Caption transcript for Zola’s Highlights: “Israel By Divine Right” (2/4)

• 00:09 I WILL BRING YOU OUT OF THE NATIONS WHERE YOU ARE SCATTERED.
• 00:13 BEHOLD I AM COMING WITH THE CLOUDS AND EVERY EYE SHALL SEE ME.
• 00:19 AND YOU WILL LOOK UPON ME WHOM YOU HAVE PIERCED AND FINALLY SAY, BARUCH HABAH B'SHEM ADONAI.
• 00:29 BLESSED IS HE WHO COMES IN THE NAME OF THE LORD.
• 00:38 DR. JEFFERY SEIF AND SANDRA LEVITT.
• 00:44 A HEARTY SHALOM TO ALL OF YOU.
• 00:46 GLAD YOU'RE WITH US.
• 00:47 JEFFERY SEIF HERE WITH MY ASSOCIATE, SANDRA LEVITT.
• 00:50 SHALOM AND WELCOME.
• 00:52 I REMEMBER ZOLA TALKING ABOUT WHEN HE WAS 1ST SAVED.
• 00:54 HE THOUGHT HE WAS THE ONLY JEWISH BELIEVER IN THE WORLD.
• 00:58 AND LOOK WHAT GOD DID WITH ALL OF HIS PROPHECY,
• 01:01 ALL OF HIS MUSIC.
• 01:02 HE WASN'T THE ONLY ONE IN THE WORLD.
• 01:04 I'M LOVING LOOKING BACK AT SOME OF THESE PROGRAMS.
• 01:08 THEY'RE REALLY INTERESTING.
• 01:09 YES THERE ARE A LOT MORE JEWS INVOLVED IN THE GOSPEL
• 01:13 IN NEW TESTAMENT TIMES.
• 01:15 AND WE'RE LIVING IN A TIME NOW
• 01:17 WHERE THERE'S A LOT MORE JEWS INVOLVED TODAY.
• 01:20 IT WAS GOOD NEWS FOR THE JEWS, BUT NOT JUST FOR THE JEWS, FOR ALL OF "YOUS."
• 01:25 AND SO NOW, OFF WE GO AND CONSIDER THE GOSPEL'S EXPANSION
• 01:30 TO INDIVIDUALS OF NON-JEWISH EXTRACT,
• 01:33 AS THE HOLY SPIRIT MOVED OUT TO GENTILE PEOPLES.
• 01:36 YOU'RE GONNA LOVE IT.
• 01:38 STAY WITH US, WE'RE GOING THERE NOW.
• 01:44 MUSIC
• 02:10 ZOLA: THIS WALL LEADS ALL THE WAY THROUGH TOWN TO THE TOP OF THIS MOUNTAIN.
• 02:13 ZOLA: OUR TOUR GROUP GATHERED HERE AT THE BASE OF THIS MAJESTIC TOWER
• 02:17 ZOLA: WHERE WE HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO STUDY ONE OF THE LETTERS THAT PAUL WROTE TO THE THESSALONIANS.
• 02:22 HERE WE ARE TODAY ON THE ACROPOLIS OF THE CITY OF THESSALONIKI,
• 02:28 WHICH OF COURSE RECEIVED 2 LETTERS FROM PAUL.
• 02:31 1ST AND 2ND THESSALONIANS IN THE NEW TESTAMENT WERE WRITTEN TO THESE PEOPLE.
• 02:34 AND WHEN THEY WERE HERE AND WHEN PAUL WAS HERE, THIS WALL AND THIS TOWER WERE ALREADY HERE,
• 02:38 IN FACT THEY WERE ALREADY ANCIENT.
• 02:41 THE WALL AS IT STANDS NOW IS SOME 2400 YEARS OLD.
• 02:44 IT'S BEEN REBUILT A NUMBER OF TIMES AND IT WALLS IN THE OLD CITY OF THESSALONICA.
• 02:52 THE NEW CITY GOES DOWN BELOW ALL THE WAY TO THE WATER FRONT AND IS A BEAUTIFUL SEA SIDE RESORT.
• 02:57 WELL, WHEN PAUL CAME HERE HE TAUGHT HIS DOCTRINE OF THE CARPENTER OF GALILEE,
• 03:04 THE JEWISH MESSIAH AND MANAGED TO IMPART SOME THINGS
• 03:08 WHICH HE'S NOW GOING TO RE-INSTRUCT THE PEOPLE OF THESSALONICA ABOUT
• 03:12 AS TOUCHING BROTHERLY LOVE HE WRITES AND ESPECIALLY ABOUT THE DEAD.
• 03:18 IT SEEMS THEY WORRIED AND WERE CONCERNED ABOUT THOSE IN THE CONGREGATION
• 03:22 WHO HAD PASSED ON IN VIEW OF THE DELAY IN THE COMING OF THE LORD.
• 03:30 WE'LL COME TO THAT.
• 03:31 HE BEGINS ON THE SUBJECT OF LOVE
• 03:33 AND I READ FROM 1ST THESSALONIANS CHAPTER 4, VERSE 9:
• 03:42 PEOPLE WHO ARE GODLY AND WHO ARE IN TOUCH WITH GOD AUTOMATICALLY GAIN LOVE.
• 03:50 GOD IS LOVE AND IF WE'RE IN DWELT BY HIM THEN WE HAVE IT.
