Caption transcript for Eretz Israel (The Land of Israel): “To All Generations” (3/8)

• 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.
• 00:55 HEARTY SHALOM TO ALL OF YOU.
• 00:57 JEFFREY SEIF HERE
• 00:58 PLEASED TO WELCOME YOU AGAIN
• 01:00 TO ANOTHER EDITION OF ZOLA LEVITT PRESENTS.
• 01:04 I DON'T KNOW WHY THEY CALL A DRIVEWAY
• 01:08 A PLACE WHERE PEOPLE PARK
• 01:10 AND PARKWAY,
• 01:11 A PLACE WHERE PEOPLE DRIVE.
• 01:14 I THINK SOMEONE GOT THAT BACKWARDS.
• 01:15 BUT AT ONE LEVEL IT MAKES NO DIFFERENCE
• 01:17 CAUSE I'M TAKING YOU TO PLACES THERE'S NO ROADS TO GET THERE.
• 01:21 WE ARE GOING OFF THE BEATEN PATH.
• 01:24 AND I CAN GET BY WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM MY FRIEND,
• 01:27 MY TRUSTY GPS.
• 01:30 AND THAT RANGE ROVER TAKES ME PLACES
• 01:33 WHERE I WOULDN'T OTHERWISE ROVE,
• 01:36 IN THIS CASE WE'RE WALKING IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF THE PATRIARCHS
• 01:41 WHO WENT OVER HILL AND DALE
• 01:43 AND ALONG DUSTY TRAIL
• 01:45 AND THEY MADE THEIR WAY TO THE LAND OF PROMISE.
• 01:49 CASE IN POINT, "YAKOV"..."JACOB"...
• 01:53 LET'S CONSIDER HIM NOW
• 01:55 AS WE GO ON THE JOURNEY AND CONSIDER "THE LAND OF ISRAEL".
• 02:04 AND JACOB WENT OUT FROM BEERSHEBA AND WENT TOWARD HARAN.
• 02:08 AND HE LIGHTED UPON A CERTAIN PLACE
• 02:11 AND TARRIED THERE ALL NIGHT
• 02:13 AND HE DREAMED
• 02:15 AND BEHOLD A LADDER SET UP ON THE EARTH,
• 02:18 AND THE TOP OF IT REACHED TO HEAVEN.
• 02:21 AND BEHOLD, THE LORD STOOD ABOVE IT AND SAID,
• 02:25 "I AM THE LORD GOD OF ABRAHAM, THY FATHER,"
• 02:29 "AND THE GOD OF ISAAC."
• 02:31 "THE LAND WHERE THOU LIEST, TO THEE WILL I GIVE IT"
• 02:34 "AND TO THY SEED"
• 02:37 "AND THY SEED SHALL BE AS THE DUST OF THE EARTH"
• 02:40 "AND I WILL BRING THEE AGAIN INTO THIS LAND"
• 02:42 "FOR I WILL NOT LEAVE THEE."
• 02:45 AND JACOB ROSE UP EARLY
• 02:47 AND TOOK THE STONE THAT HE HAD PUT FOR HIS PILLOW
• 02:50 AND SET IT FOR A PILLAR
• 02:52 AND POURED OIL UPON THE TOP OF IT
• 02:55 AND HE CALLED THE NAME OF THE PLACE "BETHEL".
• 03:04 IT'S GREAT TO BE HERE
• 03:05 IN THE LAND OF ISRAEL.
• 03:08 GLAD YOU WANT TO GO
• 03:09 ON THE JOURNEY WITH ME.
• 03:11 ITS NOT JUST ABOUT ME AND YOU, HOWEVER,
• 03:13 WE OPEN UP OUR BIBLES
• 03:14 AND WE LEARN THAT THE LIKES OF AVRAHAM, YITZHAK AND YAKOV,
• 03:18 THE PATRIARCHS,
• 03:19 FREQUENTED THIS VERY PLACE.
• 03:21 NOW, WHEN I SPEAK OF THIS PLACE AND THIS PROGRAM
• 03:24 WE'RE GOING TO A PLACE CALLED "BETHEL".
• 03:26 PROMISES WERE MADE TO ABRAHAM HERE AND TO JACOB AS WELL.
• 03:30 COME WITH ME...
• 03:31 LET'S CHECK IT OUT.
• 04:19 "LIKE FATHER LIKE SON".
• 04:21 THAT'S WHAT THEY SAY.
• 04:23 AND THE SAYING IS REFLECTED WELL IN THE BIBLICAL TEXT AS WELL
• 04:26 WHERE GOD DOES THE TALKING.
• 04:28 NOW, THE REASON WHY I SAY THAT,
• 04:29 AND YOU'RE GOING TO SEE IT AS I SAY IT,
• 04:31 IS BECAUSE GOD HAS COMMENDED A PARTICULAR PEOPLE
• 04:35 TO HAVE RESIDENCY IN A PARTICULAR LAND
• 04:39 GIVEN TO AVRAHAM, YITZHAK AND YAKOV,
• 04:42 "ABRAHAM","ISAAC" AND "JACOB".
• 04:44 HERE YOU CAN SEE IT.
• 04:46 PRESENT ISRAEL IS JUST A LITTLE SLIVER THERE
• 04:49 CARVED UP MORE AND MORE IT SEEMS BY THE MONTH
• 04:52 BY POLITICAL PRESSURES WANTING TO ENCLOSE IT.
