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