Leen Ritmeyer – The Power of Bible Places and their Lessons for Us – Class 3 – Galilee of the Gentiles

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This is the 2010 Ontario Winter
Bible School.

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Our speaker for the second
session is Brother Lane

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Rittmeyer from Cardiff, Wales.
His theme for the week is The

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Power of Bible Places and their
Lessons.

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For us.
This is his third class and the

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subject for this class is
Galilee of the Gentiles.

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Our reading was taken from John
chapter one verse 43 through

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John chapter 2 verse 11.
Dear brother and sisters and

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young people, for those of you
who were here for the first

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class may remember that the land
of Israel could be divided into

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4 different geographical
regions.

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We looked at the coastal strip
which was dominated by the

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Philistines, and then we looked
at the central mountain range.

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That’s where most of the holy
sites were located, where able

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men to to Shechem.
The Tabernacle stood in Shiloh,

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Jerusalem, the place where the
Temple was built.

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And then we indicated was that
Jordan Valley.

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We spent some time there last
night and in the second-half of

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our talk today, we’re going to
look at that Jordan Valley as

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well now in the.
We want to.

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Look at the life of the Lord
Jesus Christ through the Gospel

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of John in chapter 1.
Just pick out one verse in verse

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28.
Very first 26 for connection

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there was John the Baptist
answering the Pharisees, saying,

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I baptised this water, but there
stand this one among you whom he

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know not.
He it is who coming after me is

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preferred before me, whose shoes
let it I’m not worthy to lose.

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These things were done in
Bethabara beyond Jordan where

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John was baptizing.
And the next day Jesus, John

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sees Jesus coming unto him.
It is, behold, the Lamb of God,

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which takes away the sin of the
world.

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And that’s where Jesus was
baptized in Bethabara.

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But we’re talking much more
about Bethabara in our one but

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last talk.
So from Bethabara, you can see

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here on the map, Jesus had to
come all the way down from from

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Nazareth and he was baptised
here in Bethabara, very close to

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where Sodom was located.
He was tempted in the wilderness

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and then he went back up to to
Nazareth presumably.

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Then he continued journeying.
He went to Cana 1st and then he

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went to Capernaum.
So Cana we have been reading in

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this chapter one first of all
about Nathaniel.

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And Philip found Nathaniel,
said, we found him of whom Moses

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in the law.
And the prophet said, right,

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Jesus of Nazareth, the son of
Joseph, and Nathaniel came from

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Cana.
That is where he lived.

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You can go to John chapter 21
and verse 2 and it says that

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very specifically that Nathaniel
was from Cana in Galilee.

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So what do we know about Cana in
Galilee?

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A very important place.
And it’s, I call it the city of

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two signs.
Now some people say to talk

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about the 8 signs of John, but
only the first one is mentioned

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and the second one specifically
as the second sign.

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Now, if you go to Cana, you’ve
got the choice of places to go

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to.
You can go to Franciscan Cana or

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to Greek Orthodox Cana.
You can go to the Chapel of

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Nathaniel.
That is what Christian tradition

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has done for us.
Been in these churches patio,

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you see icons and you don’t
learn anything at all from Cana.

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But there is also a site called
Khirbet Khanna and I believe

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that is rather this site on
quite an interesting hill.

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A few excavations have taken
place there and looking on top

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from the satellite picture, you
can see the outline of the city

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of Cana.
There’s some S structures here.

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There’s a synagogue or a church
and some lower houses.

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You can see an excavation going
on and that is most likely the

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place where Cana was located.
You can look across the Natoffa

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Valley and there on the hill is
Nazareth.

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So it was in view of Nazareth
and it was kind of the natural

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way to explore the horizons for
Jesus to go to as he did as a

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young man.
Well, there’s here’s some walls

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that belong to houses of the 1st
century AD.

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I just wonder how long it will
be before they say, oh, this is

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the House of Nathaniel.
That’s how you work in

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archaeology.
But there’s also a synagogue

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here and also a synagogue here.
So it was a Jewish place where

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Cana, where Nathaniel lived.
Now, three things happened there

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in Cana.
Important science were given

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there first of all.
We have Nathaniel under the fig

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tree, then we have the water
turned into wine, and then Jesus

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and the nobleman’s son.
So what do we know about these

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incidences?
It’s really an amazing thing

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that if you think of Nathaniel
living there, Philip coming to

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him, he says we have found him
of who Moses in the law and the

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prophets did write verse 45,
Jesus of Nazareth, the son of

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Joseph as a typical Jew.
He says, can any good thing come

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out of Nazareth?
Now Philip says come and come

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set unto him, come and see.
Now the name Nathaniel, it’s the

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name of our second son, by the
way, means a gift of God, and

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Jesus called him in a very
special way, and there’s a lot.

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To teach us because what does
Jesus say?

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Just a one sentence in verse 48
before Philip Caldy, when thou

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was under the fig tree, I saw
thee.

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As somebody says to you, I saw
you sitting on a tree.

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Would you react like this?
Rabbi?

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Thou art the Son of God.
Thou art the King of Israel.

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Just because he sat on a fig
tree and Jesus knew that.

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It gives an.
Insight into the mind of

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Nathaniel and why Jesus called
him.

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He was working, probably, you
know.

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Digging up the ground of the fig
tree, perhaps watering the fig

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tree, looking after it, cutting
out their branches, doing his

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daily work.
We all have our daily work to

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do.
Remember Bob Lloyd one saying.

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About the work of a housewife.
The Sisters.

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Work in the.
Kitchen, he says because your

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hands are in the sink doesn’t
mean to say that your brain must

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be there.
Also, because Dan and Nathani

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was working with the fig tree
doesn’t mean to say that his

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brain was in the fig tree.
His brain was somewhere else

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completely because he made.
He was.

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Thinking, but then.
He was thinking about the fig

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tree.
I’d like you to go to Proverbs

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chapter 27 and verse 18.
And then I.

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Believe we know what he was
thinking about

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South Proverbs 27 and verse 18.
It’s a fantastically interesting

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proverb where it says.
He who tends a fig tree will eat

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its fruit.
And that’s why Nathaniel was

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working.
He was working, looking after

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the tree as he said, putting out
the branches, perhaps irrigating

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it so that he may get fruit.
But then it says but.

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He who looks after or waits for
his master, he’ll be on it.

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And if he was thinking about
this proverb, so Valley was

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doing his daily work.
He was thinking about the

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Scriptures.
All the time.

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Let me say that if you’re an
accountant that you must stop

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doing your accounting and
thinking about the Scriptures.

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But if you can, in whatever
situation you find yourself,

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make those biblical connections.
He was working with the fig

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tree.
But what does the Bible say

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about the fig tree?
Who should tent?

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The fig tree will eat its fruit
and who?

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Waits for his Master will be
honoured.

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He was waiting for the Master.
He was waiting for the Messiah

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of Israel to come and just by
that one sentence with Jesus

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said when you’re under the fig
tree, I saw that clinched him,

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the matic.
Jesus could read his mind, He

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was waiting for his Master and
Jesus presented him as the

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Master.
So it it shows pregnancy so that

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we need to be thinking about the
scriptures all the time.

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So there’s substance to the
promise of God to David.

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I will set up thy seat after he
which shall proceed out of thy

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bells, and I’ll establish his
Kingdom.

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I’ll be his father, and he shall
be my son.

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And so the greatest son of
David, who would sit on the

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throne, was also the son of God,
and that Nathaniel.

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Believed that and he was waiting
for him and therefore Jesus

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called him because he was fully
convinced that Jesus was that

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master that he had been waiting
for.

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So it teaches us that whatever
we are doing at any given time,

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whenever the opportunity arises,
we should be thinking on God’s

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Word and making the right
connections.

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You never know what kind of
answer you may get.

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Now the other two events took
place in Cana of Galilee.

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The 1st and the second.
Miraculous signs were given

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there, but the word for a sign
comes from the Greek same, Mayan

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and it.
It’s kind of a miracle or

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something that is done in
confirmation of something else.

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So what were the signs and what
did they confirm then?

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Chapter 2 of John and 1st 9:00.
We read that at that wedding

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feast, there were six stone
water jars.

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The kind that were used by the
Jews for ceremonial washing, as

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it says there in verse 6.
And those stone vessels have

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been found in the excavations,
in many excavations.

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You can see they’re on on the
right.

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They’re about so high.
They contain about 20 or 30

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litres of waters.
And they used to ceremoniously

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wash their hands and and their
feet.

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Ring came from a long journey.
According to the tradition of

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the Jews.
So those vessels represented the

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tradition of the Jews and they
were empty.

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They didn’t work because the
tradition of the Jews can’t give

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you salvation at all.
And therefore.

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Jesus told them in verse 7 to
the servants fill the water pots

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with water and they fill them up
to the brim.

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But Jesus at at another place he
says you’ve had go of the

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commands of God and you hold on
fast onto the tradition of men

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as the washing of pots and of
cups.

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Very important in Jewish life.
But Jesus changed that water

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into wine, into new wine.
If you go to Luke chapter 5 then

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we can see what that wine
represents.

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He says in chapter 5 and verse
37 and verse 38.

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If verse 36 for connection, you
speak also a parable to them.

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No man puts a piece of new
garment upon an old.

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If otherwise, then both the new
makers of rent and the piece

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that was taken out of the new
agrees, not just the old.

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No man puts new wine into old
bottles, else the new wine will

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burst the bottles and be
spilled, and the bottles shall

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perish.
But new wine must be put into

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new bottles, and both are
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No one, having drank old wine,
straightway desires new.

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Free says the old is.
It’s easier.

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It was easier to just wash your
hands and your feet and you

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think you’re all right, but to
have new wine in yourself.

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The wine of the new covenant
demands from us that we are new

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creatures and that is what he
was teaching.

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He was showing he was the
mediator of the new covenant and

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that was expressed in that new
wine, changing the water into

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wine and interestingly, the
servants who.

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Drew the water.
They knew where the water came

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from.
Like it says in the vasudevra,

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Those that that are the drawers
of water they rehearsed.

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The mighty acts of Yahweh.
So that new wine represents a

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new covenant, and to be take
part of it, as the Apostle Paul

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explains, if we are in Christ,
we must be a new creation.

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The old is fading away and the
new one has come.

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So that was the the first sign
which these did in Cana was then

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to take away the old covenant of
the Jews, which was empty in any

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case, and to present them as the
new covenant represented by that

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new wine.
That was the first sign which

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Jesus did in Cana of Galilee.
If you go to chapter 4 we can

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see the He went later back again
to Cana just reading John

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chapter 4 verse 46.
So Jesus came again into Cana of

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Galilee, same place where he had
made the water vine, and there

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was a certain nobleman whose son
was sick at Capernaum.

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When he heard that Jesus was
come out of Judea into Galilee,

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he went unto him and besought
him that he would come down and

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heal his son, for he was at the
point of death.

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Then Jesus said unto him, Except
you see signs and wonders, he

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will not believe.
The nobleman says unto him, Sir,

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come down, hear my child die.
And Jesus said unto him, Go thy

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way, thy son liveth.
And a man believed the word that

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Jesus had spoken to him, and he
went his way, not like

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Zacharias, who didn’t believe
the Angel.

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And now as he was going down,
his servants met him, and told

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him to say, Thy son liveth.
Then inquiry of them the hour

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when he began to amend, and they
sent him yesterday, the 7th

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hour, the fever left him.
So the Father knew that was at

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the same hour in the which Jesus
said unto him, Thy Son liveth,

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and himself believed, and his
whole house.

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This again the second sign that
Jesus did when he was come out

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of Tutia into Galilee.
So the first sign was to bring

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the new covenant and the second
sign was to make some.

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He was about to die alive again.
And it’s the essence of what we

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believe by the sisters.
We believe, as we remember every

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Sunday, by the drinking of that
cup of.

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Wine that Jesus has.
Is the mediator of that new

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covenant.
And if you follow him, then we

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can be saved.
And then he comes back the

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second time, like he came back
to the second time to Canaan.

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He was raised the dead.
That’s why it was happened.

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It’s why it happened in Canaan.
But you ask, well, why must

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those two sides be done in the
same place in Canaan?

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Why can’t we have one in Canada
and 1:00 in?

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Cardiff, where we live, so I
think that the Hebrew comes to

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our help.
The name Cana is very closely

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related to the first son of Adam
and Eve called Cain when in

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chapter 4 of Genesis.
In the first one he said I’ve

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gotten or purchased a man,
Yahweh.

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The word Cana in Hebrew means
purchased and we know that Jesus

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has purchased us through his
blood.

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The references, you know them
very well indeed.

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And so it was essential premises
that that second sign was done

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in cana as well because the dead
will be raised only if they are

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part of the new covenant.
Jesus came first to bring the

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new covenant and the purchased
one that respond to the blood of

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the covenant.
They the second time when Christ

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comes, they’ll be raised.
So the secret is in the name

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Kayla a very important place.
The meaning means the purchased

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ones.
And so we should do all our

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bread, our best bread, and
sisters, that when we take that

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cup of that new wine that we
also believe the right.

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Things that, as Tim said this
morning, that we study the

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Scriptures so that we know what
to believe.

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And as we understand how we are
purchased by the blood of Christ

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and how we must change our life
to live a life like the Lord

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Jesus Christ, because by his
life I’ll be saved by following

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him.
And then when he comes back the

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second time, he will raise us
from the dead.

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That is the power of that place
in Canaan.

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After he went to Canaan, he went
to Capernaum, as we’ve just been

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reading in chapter 2 of of the
chapter.

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Now Capernaum means the place of
comfort.

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Kfar Nahum it’s called in
Hebrew.

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Kfar is the name for a village
and Nahum.

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It’s called a.
Person’s name.

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We don’t know who it was.
Don’t think it was the Prophet’s

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name, but the.
Name Name means.

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Comfort, the village of Comfort,
and that is why Jesus went to

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live there.
So we can imagine that he came

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there.
He must have.

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When he came back, after he was
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He passed by suffrage where he
was had been working all his

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life and then he was in Cana.
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Now Capernaum is on a very
important Rd. that goes from the

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north.
From Damascus the Viamaris

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passes by Capernaum and then
goes down by Bachemis, go

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through Megiddo all the way down
to Egypt.

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So the location of Nazareth is
very important and you can walk

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actually from Cana to to
Capernaum as my wife and I doing

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here.
And you walk here over a past,

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you can walk over the Jesus
Trail.

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Nowadays it takes you four days
to walk from Nazareth to

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Capernaum.
So you go through the horns of

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Hathi through this valley and
there is Capernaum at the north

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eastern corner of the Sea of
Galilee.

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Now it was an important harbour.
Excavations have shown that

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these Piers at low water level
can still be seen.

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There’s a synagogue here and
what most people point out as

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the House of of Peter.
So along the shoreline we can

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look back at the Horns of Hathan
is the valley that comes from

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Capernaum, from Nazareth and
Cana.

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And then you can walk in down
here.

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But you can still see the
remains of the harbour here,

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these stone piles coming out
where the ships were anchored

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and coming to Capernaum.
But this is what it looks like

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today.
Is the Franciscan monastery

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here, the excavations in a
monstrous museum built over the

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House of Peter.
It must have looked something

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like this when Christ went to
live in Capernaum, a harbour

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city with all those Piers coming
out where the boats could be

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anchored, warehouses along the
sign, a House of of toll where

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you had to pay some taxes, where
Matthew the tax collector came

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from, a synagogue and the houses
all around.

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That is the village where Jesus
went to live.

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He made it his home.
Here you can see the synagogue

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of Capernaum made his white
limestone blocks, but that is a

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Byzantine synagogue.
But next with is the school

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room, the madrasah where all the
Jewish boys.

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Go to school, they learned
Hebrew to read and to write, and

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these would have been to a
similar school in Nazareth as a

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Jewish boy.
But below the white synagogue of

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the 4th century, there’s a black
wall of Baselt that belonged to

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the synagogue.
Of Capernaum from the time of

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Christ.
And inside you can see the

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inside walls and some of the
walls that belong to that

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synagogue.
So we know that Kapeni was a

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large fishing village located on
the North Shore of the Sea of

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Galilee, about 3 miles southwest
of the place where the River

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Jordan entered the lake.
We’ve seen it later on.

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So it’s the village of Comfort.
And that is where Jesus spent

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some time and he made it his
home.

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Actually.
Now it is located, as I said

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earlier, on an important Rd.
that goes from Damascus all the

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way down to Egypt called the
Viamaris.

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It was a major trade route
connecting Egypt via Caesarea

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and Damascus even Miss
Mesopotamia.

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If you go to Matthew chapter 4,
you see how useful that location

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was, because in Matthew chapter
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We read there in verse 24 that
Jesus went about all Galilee

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teaching in their synagogues and
preaching the Kingdom of the the

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gospel of the Kingdom and
healing all men of sickness and

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all men of disease among the
people.

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And his fame went throughout all
Syria.

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How did it get there?
Through the road that passed by

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in a Capernaum.
It was a trading route.

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So people heard the gospel being
preached in in that, in

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Capernaum, in the surrounding
villages, and they took it with

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them all the way into Syria.
So it was an important location

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for preaching the truth.
If you want to preach the truth,

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there’s no point sitting some on
the North Pole because you can

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only preach to Penguins.
Go to a place where people come

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together and speak to them.
That’s why Jesus chose

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Capernaum, because it was a very
suitable starting point for his

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preaching circuit.
He made at least three recorded

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circuits that all started and
ended in Capernaum.

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So there was a Roman Garrison.
And the the the the commander

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the sent too.
He had even built a synagogue

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for the Jewish people.
So it is a place where Jesus

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lived after he was rejected by.
Nazareth not that he didn’t own

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his own house.
We can read here that after he

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left Nazareth, he came and dwelt
a Capernaum which is upon the

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seacoast in the borders of
Zeblon and Naftali.

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It.
A sort of fulfillment of another

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prophecy, the prophecy of Isaiah
saying the Lent of Zebulon and

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the Lent of Naftrai by the way
of the sea beyond Jordan,

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Galilee of the Gentiles.
Now what does that mean in the

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time frame of the prophecy of
Isaiah himself?

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You see, in the time of Isaiah
we have the coming up of the

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great Assyrian Empire under
Tiglak.

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Tiglak Paliza, the 3rd pool was
by the way his royal Babylonian

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name.
He founded his empire, and in

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the face of that threat, Resin
of Damascus and Menachem of

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Israel, they made a a pact.
And they paid tribute to Tiglak

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Paliza.
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Second Kings 15 We see then the
original background of this

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prophecy of Isaiah Chapter 9, in
the days of Pika, king of

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Israel.
That’s exactly the time of the

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prophecy of Isaiah.
Came Thiklar Paliza, king of

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Assyria, and took Ion Abbabed,
Mahaka, Janova and Kaigis and

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Khatzour and Gilet and Galilee,
all the land of Naftali, and

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carried them away captive to
Syria.

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And Hoshiya, the son of Elah,
made a conspiracy against Pika,

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the son of Himalayan, smote him
and threw him and reigned in his

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dead.
That happened in the 20th year

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of Isaiah, now earlier.
Menachem.

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So I should have read verse 19.
Paul the king of Shi came

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against the land, and Menachem
gave Paul 1000 talents of silver

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that his hand might be with him
to confirm the Kingdom in his

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hand.
And Malachim exactly the money

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of Israel, even all the mighty
men of wealth, each men 50

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shekels of silver to give to the
king of Assyria.

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So the king of Assyria turned
back and stayed not in the land.

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But then later on, that’s the
first I first read in verse 29

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and 30.
Sorry for that.

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Pica And Rezian wants to make
the pact with Assyria, but

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against Assyria.
But Ahas who was then king of

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Judah refused.
In verse 37 of the same chapter

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it says in those days Yah began
to send against Judah resent

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king of Syria and Pika the son
of Rabbaniya and Jotham slapped

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his father.
If you look at the map here,

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what happened was because Judah
king Ayas didn’t want to join an

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anti Assyrian alliance.
The Syrians now.

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Came together with Menachem of
Israel here.

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From here they came into Israel
and they started to besiege

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Jerusalem and that is when Ayas
appealed to Tiglak Paliza for

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help.
In chapter 16, you can read in

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verse 7 there’s to help him out
against Syria and Israel.

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In verse 7, Ahaz sent messengers
to Tigler Paliza, king of

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Assyria, saying, I’m thy servant
and thy son come up and save me

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out of the hand of the king of
Syria and out of the hand of the

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king of Israel, which rise up
against me.

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They became turncoats and now
went against Judah.

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So Ahaz took the silver and the
gold that was found in the House

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of Yahweh and at the tragedy of
the King’s house, and sent it

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for a present to the king of
Assyria.

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And the king of Syria hearkened
to him.

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For the king of Syria went up
against Damascus and took it and

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carried the people captive, took
her and slew resin.

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So King Ahas, he saved his skin
for a while, but that came at a

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price because later on the king
of Syria made him pay a huge

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amount of money and.
As you can see here, he came in

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after all and took the whole of
the northern part of Israel and

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actually came to Jerusalem as
well.

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And we know that at that time,
Geng Ahaz died.

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And his son Hezekiah, he kept
the people of Judah free from

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the Assyrian ascendancy.
And that may have been a direct

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fulfillment of Isaiah Chapter 9.
Let’s go to Isaiah 9 now that we

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read about that prophecy.
Just nevertheless the dintness

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shall not be such as was in a
vexation when at the first He

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lightly afflicted the land of
Zebulun.

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And the land of Naftri was the
first invasion of the Syrian,

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but after it did more grievously
afflict her by the way of the

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00:27:50,520 –> 00:27:53,640
sea beyond Jordan, in Galilee of
the nations.

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That’s the prophecy in Matthew,
which has been mentioned here to

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indicate that Jesus had to live
in Capernaum.

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But then it says the people that
walked in darkness of the

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00:28:03,200 –> 00:28:06,560
Assyrian threat and invasion
have seen a great light.

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00:28:07,240 –> 00:28:09,640
They could dwell in the land of
the shadow of death.

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00:28:09,960 –> 00:28:16,080
Upon them has the light shined.
Well, who was that light in the

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time of Isaiah?
If you go to chapter 1 of Isaiah

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and first one, we can see in
which time he lived exactly in

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00:28:23,000 –> 00:28:25,720
this particular time.
It’s the vision of Isaiah, the

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son of Amas, which he saw
concerning Judah and Jerusalem

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00:28:29,120 –> 00:28:33,640
in the days of Isaiah, Jotham,
Ahaz and Hezekiah.

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00:28:35,440 –> 00:28:39,800
That was Hezekiah that saved him
from the Assyrian threat because

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God didn’t allow the Assyrians
to take Jerusalem and so he was

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00:28:44,360 –> 00:28:48,280
the first fulfilment.
Of that great light that was

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00:28:48,280 –> 00:28:51,840
shining to the people there in
the north of the land of Israel.

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00:28:53,600 –> 00:28:56,840
And the ultimate fulfilment is
of course the Lord Jesus Christ.

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00:28:58,160 –> 00:29:03,120
Now the Jews in those days, they
live also under domination of

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00:29:03,120 –> 00:29:07,120
the Romans and.
They wanted to be free of the

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00:29:07,120 –> 00:29:10,400
Roman domination, just like in
the time of Ayas.

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00:29:10,400 –> 00:29:13,240
They wanted to be free of the
Assyrian domination.

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If Hezekiah is indeed that light
of which the the prophet Isaiah

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00:29:18,040 –> 00:29:20,800
in Chapter 9 was speaking out,
the people that walked in

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00:29:20,800 –> 00:29:23,880
darkness have seen a great light
that may initially have been

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00:29:23,880 –> 00:29:27,320
Hezekiah, but ultimately it was
the Lord Jesus Christ.

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00:29:27,520 –> 00:29:31,480
He was that great light that
shines into the world.

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And people knew.
That at that time because they

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wanted to be free of the Roman
domination.

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00:29:37,680 –> 00:29:41,480
Even in Acts chapter 1, after
Jesus was about to go up to to

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00:29:41,480 –> 00:29:44,080
to heaven to his Father, he
said, will thou at this time

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00:29:44,080 –> 00:29:47,440
restore the Kingdom to Israel?
The only thing they want to be

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00:29:47,440 –> 00:29:49,680
free of the Roman.
Domination, like in the time of

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00:29:49,680 –> 00:29:53,960
Isaiah, they want to be free of
the the Syrian domination.

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But he was the true light that
shines in the darkness, and then

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00:29:58,800 –> 00:30:00,640
the darkness had not understood
it.

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00:30:01,400 –> 00:30:04,840
The people did not understand
the continuation of Isaiah

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Chapter 9.
If you’re still there, then look

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at verse 6.
Here is the true light

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00:30:10,680 –> 00:30:13,680
prophesied.
Says For until as a child is

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00:30:13,680 –> 00:30:17,560
born, until as a son is given,
and the government shall be upon

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00:30:17,560 –> 00:30:21,560
his shoulder, his name shall be
called wonderful councillor, the

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00:30:21,560 –> 00:30:25,720
mighty God, the everlasting
Father, and the Prince of peace,

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00:30:25,960 –> 00:30:28,160
Of the increase of his
government and peace, there

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00:30:28,160 –> 00:30:31,000
shall be no end.
Upon the throne of David, and

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00:30:31,000 –> 00:30:33,880
upon his Kingdom, to order it,
and to establish it with

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00:30:33,880 –> 00:30:37,240
judgment and his justice.
From henceforth, even forever.

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00:30:37,480 –> 00:30:41,320
The zeal of Yah of hosts will
perform this.

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00:30:44,000 –> 00:30:47,840
So well this is that is why
Jesus had to go to Capernaum to

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fulfil this prophecy.
The name Hezekiah, I mean Yah is

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my strength.
And Jesus came to show that His

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00:30:55,560 –> 00:30:59,720
strength came from God after he
was closed upon with the Holy

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00:30:59,720 –> 00:31:01,720
Spirit.
But he was baptised in Beit

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Abara at the end of the river
Jordan.

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00:31:05,280 –> 00:31:08,280
But nevertheless, several
disciples came from Capernaum,

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00:31:08,280 –> 00:31:11,320
like Andrew and Peter, James and
John and Matthew the tax

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00:31:11,320 –> 00:31:13,200
collector.
He may have had his little

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00:31:13,200 –> 00:31:16,320
office right next to the
harbour, taking all the taxes

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00:31:16,320 –> 00:31:19,400
from the traders.
And he’s did many signs of

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00:31:19,400 –> 00:31:21,760
Capernaum.
Time won’t allow me to go

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00:31:21,760 –> 00:31:25,280
through all of them.
I just read out a few.

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00:31:25,520 –> 00:31:28,640
The catch of the miraculous.
The miraculous catch of the fish

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00:31:28,760 –> 00:31:30,800
in loop 5 to place near
Capernaum.

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00:31:31,280 –> 00:31:34,480
The healing of the faithful
centurion servant in Capernaum.

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00:31:35,000 –> 00:31:39,000
Jesus healed Peter’s
mother-in-law in Capernaum, the

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00:31:39,000 –> 00:31:43,120
daughter of Jairus was healed in
Capernaum, and the woman who had

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00:31:43,120 –> 00:31:46,720
been subject to bleeding for 12
years was healed in Capernaum.

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00:31:47,120 –> 00:31:50,760
And the coin in the fish fishes
mouth that happened in

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00:31:50,760 –> 00:31:54,840
Capernaum, the man was possessed
of the evil spirit was done when

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00:31:54,840 –> 00:31:58,120
Jesus was in Capernaum and the
paralytic man and he walked on

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00:31:58,120 –> 00:32:01,560
the water.
So many lessons were taught in

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00:32:01,560 –> 00:32:08,960
Capernaum but then still the
people did not believe and it is

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00:32:08,960 –> 00:32:11,280
very sad.
So despite the many healings and

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00:32:11,280 –> 00:32:14,320
teaching of Jesus in Capernaum
that the people did not believe

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00:32:14,520 –> 00:32:19,600
and repent.
Go to Matthew Chapter 11 and

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00:32:19,600 –> 00:32:29,720
verse 20 after done so many
signs and.

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00:32:30,040 –> 00:32:35,160
So many miracles.
Then he began to upgrade the

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00:32:35,160 –> 00:32:38,880
cities wherein most of his
mighty works were done, because

510
00:32:38,880 –> 00:32:42,760
they repented not.
Woe unto thee, Corazon, woe unto

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00:32:42,760 –> 00:32:45,080
thee.
But sider with the mighty works

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00:32:45,080 –> 00:32:47,520
which were done in you, had been
done in Tyre and Sidon.

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00:32:47,760 –> 00:32:51,200
They would long have repented in
sackcloth and in ashes.

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00:32:51,560 –> 00:32:54,880
But I say, it shall be more
tolerable for Tyre and Sidon in

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00:32:54,880 –> 00:32:56,160
the day of judgement than for
you.

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00:32:56,680 –> 00:33:01,160
And thou, Capernaum, which art
exalted unto heaven, because the

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00:33:01,160 –> 00:33:04,880
Son of God lived among them,
shall be brought down to the

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00:33:04,880 –> 00:33:08,560
grave with the mighty works
which had been done, and in had

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00:33:08,560 –> 00:33:12,040
been done in Sodom.
Look at the comparison, brethren

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00:33:12,040 –> 00:33:14,880
thesis.
In Sodom it would have remained

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00:33:14,960 –> 00:33:17,360
unto this day.
But I say to you, it shall be

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00:33:17,360 –> 00:33:20,880
more tolerable for the land of
Sodom in the day of judgement

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00:33:21,240 –> 00:33:25,120
than for thee.
And it is said Brethren thesis

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00:33:25,120 –> 00:33:27,640
Jesus went to live in the
village of Comfort.

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00:33:28,440 –> 00:33:32,120
But he himself got no comfort
from the inhabitants of the

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00:33:32,120 –> 00:33:35,880
village of Comfort because they
did not believe in him

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00:33:37,480 –> 00:33:41,600
nevertheless.
He used it as a base to make

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00:33:41,600 –> 00:33:46,680
several preaching circuits, and
after healing a blind man in

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00:33:46,680 –> 00:33:49,800
bedsider, he went up to
Caesarea, Philippine.

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00:33:50,640 –> 00:33:54,280
So on one of his place, one of
his journeys, he went from

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00:33:54,280 –> 00:33:58,800
bedside right next to Capernaum
all the way to Caesarea

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00:33:58,800 –> 00:34:04,640
Philippine, at the top of that
great Jordan Valley that starts

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00:34:04,640 –> 00:34:07,960
here at the foot of Mount Hermon
and goes all the way down to the

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00:34:07,960 –> 00:34:13,199
Dead Sea.
Why did Jesus go to Caesarea

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00:34:13,199 –> 00:34:16,719
Philippine?
And why did He chose that place

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00:34:16,719 –> 00:34:19,159
to ask his disciples the
question?

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00:34:19,360 –> 00:34:23,360
Whom do men?
Say that I, the Son of Man AM

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00:34:24,040 –> 00:34:27,639
well, you see the picture of
Mount Hermon all covered in

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00:34:27,639 –> 00:34:30,560
snow.
This is about January time and

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00:34:30,560 –> 00:34:34,679
the snow melt and then starts to
form the beginning of the River

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00:34:34,679 –> 00:34:37,120
Jordan.
And you can go to Caesarea

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00:34:37,120 –> 00:34:39,560
Philippi today.
Here it is.

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00:34:40,840 –> 00:34:44,400
Here’s a big cave and there was
a rockfall, but inside is a

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00:34:44,400 –> 00:34:50,440
spring and the water comes out
here at the Bunyas Falls and the

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00:34:50,440 –> 00:34:53,920
water.
Begins to become part of the

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00:34:53,920 –> 00:34:59,440
river Jordan if you go there
today then in already 2000 BC

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00:34:59,440 –> 00:35:02,800
there was a cultic.
Site developed here, dedicated

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00:35:02,800 –> 00:35:05,880
to the Greek.
Nature God Pan, the God of

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00:35:05,880 –> 00:35:11,400
immorality and of pleasure.
It is right beside Dan.

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00:35:12,640 –> 00:35:17,080
Dan is an interesting place
where Tim spoke about that Levad

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00:35:17,080 –> 00:35:19,600
without a name.
You remember this morning who

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00:35:19,600 –> 00:35:21,800
finally found employee in the
House of Micah.

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00:35:22,640 –> 00:35:27,400
But then if you let us go there
to judges chapter. 18.

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00:35:28,960 –> 00:35:30,920
Just to develop this a little
bit further.

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00:35:49,600 –> 00:35:56,520
So 17 and first seven there was
that young man out of Bethlehem,

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00:35:56,520 –> 00:35:58,920
Judah, of the family of Judah
who was a Levite.

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00:35:58,920 –> 00:36:01,320
Remember he come from Bethlehem
who was a Levite.

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00:36:02,000 –> 00:36:06,800
And so he came to Micah.
And 1st 9 he says events cometh.

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00:36:06,840 –> 00:36:10,000
Now he said I’m come a Levite of
Bethlehem, Judah, and I go to

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00:36:10,000 –> 00:36:13,800
sodium where I may find a place
and Mike said with him dealt

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00:36:13,800 –> 00:36:15,680
with me and be unto me a father
and a priest.

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00:36:15,680 –> 00:36:18,400
Now give you 10 seconds of
silver by the year and a sort of

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00:36:18,400 –> 00:36:22,200
apparel and I fit also the Levi
went in and served him.

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00:36:22,600 –> 00:36:26,560
But later on me here about the
the employees of the tribe of

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00:36:26,560 –> 00:36:30,440
Dam, they couldn’t overcome the
Philistines and they went all

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00:36:30,440 –> 00:36:33,360
the way up to the north to Dam
to this place which was then

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00:36:33,360 –> 00:36:37,240
called Laish.
And they set up there a place to

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00:36:37,240 –> 00:36:39,880
live, but also.
A sanctuary.

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00:36:40,080 –> 00:36:45,000
Look at verse 18 of chapter 18.
While they were going up north,

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00:36:45,000 –> 00:36:48,200
the tribal down, they passed by
that House of Micah.

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00:36:48,640 –> 00:36:51,320
What did they do?
In verse 18?

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00:36:51,320 –> 00:36:53,880
They went into Micah’s house,
fetched the carved image, the

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00:36:53,880 –> 00:36:56,880
ephod and the terraphim, and the
molten image, and said to the

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00:36:56,880 –> 00:36:58,640
priest.
Then said the priest of them,

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00:36:58,640 –> 00:37:00,800
What do ye?
And they said unto him, Hold thy

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00:37:00,800 –> 00:37:03,520
peace, lay thy hand upon thy
mouth, and go with us, and be

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00:37:03,520 –> 00:37:07,160
thou father and a priest.
It’s better to be for Dee to be

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00:37:07,160 –> 00:37:10,120
a priest unto the House of one
man, or that there’ll be priest

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00:37:10,120 –> 00:37:11,960
unto a tribe, a family in
Israel.

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00:37:12,320 –> 00:37:14,240
So the priest’s heart was clad.
He took the.

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00:37:14,280 –> 00:37:17,760
Ephod and the Terepheme and the
graven image, and went in the

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00:37:17,760 –> 00:37:21,520
midst of the people.
So there was that Levite.

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00:37:21,920 –> 00:37:24,840
And then in verse 30, we read
that.

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00:37:26,160 –> 00:37:31,480
The children of Dan in Dan right
beside Kerryat sees where you

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00:37:31,480 –> 00:37:33,200
Philippi.
It’s the same place actually.

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00:37:33,440 –> 00:37:40,560
Set up a graven image, and now
we know his name, Jonathan, the

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00:37:40,560 –> 00:37:44,440
son of Gershon, the son of
Moses, not Manasseh.

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00:37:44,920 –> 00:37:46,920
They’ve changed in the Hebrew.
They’re so ashamed.

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00:37:47,160 –> 00:37:50,280
He was the grandson of Moses.
He and his sons were priests to

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00:37:50,280 –> 00:37:54,120
the tribe of them until the day
of the captivity of the land.

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00:37:54,520 –> 00:37:57,160
And they set them up.
Micah’s graven image, which he

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00:37:57,160 –> 00:38:00,160
made all the time that the House
of God was in Shiloh.

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00:38:00,520 –> 00:38:03,520
It’s a place of false idol
worship.

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00:38:05,000 –> 00:38:08,200
And it was the same in the time
of the Lord Jesus Christ.

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00:38:08,440 –> 00:38:15,360
It’s a Pagan cult site.
And Jesus on purpose brought the

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00:38:15,360 –> 00:38:22,080
disciples to that place of false
religion, a place of pleasure

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00:38:22,520 –> 00:38:24,640
and immorality.
Let’s eat and drink, for

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00:38:24,640 –> 00:38:28,040
tomorrow we die.
And so we can read that.

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00:38:28,040 –> 00:38:29,800
And Jesus came to the coast of
Caesarea Field.

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00:38:29,800 –> 00:38:32,480
But he asked the disciples,
saying, Whom the man say that I,

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00:38:32,480 –> 00:38:35,760
the Son of Man AM?
Some say John the Baptist,

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00:38:35,760 –> 00:38:39,200
Elijah, Jeremiah, but whom say
he that I am?

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00:38:40,720 –> 00:38:47,760
And then Simon Peter, not as
Peter, Simon Peter, Simon the

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00:38:47,760 –> 00:38:53,120
listener, the hearer, and the
rock, Thou art the Christ, the

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00:38:53,120 –> 00:38:55,680
Son of the living God.
And then she said.

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00:38:55,880 –> 00:39:04,280
Blessed thou Simon Bard, Jonah
the hearer, the son of a dove, a

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00:39:04,280 –> 00:39:07,360
type of the Holy Spirit, because
that’s where the words of

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00:39:07,360 –> 00:39:10,000
Peter’s mouth came from.
For flesh and blood has not

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00:39:10,000 –> 00:39:12,680
revealed entry.
But my father, which is in

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00:39:12,680 –> 00:39:17,480
heaven, and I say to thee, thou
art Peter, and upon this rock

611
00:39:17,720 –> 00:39:21,320
will I build my church, my
ecclesia, and the gates of hell

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00:39:21,320 –> 00:39:24,680
shall not prevail against it.
Now these words are absolutely

613
00:39:24,680 –> 00:39:28,080
fascinating by the sisters,
because why did he ask that

614
00:39:28,080 –> 00:39:30,040
question?
Is Caesar in Philippi?

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00:39:31,680 –> 00:39:35,600
Well here we see the cold niches
are still there today with

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00:39:35,960 –> 00:39:39,960
little Pagan idols there.
And he was a cave, and I can

617
00:39:39,960 –> 00:39:43,280
just imagine Pan sitting in
there with his flute.

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00:39:44,000 –> 00:39:46,840
The God of.
Drinking of sexual immorality

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00:39:46,840 –> 00:39:49,680
and pleasure.
Women dancing around him.

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00:39:50,040 –> 00:39:54,320
And that was the nature of that
court site in Caesarea Philippi,

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00:39:54,640 –> 00:39:58,320
right beside the place where
that false image was set up

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00:39:58,320 –> 00:40:02,800
already at the end of the day of
the judges, and more so.

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00:40:03,520 –> 00:40:08,000
Jeroboam, after the king of
Israel was split from Judah, he

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00:40:08,000 –> 00:40:13,640
set up two temples for a golden
calf, one in Dan, right beside

625
00:40:13,640 –> 00:40:16,000
Caesarea Philippi, and another
one in Bethel.

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00:40:16,520 –> 00:40:19,000
This is a place of false
religion.

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00:40:19,320 –> 00:40:22,840
This typifies the world with all
its pleasure and all its

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00:40:22,840 –> 00:40:27,840
immorality.
And that is why Jesus said at

629
00:40:27,880 –> 00:40:32,240
that particular place, whom the
men say that I, the Son of Man

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00:40:32,280 –> 00:40:35,000
AM.
He wanted to make the disciples

631
00:40:35,000 –> 00:40:38,160
minds up.
Where are you going?

632
00:40:39,560 –> 00:40:41,720
Is this what you want?
To choose?

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00:40:42,280 –> 00:40:46,160
The life of the world, with all
its pleasures and promiscuity.

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00:40:46,960 –> 00:40:50,120
Or do you believe that?
I am the Son of Man.

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00:40:50,560 –> 00:40:53,440
It was an appropriate place to
ask that question.

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00:40:53,720 –> 00:41:02,640
The Cave is called the Gates of
Hell because there was a temple

637
00:41:03,080 –> 00:41:06,440
of zoos built there.
You can see it in the

638
00:41:06,440 –> 00:41:10,920
reconstruction and the temple
took Pan and here was an image

639
00:41:10,920 –> 00:41:13,160
of Pan.
The Cave behind it was called

640
00:41:13,160 –> 00:41:15,120
the Gate of Hades.
Why?

641
00:41:16,160 –> 00:41:20,400
Because sacrificial animals,
they were dedicated to zoos,

642
00:41:20,680 –> 00:41:24,600
were thrown into The Cave and
were supposed to disappear.

643
00:41:25,840 –> 00:41:30,320
But if they saw blood running
out of the in the water here,

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00:41:30,640 –> 00:41:34,960
then the sacrifice was rejected.
It’s a matter of chance, isn’t

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00:41:34,960 –> 00:41:35,800
it?
Glad the sisters.

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00:41:35,800 –> 00:41:37,800
Is your sacrifice going to be
accepted or not?

647
00:41:37,800 –> 00:41:39,720
Let’s look in the water can’t
see blood or can’t you?

648
00:41:39,720 –> 00:41:43,120
But I don’t know not so is the
Lord Jesus Christ.

649
00:41:44,360 –> 00:41:49,680
Christ overcame death itself and
every says the gates of hell

650
00:41:50,400 –> 00:41:56,480
shall not overcome it.
Christ is more powerful than the

651
00:41:56,480 –> 00:41:59,280
power of grave.
So King, I had the great build a

652
00:41:59,280 –> 00:42:02,080
temple dedicated to Augustus
near this cave.

653
00:42:02,400 –> 00:42:05,800
A Philip built a city nearby and
therefore it was the appropriate

654
00:42:05,800 –> 00:42:10,840
place to ask that question.
But there was another point that

655
00:42:10,840 –> 00:42:14,240
is imported in Siseria,
Philippine was as you saw from

656
00:42:14,240 –> 00:42:18,800
that water, it’s one of the.
Sources of the River Jordan

657
00:42:20,200 –> 00:42:24,640
Let’s want to take you down a
journey down the River Jordan.

658
00:42:25,640 –> 00:42:28,800
Because that question was asked
at the beginning of the

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00:42:29,880 –> 00:42:33,320
Hayaarden.
In Hebrew, the name Jordan means

660
00:42:33,320 –> 00:42:36,960
the descender.
I said right at the first lesson

661
00:42:36,960 –> 00:42:40,120
that I believe that God has
designed the land of Israel as a

662
00:42:40,320 –> 00:42:43,400
teaching aid.
And the most powerful lesson,

663
00:42:44,480 –> 00:42:47,360
more powerful than any Sunday
school lesson, is to travel down

664
00:42:47,360 –> 00:42:51,800
the River Jordan.
It’s a picture of life right at

665
00:42:51,800 –> 00:42:54,920
the beginning.
At the foot of Mount Hermon, you

666
00:42:54,920 –> 00:42:59,080
can see this Mount Hermon here.
There are four different sources

667
00:42:59,320 –> 00:43:03,000
that make the River Jordan.
It’s absolutely fascinating to

668
00:43:03,000 –> 00:43:05,160
go to tell down because you see
the water.

669
00:43:05,160 –> 00:43:09,800
Bubbling about at the ground
you’re teaching in the teenage.

670
00:43:09,800 –> 00:43:13,120
Class that the name Adam has a
meaning.

671
00:43:14,040 –> 00:43:16,320
It comes from Adam Mau, which is
the ground.

672
00:43:17,280 –> 00:43:20,400
Dust thou art, and to dust thou
shalt return.

673
00:43:20,800 –> 00:43:23,800
It makes you realise how you
come from redness, ISIS, you

674
00:43:23,800 –> 00:43:26,840
come up out of the ground.
At the beginning.

675
00:43:26,880 –> 00:43:31,160
Of our descending life, which
ends in the Dead Sea.

676
00:43:32,600 –> 00:43:36,360
And that is the most powerful
lesson you can ever learn from

677
00:43:36,360 –> 00:43:38,880
the land, from the river Jordan
in the land of Israel.

678
00:43:40,000 –> 00:43:43,160
So after those four sources come
together, you can see the water

679
00:43:43,520 –> 00:43:47,240
jumping over rocks and the
mighty waterfalls.

680
00:43:47,680 –> 00:43:51,160
It’s just like youth itself.
Kids can’t sit still, they jump

681
00:43:51,160 –> 00:43:53,320
and they’re waiting for their
foot and their arms move and

682
00:43:53,320 –> 00:43:55,560
their legs move.
Just like the water bubbling

683
00:43:55,720 –> 00:43:58,840
those teenagers jump out of
through waterfalls.

684
00:43:58,840 –> 00:44:01,640
Our son is in, in, in in
Australia at the moment.

685
00:44:01,800 –> 00:44:05,280
His greatest joy is jumping off
a 10m high Cliff into the sea.

686
00:44:05,480 –> 00:44:08,480
That is youth for you and that
is what a river is like.

687
00:44:08,880 –> 00:44:11,200
King David, I believe, was here
as.

688
00:44:11,200 –> 00:44:13,760
Well.
Or does not record it in his

689
00:44:13,760 –> 00:44:15,960
journeys.
But he was just like Abram who

690
00:44:15,960 –> 00:44:18,560
travelled to the land from the
north to the South, from east to

691
00:44:18,560 –> 00:44:20,600
West.
Look at Psalm 42.

692
00:44:21,800 –> 00:44:25,200
Oh my God, my soul scarfed down
within me, therefore I remember

693
00:44:25,200 –> 00:44:29,040
Thee from the land of Jordan.
It’s at the beginning of our

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00:44:29,040 –> 00:44:33,880
life, our conscious life, that
we start to remember our Lord

695
00:44:34,560 –> 00:44:37,560
from the land of Jordan and the
Hermonites.

696
00:44:37,760 –> 00:44:39,560
The Hermonites are the little
troglodytes.

697
00:44:39,880 –> 00:44:44,040
They are the two pigs of Herman
Herman’s got 2 pigs like Jew and

698
00:44:44,040 –> 00:44:46,480
Gentile together.
Deep caused unto deeper the

699
00:44:46,480 –> 00:44:49,600
noise of thy water spouts all
thy ways, and thy bills are.

700
00:44:49,600 –> 00:44:52,800
Gone over me yet Yahweh will
command His loving kindest in

701
00:44:52,800 –> 00:44:56,040
the daytime and in the night his
His song shall be with me.

702
00:44:56,280 –> 00:44:58,880
My prayer unto the God of my
life.

703
00:44:59,440 –> 00:45:04,000
How can David write about Mount
Herman and all those water

704
00:45:04,600 –> 00:45:07,400
spouts and things if he hasn’t
been there?

705
00:45:08,440 –> 00:45:13,040
Well, we’ve been there in in the
year 2000 and it’s just so

706
00:45:13,040 –> 00:45:16,600
fascinating basis to be on the
spot like that, to think about

707
00:45:16,600 –> 00:45:19,960
the teaching aid built into the
land, the River Jordan descended

708
00:45:20,280 –> 00:45:22,440
and even Linda Cadeau is here.
I said, can you see that?

709
00:45:23,040 –> 00:45:29,600
And and we read Psalm 42 at that
particular spot and he went

710
00:45:29,720 –> 00:45:34,160
rafting on the River Jordan.
Lovely experience, of course,

711
00:45:34,160 –> 00:45:36,400
splashing each other and getting
wet and things like that.

712
00:45:36,960 –> 00:45:40,760
But you know, I’m.
Floating in the water together

713
00:45:40,760 –> 00:45:44,360
with Stephen Palmer.
And he said, well, obviously I’m

714
00:45:44,360 –> 00:45:49,840
pretty good swimmer, but you
could never swim back up again.

715
00:45:50,560 –> 00:45:53,720
The stream is so powerful it
just drags you down.

716
00:45:54,280 –> 00:45:58,440
You can’t swim back up again.
Remember every day of our life,

717
00:45:58,760 –> 00:46:03,280
like like David said in the
sounds, teachers to number our

718
00:46:03,360 –> 00:46:05,840
days.
Today’s the last day you ever

719
00:46:05,840 –> 00:46:07,520
live.
This particular day it won’t

720
00:46:07,520 –> 00:46:09,320
come back.
You can’t go back.

721
00:46:09,680 –> 00:46:12,080
You can’t say, oh, I wish I can
do that again.

722
00:46:12,600 –> 00:46:17,960
No, the only way is downstream.
There’s no way out.

723
00:46:18,160 –> 00:46:21,600
That is the descender, a picture
of life itself.

724
00:46:21,600 –> 00:46:27,280
And here it flows down through a
Canyon into the Sea of Galilee,

725
00:46:27,280 –> 00:46:31,320
which is here and there.
It flows into the Sea of Galilee

726
00:46:31,520 –> 00:46:35,200
not far from Capernaum.
That’s where Jesus stayed there.

727
00:46:35,920 –> 00:46:39,240
Jesus loved this area because he
stayed there.

728
00:46:39,240 –> 00:46:42,600
And he did a lot of his teaching
and preaching round the Sea of

729
00:46:42,600 –> 00:46:45,000
Galilee.
That’s where most of the

730
00:46:45,000 –> 00:46:48,160
disciples come.
There’s still fishermen today on

731
00:46:48,160 –> 00:46:50,800
the Sea of Galilee.
That’s where they came from.

732
00:46:51,880 –> 00:46:55,400
So if the beginning of the River
Jordan is all its waterfalls

733
00:46:55,400 –> 00:46:56,440
representing.
Youth.

734
00:46:57,080 –> 00:47:00,400
Then I believe the Sea of
Galilee represents a more mature

735
00:47:00,400 –> 00:47:02,480
stage in life.
That’s why I was put my the

736
00:47:02,480 –> 00:47:05,160
picture of my wife there.
Very mature lady.

737
00:47:05,600 –> 00:47:10,000
And interestingly, right now,
the Israelis to earn some money.

738
00:47:10,240 –> 00:47:14,600
Have developed a baptismal site
at the Ganya just before the

739
00:47:14,600 –> 00:47:19,440
Jordan River flows out of the
Sea of Galilee, and we all reach

740
00:47:19,440 –> 00:47:22,440
that stage of maturity better so
that we can think of the

741
00:47:22,440 –> 00:47:25,640
parables of Jesus, all the
healing powers that he was, the

742
00:47:25,640 –> 00:47:29,200
light that had come.
The light was promised of old,

743
00:47:29,520 –> 00:47:33,760
and people are baptised and they
lead a life for Christ.

744
00:47:33,920 –> 00:47:39,120
But from then on the river
Jordan flows through a desert

745
00:47:39,120 –> 00:47:43,200
country.
It meanders through a wide

746
00:47:43,200 –> 00:47:50,400
riverbed and it goes down and
ends up in the Dead Sea, which

747
00:47:50,400 –> 00:47:53,800
has no outlet whatsoever.
We are.

748
00:47:53,800 –> 00:47:57,760
All going to the Dead Sea
Princesses, unless Christ goes

749
00:47:57,760 –> 00:48:01,400
back soon.
That’s the story of life built

750
00:48:01,440 –> 00:48:05,880
into the landscape of Israel.
It’s at the beginning of our

751
00:48:05,880 –> 00:48:08,480
journey.
We’ve got to make up our mind.

752
00:48:08,840 –> 00:48:11,880
Whom do you say?
That I, the Son of Man, am at

753
00:48:11,880 –> 00:48:15,640
the beginning of our life
journey by the sisters because

754
00:48:16,000 –> 00:48:19,720
we don’t have to end up in the
Dead Sea, as we all see at

755
00:48:19,720 –> 00:48:23,640
another time they see.
It’s very beautiful there,

756
00:48:24,160 –> 00:48:26,760
especially when the sun rises up
over the mountains of Moab.

757
00:48:27,240 –> 00:48:30,000
But along the shore there’s
stones are there’s not snow.

758
00:48:30,360 –> 00:48:32,360
But we’re not in Canada.
Here it is a salt.

759
00:48:32,840 –> 00:48:35,920
There’s so much salt and the
stones are covered with salt.

760
00:48:36,280 –> 00:48:38,520
There is no life possible at
all.

761
00:48:39,600 –> 00:48:44,040
In the Byzantine map in Mataba,
there’s a picture of the River

762
00:48:44,040 –> 00:48:46,640
Jordan and the fish is in the
River Jordan and then it flows

763
00:48:46,640 –> 00:48:48,520
into the Dead Sea.
See one fish going into the Dead

764
00:48:48,520 –> 00:48:51,080
Sea don’t come straight out
because you can’t live there at

765
00:48:51,080 –> 00:48:53,920
all.
And so it’s lovely you can float

766
00:48:53,920 –> 00:48:56,120
there.
There’s my son Joe on the right

767
00:48:56,120 –> 00:48:59,040
hand side, our daughter Anna and
Daniel Crispin, her husband.

768
00:48:59,480 –> 00:49:01,840
But it’s the end of the journey
by the sisters.

769
00:49:01,840 –> 00:49:05,440
But it’s not going to stay like
that because we know that it

770
00:49:05,440 –> 00:49:07,200
shall come.
To pass in the last days that

771
00:49:07,200 –> 00:49:10,280
the mountain of Yao’s house
shall be established in the top

772
00:49:10,280 –> 00:49:13,080
of the mountain shall be
exhausted above the hills, and

773
00:49:13,080 –> 00:49:17,320
all nations shall flow onto it.
Now the amount of water is 70

774
00:49:17,320 –> 00:49:19,080
metres higher than the
temperament.

775
00:49:20,280 –> 00:49:24,160
We are a low people, not many
mighty, not many nobles, but the

776
00:49:24,160 –> 00:49:27,880
mountains are around about us
because as yeah, as the

777
00:49:27,880 –> 00:49:30,120
mountains are around about
Jerusalem, so Yah was round

778
00:49:30,120 –> 00:49:31,200
about them.
That’s fear him.

779
00:49:31,600 –> 00:49:36,680
In 1927, such an earthquake that
on the temple Manor Al Aqsa was

780
00:49:37,560 –> 00:49:40,680
destroyed and the waters of the
river Jordan were cut off.

781
00:49:41,240 –> 00:49:45,160
But we know that in the Canaan
you stand on the top of the

782
00:49:45,160 –> 00:49:49,280
Mount of Olives, the valley is
already prepared to take the

783
00:49:49,280 –> 00:49:52,800
water down to the Dead Sea and
the dead.

784
00:49:52,800 –> 00:49:56,000
Sea, they’ll be healed.
Now I’ve got some topographical

785
00:49:56,000 –> 00:49:59,160
maps out and I was just
absolutely amazed to see that if

786
00:49:59,200 –> 00:50:03,760
Jerusalem is here and there’s
the line of the New River, then

787
00:50:03,760 –> 00:50:07,280
the last bit on the map, it’s
called the Wadi Dahar.

788
00:50:08,240 –> 00:50:13,160
That Dahar means the word.
They’re pretty well the British

789
00:50:13,160 –> 00:50:16,800
tonics who gave the name to the
Wadi the last end of it.

790
00:50:17,160 –> 00:50:21,320
Because that river is the word
of God that will go out and heal

791
00:50:22,000 –> 00:50:27,760
death itself like my sisters,
because it mean be the end for

792
00:50:27,760 –> 00:50:31,920
us, because Christ will swallow
up death in victory.

793
00:50:32,440 –> 00:50:35,960
And therefore we come back to
this place again as a very

794
00:50:35,960 –> 00:50:39,640
powerful lesson for us.
So let us then, especially young

795
00:50:39,640 –> 00:50:43,000
people at the beginning of your
life, make up your mind whom

796
00:50:43,000 –> 00:50:46,720
you’re going to serve.
Do you believe that Jesus is the

797
00:50:46,720 –> 00:50:49,480
Son of God?
Order your radical for the

798
00:50:49,480 –> 00:50:52,840
pleasures of life as people did
in Caesarea Philippine.

799
00:50:53,120 –> 00:50:53,440
Thank you.