Caption transcript for “2018: The year ahead”

• 00:05 Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel
• 00:09 is that they might be saved,
• 00:12 for there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek,
• 00:15 for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon Him.
• 00:29 Shalom, Haverim Friends from the beautiful City of Jerusalem.
• 00:33 I am David Hart.
• 00:34 This is my wife Kirsten Hart,
• 00:36 and we are excited about the plans
• 00:38 that we have for 2018.
• 00:41 Some exciting things in store for you.
• 00:43 Zola Levitt was the pioneer, and
• 00:45 he started almost 40 years ago.
• 00:48 We promise you that we're going to continue
• 00:51 great Messianic teaching.
• 00:54 Next week on Zola Levitt Presents
• 00:57 we will continue our encore series,
• 00:59 "Esther, for Such a Time as This", with Dr. Jeffery Seif.
• 01:03 Now, let's go take a look.
• 02:07 The people of Israel live,
• 02:10 not to say there are not forces bent
• 02:12 on trying to see that we don't,
• 02:14 but we do.
• 02:16 And the reason why we live is cause God lives.
• 02:18 That's the reason why we sing a song,
• 02:20 Jews that is, from here in Israel,
• 02:22 and all over the world,
• 02:24 Am Yisrael Chai "The People of Israel Live"
• 02:28 Well the story of the book of Esther
• 02:30 takes place against the backdrop of someone
• 02:33 endeavoring to see that we don't live.
• 02:35 You can recall there's Haman,
• 02:38 something of a wicked sort
• 02:40 bent on destroying the Jewish people.
• 02:43 He hated Mordecai,
• 02:45 and not just Mordecai,
• 02:47 but by extension, all Jews everywhere,
• 02:51 and he utilized his influence to
• 02:54 enact a scheme to annihilate the Jews,
• 02:59 and so dispatched from the capital of Shushan
• 03:02 were couriers that took messages
• 03:04 all over this vast Media Persian Empire,
• 03:09 extending from India on the one hand
• 03:11 all the way to Ethiopia on the other.
• 03:15 Jews were scattered about but it was decreed into law,
• 03:19 that a day would be set aside to destroy the Jewish people.
• 03:25 Seems however that difficulties in the world aside,
• 03:28 God always has His own.
• 03:31 In the book of Esther we're told there was a fellow, Mordecai,
• 03:35 who pushed his charge forward.
• 03:38 Her name was Hadassah , in Hebrew,
• 03:40 who not just because of her beauty,
• 03:43 but because of an inner beauty,
• 03:45 she had something a little extra,
• 03:46 and she caught the attention of a King named Xeres.
• 03:51 The net result is that she becomes Queen,
• 03:53 and then when in the empire Haman enacts
• 03:57 his scheme to destroy the Jews,
• 04:00 she's well placed to utilize her influence
• 04:03 to do something about it.
• 04:06 Oh, I'm reminded of when Mordecai petitions her,
• 04:09 "Please dear, you have to",
• 04:11 and she says, "I can't, I can't",
• 04:13 but then, she's reminded that she had come into the kingdom
• 04:17 for such a time as this.
• 04:21 As we wait for the day when your feet will split the Mount of Olives,
• 04:26 when every knee is going to bow,
• 04:29 ♪ before the Holy One of Jacob ♪
• 04:33 ♪ Tremble O Earth ♪
• 04:36 ♪ at the presence of the Lord!♪
• 04:40 ♪ Tremble, O Nations ♪
• 04:42 ♪ before the God of Israel ♪
• 04:46 ♪ Tremble, O Earth ♪
• 04:49 ♪ at the presence of the Lord ♪
• 04:53 ♪ Tremble O Nations ♪
• 04:55 ♪ before the Holy One of Jacob ♪
• 04:59 Tremble O Earth ♪
• 05:03 ♪ at the presence of the Lord ♪
• 05:06 ♪ Tremble, O Nations ♪
• 05:09 ♪ before the God of Israel ♪
• 05:13 ♪ Tremble, O Earth ♪
• 05:16 ♪ at the presence of the Lord ♪
• 05:19 ♪ Tremble, O Nations ♪
• 05:21 ♪ before the Holy One of Jacob ♪
• 05:30 The people sing, ♪ Tremble, O Earth ♪
• 05:31 ♪ before the Holy One ♪
• 05:33 Repeat
• 05:35 ♪ before the Holy One ♪
• 05:41 ♪ before the Holy One of Jacob ♪♪
• 05:53 One of the things so unique
• 05:55 to Zola Levitt Presents
• 05:56 is our dramatic reenactments
• 05:58 where we use authentic Israeli actors.
