Sacred Division - Good Friday

Good Friday

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:32):
From the mysteries of the paranormal to world headline news.
We cover it all. Welcome to the Sacred Division. And
now Bishop James.

Speaker 2 (00:42):
Long, I forgot to push the button there. Okay, so

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let's get into the presentation. Everybody. If you want to
go to my website because you're really really bored and
have nothing else better to do, well you go to
Bishop Jameslong dot com. Bishop Jameslonglong dot com. That is
my website. It's a couple of things, a couple things.
By the way, Well, let's get into the other business,

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the church's website. Okay, so already the trolls are coming in,
so let's just go ahead and take care of this problem. Goodbye, trolls.
Believe it. You can't. You can't even troll. You can't
even refrain from trolling on good Friday. Boy, I'll tell
you what. My spirit really irritates your demons, isn't it? All? Right?
So now sub chat only is on pity. If you

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want to go to the church's website, it's a USOCC
dot org. That is the church's website. USOCC dot org.
Let me remind everybody, guys, we have tonight, We have
our night prayer coming up, So we start at nine
to fifty pm Eastern Standard time. That's when we start
to chat, right Brenda, So the chat is at nine

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point fifty and then our night prayer starts at ten
pm Eastern. You don't need anything, Everything is provided for you. You
just just be present. Just be present, and that that
would be wonderful. So if you want to participate in
a good Friday service, if you will, then tonight for
night prayer, you're invited. I want to invite if you would,

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please also consider we did get a great wonderful donation
recently from an anonymous that really has helped. That helped
us out tremendously on the retreat. We still need to
raise some more money to catch up, but that really
put us in a thank God, a blessing. So if

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you want to help us out, we have a big
church retreat coming up next week. By the way, next
week I will not be here, So next Friday there
will not be a show because I will be at
a retreat center. The church's retreat we have. It's a
big celebration. There's gonna be quite a few people there,
which is good, and there's always expenses. So if you

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would help us out, that would be wonderful. You can
go to USOCC dot org click on the retreat button.
And I just have not had time to update the website.
I just haven't had time. I do seventeen homilies a week,
so I was trying to put the cash the venmo
up there. But seventeen homilies a week plus a show

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on Friday, give me a break. So I don't have
the time. But anyway, you can just go to the
USOCC dot org click on the retreat button, and if
you can make a donation, please do because we're still,
you know, still a kind of behind, and so we're
trying to play catch up. We don't get paid as
clergy and we pay for our own way, and it's expensive.

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It is expensive. So thank you guys for doing that,
and thank you for helping the church community so that
we can have a retreat. The retreats are not cheap,
and then when people cancel, that brings a whole bigger issue.
And so we've had a couple issues like that. So anyway,
USOCC dot org Retreat, Thank you guys. Today is Good Friday,

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and it is a very very holy day, certainly and
normally as you all know I always do 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

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have night prayer. Sundays and Wednesdays we have Bible study,
and then Saturday is open mic, so otherwise it's every
every day. It's really kind of devoted to theology. So
this today is dedicated to the paranormal now because today
is good Friday. I kind of have a tradition where

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I always present the miracle of the Crucifixion, and 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

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Jesus actually endured when he was 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 the that's
their right. But one thing that I'm very intolerant on
are a people who mock Jesus, especially on this type

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of on this special and holy day, even 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

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a quick ending. It is a very painful 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

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explain that as we get into this presentation. So again, folks, tonight,
we're going to talk about the 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 KGRDB,

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that is a shroud of Toran. That is something that
I purchased a friend of mine, a priest actually friend
of mine, when he 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

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here for you guys. It's there that was actually placed
on the shroud. So that 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 3 (08:12):
Yeah, I was at an actual paranormal conference and when
I saw that, I saw that from a distance and
I thought, I gotta get it.

Speaker 2 (08:25):
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 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 Crusis

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picture 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

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the miracles, 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

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had a doctor on my show several years ago, maybe
ten years 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.

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One of the most painful things for me personally, I
think is a seed. Jesus mocked not because of beliefs,
So let those 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

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the almighty, invisible God. 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

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want to say it never happened. They are liars. There
is unbelievable, one historical proof, historical proof that Jesus absolutely
was a person. We have historians, non Christian historians from
the first century who write about Yashuah of Nazareth, that

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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 comes to history, because it is not.

