Caption transcript for “Making a Difference”

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