• 06:02 And I just have to tell you that there's
• 06:03 no way that we could do this without your support
• 06:06 so we want to thank you for that.
• 06:07 We will also continue
• 06:09 to bring you Bible prophecy each week.
• 06:13 A new series this year in 2018 is titled
• 06:16 "Watch Therefore"
• 06:18 which is based in Matthew 24.
• 06:20 Our Messianic teacher for this series is Dov Schwarz.
• 06:24 He and his family live up in the Galilee,
• 06:26 up in the northern part of Israel,
• 06:29 and his family made Aliyah to this country
• 06:31 just a few years ago.
• 06:33 David, would you read parts of Matthew 24 for us?
• 06:36 We start at verse 36 where it says,
• 07:22 And now let's go to Dove with a preview
• 07:24 of this series, "Watch Therefore"
• 07:29 Messiah, Jesus is speaking in Matthew 24.
• 07:33 He's answering the questions of his disciples,
• 07:36 What will be the sign of your coming in the end of the age,
• 07:39 the Messianic age, when will that be,
• 07:41 and what will the signs of that be?
• 07:43 And the Lord talks to them about things like wars and rumors of wars,
• 07:46 things that will happen down through the ages,
• 07:48 that don't necessarily have anything to do
• 07:50 with the birth pains leading up to the birth of Israel,
• 07:53 and the return of the Messiah, Jesus,
• 07:55 but then there's a shift,
• 07:57 there's a shift in Matthew 24 beginning in verse 7,
• 08:01 "For nation will rise up against nation".
• 08:03 You know really in Greek that says "ethnos",
• 08:06 "ethnic" group will rise up against ethnic group,
• 08:09 and kingdom against kingdom.
• 08:11 And there will be famines, pestilences,
• 08:13 and earthquakes in various places.
• 08:15 All these are the beginning of birth pangs.
• 08:18 Our Messiah Yeshua tells us in Matthew Chapter 24 that
• 08:23 as it was in the days of Noah,
• 08:26 so will it be with the coming of the Son of Man.
• 08:32 There are characteristics in Noah's day that can help us understand
• 08:38 the generation that will see the coming of the Son of Man.
• 08:42 As this generation's characteristics will work in concert with
• 08:46 the birth pains and also the fig tree, Israel, blossoming.
• 08:54 Israel, the fig tree, is blossoming all around us.
• 08:57 You may even hear the sounds of construction.
• 09:00 Everywhere you go in Israel there's building and expansion.
• 09:03 That's because we're the fig tree generation.
• 09:05 And I spoke a little while about the
• 09:07 generation being a hundred years.
• 09:09 We find that out from the father of our faith, Father Abraham
• 09:13 in Genesis, chapter 15.
• 09:15 And in Genesis 15 as we understand
• 09:18 that this is the fig tree generation
• 09:22 we know that we need to be ready,
• 09:24 because Messiah Yeshua told us,
• 09:26 this generation will not pass away til all these things take place.
• 09:30 What "all things"?
• 09:33 All the trouble that is coming in the "Great Tribulation",
• 09:36 and the coming of Messiah Yeshua to sit on the throne of David.
• 09:40 The Messianic Age,
• 09:41 this time is winding down folks.
• 09:44 The world is the edge of World War III today.
• 09:49 Famine, there's more hungry people in this planet
• 09:51 than have ever been in the history of the world.
• 09:54 Diseases, pestilences that often come from animals,
• 09:58 "Bird Flu", "Pig Flu", HIV, AIDS,
• 10:02 tuberculosis, malaria,
• 10:04 and much, much more,
• 10:06 the "Zika" virus that we're hearing so much about today.
• 10:08 Now the pestilences are like never before.
• 10:11 I get this question, brother Perkins,
• 10:12 how do you know that that Bible is the correct book?
• 10:16 What about the Quran?
• 10:17 What about the Book of Mormon?
• 10:19 How do you know that Bible is the correct one?
• 10:21 The way we know that is because of the prophetic Word.
• 10:24 We have a Bible that's been written centuries old,
• 10:28 but it's like reading a current day newspaper.
• 10:31 You know, this proves to me the validity of this book,
• 10:34 This Word of God is true.
• 10:36 And again, as we see those indicators we know that it's true.
• 10:39 We've got an uphill battle because we
• 10:41 live in a sound bite, Tweeting culture,
• 10:46 but if we can encourage people to get back in the Word of God,
• 10:50 it really does mold and shape you.
• 10:52 The Bible is the "lamp to our feet and the light to our path.
• 10:54 It's the only standard for our beliefs, attitudes and practices.
• 10:57 It's the stake in the ground
• 10:59 in a very shifting world.
• 11:02 God said, Zechariah 14,
• 11:04 as soon as the Jewish people accept the Messiah
• 11:08 and say, Baruch haba b'shem Adonai
• 11:10 all the cursing in the earth will turn to blessing.
• 11:14 Can you imagine?
• 11:15 Look at all the cursing,
• 11:17 tornados and all that stuff.
• 11:18 Everything is going to be turned to blessing.
• 11:21 We can't even imagine what that's going to be like,
• 11:24 and it's key to the Jewish people accepting that Messiah,
• 11:27 and they're gathering in the Land,
• 11:28 and that's where they're going to see Him.
• 11:31 He's waiting to return to Jerusalem
• 11:34 to build a Temple,
• 11:36 a glorious new Temple.
• 11:38 You Can find it in Ezekiel 40 thru 48.
• 11:42 And then He will enter into the Eastern Gate of that Temple.
• 11:46 It's in Ezekiel 43,
• 11:48 where the Prophet Ezekiel sees the Glory of Adonai
• 11:52 coming through the Eastern Gate.
• 11:54 And what does he then do?
• 11:56 He sits upon His glorious throne,
• 12:00 the Throne of David in Jerusalem.
• 12:03 But later, the Apostle Paul is out with the Gospel in the nations,
• 12:06 and he explains to the Thessalonians
• 12:09 and other the times and seasons,
• 12:11 and he says this in I Thessalonians Chapter 5, he says,
• 12:14 that if you don't understand the season,
• 12:17 and the generation of the Day of the Lord,
• 12:19 that you'll walk in darkness,
• 12:22 that you'll walk in darkness,
• 12:23 so don't walk in darkness in this generation.
• 12:26 King Yeshua is coming!
• 12:28 And we need to be ready.
• 12:30 He says, Watch therefore and be ready.
• 12:33 He repeats it in Matthew 24,
• 12:35 Mark 13, Luke 21.
• 12:38 He repeats, Watch therefore and be ready.
• 12:39 Are you ready?
• 12:41 Are you ready for the coming of our Great King?
• 12:46 Thank you Dov for that message.
• 12:48 We too anticipate the soon return of Christ.
• 12:52 We are here on the Mount of Olives
• 12:55 where Yeshua, Jesus Himself soon will return once again.
• 13:01 What an exciting event it will be.
• 13:04 Also in 2018 we are bringing back Eitan Shishkoff
• 13:09 in a special encore presentation of "Called Together".
• 13:13 Eitan lives here in Israel and
• 13:15 taught from right here in the Holy Land about
• 13:18 the 2 Olive Branches coming together,
• 13:21 the Jew and the Gentile working in unison.
• 13:25 Now, let's hear an excerpt.
• 13:27 Here's Eitan Shishkoff.
• 13:39 Olive oil was an essential commodity in biblical Israel,
• 13:43 and along with its many commercial uses
• 13:47 it was also, of course you know, as people literate in the Bible,
• 13:51 it was used as the substance to anoint
• 13:54 prophets and priests and kings.
• 13:57 But among those it was the Priesthood
• 14:00 that received really the most attention
• 14:02 in the early books of the Bible.
• 14:04 I want to read to you from the book of Exodus
• 14:06 something that speaks of to me, of the heart
• 14:09 of what it means to be a Priest.
• 14:11 Now, we have to separate,
• 14:12 we're talking now about the Hebrew Priests in Israel,
• 14:16 not modern Priests of various Christian denominations.
• 14:29 So this was that heavy breastplate
• 14:31 with the 12 stones that represented the Tribes of Israel.
• 14:47 This is really the meaning of intercession,
• 14:49 is we take the need of other people,
• 14:51 and we bring it before the Lord
• 14:53 in Priestly intercession.
• 14:55 Welcome to Mount Moriah.
• 14:57 Welcome to Mount Zion.
• 14:58 Welcome to the very closest wall we can get to
• 15:00 to where the Temple stood.
• 15:01 Jews and Gentiles from all nations are here,
• 15:04 children, adults,
• 15:05 they're putting their prayers on those papers,
• 15:07 and they're putting them on that wall
• 15:09 because they believe that God will hear their prayer and answer it.
• 15:11 You know, it says in I Peter, Chapter 2,
• 15:14 it says, I lay in Zion the Cornerstone,
• 15:16 and it goes on,
• 15:17 that Cornerstone that was rejected by the builders
• 15:19 has become the chief Cornerstone.
• 15:21 And we're seeing people from Finland,
• 15:23 people from Denmark,
• 15:24 from U.S. Canada,
• 15:25 everywhere, praying here because why?
• 15:28 God placed His Name here.
• 15:30 There's very good teaching in the New Testament
• 15:32 as to why Christians, Gentiles who
• 15:35 accepted Jesus as the Messiah,
• 15:37 how they should relate to the Jewish people
• 15:39 and the nation of Israel.
• 15:41 First of all, they shouldn't be ignorant of the mystery,
• 15:42 they shouldn't be arrogant towards them,
• 15:44 they shouldn't think that they were removed from the tree so that
• 15:47 Christians could replace them,
• 15:48 or something like that.
• 15:50 Romans 11 is very clear
• 15:51 and it brings us to a place of mercy,
• 15:53 that it's as if God has been waiting
• 15:55 to see the fruit of the Gospel in the Gentiles,
• 15:58 which is understanding that Israel has a gift
• 16:01 and calling that can never be revoked
• 16:03 which will result in life from the dead for the world.
• 16:05 There's an amazing chapter in the Old Testament
• 16:07 that gives us a very similar picture
• 16:09 and that's in Isaiah 49.
• 16:10 Christians understand Isaiah 49 is speaking
• 16:13 about the Gospel going to the nations,
• 16:15 and you get to verse 12
• 16:17 and it says,
• 16:21 Then Zion comes back into the picture and says,
• 16:28 and then he goes on
• 16:29 as if he's proving to Israel,
• 16:31 establishing the case about his love for Israel that
• 16:34 can never be forgotten,
• 16:36 and how he will prove that to them,
• 16:37 and how he says later on,
• 16:38 I will raise my hand to the Gentiles...
• 16:56 That is the promise there,
• 16:58 and what is the call to the Gentiles there?
• 16:59 It's a love that is unusual.
• 17:01 My name is Estera Wieja
• 17:03 and I come from Poland.
• 17:05 Already when I was living in Poland
• 17:07 I was studying the Scriptures,
• 17:09 and as I was getting deeper into God's Word
• 17:12 I started discovering not only God's love
• 17:16 for the Jewish people,
• 17:17 but also the holidays that Jews celebrate,
• 17:19 and as I was reading the Bible I realize
• 17:22 that God calls those holidays "His Feasts",
• 17:25 and so we started studying more and more
• 17:28 in our church and in our Bible Study,
• 17:30 and somewhere in the process of that
• 17:33 I felt like the Holy Spirit was telling me,
• 17:35 "Now I want you to get to know my people.
• 17:37 And so that was a clear message to me
• 17:40 that I need to come to Israel,
• 17:42 and get to know the Jewish people here.
• 17:45 There's something that's happening in our generation
• 17:47 that hasn't happened before,
• 17:50 and that something is the completion of God's plan.
• 17:54 Let me explain.
• 17:56 It's only in this generation that there
• 17:58 have been thousands of Jewish people
• 18:00 who've come to faith in Jesus, as Jews.
• 18:04 Really until this generation,
• 18:06 if a Jewish person wanted to believe in Jesus, that was fine,
• 18:09 but he had to convert to Christianity.
• 18:11 Now, what's really amazing an ironic is
• 18:13 that in the 1st Century the question was exactly the reverse.
• 18:16 I mean, these guys back in the book of Acts,
• 18:19 they said, well we're not sure,
• 18:21 can the Gentiles actually be saved
• 18:22 without converting to Judaism?
• 18:24 They decided, yes.
• 18:26 But in the 21st Century for many,
• 18:29 the question is exactly the reverse,
• 18:31 Can a Jewish person be saved and come to a knowledge of God
• 18:35 without converting to Christianity?
• 18:37 Of course, I think my viewers know
• 18:40 that it all began in Israel,
• 18:42 but it's also going to end in Israel.
• 18:45 Yet, no one has been left out of God's story
• 18:48 as we've been speaking about in the previous weeks.
• 18:52 What I want to emphasize, right now as we conclude,
• 18:56 is that our friendship in the Lord is something
• 18:59 that causes a mutual humility,
• 19:02 a mutual respect,
• 19:03 a mutual appreciation,
• 19:06 and by that, we demonstrate to the world that
• 19:09 Jesus really is the Messiah
• 19:10 because He did day, by the love that you have for one another
• 19:14 all of the world will know.
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• 20:29 where a couple brought their adult daughter to Israel.
• 20:33 And we were on the Sea of Galilee on the Jesus Boat,
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• 22:00 In 2018 we will bring you a new series by Messianic Teacher, Marty Waldman,
• 22:06 a series on the Book of Isaiah.
• 22:09 Let's go to a preview right now.
• 22:13 Here we are on the Mount of Olives,
• 22:16 in the area somewhere of the Garden of Gethsemene
• 22:19 just across the valley
• 22:22 looking at the Eastern Wall and the Eastern Gate,
• 22:25 and the Temple Mount, where the Temple
• 22:27 once stood and will stand again.
• 22:30 I want to look a little bit more at the "remez", at the "hint"
• 22:33 behind Isaiah's words in Isaiah 11,
• 22:37 but foundationally what the Prophet is speaking about
• 22:42 is bringing the "Shoot of Jesse", the "Shoot of Yishai ",
• 22:47 here's some shoots right here coming up from this olive tree,
• 22:50 reviving the kingdom of David.
• 22:54 But beyond that, He's speaking prophetically
• 22:58 about the coming of the Messiah.
• 22:59 King David has come and gone.
• 23:02 Now, we're talking about one of his descendants,
• 23:05 who will be the Messianic hope of Israel,
• 23:08 and the Deliverer ultimately of all the nations of the earth.
• 23:13 Continuing on from the steps which are behind me,
• 23:16 the very steps that Yeshua walked as
• 23:19 he was being brought to trial at Caiaphas' house.
• 23:22 We're looking at Isaiah 53,
• 23:25 having discussed Isaiah's prophetic word
• 23:28 about the Messiah's death,
• 23:30 about His suffering,
• 23:32 and now, about His Resurrection.
• 23:35 Look, Isaiah 53 was written
• 23:38 700 years before Yeshua was even born.
• 23:41 That's what makes these words so profound and so prophetic.
• 23:45 In Isaiah Chapter 40, verse 5, we read...
• 23:54 This "Glory", this "Glory of the Lord being revealed",
• 23:57 is something that has been hidden.
• 23:59 In fact, this Hebrew word "revealed" is also found in
• 24:02 Deuteronomy, Chapter 29, verse 29
• 24:05 where it says...
• 24:13 I believe Isaiah is prophetic here
• 24:18 even though he may not know who he's speaking about,
• 24:21 which is verified in the New Testament,
• 24:24 but is being prophetic in terms of speaking
• 24:27 about the "Son of Man", the "Son of God",
• 24:28 the "Messiah" - "Yeshua".
• 24:31 The Glory of the Lord will appear,
• 24:32 as we see in John, Chapter 1, Verse 14
• 24:35 when the Son of Man took on flesh,
• 24:39 the Word of God took on flesh,
• 24:42 and the Glory of the Lord was revealed to everyone.
• 24:49 ♪ For Zion's sake, I will not keep silent ♪
• 24:52 ♪ For Jerusalem I'll pray. ♪
• 24:55 ♪ For Zion's sake will my heart be burdened ♪
• 25:00 ♪ In my spirit I will say, ♪
• 25:03 ♪ He came to us and to all the nations ♪
• 25:07 ♪ He came that we might all be One ♪
• 25:10 ♪ For Zion's sake, I will not keep silent ♪
• 25:14 ♪ For Zion's sake I'll preach the Son ♪
• 25:18 ♪ Hear O Israel, the Lord our God is One ♪
• 25:25 ♪ He gave to us His Law ♪
• 25:29 ♪ He gave to us His Son ♪
• 25:32 ♪ Moriah, on Moriah ♪
• 25:36 ♪ He gave His only Son ♪
• 25:40 ♪ Moriah, on Moriah ♪
• 25:43 The Sacrifice is done ♪♪
• 25:50 Because of your financial support
• 25:52 we here at Zola Levitt Presents
• 25:54 are able to bring new programs about Israel,
• 25:58 and the prophetic in 2018.
• 26:01 We have amazingly a small number of people
• 26:04 that donate to our ministry,
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• 26:23 We thank you for your continued support
• 26:25 each week on Zola Levitt Presents.
• 26:28 And now, let's go to a song for an upcoming series.
• 26:31 Sha a'lu Shalom Yerushalayim
• 26:33 Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem
• 26:50 ♪ For I long to see the Kingdom come ♪
• 26:54 ♪ And in praise and prayers I sing ♪
• 26:58 ♪ And my life is yours til the end of time ♪
• 27:02 ♪ For the service of the King ♪
• 27:19 ♪ Father, Father, take this sheep ♪
• 27:23 ♪ Take one more unworthy sheep ♪
• 27:27 ♪ In my heart Thy Word I keep ♪
• 27:31 ♪ Father take this sheep ♪
• 27:35 ♪ Father take this sheep ♪♪