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

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