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we continue our travels in the Israeli

Negev desert and today we're visiting

the team in the park it is one of the

largest attractions in the south

what a beautiful valley I've never seen

anything like this before it is full of

amazing history from the time of King

Solomon to the Egyptian pharaohs today

we will see incredible formations that

is really cool

so unique visit the ancient copper mines

they're mine you can see it's covered

with sand climb solomon's pillars and is

the best part we're going to visit a

life-size replica of the tabernacle a

tent that got instructed Moses to build

in order to have a transportable

sanctuary during the exodus from Egypt

to the promised land of Israel all this

and much more in today's episode of

surgeon Rhoda in Israel

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are you excited

jinda park is located just about 20

miles north of the city of Eilat and it

is easily accessible from the main road

oh look look at the colors of these

mountains and how massive they are the

dinner arc is very large so it's

recommended to have a car to explore it

our first stop is to check out a very

uncommon stone formation called the

mushroom the mushroom is an unusual

formation it is made of the red sends

down a very soft rock and so over

centuries the wind humidity and water

erosion formed this mushroom shaped

formation this is really cool it's so

unique a lot of beautiful valley I've

never seen anything like this before no

we had no idea what this bark is gonna

look like but now that we're here the

first impression is Wow in the vicinity

of this formation archaeologists found

ancient copper ore mining sites

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this site serves as one of the most

important archaeological windows into

the history of copper mining and

production so these are vertical mining

shafts right now it's covered with sand

but it feels deeper in there they're

chisel marks they would use chisels

copper chisels to get copper out here

this is one of the oldest copper mines

in the world telling copper gets in

contact with air it starts oxidizing and

goes green so it's so easy to spot

copper here look you see this right here

it's all green in the sides and if you

walk you see green patches and that's

where you know you can start mining for

copper that's what we see those vertical

shafts of copper lines so cool these are

the ancient copper mines let's go take a

look babe these are ladders no way nope

Wow

this looks like there would be steps and

you can just scroll up oh you cannot

curl up I'm sorry man you know I

definitely can you can but you mean so

this part has been through much

controversy over its name and it's

dating when Nelson glueck first

excavated this place in 1930s he claimed

that the date of the site goes back to

the King Solomon and that brought a lot

of attention to this location

ironically 30 years after nelson's

discoveries additional excavation

projects took place and they dated aside

to 300 years before King Solomon was

even born

they said this place does not belong to

King Solomon it goes way back way

earlier but just recently in 2008

renewed archeological excavations found

something really cool they performed

high precision radiocarbon dating on

organic samples of the site and it

showed that the side does date back to

the time of King Solomon

so we go from the 30s hey this is the

King Solomon site to the 60s no it's not

to today yes King Solomon was here in

these copper mines a significant amount

of ancient artwork can be seen in plain

sight so up there on that mountain are

the drawings from 12 to 14th century BC

they're fighting animals oh this is bow

and spear or bow and arrow sorry so what

I'm touching here are actually replicas

but the real ones are here on the walls

in its original form from its original

time it's really unbelievable

they saw the hunting type excess they

depict hunting eye boxes and ostriches

with lasso and boomerang the hunters are

native of the Negev mountains and they

worked here in Timna in the copper mines

back at that time incredible it blows my

mind to think that the work of someone's

hands left three thousand-year-old Trace

and it just reminds me that what I do

today and what I say today can leave an

eternal impact for the good or for the

bad

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next we're driving to the most

impressive formation in this park it's

called the Salomon pillars so these are

natural sandstone structures and they

were formed throughout centuries by

water corrosion wow so massive look at

them

they're incredible these pillars were

named Solomon pillars by Nelson gluing

who performed the initial excavations in

the 1930s in this area get a hold of

much longer so it's a pretty recent name

you just saved the whole pillar from

falling thank you for your service

number two don't go running up so well

Sergio's running around in the mountains

I've decided to check out this ancient

Egyptian temple at the bottom of the

cliff according to excavations this used

to be a shrine of hey Thor an Egyptian

goddess of mining and then in later

period it became a shrine for the

Midianites their key ologists found here

a large number of beautifully decorated

pottery and metal jewelry these were

most likely gifts brought by the

Midianites for the shrine however one of

the most significant finds was a copper

snake with gilded head it is strikingly

similar to the copper serpent described

in the Book of Numbers the evidence for

Midianite culture found here in this

side is of extraordinary importance you

see in Exodus 18 the Bible says that

Moses went with jethro a high priest of

Midian that means that there had been a

median presence here and this site not

only proves that but also paints a

better picture of the median culture and

their activity in this region

how do you are up there so I can run up

and there's so much excitement I had so

much fun and you're running and you're

full of energy like this is easy then

you get to the top then your lungs get

cut up and they get like oh what did you

think who are you thinking running up

there you're not trained for this for

our last and final stop today we are

heading to a very unique attraction

when I read the book of Exodus I always

imagined that because of millions of

Israelites going through the desert that

the tabernacle would have been very very

large it would have been giant so the

priest would be able to perform their

Levitical duties this tent is actually

built according to the exact size given

by God himself to Moses as it is written

in the book of Exodus the size in the

Bible is given in ancient biblical cubit

measurement and most scholars agree that

it should be around 75 feet wide and 150

feet long and out we're here and I'm

seeing the life-size tabernacle I can't

believe my eyes the tabernacle is not as

giant as always pictured it it's

actually more of a size of an Olympic

pool if you think about it it makes

perfect sense of course they needed to

take it down tear it in the desert and

then put it back up it just wouldn't

make sense to build something a size of

a Herod's second temple and then keep on

taking it down and putting it back up

well in a desert I've just never given a

proper thought and I'm so glad that I

can see it now so the next time I read

the text in exodus account I properly

able to imagine how it looked like so

the visual always gives that benefit and

I'm so glad I was able to see this it's

awesome walking into this tent seeing

the artifacts touching them it does help

me understand of the physical

specifications that God instructed the

Israelites to build but it doesn't

explain why

why is the veil there why was it blue

purple and scarlet why did God instruct

to have Brad on the table at all times

why were there two cherubim on the ark

God gave so many meticulous details and

they all have very important purpose and

great symbolism in Exodus chapter 40 God

instructed Moses the exact order in

which this tabernacle should be set up

every time they take it down and move it

to a new place and the order was pretty

simple after the Ark of the Covenant and

the veil was in place they were to put

the table of showbread then the menorah

then the screen door to the tent and

here's what's striking in the book of

John Jesus proclaimed himself in the

exact same order that matches these

elements I am the bread of life I am the

light of the world

I am the door

it's an incredible match but it doesn't

stop here there are seven I am

proclamations and they all follow the

exact same pattern as the tabernacle set

up

and the thing is Jesus did not say these

things in one sentence between each I am

there was days months and when John

wrote them down it's also than the same

verse that spread out through chapters

and so this order was there but far as

we know nobody's ever found before this

is very recent this was found just a

couple of years ago so this means this

pattern couldn't have been contrived and

it means that it could have not been

there by chance so if you're interested

to know more about the tabernacle its

significance and the symbolism you

should watch this study by Charlie

Garrett the link is in the description

of this video below I have heard that

this place has a crafts corner where you

can fill out a bottle of colorful sand

and take it back home with you okay so

when you come to Timna Park you get a

little bottle so you could do your own

sand art and get colorful sands to layer

it's so cool that's what we're gonna do

now now yellow yeah I think you have to

hold them at like an angle I don't

especially love crafts maybe some things

but this thing with the sand

it's pretty cool I like doing that

that's enough crafts for today there you

go

and looks like a Jamaican flag that's

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alright let's head out let's head out

not by walk you should go by car right