Medical Explanation of Jesus Crucifixion

Tonight Bishop Long discusses the Shroud of Turin, modern miracles and the medical details regarding Jesus crucifixion.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:19):
Okay, everybody, Hello and welcome, Welcome, Welcome to the presentation.
Happy good Friday to you wherever you are in this brutiful,
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to Miss Wilma today. That was nice. She she seems
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good Friday, and it is a very very holy day
certainly and normally, as you all know, I always do

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a paranormal show on Friday. For those of you who
are new here, this is the only day of the week,
one day of the week, just one where I actually
do a paranormal show. Every other day every Monday through Friday,
we have night prayer. Sundays and Wednesdays we have by
Will study and then Saturday is open mic. So otherwise

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it's every other every day. It's really kind of devoted
to theology. So this This today is dedicated to the paranormal.
Now because today is Good Friday. I kind of have
a tradition where I always present the miracle of the Crucifixion,

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and I do. I absolutely call it a miracle because
it is a miracle. And we'll talk about why I
believe that in a moment where I will give you
not only historical information on the crucifixion, but also the
medical explanation of what Jesus actually endured when he was

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being crucified. You know, I have friends of mine that
that are not Christians. That's fine, if that's what they want,
that's their that's their right. But one thing that I
am very intolerant on people who mock Jesus, especially on
this type of on this special and holy day. Even

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if you don't believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the
fact that you would mock a human being who endured
suffering and pain that you and I could not even fathom.
I mean, you can't even fathom. The crucifixion is not
it's not a quick ending. It is a very painful

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and we're going to talk about why. I also believe
that the Crucifixion in my opinion proves once and for
all that Jesus was not just a human being. Impossible impossible,
And I'll explain that as we get into this presentation.
So again, folks, tonight we're going to talk about the

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Crucifixion and the miracle of the Crucifixion, and we're also
going to talk about the Shroud of Toran. Now, what
you see here on the screen here for you guys
and you guys on on KGRDB, that is a shroud
of Toran. That is something that I purchased a friend
of mine, a priest actually friend of mine, when he

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was in Rome and when the shroud was laid out
and people were able allowed to place items on the shroud,
which therefore would be considered a relic, this was actually
placed For you guys, it's here for you guys. It's
there that was actually placed on the shroud, so that

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is considered now a relic. Now you guys can't see
it unfortunately the picture. But for those of you on
KGRDB and Facebook and all that, you guys can see
this picture here. Let me just I'll show you.

Speaker 2 (07:59):
Yeah, I was at an actual paranormal conference and when
I saw that, I saw that from a distance, and
I thought, I got to get it.

Speaker 1 (08:11):
I got I have to get it. It was just
one of the most powerful pictures I've ever seen of Christ. However,
in saying that, as awful as this picture is, it
still doesn't really do the Crucifixion justice. I think this
is very much a PG version of the crucis picture

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of the Crucifixion. So again i'll show you for those
I think that's more of a PG. I absolutely do
not believe that even comes close to what the Crucifixion
actually was like. So that's what we're doing tonight, all right,
and we're going to get into it, and then we'll
get also into our shroud of Torrent and why I
believe it. So tonight's presentation is really on the miracles,

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the miracle of the Crucifixion and the miracle of the
Shroud of torn And then later on maybe I'll open
the chat up to everybody. I had to turn it
off because Tros couldn't behave all right. I had a
doctor on my show several years ago, maybe ten years

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or so, and I asked him about the Crucifixion and
if he could explain from a medical perspective, what Jesus
would have endured, and many of these This presentation is
from the notes that I had as he studied the
crucifixion in great detail. So let's get started. One of

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the most painful things for me personally, I think, is
to see Jesus mocked, not because of beliefs, So let's
just let those beliefs set aside for a moment. Let's
set aside that he is our Messiah and that he
did become human visible form of the almighty invisible God.

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What hurts me the most I think about mocking Jesus
is the very little respect that people have for the
real pain that he endured during the last day of
his life. Now there are people that's going to because
this story upsets people because they want to say that

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never happened. They are liars. There is unbelievable, one hundred
percent historical proof, historical proof that Jesus absolutely was a person.
We have historians, non Christian historians from the first century

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who write about Yashuah of Nazareth, that many people claimed
as the Christius, that people called him God, that people
worshiped him, that he was crucified. So anybody who says
that there is no historical documentation showing the proof of Jesus.
They are absolutely idiotic. They are truly ignorant when it

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comes to history, because it is not What they're saying
is not true. Now, for those of you who would
like to know the sources, because people always think now
they're experts and sources, I'll be happy to share those
sources with you to prove in fact that Jesus did
walk the face of this earth. The first century Roman Tacitus,

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who considered one of the most accurate historians of the
ancient world, mention superstitions Christians from Christus it's Latin for
Christ who suffered under punches pilot during the reign of Tiberius.
Also Flavius Josephus is really the most famous Jewish historian,

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and in his Antiquities he refers to James, the brother
of Jesus, who was called Christ. Now there is a
controversial verse in verse eight, chapter eighteen, verse three that says,
now there was about this time Jesus a wise man,
if it'd be lawful to call him a man, for
he was one who wrought surprising feats. He was the Christ.

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He appeared to them alive again on the third day,
as the divine prophets had foretold these and ten thousand
other wonderful things concerning him. One version reads, at the
time there was a wise man named Jesus. His conduct
was good, and he was known to be virtuous, and
many people from among the Jews and other nations became
his disciples. So we know that we know that. Flavius

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Josephus writes about Yoshuah of Nazareth. Also, Julius Africanas quotes
the historian Thallus in a discussion of the darkness that
actually followed the crucifixion of Christ. So there was a eclipse,
and there is historians who write about this eclipse, this
complete darkness that occurred at three PM when Christ passed away.

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Pliny the in Letters ten, chapter ten, verse ninety six
recorded early Christian worship practices, including the fact that Christians
worship Jesus as God. They are very ethical, and he
includes a reference to the love feast at the Lord's Supper.
The Babylonian Talmud Sanhedron forty three a confirms Jesus' crucifixion

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on the eve of Passover and the accusations against Christ
practicing sorcery. I can give you a massive list of
historical writers that were not Christians who write about Jesus
of Nazareth. Therefore, anyone who says Jesus did not exist

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is it's intellectually dishonest. It's simply not true. Okay, thank you.
So I think what hurts the most is knowing how
badly Jesus was mocked, and even today that people have
very little respect for the real pain that he endured.
So this presentation is to present to you what he

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endured during his crucifixion. So when atheists or even non
believers mocked the cross, it obsessed me because they're mockering,
the mockering the suffering of another human being, even if
they don't believe Jesus is the Messiah. But we do
know that he was crucified. See that in essence is
dehumanizing yourself for your own personal entertainment. It's not only despicable,

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it's heart wrenching. When did we grow so cold and callous?
When did our hearts become like stone and mock such pain? Well?
Where is the tolerance and respect for equality for Christ? See,
you can choose not to believe in him as the
son of God, and you can choose not to accept
them as your savior, but you cannot choose whatever you

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wish and deny his human suffering, and that he was crucified.
So let's get into the crucifixion. This information obviously is
also extracted from articles that's written by physicians. Thank you.
I'm not a physician, obviously, but I think that these
presentations will open your eyes, all right. But of course

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the physical passion of the Christ beginning gets symbony of
the many aspects of the initial suffering. One of the
greatest physiological interest is the bloody sweat. It's interesting that
in Saint Luke, the physician Saint Luke was a physician,
is the only one to mention this, and he says

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that in being in agony, he prayed the longer Jesus
and his sweat became as drops of blood trickling down
upon the ground. Every trick imaginable has been used by
modern scholars to explain away this description, apparently under the
mistaken impression that it just doesn't happen. A great deal

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of effort could have been saved had the doubters consultant
in medical literature. Though very rare, it is an actual
phenomenon called hemododrosis. It's a bloody sweat. It's well documented.
Under great emotional stress of the kind that Jesus suffered,
tiny capillaries in the sweat glands can break, thus mixing

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blood with sweat, and this process might well have produced
a marked weakness impossible shock. So hemodrosis had been seen
in patients who've experienced extreme shock to the or stress,
and a case history is actually recorded in a young
girl who had a fear of air raids in World

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War One. She actually developed the condition after a gas
explosion occurred in the house next door. Another report mentions
a nun who was threatened with being unallied by the
swords of the any soldiers. She was so terrified that
she bled from every part of her body and died
of hemorrhage in the sight of our assailants. That scripture says.