• 03:58 WE'RE IN THE GREEK PROVENCE OF MACEDONIA.
• 04:00 TODAY THIS IS IN NORTHERN GREECE.
• 04:03 OUR HOTEL IS CALLED "THE MACEDONIAN PALACE."
• 04:22 THEM THAT ARE WITHOUT IS THE UNBELIEVER.
• 04:24 GIVE HIM A GOOD TESTIMONY, PAUL'S SIMPLY SAYING
• 04:26 AND OBEY GOD THAT YOU MAY LACK FOR NOTHING.
• 04:30 GOD WILL REMEMBER YOUR OBEDIENCE AND PROVIDE.
• 04:34 ZOLA'S TRUE LOVE OF COURSE WAS THE LAND OF ISRAEL
• 04:36 AND HE WAS ALWAYS READY TO PROCLAIM IT EVEN FROM THE MOUNTAIN TOPS.
• 04:46 I'M WALKING UP MT. BEATITUDES OR THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT SITE.
• 04:52 THIS IS NOT THE SIDE OF IT, USUALLY SHOWN ON TELEVISION WHERE THE TOURIST GATHER,
• 04:59 BUT THIS IS THE ROAD UP THE MOUNTAIN THAT COMES ALONG THE RIDGE
• 05:04 WHEN THE PEOPLE REACH THE SUMMIT THEY PAUSE TO HEAR A PUBLIC ADDRESS
• 05:10 BY THE WONDERFUL CARPENTER OF GALILEE.
• 05:13 ON THAT MORNING BEFORE PASSOVER THE PEOPLE PASSING BY
• 05:17 ARE FORTUNATE ENOUGH TO HEAR THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT.
• 05:20 THE MOUNTAIN ITSELF IS NOT A LARGE ONE.
• 05:24 THE LORD DIDN'T HAVE THIS SERMON ON MT. HERMAN OR MT. CARMEL OR MT. TABOR OR A BIGGER MOUNTAIN,
• 05:31 BUT RATHER A PLACE WHERE RATHER ORDINARY PEOPLE WOULD BE PASSING BY.
• 05:37 AND THESE PEOPLE WERE FROM GALILEE HEADING DOWN TOWARDS THE FEAST,
• 05:41 OR NORTH OF GALILEE AND HAD TO PASS THIS WAY AS THEY WENT.
• 05:45 AND THEY WERE A GOOD EXAMPLE OF THE KIND OF PEOPLE JESUS SOUGHT
• 05:49 BECAUSE THIS UNIQUE KINGDOM THAT HE WAS PROMISING WAS NOT FOR THE MIGHTY,
• 05:53 THE POWERFUL, THE RICH, OR THE RELIGIOUS, THIS KINGDOM WAS FOR THE MEEK.
• 06:00 THIS KINGDOM WAS FOR THOSE CONSCIENCE OF THEIR SINS.
• 06:05 REPENT AND TO CONTRITE.
• 06:07 THOSE WHO WERE IN DEBT TO GOD BECAUSE OF THEIR SINS.
• 06:11 THOSE WHO COULD EASILY PRAY, "FORGIVE US OUR DEBTS."
• 06:14 THOSE WHO'S SELF EFFACING RIGHTEOUSNESS EXCEEDED THAT OF THE SCRIBES OF THE PHARISEES,
• 06:24 WHICH THE LORD PRESCRIBES.
• 06:27 ISRAEL BY DIVINE RIGHT, OUR GOD IS CALLING US HOME.
• 06:46 AND JACOB ROSE UP EARLY IN THE MORNING
• 06:48 AND TOOK THE STONE THAT HE HAD PUT FOR HIS PILLOWS
• 06:51 AND SET IT UP FOR A PILLAR.
• 06:53 AND POURED OIL UPON THE TOP OF IT
• 06:59 AND HE CALLED THE NAME OF THAT PLACE BETHEL.
• 07:05 SO HE CAME TO THIS SPOT TO
• 07:06 SHOW WHERE THE COVENANT WAS REITERATED
• 07:09 AND IT REITERATES THROUGHOUT THE OLD TESTAMENT.
• 07:11 IT WASN'T JUST SAID ONCE,
• 07:12 BUT MANY TIMES AS EACH GENERATION CAME.
• 07:14 GIVE UNTO ABRAHAM, THEN ISAAC NOT ISHMAEL,
• 07:17 THEN JACOB NOT ESAU AND CONTINUALLY CLAIMED AGAIN
• 07:21 AND REPEATED AGAIN BY THE LORD.
• 07:22 BUT IRONICALLY WHEN WE COME OUT TO THIS PLACE
• 07:25 WE'RE IN, KIND OF ENEMY TERRITORY.
• 07:29 WE HAD TO TAKE REASONABLE PRECAUTIONS,
• 07:33 WE HAD TO BE CAREFUL, WE ARE
• 07:34 DRIVING THROUGH VILLAGES WHERE OTHER LANGUAGES ARE SPOKEN AND OTHER GOD'S ARE WORSHIPPED.
• 07:39 WE HEAR THE CALL OF THE ... FROM THE LOCAL MOSQUE.
• 07:43 AND IT'S NO QUESTION THAT BETHEL ITSELF, THIS HILL, THE SURROUNDING VILLAGES AND SO ON
• 07:49 IS A HOT SPOT IN THE MODERN INTIFADA.
• 07:52 AND THE IRONY IS, IT WAS RIGHT HERE THAT GOD WENT TO THIS TROUBLE
• 07:57 AND PROVIDED THIS AMAZING DREAM, THIS UNFORGETTABLE IMAGE OF JACOB'S LADDER,
• 08:02 WHICH IS ON EVERYBODY'S DOORPOST AND ON THEIR STATIONARY HERE AND SO ON, OF THE JEWS.
• 08:08 PICK THIS PLACE TO SINGLE OUT AS A PLACE WHERE THE COVENANT WAS REITERATED
• 08:14 SO THAT IT WAS VERY CLEAR.
• 08:16 JACOB WAS IMPRESSED, THERE'S NO QUESTION.
• 08:19 WHEN HE GOT UP IN THE MORNING HE PERFORMED THIS RELIGIOUS CEREMONY, THIS ACT OF FAITH,
• 08:23 THIS ANOINTING OF A STONE.
• 08:25 NOT UNLIKE A, I GUESS WHEN AN EXPLORER FINDS NEW TERRITORY
• 08:30 OR WHEN THE ASTRONAUTS CAME TO THE MOON THEY'D STAND ON THE SURFACE, THEY'D CLAIM IT.
• 08:35 JACOB DID THE SAME THING BECAUSE OF HIS STRANGE NIGHT VISION HAD ENCOUNTERED WITH THE ANGELS
• 08:41 AND WITH ALMIGHTY GOD.
• 08:43 TELL ME THE DIFFERENCE IN AGE BETWEEN SOLOMON'S TEMPLE AND THIS DOME OF THE ROCK.
• 08:48 THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON WAS BUILT IN ABOUT,
• 08:50 LET'S SAY, 960 B.C
• 08:55 AND IT WAS DESTROYED 586, WHICH MEANS IT EXISTED FOR 400 YEARS.
• 08:59 THE 2ND TEMPLE WHICH WAS REBUILT BY THE PATRIOTS FROM BABYLON WHO CAME BACK TO JERUSALEM 538,
• 09:06 IT WAS DESTROYED IN 70 A.D WHERE THE DOME OF THE ROCK WAS BUILT IN 691 AND IT STILL EXISTS,
• 09:14 WHICH MEANS IT IS 1400 YEARS OLD.
• 09:17 WHEREAS THE TEMPLE THERE IS NO ONE
• 09:20 BUT THIS VERY TEMPLE WHICH WE HAVE
• 09:22 THE DOME OF THE ROCK FOR THE MUSLIMS
• 09:24 REPRESENTS ONLY A TESTIMONY TO AN ALLEGED EVENT
• 09:28 WHICH TOOK PLACE IN JERUSALEM
• 09:29 BECAUSE NO ONE IN THE QURAN OR ANYWHERE ELSE
• 09:32 MENTIONS THE FACT THAT MUHAMMAD'S ASCENSION
• 09:35 TO 7TH HEAVEN TOOK PLACE IN JERUSALEM.
• 09:37 IT TOOK A PLACE, IN A PLACE THEY CALLED,
• 09:39 "THE REMOTE PLACE."
• 09:40 AKSAH IN ARABIC.
• 09:42 THE QUESTION: WHERE DOES THE WRITER OF THE QURAN REFER TOO?
• 09:47 DAN, THANK YOU, YOU ALWAYS HELP US WITH SUCH SPECIAL KNOWLEDGE, I APPRECIATE IT.
• 09:53 TELL ME CAN I BUILD FOR YOU A TEMPLE, ONE IN WHICH YOUR HOLY NAME RESIDES.
• 10:00 AND THERE IN MY HEART I WILL CARRY ALL THE LOVE,
• 10:09 ALL THE MERCY OF THE LORD MY GOD INSIDE.
• 10:19 THOUGH I DID NOT BUILD IT OUT OF MARBLE, GOLD AND SILVER YOU MIGHT FIND INSIDE.
• 10:27 YET ALL OF THE WORLD WILL BEHOLD YOU, THEY WILL SEE YOU IN GLORY,
• 10:37 THEY WILL PRAISE YOUR NAME.
• 10:46 MUSIC
• 10:59 THIS IS A FASCINATING TIME TO BE ALIVE.
• 11:03 WHY DO I SAY THAT?
• 11:04 BECAUSE THERE ARE NEW DISCOVERIES UNFOLDING IN THE HOLY LAND
• 11:09 THAT SHED LIGHT ON BIBLICAL TRUTH AND THIS IS A SIGN OF A SOON COMING TIME.
• 11:16 I BELIEVE THAT THE DISCOVERY AND THE UNPACKING OF THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS
• 11:22 IS A FASCINATING MYSTERY BEING REVEALED TODAY
• 11:26 AND IT SHEDS LIGHT ON THE NEW TESTAMENT STORY.
• 11:30 AND ZOLA TOOK US INTO THAT WORLD,
• 11:32 HE TOOK US TO SCHOLARS TO HEAR THINGS THAT WE WOULDN'T OTHERWISE KNOW.
• 11:37 AND SO OFF WE GO.
• 11:38 MORE OF ZOLA AND A CONSIDERATION OF THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS AND MORE.
• 11:46 MUSIC
• 12:12 THESE PEOPLE WERE JEWS.
• 12:14 THEY ROSE TO PRAY BEFORE DAWN AND THEY HELD TO THE SABBATH RIGOROUSLY.
• 12:18 THEY HAD A COMMUNITY COUNCIL OF TWELVE WITH AN INNER GROUP OF 3.
• 12:22 JESUS OF COURSE HAD 12 DISCIPLES IN THAT INNER GROUP OF 3 IN PETER, JAMES, AND JOHN.
• 12:28 THE QUMRAN GROUP HAD SACRED MEALS WITH PRAYERS, MUCH LIKE THE LAST SUPPER OR COMMUNION.
• 12:35 THEY TALKED ABOUT THE RUACH HAKODESH, THE HOLY SPIRIT AND ABOUT THE LAST DAYS.
• 12:44 ZOLA: IN THE YEAR 68 A.D., FEARING THE ONCOMING ROMAN TROOPS AND CERTAIN PLUNDER,
• 12:49 ZOLA: THEY TOOK THEIR SCROLLS AND HID THEM IN THE CAVES UP ON THE NEARBY CLIFFS.
• 12:54 WHEN WE RETURN WE'LL TAKE A LOOK AT SOME OF THOSE SCROLLS,
• 12:58 AND SOME OF THE AMAZING THINGS THEY HAD TO SAY ABOUT THE MESSIAH.
• 13:02 ZOLA: HERE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO,
• 13:05 ZOLA: PROFESSOR MICHAEL WISE HAS JUST RECENTLY OBTAINED PHOTOS OF SCROLL SEGMENTS.
• 13:09 ZOLA: DR. WISE IS A EXPERT IN BIBLICAL HEBREW AND ARAMAIC
• 13:13 ZOLA: AND HAS FOUND EXCERPTS WHICH ADDRESS THE MESSIAH IN A VERY UNIQUE MANNER.
• 13:19 WISE: NOW THIS IS THE FRAGMENT THAT HAS GOTTEN SOME ATTENTION.
• 13:21 WISE: IT STARTS OFF BY QUOTING THE BOOK OF ISAIAH 11TH CHAPTER, THE 1ST VERSE:
• 13:34 WISE: OF COURSE JESSE THE FATHER OF DAVID.
• 13:35 SO HERE WAS A REFERENCE TO A SON OF DAVID,
• 13:37 WHICH WAS OF COURSE OFTEN A MESSIANIC WAY
• 13:40 OF REFERRING TO A FUTURE FIGURES.
• 13:43 HE HAD TO BE A SON OF DAVID IN ORDER TO QUALIFY AS THE MESSIAH.
• 13:47 AND IT GOES ON TO SAY:
• 13:49 THE BIBLE EVEN SPECIFIES THAT MESSIAH,
• 13:54 WHEN HE COMES WHOEVER HE MAY BE MUST BE OUT OF THE FAMILY OF DAVID.
• 13:57 THAT'S RIGHT, AND THE PEOPLE KNEW THAT. >>SURE
• 13:59 SO ANYONE THEY WOULD DESCRIBE AS MESSIAH
• 14:02 WOULD HAVE TO QUALIFY IN THAT WAY.
• 14:03 THE 4TH LINE IN HERE IS THE ONE THAT'S REALLY INTERESTING, IT SAYS:
• 14:07 (SPEAKING HEBREW)
• 14:15 NOW WE KNOW FROM OTHER DEAD SEA SCROLLS THAT THE WORDS:
• 14:18 (SPEAKING HEBREW) PRINCE OF THE CONGREGATION,
• 14:20 REFER TO A MESSIANIC SON OF DAVID FIGURE.
• 14:22 THEY ARE SPEAKING OF A MESSIANIC FIGURE HERE
• 14:25 WHO'S EVIDENTLY BEING PUT TO DEATH.
• 14:27 NOW THAT'S VERY, VERY IMPORTANT FOR US
• 14:30 AND ESPECIALLY AS IN THE NEXT LINE THROWS A LITTLE MORE LIGHT ON IT.
• 14:35 (SPEAKING HEBREW)
• 14:41 AND WE DON'T KNOW WHAT FOLLOWED AFTER, AGAIN IT'S BROKEN.
• 14:43 PIERCINGS AS IN THEY SHALL LOOK UPON ME WHOM THEY'VE PIERCED.
• 14:46 THAT'S RIGHT, THEY SHALL LOOK UPON HIM WHOM THEY'VE PIERCED AND IT'S THE SAME HEBREW WORD.
• 14:51 SO IT SEEMS TO BE THAT THIS TEXT IS BRINGING TOGETHER QUOTATIONS FROM VARIOUS PORTIONS
• 14:56 OF THE BOOK 0F ISAIAH AND APPLYING THEM TO A FIGURE.
• 14:59 YEAH, BUT THIS AUTHOR TRUSTED ISAIAH TO THE DEGREE
• 15:01 THAT HE'S REITERATING THIS PROPHECY APPLYING IT TO A MESSIANIC FIGURE OF THE TIME.
• 15:06 AND IT'S VERY INTERESTING TOO THAT HE APPEARS TO BE REFERRING TO ISAIAH CHAPTER 53,
• 15:10 BECAUSE WE DON'T HAVE EVIDENCE IN GENERAL THAT,
• 15:13 THAT VERY IMPORTANT CHAPTER OF THE HEBREW BIBLE
• 15:15 WAS UNDERSTOOD MESSIANICLY AMONG THE JEWS AT THE TIME OF JESUS APART FROM THIS TEXT.
• 15:20 OF COURSE THE EARLY CHRISTIANS FROM THE VERY BEGINNING UNDERSTOOD
• 15:23 THAT TEXT TO REFER TO JESUS.
• 15:25 SO THEY HAD A MESSIANIC UNDERSTANDING OF THAT PORTION OF ISAIAH.
• 15:28 BUT SCHOLARS HAVE ALWAYS SAID:
• 15:29 "BUT DID THE JEWS OTHER THAN THOSE WHO BECAME THE EARLY CHRISTIANS
• 15:33 HAVE THIS UNDERSTANDING?"
• 15:35 AND OUR EVIDENCE HAS ALWAYS SAID THAT THE MAJORITY OF THE JEWS, THE ONLY EVIDENCE WE REALLY HAD
• 15:39 SUGGESTED THAT THE JEWS THOUGHT THE CHAPTER DIDN'T REFER TO AN INDIVIDUAL,
• 15:43 BUT RATHER TO THE NATION OF ISRAEL AS THE SUFFERING SERVANT.
• 15:46 THAT'S USUALLY THE ANSWER IF ONE IS TRYING TO PROVE THAT PASSAGE TO BE CHRISTOLOGICAL TO A JEW.
• 15:52 HE SAYS MY RABBI SAID THAT'S THE NATION OF ISRAEL THAT'S GOD'S SERVANT,
• 15:56 BUT EVIDENTLY WHAT YOU'RE SAYING IS THE PEOPLE THAT WROTE THESE SCROLLS
• 15:59 THOUGHT THAT THIS APPLIED TO A MAN, NOT A NATION.
• 16:01 THAT'S RIGHT.
• 16:07 THESE WERE THE ONES WHO HE CHOSE TO CALL BRETHREN
• 16:12 WITH WHOM HE CHOSE TO SUFFER.
• 16:17 THE PEOPLE THAT WALKED IN DARKNESS HAVE SEEN A GREAT LIGHT.
• 16:20 THEY THAT DWELL IN THE LAND OF THE SHADOW OF DEATH, UPON THEM HATH THE LIGHT SHINE.
• 16:30 WELL THE DOOR OF THE HOUSE WAS A SPECIAL THING TOO,
• 16:33 THE VERY DOOR JAM BECAUSE IT HAD THE SCRIPTURE ON IT IN A BOX CALLED A MEZUZAH.
• 16:38 EVERY JEWISH HOME HAS THIS NOW.
• 16:40 IN ISRAEL EVERY SINGLE HOTEL ROOM HAS THIS LITTLE BOX OF SCRIPTURE
• 16:45 ON THE SIDE OF THE DOOR AND IN THERE IS A SCRIPTURE FROM THE LAW,
• 16:49 MOST LIKELY DEUTERONOMY CHAPTER 6, VERSE 4:
• 16:52 (SPEAKING HEBREW)
• 17:00 THE LINTELS OF THE DOOR, THE TRIM ON THE JAM WAS USED IN EGYPT ON PASSOVER NIGHT.
• 17:05 AS YOU KNOW THEY WERE TOLD TO PUT BLOOD ON THE LINTELS
• 17:08 AND SWOBBING THE DOOR WITH THE BLOOD.
• 17:10 THEY'D PUT IN ON EITHER SIDE AND ON THE TOP AND OF COURSE IF YOU JOIN THOSE WITH LINES,
• 17:15 SOMEHOW YOU'D MAKE A CROSS.
• 17:17 THE FLOORS OF THE HOUSE WERE VERY IMPORTANT.
• 17:20 THAT THEY'D BE STRONG.
• 17:22 BUILD ON A STRONG FOUNDATION AS THE LORD ADVISED.
• 17:24 WELL ONE METHOD WAS TO SOAK SOIL CONSTANTLY WITH OIL AND PACK IT DOWN AND PACK IT DOWN UNTIL YOU
• 17:31 VIRTUALLY HAD A WATERPROOF FLOOR AS IF IT WERE COVERED WITH LINOLEUM.
• 17:35 IN ANY CASE, THE LORD MADE A PARABLE ABOUT THE MAN WHO BUILT HIS HOUSE UPON ROCK.
• 17:41 YOU CAN'T GET A STRONGER FLOOR THAN THAT.
• 17:43 AND THE PARABLE TEACHES THAT, THAT IS THE WAY TO BUILD IT AND THAT IS THE WAY THEY BUILT IT.
• 17:48 THE TABLE SOMETIMES WAS JUST A MAT LAID ON THE FLOOR SOMETIMES WAS A SMALL TABLE.
• 17:56 SOME HOUSES IF THEY ADMIRE THE ROMAN CULTURE
• 17:58 HAD THE 3 SIDED TRICLINIUM TABLE IN THE GRANDER HOUSES.
• 18:02 BUT IN A RELIGIOUS HOUSE YOU WOULD PROBABLY FIND A TABLE VERY, VERY SIMPLE.
• 18:06 MAYBE SOMETHING LIKE THIS, MAYBE LOWER.
• 18:09 BUT IN ANY CASE JUST SERVICEABLE NOT FANCY AT LEAST IN RELIGIOUS HOMES.
• 18:21 MUSIC
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• 19:01 JEFF: HEY YOU LIKE THIS GUYS?
• 19:02 CROWD: YEAH!!!
• 19:03 JOIN US IN ISRAEL FOR A TRIP OF A LIFETIME.
• 19:06 MY FATHER'S COME 5 TIMES BEFORE
• 19:09 AND LOVES ISRAEL.
• 19:10 AND THIS IS MY 1ST TIME AND I CAN'T TELL YOU HOW,
• 19:14 BEYOND WORDS THE MEANING OF COMING HOME.
• 19:18 IT'S BEYOND MY COMPREHENSION
• 19:21 AND I NEVER THOUGHT I WOULD SEE THIS,
• 19:24 I NEVER THOUGHT THIS WOULD BE LIKE THIS.
• 19:26 AND THE EXPERIENCE HAS TO BE HAD IN PERSON.
• 19:31 ONE OF MY EARLIEST MEMORIES OF ZOLA IS HIM TELLING ME HOW BEAUTIFUL ISRAEL IS.
• 19:37 I COULDN'T WAIT TO SEE ISRAEL AND SURE ENOUGH WHEN I GOT TO ISRAEL I WAS SO GLAD
• 19:42 I FELT LIKE I WAS HOME.
• 19:43 ISRAEL WAS MY HOME.
• 19:45 LEAVE IT TO YOUR HUSBAND.
• 19:47 I THOUGHT ONE OF THE EARLIEST MEMORIES
• 19:48 WOULD BE HIM TELLING YOU HOW BEAUTIFUL YOU WERE.
• 19:50 WELL THAT WAS THE 2ND THING, BUT ISRAEL WAS GOOD TOO.
• 19:52 1ST THINGS 1ST
• 19:53 1ST THINGS 1ST.
• 19:54 HE REALLY HAD A HEART FOR THE LORD
• 19:55 AND A HEART FOR THE JEWISH PEOPLE.
• 19:56 HIS LEGACY LIVES ON.
• 19:58 WE'RE TRYING TO DO THE BEST WE CAN WITH IT.
• 20:01 THE LEVITT LETTER STILL BEARS HIS NAME.
• 20:03 THE ARTICLES ARE ALL NEW HOWEVER, BECAUSE THE WORLD CONTINUES
• 20:06 AND PROPHECY CONTINUES TO UNFOLD
• 20:10 AND WE BELIEVE THAT PEOPLE NEED TO HAVE THEIR EYES AND EARS ON ISRAEL.
• 20:14 IF YOU'LL CALL:
• 20:17 OR GO TO:
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• 20:22 YOU HAVE TO PAY FOR THIS HOWEVER, "THE WORKS #2," BY ZOLA LEVITT.
• 20:26 IF YOU'RE ENJOYING THIS SERIES, THIS PROGRAM
• 20:29 AND YOU LIKE THE MESSAGES, THE MUSIC, THIS GOES ALONG WITH.
• 20:34 GREAT SONGS FROM THE HOLY LAND, YOU'LL LOVE IT.
• 20:36 SPEAKING OF LOVE IT, FROM LEVITT HE INTERVIEWED ERGUN CANER.
• 20:42 A FELLOW OF ISLAMIC EXTRACT WHO CAME TO KNOW THE LORD,
• 20:45 BECAME A THEOLOGIAN AND IS A PROFESSOR OF BIBLE AND THEOLOGY AND ACTUALLY A DEAN OF DIVINITY.
• 20:51 YOU'RE GONNA LOVE HIM AND OFF WE GO AS WE CONTINUE ON THE JOURNEY
• 20:55 TO COME TO KNOW GOD'S WORD BETTER THROUGH ZOLA LEVITT MINISTRIES.
• 21:00 HOW DID YOU GET SAVED?
• 21:01 WEREN'T YOU?...
• 21:02 DIFFICULT I CAN TELL YOU VERY QUICKLY.
• 21:04 I WAS NOT JUST MUSLIM, BUT THE SON OF A MUEZZIN.
• 21:08 ZOLA: THAT'S WHAT I UNDERSTOOD.
• 21:10 ZOLA: YOUR FATHER WAS A CLERGYMAN.
• 21:11 CANER: YES,THE ONE WHO DOES THE CALL PRAYER IN THE MINARET.
• 21:13 CANER: AND SO...
• 21:14 ZOLA: DID HE CALL YOU TO DINNER WITH THAT TERRIFIC VOICE?
• 21:17 CANER: (LAUGHING) HE COULD.
• 21:18 CANER: HE COULD RAISE THAT VOICE QUITE LOUD.
• 21:20 WE WERE RAISED IN A MOSQUE
• 21:23 AND WE WERE THERE FOR THE FRIDAYS AND THERE FOR THE SUNDAYS
• 21:25 AND VERY FAITHFUL MUSLIMS,
• 21:27 BUT EVERYTHING I HAD BEEN TAUGHT ABOUT CHRISTIANITY
• 21:29 ABOUT CHRISTIANS SPECIFICALLY,
• 21:31 JUST DIDN'T BEAR OUT WHEN WE CAME TO AMERICA.
• 21:34 WE WERE TAUGHT THAT YOU HATED US
• 21:37 AND COMING TO AMERICA PERHAPS IN EUROPE IT'S A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT,
• 21:41 IT CERTAINLY WAS FOR ME, BUT COMING TO AMERICA THEY WEREN'T HATEFUL,THEY WERE LOVING.
• 21:45 AND SO THROUGH THE TESTIMONY OF A FRIEND INVITING ME TO CHURCH FOR THE 1ST TIME,
• 21:49 I CAME, WENT FOR 4 NIGHTS THROUGH A REVIVAL.
• 21:53 I'D LIVED IN FEAR OF THE SCALES FOR SO LONG, YOU KNOW THE ANGEL ON BOTH SHOULDERS,
• 21:59 WRITING THE GOOD AND THE BAD.
• 22:01 BUT TO FIND OUT ABOUT GRACE, WHICH WAS REMARKABLE, SO I ACCEPTED CHRIST.
• 22:04 I ACCEPTED JESUS AS WHAT HE SAID HE WAS.
• 22:06 WENT BACK TO MOSQUE THE NEXT FRIDAY, ASSUMING THEY WANTED TO HEAR ABOUT GRACE AND MERCY
• 22:12 AND FORGIVENESS IN CHRIST, THAT WAS NOT THE CASE.
• 22:15 ALRIGHT SO WE'RE ATTACKED
• 22:17 AND NOW WHEN I GO ON A SPEAKING ENGAGEMENT
• 22:20 EVERYBODY WANTS TO KNOW, WHY DO THEY HATE US?
• 22:22 WHY DOES THE QURAN REALLY TEACH THAT THEY SHOULD KILLS US?
• 22:27 THIS SORT OF QUESTION.
• 22:28 OH, DR. LEVITT, YOU AND I BOTH FACE THIS.
• 22:31 WHEREVER WE SPEAK, WHENEVER YOU AND I, WHENEVER YOU GO IN A PLACE AND I GO IN A PLACE
• 22:35 WE HEAR THIS ON TELEVISION, IN THE NEWS, AND THE RADIO
• 22:38 THAT WE HEAR THESE APOLOGIST WHO ISLAM IS SAYING,
• 22:41 "JIHAD IS A STRUGGLE, IT MEANS WE ARE PEACE LOVING. ISLAM MEANS PEACE AND SUBMISSION,"
• 22:47 AND IT DOES, BUT...
• 22:49 AND IN AMERICA THE VAST MAJORITY OF MUSLIMS ARE HORRIFIED BY WHAT TOOK PLACE.
• 22:54 BUT THAT'S BECAUSE HERE IN AMERICA JIHAD IS A THEORY.
• 22:57 THERE'S NEVER BEEN A DECLARED JIHAD BY THE CALIPHATE, BY THE LEADERS HERE IN AMERICA.
• 23:02 IN EUROPE AND IN ISRAEL AND IN THE ARABIAN PENINSULA IT'S NOT THEORY,
• 23:09 IT'S LIFE, IT'S WHAT WE LIVE WITH.
• 23:11 WHAT GETS TO ME IS THAT YOU CAN SAY THAT'S WHAT WE TEACH, BUT WE DON'T FOLLOW THAT,
• 23:16 BUT YOU CAN NOT REDACT, YOU CAN NOT GO BACK AND CHANGE WHAT THE QURAN SAYS.
• 23:20 AS A MEMBER, AS A YOUNG MAN I WAS IN THE ISLAMIC YOUTH, JIHAD
• 23:23 AS WAS MY BROTHER AND BOTH OF MY BROTHERS.
• 23:27 WE WERE IN THE YOUTH GROUPS THAT WERE THERE THAT WERE TAUGHT THESE VERSES OF THE HADITH.
• 23:31 THE HADITH, YOU KEEP MENTIONING THESE MUHAMMAD SAYINGS.
• 23:34 MUHAMMAD SAYINGS, YES THE SAYINGS THE... ALMOST EVERY ONE OF THEM SAYS
• 23:38 IT'S NARRATED BY SOMEONE AND THEN MUHAMMAD SAID, AND THIS IS THEIR QUOTE.
• 23:42 AND I'LL GIVE YOU AN EXAMPLE, DR. LEVITT THE HADITH...
• 23:46 WHY DON'T YOU CALL ME, ZOLA, NOBODY CALLS ME DR. LEVITT.
• 23:49 I CAN'T, YOU'RE THE MAN I WATCHED ON TELEVISION, MY LIFE.
• 23:52 BUT HADITH CHAPTER 9, VERSE 50 SAYS,
• 23:54 "NO ONE CAN BE KILLED FOR KILLING AN INFIDEL."
• 23:57 HADITH CHAPTER 9, VERSE 57 SAYS,
• 24:00 "IF A MAN CHANGES HIS ISLAMIC RELIGION KILL HIM."
• 24:04 THAT'S NOT AMBIGUOUS.
• 24:06 YEAH, IT'S NOT AMBIGUOUS, BUT IT'S VERY STRANGE.
• 24:08 I DON'T ANY OTHER RELIGION THAT SAYS, IF YOU CONVERT SOMEWHERE THEY'RE GONNA KILL YOU.
• 24:11 AND IT'S VERY STRAIGHT FORWARD.
