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🗓️ 27 July 2020
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Bible Lands Unveiled is a series of on-location Bible studies that will give you a look at the impact of the Gospel around the world. This teaching was filmed in Thessaloniki, Greece and is titled "Turn the World Upside Down."
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0:29.0 | Well, good morning from the city of Thessal and Nike here in northern Greece. |
0:35.0 | Behind me is the famous White Tower, |
0:38.0 | a symbol of the fortification of a city that was founded right here in 315 BC by Cassandra the King of Macedonia. |
0:50.0 | He actually named this city after his wife who got her name from her father, King Philip, |
0:57.8 | named her after the victory of the Thessalians, who are from the region of Thessalia in the center of Greece of today |
1:09.5 | over the Focchians. |
1:11.9 | So Thessalon Nike, the victory of the Thessallians. |
1:17.0 | Nike is victory. Thessallians were the people from Thessalia and therefore we got the name Thessaloniki and he named a new city right here after his wife |
1:32.1 | The city itself was standing here ever since and in the first |
1:37.1 | Anthony BC a fortification was built above the city and about 55 BC built by the Romans and the city |
1:46.2 | existed right here at the time of the Book of acts chapter 17. |
1:55.0 | So we're talking about an interesting time |
1:58.0 | when Paul just started his second missionary journey. |
2:03.0 | He started all the way up from Jerusalem, |
2:06.0 | where there was the Jerusalem Council of Act 15. |
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