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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, who considered it one of the
most accurate historians of the ancient world, mention superstitions Christians

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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, 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,

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Chapter eighteen, verse three that says, now there was about
this time Jesus a wise man, if it be lawful
to call him a man, for he was one who
wrought surprising feats. He was the Christ. 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

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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 Josephus writes about
Joshuah of Nazareth. Also, Julius Africanus quotes the historian Thallus
in a discussion of the darkness that actually followed the

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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. Pliny
the Younger in Letters ten ten, verse ninety six recorded
early Christian worship practices, including the fact that Christians worship

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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
on the eve of Passover and the accusations against Christ
practicing sorcery. I can give you a massive list of

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historical writers that were not Christians who write about Jesus
of Nazareth. Therefore, anyone who says Jesus did not exist
is it's intellectually dishonest. It's simply not true. Okay, thank you, yes.
So I think what hurts the most is knowing how
badly Jesus was mocked, and even today that people have

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very little respect for the real pain that he endured.
So this presentation is to present to you what he
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

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know that he was crucified. See that, in essence is
dehumanizing yourself for your own personal entertainment. It's not only despicable,
it's heart wrenching. When did we grow so cold and callous?
When did our hearts become like stone and mock such pain? Well?

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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
as your savior, but you cannot choose whatever you 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.

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I'm not a physician, obviously, but I think that these
presentations will open your eyes. All right. But of course,
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

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in Saint Luke, the physician Saint Luke was a physician,
is the only one to mention this, and he says
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

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modern scholars to explain away this description, apparently under the
mistaken impression that it just doesn't happen. A great deal
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

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under great emotional stress of the kind that Jesus suffered,
tiny capillaries in the sweat glands can break, thus mixing
blood with sweat, and this process might well have produced
a marked weakness impossible shock. So hemodrosis had been seen

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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
War One. She actually developed the condition after a gas
explosion occurred in the house next door. Another report mentions

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a nun who was threatened with being unallied by the
swords of the enemy 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.
After the arrest in the middle of the night, Jesus
was next brought before the sanhedron in Caiaphas, the high priest,

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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
wasn't a slap, This was a punch, and Roman soldiers

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were quite powerful and strong, and it's quite possible that
there would have been damage done to this, to the
eye socket or a part of where Jesus was hit.
The palace guards then blindfolded him. They mockingly taunted him,

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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 hits you? What who? And they would
they would consistently punch him, so now he is he
was bleeding from this anticipation of knowing what the crucifixion meant.

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And then he was blind floated, blindfolded, and punched in
the face repeatedly, thank you now. And then, in the
early morning, battered, bruised, incredibly dehydrated, probably still sweating, exhausted
from his sleepless night, Jesus is taken across the preatorium

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of the fortress and Antonia. It's the seat of the
government of Judea. Punches Pilot. Now you're I think you're
obviously familiar with Pilot's action 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

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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. 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

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him off of a lighter punishment. The problem with was
is this with with pilot situation. So Pilot was not
going to have Jesus crucified because Jesus was claiming to
be the Messiah. Pilot really didn't care. That wasn't a
a an offense so grave that you would crucify a person.

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They didn't care. What Pilot had to do was he
had to crucify him. Once the Pharisee said that Jesus
was claiming that he is the king of the Jews.
Once you, once you claim that you are the king,
or that there was these people claiming that he said this,

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then you had there was that that was an offense,
that the 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. He had
to have Jesus crucified. This is why he asked, are
you the king of the Jews? Because that offense then

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you there was no choice. So, in spite of his efforts,
the Jews allow Barrabas to be released the man that
Jesus be crucified, because there was this belief at that
moment that you could call upon someone to be released
and then this person be crucified Now, Barabas was a
he liked to start trouble, but they wanted released. And

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

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was tied to a post, leaving his back entirely exposed.
The Romans used a whip called a flagrum, and it
consisted of small peace piece 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

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bone into the strand, and there were multiple bones. 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. Law stated that if a

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

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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
to occur because the Roman guards could get in severe

