Caption transcript for “Your Questions Answered”

• 00:01 This is important because it is so much bigger than
• 00:04 the small strip of land that is currently being
• 00:06 contested in the modern world.
• 00:09 The promise to Israel...
• 00:10 some have called it "greater Israel"...
• 00:12 The promise to Abraham regarding Israel is a
• 00:15 large piece of land and it is a promise
• 00:19 to that lineage, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
• 00:22 Jacob is Israel and is a promise to the Jewish people.
• 00:40 Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel
• 00:45 is that they might be saved,
• 00:47 for there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek
• 00:51 for the same LORD over all is rich unto all that call upon him.
• 01:07 Shalom and welcome to our program.
• 01:09 I'm Myles Weiss.
• 01:10 And I'm Katharine Weiss
• 01:12 and we have a wonderful program to share with you.
• 01:14 Some of our viewers write in often
• 01:16 and share their thoughts and questions.
• 01:18 And we're going to give an opportunity
• 01:20 to answer some of those today.
• 01:21 Right and I'm really enjoying these programs.
• 01:23 We have a chance to get back to you about some of
• 01:25 the questions you sent to us through the "Levitt Letter"
• 01:28 or from the TV program or social media,
• 01:30 where ever you've seen us.
• 01:32 And let's start right away.
• 01:34 Let's just get right into it.
• 01:35 The first one I wanted to comment on was just a
• 01:38 quick note from a school teacher who writes...
• 01:47 And I thought about how disarming it is to use
• 01:49 cartoons and humor to drive home some of these
• 01:52 points about the Messiah, about the end-times,
• 01:55 some of the controversies within in Christianity and with the world.
• 01:58 You know there's been a lot of hoopla and
• 02:00 controversy over our cartoons.
• 02:01 I call it the great cartoon controversy of 2011
• 02:05 where people were writing to us,
• 02:06 "Oh this terrible, it's sacrilegious."
• 02:08 And others say, "This is wonderful, we really need this."
• 02:11 And it turns out you can't please
• 02:12 all the people all the time.
• 02:14 However, this teacher wisely is using the cartoons to get into
• 02:19 the hearts of her students in the next generation.
• 02:23 You know one person's joke is another person's baffling bumblings.
• 02:28 But anyways you know Myles laughter does good like a medicine.
• 02:32 That's in the Bible.
• 02:33 And any time I'm feeling down
• 02:35 a good joke will always lift me up.
• 02:36 Thank you, I appreciate that.
• 02:39 Let's go right on to...
• 02:41 this is from Velma who writes...
• 02:59 And I think about John Parsons and the Hebrew
• 03:02 study that he puts in all of our newsletters.
• 03:04 If you receive our "Levitt Letter" then you know that
• 03:07 there's a Hebrew lesson in each one.
• 03:09 And not only so, we try to bring some of the Hebrew
• 03:11 from the Word as we're teaching both on location
• 03:15 and here in the studio.
• 03:17 And it is the language of God and God has restored
• 03:21 it as a modern day language.
• 03:23 It was at the end of the 19th century when the
• 03:26 church was coming into a new era of looking towards
• 03:29 the Lord that the Hebrew language was restored as well.
• 03:32 Right, God said I restore a pure language
• 03:34 unto my people and that's Hebrew.
• 03:36 It is and now it's the everyday language in
• 03:40 Israel and I think there's such richness in the
• 03:44 language itself that as we study it and as we learn
• 03:47 more and more we realize that there's a poetic,
• 03:50 a majestic, artistic way that God uses the language
• 03:54 to reveal his heart and the meaning that he's
• 03:57 trying to get to us through the Word.
• 04:00 So I'm grateful that we can play a small part in
• 04:03 helping you with your studies.
• 04:04 This is a hard language.
• 04:06 You know when people move to Israel they go into
• 04:09 "ulpan" , "study", and they may spend 6 months, a year
• 04:13 or longer doing nothing but immersing themselves
• 04:15 in language study.
• 04:17 You met the grandson of ...
• 04:18 I did... ben Yehuda .
• 04:20 I met the grandson of the man who restored
• 04:23 the modern Hebrew language.
• 04:25 We actually had coffee at a conference together
• 04:27 a number of years ago.
• 04:29 And he was saying how hard it was for his grandmother
• 04:31 because that was it; she needed to learn.
• 04:34 It was a commitment.
• 04:35 It was and the grand-dad commanded his family to
• 04:38 learn it and he was a strong teacher and he made
• 04:42 sure that everyone in the family did it.
• 04:45 And what fruit has come from that, restoring the
• 04:47 entire language from ancient days.
• 04:49 It's really also a sign of God's favor and his
• 04:52 commitment to the Jewish people and the reality of
• 04:56 the Jewish historicity in the land which is being
• 05:00 contested all the time.
• 05:02 Well the language is one more part.
• 05:03 It's not just archaeology, history,
• 05:07 the wars of conquest and the written word,
• 05:10 the land deeds and the written word
• 05:12 that verify the Jewish right to the land
• 05:14 but the language being restored from
• 05:17 the ancient language, and it's so similar.
• 05:19 It's exactly the way God wants it to be.
• 05:22 You know so much of what we have to do these days
• 05:24 unfortunately is make the case for the Jewish right
• 05:28 to be in the Jewish land.
• 05:30 That's sad.
• 05:31 It is sad.
• 05:32 And that reminds me of the letter that you have.
• 05:34 Most of the letters that we've been receiving are
• 05:37 just so positive and we're so grateful for the
• 05:39 feedback and we're so thankful for your
• 05:42 appreciation and your love.
• 05:43 Although there are people that have a problem
• 05:46 sometimes with Jewish people in the land.
• 05:48 They certainly do.
• 05:49 And this gentleman did.
• 05:50 You know this is so important.
• 05:52 I think I want to save this for our next segment
• 05:54 because it's such an important letter
• 05:57 and it really needs a wider discussion than we have time for.
• 06:00 But there's something else that
• 06:01 I think I'll bring right now
• 06:03 which is a question that came from
• 06:06 one of our readers who asks,
• 06:20 Now Psalm 83 is a very important Psalm because it
• 06:23 speaks about the pan-Arab war that will take place
• 06:27 and precede the Gog and Magog war in Ezekiel 38 and 39.
• 06:33 So it's a very significant passage of Scripture and
• 06:37 if you read it exactly literally and you
• 06:40 substitute the modern names of the nations
• 06:44 for the ancient names of the nations
• 06:46 you will see that it's describing
• 06:48 an Arab war of aggression against Israel that will
• 06:51 be so serious that it will
• 06:54 almost snuff out the life of Israel.
• 06:56 But out of it God of course will triumph.
• 06:59 There will be great losses on all sides
• 07:02 but God will triumph
• 07:03 and it precedes the Gog and Magog war.
• 07:07 And a good book to further understand this
• 07:09 is "Israelstine".
• 07:11 If you'll read that book it will help you to
• 07:13 understand the wars of the Psalm 83.
• 07:16 And it's important because the last verses of Psalm 83
• 07:19 says the purpose of all this difficulty and
• 07:23 destruction is that they may know him...
• 07:26 they may know him as the Lord of the heavens and the earth.
• 07:30 And that's really the importance.
• 07:32 God is not willing that any should perish
• 07:34 but all come to everlasting life.
• 07:36 That call upon him.
• 07:37 Exactly
• 07:39 We'll be back after this.
• 07:42 Hello, I'm Wayne Fornier
• 07:45 and I've been a supporter of Zola Levitt Ministries
• 07:48 for many years.
• 07:50 You know this ministry brings you the weekly
• 07:52 television program "Zola Levitt Presents",
• 07:54 the the website "levitt.com"
• 07:57 and the "Levitt letter",
• 07:59 a free monthly news magazine.
• 08:02 How has this happened without the
• 08:05 support of a church, a denomination,
• 08:07 or some endowment paying the bills?
• 08:10 The lord has seen fit to use regular people
• 08:13 like you and me.
• 08:15 We're the ones who keep this ministry going.
• 08:18 You know, asking for contributions can be awkward
• 08:22 but not asking can be detrimental.
• 08:24 On several occasions our founder Zola Levitt would
• 08:27 surprise viewers when he would say, we don't need
• 08:30 your gifts of funds right now.
• 08:32 Give to your home church or to another ministry.
• 08:35 When we need support we'll tell you
• 08:38 but we're fine right now.
• 08:40 Such a statement sounded ludicrous but it
• 08:43 established the fact that Zola Levitt Ministries is
• 08:46 not trying to make a fortune out of the ministry.
• 08:50 The resources of Biblical materials we offer are
• 08:53 those that are helpful to our viewer's spiritual walk.
• 08:57 Zola Levitt went home to the Lord seven years ago
• 09:00 but Myles and Katharine Weiss continue to sound
• 09:03 the call for the church to recognize that God
• 09:06 is not finished with the Jewish people
• 09:09 and Israel remains his timepiece.
• 09:12 When I heard the Gospel from a Messianic perspective
• 09:15 it strengthened my faith in God.
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• 09:47 ♪ Background music ♪
• 10:11 ♪ Background music ♪
• 10:37 Our resource on this program,
• 10:39 "An Epic Love Story, Jews and Gentiles One in Messiah"
• 10:44 by Myles Weiss
• 10:46 This booklet answers some questions you may have on
• 10:48 issues like...
• 10:59 "An Epic Love Story" takes you into the heart and the
• 11:02 mind of Paul's writings to the Roman church.
• 11:05 Contact us and ask for "An Epic Love Story".
• 11:13 What a blessing to have the Epic Love Story
• 11:15 Myles, to offer to our audience.
• 11:17 It's a great resource.
• 11:18 I know a lot of people have said it's really
• 11:20 helped them to understand Romans 9-11.
• 11:24 So we talked earlier about the settlers and
• 11:29 we don't even like to call them settlers
• 11:31 because it's God ordained land.
• 11:34 Exactly, listen to the tone of this letter.
• 11:37 And you know all of our mail is not love mail.
• 11:39 Some of it is a little more dramatic than that.
• 11:41 This comes from William and he says,
• 11:54 Well I have a problem with this.
• 11:56 And I think God has a problem with this because
• 11:59 what the world is calling the "West Bank" is the
• 12:03 heartland of Israel.
• 12:05 It is Judea and Samaria.
• 12:07 It is not some addition.
• 12:10 It is not some west bank of a river, the Jordan river.
• 12:13 It is the place where the patriarchs walked,
• 12:16 where Abraham, Isaac and Jacob lived.
• 12:18 It's where Yeshua taught.
• 12:20 It's where he performed his miracles.
• 12:22 It is the heart of the nation of Israel and so it
• 12:26 has such a rich history of Jewish life and thought
• 12:31 and teaching and philosophy and activity and living,
• 12:34 that to call these folks settlers and
• 12:37 to call that the west bank of a river
• 12:39 is just demeaning.
• 12:41 It's just not the case.
• 12:42 Right...people are hearing the call of God
• 12:44 that he said he would re-gather them.
• 12:46 And they are hearing it, they are responding to it
• 12:48 and they are obeying the Scriptures by coming there.
• 12:51 You know the Bible says in Genesis 15, verse 18,
• 13:07 Yes...now this is important because it is so
• 13:09 much bigger than the small strip of land that is
• 13:12 currently being contested in the modern world.
• 13:15 The promise to Israel...
• 13:16 some have called it "greater Israel"...
• 13:18 The promise to Abraham regarding Israel,
• 13:20 is a large piece of land and it is a
• 13:24 promise to that lineage, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
• 13:28 Jacob is Israel and is a promise to the Jewish people.
• 13:32 Now these settlers so called...
• 13:36 and we'll get to random acts of violence in a moment...
• 13:39 but the settlers are residents...
• 13:42 Just peaceful, loving people.
• 13:43 Peace loving, peace seeking, mostly observant
• 13:48 orthodox Jewish people who have read the Bible,
• 13:51 believed what they understand and have taken
• 13:54 it literally and have moved back to Israel
• 13:57 according to the Word of the Lord.
• 13:58 For instance David Rubin who lives up in Shiloh
• 14:01 where the ark rested and where Hannah heard from
• 14:03 the Lord about Samuel's birth.
• 14:05 these people are beautiful people.
• 14:07 They are people that love God that just tend the
• 14:10 earth, make it blossom and basically just want to
• 14:13 live there with their families fulfilling what
• 14:15 God has asked them to do to go and build villages,
• 14:19 plant vineyards and tend towards them.
• 14:22 Fulfill the Word of Scripture and to me
• 14:25 these are modern day heroes.
• 14:28 They looked at for example in Amos 9:15 where it says
• 14:31 "I will plant you in this land"
• 14:32 "never to be plucked out again."
• 14:34 You will build vineyards, you'll grow things,
• 14:36 you'll live there in peace
• 14:38 and you'll never be pulled out of this land again."
• 14:41 And they looked at that and said okay that's for me.
• 14:43 They've made aliyah
• 14:44 and these communities, by the way,
• 14:46 when you hear it on the television
• 14:48 you think of some...
• 14:50 I don't know what it looks like in your mind's eye
• 14:52 but these are beautiful communities of nice houses,
• 14:55 well kept, with just life coming from the children...
• 15:00 And they only act when something is pushed at them;
• 15:03 they will defend their homes.
• 15:05 But they are not going out and attacking.
• 15:07 They are not being terrorists.
• 15:09 They are simply defending their right to exist.
• 15:11 Talk about settlers being uprooted, Gaza was uprooted
• 15:15 and all of those beautiful people left
• 15:18 and now we just have rockets.
• 15:20 Right there was just the misguided attempt by
• 15:25 Ariel Sharon in 2005 to gift Gaza to the neighbors
• 15:32 hoping that would certainly bring a measure of peace
• 15:36 because if the land of Gaza was given to
• 15:39 the Arab neighbors that they would certainly live
• 15:41 in peace with the Israelis.
• 15:43 And what happened instead was that the greenhouses
• 15:46 and all of the growing activity, all of the
• 15:49 places that were built were torn to the ground
• 15:52 and what has come instead has been thousands of
• 15:54 rockets being fired into Israel from Gaza.
• 15:57 And it is unfortunately the
• 16:00 opposite of what was hoped for.
• 16:03 Now we see the arising of a special status state for Palestine.
• 16:10 And that's a whole discussion that we'll get into later.
• 16:13 But the special status for a proposed state is really
• 16:18 a tremendous victory for Hamas.
• 16:21 Hamas means violence.
• 16:24 It means that the launching for terror into Israel
• 16:30 is getting legitimacy in the world community
• 16:32 because of the United Nations...
• 16:34 the united nothing...
• 16:36 the united unified...
• 16:38 however you want to say that.
• 16:39 It is getting air play and legitimacy for violence to
• 16:43 come again against Israel.
• 16:46 And I have to say that you can only understand this
• 16:48 by looking at the Word.
• 16:50 And the Word speaks clearly about the " aliyah ",
• 16:54 the "return" and the rebuilding, the virtual
• 16:58 garden that's been made there by the Israelis.
• 17:01 And now we're seeing that that's being contested and
• 17:05 probably will be until the Lord returns.
• 17:07 Well the Scripture tells us that it will be but
• 17:10 that God himself will defend his land and his people
• 17:15 because he has a plan.
• 17:17 And it's a shaking.
• 17:18 It's the birth pains.
• 17:20 But we can look up and we can know that our
• 17:22 redemption draws nigh.
• 17:24 Yes that's true.
• 17:25 Our redemption is drawing nigh.
• 17:27 God is on the move and so do what we do.
• 17:30 Stand with Israel, you will not regret it.
• 17:32 We'll be back after this.
• 17:36 Your financial contributions to Zola Levitt Ministries
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• 17:52 Bridges for Peace;
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• 17:56 We welcome your donations to Zola Levitt Ministries
• 18:00 as we serve together until the Messiah returns.
• 18:22 ♪ And then the storm will break, ♪
• 18:24 ♪ The clouds will roll and shake, ♪
• 18:27 ♪ The rains will fill the brooks and streams. ♪
• 18:32 ♪ Thunder will tremble then, ♪
• 18:34 ♪ Making the faithful men to doubt him, ♪
• 18:39 ♪ To cry out to him, "Lord, do you see we perish?' ♪
• 18:47 ♪ And he will calm the storm, "peace be still." ♪
• 19:00 ♪ music interlude ♪
• 19:49 ♪ So calm, so blue, the Holy Sea of Galilee, ♪
• 20:00 ♪ In grace, in peace, in praise of our Messiah. ♪♪
• 20:24 That's Zola.
• 20:26 He was a master musician.
• 20:28 But he also just brought the joy of simple music
• 20:31 to all of us.
• 20:32 He really translated his love for Israel through
• 20:35 his music and through this program and everything
• 20:38 that he did as the founder of this work.
• 20:40 He was quite a guy.
• 20:42 Want to continue with our letters
• 20:44 This one caught my attention,
• 20:55 This comes from TM in Missouri.
• 20:59 Well really the only folks among the Jewish people
• 21:02 that are sure that they come from the priestly
• 21:06 tribes are the Levites and the " cohanim" or the "Cohens".
• 21:10 So when you come across people like Zola Levitt or
• 21:13 last name Levi, Levinson...those names
• 21:16 that sound like they're related to the word "Levite"
• 21:19 are generally speaking they are from the
• 21:22 levitical tribe and so they're from the tribe of
• 21:24 Levi and probably have that historical connection
• 21:29 to that function of the priests.
• 21:31 And the " cohanim" or the "priests" themselves are
• 21:36 people who you run into have names like Cohen,
• 21:38 Kahn...those kinds of names.
• 21:41 Which is your mother's name.
• 21:42 Oh yeah, my mom's side of the family are Cohen
• 21:46 and they probably, again, come from that priestly tribe.
• 21:50 It's interesting because of those last names
• 21:53 growing up in the synagogue my uncles Cohen
• 21:57 they would get the honor of coming up to the " bema "
• 22:00 to the "platform" and reading the Torah on a
• 22:04 Saturday morning because they were cohanim .
• 22:07 And so there's an honor that's given to the modern
• 22:10 Jewish people in conservative and orthodox
• 22:13 Judaism and it's kind of a typical way of doing that.
• 22:16 Other than that we really don't know.
• 22:18 I like to joke that I'm left handed so maybe I'm
• 22:20 from the tribe of Benjamin but we really don't know
• 22:23 and it's not that important in the long term is it?
• 22:27 Because really the blood line of the natural sphere
• 22:32 is interesting and it's notable but there's only
• 22:36 one blood that really counts and that is the
• 22:40 blood of the spotless Lamb of God.
• 22:43 You know the whole story is about the Lamb of God
• 22:46 and his sacrifice for mankind and so while I'm
• 22:50 interested in my history as a Cohen really it's the
• 22:54 saving blood of Yeshua , the Messiah, that really
• 22:57 makes a difference in my life and in other's lives.
• 23:01 It's really the story about the tribes for the
• 23:04 current, contemporary people.
• 23:07 So that's that one.
• 23:08 Now you have one.
• 23:09 I do.
• 23:11 I have somebody...one of our viewers said,
• 23:37 Which is wonderful that we get to bring the land to our viewers.
• 23:46 And so that's just saying that this work continues
• 23:49 because it's God's work and it's in God's heart
• 23:53 and it's in God's plan that the whole world will
• 23:57 know that Jesus is a Jewish Messiah coming back
• 24:02 for a Jewish Jerusalem and going to be the Lion of
• 24:06 the Tribe of Jerusalem...Judah...and
• 24:09 that God has a plan and no matter what you hear the
• 24:14 news saying, the media saying, man saying, the
• 24:17 Word of God stands forever
• 24:20 and that's what this ministry is based on.
• 24:22 That's what we love to see unfold.
• 24:24 You know going back to you being a Cohen...you know
• 24:26 when you were bar mitzvahed you read a
• 24:28 certain passage and it was thrilling to you after you
• 24:31 became born again Myles to go back and learn because
• 24:35 you were able to Google what your Ashkenazi would
• 24:39 be reading at that time.
• 24:40 Exactly, I got on line and this guy found me.
• 24:43 We found each other and he said are you Sephardic,
• 24:45 Spanish or Ashkenazi ...European?
• 24:48 And I said, well, I'm from...my people are from Europe
• 24:50 and he said I'll get back to you on Monday.
• 24:52 And on Monday he says what you read on May 2, 1964
• 24:55 was Ezekiel 44 verses 15 - 31.
• 25:00 Thrilling
• 25:01 So I went and I looked it up and it is the
• 25:03 passage of Scripture where the sons of Israel are
• 25:08 admonished to follow the sons of Zadock to go into
• 25:12 the Lord, minister to him
• 25:15 and then come out and minister to the people.
• 25:17 Now I had no idea as a 13 year old that someday that
• 25:20 I would be doing that as a pastor and now of course
• 25:23 with ZLM and the other ministries that we have.
• 25:26 But God knows and so in his sovereignty he
• 25:29 actually had me reading as a not so obedient, not so
• 25:32 nice Jewish boy reading the passage that would
• 25:35 become essentially a life script for me because he's
• 25:38 a big God an he's a good God.
• 25:41 And this opportunity that we have here together with
• 25:45 the viewers, with the readers of the Levitt letter
• 25:47 is really to bring what I think is one of
• 25:51 the most...maybe the most important message ever
• 25:55 which is that the greatest story ever told about the
• 25:58 greatest person, the Messiah of the world, the
• 26:02 Messiah of the Jews and the Savior of the world
• 26:05 that he is as you say coming back to a Jewish Jerusalem
• 26:09 and we get to shout that from the housetops.
• 26:13 We have the opportunity to tell everyone through this
• 26:16 program and through the writing that we do and the
• 26:19 tours and all of that we need to be looking for
• 26:23 the return of the Lord and you need to be telling
• 26:26 your loved ones, the people that you care about the most,
• 26:28 that they need to say "yes" to Yeshua
• 26:32 because as we say "yes" to him our life is
• 26:35 transformed here and we also are setting ourselves up
• 26:38 for an eternity with God himself.
• 26:41 So till we see you again we want to again remind you,
• 26:46 Shal'alu shalom Yerushalayim
• 26:48 Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.
• 26:53 Our resource on this program...
• 26:54 "An Epic Love Story, Jews and Gentiles one in Messiah"
• 27:00 by Myles Weiss
• 27:02 This booklet answers some questions you may have on
• 27:04 issues like...
• 27:15 "An Epic Love Story" takes you into the heart and the
• 27:18 mind of Paul's writings to the Roman church.
• 27:22 Contact us and ask for "An Epic Love Story".
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