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And

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the Word was with God, and the Word was
God.

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In Him was life, and the life was the
light of man.

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Go ye therefore into all the world,
and preach the gospel.

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Jesus spoke, saying, I am the light of the
world.

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He who follows me shall not walk in
darkness, but have the light of life.

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Taking the light to the nations.

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Light of the Southwest.

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Well, welcome to the Light of the
Southwest.

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Amy, I'm starting to call you Tommy.

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Well, I look like her.

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I sound like her.

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And that is a problem to me.

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When they yell, I don't know which one is
yelling at me.

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What do we got going on here, Amy?

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We have an old friend on the set.

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Finally, he's back.

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Richard Reeves.

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Welcome back to GLC.

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It is such an honor to have you back on
our sets.

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Well, I consider it a great privilege to
be here.

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Actually, you got to say, Richard Reeves,
too long in the sun.

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Well, that's just a little bitty part of
what he does now.

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But it was a big part when we met him in
the last century.

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That's right.

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In fact, you had a program on here for
several years, I believe.

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I think we did about 30 half-hour programs
a long time ago.

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We played them for years and years.

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Yeah, we replayed several times.

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Well, even though you haven't been on the
set, we're still carrying your stuff in

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the bookstore.

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Because it's eye-opening stuff.

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It was the truth back then, and that's not
going to change.

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It will be the truth 100 years from now if
things go on that long.

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So, tell us what you're doing now.

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Well, my original book was Too Long in the
Sun.

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Tell them why you picked that title.

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That is very important.

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It is.

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It's very important.

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Well, I found that everything opposed to
the true worship of the Creator was based

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on sun worship.

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If you go back and check it out and study
what the Old Testament has to tell you,

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they worship Baal.

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And, of course, Baal is just another name
for all the different sun gods.

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And so, everything I found, whether it was
the mother goddess or whatever,

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was still associated with sun worship.

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And so, that's just the title that God
gave me, Too Long in the Sun.

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Because I found out that many of the
things that I had been taught were based

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on traditions.

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And when I learned it, I was shocked to
find it out.

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And I wanted to find out not only what had
happened, but how it could have taken

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place.

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And that's when I started doing my
research.

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Well, how did you discover what the church
has been brought up in, really?

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Well, it's kind of a long story,
but I'm happy to tell my story.

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The first thing I learned about was the
Seventh-day Sabbath.

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You know my son, Murray.

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Murray was born with spina bifida.

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And I was there in the hospital.

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We didn't know he was going to be born
like that.

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And I was in the corporate travel
business.

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We talked a little bit about that.

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And I had airport locations that were open
seven days a week, 24 hours a day.

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And so, I was in the hospital praying,
didn't know what to do.

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And I remember that Jesus, Yeshua,
said, Whatever you ask in my name,

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I'll do it that the Father be glorified.

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But it says, if you abide in me.

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And so, my question was, well,
how do I abide in you?

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And I looked it up.

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It says, you abide in me when you keep my
commandments.

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And so, I said, well, hey, I know where
those are.

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So, I turned to Exodus chapter 20.

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I'd known where they were since I was a
young boy and believed in Jesus.

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And I looked it up, and there was one I
was in blatant violation of.

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And that was the Fourth Commandment,
to remember the Sabbath day.

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There was no way that I was not in
violation of that commandment.

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I was open seven days a week, 24 hours a
day.

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And the commandment says we're supposed to
rest on the Sabbath day.

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And so, one of my offices was at an
airport parking facility, and they

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depended on me to issue the airline
tickets for the customers there.

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So, I called the man that owned the
parking facility, and I told him,

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I said, look, I'm in bad trouble.

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I need God's help, and I can't expect him
to help me if I don't do what he says.

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And so, I said, I've got to be closed on
the Sabbath.

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And so, you know, he thought I was going
crazy.

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And, you know, he didn't like it,
but he said, well, okay.

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And so, I called the manager of that
particular location, and I said,

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look, I'm in bad trouble.

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I need God's help.

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I can't expect him to help me if I don't
do what he says.

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So, we've got to be closed on the Sabbath.

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So, next Sunday, we're going to be closed.

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I thought Sunday was the Sabbath.

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It never was, never will be.

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The seventh day is the Sabbath.

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How did you figure that out?

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Well, you know, I believe that once we're
obedient to do the best we know,

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the Bible says, to him that knoweth to do
good and doeth it not, to him it is sin.

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And I believe that once we do the best we
know how with what we have, then by the

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power of the Holy Spirit, we can learn the
truth.

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And it wasn't very long before I learned
that Sunday was not the Sabbath.

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That's what I'd been led to believe.

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But if you go and check it out in
Scripture, we find out that the seventh

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day, not the first day, is the Sabbath.

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And so, it was a real surprise to me.

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I couldn't believe that I'd been taught
that all my life.

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And so, I wanted to find out how in the
world that could have happened.

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And that's when I went to do the research.

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I never intended to write a book.

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But the more I learned, the more I knew I
had to share it.

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I believe that we've been given a great
privilege to learn these things,

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and now we have a great responsibility to
share them.

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And so, that's the reason I wrote the
first book, Too Long in the Sun.

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And it still applies today.

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You are also doing some things,
I've been watching them, yours and your

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son David's, your videos that you've
posted on worldnetdaily.com.

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We do video commentaries every week on
World Net Daily.

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And if people sign up for my email updates
at toolong.com, T-O-O-L-O-N-G dot com,

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we send out video commentaries every week,
and then along with a written commentary

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that, you know, people don't want to look
at the video.

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And those go out to thousands and
thousands of people all over the world.

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And they're little short two to five
minute clips that talk about some of the

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things that I've learned.

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And we put a lot of good pictures,
you know, a picture tells a thousand

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words, and so we put pictures and video
with it, a lot of on-site video.

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And, you know, we're here for people all
over the world.

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Yesterday, you and I were talking about a
project that you're doing, trying to get

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the word out to people.

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Would you like to share about that?

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I sure would.

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Can I show it to you?

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Absolutely.

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Okay, this is a new DVD that I produced.

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It's called, Hath God Said?

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You know, that's what Satan asked him in
the Garden of Eden.

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He gave him some commandments.

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Did he really say that?

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Did he really say that?

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Hath God said?

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And so that's the reason for my title.

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And in your bookstore, you carry my new
book, entitled, Time is the Ally of

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Deceit.

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And I produced a DVD for each chapter of
the book.

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And you've got that in your bookstore.

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And it has all the documentation.

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It has all the historical references,
you know, where it's proven the thing.

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So it's all the documentation.

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It has an extensive index in the book.

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And like I say, it has about six hours of
video.

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But a lot of people won't sit there and
watch six hours of video.

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So I came up with a one-hour, I think it's
51-minute summary of what's in those six

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hours of video.

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And I'm trying to get people to help me
give these away.

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And I started a program I call,
The Faith of the Saints Evangelism

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Program.

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You know, the scripture says, here's the
faith of the saints.

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They that believe in Jesus and keep the
commandments of God.

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And so that's the reason that I picked
that title.

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But these DVDs cost me $2.50 when I can
ship them in multiple copies.

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So I'm asking people to consider
contributing $25 a month to the program.

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And they can get as many as 10 of these to
give to people.

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We don't make any money, but we get the
information out.

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And we've got these going out.

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Thousands and thousands are going out all
over the world.

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And we're hearing from people all over the
place.

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You know, a lot of people, they learn
these things and they try to tell their

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family and friends.

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And you know, I'm sure you've experienced,
they think you're crazy.

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But if you can get them to look at this,
this shows the historical background.

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And once they realize it's a basis,
they might not agree with it, but they've

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got something to think about.

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They know that it is some reason why we
believe like we do.

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So that's what this is all about.

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And what I'd like to do, with your
permission, is show excerpts from this

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DVD.

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And then discuss what we see here.

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That would be great.

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So that's kind of what I'd like to do.

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I'm pretty sure that's the one that you
had sent to me that I got to review and

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even I was shocked.

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So you're going to be shocked at some of
the things you see today, huh?

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Well, I was when I learned it.

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And you know, Satan is the master of
deceit.

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He's the father of lies.

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And I think probably the first lie was,
hath God said?

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You know, the scriptures tell us that His
commandments stand fast forever and ever.

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And so they're never going to change.

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He wrote them in stone and they can't
change.

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If He changed His mind every day,
we wouldn't know how to live.

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But I talk about the Ten Commandments is
basically what I talk about.

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You know, the thing is, coming to that
understanding that we serve a loving God,

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we are His creation.

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And everything that He tells us to do is
to give us life, abundant life.

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It's not so that we'll have a bunch of
rules and regulations.

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And this is really great because it helps
us to understand how our enemy snuck in

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and did a really good job of separating
people who love God from the fullness of

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His benefits.

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So I really appreciate what you do,
Richard.

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I know Dad does too.

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Well, I want to give him one plug.

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When he first started with us,
I was big on Christmas.

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And this guy changed that 17 or 18 years
ago.

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And I thought he was really off the rock.

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And then when he hit me with Easter,
I finally got it.

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I finally got what he's trying to tell us.

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So you want my recommendation?

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Yeah.

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So let's see what you're going to say
here.

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Okay.

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All right.

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I think they've got a clip all set up for
us there.

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We're ready.

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About 20 years ago, I found out that many
of the things that I had been taught in

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church for most of my life were not based
on what the Bible teaches, but rather on

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traditions that were gradually developed
over the past 2,000 years.

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These traditions have become so
commonplace that few people question them,

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or even think about questioning them.

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Many Christian leaders would now tell us
that we have no responsibility to the laws

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of God, that now it's all about grace,
that the law has been nailed to the cross.

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As a result, while most believers do not
realize it, major components of

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contemporary Christianity actually violate
the laws of our Creator.

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The three most prominent features of
traditional Christianity are, in fact,

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pagan in nature.

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Easter, Christmas, and Sunday rest.

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They are based on aspects of pagan sun
worship that have crept into Christianity

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over time, and are in direct violation of
the first four commandments that tell us

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who our Creator is and how He wants us to
worship Him.

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Now, I realize that I've just made some
bold and shocking statements that are hard

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to believe.

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I can tell you that when I began to
realize that what I have just stated is

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the truth, it was a shock to me.

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Even so, it's still the truth,
and we must not allow ourselves to become

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offended by truth.

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That would be a tremendous mistake,
for it is only our love for and the

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application of the truth that allows us to
grow as believers.

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The Bible instructs us to prove all things
and to hold fast only that which is good.

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In other words, we must check things out
and reject what is false.

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As I began to learn things that did not
agree with what I had been taught all my

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life, I had to check them out.

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Why were these aspects of Christianity
being taught as the gospel, when in

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reality they are actually pagan in nature?

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How could that be?

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How could it possibly have happened?

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As I began to do a little research,
I found that easily accessible reference

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books such as encyclopedias and
dictionaries plainly provided facts that

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could not be denied.

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Even more shocking was finding out that
educated theologians and religious leaders

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are well aware of those facts,
and that they will go to any length to

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avoid discussing them.

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Here's what I learned.

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During the first century at the time of
Christ, we find Rome ruling the world in

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an environment of Hellenistic or pagan
Greek culture.

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As if that was not bad enough,
Scripture informs us that corrupt Jewish

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leaders were teaching for doctrines the
commandments of men.

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As a direct result, only a remnant of
Israel received their long-awaited

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Messiah, Yeshua, Jesus Christ.

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We are told that those people,
the believing remnant, were all zealous of

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the law.

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During the first century, believers were
known as Nazarenes.

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Not Nazarenes or Nazarites, but Nazarenes,
based on the fact that Yeshua was known to

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have come from Nazareth.

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Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews.

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The book of Acts speaks of the apostle
Paul as a ringleader of the Nazarenes.

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The fourth century historian Epiphanius
tells us that the Nazarenes remembered

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that Jesus had warned that when they saw
Jerusalem encompassed with armies,

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that they should flee to the mountains.

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And that's exactly what they did.

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Prior to the destruction of Jerusalem,
the believers moved across the Jordan

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River to the cities of the Decapolis,
the region of ten cities mentioned in the

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New Testament.

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There they settled in a place called
Pella.

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What is most interesting is that not only
did this group of people believe in Jesus,

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we are told that they kept the
commandments of God as well.

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They believed that if Jesus had intended
for the laws to be abrogated by the new

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covenant, He would have plainly said so.

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And as we know, He said the exact
opposite.

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He said that until heaven and earth pass,
one jot or one tittle shall in no wise

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pass from the law till all be fulfilled.

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The historians tell us that less than 100
years after the time of Messiah,

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believers, those who kept the commandments
of God and the faith of Jesus,

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had been driven away from Jerusalem.

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As they left, they took with them the
faith practiced by those who walked and

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talked with Christ.

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Now, why is all this important to us?

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Well, in addition to the reference to the
Nazarenes found in the book of Acts,

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Revelation, the final book of the Bible,
provides a future reference to such a

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group of believers who are called saints.

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They that keep the commandments of God and
have the faith of Jesus.

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Just as the Nazarenes, they will be
keeping the commandments of our Creator,

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a fact that most theologians will go to
any length to avoid.

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Now, I realize that at this point some
would say I'm being legalistic,

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but that is really not the case.

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We are saved by grace through faith and
not of works.

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There is no commandment that we can keep
that will save us.

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However, once we have received that grace
through the shed blood of Messiah,

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we should want to live according to His
commandments by the power of the Holy

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Spirit.

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Commandments that remain valid and will
never change as long as heaven and earth

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exist.

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That is exactly what the first century
disciples believed, but over the past

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2,000 years, something has changed.

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Let's take a look at history.

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In 70 AD, the Roman general Titus
destroyed Jerusalem, and just as Jesus had

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forewarned, not one stone was left upon
another.

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As the believers moved to other areas,
the faith of those who walked and talked

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with Christ moved with them.

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By the year 131, the Roman emperor Hadrian
had established Aelia Capitolina,

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a pagan city built upon the ruins of
Jerusalem.

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A temple of Jupiter was built on the
Temple Mount where Solomon's temple once

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stood, and those who appeared to have
anything to do with the God of the Bible

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were forbidden to enter the city.

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It should have been expected that Jewish
people would revolt, and that they did.

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The devastating revolt known as the Bar
Kokhba Rebellion would see hundreds of

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thousands of Jewish people slaughtered,
exiled, or sold into slavery.

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The name of Judea would be changed to the
Syrian province of Palestine, the land of

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the Philistines.

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And most importantly, it would cause a
final split between Christianity and

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Judaism.

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Up until that time, historical records
document the fact that Christians studied

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scriptures side-by-side with unbelieving
Jews.

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Remember, the only scriptures were that of
what we would call the Old Testament.

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Why the split?

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Bar Kokhba was proclaimed to be Messiah by
rabbinical decree, and Christians could

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not support a rebellion led by a false
Messiah.

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Yeshua, Jesus Christ, the Messiah of
Israel had already come, and they were not

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about to deny it.

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Well, as we all know from history,
Bar Kokhba was not Messiah.

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And as a result of the Bar Kokhba Revolt,
the Jewish inhabitants of Jerusalem were

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forced into exile.

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An exile that lasted in one form or
another until 1948, a period of over 1,800

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years.

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What about Gentile Christians who were
left in Jerusalem?

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As Jewish believers could not enter
Jerusalem, all that were left there were

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Gentiles.

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The historian Eusebius informs us that
when the church was collected there of the

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Gentiles, that the first bishop after
those of the circumcision was Marcus.

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In other words, it was 100 years after the
time of Christ before Marcus would become

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the first non-Jewish Christian bishop of
Jerusalem.

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100 years!

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Edward Gibbon, in his famous work entitled
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire,

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tells us that at the persuasion of the new
Gentile bishop Marcus, the most

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considerable part of the congregation
renounced the Mosaic Law, the practice of

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which they had preserved above a century.

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By this sacrifice of their habits and
prejudices, they purchased a free

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admission into the colony of Hadrian.

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Let us consider what these references tell
us.

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They tell us that for 100 years after the
time of Christ, believers, both Jews and

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Gentiles, observed what Gibbon calls the
Mosaic Law.

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They kept the commandments of God and had
the faith of Jesus, just as saints that

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are described in the book of Revelation.

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This is a very important consideration.

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Today we are being told that the law was
nailed to the cross.

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But history reveals that first century
believers would not agree.

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If the commandments of our Creator were
abolished at the time of the cross,

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those living in Jerusalem for the next 100
years knew nothing about that.

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The New Testament is full of references to
the law, including the fact that sin is

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the transgression of the law, and that if
there was no law, there would be no

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definition of sin.

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Even so, what we hear most often is that
believers are not under the law.

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And that is exactly what our adversary,
the devil, wants.

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No definition of sin.

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That gives you a little idea about the
history.

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You know, I wanted to learn, you know,
not only what had happened, but how it

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could have happened.

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And that's some of the things that I
started learning in history.

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You know, we have an adversary that wants
to kill us.

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He doesn't want us to have everlasting
life.

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And he knows that the wages of sin is
death, but of course we know that the gift

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of God is eternal life through Jesus
Christ our Lord.

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But if you go back, it says he died to pay
the penalty for sins that are past.

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He didn't die so we can keep breaking our
Creator's commandments.

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And so that's the big trick.

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He's the father of lies and the biggest
lie has been half God said.

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Did he really write those commandments in
stone?

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Did he really mean what he said?

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And he did.

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He did.

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And we read about that throughout the Old
Testament.

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And nothing has changed.

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The only thing that's changed is that
there's no more sacrifice for sin.

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The sacrificial system has changed.

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Jesus, Yeshua, was the sacrifice once for
all.

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But the commandments stay just like they
always were.

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You know, the thing is that there is a
battle going on.

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We have our Heavenly Father who's doing
absolutely everything he can to draw us to

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himself so that we can spend eternity with
him.

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He has an adversary who is trying to do
everything he can to keep us out.

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So that we don't spend eternity with the
Father.

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Because he doesn't get to.

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But he wants to be God.

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He wants to do what he says and not what
those commandments.

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He wants to be God.

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The Bible is plain about that.

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Before we get too far, what we just saw is
available.

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How do we get that?

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Well, I'm going to leave some with you in
your bookstore.

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I mean to the actual viewers.

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Well, I'm going to leave some in your
bookstore.

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Okay.

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And if people will send me an email,
I'd like to give them one.

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I hope they might consider sending me a
little shipping cost or something like

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that.

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But if they can't afford it, I'd like to
give them one.

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That's what the program is all about.

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Okay.

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But I'm going to leave some with you and
if...

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If they want to donate at the bookstore,
you're...

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Well, we can handle it any kind of... I
just want to hear from you.

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We haven't figured out the details on
that, but this is the DVD that he was

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showing that he's trying to get people to
partner with him at $25 a month.

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So he can send you 10 of them and you can
start dispersing them to your friends and

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family and your pastors.

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And I don't wake a bunch of people up.

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We've got people that are giving them to
pastors in three counties, every pastor.

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We're sending them to seminary professors.

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We have groups of people that are giving
them to every family in their community.

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You know, a lot of times we learn these
things and once again, Satan's done a good

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job.

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And this is strange to us when we first
learn these things.

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And so people try to go out and present
these things and may the man I have all

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the details that have taken me 25 years to
figure out.

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And so hopefully I can provide enough
details that people can see that there's a

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basis of what we believe.

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Well, the thing is too, Richard,
is that when you're given information that

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is so contrary to what you've been taught
all your life, you can totally grasp what

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you're watching, what you're hearing.

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But when you go and try to tell someone
else, and I know this from firsthand

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experience, you're challenged and they
want to know the facts.

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And it's hard.

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It's hard to be able to go from believing
this to being able to really present the

25:35.420 --> 25:36.480
truth to someone.

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That's why these DVDs that you put
together are phenomenal.

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They're phenomenal.

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Well, you have to remember, they feel like
they're challenged.

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In other words, you're challenging what
they've been taught and believed all their

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life.

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And I tell people, you know, don't believe
me just because I tell you these things,

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but I do plead with them to check these
things out.

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It's amazing what's happened to us.

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I'm not anti-church or anti-Christian or
anything like that.

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But, you know, the scripture says that the
Gentiles shall come from the ends of the

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earth and shall say, Surely our fathers
have inherited lies, vanity, and things

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wherein there is no profit.

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And I'm one of them.

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And when I learned this, I couldn't
believe it.

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And so I just want to share it with
people.

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And the other thing is, we learn these
things and we share the information with

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folks and we think they're going to
receive it right away.

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But it doesn't always happen like that.

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I've had people that I've given the
information to and 10 years later,

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all of a sudden, it starts making sense to
them.

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Somebody else may have shared with them.

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So we've just got to all share this
information the best we can.

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I'll tell you a little funny story.

26:40.960 --> 26:44.200
I had one man and somebody gave him my Too
Long in the Sun book.

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And he said, Oh, I don't want to read
this.

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And threw it over in the back of his car.

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And he drove around with it in his car for
years and years.

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And his car caught on fire and burned up.

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And the only thing that didn't burn was
the Too Long in the Sun book.

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And so he said, Well, I better read what's
in this book.

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And he did.

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And things started making sense to him.

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So we shouldn't be surprised that people
don't receive it right away.

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Some people do.

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Or if your car burns up.

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Or if your car burns up.

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It'd be better to read it to start with so
your car doesn't have to burn up,

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right?

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Well, I know when Mom and Dad first got
this information so many years ago,

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did they give me a copy of your book?

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Why, yes, they did.

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No, I didn't.

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And I used to watch you.

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It took me quite some time to grasp what
you were saying.

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I didn't want it.

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Well, you know, I tell people,
don't believe me.

27:38.500 --> 27:39.920
Don't believe anybody.

27:40.160 --> 27:42.800
Read the Bible starting with Genesis all
the way through.

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It's a story of creation all the way
through and prophetic events at the end.

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And it tells the story.

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And, you know, Jesus said that Moses wrote
about him.

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Jesus, Yeshua is all throughout the Old
Testament.

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And once we start putting it together and
realizing that he doesn't change his mind

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about his commandments, then it all starts
to make sense.

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You know, it's funny is that the Old
Testament talks even about the death of

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Yeshua.

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The thing is, is that he is so woven
throughout the entire scripture.

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He's in there.

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But he's hidden.

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And there's a reason for that.

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We have an enemy.

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And he would not have allowed the
crucifixion of Yeshua had he had known.

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But it's in there.

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Once it happened, then you can see that it
was there.

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We, you know, a lot of people talk about
prophecy and I tell people I don't think I

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completely understand prophecy.

28:48.600 --> 28:50.300
I study it and read what it has to say.

28:50.380 --> 28:52.260
But I believe there's a lot of surprises
coming.

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Because if we perfectly understood it,
Satan would too.

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That's right.

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And I tell people I don't feel so bad
because Daniel didn't understand it

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either.

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He was in the middle of the captivity and
he said, hey, this is what Jeremiah was

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talking about.

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So I think we should study it and know
what it says.

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And when it starts happening, we can say,
hey, this is what was prophesied.

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Well, we have to get back to your DVD
because I remember one picture in

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particular sometime, it might even be in
the next hour of this program,

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that I was floored.

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Okay, well, let's look at a little more of
it.

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At the beginning of the third century,
in the year 218 AD, a man known as

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Elagabalus became Roman emperor.

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Elagabalus was Syrian by birth and was the
high priest of Baal or El-Jabal,

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from which his name is derived.

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In the book of 1 Kings, we learn of
Elijah's confrontation with the priest of

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Baal.

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And a careful study of the Old Testament
reveals that it was sun worship,

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the worship of Baal, that was a primary
cause of the downfall of the nation of

29:57.540 --> 29:57.880
Israel.

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Now, almost a thousand years later,
with the rise of Elagabalus to power,

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we find the worship of Baal still
flourishing in New Testament times.

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Elagabalus was instrumental in firmly
establishing within the Roman Empire,

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the worship of Baal or El-Jabal,
which would later become known as Sol

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Invictus, the Invincible Sun.

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As we continue, we will discover that this
same sun god, Sol Invictus, was worshipped

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by Constantine the Great, who would become
known as the first Christian emperor.

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Later in the 3rd century, in the year 273,
Aurelian became Roman emperor.

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He was the first capable emperor that the
empire had seen in years, and what took

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place during the time of Aurelian is of
particular interest to our study.

30:54.100 --> 30:59.300
The worship of Baal, originally introduced
to Rome by Elagabalus, was once again

30:59.300 --> 31:04.060
brought back from Syria to Rome by
Aurelian when he conquered the Syrian

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Palmyrene some 55 years later.

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During the reign of Aurelian, the worship
of the sun god Baal, under the name Sol

31:12.340 --> 31:18.020
Invictus, the Invincible Sun, would come
to be accepted as a personification of all

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the Greco-Roman sun gods.

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Here's what's important.

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Later emperors, worshippers of Sol
Invictus, would proclaim aspects of that

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worship to be Christian in nature.

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Educated Christian theologians are fully
aware of that fact, as if that's not bad

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enough, the theologians of other religions
are too.

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In the year 274 AD, Aurelian established a
temple of the Invincible Sun God in Rome

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in honor of Deus Sol Invictus,
where he set up cult statues of Helios and

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Belos that had been in the great temple of
Baal in Syria.

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He dedicated that temple on December 25th,
a well-known pagan feast day associated

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with the winter solstice, the shortest day
of winter.

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After December 25th, the sun begins to
rise higher in the sky, and that time was

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considered to be the rebirth of the winter
sun, the birth day of the sun gods.

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Whether one worshipped Apollo,
Helios, or Osiris, or any of the other sun

32:25.960 --> 32:29.980
gods, December 25th was known as their
special day.

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Yes, Aurelian was some politician.

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By proclaiming December 25th in honor of
the Invincible Sun, Aurelian made it

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possible for the worshippers of all the
various gods to recognize Sol Invictus as

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the personification of his own sun god.

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Sol Invictus, a single sun god at the head
of the Roman pantheon.

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What a concept!

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And by proclaiming December 25th as the
birthday of Sol Invictus, Aurelian was

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able to pull it off.

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During the third century, aspects of
paganism, including the festival of

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December 25th, would be incorporated as a
part of Christianity.

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Precepts that have nothing to do with
Christ and everything to do with pagan sun

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worship.

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Surely our fathers have inherited lies,
vanity, and things wherein there is no

33:25.530 --> 33:26.030
profit.

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Is December 25th, better known today as
Christmas, really the birthday of Jesus?

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Surprisingly, the answer is very easy to
find.

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Today we really have no excuse for
ignorance.

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Let's take a look at the Encyclopedia
Britannica, a reference book available to

33:44.190 --> 33:45.250
almost everyone.

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In reference to Christmas, the
encyclopedia relates the following.

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The traditional customs connected with
Christmas have developed from several

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sources, as a result of the coincidence of
the celebration of the birth of Christ

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with the pagan agricultural and solar
observations at midwinter.

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The encyclopedia goes on to mention
Saturnalia, a festival commemorating the

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dedication of the temple of Saturn in
Rome.

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It also mentions that December 25th was
regarded as the birth of the Iranian

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mystery god, Mithra.

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We will find that the names Mithra and Sol
Invictus are interchangeable.

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They both applied to the invincible sun
god.

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Collier's encyclopedia reports the same
findings.

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In reference to Christmas, the
encyclopedia states that after the triumph

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of Constantine, the church at Rome
assigned December 25th as the date of the

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celebration.

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By the end of the 4th century,
the whole Christian world was celebrating

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Christmas on that day.

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The choice of December 25th was probably
influenced by the fact that on this day,

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the Romans celebrated the Mithraic feast
of the sun god, Nautilus Sol Invictus.

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The Nautilus, or birthday, of Sol
Invictus.

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In 354 AD, a calendar was drawn up by a
Christian living in Rome.

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While the other pagan birthdays were
celebrated with 24 chariot races in the

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Roman circus, the birth of Sol Invictus
was celebrated with an additional 6

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chariot races.

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30 races on December 25th, the most
important pagan birthday.

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Over 200 years after the time of Christ in
supposedly Christian Rome, and there is no

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mention of the birth of Christ on that
day.

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That's no coincidence.

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Christmas was illegal in England.

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It was outlawed in New England from 1649
to 1658.

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It was condemned for its pagan roots by
the Puritans, the Methodists, the Quakers,

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the Amish, the Presbyterians, and the
Baptists.

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It was made a legal holiday in
Massachusetts in 1856.

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These are easily confirmed facts that
theologians are well aware of.

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Was December 25th the birthday of Jesus?

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No, it was not, and our forefathers knew
that.

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The Bible tells us that to him that
knoweth to do good and doeth it not,

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to him it is sin.

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For most of my life, I had no idea that
December 25th was an adaptation of pagan

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sun worship.

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In the book of Ezekiel, we find that when
the people of God associated themselves

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with pagan practices, they provoked the
Lord to anger.

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He said that he would deal with them in
fury, and that when they called on him,

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he would not hear them.

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These are God's own people, and yet
because of their association with

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paganism, he would not spare them or have
pity.

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Are we going to believe more privileged
than the chosen people of that time?

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That we can associate the birthday of the
pagan sun gods with the birth of our

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Savior?

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We have an adversary who cares not whether
we call paganism Christianity,

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or if we reject Christ altogether.

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Anything but the worship of our Creator in
spirit and in truth.

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Now let's take a look at Mithraism,
a pagan religion which can be traced all

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the way back to the ancient Persian
Empire.

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Once again, we will find that aspects of
that ancient pagan religion have been

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incorporated as a part of contemporary
Christianity.

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In the east, the sun god was known as
Mithra.

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Mithraism originated in the Persian Empire
and eventually became the chief rival of

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Christianity.

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In the 4th century, Roman Christianity was
established as the official religion of

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the empire, and many would lead us to
believe that the worship of Mithra

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mysteriously vanished.

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But was it Mithraism that vanished,
or true Christianity?

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That's a very good question, considering
the fact that what became known as

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Christianity lacked few Mithraic rituals.

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The Persian god Mithra found his way into
the Grecian Empire of Alexander the Great,

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and we find it flourishing during the 1st
century BC in a small country of

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present-day Turkey by the name of
Comagene.

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In 17 AD, the Roman Emperor Tiberius
Caesar annexed a small country of

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Comagene, and it was the policy of the
Roman Empire to send soldiers from one

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area of the empire to another,
in an effort to create a more homogenous

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population.

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As the soldiers from Comagene were sent
out to other parts of the empire,

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they took their worship of the sun god
Mithra with them.

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The worship of Mithra was a man's
religion, and Mithraism soon became the

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faith of the Roman soldiers.

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Some historians are perplexed by the
similarities between traditional

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Christianity and Mithraism.

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One historian states there are striking
coincidences with Christianity.

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Mithra was born in a cave on the 25th of
December and was venerated on Sundays.

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The truth is, there is no reason to be
perplexed.

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As we have already discussed, it is no
coincidence that a December 25th birthday

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and a Sunday observation were incorporated
into Christianity.

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They are elements of a cleverly devised
satanic scheme to combine pagan sun

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worship with the worship of the biblical
creator, Yeshua of Nazareth, Jesus Christ.

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The very same scheme is followed
throughout the Old Testament.

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The combination of the worship of the sun
god under the name Baal with the true

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worship of the Almighty.

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In an effort to find an excuse for the
similarities between Mithraism and

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Christianity, the first century Christian
apologist Justin Martyr came to the

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conclusion that elements of Mithraism must
have been derived from Christianity.

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That wicked devils had imitated
Christianity.

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The problem is that many of those Mithraic
precepts predate Christianity by

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centuries.

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When challenged, Tertullian, a second
century writer, says basically the same

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thing.

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The pagans of Tertullian's day knew that
the sign of the cross was an image that

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had been adopted from the worship of pagan
gods.

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We find that the Mithrists place a symbol
similar to that in use among Christians

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upon their foreheads.

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In Tertullian's own words, Mithra,
there in the kingdom of Satan,

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sets his mark upon the foreheads of his
soldiers.

