Caption transcript for “Making a Difference”

• 00:16 BRETHREN, MY HEART'S DESIRE AND PRAYER TO GOD FOR ISRAEL IS THAT THEY MIGHT BE SAVED.
• 00:23 FOR THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE JEW AND THE GREEK
• 00:26 FOR THE SAME LORD OVER ALL IS RICH UNTO ALL THAT CALL UPON HIM.
• 00:42 HEARTY SHALOM TO ALL OF YOU.
• 00:44 JEFFREY SEIF HERE
• 00:45 PLEASED TO WELCOME YOU
• 00:47 TO A SPECIAL EDITION
• 00:48 OF ZOLA LEVITT PRESENTS.
• 00:50 IN THIS ONE I WANT TO SPEAK TO YOU IN A WAY THAT IS BOTH PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL.
• 00:57 ON THE PROFESSIONAL SIDE
• 00:59 YOU'RE GOING TO GET A LEAP INTO THE FUTURE WITH ME
• 01:02 AND I'M GOING TO SHOW YOU SOME OF THE WORKINGS,
• 01:04 SOME OF THE GOINGS ON,
• 01:06 SOME OF WHAT WE'RE COOKING UP.
• 01:07 AND LET ME TELL YOU IT'S FASCINATING.
• 01:10 FOR SOME JEWISH GUY LIKE ME IT'S A THRILL TO TAKE WONDERFUL PEOPLE LIKE YOU
• 01:14 TO MY ANCESTRAL HOMELAND, THE BIBLICAL LAND OF ISRAEL.
• 01:19 AND, "ERETZ ISRAEL", THIS UPCOMING SERIES IS ALL ABOUT THAT.
• 01:23 BUT BEFORE I SPEAK TO THAT,
• 01:25 AND THAT'S MORE PROFESSIONAL,
• 01:27 I WANT TO SPEAK TO YOU A MOMENT ABOUT SOMETHING THAT'S VERY PERSONAL.
• 01:32 ON THE PERSONAL SIDE,
• 01:34 AND I MEAN THIS SINCERELY,
• 01:36 I WANT TO SAY THANK YOU,
• 01:38 CAUSE THE TRUTH OF THE MATTER IS THAT I DO WHAT I DO BECAUSE YOU ARE WHO YOU ARE.
• 01:44 I THINK OF PAUL IN SO MANY WAYS.
• 01:46 HE WROTE SO MANY PEOPLE.
• 01:48 WHEN HE WROTE THE PHILIPPIANS HE SAYS IN CHAPTER 1, VERSE 3,
• 01:51 "I THANK MY GOD UPON EVERY REMEMBRANCE OF YOU."
• 01:57 AND THEN IN VERSE 5 HE GOES ON TO SAY,
• 01:59 IT'S FOR THEIR FELLOWSHIP IN THE GOSPEL, THE PARTNERSHIP,
• 02:05 THE FACT THAT THEY CARED AND SHARED AND HELPED HIM GET ON DOWN THE ROAD.
• 02:11 BEFORE MY ROAD EVERY LED ME TO THIS SET
• 02:15 AND BEFORE MY ROAD EVER LED ME TO THE LAND OF ISRAEL,
• 02:18 IT LED ME TO BIBLE COLLEGE.
• 02:21 AFTER, IN EFFECT, FLUNKING OUT OF HIGH SCHOOL,
• 02:24 I WAS IN MY MID TO LATE 20'S TILL I GOT TO AND THROUGH MY UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAM.
• 02:30 AND I GOT INTO MOODY BIBLE INSTITUTE ON ACADEMIC PROBATION
• 02:34 BECAUSE I WAS A FAILURE EARLY.
• 02:36 I DIDN'T HAVE 2 NICKELS TO RUB TOGETHER TO GO TO COLLEGE
• 02:38 BUT YOU KNOW SOME CHRISTIAN PEOPLE SENT SOME SCHOLARSHIP MONEY TO HELP ME,
• 02:42 NOT JUST TO GET THERE,
• 02:44 BUT FROM THERE,
• 02:45 FROM MY GRADUATE DEGREES AND THE LIKE TO BECOME A PROFESSOR.
• 02:48 PEOPLE CARED AND SHARED.
• 02:50 THEY DID IT IN PAUL'S DAY;
• 02:51 THEY DID TODAY;
• 02:52 SO I THANK YOU FOR HELPING ME TO GET HERE.
• 02:55 AND NOW I WANT TO TAKE YOU THERE.
• 02:58 WHERE'S THERE?
• 02:59 TO THE BIBLE LANDS.
• 03:01 COMING NOW ARE SOME HIGHLIGHTS OF A SERIES WE'RE WORKING ON...
• 03:04 "ERETZ ISRAEL: THE LAND OF ISRAEL".
• 03:17 LOOK TO THE NORTH
• 03:20 THE SOUTH
• 03:23 THE EAST
• 03:26 THE WEST
• 03:33 ALL THE LAND WHICH THOU SEEST
• 03:36 TO THEE WILL I GIVE IT
• 03:38 AND TO THY SEED FOREVER.
• 03:43 INDEED HE WHO WATCHES OVER ISRAEL
• 03:45 WILL NEITHER SLUMBER NOR SLEEP.
• 04:04 NOW THE LORD SAID UNTO ABRAM,
• 04:07 "GET THEE OUT OF THY COUNTRY"
• 04:09 "AND FROM THY KINDRED"
• 04:10 "AND FROM THY FATHER'S HOUSE"
• 04:12 "UNTO A LAND THAT I WILL SHOW THEE."
• 04:15 "AND I WILL MAKE OF THEE A GREAT NATION AND I WILL BLESS THEE"
• 04:19 "AND MAKE THY NAME GREAT AND THOU SHALL BE A BLESSING."
• 04:23 "AND I WILL BLESS THEM THAT BLESS THEE"
• 04:25 "AND CURSE HIM THAT CURSETH THEE."
