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- 0:00This is every wall in the entire Bible, starting with the walls
- 0:04of Jericho. Look down here in the Jordan
- 0:06Valley, because you're about to see not only the lowest city in
- 0:09the world, but a city that is hiding one very dark secret.
- 0:14It's 1400 BC and the people of Jericho are worshipping one very
- 0:18evil God. So let's see if you can catch
- 0:21it. What do you see when you see
- 0:22this, this, and this? You're right, it's the moon God
- 0:28Yarek. But did you notice this?
- 0:30The Hebrew name for the city, Yeraho or Jericho to us
- 0:34literally means Moon City. So in other words, these massive
- 0:38walls were built specifically to contain and protect the ancient
- 0:42world's epicenter of lunar worship.
- 0:45OK, so here enters Joshua into this insane situation, and it is
- 0:49important to remember the Israelites.
- 0:51They had been wandering in the desert for 40 years and when
- 0:54they finally arrived at their promised land, it was pretty
- 0:57discouraging. Why?
- 0:59Because here they were face to face with the daunting fortress
- 1:03of Jericho. Take a look at this.
- 1:05Archaeologists have reconstructed diagrams of what
- 1:08these overbearing structures would have looked like.
- 1:11I wonder, have you picked up on this double wall system?
- 1:14Here is a massive stone retaining wall at the base
- 1:17topped by mud brick walls reaching 9 meters high.
- 1:20I mean, think about it. To any soldier who wanted to
- 1:23break in, this city seemed impossible.
- 1:25There was no chance they were getting inside.
- 1:28However, Bible records that Jericho fell not by battering
- 1:31Rams, but by following the instructions of the Lord.
- 1:34Under the leadership of Joshua, the Israelites marched silently
- 1:37around the city once a day for six days, led by priests who
- 1:41were carrying the Ark of the Covenant.
- 1:43On the 7th day, they circled the city 7 times.
- 1:46Then at the final signal, a long blast from the Ramhorn
- 1:50chauffeurs were sounded alongside a collection shout
- 1:53from the people. And just like that, these
- 1:55massive walls collapsed outward, allowing the Israelite to charge
- 2:00straight in. You're not going to believe
- 2:01this, but amidst the total destruction, a single section of
- 2:05the wall remained standing. This was the home of Rahab, a
- 2:09woman who had shown faith by hiding Israelite spies earlier
- 2:12in the story to keep them safe. Incredibly, this woman, who
- 2:15lived a pretty wild lifestyle, would obey the spies
- 2:18instructions to hang a scarlet cord from her window so that
- 2:22they could escape. This actually proved that she
- 2:25had faith in the one true God, and so she and her family were
- 2:28kept safe from the Lord's judgement when it fell upon
- 2:31Jericho. I'm not going to lie, this next
- 2:33discovery for me personally was very surprising.
- 2:36In the 1930s and 50s, excavators like John Garstang and Kathleen
- 2:41Kenyon discovered that the mud bricks didn't fall inward as if
- 2:45pushed by an invader, they tumbled outward.
- 2:48This is so clever because it created a perfect literal ramp
- 2:52of debris over the stone retaining wall, allowing the
- 2:55Israelites to walk right up into the city.
- 2:57Even more startling was the discovery of charred jars
- 3:00overflowing with grain. In ancient warfare, grain was
- 3:03known as black gold, and it always was looted.
- 3:06Yet here it sat untouched and burned.
- 3:09And this confirms the biblical account that the siege was
- 3:12miraculously short and that the soldiers were strictly forbidden
- 3:15by God not to plunder the city, leaving it as a burnt offering.
- 3:20And get this, after the fire, the city sat abandoned for
- 3:23centuries, exactly matching the curse Joshua placed on the
- 3:27ruins. All right, let's zoom on
- 3:29Jerusalem because its earliest defenses were built like a stone
- 3:33jigsaw puzzle, starting over 3000 years ago in the City of
- 3:37David. Whilst most ancient cities
- 3:40relied on massive gates, King David famously captured
- 3:43Jerusalem by thinking like a plumber rather than a general.
