Caption transcript for The Warrior King (2022): “Fighting for Israel” (4/8)

• 00:03 David Hart: Welcome to "Our Jewish Roots,"
• 00:06 with insightful Bible teaching by Dr. Jeffrey Seif.
• 00:08 How can a man known for writing music
• 00:10 also kill tens of thousands?
• 00:13 Find out today on "Warrior King."
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• 01:02 David: We are so glad you joined us today.
• 01:04 I am David Hart.
• 01:05 Kirsten Hart: I'm Kirsten Hart.
• 01:07 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: And I am Jeffrey Seif.
• 01:08 We're looking at David, and we're looking at the Peleshtim,
• 01:13 the Philistines.
• 01:14 David had some wars, didn't he?
• 01:17 Kirsten: Well, today's program gets a little intense.
• 01:19 I mean, there's blood and guts and swords and--
• 01:22 David: Yeah, blood on his hands is what we--
• 01:23 Kirsten: Ooh.
• 01:24 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Yeah, I don't wanna glory
• 01:26 in all of that.
• 01:27 Blood on your hands has a negative connotation.
• 01:29 At the end of the day, there we are in the ancient Near East.
• 01:32 You had to fight, at the end of the day.
• 01:35 You were either going to fight or be run over
• 01:38 like a freight train.
• 01:39 Take your pick, you know.
• 01:40 I'd rather be on the winning edge.
• 01:42 Kirsten: Well, it says that Saul killed the thousands,
• 01:44 you know, the song, and David killed tens of thousands.
• 01:46 That's a lot of people.
• 01:48 I mean, he's--he must have been buff and strong and,
• 01:52 interesting, he's so many things.
• 01:53 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Well, I think there was more
• 01:55 of a different kind of head and a different kind of heart
• 01:57 at the end of the day.
• 01:58 Whatever physical characteristics he had aside,
• 02:03 but he was a man after God's own heart.
• 02:05 He had verve, he had passion, he has energy.
• 02:08 And if you have that, with God's anointing,
• 02:10 it makes up for whatever you don't have.
• 02:12 Kirsten: Hm, that's good.
• 02:13 David: We go to our drama now,
• 02:14 where David is fighting and is at war with the Philistines.
• 02:17 Let's go there now.
• 02:22 male: It was a surprise attack, and the night belonged to David.
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• 02:38 male: In all the land of Israel, there was no one
• 02:40 who could stand against God's anointed one.
• 02:43 No sword or weapon devised by man could defeat us.
• 02:49 And the Philistines fled the night.
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• 03:01 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: News crews don't come here much anymore,
• 03:03 but I got news for you.
• 03:05 Years ago, this place was the talk of the town.
• 03:07 Gotta be careful as I drive here now because we're reasonably
• 03:11 high up and I don't wanna just look at the camera.
• 03:13 I need to look at the road.
• 03:15 Behind me is the Valley of Elah, a place where David sparked
• 03:19 a revolution, if you will.
• 03:21 For the longest, Israelites were oppressed, so pressed,
• 03:26 repressed, depressed, and impressed with the need
• 03:29 that something needed to change, and why was that?
• 03:32 Because the Peleshtim were working havoc over here.
• 03:36 And not just the Philistines here, but different-stines
• 03:39 at different places, and people were afraid.
• 03:42 They were ready for a change, if you will.
• 03:44 Talk about we need change.
• 03:46 Well, they really wanted it.
• 03:48 They needed it. And the time was right.
• 03:51 Someone needed to stand up with some faith
• 03:52 and some biblical faith.
• 03:55 A lot of people have a lot of ideas about what needs to happen
• 03:57 in the world, but you know what?
• 03:59 Finally, someone stood up with God's idea.
• 04:02 And I love him for his so doing and, by virtue of his so doing,
• 04:06 David left a mark on biblical literature, not only
• 04:10 in his own day but extended for thousand years later.
• 04:13 It all started here.
• 04:15 What a fitting place to tell the story of the needing to content
• 04:20 and war, if you will, for God's sake.
• 04:22 For us, for the most part, the implications are spiritual,
• 04:25 more than material, but we need to recover that radical edge.
• 04:29 And I wanna talk to you about that edge, as we look
• 04:32 at the Warrior King and we consider the need
• 04:34 for David-like leadership in these Goliath-like times.
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• 04:47 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Speaking of the cutting edge,
• 04:52 reminded of a verse, a rather interesting verse,
• 04:55 in Scripture that might seem offensive
• 04:59 somewhat at face value in 1 Samuel chapter 17,
• 05:02 verse 54, says in Hebrew: "[speaking in Hebrew]
• 05:08 And David took the head of the Philistine,
• 05:10 [speaking in Hebrew]
• 05:14 and he took the head to Jerusalem."
• 05:16 Goes on to say then that he took Golyat's armor
• 05:20 and he put it in his own tent.
• 05:22 Seems to me that we're looking here at the Warrior King--
• 05:25 well, he's not a warrior king at this juncture.
• 05:27 He's a young man who opted to jump into the fray,
• 05:29 who later became a king.
• 05:31 Because culture was looking for a man of faith
• 05:33 who was gonna stand up and lead, maybe risk a little bit
• 05:37 in the process of so doing.
• 05:38 Well, David certainly jumped into the fray.
• 05:41 I'm sure it was unexpected, but all of a sudden,
• 05:43 he just found himself where the troubles of the day
• 05:47 afforded him an opportunity to rise
• 05:49 and be what God had called him to be.
• 05:52 I don't know about you but there's something
• 05:54 about this imagery that really works for me.
• 05:57 We live in a unisex world where gender boundaries are blurred.
• 06:01 There are a number of things that are blurred
• 06:02 in this upside down world of ours now.
• 06:04 But I'm looking here at a male who wants to believe God
• 06:09 and stand up and be counted and he wants to be heroic,
• 06:13 if you will.
• 06:15 I believe that we live in a world where heroism is
• 06:17 in very high demand but very short supply.
• 06:20 And when I look at David, I'm not only reminded of an image
• 06:25 from his Philistine wars, I'm not only reminded of an image
• 06:29 of what he was all about, but I see here an image
• 06:33 of what we ought to be all about as men, particularly.
• 06:37 And people of faith generally, that is, stand up.
• 06:40 Don't just accept the taunts of the enemy.
• 06:43 So many people are beaten into submission
• 06:46 and they despair and they pray up.
• 06:49 They send their prayers heavenward
• 06:51 and I'm all for that and I do that on more than one occasion.
• 06:54 But what about stand-up guys?
• 06:57 I believe that we need this David-like leadership today.
• 07:00 Men to stand up and be men, as men.
• 07:02 Men to stand up and be men as husbands,
• 07:06 and men to stand up and be men as fathers.
• 07:10 Men to stand up and be men as pillars in their congregations.
• 07:14 Men to be men and stand up for their city, for their county,
• 07:18 for their state, and for their country.
• 07:20 I believe that we need biblical leadership that wants to make
• 07:23 the world better by virtue of their participating
• 07:26 in the drama.
• 07:28 David, as a leader, invested his energies
• 07:31 with the net result that Israel was better
• 07:33 because of his plying his skill sets within the culture.
• 07:37 And would that today people caught that vision.
• 07:40 They wanted to lead, they wanted to make the world
• 07:43 a better place, their family a better place,
• 07:45 their congregations a better place,
• 07:46 and culture on the whole.
• 07:48 We need to pray up and stand up, now more than ever.
• 07:52 As we look at the world, let's look at it with biblical eyes
• 07:55 and come to terms with the fact that we need David-like
• 07:58 leadership for these Goliath-like times.
• 08:04 Abiathar: The Amalekites had just attacked Southern Judah
• 08:07 and destroyed Ziklag.
• 08:09 All the worse, they had taken King David's wives as well
• 08:13 as the families of those who served him faithfully.
• 08:17 Only God knew if they were still alive.
• 08:20 It was a troubling time for the king.
• 08:24 His men were angry.
• 08:26 They wanted revenge.
• 08:28 They wanted the death of their king.
• 08:31 Yet, David's strength remained in the Lord.
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• 08:42 Abiathar: The king summoned me, asking for the ephod.
• 08:47 David: [speaking in Hebrew]
• 08:52 Abiathar: The ephod was a sacred linen garment
• 08:54 that was worn by the priest on the most holy of occasions.
• 08:59 On this troubling day, the king would call
• 09:02 upon the Lord himself and directly appeal
• 09:06 for divine intervention.
• 09:11 He inquired of the Lord: "Shall I pursue the men who attacked?
• 09:19 Shall I overtake them?"
• 09:21 David: [speaking in Hebrew]
• 09:26 Abiathar: And the Lord replied:
• 09:28 "Pursue them, for thou shalt surely overtake them."
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• 09:47 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Tour buses don't come here.
• 09:50 Cars don't even get here.
• 09:51 In fact, my 4x4, my off-road vehicle couldn't even get here.
• 09:58 And where's the "here"?
• 10:00 We're at a place that I wasn't planning on taking you to.
• 10:03 I wasn't planning on being here myself.
• 10:05 I didn't know about this place a week ago.
• 10:08 Came here to Israel to shoot a series called "The Warrior King"
• 10:11 on David.
• 10:13 Little did I know that in conjunction with our arrival
• 10:16 and filming, we would have one of the greatest
• 10:19 modern discoveries in the history of biblical archeology.
• 10:25 I know it sounds overstated, but it isn't.
• 10:29 Articles are appearing in major Israeli periodicals,
• 10:34 on the Internet, right here, the Northeastern hills of Elah
• 10:40 in the ruins of Qeiyafa, we have a fortress
• 10:43 that dates back 1000 BC.
• 10:47 Now, what makes this find striking,
• 10:50 and I'm coming to you from the middle of it.
• 10:53 What makes it striking is the fact that, right here,
• 10:58 very recently unearthed were the oldest Hebrew scripts found
• 11:04 to date, predating the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls
• 11:09 by almost a millennia.
• 11:12 And that's striking for a variety of reasons,
• 11:15 and why is that?
• 11:17 Because this was a fortress that dates back to the era of David.
• 11:23 That's significant because we live in a world today
• 11:25 where there are many revisionist sorts that are trying
• 11:29 to rewrite history.
• 11:31 Justice in America: "Oh, it wasn't really
• 11:33 a Christian country originally."
• 11:35 You know, they wanna rewrite history in order to foist
• 11:38 their agenda on modernity.
• 11:42 Similarly, in Israel, there are individuals that are looking
• 11:45 for a disconnect from biblical heritage.
• 11:48 "Well, there never was a King David," they say.
• 11:50 Well, it was harder to say it when up North some years ago
• 11:53 found was an inscription to the House of David, right there,
• 11:57 Tel Dan, at the far North, and now here in a fortress
• 12:01 that dates back to David's day, we find Hebrew script.
• 12:06 And this is interesting in part because the fact that
• 12:09 there would be a Hebrew fort here, it's an extension fort.
• 12:12 Arguably, there was a strong kingdom in Jerusalem
• 12:15 and this was an outpost here that was established,
• 12:18 not far from where the biblical story played out
• 12:21 once upon a time when David went against Golyat,
• 12:25 Goliath.
• 12:27 It's a great story.
• 12:29 Biblical history is interesting and we find that modern
• 12:31 archeology in various ways corroborates
• 12:34 the biblical narrative, and what's happening here
• 12:37 at this site argues to that effect.
• 12:40 But my purpose here isn't to talk about biblical archeology,
• 12:43 fascinating as it is.
• 12:45 I wanna raise the story of David in part because we need
• 12:49 to hear from him and learn from him today.
• 12:53 I'd like you to turn in your Bibles please to 1 Samuel.
• 12:56 There's an interesting story here when things
• 12:59 weren't going David's way.
• 13:01 It just so happens in life sometimes culture turns
• 13:05 against us, circumstance turns against us,
• 13:08 and we find ourselves being pushed back.
• 13:10 David was so disconcerted when he discovered that his town was
• 13:16 overrun, his family was taken captive, everything was taken,
• 13:20 in fact, and people were so mad at him as a leader,
• 13:23 they were ready to stone him.
• 13:25 We're told in the Hebrew Bible, chapter 30, verse 6:
• 13:28 "[speaking in Hebrew]
• 13:30 And David was greatly distressed,"
• 13:33 because of the defeats that he had experienced just then,
• 13:37 and people, we're told, were ready to stone him.
• 13:40 Leadership is very precarious, just like standing here
• 13:43 is precarious, to tell you the God's honest truth.
• 13:45 Sometimes, the winds blow for you,
• 13:46 sometimes against you.
• 13:48 David was on the downside of it all, but we're told here
• 13:51 in the text: "[speaking in Hebrew]
• 13:56 And David strengthened himself in the Lord his God."
• 14:00 For those of us that wanna be good leaders,
• 14:02 we have to fall back on our knees sometimes
• 14:05 because the truth of the matter is,
• 14:06 there are challenges and what happened?
• 14:08 David strengthened himself.
• 14:10 He called for the priest to bring garments.
• 14:13 He wanted to consult the Lord, actually, and we're told just
• 14:17 as we read down in verse 8, we're told,
• 14:20 "[speaking in Hebrew] And David inquired of the Lord."
• 14:25 He had questions.
• 14:26 He didn't know how to respond, and you know, we live in a world
• 14:30 today where we can be beset by circumstances that don't seem
• 14:34 to be going our way.
• 14:35 We need to seek the Lord as well.
• 14:37 The good news, that if we do, if we seek him, we'll find him,
• 14:40 and we'll find answers for vexing human dilemmas.
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• 15:50 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: In this program and series,
• 15:52 we're celebrating David, the Warrior King.
• 15:56 You can go into many towns in America and in the center
• 16:00 of the town there's a statue, a general on a horse,
• 16:04 and we remember those winners, those warrior kings,
• 16:08 those leaders.
• 16:10 But the truth be known, behind every one of those is a cadre
• 16:14 of people that are not known to history but were known
• 16:18 to that general, because it was those soldiers that gave
• 16:22 those generals that victory.
• 16:26 We don't lose sight of the fact of it here that you are
• 16:30 the soldiers that give us the victory.
• 16:35 We get to sit here and, in some sense, people might celebrate us
• 16:39 and say, "Good job," but we don't have a job
• 16:42 unless you give it to us.
• 16:46 I wanna thank you, those unknown soldiers, known to heaven only,
• 16:51 who invest in helping this army move forward to show the world
• 16:56 the good news through the eyes of the Jews.
• 16:59 Thank you for your giving.
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• 17:08 male: The king would be gracious, we were told.
• 17:11 He would hear our plea.
• 17:15 And so it was that we were ushered into his golden chamber.
• 17:19 We had marched in defiance against King David.
• 17:22 Now here we were, fearing for our lives,
• 17:26 three kings of neighboring nations, bowing before him.
• 17:29 male: [speaking in Hebrew]
• 17:37 male: We never thought it would come to this,
• 17:39 but better we should appeal for peace and serve him
• 17:42 than die before his sword.
• 17:48 male: The king accepted our plea, giving credit to his God.
• 17:51 David: [speaking in Hebrew]
• 17:57 male: How mighty this God of Israel must be.
• 18:03 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: There's lots of helicopters
• 18:05 and jets flying around today, and I don't have enough clout
• 18:08 to make them stop.
• 18:10 We're 40 kilometers from the Gaza and that's probably some
• 18:12 reason why they're busy out and about doing what they're doing.
• 18:15 And here we are, doing what we're doing,
• 18:17 visiting a famous site in antiquity,
• 18:21 an outpost for David's forces right at the border
• 18:26 with the Peleshtim, the Philistines,
• 18:29 and it's interesting, by the way, that today there's problems
• 18:32 with individuals that use the name "Palestinian"
• 18:35 and so it is that overhead, individuals are
• 18:38 maintaining vigilant in the skies,
• 18:40 just that from where I'm standing, years ago,
• 18:43 individuals maintained vigilance as well,
• 18:46 to fight off the prevailing darkness.
• 18:48 And fight, we must, by the way.
• 18:50 And I mean that in the truest of senses and that is that not
• 18:54 all of us bear arms in defense of home and hearth,
• 18:59 but anyone who names the name of the Lord
• 19:01 is called to arm up, if you will,
• 19:03 to put on a helmet, a shield, get out the sword of the Spirit.
• 19:07 We're vested with the responsibility to contend,
• 19:10 to stand for principles.
• 19:12 And in the course of fighting, we should know
• 19:14 that it doesn't always go our way.
• 19:17 Sometimes, as David learned on more than one occasion,
• 19:19 we need to strengthen ourselves in the Lord and, by the way,
• 19:23 I think this is that sort of time.
• 19:27 I'm reminded, by the way, when I read 2 Samuel chapter 10,
• 19:31 David was involved in a battle royal.
• 19:34 The end result was that the individuals came
• 19:37 and did subservience to him.
• 19:39 He got the better of it, and the kings came and bowed down and,
• 19:43 you know, peace at last.
• 19:46 But before that, he had to contend and in chapter 10,
• 19:51 verse 12, we have "[speaking in Hebrew]
• 19:55 Be of good courage, and let us be strong."
• 19:58 Now, friends, that's a word for today.
• 20:00 He says, "Be that, [speaking in Hebrew]
• 20:04 be strong for our people [speaking in Hebrew]
• 20:09 and for the cities of our God."
• 20:13 At 53 years of age now,
• 20:16 I realize that I've lived a good part of my life.
• 20:19 I'm not ready to stick myself in the grave, but I realize
• 20:21 that the better part of it's in the rearview mirror.
• 20:24 I plan to finish well.
• 20:25 I feel in so many ways I'm not just fighting for myself
• 20:28 as much as for my kids, as much as for future generations.
• 20:33 I believe that God's people today, we need to be strong.
• 20:36 We need to be serious.
• 20:38 We need a revival.
• 20:39 We need a renewal of energies and enthusiasms to do
• 20:43 the Lord's bidding.
• 20:45 It feels like the battle isn't going our way,
• 20:48 and you know what?
• 20:49 In ways, it isn't.
• 20:51 But you know, I've seen enough football games to realize
• 20:53 that the winning team is at a loss at halftime but it's not
• 20:56 over until the bell rings at the end of the fourth quarter.
• 20:59 I don't believe it's over for America, but I do believe
• 21:02 that there are a number of challenges now.
• 21:05 That said, when I read the Bible, I'm reminded of the fact
• 21:08 that these guys always had struggles
• 21:11 and that's the bad news.
• 21:13 The good news is, again to hark back to Paul's word,
• 21:15 "thanks be to God who leads us in triumph."
• 21:19 I would like your faith to be built up.
• 21:22 I know mine needs build up as well.
• 21:24 And here, coming from a fort, an outpost of David's empire,
• 21:30 3000 years ago, I want to encourage you in your faith.
• 21:35 I believe that we need David-like leadership
• 21:38 in Goliath-like times.
• 21:41 Will you stand with me and be that man of God and that woman
• 21:44 of God and help our culture return to its biblical moorings?
• 21:51 Kirsten: We've lived in Missouri for the last 11 years
• 21:54 and Missouri is known as the Show Me state.
• 21:58 They want proof.
• 22:00 And so many people talk about the Bible,
• 22:02 "Well, prove that these people really lived," don't they?
• 22:05 They want proof, and I think this is a little proof.
• 22:08 David: What have you got there, quick?
• 22:10 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Yes, well, what I did is I robbed
• 22:11 the museum in Israel so please, we've gotta get back soon
• 22:14 before they notice it's missing.
• 22:16 What we have here, actually, is a facsimile of--
• 22:20 it's written in Aramaic from the 9th century.
• 22:24 I don't know how good you are with your Aramaic these days,
• 22:26 but right here there's reference to the House of David.
• 22:32 Individuals have argued,
• 22:33 "Well, the Bible's just full of mythic characters."
• 22:37 No, it's full of mystery, but those people existed
• 22:41 and God exists for those people that have faith in him.
• 22:46 Case in point, David who's referenced here,
• 22:50 even in a stone from the 9th century.
• 22:53 Kirsten: Bible says if the people don't praise it,
• 22:56 the rocks will cry out.
• 22:57 But it's like these rocks are crying out the truth.
• 23:00 They're showing the world through getting dust
• 23:03 and dirt off of 'em, these were real people.
• 23:06 This is a real story.
• 23:08 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: You know, and I think it's great to go
• 23:10 back to the land of the sticks and the bricks
• 23:14 and the stones where it all happened.
• 23:16 And that's the beauty, by the way.
• 23:17 We don't just open up the Bible.
• 23:19 We open up the biblical world through the cameras,
• 23:22 and we take people to the places.
• 23:24 They can see the spaces.
• 23:26 There's reenactments of what happened there.
• 23:28 It's a real story, and it was played out on the stage
• 23:33 of the human drama.
• 23:34 These were real characters.
• 23:35 God worked on their behalf and he'll work
• 23:37 on our behalf as well.
• 23:39 David: We take you to museums on our tour and see artifacts
• 23:43 like this right in front of us, and it's really just amazing.
• 23:47 Fascinating to see these things.
• 23:48 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Yeah, and let me reiterate again,
• 23:50 we didn't really rob the museum.
• 23:52 Kirsten: I'm gonna get letters for that.
• 23:53 No, I'm kidding.
• 23:55 David: You're the policeman.
• 23:56 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: No, no, no, we didn't rob anybody.
• 23:57 But what this is, is this an exact replica
• 23:59 of one of the most famous finds in biblical archeology.
• 24:04 Kirsten: Not that long ago, either.
• 24:05 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: No.
• 24:07 David: Chaim Malespin is with us in this series.
• 24:09 Right now, we take you to Masada and hear from him.
• 24:13 ♪♪♪
• 24:21 Chaim Malespin: Here at the magnificent World Heritage
• 24:23 location, Masada, what history.
• 24:25 What if we could take a time machine and go back to the times
• 24:28 of the tragic fall of this Jewish fortress
• 24:31 taken over by the Romans?
• 24:32 Or go back in the time machine to the time of Joshua.
• 24:35 You know what?
• 24:36 We don't have to go back in time because we are living
• 24:38 in the Bible.
• 24:40 We are in fulfillment of the restoration promises
• 24:43 that God prophesied hundreds, thousands of years ago.
• 24:47 But to go back to this tragic moment is heart-wrenching
• 24:51 but I wanna tell you how it was.
• 24:53 The Romans said, "We wanna crush this Jewish rebellion.
• 24:55 We want to wipe them off the face of the map.
• 24:57 We wanna change the name of Israel to Philistinia,
• 25:00 which the Hadrian did in 135 AD.
• 25:03 What they did here, though, is they surrounded
• 25:05 Vespasian's mighty legion.
• 25:07 They were called Legion X, the Tenth Legion.
• 25:09 They had fought in the Battle of Actium.
• 25:10 They had fought all over.
• 25:12 They had taken Britannia, they had come here and said,
• 25:15 "We will crush the last remaining of the Jewish people."
• 25:17 And they surrounded this place.
• 25:19 Couldn't take it.
• 25:20 For two years, almost, the Jewish people held out and they
• 25:23 said, "We will live and we may die, but we will remain free."
• 25:27 They ended up building a ramp behind and with battering rams,
• 25:30 volleys of flaming arrows, even catapults with heavy
• 25:33 stones--these are war machines that were never used before
• 25:36 until now--broke through and the Jewish people said,
• 25:39 "We will die a free people."
• 25:40 And they ended up killing one another and the last person
• 25:43 fell upon his own sword and died.
• 25:45 But that wasn't the end of the Jewish people, was it?
• 25:47 God's Word as he prophesied it all over the Prophets,
• 25:51 said they would return from the North, the South, the East,
• 25:54 and the West, the desert would bloom once again.
• 25:56 We would plant our vineyards.
• 25:57 And Aliyah is what I did and I do feel, as a soldier,
• 26:01 as a master sergeant in the combat engineers, what we do is
• 26:04 we actually march 90 kilometers and, to get our beret,
• 26:09 to finish the grand finale of our training,
• 26:12 we climb a mountain.
• 26:13 Some units used to climb this mountain as well
• 26:15 and get their beret, and defend the defenseless
• 26:18 here in the land of Israel.
• 26:19 Let's stand together for restoration.
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• 27:10 David: It's been great having Chaim with us in this series.
• 27:13 Dr. Seif, there's a word that has been resonating with me
• 27:18 through this whole series so far,
• 27:21 and it's the word "victory."
• 27:24 Victory in our lives after we've dealt with war and I have
• 27:27 a feeling that everybody watching here today
• 27:29 has had some kind of war within your life.
• 27:32 Victory, I love a good victory.
• 27:34 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: That's right and God is the victory giver.
• 27:39 Paul said, "Thanks be to God who always leads us in triumph."
• 27:45 David: Amen.
• 27:46 Kirsten: And we saw a lot of that in David's life today.
• 27:48 We have more next week to bring you.
• 27:50 Come back.
• 27:52 More on King David, "Warrior King."
• 27:55 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: You're gonna love it but as you go now:
• 27:57 Shaalu shalom Yerushalayim.
• 28:00 Kirsten: Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.
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