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

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