Caption transcript for Close Encounters with Yeshua: “Miraculous Ministry” (4/10)

• 00:01 Welcome to Zola Levitt Presents.
• 00:03 I'm Kirsten Hart.
• 00:05 And I'm David Hart.
• 00:06 On today's program Myles will be teaching
• 00:08 in one of my favorite spots in Israel,
• 00:10 the Sea of Galilee
• 00:12 where most of Yeshua's miracles were performed.
• 00:15 And we'll have a wonderful dramatic reenactment
• 00:18 of a 1st Century fisherman
• 00:20 and an interview with "Completed" Jewish believers.
• 00:24 Stay with us.
• 00:35 It was not long ago our first encounter
• 00:37 on the waters of the Galilee.
• 00:39 My hand is completely restored.
• 00:42 He said, Your faith has saved you.
• 00:45 I've heard Yeshua speak in our synagogue.
• 00:48 He talked about the Kingdom of God.
• 00:51 Then He showed us His wounds in His hands and His feet.
• 00:54 I believe He really is a King.
• 01:08 Shalom Havarim Hello Friends
• 01:09 and welcome to our program
• 01:11 I'm Myles Weiss.
• 01:12 And I'm Katharine Weiss
• 01:13 We want to welcome you to our series
• 01:15 "Close Encounters with Yeshua"
• 01:17 "Yeshua" is the Hebrew way for saying "Jesus"
• 01:19 And we love to teach about how Jesus came as a Jewish man,
• 01:24 and He started His ministry as a Jewish man, and
• 01:28 He remains having this Jewish identity.
• 01:31 Over the centuries monarchs, kings, rulers
• 01:36 tried to divorce the Jewish people from their Messiah and it
• 01:39 has been our joy to see that revival
• 01:43 and that restoration be brought back together.
• 01:45 Absolutely.
• 01:46 And everything in the story of these close encounters
• 01:48 brings us to this conclusion
• 01:50 that there's a struggle,
• 01:51 there's a wrestling match
• 01:52 and there's an identity crisis
• 01:54 for the people of Jewish religion,
• 01:56 Jewish faith, Jewish background culture
• 01:58 to realize that Jesus belongs to us.
• 02:00 But we see it unfolding
• 02:02 even when He began His ministry.
• 02:03 Right
• 02:04 He began His ministry at age 30
• 02:06 which was the prescribed time for a young man
• 02:08 to come into ministry age.
• 02:09 Absolutely.
• 02:10 So this Bible is a book of predictive prophecy
• 02:13 and full of signs and wonders.
• 02:15 Jesus started His ministry in the north as predicted
• 02:18 by Isaiah in Chapter 9,
• 02:20 that there would be a Light coming to the Gentiles in the Galilee area.
• 02:24 It begins with simple fishermen.
• 02:26 Like the angels appeared to Miriam
• 02:29 and the shepherds in the fields
• 02:31 it begins with simple fishermen.
• 02:33 So let's go to our drama where we begin to see
• 02:35 the arising of this wondering about Yeshua... about Jesus
• 02:40 as He begins to perform miracles in the Galilee.
• 02:50 We'd been fishing all night
• 02:54 Waste of time.
• 02:56 We were hungry...tired.
• 02:58 Just wanted to go home.
• 03:01 Then Simone Peter motions us for help.
• 03:04 His net is broken
• 03:06 and his boat was sinking
• 03:07 with more fish than it could handle.
• 03:09 So I brought my boat close to his to help.
• 03:12 But the catch was so big
• 03:14 that my boat began sinking too.
• 03:17 I tell you, I've been fishing here on the Galilee
• 03:22 my whole life.
• 03:25 Never seen anything like it.
• 03:28 Never.
• 03:31 It turns out Yeshua ben Yosef ,
• 03:33 the son of Joseph,
• 03:35 he was the one who told Peter where to drop his nets.
• 03:39 The exact spot.
• 03:41 And then he tells him that he would catch...men.
• 03:49 Strange...
• 03:50 I don't know what he meant by that.
• 03:53 But Peter and the Sons of Zebedee
• 03:56 they seemed changed by the whole thing.
• 03:59 Transformed somehow.
• 04:07 I heard Yeshua attends our synagogue.
• 04:11 Next time he's there
• 04:18 I'll be there.
• 04:20 I want to know more.
• 04:31 The Eastern shore of the Galilee
• 04:33 most likely the very place where
• 04:36 that miracle took place where
• 04:39 after toiling all night the disciples
• 04:42 spoke to Yeshua.
• 04:43 And Yeshua said, Just cast your nets again.
• 04:46 And so many fish came in the net almost broke.
• 04:49 They had to bring in a 2nd boat to
• 04:52 carry the fish in from the shore.
• 04:54 I just think about this place.
• 04:57 The modern world is intruding...
• 04:59 the sound in the background.
• 05:01 But if you listen carefully...
• 05:03 this sound of the waves,
• 05:04 this look of the sea
• 05:07 is exactly the way it was 2,000 years ago.
• 05:11 It's such a privilege to be here,
• 05:13 to bring you here,
• 05:15 to speak about the miracles of Yeshua.
• 05:18 You know, 75 percent of the ministry of Yeshua,
• 05:21 the miracles and the teaching took place
• 05:24 in this 12 square mile area.
• 05:28 Even smaller the 3 cities, the "Woe" cities.
• 05:31 Bethsaida
• 05:32 Chorazin,
• 05:33 Capernaum.
• 05:34 This was the place where it all began.
• 05:36 This is Galilee of the Gentiles.
• 05:38 Why?
• 05:39 Because this was the place where
• 05:41 the Jews and the Gentiles lived together.
• 05:43 I think it was foreshadowing
• 05:44 something that God was going to do
• 05:46 when He would eventually bring the Gentiles
• 05:48 into the Kingdom through the preaching of the Word.
• 05:52 But this just didn't happen when Yeshua appeared on the scene.
• 05:55 This was prophesied by the prophets
• 05:59 at least 800 years earlier.
• 06:05 You see in Isaiah it speaks about
• 06:10 the area of Zebulun and Naphtali,
• 06:13 the area of this Galilee of the Gentiles.
• 06:15 It's so fascinating to me that Zebulun
• 06:18 has to do with the exalted place and
• 06:22 "Naphtali" means "Wrestling"
• 06:25 and so this place where God was going to take
• 06:28 a low and humble group of people
• 06:30 and exalt them
• 06:32 and where people would wrestle
• 06:34 with the identity of Yeshua
• 06:36 is right here in this area of Galilee of the Gentiles.
• 06:39 Remember that everyone had trampled this place down.
• 06:43 The Canaanites had been here.
• 06:45 The Egyptians had been here.
• 06:48 The Assyrians had been here.
• 06:50 All taking turns oppressing the Jewish people of the area.
• 06:54 And there was always a remnant of Gentiles here.
• 06:56 So this was a place where both lived.
• 07:00 But the prophecy was that this place which sat in darkness
• 07:04 would see a great Light.
• 07:06 Going from Isaiah 8 into Isaiah 9.
• 07:09 The first 6 verses speaks about the
• 07:11 coming of the Light to this place.
• 07:13 And who is the Light?
• 07:15 Yeshua, the Light of the World
• 07:17 was about to walk this very area.
• 07:20 And He was going to do miracles,
• 07:22 signs, wonders and teach here
• 07:24 in ways that would be life changing
• 07:26 for everyone who interacted with Him.
• 07:28 Now remember that the Pharisees, the Sadducees, the Essenes,
• 07:31 all of the rabbinical streams
• 07:34 were not the only ones that were watching for Yeshua
• 07:37 because the Zealots were looking for
• 07:40 a political leader who would overthrow Rome
• 07:42 and establish a kingdom for the Jews here.
• 07:45 But Yeshua was not on His father's timetable.
• 07:48 He was not going to be swept up in a political stream.
• 07:51 He was not going to be proclaimed as a political king because
• 07:54 He said His Kingdom was coming from Heaven to Earth.
• 07:58 It is an inside job.
• 08:00 He came to change the hearts of men and women from the inside out.
• 08:04 And so there was always that contention about not revealing.
• 08:08 There was a wrestling,
• 08:09 not revealing until the time was right because
• 08:12 he did not want to be called a revolutionary
• 08:15 or identify with the Zealots.
• 08:17 But it is here on this shore
• 08:19 that the disciples were called.
• 08:21 It's here in this very place where God is calling you today.
• 08:25 It's here where God is reminding you
• 08:27 that Israel is at the center of the future of the Kingdom of God.
• 08:32 And Israel is a central part of what you can be part of
• 08:37 as you are grafted in to the Commonwealth of Israel
• 08:41 by your faith in Yeshua HaMashiach.
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• 09:59 On the shores of the Galilee
• 10:01 where the disciples were called,
• 10:03 where later in John Chapter 21
• 10:05 Yeshua will restore Peter and there will be that
• 10:08 incredible scene of breakfast with the risen Messiah
• 10:12 on a shore like this with a fire like this
• 10:14 and fish right out of the sea.
• 10:16 It's a marvel to be here.
• 10:18 It's a wonder to bring you here
• 10:20 and to have you see the exact locations
• 10:23 where the story of the Bible takes place
• 10:25 and where the truth of the Bible is revealed.
• 10:28 This is the fresh water supply for Israel.
• 10:31 This is at the center, the heart of the matter.
• 10:34 There's such a technological
• 10:36 breakthrough going on right now
• 10:38 that the desalination program is changing the face of the Middle East
• 10:42 because the Jewish people, the Israelis are now
• 10:44 understanding how to take sea water and make it fresh
• 10:48 so the Galilee still becomes a main source
• 10:51 but is one of several sources.
• 10:53 What a boon, what an incredible change for the Middle East
• 10:56 and for this neighborhood and the Jewish people and the Israelis
• 11:00 to become water independent.
• 11:02 I can see Yeshua on the shores here
• 11:06 calling the disciples...
• 11:08 Andrew, whose name means "manly or strong"
• 11:10 and how these men were simple fishermen
• 11:13 but they were not ignorant of the Bible.
• 11:16 This was a Torah observant area.
• 11:18 It was a mix of Jews and Gentiles, yes
• 11:20 but not far from here is Sepphoris which was a Greek scholarly city
• 11:24 no doubt influencing everything around here.
• 11:27 Some people speculate that Yeshua interacted with the town of Sepphoris
• 11:31 in bringing His authority in the Word
• 11:34 and having it connect with the scholarship of the area.
• 11:38 But it's here where the disciples are called.
• 11:41 And they are each called as a "Shaliach".
• 11:44 We say it in English from the Greek as "Apostle" or "Sent one"
• 11:47 But a Shaliach in Hebrew is someone
• 11:49 who so represents the sender that
• 11:52 they have legal authority.
• 11:54 It's like a power of attorney.
• 11:56 So these disciples were called, sent with the power of attorney
• 12:00 to do what Yeshua did and to represent Him
• 12:03 faithfully in the earth wherever they were sent.
• 12:06 Several kinds of fishing that go on here.
• 12:08 There's the shoreline net fishing.
• 12:12 There's the deep water net fishing.
• 12:14 And then there's the angling.
• 12:15 And I think about when Yeshua said
• 12:18 that He was going to make these fishermen "fishers of men"
• 12:21 that's kind of like our calling too, isn't it?
• 12:24 We have the angling where we cast a rod out
• 12:27 and one by one through relationship
• 12:29 we get close to people and we speak to them
• 12:31 about the reality of who Jesus is.
• 12:34 There' that one on one angling
• 12:36 rod and reel kind of fishing with the Gospel.
• 12:39 And then there's the shoreline fishing.
• 12:41 Maybe at our local church
• 12:42 or area where we have a sphere of influence
• 12:44 or our work.
• 12:46 And I think about deep water fishing.
• 12:47 Something like this program perhaps or
• 12:49 sending someone on the mission field
• 12:51 where we have this wide, deep net that is cast.
• 12:54 And I think this program is one of those wide, deep nets
• 12:57 because it goes all over the world.
• 12:59 And we get testimonies all the time of people
• 13:02 who have seen the program and eventually come to faith.
• 13:05 So here we have this incredible
• 13:08 story of the rising up and the sending out
• 13:12 of the disciples as fishers of men.
• 13:15 We have this lake [the Galilee]
• 13:17 that is in the shape of a harp.
• 13:19 The ancient word is "Kinneret" meaning "Harp".
• 13:21 It's a harp-like shape that supplies fresh living water.
• 13:25 And it's from this place that Yeshua sent out
• 13:29 the disciples with the Word of Life.
• 13:33 I think also about the toiling all night.
• 13:37 So many of us working in our own strength
• 13:40 getting "burned out" in ministry or at our jobs.
• 13:43 As someone told me, I needed to work smarter not harder.
• 13:48 I think the ultimate expression of that
• 13:51 is what Yeshua said when He came here
• 13:54 and gave them the exact instructions
• 13:56 on how to catch so many fish that the nets almost broke
• 14:00 because it was His way not their way.
• 14:04 And I believe that's a word for us today.
• 14:06 Remember, in Matthew 11:30 Yeshua said,
• 14:16 And I believe when we work with Him,
• 14:18 not before Him not after Him,
• 14:20 not apart from Him,
• 14:22 but when we work with Him things go better because
• 14:25 His yoke is easy and His burden is light.
• 14:27 And that's a word for you today.
• 14:29 God wants to be closer to you
• 14:31 in your work, in your ministry, in your family life.
• 14:52 ♪ Father, Father take this sheep ♪
• 14:56 ♪ Take one more unworthy sheep ♪
• 15:00 ♪ In my heart Thy Word I keep ♪
• 15:05 ♪ Father take this sheep ♪
• 15:09 ♪ [Orchestra Music] ♪
• 15:25 ♪ For I long to see the Kingdom come ♪
• 15:29 ♪ And in praise and prayers I sing ♪
• 15:33 ♪ And my life is Yours till the end of time ♪
• 15:36 ♪ For the service of the King ♪♪
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• 16:26 We were just recently right on the Sea of Galilee
• 16:31 where you saw Myles teaching today.
• 16:33 Everyone says the peace of the Sea of Galilee
• 16:36 is like none other.
• 16:38 Recently when we were on a "Jesus Boat"
• 16:41 which is a tour boat that takes you out on the sea.
• 16:44 I had the chance to sing the song "It is Well With My Soul" at sunset.
• 16:50 And it was well with my soul.
• 16:53 There's something about the Galilee.
• 16:55 And that peace...
• 16:57 It's much like the peace of Shabbat.
• 17:03 Shabbat...
• 17:07 Adonai gave it to us as a day of rest.
• 17:12 The synagogue seems so perplexed.
• 17:16 The Pharisees are in an uproar over Yeshua
• 17:19 ...the son of Joseph.
• 17:23 On a recent Shabbat
• 17:24 He was walking through the fields
• 17:26 and His followers were seen picking and eating the grain.
• 17:30 The Pharisees deemed it blasphemy.
• 17:32 Now...I don't claim to be an expert on the Torah
• 17:38 but picking and eating grain when you're hungry?
• 17:43 And then last Shabbat
• 17:45 He was teaching at our Synagogue
• 17:46 and it happened again!
• 17:48 There was some who took issue with an act that still has them puzzled.
• 17:53 Yeshua...
• 17:56 Yeshua noticed a man sitting to the side
• 17:58 who had a shriveled hand.
• 18:01 He asked...
• 18:04 Is it lawful on the Shabbat to do good or to do evil?
• 18:09 to save life or destroy it?
• 18:13 [Speaking Hebrew]
• 18:15 "Hold out your hand", He said.
• 18:20 And I did.
• 18:26 And I was healed!
• 18:29 My hand is completely restored!
• 18:32 I'm a new man, not just my hand but
• 18:35 all of me!
• 18:38 Just...don't seem to get it.
• 18:42 [breathes in deeply]
• 18:46 This is rest I've never known.
• 18:49 [breathes out]
• 19:00 The healing of the man with the withered hand
• 19:02 was one of the most controversial miracles
• 19:04 in Yeshua's ministry.
• 19:05 They were all controversial
• 19:07 because supernatural life of God
• 19:09 breaks through into our normal life.
• 19:11 It's gonna upset things.
• 19:12 Well, miracles are for today.
• 19:14 And they still upset things today.
• 19:16 Yes, the idea of healing on the Sabbath;
• 19:18 It was a big deal because...you know
• 19:21 we're in the area here on the Mount of Beatitudes.
• 19:23 In this Galilee area 3 quarters of the miracles,
• 19:26 3 quarters of the teaching of Yeshua went forward.
• 19:29 So this was where all the ground was laid
• 19:31 for what would come later in Jerusalem.
• 19:33 In Matthew 12's man with the withered hand was healed,
• 19:37 And the question didn't come about,
• 19:39 "Wow, this is awesome, isn't this fantastic that he's healed?"
• 19:41 It was, "Hey...can you do this on Shabbat?"
• 19:45 Well, God says that man was not made for the Sabbath,
• 19:47 but the Sabbath for man.
• 19:49 He always intended mercy would triumph over the rules.
• 19:53 And He was reminding the Pharisees and
• 19:56 He's reminding the religious spirits of our day that
• 19:59 it's not so much about how we have known Yeshua in our own concept,
• 20:03 but let Him come and offend our mind to reveal our heart.
• 20:06 Let Him come to remind us that it's about mercy
• 20:10 and not about the rules.
• 20:12 That's good.
• 20:13 The idea that we're here on the Mount of Beatitudes...
• 20:16 There are 8 Beatitudes,
• 20:17 "8" the number of "New Beginnings".
• 20:19 He was instituting a new way of looking at things
• 20:21 where, yes, mercy triumphs over judgment
• 20:23 and where the simple idea that it's good
• 20:26 to do good whenever and wherever
• 20:29 even on the Sabbath.
• 20:31 Well it's so amazing that we are actually
• 20:33 here in the Galilee.
• 20:35 You can see the Mount of Beatitudes behind us
• 20:38 and the beautiful Kinneret to my left,
• 20:41 the blue, blue water,
• 20:44 the blue sky, the blue water
• 20:46 is something that ancient people yearned for, longed for
• 20:50 and we are here
• 20:52 and we're reminding you that Yeshua came to say
• 20:54 "I am the Bread of Life"
• 20:56 "I am the One who came down from heaven to feed men"
• 20:59 "And I am the Living Water"
• 21:01 "And if you eat me and if you drink of me,"
• 21:03 "if you partake of me"
• 21:05 ...just the whole "Our Father Who art in heaven,"
• 21:06 "hallowed be thy Name"
• 21:08 "Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done"
• 21:10 And "Give us this day our daily bread"
• 21:11 is not just the bread that we eat.
• 21:13 But it's the sustenance of His Word
• 21:15 that we need to have eternal life.
• 21:18 Well we're in the Passages now where
• 21:20 He's going to proclaim...
• 21:21 [Speaking Hebrew]
• 21:28 And it's just an outrageous statement.
• 21:31 But you were pointing something out to me before
• 21:33 that identifying Himself as "The Bread of Heaven"
• 21:35 was a real offense.
• 21:36 Right, it's a real offense
• 21:37 because He was saying He was above Moses,
• 21:39 that He was above the Temple.
• 21:41 He's offending all their concepts of
• 21:43 how they know this Jesus
• 21:46 who came from the back waters in Nazareth.
• 21:49 I mean, who has ever even heard of Nazareth?
• 21:52 And yet, He came from there and
• 21:54 He came with a story
• 21:56 and He came with an eternal story
• 21:57 that He is the Way, the Truth and the Life.
• 22:00 That's good
• 22:00 I love that the Lord makes this statement
• 22:04 about doing on Shabbat.
• 22:06 As Katharine said, that mercy triumphs over judgment.
• 22:09 Proverbs 3; James 4;
• 22:11 those kind of verses tell us that if you
• 22:13 know to good and you don't do it,
• 22:15 to you it's sin.
• 22:16 And it's better to do good than to withhold good.
• 22:21 And those kind of verses really back up what
• 22:23 Yeshua was doing here in this time
• 22:26 because He knows where He's going.
• 22:28 Right.
• 22:30 The disciples yet do not know what's going to happen in Jerusalem.
• 22:32 And so we're in this place where He's beginning
• 22:34 to demonstrate the power, the authority that He has,
• 22:37 whether it's walking on the water
• 22:39 demonstrating authority over the local gods,
• 22:41 or demonstrating His ability over the wind and the waves,
• 22:44 or here, actually healing someone
• 22:47 with a life-changing experience in spite of it being the Sabbath,
• 22:53 or perhaps, maybe because it is the Sabbath
• 22:55 because He is our rest.
• 22:57 He is our Shabbat.
• 23:06 In the 1990's ZLM helped found the Galilee Experience.
• 23:11 Long time viewers may remember Zola asking
• 23:13 for pray for this attraction in Tiberius
• 23:16 that takes the viewers through a historical picture
• 23:20 of the entire nation of Israel
• 23:21 including the coming of Jesus.
• 23:23 It's been there for a long time.
• 23:25 The Founders, Eric and Terri Morey,
• 23:27 have been in Israel since 1983 when they made Aliya.
• 23:30 They still have a message for us today.
• 23:32 Let's go to our interviews with Eric and Terri now.
• 23:37 I'm so glad that you're here at this particular time.
• 23:40 because at this particular time
• 23:42 we have a new battle.
• 23:44 It's an old battle
• 23:45 but it's become new.
• 23:48 I can some it up in a few words.
• 23:51 I, as a Jew, did not change my religion
• 23:55 to accept Yeshua into my life.
• 23:58 I am still Jewish.
• 24:00 The problem with this is that
• 24:02 most Jewish people including myself,
• 24:04 before I became a Messianic Jew
• 24:07 I was sure that if you accepted Yeshua,
• 24:10 you became a Christian or a Catholic.
• 24:13 Actually I didn't know too much about the world of Christianity.
• 24:18 So I accepted that was going to happen to me.
• 24:22 I didn't realize that you could be
• 24:25 a fulfilled, completed Jew
• 24:29 and following a Jewish Man
• 24:32 and believing in a Jewish Man
• 24:34 that came to the Jewish people
• 24:37 that I would not be called a Jew anymore.
• 24:41 The perception of most Israeli Jews
• 24:44 and most Jews from around the world
• 24:46 that a Jewish person who believes in Jesus, in Yeshua
• 24:50 is no longer a Jew, they become a Christian.
• 24:52 And if you ask any Messianic Jew in the world
• 24:55 they will tell you that's absolutely not true.
• 24:57 They are more Jewish than they were before they accepted Yeshua
• 24:59 and they're more Zionistic and they love the country
• 25:01 and the love God and they love His Word more than ever.
• 25:04 So this is a deep perception that goes
• 25:06 back to the terrible things that were done to the Jewish people
• 25:10 through the centuries by so called Christians
• 25:12 and even by the Church itself.
• 25:14 And us that live here in the Land
• 25:15 I think you can't even appreciate more of what I'm saying.
• 25:19 We want to grow...
• 25:20 we want to grow.
• 25:22 And they have to realize
• 25:24 they are not changing their religion,
• 25:26 they're completing themselves as Jews.
• 25:30 And so this is a deep wound in the Jewish soul
• 25:33 that needs to be healed.
• 25:34 And its doing a lot of harm
• 25:36 because Jewish people are afraid to accept Yeshua if it means
• 25:39 they're not going to be Jewish anymore.
• 25:41 And it doesn't mean that at all
• 25:42 and we need to change that perception.
• 25:44 We would solicit your prayers in that regard.
• 25:49 Eric and Terri
• 25:50 I loved hearing from them today.
• 25:52 I almost felt like that maybe they were
• 25:55 pleading for us to pray and to
• 25:58 step it up as a local church to pray for them,
• 26:01 to pray for our brothers and sisters,
• 26:03 our Jewish brothers and sisters.
• 26:05 We need to do that.
• 26:07 We're so concerned with us, my needs, what I need.
• 26:13 where I can park in church.
• 26:15 Have you ever had anyone ever get upset about that?
• 26:17 I remember one time I was sitting in someone's pew
• 26:20 and I got a dirty look from that.
• 26:22 Crazy - it's so petty.
• 26:24 I know people...
• 26:26 this sounds horrible...
• 26:27 have gone through McDonald's and have complained because
• 26:29 they're out of french fries.
• 26:31 But yet, believers across the world
• 26:34 are being beheaded,
• 26:36 they're being put to death in horrible ways
• 26:39 for believing in Yeshua.
• 26:43 Eric and Terri said, please pray for us.
• 26:46 It's time for us as I think you just said,
• 26:49 to step up our prayer life,
• 26:52 to have it beyond Lord bless me,
• 26:54 Lord help "me".
• 26:56 Let's pray for those that are
• 26:57 really being persecuted.
• 27:00 Let's pray for our brothers and sisters in Israel
• 27:03 and make it a point to pray for that God's will, will be done.
• 27:08 That's right.
• 27:09 Thank you for being with us today.
• 27:11 And we are continuing our new series
• 27:14 "Close Encounters with Yeshua"
• 27:16 And I love this prayer...
• 27:17 Sha'alu Shalom Yerushalayim
• 27:19 Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem.
• 27:25 Are monthly newsletter the Levitt Letter is free
• 27:27 and full of insightful articles and news commentary
• 27:30 from a Messianic perspective.
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• 27:35 along with current and past programs,
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