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

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