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• 00:03 David Hart: Welcome to "Our Jewish Roots," with insightful
• 00:07 Bible teaching from Israel by Dr. Jeffrey Seif.
• 00:10 Today we answer your letters and take a look at our new series,
• 00:14 "Eretz Israel," the land of Israel.
• 00:18 David: Thank you so much for joining us today.
• 00:20 I am David Hart.
• 00:21 Kirsten Hart: I am Kirsten Hart.
• 00:23 Jeffrey Seif: I am Jeffrey Seif, and we wanna be a one-stop
• 00:27 shop for all things Jewish.
• 00:30 For those that love the land and the people, we wanna
• 00:33 be a go-to source, yes?
• 00:35 Kirsten: We are, and we also have a monthly periodical.
• 00:39 There are actually two, but the first one I wanna talk
• 00:42 about is the "Levitt Letter."
• 00:43 I hope you're receiving it.
• 00:45 It's something that goes out to our viewers monthly, and all
• 00:48 kinds of information about Israel.
• 00:50 We write articles in there, but we also answer viewer mail.
• 00:55 We love when you write in.
• 00:56 We love when you say nice things, but we also
• 00:58 love when you write in.
• 00:59 So we have questions today for you, Doctor.
• 01:04 David: Yeah, here's the thing: you have many hats.
• 01:07 You're a policeman.
• 01:09 You teach officers, right?
• 01:11 And also, you're a pastor and a teacher.
• 01:15 So today, put on your teacher glasses.
• 01:17 Kirsten: Professor. Professor Seif.
• 01:18 David: Professor glasses, that's it, yeah.
• 01:20 Jeffrey: Fire away.
• 01:21 David: Here's the first question: "In watching the
• 01:22 series "Faith of Our Fathers," I was amazed to hear about all the
• 01:26 Jewish people never mentioned in the Founding of our nation.
• 01:29 How involved were the Jews in the creation
• 01:32 of the United States?
• 01:34 Jeffrey: First of all, my sister said much the same, a
• 01:38 Jewish woman, doesn't have the same beliefs that I do.
• 01:43 When I told her about the series and sent her a clip, she was
• 01:47 like, "Wow, I had no idea."
• 01:50 A lot of people are clueless of the Jewish contributions, which
• 01:55 is one of the reasons why I was so glad to do the series and why
• 01:59 I would commend people to acquire it and learn the story.
• 02:06 Oh, even before George Washington, Jews were involved
• 02:11 in the early Americas going back to Columbus, who
• 02:14 may well have been Jewish.
• 02:16 We know that he had five Jewish people on his boats.
• 02:19 We know that--
• 02:21 Kirsten: I did not know that.
• 02:22 Jeffrey: Yes, it was on the day when Columbus
• 02:24 disembarked to the New World.
• 02:27 That was when the Alhambra Decree went into effect, which
• 02:31 was a decree by the Spanish crown.
• 02:34 The Jews had to leave the Iberian Peninsula by a certain
• 02:38 point in time, and everybody was looking to get out of Dodge.
• 02:42 There were Jewish conquistadores that came over to the New World
• 02:48 on the initial voyage.
• 02:51 Even the maps that he used, cartography was something that
• 02:57 was a Semitic discipline.
• 03:00 The Europeans hadn't even discovered it yet, and because
• 03:03 before the Europeans reconquered the Iberian Peninsula when it
• 03:09 was an Islamic holding, there in Cardova, there was a great
• 03:13 university, and geometry, mapmaking, and all of that was
• 03:18 all there, and those--that knowledge kind of trickled down
• 03:25 to the Jewish people and off to the New World.
• 03:27 Kirsten: Made its way.
• 03:29 David: Did they think it was a better life here for them?
• 03:30 Why did they make that journey to come to America?
• 03:33 Jeffrey: Well, Jews were told that they had to either get out
• 03:39 of the Iberian Peninsula or convert and become Christians.
• 03:45 The Inquisition was in effect, and people were
• 03:49 running for their life.
• 03:51 Some ran underground.
• 03:52 Jewish people ostensibly converted to Catholicism.
• 03:57 They were called conversos, or Marranos, was a
• 04:00 disparaging term that was used.
• 04:02 So ostensibly on the surface they practiced Catholicism, but
• 04:09 then privately they practiced Judaism, even in the
• 04:13 early American experience.
• 04:17 Here in Texas, going from Galveston to Amarillo, south to
• 04:21 Monterrey, Mexico, this was called Nuevo Leon before it was
• 04:27 America, and the province was governed by someone, Luis
• 04:31 Carvajal, who was one of these Jews I've described.
• 04:34 The Inquisition came over and killed him and over 100
• 04:38 members of his family.
• 04:39 Two sons escaped, went back to Europe, but there were a lot of
• 04:42 Jews here in the New World.
• 04:44 Kirsten: Was it a sort of promised land where there would
• 04:48 be religious freedom?
• 04:50 Because, again, from Spain, they're getting kicked out.
• 04:53 The Jewish people, once again, are getting
• 04:55 kicked out of their land.
• 04:56 Jeffrey: Yes, and, in fact, there was certain charter places
• 04:59 like Jamaica that said explicitly that there was no
• 05:03 religious litmus test.
• 05:04 Going to the colonies in America, closer to when the
• 05:08 Europeans are coming, not the southern Europeans as in the
• 05:12 Spaniards, but when the British and those that we know, Puritans
• 05:16 came here, looking for a New World and religious freedoms,
• 05:20 and Jews came along with--actually, the first Jews
• 05:23 into the New World came from South America
• 05:27 from Recife, Brazil.
• 05:30 They came and went to New Amsterdam, and they
• 05:35 took residence there.
• 05:37 There were 23 families that disembarked,
• 05:39 and that was the beginning.
• 05:40 Kirsten: I was gonna say, something we learned that
• 05:42 we didn't know at all, and before we come here
• 05:46 to tape the TV program, we get to watch all of your teaching,
• 05:50 and we didn't realize that many of the Founding Fathers
• 05:54 actually studied Hebrew.
• 05:56 That is just something that we're not taught.
• 05:58 We don't know that.
• 05:59 Jeffrey: Well, Hebrew was part of education.
• 06:02 The early clergy, the early universities picked on it
• 06:05 first--Harvard, and then Yale, and then Princeton--and to the
• 06:10 extent the Founding Fathers studied at those places, they
• 06:13 would've been influenced by it, but there were a lot of
• 06:16 influences, things Jewish intellectually, to be sure, as
• 06:20 per the language, and there were influential Jewish people.
• 06:24 I had to, in effect, in the series "Faith of Our Fathers,"
• 06:27 even taper down.
• 06:29 I wanted David Barton to do the talking about the Founding
• 06:33 Fathers and the document and the Christian origins, but truth
• 06:37 be known, we could've done an entire series.
• 06:40 You know, I got some bites in there, a minute or two, about
• 06:43 different individuals in this series.
• 06:45 We could've done a whole series on Jewish
• 06:46 contributions in early America.
• 06:48 Kirsten: Ooh, let's do it. Let's do that in the future.
• 06:51 David: Here's a question, so, back in the day,
• 06:53 were they welcomed with open arms, or was it a struggle?
• 06:57 Jeffrey: Well, people have prejudices, but they came here
• 06:59 because there were freedoms, and you can't get away from people's
• 07:04 private and sometimes-made-public verbal
• 07:07 disparagements, but on the whole, Jews were able to be free
• 07:11 and practice their religion.
• 07:12 Kirsten: Well, the Puritans were running away from being
• 07:14 oppressed and not being able to worship and follow what they
• 07:17 wanted to religiously, so it kind of followed suit that--you
• 07:21 know, I mean, let's look at what is the plaque on
• 07:24 Statue of Liberty, "We welcome all of you."
• 07:27 Jeffrey: Yes, and I mentioned in the series, that plaque,
• 07:29 "Bring me your tired and your poor--"
• 07:31 was a Jewish woman who wrote that line that--
• 07:33 David: Right.
• 07:35 Jeffrey: And, in fact, and it was noted in the series,
• 07:37 previous, that the letter that George Washington wrote to the
• 07:42 Touro Synagogue up in New England, therein he gave voice
• 07:46 to the fact that "We give no quarter to persecuting people on
• 07:50 the basis of faith," and it is--you know, "We hold these
• 07:53 truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that
• 07:58 people are entitled to the pursuit of life, liberty,
• 08:02 and happiness," according to the dictates
• 08:04 of their own conscience.
• 08:05 That was part of the American ethos, and, of course, that
• 08:10 makes room for Jews in it.
