Caption transcript for “2023 — The Year Ahead”

• 00:04 ♪♪♪ David Hart: Welcome to "Our Jewish Roots."
• 00:07 Today, we take a peek at what will be coming your way in 2023.
• 00:12 ♪♪♪
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• 00:17 David: We're so glad you've joined us today.
• 00:18 I'm David Hart.
• 00:20 Kirsten Hart: I'm Kirsten Hart.
• 00:21 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: I am Jeffrey Seif.
• 00:23 David: Well, today it's a big, Happy Hanukkah.
• 00:25 "Chag Sameach" to you, and Merry Christmas.
• 00:29 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Yes.
• 00:30 Kirsten: Well, we're gonna do all of 'em,
• 00:31 get 'em all in there.
• 00:33 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Yeah, "chag" is a term for "holiday."
• 00:35 "Sameach" comes from "simchah," which means "joy," and
• 00:39 the holidays are a joyous time.
• 00:41 I love 'em.
• 00:42 Kirsten: I've gotta ask you: Do you have any Hanukkah
• 00:44 traditions at home that you do?
• 00:46 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Oh, yeah, my kids served me notice,
• 00:47 growing up.
• 00:48 They says, "Dad, here's the deal: I know we're Jewish and
• 00:51 everything, you know, but we're celebrating both.
• 00:55 You know, if there's presents to be had,
• 00:57 we're all in," so we had eight days of Hanukkah and Christmas.
• 01:01 They wanted it all.
• 01:02 Kirsten: Oh, that's the best of both worlds.
• 01:03 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: They served me notice.
• 01:05 David: We were just talking here,
• 01:06 before we started this program, about Christmas season.
• 01:09 I love the season. It's busy.
• 01:11 Lots of Christmas music at our church that I lead.
• 01:15 Are you busy?
• 01:16 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Yeah, some people think,
• 01:18 in a messianic world, "It's a sellout to be involved
• 01:20 in Christmas."
• 01:21 It's a holiday that doesn't have its roots in biblical
• 01:23 literature, but I'm glad the culture has found a way to
• 01:26 remember Jesus's arrival on planet earth,
• 01:29 and to celebrate it, I'm good with it.
• 01:31 Kirsten: It's a wonderful season to remember
• 01:35 the birth of our Savior.
• 01:36 It's also a great program to look ahead in 2023 to
• 01:40 the different series that we'll be bringing you.
• 01:43 Right now, we have a sneak peek all about the prophet Ezekiel.
• 01:47 ♪♪♪
• 01:55 male narrator: "Prophesy upon these bones and say unto them,
• 01:58 'O ye dry bones, hear the word of the Lord.'"
• 02:01 ♪♪♪
• 02:11 ♪♪♪
• 02:28 narrator: "Ezekiel and the Mideast Piece Process."
• 02:35 ♪♪♪
• 02:36 narrator: In 586 B.C., the Lord spoke unto Ezekiel,
• 02:41 "Set thy face against Pharaoh and prophesy against all Egypt.
• 02:47 Say, 'Thus saith the Lord God, "Behold,
• 02:50 I am against thee.
• 02:52 All the inhabitants of Egypt shall know that I am the Lord
• 02:56 because they have been a staff of reed to the house of Israel."
• 03:00 "And the land of Egypt shall be desolate and waste in the midst
• 03:03 of the countries that are desolate."
• 03:05 "Neither shall it be inhabited 40 years."
• 03:10 ♪♪♪
• 03:13 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: We didn't create this picture
• 03:15 you're seeing.
• 03:16 We just walk into it, and what a sight it is.
• 03:19 The prophet Ezekiel says, like this town here,
• 03:22 that nation states that border Israel are going to be
• 03:26 devastated, and why is that?
• 03:28 Because there is a judgment brought to bear for their sins
• 03:31 against God, for their sins against Israel,
• 03:34 and the Lord is not a happy camper.