• 04:56 WHEN I LOOK AT THE BIBLICAL PROMISE, HOWEVER,
• 04:58 WE SEE THE LORD LEADING AVRAHAM AND HIS ILK DOWN HERE
• 05:02 WANTING TO EXPAND IT.
• 05:04 WELL OUR STORY TAKES PLACE TODAY
• 05:06 WITH "YAKOV", JACOB, IN BEERSHEVA,
• 05:10 AND HE IS COMMENDED TO GO NORTHWARD UP TO HARAN TO MARRY.
• 05:14 AND ON THE WAY HE'S GOING TO VISIT THIS PLACE RIGHT HERE,
• 05:16 "BETHEL",
• 05:18 ITS A PLACE WE'RE ABOUT TO VISIT, AND WHY,
• 05:20 BECAUSE GOD VISITED HIM THERE.
• 05:23 LET'S CHECK OUT THE STORY.
• 05:25 COME WITH ME TO BETHEL
• 05:26 AND SEE WHAT GOD MIGHT SAY TO YOU
• 05:28 AS YOU WALK IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF ABRAHAM, ISAAC AND JACOB
• 05:32 HERE IN THE LAND OF ISRAEL.
• 05:44 FOLLOWERS OF YESHUA,
• 05:46 OF JESUS THAT IS,
• 05:47 HAVE HEARD OF THE TERM "ALTAR CALL".
• 05:49 IN FACT EVEN THOSE THAT DON'T FOLLOW HAVE HEARD THE TERM;
• 05:52 THEY HAVEN'T NECESSARILY GONE TO THE ALTAR.
• 05:54 THOSE THAT ARE FAMILIAR WITH THE LANGUAGE
• 05:56 AREN'T NECESSARILY FAMILIAR
• 05:57 WITH WHERE THE TERM "ALTAR CALL" COMES FROM.
• 06:01 IT COMES FROM THE HEBREW BIBLE.
• 06:03 AND THOSE OF US THAT HAVE COME TO THE ALTAR...
• 06:06 SOME OF US HAVE COME WITH CHOIR SINGING BEHIND US THE SONG "I SURRENDER ALL".
• 06:13 WHICH REMINDS ME...
• 06:14 THOSE WHO COME OFTEN TIMES DON'T COME WITHOUT A FIGHT.
• 06:19 AS A POLICE OFFICER IN ANOTHER LIFE, I'VE BEEN IN CHASES AND SOMEONE SAYS "OKAY, I GIVE UP".
• 06:24 SOMETIMES WE'RE ON THE RUN
• 06:26 AND WE JUST GIVE UP AND WE SAY, "LORD I SURRENDER".
• 06:29 THAT REMINDS ME OF THE STORY FOR TODAY.
• 06:32 WE'RE LOOKING AT A FELLOW "YAKOV", JACOB
• 06:35 AND HE HE'S ON THE RUN.
• 06:36 HE'S NOT REALLY RUNNING FROM GOD
• 06:38 NOW, HE'S MINDED TO RUN TO HIM.
• 06:41 AND YOU CAN SEE GOD BECKONING HIM HIS WAY.
• 06:44 THE STORY OF COURSE AS YOU MAY KNOW IF YOU'RE FAMILIAR WITH IT
• 06:47 IS THAT JACOB HAS BEEN ON THE OUTS NOW WITH HIS BROTHER ESAU
• 06:51 WHO'S MINDED TO KILL HIM.
• 06:53 AND SO MOM AND DAD SAY,
• 06:54 "YOU KNOW THIS WOULD BE A GOOD TIME FOR YOU TO GO ON A JOURNEY SON."
• 06:58 SO OSTENSIVELY HE'S SENT OFF TO HARAN...SYRIA THAT IS...
• 07:01 TO FIND A WIFE
• 07:03 BUT REALLY IN SO MANY WAYS HE'S RUNNING FOR HIS LIFE.
• 07:05 HE IS ON THE RUN BIG TIME
• 07:08 AND AS IS THE CASE WHEN PEOPLE FIND THEMSELVES IN A PRECARIOUS PLACE.
• 07:13 AT WITS END THAT HE IS,
• 07:16 FIRST TIME IN HIS LIFE HE'S ON HIS OWN,
• 07:17 HIS MOTHER'S BEEN TAKING CARE OF HIM FOR ALL OF IT.
• 07:19 HE LAYS DOWN HIS HEAD...
• 07:21 AND ABSENT A MOTHER TO TAKE CARE OF HIM
• 07:23 AND A FATHER TO GUIDE HIM FROM A DISTANCE,
• 07:25 HE LAYS DOWN HIS HEAD RESTLESS
• 07:27 AND THE LORD SHOWS UP AT A PLACE CALLED "BETHEL"...
• 07:32 "HOUSE OF GOD".
• 07:34 HE LAYS HIS HEAD DOWN WE'RE TOLD
• 07:36 AND HE SEES A VISION OF WHAT WE CALL "JACOB'S LADDER",
• 07:39 ANOTHER SONG IN THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH... "WE ARE CLIMBING JACOB'S LADDER"
• 07:43 HAS BEEN MADE POPULAR,
• 07:45 ONE CAN THINK OF A FIREMAN GOING UP AND DOWN A LADDER...
• 07:47 THAT'S NOT ACCURATE, HOWEVER.
• 07:49 BETTER I THINK IS A ZIGGURAT,
• 07:51 THESE STEPPED PYRAMIDS FOUND IN THIS PART OF THE WORLD...
• 07:54 A STAIRCASE GOING UP TO HEAVEN.
• 07:57 WELL NEVER MIND THAT...
• 07:58 JACOB SEES A VISION OF GOD LOOKING TO COMMUNICATE WITH HIM
• 08:02 HE'S ON HIS WAY OUT WONDERING WHAT HIS FUTURE WILL BE
• 08:05 AND THE LORD SHOWS UP
• 08:06 AND HE ASSURES HIM IN NO UNCERTAIN TERMS AT THIS PLACE
• 08:10 THAT "I WILL BE WITH YOU."
• 08:12 WE'RE TOLD IN VERSE 13, HE SEES THE LADDER AND THE LORD SAYS,
• 08:35 ERETZ ISRAEL,
• 08:37 THE LAND OF ISRAEL...
• 08:39 THIS VERY PLACE....
• 08:42 "I'LL GIVE IT TO YOU."
• 08:43 HE SAYS IN VERSE 15,
• 08:50 WHY IS IT BY THE WAY TODAY PEOPLE THAT ARE RELIGIOUS,
• 08:53 THEY CLAIM TO BE BIBLE READERS,
• 08:54 WANT TO SAY GOD IS NOT MINDED TO KEEP THE JEWISH PEOPLE,
• 08:57 HE'S NOT MINDED TO BE WITH THE JEWISH PEOPLE,
• 08:59 THAT THERE'S NO RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN JEWISH PEOPLE AND REAL ESTATE.
• 09:03 THOSE THAT SPEAK THAT WAY,
• 09:05 THERE JUST NOT BIBLE READERS.
• 09:07 THEY MIGHT BE RELIGIOUS IN SOME SENSE
• 09:09 BUT THEY'VE LOST SIGHT OF THE LITERATURE.
• 09:11 GOD IN NO UNCERTAIN TERMS VISITS THIS FELLOW JACOB, "YAKOV".
• 09:14 HIS NAME IS GOING TO BE CHANGED TO "ISRAEL"
• 09:17 AS BIBLE READERS KNOW FULL WELL.
• 09:19 AND THERE'S AN ABIDING PROMISE WITH HIM
• 09:22 TO BE WITH HIM
• 09:22 TO KEEP HIM
• 09:24 AND THAT HIS DESCENDANTS ARE BOUND TO A PARCEL OF EARTH.
• 09:28 VERY, VERY, VERY CLEAR.
• 09:29 IN RESPONSE TO WHICH JACOB WITH THIS IN HIS MIND,
• 09:32 HOW AWESOME IS THIS PLACE.
• 09:34 HE RECOGNIZES IT AS THE GATEWAY TO HEAVEN.
• 09:37 HE IS SO TOUCHED SPIRITUALLY;
• 09:40 HE WILL THEN REFER TO THE PLACE THAT HAD A NAME BEFOREHAND
• 09:43 AS "BETHEL", "THE HOUSE OF GOD".
• 09:46 AND THERE HE WILL WORSHIP.
• 09:49 THOSE THAT WORSHIP THE LORD IN THE HOUSE OF GOD TODAY,
• 09:53 RESPECTIVE CHURCHES...FRIENDS,
• 09:55 CONSIDER THE ORIGIN OF THE ALTAR,
• 09:57 CONSIDER WORSHIP IN THE HEBREW BIBLE AND REMEMBER,
• 10:01 WE'RE LEARNING FROM A MAN,
• 10:03 WE'RE LEARNING FROM EXPERIENCES THAT ARE BOUND UP WITH A PEOPLE,
• 10:06 WITH A LAND,
• 10:07 WITH DESTINY...
• 10:08 THE JEWISH PEOPLE HERE...
• 10:10 THE ERETZ ISRAEL...
• 10:12 IN THE LAND OF ISRAEL.
• 10:17 FOR INSIGHTFUL PERSPECTIVES OF ISRAEL AND BIBLE PROPHECY
• 10:20 ASK FOR OUR FREE MONTHLY NEWSLETTER "THE LEVITT LETTER".
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• 10:30 OUR CORRESPONDENCE COURSE,
• 10:32 "THE INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH CHRISTIAN STUDIES"
• 10:34 INCLUDES READING PACKETS, TEACHING CDS, AND MAIL-IN TESTS.
• 10:39 YOU MAY WANT TO JOIN US ON AN UPCOMING TOUR OF ISRAEL OR PETRA
• 10:42 OR CRUISE THE MEDITERRANEAN VISITING GREECE AND EPHESUS.
• 10:46 PLEASE CONTACT US FOR MORE INFORMATION.
• 10:52 (JEFF SPEAKING)
• 10:53 DAVID DOLAN'S BACKDROP THIS WEEK IS THE OLD CITY OF JERUSALEM...
• 10:57 A GREAT VISTA FROM WHICH TO CONTINUE HIS REMARKABLE SAGA
• 11:00 OF THE MODERN STATE OF ISRAEL.
• 11:03 BEHIND ME ARE THE WALLS
• 11:05 OF THE OLD CITY BUILT BY
• 11:07 SULEIMAN THE MAGNIFICENT,
• 11:09 THE OTTOMAN LEADER.
• 11:11 THIS AREA WAS A CENTER OF WORLD WAR I.
• 11:14 THE BRITISH FORCES IN THE AREA
• 11:16 WERE LEAD BY GENERAL EDMUND ALLENBY.
• 11:20 DURING WORLD WAR I
• 11:21 THE BRITISH HIGH COMMISSIONER IN CAIRO
• 11:23 PROMISED THE ARAB LEADER OF THE WHOLE REGION,
• 11:26 SHARIF HUSSEIN, DOWN IN MECCA,
• 11:28 THAT IF THE ALLIES WERE VICTORIOUS IN THE WAR
• 11:31 THEY WOULD HELP ESTABLISH A NUMBER OF ARAB STATES
• 11:34 AFTER THE WAR.
• 11:35 BUT HE ALSO SAID THAT
• 11:37 THEY WANTED TO KEEP THIS AREA, "PALESTINE", AS A SEPARATE ENTITY
• 11:41 WITH THE IDEA THAT THE JEWS WOULD HAVE A STATE HERE.
• 11:44 AND ALSO TO THE NORTH, LEBANON, AS A SEPARATE ENTITY
• 11:47 WHERE THE CHRISTIANS COULD HAVE SOME AUTONOMY.
• 11:50 SHARIF HUSSEIN AGREED TO THIS PROPOSAL.
• 11:52 IN 1919 HIS SON FAISAL ENDORSED THIS PROPOSAL AS WELL.
• 11:57 WELL IN 1917 GENERAL ALLENBY...
• 12:01 RIGHT BEHIND ME HERE...
• 12:03 WALKED BY FOOT THROUGH JAFFA GATE
• 12:06 AFTER BRITISH FORCES CAPTURED THE CITY OF JERUSALEM.
• 12:10 HE SAID, "I CANNOT RIDE".
• 12:12 EVEN THOUGH HE WAS A CALVARY LEADER WITH A GREAT HORSE...
• 12:14 "I CANNOT RIDE WHERE THE MESSIAH WALKED".
• 12:17 AND THE PEOPLE CHEERED AS HE CAME INTO THE CITY.
• 12:20 WELL JUST ONE MONTH BEFORE
• 12:22 THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT IN LONDON
• 12:24 HAD PROMISED THE JEWISH PEOPLE
• 12:26 A NATIONAL HOMELAND
• 12:28 HERE IN PALESTINE.
• 12:29 IT WAS CALLED "THE BALFOUR DECLARATION".
• 12:33 LESS THAN ONE YEAR AFTER THE BALFOUR DECLARATION WAS RELEASED
• 12:36 WORLD WAR I WAS OVER.
• 12:38 GENERAL ALLENBY'S FORCES DEFEATED THE TURKS
• 12:42 UP IN THE VALLEY OF MEGIDDO NORTH OF JERUSALEM.
• 12:45 THE ALLIES ALL GATHERED TOGETHER A COUPLE OF YEARS LATER
• 12:49 AT SAN REMO, SPAIN TO DECIDE HOW TO CARVE UP THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE...
• 12:54 WHO WOULD GET WHAT, ETC.
• 12:56 AND A MANDATE WAS GIVEN TO GREAT BRITAIN
• 12:59 TO ESTABLISH A JEWISH NATIONAL HOME HERE IN PALESTINE.
• 13:03 AND A MANDATE WAS GIVEN TO THE FRENCH
• 13:06 TO DO THE SAME UP IN LEBANON AND IN SYRIA.
• 13:09 AND INDEED STATES WERE CREATED FOR THE ARABS
• 13:11 AS THE BRITISH HAD PROMISED.
• 13:14 TRANS JORDAN JUST TO THE EAST OF US WAS CREATED
• 13:17 OUT OF WHAT WAS THE MANDATE OF PALESTINE.
• 13:20 THE JEWS WEREN'T SO THRILLED ABOUT THIS
• 13:22 BECAUSE THAT MEANT THAT TWO THIRDS OF THE AREA
• 13:24 THAT THEY THOUGHT THEY COULD SET A JEWISH STATE UP IN
• 13:27 HAD BEEN CUT OFF FROM JEWISH SETTLEMENT.
• 13:29 BUT STILL IT WAS IMPLIED
• 13:31 THEY COULD SETTLE EVERYWHERE WEST OF THE JORDAN RIVER
• 13:34 WHICH WOULD INCLUDE WHAT IS TODAY KNOWN AS THE WEST BANK.
• 13:37 BUT IN 1922
• 13:39 WINSTON CHURCHILL IMPLIED
• 13:41 THAT WOULD NOT BE THE CASE,
• 13:43 THAT THE JEWISH STATE WOULD BE SMALLER STILL.
• 13:45 JEWS COULD SETTLE IN PARTS OF WESTERN PALESTINE BUT NOT NECESSARILY IN ALL OF IT.
• 13:50 WELL ALSO IN 1922
• 13:52 THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS
• 13:54 ENDORSED THIS BRITISH MANDATE
• 13:56 AND THE FRENCH MANDATE.
• 13:57 BUT IN 1921 BEFORE THAT HAPPENED, IN MAY,
• 14:01 THE VERY FIRST WIDE SCALE ARAB RESISTANCE TO THE RETURNING JEWS TOOK PLACE.
• 14:06 MAJOR RIOTS IN THE CITIES OF THE LAND...
• 14:09 NEARLY 50 JEWS WERE SLAUGHTERED DOWN ON THE COAST IN JAFFA AND IN MANY OTHER PARTS OF THE AREA.
• 14:16 THROUGH THE 1920S
• 14:18 JEWS KEPT COMING BACK.
• 14:20 NEARLY 60,000 MADE ALIYAH
• 14:23 IN WHAT WAS KNOWN AS THE FOURTH WAVE OF ALIYAH.
• 14:25 MOST OF THEM CAME FROM RUSSIA AND FROM POLAND.
• 14:28 THEY WERE CITY DWELLERS.
• 14:29 MOST OF THEM SETTLED NOT IN THE FARMS
• 14:32 BUT DOWN IN TEL AVIV AND OTHER PLACES.
• 14:34 WELL IT WASN'T LONG AFTER THAT IN 1929
• 14:38 THAT THE ARAB POGROMS BROKE OUT THAT WERE THE WORST IN THE HISTORY OF THE JEWS RETURNING.
• 14:45 THAT WAS LED BY
• 14:46 HAJJ AMIN HUSSEINI,
• 14:48 THE MUSLIM LEADER OF JERUSALEM.
• 14:50 HUNDREDS OF ARABS POURED OUT FROM THE TEMPLE MOUNT
• 14:53 AND OVER 113 JEWS WERE KILLED.
• 14:56 THE JEWISH COMMUNITY OF HEBRON WAS COMPLETED SLAUGHTERED,
• 14:59 THE CHIEF RABBI HUNG UPSIDE DOWN AND SKINNED ALIVE.
• 15:03 IT WAS A TERRIBLE POGROM
• 15:04 AND IT WAS JUST A SIGN OF THE GREAT VIOLENCE
• 15:08 THAT WAS TO COME IN THE 1930'S AND 40'S.
• 15:11 ALL OF THIS AS JEWS KEPT COMING BACK
• 15:13 AND THAT INCREASING IN THE 30S
• 15:15 AS A MAN NAMED ADOLF HITLER
• 15:17 TOOK CONTROL OF GERMANY.
• 15:22 GOODNESS IT IS SO GUT WRENCHING.
• 15:24 IT'S HORRIBLE WHAT PEOPLE DO TO PEOPLE...
• 15:27 WHAT PEOPLE DO TO JEWS.
• 15:29 AND ITS NOT JUST YESTERDAY'S NEWS,
• 15:30 IF YOU WANT TO BE KEPT INFORMED
• 15:32 GO TO OUR WEBSITE AT
• 15:33 WWW.LEVITT.COM
• 15:36 AND ASK FOR OUR MAGAZINE.
• 15:38 OR YOU CAN CALL
• 15:39 1-800-WONDERS AS WELL
• 15:41 AND YOU CAN GET INFORMATION THAT
• 15:43 NORMALLY IS NOT DISSEMINATED
• 15:44 ON TODAY'S NEWS VENUES.
• 15:47 THE OFFER ON THE PROGRAM TODAY
• 15:49 IS A SERIES "WHOSE LAND IS IT?".
• 15:52 ACTUALLY IT'S A SERIES OF
• 15:53 INTERVIEWS DONE BY
• 15:54 THE LATE ZOLA LEVITT.
• 15:55 THERE'S DVDS,
• 15:57 THERE'S A STUDY BOOKLET AS WELL
• 15:58 ON THE SAME ISSUE...
• 16:00 WHO'S REAL ESTATE IS IT?
• 16:02 PEOPLE ARE FIGHTING ABOUT JEWS
• 16:04 AND FIGHTING JEWS.
• 16:05 IT'S AN OLD STORY.
• 16:06 BUT THE STORY OF ISRAEL'S AN OLD STORY
• 16:08 AS IS THAT OF PEOPLE COMING TO IT TO BE BLESSED...YES?
• 16:11 IT IS DR. SEIF
• 16:12 AND I CAN ASSURE YOU
• 16:13 IT IS YESHUA'S LAND
• 16:15 BECAUSE THE PRESENCE
• 16:16 OF YESHUA IS SO STRONG
• 16:18 IN THE HOLY LAND
• 16:19 AND I WANT TO RIGHT NOW JUST
• 16:20 INVITE ALL OF OUR VIEWERS,
• 16:22 THE AMAZING TEACHING
• 16:23 THAT YOU DO DR. SEIF
• 16:25 COMES ALIVE IN THE HOLY LAND
• 16:26 WHEN THEY ARE ON
• 16:27 THE ACTUAL GROUND
• 16:28 THAT JESUS WALKED,
• 16:30 WHEN THEY ARE TOUCHING
• 16:31 THE WESTERN WALL
• 16:32 AND GETTING BAPTIZED
• 16:33 IN THE JORDAN RIVER.
• 16:34 ISRAEL IS GOING TO
• 16:35 COME ALIVE TO YOU
• 16:36 IF YOU COME WITH US.
• 16:37 SO THEY CALL 1-800-WONDERS
• 16:39 OR GO ON THE WEBSITE...
• 16:40 THEY GET TO YOU AND YOU GET THEM TO ISRAEL.
• 16:42 I DO...
• 16:43 THEY GO TO LEVITT.COM...
• 16:44 EVERYTHING IS THERE.
• 16:45 AND IN FACT ONE OF OUR RECENT TRAVELERS, PAUL,
• 16:47 IS GOING TO TELL YOU ABOUT HIS EXPERIENCE IN ISRAEL.
• 16:51 HEY PAUL,
• 16:52 I UNDERSTAND THIS IS YOUR FIRST TIME TO THE HOLY LAND
• 16:54 AND IT MAY BE SPECIAL
• 16:56 BECAUSE YOU'RE REALLY PRAYING FOR SOME FAMILY MEMBERS
• 16:58 ABOUT THEIR SPIRITUALITY.
• 16:59 YES IT IS.
• 17:01 IT'S BEEN AMAZING.
• 17:02 AND I BELIEVE THAT GOD HAS ANSWERED MY PRAYERS ALREADY
• 17:05 AND I JUST NEEDED TO TRAVEL ALL ACROSS THE WORLD TO THE MOTHER LAND
• 17:08 TO ANSWER MY PRAYERS TO THE LORD JESUS
• 17:11 WHAT'S THE HIGHLIGHT OF THE TRIP BEEN FOR YOU?
• 17:14 I...THERE IS SOME MUCH THAT ISRAEL HAS HIGHLIGHTED FOR ME
• 17:19 BUT I REALLY LIKED THE JORDAN RIVER WHEN WE WENT THERE...
• 17:22 WE MET THIS PERSON WHO JUST LOVES THE LORD
• 17:26 AND HE'S JUST GREAT.
• 17:28 SO THE BAPTISM WAS THE HIGHLIGHT.
• 17:31 I WOULD SAY THE BAPTISM WAS THE HIGHLIGHT FOR ME. THAT'S GREAT.
• 17:33 WELL IT'S BEEN SO GOOD TO HAVE YOU ON THE ZOLA TOUR. SO GLAD YOU COULD JOIN US.
• 17:37 PAUL...WONDERFUL HUMAN BEING...YES?
• 17:40 YOU KNOW HE IS DR. SEIF.
• 17:42 AND WE HAVE MANY TRAVELERS LIKE THAT
• 17:43 AND I WANT TO INVITE OUR VIEWERS TO COME WITH US
• 17:45 SO THEY CAN EXPERIENCE LIKE HE DID.
• 17:47 PATTY CAME ALONG ON THE LAST JOURNEY
• 17:50 AND SHE COMES WITH ME EVERY NOW AND AGAIN
• 17:52 AND JUST FALLS IN LOVE WITH THE PEOPLE AS WELL AS THE PLACE.
• 17:54 AND THEY LOVED HER TOO.
• 17:56 I WAS SO GLAD SHE COULD ACCOMPANY US.
• 17:57 YES, MY WIFE'S A SWEET WOMAN,
• 17:59 I KNOW YOU'D LOVE HER LIKE I DO,
• 18:01 25 YEARS INTO THIS MARRIAGE AS WE ARE.
• 18:05 WELL SO MUCH FOR ME AND PATTY,
• 18:07 BUT TALKING ABOUT LOVE,
• 18:08 ZIONISM HARKS TO THE LOVE FOR THE MODERN NATION STATE OF ISRAEL.
• 18:13 AND NOW OFF TO ME AND DAVID DOLAN.
• 18:15 WE'RE SPEAKING FROM TEL AVIV,
• 18:18 A GORGEOUS VISTA OVERLOOKING THE MEDITERRANEAN
• 18:20 IN THE LAND THAT IS ISRAEL.
• 18:25 CRITICS OF THE MODERN ZIONIST ENTERPRISE ARGUE THAT IT'S THOROUGHLY SECULAR,
• 18:29 NOTHING SPIRITUAL HAPPENING HERE,
• 18:31 THESE PEOPLE DON'T EVEN CARE ABOUT GOD, BIBLE, RELIGION...
• 18:33 NOTHING.
• 18:35 WELL IF THAT'S THE CASE WHY IS IT CALLED "ZIONISM" WHICH HARKS BACK TO ZION...A BIBLICAL PLACE?
• 18:41 AND FOR THAT MATTER WHY IS THE SYMBOL THE STAR OF DAVID?
• 18:45 DAVID IS A BIBLICAL PERSONALITY NOW ISN'T HE?
• 18:49 AND WHY IS THAT FLAG OF ISRAEL BLUE AND WHITE,
• 18:51 REMINISCENT OF A PRAYER SHAWL THAT JEWISH PEOPLE DRAPE OVER THEMSELVES?
• 18:56 THERE'S MORE SPIRITUALITY GOING ON HERE
• 18:59 THAN PEOPLE CREDIT IT SEEMS TO ME DAVID.
• 19:01 WHAT SAYS YOU?
• 19:03 WELL I THINK THAT'S RIGHT.
• 19:05 ITS TRUE THAT ONLY ABOUT 30 - 35 PER CENT OF ISRAELI JEWS
• 19:09 REGULARLY GO TO SYNAGOGUE
• 19:10 BUT THEN ON YOM KIPPUR ITS UP TO LIKE TO 70 PER CENT
• 19:14 AND MOST OF THEM FAST AS WELL.
• 19:16 AND YOU SCRATCH THE SURFACE OF A JEW
• 19:17 YOU FIND SOMEBODY THAT HAS THOSE BIBLICAL CONNECTIONS.
• 19:20 RIGHT AND YOU SCRATCH THE SURFACE OF THE JEWS
• 19:22 YOU'LL FIND SOME PEOPLE THAT ARE TRAUMATIZED...
• 19:24 FROM THE HOLOCAUST...
• 19:25 WHERE WAS GOD WHEN WE WERE SUFFERING?
• 19:28 IT MIGHT TAKE SOME TIME FOR PEOPLE TO WORK OUT THAT PAIN AND RECOVER THEIR RELIGIOUS EQUILIBRIUM.
• 19:34 WELL THAT'S RIGHT.
• 19:35 AND YET STILL THE LEADERS OF DAVID BEN GURION AND THE OTHERS
• 19:38 WHEN THEY MET JUST HERE IN TEL AVIV AT INDEPENDENCE HALL
• 19:40 TO CHOOSE A NAME FOR THE COUNTRY
• 19:43 BEN GURION SAID IT HAS TO BE "ISRAEL".
• 19:45 WELL THAT OF COURSE COMES FROM JACOB.
• 19:47 JACOB GOT THAT NAME FROM GOD.
• 19:50 SO EVEN THERE, HE WAS A SECULAR MAN MOSTLY,
• 19:52 BUT HE WAS LOOKING INTO THE BOOK TO GET THE NAME OF THE COUNTRY.
• 19:55 ITS VERY CONNECTED.
• 19:56 YES AND THAT'S VERY TELLING.
• 19:58 YOU CAN SEE THE CONNECTION,
• 19:59 TO USE YOUR WORD THERE.
• 20:01 THE BIBLE SAYS THAT PEOPLE WILL BE BROUGHT BACK INITIALLY IN UNBELIEF.
• 20:04 SO EVEN THE SPIRITUAL SKEPTICISM FULFILLS BIBLE PROPHECY.
• 20:08 IT REALLY DOES
• 20:09 AND OF COURSE, SO LITERALLY WE HAVE ISRAELIS COMING FROM
• 20:13 OVER A HUNDRED COUNTRIES FROM THE FAR CORNERS OF THE EARTH AS ISAIAH 11 AND OTHER PLACES SAID.
• 20:18 YOU KNOW I'VE BEEN REPORTING THAT...
• 20:19 ALL THE RUSSIANS JEWS COMING BACK.
• 20:21 AND I'LL NEVER FORGET
• 20:22 AFTER THE SCUDS FELL ON THIS CITY BEHIND US IN 1991
• 20:25 WHEN YITZHAK SHAMIR, THE PRIME MINISTER,
• 20:27 CALLED UPON THE NATION TO GO TO THE SYNAGOGUES
• 20:29 AND GIVE THANKS TO GOD FOR NO CASUALTIES...
• 20:32 THAT WAS A MIRACLE...
• 20:34 AND THE PLACES WERE PACKED ALL OVER THE COUNTRY WITH PEOPLE DOING JUST THAT.
• 20:37 ONE OF A NUMBER OF MIRACLES THAT WORKS OUT IN ISRAEL...
• 20:39 YOUR COMMENT REMINDS ME OF THE STATEMENT...
• 20:41 "THERE'S NO ATHEIST IN FOXHOLES."
• 20:43 THAT'S EXACTLY RIGHT.
• 20:45 PUSHED AGAINST THE WALL PEOPLE DO TEND TO TURN THEIR HEARTS UPWARD.
• 20:49 THEY DO AND THEY ARE DOING THAT MORE AND MORE HERE.
• 20:52 YES THERE'S SO MUCH HAPPENING HERE IN THE HEARTS AND THE MINDS OF THOSE THAT LIVE HERE.
• 20:57 BUT BEYOND THAT AND BEYOND THE OWN SELF DETERMINATION
• 21:01 THAT RESONATES AMONGST THE PEOPLE THAT LIVE HERE,
• 21:04 THERE'S GOD AT WORK IN THE WORLD.
• 21:05 WE SEE IT WHEN WE OPEN UP THE BIBLE ON THE ONE HAND
• 21:09 AND OPEN UP THE NEWSPAPER ON THE OTHER
• 21:11 WE CAN SEE CONGRUITY AS WE'RE OBSERVING GOD WATCHING OVER HIS WORD TO PERFORM IT HERE...
• 21:18 THE ERETZ ISRAEL...
• 21:20 IN THE LAND OF ISRAEL.
• 22:51 PSALM 137'S THEME OF LONGING FOR ZION
• 22:55 SO MUCH RESONATED IN DAVID BEN GURION'S HEART...
• 23:00 A MODERN FATHER OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL.
• 23:04 WHEN I LOOK AT THE PATRIARCHS IN THE BIBLICAL TESTIMONY
• 23:08 THESE ARE THE ANCIENT FOUNDING FATHERS.
• 23:10 AND HERE NOW ZOLA LEVITT AND DR. TOM MCCALL
• 23:14 GO TO THE PLACE WHERE THE STORY TOOK PLACE...
• 23:16 IN BETHEL.
• 23:18 LET'S CONSIDER THEM NOW
• 23:20 AS DR. MCCALL AND ZOLA OPEN UP THE BIBLE AND MAKE IT REAL FOR US.
• 23:27 SO WE CAME TO THIS SPOT
• 23:29 TO SHOW WHERE THE COVENANT WAS REITERATED,
• 23:31 AND IT REITERATES
• 23:32 THROUGHOUT THE OLD TESTAMENT,
• 23:34 IT WASN'T JUST SAID ONCE,
• 23:35 BUT MANY TIMES AS EACH GENERATION CAME.
• 23:37 GIVEN TO ABRAHAM, THEN ISAAC NOT ISHMAEL, THEN JACOB NOT ESAU,
• 23:41 AND CONTINUALLY CLAIMED AGAIN AND REPEATED AGAIN BY THE LORD.
• 23:45 BUT IRONICALLY WHEN WE COME OUT TO THE THIS PLACE
• 23:48 WE'RE IN KIND OF ENEMY TERRITORY.
• 23:51 WE HAD TO TAKE REASONABLE PRECAUTIONS.
• 23:55 WE HAD TO BE CAREFUL.
• 23:57 WE ARE DRIVING THROUGH VILLAGES WHERE OTHER LANGUAGES ARE SPOKEN
• 24:00 AND OTHER GOD'S ARE WORSHIPPED.
• 24:02 WE HEAR THE CALL OF THE MUEZZIN FROM THE LOCAL MOSQUE
• 24:06 AND ITS NO QUESTION THAT BETHEL ITSELF,
• 24:09 THIS HILL,
• 24:11 THE SURROUNDING VILLAGES AND SO ON, IS A HOT SPOT IN THE MODERN INTIFADA.
• 24:15 AND THE IRONY IS IT WAS RIGHT HERE
• 24:19 THAT GOD WENT TO THE THIS TROUBLE AND PROVIDED THIS AMAZING DREAM,
• 24:22 THIS UNFORGETTABLE IMAGE...
• 24:23 JACOB'S LADDER...
• 24:25 WHICH IS ON EVERYBODY'S DOORPOST AND ON THEIR STATIONARY HERE AND SO ON.
• 24:29 BUT THE JEWS PICKED THIS PLACE TO SINGLE OUT
• 24:34 AS A PLACE WHERE THE COVENANT WAS REITERATED SO THAT IT WAS VERY CLEAR.
• 24:39 JACOB WAS IMPRESSED, THERE'S NO QUESTION.
• 24:41 WHEN HE GOT UP IN THE MORNING HE PERFORMED THIS RELIGIOUS CEREMONY,
• 24:45 THIS ACT OF FAITH,
• 24:46 HIS ANOINTING OF A STONE.
• 24:48 NOT UNLIKE I GUESS WHEN AN EXPLORER FINDS NEW TERRITORY
• 24:52 OR THE ASTRONAUTS CAME TO THE MOON...
• 24:54 THEY'D STAND ON THE SURFACE...
• 24:56 THEY CLAIM IT.
• 24:57 JACOB DID THE SAME THING BECAUSE OF HIS STRANGE NIGHT VISION
• 25:01 AND ENCOUNTER WITH THE ANGELS AND WITH ALMIGHTY GOD.
• 25:07 BEFORE WE FINISH UP
• 25:08 LETS BACK UP AND RECONSIDER SOME.
• 25:11 BY THAT I MEAN LOOKING AT THIS ANCIENT MAP HERE
• 25:15 OR A MAP THAT'S COMPARABLE TO WHAT IT WOULD LIKE IN ANTIQUITY.
• 25:19 AVRAHAM, OR ABRAHAM,
• 25:20 BEGINS OVER HERE
• 25:21 IN UR OF CHALDEA
• 25:23 WHICH WOULD BE MODERN KUWAIT,
• 25:24 AND HE MAKES A JOURNEY ALONG THE FERTILE CRESCENT
• 25:28 AND HUNKERS DOWN HERE FOR AWHILE
• 25:29 IN HARAN, SYRIA
• 25:31 AND THEN FINALLY HE MAKES HIS WAY TO THE LAND OF CANAAN.
• 25:36 AVRAHAM BIRTHS YITZHAK... ISAAC,
• 25:39 ISAAC...JACOB
• 25:42 AND WE'RE KIND OF UNFOLDING THE STORY
• 25:44 AND NOTING HOW THIS LITTLE PIECE OF REAL ESTATE HERE
• 25:47 WAS GIVEN TO THOSE PEOPLE BACK THEN
• 25:51 AND IT HAS APPLICATIONS TO PEOPLE TODAY.
• 25:56 IN THIS SERIES TODAY WE WERE IN BETHEL
• 25:59 AND CONSIDERING THE PROMISES REITERATED TO JACOB
• 26:03 AND OF COURSE HIS NAME WAS CHANGED TO ISRAEL,
• 26:06 HENCE A REFERENCE TO THE LAND OF ISRAEL.
• 26:09 GOODNESS... I HOPE YOU'RE DERIVING SOME BENEFIT FROM THIS.
• 26:14 AMONG OTHER THINGS WE WANT YOU TO SEE HOW GOD IS WATCHING OVER HIS WORD TO PERFORM IT EVEN TODAY.
• 26:22 AND INASMUCH AS GOD CAN FULFILL HIS PROMISES TO THIS REAL ESTATE,
• 26:26 THAT SAME GOD CAN FULFILL HIS PROMISES TO PEOPLE LIKE ME AND YOU.
• 26:31 I HOPE YOU CULTIVATE YOUR RELATIONSHIP WITH HIM
• 26:33 AND I HOPE WE'RE HELPING YOU TO DO THAT.
• 26:36 IN ANY CASE THANK YOU FOR BEING WITH US.
• 26:38 AND AS YOU GO NOW,
• 26:39 SHA'ALU SHALOM YERUSHALAYIM
• 26:41 PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM