, that I
should go up with the King unto

879
00:59:42,600 –> 00:59:45,200
Jerusalem?
Now he’s too old and all that,

880
00:59:45,760 –> 00:59:49,040
he said, verse 36 that I served
or go a little way over Jordan

881
00:59:49,040 –> 00:59:52,440
with the king, and why should
the king recompense it to me

882
00:59:52,440 –> 00:59:56,560
with such a reward?
And he says that thy servant I

883
00:59:56,560 –> 01:00:00,560
prayed, he turned back again,
that I may die in my own country

884
01:00:00,560 –> 01:00:02,640
by the grave of my father and of
my mother.

885
01:00:02,640 –> 01:00:06,560
But behold thy servant Kim Hum.
That was his son.

886
01:00:07,520 –> 01:00:11,160
Let him go over with my Lord the
King, and do to him what shall

887
01:00:11,160 –> 01:00:14,160
seem good unto thee.
And the king answered, King Ham

888
01:00:14,360 –> 01:00:18,200
shall go over with me, and I’ll
do to him that which shall seem

889
01:00:18,200 –> 01:00:21,680
good unto thee, and whatsoever
required me I will do for thee.

890
01:00:23,360 –> 01:00:26,840
And so he went, and he ate of
the King’s table.

891
01:00:32,400 –> 01:00:33,760
But how was he going to make a
living?

892
01:00:33,760 –> 01:00:38,280
Of course he was fed from the
table of the king.

893
01:00:38,280 –> 01:00:40,080
He had a family to look after
him.

894
01:00:40,400 –> 01:00:45,080
He wants to Job.
So how did he go about looking

895
01:00:45,080 –> 01:00:48,760
after his family?
It’s a very interesting

896
01:00:49,160 –> 01:00:55,240
connection with Jeremiah chapter
41 in Jeremiah 41, after the

897
01:00:55,240 –> 01:00:59,720
Babylonian invasion, with all
the trouble with Godalaya and

898
01:00:59,760 –> 01:01:04,880
Ishmael and all that, and then
the remnants wants to go to

899
01:01:04,880 –> 01:01:10,640
Egypt that asked Jeremiah to
pray for them, but when he came

900
01:01:10,640 –> 01:01:16,880
back with an answer, they didn’t
want to listen to him and so

901
01:01:16,880 –> 01:01:19,520
they took him for his.
I must make this short.

902
01:01:19,520 –> 01:01:23,240
In 1st, 5th, 1st, 14 all the
people that Ishmael carried away

903
01:01:23,240 –> 01:01:26,120
kept it from Misbah cast about
to return to a minute to

904
01:01:26,120 –> 01:01:29,240
Chaconam the son of Korea.
But Ishmael the son of Netanyahu

905
01:01:29,480 –> 01:01:33,120
of Nathania, he escaped with
Jochnam with eight men and went

906
01:01:33,120 –> 01:01:36,240
to the Ammonites and took
Jochenam the son of Korea.

907
01:01:36,240 –> 01:01:38,680
And all the captains of the
force that were with him, all

908
01:01:38,680 –> 01:01:41,400
the remnant of the people which
he had covered, because from

909
01:01:41,400 –> 01:01:44,680
Ishmael the son of Nathanael,
from Mizpah, all that he had

910
01:01:44,680 –> 01:01:47,280
slain.
After that he had slain Gadoli,

911
01:01:47,280 –> 01:01:50,440
the son of Ahaikum, all the
mighty men of war, and the women

912
01:01:50,440 –> 01:01:53,000
and the children and the
eunuchs, which he had brought

913
01:01:53,120 –> 01:01:57,080
again from Given.
And they departed and dwelt in

914
01:01:57,080 –> 01:02:02,240
the habitation of Kim Ham, which
is by Bethlehem, to go to enter

915
01:02:02,240 –> 01:02:05,600
into Egypt because of the
Chaldeans, because they were

916
01:02:05,600 –> 01:02:08,080
afraid.
So they’d made-up their mind to

917
01:02:08,080 –> 01:02:11,600
go to Egypt, and they waited
till they were all together, and

918
01:02:11,600 –> 01:02:14,320
they stayed in the habitation of
Kim Ham.

919
01:02:14,880 –> 01:02:17,600
Was Kim Ham the son of
Barcelona?

920
01:02:18,280 –> 01:02:19,720
Whom they was going to look
after.

921
01:02:20,560 –> 01:02:22,680
What’s the word?
The habitation is the word for

922
01:02:22,680 –> 01:02:28,040
an inn.
This is the inn of Kim Ham in

923
01:02:28,040 –> 01:02:33,240
Bethlehem.
How did you get the inn?

924
01:02:34,800 –> 01:02:40,200
David, I suppose, would have
taken part of his inheritance,

925
01:02:41,120 –> 01:02:44,080
given it to Kim Ham so he could
build.

926
01:02:44,080 –> 01:02:48,360
An inn and make a living.
It was still known as the Inn of

927
01:02:48,360 –> 01:02:50,600
Kim Ham all those many years
later.

928
01:02:52,800 –> 01:02:55,480
Now we know from archaeology
that there’s only one.

929
01:02:55,480 –> 01:03:01,200
Inn in a village in a city.
There’s only one inn in

930
01:03:01,200 –> 01:03:07,000
Bethlehem and so, but it says
through the generosity of David

931
01:03:07,280 –> 01:03:14,480
to Barthelai Alison Kimham, a
birthplace had been prepared by

932
01:03:14,480 –> 01:03:17,960
the fore sight of God for the
Saviour of the world.

933
01:03:19,320 –> 01:03:22,160
Now that is wonderful.
Now by the.

934
01:03:22,160 –> 01:03:26,400
Stable.
We know what stables look like.

935
01:03:26,880 –> 01:03:28,480
You can see on the on the
picture here.

936
01:03:28,480 –> 01:03:31,120
It’s a reconstruction drawing.
It was quite an extensive

937
01:03:31,120 –> 01:03:35,880
building, a main entrance where
the travellers came.

938
01:03:36,720 –> 01:03:39,440
They stayed in the buildings
around the courtyard.

939
01:03:40,120 –> 01:03:42,280
The owner of the inn would have
lit upstairs.

940
01:03:43,520 –> 01:03:46,880
There was a well in the
courtyard, but here’s a stable

941
01:03:46,880 –> 01:03:51,600
block where the animals stayed.
There’s a wall there, as you can

942
01:03:51,600 –> 01:03:55,160
see here, with windows in it.
We call it the fenestrated wall.

943
01:03:56,000 –> 01:03:59,280
The animals are put at the back
of this wall, like the donkey

944
01:03:59,280 –> 01:04:03,800
standing there will be fed from
the foot that was put inside

945
01:04:03,800 –> 01:04:05,760
those windows, perhaps in their
wooden box.

946
01:04:07,080 –> 01:04:09,400
And the people that served the
animals would be here on this

947
01:04:09,400 –> 01:04:12,880
side of the stables, and that’s
where Mary and Joseph would have

948
01:04:12,880 –> 01:04:15,160
been.
And after Jesus was born, he.

949
01:04:15,360 –> 01:04:17,560
Would have been put.
In one of those window boxes,

950
01:04:17,800 –> 01:04:19,840
the food taken out, straw
pudding there.

951
01:04:20,120 –> 01:04:24,680
And so a a place has been
provided for Jesus to be born

952
01:04:24,680 –> 01:04:28,240
in.
But in his own inheritance in

953
01:04:28,240 –> 01:04:32,680
the inn of Kim Ham, which David
had given to him to make a

954
01:04:32,680 –> 01:04:35,880
living, that most thought to
prepare a place.

955
01:04:36,120 –> 01:04:40,000
For Jesus to be born in in the
inheritance of David, when he

956
01:04:40,000 –> 01:04:42,280
says.
This just blows you away how God

957
01:04:42,520 –> 01:04:45,160
has prepared a place for.
Jesus to be born.

958
01:04:45,600 –> 01:04:48,680
Not in a.
Cave, no Silver Star, nothing in

959
01:04:48,680 –> 01:04:52,240
it at all like that, but in his
own inheritance.

960
01:04:54,360 –> 01:04:57,760
Let’s just remember that when
Jacob and Rachel travelled.

961
01:04:57,920 –> 01:05:01,160
To the same.
Place here that Rachel died when

962
01:05:01,160 –> 01:05:06,000
Benjamin was born.
You go to Genesis chapter 48.

963
01:05:06,040 –> 01:05:10,840
Let’s just go back again to
Rachel and what happened to her

964
01:05:11,160 –> 01:05:20,830
in Bethlehem.
They printed on the mind of

965
01:05:20,830 –> 01:05:29,470
Jacob, he says there in chapter
48 and verse 7.

966
01:05:30,630 –> 01:05:35,670
As for me, when I came from
Param, Rachel died by me in the

967
01:05:35,670 –> 01:05:39,630
land of Canaan in the way when
she had a little way to come to

968
01:05:39,630 –> 01:05:42,670
effort, and I buried her there
in the way of effort.

969
01:05:43,080 –> 01:05:48,880
The same is Bethlehem.
That connection between Rachel

970
01:05:48,880 –> 01:05:53,160
dying there must have been a
great mourning when she died

971
01:05:53,160 –> 01:05:56,480
because Jacob put a.
Pillow on her grave and was

972
01:05:56,480 –> 01:05:59,240
still known all through the ages
even up to today.

973
01:05:59,240 –> 01:06:02,680
You can still go to Rachel’s
Tomb, if not exactly in the same

974
01:06:02,680 –> 01:06:08,440
place, but certainly in the area
if you go to Matthew chapter 2.

975
01:06:27,450 –> 01:06:31,210
We have those wise men, those
Megai coming from Mesopotamia,

976
01:06:31,210 –> 01:06:34,050
and they asked the verse to
where is he that is born king of

977
01:06:34,050 –> 01:06:36,130
the Jews?
We have seen a star in the East

978
01:06:36,370 –> 01:06:39,130
and come to worship him.
When Herod the king had heard

979
01:06:39,130 –> 01:06:42,090
these things, he was troubled
and all Jerusalem with him.

980
01:06:42,730 –> 01:06:45,800
We’ll just skip what happened
there, which we know and verse

981
01:06:45,840 –> 01:06:48,680
16 when those mega I didn’t come
back then I heard when he had

982
01:06:48,880 –> 01:06:50,320
when he saw that he was mocked
off.

983
01:06:50,320 –> 01:06:53,280
The wise man was exceeding
wrath, and sent forth and slew

984
01:06:53,280 –> 01:06:55,240
all the children that were in
Bethlehem.

985
01:06:55,480 –> 01:06:58,880
And all the coast era from 2
years old and under, according

986
01:06:58,880 –> 01:07:01,600
to the time which he had
diligently inquired of the wise

987
01:07:01,600 –> 01:07:04,840
man then was fulfilled that
which was spoken by Jeremiah the

988
01:07:04,840 –> 01:07:08,800
prophet saying in Rama was the
voice heard lamentation and

989
01:07:08,800 –> 01:07:12,600
weeping and great mourning.
Rachel weeping for her children

990
01:07:12,880 –> 01:07:15,760
and would not be comforted
because they are not.

991
01:07:16,720 –> 01:07:22,240
And she died in Bethlehem.
So why did Jeremiah mention Rama

992
01:07:22,680 –> 01:07:25,120
in connection with the weeping
of Rachel?

993
01:07:25,480 –> 01:07:29,440
Rama was further to the north in
the territory of Benjamin, where

994
01:07:29,440 –> 01:07:33,720
Rachel represents the Jewish
nation in trouble, just as he

995
01:07:33,720 –> 01:07:35,720
yourself was when Benjamin was
born.

996
01:07:36,040 –> 01:07:40,200
We know Joseph is a type of
Jesus who’s Benjamin then his

997
01:07:40,200 –> 01:07:44,440
younger brother, all those that
believed in him after he was

998
01:07:44,440 –> 01:07:50,840
risen from the dead and Rachel
will have to make way, will have

999
01:07:50,840 –> 01:07:52,840
to die.
The state of Israel will have to

1000
01:07:52,840 –> 01:07:54,840
make way for the Kingdom to
come.

1001
01:07:56,040 –> 01:08:02,600
But in Jeremiah chapter 40, we
can see what’s happened there in

1002
01:08:02,640 –> 01:08:08,160
Rama in Jeremiah chapter 40
after.

1003
01:08:08,640 –> 01:08:12,160
The city was destroyed, the city
of Jerusalem.

1004
01:08:15,480 –> 01:08:19,080
Jeremiah’s life was saved with
that of Ibad Milek, the

1005
01:08:19,080 –> 01:08:21,560
Ethiopian.
Do you remember the story?

1006
01:08:23,399 –> 01:08:26,920
And then it says in verse 1 of
chapter 40, the word that came

1007
01:08:26,920 –> 01:08:30,080
to Jeremiah from Yawa.
After that, Nebuchadne, the cap

1008
01:08:30,080 –> 01:08:32,680
of the guard, had let him go
from Rama.

1009
01:08:33,359 –> 01:08:36,960
They had taken him, being bound
in chains among all that were

1010
01:08:36,960 –> 01:08:39,560
carried away captive of
Jerusalem and Judah, which were

1011
01:08:39,560 –> 01:08:41,800
carried away captive and to
Babylon.

1012
01:08:42,359 –> 01:08:44,840
So after Jerusalem was
destroyed, a rounded of all the

1013
01:08:44,840 –> 01:08:47,439
survivors and brought them to
Rama.

1014
01:08:48,319 –> 01:08:54,240
I can imagine what a weeping
that must have been, but among.

1015
01:08:54,240 –> 01:08:58,800
All those prisoners, there was
Jeremiah also, but he was let

1016
01:08:58,800 –> 01:09:02,240
go.
He was set free, chains taken

1017
01:09:02,240 –> 01:09:07,160
away, his life preserved, and he
could stay in Jerusalem.

1018
01:09:07,960 –> 01:09:11,720
That was what happened in in
Bethlehem in the time of Jesus.

1019
01:09:11,720 –> 01:09:15,120
All those young children, those
babies of two years old were.

1020
01:09:15,120 –> 01:09:15,800
All.
Killed.

1021
01:09:15,800 –> 01:09:18,920
But God knew that beforehand.
He remembered Jeremiah.

1022
01:09:18,920 –> 01:09:19,880
Who was set?
Free.

1023
01:09:20,160 –> 01:09:23,560
And he set his own son.
Free by warning Joseph and Mary

1024
01:09:23,760 –> 01:09:27,399
to go to Egypt before this
happened, just just as Jeremiah

1025
01:09:27,399 –> 01:09:31,240
was set free, so Jesus also
escaped a terrible fate that was

1026
01:09:31,240 –> 01:09:33,800
suffered by the little ones in
Bethlehem at the and of Herod.

1027
01:09:34,920 –> 01:09:39,439
And there was an opportunity to
fulfil another prophecy out of

1028
01:09:39,439 –> 01:09:42,319
Egypt.
Have I called my son?

1029
01:09:43,120 –> 01:09:45,840
And there’s a subject for
tomorrow’s Doctor Scott Willing.