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The story of the Exodus

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is our story.

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There was once a family

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an old father and his twelve sons,

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along with their children.

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and although they did not yet have a home of their own,

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God blessed these Hebrews in the land of Egypt.

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They were fruitful and multiplied

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and grew exceedingly strong

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so that the land was filled with them.

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But God did not intend to leave them there.

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Cairo, an ancient and modern melting pot.

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Chaotic, yet iconic.

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Everywhere you turn

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ancient relics fight for window space with cheap souvenirs.

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Walking through this sea of people,

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vendors yelling, animals bleating,

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you're faced with the reality that every day

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a large part of the world still lives with

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the old and new coexisting side by side.

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We're in our first day here in Egypt,

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and I think the crew is pretty excited

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I'm about to meet someone who lives here in Egypt.

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Her name is Miriam,

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and she's going to be telling me about the markets

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and about Egyptian culture

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and what it's like to live here and grow up here.

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A local’s perspective on living in Egypt,

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a place with such rich history.

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Miriam?

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Hi, Jeremy.

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Hi, how are you?

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Hi, Nice to meet you.

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So for you, Cairo is home.

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Yes.

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How long have you lived here?

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25 years.

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25 years?

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Yes.

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So as I was flying in yesterday,

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I was sitting next to somebody that’s local

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And he commented on New Cairo versus old Cairo.

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Completely different things Jeremy.

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The first thing that you will look at,

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something like that

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architectural buildings from every past era.

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With that, you feel that

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you're really in a very historical place

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in New Cairo that you feel and other countries

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like Europe,

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but here that you feel you’re really in Egypt.

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Back home, if something was 100 years old, it's old.

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Here you're going back thousands of years.

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Yes.

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And finding things and even some of the buildings...

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and that's old.

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So totally different for us.

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So we've got this great restaurant here.

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Smell that?

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Yeah. Yeah, I do.

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This is Egyptian pie.

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You want to try?

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I would love to try some.

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The food is coming.

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All right, so what all did you get in it?

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Sausage and some vegetables.

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It is great.

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How long have they been making this food?

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Okay, this place is more than a hundred.

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Established, I think 1907.

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This restaurant is over 100 years old.

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Yes. It's completely different
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In this place, you will get some things for

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more than one century,

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For a long time.

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It's really, really an amazing and historical place.

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What is the name of this market?

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Khan Al-Khalili.

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Okay, and do you have a favorite place in the market?

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Do you want to see it?

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Yeah, I would love to.

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Let's go.

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I love going through markets.

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This is the Muizz street.

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What do you think?

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It is amazing.

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Really?

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It's beautiful. All the detail in the building here.

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So what makes this street so special?

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This is the oldest street in

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specifically in Islamic old Cairo.

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Okay.

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It returns to 969.

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They laid out the street at the very beginning of Cairo formation.

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And this is the very special place that makes

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handmade crafts and souvenirs that the tourists

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they’ll take it to their countries as a gift

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for family and your friends, too.

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Okay, athis place, they made some oil for hair.

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So the different types of oil.?

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This is almond oil, olive oil,

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black seed oil.

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Oh, coconut.

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It's so heavy.

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All right.

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Thank you very much.

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Filming here.

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Excuse me.

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Proved more challenging than anticipated.

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All of our preparation,

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all the YouTube videos

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couldn't have prepared us for production in Egypt.

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Stu, can we get any more signal?

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In my pack?

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Okay.

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Let's talk about where we end this journey.

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Yes.

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In this specific cafe.

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It's called “Umm Kulthum”.

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“Umm Kulthum?”. Yeah. Okay.

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You didn't know her?

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She's a very famous singer here in Egypt

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and around the Middle East.

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Some people in the Middle East

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call her an Easter Planet.

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Umm Kulthum like, more like this place.

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She's like a bridge to this place.

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Like a bridge between an old Egypt and a new Egypt.

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So you're saying that that's something that's always going on

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where you have this rich heritage and culture and history

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and you have evidence for it everywhere.

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But then you still have the new,

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you still have living people here

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that's been here for a long, long, long time.

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But it's gone through many changes.

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What is it been like to live in a place

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with such history but still goes through change?

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The change... we have to change because we

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every day we have new things around the world.

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Sure.

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So we have to change and we have to be more modern.

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Yeah, but the old the. will be the old.

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So there's a place for the old?

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They feel that they appreciate that you belong to this place.

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Well, it has been a fantastic day.

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Thank you.

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It was so much fun.

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I look forward to doing it again someday.

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I'm really happy to see you.

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I'm very happy to be out with you today.

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Thank you.

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What it must have been like

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for Joseph and his family to come to this country

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with a culture so different from their own.

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While God had blessed Egypt through his people,

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there arose a new king

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who did not know what God had done.

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So Egypt ruthlessly made the people of Israel work as slaves

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and made their lives better with hard service.

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Now, the more the children of Israel were oppressed,

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the more they multiplied

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until Egypt was in dread of them.

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About 180 miles northeast of Cairo

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is the small Muslim village of Ezbet Rushdi,

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known as Tell El-Dab’a.

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The fields outside of Ezbet Rushdi

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were first excavated in 1885 by Swiss archeaologist

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and biblical scholar Henry Edward Neville,

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and the site has been the source of multiple digs

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and just as many opinions

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as to whether this is the ancient city of avarice.

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Once the capital city of Hyksos

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and home to an ancient Semitic people,

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possibly the descendants of Jacob and his family.

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This is thought to be what the Bible calls

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the land of Goshen.

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Justin, my brother-in-law, traveled with us as our story producer

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and helped me visualize what it may have been like

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for the Hebrews to live in a place like this.

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Well, this is a huge contrast from being in Cairo yesterday

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and visiting with Miriam

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more rural,

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but we're still surrounded by apartments and a school and mosques.

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Yeah, you can hear the mosque.

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And actually when we flew into Egypt, yeah, I wasn't
expecting it to be quite that...brown

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I wasn't expecting it to be quite that...brown.

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This is very, very different.

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Right where we are is Tell El Dab’a.

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Tell El Dab’a has significance because this location

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is believed to be one of the two store cities

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that Pharaoh had the Israelites build:

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Ramses, is also known as Avaris.

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So you can see some of the dig sites

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that they brought out here.

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There was an Austrian team back in the late 90’s.

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It went on through the first, what, decade of the 21st century?

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So part of the story here is just

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how much the Israelites

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would have actually loved
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So Genesis and following that family gets us down into Egypt

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because Exodus one talks about 70 people came down.

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When they came down with Israel's family

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as they came down to be delivered by Joseph.

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And so there are some people that speculate

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maybe one of the palaces that was found here at Tell El Daba

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may have been Joseph's Palace.

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It's pretty cool, actually, looking at the evidence,

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because some of it doesn't fit Egypt.

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But it has like an Egypt flavor to it.

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So it's one of those things that

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you start to read Exodus and it almost feels like a fairy tale,

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Until you start seeing, they're actual places, locations

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that we're looking around us and we can see

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dig sites where, you know, the Semitic people had a presence here,

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this event really did happen,

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Now let's get on to the important thing,

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which is the story that they went through.

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Actually, there's still a lot of pot shards around.

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And it’s, I don’t know, it's exciting to me.

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It's my first time in a situation like this.

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It's like 3,000 years old worth of history,

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but people just walking by and using it any which way.c

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But, there's nothing to see here, right?

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So there is a guy that's associated with the site.

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He works here.

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He's given this permission to go

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and take a look at some of the things that they found here.

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They were afraid that if they left them out

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that people would have taken them.

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So they put them some of them are on display,

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some of them are in storage.

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Our fixer has negotiated with them

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and the team is going to be able to go

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and take a look at some of this.

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So I have no idea what town we're in.

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We got about two thirds of the way

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and met up with some local police.

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I think sometimes I don't appreciate the threat that's probably there.

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So this kind of brings things back to reality.

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You said they just took the camera down.

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We're waiting outside the gate.

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There's the police, the national security and the army.

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We need to get permits for all of them.

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So we're waiting right now.

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And hopefully they let us through.

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We got permission to go look at these publicly displayed

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archeological discoveries from Tell El Dab’a.

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I'm not sure what they're going to be,

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but I'm going to go with my camera

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and we'll just see what God has provided for us here.

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They gave us permission

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to come down and look at some of the pieces

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they sent up to this museum.

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And that is pretty amazing.

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You know, we were talking about Abraham

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and the promise that he received

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and then talking about Joseph being sold into Egypt

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and how God used that providentially to preserve his family.

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So his father and his brothers and their families all come down

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70 people come down to Egypt.

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And then you get to Exodus where there's the pharaoh

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who comes to power that doesn't know Joseph and his family.

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We're told that there were some items here were found there

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during the Austrian’s archeological dig

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over approximately 30 years.

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You see these Canopic jars,

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which would have been used during burial.

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And what's interesting at Tell El Dabba

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is that the burial practices

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were not like the burial practices of Egyptians.

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They were more Semitic in nature.

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And then they changed over time

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and included some Egyptian practices,

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but they never fully became an Egyptian, from what I understand.

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You also have this coffin, you see the lid,

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and then even on this side, you see

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even smaller coffins

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that would have been used for children,

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which when you think about the Exodus story, especially

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Exodus chapter one, and another thing that we've been trying

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to learn more about are these little small statues

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that indicated the wealth of the people that lived there.

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All of those came from Tell El Dab’a.

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And so there was a long period of time

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in that town’s history, that city’s history,

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where they were really wealthy and they're doing really well,

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which is consistent with why

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Joseph's family came down in the first place.

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It was to promote life.

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And they did really well until that Pharaoh rose that didn't know him.

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There is a tension that exists in our minds

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knowing that Egypt was not merely a place of slavery and oppression,

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but also a place of refuge and safety.

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It's fascinating to think about how in the Exodus story,

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you’ve got, Egypt is a place in slavery that you want to get out of.

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In the Jesus story, Egypt was a haven for a time.

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And both phrases “Out of Egypt I called my son”.

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You get Israel out and you get Jesus.

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And as it's just fascinating to get

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a fuller narrative. God has plans for Egypt

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and has not all punitive,

327
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some of that is helping further the savior.

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He's bringing salvation about through Egypt.

329
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Our team had now been in country for two days

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and the jetlag was really setting in.

331
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We found exactly what we needed

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along the shores of the Nile River.

333
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One? One?

334
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Yeah, yeah,

335
00:17:18,034 --> 00:17:20,119
Yeah.

336
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How long have you been doing this job?

337
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52 years.

338
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52? Yeah, 52 years. Wow.

339
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Do you work here every day or are you at different places?

340
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Yeah, this is the spot.

341
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This is the spot.

342
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Yeah,

343
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Yeah, from 1955.

344
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The Nile is beautiful.

345
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Yeah.

346
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I asked him why the Nile River is important to him.

347
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Yes. Oh, it's your source.

348
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Soul. Soul.

349
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Ah! Your soul! It's your soul!

350
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Very good.

351
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The soul of the Egyptian.

352
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Yes.

353
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It’s the life.

354
00:18:05,915 --> 00:18:06,957
The life! Yeah.

355
00:18:07,041 --> 00:18:08,000
Ah, very good.

356
00:18:08,000 --> 00:18:09,710
The Nile means life for the Egyptian.

357
00:18:09,710 --> 00:18:10,294
Yes.

358
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He can fast, but he wants to drink from the Nile.

359
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Ah, so even when he doesn't eat food,

360
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he still wants water from the Nile?

361
00:18:18,803 --> 00:18:19,345
Yeah.

362
00:18:22,723 --> 00:18:25,101
If we didn't have the Nile, you would not have the coffee.

363
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Ah, I see.

364
00:18:27,394 --> 00:18:30,356
If you do not have the Nile, you would not have anything.

365
00:18:30,356 --> 00:18:30,981
Yeah.

366
00:18:31,357 --> 00:18:32,274
It is good.

367
00:18:32,691 --> 00:18:33,859
Yeah. Well, you be blessed.

368
00:18:33,859 --> 00:18:34,819
Thank you.

369
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So the king determined to put an end to their strength

370
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and ordered that any son born to the Hebrews

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should be cast into the Nile and drowned.

372
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Now a Hebrew from the house of Levi went and took a wife.

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And they had a son, a boy, beautiful in God's sight.

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When the mother could hide him no longer,

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she took for him a basket, made of bull rushes,

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and she placed the child in it among the reeds by the riverbank.

377
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And his sister Miriam watched from a distance.

378
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The daughter of Pharaoh came down to bathe at the river

379
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and she saw the basket among the reeds.

380
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When she opened it, she saw the child crying.

381
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She took pity on him and said,

382
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“This is one of the Hebrew’s children.”

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And he became her son.

384
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She named him Moses

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“Because”, she said, “I drew him out of the water.”

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The longest river in the world,

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the Nile reaches from deep in the deserts of the Sahara,

388
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all the way to the lush green delta

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that empties into the Mediterranean Sea.

390
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Cutting through the heart of Cairo.

391
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This fluid highway isn't just a source of water,

392
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it's seen as the lifeblood for the Egyptian people.

393
00:20:16,128 --> 00:20:18,797
Not much has changed over four millennia.

394
00:20:18,797 --> 00:20:21,383
Plenty of people make their livelihood here,

395
00:20:21,383 --> 00:20:24,887
including this man who has agreed to take us out on the river.

396
00:20:27,932 --> 00:20:28,724
Can I come aboard?

397
00:20:28,724 --> 00:20:29,600
You're welcome.

398
00:20:29,600 --> 00:20:30,935
Thank you. I am Jeremy.

399
00:20:30,935 --> 00:20:32,102
You're welcome, Mister Jeremy. You’re welcome.

400
00:20:32,102 --> 00:20:32,978
And what is your name?

401
00:20:32,978 --> 00:20:33,604
Basit.

402
00:20:33,604 --> 00:20:34,230
Basit?

403
00:20:34,230 --> 00:20:35,064
From Aswan.

404
00:20:35,064 --> 00:20:36,065
Nice to meet you.

405
00:20:36,065 --> 00:20:38,025
Aswan Egypt, you’re welcome Jeremy.

406
00:20:48,577 --> 00:20:50,329
How long have you been working on the Nile?

407
00:20:50,329 --> 00:20:51,413
28 years.

408
00:20:51,830 --> 00:20:54,208
So most of your life you've been working on the water?

409
00:20:54,208 --> 00:20:54,833
Yes, yes.

410
00:20:54,833 --> 00:20:57,211
What do you know about the beginning of Moses's life?

411
00:21:01,215 --> 00:21:03,926
Yeah, he believes that the story happened to me.

412
00:21:03,926 --> 00:21:05,594
Me too. Me too.

413
00:21:06,178 --> 00:21:09,223
How important is the Nile River to Egypt?

414
00:21:09,932 --> 00:21:12,059
It is the source of life for the Egyptian.

415
00:21:12,059 --> 00:21:14,478
Without the Nile there is no Egypt.

416
00:21:15,521 --> 00:21:19,316
Can you tell me what the Nile meant to the ancient Egyptians?

417
00:21:24,738 --> 00:21:27,241
Yeah, he said all the Egyptians from the area

418
00:21:27,241 --> 00:21:32,246
live beside the Nile River, from Aswan to Cairo to the sea.

419
00:21:32,663 --> 00:21:36,041
Also, the material and the rocks that built the pyramids

420
00:21:36,292 --> 00:21:39,878
was taken from Aswan on boats on the Nile River.

421
00:21:40,212 --> 00:21:44,258
Has your family been doing work on the Nile for many generations?

422
00:21:44,258 --> 00:21:49,013
Yes. My grandfather all work on the Nile.

423
00:21:49,638 --> 00:21:52,308
The Nile is the life of Egypt.

424
00:21:52,308 --> 00:21:52,933
Yes.

425
00:21:52,933 --> 00:21:55,144
But it's very personal for you.

426
00:21:55,144 --> 00:21:57,187
It is life for you and your family.

427
00:21:57,187 --> 00:21:58,105
Yes. Also,

428
00:22:05,237 --> 00:22:08,991
I mean, this is just the center of so much Egyptian history.

429
00:22:09,283 --> 00:22:11,577
Families from Egypt would have called this home.

430
00:22:11,577 --> 00:22:13,454
It would have been their life source.

431
00:22:13,454 --> 00:22:15,372
The Nile River is the Nile River still.

432
00:22:15,372 --> 00:22:19,001
It may have changed a little bit, but we're on living history almost.

433
00:22:19,960 --> 00:22:21,462
And it's just so peaceful and serene.

434
00:22:21,462 --> 00:22:23,255
And you get to experience it this way in a way

435
00:22:23,255 --> 00:22:26,550
that you don't with walking amongst ruins or broken things.

436
00:22:27,009 --> 00:22:27,885
It's living.

437
00:22:27,885 --> 00:22:28,761
Right.

438
00:22:29,178 --> 00:22:30,304
That's amazing.

439
00:22:30,471 --> 00:22:32,806
And the feeling that I get being on the water here

440
00:22:32,806 --> 00:22:34,475
is really similar to the feeling that I get

441
00:22:34,475 --> 00:22:36,268
when I go to like the sea of Galilee

442
00:22:36,268 --> 00:22:37,728
and you get on the boat there.

443
00:22:37,728 --> 00:22:39,396
And it's still the Sea of Galilee.

444
00:22:39,730 --> 00:22:42,232
And being out on the water, it pushes you away

445
00:22:42,232 --> 00:22:45,194
from a lot of the hustle and bustle of the city.

446
00:22:45,277 --> 00:22:46,779
And there's a lot of that.

447
00:22:46,779 --> 00:22:51,784
I kind of imagine what it would be like for Egyptians, pharaohs

448
00:22:52,034 --> 00:22:54,244
to bring their parties out on the Nile River to celebrate...

449
00:22:54,244 --> 00:22:55,788
Which they did.

450
00:22:56,246 --> 00:22:59,249
...their prosperity, their place in Egypt,

451
00:22:59,416 --> 00:23:02,753
but then to bring doom on a Hebrew people.

452
00:23:03,379 --> 00:23:07,549
So it's interesting, the Nile was used by Pharaoh as his last resort

453
00:23:07,549 --> 00:23:11,637
to try to reduce the population size of the Israelites in bondage.

454
00:23:11,929 --> 00:23:15,015
So they were they were bringing them

455
00:23:15,015 --> 00:23:18,018
to the river and drowning them.

456
00:23:18,018 --> 00:23:20,813
And Moses, his family tries to keep him alive

457
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and hide him for a period of months until he gets too big to do that.

458
00:23:23,565 --> 00:23:26,944
And they bring him to the river and they do the best that they can do,

459
00:23:27,236 --> 00:23:30,948
which is put him in a basket and entrust him to God,

460
00:23:30,948 --> 00:23:34,159
not knowing what was going to happen.

461
00:23:35,994 --> 00:23:38,497
The faith of those midwives as they tried to find a way

462
00:23:38,497 --> 00:23:40,541
to preserve the life of infants. c

463
00:23:40,541 --> 00:23:42,000
And the faith of his parents.

464
00:23:42,418 --> 00:23:44,920
His parents are mentioned in Hebrews 11.

465
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Right.

466
00:23:45,421 --> 00:23:48,382
Because of the faith that they had and what they saw in Moses,

467
00:23:48,382 --> 00:23:49,925
they saw something in him.

468
00:23:49,925 --> 00:23:52,761
And instead of doing what they were supposed to do,

469
00:23:52,761 --> 00:23:55,764
which would have cost them their lives, they risked their lives to save his.

470
00:23:56,432 --> 00:23:59,435
And all of that took place right around here.

471
00:23:59,476 --> 00:24:01,854
And for Moses in here.

472
00:24:01,854 --> 00:24:04,064
And this became a turning moment.

473
00:24:04,064 --> 00:24:07,401
You know, the drama of the nation becomes the drama of this one person

474
00:24:07,651 --> 00:24:10,654
this one child, and God's going to use him.

475
00:24:11,071 --> 00:24:12,531
And the story moves forward.

476
00:24:39,308 --> 00:24:42,311
We are getting ready to head to Luxor.

477
00:24:42,478 --> 00:24:45,772
We're going to ride an overnight train, which I've never done before.

478
00:24:45,898 --> 00:24:47,608
Super excited about this.

479
00:24:47,608 --> 00:24:48,942
We'll see how much sleep we get.

480
00:24:48,942 --> 00:24:51,904
But we're wrapping up in Cairo.

481
00:24:51,904 --> 00:25:04,041
I'll see you guys on the other side.

482
00:25:17,179 --> 00:25:19,598
Welcome to my welcome to my suite.

483
00:25:19,598 --> 00:25:24,102
Oh yeah, thank you.

484
00:25:24,102 --> 00:25:26,355
This is...

485
00:25:31,235 --> 00:25:34,071
I still don’t know.

486
00:25:34,071 --> 00:25:35,948
Okay.

487
00:25:37,908 --> 00:25:41,119
We are going to Luxor.

488
00:25:41,119 --> 00:25:42,788
There are planes to Luxor.

489
00:25:42,788 --> 00:25:45,707
They are quite convenient and quite frequent,

490
00:25:45,707 --> 00:25:50,712
but a ten hour train ride felt like a different experience.

491
00:26:17,030 --> 00:26:20,367
I know that I'm personally feeling it.

492
00:26:20,742 --> 00:26:26,623
I mean, the exhaustion and stress and the equipment and the crew and everything.

493
00:26:26,623 --> 00:26:28,917
We haven't traveled this way before, right?

494
00:26:28,917 --> 00:26:29,585
Right. Yeah.

495
00:26:29,585 --> 00:26:34,006
Now I feel like I've said that so many times that the culture shock is real.

496
00:26:34,006 --> 00:26:39,761
And we've been to Israel, we've been to Turkey, and it's just a different world.

497
00:26:44,016 --> 00:26:47,394
So, I tell you, yesterday at the Nile, between the guy with the coffee

498
00:26:47,728 --> 00:26:53,108
and the boat captain, there is a lot of talk of the Nile as bringing life.

499
00:26:55,193 --> 00:26:56,862
I didn't expect that.

500
00:26:57,070 --> 00:26:59,114
You go back in antiquity,

501
00:26:59,114 --> 00:27:01,825
they didn't have running water and we just kind of take that for granted.

502
00:27:01,825 --> 00:27:04,828
A lot of their civilization was based right along the river banks.

503
00:27:04,953 --> 00:27:08,999
They've maintained that appreciation and in a big sense reverence

504
00:27:08,999 --> 00:27:11,585
for water to a degree that we just don't have.

505
00:27:11,752 --> 00:27:14,463
You look out and you see the green, but then you get the spots

506
00:27:14,463 --> 00:27:18,842
where we get away from the Nile and it immediately turns to desert; dry.

507
00:27:21,011 --> 00:27:22,220
This might be our stop.

508
00:27:22,220 --> 00:27:23,013
Yeah, we got to go.

509
00:27:23,013 --> 00:27:25,932
Okay, alright.

510
00:27:25,932 --> 00:27:29,561
So curious to see what it's going to be like in the next place.

511
00:27:29,603 --> 00:27:31,730
I feel a little out of sorts.

512
00:27:31,730 --> 00:27:32,648
I know, I just...

513
00:27:34,358 --> 00:27:37,361
a little bit of apprehension.

514
00:27:38,445 --> 00:27:40,072
The team has been adjusting really well.

515
00:27:40,072 --> 00:27:43,075
So grateful for everybody.

516
00:27:43,200 --> 00:27:46,203
That's been the first stage of the journey.

517
00:27:55,003 --> 00:27:55,962
Hey.

518
00:27:55,962 --> 00:27:57,089
Hey, did you sleep?

519
00:27:57,089 --> 00:27:58,507
Haha, yeah no problem!

520
00:27:58,507 --> 00:28:02,719
I told Jet, before the train will go, that it would be awful one.

521
00:28:02,719 --> 00:28:03,220
Yeah.

522
00:28:03,220 --> 00:28:04,096
He didn't believe me.

523
00:28:04,096 --> 00:28:05,389
So you can go here. Go here.

524
00:28:05,389 --> 00:28:06,056
Okay.

525
00:28:06,056 --> 00:28:07,307
Go, go here.

526
00:28:21,571 --> 00:28:24,366
As we made our way further and further from the city

527
00:28:24,366 --> 00:28:27,786
we noticed a local family preparing a week's worth of bread,

528
00:28:27,786 --> 00:28:29,621
and they offered us some breakfast

529
00:28:36,795 --> 00:28:38,422
Did he make this oven?

530
00:28:39,881 --> 00:28:40,882
Yeah?

531
00:28:40,882 --> 00:28:42,134
Yes, he made it.

532
00:28:44,136 --> 00:28:46,304
She wants you to eat.

533
00:28:46,513 --> 00:28:48,098
Yes. I would love to try some.

534
00:28:50,767 --> 00:28:52,310
Just break?

535
00:28:56,690 --> 00:28:58,817
It's got a nice crust,
but it's soft right there.

536
00:28:59,860 --> 00:29:03,572
Yeah. Most of Egyptian people, use that.

537
00:29:03,739 --> 00:29:04,531
This one?

538
00:29:04,531 --> 00:29:05,490
This one, yeah.

539
00:29:05,490 --> 00:29:07,659
This is in the village or countryside.

540
00:29:07,659 --> 00:29:08,326
Yeah.

541
00:29:08,326 --> 00:29:10,036
So we've had something like this

542
00:29:10,620 --> 00:29:11,288
Yeah, at the hotel.

543
00:29:11,288 --> 00:29:12,456
For dipping.

544
00:29:12,456 --> 00:29:13,331
Yeah.

545
00:29:15,876 --> 00:29:16,835
This is very good.

546
00:29:16,835 --> 00:29:17,461
Yeah.

547
00:29:17,461 --> 00:29:19,129
Let him try...

548
00:29:23,175 --> 00:29:24,134
That's really good.

549
00:29:24,134 --> 00:29:24,968
Isn’t it good?

550
00:29:24,968 --> 00:29:26,428
It's almost like a sour dough

551
00:29:28,180 --> 00:29:30,557
Yeah, put a little strawberry jam on that.

552
00:29:30,557 --> 00:29:31,808
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

553
00:29:32,058 --> 00:29:33,810
Oh, he’s bringing some cheese!

554
00:29:33,810 --> 00:29:35,145
Yeah, this is cool.

555
00:29:35,979 --> 00:29:37,439
That's a meal.

556
00:29:37,898 --> 00:29:39,900
It’s better than McDonald’s.

557
00:29:39,900 --> 00:29:40,817
Yes.

558
00:29:40,817 --> 00:29:41,943
All right.

559
00:29:42,360 --> 00:29:43,653
Thank you.

560
00:29:44,321 --> 00:29:45,781
Thank you1

561
00:30:10,597 --> 00:30:12,766
Thank you for letting me come to your brick factory.

562
00:30:12,766 --> 00:30:15,769
How long have you been making bricks here?

563
00:30:16,353 --> 00:30:18,480
20 years.

564
00:30:18,480 --> 00:30:20,398
How many bricks can you make in a day?

565
00:30:20,398 --> 00:30:24,236
If I had five employees

566
00:30:24,236 --> 00:30:28,406
we could make 5,000 bricks per day.

567
00:30:28,406 --> 00:30:29,074
In a day?

568
00:30:29,115 --> 00:30:29,616
Yeah.

569
00:30:29,616 --> 00:30:30,283
Yes.

570
00:30:30,283 --> 00:30:32,202
So what goes into the bricks?

571
00:30:32,202 --> 00:30:39,417
Sand, straw, the straw makes the bricks strong.

572
00:30:39,417 --> 00:30:43,964
If we don’t use the straw, the bricks will melt.

573
00:30:43,964 --> 00:30:45,674
Oh, it will not hold together?

574
00:30:45,757 --> 00:30:47,008
Yeah, it will not hold together.

575
00:30:50,804 --> 00:30:53,139
They start to mix it, mix it

576
00:30:53,139 --> 00:30:55,684
and take out stones, little stones like this.

577
00:30:55,684 --> 00:30:58,144
Oh, he's looking for the stones. So he's feeling as he goes?

578
00:30:58,144 --> 00:30:59,062
Yeah.

579
00:30:59,688 --> 00:31:01,523
This looks hard.

580
00:31:01,523 --> 00:31:02,941
They’re used to do it.

581
00:31:02,941 --> 00:31:04,442
They have a great experience.

582
00:31:04,442 --> 00:31:07,445
For a normal guy, it's very hard.

583
00:31:07,529 --> 00:31:08,196
Yeah.

584
00:31:08,196 --> 00:31:12,242
So I wouldn't want to arm wrestle them?

585
00:31:12,242 --> 00:31:15,245
No, he said no!

586
00:31:16,538 --> 00:31:18,164
Good grip. Haha!

587
00:31:18,164 --> 00:31:22,210
This is actually one of the coolest things we've done so far.

588
00:31:22,544 --> 00:31:27,382
It gives us a taste of the Hebrew experience as slaves.

589
00:31:27,382 --> 00:31:30,510
It would be one thing, if we were like these people

590
00:31:30,510 --> 00:31:33,597
making bricks for your own home or for your neighbor's homes,

591
00:31:33,597 --> 00:31:36,516
but they were forced to do this heavy labor.

592
00:31:36,516 --> 00:31:39,436
And as Jeremy will attest, it's not easy.

593
00:31:40,520 --> 00:31:43,523
Can I try his job Looking for the stones?

594
00:31:44,107 --> 00:31:47,277
This would be hard for you.

595
00:31:47,611 --> 00:31:48,612
That's okay.

596
00:31:48,612 --> 00:31:50,071
Okay.

597
00:31:50,071 --> 00:31:51,364
It's going to be great.

598
00:31:51,364 --> 00:31:53,533
Yeah, but I would not do it.

599
00:31:53,533 --> 00:31:54,784
Be my guest.

600
00:31:54,784 --> 00:31:57,787
Okay.

601
00:31:59,289 --> 00:32:01,499
Gird your loins man.

602
00:32:02,584 --> 00:32:04,336
Ah, so grab here?

603
00:32:06,087 --> 00:32:07,672
Oh, that’s heavy.

604
00:32:07,964 --> 00:32:08,757
Get it!

605
00:32:08,757 --> 00:32:09,633
Ha! Get it!

606
00:32:11,593 --> 00:32:13,094
Like this?

607
00:32:15,722 --> 00:32:18,433
It’s moving! It comes at you.

608
00:32:22,646 --> 00:32:24,522
It is mucky.

609
00:32:26,274 --> 00:32:34,824
And it creates a suction, you can hear it.

610
00:32:39,704 --> 00:32:41,665
You're faster, you’re faster.

611
00:32:43,959 --> 00:32:44,793
Thank you.

612
00:33:04,062 --> 00:33:05,480
And he rolls that on the ground.

613
00:33:05,772 --> 00:33:07,524
And put some water.

614
00:33:11,486 --> 00:33:13,071
You make it look easy.

615
00:33:13,947 --> 00:33:15,031
Yeah. Yeah.

616
00:33:15,240 --> 00:33:16,199
Yeah, he knows.

617
00:33:16,199 --> 00:33:17,617
Haha! He knows!

618
00:33:17,617 --> 00:33:20,203
We'll start from scratch.

619
00:33:28,294 --> 00:33:30,296
Is that enough?

620
00:33:41,474 --> 00:33:43,059
Yes?

621
00:33:43,268 --> 00:33:44,644
That's good?

622
00:33:44,644 --> 00:33:48,606
He said you if you work here, you will be a good one.

623
00:33:49,357 --> 00:33:50,525
I would have a job.

624
00:33:50,525 --> 00:33:52,152
Yeah, I would have a job.

625
00:33:52,152 --> 00:33:54,279
I think we need a friendly competition going here.

626
00:33:54,904 --> 00:33:56,239
Craig!

627
00:33:56,239 --> 00:34:00,326
Why don't you come see how you can do with bricks, man?

628
00:34:00,827 --> 00:34:02,370
Uh, yeah. Yeah yeah yeah.

629
00:34:07,125 --> 00:34:09,461
Yeah, let's just see who makes the prettiest brick.

630
00:34:09,461 --> 00:34:11,046
All right, so I'm taking this.

631
00:34:11,421 --> 00:34:12,756
Put it up alongside

632
00:34:20,180 --> 00:34:23,058
Yeah, more mud. More mud!

633
00:34:23,058 --> 00:34:24,976
Water. Yeah water.

634
00:34:27,520 --> 00:34:29,022
Okay lift it up.

635
00:34:29,731 --> 00:34:31,441
Good. Good!

636
00:34:32,734 --> 00:34:33,610
Okay.

637
00:34:33,610 --> 00:34:35,612
Who made it? Who made it better?

638
00:34:35,612 --> 00:34:37,697
I think Craig's is better than that.

639
00:34:37,697 --> 00:34:38,865
Yeah, right.

640
00:34:38,865 --> 00:34:40,700
Ask the brick maker.

641
00:34:40,700 --> 00:34:42,535
This one or this one?

642
00:34:42,535 --> 00:34:43,953
Craig won!

643
00:34:43,953 --> 00:34:45,747
Craig won! Haha!

644
00:34:46,331 --> 00:34:48,166
Ha!

645
00:34:48,166 --> 00:34:48,875
Thank you, Joseph.

646
00:34:54,589 --> 00:34:56,341
You don’t have to use them! Haha!

647
00:34:59,552 --> 00:35:02,972
Maybe we think about the hard labor, but to be able to capture that

648
00:35:03,306 --> 00:35:06,142
and to see it firsthand was pretty amazing experience.

649
00:35:31,292 --> 00:35:36,548
Seeing the process of making the bricks was eye opening for me.

650
00:35:36,548 --> 00:35:40,969
It would have been and still is, backbreaking work.

651
00:35:42,512 --> 00:35:45,306
You're in the Egyptian sun all day

652
00:35:45,557 --> 00:35:48,560
moving that heavy, dirty, smelly mud.

653
00:35:49,310 --> 00:35:52,313
And to think that was made even harder

654
00:35:52,522 --> 00:35:55,900
once Moses initially asked Pharaoh to let the Hebrews go,

655
00:35:57,485 --> 00:36:00,488
That is hard to imagine.

656
00:36:04,117 --> 00:36:07,829
The people of Israel groaned because of their slavery

657
00:36:07,829 --> 00:36:09,581
and cried out for help.

658
00:36:10,498 --> 00:36:14,043
Their for rescue from slavery came up to God

659
00:36:15,086 --> 00:36:17,547
and God heard their groaning

660
00:36:17,547 --> 00:36:19,883
and God remembered His covenant

661
00:36:19,883 --> 00:36:23,178
with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.

662
00:36:24,512 --> 00:36:27,515
God saw the people of Israel

663
00:36:27,932 --> 00:36:28,933
and God knew.

664
00:36:46,618 --> 00:36:47,493
Yeah.

665
00:36:47,493 --> 00:36:48,244
I was thinking about it...

666
00:36:48,244 --> 00:36:50,371
just like all the different gods and stuff in here.

667
00:36:50,371 --> 00:36:52,207
It’s going to be interesting to see...

668
00:36:52,207 --> 00:36:54,250
the comparison
between the one and the many? Yes.

669
00:36:54,250 --> 00:36:57,212
The “I AM” piece of it.

670
00:36:57,212 --> 00:37:00,215
Well, the emphasis all the way through, ‘then people will know

671
00:37:01,007 --> 00:37:03,218
that I AM the LORD.’

672
00:37:03,218 --> 00:37:04,636
And setting himself above

673
00:37:04,636 --> 00:37:07,639
everything else, but what’s the everything else?

674
00:37:08,223 --> 00:37:11,351
I don't think we have a perfect grasp of the everything else.

675
00:37:21,903 --> 00:37:23,613
Deep in Upper Egypt

676
00:37:23,613 --> 00:37:26,866
lies a city surrounded by the unforgiving sand.

677
00:37:27,700 --> 00:37:30,703
Welcome to Luxor.

678
00:37:34,082 --> 00:37:36,960
Known in Moses's time as Thebes.

679
00:37:36,960 --> 00:37:39,754
This was the seat of power for the 18th,

680
00:37:39,754 --> 00:37:42,715
19th, and 20th dynasties.

681
00:37:42,715 --> 00:37:45,510
Also known as the New Kingdom.

682
00:37:45,510 --> 00:37:48,805
New is a relative term, as Luxor was

683
00:37:48,805 --> 00:37:52,892
at the height of its glory between 1600 to 1000 BC.

684
00:37:54,060 --> 00:37:57,981
At the heart of the city: the Karnak Temple.

685
00:37:57,981 --> 00:38:01,985
The temple and fortified complex built
to worship the Egyptian god.

686
00:38:02,026 --> 00:38:05,029
Amun-Ra, the god of the sun.

687
00:38:05,989 --> 00:38:08,491
No place better speaks to the influence

688
00:38:08,491 --> 00:38:11,911
of the Egyptians polytheistic religion than Karnak.

689
00:38:12,912 --> 00:38:16,082
If you were the king, this city was holy ground,

690
00:38:16,541 --> 00:38:19,502
and you wanted your story told on the temple pillars.

691
00:38:20,420 --> 00:38:23,923
If you were a Hebrew slave, Karnak was the essence

692
00:38:24,090 --> 00:38:28,511
of opulence and power, and you were afraid of the gods that lived within its walls.

693
00:38:29,470 --> 00:38:32,015
Our team is meeting Ahmed.

694
00:38:32,015 --> 00:38:35,268
He's an Egyptologist and one of the leading experts

695
00:38:35,268 --> 00:38:38,271
on the Karnak temple complex.

696
00:38:38,438 --> 00:38:42,775
With so many different parts to Karnak,

697
00:38:42,775 --> 00:38:46,904
it is huge, how does it fit into the chronology of Egypt?

698
00:38:47,071 --> 00:38:50,742
So Karnak actually, according to the chronology and according

699
00:38:50,742 --> 00:38:56,039
what we found here, we talk about 1900 BC, the 12th dynasty rulers

700
00:38:56,205 --> 00:39:01,127
who built a shrine to Amun-Ra at the far eastern side of Karnak.

701
00:39:01,336 --> 00:39:06,424
So Karnak would have been in existence during the lifetime of Moses?

702
00:39:06,424 --> 00:39:07,258
It could be. Yeah.

703
00:39:07,258 --> 00:39:11,346
Because if we think about the 12th dynasty, we talk about Abraham,

704
00:39:11,429 --> 00:39:15,308
and then we talk about Joseph, and then Moses is after.

705
00:39:16,309 --> 00:39:19,771
So what is the significance of all of these pillars?

706
00:39:19,854 --> 00:39:23,358
Ah, symbolism was very important in ancient Egypt

707
00:39:23,358 --> 00:39:26,694
actually, here, 134 columns.

708
00:39:27,153 --> 00:39:30,198
Of course, that number has its religious meaning in Egypt.

709
00:39:30,615 --> 00:39:34,952
But in general
it represents the bulrushes or the reeds.

710
00:39:35,328 --> 00:39:38,039
In ancient Egypt, bulrushes

711
00:39:38,039 --> 00:39:42,043
represent the sacred dark place where the birth of the sun,

712
00:39:42,210 --> 00:39:46,672
but also in Judaism, the bulrushes where Moses was rescued.

713
00:39:50,635 --> 00:39:53,513
Let's go and see the most important

714
00:39:53,513 --> 00:39:56,516
shrine of Amun, the central shrine.

715
00:39:57,433 --> 00:39:58,976
So, the shrine of Amun?

716
00:39:58,976 --> 00:40:01,354
Yes, that's the shrine of Amun-Ra.

717
00:40:01,354 --> 00:40:03,439
So I always pronounce that Amun-Ra.

718
00:40:03,439 --> 00:40:06,150
Amun-Aa. Yeah. Or IMun-Ra. Yeah.

719
00:40:06,150 --> 00:40:10,655
This was really a correct depending on the pronunciation in hieroglyphics actually.

720
00:40:10,822 --> 00:40:14,534
So here were three standing statues
gonna be here

721
00:40:14,534 --> 00:40:19,622
welcoming the priests who are visiting the temple and city.

722
00:40:20,081 --> 00:40:25,211
The second is paying homage to the sacred Ark of the Covenant of Amun.

723
00:40:25,461 --> 00:40:28,297
You know the idea of the Ark of the covenant? Yes.

724
00:40:28,297 --> 00:40:29,507
That's from ancient Egypt.

725
00:40:29,507 --> 00:40:32,135
Let's see the Ark of the Covenant of Amun.

726
00:40:32,135 --> 00:40:36,764
The ram headed barge of Amun, actually, was a golden color

727
00:40:37,056 --> 00:40:41,936
being carried every year in a festivity leaving from here to Luxor Temple.

728
00:40:42,186 --> 00:40:47,316
So Seti II is offering more food, a different kinds of food.

729
00:40:47,316 --> 00:40:50,653
Like flowers, like pomegranate, like grapes and figs.

730
00:40:50,862 --> 00:40:53,573
This is like a cucumber or eggplant.

731
00:40:53,573 --> 00:40:56,409
And more flowers and more bread.

732
00:40:56,409 --> 00:40:59,954
Non fermented bread was very important to be introduced

733
00:41:00,163 --> 00:41:02,206
to the Ark of the covenant.

734
00:41:02,206 --> 00:41:03,624
So unleavened?

735
00:41:03,624 --> 00:41:04,375
Unleaven. Yeah.

736
00:41:04,375 --> 00:41:05,418
Unleavened bread.

737
00:41:05,418 --> 00:41:10,131
Yeah, so that's really an ancient Egyptian tradition may be passed to

738
00:41:10,381 --> 00:41:15,887
the Hebrews communities who were in Egypt, the food being given by Seti II

739
00:41:16,929 --> 00:41:18,347
who was given the title

740
00:41:18,347 --> 00:41:24,228
“Mi-Ra” “Mi-Ra” means you're going to be born forever as light.

741
00:41:28,357 --> 00:41:29,984
As we saw the stone architecture

742
00:41:29,984 --> 00:41:34,197
now we have the earliest Egyptian

743
00:41:34,572 --> 00:41:37,658
architecture: mud brick structure.

744
00:41:38,284 --> 00:41:39,368
How far back does this go?

745
00:41:39,368 --> 00:41:45,791
Well, actually, mud structures date back to more than 4000 years before Christ.

746
00:41:45,917 --> 00:41:49,545
We talk about pre-dynastic, but actually this is very recent.

747
00:41:49,545 --> 00:41:54,717
You can say 400 BCE, but we are still debating why it is here.

748
00:41:55,218 --> 00:41:59,055
Is it a ramp, a causeway to construct the facade,

749
00:41:59,305 --> 00:42:04,352
or a structure was built by a Jewish or a Coptic community?

750
00:42:04,602 --> 00:42:09,232
So the shape of the mud bricks actually does not give us an idea about a causeway.

751
00:42:09,440 --> 00:42:12,777
But mud brick goes back a long, long time before this?

752
00:42:12,818 --> 00:42:13,194
True.

753
00:42:13,194 --> 00:42:16,155
That's as you know, there are a lot of villages there still doing it.

754
00:42:16,155 --> 00:42:19,659
And we have scenes of mud industry in the walls

755
00:42:19,659 --> 00:42:22,662
of the tombs and amazing show different people.

756
00:42:22,662 --> 00:42:26,624
They were Nubians, they were Egyptians, they were Canaanites and Syrians.

757
00:42:26,832 --> 00:42:30,670
Mud brick industry was the work of poor families

758
00:42:30,670 --> 00:42:35,216
at that time, not only Jewish, but still Egyptians who did it.

759
00:42:37,677 --> 00:42:41,347
So, Jeremy, we're moving now to see one of the most fascinating and important

760
00:42:41,347 --> 00:42:46,978
objects at Karnak: this wonderful marble altar.

761
00:42:47,436 --> 00:42:52,900
Actually, we have two different altars, a horned altar, and then a flat altar.

762
00:42:53,192 --> 00:42:57,280
And we're still debating, actually, what is the function of this altar?

763
00:42:57,446 --> 00:43:01,075
Did they use this altar to put the burnt offerings?

764
00:43:01,492 --> 00:43:06,122
If it is a big religious community, lived here and practiced or performed

765
00:43:06,122 --> 00:43:11,127
the ritual that they have the burnt offerings on this marble altar,

766
00:43:11,127 --> 00:43:14,714
or still, as the scholars believe, it, is the sacred altar

767
00:43:14,714 --> 00:43:18,342
where they put the barge of Amun or the sacred Boat.

768
00:43:18,342 --> 00:43:20,428
We saw it on the walls of the room.

769
00:43:20,428 --> 00:43:24,849
Even today, there is a recent theory talking about it as a sundial.

770
00:43:24,849 --> 00:43:29,437
So what is the significance of the layout of this place with the sun?

771
00:43:29,478 --> 00:43:35,484
Well, Karnak is, precisely aligned
to the rising winter sun.

772
00:43:35,651 --> 00:43:40,239
And then it's like the journey of the sun from the east, where the birth of the sun

773
00:43:40,239 --> 00:43:44,452
in winter, to the west where the death of the sun after sunset

774
00:43:44,702 --> 00:43:48,873
or after the summer solstice on the 21st of June.

775
00:43:49,081 --> 00:43:53,586
And amazing in hieroglyphics, this long avenue from the east to the west

776
00:43:53,794 --> 00:43:59,300
was given the name in hieroglyphics as “Wat Amun-Ra Oobin”,

777
00:43:59,300 --> 00:44:03,012
the sacred route where Ra rises

778
00:44:03,012 --> 00:44:08,684
and “Wat Amun-Ra Hatshepsut”, the sacred route where Ra sets.

779
00:44:08,684 --> 00:44:12,063
Do we know how far back the Egyptians worshiped the sun?

780
00:44:12,229 --> 00:44:16,442
Well, I have to say the word worship is still debated.

781
00:44:16,442 --> 00:44:19,236
I have to say that they venerated the sun.

782
00:44:19,236 --> 00:44:19,695
Venerate.

783
00:44:19,695 --> 00:44:22,990
The word venerate because the sun in their eye is a unique disk.

784
00:44:23,574 --> 00:44:27,787
It comes with no power, no seen power behind it.

785
00:44:27,995 --> 00:44:29,538
Who pushes the sun to rise?

786
00:44:29,538 --> 00:44:31,666
Who pushes the sun to set?

787
00:44:31,666 --> 00:44:35,044
So in their imagination it is the manifestation of a one god

788
00:44:35,294 --> 00:44:38,589
or a hidden or invisible power.

789
00:44:38,631 --> 00:44:43,469
As the ancient Egyptians used the sun to guide their life, their harvest,

790
00:44:43,719 --> 00:44:47,098
their priesthood, or their rituals in temples and tombs.

791
00:44:47,390 --> 00:44:47,932
Exactly.

792
00:44:47,932 --> 00:44:50,935
The Valley of the Kings tombs, aligned to the sun.

793
00:44:50,935 --> 00:44:53,604
But there are some temples at Karnak were aligned to the moon.

794
00:44:53,604 --> 00:44:54,271
Yeah.

795
00:44:54,271 --> 00:44:57,358
So in the last couple of days, I've visited with a couple of people.

796
00:44:57,525 --> 00:45:00,277
There was somebody over, on the Nile.

797
00:45:00,277 --> 00:45:03,906
It was a captain, and talked about how he venerated the river.

798
00:45:04,198 --> 00:45:05,282
He venerated the Nile.

799
00:45:05,282 --> 00:45:08,994
That's true, because the Nile is the lord of navigation.

800
00:45:08,994 --> 00:45:12,707
They can navigate by the help of the moon, the stars and the Nile.

801
00:45:13,249 --> 00:45:14,875
Even you know how to navigate

802
00:45:14,875 --> 00:45:18,879
not only modern technology that they enjoy, but still the rising stars.

803
00:45:30,725 --> 00:45:34,812
Here we are in the most important part in the temple:

804
00:45:34,979 --> 00:45:37,898
we call it the Holy of Holies, or the sanctuary.

805
00:45:37,898 --> 00:45:40,776
And actually, it was in hieroglyphics “prenetti”,

806
00:45:40,776 --> 00:45:43,779
which means the “sacred house” of Amun,

807
00:45:43,863 --> 00:45:46,866
where there was a statue of Amun.

808
00:45:46,866 --> 00:45:53,622
The birth of the sun starts from here, and the light is spread from this moment

809
00:45:53,622 --> 00:45:58,002
or from this room to the central colonnade
and then to the outer court,

810
00:45:58,002 --> 00:46:02,089
and then farewell to the sun
when it sits behind the mountains

811
00:46:02,381 --> 00:46:05,468
where the kings and the queens buried in what we call today,

812
00:46:05,593 --> 00:46:07,678
the Valley of the Kings and the Queens.

813
00:46:07,678 --> 00:46:11,223
So Ra comes to life in December and dies in June.

814
00:46:11,557 --> 00:46:16,020
And this is how life, imagined by the ancient Egyptians.

815
00:46:16,145 --> 00:46:21,275
The beginning of the universe from darkness, to shadow life, to light,

816
00:46:21,400 --> 00:46:26,071
and then back again to the world of night or darkness behind the mountain.

817
00:46:26,071 --> 00:46:27,448
Very cyclical.

818
00:46:27,448 --> 00:46:31,368
That's what we call the cyclical time
in ancient Egypt.

819
00:46:31,368 --> 00:46:35,831
From darkness, shadow, light and then darkness again.

820
00:46:37,541 --> 00:46:39,668
Why is the stone so dark?

821
00:46:39,668 --> 00:46:41,879
I'm assuming they would make sacrifices?

822
00:46:41,879 --> 00:46:43,297
Of course, you know, still,

823
00:46:43,297 --> 00:46:48,135
you know, sacrifices and offerings is a big topic in ancient Egypt.

824
00:46:48,302 --> 00:46:49,386
They have their meaning.

825
00:46:49,386 --> 00:46:52,473
Sacrifices were really very important.

826
00:46:52,473 --> 00:46:56,852
Rams were prohibited or were not really sacrificed

827
00:46:56,852 --> 00:46:59,855
in ancient Egypt because they were representing

828
00:46:59,897 --> 00:47:04,276
one of the manifestations of Amun as a ram headed divinity.

829
00:47:04,401 --> 00:47:08,948
That was the clash between the Israelite community

830
00:47:09,240 --> 00:47:12,076
and the Egyptian community because of that

831
00:47:12,076 --> 00:47:15,079
kind of animal sacrifices.

832
00:47:18,165 --> 00:47:21,502
If we talk about the Pharaoh of the Exodus

833
00:47:21,502 --> 00:47:23,921
this is really a big topic.

834
00:47:24,088 --> 00:47:25,965
Who persecuted them?

835
00:47:25,965 --> 00:47:28,843
The word Pharaoh actually means a tyrant

836
00:47:28,843 --> 00:47:31,554
because he made himself the sun.

837
00:47:31,554 --> 00:47:34,515
Which is really still, you know, I think this is the glory of the Bible

838
00:47:34,515 --> 00:47:36,350
and the Koran and the religious text.

839
00:47:36,350 --> 00:47:38,602
That we still search for the Pharaoh...

840
00:47:38,602 --> 00:47:39,228
Yeah.

841
00:47:39,228 --> 00:47:40,980
From today to the end of the world. Yeah.

842
00:47:40,980 --> 00:47:42,231
So the events happened?

843
00:47:42,231 --> 00:47:43,399
Yeah. It happened. Yeah.

844
00:47:43,399 --> 00:47:45,276
It happened. Absolutely. It happened. Yeah.

845
00:47:45,276 --> 00:47:46,735
But who was he?

846
00:47:46,735 --> 00:47:49,738
This is still the question.

847
00:47:49,738 --> 00:47:51,448
Still a question.

848
00:47:55,619 --> 00:47:59,748
There is a lot to see at the Karnak temple complex.

849
00:48:00,332 --> 00:48:02,293
It's actually a bit overwhelming.

850
00:48:02,293 --> 00:48:05,838
What you have are layers upon layers of history.

851
00:48:06,422 --> 00:48:09,008
This site stretches more than 600 years

852
00:48:09,008 --> 00:48:12,011
across three Egyptian dynasties.

853
00:48:12,344 --> 00:48:15,306
There's a lot that I'm processing from my visit.

854
00:48:15,306 --> 00:48:16,557
For one thing,

855
00:48:16,557 --> 00:48:20,477
the connection between icons we see in the Bible to ancient Egypt.

856
00:48:21,979 --> 00:48:23,522
The Ark of the covenant wasn't

857
00:48:23,522 --> 00:48:26,525
a new concept to the Hebrews,

858
00:48:26,525 --> 00:48:28,777
and the Egyptians had a room in their temple

859
00:48:28,777 --> 00:48:32,615
considered to be the Holy of Holies, similar to what we see

860
00:48:32,615 --> 00:48:35,618
with the Tabernacle and the Temple in Jerusalem.

861
00:48:36,160 --> 00:48:38,621
This made me think of a couple of things.

862
00:48:38,621 --> 00:48:42,666
First, as God described how he wanted to be worshiped,

863
00:48:43,626 --> 00:48:48,005
he used some concepts that would have been familiar to the Israelites,

864
00:48:48,756 --> 00:48:52,801
but then gave details that were unique to his relationship with them.

865
00:48:53,761 --> 00:48:55,346
For example,

866
00:48:55,346 --> 00:48:57,723
he instructed them to build the Tabernacle

867
00:48:57,723 --> 00:49:01,310
and the Ark of the covenant to communicate that he was present among them.

868
00:49:01,727 --> 00:49:05,981
But in contrast to Egypt's many gods, he was one god

869
00:49:05,981 --> 00:49:09,276
and insisted that there be no physical depictions of him,

870
00:49:09,276 --> 00:49:11,487
no idols, no carvings,

871
00:49:12,154 --> 00:49:15,157
which is a demonstration of his compassion for the Hebrews.

872
00:49:15,908 --> 00:49:18,160
Next, I think these similarities

873
00:49:18,160 --> 00:49:21,163
helped to reinforce the truthfulness of Scripture.

874
00:49:21,330 --> 00:49:25,167
These hieroglyphs, these rooms, are extra biblical sources

875
00:49:25,167 --> 00:49:28,170
that point to similarities with what we read in the Bible.

876
00:49:28,420 --> 00:49:29,546
I love that.

877
00:49:29,546 --> 00:49:32,132
I think it really helps us better understand

878
00:49:32,132 --> 00:49:34,468
the world of the ancient Hebrews.

879
00:49:38,180 --> 00:49:41,684
You read about how wealthy the pharaohs were,

880
00:49:41,684 --> 00:49:43,602
the lifestyles of the rich and famous

881
00:49:43,602 --> 00:49:46,313
like this is how they live and people perceive them as deity.

882
00:49:46,313 --> 00:49:48,399
And that's what Moses was connected to.

883
00:49:48,399 --> 00:49:52,361
He was adopted into a family like that, and he turned his back on that

884
00:49:52,361 --> 00:49:53,821
and walked away from that,

885
00:49:53,821 --> 00:49:57,574
especially when he went into Midian and starts serving as a shepherd.

886
00:50:00,869 --> 00:50:06,709
Moses was keeping the flock of his father in law, Jethro, the priest of Midian

887
00:50:06,709 --> 00:50:10,504
and he led his flock into the west side of the wilderness

888
00:50:10,504 --> 00:50:13,841
and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.

889
00:50:14,925 --> 00:50:17,136
And the angel of the Lord appeared to him

890
00:50:17,136 --> 00:50:20,139
in a flame of fire, out of the midst of a bush.

891
00:50:20,973 --> 00:50:23,559
He looked, and behold,

892
00:50:23,559 --> 00:50:27,521
the bush was burning, yet it was not consumed.

893
00:50:28,439 --> 00:50:32,860
And Moses said, I will turn aside to see this great sight.

894
00:50:33,152 --> 00:50:36,071
Why the bush has not there?

895
00:50:36,071 --> 00:50:39,116
When the Lord saw that he had turned aside to see,

896
00:50:39,575 --> 00:50:42,578
God called to him out of the bush,

897
00:50:42,828 --> 00:50:45,831
Moses, Moses!

898
00:50:46,206 --> 00:50:49,209
And he said, here I am.

899
00:50:49,460 --> 00:50:51,587
Do not come near.

900
00:50:51,587 --> 00:50:54,423
Take the sandals of your feet,

901
00:50:54,423 --> 00:50:57,718
for the place on which you are standing is holy ground.

902
00:51:00,095 --> 00:51:03,265
Now you shall see what I will do to Pharaoh.

903
00:51:04,391 --> 00:51:07,352
For with a strong hand you will send him out

904
00:51:07,686 --> 00:51:11,273
and with a strong hand he will drive them out of the land

905
00:51:12,316 --> 00:51:15,819
and the Egyptians will know that I am the Lord.

906
00:51:20,741 --> 00:51:24,953
The Lord sent devastating plagues upon Egypt

907
00:51:24,953 --> 00:51:27,956
through the hands of Moses and Aaron.

908
00:51:29,041 --> 00:51:31,210
The Lord struck the waters

909
00:51:31,210 --> 00:51:34,213
of the Nile and turned it to blood.

910
00:51:34,630 --> 00:51:37,091
He made frogs come up from the water

911
00:51:37,091 --> 00:51:40,052
and into the houses of Pharaoh and his people.

912
00:51:41,678 --> 00:51:44,640
He turned the dust of the earth into gnats

913
00:51:44,973 --> 00:51:47,976
which covered man and beast.

914
00:51:48,894 --> 00:51:53,440
He sent great swarms of flies into the houses of Pharaoh,

915
00:51:54,108 --> 00:51:57,111
and the land of Egypt was ruined.

916
00:51:58,070 --> 00:52:00,989
Many times Pharaoh relented

917
00:52:00,989 --> 00:52:04,034
and begged Moses to remove the plagues,

918
00:52:04,493 --> 00:52:07,246
and the Lord showed mercy.

919
00:52:07,246 --> 00:52:10,707
But just as quickly, Pharaoh hardened his heart

920
00:52:11,250 --> 00:52:14,253
and refused to let the people go.

921
00:52:14,503 --> 00:52:18,257
So the Lord killed all of the livestock

922
00:52:18,257 --> 00:52:19,925
throughout the land of Egypt,

923
00:52:20,676 --> 00:52:23,679
but preserved the animals of Israel.

924
00:52:24,847 --> 00:52:28,392
Moses threw into the air soot from the kiln,

925
00:52:28,392 --> 00:52:30,853
and the people and animals of Egypt

926
00:52:30,853 --> 00:52:33,730
were covered in painful boils.

927
00:52:35,732 --> 00:52:37,484
The Lord sent thunder and

928
00:52:37,484 --> 00:52:40,487
hail and fire down to the earth.

929
00:52:42,364 --> 00:52:44,658
The Lord sent locusts

930
00:52:44,658 --> 00:52:47,494
and covered the face of the land.

931
00:52:47,494 --> 00:52:50,497
They ravaged the fields and the trees.

932
00:52:50,581 --> 00:52:53,584
Not the green thing remained.

933
00:52:55,711 --> 00:52:59,798
Then the Lord sent darkness for three days.

934
00:53:00,632 --> 00:53:04,052
No one throughout the land of Egypt rose from their place.

935
00:53:05,137 --> 00:53:09,099
But all the people of Israel had light where they lived.

936
00:53:10,934 --> 00:53:13,770
Finally, at midnight,

937
00:53:13,770 --> 00:53:18,901
the Lord struck down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt,

938
00:53:19,568 --> 00:53:24,031
from the firstborn of Pharaoh, who sat on his throne, to the firstborn

939
00:53:24,031 --> 00:53:26,408
of the captive who was in the dungeon,

940
00:53:26,408 --> 00:53:29,077
and all the firstborn of the livestock.

941
00:53:30,329 --> 00:53:33,081
And Pharaoh rose up in the night,

942
00:53:33,081 --> 00:53:36,710
he and all his servants and all the Egyptians.

943
00:53:37,544 --> 00:53:40,380
And there was a great cry in Egypt.

944
00:53:40,797 --> 00:53:43,508
For there was not a house

945
00:53:43,508 --> 00:53:46,470
where someone was not dead.

946
00:54:00,275 --> 00:54:01,485
When you think of the Exodus story...

947
00:54:01,485 --> 00:54:05,572
the ten plagues come to the mind of everyone who's ever heard this story.

948
00:54:06,031 --> 00:54:08,909
And they culminate in the death of the firstborn.

949
00:54:08,909 --> 00:54:10,410
How does being here impact

950
00:54:10,410 --> 00:54:13,914
the way you think about that pivotal moment in their history?

951
00:54:15,082 --> 00:54:19,878
One of the details of the death of the firstborn that haunts me,

952
00:54:19,878 --> 00:54:23,340
and it's hard to imagine what that must have been like and felt like

953
00:54:24,299 --> 00:54:28,595
for every family in the country on the same night.

954
00:54:28,929 --> 00:54:31,932
To have the firstborn male in their family die.

955
00:54:32,349 --> 00:54:35,978
And it talks about how the nation cried that night

956
00:54:36,520 --> 00:54:38,563
and what the wailing must have been like,

957
00:54:38,563 --> 00:54:40,565
especially in more populated places.

958
00:54:40,732 --> 00:54:42,025
Now God did that.

959
00:54:42,025 --> 00:54:42,484
Yeah.

960
00:54:42,484 --> 00:54:46,071
That wasn’t something that just happened to a people,

961
00:54:46,113 --> 00:54:49,408
this strange kind of pandemic that spread through Egypt.

962
00:54:49,408 --> 00:54:51,827
God chose to inflict them with this.

963
00:54:52,911 --> 00:54:55,414
God is demonstrating his justice.

964
00:54:55,414 --> 00:54:57,666
Pharaoh has been oppressing the people of God.

965
00:54:57,666 --> 00:55:00,877
He's been murdering sons of Israel.

966
00:55:00,877 --> 00:55:01,670
Right.

967
00:55:01,712 --> 00:55:05,048
By having them put to death, thrown into the Nile.

968
00:55:05,424 --> 00:55:07,050
It's a form of genocide.

969
00:55:07,050 --> 00:55:10,512
God was giving him so many opportunities to stop

970
00:55:10,512 --> 00:55:12,472
and let his people go and to respond.

971
00:55:12,472 --> 00:55:15,350
But Pharaoh keeps revealing how hard his heart is

972
00:55:15,350 --> 00:55:16,727
and continues to harden it.

973
00:55:17,185 --> 00:55:20,188
God has been asking him to let his people go.

974
00:55:20,439 --> 00:55:23,066
And even with the 10th, there was a warning.

975
00:55:23,066 --> 00:55:24,943
From the very beginning, right?

976
00:55:24,943 --> 00:55:28,071
He had told Moses, ‘Israel's my firstborn son.

977
00:55:28,071 --> 00:55:30,324
If you don't let them go, I'm taking your firstborn.’

978
00:55:30,324 --> 00:55:34,619
So there's always this calculated justice, compassion.

979
00:55:34,745 --> 00:55:36,747
He's going to deliver his people,

980
00:55:36,747 --> 00:55:38,498
but he's going to punish the ones who persecuted them.

981
00:55:40,292 --> 00:55:42,127
You’re a father.

982
00:55:43,879 --> 00:55:45,756
We've all experienced death in different ways.

983
00:55:45,756 --> 00:55:48,342
You can't make it through life without being touched by it.

984
00:55:48,342 --> 00:55:49,718
But you have sons.

985
00:55:49,718 --> 00:55:52,304
I have sons, in fact, you've lost.

986
00:55:52,304 --> 00:55:55,307
I've lost sons. Yep.

987
00:55:55,390 --> 00:55:57,934
But losing the firstborn, you know.

988
00:55:57,934 --> 00:56:00,937
Can you talk a little bit about emotionally what that would be like?

989
00:56:01,646 --> 00:56:04,900
But also,
what would it do to the family dynamic

990
00:56:05,025 --> 00:56:06,651
in that time period to lose your firstborn?

991
00:56:06,651 --> 00:56:08,320
Well, everything... everything changes.

992
00:56:08,320 --> 00:56:10,322
I mean, there's so much responsibility

993
00:56:10,322 --> 00:56:13,241
and blessings that are given to the firstborn

994
00:56:13,241 --> 00:56:16,453
because it's assumed he's going to take over in that patriarchal way.

995
00:56:16,870 --> 00:56:20,123
And so that that shifts, especially in ancient cultures.

996
00:56:20,665 --> 00:56:23,168
God has broken Egypt,

997
00:56:23,168 --> 00:56:27,631
and it hasn't just been a judgment specifically against Pharaoh.

998
00:56:28,048 --> 00:56:32,803
God also is revealing this is a judgment against the gods of Egypt.

999
00:56:32,803 --> 00:56:34,304
He's demonstrating

1000
00:56:34,304 --> 00:56:37,557
that he is exalted above what the Egyptians are worshiping,

1001
00:56:37,891 --> 00:56:40,727
that he is not like them, that he alone is God.

1002
00:56:40,727 --> 00:56:42,729
And so there are multiple levels.

1003
00:56:42,729 --> 00:56:46,149
God is still compassionate and merciful and patient,

1004
00:56:47,192 --> 00:56:49,611
but that patience has an end.

1005
00:56:49,611 --> 00:56:51,863
And as and as traumatic

1006
00:56:51,863 --> 00:56:54,866
as that was, it was not arbitrary.

1007
00:56:55,409 --> 00:56:59,246
And so to be in a place at night, looking around and seeing cities

1008
00:56:59,246 --> 00:57:02,958
and lights and families that are winding down their day.

1009
00:57:03,291 --> 00:57:05,877
imagining lights going on and off.

1010
00:57:05,877 --> 00:57:07,421
All of a sudden, the pandemonium

1011
00:57:07,421 --> 00:57:10,048
and the chaos that would have been going on that night

1012
00:57:10,048 --> 00:57:12,634
as Pharaoh finally relented

1013
00:57:12,634 --> 00:57:16,054
and in his heartbreak, let the people leave,

1014
00:57:16,596 --> 00:57:20,851
not fully grasping that it was his decisions that brought them there.

1015
00:57:20,934 --> 00:57:22,144
Right.

1016
00:57:25,897 --> 00:57:27,816
Every man shall take a lamb

1017
00:57:27,816 --> 00:57:30,819
according to their father's houses,

1018
00:57:30,902 --> 00:57:33,822
a lamb for a household.

1019
00:57:33,822 --> 00:57:35,949
The congregation of Israel shall

1020
00:57:35,949 --> 00:57:38,910
kill their lambs at twilight.

1021
00:57:39,202 --> 00:57:42,038
They shall eat the flesh that night,

1022
00:57:42,038 --> 00:57:46,042
roasted on the fire with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.

1023
00:57:46,251 --> 00:57:47,377
They shall eat it.

1024
00:57:49,087 --> 00:57:50,380
Then they shall

1025
00:57:50,380 --> 00:57:53,592
take some of the blood, and put it on the doorposts

1026
00:57:53,592 --> 00:57:56,970
and the lintel of the houses in which they eat it.

1027
00:57:57,721 --> 00:58:01,808
The blood shall be a sign for you on the houses where you are.

1028
00:58:02,517 --> 00:58:05,061
And when I see the blood,

1029
00:58:05,061 --> 00:58:10,358
I will pass over you, and no plague will befall you to destroy you

1030
00:58:10,484 --> 00:58:12,444
when I strike the land of Egypt.

1031
00:58:14,613 --> 00:58:17,157
And on that very day,

1032
00:58:17,157 --> 00:58:21,953
the Lord brought the people of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their hosts.

1033
00:58:23,413 --> 00:58:27,876
But Pharaoh again hardened his heart

1034
00:58:27,876 --> 00:58:30,462
to pursue them with his army and his chariots.

1035
00:58:30,462 --> 00:58:33,757
And Moses said to the people, “Fear not.

1036
00:58:34,216 --> 00:58:38,386
Stand firm and see the salvation of the Lord.”

1037
00:58:39,304 --> 00:58:42,307
And the Lord drove the sea back,

1038
00:58:42,557 --> 00:58:45,560
and made the sea dry land

1039
00:58:45,727 --> 00:58:48,188
and the waters were divided.

1040
00:58:48,188 --> 00:58:52,609
And the people of Israel went into the midst of the sea on dry ground,

1041
00:58:53,568 --> 00:58:55,737
the waters being a wall to them

1042
00:58:55,737 --> 00:58:58,740
on their right and on their left.

1043
00:58:59,074 --> 00:59:03,912
The Lord looked down on the Egyptians horses and threw them into a panic,

1044
00:59:04,287 --> 00:59:07,332
clogging their chariots wheels so that they drove heavily.

1045
00:59:07,916 --> 00:59:12,254
And the Egyptians said, “Let us flee from before Israel.

1046
00:59:12,504 --> 00:59:16,299
for the Lord fights for them against the Egyptians.”

1047
00:59:44,077 --> 00:59:46,538
When you look at the size of the Red sea,

1048
00:59:46,538 --> 00:59:49,541
and to think about what God had to do miraculously

1049
00:59:49,958 --> 00:59:52,961
to provide a wide enough, dry enough path

1050
00:59:53,295 --> 00:59:56,923
for that large of a group of people to move through in a single night.

1051
00:59:57,924 --> 00:59:58,800
It's miraculous.

1052
00:59:58,800 --> 00:59:59,676
It's supernatural.

1053
00:59:59,676 --> 01:00:02,679
It's not something that just happened.

1054
01:00:03,346 --> 01:00:05,515
Even though God used some natural means

1055
01:00:05,515 --> 01:00:08,518
to get it done, we know there was a wind that blew things up.

1056
01:00:08,685 --> 01:00:12,355
But in the song of deliverance, it talks about how the water congealed

1057
01:00:12,522 --> 01:00:14,316
and made a wall.

1058
01:00:14,316 --> 01:00:17,319
And so to imagine something that size

1059
01:00:17,652 --> 01:00:21,448
a pathway through the sea is.

1060
01:00:23,325 --> 01:00:24,993
It's impossible.

1061
01:00:24,993 --> 01:00:27,996
Except God made it possible.

1062
01:00:33,418 --> 01:00:38,673
So the sea represents this dividing line between slavery and freedom.

1063
01:00:39,716 --> 01:00:42,802
This body of water represents
that deliverance.

1064
01:00:42,802 --> 01:00:46,306
He had promised it to their ancestors

1065
01:00:46,306 --> 01:00:49,267
that he would send them into this land and then lead them out.

1066
01:00:49,851 --> 01:00:52,103
And this marks it. He has led them out.

1067
01:00:52,103 --> 01:00:57,692
And not only that, but when the sea comes back and overwhelmed Pharaoh's forces.

1068
01:00:57,692 --> 01:01:01,071
So they're not a lingering threat behind them anymore.

1069
01:01:01,863 --> 01:01:06,201
And so he sets them free, not just from the physical oppression,

1070
01:01:06,493 --> 01:01:09,913
but from the fear of returning or being drug back.

1071
01:01:10,538 --> 01:01:14,084
He eliminates that
so they can focus on simply learning

1072
01:01:14,084 --> 01:01:16,461
to trust him and move forward.

1073
01:01:16,461 --> 01:01:18,505
And I think that generation struggled with that.

1074
01:01:18,505 --> 01:01:21,466
I think they struggled with a slavery mentality going forward.

1075
01:01:23,343 --> 01:01:25,720
But this sea marks that threshold.

1076
01:01:25,720 --> 01:01:29,182
That doorway of slavery was on one side

1077
01:01:29,182 --> 01:01:32,185
Freedom was on the other side.

1078
01:02:21,693 --> 01:02:24,946
While the Egyptian forces no longer pursued the Hebrews.

1079
01:02:25,530 --> 01:02:27,532
This area was and is

1080
01:02:27,532 --> 01:02:29,993
considered part of the nation of Egypt.

1081
01:02:30,869 --> 01:02:33,830
Their border and their control reaches into

1082
01:02:33,830 --> 01:02:36,833
what is now known as the Sinai Peninsula.

1083
01:02:48,595 --> 01:02:50,889
What do you have?

1084
01:02:50,889 --> 01:02:53,892
This is the best quality.

1085
01:02:59,939 --> 01:03:01,441
Thank you

1086
01:03:03,193 --> 01:03:04,694
And now I'm local.

1087
01:03:16,122 --> 01:03:17,165
We set?

1088
01:03:19,375 --> 01:03:20,919
We are...

1089
01:03:20,919 --> 01:03:22,504
We are running behind schedule.

1090
01:03:22,504 --> 01:03:24,172
Let's just put it that way.

1091
01:03:24,172 --> 01:03:25,840
Why? What can we take up?

1092
01:03:26,424 --> 01:03:28,593
What could we take?

1093
01:03:28,593 --> 01:03:31,638
What's the, What's the word on the paperwork?

1094
01:03:32,222 --> 01:03:37,685
The guard has told us we can't go in until we've paid more money.

1095
01:03:37,811 --> 01:03:40,563
Muhammad and Ryan

1096
01:03:40,563 --> 01:03:44,984
and Ali are trying to figure out how to handle it.

1097
01:03:45,276 --> 01:03:48,446
But they say you paid only for the sunset.

1098
01:03:48,446 --> 01:03:49,447
What about the sunrise?

1099
01:03:50,448 --> 01:03:52,075
Okay, we will get.

1100
01:03:52,075 --> 01:03:53,409
We want to be cash.

1101
01:03:53,409 --> 01:03:54,953
You have to pay at Cairo.

1102
01:03:54,953 --> 01:03:55,870
No.

1103
01:03:55,870 --> 01:03:58,122
Okay. Let's us ride right now,

1104
01:03:58,122 --> 01:04:00,917
with our permits for the sunset to save time.

1105
01:04:01,251 --> 01:04:04,254
No, no, you have to pay that and then you go.

1106
01:04:06,214 --> 01:04:08,424
We are learning a lot

1107
01:04:08,424 --> 01:04:11,427
during this production trip.

1108
01:04:11,636 --> 01:04:16,307
That you can have a binder full of permits.

1109
01:04:16,307 --> 01:04:18,685
That, and it's just not enough.

1110
01:04:18,685 --> 01:04:19,936
It's just not enough.

1111
01:04:19,936 --> 01:04:21,771
We're afraid we're not going to get up there.

1112
01:04:21,771 --> 01:04:22,814
Yeah,

1113
01:04:22,814 --> 01:04:23,690
if there's a reason, we're

1114
01:04:23,690 --> 01:04:26,693
the only ones down here right now.

1115
01:04:27,360 --> 01:04:30,989
Luckily, we are working with a crew, you know, that's doing

1116
01:04:32,156 --> 01:04:34,242
the best they can to help.

1117
01:04:34,242 --> 01:04:37,245
Just spackling all the gaps.

1118
01:04:37,412 --> 01:04:38,162
Yeah.

1119
01:04:38,955 --> 01:04:40,498
Because you're sure that the permits go through.

1120
01:04:40,498 --> 01:04:41,457
You just want us to get a headstart?

1121
01:04:41,457 --> 01:04:42,584
Yeah. Yeah. Of course.

1122
01:04:42,584 --> 01:04:45,086
So if this comes through. Yes.

1123
01:04:45,086 --> 01:04:45,920
We're just gonna have to

1124
01:04:45,920 --> 01:04:47,630
we're have to move it quickly. Getting up the mountain.

1125
01:04:47,630 --> 01:04:48,840
Because I think it's

1126
01:04:48,840 --> 01:04:50,717
because if we're gonna catch that sunset,

1127
01:04:50,717 --> 01:04:52,844
we're going to be pushing it. So.

1128
01:04:52,844 --> 01:04:54,012
Okay, so the permits are in?

1129
01:04:55,346 --> 01:04:57,056
Muhammad says we’re good to go.

1130
01:05:05,148 --> 01:05:06,774
Mount Sinai

1131
01:05:06,774 --> 01:05:09,027
it's one of only a handful of places on Earth

1132
01:05:09,027 --> 01:05:10,486
where all three of the world's

1133
01:05:10,486 --> 01:05:13,489
major monotheistic religions, Judaism,

1134
01:05:13,740 --> 01:05:16,910
Islam and Christianity, hold great value.

1135
01:05:17,952 --> 01:05:20,121
However, there's one problem

1136
01:05:20,121 --> 01:05:22,999
we don't know with 100% certainty

1137
01:05:22,999 --> 01:05:25,335
where the biblical Mount Sinai is,

1138
01:05:25,335 --> 01:05:28,254
and the location is hotly contested by scholars

1139
01:05:28,254 --> 01:05:31,257
and YouTube commentators alike.

1140
01:05:32,050 --> 01:05:33,384
Our team chose to visit

1141
01:05:33,384 --> 01:05:36,387
the traditional site near Saint Catherine's Monastery

1142
01:05:36,596 --> 01:05:39,557
in the Sinai Peninsula, named Jabal Musa.

1143
01:05:40,642 --> 01:05:43,269
Jabal is “mountain” in Arabic.

1144
01:05:43,353 --> 01:05:45,521
Musa, referring to Moses.

1145
01:05:46,856 --> 01:05:48,858
Numerous sites across Egypt,

1146
01:05:48,858 --> 01:05:51,861
Saudi Arabia and Jordan are thought

1147
01:05:51,861 --> 01:05:54,864
to be a possible location for Mount Sinai.

1148
01:05:54,989 --> 01:05:59,410
Two primary sites are fiercely contested. Here at Jabal Musa

1149
01:06:00,328 --> 01:06:03,331
and Jabal al Lawz in Saudi Arabia.

1150
01:06:04,999 --> 01:06:08,503
We are not planting a flag saying this is the site,

1151
01:06:08,962 --> 01:06:13,132
but instead we're using this as a backdrop to consider

1152
01:06:13,132 --> 01:06:16,135
one of the most important moments in all of Scripture.

1153
01:06:16,552 --> 01:06:18,805
The giving of the law from God to his people.

1154
01:06:22,350 --> 01:06:24,394
So we're hiking up.

1155
01:06:24,394 --> 01:06:26,688
We finally got on the trail

1156
01:06:26,688 --> 01:06:29,691
maybe three hours late, and this is my guide

1157
01:06:29,774 --> 01:06:31,526
who has been doing this for how many years?

1158
01:06:31,526 --> 01:06:33,111
17 years.

1159
01:06:33,111 --> 01:06:34,946
And he's a part of the tribe

1160
01:06:34,946 --> 01:06:37,907
that goes back many generations here.

1161
01:06:38,449 --> 01:06:39,826
What is the name of your tribe?

1162
01:06:39,826 --> 01:06:41,828
Jabaliya.

1163
01:06:41,828 --> 01:06:44,831
It's meaning people who live in the mountains.

1164
01:06:46,040 --> 01:06:46,916
And down the valley

1165
01:06:46,916 --> 01:06:49,293
you can see the monastery of Saint Catherine,

1166
01:06:49,293 --> 01:06:52,296
where they found Sinaticus.

1167
01:06:59,303 --> 01:07:02,306
We're on the way.

1168
01:07:05,268 --> 01:07:06,894
What is this building up here?

1169
01:07:06,894 --> 01:07:08,479
This is church.

1170
01:07:08,479 --> 01:07:11,482
This mountain is called Transfiguration Mountain.

1171
01:07:11,899 --> 01:07:14,193
And God say to him, “Look to this mountain.”

1172
01:07:14,193 --> 01:07:16,863
Look to this mountain, and God passes this way.

1173
01:07:16,863 --> 01:07:17,488
Yes.

1174
01:07:17,488 --> 01:07:17,989
Transfigured here.

1175
01:07:17,989 --> 01:07:19,907
Remember boss?

1176
01:07:19,907 --> 01:07:22,785
The mountain would be in front of the Moses Mountain.

1177
01:07:22,785 --> 01:07:25,538
So Moses would have hid in a rock in a cleft up there?

1178
01:07:25,538 --> 01:07:26,330
Yes, yes.

1179
01:07:26,330 --> 01:07:28,291
And then God would have passed by here.

1180
01:07:28,291 --> 01:07:29,375
Transfigured. Transfigured.

1181
01:07:29,375 --> 01:07:30,626
Yes, yes.

1182
01:07:30,626 --> 01:07:33,379
The story. This is the place.

1183
01:07:35,840 --> 01:07:36,632
What’s that?

1184
01:07:36,632 --> 01:07:38,134
He said we have to move fast.

1185
01:07:38,134 --> 01:07:39,802
Yeah, yeah. Okay.

1186
01:07:39,802 --> 01:07:42,263
To reach the top before sunset.

1187
01:07:46,142 --> 01:07:48,227
Just as it wasn't easy for the Hebrews,

1188
01:07:48,227 --> 01:07:51,230
who were now thrust into the wilderness out of Egypt,

1189
01:07:51,439 --> 01:07:54,025
we too discovered that getting to the top of this mountain

1190
01:07:54,025 --> 01:07:57,028
would prove challenging.

1191
01:07:59,030 --> 01:08:01,491
An 80 year old did this.

1192
01:08:01,491 --> 01:08:04,035
It didn't say if he was chasing the sunet.

1193
01:08:06,662 --> 01:08:08,539
This is amazing

1194
01:08:08,539 --> 01:08:11,542
and exhausting.

1195
01:08:11,626 --> 01:08:12,960
So we're in the shade, catching a breather,

1196
01:08:12,960 --> 01:08:15,963
and then we'll keep going.

1197
01:08:20,134 --> 01:08:23,137
Yes.

1198
01:08:23,387 --> 01:08:23,846
What is it

1199
01:08:23,846 --> 01:08:26,891
like to live next to Mount Musa?

1200
01:08:27,266 --> 01:08:30,353
Oh, it's very calm and peaceful for peace and love.

1201
01:08:31,104 --> 01:08:32,855
Do you get to meet many people who come?

1202
01:08:32,855 --> 01:08:35,358
Yes, every day. I meet so much people here.

1203
01:08:35,983 --> 01:08:38,361
We like it when we climb the mountain here.

1204
01:08:38,361 --> 01:08:38,861
Yes.

1205
01:08:40,196 --> 01:08:42,532
What do you feel for you?

1206
01:08:42,532 --> 01:08:43,950
Exhaustion!

1207
01:08:53,042 --> 01:08:54,544
We got hustle.

1208
01:08:54,544 --> 01:08:57,296
We've gotten to this spot about to hit the steps.

1209
01:08:57,296 --> 01:09:00,299
And if we do this right, we should catch the sunset.

1210
01:09:00,633 --> 01:09:02,051
We've got pretty aggressive pace,

1211
01:09:02,051 --> 01:09:05,054
but I think we're going to do it.

1212
01:09:09,934 --> 01:09:13,312
700 steps to the top.

1213
01:09:16,607 --> 01:09:19,610
I haven't been keeping count.

1214
01:09:21,612 --> 01:09:22,530
I think

1215
01:09:22,530 --> 01:09:25,533
I think we're gonna make it.

1216
01:09:41,757 --> 01:09:44,719
That is incredible.

1217
01:09:53,895 --> 01:09:56,314
For Moses he was supernaturally preserved.

1218
01:09:56,314 --> 01:09:57,815
B y the end of his life it was talking about

1219
01:09:57,815 --> 01:09:59,775
how God had preserved his strength and his vigor.

1220
01:09:59,775 --> 01:10:01,277
And his eye wasn't dim.

1221
01:10:02,653 --> 01:10:05,031
After three months of journeying

1222
01:10:05,031 --> 01:10:08,159
and getting here to make that hike several times.

1223
01:10:08,993 --> 01:10:09,952
That's impressive.

1224
01:10:09,952 --> 01:10:12,955
That is just really impressive.

1225
01:10:16,542 --> 01:10:19,545
Look at those colors come out.

1226
01:10:20,755 --> 01:10:21,881
What are you thinking about right now?

1227
01:10:24,050 --> 01:10:27,053
The presence of God.

1228
01:10:42,652 --> 01:10:44,237
This was the place

1229
01:10:44,237 --> 01:10:47,240
where Moses met God

1230
01:10:47,657 --> 01:10:50,534
in the burning bush when he was taking care of his flocks

1231
01:10:50,534 --> 01:10:53,454
in Midian. And God commissioned him.

1232
01:10:53,454 --> 01:10:56,832
And up until that point, God had not been

1233
01:10:56,999 --> 01:10:57,917
revealing himself

1234
01:10:57,917 --> 01:10:59,085
to his people and interacting

1235
01:10:59,085 --> 01:11:01,337
with his people for centuries.

1236
01:11:01,337 --> 01:11:04,882
And so Moses brings God's people out of Egypt

1237
01:11:04,882 --> 01:11:07,885
to this place to meet the Lord

1238
01:11:08,386 --> 01:11:10,554
and to enter into a covenant relationship with him.

1239
01:11:10,554 --> 01:11:13,224
And Moses goes up and down this mountain.

1240
01:11:13,224 --> 01:11:15,518
And when he comes down from interacting with God,

1241
01:11:15,518 --> 01:11:17,019
his face is shining

1242
01:11:17,019 --> 01:11:20,022
because he's been interacting with the presence of God.

1243
01:11:20,356 --> 01:11:23,359
The struggle to get here

1244
01:11:24,026 --> 01:11:24,944
was worth it.

1245
01:11:24,944 --> 01:11:27,321
Oh man, it was worth it.

1246
01:11:27,321 --> 01:11:28,447
And even for the Israelites,

1247
01:11:28,447 --> 01:11:30,449
they did not know what it would be like to me.

1248
01:11:30,449 --> 01:11:32,034
It got out here. They just didn't know

1249
01:11:33,327 --> 01:11:34,704
they hadn't done it before.

1250
01:11:34,704 --> 01:11:37,707
Exodus wasn't written that it had not happened yet.

1251
01:11:38,040 --> 01:11:39,709
For them, it was all new.

1252
01:11:39,709 --> 01:11:42,295
So they were heading into the unknown.

1253
01:11:42,295 --> 01:11:44,422
They were coming out here by faith

1254
01:11:44,422 --> 01:11:47,425
in God was trying to establish a cultural memory

1255
01:11:47,425 --> 01:11:50,428
for them, that he was the God who had delivered them.

1256
01:11:50,803 --> 01:11:51,846
Oh, yeah.

1257
01:11:51,846 --> 01:11:52,221
Look at that.

1258
01:11:52,221 --> 01:11:54,515
Yeah, that’s the way I should be walking.

1259
01:11:55,641 --> 01:11:57,018
You made it with a cane?

1260
01:11:57,018 --> 01:11:58,060
I made it with a cane.

1261
01:11:58,060 --> 01:11:59,645
Good job, man. Where are you from?

1262
01:11:59,645 --> 01:12:01,480
West Virginia, West Virginia.

1263
01:12:01,480 --> 01:12:02,898
He’s used to the mountains.

1264
01:12:02,898 --> 01:12:04,066
Congratulations.

1265
01:12:04,066 --> 01:12:05,693
And you made it in time for that.

1266
01:12:06,777 --> 01:12:08,487
What does it mean for you to be out here?

1267
01:12:09,447 --> 01:12:10,948
I didn’t care what it was going to take

1268
01:12:10,948 --> 01:12:12,199
I wanted to make this journey.

1269
01:12:12,199 --> 01:12:15,202
Yeah, because,

1270
01:12:15,328 --> 01:12:16,746
I believe in God.

1271
01:12:16,746 --> 01:12:17,288
I do too.

1272
01:12:17,288 --> 01:12:18,956
And beside him, there is no other.

1273
01:12:18,956 --> 01:12:21,417
Yeah, that's that's what it's all about. Yeah.

1274
01:12:21,417 --> 01:12:22,335
I prayed all the way up

1275
01:12:23,336 --> 01:12:24,253
and and

1276
01:12:24,253 --> 01:12:28,007
and and here I'm on the top, and that’s...

1277
01:12:28,090 --> 01:12:29,925
And that's what life is all about, isn’t it?

1278
01:12:29,925 --> 01:12:32,178
You just keep on trusting in God.

1279
01:12:32,261 --> 01:12:34,013
Believing in him.

1280
01:12:34,013 --> 01:12:35,181
Believe what his word says.

1281
01:12:35,181 --> 01:12:37,099
I guarantee you you'll make it to the top.

1282
01:12:37,099 --> 01:12:37,641
Yeah.

1283
01:12:37,641 --> 01:12:39,977
That's why I'm excited for you. I'm excited.

1284
01:12:39,977 --> 01:12:42,480
Thank you for taking the time to talk to me. Sure.

1285
01:12:42,480 --> 01:12:45,483
You too.

1286
01:12:54,784 --> 01:12:57,787
Now, Mount Sinai was wrapped in smoke

1287
01:12:57,828 --> 01:13:00,956
because the Lord had descended on it in fire.

1288
01:13:01,916 --> 01:13:05,419
The smoke of it went up like the smoke of a kiln.

1289
01:13:05,961 --> 01:13:08,964
And the whole mountain trembled greatly

1290
01:13:09,965 --> 01:13:13,344
as the sound of the trumpet grew louder and louder.

1291
01:13:14,178 --> 01:13:18,474
Moses spoke, and God answered him in thunder.

1292
01:13:19,642 --> 01:13:22,436
The Lord came down on Mount

1293
01:13:22,436 --> 01:13:25,439
Sinai to the top of the mountain,

1294
01:13:25,940 --> 01:13:28,943
and the Lord called Moses to the top of the mountain.

1295
01:13:29,568 --> 01:13:31,070
And Moses went up.

1296
01:13:33,739 --> 01:13:36,742
And God spoke all these words, saying,

1297
01:13:37,076 --> 01:13:40,579
I am the Lord your God, who brought you

1298
01:13:40,579 --> 01:13:44,333
out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.

1299
01:13:44,875 --> 01:13:48,337
You shall have no other gods before me.

1300
01:13:49,088 --> 01:13:52,967
You shall not bow down to them or serve them,

1301
01:13:53,509 --> 01:13:56,387
for I, the Lord your God,

1302
01:13:56,387 --> 01:13:59,390
am a jealous God.

1303
01:14:15,531 --> 01:14:18,993
So off to the side of where we were standing

1304
01:14:19,702 --> 01:14:20,953
underneath the mosque

1305
01:14:20,953 --> 01:14:23,956
are these steps going down.

1306
01:14:25,332 --> 01:14:28,335
Into what is called the Cave of Moses.

1307
01:14:28,461 --> 01:14:30,296
There's not much to it.

1308
01:14:31,046 --> 01:14:33,007
Really small.

1309
01:14:35,050 --> 01:14:36,927
On Mount Sinai

1310
01:14:37,887 --> 01:14:41,640
is where Moses asked to see God's presence.

1311
01:14:41,640 --> 01:14:43,517
For God to dwell with his people.

1312
01:14:43,517 --> 01:14:46,187
Some people think this is the traditional location

1313
01:14:46,187 --> 01:14:49,648
where God let just a small piece of his presence

1314
01:14:50,149 --> 01:14:53,152
be witnessed by Moses to comfort him

1315
01:14:53,819 --> 01:14:56,363
and reassure that he was going to go with them,

1316
01:14:56,363 --> 01:14:59,366
despite what had happened with the golden calf

1317
01:14:59,366 --> 01:15:01,577
while Moses was up on the mountain,

1318
01:15:01,911 --> 01:15:03,496
Not much room.

1319
01:15:04,580 --> 01:15:07,249
There may not have been much room.

1320
01:15:08,501 --> 01:15:10,711
But to have a spot like this

1321
01:15:10,711 --> 01:15:12,129
that's been

1322
01:15:13,047 --> 01:15:15,508
maintained and thought about

1323
01:15:15,508 --> 01:15:18,469
is pretty special.

1324
01:15:52,962 --> 01:15:54,338
After years of traveling like this

1325
01:15:54,338 --> 01:15:56,090
and going to religiously significant

1326
01:15:56,090 --> 01:15:59,843
places, it's rare to be there by yourself.

1327
01:16:00,261 --> 01:16:02,596
And that's actually one of the joys of it.

1328
01:16:02,596 --> 01:16:04,974
You get to meet and interact with people,

1329
01:16:04,974 --> 01:16:07,977
some who hold different beliefs than you,

1330
01:16:07,977 --> 01:16:10,980
some who share very common beliefs with you.

1331
01:16:11,230 --> 01:16:12,815
Because this is the story.

1332
01:16:12,815 --> 01:16:15,818
There are other mountains that are easier to get to,

1333
01:16:16,026 --> 01:16:19,905
less military to deal with and government regulations.

1334
01:16:20,364 --> 01:16:22,157
Well, this is one of the few locations,

1335
01:16:22,157 --> 01:16:24,326
you know, the Temple Mount in Jerusalem is one of them.

1336
01:16:24,326 --> 01:16:25,536
But this is another

1337
01:16:25,536 --> 01:16:26,579
where you have

1338
01:16:26,579 --> 01:16:28,038
this intersection of the three

1339
01:16:28,038 --> 01:16:29,999
monotheistic religions of the world.

1340
01:16:29,999 --> 01:16:33,002
I mean, you've got Judaism and Islam and Christianity,

1341
01:16:33,043 --> 01:16:36,630
and they all stake a claim to these events.

1342
01:16:37,506 --> 01:16:40,092
And so this is a story that everyone connects to,

1343
01:16:41,176 --> 01:16:42,177
not just a story of one people

1344
01:16:42,177 --> 01:16:44,179
coming out and being mean to people here.

1345
01:16:44,179 --> 01:16:47,224
That's a human story through the Exodus itself,

1346
01:16:47,808 --> 01:16:51,645
through the judgments, through the Red sea parting.

1347
01:16:51,895 --> 01:16:55,524
God was going to make his name known in one sense.

1348
01:16:55,524 --> 01:16:57,443
He was going to make himself known to the Israelites.

1349
01:16:57,443 --> 01:16:58,402
And then with Pharaoh,

1350
01:16:58,402 --> 01:17:01,238
he was going to help Pharaoh know that he was the Lord,

1351
01:17:01,238 --> 01:17:03,324
and then he's going to help the world

1352
01:17:03,324 --> 01:17:05,284
to know that he is the Lord.

1353
01:17:05,284 --> 01:17:06,619
And that's still going on.

1354
01:17:06,619 --> 01:17:09,371
You know, God is making himself known

1355
01:17:09,371 --> 01:17:12,249
through what happened in the Exodus.

1356
01:17:12,249 --> 01:17:15,127
And the culmination of that happens here

1357
01:17:15,127 --> 01:17:17,338
when we teach the Bible classes with the kids.

1358
01:17:17,338 --> 01:17:22,426
We focus on the birth of Moses, slavery, the difficulty.

1359
01:17:22,426 --> 01:17:24,178
It's the exciting part, the plagues,

1360
01:17:24,178 --> 01:17:25,763
you know, the deliverance through the Red sea.

1361
01:17:25,763 --> 01:17:26,889
You get here and it's all law.

1362
01:17:26,889 --> 01:17:29,183
And it's like, okay, right.

1363
01:17:29,183 --> 01:17:31,310
But we don't think through

1364
01:17:31,310 --> 01:17:33,145
God establishing his presence

1365
01:17:33,145 --> 01:17:35,939
among his people in the closing chapters.

1366
01:17:35,939 --> 01:17:36,440
Right.

1367
01:17:36,440 --> 01:17:37,441
We get to the Golden Calf

1368
01:17:37,441 --> 01:17:38,901
and teach the golden calf,

1369
01:17:38,901 --> 01:17:41,236
but we don't always jump forward into Moses

1370
01:17:41,236 --> 01:17:42,738
trying to intercede

1371
01:17:42,738 --> 01:17:45,658
and God revealing himself to be merciful

1372
01:17:45,658 --> 01:17:48,661
and full of everlasting love.

1373
01:17:48,827 --> 01:17:51,497
He's incredibly patient because the people

1374
01:17:51,497 --> 01:17:54,750
would just get us out of here and then the promised land.

1375
01:17:54,750 --> 01:17:57,753
But God wanted them to stop here, and they stayed here

1376
01:17:57,878 --> 01:17:59,004
for almost a year.

1377
01:18:00,130 --> 01:18:03,717
So that God could make them into this covenant people.

1378
01:18:04,343 --> 01:18:06,679
Some of the things that happened

1379
01:18:06,679 --> 01:18:09,473
in a location like this, we passed by a place earlier.

1380
01:18:09,473 --> 01:18:12,476
I can imagine 70 elders

1381
01:18:12,518 --> 01:18:15,521
and Moses and Aaron and his sons

1382
01:18:15,729 --> 01:18:18,732
right there eating before God.

1383
01:18:18,816 --> 01:18:21,819
And I don't know that it happened there.

1384
01:18:21,860 --> 01:18:22,653
But you can imagine it.

1385
01:18:22,653 --> 01:18:23,570
I can imagine it. Yeah.

1386
01:18:23,570 --> 01:18:26,031
And being in a place like this, it just

1387
01:18:26,031 --> 01:18:28,701
God did those things and the people responded

1388
01:18:28,701 --> 01:18:29,702
in those ways.

1389
01:18:29,702 --> 01:18:30,953
Out of all the nations of the earth,

1390
01:18:30,953 --> 01:18:33,080
he was making them his people.

1391
01:18:33,080 --> 01:18:36,166
And so later in the Pentateuch, when you get to Deuteronomy

1392
01:18:36,709 --> 01:18:39,378
and Moses is reminding the Israelites

1393
01:18:39,378 --> 01:18:40,170
of their journey

1394
01:18:40,170 --> 01:18:42,506
and of their deliverance and all of these things,

1395
01:18:42,506 --> 01:18:45,592
he talks to them about, what nation is there

1396
01:18:46,218 --> 01:18:48,595
that heard the voice of God from the mountain and lived?

1397
01:18:49,555 --> 01:18:51,014
No other nation had that experience.

1398
01:18:51,014 --> 01:18:52,599
Every nation can see their gods.

1399
01:18:52,599 --> 01:18:56,562
Yes, here's a guy who's not seen, but he was heard right?

1400
01:18:57,146 --> 01:18:59,857
Because to hear his voice is to

1401
01:18:59,857 --> 01:19:02,317
have an opportunity to respond to relationship.

1402
01:19:02,317 --> 01:19:04,278
And I'm hearing your voice right now

1403
01:19:04,278 --> 01:19:06,947
and you're communicating thoughts and ideas.

1404
01:19:06,947 --> 01:19:08,490
And that's what God wants in

1405
01:19:08,490 --> 01:19:11,243
his people, is he wants this two way relationship.

1406
01:19:11,243 --> 01:19:13,036
We're responding to each other earlier.

1407
01:19:13,036 --> 01:19:14,246
We're all sitting around after

1408
01:19:14,246 --> 01:19:16,165
we had been up there for the sunset,

1409
01:19:16,165 --> 01:19:17,958
and we're talking about our aches and pains,

1410
01:19:17,958 --> 01:19:19,835
and this was really hard, but it was worth it.

1411
01:19:19,835 --> 01:19:22,838
There is a bonding process that takes place

1412
01:19:23,046 --> 01:19:26,049
through turmoil and strife and suffering.

1413
01:19:26,383 --> 01:19:29,386
You have this large family that got developed

1414
01:19:29,970 --> 01:19:31,972
in Egypt over 400 years, right.

1415
01:19:31,972 --> 01:19:34,349
So they had this shared experience

1416
01:19:34,349 --> 01:19:35,267
of being delivered,

1417
01:19:35,267 --> 01:19:38,145
this shared experience of coming to Sinai,

1418
01:19:38,145 --> 01:19:39,772
this shared experience of hearing

1419
01:19:39,772 --> 01:19:42,775
God give them law as they keep going.

1420
01:19:43,066 --> 01:19:45,903
They're going to continue to have these shared experiences

1421
01:19:45,903 --> 01:19:48,906
and a refining of their law and their culture,

1422
01:19:49,281 --> 01:19:50,783
and God's preparing them for that.

1423
01:19:50,783 --> 01:19:53,202
So by the time they reach Canaan,

1424
01:19:53,202 --> 01:19:54,745
when they get there and they're ready to go

1425
01:19:54,745 --> 01:19:56,455
in, they're not just a family anymore.

1426
01:19:56,455 --> 01:19:58,248
They're nation. They're a nation.

1427
01:19:58,248 --> 01:19:59,082
And God's point is,

1428
01:19:59,082 --> 01:19:59,708
what other nation

1429
01:19:59,708 --> 01:20:02,085
in the history of the world started that way?

1430
01:20:02,085 --> 01:20:04,213
So the law, the Ten Commandments,

1431
01:20:05,214 --> 01:20:07,299
the significance of that,

1432
01:20:07,299 --> 01:20:09,551
why those ten words?

1433
01:20:09,551 --> 01:20:13,263
The first four words are highlighting the importance

1434
01:20:13,263 --> 01:20:14,807
of their relationship with God.

1435
01:20:14,807 --> 01:20:16,892
This is how you're going to interact with me.

1436
01:20:16,892 --> 01:20:20,646
The last six talk about how to interact with each other

1437
01:20:20,646 --> 01:20:21,772
on a very high level.

1438
01:20:21,772 --> 01:20:23,899
It's not everything. It's not everything they need to know.

1439
01:20:23,899 --> 01:20:24,858
And so it gets refined.

1440
01:20:24,858 --> 01:20:25,901
And then you get to Leviticus

1441
01:20:25,901 --> 01:20:27,653
and then you get more details.

1442
01:20:27,653 --> 01:20:31,281
But key to all of that, God starts

1443
01:20:31,615 --> 01:20:33,534
the ten words with,

1444
01:20:33,534 --> 01:20:35,661
I am the God who delivered you out of Egypt.

1445
01:20:35,661 --> 01:20:38,455
He's not just giving them law to give them law.

1446
01:20:38,455 --> 01:20:42,584
He attaches his law with what he has done for them,

1447
01:20:42,584 --> 01:20:44,211
and how he has revealed himself

1448
01:20:44,211 --> 01:20:46,380
to them in a very personal way.

1449
01:20:46,380 --> 01:20:49,132
So it's not just some ambiguous moral code.

1450
01:20:49,132 --> 01:20:50,634
It's connected to Jehovah

1451
01:20:50,634 --> 01:20:52,970
and what they've come to learn about Jehovah personally.

1452
01:20:52,970 --> 01:20:54,596
So the Ten Commandments are not like,

1453
01:20:54,596 --> 01:20:57,349
here's how to be good so that you get credit with God and he likes you.

1454
01:20:57,349 --> 01:20:58,934
No. No.

1455
01:20:58,934 --> 01:20:59,643
And then you're good with him.

1456
01:20:59,643 --> 01:21:02,604
But it's here's how you respond to a God who saved you.

1457
01:21:02,604 --> 01:21:02,813
Yeah.

1458
01:21:02,813 --> 01:21:06,441
And to love God and to love each other

1459
01:21:06,859 --> 01:21:10,112
and to be this covenant people that God saved you to be.

1460
01:21:10,153 --> 01:21:12,197
So you can see why it's not just saving them

1461
01:21:12,197 --> 01:21:15,200
so important, it's bringing them and making them,

1462
01:21:15,659 --> 01:21:16,326
making him all that.

1463
01:21:16,326 --> 01:21:16,910
He purposed them to be.

1464
01:21:16,910 --> 01:21:20,539
Lovers of God, lovers of each other, this family.

1465
01:21:20,873 --> 01:21:23,333
The story of Exodus doesn't start with Exodus one.

1466
01:21:23,333 --> 01:21:25,502
It starts with Abraham's family

1467
01:21:25,502 --> 01:21:27,462
and how they come into Egypt.

1468
01:21:27,462 --> 01:21:28,839
But going back to the promise

1469
01:21:28,839 --> 01:21:31,341
God made to Abraham in Genesis 15.

1470
01:21:31,341 --> 01:21:33,051
But Abraham is heartbroken over

1471
01:21:33,051 --> 01:21:35,095
the fact that he doesn't have children, yet

1472
01:21:35,095 --> 01:21:37,973
that promise has not been fulfilled where he has him

1473
01:21:37,973 --> 01:21:39,266
look up,

1474
01:21:39,266 --> 01:21:42,269
God challenges him to count the stars,

1475
01:21:42,477 --> 01:21:44,563
and he says, that's how many kids you're going to have.

1476
01:21:44,563 --> 01:21:47,065
Someday I'm going to keep this promise to you.

1477
01:21:47,065 --> 01:21:49,234
But now it's not just Abraham's family

1478
01:21:49,234 --> 01:21:50,903
that's his name, right?

1479
01:21:50,903 --> 01:21:53,906
Well, and he even predicts there's going to come a time

1480
01:21:53,906 --> 01:21:56,658
where your children will go into a land, right?

1481
01:21:56,658 --> 01:21:58,702
And I am going to deliver them out.

1482
01:21:58,702 --> 01:22:02,331
And so at Mount Sinai, that has been fulfilled.

1483
01:22:03,081 --> 01:22:05,208
Abraham's children are numerous,

1484
01:22:06,251 --> 01:22:08,420
and God has delivered them from the land

1485
01:22:08,420 --> 01:22:11,423
that he knew they would be enslaved in.

1486
01:22:49,336 --> 01:22:52,339
This was a new day for God's people.

1487
01:22:52,756 --> 01:22:55,759
The giving of the law was a pivotal moment

1488
01:22:55,842 --> 01:22:58,220
in the forming of their nation.

1489
01:22:58,220 --> 01:23:00,514
This moment would go with them

1490
01:23:00,514 --> 01:23:03,517
all the way to the cross of Jesus.

1491
01:23:03,934 --> 01:23:07,729
But while God was making a covenant with his people,

1492
01:23:08,397 --> 01:23:11,400
the Hebrews were already breaking the law

1493
01:23:11,900 --> 01:23:15,445
and something dark and sinister was taking place

1494
01:23:15,445 --> 01:23:18,448
far below in the valley.

1495
01:23:22,744 --> 01:23:25,914
When Moses delayed to come down from the mountain,

1496
01:23:26,623 --> 01:23:29,251
the people gathered themselves together to Aaron

1497
01:23:29,251 --> 01:23:34,256
and said to him, make us gods who shall go before us?

1498
01:23:35,173 --> 01:23:37,217
As for this Moses,

1499
01:23:37,217 --> 01:23:40,220
the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt,

1500
01:23:41,138 --> 01:23:43,098
we do not know what has become of him.

1501
01:23:44,391 --> 01:23:46,476
So Aaron received the rings of gold

1502
01:23:46,476 --> 01:23:49,980
that were in their ears, and made a calf.

1503
01:23:51,106 --> 01:23:53,817
And the people said, behold,

1504
01:23:53,817 --> 01:23:56,945
the God who brought us up out of the land of Egypt.

1505
01:23:58,405 --> 01:24:01,408
And they rose up early the next day to worship.

1506
01:24:02,576 --> 01:24:05,537
They sat down to eat and drink,

1507
01:24:06,204 --> 01:24:09,207
and rose up to play.

1508
01:24:14,838 --> 01:24:17,340
it was fascinating to me

1509
01:24:17,340 --> 01:24:20,677
while we were in Luxor that, and the Egyptologist

1510
01:24:21,053 --> 01:24:22,471
showed us a hieroglyph

1511
01:24:22,471 --> 01:24:23,680
that had a couple of

1512
01:24:23,680 --> 01:24:27,267
images on it that gave us insight into the golden calf.

1513
01:24:27,768 --> 01:24:31,188
So the two images and the hieroglyph was

1514
01:24:31,188 --> 01:24:32,814
an image that represented gold

1515
01:24:32,814 --> 01:24:36,234
or the gold skin of the gods, and then a bowl

1516
01:24:36,234 --> 01:24:38,153
representing the strength of the gods

1517
01:24:38,153 --> 01:24:40,489
and associated with the king.

1518
01:24:40,489 --> 01:24:43,116
And when you take that imagery

1519
01:24:43,116 --> 01:24:46,578
and then think about what Aaron fashion for the Israelites,

1520
01:24:46,953 --> 01:24:49,706
as Moses was up on the mountain for 40 days,

1521
01:24:49,706 --> 01:24:51,374
they became concerned.

1522
01:24:51,374 --> 01:24:54,377
They said, we don't know what's happened to this guy.

1523
01:24:54,377 --> 01:24:57,839
We need someone to go before us, so make a God for us.

1524
01:24:58,006 --> 01:24:59,966
And Aaron fashions

1525
01:24:59,966 --> 01:25:02,969
a golden calf out of the gold that they've collected.

1526
01:25:03,428 --> 01:25:06,473
So they're using this imagery from their slavery days

1527
01:25:06,473 --> 01:25:11,103
in Egypt to represent Jehovah uses the word Lord.

1528
01:25:11,228 --> 01:25:12,312
This is the God.

1529
01:25:12,312 --> 01:25:14,606
This is the Lord who has led you out of Egypt.

1530
01:25:15,649 --> 01:25:16,733
It shouldn't surprise

1531
01:25:16,733 --> 01:25:20,195
us that you have this cultural influence

1532
01:25:20,487 --> 01:25:22,280
that drives what they end up doing,

1533
01:25:22,280 --> 01:25:24,324
but they associate it with the Lord.

1534
01:25:24,324 --> 01:25:26,827
And in the exact same moment,

1535
01:25:26,827 --> 01:25:28,578
the Lord is up on the mountain with Moses,

1536
01:25:28,578 --> 01:25:32,165
trying to communicate how unique and exclusive he is.

1537
01:25:32,707 --> 01:25:35,252
And the irony of that.

1538
01:25:35,252 --> 01:25:39,089
And so, I don't think there's any way that I can fully appreciate

1539
01:25:39,714 --> 01:25:42,926
Moses's frustration and anger

1540
01:25:43,677 --> 01:25:48,765
when he comes down and sees the people in this idol

1541
01:25:49,224 --> 01:25:52,102
orgy around this Egyptian

1542
01:25:52,102 --> 01:25:55,480
influenced idol and associating it with Jehovah.

1543
01:25:56,022 --> 01:25:57,649
And so even though the people have

1544
01:25:57,649 --> 01:26:00,443
physically been delivered from Egypt,

1545
01:26:00,443 --> 01:26:03,238
they have these remnants, these ways of thinking,

1546
01:26:03,238 --> 01:26:05,323
even religiously and spiritually,

1547
01:26:05,323 --> 01:26:07,242
that are still ingrained in them.

1548
01:26:07,242 --> 01:26:08,702
They've physically left Egypt,

1549
01:26:08,702 --> 01:26:11,580
but emotionally and spiritually and in so many ways

1550
01:26:11,580 --> 01:26:15,208
they're still tied there, and especially that generation.

1551
01:26:15,208 --> 01:26:16,668
You see it in the generation

1552
01:26:16,668 --> 01:26:18,587
that immediately experienced it.

1553
01:26:18,587 --> 01:26:21,715
And God is trying to set them free from that.

1554
01:26:27,554 --> 01:26:29,222
It was at Mount Sinai that

1555
01:26:29,222 --> 01:26:32,767
God fulfilled his promise to bring his people out of Egypt.

1556
01:26:33,894 --> 01:26:37,314
But more than that, God was trying to get Egypt

1557
01:26:37,939 --> 01:26:40,942
out of his people.

1558
01:26:47,699 --> 01:26:52,412
It's been, a little bit over a week now since we arrived in Egypt,

1559
01:26:52,954 --> 01:26:56,208
and we're done pretty much phase two of production

1560
01:26:56,750 --> 01:26:59,044
leaving Egypt.

1561
01:26:59,044 --> 01:27:02,255
It's a second chapter, so who knows what sort of work

1562
01:27:02,255 --> 01:27:03,965
we're going to have to do when we get there.

1563
01:27:03,965 --> 01:27:05,175
But I'm looking forward

1564
01:27:05,175 --> 01:27:07,093
to just switching gears a little bit.

1565
01:27:10,430 --> 01:27:14,059
Okay. So it is, it's either 7:00 or 8:00 at night.

1566
01:27:14,059 --> 01:27:17,062
We're not really sure what time zone we're in.

1567
01:27:17,395 --> 01:27:19,773
we are sitting in a holding area

1568
01:27:19,773 --> 01:27:22,776
waiting to clear customs and

1569
01:27:23,276 --> 01:27:24,861
get our passports back so we can go,

1570
01:27:26,071 --> 01:27:27,989
beginning to believe that the only time of day

1571
01:27:27,989 --> 01:27:28,907
that you can go through

1572
01:27:28,907 --> 01:27:31,910
customs is late at night when you're tired.

1573
01:27:32,410 --> 01:27:34,120
Next stop is, Jordan.

1574
01:28:38,226 --> 01:28:40,395
The Israelites had just come out of the land of Goshen.

1575
01:28:40,395 --> 01:28:43,606
And compared to where they were in the desert,

1576
01:28:43,606 --> 01:28:45,942
life was easier back there.

1577
01:28:45,942 --> 01:28:47,485
A food was readily accessible.

1578
01:28:47,485 --> 01:28:49,821
They had put down roots. There was a community.

1579
01:28:49,821 --> 01:28:51,740
And you leave all of that ease,

1580
01:28:51,740 --> 01:28:53,742
even though they were in bondage and enslaved.

1581
01:28:53,742 --> 01:28:56,244
You leave all of that ease and come to this

1582
01:28:56,244 --> 01:28:57,871
and you don't know where you're going,

1583
01:28:57,871 --> 01:29:01,333
and you're just doing it day by day and the sand,

1584
01:29:01,333 --> 01:29:04,336
the desert wants to kill you.

1585
01:29:04,544 --> 01:29:07,380
And it makes sense why the Israelites would have

1586
01:29:07,380 --> 01:29:10,008
struggled in their faith and challenged Moses, like,

1587
01:29:10,008 --> 01:29:11,092
why do you bring us out here?

1588
01:29:11,092 --> 01:29:12,635
Why did you bring us out here to die?

1589
01:29:12,635 --> 01:29:15,055
Slavery in bondage was easier than this.

1590
01:29:15,055 --> 01:29:16,598
It was better than this.

1591
01:29:16,598 --> 01:29:18,308
And they just didn't have a different perspective.

1592
01:29:18,308 --> 01:29:20,226
So being out here in this,

1593
01:29:20,226 --> 01:29:22,062
I understand why they were struggling.

1594
01:29:27,942 --> 01:29:30,862
God has led them out and God has delivered them.

1595
01:29:30,862 --> 01:29:31,905
But they have

1596
01:29:31,905 --> 01:29:32,739
...they have nothing.

1597
01:29:32,739 --> 01:29:36,576
They have to learn to rely on him for their daily food.

1598
01:29:36,868 --> 01:29:39,954
They have to learn to rely on him for direction,

1599
01:29:40,163 --> 01:29:41,373
for provision.

1600
01:29:41,373 --> 01:29:43,333
And being out here,

1601
01:29:43,333 --> 01:29:44,626
there's nothing they can do on their own.

1602
01:29:44,626 --> 01:29:46,669
They're not going to put down roots here.

1603
01:29:46,669 --> 01:29:49,672
They're living a nomadic life and they left roots.

1604
01:29:50,131 --> 01:29:52,759
And so they're just living in this in-between space,

1605
01:29:52,759 --> 01:29:56,388
which is so hard to do, wrestling with whether God's

1606
01:29:56,388 --> 01:29:58,848
going to fulfill the last part of his promise

1607
01:29:58,848 --> 01:30:01,851
to take them to a land of rest, because this is not it.

1608
01:30:05,939 --> 01:30:09,109
Everybody wanders through deserts in their life.

1609
01:30:09,109 --> 01:30:11,861
They just do where they get into this in-between space.

1610
01:30:11,861 --> 01:30:15,198
And it seems like there's no joy and there's no happiness.

1611
01:30:15,573 --> 01:30:18,076
They can't see one foot in front of them.

1612
01:30:18,076 --> 01:30:20,703
They can't see what's coming the next day.

1613
01:30:20,703 --> 01:30:24,082
And they have to learn to rely on God every single day,

1614
01:30:24,082 --> 01:30:25,959
every step along the way.

1615
01:30:25,959 --> 01:30:27,460
And those seasons come and go.

1616
01:30:27,460 --> 01:30:30,338
And we don't know how long those seasons are going to be.

1617
01:30:30,338 --> 01:30:31,131
For some people, it's

1618
01:30:31,131 --> 01:30:32,507
a couple of days or a couple of hours.

1619
01:30:32,507 --> 01:30:33,591
For some people,

1620
01:30:33,591 --> 01:30:34,717
they go into these deserts

1621
01:30:34,717 --> 01:30:36,553
that may stretch their whole lives.

1622
01:30:36,553 --> 01:30:39,472
But what the Exodus teaches us

1623
01:30:39,472 --> 01:30:42,475
is that God's a God of deliverance, and there is life.

1624
01:30:42,642 --> 01:30:43,726
There's life on the other side.

1625
01:30:43,726 --> 01:30:45,145
There's hope on the other side.

1626
01:30:45,145 --> 01:30:47,897
And while you're in the desert, there's still provision.

1627
01:30:47,897 --> 01:30:50,900
God's with you through that desert,

1628
01:30:51,067 --> 01:30:53,278
even though you might not see it or understand

1629
01:30:53,278 --> 01:30:53,862
what he's doing.

1630
01:30:53,862 --> 01:30:56,322
He's operating and still saving you.

1631
01:30:56,322 --> 01:30:59,451
He's still giving you life and sustaining you.

1632
01:31:02,871 --> 01:31:05,874
Then the Lord said to Moses,

1633
01:31:06,291 --> 01:31:10,378
behold, I'm about to rain bread from heaven for you,

1634
01:31:11,421 --> 01:31:14,591
and your people shall go out and gather a day's portion

1635
01:31:14,591 --> 01:31:17,594
every day, that I may test them

1636
01:31:17,802 --> 01:31:20,805
whether they will walk in my law or not.

1637
01:31:22,056 --> 01:31:24,225
The people of Israel ate manner

1638
01:31:24,225 --> 01:31:27,520
till they came to the border of the land of Canaan.

1639
01:31:46,748 --> 01:31:48,082
The camels!

1640
01:31:48,082 --> 01:31:49,083
They're beautiful.

1641
01:31:49,083 --> 01:31:50,126
Thank you.

1642
01:31:50,126 --> 01:31:51,586
You're welcome.

1643
01:31:51,586 --> 01:31:53,463
What is on the nose of this one?

1644
01:31:57,300 --> 01:31:59,260
Because he bites his brother.

1645
01:32:00,053 --> 01:32:01,304
Haha! Okay.

1646
01:32:01,304 --> 01:32:03,431
I wondered if that's what that was.

1647
01:32:03,431 --> 01:32:05,266
Yeah, that makes sense.

1648
01:32:05,266 --> 01:32:06,768
Yeah.

1649
01:32:06,768 --> 01:32:09,562
What is life like living in the desert out here?

1650
01:32:09,562 --> 01:32:12,690
Here is very peaceful.

1651
01:32:13,399 --> 01:32:15,026
Away from the traffic.

1652
01:32:15,026 --> 01:32:16,903
Away from the noise.

1653
01:32:18,571 --> 01:32:19,155
Yeah.

1654
01:32:19,155 --> 01:32:20,490
Very solitary.

1655
01:32:20,490 --> 01:32:21,491
Yes.

1656
01:32:21,491 --> 01:32:22,367
Yeah.

1657
01:32:22,367 --> 01:32:23,326
Very.

1658
01:32:23,326 --> 01:32:25,245
But very hard too.

1659
01:32:25,245 --> 01:32:28,039
Because you have such heat and cold.

1660
01:32:28,039 --> 01:32:28,957
Yeah.

1661
01:32:28,957 --> 01:32:31,251
How do you think the desert changes people?

1662
01:32:31,251 --> 01:32:32,085
If you come here

1663
01:32:32,085 --> 01:32:33,503
how does it change you?

1664
01:32:33,503 --> 01:32:37,382
The desert gets you out of city life.

1665
01:32:37,757 --> 01:32:40,468
It gets your space empty.

1666
01:32:40,718 --> 01:32:43,721
It gets your mind empty.

1667
01:32:47,350 --> 01:32:48,351
Can I ride?

1668
01:33:07,203 --> 01:33:10,415
God chose this empty and solitary

1669
01:33:10,415 --> 01:33:13,418
place to help his people clear their minds

1670
01:33:14,502 --> 01:33:17,714
and break the cords that still tied them to Egypt.

1671
01:33:20,842 --> 01:33:23,428
When they arrived at Kadesh Barnea,

1672
01:33:23,428 --> 01:33:26,431
God sent twelve spies into the Promised land.

1673
01:33:27,223 --> 01:33:29,601
But ten of them lacked faith

1674
01:33:29,601 --> 01:33:32,562
and convinced the people to rebel.

1675
01:33:32,854 --> 01:33:36,232
So the Lord sent the Israelites back into the wilderness.

1676
01:33:36,399 --> 01:33:39,402
For 40 years.

1677
01:33:40,862 --> 01:33:42,739
40 years.

1678
01:33:42,739 --> 01:33:45,450
That's a long time to be lost.

1679
01:33:46,743 --> 01:33:48,536
Wandering,

1680
01:33:48,536 --> 01:33:51,080
looking for direction.

1681
01:33:51,080 --> 01:33:53,416
40 years.

1682
01:33:53,416 --> 01:33:56,419
It was necessary to remove doubt and worry

1683
01:33:56,419 --> 01:33:59,422
and replace it with faith.

1684
01:34:01,549 --> 01:34:04,552
We're all wandering in the wilderness at times in our life,

1685
01:34:04,761 --> 01:34:07,221
stumbling, tripping over ourselves

1686
01:34:07,221 --> 01:34:10,183
as we look for a way out of our sin and idolatry.

1687
01:34:10,350 --> 01:34:13,061
But if we allow God to use

1688
01:34:13,061 --> 01:34:16,064
that time in the wilderness to build our character,

1689
01:34:16,397 --> 01:34:19,817
to humble us, to teach us to fully depend on

1690
01:34:21,527 --> 01:34:24,489
if we follow his direction,

1691
01:34:24,489 --> 01:34:26,574
he'll lead us out

1692
01:34:26,574 --> 01:34:28,826
and make clear the path we need to follow.

1693
01:34:33,331 --> 01:34:35,124
So much more happened

1694
01:34:35,124 --> 01:34:38,961
leading up to Israel going in and conquering Canaan.

1695
01:34:39,587 --> 01:34:43,508
The Israelites spent 40 years in the wilderness with Moses

1696
01:34:43,841 --> 01:34:45,093
because of their rebellion

1697
01:34:45,093 --> 01:34:46,844
and not going in when they should have.

1698
01:34:46,844 --> 01:34:48,930
Their lack of faith in God and in his strength,

1699
01:34:48,930 --> 01:34:50,139
and in his ability

1700
01:34:50,139 --> 01:34:53,101
to take these giants in the land that they saw.

1701
01:34:53,434 --> 01:34:54,811
And so there are three more books

1702
01:34:54,811 --> 01:34:55,478
in the Pentateuch

1703
01:34:55,478 --> 01:34:58,439
that chronicle the development of Israel as a nation.

1704
01:34:58,606 --> 01:35:02,485
You have Leviticus, where God gives his law to his people,

1705
01:35:02,944 --> 01:35:04,570
helping them understand that he's holy

1706
01:35:04,570 --> 01:35:06,364
and he wants them to be holy,

1707
01:35:06,364 --> 01:35:08,908
and gives them details about how to do that

1708
01:35:08,908 --> 01:35:11,911
and explaining the sacrificial system of atonement.

1709
01:35:15,540 --> 01:35:17,750
I want to try something a little bit different today.

1710
01:35:17,750 --> 01:35:18,376
Okay.

1711
01:35:18,376 --> 01:35:20,670
And I'm going to need your help.

1712
01:35:20,670 --> 01:35:23,339
And probably two, three other guys.

1713
01:35:23,339 --> 01:35:24,590
We need some crew?

1714
01:35:24,757 --> 01:35:25,591
We do!

1715
01:35:25,591 --> 01:35:26,175
Hey Nolan!

1716
01:35:26,175 --> 01:35:27,677
Ryan?

1717
01:35:27,677 --> 01:35:29,178
You ready to help?

1718
01:35:29,220 --> 01:35:30,805
We could probably grab a sound guy.

1719
01:35:30,805 --> 01:35:33,015
Dan, do you want to step in on this?

1720
01:35:33,015 --> 01:35:34,183
You might need to lose the camera.

1721
01:35:35,518 --> 01:35:38,312
Okay, so we need everybody

1722
01:35:38,312 --> 01:35:41,691
to grab the largest rock they can grab.

1723
01:35:43,234 --> 01:35:43,985
I get the biggest one.

1724
01:35:43,985 --> 01:35:45,820
You got it. Because you’re the biggest.

1725
01:35:46,320 --> 01:35:48,656
I’m strongest, all you weaklings!

1726
01:35:49,866 --> 01:35:50,950
Okay.

1727
01:35:50,950 --> 01:35:53,202
So we'll come out here

1728
01:35:53,202 --> 01:35:56,205
and we're going to set six points.

1729
01:35:57,081 --> 01:36:00,126
So, Stu, if you want to set yours right by that,

1730
01:36:00,543 --> 01:36:01,836
right by that rock.

1731
01:36:01,836 --> 01:36:04,088
This this rock right here.

1732
01:36:04,088 --> 01:36:05,423
Set it next to that.

1733
01:36:05,423 --> 01:36:07,425
We need to measure just. And you want to help me?

1734
01:36:07,425 --> 01:36:09,093
Yes, sir.

1735
01:36:09,093 --> 01:36:11,637
So 15 feet, right? Right here.

1736
01:36:11,637 --> 01:36:13,848
All right.

1737
01:36:13,848 --> 01:36:15,057
Okay.

1738
01:36:15,057 --> 01:36:16,601
And once we get these four down.

1739
01:36:16,601 --> 01:36:19,604
So I need someone else to put a rock here.

1740
01:36:24,233 --> 01:36:25,318
Dan is really close.

1741
01:36:25,318 --> 01:36:28,279
He's been eyeballing it. Close!

1742
01:36:28,279 --> 01:36:32,492
So from this point, we need to go forward about 45 feet.

1743
01:36:33,034 --> 01:36:36,037
This little experiment...

1744
01:36:36,788 --> 01:36:38,748
Is to kind of give us a visual

1745
01:36:40,249 --> 01:36:43,336
of the size of the tabernacle.

1746
01:36:44,587 --> 01:36:46,464
If I understand our experiment correctly,

1747
01:36:46,464 --> 01:36:49,759
what we've just done is we've laid out the tabernacle structure.

1748
01:36:49,759 --> 01:36:53,888
We have ten cubits wide, 30 cubits long.

1749
01:36:53,888 --> 01:36:54,639
So four feet.

1750
01:36:54,639 --> 01:36:57,391
Usually that's 15 by 45. Okay.

1751
01:36:57,391 --> 01:37:00,603
And this this central area is a perfectly cubic

1752
01:37:01,604 --> 01:37:02,730
measurement room.

1753
01:37:02,730 --> 01:37:04,106
This is the most holy place.

1754
01:37:04,106 --> 01:37:04,982
It's like the center,

1755
01:37:04,982 --> 01:37:06,192
not just of the tabernacle,

1756
01:37:06,192 --> 01:37:09,237
but this is central to the camp of Israel.

1757
01:37:09,278 --> 01:37:10,780
God wanted it in the center. Yeah.

1758
01:37:10,780 --> 01:37:13,741
So even on the outside of the tabernacle complex,

1759
01:37:13,950 --> 01:37:17,370
you have three tribes camping on each face,

1760
01:37:17,620 --> 01:37:21,415
and then actually, you'd have it insulated by the Levites and the priests.

1761
01:37:21,415 --> 01:37:21,958
Correct.

1762
01:37:21,958 --> 01:37:25,920
Because God wanted a pure place to dwell amongst his people.

1763
01:37:26,128 --> 01:37:28,965
The people needed a holy place that they could interact

1764
01:37:28,965 --> 01:37:30,716
a safe place again, right with God.

1765
01:37:30,716 --> 01:37:34,178
Well, as he had demonstrated with the Golden calf incident.

1766
01:37:34,220 --> 01:37:34,846
Right.

1767
01:37:34,846 --> 01:37:35,930
You know, he's a holy God.

1768
01:37:35,930 --> 01:37:37,598
But these unholy people are doing things

1769
01:37:37,598 --> 01:37:39,600
that if he were to live amongst them in his holiness,

1770
01:37:39,600 --> 01:37:40,476
he would consume them.

1771
01:37:40,476 --> 01:37:42,186
So if we were to step in, right,

1772
01:37:42,186 --> 01:37:43,229
what would we see?

1773
01:37:43,229 --> 01:37:44,230
Well, if we were to step in

1774
01:37:44,230 --> 01:37:48,067
we would see that curtain covering the Holy of Holies.

1775
01:37:48,192 --> 01:37:50,194
All right. Which is the focal point of the whole thing.

1776
01:37:50,194 --> 01:37:50,403
Okay.

1777
01:37:50,403 --> 01:37:55,032
And inside of that cubed room would be the Ark of the covenant,

1778
01:37:55,783 --> 01:37:58,202
which on top of that was called the mercy seat,

1779
01:37:58,202 --> 01:38:00,580
which was essentially God's throne.

1780
01:38:00,580 --> 01:38:02,665
That's where God's presence dwelt.

1781
01:38:02,665 --> 01:38:05,668
And the high priest was the only one who could go in there

1782
01:38:05,793 --> 01:38:08,713
and only one day out of the year on the Day of Atonement.

1783
01:38:08,713 --> 01:38:10,089
So they don't hang out in here.

1784
01:38:10,089 --> 01:38:13,259
This is a very special place where God lives

1785
01:38:13,259 --> 01:38:14,635
within, dwells with them

1786
01:38:14,635 --> 01:38:15,970
just before the veil,

1787
01:38:15,970 --> 01:38:18,347
and kind of belonging to the Most Holy Place.

1788
01:38:18,347 --> 01:38:19,682
You have the altar of incense, right?

1789
01:38:19,682 --> 01:38:21,142
And the smoke would fill in.

1790
01:38:21,142 --> 01:38:23,644
So when he enters in, can't even see.

1791
01:38:23,644 --> 01:38:26,230
The idea goes back to the presence of God.

1792
01:38:26,230 --> 01:38:27,690
With Mount Sinai

1793
01:38:27,690 --> 01:38:31,068
God came down and there was fire and lightning and smoke.

1794
01:38:31,444 --> 01:38:35,823
And as you light incense and that incense permeates the room,

1795
01:38:36,115 --> 01:38:37,074
it helps communicate

1796
01:38:37,074 --> 01:38:38,951
the idea of God's presence being in the space.

1797
01:38:38,951 --> 01:38:42,413
So what's happening is Sinai is being recreated in the tabernacle.

1798
01:38:42,413 --> 01:38:42,747
Yes.

1799
01:38:42,747 --> 01:38:43,456
I didn’t even think about that. Okay!

1800
01:38:43,456 --> 01:38:45,249
Even going back before Sinai

1801
01:38:45,291 --> 01:38:48,586
The orientation of the tabernacle on the compass.

1802
01:38:48,586 --> 01:38:48,794
Right.

1803
01:38:48,794 --> 01:38:52,840
Because it faces east when the priest come, it was facing west.

1804
01:38:52,840 --> 01:38:54,300
And that goes back to the Garden of Eden.

1805
01:38:54,300 --> 01:38:56,928
In fact, a lot of this imagery is Garden of Eden,

1806
01:38:56,928 --> 01:38:57,845
but they're walking west

1807
01:38:57,845 --> 01:39:00,765
because when Adam and Eve left the garden, they went east.

1808
01:39:00,765 --> 01:39:03,309
When Cain killed his brother Abel, he goes east.

1809
01:39:03,309 --> 01:39:06,145
So God is taking his people as covenant people and kind of

1810
01:39:06,145 --> 01:39:09,523
bringing them back into this Paradise dwelling with him.

1811
01:39:09,732 --> 01:39:11,859
So over here,

1812
01:39:11,859 --> 01:39:15,363
when you first come in to the left, would be like the tree, right?

1813
01:39:15,363 --> 01:39:17,698
It's a lampstand.

1814
01:39:17,698 --> 01:39:20,534
and then to the right would be the table of several of showbread

1815
01:39:20,534 --> 01:39:23,913
and even the ornamentation on the curtains

1816
01:39:24,163 --> 01:39:26,916
and the ornamentation that was made out of metal.

1817
01:39:26,916 --> 01:39:28,918
All of it had garden imagery.

1818
01:39:28,918 --> 01:39:30,378
And so you start the Pentateuch

1819
01:39:30,378 --> 01:39:31,170
with Genesis,

1820
01:39:31,170 --> 01:39:32,964
and God created everything in his

1821
01:39:32,964 --> 01:39:34,382
in the garden with Adam and Eve. And we've lost them.

1822
01:39:34,382 --> 01:39:35,049
And we've lost that.

1823
01:39:35,049 --> 01:39:37,176
We've lost the garden because of sin.

1824
01:39:37,176 --> 01:39:40,680
We've lost that closeness of being in God's presence.

1825
01:39:41,013 --> 01:39:43,975
And by the time you end the Pentateuch, God's

1826
01:39:43,975 --> 01:39:47,019
provided a way to reconnect with his people.

1827
01:39:47,353 --> 01:39:49,897
He's recreating a little bit of the garden.

1828
01:39:49,897 --> 01:39:52,692
So this isn't really just about organizing religion

1829
01:39:52,692 --> 01:39:54,485
or organizing camp structure.

1830
01:39:54,485 --> 01:39:58,906
This is really about symbolizing, recreating a presence with God.

1831
01:39:58,906 --> 01:39:59,281
Yeah.

1832
01:39:59,281 --> 01:40:01,575
So having this layout. It's a cool experiment.

1833
01:40:01,575 --> 01:40:03,160
I like being able to visualize all this.

1834
01:40:03,160 --> 01:40:05,538
So it's super helpful to see how compact it is.

1835
01:40:05,538 --> 01:40:07,665
But it communicated something really big.

1836
01:40:07,665 --> 01:40:10,251
We want a God who will tabernacle with his people.

1837
01:40:10,251 --> 01:40:11,085
Yes, yes.

1838
01:40:11,252 --> 01:40:12,086
Cool.

1839
01:40:39,613 --> 01:40:41,240
Then you've got the Book of Numbers

1840
01:40:41,240 --> 01:40:44,952
that summarizes the generation that came out of Egypt,

1841
01:40:45,202 --> 01:40:48,330
and the cycle of rebellion and disobedience and judgment

1842
01:40:48,497 --> 01:40:51,417
that led to them lying in the desert

1843
01:40:51,417 --> 01:40:54,086
as their children finally went in 40 years later.

1844
01:40:54,086 --> 01:40:56,338
And then Deuteronomy is Moses,

1845
01:40:56,338 --> 01:41:00,009
because he failed as well in the wilderness,

1846
01:41:00,009 --> 01:41:03,012
he got frustrated to the point and didn't honor and glorify God.

1847
01:41:03,012 --> 01:41:06,015
And so God told Moses he would not get to enter in.

1848
01:41:06,098 --> 01:41:08,225
And so out of that entire generation,

1849
01:41:08,225 --> 01:41:11,645
only two Israelites got to go into the land of rest.

1850
01:41:12,396 --> 01:41:14,565
And so Deuteronomy is Moses

1851
01:41:14,565 --> 01:41:16,484
speaking five different times to the people

1852
01:41:16,484 --> 01:41:18,819
reminding them of everything that God has done in their history

1853
01:41:18,819 --> 01:41:20,654
to bring them to this point

1854
01:41:20,654 --> 01:41:24,241
before he finally goes up mount Nebo, to look into the land

1855
01:41:24,241 --> 01:41:26,410
in anticipation of what God would do

1856
01:41:26,410 --> 01:41:27,912
when his time with them was over.

1857
01:41:37,880 --> 01:41:41,425
Getting here to Mount Nebo, even for our crew

1858
01:41:41,801 --> 01:41:44,804
this has been an exhausting journey,

1859
01:41:45,179 --> 01:41:46,764
and it was nothing compared

1860
01:41:46,764 --> 01:41:50,684
to the 40 years of the Israelites getting here.

1861
01:41:50,893 --> 01:41:54,021
But there's such a sense of excitement

1862
01:41:54,772 --> 01:41:57,733
and anticipation

1863
01:41:57,733 --> 01:41:59,819
standing at the top and looking across

1864
01:41:59,819 --> 01:42:03,114
the valley into the land of rest.

1865
01:42:03,114 --> 01:42:06,117
This is the land that God had promised to Abraham

1866
01:42:06,283 --> 01:42:07,660
and his descendants.

1867
01:42:07,660 --> 01:42:12,665
And Moses gets to look in and see what the Israelites

1868
01:42:12,665 --> 01:42:15,668
are about to inherit.

1869
01:42:17,294 --> 01:42:20,297
And what we're feeling right now is so small

1870
01:42:20,297 --> 01:42:23,300
in comparison to what Moses must have felt for them.

1871
01:42:24,051 --> 01:42:27,930
Israel spent 40 years getting to this moment,

1872
01:42:28,806 --> 01:42:31,809
and Moses climbed to the top of the mountain.

1873
01:42:32,059 --> 01:42:34,395
And after God's people

1874
01:42:34,395 --> 01:42:37,356
being sojourners for all of those generations,

1875
01:42:37,815 --> 01:42:40,985
on the eve of them arriving in a home,

1876
01:42:41,235 --> 01:42:44,446
he gets to look in and see how good the land is.

1877
01:42:49,034 --> 01:42:52,663
I feel tension between the disappointment

1878
01:42:52,913 --> 01:42:55,332
that this moment marked

1879
01:42:55,332 --> 01:42:58,294
for Moses, and at the same time,

1880
01:42:58,919 --> 01:43:02,923
the joy that he must have felt of a job well done.

1881
01:43:04,341 --> 01:43:08,804
He shepherded God's people for 40 years,

1882
01:43:09,138 --> 01:43:12,016
knowing that it was going to be hard.

1883
01:43:12,016 --> 01:43:13,934
And it was.

1884
01:43:13,934 --> 01:43:16,353
He didn't respond to every test of faith well.

1885
01:43:16,353 --> 01:43:20,107
He was human and he made mistakes.

1886
01:43:21,859 --> 01:43:24,862
And this mountain marks

1887
01:43:25,237 --> 01:43:29,074
the tension at the close of his life where he gets to look in

1888
01:43:29,074 --> 01:43:31,744
and he does not get to experience

1889
01:43:31,744 --> 01:43:33,579
the arrival in the promised land.

1890
01:43:33,579 --> 01:43:35,456
But he gets to see it.

1891
01:43:35,456 --> 01:43:39,168
And in faith he gets to see what Israel is about to inherit.

1892
01:43:39,793 --> 01:43:44,006
He did his job well and shepherded God's people well.

1893
01:43:44,006 --> 01:43:49,428
And I'm so grateful that God didn't measure Moses's faithfulness

1894
01:43:50,888 --> 01:43:53,682
based on his worst day,

1895
01:43:53,682 --> 01:43:54,934
and that at the end of the day,

1896
01:43:54,934 --> 01:43:57,937
he was still called the friend of God.

1897
01:43:58,020 --> 01:44:01,023
Chronicling Moses's life and being here,

1898
01:44:01,148 --> 01:44:04,151
I appreciate that.

1899
01:44:11,408 --> 01:44:13,869
There may be some who wonder

1900
01:44:13,869 --> 01:44:17,039
what does the story of the Israelites have to do with me?

1901
01:44:18,040 --> 01:44:21,335
I come from a different family and background and tradition,

1902
01:44:22,378 --> 01:44:24,463
but the Bible tells us that

1903
01:44:24,463 --> 01:44:27,466
for those who choose to follow God,

1904
01:44:27,675 --> 01:44:30,719
those who accept and follow His Son Jesus,

1905
01:44:31,553 --> 01:44:34,598
we have been rescued out of the slavery of our sin

1906
01:44:34,974 --> 01:44:37,977
and are being led to a rich, promised land of grace.

1907
01:44:39,478 --> 01:44:42,022
We belong to God's family.

1908
01:44:42,022 --> 01:44:45,025
We are part of God's chosen people.

1909
01:44:45,067 --> 01:44:47,319
We are the next chapter

1910
01:44:47,319 --> 01:44:50,322
of this beautiful history and heritage.

1911
01:44:51,448 --> 01:44:54,952
The story of the Exodus is our story.