Caption transcript for Eretz Israel (The Land of Israel) (2021): “Israel Fulfilling Prophecy” (8/8)

• 00:01 ♪♪♪
• 00:03 David Hart: Welcome to "Our Jewish Roots," with insightful
• 00:06 Bible teaching from Israel by Dr. Jeffrey Seif.
• 00:10 Today we look at the prophetic future on "Eretz Israel," the
• 00:14 "Land of Israel."
• 00:18 ♪♪♪
• 00:19 [vocalizing]
• 00:25 male announcer: "Look to the north, the south, the east,
• 00:34 the west--"
• 00:36 ♪♪♪
• 00:41 announcer: "--all the land which thou seest, to thee will I
• 00:45 give it unto thy seed forever."
• 00:50 "Indeed, he who watches over Israel will neither
• 00:54 slumber nor sleep."
• 00:57 ♪♪♪
• 01:03 announcer: "Eretz Israel."
• 01:05 ♪♪♪
• 01:13 David: Thank you so much for joining us today.
• 01:14 I am David Hart.
• 01:16 Kirsten Hart: I'm Kirsten Hart.
• 01:17 Jeffrey Seif: I am Jeffrey Seif, and with David,
• 01:19 I say thank you.
• 01:20 I'm thankful, personally, as a Christian, to have been born
• 01:23 anew to find life in biblical literature, and I'm thankful as
• 01:27 a Jewish person to be able to commend this story to you about
• 01:31 "Eretz Israel," the "Land of Israel," and I'm thankful that
• 01:34 you have a heart to receive it.
• 01:36 Thank you for going on the journey with us in the series.
• 01:39 David: I think we say this every series ending that we're
• 01:42 sad that it's over.
• 01:44 It's been so good.
• 01:45 Jeffrey: Yes, and what a great story.
• 01:47 Our donors send me to Israel--send us there to do what
• 01:50 we do, and I'm just so thrilled, frankly, when I look at these
• 01:54 programs, before they go out on network, just to see what the
• 01:57 team did in putting it together.
• 01:58 I'm impressed by it.
• 02:00 I'm not impressed by me.
• 02:02 I'm impressed by the overall work product, and I hope you
• 02:04 find value in it.
• 02:05 Kirsten: Well, there's been so much biblical history, modern
• 02:08 insight, into the land of Israel, and it's fascinating
• 02:12 that God worked there.
• 02:14 He is working there, and he will.
• 02:16 It's a past, present, and future with the land of Israel.
• 02:18 Jeffrey: Right, God worked there yesterday, and his
• 02:21 presence in the world attest to his presence in our world today.
• 02:24 David: That's good.
• 02:26 Here's a quick recap of our dramas from the series, followed
• 02:29 up with Dr. Seif and David Dolan discussing
• 02:31 the miracle of Israel.
• 02:36 announcer: "Eretz Israel."
• 02:38 It began with Abraham, "And Abram took Sarah, his wife, his
• 02:45 nephew Lot, all the substance and persons they had acquired in
• 02:50 Haran and journeyed to Canaan."
• 02:54 And the Lord appeared to Abraham's son, Isaac, "Sojourn
• 02:58 in this land, for unto thee and unto thy seed,
• 03:02 I will give all these countries."
• 03:05 And then to Isaac's son Jacob, "The land where thou liest, to
• 03:10 thee will I give it and to thy seed."
• 03:15 To Moses, "Behold, I have set the land before you.
• 03:19 Go in and possess the land which the Lord swear
• 03:22 unto your fathers."
• 03:24 And then Joshua, "So Joshua took the whole and gave it for an
• 03:30 inheritance unto Israel according to their divisions
• 03:34 by their tribes."
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• 03:42 Jeffrey: I'm sure he was a little edgy.
• 03:44 I know that because, over and again, the Lord said, "Fear not,
• 03:48 Joshua, for I have given you the mandate.
• 03:52 I've given you the command in the land to lead the children of
• 03:55 Israel into the next stage of their journey," and that was the
• 03:58 conquest of the land of Canaan.
• 04:02 The text is explicit, and I imagine that
• 04:05 he was pleased to hear it.
• 04:06 He says, "Be strong and of good courage, for to this people you,
• 04:12 Joshua, will divide as an inheritance the land which I
• 04:17 swore to their fathers to give them.
• 04:21 It wasn't an enormous tract, but it extended up to the Euphrates,
• 04:25 over to the river of Egypt, to the Mediterranean Sea, on the
• 04:28 one hand, and then out, past what we would
• 04:33 call Jordan today, eastward.
• 04:35 There was a land that, in Bible times, was known and to Bible
• 04:39 readers is known as, in effect, the Promised Land.
• 04:43 Well, that was the biblical vision,
• 04:47 but what's the current division?
• 04:51 Right now, we have here the Land of Israel, but I'm standing at a
• 04:55 place right here where we're about nine miles away
• 04:58 from the Mediterranean Sea.
• 05:01 Behind me is a village dotted with minarets,
• 05:05 a sign of an Islamic triumph.
• 05:08 So we have biblical vision on one hand, and we have current
• 05:12 political division on the other.
• 05:14 Goodness, David, what do we make of this?
• 05:17 David Dolan: Well, we are dealing with a tiny land, and,
• 05:20 you know, it really isn't clear to a lot of people around
• 05:24 the world just how small this is.
• 05:25 We've been up on the Golan Heights, and there's a lot in
• 05:29 the south, and we're talking about 280 miles at its longest,
• 05:32 but the main problem is this was the pre-'67 border.
• 05:39 This here.
• 05:40 Now, it's really small here.
• 05:43 We're talking, as you said, nine miles at its narrowest, but on
• 05:48 average, it's 15 miles wide.
• 05:49 Here's Tel Aviv.
• 05:52 Here's Haifa.
• 05:53 Here's Netanya and Herzliya, right over here.
• 05:57 Two-thirds of Israel's Jewish population lives right in this
• 06:01 area, and if you take it all the way from the northern border to
• 06:04 the Gaza Strip, 80% of Israel's Jews live in a 15-mile-wide,
• 06:09 on average, piece of land.
• 06:11 Jeffrey: Who's living here, David?
• 06:12 David: And this is mostly Arab towns and villages.
• 06:15 And as you pointed out, some are inside of Israel, inside of this
• 06:18 pre-'67 border, but Nablus is here.
• 06:22 Here's Jerusalem.
• 06:23 You can see the border went right through the heart
• 06:26 of the city.
• 06:27 Israel had the western part, and the Arabs
• 06:29 had the eastern part.
• 06:31 It's tiny.
• 06:32 And all the way across, if you take that line out right here,
• 06:35 it's about 30 miles.
• 06:36 At its widest, it's 55 miles.
• 06:38 It's tiny.
• 06:40 Jeffrey: If I understand correctly, the biblical vision
• 06:42 extends downward further.
• 06:43 This way, it extends upward to the Euphrates, out this way.
• 06:47 That's the biblical vision.
• 06:48 The Palestinian vision, the mandate calls
• 06:51 for pushing Israel into the sea.
• 06:53 I mean, we're getting awfully narrow here, aren't we?
• 06:56 David: And we talked earlier about the Partition Plan,
• 06:59 the U.N. Partition Plan,
• 07:00 and this--it was even smaller,
• 07:02 what Israel was gonna have.
• 07:03 The Arabs would've had a part of this.
• 07:05 They would've had further down here, et cetera, but even
• 07:09 without that, even with what they got in the '48 War,
• 07:12 it's tiny.
• 07:13 And to give that back to the Palestinians for a state is
• 07:16 gonna, again, leave Israel extremely exposed.
• 07:19 She's one-eighth of 1% of the population
• 07:21 of the whole Middle East.
• 07:24 Tiny little land with just a few million people.
• 07:26 It's very vulnerable to missile attack in particular.
• 07:29 Jeffrey: Yeah, we can see it from here.
• 07:33 The Mediterranean Sea, I mean, it's a stone's throw away,
• 07:36 in effect.
• 07:37 You know, I think--tell me what you think of this.
• 07:39 Let's say, there's a man who's unhappy with his wife:
• 07:40 "You weigh 120 pounds.
• 07:42 If you'd lose ten pounds, I'd love you more."
• 07:43 She loses ten pounds.
• 07:45 She's 110 pounds.
• 07:46 If you lose ten pounds more, we'd get along.
• 07:48 If you'd lose ten pounds more, ten pounds more--" it gets to
• 07:51 the point it's not about the pounds.
• 07:53 There's something wrong in the thought process: "Oh, if the
• 07:56 Jews would just give up a little more of the real estate, it's a
• 07:58 small parcel, and we're already pushing against it to gobble up
• 08:02 more and more of the Jewish homeland."
• 08:04 This isn't the Bible.
• 08:05 Whoever carved up this turkey never read the biblical text.
• 08:08 David: Exactly.
• 08:10 And, you know, the Palestinians have just made a film in which
• 08:12 they take over Tel Aviv.
• 08:14 It was made down in the Gaza Strip.
• 08:15 They go through the streets, and they've driven all the Jews out
• 08:18 of the land entirely, and that is the vision of Muslim
• 08:21 fundamentalists: no Jewish state.
• 08:23 A Jewish state contradicts their faith.
• 08:25 "Islam is the final truth."
• 08:27 The truth of that statement was proved by their capture of
• 08:30 Jerusalem, they believe, so a lot of them just wanna see
• 08:32 Israel gone entirely.
• 08:34 Jeffrey: Well, I guess we're gonna see whose God is stronger,
• 08:36 and that's the old way of doing business.
• 08:37 You know, nations would fight.
• 08:39 They'd pray to their gods, and the winner had the stronger God.
• 08:41 Well, he who keeps watch over Israel has been keeping watch
• 08:46 over us for thousands of years and I trust will guide us
• 08:49 through this dilemma.
• 08:50 What says David Dolan?
• 08:51 David: I believe it as well.
• 08:53 It's a miracle that Israel exists at all,
• 08:56 all these wars, et cetera.
• 08:58 God's gonna keep Israel until the end.
• 09:00 I'm sure of it.
• 09:01 Jeffrey: Yes, and the end comes sooner day by day.
• 09:04 The end of this program is coming sooner as well, but
• 09:06 there's more to come as we give a wrap on our series, "Eretz
• 09:10 Israel," the "Land of Israel."
• 09:14 ♪♪♪
• 09:20 announcer: Our offer on this program, a DVD collection of all
• 09:23 eight programs in our series "Eretz Israel."
• 09:27 Take a back-road's journey with Dr. Jeffrey Seif
• 09:30 through the Holy Land.
• 09:31 Explore the Bible's account of Israel's past, present,
• 09:34 and future.
• 09:35 Journalist David Dolan joins Dr. Seif and lends his insight
• 09:39 regarding the modern-day struggles that accompany the
• 09:42 reestablishment of the ancestral Jewish homeland.
• 09:45 This is a series that sets the record straight.
• 09:48 The biblical and historical account of the land of Israel.
• 09:53 Call 1-800-WONDERS and ask for "Eretz Israel."
• 10:00 ♪♪♪
• 10:02 announcer: "For the Lord thy God bringeth thee into a good
• 10:05 land, a land of fig trees and pomegranates,
• 10:10 a land of olive oil and honey."
• 10:13 "Arise, walk through the land, for all the land which thou
• 10:19 seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed forever."
• 10:27 Worship in the shadows of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
• 10:33 Behold the land of the covenant.
• 10:36 ♪♪♪
• 10:43 ♪♪♪
• 10:45 Jeffrey: For all the Palestinian rhetorical flurry
• 10:48 about driving Israel into the sea, well, if they do it,
• 10:51 they're gonna discover, when they get here, an advanced
• 10:54 civilization, and you see it behind me.
• 10:56 It's Tel Aviv.
• 10:58 Reminds me when individuals get to work instead of get to
• 11:00 raging, there's a lot of things people can accomplish by working
• 11:04 together, and to have God helping you, that doesn't hurt
• 11:06 either, does it, David?
• 11:08 David: It doesn't, and God certainly has helped the Israeli
• 11:11 people, and this, that we mentioned earlier, was just
• 11:14 marshes and sand dunes just 100 years ago.
• 11:19 It's now this thriving city.
• 11:20 Jeffrey: People have been raging and fighting.
• 11:21 It's amazing, to me, that the Palestinians don't have a good
• 11:24 baseball team for all the good pictures
• 11:25 for these rock throwing.
• 11:27 There's gotta be somethin' better to do with those energies
• 11:29 instead of warring.
• 11:30 David: Indeed.
• 11:32 I've covered the two uprisings that occurred here in 1987,
• 11:35 1991, '92, hundreds of Palestinians killed, hundreds of
• 11:41 Israelis killed--in the Israeli case, mostly civilians
• 11:44 in terror attacks.
• 11:46 Then we had a little brief period of hope with the Oslo
• 11:49 Peace Accords and peace with Jordan, but it wasn't but seven
• 11:53 years after that we had a second uprising, and again, a thousand
• 11:57 Israelis killed, several thousand Palestinians killed--
• 12:01 a real mess.
• 12:02 Jeffrey: So-called Palestinians--individuals of
• 12:05 Arab extract that have some history here but not a divine
• 12:09 mandate here as in the sense of the Israelite peoples, correct?
• 12:12 David: Well, no, and, in fact, this was never
• 12:15 a country under Muslim rule.
• 12:19 The Muslims that ruled it, as we've mentioned earlier in the
• 12:21 series, were either in Cairo, or they were in Damascus.
• 12:24 Sometimes they were in Baghdad, then, finally, in Constantinople
• 12:27 or Istanbul--never in Jerusalem.
• 12:30 Tel Aviv didn't exist at all.
• 12:32 This was part of a larger Arab area--Syria or Southern Syria,
• 12:36 they often called it.
• 12:38 So, yes, you're right, the name Palestine as a Western name,
• 12:41 it didn't really apply.
• 12:42 Jeffrey: Historically there's no Palestinian constitution,
• 12:44 flag, national anthem, currency.
• 12:47 You can go back and see a divine constitution in biblical
• 12:50 literature for Israelites to this part of the world, going
• 12:53 back thousands of years--coinage, history,
• 12:55 and the like.
• 12:57 You just weigh it out, and the evidence informs there's a
• 13:00 Jewish presence here.
• 13:01 The other seems, to me, rather mythic.
• 13:04 David: Well, the irony is that the Palestinian National
• 13:08 Movement, as they would call it, is a reflection of Zionism.
• 13:13 It wasn't until the Jewish movement back to the land became
• 13:17 organized and formalized with the first Zionist Congress and
• 13:20 all these other things that the Palestinians or the Arabs here
• 13:24 started to have a sense of nationalism to this little land.
• 13:28 Now, by now, they have developed those things, and they have the
• 13:31 Palestinian Authority government, and they have, you
• 13:34 know, the makings of a state coming, but they still haven't
• 13:37 gotten very far in that and certainly nowhere like the
• 13:40 Israelis did, like the Jewish people did before
• 13:42 the state was actually created.
• 13:44 Jeffrey: Well, you make an important point that a lot of
• 13:46 this Palestinian self-determination comes in the
• 13:49 wake of a Zionist re-presence here as opposed to having a
• 13:53 history before the modern Jewish state.
• 13:56 David: It was really sparked off by Zionism, ironically.
• 14:00 You know, that's when they thought, "Hey, we have to have
• 14:02 something to, you know, identify with and to push forward with."
• 14:06 It was just the Arab world in general.
• 14:08 All these states were created in the last hundred years
• 14:11 by the Europeans and, et cetera, so--
• 14:15 Jeffrey: And talk about spark.
• 14:16 You've been observing sparks flying here all the while,
• 14:19 looking at different wars.
• 14:21 How long have you lived here, David?
• 14:22 David: I've been here since 1980, so, for over 30 years.
• 14:26 Jeffrey: And you've been a correspondent helping Christians
• 14:28 understand the Bible on the one hand, Israel on the other,
• 14:31 how it all comes together.
• 14:32 David: Yeah, and that's a unique aspect of it.
• 14:34 Of course, I've also covered those wars, the '82 Lebanon War
• 14:38 and the 2006 attacks from Hezbollah and the Scud attacks
• 14:43 from Saddam, et cetera, but I've been able to give a little bit
• 14:46 of comfort and hope in the midst of that, working in Christian
• 14:48 radio and different things.
• 14:50 Jeffrey: I've been following your career
• 14:51 and appreciate you so doing.
• 14:53 We're going to wrap it up in a moment or two and look at what
• 14:55 the Bible says, not just about the present but about the future
• 14:58 here in "Eretz Israel."
• 15:03 David: We are at the end of this series, "Eretz Israel."
• 15:07 We have many more series coming your way.
• 15:09 It takes lots of work, lots of money, lots of prayers, and we
• 15:13 thank you so much for your support in all of that.
• 15:15 Kirsten: I just want you to know that many people write in
• 15:17 to this ministry, either on their keyboards or, still,
• 15:20 handwritten letters and say, "We want you to know that this
• 15:24 ministry is being prayed for daily from people
• 15:27 across the world."
• 15:28 Thank you for that, and here's a fun thing: Watching this whole
• 15:32 series, it's been a great one.
• 15:34 We'd love for you to write to us and tell us your personal
• 15:37 takeaways, things that you learned from watching "Eretz
• 15:40 Israel," and you have brought us so much knowledge
• 15:44 as you always do.
• 15:45 Jeffrey: You're so kind to say that.
• 15:47 I appreciate my friends and even my detractors,
• 15:49 to tell you the truth.
• 15:50 Not everybody likes what we do, but God bless.
• 15:52 We love to be able to do it, and we're thankful in the doing.
• 15:55 Coming up next, by the way, is something very interesting.
• 15:58 If you're interested in coins, ancient coinage, you're gonna
• 16:01 see how ancient money is important for corroborating the
• 16:04 ancient biblical testimony--coming right up.
• 16:10 Jeffrey: One sure-proof way of connecting a people with
• 16:12 their land is through a study of their coinage.
• 16:16 Donald Ariel is head of the coin department
• 16:18 of the Israel Antiquities.
• 16:20 These little boxes contain irrefutable evidence that there
• 16:25 has been a Jewish presence in Eretz Israel
• 16:28 for thousands of years.
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• 16:32 Donald Ariel: Coins are extremely important in
• 16:34 dating--when one finds a stratum in an excavation, one can date,
• 16:40 using the objects in that stratum.
• 16:43 Most of the objects are ceramics, pots, broken pot
• 16:46 shards, and those do not provide very, very fine dates.
• 16:50 We can barely date a pot shard to within a hundred years, but
• 16:54 there are coins here, and coins that were struck by the Jews
• 16:58 that have exact dates on them.
• 17:00 The earliest exactly dated Jewish coin dates to 80 B.C.
• 17:06 It was minted by Jonathan the king, otherwise known as
• 17:09 Alexander Jannaeus, but as we come closer to our day and come
• 17:14 closer to the time of the Second Temple, more and more strict,
• 17:18 strong archaeological evidence shows that the Jews were where
• 17:22 they were supposed to be according to the biblical books,
• 17:25 and, therefore--you have to bear in mind that maybe far back
• 17:30 we're less sure--as we get closer to the time of the Second
• 17:33 Temple and during the Second Temple, there is no reason to
• 17:36 doubt at all that the Jews were in the land.
• 17:39 They were striking coins.
• 17:41 They were using symbols that are described in the ancient sources
• 17:45 on their coins, and their names were appearing
• 17:48 on the coins as well.
• 17:50 So I think there's no question that certainly in the Second
• 17:54 Temple period, the biblical books do reinforce everything we
• 17:59 find in the archaeological record.
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• 18:07 Jeffrey: Well, the task at hand now is to give something of
• 18:09 a wrap of an eight-part series on "Eretz Israel,"
• 18:15 the "Land of Israel."
• 18:17 And, oh, what a story it is, but the story, in so many ways,
• 18:22 is so very gory.
• 18:25 The passage of Israel is marked with many a battle, and we've
• 18:30 explored the battles and the boundary some, from biblical
• 18:34 antiquity, right up to modernity and considered all the while how
• 18:39 God is watching over his Word to perform it and to perform it
• 18:44 here in the land of Israel.
• 18:48 One of the tragedies in all this seems to me is how the reality
• 18:52 of what's really being played out here is so very obscure.
• 18:56 It seems, to me, that truth is the first casualty in the war to
• 19:01 tell the story about what's going on--a world where the Jews
• 19:04 are so vilified and those that are hell-bent on the destruction
• 19:09 of the Jewish state, glorified.
• 19:11 To me, it's all upside down.
• 19:13 To me, I like the Bible to give me some vision, and we note here
• 19:17 in Ezekiel, and I want you to turn to the very end
• 19:19 of this prophetic book.
• 19:22 In the 47th chapter, he says, "These are the borders," in
• 19:26 verse 13, "by which you shall divide the land
• 19:30 as an inheritance."
• 19:32 It's not tacit. Its explicit.
• 19:35 God gave the land.
• 19:36 The particulars are delineated, and one can read on and note how
• 19:40 those borders are expanded actually beyond the current land
• 19:44 holdings in the land of Israel.
• 19:45 Where the forces of darkness are bent on dividing the land and
• 19:49 squeezing it, actually the biblical vision is to expand it.
• 19:53 I know I'll get some bad mail for saying that, but I'm not
• 19:56 trying to win a popularity contest.
• 19:58 He says in verse 14, "You shall inherit the land, for I raised
• 20:03 my hand in an oath," he says, "to give it to your fathers, and
• 20:09 this land shall fall to you as an inheritance."
• 20:16 I'm miffed at one level how someone can claim to be a Bible
• 20:20 believer on the one hand, but not come to terms with what the
• 20:25 literature says so clearly on the other.
• 20:30 This series, "Eretz Israel," the "Land of Israel," was
• 20:34 prayerfully and carefully put together with the mind to
• 20:38 counterbalance the insanity, to bring biblical medicine
• 20:43 to life's assorted hurts.
• 20:46 What I want you to know is that not only does the Bible, does
• 20:52 the God of the Bible, commend this land to a particular
• 20:57 people, but he notes herein as well that there's places for
• 21:03 many other peoples to dwell peaceably round about
• 21:06 and even within Israel.
• 21:09 He says in verse 22 of the 47th chapter that residents herein
• 21:15 should find a place to dwell peacefully amongst the Hebrew
• 21:18 people if they're minded to do so.
• 21:20 There's a wonderful story: "There's room for all in God's
• 21:24 arms, and his arm is extended."
• 21:27 And it seems we're living at a time today when God's extending
• 21:31 his arm to Jewish people and non-Jewish people and bringing a
• 21:35 testimony the world over how God is, in fact, working and walking
• 21:40 upon the earth to make his will and ways known
• 21:44 fully and finally.
• 21:47 ♪♪♪
• 21:54 David: This series has been all about the land of Israel
• 21:56 which we love with all of our hearts so much that our son
• 22:00 lived there for three years.
• 22:01 He had an amazing time in the land of Israel.
• 22:04 Jeffrey: Yes, and in your case, it's love in the original
• 22:07 sense in Hebrew, "ahav," which means "to do good on behalf of."
• 22:11 It's not just an affection.
• 22:12 It is that, but your family's invested in participating in
• 22:17 bringing about God's will in the ancestral homeland.
• 22:20 Thank you.
• 22:21 Kirsten: Well, we've learned so much from this series.
• 22:23 David Dolan is like a walking--it's like a
• 22:26 encyclopedia in his brain, the knowledge that he has, and he
• 22:31 moved there in 1980.
• 22:32 Is that correct?
• 22:34 Jeffrey: I forget the exact year, but he has a lifetime of
• 22:36 accumulating information.
• 22:37 Worked at CBS, you know, when a journalist,
• 22:40 he was all about gathering the facts, the history,
• 22:42 on the ground.
• 22:43 Kirsten: Well, we're so thankful that our ministry found
• 22:46 him and his insight along with your biblical insight,
• 22:50 and it's been a treat.
• 22:51 Jeffrey: Well, we find our way to friends with common
• 22:53 values, whether a journalist on his part, an eccentric
• 22:56 theologian on my part, good Christian people like you,
• 23:00 and like you.
• 23:01 We participate together, believing that there's a story
• 23:04 here that has value.
• 23:06 Can I quote a psalm, 50, chapter 50, verse 2?
• 23:11 "Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shines forth."
• 23:16 And there's just something special, looking at the land,
• 23:19 the literature, the people, the place, and we hope God looks
• 23:22 beautiful and that he shines forth through this series.
• 23:26 David: Can you give us a little glimpse
• 23:27 of what's coming up?
• 23:29 Jeffrey: Well, you know, it's not over yet.
• 23:32 There's lots of stories to tell,
• 23:34 and we're forever busy gearing up.
• 23:37 We're just--we just buttoned down our tickets to get there
• 23:41 for the next series that we're shooting, and we conversate
• 23:44 about what's next.
• 23:46 "What's next?"
• 23:47 You know, there's a few thousand pages in this, and when--if you
• 23:49 look at what's happening back here in the Bible and you'll
• 23:52 pick up a newspaper and see what's happening in the world
• 23:54 today, I mean, there's plenty of stories to tell and--
• 23:58 Kirsten: I was gonna say, on that, there's so much ancient
• 24:01 history that we learned about "Eretz Israel," that the "Land
• 24:03 of Israel," but even today, I mean, we see in the news
• 24:09 literally daily there are new discoveries being unearthed
• 24:12 in the land.
• 24:14 It's not a stagnant old land.
• 24:16 It's vitally alive right now.
• 24:18 Jeffrey: It's not static.
• 24:20 It's very dynamic, and in series like this and other ones like
• 24:23 it, we go to places right when it breaks, you know.
• 24:25 We get there just when the professor is finished dusting
• 24:28 off the sites, you know, and we like to be first in, early in
• 24:32 the game, and we think our supporters deserve that.
• 24:35 We wanna be their journalists.
• 24:37 David Dolan looks at the news.
• 24:39 We look at the news and the good news, put it all together
• 24:41 through the eyes of the Jews, and we love to do it.
• 24:44 Kirsten: But you went to some places.
• 24:45 What was--do you have a memorable place from where
• 24:49 this series took you?
• 24:51 I mean, you went to ancient sites.
• 24:53 David: Places we don't go on tour.
• 24:54 Jeffrey: Oh, I know.
• 24:55 What I remember the most is my producer,
• 24:57 what he puts me through.
• 24:58 It gets hot sometimes out there.
• 25:00 You know, we're off the beaten path.
• 25:02 We're away from the air-conditioning,
• 25:03 and I like air-conditioning.
• 25:04 I'm a little on the spoiled side.
• 25:06 David: Well, you look like Indiana Jones
• 25:07 when you were there.
• 25:09 I just gotta say.
• 25:10 Jeffrey: Yeah, and I felt like Indiana Jones too, by the
• 25:11 way, except, after he did his set, he went to some cool
• 25:14 trailer and drank some bubbly.
• 25:16 I just sat there in the heat.
• 25:17 But it's a joy to do it, tell you the truth, but it's work.
• 25:20 Kirsten: Well, it's a joy to be part of it with you.
• 25:22 And please come back next week.
• 25:25 We're not ending anything here.
• 25:26 We have more series to bring you, more good news, more all
• 25:30 about this beautiful land and the people of Israel.
• 25:34 David: We do end this series with a song from our founder,
• 25:36 Zola Levitt.
• 25:37 Jeffrey: And we've been doin' it for 40 years and lookin'
• 25:39 forward to the next.
• 25:40 As you go now, Sha'alu Shalom Yerushalayim.
• 25:43 David: Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.
• 25:46 ♪♪♪
• 25:52 ♪ So we will pray to you our anger, ♪
• 25:58 ♪ so we will weep in desperate shame. ♪
• 26:05 ♪ Knowing you hear and will remember, ♪
• 26:11 ♪ blessed our God, we call your name. ♪
• 26:19 ♪ How can we sing a song of Zion? ♪
• 26:25 ♪ How can we sing a song of joy if I forget you, ♪
• 26:35 ♪ oh, Jerusalem, promises made forevermore. ♪
• 26:46 ♪ How can we sing a song of Zion? ♪
• 26:52 ♪ How can we sing a song of joy if I forget you, ♪
• 27:01 ♪ oh, Jerusalem, promises made forevermore. ♪♪
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