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

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