Caption transcript for “2015: The Year in Review”

• 00:18 Brethren, my hearts desire and prayer to God for Israel is that they might be saved
• 00:25 for there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek
• 00:28 for the same LORD over all
• 00:30 is rich unto all that call upon him.
• 00:43 Welcome to our year end review.
• 00:46 It's thanks to you and
• 00:47 your prayers and support
• 00:49 that we are able to
• 00:50 bring you these programs
• 00:52 right from the Land of Israel,
• 00:53 right from God's heart to your heart.
• 00:55 We're here in Jerusalem as you can see
• 00:57 and we are blessed to review with you
• 01:00 some of the highlights from our previous year
• 01:02 We had a great year.
• 01:03 And we loved filming "Zion Forever".
• 01:06 Absolutely
• 01:08 We wanted to establish and illustrate
• 01:09 the Jewish history in this Land
• 01:11 and to be able to speak to you directly
• 01:13 about the reality of the Biblical narrative
• 01:16 that it is true, it's God's Word, it changes not,
• 01:19 and in fact, he is the author of the entire story
• 01:22 and will continue the story
• 01:25 until he's prepared to return here to this very land.
• 01:29 So let's start with some highlights from our series, "Zion Forever".
• 02:02 For Zion's sake I will not hold my peace
• 02:06 and for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest
• 02:10 until her righteousness goes forth as brightness
• 02:13 and her salvation as a lamp that burns.
• 02:32 (Myles Singing in Hebrew)
• 02:36 We're hearing the sounds of celebration.
• 02:38 Behind me you see a picture of the Temple.
• 02:40 And we're at " HaMakom" as close as we can get to "The Place"
• 02:44 The place where the Holy of Holies stood.
• 02:46 It is the most sacred place in all of Jewish life.
• 02:49 And it is here where people are coming today to celebrate the bar mitzvahs .
• 02:53 It's such an awesome time.
• 02:54 It's such a time of joy
• 02:56 and remembering the good things of the LORD
• 02:58 and the promises to Israel.
• 03:00 In fact, they're singing that all of Israel will stay and will be here.
• 03:05 And God has established this as the place for the Jewish people to dwell now and forever.
• 03:10 In fact, Amos 9:15 says,
• 03:19 And that's the season that we're in right now.
• 03:21 This Temple built by Solomon,
• 03:23 because David had blood on his hands,
• 03:26 it was built by Solomon
• 03:27 and then rebuilt by Nehemiah and Ezra
• 03:30 and then rebuilt again by Herod.
• 03:32 And when Herod did it he built this with a platform that was 16 football fields wide.
• 03:38 This is the place.
• 03:40 And this is the place where God has established his throne forever.
• 03:44 And his promise to David was that there would always be a king dwelling in here forever.
• 03:50 And that looks forward to a Mashiach .
• 03:53 I looks forward to the King of Kings
• 03:55 (Speaking Hebrew)
• 03:58 There are tears on this wall.
• 04:00 There are stains on this wall
• 04:02 from the years of wailing here mourning the loss of the Temple.
• 04:07 But there was a first Temple,
• 04:08 there was a second Temple,
• 04:10 and there is a Temple to come.
• 04:12 This is the city named after David himself.
• 04:15 But we first hear about this city
• 04:18 in the book of Samuel
• 04:20 as the "Fortress of Zion".
• 04:22 There is where we are first introduced to this city.
• 04:25 So first and foremost this is Zion.
• 04:28 When you talk about Jerusalem you're talking about Zion.
• 04:31 Now Zion becomes synonymous for the whole country later on
• 04:35 but Zion originally starts here.
• 04:38 And it is the Fortress of Zion that David conquers
• 04:41 when he comes here approximately the year 1,000 [BC]
• 04:44 What we're looking at behind us
• 04:46 is the destruction era of 586 [BC]
• 04:50 when of course all of Israel goes to Babylon.
• 04:53 But when we talk about Zion and the heart of David
• 04:56 we can imagine it right here
• 04:58 because David's palace was somewhere above us
• 05:01 and these were sort of the upper echelon houses
• 05:05 that existed at that time.
