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Something Huge Has Been Unearthed in Mesopotamia · Off The Kirb Ministries

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I put every insane biblical discovery on a map and I promise
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you it's going to blow your mind.
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Watch this. This is the northwestern shore
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of the Dead Sea, and in 1947, a group of shepherd lads were
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tending their flocks on the cliffs when one of their sheep
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ran into a cave. So the leader of the group
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picked up a rock and threw it into The Cave, hoping that
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somehow this would scare the sheep out.
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But to his surprise, he heard a distinct sound, the sound of
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pottery smashing. The boy was now very curious, so
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he crawled into The Cave to find a collection of clay jars, each
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containing ancient scrolls wrapped in linen.
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When the young man got home, he said, Mum, dad, look what I
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found today whilst looking after the sheep.
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But even his parents didn't realise the significance of
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their son's discovery until they showed the scrolls to the local
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antiquity dealers in Bethlehem. Do you know what happened next?
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The scrolls were tested and dated to be between 300 BC and
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one 100 AD, making them the oldest known copy of the
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biblical manuscripts with every Hebrew book in the Bible
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collected there except for the book of Esther.
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And also very interestingly, extra biblical texts were found
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alongside it, like the Book of Enoch and the Book of Jubilees.
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But guys, I can assure you of one thing.
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When this shepherd boy discovered the Dead Sea Scrolls,
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it silenced a lot of critics because it proved that the Bible
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we have been reading had indeed been preserved over these
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thousands of years and had not been changed because the earlier
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manuscripts were pretty much exactly the same as the ancient
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Dead Sea Scrolls. I'm not going to lie to you,
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this next discovery, if it is the real deal, it is the most
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incredible archaeological find in history, but many think it's
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far too good to be true. In 1959, a Turkish pilot was
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flying over Mount Ararat when he decided to take a photo of this
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unusual boat shaped imprint in the ground.
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The picture later reached Time Magazine's desk and they simply
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published the photograph with the title Noah's Ark Question
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Mark. This enthralled the mind of a
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budding archaeologist, Ron Wyatt, who eventually made the
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trip to Turkey and conducted many tests.
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It is absolutely critical to understand that over 100
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expeditions to Mount Ararat had already taken place with non
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producing any observable evidence that Noah's Ark is out
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there. So here is why I personally
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believe it is on the Jurapenar site and after you've heard all
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of the info I'll leave the ball in your court.
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Whether you choose to believe if this is the real Noah's ark or
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not, the Bible tells us in Genesis 8 verse four that the
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final resting place for Noah's ark was the mountains of Ararat.
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And where do you think this boat like imprint was found in the
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mountains of Ararat? In the Bible we are also told
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that the ark IS300 cubits long, which if you convert that into
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feet, may makes 515 feet. And how long was the ark?
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When Ron Wyatt and his team measured it, it was 515 feet.
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I almost hesitate to say this, but some people doubt that this
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is Noah's ark because they are unsure of some of Ron Wyatt's
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other discoveries. As you can probably guess, I
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believe Ron found a number of things even though he was only
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an amateur archaeologist. But if that is what stops you
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from taking the boat sized imprint seriously, listen to
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this. Firstly, the other secular
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archaeologists confirmed that this object was indeed a boat of
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some kind. In 1987 the Turkish government
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after sending their own scientists to examine the area,
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how the ceremony to declare that this place was a National Park
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containing the real Noah's Ark. And if you ever do drive to this
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place, you will see many signs that will help you find your way
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because they all point and say Noah's Ark in this direction.
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But perhaps most convincing of all are the 3D GPR surveys that
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are still being done today, with a collection of the most recent
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scans being done by a team of Turkish government scientists
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and an organization called Noah's Ark Scans.
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These scans reveal cavities and chambers beneath the ground,
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which also form the uncanny shape of a boat.
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But hey now, later in the video, I'm going to show you another
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insane discovery by Ron Wyatt that does get a mixed reception.
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But first, here is an archaeological structure that
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even atheists cannot deny. If we fly from Turkey to the
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coast of Israel, we'll find an ancient city built by King Herod
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the Great in 25 BC called Caesarea Maritimer.
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Are you imagining this right now?
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Because this exciting structure lay covered by sand and silt
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until the 19th century when it was excavated and there they
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found a Roman theatre. Inside this theatre was a block
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of limestone, and in 1961 this block of limestone was uncovered
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to reveal massive piece of evidence proving the
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authenticity of the Biblical Gospel.
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Pilot's inscription, as it was later named, can be translated
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to say Tiberian Augustus. Pontius Pilate, the prefect of
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Judea, dedicated this to the people of Caesarea.
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Does that ring a bell at all? This is proof that there really
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was a Roman governor that was in charge during the time of Jesus.
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And so here's the big question, if there really was a man called
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Pontius just Pilate who handed Jesus over to the death on the
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cross, if that's a fact, why was this innocent man dying?
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Could it be that he was dying on that cross for the payment of
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your sins that need to be forgiven and washed away because
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you, like me, are guilty before a holy God?
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Whilst you consider that most thought provoking question,
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check out this next interesting location on the map.
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Let's jump over to Babylon in the region of Mesopotamia, or
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more precisely, the region surrounded surrounding the
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Tigris and the Euphrates River. Because people are massively
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divided on the location of the real Garden of Eden.
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Some claim that it's in Persia, but most Bible scholars and
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archaeologists agree that it is likely to be here.
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Why? Well, as Doctor James Sauer and
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Joel Kramer demonstrated, it's likely that the mysterious
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Pishon River is the Wadi Batten River.
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And the other elusive river, the Gihon, could actually also be
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the modern day Quran River. The Bible actually says in
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Genesis 2 verse 10. Now a river went out of Eden to
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water the garden, and from there it parted and became 4
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riverheads. However, it appears when we look
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at the map that the Persian Gulf is the only river that branches
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off into these four separate rivers.
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But wouldn't that mean that the river is now in reverse?
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I'm not so sure about all of this, but there's one thing we
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do know, and it's this. If it is really Eden, it is now
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entirely covered by water, which is also something that
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scientists believe about the Persian Gulf today, that it was
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once indeed dry land between you and me.
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Although I do believe that this is the likeliest location for
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the Garden of Eden, I'm not so sure we were ever meant to find
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the true place, the true Eden. I mean, after all, God did place
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cherubim to block the entrance to the Garden for a reason.
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And I truly do believe that paradise has been lost for
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mankind, but Eden can be restored.
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To all those who believe that Jesus died, He was buried, and
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he rose again, and now He is the savour of the world.
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Can I ask you, do you believe that if today was your last day
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on earth, can Jesus say to you like He said to the other man
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dying on the cross next to him, Today you will be with me in
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paradise. So I want you guys to travel
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back to Israel with me because there are three discoveries that
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I want to draw your attention to #1 the Western Wall.
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You probably already know that the Second Temple was destroyed
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in seven AD, just like Jesus said would happen in Luke 21
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verses 5 to 6. But did you know that since the
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1860's the Temple Mount area has been excavated?
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From these excavations they found a large remnant of the
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Second Temple, one of its outer walls, which has now been called
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the Western Wall. They also found a monumental
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staircase from the southwestern corner of the Temple Mount,
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which has been famously named the Robinson's Arch, as well as
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finding many other artifacts like pottery, coins, and
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inscriptions, all coming from the Second Temple period #2 the
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Teldan Steele, which was found in Galilee, Which just to say
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again, was only discovered very recently in 1993.
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But I know what you're thinking though.
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It's just a big rock. Well, this rock holds the
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Aramaic inscription that dates all the way back to the 9th
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century BC. In the text, it records a
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victory by an unnamed king over the House of David, not David
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himself. Now this, as far as we know, is
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the earliest known reference of King David's dynasty outside of
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the Bible, proving that the man after God's own hearts really
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did exist #3 which is also a pretty monumental discovery.
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Which was found a little further away in Mount Ebal in Shechem or
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the modern day Nablus in the West Bank.
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It was initially rediscovered by a guy called Edward Robinson in
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the 1830s and what they found was very, very impressive.
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Under normal circumstances, an ancient Canaanite temple, the
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remains of an old city with walls and gates would make any
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archaeologist do backflips. But upon further investigation
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over the years by other archaeologists, they uncovered
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Jacob's well, which is believed to be the same well where Jesus
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met the Samaritan woman and showed her her sin and her need
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of him. At Mount Ebal, a large stone
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altar was found, which is believed to be the altar of
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Joshua, where Joshua made a covenant with the Israelite
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people after God had given them the victory in a place called I.
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I think we're going to go back to this area a little bit later
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on, but right now let's revisit Babylon again.
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Did you know that they have found the Tower of Babel near
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the area of Hillar? Some other huge things were also
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found in the early 1900s by archaeologists.
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Are you ready to see some of them?
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Well not only did they find the world famous Ishtar Gate during
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excavations, but they found the Entanaki ruins of the remains of
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a cigarettes, which is the strongest candidate we have for
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the Tower of Babel. Of course you guys knew that we
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were going to bounce back to Israel.
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Why? Because inside this little
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country are some of the biggest gems in world history, including
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the walls of Jericho. A gentleman by the name of
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Charles Warren started things off by finding some ancient
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walls. Then in the 1930s, another
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gentleman called John Garstang found even more ancient walls
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and the Tell S Sultan Mound, which is the pinnacle of the
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main sites. Then in the 1930s, a lady called
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Kathleen Kenyon uncovered all of the walls of Jericho with her
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team. These are the famous walls that
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fell when the Israelites circled around them seven times and the
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Lord gave them a victory. But I hear exactly what you're
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saying. You're saying, Joe, how do we
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know that these are actually the real walls of Jericho?
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Well, apart from the precise location, archaeologists found
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evidence that the walls had collapsed suddenly.
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They did this by doing something called stratigraphy, where they
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studied the layers of the ground, and we can see from
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looking at the layers that these walls had actually been rebuilt
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years later. Oh, and by the way, the walls
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actually date back to 1400 BC, which matches precisely the same
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time as the biblical accounts, right?
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Allow me to introduce you to everyone's favorite biblical
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discovery, the Pool of Siloam. In two, 1004, in the city of
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David, which is the oldest part of Jerusalem, construction
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workers were fixing a drainage pipe when they accidentally
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found some ancient steps. What was beneath these steps was
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about to silence a whole bunch of Jesus.
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Skeptics, archaeologists Ronnie Reich and Eli Shukran were
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called, and together with a team they found that these mysterious
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steps LED down to the Pool of Siloam mentioned in the Gospel
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of John Chapter 9. So again, I hear you.
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You ask, how do we know that this is the same pool of Siloam?
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But because according to the biblical account, the pool of
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Siloam is located next to the Temple Mount, and it receives
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water from Hezekiah's tunnel. Hezekiah, by the way, was the
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king which built this tunnel during his reign to transport
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water. So where was this pool that
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these construction workers stumbled upon?
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It was next to the Temple Mount and right next to Hezekiah's
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tunnel. It's essential you remember that
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this discovery ruffled quite a few feathers because skeptics
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often claim that the Gospels were mythical and there was no
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proof of places like the Pool of Siloam ever existing.
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But this discovery certainly makes people think again about
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the place where Jesus healed that blind man by placing some
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clay over his eyes and telling him to wash in the pool of
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Siloam. Now, of course, whether you
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accept the miracle to be true is another matter.
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As you know, I do. As a Christian and as an
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evangelist, I would long to see a greater miracle happen in you,
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and that is that you would go and wash yourself in the pool of
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God's forgiveness. If you wash there, just like the
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blind man who was washed in Siloam and received sight, so
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you also, if you wash in God's pool of forgiveness, you will
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find that the Lord God Himself will open your blind eyes and
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show you what you've been missing out on for all these
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years. His love.
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But let me let you into another secret.
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This was not the greatest miracle that Jesus ever did.
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The greatest miracle he ever did was to rise from the dead so
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that he can give us eternal life and empty our grave if we let
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him. Let's run over to the Gulf of
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Aqabar in the Red Sea, because this, as I said earlier, is one
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of the discoveries that many Christians doubt.
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I meet them all the time and they say this didn't really
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happen. This isn't legit.
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I personally think it is, but I'll let you decide.
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Ron Wyatt, who we met before, is known for another very different
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hypothesis. For years, tourists have been
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visiting the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt, believing that this is
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the place of the real Mount Sinai.
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Now before I show you where Ron believes it is, check this out.
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In the Red Sea. Ron claims that these are
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chariot wheels, the same chariot wheels that we know came off
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when the Egyptians pursued the Israelites whilst God split the
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Red Sea. So take all of that into your
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mind and stop me if I get something wrong.
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If you cross the Red Sea from the Gulf of Aqaba, you will
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arrive in Saudi Arabia in the Tabuk Province.
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And to be even more more precise, in a place called Jabal
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al Laws, this is where Ron conducted hours and hours of
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research to show the world that we might be wrong about the
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location of Sinai. How can he make such a strong
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claim though? Well, firstly because the locals
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in the area have historically believed that they own the real
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Mount Sinai. But also take a look at this.
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This is the top of the supposed Mount Sinai.
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I mean, you've got to admit it is an incredible coincidence
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that it has blackened peaks. And if you actually inspect the
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rocks individually, you will find them to be charred, to be
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burned, which would match the description of when God
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descended on Mount Sinai in fire to give Moses the 10
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commandments. We know that the scripture even
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goes as far to say that the mountain was covered with smoke,
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like the smoke that would billow out of a brick kiln.
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This split rock formation is also pretty hard to explain away
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as it shows some signs of water erosion just like what you'd
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imagine the rock of Horeb, which is the described in the Bible to
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look like after Moses had struck it and the Lord provided water
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for all of the people to drink. OK, so here is the plot twist no
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one was expecting. As much as I admire Ron Wyatt
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and I appreciate his discoveries, there is actually 1
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discovery that I'm not so sure about.
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There's one discovery I don't actually know if he did really
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find. If you want to know which one it
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is, you better watch this video right away.