Caption transcript for “2014 — The Year in Review”

• 00:18 Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is that they might be saved
• 00:25 for there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek
• 00:28 for the same LORD over all is rich unto all that call upon Him
• 00:44 Shalom and welcome to our program.
• 00:45 We are here in Israel
• 00:47 and we want to take a look back at 2014.
• 00:49 It's such a joy to be with you here in the Holy Land.
• 00:53 It's been the heart of Zola Levitt Presents from the beginning
• 00:56 to bring you a glimpse of what's happening here in the Land.
• 01:00 This series that we are going to show you is called "Journey of Restoration"
• 01:04 And Israel is a picture of restoration.
• 01:06 Really it's a picture of God's prophetic time clock
• 01:09 and points to the return of the LORD.
• 01:12 We thought, some people can't come to Israel, let's bring Israel to them.
• 01:15 And so here we go.
• 01:17 Let's take a look at the "Journey of Restoration"
• 01:22 I love Israel... I love the people.
• 01:24 Totally so... it's un describable.
• 01:27 And it feels like home.. It just feels like home.
• 01:30 "Welcome to Jerusalem"... it just took my breath away.
• 01:34 It just shows the finger print of God everywhere.
• 01:36 To realize how special this city and the people were to the LORD
• 01:41 It's God's chosen Land and Jesus walked on it.
• 01:45 I think there's a restoration as pastor Myles talked about.
• 01:48 How God is really gathering the Jews in.
• 01:54 Through the blood of Jesus Christ we've been grafted-in and now this is our city also.
• 02:08 (Myles speaking)
• 02:09 We start our day with a visit to Kibbutz Ginosar just north of the Sea of Galilee.
• 02:15 It's here that an ancient wooden boat is on display referred to as "The Jesus Boat".
• 02:19 It was pulled from the sea in 1986 and has been positively dated to the first century.
• 02:25 The boat is the type that Jesus would have used in His ministry while in the Galilee area.
• 02:30 A short walk along the shore takes us to another boat.
• 02:34 This one is similar in feeling to The Jesus Boat
• 02:37 but much larger and comfortably equipped to accommodate our tour group
• 02:40 for praise and worship on the Sea of Galilee.
• 02:47 And then if we fast forward in John 21 when Peter is being restored
• 02:51 and when that whole passage is coming to pass
• 02:54 where this wonderful beach walk happens at Tabgha
• 02:57 and all of the wonderful things Jesus did after resurrection and ascension
• 03:03 there was that moment where He said to them...
• 03:06 they had been fishing all night long...
• 03:08 "Cast your nets to the other side".
• 03:11 And when they did they brought up 153 fish.
• 03:16 Why?
• 03:18 Why 153 fish?
• 03:20 Because every Hebrew letter has a numerical value.
• 03:23 every Hebrew number has a letter value
• 03:26 and 153 says "Ani Elohim", "I am God".
• 03:32 Israel is definitely a contrast you know?
• 03:34 We have Tiberius and green plush lands
• 03:36 and Qumran it turns to instant desert.
• 03:39 And yet right outside of Qumran they have huge date tree palms that they're growing.
• 03:45 And so you know it speaks of just the power of God.
• 03:49 (Katharine speaking)
• 03:51 I'm so blessed every time I visit Israel.
• 03:54 After 20 trips I still manage to find things I've never done before.
• 03:59 I had never ridden a camel before.
• 04:01 Can you tell?
• 04:02 After the group had some time to behold the magnificent Temple Mount and the City of Gold
• 04:08 we walked down the road which led to the site
• 04:10 where according to tradition Jesus wept over Jerusalem.
• 04:16 So we all went half way down.
• 04:19 So we are still on the mountain.
• 04:21 We are still on the Mount of Olives.
• 04:23 And soon we'll continue to follow the road
• 04:26 all the way down to the valley and to the Garden of Gethsemane.
• 04:31 Now the olive tree itself is an incredible story.
• 04:35 You saw the ancient ones across the way there.
• 04:38 You see that when they grow older they get kind of hollow on the inside.
• 04:42 And the shoots come up from below and wrap themselves around and support the tree.
• 04:49 The olive tree is a picture of Israel .
• 04:52 The shoots they're called "notzrim" in the plural.
• 04:55 It's where we get the word "netzer."
• 04:57 It means "the shoot","netzer", "Nazareth", "Nazarene".
• 05:01 You are the "notzrim".
• 05:05 Hebrew life speaks of God in a compound unity, "echad".
• 05:11 We know it as "three in one".
• 05:13 We know that God is three in one.
• 05:14 So today when you go into the water
• 05:17 I want you to hold in your hearts whatever prayer you have before God
• 05:22 about where you are in your life
• 05:23 whatever your hopes are for the future,
• 05:25 for your family, for your children, grandchildren,
• 05:28 for whoever is in your life,
• 05:30 for you personally.
• 05:32 I believe that when you come out of the water today
• 05:35 in your heart I want you to be able to hear the Father say
• 05:38 this is my beloved son,
• 05:41 this is my beloved daughter
• 05:43 in whom I am well pleased.
• 05:45 Amen?
• 05:50 You know it's a joy to bring to you
• 05:52 the tour that we took called
• 05:54 "Journey of Restoration".
• 05:55 We wanted to bring Israel to you
• 05:57 And not only did our viewers love it
• 06:00 but our tour was so full
• 06:02 and people were saying they were
• 06:04 going to come back again next time.
• 06:06 Yeah, there's been a great response
• 06:08 to the "Journey of Restoration".
• 06:10 And we understand why
• 06:11 because Israel is a picture of restoration
• 06:14 and how God restores a land, a people
• 06:16 and personally wants to restore each of us.
• 06:19 You know one of the unique features of our program
• 06:21 has been Biblical re-enactments.
• 06:23 We make the Bible come alive in Hebrew with English subtitles.
• 06:27 We use Israeli actors on location.
• 06:29 And we thought we'd like to
• 06:31 go back to the beginning of the story of faith.
• 06:33 Yeah, the beginning of our faith
• 06:35 the call of God from Abraham.
• 06:37 You know God called Abraham out of Ur of the Chaldeans.
• 06:40 And he was called the first Hebrew because He crossed over.
• 06:44 That's right and so we made the story
• 06:46 "Abraham, the Father of Faith"
• 06:48 Let's take a look at that.
• 08:23 The role of intercession is very, very powerful.
• 08:26 It's very important.
• 08:28 It really is for every single believer in the New Testament era.
• 08:31 We really need to understand that we can affect the way the world unfolds.
• 08:36 We can affect the history and the destiny of people through our prayer.
• 08:42 It's God's gift to us; intercession.
• 08:45 It's really a power that's given to us by God.
• 08:48 It's a way that He esteems our opinion.
• 08:51 He includes us in the process of what He does.
• 08:55 And we learn from intercession,
• 08:57 from prayer, that He actually hears us.
• 08:59 And that's what we see with Abraham.
• 09:01 Abraham actually begins to bargain with God about the future of Sodom and Gomorrah.
• 09:06 "If there are 50 righteous will you spare them?"
• 09:08 And he works his way down to 10.
• 09:10 "If there are 10 righteous would you spare them?"
• 09:52 Jesus and Isaac both carried the wood for the sacrifice
• 09:56 up Mount Moriah.
• 09:59 Isaac carried the wood for the sacrifice you remember when Abraham took him out.
• 10:04 And Yeshua Jesus carried at least the crossbeam;
• 10:08 carried the wood for the crucifixion for the sacrifice up to the place of sacrifice
• 10:15 Both paralleling perfectly in the scripture.
• 10:19 Isaac went willingly
• 10:21 and we see that portrayed in scripture.
• 10:23 And we know that the Son of Man laid down His life for the sins of the world.
• 10:36 Hello, I'm Wayne Fornier
• 10:39 and I've been a supporter of Zola Levitt Ministries for many years.
• 10:43 If you see this outreach as worthy of your final support
• 10:47 please, call us at 1-800 WONDERS
• 10:50 visit us online at levitt.com
• 10:52 or write to us
• 11:01 We depend on your financial sustenance.
• 11:04 Thank you.
• 11:07 We want to thank you for your gifts of funds.
• 11:09 You know your gifts of funds
• 11:10 allow us to come here and bring you these messages.
• 11:14 And not only that but allow us
• 11:16 the opportunity to talk with so many people about prophecy.
• 11:21 Yeah, and it's really true that the scripture tell us that
• 11:23 you bless Israel you will be blessed.
• 11:25 And we know that these programs are a blessing to Israel.
• 11:28 And we're so grateful to you for standing with us.
• 11:31 Prophecy is so important.
• 11:33 Right now we're in the time
• 11:35 when we're looking at the return of the LORD.
• 11:38 It's coming soon.
• 11:39 II Peter 1:19 tells us
• 11:41 we have a more sure Word of prophesy.
• 11:43 So this past year we heard from some prophetic voices.
• 11:46 Let's take a look at that right now.
• 11:49 This know also
• 11:52 that in the last days
• 11:53 perilous times shall come.
• 11:56 evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse
• 12:01 deceiving and being deceived.
• 12:04 But continue in the Holy Scriptures
• 12:06 which are able to make thee wise unto salvation
• 12:10 through faith in Christ Jesus.
• 12:27 The time clock is Jerusalem.
• 12:29 That's God's time clock
• 12:31 and the nations of the world
• 12:32 are still obsessed with the
• 12:34 dividing of the land of Israel.
• 12:36 Let's put it this way,
• 12:38 the nations of the world,
• 12:40 the leadership of the world
• 12:42 wants to make Judea and Samaria
• 12:46 an Arab state.
• 12:48 The issue is not Israel.
• 12:49 And I think American's should
• 12:51 wake up to reality.
• 12:53 The reality is
• 12:56 that Iran develops the capability
• 12:58 in order to advance their mega historical goal
• 13:01 domination of the Gulf
• 13:02 and the Sunni Muslim world.
• 13:04 In order to attain that goal
• 13:06 they have to remove what they perceive to be the mega obstacle
• 13:09 which is nothing to do with Israel.
• 13:11 It's U.S. military power projection.
• 13:13 Everybody today is worried about Israel
• 13:16 for a lot of reasons
• 13:17 but we don't worry about Israel
• 13:19 cause that's God' problem.
• 13:20 He that keepeth Israel
• 13:21 will neither slumber or sleep.
• 13:23 We pray for Israel because we're instructed to.
• 13:24 I tremble...for America.
• 13:27 The America that we used to stand for freedom and liberty
• 13:30 is a thing of the past.
• 13:32 I might say the myth of the past.
• 13:34 Yeah people will say
• 13:35 America is Babylon the Great
• 13:36 or America is the unnamed nation in Isaiah 18
• 13:39 or the young lions of Tarshish
• 13:41 or these different places.
• 13:42 And I look at all of those
• 13:43 and I find America missing
• 13:45 which some would say well America is missing
• 13:47 just because a lot of other countries are.
• 13:48 But I think us being the greatest power that has existed on earth
• 13:51 the fact that we're not mentioned is significant.
• 13:54 I think it means something has happened to America
• 13:57 and power has shifted to Europe, to the Far East and to the Middle East.
• 14:02 And I look at some of the different scenarios of how that could take place.
• 14:05 In this country what we see happening
• 14:08 we're trying to divide the land of Israel.
• 14:10 We're going against God.
• 14:12 God says I'll cut you into pieces.
• 14:14 You cut Israel up I'll cut you up.
• 14:16 We see our taxes,
• 14:18 the amount going in is falling,
• 14:20 people are out of work,
• 14:21 unemployment is rising.
• 14:23 Our tax collections are going to be down
• 14:24 I think 18 percent this year.
• 14:26 We see deficits, over a trillion dollar deficits.
• 14:29 You can't keep taking in less money and spending more money
• 14:31 and survive.
• 14:33 The dollar's declining
• 14:34 people seeing gold going up
• 14:36 silver going up.
• 14:37 They're going up because the dollar is getting to be worth less.
• 14:41 So all of this impacts us.
• 14:43 I think there will be an economic collapse.
• 14:45 The scripture teaches
• 14:46 that in the later days
• 14:47 that Jerusalem will be a cup of trembling.
• 14:49 In other words it would be
• 14:51 a burden to the world.
• 14:53 I really believe that some of the hatred we see toward Israel,
• 14:57 some of the angst against them is really Biblical.
• 15:02 The world wants peace.
• 15:05 They blamed everything on Israel
• 15:07 saying that if we'd just only stabilize that region.
• 15:10 You make peace in Israel
• 15:12 the world would be a better world.
• 15:13 But they don't understand that
• 15:14 the only way Israel will experience a lasting peace.
• 15:17 Is when Messiah sits on that throne.
• 15:18 There's nothing new in the New Testament.
• 15:20 The New Testament is praise God for those books
• 15:23 who are showing us what part of the promises of the covenant
• 15:26 were already come to pass.
• 15:28 It says after 2 days
• 15:30 on the 3rd day I will establish you back in your country.
• 15:32 And sure enough
• 15:34 48 was the establishment of the State of Israel.
• 15:37 So this is the greatest miracle of the 20th century.
• 15:40 Today the persecution is against the nation of Israel itself.
• 15:44 To kill this child
• 15:46 that God has born
• 15:48 and to not allow her existence.
• 15:52 Now I don't believe that will every happen
• 15:54 but we see it particularly manifest present day through Islam.
• 15:59 70 years ago it was through Nazism.
• 16:02 And before that it was through Haman and through Herod.
• 16:06 There's always been persecution to annihilate the Jewish race
• 16:10 and to remove them from their Land.
• 16:12 But praise God we're at a time of history
• 16:15 where God says never again.
• 16:19 God is a God of generations.
• 16:20 You know we see God brought Abraham out of the Land of Ur.
• 16:24 And then we have Isaac and Jacob.
• 16:26 And from these amazing people we have the 12 tribes
• 16:30 which are Israel.
• 16:32 So it was our joy to bring to you
• 16:34 "The Sons of Promise"
• 16:35 Yeah, you know the Bible says that it's "dor v'dor",
• 16:38 "generation to generation"
• 16:40 And what we wanted to do
• 16:41 was not just bring you the story of Isaac and Jacob
• 16:44 but also show modern Israel,
• 16:46 the blessing that has continued to come through the line
• 16:49 of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob
• 16:51 with the modern technology,
• 16:52 the medical blessings,
• 16:53 and all of the wonderful things that are happening here.
• 16:55 So let's take a look now
• 16:57 at "Sons of Promise"
• 17:14 And the LORD appeared unto Isaac and said,
• 17:17 Dwell in this Land and I will be with you and bless you.
• 17:23 For to you and your descendents I give all these lands.
• 17:28 And will perform the oath which I swore to your father Abraham
• 17:32 and I will make your descendents multiply as the stars of heaven
• 17:37 and in your seed all the nations of the earth
• 17:41 shall be blessed.
• 18:24 It's just incredible that not far from here
• 18:27 Isaac was increased a hundred fold.
• 18:30 And now we see centuries later
• 18:32 the increase has come through
• 18:34 the line of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob to the entire world
• 18:38 as this city built on a sandbar over a hundred years ago
• 18:42 is now this vibrant, thriving city that's exporting blessing
• 18:47 all around the world.
• 18:48 Yes, seeing the life of Abraham.
• 18:50 Abraham was a man of altars
• 18:52 And Isaac was a man of wells.
• 18:54 And we're going to see how Jacob is a man of tents.
• 18:57 A peaceful man that God extends His covenant plan
• 19:02 and the nation of Israel is birthed through the line of Jacob.
• 19:05 Yes and that's important
• 19:07 because there's such controversy today in the world
• 19:09 about this little country smaller than New Jersey
• 19:12 and yet a covenant land.
• 19:14 So in this series we're going to look at God's fulfillment
• 19:17 of His covenant promises.
• 19:19 And that's exactly what happened May 14th 1948.
• 19:22 This nation was born.
• 19:24 And God intends to keep it here as a witness of who He is
• 19:28 until the coming of Messiah.
• 19:32 Well I think that what makes us unique is our vision.
• 19:35 And that is we have a vision of changing the attitudes
• 19:37 of Christians and Jews toward one another.
• 19:39 In fact, the fact that we're based in Jerusalem
• 19:42 is also very, very special.
• 19:44 You know a lot of ministries are based in their own country
• 19:47 wherever that might be in the world.
• 19:48 And they're telling what God believes about Israel and so on.
• 19:52 But we're actually here with 70 people on the ground
• 19:55 who are showing God's love to the Jewish people.
• 19:58 And most Jewish people; most Israeli's have a huge memory of the holocaust
• 20:03 and to our great sadness they believe that Christians caused
• 20:07 most of their pain throughout the centuries.
• 20:09 So we're here as Christians on the ground
• 20:12 from all over the world.
• 20:14 We have Christians from 15 different countries on our staff
• 20:16 And we're here to show that we love them.
• 20:19 As Christians we love the Jewish people
• 20:20 but we believe God has a plan and a purpose for their lives
• 20:23 that we believe God is bringing them back from the nations
• 20:25 and that we will do everything we can
• 20:27 to cooperate with God's plans.
• 20:29 And Jacob dreamed there was a ladder
• 20:32 that reached up into heaven
• 20:36 He saw angels of God ascending and descending.
• 20:40 And the LORD said,
• 20:42 I Am the LORD the God of your grandfather Abraham.
• 20:46 I Am the God of Isaac.
• 20:48 I will give you the land that you are lying upon.
• 20:52 I will give this land to you and to your seed.
• 20:56 And your seed will be like the dust of the earth
• 20:59 and you shall expand to the west and east
• 21:02 to the north and to the south.
• 21:05 All the families of the earth shall be blessed
• 21:07 because of you and your descendents.
• 21:14 The Bible tells us that God loves the Gates of Zion.
• 21:17 So it was our joy to bring you the series
• 21:20 "Ancient Gates, Future Glory".
• 21:22 We had such great feedback about this series.
• 21:25 People are telling, they're calling letting us know
• 21:27 that this has been a very impactful series for them.
• 21:30 So we want you to get a look at it as well.
• 21:31 So let's go to
• 21:32 "Jerusalem, Ancient Gates, Future Glory"
• 21:39 ♪ My heart was glad when they said to me ♪
• 21:46 ♪ Let us go up ♪
• 21:48 ♪ Let us go up to the Gates of Jerusalem ♪
• 21:54 ♪ Our feet will stand in the House of the LORD ♪
• 22:00 ♪ Yes, let us go up ♪
• 22:02 ♪ Let us go up to the Gates of Jerusalem ♪
• 22:10 ♪ The Gates of Jerusalem ♪♪
• 22:18 We started with "The Dung Gate"
• 22:20 which is in the southern end of the Old City.
• 22:22 We went around to "The Zion Gate",
• 22:24 to "The Jaffa Gate" which is the western most gate.
• 22:26 And then to "The New Gate"
• 22:28 to "The Damascus Gate"
• 22:30 on to "Herod's Gate",
• 22:32 last week "The Lion's Gate"
• 22:34 and today we finish up with "The Golden Gate"
• 22:36 also called "The Eastern Gate",
• 22:38 "Messiah's Gate"
• 22:43 We're here in Jerusalem.
• 22:44 Behind me is the Mount of Olives.
• 22:46 To my right the "Zion Gate"
• 22:49 You know, Psalm 87:2 tells us
• 22:52 (Speaking Hebrew)
• 22:56 The LORD loves the gates of Zion
• 22:58 How much more so right here at the Zion Gate.
• 23:02 And you can see behind me that this Gate was won by a hard fought battle.
• 23:07 Absolutely, you know Jerusalem was known as Zion when David conquered this City.
• 23:12 And also, when the Israelites took back the City in 1967.
• 23:17 The Israelites came and took back the City of our LORD through this gate.
• 23:21 And behind me you can see the literal bullet holes.
• 23:27 Tourists love to pass through the gates of this remarkable Old City.
• 23:31 It's like walking through a time tunnel back to the time of the Biblical prophets and kings.
• 23:37 We started out with
• 23:39 40 countries represented
• 23:41 at that first feast.
• 23:43 We've continued sponsoring the Feast of Tabernacle celebration for Christians in the Fall.
• 23:47 That quickly grew into Israel's largest tourist event.
• 23:50 We've been getting between 5,000 and 7,000 Christians for 30 some years now; year in year out.
• 23:57 Even when there's trouble they still come.
• 23:59 Yes
• 24:00 They're very committed.
• 24:01 They're not just fair-weather friends.
• 24:03 And our crowds now come from up to 100 countries.
• 24:07 (Jan Willem van der Hoeven)
• 24:08 And we do that with Jews that march during the feast.
• 24:11 And we say "Shalom" and the Israeli's are...
• 24:13 They are in tears sometimes to see us....
• 24:18 Where do these Christians come from?
• 24:20 Because they are taught in their schools that Christians have been their enemies
• 24:24 that they have hit them with the crucifix over the head
• 24:27 and they have got "God with us" on their belt when they shovel them into the gas chambers.
• 24:33 And here are the Christians.
• 24:35 Ten out of each nation will take hold of a Jew,
• 24:40 the sleeve of a Jew and say "We will go with you".
• 24:45 We are here on the eastern side of the Temple Mount.
• 24:48 The famous and oldest Gate...
• 24:49 "The Eastern Gate"
• 24:51 "The Golden Gate"
• 24:51 "The Mercy Gate"
• 24:53 It has many names.
• 24:54 And this is the 8th Gate isn't it?
• 24:56 The 8th Gate, the gate I was talking about
• 24:58 that's shut up until the King of Glory comes.
• 25:01 He's going to come on the Mount of Olives.
• 25:02 He's going to touch down His literal soles of His feet.
• 25:06 The earth is going to quake and split open.
• 25:08 Water is going to gush out
• 25:10 and the throne is going to appear.
• 25:11 Yeah, He's going to set Himself here,
• 25:13 come through this Eastern Gate.
• 25:15 Just as He did the first time
• 25:16 He's going to come through this again.
• 25:18 ♪ My heart was glad ♪
• 25:21 ♪ when they said to me ♪
• 25:26 ♪ Let us go up ♪
• 25:27 ♪ Let us go up to the Gates of Jerusalem ♪
• 25:32 (Choir) ♪ City of our God ♪
• 25:34 ♪ Our feet will stand in the House of the LORD ♪
• 25:41 ♪ So let us go up ♪
• 25:43 ♪ Let us go up to the Gates of Jerusalem ♪
• 25:48 ♪ And we'll say ♪
• 25:49 ♪ Peace be within your walls and with all who delight in them ♪
• 25:56 ♪ And we'll say ♪
• 25:57 ♪ Peace be within your gates ♪
• 26:00 ♪ The Gates of Jerusalem ♪
• 26:04 ♪ And we'll say ♪
• 26:05 ♪ Peace be within your walls and with all who delight in them ♪
• 26:11 ♪ For we know that's where His praise awaits ♪
• 26:16 ♪ So let us go up ♪
• 26:18 ♪ Let us go up to the Gates of Jerusalem ♪
• 26:24 ♪ Let us go up ♪
• 26:26 ♪ Let us go up to the Gates of Jerusalem ♪
• 26:31 ♪ Yes, let us go up ♪
• 26:34 ♪ Let us go up ♪
• 26:37 ♪ To the Gates of Jerusalem ♪
• 26:42 ♪ The Gates of Jerusalem ♪
• 26:50 You know we want to thank Marty Goetz for his beautiful music about the Gates.
• 26:54 And we want to thank you for your support
• 26:56 so we can bring you these series
• 26:58 It's such a joy to bring them to you.
• 27:00 And we want to really encourage you
• 27:02 if you have ever thought about giving
• 27:05 now is the time that we need it.
• 27:06 We are looking forward to our next year.
• 27:08 We have so many wonderful things that we want to bring.
• 27:12 Yeah, it's pretty exciting
• 27:13 but we can't do it without you.
• 27:14 This is really a partnership
• 27:15 It's a community.
• 27:17 We really know that the Zola viewers are faithful.
• 27:19 We thank you for giving.
• 27:21 We encourage you to support us.
• 27:23 We understand there are many ministries that are vying for your donations - we get that.
• 27:28 We really believe this message is so important
• 27:31 especially as we get closer to the coming of the LORD.
• 27:34 Yeah, it's so true
• 27:36 that if you stand with the one that God's called us to stand with
• 27:39 He will bless you.
• 27:41 We've seen it in our lives and our friends have to.
• 27:43 And thank you for being a friend of the LORD and a friend of this ministry.
• 27:47 Yeah, and that's why we always end our program by reminding you
• 27:51 to pray from Psalm 122:6
• 27:54 Sha'a lu Shalom Yerushalayim
• 27:56 Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem