Caption transcript for Bearded Bible Brothers and the Third Temple of Doom: “Tribulation Temple of Destiny” (1/7)

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• 00:16 Joshua Colson: We don’t have much time.
• 00:18 Destruction is coming, the end of all things.
• 00:23 If everyone knew what I knew, then they wouldn’t be
• 00:26 fundraising the coming Third Temple.
• 00:30 All the pieces are fitting into place.
• 00:34 Brother isn’t gonna like it; but I have a plan, an ingenious
• 00:39 intricate strategy to save us all.
• 00:43 To succeed, I have to leave for Israel now.
• 00:50 I hope history will look kindly upon the sacrifice I must make
• 00:54 to save the world.
• 00:57 Caleb Colson: Josh, why did Amazon deliver a box of
• 01:00 lighter fluid?
• 01:03 That’s just weird.
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• 01:49 Joshua: Help, somebody.
• 01:51 Stop.
• 01:55 Oh, boy, we’re gonna need another temple.
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• 02:06 Joshua: As leader of this expedition, I, Joshua Jones
• 02:08 Colson, need to warn the world that Yeshua is coming soon, and
• 02:13 so is the next Jewish temple.
• 02:15 Although my brother and I don’t believe we’ll see its
• 02:16 construction until the beginning of the tribulation, that hasn’t
• 02:19 stopped Christians from blindly supporting the Third Temple
• 02:22 project because they think it’s gonna hasten Yeshua’s return.
• 02:25 Our people mistakenly think this temple will bring them
• 02:27 redemption, but we know it leads to their doom.
• 02:32 But on the other end of the spectrum, some Christians don’t
• 02:34 believe there’ll be another physical temple built.
• 02:36 They look at prophetic Scriptures concerning the
• 02:38 temple’s coming and try to allegorize or symbolize them.
• 02:43 They say it’s talking about our bodies, which are the temples of
• 02:45 the Holy Spirit.
• 02:47 Yes, we are a spiritual temple, but there are two physical
• 02:50 temples that are prophesied to come.
• 02:51 First is the Third Temple, which we lovingly refer to as the
• 02:54 Tribulation Temple, AKA Captain Abomination, and then the fourth
• 02:59 temple, which Yeshua Messiah will build, AKA
• 03:03 Ezekiel’s Temple.
• 03:04 But there are still a few missing pieces or mysteries left
• 03:07 to solve before the construction of the next temple can begin.
• 03:11 That’s why I’m heading to an ancient site in Israel near the
• 03:14 Dead Sea where literal treasure maps were discovered that may
• 03:18 hold the key to unlocking the whereabouts of temple treasures.
• 03:22 Come along with me, if you dare.
• 03:25 Caleb: We made it to Qumran.
• 03:27 This is the site of some of the most important
• 03:30 archaeological discoveries.
• 03:32 This century, Josh, this series is so big.
• 03:36 It is so important.
• 03:38 We are gonna uncover the mysteries of King Solomon’s
• 03:40 temple, of the red heifer, of the Ark of the Covenant, of the
• 03:44 Tribulation Temple.
• 03:45 That’s what it’s really all about.
• 03:46 And it’s so important that we go and make all these discoveries
• 03:49 on this expedition, you know, that I had to bring in another
• 03:53 member of the crew.
• 03:54 Joshua: Wait, what? You bringing somebody else in?
• 03:56 Caleb: Yes. Joshua: Why am I not enough?
• 03:57 I’m always enough. It’s just you and me.
• 03:58 Bearded brothers, two of us. Just two brothers.
• 04:00 Caleb: I would like to introduce to you, Josh, as you may know,
• 04:03 our good friend Pastor Rabbi Hirchie Schaffner.
• 04:08 This guy knows his archaeology.
• 04:09 He knows his history.
• 04:11 He knows his Bible.
• 04:12 He’s gonna be a great asset to us on this trip.
• 04:15 Hirchie Schaffner: Hey, guys. Joshua: Hirchie.
• 04:16 Hirchie: Good to see you, man.
• 04:18 Joshua: You didn’t tell me you were coming here in
• 04:19 this expedition.
• 04:20 Hirchie: You know, I was on the plane coming over here and I saw
• 04:22 this giant guy in a fedora and I thought it was just like a swole
• 04:24 Indiana Jones.
• 04:26 So when I’m–.
• 04:28 Joshua: I can’t fault the misconception, obviously,
• 04:30 but welcome.
• 04:31 That’s your first–you know, this guy is not his
• 04:33 first expedition.
• 04:34 This guy right here, see, he’s a rogue thinker, all right?
• 04:36 Everybody in the world, with all of the degrees and all the
• 04:39 insight and the law speaking a matter, then believe Mount Sinai
• 04:42 is on the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt, not this man.
• 04:45 Hirchie: No, sir.
• 04:46 Joshua: He’s got a bead on a place in Saudi Arabia?
• 04:48 Hirchie: Yes, sir.
• 04:49 Joshua: That’s why you know better than everybody else?
• 04:50 Hirchie: Listen.
• 04:52 I–you know, I was there actually last year.
• 04:53 It was amazing.
• 04:54 I got the opportunity to go.
• 04:56 Now, I never found, like, the graffiti where Moses said,
• 04:57 “Moses was here,” but, you know, I’m standing at the base of
• 05:01 Jabal al-Lawz in northwest Saudi Arabia.
• 05:05 And we actually came down the trek that the Bedouins even call
• 05:09 the mountain Jabal al-Musa.
• 05:11 Like, this is the place with the burn’t-looking top and at the
• 05:15 base of it there is a full altar that was not accidentally set
• 05:19 up there.
• 05:21 There’s pillars that are there that are believed to have been
• 05:23 possibly brought there by Solomon or the original pillars
• 05:26 when the children of Israel were there.
• 05:28 But what blew my mind even more, guys, less than a mile from
• 05:31 there is a giant rock formation with 50 to 100 petroglyphs of
• 05:36 cows when they worshiped the golden calf.
• 05:39 Caleb: That just blows my mind.
• 05:40 Hirchie: The peace, the resistance.
• 05:42 I gotta tell you before we move on, about 150 feet up there’s a
• 05:45 60-foot rock and that we believe it was the Split Rock of Horeb.
• 05:50 It is split down the middle.
• 05:51 You can see where water had run in an area that gets about 3
• 05:54 inches of rain every year.
• 05:56 It was pretty undeniable.
• 05:57 There’s enough evidence that I say it’s not over there in the
• 06:01 Sinai Peninsula, but it’s over in Saudi Arabia, the land
• 06:05 of Midian.
• 06:06 Caleb: What did I tell you?
• 06:08 Hirchie’s the man.
• 06:09 If he found the original Mount Sinai, perhaps he could find the
• 06:12 Ark of the Covenant.
• 06:14 Joshua: I had no idea that Jabba the Hutt had anything to do with
• 06:17 this story, but I am intrigued to say the least.
• 06:20 Let’s go do it.
• 06:21 Ready?
• 06:22 Caleb: This is why we need Hirchie, and I have more
• 06:24 surprises for you guys along the way.
• 06:26 Joshua: How do you spell your name?
• 06:27 I can do it with my whip. You ready?
• 06:28 Hirchie: Yeah, spell. Joshua: H–.
• 06:30 Hirchie: I think I just lost an eyeball.
• 06:31 Joshua: R. Got it.
• 06:35 I’m beginning to understand this whole not every hero wears a
• 06:38 cape thing.
• 06:39 I mean, it’s like arche now–archaenima–
• 06:41 archaenimonology–arche–it’s
• 06:44 like archaeology, yeah, that’s it, and I are one.
• 06:54 Joshua: Not again.
• 06:59 Christian Widener: Nice hat.
• 07:01 Joshua: Yeah, yeah, it is pretty nice.
• 07:03 Thanks.
• 07:05 Hey, Caleb.
• 07:06 Caleb: Hey.
• 07:07 I see you’ve met my surprise.
• 07:09 Joshua: You know this guy?
• 07:10 Caleb: This is Dr. Christian Widener.
• 07:11 He’s gonna help us be the fourth man on this expedition.
• 07:13 Joshua: You give this guy permission to come in here and,
• 07:15 like, start looking just like me and trying to, like, steal my
• 07:17 hat and stuff like that?
• 07:18 Caleb: Like I said, this series is so big, so important, we
• 07:22 needed another expert on our team, the engineer Dr.
• 07:25 Christian Widener.
• 07:27 Joshua: Oh, so you’re giving him titles?
• 07:28 And he wears my hat. Hold on, no, no, no, no, no.
• 07:30 Caleb: He does have a PhD, you know.
• 07:31 Joshua: Can you do this?
• 07:32 Huh? Yeah?
• 07:34 What you got there, doc?
• 07:35 Christian: Well, let’s see. Stand back.
• 07:42 Caleb: It was in that moment that Josh should have realized
• 07:45 he’s in way over his head.
• 07:49 Joshua: Whatever. Fine.
• 07:51 Yeah, okay, doctor–
• 07:52 Caleb: Christian– Joshua: –if that is your name.
• 07:54 Caleb: –why don’t you explain to us what your area of
• 07:56 expertise is and how it can help us on our journey?
• 07:59 Christian: So I’m a mechanical engineer who’s been doing
• 08:02 research about 20 years.
• 08:04 And, you know, Bible research, biblical archaeology was just
• 08:07 something I did for my own, you know, spare time, that I wanted
• 08:10 to understand what was going on, but the thing is is I kept
• 08:13 finding that, you know, things weren’t matching up with what I
• 08:16 was reading in the Bible and the way things were being
• 08:18 interpreted and I think there was, you know, kind of a missing
• 08:21 of a common sense sort of engineering type approach.
• 08:24 So that’s what really got me in to start looking at the temple
• 08:27 and, you know, writing about “The Temple Revealed” and things
• 08:31 like that.
• 08:32 That how is–you know, all the same facts are here, but maybe
• 08:35 we don’t agree on the interpretations.
• 08:38 And I think there’s a few things that have been missing from just
• 08:40 an engineering perspective that I thought I could bring to
• 08:42 the table.
• 08:43 Joshua: Yeah.
• 08:44 I mean, okay.
• 08:46 I guess we’ll see.
• 08:47 I don’t know what he figured out that, like, you know, thousands
• 08:49 of years hasn’t, but yeah, okay, sure.
• 08:51 Caleb: See, we can’t talk about the Third Temple, “The Temple of
• 08:53 Doom” without first understanding the first and
• 08:55 second temples, and that is Christian’s area of expertise.
• 08:58 And also we came here first to the site of Qumran because the
• 09:02 Essenes are a key.
• 09:03 They’re like a linchpin to the story.
• 09:05 You know, they were this cult, these believers of a very harsh
• 09:10 version of Judaism.
• 09:11 And there was about 200 that lived here in this community in
• 09:15 Qumran, but Josephus says there was about 4,000 large in
• 09:18 all Judea.
• 09:19 Hirchie: Oh, like you said, they are different, right?
• 09:22 I mean, these guys are a monistic cult, like you said.
• 09:25 They–they’re in this place of they don’t get married, they
• 09:28 have–everything is community property, there’s no individual
• 09:32 wealth, which doesn’t seem all bad except for they go to pretty
• 09:35 extreme measures.
• 09:36 You know, they’re constantly every day purifying themselves
• 09:39 in the mikva, making sure that they’re studying Scripture, and
• 09:42 then recording it and writing it down, which actually leads us to
• 09:46 why we’re here because they actually recorded these infamous
• 09:50 and famous Dead Sea Scrolls.
• 09:52 Caleb: For centuries, revisionist historians were
• 09:54 declaring that the Bible had been altered significantly over
• 09:58 time, you know, like the telephone game in history, but
• 10:00 what they found on the scrolls were they were nearly identical
• 10:04 with every John tittle to the Bible that we have today.
• 10:08 These Essenes took great care to copy these scrolls so that we
• 10:13 know that God’s Word that we have today is true, is accurate,
• 10:16 and has not been altered according to people’s whims
• 10:19 over time.
• 10:21 Caleb: Let’s go unravel the mystery of the Essenes ’cause it
• 10:23 leads to the temple treasures which leads to the temple.
• 10:27 Hirchie: All right. After you, doctor.
• 10:30 Joshua: Didn’t even have a satchel.
• 10:32 Hirchie: And doctor.
• 10:33 Joshua: Didn’t have a satchel.
• 10:34 I got a satchel.
• 10:36 You know I will hold my whip.
• 10:37 Hirchie: You do have a whip.
• 10:38 Joshua: I could put artifacts in here if I needed to.
• 10:40 They belong in a museum.
• 10:41 Everybody knows that.
• 10:43 Hirchie: This was like a secret society.
• 10:45 This was a group who were into mysticism and a little bit of
• 10:49 the occult.
• 10:50 Joshua: The Essenes straddled the line of Gnosticism.
• 10:53 They were into divination, esoteric mysteries, astrology.
• 10:56 They spoke magical incantations, carried charms and amulets, all
• 11:00 in the attempt to get closer to God.
• 11:03 Christian: Yeah, and they really followed a lot of the apocryphal
• 11:06 texts, you know.
• 11:07 And we think about these texts that have been found in these
• 11:10 caves here as being like, oh, really early, you know,
• 11:13 documents, right, something that we should consider.
• 11:16 Well, we gotta remember that they did have those, you know,
• 11:18 from the intertestamental period.
• 11:20 I mean, centuries before, right?
• 11:22 The 200-300 BC type time frame.
• 11:25 And they weren’t accepted by the Jews at that time.
• 11:27 They weren’t accepted in the time of Christ as being
• 11:30 Scripture, right?
• 11:31 So, you know, these are extrabiblical texts that really
• 11:34 weren’t, you know, the Word of God.
• 11:36 And so then I think they’re valuable, but we gotta treat
• 11:39 them with caution.
• 11:40 Caleb: That’s true.
• 11:42 Case in point, the modern psychic and medium Edward Cayce,
• 11:46 he believed that the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls verified
• 11:49 his beliefs of his cult and his beliefs in the origins of the
• 11:55 Essenes being linked with the Great White Brotherhood
• 11:57 of Egypt.
• 11:58 I mean, he was looking at this stuff and he said Jesus isn’t
• 12:01 Essene, that he was a mystic, that he was a psychic, and he
• 12:05 had these supernatural powers based upon the wisdom that was
• 12:08 derived in these apocrypha Dead Sea Scrolls.
• 12:11 Well, yeah, we know he was into new age, but so were the
• 12:14 Essenes, just a little bit, you know, straddling that line.
• 12:18 But even modern Jews with their obsession with Kabbalah and all
• 12:22 their mystic rites and palm reading and stuff shows that
• 12:25 that’s never really left the Jewish people during all these
• 12:29 centuries, so.
• 12:31 Hirchie: Sounds dangerous to me. Caleb: It is.
• 12:33 Joshua: Doctor, pop quiz. Bible, good or bad?
• 12:34 Go.
• 12:35 Christian: Good.
• 12:37 Caleb: See? Told you he was good.
• 12:38 Joshua: You got that one, doc, but I’ll catch you next time.
• 12:41 Caleb: Ezekiel 44:15, “‘But the Levitical priests, who are
• 12:45 descendants of Zadok and who guarded my sanctuary when the
• 12:48 Israelites went astray from me, are to come near to minister
• 12:51 before me; they are to stand before me to offer sacrifices of
• 12:55 fat and blood,’ declares the Sovereign Lord.”
• 12:58 Hirchie: So the Essenes, they were critical of what they
• 13:01 considered an impure bloodline of this second temple
• 13:05 priesthood, which they weren’t all wrong, as we know, but what
• 13:10 they believed is that they were actually the descendants of
• 13:14 Zadok and that they were part of that Zadokian priest line
• 13:18 right there.
• 13:19 Joshua: The priesthood described in Ezekiel.
• 13:21 Yeah, they were definitely hyperfocused on eschatology
• 13:25 and prophecy.
• 13:26 And the Essenes believed that the second temple was gonna be
• 13:28 destroyed as well.
• 13:29 Caleb: Well, these guys believed they were living in the end
• 13:32 times basically.
• 13:33 They were obsessed with prophecy and they considered all the
• 13:37 things that were going on were signs of the end because of all
• 13:40 the corruption they saw in the priesthood and with King Herod
• 13:44 and all that.
• 13:46 But it’s interesting, they were actually looking for the–a
• 13:49 Messianic figure, the Messiah to come and he was gonna help them
• 13:53 build a third temple even while the second temple was still in
• 13:56 existence, but they rejected the calendar and the system that the
• 14:01 Jews had and they kept to a prophetic solar calendar, which
• 14:05 is interesting.
• 14:06 Christian: Yeah.
• 14:08 And that really is kinda one of the things that is against that
• 14:10 whole Zadok calendar and even which is also in the book of
• 14:13 Jubilees, is that they rejected the calibration of their months
• 14:17 to the moon.
• 14:19 And we know that the moon and the sun were both given, you
• 14:22 know, for the times and the seasons.
• 14:23 It’s how they actually declared the new year and the new months,
• 14:27 and they were supposed to do that.
• 14:28 They were supposed to use both the moon to set the number of
• 14:31 days in a month, as well as to set their year to the sun
• 14:35 periodically by adding an extra month.
• 14:37 And so by rejecting that, they’re really sort of
• 14:39 rejecting, you know, the biblical model that was given to
• 14:41 them, and then I think that clearly explains why it was in
• 14:45 the extrabiblical category and it wasn’t accepted as canon.
• 14:49 Caleb: That’s right, but back to their preparations to build a
• 14:51 third temple.
• 14:52 To build a third temple, they would need articles and
• 14:54 treasures to go in that temple.
• 14:56 That’s another reason why we’re here.
• 14:57 Hirchie: Treasures?
• 14:59 Caleb: Treasures.
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• 16:00 Joshua: It’s one of the slashes.
• 16:02 See you there.
• 16:04 Caleb: 1 Kings 6:11-14, “The word of the Lord came to
• 16:08 Solomon: ‘As for this temple you are building, if you follow my
• 16:12 decrees, observe my laws and keep all my commands and obey
• 16:15 them, I will fulfill through you the promise I gave to David,
• 16:19 your father.
• 16:20 And I will live among the Israelites and will not abandon
• 16:23 my people Israel.’
• 16:25 So Solomon built the temple and completed it.”
• 16:29 Joshua: We’re about to go into the place where some of the most
• 16:31 priceless artifacts were discovered in this world, which
• 16:34 means there could be evil at any corner.
• 16:35 And we need to go ahead and decide right now who’s gonna
• 16:38 protect everybody.
• 16:39 And I have the skill set and I’m gonna show it to you.
• 16:41 Hold on.
• 16:42 This looks like a basic potato chip, but pretend it is a
• 16:45 marauder here to steal the Bible from history.
• 16:48 Watch this.
• 16:51 And then I take the marauder and.
• 16:55 We’re all safe.
• 16:56 So is the Bible, God’s Word. Yup.
• 16:58 Christian: Thanks, Josh.
• 17:00 Caleb: Thanks. Interesting perspective.
• 17:02 Hirchie: I gotta say, I feel about as safe as they did when
• 17:05 the Romans actually took over from the rebellion.
• 17:08 Joshua: That’s good then, yeah?
• 17:10 Hirchie: Yeah, not really, but this path we’re walking on is
• 17:12 the caves where they hid the Dead Sea Scrolls in case the
• 17:16 marauder or the potato chip took over.
• 17:19 You know, what’s crazy is as we’re walking up here, they hid
• 17:23 these in this place, these are the oldest written versions of
• 17:27 the Old Testament books aside from the book of Esther.
• 17:30 And all of that was found and it just proves the validity of
• 17:33 God’s Word.
• 17:35 Christian: Not only that, but really the Messiah.
• 17:38 You know, I mean, think about the fact that they had those
• 17:40 from a couple centuries before Christ.
• 17:44 You know, that all those prophecies that he fulfilled,
• 17:46 300 prophecies or, you know, in that ballpark, they were all
• 17:50 written down, recorded, and secured here.
• 17:53 You know, copies of it that predate any of the–what
• 17:57 happened to Christ in the first centuries to proving that he
• 18:00 really was the Messiah that fulfilled all those prophecies.
• 18:03 Joshua: Uh-huh.
• 18:04 Well then you know about cave three, I assume, huh?
• 18:06 Christian: No. Tell us about it.
• 18:07 Joshua: Cave three 1952, new scroll, boom, they found it.
• 18:11 Scroll’s different than all the other scrolls.
• 18:13 This one?
• 18:14 Caleb: Yeah.
• 18:15 Joshua: This one’s written in a different kinda Hebrew, a
• 18:17 Mishnaic Hebrew, dated centuries later.
• 18:20 This wasn’t just any scroll, gentlemen.
• 18:23 This was a treasure map.
• 18:24 Where’d you go, brother?
• 18:26 Oh, it was a treasure map.
• 18:27 Caleb: Yes, the Copper Scroll is famous for giving very vague
• 18:32 terms of 64 locations with the amounts of treasure listed of
• 18:37 where they might be.
• 18:38 Now, these locations are spread all across Jerusalem, you know,
• 18:43 Jericho, all throughout Israel, even going up as far as
• 18:46 Damascus, but what’s important about these treasures is they
• 18:51 probably equaled some 4,600 talents of gold and silver,
• 18:55 equal to $1 billion today.
• 18:58 That’s a lot of money for people that, you know, vowed poverty
• 19:01 and all that stuff, you know.
• 19:03 They were gonna do something with this treasure.
• 19:05 They were gonna use it for something important.
• 19:07 They were temple treasures.
• 19:10 Caleb: 1 Chronicles 22:14, “Solomon said, ‘I have taken
• 19:14 great pains to provide for the temple of the Lord, a hundred
• 19:17 thousand talents of gold, a million talents of silver,
• 19:21 quantities of bronze and iron too great to be weighed, and
• 19:25 wood and stone.'”
• 19:27 Caleb: All right, guys, it wasn’t just gold and silver
• 19:30 pieces, coins that was listed on the Copper Scroll at these
• 19:34 locations that was hidden, you know, it was actually temple
• 19:37 treasures, like I mentioned as well, articles of the temple,
• 19:40 priestly garments, you know, things that held oil, incense.
• 19:45 Lemme read a quote that was translated from the
• 19:49 copper scroll.
• 19:50 It’s a description of column 3, treasure number 1, it says, “Dig
• 19:54 down 9 cubits into the southern corner of the courtyard.
• 19:57 There will be silver and gold vessels given as offerings,
• 20:01 bowls, cups, sprinkling basins, libation tubes, and pitchers.
• 20:05 Altogether they will be total 609 pieces.”
• 20:10 That is a lot of treasure in one location, all used for
• 20:14 the temple.
• 20:15 Hirchie: So here’s a question.
• 20:17 Why would a bunch of guys that are living a modernistic life, a
• 20:20 vow of poverty, be hoarding that kinda treasure?
• 20:25 Doesn’t really make a lot of sense.
• 20:26 And then the question–the other question is, where is it
• 20:28 come from?
• 20:30 ‘Cause it couldn’t have come–you know, 70 AD, the
• 20:32 destruction of the temple, it couldn’t have come there.
• 20:34 You know, it wasn’t from Herod’s temple or the Herodian temple.
• 20:37 I mean, it’s not there.
• 20:38 So those items, more than likely, we’re talking about
• 20:42 Solomon’s temple.
• 20:43 We’re talking about treasure from that time.
• 20:46 Caleb: That’s right.
• 20:47 And thus that treasure would be very important, whoever
• 20:49 finds it.
• 20:51 Christian: It would be, but if they find it here and even with
• 20:53 these Dead Sea Scrolls that they found here–right now we’re in
• 20:56 Judea, but this part of Judea is also called the West Bank
• 21:00 because we’re west of Jordan and Jordan is still contesting
• 21:03 this land.
• 21:05 Even though they’re the ones who started the war in 1967 and they
• 21:09 lost, they still, you know, like to keep the name West Bank here,
• 21:13 but it does make this contested territory.
• 21:15 It is a challenge for the things that are found here because at
• 21:19 first they became the property of Jordan, you know.
• 21:21 So that’s a lot of the kinda the trouble about these sites here.
• 21:26 Is if they did dig up the treasure, who would it
• 21:28 belong to?
• 21:29 Caleb: Oh, wow.
• 21:31 Joshua: You know, guys, this is all very riveting information.
• 21:33 I don’t like to drop this information too often, but I
• 21:36 actually have the most experience when it comes to this
• 21:39 Copper Scroll in this area.
• 21:40 Did you know that? Did you know that, doctor?
• 21:42 Doctor? Yeah.
• 21:43 Seventeen years ago, one of my first trips to Zola Levitt
• 21:47 Ministries was to a region not too far from here.
• 21:50 We were actually looking for something else that was on the
• 21:52 Copper Scroll list, did you know, and it’s known as the
• 21:55 Silver Scroll.
• 21:57 We went down into the Hyrcania Tunnel.
• 21:59 So deep I couldn’t see the light of the sun anymore.
• 22:03 That adventure right there, searching with Oren Gutfeld to
• 22:06 find something that nobody else had ever seen, one of the
• 22:09 monumental moments of my life.
• 22:14 I mean, ask yourself, why would these Essenes be talking about a
• 22:17 third temple when there was a perfectly good second temple
• 22:20 still standing?
• 22:21 Well, my friends, that’s because they understood a little bit of
• 22:24 the prophecy coming from Ezekiel, coming from Daniel,
• 22:28 which stated that temple is gonna get destroyed.
• 22:31 And the one that was gonna be built did not match the one that
• 22:33 was standing from Herod.
• 22:35 Hirchie: You know, there is another cave, cave 11, and this
• 22:38 is where they find a more infamous scroll, not like the
• 22:42 Copper Scroll.
• 22:44 They call this one the Temple Scroll.
• 22:45 It’s the longest of all of them and it’s got some very
• 22:48 interesting things.
• 22:49 They rewrite the Torah and in it they actually give a whole
• 22:54 ‘nother version of what the Lord said on Mount Sinai.
• 22:57 They kind of imply what they want, which is a little
• 23:01 bit dangerous.
• 23:02 And I read in the Scriptures that that’s something we should
• 23:04 really avoid doing.
• 23:05 Caleb: That’s right.
• 23:07 They’ve discovered that the language in the Temple Scroll is
• 23:08 different from all the other scrolls.
• 23:10 It was written by the Essenes.
• 23:12 They had different festivals, new moons, and feasts, and first
• 23:16 fruits feasts that are completely different from the
• 23:18 Levitical ones.
• 23:20 But back to that, the temple that they described that they
• 23:22 were gonna build their third temple, it does differ from the
• 23:26 fourth temple, but it’s more similar to the fourth temple
• 23:29 than the second temple, which means that they were looking to
• 23:32 that scroll of Ezekiel as being more pure than what Herod was
• 23:36 doing and they didn’t like what Herod was doing with the
• 23:38 second temple.
• 23:39 Christian: Yeah, that’s true, ’cause he’s not fully Jewish,
• 23:42 not properly, you know, keeping all the laws, so he definitely
• 23:45 wasn’t supposed to be somebody who was taking a hand in
• 23:47 building the temple.
• 23:49 Joshua: Nope.
• 23:50 How much Jewish did you say you were again, doctor?
• 23:55 Yup.
• 23:56 No, you’re good.
• 23:57 Hirchie: You’re grafted in.
• 23:59 You’re grafted in.
• 24:00 It’s okay, you’re grafted in.
• 24:02 Caleb: Zechariah 6:12-13, “Thus says the Lord of hosts, saying:
• 24:07 ‘Behold, the Man whose name is the BRANCH.
• 24:10 From His place He shall branch out, and He shall build the
• 24:13 temple of the Lord; yes, He shall build the temple of
• 24:16 the Lord.
• 24:18 He shall bear the glory, and shall sit and rule on His
• 24:21 throne; so He shall be a priest on His throne, and the counsel
• 24:25 of peace shall be between them both.'”
• 24:30 Hirchie: Hold on, guys.
• 24:31 So as we’re leaving here, you know, the Third Temple that they
• 24:36 talk about it seems it’s called the Temple of Man.
• 24:39 So it’s completely built by man.
• 24:41 It’s completely derived by that.
• 24:43 But we know that they also knew that there would be a fourth
• 24:45 temple built by God.
• 24:46 And this is actually found in Scriptures, you know, in
• 24:48 Zechariah, in Ezekiel, but also in Enoch.
• 24:52 And shockingly, these guys really liked the book of Enoch.
• 24:56 Caleb: They sure did.
• 24:57 They did believe that there was gonna be a new Jerusalem and
• 25:00 that the structure of the New Jerusalem and this fourth temple
• 25:05 were gonna be so large it couldn’t fit on the current
• 25:07 grounds today, so they understood that God had to have
• 25:09 a hand in this future temple.
• 25:12 But their dimensions and their understanding of this fourth
• 25:15 temple, which was Ezekiel’s temple is still different from
• 25:17 their third temple, but they knew to get to that point there
• 25:21 had to be a great battle that they were gonna be in the
• 25:24 end times.
• 25:25 They thought that great battle was coming soon.
• 25:27 They had a minuscule understanding of Armageddon from
• 25:29 Zechariah and some other prophets and they interpreted
• 25:33 the players in Armageddon differently than what we know
• 25:36 today, but the outcome they still believed was the same,
• 25:39 that God would have to come renew the earth and make
• 25:43 Jerusalem way bigger and different to fit a
• 25:44 fourth temple.
• 25:46 Joshua: Honestly, I’m surprised they got so many details right.
• 25:50 It’s pretty crazy.
• 25:51 I mean, obviously the Third Temple is gonna be the
• 25:54 Tribulation Temple, okay, because Jerkface is gonna sit
• 25:59 himself down on there and create the abomination of desolation.
• 26:02 That’s when the fourth Temple comes into play.
• 26:04 Christian: Yeah.
• 26:05 Well, guys, well then lemme take you to where the past temples
• 26:07 were so we can start to understand something about where
• 26:10 the next temple is gonna be.
• 26:12 Joshua: Yes.
• 26:13 Christian: All right.
• 26:15 Joshua: Eschatology.
• 26:17 Christian: Doctor, you dropped this.
• 26:18 Joshua: Doctor?
• 26:20 Christian: Doctor.
• 26:21 Joshua: Doctor?
• 26:22 Did we just become best doctor friends?
• 26:24 Christian: I guess so.
• 26:25 Joshua: Doctor?
• 26:26 I–man, I had it all wrong.
• 26:28 I don’t even know what I was thinking.
• 26:29 Two doctors, you and me, solving our communology, our–solving
• 26:34 the–so we’re gonna solve it together, man.
• 26:36 This is awesome.
• 26:38 Joshua: Yeah.
• 26:39 All right.
• 26:41 Christian: He’s not really a doctor.
• 26:45 Joshua: I’m a doctor.
• 26:51 Joshua: Next week on the “Bearded Bible Brothers.”
• 26:53 Caleb: We’re visiting a barely known site of Solomon’s Pools in
• 26:56 the West Bank.
• 26:58 Why do people rarely come here?
• 26:59 Because it’s under control by the Palestinian Authority.
• 27:02 Caleb: Look at this.
• 27:03 All the way from here down to the end.
• 27:05 It just keeps going, going.
• 27:07 This is one stone, guys.
• 27:11 Joshua: You know the Temple Mount cats are agents, right?
• 27:13 They turned us in last time.
• 27:16 Caleb: To the shock of no one, most world governments have
• 27:19 turned against Israel, but unfortunately, so have many
• 27:22 church congregations.
• 27:23 Very few ministries are supporting the Jewish people or
• 27:27 teaching the truth about Israel in God’s covenant plans.
• 27:30 Joshua: In fact, if you scroll through social media, you’ll see
• 27:32 feed after feed of churches teaching that the Jewish people
• 27:35 are not God’s chosen people and not the fulfillment of
• 27:38 the covenant.
• 27:39 At Zola Levitt Ministries, we’ve been preaching the same message
• 27:41 for 47 years.
• 27:42 Why?
• 27:44 Because God’s message does not change.
• 27:45 The Jewish people are his chosen people, but he also made a way
• 27:48 for the Gentile to be grafted in.
• 27:50 Consider donating to this ministry to be a part today of
• 27:53 getting this message out.
• 27:54 You can call 1-800-WONDERS or you can click in the link below
• 27:57 at levitt.com.
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• 28:01 outreach of Zola Levitt Ministries?
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• 28:23 Israel, Greece, and Petra and see the Bible come alive.
• 28:27 And as always, pray for the peace of Jerusalem.