• 03:37 Eight chapters are invested in telling that story.
• 03:40 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Theodor Herzl was a newspaper reporter
• 03:44 in a bygone era.
• 03:47 An Austrian reporter, particularly,
• 03:50 he was covering the "Dreyfus Affair," a story how a Jewish
• 03:54 military officer was getting railroaded by the French.
• 03:58 He became convinced in the process of that,
• 04:00 that for all the Jews suffer, what Jews need is to return
• 04:05 to the ancestral homeland.
• 04:07 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: He became God's instrument to help
• 04:10 facilitate the miracle that's commemorated in this place where
• 04:15 it was celebrated and first announced to the world through
• 04:18 this microphone, in fact, Ben-Gurion spoke into it and
• 04:23 said, "Now is the time."
• 04:27 Well, what Ben-Gurion spoke years ago to the revered
• 04:33 delegates in this room, to the council members,
• 04:36 to Israel through national radio,
• 04:39 and to the world at large, what he spoke then through here was
• 04:43 actually presaged by the prophet here.
• 04:47 David: There's a word in this whole series that has stuck out
• 04:50 in my mind, and that word is "hope," hope for that generation
• 04:55 but also for us today.
• 04:56 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Indeed, and hope is in very high demand
• 04:59 and very short supply.
• 05:02 David: True.
• 05:03 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Someone asked me what I was hoping for,
• 05:05 what I was gonna be doing, anything special for the
• 05:07 Christmas season, and I said, "Yeah,
• 05:10 I'm gonna be giving Jesus a gift for his birthday."
• 05:13 I mention that because, when you have kids,
• 05:18 you know that, when you go to birthday parties, it's
• 05:19 the birthday boy or the birthday girl that gets the present.
• 05:22 Oftentimes, we use the Christmas season to get presents for
• 05:25 ourselves and each other.
• 05:28 How about for Jesus himself?
• 05:31 And a great way to give a gift to Jesus is to invest
• 05:35 in his kingdom.
• 05:37 You know, in the newer testament,
• 05:38 we're told they came with gold, frankincense, and myrrh.
• 05:42 We don't need that.
• 05:43 We just need dollars if you would be gracious and invest
• 05:47 to help us.
• 05:48 There's so much we wanna do in 2023.
• 05:51 We wanna go to Bethlehem, Israel,
• 05:54 all over the biblical lands, do dramatic vignettes,
• 05:58 and we can't do it without you.
• 06:00 Please give Jesus a gift for his birthday by making a gift,
• 06:05 by making a donation to "Our Jewish Roots."
• 06:09 Kirsten: It's a miracle that we have been able to stay on
• 06:12 the air since 1979.
• 06:15 He is still God of miracles, and speaking of,
• 06:17 you just filmed a brand-new series all about the miracles
• 06:20 that God has performed.
• 06:22 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Yes, you know,
• 06:23 people are lookin' for breakthroughs in their life,
• 06:25 and it's good to know we have a breakthrough God,
• 06:30 and we wanted to explore that in the Bible how God comes through,
• 06:34 and he knows how to look after his own.
• 06:37 Kirsten: I like sneak peeks of things to come.
• 06:40 That's what we wanna show you right now on our brand-new
• 06:42 series, "The God of Miracles."
• 06:47 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Speaking of miracles,
• 06:48 in so many ways, Israel has come to life.
• 06:52 Ben Yehuda Street, for example, the son of Judah,
• 06:56 the name itself commemorates a fellow,
• 06:58 Ben Yehuda, who revived the Hebrew language that had fallen
• 07:00 into disuse, but with the miraculous emergence of the
• 07:06 nation state of Israel came the emergence of the language.
• 07:12 I'm here, drinking some pomegranate juice.
• 07:15 You know, pomegranates have a special place in Judaism--people
• 07:19 don't know that--because there's 613 seeds in a pomegranate,
• 07:24 arguably, and in the Torah, there's 613 pieces
• 07:27 of instruction, and so Jesus remembered the pomegranate
• 07:31 for that reason.
• 07:33 It's a reminder of life, it's a reminder of wisdom.
• 07:36 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: So I'm at the Southern Steps of the temple
• 07:39 complex in Jerusalem, and I see a concert,
• 07:41 140-some harpists being led by none other than Messianic
• 07:45 Jewish artist, Joshua Aaron.
• 07:47 Joshua Aaron: It's nice to run into you, my brother, heh.
• 07:50 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Yeah, this wasn't planned, but you're here.
• 07:53 Josh, we're talkin' about miracles.
• 07:55 Anything in that resonate with you?
• 07:56 Joshua: Well, we're standing in a miracle country, Israel.
• 07:59 I'm living here with my wife and my five kids,
• 08:01 but, for me, it goes back to my mom.
• 08:04 My grandmother fled the Holocaust in the early '40s.
• 08:07 My uncle was born here, my mom's brother,
• 08:09 in Jerusalem, and then my mom was born in January of 1948,
• 08:12 in Haifa.
• 08:13 So, for us, I remind my kids all the time about living in
• 08:16 the land of miracles.
• 08:17 Israel is a land that should not exist historically.
• 08:20 It's never happened where a people were scattered and
• 08:23 brought back together again, and that's the first miracle that
• 08:25 comes to mind as we're standing here right now.
• 08:28 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: In TV talk, this is what we call "a wide
• 08:30 shot in a tight spot."
• 08:35 The reason why I say that, as I am in a very tight spot,
• 08:39 and you would expect it to be the case.
• 08:41 I'm coming to you from a tomb.
• 08:44 Doesn't need to be very big.
• 08:45 Inhabitants don't live here.
• 08:48 They settle here.
• 08:50 When I tell you where "here" is, then you'll probably recall.
• 08:54 The place is called "Bethany," and Bible readers know that
• 08:59 a great miracle happened here, one that was extremely famous
• 09:04 or infamous, depending on where you stood.
• 09:09 Jesus was known to be a miracle worker.
• 09:12 Early in the gospel of John chapter 3,
• 09:13 Nicodemus comes to him and says, "Rabbi,
• 09:16 we know that you are a teacher come from God,
• 09:19 for no one can do the signs that you do unless God is with him."
• 09:23 So he was known for signs and wonders,
• 09:25 but the world ain't seen nothin' like this.
• 09:28 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: It is a beautiful morning here at
• 09:32 the Mount of Olives, on the Mount of Olives.
• 09:34 I'm adjacent to the Garden of Gethsemane.
• 09:36 Weather is perfect, and like I said,
• 09:40 I am in a very good mood.
• 09:42 Do you know what the number one mood killer is however?
• 09:48 It's a word referred to in Yiddish,
• 09:52 a Jewish dialect, as "guilt."
• 09:55 It is said that it's what married couples fight over
• 10:00 the most, and it is said it is what makes people,
• 10:04 as individuals, anxious the most, "guilt."
• 10:10 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Wedding ceremonies can be
• 10:12 complex events.
• 10:14 This, indeed, was true in John chapter 2.
• 10:17 As you might recall, there was a problem with food and beverage.
• 10:22 Beverage management wasn't doing so good.
• 10:24 I mention that because, as this thing is going on,
• 10:26 someone reports to Yeshua, his own mother,
• 10:29 no less, "Look, the wine has gone out.
• 10:31 We have a problem--big day, a wedding."
• 10:35 Coming to you from Israel, here, a wedding venue no less,
• 10:40 I'm reminded of the fact that, again,
• 10:41 these things can be very complex.
• 10:43 Someone wasn't sufficiently prepared for the moment,
• 10:47 and the net result is there was a need at a critical time.
• 10:55 David: It is December, and we celebrate the birth of Yeshua.
• 10:58 Coming to you in February, we bring you "Sar Shalom,"
• 11:01 which is "Prince of Peace."
