Hi everyone, Sergio and Rhoda here, streaming live from north of Israel, behind us is the Sea of Galilee. That's our destination!
We're gonna drive there right now. And what we're going to show you something that will blow you away. Are you ready? Ready? Let's go
Something incredible is happening to the Sea of Galilee
Just a few years ago. The water level was so low it crossed the lower red line
Then the rain started to fall
Israel had so much rain in the last two years that the lake of galilee has been filled back up
Nearly to a full level
Difference in the water levels in just two years is an astonishing six meters or twenty feet
But what happens if it keeps raining? Can the Sea of Galilee overflow? and if it does, where will the water go?
stay tuned to find out!
Don't know If have been so nervous in a long time
What do you think we will see there? I'll just wait and see
Can park right here... Yeah right here. Yeah
All right
Let's go. All right, let's go so
Yeah
There's an animal there. Wow!
How are you doing now?
I don't remember seeing so much vegetation here!
It is way up. all the way to the church
It is higher, you can distinctly see that
You guys... this hasn't happened in many years!
It does go up and down throughout generations and throughout years and decades but this is really really high up
Do you ever remember it being so high?
We got some footage. We're going to show you. Take a look at this. This is satellite imagery from
2018
and so take a look. As we slide up, we reveal 2020 and you can see how those Bay's
much more water gets in
to
land
And see how it looks like from Bethsaida, from the top
And in the left, we see what it looked like when we were there with Dr. Notley
and now, how it looks like just a few weeks ago when there. Take a look!
Yeah, it's covered with water which is incredible in a way.
So Bethsaida would have been
where Peter and some of the apostles had lived.
look water came right up to the tree line where the ancient city is at
I mean, I can't recognize two places. Look at this bare land on the left and
full of water on the right
And that's just spectacular
This is Tiberius right now.
I wish we had footage to compare it to
But you wouldn't recognize it for those who have seen that Tiberias before. like five years ago.
Yes, yeah, you would have recognized this it was so low.. this, where the boat is, it was dry, and it goes down 20 feet
You couldn't put boats there actually because it was so low
like if you see that Boulevard the walls around... like, the water went all the way down until
you could see the ground, where the water is supposed to cover. and like you had a beach
Over there, that's how dry it was until all the boats were further in
Yeah
and none of them could be at the pier and
Now the water raised and they could put the boats there again at the pier and at the boulevard
Which is really incredible, like, really, the last times we have seen this, was years [ago]. We were children
Years ago, so it's really cool to see
We had some people asking us, can the Sea of Galilee overflow?
It is a good question because you might think I mean it look like a bowl and it
Seems like it can't overflow anywhere
Is it gonna flood the cities? well, the answer is actually: a dam! And we're gonna show you that dam
So they built a dam to stop water from flowing to Jordan River
in huge amounts
And so the lake can fill back up to it's correct proportion
And so they're gonna release the dam the moment it starts overflowing. which is just about 30 centimeters away
It's inches away from overflowing and so they're gonna open the dam and it's gonna flood through Yardenit
Which is the area of the baptismal place
I remember seeing a long long time ago as a child and it's like a huge it looks like a waterfall, you know, yeah
It's just beautiful. Wow. I've never seen that! It's really cool. It is gorgeous!
Everything is still green because we've had like a bit of rain last week
We get so excited about this because the Bible speaks about this event. Actually, doesn't it?
the Bible says that
There will come a day when Israel will see the former and the latter rains. These are the days when the land will
flourish again, and it will be
lush and green again, and there'll be
Trees growing alongside the bays and the rivers in the dirt fertile again
Fruit trees
And it's exciting because it's happening and and of course I might say well look
I mean anybody could say something like this that you know, it's gonna be green again and these prophecies. Yes
I statistically it could happen but
But it's not just one prophecy in the Bible Bible has
1817 prophecies according to an encyclopedia
Of Bible prophecies where they counted all the prophecies and they counted how many verses it takes to write down those prophecies
26% of the entire Bible is
prophecy and that's mind-blowing because
26% of the entire book is prophecies
I mean no book would survive the scrutiny of tests if those prophecies will be fulfilled and most of them have already taken place
Sommers still speak about the future time, but most of them taking place. No other book in the world. No other religion
No other man, nobody has ever made
such detailed prophecies an
accurate that they've been fulfilled for example one could say you know what next year is going to be a a
Year of relief and that's a kind of weak prophecy because it's so vague in general and kind of could be fulfilled
Anyway to some people right even to the whole the world today is this year's difficult next year. It could be easy
Right, but but the Bible doesn't make prophecies vague. It is extremely specific take the Book of Daniel. For example
yeah, so detailed the Book of Daniel records prophecies that are
- such specificity and detail that even biblical critics
Afterwards
Yeah, they say it couldn't have been written before the events took place
It must have been written after because it's too detailed too accurate to - to be written before those events took place
But then shows that the Book of Daniel was written
Before and so it is quite quite amazing to see
This happening. It's another prophecy and it's been fulfilled the land this fertile
The land has water and it's quite incredible. But there is another prophecy. That is the most
important prophecy the most grand prophecy of all prophecies have ever been given and
As the prophecy of Jesus Christ of God coming down
To earth out of those 1,800 prophets about most of them are about Jesus. Most of them are about
the beginning just you know
and you got a little think if all the prophets in the Bible Muslim already been fulfilled to such detail and
this one had been fulfilled and God makes a promise that if we
believe in Jesus Christ and if we proclaim him as our Lord and Savior
Then we will have eternal life
And
We have this assurance
That neither life nor death. Nothing can take that away from us because God Himself is from God himself as promised at
What did you read this morning from Isaiah what was the verse I said 3416, what did it say?
That's to search and read the book of the Lord
Because none of it will fail. None of it. None of it shall fail. Just look what Jesus said not a single
Well not come to pass everything will be fulfilled of the Lord says so search the book read it find the
Source of life in it be encouraged
And we'll see you next time lord willing bye