Class 6 from this series was used in GCT Episode 337.<\/p>\n
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\nOur speaker for this second
\nsession is Brother Lane <\/p>\n
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\nRittmeyer from Cardiff, Wales.
\nHis theme this week is The Power<\/p>\n
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\nof Bible Places and their
\nLessons for us. <\/p>\n
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\nThis is his first class and the
\nsubject of this class is But <\/p>\n
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\nThou Bethlehem Ephrata.
\nThe reading was taken from <\/p>\n
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\nDeuteronomy Chapter 11, verses
\n1:00 to 12:00. <\/p>\n
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\nDear brethren and sisters in the
\nLord Jesus Christ, it’s. <\/p>\n
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\nGreat to be with you.
\nEspecially at this time of the <\/p>\n
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\nyear, it’s wonderful to come
\naside from the world and to <\/p>\n
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\nconcentrate on the word of God.
\nOur thoughts are with our <\/p>\n
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\nbrethren, sisters in in England,
\nin Castleton, where a similar <\/p>\n
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\nnorthern winter study which my
\nsister, which my wife Kathleen <\/p>\n
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\nand myself set up some 40 years,
\n14 years ago, are still going <\/p>\n
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\non.
\nAnd they’re also. <\/p>\n
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\nStudying the Word of God.
\nAway from the distraction of <\/p>\n
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\nthis world, other subject for
\nthis afternoon is Buddha <\/p>\n
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\nBethlehem Ephrata.
\nI first want to speak a few <\/p>\n
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\nwords about the land of Israel,
\nespecially as a teaching aid. <\/p>\n
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\nWe read in this verse 12 that
\nIsrael is a land which Yaadai <\/p>\n
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\nElwin cares for.
\nThe eyes of Yaadai Elwin are <\/p>\n
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\nalways upon it from the
\nbeginning of the year even unto <\/p>\n
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\nthe end of the year.
\nWhat a remarkable statement. <\/p>\n
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\nAlthough we’ve lived there, I’ve
\nlived there for 20 years in the <\/p>\n
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\nland of Israel, mainly in
\nJerusalem. <\/p>\n
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\nWe often thought that God is
\nalways looking at this land. <\/p>\n
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\nSo Israel, we believe, has been
\ncreated, especially by God as a <\/p>\n
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\nteaching aid to teachers,
\nspiritual lessons. <\/p>\n
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\nBut we lived in the land.
\nA lot of our time was taken up <\/p>\n
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\nwith work in archaeology because
\nboth my wife Kathleen and <\/p>\n
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\nmyself, we are archaeologists.
\nAnd as I said yesterday, so <\/p>\n
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\ntoday we met.
\nOur lives have been in ruins and<\/p>\n
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\nbut.
\nIt was a variable. <\/p>\n
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\nVery enjoyable.
\nWay to spend your time. <\/p>\n
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\nWhen you work in archaeology,
\nyou find all sorts of <\/p>\n
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\ninteresting things.
\nAnd I never forget the day that <\/p>\n
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\nI dug up my wife Kathleen on
\nMount Zion, the most wonderful <\/p>\n
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\nfind I ever made.
\nBut while we were working there <\/p>\n
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\nand raising a family, we always
\nlooked at the land through the <\/p>\n
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\neyes of the Bible.
\nBut later on we became more <\/p>\n
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\ndeeply aware of the spiritual
\nsignificance of certain places <\/p>\n
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\nin the Bible.
\nSome places we could time and <\/p>\n
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\nagain, the Bible is actually
\nfull of geographical places and <\/p>\n
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\nwhy are they there?
\nWhy should we read that you <\/p>\n
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\ntravel from A to B and not get
\nout on Atlas and look at those <\/p>\n
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\nplaces and see the significance
\nof those places. <\/p>\n
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\nRecently we’ve been making maps
\nfor our work of all sorts of <\/p>\n
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\nBible events and especially of
\nthe life of Christ. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd during those five sessions,
\nI want to look at the life of <\/p>\n
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\nChrist, but through the places
\nwhere he had been, which he <\/p>\n
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\nvisited some of them time and
\nagain, and make us realise that <\/p>\n
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\nbefore we had laptops and
\nprojectors and whiteboards and <\/p>\n
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\nblackboards and all sort of
\nartificial materials, God had <\/p>\n
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\nalready designed the land as a
\nteaching aid. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd that’s the way we learn to
\nlook at it. <\/p>\n
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\nSo what do we know about the
\nland? <\/p>\n
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\nWell, it lies at the junction of
\nthe great land masses of, of <\/p>\n
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\nEurope.
\nHere’s Europe, here’s Asia, and <\/p>\n
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\nhere’s Africa.
\nAnd the land of this is right in<\/p>\n
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\nthe middle of it, a very
\nimportant location. <\/p>\n
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\nIf you go to Genesis chapter 48,
\nthen Jacob says this. <\/p>\n
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\nAfter he had blessed Joseph in
\nverse 15 and said Elovim, before<\/p>\n
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\nwhom my father’s Abram and Isaac
\ndid walk, the Elovim which fed <\/p>\n
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\nme all or shepherded me all my
\nlife long unto this day, the <\/p>\n
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\nAngel which redeemed me from all
\nevil, blessed the lads, if I’m <\/p>\n
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\nAmanasa, and let my name be
\nnamed on them, and the name of <\/p>\n
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\nmy father’s Abram and Isaac.
\nLet them grow into a multitude <\/p>\n
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\nin the midst of the earth,
\nbecause that’s where Israel is <\/p>\n
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\nlocated.
\nAnd that is why, I suppose it’s <\/p>\n
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\noften in the news because of its
\ncentral location. <\/p>\n
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\nEven today, almost all every day
\non the front page of the <\/p>\n
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\nnewspapers, Israel is mentioned.
\nIt’s also reinforced by the <\/p>\n
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\nsounds.
\nIf you go to Psalm 74 now, you <\/p>\n
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\ncan see this centrality of the
\nland of Israel in the purpose of<\/p>\n
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\nGod.
\nIt says that in verse 12. <\/p>\n
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\nFor Elavim is my king of old
\nworking salvation in the midst <\/p>\n
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\nof the earth.
\nI believe the commas are the <\/p>\n
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\nwrong place.
\nElavim is my king but of old <\/p>\n
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\nfrom a long time ago he’s been
\nworking salvation in the midst <\/p>\n
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\nof the earth and that’s why
\nAbram was sent to that land. <\/p>\n
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\nIt was a special location with
\nall its challenges. <\/p>\n
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\nIf you look at this map, then we
\ncan see that the ancient land of<\/p>\n
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\nIsrael was located in between
\nEgypt on the South and the other<\/p>\n
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\nempires of Assyria and Babylon
\nand Persia to the North East. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd it’s all acted as a land
\nbridge between these empires and<\/p>\n
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\nit shaped their history.
\nAnd sometimes God used the <\/p>\n
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\nenemies of Israel to punish her
\nwhenever that was necessary. <\/p>\n
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\nThe land has also been called a
\nsanctuary and an observatory. <\/p>\n
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\nIf you look at the.
\nBoundaries of the land and on <\/p>\n
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\nthe east and on the South we’ve
\ngot deserts, on the West is the <\/p>\n
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\nMediterranean Sea and in the
\nnorth very high mountains. <\/p>\n
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\nSo it’s a land of isolation,
\njust like we have isolated <\/p>\n
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\nourselves from the world so we
\ncan serve God without <\/p>\n
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\ndistraction.
\nIt’s isolation with its <\/p>\n
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\nstrength, but also its weakness
\nbecause it was still possible to<\/p>\n
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\nmake contact with the neighbors
\nwho frequently used Israel as a <\/p>\n
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\nland bridge.
\nWhen Egypt fought against the <\/p>\n
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\nSyria, they went through Israel
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\nEgypt, they went through the
\nland of Israel. <\/p>\n
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\nSo despite its isolation, there
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\nthe neighboring countries.
\nAnd throughout its history, the <\/p>\n
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\nland of Israel has been opened
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\ninfluences from nearly all
\npoints of the campus. <\/p>\n
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\nSo God used this location to
\ngive Israel an opportunity to be<\/p>\n
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\nas separate people who would
\nseparate themselves unto God, <\/p>\n
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\nbut also to see if they trusted
\nHim or rather in the nations <\/p>\n
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\nthat were around them.
\nIn Jeremiah 2 and WAS 18, we can<\/p>\n
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\nsee the reference which is made
\nto the location of Israel and <\/p>\n
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\nhow they viewed and used the
\nland. <\/p>\n
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\nIn chapter 2 of Jeremiah and
\nverse 18, the prophet speaks <\/p>\n
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\nagainst Israel.
\nIn verse 17 he says, Hast thou <\/p>\n
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\nnot procured this unto thyself
\nin the Taoist forsaken Yahweh <\/p>\n
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\nthy alabin, when he let thee, By
\nthe way, how did they forsake <\/p>\n
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\nhim?
\nWhat has thou to do in the way <\/p>\n
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\nof Egypt to drink the waters of
\nSihor? <\/p>\n
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\nWhat is there to do in the way
\nof Assyria to drink the waters <\/p>\n
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\nof the river?
\nThey were not content to live in<\/p>\n
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\nisolation in a land flowing with
\nmilk and honey, but it was <\/p>\n
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\nplentiful water and food
\navailable. <\/p>\n
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\nThey had to go to the way of
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\nof Assyrian, and they were
\ncondemned for it. <\/p>\n
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\nSo Israel had its strength.
\nAnd it also has its weaknesses. <\/p>\n
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\nJust as we as Christadelphians,
\nwe’ve also been placed in the <\/p>\n
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\nsanctuary of our ecclesia.
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\nit as a sanctuary where we can
\nbe isolated away from the world,<\/p>\n
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\nwhere we can serve God and
\nencourage Vangadeh without <\/p>\n
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\ndistraction.
\nIt was easy for Israel, if they <\/p>\n
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\nwanted to, to go to Egypt or to
\ngo to Assyria. <\/p>\n
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\nIt’s easy for us to go to the
\nworld. <\/p>\n
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\nWe walk on the computer, we are
\nin the world at just a touch of <\/p>\n
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\na button and we can see all the
\nevil that is in the world. <\/p>\n
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\nOr do we?
\nUse it and whatever means of <\/p>\n
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\ncommunications we have to
\nstrengthen the brotherhood. <\/p>\n
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\nBut looking at the land itself,
\nin a very small area, there are <\/p>\n
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\nall sorts of different types of
\nvegetation, of soils and of <\/p>\n
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\nclimate.
\nYou can divide the land into <\/p>\n
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\nfour different strips.
\nWe got a coastal plain very <\/p>\n
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\nclearly marked out along the
\ncoast with flat and very fertile<\/p>\n
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\nland.
\nThey get a central mountain <\/p>\n
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\nrange, high and lofty.
\nThere are no major roads going <\/p>\n
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\nright through that central
\nmountain range. <\/p>\n
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\nThey got a deep and dark Jordan
\nValley, which ends in the Dead <\/p>\n
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\nSea.
\nAnd then we got the other side <\/p>\n
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\nof Jordan.
\nAnd it often depends. <\/p>\n
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\nWhere you live?
\nWhat influence that that may <\/p>\n
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\nhave on your life in the truth?
\nLet’s go to two Judges. <\/p>\n
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\nLet’s first look here at the
\ncoastal plain. <\/p>\n
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\nI’ve seen this one before.
\nSo here’s the coastal plain. <\/p>\n
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\nIt’s for the tribe of Asia and
\nZebulon and Efraim lived. <\/p>\n
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\nYou get cities like Tyre and
\nAkko, Haifa, Dorsis, Aria and so<\/p>\n
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\non.
\nBut what does it say in Judges <\/p>\n
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\nChapter 1?
\nSometimes we’re going to be a <\/p>\n
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\nbit too comfortable in our lives
\nat the cost of our spiritual <\/p>\n
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\nstrength.
\nIn Judges chapter 1 and verse <\/p>\n
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\n29, talking about the people
\nthat lived in the coastal plain <\/p>\n
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\nin the Philistine country,
\nEphraim in verse 29 did not <\/p>\n
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\ndrive out the Canaanites that
\ndwelt in Gaza, but the <\/p>\n
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\nCanaanites dwelt in Gaza among
\nthem. <\/p>\n
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\nNow did Zebulun drive out the
\ninhabits of Kitron nor the <\/p>\n
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\ninhabits of Nakhalo, but the
\nCanaanites dwelt among them <\/p>\n
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\nbecame tributaries.
\nIt’s getting worse with Ashen, <\/p>\n
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\nwho didn’t drive out the
\ninhabits of Ako, nor the <\/p>\n
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\ninhabits of Zaiden, nor Akhlab,
\nnor Akhsiv, nor Khalban, nor <\/p>\n
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\nAfiq, nor Ryob.
\nBut the Asrites dwelt among the <\/p>\n
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\nCanaanites as a minority, the
\ninhabitants of the land, for <\/p>\n
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\nthey did not drive them out.
\nOur ecclesias. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd are we ourselves, brain and
\nsisters, strong in faith or weak<\/p>\n
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\nin conviction, like the
\nasteroids, the Ephraimites, the <\/p>\n
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\nPeople who jeopardy their lives <\/p>\n
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\nFew years ago we had a trip to
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\nIf you know the Bible, you feel
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\nthe better you are able to
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\nBut I’m not going to give you a
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\nTopography or geography?
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\nRobert Roberts.
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\nNazareth Revisited,
\ntopographical coincidences run <\/p>\n
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\nThe offering of Isaac on Mount
\nMoriah required that Jesus <\/p>\n
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\nbetrayed, and they’ve returned <\/p>\n
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\nbut now God chose Israel.
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\nJesus walked through the land in<\/p>\n
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\nWe learn many lessons if he walk<\/p>\n
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\nit’s the same. <\/p>\n
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\nIf you walk through the land.
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\nSuch as as mountains are round
\nabout Jerusalem, so shall round <\/p>\n
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\nmountains and come or by the sea<\/p>\n
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\nbe with that Jesus must needs go
\nthrough Sumerian. <\/p>\n
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\nWhy I must be in my father’s
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\nActually many times in the <\/p>\n
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\nSo the whole lie of the land has<\/p>\n
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\nus also. <\/p>\n
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\nsignificance in God’s plan that <\/p>\n
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\nthe pages of Scripture. <\/p>\n
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\nThere’s one place you’ve come to
\nlater on. <\/p>\n
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\nThe Christ went back time and
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\ngot comfort from that particular
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\nThen we can see that he was the <\/p>\n
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\nIn Genesis 12 and verse 6, we <\/p>\n
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\npassed through the land unto the<\/p>\n
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\ngiven that wonderful promise, <\/p>\n
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\nand to thy seed forever. <\/p>\n
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\nfor I will give it unto thee. <\/p>\n
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\nthen later on we meet the same
\nGabriel again. <\/p>\n
338
\n00:22:45,920 –> 00:22:51,040
\nHe goes to Mary in Nazareth and
\nthen Mary goes to visit <\/p>\n
339
\n00:22:51,080 –> 00:22:56,640
\nElizabeth in the Hill Country.
\nOf Judah, what is the importance<\/p>\n
340
\n00:22:56,640 –> 00:23:00,680
\nand how do people react in the
\nplaces in which they lived? <\/p>\n
341
\n00:23:01,760 –> 00:23:08,080
\nNow if you look at the temple
\nitself, Gabriel in the temple he<\/p>\n
342
\n00:23:08,080 –> 00:23:12,120
\nappeared unto Zechariah, and he
\nsays, Thy prayer is heard, and <\/p>\n
343
\n00:23:12,120 –> 00:23:15,760
\nthy wife Elizabeth shall bear
\nthee son, and thou shalt call <\/p>\n
344
\n00:23:15,760 –> 00:23:21,680
\nhis name John.
\nThe importance of Gabriel <\/p>\n
345
\n00:23:21,680 –> 00:23:26,360
\nappearing at a particular time
\nat a particular location is <\/p>\n
346
\n00:23:26,360 –> 00:23:29,600
\nextremely important.
\nHere you can see the <\/p>\n
347
\n00:23:29,960 –> 00:23:31,640
\nreconstruction of the Temple
\nMount. <\/p>\n
348
\n00:23:31,640 –> 00:23:34,280
\nHere’s the the eastern wall of
\nthe Temple Mount. <\/p>\n
349
\n00:23:34,400 –> 00:23:36,160
\nThe Golden Gate is here
\nnowadays. <\/p>\n
350
\n00:23:36,520 –> 00:23:39,240
\nHere’s the Antonia Fortress on
\nthe northwestern corner. <\/p>\n
351
\n00:23:39,640 –> 00:23:41,720
\nHere’s the Western Wall and the
\nSouthern. <\/p>\n
352
\n00:23:41,720 –> 00:23:44,880
\nWall and right in the middle to
\nthis magnificent temple. <\/p>\n
353
\n00:23:45,200 –> 00:23:49,120
\nIt was as high as 20 Storey
\nmulti Storey building nowadays, <\/p>\n
354
\n00:23:49,400 –> 00:23:53,080
\nall covered over with gold and
\nall the buildings which had <\/p>\n
355
\n00:23:53,080 –> 00:23:56,040
\ndifferent functions built around
\nthe temple. <\/p>\n
356
\n00:23:57,560 –> 00:24:00,680
\nRight in front of the temple and
\nyou can see the temple itself <\/p>\n
357
\n00:24:00,680 –> 00:24:03,320
\nstanding, that beautiful golden
\nfacade. <\/p>\n
358
\n00:24:03,560 –> 00:24:05,960
\nJosephus, the historian said.
\nIf you stood on the Mount of <\/p>\n
359
\n00:24:05,960 –> 00:24:10,520
\nOlives early in the morning and
\nthe sun rose up, the sun that <\/p>\n
360
\n00:24:10,640 –> 00:24:14,080
\nwas reflected by the gold of the
\ntemple would blind your eyes. <\/p>\n
361
\n00:24:14,080 –> 00:24:18,080
\nIt was a magnificent building.
\nJesus called it the House of my <\/p>\n
362
\n00:24:18,080 –> 00:24:21,480
\nFather, despite the fact that it
\nwas built by Herod the Great. <\/p>\n
363
\n00:24:21,960 –> 00:24:24,840
\nIn front of it was the court of
\nthe women, also called the <\/p>\n
364
\n00:24:24,840 –> 00:24:28,040
\ntreasury where Jesus did most of
\nhis teaching and all the <\/p>\n
365
\n00:24:28,040 –> 00:24:31,680
\nbuildings of the temple which
\nthe disciples pointed out when <\/p>\n
366
\n00:24:31,680 –> 00:24:37,080
\nthey sat on the Mount of Olives.
\nIn this courtyard many things <\/p>\n
367
\n00:24:37,080 –> 00:24:41,200
\nhappened is where Jesus talked
\nabout the woman who had cast 2 <\/p>\n
368
\n00:24:41,200 –> 00:24:43,920
\nmites in a treasury.
\nIt was here that Jesus was <\/p>\n
369
\n00:24:43,920 –> 00:24:49,320
\npresented as a baby, where where
\nAnna the prophetess and Simeon <\/p>\n
370
\n00:24:49,320 –> 00:24:51,400
\nthe prophet were meeting with
\nthem. <\/p>\n
371
\n00:24:51,880 –> 00:24:55,360
\nHe would see 15 semicircular
\nsteps where the Levite used to <\/p>\n
372
\n00:24:55,360 –> 00:25:00,480
\nsing their songs, and beyond
\nthere was the temple itself, an <\/p>\n
373
\n00:25:00,480 –> 00:25:03,480
\nabsolutely very imposing and
\nmagnificent building. <\/p>\n
374
\n00:25:03,720 –> 00:25:09,600
\nThat was inside this building
\nwhere the Angel Gabriel <\/p>\n
375
\n00:25:09,680 –> 00:25:13,560
\nappeared.
\nHe appeared in the Holy of <\/p>\n
376
\n00:25:13,560 –> 00:25:19,000
\nHolies, standing on the right
\nside of the art of incense. <\/p>\n
377
\n00:25:19,560 –> 00:25:23,040
\nWhat does that mean?
\nBut the out out of incense stood<\/p>\n
378
\n00:25:23,040 –> 00:25:25,760
\non the West side of the holy
\nright in front of the veil. <\/p>\n
379
\n00:25:26,480 –> 00:25:30,480
\nThe right side is almost the
\nsouthern side because E is <\/p>\n
380
\n00:25:30,480 –> 00:25:35,280
\nforward, so right is South and
\nleft is east. <\/p>\n
381
\n00:25:35,560 –> 00:25:39,880
\nSo he stood in between the out
\nof incense and the lampstand <\/p>\n
382
\n00:25:40,480 –> 00:25:42,400
\nbecause he represents the word
\nof God. <\/p>\n
383
\n00:25:42,960 –> 00:25:46,120
\nAnd Zacharias was standing there
\nat the out of incense, which <\/p>\n
384
\n00:25:46,200 –> 00:25:50,000
\nrepresents prayer.
\nIt says in Psalm 141, my prayer <\/p>\n
385
\n00:25:50,200 –> 00:25:53,360
\nshall be set forth before thee
\nas incense. <\/p>\n
386
\n00:25:53,960 –> 00:25:57,160
\nThe apostles in Acts chapter 3
\nwent to the temple at the hour <\/p>\n
387
\n00:25:57,200 –> 00:26:01,760
\nof prayer, at the hour of
\nincense, between 2:00 and 3:00. <\/p>\n
388
\n00:26:02,240 –> 00:26:06,320
\nThat’s where Gabriel appeared to
\nZechariah who was offering <\/p>\n
389
\n00:26:06,320 –> 00:26:10,760
\nincense.
\nBut it’s more to that because in<\/p>\n
390
\n00:26:10,760 –> 00:26:14,720
\nthe temple.
\nThe priest served for two weeks <\/p>\n
391
\n00:26:14,720 –> 00:26:18,960
\nand he was serving according to
\nthe order of Abijah and every <\/p>\n
392
\n00:26:18,960 –> 00:26:25,680
\nmorning they cast lots for its
\npriests, A certain duty to do. <\/p>\n
393
\n00:26:26,920 –> 00:26:28,920
\nThere were all sorts of things
\nhad to be done. <\/p>\n
394
\n00:26:28,920 –> 00:26:32,640
\nThe altar outside had to be
\ncleaned and brought, wood <\/p>\n
395
\n00:26:32,640 –> 00:26:35,200
\nbrought for the sacrifices
\ninside the temple. <\/p>\n
396
\n00:26:35,400 –> 00:26:38,000
\nInside the Holy Year, 5 priests
\nwent in. <\/p>\n
397
\n00:26:38,280 –> 00:26:41,280
\nOne was offering incense, but
\nbefore one had cleaned the out <\/p>\n
398
\n00:26:41,280 –> 00:26:44,160
\nof incense, another one went out
\nto get the coals of the out of <\/p>\n
399
\n00:26:44,160 –> 00:26:46,680
\nburnt offerings.
\nThe 4th 1 looked after the <\/p>\n
400
\n00:26:46,760 –> 00:26:51,800
\nlampstand and the 5th did
\ngeneral duty, but to offer <\/p>\n
401
\n00:26:51,800 –> 00:26:57,800
\nincense was the most coveted.
\nLot to receive and because <\/p>\n
402
\n00:26:57,800 –> 00:27:02,200
\neveryone wanted to do it, once
\nyou had done it, you could never<\/p>\n
403
\n00:27:02,200 –> 00:27:07,480
\ndo it again.
\nSo Zechariah got the chance of <\/p>\n
404
\n00:27:07,480 –> 00:27:10,760
\nhis lifetime.
\nHe got a lot of incense in the <\/p>\n
405
\n00:27:10,760 –> 00:27:13,200
\ntemple and that’s why he prayed
\nthere. <\/p>\n
406
\n00:27:13,840 –> 00:27:17,360
\nOf course God can hear our
\nprayer always, but this was this<\/p>\n
407
\n00:27:17,360 –> 00:27:22,720
\nparticular time and a particular
\nplace to say a prayer to be <\/p>\n
408
\n00:27:22,720 –> 00:27:27,440
\nalmost sure that God will hear
\nyour prayer all his life. <\/p>\n
409
\n00:27:27,720 –> 00:27:32,040
\nHe must be waiting for this
\nopportunity to pray to God for a<\/p>\n
410
\n00:27:32,040 –> 00:27:38,600
\nson in his magnificent temple,
\nmost beautiful building in in <\/p>\n
411
\n00:27:38,600 –> 00:27:40,520
\nthe land of Israel and in
\nJerusalem. <\/p>\n
412
\n00:27:42,480 –> 00:27:44,920
\nSo you think?
\nWow, I can. <\/p>\n
413
\n00:27:44,920 –> 00:27:47,000
\nPray to God, and I expect an
\nanswer. <\/p>\n
414
\n00:27:47,320 –> 00:27:50,640
\nAnd he got an answer.
\nCable shall thy prayer is heard,<\/p>\n
415
\n00:27:50,920 –> 00:27:53,240
\nand thy wife Elizabeth shall
\nbear thee a son, and thy shall <\/p>\n
416
\n00:27:53,240 –> 00:27:56,760
\ncall his name John, as you read
\nin Luke 1 and 13. <\/p>\n
417
\n00:27:59,480 –> 00:28:04,160
\nAnd then he didn’t believe it.
\nHow is it possible, pregnant <\/p>\n
418
\n00:28:04,160 –> 00:28:07,640
\nsisters, you waited all your
\nlife to be in a particular <\/p>\n
419
\n00:28:07,640 –> 00:28:11,680
\nplace, to offer incense and to
\nsay your prayers, asking for <\/p>\n
420
\n00:28:11,680 –> 00:28:14,280
\nsomething that seems impossible,
\nand then Angel appears and you <\/p>\n
421
\n00:28:14,280 –> 00:28:16,800
\ndon’t believe it and he was
\nstruck down. <\/p>\n
422
\n00:28:17,800 –> 00:28:22,080
\nSo he couldn’t even say the
\nblessing, which I said every day<\/p>\n
423
\n00:28:22,440 –> 00:28:26,960
\nafter the offering of incense.
\nHere you can see 5 priests <\/p>\n
424
\n00:28:26,960 –> 00:28:29,280
\nstanding there.
\nHere’s the incense offering <\/p>\n
425
\n00:28:29,280 –> 00:28:32,600
\npriest after the They’ve been
\nthere a whole hour in the holy. <\/p>\n
426
\n00:28:32,840 –> 00:28:37,640
\nThey came out, all five of them.
\nThey raised up their hands, all <\/p>\n
427
\n00:28:37,640 –> 00:28:40,960
\n5, as you can see there in the
\nmodel, and they said the <\/p>\n
428
\n00:28:40,960 –> 00:28:45,720
\nblessing the Zechariah was done.
\nSo we don’t know what he would <\/p>\n
429
\n00:28:45,720 –> 00:28:48,920
\nhave said, but we do know what
\nhe was supposed to have said, <\/p>\n
430
\n00:28:48,920 –> 00:28:53,800
\nbecause every day those priests
\nsaid in unison the same blessing<\/p>\n
431
\n00:28:53,960 –> 00:28:58,560
\nof number six, verse 24 to 26.
\nYaweh, bless thee and keep thee.<\/p>\n
432
\n00:28:58,840 –> 00:29:01,720
\nYaoh, make his face shine upon
\nthee and be gracious unto thee. <\/p>\n
433
\n00:29:02,080 –> 00:29:05,600
\nYaoh, lift up his countenance
\nupon thee and give thee peace. <\/p>\n
434
\n00:29:06,360 –> 00:29:10,800
\nThat’s what they said every day.
\nI’ve got made his face shine <\/p>\n
435
\n00:29:10,800 –> 00:29:13,840
\nupon Zecharias.
\nHe was gracious unto him. <\/p>\n
436
\n00:29:14,360 –> 00:29:18,200
\nHe heard his prayer.
\nAnd then he didn’t believe it. <\/p>\n
437
\n00:29:18,960 –> 00:29:21,400
\nAnd we can mean a very similar
\nsituation by the sisters. <\/p>\n
438
\n00:29:21,920 –> 00:29:25,240
\nWe read the word of God and we
\ncommit our life to God and we <\/p>\n
439
\n00:29:25,240 –> 00:29:28,560
\npray to God.
\nBut do we always recognise it? <\/p>\n
440
\n00:29:28,560 –> 00:29:31,720
\nAnd are we thankful when?
\nWe get an answer to our prayer. <\/p>\n
441
\n00:29:32,360 –> 00:29:34,120
\nOr do we?
\nJust subscribe to certain <\/p>\n
442
\n00:29:34,120 –> 00:29:39,040
\ncircumstances that we got what
\nwe wanted after all and the <\/p>\n
443
\n00:29:39,160 –> 00:29:43,160
\ncontrast between Gabriel being
\nin the temple. <\/p>\n
444
\n00:29:44,120 –> 00:29:47,320
\nAnd the later being sent to
\nNazareth could not have been <\/p>\n
445
\n00:29:47,320 –> 00:29:50,880
\ngrated because Nazareth,
\nalthough we got to look much <\/p>\n
446
\n00:29:50,880 –> 00:29:55,400
\nmore at Nazareth tomorrow, God
\nwilling, Gabriel now, after <\/p>\n
447
\n00:29:55,400 –> 00:29:57,920
\nhaving been in that beautiful
\ntemple and being met with <\/p>\n
448
\n00:29:58,000 –> 00:30:04,040
\nunbelief, was now sent to a
\nlittle village in Galilee named <\/p>\n
449
\n00:30:04,120 –> 00:30:07,160
\nNazareth.
\nThat’s what it looks like today.<\/p>\n
450
\n00:30:07,160 –> 00:30:10,440
\nYou can see the Jesuit Valley to
\nthe South of it and it’s quite a<\/p>\n
451
\n00:30:10,440 –> 00:30:14,280
\nlarge city nowadays, but.
\nIn those times it was a small <\/p>\n
452
\n00:30:14,280 –> 00:30:16,040
\ncity.
\nHere’s a photograph of Nazareth <\/p>\n
453
\n00:30:16,440 –> 00:30:19,960
\nabout 100 years ago, and that’s
\nwhat it looked like. <\/p>\n
454
\n00:30:20,160 –> 00:30:22,520
\nI believe in the time of the
\nLord Jesus Christ. <\/p>\n
455
\n00:30:22,800 –> 00:30:27,080
\nA small village inside a bowl,
\nsurrounded by mountains, <\/p>\n
456
\n00:30:27,320 –> 00:30:31,520
\nisolated, poor.
\nAnd that’s where Gabriel was <\/p>\n
457
\n00:30:31,520 –> 00:30:34,000
\nsent.
\nNot to the magnificent temple in<\/p>\n
458
\n00:30:34,000 –> 00:30:37,440
\nJerusalem, to a little village,
\nto a little girl. <\/p>\n
459
\n00:30:38,520 –> 00:30:41,520
\nAnd a very different reception
\nhe got. <\/p>\n
460
\n00:30:43,240 –> 00:31:06,580
\nBecause we go to Luke chapter 1,
\nwe read there in verse 26 now in<\/p>\n
461
\n00:31:06,580 –> 00:31:10,780
\nthe sixth month, I mean after
\nhis appearance to Zechariah the <\/p>\n
462
\n00:31:10,780 –> 00:31:14,700
\nAngel Gabriel, and his name
\nmeans the mighty man of God. <\/p>\n
463
\n00:31:15,420 –> 00:31:20,100
\nHe was sent from God unto a city
\nof Galilee named Nazareth to a <\/p>\n
464
\n00:31:20,100 –> 00:31:22,960
\nvirgin.
\nEspoused to a man whose name was<\/p>\n
465
\n00:31:22,960 –> 00:31:27,920
\nJoseph of the House of David,
\nand the Virgin’s name was Mary. <\/p>\n
466
\n00:31:30,440 –> 00:31:33,280
\nHer names are very important in
\nthe Bible. <\/p>\n
467
\n00:31:33,600 –> 00:31:36,880
\nMary had a Hebrew name.
\nIn Hebrew she would have been <\/p>\n
468
\n00:31:36,880 –> 00:31:41,240
\ncalled Miriam, and her name
\nmeans exalted. <\/p>\n
469
\n00:31:41,480 –> 00:31:43,960
\nHer name doesn’t come from Mara
\nor bitterness. <\/p>\n
470
\n00:31:44,200 –> 00:31:47,000
\nHer name was Miriam.
\nEven in the Greek New Testament,<\/p>\n
471
\n00:31:47,000 –> 00:31:50,800
\nshe’s called Miriam.
\nAnd indeed she was exalted. <\/p>\n
472
\n00:31:50,800 –> 00:31:54,080
\nAnd how did the Angel greet her?
\nIn verse 28? <\/p>\n
473
\n00:31:54,080 –> 00:31:59,240
\nThe Angel came in and to her in
\na humble house in a humble <\/p>\n
474
\n00:31:59,240 –> 00:32:02,920
\nvillage far away from the
\nmagnificent city of Jerusalem, <\/p>\n
475
\n00:32:02,920 –> 00:32:08,720
\nhe said, Hail or rejoice, thou
\nhighly favoured, the Lord is <\/p>\n
476
\n00:32:08,720 –> 00:32:12,200
\nwith thee, Blessed art thou
\namong women. <\/p>\n
477
\n00:32:13,800 –> 00:32:16,360
\nNow, she’s never been greeted
\nlike that in her life. <\/p>\n
478
\n00:32:18,040 –> 00:32:19,840
\nShe wasn’t used to be greeted
\nlike that. <\/p>\n
479
\n00:32:19,840 –> 00:32:24,320
\nAnd then we read in verse 29 she
\nwas troubled at this saying and <\/p>\n
480
\n00:32:24,880 –> 00:32:28,960
\ncast in her mind, what men of
\nsalutation this. <\/p>\n
481
\n00:32:28,960 –> 00:32:34,080
\nShould be the message of a
\nSaviour being born of a virgin <\/p>\n
482
\n00:32:34,440 –> 00:32:36,720
\nwould not have been strange to
\nher, because she knew the <\/p>\n
483
\n00:32:36,720 –> 00:32:40,400
\nprophets that a virgin shall
\nconceive and bear a son. <\/p>\n
484
\n00:32:41,200 –> 00:32:44,320
\nBy the fact that it was Gabriel
\nthere which first appeared to <\/p>\n
485
\n00:32:44,320 –> 00:32:51,000
\nZechariah, now came to her.
\nAnd she only thought why me <\/p>\n
486
\n00:32:52,960 –> 00:32:57,280
\nafter she heard the message of
\nGabriel, she only asked one <\/p>\n
487
\n00:32:57,280 –> 00:33:00,840
\nquestion.
\nShe says how shall this be <\/p>\n
488
\n00:33:01,040 –> 00:33:04,800
\nseeing I know not a man.
\nIt’s a wonderful lifestyle. <\/p>\n
489
\n00:33:04,800 –> 00:33:08,200
\nThis girl lived a very faithful
\ngirl in Israel. <\/p>\n
490
\n00:33:08,560 –> 00:33:11,280
\nBut this was not a question out
\nof unbelief, as. <\/p>\n
491
\n00:33:11,560 –> 00:33:14,600
\nThe question of Zacharias was
\nwho didn’t believe and asked for<\/p>\n
492
\n00:33:14,600 –> 00:33:17,240
\na sign.
\nHer question was perfectly <\/p>\n
493
\n00:33:17,240 –> 00:33:20,800
\nreasonable and therefore in
\nverse 37, the Angel. <\/p>\n
494
\n00:33:20,800 –> 00:33:25,120
\nIn verse 35 says, after her
\nquestion in verse 34 says, the <\/p>\n
495
\n00:33:25,120 –> 00:33:27,720
\nHoly Spirit shall come upon
\nthee, and the power of the <\/p>\n
496
\n00:33:27,720 –> 00:33:30,840
\nhighest shall over shadow thee.
\nTherefore so that holy thing <\/p>\n
497
\n00:33:30,840 –> 00:33:33,160
\nwhich shall be born of thee
\nshall be called the Son of God. <\/p>\n
498
\n00:33:33,160 –> 00:33:39,160
\nAnd then he also says, Behold
\nthy cousin Elizabeth, she has <\/p>\n
499
\n00:33:39,160 –> 00:33:43,040
\nalso conceived a son in her old
\nage, and it’s a six month with <\/p>\n
500
\n00:33:43,040 –> 00:33:47,000
\nher who is called barren.
\nFor be God nothing shall be <\/p>\n
501
\n00:33:47,000 –> 00:33:52,480
\nimpossible.
\nI should have remembered Abe. <\/p>\n
502
\n00:33:52,480 –> 00:33:56,320
\nMan, Sarah, is anything too hard
\nfor the Lord? <\/p>\n
503
\n00:33:57,440 –> 00:34:02,120
\nSarah laughed in unbelief.
\nBut how did Mary react? <\/p>\n
504
\n00:34:02,640 –> 00:34:07,760
\nShe says, Behold the handmaid of
\nthe Lord, be it unto me <\/p>\n
505
\n00:34:07,840 –> 00:34:13,040
\naccording to thy words.
\nAnd sometimes you get a far <\/p>\n
506
\n00:34:13,040 –> 00:34:17,360
\nbetter reception, brethren, as
\nsisters, as the the Angel Gable <\/p>\n
507
\n00:34:17,360 –> 00:34:22,960
\ndid in humble dwellings with
\npoor people rather than in that <\/p>\n
508
\n00:34:23,000 –> 00:34:26,960
\nmighty beautiful gold covered
\ntemple in Jerusalem. <\/p>\n
509
\n00:34:30,159 –> 00:34:32,280
\nBut now the next place you’re
\ngoing to visit, we’re going to <\/p>\n
510
\n00:34:32,280 –> 00:34:35,600
\nfollow Mary.
\nWhat would you do? <\/p>\n
511
\n00:34:35,600 –> 00:34:38,560
\nIf you were a girl.
\nHow old was she, 18\/19\/20? <\/p>\n
512
\n00:34:38,560 –> 00:34:42,480
\nI don’t know young.
\nShe didn’t go to a father and a <\/p>\n
513
\n00:34:42,480 –> 00:34:45,199
\nmother because I think she was
\nan. <\/p>\n
514
\n00:34:45,199 –> 00:34:51,040
\nOrphan already at that time the
\nage of Gabriel, intimated to her<\/p>\n
515
\n00:34:51,840 –> 00:34:56,440
\nthat she should go to Elizabeth.
\nHe says, Behold, thy cousin <\/p>\n
516
\n00:34:56,440 –> 00:34:58,640
\nElizabeth.
\nShe also conceived, so why would<\/p>\n
517
\n00:34:58,640 –> 00:35:03,080
\nyou say so?
\nIf not saying well go and visit <\/p>\n
518
\n00:35:03,160 –> 00:35:08,880
\nElizabeth and that was the most
\nimportant visit, not just to <\/p>\n
519
\n00:35:08,880 –> 00:35:13,600
\nhave a woman where she can share
\nexperiences with, but also the <\/p>\n
520
\n00:35:13,600 –> 00:35:17,240
\nplace where Elizabeth lived had
\ngreat. <\/p>\n
521
\n00:35:17,240 –> 00:35:21,640
\nSignificance I believe in the
\nlife of the Lord Jesus Christ, <\/p>\n
522
\n00:35:24,120 –> 00:35:27,200
\nbut Mary was a wonderful woman
\nwhen we read. <\/p>\n
523
\n00:35:27,200 –> 00:35:30,960
\nThat she cast in her mind all
\nthe things which she heard. <\/p>\n
524
\n00:35:31,280 –> 00:35:35,160
\nShe didn’t always understand it,
\nbut she didn’t start arguing. <\/p>\n
525
\n00:35:35,400 –> 00:35:38,200
\nShe just kept those things in
\nher heart. <\/p>\n
526
\n00:35:39,120 –> 00:35:41,560
\nAnd it’s a wonderful call that
\nyou have by the sisters. <\/p>\n
527
\n00:35:41,560 –> 00:35:44,920
\nWe don’t understand everything.
\nInstead of arguing about it, <\/p>\n
528
\n00:35:45,360 –> 00:35:48,240
\njust store it away.
\nRead about it. <\/p>\n
529
\n00:35:49,160 –> 00:35:53,440
\nThe word cast in her mind in
\nGreekis dialogizoma. <\/p>\n
530
\n00:35:53,440 –> 00:35:55,800
\nIt means to have a dialogue with
\nyourself. <\/p>\n
531
\n00:35:56,040 –> 00:35:59,680
\nSo we read the scriptures and we
\nthink about it, we meditate on <\/p>\n
532
\n00:35:59,680 –> 00:36:02,800
\nit and we either come to a
\nconclusion or we wait. <\/p>\n
533
\n00:36:02,800 –> 00:36:06,440
\nBut it’s there all the time.
\nMary kept all those things and <\/p>\n
534
\n00:36:06,600 –> 00:36:09,720
\npondered them in their heart.
\nAnd that’s the beautiful frame <\/p>\n
535
\n00:36:09,720 –> 00:36:12,800
\nof mind which God must have
\nloved. <\/p>\n
536
\n00:36:13,320 –> 00:36:18,080
\nHe must have chosen her for that
\nquality to become the mother of <\/p>\n
537
\n00:36:18,080 –> 00:36:21,360
\nHis Son.
\nShe was the only suitable woman <\/p>\n
538
\n00:36:21,880 –> 00:36:27,040
\nto share parenthood with God.
\nShe must be an an amazing person<\/p>\n
539
\n00:36:27,520 –> 00:36:32,600
\nbecause she knew He knew that
\nshe would teach the young mind <\/p>\n
540
\n00:36:32,600 –> 00:36:36,040
\nof Jesus in all the things that
\nhe needed to know. <\/p>\n
541
\n00:36:38,280 –> 00:36:41,720
\nBut how do you go to Elizabeth?
\nWhere did she live? <\/p>\n
542
\n00:36:42,520 –> 00:36:46,400
\nWe just thought she lived in the
\nHill Country of Judah. <\/p>\n
543
\n00:36:47,440 –> 00:36:55,080
\nIs it important to know?
\nBut who were Zacharias and <\/p>\n
544
\n00:36:55,120 –> 00:37:00,200
\nElizabeth actually, and why did
\nGable say that she should go <\/p>\n
545
\n00:37:00,200 –> 00:37:02,840
\nthere?
\nWhat is the power of the Bible <\/p>\n
546
\n00:37:02,840 –> 00:37:09,400
\nplace where Elizabeth and
\nZechariah lived well? <\/p>\n
547
\n00:37:10,080 –> 00:37:13,360
\nI’ve got a.
\nFew places here that Mary arose <\/p>\n
548
\n00:37:13,360 –> 00:37:16,840
\nand went into the Hill Country,
\ninto the city of Judah, which. <\/p>\n
549
\n00:37:16,840 –> 00:37:19,840
\nCity was it?
\nIf you ask anybody in Israel <\/p>\n
550
\n00:37:20,080 –> 00:37:23,280
\nwhere did John the Baptist grow
\nup, they say and Cairan just to <\/p>\n
551
\n00:37:23,280 –> 00:37:26,000
\nthe West of Jerusalem.
\nIt’s only built on tradition. <\/p>\n
552
\n00:37:26,000 –> 00:37:30,080
\nThere’s no historical
\ndocumentation for that at all. <\/p>\n
553
\n00:37:30,720 –> 00:37:33,160
\nBut.
\nIf you just look at these <\/p>\n
554
\n00:37:33,160 –> 00:37:35,840
\npassages, you can look at the
\nscreen, you can look them up in <\/p>\n
555
\n00:37:35,840 –> 00:37:38,720
\nyour Bible.
\nWe read there that there was in <\/p>\n
556
\n00:37:38,720 –> 00:37:41,680
\nthe days of Herod, the king of
\nJudea, Luke 1 and five, a <\/p>\n
557
\n00:37:41,680 –> 00:37:45,520
\ncertain priest called Zecharias.
\nHe was off the course of abaya <\/p>\n
558
\n00:37:46,480 –> 00:37:48,880
\nand his wife was of the
\ndaughters of Aaron. <\/p>\n
559
\n00:37:49,840 –> 00:37:53,680
\nShe wasn’t just a nobody, she
\nwas a daughter of Aaron. <\/p>\n
560
\n00:37:54,640 –> 00:37:58,400
\nTim speaking about the
\nimportance of the Levites. <\/p>\n
561
\n00:37:58,760 –> 00:38:01,720
\nWell, not just the Levites.
\nShe was a daughter of Aaron the <\/p>\n
562
\n00:38:01,720 –> 00:38:07,640
\nhigh priest.
\nAnd then in Chronicles 24, let’s<\/p>\n
563
\n00:38:07,640 –> 00:38:11,680
\nturn there because it’s
\nimportant that we realise whom <\/p>\n
564
\n00:38:11,680 –> 00:38:14,160
\nwe are dealing with.
\nWhy did Gable Saint Mary to <\/p>\n
565
\n00:38:14,160 –> 00:38:16,640
\nspeak to Elizabeth?
\nI was like, why? <\/p>\n
566
\n00:38:16,640 –> 00:38:18,000
\nI couldn’t say a thing, of
\ncourse. <\/p>\n
567
\n00:38:19,200 –> 00:38:24,600
\nBut in One Chronicles 24 we read
\nabout the divisions of the sons <\/p>\n
568
\n00:38:24,600 –> 00:38:30,600
\nof Aaron, the native and Abiyu,
\nEleazar and Isthmar. <\/p>\n
569
\n00:38:31,120 –> 00:38:34,160
\nNative and Abiyu died before the
\nfather and had no children. <\/p>\n
570
\n00:38:34,160 –> 00:38:37,800
\nTherefore Eleazar and Isthmar
\nexecuted the priest office. <\/p>\n
571
\n00:38:39,880 –> 00:38:43,080
\nWhat did David do with those two
\nfamilies? <\/p>\n
572
\n00:38:43,480 –> 00:38:47,040
\nThe families descendants of
\nAaron the high priest. <\/p>\n
573
\n00:38:47,520 –> 00:38:52,080
\nHe distributed them both Zadok
\nof the sons of Eliezer and <\/p>\n
574
\n00:38:52,080 –> 00:38:56,320
\nAhimelech, the sons of Isthmar,
\naccording to their officers in <\/p>\n
575
\n00:38:56,320 –> 00:38:59,800
\ntheir service.
\nAnd so first five, they were <\/p>\n
576
\n00:38:59,800 –> 00:39:04,000
\ndivided by lot 1 sword with
\nanother for governors of the <\/p>\n
577
\n00:39:04,000 –> 00:39:06,600
\nsanctuary, governors of the
\nHouse of God. <\/p>\n
578
\n00:39:07,160 –> 00:39:10,400
\nThey were the sons of Eliezer.
\nAnd the sons of Isthmar, <\/p>\n
579
\n00:39:10,680 –> 00:39:12,680
\ngrandsons of Aaron the high
\npriest. <\/p>\n
580
\n00:39:13,840 –> 00:39:17,560
\nAnd so they divide into 24
\ndifferent orders so that they <\/p>\n
581
\n00:39:17,560 –> 00:39:20,200
\nwould go around in two years for
\ntwo weeks and serve in <\/p>\n
582
\n00:39:20,200 –> 00:39:24,840
\nJerusalem.
\nAnd in verse, the 8th order in <\/p>\n
583
\n00:39:24,840 –> 00:39:30,760
\nverse 10 belonged to Abijah.
\nThe Zechariah belonged to that <\/p>\n
584
\n00:39:30,760 –> 00:39:37,720
\norder, an order of the sons of
\nAaron, and that is why he served<\/p>\n
585
\n00:39:37,720 –> 00:39:42,480
\nin the temple.
\nIn verse 19 we read of the same <\/p>\n
586
\n00:39:42,480 –> 00:39:44,880
\nchapter.
\nThese were the orderings of <\/p>\n
587
\n00:39:44,880 –> 00:39:48,760
\nthem, the sons of Aaron, in
\ntheir service to come into the <\/p>\n
588
\n00:39:48,760 –> 00:39:52,560
\nHouse of Yahweh according to
\ntheir manner, and to under Aaron<\/p>\n
589
\n00:39:52,560 –> 00:39:56,280
\ntheir father as Yahweh Elimovico
\nhad commanded them. <\/p>\n
590
\n00:39:58,160 –> 00:40:01,520
\nWell, Mary Elizabeth described
\nas a daughter of Aaron, but <\/p>\n
591
\n00:40:01,760 –> 00:40:06,080
\nZacharias was a son of Aaron,
\nand therefore they lived in the <\/p>\n
592
\n00:40:06,080 –> 00:40:13,520
\ncity of Aaron in a place called.
\nThe city in the Hill Country of <\/p>\n
593
\n00:40:13,520 –> 00:40:16,720
\nJudah.
\nIf you go to Joshua chapter 21, <\/p>\n
594
\n00:40:17,880 –> 00:40:20,000
\nwe can find out where it is
\nexactly. <\/p>\n
595
\n00:40:24,960 –> 00:40:29,400
\nThere’s only one city of all the
\nLeviticus cities and of all the <\/p>\n
596
\n00:40:29,400 –> 00:40:34,440
\ncities in Judah that was called
\na city in the Hill Country of of<\/p>\n
597
\n00:40:34,440 –> 00:40:37,280
\nJudah.
\nRemember how Tim explained that <\/p>\n
598
\n00:40:38,200 –> 00:40:42,720
\nJacob said I was scatter Levi in
\nIsrael about one of the cities <\/p>\n
599
\n00:40:42,720 –> 00:40:46,320
\nwhere they lived.
\nWe read about in verse 11. <\/p>\n
600
\n00:40:48,280 –> 00:40:51,840
\nSo verse 10 for connecting the
\nchildren of Aaron of the <\/p>\n
601
\n00:40:51,840 –> 00:40:55,800
\nfamilies of the Koethites, who
\nof the children of Levi had the <\/p>\n
602
\n00:40:55,800 –> 00:40:58,600
\nfirst Lord.
\nThey gave to them the city of <\/p>\n
603
\n00:40:58,600 –> 00:41:04,280
\nArban, the father of Anak, which
\nis Hebron in the Hill Country of<\/p>\n
604
\n00:41:04,280 –> 00:41:09,360
\nJudah, the only city that is
\ncalled a city in the Hill <\/p>\n
605
\n00:41:09,360 –> 00:41:12,960
\nCountry of Judah with the
\nsuburbs thereof ground about it.<\/p>\n
606
\n00:41:13,720 –> 00:41:17,360
\nThat’s where they lived.
\nThat was a city given to Aaron <\/p>\n
607
\n00:41:17,360 –> 00:41:20,080
\nthe high priest and his
\ndescendants, and that’s where <\/p>\n
608
\n00:41:20,080 –> 00:41:25,520
\nElizabeth and Zechariah lived,
\nand that is where Mary went. <\/p>\n
609
\n00:41:27,720 –> 00:41:31,400
\nIt also became a city of refuge,
\nas you read in verse 13, as they<\/p>\n
610
\n00:41:31,400 –> 00:41:34,320
\ngave to the children of Israel
\nof Aaron the priest, Hebron as <\/p>\n
611
\n00:41:34,320 –> 00:41:38,120
\nthe suburbs to be a city of
\nrefuge for the Slayer. <\/p>\n
612
\n00:41:39,080 –> 00:41:43,320
\nSo it’s the most important place
\nwhere they lived. <\/p>\n
613
\n00:41:45,280 –> 00:41:49,960
\nOr the interesting thing, of
\ncourse, is that Mary and <\/p>\n
614
\n00:41:49,960 –> 00:41:54,600
\nElizabeth were cousins.
\nHow is that possible? <\/p>\n
615
\n00:41:55,080 –> 00:41:57,200
\nBecause Mary came from.
\nJudah. <\/p>\n
616
\n00:41:57,720 –> 00:42:01,720
\nAt least her father did because
\nyou can read in Matthew chapter <\/p>\n
617
\n00:42:01,720 –> 00:42:05,120
\none that Jacob father was a
\ndirect descendant of David <\/p>\n
618
\n00:42:05,360 –> 00:42:09,000
\nthrough Solomon.
\nHow could she have been cousins <\/p>\n
619
\n00:42:09,320 –> 00:42:17,520
\nwith a daughter of Aaron if not?
\nMary’s mother was a sister to <\/p>\n
620
\n00:42:17,520 –> 00:42:22,200
\nthe mother of Elizabeth.
\nSo Mary’s mother must have been <\/p>\n
621
\n00:42:22,200 –> 00:42:26,360
\na daughter of Aaron also.
\nAnd it’s the most beautiful <\/p>\n
622
\n00:42:26,360 –> 00:42:30,080
\nthing we can get out of this
\nwhole indication of the Angel <\/p>\n
623
\n00:42:30,080 –> 00:42:32,360
\nGabriel of Mary to go to
\nElizabeth. <\/p>\n
624
\n00:42:33,240 –> 00:42:40,840
\nBecause we can learn from an
\nincident that Mary’s father was <\/p>\n
625
\n00:42:40,840 –> 00:42:42,360
\non the line of the kings of
\nJudah. <\/p>\n
626
\n00:42:42,840 –> 00:42:44,840
\nHer mother was a daughter of
\nAaron. <\/p>\n
627
\n00:42:45,080 –> 00:42:50,080
\nHe got the two tribes, Levi and
\nJudah, coming together in this <\/p>\n
628
\n00:42:50,080 –> 00:42:54,760
\nfamily in Mary.
\nAnd it is wonderful because <\/p>\n
629
\n00:42:55,640 –> 00:42:58,280
\nJesus Christ is going to be king
\nand priest. <\/p>\n
630
\n00:42:58,760 –> 00:43:03,880
\nHe could claim to be king
\nthrough Mary’s father. <\/p>\n
631
\n00:43:04,360 –> 00:43:07,320
\nHe could claim to be priest
\nthrough Mary’s mother. <\/p>\n
632
\n00:43:07,760 –> 00:43:12,960
\nHe’s both king and priest.
\nMy brother Tim spoke about the <\/p>\n
633
\n00:43:12,960 –> 00:43:19,000
\nzeal of the sons of Levi, but
\nJesus said the zeal of thine <\/p>\n
634
\n00:43:19,000 –> 00:43:22,800
\nhouse has eaten me up.
\nWhere did he get that zeal from?<\/p>\n
635
\n00:43:23,440 –> 00:43:29,320
\nIf not from the family line of
\nErin, the zeal by which they <\/p>\n
636
\n00:43:29,880 –> 00:43:34,880
\nthey’re the zeal of God to do
\naway with iniquity and his evil.<\/p>\n
637
\n00:43:35,960 –> 00:43:42,880
\nSo Hebron Wellness Sisters is
\nthe city of Erin and many other <\/p>\n
638
\n00:43:42,880 –> 00:43:45,760
\nthings happened in this city.
\nYou can just. <\/p>\n
639
\n00:43:45,960 –> 00:43:48,840
\nGo through the history.
\nBut first of all, before we look<\/p>\n
640
\n00:43:48,840 –> 00:43:54,560
\na bit further into Hebron, if
\njust think of that journey, a <\/p>\n
641
\n00:43:54,560 –> 00:43:58,200
\ngirl who’s just met an Angel who
\nsays she’s got to be pregnant <\/p>\n
642
\n00:43:58,960 –> 00:44:01,640
\nand go and see your cousin
\nElizabeth. <\/p>\n
643
\n00:44:02,400 –> 00:44:07,920
\nShe had to travel 190 kilometres
\nfrom Nazareth all the way <\/p>\n
644
\n00:44:07,920 –> 00:44:11,720
\nthrough Jordan Valley by Jericho
\nand Jerusalem, Bethlehem and go <\/p>\n
645
\n00:44:11,720 –> 00:44:14,640
\nto Hebron.
\nNow that is quite a distance <\/p>\n
646
\n00:44:14,640 –> 00:44:19,600
\njust walking from here where we
\nare all the way to Hamilton and <\/p>\n
647
\n00:44:19,600 –> 00:44:22,520
\nback again.
\nWell, I’m sure there was no snow<\/p>\n
648
\n00:44:22,520 –> 00:44:25,200
\nin those days, but still quite,
\nquite a bit of a journey. <\/p>\n
649
\n00:44:25,440 –> 00:44:29,760
\nAnd to do that.
\nAll on her own, in a time when <\/p>\n
650
\n00:44:29,760 –> 00:44:36,520
\ntravel was not always very safe.
\nMust have proved to her, to us <\/p>\n
651
\n00:44:36,520 –> 00:44:40,200
\nto prove.
\nThat she completely trusted in <\/p>\n
652
\n00:44:40,200 –> 00:44:42,760
\nGod.
\nIf she was chosen by God to <\/p>\n
653
\n00:44:42,760 –> 00:44:46,560
\nbecome the mother of His Son,
\nthat He would look after her <\/p>\n
654
\n00:44:47,160 –> 00:44:49,960
\nwherever she went, as long as
\nshe didn’t tempt the Lord. <\/p>\n
655
\n00:44:50,760 –> 00:44:52,800
\nBut other things happened in in
\nHebron. <\/p>\n
656
\n00:44:53,560 –> 00:44:56,120
\nIt was the burial place of of
\nthe patriarchs. <\/p>\n
657
\n00:44:56,400 –> 00:45:00,240
\nYou know that Abraham, he bought
\nof the sons of Head a burial <\/p>\n
658
\n00:45:00,240 –> 00:45:03,120
\nplace to bury Sarah.
\nAnd he himself was buried there,<\/p>\n
659
\n00:45:03,400 –> 00:45:06,960
\nas are Isaac and Rebecca, Jacob
\nand Leah. <\/p>\n
660
\n00:45:07,520 –> 00:45:10,920
\nThe city was conquered.
\nI think you can read quite a few<\/p>\n
661
\n00:45:10,920 –> 00:45:14,800
\nreferences here by Caleb, the
\nson of Gefenne was given to <\/p>\n
662
\n00:45:14,800 –> 00:45:16,880
\nAaron.
\nBut it also was a city of <\/p>\n
663
\n00:45:16,880 –> 00:45:19,400
\nrefuge.
\nAnd finally David was crowned <\/p>\n
664
\n00:45:19,400 –> 00:45:22,880
\nking there.
\nHow many associations are there <\/p>\n
665
\n00:45:23,120 –> 00:45:27,360
\nin that city?
\nSo we saw early that God told <\/p>\n
666
\n00:45:27,360 –> 00:45:30,280
\nAbram, Arise, walk through the
\nland, in the length of it, and <\/p>\n
667
\n00:45:30,280 –> 00:45:32,920
\nin the breadth which I would
\ngive it, and unto thee. <\/p>\n
668
\n00:45:33,880 –> 00:45:38,840
\nAnd although Jesus was not yet
\nborn, he was there with her, <\/p>\n
669
\n00:45:39,080 –> 00:45:43,440
\nwasn’t he?
\nAnd later, when he grew up, she <\/p>\n
670
\n00:45:43,440 –> 00:45:46,960
\nwould have told him when he was
\na little bit older about that <\/p>\n
671
\n00:45:46,960 –> 00:45:49,080
\njourney while he was still in
\nthe room. <\/p>\n
672
\n00:45:50,680 –> 00:45:55,320
\nShe would have told him that the
\nAngel told her to go there to <\/p>\n
673
\n00:45:55,320 –> 00:46:00,280
\nbring home to this young boy
\nJesus his connections with <\/p>\n
674
\n00:46:00,280 –> 00:46:04,920
\nAbraham, with Isaac and Jacob,
\nwith David and the ironic <\/p>\n
675
\n00:46:04,920 –> 00:46:10,080
\npriesthood, and that he’s going
\nto be king and priest in Israel.<\/p>\n
676
\n00:46:10,400 –> 00:46:13,920
\nAll the city brothers and
\nsisters, Abram and his family <\/p>\n
677
\n00:46:13,920 –> 00:46:15,920
\nburied there.
\nThe city of the high priest. <\/p>\n
678
\n00:46:16,200 –> 00:46:18,640
\nDavid was crowned king there and
\nnow Jesus. <\/p>\n
679
\n00:46:18,640 –> 00:46:22,960
\nGod was indicated all these
\nthings to Jesus even before he <\/p>\n
680
\n00:46:22,960 –> 00:46:25,720
\nwas born.
\nLet me know that your wife’s <\/p>\n
681
\n00:46:25,720 –> 00:46:28,960
\ngoing to give birth.
\nDon’t you make preparations, buy<\/p>\n
682
\n00:46:28,960 –> 00:46:31,560
\ncot, buy little baby clothes,
\nand prepare everything. <\/p>\n
683
\n00:46:31,560 –> 00:46:36,720
\nSo God was preparing for His Son
\nJesus by showing him the root <\/p>\n
684
\n00:46:36,920 –> 00:46:40,640
\nand the connections which he had
\nwith the fathers of old today. <\/p>\n
685
\n00:46:40,640 –> 00:46:43,120
\nOf course you can.
\nGo there to the Tomb of the <\/p>\n
686
\n00:46:43,120 –> 00:46:48,120
\nPatriarchs, a building rebuilt
\nby King Harry the Great in the <\/p>\n
687
\n00:46:48,120 –> 00:46:51,800
\ntypical Herodian style.
\nInside, as you can see on this <\/p>\n
688
\n00:46:51,800 –> 00:46:53,680
\ndrawing, there’s a Crusader
\nchurch. <\/p>\n
689
\n00:46:53,680 –> 00:46:57,880
\nSo it’s a site holy for for
\nJews, actually for Muslims also <\/p>\n
690
\n00:46:57,880 –> 00:47:00,200
\nwho also pray there, and for
\nChristians. <\/p>\n
691
\n00:47:00,240 –> 00:47:03,880
\nBut somewhere underneath that
\nplatform, if you could only make<\/p>\n
692
\n00:47:03,880 –> 00:47:06,000
\na hole in that surrounding.
\nWall. <\/p>\n
693
\n00:47:06,360 –> 00:47:11,880
\nThere is the double cave where
\nAbram and Isaac and Abraham and <\/p>\n
694
\n00:47:12,160 –> 00:47:17,120
\nand Sarah and Isaac and and Leah
\nand and Rachel and and or Jacob <\/p>\n
695
\n00:47:17,120 –> 00:47:20,760
\nand Leah were buried.
\nSo what a place it was not just <\/p>\n
696
\n00:47:21,000 –> 00:47:24,560
\na randomly chosen place when the
\nAsia told her to go to death. <\/p>\n
697
\n00:47:24,600 –> 00:47:28,760
\nNo, it was to make sure that
\nJesus understood all the <\/p>\n
698
\n00:47:28,760 –> 00:47:32,400
\nconnections with the royal House
\nof David and the high priesthood<\/p>\n
699
\n00:47:32,640 –> 00:47:37,240
\nof of Aaron.
\nBut then he was going to be born<\/p>\n
700
\n00:47:37,280 –> 00:47:41,720
\nin Bethlehem, the verse says.
\nOut of thee shall he come forth <\/p>\n
701
\n00:47:42,040 –> 00:47:44,480
\nunto me, that is to be a ruler
\nin his realm. <\/p>\n
702
\n00:47:46,400 –> 00:47:49,880
\nHow was it just a randomly
\nchosen cave where Mary gave <\/p>\n
703
\n00:47:49,880 –> 00:47:51,600
\nbirth to Jesus?
\nYou can go to Bethlehem <\/p>\n
704
\n00:47:51,600 –> 00:47:54,160
\nnowadays.
\nI mean I went there just after <\/p>\n
705
\n00:47:54,160 –> 00:47:57,160
\nthe 6th day war in 1967.
\nSpent the whole night there <\/p>\n
706
\n00:47:57,920 –> 00:48:00,360
\nwatching those priests.
\nThe Bishop was a big mice on his<\/p>\n
707
\n00:48:00,360 –> 00:48:03,800
\nhead, having a plastic door in
\nhis hand and little door at his <\/p>\n
708
\n00:48:04,000 –> 00:48:06,080
\nlegs, legs crossed in the hands.
\nLike this. <\/p>\n
709
\n00:48:06,360 –> 00:48:08,800
\nHe was walking through the door,
\nthrough the church, followed by <\/p>\n
710
\n00:48:08,800 –> 00:48:12,720
\na whole row of priests with
\nstaging hand and boom, boom, <\/p>\n
711
\n00:48:12,760 –> 00:48:16,200
\nboom, just to impressed the
\npeople that came to visit there.<\/p>\n
712
\n00:48:16,520 –> 00:48:18,560
\nAnd I just couldn’t go back to
\nthe kibbutz where I was. <\/p>\n
713
\n00:48:18,560 –> 00:48:21,400
\nSo I stayed all the night in
\nthat, in that cave there where <\/p>\n
714
\n00:48:21,400 –> 00:48:23,960
\nJesus was supposed to be born
\nwith a silver star. <\/p>\n
715
\n00:48:23,960 –> 00:48:25,760
\nOn the floor.
\nWell, Jesus was not born in a <\/p>\n
716
\n00:48:25,760 –> 00:48:28,520
\ncave, and there was no Silver
\nStar when he was born there at <\/p>\n
717
\n00:48:28,520 –> 00:48:30,480
\nall.
\nAnd so that makes you just <\/p>\n
718
\n00:48:30,480 –> 00:48:33,080
\nwonder, well, is it important
\nfor us to know at all where he <\/p>\n
719
\n00:48:33,080 –> 00:48:37,080
\nwas born?
\nThe fact that he was born, that <\/p>\n
720
\n00:48:37,080 –> 00:48:40,160
\nhe became the saviour of the
\nworld, is surely more important.<\/p>\n
721
\n00:48:42,320 –> 00:48:45,680
\nBut still a thing by instances
\nthat we can learn a lot from <\/p>\n
722
\n00:48:45,680 –> 00:48:49,000
\nBethlehem.
\nFirst of all, the Romans were in<\/p>\n
723
\n00:48:49,000 –> 00:48:53,080
\npower and if you go to Luke
\nchapter 2 we can see what forced<\/p>\n
724
\n00:48:53,160 –> 00:48:54,800
\nthem.
\nThey were living in Nazareth in <\/p>\n
725
\n00:48:54,800 –> 00:48:58,320
\nthe wrong place.
\nJesus could not have been born <\/p>\n
726
\n00:48:58,880 –> 00:49:05,560
\nin Nazareth.
\nIn chapter 2 we read they came <\/p>\n
727
\n00:49:05,560 –> 00:49:08,120
\nto pass in those days, that they
\nwent out for a decree from <\/p>\n
728
\n00:49:08,120 –> 00:49:10,400
\nCaesar Augustus that all the
\nworld should be taxed. <\/p>\n
729
\n00:49:10,680 –> 00:49:14,040
\nThis Texan was first made when
\nSirenius was governor of Syria <\/p>\n
730
\n00:49:14,280 –> 00:49:18,200
\nand all went to be taxed,
\neveryone into his own city. <\/p>\n
731
\n00:49:18,200 –> 00:49:19,720
\nYou’re going to just go where
\nyou wanted to. <\/p>\n
732
\n00:49:20,360 –> 00:49:25,440
\nSo Joseph, he had to go up from
\nGalilee, another long journey <\/p>\n
733
\n00:49:25,440 –> 00:49:28,920
\nwhich Mary had done before, out
\nof the city of Nazareth into <\/p>\n
734
\n00:49:28,920 –> 00:49:32,480
\nJudea and to the city of David,
\nwhich is called Bethlehem <\/p>\n
735
\n00:49:32,480 –> 00:49:36,160
\nbecause he was of the house and
\nlineage of David to be taxed or <\/p>\n
736
\n00:49:36,160 –> 00:49:40,440
\nenrolled with Mary, his espoused
\nwife, being great wish child. <\/p>\n
737
\n00:49:41,920 –> 00:49:44,080
\nWell, that must have been a very
\nuncomfortable journey. <\/p>\n
738
\n00:49:44,200 –> 00:49:46,920
\nIf you’re almost nine months
\npregnant and you’ve got to <\/p>\n
739
\n00:49:46,920 –> 00:49:49,600
\ntravel about 100 kilometres on
\nthe back of a donkey shaking <\/p>\n
740
\n00:49:49,600 –> 00:49:51,520
\naround.
\nThat was not very comfortable, <\/p>\n
741
\n00:49:51,520 –> 00:49:55,040
\nbut it was determined that
\nJesus. <\/p>\n
742
\n00:49:55,040 –> 00:49:58,760
\nHad to be born in Bethlehem and
\nso they had to go there. <\/p>\n
743
\n00:49:59,880 –> 00:50:02,640
\nGoing there through the hot
\nJordan Valley, like going from <\/p>\n
744
\n00:50:02,640 –> 00:50:05,240
\nhere to Toronto, 100 mile long
\njourney. <\/p>\n
745
\n00:50:05,720 –> 00:50:07,600
\nIt’s a very long distance.
\nAnd then they. <\/p>\n
746
\n00:50:07,600 –> 00:50:11,240
\nArrived there to give birth to
\nthe Son of God and there was no <\/p>\n
747
\n00:50:11,240 –> 00:50:15,680
\nplace for them to stay in.
\nThe only available place for the<\/p>\n
748
\n00:50:15,680 –> 00:50:19,160
\nSon of God was to be born in a
\ndirty stable which you had to <\/p>\n
749
\n00:50:19,160 –> 00:50:22,920
\nshare with animals.
\nIt wasn’t a romantic Christmas <\/p>\n
750
\n00:50:22,920 –> 00:50:26,320
\npostcard stable at all.
\nYou only hope that there were <\/p>\n
751
\n00:50:26,320 –> 00:50:30,200
\nsome women capacity enough to
\nhelp her with her childbirth, <\/p>\n
752
\n00:50:30,200 –> 00:50:31,480
\notherwise Joseph would have been
\nthe only. <\/p>\n
753
\n00:50:31,480 –> 00:50:34,160
\nSupport in those dire
\ncircumstances. <\/p>\n
754
\n00:50:34,360 –> 00:50:37,600
\nThat’s how the Son of God was
\nborn, pregnant sisters. <\/p>\n
755
\n00:50:39,080 –> 00:50:41,000
\nSo what is the importance about
\nBethlehem? <\/p>\n
756
\n00:50:41,880 –> 00:50:43,720
\nThat’s the journey.
\nThen he had to undertake that to<\/p>\n
757
\n00:50:43,720 –> 00:50:47,720
\nleave Nazareth, go to Bethshan
\nthrough the Jordan Valley, <\/p>\n
758
\n00:50:48,200 –> 00:50:51,960
\ncrossover Bethabarra, and have
\nthat steep climb up from Jericho<\/p>\n
759
\n00:50:51,960 –> 00:50:55,120
\nto Jerusalem and then go to to
\nBethlehem. <\/p>\n
760
\n00:50:56,720 –> 00:50:58,160
\nWell, you can see Bethlehem
\ntoday. <\/p>\n
761
\n00:50:58,160 –> 00:51:00,520
\nIt’s quite a large city all over
\nhere. <\/p>\n
762
\n00:51:00,920 –> 00:51:04,480
\nAnd here’s the centre of
\nBethlehem, where Jesus was born <\/p>\n
763
\n00:51:07,080 –> 00:51:08,000
\nand Joshua.
\nCame into the. <\/p>\n
764
\n00:51:08,000 –> 00:51:11,200
\nLand we can read in chapter 6.
\nHe conquered Jericho. <\/p>\n
765
\n00:51:12,080 –> 00:51:15,440
\nHe cursed the city so that it
\nbecame a city of death. <\/p>\n
766
\n00:51:16,080 –> 00:51:19,720
\nNobody lived in Jericho anymore.
\nBut remember Rahab and the <\/p>\n
767
\n00:51:19,720 –> 00:51:24,960
\nfamily, the only person that was
\nsaved, she married Salman of the<\/p>\n
768
\n00:51:25,360 –> 00:51:30,200
\ntribe of Judah, and they must
\nhave settled in Bethlehem when <\/p>\n
769
\n00:51:30,200 –> 00:51:34,520
\nJudah captured first its
\ninheritance and later we know <\/p>\n
770
\n00:51:34,520 –> 00:51:37,720
\nthat.
\nLet’s go to Ruth in Chapter 4. <\/p>\n
771
\n00:51:55,640 –> 00:51:59,800
\nHere we have the the Redeemer
\nBoaz in verse 9 saying to the <\/p>\n
772
\n00:51:59,800 –> 00:52:02,600
\neldest and to all the people
\nthat were in the gate. <\/p>\n
773
\n00:52:02,600 –> 00:52:05,600
\nYou have witnesses this day that
\nI have bought all that was <\/p>\n
774
\n00:52:05,600 –> 00:52:09,080
\nElimelechs and all that was
\nKillians and Maclons of the hand<\/p>\n
775
\n00:52:09,080 –> 00:52:11,200
\nof Naomi.
\nMoreover, Ruth don’t know by <\/p>\n
776
\n00:52:11,200 –> 00:52:14,120
\nthis the wife of Maclon have I
\npurchased. <\/p>\n
777
\n00:52:14,600 –> 00:52:18,280
\nTo be my wife, To raise up the
\nname of the dead upon his <\/p>\n
778
\n00:52:18,280 –> 00:52:21,200
\ninheritance, That the name of
\nthe dead be not cut off from <\/p>\n
779
\n00:52:21,200 –> 00:52:24,200
\namong his brethren and from the
\ngate of his place. <\/p>\n
780
\n00:52:24,200 –> 00:52:29,200
\nYe are witnesses this day.
\nAnd so Ruth was there. <\/p>\n
781
\n00:52:29,440 –> 00:52:33,040
\nShe became the great grandmother
\nof David, and she was redeemed <\/p>\n
782
\n00:52:33,120 –> 00:52:36,560
\nby Boaz, the type of Christ and
\nGentile. <\/p>\n
783
\n00:52:36,560 –> 00:52:40,640
\nRuth is one of the four women
\nthat are mentioned in Matthew <\/p>\n
784
\n00:52:40,640 –> 00:52:44,840
\nchapter one in the genealogy of
\nJesus, a Gentile woman. <\/p>\n
785
\n00:52:45,360 –> 00:52:49,440
\nJust amazing.
\nSo Jesus was born in Bethlehem <\/p>\n
786
\n00:52:50,520 –> 00:52:52,800
\njust as David was born in
\nBethlehem. <\/p>\n
787
\n00:52:53,200 –> 00:52:56,960
\nDavid was anointed king in
\nBethlehem by Samuel the prophet,<\/p>\n
788
\n00:52:58,040 –> 00:53:02,080
\nand so the place is so important
\nin all the associations. <\/p>\n
789
\n00:53:02,560 –> 00:53:04,640
\nWe can go back earlier in
\nhistory. <\/p>\n
790
\n00:53:04,800 –> 00:53:10,560
\nLet’s go to Genesis chapter 35.
\nWhat can we learn there about <\/p>\n
791
\n00:53:10,920 –> 00:53:26,360
\nBethlehem in verse 18?
\nOver 16 for connection Here’s <\/p>\n
792
\n00:53:26,360 –> 00:53:31,960
\nanother family who’s a pregnant
\nwoman travelling down to <\/p>\n
793
\n00:53:31,960 –> 00:53:34,960
\nBethlehem just like Joseph and
\nMary did about 2000 years later <\/p>\n
794
\n00:53:34,960 –> 00:53:38,640
\non their journey from Bethel.
\nOver 16 There was better little <\/p>\n
795
\n00:53:38,640 –> 00:53:39,720
\nway.
\nTo come to effort. <\/p>\n
796
\n00:53:40,120 –> 00:53:42,480
\nAnd Rachel travelled as she had
\nhard labour. <\/p>\n
797
\n00:53:42,480 –> 00:53:45,120
\nAnd it came to pass, when she
\nwas in hard labour, that the <\/p>\n
798
\n00:53:45,120 –> 00:53:48,680
\nmidwife said unto her, Fear not,
\nthou shalt have this son also. <\/p>\n
799
\n00:53:49,200 –> 00:53:51,520
\nAnd it came to pass, as her soul
\nwas in departing. <\/p>\n
800
\n00:53:51,760 –> 00:53:56,000
\nFor she died, that she called
\nhis name Benoni, but his father <\/p>\n
801
\n00:53:56,000 –> 00:53:59,680
\ncalled him Benjamin.
\nAnd Rachel died and was buried <\/p>\n
802
\n00:53:59,680 –> 00:54:02,560
\nin the way to effort, which is
\nBethlehem. <\/p>\n
803
\n00:54:03,160 –> 00:54:06,280
\nAnd Jacob said the pillar upon
\nher grave, that’s the pillar of <\/p>\n
804
\n00:54:06,280 –> 00:54:10,840
\nRachel’s grave unto this day.
\nAnd then he journeyed and spread<\/p>\n
805
\n00:54:10,840 –> 00:54:15,560
\nhis tent toward the Tower of
\nIda, another very important <\/p>\n
806
\n00:54:15,560 –> 00:54:22,520
\nplace in Bethlehem.
\nTo go back to Mary, that she was<\/p>\n
807
\n00:54:22,520 –> 00:54:25,200
\nin the stable.
\nShe had just given birth. <\/p>\n
808
\n00:54:27,720 –> 00:54:31,680
\nI’ll be present at the birth of
\nmy children to be with my wife <\/p>\n
809
\n00:54:31,680 –> 00:54:34,120
\nKathleen.
\nAnd I’m sure the last thing she <\/p>\n
810
\n00:54:34,120 –> 00:54:37,680
\nfound and have a group of angels
\ncoming in and telling you what <\/p>\n
811
\n00:54:37,680 –> 00:54:40,880
\nthey had seen is just not be
\nquiet and get over the <\/p>\n
812
\n00:54:40,880 –> 00:54:42,400
\nexperience of having given
\nbirth. <\/p>\n
813
\n00:54:44,200 –> 00:54:50,120
\nBut why did the Angel appear to
\nshepherds, and not to carpenters<\/p>\n
814
\n00:54:50,760 –> 00:54:53,520
\nor to fishermen or to
\nstonemasons? <\/p>\n
815
\n00:54:55,080 –> 00:54:59,080
\nThe shepherds in Bethlehem whom
\nthose angels appeared may not <\/p>\n
816
\n00:54:59,080 –> 00:55:04,480
\nhave been ordinary shepherds at
\nall, according to ancient Jewish<\/p>\n
817
\n00:55:04,480 –> 00:55:08,960
\nsources.
\nThe Tower of Ida or Migdal Edde <\/p>\n
818
\n00:55:09,520 –> 00:55:16,480
\nwe just read about in Genesis 35
\nin verse 21, the tower of Ida. <\/p>\n
819
\n00:55:16,480 –> 00:55:22,680
\nMeans the tower of the flock.
\nThat’s where Jacob camped after <\/p>\n
820
\n00:55:22,680 –> 00:55:24,960
\nRachel had died and Benjamin was
\nborn. <\/p>\n
821
\n00:55:27,280 –> 00:55:38,480
\nNow we know that if you go to
\nMicah chapter 4, that was most <\/p>\n
822
\n00:55:38,480 –> 00:55:41,480
\npeople say why the Jews had to
\nbe born in Bethlehem, not <\/p>\n
823
\n00:55:41,480 –> 00:55:49,720
\nbecause of Micah.
\nMost people say I was he was <\/p>\n
824
\n00:55:49,720 –> 00:55:52,600
\nborn in in Bethlehem and they
\nquote Micah first stood, but <\/p>\n
825
\n00:55:52,600 –> 00:55:56,200
\nthou Bethlehem Ephrata doda by
\nlittle among the thousands of <\/p>\n
826
\n00:55:56,200 –> 00:55:58,760
\nJudah, yet out of this shall he
\ncome forth unto me. <\/p>\n
827
\n00:55:58,760 –> 00:56:01,480
\nThat is the ruler in Israel.
\nWhose going forth had been <\/p>\n
828
\n00:56:01,480 –> 00:56:06,280
\npromoted from everlasting.
\nBut to understand the shepherds,<\/p>\n
829
\n00:56:07,200 –> 00:56:10,000
\nthen you go to chapter 4 and
\nverse 8. <\/p>\n
830
\n00:56:10,960 –> 00:56:15,880
\nAnd thou tower of the flock.
\nSame place where Jacob pitched <\/p>\n
831
\n00:56:15,880 –> 00:56:20,400
\nhis tent after Rachel had died.
\nBack in the same place. <\/p>\n
832
\n00:56:21,760 –> 00:56:23,520
\nWhat does it say about that
\nplace? <\/p>\n
833
\n00:56:23,880 –> 00:56:26,600
\nIt’s a stronghold of the
\ndaughters of Zion. <\/p>\n
834
\n00:56:28,120 –> 00:56:31,760
\nAnd to thee shall it come the
\nfirst dominion. <\/p>\n
835
\n00:56:32,280 –> 00:56:35,480
\nThe Kingdom shall come to the
\ndaughter of Jerusalem. <\/p>\n
836
\n00:56:35,960 –> 00:56:38,360
\nWhere?
\nIn the tower of the flock. <\/p>\n
837
\n00:56:40,720 –> 00:56:47,080
\nNow we know from other sources
\nthat in this particular place a <\/p>\n
838
\n00:56:47,080 –> 00:56:51,800
\nflock was kept looked as very
\nspecial flock by very special <\/p>\n
839
\n00:56:51,800 –> 00:56:56,680
\nshepherds because from that
\nflock, every day two lambs were <\/p>\n
840
\n00:56:56,680 –> 00:56:58,840
\ntaken to be sacrificed in the
\ntemple. <\/p>\n
841
\n00:56:59,720 –> 00:57:02,920
\nAnd those shepherds had to make
\nsure that those lambs had no <\/p>\n
842
\n00:57:02,920 –> 00:57:06,040
\nbroken legs, no missing tail or
\near or whatever. <\/p>\n
843
\n00:57:06,040 –> 00:57:10,200
\nAnd if you were a.
\nShepherd And you’ve got all <\/p>\n
844
\n00:57:10,200 –> 00:57:13,960
\nthose lovely lambs around you,
\nand every day two were taken <\/p>\n
845
\n00:57:13,960 –> 00:57:16,560
\naway to be killed on the art.
\nThey said, well, what is all <\/p>\n
846
\n00:57:16,560 –> 00:57:19,320
\nthis about?
\nIt would set you thinking, <\/p>\n
847
\n00:57:19,320 –> 00:57:21,320
\nwouldn’t it?
\nWould they have thought about <\/p>\n
848
\n00:57:21,320 –> 00:57:23,800
\nthe lamb that was?
\nSlain from the foundation of the<\/p>\n
849
\n00:57:23,800 –> 00:57:27,400
\nearth.
\nIt was to those shepherds that <\/p>\n
850
\n00:57:27,400 –> 00:57:30,680
\nwere wondering about the Lamb
\nthat was going to be slain of <\/p>\n
851
\n00:57:30,680 –> 00:57:35,160
\nthe world that he appeared, and
\nthey announced, as it says here <\/p>\n
852
\n00:57:35,160 –> 00:57:38,240
\nin verse 8, the Kingdom shall
\ncome to the daughter of <\/p>\n
853
\n00:57:38,240 –> 00:57:40,320
\nJerusalem.
\nThat’s why the angels went to <\/p>\n
854
\n00:57:40,320 –> 00:57:45,160
\nthose shepherds, and that is the
\nbeauty of Bethlehem. <\/p>\n
855
\n00:57:47,160 –> 00:57:52,120
\nSo Mary, it’s much to ponder
\nabout, to think about, as she <\/p>\n
856
\n00:57:52,120 –> 00:57:55,560
\nwould have thought and meditated
\non it and kept it in her heart. <\/p>\n
857
\n00:57:56,160 –> 00:58:01,000
\nAnd she would have taught Jesus
\nall about the circumstances of <\/p>\n
858
\n00:58:01,000 –> 00:58:04,640
\nthe announcement by the Gabriel,
\nthe Angel Gabriel, of her visit <\/p>\n
859
\n00:58:04,640 –> 00:58:08,960
\nto Elizabeth, her birth in
\nBethlehem, and the visit of the <\/p>\n
860
\n00:58:08,960 –> 00:58:13,840
\nAngel.
\nBut now there was all the <\/p>\n
861
\n00:58:13,840 –> 00:58:16,000
\nreferences about the tower of
\nthe flock. <\/p>\n
862
\n00:58:16,520 –> 00:58:19,000
\nUse the shepherd’s field.
\nYou can go to the shepherd’s <\/p>\n
863
\n00:58:19,000 –> 00:58:21,200
\nfield now.
\nNot quite sure. <\/p>\n
864
\n00:58:21,200 –> 00:58:23,120
\nWhether this is?
\nThe tower of the flock, because <\/p>\n
865
\n00:58:23,120 –> 00:58:25,760
\nthere’s a Catholic one, there’s
\na Greek one and a Latin 1. <\/p>\n
866
\n00:58:25,760 –> 00:58:28,480
\nSo you can take your, your,
\nyour, your pick. <\/p>\n
867
\n00:58:28,840 –> 00:58:35,360
\nBut what is more important is
\nwhere was the inn and what do <\/p>\n
868
\n00:58:35,360 –> 00:58:37,800
\nyou know about this table where
\nshe was born? <\/p>\n
869
\n00:58:39,080 –> 00:58:46,320
\nAnd there’s a fantastic lesson
\nhere in showing out God had 1000<\/p>\n
870
\n00:58:46,320 –> 00:58:52,040
\nyears beforehand prepared a
\nplace for Jesus to be born. <\/p>\n
871
\n00:58:54,320 –> 00:58:56,640
\nLet’s go to second Samuel.
\nChapter 19 <\/p>\n
872
\n00:59:06,900 –> 00:59:09,300
\nis after the rebellion of
\nAbsalom. <\/p>\n
873
\n00:59:12,780 –> 00:59:14,760
\nAbsalom.
\nWas slain. <\/p>\n
874
\n00:59:16,160 –> 00:59:22,360
\nDavid mourned for him, but then
\nhe went back home and he wanted <\/p>\n
875
\n00:59:22,360 –> 00:59:32,240
\nto take Barcelonae with him.
\nHe says There in verse 33, the <\/p>\n
876
\n00:59:32,240 –> 00:59:35,920
\nking said unto Barcelonae, Come
\ndown over with me, and I will <\/p>\n
877
\n00:59:35,920 –> 00:59:39,760
\nfeed thee with me in Jerusalem.
\nBarcelonae said unto the king, <\/p>\n
878
\n00:59:39,920 –> 00:59:42,600
\nHow long have I to live, that I
\nshould go up with the King unto <\/p>\n
879
\n00:59:42,600 –> 00:59:45,200
\nJerusalem?
\nNow he’s too old and all that, <\/p>\n
880
\n00:59:45,760 –> 00:59:49,040
\nhe said, verse 36 that I served
\nor go a little way over Jordan <\/p>\n
881
\n00:59:49,040 –> 00:59:52,440
\nwith the king, and why should
\nthe king recompense it to me <\/p>\n
882
\n00:59:52,440 –> 00:59:56,560
\nwith such a reward?
\nAnd he says that thy servant I <\/p>\n
883
\n00:59:56,560 –> 01:00:00,560
\nprayed, he turned back again,
\nthat I may die in my own country<\/p>\n
884
\n01:00:00,560 –> 01:00:02,640
\nby the grave of my father and of
\nmy mother. <\/p>\n
885
\n01:00:02,640 –> 01:00:06,560
\nBut behold thy servant Kim Hum.
\nThat was his son. <\/p>\n
886
\n01:00:07,520 –> 01:00:11,160
\nLet him go over with my Lord the
\nKing, and do to him what shall <\/p>\n
887
\n01:00:11,160 –> 01:00:14,160
\nseem good unto thee.
\nAnd the king answered, King Ham <\/p>\n
888
\n01:00:14,360 –> 01:00:18,200
\nshall go over with me, and I’ll
\ndo to him that which shall seem <\/p>\n
889
\n01:00:18,200 –> 01:00:21,680
\ngood unto thee, and whatsoever
\nrequired me I will do for thee. <\/p>\n
890
\n01:00:23,360 –> 01:00:26,840
\nAnd so he went, and he ate of
\nthe King’s table. <\/p>\n
891
\n01:00:32,400 –> 01:00:33,760
\nBut how was he going to make a
\nliving? <\/p>\n
892
\n01:00:33,760 –> 01:00:38,280
\nOf course he was fed from the
\ntable of the king. <\/p>\n
893
\n01:00:38,280 –> 01:00:40,080
\nHe had a family to look after
\nhim. <\/p>\n
894
\n01:00:40,400 –> 01:00:45,080
\nHe wants to Job.
\nSo how did he go about looking <\/p>\n
895
\n01:00:45,080 –> 01:00:48,760
\nafter his family?
\nIt’s a very interesting <\/p>\n
896
\n01:00:49,160 –> 01:00:55,240
\nconnection with Jeremiah chapter
\n41 in Jeremiah 41, after the <\/p>\n
897
\n01:00:55,240 –> 01:00:59,720
\nBabylonian invasion, with all
\nthe trouble with Godalaya and <\/p>\n
898
\n01:00:59,760 –> 01:01:04,880
\nIshmael and all that, and then
\nthe remnants wants to go to <\/p>\n
899
\n01:01:04,880 –> 01:01:10,640
\nEgypt that asked Jeremiah to
\npray for them, but when he came <\/p>\n
900
\n01:01:10,640 –> 01:01:16,880
\nback with an answer, they didn’t
\nwant to listen to him and so <\/p>\n
901
\n01:01:16,880 –> 01:01:19,520
\nthey took him for his.
\nI must make this short. <\/p>\n
902
\n01:01:19,520 –> 01:01:23,240
\nIn 1st, 5th, 1st, 14 all the
\npeople that Ishmael carried away<\/p>\n
903
\n01:01:23,240 –> 01:01:26,120
\nkept it from Misbah cast about
\nto return to a minute to <\/p>\n
904
\n01:01:26,120 –> 01:01:29,240
\nChaconam the son of Korea.
\nBut Ishmael the son of Netanyahu<\/p>\n
905
\n01:01:29,480 –> 01:01:33,120
\nof Nathania, he escaped with
\nJochnam with eight men and went <\/p>\n
906
\n01:01:33,120 –> 01:01:36,240
\nto the Ammonites and took
\nJochenam the son of Korea. <\/p>\n
907
\n01:01:36,240 –> 01:01:38,680
\nAnd all the captains of the
\nforce that were with him, all <\/p>\n
908
\n01:01:38,680 –> 01:01:41,400
\nthe remnant of the people which
\nhe had covered, because from <\/p>\n
909
\n01:01:41,400 –> 01:01:44,680
\nIshmael the son of Nathanael,
\nfrom Mizpah, all that he had <\/p>\n
910
\n01:01:44,680 –> 01:01:47,280
\nslain.
\nAfter that he had slain Gadoli, <\/p>\n
911
\n01:01:47,280 –> 01:01:50,440
\nthe son of Ahaikum, all the
\nmighty men of war, and the women<\/p>\n
912
\n01:01:50,440 –> 01:01:53,000
\nand the children and the
\neunuchs, which he had brought <\/p>\n
913
\n01:01:53,120 –> 01:01:57,080
\nagain from Given.
\nAnd they departed and dwelt in <\/p>\n
914
\n01:01:57,080 –> 01:02:02,240
\nthe habitation of Kim Ham, which
\nis by Bethlehem, to go to enter <\/p>\n
915
\n01:02:02,240 –> 01:02:05,600
\ninto Egypt because of the
\nChaldeans, because they were <\/p>\n
916
\n01:02:05,600 –> 01:02:08,080
\nafraid.
\nSo they’d made-up their mind to <\/p>\n
917
\n01:02:08,080 –> 01:02:11,600
\ngo to Egypt, and they waited
\ntill they were all together, and<\/p>\n
918
\n01:02:11,600 –> 01:02:14,320
\nthey stayed in the habitation of
\nKim Ham. <\/p>\n
919
\n01:02:14,880 –> 01:02:17,600
\nWas Kim Ham the son of
\nBarcelona? <\/p>\n
920
\n01:02:18,280 –> 01:02:19,720
\nWhom they was going to look
\nafter. <\/p>\n
921
\n01:02:20,560 –> 01:02:22,680
\nWhat’s the word?
\nThe habitation is the word for <\/p>\n
922
\n01:02:22,680 –> 01:02:28,040
\nan inn.
\nThis is the inn of Kim Ham in <\/p>\n
923
\n01:02:28,040 –> 01:02:33,240
\nBethlehem.
\nHow did you get the inn? <\/p>\n
924
\n01:02:34,800 –> 01:02:40,200
\nDavid, I suppose, would have
\ntaken part of his inheritance, <\/p>\n
925
\n01:02:41,120 –> 01:02:44,080
\ngiven it to Kim Ham so he could
\nbuild. <\/p>\n
926
\n01:02:44,080 –> 01:02:48,360
\nAn inn and make a living.
\nIt was still known as the Inn of<\/p>\n
927
\n01:02:48,360 –> 01:02:50,600
\nKim Ham all those many years
\nlater. <\/p>\n
928
\n01:02:52,800 –> 01:02:55,480
\nNow we know from archaeology
\nthat there’s only one. <\/p>\n
929
\n01:02:55,480 –> 01:03:01,200
\nInn in a village in a city.
\nThere’s only one inn in <\/p>\n
930
\n01:03:01,200 –> 01:03:07,000
\nBethlehem and so, but it says
\nthrough the generosity of David <\/p>\n
931
\n01:03:07,280 –> 01:03:14,480
\nto Barthelai Alison Kimham, a
\nbirthplace had been prepared by <\/p>\n
932
\n01:03:14,480 –> 01:03:17,960
\nthe fore sight of God for the
\nSaviour of the world. <\/p>\n
933
\n01:03:19,320 –> 01:03:22,160
\nNow that is wonderful.
\nNow by the. <\/p>\n
934
\n01:03:22,160 –> 01:03:26,400
\nStable.
\nWe know what stables look like. <\/p>\n
935
\n01:03:26,880 –> 01:03:28,480
\nYou can see on the on the
\npicture here. <\/p>\n
936
\n01:03:28,480 –> 01:03:31,120
\nIt’s a reconstruction drawing.
\nIt was quite an extensive <\/p>\n
937
\n01:03:31,120 –> 01:03:35,880
\nbuilding, a main entrance where
\nthe travellers came. <\/p>\n
938
\n01:03:36,720 –> 01:03:39,440
\nThey stayed in the buildings
\naround the courtyard. <\/p>\n
939
\n01:03:40,120 –> 01:03:42,280
\nThe owner of the inn would have
\nlit upstairs. <\/p>\n
940
\n01:03:43,520 –> 01:03:46,880
\nThere was a well in the
\ncourtyard, but here’s a stable <\/p>\n
941
\n01:03:46,880 –> 01:03:51,600
\nblock where the animals stayed.
\nThere’s a wall there, as you can<\/p>\n
942
\n01:03:51,600 –> 01:03:55,160
\nsee here, with windows in it.
\nWe call it the fenestrated wall.<\/p>\n
943
\n01:03:56,000 –> 01:03:59,280
\nThe animals are put at the back
\nof this wall, like the donkey <\/p>\n
944
\n01:03:59,280 –> 01:04:03,800
\nstanding there will be fed from
\nthe foot that was put inside <\/p>\n
945
\n01:04:03,800 –> 01:04:05,760
\nthose windows, perhaps in their
\nwooden box. <\/p>\n
946
\n01:04:07,080 –> 01:04:09,400
\nAnd the people that served the
\nanimals would be here on this <\/p>\n
947
\n01:04:09,400 –> 01:04:12,880
\nside of the stables, and that’s
\nwhere Mary and Joseph would have<\/p>\n
948
\n01:04:12,880 –> 01:04:15,160
\nbeen.
\nAnd after Jesus was born, he. <\/p>\n
949
\n01:04:15,360 –> 01:04:17,560
\nWould have been put.
\nIn one of those window boxes, <\/p>\n
950
\n01:04:17,800 –> 01:04:19,840
\nthe food taken out, straw
\npudding there. <\/p>\n
951
\n01:04:20,120 –> 01:04:24,680
\nAnd so a a place has been
\nprovided for Jesus to be born <\/p>\n
952
\n01:04:24,680 –> 01:04:28,240
\nin.
\nBut in his own inheritance in <\/p>\n
953
\n01:04:28,240 –> 01:04:32,680
\nthe inn of Kim Ham, which David
\nhad given to him to make a <\/p>\n
954
\n01:04:32,680 –> 01:04:35,880
\nliving, that most thought to
\nprepare a place. <\/p>\n
955
\n01:04:36,120 –> 01:04:40,000
\nFor Jesus to be born in in the
\ninheritance of David, when he <\/p>\n
956
\n01:04:40,000 –> 01:04:42,280
\nsays.
\nThis just blows you away how God<\/p>\n
957
\n01:04:42,520 –> 01:04:45,160
\nhas prepared a place for.
\nJesus to be born. <\/p>\n
958
\n01:04:45,600 –> 01:04:48,680
\nNot in a.
\nCave, no Silver Star, nothing in<\/p>\n
959
\n01:04:48,680 –> 01:04:52,240
\nit at all like that, but in his
\nown inheritance. <\/p>\n
960
\n01:04:54,360 –> 01:04:57,760
\nLet’s just remember that when
\nJacob and Rachel travelled. <\/p>\n
961
\n01:04:57,920 –> 01:05:01,160
\nTo the same.
\nPlace here that Rachel died when<\/p>\n
962
\n01:05:01,160 –> 01:05:06,000
\nBenjamin was born.
\nYou go to Genesis chapter 48. <\/p>\n
963
\n01:05:06,040 –> 01:05:10,840
\nLet’s just go back again to
\nRachel and what happened to her <\/p>\n
964
\n01:05:11,160 –> 01:05:20,830
\nin Bethlehem.
\nThey printed on the mind of <\/p>\n
965
\n01:05:20,830 –> 01:05:29,470
\nJacob, he says there in chapter
\n48 and verse 7. <\/p>\n
966
\n01:05:30,630 –> 01:05:35,670
\nAs for me, when I came from
\nParam, Rachel died by me in the <\/p>\n
967
\n01:05:35,670 –> 01:05:39,630
\nland of Canaan in the way when
\nshe had a little way to come to <\/p>\n
968
\n01:05:39,630 –> 01:05:42,670
\neffort, and I buried her there
\nin the way of effort. <\/p>\n
969
\n01:05:43,080 –> 01:05:48,880
\nThe same is Bethlehem.
\nThat connection between Rachel <\/p>\n
970
\n01:05:48,880 –> 01:05:53,160
\ndying there must have been a
\ngreat mourning when she died <\/p>\n
971
\n01:05:53,160 –> 01:05:56,480
\nbecause Jacob put a.
\nPillow on her grave and was <\/p>\n
972
\n01:05:56,480 –> 01:05:59,240
\nstill known all through the ages
\neven up to today. <\/p>\n
973
\n01:05:59,240 –> 01:06:02,680
\nYou can still go to Rachel’s
\nTomb, if not exactly in the same<\/p>\n
974
\n01:06:02,680 –> 01:06:08,440
\nplace, but certainly in the area
\nif you go to Matthew chapter 2. <\/p>\n
975
\n01:06:27,450 –> 01:06:31,210
\nWe have those wise men, those
\nMegai coming from Mesopotamia, <\/p>\n
976
\n01:06:31,210 –> 01:06:34,050
\nand they asked the verse to
\nwhere is he that is born king of<\/p>\n
977
\n01:06:34,050 –> 01:06:36,130
\nthe Jews?
\nWe have seen a star in the East <\/p>\n
978
\n01:06:36,370 –> 01:06:39,130
\nand come to worship him.
\nWhen Herod the king had heard <\/p>\n
979
\n01:06:39,130 –> 01:06:42,090
\nthese things, he was troubled
\nand all Jerusalem with him. <\/p>\n
980
\n01:06:42,730 –> 01:06:45,800
\nWe’ll just skip what happened
\nthere, which we know and verse <\/p>\n
981
\n01:06:45,840 –> 01:06:48,680
\n16 when those mega I didn’t come
\nback then I heard when he had <\/p>\n
982
\n01:06:48,880 –> 01:06:50,320
\nwhen he saw that he was mocked
\noff. <\/p>\n
983
\n01:06:50,320 –> 01:06:53,280
\nThe wise man was exceeding
\nwrath, and sent forth and slew <\/p>\n
984
\n01:06:53,280 –> 01:06:55,240
\nall the children that were in
\nBethlehem. <\/p>\n
985
\n01:06:55,480 –> 01:06:58,880
\nAnd all the coast era from 2
\nyears old and under, according <\/p>\n
986
\n01:06:58,880 –> 01:07:01,600
\nto the time which he had
\ndiligently inquired of the wise <\/p>\n
987
\n01:07:01,600 –> 01:07:04,840
\nman then was fulfilled that
\nwhich was spoken by Jeremiah the<\/p>\n
988
\n01:07:04,840 –> 01:07:08,800
\nprophet saying in Rama was the
\nvoice heard lamentation and <\/p>\n
989
\n01:07:08,800 –> 01:07:12,600
\nweeping and great mourning.
\nRachel weeping for her children <\/p>\n
990
\n01:07:12,880 –> 01:07:15,760
\nand would not be comforted
\nbecause they are not. <\/p>\n
991
\n01:07:16,720 –> 01:07:22,240
\nAnd she died in Bethlehem.
\nSo why did Jeremiah mention Rama<\/p>\n
992
\n01:07:22,680 –> 01:07:25,120
\nin connection with the weeping
\nof Rachel? <\/p>\n
993
\n01:07:25,480 –> 01:07:29,440
\nRama was further to the north in
\nthe territory of Benjamin, where<\/p>\n
994
\n01:07:29,440 –> 01:07:33,720
\nRachel represents the Jewish
\nnation in trouble, just as he <\/p>\n
995
\n01:07:33,720 –> 01:07:35,720
\nyourself was when Benjamin was
\nborn. <\/p>\n
996
\n01:07:36,040 –> 01:07:40,200
\nWe know Joseph is a type of
\nJesus who’s Benjamin then his <\/p>\n
997
\n01:07:40,200 –> 01:07:44,440
\nyounger brother, all those that
\nbelieved in him after he was <\/p>\n
998
\n01:07:44,440 –> 01:07:50,840
\nrisen from the dead and Rachel
\nwill have to make way, will have<\/p>\n
999
\n01:07:50,840 –> 01:07:52,840
\nto die.
\nThe state of Israel will have to<\/p>\n
1000
\n01:07:52,840 –> 01:07:54,840
\nmake way for the Kingdom to
\ncome. <\/p>\n
1001
\n01:07:56,040 –> 01:08:02,600
\nBut in Jeremiah chapter 40, we
\ncan see what’s happened there in<\/p>\n
1002
\n01:08:02,640 –> 01:08:08,160
\nRama in Jeremiah chapter 40
\nafter. <\/p>\n
1003
\n01:08:08,640 –> 01:08:12,160
\nThe city was destroyed, the city
\nof Jerusalem. <\/p>\n
1004
\n01:08:15,480 –> 01:08:19,080
\nJeremiah’s life was saved with
\nthat of Ibad Milek, the <\/p>\n
1005
\n01:08:19,080 –> 01:08:21,560
\nEthiopian.
\nDo you remember the story? <\/p>\n
1006
\n01:08:23,399 –> 01:08:26,920
\nAnd then it says in verse 1 of
\nchapter 40, the word that came <\/p>\n
1007
\n01:08:26,920 –> 01:08:30,080
\nto Jeremiah from Yawa.
\nAfter that, Nebuchadne, the cap <\/p>\n
1008
\n01:08:30,080 –> 01:08:32,680
\nof the guard, had let him go
\nfrom Rama. <\/p>\n
1009
\n01:08:33,359 –> 01:08:36,960
\nThey had taken him, being bound
\nin chains among all that were <\/p>\n
1010
\n01:08:36,960 –> 01:08:39,560
\ncarried away captive of
\nJerusalem and Judah, which were <\/p>\n
1011
\n01:08:39,560 –> 01:08:41,800
\ncarried away captive and to
\nBabylon. <\/p>\n
1012
\n01:08:42,359 –> 01:08:44,840
\nSo after Jerusalem was
\ndestroyed, a rounded of all the <\/p>\n
1013
\n01:08:44,840 –> 01:08:47,439
\nsurvivors and brought them to
\nRama. <\/p>\n
1014
\n01:08:48,319 –> 01:08:54,240
\nI can imagine what a weeping
\nthat must have been, but among. <\/p>\n
1015
\n01:08:54,240 –> 01:08:58,800
\nAll those prisoners, there was
\nJeremiah also, but he was let <\/p>\n
1016
\n01:08:58,800 –> 01:09:02,240
\ngo.
\nHe was set free, chains taken <\/p>\n
1017
\n01:09:02,240 –> 01:09:07,160
\naway, his life preserved, and he
\ncould stay in Jerusalem. <\/p>\n
1018
\n01:09:07,960 –> 01:09:11,720
\nThat was what happened in in
\nBethlehem in the time of Jesus. <\/p>\n
1019
\n01:09:11,720 –> 01:09:15,120
\nAll those young children, those
\nbabies of two years old were. <\/p>\n
1020
\n01:09:15,120 –> 01:09:15,800
\nAll.
\nKilled. <\/p>\n
1021
\n01:09:15,800 –> 01:09:18,920
\nBut God knew that beforehand.
\nHe remembered Jeremiah. <\/p>\n
1022
\n01:09:18,920 –> 01:09:19,880
\nWho was set?
\nFree. <\/p>\n
1023
\n01:09:20,160 –> 01:09:23,560
\nAnd he set his own son.
\nFree by warning Joseph and Mary <\/p>\n
1024
\n01:09:23,760 –> 01:09:27,399
\nto go to Egypt before this
\nhappened, just just as Jeremiah <\/p>\n
1025
\n01:09:27,399 –> 01:09:31,240
\nwas set free, so Jesus also
\nescaped a terrible fate that was<\/p>\n
1026
\n01:09:31,240 –> 01:09:33,800
\nsuffered by the little ones in
\nBethlehem at the and of Herod. <\/p>\n
1027
\n01:09:34,920 –> 01:09:39,439
\nAnd there was an opportunity to
\nfulfil another prophecy out of <\/p>\n
1028
\n01:09:39,439 –> 01:09:42,319
\nEgypt.
\nHave I called my son? <\/p>\n
1029
\n01:09:43,120 –> 01:09:45,840
\nAnd there’s a subject for
\ntomorrow’s Doctor Scott Willing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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