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You are watching Worldview two, built in the thirty five
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years of Worldview books, documentary research, high profile interviews, and
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the radio and television broadcasts of Brennan House.
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Ladies and gentlemen, lend me your heirs. This was a
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famous quote that the Romans, especially the orators the Stoics,
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would recite, especially on either balconies or in places like
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where I'm standing here an ancient Roman theater. That's right,
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I'm standing here in the ancient city of Caesarea. We
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are here on the Mediterranean coast. And this city was
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built two thousand years by the great, famous historian and
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king Herod the Great. This is why he was called
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Herod the Great, because of his great feats, his great
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building projects. Here in the land of Judea, which it
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was known as two thousand years ago, he built a
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number of palaces, fortresses, He built the temple in Jerusalem,
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and he builds this city here called Caesarere. He builds
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it in twelve years. He calls it Caesarere. He named
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it after the famous caesar Augustus, also famously known as Octavian.
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It's really interesting to know that before Herod and the
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Romans came to the land of Judea. There was terrible
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infighting among the Jewish people, the Sadducees and a group
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of Jews called the Hasmonians, who were more famously known
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as the Maccabees. They were fighting each other, They were
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killing each other. There was even one story of a
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man who wanted to be called the high priest and
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someone from the other camp bit his ear off. Why
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because the scriptures teach us that anyone with a defect
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in his body is disqualified for being a high priest.
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And this is how bad it became. And because of
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the infighting among these two Jewish camps, both of them
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called upon a growing power from the Mediterranean called the Romans,
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and so the Romans came. This is the reason why
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the Romans actually came here to sort out the problems.
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When they came here, they realized how vital this and
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strategic this location was because over to the west here
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is the ancient trade route along the Mediterranean coast. This
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was called the Via Maris, or the way of the Sea.
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And this is why Herod builds the city, because any
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ship going up and down that Mediterranean he would charge
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a taxation or a levee Now, according to our famous
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historian Josephus Flavius, Herod's port could hold up to seven
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hundred ships. I call it the first seven hundred club.
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That's right, seven hundred ships. So Herod didn't really have
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many ways of making money. Here there was a little
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bit of agriculture, a little bit of pottery, textile, but
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nothing substantial. So his building project, and here in Caesarera,
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building the port was a great way of making money.
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He needed money, he needed money for his building projects,
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and so he dedicates this city to Caesar Augustus. And
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in those days, not too long after King Herod the Great,
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when Christianity started to flourish, the Christians were facing a
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real challenge because in those days, the Roman Caesars, they
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were almost like gods. In the Greco Roman culture, they
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used to deify humans. That's why you find statues everywhere
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because of the deification of human beings gone right back
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to the Egyptian culture. For example, Rameses from the word
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ra Moses, which means the child of the Sun. It
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was the same with the Greeks Antiochus Epiphanies. The word
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epiphanies means God manifest. So the problem for the Christians
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in the first three hundred years, especially here in Caesarea,
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was that there was only one lord, and that was Caesar.
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But for the Christians, they were following someone that they
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believed was Lord, and that was Jesus or in Hebrew Yeshua.
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So there was a clash, a clash of cultures, a
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clash of religion, a clash of ideology. And it was
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here in Caesarere that Christianity actually began to flourish, especially
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from the third century. A famous historian and church father, Eusebius,
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he had a library here in Caesarea of up to
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twenty thousand books, yes twenty thousand. This became a place
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of apologetics, where people came to study and to debate,
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the clash of cultures between Jewish, Christian pagan and a
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lot of church fathers from Africa to Tullian, Oregon, Jerome,
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Saint Jerome, the man who translated the Greek Bible into Latin.
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And so a lot of history here in Caesarea, and
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we're going to find out a little bit more as
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we head towards the port. Follow me.
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Well, thanks for following me, everyone to the Mediterranean Sea.