• 11:03 It's a great series.
• 11:04 Kirsten: Well, talk about Christmas songs and songs that
• 11:06 we sing in the season, "His name shall be called Wonderful
• 11:09 Counselor, the Prince of Peace, the Everlasting Father--"
• 11:12 David: "Mighty God."
• 11:13 Kirsten: --the Mighty God.
• 11:14 Let's take a look at his peaceful side right now.
• 11:18 ♪♪♪
• 11:28 ♪♪♪
• 11:38 ♪♪♪
• 11:50 ♪♪♪
• 11:56 [thunder booming]
• 11:58 ♪♪♪
• 12:08 ♪♪♪
• 12:18 Jesus: [speaking in Hebrew]
• 12:34 narrator: The Lord had made it quite clear there is a place
• 12:38 for fasting, but it is not in public,
• 12:42 especially at the city gate.
• 12:44 Disfiguring the face with ashes may be rewarded with attention,
• 12:49 but the attention is the extent of the reward.
• 12:57 "When fasting, do so in secret," says the Lord,
• 13:01 "and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly."
• 13:10 narrator: She shall be called "woman."
• 13:14 Eve: I came forth from a man.
• 13:17 female: But I found favor with him.
• 13:19 female: And true success is not measured in wealth
• 13:21 and power but in the state of his heart.
• 13:25 female: I've never been happier and more fulfilled.
• 13:28 female: I raised him up strictly in the faith,
• 13:30 the law and the prophets.
• 13:33 female: And now I want to give something back.
• 13:35 female: I believe Elohim meant it to be this way.
• 13:36 female: She's still a cornerstone of wisdom
• 13:37 to the family.
• 13:39 Hannah: But you are always in my heart.
• 13:42 ♪♪♪
• 13:58 Eve: My first memories of life are not like any other.
• 14:03 I remember awakening in the garden.
• 14:10 Everything was new and fresh.
• 14:14 The sweet fragrance of honeysuckle,
• 14:17 the tranquil melody of the lark, the pleasant fruit on the trees.
• 14:27 Elohim led me through this glorious paradise to a peculiar
• 14:32 creature, one just like me.
• 14:41 You see, I was not born from a mother and father.
• 14:45 I came forth from a man.
• 14:48 ♪♪♪
• 14:56 Eve: The moment he looked upon me,
• 14:58 I saw his sorrow and loneliness turn to joy.
• 15:06 His heart was now whole.
• 15:11 My husband, my friend, my love, joined in union for life,
• 15:20 joined together as one.
• 15:24 ♪♪♪
• 15:31 Hannah: My son, I know we were together only for
• 15:36 a short time, but you are always in my heart.
• 15:41 I think of you daily.
• 15:45 And you may not understand now, but I made a vow to Yahweh that,
• 15:52 if he would turn my affliction and give me a son,
• 15:59 I would give the child back all the days of his life.
• 16:06 That is why you'll live in the house of Elohim and
• 16:10 serve the priests.
• 16:13 Listen carefully, and obey them, for it is their charge to teach
• 16:18 you the ways of Yahweh.
• 16:22 Samuel, I will always be your mother,
• 16:25 and you will always be my son.
• 16:28 Wear this to keep you warm, and do remember me
• 16:31 when you are lonely.
• 16:34 ♪♪♪
• 16:39 Kirsten: We just gave you a three-for-one,
• 16:41 three insights into our new series coming up,
• 16:45 and I have to say, we ended with one,
• 16:48 "She Shall Be Called Woman," and you brought that to television
• 16:53 a few years ago, didn't you?
• 16:55 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Yeah, that was even my idea, not to brag.
• 16:58 That's paid a lot of dividends for me supporting women.
• 17:01 In fact, my wife Barri was attracted to me,
• 17:04 in part, because I was interested in being
• 17:07 supportive of women.
• 17:08 Kirsten: So is the Savior. He really did.
• 17:10 I mean, some of his "right-hand--" should I say--
• 17:13 "women," were women.
• 17:14 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Well, "some of his right-hand women were
• 17:16 women," that was a very astute observation, Kirsten.
• 17:18 That's why you get paid the big bucks.
• 17:19 No, but to your point, what I wanted to do was look at what
• 17:23 the Bible said to, for, and about women.
• 17:27 People get the impression that Judeo-Christian religion kind of
• 17:31 pushes women to the periphery, and Paul is read in ways,
• 17:35 mistakenly, to my way of thinking,
• 17:38 to represent that perspective, and I wanted to kind of reign it
• 17:42 in a little bit and take a clean look at what the Bible says,
• 17:46 not just in the TV series that I did but a book that accompanied
• 17:50 it by the same name.
• 17:51 Kirsten: I think you all are gonna love that series.
• 17:54 It's a good one, and that's coming up just next year.
• 17:55 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: It's comin' up.
• 17:57 David: Hey, can I share with you somethin' that happened
• 17:58 with me the other day?
• 17:59 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Sure.
• 18:01 David: I took a friend of mine to Denny's Restaurant in
• 18:03 Orlando, Florida area.
• 18:04 His name is Harold.
• 18:06 He's 100 years old.
• 18:08 He's in our church, and he wears a suit every week.
• 18:10 He loved his wife, who is with the Lord now,
• 18:13 and he watches our program, and he felt like God was
• 18:17 telling him to give to our program.
• 18:20 So what he did--here, I brought it with me.
• 18:22 He pulled out his wallet, and he said,
• 18:24 "I have a hundred-dollar bill that's been sitting in my wallet
• 18:27 for years, and I haven't known what to do with it," and he
• 18:30 said, "The Lord, last night, told me to give this to
• 18:34 "Our Jewish Roots" program.
• 18:35 So, this, I believe, is gonna help us continue what we do.
• 18:40 You may have somethin' sittin' around,
• 18:43 some money that you don't know what to do with.
• 18:45 Our prayer is that maybe God would speak to you to help us
• 18:48 continue what we do with our dramatic reenactments,
• 18:51 us going to Israel.
• 18:52 Harold, thank you for this.
• 18:55 God bless you, and thank you for your support.
• 18:58 Kirsten: I wanna say, "Hi," to Harold too.
• 18:59 David: Yes.
• 19:01 Kirsten: And I also wanna say that we will be right back.
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• 19:52 Kirsten: Forty-four years is a long time.
• 19:54 It's a long time to live, but it's really a long time for
• 19:57 a program, a ministry, to be on the air.
• 20:02 "Our Jewish Roots," this whole ministry,
• 20:05 has been present on the airwaves that long,
• 20:08 and when social media came onto the scene and when the internet
• 20:12 happened, we're also very thankful for the opportunity to,
• 20:15 shall I say, jump over to that venue and that way
• 20:20 of ministering.
• 20:23 We have all kinds, honestly, all kinds of social media outlets,
• 20:26 information, stories.
• 20:29 There's publications that we send out.
• 20:33 Our ministry is not just a television ministry.
• 20:36 We reach beyond.
• 20:38 We're thankful for you for making that a possibility,
• 20:41 and we'd like to give you a look at how we have
• 20:44 expanded this ministry.
• 20:49 ♪ We live all forever, forever, forever. ♪
• 20:55 ♪ We live all forever, forever, forever. ♪♪
• 21:00 Caleb: Go, go, Fiji.
• 21:02 Joshua: Well, hey, everybody. I'm Joshua.
• 21:04 Caleb: And I'm Caleb.
• 21:05 Joshua: Did you notice we're related?
• 21:07 Caleb: Just a little bit.
• 21:08 Joshua: Brothers. I'm so excited, brother.
• 21:09 Caleb: What?
• 21:11 Joshua: Whenever I have good news,
• 21:12 I wanna share it with you first 'cause you're my brother,
• 21:14 and I want you to succeed like I succeed.
• 21:15 Caleb: Well, thank you.
• 21:16 Joshua: And without boasting, I got an email earlier today
• 21:18 from the leader of a very prestigious organization who has
• 21:23 offered me some mentoring in the form of some sessions that are
• 21:32 gonna help purge me of all the things that might be holding me
• 21:36 back, and if I do well in these sessions,
• 21:39 I might even get to ride on his spaceship to the new planet.
• 21:43 Now, I don't know about Elon and all those other guys,
• 21:46 but I'm thinkin' it's pretty exciting news for me.
• 21:50 Caleb: Josh, Josh, this sounds like a cult.
• 21:52 Those are spam emails.
• 21:53 You're not supposed to open those.
• 21:56 Joshua: But it--I already put in our physical addresses.
• 21:58 It said for people who are in--wanted--I'm sorry.
• 22:02 Caleb: That's like Scientologists, Josh, you know?
• 22:04 I'm sorry.
• 22:06 Joshua: Isn't L. Ron Hubbard--he's a old man.
• 22:09 This happens to me all the time.
• 22:10 Caleb: Guys, people like to study "the beast," aka,
• 22:13 "the antichrist."
• 22:14 He's the focus of all, you know, the bad guys in prophecy,
• 22:17 but many people ignore the identity of another sinister
• 22:19 guy: the false prophet, someone who pretends to be something
• 22:22 that he's not, like the leader.
• 22:24 Joshua: Wait, they're different?
• 22:25 Caleb: Yes, they're two different people.
• 22:27 Joshua: False prophet isn't the leader?
• 22:28 Caleb: No, he's not.
• 22:29 ♪♪♪
• 22:38 Dr. August Rosado: Many world leaders in the past,
• 22:40 back in the day, have attempted--they tried to revive
• 22:43 the Roman Empire: Mussolini, Napoleon,
• 22:48 Charlemagne, and Adolf Hitler, but all failed.
• 22:53 Daniel calls for a final ten nations or what he later calls
• 22:58 "ten horns" in Daniel 7:7-24.
• 23:02 Some 500 years later, John the apostle,
• 23:06 in the book of Revelation, picks up where Daniel left off,
• 23:10 and he describes ten horns in Revelation 12:3,
• 23:13 Revelation 13:1, Revelation 17, verses 3, 7, 12, and 16.
• 23:19 We believe that the European Union or "EU" is the embryo or
• 23:24 the infrastructure for the revival of the Roman Empire.
• 23:29 There are 27 member states in the European Union today.
• 23:33 All member countries must yield their sovereignty to the EU.
• 23:37 The flag of the EU has 12 golden stars with a blue background.
• 23:47 David: Hi, friends, David and Kirsten Hart here
• 23:49 with "Cabin Chat."
• 23:51 It's been a while since we've been with you,
• 23:52 and we're so glad to be back with some friends that we feel
• 23:55 like we've known for a while because we've been kind of
• 23:58 following you a little bit on social media.
• 24:00 Israel and Elizabeth--how do you say it?
• 24:04 both: Hanna.
• 24:05 Kirsten: It's Hanna. David: Hanna.
• 24:06 Israel Hanna: Hanna.
• 24:08 Kirsten: Welcome, you guys. David: Yes, hi, friends.
• 24:10 Israel: Well, it's nice to--it's our pleasure to be on
• 24:12 the little chat with you guys.
• 24:13 Elizabeth Hanna: Yeah, really excited to talk.
• 24:15 David: Yes.
• 24:16 Kirsten: And you guys are in Oklahoma, yes?
• 24:18 Elizabeth: Now, yes, Oklahoma City area.
• 24:19 David: Our boys were born in Tulsa.
• 24:20 Israel: Oh, really? Elizabeth: Okay.
• 24:22 David: So I was on staff at Oral Roberts University,
• 24:24 and Kirsten sang there with me, and you went to school there,
• 24:28 so we love Oklahoma.
• 24:29 Israel: So, Elizabeth is a graduate from--
• 24:31 Elizabeth: That's right, yup, I'm in alumnus club.
• 24:33 David: What year? Elizabeth: '97
• 24:35 Kirsten: Okay.
• 24:36 ♪♪♪
• 24:41 Dr. Todd Baker: Where did Jesus go between His
• 24:44 death and resurrection?
• 24:45 Scripture indicates in Luke 16:19-31,
• 24:49 that, after the death of the physical body,
• 24:51 the soul of the person lives on in a conscious state either in
• 24:55 heaven or hell.
• 24:57 There is no "soul sleep" in Scripture.
• 24:59 Evangelist and pastor Greg Laurie is right to point out
• 25:02 the following: "To understand exactly where Jesus went,
• 25:06 look at the story Jesus told of the rich man and Lazarus.
• 25:10 This was not simply a parable, for Jesus used
• 25:14 an actual human name.
• 25:16 Thus, we can conclude that Jesus was giving us an actual glimpse
• 25:20 of life beyond the grave.
• 25:22 The story describes a place called Hades,
• 25:25 where there was both a place of comfort and torment."
• 25:30 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: You just saw a variety of faces in our
• 25:34 social media platform.
• 25:36 When this ministry began forty-four years ago,
• 25:38 there was one face, principally.
• 25:41 His name was Zola Levitt.
• 25:43 He was a pioneer in Christian television and certainly in
• 25:45 bringing the messianic Jewish message to the broader Christian
• 25:48 community through the miracle that is television.
• 25:52 I had the opportunity to work for him for years,
• 25:55 and then, as he was passing, before he left,
• 25:59 he said, "Let's get Jeff in here to carry this on."
• 26:02 Of course, he invited me, but if you didn't invite me into
• 26:05 your hearts, it wouldn't have worked, you know?
• 26:08 It's been many years since 2006, and a lot of time,
• 26:11 when the principal, when the founder,
• 26:13 when the much beloved leader goes,
• 26:14 usually, whoever comes in after that gets run over like
• 26:17 a freight train 'cause people compare the new guy to the
• 26:20 old guy, and the new guy just usually doesn't stand a chance.
• 26:23 You've been gracious to me, and I appreciate that.
• 26:25 I think because you, like me, realize it's less about
• 26:30 the personality than it is about the biblical story itself.
• 26:33 Whether Zola Levitt, Jeffrey Seif,
• 26:36 whether through the social media,
• 26:37 different names, different people are all about telling
• 26:40 the good news through the eyes of the Jews.
• 26:41 Thank you for helping us tell that story,
• 26:44 and please, as '22 rolls away and we look into the New Year,
• 26:49 please pull out a checkbook and help us continue to tell
• 26:52 the story, the greatest story ever told,
• 26:54 the good news through the eyes of the Jews.
• 26:57 David: Amen.
• 26:58 Speaking of Zola Levitt, we've been honored to sing his songs
• 27:01 for the past six years.
• 27:03 We end 2022 with another song from our founder Zola Levitt
• 27:07 but also--
• 27:09 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Yes, and you sing it so well.
• 27:10 You really do, both of you.
• 27:12 Hey, as we go, now-- [speaking in Hebrew]
• 27:14 Sha'alu Shalom Yerushalayim.
• 27:16 Kirsten: Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.
• 27:19 ♪♪♪
• 27:26 ♪ Father, Father, take this sheep. ♪
• 27:29 ♪ Take one more unworthy sheep. ♪
• 27:34 ♪ In my heart, thy Word I keep. ♪
• 27:37 ♪ Father, take this sheep. ♪
• 27:43 ♪ Father, take this sheep. ♪♪
• 27:53 ♪♪♪
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• 28:13 ♪♪♪
• 28:23 ♪♪♪