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Rodrigo Silva

Manners and Customs of Ancient Time

And they found a village that was from the time of Jesus that people lived in the neighborhood of the old city of Jerusalem.

And interesting because they found this, that column.

And here, you have the name of a man, Hananiah.

Hananiah, I don't know how it is in English, the friend of Apostle Paul, there was the uncle of Mark, John Mark.

Hananias, Hananiah is the Hebrew name of Hananias.

Hananias, Ben Dodelo, probably his father, lay Jerusalem from the city of Jerusalem.

You have for the first time the name of Jerusalem discovered in ancient Hebrew from the time of Jesus just like we read today.

Even the children that could read Hebrew, of course, can read Yerushalayim there.

Then we have an inscription of the name Jerusalem from 2, 000 years ago that they wrote just like you write today.

Just a footnote, I discovered in our museum we have a piece, a plate of copper from this size with Phoenician writing.

I can't read Phoenician, But I recognize the letters of Phoenician because it's the same letters of ancient Hebrew.

For example, you don't read German, but you have the same words in German and in English.

Then you can see a German newspaper and discover, oh, here we have the name Adventist here.

Then in this piece of copper, I found the name Jerusalem.

And now I pick up this piece, took to Jerusalem, and let us wait for the results of the research, if this is real or not.

But if, see, if it's real, we have the name of Jerusalem of 800 years BC.

But coming back for that artifact, a column, someone wrote his own name, his father's name, and his city's name.

There was a custom during the time of the Bible, even in the people of outside of Israel, that if you donate with money or your own hand, some kind of help to support the building of important building, for example, a temple, a synagogue, a sanctuary, you have the privilege to have your name, your family's name, the name of your father, the name of your God, writing in the column of that place.

Then, probably, the guy that made this column was helping with donations for the temple, or for a synagogue, or for a sanctuary.

For that reason, he has the opportunity to have his own name, the name of his father and his city on a column that would be used in a synagogue, for example.

And this reminds me of a verse of the Bible, Revelation.

He who overcomes will make him a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go out no more I will write on him the name of my God and the name of the city of my God the new Jerusalem which comes down out from heaven from my God and I will write on him my own name." Did you see?

This is a good example that I can give to you how the active facts illuminate the Bible text, the scriptures.

Shiloh was the city where the Tabernacle.

Was the place where the tabernacle was fixed before the Ark of Covenant goes to Jerusalem.

And they discovered in last October a piece of ceramic, of clay, in the shape of a pomegranate.

And when you go to the Bible, you see that on the robes of the priest, you have some bells and pomegranate with a purple.

Lakish was the large city after Jerusalem during the time of the kingdom of Israel.

And first of all, let me understand a little bit about the construction of the city.

You have here 2 main entrances, 1 of that there, and the second entrance here.

Too difficult the coming of an enemy army.

Because if the enemy army goes in that direction, he need to turn to come here, okay?

And this remind me, the architecture, This reminds me the architecture of a city where David was when he received the bad news of the death of his son.

Could you read with me 2 Samuel chapter 18, verse 44?

The 24th 24th verse 24 and my Bible says Now David was sitting between the 2 gates You see You have 1 gate there, another gate here.

And David was sitting in some place near here, not in that city, in 1 city very similar to that 1.

And he do have a tower, a watch tower to protect the people.

Now David was sitting between the 2 gates, and the watchman went up to the roof over the gate, to the wall, lifted his eyes and looked, and there was a man running along.

But there is another interesting thing that we see in this gate.

Here you have many chambers, 3 chambers, 1 side, 3 chambers on another side.

People, the customs, when you come to a country, the first place after the passport control is the customs.

This is the place for taxes, to pay taxes.

Second, if the king, the governor of the city has some kind of judgment, this is the right place to be.

Because it's the place of everyone is going out and go in.

It's a very public place and for a geodigmat to be legitimate it must be public.

But they found here in that section, you see a wall here, a little wall.

For example, do you remember during the story of Ruth?

Ruth, when the elders came to George, the situation of Ruth, they come to the door, the gate of the city.

The gate was the place for the public enjoyment.

But there, they found last July, an altar.

Probably there would be a shrine or sanctuary, something like that.

But we have another mysterious situation about this altar.

When they found the altar behind the wall, the altar was broken.

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