• 05:07 We know that David looked from his palace and sinned with Bathsheba.
• 05:13 We know that his longing was from above.
• 05:16 And that's really the heart of God.
• 05:19 God longs for Zion
• 05:21 just the way it says here in the book of Psalms.
• 05:24 I'm reading from Psalm 132,
• 05:41 Well first of all we're facing the Southern wall of the Temple Mount.
• 05:45 And the Southern wall was the most important wall during the Second Temple period
• 05:51 because the Gate is part of the population of Jerusalem
• 05:54 a little further south in the city of David on Mount Zion,
• 05:57 the southern part of Mount Zion
• 05:59 and so most the people came to the Temple Mount through this side
• 06:03 where there are two gates which are very famous,
• 06:06 the one which is called "The Triple Gate" which we see here
• 06:08 and another one which is "The Double Gate".
• 06:11 It is a very meaningful thing
• 06:13 and I'll say that it shows the continuity actually
• 06:18 of Jewish life in this country.
• 06:20 In what sense?
• 06:22 The Southern wall was the most important wall for the Jews for many, many generations,
• 06:28 actually till the 17th Century
• 06:31 when the Western Wall Praying Plaza
• 06:33 took the place of The Southern wall.
• 06:35 Further up Mount Moriah I met with Dr. Shimon Gibson
• 06:38 an expert on the Second Temple Period.
• 06:41 He is the author of "The Final Days of Jesus, the Archeological Evidence"
• 06:46 Shimon, you've been writing about this famous area since the early 90's.
• 06:51 Tell us a little bit about the discoveries and the history, the research you have done here.
• 06:55 Well since the beginning of the 20th Century
• 06:58 archeologists haven't been permitted to research the
• 07:02 underground Subterranean parts of the Temple Mount.
• 07:05 So we to base ourselves on archival materials.
• 07:09 And I was given the opportunity of looking at all of the systems, channels and tunnels
• 07:17 which exist beneath the Temple Mount,
• 07:19 in an archive in London.
• 07:21 And as a result I wrote a book with a colleague of mine David Jacobson.
• 07:24 And it really is...it's a ruin of subterranean spaces.
• 07:28 All of these areas tell us a story about how the Temple Mount
• 07:33 developed all the way from the Biblical period
• 07:38 but especially for that time which existed in the first century, the time of Jesus.
• 07:45 And here we are at the Golden Gate.
• 07:48 This is on the east side of the Temple Mount.
• 07:51 And it's here according to Jewish and Christian belief the Messiah will return.
• 07:58 Not far from the Temple Mount a remarkable sifting project
• 08:01 has taken place for the last 11 years.
• 08:04 In 1999 the Islamic authorities began to build and underground mosque.
• 08:09 They removed 10,000 tons of rubble bursting with archaeological wealth
• 08:14 regarding Jewish and Christian history.
• 08:17 A few years later the Temple Mount Sifting Project
• 08:20 was created to uncover these archaeological treasures.
• 08:23 I spoke with the co-director of the project
• 08:26 and he told us about the groups that visit the site.
• 08:30 Now the teacher has assigned them into pairs.
• 08:32 And each pair will take a bucket already dry sifted.
• 08:39 Now it's soaked with water
• 08:41 and they're going to pour the bucket on the screen
• 08:44 and start washing the material.
• 08:47 And after that they will start scrutinizing it carefully to
• 08:54 separate all the archaeological finds and the natural stones.
• 08:58 This is a very organized group.
• 09:02 The teacher is very organized there.
• 09:04 This is the first time that we see that the
• 09:08 teacher is assigning who will go with whom and pairs
• 09:11 and she probably has experience because kids get really excited.
• 09:15 Yes, and they should - the should be excited.
• 09:18 It's pretty amazing.
• 09:20 Our viewers are very interested in the excitement the children feel.
• 09:23 Does it connect them with their Zionist history and their roots?
• 09:26 Of course, because they touch in the heart of the Jewish nation
• 09:33 It's things from Beit Mikdash
• 09:36 and the first Beit Mikdash
• 09:38 And they see things and they touch with the hands.
• 09:41 They can't go up there so they touch it.
• 09:44 So it's important on very many levels educationally.
• 09:49 But also I think it stirs up
• 09:51 their understanding of national history
• 09:52 and the importance of being a Jew in the Land.
• 09:55 Of course, because all the time we speak about it in the class.
• 09:59 And now they touch, they see, they feel it.
• 10:01 So this is real, we are here.
• 10:04 It's very, very important for them and for us.
• 10:07 And all the time we only speak it, only teach, only tell things.
• 10:10 So this is the...
• 10:12 Hands on.
• 10:13 Yeah, inside.
• 10:15 You know it's so important for our viewers to see the next generation understanding Israel.
• 10:20 Think about what Zola started 30 plus years ago.
• 10:23 But it's important the kids get this isn't it?
• 10:25 Right, right.
• 10:26 When you handle the things of the 1st and 2nd century...
• 10:31 these are like the rocks are literally speaking to these people
• 10:35 about their history, their heritage and the Temple that was here.
• 10:39 It's so exciting to see their faces as they find these finds.
• 10:43 It's amazing!
• 10:44 Yes it is, you know it's so important for us too.
• 10:46 We want the message of Christianity through Jewish eyes
• 10:50 and the relevance of the State of Israel;
• 10:52 we want it to go to the next generation.
• 10:54 It's a passion for us.
• 10:55 We have children in college.
• 10:56 One just graduated.
• 10:58 It's so exciting for us to see kids understanding the importance of Israel,
• 11:02 the importance of their Jewish heritage.
• 11:07 "Zion Forever" is special
• 11:09 because it ties the Biblical narrative to the Land itself.
• 11:12 There's only one land that God said that this is my Land.
• 11:16 And the enemy is continually contesting that.
• 11:18 And he uses people but God and his Word abides forever
• 11:23 so it's our joy to bring you this narrative about Zion.
• 11:26 Yes, I really believe that the story "Zion Forever"
• 11:30 really opens the eyes of people
• 11:32 to the Jewish history in this land
• 11:34 and to the possibilities of what God wants to do
• 11:37 in knitting your heart with his heart
• 11:39 here for the Jewish people and Israel.
• 11:42 In the past we've been able to bring you
• 11:44 "Abraham, Father of Faith"
• 11:46 "Isaac and Jacob, Sons of Promise"
• 11:48 But this year our long awaited series,
• 11:51 "Joseph, Dreamer/Redeemer"
• 11:54 finally came to bear.
• 11:56 Joseph has been a wonderful
• 11:57 gift that God has given us
• 11:59 to be able to bring to you
• 12:01 because of your gifts of funds
• 12:02 and your support of this ministry
• 12:04 we were able to tell the story of Joseph.
• 12:06 And we believe that God in this time that we're living in
• 12:11 is opening the eyes of the Jewish people
• 12:14 to see their Messiah their Redeemer.
• 12:17 Right, so let's go to some highlights now from
• 12:20 "Joseph, Dreamer/Redeemer"
• 12:55 From the pit to the palace,
• 12:57 from certain death to abundant life,
• 13:01 Joseph, patriarch who pictures Messiah.
• 14:15 The parallels between Joseph and Yeshua
• 14:17 just continue to unfold in this story.
• 14:20 It really begins as a sovereignty issue doesn't it?
• 14:23 The sovereignty of the LORD,
• 14:24 his decisions, his way of unfolding life,
• 14:27 his way of anointing,
• 14:29 his choice of who to anoint
• 14:31 and see that in this first dream don't we?
• 14:33 Yeah, the sheaves, you know?
• 14:35 Joseph had a dream.
• 14:37 God called him in a dream
• 14:38 and his sheave was standing up
• 14:41 and all of the other sheaves were bowing down.
• 14:43 Well, his brothers didn't really like that story
• 14:46 That's really true.
• 14:47 And really that's how it is with us right?
• 14:49 David was anointed... over Saul
• 14:51 and Saul did not like that.
• 14:53 And Jonathan understood it and he followed David
• 14:55 because he recognized the sovereign choice of the LORD.
• 14:58 And in every generation there are issues of sovereignty.
• 15:00 We're seeing that play out in Israel right now.
• 15:03 Does God own this Land?
• 15:05 Can he give it to whoever he chooses?
• 15:07 Yes he can, but it's disputed.
• 15:09 The Bible is really clear what it says about Yeshua and the acts that he did for our lives.
• 15:14 It says,
• 15:40 It is so true.
• 15:42 The fight over sovereignty and the recognition
• 15:44 of the choice of the LORD.
• 15:46 And we're going to see that unfold in Joseph's life.
• 15:49 And jealousy is going to cause great trouble for him.
• 15:52 It would send him to a pit
• 15:54 but that pit will lead to a palace,
• 15:57 the palace to a prison
• 15:58 and ultimately to the authority over all Egypt
• 16:01 and the ability to save the lives of his Jewish family.
• 16:05 We'll continue.
• 16:53 Stripped of his robe
• 16:54 Joseph laid at the bottom of an empty water cistern
• 16:57 beaten and bruised.
• 16:59 Katharine and I descended the steps of a similar cistern
• 17:02 in Jerusalem where we experienced firsthand
• 17:05 the loneliness of a pit well below ground level.
• 17:11 We're here at the traditional spot
• 17:13 where Jesus was kept the night he was betrayed,
• 17:15 the night before he went to the cross.
• 17:18 We're in the pit, Myles.
• 17:19 Just as Joseph was in the pit,
• 17:21 a picture of the bigger pit to come
• 17:24 which was the death of Yeshua on the cross.
• 18:22 There's so many parallels with the life of Yeshua.
• 18:25 It's amazing.
• 18:26 That's why we wanted to bring you this story.
• 18:28 Joseph's story speaks of the suffering
• 18:31 and then the exaltation.
• 18:33 Yeshua 's story is one of suffering and exaltation.
• 18:35 He comes as the suffering servant.
• 18:37 He returns as the Lion of the Tribe of Judah.
• 18:40 Even the parallel in the bride that is given to Joseph.
• 18:43 Joseph is given an Egyptian bride.
• 18:45 What a picture of the international church.
• 18:48 Every tongue and every tribe,
• 18:50 people from every nation
• 18:51 are being called out in this church age
• 18:54 and being knit to the Jewish bridge groom of heaven.
• 18:57 What a story.
• 18:59 And now, at the end of the age
• 19:01 God has his eye back on his own brethren,
• 19:03 his own Jewish people,
• 19:04 the natural seed of Abraham.
• 19:06 And we are recognizing Yeshua in greater numbers
• 19:09 than any time since the book of Acts.
• 19:51 The story of triumph is complete.
• 19:53 Joseph has been revealed to his brothers.
• 19:55 And it's our prayer that Yeshu a
• 19:58 will be revealed to his brothers,
• 20:00 to the Jewish people.
• 20:02 We see Joseph as the savior of Egypt
• 20:05 and the redeemer of his brethren.
• 20:07 And that's who Yeshua is to us.
• 20:09 He's the Redeemer of Israel
• 20:11 and the Savior of the world.
• 20:12 And that's the time we're living in now
• 20:14 where his Egyptian garb is being taken off.
• 20:16 You know for 2,000 years we have considered Jesus
• 20:19 to be related somehow to other religions
• 20:22 and other groups and other people.
• 20:24 And we didn't realize nationally
• 20:27 That he is Mashiach ben Yosef
• 20:30 and Mashiach ben David .
• 20:32 But the time is now
• 20:34 that he being revealed in our midst
• 20:36 and will continue to be revealed
• 20:38 until he comes in fullness and glory
• 20:41 and reveals himself to everyone.
• 20:44 Joseph's desire was for his bones to be taken up to Israel
• 20:48 and brought to the Promised Land.
• 20:50 That was his last command.
• 20:52 God had placed him in Egypt for a purpose.
• 20:55 And he knew that even through the suffering
• 20:57 that it wasn't about him
• 20:59 but there was a bigger plan.
• 21:00 And God's plan was to save all mankind
• 21:04 but also to redeem back his brothers
• 21:07 and to redeem back the plan that God had
• 21:09 for the 12 tribes to go in and take the Land.
• 21:12 So there was a charge given to them
• 21:14 to not leave his bones in Egypt
• 21:17 no matter how beautiful,
• 21:19 how grand Egypt would be.
• 21:21 He did not want to identify with the world.
• 21:24 He wanted to identify with the home that's in heaven,
• 21:28 the Canaan that God had promised them.
• 21:31 Joseph's embrace marks the close of a painful chapter in the life of his family
• 21:36 but the story continues.
• 21:39 Joseph's father Jacob would be reunited
• 21:42 with his beloved son whom he thought was no more.
• 21:46 Jacob would bless all of his sons
• 21:48 and their families in turn would give birth
• 21:52 to the 12 tribes of Israel,
• 21:55 the future of a mighty nation
• 21:58 had just begun.
• 22:04 Thanks to God's covenant blessing
• 22:06 this mighty nation is thriving
• 22:08 As part of our Joseph series we visited Jeremy Gimpel
• 22:11 at the "Voice of Israel" Studios.
• 22:14 He spoke to us about some people and nation's efforts to divide the Land.
• 22:20 And I was wondering about the controversy
• 22:25 of the double standard that in the story of Joseph
• 22:28 that the desire of Joseph that his bones would be in the Promised Land
• 22:33 and yet you can't go and visit those bones.
• 22:35 Is that true?
• 22:36 Yeah, can you imagine the Holy City of Shechem?
• 22:39 It's where Abraham first walked to when he first got here.
• 22:42 He arrived in Shechem
• 22:44 and God said at this place
• 22:45 I promise you and your descendants the land of Israel
• 22:47 forever as an everlasting covenant.
• 22:50 And at that place Joseph said that's where I want to be,
• 22:52 where God promised the Land to Abraham's descendants forever and ever.
• 22:56 And now at that Holy spot Jews can't even walk
• 23:01 and if they do they're better be tanks and jeeps and a military escort.
• 23:05 And we are once again banned from praying
• 23:08 and being in our holiest places in our own land.
• 23:10 And for our viewers sake they need to know that its been renamed
• 23:14 and now its Nablus but its Biblically the heart of Israel.
• 23:19 Yes, absolutely.
• 23:21 When you think about Mount Gerizim and Mount Ebal,
• 23:23 the reason why those two mountains were chosen was because
• 23:25 in between those two mountains lies the ancient city of Shechem
• 23:29 which is now called Nablus.
• 23:31 It was called Nablus because the Roman Emperor called it Naples
• 23:35 because it reminded him of the city in Italy
• 23:37 and because the Arabs of the Middle East
• 23:39 can't pronounce the letter "P"
• 23:41 they call it "Nablus" instead of "Neapolis".
• 23:43 WOW, there is so much re-naming that has gone on here,
• 23:46 so much dis-information about the Jewish history
• 23:49 and presence in the Land.
• 23:50 One of the series we completed recently we called "Zion Forever"
• 23:53 because we want to establish the realty of the Jewish presence
• 23:57 for thousands and thousands of years
• 23:59 when this dis-information is going out and flooding American as well.
• 24:03 You're really a part now of sending out the real story of what's going on here.
• 24:07 Yeah, absolutely.
• 24:09 The truth is that the base covenant that God has with the Jewish people
• 24:13 isn't about the Bible at all.
• 24:15 It's not about the prophets,
• 24:16 it's not about the holidays,
• 24:17 it's not about the rituals laws or customs.
• 24:19 Abraham had no law, it was before Sinai.
• 24:22 Abraham's covenant with God, Jacob's covenant with God,
• 24:25 our base covenant with God was the Land of Israel.
• 24:29 That is such a profound, obvious statement
• 24:32 and yet it's going over the heads of certainly secular people
• 24:35 but I think even the Christian people,
• 24:37 trying to be faithful to the Bible to the best of their ability,
• 24:41 they don't understand that
• 24:43 because there's a movement even within Christianity now to
• 24:46 refute the Jewish presence' Biblical right to the Land.
• 24:51 Well you can imagine that the enemy's really at tough work
• 24:54 to refute the Biblical base covenant of God and his people.
• 24:58 If it is the Land of Israel you can imagine why the world
• 25:00 is obsessed now with dividing the Land of Israel,
• 25:03 a land the size of New Jersey.
• 25:05 They want to carve it up.
• 25:06 Why? It's so small!
• 25:08 But its because they are not just attacking up politically,
• 25:11 they're trying to attack the base covenant we have with God.
• 25:16 The battle for Jerusalem continues.
• 25:18 You know the enemy is trying to rewrite history.
• 25:21 Satan is trying to insight violence, agitate the people
• 25:25 and trying to delay the coming of the LORD
• 25:28 because he knows his time is short.
• 25:31 But we know that the Bible is true.
• 25:33 Absolutely.
• 25:34 We are standing on this Book.
• 25:36 And this Book is a sure word of prophecy.
• 25:39 The LORD said it and he is going to complete it.
• 25:43 He will have the Jewish people in this Land when he returns
• 25:47 and he will have them seeing him.
• 25:49 And we thank you that you're enabling us to bring you
• 25:53 prophecy unfolding before our eyes
• 25:56 and just that the life that is here in Israel...
• 26:00 You know it's a unique show that we are able to bring you.
• 26:03 We're bringing you taping,
• 26:05 we're bringing you series
• 26:06 directly from this Land with Israel, speaking, actors
• 26:11 hoping that you're catching the vision for the heart of the LORD
• 26:15 for his Land and his people.
• 26:17 And we ask you to stand with us like never before
• 26:20 because we know that God is coming soon
• 26:24 and we're wanting to shout it from the housetops
• 26:26 of what he is about to do.
• 26:27 Yeah, you know we believe that there's a blessing in this for you.
• 26:31 We stand also on Genesis 12:1-3
• 26:33 that as you bless the children of Abraham
• 26:35 you will be blessed.
• 26:36 We are here to bless Israel.
• 26:38 We're hear to speak the Good News.
• 26:40 We're here to reach for our Arab cousins.
• 26:43 We're here to reach for whosoever will
• 26:45 turn their heart to the LORD,
• 26:47 turn their heart to the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob
• 26:50 through Yeshua HaMashiach .
• 26:52 We thank you for your gifts of funds.
• 26:54 We believe that there is more to do.
• 26:56 We want to increase the work that we do here.
• 26:59 We want to increase the number of programs we can bring
• 27:02 and the scope of what we are able to bring you.
• 27:04 Really, if you think about it this is the real news.
• 27:07 The headlines are catching up to the Bible
• 27:10 with the real news about where we are in time
• 27:13 comes from the Word of God
• 27:15 and we're able to bring it to you from the Land of Israel.
• 27:18 So thank you
• 27:19 for standing with us financially.
• 27:21 Thank you for praying for us.
• 27:22 We ask you to pray continually for us
• 27:25 as we reach for God's best here in the Land.
• 27:29 Just as God ordered Joseph's steps from prison to palace
• 27:33 he's ordering our steps with you together
• 27:36 to bring you this message.
• 27:38 You know, I just want to again say thank you.
• 27:40 We hear so much from our viewers
• 27:42 that they are blessed when they partner with this ministry.
• 27:45 So we thank you for your partnership.
• 27:46 We thank you for your support
• 27:48 and we look forward to serving the King together.
• 27:51 Yes, and as we always like to close our program
• 27:54 with this exhortation from the Psalms
• 27:56 Sha'alu Shalom Yerushalayim .
• 27:59 Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.