Caption transcript for “A Burdensome Stone”

• 00:16 BRETHREN, MY HEART'S DESIRE AND PRAYER TO GOD FOR ISRAEL IS THAT THEY MIGHT BE SAVED,
• 00:23 FOR THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE JEW AND THE GREEK
• 00:26 FOR THE SAME LORD OVER ALL IS RICH UNTO ALL THAT CALL UPON HIM.
• 00:38 WITH DR. JEFFREY SEIF
• 00:41 HEARTY SHALOM TO ALL OF YOU.
• 00:43 JEFFREY SEIF HERE
• 00:45 AND I AM PLEASED TO WELCOME YOU TO ANOTHER EDITION OF ZOLA LEVITT PRESENTS.
• 00:49 SOMETIME BACK A YOUNG GUY CAME UP TO ME AND HE SAYS,
• 00:52 "MAN, YOU KNOW I REALLY DIG ISRAEL."
• 00:55 WELL SO DOES THIS NEXT GUEST COMING UP, GABBI BARKAY.
• 01:00 DR. BARKAY IS A HEAD ARCHEOLOGIST IN JERUSALEM.
• 01:05 BARKAY IS EXPERT IN THE TEMPLE MOUNT
• 01:10 WHERE HE IS THE GUY THAT OVERSEES THE ONLY OFFICIAL EXCAVATION OF RUINS THERE.
• 01:16 OH IT'S A PLEASURE TO TAKE YOU TO PLACES YOU NORMALLY WOULDN'T GO
• 01:20 AND TO HEAR PEOPLE YOU NORMALLY WOULDN'T HEAR.
• 01:23 GET READY FOR THIS...
• 01:25 DR. GABBI BARKAY IN JERUSALEM.
• 01:31 I BELIEVE THAT WE'RE WORKING WITH ONE OF THE CRIMES OF THE CENTURY...FLAGRANT DECEIT.
• 01:38 WHAT'S HAPPENING AT THE TEMPLE MOUNT
• 01:40 OR WHAT HAS HAPPENED AND WHAT YOU'RE SORTING THROUGH HERE.
• 01:42 CAN YOU EXPLAIN THAT TO US PLEASE?
• 01:44 YES, THE TEMPLE PASSED EXTREME CHANGES SINCE THE NINETIES.
• 01:51 THERE WAS A STATUS QUO WHICH WAS PREVAILING UPON THE TEMPLE MOUNT FOR CENTURIES...
• 01:56 ALL THAT WAS BROKEN IN THE NINETIES
• 01:59 WITH THE VERY STRANGE OSLO ACCORDS.
• 02:05 WHEN THERE WERE RUMORS ORIGINATING FROM WASHINGTON, D.C.
• 02:12 ABOUT THE POSSIBLE SOLUTION OF THE CONFLICT OF THE NEAR EAST.
• 02:18 THEY UNDERSTOOD THAT THE CRUX OF THE PROBLEM IS THE TEMPLE MOUNT
• 02:22 SO THE IDEA WAS BASICALLY
• 02:27 THAT THERE WILL BE A SPLIT SOVEREIGNTY UPON THE TEMPLE MOUNT
• 02:30 IN THE FUTURE TO COME...AGREEMENT.
• 02:33 AND THEN THE WAQFA AUTHORITIES,
• 02:37 OR THE ISLAMIC TRUST,
• 02:39 BEGAN LIKE MAD TO PENETRATE ALL THOSE SUBTERRANEAN UNITS
• 02:44 WHICH EXIST UPON THE TEMPLE MOUNT.
• 02:46 THE TEMPLE MOUNT IS HONEYCOMBED
• 02:48 WITH MORE THAN 50 CAVITIES,
• 02:51 PASSAGEWAYS, CISTERNS, AND SUBTERRANEAN UNITS.
• 02:55 THIS WORK WAS ACCOMPANIED ALSO BY INTENSIVE DIGGING
• 03:01 AND CHANGING OF THE INFRASTRUCTURE.
• 03:05 INSTEAD OF TWO MAJOR ISLAMIC BUILDINGS
• 03:08 WHICH STOOD THERE FOR CENTURIES,
• 03:10 THE DOME OF THE ROCK, AND THE AL AQSA MOSQUE,
• 03:13 IN 1998 WE ARE WITNESSING THE EXISTENCE
• 03:17 OF FOUR MAJOR ISLAMIC STRUCTURES...