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After the arrest in the middle of the night, Jesus
was next brought before the Sanhedron in Caiaphas the high priest,
and it is here that the first physical trauma was inflicted.
A soldier hit Jesus across the face for remaining silent
when questioned by Caiaphas. The Roman soldiers were brutes. This

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wasn't a slap, this was a punch, and Roman soldiers
were quite powerful and strong, and it's quite possible that
there would have been damage done to the eye socket
or a part of where Jesus was hit. The palace

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guards then blindfolded him. They mockingly taunted him, and as
they passed by, they spat upon him and then struck
him in the face. And then they were mocking him saying,
O way, who did it? You're the son of God?
You're who did it? I just and that this person
hit you? What who? And they would they would consistently

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punch him. So now he is he was bleeding from
this anticipation of knowing what the crucifixion meant. And then
he was blind floated, blindfolded, and punched in the face repeatedly,
thank you now. And then in the early morning, battered, bruised,

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incredibly dehydrated, probably still sweating, exhausted from his sleepless night,
Jesus is taken across the preatorium of the fortress and Antonia.
It's the seat of the government of Judea. Punch his pilot.
Now you're I think you're obviously familiar with Pilot's action

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and attempting to pass responsibility to Herod. So Jesus apparently
suffered no physical mistreatment at the hands of Herod. He
was returned to Pilot. So Pilot is unable to convince
the crowds of Jesus's innocence and orders Jesus and of
course state they ordered him to be put to death.

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Some sources state that it was Roman law that a
criminal that was to be crucified had to be flogged first.
Others believe that Jesus was flogged first by Pilot in
the hope of getting him off of a lighter punishment.
The problem with was is this with what pilot situation?
So Pilot was not going to have Jesus crucified because

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Jesus was claiming to be the Messiah. Pilot really didn't care.
That wasn't an offense so grave that you would crucify
a person. They didn't care. What Pilot had to do
was he had to crucify him. Once the Pharisee said

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that Jesus was claiming that he is the king of
the Jews. Once you once you claim that you are
you're the king, or that there was these people claiming
that he said this, then you had there was that
that was an offense, that that crucifixion, because that was
an attack on Caesar. Pilot had no choice at that moment.
At that time, he had no choice. His hands were tied.

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He had to have Jesus crucified. This is why he asked,
are you the king of the Jews? Because that offense
then you there was no choice. So, in spite of
his efforts, the Jews allowed Barabbas to be released the
man that Jesus be crucified, because there there was this

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belief at that moment that you can call upon someone
to be released and then this person be crucified. Now,
Barabbas was a he liked to start trouble, but they
wanted Barrabus released. And then that is when Pilots said, Well,
they actually said in Matthew twenty seven, his blood be
upon us, on our children. So Pilot hands Jesus over

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to be flogged and crucified. Now it is at this
point that Jesus suffers a severe physical beating. During a flogging,
the victim was tied to a post leaving his back

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entirely exposed. The Romans used a whip called a flagrum,
and it consisted of small pieces of bone and metal
that was attached to a number of leather strands. The
strands was very long, and the bone. They would tie
the bone into the strand, and there were multiple bones.

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There's a reason for that. When they would whip a person,
it would go around the person's body and they would
pull back, and as they pulled back, the bone would
embed in the skin and it would rip the skin
off of the body. It was quite gruesome. Now that

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the number of strikes is actually not recorded in the Gospels.
The number of blows in Jewish law was actually set
in Deuteronomy, chapter twenty five, verse three at forty, but
it was actually later reduced to thirty nine to prevent
excessive blows by accounting error. So the law stated that

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if a person was condemned to be crucified, then they
would beat a person. So, in other words, the victim
often sometimes died from the just a beating alone nine
hits was believed to bring the criminal one from death.

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So they would beat the person so viciously, but they
would stop at thirty nine because if they were to
exceed that, then the person would expire. Now they would
get in extreme trouble if, in fact, they did this,
because if a person was condemned, then the crucifixion had

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to occur because the Roman guards could get in severe
punishment themselves if they flogged them to the point where
the person expires prior to being crucified. That's why the centurion,
the general or the leader came in, commander and came
in and was screaming at them. The reason is he
was screaming at them because they had whipped Christ so

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many times that he was no longer recognizable as a
human being. And that's say what scripture says. So and
again please understand for those of you who are watching this,
this is intense. But I'm not going to sugarcoat this,
nor should we. So flesh was hanging off of his body.

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It's Isaiah speaks of this the suffering servant, where his
beard was plucked. In other words, he was hit so
harshly and violently that his skin would be hanging off
of his face and you could see the skull. So
this is why scripture says that they were so it

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was unrecognizable because they could actually see the backbone from
the flogging. The amount of blood that he would have
lost at this time would have been impossible, impossible for
a human to sustain that type of beating and still

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make it to Golgotha. So the doctor that I spoke
to said that he probably lost forty percent of his
blood just in the flogging alone. That by itself would
make someone go into shock and expire. So that's one miracle,

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the fact that he continued. So here's how the doctor
explained that the flogging, because he's also a historian. And
at first the thongs in this the whips cut through
the skin only, and then as the blows continued, they

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cut deeper into the subcutaneous tissues, and that would actually
produce first and oozing of blood from the capillaries, and
then the veins of the skin. Finally uh spurting arterial
bleeding from vessels and the underlying muscles. So as the

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skin would would tear, then the bones would be embedded
into the muscle itself, and the muscle would be ripped
as they pulled it back. So we're not just talking
about flesh being ripped. We're also talking about the bones
being deeply embedded into the muscle and the muscles ripped

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along with the flesh. So they had small balls of
lead on these whips and it produces large, deep bruises
which are broken up by subsequent blows. And finally, the
skin of the back is quite honestly what it's hanging

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in long ribbons. The entire area is unrecognizable mass of torn,
bleeding tissue. It no longer looks like a back to
the point where the muscle is exposed, as well as
the shoulder blades, so you can see the actual shoulder blade.

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And when it was determined by the centurion in charge
of the prisoner is near death, the beating is finally stopped,
so the half fainting Jesus is then untied and allowed
to slump to the stone pavement and in a bloody mess.
As if that was not enough, Again, keep in mind

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he was punched in the face multiple times prior to
this even occurring. Then the soldiers stripped and put a
scarlet robe on him. This is important to note the
fabric at this time was heavy and as Jesus was
bleeding profusely from the back and it was hot, when

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they put the robe on him. The robe then would
stick to the body because the blood, some of the
blood would dry up. So the robe now is it's
adhesive basically to the back. And so they twisted together

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a crown of thorns and set it on its head,
and of course they put the staff on his right
hand and knelt in front of him, Hail King of
the Jews. So they spit on him and it took
the staff and then struck him on the head again
and again, obviously, which would cause concussions and probably at

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that time a cracked skull. So he was then beaten
by the Roman soldiers. Continued, they continued to beat him,
and in mockery, they dressed him in what was probably
a cloak of a Roman officer, and that was a
colored dark purple or scarlet. Now they slammed the crown

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of thorns on his head, unlike the traditional crown, which
is depicted by an open ring, you know, just the
open ring. Actually, many people believe that the actual crown
of thorns may have covered the entire scalp. The thorns
that you see are between one to two inches long,

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and they're very thick, incredibly hard to break. So the
gospel states that the Roman soldiers continue to beat Jesus
on the head. The blows would have driven the thorns
deeper into the scalp, one of the most vascular areas
of the body, and the forehead, causing severe bleeding and

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extreme neurological pain. The that I spoke to said that alone,
even if he wasn't beaten, the crown of thorns alone
being slammed on his head, with millions of veins being affected,
the neurological damage by that alone, it would have been

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impossible for anybody to even walk, let alone carry a
beam from across to Gogatha. There's no doubt in my mind,
just from that alone, Jesus was more than a human being.
A human being could not have endured what he endured
and still walked from the Preatorium or pilot Pilot's preatorium

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to Gogatha. Gogltha, that's about three hundred yards, so we're
talking again three football fields. That Jesus walked from the
preatorium with the beam all the way from the Preetorima
to Gogatha. So when they took the scepter and they

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would beat the crown of Thorns, they purposely hit them
to the point where the thorns stuck so deeply embedded
into the skull, so the neurological damage would have been
impossible to comprehend. So finally they tire their sadistic sport.

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Now at this time, the robe is then ripped from
his back. So you're talking about Jerusalem, where the sun
it is hot. The bleeding would some of the bleeding
would have stopped or hardened, and the fabric would have

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basically almost like glue, it would have stuck to his back.
What they did is they took this cloak and then
ripped the cloak from his back, opening up all the
wounds all over again. And the bleeding would have been extreme. Now,

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so already having adhere to the clots of blood and
saram in the wounds, its removal caused excruciating pain, just
as the careless removal of a surgical bandage, and almost
as though he were again being whipped, the wounds once
more began to bleed quite quite fearless, fiercely. What's interesting

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is the severity of the beating is not detailed in
the gospel. However, in the Book of Isaiah, it says
that the Romans pulled out his beard. I talked about
that earlier Isaiah chapter fifty, verse eight. So they ripped
his beard from his face. It would have been hanging
down off of his face. It also mentions that Jesus

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was beaten so severely that his form did not look
like a human being anymore. The little translation of the
verse in Isaiah fifty two, verse three says, so marred
from the form of man was his aspect, that his

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appearance was not as that of a son of man,
so you couldn't even tell he was a human being anymore.
It also says people were so appalled to look at
him because of the grotesque disfigurement. Now from the beating,
Jesus walked on a path known as the Via do

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dol rosso dolo rosa, or the way of suffering to
be crucified in Golgotha. Now there are some there's some debates.
Some people are saying it's three hundred yards. There's other
historians to say, no, it's six hundred and fifty yards.
So if it's six hundred, let's just say six hundred yards, Well, again,

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that's football fields. So even if we were just to say, well,
let's just say five five hundred yards five football fields.
It was a narrow street of stone. It was probably
surrounded by markets in Jesus' time, and he was led
through the crowded streets carrying what's called the crossbar. It's

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a crossbar. He did not carry the entire cross that
would have been far too heavy. The crossbar actually weighed
between eighty to one hundred and ten pounds, so it
would have been well over three hundred pounds just to
carry the entire cross. And really they that's not how
they did this. So they would he would carry the

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cross bar that would go on on his hands, and
they placed that over his shoulders, keeping in mind that
the crossbar is now rubbing against the very shoulder where
flesh is hanging off. Okay, so it was about eighty
tow one hundred and ten pounds, and in spite of

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his effort to walk straight up, the weight of the
heavy wooden beam, together with the shock, produced copious blood loss.
Even more, he stumbles and he falls. The rough wood
of the beam. It actually then gouged into the lacerated
skin and probably came down on his neck or certainly

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his head where the crowd of thorns were. So he
tries to rise, but human muscles have been ripped apart
and pushed beyond their endurance. So the centurion, anxious to
get on with a crucifixion, he chooses a helper, Simon
of Syreene, to carry the cross, and Jesus follows, still

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bleeding incomplete and total shock clammy sweats of shock, and
probably still be being whipped by the centurion to keep
moving until the six hundred and fifty or let's say
say five hundred yard journey to Googth is finally complete.

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So Jesus is offered a wine mixed with murder. He
refuses to drink. There are some historians that argue that
this type of drink was a to help with the pain.
That I would disagree with that. It doesn't make sense

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to me that the Roman soldiers are so vicious and
then all of a sudden, now they're going to say, oh,
now we feel bad. So that doesn't make a whole
lot of sense. So Simon is in order to place
the crossbar on the ground, and Jesus is now thrown
backward onto his shoulders against the wood. At this time,
there's no question his shoulders are broken. Some people say However,

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I disagree because it says in scripture that Jesus, even
through the whipping, did not suffer a broken bone. Now,
the procedure of the crucifixion is as follows. The crossbar
was put on the ground, the victim is laid upon it.

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Then nails. They're about seven inches long with a diameter
of it's about basically a three to eighth of an inch.
They were driven into the wrist. They were not driven
into the palms. And the reason is is because the
palms wouldn't be able to support the upper body. Basically,

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it would rip right through the hands. So the wrist
here is where because there are two bones right here,
and so the the Romans were quite well versed in
an atom and so they knew that if they hear
then it would hold up the upper part of the body.

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So that's where the points would go. Into the vicinity
of that it's called the median nerve, causing extreme shocks
of pain to radiate through the entire arm. So as
the nail goes in the hand would go immediately this way,
and the nerves carpal tunnel syndrome is baby cakes compared

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to this complete the unbelievable pain that he would have
experienced just from that alone would put someone in shock
and probably cardiac arrest. So it was possible to place
the nails between the bones so that no fractures or bones,
even a broken bones occurred. So studies have actually shown

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that nails were probably driven through the small bone of
the wrist, since nails of the palms wouldn't support the
weight of the body. And by the way, in ancient terminology,
the wrist here the risk was considered part of the
hand in ancient terminology, and standing at the crucifixion sites
would be upright posts called stipes. They stand about seven

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feet high and in the center of the stipe was
a crude seat called the sedulum, which served as like
a support for the victim. So the crossbar the beam
was then lifted onto the stipes and the feats. So
basically what you would have is the person would be

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hanging and then they would lift the person up while
they were hanging, and then they would move the crossbar
onto the stipe, the long bar and slam it. So
then the feet were then nailed to the stipe, and

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to allow for this, the knees had to be bent
or rotated laterally and being left a pretty uncomfortable position.
The titulus was hung above the victim's head, so they
probably some people say there's a part in the ankle

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that they could have used, or even in the right
in the middle of the foot. So now you have
a nail that's either in the ankle or in the
middle of the foot. There So as he pushes himself
upward to avoid the stretching torment, he places then his

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full weight on the nail of his feet, and again
there's there's searing agony of the nail tearing through the
nerves between the bones of the feet, and at this
point the arms fatigue. Now you have extreme and many
people don't think about this. At this point of time,

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Jesus is experiencing extreme Charlie Horses cramps all over his
entire body. There are great waves of cramps that sweep
over the muscles saw on his calfs, on his legs,
on his back, muscles, certainly in the shoulders, in the arms.

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His entire body is cramping up with extreme if you
would Charlie horses nodding them in deep, relentless, extreme throbbing pain.
And with these cramps comes the inability then to push
himself up. So what they would do is, as your

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arms are spread out, they would pushed themselves up so
they can breathe, they can get air in their lungs,
and then they'd fall back down. And by so, hanging
by his arms, the pectoral muscles are paralyzed, UH, the
the intercostal muscles are They're unable to respond, so air

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can be drawn. Air can then be drawn into the lungs,
but it can't be exhaled. So Jesus Uh fights to
raise himself in order to even get a one short
of breath. And then finally what happens is carbon dioxide
builds up in the lungs and in the blood stream,
and the cramps partially subside, so spasmodically he's able to

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push himself upward to exhale and then bring in life
giving oxygen. So Jesus experienced three hours of this while
on the cross, limitless pain, cycles of twisting, point rendering cramps,
intermittent partial eyxiation, searing pain where tissue is torn from

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his lacerated back and body as he moves up and
down to try to on this rough timber to try
to get air. Then, as if that's not enough, another
agony begins. It is a terrible crushing pain deep into
the chest as the pericardium slowly fills with serum begins

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to compress the heart. This is interesting because if you
remember the twenty second Psalm, the fourteenth verst, I am
poured out like water, and all my bones are out
of joint. My heart is like wax. It is melted
in the midst of my bowels. It's describing Jesus in

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the crucifixion. Now it's almost over. The loss of tissue
fluids has reached a critical level. The compressed heart is
struggling to pump heavy, thick, sluggish blood into the tissue.
The tortured lungs are making a frantic effort to gasp
in small gulps of air, and the market lead the

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dehydrated tissues send their flood of stimuli to the brain.
Jesus then gasps his fifth cry, and he says, I thirst.
Now one remembers another verse from the prophetic Psalm twenty two.
Psalm twenty two says, my strength is dried up like
a pot shred, and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws

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and now has brought me into the dust of death.
So a sponge that is soaked in pasca, it's a
cheap sour wine that was the staple drink of the
Roman legionnaires is lifted to his lips and he apparently
doesn't take any of the liquid. So death by crucifixion

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would have come about in the following manner. The shallowness
of breathing causes small areas of lungs to collapse. Decreased
oxygen and increased carbon dioxide causes acidic conditions in the tissues.
Fluid builds in the lungs, and that of course makes

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the situation worse. The heart is stressed and then eventually fails.
So the slow process of suffering and resulting death during
a crucifixion, I think can be summarized like this. It
appears likely that the mechanism of death in crucifixion was suffocation.
The chains of events which ultimately led to suffocation are

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as follows. With the weight of the body being supported
by the sagulum, the arms were pulled up and this
caused the intercostal and pectora muscles to be stretched. Furthermore,
movements of these muscles were it was opposed by the
weight of the body. With the muscles and the respiratory

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thus stretched stretched, the respiratory bellows became relatively fixed, and
the victim was forced to raise the body off the sedulum,
thereby transform transforming the weight of the body into the feet,
and when the pain become unbearable, the victim again slumped
down on the sedulum, with the weight of the body

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pulling on the wrist and again stretching the intercostal muscles.
Thus the victim alternated between lifting his body off the
sedulum in order to breathe, and then slumping down on
the sedulum to relave the pain and the feet, and
eventually he became exhausted and he lapsed into unconsciousness, so

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that he could no longer lift his body on the
off the sedulum. The seat and in this position, with
the respiratory muscles essentially paralyzed, the victims suffocated and due
to the shallow breathing, the victim's lungs begin to collapse
in small areas, causing hypoxia. Hypoxia and fluid build up
in the lungs, and under the stress of hypoxia, the

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heart fails and There are several different theories on the
actual cause of death. Once, the theory states that there
was a filling of the pericardium with fluid, which put
a fatal strain on the ability of the heart to
pump blood. Another theory actually states by a medical expert
says that Jesus died of cardiac rupture, So the actual

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cause may have been a multifactoral I certainly event so
now the body of Jesus is in extremes, and he
could fill the chill of death creeping through his tissues.
And this realization brings out his the six words. It
is finished, and his mission of atonement is completed. And

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when one last surge of strength, he once again presses
on his torn feet against the nails, straight in his legs,
takes the deeper breath, and utters the seventh and last cry, Father,
into thy hands, I commit my spirit now to confirm
that the victim was dead. The Romans inflicted a spear

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wound through the right side of the heart, so they
knew exactly what they were doing. They were piercing the heart,
and when pierced, a sudden flow of blood and water
came out of Jesus's body. The medical significance of the
blood and water has been a matter of debate. One
theory says that Jesus died of a massive myocardial infarction

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in which the heart ruptured, which may have resulted from
his falling while carrying the cross. Another theory states that
Jesus's heart was surrounded by fluid in the paricardium, which
constricted the heart and cause death, and the physical stress
of crucifixion may have produced a fatal cardiac arrhythmia, And

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the stated order of blood and water may not necessarily
indicate the order of appearance, but rather than relative prominence
of each fluid, they pierced the heart sack, and that
is how, in fact Jesus died. So even for those

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of you who may not be Christians, mocking the crucifixion
says a lot about that person, because even if you
don't accept Jesus as a MESSI, the fact that you
can mock this type of suffering that he actually endured,

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that's pretty scary. Jesus endured all this in the flesh,
So at the very least, I think, even if you're
not a Christian, show respect for the sanctity of life.
And even if you can't do that, then quite honestly,
I don't believe there's any humanity left in a person.
So that is what the crucifixion as. From a medical perspective,

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it's pretty intense, as you can see. Now, let's talk
about the Shroud of Touran. What you guys can see here,
and you guys can see right there, well right there again.
A friend of mine, a clergy friend of mine, placed
this on the Shroud of Torn when it was on display,

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So that was actually placed the shroud of Touran. There
is absolutely, without question, no doubt in my mind none
that the Shroud of Torn is legitimate, one hundred percent.
No one can convince me otherwise, and I'll tell you why.
So let me explain for those of you who don't

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know what the shroud is. The Shroud of Torn is
a long linen cloth made out of flax and measures
about made of flax, measures about fourteen feet long, thank
you to Jill, and three and a half feet wide.
It bears the faint image of a bearded cruci crucified
man with blood stains that matched the wounds of the

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crucifixion Jesus suffered as all reported in the Gospels. It
has been in torrent In fifty since fifteen seventy eight,
over well over four hundred years, and prior to that
it was in France for another two hundred years in
thirteen fifty six. It has been preserved and revered for
centuries as the actual burial cloth that's wrapped around Jesus

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that's recorded in the Bible. It was owned at fourteen
fifty to nineteen eighty two by the royal Savoy family
to the former King of Italy, Humberto the second, passed
away and willed it to the Catholic Church. So the
shroud has been on display for numerous public exhibitions over
the past six hundred and fifty years. Now. The history

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to its arrival in France is not continuous, and therefore
critics have alleged it was the work a medieval artist incorrect.
One hundred percent incorrect, and anyone who says this is
intellectually dishonest. The discovery of a key document in nineteen
ninety three Hungarian prey manuscript dated in eleven ninety two

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confirms that the shroud was in Constantinople and stolen by
crusaders in the Fourth Crusade. So this bridge is the
gap between twelve four and thirteen fifty six when the
shrouds whereabouts was in question, and some say that it
was in possession of the Knights Templar who participated in
the Fourth Crusade were said to venerate a mystereious image.

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Now the finding is monumental because it validates a historical
trail to at least to the year five forty four,
when the image not made by hands was discovered in
Indessa in southern Turkey, became the genesis of a Byzantine
or Orthodox icon images of Christ. It followed Now two

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coins were minted in six point ninety two under the
reign of Emperor Justinian the Second, and they were the
first coins ever minted with an image of Christ and
appeared to be based on the shroud image. And in
nine four the cloth was taken from Odessa to Constantinople
and the sermon delivered by Gregory the Archdeacon clearly describes

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a full image on the linen, and the eleventh century
Greek chronicle John painted a picture of the same event
as part of an illustrated manuscript. It clearly shows the
general of the Army presenting a long linen cloth with
an image on it to the Emperor Roman as the first.
Now the science, because that's what we need to talk about.

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In eighteen ninety eight, the shroud was photographed for the
first time, and the first pictures led to the discovery
that the image of the cloth is actually a negative.
The image becomes a positive in a photographic negative. And
this discovery startled the scientific community, and in nineteen thirty
one there was another It was photograph the shroud again

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with a more advanced film technology, confirming that the shroud
is indeed a negative image. Now, in nineteen fifty doctor
Barbee It's a prominent French surgeon, published a Doctor at
Calvary documenting fifteen years of medical research on the shroud image.
He described the physiology and pathology of the man as

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the shroud as anatomically perfect nineteen seventy three, Max Frye,
a noted Swiss criminologist, was given permission to take dust
samples from the shroud contain much pollen. He discovered twenty
two pollens species from plants that are unique to areas
around Constantinople and Odessa, and seven pollen species from plants

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common only in Israel, thank you, and the pollen trail
appears to corroborate the historical trail. Nineteen seventy five, Air
Force scientists John Jackson and Eric Jumper used a VP
eight image analyzer designed for the Space Program, and this
is what really shocked people. It discovered that the Shroud

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image contained encoded three D data not found in ordinary
reflected light photographs, and that discovery indicated that the cloth
must and had to have been wrapped around a real
human figure at the time the image was formed. In
nineteen seventy eight, the Shroud was on public exhibit for

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the first time and in nineteen thirty three and was
displayed for six weeks. So nineteen eighty, National Geographic Magazine
published a landmark article on the Shround, further propelling the
cloth into the science limelight, calling one of the most
perplexing enigmas of the modern times. In nineteen eighty. The
same year, Walter mcron, who was not a part of

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the Shroud project, was given several fibers to analyze, and
after finding iron oxide particles and a single particle of paint,
he broke ranks from the Shroud scientists who had agreed
to make all findings public. Mcron proposed that the shroud
was a painting, a red ochre paint created from iron

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oxide particles suspended in thin binder or binder solution. However,
Mcron's finding is no way agreed with any of the
highly sophisticated tests by the way, as claims have all
been dismissed. It turns out that the iron oxide is
a natural result of soaking the linen for days. It's
called redding, where iron iron ions from the water attached

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to the fibers and oxide so In nineteen eighty one,
after three years analyzing the data, the Shroud of Turin
Project Research made their findings public. All the scientists agreed.
We can conclude for now that the shroud image is
that of a real human form of a scourged, crucified man.

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It is not the product of an artist. The blood
stains are composed of hemoglobin and give a positive test
for blood. In nineteen eighty eight, the shroud was carbon
dated by three laboratories, Oxroduric and Arizona. They indicated a
date range from twelve sixty to thirteen ninety, indicating that

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the cloth had only been seven hundred years old. This
Earth's shattering news seemed to contradict the shroud's authenticity. However,
in nineteen ninety seven, a prominent Israeli botanist and a
professor of Hebrew University confirmed the presence of a flower

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images on the shroud. He verified twenty eight different pollen
species and plant images. Many are from plants that grow
only in Jerusalem. Two thousand and two, the shroud was
restored to remove charred debris from the fire in fifteen
thirty two. This is what they're not telling you regarding

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the nineteen eighty eight or in this case when they
said it was dated in twelve sixty. In two thousand
and two, the shroud was restored to remove charred debris
from the fire in fifteen thirty two to aid in
the closs preservation. So all the burns and patches from

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fifteen thirty two fire were removed. The shroud was attached
to a new backing cloth as well in nineteen ninety seven,
and certainly in nineteen eighty eight. The particle that they
took from the shroud was the repair that was done

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to that cause. In the fire, there was a fire
in a monastery and the outer partage of the shroud
was burned and Nuns repaired that, and they took that
fabric from the Middle Ages, not the middle part that
was not burned. So in two thousand and four, textile

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expert revealed that the stitching of a seam on the
shroud that that Nuns well that ruins the entire length,
known as the side strip, is typical of Jewish barrel
shrouds found in Israel. Two thousand and four chemical reas
sar on an image fibers offers clues as how the
image was formed. The entire cloth is covered with a

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razor thin layer of carbohydrates that adhere to the linen
after being soaked in soap weed detergent as part of
an ancient manufacturing process. Something has interacted with this carbyl layer,
resulting in a discoloration of the cloth near or in
direct contact with the body. And in other words, something

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miraculous happened that the image of the body caused this
image to be on this cloth, an extreme light and
extreme power source of some kind to where the image
then appeared on the cloth. Two thousand and five, thermal

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chemist Ray Rogers followed upon a new spectroscope data showing
that the material on the corner cut for carbon dating
may be different from the rest of the shroud. He
obtained thread samples from Sea fourteen corner and thread samples
from the interior shroud. Additional microchemical and spectroscoptic tests show

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the samples were not the same. Results published in a
peer reviewed journal confirmed the initial concerns. The cut for
Sea fourteen data appears to be from a medieval reweave
instead of the original shroud. So, in other words, as
I just mentioned, they when they do the carbon dating
the first time, they carbon dated from the outer garments

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and absolutely because it was damaged to the shroud in
the fifteenth century, but the radiocarbon sample was not part
of the original cloth of the shroud of Turin. The
radiocarbon date was thus not valid. Carbon labs violated the
original sample and three samples were cut, and ignoring caution

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from archaeologists, they cut the sample for the most handled
area of the cloth, which again showed fifteenth century. In
twenty eleven, European researchers were able to replicate the depth
of the coloration of the shroud image using forty nine
oohs second burst from a uv A laser, first time
any aspect has ever been reproduced using light. In twenty thirteen,

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researchers with University in Italy, using multiple samples from other
linens of and known range to the area three thousand BC,
were able to develop a predictable rate of chemical and
mechanical decay. Comparing fibers from the shroud, they determined that
the shroud was estimated date range of two eighty BC

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to two hundred and twenty AD, so therefore the actual
burial cloth was not in the fifteenth century. It's actually
dated to AD BC to two twenty a d. The

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results also found in the twenty thirteen research one. They
found no inorganic pigment present, no substances manually applied to
the cloth, no artistic substances are on the cloth, no
calagen binder as would be used with paint. Blood test

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positive and the blood, by the way, is AB positive
with human DNA, which is absolutely conclusive. So the shrouded
torn confer I think, conform to what is known about

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the first century Jewish burial practices using a single linen shroud.
Strips of linen were only used to tie the hands
and feet. The textile analysis indicates an ancient origin. Threads
were hand spun and the cloth is pieced together in
narrow bands, with each hank of yarn individually bleached. All

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indicate an origin earlier than the Middle Ages. If the
shroud rapped the human corpse, as several medical forensic specialists believe,
and if it originated in Israel, which it did as
many botanists believe, then can it ever be proven to
be Jesus? Well, yes, yes, one. People who were crucified

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were not The crown of thorns was not placed on
their head. That was not a common practice at all.
That was only reported in Jesus's crucifixion. The abrasions and
bruises on the face, the wounds on the side over
listen to this. There were over one hundred and twenty

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whip marks found on the shroud, over one hundred and twenty.
There was blood on the arms, nail wound to the wrist,
nail wound to the feet. The legs were not broken.
That's important, and I'll tell you why. Most of the times,

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what the Roman guards would do the soldiers is they
would break the legs of the person who is being
crucified sometimes because they weren't whipped as violently as Jesus
was whipped. Sometimes it would take two or three days
for a person to pass away from crucifixion. So what
the Romans would do is they would take a huge
chammer and they would break the legs. The reason is

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they did that is because then the person who's being
crucified couldn't lift up and get lungs air in the lungs.
Jesus' legs were not broken. Also, it does show poors
mortem blood flow from side wound and on the back
the legs are pulled up due to rigor mortis and

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the blood is from actual wounds, and show evidence of
gravity from a vertical position crucifixion. So there's no question
in my mind, based on the science alone, on what
I've just presented to you that one the carbon dating

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originally was flawed because they took it from the outer
garments of the shroud. And again, as I explained, in
the Middle Ages, it was kept in a monastery and
there was fire. The outer part was fixed, it was
repaired in the Middle Ages, but the actual shroud itself

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is a three D image. Even if you were to
argue that this was fake. One, there is no paint.
There's no paint found on the shroud none. Two, it
would be humanly impossible. In the Middle Ages, they did
not have the technology to do a three D image

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as you see on the shroud. They didn't have it.
It didn't exist. And even just now today, just today,
in the twenty first century, we have that technology. That
technology didn't exist. So what was miraculous about the shroud
is number one, it shows all the wounds that Jesus endured.

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It absolutely shows the crowd of Thorne's place. You see
no question on the head and the scourging on over
one hundred and twenty whips scourgeing. What is so profound
about this image is that something a burst of light,
as the scientists explained that a burst of light had

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to be so intense and hot that it is. There
is no way to actually explain that type of energy
that this three D image was then placed on this shroud.
So from there and absolute, from that perspective alone, no

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doubt in my mind. There is no doubt in my
mind that the shroud of Torren is one hundred percent
the burial cloth of Jesus. It would not have been
the burial cloth of anyone else, because no one else, ever,
no one else in any of the historical documents of
Crucifixion is showing that anybody else was beaten as viciously

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as Christ was, especially with the crown of thorns. Nobody.
And that, my friends, is your presentation on the Crucifixion. Yeah,
the Crucifixion. When you look at it and you break
it down, you see the unbelievable agony again, the agony

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in the garden alone. You know, Jesus experience a profound
spiritual anguish and I can't even imagine. And not only that,
but obviously betrayal. So now you're your sweating blood because
you know what's about to happen. And then one of
your one of your closest friends that you love, betrayed you.

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It's just unbelievable, unbelievable. So that, my friends, is our presentation,
and hopefully I'll turn on the chat. I'm kind of
concerned about that. Be nice, TikTok, just be kind, don't
be rude, and then we'll let everybody chat. Okay, all

(01:10:12):
right now? Yeah, uh oh, I like to see that.
I like to see that. Kathy Gody says an ai

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picture of Jesus. They use the technology from this round
to create as it. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I've seen them.
I've seen the I've seen that as well, and pretty intense.
All right, thank you guys, and don't forget. I want
to remind everybody that. And we're not finished. We still

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have some the show to continue this Sunday at six pm.
Obviously it's Easter and we're I'm going to have Mass,
but it will only be on TikTok. It's at six
pm Eastern Standard time. So if you you know, I
know some people may not have a church community, You're

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more than welcome to join us. We would love to
have you. Thank you, Alexander, You're more than welcome to
join us this Sunday. It is our Bible study. We
have Bible study at eight pm Eastern. So if that's
Bible study on Eastern and Mass, so absolutely, Maria, yeah,

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no question, okay, yeah, A lot of people want and
I know today, look, I get it. Today is paranormal
Fridays and we'll get to our back to our paranormals.
But today obviously it's a special day. I also want
to make this announcement, and this is a big announcement.

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I am fascinated. This is just me, but I'm fascinated
with life in North Korea. Well not hell that we're
thinking about. So Christ has send it into hades, basically
those who have passed on prior to Jesus appearing. So

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I'm really very intrigued with people who live in North
Korea and the whole North thinking and the whole North
Korea regime. And because you see people crying at at funerals.
And I had an opportunity on TikTok. I was flipping

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through TikTok and I saw a gentlemen who escaped North Korea,
and I ask if he would be willing to join
us and do an interview and talk about what life
is really like in North Korea, what do the North

(01:13:12):
Koreans really believe about the Kim Jong un and the
Kim Jong family, and what what is life really like?
And he has agreed to be a special guest on
on this show, so it will be a Friday. We
haven't one hundred percent. Okay, whatever, trolls, I'm just gonna

(01:13:38):
block you seriously. I mean, you're you're going to complain
that I'm actually giving a presentation on Good Friday. Really
go away anyway? So this we are going to have
him on a on a Friday show and I'm really
looking forward to that. So and we won't be here.

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We won't be here next Friday. And so there we go. Okay,
subchat on for the rest of the show on TikTok.
Sorry not interested, couldn't couldn't even take subchat off for
five minutes. Let that sink in. People ask me all

(01:14:21):
the time, am I afraid of demons? What am I?

Speaker 2 (01:14:24):
No?

Speaker 1 (01:14:24):
I'm not afraid of demons. What frightens me is that
a priest is talking about Good Friday and then people
actually say, why are you on here talking about Good Friday?
Are you a real priest? Are you this really? Really?
I did a presentation for you on Good Friday. See.

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What actually frightens me more than demons is how people
can be so incredibly hateful online and judgmental and then
lay their heads on the pillow at night and not
we have a second thought of the things that they've
said during the day. That's frightening to me because as

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human beings, we're supposed to be more compassionate, and that
to me. That, to me is a problem. Matthew. Chapter seven,
verse two says you're going to be judged in the
same manner you judge others. Okay, So anyway, sub chat
on is for the rest of the night. If you
don't like it, speak to your therapist.

Speaker 3 (01:15:32):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:15:34):
Yeah, what we talked about, how Jesus. We just talked
about how Jesus died. And yeah, and keep in mind
people always ask, you know Jesus saying, you know, my God,
my God, why have you forsaken me? And and that
proves that Jesus is not the son of God. No,

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not at all. No, Actually, that's incorrect. Jesus was praying.
Jesus was a praying. Yeah, some people don't know this.
We know he was praying Psalm twenty two, My God,

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my God, why are you forsaking me? That's what it starts.
That's how it starts, My God, my God, Why are
you forsaking me? Why are you so far from saving me,
so far from my cries of anguish? My God? I
cry out by day, but you do not answer. By night.
I find no rest. And it continues, and it continues.
Many bulls surround me, strong bowls of bashing, encircling me,

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roaring lions, they tear their prey, open their mouths wide
against me. I am poured out like water. All my
bones are out of joint. My heart has turned to wax,
It has melted within me. My mouth has dried up
like a pot shred, and my tongue sticks to the
roof of my mouth. You lay me in the dust
of death. Dogs around me, pack of villains encircle me.

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They pierce my hands and feet. All my bones are
on display, which they were as he was flogged. People
stare and gloat over me. They divide my clothes among them,
and cast lots on my garment, which they did. But
you Lord, do not be far from me. You or
my strength, come quickly to help me. Deliver me from
the sword, my precious life, from the power of the dogs,

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Rescue me from the mouths of the lions, and save
me from the horns of the wild oxen. And then
it continues. All the rich of the earth will feast
and worship, All who go down to the dust will
kneel before him. Those who cannot keep themselves alive posterity
will serve him. Future generations will be told about the Lord,
they will proclaim as righteousness, declaring to a people yet unborn.

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He has done it Psalm twenty two. He was fulfilling prophecy.
Psalm twenty two. He was praying. Not only not only praying,
he was fulfilling prophecy. In Psalm twenty two, it describes

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everything that Jesus endured and it ends with he has
done it. Okay, Oh yeah, oh yeah, I'm not worried
about the trows. I have subchat only on and sub
chat only is going to remain on for the rest
of the night on TikTok because I'm not going to
allow people who are demonically influenced to come in here

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and disrespect this very special and holyday. Yeah, there's a
lot of people some I mean some people say that
the centurion said, truly, this is the son of God,
or this was the Messiah, you know. Okay, So if

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you guys have any questions about the crucifixion, I'll be
more than happy to answer that, why did Jesus have
to die? Yeah, Well, the the centurion, we see this
in Mark chapter fifteen, and even the Gospel of Matthew
and so says truly this man was the son of God,

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and we see this.

Speaker 3 (01:19:20):
So yeah, okay, what is this?

Speaker 1 (01:19:34):
Hold on one second, I'm trying to bear with me
and trying to look through them. I gotta I gotta
get my reading glasses. Hold on, everybody. That's what happens
when you get old. It's hard to see these things. Look,
they're so small print. Okay, yes, yes, yes, I'm getting old. Okay,

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let's say songs are sung? Yes, no, he wasn't singing,
he was praying. Yeah. So the folded napkin. Okay, so
there was a fold, So there was a part a head,
part of the of the linens. The story of the

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folded napkin is often associated with The interpretation involves Jewish
customs of the time, but the interpretation some people are
debating that interpretation. The passage comes from John John chapter twenty,
verse six to seven, where it describes how Peter and
John entered the empty tomb of Jesus and found the

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linen cloths lying there, and the napkin which had been
on his head, not lying with the linen cloths, but
folded up in a place by itself. That's what you're
referring to, a little a day over thirty. Well, thank you,
But I'm in my fifties, so I appreciate that. So
the interpretation has grown around the scene suggested. The fold

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that napkin relates to a Jewish dining custom. So according
to the story, a servant would know that he could
clear the table if a master was done with his
meal if the napkin was wadded up. However, if the
master left the table and folded the napkin, it meant

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that he was coming back, and the servant would not
touch the table, thank you. And this has been used
like a metaphorical indication that Jesus was signaling his return.
But the customary interpretation does not have really a strong
basis in historical documentation by a lot of historians. The

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Gospel of John does not elaborate on any such symbolic meaning.
The focus might be on demonstrating that Jesus is the
resurrection and was ordered and deliberate as opposed to like
a chaotic, hasty event. But it is an interesting h
I do understand the history there. So sin all right,

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so look, let me let me answer the question why
did Jesus have to die? God must deal with sin
because of his holy, unjust nature. He has no option
to ignore sin or even to forgive sin without an

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appropriate penalty being paid. Sin has a very steep price
that someone has to pay, and the payment is a sacrifice.
And fortunately for us, a proper sacrifice appeases God's wrath.
But also it's a covenant that God made, and God
always always pleads the covenant. So God did for a

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time employ the animal sacrifice system to appease the covenant. However,
that was only a temporary system. It was never intended
for eternal solution for our sins. Hebrew Chapter ten says this.
It was actually a type of sacrifice to help prepare
the minds and hearts of those who would eventually trust
in God the Savior. So the animal sacrifice is no

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longer a viable option for paying the costs of sin.
God could have chosen another course of action instead of
jesus crucifixion, but in order to forgive our individual sins. Now,
come to think of it, there is an optional way
to attempt to pay for our sins. We simply ignore
the responsibility to our creator God, and when our life

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is complete, will be sentenced to eternal punishment. So, since
the people who chose this method are imperfect. Their sacrifice
is imperfect. The cost of the sins will never be paid,
which is why this sacrifice is eternal punishment separated. So
Jesus' sacrifice is the only way. So Jesus is crucifixion

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and sacrificial death is the soul eternal solution for a
person's sin. God required a perfect sacrifice to pay the
price for all sins. So God, the Son, who is
also the son of Man, is the only person qualified
to pay the cost of sins. He was the unblemished lamb.

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He had no sin nature, nor did he ever commit
a sin. He was and still is, the unblemished lamb.
Jesus told him, I am the way the truth of life.
No one comes to the Father except for me. So
Jesus' crucifixion was sacrifice enough to pay for all sins
ever committed in the history of the world. So theoretically

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every person in history could have been forgiven for their
sins based on Christ's crucifixion and sacrificial death. Said that
very people, very few people accept that. Yes, on the
third date. Now, a lot of people argue that the

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resurrection is just nonsense. Well now, well, it says Jesus
of descended into Hell. But technically it's not Hell that
we're thinking of. It's Hades. It's it's the abode. Basically,
it's where people who have passed away, and they were
at rest in Abraham's bosom and prior to the Messiah coming,

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and then the Messiah then preached to them. But we're
not talking about the eternal hell. It fired, and we're
not talking about that help. So here's what I know.
Here's what I know for a fact, no ifans or
butts about this, and no one, even the most staunched atheist,
cannot refute this. And that's this. Jesus' disciples were, for

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the most part laborers. Crucifixion was thank you there, Jeff.
Crucifixion was terrible. Remember, they saw their Messiah being viciously crucified.
That in of itself was terrifying and understandably so. And

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because they were with Jesus and his disciples, they were
terrified that the Pharisees could say, Aha, these people need
to be put to death too, because they were saying,
he's the king of the Jews. That was insurrection, and
insurrection that would have been death. So the disciples knew
full well that their life was in danger, and it was.

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So we know that these people were terrified, and again
understandably so after they just saw Jesus, whom they loved deeply,
being crucified. Remember you also have to remember that their
idea of a messiah was to overthrow the Roman Empire.
So from birth they were taught that the Messiah would
show up and overthrow the Roman Empire. Well, now they

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absolutely say, yeah, this is the Messiah, this is the Messiah.
And now Jesus is crucified. So they have put all
of their faith into Jesus, whom they believe was the Messiah,
and they saw him terribly tortured. And now they're thinking,
what have we done? Now they're gonna come after us.

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But here's what I say this, something, something miraculous happened,
Some amazing miracle happened on Sunday where these very same
men that were verrified and understandably so thank you, they

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were tear Something so miraculous happened that they then walked
out and started preaching that Jesus rose from the dead.
They knew full well the moment they did this, they
signed their death certificate. They knew it and my friends

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we'll talk on we'll talk on Sunday about their deaths.
And it's pretty barbaric. And they knew full well what
was going to happen, but something miraculous happened, and Scripture thinking,
and actually Scripture says over five hundred people saw the
resurrected Jesus. Now here's the deal. Here's what I find fascinating.

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And I want to say this too. Anybody who tells you,
anybody who tells you that Jesus, that Jesus somehow survived
the crucifixion, that is the most idiotic, intellectually dishonest thing
anybody could possibly say that that goes beyond that. That's

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an ignorance on a level that I'll never understand, because
that's not true. Jesus couldn't. First of all, the Roman
soldiers wasn't going to allow that to happen. They couldn't
because if in fact Jesus survived the crucifixion, the Roman

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soldiers would have been put to death. So there was
no such thing. There's a there is a zero percent chance.
And even let's just say, even for some crazy even
conspiracy theory out there that somehow Jesus did suffer, and
he did struggle, and he was crucified, and somehow he

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managed to I have the crucifixion. There is no way
that Jesus would have been able to walk a couple
days later. That's just idiotic. That in of itself is
just it's so illogical. Even if we just even if
we just entertained the ridiculous notion that somehow Jesus survived

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the crucifixion, he wouldn't have been able to walk. His
feet were nailed to the cross. So it's it's it
is preposterous, it's so intellectually dishonest for anyone to even
entertain that idea that, to me is just to be

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that that that's beyond ridiculous, unbelievable, unbelievable. But this is
what we do know. We do know that Jesus died,
and we do know that he was pierced in the side,
that in of itself, he couldn't have survived. I mean,
you're you're piercing your the heart sack, you're you're you're

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not gonna survive that. So even if somehow it was
a ridiculous he survived the crucifixion, part he wouldn't have
survived that. If you pierced the heart stack, even in
today's time, you're dead. So we know that for a fact,
Jesus died on the cross, no offense or buts. Something happened,

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Something happened on that Sunday where these men that were
terrified walked out and said they saw the resurrected Christ
and they knew at that moment that was it. They
knew they were well, thank you, they knew they were
they were next. So there you go. So that's the

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answer to that question. I'm trying to But listen, here
is a a really interesting Yeah, there's again, just to
even to entertain the idea that Jesus somehow survived the
crucifixion first extent of itself is just so ridiculous, but
nonetheless right, I mean infections he would have red, you understand.

(01:32:19):
But listen to this. Let me hear, let me hear what,
let me let me tell you what what he this
article this is by TK Randall. The Garden of Eden
allegedly lies beneath the Great Pyramid of Giza. Engineer claims

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doctor borisof Thank You, believes that he has pinpointed the
whereabouts of Adam and Eves's biblical paradise. Thank you guys
think he does. The precise location of the Garden of
Eden continues to remain a topic of debate and intrigue
among historians, thank you guys uh, and religious scholars. Clues
to as to its alleged whereabouts can be found in

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the Bible, which reference four rivers, flowing pieshang Gihon, Tigris, Tigris,
and Euphrates, as well as the land of Kush now Ethiopia.
So this has led to the general consensus that the
Garden of Eden was situated in Mesopotamia modern day Iraq,

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though not everyone is convinced by this interpretation. Now, computer
engineer doctor Borisov has published a new study in which
he contends, rather controversially that the Garden of Eden is
not in Mesopotamia at all, but is in fact the
site of the Great Pyramid in Egypt. His research involved

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combining mythological symbolism with geographical analysis of the region. Quote
examining a map from around five hundred BC, becomes evident
that not that the only four rivers emerging from the
surrounding ocean or the Nile Tigris Euphrates and Indus, he wrote,
and it's clear that the pyramid itself resembles this sacred

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tree of life. I think that's a stretch, but doctor
Borisov's conclusions have certainly generated some heated debate. Although there
is still nothing definitive to link the Great Pyramid with
the Biblical Paradise, all things considered, will probably never know
if there's any truth to this theory or not. So
there we go. If you've not heard about this, this

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guy's claiming that's where it is. Who knows? Who knows? Okay,
I want to share a couple of real life speaking
of miracles, as we talked about the shroud of torn
which is miraculous, and certainly the Crucifixion in of itself

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is miraculous. And I say it's miraculous because the fact
that Jesus was so viciously beaten and lost that amount
of blood. There is no other human being there, No
human being could possibly lose that much forty percent of
his blood and at the same time maintain consciousness to

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walk five hundred yards. Not on top of all of that,
don't forget the crown of thorns. So you have this
extreme neurological pain that would have been unbearable just to walk,
just to move your head, let alone walk. So just

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from a biological just from a medical perspective only, the
fact that he was still able to walk five hundred
yards in of itself is a miracle. Now, speaking of
other miracles, I'm going to share a couple other miracles
with you that you may not have ever heard of.
And this is a really interesting This is by Jody Smith.

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The nineteen seventeen Miracle of the Sun s un So
May nineteen seventeen, children returning home from shepherding reportedly encountered
an apparition of the Virgin Mary in Fatima, Portugal. She
allegedly told the children of her plans to appear on
the thirteenth day of the next six months, prompting the
kids to rush home and tell their parents of their vision.