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Even though the pagans of his day knew
full well that the cross had been a pagan

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symbol in use for centuries before the
time of Christ, Tertullian says that the

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devil imitates even the main parts of our
divine mysteries.

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The truth is, by Tertullian's time,
Christianity was imitating the devil's

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mysteries.

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The pagans accused Christians of being sun
worshippers because they used the cross as

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a Christian symbol and observed Sunday,
the day of the sun, known to be in honor

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of the sun gods for centuries before the
time of Christ.

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Here's what Tertullian had to say in book
one of his writings known as Adnationes.

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Others with greater regard to good
manners, it must be confessed,

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suppose that the sun is the god of the
Christians.

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Because it is a well-known fact that we
pray toward the east, or because we make

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Sunday a day of festivity.

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It is doubtful that Tertullian said
anything that would change the mind of the

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pagans in regards to Christianity of his
day.

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By that time, Christianity was far from
the faith of the believers that walked in

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talk with Christ.

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As hard as he might have tried,
there is no way for Christianity to defend

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precepts of Mithraism, the worship of the
sun god Mithra.

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Tertullian was, however, right about one
thing.

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He said that the attempt to corrupt the
truth can be traced directly to the wiles

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of the devil.

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On a cave wall in Israel, there's a
2,000-year-old fresco depicting a bearded

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man wearing a robe with his hands
outstretched and a halo or radiant glow

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around his head.

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Now have a little test.

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Who would you think would be depicted in
this fresco?

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Before you answer, allow me to provide you
with a few clues.

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The person depicted was known to have been
born on December 25th, and Sunday was his

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special day of honor.

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His followers participated in water
baptism, they had a Lord's Supper,

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and the sign of the cross was the symbolic
representation of this person.

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Who is depicted on the fresco?

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When shown a picture of the fresco,
most people respond by saying Jesus,

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and I must admit that there was a time
when I would have said the same thing.

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No, the fresco does not depict Jesus,
but rather the sun god Sol Invictus

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Mithra.

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The fresco was found in a Mithraic temple
at Caesarea Maritima in Israel.

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Today, many scholars assume that because
there are so many similarities between

43:23.220 --> 43:28.500
Mithraism and traditional Christianity,
that belief in Yeshua, Jesus Christ,

43:28.620 --> 43:30.980
is just an adaptation of pagan sun
worship.

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However, when compared to the faith of the
first century believers who kept the

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commandments of God, there is a vast
difference.

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Jesus, Yeshua of Nazareth, was not born on
December 25th, nor was the sign of the

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cross a Christian symbol.

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Sunday was not his sacred day.

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No, Mithraism did not vanish during the
first century when believers kept the

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commandments of God and had the faith of
Jesus that precluded any association with

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pagan forms of worship.

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Mithraism supposedly vanished hundreds of
years later only after aspects of

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Mithraism, sun worship, were incorporated
into Roman Christianity.

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Once again, these are well-known facts
which scholars and theologians are well

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aware of.

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Most will go to any length to avoid
discussion.

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We have been to that cave at Caesarea
Maritima, and that picture isn't there

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anymore, but how did you get that picture,
Richard?

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Well, we do a lot of archaeological work
in Israel, and a man I worked with over

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there was in charge of some of those
excavations.

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And he was able to get me in there before
it was open to the public.

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I had to crawl in through the shores and
chase bats out and all that kind of stuff,

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but I was able to get in there and take
the pictures.

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And since that time, they've opened it to
the public, so they've kind of smoothed

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the floor out and made it nice.

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But the fresco was removed from the wall.

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A fresco is a wall painting, so the Mithra
caves were plastered inside, so they

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removed that plaster.

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And what happened to it?

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I can't find out.

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Last time I was in Israel, we went to the
Israel Museum looking for it.

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We called the archives and we hadn't been
able to locate it, so I really don't know.

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But that's a picture of Saul Invictus,
or Mithra.

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And once again, he was known to be born on
December 25th.

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His special day was Sunday, on and on and
on.

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And that's right there at Caesarea
Maritimia.

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And the interesting part about it is that
Origin School is right above that.

45:38.600 --> 45:42.280
They found where Origin School was
located, and Origin had a lot to do with

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what's known as the Hexapola.

45:43.760 --> 45:45.740
It was a different translation of the
Scriptures.

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And some of the modern versions of the
Bible are based on Origin's fifth column.

45:51.360 --> 45:54.680
But anyway, what you might find
interesting is that these are sun worship

45:54.680 --> 45:59.060
caves, and it has a hole in the ceiling
where the sunlight would come down onto

45:59.060 --> 45:59.520
the altar.

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And the hole for the sunlight is in
Origin's backyard.

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It's in Origin's backyard.

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He was a pagan philosopher.

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He never stopped wearing his philosopher's
cloaks.

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He castrated himself.

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That's what the pagan priest of Sybil did.

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And so there's a lot of historical facts
that people are not aware of that ties all

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this together.

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And it's just unbelievable what's happened
to him.

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You know, I know when people start hearing
the truth that we've been taught,

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so many times their reaction is to be very
angry at us.

46:38.200 --> 46:40.200
And so I know that you get the same
reaction.

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Sometimes it's to be angry at the church
for having perpetrated the lies for

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centuries.

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Now, it's normally the ones who get angry
at the church that will be the first to...

46:55.000 --> 47:03.320
it's easier for them to walk away from
participating in these pagan festivals,

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because that's actually what we're taught
to do.

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So the problem with that, it's good that
they walk away from participating in pagan

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stuff.

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But what is the problem when they get
angry at the church?

47:17.780 --> 47:18.420
What have you seen?

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Well, you know, we need to be angry at the
devil and not at the church or the people

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that tell us the truth.

47:24.540 --> 47:26.900
There is such a thing as righteous
indignation.

47:26.900 --> 47:30.400
So I think this is good to be angry
sometimes.

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And the people that make me angry are the
theologians and religious leaders that

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know that what we're sitting here talking
about today is absolutely the truth.

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They'll do anything possible not to have
to talk about it.

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They don't want to debate it.

47:44.400 --> 47:45.500
They know it's the truth.

47:46.060 --> 47:48.000
And so I think we should be angry at those
people.

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They need to start telling the truth.

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But, you know, the churches are full of
good people who have no idea, just like

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me.

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And so I don't expect people to just drop
everything they've learned.

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But I do hope they'll check it out and
they'll be surprised.

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And then, you know, I'm not anti-church.

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The church does a lot of good things.

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They tell people about our Savior.

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But there's justification and there's
sanctification.

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And sanctification is a process.

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And when we learn the ways of God about
His commandments, we can start to grow

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into Him in all things.

48:23.180 --> 48:27.200
The book of Acts, I think it's chapter 5,
said the Holy Spirit is given to them that

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obey Him.

48:28.660 --> 48:32.520
And I know that once I started being
obedient to the things that I learned,

48:33.320 --> 48:36.220
then other things started making sense.

48:36.740 --> 48:42.400
And so, you know, once again, to him that
knoweth to do good and doeth it not,

48:42.520 --> 48:43.200
to him it is then.

48:43.280 --> 48:44.160
I didn't know any better.

48:44.620 --> 48:46.020
You mentioned you like Christmas.

48:46.280 --> 48:47.300
I liked it too.

48:48.240 --> 48:50.340
I had three Christmas trees in my house.

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But when I found out where it came from,
I couldn't have any more to do with it

48:54.240 --> 48:57.420
because we can trace it right back to
Tammuz.

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We mentioned the Mithra cave there in
Caesarea.

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And if you go to Bethlehem, the Church of
the Nativity, they take you in an

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underground cave down there.

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And that is a temple of Tammuz.

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That's where the sun god Tammuz was
worshipped.

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His special day was Sunday.

49:16.220 --> 49:18.340
His birthday was December 25th.

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We've got all these names for the sun
gods.

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Tammuz was one of them.

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And the way we know that is because of
Jerome.

49:24.560 --> 49:26.860
Jerome translated the scriptures into
Latin.

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And Jerome tells us that that was a sun
worship cave for the god Tammuz.

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So every year, thousands and millions of
believers go to Israel.

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They are taken into an underground cave.

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And shown that niche where that old pagan
statue was placed and kissed the ground on

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that spot thinking that's where our Savior
was born.

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Bethlehem, not Jerusalem.

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Bethlehem.

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I'm sorry, I said Jerusalem.

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Taken to Bethlehem into that subterranean
cave and get down on their hands and knees

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and kiss the ground thinking that's where
Jesus was born.

49:58.560 --> 50:02.440
And that's where that old pagan sun god
was stood up in there.

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Have you been in there to see it?

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I'm sure you have, right?

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I have.

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I haven't.

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There may be something on this video where
I show.

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But anyway, I always take my compass down
in there and show people.

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It faced east and west.

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It's definitely a sun worship temple.

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And it's documented by historians.

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But yet, they don't tell us that.

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The first time I went in there,
I didn't know.

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I thought that's where Jesus was born.

50:26.400 --> 50:30.380
So you get all emotional thinking,
hey, we're here where he was born.

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And then when you find out the truth,
it is upsetting.

50:35.460 --> 50:37.480
But we shouldn't get mad.

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We just need to do what's right.

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We shouldn't get mad at each other or the
church or anything.

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But we do need to fear God and keep his
commandments.

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Well, this is the whole beauty of man.

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A very smart man said that, King Solomon.

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Well, and he did some really stupid
things.

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He did.

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The thing is that you don't want to walk
away from the church.

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You don't.

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You want to stay in there and start
perpetrating the truth about things.

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That's what you want to do.

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You've got a book in your hand,
Richard.

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You have to share about that in the set.

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Okay.

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Well, anyway, this is the book,
Time is the Ally of Deceit.

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And I have produced five DVDs,
one for each chapter of the book.

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And you have these in your bookstore.

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You've had them for quite some time.

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But it's all the documentation.

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When I talk about different places,
I take you on site if I can and show you

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the things.

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And then in the book, on every page of the
book, it has footnotes showing the

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historical references.

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And it's got an extensive index in the
back so that when people ask us a question

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about Christmas or Easter, you can look it
up real quick and go and not only tell

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them about it, but give them the
references.

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A lot of people want to know, well,
how do you know that?

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And you can show them exactly how we know
that.

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Yeah.

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Any word at all that's in that book is in
that index in the back.

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Pretty much.

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It's an extensive index.

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And so any important subjects are in
there.

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So you can look it up real quick.

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And we already know these things,
but we're showing a lot of details.

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We don't always remember the details.

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But you can go and look up the page and
show them in the book.

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And there's lots of really cool pictures
in the book, too.

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You can get that stuff through the GLC
Bookstore.

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The book sells for $18.

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The DVD set does not sell by itself.

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The book will always come with it.

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And that sells for $100.

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For the book and the five DVD.

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About six hours of video.

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Six hours of video.

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Can you imagine how much information is on
that?

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Because I haven't watched that series.

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I'm going to have to, I guess.

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Look at it.

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My goodness.

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You know, I wanted to ask you.

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You said that you had gone down underneath
the Church of the Nativity where we've got

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this little altar for Tammuz that
everybody is taught.

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That's where Yeshua was born.

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And the first time, apparently,
you went in there, you thought it was the

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place.

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I thought it was.

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Me, too.

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Really?

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I thought it was.

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And Arafat made an issue, you need to go
there.

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Because Jesus is one of us.

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Uh-oh.

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Yeah.

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You said that you were very emotional the
first time that you went in there.

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Thinking that that was the place.

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And now that you know the truth about
that, how would you caution people about

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running on emotion?

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We have to go by what the Scriptures say.

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We have to have some basis for our faith.

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And mine is the Bible.

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We have to trust the words of Scripture.

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And so, we have to check everything we
believe out against Scripture and see if

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it's right.

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It's easy to be emotional when you think
that's where your Savior was born.

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But we were being misled.

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The way that became known as the Nativity
site is Helena, Constantine's mother,

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went around picking out holy places.

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Picking out holy places.

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And she said that's where Jesus was born.

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And you just didn't argue with
Constantine's mama.

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That wasn't good for your health.

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She did the same thing with the Church of
the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem.

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I've been there.

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And I tell you, the hair stood up on the
back of my neck in that place.

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I did feel some emotion when I thought
that's where he was born.

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And I think that's only natural.

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But we've got to check things out.

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We've been fooled on a lot of things.

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We can base everything that we believe on
our emotions.

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And how it makes us have goosebumps or
whatever.

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We do have to check things out.

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The church would not be in the state that
we're in if we were checking things out.

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You kind of mentioned a little bit that
you do some archaeological work.

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Can you share a little bit about that?

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How you got into that?

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Did you get into that because of what you
discovered?

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Well, not really.

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I worked with Ron Wyatt the last 10 years
of his life.

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And he found a site over in eastern Turkey
that many people believe to be the remains

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of Noah's Ark.

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And so I went over and worked with him on
that site and some other places.

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And so I started working on archaeological
projects.

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Right now we're working in Jerusalem and
King Solomon's quarries.

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We're about 75 feet underground.

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And there's passageways going in every
different direction down there.

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We found some defensive walls with gates
with locks on them.

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And there's a lot of debris down there.

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So that's where we're working right now.

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And you work real close with the Israeli
Antiquities Authority, correct?

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We do.

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We work with the IAA, Israel Antiquities
Authority.

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And their projects are... that's what we
work on.

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So everything is documented, published in
scientific journals.

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So everything that I've done since 2003 is
fully documented.

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You were telling me a little bit about
when you were in Turkey with Noah's Ark.

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Well, we were working on the site over
there.

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And we were taken hostage and ended up
climbing mountains at the end of a gun for

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about a month.

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And since then I haven't been able to get
the permits.

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I was over there a few years ago.

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We do three-dimensional subsurface radar
now.

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And if we get a chance in the next
segment, I'd like to show you a little bit

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about how the radar works.

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That'd be cool.

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So I was there.

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They promised me the permits.

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And then two weeks later the whole
government changed.

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So I was right back to square one.

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There's a lot of work.

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Some people do not believe that is the
remains of Noah's Ark.

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There's a lot of work we need to do.

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But I have to get the permits first.

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I saw a thing on the internet probably a
week or two ago about some farmer in

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Turkey who was plowing his field.

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And there was some ceramic that came up.

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So they started doing this huge dig over
there.

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And you don't think about that area being
so much a part of everything.

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Lots of history.

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That's Galatia.

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We read about the Galatians, we're talking
about Ankara, Turkey.

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And so there's a lot of Bible history
right there.

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And of course the Ephesus and those
places.

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Well this has been a pretty interesting
first hour.

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I hope we didn't make you just angry.

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I hope we're challenging you to seek the
truth.

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There's a lot of work to be done.

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But you know what?

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Like your very first clip said over in
Revelation 12, 17.

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That group of people that has not existed
for 1800 years.

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That group that keeps the commandments of
God and bears testimony to Yeshua.

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God Himself is raising them up.

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And we're watching it happen.

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It's an amazing, an amazing thing.

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And I know that you have been pretty
amazed over the years getting to watch

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that too.

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I really have.

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A lot of people are learning the truth.

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The scripture I use is prove all things,
hold fast that which is good.

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We'll be right back.

58:37.680 --> 58:39.950
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Well, we are back with Richard Reeves.

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And wow, that was a pretty powerful first
hour you had there, bud.

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A lot of information.

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It's a lot to swallow.

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This hour is going to be probably a little
bit more challenging for most of us who

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grew up in the church.

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You know, we're going to share about the
Sabbath this hour.

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And I know that I have personally come
under attack.

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For the Sabbath and telling people it does
start at sundown on Friday and it ends at

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sundown on Saturday.

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And why do I know that?

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Because God gave the commandment and the
Jewish people have been keeping it at the

01:00:01.620 --> 01:00:03.280
same time ever since.

01:00:04.200 --> 01:00:05.440
Well, that's exactly right.

01:00:05.540 --> 01:00:10.120
All we got to do is go back in history to
the first century and find out exactly

01:00:10.120 --> 01:00:11.180
which day the Sabbath is.

01:00:11.220 --> 01:00:13.760
A lot of people say you can't figure it
out, but that's not true.

01:00:14.320 --> 01:00:16.000
Because the Creator was here.

01:00:16.800 --> 01:00:21.560
And He's the one who established Sabbath
rest at the time of creation.

01:00:21.720 --> 01:00:25.680
We're told that all things were created by
Him and for Him.

01:00:27.440 --> 01:00:29.160
Everything consists because of Him.

01:00:29.380 --> 01:00:32.520
And so Jesus, Yeshua, was the Creator.

01:00:33.460 --> 01:00:37.200
He's the one that worked six days and
rested on the seventh day and made it a

01:00:37.200 --> 01:00:39.260
holy day all the way back at the time of
creation.

01:00:40.120 --> 01:00:46.720
And so when we read what the New Testament
tells us, and the fact that He said that

01:00:46.720 --> 01:00:50.380
Moses wrote of Him and start putting it
all together, it makes perfect sense.

01:00:50.980 --> 01:00:53.420
And I'm pretty sure He kept the Sabbath
when He walked the earth.

01:00:53.600 --> 01:00:54.260
He sure did.

01:00:55.260 --> 01:00:58.880
Sin is the transgression of the law
according to 1 John 3, 4.

01:01:00.140 --> 01:01:04.440
And so in order to be a sinless sacrifice,
He had to rest on the seventh.

01:01:04.680 --> 01:01:05.720
Seventh-day Sabbath.

01:01:05.960 --> 01:01:08.180
He had to do it all right.

01:01:08.180 --> 01:01:11.340
Just right, or He disqualified Himself.

01:01:12.640 --> 01:01:16.360
Is there anything that you want to preface
this next segment with?

01:01:16.660 --> 01:01:20.560
This is a pretty long segment,
but what was amazing to me, and I'll talk

01:01:20.560 --> 01:01:24.560
about it in here, is that the whole known
world during the first century was resting

01:01:24.560 --> 01:01:25.840
on the Sabbath day.

01:01:26.180 --> 01:01:27.640
Not just the Jewish people.

01:01:28.260 --> 01:01:31.520
Even the barbarians were resting on the
Sabbath day.

01:01:32.440 --> 01:01:36.820
You remember when they went and preached
at, I believe it was Antioch, and they

01:01:36.820 --> 01:01:40.820
preached to the Jews, and it says the next
Sabbath day the whole city wanted to come

01:01:40.820 --> 01:01:41.460
here and preach.

01:01:42.260 --> 01:01:42.960
Why was that?

01:01:43.040 --> 01:01:44.640
They were not working on that day.

01:01:44.720 --> 01:01:47.000
They were resting all over the whole known
world.

01:01:47.640 --> 01:01:50.480
And the historians Josephus and Philo tell
us about that.

01:01:50.540 --> 01:01:53.000
So that'll be included in this next
segment here.

01:01:53.160 --> 01:01:54.060
That's pretty amazing.

01:01:54.080 --> 01:01:55.240
Are we ready to go with that?

01:01:55.380 --> 01:01:55.820
We're ready.

01:01:56.020 --> 01:01:58.500
Okay, we'll be back with you in just a
little bit.

01:01:59.900 --> 01:02:03.600
During the fourth century, a blend of
paganism and the faith of the saints would

01:02:03.600 --> 01:02:08.060
define Christianity in a way that the
disciples would never have imagined.

01:02:08.800 --> 01:02:15.220
In the year 306 A.D., Flavius Valerius
Aurelius Constantinus replaced his father

01:02:15.220 --> 01:02:17.480
as emperor of the western portion of the
empire.

01:02:18.480 --> 01:02:23.440
Constantinus would later become known as
Constantine the Great, the first Christian

01:02:23.440 --> 01:02:23.860
emperor.

01:02:24.580 --> 01:02:28.320
We know from history that Constantine,
during his early life, is known to have

01:02:28.320 --> 01:02:33.640
been a worshipper of the sun gods under
the all-inclusive sun god title Sol

01:02:33.640 --> 01:02:33.950
Invictus.

01:02:34.900 --> 01:02:40.640
By the year 313, Constantine found himself
in a position of authority and along with

01:02:40.640 --> 01:02:46.400
Licinius, ruler of the eastern portion of
the Roman Empire, he issued the Edict of

01:02:46.400 --> 01:02:49.800
Milan, also known as the Edict of
Toleration.

01:02:50.680 --> 01:02:54.800
Basically, that edict declared that the
empire would be neutral regarding all

01:02:54.800 --> 01:02:59.460
forms of religious worship, making it
possible for Christianity to be openly

01:02:59.460 --> 01:03:01.580
practiced without persecution.

01:03:02.800 --> 01:03:07.640
Shortly after that time, Constantine
himself embraced what he and his advisers

01:03:07.640 --> 01:03:09.420
perceived to be Christianity.

01:03:11.780 --> 01:03:16.640
What most people are not aware of is that
while professing Christ, Constantine

01:03:16.640 --> 01:03:22.200
maintained his devotion to the sun god Sol
Invictus, the all-inclusive title given to

01:03:22.200 --> 01:03:26.320
the sun gods by Roman Emperor Aurelian
some 30 years earlier.

01:03:27.360 --> 01:03:32.360
Professing Christianity while practicing
paganism, Constantine had the authority as

01:03:32.360 --> 01:03:37.640
the ruler of the empire to define a new
Christianity, not the faith once delivered

01:03:37.640 --> 01:03:42.820
to the saints, but a new version of
Christianity, lacking few aspects of pagan

01:03:42.820 --> 01:03:43.300
ritual.

01:03:44.560 --> 01:03:49.220
Defining his own faith, Constantine could
have the best, or should we say the worst,

01:03:49.280 --> 01:03:51.280
of both the pagan and Christian worlds.

01:03:51.280 --> 01:03:57.280
The worship of the sun gods including
Baal, Mithra, Apollo, and Helios,

01:03:57.740 --> 01:04:03.260
all of which had come to be recognized as
Deu Sol Invictus, God the Invincible Sun,

01:04:03.880 --> 01:04:09.180
could easily be redefined as Christianity,
thereby encompassing all the various

01:04:09.180 --> 01:04:10.260
beliefs of the empire.

01:04:11.200 --> 01:04:15.140
It was not the faith in the God of
Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and the

01:04:15.140 --> 01:04:20.000
biblical Messiah, Yeshua, but rather a
faith in the Lord of the Universe,

01:04:20.320 --> 01:04:21.800
the One Supreme God.

01:04:23.340 --> 01:04:27.820
While claiming to be a Christian,
the coins of Constantine bore the image of

01:04:27.820 --> 01:04:32.940
the pagan sun god, Sol Invictus,
with an inscription stating his allegiance

01:04:32.940 --> 01:04:38.060
to the Invincible Sun, the sun god of the
pagans, not the god of the Bible.

01:04:38.780 --> 01:04:43.660
Sol Invict tu comiti, my companion is the
Invincible Sun.

01:04:46.550 --> 01:04:50.790
The English word that describes what took
place during the reign of Constantine is

01:04:50.790 --> 01:04:56.010
syncretism, the reconciliation and fusion
of differing systems of belief.

01:04:56.890 --> 01:05:01.450
Constantine was a master syncretist,
and what had become known as Christianity

01:05:01.450 --> 01:05:06.050
offered everything he needed to form a
religion that would accommodate all the

01:05:06.050 --> 01:05:07.830
constituents of his empire.

01:05:11.860 --> 01:05:15.220
During the reign of Constantine,
there was a great deal of controversy

01:05:15.220 --> 01:05:19.860
among Christians as to the proper time to
remember the crucifixion of Christ.

01:05:20.460 --> 01:05:24.340
According to the book of Leviticus,
in the 14th day of the first month,

01:05:24.440 --> 01:05:26.640
at even, is the Lord's Passover.

01:05:27.580 --> 01:05:30.760
A church council was called in an attempt
to resolve the issue.

01:05:31.400 --> 01:05:36.180
The Council of Nicaea took place in the
year 325 and was presided over by

01:05:36.180 --> 01:05:36.900
Constantine.

01:05:37.740 --> 01:05:41.220
Basically, what took place is that the
council changed the date for the

01:05:41.220 --> 01:05:47.660
observance of Passover from the biblically
prescribed time to that now recognized as

01:05:47.660 --> 01:05:48.100
Easter.

01:05:49.240 --> 01:05:53.000
It was the decision of the Nicaean council
that Passover would be observed on the

01:05:53.000 --> 01:05:57.660
first Sunday after the full moon on or
after the vernal equinox.

01:05:58.600 --> 01:06:02.320
According to biblical timing, Passover
could fall on any day of the week.

01:06:03.600 --> 01:06:08.300
Based on the timing of the council,
man's timing, Passover would always be

01:06:08.300 --> 01:06:09.820
observed on Sunday.

01:06:09.820 --> 01:06:15.700
Because of that, what is now recognized as
Easter is often far from the biblically

01:06:15.700 --> 01:06:17.600
prescribed time of Passover.

01:06:18.760 --> 01:06:23.320
There is no indication that the early
Christians celebrated Easter or a festival

01:06:23.320 --> 01:06:25.060
by any other similar name.

01:06:25.800 --> 01:06:29.980
The records of the Nicaean council speak
of Passover and not Easter.

01:06:31.540 --> 01:06:36.920
The 7th century Anglo-Saxon theologian,
Venerable Bede, tells us that Easter is

01:06:36.920 --> 01:06:41.080
just another name for Beltus or Ishtar of
the ancient Babylonians.

01:06:41.720 --> 01:06:45.820
And the worship of the fertility goddess
can be traced all the way back to Hathor,

01:06:46.220 --> 01:06:47.600
the cow goddess of Egypt.

01:06:48.260 --> 01:06:53.020
It is important to consider the fact that
Hathor and Aphis, the cow and bull gods of

01:06:53.020 --> 01:06:57.440
Egypt, were directly associated with the
building of the Golden Calf at Mount

01:06:57.440 --> 01:06:57.940
Sinai.

01:06:59.420 --> 01:07:04.140
Those folks also tried to associate
aspects of paganism with the true worship

01:07:04.140 --> 01:07:04.880
of the Creator.

01:07:05.600 --> 01:07:09.200
Just as in the case of Easter,
they declared a feast to the Lord,

01:07:09.480 --> 01:07:12.140
to Yahweh, that had nothing to do with
Him.

01:07:13.120 --> 01:07:18.400
Well, He wanted to kill everybody and
probably would have done so if Moses had

01:07:18.400 --> 01:07:19.420
not interceded.

01:07:21.340 --> 01:07:26.280
The respected Oxford English Dictionary
informs us that the name Easter is derived

01:07:26.280 --> 01:07:31.740
from the name of a goddess whose festival
was celebrated at the vernal equinox and

01:07:31.740 --> 01:07:34.380
that she was originally known as the Dawn
Goddess.

01:07:34.380 --> 01:07:38.760
No doubt the origin of sunrise
celebrations at the time of Easter.

01:07:39.900 --> 01:07:44.520
According to Venerable Bede, who lived
some 600 years after the time of Christ,

01:07:45.140 --> 01:07:49.580
the heathen Anglo-Saxons called the fourth
month Easter month after their goddess,

01:07:49.740 --> 01:07:50.200
Eostre.

01:07:51.200 --> 01:07:55.280
He said that the name of the festival was
transferred to the celebration of Christ's

01:07:55.280 --> 01:08:00.640
resurrection when Anglo-Saxon and German
heathens converted to Christianity.

01:08:01.820 --> 01:08:06.880
Yes, it is common knowledge among
historians, theologians, and linguists

01:08:06.880 --> 01:08:11.440
that the word Easter is the translation of
the name of a pagan fertility goddess.

01:08:12.040 --> 01:08:13.540
Why won't they tell us?

01:08:16.280 --> 01:08:20.960
One important consideration with a direct
connection to pagan fertility rites is

01:08:20.960 --> 01:08:21.680
Easter eggs.

01:08:22.320 --> 01:08:26.600
The art of decorating eggs dates back to
the spring rituals of pagan sun worship

01:08:27.100 --> 01:08:29.440
thousands of years before the time of
Christ.

01:08:29.440 --> 01:08:34.720
The spring fertility goddess, by whatever
name, was thought to have turned a bird

01:08:34.720 --> 01:08:38.500
into a hare, thus the Easter bunny laying
eggs.

01:08:39.600 --> 01:08:43.860
No, Easter eggs have nothing to do with
Jesus and everything to do with the

01:08:43.860 --> 01:08:47.360
ancient goddesses and their symbols of
spring fertility.

01:08:49.500 --> 01:08:52.920
So how did the name Easter find its way
into our Bibles?

01:08:53.620 --> 01:08:57.640
Well, when Martin Luther wrote his German
Bible, he substituted the name of a

01:08:57.640 --> 01:09:02.100
Germanic fertility goddess in place of the
word Passover in Acts 12.4.

01:09:02.780 --> 01:09:05.080
The name of that goddess was Osterne.

01:09:06.280 --> 01:09:11.300
Later, when William Tyndale translated the
Bible into English, he picked up on Martin

01:09:11.300 --> 01:09:15.920
Luther's usage of the name Osterne and
placed the name Easter in his Bible,

01:09:16.340 --> 01:09:20.420
the name of the spring fertility goddess
that his English readers were familiar

01:09:20.420 --> 01:09:20.780
with.

01:09:21.840 --> 01:09:26.600
Up until the time of Tyndale and the King
James Version of the Bible, those reading

01:09:26.600 --> 01:09:31.520
Acts 12.4 in Greek, Latin, German,
and other languages read the words that

01:09:31.520 --> 01:09:34.680
conveyed the meaning of Passover and not
Easter.

01:09:35.880 --> 01:09:39.140
Now, I realize that in regard to Easter,
there are those who would say,

01:09:39.380 --> 01:09:41.220
but that is not what it means to me.

01:09:41.940 --> 01:09:43.620
I've heard that hundreds of times.

01:09:44.200 --> 01:09:47.720
The truth is, it really doesn't make any
difference what it means to us.

01:09:48.140 --> 01:09:51.340
The real question should be, what does it
mean to our Creator?

01:09:52.420 --> 01:09:56.500
The Old Testament is full of accounts of
people who believe that they could combine

01:09:56.500 --> 01:09:59.420
paganism with the worship of the God of
the Bible.

01:10:00.080 --> 01:10:03.780
We are told that our Creator considered
that to be an abomination.

01:10:04.540 --> 01:10:06.100
That's what it means to Him.

01:10:09.350 --> 01:10:13.690
The Fourth Commandment tells us that we
are to remember the Sabbath day to keep it

01:10:13.690 --> 01:10:13.930
holy.

01:10:14.850 --> 01:10:18.570
Is Sunday, the first day of the week,
really the Christian Sabbath?

01:10:19.410 --> 01:10:23.950
About 20 years ago, our Heavenly Father
got my attention and opened my eyes to the

01:10:23.950 --> 01:10:26.570
fact that Sunday is not the Biblical
Sabbath.

01:10:27.150 --> 01:10:29.630
I thought it was, but it's not.

01:10:30.090 --> 01:10:32.570
It never has been and never will be.

01:10:33.470 --> 01:10:37.390
Just as the Fourth Commandment states,
the Sabbath day is the Sabbath of the

01:10:37.390 --> 01:10:37.630
Lord.

01:10:38.530 --> 01:10:43.550
Let's take a look at just who it was that
instituted Sabbath rest in the beginning.

01:10:44.330 --> 01:10:46.250
What does the New Testament have to say?

01:10:47.430 --> 01:10:51.810
The book of John tells us that in the
beginning was the Word and the Word was

01:10:51.810 --> 01:10:53.790
with God and the Word was God.

01:10:54.450 --> 01:10:57.830
We are told that the Word became flesh and
dwelt among the disciples.

01:10:58.610 --> 01:11:02.430
That the world was made by Him and that
the world knew Him not.

01:11:03.610 --> 01:11:07.830
Now if we really believe what the New
Testament has to say, it was Yeshua,

01:11:08.310 --> 01:11:11.830
Jesus Christ, who created all things in
six days.

01:11:12.470 --> 01:11:17.410
Therefore, it was Yeshua, Jesus Christ,
who rested on the seventh day,

01:11:17.810 --> 01:11:20.450
who blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed
it.

01:11:21.450 --> 01:11:24.690
Today there are some who would tell us
that the Fourth Commandment is,

01:11:24.850 --> 01:11:27.030
in their opinion, just for the Jews.

01:11:27.790 --> 01:11:31.910
But we must take into consideration the
fact that Jesus pronounced the Sabbath day

01:11:31.910 --> 01:11:36.270
to be holy thousands of years before
Jewish people came onto the scene.

01:11:36.930 --> 01:11:39.630
If it ever was holy, it still is.

01:11:40.150 --> 01:11:43.970
Nowhere in the Bible are we instructed
that the Sabbath day is no longer holy.

01:11:44.490 --> 01:11:45.390
Just the opposite.

01:11:46.010 --> 01:11:49.610
In fact, we are told that the Sabbath will
continue to be observed, even in the

01:11:49.610 --> 01:11:52.550
future, in the new heavens and the new
earth.

01:11:54.670 --> 01:11:58.090
The Sabbath, as stated in the Fourth
Commandment, is a day of rest.

01:11:58.610 --> 01:12:02.630
And in order to avoid the embarrassment of
trying to explain why Christians should

01:12:02.630 --> 01:12:06.910
disregard one of our Creator's
commandments, many theologians do what I

01:12:06.910 --> 01:12:08.910
call the Sabbath Sunday Shuffle.

01:12:09.630 --> 01:12:12.670
When questioned about the Sabbath,
they suddenly change the subject,

01:12:12.850 --> 01:12:15.630
stating, We worship on Sunday because...

01:12:17.010 --> 01:12:20.870
When questioned about Sabbath rest,
they quickly change the subject to Sunday

01:12:20.870 --> 01:12:21.450
worship.

01:12:22.230 --> 01:12:25.210
If you want to see a preacher dance,
just try it for yourself.

01:12:25.810 --> 01:12:29.650
You will find that most will do anything
possible to keep from talking about

01:12:29.650 --> 01:12:30.730
Sabbath rest.

01:12:32.010 --> 01:12:35.170
So how is it that Sunday became known as
the Sabbath?

01:12:35.810 --> 01:12:41.310
Well, on March 7, 321 A.D., Constantine
the Great made it a law in the Roman

01:12:41.310 --> 01:12:44.850
Empire that everyone was to rest on
Sunday.

01:12:45.970 --> 01:12:51.030
As the Roman Emperor, he decreed that all
judges and city people and craftsmen shall

01:12:51.030 --> 01:12:54.670
rest upon the venerable day of the sun,
Day Solis.

01:12:55.990 --> 01:13:00.170
As we have discussed, it is very important
to understand that Constantine honored the

01:13:00.170 --> 01:13:04.350
sun god, Sol Invictus, even after claiming
he was a Christian.

01:13:05.170 --> 01:13:10.150
At Day Solis, the day of the sun,
Sunday is a reference to the worship of

01:13:10.150 --> 01:13:13.510
the sun god, Sol Invictus, and nothing
else.

01:13:14.550 --> 01:13:17.370
Jesus never taught anyone to break the
fourth commandment.

01:13:17.970 --> 01:13:21.410
We find that at the time of the
crucifixion, after Jesus was buried,

01:13:21.910 --> 01:13:26.070
the women who came to the sepulcher rested
the Sabbath day, according to the

01:13:26.070 --> 01:13:28.870
commandment, before bringing spices to the
tomb.

01:13:29.950 --> 01:13:33.810
Now, if Jesus had instructed them that it
was unimportant to observe the fourth

01:13:33.810 --> 01:13:38.830
commandment, how in the world would they
rest on the Sabbath day, according to the

01:13:38.830 --> 01:13:39.330
commandment?

01:13:40.150 --> 01:13:41.650
Now that's hard to explain.

01:13:43.730 --> 01:13:47.950
History reveals that during the first
century, the whole known world rested on

01:13:47.950 --> 01:13:48.730
the Sabbath day.

01:13:49.590 --> 01:13:55.050
Quoting Josephus, the well-respected first
century historian, there is not any city

01:13:55.050 --> 01:13:59.570
of the Grecians, nor any of the
barbarians, nor any nation whatsoever,

01:14:00.130 --> 01:14:03.890
whether our custom of resting on the
seventh day hath not come.

01:14:06.950 --> 01:14:10.930
Another first century historian,
Philo, said basically the same thing.

01:14:11.550 --> 01:14:16.550
Speaking of eastern and western nations,
Europe and Asia, and the whole inhabited

01:14:16.550 --> 01:14:22.450
world, Philo asks, for what man is there
who does not honor that sacred seventh

01:14:22.450 --> 01:14:28.430
day, granting in consequence a relief and
relaxation from labor, for himself and for

01:14:28.430 --> 01:14:32.130
all those who are near to him,
and that not to free men only,

01:14:32.510 --> 01:14:35.870
but also to slaves, and even beasts of
burden.

01:14:36.630 --> 01:14:38.470
The whole inhabited world.

01:14:40.410 --> 01:14:45.270
Here we see that during the first century,
the time of Christ, the whole known world

01:14:45.270 --> 01:14:46.650
was resting on the Sabbath.

01:14:47.270 --> 01:14:49.670
Not just the Jews, but everyone.

01:14:52.850 --> 01:14:57.190
In the book of Acts, we find the Apostle
Paul speaking at a Jewish synagogue in

01:14:57.190 --> 01:14:57.710
Antioch.

01:14:58.290 --> 01:15:02.850
He tells us that when the Jews were gone
out of the synagogue, the Gentiles asked

01:15:02.850 --> 01:15:05.030
that he preach to them the next Sabbath.

01:15:05.690 --> 01:15:07.050
Why the next Sabbath?

01:15:07.470 --> 01:15:11.770
These were Gentiles, yet the scripture
tells us that the next Sabbath day,

01:15:12.170 --> 01:15:15.910
almost the whole city came together to
hear the word of God.

01:15:16.670 --> 01:15:17.830
Why the next Sabbath?

01:15:18.490 --> 01:15:22.610
The first century historians, Josephus and
Philo, have told us why.

01:15:23.450 --> 01:15:25.690
The people of Antioch did not have to
work.

01:15:26.050 --> 01:15:29.510
The whole known world was resting on the
seventh day.

01:15:30.430 --> 01:15:35.090
It becomes immediately apparent that it
was not necessary to inform Gentile

01:15:35.090 --> 01:15:38.870
converts to Christianity that they were
supposed to keep the Sabbath.

01:15:39.490 --> 01:15:44.170
They were already resting on that day all
over the whole known world.

01:15:45.230 --> 01:15:49.750
Some would tell us that Sabbath observance
is an Old Testament precept, that it has

01:15:49.750 --> 01:15:51.110
nothing to do with believers.

01:15:51.930 --> 01:15:54.630
That is not what we find in the New
Testament.

01:15:55.450 --> 01:16:00.090
In reference to the future destruction of
Jerusalem, Jesus told his disciples to

01:16:00.090 --> 01:16:04.270
pray that they would not have to flee in
the winter, neither on the Sabbath day.

01:16:05.410 --> 01:16:09.170
Now, these are believers that Jesus is
speaking to about events that would take

01:16:09.170 --> 01:16:10.250
place in the future.

01:16:11.050 --> 01:16:15.710
If Sabbath rest was to be a thing of the
past, why did Jesus speak of a future

01:16:15.710 --> 01:16:19.370
Sabbath day as distinguished from other
days of the week?

01:16:19.810 --> 01:16:21.530
Now, that's hard to explain.

01:16:25.110 --> 01:16:28.630
We've all heard the saying, when in Rome
do as the Romans do.

01:16:28.630 --> 01:16:31.590
Have you ever stopped to consider where
that came from?

01:16:32.530 --> 01:16:36.750
Well, at the end of the 4th century,
almost 400 years after the time of Christ,

01:16:37.190 --> 01:16:41.450
St. Augustine was given some advice by
Ambrose, the Bishop of Milan.

01:16:42.430 --> 01:16:44.770
When I am at Rome, I fast on Saturday.

01:16:45.270 --> 01:16:47.650
When I am in Milan, I do not.

01:16:48.130 --> 01:16:50.850
Follow the custom of the church where you
are.

01:16:51.750 --> 01:16:56.070
At the beginning of the 4th century,
Pope Sylvester had ordered fasting on the

01:16:56.070 --> 01:17:00.410
Sabbath, thereby turning a feast day into
a fast day.

01:17:01.210 --> 01:17:04.450
Pope Innocent made it a binding law about
100 years later.

01:17:05.670 --> 01:17:10.910
During the 5th century, the historian
Socrates tells us that almost all churches

01:17:10.910 --> 01:17:16.550
throughout the world celebrate the sacred
mysteries, or communion, on the Sabbath of

01:17:16.550 --> 01:17:17.090
each week.

01:17:17.890 --> 01:17:22.370
Yet the Christians of Alexandria and Rome,
on account of some ancient tradition,

01:17:23.070 --> 01:17:24.190
refused to do so.

01:17:24.930 --> 01:17:25.930
When in Rome?

01:17:26.770 --> 01:17:30.570
Yes, that saying which we are all familiar
with has to do with Sabbath observance.

01:17:31.050 --> 01:17:34.750
Yet we have been programmed to think of
everything but the Sabbath when that

01:17:34.750 --> 01:17:35.610
phrase is mentioned.

01:17:36.830 --> 01:17:40.510
Nowhere in Scripture is the weekly Sabbath
regarded as a day of fasting.

01:17:41.070 --> 01:17:44.750
It is a feast day, the Holy of the Lord,
a delight.

01:17:48.800 --> 01:17:52.740
These are just a few examples of the fact
that believers were keeping the Sabbath

01:17:52.740 --> 01:17:55.960
day Sabbath hundreds of years after the
time of Christ.

01:17:56.620 --> 01:17:58.180
And there are many, many more.

01:17:59.100 --> 01:18:02.960
Theologians simply write off those who
believe in the validity of all Ten

01:18:02.960 --> 01:18:07.680
Commandments as misguided believers,
when in fact it is the theologians

01:18:07.680 --> 01:18:09.260
themselves who are misguided.

01:18:10.080 --> 01:18:15.000
They have been educated to the extent that
they now deem the traditions of men more

01:18:15.000 --> 01:18:17.340
important than the commandments of God.

01:18:18.140 --> 01:18:19.900
That's not smart at all.

01:18:21.660 --> 01:18:26.440
In regards to the seventh day,
some would say, OK, we agree, all Ten

01:18:26.440 --> 01:18:27.520
Commandments are valid.

01:18:27.940 --> 01:18:32.660
But even if we wanted to keep the Sabbath,
we cannot be sure what day that really is.

01:18:33.460 --> 01:18:36.960
They say that calendars have changed and
we just can't be sure.

01:18:37.960 --> 01:18:41.660
The truth is there is nothing to prevent
us from knowing which day of the week is

01:18:41.660 --> 01:18:42.120
the Sabbath.

01:18:42.920 --> 01:18:47.180
While calendars have changed, the order of
the days of the week have stayed the same.

01:18:47.180 --> 01:18:53.420
In 1582, the Gregorian calendar replaced a
Julian calendar that had been in place

01:18:53.420 --> 01:18:57.240
since 46 BC, the time of Julius Caesar.

01:18:58.020 --> 01:19:02.340
Due to slight errors in the length of the
Julian year, adjustments were made to

01:19:02.340 --> 01:19:03.340
correct the calendar.

01:19:04.160 --> 01:19:08.700
Even so, calendar changes did not affect
the order of the days of the week.

01:19:09.560 --> 01:19:14.140
All we have to do is trace the Sabbath
back to the time of Jesus, which is easy

01:19:14.140 --> 01:19:14.520
to do.

01:19:14.520 --> 01:19:17.000
He certainly knew which day was the
Sabbath.

01:19:17.520 --> 01:19:21.900
He himself had instituted Sabbath rest at
the time of creation.

01:19:23.700 --> 01:19:27.860
While most Protestant denominations
dismiss the validity of the Fourth

01:19:27.860 --> 01:19:32.120
Commandment, the Catholic Church upholds
it, with one exception.

01:19:33.000 --> 01:19:36.040
They boldly claim the authority to change
the day.

01:19:36.760 --> 01:19:39.380
Here's what they teach regarding Sabbath
observance.

01:19:40.440 --> 01:19:45.660
Sunday is expressly distinguished from the
Sabbath, which it follows chronologically

01:19:45.660 --> 01:19:46.440
every week.

01:19:47.100 --> 01:19:51.720
For Christians, its ceremonial observation
replaces that of the Sabbath.

01:19:52.580 --> 01:19:57.060
On Sundays and other holy days of
obligation, the faithful are to refrain

01:19:57.060 --> 01:19:58.400
from engaging in work.

01:19:59.680 --> 01:20:03.940
Here we see that the Catholic Church
teaches that the obligation to rest on the

01:20:03.940 --> 01:20:08.900
Sabbath day has been replaced with the
obligation to rest on Sunday.

01:20:09.380 --> 01:20:14.360
This particular Roman Catholic belief can
be traced directly to Constantine's decree

01:20:14.360 --> 01:20:17.360
mandating rest on Sunday.

01:20:18.340 --> 01:20:23.700
All judges, city people, and craftsmen
shall rest on the venerable day of the

01:20:23.700 --> 01:20:24.000
sun.

01:20:25.020 --> 01:20:28.460
In 363, the Sonata of Laodicea made it
official.

01:20:29.360 --> 01:20:34.480
Christians must not Judaize by resting on
the Sabbath, but must work on that day,

01:20:34.700 --> 01:20:36.580
rather honoring the Lord's day.

01:20:36.580 --> 01:20:39.700
And if they can, resting as Christians.

01:20:40.240 --> 01:20:45.320
But if any shall be found to be Judaizers,
let them be anathema from Christ.

01:20:48.630 --> 01:20:54.050
By the year 381, almost 70 years after
Constantine's soldiers had placed a sign

01:20:54.050 --> 01:20:59.130
of the cross on their shields,
paganism was still being practiced side by

01:20:59.130 --> 01:21:03.590
side with Christianity, making it hard to
tell the difference between the two.

01:21:03.590 --> 01:21:08.230
We know from history that Theodosius,
the Christian emperor at that time,

01:21:08.330 --> 01:21:10.070
decided to do something about it.

01:21:11.270 --> 01:21:16.170
The laws of the Christian Roman Empire
that were established by Theodosius are

01:21:16.170 --> 01:21:19.150
recorded in a document known as the
Theodosian Code.

01:21:19.910 --> 01:21:23.870
That code states, on the Lord's day,
which is the first day of the week,

01:21:24.310 --> 01:21:29.570
on Christmas and the days of Epiphany,
Easter, and Pentecost, believers will be

01:21:29.570 --> 01:21:31.490
occupied with the worship of God.

01:21:32.450 --> 01:21:37.610
Those who follow this law we command shall
be comprised under the name of Catholic

01:21:37.610 --> 01:21:38.190
Christians.

01:21:39.030 --> 01:21:45.010
But others indeed we require as insane and
raving, to bear the infamy of heretical

01:21:45.010 --> 01:21:45.530
teachings.

01:21:46.330 --> 01:21:48.690
Their gatherings shall not receive the
name of churches.

01:21:49.490 --> 01:21:53.230
They are to be smitten first with the
divine judgment, and after that,

01:21:53.650 --> 01:21:55.970
by the vengeance of our indignation.

01:21:57.790 --> 01:22:01.770
Now, before we move on, I would like to
make one thing very clear.

01:22:02.510 --> 01:22:06.230
It was not the Catholic Church that taught
me to disregard the Fourth Commandment.

01:22:06.570 --> 01:22:08.110
It was the Protestant Church.

01:22:08.890 --> 01:22:12.250
Scores of books have been written
documenting the Catholic Church's

01:22:12.250 --> 01:22:16.690
involvement with substituting Sunday in
place of the seventh-day Sabbath.

01:22:17.250 --> 01:22:18.630
They don't deny it.

01:22:19.010 --> 01:22:22.570
They say that the Catholic Church has the
authority to make that change,

01:22:22.750 --> 01:22:24.370
and they are proud of it.

01:22:25.190 --> 01:22:27.370
Catholic theologians are honest about it.

01:22:27.790 --> 01:22:30.250
It's the Protestant theologians who are in
denial.

01:22:31.250 --> 01:22:35.670
The majority of the Protestant Reformers
did nothing to address the substitution of

01:22:35.670 --> 01:22:37.590
Sunday in place of the Sabbath.

01:22:38.250 --> 01:22:41.590
And today's Protestant theologians are
ashamed to admit it.

01:22:42.350 --> 01:22:47.570
Most will do anything to avoid an honest
and in-depth discussion about rest on the

01:22:47.570 --> 01:22:48.190
seventh day.

01:22:49.250 --> 01:22:54.130
Most attempt to change the subject to
Sunday worship as fast as they can.

01:22:55.430 --> 01:22:58.530
Yes, God has said to remember the Sabbath
day to keep it holy.

01:22:59.150 --> 01:23:02.350
And just as the first century believers
that walked in talk with Christ,

01:23:02.910 --> 01:23:06.850
millions of believers around the world are
still remembering the Sabbath day.

01:23:07.510 --> 01:23:10.670
It is not some bad thing that was nailed
to the cross.

01:23:11.190 --> 01:23:13.890
It is a delight, the holy of the Lord.

01:23:15.310 --> 01:23:17.450
I was amazed when I learned these things.

01:23:17.610 --> 01:23:20.550
You know, I didn't know this for years and
years.

01:23:20.770 --> 01:23:25.430
And what's so sad is that theologians know
these things and they won't tell people.

01:23:26.310 --> 01:23:27.710
You know, it is.

01:23:27.750 --> 01:23:36.050
It's absolutely heartbreaking when you
think how deceived we've been and how far

01:23:36.050 --> 01:23:38.390
away we are from the truth.

01:23:38.390 --> 01:23:42.730
You know, the first time that I went to
Israel, which is actually when I went into

01:23:42.730 --> 01:23:45.130
that little altar thing there at Caesarea
Maritim.

01:23:47.610 --> 01:23:53.790
That's really when things really started
hitting me about the truth of this.

01:23:53.890 --> 01:23:59.210
Well, the Lord himself had told me just a
few months before I went that he wanted me

01:23:59.210 --> 01:24:00.410
to start keeping the Sabbath.

01:24:00.850 --> 01:24:03.090
I heard it in my spirit, right?

01:24:04.030 --> 01:24:05.290
I didn't question him.

01:24:05.450 --> 01:24:07.110
I knew what he was talking about.

01:24:07.650 --> 01:24:08.410
I knew.

01:24:09.270 --> 01:24:10.690
And it changed my life.

01:24:12.190 --> 01:24:13.110
That was 2002.

01:24:15.070 --> 01:24:17.670
You know, the Sabbath is a delight.

01:24:17.830 --> 01:24:18.970
That's what the Scriptures tell us.

01:24:19.030 --> 01:24:23.790
And if people would just start keeping the
Sabbath, it would be a wonderful thing.

01:24:24.710 --> 01:24:26.970
We're told that his commandments are not
grievous.

01:24:27.150 --> 01:24:31.130
He didn't tell us to rest on the Sabbath
day to be mean to us or give us some bad

01:24:31.130 --> 01:24:31.490
thing.

01:24:31.670 --> 01:24:32.890
It's for our own good.

01:24:33.070 --> 01:24:35.350
It's a day when we can rest and think
about him.

01:24:35.350 --> 01:24:39.730
And I'm sure there's some health benefits
to it as well that people are not aware

01:24:39.730 --> 01:24:39.910
of.

01:24:40.030 --> 01:24:43.490
There's a lot of things we don't
understand, but it's always to our

01:24:43.490 --> 01:24:44.930
advantage to do what God says.

01:24:45.410 --> 01:24:46.190
Well, it is.

01:24:46.370 --> 01:24:51.750
And, you know, he wants us to be obedient
to him just because we love him.

01:24:52.030 --> 01:24:56.830
It doesn't mean that we're going to
understand everything before we do it.

01:24:56.830 --> 01:25:03.930
You know, if you have to understand all of
the aspects, the benefits or whatever of

01:25:03.930 --> 01:25:09.070
doing something that God tells you to do,
how is that obedience?

01:25:09.590 --> 01:25:12.250
That's just my will.

01:25:13.130 --> 01:25:17.190
And our will needs to be... and the
Sabbath is a great example.

01:25:18.430 --> 01:25:23.690
Because I had no idea what a blessing it
was going to be to me in so many ways.

01:25:23.690 --> 01:25:31.450
I had no idea how many times in Scripture,
Scripture that I had read all my life.

01:25:32.770 --> 01:25:37.530
He's talking about the Sabbath,
the blessings of keeping the Sabbath and

01:25:37.530 --> 01:25:39.110
the mark that's on you.

01:25:40.410 --> 01:25:44.350
Well, it says the Sabbath is a sign
between him and his people that they'll

01:25:44.350 --> 01:25:46.470
know that he's the God that sanctifies
them.

01:25:47.170 --> 01:25:50.430
In this video we've been looking at,
there's all kind of gods.

01:25:51.170 --> 01:25:56.370
There's Helios and Apollo and Zeus and
Baal and all these different gods.

01:25:56.390 --> 01:25:59.150
So how do we know which God it is that's
the real creator?

01:25:59.310 --> 01:26:00.530
That's the one in the Bible.

01:26:01.450 --> 01:26:04.090
And one of the ways we know it is because
of the Sabbath.

01:26:04.730 --> 01:26:08.330
He's the one that created all things,
rested on the seventh day and hallowed it.

01:26:09.010 --> 01:26:13.350
And it's a sign between him and his people
that they'll know he's who the creator is.

01:26:14.470 --> 01:26:20.730
And Richard, were you hanging around with
me when the ministerial alliance of Odessa

01:26:20.730 --> 01:26:23.550
and Midland came against us for the very
thing?

01:26:23.890 --> 01:26:26.070
That would have been 97, 98.

01:26:26.190 --> 01:26:28.030
I might remember a little bit about that.

01:26:28.250 --> 01:26:30.150
Tell us the story.

01:26:30.830 --> 01:26:33.670
Well, they just didn't like this Jewish
thing.

01:26:34.290 --> 01:26:38.030
They got up a petition, all of them,
and signed it.

01:26:39.050 --> 01:26:42.670
And went to the cable companies hoping
they could take us off the air.

01:26:43.350 --> 01:26:44.270
Well, that's federal law.

01:26:44.530 --> 01:26:45.690
It wasn't a city law.

01:26:46.870 --> 01:26:48.790
But it was a great thing.

01:26:48.870 --> 01:26:50.930
They told people, stop watching us.

01:26:51.490 --> 01:26:53.090
And we picked up lots of new viewers.

01:26:55.070 --> 01:27:01.750
You know, the Sabbath has been observed
since the time of creation, before anybody

01:27:01.750 --> 01:27:02.970
ever heard of Jewish people.

01:27:03.710 --> 01:27:07.570
Everybody says, well, you got the
Christian Sabbath on Sunday and the Jewish

01:27:07.570 --> 01:27:09.210
Sabbath on Saturday.

01:27:09.210 --> 01:27:12.390
It's not the Christian Sabbath or the
Jewish.

01:27:12.510 --> 01:27:13.430
It's God's Sabbath.

01:27:14.330 --> 01:27:19.050
Established a long time before anybody
ever heard of Jews or Christians.

01:27:19.610 --> 01:27:21.930
It's just another form of replacement
theology.

01:27:22.410 --> 01:27:24.070
And that's what they were so mad about.

01:27:24.310 --> 01:27:30.750
Well, I think what's interesting about it
is that Constantine and all of these

01:27:30.750 --> 01:27:37.150
things that happened in history actually
managed to accomplish for the enemy what

01:27:37.150 --> 01:27:44.610
had been happening prior to Yeshua with
the conquerors that came into Israel.

01:27:44.870 --> 01:27:50.790
They conquered... anybody conquers a
Jewish people, there's three things that

01:27:50.790 --> 01:27:53.730
they put a stop to immediately and you
will lose your life.

01:27:55.990 --> 01:27:57.550
The first one is the Sabbath.

01:27:57.950 --> 01:27:59.490
You keep it, you're dead.

01:28:00.470 --> 01:28:06.390
Keeping kosher, God's dietary laws,
they're not Jewish dietary laws,

01:28:07.370 --> 01:28:08.670
and circumcision.

01:28:09.690 --> 01:28:10.090
That's right.

01:28:10.170 --> 01:28:13.990
Well, of course, circumcision is one of
the things that started the Maccabean

01:28:13.990 --> 01:28:14.470
revolt.

01:28:16.090 --> 01:28:20.790
You know, Israel was right there between
the Ptolemy and the Seleucus, the

01:28:20.790 --> 01:28:25.270
different empires that came to be after
Alexander the Great died.

01:28:25.270 --> 01:28:29.530
It was split up into four parts and they
were right there in between all that.

01:28:29.650 --> 01:28:35.530
And, of course, when the Syrian empire,
the Seleucid empire, took over,

01:28:36.350 --> 01:28:38.450
that's when Antiochus IV came along.

01:28:39.150 --> 01:28:42.190
And, you know, you couldn't keep the
Sabbath, you couldn't circumcise,

01:28:42.310 --> 01:28:45.010
they would kill mothers for having their
children circumcised.

01:28:45.570 --> 01:28:46.890
Oh, it was worse than that.

01:28:47.290 --> 01:28:51.070
They would kill the baby and hang the baby
around the mother's neck until it rotted

01:28:51.070 --> 01:28:52.370
off and then kill the mother.

01:28:52.370 --> 01:28:52.530
Right.

01:28:53.490 --> 01:28:55.030
There's a lot of mean folks out there.

01:28:56.290 --> 01:28:56.970
One thing...

01:28:56.970 --> 01:28:57.410
There still are.

01:28:57.690 --> 01:28:59.550
There still are a lot of mean folks.

01:29:00.210 --> 01:29:03.270
But there's a lot of good folks,
too, that don't know what we're talking

01:29:03.270 --> 01:29:03.570
about.

01:29:03.850 --> 01:29:05.630
And all we want to do is check it out.

01:29:06.370 --> 01:29:10.390
A lot of people think that we're... the
first thing people try to do is say we're

01:29:10.390 --> 01:29:12.770
talking about salvation by way of works.

01:29:13.310 --> 01:29:15.210
And we need to make it plain over and over
again.

01:29:15.250 --> 01:29:19.230
We're saved by grace through faith,
not of works, lest any man should boast.

01:29:19.230 --> 01:29:23.110
There's no commandment that we can keep
that will save us.

01:29:23.650 --> 01:29:28.390
But once we are saved by the power of the
Holy Spirit, we can live according to His

01:29:28.390 --> 01:29:30.050
commandments and do what He says.

01:29:30.310 --> 01:29:31.050
And we should want to.

01:29:31.970 --> 01:29:35.570
The scripture that I always point out to
people is we're told in 1 John 3,

01:29:35.610 --> 01:29:38.030
4 that sin is the transgression of the
law.

01:29:38.590 --> 01:29:40.970
And, of course, we know that the wages of
sin is death.

01:29:41.510 --> 01:29:46.650
And we're told in Romans that Jesus died
to pay the penalty for sins that are past.

01:29:46.650 --> 01:29:49.510
He didn't die so we can keep breaking
God's commandments.

01:29:49.710 --> 01:29:51.290
That's what the Holy Spirit is all about.

01:29:52.130 --> 01:29:56.270
The scriptures tell us that the carnal
mind is enmity or hatred against God,

01:29:56.350 --> 01:29:59.110
for it is not subject to His law,
neither indeed can it be.

01:29:59.650 --> 01:30:04.110
So not only did He lay down His life to
pay the death penalty for our past sins,

01:30:04.670 --> 01:30:07.670
He sends us the Holy Spirit of promise,
the earnest of our inheritance,

01:30:07.830 --> 01:30:09.730
to empower us to keep those commandments.

01:30:10.710 --> 01:30:14.730
And it's not that we don't mess up,
but if we confess our sins, He's faithful

01:30:14.730 --> 01:30:16.290
and just to forgive us our sins.

01:30:16.650 --> 01:30:18.650
And cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

01:30:19.270 --> 01:30:21.410
But we cannot practice sin.

01:30:21.530 --> 01:30:24.690
There's plenty of New Testament scripture
that backs that up.

01:30:24.750 --> 01:30:28.150
It tells us that if we sin willfully,
once we've come to the knowledge of the

01:30:28.150 --> 01:30:33.090
truth, there's no more sacrifice for sin,
but a certain fearful looking for of

01:30:33.090 --> 01:30:37.030
judgment and fiery indignation that shall
devour the adversary.

01:30:37.710 --> 01:30:41.690
And it concludes by saying it's a fearful
thing to fall into the hands of the living

01:30:41.690 --> 01:30:42.070
God.

01:30:42.070 --> 01:30:45.150
You know, Paul talked about it over and
over again.

01:30:45.190 --> 01:30:47.810
He said, do we make void the law that
grace may abound?

01:30:48.010 --> 01:30:48.710
God forbid.

01:30:48.870 --> 01:30:50.410
Yea, we establish the law.

01:30:51.050 --> 01:30:54.110
So the believers of the first century kept
the commandments of God.

01:30:54.590 --> 01:30:58.890
And then by the end of the first century
and the Romans had destroyed Jerusalem and

01:30:58.890 --> 01:31:03.930
scattered the people like we talked about
in 135 when Hadrian made a pagan city on

01:31:03.930 --> 01:31:04.950
the ruins of Jerusalem.

01:31:06.090 --> 01:31:07.850
People stopped keeping those commandments.

01:31:08.630 --> 01:31:13.210
But there's always been a faithful remnant
all the way out through history that's

01:31:13.210 --> 01:31:16.230
kept the commandments of God and had the
faith of Yeshua, Jesus.

01:31:16.930 --> 01:31:21.070
And so we're not preaching salvation by
way of works.

01:31:21.090 --> 01:31:24.870
We're just saying that once we are saved
by the power of the Holy Spirit,

01:31:24.910 --> 01:31:26.470
we can keep those commandments.

01:31:26.630 --> 01:31:28.290
They're for our own good and their
delight.

01:31:29.010 --> 01:31:34.850
I don't think in this hour that we have
addressed your books because you've got a

01:31:34.850 --> 01:31:36.010
lot of hunters out there.

01:31:36.010 --> 01:31:39.370
Hunters are men who hunt across the
channels.

01:31:40.130 --> 01:31:42.050
And you need to talk about your books.

01:31:42.510 --> 01:31:43.710
Alright, this is my first little book.

01:31:43.790 --> 01:31:45.650
It's entitled Too Long in the Sun.

01:31:45.770 --> 01:31:50.030
It traces pagan sun worship from the time
of the Chaldeans to the Assyrians,

01:31:50.190 --> 01:31:53.410
the Babylonians, the Medo-Persians,
the Greeks, the Romans, and right on

01:31:53.410 --> 01:31:54.270
through present day.

01:31:55.190 --> 01:31:57.390
This is pretty much a classic.

01:31:57.770 --> 01:32:00.310
A lot of people have learned about these
things through this book.

01:32:00.310 --> 01:32:01.950
It's been a best seller over the years.

01:32:01.950 --> 01:32:06.830
And then my latest book is called Time is
the Ally of Deceit.

01:32:07.390 --> 01:32:11.310
And it picks up pretty much in the Roman
Empire and gives a lot of documentation

01:32:11.310 --> 01:32:12.110
and details.

01:32:12.230 --> 01:32:14.470
I have an extensive index in the back of
the book.

01:32:14.790 --> 01:32:18.630
So when people ask us about these things,
we can look it right up and go to the

01:32:18.630 --> 01:32:19.130
details.

01:32:19.250 --> 01:32:25.410
And there's footnotes on every page that
gives the history references on each page.

01:32:25.790 --> 01:32:27.930
And so it's a good reference book.

01:32:27.930 --> 01:32:33.570
And then I produce five DVDs, one DVD for
each chapter of the book.

01:32:34.490 --> 01:32:37.990
And so when I talk about these places,
I take you on site when I can and show you

01:32:37.990 --> 01:32:42.330
the actual places and the documentation is
in the DVD.

01:32:42.510 --> 01:32:43.650
And you have these in your bookstore.

01:32:44.730 --> 01:32:50.670
And then what we're watching right now is
a one hour summary of what's in that six

01:32:50.670 --> 01:32:51.370
hours of video.

01:32:51.490 --> 01:32:56.310
I can't give all the documentation,
but it tells the story in a kind way.

01:32:56.310 --> 01:32:57.770
At least that's what I intended.

01:32:58.130 --> 01:33:02.910
So that people can see the summary and
start to think about these things.

01:33:03.010 --> 01:33:05.770
If they want the details, it's in the
other material.

01:33:07.710 --> 01:33:11.550
Okay, Too Long in the Sun and Time is the
Ally of Deceit.

01:33:11.610 --> 01:33:16.510
The book and the DVD set, you can get
those at the GLC bookstore.

01:33:17.010 --> 01:33:22.670
We'll probably also have this last one,
Half God Said, the summary edition.

01:33:22.670 --> 01:33:26.870
But we're really encouraging you to
partner with Richard Reeves.

01:33:27.310 --> 01:33:29.170
And you can go onto his website.

01:33:29.310 --> 01:33:30.650
The information is on the screen.

01:33:31.350 --> 01:33:38.030
What he is doing with that is he's trying
to get that into your hands so that you

01:33:38.030 --> 01:33:39.510
can get the information out.

01:33:39.610 --> 01:33:44.630
And for $25, he'll send you 10 copies of
that to get out.

01:33:44.870 --> 01:33:46.970
So we really encourage you to do that.

01:33:46.970 --> 01:33:52.290
A lot of people all over the world,
we're sending them out everywhere.

01:33:52.690 --> 01:33:55.110
And it's making sense to some people.

01:33:56.530 --> 01:33:59.290
But once again, I don't ask people to
believe me.

01:33:59.390 --> 01:34:03.930
But I do plead with them and beg them just
to look at the things we talk about.

01:34:04.610 --> 01:34:05.710
Check them out for yourself.

01:34:06.210 --> 01:34:09.870
Just go to the local library and look up
Sabbath, Christmas, Easter.

01:34:10.030 --> 01:34:11.090
It's right there in the encyclopedias.

01:34:13.450 --> 01:34:15.970
And I was amazed and I think people will
be too.

01:34:17.070 --> 01:34:20.890
I think when this program airs,
we'll probably run a special in the

01:34:20.890 --> 01:34:21.170
bookstore.

01:34:21.950 --> 01:34:24.070
So I have to talk to the bookstore about
that.

01:34:24.490 --> 01:34:29.530
But you can call the bookstore and you can
find out what that special is going to be.

01:34:29.550 --> 01:34:31.270
And I'm sure it will be posted online too.

01:34:31.890 --> 01:34:36.610
But it is so important that this
information get out.

01:34:36.950 --> 01:34:42.670
It's amazing because it so ties to
everything that GLC does.

01:34:43.010 --> 01:34:43.710
What do you got?

01:34:43.710 --> 01:34:46.570
I'd like to recommend this book over all
of them right here.

01:34:46.970 --> 01:34:48.650
This is the only book we really need.

01:34:48.830 --> 01:34:49.770
We carry that one too.

01:34:50.750 --> 01:34:52.610
But this is the book we need to read.

01:34:52.690 --> 01:34:55.950
And we need to start at the very beginning
in the book of Genesis and read all the

01:34:55.950 --> 01:34:56.310
way through.

01:34:57.890 --> 01:34:59.550
And it'll tell us the whole story.

01:34:59.610 --> 01:35:01.290
So this is the book we need right here.

01:35:01.530 --> 01:35:04.670
How much has the Bible helped you in your
archaeology studies?

01:35:04.950 --> 01:35:08.350
Oh, the archaeology proves the Bible true
over and over and over again.

01:35:09.190 --> 01:35:10.550
We've been talking about Caesarea.

01:35:10.750 --> 01:35:13.590
One of the best examples is the Pontius
Pilate inscription there.

01:35:13.710 --> 01:35:16.510
And a good friend of mine is the one that
discovered that.

01:35:17.070 --> 01:35:20.450
For years and years, they said that you
could prove the Bible is not true because

01:35:20.450 --> 01:35:24.010
nobody found inscriptions or any
references to Pontius Pilate.

01:35:25.090 --> 01:35:28.390
And he was in charge of the excavations
there at the Roman theater.

01:35:28.690 --> 01:35:32.890
And they found the inscription that said,
Pontius Pilate, governor of Judea.

01:35:33.670 --> 01:35:35.890
Not Palestine, but Judea.

01:35:36.030 --> 01:35:37.930
And so he found the inscription.

01:35:38.110 --> 01:35:39.350
And that's just one example.

01:35:41.130 --> 01:35:46.490
Over and over again, archaeology confirms
the biblical record.

01:35:46.750 --> 01:35:47.670
We knew it was true.

01:35:50.490 --> 01:35:55.790
But these things, I hope that people will
realize that and then look at the rest of

01:35:55.790 --> 01:35:55.910
it.

01:35:56.050 --> 01:36:00.530
So the archaeology work is to get people
to take another look, dust their Bibles

01:36:00.530 --> 01:36:01.710
off and take another look.

01:36:01.870 --> 01:36:03.050
And to really look at it.

01:36:03.050 --> 01:36:08.710
And I know last night we were discussing a
site that is in, maybe Jordan?

01:36:09.630 --> 01:36:11.750
But it was Jerash we were talking about.

01:36:12.070 --> 01:36:13.030
No, that's not the one.

01:36:14.570 --> 01:36:15.490
Pella or Petra.

01:36:15.630 --> 01:36:20.050
But you said, it cannot be because.

01:36:21.310 --> 01:36:22.710
This is what the Bible says.

01:36:22.850 --> 01:36:24.070
Boo, boo, boo, boo, boo, boo, boo,
boo.

01:36:24.290 --> 01:36:26.210
And he just lined it all out.

01:36:26.750 --> 01:36:30.690
It's like, this is your ultimate source.

01:36:30.690 --> 01:36:36.110
And it's like, if the word says that this
is where it is, it gives this description.

01:36:36.270 --> 01:36:39.110
That's got to be where it is.

01:36:39.150 --> 01:36:39.570
Exactly.

01:36:39.770 --> 01:36:40.670
This is right.

01:36:40.750 --> 01:36:42.650
If this is not right, we're in bad
trouble.

01:36:42.810 --> 01:36:43.570
We are in bad trouble.

01:36:43.730 --> 01:36:44.130
And it is right.

01:36:44.290 --> 01:36:46.250
So we're not in bad trouble if we go by
it.

01:36:46.670 --> 01:36:50.010
And if we think that there's anything in
there that contradicts itself,

01:36:50.470 --> 01:36:51.610
that's our problem.

01:36:51.850 --> 01:36:52.970
Because it doesn't.

01:36:52.970 --> 01:36:58.070
We know that everything, we've learned
that everything is based on those first

01:36:58.070 --> 01:37:01.110
five books of the Bible, collectively
known as the Torah.

01:37:02.190 --> 01:37:05.550
All the prophets, all the writings,
everything ties to that.

01:37:05.650 --> 01:37:06.130
Guess what?

01:37:06.210 --> 01:37:07.470
The New Testament's commentary.

01:37:08.270 --> 01:37:08.730
And guess what?

01:37:08.810 --> 01:37:12.330
You can't understand Revelation without
those first five books either.

01:37:13.370 --> 01:37:15.250
We've done a lot of archaeological work.

01:37:15.710 --> 01:37:18.290
The story of the Hittites is another
thing.

01:37:18.450 --> 01:37:22.170
People said they hadn't ever found Hittite
civilization.

01:37:22.170 --> 01:37:26.330
I do some work in Turkey and there was a
professor by the name of Ekrem Akurgal

01:37:26.330 --> 01:37:28.230
that found vast Hittite civilization.

01:37:29.030 --> 01:37:31.850
And we know now that they were allies with
the Egyptians.

01:37:32.790 --> 01:37:36.910
And so, you know, just over and over and
everywhere you dig in Israel, it just

01:37:36.910 --> 01:37:38.450
keeps proving the Scriptures are true.

01:37:39.550 --> 01:37:43.270
I know that the digs around Jerusalem are
just phenomenal.

01:37:44.830 --> 01:37:47.790
They're absolutely phenomenal,
the things that they are proving.

01:37:48.690 --> 01:37:50.690
And it's no wonder that...

01:37:50.690 --> 01:37:51.670
Can I show you a little clip?

01:37:52.170 --> 01:37:52.730
Yes, please.

01:37:53.250 --> 01:37:56.210
We have a little clip of our excavations
in Jerusalem.

01:37:56.870 --> 01:37:59.750
We still have a little conclusion on this,
but can I show you a little short clip of

01:37:59.750 --> 01:38:00.650
what we're doing in Jerusalem?

01:38:01.610 --> 01:38:01.970
Please.

01:38:02.070 --> 01:38:03.290
Well, they're not quite ready yet.

01:38:03.850 --> 01:38:05.510
Okay, now.

01:38:06.110 --> 01:38:06.850
Okay, here we go.

01:38:07.650 --> 01:38:12.290
I'm going to try to give you a little tour
of the southern passageway.

01:38:13.290 --> 01:38:20.170
I'm probably about halfway in,
leading back to the defensive wall,

01:38:20.290 --> 01:38:23.890
is what I call it, because it has windows
or airports in it.

01:38:31.240 --> 01:38:32.780
Coming up over a little hill here.

01:38:34.640 --> 01:38:42.820
And then, right here, I'm kneeling down on
top of a semicircular man-made wall.

01:38:44.800 --> 01:38:45.940
You can see a little of the glow.

01:38:46.400 --> 01:38:47.600
I'll try to get my light up here.

01:38:48.520 --> 01:38:52.040
You can see a little bit of the glow from
the excavation in there.

01:38:53.560 --> 01:38:57.100
But I'll go down here.

01:38:59.040 --> 01:39:00.280
I'll turn back around now.

01:39:01.840 --> 01:39:06.220
And as you can see, that's a man-made
wall.

01:39:06.620 --> 01:39:11.400
Kind of a semicircular that goes up over
that hump that I just came up over there

01:39:11.400 --> 01:39:13.520
in the cave.

01:39:15.180 --> 01:39:17.900
Let's see if I can zoom here just a little
bit so you can see.

01:39:21.560 --> 01:39:23.540
And you can see it's a man-made area.

01:39:25.160 --> 01:39:32.300
If we spin on around here to the left,
there's passageways that lead way back in

01:39:32.300 --> 01:39:32.520
there.

01:39:34.360 --> 01:39:35.900
And David's down in there now.

01:39:36.280 --> 01:39:38.580
I think you can see a little bit of his
light flashing there.

01:39:39.560 --> 01:39:41.940
I think I saw his light flashing just a
minute ago.

01:39:42.480 --> 01:39:43.080
Yeah, there he is.

01:39:44.140 --> 01:39:45.680
He's coming back out now.

01:39:48.780 --> 01:39:49.760
What'd you see, David?

01:39:51.540 --> 01:39:58.180
Well, it goes back quite a way,
and then it dead-ends with rock.

01:39:58.520 --> 01:40:03.060
But all the way back to the back,
you can still see quarry marks.

01:40:04.100 --> 01:40:06.460
I mean, through some of the tighter stuff.

01:40:06.780 --> 01:40:09.360
So evidently the floor is much deeper in
here.

01:40:09.420 --> 01:40:10.980
This is all cave-in or fill.

01:40:10.980 --> 01:40:13.680
If you're seeing quarry marks,
they had to bring it out.

01:40:13.780 --> 01:40:19.360
And there's no way they could have gotten
it out with it the way it was.

01:40:19.540 --> 01:40:25.860
So I guess the logical assumption is that
the floor was much deeper, and this is a

01:40:25.860 --> 01:40:26.480
lot of fill.

01:40:28.720 --> 01:40:32.740
Well, to get a better idea when we start
excavating down the wall up here...

01:40:32.740 --> 01:40:43.640
And I was just talking to the camera here
about this semicircular wall that we know

01:40:43.640 --> 01:40:45.280
has to be man-made.

01:40:46.660 --> 01:40:51.120
And so evidently there's no telling how
tall that is, so we'll have to try to

01:40:51.120 --> 01:40:51.840
determine that.

01:40:52.320 --> 01:40:57.480
As we excavate down, we may find that
that's the top of a wall that may be 10 or

01:40:57.480 --> 01:40:58.280
15 feet high.

01:40:58.340 --> 01:40:59.760
We just don't really know at this point.

01:41:03.660 --> 01:41:08.860
All the way back up to where we were,
you can start to see some of our work

01:41:08.860 --> 01:41:11.740
lights back up in here.

01:41:13.840 --> 01:41:14.940
It's getting pretty low in here.

01:41:15.020 --> 01:41:16.140
I'm going to do a little crawling around.

01:41:32.270 --> 01:41:32.970
There's Sherry.

01:41:33.370 --> 01:41:34.870
What do you got, Sherry?

01:41:35.070 --> 01:41:36.750
I'm supposed to brush down there?

01:41:37.090 --> 01:41:37.670
Yeah, the wall.

01:41:37.850 --> 01:41:39.610
They're starting on the wall up at the
top.

01:41:39.610 --> 01:41:43.930
Work from the top down and start cleaning
and looking for pottery in the wall.

01:42:00.180 --> 01:42:04.000
Now we're back up to the area where we're
working.

01:42:07.880 --> 01:42:12.780
We're starting by taking this down so we
can work.

01:42:13.740 --> 01:42:17.280
There's a plate that you can switch on.

01:42:17.280 --> 01:42:24.560
We have 5 or 6 big filling buckets and
then we pass them up, probably 50 or 75

01:42:24.560 --> 01:42:29.740
feet up to an area up the hill here.

01:42:29.960 --> 01:42:36.060
I'm going through the opening in the wall
now to give you an idea about what we're

01:42:36.060 --> 01:42:36.620
having to do.

01:42:37.220 --> 01:42:38.560
A lot of hard work.

01:42:48.740 --> 01:42:51.420
I'm going to go up the line here a little
bit.

01:42:55.380 --> 01:42:56.940
Made sandbag steps.

01:42:59.420 --> 01:42:59.940
Kangaroo.

01:43:02.920 --> 01:43:04.720
Whatever they end up getting in the
trailer.

01:43:05.340 --> 01:43:06.600
A roadkill kangaroo.

01:43:10.820 --> 01:43:12.540
Buckets being thrown back down.

01:43:15.480 --> 01:43:21.560
And then this is where we're dumping back
over in this area.

01:43:38.660 --> 01:43:44.300
And then I think I'll just keep on going
and take you on back over to the other

01:43:44.300 --> 01:43:44.540
area.

01:43:45.360 --> 01:43:45.760
Steve.

01:43:46.120 --> 01:43:48.980
Steve, nice to meet you.

01:43:49.100 --> 01:43:49.900
Nice to meet you.

01:43:50.200 --> 01:43:51.660
It's nice to hear all these southern
accents.

01:43:51.880 --> 01:43:53.320
My God, I don't hear that in a long time.

01:43:53.640 --> 01:43:54.640
I'm from L.A.

01:43:55.580 --> 01:43:56.380
Lower Alabama.

01:44:00.620 --> 01:44:01.980
So tell me about you.

01:44:02.120 --> 01:44:04.400
I'm just a student at the University of
Chicago Divinity School.

01:44:04.720 --> 01:44:05.440
Just a student.

01:44:06.120 --> 01:44:08.600
I think that sounds more important than
just a student.

01:44:09.080 --> 01:44:09.940
Very interesting.

01:44:10.520 --> 01:44:11.280
Thank you, sir.

01:44:11.620 --> 01:44:12.420
We'll talk later.

01:44:21.080 --> 01:44:25.820
Alright, we're going to keep on going with
the tour here.

01:44:27.480 --> 01:44:31.460
I'm going to kind of try to keep the
camera going and take you on a complete

01:44:31.460 --> 01:44:31.820
tour.

01:44:32.960 --> 01:44:38.660
We're going to climb it up, probably 20 or
30 feet here, up steps that we've made.

01:44:40.300 --> 01:44:43.340
And then we'll keep on going.

01:44:44.540 --> 01:44:45.680
What have we got going on?

01:44:46.900 --> 01:44:49.640
Sandbagging, making stairwells,
and checking out the progress.

01:44:50.040 --> 01:44:50.300
Alright.

01:44:51.020 --> 01:44:52.520
What do you think so far?

01:44:52.880 --> 01:44:53.600
Feels great.

01:44:53.940 --> 01:44:54.860
Made some steps.

01:44:55.200 --> 01:44:55.900
They look good.

01:44:56.200 --> 01:44:58.320
Alright, take that thing off so we can see
your face.

01:44:58.920 --> 01:44:59.520
There you go.

01:44:59.520 --> 01:45:01.500
How about you?

01:45:01.540 --> 01:45:02.540
You got it all under control?

01:45:02.880 --> 01:45:06.980
I would say he's the supervisor,
but he's been working too hard for that.

01:45:07.660 --> 01:45:12.240
He's been handling these heavy sandbags
like a muscle man here.

01:45:12.700 --> 01:45:13.920
What do you think so far?

01:45:14.460 --> 01:45:15.140
It's great.

01:45:15.500 --> 01:45:16.380
What do you like the best?

01:45:17.720 --> 01:45:18.520
Too easy.

01:45:19.180 --> 01:45:19.700
No.

01:45:20.320 --> 01:45:22.140
What's your best fun job?

01:45:22.880 --> 01:45:24.140
I guess all of them.

01:45:24.140 --> 01:45:24.780
All of it.

01:45:24.860 --> 01:45:25.080
Alright.

01:45:25.260 --> 01:45:25.500
Okay.

01:45:26.600 --> 01:45:28.660
Alright, I'm going to keep on going with
my camera tour here.

01:45:29.200 --> 01:45:34.780
And work my way back down to the bigger
room over here where we were working

01:45:34.780 --> 01:45:35.260
yesterday.

01:45:36.680 --> 01:45:43.340
And as you can see, we've made sandbag
steps down through here.

01:45:44.740 --> 01:45:47.780
And we're going down probably 15 feet
right here.

01:45:48.400 --> 01:45:49.440
Work our way down.

01:45:49.520 --> 01:45:51.860
You can almost stand up in this area.

01:45:52.900 --> 01:45:55.080
And then we get into the big room down
here.

01:45:56.560 --> 01:46:03.260
And I would say this is probably 50 by 75
feet.

01:46:04.680 --> 01:46:08.200
And this is where we've been filling the
sandbags from this area right here.

01:46:08.260 --> 01:46:10.500
You can see this loose material.

01:46:10.660 --> 01:46:13.020
This is where we've been making sandbags
for the steps.

01:46:14.260 --> 01:46:16.580
And then you can hear the jackhammer back
over here.

01:46:18.100 --> 01:46:21.100
Yesterday we were working in this open
passageway.

01:46:22.520 --> 01:46:26.120
And as we were moving material,
we had some big stones to roll out.

01:46:26.280 --> 01:46:28.960
So we had to kind of scramble and run for
it there.

01:46:29.860 --> 01:46:31.660
And most of it's been removed now.

01:46:31.860 --> 01:46:36.480
We're jackhammering all the big rocks.

01:46:37.640 --> 01:46:44.580
You can see what we've piled up here that
has come out of that passageway or

01:46:44.580 --> 01:46:44.960
opening.

01:46:46.220 --> 01:46:48.140
Evidently this led into a big room.

01:46:48.980 --> 01:46:51.180
And what's happening is it's all caved in
in there.

01:46:51.280 --> 01:46:54.880
And we can see up about, I would say,
25 feet.

01:46:55.740 --> 01:46:57.600
And we see large...

01:46:57.600 --> 01:46:58.140
Wow!

01:46:58.140 --> 01:47:00.780
It gives you a little idea of what's going
on over there.

01:47:00.880 --> 01:47:02.760
We really are doing a lot of work.

01:47:02.900 --> 01:47:03.900
It's a lot of hard work.

01:47:03.980 --> 01:47:06.000
And we use volunteers from all over the
world.

01:47:06.240 --> 01:47:09.160
It's amazing what goes on under the ground
that you have no clue about.

01:47:09.320 --> 01:47:10.060
Where we're at.

01:47:10.720 --> 01:47:12.560
Well, this is under Mount Moriah.

01:47:12.720 --> 01:47:15.360
This is under the Temple Mount,
under the Old City of Jerusalem.

01:47:15.360 --> 01:47:19.360
First Century Jerusalem is about 25 to 30
feet underground in that area.

01:47:20.200 --> 01:47:21.940
And we're below that.

01:47:22.300 --> 01:47:25.700
And so there's passageways leading in
every different direction.

01:47:25.880 --> 01:47:30.140
According to Jewish legend, and also
according to the man I work with,

01:47:30.220 --> 01:47:33.360
some of the Temple treasures are thought
to have been taken out during the

01:47:33.360 --> 01:47:35.600
Babylonian siege and hidden.

01:47:35.680 --> 01:47:40.680
Because when the Babylonians got the city
in 586, they didn't get certain of the

01:47:40.680 --> 01:47:41.460
Temple treasures.

01:47:42.320 --> 01:47:44.320
And so there's no telling what's down
there.

01:47:45.700 --> 01:47:47.160
Even maybe the Ark?

01:47:47.300 --> 01:47:48.160
Even maybe the Ark.

01:47:48.340 --> 01:47:48.660
Yes, sir.

01:47:50.520 --> 01:47:52.340
So we've got a lot of work.

01:47:52.960 --> 01:47:58.440
Where I am right now is, I mean,
the bottom line is it's going to take more

01:47:58.440 --> 01:48:01.080
money to move this material than I've ever
had.

01:48:01.440 --> 01:48:04.040
And so we're working on the shoring
designs now.

01:48:04.900 --> 01:48:09.160
And if anybody out there is listening and
wants to help us, we can sure use some

01:48:09.160 --> 01:48:09.380
help.

01:48:10.340 --> 01:48:13.600
I was asking you, where did all these
people come from?

01:48:14.060 --> 01:48:15.740
Well, they come from all around the world.

01:48:16.080 --> 01:48:19.920
Our other website, if people want to look
at this, is www.wyattmuseum.com.

01:48:20.000 --> 01:48:22.940
www.wyattmuseum.com.

01:48:23.080 --> 01:48:26.960
And the other one is www.toolong.com,
T-O-O-L-O-M-G.com.

01:48:27.500 --> 01:48:32.180
And so people know about what we're doing
all over the world, and we use volunteers.

01:48:33.420 --> 01:48:37.180
You're basically very near the entrance to
the Damascus Gate.

01:48:37.560 --> 01:48:38.220
Is that correct?

01:48:38.400 --> 01:48:42.480
Well, you go into Zedekiah's Cave or King
Solomon's Quarries between Damascus Gate

01:48:42.480 --> 01:48:43.180
and Herod's Gate.

01:48:43.600 --> 01:48:48.200
And then once we get in there,
then we drop down again into an area most

01:48:48.200 --> 01:48:49.220
people don't know anything about.

01:48:49.720 --> 01:48:50.760
No, I don't.

01:48:50.960 --> 01:48:51.620
Never heard of it.

01:48:52.200 --> 01:48:56.220
It's just so intriguing that all of this
stuff is down there.

01:48:56.540 --> 01:48:57.580
And coming out now.

01:48:58.060 --> 01:49:05.860
Yeah, and that now is the time that God is
choosing to prove Himself once again.

01:49:06.820 --> 01:49:07.280
Wow.

01:49:07.280 --> 01:49:11.940
The thing I think about all the time is
we're reading the Old Testament about all

01:49:11.940 --> 01:49:14.880
the miracles and things that took place.

01:49:15.680 --> 01:49:17.380
But we're seeing miracles ourselves.

01:49:17.660 --> 01:49:18.880
I think things are really happening.

01:49:19.060 --> 01:49:22.660
And I know you cover the news on God's
Learning Channel.

01:49:22.860 --> 01:49:23.840
The real news, Richard.

01:49:23.920 --> 01:49:24.580
The real news.

01:49:24.580 --> 01:49:24.960
The real news.

01:49:25.440 --> 01:49:27.160
And a lot of things are going on.

01:49:28.080 --> 01:49:30.860
I think about all the people we read about
in the Bible.

01:49:30.860 --> 01:49:38.640
But what's going on now, we're just as
responsible to do what we can do with it

01:49:38.640 --> 01:49:40.140
as those people we read about in the
Bible.

01:49:40.320 --> 01:49:41.140
It's our time.

01:49:41.240 --> 01:49:42.160
It's our day and time.

01:49:44.720 --> 01:49:46.640
And we've got to do what we can do now.

01:49:47.100 --> 01:49:51.520
And that's what I'm interested in is
sharing these things with people that,

01:49:51.700 --> 01:49:53.940
just like me, have no idea what's happened
to us.

01:49:54.740 --> 01:49:57.560
Well, that's really the burden on our
heart.

01:49:57.560 --> 01:50:01.520
It's like, we know because you can feel
it.

01:50:01.600 --> 01:50:02.700
Everybody can feel it.

01:50:02.960 --> 01:50:07.620
And it doesn't matter if you're Christian
or Jewish, you know the Messiah is coming.

01:50:08.160 --> 01:50:09.940
Even the Muslims are looking for theirs.

01:50:10.860 --> 01:50:16.840
You can feel the spiritual happening
around the world.

01:50:16.840 --> 01:50:26.060
And, you know, I think about standing
before a perfect king who suffered a great

01:50:26.060 --> 01:50:29.980
deal just so that I could have salvation.

01:50:31.540 --> 01:50:38.820
And I don't think there's enough that we
can do here at GLC to tell people the

01:50:38.820 --> 01:50:40.980
truth, whether they want to hear it or
not.

01:50:41.900 --> 01:50:49.840
Whether we're going to catch a lot of
flack, whether they threaten to pull

01:50:49.840 --> 01:50:52.380
support, it really doesn't make any
difference.

01:50:52.880 --> 01:50:53.920
Our king is coming.

01:50:54.620 --> 01:50:56.160
We must be prepared.

01:50:56.900 --> 01:51:05.060
We must be willing to turn away from
things that are an abomination to him and

01:51:05.060 --> 01:51:06.640
embrace what's real.

01:51:07.280 --> 01:51:08.780
And been in the sun too long.

01:51:08.780 --> 01:51:09.440
Yep.

01:51:09.980 --> 01:51:10.680
And so, you know what?

01:51:10.720 --> 01:51:15.960
I know it's no accident that the Lord has
brought you back to GLC for such a time as

01:51:15.960 --> 01:51:16.740
this, actually.

01:51:18.140 --> 01:51:20.960
And we're really, really pleased about
that.

01:51:21.300 --> 01:51:22.820
Thank you for inviting me.

01:51:22.860 --> 01:51:25.500
And I encourage people to support God's
Learning Channel.

01:51:25.740 --> 01:51:27.440
You're telling the whole story.

01:51:28.020 --> 01:51:29.240
You watch it, don't you?

01:51:29.260 --> 01:51:29.800
I watch it.

01:51:30.020 --> 01:51:31.760
And you're telling the whole story.

01:51:32.040 --> 01:51:32.680
In Tennessee.

01:51:32.680 --> 01:51:32.840
In Tennessee.

01:51:36.520 --> 01:51:43.180
You find one-sided things here and there,
but I believe you put the whole story out

01:51:43.180 --> 01:51:44.680
there and let people make their own
decisions.

01:51:44.940 --> 01:51:47.320
Today, everybody wants to tell us how to
think.

01:51:48.320 --> 01:51:49.940
And that's not what we're supposed to do.

01:51:50.040 --> 01:51:52.520
We're just supposed to provide information
for people to let them think for

01:51:52.520 --> 01:51:53.000
themselves.

01:51:54.520 --> 01:51:57.380
But that's what's going on in a lot of the
churches.

01:51:57.660 --> 01:51:59.800
People are telling folks how they ought to
think.

01:51:59.800 --> 01:52:03.200
And that's what happened to me.

01:52:03.660 --> 01:52:06.820
And I just encourage them to check it out
with the Bible and start questioning

01:52:06.820 --> 01:52:07.380
things.

01:52:07.540 --> 01:52:10.740
And I believe folks will be surprised by
what they find out.

01:52:11.180 --> 01:52:12.540
They're telling people how to think.

01:52:12.640 --> 01:52:17.860
They're presenting the Messiah as fire
insurance without the discipleship.

01:52:19.480 --> 01:52:22.400
And we've got like two minutes left in
this program.

01:52:22.640 --> 01:52:26.000
And I'm just thinking, you know,
even you.

01:52:26.000 --> 01:52:28.660
I said, what about the rapture?

01:52:28.740 --> 01:52:30.280
What do you think about the rapture?

01:52:30.420 --> 01:52:31.480
And what was your response?

01:52:31.660 --> 01:52:32.580
You gave me a scripture.

01:52:33.340 --> 01:52:36.820
Well, it says immediately after the
tribulation of those days.

01:52:37.380 --> 01:52:38.860
You know, so some things are going to
happen.

01:52:38.960 --> 01:52:40.620
Some bad things are coming along.

01:52:41.040 --> 01:52:47.020
And that's when the Son of Man is going to
be revealed after the tribulation of those

01:52:47.020 --> 01:52:47.240
days.

01:52:47.580 --> 01:52:50.760
A lot of people think that we're just
going to escape all that stuff,

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but we better be living for Him so He can
take care of us.

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And we're pretty well in agreement that,
you know what, if we're wrong about that,

01:52:58.960 --> 01:53:00.740
hey, good, we're out.

01:53:01.120 --> 01:53:02.400
We hope we're wrong about that.

01:53:02.620 --> 01:53:06.420
We're not, but I would be glad to be
totally wrong about that.

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But bottom line is, that's another area
that we feel like we have to tell the

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truth about that, you know.

01:53:14.120 --> 01:53:19.440
We could make a lot of money just tickling
your ears and making you happy and keeping

01:53:19.440 --> 01:53:20.660
you believing what you're believing.

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The Scripture says, teaching things which
they ought not for filthy lucre's sake.

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And that's what's going on.

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Teachers, people have itching ears and
people are telling them what they want to

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hear.

01:53:31.640 --> 01:53:32.880
That's not good for us.

01:53:33.160 --> 01:53:34.560
It's not good for us.

01:53:34.960 --> 01:53:40.180
And it's quite the little path of
destruction that the world is going down

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right now.

01:53:40.840 --> 01:53:44.480
And unfortunately, many parts of the
church.

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So, you know what, our Messiah is
definitely coming.

01:53:47.840 --> 01:53:50.080
It's time to clean up our act and get
ready.

01:53:50.660 --> 01:53:56.160
But that's what makes the difference with
GLC and all the other broadcast stations,

01:53:56.440 --> 01:53:57.660
Secular or Christian.

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And you're out there.

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Do you agree with that?

01:54:01.360 --> 01:54:02.040
I agree with it.

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Thank you for being a part of GLC through
the years and thank you for supporting us.

01:54:09.780 --> 01:54:16.000
Be sure and call the bookstore,
find out what the special is, go online,

01:54:16.080 --> 01:54:17.760
get his products, come out.

01:54:18.660 --> 01:54:24.280
And be sure to go on Richard's website,
wyattmuseum.com, for one, to see about

01:54:24.280 --> 01:54:26.840
getting involved in the archaeological
stuff.

01:54:27.660 --> 01:54:29.080
And just keeping up with it.

01:54:29.720 --> 01:54:35.060
And toolong.com to partner with him on
some of the work he's doing.

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We love you.

01:54:36.680 --> 01:54:37.720
We will see you again.

01:54:38.600 --> 01:54:38.960
Thank you, Richard.

01:54:38.960 --> 01:54:40.400
It's great to have you here.

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