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

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