Caption transcript for Eretz Israel (The Land of Israel): “Jesus and the Promised Land” (7/8)

• 00:08 LOOK TO THE NORTH
• 00:11 THE SOUTH
• 00:14 THE EAST
• 00:17 THE WEST
• 00:24 ALL THE LAND WHICH THOU SEEST
• 00:27 TO THEE WILL I GIVE IT
• 00:29 AND TO THY SEED FOREVER.
• 00:33 INDEED... HE WHO WATCHES OVER ISRAEL WILL NEITHER SLUMBER NOR SLEEP.
• 00:55 HEARTY SHALOM TO ALL OF YOU.
• 00:57 JEFFREY SEIF
• 00:58 PLEASED TO WELCOME YOU
• 00:59 TO ZOLA LEVITT PRESENTS.
• 01:01 AND WE'VE GOT A PRESENTATION FOR YOU.
• 01:05 WE'RE GOING TO VISIT HERODIUM,
• 01:07 A FAMOUS CITY IN A BYGONE ERA RECENTLY EXCAVATED,
• 01:11 A CITY THAT GOES BACK TO THE DAYS OF JESUS.
• 01:14 OUR HISTORIAN AND COMMENTATOR DAVID DOLAN WILL SPEAK OF MODERN WARS
• 01:19 AND YOU'LL HEAR FROM A TEACHER,
• 01:21 IN FACT, THE FORMER AMBASSADOR FROM ISRAEL TO THE UNITED NATIONS
• 01:26 AND HE HAS SOMETHING TO SAY.
• 01:27 AND SPEAKING OF TEACHERS THAT HAVE SOMETHING TO SAY,
• 01:30 LET'S BEGIN WITH JESUS AS HE SPENT TIME IN ISRAEL WITH HIS DISCIPLES.
• 01:40 ACCORDING TO THE BIBLE,
• 01:42 YESHUA AND HIS FOLLOWERS
• 01:43 WALKED UPON ONE STRATEGICALLY IMPORTANT PARCEL OF LAND.
• 01:48 AFTER HEROD'S DEATH
• 01:50 AN ANGEL REFERENCES THE SITE TELLING JOSEPH,
• 01:53 "ARISE, TAKE THE YOUNG CHILD AND HIS MOTHER AND GO INTO THE LAND OF ISRAEL."
• 02:01 IN HIS EARLY MINISTRY THE LORD SPOKE, TO, FOR AND ABOUT ISRAEL.
• 02:09 "WHEN THEY PERSECUTE YOU IN THIS CITY FLEE YEA INTO ANOTHER"
• 02:15 "FOR VERILY I SAY UNTO YOU"
• 02:18 "YE SHALL NOT HAVE GONE OVER THE CITIES OF ISRAEL TILL THE SON OF MAN BE COME."
• 02:25 THROUGHOUT THE AGES THIS HOLY LAND HAS BEEN KNOWN BY DIFFERENT NAMES
• 02:30 BUT NOWHERE IN THE PAGES OF THE NEW TESTAMENT HAS THERE EVER BEEN A REFERENCE TO "PALESTINE".
• 02:38 YESHUA KNEW THIS RELATIVELY SMALL PARCEL OF LAND AS "ISRAEL",
• 02:44 THE LAND OF THE PATRIARCHS.
• 02:52 PEOPLE TALK ABOUT WALKING
• 02:54 IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF JESUS...
• 02:56 WELL I'M ALL ABOUT THAT...
• 02:58 WALKING BACK INTO THE BYGONE ERA IN ANTIQUITY.
• 03:01 THIS IS THE LAND OF JESUS.
• 03:03 IT WAS THE LAND OF ABRAHAM, ISAAC, JACOB...
• 03:05 JESUS AS YOU'LL SEE,
• 03:07 IN FACT HE TRAVERSED THIS LAND
• 03:09 TRAVELING AROUND FROM THE GALILEE, CAPERNAUM TO JERUSALEM
• 03:12 AND HE MADE HIS WAY TO A FAMOUS PLACE CALLED "HERODIUM".
• 03:16 A FAMOUS PLACE IN JESUS DAY,
• 03:18 IT'S BEEN LOST TO MODERNS
• 03:19 BUT WHAT WAS LOST TO MODERNS IS NOW GOING TO BE MADE KNOWN.
• 03:23 FOLLOW ME NOW TO HERODIUM.
• 03:57 I TELL YOU IT'S LIKE GOING BACK
• 03:59 IN A TIME MACHINE...2,000 YEARS.
• 04:01 I WON'T JUST SAY IT, I'LL SHOW IT.
• 04:07 THIS IS NOT A NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAP
• 04:09 BUT IT'S CLOSE TO WHAT THEY WOULD HAVE USED
• 04:12 BACK IN JESUS DAY.
• 04:14 NOW WHERE ARE WE HERE NOW?
• 04:17 JERUSALEM
• 04:18 I'M FAMILIAR WITH THAT
• 04:20 HERODIUM
• 04:21 JESUS FREQUENTED THIS WORLD
• 04:23 SO DID HEROD
• 04:25 AND HE HAD A HEADQUARTERS
• 04:26 RIGHT HERE
• 04:27 COME WITH ME, LET'S EXPLORE.
• 04:37 "HERODIAN"
• 04:38 OR "HERODIUM" IN GREEK
• 04:40 IS ONE OF THE MOST EXTRA ORDINARY
• 04:42 ARCHITECTURAL CONSTRUCTIONS IN THE WESTERN WORLD.
• 04:46 BUILT BY KING HEROD,
• 04:48 THIS MAGNIFICENT STRUCTURE WAS INTENDED TO SERVE AS A SUMMER PALACE
• 04:52 AND LATER AFTER HIS DEATH WAS TO BE HIS MAUSOLEUM.
• 04:57 SEEN FROM MILES AROUND
• 05:00 IT RISES 195 FEET ABOVE THE SUMMIT OF A NATURAL HILL.
• 05:04 HALF PALACE, HALF FORTRESS
• 05:07 THE COMPLEX CONSISTED OF LUXURIOUS LIVING QUARTERS,
• 05:11 A BATH HOUSE,
• 05:12 GARDEN AREAS,
• 05:13 AND EVEN A HUGE SWIMMING POOL WITH AN ISLAND.
• 05:17 PHILIP OF MACEDON HAD A FAMOUS SON, ALEXANDER,
• 05:21 WHO BY HIS DINT OF DETERMINATION WAS MINDED TO TAKEOVER WHAT HE KNEW OF THE WORLD AND HE DID.
• 05:28 HE DIDN'T LIVE VERY LONG AND HIS EMPIRE WAS DIVIDED.
• 05:31 AND EVEN THOSE THAT FOLLOWED AFTER HIM
• 05:33 WERE MINDED TO IMPRESS GREEK CULTURE TO CIVILIZE THE WORLD AT LARGE.
• 05:37 AND PART OF THE WORLD AT LARGE THAT THEY CONQUERED WAS A PLACE CALLED "ISRAEL"...
• 05:42 ERETZ ISRAEL...
• 05:44 THE LAND OF ISRAEL.
• 05:46 HERE IN HERODIUM WE'RE REMINDED OF THE TRIUMPH OF GRECO ROMAN CULTURE
• 05:51 FOR AS A RESULT OF POLITICAL INTRIGUE INTERESTINGLY
• 05:56 THE ROMANS FOUND A CLIENT KING
• 05:59 WHO COULD DO THEIR BIDDING HERE IN THE LAND.
• 06:02 BUT EVEN THOUGH HE WAS A CLIENT KING TO THE ROMANS PARTICULARLY,
• 06:06 HE NEVERTHELESS RULED OVER WHAT THE BIBLE KNEW AS A SOVEREIGN ISRAELITE COMMONWEALTH.
• 06:12 ITS INTERESTING HOW HE CAME TO IT BY THE WAY
• 06:15 FOR INITIALLY HEROD WAS SHARING THIS PART OF THE WORLD WITH FAMILY MEMBERS
• 06:23 BUT INTERESTINGLY IN THE WAKE OF A PARTHIAN INTRUSION...
• 06:28 AND PARTHIA BY THE WAY IN ANTIQUITY IS WHERE PERSIA OR IRAN IS IN MODERNITY.
• 06:34 FOLK FROM THAT PART OF THE WORLD
• 06:36 CAME AND OVERRAN THIS PART OF THE WORLD
• 06:38 AND SET UP THEIR OWN KING.
• 06:39 HEROD WAS RUNNING.
• 06:41 HE WENT TO MASADA
• 06:43 AND ON THE WAY HE HAD A CLASH WITH THESE PARTHIANS AT A PLACE
• 06:47 AND THIS WAS THE PLACE INTERESTINGLY.
• 06:50 HEROD'S GOING TO GO OFF TO ROME
• 06:52 AND BEG FOR SUPPORT AGAINST THE PARTHIANS
• 06:55 AND HE'S GOING TO GET IT UNANIMOUSLY AT THE SENATE
• 06:58 AND HEROD'S GOING TO COME BACK HERE
• 07:00 AS THE UNDISPUTED KING OF THE JEWS.
• 07:02 INTERESTINGLY THIS IS THE PLACE,
• 07:04 HERODIUM,
• 07:05 THAT'S A MONUMENT TO HIS OWN SUCCESS,
• 07:08 FOR THERE WAS A SEASON IN HIS OWN LIFE WHEN HE WAS ON THE RUN
• 07:11 AND HE WAS ABLE TO GET THE BETTER OF THOSE
• 07:14 MINDED TO KNOCK THE LEGS OUT FROM UNDERNEATH HIM.
• 07:16 WELL HERE THIS PLACE IS UNDERNEATH ME RIGHT NOW...
• 07:19 HEROD HAS LONG SINCE COME AND GONE
• 07:21 AND THE CIVILIZATION THAT HE REPRESENTED
• 07:23 BUT ISN'T IT INTERESTING THAT ISRAEL STANDS?
• 07:27 AND BECAUSE ISRAEL STANDS
• 07:29 I'M MINDED TO STAND FOR ISRAEL.
• 07:31 NOW WHAT I'D LIKE TO DO IS TAKE YOU TO A FAMILIAR STORY
• 07:34 JUST TO LET YOU TO SEE HOW FROM GOD'S PERSPECTIVE EVEN IN THESE DAYS,
• 07:38 ISRAEL IS ISRAEL,
• 07:39 EVEN THOUGH ITS ANNEXED AS A GRECO ROMAN HOLDING.
• 07:43 AND IN THE MATHEAN TEXT,
• 07:44 THE GOSPEL OF MATTHEW,
• 07:45 YOU MIGHT RECALL THE FAMOUS CHRISTMAS STORY...
• 07:47 JESUS IS BORN IN TROUBLED TIMES
• 07:49 AND THE FAMILY TAKES FLIGHT TO EGYPT.
• 07:52 WE LEARN OF HEROD'S DEATH
• 07:54 WHICH THEN FACILITATES THE RETURN.
• 07:57 AND THAT'S THE STORY I WANT TO LOOK AT HERE
• 07:58 WHERE WE'RE TOLD THAT AN ANGEL OF THE LORD...
• 08:01 THIS IS "HEAVEN SENT" ACCORDING TO THE LITERATURE...
• 08:04 COMES AND TELLS THE ROYAL FAMILY, IN VERSE 20...
• 08:06 CHAPTER 2, VERSE 20...
• 08:15 NOT "THE LAND OF PALESTINE".
• 08:17 YOU KNOW THERE ARE INDIVIDUALS TODAY THAT CLAIM
• 08:19 THAT THE WHOLE ARGUMENT OF A JEWISH PRESENCE IS GROSSLY OVERSTATED.
• 08:23 WELL IF THAT'S THE CASE,
• 08:24 WHOEVER WROTE MATTHEW NEVER GOT THE MEMO
• 08:26 BECAUSE HE SEEMS TO THINK THAT EVEN IN A HELLENIZED, GRECO-ROMAN WORLD
• 08:30 THERE IS A LAND OF ISRAEL.
• 08:32 AND THIS COMES ON ANGELIC AUTHORITY BY THE WAY
• 08:35 THAT YESHUA IS TOLD TO....
• 08:38 THE FAMILY TO GO TO THE LAND OF ISRAEL.
• 08:42 IN VERSE 21, WHEN AN ANGEL TELLS YOU TO DO SOMETHING
• 08:45 I SUPPOSE ITS GOOD TO OBEY.
• 08:46 WE'RE TOLD...
• 08:54 IT'S A SIMPLE POINT
• 08:56 AND TRUTH BE KNOWN IS THAT THIS WHOLE SERIES THAT WE'RE DOING
• 08:59 "ERETZ ISRAEL, THE LAND OF ISRAEL"
• 09:01 IS A SIMPLE STORY.
• 09:03 AND THAT IS THAT GOD HAD COMMENDED A PARTICULAR PEOPLE TO A PARTICULAR PLACE.
• 09:08 BUT IN A WORLD TODAY WHERE MANY LOSE SIGHT OF ALL OF THAT
• 09:10 IT'S GOOD TO OPEN UP THE BIBLE AND GO BACK AND CONSIDER
• 09:14 HOW THE JEWISH BID IN THIS PLACE
• 09:17 IS CORROBORATED BY BIBLICAL LANGUAGE,
• 09:21 EMPHATIC BIBLICAL PROMISES.
• 09:24 EVEN IN THE WORLD IN JESUS DAY WHEN THE WORLD WENT GREEK
• 09:29 STILL ISRAEL STOOD STILL AS A SOVEREIGN NATION STATE
• 09:35 AND JESUS HERE AND THE ROYAL FAMILY
• 09:37 IS NOT ONLY TOLD BY THE ANGEL TO GO INTO THE LAND OF ISRAEL.
• 09:40 ELSEWHERE JESUS BECKONS THE DISCIPLES
• 09:42 TO GO VISIT THE VARIOUS CITIES IN THE LAND OF ISRAEL SAYING
• 09:45 YOU WON'T GO THROUGH ALL OF THEM ACTUALLY.
• 09:47 BUT THE LAND IS NOTED AS ISRAEL
• 09:49 HARKING BACK TO PROMISES MADE TO THE PATRIARCHS
• 09:52 CENTURIES AND CENTURIES REMOVED.
• 09:56 WHY DO PEOPLE FORGET IT I DON'T KNOW.
• 09:59 BUT I DO KNOW THAT THE BIBLE DOESN'T.
• 10:01 THERE IS A PEOPLE...
• 10:03 THERE IS A LAND...
• 10:05 AND THEY BELONG TOGETHER HERE IN THE LAND OF ISRAEL.
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• 10:57 (JEFF SPEAKING)
• 10:59 DAVID DOLAN JOINS US THIS WEEK
• 11:01 FROM A HILLSIDE OVERLOOKING THE AREA OF BETHLEHEM
• 11:04 IN WHAT'S CALLED "THE WEST BANK".
• 11:07 THESE BUNKERS ARE THE REMNANTS OF NUMEROUS WARS
• 11:10 AS SURROUNDING NATIONS HAVE SOUGHT TO LAY CLAIM
• 11:13 TO THIS VERY STRATEGIC SITE.
• 11:16 DAVID CONTINUES WITH HIS ACCOUNT THERE
• 11:19 OF THE MODERN STATE OF ISRAEL.
• 11:24 I'M STANDING ON A HILLTOP
• 11:25 NEAR KIBBUTZ RAMMAT RACHEL,
• 11:27 THIS WAS A STRATEGIC BATTLE GROUND IN BOTH 1948 AND 1967.
• 11:31 YOU CAN SEE SOME OF THE BUNKERS THAT ISRAEL BUILT HERE
• 11:34 TO FIGHT AGAINST THE PALESTINIANS AND THE JORDANIANS.
• 11:37 BEHIND ME IS BETHLEHEM,
• 11:39 ONE OF THE LARGEST ARAB TOWNS IN THE PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY TODAY.
• 11:42 THIS AREA HAS BEEN THE CENTER OF DISPUTE FOR SO MANY YEARS IN THE ARAB ISRAELI CONFLICT.
• 11:48 BUT LETS GO BACK
• 11:49 TO THE AFTERMATH OF THE YOM KIPPUR WAR...
• 11:51 ISRAEL SUFFERING VERY MUCH IN THAT WAR AND EGYPT AS WELL.
• 11:55 THE FINANCES IN EGYPT WERE DECIMATED BY THE WAR.
• 11:58 THE LEADER, ANWAR SADAT
• 11:59 MADE A STRATEGIC DECISION
• 12:01 IN THE MID 70'S TO BREAK TIES
• 12:03 WITH THE SOVIET UNION
• 12:05 AND ESTABLISH THEM
• 12:06 WITH THE UNITED STATES.
• 12:08 AND THEN HE DECIDED
• 12:09 TO MAKE PEACE WITH ISRAEL.
• 12:11 HE SHOWED UP AT THE KNESSET
• 12:12 HERE IN JERUSALEM
• 12:13 IN NOVEMBER OF 1977
• 12:15 DECLARING HE WAS READY FOR PEACE.
• 12:17 BUT IN THE MEAN TIME
• 12:18 THE VIOLENCE CONTINUED.
• 12:20 IN APRIL OF 1978 ISRAEL SUFFERED
• 12:22 HER WORST TERROR ATTACK EVER,
• 12:24 "THE COASTAL ROAD MASSACRE".
• 12:26 THE PLO HAD BEEN KICKED OUT OF JORDAN IN 1970,
• 12:29 SET UP A MINI STATE IN SOUTH LEBANON.
• 12:31 FROM THERE THEY WERE LAUNCHING ATTACKS
• 12:33 UPON THE JEWISH PEOPLE CONSTANTLY.
• 12:35 33 ISRAELIS WERE KILLED,
• 12:37 MANY OF THEM CHILDREN,
• 12:39 MOST OF THEM CIVILIANS.
• 12:40 NEVERTHELESS THE PEACE PROCESS GOT GOING,
• 12:42 JIMMY CARTER INVITING BOTH SADAT
• 12:44 AND THE NEW ISRAEL LEADER
• 12:46 MENACHEM BEGIN
• 12:48 WHO HAD OUSTED THE LABOR PARTY
• 12:49 IN MAY OF 1977
• 12:51 IN A REVOLUTIONARY ELECTION
• 12:52 HERE IN ISRAEL
• 12:54 HE WAS INVITED TO COME AS WELL.
• 12:55 THE PUNDITS SAID
• 12:56 "PEACE WON'T HAPPEN",
• 12:58 "THE BEGIN GOVERNMENT IS TOO RIGHT WINGED".
• 13:00 THEY WERE WRONG.
• 13:01 13 DAYS OF GRUELING NEGOTIATIONS
• 13:04 TOOK PLACE AT CAMP DAVID,
• 13:06 THE LEADERS WALKED OUT SEVERAL TIMES,
• 13:08 THE MAIN ISSUE WAS JERUSALEM.
• 13:10 IN THE END JIMMY CARTER SAID TO SADAT,
• 13:12 "GIVE BEGIN A LETTER WITH YOUR POSITION",
• 13:14 TO BEGIN,
• 13:15 "GIVE SADAT A LETTER WITH YOUR POSITION."
• 13:17 THAT'S WHAT THEY DID
• 13:18 AND THEY WERE ABLE TO SIGN THE CAMP DAVID ACCORDS.
• 13:21 THOSE ACCORDS HAD TWO PARTS,
• 13:22 ONE WAS THE ISRAELI WITHDRAWAL
• 13:24 FROM THE SINAI PENINSULA
• 13:26 THAT ISRAEL HAD CAPTURED
• 13:27 DURING THE 67 WAR,
• 13:28 IT WAS PHASED WITHDRAWAL
• 13:30 THAT BEGAN IN 1981.
• 13:31 I WAS ACTUALLY DOWN IN THE SINAI AT THE TIME.
• 13:34 IT WAS VERY CONTROVERSIAL,
• 13:35 MANY SAID BEGIN HAD...
• 13:37 THEY'D BETRAYED THE RIGHT WING HERE BY AGREEING TO THAT.
• 13:40 NEVERTHELESS, IT WAS CARRIED OUT.
• 13:42 THE SECOND PART OF THE ACCORD
• 13:43 DEALT WITH THE AREA BEHIND ME,
• 13:45 THE PALESTINIAN ZONES.
• 13:47 THEY WERE TO GET SELF GOVERNING AUTONOMY DURING PEACE TALKS
• 13:50 THAT WOULD ALSO INVOLVE JORDAN,
• 13:53 THEY WOULD INVOLVE LEBANON,
• 13:54 THEY WOULD INVOLVE SYRIA.
• 13:56 WELL IT NEVER HAPPENED.
• 13:57 THE ARAB COUNTRIES
• 13:58 TOTALLY REJECTED THE OSLO ACCORDS
• 14:00 AND ANWAR SADAT WAS SHOT DEAD
• 14:02 BY ONE OF HIS OWN ARMY OFFICERS
• 14:04 IN OCTOBER OF 1981.
• 14:06 MEANWHILE THE PLO CONTINUED
• 14:08 TO LAUNCH ATTACKS INTO ISRAEL.
• 14:10 I WAS LIVING ON A KIBBUTZ
• 14:12 ALONG THE NORTHERN BORDER
• 14:13 AND FRANKLY WE SPENT MOST OF OUR TIME LIVING IN A BOMB SHELTER.
• 14:17 IT BECAME INTOLERABLE
• 14:18 AND EVERYBODY KNEW THAT THE BEGIN GOVERNMENT
• 14:20 WAS PREPARING SOME SORT OF MAJOR MILITARY ACTION.
• 14:23 WELL EARLY JUNE 1982
• 14:25 THE ISRAELI AMBASSADOR TO LONDON
• 14:27 WAS ASSASSINATED.
• 14:29 THAT WAS THE SPARK
• 14:30 THAT SET OFF THE WAR.
• 14:31 IT WAS JUST AN AIR OPERATION AS BEFORE,
• 14:34 IT WAS GROUND OPERATION.
• 14:36 BEGIN INTENDED IT TO BE JUST IN SOUTH LEBANON
• 14:39 BUT HIS DEFENSE MINISTER, ARIEL SHARON, HAD OTHER IDEAS.
• 14:42 HE WANTED TO SEE THE SYRIANS
• 14:44 THROWN OUT OF LEBANON
• 14:45 AS WELL AS THE PLO.
• 14:46 HE WANTED THAT TO HAPPEN
• 14:47 SO A FINAL PEACE ACCORD WOULD BE POSSIBLE.
• 14:50 SO THE WAR WENT ALL THE WAY UP TO BEIRUT
• 14:52 AND THE FIGHTING WAS HEAVY.
• 14:54 THE WORLD WAS CONDEMNING ISRAEL FOR THAT.
• 14:56 BUT ISRAEL HAD A GREAT VICTORY AGAINST THE SYRIANS
• 14:59 IN THE AIR IN PARTICULAR...
• 15:01 KNOCKING OUT OVER 80 MIG JETS
• 15:02 AND LOSING ONLY A FEW THEMSELVES.
• 15:05 BUT THE DEMAND HERE IN THE COUNTRY FOR ISRAEL THE PULLBACK KEPT GROWING.
• 15:09 AND FINALLY IN 1985
• 15:11 ISRAEL COMPLETED A WITHDRAWAL
• 15:13 TO THE SECURITY ZONE,
• 15:14 A SMALL STRIP OF LAND
• 15:16 RIGHT ALONG THE BORDER
• 15:17 THAT THEY CONTROLLED
• 15:18 UNTIL THE YEAR 2,000.
• 15:20 YASSER ARAFAT WAS TOSSED OUT OF THE COUNTRY
• 15:22 AND ENDED UP IN TUNIS
• 15:24 WHERE HE CONTINUED THE STRUGGLE AGAINST ISRAEL.
• 15:27 BUT IT DIDN'T STOP THE TERROR ATTACKS;
• 15:29 THEY CONTINUED IN THE 80'S,
• 15:30 ISRAEL'S ECONOMY WAS HARD HIT BY THAT WAR.
• 15:33 HYPER INFLATION HIT UP TO 450 PER CENT
• 15:37 AND THERE WAS A DEMAND FOR A TOTAL PULLOUT FROM LEBANON.
• 15:41 MEANWHILE, BACK HERE
• 15:42 THE STRUGGLE WAS CONTINUING,
• 15:44 ISRAEL WAS STARTING TO BUILD SETTLEMENTS
• 15:46 SUCH AS THIS ONE
• 15:48 THAT WAS LATER BUILT,
• 15:49 HAR HOMA,
• 15:50 BUT EVEN IN THAT ERA
• 15:51 THEY WERE BUILDING SETTLEMENTS,
• 15:52 THE TENSIONS WERE BUILDING
• 15:54 AND THIS WOULD LATER LEAD TO A GREAT EXPLOSION OF VIOLENCE...
• 15:56 THE FIRST PALESTINIAN UPRISING.
• 16:11 WE'RE REQUIRED TO GO THROUGH A MIKVAH,
• 16:15 A RITUAL BATH,
• 16:16 A COMPLETE IMMERSION.
• 16:19 JOIN DR. JEFFREY SEIF FOR A TRIP OF A LIFETIME.
• 16:26 AND NOW IT'S YOUR TIME TO JOIN US IN ISRAEL
• 16:29 FOR A TRIP OF A LIFETIME.
• 16:31 A TOUR OF ISRAEL WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE FOREVER.
• 16:35 FOR TOUR INFORMATION CALL:
• 16:41 I LOVE ISRAEL
• 16:43 AND I BET YOU DO TO
• 16:45 OR YOU WOULDN'T BE WATCHING THIS PROGRAM.
• 16:48 TRACIE, HOW CAN ZOLA LEVITT MINISTRIES
• 16:50 GET THESE GOOD PEOPLE TO THE LAND OF ISRAEL?
• 16:54 THEY CAN CALL ME DR. SEIF,
• 16:55 AS YOU KNOW
• 16:56 I'M IN THE OFFICE EACH DAY...
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• 16:58 WE HAVE ALSO
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• 17:10 WE HAVE A REALLY NEAT OFFER TODAY.
• 17:11 WE'RE OFFERING A FREE TRIP
• 17:14 FOR ANY GROUP LEADER
• 17:15 THAT CAN GET 10 PAYING PASSENGERS.
• 17:17 OFTEN TIMES YOU'LL SEE A PASTOR
• 17:19 AND HIS WIFE GO ON A TRIP
• 17:20 WITH ABOUT 20 OR 25 PEOPLE
• 17:22 AND THAT'S CAUSE THEY GO FREE.
• 17:23 BUT THEN WHAT HAPPENS
• 17:24 IS THAT ALL THE LOGISTICS
• 17:26 FALL ON THEIR HEAD.
• 17:27 WELL I'M IN THE OFFICE EACH DAY
• 17:28 TO TAKE CARE OF YOUR PERSONAL TRAVEL NEEDS BEFORE THE TRIP,
• 17:31 DURING THE TRIP...
• 17:32 SO IF YOU ARE A GROUP LEADER
• 17:34 AND GET A GROUP TOGETHER
• 17:36 OF 10 OR MORE PAYING PASSENGERS
• 17:37 YOU GO FREE
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• 17:40 THAT'S A "WIN-WIN" I THINK.
• 17:41 I THINK SO TOO.
• 17:43 AND YOU GUIDE EVERYONE THROUGH THE PROCESS TO MINIMIZE ANXIETY, YES?
• 17:46 ABSOLUTELY
• 17:47 AND THEN WHEN YOU'RE
• 17:48 OVER IN THE HOLY LAND
• 17:49 YOU'RE GOING TO SEE
• 17:50 THESE AMAZING SITES
• 17:52 DR. SEIF TALKS ABOUT EACH DAY,
• 17:53 HE GIVES DEVOTIONS.
• 17:54 BUT YOUR INTIMACY AND YOUR FELLOWSHIP WITH THE LORD
• 17:56 IS GOING TO DEEPENED.
• 17:58 AND I'M EXCITED ABOUT IT
• 17:59 AND I CAN'T WAIT TO TALK TO YOU.
• 18:00 THANKS TRACIE.
• 18:02 IF YOU WANT TO SAY THANKS TO ZOLA LEVITT MINISTRIES,
• 18:05 ONE WAY THAT YOU CAN DO SO
• 18:06 IS BY ACQUIRING THE OFFER
• 18:08 IN THIS WEEK'S PROGRAM.
• 18:10 IT'S THE SERIES ITSELF...
• 18:12 "ERETZ ISRAEL"...
• 18:13 8 PROGRAMS HERE.
• 18:15 IF YOU LOVE ISRAEL
• 18:16 AND WANT TO SEE IT
• 18:17 YOU'LL BE BLESSED.
• 18:18 TRACIE SPOKE ABOUT A "WIN-WIN".
• 18:19 YOU'LL BENEFIT FROM THE SERIES
• 18:21 AND WE'LL BENEFIT
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• 18:33 SO MUCH FOR BUSINESS NOW...
• 18:34 JOIN ME AND DAVID DOLAN ON THE MOUNT OF OLIVES
• 18:37 AS WE CONSIDER THE LAND OF ISRAEL.
• 18:42 NOW...DAVE...
• 18:44 IT'S NOT LIKE ME TO TELL GOD HIS BUSINESS.
• 18:45 BUT IF YOU'RE GOING TO CHOOSE REAL ESTATE
• 18:48 AND PUT A PEOPLE THERE
• 18:49 ONE COULD ARGUE WHY ISRAEL
• 18:51 BECAUSE IT'S FOREVER ACTING UPON BY MAJOR WORLD POWERS FROM THE DAWN OF HISTORY.
• 18:56 SITUATED AS IT IS HERE AT THE TIP OF THE FERTILE CRESCENT
• 18:59 AND AT THE CORNER OF VARIOUS CONTINENTS
• 19:02 IT'S ALWAYS BEEN IN THE MIDDLE OF POLITICAL INTRIGUE CORRECT?
• 19:05 WELL IT IS CORRECT.
• 19:07 AND OF COURSE THAT'S THE REASON THE BRITISH
• 19:09 SAID LETS DON'T HAVE A JEWISH STATE BACK IN THE OLD AREA,
• 19:13 LET'S HAVE IT SOMEWHERE IN AFRICA,
• 19:14 WE'LL GIVE YOU SOME LAND SOMEWHERE IN EASTERN AFRICA.
• 19:17 UGANDA!
• 19:18 UGANDA
• 19:19 AND OF COURSE THE JEWISH PEOPLE SAID...
• 19:20 NO WAY!
• 19:21 JERUSALEM IS HERE.
• 19:23 I HAD A MUSLIM IN A CALL IN PROGRAM IN LONDON ONE TIME SAY,
• 19:27 "WHY ISN'T THE JEWISH STATE IN GERMANY?"
• 19:29 "THIS IS ALL A RESULT OF THE HOLOCAUST AND IT SHOULDN'T BE HERE, THIS IS A MUSLIM AREA."
• 19:33 I SAID, "WELL WHERE DO YOU PRAY WHEN YOU GET DOWN ON YOUR KNEES...WHAT DIRECTION?"
• 19:37 HE SAID, "TO MECCA"
• 19:39 I SAID, "WELL JEWS DON'T PRAY FACING STUTTGART OR BERLIN, THEY PRAY FACING JERUSALEM."
• 19:43 SO IT HAD TO BE HERE.
• 19:44 AND HERE IT IS BUT ITS VERY CONTESTED OVER AS YOU SAID.
• 19:47 YES, RIGHT THERE...
• 19:48 AFRICA, ASIA, EUROPE...
• 19:50 IT'S THE ONLY LAND BRIDGE.
• 19:52 ISRAEL IS SMACK IN THE MIDDLE
• 19:54 SO ISRAEL HAS ALWAYS HAD TO CONTEND WITH MAJOR POWERS.
• 19:57 RARELY HAS THE COUNTRY EVER HAD THE LUXURY IN ITS HISTORY
• 20:00 JUST TO BE AUTONOMOUS AND UNCONCERNED.
• 20:02 WELL THAT'S THE CASE
• 20:04 AND THAT'S WHY PEOPLE WERE SO JOYFUL OVER THE PEACE TREATY WITH EGYPT.
• 20:08 THEY THOUGHT MAYBE THIS WILL LEAD TO A STRING OF PEACE AGREEMENTS WITH EVERYBODY ELSE.
• 20:12 WELL IT DID LEAD TO ONE WITH JORDAN
• 20:14 BUT SO FAR NOT WITH ANYBODY ELSE.
• 20:16 AND WE STILL HAVE IRAN...
• 20:17 WE HAVE LEBANON...
• 20:18 WE HAVE SYRIA...
• 20:19 WE LIBYA...
• 20:21 AND WE HAVE ALL THESE OTHERS STILL TALKING ABOUT DESTROYING THIS STATE
• 20:23 THAT'S RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF THEM AS YOU SAID...
• 20:25 IN THE MIDDLE OF THE EARTH.
• 20:26 AND YOU KNOW SOME ISRAELIS SAY,
• 20:28 "MAYBE WE SHOULD HAVE GONE TO AFRICA."
• 20:30 BUT FOR THE MOST PART
• 20:31 THEY'RE READY TO FIGHT FOR IT
• 20:32 WHATEVER IT TAKES.
• 20:33 AND YOU KNOW DAVE I SPOKE TONGUE IN CHEEK IN SAYING
• 20:35 "WHO AM I TO TELL GOD HIS BUSINESS BUT WHY DID HE STICK US HERE."
• 20:39 BUT BECAUSE THIS IS THE CROSSROADS OF ALL WORLD CIVILIZATIONS,
• 20:42 FOR GOD TO MAKE HIS NAME KNOWN IN THE EARTH,
• 20:47 THIS WOULD BE THE PLACE TO DO IT.
• 20:49 AND GOODNESS...
• 20:50 IS HE NOT MAKING IT KNOWN AND WILL HE NOT IN THE FUTURE?
• 20:53 WELL ABSOLUTELY
• 20:54 AND EZEKIEL SAYS THIS IS AT THE CENTER OF THE NATIONS.
• 20:58 AND IT LITERALLY, PHYSICALLY IS THE MIDDLE EAST,
• 21:01 THE MIDDLE OF THE WORLD
• 21:02 AND ALL EYES ARE HERE.
• 21:03 I'M PART OF THE THIRD LARGEST PRESS CORE
• 21:05 STATIONED IN ANY ONE COUNTRY ON EARTH JEFF.
• 21:07 AND THIS A COUNTRY OF 7 MILLION PEOPLE...
• 21:09 THERE'S MORE JOURNALISTS HERE THAN IN MOSCOW.
• 21:11 RIGHT...
• 21:12 AND IT'S A COUNTRY YOU CAN FIT IN LAKE ERIE.
• 21:14 EXACTLY
• 21:15 IT'S A TINY LITTLE PIECE OF LAND
• 21:17 AND YET PEOPLE GET THE IMPRESSION THAT IT'S MASSIVE
• 21:19 BECAUSE IT IS SO MUCH A PART OF ALL THE HAPPENINGS IN THE WORLD.
• 21:22 YES...
• 21:23 AND YOU MENTIONED EZEKIEL...
• 21:25 YOU READ EZEKIEL...
• 21:26 SOME FORTY TIMES YOU'LL HEAR ABOUT GOD FINALLY AT DAYS' END
• 21:31 MAKING HIS NAME KNOWN IN THE EARTH...
• 21:34 THIS EARTH...
• 21:35 ERETZ ISRAEL...
• 21:37 THE LAND OF ISRAEL.
• 21:53 I'M PLEASED TO PRESENT AN INTERVIEW WE CONDUCTED WITH DORE GOLD,
• 21:57 THE FORMER ISRAELI AMBASSADOR TO THE UNITED NATIONS.
• 22:02 WE LOVE EXPOSING GOOD SOURCES TO YOU
• 22:05 AND HERE MR. GOLD EXPLAINS IN NO UNCERTAIN TERMS
• 22:09 THE BASIS FOR SUPPORT FOR THE LAND AND PEOPLE OF ISRAEL.
• 22:16 AT THE END OF CAMP DAVID
• 22:18 IN THE YEAR 2000
• 22:20 WHEN PRESIDENT CLINTON
• 22:21 HOSTED PRIME MINISTER
• 22:22 EHUD BARAK OF ISRAEL
• 22:24 AND THE PLO CHAIRMAN
• 22:25 YASSER ARAFAT.
• 22:26 ARAFAT AT THE VERY END
• 22:28 TURNED TO CLINTON AND SAID,
• 22:29 "YOU KNOW MR. PRESIDENT"
• 22:31 "THERE NEVER WAS A TEMPLE IN JERUSALEM."
• 22:33 HE DENIED IT BECAUSE HE WANTED TO UNDER MIND THE ISRAELI CLAIM TO THE HEART OF JERUSALEM...
• 22:41 THE TEMPLE MOUNT IN THE OLD CITY.
• 22:43 AND CLINTON, TO HIS CREDIT, SAID
• 22:45 "LISTEN YOU'RE NOT JUST CHALLENGING THE HISTORY OF THE JEWS,"
• 22:48 "YOU'RE CHALLENGING THE HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY"
• 22:50 "BECAUSE WHEN I READ THE NEW TESTAMENT,"
• 22:52 "THE APOSTLES WENT UP ON THE TEMPLE MOUNT..."
• 22:54 "THEY WERE JEWS..."
• 22:56 "THEY BROUGHT SACRIFICES FOR THE VARIOUS JEWISH HOLIDAYS..."
• 22:58 "THE PENTECOST, THE PASSOVER..."
• 23:02 "AND YOU'RE CHALLENGING OUR COMMON CHRISTIAN HISTORY."
• 23:07 THIS IS WHAT PRESIDENT CLINTON WAS SAYING.
• 23:09 SO THERE ARE...
• 23:12 THERE HAS BEEN A LINE USED BY THE PALESTINIAN SPOKESMAN
• 23:16 SAYING THAT THEY ARE THE DESCENDANTS OF THE PHILISTINES AND THE JEBUSITES, ETC.
• 23:22 IN ARAB CULTURE HERE WHEN YOU WANT TO SAY THAT YOU COME FROM A PRESTIGIOUS ANCESTRY,
• 23:32 YOU SAY THAT YOU ARE DESCENDENT OF THE CALIPH AND THE ARAB ARMIES
• 23:41 WHO FOUGHT AND CAME INTO ERETZ ISRAEL IN THE 7TH CENTURY.
• 23:47 AT THAT TIME...IN THE 600S...
• 23:50 YOU STILL HAD A JEWISH MAJORITY THERE EVEN THOUGH THE ROMANS HAD DESTROYED JERUSALEM.
• 23:55 AND SO ACTUALLY RATHER THAN BEING THE ORIGINAL RESIDENCE OF ERETZ ISRAEL,
• 24:01 THE ARABS WHO CAME HERE IN THE 7TH CENTURY ARE RELATIVE LATE COMERS.
• 24:07 THE JEWS WERE SLAUGHTERED, FORCED OUT,
• 24:11 BUT KEPT COMING BACK.
• 24:13 IN EVERY GENERATION SHIPS WOULD COME.
• 24:16 PEOPLE WOULD COME BACK TO JERUSALEM.
• 24:18 IT WAS DANGEROUS.
• 24:19 BUT YOU KNOW, ALREADY IN THE 19TH CENTURY IN THE YEAR 1863
• 24:25 THE JEWS HAD RE-ESTABLISHED A MAJORITY IN JERUSALEM.
• 24:28 AND THAT ISN'T FROM JEWISH DOCUMENTS,
• 24:29 THAT'S FROM THE BRITISH FOREIGN OFFICE.
• 24:31 AND SO OUR CLAIM IS AN OLD CLAIM.
• 24:36 IT'S A CLAIM THAT WAS WELL KNOWN BY THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY.
• 24:39 AND IT'S A CLAIM PERHAPS SOME PEOPLE HAVE FORGOTTEN ABOUT TODAY IN MODERN TIMES.
• 24:43 IT'S A CLAIM WE HAVE TO UNDERSTAND AGAIN.
• 24:50 ♪MAY THEY MEET THE KING IN ISRAEL♪
• 24:56 ♪BROTHERS, WE ARE NEEDING YOUR MIGHTY ARMS♪
• 25:03 ♪SISTERS, WE ARE NEEDING YOUR LOVE♪
• 25:09 ♪ISRAEL... BY DIVINE RIGHT♪
• 25:19 ♪GOD IS CALLING US HOME♪
• 25:29 ♪ISRAEL BY DIVINE RIGHT♪
• 25:35 ♪OUR GOD IS CALLING US...♪
• 25:40 ♪HOME!♪
• 25:52 WE'RE ALL ABOUT ISRAEL IN JESUS' DAY.
• 25:57 AND THIS MAP TELLS THE STORY IN SOME SENSE.
• 26:00 WE BEGAN AT HERODIUM.
• 26:04 YOU'VE HEARD OF HEROD BEFORE.
• 26:06 THE GUY HAD SOMETHING OF AN EGO AND NAMES A CITY AFTER HIM,
• 26:08 BUILT A CITY OUT OF A HILL, A FASCINATING RUIN.
• 26:11 THRILLED TO TAKE YOU THERE AS WELL AS TAKING YOU EVERYWHERE AROUND THE LAND OF ISRAEL.
• 26:16 THERE'S DIFFERENT REGIONS, DIFFERENT AREAS, SUBDIVISIONS ON THE MAP.
• 26:21 BUT THE LAND WAS PRINCIPALLY KNOWN AS "ISRAEL'...
• 26:25 NOT PALESTINE...
• 26:26 NOT SOMETHING ELSE...
• 26:27 BUT "ISRAEL".
• 26:29 LOVE TEACHING YOU ABOUT IT.
• 26:30 THANK YOU FOR YOUR INTEREST.
• 26:32 NEXT WEEK DAVID DOLAN AND I WILL WRAP IT UP.
• 26:34 AS YOU GO NOW,
• 26:36 SHA'ALU SHALOM YERUSHALAYIM
• 26:39 PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM
• 26:44 OUR OFFER ON THIS PROGRAM...
• 26:46 A DVD COLLECTION
• 26:47 OF ALL 8 PROGRAMS IN OUR SERIES
• 26:49 "ERETZ ISRAEL".
• 26:51 TAKE A BACK ROADS JOURNEY
• 26:53 WITH DR. JEFFREY SEIF
• 26:54 THROUGH THE HOLY LAND;
• 26:56 EXPLORE THE BIBLE'S ACCOUNT
• 26:57 OF ISRAEL'S PAST,
• 26:58 PRESENT AND FUTURE.
• 27:00 JOURNALIST, DAVID DOLAN,
• 27:01 JOINS DR. SEIF
• 27:02 AND LENDS HIS INSIGHT REGARDING
• 27:04 THE MODERN DAY STRUGGLES
• 27:06 THAT ACCOMPANY THE RE-ESTABLISHMENT
• 27:08 OF THE ANCESTRAL JEWISH HOMELAND.
• 27:10 THIS IS A SERIES THAT
• 27:11 SETS THE RECORD STRAIGHT.
• 27:13 THE BIBLICAL AND HISTORICAL
• 27:15 ACCOUNT OF THE LAND OF ISRAEL.
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• 27:19 AND ASK FOR "ERETZ ISRAEL"