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This is the western port or the western coast of
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the land of Judea today Israel. In the nineteen fifties,
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our archaeologists were able to discover that this was Caesarea
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because there were planes flying up and down the Mediterranean,
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and they saw some black patches under the water, quite
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a lot of black patches, and they realized that those
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black patches were remains of something. They weren't sure what
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it was. They started to do some underground or underwater
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excavations and they discovered the ancient city of Caesarea. In fact,
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today they are still doing underground or underwater archaeology and
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finding all kinds of things. For example, about three years
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ago they found a coin, or rather it was a
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but it was a coin embedded into a ring, and
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it was a picture of the Good Shepherd. And we
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know that here from the fourth to the seventh centuries,
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Christianity flourished. This was called Byzantine Cesarea. Why was it
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called Byzantine, Well, in today's modern Turkey, there was an
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ancient city called Byzantine. And the first Roman emperor who
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became a Christian was a man called Constantine. And he
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saw that there was a set of authority for the
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church in the west in Rome, but he wanted a
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seat of authority in the east, so he builds a
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seat of authority in an ancient place called Byzantine. He
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changes the name to Constantinople named after himself Constantine, that
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is today's Istanbul in Turkey. So now we have a
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seat of authority in Rome in the west, and an
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Istanbul or Byzantine Constantinople in the east. But here Christianity flourished,
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and we have that archaeological remain from that ring which
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shows the good shepherd. Of course, we know that shepherds
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were a major theme in the Bible, and especially a
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Messianic theme, because we have two key Missianic figures who
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were pro Missianic images. For example, Moses, he was a shepherd.
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He shipped at Israel in the desert. In Deuteronomy eighteen eighteen,
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Moses himself says, the Lord, your God will raise up
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unto you one like me. Listen to him, and of
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course one came, just like Moses. Moses was the little
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baby who was being haunted, but he was spared. Jesus,
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you're sure, was the little baby haunted, but he was spared.
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Moses became the mediator. You're sure, Jesus is the mediator.
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According to one Timothy two verse five, there is one
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God and one mediator between God and men, the man
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Christ Jesus. Moses was the one that went up to
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the mountain and gave us his torah. And in Matthew
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five it says, seeing a multitude, he went up on
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a mountain, the one like Moses. And then lastly Moses
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was the deliverer, the one that brought the people out
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of slavery into freedom. And our Savior is our deliverer.
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And so many many themes, many many years of history
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here at Cysareah, where there were volumes thousands of books,
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where there was a crossroads, the ancient trade route that
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I mentioned, the Via Marus behind me, and of course
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the port that could host up to seven hundred ships.
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And it's really interesting how Herod builds this port. In
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those days there were many many earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.
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One of Herod's men came up with an idea. When
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molten lava hardens, it hardens into one of the hardest rock,
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basalt or basalt. One of his men had an idea
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to grind down that rock, mix it with limestone few
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other things, and turn it into cement. Then they would
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get shafts and pour the cement into it and lower
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them down into the water using the pulley system and
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that became the bedrock of the port. And so this
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was a thorough a flourishing city for about seven hundred years,
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and it was only when the Muslims came in about
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the seventh cent that we started to see the demise
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of Caesarea. After the Muslims came and decimated the city,
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they built a mosque here. It was then in the
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eleventh to the thirteenth centuries that the Catholic Crusaders came,
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and they were masters of the sea. They were brilliant
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at sea. They were far better than the Muslims. So
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then in the thirteenth century, under the leadership of Salahadeen,
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the Muslim leader, they destroyed all of the ports along
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the Mediterranean coast. Here all the way from Gaza in
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the south to Jaffa Joppa to Caesarea and up to
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Ako and Haifa. All the ports were destroyed so that
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the Crusaders could not come back. And thus the Muslims
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controlled this area, including Caesarea, until nineteen seventeen when the
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British came and liberated this land. That was called the
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British Mandate period. And of course they had help from
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a group of soldiers called the ANZACs Australian New Zealand
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armed corpse. That's another story we'll keep for another time.
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One of the interesting things that we found here in
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Caesarea are remains of not just sporting and historical educational places,
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but actual residential things. For example, I am sitting right now. Yes,
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you guessed it, I'm sitting on the toilet. That's right,
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don't laugh. The Romans had needs just like we do today.
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And it's interesting the name of an exit or a
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toilet was called a vomitarian. Vomitarian the place where it
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goes out. Now, this is not just a toilet. Behind me,
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but it's actually at the exit entrance to part of
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the fun of the city of Cesarea. Behind me, everyone
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is a hippodrome. We all know what a hippodrome is, right, Yeah,
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it's where they raced hippopotamuses. No, no, the Greek word
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for horse is hippo. And this is where they had
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the horses and the chariots, you know, like the movie
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ben Hur. That's right. They would race around twelve times
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this track and it was great entertainment. We have the
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remains there behind me of seeding and it was in
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an oval shape where it could seed up to thirty
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thousand spectators. Can you imagine the excitement the entertainment along
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with the theater that we saw before. This was a
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big part of the Roman culture, the entertainment, the fun
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as well as in the theaters, they used to reenact
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green mythological stories and they used to reenact warfare. You know,
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today we have television footage where we can see, we
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can see war, we can see the televisions go right
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into where the battle is raging, and those days they
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didn't have that. But what they did do is they
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reenacted those things in the theaters where they had the
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actors and the props and all of the stuff. And
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of course, if the emperors and the leaders were happy,
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they would give it the thumbs up, and if they weren't,
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they would give it the thumbs down. But another really
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exciting thing about here in Caesareah are some of the
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biblical figures that we find here. We've already talked about
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King Herod the Great. The apostle Peter was here as
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story after he had that vision of the sheet of
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animals coming down, and the voice three times saying awry,
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slay and eat. And then the voice said, what God
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has cleansed and called clean, do not call unclean or
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uncommon or common. And so Peter the next day comes
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here and he meets the Roman soldier Cornelius, and Peter
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understands that that sheet of animals where God said it's
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okay to eat these unclean animals stood for the gentiles,
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because in that port where Peter got that vision, that
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was juffer. Juffer was the place where Jonah ran away
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from the Lord. Why did Jonah run away because he
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didn't want mercy and salvation to come to the gentiles. Peter,
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a fisherman seven hundred years later, was in that port city,
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and the Lord came to him and said, what God
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has called clean, the gentiles don't call unclean. And it's
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really interesting. Two times in the New Testament the Lord
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calls Peter son of Jonah, probably a prophetic name, that
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he would be like Jonah, taking the Gospel to the gentiles.
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And here on this pivotal area the Mediterranean, on the
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Via Marus, where by the way Thomas and his four daughters,
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who prophesied took the Gospel out this that's right, This
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is where the Gospel first was taken out to the
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nations from Caesarea. We read about that in the Book
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of Acts. Not only was Peter here, Paul was here.
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Paul could have been a free man, but he appealed
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to Festas. And when he appealed, Festus says to Caesar,
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you have appealed to Caesar, thou shalt go. But he
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had to wait for his trial. And it was here
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in Caesarea that Paul was in prison for two full years.
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And recently, over the last few years, we've actually uncovered
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and discovered that very prison. And I'm gonna turn around
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so you can see down here is to believe to
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be where the prison was. That's exciting. So all these
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and more stories of caesarere that was built on the crossroads,
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crossroads of trade, crossroads of religion, a clash of cultures.
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And yet it was here that the Gospel came, where
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Jew and Gentile become one in the Messiah. When Peter
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arrived here, he said, God has shown me that he
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is no respector of persons, and that any man who
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does write and fears God is accepted by him that
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same message still rings true today. God bless you and shalam.
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From the Mediterranean city cesarea, you.
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Are watching Worldview two, built in the thirty five years
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Ladies and gentlemen, lend me your heirs. This was a
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famous quote that the Romans, especially the orators the Stoics,
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would recite, especially on either balconies or in places like
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where I'm standing here an ancient Roman theater. That's right,
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I'm standing here in the ancient city of Caesarea. We
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are here on the Mediterranean coast. And this city was
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built two thousand years by the great, famous historian and
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king Herod the Great. This is why he was called
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Herod the Great, because of his great feats, his great
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building projects. Here in the land of Judea, which it
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was known as two thousand years ago, he built a
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number of palaces, fortresses, He built the temple in Jerusalem,
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and he builds this city here called Caesarere. He builds
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it in twelve years. He calls it Caesarere. He named
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it after the famous caesar Augustus, also famously known as Octavian.
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It's really interesting to know that before Herod and the
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Romans came to the land of Judea. There was terrible
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infighting among the Jewish people, the Sadducees and a group
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of Jews called the Hasmonians, who were more famously known
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as the Maccabees. They were fighting each other, They were
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killing each other. There was even one story of a
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man who wanted to be called the high priest and
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someone from the other camp bit his ear off. Why
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because the scriptures teach us that anyone with a defect
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in his body is disqualified for being a high priest.
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And this is how bad it became. And because of
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the infighting among these two Jewish camps, both of them
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called upon a growing power from the Mediterranean called the Romans,
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and so the Romans came. This is the reason why
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the Romans actually came here to sort out the problems.
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When they came here, they realized how vital this and
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strategic this location was because over to the west here
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is the ancient trade route along the Mediterranean coast. This
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was called the Via Maris, or the way of the Sea.
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And this is why Herod builds the city, because any
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ship going up and down that Mediterranean he would charge
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a taxation or a levee Now, according to our famous
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historian Josephus Flavius, Herod's port could hold up to seven
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hundred ships. I call it the first seven hundred club.
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That's right, seven hundred ships. So Herod didn't really have
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many ways of making money. Here there was a little
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bit of agriculture, a little bit of pottery, textile, but
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nothing substantial. So his building project, and here in Caesarera,
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building the port was a great way of making money.
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He needed money, he needed money for his building projects,
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and so he dedicates this city to Caesar Augustus. And
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in those days, not too long after King Herod the Great,
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when Christianity started to flourish, the Christians were facing a
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real challenge because in those days, the Roman Caesars, they
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were almost like gods. In the Greco Roman culture, they
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used to deify humans. That's why you find statues everywhere
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because of the deification of human beings gone right back
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to the Egyptian culture. For example, Rameses from the word
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ra Moses, which means the child of the Sun. It
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was the same with the Greeks Antiochus Epiphanies. The word
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epiphanies means God manifest. So the problem for the Christians
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in the first three hundred years, especially here in Caesarea,
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was that there was only one lord, and that was Caesar.
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But for the Christians, they were following someone that they
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believed was Lord, and that was Jesus or in Hebrew Yeshua.
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So there was a clash, a clash of cultures, a
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clash of religion, a clash of ideology. And it was
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here in Caesarere that Christianity actually began to flourish, especially
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from the third century. A famous historian and church father, Eusebius,
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he had a library here in Caesarea of up to
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twenty thousand books, yes twenty thousand. This became a place
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of apologetics, where people came to study and to debate,
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the clash of cultures between Jewish, Christian pagan and a
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lot of church fathers from Africa to Tullian, Oregon, Jerome,
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Saint Jerome, the man who translated the Greek Bible into Latin.
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And so a lot of history here in Caesarea, and
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we're going to find out a little bit more as
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we head towards the port. Follow me.
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Well, thanks for following me, everyone to the Mediterranean Sea.
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This is the western port or the western coast of
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the land of Judea today Israel. In the nineteen fifties,
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our archaeologists were able to discover that this was Caesarea
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because there were planes flying up and down the Mediterranean,
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and they saw some black patches under the water, quite
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a lot of black patches, and they realized that those
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black patches were remains of something. They weren't sure what
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it was. They started to do some underground or underwater
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excavations and they discovered the ancient city of Caesarea. In fact,
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today they are still doing underground or underwater archaeology and
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finding all kinds of things. For example, about three years
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ago they found a coin, or rather it was a
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but it was a coin embedded into a ring, and
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it was a picture of the Good Shepherd. And we
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know that here from the fourth to the seventh centuries,
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Christianity flourished. This was called Byzantine Cesarea. Why was it
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called Byzantine, Well, in today's modern Turkey, there was an
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ancient city called Byzantine. And the first Roman emperor who
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became a Christian was a man called Constantine. And he
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saw that there was a set of authority for the
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church in the west in Rome, but he wanted a
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seat of authority in the east, so he builds a
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seat of authority in an ancient place called Byzantine. He
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changes the name to Constantinople named after himself Constantine, that
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is today's Istanbul in Turkey. So now we have a
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seat of authority in Rome in the west, and an
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Istanbul or Byzantine Constantinople in the east. But here Christianity flourished,
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and we have that archaeological remain from that ring which
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shows the good shepherd. Of course, we know that shepherds
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were a major theme in the Bible, and especially a
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Messianic theme, because we have two key Missianic figures who
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were pro Missianic images. For example, Moses, he was a shepherd.
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He shipped at Israel in the desert. In Deuteronomy eighteen eighteen,
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Moses himself says, the Lord, your God will raise up
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unto you one like me. Listen to him, and of
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course one came, just like Moses. Moses was the little
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baby who was being haunted, but he was spared. Jesus,
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you're sure, was the little baby haunted, but he was spared.
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Moses became the mediator. You're sure, Jesus is the mediator.
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According to one Timothy two verse five, there is one
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God and one mediator between God and men, the man
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Christ Jesus. Moses was the one that went up to
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the mountain and gave us his torah. And in Matthew
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five it says, seeing a multitude, he went up on
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a mountain, the one like Moses. And then lastly Moses
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was the deliverer, the one that brought the people out
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of slavery into freedom. And our Savior is our deliverer.
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And so many many themes, many many years of history
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here at Cysareah, where there were volumes thousands of books,
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where there was a crossroads, the ancient trade route that
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I mentioned, the Via Marus behind me, and of course
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the port that could host up to seven hundred ships.
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And it's really interesting how Herod builds this port. In
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those days there were many many earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.
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One of Herod's men came up with an idea. When
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molten lava hardens, it hardens into one of the hardest rock,
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basalt or basalt. One of his men had an idea
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to grind down that rock, mix it with limestone few
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other things, and turn it into cement. Then they would
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get shafts and pour the cement into it and lower
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them down into the water using the pulley system and
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that became the bedrock of the port. And so this
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was a thorough a flourishing city for about seven hundred years,
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and it was only when the Muslims came in about
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the seventh cent that we started to see the demise
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of Caesarea. After the Muslims came and decimated the city,
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they built a mosque here. It was then in the
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eleventh to the thirteenth centuries that the Catholic Crusaders came,
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and they were masters of the sea. They were brilliant
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at sea. They were far better than the Muslims. So
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then in the thirteenth century, under the leadership of Salahadeen,
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the Muslim leader, they destroyed all of the ports along
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the Mediterranean coast. Here all the way from Gaza in
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the south to Jaffa Joppa to Caesarea and up to
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Ako and Haifa. All the ports were destroyed so that
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the Crusaders could not come back. And thus the Muslims
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controlled this area, including Caesarea, until nineteen seventeen when the
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British came and liberated this land. That was called the
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British Mandate period. And of course they had help from
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a group of soldiers called the ANZACs Australian New Zealand
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One of the interesting things that we found here in
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Caesarea are remains of not just sporting and historical educational places,
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but actual residential things. For example, I am sitting right now. Yes,
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you guessed it, I'm sitting on the toilet. That's right,
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don't laugh. The Romans had needs just like we do today.
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And it's interesting the name of an exit or a
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toilet was called a vomitarian. Vomitarian the place where it
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goes out. Now, this is not just a toilet. Behind me,
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but it's actually at the exit entrance to part of
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the fun of the city of Cesarea. Behind me, everyone
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is a hippodrome. We all know what a hippodrome is, right, Yeah,
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it's where they raced hippopotamuses. No, no, the Greek word
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for horse is hippo. And this is where they had
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the horses and the chariots, you know, like the movie
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ben Hur. That's right. They would race around twelve times
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this track and it was great entertainment. We have the
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remains there behind me of seeding and it was in
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an oval shape where it could seed up to thirty
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thousand spectators. Can you imagine the excitement the entertainment along
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with the theater that we saw before. This was a
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big part of the Roman culture, the entertainment, the fun
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as well as in the theaters, they used to reenact
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green mythological stories and they used to reenact warfare. You know,
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today we have television footage where we can see, we
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can see war, we can see the televisions go right
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into where the battle is raging, and those days they
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didn't have that. But what they did do is they
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reenacted those things in the theaters where they had the
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actors and the props and all of the stuff. And
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of course, if the emperors and the leaders were happy,
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they would give it the thumbs up, and if they weren't,
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they would give it the thumbs down. But another really
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exciting thing about here in Caesareah are some of the
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biblical figures that we find here. We've already talked about
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King Herod the Great. The apostle Peter was here as
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story after he had that vision of the sheet of
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animals coming down, and the voice three times saying awry,
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slay and eat. And then the voice said, what God
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has cleansed and called clean, do not call unclean or
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uncommon or common. And so Peter the next day comes
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here and he meets the Roman soldier Cornelius, and Peter
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understands that that sheet of animals where God said it's
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okay to eat these unclean animals stood for the gentiles,
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because in that port where Peter got that vision, that
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was juffer. Juffer was the place where Jonah ran away
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from the Lord. Why did Jonah run away because he
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didn't want mercy and salvation to come to the gentiles. Peter,
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a fisherman seven hundred years later, was in that port city,
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and the Lord came to him and said, what God
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has called clean, the gentiles don't call unclean. And it's
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really interesting. Two times in the New Testament the Lord
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calls Peter son of Jonah, probably a prophetic name, that
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he would be like Jonah, taking the Gospel to the gentiles.
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And here on this pivotal area the Mediterranean, on the
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Via Marus, where by the way Thomas and his four daughters,
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who prophesied took the Gospel out this that's right, This
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is where the Gospel first was taken out to the
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nations from Caesarea. We read about that in the Book
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of Acts. Not only was Peter here, Paul was here.
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Paul could have been a free man, but he appealed
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to Festas. And when he appealed, Festus says to Caesar,
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you have appealed to Caesar, thou shalt go. But he
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had to wait for his trial. And it was here
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in Caesarea that Paul was in prison for two full years.
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And recently, over the last few years, we've actually uncovered
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and discovered that very prison. And I'm gonna turn around
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so you can see down here is to believe to
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be where the prison was. That's exciting. So all these
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and more stories of caesarere that was built on the crossroads,
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crossroads of trade, crossroads of religion, a clash of cultures.
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And yet it was here that the Gospel came, where
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Jew and Gentile become one in the Messiah. When Peter
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arrived here, he said, God has shown me that he
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is no respector of persons, and that any man who
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does write and fears God is accepted by him that
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same message still rings true today. God bless you and shalam.
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