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punishment themselves if they flogged them to the point where
the person expires prior to being crucified. That's why the centurion,
that the general or the leader came in command and
came in and was screaming at them. The reason is
he was screaming at them because they had whipped Christ
so many times that he was no longer recognizable as

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a human being. And that's actually 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 what's hanging off

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of his body. It. 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

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it was unreckoned nisible 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

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and still 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, the fact that he continued. So here's

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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 cut deeper into the subcutaneous tissues and

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that would actually produce first and oozing of blood from
the capillaries and then the veins of the skin, finally
spurting arterial bleeding from vessels and the underlying muscles. So
as the skin would tear, then the bones would be

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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 along with the flesh. So they had small balls

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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, it's hanging
in long ribbons. The entire area is unrecognizable mass of torn,

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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.
And when it was determined by the centurion in charge
of the prisoner is near death, the beating is finally stopped,

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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
he was punched in the face multiple times prior to
this even occurring. Then the soldiers stripped and put a

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scarlet robe on him. This is important to note the
fabric at this time was quite heavy and as Jesus
was bleeding profusely from the back and it was hot,
when they put the robe on him, the robe then
would stick to the body because the blood. Some of

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the blood would dry up. So the robe now is
it's adhesive basically to the back. And so they twisted
together in 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

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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
that time a cracked skull. So he was then beaten
by the Roman soldiers. Continued they continue to beat him,

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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
of thorns on his head, unlike the traditional crown, which
is depicted by an open ring, you know, just the

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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,
and they're very thick, incredibly hard to break. So the

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gospel states that the Roman soldiers continue to beat Jesus
on the head. The blows would have driven the thorns
deep into the scalp, one of the most vascular areas
of the body, and the forehead, causing severe bleeding and
extreme neurological pain. The doctor that I spoke to said

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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 impossible for anybody to even walk, let
alone carry a beam from across to Gogatha. There's no

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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 a pilot pilot's preatorium to Gogatha. Gogatha, that's
about three hundred yards, so we're talking again three football

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fields that Jesus walked from the preatorium with the beam
all the way from the preetormy to go Gotha. So
when they took the scepter and they would beat the
crown of thorns, they purposely hit him to the point
where the thorns stuck so deeply embedded into the skull.

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So the neurological damage would have been impossible to comprehend.
So finally they tire their sadistic sport. 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

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bleeding would have some of the bleeding would have stopped
or hardened, and the fabric would have basically almost like glue,
it would have stuck to his back. What they did
is they took this cloak and then ripped the cloak

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from his back, opening up all the wounds all over again,
and the bleeding would have been extreme. Now, so already
having adhere to the clots of blood and serum in
the wounds. Its removal caused excruciating pain, just as the
careless removal of a surgical bandage, and almost as though

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he were again being whipped, The wounds once more began
to bleed, quite fearless, fiercely. What's interesting 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,

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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 was beaten so
severely that his form did not look like a human
being anymore. The little translation of the verse in Isaiah

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fifty two, verse three says, so marred from the form
of man was his aspect, that his 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

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of the grotesque disfigurement. Now from the beating, Jesus walked
on a path known as the via do dol rosso
dolo rosa, or the way of suffering to be crucified
in Golgotha. Now there's some debates. Some people are saying

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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, that's
six football fields. So even if we were just to say, well,
let's just say five five hundred yards five football fields.

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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
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

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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
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

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flesh is hanging off okay, so it was about eighty
tow one hundred and ten pounds, and in spite of
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

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of the beam. It actually then gouged into the lacerated
skin and probably came down on his neck or certainly
his head where the crowd of thorns were. So he
tries to rise, but human muscles have been ripped apart

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and pushed beyond their endurance. So the centurion, anxious to
get on with a crucifixion, he uses a helper simon
of Syreene to carry the cross, and Jesus follows, still
bleeding incomplete and total shock clammy sweats of shock, and

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probably still being whipped by the centurion to keep moving
until the six hundred and fifty or let's say say
five hundred yard journey to Gogth is finally complete. So
Jesus is offered a wine mixed with murder. He refuses

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to drink. There are some historians that argue that this
type of drink was a to help with the pain,
but I would disagree with that it doesn't make sense
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

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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,
I disagree, because it says in scripture that Jesus, even

