Caption transcript for Esther: “Fight We Must!” (7/8)

• 00:21 ♪OUT OF ZION...ZION♪
• 00:25 ♪COMES YOUR SALVATION♪
• 00:30 ♪AND A NATION WILL BE FORMED OUT OF HIM♪
• 00:34 ♪YEAH AND A PEOPLE WILL BE BORN OUT OF HIM♪
• 00:39 ♪OUT OF ZION...ZION♪
• 00:43 ♪COMES YOUR SALVATION♪
• 00:54 HEARTY SHALOM TO ALL OF YOU.
• 00:55 JEFFREY SEIF HERE
• 00:56 PLEASED TO WELCOME YOU AGAIN
• 00:58 TO ZOLA LEVITT PRESENTS.
• 01:00 WE'RE LOOKING AT THE BOOK OF ESTHER...
• 01:01 THE PASSION, THE CUNNING, THE TRIUMPH...WHAT A STORY!
• 01:08 AND OFF WE GO AND CONSIDER HOW IT UNFOLDS.
• 01:14 HAMAN HAS FOUND HIS JUST REWARD.
• 01:17 HIS WICKED SCHEMES HAVE LEFT HIM HANGING
• 01:20 FROM ATOP THE VERY GALLOWS HE HAD PREPARED FOR MORDECAI.
• 01:27 BUT FROM WITHIN THE WALLS OF THE MAGNIFICENT PALACE IN SHUSHAN
• 01:30 QUEEN ESTHER REMAINS HEARTBROKEN.
• 01:36 SHE APPEALS TO THE KING ON BEHALF OF HER FELLOW JEWS.
• 02:14 SHE WANTED TO BE A HELP.
• 02:17 SHE WANTED TO SAVE HER PEOPLE.
• 02:20 AND SO SHE ARRANGES TO VISIT HER HUSBAND AGAIN AND PETITION ON THEIR BEHALF
• 02:25 THAT JEWS BE ALLOWED TO MAKE A SPIRITED DEFENSE
• 02:29 GIVEN THE FACT THAT A DECREE WAS ENACTED FOR THEIR DESTRUCTION.
• 02:33 IN CHAPTER 8, VERSE 6,
• 02:36 I CAN FEEL THE EMOTION DRIPPING FROM THE TEXT
• 02:39 IN THE HEBREW FIRST WHERE ESTHER SAYS,
• 03:08 SHE HUMBLY, FEARFULLY, TEARFULLY PETITIONED HER HUSBAND ON THEIR BEHALF THAT THE JEWS, HER JEWS,
• 03:18 HER PEOPLE BE ALLOWED TO MAKE A SPIRITED DEFENSE FOR THEIR OWN LIVES IN PERSIA.
• 03:25 HERE AT AMMUNITION HILL SOME YEARS AGO
• 03:30 JEWS MADE A VERY SPIRITED DEFENSE FOR THE BATTLE ROYAL THAT RAGED OVER JERUSALEM
• 03:37 AND MANY LOST THEIR LIVES HERE.
• 03:40 HAND TO HAND COMBAT WAS EFFECTED IN THESE TRENCHES WHERE EVERY MAN WAS A GENERAL.
• 03:48 MANY TOOK INITIATIVE AND FIGHTING WITH KNIVES ON OCCASION
• 03:53 THEY HACKED IT OUT TILL FINALLY THE LORD GAVE THEM SUCCESS
• 03:58 WHICH LENT ITSELF FINALLY THEN TO THE UNIFICATION OF JERUSALEM.
• 04:03 WHAT A PLACE HERE.
• 04:06 WHAT A PLACE HERE IN THE ESTHER STORY
• 04:10 WHERE WE READ IN VERSE 11 OF THE SAME CHAPTER IN HEBREW
• 04:14 WHERE THERE'S A DECREE THAT'S ENACTED AT HER BEHEST
• 04:18 WHERE JEWS ARE ALLOWED TO OFFER A SPIRITED DEFENSE
• 04:21 WE READ IN VERSE 11,
• 04:53 DESTRUCTION IS NOT PLEASANT BUSINESS
• 04:55 BUT SOMETIMES CIRCUMSTANCES ARE SUCH WHERE WE'RE THROWN ON OUR HEELS AND WE SIMPLY HAVE TO ACT.
• 05:03 IT SEEMS TO ME IN WAYS THAT THE WORLD LIKES JEWS THAT ARE WEAK AND SHEEPISH...
• 05:09 "OH PITY THE HOLOCAUST JEWS" OR WHATEVER,
• 05:11 BUT JEWS ARE JUST NOT OF THAT ILK TO LAY DOWN AND BE DOCILE.
• 05:16 AND WHEN I LOOK IN THE BIBLICAL TEXT I SEE INDIVIDUALS STANDING UP,
• 05:21 I SEE ALLOWANCES MADE FOR THE OBVIOUS...
• 05:24 THAT IS THAT PEOPLE CAN IN FACT FIGHT TO DEFEND HOME AND HEARTH.
• 05:29 IT'S GREAT TO SEE ESTHER USING HER INFLUENCE IN THE STRUGGLE.
• 05:34 SIMILARLY I'M PLEASED TO SEE THE ALLOWANCE MADE FOR JEWS IN THE BIBLICAL TEXT
• 05:39 TO GO AHEAD AND DEFEND HOME AND HEARTH.
• 05:42 IT'S A STORY BACK THEN...
• 05:44 IT'S A STORY TODAY...
• 05:46 AND ITS STORY THAT TOOK PLACE HERE AT AMMUNITION HILL
• 05:49 WHERE THE BATTLE FOR JERUSALEM WAS WAGED.
• 06:01 IT HAD BEEN A DIFFICULT TASK FOR MORDECAI.
• 06:04 WHILE IN EXHILE HE HAD FAITHFULLY RAISED HIS COUSIN ESTHER AS HIS OWN,
• 06:09 COUNSELING HER, NURTURING HER.
• 06:12 HE HAD BEEN SUPPORTIVE OF THE KING...
• 06:15 DEFENSIVE OF HIS FELLOW JEWS.
• 06:19 HE HAD REFUSED TO BOW BEFORE PRINCE HAMAN.
• 06:24 ALAS, HAMAN'S WICKED PLAN TO EXTERMINATE THE JEWS HAD BEEN THWARTED.
• 06:30 AND IN EVERY STATE THROUGHOUT THE EMPIRE THERE WAS JOY AND ELATION FOR THE JEWS.
• 06:43 EVER HEARD THE EXPRESSION
• 06:44 "CHANGE OF FORTUNES"...
• 06:46 WHEN YOU'RE HOT ONE DAY
• 06:47 AND YOU'RE NOT THE NEXT?
• 06:49 WELL IN THE BOOK OF ESTHER...
• 06:51 MORDECAI, THEY'RE LOOKING TO HANG HIM ONE DAY
• 06:54 AND THE NEXT DAY THEY'RE HANGING ROYAL APPAREL ON HIM.
• 06:59 SPEAKING OF CHANGE OF FORTUNES
• 07:01 IT'S AMAZING HOW HE WAS SAVED.
• 07:05 AND THE STORY OF THE SALVATION OF THE JEWS IS PLAYED OUT EVERY GENERATION FROM BIBLICAL PAGES
• 07:13 RIGHT ON THROUGH THE AGES.
• 07:15 AND HERE AT AMMUNITION HILL,
• 07:19 JEWISH PEOPLE AND THE WORLD THAT'S INTERESTED REMEMBERS
• 07:22 THE STRUGGLE FOR MODERN JERUSALEM.
• 07:25 MANY DIED HERE IN HAND TO HAND COMBAT AND THEY'RE COMMEMORATED,
• 07:29 THEIR NAMES ARE REMEMBERED BEHIND ME.
• 07:32 AND SIMILARLY NOT FAR AWAY TO MY LEFT IS A BIG FLAG POLE
• 07:36 BENEATH WHICH IS A PLAQUE COMMEMORATING
• 07:39 "THE ETERNAL CITY JERUSALEM".
• 07:44 THE PLAQUE IS BENEATH IT
• 07:46 AND THE BLUE AND WHITE FLIES ABOVE IT.
• 07:49 AND SPEAKING OF THE BLUE AND WHITE FLYING...
• 07:52 IT ALWAYS INTERESTED ME IN CHAPTER 8, VERSE 15
• 07:55 HOW WHEN MORDECAI IS SAVED HE IS DONNING BLUE AND WHITE APPAREL...THAT'S STRIKING!
• 08:03 LET'S SEE IT IN CHAPTER 8, VERSE 15 WERE TOLD,
• 08:26 WELL TODAY ISRAEL FLIES UNDER THE BANNER OF THE BLUE AND WHITE DOES IT NOT
• 08:33 TO CELEBRATE IT'S A TRIUMPH...
• 08:35 IT'S VICTORY OVER THE FORCES OF DARKNESS.
• 08:39 AND INTERESTINGLY TODAY AS YESTERDAY, AS WE'LL SEE,
• 08:44 INDIVIDUALS THAT ARE NOT OF JEWISH EXTRACT
• 08:47 ARE GIVEN TO JOINING THEMSELVES TO THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL
• 08:50 AND I'M TALKING ABOUT YOU WHO ARE GRAFTED IN.
• 08:54 IF YOU'LL LOOK IN CHAPTER 8, VERSE 17
• 08:58 THERE'S AN INTERESTING EXPRESSION HERE.
• 08:59 I'LL GIVE IT TO YOU IN HEBREW AND THEN IN ENGLISH.
• 09:01 WE'RE TOLD,
• 09:17 THEY BECAME JEWS.
• 09:20 IT SEEMS THAT EVEN IN THIS BAD NEWS WORLD
• 09:24 PEOPLE SAW GOD AT WORK
• 09:26 AND THEY WANTED TO JOIN THEMSELVES TO THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL
• 09:29 WHERE GOD WAS AT WORK
• 09:31 AND SIMILARLY TODAY, HAPPILY, IN A BAD NEWS WORLD WHERE ISRAEL IS ABANDONED BY MANY,
• 09:38 SIMILARLY MANY ARE JOINING THEMSELVES TO THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL...
• 09:42 PEOPLE JUST LIKE YOU.
• 09:47 OH, KEEP AT IT PLEASE!
• 09:50 THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU FOR WHO YOU ARE.
• 09:53 YOU SEE WHAT GOD IS DOING IN THE WORLD TODAY
• 09:56 AND YOU WANT TO GET BEHIND ISRAEL.
• 09:59 HERE PEOPLE GOT BEHIND ISRAEL
• 10:01 AND IT COST THEM THEIR LIFE.
• 10:04 I'D ASK YOU TO PRAY PLEASE AND ASK GOD WHAT HE WOULD HAVE YOU TO DO
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• 12:21 RELATED TO THE JEWS,
• 12:22 THE STUFF YOU NORMALLY DON'T GET.
• 12:26 WE WANT TO GET IT TO YOU.
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• 12:30 BUT WE'LL JUST GET THIS THING TO YOU.
• 12:32 HEY IF YOU WANT TO ADVERTISE FOR US A LITTLE BIT...
• 12:34 "PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM"
• 12:36 IS AN OFFER IN THE PROGRAM COMING LATER.
• 12:38 OF COURSE YOU'RE NOT ADVERTISING FOR US,
• 12:40 YOU'RE ADVERTISING FOR GOD'S WILL AND WAYS IN THE WORLD.
• 12:44 HERE'S ONE GREAT JEWISH WOMAN
• 12:46 THAT I WANT TO INTRODUCE YOU TO
• 12:48 AFRESH IN THE OFFER...
• 12:49 ESTHER HERSELF.
• 12:51 THE OFFER FOR THE SERIES IS THE SERIES...
• 12:54 RATHER, THE OFFER FOR THE PROGRAM IN THIS SERIES
• 12:56 "ESTHER, FOR SUCH A TIME AS THIS".
• 12:58 IT'S A GREAT STORY ISN'T IT?
• 13:01 ALL WAS NOT WELL IN RIVER CITY.
• 13:05 ESTHER HAS COME INTO HER OWN
• 13:07 BUT THERE'S SOME LINGERING BUSINESS...
• 13:09 THERE'S THREATS MANIFEST STILL.
• 13:12 AND THERE'S ESTHER STANDING IN THE GAP FOR GOD'S PEOPLE.
• 13:15 WE WANT YOU TO STAND IN THE GAP.
• 13:17 LET'S CONSIDER HOW SHE DOES THAT AND MORE.
• 14:00 HONEY...JUST ONE MORE TIME.
• 14:03 SEEMS THAT ONE DAY WASN'T ENOUGH
• 14:07 TO ATTEND TO THE BUSINESS OF THE DAY
• 14:10 WHICH WASN'T PLEASANT TO BE SURE.
• 14:12 BUT IF YOU'RE GOING TO GO AFTER A TUMOR
• 14:15 DON'T JUST TAKE HALF OF IT
• 14:16 GET ALL OF IT...
• 14:17 CAUSE IF YOU DON'T GET ALL OF IT
• 14:19 YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE TO COME BACK AND TAKE IT OUT THE NEXT DAY ANYWAY...
• 14:21 YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE TO REVISIT THE SURGERY.
• 14:23 WELL THEY WERE CLEANING HOUSE HAPPILY,
• 14:27 THAT IS, THAT INDIVIDUALS WERE GIVEN PERMISSION TO FIGHT FOR THEIR OWN LIFE.
• 14:31 THE NET RESULT IS THAT ANTI-SEMITES ARE BEING PUSHED BACK SOME.
• 14:35 BUT HERE WE SEE THE DRAMA OF ESTHER WHO PETITIONS THE KING, HER HUSBAND,
• 14:40 "PLEASE...WE NEED TO CONTINUE THIS BUSINESS".
• 14:44 AND IT REMINDS ME HOW THE STORY DOESN'T END,
• 14:47 THAT WE HAVE TO CONTINUE THAT BUSINESS EVEN TO THIS DAY IT SEEMS TO ME.
• 14:51 IN ANY CASE, ON THIS DAY,
• 14:53 I'M COMING TO YOU FROM A PLACE
• 14:54 WHERE WE'VE INTERVIEWED
• 14:56 THE SOLDIER THAT FOUGHT HERE
• 14:57 BY THE WAY.
• 14:58 AMMUNITION HILL AS I SAID
• 15:00 EARLIER IN THIS SEGMENT
• 15:01 WAS A BATTLE ROYAL FOR JERUSALEM.
• 15:03 IT WAS FOUGHT HERE
• 15:05 AND PEOPLE ARE COMMEMORATED FOR THEIR GIVING THEIR LIVES HERE.
• 15:08 AND IN THIS VERY PLACE AS WELL A STRUGGLE WAS ENSUED.
• 15:12 I WANT YOU TO LOOK WITH ME PLEASE IN CHAPTER 9, VERSE 5
• 15:16 WE'RE TOLD THAT MORDECAI FAIRED WELL AS DID OTHERS.
• 15:20 IN THE TEXT WE'RE TOLD...
• 15:47 HERE AGAIN MOBILIZED WERE FORCES TO STAY THE HAND OF THOSE THAT WOULD SEEK TO DESTROY THEM.
• 15:56 I BELIEVE THAT WARFARE IS BOTH MATERIAL AND SPIRITUAL.
• 16:01 AS YOU KNOW WE LIVE IN A DAY TODAY
• 16:04 WHERE INDIVIDUALS CERTAINLY NEED TO CONTEND FOR A WAY OF LIFE,
• 16:08 FOR BIBLICAL VALUES,
• 16:10 FOR BIBLICAL VIRTUES.
• 16:11 AND WE DO THAT SOCIALLY,
• 16:13 WE DO THAT POLITICALLY,
• 16:15 WE DO THAT SPIRITUALLY.
• 16:17 WHEN I LOOK AT THE BIBLICAL TEXT THERE'S A WAY OF BEING.
• 16:20 WE CALL IT JUDEO-CHRISTIAN ETHICS, JUDEO-CHRISTIAN VALUES.
• 16:25 FROM THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENT BOTH COME A WAY, COME A VISION.
• 16:31 INTERESTINGLY AND HISTORICALLY
• 16:34 IS THE CASE THAT THERE ARE FORCES AMASSED TO SNUFF OUT THAT FIRE, TO QUENCH IT,
• 16:41 TO DIM THE VISION, TO HINDER INDIVIDUALS FROM SEEING WHAT GOD IS DOING IN THE WORLD
• 16:50 AND WILL DO IN THE WORLD IN DAYS TO COME.
• 16:53 IT'S IMPORTANT THAT INDIVIDUALS LIKE ME AND YOU...
• 16:57 THAT WE UNSHEATH OUR SWORDS...
• 17:00 I'M SPEAKING SPIRITUALLY HERE OF A BIBLICAL SWORD AT A PLACE, BY THE WAY,
• 17:04 WHERE PEOPLE ACTUALLY FOUGHT WITH KNIVES FOR THEIR LIVES
• 17:07 HERE ON AMMUNITION HILL.
• 17:09 FROM THIS PLACE, FROM THIS TEXT
• 17:11 SPEAKING FROM ME TO YOU,
• 17:13 FROM MY HEART TO YOURS,
• 17:15 LET ME ENCOURAGE YOU TO STAND UP FOR BIBLICAL WAYS.
• 17:19 OPEN UP THAT BIBLE...
• 17:20 READ IT...
• 17:22 STAND ON IT...
• 17:23 ADVOCATE FOR IT
• 17:25 AND YOU WILL BE INDEED PLEASED THAT YOU DID SO
• 17:28 AND YOU WILL HEAR A VOICE AT THE END OF DAYS SAYING,
• 17:31 "WELL DONE MY GOOD AND FAITHFUL SERVANT".
• 17:41 ♪YOU HAVE SAVED US WITH YOUR ENDLESS LOVE♪
• 17:46 ♪YOU HAVE DRAWN US BACK BY YOUR LOVING-KINDNESS♪
• 17:53 ♪YOU WILL BUILD US UP AGAIN,♪
• 17:56 ♪WE WILL BE REVIVED ONCE AGAIN♪
• 17:59 ♪THEY WILL KNOW THAT YOU ARE THE LORD GOD ALMIGHTY♪
• 18:04 ♪THE HEAVENS DECLARE THAT NOTHING CAN COMPARE♪
• 18:10 ♪TO YOU POWER AND MIGHT IN THIS PLACE♪
• 18:17 ♪ALTHOUGH NATIONS WILL RISE - YOU WILL BE GLORIFIED♪
• 18:23 ♪THEY WILL BOW AT YOUR FEET ONCE AGAIN♪
• 18:29 ♪THEY WILL BOW AT YOUR FEET ONCE AGAIN♪
• 18:32 ♪THEY WILL BOW AT YOUR FEET ONCE AGAIN♪
• 18:35 ♪EVERY NATION AND TRIBE EVERY TONGUE♪
• 18:37 ♪WILL SAY ADONAI IS THE HOLY ONE♪
• 18:40 ♪THEY WILL BOW AT YOUR FEET ONCE AGAIN♪
• 18:44 ♪THEY WILL BOW AT YOUR FEET ONCE AGAIN♪
• 18:47 ♪EVERY WORD EVERY SONG THAT IS SUNG♪
• 18:50 ♪WILL BE SUNG TO YOU - YOU'RE THE HOLY ONE♪
• 18:54 ♪YOU HAVE SAVED US WITH YOUR ENDLESS LOVE♪
• 19:00 ♪YOU HAVE DRAWN US BACK BY YOUR LOVING-KINDNESS♪
• 19:07 ♪YOU WILL BUILD US UP AGAIN,♪
• 19:10 ♪WE WILL BE REVIVED ONCE AGAIN♪
• 19:13 ♪AND THEY WILL KNOW THAT YOU ARE THE LORD GOD ALMIGHTY♪
• 19:18 ♪THE HEAVENS DECLARE THAT NOTHING CAN COMPARE♪
• 19:24 ♪TO YOUR POWER AND MIGHT IN THIS PLACE♪
• 19:31 ♪ALTHOUGH NATIONS WILL RISE - YOU WILL BE GLORIFIED♪
• 19:37 ♪THEY WILL BOW AT YOUR FEET ONCE AGAIN♪
• 19:43 ♪THEY WILL BOW AT YOUR FEET ONCE AGAIN♪
• 19:45 ♪THEY WILL BOW AT YOUR FEET ONCE AGAIN♪
• 19:48 ♪EVERY NATION AND TRIBE EVERY TONGUE♪
• 19:51 ♪WILL SAY ADONAI IS THE HOLY ONE♪
• 19:54 ♪THEY WILL BOW AT YOUR FEET ONCE AGAIN♪
• 19:58 ♪THEY WILL BOW AT YOUR FEET ONCE AGAIN♪
• 20:01 ♪EVERY WORD EVERY SONG THAT IS SUNG♪
• 20:03 ♪WILL BE SUNG TO YOU - YOU'RE THE HOLY ONE♪
• 20:09 ♪AND WHEN THE DARK IS ALL AROUND US THEN♪
• 20:13 ♪YOU'LL DRAW US CLOSER INTO YOU♪
• 20:17 ♪YOU WILL DRAW US CLOSE WE NEED NOT BE AFRAID♪
• 20:22 ♪WHEN THE DARK IS ALL AROUND US♪
• 20:25 ♪YOU'LL DRAW US CLOSER INTO YOU♪
• 20:29 ♪YOU WILL DRAW US CLOSE WE NEED NOT BE AFRAID♪
• 20:35 ♪THEY WILL BOW AT YOUR FEET ONCE A -♪
• 20:39 ♪THEY WILL BOW AGAIN♪
• 20:43 ♪THEY WILL BOW AT YOUR FEET AGAIN♪
• 20:46 ♪OHHHH...OH YEAH♪
• 20:51 ♪THEY WILL BOW AT -♪
• 20:54 ♪THEY WILL BOW, THEY WILL BOW AGAIN♪
• 20:59 ♪THEY WILL BOW AT YOUR FEET ONCE AGAIN♪
• 21:03 ♪EVERY SONG AND EVERY WORD OH YEAH♪
• 21:09 ♪OH YEAH YOU'RE THE ONLY ONE YEAH♪
• 21:12 ♪OH YEAH YOU'RE THE ONLY ONE YEAH♪
• 21:15 ♪LA DA DA DA DA DA DA♪
• 21:19 ♪OH...WHOA...YEAH♪
• 21:24 ♪THEY WILL BOW AGAIN♪
• 21:28 THEY WILL BOW.
• 21:30 IT'S SIMPLE BUT PROFOUND SHARON.
• 21:32 HOW DID YOU COME UP WITH THAT?
• 21:33 THIS IS SUCH AN INTERESTING SONG.
• 21:35 IT'S ACTUALLY THE FIRST ONE THAT I EVER WROTE.
• 21:37 I WAS ON A TRIP TO ISRAEL WITH MY DAD
• 21:40 AND I WAS OUT ON OUR PORCH IN JERUSALEM OVERLOOKING THE CITY.
• 21:43 THIS IS MY FIRST TRIP THERE
• 21:45 AND I'M SURE YOU CAN PROBABLY REMEMBER YOUR FIRST TRIP TO ISRAEL.
• 21:47 EVERYTHING STILL WHEN YOU GO IS JUST "WOW"
• 21:50 BUT THAT FIRST TRIP,
• 21:51 I'LL NEVER FORGET IT.
• 21:52 AND I WAS ON OUR PORCH
• 21:54 JUST HAVING A DEVOTION TIME WITH THE LORD
• 21:56 AND JUST SO IN AWE AT THE MOMENT AND LOOKING OVER THE CITY.
• 21:59 AND THEN ALL OF SUDDEN ON THE LOUD SPEAKER
• 22:02 COMES THE ISLAMIC PRAYERS BEING SUNG OVER THE CITY
• 22:06 AND IN THE MOMENT I JUST FELT SUCH AN ANGER RISING UP IN ME.
• 22:10 AND I'M LIKE...
• 22:11 THIS IS NOT FAIR...
• 22:12 THIS IS GOD'S MOST HOLY CITY JERUSALEM.
• 22:14 AND HERE WE HAVE THESE PRAYERS
• 22:16 AND YOU COULD JUST SENSE THE ATMOSPHERE CHANGE IN THE SPIRIT.
• 22:19 IT WAS EERIE ALMOST.
• 22:21 YOU KNOW THAT JERUSALEM IS MENTIONED 600 HUNDRED TIMES IN THE BIBLE,
• 22:24 NOT ONCE IN THE KORAN
• 22:26 BUT MUSLIMS CLAIM THAT JEWS WERE NEVER THERE,
• 22:28 IT'S AN ISLAMIC CITY THROUGH AND THROUGH.
• 22:30 IT'S SO FRUSTRATING
• 22:31 AND I JUST FELT THAT ANGER RISING UP IN ME
• 22:35 AND GOD REMINDED ME OF A VERSE I'VE HEARD SO MANY TIMES...
• 22:37 EVERY KNEE WILL BOW...
• 22:38 EVERY TONGUE WILL CONFESS.
• 22:40 AND IN THAT MOMENT
• 22:42 I REALIZED THAT GUY THAT'S ON THAT SPEAKER RIGHT NOW
• 22:45 SINGING THOSE PRAYERS TO WHOEVER HE THINKS HE'S SINGING THEM TO...
• 22:48 HE'S GOING TO BE BOWING AT THE FEET OF THE GOD OF ABRAHAM, ISAAC AND JACOB.
• 22:52 WAITING FOR THE MOMENT OF THAT SUBMISSION IS AN ABIDING THEME.
• 22:56 GOING BACK TO BIBLE DAYS
• 22:59 IN PURIM THERE WAS WICKEDNESS TRYING TO PUSH THE JEWS OUT OF THE PICTURE
• 23:03 THEN AS NOW. YEAH...EXACTLY.
• 23:05 WE KNOW WHAT HAPPENED IN THE END OF THE PURIM STORY;
• 23:08 HAMAN DID NOT HAVE HIS WAY.
• 23:10 AND I'M SURE WHEN HE MET GOD FACE TO FACE
• 23:14 HE KNEW THAT HIS WAY WAS THE WRONG WAY TO BE CHOOSING.
• 23:19 AND IN THE JEWISH WORLD WE REMEMBER THESE WAYS AND THOSE DAYS
• 23:24 AS WE IN THE SYNAGOGUE AS CHILDREN CELEBRATE PURIM.
• 23:27 ZOLA LEVITT'S GOING TO TALK TO US ABOUT THAT NOW.
• 23:30 OFF TO ZOLA.
• 23:33 THE CELEBRATION IN THE SYNAGOGUE
• 23:36 IS INTERESTING;
• 23:37 THEY READ THE WHOLE BOOK OF ESTHER,
• 23:38 SO CALLED "THE WHOLE MEGILLAH".
• 23:40 THEY READ IT FROM THE TOP TO THE BOTTOM
• 23:42 AND THE CHILDREN HAVE GRAGGERS IN THEIR HAND...
• 23:46 AWFUL NOISE MAKERS THAT THEY SHAKE RATHER LIKE WHAT WE DO AT NEW YEAR'S OR MARDI GRA.
• 23:51 THEY MAKE A LOT OF NOISE WHEN THE RABBI PRONOUNCES THE NAME OF HAMAN, THE PRIME MINISTER.
• 23:57 AND I REMEMBER AS A LITTLE KID SITTING IN THE SYNAGOGUE
• 24:00 IN A COSTUME DRESSED AS MORDECAI OR SOME BODY IN THE STORY
• 24:04 AND THE RABBI READING SLOWLY THROUGH THE WHOLE MEGILLAH
• 24:08 AND ALL OF US WAITING WITH OUR BAITED BREATH
• 24:11 AND OUR NOISE MAKERS READY
• 24:13 AND FINALLY HE WOULD COME TO "HAA...MAAN", HAMAN,
• 24:16 AND WE'D...OH THE SYNAGOGUE WOULD JUST JUMP UP AND DOWN WITH THE NOISE AND THE RACKET
• 24:21 AND ALL WE KIDS WOULD JUST RUN AROUND THE PLACE...
• 24:24 IT WAS A "FREE FOR ALL".
• 24:25 THE SYNAGOGUE AND IT'S FORMAL ISLES AND PLATFORMS AND SO ON
• 24:29 WAS ALL PUT IN THE HANDS OF THE CHILDREN FOR PURIM
• 24:33 AND WE HAD QUITE A GOOD TIME WITH IT.
• 24:36 I HAVE GREAT MEMORIES OF PURIM AS A CHILD.
• 24:39 I WAS AMAZED BY THE COSTUMES.
• 24:42 HOW ABOUT YOU?
• 24:43 IT'S SUCH A FUN STORY TO TELL
• 24:45 AND AS A KID AT MY CONGREGATION
• 24:47 WE ALWAYS HAD THE COSTUMES.
• 24:49 AND I REMEMBER MY MOM DRESSING ME UP AS QUEEN ESTHER
• 24:52 WITH THE LITTLE SASH ON
• 24:53 AND IT WAS ALWAYS MY FAVORITE TIME OF YEAR,
• 24:55 NOT JUST BECAUSE THE STORY WAS SO INTERESTING AN AMAZING IN AND OF ITSELF,
• 24:59 BUT IT WAS JUST A FUN CELEBRATION.
• 25:01 WELL THERE'S MOM DRESSING YOU UP AS ESTHER AS A LITTLE GIRL,
• 25:04 GOING IN FRONT OF A CONGREGATION OF A COUPLE HUNDRED.
• 25:07 NOW HERE YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT ESTHER
• 25:09 IN FRONT OF A COUPLE HUNDRED THOUSAND
• 25:10 THROUGH THE MIRACLE THAT'S TELEVISION.
• 25:12 CAN GOD RAISE PEOPLE UP LIKE ESTHER IN A BYGONE ERA?
• 25:15 DEFINITELY,
• 25:17 WHO KNOWS WHO THE NEXT ESTHER IS GOING TO BE?
• 25:19 WHO KNOWS WHO THE NEXT JOSEPH IS GOING TO BE?
• 25:21 AND IT'S EVIDENT THAT WE ARE LIVING IN CRUCIAL TIMES RIGHT NOW
• 25:24 WITH EVERYTHING GOING ON IN THE WORLD,
• 25:26 WITH ISRAEL,
• 25:27 AND IT'S ONLY A MATTER OF TIME.
• 25:29 AND THAT'S WHAT'S SO AMAZING ABOUT THE STORY
• 25:32 IS HERE WAS THIS GIRL,
• 25:33 SHE WAS JUST A GIRL,
• 25:35 THERE MIGHT NOT HAVE BEEN ANYTHING EXTREMELY SPECIAL ABOUT HER THAT SET HER APART
• 25:40 BUT GOD CHOSE HER,
• 25:41 CHOSE TO BRING HER TO THE POINT OF WHERE SHE INFLUENCED HISTORY.
• 25:45 RIGHT...SHE HAD TO TAKE THAT FINAL STEP; YEAH...SHE DID
• 25:48 YOU KNOW SHE WAS RELUCTANT THERE. ...EXACTLY.
• 25:49 I'VE HEARD IT SAID THAT THE WORD "FAITH"
• 25:51 IS SPELLED R-I-S-K.
• 25:53 SOMETIMES YOU ROLL THE DICE AGAINST AN UNCERTAIN FUTURE.
• 25:56 IT'S TRUE
• 25:57 AND SHE HAD TO POSSESS A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF COURAGE.
• 26:00 WHEN IT COMES TO THAT POINT
• 26:03 WHERE YOU GOT TO MAKE THE DECISION,
• 26:04 "AM I GOING TO STEP FORWARD WITH THIS?"
• 26:06 "OR AM I JUST GOING TO SIT BACK AND LET IT HAPPEN".
• 26:08 IT WAS GOING TO HAPPEN WHETHER SHE DID IT OR NOT
• 26:11 SO IT TOOK THAT CERTAIN AMOUNT OF COURAGE FOR HER TO JUST SAY,
• 26:15 "OKAY GOD, USE ME, I WANT TO BE THE ONE."
• 26:17 RIGHT AND SHE EXPERIENCED IN THE PROCESS GOD TURNING HER SORROW INTO JOY.
• 26:22 YES...EXACTLY.
• 26:24 HENCE THE STORY OF PURIM.
• 26:25 THANKS FOR GOING WITH US ON THE JOURNEY.
• 26:27 WE'LL BE BACK NEXT WEEK AND WRAP IT ALL UP.
• 26:30 BUT HEY LISTEN WE CAN SEE YOU BEFORE THEN.
• 26:33 YOU CAN FIND US ON YOUTUBE,
• 26:34 FACEBOOK,
• 26:36 WE'RE THERE FOR YOU.
• 26:37 THANKS AGAIN FOR GOING WITH US.
• 26:39 AS YOU GO NOW,
• 26:40 SHA'ALU SHALOM YERUSHALAYIM
• 26:42 PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM