Caption transcript for Zion Forever: “Temple Mount” (7/9)

• 00:03 We want the message of Christianity through Jewish eyes
• 00:07 and the relevance of the State of Israel;
• 00:09 we want it to go to the next generation.
• 00:11 It's a passion for us.
• 00:13 We have children in college.
• 00:14 One just graduated.
• 00:15 It's so exciting for us to see kids understanding the importance of Israel,
• 00:19 the importance of their Jewish heritage.
• 00:49 For Zion's sake I will not hold my peace
• 00:53 and for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest
• 00:57 until her righteousness goes forth as brightness
• 01:01 and her salvation as a lamp that burns.
• 01:15 Shalom, and welcome to our program.
• 01:16 I'm Myles Weiss.
• 01:17 And I'm Katharine Weiss.
• 01:18 And welcome to our series "Zion Forever"
• 01:21 We're taking you to the City of David and the Temple Mount.
• 01:23 Two very important places.
• 01:25 They are contested.
• 01:27 You know, here in the real estate business location, location, location?
• 01:30 Well, this is the epicenter.
• 01:32 The Holy of Holies of Holies.
• 01:34 This is the epicenter of all the conflict that is pointing towards Jerusalem
• 01:37 because the Temple Mount is where the Temple stood.
• 01:40 It is " HaMakom " - "The Place"
• 01:42 where the Western Wall is,
• 01:43 the closest we can get to that.
• 01:45 And the City of David establishes the historical truth of King David.
• 01:49 Absolutely, it's amazing to go see what God is unearthing in these days.
• 01:53 You know, it say in Psalms 48:13
• 02:08 That's so important to us.
• 02:10 We have grown men now.
• 02:12 But they're 24 and 21 when we're shooting this.
• 02:14 And their generation needs to know the importance
• 02:18 of the realities of what's going on in Israel and the Middle East.
• 02:21 And so these programs are a part of that.
• 02:23 It's really a fulfillment of what God calls us to
• 02:26 way back in Deuteronomy.
• 02:27 " L'dor v'dor " "From generation to generation"
• 02:31 I think that's why Yeshua's speaking in Luke 19:40,
• 02:35 He says...
• 02:38 We know that has a spiritual meaning
• 02:40 but the reality is that also right now the very stones of Israel
• 02:44 are crying out speaking the truth about this Book and about God.
• 02:48 And so, we're excited to take you now to Shahar Shilo.
• 02:52 He's a historian and one of the guides at the City of David.
• 02:55 Let's hear from him now.
• 02:59 Shahar, Thank you for being with us.
• 03:00 We're standing here
• 03:01 between the Temple Mount and the City of David
• 03:03 on the City of David.
• 03:04 Tell us some of the newest findings
• 03:06 that you have been part of
• 03:07 that you know about here regarding the Temple Mount.
• 03:09 Well down at the Temple Mount,
• 03:11 the place which the Bible calls the " Ophel ".
• 03:13 " Ophel " comes from "the steep way up"
• 03:16 which is exactly the steep way up
• 03:18 from the Kidron Valley to the Temple Mount itself.
• 03:20 Dr. Eliat Mazar has been excavating
• 03:21 right behind my back right now.
• 03:23 She's on the slopes of the Southern Steps
• 03:25 where Jesus entered the Temple.
• 03:26 And she knows the site so well
• 03:28 because what she dug down there
• 03:29 is a Solomonic wall from the walls of King Solomon.
• 03:32 We need to remember that King David established his city on this hill
• 03:34 which is south of us right now.
• 03:36 At my back comes the enlargement of the city
• 03:39 only at the times of Solomon.
• 03:41 So we're looking for Solomon's things,
• 03:42 anything which has to do with the Solomon of the times
• 03:44 should be behind my back right now.
• 03:46 We need to remember that she can only dig as far as the walls themselves
• 03:49 because this is a sanctuary of the Muslim world today.
• 03:52 No one can dig under the Temple Mount itself.
• 03:55 So regardless of politics
• 03:57 there have been some amazing finds recently.
• 03:59 I read about a medallion and some other gold coins.
• 04:03 Tell us about those.
• 04:04 Well she found some really amazing stuff.
• 04:07 And regardless of the politics
• 04:08 which are inside the Temple Mount on the slopes.
• 04:10 Findings are coming all the time.
• 04:12 Like this huge golden medallion which shows the Jewish menorah
• 04:16 and the Jewish shofar, the great horn,
• 04:18 and things which has to do with the time of the Byzantine world.
• 04:22 Which, by the way, Jews have always tried to get to Jerusalem.
• 04:26 This one comes from the 6th century AD.
• 04:28 And it shows that the Jews never stopped to dream of Jerusalem.
• 04:32 And when they had the ability of coming to Jerusalem with the national symbols, they did.
• 04:36 And so she found golden coins,
• 04:38 and she found huge amounts of lanterns and pottery
• 04:40 that dates back from the times of the 10th century BCE,
• 04:44 again, behind my back,
• 04:45 all the time to the Byzantine world
• 04:47 when Jews were still prevented from coming to Jerusalem.
• 04:50 And yet, they did as much as they could.
• 04:52 So our viewers begin with the understanding that Scripture is inerrant.
• 04:56 They believe the Bible.
• 04:58 And I like to say that the headlines are catching up to the Bible.
• 05:00 Your seeing an interface... phenomenal!
• 05:03 I have to say,
• 05:04 I have to be frank here
• 05:05 as a scholar but as a secular person.
• 05:08 Yes
• 05:09 I very much believe in the Bible.
• 05:10 I have no doubts about the existence of the story of the Bible.
• 05:13 No doubts whatsoever.
• 05:14 Because whenever I see historical documents
• 05:17 Verified
• 05:18 proving things outside the Bible,
• 05:20 The Biblical story is being supported by two different academic lines.
• 05:23 One of them is history, which is documents.
• 05:25 And the other one is archaeology
• 05:26 which stands for its own but that it needs interpreted.
• 05:28 And we interpret it whatever we find.
• 05:31 So if it goes along with documents
• 05:32 then we say, "bingo", no doubts whatsoever.
• 05:35 So if you have the book of Jeremiah being proved here with many, many chapters,
• 05:38 if you've got things coming from out from the time of Abraham, the time of the patriarchs,
• 05:42 we are talking about a great astonishing to the world today.
• 05:45 And as we move forward I expect many of the other stories to be proved as well.
• 05:49 It's quite easy as things are
• 05:51 popping out of the ground in the City of David.
• 05:54 We were here several years ago
• 05:55 and one of our passengers on the tour found a Maccabean coin at the sifting project.
• 06:01 Tell us about the sifting project.
• 06:02 Our viewers would love to hear about it.
• 06:04 Well, the sifting project I should say is a privilege.
• 06:07 Because for many, many years the Temple Mount itself as a sanctuary,
• 06:10 was for forbidden to dig underneath.
• 06:12 So, no one could actually excavate it.
• 06:15 Because of a different reason that took place for a whole different idea
• 06:20 the Muslims on the Temple Mount
• 06:22 wanted to do an enlarging of one of the Mosques
• 06:24 for the summertime, for Ramadan especially.
• 06:27 So they had to dig underneath us.
• 06:28 It's right there, a place which is called "Solomon's Stables" today.
• 06:31 For a mistake in history, the item doesn't exist as the Solomon's stables.
• 06:35 It was built by King Herod.
• 06:37 The whole structure behind myself right now is a Herodian, huge thing.
• 06:42 But it was under the great arches they dug in order to take out the soil
• 06:46 so they could actually put it and establish a new Mosque underground.
• 06:50 I'm talking about a few thousand of tons of soil and rubble
• 06:54 that came out from there.
• 06:56 They were thrown in the Kidron Valley
• 06:58 which from there we have taken it into a sifting project
• 07:00 that exists right now for about almost 10 years.
• 07:03 And the great amount of findings,
• 07:05 over 50,000 findings from the history of the Temple Mount keeps on appearing.
• 07:09 We have stuff there which is Egyptian, 14th century BCE
• 07:14 that goes along with the letters being sent
• 07:16 from Jerusalem to Egypt in the 14th century BCE
• 07:20 that is even prior to Joshua.
• 07:22 We have stuff coming out as a high priest impression
• 07:25 under the name "Immer"
• 07:26 appears in I Chronicles Chapter 24.
• 07:30 We have Biblical names coming off of the Temple Mount.
• 07:33 We have huge amounts of coins
• 07:34 from the time that coins exist in the world.
• 07:36 So it keeps on showing us the existence of ancient knowledge
• 07:40 from the times of the history of the Temple Mount.
• 07:43 But again it was just because of a reason that was not there in the first time
• 07:46 because we are not allowed to excavate.
• 07:49 It was just because of a mistake took place for building reasons.
• 07:54 (Myles speaking) As you can see, these efforts are vital
• 07:56 in establishing the true history of the Land.
• 07:59 We also met with Zachi Dvira
• 08:01 at the Temple Mount Sifting Project
• 08:03 where he updated us on the recovery of precious artifacts.
• 08:10 The project was established on November 2004
• 08:14 and I think we have another 7 years to finish all this debris.
• 08:20 It's a lot of work.
• 08:21 And I understand there's still more that we're not allowed to look at yet.
• 08:25 Is that true?
• 08:26 There is still more debris on the Temple Mount
• 08:28 that hasn't been removed yet because of a court ruling
• 08:33 that prevents them from just discarding this debris
• 08:38 without any controlled archaeological supervision
• 08:42 and treatment of this dirt.
• 08:45 So there afraid it would be contaminated.
• 08:47 But it's actually a political issue isn't it?
• 08:49 Of course, it's a political issue.
• 08:51 Everything in Jerusalem is political.
• 08:54 And of course, it deals with the Temple Mount
• 08:58 and for this reason there never has been an excavation;
• 09:08 a systematic excavation on the Temple Mount
• 09:10 because of the political sensitivity
• 09:12 Yes
• 09:13 and the objection of the Islamic authorities over there that don't want
• 09:18 any kind of archaeological research at the site.
• 09:22 Tell us about some of the most exciting things you found here.
• 09:25 Well, everything is exciting
• 09:28 because this is the first time that we have archaeological finds
• 09:32 that come from within the Temple Mount
• 09:35 We have such a large variety of finds from all periods
• 09:39 since the first Temple period, which is about 50% of the finds
• 09:45 and second Temple period which is about 40% of the finds, till today.
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• 11:01 ♪ (Background Music) ♪
• 11:16 (Katharine speaking) Israel is a Land full of promises.
• 11:19 You'll never be the same
• 11:21 so we invite you to come
• 11:22 it's a trip of a lifetime.
• 11:24 We'd love you to join us!
• 11:28 It's so true to see in the Word of God
• 11:32 that there's a set time for everything
• 11:34 and there's a set time to favor Zion
• 11:36 and it is today.
• 11:38 Because it talks about in Psalm 102
• 11:40 that there would be stones that would be arising
• 11:43 that would be teaching us
• 11:45 of God's supernatural lineage and life
• 11:49 that he's past on from generation to generation.
• 11:52 And it was a joy to go to the Temple Sifting Project
• 11:55 and see the little children finding these treasures
• 11:58 and finding these stones and these coins
• 12:00 verifying their existence,
• 12:02 their life and their family's existence.
• 12:05 Can you imagine a country so small;
• 12:08 we always say the size of New Jersey, roughly,
• 12:11 surrounded by millions of enemies who want you wiped off the face of the earth?
• 12:16 And these children are finding out
• 12:18 who they are, where they come from
• 12:20 and what the history of the Land is for the Jewish people.
• 12:24 It was thrilling for us.
• 12:26 We happened to be there when the young people were there as well
• 12:29 and it's so amazing to see these treasures being unearthed
• 12:32 because let's face it,
• 12:34 the political pressure coming from all sides
• 12:36 to shut down this kind of a project
• 12:38 because it tells the truth about the Jewish people and the Land of Israel.
• 12:42 Well, let's go to the Temple Mount Sifting Project
• 12:44 and hear some more from our guide.
• 12:48 You know, it's amazing.
• 12:49 I like to say on TV
• 12:50 that the headlines are catching up to the Bible.
• 12:53 You are approaching this from a scientific viewpoint
• 12:56 and yet daily the Bible stories
• 12:58 are being verified by what you find here.
• 13:01 Every day we have our historical deadlines.
• 13:04 Not deadlines... also headlines.
• 13:07 And we have the evidence of the destruction of the First Temple.
• 13:12 We have arrowheads from the destruction
• 13:14 that the Babylonians fired on the Temple.
• 13:18 We have broken or smashed small, clay figurines,
• 13:25 terra cotta field is what we call them,
• 13:29 that attests the activity of King Joash,
• 13:36 who is said that he smashed all the molten images.
• 13:41 And we have many of them.
• 13:43 And also we have arrowheads from the destruction
• 13:47 and we have lots of burnt material and burnt architectural stones
• 13:50 and we have very high level engravings from the time of Herod
• 13:59 that some of the stones may have been from the Temple itself.
• 14:02 We cannot tell because here is smashed it's out of context.
• 14:05 But you can tell the date.
• 14:07 You can tell that it came from public buildings, very elaborate buildings.
• 14:13 We have a very rare coin, a half shekel coin from silver.
• 14:18 Only 3 of them were found in Jerusalem.
• 14:20 And the half shekel; this coin was minted during the Jewish revolt against the Romans.
• 14:25 And it was used to raise funds for the Temple.
• 14:28 Really?
• 14:31 ...for the Temple, for as it says in the book of Exodus,
• 14:39 So also in the 2nd Temple period
• 14:41 they used this sum of money for raising funds.
• 14:44 Interesting.
• 14:46 We have more than one southern floor tiles
• 14:50 in different shapes, geometrical shapes and colors.
• 14:53 Now Josephus tells us that in the 2nd Temple Courts,
• 14:59 all the open Courts, all that were open to the sky,
• 15:04 were paved with stones of all sorts and all colors.
• 15:09 And now we know what he is talking about.
• 15:11 We see it.
• 15:13 And we reconstruct the patterns, the geometrical patterns.
• 15:15 Wow!
• 15:17 You know, speaking of fundraising,
• 15:19 our viewers have been participating with you.
• 15:21 We've raised funds for the Temple Mount Sifting Project.
• 15:25 So they're interested also in how many people have come over to help you?
• 15:29 How many tourists, visitors, pilgrims come?
• 15:32 More than 150,000 people.
• 15:35 Have helped you here?
• 15:37 There is no such phenomenon in the archaeological research since it began 150 years ago.
• 15:45 But so many people took part in the archaeological research.
• 15:49 Even in the study of the finds we are using many experts
• 15:57 because this is the characteristics of this find that are out of context
• 16:03 so you need more expertise to date them and to recognize them.
• 16:06 So many people are taking part in this duty.
• 16:10 And you know the book of Psalms has a verse
• 16:14 that says exactly a little there...
• 16:17 It says,
• 16:19 (Speaking Hebrew) [Psalm 102;13-14]
• 16:30 And in English?
• 16:31 You will [arise] and redeem Zion,
• 16:34 [For it is] time [to be gracious to her.]
• 16:37 Because thy servants [will feel pity for her] dust
• 16:44 and [find pleasure] [in her] stones.
• 16:47 So when the servants come together
• 16:49 and favor the dust of Zion
• 16:53 God's grace is with them
• 16:55 and we are gracious to Israel
• 16:58 and God is gracious as well.
• 17:00 Now the teacher is assigning them to pails
• 17:02 and they're going to start.
• 17:04 They will each take a bucket.
• 17:06 It was already dry sifted
• 17:09 but now it's soaked with water.
• 17:11 And they're going to pour the bucket on the screen
• 17:13 and start washing the material.
• 17:16 And later on after that
• 17:18 they will start scrutinizing it carefully
• 17:22 to separate all the archaeological finds
• 17:26 and the natural stones.
• 17:28 This is a very organized group.
• 17:33 The teacher is very organized.
• 17:34 This is the first time that we see what the teacher is
• 17:37 assigning who will go with whom, and her.
• 17:39 And she probably has experience
• 17:43 because the kids get really excited.
• 17:45 Yes, and they should!
• 17:47 They should be excited.
• 17:48 It's pretty amazing.
• 17:50 So our viewers are very interested in the excitement the children feel.
• 17:53 Does it connect them with their Zion's history and their roots?
• 17:56 Of course, because they touch in the heart of the Jewish nation.
• 18:02 It's things from Bet Mikdash ,
• 18:06 the first Bet Mikdash.
• 18:08 And they see things
• 18:10 and they touch with the hand.
• 18:11 They can't go up there so they touch it.
• 18:14 So it's important on very many levels,
• 18:17 educationally,
• 18:19 but also I think it stirs up their
• 18:21 understanding of natural history
• 18:23 and the importance of being a Jew in the Land.
• 18:25 Yes, of course, because all the time we speak about it in the class.
• 18:28 And now they touch, they see, they feel it.
• 18:31 So this is real that we are here
• 18:34 and it's very, very important for them
• 18:36 and for us.
• 18:38 And all the time we only speak it,
• 18:39 only teach, only tell things.
• 18:41 So this is the...
• 18:42 hands on.
• 18:42 Yeah, inside.
• 18:44 You know it's so important for our viewers
• 18:47 to see the next generation understanding Israel.
• 18:50 Think about what Zola started 30 plus years ago.
• 18:53 But it's important the kids get this, isn't it?
• 18:55 Right, when you handle the things of the 1st and the 2nd century...
• 19:01 I mean, these are...
• 19:02 like the rock are literally speaking to these people
• 19:05 about their history, their heritage
• 19:07 and the Temple that was here.
• 19:09 It's so exciting to see their faces
• 19:11 as they find these finds.
• 19:13 It's amazing.
• 19:14 Yes it is.
• 19:15 You know it's so important for us too.
• 19:16 We want the message of Christianity through Jewish eyes
• 19:20 and the relevance of the State of Israel;
• 19:22 we want it to go to the next generation.
• 19:24 It's a passion for us.
• 19:25 We have children in college.
• 19:26 One just graduated.
• 19:28 It's so exciting for us to see kids understanding the importance of Israel,
• 19:32 the importance of their Jewish heritage.
• 19:38 (Katharine speaking) God wants us to see the ancient rocks
• 19:41 and meet the living stones.
• 19:42 Let's go north and hear from
• 19:44 "Our Man in Haifa" Eitan Shiskoff.
• 19:51 Shalom.
• 19:52 I'd like to talk to you today
• 19:54 about a very popular figure in Scripture,
• 19:56 a man named " Kapha "
• 19:58 You probably know him better as "Peter"
• 20:00 Peter was located;
• 20:03 it was in the middle of the day around lunchtime,
• 20:05 on roof down the coast from here
• 20:09 at a place called Joppa in those days;
• 20:11 " Yapho " in modern Israel.
• 20:14 And Peter was kind of drowsy.
• 20:17 And during this time when he was waiting for lunch
• 20:21 Suddenly he went into a trance,
• 20:24 he had a vision, not once, but 3 times.
• 20:27 He saw a sheet lowered down from heaven
• 20:30 and in the sheet were animals.
• 20:32 It's interesting that he was hungry at the time,
• 20:34 but the animals were not kosher,
• 20:36 they were not what he was really permitted to eat
• 20:40 according to the Torah that he followed.
• 20:43 And he was wondering what this vision meant
• 20:46 when some people arrived at the gate of the house where he was staying.
• 20:51 And interestingly, the people who had come as messengers
• 20:54 were sent by a Roman centurion,
• 20:57 an officer, not Jewish, a guy named Cornelius.
• 21:00 Cornelius had also received a supernatural communication from God
• 21:05 that he was to send these men to bring Peter to Caesarea
• 21:09 which is up the coast from Joppa,
• 21:12 actually between where we are now,
• 21:13 the Haifa Bay and Jaffa or Yafo, in Caesarea.
• 21:18 And he was going to receive Peter and hear what he had to say.
• 21:23 So here's Peter, he comes down from the roof,
• 21:25 he meets these messengers,
• 21:27 the messengers say, Hey, our boss wants you to come up to Caesarea and talk to him.
• 21:34 Peter goes, okay; next day he heads to Caesarea.
• 21:37 He finds himself in the house of the Gentile Cornelius.
• 21:41 And they're ready to hear whatever he has to say.
• 21:44 Cornelius has gathered his friends, his neighbors, his relatives;
• 21:47 and Peter gives them the good news about Yeshua
• 21:51 having been sacrificed as the perfect Lamb,
• 21:55 the Son of God, the Messiah of Israel,
• 21:58 and rising from the dead.
• 21:59 Well the Spirit of God descends upon them;
• 22:02 and this is the first recorded time
• 22:04 that non-Jews have received the good news, the Gospel of Yeshua
• 22:08 and believed and received it
• 22:10 and they were filled with the Spirit of God.
• 22:12 To me, the waters both at Joppa and Caesarea and even behind us
• 22:17 represent the distribution of goods and of information,
• 22:22 of communication,
• 22:23 and certainly in those days even more than now.
• 22:26 And so I see in this story about Peter really a parable for our times
• 22:31 which is that God calls us to distribute, to bring his love,
• 22:36 the Good News, the Redemption of man from his own selfish nature
• 22:42 to a relationship with God.
• 22:45 And may we be like Peter who became an Apostle with a message to his people.
• 22:52 Shalom.
• 23:03 ♪ Take us there, take us there to the Land of Zion ♪
• 23:07 ♪ Next year in Jerusalem ♪
• 23:08 ♪ l' Shanah ha'ba'ah b'Yerusahlayim ♪
• 23:12 ♪ Next Year in Jerusalem ♪
• 23:14 ♪ O hear, oh Israel, O Israel hear! ♪
• 23:16 ♪ O Lord, They Kingdom come, Thy will be done next year ♪
• 23:19 ♪ l, Shanah ha'ba'ah b'Yerushalayim ♪
• 23:22 ♪ Next Year in Jerusalem ♪
• 23:27 ♪ Over there, over there in the Land of Zion ♪
• 23:30 ♪ Next year in Jerusalem ♪
• 23:32 ♪ l, Shanah ha'ba'ah b'Yerushalayim ♪
• 23:36 ♪ Next Year in Jerusalem ♪
• 23:38 ♪ O Lord draw near to us, O Lord draw near ♪
• 23:40 ♪ O Lord thy kingdom come, Thy will be done next year ♪
• 23:43 ♪ l, Shanah ha'ba'ah b'Yerushalayim ♪
• 23:47 ♪ Next Year in Jerusalem ♪
• 23:52 ♪ Ah, Land of rest, of thee I sing ♪
• 23:58 "Ah, Zion blessed, receive thy King ♪
• 24:04 ♪ Ah, Promised Land, of thee I tell ♪
• 24:10 ♪ Receive thy Kingdom, Israel ♪
• 24:21 ♪ When we're there, when we're there, in the Land of Zion ♪
• 24:24 ♪ Next year in Jerusalem ♪
• 24:26 ♪ l, Shanah ha'ba'ah b'Yerushalayim ♪
• 24:29 ♪ Next Year in Jerusalem ♪
• 24:31 ♪ O Lord, we'll be with You and no more tears ♪
• 24:34 ♪ O Lord, Thy Kingdom come Thy will be done next year ♪
• 24:37 ♪ l, Shanah ha'ba'ah b'Yerushalayim ♪
• 24:40 ♪ Next Year in Jerusalem ♪
• 24:42 ♪ l, Shanah ha'ba'ah b'Yerushalayim ♪
• 24:46 ♪ Next Year in Jerusalem ♪♪
• 24:54 That is such a familiar phrase to the Jewish ear.
• 24:57 It probably is to you too.
• 24:58 l, Shanah ha'ba'ah b'Yerushalayim
• 25:00 For thousands of years that was said at Passover Seders
• 25:04 as we remember the exodus from Egypt
• 25:08 and prayed and looked forward to the time
• 25:11 when we could be in Jerusalem keeping the Passover.
• 25:15 Well it's like prophesying.
• 25:16 You know your next step in God,
• 25:18 next year in Jerusalem,
• 25:19 telling yourself, we will be there.
• 25:21 And then God changed everything May 14, 1948
• 25:25 by the rebirth of the State of Israel
• 25:28 and fulfilling that prophecy so that now when people are
• 25:32 actually keeping the Passover in Israel
• 25:34 they can say, we're here, God has done it.
• 25:37 It's happening in our lives
• 25:39 And that's so important for us.
• 25:40 It's important for you as believers.
• 25:42 Because if God keeps his covenant with the Jewish people
• 25:44 he'll keep his covenant with the believers in Yeshua.
• 25:47 We've seen over the course of even the study,
• 25:50 the fulfillment that God has fulfilled...
• 25:53 He's brought them back to their Land.
• 25:54 He's restored them to the place
• 25:56 that God's ordained for them to dwell in
• 25:59 and that he would bless the Land when they're there.
• 26:02 And now we're seeing him pour water on them
• 26:04 and restore them to his salvation.
• 26:07 But we are wanting ourselves and calling you to pray
• 26:12 for the next phase that's coming.
• 26:14 It's in Isaiah 62:1
• 26:17 It says,
• 26:30 It's a powerful call.
• 26:31 It's a holy calling.
• 26:32 And it's really the primary calling of this program,
• 26:35 of what we do with our ministry,
• 26:37 is about waking people up
• 26:39 to take their place on the wall as watchmen.
• 26:42 Just as Isaiah calls us to.
• 26:44 You know in Exodus 15:17
• 26:46 when God looked forward
• 26:48 with Moses to the place
• 26:50 that he would build with him.
• 26:51 It was called the Mountain of God's inheritance.
• 26:54 And the scripture says that at that time
• 26:56 God will establish Himself as a Sanctuary in that Mountain.
• 27:00 Which Mountain?
• 27:02 Mount Zion
• 27:03 Mount Moriah
• 27:04 The Center of the earth.
• 27:05 And he says also,
• 27:06 (Speaking Hebrew) " Adonai Yimloch, Le-Olam Va-ed "
• 27:08 (Revelation 11:15) "...He will reign forever and ever"
• 27:11 from that place.
• 27:12 The City of our God. -Hallelujah!
• 27:14 That is why we like to end our program with Psalm 122:6.
• 27:19 Sha'a'lu Shalom Yerushalayim
• 27:21 Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem.
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