Caption transcript for “The Word from Jerusalem”

• 00:17 BRETHREN, MY HEART'S DESIRE AND PRAYER TO GOD FOR ISRAEL IS THAT THEY MIGHT BE SAVED,
• 00:24 FOR THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE JEW AND THE GREEK
• 00:27 FOR THE SAME LORD OVER ALL IS RICH UNTO ALL THAT CALL UPON HIM.
• 00:39 WITH DR. JEFFREY SEIF
• 00:43 HEARTY SHALOM TO ALL OF YOU.
• 00:45 JEFFREY SEIF HERE.
• 00:47 I AM PLEASED TO WELCOME YOU TO ANOTHER EDITION OF ZOLA LEVITT PRESENTS.
• 00:54 AND HAVE WE GOT A LINE UP FOR YOU.
• 00:58 IN THIS PROGRAM WE'RE GOING TO HEAR FROM A WONDERFUL EVANGELIST WHO MINISTERS IN ISRAEL.
• 01:06 WE'RE GOING TO HEAR AS WELL FROM A CONGREGATIONAL PLANTER
• 01:10 WHO WENT TO ISRAEL 25 PLUS YEARS AGO
• 01:13 AND THE LORD HAS USED HIM TO RAISE UP AN AMAZING MINISTRY THERE.
• 01:18 WE'RE GOING TO BEGIN, HOWEVER, BY HEARING FROM A PROFESSOR IN ISRAEL,
• 01:22 RONNY REICH TEACHES AT HAIFA UNIVERSITY...
• 01:27 HE'S AN ARCHAEOLOGIST.
• 01:28 AND THIS JEWISH FELLOW IS GOING TO HELP YOU SEE HOW THE GOSPEL OF JOHN IS BELIEVABLE.
• 01:36 OUR FRIEND DAVE DOLAN INTERVIEWS HIM AND OFF TO HIM WE GO.
• 01:43 WE'RE HERE IN THE CITY OF DAVID
• 01:45 BELOW THE TEMPLE MOUNT.
• 01:47 OVER HERE BEHIND US
• 01:48 IS THE MOUNT OF OLIVES
• 01:49 AND THE ARAB VILLAGE OF SILWAN.
• 01:51 AN IMPORTANT ARCHAEOLOGICAL DISCOVERY WAS MADE HERE A FEW YEARS AGO
• 01:54 BY PROFESSOR RONNY REICH AND HIS TEAM FROM HAIFA UNIVERSITY...
• 01:58 THE POOL OF SILOAM...
• 02:00 THE POOL THAT JESUS HIMSELF VISITED AND HEALED THE BLIND MAN.
• 02:04 DR. REICH WILL BE EXPLAINING TO US HOW THIS IMPORTANT DISCOVERY
• 02:07 CAME FROM THIS SEWER PIPE BEING WORKED ON A FEW YEARS AGO.
• 02:21 WELL IT STARTED
• 02:23 VERY SIMPLY
• 02:25 BY A BULLDOZER
• 02:26 WANTING TO REPLACE
• 02:27 A DAMAGED SEWER PIPE
• 02:29 ...MODERN PIPE.
• 02:31 AND FIVE MINUTES LATER WE STOPPED WORK
• 02:33 BECAUSE IT HIT ON TWO STEPS OF STONE.
• 02:36 AND WE CONTINUED WITH WHAT WE CALL A "RESCUE DIG"
• 02:40 AND THE STEPPED PART BECAME LARGER AND LARGER AND LARGER AND LARGER...
• 02:44 AND FINALLY WE HAD IN FRONT OF US
• 02:47 THE EASTERN PART OF A STEPPED POOL
• 02:51 WHICH COVERS PROBABLY THE ENTIRE SPACE OF THE GARDEN
• 02:56 WHICH IS PLANTED INTO THAT ANCIENT POOL.
• 03:00 WE ASKED OURSELVES
• 03:02 WHAT IS THE TIME OF THIS?...
• 03:04 THE CHRONOLOGY?...
• 03:05 ...WHICH IS VERY IMPORTANT
• 03:06 ...BEFORE YOU START THINKING WHAT IT WAS.
• 03:08 AND BY THE COINS WHICH WE EXTRACTED FROM THE CEMENT
• 03:12 EMBEDDED IN BETWEEN THE STONES
• 03:14 WE FOUND OUT THAT THE POOL WAS CONSTRUCTED SOME TIME IN THE FIRST CENTURY B.C.
• 03:19 AND THEN NEXT TO IT WE FOUND DATA THAT IT WENT OUT OF USE IN THE YEAR 70 CE
• 03:26 WITH THE REST OF JERUSALEM AT THE TIME WHEN IT WAS CONQUERED AND DESTROYED BY THE ROMANS.
• 03:33 SO THIS IS A LARGE... VERY LARGE POOL
• 03:38 AND OTHER CONSIDERATIONS BROUGHT US TO IDENTIFY IT WITH THE POOL OF SILOAM
• 03:45 WHICH IS MENTIONED FOR EXAMPLE IN THE GOSPEL OF JOHN...
• 03:47 THE STORY OF JESUS FROM NAZARETH HEALING THE BLIND MAN.
• 03:51 HE SMEARS MUD ON HIS FACE AND THEN SAYS
• 03:54 "GO AND WASH...TAKE EMERSION IN THE POOL OF SILOAM."
• 03:59 SO YOU'RE 100% SURE THIS IS THE BIBLICAL POOL OF SILOAM.
• 04:03 WELL IT IS A BIG POOL...
• 04:04 IT IS A VERY LARGE POOL.
• 04:06 IT IS DATED TO THE FIRST CENTURY B.C.
• 04:08 AND THE FIRST CENTURY OF THE COMMON ERA.
• 04:10 WE HAVE NEXT TO IT THE VILLAGE OF SILWAN.
• 04:13 AND IT IS ALSO FED BY THE SPRING WATERS...
• 04:16 RUNS RIGHT ALONG HERE.
• 04:18 ALONG HERE IT RUNS AND FEEDS IT NOT TODAY...
• 04:20 TODAY IT'S EMPTY.
• 04:21 WE CAN DO IT BY THE WAY...
• 04:23 IF WE WOULD EVER HAD THE ENTIRE POOL
• 04:27 WE PROBABLY WOULD HAVE SUBMERGED PART OF IT IN WATER BUT NOT NOW.
• 04:30 AND THERE ARE SOME OTHER CONSIDERATIONS.
• 04:33 BECAUSE OF ITS SPRING WATER WHICH FED THIS POOL...
• 04:37 THE ONLY POOL IN JERUSALEM WHICH WAS FED BY SPRING WATER...
• 04:40 ACCORDING TO JEWISH CONSIDERATIONS OF THE PURITY - IMPURITY...
• 04:48 FOR RITUAL WASHING
• 04:49 FOR RITUAL ...
• 04:51 WHAT WE CALL "TEVILAH"...
• 04:53 THIS MUST BE THE POOL OF SILOAM
• 04:54 BECAUSE THIS WAS ACTUALLY THE INTENTION OF JESUS
• 04:57 WHEN HE TOLD THE MAN TO WASH HIMSELF...
• 04:58 NOT JUST TAKE THE DIRT OF YOUR FACE...
• 05:01 HE SAID PROBABLY...
• 05:03 TAKE A RITUAL BATH AND COMPLETE YOUR....
• 05:06 YOU ARE NOW HEALED...
• 05:08 YOU HAVE ALSO TO BE PURE.
• 05:10 AND THIS WAS DONE...
• 05:12 TWO THINGS WAS REQUIRED FOR SUCH A MAN...
• 05:14 TO TAKE A RITUAL BATH...
• 05:15 THIS HE PROBABLY DID HERE...
• 05:16 AND THEN BRING AN OFFER TO THE TEMPLE...
• 05:19 THE TEMPLE UP ABOVE.
• 05:20 YES
• 05:23 INTERESTING AS IT IS TO DIG UP THE PAST
• 05:25 I WANT TO REMIND YOU THAT THE LORD'S DOING MIRACLES
• 05:28 IS STILL EVER PRESENT.
• 05:31 HE HEALED THE FELLOW BY THE POOL OF SILOAM YEARS AGO
• 05:35 AND HE NEVER HAD A "GOING OUT OF BUSINESS" SALE.
• 05:39 IT SEEMS FOR THAT MATTER THAT THE LORD IS DOING SPECIAL BUSINESS IN JERUSALEM AGAIN.
• 05:45 BELIEVING THAT TO BE THE CASE
• 05:47 I AM THRILLED TO INTRODUCE YOU TO WAYNE AND ANNE HILSDEN.
• 05:52 THESE TWO LEFT THE PLANE TWENTY SOME PLUS YEARS AGO IN JERUSALEM
• 05:58 AND THE LORD HAS DONE THE MIRACULOUS THROUGH THEM.
• 06:03 OH WE LIVE IN EXCITING TIMES TO BE SURE
• 06:06 AND YOU'RE GOING TO KNOW HOW THAT'S THE CASE AFTER YOU HEAR FROM WAYNE AND ANN.
• 06:13 WAYNE... ANN...
• 06:15 IT IS A PLEASURE TO BE WITH THE TWO OF YOU.
• 06:19 PLEASURE TO BE WITH YOU JEFF.
• 06:20 IT'S AWESOME.
• 06:21 AND HERE WE ARE IN JERUSALEM IN THE PAVILION.
• 06:26 THIS IS THE EQUIVALENT OF A SUPER MEGA CHURCH IN AMERICA.
• 06:31 GREAT STORY BEHIND THIS...YES?
• 06:34 WELL THE PAVILION CAME ABOUT
• 06:36 BACK IN THE END OF 2002.
• 06:38 WE FOUND AN OLD BEAT UP MOVIE THEATRE THAT WAS ABANDONED...
• 06:42 IN FACT WHEN WE CAME INTO THIS BUILDING THE FIRST TIME THERE WAS NO ELECTRICITY...
• 06:47 WE FOUND OLD MOVIE REELS ON THE FLOOR...
• 06:49 OLD POPCORN CARTONS...
• 06:51 AND IT HAD BEEN ABANDONED FOR ELEVEN YEARS
• 06:54 IN A SHOPPING CENTER THAT WASN'T DOING WELL
• 06:58 AND GOD REALLY GAVE US THE EYES OF FAITH
• 07:00 TO BELIEVE THAT WE CAN TURN A SHRINE TO HOLLYWOOD
• 07:03 INTO A SANCTUARY OF PRAISE.
• 07:04 (Jeff speaking) AND THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT THEY DID.
• 07:07 PRAISE NOW EMANATES WEEKLY FROM THE KING OF KINGS PAVILION
• 07:11 IN THE VERY HEART OF JERUSALEM.
• 07:14 BUILT THIS PAVILION AS A WORSHIP CENTER
• 07:17 AND ALSO WE'VE OPENED IT UP TO THE WHOLE BODY TO BE USED.
• 07:21 BUT WITHIN TWO YEARS OF US BUILDING THIS
• 07:24 WE FELT FROM THE LORD THAT WE WERE TO BUILD A PRAYER CENTER.
• 07:28 AND ON THE VERY TOP OF THIS BUILDING
• 07:30 ON THE 17th FLOOR WAS AN EMPTY SPACE
• 07:34 AGAIN...COLLECTING DUST.
• 07:35 AN INSURANCE COMPANY HAD BEEN THERE.
• 07:37 WE TOOK IT OVER...
• 07:38 REBUILT IT FROM SCRATCH
• 07:40 AND MADE IT INTO A 24-7 PRAYER CENTER.
• 07:43 WE'RE ALMOST AT 24 HOURS...
• 07:45 WE'RE GETTING CLOSE.
• 07:46 AND IF YOU COME UP THERE...
• 07:47 AND YOU'VE BEEN UP THERE... >>I'VE BEEN UP THERE
• 07:49 PEOPLE ARE PRAYING.
• 07:50 (singing) ♪ BE GLORIFIED ♪
• 07:51 ♪ BE GLORIFIED LORD ♪
• 07:53 ♪ BE GLORIFIED ♪
• 07:58 ♪ IN THE HEAVENS LORD... ♪
• 08:00 WELL THE WORD OF THE LORD COMING FORTH FROM JERUSALEM...
• 08:03 FIRST TO YOU ANN
• 08:04 AND THEN I'LL PITCH IT TO YOU WAYNE TO FINISH UP AND PUT A WRAP UP.
• 08:07 WHAT'S ON YOUR HEART?
• 08:09 DO YOU HAVE A SENSE OF WHAT THE LORD IS SAYING FROM HERE TO THE WORLD
• 08:12 OR SOMETHING THAT YOU WANT TO SAY RELATIVE TO THAT?
• 08:15 I THINK THAT WE'RE IN A DAY
• 08:16 WHERE THE LORD REALLY WANTS TO
• 08:18 GET THE WORD OUT TO THE CHURCHES
• 08:21 ON A GLOBAL LEVEL.
• 08:24 AND WE'RE SEEING THAT ALL OVER THE WORLD
• 08:27 THAT THERE'S A RENEWED KIND OF INTEREST
• 08:29 AND RECEPTIVITY TO HEAR ABOUT ISRAEL
• 08:32 AND WHAT GOD HAS IN MIND
• 08:34 AND SO FROM THIS ROOM
• 08:36 IT'S ON MY HEART TO IMPART THAT
• 08:43 USING THE WORD OF GOD PRIMARILY
• 08:45 AND USING TESTIMONIES FROM HERE
• 08:48 AND USING EVEN DRAMA AND MUSIC
• 08:51 TO REACH PEOPLE'S HEARTS WITH AN AWAKENING OF GOD'S PURPOSES FOR ISRAEL.
• 08:57 AND ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE HAVE DONE HERE IS "THE COVENANT".
• 09:01 IT'S A STAGE MUSICAL WHICH HAS BEEN DONE REALLY BEAUTIFULLY
• 09:07 AND WE'VE RUN IT IN CERTAIN SEASONS.
• 09:10 PAUL WILBUR AND I CAME OUT TO SEE THAT SOME MONTHS AGO...
• 09:14 LOVED IT!
• 09:15 WAS THAT IN LOS ANGELES?
• 09:16 NO...HERE
• 09:17 OH HERE >>HERE
• 09:18 THAT'S GREAT.
• 09:19 WE SKIPPED A COUPLE OF SEASONS
• 09:22 BUT WE'RE HOPING TO RUN WITH IT AGAIN SOON.
• 09:25 BUT THAT IS SOMETHING THAT REACHES PEOPLE FROM EVERY DENOMINATIONAL BACKGROUND
• 09:31 AND LOCAL PEOPLE...
• 09:33 ISRAELI PEOPLE COME AND THEY SEE THEIR OWN STORY...
• 09:36 THERE'S A FULL HOUSE AN EVENING
• 09:37 YES...THEY HEAR THEIR OWN STORY TOLD.
• 09:39 AND IT'S LIKE TELLING THEM THAT THE LEGEND IS TRUE.
• 09:45 (SINGING) ♪ TRUST IN THE LORD O ISRAEL ♪
• 09:47 ♪HE IS YOUR HELP AND YOUR SHELTER♪
• 09:50 ♪ TRUST IN THE LORD O ISRAEL ♪
• 09:54 ♪ HE WAS AND HE IS AND FOREVER WILL BE THE LORD ♪
• 09:58 ♪ LORD... ♪
• 10:03 ♪ FOREVER... LORD ♪
• 10:09 WAYNE WHAT'S THE WORD OF THE LORD FROM JERUSALEM?
• 10:13 WELL THESE ARE THE LAST OF THE LAST DAYS...
• 10:16 I'M CONVINCED OF THAT.
• 10:17 AND IF THERE'S ONE LAST WORD
• 10:19 THAT I THINK THE LORD WANTS TO SAY
• 10:21 IS "TIME IS SHORT..."
• 10:23 "I'M COMING SOON..."
• 10:24 "AND AS YOU SEE THE FIG TREE BLOSSOM "
• 10:29 " YOU KNOW THAT SUMMER IS NEAR."
• 10:31 "YOU KNOW THAT MY COMING IS NEAR."
• 10:32 AND LOOK AT ISRAEL AND SEE WHAT'S HAPPENING HERE...
• 10:37 IT'S A MIRACLE...
• 10:39 THE ESTABLISHMENT OF ISRAEL IN MAY 14, 1948 WAS NOT A POLITICAL ACCIDENT...
• 10:44 THE RETURN OF THE JEWS TO THIS LAND,
• 10:46 THE SAME PIECE OF REAL ESTATE PROMISED TO ABRAHAM, ISAAC AND JACOB IS HAPPENING...
• 10:53 IT'S AN ETERNAL COVENANT...
• 10:55 AND NOW SPIRITUAL AWAKENINGS IS GOING TO OCCUR...
• 11:01 IT'S ALL PART OF THE PACKAGE...
• 11:02 EZEKIEL 36 AND 37 TALKS ABOUT FIRST RESTORING TO THE LAND
• 11:06 AND THEN SPIRITUAL REVIVAL
• 11:09 AND THEN ROMANS 11 PAUL TELLS US THAT
• 11:11 WHAT WILL THEIR ACCEPTANCE BE
• 11:13 BUT LIFE FROM THE DEAD FOR THE CHURCH
• 11:16 OR FOR THE WORLD REALLY.
• 11:17 SO I BELIEVE WORLD HARVEST IS COMING
• 11:19 AND ISRAEL'S A KEY TO THAT HARVEST
• 11:21 AS JEWISH PEOPLE'S EYES ARE OPEN TO THEIR MESSIAH
• 11:24 THEY'RE GOING TO BECOME SOME OF THE BEST DISPLAYS OF GOD'S GLORY IN THE WORLD
• 11:31 AND WILL ATTRACT THE WORLD TO THE GOD OF ISRAEL
• 11:35 AND TO HIS MESSIAH...JESUS.
• 11:38 (SINGING)
• 11:39 ♪ HALLELUJAH ♪
• 11:42 ♪ HALLELUJAH ♪
• 11:46 ♪ HALLELUJAH ♪
• 11:49 ♪ GOD OF ISRAEL ♪
• 11:53 FOR INSIGHTFUL PERSPECTIVES OF ISRAEL AND BIBLE PROPHECY
• 11:57 ASK FOR OUR FREE MONTHLY NEWS LETTER "THE LEVITT LETTER".
• 12:01 WHEN YOU CALL BE SURE TO ASK FOR OUR FREE CATALOGUE WITH THE LATEST VIDEOS, BOOKS, AND MUSIC.
• 12:06 OUR CORRESPONDENCE COURSE, "THE INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH CHRISTIAN STUDIES" INCLUDES
• 12:10 READING PACKETS, TEACHINGS CDs, AND MAIL-IN TESTS.
• 12:14 YOU MAY WANT TO JOIN US ON AN UPCOMING TOUR OF ISRAEL OR PETRA
• 12:17 OR CRUISE THE MEDITERRANEAN VISITING GREECE AND EPHESUS.
• 12:21 PLEASE CONTACT US FOR MORE INFORMATION.
• 12:24 WOULD YOU SAY THAT EVERYBODY AND ANYBODY
• 12:26 THAT WANTS TO MAKE THE TRIP TO ISRAEL SHOULD DO SO?
• 12:29 YES, IT IS WORTH THE TRIP.
• 12:31 IT IS WORTH THE TIME.
• 12:33 IT IS WORTH THE MONEY.
• 12:35 YOU SAY THIS WITH PASSION.
• 12:36 OH I TELL YOU
• 12:37 I'M SO HAPPY THAT I CAME.
• 12:39 IT'S JUST SUCH A PRIVILEGE
• 12:42 TO BE ABLE TO COME WHERE OUR LORD WAS BORN
• 12:46 AND CRUCIFIED AND WAS RISEN
• 12:53 SOMEONE ONCE ASKED ME
• 12:55 WHEN'S A GOOD TIME TO GO TO ISRAEL
• 12:57 AND THE ANSWER IS...ANYTIME.
• 13:00 EVERY TIME I GO THERE ITS SPECIAL
• 13:02 AND I WANT YOU TO GO TOO
• 13:04 SO YOU CAN BE BLESSED...
• 13:06 ISRAEL CAN BE BLESSED...
• 13:07 HONESTLY IT'LL BE THE TRIP OF A LIFETIME.
• 13:10 PICK UP A PEN...
• 13:12 WRITE DOWN 1-800-WONDERS
• 13:15 AND GIVE US A CALL.
• 13:17 COME WITH ME...
• 13:18 OR GO WITH SOMEONE...
• 13:19 JUST GO...DO IT.
• 13:22 IF YOU'RE INTERESTED IN US...
• 13:23 COME WITH US.
• 13:25 THERE'S DIFFERENT WAYS TO CONNECT TO US...
• 13:26 GOING TO ISRAEL IS ONE.
• 13:28 YOU CAN GO TO OUR WEBSITE...
• 13:30 AND I HOPE YOU DO.
• 13:31 WWW.LEVITT.COM
• 13:34 YOU CAN SIGN UP FOR OUR MAGAZINE
• 13:37 IT'S MONTHLY...
• 13:38 THE LEVITT LETTER...
• 13:39 WE'RE PLEASED TO GET IT TO YOU.
• 13:41 IF YOU'RE INTERESTED IN FURTHER STUDIES,
• 13:44 YEARS AGO WHEN ZOLA WAS ALIVE
• 13:46 WE DID A SERIES TOGETHER CALLED
• 13:49 "THE INSTITUTE OF JEWISH AND CHRISTIAN STUDIES".
• 13:52 IT'S AN EXTENSION STUDIES PROGRAM.
• 13:55 THIS IS AN EXAMPLE OF ONE OF A DOZEN NOTEBOOKS...
• 13:58 YOU GET IT...
• 13:59 THIS IS OLD TESTAMENT SURVEY...
• 14:00 YOU OPEN IT UP...
• 14:02 THERE'S LECTURES HERE ON CD...
• 14:04 THERE'S NOTES...
• 14:05 THERE'S TESTS...
• 14:06 THERE'S WAYS FOR YOU TO GET INTO THE BIBLICAL STORY.
• 14:12 TALK ABOUT GETTING INTO THE BIBLICAL STORY...
• 14:16 WITH US TODAY IS A GOOD FRIEND...
• 14:18 TODD BAKER.
• 14:21 TODD'S BEEN WITH THIS MINISTRY FOR YEARS...
• 14:23 A GRADUATE OF THE DALLAS THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY...
• 14:26 A PHD FROM TRINITY...
• 14:28 AND AN EVANGELIST IN ISRAEL.
• 14:30 TODD...GLAD TO BE WITH YOU TODAY. >>PLEASURE TO MEET...JEFF
• 14:32 GOOD TO MEET YOU BROTHER.
• 14:34 NOW YOU GO BACK WITH US HOW LONG?
• 14:36 I STARTED WORKING WITH ZOLA LEVITT MINISTRIES IN 1996
• 14:40 AND WE STARTED THESE GOSPEL OUTREACHES IN 2000...
• 14:44 SO ROUGHLY ABOUT 13 YEARS TOTAL.
• 14:46 AND YOU GO TO ISRAEL FREQUENTLY DON'T YOU?
• 14:49 YES WE DO...
• 14:50 WE GO THREE TIMES A YEAR
• 14:53 TAKING THE GOSPEL BACK TO THE PEOPLE ON LAND FROM WHENCE IT CAME.
• 14:58 SO WHEN PEOPLE SUPPORT ZOLA LEVITT MINISTRIES
• 15:00 THERE'S MONIES THAT ARE EARMARKED BY PEOPLE TO GO TO HELP OUTREACH
• 15:04 AND YOU DO THAT YOURSELF AND WITH OTHERS.
• 15:07 WE'RE FOREVER BUILDING TEAMS TO GO THERE AND MINISTER.
• 15:10 RIGHT...AND THIS IS TO FULFILL THE DIVINE ORDER OF EVANGELISM
• 15:14 IN ROMANS CHAPTER 1, VERSE 16 JEFF...
• 15:17 THE GOSPEL IS TO GO TO THE JEW FIRST
• 15:19 AND JESUS AND THE APOSTLES FOLLOW THAT SAME PARADIGM
• 15:22 AND WE DO IT TOO.
• 15:24 BUT THE CHURCH DOESN'T DO IT TODAY...
• 15:25 SO MANY DAYS...
• 15:27 IT SEEMS TO ME THAT THE PEOPLE HAVE FORGOTTEN ABOUT ISRAEL...
• 15:29 THEY'VE FORGOTTEN ABOUT THE JEWISH PEOPLE...
• 15:30 AND EVEN THE GOSPEL TO JEWISH PEOPLE...
• 15:32 PEOPLE AREN'T AS INTERESTED IN THAT...
• 15:34 BUT YOU'RE NOT GUILTY OF THAT CRIME ARE YOU?
• 15:37 NO SIR...NO SIR
• 15:38 YOU KNOW JEREMIAH CHAPTER 31, VERSE 31 SAYS...
• 15:40 GOD SAYS THERE...
• 15:42 BEHOLD I WILL MAKE A NEW COVENANT WITH THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL...
• 15:45 "B'RIT HADASHAH" IN HEBREW.
• 15:47 SO THE NEW TESTAMENT AND THE GOSPEL MESSAGE
• 15:49 THAT EMANATES FROM THE NEW TESTAMENT
• 15:51 IS PRE-EMINENTLY FOR THE JEWISH PEOPLE...
• 15:54 THEY GAVE IT TO THE WORLD
• 15:55 AND WE SEEK TO GIVE IT BACK TO THEM.
• 15:57 SO YOU HAVE THIS EVANGELIST SIDE TO YOU.
• 16:00 YOU WERE A HOSPITAL CHAPLAIN FOR YEARS TOO WEREN'T YOU?
• 16:03 YES I WAS.
• 16:05 YOU MUST CARE ABOUT HURTING PEOPLE.
• 16:06 I DO...I DO...
• 16:08 AND JESUS SPENT SO MUCH OF HIS MINISTRY
• 16:11 MINISTERING TO THE SICK,
• 16:13 THE DISENFRANCHISED,
• 16:14 THE HURTING...
• 16:16 AND REALLY ISRAEL IS PICKED ON BY THE ENTIRE WORLD.
• 16:22 ISRAEL IS CERTAINLY SICK...
• 16:24 IT'S DISENFRANCHISED...
• 16:25 IT'S MARGINALIZED...
• 16:26 EXACTLY
• 16:28 AND HERE COMES THIS THEOLOGIAN, CHAPLAIN, EVANGELIST
• 16:30 BUILDING TEAMS TO GO THERE.
• 16:32 WHAT'S IT LIKE FOR YOU?
• 16:34 WELL IT'S TREMENDOUS EVERY TIME WE GO JEFF.
• 16:36 THERE'S A UNIVERSAL RECEPTIVITY TO HEARING ABOUT WHY YESHUA
• 16:42 IS THE MESSIAH FROM THE HEBREW SCRIPTURES.
• 16:45 AND I THINK IT'S A FORESHADOWING
• 16:47 THAT PARTIAL BLINDNESS IS BEING LIFTED FROM THE EYES OF THE NATION ISRAEL
• 16:51 THAT PAUL TALKS ABOUT IN ROMANS CHAPTER 11, VERSE 25,
• 16:54 THUS INDICATING TO ME AND TO ANYONE WHO'S BIBLICALLY AWARE
• 16:57 THAT WE'RE CERTAINLY ON THE CUSP OF THE RETURN OF THE LORD
• 17:01 NOW THAT HIS OWN PEOPLE ARE BEGINNING TO SERIOUSLY CONSIDER
• 17:04 THE BIBLICAL EVIDENCE FOR THE MESSIAHSHIP OF YESHUA.
• 17:08 IT SEEMS TO ME THAT THERE IS SOMETHING OF A BLINDNESS
• 17:10 WHERE JEWISH PEOPLE DON'T EASILY PERCEIVE JESUS...
• 17:14 BUT THAT'S A SITUATION THAT'S CHANGING.
• 17:16 IT SEEMS TO ME AS WELL THERE'S A PROBLEM WITH CHRISTIAN PEOPLE
• 17:19 THAT DON'T EASILY PERCEIVE THE JEWS
• 17:22 AND SOMETIMES THERE'S MISCONCEPTIONS LIKE
• 17:24 HANGING THE DEATH OF JESUS ON THE JEWISH PEOPLE
• 17:27 AND TOTO AND WHAT HAVE YOU.
• 17:29 YOU'VE WRITTEN AGAINST THAT SORT OF THING HAVEN'T YOU?
• 17:31 YES...I DID AN EXEGETICAL STUDY
• 17:34 ON MATTHEW CHAPTER 27, VERSE 25...
• 17:37 HIS BLOOD BE UPON US...
• 17:38 OR THE JEWISH PEOPLE
• 17:40 RACIALLY CONDEMNED FOR THE DEATH OF CHRIST.
• 17:42 AS YOU KNOW...
• 17:44 THAT VERSE HAS BEEN HISTORICALLY TAKEN OUT OF CONTEXT
• 17:46 TO FUEL ANTI-JEWISH THEOLOGY
• 17:48 THAT THE JEWISH PEOPLE ARE GUILTY FOR THE DEATH OF CHRIST.
• 17:51 I REMEMBER AS KID...
• 17:53 IT WAS EASTER TIME...
• 17:54 WALKING DOWN THE STREET AND SOMEONE YELLED AT ME...
• 17:56 "HEY YOU DIRTY JEW... YOU KILLED JESUS!"
• 17:59 HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS... MILLIONS OF JEWS DIED AT THE HANDS OF NAZIS
• 18:05 THAT IN PART THOUGHT THEY WERE...YOU KNOW...
• 18:07 GOD'S AGENTS TO CLEANSE THE EARTH OF THESE VILE PEOPLE.
• 18:10 YOU WANT TO CORRECT THAT DON'T YOU?
• 18:11 ABSOLUTELY...
• 18:13 THE BLOOD OF JESUS REDEEMS THE JEWISH PEOPLE...
• 18:15 IT DOESN'T EXECRATE THEM FOR ALL ETERNITY
• 18:18 SO THIS IS KIND OF OUR MINISTRY AS EVANGELICAL
• 18:22 AS WELL AS TEACHING THE CHURCH ABOUT THE JEWISH ROOTS OF THEIR FAITH
• 18:26 AND WHY THEY NEED TO GET BEHIND ISRAEL...
• 18:28 LOVE THEM AND SUPPORT THEM.
• 18:29 SO IN THIS REGARD AS FAR AS THAT BOOK GOES
• 18:33 YOU'RE OFFERING A CORRECTIVE TO THE WAY THAT CHRISTIAN PEOPLE SOMETIMES
• 18:38 PERCEIVE THE JEWISH PEOPLE.
• 18:40 YES...AND TO BRING THEM TO AN AWARENESS
• 18:43 THAT GOD IS NOT FINISHED WITH ISRAEL.
• 18:46 HE'S RESUMING HIS PROGRAM WITH THEM
• 18:48 AND THEY ARE THE MESSIANIC PEOPLE
• 18:50 AND THEY'LL BE THE KINGDOM PEOPLE...
• 18:52 THEY'LL BE THE HEAD NATION IN THE COMING KINGDOM OF JESUS CHRIST.
• 18:56 SO ON THE ONE HAND THEN...
• 18:57 THEOLOGIAN, EVANGELIST, PASTOR; CHAPLAIN TODD BAKER
• 19:01 WANTS THE CHURCH TO SEE THE JEWISH PEOPLE IN A NEW LIGHT.
• 19:06 AND YOU WANT THE JEWISH PEOPLE TO SEE YESHUA...
• 19:10 TO SEE JESUS IN A NEW LIGHT DON'T YOU?
• 19:12 EXACTLY
• 19:13 AND YOU WROTE A BOOK...
• 19:14 WHY DON'T YOU TELL US ABOUT THAT ONE REAL QUICK.
• 19:16 "MESSENGERS OF MESSIAH - WITNESSING ENCOUNTERS WITH THE CHOSEN" ...
• 19:20 HERE'S ME WITNESSING TO TWO ORTHODOX...
• 19:22 AGAIN THIS IS KIND OF A HANDS ON MANUAL OF DOING JEWISH EVANGELISM PARTICULARLY IN ISRAEL...
• 19:28 AND IT CHRONICLES THE FIRST FIVE YEARS
• 19:31 OF OUR GOSPEL OUTREACH MINISTRY TO THE JEWISH PEOPLE OF ISRAEL.
• 19:35 AND I PLAN ON WRITING A SEQUEL IN 2010 COVERING THE LAST FIVE YEARS.
• 19:41 SO THIS COVERS THE FIRST FIVE YEARS OF OUR TEN YEAR MINISTRY FROM 2000 TO 2005
• 19:46 AND THEN WE'LL WRITE THE SEQUEL IN 2010
• 19:49 COVERING 2005 TO 201O
• 19:52 ABOUT OUR WITNESSING IN ISRAEL AND THE AMAZING STORIES THAT WE HAVE.
• 19:56 OUR...WE...
• 19:58 A LOT OF PEOPLE JUST THINK THAT ZOLA LEVITT MINISTRIES MAKES TV EXCLUSIVELY...
• 20:03 AND WE DO THAT...
• 20:04 BUT YOU'RE PART OF THIS OUTREACH ARM OF THE MINISTRY.
• 20:08 RIGHT... ZOLA STARTED "TO THE JEW FIRST FUND"
• 20:11 WHEN I WENT ON MY FIRST OUTREACH
• 20:13 AND CAME BACK AND GAVE HIM A WONDERFUL REPORT AND HE SAID...
• 20:17 WE NEED TO GET BEHIND YOU...
• 20:18 WE NEED TO FUND THIS...
• 20:19 SO LET'S START A "TO THE JEW FIRST"
• 20:21 SO THAT WE CAN FACILITATE JEWISH EVANGELISM IN ISRAEL...
• 20:26 THE PLACE WHERE THE GOSPEL HAPPENED...
• 20:28 THE PLACE WHERE YESHUA WILL RETURN TO REDEEM HIS PEOPLE.
• 20:31 WE SENT A LOT OF PEOPLE TO ISRAEL IN 2009...
• 20:37 PEOPLE SENT MONEY TO THIS "TO THE JEW FIRST FUND"
• 20:40 AND WE WERE ABLE TO FACILITATE THAT UNDER YOUR LEADERSHIP.
• 20:44 AND WE'RE REALLY APPRECIATIVE OF YOUR ENDEAVORS TO HELP
• 20:48 JEWISH PEOPLE COME TO KNOW THE LORD.
• 20:51 WHAT'S SPECIAL ABOUT THAT FOR YOU?
• 20:53 WELL JUST THE FACT THAT THE JEWISH PEOPLE GAVE ME MY MESSIAH,
• 20:58 GAVE ME MY FAITH,
• 21:00 GAVE ME THE WORD OF GOD...
• 21:02 AND OUT OF PROFOUND GRATITUDE AND LOVE FOR THEM I WANT TO GIVE THAT BACK TO THEM.
• 21:06 AND THAT'S REALLY WHAT THE EVANGELICAL ARM OF ZOLA LEVITT MINISTRIES
• 21:11 AND "B'RIT HADASHAH MINISTRIES",
• 21:12 A MINISTRY I DIRECT...
• 21:14 WE WORK IN UNISON TOGETHER TO FULFILL THAT
• 21:17 AND IT'S AMAZING BECAUSE PEOPLE JUST...
• 21:21 IN ISRAEL WHEN THEY SEE THAT YOU LOVE THEM
• 21:24 AND YOU'RE REACHING THEM WITH THE LOVE OF THE MESSIAH JESUS
• 21:27 IT JUST OPENS UP A WHOLE NEW DOOR TO REALLY DO EFFECTIVE GOSPEL MINISTRY.
• 21:33 I TELL YOU...YOU'RE LIKE MY HERO IN THIS SENSE...
• 21:35 YOU'RE LIKE THE POSTER BOY FOR ALL OF OUR FRIENDS
• 21:38 IN THE SENSE OF PEOPLE THAT ARE BEHIND ZOLA LEVITT MINISTRIES...
• 21:41 LOVE THE LORD...
• 21:42 LOVE THE JEWISH PEOPLE...
• 21:44 YOU'RE A GUY...YOU KNOW THAT LOVE FOR THE LORD LED YOU TO
• 21:46 BIBLE COLLEGE AND SEMINARY INTO THE VOCATIONAL, MINISTERIAL WORLD
• 21:51 AND NOW YOU'RE USING YOUR POLISHED INSIGHTS
• 21:55 TO REALLY PENETRATE TO HELP JEWISH PEOPLE COME TO KNOW THE LORD.
• 21:58 YOU'VE TAKEN IT TO A WHOLE OTHER LEVEL.
• 22:00 YES AND WE'LL CONTINUE THIS UNTIL THE RAPTURE OR I'M CALLED HOME.
• 22:05 IT'S SOMETHING THAT I'M COMMITTED TO UNTIL DEATH
• 22:10 BECAUSE I REALLY FEEL LIKE THERE'S SUCH AN URGENT NEED IN THE CHURCH
• 22:14 AND ESPECIALLY IN ISRAEL AND WE WANT TO DO THAT...
• 22:17 AND THANKFUL THAT WE CAN PARTNER TOGETHER
• 22:21 TO CARRY OUT THIS END TIME PROPHETIC MINISTRY...IT IS PROPHETIC JEFF.
• 22:26 WELL WE HEARD FROM THE HILSDENS EARLIER IN THIS PROGRAM.
• 22:31 THEY WENT THERE AS AN EXTENSION OF MISSION AND VIRTUE...
• 22:34 TWENTY-FIVE OR SO YEARS AGO THEY HOPPED OFF THE AIRPLANE IN JERUSALEM...
• 22:39 NEVER BEEN THERE BEFORE...
• 22:41 AND NOW THE LORD'S RAISED UP A MEGA CONGREGATION THERE. >>FANTASTIC
• 22:43 AND DIFFERENT PEOPLE...
• 22:45 DIFFERENT WAYS....
• 22:46 DIFFERENT DAYS...
• 22:47 I JUST LOVE THAT YOU...
• 22:49 OUR VIEWERS, FRIENDS...
• 22:50 ALL OF US TOGETHER SHOVELING COAL INTO THE ENGINE
• 22:54 TO HELP THE GOSPEL GET ON DOWN THE TRACK.
• 22:56 AND YOU KNOW JESUS GIVES A WONDERFUL PROMISE IN MATTHEW CHAPTER 10, VERSE 23
• 23:01 THAT HE SAYS, "YOU SHALL NOT HAVE GONE THROUGH ALL THE CITIES OF ISRAEL.."
• 23:05 "UNTIL THE SON OF MAN RETURNS"...
• 23:07 AND THAT'S A PROPHECY I BELIEVE THAT SAYS
• 23:09 THAT EVANGELISM WILL TAKE PLACE IN ISRAEL
• 23:12 AND IT WILL NOT BE FINISHED BEFORE THE LORD RETURNS
• 23:16 AND NOW THAT IT HAS RESUMED AFTER A 2,000 YEAR HIATUS
• 23:19 WHEN ISRAEL WAS OUT OF THE LAND...
• 23:21 NOW THAT THAT HAS RESUMED
• 23:22 WE MUST BE REALLY CLOSE TO THE RETURN OF THE LORD.
• 23:25 IT'S GREAT TO SEE THE GOSPEL EXPANDING IN ISRAEL THROUGH YOU...
• 23:28 THROUGH TELEVISION AS WELL...
• 23:30 WE GET INTO HOMES THROUGH VARIOUS CARRIERS...
• 23:33 THROUGH THE INTERNET...
• 23:34 WE GET OUT...
• 23:35 AND IT'S ALL ABOUT GETTING THE STORY OUT.
• 23:37 HEY IF PEOPLE WANT TO CONNECT TO TODD BAKER
• 23:39 WHAT'S YOUR WEBSITE?
• 23:40 OUR WEBSITE IS...
• 23:46 THEY CAN SEE WE HAVE VIDEO PRESENTATIONS
• 23:48 OF OUR OUTREACHES OVER THERE...
• 23:50 THEY CAN GET WONDERFUL TEACHING
• 23:52 ABOUT THE JEWISH ROOTS OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH
• 23:54 AND ALSO HOW TO LEARN ABOUT...
• 23:57 TO BE AN EFFECTIVE EVANGELIST TO ISRAEL AS WELL.
• 24:03 AND YOU WOULD KNOW TOO...
• 24:04 THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR HEART AND YOUR GIFT.
• 24:08 SPEAKING OF GIFTS...
• 24:10 THANK YOU FOR HELPING TODD DO WHAT HE DOES
• 24:13 BY HELPING US DO WHAT WE DO.
• 24:16 TOGETHER WE'RE ALL ABOUT MAKING JESUS KNOWN...
• 24:20 MAKING YESHUA KNOWN IN AMERICA...
• 24:23 ISRAEL...THE WORLD.
• 24:25 LAST WORDS YOURS...
• 24:26 THIRTY SECONDS TODD...
• 24:28 WHAT DO YOU WANT TO TELL THE WORLD?
• 24:29 WELL JEFF YOU EXHORTED THE AUDIENCE ABOUT GOING TO ISRAEL...
• 24:34 WE'RE NOT ONLY WITNESSES TO ISRAEL
• 24:36 BUT EVERY CHRISTIAN THAT GOES TO ISRAEL...
• 24:38 THEY ARE A WITNESS OF THE LOVE OF YESHUA FOR HIS PEOPLE.
• 24:41 WE NEED TO GO...
• 24:42 WE NEED TO SUPPORT THEM...
• 24:44 AND LET THEM KNOW THAT WE'RE GOING TO BE WITH THEM
• 24:46 AND SUPPORT THEM NO MATTER WHAT.
• 24:48 AND THIS IS WHAT OUR MINISTRY, ZOLA LEVITT MINISTRIES, IS ALL ABOUT...
• 24:52 AND WE'RE COMMITTED TO THAT
• 24:54 AND IT'S A PRIVILEGE TO BE PART OF THAT WITH YOU JEFF.
• 24:59 AND I'M GLAD THAT YOU ARE...
• 25:01 GOD BLESS YOU TODD.
• 25:02 THANK YOU JEFF
• 25:08 ♪ BARUCHIM H'BAIM L'YISRAEL ♪
• 25:12 ♪ BARUCHIM H'BAIM L'ADONAI ♪
• 25:17 ♪ THEY ARE BLESSED WHEN THEY WORSHIP IN ISRAEL ♪
• 25:20 ♪ THEY ARE BLESED BY THE FATHER, EL SHADDAI ♪
• 25:23 ♪ AND THEY KNOW WHEN THEY GO TO ISRAEL ♪
• 25:27 ♪ THEY WILL WALK WIH THE ONE THEY ADORE ♪
• 25:29 ♪ THEY WILL SPEAK, THEY WILL WEEP THERE IN ISRAEL ♪
• 25:32 ♪ WITH THE ONE WHO HAD COME THERE BEFORE ♪
• 25:35 ♪ ORCHESTRA ♪
• 25:41 ♪ BARUCHIM HA'BAIM L'YISRAEL ♪
• 25:45 WELL THAT WAS ZOLA...
• 25:47 BEAUTIFUL MUSIC...
• 25:48 I HOPE YOU LOOK AT THIS WHOLE PROGRAM AS BEAUTIFUL MUSIC...
• 25:52 IT'S CERTAINLY MUSIC TO MY EARS...I HOPE...THE LORD'S EARS
• 25:56 AS WE CONSIDER THE GOSPEL COMING FORTH FROM AND GOING TO ISRAEL PROPER...
• 26:03 TO ISRAEL THROUGH THE LIKES OF DR. TODD BAKER,
• 26:08 THROUGH THE LIKES OF PASTOR WAYNE AND ANNE HILSDEN...
• 26:13 FABULOUS STORY...
• 26:15 THEY JUST LANDED THERE...
• 26:16 AND BIG CONGREGATION...
• 26:19 MILLIONS OF DOLLARS HAVE COME IN TO HELP THEM TO BUILD AND TO TRANSFORM.
• 26:24 WE'RE ALL ABOUT TRYING TO TRANSFORM
• 26:27 AND SO I THANK YOU FOR YOUR HELP AS YOU SUPPORT US AND OTHER GOSPEL ENDEAVORS...
• 26:32 IT'S ALL ABOUT AS TODD SAID EARLIER...
• 26:35 WE'RE ALL ABOUT LOOKING AT YESHUA THROUGH JEWISH EYES
• 26:39 AND WE'RE ALL ABOUT HELPING JEWISH PEOPLE TO COME TO KNOW
• 26:43 THAT YESHUA IS INDEED THE JEWISH MESSIAH.
• 26:46 THANKS FOR GOING WITH US ON THE JOURNEY.
• 26:49 AND AS YOU GO NOW,
• 26:51 SHA'ALU SHALOM YERUSHALAYIM
• 26:53 PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM