Pergamum’s Altar of Zeus takes center stage as it is excavated and taken to Germany where it later inspires the architecture of Adolf Hitler.
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ANCIENT PERGAMUM, THE CENTER
OF PAGAN WORSHIP IN ASIA MINER
ONCE KNOWN AS THE PLACE WHERE
SATAN DWELLED.
IN THE FIRST CENTURY, IT WAS A
THRIVING CITY.
AFTER COUNTLESS WARS AND NATURAL
DISASTERS, THE TEMPLES OF
PERGAMUM LAY IN RUINS.
BY THE MID 19TH CENTURY TONCE
GREAT CITY OF PERGAMUM WAS
BEARLY A MEMORY.
LOCALS WERE USING THE SITE OF
THE MEMORY UNTIL 1864 UNTIL A
GERMAN ENGINEER PAID A VISIT.
CARL HUEMAN WAS SHOT BY THE
DESTRUCTION OF THE PRICELESS
ARTIFACT.
HE GOT PERMISSION TO EXCAVATE
THE ANCIENT CITY HIMSELF.
HE FOUND THE ALTAR OF ZEUS.
STONE BY STONE, THE ALTAR WAS
EXCAVATED AND BROUGHT TO BERLIN
AND REASSEMBLED AND PLACED IN
ITS OWN MUSEUM.
PERGAMUM MUSEUM FINISHED IN
1930 WITH THE ALTAR AS ITS
CENTER PIECE.
EVENTUALLY IT CAUGHT THE EYE OF
A YOUNG MAN NAMED ALBERT SPEAR.
ADOLPH HITLER COMMISSIONED HIM
TO DECIDE THE PARTY GROUNDS.
SPEAR TURNED TO THE PERGAMUM
ALTAR.
SPEAR GIVES ALL THE ATTENTION
TO HITLER.
THE DECORATOR AGREES AND
FULFILLS, THAT IS WHAT SPEAR
DID.
USING THE ALTAR AS HIS MODEL,
SPEAR CREATED A COLOSSAL GRAND
STAND AT THE RALLY GROUND KNOWN
AS THE ZEPLAND TRIBUNE.
AFTER THE WAR ONLY A THE MIDDLE
WAS STANDING.
ALBERT SPEAR BUILT HITLER'S
PODIUM.
HITLER WANTED TO CREATE A MASS
EXPERIENCE.
SPEAR CAME UP WITH THE PERFECT
IDEA.
MOST OF THE NEURIUMBERG
RALLIES WERE HELD AT NIGHT.
COLUMNS OF NIGHT EXTENDED FOR
MILES IN THE SKY CREATING WHAT
HITLER WANTED.
THE CREATING OF NEURIUMBERG HAD
TO BE PERFORMED LIKE A SERVICE
OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH.
IT WAS KNOWN AS THE CATHEDRAL OF
LIGHT AND BECOME A HALLMARK OF
HITLER'S EVENTS AND USED IN THE
CLOSING CEREMONIES OF THE 1936
OLYMPICS IN BERLIN.
HITLER IS VERY MUCH AWARE OF
GERMAN MYTHOLOGY.
ANY TIME YOU LOOK AT GODS YOU
ARE LOOKING SKYWARD.
IT IS NOT AN ACCIDENT HE SAYS TO
SPEAR, LET'S CREATE AN
ENVIRONMENT OF LOOKING TOWARDS
THE HEAVENS.
THAT IS WHAT IT DOES.
INSIDE THE RALLY GROUNDS,
THOUSANDS MARCHED.
THESE HAPPENED AT NIGHT WHICH
GIVES A CONTRASTING FEAR AND
STRENGTH AND MYSTERY.
HE IS VERY THEATRICAL.
TORCHLIGHT, FIRE, ALL PART OF
PRECHRISTIAN BELIEFS.
THERE IS A QUASI-MYSTICAL
PARADES.
MANY IN NAZI GERMANY.
FROM HIS PODIUM, HITLER
MESMERIZED THE CROWDS.
I FEEL YOU AND YOU FEEL ME.
THEN UNDER THE CATHEDRAL OF
LIGHT, THOUSANDS OF GERMANS
SWORE WHAT THEY CALLED A HOLY
OATH.
BLAZING FLAMES HOLD US TOGETHER
INTO ETERNITY, NO 1 SHALL TAKE
THIS FAITH FROM THOSE DEDICATED
TO GERMANY.
FROM 1933-1938, HUNDREDS
GATHERED TOGETHER EVERY
SEPTEMBER FOR THE NAZI CONGRESS.
IT WAS THE 1934 CONGRESS THAT
CAPTURED THE ATTENTION OF THE
WORLD, THANKS TO THE GREATEST
PROPAGANDA FILM OF ALL TIME.
1934 HARDY FILM IS THE
PICTURE OF HITLER.
THAT'S IT NO. OTHER FILM WAS
MADE OF HIM.
EVERYTHING THAT HE WANTED PEOPLE
TO KNOW ABOUT THE NAZIS IS IN
THAT FILM.
IT WAS SHOWN CONTINUOUSLY FOR 12
YEARS IN GERMANY.
TRIUMPH OF THE WILL
DIRECTEDED BY A YOUNG GERMAN
ACTRESS.
SHE WAS A FAMOUS MOVIE STAR.
A FEMALE INDIANA JONES.
SHE WAS
PRETTY AND SHAPELY AND
POPULAR, ROMANTIC FEELS
ESCAPIST.
HITLER IS A BIT OF A ROMANTIC.
HE LIKED HER.
FILM PORTRAYED HITLER AS A
GOD-LIKE FIGURE, SAVIOR OF THE
GERMAN PEOPLE.
HIS ENTRANCE WAS THROUGH THE
SKY AS A GOD WOULD COMING
THROUGH THE HEAVENS.
ANY TIME HE APPEARS, ANY PEOPLE
THAT ARE ANYWHERE UP CLOSE TO
HIM HAVE THE STARRY-EYED LOOKS
SHG GLAZED LOOKS ALMOST, AS IF
THEY ARE IN THE PRESENCE OF AN
UNEARTHLY BEING.
THAT IS INTENTIONAL.
IN HIS SPEECHES, HITLER
BORROWED CHRISTIAN PHRASES LIKE
IN THIS SCENE.
AFTER THEY SING THEIR SONG
DEVOTED TO HIM, HAIL HITLER TO
THEE.
HE SAYS YOU ARE FLESH OF OUR
FLESH TO BLOOD OF OUR BLOOD.
HE BORROWS THAT FROM ROMAN
CATHOLIC.
IT RESIGNATES WITH THE CROWD.
HITLER'S POPULARITY SKY
ROCKETEDED.
NEXT YEAR, MORE THAN A MILLION
GERMANS CAME TO NEURIUMBERG TO
HEAR HIS SPEECH.
ON THE EVENING OF
SEPTEMBER 15TH, 1935, HITLER
ANNOUNCED THE NEURIUMBERG LAWS.
LAWS THAT TOOK AWAGER MAN
CITIZENSHIP TO JEWS.
LAW FOR GERMAN BLOOD AND
HONOR IS TO BEGIN THE
MARGINALIZATION PROCESS OF
JEWISH PEOPLE.
HITLER HAD MUCH SUPPORT.
1 DOESN'T GET SUPPORT BY SAYING
WE ARE GOING TO PUT JEWISH
PEOPLE IN GAS INCINERATORS.
REGRADUALLY MARGINALIZED THEM.
HITLER USED THE PHRASE --
BITTER COMPLAINTS COME IN FROM
COUNTLESS PLACES.
THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO FIND A
LEGISLATIVE SOLUTION.
IF THIS ATTEMPT FAILS, IT WILL
BE NECESSARY TO TRANSFER THE
JEWISH PROBLEM TO THE NATIONAL
ASSOCIATIST PARTY FOR A FINAL
SOLUTION.
IF NEURIUMBERG LAWS STRIPPED THE
JEWS OF RIGHTS.
THEY COULDN'T PRACTICE IN
UNIVERSITIES, COULDN'T PRACTICE
IN HOSPITAL, COULDN'T FLY THE
FLAG.
THAT WAS COUPLED WITH REICH LAW,
JEWISH PEOPLE IN GERMANY WAS
SUBJECT BUT NOT CITIZENS.
NEW HOLOCAUST, A HOLY BURNT
ANIMAL AS A SACRIFICE.
THE PLACE THE BOOK OF REVELATION
CALLS THROWN OF
SATAN.
IN NEURIUMBERG, THE BRONZE BULL
REPLACED BY A PODIUM.
ADOLPH HITLER ANNOUNCE HIS FINAL
SOLUTION TO THE WORLD, THIS TIME
THE BURNT
SACRIFICE WAS
6
MILLION JEWS.
AFTER THE
WAR
WAS
OVER,
ALBERT SPEAR
SAID IT IS
HARD
TO
RECOGNIZE
THE
DEVIL
WHEN HE
HAS
HIS HAND
ON YOUR
SHOULDER.
WHAT ARE
THE
SIGNS
OF THE
ANTICHRIST?
WHAT ARE THE
EVIDENCES THAT
SOMEONE HAS
THIS
SPIRIT
IN
THE
SPIRIT OF
ANTICHRIST?
LET'S LOOK TO FIRST JOHN, 2:18.
LITTLE CHILDREN, IT IS THE LAST
HOUR, AND AS YOU HAVE HEARD THE
ANTICHRIST IS COMING, EVEN NOW,
MANY ANTICHRIST HAVE COME BY
WHICH WE KNOW THAT IT IS THE
LAST HOUR.
WHEN YOU LOOK AT THIS FIRST IN
1ST
JOHN,
YOU
UNDERSTAND
THERE
ISN'T 1
ANTICHRIST.
THERE ARE
MANY.
THERE IS A
MAJOR
1 TO
COME.
MANY
IN
HISTORY
WHO HAVE
SET
THEMSELVES UP AS AGAINST
JESUS,
AGAINST THE
MESSIAH, AGAINST
THE
HOLY
1
OF
ISRAEL.
HERE IS
HOW THEY
DO IT.
FIND IT ALSO IN FIRST JOHN, 4:3.
EVERY SPIRIT THAT DOES NOT
CONFESS THAT JESUS CHRIST HAS
COME IN THE FLESH IS NOT OF GOD.
AND THIS IS THE SPIRIT OF
ANTICHRIST.
WHICH YOU HAVE HEARD WAS COMING.
AND IS NOW ALREADY IN THE WORLD.
SO AS
JOHN
IS
TELLING
US, THIS
IS ALREADY HERE AND
HAS BEEN
HERE
THOUSANDS
OF
YEARS.
AND
HOW DO YOU
RECOGNIZE WHEN
SOMEONE HAS
THIS SPIRIT AND
SOMEONE WHO
ACTS
AS 1
OF THE
MANY
ANTICHRIST?
HERE IS
A
CLUE,
DIRECTLY FROM
JESUS, HE IS
PROF
SIGHING ABOUT
THE
DESTRUCTION OF THE
TEMPLE
IN
JERUSALEM.
HIS
DISCIPLES COME
AND SAY
WHEN
WILL THESE
THINGS BE AND
WHAT IS
THE
SIGN
OF
YOUR COMING
AND
THE
END OF THE
AGE?
THERE IS
A
3-PART
QUESTION.
JESUS
IN
MATTHEW
24
ANSWERS ALL
3
QUESTIONS.
SPECIFICALLY ADDS IN A UNIQUE
PHRASE THAT COMES FROM THE BOOK
OF DANIEL.
THEREFORE, WHEN YOU SEE THE
ABOMINATION OF DESOLATION,
SPOKEN OF BY DANIEL, THE PROPHET
STANDING IN THE HOLY PLACE,
WHOEVER READS, LET THEM
UNDERSTAND.
SOME MARGINALS SAY THIS IS THE
ANTICHRIST.
LET
THOSE IN JUDEA
FLEE TO
THE
MOUNTAINS.
NOW,
THIS SPECIFIC
PROPHESY
OF
DANIEL, SOME
CLAIM
WAS
FULFILLED
ALREADY BEFORE
JESUS
WAS
EVEN
BORN.
ANTIYOK,
EPIPHANY CAME AND
SLAUGHTERED
JEWS
ABOUT 80,000
WERE KILLED.
AND IN THE HOLY OF HOLIES, IN
THE TEMPLE, HE
SET
UP A STATUTE
OF ZEUS.
AND THERE HE OFFERED SACRIFICE
AND
SACRIFICED A PIG IN THE HOLY
OF HOLIES
AND HE, THE
ABOMINATION OF DESOLATION IN THE
HOLY OF
HOLIES AND HE
OFFERED A
PIG THERE.
80,000
JEWS DIED.
IT WAS ILLEGAL TO BE
JEWISH.
IT WAS ILLEGAL TO CIRCUMCISE AND
OBSERVE THE SABBATH AND OFFER
SACRIFICES.
ALL OF THIS HAPPENED BEFORE
JESUS WAS EVEN BORN.
SO
HE IS PROF
SIGHING ANOTHER
ABOMINATION FROM THE
BOOK OF
DANIEL, HIS NAME WAS TITUS AND
HAPPENED
WITHIN A
GENERATION
IN
A.D. 70.
TITUS
CAME
AND
LEWDED THE
TEMPLE.
THE ARCH OF TITUS
STANDS IN THE
CITY
OF
ROME.
ARTICLES FROM THE TEMPLE TAKEN
AS TROPHIES BACK
TO THE
CITY
OF
ROME BY THE THEN TO BE EMPEROR
TITUS.
HE SET THEM UP
IN A SPECIAL
TEMPLE.
AND OFFERED
SACRIFICE TO THEM
THERE.
NOW, WHAT
DID
TITUS DO?
HE ABSOLUTELY
DESTROYED
JERUSALEM.
HE
TRICKED
THE JEWS AND SAID IF
YOU WANT TO CELEBRATE PASS OVER,
YOU CAN GO INTO THE CITY.
THEN WHENEVER THE CITY WAS
FILLED HE THEN SHUT THE GATES
AND LITERAL STARVED THEM TO
DEATH 1.1 MILLION JEWS KILLED.
AFTER HE TOOK THE CITY, THE
REPORTS HE SET UP A STATUTE OF
HIMSELF AND A ROMAN LEGION CAME
IN AND OFFERED SACRIFICE IN THE
HOLY OF HOLIES TO TITUS.
HE PUT HIMSELF IN THE PLACE OF
GOD IN THE TEMPLE IN JERUSALEM.
HERE IS WHAT TITUS HAD TO SAY,
YOU FIND THIS FROM FILL STROS
TIS, AFTER TITUS HAD TAKEN
JERUSALEM AND THE COUNTRY ALL
AROUND FILLED WITH CORPSES, THE
NEIGHBORS RACES OFFERED HIM A
CROWN.
HE DISCLAIMED ANY SUCH HONOR
SAYING IT WAS NOT HIMSELF THAT
ACCOMPLISHED THIS EXPLOIT, BUT
LENT HIS ARMS TO GOD WHO HAD SO
MANIFESTED HIS WRATH.
THIS IS 1 OF THE SIGNS OF THE
ANT CHRIST.
1 OF THE SIGNS OF THE
ABOMINATION OF DESOLATION.
THERE IS YET TO BE FILLED
BECAUSE WE KNOW FROM THE
WRITINGS OF PAUL, THE MAN OF
SIN, FROM THE JOHN IN REVELATION
AND FROM THE WORDS OF JESUS,
THERE WILL YET BE ANOTHER
ANTICHRIST WHO WILL COME, WHO
WILL TRY TO SET HIMSELF UP IN
THE HOLY OF HOLIES.
HERE IT IS FROM DANIEL 8:23-26,
THESE ARE THE SIGNS OF THE
ANTICHRIST.
AND IN THE LATTER TIME OF THEIR
KINGDOM, TRANSGRESSORS HAVE
REACHED FULLNESS, A KING SHALL
ARRIVE.
HIS POWER SHALL BE MIGHTY, BUT
NOT BY HIS OWN POWER.
HE SHALL DESTROY FEARFULLY AND
PROSPER AND THRIVE, THROUGH
CUNNING, DECENT AND RULE
DESTROYING MANY IN THEIR
PROSPERITY.
HE SHALL EVEN RISE AGAINST THE
PRINCE OF PRINCES BUT HE SHALL
BE BROKEN WITHOUT HUMAN MEANS.
THE VISION OF THE EVENINGS, SEAL
UP THE VISION FOR IT REFERS TO
MANY IN THE FUTURE.
DANIEL IS QUOTING AN ANGEL.
IT IS GIVING HIM A KEY.
A KING SHALL ARRIVE.
IT IS A KING.
IT IS AN ABSOLUTE RULER.
YOU CAN CALL THEM EMPEROR,
CAESAR, YOU CAN CALL THEM FURER,
A CHAIRMAN, ALL KINDS OF THINGS,
BUT YOU HAVE TO UNDERSTAND, HE
HAS ABSOLUTE RULE WHEN HE MAKES
A DECREE, IT BECOMES THE LAW OF
THE LAND.
SECOND, HIS POWER SHALL BE
MIGHTY BUT NOT BY HIS OWN POWER,
HE'LL HAVE UNUSUAL THINGS, BOOK
OF REVELATION TALKS
ABOUT, THE
ABILITY TO GIVE SIGNS AND
WONDERS.
HE'LL BE SO UNUSUAL IN HIS
POWER, EVEN THOUGH ELECT CAN BE
DECEIVED BY WHAT HE IS DOING.
WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE ANTICHRIST,
TITUS SAID I DIDN'T DESTROY
JERUSALEM, I JUST LENT MY ARMS
TO GOD.
YOU START TO UNDERSTAND WHAT IS
GOING ON.
THE FURER SAID HE WAS TAPPING
INTO THE 3RD REICH, THE 3RD
MILLENNIUM REIGN OF THE PEOPLE.
IT IS NOT ALWAYS THEIR POWER
THEY ARE TAPPING INTO.
THIRD SIGN, HE SHALL DESTROY
FEARFULLY.
HE SHALL DESTROY THE MIGHTY, AND
ALSO THE HOLY PEOPLE.
START UNDERSTANDING, WHAT DOES
THE ANTICHRIST GO AFTER?
THE HOLY PEOPLE.
AND WHETHER THAT IS JEWS OR
CHRISTIANS, HE TARGETS THEM AND
TRIES TO WIPE THEM OUT.
HE EXHALTS HIMSELF IN HIS OWN
HEART AND SHALL DESTROY MANY IN
THEIR PROSPERITY.
WE SEE DESTRUCTION.
DESTRUCTION FEARFULLY,
DESTROYING THE MIGHTY, THE HOLY
PEOPLE AND DESTROYING MANY IN
THEIR PROSPERITY.
HE BRINGS POVERTY, HE BRINGS
DESTRUCTION.
HE BRINGS GENOCIDE AGAINST THE
HOLY PEOPLE.
AND THE FINAL CLUE, HE SHALL
EVEN RISE AGAINST THE PRINCE OF
PRINCES.
HE EXHALTS HIMSELF AGAINST THE
MESSIAH, AGAINST JESUS.
HE PUTS HIMSELF IN THE PLACE OF
THE MESSIAH.
AND THAT IS THE FINAL SIGN.
WHERE IS THE HOPE?
HE SHALL BE BROKEN WITHOUT HUMAN
MEANS.
WHEN WE UNDERSTAND GOD HIMSELF
WILL INTERVENE, GOD HIMSELF WILL
BRING A RESOLUTION TO THE
ANTICHRIST.
THEN WE CAN REST SECURE KNOWING
OUR FUTURE AND HOPE ARE WITH HIM.