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Erick Stakelbeck: August 28, 2025 | Stakelbeck Tonight

August 28, 2025 | S25 E828 | 24:5

Erick Stakelbeck: August 28, 2025 | Stakelbeck Tonight
From wars and rumors of war abroad, to the rise of anti-Christian, "woke" ideology here at home, it’s clear that Americans are living in perilous and unprecedented times. Some would even say that we’re witnessing biblical prophecy unfold in real time. Stakelbeck Tonight will make sense of these stunning developments through a bold and biblical lens.
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  • Coming up on stakelbeck tonight there is jerusalem.
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  • And then there is hebron.
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  • It's one of the most
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  • Important places in the bible where king david began
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  • His historic reign and were the patriarchs.
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  • Abraham, isaac and jacob are all buried along with their wives.
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  • The matriarchs sarah, rebecca, and leah.
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  • We are about to go inside this ancient biblical city
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  • To learn why it is so important to israel's history
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  • And its future.
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  • It's part one of a special two part series from the ancient
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  • Biblical city of hebron, and it all starts now.
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  • Welcome to stakelbeck tonight, i'm erick stakelbeck,
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  • And among the jewish people, only jerusalem
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  • Is considered more holy than the city of hebron.
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  • The bible describes how some 3800 years ago,
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  • Abraham purchased the cave of mock pella
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  • In hebron, where he, isaac, jacob, and their wives
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  • Rebecca, sarah and leah are still buried today.
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  • Not only that,
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  • Before king
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  • David ruled the kingdom of israel from jerusalem,
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  • He ruled for 12 years from hebron.
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  • You can see why
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  • This city has such deep meaning for the people of israel,
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  • And for all christians who believe the bible.
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  • Now there is still a small jewish population in hebron,
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  • Living in the midst of over 200,000 palestinians.
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  • As a result, the city has also become
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  • A political flashpoint, and tensions there run high.
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  • But the jewish residents there are committed to staying
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  • The course
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  • In the very same place where their forefathers
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  • And mothers dwelt nearly 4000 years ago.
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  • Let's head now to the biblical heartland of judea
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  • With our good friend yishai fleisher in hebron.
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  • Erick.
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  • All right. we're in hebron. okay.
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  • This is the original hebron.
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  • Hebron is a big city today.
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  • Hebron has been populated for 4500 years.
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  • And we see this all this archeology.
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  • And you see these pillars around us.
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  • These pillars are actually holding up
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  • A building, one of our tall buildings.
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  • Now, there are really two important layers of archeology.
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  • One is from 2900 years ago, 2900 years ago.
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  • This is the davidic. period, right? davidic period?
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  • That's right.
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  • It's actually specifically the hezekiah period,
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  • Which is in the davidic dynasty, right.
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  • The judean kingdom, it's one it's united still.
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  • It's under king david.
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  • Hezekiah. he's one of the good kings, okay.
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  • And and he rules from jerusalem.
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  • But he's got four important cities, one of which is hebron.
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  • Hebron is one of the central cities.
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  • And we found five seals.
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  • Now the seals say lamoille
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  • Seven, which is in the english to the king hebron.
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  • So that's proof positive.
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  • The other proof positive is these columns.
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  • You see these columns here.
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  • These columns are actually what's called,
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  • Hezekiah house.
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  • Okay. it's a period house.
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  • The type of structure that the israelites used
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  • In that time, 2900 years ago.
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  • It held it up
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  • And it kind of has like four different rooms
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  • In the central courtyard.
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  • So this is we know for sure
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  • That this is from the hezekiah period. like this.
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  • Was. yeah, this was an essential part of the ancient kingdom.
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  • That's right. 20, 900 years ago.
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  • And those seals were written in, in hebrew.
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  • Right.
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  • Not aramaic, not akkadian, not arabic.
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  • Just in the language that we use
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  • Today has the same exact words.
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  • We we had a child understands it and israeli child understands
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  • The words.
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  • Now, this place is important
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  • Because 2900 years ago, the davidic kingdom was here.
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  • But even before that, 3800 years ago,
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  • 3800 years ago, abraham was here.
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  • He was in hebron.
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  • Now this is recorded in chapter 23 of the book of genesis.
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  • It's really spelled out in great detail.
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  • The bible, sometimes laconic like, keeps it short.
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  • Now, when it comes to the purchase of the first property
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  • Of the jewish people in the land of israel in hebron
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  • By abraham, it's a whole discussion
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  • That he has with the hittites and abraham's wife
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  • Sarah passes away.
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  • He loves his wife, sarah.
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  • He honors her.
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  • Now, back then, that wasn't a simple thing.
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  • You know, women didn't have the status they have today.
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  • But sarah did. she was a princess.
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  • That's her name.
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  • Sarah means a princess, a princess amongst nations.
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  • And he decides to bury her.
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  • But he also decides to use that burial
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  • As an opportunity to do something
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  • That he's always wanted to do, to fulfill
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  • That promise of holding on to the land of israel.
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  • So if you go back to the bible and check out the negotiation
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  • Between abraham and the hittites,
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  • You'll see that god's name is not mentioned there.
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  • It's like a whole negotiation, a lot of a lot of verses.
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  • There's no god. he doesn't say, god promised me.
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  • And i remember god's promise. none of that.
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  • It's business.
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  • I want this property.
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  • I want to pay for it.
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  • Now, ephron says, hey, you're a very important person.
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  • Let me give it to you for free as a gift.
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  • And now i'm.
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  • I'm an honorable person. i gifted to you.
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  • But abraham bowed to him low, and he says,
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  • Thank you so much, but i'd like to purchase it for full price.
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  • So then ephron says, okay, 400 silver.
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  • Wait, what is that between me and you?
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  • It's nothing.
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  • We think it's worth about $800,000 today.
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  • Wow. okay.
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  • We're talking about a large sum of money.
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  • Abraham was a prosperous man. he was a prosperous man.
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  • That's right.
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  • Now, this is an important thing for us here.
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  • 400 silver. wait.
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  • Shekel.
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  • That's, by the way, the currency in israel today.
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  • Shekel.
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  • But it comes from the word mystical, which is weight.
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  • Which is weight. silver weight.
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  • There was no coinage 3800 years ago.
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  • It was before coins.
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  • You wait it out,
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  • You can see in the picture,
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  • You can see that abraham's handing over,
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  • 400 silver weights.
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  • And then you see that difference.
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  • Handing over a contract. there was no contract.
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  • We added that into to help people understand
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  • What really transpired.
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  • But i want to tell you that, about four years ago,
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  • The israeli minister of justice,
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  • A female minister of justice, a yellow card.
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  • She was in this town,
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  • And she pointed to the tomb of the four fathers and mothers.
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  • And she said, we have a binding legal document
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  • That shows that we purchased this property.
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  • It is law, israeli law.
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  • This is our land because it says so in the bible.
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  • That was a great moment.
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  • Well, you're
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  • Describing a shai is basically the first jewish city.
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  • That's right. that's what hebron is. that's a world history.
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  • That's right. it is the first jewish purchase.
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  • It's the first year city.
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  • It's later on the first place where king
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  • David is going to be king of israel.
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  • So it really starts
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  • The whole process of the jewish people and remains
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  • A very important jewish city until really modern times.
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  • Until 1929 and the massacre that destroyed the jewish
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  • Community here.
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  • But in any case, hebron to this very day,
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  • Has a very central role.
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  • To the jewish people,
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  • All you have to do is open the bible
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  • And you'll find so many references to it.
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  • So many things
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  • Happened, including, by the way, when all the tribes of israel
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  • Gathered and crowned king david, king of all of israel.
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  • So that happened here.
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  • Okay, erick, lots more to see. so let's get going.
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  • I want to show you the views. i want to show you the news.
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  • I want to show you.
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  • Biblical times, modern times and the great story of hebron.
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  • So let's go, let's go. lead the way, my friend.
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  • Coming up after the break, a closer
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  • Look at how the legacy
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  • Of our forefather abraham continues to thrive
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  • At hebron, even amid today's political tensions.
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  • Plus how king herod left his stamp on the city.
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  • Stay tuned.
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  • Stay tuned.
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  • Erick, i've been waiting
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  • For a long time to bring you to this spot.
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  • Yes, really?
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  • I really have. talked about this for a few years now.
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  • And finally. here, look at this view, yeshua. it's amazing.
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  • So here's hebron, okay?
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  • Actually, you're seeing a small part of hebron,
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  • But you're seeing the most important part of hebron.
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  • What makes hebron?
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  • Hebron is the tomb of the four fathers and mothers.
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  • And remember, i told you that the deal between abraham
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  • And the hittites
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  • Was signed on the hilltop on the mountain of hebron.
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  • Tell hebron.
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  • Okay, but that's not where the tomb
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  • Of the forefathers and mothers was.
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  • That's not where that piece of property was.
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  • It was in the field on the edge of the field.
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  • That's how the bible describes it.
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  • Chapter 23, the edge of the field.
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  • So now look out there and see a flat plane.
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  • Yeah.
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  • Do you see a flat plane as it starts to move up
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  • Towards the mountains?
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  • That's the edge of the field,
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  • Right in the edge of the field there.
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  • There's this huge structure, okay.
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  • And that is the herodium structure,
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  • The tomb of the four fathers and mothers atop of the caves
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  • And the fields that abraham bought from
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  • And from the hittite. there it. is.
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  • And we're going there shortly, by the way.
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  • But the significance of mark pillar. right.
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  • So that's a weird word. what does that mean?
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  • Yeah, that's a that means the double cave. yes.
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  • It was a cave there, a cave complex.
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  • And that's
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  • Where abraham bought the the tomb for his wife sarah.
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  • Later on,
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  • This herodium building is going to be built on top of that.
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  • And later on, everybody's going to move towards it.
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  • So look at these two cities. the mother. right.
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  • We'll talk about that.
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  • That's a treat for everyone coming up.
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  • And when you say herodian, yishai,
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  • Just so people know, you're talking about king herod.
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  • King herod, we're talking second temple.
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  • Yeah, it's like a roman period.
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  • We're talking about a guy who, on the one hand, killed
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  • A lot of rabbis,
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  • Killed some of his kids,
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  • Killed his wife and put her in honey
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  • And talked to her for three years.
  • 00:10:12.767 --> 00:10:14.135
  • So he had some issues. yeah, okay.
  • 00:10:14.135 --> 00:10:16.371
  • But on the other hand.
  • 00:10:16.371 --> 00:10:17.138
  • But he built masada.
  • 00:10:17.138 --> 00:10:18.440
  • I mean, the second temple and this structure 2000 years old.
  • 00:10:18.440 --> 00:10:21.876
  • You know what else he did?
  • 00:10:21.876 --> 00:10:22.944
  • He held on to a jewish sovereignty in roman times.
  • 00:10:22.944 --> 00:10:25.747
  • Today, thinkers and archeologists
  • 00:10:25.747 --> 00:10:27.949
  • Are starting to see herod differently
  • 00:10:27.949 --> 00:10:29.451
  • As a kind of genius, a political genius, mad,
  • 00:10:29.451 --> 00:10:31.920
  • But also political genius.
  • 00:10:31.920 --> 00:10:33.221
  • And he was able to keep this place jewish,
  • 00:10:33.221 --> 00:10:35.390
  • Even though rome was all around here,
  • 00:10:35.390 --> 00:10:36.925
  • And he himself was a half roman, half jewish person.
  • 00:10:36.925 --> 00:10:39.627
  • He built the beautiful temple, rebuilt
  • 00:10:39.627 --> 00:10:41.229
  • The beautiful temple in jerusalem.
  • 00:10:41.229 --> 00:10:42.797
  • But his first big project was this.
  • 00:10:42.797 --> 00:10:44.966
  • Yeah. okay.
  • 00:10:44.966 --> 00:10:45.967
  • To show the jews i too care about our family.
  • 00:10:45.967 --> 00:10:49.571
  • Our founders. okay.
  • 00:10:49.571 --> 00:10:50.972
  • I want to give honor to the forefathers and mothers.
  • 00:10:50.972 --> 00:10:53.608
  • So that's abraham and sarah,
  • 00:10:53.608 --> 00:10:55.043
  • Isaac and rebecca, jacob and leah.
  • 00:10:55.043 --> 00:10:57.178
  • They're all buried in this one spot.
  • 00:10:57.178 --> 00:10:58.646
  • Let me honor it with a mausoleum that was part roman and part
  • 00:10:58.646 --> 00:11:03.318
  • Jewish, a little bit like the tabernacle
  • 00:11:03.318 --> 00:11:05.620
  • And shiloh and shiloh,
  • 00:11:05.620 --> 00:11:07.021
  • But also like like some of the mausoleums
  • 00:11:07.021 --> 00:11:09.457
  • That you see in the roman world.
  • 00:11:09.457 --> 00:11:11.059
  • So it's an amazing structure. and you know what else, erick?
  • 00:11:11.059 --> 00:11:13.728
  • It never got destroyed.
  • 00:11:13.728 --> 00:11:14.763
  • There it is. it's full today.
  • 00:11:14.763 --> 00:11:16.131
  • The only thing is got some add ons, got some christian add ons,
  • 00:11:16.131 --> 00:11:18.833
  • It's got some muslim add ons.
  • 00:11:18.833 --> 00:11:20.368
  • But the original structure is completely intact.
  • 00:11:20.368 --> 00:11:23.304
  • Something mystical about that.
  • 00:11:23.304 --> 00:11:24.773
  • How come a god never, never got destroyed?
  • 00:11:24.773 --> 00:11:26.541
  • Why is it standing so?
  • 00:11:26.541 --> 00:11:28.042
  • Maybe it says something
  • 00:11:28.042 --> 00:11:29.310
  • About the roots of the jewish people,
  • 00:11:29.310 --> 00:11:30.645
  • The roots of the founders of the bible.
  • 00:11:30.645 --> 00:11:32.614
  • It says that nothing can really uproot them.
  • 00:11:32.614 --> 00:11:34.716
  • Speaking of that, by the way, look at the trees around us.
  • 00:11:34.716 --> 00:11:37.185
  • Yeah, we got some thousand year old trees.
  • 00:11:37.185 --> 00:11:39.220
  • They're gorgeous. they're huge.
  • 00:11:39.220 --> 00:11:41.122
  • They got a story to tell if you just.
  • 00:11:41.122 --> 00:11:42.657
  • If you just listen.
  • 00:11:42.657 --> 00:11:43.525
  • Yeah.
  • 00:11:43.525 --> 00:11:44.559
  • And look, the jewish people are back in hebron.
  • 00:11:44.559 --> 00:11:46.427
  • I think that's a great point too.
  • 00:11:46.427 --> 00:11:47.962
  • With this overlook.
  • 00:11:47.962 --> 00:11:49.197
  • Yishai, give us a breakdown of the population here, okay?
  • 00:11:49.197 --> 00:11:52.567
  • This is mostly
  • 00:11:52.567 --> 00:11:53.701
  • An arab area here, obviously, that we're looking at
  • 00:11:53.701 --> 00:11:55.603
  • How many jews live here in hebron?
  • 00:11:55.603 --> 00:11:57.172
  • How many arabs live here?
  • 00:11:57.172 --> 00:11:58.139
  • What's the situation there? right.
  • 00:11:58.139 --> 00:11:59.541
  • So there's about 1000 jews live in the town
  • 00:11:59.541 --> 00:12:02.610
  • Of the city of hebron.
  • 00:12:02.610 --> 00:12:03.978
  • The hebron is today controlled mostly
  • 00:12:03.978 --> 00:12:06.247
  • By the palestinian authority.
  • 00:12:06.247 --> 00:12:07.782
  • There's about 200,000 arabs that live in this town.
  • 00:12:07.782 --> 00:12:11.719
  • But the jewish people, they live under a different sovereignty,
  • 00:12:11.719 --> 00:12:14.022
  • Which is really the sovereignty of the state of israel,
  • 00:12:14.022 --> 00:12:15.890
  • More correctly, under the army of israel.
  • 00:12:15.890 --> 00:12:17.892
  • Okay, so it's a defended minority,
  • 00:12:17.892 --> 00:12:20.061
  • But we live close to the tomb of the four fathers
  • 00:12:20.061 --> 00:12:22.297
  • And mothers in a few other neighborhoods.
  • 00:12:22.297 --> 00:12:23.898
  • 1000 jews living here.
  • 00:12:23.898 --> 00:12:26.134
  • And these are people who are true, i mean, bible believers
  • 00:12:26.134 --> 00:12:30.071
  • In the heritage of the jewish people and the history here.
  • 00:12:30.071 --> 00:12:33.041
  • If it wasn't for the bible, we couldn't be here.
  • 00:12:33.041 --> 00:12:36.044
  • We wouldn't have the connection that we have,
  • 00:12:36.978 --> 00:12:38.313
  • And we wouldn't have the wherewithal
  • 00:12:38.313 --> 00:12:40.715
  • To withstand the constant pressure to not be here,
  • 00:12:40.715 --> 00:12:43.918
  • Including the 1929 riots that killed,
  • 00:12:43.918 --> 00:12:46.788
  • Really destroyed the community here
  • 00:12:46.788 --> 00:12:48.489
  • And the constant attacks that we've the we faced here.
  • 00:12:48.489 --> 00:12:51.326
  • There is a jihadist element that wants us out of this town.
  • 00:12:51.326 --> 00:12:54.495
  • And those jihad elements understand
  • 00:12:54.495 --> 00:12:57.398
  • That this is the roots of the jewish people.
  • 00:12:57.398 --> 00:12:58.900
  • If you if you uproot us from our root, we'll probably,
  • 00:12:58.900 --> 00:13:02.437
  • Not be in the rest of the state of israel at all
  • 00:13:02.437 --> 00:13:04.405
  • Because we won't have the wherewithal to withstand it.
  • 00:13:04.405 --> 00:13:06.741
  • Erick, look around the tomb of the four fathers and mothers.
  • 00:13:06.741 --> 00:13:09.410
  • You'll see a lot of old structures. yes.
  • 00:13:09.410 --> 00:13:11.479
  • You see that?
  • 00:13:11.479 --> 00:13:12.647
  • That was a kind of renaissance that happened in the 1500s
  • 00:13:12.647 --> 00:13:15.516
  • As jewish people moved here,
  • 00:13:15.516 --> 00:13:17.285
  • And so were other people's arabs,
  • 00:13:17.285 --> 00:13:18.920
  • And they built this, like town all around it.
  • 00:13:18.920 --> 00:13:21.956
  • And it's still these are 500 year old homes, some of them.
  • 00:13:21.956 --> 00:13:25.326
  • One day this place is going to be the ultimate artist colony.
  • 00:13:25.326 --> 00:13:28.096
  • It's going to be incredible.
  • 00:13:28.096 --> 00:13:29.397
  • There's there's these domes and these alleyways and arches
  • 00:13:29.397 --> 00:13:32.901
  • And it's something beautiful
  • 00:13:32.901 --> 00:13:34.269
  • And all that is going to be something that honors
  • 00:13:34.269 --> 00:13:36.704
  • The tomb of the four fathers and mothers.
  • 00:13:36.704 --> 00:13:38.139
  • You know, we have a region here of arabs and muslims.
  • 00:13:38.139 --> 00:13:41.042
  • They respect abraham.
  • 00:13:41.042 --> 00:13:42.877
  • They see them. they see him as their forefathers.
  • 00:13:42.877 --> 00:13:44.946
  • We have christians here.
  • 00:13:44.946 --> 00:13:46.180
  • We have a church not so very far away.
  • 00:13:46.180 --> 00:13:48.049
  • People understand this is the founding,
  • 00:13:48.049 --> 00:13:49.918
  • The founding of, of the abrahamic way.
  • 00:13:49.918 --> 00:13:52.754
  • There's so much more to see here.
  • 00:13:52.754 --> 00:13:53.955
  • I know everyone wants to see where abraham, isaac, jacob,
  • 00:13:53.955 --> 00:13:57.625
  • Rebecca, sarah and leah are buried.
  • 00:13:57.625 --> 00:14:00.061
  • Hard to believe we're going to get up close.
  • 00:14:00.061 --> 00:14:01.629
  • Look at that, folks.
  • 00:14:01.629 --> 00:14:02.563
  • But there is more to see here
  • 00:14:02.563 --> 00:14:04.098
  • In hebron even before that, right?
  • 00:14:04.098 --> 00:14:05.500
  • That's right.
  • 00:14:05.500 --> 00:14:06.534
  • Let's go to the tomb of ruth and jesse yishai.
  • 00:14:06.534 --> 00:14:09.304
  • Well, the biblical history of hebron just never ends.
  • 00:14:09.304 --> 00:14:11.506
  • Yishai lead the way.
  • 00:14:11.506 --> 00:14:14.075
  • Up next, we'll go inside the tomb of jacob
  • 00:14:14.943 --> 00:14:17.512
  • And leah, where king david wrote the psalms.
  • 00:14:17.512 --> 00:14:20.815
  • Don█t move.
  • 00:14:20.815 --> 00:14:27.998
  • Don█t move.
  • 00:14:27.998 --> 00:14:53.205
  • Wow! yishai, amazing.
  • 00:14:53.706 --> 00:14:56.208
  • It's a hidden gem.
  • 00:14:56.208 --> 00:14:57.042
  • Yes, it is a hidden gem.
  • 00:14:57.042 --> 00:14:58.510
  • Something that's so important in the bible.
  • 00:14:58.510 --> 00:15:00.779
  • First thing, david, a lot of times.
  • 00:15:00.779 --> 00:15:02.481
  • What is he called?
  • 00:15:02.481 --> 00:15:03.449
  • Son of jesse? that's right. son of jesse.
  • 00:15:03.449 --> 00:15:05.718
  • Then he say, right.
  • 00:15:05.718 --> 00:15:07.186
  • And this is the original east. he's buried here.
  • 00:15:07.186 --> 00:15:10.155
  • As i said before, like king david's father, he's with him.
  • 00:15:10.155 --> 00:15:12.791
  • You know what i mean? he's with him. he's.
  • 00:15:12.791 --> 00:15:14.360
  • He's like living his last years with him.
  • 00:15:14.360 --> 00:15:16.061
  • And he's buried here with that. jesse. there's no david.
  • 00:15:16.061 --> 00:15:18.597
  • It's not a very dynasty.
  • 00:15:18.597 --> 00:15:19.698
  • Now, jesse is a bethlehem, right?
  • 00:15:19.698 --> 00:15:21.800
  • We have a central mountain range in israel.
  • 00:15:21.800 --> 00:15:24.069
  • Right.
  • 00:15:24.069 --> 00:15:24.703
  • Which is really the judean
  • 00:15:24.703 --> 00:15:25.637
  • Mountains today we call judea and samaria.
  • 00:15:25.637 --> 00:15:27.506
  • The heart of it is jerusalem.
  • 00:15:27.506 --> 00:15:29.308
  • To the south of it, maybe 15km is bethlehem.
  • 00:15:29.308 --> 00:15:33.078
  • And then
  • 00:15:33.345 --> 00:15:34.179
  • Another about 20km south is hebron.
  • 00:15:34.179 --> 00:15:37.149
  • So kilometers in miles. oh, yeah.
  • 00:15:37.149 --> 00:15:40.285
  • That's right.
  • 00:15:40.285 --> 00:15:40.919
  • Well, let's put it this way.
  • 00:15:40.919 --> 00:15:42.354
  • It's an hour's drive straight down from jerusalem to hebron.
  • 00:15:42.354 --> 00:15:45.758
  • It was easy getting here. we came down from jerusalem.
  • 00:15:45.758 --> 00:15:47.726
  • Right. well, you know what, erick?
  • 00:15:47.726 --> 00:15:49.028
  • I want to tell you. there's a central highway.
  • 00:15:49.028 --> 00:15:50.262
  • It's called route 60.
  • 00:15:50.262 --> 00:15:51.764
  • But i'm working on a law now in the knesset, in our
  • 00:15:51.764 --> 00:15:54.133
  • Government, to change the name to the israel biblical highway,
  • 00:15:54.133 --> 00:15:57.970
  • Israel biblical highway,
  • 00:15:57.970 --> 00:15:58.871
  • Because it's got the seven holy cities.
  • 00:15:58.871 --> 00:16:00.572
  • It's got be'er sheva or beersheba, right?
  • 00:16:00.572 --> 00:16:02.674
  • It's got hebron, it's got bethlehem.
  • 00:16:02.674 --> 00:16:05.010
  • And then the middle, of course, jerusalem,
  • 00:16:05.010 --> 00:16:06.745
  • And then bethel, shiloh, shechem, seven cities, basically
  • 00:16:06.745 --> 00:16:11.850
  • 80% of the bible took place in these cities, right?
  • 00:16:11.850 --> 00:16:13.986
  • And right now we're in the we're in the place that is like
  • 00:16:13.986 --> 00:16:16.422
  • The foundation of it all. okay. the foundation happened been.
  • 00:16:16.422 --> 00:16:19.058
  • The very first jewish city in recorded history.
  • 00:16:19.058 --> 00:16:21.894
  • And abraham's first city, abraham abraham's city.
  • 00:16:21.894 --> 00:16:23.929
  • He owns the place to this day.
  • 00:16:23.929 --> 00:16:26.098
  • So i had i had a guy ask me, he's.
  • 00:16:26.098 --> 00:16:27.666
  • Binding legal document. that's right.
  • 00:16:27.666 --> 00:16:29.234
  • You explained earlier.
  • 00:16:29.234 --> 00:16:30.035
  • That's right.
  • 00:16:30.035 --> 00:16:30.736
  • Somebody said to me, he's like,
  • 00:16:30.736 --> 00:16:31.904
  • Well, who really owns this property? i'm like, abraham.
  • 00:16:31.904 --> 00:16:33.172
  • Yeah. he's like, no, no, come on. really?
  • 00:16:33.172 --> 00:16:35.074
  • I'm like, no, abraham.
  • 00:16:35.074 --> 00:16:36.809
  • He purchased this place.
  • 00:16:36.809 --> 00:16:37.810
  • Okay.
  • 00:16:37.810 --> 00:16:38.544
  • So king david was king.
  • 00:16:38.544 --> 00:16:40.646
  • The tomb was below us.
  • 00:16:40.646 --> 00:16:42.314
  • Okay.
  • 00:16:42.314 --> 00:16:43.215
  • The tomb of the patriarchs and matriarchs
  • 00:16:43.215 --> 00:16:44.149
  • That for fathers and mothers is below us.
  • 00:16:44.149 --> 00:16:45.551
  • But this is where he had his kingdom.
  • 00:16:45.551 --> 00:16:47.052
  • Okay.
  • 00:16:47.052 --> 00:16:47.920
  • Later on, about a thousand years ago,
  • 00:16:47.920 --> 00:16:48.654
  • The crusaders came to town.
  • 00:16:48.654 --> 00:16:50.289
  • The bible was very important to them.
  • 00:16:50.289 --> 00:16:51.723
  • That's why they were here.
  • 00:16:51.723 --> 00:16:52.858
  • And hebron was important to them,
  • 00:16:52.858 --> 00:16:54.460
  • Because in part, they believed that there was
  • 00:16:54.460 --> 00:16:56.495
  • Religious significance to the place where abraham
  • 00:16:56.495 --> 00:16:59.531
  • Got his message that he would have a son, isaac.
  • 00:16:59.531 --> 00:17:03.102
  • Okay. it's important in christian theology as well.
  • 00:17:03.102 --> 00:17:05.437
  • In jewish theology, this is where the angels came
  • 00:17:05.437 --> 00:17:07.606
  • And told them
  • 00:17:07.606 --> 00:17:08.440
  • There's going to be jewish continuity,
  • 00:17:08.440 --> 00:17:09.741
  • But there's significance in christian theology as well.
  • 00:17:09.741 --> 00:17:12.010
  • And so hebron was very important
  • 00:17:12.010 --> 00:17:13.712
  • Already in the byzantine period.
  • 00:17:13.712 --> 00:17:15.380
  • Okay.
  • 00:17:15.380 --> 00:17:16.315
  • But basically, like many hundreds of years
  • 00:17:16.315 --> 00:17:18.050
  • Later, the crusaders came, let's say
  • 00:17:18.050 --> 00:17:19.751
  • The byzantines was 500 and the crusaders were about 1000.
  • 00:17:19.751 --> 00:17:23.255
  • So about 500 years later, yeah. yeah.
  • 00:17:23.255 --> 00:17:24.823
  • Right.
  • 00:17:24.823 --> 00:17:25.757
  • They came to town and they took control
  • 00:17:25.757 --> 00:17:27.126
  • And they always fortified everything.
  • 00:17:27.126 --> 00:17:28.694
  • And they created this fort where they knew,
  • 00:17:28.694 --> 00:17:31.196
  • This place was they.
  • 00:17:31.196 --> 00:17:32.264
  • Knew the significance. that's right.
  • 00:17:32.264 --> 00:17:34.066
  • Ruth and. jesse.
  • 00:17:34.066 --> 00:17:35.100
  • And for them,
  • 00:17:35.100 --> 00:17:36.368
  • You know, richard the lionheart and that whole thing for them.
  • 00:17:36.368 --> 00:17:38.537
  • David was important for them.
  • 00:17:38.537 --> 00:17:40.439
  • Again, the messianic route was important.
  • 00:17:40.439 --> 00:17:42.407
  • And a great warrior. absolutely right. so.
  • 00:17:42.407 --> 00:17:44.376
  • So the roots of messiah, are really here.
  • 00:17:44.376 --> 00:17:47.980
  • So for any tourists, any person who wants to come
  • 00:17:47.980 --> 00:17:49.948
  • And connect, you know, with their theology,
  • 00:17:49.948 --> 00:17:52.251
  • They care about the messianic vision,
  • 00:17:52.251 --> 00:17:54.119
  • You can't you can't skip over hebron.
  • 00:17:54.119 --> 00:17:55.988
  • You got to come here to the tomb.
  • 00:17:55.988 --> 00:17:57.589
  • What an amazing place as a bible believer.
  • 00:17:57.589 --> 00:17:59.591
  • Abraham, isaac, jacob, king.
  • 00:17:59.591 --> 00:18:01.360
  • David, ruth, jesse, this is amazing.
  • 00:18:01.360 --> 00:18:03.328
  • That's right, that's right. but it's a bit of a hidden gem.
  • 00:18:03.328 --> 00:18:05.497
  • And the reason it's a hidden gem is because it's not so simple.
  • 00:18:05.497 --> 00:18:08.267
  • Okay?
  • 00:18:08.267 --> 00:18:09.334
  • There's a whole palestinian authority around us.
  • 00:18:09.334 --> 00:18:11.036
  • Israel is a place that has conflicts.
  • 00:18:11.036 --> 00:18:13.272
  • And so some people become afraid.
  • 00:18:13.272 --> 00:18:15.140
  • But i always tell people,
  • 00:18:15.140 --> 00:18:16.108
  • If you're afraid, you've been terrorized
  • 00:18:16.108 --> 00:18:18.477
  • Because you've accepted terror into your heart,
  • 00:18:18.477 --> 00:18:20.212
  • Don't be afraid.
  • 00:18:20.212 --> 00:18:21.446
  • There's a bus that comes here every hour from the central
  • 00:18:21.446 --> 00:18:23.815
  • Bus station, jerusalem, thousands of people.
  • 00:18:23.815 --> 00:18:25.617
  • We have actually over a million visitors a year to hebron.
  • 00:18:25.617 --> 00:18:28.520
  • And we'll talk a bit more
  • 00:18:28.520 --> 00:18:29.488
  • About the geopolitical situation in a minute.
  • 00:18:29.488 --> 00:18:31.390
  • But inside is the tomb of jesse and ruth.
  • 00:18:31.390 --> 00:18:34.293
  • Now you have people worshiping here
  • 00:18:34.293 --> 00:18:35.794
  • Studying the torah, kind of around the clock, right.
  • 00:18:35.794 --> 00:18:38.363
  • Let's go inside.
  • 00:18:38.363 --> 00:18:39.531
  • They're going to study their torah, the mystical doctrines.
  • 00:18:39.531 --> 00:18:42.534
  • Okay. the, you know, the hidden torah.
  • 00:18:42.534 --> 00:18:45.304
  • They're going to study that.
  • 00:18:45.304 --> 00:18:46.271
  • We're going to sit by the side, say a psalm,
  • 00:18:46.271 --> 00:18:48.407
  • Remember king david, remember his his issues
  • 00:18:48.407 --> 00:18:50.576
  • And his connection to god, and see if we can get
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  • Just a little piece of that in our own hearts.
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  • We're going to read a psalm in the place
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  • Where some of the psalms
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  • Were actually written by king david himself.
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  • Yishai, please.
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  • Lets do it.
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  • We're inside the tomb itself of, ruth and jesse.
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  • There's a, group of people that study, as i said before,
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  • The mystical torah.
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  • They really study the stuff that's not, like,
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  • Easy to understand on the face of it.
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  • It's like deep, deep.
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  • Can we, for a second
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  • Step out of the stuff that we usually just say,
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  • Talk about messiah,
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  • Like, really feel for a second
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  • That there's going to be a kingdom of god in this world
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  • That's going to be channeled through david seed.
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  • Can we believe that for these? yes. do it. yes.
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  • I think everyone at home can agree with that for sure.
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  • Right. psalm 126.
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  • As we're here at the tomb of jesse and ruth,
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  • And i think what the psalm is really about is
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  • That god is returning us. yes.
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  • And this song. this is prophecy fulfilled.
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  • That's right.
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  • It truly is.
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  • You know, it's prophecy that the nations will be glad
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  • And, that the jewish people are returning.
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  • I think that you, erick,
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  • And this show are fulfilling biblical prophecy
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  • That you are telling us.
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  • Wow, god has done great things with you. yes.
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  • And we are looking back to you.
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  • Just a minute ago, some people stopped you.
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  • The israelis recognized your work
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  • And they said, you're doing great work.
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  • You're really telling the story of god.
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  • Thank you. and so i. think it's an honor.
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  • Well, it is an honor, isn't it?
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  • Yes. work for god. to work for god.
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  • Yes it is.
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  • So, at the time,
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  • With the help of god,
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  • We will not only
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  • Have internal feelings,
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  • But we'll also see the fulfillment
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  • Of this messianic vision in our time.
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  • Yeah, we've got much more to see here in this time today.
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  • Here in hebron. you bet. yeah. let's keep going.
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  • Folks, hebron is such a special place to visit.
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  • When we come back,
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  • I'll share my final thoughts on this ancient city
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  • And why it's so important to you today.
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  • Don't move.
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  • Don't move.
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  • Welcome back to stakelbeck tonight.
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  • What an incredible journey it's been, as we've walked
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  • In the footsteps
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  • Of some of the most iconic figures in the bible.
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  • King david, his father jesse, and of course, ruth and boaz.
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  • In the ancient city of hebron, standing where they once stood.
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  • Seeing the places where history and faith intersect,
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  • It brings the bible to life in a whole new way.
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  • And believe it or not, this was only part one.
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  • Tomorrow night we'll continue our journey
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  • Through hebron
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  • With our good friend yishai fleisher,
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  • As he takes us deep inside one of the holiest sites in all
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  • Of judaism and christianity, the cave of mark pillar.
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  • This is the sacred resting place of the biblical patriarchs
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  • Abraham, isaac, and jacob, as well as the matriarchs
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  • Sarah, rebecca and leah.
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  • You won't want to miss it.
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  • Until then, god bless you.
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  • We'll see you soon.
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