Caption transcript for Eretz Israel (The Land of Israel): “The Land Promised” (1/8)

• 00:08 LOOK TO THE NORTH
• 00:11 THE SOUTH
• 00:14 THE EAST
• 00:17 THE WEST
• 00:25 ALL THE LAND WHICH THOU SEEST
• 00:27 TO THEE WILL I GIVE IT
• 00:29 AND TO THY SEED FOREVER.
• 00:34 INDEED... HE WHO WATCHES OVER ISRAEL
• 00:37 WILL NEITHER SLUMBER NOR SLEEP.
• 00:56 HEARTY SHALOM TO ALL OF YOU.
• 00:57 JEFFREY SEIF HERE
• 00:58 PLEASED TO WELCOME YOU AGAIN
• 01:00 TO ZOLA LEVITT PRESENTS.
• 01:02 I SAY "AGAIN" BECAUSE WE'VE BEEN GOING FOR 35 YEARS
• 01:05 AND WE'RE GOING TO KEEP ON GOING.
• 01:07 THIS TIME GOING TO THE LAND OF ISRAEL
• 01:10 IN A SERIES CALLED "ERETZ ISRAEL"
• 01:13 MEANING "THE LAND OF ISRAEL".
• 01:16 WHY ARE WE DOING IT?
• 01:18 WHY TAKE YOU THERE?
• 01:20 DID YOU EVER GET THE FEELING PEOPLE DIDN'T LIKE YOU...
• 01:23 PEOPLE ARE CRITICIZING YOU?
• 01:24 WELL IF YOU DO, YOU KNOW WHAT ITS LIKE TO BE A JEW
• 01:27 BECAUSE PEOPLE HAVE BEEN AT US SINCE THE BEGINNING.
• 01:31 FROM THE DAWN OF BIBLICAL REVELATION WE SEE GOD LEADING PEOPLE TO REAL ESTATE
• 01:36 AND THE DEVIL TRYING TO OFF END THEM OR US.
• 01:40 IN A WORLD TODAY WHERE ISRAEL IS SO DEBATABLE
• 01:44 WE WANT TO TAKE YOU TO THE REAL ESTATE.
• 01:46 WE WANT TO TAKE YOU THERE OFF THE BEATEN PATH, BY THE WAY.
• 01:50 MY GPS WILL GET YOU PLACES YOU NORMALLY DON'T SEE.
• 01:54 WE WANT TO TAKE YOU TO THE PAGES OF BIBLICAL LITERATURE
• 01:57 AND SEE WHAT SCRIPTURE SAYS ABOUT THE LAND OF ISRAEL.
• 02:00 MY GOOD FRIEND DAVID DOLAN, A FORMER CBS CORRESPONDENT
• 02:03 WILL GIVE US A MODERN VIEW
• 02:05 BUT I WANT TO TAKE YOU TO A BIBLICAL VIEW AT THE FIRST
• 02:08 AND SO OFF WE GO NOW TO FOLLOW IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF OUR FATHER ABRAHAM
• 02:13 AND JOURNEY TO THE LAND OF ISRAEL.
• 02:19 NOW THE LORD SAID UNTO ABRAM,
• 02:21 "GET THEE OUT OF THY COUNTRY"
• 02:23 "AND FROM THY KINDRED"
• 02:24 "AND FROM THY FATHER'S HOUSE"
• 02:26 "UNTO A LAND THAT I WILL SHOW THEE."
• 02:29 "AND I WILL MAKE OF THEE A GREAT NATION"
• 02:31 "AND I WILL BLESS THEE AND MAKE THY NAME GREAT"
• 02:35 "AND THOU SHALL BE A BLESSING."
• 02:37 "AND I WILL BLESS THEM THAT BLESS THEE"
• 02:40 "AND CURSE HIM THAT CURSETH THEE."
• 02:43 "AND IN THEE SHALL ALL FAMILIES OF THE EARTH BE BLESSED."
• 02:46 AND ABRAM TOOK SARAI HIS WIFE,
• 02:49 HIS NEPHEW LOT,
• 02:51 ALL THE SUBSTANCE AND PERSONS THEY HAD ACQUIRED IN HARAN
• 02:55 AND JOURNEYED TO CANAAN.
• 03:00 IT HAS BEEN SAID
• 03:01 THAT A JOURNEY OF A LIFETIME
• 03:02 BEGINS WITH THE VERY FIRST STEPS
• 03:05 WELL COME WITH ME NOW AND JOURNEY WITH ME
• 03:08 AS WE WALK IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF OUR FATHER ABRAHAM.
• 03:49 EVER HEARD THE EXPRESSION
• 03:51 "THE ROAD LESS TRAVELED"?
• 03:53 FOR MANY OF US THE ROAD OF FAITH IS JUST THAT.
• 03:57 WE WANT TO CONSIDER THE FOOTSTEPS OF THE FATHER OF FAITH
• 04:02 AND TO HELP US I WANT TO SHOW YOU A MAP SO YOU CAN SOME VISION
• 04:06 FOR THE ROAD THAT HE TRAVELED.
• 04:10 IT'S A BIG MAP BUT HE TOOK SOME BIG STEPS.
• 04:14 ABRAHAM LEFT UR OF CHALDEA,
• 04:17 HE MADE HIS WAY THROUGH MESOPOTAMIA,
• 04:20 A GREEK WORD MEANING "BETWEEN THE RIVERS",
• 04:22 THE EUPHRATES AND THE TIGRIS.
• 04:24 HE GOES TO HARAN FOR A SEASON
• 04:26 UNTIL SUCH TIME AS THE LORD BECKONS HIM TO FINISH THE FINAL LEG OF THE JOURNEY
• 04:30 MAKING HIS WAY TO "ERETZ CANAAN" IN THE "LAND OF CANAAN".
• 04:35 AND IT'S GOING TO LEAD HIM TO THIS PLACE HERE "BETHEL"
• 04:40 AND IT'S NOT ONLY THIS PLACE HERE
• 04:43 BUT IT'S THIS PLACE HERE.
• 04:45 COME WITH ME NOW...
• 04:47 LET ME GIVE YOU A WINDOW WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE.
• 04:59 THE PROMISE GIVEN OF A GREAT NATION, ABRAHAM THEN DEPARTS
• 05:04 AND HE MAKES HIS WAY TO THE LAND OF CANAAN,
• 05:08 THE LAND THEN CALLED "CANAAN".
• 05:12 OPEN YOUR BIBLES PLEASE TO GENESIS CHAPTER 12
• 05:15 AND LET'S FOLLOW IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF OUR FATHER ABRAHAM.
• 05:20 WE'RE TOLD IN VERSE 5
• 05:24 ABRAHAM IS NOTED AS PASSING THROUGH VARIOUS PLACES.
• 05:30 AND ISN'T IT LIKE A JOURNEY AS WE'RE GOING TO OUR INHERITANCE IN THE LORD?
• 05:34 THERE'S VARIOUS STOPS ALONG THE WAY.
• 05:37 WE'RE TOLD IN VERSE 6
• 05:42 IT'S INTERESTING...
• 05:43 THE LORD SAYS "I'LL GIVE YOU THE LAND OF CANAAN".
• 05:45 THERE STILL WERE PEOPLE USING THE TERM "CANAANITES"
• 05:48 BROADLY CONSTRUED, THAT WE'RE HERE.
• 05:50 THAT ASIDE
• 05:52 EVEN WITH SOME SCATTERED PEOPLE MOVING ABOUT HERE
• 05:54 THE LORD IS EXPLICIT.
• 05:56 AND I WANT YOU TO HEAR ME PLEASE
• 05:57 IN VERSE 7 IN NO UNCERTAIN TERMS THE LORD SAYS...
• 06:01 FIRST THE LORD APPEARED TO HIM IN SOMETHING OF A VISION
• 06:05 AND SAID, "TO YOUR DESCENDANTS I WILL GIVE THIS LAND"...
• 06:12 THE LAND OF CANAAN.
• 06:14 THERE'S REAL ESTATE...
• 06:16 THERE'S TRIBAL SORTS,
• 06:18 LOOSE CONFEDERACIES MOVING AROUND IN DIFFERENT PLACES HERE.
• 06:21 AND SOME HAVE TAKEN RESIDENCY IN THE CITIES,
• 06:25 SMALL FLEDGLING CITIES IF YOU WILL,
• 06:28 BUT AS PEOPLE ARE MIGRATING ALONG THE FERTILE CRESCENT AND SETTLING DOWN HERE...
• 06:33 BUT THE LORD BRINGS ABRAHAM HERE
• 06:36 AND HE SAYS, "LISTEN I HAVE GIVEN THIS LAND TO YOU"
• 06:40 IN NO UNCERTAIN TERMS OF PROMISE
• 06:42 "TO YOUR DESCENDANTS I WILL GIVE IT".
• 06:45 AND WHAT DOES HE DO IN RESPONSE TO HEARING THAT?
• 06:48 WE'RE TOLD SOMETHING THAT ABRAHAM HAS DONE MORE THAN ONCE.
• 06:50 WHAT DOES HE DO?
• 06:52 HE BUILDS AN ALTAR,
• 06:54 A "MITZBE'ACH",
• 06:55 A PLACE OF SACRIFICE.
• 06:57 AS WE MAKE OUR JOURNEY FROM THE WOMB TO THE TOMB
• 07:01 SOME OF US HAVE MOMENTS
• 07:02 WHERE WE HAVE SOMETHING OF AN EXISTENTIAL ENCOUNTER WITH THE LORD
• 07:06 WHERE WE HEAR HIM SPEAK TO US.
• 07:08 HE STIRS US UP IN OUR HEARTS.
• 07:10 IT'S NOT ALL INTELLECT.
• 07:12 BUT THERE'S A SENSE IF WE HAVE A LITTLE "RUACH HAKODESH" DWELLING IN US, A LITTLE "HOLY SPIRIT"
• 07:16 THAT WE'RE BEING DRIVEN ALONG BY A FORCE THAT'S NOT OUR OWN.
• 07:19 WE HEAR GOD'S VOICE,
• 07:21 WE MOVE BY HIS SPIRIT
• 07:23 AND INDIVIDUALS THUS INCLINED WITHIN THAT CONTEXT
• 07:26 ARE MINDED ALONG THE WAY TO BUILD SOME ALTARS,
• 07:30 TO TAKE SOME TIME OUT TO WORSHIP THE LORD.
• 07:32 ABRAHAM UPON HEARING AT THIS PLACE IS MINDED TO DO MUCH THAT.
• 07:38 I WANT YOU TO SEE...
• 07:39 WE'RE TOLD, HAVING HEARD THE PROMISE,
• 07:52 AND BY THE WAY I'M COMING TO YOU FROM THAT PLACE RIGHT NOW.
• 07:57 TOURISTS DON'T FREQUENT THIS
• 07:59 BECAUSE THERE'S NOT MUCH AT ONE LEVEL
• 08:00 BUT ONE PILGRIM DID MANY YEARS AGO
• 08:04 AND WE'RE ALL ABOUT FOLLOWING THE OFF ROAD STORY OF THE BIBLE
• 08:08 WHERE THE TOURISTS BUSES DON'T COME.
• 08:10 IT'S EASY TO GET A CAMERA CREW,
• 08:12 OR EASIER I SHOULD SAY TO GET A CREW IN
• 08:14 TO TAKE YOU TO SEE SOME THINGS THAT THEY HAVEN'T BUILT HIGHWAYS FOR OTHERS TO GET TO.
• 08:20 IN ANY CASE WE'RE IN PROXIMITY TO THAT PLACE
• 08:24 HERE BETWEEN THOSE TWO CITIES NOTED WHERE ABRAHAM IS MINDED TO WORSHIP THE LORD.
• 08:29 WE'RE TOLD, "AND THERE"...
• 08:31 AS I NOTED EARLIER...
• 08:32 HE BUILDS AN ALTAR TO THE LORD
• 08:35 AND HE CALLS ON THE NAME OF THE LORD.
• 08:38 NOW I CALL UPON GOOD PEOPLE WHO CALL UPON THE NAME OF THE LORD TO READ THE BIBLE.
• 08:46 I'M SURPRISED BY THE WAY
• 08:48 HOW INDIVIDUALS THAT LAY SIEGE TO THE CLAIM OF BEING BIBLE BELIEVERS
• 08:53 BUT I DON'T KNOW WHAT BIBLE THEY'RE READING
• 08:54 BECAUSE I'M CLUELESS HOW SOMEONE CAN BE A BIBLE BELIEVER ON THE ONE HAND
• 08:58 AND A NON-SUPPORTER OF JEWISH PEOPLE IN THIS LAND ON THE OTHER.
• 09:03 IT MAKES NO SENSE TO ME WHATSOEVER.
• 09:05 THEY CAN CALL THEMSELVES BISHOP, PROFESSOR, DOCTOR, REVEREND... WHATEVER...
• 09:09 BUT I'M CLUELESS HOW SOMEONE CAN READ THE BIBLE AND NOT JUST HOLD ON TO WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS.
• 09:15 WELL, I WANT TO DO THAT
• 09:16 AND SO I WANT TO COMMEND TO YOU,
• 09:18 NOT JUST AS I LEAVE THIS ONE TEACHING SEGMENT,
• 09:20 BUT AS I INTRODUCE A SERIES TO REMIND YOU,
• 09:23 GOD GAVE LAND TO PEOPLE.
• 09:26 AND IN THIS SERIES, "ERETZ ISRAEL",
• 09:28 WE'RE GONNA NOT ONLY FOLLOW ABRAHAM
• 09:30 BUT WE'RE GOING TO FOLLOW HIS PROGENY.
• 09:32 YITZHAK AND YAKOV...
• 09:35 WE'LL FOLLOW THEM AROUND THE LAND....
• 09:37 THE LAND CALLED "THE PROMISED LAND"...
• 09:39 THE LAND OF ISRAEL.
• 09:52 FOR INSIGHTFUL PERSPECTIVES OF ISRAEL AND BIBLE PROPHECY
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• 10:14 YOU MAY WANT TO JOIN US ON AN UPCOMING TOUR OF ISRAEL OR PETRA
• 10:17 OR CRUISE THE MEDITERRANEAN VISITING GREECE AND EPHESUS.
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• 10:26 (Jeff speaking)
• 10:27 AND NOW FROM THE OLD CITY IN JERUSALEM
• 10:29 DAVID DOLAN BEGINS HIS STORY
• 10:31 OF THE BEGINNING OF THE MODERN STATE OF ISRAEL.
• 10:36 I'M STANDING IN FRONT OF ONE OF THE OLDEST CHURCHES ON EARTH...
• 10:39 THE CHURCH OF THE HOLY SEPULCHRE IN THE OLD CITY OF JERUSALEM.
• 10:43 AS YOU CAN SEE
• 10:45 CHRISTIANS FROM AROUND THE WORLD ARE HERE VISITING THIS SITE,
• 10:47 THE SITE THAT MANY BELIEVE JESUS WAS CRUCIFIED, BURIED, ROSE FROM THE DEAD
• 10:52 ON A LITTLE HILL, THAT'S INSIDE THE CHURCH, CALLED GOLGOTHA.
• 10:55 THE EMPEROR HADRIAN,
• 10:57 THE ROMAN EMPEROR,
• 10:58 DESTROYED THE STATE OF JUDEA IN THE YEAR 135 AFTER A JEWISH REVOLT.
• 11:03 THE TEMPLE HAD ALREADY BEEN DESTROYED IN A.D. 70,
• 11:06 REPLACED BY A TEMPLE TO A PAGAN GOD, JUPITER.
• 11:11 HERE THERE WAS A PAGAN TEMPLE TO THE GOD VENUS.
• 11:15 THAT WAS DELIBERATE
• 11:17 BECAUSE THE ROMANS KNEW THAT CHRISTIANS REVERED THIS SIGHT AS SOME SORT OF A SPECIAL PLACE.
• 11:22 A JEWISH MINI-STATE REMAINED IN THE LAND AFTER JUDEA WAS DESTROYED
• 11:26 AND RENAMED SYRIA PALESTINA,
• 11:29 A NAME THAT WAS DELIBERATELY PICKED TO INSULT THE JEWS
• 11:31 BECAUSE IT CAME FROM THEIR ANCIENT ENEMY THE PHILISTINES.
• 11:34 UP IN THE NORTHERN GALILEE A JEWISH STATE REMAINED IN EFFECT.
• 11:39 IN FACT THE SANHEDRIN WAS RECONSTITUTED THERE.
• 11:42 IN THE 4TH CENTURY THE ROMAN EMPIRE WAS DIVIDED.
• 11:45 THE EASTERN HALF IS RULED BY THE BYZANTINES FROM CONSTANTINOPLE.
• 11:48 THE WESTERN HALF REMAINED UNDER ROMAN RULE.
• 11:51 THE BYZANTINES FIERCELY PERSECUTED THE JEWS HERE IN THE LAND
• 11:54 AND MANY OF THEM FLED TO THE EAST TO MESOPOTAMIA OR BABYLON.
• 11:58 YET SOME JEWISH COMMUNITIES REMAINED,
• 12:01 IN FACT, THE RECORDS SHOW IN THE 6TH CENTURY THERE WERE 43 JEWISH COMMUNITIES REMAINING.
• 12:06 THE ROMAN EMPEROR CONSTANTINE
• 12:08 CONVERTED TO CHRISTIANITY
• 12:09 IN THE 4TH CENTURY.
• 12:11 THE TEMPLE THAT WAS HERE
• 12:12 TO VENUS
• 12:13 WAS DESTROYED BY HIS MOTHER
• 12:15 QUEEN HELENA
• 12:16 WHO CAME BY TO FIND
• 12:17 CHRISTIAN HOLY SITES
• 12:19 IN THIS LAND.
• 12:21 THE CHURCH OF THE HOLY SEPULCHRE THAT YOU SEE BEHIND ME HAS 6 DENOMINATIONS OPERATING IN IT...
• 12:25 THE GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH WHICH WAS BASED IN CONSTANTINOPLE BUT THAT BECAME ISTANBUL...
• 12:30 THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH IS THERE...
• 12:33 ARMENIAN ORTHODOX CHRISTIANS ALSO ARE THERE...
• 12:35 THE SYRIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH OPERATES THERE...
• 12:37 THE EGYPTIAN COPTIC CHURCH...
• 12:39 AND THE ETHIOPIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH.
• 12:41 IT'S NOT ALWAYS EASY FOR THESE DIFFERENT DENOMINATIONS TO BE TOGETHER IN THIS BUILDING
• 12:46 AND THERE ARE SOME CLASHES.
• 13:00 IN THE YEAR 614 THE PERSIANS INVADED THE LAND,
• 13:02 THEY DAMAGED THE CHURCH,
• 13:04 BUT THEY WEREN'T THERE VERY LONG.
• 13:06 IN 630 THE BYZANTINES RECAPTURED IT.
• 13:08 BUT JUST A FEW YEARS AFTER THAT IN 638 A NEW RELIGION, ISLAM,
• 13:13 SENT IT'S FORCES UP TO THIS LAND
• 13:15 BEHIND ME YOU SEE THE TOWER OF DAVID.
• 13:17 THAT WAS A MOSQUE MINARET.
• 13:20 IT'S GONE BETWEEN CHRISTIAN, JEWISH AND MUSLIM RULE OVER THE CENTURIES.
• 13:24 THEY ALSO CAPTURED THE TEMPLE MOUNT;
• 13:26 THEY BEGAN WORK ON A MAGNIFICENT SHRINE, "THE DOME OF THE ROCK"
• 13:29 THAT WAS FINISHED IN THE YEAR 691.
• 13:32 THE MUSLIMS THAT RULED HERE DIDN'T SET THIS UP AS A CAPITAL.
• 13:35 THEY RULED THE CITY BUT THEY DID SO FROM BAGHDAD,
• 13:38 SOMETIMES FROM DAMASCUS,
• 13:40 SOMETIMES FROM CAIRO.
• 13:42 AND THE DIFFERENT ARMIES FROM THOSE DIFFERENT AREAS WOULD CLASH HERE IN THE CITY OFTEN.
• 13:47 IN THE YEAR 1009 THE CHURCH WAS DESTROYED BY CALIPH AL HAKIM.
• 13:52 THIS WAS ONE OF THE PROMPTS FOR THE CRUSADES.
• 13:55 THE POPE IN ROME SAID, "WE MUST GO TO THE HOLY CITY",
• 13:58 "WE MUST RECAPTURE IT."
• 14:00 AND IN 1096 CRUSADER FORCES LANDED DOWN ON THE COAST
• 14:04 CAPTURING THE CITY OF JERUSALEM IN 1099.
• 14:07 BUT IT DIDN'T LAST VERY LONG.
• 14:08 THEY WERE DEFEATED BY THE MUSLIM FORCES LED BY SALADIN
• 14:12 UP NEAR THE SEA OF GALILEE IN THE YEAR 1187.
• 14:15 JERUSALEM WAS AGAIN UNDER MUSLIM RULE
• 14:18 AND THEY WERE FINALLY PUSHED OUT OF THE ENTIRE LAND IN 1291.
• 14:21 MEANWHILE JEWS WERE BEING EXPELLED FROM VARIOUS EUROPEAN COUNTRIES.
• 14:26 THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH WAS UNHAPPY THAT THEY HAD HELPED THE MUSLIMS TO RE-TAKE THE CITY.
• 14:31 THEY WERE EXPELLED FROM ENGLAND,
• 14:32 THEN FROM FRANCE,
• 14:34 THEN FROM GERMANY, FROM HUNGARY,
• 14:35 FINALLY FROM SPAIN AND PORTUGAL IN 1492 AND 1497.
• 14:40 THE MUSLIMS AGAIN WERE RULING THIS LAND.
• 14:43 AGAIN IT WAS DIFFERENT MUSLIM GROUPS OFTEN CLASHING,
• 14:45 THE MAMLUKS, THEY WERE BASED IN DAMASCUS AND IN CAIRO.
• 14:48 AND THEN IN THE YEAR 1516 A NEW EMPIRE TOOK CONTROL,
• 14:53 THE TURKISH OTTOMAN EMPIRE GAINED THIS CITY AND THE SURROUNDING AREAS.
• 14:57 AND THESE MAGNIFICENT WALLS THAT YOU SEE BEHIND ME WERE BUILT BY SULEIMAN, THE MAGNIFICENT.
• 15:02 AT THAT TIME THE RECORDS SHOW THERE WERE 30 JEWISH COMMUNITIES IN THE LAND.
• 15:06 AND THE TURKISH MUSLIMS WERE FAIRLY TOLERANT OF THE JEWS LIVING HERE,
• 15:11 PERSECUTION DECREASED AND JEWISH LIFE WAS THRIVING FAIRLY WELL.
• 15:15 BUT THAT WAS AT THE BEGINNING.
• 15:17 TOWARDS THE END OF THE OTTOMAN RULE MORE ANTI-JEWISH RULERS EMERGED THAT PERSECUTED THE JEWS
• 15:23 AND IT WAS A BAD SITUATION THAT ONLY STARTED TO CHANGE
• 15:26 WHEN THE EUROPEAN POWERS GAINED MORE AND MORE INFLUENCE IN THE 1800s.
• 15:34 NOT EVERYBODY LOVES HISTORY.
• 15:36 BUT DAVID DOES SUCH A GOOD JOB WITH IT.
• 15:39 AND WHEN IT COMES TO THE LAND OF ISRAEL, IT'S NOT JUST HISTORY
• 15:42 ITS "HIS-STORY"...GOD'S STORY.
• 15:45 AND WE LOVE EXPOSING IT ALL TO YOU.
• 15:51 TRAVEL MANAGER TRACIE
• 15:52 THEY CAN GET TO IT FIRST HAND CAN'T THEY?
• 15:54 THEY CAN.
• 15:55 YOU DO AN EXCELLENT JOB OF
• 15:56 REALLY TALKING ABOUT THE PLACES
• 15:58 BUT I THINK WHAT PEOPLE
• 15:59 EXPERIENCE AND WHAT I'VE HEARD
• 16:01 FROM OUR PASSENGERS IS
• 16:02 JUST THE INTIMACY THEY EXPERIENCE,
• 16:04 THE PRESENCE OF THE LORD IN THE HOLY LAND IS SO STRONG
• 16:07 IT'S AMAZING.
• 16:08 SO THEY CAN CALL
• 16:09 1-800-WONDERS
• 16:10 AND GET TO YOU
• 16:11 AND GET TO ISRAEL.
• 16:12 THEY CAN.
• 16:13 AND THEY BETTER CALL QUICKLY
• 16:14 CAUSE I TELL YOU WHAT,
• 16:15 OUR TOURS BOOK 8 AND 9 MONTHS IN ADVANCE.
• 16:17 WE'RE ALREADY SELLING FOR TOURS MANY MONTHS IN ADVANCE.
• 16:20 ONE THING PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW DR. SEIF IS
• 16:23 ON OUR WEBSITE
• 16:24 WE HAVE OUR DATES UP
• 16:25 THROUGH THE NEXT
• 16:26 COUPLE OF YEARS.
• 16:27 PEOPLE CAN REGISTER
• 16:28 ON OUR WEBSITE;
• 16:29 THEY CAN ORDER
• 16:30 ALL THE MATERIALS.
• 16:31 AND WHAT THEY'RE GOING TO
• 16:32 EXPERIENCE IN ISRAEL
• 16:33 IS THE PRESENCE AND
• 16:34 INTIMACY OF THE LORD.
• 16:35 AND YOU KNOW ONE OF OUR RECENT PASSENGERS, DEBORAH,
• 16:37 HAD AN AMAZING EXPERIENCE ON THE SEA OF GALILEE.
• 16:40 SO LET'S GO TO DEBORAH RIGHT NOW
• 16:41 AND LET HER TELL YOU PERSONALLY
• 16:43 ABOUT HER EXPERIENCE IN ISRAEL.
• 16:47 I UNDERSTAND THIS IS YOUR FIRST TIME TO ISRAEL.
• 16:49 HOW ARE YOU ENJOYING IT? I LOVE IT.
• 16:50 I'VE RESEARCHED TRIPS A LONG TIME
• 16:52 AND WANTED SOMEONE THAT REALLY UNDERSTOOD THE JEWISH PERSPECTIVE.
• 16:56 THE THING THAT I LIKE THE MOST
• 16:57 WAS THE SEA OF GALILEE AND THE EXPERIENCE...
• 17:00 THE HOLY SPIRIT JUST CAME ON OUR BOAT
• 17:02 AND PEOPLE WERE PRAISING AND WORSHIPING
• 17:04 AND IT WAS THE MOST AMAZING THING I'VE BEEN APART OF
• 17:07 INTELLECTUALLY AND SPIRITUALLY.
• 17:09 WE'RE JUST SO GLAD TO HAVE YOU ON THE ZOLA TOUR. THANK YOU.
• 17:12 IT'S BEEN A REAL BLESSING.
• 17:14 I INVITE YOU TO COME WITH US
• 17:15 SO YOU CAN HAVE AN EXPERIENCE SIMILAR TO DEBORAH'S.
• 17:18 EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT OUR TOURS IS AVAILABLE AT
• 17:21 LEVITT.COM
• 17:23 OR CALL ME AT 1-800-WONDERS.
• 17:24 I'M IN THE OFFICE EVERY DAY AND WOULD LOVE TO TALK WITH YOU.
• 17:27 AND THEY'LL GET TO YOU.
• 17:30 AND WE'LL GET YOU TO THE LAND OF ISRAEL.
• 17:33 CAN'T GO BUT STILL WANT TO KNOW?
• 17:35 YOU CAN GET OUR MAGAZINE
• 17:37 AT WWW.LEVITT.COM
• 17:40 TIMELY NEWS RELATED TO THE JEWS.
• 17:42 WE WANT YOU TO HAVE IT.
• 17:44 THE OFFER FOR THIS PROGRAM
• 17:45 IS SOMETHING WE WANT YOU TO HAVE AS WELL.
• 17:47 IT'S A BIBLE STUDY,
• 17:48 "THE COVENANTS OF GOD".
• 17:51 WE LOOK AT THE SCRIPTURE,
• 17:52 WE SEE WHAT GOD SAYS,
• 17:54 WHAT'S BINDING RELATED TO ISRAEL
• 17:56 AND RELATED TO YOU.
• 17:59 WE'RE GOING TO NOW GO
• 18:00 TO THE MOUNT ON OLIVES.
• 18:02 I'M THERE WITH DAVID DOLAN
• 18:04 TALKING ABOUT BIBLICAL INFORMATION THAT'S RELATED TO TODAY.
• 18:11 YOU KNOW DAVE,
• 18:12 LOOKING BEHIND ME OVER HERE
• 18:13 I'M REMINDED OF THE FACT
• 18:14 THAT RELIGION REALLY HAS A WAY
• 18:16 OF INSPIRING PEOPLE, YES,
• 18:17 FOR GOOD AND BAD.
• 18:18 WHAT SAY YOU?
• 18:20 WELL ABSOLUTELY.
• 18:21 IN THE HISTORIC REVIEW
• 18:23 THAT I DID JUST A BIT AGO
• 18:24 I MENTIONED CONSTANTINE,
• 18:27 THE ROMAN EMPEROR
• 18:28 CONVERTING TO CHRISTIANITY
• 18:30 AND HIS MOTHER QUEEN HELENA
• 18:31 COMING OUT HERE TO CHECK ON
• 18:33 THE HOLY SITES OF CHRISTIANITY.
• 18:35 AND AS A RESULT
• 18:37 CHURCHES WERE BUILT
• 18:38 AND THE FAITH SPREAD HERE.
• 18:39 AN ENORMOUS INVESTMENT
• 18:41 OF ENERGY, MONEY
• 18:42 AND PEOPLE...AMAZING!
• 18:43 IT REALLY WAS.
• 18:44 AND OF COURSE HE WAS THE EMPEROR
• 18:46 AND SHE WAS THE QUEEN MOTHER SHE HAS TO GET PLENTY OF VOTES
• 18:48 AS IT WERE
• 18:49 SO THEY HAD A LOT OF THAT.
• 18:51 BUT THEN LATER ON WE SEE
• 18:52 THE NEGATIVE INFLUENCE
• 18:53 OF RELIGION AGAIN
• 18:54 FROM CHRISTIANITY TO CRUSADES.
• 18:57 THEY CAME DOWN OF COURSE TO
• 18:58 RE-CONQUER THE LAND FOR CHRIST
• 19:00 BUT IN DOING SO,
• 19:01 AS YOU KNOW WELL,
• 19:02 KILLED HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS
• 19:04 OF JEWS AND MUSLIMS AND OTHERS
• 19:06 AND MANY OF THEM WERE KILLED.
• 19:08 AND THE MUSLIM RULE LATER ON
• 19:09 HAD GOOD AND BAD.
• 19:12 GOOD IN THAT THEY ESTABLISHED
• 19:13 SOME ECONOMIC REFORMS
• 19:15 AND THE STANDARD OF LIVING
• 19:18 WAS INCREASED FOR THE PEOPLE.
• 19:19 BUT AGAIN THERE WAS PERSECUTION
• 19:21 OF JEWS AND OF CHRISTIANS
• 19:22 AND THE DESTRUCTION
• 19:23 OF SOME OF THE EARLIER
• 19:24 CHRISTIAN HOLY SITES, ETC.
• 19:26 IT SOMETHING,
• 19:26 THE NATURE OF RELIGIOUS
• 19:28 ENTHUSIASM FOR GOOD
• 19:29 OR FOR BAD...
• 19:30 BUT IT MOBILIZES,
• 19:32 IT ELICITS ENERGIES.
• 19:33 IT DOES.
• 19:34 AND FOR THE MOST PART
• 19:36 FOR THE GOOD.
• 19:37 WE HAVE SEVERAL HOSPITALS
• 19:38 HERE IN TOWN
• 19:39 THAT WERE STARTED BY
• 19:40 CHRISTIAN MISSIONARIES
• 19:41 IN THE 1800s.
• 19:42 WE'RE RIGHT NEXT TO
• 19:43 THE AUGUSTA VICTORIA
• 19:44 ONE THAT GERMAN LUTHERANS FOUNDED.
• 19:47 SO VERY POSITIVE IN THAT SENSE
• 19:48 BUT YOU KNOW THIS IS
• 19:49 THE ONLY SPOT ON EARTH JEFF
• 19:51 THAT'S HOLY
• 19:52 TO THREE DIFFERENT FAITHS
• 19:53 IT IS UNIQUE IN THAT WAY
• 19:55 AND THEY DON'T ALWAYS
• 19:56 FIT TOGETHER SO WELL
• 19:57 AND EVEN THE DIFFERENT GROUPS
• 19:58 INSIDE OF THE FAITHS,
• 20:00 THE DIFFERENT DENOMINATIONS
• 20:01 IN JUDAISM, CHRISTIANITY,
• 20:02 THEY CLASH AT TIMES.
• 20:03 THE GROUPS INSIDE
• 20:05 OF THE CHURCHES GO AT IT.
• 20:05 LAST NIGHT I WAS SPEAKING
• 20:07 TO TWO CATHOLIC PRIESTS
• 20:08 THAT WERE JUST CHAGRINED
• 20:09 ABOUT HOW THE WAY THE MONKS
• 20:10 ARE FIGHTING IN THE
• 20:11 CHURCH OF THE HOLY SEPULCHRE.
• 20:12 GO FIGURE.
• 20:13 THEY THOUGHT IT WAS
• 20:14 AN EMBARRASSMENT
• 20:14 AND I AGREE.
• 20:16 I'VE ACTUALLY WITNESSED IT
• 20:17 OUT IN BETHLEHEM
• 20:18 WHERE THEY HAVE BROOM HANDLES
• 20:20 AND THEY WERE
• 20:21 ATTACKING EACH OTHER.
• 20:22 AND THIS WAS BECAUSE ONE GROUP,
• 20:23 I THINK THE ARMENIANS,
• 20:24 WERE CLEANING A CERTAIN WALL
• 20:25 THAT THE GREEK ORTHODOX SAID
• 20:26 WAS THEIR WALL
• 20:27 AND THEY SHOULD CLEAN IT.
• 20:28 SO THE ISSUES WERE
• 20:29 EVEN JUST TINY.
• 20:31 RIGHT,
• 20:32 THOSE STORIES ARE LEGIONS.
• 20:33 SO AS YOU NOTED
• 20:35 THAT RELIGION...
• 20:37 AND THERE ARE PLENTY OF EXAMPLES
• 20:38 HAS A WAY OF ELICITING ENERGIES.
• 20:39 BUT THEN THERE'S SOMETHING ELSE
• 20:41 BESIDE RELIGION
• 20:42 THAT'S RELATED TO IT.
• 20:43 IT'S THE VOICE OF GOD.
• 20:45 AND OUR STORY HERE
• 20:47 BEGAN WITH ABRAHAM
• 20:49 AND JUST THE BIBLICAL DRAMA
• 20:51 OF INDIVIDUALS HEARING GOD
• 20:54 AND RESPONDING
• 20:55 AND GOING ON A JOURNEY.
• 20:57 IT TAKES THEM TO INTERESTING PLACES DOESN'T IT?
• 20:58 LAST WORD'S YOURS.
• 20:59 IT ABSOLUTELY DOES
• 21:00 AND IF THERE WASN'T GOD
• 21:01 IT WOULD BE A MESS.
• 21:03 BUT THERE IS A GOD
• 21:04 AND HE HAS IT
• 21:05 ALL IN HIS HANDS.
• 21:05 YES AND SOMEHOW
• 21:07 ALL THESE TENSIONS GET RESOLVED
• 21:08 AS THE VOICE OF GOD
• 21:10 LEADS US ON IN TIME.
• 23:26 WONDERFUL YOUNG LADY.
• 23:28 WONDERFUL LOVE SONG
• 23:31 STRAIGHT FROM THE BIBLE.
• 23:33 IT REMINDS ME OF GOD'S LOVING HEART IN SO MANY WAYS.
• 23:36 LOVE FOR PEOPLE, THE JEWS, AND FOR ALL OF US FOR THAT MATTER.
• 23:41 GOD'S BINDING LOVE IS SO AMPLY ATTESTED IN BIBLICAL LITERATURE
• 23:47 AND HERE THE LATE ZOLA LEVITT INTERVIEWS A RABBI WHO GIVES VOICE TO THAT AND MORE.
• 23:55 (JEFF SPEAKING)
• 23:56 ON ONE OF ZOLA'S MANY TRIPS TO ISRAEL
• 23:58 HE VISITED RABBI RUBEN GRODNER
• 24:00 AT A WEST BANK SETTLEMENT CALLED KFAR EDOMIM.
• 24:03 THE RABBI READ FROM THE BOOK OF GENESIS
• 24:05 AND TALKED ABOUT GOD'S EVERLASTING COVENANT WITH ABRAHAM.
• 24:11 (SPEAKING HEBREW)
• 24:14 "TO BE UNTO YOU A GOD AND TO YOUR CHILDREN AFTER YOU."
• 24:17 THIS COVENANT OF THE LAND THAT WAS MADE BETWEEN GOD AND ABRAHAM
• 24:20 WAS NOT A COVENANT OF THE PAST;
• 24:23 IT IS A COVENANT OF THE PRESENT
• 24:25 AND A COVENANT OF THE FUTURE.
• 24:27 YOU READ B'RIT OLAM.
• 24:28 B'RIT OLAM, AN EVERLASTING, AN ETERNAL COVENANT.
• 24:33 "AND I SHALL GIVE...."
• 24:36 (SPEAKING HEBREW)
• 24:42 "I SHALL GIVE YOU THE ENTIRE LAND OF CANAAN."
• 24:45 NOT A PART OF IT...
• 24:47 NOT A PIECE OF IT...
• 24:48 NOT TO BE GIVEN AWAY TO OTHERS.
• 24:49 THIS IS YOUR LAND...
• 24:51 ALL OF IT.
• 24:52 (SPEAKING HEBREW)
• 24:53 AGAIN WE HEAR THE WORD "OLAM", "ETERNAL", "FOREVER'...
• 24:56 AN ETERNAL INHERITANCE.
• 24:58 "AND I SHALL BE YOUR GOD."
• 25:01 AND WE'RE STANDING HERE
• 25:02 ON THE WEST BANK
• 25:04 SO OBVIOUSLY YOU'RE NOT IN FAVOR OF GIVING ANY OF THIS AWAY.
• 25:07 THIS IS THE HEARTLAND OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE.
• 25:09 JUDEA...
• 25:11 TO THE NORTH SAMARIA...
• 25:14 THIS IS WHERE OUR FOREFATHERS TREAD.
• 25:16 WHEN WE HIKE IN THESE HILLS
• 25:18 WE FOLLOW THE FOOTSTEPS OF ABRAHAM AND ISAAC AND JACOB
• 25:22 AND THAT IS OUR LAND.
• 25:24 NOT THE LAND OF OTHERS
• 25:27 BUT THIS IS OUR HOMELAND.
• 25:29 NO HUMAN BEING WANTS TO GIVE AWAY HIS HOME TO ANYBODY
• 25:33 AND WE, THE CHOSEN PEOPLE, DO NOT WANT TO GIVE ONE INCH OF OUR LAND TO ANYONE ELSE.
• 25:40 THIS IS THE LAND PROMISED TO US BY GOD.
• 25:44 WHEN I WAS A LITTLE KID I LEARNED A SONG,
• 25:46 "THIS LAND IS YOUR LAND, THIS LAND IS MY LAND."
• 25:50 THIS LAND IS GOD'S LAND.
• 25:52 WE LOOK HERE IN THE BOOK GENESIS
• 25:54 WHERE THE LORD COMMENDS THIS REAL ESTATE
• 25:56 TO THE BROOK OF EGYPT
• 25:58 TO THE SOUTH
• 25:59 UP TO THE EUPHRATES RIVER HERE.
• 26:01 THE EASTERN BORDER IS A LITTLE VAGUER
• 26:03 BUT ONE THING THAT'S CLEAR
• 26:04 IS THAT THE LAND PROMISED TO ABRAHAM
• 26:06 IS A LOT BIGGER THAN THE LITTLE SLIVER OF TODAY THAT'S CALLED THE MODERN STATE OF ISRAEL.
• 26:13 PEOPLE SAY "THE JEWS ARE TAKING OVER THE WORLD"...
• 26:15 ABSOLUTE FANTASY.
• 26:18 PERSONALLY I'M ALL ABOUT WANTING TO EMPLOY SOME BIBLICAL REALITY
• 26:22 TO COUNTER-BALANCE TODAY'S NON-REALITY,
• 26:26 HENCE, THE SERIES ON THE LAND OF ISRAEL.
• 26:28 THIS WEEK WE LOOKED AT ABRAHAM,
• 26:31 NEXT WEEK WE LOOK AT ISAAC.
• 26:33 THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR GOING ON THE JOURNEY AND AS YOU GO NOW,
• 26:36 PLEASE,
• 26:37 SHA'ALU SHALOM YERUSHALAYIM
• 26:40 PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM