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Something Huge Has Been Unearthed at Göbekli Tepe... · Off The Kirb Ministries

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No one can agree on who built Gobekli Tepe, and to make things
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worse, I have a brand new theory.
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OK, before you dismiss this theory is being bonkers, I first
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need to show you why I'm unsure of the other theories and also
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why somebody else is trying to hide the evidence.
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Let's put theory #1 to the test that primitive hunter gatherers
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built Gobekli Tepe. In October 1994, in a little
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town in Turkey, a local farm was plowing his feet when suddenly
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he found an unusual shaped stone peering through the ground.
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The farmer looked closer, brushed away some of the dirt,
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only to realise that it might be part of a much larger structure
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that was beneath the ground. Word quickly spread until the
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highly esteemed German archaeologist Klaus Schmidt
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arrived with a team and began excavating the area.
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But what he found stunned the entire world.
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Guys, you've got to get this to understand why it's so
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fascinating to discover who built Gobekli Tepe.
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As Schmidt and his team began to dig, they found 4 circular
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enclosures covering 4000 square feet of lamp.
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Each was made-up of monoliths and T shaped pillars weighing
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between 40 to 60 tons. Some of these pillars reached
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impressive heights as large as 6 meters.
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So take all of that into your mind and now let this fact, all
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four of these massive structures are angled perfectly to the
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brightest star in the sky, Sirius.
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Wait a second, am I the only one who wants to know how primitive
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people who our school teachers would tell us they were only
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capable of operating stone tools?
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How is it that these guys had the knowledge of mathematics and
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astronomy to line up all of these pillars to the star of
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Sirius? And also, how did they have the
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strength to lift one of these monoliths from the nearest
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limestone quarry at the bottom of the hill all the way to the
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top of the peak? That would be a journey that
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would take 50 men at least one week to transport each pillar.
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Oh, and by the way, this was all done without a wheel, because
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the invention of a wheel only came 4000 years later.
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I hear you though. It's not impossible.
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But for me personally, the intricate carvings do offer a
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different perspective of who built Gobekli Tepe.
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But we'll come to that a little later.
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I wonder whether I should tell you this because for reasons I
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am later going to disclose, I very much doubt the accuracy of
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the dating of Gobekli Tepe. However, this does prove that
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something is a little off here with the hunter gatherer theory.
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When Klaus Schmidt conducted radiocarbon dating on the stone
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structure, his results claimed that the monoliths were 11,600
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years old, which is absolutely insane when you remember that
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mainstream experts believe that hunter gatherers emerge from the
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Ice Age. Then discovered farm and only
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built settlements in ancient Mesopotamia 6000 years after the
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supposed date that Gobekli Tepe was built.
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OK, I can hear exactly what some of you are thinking is that?
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Really. The earliest evidence.
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Of the first civilization. Well, yes, it is.
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But there's also a proposed theory that 20 kilometers away
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from the Potbelly Hill, which by the way is the translation of
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Gobekli Tepe. Well, here, in this supposed
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location here, apparently it was the first evidence of some kind
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of agriculture. But even this was 1000 years
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after our mysterious structure was meant to have been built.
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Now, do you see why the dates just aren't adding up?
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Well, there's more I'll say on this later, but right now, isn't
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it kind of difficult to believe that this primitive civilization
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is responsible for building Gobekli Tepe when the builders
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clearly understood advanced technology and mathematics, but
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somehow they didn't know at the same time how to simply farm a
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field? I was really taken aback when I
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also found out that even the man himself, Klaus Schmidt, had no
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idea what Gobekli Tepe was used for.
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Except he knew one thing. It wasn't a domestic settlement.
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So let's go over to Schmidt's friend Graham Hancock, and let's
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hear his theory on who he thinks builds the Potbelly Hill.
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I can't help feeling that's precisely what Gobekli Tepe is.
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It's a, it's a time capsule, it's a memorial to a lost time.
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And and I think that what we're looking at in that whole, the
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whole area is the outcome of contact with an earlier largely
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lost civilization. I think it passed on its
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cultural genes right there in that, in that area of Turkey and
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down into the Jordan Valley. That the creature, whatever it
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is, Jamie, that one that's sort of black and white, that image
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in the center says Visual Arts Cork.
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Yeah, that one's amazing. It's amazing they cut away the
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whole pillar to leave to leave that creature there, which
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itself is hard to identify. Is it a crocodile?
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How do they speculate that these people did this stuff?
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You can't. You can't do stuff with stone
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tools. So they use harder stone to
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carve this stone. That's the argument.
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And they is there evidence of these stones?
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No, not that I'm aware of. There are, there are there are
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some so-called pounding stones, but I find it difficult to see
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how pounding stones, how pounding away could have created
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this very fine result. It doesn't make a whole a whole
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lot of sense to me. Theory #2 Gobekli Tepe was built
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by some lost ancient civilization.
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One thing you and I can be sure of, and it's this.
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We know very little about these huge pillars.
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After all, the entire structure has only been known to the
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archaeological community for the last 50 years, and yet the area
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has been steeped in tradition for centuries.
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Take a look at this. This is the top of the Potbelly
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Hill, and it is here that local communities have performed A
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ritual where they'd walk around the tree several times, each
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with a piece of cloth. They then take their cloth and
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they tie it to one of the branches.
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Each cloth was meant to represent a wish that they would
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like to be granted. So again, I'll ask you, what
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goes through your mind when you hear that?
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I think it obviously points to some ancient mystical beliefs.
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And something I did forget to mention is that Gobekli Tepe is
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actually 6000 years older than Stonehenge, which is also
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believed to be a place of mysticism.
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This has LED some people to claim that Gobekli Tepe is the
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world's oldest temple. Have you thought about?
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This though so. The mainstream opinion is that
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the primitive builders constructed this structure, and
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yet the same people who hold this view are very hesitant to
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uncover more of Gobekli Tepe to make a solid conclusion.
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I mean, this really baffles me. How can anyone say for sure what
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it is when only 10% of this site has been excavated, but
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geophysical surveys show us the presence of 20 or more large
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enclosures buried beneath the ground?
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Are you imagining this right now?
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90% of the entire monument is still underground, and there
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have been no real advancements in archaeological digs since
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2014. I am going to choose my words
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carefully now. But out of the 43 pillars that
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have been excavated, what is it that leads Graham Hancock and
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other guests on the Joe Rogan podcast to state that Gobekli
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Tepe was likely built by an ancient civilization?
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Well, it's because of these intricate carvings.
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It's essentially. You remember once again that the
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belief of mainstream academia is that hunter gatherers, they
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could produce interesting cave art, But megalift structures
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with a solar calendar? Well, for those guys, it was
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believed that that would be way too advanced for them to
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accomplish. Now, for people who actually do
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believe that the people before us weren't as smart, this for
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them is very perplexing. And in 2024, researchers
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proposed that certain carvings on Pillar 43 at Gobekli Tepe
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were actually trying to record a comet impacts around 10,840 BC.
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Hey, do I need to remind you that I have big question marks
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about this? But it's OK, I will get to that
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later. Right now, however, listen to
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one of the most incredible things about Quebecly Tepe.
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The most advanced and the most intricate carvings are actually
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on the oldest pillars. As the pillars get newer, the
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designs get less complex. I am sorry I never told you this
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earlier, but archaeologists quick realized different
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enclosures were built at different times.
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The newest ones uncovered they claim are 10,500 years old and
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that is why they believe that Gobekli Tepe was built
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strategically for a purpose and they also believed it was used
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for a time period of around 1000 years.
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So what does all this mean? Well, according to their dating
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system, and again, I do have some reservations, but what they
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are proposing is that these intricate carvings came 6000
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years before the invention of writing.
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This obviously leads Graham Hancock and others to speculate
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that there was an ancient civilization with a lost form of
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knowledge or technology, especially in the realm of
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astronomy. Kind of similar to what we
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previously discussed in our videos on the pyramids.
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OK, so let's ask the obvious question here.
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Is there any evidence to support such a claim?
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We'll take a look at Pillar 43. It points to the Scorpius
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constellation. And when you even just glance at
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the drawing, it doesn't take a genius to figure out that they
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are depicting a scorpion here. Now watch carefully, because if
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we put the same drawings on a star map with the sun of the
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vulture's wings in the same placement as our sun in the
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night sky, we can suddenly see all of the constellations fall
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into place, perfectly lining up with incredible precision.
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Between you and me, if I had to choose which was my second
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favorite theory for who built Gobekli Tepe, it would be this
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one. And I would not be surprised
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whatsoever if these guys were the ones who really were
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responsible for this megalith structure and that is the
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Goliath like creatures theory. So over to you.
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Do you think our third theory giants are responsible for
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building Gobekli Tepe? Do you think that that could
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make any possible sense? Well no one can deny that
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whoever built this site were what we call antediluvians,
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meaning they existed before the worldwide judgement that fell on
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the earth. Every ancient culture talks
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about water covering the face of the earth and they also speak of
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huge figures that also want wronged are very earth.
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You may want to write this down for further research, but a few
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months ago we did a deep dive on the antediluvian structures like
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Stonehenge, the Callanish Stones and the Great Pyramids.
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And you guys, well at least the vast majority of you, you agreed
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with my position that these giant like creatures or the
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watchers may be responsible for who built these structures,
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which is of course contrary to what we're all commonly taught.
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But if you do study the Bible and the accounts from ancient
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cultures around the world, it's not hard to imagine that these
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guys existed. And it explains how these
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impossible structures were built.
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And if you want to find out why this makes total sense, you
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really should check out the video on this topic.
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And I've left a link in the description.
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Hey, big news everyone. Quebecly Tepe is even older
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though than all of the these antediluvian structures, with
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many archaeologists claiming it's the older structure on
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earth now. That doesn't answer the question
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though. Why do people believe that
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giants built it? Well I'm so glad you asked.
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A popular theory by archaeologists is that Gobekli
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Tepe was purposely built and then it was buried.
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Some people believe that giants were responsible for this
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because they wanted to preserve what was on it.
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Some even state that this site was used for post Edenic
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worship, place of idol worship and ritual.
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Now I find this fascinating but there is a story about the
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Callanish stones on the Isle of Lewis and that is that they were
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once giants who refused to accept Christianity and then
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they were judged and thus turned to stone.
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This obviously is bonkers but a similar folk tale is told about
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the large T shaped pillars at Quebecli Tepe that they were
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once human deities. Now, please don't misunderstand
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me. I obviously don't think that
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that was true, but I do think that a plausible explanation for
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its building could involve some kind of massive creature like a
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giant. Why?
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Well, the unavoidable conclusion is this.
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Gobekli Tepe is 7000 years older than the accepted date for the
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pyramids. It's twice as old as Stonehenge,
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and it's 50 times larger, spanning an impressive 20 acres.
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So if there's mystery around Stonehenge, how?
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Much more. Mystery then surrounds the
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Potbelly hill. But wait, there's more.
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The site contains at least 20 huge circular enclosures, and as
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you know, only four have been uncovered.
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But an estimated 200 T shaped limestone pillars remain buried.
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Using geophysical surveys, they've calculated that these
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pillars are all 20 feet tall, with some fallen pillars in the
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ground weighing as much as 50 metric tons.
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I mean, come on, guys. Yes, of course it's possible
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that primitive humans built this structure without a wheel or
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machinery or even the knowledge of farming.
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But when you consider the size, the weight and the mathematics
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of this project, do you not think that they might need
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something else to help them build it, like a supernatural
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creature which is mentioned in the Bible?
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And yes, I will say, as I often say in my videos, I could be way
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off with this. But the question does need.
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To be asked. How do we untangle all of this?
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Well, let's see if our final theory provides an answer on who
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built Beckley Tepe the Jimmy Corsetti theory.
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Jimmy Corsetti from Bright Insight YouTube channel has
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really made me think. He believes they are
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deliberately slowing down excavation on the site.
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How can he make such a statement?
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Well, the official owners of Gobekli Tepe have planted
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orchard after orchard of a protective kind of olive tree,
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which cannot just be cut down by anybody.
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And you can imagine the archaeological community, they
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were very concerned about thousands of trees being planted
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over the older structure on earth because as we've talked
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about already, 90 to 95% of it is still hidden underground.
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And the roots of these trees would surely damage or
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accelerate the decay of these ancient structures below the
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earth. Now, am I the only one here who
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finds all of this a little bit baffling?
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After all, you don't need a degree in horticulture to know
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that these roots are highly destructive.
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And they can cut through, they can grow through stone or even
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concrete. So here's the answer we all want
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to know. Why are they doing this and why
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are they being so slow to excavate the rest of Gobekli
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Tepe? Well, the fact is, this guy's no
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real progress has been made since 2014 when Klaus Schmitz
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first completed his excavation. I mean, how do we not know that
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one artifact hidden below the ground out of the 90% that is
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totally buried? How do we not know that this
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could be the one greatest discovery that we've ever found?
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It could explain so much about our ancient history.
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OK let's just slow down for a minute because there is actually
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one suggestion question and we could just give them the benefit
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of the doubt Because they say one reason they are not
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excavating is because in 150 years time they do plan to do
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another archaeological dig. And they say the reason for this
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is they will have better technology that could protect
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the ruins from getting damaged as they seek to unearth this
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ancient structure. Whilst that does seem like a
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genuinely good reason, it doesn't explain the massive
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amount of olive trees that they have planted over the sites and
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also so it doesn't explain the giant tourism centre which again
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with its huge roof covers and prevents further excavation. 1
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cynical view has a very different reason for why all of
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this has happened. They say it's all about money
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because in 2018 70,000 visitors went to Gobekli Tepe, but by
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2024 that number had increased to nearly 1,000,000 visitors.
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Well, of course tourism, it makes money, but archaeology on
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the flip side, that costs money and that is why tourism seems to
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remain the priority and also. Perhaps why they are.
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Keeping parts of it buried because it builds the plot and
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it increases the mystery of Gobekli Tepe.
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On the 12th of June 2024, Jimmy Corsetti released a post on
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Twitter pointing out this issue and since then the site owners
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have admitted that the tree roots were indeed damaging the
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ruins below and so they have carefully uprooted 1000 trees
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and planted them in an area away from Gobekli Tepe.
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Jimmy also has a very interesting theory of who he
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believes built Gobekli Tepe, and I want to take it even further
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than where Jimmy took it. However, if Noah's ark existed,
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many believe that it was crashed onto Mount Ararat, which is also
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in Turkey. And something fascinating is
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that in the Bible, in Genesis 820, some of the first verses
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after Noah emerged from the flood is that he was said to
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have constructed an altar to the Lord where he sacrificed some of
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every clean animal and some of every clean bird.
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Gobekli Tepe is in Turkey, and every single one of those
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pillars annotates animals. And some have suggested that it
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could be Noah's altar. Now that could be one reason why
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they won't want to excavate it. It's absolutely critical you
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understand just how much animals feature in the artwork of the
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structure. There are two big limestone
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pillars facing each other, and on the various other pillars are
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carvings of animals of nearly every kind.
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There are wild donkeys, gazelles, snake, scorpions,
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foxes, big cats, vultures, wolves, wild boars, lizards and
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fish. And by the way, many of these
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animals are not indigenous to the area, which suggests a
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knowledge of faraway places or even that the builder himself
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knew each of these animals personally.
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So let me ask you a question. Have you pieced our puzzle
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together yet? Jimmy Corsetti believes Noah may
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have built Gobekli Tepe. Wow, that's a plot twist and a
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half, Joe. Well, it it is, but would you
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like to hear why Jimmy makes such a claim?
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Well, apart from all of the carved animals being seen as
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symbolic of the animals of Noah's Ark, we know that the
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Bible teaches that Noah's Ark came to rest on the mountains of
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Ararat and what is 300 miles South of Ararat in Turkey
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itself, Gobekli Tepe. So Cassetti argues that it could
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have been built as a place of remembrance.
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And he even cites Bible verses on the Joe Rogan podcast.
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So just a minute here on the largest podcast in the world,
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they are suggesting the oldest structure on earth could have
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been built by Noah in the Bible. Well, I do have to say this.
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Now, there is a contradiction here, which I do want to come to
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in just a second. But first I want you to take a
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look at this particular pillar. Again, this is pillar 43,
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perhaps the pillar with the most speculative theories surrounding
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it. So here's the thing.
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When I heard Jimmy and Rogan discussing this, it made me
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think entirely differently about Quebecli Tepe.
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I mean, what if Noah was trying to preserve the story of what
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happened to him for future generations?
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And what if he really did carve out those images of Quebecli
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Tepe? After all, he'd know how to use
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tools after building an ark. OK, let me stop you right there
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though, because I want you to know we really must tread very
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carefully here. This is of course not to be
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taken as gospel truth, and like I said earlier, we could be way
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off about all of this. But when you do consider this
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theory, it does put a different perspective on Pillar 43, for
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instance, at the bottom of the pillar, do you notice that, man?
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I mean, is that a picture of death?
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Then at the top, you tell me. What do you see at the top of
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the pillar? Some say that these are just
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three handbags, but I think it looks an awful lot like an arc
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or even waves crashing over on the creatures.
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The same can be said about pillar 56 where you can see
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waves again and then it seems like the animals are running and
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then on pillar 53 you can see. Waves at the top and then waves
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at the bottom, almost surrounding one creature.
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But again, these are just opinions of mine.
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I do wonder though, this creature here that's represented
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on pillar 43, is that meant to be the dove that flew out of
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Noah's? Ark and brought back.
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An olive branch again, I'm not so sure, but it is interesting
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to dwell on just for a moment. There is another theory relating
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to the Book of Revelation that I'd like to hear your opinion
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on. But first, let's talk about the
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dating systems. And why is is there a
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contradiction between Noah's alter?
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And yet at the same time, when we think about the age of
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Gobekli Tepe, mainstream archaeologists will tell you
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that Gobekli Tepe is 11,600 years old, and that figure comes
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mainly from radiocarbon dating. The idea is simple.
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On the surface, living things absorb carbon from the
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atmosphere, including tiny amounts of radioactive carbon
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14. When they die, they stop
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absorbing it and the carbon 14 starts to decay.
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This is because we know that it only has a half life of around
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5700 and. 30 years meaning. Half of it decays in that time.
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Scientists measure how much is left, and then they estimate how
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long ago it was that the Organism died.
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It sounds clever, right? But here's the thing.
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That whole system relies on some major assumptions.
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It assumes that the rate of decay has never changed and that
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the amount of carbon 14 in the atmosphere has always been
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stable, and also that we know exactly how how much was in the
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sample to begin with. But what if those assumptions
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were wrong? What if the conditions in the
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past were dramatically different?
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That would totally throw off the results.
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And if something started with much less carbon 14, or if decay
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rates were faster due to atmospheric factors that we
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don't fully understand well, it would look way older than it
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really is. So when they say Gobekli Tepe is
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11,600 years old, I do take that with a very large pinch of salt.
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From a biblical perspective, I believe human history only
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stretches back about 6000 years, maybe 10,000 years at a stretch,
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which means this site could perhaps fit in with that time
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frame. And I can see some of you are
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shaking your head right now, but it actually does make a lot of
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sense when you look at it this way.
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You've got early humans right after a huge reset in history,
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settling down, rebuilding and producing incredibly
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sophisticated structures far earlier than secular history
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allows for. We also know that the first
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proper civilizations in summer in southern Mesopotamia emerged
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around 4000 BC, which lines up quite nicely with the biblical
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timeline to sites like Gobekli Tepe.
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They don't challenge the Bible. They actually fit into the
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picture of ancient people spreading out and restarting
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society with the knowledge that they already had.
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OK, while you're busy making up your mind on the age of Gobekli
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Tepe, I'm going to add a bonus thing theory to our list.
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It is almost unbelievable, but some people are stating that
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Gobekli Tepe could be one big cartoon.
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Cut out a cartoon which is proclaiming future prophecies
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listed in the Bible. How can such a statement be
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made? We'll observe pillar 27 in
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enclosure C. You probably already know that
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this is the most intricate carving at Gobekli Tepe.
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But did you know that a minority.
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And I will just stop here and say I'm not buying this
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personally, but a minority believe it might be depicting a
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creature described in Revelation 13 verse two.
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OK, you guessed it. We've got to go back to the
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infamous pillar 43. So what's the deal with this
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pillar and Revelation according to this small group of people?
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Well, I've heard it proposed by someone that the Vulture that
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seems to be holding a ball could be representing A vulture
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holding a hailstone or even an Angel holding a hailstone.
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And this is the hailstone that we hear about, which will fall
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on the. Earth when the Angel.
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Blows his first trumpets. Another theory is that the
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scorpions that are seen on this pillar and on the other pillars
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could be the scorpions that are described in Revelation 9 verse
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3. Have you heard this before
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though? They also claim that the Vulture
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could represent the birds that fly in the midst of heaven which
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will be called down at one point to feast on the remains which is
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mentioned in Revelation 19. Whilst that could be a
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possibility guys, I. Really do find it hard to.
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Believe. But I beg you.
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Please tell me what? Do you think about these
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different theories? Was the Book of Revelation
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carved out on the? Potbelly Hill years.
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Before it was written as a sort of prophecy, was it put there as
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a warning of impending doom that was going to come down?
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On the earth or do you believe that it was an.
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Altar built by Noah and his family after they emerged off
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the mountains of Ararat? Or was it built by smart people
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like a lost ancient civilization?
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Or was it? Even laid there by the watchers,
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right? If you really push me in a
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corner and you asked. Me what is my?
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Opinion on what? Theory do I think?
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Is most credible. Well, supposing the dates are
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wrong about Gobekli Tepe, which I personally think they are, I
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think maybe, just maybe, they could be a few thousand years
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out. After all, as a young earth
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creationist, earth could be anywhere from 6000 to 10,000
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years old. Well.
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If. That is the case.
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I personally. Wouldn't be surprised.
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If it was built. By Noah.
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Or if it wasn't built by Noah, it could have at least been
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built by someone who knew Noah or wanted to recount the
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narrative of God's judgment on the earth.
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Especially since the earliest books of the Old Testament are
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full of descriptions about animals.
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So it would make sense. That these builders also put an
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emphasis on animals too. Something else that I really
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should have told you about earlier is a recent white paper
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by researchers. They were analyzing Gobekli
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Tepe, and it suggests that Pillar 18 May contain the
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earliest written word in human history.
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And remarkably, that word simply could be God, carved at the very
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center of the enclosure and distinct from all of the animal
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symbols around it. The inscription that led some to
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speculate that Gobekli Tepe wasn't just a ceremonial site.
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But it was actually. A place of worship or even a
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dedicated altar, perhaps supporting the theory or the
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connection that we've talked about of the huge biblical event
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involving Noah. So just take all of that into
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your mind. That Gobekli Tepe.
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Might be the oldest. Structure on earth, and it might
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hold the first word that was ever to be written on earth, the
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word God. You almost couldn't write this
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stuff, if you catch my drift. But another option is what my
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friend suggested that once mankind emerge from Eden, that
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they would have a supreme intelligence, that they would be
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even smarter than we are today. He actually put it like this.
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He said technology has made us less smart.
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For instance, most people 70 years ago could figure out what
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sqrt 1600 was, and they could do that without using any type of
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technology. But if I ask you right now,
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without using any technology, can you tell me what sqrt 1600
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is? I'd imagine many of you can't,
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and neither can I. So maybe that's why the Pyramid,
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Stonehenge and Gobekli Tepe were built in such interesting ways.
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But of course, let's not rule out the what as builders either.
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But here's one. Question that will stomp you for
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hours and hours if you don't know the answer and it's this,
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who builds you? So after all the.
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Theories, the symbols, the carvings, the timelines, the
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talk of Noah and lost civilizations.
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We come to that final huge question, Who built you?
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It's a simple question, but so many don't know the answer
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because when you pull back all of the.
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Speculation. All of the.
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Stones. All of the science.
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This isn't just about Gobekli Tepe anymore.
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It's actually about you. Are you a product of randomness,
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cosmic chants? Or were you designed?
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Loved and formed. For a purpose.
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The Bible gives a stunning answer.
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It says, I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully
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made. You are not an accident.
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You were handcrafted by a God who knows you deeply and who
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wants to be known by you. And that changes absolutely
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everything. Because whiles Gobekli Tepe may
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carry echoes of long lost worship or judgment or survival,
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we have something they didn't. We have the gift of Jesus
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Christ, the revealed Savior of the world.
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We don't need to carve our stories into stone.
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God himself stepped. Into history.
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Not with cryptic animal symbols or mysterious monuments, but in
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flesh and blood. Jesus came to reveal who God is,
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not just as Creator, but as rescuer.
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Because here's the truth. Every single one of us has
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turned away from the God who made us.
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That's what the Bible calls sin. And like in the days of Noah,
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there is a judgment coming. But God didn't leave us
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hopeless. Just as Noah was given an ark,
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we've been given a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ.
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Jesus lived the life. We.
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Couldn't he died the death that we deserved?
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And he rose again so that we could have eternal life, not
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just later, but right now? Forgiveness.
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New life, peace. With the one who?
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Built you not through being religious, not through doing
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rituals, not by building altars, but by trusting in Jesus Christ,
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the Bible says in John 316. For God so loved the world that
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he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him
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shall not perish but have eternal life.
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And that invitation is for you. You don't need to stand at an
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ancient altar to meet God. You just need to bow your heart
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to Christ, the Son of God who took the judgment we deserved
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for our wrongdoing. He died in our place so that we
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wouldn't have to face that judgment ourselves.
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Our friend and Lord stepped in and took our place for us, being
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the substitute for our sin. And now?
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Because of what he. Did we can be.
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Forgiven and know God. Personally, just by believing in
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Him and asking him to save us and make us one of his children.
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So let me leave you with just one question one more time.
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And it's not about the ruins. It's about your soul who built
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you. And more importantly, will you
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trust in Him today? If the answer's no, it's simple.
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Just bow down right now and call on the name of Jesus Christ and
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say save me, wash away my sins. I know you made me, I know you
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love me, but I also know I need to be forgiven and saved.
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And only you can do that. And if you pray that prayer or
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something along those lines, the God who hears all things will
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save you instantly. Hey.
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But if you are already a Christian, or if you do need a
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little bit more convincing, well, there is some more
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breathtaking and even more baffling antediluvian structures
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that I told you about earlier. If you still haven't seen that
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video, you better click here right now.