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Episode: Jehovah’s Treasure (2020), Part 3
John Zeligman from the Israel Antiquities Authority discusses the significance of the master stone of the Western Wall, while archaeologists use thermal imaging to see under the Dome of the Rock. We speculate on the possible location of the “lost Ark.”
Series: “Jehovah’s Treasure (2020)”
The Quest for the Ark of the Covenant and Temple Treasures
Five years in the making, Jehovah’s Treasure uniquely documents the unearthing of two extraordinary tunnels in the Judean Desert. Watch this incredible three-part miniseries that follows the search for lost Temple treasures and the Ark of the Covenant.

Caption transcript for Jehovah’s Treasure (2020): Part 3 (3/3)

  • 00:00 ♪♪♪
  • 00:03 David Hart: Welcome to "Our Jewish Roots" with insightful
  • 00:06 Bible teaching by Dr. Jeffrey Seif.
  • 00:08 This week we conclude our documentary mini-series,
  • 00:11 "Jehovah's Treasure: The Quest for the Ark of the Covenant
  • 00:15 and Temple Treasure."
  • 00:17 narrator: In a remote tunnel, deep within the Judean desert,
  • 00:22 an unsolved mystery of a priceless treasure.
  • 00:28 It started with Abraham, was assembled by Moses, enshrined by
  • 00:37 King Solomon.
  • 00:40 Its fame would summon kings and beckon pharaohs.
  • 00:44 Its glory would ravage foreign gods.
  • 00:50 What was the source of this might?
  • 00:54 Is history about to unleash its desert secrets?
  • 00:58 ♪♪♪
  • 01:04 narrator: The quest for the temple treasures and the ark
  • 01:07 of the covenant: "Jehovah's Treasure."
  • 01:12 ♪♪♪
  • 01:17 David: We are so glad you've joined us today.
  • 01:19 I am David Hart.
  • 01:20 Kirsten Hart: I'm Kirsten Hart.
  • 01:22 Jeffrey Seif: I am Jeffrey Seif, and we are going on a journey.
  • 01:26 Yes, gang?
  • 01:27 Kirsten: An adventure, I love adventures.
  • 01:30 So, let's look at the path the ark has taken.
  • 01:33 It was in the Sinai wilderness, crossed over into Canaan.
  • 01:36 Philistines took it and now, it's a coffee table in
  • 01:41 someone's home?
  • 01:44 Jeffrey: Well, we're on the search, you know, like
  • 01:47 Indiana Jones.
  • 01:49 But the real deal, we're after it and we're on the trail.
  • 01:52 We'll see where it leads.
  • 01:54 Kirsten: It's fascinating and wonderful at the same time.
  • 01:57 David: Right now, it's time to go to Israel as we move closer
  • 01:59 to the end of our story about Jehovah's treasure.
  • 02:04 narrator: In the journey from the Sinai to Jerusalem, the ark
  • 02:07 of the covenant has been the source of life and death now for
  • 02:10 nearly 450 years.
  • 02:15 Through deserts and rivers, over mountains and canyons, into the
  • 02:23 very temple of a foreign god.
  • 02:28 David Dolan: King David has a vision.
  • 02:30 He wants to build a permanent house for the Lord, just north
  • 02:33 of his palace on Mount Moriah.
  • 02:35 After all, it's here that Abraham offered up his son Isaac
  • 02:38 and where Jehovah renewed his covenant with Abraham to bless
  • 02:42 his seed for ever.
  • 02:44 What more fitting place could there be to build a house of
  • 02:46 rest for the ark of the covenant?
  • 02:49 David would proceed with his plans but the actual
  • 02:51 construction of the temple would be left to his son and Israel's
  • 02:54 next king, Solomon.
  • 02:57 narrator: King Solomon proceeds with his mission to construct a
  • 03:01 temple worthy of his father's vision.
  • 03:05 He will use 3300 foremen and 80,000 stonecutters.
  • 03:10 Hewn of local limestone, the magnificent structure will be
  • 03:15 fashioned after the pattern of Moses' tabernacle, its inner
  • 03:19 walls covered with pure gold.
  • 03:21 The golden menorah, table of showbread, and altar of incense
  • 03:26 will continue to be the focal point in the area called the
  • 03:29 Holy Place, as will the smaller gold and silver vessels used in
  • 03:34 the service of these artifacts.
  • 03:37 Even more gold and silver will be stored in the adjacent
  • 03:40 temple treasury.
  • 03:42 And just as in the tabernacle, the ark of the covenant will be
  • 03:45 placed in a separate golden room at the back of the temple called
  • 03:48 the Holy of Holies.
  • 03:52 Nearly 500 years old, the ark is finally home.
  • 04:00 Under King Solomon, Israel becomes one of the richest
  • 04:04 nations in the world.
  • 04:07 The empire grows and flourishes as it never has before, but this
  • 04:10 golden age will be short-lived.
  • 04:14 The death of King Solomon in 926 BC brings about troubled times.
  • 04:18 The kingdom is divided, wars are fought as ruthless kings come
  • 04:24 and go.
  • 04:26 Foreign kingdoms march toward Jerusalem, burning and pillaging
  • 04:29 as they ultimately enter the gates of the holy city.
  • 04:36 It's at some point during this turbulent period that the ark of
  • 04:40 the covenant disappears from the pages of the Bible.
  • 04:54 In 586 BC, Jerusalem and the temple are completely destroyed
  • 04:59 by the armies of King Nebuchadnezzar.
  • 05:02 The greatest landmark of Abraham's seed becomes
  • 05:04 smoldering cinders.
  • 05:07 Now, Babylon's walls, 300 feet in height, encircled the exiled
  • 05:11 children of Israel.
  • 05:14 The smaller temple treasures consisting of over 5000 gold and
  • 05:18 silver vessels have become the spoils of war.
  • 05:23 Forty-eight years pass and then another surprising twist
  • 05:28 of fate.
  • 05:30 The Babylonians themselves become captive to Cyrus II, king
  • 05:34 of the Persian empire.
  • 05:36 In this decree, inscribed in cuneiform, Cyrus grants
  • 05:40 permission for all exiles in Babylon to return to
  • 05:43 their homeland.
  • 05:45 The Israelites are free to leave.
  • 05:47 They are given their temple treasures and are actually
  • 05:50 encouraged to rebuild their house of God in Jerusalem.
  • 05:55 David: The return will come in stages.
  • 05:58 The first and largest group is led by Zerubbabel who becomes
  • 06:01 the governor of this province.
  • 06:03 He lays the foundation for a rather modest temple which pales
  • 06:06 in comparison to Solomon's.
  • 06:08 But it will eventually serve as a home for the very same looted
  • 06:11 gold and silver vessels that have been taken to Babylon.
  • 06:15 narrator: While the Bible speaks of the temple treasures being
  • 06:19 restored to their rightful place on the Temple Mount, it says
  • 06:22 nothing about the ark.
  • 06:25 As for the covenant, it will remain in effect as reflected in
  • 06:28 the prayers of confession and rededication.
  • 06:32 Jeffrey: At the end of the day, God wants to have a relationship
  • 06:37 with me and you.
  • 06:39 There's the term "covenant," old covenant, new covenant.
  • 06:43 It speaks of relationship.
  • 06:45 And the literature is rich with examples of him attesting
  • 06:49 to that.
  • 06:51 It's a real place where the story took place and now we take
  • 06:53 you to that place as we carry on in the journey in search of
  • 06:57 Jehovah's treasure.
  • 07:05 ♪♪♪
  • 07:07 Ian Stern: Five hundred years have elapsed from the time
  • 07:08 of Zerubbabel to the time of King Herod.
  • 07:11 King Herod ruled from 37 to 4 BCE.
  • 07:16 And he built, in his period of time, one of the most
  • 07:18 magnificent structures in the world.
  • 07:21 He actually rebuilds the second temple.
  • 07:24 Right next to me over here are the walls, the retaining walls,
  • 07:26 of that temple, and they bear the characteristics of Herodian
  • 07:30 monumental buildings, that is to say they have margins.
  • 07:33 There's dry masonry, and they're all recessed one stone from
  • 07:38 the other.
  • 07:40 narrator: The immense size of these stones is better
  • 07:43 appreciated underground, along the base of the Western Wall.
  • 07:46 Chief archeologist of Jerusalem, John Zeligman.
  • 07:50 John Zeligman: This huge stone beside me is what's called the
  • 07:52 master course of the Temple Mount.
  • 07:54 It's the stone that provides the stability, the structural
  • 07:56 stability, to the Temple Mount.
  • 07:58 Each huge stone is about 35 feet by about 9 feet in height.
  • 08:02 Actually, the inside depth we don't quite know but this is the
  • 08:05 largest stone we have in the Temple Mount and possibly one of
  • 08:07 the largest stone that exists in any ancient site in the world.
  • 08:10 And, of course, how it's moved to the site is a real conundrum
  • 08:14 for archeologists.
  • 08:18 narrator: It was said of King Herod's temple: "He who has not
  • 08:21 seen the Temple of Herod has not seen a beautiful building.
  • 08:25 He who has not seen Jerusalem in its glory has not seen a
  • 08:29 beautiful city."
  • 08:33 This is the temple of Jesus' time.
  • 08:36 As in Solomon's temple, the golden artifacts and vessels
  • 08:38 will serve their place before the Levitical priests, but the
  • 08:42 Holy of Holies will be empty.
  • 08:46 The ark has disappeared.
  • 08:50 Ian: We're standing on the street here that Jesus would
  • 08:53 have walked and we're approximately 100 yards away
  • 08:55 from where the temple once stood.
  • 08:57 The shops over here to my left were the shops that thousands of
  • 08:59 pilgrims would have visited on the three times a year that they
  • 09:03 made pilgrimage into Jerusalem on Passover, on Shavuot, and
  • 09:06 on Sukkot.
  • 09:08 These stones once stood as high as the top of those trees over
  • 09:11 there and in the year 70 the Roman legions came, destroyed
  • 09:14 the temple, and threw these stones down onto the pavement in
  • 09:17 front of us.
  • 09:19 Here they stand as testimony to that Roman destruction in the
  • 09:20 year 70.
  • 09:23 narrator: Today, nearly 2000 years after the Romans plundered
  • 09:26 the walls of Jerusalem, a remnant of King Herod's splendid
  • 09:29 temple still remains.
  • 09:32 This part of the Western Wall is often referred to as the
  • 09:34 Wailing Wall.
  • 09:36 Tears are shed here but there are shouts of joy as well.
  • 09:40 At the age of 13, every Jewish boy, no matter where he lives in
  • 09:44 the world, is bar mitzvah'd and if the family can observe this
  • 09:47 festive occasion here at the Wall, all the better.
  • 09:51 On this day, a boy becomes a son of the covenant.
  • 09:56 David: Our story of the ark of the covenant becomes even more
  • 10:00 intriguing when we next consider its mysterious whereabouts.
  • 10:04 If you'll search the Internet, you'll find there are over
  • 10:07 2 1/ 2 million items to be found related to the ark,
  • 10:10 nearly all of them having to do with its disappearance.
  • 10:14 To review, we know that it was first placed into Solomon's
  • 10:17 Temple in 950 BC.
  • 10:20 It remains there for some 365 years before that temple is
  • 10:23 destroyed and plundered by the Babylonians in 586 BC.
  • 10:28 There's little reference made to the ark during this period.
  • 10:32 It's during the reign of King Josiah in 622 BC that we read
  • 10:36 about it for the last time.
  • 10:38 So what happened to this most valuable treasure in history?
  • 10:42 Let's look at some of the theories.
  • 10:47 narrator: Shortly after King Solomon's death, Jerusalem is
  • 10:49 besieged by the Egyptian pharaoh, Shishak, and he took
  • 10:54 away the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the treasures
  • 10:58 of the king's house.
  • 11:00 No one is sure what these temple treasures consisted of, although
  • 11:04 Hollywood moguls have garnered fortunes of their own based on
  • 11:07 the notion that the treasures included the ark of
  • 11:09 the covenant.
  • 11:14 In the year 1099, the crusaders marched into Jerusalem,
  • 11:19 converting the Islamic Dome of the Rock into a cathedral that
  • 11:24 would serve as their headquarters within the
  • 11:27 Holy Land.
  • 11:29 Some believe that the Knights Templar excavated underground
  • 11:32 chambers within the Temple Mount in search of the ark and the
  • 11:36 temple treasures.
  • 11:37 This theory has the Knights finding the ark and the
  • 11:40 treasures, then whisking them away to southern France.
  • 11:43 One of the more popular theories suggest that King Solomon had a
  • 11:47 son by the visiting Ethiopian queen of Sheba.
  • 11:50 At the age of 19, this son, Menelik, becomes the king of
  • 11:54 Sheba and has the ark removed from Solomon's Temple, taking it
  • 11:58 to Ethiopia.
  • 12:00 According to the residents of Aksum, Ethiopia, the ark
  • 12:04 presently resides in a local church and is overseen by a
  • 12:08 caretaker priest who guards it 24 hours a day.
  • 12:15 In an amazing understatement printed in his own publication,
  • 12:20 the late American, Ron Wyatt claimed to have found the ark
  • 12:24 in 1982.
  • 12:26 He says he saw it here in what he calls Jeremiah's grotto which
  • 12:31 happens to be below the site that some revere as Golgotha or
  • 12:34 Mount Calvary.
  • 12:37 Wyatt's excavation also happens to rest within the boundaries of
  • 12:40 Jerusalem's Garden Tomb.
  • 12:43 Curator of the Garden Tomb, Victor Jack.
  • 12:47 Victor Jack: Well, right where I'm sitting is where Ron dug his
  • 12:50 hole to go down and excavate under this rock.
  • 12:53 And this wall wasn't here.
  • 12:56 That's all been sort of landscaped since, but he dug
  • 12:58 here on two or three occasions and went down under the rock.
  • 13:02 And I was here, working as a chaplain when he was digging.
  • 13:06 narrator: Wyatt claims to have found other temple treasures as
  • 13:10 well, such as the altar of incense and the table
  • 13:13 of showbread.
  • 13:15 But the reports fan a growing fire, fears of engulfing the
  • 13:18 Middle East in a potential holy war, the work has ceased, the
  • 13:22 excavation covered with dirt.
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  • 14:11 Now it's time to return to "Jehovah's Treasure," as we look
  • 14:14 closer at Mount Moriah in Jerusalem to the most contested
  • 14:18 site in one of the most contested cities in the world:
  • 14:22 the Temple Mount.
  • 14:24 narrator: This recent aerial image of the Temple Mount was
  • 14:27 captured using state of the art thermal imaging.
  • 14:30 It is the only known documentation of what appears to
  • 14:32 be a sub-surface passageway.
  • 14:35 Some archeologists believe it functioned as a drain and was
  • 14:38 used by the priest in the service of the temple.
  • 14:42 male: Tunnels, drains, gateways, even meeting halls, they all
  • 14:45 exist under the Temple Mount, and all very convenient places,
  • 14:51 it would seem, to hide temple treasures.
  • 14:55 We know that during the period of Solomon's Temple there were
  • 14:57 a number of ruthless kings who desecrated the holy site.
  • 15:01 It seems likely that the ark and the temple artifacts would have
  • 15:04 been hidden away by the temple priest at such times
  • 15:07 to protect them.
  • 15:09 narrator: Archeologist Avner Goren is also familiar
  • 15:12 with the gates and tunnels under the Temple Mount.
  • 15:15 Avner Goren: There were a few gates that allow people to get
  • 15:18 into the Temple Mount courtyard, and one of the gates is
  • 15:21 just here.
  • 15:23 Matter of fact, one of the closest places that one would be
  • 15:25 able to get to the Holy of Holies was here.
  • 15:28 narrator: This gate, now closed with concrete, led directly to
  • 15:32 the temple.
  • 15:34 In 1981, Rabbi Yehuda Getz, chief rabbi of the Western Wall,
  • 15:40 happened upon this site and in a secret mission of his own, set
  • 15:44 about to find the lost ark of the covenant.
  • 15:50 Avner: He believed that if the ark of the covenant is buried
  • 15:54 here, hidden here, it should be as close as possible to the
  • 15:59 Holiest Place, just below the place where the ark was during
  • 16:02 the time of the temple.
  • 16:04 So if so, he got very close to the place he believed the ark
  • 16:09 should be in.
  • 16:12 narrator: As Rabbi Getz inched ever closer to the Holy of
  • 16:15 Holies, he could contain his excitement no longer.
  • 16:20 He would call his good friend and confidant, Gershon Salomon.
  • 16:24 Gershon Salomon: It was one of the nights that he called me
  • 16:28 after midnight and told me, "Gershon, your dream is going to
  • 16:32 come to pass.
  • 16:35 Come immediately.
  • 16:37 We've discovered the tunnel which will lead us to the
  • 16:41 location of the ark of covenant."
  • 16:45 And I came after midnight, you know, I had no time even to put
  • 16:49 my shoes on myself.
  • 16:52 I came to the place and what I saw in my eyes was
  • 16:56 very exciting.
  • 16:58 It was dark and it was lighted by electric.
  • 17:04 And it looked--the stones looked like they are painted with gold,
  • 17:09 you know, when the light fall on it.
  • 17:12 And despite of the garbage and the dirt and the water, the
  • 17:17 unclean water which was there, we could feel the holiness of
  • 17:22 the place.
  • 17:26 I stood there with tears in my eyes.
  • 17:31 I had tears of joy, of excitement.
  • 17:35 narrator: The tears would soon be bittersweet.
  • 17:39 Years of secret digging suddenly cease as the news of the find is
  • 17:42 leaked to the press.
  • 17:44 Jerusalem now stands on the brink of an
  • 17:46 archeological firestorm.
  • 17:48 Reports say Rabbi Getz was digging in ground held sacred by
  • 17:51 Muslims and his actions could conceivably spark further war in
  • 17:55 the surrounding region.
  • 17:58 Further, Muslims reinforced their contention that the entire
  • 18:02 mount is theirs.
  • 18:06 They will permit no archeology in the area.
  • 18:09 Undaunted, archeologists persevere as best they can.
  • 18:16 Archeologist, Gabriel Barkai.
  • 18:19 Gabriel Barkai: We have here soil which comes from fills.
  • 18:23 Fills included material from all periods of human activity upon
  • 18:28 the Temple Mount.
  • 18:30 The most striking and most important, of course, are those
  • 18:33 from the ancient periods: First Temple period, Second Temple
  • 18:37 period, the late Roman period, early Christian period, and the
  • 18:42 early Arabic period.
  • 18:46 narrator: Archeologists have already uncovered pristine
  • 18:48 artifacts revealing the treasures of the Temple Mount.
  • 18:52 Barkai's finds become additional pieces to the remarkable puzzle.
  • 18:57 Gabriel: As this comes from inside the Temple Mount, we may
  • 18:59 even assume that it comes from the temple itself.
  • 19:03 female: Altogether, now what you're cleaning are the ribs.
  • 19:08 narrator: Then finally, after six years of digging, Oren
  • 19:12 Gutfeld's enigma is beginning to unravel.
  • 19:15 He has found some more bones in the new tunnel, the date of the
  • 19:18 Second Temple period.
  • 19:20 These bones are human.
  • 19:22 female: Because we don't want to break them.
  • 19:24 narrator: Encouraged by the find, Gutfeld calls upon some
  • 19:27 specialists from the United States to electronically probe
  • 19:31 beyond the visible walls of the tunnel.
  • 19:34 This is GPR, Ground Penetrating Radar.
  • 19:39 Oren Gutfeld: We're looking for hidden chambers that might be
  • 19:41 behind the walls.
  • 19:44 In the Pyramids they found with special GPR equipment above the
  • 19:47 ceiling of the tunnel a chamber.
  • 19:51 So looking forward to see if the GPR team will find something
  • 19:54 like that in our tunnel.
  • 19:56 narrator: At first, the results are less than promising
  • 19:59 and then, on the team's last day, an anomaly appears
  • 20:02 below the tunnel's floor.
  • 20:06 male: We're just running in time.
  • 20:09 Instead of using the wheel, we're just running in time so
  • 20:10 it's continuously collecting as it's sitting on the floor.
  • 20:13 So we have these strong reads.
  • 20:17 male: We're sending a signal down continuously and we get
  • 20:19 a strong change in dielectric somewhere around 3 feet,
  • 20:24 right in here.
  • 20:27 narrator: Strong changes in the scope's reading could very well
  • 20:29 mean hidden chambers and hidden chambers, no matter where
  • 20:34 they may be found in Israel, could mean hidden treasure.
  • 20:39 male: In archeology we always say that only in the last--in
  • 20:42 the last moment, the last hour, on the last moment of that hour,
  • 20:48 you always discover the things.
  • 20:52 It's always worked that way.
  • 20:54 It's just the rule.
  • 20:57 narrator: Hope springs eternal in this land of promise.
  • 21:01 ♪♪♪
  • 21:31 David Dolan: The elusive ark and temple
  • 21:33 treasures, certainly one of the greatest mysteries of the ages.
  • 21:37 Perhaps in time, science will better enable archeologists to
  • 21:40 penetrate their vision of these ageless stones.
  • 21:44 Maybe additional Dead Sea scrolls will be found to shed
  • 21:47 light on the enigma of the temple treasures.
  • 21:49 As for the covenant, well, it seems to have survived the test
  • 21:53 of time.
  • 21:57 narrator: The pledge made with Moses was one of many recorded
  • 21:59 throughout the pages of Scripture, from Noah to Abraham
  • 22:03 to David.
  • 22:06 Jeremiah the prophet speaks of a new covenant in which God says
  • 22:09 he will put "my law in their inward parts and write it in
  • 22:14 their hearts."
  • 22:18 Still later, the book of Hebrews says: "For this reason Christ is
  • 22:22 the mediator of a new covenant."
  • 22:27 ♪♪♪
  • 22:31 From age to age, as if breaking all barriers of time and space,
  • 22:39 the Bible presents a Creator who reaches out to a wondering,
  • 22:42 often perplexed creation, and solemnly reaffirms his promise:
  • 22:51 "And I will give thee the treasures of darkness and hidden
  • 22:55 riches of secret places, that thou mayest know that I,
  • 23:00 Jehovah, am the God of Israel."
  • 23:06 ♪♪♪
  • 23:32 David Hart: The tunnels under the Temple Mount
  • 23:34 are incredible.
  • 23:36 They're fascinating.
  • 23:37 We've been able to experience that in some of the cells
  • 23:39 down there.
  • 23:41 You have also.
  • 23:42 Kirsten: You've done more of the deep tunnels, haven't you?
  • 23:44 Jeffrey: Oh, not that deep but I've been down and there's
  • 23:46 different underground places.
  • 23:48 It really is fascinating.
  • 23:50 Kirsten: Have you seen any secret rooms, like, ones that
  • 23:51 are kind of blocked off and you peek in?
  • 23:53 Jeffrey: I could tell you but it's a secret.
  • 23:55 Kirsten: Anything gold shining in there?
  • 23:57 Jeffrey: Not that I've seen, no.
  • 23:59 David: Have you done a dig down there at all?
  • 24:00 Jeffrey: Well, I've done some digging but not down there.
  • 24:03 Kirsten: Okay, so this is my thinking, and we've kind of
  • 24:05 chewed on this for a little bit.
  • 24:08 The ark, it's necessary for the Third Temple to be built
  • 24:12 in Jerusalem, yes?
  • 24:14 Jeffrey: Yes.
  • 24:16 Kirsten: But then, as believers, aren't we taught that our body
  • 24:17 is now the temple of the Holy Spirit, there's not a need
  • 24:22 for an ark.
  • 24:23 He resides within us.
  • 24:25 Jeffrey: Yes.
  • 24:26 Kirsten: Yes and yes, for both?
  • 24:28 Jeffrey: Yes and yes.
  • 24:29 Kirsten: So there's still a quest for it but then we know
  • 24:31 that, you know, God's Spirit that was residing right there--
  • 24:34 Jeffrey: I mean, Rabbi Paul uses the expression, "The body is
  • 24:36 the temple of the Holy Spirit," and rightly so, to underscore
  • 24:40 that the Holy Spirit dwells within us.
  • 24:43 Even with that said, there are predictions, in biblical
  • 24:46 literature, about the physical plant being rebuilt and
  • 24:51 things being restored there.
  • 24:53 Some could call it a contradiction, but that works
  • 24:55 for me 'cause it says it in the literature.
  • 24:58 Kirsten: It's still that mystery.
  • 25:00 It's still to be solved.
  • 25:02 But solved it will be one day when that Third Temple is built.
  • 25:04 I believe they'll have it.
  • 25:05 Jeffrey: And it looks like we're getting closer there
  • 25:07 all the time.
  • 25:08 David: Yeah, we're gonna talk more about that in a bit.
  • 25:10 Stay with us.
  • 25:11 Kirsten: We have a full DVD special all about Jehovah's
  • 25:16 treasure that's available to you through our website.
  • 25:19 Jeffrey: And it's not fake news, you know?
  • 25:21 And it's not a movie.
  • 25:23 It's actually going to the places and talking to
  • 25:24 experts there.
  • 25:26 It's fascinating and it's yours for the asking.
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  • 25:54 Kirsten: And what's really cool is this ark still
  • 25:57 remains somewhere.
  • 25:59 I kind of feel that Israel might have it.
  • 26:01 I think they're ready for that Third Temple.
  • 26:02 I don't know.
  • 26:04 Jeffrey: Interesting times.
  • 26:05 Kirsten: It's the big mystery, isn't it?
  • 26:07 Where is it?
  • 26:09 And those temple treasures.
  • 26:10 I mean, we're talking about--a lot about the ark but we're also
  • 26:12 talking about all the temple treasures.
  • 26:14 Where are they?
  • 26:16 And I--we talk about it at home 'cause it's just fascinating
  • 26:18 to me.
  • 26:19 And I think they're solid gold.
  • 26:21 That doesn't just disintegrate.
  • 26:22 They're somewhere.
  • 26:24 Jeffrey: Well, you have a detective here on the set.
  • 26:25 We're gonna find it.
  • 26:27 How about that?
  • 26:28 Kirsten: Good.
  • 26:30 David: It's been a great series.
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  • 26:36 Kirsten: Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.
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Episodes in this series

  1. Jehovah’s Treasure (2020), Part 1
  2. Jehovah’s Treasure (2020), Part 2
  3. Jehovah’s Treasure (2020), Part 3

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