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

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