Caption transcript for “The Word from Jerusalem”

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