Feb. 24, 2026

The Bill Martinez Show 02 24 26

The Bill Martinez Show 02 24 26

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Are you ready?

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Yeah, Okay, let's do it.

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Bill Martinez Live a program about current events, our culture,

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our values, our politics, and our future.

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And now Bill Martinez.

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Well glad you could join us America. Bill Martinez here

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with the American Minute, creator and speaker nationally renowned that

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he is the one and only Bill Fetterer. Mister Bill,

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how are we doing.

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Hey, great to be with you, Bill.

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Hey. Always good to have you here with us. Especially,

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I'm particularly interested in what you've been writing about in

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recounting history as it relates to Iran, Parts one, two,

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and three at the American Minute.

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Yeah, it's pretty fascinating when you go through from ancient

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history up to the present. So, the Persia used to

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be called Elam, and that was the name of Noah's

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grandson through Shem. So Noah had three sons, Chem, Ham

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and j fth and so Shem, out of which the

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Israel came. But Shem is also the father of Elim,

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and so Elim went down that same tigers Euphrates river

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valley and settled near the Persian Gulf. And so that

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is where Iran is. So the name originally was Ilam,

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then Persia, then Iran. Where we get this civilization that

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we have there today.

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Abraham fought a battle.

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Against the king of Elam Chado Lamar, remember when he

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had his three hundred men chasing after getting lot back,

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right exactly. But then the major empires in the world

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were Egypt and Assyria and Babylon. And then come along Elam.

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It grows and it conquers Babylon and conquers Assyria, and

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then you have Cyrus of Persia around five fifty BC,

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and it becomes the biggest empire in the world at

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the time, one hundred and twenty seven provinces. And so

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Cyrus tried invading into Greece and he browned them four

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ninety BC and he gets driven back. And we're familiar

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with the Battle of Marathon because the messengers came and

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gave the news of the victory, and they had to

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run twenty one some odd miles back from the city

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the Battle of Marathon to report the news, and so

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that gave birth to the race the Marathon. But his,

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excuse me, that was Darius. So after Cyrus, you have Darius,

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and it was Darius that invaded Greece in four ninety BC.

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And then Darius's son is Xerxes, and then for eighty BC,

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Xerxes invades Greece, wins a couple of battles, and then

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loses the famous Battle of Salamus. It was a naval battle,

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and so Xerxes is pretty bummed out and he goes

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back to Persia and he spends time with his Harem,

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and that's where we get the story of Esther and

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then Hayman and all the rest. But the Persia controlled

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the area that was Israel, all right, So Cyrus let

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the Jews go back and rebuild, and then Darius continued

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to allow them and they grew. But then Alexander the

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Great conquers and three thirty three BC right around then,

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he conquers Persia and he then dies shortly thereafter. He

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tried to meld the Greek culture with the Persian culture,

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and he had like three hundred of his officers marry

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Persian wives, and so this time you see this Greek

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culture coming into Persia. But Alexander the Great dies and

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his empire is divided into four, with a general Selucius

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taking Persia, and so it's called the Selucid Empire, and

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it's powerful.

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And one was it the most powerful of the four bill. Yeah,

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this Solucid Empire.

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Yeah, they had Ptolemies in Egypt, and so the Ptolemies

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they viewed Greek as superior to Egyptian. So for several

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centuries you had these Greek the Egyptian people, and they

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didn't even speak the language of the Egyptian people. The

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common people spoke Coptic, but Greek was the superior language,

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and that was all the way until Cleopatri. She was

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the last Ptolemic ruler and she had married.

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So for the Egyptians, it's almost like you know, deja

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vu one more time, but the roles reversed. Now instead

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of being the slaveholders, they are the slaves, right, as

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opposed to what they did with the Hebrews.

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Well, yeah, it's interesting because back in the Bible story,

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Joseph took all the land away from the people during

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this famine, right right, and it centralized power. Well, that

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power stayed centralized, so that it was passed down to

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where the pharaoh owned everything in Egypt and the people

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didn't have guns or weapons. Obviously they didn't have guns

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way back then, but they didn't have weapons, and so

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it was it was a top down system first century

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sort of like China with the emperor owning everything, but

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even more so in Egypt.

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But the history is fascinating.

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So Persia had the Seleucid Empire until one sixty seven BC.

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You have a general, a ruler.

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Of Seleucid Persia named Antiochus, the fourth Epiphanes, and he

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hated Jews, and he thought the Jews were wanting to rebel,

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and so he went in there and killed and pillaged

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and destroyed and desecrated the temple. And you had the

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Maccabee priestly family, and they started to grill a warfare

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and they drove the Seleucid Syrian slash Greek rulers out

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and it's called Hanukah where they had they rededicated the temple.

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And and so for one hundred years, Judea was its

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own nation again. And we sort of, you know, overlooked this,

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but it was not part of Persia, not part of Rome,

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not part of Greece.

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It was its own nation.

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Bill, let me ask you something here, because you brought

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up the Maccabees. And Jonathan Connor good friend said the

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other day that you know the concept of Hanika was

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not in the Bible, but originally it was in the

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Bible with the Book of Maccabee's. And what you're talking

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about is a portion of history that is documented in

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the Book of Maccabee's that has kind of gotten lost

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because it's not part of the traditional, the current tradition

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of sixty six books of the modern Bible. Right.

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Yeah, So when Martin Luther had the Reformation, I think

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there were like eighty books, you know, and then the

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Ethiopian Church has even more books. They have, you know,

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the Book of Enoch and different things. But the canon,

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which means rule or standard, decided on the six to

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six books. And how did they do that. They basically

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included the Old Testament books that Jesus and the Apostles

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personally referenced. So the attitude was if it was good

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enough for Jesus and the Apostles, it's good enough for us.

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So the Old.

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Testament books that Jesus and or the Apostles quoted from

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those are the ones in the Old Testament. Now the

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other ones, what's called apocrypha, they're allowed. They're considered good

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for history, but maybe there's some doctrinal things in there

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that are are not really clear. And so the decision

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was made to say, well, we're not going to have

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them be part of the canon, right, but there's you

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know interesting Yeah, I think sides on that.

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Yeah. I think it's fascinating and I've been doing some

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studying on it. That's why I bring that up, so

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I appreciate you addressing it.

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for Patriots, we're talking.

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With Bill Fetter, the American Minute creator and national speaker

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an author.

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Bill.

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Yeah, the again those books which you know, as you mentioned,

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they refer to as the apocrypha. We're still part of

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the you know, I guess, the accepted canon for many years,

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and it was only in the I guess, if you

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want to say the modern era, that the apocrypha, you know,

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over debate and that had been reduced. And of course

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when we talk about Martin Luther, we're talking what the

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eighteenth century.

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Right, we're talking fifteen fifteen.

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I'm sorry, I'm sorry, sixteenth century.

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But you did have like fake news today. You had

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people writing things and attributing them to the apostles or

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somebody special. And so like the Infancy Gospel of Thomas,

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it's written by someone who knew nothing of Jewish life,

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and it's fill full of so many errors and inconsistencies

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that no scholar takes it serious. You know, little fancyful

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Harry Potter type stories that when Jesus was a kid,

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he made clay birds and claps and they flew away

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and raised the playmate from the dead. But it's written

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with obvious indications that the writer did not know what

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was going on in Israel at the time. And it

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would be like you writing a Childhood of Lincoln and

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describing him living in China.

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It's like, I don't think that happened.

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Interestingly enough, Mohammad was illiterate and he was never able

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to read the Bible, but he heard these oral stories,

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and he heard some of those infancy gospel stories of

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Thomas included them in Islam. So now they take them

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as fact. That's a whole other interesting thing. So Persia got.

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Into a war with Rome and it went on.

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First this is what we're about one fifty now BC

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or what.

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Israel was its own nation from around one sixty seven

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PC when they drove the Seleucids out, up until around

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sixty three BC, so for an entire century. Interestingly enough,

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they had a civil war between the Sadducees and Pharisees.

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So Sadducees were ones wanted to kiss up to the Greeks,

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and they sort of were embarrassed about their Jewish history,

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and they did not believe in miracles and the supernatural

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and angels in heaven and the resurrection. They were just

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political Jews, and they you know, wanted to go to

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the you know, the the bathhouses and stuff that.

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You know.

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Well, the Pharisees when you when the Israelites came out

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of you back from Persia, they had Ezra and he

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taught the law, and he started what's called the pharisee,

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which means the student of the law. So the word

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pharisee means student of the law. And but uh, they

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would add on traditions. And so that's what Jesus was

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critical of the Pharisees because they added on a little

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extra tradition here, extra tradition there. And he said, you

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make void the word of God by your extra traditions, right,

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And so Jesus criticized.

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And there and there you hear fiddler on the roof tradition. Right.

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So Jesus criticized the sad you sees because they didn't

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believe in all the miracles and the supernatural. And Jesus

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criticized the Pharisees because they added on so many traditions

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they didn't recoonnie him. And we saw this division with

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the apostle Paul when he's first arrested and he's called

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for a hearing and the Roman governors there and Paul

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sees their saducees and Pharisees and he says, I'm a Pharisee.

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He says, I believe in the you know, angels, and

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the angel appeared to me and I believe that our

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prophecies are supernatural. And the Pharisees come to Paul's defense

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and says, well, yeah, maybe if he did see an angel.

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And and so that's when they're starting to pull Paul apart,

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and the Romans rescue Paul. And but anyway, so the

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Sadducees and Pharisees got into a civil war.

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The Sadducees controlled Jerusalem.

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They were the political Jews, and that's where the temple was,

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and so all the temple stuff was being carried on

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by this Sadducee group. Well, the Pharisees lived in the

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rural countryside and they had synagogues, which means meetinghouse. That's

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where everybody in town would come and do their business.

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But that's also where they'd come and hear the law.

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And so they were sort of the decentralized ones. They

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were more of the wanting a smaller central government, so

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to speak. But it got into a war, so they

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killed thousands of each other. And so now sixty three

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BC you have Pompy, the Roman general, and he's conquering

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in Cappadocia near the Black Sea, and somebody brings him

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a message that there's a civil war going on in Judea,

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and he says.

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Great time to invade.

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So he comes in and sides with the Pharisees against

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the Sadducees and captures Jerusalem and you know, kills a

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bunch of the Sadducees and gets to the Temple mount

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and Pompey goes into the temple and he sees it,

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and he turns around and comes out and tells his men,

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don't touch this place. And so the Jews liked the Romans,

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and they liked Pompey for a while. But from that

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moment on, Judea was Roman province. And you know, gradually

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the Romans got more and more and more involved, till

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pretty soon they control the whole thing, right, And so

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the Romans were in a seventh century war with Persia

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seven hundred years and as time went on, now we

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had the Early Church and then you had pent the

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Day of Pentecost.

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So the Pentecost was, you know, before the Early Church.

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But on the Day of Pentecost, it lists the people

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that were there, uh and it says that the Parthian,

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Meads and Elamites were amongst all those different people that

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were there on the day of Pentecost. Well, Elamites, that's Persians.

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So there were some Persians there on the day of Pentecost.

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By the way, hearing and hearing the words of the

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apostles in their own language, right, Yeah, after the descent

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of the Holy Spirit.

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Yeah, the the miracle of the Holy Spirit descending, and

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then the apostles and disciples that were in the upper

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room filled with the Holy Spirit and they praise God.

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But you know, the people thought they were drunk, and

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Peters said, they're not drunk. But everybody heard them speaking

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praises to God in their own language. And well, another

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little trivia Persia. Daniel was a wise man, and the

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Persian word for wise men is magi. They were sort

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of like the court scholars, and they had their own

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schools and they would study prophecy. And so if he remember,

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Daniel studied the prophecies of Jeremiah and saw where Jeremiah

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said in seventy years the Jews will go back. And

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so he set himself to fast and pray. And then

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the Angel appears to him and says, well, from the

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moment you started praying, I was sent, but I was

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withstood by the prince of Persia, and this was Michael

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that was the prince of Israel. And so we're talking

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this sort of looks like this vigil battle going on

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in the heavenly Well.

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That's interesting here because here you've got the Sadducees that

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don't believe in angels, but yet Daniel's talking about an

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angel that is over the land contesting with the evil spirits.

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I mean, this had to just say. They probably just said,

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let's not even talk about it.

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Right, yeah. Yeah.

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So the thought is that Daniel was the head of

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these wise men, scholar advisors to the to the king

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in Persia, and that this school of studying prophecies and

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wisemen continued, and evidently a segment of them believe the scriptures.

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And they were the wise men. They said them, called

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them the three wise Men. They only say three because

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of the three gifts Gull Frankenston's merv But the Gospel

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doesn't actually give the number, but it says wise men

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from the east. But the thought is these wise men

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from the east were Persians. Yeah, all right, and so

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so the uh so that's interesting. So this war between

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Romans and the Persian goes on for seven centuries and

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bloody killings, and and then the Roman Empire becomes Christian

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and the Persian Empire, even though there are some Christian minorities,

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it's still Zoroastrian and different type of religion. And so

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they beat each other up, and their major battles are

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in the six hundreds, and they they so decimate each

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other that they create a power vacuum, and into that

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power vacuum comes Islam and so the but a little

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trivia before the Islam, you have the King of the Persians.

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The Persian Empire at this time is called Sasanian.

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So you go from Cyrus to Persia, and then you

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go to the Alexander the Great controlled Persia, then the

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Seleucid Persia.

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But now there's Sasanian Persia and the king is.

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Cost Row, and Kostrow had control over an area of

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India and the one Indian vassal state created a game

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and sent it to King Kostro and said, if you

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can figure out how the rules of this game are,

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then we'll pay you the tribute. And if you don't

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figure out the rules of the game, you pay tribute

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to us.

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This vacation offer is so good, I'm going to repeat it.

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