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

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