- 3:46His soldiers reportedly climbed through a secret vertical water
- 3:50shaft, a tunnel. This was planned so that they
- 3:52could bypass the city's high limestone walls and take the
- 3:56stronghold from inside. If you've ever considered
- 3:58visiting Jerusalem, you might want to listen to this because
- 4:01today visitors to the City of David National Park can actually
- 4:04explore these passages, including the narrow tunnels
- 4:08where archaeologists discovered ancient oil lamps left behind by
- 4:12the people when they were hiding during the later wars.
- 4:15Now let's start across to ancient Persia, because in 445
- 4:19BC we meet a man named Nehemiah who had one of the world's most
- 4:23dangerous jobs. He was the official cupbearer to
- 4:26Artaxerxes, the king of Persia. This meant he had to taste the
- 4:30King's wine before every meal to make sure it hadn't been
- 4:33tampered with. Now it doesn't take a genius to
- 4:35realise because he literally risked his life every day, the
- 4:38king trusted him completely. So when Nehemiah heard that his
- 4:42ancestral home of Jerusalem was in ruins with its walls smashed,
- 4:46he asked for help. The king didn't just give him
- 4:48permission to go, he gave him a royal security and the best
- 4:52building materials in the empire to fix the city.
- 4:55When Nehemiah arrived back in Jerusalem, the destruction was
- 4:59so bad that his horse couldn't even walk through the piles of
- 5:02broken stone. Instead of giving up, he snuck
- 5:05out at night to map the damage in secret, planning a massive
- 5:08construction project. He organized the local families
- 5:11into teams, and the Bible even lists exactly which family fixed
- 5:14which section of the wall. For a long time, many historians
- 5:18were very skeptical, and they weren't so sure about this
- 5:21construction project. Was it real, or was it just a
- 5:24story? Because there was no actual
- 5:26physical proof of a wall during that specific time period.
- 5:30But then everything changed in 2007, when an archaeologist
- 5:34named Doctor Eliot Massar made a very unexpected discovery.
- 5:38She began digging at a crumbly old tower that most people
- 5:41ignored, thinking it was built much later in history.
- 5:44But as she dug, she found pottery and artifacts from the
- 5:48Persian period, the exact time that Nehemiah lived.
- 5:51It's so strange, though, because it wasn't a fancy, perfect
- 5:54tower. It was built very roughly and in
- 5:56a massive hurry, which matches the Bible story perfectly of
- 6:00Nehemiah Wall, which says Nehemiah and his team of regular
- 6:04families finished the entire city wall in just 52 days
- 6:08because they were under constant tension, looking over their
- 6:11shoulder every 5 seconds to make sure that nothing bad would
- 6:14happen to them. Guys, I'm not sure we realized
- 6:17just how high the stakes were whilst trying to complete this
- 6:21project. Enemies mocked the workers,
- 6:23joking that if a tiny fox jumped on the wall, the whole thing
- 6:26would fall over. Eventually, the risk would
- 6:28become so great that Nehemiah and his builders had to work
- 6:32with one tool in one hand and a sword in the other.
- 6:35Now, interestingly, clues were left in the ground that also
- 6:39backs up the villains of the story.
- 6:41Researchers found ancient carvings that show the names of
- 6:44Nehemiah's enemies like Geshem, which is spelled exactly the
- 6:48same way as the Bible spells them.
- 6:50But come on now, we need to trek over to Jerusalem's Old City to
- 6:54the northern edge of the Jewish quarter.
- 6:56Because more than 100 years before Nehemiah, Jerusalem faced
- 7:00an even scarier risk, the massive Assyrian army.
- 7:04To prepare for the invasion, King Hezekiah built the broad
- 7:07Wall, a defensive giant that was 23 feet thick, roughly the width
- 7:12of A2 lane highway or motorway. You can still see the remaining
- 7:16of the broad wall in Jerusalem's Jewish quarter today, where some
- 7:19ancient houses were actually crushed to make room for it.
- 7:23But Hezekiah knew that even the strongest walls wouldn't matter
- 7:26if the people ran out of water during a siege.
- 7:29To solve this, he ordered an incredible engineering project,
- 7:32a 1700 foot long tunnel carved through solid rock to hide the
- 7:37city's water supply from the enemy.
- 7:40But if you thought that was impressive, it's nothing
- 7:43compared to this. In 1880, archaeological found a
- 7:46secret message carved into the tunnel wall.
- 7:49It's now called the Siloam inscription, which describes 2
- 7:52teams of diggers working from opposite ends and meeting in the
- 7:56middle by following the sound of each other's hammers.
- 7:59When the Assyrian king Sennacherib finally attacked, he
- 8:02bragged in his own royal record that he trapped Hezekiah like a
- 8:05bird in a cage. But he never actually captured
- 8:08the city. And again, you yourself could
- 8:10even walk through this secret 3000 year old escape hatch if
- 8:14you want it. And you can see the literal burn
- 8:16marks left behind by the Babylonian fires that levelled
- 8:19the city in 586 BC. You can also touch the very
- 8:23pickaxe marks left by the workers thousands of years ago
- 8:27as they raced to save their city from destruction.
- 8:30Just a little diversion because I know exactly what you're
- 8:33thinking. This is by far the most random
- 8:35video the YouTube algorithm has served me today.
- 8:38But I do wonder if there's anyone thinking this is the wall
- 8:41video that I never knew I needed.
- 8:43Well if that's you and you appreciate ad for free content
- 8:46like this, please do subscribe for more.
- 8:49After the famous victory at Jericho, Israel comes to IA
- 8:52small fortified city east of Bethel and at first it all goes
- 8:56wrong. Joshua 7 tells us Israel is
- 8:58beaten not because I is strong, but because sin has crept into
- 9:02the camp in the form of 1 disobedient Israelite who had
- 9:06hidden forbidden treasures beneath his tent.
- 9:09What happened next? Well, suddenly those walls that
- 9:11initially look small became impossible to conquer because
- 9:15God wasn't with them, and he poured out judgment on the
- 9:18entire camp too. Once this person's sin was
- 9:21finally dealt with, Joshua 8 flips the whole story.
- 9:24And this is where the walls really matter.
- 9:26Because I isn't just a town, it's a proper little fortress
- 9:30with thick defensive walls and a main gate facing north, exactly
- 9:34what you'd expect for a border of a stronghold guarding the
- 9:37hills. So Joshua sets a clever trap.
- 9:40Part of the army hides in a nearby valley, Another force
- 9:43pretends to run away. And when the king of I charged,
- 9:46which is out through the gate, leaving the walls unguarded, the
- 9:48hidden troops rush in, take the city and set it on fire.
- 9:53Now here's the really fascinating bit.
- 9:55For years, people said this couldn't have happened because
- 9:58the site everyone pointed to, a place called Ettel, didn't match
- 10:02any of the Bible's descriptions at all.
- 10:04And even archaeologists admitted this was a problem.
- 10:07But just a mile away, at a place called Kerbet El Mcateer,
- 10:11everything suddenly clicks. It's in the right place east of
- 10:14Bethel, near Bethel Avon, and it has the right landscape with a
- 10:18high hill to the north where Joshua could camp, a shallow
- 10:21valley where the king could see the decoy army, and a deep
- 10:24ravine where the ambush could hide.
- 10:26Not only that, it had all of the right stuff, thick fortification
- 10:30walls about 13 feet wide, A4 chambered gate.
