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And then start the recording so great wonderful great all right start recording and start the session welcome everyone for the weekly Aramaic word of the from the PES Bible and today we’re going to learn about the word Bethlehem bethleem and we’re going to learn about the meaning of the word and we’re going
To learn learn more about the real story of the birth of Christ now I’m in Texas and I’m enjoying my time and it’s like everyone is really busy in this part of the world and I’m enjoying watching the culture and I’m learning a lot from the culture
And not only that it’s like an eye opening for me because this is something new and I see like people going to the stores here and people are way so busy and it’s like everyone is kind of stressed in a way in the stores and shopping and they’re trying to buy gifts
Christmas gifts for all the family and imagine if you have a big family and relatives that’s a lot of work but that’s not the spirit of Christmas and also we’re getting ready to go to church and you see also in your culture your see the page patient every year year
After year you see the Christmas story and the kids and the angel coming and they will do the Nativity Story and you can see the Shepherds this is very cute and very nice and and they will see them surrounding baby Jesus and the reading from Luke the
Story of Jesus birth but it get kind of boring year after year after year and it’s like I’ve saw it twice it got boring for me but anyway so I’m going to do today a different perspective because it’s not should it shouldn’t be about a season that is
Stressing and it’s not have to do only with a tree and I know it’s a lot of work people prepar preparing Christmas here they get to the attic of their homes and they bring the tree or they bring or they go by another new tree and
This is all nice and beautiful do not misunderstand me it’s very symbolic we’re not against it but it’s a lot of work and it get you very busy and everyone is like uh going to do last minute things and it’s like of I’m watching I’m watching what’s happening
Around me and I did not like it much but this is only my personal perspective but let us learn the real meaning of the word Bethlehem we’re going to learn it in Hebrew and Aramaic and work into details but I want to give you some history
Before we start and let me share with you we going to learn a little bit about the first mentioning of the name and by the way there are so many names in different languages and different cultures the house of bread or the house of meat or lahi is an ancient
Fertility of a goddess Egyptian goddess so you have to know that names changes according to the period of history according to that culture and the season and it’s very important to go back to the to these periods of history in order to understand why it took place
And what is the meaning behind each each word and I’m going to go back to the execration texts and in the execration text there was like a found in Egypt first mention of the name bet in Aramaic was in Egypt and that was like the period of history
In around we are talking about 1887 it was a site in Egypt and on the East Bank of the Nile River they found a around South of Kario 200 miles around they found a city and in that City they found 400 execration text like these ones all right and it was written of
Course in aadan language and of course it was mentioned by the word and most of these letters come from cities like uh Jerusalem like Bethlehem like all these names is mentioned inside these kind of vessels and like P gazer hion naus shim ashkon even meido is also mentioned here
And and even Cyprus even Assyria even Central Anatolia turkey and all of these scriptions date all the way back to the 14th century before Christ and what is important in our story that mentions two words be all right Beth means house is a god of fertility in aadan and then M
Mentions another word Jerusalem always Jerusalem is connected with Bethlehem bethle and and in these text mentions a canite ruler by the name AB by the way this is an Aramaic word from the same like Hebrew which means a servant Hiba in Aramaic this is Aramaic not Hebrew Hiba
Means a gift like he was being to be a governor in b and Jerusalem and he was gifted to be a governor he did not earn it so that’s his name his name is his identity and in these in secretion text he is a soldier he’s mention he’s
Sending a soldier for the king and he says my Lord and He requests that the Egyptian king send him a messenger and some military men to help resist his enemies and in multiple letters he not only one he states that he falls at the feet of
My Lord the king seven times and seven times and by the way the phrase whenever it’s mentioned in ancient scripture seven times it’s a it’s in like it’s a convey of his faithfulness to his Egyptian governor and we know the name of the Egyptian Governor at that time Amy
Thei I mean theii and he is like telling him I am loyal to you when it’s mentioned so many times I am loyal to the Egyptian government and he also also makes clear that it was not his father or mother who put him in this
Place as a ruler or on the throne but rather the strong arm of the king the Egyptian king so here AB reveals that he was not the higher to the throne but given the Throne of Jerusalem by the Egyptian king himself so he goes on to state that for this
Reason he will always be faithful all right to the Egyptian Lord regardless of any accusation By An Enemy by any enemy and look until today just let you know between Jerusalem and Bethlehem and Egypt there’s a lot of connections and these connections not only in history until today look what is
Happening now with Gaza and the connections between Gaza and Egypt and Jerusalem about power so always they go back to Egypt because Egypt is in history the core of archaeology but anyway so these are the the secretion text but also bet is mentioned in the de Scrolls in Hebrew and anyone
Can go to these DC Scrolls and they can and by the way before that look here this is this is where they found these 400 aadan text and in 1887 and it’s south of Cairo around 200 100 miles but I want to show you also some
Of the remains of that site it’s a huge site but not excavated much a little bit they need to do more excavations there and it’s they found amazing discoveries and look all these pharaohs and all these writings and all these drawings and inscriptions and and all this archology this is why
Each Egypt is the core of archology this is in one of the tombs and a lot a lot of remains still need to be discovered and so it’s called you know tell is an archaeological site t l this is a local word it’s a actually it’s a local
Indigenous word tell a canite word tell so this is like they need to do more excavation in this area also and this is the site itself how big you see how big is the site with all the terms and the findings here but anyway I want to show you
Here there’s another mentioning of b or B in the Dead Sea Scrolls and by the way you can Google it and write 4 q81 this is the scroll where we found the word betlehem mentioned all right and it’s taken from the Minor Prophets and it talks about uh
Micah chap 5: 2 and three the prophecy about okay and by the way everyone can enter and see the details of these like uh Scrolls so here we have kran four this is where the minor profit this is where the inscription was found mentioning Bethlehem and you can even
You can even read it you know you can get into the image let me click here and I can get into the image and look you can zoom in so what I’m doing I’m trying to teach you all how to do these resources and to search for for these
Resources and like anyone who knows Hebrew Biblical Hebrew can read these ancient scripts I can read for you a there’s a word here I can’t alphabet I can’t know means a blessed AER and so related to or related to anyone can read this ancient scripture and you can research
It so anyway so the de is SC mentions mentions Bethlehem and here you can research all these Scrolls Q is a like scroll and a cave you can see what cave it was it and when it was founded when it says cave one it means this is not a
Number it’s a number given by the scholars but this is when the first discovered the scroll so that was number one C Scrolls discovered by the shepherd Muhammad Al and there’s scroll two cave two which means the second cave discovered this was one 1947 there was
1953 so the numbers C four is 19 later so every number is with the when the cave was discovered so you can go through all these Scrolls Online okay you go to that c Scrolls dog. I and you can do the research but I want to read for you the
Prophecy mentioned in the Bible and associated with being a small City but let us read I’m going to read only a few verses two and three but you Bethlehem ephata why you say ephata is another word for Bethlehem okay though you are little among the thousands of
Judah now the word little English is not good translation little doesn’t mean only small means also related to bad reputation always Bethlehem had a bad reputation they were oppressed remember AB he asked help for Jerusalem and Bethlehem it’s oppressed and after oppression there is like revelation after oppression there is salvation so
This being the history of Bethlehem it’s been oppressed yet out of you shall come forth to me the one to be ruler in Israel you see after oppression there is redemption whose going forth are from of all from Everlasting therefore he shall give them up until the time that
He she who is in labor has given birth then the remnant of his Brethren shall return to the children of Israel but I want also you to help you this is the Blue Letter Bible where I do the researches and also click on tools then go to the inter
Linear everyone can do this you go to the Interlinear is Hebrew now the Hebrew is amazing what is not only little which means also in Hebrew you know Hebrew have layers which means also a problematic place if place that has been under occupation or under oppression or
Or even simply just oppressed okay and I want to read another also verse from scripture Genesis 3519 look what it says so Rachel died and was buried on the way to Ephrata that is Bethlehem even oppression anytime we read in the scripture about Beth it’s like she died death all right and
Then came after that also after death him came also Redemption and also we hear about the story of Ruth the story versus like one and 19 and everyone know the story of Ruth and how she was like far away from her own town and how she met Naomi and there should
Be enemies and then from the enemies came a Redemptive Story red ition and from them came all the way all the way Jesus all right JC all the way Jesus so let us read the verse so the two women went on until they came to Bethlehem when they arrived in Bethlehem the whole
Town was starred because of them and the woman exclaimed can this be Naomi all right and they arrived in Bethlehem the whole town was thir what does this mean the whole town was like probably because they’re coming from a Jewish and a gentile stirred so there is an turmoil
There all right as associated with like bad reputation and then we know the story that reputation restoration took place but what I going to do with you right now I want to read from the original Aramaic uh the story of Bethlehem okay and our first we’re going to learn about
It from Luke chapter 2: 4 to 7 but before going there I want to show you where is Bethlehem located compared to Jerusalem and na sorry compared to Nazareth so are going to use I know many of you have been in Israel but I want it’s important to know
The geography all right this is Bethlehem the town of Bethlehem which is the smallest south of Jerusalem and always you relate Bethlehem to Jerusalem even till today like when people want to be in Jerusalem a lot of slal in Jerusalem goes to Bethlehem I know what I’m talking about
Even like the days of ab right everything is connected and Bethlehem is like s miles from my home even less six miles from my house but anyway read about the story from Luke and says that the Holy Family were in Nazareth all right let me show you where is Nazareth
Here nazarus is not far in the north here is Nazareth okay from Nazareth all the way down to Jerusalem is only 60 miles so let me read for you from the P Bible and then I going to hopefully read the Aramaic for you to explain a few points so this is the
Bible again anyone can come online and get all these Aramaic words and I’m going to read from verse four in Aramaic let me read first in English to understand then the Aramaic and Joseph also went up from Nazareth you see how I showed you up Nazareth is up
Of Galilee to Judea why of Galilee to Judea Judea means down south to the city of David which is called bethle now to a Jewish audience whenever the wordi is mentioned they don’t know about Jesus all right the first thing comes to their mind is King David all right the
City of David where David was born for us as Christians it clicks the Christmas story and Jesus no for Jews it clicks the town of Bethlehem the birthplace of David and this is why it’s mentioned here okay because who are the writers they are Jews Aramaic speaking Galilean
Jews because he was of the House of lineage of David so I’m going to read the aramic now slack slack means going up all right slack and it’s amazing look here how why we going up from Nazareth to Jerusalem it looks like coming south right but no it’s coming up because
Jerusalem is higher and Bethlehem is higher mountains so you come up all right it’s not about the direction it’s about the location you go up to Jerusalem from the North or from the south or from the east or from the west and Judea Jerusalem is connected to Bethlehem mean what is here is
It is Nazareth what is is wow you it for the people who studied with me the is David the beem here is Bethlehem I’m going to write for you the word Bethlehem and explain more more about it let me write it for you now in Aramaic so you can see
How is it written in the p and I’m going to write it for you in the Aramaic so I’m going to do sharing stop I’m going to share I’m going to do a Hebrew lesson and aramic lesson and I know people here are with me that learned Hebrew Biblical Hebrew
And Aramaic I will start with Biblical Hebrew this is bit B by the way be bait means a house and not only a house the letter the alphabet also a community UD T in Hebrew bite bite this is lamid and this is hat in Hebrew and this is
Mean b this is how we pronounce it which means House of Bread all right let me write the Aramaic now this is Beth in Aramaic this is Youth and this is the TOA all right and then this is L this is and this is Me now Beth we pronounce it in Aramaic house or a community or people living together and just want to tell you the population of Bethlehem in Jesus time the first century will not be at most atmost with exaggeration 400 450 and also the town in AR in bethleem sorry in the time of Jesus not Nazareth is not more than
400 450 today the population is different today Bethlehem probably is like with the suburbs like 880,000 people and also also Nazareth is a big population today is the biggest Christian Arab Village but in Jesus time both were small so this is a house B is a house again it’s the community it’s not
One person and when people travel together I just want to tell you they travel in a community together literally means bread why the house of bread you know bread is important in the first century you eat everything with bread in the breakfast in the morning in the evening you should have
Bread bread is like a utensil you know they didn’t have utensils in the first century spoons or Forks they take a piece of bread is what I grow up in the culture and we take a piece of it and dip it with a homos and we eat it so
It’s a must it’s important it’s a utensil something you need to use in the morning in the afternoon in the evening it’s it’s a necessity so Jesus born in the House of Bread Beth Beth means he became important he is necessity he’s like a utensil you can’t live without it
Bread you have to eat it three times a day all right and Jesus born in the House of Bread he became the bread of life he became everything for the people he became life to the people so when you understand the Aramaic you understand the meaning of the words but let us
Continue to read from the pish Bible and to continue verse five I will start first in English with Mary has exposed the then pregnant to be enrolled this is doesn’t mean like you know what it’s betr when you’re betr it’s like MTO is more than betr it’s
Like someone that she is committed to him when you’re betov in the first century culture you have to know you’re like married you stay with the community together inside the insula you know there’s the insula people live together and there’s the kataluma the guest room but when you’re betr you live in another
Insula so for a year almost or two years sometimes so Joseph will be seeing Mary and Mary will be seeing Joseph and getting to know each others because you know each others only after marriage in the first century and probably Mary is like 13 12 13 years old all right and
Joseph we know he was more mature he was around age 30 and by the way age age 30 in the first century is old he’s an old man people do not live like today today because of Science and medication they liveed to 100 now 90 but in the first
Century we know that if you reach age 30 or even if you age 40 you done it this is like 100 today so Jesus when he died on the cross at age 33 this is the normal end of his life all right so Mary was bet to him in Aramaic means she’s
Knowing him she is means not only she knows him she is dedicated to him this is her husband all right because they don’t do marriage celebration after they betov they do this celebration when they are betr they take the cup of wine they like the moment she he Joseph takes the
Cup and she takes from the same cup there’s a covenant is doneal all right this is the point point I want to make in Aramaic m means she is his all right literally means she he owns her there’s no way back literally means married today all right married today there’s no
Dating in the first century by the way anyway and let us continue in verse five CAD CAD but no manab she’s pregnant all right she’s pregnant and she need toab means you know in in the Roman government they do a decree and only men have to be counted all right so here is
Mary think about it have to go all the way from Nazareth 60 miles all the way down to B because she want to be in the decree and only men are allowed to be in the decree she doesn’t have to do the trip but she’s telling Joseph probably
Are going to stretch you a little bit she’s telling him you can’t leave me alone you are my life I know everything you know everything about me I am yours don’t leave and I’m pregnant and probably all the woman she’s going to the like well in Nazareth and her tummy
Is growing and she is like suffering and she does not want to stay she wants someone to protect her the men in the Middle East we protect the woman we cover them spiritually we cover them everything they depend on us on the covering and probably not only that she is like
A she’s like I didn’t share the screen sorry what I read just from here and she is like all the people when you travel you don’t travel by yourself all the way from Nazareth All the Way to Bethlehem she will travel with her tribe with her family members in a caravan all right
And probably people will get upset she’s not she’s pregnant this is hard for her she’s joining us why she is coming and this is like 10day trip and they will probably go from here from the Mountain Hill through the road of the patriarch there’s a main road that comes here that
Go through Samaria too because it’s a shorter distance and she’s pregnant so he will choose this road not to go to the other route okay which is longer and that’s the main route till today between West Bank Nazareth and Bethlehem and Jerusalem till today they called the road of the Patriarchs anyway
So that’s a long long way of traveling and she the bottom line she want to go with Joseph wherever he go all right she chose to do this trip despite she’s pregnant because she does not want only to stay alone okay when to give birth let us read verse five verse six
Sorry and it was while they were there that the days for her to bring forth were completed you see okay let’s see the how what is is birth the of birth all right the day of birth okay giving birth and giving birth where what do you think not like forget
Everything you learned about Stables all right or a wooden manger all right it is a stone mananger you think about it because of King James translation and that was the way stables and horses was big in the 17th century okay because of the translation but it’s a stone mananger inside a
Cave however you’d expect a king to be born in a place of Marvel surrounded by like slaves and he was born in a manger what is the manger for animals or the lamb the sheep can come at eat and a Manger is very symbolic by the way it’s mentioned three
Times Luke mentioned three times a Manger whenever in scripture it’s mentioned three times it means continuously humbling there’s a meaning so Jesus glow up up obedient because the animal come to the manger this is his obedient the animal is obedient and Jesus born in a manger he’s obedient to
The father all his life so it’s mentioned three times it means continually Jesus is being obedient and just to tell you like born in a cave all right in a cave now I going to give you a middle eastern hebraic Aramaic perspective of Jesus birth now from where did come the
Idea of a cave and I want to give you some resources we have very important two earli Church historians one the first one is Justin Martyr he was a philosoph philosophy philosoph he lived around 100 AD all right which is not far from the time of the birth of Jesus 100 years
Centur is not much all right and he was an early like apologist and he mentioned that Yeshua which is Jesus was born in a cave and most of his works or his books his apologist has been lost but two apologist and their dialogue survived an early Church Father and the first
Apology is most wellknown that it defends the morality of the Christian Life and provides various ethical and philosophical arguments to convince the Roman Emperor all right to abandon the persecution of the church we know that 2 Century 100 AD there was a big persecution of the Christians of the
Followers of Jesus the Believers they were not Christians by the way yet but they were all Jews believing in Christ and the second apology he wrote supposed to be a supplement to the first apology and it says that Jesus he mentioned was born in a cave in a cave
All right and that was the second apology and it was addressed to the Roman senate anyway there’s another historian clemont of Alexandria all right clemont of alexand Andria and this is another early church historian he lived around 150 ad all right around so it’s not far from the time of Jesus and
Mentioned that Yeshua was born in a cave all right and he was again a theologian and a philosopher and in the school of Alexandria Alexandria is Egypt all right you see how much Egypt is also important in all archaeology and history and look at the distance between
Between let me show you on the map I want you to grab the big picture the importance of locations and here Egypt and we have so many biblical stories from the Old Testament and the New Testament Abraham went into Egypt right and so Egypt is always connected with the stories of the
Bible see it’s it’s all connected and in Alexandria here let me show you where is Alexandria sorry oops this went another Alexandria that’s in Alexandria in Egypt here up came this there was the biggest biggest library anyway Alexandria is famous because of Alexander the Great the name Alexandria till today but
Anyway he was a like Clore of Alexandria by the way he converted he was Jew converted and an early church father and he was an educated man who was like familiar with the Greek philosophy and literature and culture and he mentions that Jesus was born in a cave in a cave and
He was like one of the leaders okay and he among his students was origin of Alexandria another historian too but anyway also we have a lot of apocalyptical books all right that are found these are books outside the Bible that are found and mentioning like the word and mentioning that Jesus was born
In a cave I don’t know if you heard about the Proto Evangel of James this apocalyptic mentions book mentions or scroll that Yeshua was born in a caves so caves are common in the area of Bethlehem till today all right till today there are homes and in villages in
Bethlehem I’ve been in one of them and either below the home or to the right side or to the left of the home is a cave and what are the case for for the animals all right you in United States you have basements you call them all
Right but till today in Bethlehem there are caves okay and we put the animal so when Mary came all the way all the way to give birth and she did not find place in the Inn right by the way it’s a wrong translation it’s not uh not about in
There was no place in the end let me share with you the bible to read for you in do not exist in the first century what exists in the first century are like homes that have caves and the scripture tell us there was no place in the kataluma in in Greek also original
Like also the Aramaic no place where Jesus can stay but anyway the point is that he he was born in something called a guest room all right where when it’s pth remember there was a sensus so many people coming to Bethlehem I remember there was a sensus by the Israeli
Government like 10 years ago ago and everyone I’m from the old city of Jerusalem I had to go all the way back to the old city where I lived and so many people came back because they wanted to be recorded So everyone will come so it going to be so packed and
Everyone is coming but when there is no place in the guest room you go to the cave with the animals and probably Miriam was so happy that she is going to a cave and in the heart of the cave and the bottom of the cave she gave birth to Yeshua imagine what is
A cave smelly a lot of manure animals around you probably more other people will be around because it’s a big cave not only you but you go all the way to the bottom and the animals will come around and make like a curtain and probably Joseph with the Shepherds will
Be standing outside the cave and the maid will come to help maram to give birth imagine the lord of the universe the king of kings was born in a smelly rustic cave with animals instead of being born in a palace or being born like a king upside down kingdom and that cave is
Like us we are filthy not important when he was born in our lives we make us important he made bahi the smallest with the bad reputation among Judah he brought the best reputation He restored B and he from oppression and Taxation and turmoil till today Bethlehem is turmoil but we have
Hope because Jesus was born in Bethlehem I will end my teaching with a Aramaic worship song speaking about the birth of Christ Andre we can’t hear anything thank you for mentioning that I know what’s the problem thank you thank you for sharing this one second thank you
Tony all you know what’s the problem here is it fixed Be For With Fore For With Fore Hallu come S wonderful might God Everlasting father he God With Us prin all our Saor for Speee I just uh scratch only the surface
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