
Jerusalem Forever
Zola’s contagious love for Israel—which mimics the Scripture’s—is apparent in his music, books, and TV productions. This program visits Zola in mid-career when he teaches about the Bible’s Jewish roots, emphasizing his trademark subject: prophecy.
Air dates: 2008-Nov-02
Production Code: 1653
Episode 3 of 4 in the series “Zola’s Highlights”
Duration: 28:18
Year: 2008
Series code: DZH
Closed Captioned
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Transcript
Caption transcript for Zola’s Highlights: “Jerusalem Forever” (3/4)
- 00:08 I WILL BRING YOU OUT OF THE NATIONS WHERE YOU ARE SCATTERED.
- 00:11 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 ABBA B'SHEM ADONAI.
- 00:27 BLESSED IS HE WHO COMES IN THE NAME OF THE LORD.
- 00:38 DR. JEFFERY SEIF AND SANDRA LEVITT.
- 00:43 A HEARTY SHALOM TO ALL OF YOU.
- 00:45 JEFFERY SEIF WITH MY CO-HOST, ASSOCIATE,
- 00:48 AND FRIEND SANDRA LEVITT.
- 00:50 SHALOM, WELCOME.
- 00:52 JOIN US AS WE LOOK BACK
- 00:53 AT ZOLA LEVITT'S MINISTRY.
- 00:55 WE'RE GONNA LOOK ABOUT HALFWAY
- 00:57 THROUGH HIS MINISTRY.
- 00:58 I REMEMBER HIM TELLING ME
- 00:59 JERUSALEM IS FOREVER
- 01:02 AND HE REPEATS IT IN HISTORY
- 01:04 AND GOD REPEATS IT IN THE BIBLE.
- 01:05 JERUSALEM IS FOREVER.
- 01:07 IT'S LIKE A TIME PIECE, JERUSALEM, ISN'T IT?
- 01:10 AMEN
- 01:11 AND IT'S AN HOUR GLASS THAT'S TURNED UPSIDE DOWN.
- 01:13 TIME IS MOVING, THINGS ARE HAPPENING,
- 01:17 AND JERUSALEM IS CENTRAL.
- 01:20 I WANT YOU TO KNOW IT AND I WANT YOU TO SEE IT.
- 01:22 AND SO OFF WE GO.
- 01:23 ZOLA LEVITT IN JERUSALEM.
- 01:29 REJOICE WITH JERUSALEM AND BE GLAD WITH HER, ALL YE THAT LOVE HER.
- 01:41 IF YOU WOULD'VE STAYED LONG ENOUGH,
- 01:43 ANOTHER NEARLY 300 YEARS OR SO CHRISTIANS FROM EUROPE COME.
- 01:47 GREAT ARMIES, THE CRUSADERS, THEY'RE GONNA CAPTURE THE HOLY LAND
- 01:50 AND BRING IT BACK AND SO ON AND YOU WOULD'VE WATCHED THEM RIDE IN KNIGHTS IN ARMOR,
- 01:57 THINGS THE ARABS HAVE NEVER SEEN.
- 01:59 LONG SPEARS AND SO ON.
- 02:01 NOT REALLY DOING A VERY GOOD JOB OF PREACHING CHRIST.
- 02:05 FORCING JEWS INTO WOODEN SYNAGOGUES AND BURNING THEM TO THE GROUND,
- 02:08 SLAUGHTERING ARABS, LOPPING OFF HEADS.
- 02:10 THEY CONTROLLED THE PLACE FOR MORE THAN A CENTURY.
- 02:13 THEY PUT KNIGHTS AT THE TEMPLE OR AT THE ALAXA MOSQUE, WHICH I THOUGHT WAS SOLOMON'S TEMPLE.
- 02:19 AN AWESOME EXAMPLE OF FAILING TO READ YOUR OLD TESTAMENT.
- 02:22 THEY WERE 2 TEMPLES OFF.
- 02:24 HEROD'S WAS DESTROYED IN THE 1ST CENTURY AND SOLOMON'S NEARLY 600 YEARS BEFORE THAT.
- 02:29 BUT THEY THOUGHT IT WAS SOLOMON'S AND THEY CALLED THEMSELVES "KNIGHTS TEMPLAR,"
- 02:34 THE KNIGHTS OF THE TEMPLE.
- 02:36 AND THEY MADE A CHURCH OUT OF THE DOME OF THE ROCK, THEY PUT A CROSS ON THE TOP
- 02:40 AND NOW YOU HAD ONE OF THE MOST REMARKABLE BUILDINGS IN HUMAN HISTORY.
- 02:44 A CHRISTIAN CROSS, ON A MUSLIM DOME, ON ROMAN PILLARS, ON JEWISH LAND.
- 02:51 AND THAT IS WHAT HAPPENED IN ABOUT 1100 A.D. OR SO.
- 02:57 WELL TO PROGRESS, THE CRUSADER SUPPLY LINE WAS TOO LONG, THE WARRIOR SALADIN RODE IN,
- 03:03 HE TOOK JERUSALEM, THE CRUSADERS WERE VANQUISHED AND CHASED AWAY.
