ruins Archives - Tim Frakes Productions https://frakesproductions.com/tag/ruins/ My WordPress Blog Sun, 14 Sep 2008 12:02:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 Ancient Philippi https://frakesproductions.com/2008/09/14/ancient-philippi/ https://frakesproductions.com/2008/09/14/ancient-philippi/#comments Sun, 14 Sep 2008 12:02:00 +0000 http://www.frakesproductions.com/?p=235 Ancient Philippi is in a valley about 15 kilometers north of the Aegean coast near the city of Kavala. It was a windy, chilly day and the place was mostly empty except for a team of archaeologists busily digging away near the Roman theater. Philippi features prominently in the New Testament. It was Paul and […]

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Ancient Philippi is in a valley about 15 kilometers north of the Aegean coast near the city of Kavala. It was a windy, chilly day and the place was mostly empty except for a team of archaeologists busily digging away near the Roman theater. Philippi features prominently in the New Testament. It was Paul and Silas first stop in Europe.

It is the place where they were thrown into prison, only to be rescued by an earthquake. Later, Paul wrote a letter to the Philippian church that ultimately made its way into the cannon of the New Testament. While in Philippi, Paul met a woman named Lydia. Lydia was a God fearer, a term Luke and Paul used to describe Greeks who sympathized and worshiped with Jews. The ruins are about half a mile from a small creek. The Bible mentions that Paul met Lydia as she was washing cloths by a river. So, I drove down to check out this famous location. It is nothing more than a drainage ditch that runs past a garbage dump!

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]]> Perge, Turkey is a world class archeological site. An important Roman shipping port during its heyday, it was abandoned centuries ago. Now, the only visitors come on tour busses from Side. It must have been a large city. The ruins include a stadium, a theater, public baths that still hold water and a colossal arched city gate.

New Testament characters Paul and Barnabas passed through here on the way to Antioch in Pisidia around 50 AD. It was also at this point that Barnabas?s nephew, Mark, decided to turn back. Maybe the sight of a major Roman city and its garrison of soldiers gave him second thoughts? Paul and Barnabas pressed on, so did we.

This footage appears in “The Life of Apostle Paul with Rick Steves.”
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