Jan. 21, 2025
Muslim Expansion into the Iberian Peninsula - (Enmity with the Seed – Part 3 - From Islam to Azusa) – Episode 31
Send us a text Discover the extraordinary saga of how Islamic forces swiftly altered the course of history after the death of Muhammad in 632 AD. Uncover the tactical brilliance that saw these armies conquer vast territories across the Middle East, Persia, and Northern Africa, before setting their sights on Europe. We guarantee you'll gain new insights into the pivotal events of the early 700s, including the failed sieges of Constantinople and the momentous Battle of Guadalete that paved the ...
Discover the extraordinary saga of how Islamic forces swiftly altered the course of history after the death of Muhammad in 632 AD. Uncover the tactical brilliance that saw these armies conquer vast territories across the Middle East, Persia, and Northern Africa, before setting their sights on Europe. We guarantee you'll gain new insights into the pivotal events of the early 700s, including the failed sieges of Constantinople and the momentous Battle of Guadalete that paved the way for the Muslim invasion of Spain.
Journey with us through the dramatic conquests in the Iberian Peninsula from 711 to 721. Explore the strategic maneuvers that led to the capturing of cities like Seville and Merida, as we unravel the psychological warfare that instilled fear in the local populations. Meet a fascinating figure, a relative of the Visigoth King Roderick, who expertly navigated the turbulent waters of submission and resistance. We promise a captivating exploration of the complexities faced by the conquered peoples and the enduring dynamics of governance and allegiance.
Finally, witness the indomitable spirit of Christian resistance in the north of Spain. Follow the inspiring rise of the Kingdom of Asturias under Pelayo, whose bold defiance against Muslim rule set the stage for the centuries-long struggle of the Reconquista. Experience the symbolic significance of battles like Covadonga and the profound faith that motivated early Christians to reclaim their lands. We reflect on the legendary figures whose courage and perseverance helped shape the destiny of Western civilization, weaving a narrative that resonates with themes of faith, courage, and the relentless pursuit of freedom.
00:00 - Islamic Conquest of Spain
06:16 - Muslim Conquest of Spain
16:16 - Battle of Corbadonga
31:17 - Christian Resistance to Islamic Conquest
40:35 - Divine Call to Prepare for Battle
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We're not on.
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Why aren't we on?
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Praise the Lord.
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Praise the Lord.
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Thank you, lord, glory to God.
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Last time we were together, we talked about two key battles or invasions that marked what the enemy was trying to do in shortly after this religion called Islam was started in the Middle East.
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I need to leave that on.
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Praise God, hallelujah.
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Muhammad died in 632 AD and within 80 years Islam had spread from a little region in Saudi Arabia through the entire Middle East, up through Syria and over into Persia, almost to the borders of India, and then, having done that, turned to the West and conquered all of Northern Africa within 80 years.
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It was an amazing feat of military conquest, given the fact that, as we mentioned, nothing moved any faster than a horse or a camel or a boat, and we're talking armies that were sometimes hundreds of thousands of men.
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So the logistics of moving troops and and supplies, animals and ships and all of that kind of stuff was amazing in the in those days.
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And yet it shows the singleness of purpose that they had in doing this that within 80 years that they had in doing this, that within 80 years they had moved, they had taken Syria, they had taken Persia, they had taken all of Northern Africa, and these were all, except for the Persia, they were all Christian countries and they moved across Africa.
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And that brings us to brought us to where we were last week when they tried to turn north.
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And what they're really doing at this point in the early years of the 700s is they're trying to do a traditional pincer movement and on one hand they're attacking Constantinople in the east and on the other hand they're attacking Spain on the west.
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Last week we learned about how they got repulsed two times at Constantinople and they would not be able to do any more, nor conquer Constantinople for another 800 years, until 1453.
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Simultaneously, more or less, they're moving over here in Spain, and that's where we're going to pick it up today.
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In 711, they formed an armada and took about 7,000 men into southern Spain.
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I have to get my map back up here, hang on.
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The people of the coastline were so used to seeing Muslim traders that when this armada of ships came across, they just thought that it was a bunch of trading vessels.
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Little did they know that they were about to become invaded.
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There we go.
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So here's the.
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This area right here is Northern Africa and it is totally under the dominion of Muslim influence.
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This little stretch of water here is called the Strait of Gibraltar, and Gibraltar and its famous rock is right here, this little island over here.
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This is the way the Muslims came across in 711, and they immediately encountered the army of the king, whose name was Roderick, and the people group that occupied Spain at that time were called the Viscoths.
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You've probably heard of them.
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They were a people that were involved in several successions into Italy.
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As the Roman Empire fell.
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They had taken over the entire what is called Iberian Peninsula, which is now modern day Spain, and Portugal, portugal's over here, spain is over here, and that whole peninsula is called the Iberian Peninsula.
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The people that were the rulers and the occupants of that were called the Viscoths, and their king was a man named Roderick.
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Anyway, the Muslims came across at Gibraltar and began to move toward a place where a pitched battle would take place, at Guadalete in July of 711.
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At Guadalete, in July of 711.
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The Viscots would lose to the Muslims in that battle and then from there, as you can see by these arrows, they went up to a place called Meridia.
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They went to a place called Toledo, they went to a place called Granada, malaga, guadalajara, called Granada, malaga, guadalajara, and on and on, in an effort to move up through the entirety of the Spanish peninsula.
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Now, shortly thereafter, there was another invasion with several thousand more Muslim troops, about 18,000 troops.
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They came in and they rapidly captured this city of Seville and then moved up and captured this city of Meridia.
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So within about 10 years, from 711 to 721, they occupied over two-thirds.
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Everything that's in this light tan color here is Muslim occupation.
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They conquered and occupied these areas all the way up to this ridge of mountains right here.
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Let me just show you.
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I'm going to show you a map that has nothing to do with this.
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Well, oh, here we go, just to show you these mountains.
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There's a mountain range that goes across in this direction, from southeast to west, across this northern part of the peninsula, and that was where the Muslim occupation stopped.
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Amen, are you with me?
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So far?
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Don't get, don't get too bound down.
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If you don't, if you don't understand all this stuff, I'm just trying to hurry through here so we can get to the thing we really want to talk about.
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This shows you wherever you see these little swords like this, there was a major battle here, here, there were resistance efforts here and here, where you see these castles, it's where the city basically surrendered and came to a peaceful agreement with the Muslims.
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Because what happened was that the Muslims gave them an alternative they could either surrender and pay the tax or they could be eliminated.
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If that doesn't sound like a chapter out of the Godfather, I don't know what does you know?
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I mean, it's an old tactic Either pay me protection money or you're not going to be protected.
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And here is what.
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Some of the things now these are things that I'm going to read from that were written shortly after these things happened.
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So this isn't some historian you know telling stories.
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You know, centuries after the fact this is somebody that wrote this within a few years of this occupation that both Arabs and Africans, both under the banner of Islam, had godlessly invaded Spain to destroy it Once on European soil.
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Quote they ruined beautiful cities, burning them with fire.
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They condemned lords and powerful men to the cross.
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In other words, they crucified leadership all over the place.
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They butchered ewes and killed infants with the sword After beating the Viscoth king Roderick.
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At this battle at Guadalete it was written of that never was there in the West a more bloody battle than this.
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Muslims did not withdraw their scimitars from the Christians.
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For three days the invaders continued to press forward north into Spain, not passing a place without reducing it and looting it of its possessions and wealth.
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This terrorism was intentionally cultivated by the Muslim forces.
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For example, they slaughtered, cooked and pretended to eat their captives.
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Then they would deliberately release some, who would flee and go away and inform people of Spain that the Muslims feed on human flesh.
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So not only did they do this to people, but they sent this message of terror out in front of them.
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This was a valuable lesson.
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I don't know that the Mongols learned it from them, but the Mongols did this very same thing.
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They were so brutal, but they would always send emissaries.
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They said go tell what you just saw, because we're coming to a town near you, hallelujah.
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So they basically left the Spanish with two choices.
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They could either acquiesce to the Muslim rule, in other words, give in, live under their protection ship.
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They didn't necessarily under Sharia law.
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Once a people is conquered, they have two options they can convert and become a Muslim, or they can pay the tax.
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If they pay the tax, they don't have to convert, but you have to keep on paying the tax.
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If you don't pay the tax as soon as you don't, then you become an infidel and it is completely lawful to exterminate you.
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That's how they do things.
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Amen, they have a name for that tax.
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It's part of their law.
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So they had this choice to acquiesce to the Muslims in one way or the other, or flee to the mountains those mountains I just showed you, because it was the only natural protection that was left.
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The Muslims had gone that far north and they were pushing them and pushing them.
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They finally had their backs to the mountains and they said okay, we've got one choice here we either give in or we flee to the mountains, where they risked hunger, deprivations, harsh climate, various forms of death.
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So about that time there was a man there always is a man, there always is one who was a relative of King Roderick and was his personal sword bearer Now, that's a title of some importance and he survived this battle down in the south of Spain, at Guadalete, the first battle in 711.
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And he decided he was going to follow both strategies.
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He's going to play both sides against the middle.
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He was going to give in to the Muslims, but he was going to retreat to the mountains.
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So what he did was he retreated north because the Muslim rule the further north you got, the less people they had, the less tenuous their control and rule over the country was.
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So they moved north where he eventually decided to plead his fealty, his loyalty and become a vassal of this low level Muslim chief.
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There you got to understand it.
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You know, government was not real precisely organized back in that those days we basically had, if you, you know, if you, you could become a King, if you were the, if you were the Lord over a fairly large city had to do with population towns.
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They had other kinds of guys run those things.
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There wasn't any kind of of civil voting or you know, if you had, if you had the men and you had the muscle, you ran the show and you got to collect taxes and then there was somebody over you that was going to collect taxes from you and then there was somebody over them that was going to collect taxes from them and then there was somebody over them that was going to take the taxes back to Saudi Arabia.
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You get the picture right.
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So after the battle, after he went north and he became the vassal of this chief, the Muslim chief made a very severe tactical blunder After this guy whose name is Pelau.
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After that happened, the Muslim chief decided he liked his sister, so he abducted her and made her a wife not his wife, but a wife, one of many kind of things.
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He basically kidnapped her and put her in his harem.
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This didn't sit well with our hero.
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He didn't cotton very well to the fact that his sister had been abducted and then abused and then placed in this infidel's harem.
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So he quit paying the tax.
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Tax is called I can't pronounce, it doesn't matter.
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Taxes called it I can't pronounce, it Doesn't matter, you can't do that.
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You either going to be either submit and become a Muslim or you keep paying the tax, and the day that you quit paying the tax you are in deep trouble.
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And so the Muslims were sent to apprehend him treacherously and bring him back bound in chains.
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So now he has a death sentence on his head.
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His sister has been abducted, she's been abused, she's been placed in this guy's harem.
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He can't do anything to amount of resistance to get her out and he's running for his life and so unable to fight because there were just so many of them that were sent.
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I mean this guy.
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This guy's got some prestige.
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He's got some.
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He's got some power.
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He's a, he's a near kinsman of the King, amen.
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And.
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And if they let him off the hook, they're going to have a hard time keeping everybody else in tow.
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So they're just, they're after him like white on rice.
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They just want, they want to make a hard time keeping everybody else in tow.
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So they're just, they're after him like white on rice.
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They just want, they want to make a show of him.
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You know, we've just already heard about how they crucify the leadership.
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He was in for no picnic and so, unable to fight this throng of people that were so numerous, he hit, he hit up in the mountains and he started to climb the mountain and he joined himself to as many people as he could, hastening to assemble them.
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So he went up, found people of like precious faith, christians who were running for their lives, trying to find a place of safety.
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They were scattered, they were all over the place and so, being a leader, he went up and he started to assemble them together.
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These mountains are called the Asturian Mountains and we're going to come back to that term over and over again.
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It was the only free spot left in northwestern Spain and the assembled Christian fugitives there declared that Palao to be their new king, and the kingdom of the Asturias was born.
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Now this may not mean anything to you, but what's about to happen to the king of the Asturians is about to change Western civilization and it will forever change the history of Spain.
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Because that little kingdom of Asturia, as it expanded over time, was absorbed by another kingdom from Leon and it became the kingdom of Leon.
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The king of Asturias became the king of Leon, then the king of Leon over time became the king of Castile.
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This may not mean anything to you, but in Spain the language called Spanish is not called Spanish, it's called Castilian from that word, castile.
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And in the 1400s, when Spain was united under a king called Ferdinand and a queen called Isabella, they were known as the king and queen of Castile and Aragon and of Spain.
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So we go from the Asturians to Leon, from Leon to Castile, from Castile to Spain, all starting back here with our hero Helao, who was the first king of the Asturians and his bloodline wove through and became the king and queen of Spain.
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Now see, all of this may not mean anything to you.
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In Mexico, you can't go anywhere without seeing a street named after Ferdinand or a street named after who's the other one?
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Isabella, everywhere.
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They're everywhere.
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They are the king and queen.
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She is the queen catholica.
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The catholic queen is what she's called.
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They are the biggest thing in Spanish history, and they all came from this one guy who decided to flee up into the mountains and take a stand.
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So, hearing this, the governor there.
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He is down there, my little marker.
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The governor of this little place called Cordova heard about all this stuff going on and he was moved.
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All this stuff going on and he was moved this is a literal quote moved by an insane fury and ordered a very large army from all over Spain to go forth and bring these infidel rebels to heel.
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Watch this, you think they were serious.
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They were serious.
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They mounted an army of 180,000 men 180,000 men and surrounded Palau's mountain.
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So they sent a messenger up the valley and through the canyons to communicate with this man.
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And so the messenger had this message for Palau.
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He said this if, when the entire army of the Goths was assembled, it was unable to sustain the attack of the Muslims at Guadalete, how much better will you be able to defend yourself on this mountaintop?
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They went on.
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To me, it seems difficult.
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Rather, heed my warning and recall your soul from this decision so that you may take advantage of the many good things and enjoy the partnership of the Muslims.
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In other words, he was offering him a way out.
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He was offering to surrender.
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If he surrendered and paid the tax, everything would be fine.
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If you believe that, I've got beachfront property for you in the Mojave desert.
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If he surrendered he would have been crucified that afternoon.
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They would have never kept that part, but that was the offer, and they had an emissary of some repute to go up there and tell him that look, if you couldn't beat us down here in Guadalete, what do you think you're going to do?
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With fewer men, less trained, fewer resources up here in the mountains, you don't have a chance.
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I got 180,000 men.
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Spain has not seen this kind of an army before.
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So our hero Paleo had this as a response.
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I think it's amazing that here we are a thousand years later, or more 1,200 years later, and we've got word-for-word descriptions of what these guys said.
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That's amazing.
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I think it's amazing.
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He said I will not associate with the Arabs in friendship, nor will I submit to their authority.
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In other words, I know you can kill me.
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I know what fate awaits me, but I am not going to be your friend and I am not submitting to your authority to pay the tax.
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I'm not going to do any of that.
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That's over.
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You violated all of that when you abducted my sister.
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These are guys that dealt in realms of honor that we can't even imagine.
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So this is the main point of what we're going to be talking about today.
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We'll probably talk about some of this next time.
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Then the rebel made a prophecy that would be fulfilled over the course of nearly eight centuries.
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He prophesied, and what was prophesied took eight centuries to be fulfilled.
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He said have you not read in the divine scriptures that the church of God is compared to a mustard seed and that it will be raised up again through divine mercy?
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I'm not completely sure that that's the proper interpretation of that scripture, but he got on it for all it was worth and he just reached out there and said this thing that looks like a mustard seed now is going to sprout, it's going to grow, it's going to be a big tree.
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Amen, that even the birds of the air can come and dwell in Christ.
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Now listen to this.
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Christ is our hope that through this little mountain which you see, the well-being of Spain and the army of the Gothic people will be restored.
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Now, therefore, trusting in the mercy of Jesus Christ, I despise your multitude and I am not afraid of it.
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You can just see him.
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I spit on your multitude.
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Glory to God.
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I just love this.
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Trusting in the mercy of Jesus Christ.
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I despise this multitude and I'm not afraid of it.
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As for the battle with which you threaten us, we have for ourselves an advocate in the presence of the Father.
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We have for ourselves an advocate in the presence of the Father, that is the Lord Jesus Christ, who is capable of liberating us from these few Boy.
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Didn't he, though?
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Somebody read that scripture back there about Elijah and his servant?
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You know when Elijah said look at all this army.
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And it was the exact same number 180,000.
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Look at them and his servant.
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You know when Elijah said you know, look at all this army is a hundred.
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And it was exact same number 180,000.
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Look at him.
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What Elijah do?
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He said open, open his eyes, lord, and let him see that there are more with us than there are with them.
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Glory to God, hallelujah.
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Somebody, somebody, I mean this man knew some scripture, did he not?
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Glory to God, hallelujah.
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I love that.
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I despise this multitude and I'm not afraid of it.
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The next time Satan gets in your face and tries to intimidate you with numbers or whatever, just go.
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I despise this multitude, I'm not afraid of you.
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I despise you Because my confidence is in the mercy and the grace and the power of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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So they're at a little place called Corbadonga.
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You've never heard of this place, I never heard of this place, but it's right up here, nestled in the mountains, right at the right at the, at the facing the sea, between the mountains and the sea.
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This little place, and on May the 28th, on May the 28th in 722, a battle began that would ultimately change the future of Spain and set the stage for a battle that would preserve Western civilization in Europe.
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See, we're talking.
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When the enemy comes in like a, a flood, the spirit of god raises up a standard.
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It happened in constantinople two times, and then in constantinople it happened many, many, many, many times before it finally fell seven centuries later.
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At the same time, they were pushing over here, amen.
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The christians were pushing back in spain, and this Constantinople fell in 1453, but Spain was finally reconquered and the Muslims pushed out in 1492.
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And they never did get into Europe until this century.
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Because I'm telling you, the Muslims remember these dates like they're written on the back of their eyeballs and we don't even know what we're talking about.
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Glory to God At Covadonga, meaning Cavern of the Lady.
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A battle commenced on May 28, 722.
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Our Christian brothers took up positions in this canyon, took up positions in this canyon and as the army moved in, they pelted them with rocks down through these narrow passages where their numbers counted for nothing and just made for more confusion.
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Afterwards, after they had been pelted with rocks and all the rocks they had stored out were used up and the canyons full of dead bodies, paleo and his men rushed from their caves and their hideouts and they made a great slaughter among them.
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They were trapped, they lost their mobility.
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They had to trip and stumble over their dead comrades.
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They were blocked at either end by rocks.
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Those that fled the carnage and could get out were tracked down and mowed down by other mountaineers.
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180,000 men.
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A decisive this was a quote by somebody writing at that time a decisive blow was dealt at the Moorish power.
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The advancing tide of the conquest was stemmed.
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The Spanish people gathered heart and they found their hope in their darkest hour Listen to this.
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And the dream of Muslim invincibility was broken Up.
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Until this point, they were an invincible force.
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They just did whatever they wanted to do.
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They were incapable of being resisted.
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And Paleo and his men?
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Because they put their faith in an advocate, jesus Christ, and believed in his mercy and his power.
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They did what no other army in North Africa, in the Middle East, in Persia, could do.
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They resisted and they were victorious.
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And all of a sudden, Spain knew they could win.
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