• 24:13 THERE IS IN THE QURAN A REDACTION.
• 24:16 THEY WOUD SAY ABRAHAM WAS NOT A JEW OR A CHRISTIAN, BUT WAS A GOOD MUSLIM.
• 24:19 I MEAN THAT IS A QUOTE IN THE QURAN.
• 24:21 I'VE HEARD IT.
• 24:23 AND SO THERE IS A REDACTION, BUT FOR NOW FOR THESE MEN TO COME ON TELEVISION AND SAY,
• 24:26 THAT'S NOT..WE DON'T BELIEVE IN JIHAD.
• 24:29 JIHAD IS NOT THAT, THAT'S A MISUNDERSTANDING.
• 24:31 TO ME THAT'S DISINGENUOUS.
• 24:33 WE HAVE A LARGE CHRISTIAN AUDIENCE.
• 24:37 YOU HAVE ABOUT 30 SECONDS, GO FOR IT.
• 24:38 WELL, I SIMPLY WANNA SAY, THANK YOU FOR HAVING ME, DR. LEVITT
• 24:41 AND I HAVE A VERY LARGE AUDIENCE TO SAY THE LEAST.
• 24:45 BUT I WOULD SIMPLY SAY THIS TO THE INDIVIDUAL CHRISTIANS,
• 24:47 I HOPE THAT THEY USE THIS OPPORTUNITY OF HEIGHTENED AWARENESS
• 24:53 TO REACH THE MUSLIM POPULATION, 20% OF OUR WORLD, FOR THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST.
• 24:58 ALL I CAN ADD IS,
• 25:01 SHA 'ALU SHALOM YERUSHALAYIM.
• 25:03 PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM.
• 25:04 YES.
• 25:05 THANK YOU.
• 25:07 THE THING THAT TOUCHED ME MOST
• 25:09 ABOUT ERGUN'S TESTIMONY
• 25:11 IS THAT HE SAID THAT SOMEBODY LOVED HIM.
• 25:13 LOVED HIM ENOUGH TO REACH OUT TO HIM,
• 25:15 INVITE HIM TO CHURCH, INVITED HIM TO THEIR HOMES.
• 25:18 I THINK SO MUCH TODAY WE TEND TO SAY,
• 25:20 "IF YOU'RE AN UNBELIEVER OR IF YOU'RE SOMEBODY I DON'T WANNA ASSOCIATE WITH,
• 25:24 DON'T EVEN COME NEAR ME."
• 25:26 SOMEBODY TOOK THE TIME TO REACH OUT TO ERGUN.
• 25:29 THAT REALLY TOUCHED ME.
• 25:30 YOU KNOW IN ISRAEL TODAY MESSIANIC BELIEVERS IN JESUS
• 25:33 ARE AT THE VANGUARD OF BUILDING BRIDGES TO ARAB CHRISTIANS.
• 25:36 RIGHT
• 25:37 THEY THINK ITS IMPORTANT AND I THINK WE NEED TO FOLLOW THEIR LEAD.
• 25:39 WELL IT'S PROPHECY.
• 25:40 WE'RE AT END TIMES.
• 25:41 TIME IS SHORT, TIME IS SHORT.
• 25:43 IF WE DON'T WITNESS NOW AND TALK TO OUR FRIENDS, THEY ARE IN TROUBLE.
• 25:47 RIGHT AND IF I UNDERSTAND JESUS CORRECTLY,
• 25:49 WHATEVER TIME IT IS PROPHETICALLY
• 25:50 IT'S STILL ALWAYS A GOOD TIME TO BE A PEACEMAKER,
• 25:53 TO REACH OUT, AND TO LOVE. >>THAT RIGHT.
• 25:54 HATING IS NOT AN OPTION AT ANYTIME.
• 25:57 IT REALLY ISN'T AND WE ARE TO BE WITH GOD FOREVER
• 26:00 AND DON'T WE WANNA TELL PEOPLE THAT GOOD NEWS?
• 26:02 WE WANNA TELL PEOPLE THE GOOD NEWS OF SALVATION OF THE MESSIAH.
• 26:06 AND ERGUN IS PROOF THAT LOVE WORKS,
• 26:08 BECAUSE HE CAME TO KNOW THE LORD FROM AN ISLAMIC BACKGROUND,
• 26:12 BECAME A SENIOR THEOLOGIAN.
• 26:13 A SENIOR THEOLOGIAN, WENT ON...NOT ONLY HIM, BUT HIS BROTHER.
• 26:17 WENT ON, BOTH OF THEM DOCTORS, AND WENT ON AND TO TEACH THE WORD OF GOD.
• 26:21 YES >>I LOVED IT.
• 26:23 I JUST THOUGHT IT WAS GREAT.
• 26:25 YOU'VE BEEN WATCHING MID ZOLA, MID MINISTRY WITH HIM AND IT'S BEEN A WONDERFUL TRIP FOR ME
• 26:30 TO LOOK BACK AND SEE SOME OF THE PROGRAMS.
• 26:31 HE ALWAYS SAID, "SHA 'ALU SHALOM YERUSHALAYIM."
• 26:34 THIS IS THE REASON WHY, HE STARTED, GOD BLESS YOU.
• 26:37 SHA 'ALU SHALOM YERUSHALAYIM.
• 26:39 PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM.