Caption transcript for Eretz Israel (The Land of Israel): “Israel Fulfilling Prophecy” (8/8)

• 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 WILL NEITHER SLUMBER NOR SLEEP.
• 00:56 HEARTY SHALOM TO ALL OF YOU.
• 00:57 JEFFREY SEIF HERE WITH ZOLA LEVITT PRESENTS
• 01:01 WORKING THROUGH THE 8TH OF AN 8 PART TREATMENT
• 01:04 OF A SERIES CALLED "ERETZ ISRAEL, THE LAND OF ISRAEL".
• 01:10 FLASHPOINT OF CONTENTION, ISRAEL, IS IT NOT?
• 01:15 WELL OUT HERE IN THE MARKETPLACE OF IDEAS
• 01:18 LOTS OF PEOPLE HAVE OPINIONS.
• 01:20 I'M WONDERING WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS.
• 01:23 IN THIS SERIES WE CONSIDERED "BIBLE SPEAK"
• 01:27 AS WE LOOKED AT A VARIETY OF STORIES
• 01:29 WHICH WE'RE GOING TO GO AHEAD AND REVIEW RIGHT NOW.
• 01:35 ERETZ ISRAEL...
• 01:37 IT BEGAN WITH ABRAHAM.
• 01:40 AND ABRAM TOOK SARAI HIS WIFE,
• 01:44 HIS NEPHEW LOT,
• 01:45 ALL THE SUBSTANCE AND PERSONS THEY HAD ACQUIRED IN HARAN
• 01:50 AND JOURNEYED TO CANAAN.
• 01:52 AND THE LORD APPEARED TO ABRAHAM'S SON ISAAC...
• 01:56 "SOJOURN IN THIS LAND"
• 01:58 "FOR UNTO THEE AND UNTO THY SEED"
• 02:01 "I WILL GIVE ALL THESE COUNTRIES."
• 02:04 AND THEN TO ISAACS' SON JACOB...
• 02:06 "THE LAND WHERE THY LIEST, TO THEE WILL I GIVE IT AND TO THY SEED."
• 02:12 TO MOSES...
• 02:15 "BEHOLD, I HAVE SET THE LAND BEFORE YOU..."
• 02:18 "GO IN AND POSSESS THE LAND WHICH THE LORD SWEAR UNTO YOUR FATHERS."
• 02:23 AND THEN JOSHUA...
• 02:25 "SO JOSHUA TOOK THE WHOLE LAND AND GAVE IT FOR AN INHERITANCE UNTO ISRAEL"
• 02:31 "ACCORDING TO THEIR DIVISIONS BY THEIR TRIBES."
• 02:41 I'M SURE HE WAS A LITTLE EDGY,
• 02:43 I KNOW THAT,
• 02:44 BECAUSE OVER AND AGAIN
• 02:46 THE LORD SAID..
• 02:47 "FEAR NOT JOSHUA"
• 02:48 "FOR I HAVE GIVEN YOU THE MANDATE..."
• 02:51 "I'VE GIVEN YOU THE COMMAND IN THE LAND"
• 02:53 "TO LEAD THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL"
• 02:55 "INTO THE NEXT STAGE OF THEIR JOURNEY".
• 02:57 AND THAT WAS THE CONQUEST OF THE LAND OF CANAAN.
• 03:00 THE TEXT IS EXPLICIT
• 03:02 AND I IMAGINE THAT HE WAS PLEASED TO HEAR IT.
• 03:05 HE SAYS,
• 03:20 IT WASN'T AN ENORMOUS TRACT
• 03:22 BUT IT EXTENDED UP TO THE EUPHRATES
• 03:23 OVER TO THE RIVER OF EGYPT
• 03:25 TO THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA ON THE ONE HAND
• 03:28 AND THEN OUT PAST WHAT WE WOULD CALL JORDAN TODAY, EASTWARD.
• 03:34 THERE WAS A LAND THAT IN BIBLE TIMES WAS KNOWN,
• 03:37 AND TO BIBLE READERS IS KNOWN AS, IN AFFECT,
• 03:39 "THE PROMISED LAND".
• 03:42 WELL THAT WAS THE BIBLICAL VISION.
• 03:46 BUT WHAT'S THE CURRENT DIVISION?
• 03:49 RIGHT NOW WE HAVE HERE THE LAND OF ISRAEL
• 03:52 BUT I'M STANDING AT A PLACE RIGHT HERE
• 03:55 WHERE WE'RE ABOUT 9 MILES AWAY FROM THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA.
• 03:59 BEHIND ME IS A VILLAGE DOTTED WITH MINARETS,
• 04:04 A SIGN OF AN ISLAMIC TRIUMPH.
• 04:07 SO WE HAVE BIBLICAL VISION ON ONE HAND
• 04:10 AND WE HAVE CURRENT POLITICAL DIVISION ON THE OTHER.
• 04:13 GOODNESS DAVID...
• 04:14 WHAT DO WE MAKE OF THIS?
• 04:16 WELL WE ARE DEALING WITH
• 04:18 A TINY LAND
• 04:19 AND IT REALLY ISN'T CLEAR
• 04:22 TO A LOT OF PEOPLE AROUND THE WORLD
• 04:23 JUST HOW SMALL THIS IS.
• 04:24 WE'VE BEEN UP ON THE GOLAN HEIGHTS
• 04:26 AND THERE IS A LOT IN THE SOUTH...
• 04:28 AND WE'RE TALKING ABOUT 280 MILES AT ITS LONGEST...
• 04:31 BUT THE MAIN PROBLEM IS...
• 04:33 THIS WAS THE PRE-67 BORDER...
• 04:37 THIS HERE.
• 04:39 NOW, IT'S REALLY SMALL HERE.
• 04:42 WE'RE TALKING, AS YOU SAID,
• 04:43 9 MILES AT ITS NARROWEST,
• 04:46 BUT ON AVERAGE
• 04:47 ITS 15 MILES WIDE.
• 04:49 HERE'S TEL AVIV.
• 04:50 HERE'S HAIFA.
• 04:51 HERE'S NATANYA.
• 04:53 AND HERTSOLIA RIGHT OVER HERE.
• 04:55 TWO THIRDS OF ISRAEL'S JEWISH POPULATION
• 04:58 LIVES RIGHT IN THIS AREA
• 05:00 AND IF YOU TAKE IT ALL THE WAY
• 05:01 FROM THE NORTHERN BORDER
• 05:03 TO THE GAZA STRIP...
• 05:04 80 PER CENT OF ISRAEL'S JEWS
• 05:06 LIVE IN A 15 MILE WIDE, ON AVERAGE, PIECE OF LAND.
• 05:10 WHOSE LIVING HERE DAVID?
• 05:11 AND THIS IS MOSTLY ARAB TOWNS AND VILLAGES.
• 05:14 AND AS YOU POINTED OUT
• 05:15 SOME ARE INSIDE OF ISRAEL,
• 05:17 INSIDE OF THIS PRE-67 BORDER,
• 05:19 BUT NOBLIS IS HERE...
• 05:21 HERE'S JERUSALEM...
• 05:22 YOU CAN SEE THE BORDER
• 05:23 WENT RIGHT THROUGH
• 05:25 THE HEART OF THE CITY...
• 05:26 ISRAEL HAD THE WESTERN PART
• 05:27 AND THE ARABS HAD THE EASTERN PART...
• 05:29 IT TINY.
• 05:31 AND ALL THE WAY ACROSS,
• 05:32 IF YOU TAKE THAT LINE OUT,
• 05:33 RIGHT HERE,
• 05:34 IT'S ABOUT 30 MILES...
• 05:36 AT ITS WIDEST ITS 55 MILES...
• 05:37 ITS TINY.
• 05:38 IF I UNDERSTAND CORRECTLY,
• 05:40 THE BIBLICAL VISION EXTENDS DOWNWARD FURTHER THIS WAY
• 05:42 IT EXTENDS UPWARD
• 05:44 TO THE EUPHRATES
• 05:45 OUT THIS WAY.
• 05:46 THAT'S THE BIBLICAL VISION.
• 05:47 THE PALESTINIAN VISION,
• 05:49 THE MANDATE,
• 05:50 CALLS FOR PUSHING ISRAEL INTO THE SEA.
• 05:52 I MEAN WE'RE GETTING AWFULLY NARROW HERE AREN'T WE?
• 05:55 AND WE TALKED EARLIER ABOUT THE PARTITION PLAN,
• 05:58 THE U.N. PARTITION PLAN,
• 05:59 AND THIS...
• 06:00 IT WAS EVEN SMALLER
• 06:01 WHAT ISRAEL WAS GOING TO HAVE.
• 06:02 THE ARABS WOULD HAVE HAD A PART OF THIS...
• 06:04 THEY WOULD HAVE HAD FURTHER DOWN HERE, ETC.
• 06:06 BUT EVEN WITHOUT THAT,
• 06:08 EVEN WITH WHAT THEY GOT IN THE '48 WAR,
• 06:10 IT'S TINY,
• 06:11 AND TO GIVE THAT BACK TO THE PALESTINIANS
• 06:13 FOR A STATE
• 06:14 IS GOING TO AGAIN LEAVE ISRAEL EXTREMELY EXPOSED.
• 06:17 SHE'S 1/8TH OF 1 PER CENT OF THE POPULATION OF THE WHOLE MIDDLE EAST.
• 06:21 A TINY LITTLE LAND
• 06:23 WITH JUST A FEW MILLION PEOPLE...
• 06:25 IT'S VERY VULNERABLE TO MISSILE ATTACK IN PARTICULAR.
• 06:28 YEAH, WE CAN SEE IT FROM HERE...
• 06:30 THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA...
• 06:33 I MEAN IT'S A STONE'S THROW AWAY IN EFFECT.
• 06:35 TELL ME WHAT YOU THINK OF THIS.
• 06:36 LET'S SAY THERE'S A MAN
• 06:38 WHO IS UNHAPPY WITH HIS WIFE,
• 06:39 FIGURE SHE WEIGHS 120 POUNDS...
• 06:41 "IF YOU'D LOSE 10 POUNDS I'D LOVE YOU MORE."
• 06:42 SHE LOSES 10 POUNDS.
• 06:44 SHE'S 110 POUNDS.
• 06:45 "IF YOU'D LOSE 10 POUNDS MORE WE'D GET ALONG."
• 06:47 "IF YOU'D LOSE 10 POUNDS MORE...10 POUNDS MORE."
• 06:49 IT GETS TO THE POINT,
• 06:50 IT'S NOT ABOUT THE POUNDS,
• 06:51 THERE'S SOMETHING WRONG IN THE THOUGHT PROCESS.
• 06:53 OH, IF JEWS WOULD JUST GIVE UP A LITTLE MORE OF THE REAL ESTATE
• 06:57 IT'S A SMALL PARCEL
• 06:59 AND WE'RE ALREADY PUSHING AGAINST IT TO GOBBLE UP MORE AND MORE OF THE JEWISH HOMELAND.
• 07:03 THIS ISN'T THE BIBLE.
• 07:05 WHO EVER CARVED UP THIS TURKEY NEVER READ THE BIBLICAL TEXT.
• 07:07 EXACTLY,
• 07:08 AND YOU KNOW THE PALESTINIANS HAVE JUST MADE A FILM
• 07:11 IN WHICH THEY TAKE OVER TEL AVIV.
• 07:13 IT WAS MADE DOWN ON THE GAZA STRIP...
• 07:14 THEY GO THROUGH THE STREETS
• 07:16 AND THEY'VE DRIVEN ALL THE JEWS OUT OF THE LAND ENTIRELY.
• 07:18 AND THAT IS THE VISION OF MUSLIM FUNDAMENTALISTS...
• 07:20 NO JEWISH STATE...
• 07:21 A JEWISH STATE CONTRADICTS THEIR FAITH...
• 07:23 ISLAM'S THE FINAL TRUTH...
• 07:25 THE TRUTH OF THAT STATEMENT WAS PROVED BY THEY'RE CAPTURE OF JERUSALEM THEY BELIEVE,
• 07:29 SO A LOT OF THEM JUST WANT TO SEE ISRAEL GONE ENTIRELY.
• 07:32 WELL I GUESS WE'RE GOING TO SEE WHOSE GOD IS STRONGER.
• 07:34 AND THAT'S THE OLD WAY OF DOING BUSINESS...
• 07:36 YOU KNOW NATIONS WOULD FIGHT,
• 07:37 THEY'D PRAY TO THEIR GODS
• 07:39 AND THE WINNER HAD THE STRONGER GOD...
• 07:40 WELL, HE WHO KEEPS WATCH OVER ISRAEL
• 07:43 HAS BEEN KEEPING WATCH OVER US FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS
• 07:46 AND I TRUST HE'LL GUIDE US THROUGH THIS DILEMMA.
• 07:49 WHAT SAYS DAVID DOLAN?
• 07:50 I BELIEVE IT AS WELL.
• 07:51 IT'S A MIRACLE THAT ISRAEL EXITS AT ALL...
• 07:54 ALL THESE WARS, ETC....
• 07:56 GOD'S GOING TO KEEP ISRAEL UNTIL THE END,
• 07:59 I'M SURE OF IT.
• 08:00 YES AND THE END COMES SOONER DAY BY DAY.
• 08:02 THE END OF THIS PROGRAM IS COMING SOONER AS WELL
• 08:05 BUT THERE'S MORE TO COME
• 08:06 AS WE GIVE A WRAP ON OUR SERIES,
• 08:08 "ERETZ ISRAEL, THE LAND OF ISRAEL"
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• 08:53 I'VE HEARD IT SAID THAT ONE OLD FRIEND IS BETTER THAN AN A HUNDRED NEW ONES
• 08:57 AND I COUNT DAVID DOLAN AS AN OLD FRIEND.
• 09:01 HE'S SO DIRECT, HE DOESN'T SUGAR COAT HIS APPROACH TO THE TELLING OF CURRENT EVENTS OR HISTORY
• 09:06 AND I LIKE THAT ABOUT HIM.
• 09:08 IN A POLITICALLY CORRECT WORLD
• 09:10 I THINK IT'S MORE CORRECT TO SPEAK TRUTH.
• 09:13 WELL WE'LL BRING IT ALL HOME NOW
• 09:14 I'M WITH DAVID DOLAN ON LOCATION IN ISRAEL.
• 09:17 LET'S GO TO THAT RIGHT NOW.
• 09:23 FOR ALL THE PALESTINIAN
• 09:25 AND RHETORICAL FLURRY
• 09:26 ABOUT DRIVING ISRAEL
• 09:27 INTO THE SEA...
• 09:29 WELL IF THEY DO IT
• 09:30 THEY'RE GOING TO DISCOVER WHEN THEY GET HERE
• 09:32 AN ADVANCED CIVILIZATION.
• 09:34 AND YOU SEE IT BEHIND ME...
• 09:35 ITS TEL AVIV.
• 09:36 REMINDS ME WHEN INDIVIDUALS GET TO WORK
• 09:38 INSTEAD OF GET TO RAGING,
• 09:40 THERE'S A LOT OF THINGS THAT PEOPLE CAN ACCOMPLISH
• 09:42 BY WORKING TOGETHER AND TO HAVE GOD HELPING YOU,
• 09:44 THAT DOESN'T HURT EITHER,
• 09:45 DOES IT DAVID?
• 09:46 IT DOESN'T
• 09:47 AND GOD CERTAINLY HAS
• 09:48 HELPED THE ISRAELI PEOPLE
• 09:50 AND THIS THAT WE MENTIONED EARLIER
• 09:52 WAS JUST MARSHES AND SAND DUNES
• 09:55 JUST 100 YEARS AGO...
• 09:57 IT'S NOW THIS STRIVING CITY.
• 09:58 PEOPLE HAVE BEEN RAGING AND FIGHTING.
• 10:00 ITS AMAZING TO ME THAT THE PALESTINIANS DON'T HAVE A GOOD BASEBALL TEAM
• 10:03 FOR ALL THE GOOD PITCHERS FOR THESE ROCK THROWING.
• 10:05 THERE'S GOT TO BE SOMETHING BETTER TO DO WITH THOSE ENERGIES
• 10:07 INSTEAD OF WARRING.
• 10:08 INDEED, I'VE COVERED THE TWO UPRISINGS
• 10:11 THAT OCCURRED HERE IN 1987, 1991-92...
• 10:16 HUNDREDS OF PALESTINIANS KILLED...
• 10:18 HUNDREDS OF ISRAELIS KILLED...
• 10:20 IN THE ISRAELI CASE, MOSTLY CIVILIANS
• 10:22 AND TERROR ATTACKS.
• 10:23 THEN WE HAD A LITTLE BRIEF PERIOD OF HOPE
• 10:27 WITH THE OSLO PEACE ACCORDS
• 10:29 AND PEACE WITH JORDAN...
• 10:30 BUT IT WASN'T BUT SEVEN YEARS AFTER THAT
• 10:32 WE HAD A SECOND UPRISING...
• 10:35 AND AGAIN A THOUSAND ISRAELIS KILLED...
• 10:37 SEVERAL THOUSAND PALESTINIANS KILLED...
• 10:39 A REAL MESS.
• 10:40 SO CALLED PALESTINIANS,
• 10:42 INDIVIDUALS OF ARAB EXTRACT THAT HAVE SOME HISTORY HERE
• 10:46 BUT NOT A DIVINE MANDATE HERE
• 10:49 AS IN THE SENSE OF THE ISRAELITE PEOPLES,
• 10:50 CORRECT?
• 10:52 WELL NO, AND IN FACT THIS WAS NEVER A COUNTRY UNDER MUSLIM RULE...
• 10:56 THE MUSLIMS THAT RULED IT
• 10:58 AS WE MENTIONED EARLIER IN THE SERIES
• 11:00 WERE EITHER IN CAIRO OR THEY WERE IN DAMASCUS.
• 11:02 SOMETIMES THEY WERE IN BAGHDAD,
• 11:04 THEN FINALLY IN CONSTANTINOPLE OR ISTANBUL...
• 11:06 NEVER IN JERUSALEM.
• 11:08 TEL AVIV DIDN'T EXIST AT ALL,
• 11:10 THIS WAS PART OF A LARGER ARAB AREA,
• 11:13 "SOUTHERN SYRIA" THEY OFTEN CALLED IT.
• 11:15 SO YES YOU'RE RIGHT,
• 11:17 THE NAME "PALESTINE" IS A WESTERN NAME THAT DIDN'T REALLY APPLY.
• 11:20 HISTORICALLY THERE'S NO PALESTINIAN CONSTITUTION,
• 11:22 FLAG,
• 11:23 NATIONAL ANTHEM,
• 11:24 CURRENCY...
• 11:26 YOU CAN GO BACK AND SEE A DIVINE CONSTITUTION IN BIBLICAL LITERATURE
• 11:28 FOR ISRAELITES TO THIS PART OF THE WORLD GOING BACK THOUSANDS OF YEARS.
• 11:32 COINAGE, HISTORY AND THE LIKE.
• 11:35 YOU JUST WEIGH IT OUT
• 11:36 AND THE EVIDENCE INFORMS
• 11:38 THERE'S A JEWISH PRESENCE HERE.
• 11:40 THE OTHER SEEMS TO ME RATHER MYTHIC.
• 11:42 WELL THE IRONY IS
• 11:44 THAT THE PALESTINIAN NATIONAL MOVEMENT
• 11:47 AS THEY WOULD CALL IT
• 11:48 IS A REFLECTION OF ZIONISM.
• 11:51 IT WASN'T UNTIL THE JEWISH MOVEMENT BACK TO THE LAND
• 11:55 BECAME ORGANIZED AND FORMALIZED WITH THE FIRST ZIONIST CONGRESS
• 11:58 AND ALL THESE OTHER THINGS
• 11:59 THAT THE PALESTINIANS OR THE ARABS HERE
• 12:02 STARTED TO HAVE A SENSE OF NATIONALISM TO THIS LITTLE LAND.
• 12:06 BY NOW THEY HAVE DEVELOPED THOSE THINGS
• 12:09 AND THEY HAVE THE PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY GOVERNMENT
• 12:11 AND THEY HAVE THE MAKINGS OF A STATE COMING
• 12:14 BUT THEY STILL HAVEN'T GOTTEN VERY FAR IN THAT,
• 12:17 CERTAINLY NOWHERE LIKE THE ISRAELIS DID,
• 12:19 LIKE THE JEWISH PEOPLE DID BEFORE THE STATE WAS ACTUALLY CREATED.
• 12:22 WELL YOU MAKE AN IMPORTANT POINT
• 12:23 THAT A LOT OF THIS PALESTINIAN SELF DETERMINATION
• 12:26 COMES IN THE WAKE OF A ZIONIST RE-PRESENCE HERE
• 12:31 AS OPPOSED TO HAVING A HISTORY BEFORE THE MODERN JEWISH STATE.
• 12:34 IT WAS REALLY SPARKED OFF BY ZIONISM IRONICALLY.
• 12:38 THAT'S WHEN THEY THOUGHT,
• 12:40 "HEY WE HAVE TO HAVE SOMETHING TO IDENTIFY WITH AND TO PUSH FORWARD WITH".
• 12:44 IT WAS JUST THE ARAB WORLD IN GENERAL...
• 12:47 ALL THESE STATES WERE CREATED IN LAST 100 YEARS BY THE EUROPEANS, ETC.
• 12:52 AND TALK ABOUT SPARK,
• 12:54 YOU'VE BEEN OBSERVING SPARKS FLYING HERE ALL THE WHILE, LOOKING AT DIFFERENT WARS.
• 12:58 HOW LONG HAVE YOU LIVED HERE DAVID?
• 13:00 I'VE BEEN HERE SINCE 1980...
• 13:02 SO FOR OVER 30 YEARS.
• 13:04 AND YOU'VE BEEN A CORRESPONDENT
• 13:05 HELPING CHRISTIANS UNDERSTAND THE BIBLE ON THE ONE HAND,
• 13:08 ISRAEL ON THE OTHER
• 13:09 AND HOW IT ALL COMES TOGETHER.
• 13:11 YEAH AND THAT'S A UNIQUE ASPECT OF IT.
• 13:13 OF COURSE I'VE ALSO COVERED THOSE WARS...
• 13:14 THE '82 LEBANON WAR
• 13:16 AND 2006 ATTACKS FROM HEZBOLLAH
• 13:20 AND THE SCUD ATTACKS FROM SADAM, ETC.
• 13:22 BUT I'VE BEEN ABLE TO GIVE A LITTLE BIT OF COMFORT AND HOPE
• 13:26 IN THE MIDST OF THAT WORKING FOR CHRISTIAN RADIO AND DIFFERENT THINGS.
• 13:28 I'VE BEEN FOLLOWING YOUR CAREER
• 13:30 AND APPRECIATE YOUR SO DOING.
• 13:31 WE'RE GOING TO WRAP IT UP IN A MOMENT OR TWO
• 13:33 AND LOOK AT WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS
• 13:34 NOT JUST ABOUT THE PRESENT
• 13:36 BUT ABOUT THE FUTURE HERE
• 13:37 IN "ERETZ ISRAEL".
• 13:44 FOR THE LORD THY GOD BRINGETH THEE INTO A GOOD LAND.
• 13:49 A LAND OF FIG TREES AND POMEGRANATES
• 13:52 A LAND OF OLIVE OIL AND HONEY
• 13:55 ARISE...WALK THROUGH THE LAND
• 13:59 FOR ALL THE LAND WHICH THOU SEEST,
• 14:02 TO THEE WILL I GIVE IT
• 14:05 AND TO THY SEED FOREVER.
• 14:08 WORSHIP IN THE SHADOWS OF ABRAHAM, ISAAC AND JACOB.
• 14:14 BEHOLD THE LAND OF THE COVENANT.
• 14:25 THAT'S ISRAEL.
• 14:27 AND YOU KNOW WHO PROFITS WHEN YOU GO THERE?
• 14:30 PERSONALLY, I DON'T MAKE A DIME.
• 14:32 YOU PROFIT.
• 14:34 TRACIE, HOW CAN WE GET PEOPLE TO THE HOLY LAND?
• 14:37 THEY CAN CALL ME DR. SEIF,
• 14:39 I'M IN THE OFFICE EACH DAY.
• 14:40 JUST GIVE ME A CALL
• 14:41 AT 1-800-WONDERS
• 14:43 OR GO TO OUR WEBSITE
• 14:44 AT LEVITT.COM
• 14:45 BUT I LOVE WHEN YOU TALKED
• 14:46 ABOUT PEOPLE PROFITING FROM
• 14:47 GOING TO THE HOLY LAND.
• 14:49 I THINK SOMETIMES
• 14:50 OUR VIEWERS MIGHT THINK
• 14:51 THAT ALL IT IS, IS JUST
• 14:52 SEEING HISTORICAL SITES
• 14:54 BUT ONCE YOU GET
• 14:55 TO THE HOLY LAND
• 14:56 AND YOU COME WITH US
• 14:57 YOU'RE GOING TO DEVELOP
• 14:59 AN INTIMACY WITH THE LORD.
• 15:00 THIS RING
• 15:01 I WAS JUST THINKING ABOUT AS I WAS COMING ON WITH YOU...
• 15:04 AND IT SAYS
• 15:05 "I AM MY BELOVED'S AND HE IS MINE"...
• 15:06 "I AM MY BELOVED'S..."
• 15:07 "AND HE IS MINE"
• 15:09 AND THAT'S WHAT YOU'RE
• 15:10 GOING TO EXPERIENCE WHEN
• 15:11 YOU COME WITH US TO ISRAEL.
• 15:12 ITS JUST AMAZING...
• 15:14 YOU JUST CAN'T IMAGINE
• 15:15 THE PRESENCE OF THE LORD
• 15:16 IN THE HOLY LAND.
• 15:17 BUT ITS THERE WHEN I'M
• 15:19 AT THE WAILING WALL...
• 15:20 AT THE WESTERN WALL...
• 15:21 ITS ALMOST AS IF THE LORD
• 15:22 OVERSHADOWS ME
• 15:23 AND I JUST RECENTLY WROTE
• 15:24 AN ARTICLE IN THE LEVITT LETTER.
• 15:25 YOU CAN LOOK THAT UP ON LINE
• 15:27 AND JUST SEE ABOUT
• 15:28 HOW I TALK ABOUT MY INTIMACY
• 15:29 BUT ALSO THE PASSENGERS
• 15:31 THAT COME WITH US...
• 15:32 THEY ARE BLOWN AWAY
• 15:34 JUST BY THE PRESENCE
• 15:35 OF YESHUA IN THE HOLY LAND.
• 15:36 WELL THERE'S A DEPTH...
• 15:38 THANK YOU FOR SHARING IT.
• 15:40 COME AND EXPERIENCE IT YOURSELF.
• 15:43 IF YOU WANT TO RE-EXPERIENCE THE SERIES, THE OFFER COMING UP,
• 15:46 "ERETZ ISRAEL, THE LAND OF ISRAEL"
• 15:49 IS THE DVDS
• 15:50 THAT GO ALONG WITH THE SERIES.
• 15:52 WE HAVE A MAGAZINE
• 15:54 THAT'S AVAILABLE FOR THE ASKING
• 15:56 AT WWW.LEVIT.COM
• 15:58 THIS WON'T COST YOU ANY MONEY,
• 16:00 YOU JUST HAVE TO CALL AND ASK.
• 16:02 1-800-WONDERS OR THE WEBSITE
• 16:04 SPEAKING OF MONEY, PEOPLE SAY,
• 16:06 "JEWS ALWAYS TALK ABOUT MONEY",
• 16:08 WELL I'M GOING TO DO THAT RIGHT NOW.
• 16:14 ONE SURE PROOF WAY OF CONNECTING A PEOPLE WITH THEIR LAND
• 16:17 IS THROUGH A STUDY OF THEIR COINAGE.
• 16:20 DONALD ARIEL IS HEAD OF THE COIN DEPARTMENT OF THE ISRAEL ANTIQUITIES.
• 16:24 THESE LITTLE BOXES CONTAIN IRREFUTABLE EVIDENCE
• 16:28 THAT THERE HAS BEEN A JEWISH PRESENCE IN ERETZ ISRAEL FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS.
• 16:37 COINS ARE EXTREMELY IMPORTANT
• 16:38 IN DATING...
• 16:39 WHEN ONE FINDS A STRATUM
• 16:41 IN EXCAVATION
• 16:43 ONE CAN DATE USING THE OBJECTS
• 16:45 IN THAT STRATUM.
• 16:47 MOST OF THE OBJECTS ARE CERAMICS...POTS...
• 16:50 BROKEN POTSHERDS.
• 16:51 AND THOSE DO NOT PROVIDE VERY, VERY FINE DATES.
• 16:54 WE CAN BARELY DATE A POTSHERD TO WITHIN ONE HUNDRED YEARS.
• 16:58 BUT THERE ARE COINS HERE...
• 17:00 THE COINS THAT WERE STRUCK BY THE JEWS THAT HAVE EXACT DATES ON THEM.
• 17:05 THE EARLIEST EXACTLY DATED JEWISH COIN DATES TO 80 B.C.
• 17:10 IT WAS MINTED BY JONATHAN THE KING
• 17:12 OTHERWISE KNOWN AS ALEXANDER JANNAEUS.
• 17:15 BUT AS WE COME CLOSER TO OUR DAY
• 17:18 AND COME CLOSER TO THE TIME OF SECOND TEMPLE
• 17:20 MORE AND MORE STRICT, STRONG ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE
• 17:24 SHOWS THAT THE JEWS WERE WHERE THEY WERE SUPPOSED BE
• 17:27 ACCORDING TO THE BIBLICAL BOOKS
• 17:29 AND THEREFORE YOU HAVE TO BEAR IN MIND THAT MAYBE FAR BACK
• 17:34 WE'RE LESS SURE AS WE GET CLOSER TO THE TIME OF THE SECOND TEMPLE
• 17:38 AND DURING THE TEMPLE THERE IS NO REASON TO DOUBT AT ALL THAT THE JEWS WERE IN THE LAND...
• 17:43 THEY WERE STRIKING COINS...
• 17:45 THEY WERE USING SYMBOLS
• 17:46 THAT ARE DESCRIBED IN THE ANCIENT SOURCES ON THEIR COINS
• 17:50 AND THEIR NAMES ARE APPEARING ON THE COINS AS WELL.
• 17:54 SO I THINK THERE'S NO QUESTION
• 17:55 THAT CERTAINLY IN THE SECOND TEMPLE PERIOD
• 17:58 THE BIBLICAL BOOKS DO REINFORCE
• 18:02 EVERYTHING WE FIND IN THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL RECORD.
• 18:11 WELL THE TASK AT HAND NOW IS
• 18:13 TO GIVE SOMETHING OF A WRAP
• 18:15 OF AN 8 PART SERIES ON
• 18:17 "ERETZ ISRAEL, THE LAND OF ISRAEL".
• 18:21 AND OH WHAT A STORY IT IS!
• 18:23 BUT THE STORY IN SO MANY WAYS IS SO VERY GORY...
• 18:28 THE PASSAGE OF ISRAEL IS MARKED WITH MANY A BATTLE.
• 18:33 AND WE'VE EXPLORED THE BATTLES AND THE BOUNDARIES SOME
• 18:37 FROM BIBLICAL ANTIQUITY
• 18:39 RIGHT UP TO MODERNITY
• 18:42 AND CONSIDERED ALL THE WHILE
• 18:43 HOW GOD IS WATCHING OVER HIS WORD TO PERFORM IT
• 18:47 AND TO PERFORM IT HERE IN THE LAND OF ISRAEL.
• 18:52 ONE OF THE TRAGEDIES IN ALL THIS SEEMS TO ME
• 18:55 IS HOW THE REALITY OF WHAT'S REALLY BEING PLAYED OUT HERE IS SO VERY OBSCURED.
• 19:00 IT SEEMS TO ME THAT TRUTH IS THE FIRST CASUALTY IN THE WAR
• 19:05 TO TELL THE STORY ABOUT WHAT'S GOING ON...
• 19:07 A WORLD WHERE THE JEWS ARE SO VILIFIED
• 19:10 AND THOSE THAT ARE HELL BENT ON THE DESTRUCTION OF THE JEWISH STATE GLORIFIED.
• 19:15 TO ME IT'S ALL UPSIDE-DOWN.
• 19:17 TO ME I LIKE THE BIBLE TO GIVE ME SOME VISION
• 19:21 AND WE NOTE HERE IN EZEKIEL...
• 19:23 AND I WANT YOU TO TURN TO THE VERY END OF THIS PROPHETIC BOOK.
• 19:25 IN THE 47TH CHAPTER HE SAYS,
• 19:36 ITS NOT TACIT IT'S EXPLICIT.
• 19:39 GOD GAVE A LAND...
• 19:40 THE PARTICULARS ARE DELINEATED
• 19:42 AND ONE CAN READ ON AND NOTE HOW THOSE BORDERS ARE EXPANDED
• 19:46 ACTUALLY BEYOND THE CURRENT LAND HOLDINGS IN THE LAND OF ISRAEL
• 19:49 WHERE THE FORCES OF DARKNESS ARE BENT ON DIVIDING THE LAND AND SQUEEZING IT.
• 19:54 ACTUALLY THE BIBLICAL VISION IS TO EXPAND IT.
• 19:57 I KNOW I'LL GET SOME BAD MAIL FOR SAYING THAT
• 20:00 BUT I'M NOT TRYING TO WIN A POPULARITY CONTEST.
• 20:02 HE SAYS IN VERSE 14,
• 20:19 I'M MIFFED AT ONE LEVEL
• 20:22 HOW SOMEONE CAN CLAIM TO BE A BIBLE BELIEVER ON THE ONE HAND
• 20:27 BUT NOT COME TO TERMS WITH WHAT THE LITERATURE SAYS SO CLEARLY ON THE OTHER.
• 20:33 THIS SERIES, "ERETZ ISRAEL, THE LAND OF ISRAEL"
• 20:37 WAS PRAYERFULLY AND CAREFULLY PUT TOGETHER
• 20:40 WITH THE MIND TO COUNTER BALANCE THE INSANITY
• 20:46 TO BRING BIBLICAL MEDICINE TO LIFE'S ASSORTED HURTS.
• 20:50 WHAT I WANT YOU TO KNOW IS THAT NOT ONLY DOES THE BIBLE...
• 20:56 DOES THE GOD OF THE BIBLE COMMEND THIS LAND TO A PARTICULAR PEOPLE
• 21:02 BUT HE NOTES HEREIN AS WELL
• 21:04 THAT THERE'S PLACES FOR MANY OTHER PEOPLES TO DWELL PEACEABLE ROUND ABOUT
• 21:10 AND EVEN WITHIN ISRAEL.
• 21:13 HE SAYS IN VERSE 22 OF THE 47TH CHAPTER
• 21:25 THERE'S A WONDERFUL STORY...
• 21:26 THERE'S ROOM FOR ALL IN GOD'S ARMS...
• 21:29 AND HIS ARM IS EXTENDED.
• 21:31 AT IT SEEMS WE'RE LIVING IN A TIME TODAY
• 21:34 WHEN GOD'S EXTENDING HIS ARM TO JEWISH PEOPLE AND NON-JEWISH PEOPLE
• 21:38 AND BRINGING A TESTIMONY THE WORLD OVER
• 21:41 HOW GOD IS IN FACT WORKING AND WALKING UPON THE EARTH
• 21:45 TO MAKE HIS WILL AND WAYS KNOWN FULLY AND FINALLY.
• 21:53 ♪GOD WILL HONOR♪
• 21:56 ♪THOSE HE HAS CHOSEN...♪
• 21:59 ♪GOD WILL HONOR♪
• 22:01 ♪THOSE HE HAS CHOSEN♪
• 22:31 ♪THE COMING KINGDOM♪
• 22:34 ♪THE COMING KING♪
• 22:39 ♪A TIME OF MERCY♪
• 22:43 ♪A TIME TO SING♪
• 22:48 ♪A CHOSEN PEOPLE♪
• 22:53 ♪A CHOSEN SHORE♪
• 22:58 ♪TO LIVE A DESTINY♪
• 23:03 ♪TO KNOW THE LORD♪
• 23:32 WHEN WE READ THE NEW TESTAMENT
• 23:34 WE DISCOVER A MESSIAH WHO CAME TO SAVE THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL.
• 23:38 WE LEARNED THAT HE HAD A LOVE FOR THEM AS WITH ALL THE WORLD.
• 23:44 IT SEEMS TO ME TODAY, HOWEVER,
• 23:46 THAT IN THIS WORLD MANY ARE MINDED TO REPLACE THE JEWS THEOLOGICALLY,
• 23:51 TO DISPLACE THE JEWS SOCIALLY,
• 23:54 TO HINDER JEWS FROM COMING INTO THEIR PLACE.
• 23:58 I WANTED TO DO A SERIES ON THE LAND OF ISRAEL IN PART
• 24:02 TO HELP YOU SEE A BIBLICAL VISION THAT A PARTICULAR PEOPLE BELONG TO THAT PLACE.
• 24:07 AS I CLOSE NOW I WANT YOU TO SEE HOW THE LORD CLOSED.
• 24:11 BY THAT I MEAN
• 24:12 AS HE'S FINISHING UP IN MATTHEW CHAPTER 23
• 24:16 AFTER WEEPING OVER JERUSALEM
• 24:18 HE SAYS THAT HIS APPEARANCE AGAIN AT THE RAGGED EDGE OF HUMAN HISTORY
• 24:24 WILL COME AT A TIME WHEN JEWISH PEOPLE THERE ARE MINDED TO SAY,
• 24:28 BLESSED IS HE WHO COMES IN THE NAME OF THE LORD.
• 24:31 IN MATTHEW CHAPTER 23 IN VERSE 39
• 24:36 HE SAYS THAT HIS COMING,
• 24:37 HIS RE-PRESENTATION
• 24:39 IS ASSOCIATED WITH THAT.
• 24:41 AND IN REFERENCING THAT AS HE DOES
• 24:44 THE LORD IS GOING BACK TO THE HEBREW BIBLE
• 24:46 TO THE BOOK OF PSALMS CHAPTER 118
• 24:49 WHERE HE SAYS IN VERSE 26,
• 24:51 "BARUCH HABA BAHEM ADONAI"...
• 24:54 "BLESSED IS HE WHO COMES IN THE NAME OF THE LORD".
• 24:57 IN ADVANCE OF THAT
• 24:59 IN VERSES 10 AND 13
• 25:01 HE SPEAKS OF HOW THE NATIONS ARE
• 25:03 SURROUNDING ISRAEL COLLECTIVELY.
• 25:05 IN VERSE 10 AND VERSE 13
• 25:07 HE NOTES HOW JEWS ARE BEING PUSHED TO FALL.
• 25:10 FRIENDS THAT IS SO MUCH THE WORLD THAT WE LIVE IN TODAY
• 25:16 WHICH IS ONE OF THE REASONS WHY I WANTED TO OPEN UP THE BIBLE
• 25:19 AND OPEN UP THE CAMERAS
• 25:20 AND TAKE YOU ON A JOURNEY WITH ME INTO THE ANCIENT WORD,
• 25:25 INTO A MIRACLE IN THE MODERN WORLD
• 25:28 WHICH IS THE EMERGENCE OF ISRAEL
• 25:30 AND HELP YOU TO SEE HOW GOD IS WATCHING OVER HIS WORD TO PERFORM IT.
• 25:36 AS I CLOSE I WANT TO ASK YOU WITH ME TO PLEASE STAND BEHIND THE JEWISH PEOPLE.
• 25:42 AND ITS NOT JUST STANDING FOR A PEOPLE,
• 25:45 IT'S STANDING FOR A BIBLICAL TESTIMONY
• 25:47 BECAUSE IF WE'RE BIBLE BELIEVERS
• 25:49 WE'RE BIBLICAL PEOPLE
• 25:50 AND THERE NEEDS TO BE FIDELITY IN OUR MINDS EYE
• 25:53 AND ALL WORLD VISION WITH THE RECORDED WORD.
• 25:56 MANY RELIGIOUS PEOPLE HAVE ABANDONED THE PRINCIPAL STORY IN THE BIBLE
• 26:02 AND HAVE CONJURED UP ALL SORTS OF POLITICALLY CORRECT WAYS OF THINKING AND BEING
• 26:07 BUT I SAY, LET'S STAND ON THE WORD.
• 26:10 LET ME CLOSE BY GIVING VOICE TO HOW THIS MIGHT HAVE SOMETHING TO DO WITH YOU.
• 26:14 AND BY THAT I MEAN,
• 26:16 IF YOU LOOK AT THE BIBLE AND SEE HOW IT'S UNFOLDING,
• 26:18 THAT MIGHT IMPRESS YOU FOR YOU TO WALK INTO THE PAGES OF THE BIBLE.
• 26:23 YOU MIGHT HAVE BEEN OUT...
• 26:25 LET ME ENCOURAGE NOW TO PRAY
• 26:26 "LORD PLEASE COME INTO MY WORLD, I WANT TO COME INTO YOUR WORLD".
• 26:30 AND LET ME TELL YOU AS I CLOSE,
• 26:32 YOU'LL BE TRANSFORMED IN THE PROCESS.
• 26:35 THANKS FOR GOING WITH US ON THE JOURNEY,
• 26:37 AS YOU GO NOW,
• 26:38 SHA'ALU SHALOM YERUSHALAYIM
• 26:41 PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM
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• 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
• 27:08 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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