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People hoping to see the Virgin Mary at the appointed
time gathered in Fatima to watch a miracle October thirteenth,
nineteen seventeen. The Virgin Mary appeared only to the children
and predicted the end of World War One, and as
the story goes, she then presented the seventy thousand in

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attendance with a silver sun to clear the stormy skies,
which was actually written in the paper at that time.
It says the silver sun was seen to whirl and
turn in the circle of broken clouds. A cry went
up from every mouth, and that people fell on their
knees on the muddy ground. The light turned a beautiful blue,

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as if it had come through the stained glass window
of a cathedral, and spread itself over the people who
knelt with outstretched hands. The blue faded slowly, and then
the light seemed to pass through yellow glass. People wept
and prayed with uncovered heads in the presence of the
miracle they had awaited. The seconds seemed like hours, so

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vivid were they, And that is a reporter who was there.
Non believers and believers alike provided eyewitness accounts for daily
newspapers across Portugal or operating the movement of the sun.
Some theory suggest, of course, that the event was a
mass hallucination brought on by fervor and they need to

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see something unexplainable. The problem with that is there were
quite a few skeptics there that are no longer skeptics.
There's other miracles. The incorruptible bodies of saints that never decay.

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In the early twentieth century, saints known as incorrupt were
discovered with preserved bodies. Some of these saints decomposed after
their final resting places become unsealed, allowing every day microbes
and contaminants to end their time of untouched perfection. So
believers in the miracle of incorrupt saints stay undeterred in

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their faith, feeling assured that God blessed his servants with
bodies that remain in pristine condition after death, now coinciding
with the Church's decision where in the scientific discoveries that
most of the saints underwent a mummification process as part
of their preparation for burial. Other saints meanwhile had the luck,

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the author says, of being kept in chilled vaults that
put off the But a number of saints were scientifically
proven to have no special condition in their final resting place,
nor any preparation to preserve them after burial. Saint Zeita
received a full examination via intra body camera by scientists

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working under pathologists of the University of Pisa. They found
no sign of post mortem cuts or preservation methods on
or in the corpse, and at least three other saints
are also unexplicably preserved. So blessed Margaret of Savoy, Saint

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Savina Petrilli, Ubald of Gubio. Also there is a miracle
of our Lady of Lords and the healing water, which
is I believe absolutely as a miracle, no question. In
eighteen fifty eight, in Lords, France, a fourteen year old
girl named Bernadette lived with her family in an abandoned prison.

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Bernadette went with her sister and her friend to collect
firewood on February the eleventh. She lagged behind due to
asthma and found herself alone at the grotto while the
other girls had already crossed the cold stream. According to Bernadette,
as she worked to remove her socks and shoes, gust
of wind issued from the grotto, before a blinding light followed.

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A woman dressed with white robes with a blue sash,
yellow roses on her feet and a rosary in her hand.
In her hands appeared to Bernadette and encouraged her to pray.
And Bernadette's companions did not see any of this and
brushed off her accounter vision. She visited the woman daily
over the next fifteen days, despite police intervention and her

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parents' disapproval. On February twenty fifth, the woman told the
Bernadette to drink from and bathe herself in the fountain,
but there wasn't one, so the girl dug with her
fingers until she found an underground water spring that still
flows today it cannot be explained. Three days later, the

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woman told the girl to build a church on the land,
but the local clergy dismissed her until eighteen sixty two,
when they officially decreed the Virgin Mary had indeed revealed herself.
Millions flocked to the spring annually, and this medical the
Medical Bureau of Sanctuary claims upwards of seven thousand visitors
have received complete healing from their ailments by immersing themselves

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in the spring. Each cured person submits their transformation to
the Bureau for scientific authentication before leaving the holy grounds.
Of the seven thousand, reports of healing since eighteen sixty
to sixty six remained completely unexplained by Sciencete Bernadette became

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Saint Bernadette after commits herself to a life of servitude
as a nun, and is one of the incorrupt saints
recognized by the Catholic Church. That's pretty not powerful as it.
Let me share another one which is really powerful. At

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the Catholics, we believe in a term called transubstantiation. Transistantiation
means we believe that the communion the host is the true,
the full humanity and divinity of Christ. So there was
a miracle. The consecrated host refers to some people as

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wafers in Holy Euchrist. Catholics believe that the wafers, along
with the wine, turned into the actual body and the
blood of Christ during their priest consecration, and the wafers
reside we call them well the Euchrist in a tabernacle
until retrieved for Holy Eucharist or other designated times outside
of Mass. Sixteen months after a twenty and sixteen earthquake

(01:43:07):
in Italy, a priest claimed he recovered forty consecrated hosts
from the Our Lady of Assumption Church. The priest said
he found the host container had fallen in the quake,
but the lid remained intact. He maintained the hosts show
no signs of mold or staleness about them. After almost

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a year and a half being locked in the rubble
of the tabernacle, and the nuns who made the host
confirmed nothing but flour and water was in the wafers.
That's unbelievable, and we'll do one more. The Weeping Statue
of Our Lady of All Nations in Akida, this is

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an amazing story. The Statue of Our Lady of All
Nations in a Keda, Japan, was carved from a Judea
tree in nineteen sixty three. The miracle attached to the
figure relates to the deaf sister Saint Agnes, who reportedly
saw bright lights and angels near the statue's altar in

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June of nineteen seventy three during prayer before the Virgin
Mary statue, stigmata appeared on Sister agnes hands and recurred
recurd for three weeks. According to the story, Sister Agnes
returned to the Statue of Our Lady of All Nations
to pray and heard the Virgin Mary speak. Sister Agnes

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continued praying in front of the statue, and it revealed
its own stigmata in its carved hands. After this, the
statue began to sweat a rose scented liquid that the
nuns of the Order collected in January of nineteen seventy five,
the figure started weeping, and so did on moltile piple

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occasions until September of nineteen eighty one, with one such
episode airing on television. Allegedly, not only was sister Agnes
cured of her deafness in nineteen eighty two, but a
visitor was also cured of her brain cancer in nineteen
eighty one after praying in front of the statue. By

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the way, the liquids the statue produced underwent scientific testing
by three different researchers starting in nineteen seventy five. The first,
professor at Akita University determined the samples were blood, sweat,
and tears. The sweat and tears were type AB and

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the blood was type B. The second test, performed by
a forensic scientist who was not a believer, gave the
same results. A later examination revealed the fluids thank you,
the fluids to be type A and AB and the

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blood type oh. But unfortunately the samples had allegedly become
contaminated after the handling of time throughout the years. But
we know for a fact through scientific because everybody's science, science, science. Okay,
they did scientific testing and the samples that were collected

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from the statue and they actually collected them, sealed them
when it was they have this arm recording. They actually
because people say, well, they could have faked it, they
they actually sealed it and then sent it off immediately
gave it to the scientists the test, so there was
no faking it. There was no well you know, we'll

(01:46:57):
we'll pick our finger or poke our finger and put Nope.
They actually collected in a vile the scientists took it
from them and they did the testing and it was
actual blood, sweat and tears. That is unbelievable, unbelievable. So

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this is on this you know, very special Good Friday. Hopefully,
hopefully you have enjoyed this there. I always try to
make sure that Good Friday is you know, I always
present the Crucifixion, the Shroudotauran, but I also like to
end with documented miracles. And hopefully maybe if you're struggling

(01:47:44):
with your faith, maybe you get so angry with denominations
because denominations are so focused on money, money and power
and exclusion, and maybe that's the way you've turned away
from Christianity. But keep in mind that's not Christianity. And
I've said this before to my friends in Bible study,

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this is Christianity. When Jesus' flesh was hanging off his body,
when the crown of thorns was slammed on his head,
when he was beaten multiple times with the the rod,
with the soldiers hitting him in his face, and his

(01:48:31):
beard actually hanging off of his face, and he was
unrecognized as a human being. They couldn't recognize him. I'm
absolutely convinced that the only reason that he got to
go Gotha is because he was thinking of you. One

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more step for Bill, one more step for Mark, one
more step for Abigail, one more step for Gina, one
more step for Laura, one more step for Judy Anne,
one more step for Tracy, and Jack's Jennifer. One more

(01:49:20):
step for you. I'm absolutely convinced that he thought of
you every step. For those of you who are listening
to this on podcasts, I say good night to you
and have a wonderful evening. I want to remind everybody

(01:49:45):
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(01:50:06):
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that you are priceless, and never let anybody tell you

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