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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.
Then nails. They're about seven inches long with a diameter

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of it's about basically a three 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,
it would rip right through the hands. So the wrist

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here is where because there are two bones right here.
And so the the Romans were quite well versed in anatomy,
and so they knew that if they hear, then it
would hold up the upper part of the body. So
that's where the points would go into the vicinity of

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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
to this complete The unbelievable pain that he would have

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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 that have actually
shown that nails were probably driven through the small bone
of the wrist, since nails of the palms wouldn't support

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the weight of the body. And by the way, in
ancient terminology, the wrist here the wrist 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 feet high, and in the center of the

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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 hanging and then they would lift the person up

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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 to allow for this, the knees had to be
bent or rotated latterly and being left a pretty uncomfortable position.

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The titulus was hung above the victim's head, so they
probably some people say there's a part in the ankle
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

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middle of the foot. There so as he pushes himself
upward to avoid the stretching torment, he places then his
full weight on the nail of his feet, and again
there's searing agony of the nail tearing through the nerves
between the bones of the feet and at this point

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the arms fatigue. Now you have extreme and many people
don't think about this. At this point of time, Jesus
is experiencing extreme Charley Horses cramps all over his entire body.

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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. His entire body
is cramping up with extreme if you would Charlie horses

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nodding them in deep, relentless, extreme throbbing pain. And with
these cramps comes the inability and then to push himself up.
So what they would do is, as your arms are
spread out, they would push 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,

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the pectoral muscles are paralyzed. Uh, the you know, the
intercostal muscles are They're unable to respond. So airic can
be drawn Eric 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 one shorter breath.

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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 push himself
were to exhale and then bring in life giving oxygen.

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So Jesus experienced three hours of this while on the cross,
limitless pain, cycles of twisting, joint rendering cramps, intermittent partial asphyxiation,
searing pain where tissue is torn from his lacerated back
and body as he moves up and down to try

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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 to compress the heart.

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This is interesting because if you remember the twenty second
psalm the fourteenth verset, I am poured out like water,
and all my 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 the crucifixion. But

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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 markedly dehydrated tissues send their

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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, and now has

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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 would have come

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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 the situation worse.

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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 crucifiit was suffocation. The
chains of events which ultimately led to suffocation are as follows.

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

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respiratory bellows became relatively fixed, and the victim was forced
to raise the body off the sedulum, thereby trans 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 pulling on
the wrist and again stretching the intercostal muscles. Thus, the

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victim alternated between lifting his body off the sedulum in
order to breathe and then slumping down on the side
to relieve the pain in the feet. And eventually he
became exhausted and he lapsed into unconsciousness, so that he
can no longer lift his body on this off the
sedulum the seat, and in this position, with the respiratory

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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 heart fails and

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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 cause may have been

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a multifactoral eyeser event. So now the body of Jesus
is in extremes and he can fill the chill of
death creeping through his tissues, and this realization brings out
his the sixth words. It is finished, and his mission

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of atonement is completely And 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

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was dead. The Romans inflicted a spear 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 stays that

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she has died a massive myocardial infarction 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

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and caused death, and the physical stress of crucifixion may
have produced a fatal cardiac arrhythmia, And 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

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fact Jesus died. So even for those of you who
may not be Christians. Mocking the crucifixion says a lot
about that person, because even if you don't accept Jesus

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as I'm aside, the fact that you can mock this
type of suffering that he actually endured. 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

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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, it's pretty intense,
as you can see. Now, let's talk about the Shroud

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of Torn. 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 when it was on display, So
that was actually placed the shroud of Touran. There is absolutely,

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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 know
what the shroud is. The shroud of torn is a
long linen cloth made out of flax and measures about

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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, crucified crucified man
with blood stains that matched the wounds of the crucifixion
Jesus suffered, as all reported in the Gospels. It has
been in torrent In fifth since fifteen seventy eight, over

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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 that's
recorded in the Bible. It was owned at fourteen fifty
to nineteen eighty two by the royal Savoy family, until

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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 to
its arrival in France is not continuous, and therefore critics
have alleged it was the work a medieval artist. Incorrect.

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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
confirms that the shroud was in Constantinople and stolen by
crusaders in the Fourth Crusade. So this bridge is the

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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 Knight's templar, who participated in
the Fourth Crusade were said to venerate a mysterious image.
Now the finding is monumental because it validates a historical
trail to at least to the year five forty four,

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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
coins were minted in six point ninety two under the
reign of Emperor Justinian the Second, and they were the

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first coins ever minted with an image of Christ and
appeared to be based on the shroud image. And in
ninety four the cloth was taken from Odessa to Constantinople
and the sermon delivered by Gregory the Archdeacon clearly describes
a full image on the linen. In the eleventh century
Greek chronicle John painted a picture of the same event

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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 Romanus. The first
Now the science, because that's what we need to talk about.
In eighteen ninety eight, the shroud was photographed for the
first time, and the first pictures led to the discovery

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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 photographed to shroud again
with a more advanced film technology, confirming that the shroud

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is indeed a negative image. Now, in nineteen fifty doctor Barbee,
it's a prominent French surge, 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
a shroud as anatomically perfect. Nineteen seventy three, Max Frye,

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a noted Swiss criminologist, was given permission to take dust
samples from the shroud contain much pollen. He discovered twenty
two pollends species from plants that are unique to areas
around Constantinople and Odessa, and seven pollen species from plants
common only in Israel. Thank you, and the pollend trail

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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 contain encoded three D day 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 stroud 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 McCrone, 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. Mcrone 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,
mcrone's finding is no way agreed with any of the
highly sophisticated tests. By the way, his 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 the shroud was carbon dated
by three laboratories, Oxford, Juric 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 chattering 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 cloths 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 to that caused in the fire. There was a

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fire in a monastery and the outer partige of the
shroud was burnt, and nuns repaired that, and they took
that fabric from the Middle Ages, not the middle part
that was not burned. So a two thousand and four
textile expert revealed that the stitching of seam on the

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shroud that the 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 research
on the image fibers offers clues as how the image
was formed. The entire cloth is covered with a razor

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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 spectroscopic 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 field 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, so
the carbon labs violated the original sample and three samples

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were cut, and ignoring caution 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 too second burst from a

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uv A laser, first time any aspect has ever been
reproduced using light. In twenty thirteen, 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

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from the shroud, they determine that the shroud was estimated
date range of two eighty BC to two hundred and
twenty a D. So therefore the actual burial cloth was
not in the fifteenth century. It's actually dated to eighty

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BC to two twenty a D. The results also found
in the twenty thirteen research one they found no inorganic
pigment present, no substances manually applied to the cloth. No

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artistic substances are on the cloth, no calagen binder as
would be used with paint. Blood test positive and the blood,
by the way, is ab positive with human DNA, which

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is absolutely conclusive. So the shroud of torn con for
I think, conforms to what is known about 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,

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and the cloth is pieced together in narrow bands with
each hank of yarn individually bleached. All indicate an origin
earlier than the Middle Ages. If the shroud rapped a
human corpse, as several medical forensic specialists believe, and if
it originated in Israel, which it did, as many botanists believe,

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then can it ever be proven to be Jesus? Well, yes, yes, one.
People who were crucified 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' crucifixion.

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The abrasions and bruises on the face, the wounds on
the side. Over listen to this. There were over one
hundred and twenty whip marks found on the shroud, over

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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, what the Roman guards
would do the soldiers is they would break the legs

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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 hammer and they would
break the legs. The reason is they did that is
because then the person who's being crucified couldn't lift up

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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 the blood is
from actual wounds, and show evidence of gravity from a

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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 originally was flawed
because they took it from the outer garments of the shroud.

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And again, as I explained, in the Middle Ages, it
was kept in a monastery and there was a fire.
The outer part was fixed, it was repaired in the
Middle Ages. But the actual shroud itself is a three
D image. Even if you were to argue that this

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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 as you see on
the shroud. They didn't have it. It didn't exist. And

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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. It absolutely shows the
crowd of Thorn's place. You see no question on the head,

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and the scourging on over one hundred and twenty whips scourging.
What is so profound about this image is that a
burst of light as the sciences explained that a burst
of light had to be so intense and hot that

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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 doubt in my mind, there is
no doubt in my mind that the shroud of Torren

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is a one hundred percent the aerial cloth of Jesus.
It would not have been the barrier 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 as Christ was, especially

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with the crown of Thornes. 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 in the garden alone.

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

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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 right now, yeah,

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well I like to see that. I like to see that, Kathy.
Kathy says an ai picture of Jesus. They used the
technology from this round created say. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah,
I've seen I've seen the I've seen that as well,
and pretty intense. All right, thank you guys, and don't forget.

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I want to remind everybody that. And we're not finished.
We still have some the show to continue this Sunday
at six pm. Obviously it's Easter and 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,

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I know some people may may not have a church community.
You're 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 gentleman who escaped North
Korea twice, 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

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the North Koreans really believe about the Kim Jong un
and the Kim Jong family and what is life really like?
And he has agreed to be a special guest on
this show, so it will be a Friday. We haven't
one hundred percent whatever, Charles, I'm just gonna block you seriously.

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I mean, 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 Friday
show and I'm really looking forward to that. So and

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

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am I afraid of demons? What am I? No, 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

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did a presentation for you on Good Friday. See, 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 give
a second thought of the things that they've said during

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the day. That's frightening to me because as 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, subchat on is for the

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rest of the night. If you don't like it, speak
to your therapist. Yeah, 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?

Speaker 3 (01:16:00):
And and.

Speaker 2 (01:16:02):
That proves that Jesus is not the son of God. No,
not at all. No, Actually that's incorrect. Jesus was praying.
Jesus was a praying. Yeah, some people don't know this.

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We know he was praying Psalm twenty two, My God,
my God, why are you forsaken 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 English? My God? I
cry out by day, but you did not answer. By night.
I find no rest, And it continues, and it continues.

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Many bulls surround me, strong bulls of bashan, encircling me,
roaring lions. They tear their prey, open their mouths wide
against me. I am poured out like water, all my joel,
all my bones are out of joint. My heart has
turned to wax, it has melted within me. My mouth
is dried up like a pot shird, and my tongue
sticks to the roof of my mouth. You lay me

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in the dust of death. Dogs surround me. Pack of
villains encircle me. 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 from my garment,
which they did. But you Lord, do not be far

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from me. You are my strength. Come quickly to help
me deliver me from the sword. My precious life from
the power of the dogs, 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

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will be told about the Lord. They will proclaim as righteousness,
declaring to a people. Yet onborn, he has done it
Psalm twenty two. He was fulfilling prophecy. Psalm twenty two.

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He was praying. Not only not only praying, he was
fulfilling prophecy. In Psalm twenty two, it describes everything that
Jesus endured and it ends with he has done it. Okay,
oh yeah, oh yeah. I'm not worried about the shrows.

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I have sub chat 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 and disrespect
of this very special and holyday. Yeah, there's a lot
of people, some I mean some people say that the

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centurion said truly this is the son of God, or
this was the Messiah, you know. Okay, So if 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,

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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, and we see this.
So yeah, okay, what is this? Hold on one second,

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I'm trying to bear with me and trying to look
through them. I gotta get my re 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,

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I'm getting old. Okay. Let's see. 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,

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a head, part of the of the linens. The story
of the 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

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John chapter twenty verse six to seven, where it describes
how Peter and John entered the empty two of Jesus
and found the 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,

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thank you, but I'm in my fifties, so I appreciate that.
So the interpretation has grown around the scene suggested the
fold 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

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the master left the table and folded the napkin, it
meant 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

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basis in history documentation, but a lot of by a
lot of historians. The Gospel of John does not a
lot elaborate on any such symbolic meaning.

Speaker 3 (01:22:08):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:22:10):
The the focus might be on demonstrating that Jesus' resurrection
was ordered and deliberate, as opposed to like a chaotic,
hasty event. But it is an interesting uh I, I
do understand the history there. So sin all right? So look,
let me let me answer the question why did Jesus

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have to die? God must deal with sin because of
his holy just nature. He has no option to ignore
sin or even to a forgive sin without an appropriate
penalty being paid. Sin has a very steep price that

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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 completes the covenant. So God did for a
time employ the animal sacrifice system to appease the covenant. However,

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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
longer a viable option for paying the costs of sin.

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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
is complete, will be sentenced to eternal punishment. So, since

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the people who chose this method are imperfect, their sacrifice
is imperfect. The cost of the sins will never be paid,
which is why the sacrifice is eternal punishment separated. So
Jesus' sacrifice is the only way. So Jesus is crucifixion,
and sacrificial death is the soul eternal solution for a

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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.
He had no sin nature, nor did he ever commit

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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
every person in history could have been forgiven for their

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sins based on Christ's crucifixion and sacrificial death. And it's
sad that people very few people accept that. Yes, on
the third date, now, a lot of people argue that
the resurrection is just nonsense. Now, well, it says Jesus

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of descended into Hell. That technically it's not Hell that
we're thinking of. It's Hades. 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,
and then the Messiah then preached to them. But we're
not talking about the eternal hell. It fired, and we're

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not talking about that hell. 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 staunch 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 was terrible. Remember, they saw their Messiah being
viciously crucified. That in of itself was terrifying and understandably so.

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And 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

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was 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

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Messiah would show up and overthrow the Roman Empire. Well,
now they absolutely say, yep, 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

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going to come after us. But here's what I say this,
something something miraculous happened, some amazing miracle happened on Sunday

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where these very same men that were terrified and understandably
so thank you they were, 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.

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And my friends, 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

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what I find fascinating. 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

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beyond that. That's 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,

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the Roman 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, and for
some crazy even conspiracy theory out there, that somehow Jesus
did suffer and he did struggle and he was crucified

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and somehow he managed to survive 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

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even if we just entertained the ridiculous notion that somehow
Jesus survived 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

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even entertain that idea. That to me is just 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

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and of itself, he couldn't have survived. I mean, you're
you're piercing the heart sack. You're 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
pierce the heart sack, even in today's time, you're dead.

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So we know that for a fact Jesus died on
the cross. No offends or buts. Something happened. 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

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were well, thank you knew they were. They were next.
So there you go. So that's the answer to that question.
I'm trying to but listen, here is a really interesting Yeah,
there's again just to even to entertain the idea that

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Jesus somehow survived the crucifixion. First, that of itself is
just so ridiculous, but nonetheless, right, I mean, the infections
he would have received you understand, but listen to this.
Let me hear, let me hear what. Let me let
me tell you what what he this article? This is

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by TK Randall. The Garden of Eden allegedly lies beneath
the Great Pyramid of Giza. Engineer claims doctor boris Off,
thank you, believes that he has pinpointed the whereabouts of
Adam and Eves's biblical paradise. Thank you, guys, thank he

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does so. The precise location of the Garden of Eden
continues to remain a topic of debate and intrigue among historians,
Thank you, guys, and religious scholars. Clues to as to
its alleged whereabouts can be found in the Bible, which
reference four rivers, flowing pieshang Gihon, Tigris, Tigris, and Euphrates,

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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, though
not everyone is convinced by this interpretation. Now, computer engineer
doctor Borisov has published a new study in which he contends,

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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 combining mythological
symbolism with geographical analysis of the region. Quote, examining a
map from around five hundred BC, becomes evident that not

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that the only four rivers emerging from the surrounding ocean
are the Nile, Tigris, Euphrates, and Indus. He wrote, and
it's clear that the pyramid itself resembles this sacred tree
of life. I think that's a stretch, but doctor Borisov's
conclusions have certainly generated some heated debates, although there is

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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 guy's
claiming that's where it is. Who knows? Who knows? Okay,

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I want to share a couple of real life speaking
of mirror goes as we talked about the shroud of Torren,
which is miraculous, and certainly the crucifixion in of itself
is miraculous. And I say it's miraculous because the fact
that Jesus was so viciously beaten and lost that amount

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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
walk five hundred yards. Not on top of all of that,

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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
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

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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.
The nineteen seventeen Miracle of the Sun. A sun so
May nineteen seventeen, children returning home from shepherding reportedly encountered
an apparition of the Virgin Mary in Fatima, Portugal. She

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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.
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

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the story goes, she then presented the seventy thousand in
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

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up from every mouth, and the people fell on their
knees on the muddy ground. The light turned a beautiful blue,
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

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and prayed with uncovered heads in the presence of the
miracle they had awaited. The seconds seemed like hours, so
vivid were they, and that as a reporter who was there.
Non believers and believers alike provided eyewitness accounts for daily
newspapers across Portugal corroborating the movement of the sun. Some

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theory suggest, of course, that the event was a mass
hallucination brought on by fervor and they need to see
something unexplainable. The problem with that is there were quite
a few skeptics there that were no longer skeptics. There's

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other miracles, the incorruptible bodies of saints that never decay.
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

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believers in the miracle of incorrupt saints stay undeterred in
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 discs covers
that most of the saints underwent a mummification process as

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part of their preparation for burial. Other saints meanwhile had
the luck, the author says, of being kept in chilled
vaults that put off the k 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

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body camera by scientists 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 in unexplicably preserved so

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Blessed Margaret of Savoy, Saint Savina Petrilli, sat Ubald of Gubio.
Also there is a miracle of our Lady of Lore
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

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family in an abandoned prison. 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

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the grotto before a blinding light followed, a woman dressed
with white robes with a blue sash, yellow roses on
her feet and a rosary 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.

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She visited the woman daily over the next fifteen days,
despite police intervention and her 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

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water spring that still flows today it cannot be explained.
Three days later, the 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 the Medical Bureau of Sanctuary claims upwards

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of seven thousand visitors have received complete healing from their
ailments by immersing themselves 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
healings since eighteen sixty to sixty six remained completely unexplained

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by Sciencete Bernadette became Saint Bernadette after committing herself to
a life of servitude as a nun, and is one
of the incorrupt saints recognized by the Catholic Church. That's
pretty more powerful as it it. Let me share another

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one which is really powerful. At 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

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consecrated host refers to some people as wafers in Holy euchrist.
Catholics believe that the wafers a lot with the wine,
turned into the actual body and the blood of Christ
during their priests consecration, and the wafers resided. We call
them well the Eucharist in a tabernacle until retrieved for
Holy Eucharists or other designated times outside a mass. Sixteen

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months after a twenty sixteen earthquake in Italy, a priest
claimed he recovered forty consecrated hosts from the Our Lady
of Assumption Church. The priest said he found the host's
container had fallen in the quake, but the lid remained intact.

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He maintained the hosts show no signs of mold or
staleness about them after almost 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

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one more. The Weeping Statue of Our Lady of All
Nations in Akda, This is an amazing story. The Statue
of Our Lady of All Nations in Akda, Japan, was
carved from a Judea tree in nineteen sixty three. The
miracle attached to the figure relates to the deaf sister

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Saint Agnes, who reportedly saw bright lights and angels near
the statue's altar in June of nineteen seventy three during
prayer before the Virgin Mary statue. Stigmata appeared on Sister
agnes hands and recurred record for three weeks. According to

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the story, Sister Agnes returned to the statue of Our
Lady of All Nations to pray and heard the Virgin
Mary speak. Sister Agnes continued praying in front of the statue,
and it revealed its own stigmata in its carved hands.
After this, as the statue began to sweat a rose
scented liquid that the nuns of the order collected in

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January of nineteen seventy five, the figure started weeping, and
so did on multiple 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

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in nineteen eighty one after praying in front of the statue.
By 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,

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and tears. The sweat and tears were Type AB and
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,

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the fluids to be type A and AB and the
blood type O. 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 science, science, science, Okay,

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they did scientific testing, and the samples that were collected
from the statue and they actually collected them, sealed them
when it was they had this arm recording. They actually
because people say, well, they could have faked it, they
actually sealed it and then sent it off immediately gave

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it to the scientists to test. So there was no
faking it. There was no well, you know, we'll pick
our finger or poke our finger and put Nope. They
actually collect it in a vial. 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 shroudotaurin but I also like
to end with documented miracles, and hopefully maybe if you're

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struggling 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 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's flesh was hanging off his body,
when the crown of thorns was slammed on his head,
when he was beaten multiple times with the rod, with
the soldiers hitting him in his face, and his beard

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actually hanging off of his face, and he was unrecognized
as a human being. They couldn't recognizing. I'm absolutely convinced
that the only reason that he got to Gogatha is
because he was thinking of you. One more step for Bill,

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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 step for you. I'm

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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.

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That would be