Caption transcript for “The Coming Invasions” with Joel Rosenberg

• 00:09 BRETHREN, MY HEART'S DESIRE AND PRAYER TO GOD FOR ISRAEL IS THAT THEY MIGHT BE SAVED.
• 00:15 FOR THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE JEW AND THE GENTILE,
• 00:18 FOR THE SAME LORD OVER ALL IS RICH UNTO ALL THAT CALL UPON HIM.
• 00:26 WITH SANDRA LEVITT AND DR. JEFFREY SEIF
• 00:32 A HEARTY SHALOM TO ALL OF YOU.
• 00:35 JEFFREY SEIF HERE WITH MY GOOD FRIEND SANDRA LEVITT.
• 00:39 SHALOM.
• 00:40 WELCOME TO ZOLA LEVITT PRESENTS.
• 00:41 JEFFREY SEIF, SANDRA LEVITT, GOOD TO SEE YOU.
• 00:43 HOW ARE YOU DOING?
• 00:44 GOOD. AND WE'VE GOT A GREAT PROGRAM.
• 00:47 THIS FRIENDS, WILL BE 30 MINUTES OF TV WORTH WATCHING.
• 00:53 SANDRA YOU INTERVIEWED JOEL ROSENBERG IN JERUSALEM. CORRECT?
• 00:58 JUST WAS ONE OF MY - I CAN'T EVEN TELL WHAT A HIGHLIGHT THAT IS FOR ME.
• 01:01 HE IS A TERRIFIC CHRISTIAN WRITER.
• 01:03 HE HAS WRITTEN "THE LAST JIHAD", "THE LAST DAYS", "EZEKIEL OPTION".
• 01:06 HE'S GOT A NEW BOOK CALLED "EPICENTER" AND JUST A TERRIFIC AUTHOR.
• 01:11 A GREAT CHRISTIAN AUTHOR AND JUST A REALLY NICE GUY TO INTERVIEW.
• 01:15 RIGHT. AND HE'S GOT A JEWISH PARENT TOO. ABSOLUTELY.
• 01:17 HE'S OF THE MESSIANIC JEWISH VARITY AS WELL.
• 01:20 REALLY HAS A WORD FOR THE MIDDLE EAST ISRAEL BIBLE PROPHECY.
• 01:26 I TOLD HIM WHEN I WAS INTERVIEWING HIM, I SAID,
• 01:28 "I READ ONE OF YOUR BOOKS". IN FACT IT WAS "THE LAST DAYS".
• 01:30 AND I READ IT AND I WAS SO SCARED WHEN I READ IT I COULD HARDLY -
• 01:33 I'D HAVE TO LOOK UNDER THE BED BEFORE I GOT IN BED BECAUSE IT WAS SO GRIPPING AND SO -
• 01:38 IT HAD EVERYTHING I LIKE IN A NOVEL.
• 01:40 IT WAS ABOUT ISRAEL, END TIMES, HAD A LITTLE ROMANCE IN IT, A LITTLE MYSTERY IN IT.
• 01:43 IT WAS TERRIFIC AND HE IS TERRIFIC AND I THINK YOU'LL REALLY ENJOY THE INTERVIEW.
• 01:49 YEAH. HE'S GRIPPING.
• 01:50 IN FACT, SOME OF HIS BOOKS,
• 01:51 "EPICENTER", A MUST READ.
• 01:53 "THE EZEKIEL OPTION",
• 01:55 HONESTLY SANDRA, I COULD NOT PUT IT DOWN.
• 01:58 PEOPLE SOMETIMES ACCUSE US OF PEDDLING OUR OWN MERCHANDISE ON TV.
• 02:01 NO, WE'RE PEDDLING SOMEBODY ELSE'S.
• 02:03 GET IT. BUT LISTEN UP,
• 02:05 YOU'RE GONNA LOVE JOEL ROSENBERG.
• 02:09 I KNOW THAT WHEN ONE OF YOUR BOOKS CAME OUT,
• 02:11 I THINK "THE LAST JIHAD" CAME OUT,
• 02:13 THAT YOU WERE ON ALL THE TALK SHOWS
• 02:15 BECAUSE IT WAS IMMEDIATELY AFTER 911
• 02:18 AND THEY WANTED TO KNOW HOW YOU KNEW
• 02:20 THAT THERE WAS A PLANE GONNA CRASH
• 02:22 INTO THE WORLD TRADE CENTER OR A BUILDING.
• 02:24 WELL, IT WAS STRANGE
• 02:25 BECAUSE YOU'RE RIGHT.
• 02:26 THE FIRST PAGE OF "THE LAST JIHAD"
• 02:28 WHICH IS A NOVEL, IT IS A NOVEL.
• 02:30 PUTS YOU INSIDE THE COCKPIT OF A HIGH-JACKED JET. RIGHT.RIGHT.
• 02:33 HI-JACKED BY RADICAL ISLAMIC TERRORISTS
• 02:34 COMING IN ON A KAMIKAZE ATTACK
• 02:36 MISSION INTO AN AMERICAN CITY.
• 02:38 I WROTE THIS 9 MONTHS BEFORE SEPTEMBER 11TH.
• 02:41 AS THE PLOT UNFOLDED MY FICTIONAL AMERICAN PRESIDENT GETS INTO A WAR
• 02:46 WITH SADDAM HUSSEIN OVER TERRORISM AND WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION.
• 02:50 I WAS LITERALLY FINISHING "THE LAST JIHAD" ON THE MORNING OF SEPTEMBER 11TH IN OUR HOME,
• 02:55 15 MINUTES AWAY FROM THE AIRPORT IN WASHINGTON D.C.
• 02:59 WHERE AT THAT MOMENT FLIGHT 77 WAS BEING HI-JACKED,
• 03:02 TURNED AROUND, FLOWN OVER OUR HOUSE AND INTO THE PENTAGON.
• 03:05 WHEN "THE LAST JIHAD" WAS PUBLISHED IN THE FALL 02',
• 03:09 YEAH, PEOPLE WERE JUST INTRIGUED, "HOW COULD YOU HAVE -
• 03:11 THE DETAILS IN MY BOOK ARE DIFFERENT
• 03:14 BUT THE CONCEPT AND THE TRAJECTORY OF EVENTS ARE QUITE REALISTIC
• 03:18 AND SEEM TO FORESHADOW WHAT WAS COMING. AND SO PEOPLE WOULD SAY,
• 03:23 "HOW COULD YOU HAVE KNOWN?"
• 03:25 "WHAT DO YOU THINK IS GOING TO HAPPEN NEXT?"
• 03:26 "AND BY THE WAY, ISN'T YOUR NAME ROSENBERG?" AND I'D SAY, "YES".
• 03:29 THEY'D SAY, "ISN'T THAT JEWISH?" AND I'D SAY, "YES".
• 03:32 AND THEY SAID, "BUT YOU GOT ALL THESE CHARACTERS AT THE END OF YOUR BOOK,
• 03:36 THEY'RE ALL TALKING ABOUT JESUS AREN'T THEY?" I SAID, "YES".
• 03:38 "WELL WHAT IS THAT?" "ARE YOU A BORN AGAIN?" "ARE YOU AN EVANGELICAL".
• 03:41 I SAID, "YES, ACTUALLY THAT'S TRUE."
• 03:43 THEY SAID, "HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE?"
• 03:44 "HOW CAN YOU BE JEWISH AND BELIEVE IN JESUS?"
• 03:46 SO I'D SAY TO THESE RADIO SHOW HOSTS,
• 03:48 "LOOK, YOU KNOW, IT IS AN INTERESTING STORY
• 03:50 BUT I'M SURE YOU DON'T HAVE TIME ON YOUR PROGRAM FOR ME TO TELL YOU."
• 03:53 THEY SAID, "NO, NO." A GUY WRITES A NOVEL THAT BASICALLY COMES TRUE, THAT'S INTERESTING.
• 03:56 A JEW WHO BELIEVES IN JESUS, NEVER HEARD OF IT, TELL ME YOUR STORY.
• 03:59 AND I WAS ON ABOUT 160 RADIO AND TV SHOWS IN LESS THAN 60 DAYS.
• 04:04 ALMOST ALL ASKED THAT QUESTION,
• 04:06 AND I HAD THE PRIVILEGE OF TALKING ABOUT MY FAITH WITH ABOUT 20 MILLION PEOPLE
• 04:10 IN THAT SEASON BETWEEN THANKSGIVING AND CHRISTMAS 2002.
• 04:16 AND FOR US IT'S NOTHING UNUSUAL
• 04:18 BUT I GUESS PEOPLE JUST DON'T BELIEVE THAT JEWS
• 04:21 REALLY CAN COME TO BELIEVE THAT YESHUA IS THE MESSIAH.
• 04:24 I KNOW.I KNOW. AS I SAID,
• 04:25 MY FATHER THOUGHT HE WAS THE FIRST -
• 04:27 THE AMAZING THING REALLY IS HOW MANY JEWISH PEOPLE
• 04:31 NOW BELIEVE IN YESHUA. THAT'S RIGHT.
• 04:34 HERE IN ISRAEL I THINK IT WAS LESS THAN A DOZEN
• 04:36 IN 1967 WHEN I WAS BORN.
• 04:37 NOW THE NUMBERS ARE OVER 10,000. OVER 10,O00. AMAZING.
• 04:39 WORLDWIDE AS I UNDERSTAND IT,
• 04:41 THERE WERE LESS THAN 2,000 BELIEVERS WORLDWIDE IN 1967.
• 04:46 TODAY FROM THE NUMBERS OF THE PEOPLE I TALK TO
• 04:48 ABOUT 100,000 LINK TO MESSIANIC JEWISH CONGREGATIONS
• 04:52 MAYBE UP TO 300,000 THAT ARE GOING TO BIBLE CHURCHES
• 04:56 AND OTHER NON DENOMINATIONAL CHURCHES.
• 04:57 THAT'S REALLY EXTRAORDINARY.
• 04:58 NOW IT'S NOT BY ANY MEANS ENOUGH IN MY VIEW
• 05:01 BUT THE TRAJECTORY IS DRAMATIC.
• 05:03 IT IS WONDERFUL TRAJECTORY.
• 05:04 ZOLA AND I WOULD GO TO CHURCHES,
• 05:06 WITHOUT FAIL SOMEONE WOULD COME UP TO US
• 05:09 AFTER HE GOT THROUGH SPEAKING AND SAY,
• 05:11 "I JUST FOUND OUT," YES.
• 05:13 "I JUST FOUND OUT MY MOTHER WAS JEWISH,"
• 05:15 "MY GRANDMOTHER WAS JEWISH, WHAT CAN I DO?"
• 05:17 I THINK NUMBERS ARE
• 05:19 WIDER THAN THAT
• 05:20 OR LARGER THAN THAT
• 05:21 BECAUSE OF SO MANY PEOPLE
• 05:22 EITHER DON'T KNOW
• 05:23 THAT THEY'RE JEWISH
• 05:24 OR EVEN THOUGH THEY KNOW THAT THEY HAVE
• 05:25 A JEWISH GRANDFATHER, GRANDMOTHER,
• 05:27 THEY DON'T IDENTIFY THEMSELVES AS JEWISH
• 05:28 THEREFORE NOBODY IS PICKING THAT UP.
• 05:30 I THINK GOD IS DOING SOMETHING REALLY EXTRAORDINARY AT THIS MOMENT.
• 05:33 AND BY THE WAY,
• 05:34 AS I WRITE IN THE NEW BOOK, "EPICENTER"
• 05:36 IT'S NOT JUST JEWS
• 05:37 THAT ARE COMING TO KNOW THE LORD,
• 05:38 MUSLIMS ARE COMING TO KNOW THE LORD IN JUST RECORD NUMBERS.
• 05:41 IT'S AN UNTOLD STORY IN ITSELF.
• 05:43 I THINK I READ SOME NUMBERS THAT YOU HAD PUBLISHED
• 05:46 THAT 3,000 A DAY OR JUST AN INCREDIBLE NUMBER -
• 05:50 I QUOTE A LEADING SAUDI CLERIC WHO IS ON AL JAZEERA SATELLITE TELEVISION
• 05:54 WARNING PEOPLE IN THE MUSLIM WORLD THAT 667 MUSLIMS A DAY, HE SAID,
• 06:00 ARE COMING TO KNOW JESUS AS THE SAVIOR AND THAT 6 MILLION A YEAR, HE SAID,
• 06:06 ARE COMING TO CONVERT TO CHRISTIANITY.
• 06:09 NOW, I CAN'T CONFIRM THOSE NUMBERS. RIGHT. RIGHT.
• 06:11 BUT THE FACT THAT A LEADING SAUDI CLERIC
• 06:12 IS TELLING PEOPLE THIS IS SO BAD,
• 06:14 IT'S CLEARLY RESONATING IN THE MUSLIM CULTURE THAT SOMETHING IS GOING ON.
• 06:19 RIGHT, AND WHAT IS GOING ON
• 06:21 AND CAN THEY STOP IT? GOD IS MOVING. GOD IS MOVING.
• 06:24 AND IF THEY'RE SAYING THAT MANY
• 06:26 IT HAS TO BE WORSE THAN WHAT THEY'RE SAYING.
• 06:28 ABSOLUTELY. IN IRAN, FOR EXAMPLE,
• 06:30 I SITE THE LEADERS OF THE HOUSE CHURCH MOVEMENT THERE TODAY WHO SAY
• 06:34 THAT IN 1979 THERE WERE ONLY 500 KNOWN MUSLIM CONVERTS TO CHRISTIANITY.
• 06:41 TODAY THESE GUYS SAY THERE ARE OVER A MILLION.
• 06:43 AND THERE'S - ONE GUY TOLD ME HE THINKS THAT THERE'S OVER 4 MILLION
• 06:48 I ONLY PRINTED THE MILLION NUMBER BECAUSE I JUST THOUGHT,
• 06:51 OBVIOUSLY NONE OF THIS CAN BE VERIFIED YET.
• 06:53 BUT JUST LIKE WHAT'S GOING ON IN CHINA,
• 06:55 WE HEARD FOR MANY YEARS THAT HUGE THINGS WERE HAPPENING.
• 06:58 NOW WE'RE BEGINNING TO GET A SENSE OF THE NUMBERS.
• 07:02 I KNOW THE MUSLIMS -
• 07:03 IN SAUDI ARABIA IT'S ILLEGAL EVEN TO HAVE A BIBLE.
• 07:06 CAN YOU IMAGINE THE PERSECUTION,
• 07:08 THE TENACITY THEY HAVE IF THEY REALLY BELIEVE THAT THIS IS THE MESSIAH?
• 07:13 WELL THIS IS JUST EVIDENCE THAT GOD IS MOVING.
• 07:15 THAT HIS HOLY SPIRIT IS MOVING IN A WAY I DON'T THINK WE'VE EVER SEEN IT.
• 07:19 IT'S CERTAINLY FIRST CENTURY LIKE
• 07:20 BUT IT'S WAY, WAY BEYOND THAT.
• 07:23 IN SUDAN, FOR EXAMPLE,
• 07:25 THERE'S OVER A MILLION SUDANESE WHO'VE COME TO CHRIST
• 07:27 JUST SINCE THE YEAR 2000 THESE SUDANESE EVANGELICAL LEADERS TOLD ME.
• 07:31 AND IT'S NOT THAT THERE'S A GUN TO THE PEOPLE'S HEAD SAYING,
• 07:34 "BELIEVE IN JESUS OR WE'LL KILL YOU.",
• 07:36 IT'S JUST THE OPPOSITE.
• 07:37 THERE'S A RADICAL ISLAMIC JIHADIST GOVERNMENT THERE.
• 07:40 THEY'RE COMMITTING GENOCIDE.
• 07:43 AND THEY'RE PUTTING GUNS TO PEOPLE'S HEAD SAYING,
• 07:45 "IF YOU CONVERT TO CHRISTIANITY WE WILL KILL"
• 07:46 AND PEOPLE ARE CONVERTING ANYWAY. WHY?
• 07:48 AS ONE LEADER PUT IT TO ME,
• 07:49 "PEOPLE HAVE SEEN WHAT REAL RADICAL ISLAM LOOKS LIKE",
• 07:52 "AND THEY WANT JESUS INSTEAD."
• 07:54 AND THAT'S THE POINT.
• 07:56 WE DON'T REALLY KNOW WHAT RADICAL MUSLIM, ISLAM LOOKS LIKE IN THE UNITED STATES.
• 08:00 IT'S COMING. WE HAVE OUR FIRST ELECTED SENATOR.
• 08:03 WE HAVE MUSLIMS
• 08:05 WANTING MOSQUES TO BE PROMOTED EVERYWHERE.
• 08:08 THEIR MUEZZINS ARE EVERYWHERE.
• 08:11 WE DON'T REALLY HAVE A CLUE.
• 08:12 WE JUST DON'T HAVE A CLUE.
• 08:14 WELL, THIS IS WHY I ORIGINALLY WROTE THE FIRST BOOK,
• 08:17 "THE LAST JIHAD"
• 08:18 BECAUSE MOST AMERICANS WEREN'T EVEN FAMILIAR WITH THE TERM "JIHAD".
• 08:21 MY PUBLISHER AT THE TIME SAID, "JIHAD" -
• 08:23 "I'M NOT SURE THAT PEOPLE WILL KNOW HOW TO SPELL IT, WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?
• 08:25 "THEY DON'T KNOW WHAT IT MEANS."
• 08:26 BELIEVE ME, TIME WILL TELL
• 08:27 AND PEOPLE WILL KNOW. RIGHT.
• 08:29 AND THAT'S WHERE WE ARE.
• 08:31 AGAIN, FICTION HAS A FUNNY WAY OF BEING ABLE TO CAPTURE PEOPLE'S IMAGINATION
• 08:35 FOR THINGS THAT MIGHT BE COMING DOWN THE ROAD
• 08:37 THAT THEY MIGHT NOT BE THINKING ABOUT.
• 08:39 IN 2001 WHEN I WAS WRITING THIS
• 08:41 WE WERE TAKING ABOUT THE ELECTION, THE PALM BEACH TROUBLES,
• 08:44 HANGING CHADS, THE SUPREME COURT, HEALTH CARE, TAX CUTS.
• 08:48 BUT SOMETHING WAS COMING.
• 08:50 I HONESTLY DIDN'T THINK IT WAS COMING AS FAST AS IT DID.
• 08:53 I WILL CONCEDE THAT.
• 08:54 YOU KNOW U.S. NEWS AND WORLD REPORT DESCRIBED ME AS A MODERN NOSTRADAMUS.
• 08:58 I'M NOT. I'M NOT A PSYCHIC. I'M NOT A CLAIRVOYANT.
• 09:00 I DON'T CALL MISS CLEO IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT TO GET MY PLOT IDEAS.
• 09:04 I ADMIT IT HAS BEEN UNCANNY THE WAY A LOT OF THESE NOVELS
• 09:07 KEEP FORESHADOWING THE FUTURE.
• 09:08 IT IS, BUT IT ISN'T.
• 09:10 IF YOU WATCH ISRAEL YOU KIND OF KNOW WHICH WAY THE WORLD'S GOING TO GO.
• 09:14 ISRAEL IS GOD'S TIMEPIECE.
• 09:15 I THINK THAT'S TRUE.
• 09:16 ALWAYS HAS BEEN. ALWAYS WILL BE.
• 09:31 FOR INSIGHTFUL PERSPECTIVES OF ISRAEL AND BIBLE PROPHECY,
• 09:34 ASK FOR OUR FREE MONTHLY NEWSLETTER, THE LEVITT LETTER.
• 09:37 WHEN YOU CALL, BE SURE TO ALSO AS FOR OUR FREE CATALOG
• 09:40 WITH THE LATEST VIDEOS, BOOKS AND MUSIC.
• 09:43 OUR CORRESPONDENCE COURSE, THE INSTITUTE OF JEWISH-CHRISTIAN STUDIES INCLUDES
• 09:48 READING PACKETS, TEACHING CASSETTES AND MAIL-IN TESTS.
• 09:51 YOU MAY WANT TO JOIN US ON AN UPCOMING TOUR OF ISRAEL, GREECE
• 09:54 OR THE HOLY LAND EXPERIENCE THEME PARK IN ORLANDO, FLORIDA.
• 09:58 PLEASE CONTACT US FOR MORE INFORMATION.
• 10:04 "FOR THE LORD THY GOD BRINGETH THEE INTO A GOOD LAND",
• 10:09 "A LAND OF FIG TREES AND POMEGRANATES",
• 10:12 "A LAND OF OLIVE OIL AND HONEY."
• 10:15 "ARISE, WALK THROUGH THE LAND."
• 10:20 "FOR ALL THE LAND WHICH THOU SEEST, TO THEE WILL I GIVE IT AND TO THY SEED FOREVER."
• 10:28 WORSHIP IN THE SHADOWS OF ABRAHAM, ISAAC AND JACOB.
• 10:36 BEHOLD THE LAND OF THE COVENANT.
• 10:45 TAKING HER LEAD FROM ZOLA,
• 10:46 SANDRA LOVES TO COME OUT OF THESE SPOTS SAYING,
• 10:49 "IN ISRAEL THAT'S THE WAY WE SEE IT."
• 10:52 THAT IS THE WAY WE SEE IT. AND YOU KNOW WE'D LOVE FOR YOU TO SEE IT TOO.
• 10:57 I WAS REMINDED IN OUR LAST TRIP TO ISRAEL HOW ONE TRIP IN ISRAEL
• 11:02 IS THE EQUIVALENT OF ONE YEAR IN BIBLE COLLEGE.
• 11:06 IT JUST BRINGS IT ALIVE.
• 11:08 AND THERE WERE A NUMBER OF PASTORS THAT WENT WITH US. WHY?
• 11:11 BECAUSE MEMBERS OF THEIR CHURCHES SPORTED THE BILL AS A GIFT TO THE PASTOR.
• 11:16 IT'S A CHURCH'S WAY OF SAYING, "WE LOVE YOU AND WE WANT YOU TO BE BLESSED."
• 11:21 AND BLESSED THEY WERE. WEREN'T THEY SANDRA?
• 11:24 IT IS WONDERFUL TO SEE THE PASTORS COME ALIVE AGAIN.
• 11:27 SOME OF THEM ARE OLD PASTORS,
• 11:29 SOME OF THEM WERE NEW PASTORS.
• 11:31 BUT THE OLD ONES, THEY SEEMED TO GET A NEW SPARK.
• 11:34 AND IT WAS JUST GREAT TO SEE.
• 11:36 AND IF THEY'RE SPARKED UP,
• 11:38 THAT'S GOING TO HAVE GOOD CONSEQUENCES FOR THE CHURCH AT HOME. RIGHT.
• 11:41 BUT THE YOUNG ONES TOO, THEY WERE SO EXCITED,
• 11:43 LIKE "OH, I KNEW EVERYTHING IN BIBLE COLLEGE AND NOW I'M REALLY SEEING IT".
• 11:47 AND THEY GOT THE DATES, THEY GOT THE STRUCTURES.
• 11:49 TERRIFIC!
• 11:51 IT SOUNDS SELF SERVING AT ONE LEVEL BECAUSE WE WANT FOLK TO GO TO ISRAEL WITH US.
• 11:54 BUT GO WITH ANYBODY. GO!
• 11:57 IT'S LIKE LOOKING AT THE BIBLE IN BLACK AND WHITE
• 11:59 BUT WHEN YOU HAVE ISRAEL IN VIEW, VOILA', TECHNICOLOR AND STEREO.
• 12:04 IT BRINGS DEPTH. DOESN'T IT?
• 12:06 I CAN'T EVEN TELL YOU HOW MUCH DEPTH IT BRINGS TO MY LIFE.
• 12:09 IN TALKING ABOUT DEPTH, WE WERE TALKING TO JOEL ROSENBERG.
• 12:12 WHAT A REALLY NICE, NICE MAN.
• 12:15 TOOK THE TIME TO TALK TO US.
• 12:17 WE TALKED ABOUT MUSLIMS COMING TO FAITH.
• 12:20 WE TALKED ABOUT ISRAEL BEING A TIMEPIECE FOR WARS, RUMORS OF WARS.
• 12:24 PEOPLE THOUGHT THAT HE WAS ON TOP OF EVERYTHING.
• 12:28 THAT HE HAD SOME KIND OF SECRET INFORMATION ABOUT ISRAEL
• 12:32 AND ABOUT THE WARS AND PLANES CRASHING.
• 12:35 HE DOES, IN A WAY.
• 12:36 ISRAEL IS GOD'S TIMEPIECE.
• 12:39 AND HE WATCHES ISRAEL AS ALL WE SHOULD.
• 12:42 BACK AFTER THIS.
• 12:45 SO NOW YOU'VE WRITTEN "EPICENTER".
• 12:46 "EPICENTER" IS A NON FICTION. RIGHT.
• 12:48 WHAT WAS YOUR REASONING FOR THAT?
• 12:50 WELL, WITH THE FOUR NOVELS NOW,
• 12:51 "THE LAST JIHAD","THE LAST DAYS"
• 12:53 "EZEKIEL OPTION","COPPER SCROLL"
• 12:55 THERE'S OVER 1.2 MILLION COPIES
• 12:57 OF THE BOOKS IN PRINT AND EACH
• 12:58 OF THEM HAD THIS KIND OF WAY OF
• 13:00 SEEMING TO FORESHADOW EVENTS.
• 13:03 SO TYNDALE CAME TO ME AND SAID,
• 13:04 "WOULD YOU WRITE"
• 13:06 "A NON FICTION BOOK?"
• 13:07 "AND FIRST OF ALL EXPLAIN,"
• 13:09 "HOW DID YOU GO FROM DOING POLITICAL STUFF TO WRITING THESE NOVELS?"
• 13:12 "YOU'RE TELLING PEOPLE JOEL, THAT YOU'RE BASING THESE THINGS ON BIBLE PROPHESIES."
• 13:15 "OBVIOUSLY SADDAM ISN'T PROPHECY."
• 13:17 "KAMIKAZES AREN'T IN PROPHECY."
• 13:19 "SO EXPLAIN WHAT YOU MEAN."
• 13:21 AND I'M TAKING PROPHESIES AND THEN BREAKING THEM UP AND SAYING,
• 13:23 "WHAT ARE THE EVENTS THAT WOULD HAVE TO GET US TO THOSE MAJOR EVENTS?"
• 13:26 LIKE EZEKIEL 38 AND 39, RIGHT. RIGHT.
• 13:29 RUSSIA AND IRAN FORMING A MILITARY ALLIANCE TO DESTROY ISRAEL.
• 13:32 AND SO THE FIRST TWO BOOKS LEAD UP TO THAT MOMENT.
• 13:34 "EZEKIEL OPTION" LOOKS AT THAT MOMENT.
• 13:37 SO THE FIRST TWO CHAPTERS OF "EPICENTER" EXPLAIN MY REASONING AND MY TRAJECTORY.
• 13:43 AND THEN I LAY OUT 10 HEADLINES, FUTURE HEADLINES THAT I BELIEVE WE'RE GOING TO SEE. WHY?
• 13:49 THEY'RE EACH BASED ON CERTAIN BIBLE PROPHECIES. I DESCRIBE THE PROPHECY AND THEN I SAY,
• 13:53 "LOOK, I CAN'T TELL YOU THAT THIS HEADLINE IS GOING TO HAPPEN IN OUR LIFETIME,"
• 13:57 "OR IT WOULD HAPPEN TOMORROW. I DON'T KNOW. BUT HERE'S WHAT THE SCRIPTURES SAY."
• 14:00 "NOW LETS LOOK AT WHAT'S GOING ON IN THE WORLD TO SAY,"
• 14:03 "ARE THERE ANY EVIDENCES THAT WE MAY BE MOVING IN THAT DIRECTION OR GETTING EVEN CLOSER?"
• 14:07 SO I INTERVIEWED RUSSIAN OFFICIALS, ISRAELI OFFICIALS, ARAB LEADERS, AMERICAN LEADERS.
• 14:13 WE GOT ACCESS TO PREVIOUSLY CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS FROM THE CIA, THE WHITE HOUSE, STATE DEPARTMENT.
• 14:18 JOEL IT IS AMAZING THAT PEOPLE ARE COMING TO KNOW THE LORD.
• 14:21 IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT THEIR FAITHS ARE.
• 14:23 I REALLY THINK THEY UNDERSTAND THAT THE END TIMES ARE CLOSE ALSO.
• 14:26 I THINK SO TOO.
• 14:28 I LIKE THE MUSLIMS COMING,
• 14:29 THE CHRISTIANS COMING,
• 14:30 THE JEWS COMING.
• 14:32 THEY'RE UNDERSTANDING, I THINK IT'S THEY CAN SEE,
• 14:33 ESPECIALLY IN IRAQ,
• 14:34 OUR SOLDIERS,
• 14:35 HOW NICE THEY ARE,
• 14:36 AND HOW KIND THEY ARE.
• 14:38 I LOVE HEARING
• 14:39 THAT IRAQ ISN'T AS BAD
• 14:40 AS WHAT WE THINK.
• 14:42 ALL WE GET BACK IN THE MEDIA IS HOW AWFUL IRAQ IS,
• 14:44 HOW WE NEED TO GET OUT OF THERE,
• 14:45 DEMOCRACY WILL NEVER WORK.
• 14:46 DEMOCRACY IS THE BEST THING WE'VE GOT.
• 14:49 THERE ARE MULTIPLE STORIES AND ONLY ONE OF THEM IS BEING TOLD.
• 14:52 AND IT'S THE BAD NEWS. RIGHT. RIGHT.
• 14:54 AND THERE'S A LOT OF TREMENDOUS GOOD NEWS GOING ON.
• 14:56 BUT I THINK IT'S FASCINATING THAT YOU TALK ABOUT THE END TIMES.
• 14:59 THERE IS A SENSE GOING ON AROUND THE WORLD I THINK.
• 15:02 THAT SOMETHING IS NOT THE SAME AS IT WAS.
• 15:04 YOU GOT THAT IRANIAN PRESIDENT, MAHMOUD AHMADNINEJAD,
• 15:08 WHICH IS CHALLENGING TO SAY.
• 15:09 I TELL PEOPLE, "JUST SAY, AHMAD GENOCIDE"
• 15:11 "AND YOU'LL GET THE SENSE OF WHERE THIS GUY'S GOING."
• 15:13 "A MAD DOG IN JIHAD" IS WHAT WE SAY. THERE YOU GO.
• 15:15 HE'S SAYING THAT HIS SHIITE ESCHATOLOGY, HIS END TIMES THEOLOGY IS SAYING
• 15:20 THAT THE END OF THE WORLD IS RAPIDLY APPROACHING,
• 15:22 THAT THE WAY TO HASTEN THE COMING OF THE ISLAMIC MESSIAH,
• 15:25 KNOWN AS THE 12TH IMAM OR THE MAHDI, IS TO ANNIHILATE ISRAEL,
• 15:29 WHOM HE CALLS "THE LITTLE SATAN" AND THE UNITED STATES WHOM HE CALLS "THE GREAT SATAN".
• 15:34 END TIMES THEOLOGY IS CENTRAL TO THE IRANIAN GOVERNMENT
• 15:38 AND IRAN IS "THE CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER"
• 15:40 TO THE UNITED STATES, ISRAEL AND OUR ALLIES IN THIS REGION.
• 15:44 SO SUDDENLY END TIMES THEOLOGY IS IN PLAY.
• 15:47 IT'S FASCINATING, I HAD BEEN ON 220 RADIO AND TELEVISION SHOWS
• 15:51 JUST IN THE LAST COUPLE OF MONTHS AND I WAS ON CNN AT ONE POINT
• 15:54 DURING THE MIDST OF THE LEBANON WAR AND THE ANCHOR SAID,
• 15:58 "ALRIGHT NOW JOEL, DO YOU BELIEVE WE'RE LIVING IN THE LAST DAYS?"
• 16:02 "YOU'VE WRITTEN A BOOK CALLED "THE LAST DAYS". BASED ON EVERYTHING THAT YOU'RE SEEING",
• 16:06 "WHAT ARE THE SIGNS WE SHOULD BE WATCHING FOR AND ARE WE IN THE END TIMES?"
• 16:11 I'M THINKING, THIS IS NOT THE ZOLA LEVITT SHOW,
• 16:13 THESE ARE UNBELIEVERS! THIS IS NOT PAT ROBERTSON.
• 16:16 THIS IS CNN. RIGHT. RIGHT.
• 16:18 AND IT WAS REALLY FASCINATING.
• 16:19 AND THIS HAS HAPPENED TIME AND TIME AGAIN.
• 16:21 I WAS ON A PROGRAM WITH SEAN HANNITY'S CO-HOST, ALAN COLMES.
• 16:27 NOW, ALAN IS JEWISH, NOT A BELIEVER. NO, A LIBERAL.
• 16:30 HE'S VERY LIBERAL.
• 16:31 I LIKE ALAN. I DON'T AGREE WITHH IM BUT I REALLY LIKE HIM.
• 16:33 SO ANYWAY, HE ASKED ME ON HIS RADIO SHOW, AND HE SAID -
• 16:36 AND I KNOW THAT HE'S DOING THIS JUST BECAUSE THERE WAS A WASHINGTON POST STORY
• 16:39 SAYING I HAD BEEN INVITED TO THE WHITE HOUSE TO TALK ABOUT, ARE WE LIVING IN THE LAST DAYS?, AT A BIBLE STUDY.
• 16:44 AND THIS HAS GOTTEN OUT AND SO I KNEW HE WAS JUST GOING TO KIND OF POKE FUN AT THIS.
• 16:48 SO HE SAID, "SO NOW JOEL, HOW SOON UNTIL JESUS COMES BACK?"
• 16:52 OH, YEAH, THEY DO THAT ALL THE TIME.
• 16:53 AND I SAID, "ALAN I CAN'T TELL YOU."
• 16:55 I WALKED HIM THROUGH THE MATTHEW 24 STUFF.
• 16:56 HE SAID, "YOU'RE THE MODERN NOSTRADAMUS. YOU KNOW, RIGHT?"
• 16:59 "SO, IS IT CLOSE? LIKE SHOULD I BUY GREEN BANANAS?"
• 17:03 "SHOULD I EVEN BOTHER TO PICK UP MY CLEANING FROM THE DRY CLEANERS?"
• 17:07 "WHAT SHOULD I DO, JOEL?"
• 17:09 I SAID, "ALAN, YOU REALLY WANT TO KNOW WHAT TO DO?"
• 17:10 HE GOES, "YEAH, I WANT TO KNOW WHAT TO DO."
• 17:12 I SAID, "WHY DON'T YOU ACCEPT JESUS AS THE MESSIAH. TIME IS GETTING CLOSE."
• 17:14 GOOD FOR YOU!
• 17:16 AND HE PULLED BACK AND HE SAID, "YOU'VE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME."
• 17:17 "YOU'RE TRYING TO LEAD ME TO JESUS ON MY OWN RADIO SHOW?"
• 17:20 I SAID, "I'M JUST SAYING, YOU WERE PRESSING ME..."
• 17:21 "...WHAT SHOULD I DO IN LIGHT OF ALL THESE THINGS GOING ON IN THE WORLD?"
• 17:24 "AND I'M JUST SAYING, JESUS LOVES YOU ALAN AND IT'S TIME TO GET ON BOARD."
• 17:29 YEAH, GOD DOESN'T WANT ANYONE TO PERISH. ABSOLUTELY.
• 17:32 AND THESE ARE THE WORDS THAT ARE COMING TRUE.
• 17:33 AND IF I CAN'T GET YOUR ATTENTION ONE WAY,
• 17:35 I'M GOING TO GET IT ANOTHER WAY.
• 17:37 AND GIVEN WHAT'S GOING ON IN THE MIDDLE EAST,
• 17:39 THERE'S JUST ENORMOUS ANXIETY COMBINED WITH ENORMOUS INTEREST AT THE POLITICAL LEVEL,
• 17:42 MILITARY LEADERS, INTELLIGENCE LEADERS.
• 17:45 I GOT INVITED TO THE CIA.
• 17:46 THE WIFE OF A TOP OFFICIAL OF THE CIA HAD BEEN READING THE BOOKS.
• 17:50 AND AT NIGHT, SHE'D BE LIKE, "HONEY, HONEY. THIS GUY, HE KEEPS TELLING THE FUTURE!"
• 17:54 "YOU GOT TO GO MEET WITH HIM!" I KNOW! I KNOW!
• 17:56 THERE'S JUST A LOT OF IT. I'M JUST SEEING A SLIVER OF IT.
• 17:59 YOU GUYS OBVIOUSLY SEE SO MUCH OF IT.
• 18:02 IT'S HAPPENING ALL OVER.
• 18:03 AND I THINK THE KEY IS THAT WE NOT BE ASHAMED OF WHAT WE BELIEVE.
• 18:05 THAT WE'RE OUT THERE AND IN AS COMPELLING AND A WINSOME AND GENTLE MANNER AS POSSIBLE SAY,
• 18:11 "HERE'S WHAT WE BELIEVE AND THIS IS WHAT'S GOING IN THE WORLD."
• 18:14 AND THERE IS A WAY TO SEE A DEGREE OF THE FUTURE.
• 18:18 IF YOU ONLY LOOK AT THE WORLD THROUGH POLITICAL AND/OR ECONOMIC LENSES,
• 18:23 I DON'T THINK YOU CAN SEE IN THREE DIMENSIONS.
• 18:25 YOU ALSO HAVE TO USE THE 3RD LENS OF SCRIPTURE TO UNDERSTAND A LITTLE BIT MORE CLEARLY.
• 18:30 NOT WITH TOTAL PRECISION.
• 18:32 THE BIBLE DOESN'T TELL YOU WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN IN THAILAND
• 18:34 OR WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN IN CAMBODIA OR WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN WITH THE DOLLAR.
• 18:37 BUT THERE ARE COUNTRIES, EPICENTER COUNTRIES, MIDDLE EAST COUNTRIES,
• 18:41 WHERE HE GIVE US QUITE A BIT OF THE SENSE OF WHERE THE BASIC TRAJECTORY OF EVENTS WILL GO.
• 18:47 AND AS WE LOOK AT THAT, WE REALIZE THAT THIS IS ALL IN KEEPING
• 18:50 WITH WHAT GOD LAID OUT THOUSANDS OF YEARS AGO.
• 18:53 BUT IT'S OUR HOPE.
• 18:55 IT IS OUR HOPE.
• 18:56 AND WITHOUT THAT WE HAVE NO HOPE.
• 18:57 AND I THINK 911 REALLY DID CHANGE
• 18:59 A WHOLE LOT OF THE WAY PEOPLE LOOKED AT THE WORLD.
• 19:03 I THINK IT REALLY WAS A WAKE UP CALL.
• 19:04 AND THEN I THINK OTHER CURRENT EVENTS HAVE PULLED US, EVERYONE IN.
• 19:09 AND I THINK EVERYONE IS REALLY CONCERNED.
• 19:11 WE DON'T KNOW EXACTLY IF THIS
• 19:14 IRANIAN THREAT TOWARDS ISRAEL
• 19:15 IS PROPHETIC. TIME WILL TELL.
• 19:17 BUT ONE WAY OR THE OTHER
• 19:18 SOMETHING HORRIBLE IS COMING.
• 19:20 ISRAEL IS VERY LIKELY TO BE IN AN APOCALYPTIC WAR POSSIBLE IN THE NEXT YEAR.
• 19:25 CERTAINLY IN THE NEXT COUPLE OF YEARS.
• 19:27 AND THE UNITED STATES MAY BE DIRECTLY INVOLVED IN THAT WAR AS WELL.
• 19:30 AND THE QUESTION BECOMES,
• 19:32 "ARE WE PREPARED TO STAND WITH ISRAEL, TO BLESS ISRAEL, TO SUPPORT HER?"
• 19:37 AND NOT JUST IN THE MATERIAL SENSE OF BEING HERE AND BRING TOURISTS
• 19:42 AND HUMANITARIAN RELIEF WHICH WE ALL NEED TO DO.
• 19:45 BUT ALSO TO SAY, "YOU KNOW WHAT? THERE IS HOPE."
• 19:47 "WE BELIEVE THE MESSIAH HAS COME AND HE GIVES US HOPE."
• 19:50 "AND TO THE EXTENT THAT YOU'RE OPEN TO LISTENING TO IT",
• 19:52 "WE'D LOVED TO SHARE HOW GOD HAS GIVEN US COURAGE IN THESE LAST DAYS."
• 19:57 THE ONLY WAY TO BE A FRIEND TO A JEWISH PERSON AS WELL AS TO A MUSLIM PERSON,
• 20:01 AS WELL AS TO A PERSON, IS TO LET THEM KNOW THAT THERE IS HOPE, THERE IS TRUTH,
• 20:06 THERE IS SALVATION IN YESHUA.
• 20:08 AND I THINK, "LOOK, THIS IS, YOU KNOW, NO TIME LIKE THE PRESENT, RIGHT?
• 20:12 THERE IS NO TIME LIKE THE PRESENT.
• 20:14 I MEAN WE'VE GOT TO BE - SO THIS IS - MY WIFE AND I, WE JUST FEEL COMPELLED.
• 20:17 WE'RE WRITING THESE NOVELS,
• 20:19 WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THESE ISSUES,
• 20:20 WE'RE GETTING THINGS - WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THESE THINGS WITH PEOPLE.
• 20:23 BUT WE ALSO HAVE TO DO SOMETHING TO GET THE GOSPEL AROUND THE WORLD.
• 20:28 AND PARTICULARLY HERE IN THE EPICENTER.
• 20:29 WELL, IT SOUNDS LIKE YOUR JUST DOING A GREAT JOB!
• 20:31 THANK YOU FOR BEING WITH US.
• 20:33 I REALLY APPRECIATE IT.
• 20:35 WELL, IT'S SUCH AN HONOR TO FINALLY MEET YOU.
• 20:36 AND GOD BLESS YOU IN THE MINISTRY THAT YOU AND ZOLA HAVE LED.
• 20:41 AND I JUST APPRECIATE BEING WITH YOU TODAY.
• 20:43 THANK YOU.
• 20:44 THANK YOU.
• 21:11 ♪ THY KINGDOM COME! THY WILL BE DONE ♪
• 21:16 ♪ HERE ON THE EARTH AS IN HEAVEN. ♪
• 21:23 ♪ LORD, TAKE ME WITH YOU TO ISRAEL. ♪
• 21:30 ♪ LORD, TAKE US HOME, ♪
• 21:33 ♪ TAKE US HOME. ♪
• 22:07 GREAT MESSIANIC JEWISH MUSIC.
• 22:11 GREAT MESSIANIC JEWISH BROTHER, JOEL ROSENBERG.
• 22:14 REALLY A NICE GUY.
• 22:16 YOU SAID THAT SOME PEOPLE WONDER WHETHER HE WAS CLAIRVOYANT,
• 22:20 THAT HE COULD SEE HIS WAY INTO THE FUTURE.
• 22:22 THEY WONDERED HOW HE DID IT.
• 22:23 WHEN HE WAS INTERVIEWED ON THE TALK SHOWS
• 22:26 AFTER HIS BOOKS CAME OUT
• 22:28 ALL THE TALK SHOW HOSTS SAID,
• 22:29 "HOW DID YOU KNOW A PLANE WAS GOING
• 22:31 TO CRASH INTO THE WORLD TRADE CENTER?"
• 22:33 AND HIS SUBJECT WAS IT CRASHED INTO WASHINGTON D.C.
• 22:37 AND HE SAID, "I GOT MY NEWS OUT OF THE BIBLE."
• 22:41 THAT'S RIGHT. HE'S A BIBLE READER.
• 22:43 BIBLE READERS CAN BE IN THE KNOW.
• 22:45 AND ISRAEL IS GOD'S TIMEPIECE.
• 22:47 ALWAYS HAS BEEN ALWAYS WILL BE.
• 22:49 YES IT IS.
• 22:50 AND WE'RE GOING TO BE LOOKING AT THE CLOCK SOON
• 22:52 IN A SERIES ON "DANIEL AND THE LAST DAYS' BATTLE FOR PLANET EARTH".
• 22:58 GREAT SEGMENTS, GREAT INTERVIEWS, GREAT NEWS.
• 23:02 A STORY WORTH HEARING AND IT'S COMING UP SOON.
• 23:44 ANGER IN GAZA.
• 23:46 WAR IN LEBANON.
• 23:48 RUMBLINGS IN IRAN.
• 23:50 AS THE WORLD FOCUSES ON THE MIDEAST QUAGMIRE, ZOLA LEVITT MINISTRIES PRESENTS
• 24:11 DAVID FOUGHT GOLIATH
• 24:13 HERE IN THE VALLEY OF ELAH
• 24:14 SOME THREE THOUSAND YEARS AGO.
• 24:16 AND THE DESCENDANTS OF DAVID
• 24:17 AND THE DESCENDANTS
• 24:19 OF THE PHILISTINES
• 24:20 HAVE BEEN FIGHTING EVER SINCE.
• 24:22 WE CONSIDER THIS AND MORE IN OUR SERIES "DANIEL AND THE LAST DAYS' BATTLE FOR PLANET EARTH".
• 24:27 I HOPE YOU'LL BE LOOKING FOR IT.
• 24:39 I'D LIKE YOU TO OPEN UP YOUR BIBLES PLEASE AND TURN TO ZEPHANIAH CHAPTER THREE.
• 24:45 I KNOW MANY DON'T READ ZEPHANIAH AND THAT'S A SHAME.
• 24:48 THERE'S A BEAUTIFUL PASSAGE IN HERE IN THE 16TH VERSE.
• 25:10 WHEN I READ THIS AND OTHER TEXTS I GET THE IMPRESSION THAT
• 25:13 GOD HAS ISRAEL'S BACK.
• 25:16 THAT HE'S LOOKING OUT FOR HER.
• 25:18 WHAT DO YOU THINK SANDRA?
• 25:19 I AGREE JEFF.
• 25:20 AND YOU GO ON IN THE SCRIPTURE AND IT SAYS,
• 25:24 HOW MANY TIMES DO WE GET UPSET OR THINK THAT
• 25:27 SOMETHING HORRIBLE IS HAPPENING IN THE WORLD
• 25:29 AND HE QUIETS US WITH HIS LOVE?
• 25:32 IT SOUNDS LIKE A HUSBAND TALKING TO A WIFE.
• 25:36 IT SOUNDS LIKE A MAN BEING TENDER
• 25:37 AND GENTLE TOWARD A WOMAN.
• 25:40 ALL THE WARS THAT WE'RE HEARING ABOUT
• 25:43 AND THE RUMORS OF WARS,
• 25:44 "I WILL QUIET YOU WITH MY LOVE."
• 25:46 THAT'S BEAUTIFUL! IT'S WONDERFUL!
• 25:47 AND IF GOD'S ORIENTED THAT WAY
• 25:49 I WONDER WHY GOD'S PEOPLE CAN'T BE ORIENTED THAT WAY
• 25:53 JUST A LITTLE BIT MORE.
• 25:56 IT SEEMS TO ME THAT WE TOLERATE
• 25:58 THE LAMBASTING OF ISRAEL, THE JEWISH PEOPLE.
• 26:02 IT SEEMS THAT OUR DISPOSITION IN OUR CULTURE
• 26:05 IS CHARACTERIZED THE MORE SO BY ABANDONMENT THAN SUPPORT.
• 26:09 THAT'S NOT THE SPIRIT I COME UPON
• 26:12 WHEN I OPEN UP BIBLICAL LITERATURE.
• 26:15 I AGREE. I AGREE.
• 26:17 WE SAY EVERY WEEK,
• 26:18 "SHA'ALU SHALOM YERUSHALAYIM",
• 26:19 "PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM".
• 26:21 THERE'S A REASON WE SAY THAT.
• 26:22 IT'S NOT BECAUSE ITS CUTE AND DARLING.
• 26:24 IT'S BECAUSE WE NEED TO PRAY.
• 26:26 RIGHT.
• 26:27 I SAY LET'S PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM
• 26:29 AND LET'S "SAY" FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM.
• 26:32 LET'S SPEAK UP FOR THE THINGS THAT GOD SPEAKS UP FOR.
• 26:36 WE MEAN NO ANIMUS TOWARD PEOPLE OF ARAB EXTRACT
• 26:39 BUT WE JUST BELIEVE THAT GOD HAS A PLAN FOR ISRAEL.
• 26:42 AMEN. AND AS YOU GO,
• 26:43 SHA'ALU SHALOM YERUSHALAYIM,
• 26:46 PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM.