Caption transcript for “Your Questions Answered”

• 00:02 (Myles Weiss speaking) THIS IS IMPORTANT BECAUSE IT IS SO MUCH BIGGER
• 00:05 THAN THE SMALL STRIP OF LAND THAT IS CURRENTLY BEING CONTESTED IN THE MODERN WORLD.
• 00:08 THE PROMISE TO ISRAEL...
• 00:10 SOME HAVE CALLED IT "GREATER ISRAEL"...
• 00:12 THE PROMISE TO ABRAHAM OF REGARDING ISRAEL IS A LARGE PIECE OF LAND
• 00:17 AND IT IS A PROMISE 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 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
• 01:11 AND WE HAVE A WONDERFUL PROGRAM TO SHARE WITH YOU.
• 01:14 SOME OF OUR VIEWERS WRITE IN OFTEN AND SHARE THEIR THOUGHTS AND QUESTIONS
• 01:18 AND WE'RE GOING TO GIVE AN OPPORTUNITY 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
• 01:25 ABOUT SOME OF THE QUESTIONS YOU SENT TO US THROUGH THE "LEVITT LETTER"
• 01:28 OR FROM THE TV PROGRAM OR SOCIAL MEDIA
• 01:31 WHERE EVER YOU'VE SEEN US
• 01:32 AND LET'S START RIGHT AWAY.
• 01:33 LET'S JUST GET RIGHT INTO IT.
• 01:35 THE FIRST ONE I WANTED TO COMMENT ON WAS JUST A QUICK NOTE FROM A SCHOOL TEACHER
• 01:40 WHO WRITES...
• 01:47 AND I THOUGHT ABOUT HOW DISARMING IT IS TO USE CARTOONS AND HUMOR
• 01:51 TO DRIVE HOME SOME OF THESE POINTS ABOUT THE MESSIAH,
• 01:53 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 CONTROVERSY OVER OUR CARTOONS.
• 02:01 I CALL IT THE GREAT CARTOON CONTROVERSY OF 2011
• 02:05 WHERE PEOPLE WHERE 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 ALL THE PEOPLE ALL THE TIME.
• 02:14 HOWEVER, THIS TEACHER WISELY IS USING THE CARTOONS TO GET INTO THE HEARTS OF HER STUDENTS IN THE NEXT GENERATION.
• 02:22 YOU KNOW ONE PERSON'S JOKE IS ANOTHER PERSON'S BAFFLING BUMBLINGS
• 02:27 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 A GOOD JOKE WILL ALWAYS LIFT ME UP.
• 02:36 THANK YOU, I APPRECIATE THAT.
• 02:38 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 STUDY THAT HE PUTS IN ALL OF OUR NEWSLETTERS.
• 03:04 IF YOU RECEIVE OUR "LEVITT LETTER" THEN YOU KNOW THAT THERE'S A HEBREW LESSON IN EACH ONE.
• 03:09 AND NOT ONLY SO, WE TRY TO BRING SOME OF THE HEBREW FROM THE WORD
• 03:12 AS WE'RE TEACHING BOTH ON LOCATION AND HERE IN THE STUDIO.
• 03:17 AND IT IS THE LANGUAGE OF GOD
• 03:20 AND GOD HAS RESTORED IT AS A MODERN DAY LANGUAGE.
• 03:23 IT WAS AT THE END OF THE 19TH CENTURY
• 03:25 WHEN THE CHURCH WAS COMING INTO A NEW ERA OF LOOKING TOWARDS THE LORD
• 03:29 THAT THE HEBREW LANGUAGE WAS RESTORED AS WELL.
• 03:32 RIGHT, GOD SAID I RESTORE A PURE LANGUAGE UNTO MY PEOPLE AND THAT'S HEBREW.
• 03:36 IT IS AND NOW IT'S THE EVERYDAY LANGUAGE IN ISRAEL
• 03:40 AND I THINK THERE'S SUCH RICHNESS IN THE LANGUAGE ITSELF
• 03:45 THAT AS WE STUDY IT AND AS WE LEARN MORE AND MORE
• 03:48 WE REALIZE THAT THERE'S A POETIC, A MAJESTIC, ARTISTIC WAY
• 03:53 THAT GOD USES THE LANGUAGE TO REVEAL HIS HEART
• 03:56 AND THE MEANING THAT HE'S TRYING TO GET TO US THROUGH THE WORD.
• 03:59 SO I'M GRATEFUL THAT WE CAN PLAY A SMALL PART IN HELPING YOU WITH YOUR STUDIES.
• 04:04 THIS IS A HARD LANGUAGE.
• 04:06 IT IS HARD.
• 04:07 YOU KNOW WHEN PEOPLE MOVE TO ISRAEL THEY GO INTO ULPAN, "STUDY"
• 04:10 AND THEY MAY SPEND 6 MONTHS, A YEAR OR LONGER DOING NOTHING BUT IMMERSING THEMSELVES IN LANGUAGE STUDY.
• 04:16 YOU MET THE GRANDSON OF ...
• 04:18 I DID...BEN YEHUDA.
• 04:20 I MET THE GRANDSON OF THE MAN WHO RESTORED THE MODERN HEBREW LANGUAGE.
• 04:24 WE ACTUALLY HAD COFFEE AT A CONFERENCE TOGETHER 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. IT WAS A COMMITMENT.
• 04:35 IT WAS AND THE GRAND-DAD COMMANDED HIS FAMILY TO LEARN IT
• 04:38 AND HE WAS A STRONG TEACHER AND HE MADE SURE THAT EVERYONE IN THE FAMILY DID IT.
• 04:45 AND WHAT FRUIT HAS COME FROM THAT, RESTORING THE ENTIRE LANGUAGE FROM ANCIENT DAYS.
• 04:49 IT'S REALLY ALSO A SIGN OF GOD'S FAVOR AND HIS COMMITMENT TO THE JEWISH PEOPLE
• 04:54 AND THE REALITY OF THE JEWISH HISTORICITY IN THE LAND WHICH IS BEING CONTESTED ALL THE TIME.
• 05:01 WELL THE LANGUAGE IS ONE MORE PART.
• 05:03 IT'S NOT JUST ARCHAEOLOGY, HISTORY, THE WARS OF CONQUEST AND THE WRITTEN WORD,
• 05:09 THE LAND DEEDS AND THE WRITTEN WORD THAT VERIFY THE JEWISH RIGHT TO THE LAND
• 05:14 BUT THE LANGUAGE BEING RESTORED FROM 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 UNFORTUNATELY
• 05:25 IS MAKE THE CASE FOR THE JEWISH RIGHT TO BE IN THE JEWISH LAND.
• 05:30 OH, THAT'S SAD.
• 05:31 IT IS SAD.
• 05:32 AND THAT REMINDS ME OF A LETTER THAT YOU HAVE.
• 05:34 MOST OF THE LETTERS THAT WE'VE BEEN RECEIVING ARE JUST SO POSITIVE
• 05:38 AND WE'RE SO GRATEFUL FOR THE FEEDBACK
• 05:40 AND WE'RE SO THANKFUL FOR YOUR APPRECIATION AND YOUR LOVE.
• 05:43 ALTHOUGH THERE ARE PEOPLE THAT HAVE A PROBLEM SOMETIME WITH JEWISH PEOPLE IN THE LAND.
• 05:47 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
• 05:56 AND IT REALLY NEEDS A WIDER DISCUSSION THAN WE HAVE TIME FOR.
• 06:00 BUT THERE'S SOMETHING ELSE THAT I THINK I'LL BRING RIGHT NOW
• 06:02 WHICH IS A QUESTION THAT CAME FROM ONE OF OUR READERS WHO ASKS,
• 06:20 NOW PSALM 83 IS A VERY IMPORTANT PSALM
• 06:23 BECAUSE IT 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
• 06:37 AND IF YOU READ IT EXACTLY LITERALLY
• 06:40 AND YOU SUBSTITUTE THE MODERN NAMES OF THE NATIONS FOR THE ANCIENT NAMES OF THE NATIONS
• 06:46 YOU WILL SEE THAT IT'S DESCRIBING AN ARAB WAR OF AGGRESSION AGAINST ISRAEL
• 06:51 THAT WILL BE SO SERIOUS THAT IT WILL ALMOST SNUFF OUT THE LIFE OF ISRAEL
• 06:56 BUT OUT OF IT GOD OF COURSE WILL TRIUMPH...
• 07:00 THERE WILL BE GREAT LOSSES ON ALL SIDES
• 07:02 BUT GOD WILL TRIUMPH
• 07:04 AND IT PRECEDES THE GOD AND MAGOG WAR.
• 07:07 AND A GOOD BOOK TO FURTHER UNDERSTAND THIS IS "ISRAELSTINE".
• 07:11 IF YOU'LL READ THAT BOOK
• 07:12 IT WILL HELP YOU TO UNDERSTAND THE WARS OF THE PSALM 83.
• 07:16 AND IT'S IMPORTANT BECAUSE THE LAST VERSES OF PSALM 83 SAYS
• 07:19 THE PURPOSE OF ALL THIS DIFFICULTY AND DESTRUCTION IS THAT THEY MAY KNOW HIM...
• 07:25 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 BUT ALL COME TO EVERLASTING LIFE.
• 07:36 THAT CALL UPON HIM
• 07:37 EXACTLY
• 07:38 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 FOR MANY YEARS.
• 07:49 YOU KNOW THIS MINISTRY BRINGS YOU THE WEEKLY TELEVISION PROGRAM "ZOLA LEVITT PRESENTS",
• 07:54 THE WEBSITE "LEVITT.COM"
• 07:57 AND THE "LEVITT LETTER"... A FREE MONTHLY NEWS MAGAZINE.
• 08:01 HOW DOES HAS THIS HAPPENED WITHOUT THE 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 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 SURPRISE VIEWERS WHEN HE WOULD SAY,
• 08:29 "WE DON'T NEED YOUR GIFTS OF FUNDS RIGHT NOW."
• 08:32 "GIVE TO YOUR HOME CHURCH OR TO ANOTHER MINISTRY."
• 08:36 "WHEN WE NEED SUPPORT WE'LL TELL YOU BUT WE'RE FINE RIGHT NOW."
• 08:40 SUCH A STATEMENT SOUNDED LUDICROUS
• 08:43 BUT IT ESTABLISHED THE FACT THAT ZOLA LEVITT MINISTRIES
• 08:46 IS NOT TRYING TO MAKE A FORTUNE OUT OF THE MINISTRY.
• 08:49 THE RESOURCES OF BIBLICAL MATERIALS WE OFFER
• 08:53 ARE 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 KATHERINE WEISS CONTINUE TO SOUND THE CALL
• 09:04 FOR THE CHURCH TO RECOGNIZE THAT GOD 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 IT STRENGTHENED MY FAITH IN GOD.
• 09:17 BUT IT WAS SOMETHING I RECOGNIZED AS BEING WORTHY OF MY FINANCIAL SUPPORT.
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• 09:48 (MUSIC)
• 10:37 OUR RESOURCE ON THIS PROGRAM,
• 10:39 "AN EPIC LOVE STORY, JEWS AND GENTILES ONE IN MESSIAH" BY MYLES WEISS
• 10:45 THIS BOOKLET ANSWERS SOME QUESTIONS YOU MAY HAVE
• 10:48 ON ISSUES LIKE...
• 10:49 IS JESUS COMING SOON?...
• 10:51 HOW DID THE CHURCH LOSE ITS JEWISH IDENTITY?...
• 10:54 WHAT IS THE SHARED DESTINY OF JEWS AND CHRISTIANS?
• 10:58 "AN EPIC LOVE STORY"
• 11:00 TAKES YOU INTO THE HEAR AND THE 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 MYLES
• 11:15 TO OFFER TO OUR AUDIENCE.
• 11:17 IT'S A GREAT RESOURCE.
• 11:19 I KNOW A LOT OF PEOPLE HAVE SAID IT'S REALLY HELPED THEM TO UNDERSTAND ROMANS 9-11.
• 11:23 SO WE TALKED EARLIER ABOUT THE SETTLERS
• 11:28 AND WE DON'T EVEN LIKE TO CALL THEM SETTLERS BECAUSE ITS 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.
• 11:42 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
• 11:59 BECAUSE WHAT THE WORLD IS CALLING THE "WEST BANK" IS THE HEARTLAND OF ISRAEL.
• 12:05 IT IS JUDEA AND SAMARIA.
• 12:08 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
• 12:26 AND SO IT 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 TO CALL THAT THE WEST BANK OF A RIVER IS JUST DEMEANING.
• 12:40 IT'S JUST NOT THE CASE.
• 12:41 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,
• 12:47 THEY ARE RESPONDING TO IT
• 12:49 AND THEY ARE OBEYING THE SCRIPTURES BY COMING THERE.
• 12:51 YOU KNOW THE BIBLE SAYS IN GENESIS 15, VERSE 18,
• 12:55 IN THAT DAY THE LORD MADE A COVENANT WITH ABRAHAM
• 12:58 SAYING UNTO THEE AND THY SEED DO I GIVE THIS LAND
• 13:01 FROM THE RIVER OF EGYPT
• 13:04 EVEN TO THE GREAT RIVER OF EUPHRATES.
• 13:06 YES...NOW THIS IS IMPORTANT
• 13:08 BECAUSE IT IS SO MUCH BIGGER THAN THE SMALL STRIP OF LAND
• 13:11 THAT IS 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 OF REGARDING ISRAEL
• 13:20 IS A LARGE PIECE OF LAND
• 13:23 AND IT IS A PROMISED 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...
• 13:35 AND WE'LL GET TO RANDOM ACTS OF VIOLENCE IN A MOMENT...
• 13:39 BUT THE SETTLERS ARE RESIDENTS...
• 13:41 JUST PEACEFUL, LOVING PEOPLE
• 13:43 ...PEACE LOVING
• 13:44 PEACE SEEKING
• 13:46 MOSTLY OBSERVANT ORTHODOX JEWISH PEOPLE WHO HAVE READ THE BIBLE,
• 13:52 BELIEVED WHAT THEY UNDERSTAND
• 13:54 AND HAVE TAKEN IT LITERALLY
• 13:55 AND HAVE MOVED BACK TO ISRAEL ACCORDING TO THE WORD OF THE LORD.
• 13:58 FOR INSTANCE DAVID RUBIN WHO LIVES UP IN SHILOH WHERE THE ARK RESTED
• 14:01 AND WHERE HANNAH HEARD FROM THE LORD ABOUT SAMUEL'S BIRTH.
• 14:06 THESE PEOPLE ARE BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE.
• 14:07 THEY ARE PEOPLE THAT LOVE GOD
• 14:09 THAT JUST TEND THE EARTH, MAKE IT BLOSSOM
• 14:11 AND BASICALLY JUST WANT TO LIVE THERE WITH THEIR FAMILIES
• 14:14 FULFILLING WHAT GOD HAS ASKED THEM TO DO
• 14:17 TO GO AND BUILD VILLAGES,
• 14:20 PLANT VINEYARDS AND TEND TOWARDS THEM.
• 14:22 FULFILL THE WORD OF SCRIPTURE
• 14:24 AND TO ME THESE ARE MODERN DAY HEROES.
• 14:27 THEY LOOKED AT FOR EXAMPLE IN AMOS 9:15 WHERE IT SAYS
• 14:31 I WILL PLANT YOU IN THIS LAND NEVER TO BE PLUCKED OUT AGAIN.
• 14:34 YOU WILL BUILD VINEYARDS, YOU'LL GROW THINGS,
• 14:36 YOU'LL LIVE THERE IN PEACE AND YOU'LL NEVER BE PULLED OUT OF THIS LAND AGAIN.
• 14:40 AND THEY LOOKED AT THAT AND SAID OKAY THAT'S FOR ME.
• 14:43 THEY'VE MADE ALIYAH AND THESE COMMUNITIES BY THE WAY
• 14:46 WHEN YOU HEAR IT ON THE TELEVISION YOU THINK OF SOME
• 14:49 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.
• 15:04 RIGHT...RIGHT
• 15:06 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
• 15:13 GAZA WAS UPROOTED 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 ARIEL SHARON IN 2005
• 15:27 TO GIFT GAZA TO THE NEIGHBORS
• 15:32 HOPING THAT THAT WOULD CERTAINLY BRING A MEASURE OF PEACE
• 15:35 BECAUSE IF THE LAND OF GAZA WAS GIVEN TO THE ARAB NEIGHBORS
• 15:40 THAT THEY WOULD CERTAINLY LIVE IN PEACE WITH THE ISRAELIS.
• 15:43 AND WHAT HAPPENED INSTEAD WAS THAT THE GREENHOUSES AND ALL OF THE GROWING ACTIVITY,
• 15:48 ALL OF THE PLACES THAT WERE BUILT WERE TORN TO THE GROUND
• 15:51 AND WHAT HAS COME INSTEAD HAS BEEN THOUSANDS OF ROCKETS BEING FIRED INTO ISRAEL FROM GAZA.
• 15:57 AND IT IS UNFORTUNATELY THE OPPOSITE OF WHAT WAS HOPED FOR.
• 16:02 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 A TREMENDOUS VICTORY FOR HAMAS.
• 16:21 HAMAS MEANS VIOLENCE.
• 16:23 IT MEANS THAT THE LAUNCHING FOR TERROR INTO ISRAEL
• 16:29 IS GETTING LEGITIMACY IN THE WORLD COMMUNITY
• 16:32 BECAUSE OF THE UNITED NATIONS...
• 16:34 THE UNITED NOTHING...
• 16:36 THE UNITED UNIFIED...
• 16:37 HOWEVER YOU WANT TO SAY THAT.
• 16:39 IT IS GETTING AIR PLAY AND LEGITIMACY FOR VIOLENCE TO COME AGAIN AGAINST ISRAEL.
• 16:45 AND I HAVE TO SAY THAT YOU CAN ONLY UNDERSTAND THIS BY LOOKING AT THE WORD.
• 16:50 AND THE WORD SPEAKS CLEARLY ABOUT THE ALIYAH,
• 16:54 THE RETURN AND THE REBUILDING,
• 16:57 THE VIRTUAL GARDEN THAT'S BEEN MADE THERE BY THE ISRAELIS.
• 17:02 AND NOW WE'RE SEEING THAT THAT'S BEING CONTESTED
• 17:04 AND PROBABLY WILL BE UNTIL THE LORD RETURNS.
• 17:07 THE SCRIPTURE TELLS US THAT IT WILL BE
• 17:10 BUT 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.
• 17:19 BUT WE CAN LOOK UP AND WE CAN KNOW THAT OUR REDEMPTION DRAWS NIGH.
• 17:23 YES THAT'S TRUE.
• 17:25 OUR REDEMPTION IS DRAWING NIGH.
• 17:26 GOD IS ON THE MOVE AND SO DO WE DO.
• 17:29 STAND WITH ISRAEL, YOU WILL NOT REGRET IT.
• 17:32 WE'LL BE BACK AFTER THIS.
• 17:35 YOUR FINANCIAL CONTRIBUTIONS TO ZOLA LEVITT MINISTRIES
• 17:38 ENABLE US TO BRING YOU
• 17:39 OUR WEEKLY TELEVISION SERIES,
• 17:42 OUR MONTHLY NEWSLETTER
• 17:43 AND OUR WEBSITE.
• 17:45 BUT YOU MAY NOT KNOW
• 17:46 THAT YOUR GIFT OF FUNDS ALSO MAKES A DIFFERENCE IN ISRAEL
• 17:49 THROUGH OUR SUPPORT OF THE JERUSALEM ARCHAEOLOGY FUND;
• 17:52 BRIDGES FOR PEACE;
• 17:54 AND THE LONE SOLDIER FUND.
• 17:56 WE WELCOME YOUR DONATIONS TO ZOLA LEVITT MINISTRIES
• 18:00 AS WE SERVE TOGETHER UNTIL THE MESSIAH RETURNS.
• 18:07 (MUSIC)
• 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,
• 18:38 TO CRY OUT TO HIM,
• 18:42 "LORD DO YOU SEE WE PERISH?"
• 18:47 AND HE WILL CALM THE STORM,
• 18:50 "PEACE BE STILL."
• 19:01 (MUSIC INTERLUDE)
• 19:50 SO CALM, SO BLUE
• 19:55 THE HOLY SEA OF GALILEE
• 20:00 IN GRACE, IN PEACE,
• 20:06 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 TO ALL OF US.
• 20:32 HE REALLY TRANSLATED HIS LOVE FOR ISRAEL
• 20:34 THROUGH HIS MUSIC AND THROUGH THIS PROGRAM
• 20:37 AND EVERYTHING 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.
• 20:58 WELL REALLY THE ONLY FOLKS AMONG THE JEWISH PEOPLE
• 21:02 THAT ARE SURE THAT THEY COME FROM THE PRIESTLY TRIBES
• 21:06 ARE THE LEVITES AND THE COHANIM OR THE COHENS.
• 21:10 SO WHEN YOU COME ACROSS PEOPLE LIKE ZOLA LEVITT
• 21:12 OR LAST NAME LEVI, LEVINSON...
• 21:15 THOSE NAMES THAT SOUND LIKE THEY'RE RELATED TO THE WORD LEVITE
• 21:19 ARE GENERALLY SPEAKING THEY ARE FROM THE LEVITICAL TRIBE
• 21:23 AND SO THEY'RE FROM THE TRIBE OF LEVI
• 21:25 AND PROBABLY HAVE THAT HISTORICAL CONNECTION TO THAT FUNCTION OF THE PRIESTS.
• 21:31 AND THE COHANIM OR THE PRIESTS THEMSELVES
• 21:35 ARE PEOPLE WHO YOU RUN INTO HAVE NAMES LIKE COHEN, 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
• 21:51 BECAUSE OF THOSE LAST NAMES GROWING UP IN THE SYNAGOGUE
• 21:55 MY UNCLES COHEN THEY WOULD GET THE HONOR OF COMING UP TO THE BEMA TO THE PLATFORM
• 22:01 AND READING THE TORAH ON A SATURDAY MORNING BECAUSE THEY WERE COHANIM.
• 22:06 AND SO THERE'S AN HONOR THAT'S GIVEN TO THE MODERN JEWISH PEOPLE IN CONSERVATIVE AND ORTHODOX JUDAISM
• 22:14 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 FROM THE TRIBE OF BENJAMIN
• 22:21 BUT WE REALLY DON'T KNOW AND IT'S NOT THAT IMPORTANT IN THE LONG TERM IS IT?
• 22:27 BECAUSE REALLY THE BLOOD LINE OF THE NATURAL SPHERE IS INTERESTING AND IT'S NOTABLE
• 22:35 BUT THERE'S ONLY ONE BLOOD THAT REALLY COUNTS
• 22:39 AND THAT IS THE BLOOD OF THE SPOTLESS LAMB OF GOD.
• 22:42 YOU KNOW THE WHOLE STORY IS ABOUT THE LAMB OF GOD AND HIS SACRIFICE FOR MANKIND
• 22:48 AND SO WHILE I'M INTERESTED IN MY HISTORY AS A COHEN
• 22:52 REALLY IT'S THE SAVING BLOOD OF YESHUA, THE MESSIAH,
• 22:57 THAT REALLY MAKES A DIFFERENCE IN MY LIFE AND IN OTHER'S LIVES.
• 23:00 IT'S REALLY THE STORY ABOUT THE TRIBES FOR THE CURRENT, CONTEMPORARY PEOPLE.
• 23:07 SO THAT'S THAT ONE.
• 23:08 NOW YOU HAVE ONE.
• 23:09 I DO.
• 23:10 I HAVE SOMEBODY...
• 23:12 ONE OF OUR VIEWERS SAID,
• 23:36 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 KNOW
• 23:57 THAT JESUS IS A JEWISH MESSIAH
• 24:00 COMING BACK FOR A JEWISH JERUSALEM
• 24:04 AND GOING TO BE THE LION OF THE TRIBE OF JERUSALEM...JUDAH...
• 24:10 AND THAT GOD HAS A PLAN
• 24:12 AND NO MATTER WHAT YOU HEAR THE NEWS SAYING,
• 24:15 THE MEDIA SAYING, MAN SAYING,
• 24:17 THE WORD OF GOD STANDS FOREVER
• 24:20 AND THAT'S WHAT THIS MINISTRY IS BASED ON.
• 24:23 THAT'S WHAT WE LOVE TO SEE UNFOLD.
• 24:24 YOU KNOW GOING BACK TO YOU BEING A COHEN...
• 24:26 YOU KNOW WHEN YOU WERE BAR MITZVAHED YOU READ A CERTAIN PASSAGE
• 24:29 AND IT WAS THRILLING TO YOU AFTER YOU BECAME BORN AGAIN MYLES TO GO BACK AND LEARN
• 24:34 BECAUSE YOU WERE ABLE TO GOOGLE WHAT YOUR ASHKENAZI WOULD 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
• 24:45 ARE YOU SEPHARDIC, SPANISH OR ASHKENAZI...EUROPEAN?
• 24:48 AND I SAID, WELL I'M FROM... MY PEOPLE ARE FROM EUROPE
• 24:51 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 WAS EZEKIEL 44 VERSES 15 - 31.
• 25:00 THRILLING
• 25:02 SO I WENT AND I LOOKED IT UP
• 25:04 AND IT IS THE PASSAGE OF SCRIPTURE WHERE THE SONS OF ISRAEL ARE ADMONISHED
• 25:08 TO FOLLOW THE SONS OF ZADOK TO GO INTO THE LORD,
• 25:13 MINISTER TO HIM AND THEN COME OUT AND MINISTER TO THE PEOPLE.
• 25:17 NOW I HAD NO IDEA AS A 13 YEAR OLD
• 25:19 THAT SOMEDAY THAT I WOULD BE DOING THAT AS A PASTOR
• 25:22 AND NOW OF COURSE WITH ZLM AND THE OTHER MINISTRIES THAT WE HAVE.
• 25:26 BUT GOD KNOWS AND SO IN HIS SOVEREIGNTY
• 25:29 HE ACTUALLY HAD ME READING AS A NOT SO OBEDIENT, NOT SO NICE JEWISH BOY
• 25:34 READING THE PASSAGE THAT WOULD BECOME ESSENTIALLY A LIFE SCRIPT FOR ME
• 25:37 BECAUSE HE'S A BIG GOD AN HE'S A GOOD GOD.
• 25:40 AND THIS OPPORTUNITY THAT WE HAVE HERE TOGETHER
• 25:44 WITH THE VIEWERS, WITH THE READERS OF THE LEVITT LETTER
• 25:47 IS REALLY TO BRING WHAT I THINK IS ONE OF THE MOST...
• 25:51 MAYBE THE MOST IMPORTANT MESSAGE EVER
• 25:55 WHICH IS THAT THE GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD
• 25:57 ABOUT THE GREATEST PERSON THE MESSIAH OF THE WORLD,
• 26:02 THE 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.
• 26:12 WE HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO TELL EVERYONE
• 26:16 THROUGH THIS PROGRAM AND THROUGH THE WRITING THAT WE DO AND THE TOURS AND ALL OF THAT
• 26:20 THAT WE NEED TO BE LOOKING FOR THE RETURN OF THE LORD
• 26:24 AND YOU NEED TO BE TELLING YOUR LOVED ONES,
• 26:26 THE PEOPLE THAT YOU CARE ABOUT THE MOST,
• 26:28 THAT THEY NEED TO SAY "YES" TO YESHUA
• 26:31 BECAUSE AS WE SAY "YES" TO HIM OUR LIFE IS TRANSFORMED HERE
• 26:35 AND WE ALSO ARE SETTING OURSELVES UP FOR AN ETERNITY WITH GOD HIMSELF.
• 26:40 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" BY MYLES WEISS
• 27:01 THIS BOOKLET ANSWERS SOME QUESTIONS YOU MAY HAVE ON ISSUES LIKE...
• 27:05 IS JESUS COMING SOON?...
• 27:07 HOW DID THE CHURCH LOSE ITS JEWISH IDENTITY?...
• 27:10 WHAT IS THE SHARED DESTINY OF JEWS AND CHRISTIANS?
• 27:14 "AN EPIC LOVE STORY"
• 27:16 TAKES YOU INTO THE HEART AND THE MIND OF PAUL'S WRITINGS TO THE ROMAN CHURCH.
• 27:21 CONTACT US AND ASK FOR "AN EPIC LOVE STORY".