- 10:33But most striking of all, the whole place was quickly burned
- 10:37in 1400 BC, around that time period, exactly when the Bible
- 10:42says I was destroyed, leaving it, as Joshua puts it, as a heap
- 10:47of ruins. OK, we're going to navigate on
- 10:49our map just north of Jerusalem to a city called Gibeon, because
- 10:54this is one of the strangest wall stories in the whole Bible.
- 10:57Not because the walls fall, but because they don't.
- 11:00Again, it's around 1400 BC when Joshua and the Israelites arrive
- 11:05in the land. Most cities would trust their
- 11:07thick stone walls to protect them, but the people of Gibeon
- 11:10try something completely different.
- 11:13Instead of fighting, they pretend to be travellers from a
- 11:15far off country, turning up with worn out clothes, crack sandals
- 11:19and even mouldy stale bread, all to make it look like they've
- 11:23been on the road for months. Their plan works.
- 11:25Joshua believes them and he makes a peace agreement with
- 11:28them. And it was only later he
- 11:30actually realized that they lived only down the road.
- 11:33Now listen to this. Even though the people of Gibeon
- 11:35tricked Israel, their promise still stands.
- 11:38And so their city and its walls were all amazingly spared.
- 11:42But the story doesn't end there. Other kings here.
- 11:44Gibeon has switched sides, so 5 armies March in to overrun it
- 11:48and suddenly this quiet walled city is under real pressure.
- 11:52Joshua and his army rush overnight to defend Gibeon, and
- 11:56during the battle something astonishing happens.
- 11:59According to Joshua 10, the daylight seems to last far
- 12:02longer than normal, so the fighting doesn't stop when the
- 12:05sun should have gone down. The text describes the sun and
- 12:08the moon standing in place totally still, giving Israel
- 12:12time to finish the battle. Why?
- 12:14Because God has control over all things, even the rising and the
- 12:18setting of the sun. Historically, Gibeon is
- 12:21identified with El Jib, where archaeologists have uncovered
- 12:25strong fortification walls, large water systems and storage
- 12:29jars with the city's name showing.
- 12:31This really was a major walled city, sitting exactly where the
- 12:35Bible places it. Jump far north to Hatsaw, the
- 12:38biggest and most powerful city in Canaan, often called the head
- 12:41of all those kingdoms. And if Jericho was shocking,
- 12:44Hatzaw is overweight. Filming in Joshua 11, Hatsaw
- 12:47leads a northern coalition against Israel.
- 12:51And this time there's no trick and there's no delay.
- 12:53Joshua and his men quickly burn the city to the ground.
- 12:56What makes Hatsaw remarkable is the scale.
- 12:59It was enormous, heavily fortified and strategically
- 13:03dominant. And excavations of Telhatsaw
- 13:06have revealed a massive destruction layer from the Late
- 13:08Bronze Age, with scorched palaces, collapsed walls, and
- 13:12fire damage so intense that even the stones cracked.
- 13:16Archaeologists like you, GAIL Yadin, noted statues
- 13:18deliberately smashed and burned, matching the biblical emphasis
- 13:22that Hatsaw was uniquely destroyed, not reused, and not
- 13:25merely captured. Glide across to Megiddo with me
- 13:28because we're about to see an enormous ancient site which was
- 13:32formed by roughly 20 cities. And these cities were built
- 13:36right on top of each other over thousands of years.
- 13:38Megiddo sat at a crossroads where all the big trade roads
- 13:42met. And here's the thing you
- 13:43probably associate with this area tell Megiddo was one of the
- 13:47most fought over spots in history.
- 13:49So much so that thirty of the most famous battles actually
- 13:53happened at its gates. In the Bible, King Solomon
- 13:56turned it into a high tech chariot city building massive
- 13:59walls, and a famous 6 chambered gate to protect its army's
- 14:03horses. It's also no secret that because
- 14:05so many kingdoms rose and fell there, the Bible uses its name
- 14:09Armageddon, which just means Mount of Megiddo, and states
- 14:13that there will be one final world end ending battle between
- 14:17good and evil where all the nations of the world will March
- 14:20to Armageddon to make war against Christ.
- 14:23So infamous is this place that that great warrior Napoleon
- 14:26Bonaparte once said about Armageddon.
- 14:28There is no place in the whole world more suited for war than
- 14:32this, the most natural battleground of the whole earth.
- 14:36We need to journey over to the city of Samaria, which was built
- 14:39on a steep hill like a giant stone fortress.
- 14:42The king of Israel at the time, Jehoram, walked along the top of
- 14:46the massive city walls to lookout over his people, and
- 14:49when he heard how much they were struggling, doing unthinkable
- 14:53things to survive, he tore his royal robes in grief, revealing
- 14:57that he was wearing a rough sackcloth underneath.
- 15:00To show his deep sadness, the prophet Elijah famously stepped
- 15:04in and predicted a miracle. He promised that by the very
- 15:07next day, the gates would be overflowing with affordable
- 15:10food. Just as he said.
- 15:12A small group of outcasts sitting outside the city gates
- 15:15discovered that the enemy army had vanished in the middle of
- 15:18the night, leaving all of their food and gold behind.
- 15:22Despite its incredible strength, the city eventually faced a
- 15:25final challenge in 722 BC when the powerful Assyrian Empire
- 15:30showed up. The walls were so thick that it
- 15:33took the Assyrians nearly three years of constant fighting to
- 15:36finally breakthrough and conquer the capital.
- 15:39Today archaeologists have dug up these very ruins and found that
- 15:42the walls were built with case mates designs.
- 15:46This basically means there was 2 giant parallel walls with rooms
- 15:49inside them making the defences nearly 30 feet wide.
- 15:53Now this is a little wild but you know the phrase ivory
- 15:56towers? It actually originated first
- 15:59from here in the Bible. The scripture talks about kings
- 16:02living in luxury in these ivory towers.
- 16:05In one Kings 22 and Amos 3. In these verses, it describes
- 16:09palaces that were decorated with ivory, standing safely behind
- 16:12massive city walls. And here these rich kings hid
- 16:16themselves away from all the concerns of the world.
- 16:19But gods brought these ivory towers down.
- 16:22And check this out, because historians have found stunning
- 16:25ivory carveries near the palace ruins in Samaria, backing this
- 16:29account up even more. OK, so we've just cruised across
- 16:32the world, and now we have arrived in Babylon, the city of
- 16:36legends. And its walls were so enormous
- 16:39and so stunning that early historians have included them
- 16:42alongside the Hanging Gardens to make them one of the Seven
- 16:46Wonders of the ancient World. King Nebuchadnezzar the Second
- 16:49designed these defences to be invincible, meaning they were
- 16:53almost impossible to breakthrough.
- 16:55The fact is this, he built 2 sets of massive walls around the
- 16:59city, with the outer one being so wide that 24 horse Chariots
- 17:03could safely pass each other on the top.
- 17:06But perhaps the most vibrant parts of the whole of Babylon
- 17:10was the Ishtar Gates, a giant entrance covered in bright blue
- 17:14glazed bricks and deca operated with golden carvings of Dragons
- 17:18and bulls. Did you know that today we can
- 17:21still see this gate because it was moved and rebuilt in the
- 17:24Pergamum Museum in Berlin? And between you and me, this is
- 17:27also the location where I know some of you claim is the
- 17:30location of Satan's throne today.
- 17:33But you also know that I offered you a completely different
- 17:36location to where I think it is in this video here.
- 17:40But I can assure you of one thing though.
- 17:42Archaeologists have spent years studying these ruins, and in
- 17:452020, six They are using a cool new science called
- 17:48archaeomagnetism. Why are they doing this?
- 17:51Well, they just want to learn more.
- 17:52And so by measuring magnetic signatures inside the ancient
- 17:55mug bricks, scientists proved that the Ishtar Gate was built
- 17:59in one big continuous project around 583 BC, right during the
- 18:05time of what the Bible states was the time of Nebuchadnezzar.
- 18:09This tells us that the walls weren't just a defence, they
- 18:13were a massive billboard meant to proudly show the world how
- 18:17powerful and how wealthy the Babylonian Empire had become
- 18:20after they conquered all the other lands.
- 18:23But hey now, the most famous story about these Babylonian
- 18:27walls involves King Belshazzar. He was ruling the city while an
- 18:31enemy army was waiting right outside the gates.
- 18:35Belshazzar felt so safe behind his 300 foot tall walls that he
- 18:40decided to throw a massive party for 1000 of his friends, even
- 18:44using sacred gold cups taken from the temple in Jerusalem to
- 18:48mock God. Suddenly, the fingers of a human
- 18:52hand appeared and began writing mysterious words on the palace
- 18:57wall. Terrified, King Belshazzar
- 18:59called for the wise man, the man of God Daniel, who explained
- 19:03that the Lord had sent the king a message that his days were
- 19:06numbered and his Kingdom was over.
- 19:09That very night, the enemy snuck into the city by drying up the
- 19:13river that flowed under the palace walls, and the invincible
- 19:16city of Babylon fell just as the writing on the wall had
- 19:20predicted. Sweep over to the city of
- 19:22Damascus with me because this intersection of ancient history
- 19:26and biblical narrative is etched directly into the city.
- 19:30Stone defences. During the 1st century, Damascus
- 19:33was a heavily fortified Roman city, protected by massive
- 19:37limestone walls and seven distinct.
- 19:39It was here that the apostle Paul, formerly known as Saul of
- 19:43Tarsus, would arrive with the intent to arrest Christians.
- 19:47And yet something even bigger was going to happen.
- 19:50Paul faced A radical transformation when he met the
- 19:54risen Lord Jesus Christ on the road of Damascus.
- 19:57According to the biblical accounts in Acts 9 and 2nd
- 19:59Corinthians 11, Paul's bold preaching in the synagogues
- 20:03eventually led to a death plot by the local authorities and the
- 20:06governor under King Ariatus the 4th with the.
- 20:09City gate under 24 hour guard. Paul's followers orchestrated a
- 20:14daring nighttime escape. They lowered him in a large
- 20:17basket through an opening in the city wall.
- 20:19And as humbling as this moment was, it was successful.
- 20:22He bypassed the guards and he saved his life.
- 20:25And it's also worth noting that the escape site, the traditional
- 20:28location of this escape is Bab Kisan, the Kisan Gate on the
- 20:32southeastern side of the city. Now, whilst the current archway
- 20:37dates to a later 14th century rebuild building, its base
- 20:40contains original Roman blocks from Paul's era.
- 20:44And today the ancient Chapel of Saint Paul is built directly
- 20:48into this ancient gateway as a monument to remember this
- 20:51events. Guys, we're just about to trail
- 20:54off our earthly map and cross uncharted territory because in
- 20:57the final chapters of the Book of Revelation, the New Jerusalem
- 21:01is depicted as breathtaking as a city bride descending from
- 21:06heaven, enclosed by a massive wall of Christmas still clear
- 21:10Jasper that symbolizes eternal security and divine perfection.
- 21:15This wall sits upon 12 foundations, each adorned with
- 21:18different precious jewels ranging from sapphire to
- 21:21emerald, and inscribed are the names of the 12 apostles.
- 21:26The city itself is a perfect cube measuring approximately
- 21:291400 miles in length, width and height, a shape that mirrors the
- 21:34Holy of Holies to signify that the entire city is God, its
- 21:39direct dwelling place. Access is granted through 12
- 21:43gates, each fashioned from a single giant Pearl and inscribed
- 21:47with the names of the 12 tribes of Israel, and then there are
- 21:50three gates positioned on each side of the city to welcome in
- 21:53the nation's. Within these walls there is no
- 21:56need for a temple, sun or moon, as the glory of God provides
- 22:00constant radiant lights and the gates of this city never close
- 22:05because the darkness of night and the threat of enemies have
- 22:08been abolished forever. Now I can hear exactly what
- 22:12you're thinking. Why did you make a video about
- 22:15walls, Joe? Well, when you stop and think
- 22:17about it, walls are everywhere, aren't they?
- 22:20They hold things together. They protect what's valuable.
- 22:22And in the Bible, walls are even described in a spiritual sense.
- 22:26In Isaiah 60 it says, but you will call your walls salvation
- 22:31and your gates praise. And then the Bible also says
- 22:34something else. It says that you and I had a
- 22:36barrier between US and God. In Ephesians 2, it called, was
- 22:39it the dividing wall of hostility, our sins separating
- 22:43us from Him. And yet Jesus came and broke
- 22:46that wall down. The same Christ who walked on
- 22:49the streets of Jerusalem, the same Christ who was taken
- 22:52outside the city walls. And as Hebrew 13 tells us
- 22:55plainly, Jesus suffered outside the gate to sanctify the people
- 22:59through his own blood. And in the ancient world, being
- 23:01outside those walls meant rejection.
- 23:04It meant you're unclean. It meant you were cursed.
- 23:07And yet the innocent one became cursed for you and I.
- 23:11He bore in his body my wrongdoing and your wrongdoing.
- 23:15All of our sins were laid on Him, and he paid the ultimate
- 23:18price so that you and I can be forgiven, and so that our debt
- 23:21of sin can be ripped up. But you want to hear something
- 23:24else? That's pretty crazy.
- 23:26It looked like at one point that hope itself had been walled in.
- 23:30Christ was sealed in a tomb, guarded, locked behind stone.
- 23:34But even death could not hold him down, as the Angel declared.
- 23:38He is not here, He is risen. But to be honest with you, the
- 23:41Bible verse that I most think about when I think about walls
- 23:44in the Bible is Proverbs 25 verse 28.
- 23:48It says a person without self-control is like a city
- 23:52broken into and left without walls.
- 23:55Without walls, a city has no protection.
- 23:58Everything is up for grabs. And maybe that's you.
- 24:01No power over sin, no peace, always being overrun.
- 24:05But here's the invitation. Come to Jesus Christ right now.
- 24:09Turn from your sin. Because when you receive him, He
- 24:12not only forgives you, but his spirit comes and lives inside of
- 24:15you, producing what Galatians 5 calls the fruits of the spirits.
- 24:19And one of them is self-control. He becomes your salvation, your
- 24:24protection, your new life. He was crucified outside the
- 24:28city so that you could be brought in, forgiven, saved,
- 24:32changed, and given a hope beyond the grave.
- 24:34I mean, let's go back to the most beautiful city ever, the
- 24:37New Jerusalem. And let me ask you the
- 24:39$1,000,000 question. And it's this Will you see this
- 24:43city when you leave earth? Will you see the New Jerusalem
- 24:46because you've trusted in the King who will rule it, Christ
- 24:49Jesus? Or on the other hand, will you
- 24:52see another set of walls, the walls of outer darkness, because
- 24:56you've rejected Him and the life that He offers to all those who
- 25:00receive Him? Oh, I plead with you, come to
- 25:03the Lord Jesus Christ and let Him war you around in His
- 25:06forgiveness, His love, and His safety.
- 25:08I am going to choose my words very carefully because I don't
- 25:11want to finish this video on a negative note.
- 25:14But the reality is there is another type of wall that we
- 25:17haven't discussed one bit, and it's the walls of deception.
- 25:21If you want to protect yourself from Satan's deception and you
- 25:25do want to find out where is the location of Satan's throne on
- 25:28Earth, you better check out this video right away.