• 08:11 And Jews didn't just come here.
• 08:13 Jews were contributors of what happened here, and it's
• 08:17 a story that's oft untold.
• 08:20 Kirsten: We would be wise to go back to that theology and
• 08:23 doctrine and thinking, I think, and instead of persecution.
• 08:27 I mean, people are just so against now those of different
• 08:31 beliefs, and it would be nice to go back to what our Founding
• 08:34 Fathers wanted originally for this country, I think.
• 08:36 Jeffrey: Yes, and I think that's the beauty of our
• 08:38 viewers, by the way.
• 08:39 I mean, a Jewish person will watch the programs, to be sure,
• 08:43 but when you look at Christian television, what goes out in the
• 08:45 networks, a lot of these are Christian friends that have a
• 08:48 love for things Jewish, and it speaks to a beauty in their
• 08:51 heart and a kind of openness that they care about this kind
• 08:54 of story and that they share to contribute to its ongoing
• 08:57 telling, and that is America at its best, by the way, a kind of
• 09:01 openness to new people, new experiences, new things.
• 09:04 David: We shouldn't have to be reminded of this,
• 09:06 but guess what?
• 09:07 Jesus was Jewish too.
• 09:09 Kirsten: Aha, that's good.
• 09:11 David: It's all about Jesus.
• 09:12 Kirsten: Surprise.
• 09:14 Jeffrey: We shouldn't have to be reminded of that.
• 09:16 In fact, in Medieval Europe, when they were doing crucifixes,
• 09:21 you know, if you look at a Protestant cross, it typically
• 09:24 won't have Jesus on it.
• 09:25 If you look at a High Church cross, the crucifix, Jesus is on
• 09:29 it, but it's not just for modesty's sake that this loin
• 09:33 cloth over his midsection, his private parts.
• 09:36 If you look at Medieval art, they weren't sheepish about
• 09:39 showing, you know, private parts, but a reason why they
• 09:42 wanted to do that is not to advertise the fact that he was
• 09:46 circumcised, that is, that he was a Hebrew.
• 09:48 It's kind of "Let's keep that off the radar," and the people
• 09:53 have long since forgotten and intentionally wanted to obscure
• 09:57 the Jewishness of Jesus; tragic.
• 10:00 Kirsten: But that's not what we're about here on
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• 13:42 and do our dramatic reenactments; send you,
• 13:45 Dr. Seif, there, many times you've been--
• 13:48 Kirsten: To teach on location.
• 13:49 How many times have you been to Israel?
• 13:51 Jeffrey: Fifty or so.
• 13:52 Kirsten: Wow, when you get to that point, it's the
• 13:54 "or so," could be.
• 13:55 Jeffrey: I don't count. I just go.
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• 14:05 Jeffrey: I think it's the drama that's the genius of this
• 14:07 organization, tell you the truth.
• 14:09 It's not the talking head. It's not me.
• 14:12 It's, just, it's the way people can see it
• 14:15 come to life, you know.
• 14:17 That's just--and I hope to add something to it, but there are a
• 14:20 number of ingredients here.
• 14:22 It doesn't revolve around my person going there as a teacher,
• 14:25 but it's great to do it with a group.
• 14:27 Kirsten: Many things under our umbrella of ministry, many
• 14:30 places, and we get letters from our viewers,
• 14:34 and you have one, don't you?
• 14:35 David: Are you ready for question number two?
• 14:36 Kirsten: You ready, Dr. Seif?
• 14:38 David: This is kind of a long one, here we go:
• 14:39 "We know God blesses those countries who bless Israel.
• 14:42 Do you think the religious liberty America offered to the
• 14:45 original Jewish immigrants has anything to do with
• 14:48 the success of our nation?"
• 14:50 Jeffrey: Yes, and there's a variety of reasons for that.
• 14:54 First of all, any people that's open to a brother from another
• 14:57 mother, there's a kind of grace there in
• 15:00 what that nation's all about.
• 15:02 That is only gonna pay dividends in future generations
• 15:05 as opposed to hating.
• 15:07 But beyond that, certainly, in the seminal promise in early
• 15:11 Genesis, "I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse
• 15:16 those who curse you, and in you all the families of the
• 15:19 earth will be blessed."
• 15:21 It's one of the more famous texts in the older testament
• 15:25 that speaks to the fact there's a blessing that accrues.
• 15:28 I wanna add something to it just--it's not my own edition.
• 15:32 That's Genesis chapter 12, verse 3.
• 15:35 I quote from a few different Bibles when I work the program.
• 15:40 When I'm working from a Hebrew Bible, I'm working with a Hebrew
• 15:44 text and the Jewish Publication Society version.
• 15:48 But with this right here, I'm working with a version called
• 15:51 The Tree of Life that was published by Baker Books.
• 15:54 I served as the project manager for it, and we had a debate
• 15:59 about--and there's some 50, or so, individuals about what to do
• 16:02 with Genesis chapter 12, verse 2, and it was a Christian woman,
• 16:08 Hélène Dallaire, who's an Old Testament professor at Denver
• 16:12 Seminary, fell in love with the Jewish people, went and did a
• 16:15 PhD at Hebrew Union in Semitic languages, and then was asked to
• 16:21 come there and teach people that are gonna be rabbis,
• 16:23 the Hebrew language.
• 16:25 She argued on the basis the Hebrew, in chapter 12, verse 2,
• 16:29 where the Lord says, "My heart's desire is to make of you into a
• 16:34 great nation," it is something effusive there.
• 16:38 It's God's desire, his love, not just his will, not just some
• 16:42 intellectual intentionality, but it's an extension of the heart,
• 16:46 and it's with that heartfelt comes this promise, subsequent
• 16:50 to it, that "I will bless those who bless you and curse
• 16:53 those who curse you."
• 16:55 I think there's a blessing that accrues to individuals
• 16:58 who bless the Jewish people.
• 16:59 Some, by the may, may wish to take you up on the offer to
• 17:02 support a ministry like this and others like it, but to be sure,
• 17:07 those who endeavor to be a blessing to the Jewish people,
• 17:10 they're gonna be blessed, and I think America is blessed, in
• 17:14 part, because of its blessing to the Jewish people.
• 17:16 David: I see it in our lives, blessing, I mean, our love for
• 17:21 Israel and how he's blessed our family beyond anything we could
• 17:24 ever imagine because of our love for Israel and
• 17:28 for the Jewish people.
• 17:29 Jeffrey: Yes, yes, and many could attest to that.
• 17:32 I think George Washington, by the way, would say--in fact, he
• 17:36 was--he beckoned Robert Morris, his Secretary of the Treasury,
• 17:43 this fledgling country, to go petition Haym Salomon, a Jew in
• 17:49 Philadelphia, to help because he was holed up in
• 17:52 Valley Forge, Pennsylvania.
• 17:55 They ran out of money. But Morris was an anti-Semite.
• 17:58 He didn't wanna do it, but he did, and within half an hour,
• 18:03 finally, because of Haym Salomon--and I mentioned this in
• 18:07 the series "Faith of Our Fathers," the money was raised
• 18:10 to help retool and to reinvigorate with the finances,
• 18:14 the Revolutionary Army.
• 18:17 George Washington, if you ask him, "Do you think that there's
• 18:21 blessings because of Jewish contributions and that we can be
• 18:25 blessed because we support--"
• 18:27 oh, he'd be all in, he'd be all in.
• 18:29 He wrote a letter, of course, that was referenced, "Give us
• 18:32 thanks to the Jewish people," and he was an early supporter of
• 18:36 the Jewish people, and there were many others.
• 18:38 Kirsten: We have to be careful.
• 18:40 I know it's a fine line, to me, personally, of "If I bless the
• 18:44 Israeli people, I get a blessing."
• 18:46 I don't want it to be like you're rubbing Aladdin's lamp,
• 18:50 and a magic genie appears.
• 18:51 The magic lamp is like, "Ooh, I was nice to that
• 18:53 Jewish person down the street, now where's my money?"
• 18:56 It's a interesting--I don't know--balance?
• 18:58 Jeffrey: I don't think we should do life,
• 19:00 "What's in it for me?"
• 19:01 It's not a slot machine: "I'm gonna put some gold into the
• 19:04 Jewish-loving, pull this handle down, and now I'm gonna get a
• 19:06 lot more coins on the other end."
• 19:08 I just think--you know, Jesus said, "If you only love your
• 19:12 own, how are you any better than the heathen?"
• 19:14 We ought to have something for something beyond us.
• 19:19 That's the whole purpose of tithing, by the way, is
• 19:21 something disciplined.
• 19:23 Most of us spend money we don't have for things we don't need,
• 19:26 to impress people we don't care about; we use credit cards;
• 19:28 we get ourselves all messed up with money.
• 19:30 I think a disciplined approach to life carves off a portion to
• 19:34 give for the Lord's good purposes beyond those of our own
• 19:38 and to love the Jewish people, to have something to
• 19:41 invest in that beyond us.
• 19:43 Just the kind of person that manages their affairs that way,
• 19:46 it's going to invariably pay dividends, it surely is.
• 19:50 Kirsten: And I think back to "God loves a cheerful giver,"
• 19:52 but it's from a pure heart.
• 19:54 Instead of the financial reward, "What can I get
• 19:57 from blessing the people,"
• 19:58 the blessing comes in so many other things other than just,
• 20:01 "Oh, I got extra coins."
• 20:03 Jeffrey: To that point, in the Corinthian correspondence
• 20:05 where Paul gives voice to that, he's raising money
• 20:07 to send back to Israel.
• 20:09 "The Lord loves a cheerful giver."
• 20:11 "Give, and it'll be given-- be liberal and--"
• 20:13 he's not looking to get a new church bus for
• 20:15 First Baptist Church of Corinth.
• 20:17 He's raising missionary money to take back to Israel with him,
• 20:21 which is where he's headed to go bless the Jewish
• 20:22 brethren in the land.
• 20:25 Kirsten: It's a good Word.
• 20:26 David: We have a new series coming up.
• 20:28 We wanna show you some excerpts.
• 20:29 It's all about the Land of Israel.
• 20:32 ♪♪♪
• 20:38 announcer: "Look to the north, the south, the east, the west."
• 20:47 ♪♪♪
• 20:54 announcer: "All the land which thou seest, to thee will I
• 20:58 give it, and to thy seed forever."
• 21:03 "Indeed, he who watches over Israel will neither
• 21:07 slumber nor sleep."
• 21:10 ♪♪♪
• 21:16 announcer: "Eretz Israel."
• 21:19 ♪♪♪
• 21:26 Jeffrey: It's called "adamah" in Hebrew.
• 21:28 It means "earth."
• 21:30 "Aphar" means the "dust," and "erets" means the "land," and
• 21:35 my, how the Israelites loved it.
• 21:38 Avraham loved it, Yischaq loved it, and apparently they loved a
• 21:44 place called Be'er Sheva.
• 21:48 announcer: "Now, the Lord said unto Abram, 'Get thee out
• 21:51 of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's
• 21:55 house, unto a land that I will show thee.
• 21:58 And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee,
• 22:02 and make thy name great, and thou shall be a blessing.
• 22:06 And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him
• 22:10 that curses thee, and in thee shall all families
• 22:14 of the earth be blessed.'
• 22:16 And Abram took Sarai, his wife, his nephew Lot, all
• 22:20 their substance and persons they had acquired in Haran, and
• 22:25 journeyed to Canaan."
• 22:28 Jeffrey: Now, similarities aside, what's dissimilar is the
• 22:32 fact that, in this case, at least in the Genesis case as
• 22:35 we'll see, we're dealing with the real Pelishtine.
• 22:39 What do I mean by that?
• 22:41 The real Palestinian, so-called, according to history and various
• 22:45 histories, were seafaring people that came from Greece and from
• 22:50 the Ionian Islands, a tall people.
• 22:54 And we note in the Bible, in no uncertain terms, how they secure
• 22:58 a toehold principally along the coast.
• 23:02 They never penetrate far east.
• 23:04 They establish a few cities, and you have
• 23:07 some Philistine holdings.
• 23:09 Well, they came from the sea.
• 23:12 Bible readers know of another man who traversed the fertile
• 23:16 crescent, beginning in Ur of Chaldee, makes his way along
• 23:20 Mesopotamia, settles in Haran, Syria, and eventually hears,
• 23:25 [speaking in Hebrew]
• 23:26 "It's time to go."
• 23:28 In Bereshit, in Genesis 12, he makes his way down further, and
• 23:33 here at Be'er Sheva, we are at that southern penetration, not
• 23:38 far south, the Negev.
• 23:40 [choir chanting]
• 23:43 David Dolan: In the year 614, the Persians invaded the land.
• 23:46 They damaged the church, but they weren't there very long.
• 23:49 In 630, the Byzantines recaptured it.
• 23:51 But just a few years after that, in 638, a new religion, Islam,
• 23:56 sent its forces up to this land.
• 23:58 Behind me, you see the Tower of David.
• 24:01 That was a mosque minaret.
• 24:03 It's gone between Christian, Jewish, and Muslim
• 24:06 rule over the centuries.
• 24:07 They also captured the Temple Mount.
• 24:10 They began work on a magnificent shrine, the Dome of the Rock.
• 24:13 That was finished in the year 691.
• 24:15 The Muslims that ruled here didn't set this up as a capital.
• 24:19 They ruled the city, but they did so from Baghdad, sometimes
• 24:22 from Damascus, sometimes from Cairo, and the different armies
• 24:26 from those different areas would clash here in the city often.
• 24:30 In the year 1009, the church was destroyed by Caliph Al-Hakim.
• 24:35 This was one of the prompts for the Crusades.
• 24:38 The Pope in Rome said, "We must go to the Holy City.
• 24:42 We must recapture it."
• 24:43 And in 1096, Crusader forces landed down on the coast,
• 24:47 capturing the city of Jerusalem in 1099.
• 24:51 Jeffrey: Frankly, at the risk of sounding overly pessimistic,
• 24:54 this is a series I shouldn't even have to make.
• 24:57 It is just so simple, it is so "one plus one equal two,"
• 25:00 and that is that God gave this land to the Jew.
• 25:04 And the story is played out rather dramatically after
• 25:07 spending many, many years in a wilderness.
• 25:10 The children of Israel began their conquest of Canaan.
• 25:15 Leaving the base camp, they have a struggle at Jericho, right
• 25:19 behind me, and then there's a campaign to the south.
• 25:23 It'll go up north, and the end result will be--is that the main
• 25:27 backbone of Canaanite resistance will be broken, enabling the
• 25:31 children of Israel to take their inheritance.
• 25:35 Friends, if we read the Bible, if we believe the Bible, let's
• 25:40 stand up for what the Bible says and support the Jewish bid for
• 25:45 residency here in the ancestral homeland.
• 25:49 ♪♪♪
• 25:59 ♪♪♪
• 26:06 Jeffrey: I don't want you to miss the points in this upcoming
• 26:10 series, and I hope you didn't miss the point in this
• 26:15 particular program.
• 26:17 Scripture says that "A liberal man will be enriched.
• 26:21 And he who waters will himself be watered."
• 26:25 God wants us to be gracious.
• 26:27 He wants us to be a blessing, amen, yes?
• 26:30 Kirsten: Amen, and we're excited about next week.
• 26:33 We've been talking about Jewish people--every week is--but the
• 26:36 land of Israel and the blessings that God poured into the land
• 26:41 and his people that overflow to us.
• 26:44 Jeffrey: Indeed.
• 26:45 David: You go to lots of places in this series.
• 26:48 It's great David Dolan will be with us.
• 26:50 Kirsten: He's a journalist, he's wonderful,
• 26:52 incredible insight in history.
• 26:54 I'm gonna jump in here really quick.
• 26:57 I don't know how you turn on to our program, if
• 27:00 you found us online.
• 27:02 We are all about Israel.
• 27:04 We're all about the Jewish people, but most of all, we are
• 27:06 about salvation and your heart.
• 27:10 If you are watching this and don't know who we're talking
• 27:12 about, his name is Yeshua.
• 27:14 That's his Hebrew name. His name is Jesus.
• 27:16 He loves you. He died for you.
• 27:19 He wants to breathe new life into you today.
• 27:23 Someone needed that, I think.
• 27:25 Jeffrey: Amen. Well, I hope they got it.
• 27:26 David: Yes; next week we start a new series,
• 27:28 "Eretz Israel," but for now, we end our program with--
• 27:32 [Jeffrey speaking in Hebrew]
• 27:34 Kirsten: Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.
• 27:37 ♪♪♪
• 27:45 ♪♪♪
• 27:50 ♪ A coming kingdom, a coming King, ♪
• 27:58 ♪ a time of mercy, a time to sing. ♪
• 28:07 ♪ A chosen people, a chosen song, ♪
• 28:16 ♪ to live a destiny, to know the Lord. ♪♪