- 03:08 THIS RULE GAVE WAY TO THE MARMELUKES AND FINALLY THE TURKS,
- 03:14 THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE TOOK OVER AND RULED.
- 03:16 ALL THE TIME THERE WERE JEWS HERE, ALL THE TIME THERE WAS A REMNANT THAT NEVER LEFT,
- 03:20 THAT ALWAYS PRAYED HERE, THAT YEARNED TO GET BACK TO THE WALL,
- 03:24 THE ONLY REMNANT OF THEIR TEMPLE.
- 03:26 AND FINALLY THE TURKS RULED 400 YEARS UNTIL 1917 AND AS A CONSEQUENCE OF WORLD WAR I
- 03:33 THE BRITISH CAME IN AND TOOK OVER
- 03:35 AND THE BALFOUR DECLARATION WAS FINALLY ISSUED BY THE BRITISH LEGALLY ENCOURAGING
- 03:43 AND ALLOWING THE JEWS TO ESTABLISH A HOMELAND AT LAST HERE IN JERUSALEM
- 03:48 THEIR OLD HOMELAND ACTUALLY TO RECOVERY.
- 03:50 IT WAS STILL TO WAIT SOME 30 YEARS OR SO UNTIL AFTER THE HOLOCAUST OF THE 20TH CENTURY
- 03:57 AND THEN THE JEWISH PEOPLE WERE ALLOWED TO COME HOME
- 04:01 AND NATIONS THE WORLD AROUND KIND OF WITH A GUILTY CONSCIENCE
- 04:05 ALLOWED THEM TO COME BACK INTO THE CITY AND INTO THE LAND,
- 04:09 BUT THEY HAD PEOPLE TO CONTEND WITH THAT LIVED HERE, ARABS.
- 04:13 THE JEWS WERE CALLED PALESTINIANS BY THE WAY.
- 04:16 IN THEIR NEWSPAPER, "THE PALESTINIAN POST," NOW CALLED "THE JERUSALEM POST,"
- 04:20 WAS THE NEWSPAPER OF THE JEWISH CULTURE WRITTEN IN ENGLISH.
- 04:25 AND THEN YOU KNOW THE REST FROM MEMORY.
- 04:30 IN 1948 THE WAR OF INDEPENDENCE, 1956 A WAR WITH EGYPT,
- 04:34 IN 1967 A VERY SIGNIFICANT WAR WHERE YOU WOULD'VE SEEN THE JEWISH TROOPS
- 04:38 COMING DOWN THE MOUNT OF OLIVES THERE FROM THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE SCREEN
- 04:41 TO THE TEMPLE SITE WHERE THE DOME OF THE ROCK WAS THERE.
- 04:44 AND TAKING THE CITY FROM THE EAST JERUSALEM HAS BEEN CONQUERED 39 TIMES IN HISTORY
- 04:51 AND SOME THINK THAT'S THE 39 STRIPES
- 04:54 OF THE TEMPLE PUNISHMENT FOR SIN.
- 04:56 THAT, THAT'S IT, JERUSALEM'S BEEN CONQUERED FOR THE LAST TIME
- 04:59 AND NOW IT WILL SURVIVE.
- 05:01 WE SHALL SEE.
- 05:03 THIS SERIES COVERS THE JERUSALEM 3000 WHICH IS THE NEXT
- 05:07 AFTER 4,000 YEARS OR 3,000 YEARS OF WARRING OVER THIS CITY ANYWAY,
- 05:12 THE NEXT TIME THAT MEN SIT DOWN TO DECIDE THE DESTINY
- 05:17 OF THIS MAGNIFICENT PIECE OF ARCHITECTURE 4,000 YEARS OF JERUSALEM.
- 05:27 ZOLA: WE CONTINUED OUR ASCENT TO THE END OF THE HASMONEAN SEGMENT OF TUNNEL,
- 05:31 ZOLA: ENTERING INTO THE FINAL PART OF THE TUNNEL SYSTEM.
- 05:33 ZOLA: EXCAVATION COMPLETED HERE IN 1993
- 05:36 ZOLA: STOPPED 12 INCHES SHORT OF BREAKING THROUGH UNTO THE VIA DOLOROSA.
- 05:40 ZOLA: SHOWN HERE ON THE MAP TRADITION HOLDS, CHRIST WALKED THIS STREET TO HIS CRUCIFIXION.
- 05:46 ZOLA: FINALLY IN 1996 NEGOTIATIONS BETWEEN ISLAMIC AND JEWISH AUTHORITIES
- 05:52 ZOLA: RESULTED IN THE APPROVAL AND CREATION OF THE TUNNEL EXIT.
- 05:55 ZOLA: AT FIRST I ALL WAS CALM, HOWEVER PALESTINIAN LEADER YASHIR ARAFAT
- 06:00 ZOLA: MADE MISLEADING STATEMENTS REGARDING THE TUNNEL LOCATION, WHICH INCITED RIOTS.
- 06:04 ZOLA: KILLING 70 AND INJURING HUNDREDS.
- 06:06 ZOLA: SPEAKING NEAR THE EXIT, DANNY EXPLAINS ARAFAT'S DECEPTION.
- 06:11 DAN: HE DEFUSED IN THE INTERNET AND EVERYWHERE A MAP OF OUR TUNNELS
- 06:16 ZOLA: AS IF THEY GO UNDER THE 2 MOSQUES ON THE TEMPLE MOUNT.
- 06:20 WE PUBLISHED A MAP OF THE WALK AS WE DO IN EVERY EXCAVATION.
- 06:24 AND HE TOOK THE SAME MAP WHICH WAS PUBLISHED
- 06:26 AND MOVED IT,
- 06:27 THE TUNNEL HE PUT ON THE TEMPLE MOUNT.
- 06:30 BETWEEN THE 2 MOSQUES, THAT'S WHAT HE DID.
- 06:32 AND EVERYONE BELIEVED, NO ONE COULD BELIEVE
- 06:35 THAT THE LEADER OF LET'S SAY A NATION
- 06:37 WITH NATIONAL EXPURGATION
- 06:39 CAN LIE TO THE WORLD IN SUCH A MANNER.
- 06:42 AND THIS IS ACTUALLY WHAT HE DID.
- 06:43 THIS POLITICALLY THREATENS...
- 06:45 ZOLA: DAVID DOLAN, VETERAN JOURNALIST AND RESIDENT OF JERUSALEM
- 06:49 ZOLA: SPOKE WITH DR. MCCALL ABOUT THE EVENTS.
- 06:51 WHY DO WE GET THIS KIND OF WRONG INFORMATION OR MISINFORMATION OR DISINFORMATION?
- 06:58 THE PALESTINIANS PRESENTED IT AS A TUNNEL
- 07:01 THAT EFFECTED THE MOSQUES ON THE TEMPLE MOUNT.
- 07:05 SO THEY LEFT THE IMPRESSION THAT IT DID GO ACTUALLY UNDERNEATH THE TEMPLE MOUNT
- 07:09 AND THE MEDIA JUST REPORTED THAT WITHOUT ACTUALLY CHECKING ON THE FACTS,
- 07:14 GOING DOWN THERE AND LOOKING AT IT, OR WHATEVER.
- 07:17 AND IT TOOK A FEW DAYS FOR IT TO BE CLARIFIED EVEN HERE LOCALLY IN THE MEDIA
- 07:22 THAT THIS TUNNEL RUNS ON THE OUTSIDE OF THE WESTERN WALL.
- 07:27 THAT IT'S AN ANCIENT TUNNEL, NOTHING THAT HAS JUST BEEN BUILT.
- 07:30 DOLAN: IT WAS AN ANCIENT WATER TUNNEL OF THE HASMONEAN PERIOD
- 07:33 DOLAN: AND THEREFORE HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE MOSQUE ITSELF.
- 07:36 YERUSHALAYIM, JERUSALEM HAS ALWAYS BEEN A HOT BED OF CONTENTION.
- 07:42 YESTERDAY AS TODAY AS TOMORROW.
- 07:46 YESTERDAY ZOLA TOOK US TO JERUSALEM, ACTUALLY TO THE HIGH PLACE IN JERUSALEM,
- 07:52 WHERE THE HIGH PRIEST SERVED.
- 07:54 HE TAUGHT ABOUT COVENANTS AND HE GAVE US A WINDOW INTO THE MINISTRY OF THE MESSIAH,
- 08:00 THROUGH THE HIGH PRIEST VESTMENTS.
- 08:02 AND NOW WE'RE GONNA HEAR FROM ZOLA LEVITT AND LEARN ABOUT THAT AND MORE.
- 08:06 AS WE CONTINUE ON OUR JOURNEY IN THE ANCIENT WORD THROUGH OUR FOUNDER ZOLA LEVITT.
- 08:15 AND THE LORD THY GOD WILL BRING THEE INTO THE LAND, WHICH THY FATHERS POSSESS.
- 08:22 AND I WILL PUT MY LAW IN THERE MINDS AND WRITE IT IN THERE HEARTS.
- 08:35 I'M DRESSED AS THE HIGH PRIEST OF ISRAEL.
- 08:37 THIS IS WHAT HE WORE.
- 08:39 IN THE TABERNACLE IN THE WILDERNESS, THIS IS HOW HE SOUNDED
- 08:42 AND WHEN HE WALKED AROUND, BECAUSE THE ROBE HAS BELLS SEWN ON THE BOTTOM
- 08:47 AND POMEGRANATES HANGING FROM THE BOTTOM.
- 08:49 BUT LET ME START AT THE TOP.
- 08:51 THE MITER HAS A LEGEND ON THE FRONT, KADOSH LA ADONAI, HOLINESS TO THE LORD.
- 08:59 AND IT WAS WORN OF COURSE BY JUST THE HIGH PRIEST, NOT THE OTHER PRIESTS AND SO ON.
- 09:05 THEN THE SHOULDER EPAULETS
- 09:08 THEY REMIND US OF THE SCRIPTURE IN ISAIAH,
- 09:12 CHAPTER 9, VERSE 6 & 7:
- 09:14 "UNTO US A CHILD IS BORN, A KING IS GIVEN,
- 09:16 AND THE GOVERNMENT WILL BE UPON HIS SHOULDERS."
- 09:20 ISRAEL IS BORN ON THE SHOULDERS OF THE MESSIAH, WHO'S ULTIMATELY OUR HIGH PRIEST.
- 09:27 THE BREASTPLATE HERE HAS 12 PRECIOUS STONES ON IT
- 09:33 AND EACH ONE OF THEM HAS A NAME OF A TRIBE OF ISAEL.
- 09:37 NOW ONE OF THE IS LEVI AND ASHER AND ZEBULON AND ISSACHAR AND SO ON, EACH TRIBE REPRESENTED.
- 09:44 THEN INSIDE OF THE BREASTPLATE IS A POCKET.
- 09:49 YOU REMEMBER THEY DREW LOTS, THEY DECIDED QUESTIONS,
- 09:52 THEY DECIDED WHICH GOAT GOES IN THE WILDERNESS AND SO FORTH
- 09:56 AND TO DO THAT THEY HAD A WHITE AND BLACK STONE INSIDE OF THE HIGH PRIESTS BREASTPLATE.
- 10:05 HE WOULD REACH INSIDE IN THIS MANNER AND PULL ONE OUT
- 10:10 AND THAT WOULD BE THE ANSWER TO THE QUESTION OR THIS WOULD BE THE ANSWER TO THE QUESTION.
- 10:17 IT'S NOT CLEAR EXACTLY AND IT GOES INTO NO DETAIL IN THE BIBLE,
- 10:21 BUT THESE ARE CALLED:
- 10:25 AND THEY WERE KEPT IN THE COSTUME.
- 10:28 EXCUSE ME, I'M NOT USE TO...THIS THING MUST WEIGH 25LBS.
- 10:32 AND WHEN I THINK OF THE ELDERLY PRIESTS IN THE SINAI GETTING THIS ALL TOGETHER,
- 10:38 I'M IMPRESSED.
- 10:41 MUSIC
- 10:58 OUR TOPIC TODAY IS MOSES AND ENDURANCE.
- 11:01 SHALOM, HELLO AGAIN.
- 11:04 WELCOME BACK TO OUR SERIES ON FAITH.
- 11:06 WE'RE GOING THROUGH HEBREWS CHAPTER 11 AND THE VARIOUS HEROES IN THE OLD TESTAMENT
- 11:10 AND THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THEIR WALK WITH THE LORD.
- 11:12 YOU SAW MOSES WALKING DOWN THE MOUNTAIN AFTER HE CONFRONTED GOD IN OUR LITTLE DRAMA.
- 11:20 HIS STORY IS GIVEN IN BREIF IN HEBREWS CHAPTER 11, STARTING AT VERSE 24:
- 11:39 IMAGINE WHAT A COMFORTABLE LIFE MOSES REALLY WOULD'VE HAD
- 11:42 GROWING UP IN THE EGYPTIAN PALACE.
- 11:45 NOT MERELY LIKE A COURTIER OR LIKE A MEMBER OF THE KINGS ENTOURAGE,
- 11:53 BUT PHARAOH'S DAUGHTER'S SON.
- 11:56 IMAGINE THAT.
- 11:57 HE WOULD BE IN THE INTIMATE COMPANY OF THE HIGHEST RULERS IN EGYPT,
- 12:02 WHICH AT THAT TIME VIRTUALLY RULED THE KNOWN WORLD.
- 12:07 INSTEAD HE WENT WITH THE CHOSEN PEOPLE, WHAT A CHOICE WITH SLAVES.
- 12:11 AND THEN IT SAYS,
- 12:20 WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?
- 12:21 DID MOSES KNOW CHRIST?
- 12:22 NOT EXACTLY, THE WORD CHRIST IS "MESSIAH"
- 12:25 AND IT WAS ALREADY WELL PUBLISHED AND WITHIN THE KNOWLEDGE OF MOSES
- 12:29 THAT MESSIAH WOULD COME ONE DAY AND WOULD FORGIVE AN UNREGENERATE PEOPLE,
- 12:35 WHO HAVE FILED THEIR SACRIFICES, DONE THEIR OBEDIENCE, KEPT THEIR FAITH IN ORDER.
- 12:40 AND HE ESTEEMED THE MESSIAH'S ESTIMATIONS OF HIM
- 12:45 EVEN GREATER THAN THE RICHES OF THE COURT OF EGYPT, WHICH IS QUITE A STATEMENT.
- 12:52 MUSIC
- 13:03 FOR INSIGHTFUL PERSPECTIVES OF ISRAEL AND BIBLE PROPHECY
- 13:07 ASK FOR OUR FREE MONTHLY NEWSLETTER THE LEVITT LETTER.
- 13:10 WHEN YOU CALL, BE SURE TO ALSO ASK FOR OUR FREE CATALOGUE WITH LATEST VIDEOS, BOOKS, AND MUSIC.
- 13:15 OUR CORRESPONDENCE COURSE, "THE INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH CHRISTIAN STUDIES" INCLUDES:
- 13:20 READING PACKETS, TEACHING CDs, AND MAIL IN TESTS.
- 13:23 YOU MAY WANT TO JOIN US ON AN UPCOMING TOUR OF ISRAEL OR PETRA.
- 13:27 OR CRUISE THE MEDITERRANEAN, VISITING GREECE AND EPHESUS.
- 13:30 PLEASE CONTACT US FOR MORE INFORMATION.
- 13:34 IT'S BEEN A GOOD SEASON, PLENTIFUL RAIN,
- 13:37 AND NOW THE DAYS ARE FILLED WITH THE WARMTH OF THE SUN.
- 13:41 SOON WE WILL SEE A BOUNTIFUL HARVEST.
- 13:45 I AM JOSHUA AND THIS IS MY LAND.
- 13:50 IT IS RICH AND FERTILE, BLESSED BY HASHEM.
- 13:53 MANY YEARS AGO ABRAHAM JOURNEYED ACROSS THE ROADS THAT ENCOMPASSED THESE VERY FIELDS
- 14:00 AND GOD PROMISED HIM THAT ONE DAY HIS SEED WOULD INHERIT THIS VERY LAND.
- 14:08 COME!
- 14:09 SEE FOR YOURSELF THIS MIRACLE OF LIFE.
- 14:13 WALK THE LAND OF ABRAHAM, ISAAC, AND JACOB.
- 14:16 WITNESS WITH ME THIS MAGNIFICENT LAND OF PROMISE.
- 14:28 FOR YOUR FREE BROCHURE ON OUR NEXT TOUR TO ISRAEL CALL:
- 14:36 THAT IS REALLY ISRAEL.
- 14:38 WHAT YOU'RE LOOKING AT IS REALLY ISRAEL.
- 14:41 IT'S A HIGHLIGHT FOR ME TO SHOW YOU ISRAEL,
- 14:44 TO BE IN ISRAEL, TO DO THE FILMING IN ISRAEL,
- 14:46 NOT SOME OTHER LOCATION - REALLY IN ISRAEL.
- 14:49 I LOVE THAT.
- 14:51 RIGHT AND IT'S A HIGHLIGHT FOR US TO BE ABLE
- 14:53 TO BRING YOU ISRAEL AND STORIES RELATED TO THE MODERN WORLD
- 14:57 AND THE ANCIENT WORD THROUGH OUR LEVITT LETTER.
- 15:00 IT'S A MAGAZINE PACKED WITH INFORMATION.
- 15:04 1-800-WONDERS IS THE PHONE CALL,
- 15:07 WWW.LEVITT.COM IS THE WEBSITE TO GET IT AND MORE.
- 15:11 IT'S FREE, YOU HAVE TO ASK.
- 15:13 THIS ISN'T FREE.
- 15:15 IT'S OUR OFFER FOR TODAY.
- 15:17 THERE'S 30 YEARS HERE AND OODLES OF PROGRAMS.
- 15:20 ZOLA LEVITT WAS ONE OF THE GREATEST MESSIANIC COMMUNICATORS IN OUR TIME.
- 15:24 HEAR HIM AFRESH THROUGH ZOLA'S HIGHLIGHTS.
- 15:27 AMEN.
- 15:28 REALLY, REALLY GOOD HIGHLIGHTS.
- 15:30 WE'RE GONNA GO NOW AND WATCH A WEDDING,
- 15:32 A WEDDING IN ISRAEL.
- 15:33 I LOVE IT.
- 15:34 IT'S THE JEWISH WEDDING.
- 15:36 WE ARE GOING TO MARRY A JEWISH MESSIAH,
- 15:39 A JEWISH BRIDEGROOM.
- 15:40 YES - JEWISH.
- 15:41 HERE IS THE WEDDING.
- 15:46 I HAVE FOUND HIM WHOM MY SOUL LOVETH.
- 15:51 I HELD HIM AND WOULD NOT LET HIM GO.
- 15:56 MUSIC
- 16:07 MY BELOVED IS MINE AND I AM HIS.
- 16:21 ZOLA: HE'LL PASS THIS SAME CUP TO THE GROOM AND TO THE BRIDE.
- 16:25 ZOLA: THEY BOTH SIP FROM IT AND THAT'S WHAT'S BECOME OF THE CUP
- 16:28 ZOLA: THE BRIDE USED TO SIP WHEN SHE ACCEPTED THE PROPOSAL.
- 16:31 ZOLA: AND THEN THE BRIDEGROOM GIVES HER SOMETHING OF VALUE, A GOLD RING.
- 16:36 ZOLA: IT DOESN'T MATTER WHICH FINGER AT THIS POINT,
- 16:38 ZOLA: HE JUST GIVES HER THE RING AND THE MARRIAGE CONTRACT.
- 16:41 ZOLA: FOLDS IT UP CAREFULLY, PRESENTS IT TO HER, AND SHE WILL KEEP THAT.
- 16:48 ZOLA: AND NOW A RABBI POURS A CUP OF MORE LIKE CONGRATULATIONS,
- 16:52 ZOLA: BLESSES WITH A TRADITIONAL BLESSING.
- 16:54 ZOLA: AND THE BRIDEGROOM BREAKS THAT CUP,
- 16:57 ZOLA: BECAUSE THEY ARE REMEMBERING THE DESTRUCTION OF THE SECOND TEMPLE,
- 17:00 ZOLA: EVEN AT OUR MOMENTS OF GREATEST JOY.
- 17:06 WELL THAT'S A JEWISH WEDDING AS DONE IN ISRAEL AND AS DONE IN AMERICA,
- 17:10 WHEREVER JEWISH PEOPLE MARRY.
- 17:12 THEY MARRY UNDER A CHUPPAH, A CANOPY.
- 17:14 IN "FIDDLER ON THE ROOF" YOU KNOW WHEN SHE'S GOING OFF,
- 17:17 THE YOUNG DAUGHTER TO MARRY HER BETROTHED
- 17:21 WHO IS IN SIBERIA IN PRISON,
- 17:22 HER FATHER SAYS BE SURE YOU ARE MARRIED BY A RABBI
- 17:26 AND HE SAYS I'M SURE A RABBI OR 2 IS IN THE SAME PRISON UNDER TIMES IN RUSSIA,
- 17:34 UNDER THE CZAR, BUT THEN SHE SAYS, "I'LL BE SURE TO BE MARRIED UNDER A CANOPY POPPA."
- 17:41 THAT'S VERY, VERY IMPORTANT AND THE CANOPY GOES BACK,
- 17:44 WE TALKED ABOUT IT IN TERMS OF ISAAC'S TENT WITH REBECCA
- 17:50 AND SO ON AND THROUGH THE SCRIPTURES SAMSON MADE A BRIDAL CHAMBER,
- 17:54 CHRIST WITH OUR MANSIONS IN HEAVEN.
- 17:55 AND WE ARE HERE TO TALK ABOUT THE WEDDING OF THE MESSIAH AND THE CHURCH.
- 18:00 THE JEWS AND GENTILES WHO BELIEVE IN HIM
- 18:02 ARE GOING TO MARRY JESUS IN THE GREATEST JEWISH WEDDING OF THEM ALL.
- 18:07 YOU KNOW I KNEW A CASE ONCE CAME TO MY ATTENTION WHERE A GAL IN A CHURCH
- 18:14 WAS GOING TO MARRY A JEWISH BELIEVER AND HER FATHER WAS A LITTLE BIT UPSET
- 18:21 AND WONDERED IS IT'S RIGHT FOR MY DAUGHTER TO MARRY A JEWISH BELIEVER?
- 18:24 AND THE ANSWER OF DR. MCCALL OUR SENIOR THEOLOGIAN AT THAT TIME WAS
- 18:31 THE WHOLE CHURCH IS GOING TO MARRY A JEW.
- 18:33 AND THAT IS A FACT.
- 18:35 AND IF YOU HOLD POSITIONS THAT DON'T INCLUDE THE JEWS
- 18:40 WELL KNOW THAT SOME DAY YOU WILL MARRY JEWISH KING
- 18:43 AND YOU WILL LIVE IN JERUSALEM 1,000 YEARS WITH HIM.
- 18:48 ONE OF THE MOST POPULAR AND I MUST SAY MOST CONTROVERSIAL PROGRAMS WE'VE EVERY MADE
- 18:52 WAS EVIDENCE OF GOD, WITH GERALD SCHROEDER.
- 18:55 GERALD SCHROEDER IS DOCTOR FROM M.I.T. EXPLAINING HOW THE BIBLE
- 19:00 AND MAN'S TIME OF 15 BILLION YEARS AND 6 DAYS ARE THE SAME.
- 19:06 WE STILL GET CALLS AT THE MINISTRY ABOUT GERALD SCHROEDER AND EVIDENCE OF GOD.
- 19:11 HERE IS JUST A SMALL PART OF THAT PROGRAM.
- 19:15 THEREFORE YOU ARE MY WITNESS SAYETH THE LORD THAT I AM GOD.
- 19:26 THE BIBLE SEES TIME FROM THE BEGINNING,
- 19:28 THEREFORE IT SAYS THERE'S EVENING AND MORNING, DAY ONE.
- 19:31 THE BIBLE LOOKS FORWARD IN TIME.
- 19:33 HE COULDN'T HAVE.
- 19:35 WHY IS IT A SECOND DAY?
- 19:36 BECAUSE IT'S SECOND RELATIVE TO DAY NUMBER ONE.
- 19:42 WE COULD TODAY SAY 1ST DAY, WHY DO WE SAY A 1ST DAY, BECAUSE THERE'S BEEN MILLIONS OF DAYS.
- 19:47 WE'VE SEEN THOSE DAYS, YES.
- 19:49 WHEN THE BIBLE IS SEEING TIME, THE BIBLE CHOSE TO SAY DAY 1,
- 19:53 BECAUSE THE BIBLE LOOKS FORWARD IN TIME FROM THE BEGINNING.
- 19:57 UNTIL THE SOUL OF ADAM IS CREATED, UNTIL ADAM AND EVE POPULATE THE WORLD,
- 20:02 UNTIL HUMANKIND IS ON THE EARTH, THE BIBLE IS SEEING VERY OBJECTIVELY.
- 20:09 BUT WHEN BIBLE THE INTIMATELY BECOMES LOCKED TO US, TO THIS WONDERFUL SOUL OF HUMAN LIFE.
- 20:15 IT'S THE HEBREW WORD IT'S THE NESHAMA,
- 20:17 THE NESHAMA IS FOLDED IN, IN THE BIBLE'S TIME LOCKS IN.
- 20:21 SO A TIME SCALE OF THE BIBLE, WE'RE SEEING TIME FROM THE BEGINNING FOR THE 1ST 6 DAYS.
- 20:28 WE LOOK BACK IN TIME FROM OUR EARTHLY PERSPECTIVE
- 20:33 AND WE LOOK BACK IN TIME AND WE SEE BILLIONS OF YEARS.
- 20:36 ONLY FOR THOSE 6 DAYS DOES THE BIBLE USE THAT CALENDAR.
- 20:40 AT THE END OF THE 6 DAYS THE BIBLE SWITCHES IT'S PERSPECTIVE
- 20:44 AND IT BECOMES HUMAN AND WE KNOW THAT.
- 20:46 WHAT DOES THE TEXT SAY?
- 20:47 LET'S READ IT, IT'S RIGHT HERE.
- 20:50 ADAM AND EVE LIVE 130 YEARS ARE THE PARENTS OF SETH.
- 20:53 SETH LIVES 105 YEARS THROUGH THE FATHER OF ANOSH.
- 20:56 SUDDENLY IT'S HUMAN ACTIVITY, ADAM AND EVE LIVING 130 YEARS THAT THE TIME,
- 21:02 THE FLOW OF TIME, SUDDENLY IT'S HUMAN TIME.
- 21:04 WHEN THE DAY 6 PANS AND HUMANITY IS CREATED, THE CLOCK...
- 21:10 CALENDAR THAT WE ARE CLOCKED.
- 21:13 AND IT WORKS.
- 21:14 THERE ARE 6,000 YEARS APPROXIMATELY...
- 21:16 ALL OF ARCHEOLOGY CONFIRMS THAT.
- 21:18 YES, OK.
- 21:19 SO YOU'RE NOT AN EVOLUTIONIST OF COURSE,
- 21:23 BUT THE TIME THAT YOU HAVE FOUND HAS PASSED DOES ACCOUNT FOR THE FOSSILS,
- 21:29 THE THINGS THAT WE FIND, THE HISTORY, THE LONG HISTORY OF THE EARTH.
- 21:32 THERE ARE BILLIONS OF YEARS THAT PASSED, THERE WERE 6 DAYS THAT PASSED.
- 21:37 THEY OCCURRED IN EXACTLY THE SAME TIME.
- 21:40 GOD DIDN'T NEED 6 DAYS TO MAKE THE UNIVERSE.
- 21:44 I MEAN THE GOD OF THE BIBLE... LIKE A SECOND, A MICRO SECOND, 6 DAYS.
- 21:49 IT'S CLEAR THAT WE'RE BEING TOLD THAT THERE WAS AN UNFOLDING OVER TIME
- 21:54 AND FROM THE BIBLE'S PERSPECTIVE IT IS INDEED 6 DAYS.
- 21:58 LOOKING FORWARD IN TIME FROM THE BEGINNING.
- 22:02 I REMEMBER IN 1999, ALL THE RUCKUS ABOUT, WHAT'S GONNA HAPPEN?
- 22:07 Y2K, IS THE WORLD COMING TO AN END?
- 22:09 WHERE ARE WE GOING?
- 22:10 IS IT THE END?
- 22:11 IS IT ARMAGEDDON?
- 22:12 ZOLA MADE A PROGRAM, PROPHECY 2000.
- 22:15 HE TALKED ABOUT ARMAGEDDON, THE COMING RUSSIAN INVASION.
- 22:19 IT'S ALL HAPPENING IN ISRAEL.
- 22:21 WE WENT TO ISRAEL AT THE JORDAN RIVER TO FILM,
- 22:24 TO SEE EXACTLY WHERE THE RUSSIAN INVASION AND ARMAGEDDON ARE GOING TO HAPPEN.
- 22:29 HERE'S ZOLA AT THE JORDAN RIVER.
- 22:33 THE JORDAN RIVER ESPECIALLY THE NORTHERN END NORTH OF THE SEA OF GALILEE
- 22:36 IS GOING TO PROVE TO BE AN OBSTACLE TO INCOMING ARMIES
- 22:41 AND 2 PROPHESIED MAJOR BATTLES OF THE FUTURE.
- 22:45 THE COMING RUSSIAN INVASION OF ISRAEL, THE INVASION OF GOG AND MAGOG AND ARMAGEDDON ITSELF
- 22:52 WHERE ANY FORCE FROM THE EAST WOULD HAVE TO PASS THROUGH
- 22:55 SOMEWHERE NEAR HERE TO GET TO THE VALLEY OF ARMAGEDDON.
- 22:59 THE SEA OF GALILEE ITSELF IS FAR TOO WIDE TO CROSS AND 7 MILES WIDE,
- 23:04 BUT THE JORDAN RIVER ON THE NORTH OF IT
- 23:06 AND ON THE SOUTH OF IT PRESENTS A BETTER OPPORTUNITY.
- 23:10 HERE ON THE NORTH WOULD BE THE MOST CONVENIENT CROSSING
- 23:13 IF YOU'RE COMING FROM THE NORTHEAST,
- 23:14 BUT EVEN A SMALL RIVER AND THIS IS NOT A VERY GREAT RIVER,
- 23:18 BUT IN SIZE IT'S NOT THAT MUCH OF AN OBSTACLE,
- 23:22 BUT IT'S THE DEEP CUT IN THE LAND THAT A RIVER AUTOMATICALLY MAKES,
- 23:25 IT MAKES IT DIFFICULT TO MOVE HEAVY EQUIPMENT, TANKS ESPECIALLY.
- 23:29 WE CAME TO THIS BRIDGE YEARS AGO AND FILMED AND MADE THESE VERY POINTS
- 23:36 AND THIS IS AN AMPHIBIOUS TANK BRIDGE, WHICH IS THROWN ACROSS THE RIVER IN A TIME OF NEED,
- 23:42 BUT BACK THEN THE REGULAR BRIDGE SERVING THE CAR AND BUS TRAFFIC OF THE AREA
- 23:49 WAS A PRETTY SMALL AND ALMOST RICKETY AFFAIR.
- 23:53 IN THE MEANTIME IT HAS BEEN MUCH IMPROVED AND IT MAY WELL BE THE BRIDGE
- 23:58 THAT IS THE MAJOR CROSSING POINT OF THESE FORCES IN THE COMING BATTLES.
- 24:03 A BRIDGE LIKE THIS CAN ALWAYS BE THROWN UP,
- 24:05 BUT IT'S NOT A VERY WIDE BRIDGE OR IT'S A STRONG BRIDGE, BUT IT TAKES TIME AND SO FORTH.
- 24:11 A BRIDGE THAT'S ALREADY IN PLACE WOULD BE THE IDEAL THING AND OF COURSE
- 24:15 THE ONE THAT'S IMPROVED IT'S REALLY IN GOOD SHAPE.
- 24:18 WHEN I TALK ABOUT UPCOMING BATTLES I'M QUOTING THE PROPHET EZEKIEL
- 24:24 IN PARTICULAR WITH THE INVASION OF GOD AND MAGOG
- 24:26 AND OF COURSE THE BIBLE OLD TESTAMENT AND NEW ON ARMAGEDDON.
- 24:36 MUSIC
- 25:38 I WANNA BRING CLOSURE TO THIS PROGRAM TO YOU IN A WAY THAT'S AN OPENER FOR YOU.
- 25:46 WHAT DO I MEAN BY THAT?
- 25:47 I BELIEVE THAT WE ARE LIVING IN INTERESTING TIMES
- 25:52 I BELIEVE THAT GOD IS AT WORK IN THE WORLD
- 25:55 AND THAT HISTORY IS MOVING ALONG A PATH SPELLED OUT PREVIOUSLY IN PROPHECY.
- 26:02 BUT IN AS MUCH AS GOD IS MOVING IN THE WORLD,
- 26:06 TRAGIC IS THE FACT THAT MANY DON'T ALLOW THE LORD TO MOVE IN THEIR OWN WORLD.
- 26:11 AND FOR THAT WHAT SOMEONE NEEDS TO DO IS TO REPENT OF THEIR SINS
- 26:17 IN ORDER TO GET READY FOR THE WORLD TO COME.
- 26:20 LET ME ENCOURAGE YOU TO DO THAT IF THAT SPEAKS TO YOU.
- 26:24 WE'RE HAPPY TO COME TO YOU INTO YOUR LIVING ROOM,
- 26:27 THE MESSIAH OF ISRAEL WANTS TO COME TO YOU INTO YOUR HEART.
- 26:30 THAT'S WONDERFUL.
- 26:31 WE DON'T WANNA BE SEPARATED FROM GOD
- 26:33 AND THAT IS THE CONSEQUENCE OF UNBELIEF,
- 26:36 IS SEPARATION.
- 26:37 GOD BLESS YOU.
- 26:38 SHA 'ALU SHALOM YERUSHALAYIM.
- 26:40 PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM.
Episodes in this series
- Israel My Promised
- Israel By Divine Right
- Jerusalem Forever
- Friends of the Rabbi