• 04:28 "AND IN THEE SHALL ALL FAMILIES OF THE EARTH BE BLESSED."
• 04:32 AND ABRAM TOOK SARAI HIS WIFE,
• 04:36 HIS NEPHEW LOT,
• 04:37 ALL THE SUBSTANCE AND PERSONS THEY HAD ACQUIRED IN HARAN
• 04:41 AND JOURNEYED TO CANAAN.
• 04:45 IT HAS BEEN SAID
• 04:46 THAT A JOURNEY OF A LIFETIME
• 04:47 BEGINS WITH THE VERY FIRST STEPS
• 04:50 WELL COME WITH ME NOW
• 04:52 AND JOURNEY WITH ME
• 04:53 AS WE WALK IN THE FOOTSTEPS
• 04:55 OF OUR FATHER ABRAHAM.
• 05:35 EVER HEARD THE EXPRESSION
• 05:36 "THE ROAD LESS TRAVELED"?
• 05:39 FOR MANY OF US
• 05:40 THE ROAD OF FAITH IS JUST THAT.
• 05:44 WE WANT TO CONSIDER THE FOOTSTEPS OF THE FATHER OF FAITH
• 05:48 AND TO HELP US I WANT TO SHOW YOU A MAP
• 05:51 SO YOU CAN SOME VISION FOR THE ROAD THAT HE TRAVELED.
• 05:56 I'M STANDING IN FRONT OF ONE OF
• 05:57 THE OLDEST CHURCHES ON EARTH...
• 05:59 THE CHURCH OF THE HOLY SEPULCHRE
• 06:00 IN THE OLD CITY OF JERUSALEM.
• 06:02 AS YOU CAN SEE
• 06:03 CHRISTIANS FROM AROUND THE WORLD
• 06:05 ARE HERE VISITING THIS SITE,
• 06:07 THE SITE THAT MANY BELIEVE
• 06:08 JESUS WAS CRUCIFIED, BURIED,
• 06:10 ROSE FROM THE DEAD
• 06:11 ON A LITTLE HILL,
• 06:12 THAT'S INSIDE THE CHURCH,
• 06:13 CALLED GOLGOTHA.
• 06:15 THE EMPEROR HADRIAN,
• 06:16 THE ROMAN EMPEROR,
• 06:17 DESTROYED THE STATE OF JUDEA
• 06:19 IN THE YEAR 135
• 06:20 AFTER A JEWISH REVOLT.
• 06:22 THE TEMPLE HAD ALREADY BEEN
• 06:24 DESTROYED IN A.D. 70,
• 06:25 REPLACED BY A TEMPLE
• 06:27 TO A PAGAN GOD, JUPITER.
• 06:32 YOU KNOW DAVE,
• 06:33 LOOKING BEHIND ME OVER HERE; I REMINDED OF THE FACT
• 06:35 THAT RELIGION REALLY HAS A WAY OF INSPIRING PEOPLE, YES,
• 06:38 FOR GOOD AND BAD.
• 06:39 WHAT SAY YOU?
• 06:40 ABSOLUTELY,
• 06:42 IN THE HISTORIC REVIEW THAT I DID JUST A BIT AGO
• 06:45 I MENTIONED CONSTANTINE, THE ROMAN EMPEROR,
• 06:49 CONVERTING TO CHRISTIANITY,
• 06:50 AND HIS MOTHER, QUEEN HELENA,
• 06:52 COMING OUT HERE
• 06:53 TO CHECK ON THE HOLY SITES OF CHRISTIANITY
• 06:56 AND AS A RESULT CHURCHES WERE BUILT
• 06:58 AND THE FAITH SPREAD HERE.
• 07:00 AN ENORMOUS INVESTMENT OF ENERGY, MONEY AND PEOPLE...
• 07:03 AMAZING! IT REALLY WAS.
• 07:04 AND OF COURSE HE WAS THE EMPEROR SO...
• 07:07 AND SHE WAS THE QUEEN MOTHER AS IT WERE
• 07:08 SO THEY HAD A LOT OF THAT. SHE HAS TO GET PLENTY OF VOTES.
• 07:11 BUT THEN LATER ON WE SEE THE NEGATIVE INFLUENCE
• 07:14 OF RELIGION AGAIN FROM CHRISTIANITY TO CRUSADES.
• 07:18 YOU JUST SAW A PORTENT OF THINGS TO COME...
• 07:23 GOOD THINGS TO COME I MIGHT ADD.
• 07:26 UNFORTUNATELY ONLY A FEW CAN REALLY MAKE THEIR WAY TO ISRAEL IN THE FLESH
• 07:31 AND WE'RE ALWAYS HAPPY TO TAKE YOU THERE
• 07:34 AND YOU'LL BE HEARING MORE ABOUT THAT LATER.
• 07:36 BUT WE TAKE MILLIONS THERE THROUGH THE MIRACLE THAT IS TELEVISION.
• 07:41 MOST BIBLE TEACHERS CAN GET TO A NICE PLATFORM SOMEWHERE
• 07:45 OR PODIUM IN A CHURCH BUILDING
• 07:47 AND SOME CAMERAS FOCUSING ON THEM
• 07:49 AND THEY TELL THEIR STORY.
• 07:51 AND GOD BLESS...THAT'S A GOOD COST EFFECTIVE WAY TO DO IT.
• 07:56 WE DON'T HAVE THAT LUXURY HOWEVER,
• 07:58 BECAUSE I DON'T JUST SPEAK TO YOU FROM A PODIUM IN A CHURCH,
• 08:01 NO, WE INCUR ALL THE EXPENSES
• 08:03 ASSOCIATED WITH GOING TO
• 08:05 THE LAND OF ISRAEL.
• 08:06 AND WE NOT ONLY TRAVEL THERE
• 08:08 AND HIRE HELPERS
• 08:10 AND HAVE MULTIPLE CAMERAS GOING
• 08:13 BUT IN CONJUNCTION WITH ALL THAT
• 08:15 WE BUILD SETS
• 08:17 AND WE DON'T JUST SPEND MONEY
• 08:18 TO BUILD SETS FOR THESE
• 08:19 DRAMATIC VIGNETTES,
• 08:21 NO, WE HIRE ACTORS,
• 08:22 ALL ISRAELIS, RE-ENACTING
• 08:25 THE BIBLICAL DRAMA.
• 08:28 IT COSTS A FORTUNE.
• 08:30 BUT YOU KNOW...
• 08:32 WE BELIEVE IT IS SO WORTH IT
• 08:34 BECAUSE TRUTH BE KNOWN,
• 08:36 FEW DO THIS KIND OF WORK.
• 08:39 I'M GLAD THAT THE LORD HAS ENABLED ME TO PARTICIPATE IN IT
• 08:43 BECAUSE OTHERS OPT TO PARTICIPATE WITH US.
• 08:48 PAUL, WHO GAVE VOICE
• 08:49 TO THANKING THE PHILIPPIANS FOR THEIR FELLOWSHIP
• 08:52 GOES ON TO SAY IN VERSE 7
• 08:54 HOW HE IS THANKFUL
• 08:56 THAT THEY ARE "PARTAKERS WITH HIM IN THIS GRACE".
• 09:03 AND LET ME SAY THANK YOU FOR YOUR GRACE TO ENABLE ME...
• 09:07 FOR THOSE FEW THAT GET BEHIND FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF PROGRAMS LIKE THIS,
• 09:12 WE MULTIPLY IT TO MILLIONS WHO SEE IT WHO NEVER GIVE A DIME.
• 09:16 WE INTRODUCE PEOPLE TO FASCINATING PEOPLE,
• 09:19 ONE OF WHOM IS COMING UP RIGHT NOW,
• 09:21 AN ISRAELI NAMED AVI LIPKIN WHOM I WANT YOU TO MEET.
• 09:37 SO ONE OF THE BENEFITS OF BEING IN AMERICA IS
• 09:40 EVERY COUPLE YEARS WE CAN VOTE.
• 09:41 AND IF I UNDERSTAND YOU CORRECTLY, LOVING ISRAEL,
• 09:44 THERE'S A PRAYERFUL, SOULFUL REMEMBERING THE JEWISH PEOPLE
• 09:46 BUT WE COULD EXERCISE PREROGATIVES TO MAKE SURE WE PUT PEOPLE
• 09:49 IN GOVERNMENT THAT STAND BEHIND THE JEWISH PEOPLE IN ISRAEL.
• 09:53 THAT SHOULD BE A PRIORITY.
• 09:54 ABSOLUTELY.
• 09:56 AND IN FACT,
• 09:57 I STARTED MY WORK
• 09:58 IN THE CHURCHES AND IN AMERICA
• 10:00 20 YEARS AGO HERE IN DALLAS
• 10:02 AND I'VE WRITTEN FIVE BOOKS.
• 10:04 AND THE ONLY TESTIMONY THAT IS REPEATED IN ALL FIVE BOOKS IS CALLED
• 10:09 "THE DALLAS COUNCIL ON WORLD AFFAIRS".
• 10:11 AND THIS WAS THE COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS,
• 10:13 THE ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT.
• 10:14 AND THEY SAID TO ME,
• 10:16 WHAT MADE AMERICA GREAT IS THE BARREL OF OIL,
• 10:19 THE STEADY PRICE OF OIL,
• 10:20 THE STEADY SUPPLY OF OIL
• 10:22 AND THEY WERE NOT GOING TO LET THE JEWS GET IN THE WAY OF THIS.
• 10:25 AND I SAID TO THEM
• 10:26 THAT ISRAEL AND THE JEWS
• 10:27 NEVER CAME IN THE WAY OF OIL SUPPLIES
• 10:29 AND IN FACT WE LOST A THIRD OF OUR PEOPLE IN THE HOLOCAUST
• 10:31 BECAUSE FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT, WHO WAS A SOCIALIST DEMOCRAT,
• 10:35 HAD AN UNDERSECRETARY OF STATE BY THE NAME OF BRECKINRIDGE LONG
• 10:40 WOULD NOT ALLOW A SHIP WITH REFUGEES FROM GERMANY TO REACH CUBA,
• 10:43 NOT EVEN THE UNITED STATES.
• 10:45 SO HITLER KILLED 6 MILLION
• 10:46 BECAUSE THEY COULD NOT RECEIVE VISAS.
• 10:49 THE U.S. GOVERNMENT WAS SUBSERVIENT EVEN THEN TO THE SAUDIS.
• 10:52 BUT MY CHRISTIAN FRIEND, ERIC GUSTAFSEN, WHO WAS THERE THAT NIGHT,
• 10:58 HE WAS A BIG SUPPORTER OF MARLIN MADDOUX AND KVTT RADIO 20 YEARS AGO,
• 11:02 AND HE LOOKED AT THESE PEOPLE
• 11:04 AND THE LIGHTS WENT ON FOR ME THAT NIGHT.
• 11:06 HE SAID, "YOU CALL YOURSELVES CHRISTIANS?"
• 11:08 "YOU SAID THAT WHAT MADE AMERICA GREAT WAS THE BARREL OF OIL,"
• 11:10 "THE STEADY PRICE,"
• 11:11 "THE STEADY SUPPLY."
• 11:12 "YOU SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF YOURSELVES"
• 11:14 "BECAUSE WHAT MADE AMERICA GREAT IS NOT THE BARREL OF OIL,"
• 11:16 "WHAT MADE AMERICA GREAT IS JESUS CHRIST."
• 11:19 AND AS A JEW, WHEN I HEARD THAT,
• 11:21 I FELL IN LOVE WITH JESUS CHRIST
• 11:22 BECAUSE THEN I UNDERSTOOD AS A JEW,
• 11:23 THAT AMERICA HAS TO BE CHRISTIAN FOR ISRAEL TO BE BLESSED.
• 11:29 YOU KNOW WHEN I THINK WHAT HELPED MAKE AMERICA GREAT WERE JEWS TOO.
• 11:33 BACK IN THE DAY WHEN GEORGE WASHINGTON WAS FIGHTING A BATTLE ROYAL
• 11:36 AGAINST THE BRITISH HOLD UP IN VALLEY FORGE,PENNSYLVANIA,
• 11:40 HE DIDN'T HAVE 2 NICKELS TO RUB TOGETHER
• 11:42 RIGHT NEXT TO PHILADELPHIA,
• 11:43 THE BANKING CAPITAL OF THE COLONIES.
• 11:45 A JEW, HAYM SOLOMON, GALVANIZED ENERGIES
• 11:48 AND RAISED RESOURCES AMONGST JEWS
• 11:50 TO HELP THE REVOLUTIONARY ARMY GET ON DOWN THE ROAD.
• 11:53 IF IT WASN'T FOR THAT THIS WOULD BE A BRITISH EXTENSION STILL.
• 11:57 YES AND I THINK WHAT HAPPENED INDEED WAS
• 11:59 THAT WASHINGTON CAME TO THE JEWS IN PHILADELPHIA ON THE EVE OF YOM KIPPUR.
• 12:04 ROBERT MORRIS DID.
• 12:06 WASHINGTON PRESSED HIM TO DO IT.
• 12:08 MORRIS WAS AN ANTI-SEMITE.
• 12:10 HE DIDN'T WANT TO DEAL WITH AN INDIVIDUAL
• 12:12 WHOM HE REFERRED TO AS "THAT JEW BROKER"...
• 12:14 HAYM SOLOMON
• 12:15 DIDN'T WANT TO DO IT.
• 12:17 BUT HE WAS PUSHED AND PUSHED
• 12:18 AND FINALLY HE CAME TO INSULT HIM ON YOM KIPPUR WHEN JEWS DON'T WORK...
• 12:22 INTERRUPTED THE SYNAGOGUE SERVICE
• 12:24 AND WITHIN A HALF AN HOUR
• 12:26 PERMISSION WAS GRANTED FOR THE RABBI TO GO AHEAD AND MAKE THE PITCH
• 12:30 AND THE MONEY WAS RAISED THERE AND THEN...
• 12:31 JEWS STANDING BEHIND AMERICA.
• 12:33 AND THEY SAVED AMERICA.
• 12:34 YES
• 12:35 THEY SAVED THE REVOLUTION.
• 12:36 BY THE WAY, ANOTHER STORY,
• 12:38 THE JEWS STOOD BIVOUAC DURING THE CHRISTMAS SERVICES IN 1777.
• 12:44 SO 500 JEWS IN THE REVOLUTIONARY ARMY WERE STANDING, BIVOUAC,
• 12:48 "GUARD DUTY", WHILE THE CHRISTIANS PRAYED THEIR CHRISTIAN SERVICE,
• 12:51 WHICH I THINK IS VERY EMOTIONAL FOR ME TO HEAR SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
• 12:54 BEAUTIFUL STORY.
• 12:55 WE'RE SEEING JEWS STAND BEHIND AMERICA...
• 12:56 AMERICA STAND BEHIND THE JEWISH PEOPLE.
• 12:59 ITS NATURAL TO DO IT.
• 13:01 AND OF COURSE PEOPLE DON'T KNOW THESE STORIES
• 13:04 BUT YOU'RE INDIVIDUALLY MINDED TO RESURRECT THAT KIND OF CONNECTIVITY
• 13:10 IN A WORLD THAT'S CHARACTERIZED BY DISCONNECT, YES?
• 13:12 I WANT AMERICA TO RETURN TO ITS JUDEO-CHRISTIAN VALUES,
• 13:16 WHAT AMERICA GREAT.
• 13:17 AMERICA IS SLIDING AND GOD IS BEING REMOVED FROM THE SYSTEM...
• 13:22 "IN GOD WE TRUST" IS OFF THE COINS...
• 13:24 THE TEN COMMANDMENTS,
• 13:25 THE BIBLE,
• 13:26 JESUS CHRIST,
• 13:27 THESE ARE NOT THINGS WE MENTION ANYMORE.
• 13:29 AND WHEN THESE ARE NOT MENTIONED ANYMORE
• 13:31 THEY'RE REPLACED BY ALLAH, MOHAMMED AND THE KORAN.
• 13:34 THIS IS VERY DANGEROUS FOR AMERICA.
• 13:36 BY THE WAY, ANOTHER POINT ABOUT ANOTHER REVOLUTION WAS A CIVIL WAR
• 13:40 I ATTENDED A SYNAGOGUE IN KANSAS CITY ABOUT 10 YEARS AGO
• 13:45 AND THERE WAS A SPEAKER FROM THE JEWISH WAR VETERANS.
• 13:48 HE WAS TALKING ABOUT THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR.
• 13:50 AND THE JEWS WERE DISPROPORTIONATELY MORE
• 13:55 AS OFFICERS IN THE CONFEDERATE ARMY
• 13:57 THAN THE NON-JEWS.
• 13:58 AND DURING THE ROSH HASHANAH YOM KIPPUR HOLIDAYS
• 14:01 THEY CAME TO JEFFERSON DAVIS
• 14:02 AND SAID "WE WANT TO GO HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS."
• 14:05 AND JEFFERSON DAVIS SAID, "UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES",
• 14:08 "IF YOU JEWS LEAVE THE CONFEDERATE ARMY COLLAPSES."
• 14:11 AND I THINK THAT THAT'S ONE OF THE REASONS WHY
• 14:13 PRESIDENT LINCOLN FOR THE FIRST TIME
• 14:16 ESTABLISHED JEWISH CHAPLAINS IN THE UNION ARMY
• 14:19 BECAUSE THE JEWS WERE SO ACTIVE IN THE SOUTHERN ARMY AS WELL.
• 14:22 JEWS WERE IN BOTH ARMIES.
• 14:24 JEWS HAVE BEEN AFFILIATED ALL ALONG WITH THE AMERICAN PEOPLE FROM DAY ONE.
• 14:40 AVI IS QUITE THE AMBASSADOR FOR ISRAEL.
• 14:46 AND TRACE
• 14:47 WE'RE ALL ABOUT THE BUSINESS OF BEING AMBASSADORS
• 14:49 AND HELPING OTHERS BE AMBASSADORS TOO, YES?
• 14:52 WE ARE.
• 14:53 IT HAS REALLY BEEN A JOY AND PRIVILEGE TO TRAVEL TO ISRAEL.
• 14:56 AFTER WORKING IN MINISTRY ALL THOSE YEARS
• 14:58 I REALLY FEEL LIKE THERE WAS SOMETHING MISSING.
• 15:00 WHEN I WENT TO ISRAEL I FELT LIKE I FOUND IT.
• 15:02 NOW YOU'VE BEEN SPENDING A LOT OF TIME LOOKING.
• 15:05 IN ADDITION TO YOUR OWN BIBLICAL STUDIES AS AN INDIVIDUAL YOU WENT TO SEMINARY.
• 15:09 I DID.
• 15:10 AND I TELL YOU THIS
• 15:12 THAT I FEEL LIKE THERE WAS A LITTLE BIT OF LACK OF FOCUS ON ISRAEL IN SEMINARY.
• 15:16 I THINK THAT WE SEE WHAT WE SEE ON THE NEWS
• 15:19 AND WE REALLY DON'T DELVE INTO THE BIBLICAL TEXT
• 15:22 AND SO BEING AT THIS MINISTRY,
• 15:24 WATCHING YOU ON TV AND GOING TO ISRAEL,
• 15:26 IT HAS JUST OPENED UP MY MIND SO MUCH.
• 15:28 AND TO SEE THAT THE JEWISH PEOPLE ARE TOTALLY AMAZING
• 15:32 AND THAT ISRAEL IS THE HEART OF CHRISTIANITY.
• 15:34 GOODNESS, A LOT OF PEOPLE DON'T HAVE THOSE SENTIMENTS.
• 15:37 THEY DON'T.
• 15:38 AND IT'S UNFORTUNATE.
• 15:40 AND THE BIBLE SAYS ISRAEL WILL BE PERSECUTED BUT GOD IS GOING TO SAVE HER.
• 15:44 THE JEWS ARE GOD'S CHOSEN PEOPLE.
• 15:46 AND IT IS JUST SUCH A PRIVILEGE AND AN HONOR
• 15:49 TO TRAVEL THERE AND TO TAKE TOURS THERE.
• 15:50 YOU'RE THE TOUR MANAGER.
• 15:52 PEOPLE CAN CONTACT US.
• 15:53 THE PHONE NUMBER IS ON THE SCREEN IF THEY WANT TO GO.
• 15:56 THOUGH YOU ARE A TOUR MANAGER
• 15:57 YOU DIDN'T SIGN UP IN LIFE
• 15:59 TO BE A TOUR MANAGER.
• 16:00 YOU WENT TO SEMINARY FOR MINISTRY.
• 16:03 I WENT TO SEMINARY FOR MINISTRY,
• 16:05 NOT TELEVISION STARDOM OR WHATEVER.
• 16:07 WE WANT TO DO KINGDOM BUSINESS ON THIS SIDE OF THE GRAVE, CORRECT?
• 16:10 AND I TELL YOU THIS...
• 16:12 KINGDOM BUSINESS
• 16:13 IS DONE EVERY DAY
• 16:14 WHEN A VIEWER CALLS IN AND
• 16:16 THEY TALK ABOUT GOING TO ISRAEL.
• 16:18 IT HAS BEEN A DREAM
• 16:19 OF MOST OF OUR VIEWER'S LIVES
• 16:21 TO GO TO ISRAEL
• 16:22 AND TO FULFILL THAT.
• 16:23 I FEEL LIKE THAT'S THE
• 16:25 HIGHEST CALLING FOR ME
• 16:26 TO FULFILL PEOPLE'S DREAMS
• 16:28 TO GO SEE THE HOLY LAND.
• 16:30 ITS AMAZING DR. SEIF...
• 16:31 IT'S AMAZING.
• 16:32 IN FACT, I JUST WROTE
• 16:34 AN ARTICLE IN THE LEVITT LETTER
• 16:35 ABOUT FOR ME PERSONALLY
• 16:37 I FEEL LIKE BEING IN ISRAEL,
• 16:39 THE INTIMACY YOU DEVELOP
• 16:41 WITH THE LORD IS LIKE
• 16:42 THE NIGHT A BRIDE MEETS HER
• 16:43 BRIDEGROOM FOR THE FIRST TIME.
• 16:45 YOU CAN HAVE THAT
• 16:46 EXPERIENCE WITH THE LORD
• 16:48 WHEN YOU GO TO ISRAEL
• 16:49 AND COME WITH US.
• 16:50 YES, AND BY ALL MEANS WE WANT PEOPLE TO DO THAT.
• 16:53 TRACIE SPOKE FROM HER HEART,
• 16:57 I'D LIKE TO SPEAK FROM MINE
• 16:59 AND TELL YOU THAT THERE ARE PEOPLE THAT HATE US,
• 17:04 THERE ARE PEOPLE THAT HATE JEWS.
• 17:08 ANYONE BENT ON DESTROYING ISRAEL
• 17:11 AND THAT'S WHAT'S HAPPENING EVERYWHERE THEOLOGICALLY FROM PULPITS,
• 17:16 INDIVIDUALS DESTROY ISRAEL.
• 17:19 IF YOU LOOK AT THE NEWS IT'S SO MUCH DESIGNED TO DESTROY ISRAEL.
• 17:24 WHATEVER GOES AFTER ISRAEL GOES AFTER JEWS
• 17:26 AND LET ME TELL YOU THEY'RE COMING AFTER US WITH ABANDON.
• 17:31 AND THAT'S WHY
• 17:32 I NEED YOU'RE HELP
• 17:36 TO TELL A BIBLICAL STORY,
• 17:39 TO LOOK AT WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS
• 17:40 ABOUT THE PEOPLE
• 17:42 AND ABOUT THE LAND.
• 17:44 I NOT ONLY NEED TO
• 17:45 TELL THAT STORY,
• 17:47 I NEED TO TELL IT NOW.
• 17:50 I DON'T HAVE THE LUXURY
• 17:51 OF BEING ABLE TO PICK THE TIMES
• 17:53 TO TELL THE STORIES.
• 17:55 I WISH THE ECONOMY
• 17:56 WAS SO MUCH BETTER
• 17:57 BUT TRUTH OF THE MATTER IS,
• 17:59 IS FEARS HAVE CAUSED PEOPLE
• 18:01 TO BE CONSERVATIVE.
• 18:02 I NEED FAITH TO RISE UP
• 18:04 IN THE HEARTS OF INDIVIDUALS
• 18:06 THAT SAY "YES, WE APPRECIATE WHAT YOU DO JEFF."
• 18:10 "WE APPRECIATE WHAT YOU DO TRACIE."
• 18:12 "WE APPRECIATE ZOLA LEVITT MINISTRIES AND WE WANT TO SHOW IT."
• 18:17 PLEASE BE GRACIOUS
• 18:18 AND HELP US TELL THE STORY
• 18:20 AND BECOME AN AMBASSADOR TOO.
• 18:23 AND SPEAKING OF AMBASSADORS NOW,
• 18:25 YOU'RE MONIES HELP US
• 18:26 GET TO ISRAEL TO SPEAK TO
• 18:28 REAL LIVE AMBASSADORS.
• 18:30 HERE'S A SEGMENT
• 18:32 FROM ONE WE JUST WITH AMBASSADOR GOLD,
• 18:35 FORMER ISRAELI AMBASSADOR TO THE UNITED NATIONS.
• 18:41 IN ARAB CULTURE HERE,
• 18:45 WHEN YOU WANT TO SAY
• 18:46 THAT YOU COME FROM
• 18:48 A PRESTIGIOUS ANCESTRY,
• 18:51 YOU SAY THAT YOU ARE
• 18:52 DESCENDENT OF THE CALIPH,
• 18:56 FROM THE ARAB ARMIES
• 18:59 WHO FOUGHT AND CAME INTO ERETZ ISRAEL IN THE 7TH CENTURY
• 19:05 AT THAT TIME IN THE 600s.
• 19:08 YOU STILL HAVE A JEWISH MAJORITY HERE
• 19:10 EVEN THE ROMANS HAVE DESTROYED JERUSALEM.
• 19:13 AND SO ACTUALLY RATHER THAN BEING THE ORIGINAL RESIDENCE OF ERETZ ISRAEL,
• 19:19 THE ARABS WHO CAME HERE IN THE 7TH CENTURY ARE RELATIVE LATECOMERS.
• 19:26 THE JEWS WERE SLAUGHTERED,
• 19:28 FORCED OUT,
• 19:30 BUT KEPT COMING BACK IN EVERY GENERATION
• 19:33 SHIPS WOULD COME,
• 19:35 PEOPLE WOULD COME BACK TO JERUSALEM.
• 19:36 IT WAS DANGEROUS.
• 19:38 ALREADY IN THE 19TH CENTURY
• 19:40 IN THE YEAR 1863
• 19:43 THE JEWS HAD RE-ESTABLISHED A MAJORITY IN JERUSALEM.
• 19:46 AND THAT ISN'T FROM JEWISH DOCUMENTS,
• 19:48 THAT'S FROM THE BRITISH FOREIGN OFFICE
• 19:50 AND SO OUR CLAIM IS AN OLD CLAIM,
• 19:54 IT'S A CLAIM THAT WAS WELL KNOWN BY THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY.
• 19:57 AND IT'S A CLAIM PERHAPS SOME PEOPLE HAVE FORGOTTEN ABOUT TODAY IN MODERN TIMES.
• 20:01 IT'S A CLAIM WE HAVE TO UNDERSTAND AGAIN.
• 20:07 AFTER THE BAR KOKHBA REVOLT
• 20:09 IN THE 2ND CENTURY A.D.
• 20:12 WHEN THE ROMANS WANTS TO
• 20:14 CHANGE THE CHARACTER OF THE LAND
• 20:16 FROM THE LAND OF THE JEWS
• 20:18 TO A LAND WITHOUT JEWS,
• 20:21 WITHOUT A CONTROLLING BY JEWS,
• 20:24 THEY STARTED TO CALL THE LAND "THE PROVINCE OF PALESTINE".
• 20:30 AND THE MUSLIMS TOOK THIS ANCIENT NAME
• 20:35 FROM THE 2ND CENTURY A.D.
• 20:37 AND USED IT AS A HOME.
• 20:41 WHEN THE ARABS CAME AND THE MUSLIMS CAME HERE IN THE 7TH CENTURY A.D.
• 20:49 WHICH IS VERY LATE IN RELATIVITY TO JEWISH HISTORY...
• 20:53 7TH CENTURY A.D. IS VERY ANTIQUE IN THE AMERICAN'S POINT OF VIEW
• 21:00 BUT HERE IN ISRAEL THE 700s, IT'S NOT MUCH.
• 21:04 THEY USE THE NAME
• 21:07 THEY CALLED THE LAND OF ISRAEL A ... PALESTINE.
• 21:11 THIS WAS THE OFFICIAL NAME OF THE ARABS AND THE TURKISH AND THE BRITAINS
• 21:16 UNTIL WHEN THE THE STATE OF ISRAEL WAS BORN.
• 21:24 BUT WHAT'S THE CURRENT DIVISION?
• 21:27 RIGHT NOW WE HAVE HERE
• 21:28 THE LAND OF ISRAEL.
• 21:30 BUT I'M STANDING AT A PLACE
• 21:31 RIGHT HERE WHERE
• 21:33 WE'RE ABOUT 9 MILES AWAY
• 21:35 FROM THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA.
• 21:37 BEHIND ME IS A VILLAGE
• 21:39 DOTTED WITH MINARETS,
• 21:41 A SIGN OF AN ISLAMIC TRIUMPH.
• 21:44 SO WE HAVE BIBLICAL VISION ON ONE HAND
• 21:47 AND WE HAVE CURRENT POLITICAL DIVISION ON THE OTHER.
• 21:50 GOODNESS DAVID, WHAT DO WE MAKE OF THIS?
• 21:52 WELL WE ARE DEALING WITH A TINY LAND.
• 21:56 AND IT REALLY ISN'T CLEAR TO A LOT OF PEOPLE AROUND THE WORLD
• 22:00 JUST HOW SMALL THIS IS.
• 22:02 WE'VE BEEN UP ON THE GOLAN HEIGHTS
• 22:03 AND THERE IS A LOT IN THE SOUTH
• 22:06 AND WE'RE TALKING ABOUT 280 MILES AT ITS LONGEST.
• 22:09 BUT THE MAIN PROBLEM IS THIS WAS THE PRE 67 BORDER...
• 22:14 THIS HERE.
• 22:17 NOW, IT'S REALLY SMALL HERE.
• 22:19 WE'RE TALKING AS YOU SAID;
• 22:21 9 MILES AT ITS NARROWEST
• 22:24 BUT ON AVERAGE ITS 15 MILES WIDE.
• 22:26 HERE'S TEL AVIV.
• 22:28 HERE'S HAIFA.
• 22:29 HERE'S NATANYA.
• 22:31 AND HERZLIYA RIGHT OVER HERE.
• 22:33 TWO THIRDS OF ISRAEL'S JEWISH POPULATION
• 22:36 LIVES RIGHT IN THIS AREA
• 22:37 AND IF YOU TAKE IT
• 22:39 ALL THE WAY FROM THE NORTHERN BORDER
• 22:40 TO THE GAZA STRIP,
• 22:41 80 PERCENT OF ISRAEL'S JEWS
• 22:43 LIVE IN A 15 MILE WIDE ON AVERAGE PIECE OF LAND.
• 22:47 WHO'S LIVING HERE DAVID?
• 22:49 AND THIS IS MOSTLY ARAB TOWNS AND VILLAGES
• 22:51 AND AS YOU POINTED OUT,
• 22:52 SOME ARE INSIDE OF ISRAEL,
• 22:54 INSIDE OF THIS PRE 67 BORDER...
• 22:56 BUT NOBLIS IS HERE...
• 22:58 HERE'S JERUSALEM...
• 22:59 YOU CAN SEE
• 23:00 THE BORDER WENT RIGHT THROUGH
• 23:02 THE HEART OF THE CITY
• 23:03 AND ISRAEL HAD THE WESTERN PART
• 23:05 AND THE ARABS HAD THE EASTERN PART...ITS TINY.
• 23:08 AND ALL THE WAY ACROSS
• 23:10 IF YOU TAKE THAT LINE OUT
• 23:11 RIGHT HERE IT'S ABOUT 30 MILES.
• 23:13 AT ITS WIDEST ITS 55 MILES,
• 23:15 IT'S TINY.
• 23:16 IF I UNDERSTAND CORRECTLY,
• 23:17 THE BIBLICAL VISION
• 23:18 EXTENDS DOWNWARD FURTHER THIS WAY.
• 23:20 IT EXTENDS UPWARD
• 23:21 TO THE EUPHRATES OUT THIS WAY.
• 23:24 THAT'S THE BIBLICAL VISION.
• 23:25 THE PALESTINIAN VISION,
• 23:26 THE MANDATE CALLS FOR
• 23:27 PUSHING ISRAEL INTO THE SEA.
• 23:29 I MEAN WE'RE GETTING AWFUL NARROW HERE AREN'T WE?
• 23:33 AND WE TALKED EARLIER
• 23:34 ABOUT THE PARTITION PLAN,
• 23:35 THE U.N. PARTITION PLAN,
• 23:36 AND IT WAS EVEN SMALLER WHAT ISRAEL WAS GOING TO HAVE.
• 23:39 THE ARABS WOULD HAVE HAD A PART OF THIS;
• 23:41 THEY WOULD HAVE HAD FURTHER DOWN HERE, ETC.
• 23:44 BUT EVEN WITHOUT THAT,
• 23:45 EVEN WITH WHAT THEY GOT IN THE 48 WAR ITS TINY
• 23:49 AND TO GIVE THAT BACK TO THE PALESTINIANS FOR A STATE
• 23:51 IS GOING AGAIN LEAVE ISRAEL EXTREMELY EXPOSED.
• 23:54 SHE'S 1/8TH OF 1 PER CENT
• 23:56 OF THE POPULATION OF THE WHOLE MIDDLE EAST.
• 23:59 A TINY LITTLE LAND
• 24:01 WITH JUST A FEW MILLION PEOPLE,
• 24:02 IT'S VERY VULNERABLE TO
• 24:04 MISSILE ATTACK IN PARTICULAR.
• 24:05 YEAH WE CAN SEE IT FROM HERE,
• 24:07 THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA;
• 24:10 IT'S A STONE'S THROW AWAY IN EFFECT.
• 24:12 TELL ME WHAT YOU THINK OF THIS.
• 24:14 LET'S SAY THERE'S A MAN
• 24:15 WHO IS UNHAPPY WITH HIS WIFE,
• 24:16 FIGURE SHE WEIGHS 120 POUNDS...
• 24:18 "IF YOU'D LOSE 10 POUNDS I'D LOVE YOU MORE."
• 24:20 SHE LOSES 10 POUNDS.
• 24:21 SHE'S 110 POUNDS.
• 24:22 "IF YOU'D LOSE 10 POUNDS MORE WE'D GET ALONG."
• 24:24 "IF YOU'D LOSE 10 POUNDS MORE...10 POUNDS MORE."
• 24:26 IT GETS TO THE POINT,
• 24:28 IT'S NOT ABOUT THE POUNDS,
• 24:29 THERE'S SOMETHING WRONG IN THE THOUGHT PROCESS.
• 24:31 OH, IF JEWS WOULD JUST GIVE UP A LITTLE MORE OF THE REAL ESTATE
• 24:34 IT'S A SMALL PARCEL
• 24:35 AND WE'RE ALREADY PUSHING AGAINST IT TO GOBBLE MORE AND MORE OF THE JEWISH HOMELAND.
• 24:40 THIS ISN'T THE BIBLE.
• 24:41 WHO EVER CARVED UP THIS TURKEY
• 24:43 NEVER READ THE BIBLICAL TEXT.
• 24:44 EXACTLY.
• 24:47 ISRAEL IS SO VERY SMALL...
• 24:52 BUT THE FORCES BENT ON HER DESTRUCTION ARE SO VERY LARGE.
• 24:59 THEY'RE LIKE HOWLING WOLVES WITH VERACIOUS, INSATIABLE APPETITES
• 25:06 WANTING TO DEVOUR.
• 25:08 AND THAT IS WHERE ISRAEL FINDS ITSELF TODAY,
• 25:12 BEING MALIGNED IN THE PRESS,
• 25:15 BEING MALIGNED IN THE PULPIT,
• 25:19 BEING DISPARAGED IN THE PEW,
• 25:22 AND THAT'S WHY I WANT TO TALK TO YOU.
• 25:27 AND IF YOU'LL PERMIT ME
• 25:29 TO TALK FRANKLY,
• 25:32 WE NEED HELP IN TELLING
• 25:35 THIS KIND OF STORY
• 25:37 BECAUSE PEOPLE ARE HELL BENT
• 25:39 ON DESTROYING THE JEWISH STATE.
• 25:43 YOU MIGHT SAY,
• 25:45 "JEFFREY I'M SYMPATHETIC BUT FOR GOD'S SAKE MAN, WHAT DO YOU WANT ME TO DO?"
• 25:49 WELL, I'D LIKE YOU TO HELP ME
• 25:56 BELIEVING THAT TOGETHER
• 25:57 WE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE.
• 26:02 IN FACT, FROM TIME IMMEMORIAL,
• 26:05 MINISTERS HAVE BEEN STANDING UP AND SAYING, "LET'S GO"
• 26:09 AGAINST ODDS THAT SEEM INSURMOUNTABLE,
• 26:12 AND YOU KNOW WHAT,
• 26:14 GOD RAISES UP THE DAVIDS OF THE WORLD TO THROW PEBBLES,
• 26:17 HE RAISES UP THE ARCHERS IN THE WORLD TO SHOOT ARROWS
• 26:20 AND SOMEHOW WE BEAT BACK THE PREVAILING DARKNESS.
• 26:25 IN HIS DAY,
• 26:27 ON MORE THAN ONE OCCASION,
• 26:28 PAUL FOUND HIMSELF
• 26:29 BETWEEN A ROCK AND A HARD PLACE
• 26:31 AND WHEN HE WROTE THE PHILIPPIANS
• 26:33 HE WAS IN A HARD PLACE
• 26:35 BUT HE SAID, YOU KNOW,
• 26:36 I WANT TO THANK YOU FOR YOU'RE CARING.
• 26:38 IN THE 4TH CHAPTER, VERSE 14
• 26:41 HE SAID,
• 26:46 I DON'T WANT TO GET UP HERE AND WHINE
• 26:48 BUT I WANT TO TELL YOU
• 26:50 THAT ITS PAINFUL,
• 26:51 IT'S DIFFICULT,
• 26:53 IT'S NOT EASY
• 26:54 TO BE ON NATIONALLY SYNDICATED TELEVISION,
• 26:56 IT'S NOT EASY
• 26:57 TO MANAGE THESE BILLS.
• 26:59 PAUL THANKED THEM FOR SHARING IN HIS BURDEN
• 27:02 AND HE SAID THAT FEW
• 27:05 IN VERSE 15
• 27:06 ACTUALLY SHARED IN GIVING AND RECEIVING.
• 27:09 AND OUT OF THE HUNDREDS, AND HUNDREDS, AND HUNDREDS
• 27:12 OF THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE THAT WATCH THIS PROGRAM,
• 27:17 PRECIOUS FEW HELP US TO GET IT TO THE WORLD.
• 27:20 LET ME TALK TO YOU PLEASE.
• 27:22 "ERETZ ISRAEL" IS IN PRODUCTION RIGHT NOW.
• 27:25 IT COSTS A SMALL FORTUNE
• 27:27 TO GET IT ALL DONE
• 27:29 AND WE'RE LABORING TO DO IT
• 27:30 BUT THE HARVEST IS PLENTIFUL
• 27:31 AND THE LABORERS ARE FEW.
• 27:34 HOW ABOUT YOU?
• 27:37 IT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE A FORTUNE.
• 27:39 BY ALL MEANS SEND ONE IF YOU LIKE.
• 27:41 A DIME OR A DOLLAR, I DON'T CARE
• 27:43 BUT I JUST WANT YOU TO SHARE
• 27:44 TO HELP US TO DO GOD'S BIDDING.
• 27:46 THANKS IN ADVANCE.
• 27:47 AND AS YOU GO NOW,
• 27:48 SHA'ALU SHALOM YERUSHALAYIM
• 27:50 PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM