Caption transcript for Abraham: Father of Faith — “Deliverance and Increase” (6/8)

• 00:01 (♪ Theme ♪)
• 00:24 ( Speaking Hebrew )
• 00:29 ( Speaking Hebrew )
• 00:49 Myles Weiss: SHALOM AND WELCOME
• 00:50 TO ZOLA LEVITT PRESENTS.
• 00:51 I'M MYLES WEISS.
• 00:53 Katharine Weiss: AND I'M
• 00:54 KATHARINE WEISS AND WE WANT TO
• 00:55 WELCOME YOU BACK IN THE SERIES
• 00:56 OF "ABRAHAM,
• 00:57 THE FATHER OF FAITH."
• 00:58 Myles: YES, WHAT A GREAT STORY.
• 00:59 WE'RE ABOUT TO GO DOWN TO GERAR
• 01:01 WITH ABRAHAM AND SARAH.
• 01:02 Katharine: YEAH,
• 01:03 THERE'S SO MANY LESSONS AGAIN
• 01:04 LIKE WE WERE SAYING BEFORE
• 01:06 IN THE LIFE OF ABRAHAM
• 01:07 AND WE'RE GOING TO SEE GOD
• 01:08 PRESERVE SARAH ONCE AGAIN.
• 01:10 Myles: I KNOW; ABRAHAM IS
• 01:11 ABOUT TO MAKE THE SAME MISTAKE
• 01:13 AND SO WE FIND OUT
• 01:14 THAT WHEN A PROMISE COMES,
• 01:16 IT REQUIRES PATIENCE.
• 01:17 Katharine: RIGHT.
• 01:18 Myles: AND ALSO WE SEE THAT
• 01:20 WHENEVER THERE'S AN ALTAR,
• 01:21 THAT ALIGNS US
• 01:22 WITH THE PURPOSES OF GOD.
• 01:23 Katharine: RIGHT, RIGHT.
• 01:24 Myles: ABRAHAM IS A MAN
• 01:25 OF ALTARS; WE'VE SAID THAT
• 01:26 AND SO WE SEE THAT HE KEEPS
• 01:27 COMING BACK TO GET HIMSELF
• 01:28 RIGHT WITH GOD.
• 01:30 Katharine: BUT GOD PRESERVES HIM
• 01:32 AND THE LINE OF SARAH;
• 01:34 HE ACTUALLY GIVES ABIMELECH
• 01:36 A DREAM, SAYING,
• 01:37 "DON'T GO NEAR HER."
• 01:39 THEY MAKE THE SAME MISTAKE
• 01:40 AGAIN; THEY BOTH AGREE TO LIE,
• 01:43 BUT GOD SUPERSEDES IT
• 01:45 AND PRESERVES THEIR LINE.
• 01:46 Myles: THAT'S RIGHT.
• 01:47 SO LET'S PICK UP OUR STORY
• 01:48 WITH ABRAHAM AND SARAH
• 01:49 AS THEY ENCOUNTER ABIMELECH.
• 01:54 Narrator: "AND ABRAHAM JOURNEYED
• 01:55 TOWARD THE SOUTH COUNTRY
• 01:58 AND DWELLED BETWEEN KADESH AND
• 02:00 SHUR AND SOJOURNED IN GERAR."
• 02:07 ( Speaking Hebrew )
• 03:28 Myles: ABRAHAM AND SARAH
• 03:29 ARE HEADING TOWARDS GERAR.
• 03:31 GERAR IS A DESERT PLACE.
• 03:33 IT'S A DIFFICULT PLACE AND IT'S
• 03:35 WHERE ABIMELECH IS THE KING.
• 03:38 AND ABRAHAM IS GOING TO DO
• 03:39 THE SAME THING THAT HE DID
• 03:41 PREVIOUSLY.
• 03:42 HE'S GOING TO ASK SARAH
• 03:43 TO LIE ON HIS BEHALF.
• 03:45 IT'S AMAZING,
• 03:46 BUT IT SPEAKS TO US
• 03:47 ABOUT THE SENSITIVITY
• 03:48 AND THE VULNERABILITY
• 03:49 THAT YOU AND I HAVE TO DECEIT,
• 03:52 TO LYING AND OUR NEED
• 03:53 TO CONTINUALLY COME BACK TO GOD
• 03:55 FOR REPENTANCE, FORGIVENESS
• 03:57 AND TO WALK WITH HIM.
• 03:59 THE SCRIPTURE SAYS,
• 04:00 ( Speaking Hebrew )
• 04:07 ONE MORE TIME, HE IS ASKING HER
• 04:09 TO SAY THE SAME THING,
• 04:10 "PLEASE TELL THEM
• 04:11 YOU'RE MY SISTER."
• 04:12 NOW, WE ARE NOT SURE
• 04:14 WHETHER IT'S BECAUSE SHE WAS
• 04:15 SO BEAUTIFUL AT THEIR LATE AGE
• 04:17 BECAUSE OF THE ATMOSPHERE
• 04:18 BACK IN THOSE DAYS
• 04:19 THAT THERE WAS A DIFFERENT KIND
• 04:21 OF AN OXYGEN LEVEL,
• 04:22 THERE WAS A DIFFERENT KIND OF
• 04:23 A SCIENTIFIC BIOLOGICAL SETTING
• 04:26 THAT PRESERVED THEM LONGER
• 04:28 BECAUSE WE KNOW THAT PEOPLE
• 04:29 LIVED LONGER TIME,
• 04:30 OR WHETHER IT WAS BECAUSE
• 04:31 THE RUMOR HAD GONE FORTH,
• 04:33 THE TESTIMONY HAD GONE FORTH
• 04:35 ABOUT ABRAHAM'S VICTORY
• 04:37 WITH HIS 318 MEN,
• 04:40 THAT HE IN FACT BEAT THE KINGS
• 04:42 IN THAT PREVIOUS WAR.
• 04:43 BUT SOMEHOW, WHETHER ABIMELECH
• 04:45 WAS MAKING AN ALLIANCE WITH HIM
• 04:47 OR WHETHER HE WAS CAPTIVATED BY
• 04:48 HER BEAUTY OR SOME COMBINATION
• 04:50 OF THE TWO, IT'S CLEAR
• 04:52 THAT ABRAHAM AND SARAH
• 04:55 ARE IN A SIMILAR SITUATION
• 04:57 THAT THEY WERE PREVIOUSLY.
• 04:58 AND SO ABRAHAM, ONCE AGAIN,
• 05:00 IS ASKING HER TO STAND WITH HIM
• 05:02 IN THIS LIE,
• 05:04 "YOU ARE MY SISTER..."
• 05:05 HALF LIE BECAUSE
• 05:06 SHE WAS HIS HALF-SISTER.
• 05:08 YOU KNOW, IT REMINDS ME
• 05:09 THAT IN EVERY GENERATION
• 05:11 WE'RE CALLED TO FOLLOW THE LORD.
• 05:13 WE'RE--THE INVITATION IS OPEN
• 05:16 TO US TO FOLLOW HIM.
• 05:17 LISTEN TO THIS TESTIMONY.
• 05:19 IN 1654, NOVEMBER 23rd
• 05:22 TO BE EXACT, BLAISE PASCAL,
• 05:24 MATHEMATICIAN, BON VIVANT,
• 05:26 SKEPTIC, SCIENTIST, THE LEAST
• 05:30 AMONG THOSE WHO WOULD BE ONE
• 05:31 GIVEN TO GOD, HAD AN EXPERIENCE
• 05:33 THAT CHANGED HIS LIFE FOREVER
• 05:35 WITH THE GOD OF ABRAHAM.
• 05:37 THIS IS WHAT HE SAID:
• 05:52 BLAISE PASCAL,
• 05:53 THE MATHEMATICIAN,
• 05:54 HAD AN EXPERIENCE THAT HE SAID
• 05:56 WAS BEYOND SCHOLARSHIP,
• 05:58 IT WAS BEYOND PHILOSOPHY.
• 05:59 IT WAS A PERSONAL ENCOUNTER
• 06:01 WITH THE GOD OF ABRAHAM,
• 06:03 ISAAC AND JACOB
• 06:04 AND THAT'S HOW HE DESCRIBED HIM.
• 06:05 IT REMINDS ME ALSO,
• 06:06 IN OUR GENERATION PREVIOUSLY,
• 06:09 ALBERT EINSTEIN SPOKE OF JESUS
• 06:11 AS THAT LUMINOUS FIGURE
• 06:12 OF THE NAZARENE,
• 06:14 THIS COMPELLING CHARACTER
• 06:16 THAT HE WAS DRAWN TO.
• 06:17 IN EVERY GENERATION
• 06:19 THE OPPORTUNITY IS OPEN TO JEW
• 06:21 AND GENTILE ALIKE TO BE DRAWN
• 06:23 INTO RELATIONSHIP WITH THE GOD
• 06:25 OF ABRAHAM, ISAAC AND JACOB.
• 06:27 NOW THIS PLACE, GERAR,
• 06:29 IS STILL A PLACE OF CONTENTION
• 06:31 IN OUR DAY.
• 06:32 IT'S VERY NEAR WHAT'S KNOWN AS
• 06:33 THE GAZA STRIP.
• 06:35 AND WHAT IS TAKING PLACE HERE
• 06:37 AND THE CONFLICT HERE,
• 06:38 ESPECIALLY FROM 2005 FORWARD,
• 06:40 IS A REPLAYING OF THE ANCIENT
• 06:42 HISTORY OF THE CONFLICT
• 06:43 BETWEEN THE ISRAELITES
• 06:45 AND THE SO-CALLED PHILISTINES.
• 06:47 VERY INTERESTING.
• 06:48 THE PHILISTINES, THE PEOPLE THAT
• 06:49 BECAME KNOWN AS PHILISTINES,
• 06:51 WERE ACTUALLY SEAFARERS
• 06:53 FROM GREECE.
• 06:54 THEY LANDED IN THE COASTS
• 06:55 OF ISRAEL, THEY ESTABLISHED
• 06:57 THEMSELVES HERE.
• 06:58 EVENTUALLY THEY BECAME FARMERS
• 07:00 AND GROWERS AND GREAT WARRIORS.
• 07:02 AND THEY BECAME
• 07:03 THE GREATEST ENEMIES OF ISRAEL.
• 07:05 ISN'T IT AMAZING THAT IN 1964,
• 07:08 IN 1967, YASSER ARAFAT
• 07:10 ADOPTED THAT NAME "PHILISTINE,"
• 07:13 "PALESTINE," "PALESTINIANS"
• 07:16 IN ORDER TO TIE
• 07:17 THE ARABIC PEOPLES
• 07:18 OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD INTO
• 07:20 THE HISTORY OF THE PHILISTINES
• 07:22 AND THE CONFLICT
• 07:23 WITH THE JEWISH PEOPLE.
• 07:24 ONE PROBLEM...
• 07:25 THESE WERE NOT ARABIC PEOPLES.
• 07:27 THESE WERE PEOPLE THAT CAME
• 07:28 FROM GREECE, MIGRATED HERE,
• 07:30 AND WERE, IN FACT, PHILISTINES,
• 07:33 COMPLETELY UNRELATED
• 07:35 TO THE MODERN DAY ARABIC PEOPLES
• 07:37 OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD.
• 07:38 WELL, WE KNOW WHAT'S HAPPENED
• 07:39 SINCE THEN.
• 07:40 THE CONFLICT CONTINUES,
• 07:42 THE ARGUMENTS OVER
• 07:43 WHO BELONGS HERE, THE DISCUSSION
• 07:45 ABOUT WHAT TO DO WITH THIS LAND.
• 07:46 AND ONE OF THE MOST
• 07:47 TRAGIC THINGS THAT I'VE SEEN,
• 07:49 SINCE 2005 FORWARD, HAS BEEN
• 07:52 THE DISENGAGEMENT PROMPTED
• 07:54 BY ARIEL SHARON AND THE MOVING
• 07:56 OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE AWAY FROM
• 07:58 THE INCREDIBLE COMMUNITIES
• 08:00 THAT WERE BUILT IN THE AREA
• 08:02 ALONG THE COASTLINE.
• 08:04 AND IN THAT AREA, GREENHOUSES
• 08:07 AND EXPORTING OF FLOWERS
• 08:08 AND FRUITS AND VEGETABLES,
• 08:10 AN INCREDIBLE, BEAUTIFUL
• 08:12 PRODUCTION WAS VIRTUALLY
• 08:15 OVERNIGHT TORN DOWN,
• 08:16 RIPPED APART, AND EVEN THOUGH
• 08:18 THERE WAS A PROMISE
• 08:19 OF GIVING IT, DONATING IT
• 08:21 TO THE ARABIC PEOPLES
• 08:22 THAT WOULD STAY THERE,
• 08:23 THAT WOULD MOVE IN THERE,
• 08:24 THEY PREFERRED TO TEAR IT DOWN,
• 08:26 TO DESTROY IT AND MAKE IT
• 08:27 A STAGING PLACE FOR ROCKETS
• 08:30 INTO ISRAEL.
• 08:33 AND THAT IS ONE OF THE MOST
• 08:34 TRAGIC ASPECTS OF THE AREA
• 08:37 AND THE HISTORY HERE
• 08:38 GOES BACK SO FAR, IT GOES BACK
• 08:40 TO THE TIME OF ABRAHAM.
• 08:42 THE GOD OF ABRAHAM
• 08:43 CALLED HIM TO THIS PLACE.
• 08:45 ABRAHAM IS ABOUT TO COME INTO
• 08:47 THE SAME CONFLICT.
• 08:49 HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF.
• 08:50 I'M REMINDED OF THE PHILOSOPHER,
• 08:51 GEORGE SANTAYANA, WHO SAID,
• 08:53 "THOSE WHO DO NOT
• 08:54 REMEMBER HISTORY
• 08:55 ARE CONDEMNED TO REPEAT IT."
• 08:56 AND I THINK THAT'S TRUE
• 08:57 ON A PERSONAL LEVEL WITH US
• 08:59 IN OUR SITUATIONS
• 09:01 AND ALSO ON A NATIONAL
• 09:02 AND INTERNATIONAL LEVEL.
• 09:06 Announcer: FOR INSIGHTFUL PERSPECTIVES
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• 09:41 Narrator: AND THE KING OF GERAR,
• 09:43 ABIMELECH, SENT FOR SARAH
• 09:45 AND TOOK HER.
• 09:48 ( Disturbed Outcries )
• 09:54 ( Panting )
• 09:58 ( Speaking Hebrew )
• 11:07 Myles: THE STORY IS SO MUCH
• 11:08 A STORY OF INTERACTION WITH GOD
• 11:11 AND THEN INTERACTION
• 11:12 WITH MANKIND,
• 11:13 AND EVEN THE PLANTING OF TREES
• 11:15 IN THE DESERT.
• 11:16 THERE BEHIND ME YOU SEE
• 11:17 A TAMARISK TREE.
• 11:18 ABRAHAM IS GOING TO PLANT ONE
• 11:20 WHICH IS NOT NATIVE TO THE AREA
• 11:22 IN BEERSHEVA LATER IN OUR STORY
• 11:24 BECAUSE HE WANTS TO MEMORIALIZE
• 11:26 THE MEETINGS WITH GOD
• 11:27 THAT HE'S HAVING.
• 11:28 WHETHER HE IS BUILDING AN ALTAR,
• 11:29 PLANTING A TREE, IT REMINDS ME
• 11:30 OF WHEN OUR FIRSTBORN SON CAME.
• 11:32 JONATHAN WAS BORN AND WE PLANTED
• 11:34 A TREE IN THE FRONT OF THE HOUSE
• 11:36 TO SAY, "THANK YOU, GOD."
• 11:38 THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT MEETING
• 11:39 WITH GOD, THE PLANTING OF TREES,
• 11:41 EVEN IN THIS FOREIGN LAND,
• 11:43 TO YOU, IF YOU'RE IN AMERICA,
• 11:44 PEOPLE COME HERE ALL THE TIME
• 11:46 AND PLANT TREES IN ISRAEL
• 11:48 AS A WAY OF REFORESTING THE LAND
• 11:50 AND ALSO MEMORIALIZING
• 11:51 THE PEOPLE IN THEIR LIVES.
• 11:53 WE'RE IN THE MIDST OF THIS DRAMA
• 11:54 UNFOLDING WHERE ABRAHAM,
• 11:57 ONCE AGAIN, IS GOING TO LIE
• 11:59 TO A RULER.
• 12:01 Katharine: YEAH, IT'S A WICKED
• 12:02 KING THE SCRIPTURES CALLS HIM.
• 12:04 HE'S AN UNRIGHTEOUS MAN AND YET
• 12:06 GOD SOVEREIGNLY INTERVENES
• 12:08 ON SARAH'S BEHALF AND ON BEHALF
• 12:10 OF THE LINE THAT HE HAD
• 12:11 PREORDAINED TO BRING FORTH
• 12:13 THE MESSIAH.
• 12:15 AND WHAT HAPPENED IS ABRAHAM
• 12:17 LIES, SARAH GOES IN AND SUCCUMBS
• 12:20 TO ABRAHAM'S WISHES.
• 12:22 IT IS THE FIRST TIME
• 12:23 THAT HE SAYS, "BE KIND TO ME AND
• 12:25 HELP ME GET OVER ON THIS KING,"
• 12:28 AND GOD GIVES ABIMELECH A DREAM
• 12:31 IN THE NIGHT BECAUSE
• 12:32 A PLAGUE HAD HIT THIS FAMILY
• 12:34 AND ALL THEIR WOMBS
• 12:35 HAD BEEN CLOSED UP.
• 12:37 AND GOD GAVE HIM A DREAM
• 12:38 AND SHOWED HIM
• 12:39 THAT THIS WOMAN SARAH
• 12:41 HAD ALREADY BEEN MARRIED
• 12:42 AND IT WAS ABRAHAM'S WIFE.
• 12:43 Myles: AND IT REALLY SAYS
• 12:45 SOMETHING ABOUT GOD'S VALUE
• 12:46 FOR MARRIAGE, DOESN'T IT,
• 12:47 THAT HE REALLY IS INVESTED
• 12:49 IN MARRIAGE,
• 12:50 WHETHER IT'S OURS OR YOURS.
• 12:51 IF YOU'RE A MARRIED PERSON,
• 12:52 GOD IS THE THIRD PERSON
• 12:54 IN THAT COVENANT.
• 12:55 HE TAKES IT VERY SERIOUSLY,
• 12:57 AND SO HE STOPS ABIMELECH
• 12:58 IN TIME SO THAT ABIMELECH
• 13:00 DOES NOT SIN AGAINST GOD.
• 13:02 AND ABIMELECH CAN'T WAIT TO MOVE
• 13:04 THEM OUT AND AWAY FROM HIMSELF
• 13:06 IN ORDER TO HONOR GOD
• 13:08 AND NOT SIN AGAINST THE LORD.
• 13:10 AND REALLY, AT THAT POINT,
• 13:12 GOD'S TESTIMONY OF ABRAHAM
• 13:13 IN THE MIDST OF ALL
• 13:14 THIS MISHEGOSS AND DRAMA,
• 13:16 IN THE MIDST OF ALL
• 13:17 THE CRAZINESS, HIS TESTIMONY
• 13:18 IS THAT HE'S A PROPHET.
• 13:20 Katharine: WELL, ABIMELECH SAID,
• 13:22 "HAVE THIS PROPHET--"
• 13:23 GOD SAID, "HAVE THIS PROPHET
• 13:24 PRAY FOR YOU
• 13:25 AND YOU WILL BE HEALED."
• 13:26 AND THAT'S EXACTLY
• 13:27 WHAT HAPPENED.
• 13:28 ABIMELECH CALLED ABRAHAM
• 13:29 TO PRAY FOR HIS FAMILY
• 13:30 AND THEY WERE HEALED.
• 13:31 Myles: AND THE ROLE
• 13:32 OF THE PROPHET
• 13:33 IS REALLY UNDERSCORED HERE.
• 13:34 WE SEE THAT THE PROPHET IS--
• 13:35 IN THE OLD TESTAMENT
• 13:37 THE PROPHET IS A FORETELLER,
• 13:38 LET'S YOU KNOW WHAT'S
• 13:39 GOING TO HAPPEN;
• 13:40 HE'S A FORTHTELLER,
• 13:41 HE UNVEILS WHAT GOD IS DOING.
• 13:43 HE MAY REBUKE, HE MAY CORRECT.
• 13:45 AND THEN, IN THE NEW TESTAMENT,
• 13:46 THAT ROLE IS STILL EXTENSIVE,
• 13:48 IT'S STILL HAPPENING
• 13:49 IN THE NEW TESTAMENT IN THE ROLE
• 13:51 OF THE PROPHETIC VOICE
• 13:52 IN THE CHURCH,
• 13:53 IN THE CONGREGATION
• 13:54 WHERE THE PROPHETIC VOICE
• 13:56 COMES TO EXHORT, TO EDIFY
• 13:58 AND TO COMFORT.
• 13:59 AND WE NEED TO HEAR
• 14:01 THAT VOICE OF THE LORD; GOD
• 14:02 IS SPEAKING IN THE EARTH TODAY.
• 14:04 IN FACT, THE WORD FOR "DESERT"
• 14:06 MEANS "TO SPEAK," "B'MIDBAR."
• 14:07 IT HAS TO DO WITH SPEAKING.
• 14:09 IT'S A PLACE WHERE WE HEAR
• 14:10 FROM GOD; AND ABRAHAM
• 14:12 AND SARAH AND ABIMELECH
• 14:14 HAVE HEARD FROM GOD
• 14:15 BECAUSE GOD'S TESTIMONY IS THAT
• 14:17 HE'S BRINGING ABRAHAM FROM GLORY
• 14:19 TO GLORY AND THAT'S WHAT HE
• 14:20 WANTS TO DO FOR YOU AND FOR US.
• 14:22 HE SAYS IN II CORINTHIANS 3:18
• 14:25 THAT HE WOULD BRING US
• 14:26 FROM GLORY TO GLORY.
• 14:27 AND IN SPITE OF OUR MEANDERINGS
• 14:29 AND OUR SETBACKS
• 14:31 AND THE WAY WE THAT FALL,
• 14:32 HE SAYS THE RIGHTEOUS MAN
• 14:33 GETS UP SEVEN TIMES.
• 14:35 AND THIS TESTIMONY OF ABRAHAM IS
• 14:37 HE'S A FRIEND, HE'S A PROPHET
• 14:39 AND HE'S MOVING
• 14:40 FROM GLORY TO GLORY.
• 14:41 Katharine: YOU KNOW,
• 14:42 IT'S ALSO INTERESTING TO ME
• 14:43 HOW GOD RESCUES SARAH.
• 14:45 HE CAUSES HER TO BE ABLE TO BE
• 14:47 COVERED BECAUSE THE WORD SAYS,
• 14:50 "TOUCH NOT MINE ANOINTED
• 14:51 AND DO MY PROPHETS NO HARM."
• 14:53 HE WAS ESTABLISHING HIS
• 14:55 PROPHETIC LINE, HIS DESTINY LINE
• 14:58 THROUGH SARAH AND ABRAHAM
• 15:00 AND HE DIDN'T WANT ANYTHING TO
• 15:01 INTERVENE, SO HE KEPT HER FOR
• 15:03 THAT PROMISE TO BE FULFILLED.
• 15:05 Myles: THAT'S RIGHT AND WHATEVER
• 15:06 YOU'RE FACING TODAY,
• 15:07 GOD IS GOING TO KEEP HIS PROMISE
• 15:09 TO YOU.
• 15:10 HE HAS GREAT THINGS AHEAD
• 15:11 FOR YOU, AND JUST AS HE DID
• 15:12 FOR ABRAHAM AND SARAH,
• 15:14 HE'S GOING TO DO THAT
• 15:15 FOR YOU AS WELL.
• 15:18 (♪ Music ♪)
• 15:51 Katharine: ISRAEL...
• 15:52 IT IS A WONDERFUL PLACE
• 15:54 TO VISIT AND IT'S BEAUTIFUL.
• 15:56 IT'S A PLACE OF COVENANTS.
• 15:57 IT'S A PLACE WHERE GOD CALLS
• 15:59 THIS LAND HIS LAND
• 16:01 AND HIS DESIRE IS IN THIS PLACE.
• 16:03 WE'D LOVE TO HOST YOU ON A TOUR.
• 16:05 PLEASE GO TO 1-800-WONDERS
• 16:07 AND JOIN US.
• 16:08 Myles: COME WITH US.
• 16:09 WE WOULD LOVE TO BRING YOU
• 16:10 THERE AND YOU'LL WORSHIP
• 16:12 ON THE SEA OF GALILEE,
• 16:13 YOU'LL SEE ALL THE SITES
• 16:14 YOU'VE BEEN READING ABOUT
• 16:15 YOUR WHOLE LIFE
• 16:17 AND THEY JUST REALLY COME ALIVE
• 16:18 WHEN YOU'RE THERE.
• 16:19 SCRIPTURE COMES ALIVE.
• 16:21 IT'S AN AMAZING TIME
• 16:22 TO BE TOGETHER.
• 16:23 WE'VE SEEN SOME GREAT THINGS
• 16:24 HAPPEN THERE; NEVER GETS OLD.
• 16:26 Katharine: NEVER.
• 16:27 Myles: I LOVE RETURNING
• 16:28 EVERY TIME.
• 16:29 YOU KNOW, A GOOD WAY TO KNOW
• 16:30 WHAT'S GOING HERE
• 16:31 AT ZOLA LEVITT MINISTRIES
• 16:32 IS BY RECEIVING
• 16:33 OUR FREE NEWSLETTER.
• 16:34 IT'S THE LEVITT LETTER.
• 16:35 IT'S A GREAT MAGAZINE.
• 16:36 IT'S MORE THAN A NEWSLETTER.
• 16:38 IT'S REALLY A FULL MAGAZINE.
• 16:39 IT HAS ARTICLES ABOUT
• 16:41 THE MIDDLE EAST, ABOUT ISRAEL.
• 16:43 IT HAS BIBLE LESSONS,
• 16:44 A HEBREW LESSON.
• 16:45 IT'S VERY EDIFYING.
• 16:46 IT WILL HELP YOU TO SIFT
• 16:48 THROUGH ALL OF THE MEDIA AND ALL
• 16:50 OF THE INFORMATION THAT'S BEING
• 16:51 THROWN AT YOU ON A DAILY BASIS.
• 16:53 Katharine: CUTTING-EDGE
• 16:54 INFORMATION.
• 16:55 Myles: IT REALLY IS CUTTING EDGE
• 16:56 AND REALLY DOES THE WORK
• 16:57 OF GETTING YOU TO THE HEARTBEAT
• 16:58 OF WHAT'S REALLY GOING ON
• 16:59 IN THE MIDDLE EAST
• 17:00 AND WITH ISRAEL.
• 17:01 OUR OFFER THIS WEEK IS
• 17:03 "ABRAHAM, FATHER OF FAITH,"
• 17:05 THE VERY SERIES THAT
• 17:06 WE'RE SHOWING YOU RIGHT NOW.
• 17:08 OUR ANNOUNCER, LATER
• 17:09 IN THE PROGRAM, WILL TELL YOU
• 17:10 HOW YOU CAN GET AHOLD OF THAT.
• 17:11 YOU CAN ALSO GET IN TOUCH
• 17:13 WITH US; FACEBOOK, YOUTUBE,
• 17:15 TWITTER, WE'RE EVERYWHERE.
• 17:17 OUR DESIRE IS TO REALLY USE
• 17:19 EVERY MEANS POSSIBLE
• 17:21 TO STAY IN TOUCH WITH YOU
• 17:23 AND TO BRING THE GOSPEL
• 17:24 OF THE KINGDOM TO OUR VIEWERS.
• 17:27 Katharine: OUR LAST TOUR,
• 17:28 A COUPLE OF PEOPLE CAME UP TO ME
• 17:30 AND SAID THEY HAD PURCHASED
• 17:31 THE RUTH SERIES
• 17:32 AND HOW EDIFIED THEY WERE
• 17:34 BY GATHERING SOME OF
• 17:35 THEIR SMALL GROUPS IN THEIR HOME
• 17:37 AND GOING THROUGH IT
• 17:38 AND BEING ABLE TO SEE THE LAND
• 17:39 AND THE TEACHING
• 17:40 WAS REALLY EDIFYING.
• 17:42 Myles: I KNOW, IT'S GREAT.
• 17:43 PEOPLE HAVE TOLD US
• 17:44 THAT THEY REALLY CAME
• 17:45 TO A GREATER UNDERSTANDING
• 17:46 OF THE BOOK OF RUTH
• 17:47 BY SEEING THAT.
• 17:48 I KNOW THAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN
• 17:49 WITH ABRAHAM AS WELL.
• 17:50 IT'S JUST THE WAY
• 17:51 THESE THINGS GO.
• 17:52 Katharine: AND ABRAHAM'S A MAN
• 17:53 THAT WE CAN DRAW STRENGTH FROM
• 17:54 BECAUSE HE'S NOT PERFECT.
• 17:56 BUT GOD HIMSELF MAKES A COVENANT
• 17:58 WITH THIS MAN AND KEEPS HIM
• 18:01 ACCORDING TO HIS PLAN.
• 18:02 HE KEEPS SARAH BECAUSE GOD HAS
• 18:05 ORDAINED AT THE APPOINTED TIME
• 18:06 THAT SHE WOULD BE THE ONE
• 18:07 THAT WOULD BRING FORTH THE LINE.
• 18:09 Myles: AND GOD CALLS HIM
• 18:10 A PROPHET AND GOD REVEALS HIM
• 18:13 AS ONE WHO IS A FRIEND.
• 18:15 IT'S JUST REALLY VERY
• 18:17 ENCOURAGING FOR THE REST OF US
• 18:18 TO WATCH ABRAHAM AND SARAH
• 18:20 COME THROUGH THIS BECAUSE
• 18:21 OF GOD'S SOVEREIGN LOVE.
• 18:23 SO LET'S PICK UP OUR STORY
• 18:24 WITH ABIMELECH AND ABRAHAM
• 18:26 AND SARAH RIGHT NOW.
• 18:31 ( Speaking Hebrew )
• 19:44 Myles: ABRAHAM REALLY IS
• 19:45 THE FATHER OF FAITH
• 19:46 AND HIS STORY IS
• 19:47 SO INSTRUCTIVE TO US, IT'S SO--
• 19:49 IT'S A PARALLEL WITH THE WALK
• 19:52 THAT WE ARE CALLED TO.
• 19:54 I'M THINKING ABOUT,
• 19:55 EVEN IN THIS BLESSING,
• 19:56 WHEN ABIMELECH SENDS HIM OUT
• 19:58 WITH A THOUSAND SHEKELS,
• 19:59 A THOUSAND PIECES OF SILVER
• 20:02 AS A SIGN TO ALL OF THOSE
• 20:04 AROUND HIM THAT EVERYTHING
• 20:05 IS OKAY BETWEEN THIS KING
• 20:07 AND ABRAHAM AND SARAH.
• 20:08 THERE'S NO STRIFE.
• 20:09 THERE'S NO DIFFICULTY.
• 20:11 IT REMINDS ME OF HUNDREDS
• 20:13 OF YEARS LATER, HOW MOSES
• 20:16 AND THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL,
• 20:17 THE CHILDREN OF ABRAHAM
• 20:19 WOULD COME OUT FROM EGYPT
• 20:21 WITH BLESSING, WITH GOLD
• 20:23 AND SILVER AND ENOUGH BLESSING
• 20:25 TO ACTUALLY BUILD THE TABERNACLE
• 20:27 IN THE WILDERNESS.
• 20:28 IT'S JUST AN INCREDIBLE STORY
• 20:30 OF THIS WALK OF FAITH.
• 20:32 AND GOD'S TESTIMONY IS THAT,
• 20:34 AS WE WALK WITH HIM, IF WE'LL
• 20:35 KEEP TURNING BACK TO HIM,
• 20:37 WILL KEEP LOOKING TO HIM,
• 20:38 HE WILL CONTINUE
• 20:39 TO GUIDE OUR STEPS.
• 20:41 AND THAT'S WHAT HE'S WRITTEN
• 20:42 IN THE SCRIPTURE:
• 20:48 THE PSALMIST SAID THAT AND WE
• 20:49 REALLY SEE THAT AS BEING TRUE.
• 20:51 THIS IS REALLY A STORY
• 20:52 OF THE CALL AND OF THE DESTINY,
• 20:55 GOD'S PROMISES
• 20:57 AND HIS MIRACLE-WORKING POWER,
• 20:59 HIS ABILITY TO FULFILL
• 21:01 THAT WHICH HE PROMISED US
• 21:03 THAT HE WILL FULFILL.
• 21:04 THINK ABOUT THE CALL OF ABRAHAM
• 21:06 OUT OF THIS PLACE WHERE THERE
• 21:07 WERE MANY, MANY GODS WORSHIPPED,
• 21:11 BEING CALLED INTO A PLACE
• 21:12 WHERE HE WORSHIPS ONE GOD
• 21:15 WHO HAS MANY NAMES
• 21:16 AND GOD BEGINS TO REVEAL HIMSELF
• 21:18 BY HIS DIFFERENT NAMES
• 21:20 TO THE DIFFERENT CHARACTERS
• 21:21 IN THIS STORY.
• 21:22 AND I'M WONDERING, I'M SURE THAT
• 21:24 IN YOUR OWN LIFE YOU HAVE SEEN
• 21:26 GOD REVEAL HIMSELF TO YOU
• 21:28 IN DIFFERENT WAYS
• 21:29 BY HIS DIFFERENT NAMES
• 21:31 AT CERTAIN JUNCTURES
• 21:32 OF YOUR LIFE.
• 21:33 I KNOW THAT'S BEEN THE TRUTH
• 21:34 FOR ME.
• 21:35 WHEN GOD CALLED ME,
• 21:36 I WAS 33 YEARS OLD.
• 21:37 I DON'T RECOMMEND
• 21:38 WAITING THAT LONG.
• 21:39 I WAS 33 YEARS OLD AND I GOT ON
• 21:41 THE FAST TRACK WITH GOD BECAUSE
• 21:43 I WAS SO HUNGRY FOR THE TRUTH.
• 21:45 I WAS SO HUNGRY TO LOVE HIM
• 21:46 AND TO SERVE HIM
• 21:47 AND TO KNOW HIM.
• 21:48 AND HE'S BEEN SO FAITHFUL.
• 21:50 IN SPITE OF MY INCONSISTENCIES,
• 21:52 HE HAS BEEN FAITHFUL TO ME
• 21:55 AND TO MY FAMILY.
• 21:56 THAT'S WHAT I TELL MY SONS.
• 21:57 I SAY, "YOU KNOW WHAT.
• 21:58 FOLLOW GOD, SERVE HIM.
• 22:00 YOU'LL NEVER BE BORED.
• 22:01 YOU'LL ALWAYS HAVE
• 22:02 A LIFE OF ADVENTURE."
• 22:03 AND THAT'S REALLY WHAT WE SEE
• 22:05 IN ABRAHAM'S LIFE,
• 22:06 THIS ADVENTURE UNFOLDING.
• 22:09 FOR THE MODERN BELIEVER,
• 22:10 ESPECIALLY FOR
• 22:11 THE JEWISH BELIEVER,
• 22:12 THERE'S SUCH A RESTORATION
• 22:14 OF OUR JEWISHNESS,
• 22:15 OF OUR CONNECTION
• 22:17 WITH OUR HERITAGE, THAT WHEN
• 22:18 YESHUA COMES INTO OUR LIVES,
• 22:20 HE RESTORES THE FLAVOR
• 22:22 OF OUR LIFE THAT WE KNOW.
• 22:23 HE RESTORES
• 22:24 THE GENERATIONAL TRUTH
• 22:26 OF OUR CALL FROM THE TIME
• 22:28 OF ABRAHAM FORWARD.
• 22:30 AND THAT'S REALLY WHAT WE SEE IN
• 22:31 THE MODERN MESSIANIC MOVEMENT.
• 22:33 SO WE SEE THIS JOURNEY UNFOLDING
• 22:35 THROUGH ABRAHAM AND SARAH,
• 22:36 THROUGH THE CHARACTERS AROUND
• 22:37 THEIR LIVES AND WE KNOW THAT
• 22:40 WHEN GOD CALLS, HE EQUIPS.
• 22:42 AND WHEN GOD CALLS,
• 22:43 HE WILL PRODUCE THE FUTURE
• 22:46 THAT HE HAS PROMISED.
• 22:50 Katharine: GOD SAYS, "SHALL I
• 22:52 HIDE WHAT I'M GOING TO DO,
• 22:53 KNOWING THAT ABRAHAM
• 22:54 SHALL TRAIN HIS CHILDREN?"
• 22:56 AND, MYLES, YOU HAVE DONE THAT
• 22:57 WITH OUR KIDS.
• 22:58 Myles: THAT'S KIND.
• 22:59 Katharine: NO, YOU HAVE.
• 23:00 YOU HAVE BEEN A WONDERFUL FATHER
• 23:01 AND YOU TRAINED THEM IN THE WAY
• 23:02 THEY SHOULD GO AND THEY ARE
• 23:04 SEEKING THE LORD.
• 23:05 Myles: WE NEED ALL THE HELP
• 23:06 WE CAN GET, ESPECIALLY
• 23:07 WITH THE NEXT GENERATION.
• 23:08 THAT'S WHY I LOVE
• 23:09 OUR NEXT INTERVIEW, AVI LIPKIN.
• 23:11 HE IS REALLY TRYING TO GET
• 23:14 THE CHURCH AWAKE
• 23:15 AND THE SYNAGOGUES AWAKENED
• 23:17 TO THE REALITY OF ISLAM, TO
• 23:19 THE SITUATION THAT WE'RE SEEING
• 23:20 UNFOLD IN THE MIDDLE EAST.
• 23:21 AND I WAS ABLE TO SPEAK TO HIM
• 23:23 IN JERUSALEM AND ASK HIM
• 23:24 SOME VERY POINTED QUESTIONS
• 23:26 ABOUT THE SEASON THAT WE'RE IN.
• 23:27 SO LET'S GO TO MY INTERVIEW
• 23:28 WITH AVI LIPKIN.
• 23:32 AVI, OUR VIEWERS ARE READING
• 23:33 THEIR BIBLES AND THEY'RE READING
• 23:35 ABOUT WARS AND RUMORS OF WARS.
• 23:37 WE'RE HEARING SOME
• 23:38 SABER RATTLING AND WE'RE LOOKING
• 23:39 TOWARDS SOMETHING THAT'S ABOUT
• 23:41 TO HAPPEN In THE MIDDLE EAST
• 23:42 WITH IRAN.
• 23:43 WHAT DO YOU SEE COMING?
• 23:44 Avi Lipkin: THE REAL REASON
• 23:45 FOR THE WAR,
• 23:46 AND THIS IS THE KEY, IS OIL.
• 23:48 IRAN SITS ATOP ONE OF
• 23:50 THE GREATEST OIL RESERVES
• 23:51 IN THE WORLD.
• 23:52 OF COURSE EVERYBODY IN AMERICA
• 23:54 NOW IS TALKING ABOUT ANWR
• 23:55 AND PRUDHOE BAY AND THE ROCKIES,
• 23:58 FRONT LINES AND EVERYTHING
• 23:59 LIKE THAT, BUT THE PROVEN
• 24:00 SOURCES ARE THERE IN IRAN.
• 24:03 TO GET TO THAT OIL,
• 24:04 YOU MUST OVERTHROW THE REGIME.
• 24:06 AND I BELIEVE THAT SINCE RUSSIA
• 24:08 AND CHINA, IN THE END, ARE
• 24:10 PART OF THE ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT
• 24:12 OR ONE WORLD ECONOMY,
• 24:13 IT IS IN THEIR INTEREST AS WELL
• 24:15 AND THEY HAVE A PRICE.
• 24:17 I'M A SOVIETOLOGIST, SO IF YOU
• 24:18 GO BACK TO RUSSIAN HISTORY,
• 24:20 IRAN WAS DIVIDED UP BETWEEN
• 24:22 THE RUSSIANS AND THE ENGLISH
• 24:24 IN WORLD WAR I.
• 24:25 IRAN WAS DIVIDED UP AGAIN
• 24:26 IN WORLD WAR II--BECAUSE
• 24:28 THE IRANIANS WERE PRO-GERMAN
• 24:29 IN BOTH WARS--BETWEEN
• 24:31 THE RUSSIANS, THE BRITISH
• 24:32 AND THE AMERICANS.
• 24:33 SO I BELIEVE IRAN
• 24:34 WILL BE DIVIDED UP.
• 24:35 IT'S A VERY BIG COUNTRY
• 24:36 AND IT'S VERY, VERY HARD
• 24:37 TO OCCUPY AND AMERICA CANNOT
• 24:39 AND WILL NOT DO IT ALONE.
• 24:40 IT HAS TO BE UNDER THE AUSPICES
• 24:42 OF THE UNITED NATIONS.
• 24:43 TO DO THAT YOU MUST HAVE
• 24:44 THE RUSSIANS AND THE CHINESE
• 24:45 ON BOARD;
• 24:46 AND TO HAVE THEM ON BOARD,
• 24:47 YOU HAVE TO GIVE THEM
• 24:48 A BIG ENOUGH PIECE OF THE PIE.
• 24:49 IF YOU USE OVERWHELMING,
• 24:51 CRUSHING FORCE
• 24:52 ON THE IRANIAN REGIME,
• 24:53 IT WILL ACTUALLY SAVE LIVES
• 24:55 BECAUSE THE RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT
• 24:57 HAS OFFERED--I BELIEVE
• 24:58 HAS OFFERED ASYLUM,
• 24:59 TO THE AYATOLLAH PEOPLE.
• 25:01 THEY ALREADY HAVE THEIR MONEY
• 25:02 OUTSIDE OF THE COUNTRY.
• 25:03 AND WITHIN TWO TO THREE DAYS,
• 25:05 I THINK YOU WILL SEE
• 25:06 THE COLLAPSE,
• 25:07 THE ULTIMATE COLLAPSE
• 25:08 OF THE AYATOLLAH REGIME
• 25:09 WHICH MEANS THE IRANIAN PEOPLE
• 25:10 WILL BE LIBERATED,
• 25:11 THE NUCLEAR THREAT
• 25:12 WILL BE TERMINATED,
• 25:13 SAUDIS WILL BE RELIEVED
• 25:15 OF THEIR FEAR OF BEING BEHEADED
• 25:17 AND, OF COURSE, THE WORLD
• 25:19 WILL BE ABLE TO GET ITS HANDS
• 25:20 ON THE OIL.
• 25:21 AND AS YOU KNOW, OIL PRICES
• 25:23 ARE GOING UP SO INCREDIBLY
• 25:25 IN THE UNITED STATES,
• 25:26 THE ONLY WAY TO BRING
• 25:27 OIL PRICES DOWN
• 25:28 IS TO INCREASE THE SUPPLY.
• 25:32 Myles: WE'RE SO GRATEFUL TO BE
• 25:33 ABLE TO HEAR FROM AVI LIPKIN
• 25:34 BECAUSE WE NEED TO KNOW THE ROLE
• 25:35 OF ISLAM, THE CHURCH
• 25:37 AND THE COMING KING,
• 25:38 THE WAY THEY ALL WORK TOGETHER
• 25:40 AND REALLY HE HELPS US
• 25:41 TO HAVE INSIGHT INTO WHAT
• 25:43 WE'RE SEEING IN THE HEADLINES.
• 25:44 Katharine: YEAH, REVISIONISTS
• 25:46 EVEN ARE WANTING TO REPLACE
• 25:47 ISAAC AS THE ONE
• 25:48 THAT WAS SACRIFICED
• 25:49 AND PUT ISHMAEL IN.
• 25:50 Myles: AND I'M TELLING YOU,
• 25:51 THIS MORNING I FEEL THAT'S
• 25:52 AN AFFRONT TO GOD BECAUSE HE
• 25:54 WORKED THROUGH THESE PEOPLE'S
• 25:55 LIVES IN SUCH PASSION.
• 25:58 Katharine: AND HIS CARE.
• 25:59 Myles: YEAH, FOR ISAAC
• 26:00 AND ISHMAEL, SO LET'S NOT MESS
• 26:01 WITH THE STORY; IT'S HIS STORY.
• 26:03 Katharine: RIGHT
• 26:04 Myles: RIGHT?
• 26:05 SO REALLY THERE'S NO REASON
• 26:06 TO DESPAIR.
• 26:07 THIS IS ALL GOOD NEWS BECAUSE
• 26:08 THE SCRIPTURE TELLS US THAT ALL
• 26:10 THINGS WORK TOGETHER FOR GOOD
• 26:12 FOR THOSE WHO ARE CALLED,
• 26:14 WHO LOVE GOD AND ARE CALLED
• 26:15 ACCORDING TO HIS PURPOSES.
• 26:16 AND THAT'S REALLY THE SEASON
• 26:18 THAT WE'RE IN RIGHT NOW
• 26:19 WHERE WE SEE THAT EVEN AS
• 26:21 THE DAY IS APPROACHING,
• 26:22 WE SEE THE DIFFICULTIES
• 26:23 IN THE HEADLINES,
• 26:24 WE SEE THAT THE HEADLINES
• 26:26 ARE CATCHING UP TO THE BIBLE.
• 26:27 THE BIBLE IS THE FINAL WORD
• 26:29 AND WE'RE LOOKING AT THE RETURN
• 26:31 OF THE LORD.
• 26:32 HE'S COMING SOON AND WE'RE
• 26:33 GETTING CLOSE TO THAT TIME.
• 26:35 SO AS WE LEAVE TODAY,
• 26:36 WE WANT TO REMIND YOU, PLEASE,
• 26:38 SHAL'ALU SHALOM YERUSHALAYIM
• 26:40 Katharine: PRAY FOR
• 26:41 THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM.
• 26:44 Announcer: OUR RESOURCE THIS WEEK:
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• 26:49 THIS 8-PART SERIES TELLS THE STORY OF THE PATRIARCH
• 26:51 THROUGH DRAMA AND TEACHING AT THE ACTUAL BIBLICAL SITES.
• 26:55 "ABRAHAM: FATHER OF FAITH."
• 26:58 HE LEFT WITH ALL HE HAD FOR A LAND UNKNOWN.
• 27:01 NOTHING COULD STOP HIM.
• 27:02 "IN THEE ALL NATIONS SHALL BE BLESSED."
• 27:06 GOD HAD SPOKEN AND THERE WAS NO TURNING BACK.
• 27:09 THIS SERIES ALSO INCLUDES RIVETING INTERVIEWS
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