• 03:20 A GIGANTIC SUBTERRANEAN MOSQUE
• 03:23 BY THE NAME OF AL-MUSALLA AND MARWANI
• 03:25 BUILT INTO THE SO CALLED "SOLOMON STABLES"
• 03:29 WHICH IS NEITHER SOLOMON'S NOR STABLES,
• 03:32 OTHERWISE THE NAME IS OKAY. (JEFF LAUGHING)
• 03:37 THE BUILDING OF THAT MOSQUE HAS ROOM FOR MORE THAN 10,000 WORSHIPPERS.
• 03:45 IT IS THE LARGEST MOSQUE IN THE HISTORY OF PALESTINE
• 03:49 AND ALL THIS WAS MADE ILLICITLY IN THE NINETIES.
• 03:54 IN 1999 THERE WAS A GIGANTIC PIT DUG
• 03:58 TO A DEPTH OF 12 METERS TO A LENGTH OF 40 METERS
• 04:03 IN FRONT OF THAT MOSQUE.
• 04:05 THEY DUG THAT PIT AND PENETRATED INTO ANCIENT LAYERS OF THE TEMPLE MOUNT
• 04:10 IN THE MOST DESTRUCTIVE WAY EMPLOYING BULLDOZERS
• 04:15 AND THEY REMOVED FROM THE TEMPLE MOUNT
• 04:17 APPROXIMATELY 400 TRUCK LOADS OF EARTH
• 04:21 SATURATED WITH ARCHEOLOGICAL MATERIAL
• 04:24 WHICH WAS DUMPED MOST OF IT IN THE KIDRON VALLEY.
• 04:28 ALL THAT BROUGHT US TO THIS PROJECT.
• 04:33 WE SIFT THROUGH THE EARTH WHICH WAS REMOVED FROM THE TEMPLE MOUNT.
• 04:38 IT IS A TRAGEDY.
• 04:39 IT IS A BARBARIC ACT.
• 04:43 HERE WE HAVE THE CORNERSTONES OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION.
• 04:47 THE TEMPLE MOUNT APPEARS MORE THAN TWENTY TIMES IN THE NEW TESTAMENT ALONE.
• 04:51 THIS IS SOMETHING THAT DIDN'T SHAKE THE WORLD...WHY?
• 04:57 BECAUSE IT IS POLITICALLY INVOLVED...WHY?
• 05:01 BECAUSE PEOPLE THINK THAT IT IS OVER EXAGGERATED BY ONE PARTY.
• 05:08 I THINK THAT FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF CULTURE HERITAGE
• 05:11 THIS IS A BRUTAL DESTRUCTION OF CULTURAL HERITAGE.
• 05:16 IT IS PART OF WHAT I WOULD CALL A "CULTURAL INTIFADA".
• 05:23 (Jeff speaking) THIS PILE OF RUBBLE RESCUED FROM THE KIDRON VALLEY
• 05:25 IS BUT A SMALL PART OF THE IMMENSE AMOUNT OF MATERIAL TAKEN FROM THE TEMPLE MOUNT.
• 05:30 DR. BARKAY'S TEAM PATIENTLY SIFT THROUGH THE REMAINS.
• 05:34 THOUSANDS OF OBJECTS HAVE BEEN FOUND COVERING ALL PERIODS OF HISTORY ON THE MOUNT.
• 05:40 VERY INTERESTINGLY IN THE 1920'S AND 1930'S
• 05:45 THE WAQFA AUTHORITIES, THE TEMPLE MOUNT ISLAMIC TRUST,
• 05:50 ISSUED A BOOKLET FOR VISITORS WHICH SAYS THAT BEYOND ANY DOUBT
• 05:56 THE TEMPLE MOUNT OR THE NOBLE SANCTUARY AS THEY CALL IT
• 06:00 IS THE PLACE OF SOLOMON'S TEMPLE.
• 06:02 IT IS BEYOND ANY DOUBT,
• 06:04 IT IS STATED THERE.
• 06:05 JERUSALEM WAS CALLED BY THE ARABS "CITY OF THE TEMPLE".
• 06:10 RIGHT
• 06:12 AND IT WAS CALLED BY THE ARABS
• 06:15 "THE PLACE OF SOLOMON'S TEMPLE".
• 06:17 AND THERE ARE MANY REFERENCES IN EARLY ISLAMIC LITERATURE
• 06:21 TO THE TEMPLE OF JERUSALEM.
• 06:23 SUDDENLY FROM THE 1990'S WE HAVE A TEMPLE DENIAL.
• 06:27 I'LL TELL YOU IT IS SOMETHING VERY SERIOUS.
• 06:31 THIS IS USING ANCIENT HISTORY AS A POLITICAL TOOL.
• 06:38 I THINK THIS SHOULD NOT HAPPEN.
• 06:43 WE CALL IT THE TEMPLE MOUNT
• 06:46 BUT WE COULD JUST AS EASILY CALL IT "THE TENSION MOUNT".
• 06:51 AND WHY IS THAT?
• 06:53 BECAUSE TENSION SURELY "MOUNTS" IN AND AROUND JERUSALEM IN THESE PROPHETIC TIMES.
• 07:04 JUST ABOUT EVERY DAY NOW WE HEAR ABOUT NEWS IN EAST JERUSALEM.
• 07:09 DAVID DOLAN OUR MAN IN JERUSALEM...
• 07:12 HE'S A REPORTER ON THE GROUND FOR US.
• 07:15 HE USED TO WORK FOR CBS AND OTHERS AND NOW HE HELPS US
• 07:19 BY TAKING US TO PLACES AND TAKES US TO STORIES IN AND AROUND JERUSALEM.
• 07:24 OFF WE GO NOW TO DAVID AT NOF ZION IN EAST JERUSALEM.
• 07:32 THE NAME OF THIS NEW JEWISH NEIGHBORHOOD IS NOF ZION
• 07:35 WHICH MEANS IN HEBREW "A VIEW OF ZION"
• 07:37 AND INDEED YOU CAN SEE BEHIND ME
• 07:39 IT HAS A BEAUTIFUL VIEW OF MOUNT ZION AND THE OLD CITY.
• 07:43 AND ONE OF THE CENTERPIECES OF THAT IS THE HURVA SYNAGOGUE.
• 07:46 THIS IS A REBUILT SYNAGOGUE.
• 07:49 IT WAS JERUSALEM'S BIGGEST SYNAGOGUE FOR MANY, MANY DECADES
• 07:52 DESTROYED BY THE JORDANIANS IN 1948 AND THEN REBUILT BY ISRAEL ONLY RECENTLY.
• 07:58 PART OF THE REASON THAT THIS NEIGHBORHOOD IS SO CONTROVERSIAL
• 08:02 IS IT WILL BE MAINLY ORTHODOX JEWS THAT LIVE HERE
• 08:06 AND THESE CONSTRUCTION ITEMS YOU SEE ARE MEANT TO BUILD THE FIRST OF TWO SYNAGOGUES HERE.
• 08:13 RECENTLY THERE WAS A DEDICATION CEREMONY FOR THIS
• 08:16 AND THERE WERE PROTESTS FROM SOME OF THE ARABS
• 08:18 THAT LIVE IN THESE HOMES THAT YOU CAN SEE RIGHT ABOVE THIS JEWISH DEVELOPMENT.
• 08:23 THIS IS THE EDGE OF THE ARAB NEIGHBORHOOD OF JABL MUKABER.
• 08:28 AND THE AMERICANS HAVE ALSO PROTESTED THE BUILDING OF THIS NEIGHBORHOOD.
• 08:32 THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT...
• 08:33 BELIEVING MAYBE THIS IS PART OF A GRAND PLAN
• 08:35 TO JOIN THE WESTERN PART OF JERUSALEM TO THE JEWISH SUBURB OF MA'ALE ADUMIM
• 08:42 IN THE EASTERN JUDEAN DESERT
• 08:44 WITH A RING OF JEWISH HOMES GOING RIGHT AROUND THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF JERUSALEM.
• 08:51 THEY SAY THAT THIS WILL EFFECTIVELY CUT THE WEST BANK, JUDEA AND SAMARIA INTO
• 08:56 AND PREVENT A CONTIGUOUS PALESTINIAN STATE FROM BEING FORMED.
• 09:01 BUT THE JEWISH RESIDENTS HERE POINT OUT THAT THIS IS JEWISH OWNED LAND,
• 09:04 IT HAS BEEN FOR SOME TIME
• 09:06 AND THAT OF COURSE THIS IS THE OLD CITY OF JERUSALEM,
• 09:10 THIS IS THE TEMPLE MOUNT,
• 09:11 THIS HAS BEEN SACRED JEWISH LAND FOR MANY, MANY, MANY, MANY CENTURIES,
• 09:16 IN FACT, 3 MILLENNIA,
• 09:18 AND THEY BELIEVE VERY MUCH THAT THEY HAVE A RIGHT TO BE LIVING HERE.
• 09:21 THE ARABS DON'T AGREE AND SO WE CAN EXPECT SOME MORE TROUBLE AHEAD.
• 09:28 (Jeff talking) DAVID TALKED TO ONE OF THE RESIDENTS OF NOF ZION
• 09:31 AND ASKED HIM IF HE THOUGHT THERE COULD BE A PEACEFUL SOLUTION.
• 09:36 I'M QUITE SURE BECAUSE THE MINUTE THAT WE'LL UNDERSTAND
• 09:39 THAT WE ARE HERE FOR LAST
• 09:42 AND WE ARE NOT HERE TO MOVE ANY OTHER PLACE...
• 09:45 OR WE ARE NOT GOING TO SWIM BACK TO EUROPE,
• 09:48 THAT WE'LL GO FOR PEACE.
• 09:53 (David) WELL IT CERTAINLY LOOKS TO ME
• 09:54 LIKE IT'S WITHIN PROXIMITY OF THE HOLIEST PLACE FOR JUDAISM,
• 09:58 THE TEMPLE MOUNT;
• 09:59 IT'S JUST UP THE HILL HERE.
• 10:01 TEMPLE MOUNT IN THE GULF,
• 10:04 ISRAELI JEWISH WAR
• 10:07 AND ALSO FOR THE CHRISTIAN AND WORLDWIDE...
• 10:10 YOU KNOW IN THE TALMUD WE SAY THAT THE LIFE OF THE NATION COMING FROM THE JEWISH PEOPLE
• 10:21 AND IT'S COMING FROM THE TEMPLE MOUNT.
• 10:23 SO YOU HAVE A SOURCE OF LIVING THAT'S COMING FROM THERE.
• 10:27 SO IF YOU TRY TO PUSH US FROM EXERCISING OUR RIGHTS HERE
• 10:33 THEN ALL THE OTHER NATIONS ALSO WILL SUFFER.
• 10:38 FOR INSIGHTFUL PERSPECTIVES OF ISRAEL AND BIBLE PROPHECY
• 10:42 ASK FOR OUR FREE MONTHLY NEWS LETTER "THE LEVITT LETTER".
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• 11:02 OR CRUISE THE MEDITERRANEAN VISITING GREECE AND EPHESUS.
• 11:05 PLEASE CONTACT US FOR MORE INFORMATION.
• 11:08 I'VE HAD A BLAST
• 11:09 THE BIGGEST THING THAT I REALLY HAVE TO SAY
• 11:10 IS THAT I'VE GOTTEN MY MONEY'S WORTH ALREADY
• 11:12 AND WE'RE ABOUT HALF WAY THROUGH THE TRIP.
• 11:14 IT'S JUST BEEN UNBELIEVABLE HOW MUCH WE'VE SEEN,
• 11:16 INCREDIBLY PROFESSIONAL,
• 11:18 REALLY WELL THOUGHT OUT.
• 11:19 EVERY WHERE WE GET YOU CAN TELL
• 11:20 THAT THEY THOUGHT ABOUT THE FACT THAT WE WERE COMING.
• 11:22 IT'S REALLY NICE TO BE SO WELL TAKEN CARE OF.
• 11:24 I HAVE FELT SO SAFE HERE.
• 11:26 I FEEL SAFER HERE THAN I DO IN THE UNITED STATES.
• 11:28 LET ME ENCOURAGE YOU TO MAKE A TRIP OF A LIFETIME TO COME HERE.
• 11:31 YOU'LL LOVE IT
• 11:32 I PROMISE.
• 11:38 ISRAEL...
• 11:40 IF YOU WANT TO TAKE A LOOK
• 11:43 WHY NOT TAKE A PEEK WITH ME?
• 11:46 AND CALL 1-800-WONDERS
• 11:48 AND GET THAT BALL ROLLING.
• 11:50 IT SEEMS THESE DAYS I'M EITHER GOING TO ISRAEL OR COMING FROM ISRAEL.
• 11:54 I'M IN AND OUT AND I LOVE IT.
• 11:57 BEYOND THE LAND ITSELF
• 11:59 I ALWAYS LOVE TO GO WITH PEOPLE WHO LIKE TO TAKE A LOOK.
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• 12:05 THE OFFER ON THIS PROGRAM IS "SATAN IN THE SANCTUARY"
• 12:10 WRITTEN BY THE LATE ZOLA LEVITT AND DR. TOM MCCALL.
• 12:15 THIS BOOK WORKS WELL WITH THIS PROGRAM BECAUSE WE'RE LOOKING AT THE TEMPLE MOUNT.
• 12:20 BUT BEYOND THE TELEVISION PROGRAM
• 12:22 IF YOU WANT TO LOOK AT THE DEVIL'S PROGRAM TO GET HIS ARMS AROUND PLANET EARTH
• 12:27 AND IF YOU WANT TO LOOK AT BIBLE PROPHECY...
• 12:30 "SATAN IN THE SANCTUARY".
• 12:33 SEEMS THAT NEWS IS BREAKING THESE DAYS
• 12:35 AND WE HAVE A MONTHLY MAGAZINE.
• 12:39 IT IS YOURS FOR THE ASKING
• 12:41 BUT YOU GOTTA ASK.
• 12:43 1-800-WONDERS
• 12:46 IS THE NUMBER TO CALL
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• 13:05 AND WANT TO BE ON THE RECEIVING END
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• 13:19 LOOK IT UP.
• 13:22 SPEAKING ABOUT LOOKING UP...
• 13:24 LIFT UP YOUR HEADS AND YOUR HEARTS NOW.
• 13:26 LANCE LAMBERT IS ONE OF THE GREATEST IN THE INDUSTRY.
• 13:31 A CHRISTIAN WITH A DEEP LOVE FOR THE LORD...A BRITISH FELLOW.
• 13:36 FASTEN YOUR SEATBELTS.
• 13:38 HE'S COMING TO US NOW FROM JERUSALEM WHERE DAVID DOLAN SAT DOWN WITH HIM AND HAD A TALK.
• 13:47 I REMEMBER VERY WELL WHEN I WAS...
• 13:50 I COULDN'T HAVE BEEN MORE THAN 14 OR 15...
• 13:54 I REMEMBER ALLEN REDPATH GETTING VERY STEAMED UP ONE SUNDAY MORNING
• 14:01 GRIPPING THE SIDES OF THE PULPIT AND SAYING,
• 14:03 "AS SURE AS I STAND HERE"
• 14:05 "GOD WILL JUDGE THE BRITISH EMPIRE AND THE BRITISH ISLES"
• 14:11 "FOR WHAT THEY HAVE DONE TO THE JEWISH PEOPLE."
• 14:14 HE SAID, "AT THIS VERY TIME THE ROYAL AIR FORCE IS BOMBING SURVIVORS OF THE HOLOCAUST..."
• 14:20 "AND THE ROYAL NAVY IS SHELLING THEM AND RAMMING THEIR SHIPS."
• 14:25 HE SAID, "AND THEN THEY'RE TAKEN EITHER INTO CYPRUS OR INTO MAURITIUS."
• 14:31 AND HE SAID, "THE TIME WILL COME WHEN THERE WILL BE NO EMPIRE"
• 14:36 "AND BRITAIN WILL BE AN OFFSHORE ISLAND OF EUROPE."
• 14:43 AND I REMEMBER SOME PEOPLE GETTING UP AND WALKING OUT
• 14:48 AND I THOUGHT THEY MIGHT BE...
• 14:50 I WAS ONLY A KID...
• 14:51 I THOUGHT OH THEY'VE GOT LUNCHEON APPOINTMENTS,
• 14:53 THE PASTOR IS GOING ON RATHER LATE AND SO THEY'RE OFF TO THEIR LUNCHEON APPOINTMENTS.
• 14:58 ACTUAL FACT I LEARNED LATER THAT THEY WERE PATRIOTS
• 15:04 WHO WERE HORRIFIED THAT THE PASTOR COULD SAY SUCH A THING
• 15:08 ABOUT THE GREAT BRITISH EMPIRE UPON WHICH THE SUN NEVER SET.
• 15:13 BUT THE SUN DID SET ON IT.
• 15:15 AND IT SET ON IT EXACTLY THE TIME THAT ISRAEL BECAME A STATE IN 1948.
• 15:23 THAT WAS THE BEGINNING OF THE DISILLUSION OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE.
• 15:27 I HAVE SAID AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN OVER THE LAST FEW YEARS
• 15:30 THAT AMERICA IS HEADING EXACTLY FOR THE SAME SITUATION.
• 15:36 WELL LANCE THAT'S A VERY STRONG STATEMENT.
• 15:39 IT MIGHT BE SHAKING SOME OF THE VIEWERS IN AMERICAN RIGHT NOW.
• 15:43 HOW CLOSE DO YOU THINK WE MIGHT BE TO SUCH AN UNLEASHING OF JUDGMENT? VERY, VERY CLOSE...
• 15:48 VERY CLOSE INDEED.
• 15:51 I PERSONALLY BELIEVE
• 15:53 AND I SAY THIS VERY CAREFULLY...
• 15:55 THAT THE BLAME FOR THIS SITUATION
• 15:58 LIES AT THE DOOR OF THE CHURCH IN AMERICA.
• 16:06 HOW SO?
• 16:08 SHE HAS BEEN MORE INTERESTED IN WALL TO WALL CARPETING,
• 16:11 MINISTERS OF EDUCATION,
• 16:13 MINISTERS OF YOUTH,
• 16:14 MINISTERS OF OLD AGE,
• 16:15 MINISTERS OF EVERYTHING...
• 16:17 WONDERFUL ENTERTAINMENT...
• 16:19 MARVELOUS CHOIRS...
• 16:21 GREAT MUSIC...
• 16:22 THEY HAVE ORGANS, PIANOS AND EVERYTHING ELSE
• 16:25 AND HAS NOT UNDERSTOOD THAT THEY HAVE A RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE NATION IN WHICH THEY'RE FOUND.
• 16:34 THE CHURCH ON THE WHOLE WITH GLORIOUS EXCEPTIONS THROUGHOUT NORTH AMERICA,
• 16:43 BOTH UNITED AND CANADA
• 16:45 HAS BEEN ASLEEP.
• 16:48 IT'S TRUE THAT A NUMBER OF EVANGELICAL LEADERS WENT TO MR. BUSH TO WARN HIM
• 16:57 BUT BY AND LARGE THE CHURCH HAS BEEN ASLEEP
• 17:01 BECAUSE THEY BELIEVE THAT THE UNITED STATES WOULD NEVER FALL,
• 17:05 WOULD NEVER COLLAPSE
• 17:07 AND THAT'S AN IMPOSSIBILITY
• 17:09 JUST LIKE PEOPLE THOUGHT BRITAIN COULD NEVER COLLAPSE...
• 17:12 IT'S AN IMPOSSIBILITY.
• 17:14 IT SEEMS SO.
• 17:15 ALSO AT THE TIME...
• 17:16 A MAJOR EMPIRE.
• 17:17 YES AND LOOK AT THE AMERICAN DOLLAR...
• 17:21 IT'S VIRTUALLY LOSING ITS VALUE.
• 17:24 WE REALLY FEEL IT OVER HERE IN ISRAEL.
• 17:26 ABSOLUTELY WE DO.
• 17:28 NOW THERE IS REAL TALK AS TO WHETHER TO CHANGE THE DOLLAR TO ANOTHER CURRENCY...
• 17:35 I MEAN THAT'S UNBELIEVABLE...
• 17:37 THE ALMIGHTY DOLLAR.
• 17:41 AND MIGHT JUST ADD TO THIS THAT JERUSALEM IS THE BOTTOM LINE IN THIS WHOLE CONFLICT.
• 17:49 THE REAL CONFLICT IN BATTLE IS OVER JERUSALEM
• 17:56 INDEED I CAN BE MORE SPECIFIC...
• 18:01 IT IS OVER ONE SQUARE MILE...
• 18:04 IT IS THE TEMPLE MOUNT WHERE THE HOUSE OF THE LORD RUNS THROUGH IT...
• 18:10 THAT IS THE KEY TO THIS CONFLICT.
• 18:13 THERE WILL BE NO PEACE
• 18:15 BECAUSE THE PALESTINIANS AND THE ISLAMIC WORLD INSISTS ON HAVING JERUSALEM AND THE TEMPLE MOUNT
• 18:25 AND ISRAEL FINDS IT IMPOSSIBLE TO LET GO OF JERUSALEM.
• 18:31 AFTER ALL THE WORD JERUSALEM DOESN'T OCCUR ONCE IN THE KORAN.
• 18:38 AND YET IT IS MENTIONED IN THE BIBLE...
• 18:40 ONCE OR TWICE.
• 18:41 WELL IT'S MENTIONED... OH SOME 600 TIMES IN THE BIBLE BOTH OLD AND NEW TESTAMENT.
• 18:48 AND I THINK THIS BATTLE FOR JERUSALEM IS REALLY THE BOTTOM LINE OF THE WHOLE CONFLICT,
• 18:59 THAT THIS IS NOT JUST A POLITICAL CONFLICT
• 19:03 IT IS A THEOLOGICAL
• 19:05 IF I MAY PUT IT THAT WAY.
• 19:07 AND A GOOD EXAMPLE OF THAT IS AHMADINEJAD IN IRAN.
• 19:12 HE BELIEVES THE ISLAMIC MESSIAH IS COMING AND THEREFORE THEY CAN CAUSE MAYHEM IN THE WORLD
• 19:25 BECAUSE THE KORAN SAYS HE WILL COME AT SUCH A TIME.
• 19:33 THERE ARE THINGS THAT I THINK ABOUT
• 19:35 AND THERE ARE THINGS THAT I DON'T JUST THINK ABOUT BUT I FEEL ABOUT.
• 19:39 IF THAT'S EVEN THE RIGHT WAY TO SAY IT...
• 19:41 THINGS THAT TOUCH ME DEEPLY
• 19:45 AND WHEN I THINK TODAY OF THE RISE OF JEW HATRED
• 19:49 AND THE UNREASONABLENESS OF IT ALL
• 19:52 IT TOUCHES ME DEEPLY... SOULISHLY.
• 19:57 WHEN I THINK OF THE INSANITY OF IT ALL
• 20:00 KNOWING AS I DO THE JEWS ARE A GOOD PEOPLE AS FAR AS A PEOPLE GO.
• 20:06 AND I KNOW ISRAEL IS A GREAT COUNTRY AS FAR AS COUNTRIES GO.
• 20:12 ETHICAL...MORAL...FULL OF VALUE AND VIRTUE.
• 20:17 KNOWING THAT AS I DO,
• 20:18 KNOWING THE PEOPLE AND THE LAND AS I DO
• 20:21 I'M STRUCK BY THE MADNESS THAT SEEMS TO BE PREVAILING IN THE CURRENT ECONOMY...
• 20:27 A WORLD THAT SEEMS TO BE DRIFTING AWAY FROM COMMON SENSE INTO NONSENSE.
• 20:34 A WORLD OF NON REASON WHERE ONCE AGAIN MUCH AS HITLER RAISED HIS HOARY HEAD IN A BYGONE ERA
• 20:42 SO IT IS TODAY
• 20:44 THAT WORLD ATTENTION FOCUSES ON JERUSALEM WITH DISTAIN AND WITH ABANDONMENT.
• 20:51 IT'S FOR THAT REASON BY THE WAY
• 20:53 THAT I'M SO VERY THRILLED TO SEE CHRISTIANS COMING HERE IN DROVES.
• 20:59 THIS IS EXEMPLIFIED ANNUALLY BY THE BIGGEST MAJOR EVENT IN JERUSALEM THE PEOPLE COME TO
• 21:06 IS SPONSORED BY THE INTERNATIONAL CHRISTIAN EMBASSY
• 21:11 WHERE THOUSANDS UPON THOUSANDS COME.
• 21:15 AND IT MAKES SUCH A DIFFERENCE NOT JUST IN THE ECONOMY...
• 21:19 CERTAINLY THE HOTEL OWNERS ARE GLAD TO SELL THE ROOMS
• 21:22 AND THE RESTAURANTS ARE GLAD TO FILL UP A TABLE,
• 21:25 BUT THE HEART OF ISRAEL IS TOUCHED BY VIRTUE OF THE FACT
• 21:30 THAT PEOPLE WANT TO COME HERE AND TOUCH ISRAEL
• 21:32 AND NOT JUST ON THE ANNUAL FEAST OF TABERNACLES EVENT
• 21:36 BUT THROUGH THE YEAR OUR MINISTRIES TAKES TOURS,
• 21:40 OTHER MINISTRIES TAKE TOURS
• 21:42 AND WE COME AND PILGRIMS COME STILL TO THIS MYSTERIOUS LAND
• 21:47 AND ARE TOUCHED BY VIRTUE OF THEIR ENCOUNTER
• 21:50 MUCH AS ISRAELIS THEMSELVES ARE TOUCHED BY YOUR PRESENCE.
• 21:55 SPEAKING OF PRESENCE,
• 21:56 IN THE BOOK ZECHARIAH
• 21:58 THE LORD PROMISES THAT IN A VERY SPECIAL WAY
• 22:01 HE IS GOING TO MAKE HIS PRESENCE FELT HERE IN JERUSALEM
• 22:06 JUST AT THE TIME WHEN JERUSALEM IS PUSHED TO THE BRINK.
• 22:11 OH THIS PROPHET SAW THAT ISRAEL WOULD BE RECONSTITUTED IN THE LATTER YEARS
• 22:15 AND HE SAW JERUSALEM EMERGE AS THE CAPITAL OF THIS PROPHETIC LAND WITH DESTINY ALL OVER IT.
• 22:23 BUT HE SAW WARS, HE SAW ENEMIES, HE SAW ABANDONMENT IN THE 12TH CHAPTER, HE SAW ANTI-SEMITISM
• 22:30 AND HE ALSO SAW IN VERSE 8, HE SAYS, "IN THAT DAY THE LORD WILL DEFEND".
• 22:38 OH WE HASTEN THE DAY WHEN HE DEFENDS "THE INHABITANTS OF JERUSALEM".
• 22:46 AND HE SAYS THE ONE WHO IS FEEBLE AMONG THEM WILL BE LIKE DAVID.
• 22:52 "O HASTEN THE DAY LORD."
• 22:54 AND HE SAYS IN VERSE 9,
• 22:56 "IT WILL BE ON THAT DAY THAT I WILL SEEK TO DESTROY THE NATIONS THAT COME AGAINST JERUSALEM."
• 23:05 INASMUCH AS THE DEVIL RAISES UP AN ARMY TO DO HARM
• 23:09 THE LORD RAISES UP AN INTERCESSORY ARMY TO DO GOOD.
• 23:14 IF YOU WANT TO PARTICIPATE WITH THE ZOLA LEVITT MINISTRY'S ARMY,
• 23:18 AND WE'RE BUT ONE GROUP IN THIS LARGER BATTLE FORMATION HERE,
• 23:23 YOU CAN VISIT OUR WEBSITE AT
• 23:25 WWW.LEVITT.COM,
• 23:28 YOU CAN CALL 1-800-WONDERS,
• 23:32 YOU CAN FIND A WAY TO CONNECT WITH WHAT WE'RE DOING AND WITH US,
• 23:36 PARTICIPATE IN HOLDING BACK PRAYERFULLY AND CAREFULLY THE FORCES OF DARKNESS.
• 23:44 THIS IS A LAND WITH DESTINY,
• 23:46 THESE ARE INTERESTING TIMES
• 23:48 AND I BELIEVE THAT GOD IS CALLING A PEOPLE LIKE ME AND LIKE YOU
• 23:52 AND THAT WE TOGETHER ARE STANDING UP FOR JESUS,
• 23:55 STANDING UP FOR JEWS,
• 23:58 STANDING UP FOR THE CAPITAL CITY OF JERUSALEM.
• 24:10 (Zola playing the piano)
• 25:16 IN ALL HONESTY THERE'S JUST SOMETHING MYSTERIOUS ABOUT JERUSALEM,
• 25:22 ABOUT THE TEMPLE MOUNT
• 25:24 THAT KEEPS BECKONING ME THAT WAY.
• 25:27 AND I'M THERE ALL THE TIME
• 25:29 AND SO I THINK IF IT WAS JUST NOVELTY IT WOULD HAVE LONG SINCE WORN OFF.
• 25:34 I WAS THERE 5 TIMES JUST IN THE LAST 12 MONTHS
• 25:37 AND IT DOESN'T SEEM TO GO AWAY.
• 25:43 THAT SENSE OF THE TEMPLES BEING SPECIAL SEEMS TO REVERBERATE THROUGHOUT THE BIBLE.
• 25:49 I'M LOOKING IN PSALM CHAPTER 137, VERSE 6
• 25:53 WHERE THE AUTHOR SPEAKS ABOUT SETTING JERUSALEM ABOVE THE HIGHEST JOY.
• 26:01 AGAIN IT'S A WAY OF GIVING VOICE TO THIS MYSTERIOUS BECKONING TOWARD JERUSALEM.
• 26:08 IF YOU'RE MINDED THAT WAY AS WELL THEN LET'S JUST BE FRIENDS.
• 26:14 I HOPE YOU'LL TAKE US UP ON THE OFFER TO VISIT THE LAND WITH US OR TO UNITE WITH US,
• 26:20 TO GET OUR NEWSLETTER TO SOMEHOW GET CONNECTED.
• 26:24 THE MOST IMPORTANT CONNECTION, HOWEVER, IS ONE'S RELATIONSHIP WITH THE LORD
• 26:30 AND I HOPE THAT AS WE LOOK AT THE BIBLE AND HUMAN AFFAIRS
• 26:33 I HOPE THE LORD IS SPEAKING TO YOU AND BECKONING YOU TO COME HIS WAY.
• 26:39 I'M PLEASED TO BE ABLE TO PARTICIPATE IN THAT TO THE EXTENT THAT YOU'LL LET ME.
• 26:43 AS WE GO NOW LET ME THANK FOR GOING WITH US NOW.
• 26:47 I'LL SIGN OFF THE WAY I ALWAYS DO AS THE PSALMIST SAID,
• 26:51 SHA'ALU SHALOM YERUSHALAYIM
• 26:54 PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM