Caption transcript for The God of Miracles: “Exile and Return” (4/9)

• 00:01 David Hart: On today's program we see God changes circumstances to accomplish his will, both in Bible times
• 00:08 and even today. Join us on "Our Jewish Roots" with Bible teaching from Israel
• 00:12 with Dr. Jeffrey Seif.
• 00:14 ♪♪♪
• 00:19 narrator: To believe in the Bible is to believe in miracles.
• 00:22 From Genesis to Revelation, the impossible became possible.
• 00:27 As God's hand moved across space and time,
• 00:31 land and the seas were created, graves opened,
• 00:34 water turned to wine, the sick and lame healed.
• 00:39 The land of Israel completely restored.
• 00:43 Past, present, and future, he's the Alpha and Omega.
• 00:48 He is the God of miracles.
• 00:51 ♪♪♪
• 00:57 David: Thank you for joining us today.
• 00:59 I am David Hart.
• 01:00 Kirsten Hart: I'm Kirsten Hart.
• 01:02 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: I'm Jeffrey Seif.
• 01:03 Kirsten: We're in our series all about the God of miracles
• 01:05 and today we're talking about the miracle of--it's not--
• 01:08 the miracle isn't exile.
• 01:09 The miracle is the return.
• 01:11 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Yes, it's geopolitical,
• 01:13 God working with circumstances in order to help people get to a
• 01:17 better space in life.
• 01:19 Kirsten: So you're gonna tell us God works through politics?
• 01:21 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Well, there was a change of administration.
• 01:23 We went from a Babylonian to a Persian.
• 01:26 There's a change of heart, a change of policy,
• 01:28 a change of circumstances, for those living in the realm.
• 01:31 Individuals were allowed to go back to their respective lands.
• 01:35 Case in point, Jews heading back to Judea.
• 01:38 It's something that happened at a political level that affected
• 01:41 a change at a personal and spiritual level.
• 01:43 Kirsten: And again, in 1948, that encoupled good
• 01:47 returns to the land.
• 01:48 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Later on in the program,
• 01:49 yeah, God works through political circumstances.
• 01:52 Kirsten: Yes, he does.
• 01:53 David: I believe where we're going right now,
• 01:54 you were in the middle of the desert
• 01:56 with nothing around, right?
• 01:58 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Wadi Qelt.
• 01:59 David: Yes, we take you to Israel for Dr. Seif's teaching
• 02:01 right now.
• 02:04 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Miracles happen in different ways on
• 02:07 different days.
• 02:09 I say that because in the Bible there's financial miracles,
• 02:12 there's breakthroughs there, there's medical miracles,
• 02:16 people that are blind, they're lame, and even dead.
• 02:21 We examine these in Scripture and we examine them
• 02:25 in this series.
• 02:27 There's financial miracles, there's medical miracles,
• 02:33 there's relationships that get restored,
• 02:37 different ways, different days.
• 02:39 I wanna look at a miracle now that has its origin in politics.
• 02:45 I don't know about you, you know,
• 02:47 to talk about religion and politics is pretty combustible.
• 02:51 But there are some people that are looking for a breakthrough
• 02:53 that are unhappy campers.
• 02:55 And does the Lord sometimes work through political change?
• 03:01 I mention that because I know the answer to the question.
• 03:03 It was rhetorical. The answer is yes.
• 03:05 And I know that because Jeremiah predicted it.
• 03:09 Jeremiah saw misfortune coming to Judah as a judgment on Judah
• 03:14 because of her sins.
• 03:16 But even with that said, in Jeremiah chapter 25,
• 03:18 verse 12, it's noted there that this judgment,
• 03:23 beginning with the annexation of Judea by Babylonia,
• 03:27 to the eventual taking away into captivity
• 03:30 is gonna last 70 years.
• 03:32 After which, then, people are gonna return.
• 03:34 Now, I'm interested in Ezra chapter 1.
• 03:36 I wanna talk about a return that was facilitated
• 03:39 by a regime change.
• 03:42 When you talk about regime change today,
• 03:44 it seems rather violent and I don't advocate for that in our
• 03:47 own culture, even if I'm dissatisfied
• 03:50 by a political position.
• 03:52 You know, I exercise my right to speak and my right to vote and
• 03:54 leave it at that.
• 03:56 But there really was a regime change here.
• 03:58 The Babylonians had taken the Judeans off into captivity.
• 04:02 Eventually, however, they fell to the Persians.
• 04:06 The Persians allowed the Judeans and others to return,
• 04:09 again a political change.
• 04:11 The net result, then, tens of thousands of Judeans came back
• 04:16 through this way where we are right now.
• 04:19 They bore the challenges of the wilderness 'cause God was
• 04:22 guiding them through the wilderness
• 04:24 to the place of their destiny.
• 04:26 There's a fascinating story and it begins in Ezra 1.
• 04:29 We're told: "Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia,
• 04:34 in order to accomplish the word of the Lord from the mouth of
• 04:37 Jeremiah, the Lord spoke to Cyrus.
• 04:40 He stirred up the spirit of King Cyrus of Persia."
• 04:44 Says the Lord stirred up his spirit.
• 04:46 There's a song that I love singing.
• 04:48 It's called "Waymaker."
• 04:50 ♪ Lord, even when I don't see it, you're working. ♪♪
• 04:53 I mean, it's--here's something that had monumental implications
• 04:59 that no one saw coming.
• 05:00 It just happened.
• 05:02 The Lord stirred up the Spirit.
• 05:04 God can get into people's hearts and minds and facilitate change.
• 05:09 That's where you get the word "omnipotent," by the way,
• 05:11 a theological term: God is all-powerful.
• 05:15 The net result then is that Cyrus says in verse 2 that the
• 05:18 Lord's appointed him to build a house in Jerusalem.
• 05:22 And then he beckons them, at verse 3,
• 05:23 to go up and take care of the task.
• 05:25 It's interesting that you wouldn't expect,
• 05:29 you know, Cyrus to give voice to this but all of a sudden he gets
• 05:33 on God's side of history and anointing
• 05:37 and facilitates something.
• 05:38 Listen, miracles are fascinating.
• 05:41 You know, if Jesus, you know, does a financial miracle in your
• 05:44 life, it's fascinating.
• 05:46 A physical mealing in your--you know,
• 05:48 a physical healing in your life, it's fascinating.
• 05:51 A political miracle, we don't often think about that,
• 05:55 but we run into that when we look at biblical literature,
• 05:59 which is one of the reasons why we say that there is nothing
• 06:02 that is too difficult for God.
• 06:05 You might think that way because the things that occupy our minds
• 06:09 oftentimes are the troubles of the day
• 06:11 and they come in various forms.
• 06:14 And you know, we play those scripts over.
• 06:17 I'm so thankful to our partners that afforded us the opportunity
• 06:21 to bring this series to you, a series of miracles,
• 06:24 'cause I wanna remind you that irrespective of where
• 06:27 circumstances find you, there's a real God in heaven
• 06:31 and he's not just in heaven.
• 06:32 He came to Earth and he doesn't just come
• 06:34 into the world in general.
• 06:36 He wants to come in your world in particular.
• 06:38 And guess what?
• 06:39 Miracles happen and, yes, even today.
• 06:43 ♪♪♪
• 06:50 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: My wife is always saying, "Drink, drink."
• 06:54 She's always looking out for me, God bless her.
• 06:56 I love her.
• 06:58 I love pomegranate juice too.
• 06:59 I'm glad I don't have to make it.
• 07:01 They squeeze it and make it for me here on Ben Yehuda Street.
• 07:08 Fascinating place, just up from Zion Square,
• 07:11 here in Jerusalem.
• 07:13 It's fascinating in part because of the person that the street
• 07:17 is named after.
• 07:20 I say that because Ben Yehuda himself participated in the
• 07:24 modern miracle.
• 07:26 I say that because Hebrew had been a dead language.
• 07:29 Well, not altogether dead.
• 07:31 It wasn't spoken of in modern world.
• 07:34 It's the language of prayer and Hebrew text.
• 07:37 Ben Yehuda is the one responsible for the modern
• 07:40 language for the modern states.
• 07:44 It's busy right now because the nation has come alive,
• 07:49 but it wasn't always like that.
• 07:53 What I wanna do is take you back to an ancient world,
• 07:57 well, an ancient word from an ancient world.
• 07:59 The man's name was Ezekiel and it comes from the word "chazaq"
• 08:05 which means to be strong, and they needed strength too because
• 08:09 Jews weren't here on Ben Yehuda Street.
• 08:13 They weren't here in Jerusalem.
• 08:16 They were savaged by time and circumstance.
• 08:20 But Mr. Chazaq said, "Be strong," and he had a prophetic
• 08:24 word that he was going to bring them back.
• 08:29 And guess what?
• 08:30 We're in a world called back which means we're in a world of
• 08:34 prophecy being fulfilled.
• 08:37 Don't take my word for it.
• 08:39 Let's hear from the literature.
• 08:40 In Ezekiel 37, in verse 12, he says hineh,
• 08:48 which is the word "behold"; ani, "I."
• 08:52 Now, the I that's talking is God.
• 08:55 He says,
• 08:56 [speaking in Hebrew]
• 08:58 "I will open your graves."
• 09:05 Now, contextually, to the beginning of the chapter,
• 09:09 he likens the nation state of Israel to dry, scattered bones.
• 09:15 And here, he's giving voice to their resurrection.
• 09:19 It would have seemed impossible in his day.
• 09:21 He himself was startled by the vision.
• 09:25 Today, interestingly, it is a very responsible argument that
• 09:29 we're living in the fulfillment of a promise--
• 09:32 that is, a modern-day miracle.
• 09:38 When we talk about miracles, we're talking about suspension
• 09:41 of the laws of nature.
• 09:44 Now, there's physical miracles with body,
• 09:46 financial miracles, but here we're looking at one that
• 09:49 involves hundreds and thousands of millions of people coming
• 09:54 hundreds and thousands of millions of miles.
• 09:57 When you add it all up, from different places in the world,
• 10:00 coming back here.
• 10:04 There are a variety of reasons why Israel's beautiful
• 10:06 in my mind's eye.
• 10:08 Certainly, of Jewish extract myself,
• 10:12 the re-emergence of a Jewish state in the ancestral homeland
• 10:16 resonates with me.
• 10:18 But you don't have to be Jew.
• 10:19 You can see something in it of you.
• 10:21 I mention that because the story of miracle is extremely
• 10:25 important, not just the Jews needed it to re-present in the
• 10:30 homeland but you might need a miracle yourself.
• 10:35 Could it be that Israel itself is a testimony itself to a God
• 10:40 who watches over his word to perform it?
• 10:44 I mention that in Ezekiel's day they had been displaced from the
• 10:47 ancestral homeland because of sin and circumstances that
• 10:51 accumulated over quite some time.
• 10:53 They are in Babylonia at the time of the writing and when he
• 10:56 says he's gonna bring 'em back, he did there and then--
• 10:59 that is, the Babylonians eventually fell to the Persians,
• 11:03 subsequent to which the Persians allowed them to return.
• 11:07 So you can say, "Well, Jeffrey, you're looking
• 11:08 at fulfilled prophecy.
• 11:10 Why do you wanna bring it forth in the modernity?"
• 11:12 Well, indeed there was a partial fulfillment of it in antiquity,
• 11:16 but as you read on through the prophet Ezekiel,
• 11:19 he talks about the rebuilding of the temple,
• 11:22 he talks about miracles happening through it to the
• 11:25 world, things that haven't happened yet.
• 11:27 So the Ezekiel text begs a future fulfillment which begs a
• 11:33 present question--that is, are we living in a world of miracle
• 11:39 with prophecy being fulfilled today?
• 11:43 I say yes.
• 11:46 And it's not just good news for Jews.
• 11:48 It's good news for yous. And why is that?
• 11:50 Because of the same God that watches over Israel,
• 11:53 yes, that's the God that watches over you.
• 11:57 ♪♪♪
• 12:07 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Usually, when you make television,
• 12:10 you like a nice quiet studio.
• 12:14 Well, that ain't happening here.
• 12:17 There's way too much life. That's a good thing.
• 12:21 They're partying in the background.
• 12:22 They're doing construction.
• 12:24 You're gonna see a--you might hear a saw in a minute and see
• 12:28 stuff all around you.
• 12:30 Welcome to Jerusalem, a city that has come back to life,
• 12:37 itself a testimony to God's loving kindness
• 12:41 which endures forever.
• 12:44 Not everybody felt that loving kindness.
• 12:46 Ezekiel, whom I referred to earlier,
• 12:50 gave voice to the fact that one time they weren't experiencing
• 12:53 life; people were experiencing death.
• 12:57 They were taken off into captivity in Babylonia and they
• 13:02 felt that our hope is lost.
• 13:07 It's explicit in the literature:
• 13:08 [speaking in Hebrew]
• 13:09 "Our hope," we're told in Ezekiel 37:11,
• 13:14 [speaking in Hebrew]
• 13:16 "We're cut off.
• 13:18 Our hope is cut off from us."
• 13:21 They felt that way, and I understand why they did because
• 13:24 their circumstances attested to it.
• 13:27 Speaking of which, I don't know what your circumstances are.
• 13:32 I know those people back then could have very well felt that
• 13:35 way for good reasons.
• 13:38 And when you look at your life, you could very well think that
• 13:41 way for good reason as well.
• 13:44 I say that because you never know what a hearer is hearing in
• 13:48 their inner dialogue.
• 13:49 Someone comes up to you and says,
• 13:51 "How are you doing?"
• 13:52 You're gonna probably say, "Fine, thank you, and you?"
• 13:54 Never mind what you say to the world,
• 13:55 the question is what do you say to yourself?
• 13:58 And sometimes, the language is very negative because the
• 14:01 circumstances are abysmal.
• 14:03 People can feel their hope is lost because people have been
• 14:06 abandoned by people, significant others jettison which is very
• 14:10 dispiriting, people can feel their hope is lost when their
• 14:14 own body betrays them.
• 14:17 People can feel their hope is lost when their circumstances
• 14:20 betray them, when their finances dissipate,
• 14:23 they lose a job.
• 14:24 Different people can happen--different things can
• 14:27 happen to different people to cause them to feel our hope is
• 14:30 lost and, frankly, I can understand
• 14:32 why they feel that way.
• 14:34 What I can't understand is how people maintain that way when
• 14:37 they open up the Bible because this just glares hope "from
• 14:41 Genesis to maps," as my wife likes to say.
• 14:44 From Genesis to Revelation, it is just full of hope.
• 14:50 Speaking of getting over to maps, or closer to Revelation,
• 14:53 I think of the Gospel of John.
• 14:55 You might recall there were two sisters in the 11th chapter.
• 14:58 They were out of hope. Their brother died.
• 15:01 He's known as Lazarus, his Hebrew name was Eleazar.
• 15:04 And they thought it was all over.
• 15:07 And you know what happened?
• 15:08 Yeshua showed up and raised him from the dead.
• 15:10 You know, he raises up people from the dead,
• 15:13 from difficult circumstances, he does.
• 15:16 He brings it back to life.
• 15:17 He does it with individuals, and here I'm coming to you from
• 15:21 Israel, where he does it with a nation state.
• 15:25 What are the prospects of a God like that for you in your own
• 15:29 individual circumstances?
• 15:31 I want you to know, I want you to be able
• 15:34 to say what Jews say in Israel:
• 15:36 [speaking in Hebrew]
• 15:39 "The people of Israel live."
• 15:42 And that need not be simply a story over here;
• 15:46 it can be a story on the other side of the camera where
• 15:50 you're sitting right now.
• 15:52 I want you to know, indeed, there's hope and there's hope
• 15:55 for you.
• 15:56 Why is that? Because God still does miracles.
• 16:04 Kirsten: I sure don't wanna discredit Dr. Seif's teaching
• 16:08 but, Dr. Seif, you were walking with fresh pomegranate juice in
• 16:14 the Holy Land on Ben Yehuda Street.
• 16:16 Your teaching was fantastic, but I was distracted by the life and
• 16:20 the drink that you had at your hand.
• 16:22 That's such good stuff.
• 16:23 You like the pomegranate juice too, yes?
• 16:25 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Oh yeah, pomegranates and Israel
• 16:27 kinda sorta go together.
• 16:29 Kirsten: I know.
• 16:30 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: In fact, Jews looked at the pomegranate
• 16:31 as a symbol of Judaism in a variety of ways because of the
• 16:34 seed count in the fruit.
• 16:36 But it was yummy, it was tasty.
• 16:38 Kirsten: It's good.
• 16:40 And it's a miracle, right, to be back in that land drinking
• 16:43 pomegranate juice.
• 16:45 There's life going on and I love the shots of you at Ben Yehuda.
• 16:49 The life is just active going on behind you.
• 16:51 It wasn't so, take it 100 years ago, was it?
• 16:54 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: No, it came back to life.
• 16:55 And, you know, the fruits.
• 16:57 The land has been known for its fruits,
• 17:00 even referring to Israel as the land of milk and honey harks to
• 17:03 something, and the various fruit products.
• 17:05 The Bible references the figs and the olives and what have
• 17:09 you, and it's also very tasty and so very delightful.
• 17:14 David: Something that we really love about Israel
• 17:16 when we go.
• 17:17 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: You know, Israel is a garden
• 17:19 come back to life.
• 17:20 It's where the Garden of Eden was originally,
• 17:23 verdant, blossoming, but then through sin and circumstance,
• 17:26 the world changed and people were kicked out.
• 17:29 But if you look at Israel of the Promised Land,
• 17:31 there is some kind of association with Eden and,
• 17:33 with that, the wonderful fruits.
• 17:35 David: And the miracle, sorry.
• 17:36 Kirsten: Right, the miracles.
• 17:38 And the covenant promise that God did bring his people back.
• 17:40 He brought 'em back from exile and he brought 'em back to make
• 17:44 Aliyah into the new land currently that we can see.
• 17:47 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Yeah, and we see it in the series,
• 17:48 and in this program, particularly,
• 17:50 about how the miracle of God bringing people
• 17:52 back to their place.
• 17:54 You know, sin takes people off course,
• 17:57 and the question is can God get us back on course and get us
• 17:59 back to a good place in life?
• 18:01 And the miracle power of God affords us the opportunity to
• 18:05 get back and grow and live in love again.
• 18:07 David: Amen. So much more in this program.
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• 19:09 David: Can I also add to what Kirsten just said?
• 19:11 Kirsten and I are honored to be a part of this series,
• 19:14 "The God of Miracles."
• 19:17 David: And speaking of miracles,
• 19:18 certainly, downtown Jerusalem is just that.
• 19:21 Amazingly, during its long history,
• 19:24 Jerusalem has been attacked 52 times,
• 19:27 captured 44 times, besieged 23 times,
• 19:31 and destroyed twice.
• 19:33 And yet, to witness its downtown streets is to witness a miracle.
• 19:38 The capital of Israel has risen miraculously from the ashes and
• 19:42 become a thriving municipality with wonderful shops,
• 19:46 restaurants, and a light rail system that can take you
• 19:50 virtually anywhere you need to go.
• 19:52 It's here that the magazine "Israel Today" is headquartered.
• 19:56 An international publication staffed by reporters and editors
• 19:59 that seek to bring a biblical perspective
• 20:02 to current events in Israel.
• 20:04 Theirs is a dedicated mission to help you stay informed
• 20:08 and pray informed.
• 20:10 The magazine's editor, David Lazarus,
• 20:13 tells us the story of how he came to faith.
• 20:18 David Lazarus: So you wanna talk about miracles?
• 20:19 I'll tell you a miracle.
• 20:22 I was living in the Sinai Desert.
• 20:23 When was that?
• 20:25 Over 40 years ago.
• 20:28 Why was I in the Sinai Desert?
• 20:29 Well, I was sick and tired of this crazy,
• 20:31 fakakta, mixed-up world, and I made a hut for myself on a sand
• 20:36 dune down there, under a palm tree,
• 20:38 and I lived there for 3 years.
• 20:41 I used to go fishing in the Red Sea.
• 20:44 And one day I was fixing my nets,
• 20:46 sitting on the sand dune, and it occurred to me or it came to me,
• 20:52 I have no explanation, that Jesus--
• 20:57 this, of all the things in the world, is the Messiah
• 21:03 for the Jewish people.
• 21:04 I'm like, "What is this?
• 21:08 How is this possible?"
• 21:10 And this was a life-transforming encounter that I had with Jesus,
• 21:17 or Yeshua, as we called him.
• 21:20 Of course, with me, it was that guy that we don't talk about.
• 21:26 And I can only stand this to be a miracle because there really
• 21:31 is no natural way that this could have happened.
• 21:38 There's no reason.
• 21:40 It was God intervening in the natural order of things,
• 21:50 to come to a Jew in the middle of the desert and reveal himself
• 21:55 to me.
• 21:57 And I say that this is a miracle,
• 22:00 first of all, because it was transformational.
• 22:03 My life was instantly transformed.
• 22:07 I mean, I became a dedicated, you know,
• 22:10 disciple and followed Yeshua for the rest of my life.
• 22:16 And I see this also, not just as a personal testimony to the
• 22:22 power, let's say the willingness of God to continue to pour his
• 22:27 love on my people regardless of time or space,
• 22:35 and unhooked, or unhinged even, to human endeavors to make that
• 22:42 kind of a thing happen.
• 22:44 When a miracle happened in the Bible,
• 22:46 it was written down and then these stories were passed down
• 22:50 from generation to generation.
• 22:53 And this story, my story, and the story of many others,
• 22:57 of my friends, actually, from here in Israel,
• 23:00 this is back in the '60s and 1970s,
• 23:03 had similar encounters with Jesus.
• 23:08 This is something that represents something
• 23:10 much bigger than ourselves.
• 23:12 This is a story.
• 23:14 If you will, this is a biblical story.
• 23:16 You know, if we were still writing the Bible today,
• 23:19 this is one of the things that would be recorded
• 23:22 and that would be told.
• 23:24 That my people, these people, came back to this land and,
• 23:29 after 2000 years of a veil--is it?--
• 23:36 I don't even know, but after--
• 23:39 we came to a place of history where
• 23:41 the children of Israel could never--
• 23:43 could not recognize Yeshua.
• 23:47 So I praise God for his working in our world and in our lives
• 23:56 today through our Lord Yeshua the Messiah.
• 24:01 Thank you.
• 24:04 David: It is so encouraging to us to see people like David
• 24:07 Lazarus who have had a God miracle in their life.
• 24:11 It's happening in Israel today, yes?
• 24:13 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Yes, and he's been that tip of that spear
• 24:15 for a number of years.
• 24:16 Now he reports on it in a variety of ways and he's a
• 24:19 personal testimony of the miraculous.
• 24:22 Kirsten: He's a personal testimony.
• 24:24 The country or state of Israel is an absolute
• 24:27 modern-day miracle, hands down.
• 24:30 People that don't believe in miracles anymore just need to
• 24:32 look at Israel.
• 24:34 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Yes, and one miracle's worth 100 sermons.
• 24:36 People need to see stories of God at work in the world,
• 24:40 'cause it invites them to consider the possibilities for
• 24:43 their own life.
• 24:45 It's better than lecturing on miracles.
• 24:47 A testimony of a transformation, of a suspension of the laws of
• 24:51 nature, divine intervention, a testimony of that effect invites
• 24:56 people to consider implications for their own life.
• 24:59 Extremely powerful.
• 25:00 Kirsten: And also to consider keeping
• 25:02 this program alive financially.
• 25:06 We wanna continue bringing you the miracle of Israel,
• 25:10 the miracle of Jewish people turning to their Messiah.
• 25:14 We can only do it with your help.
• 25:16 So, thank you in advance for voting for this program to stay
• 25:20 on air, financially.
• 25:21 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: You know, I've been around this program
• 25:23 for a couple of years and so have you.
• 25:24 It's 46 years old.
• 25:26 I've seen occasions when we were really up against the ropes,
• 25:28 but the Lord touched someone to send a significant donation to
• 25:33 kind of push us forward, and I think our own existence,
• 25:36 to your point, 46 years on television, is a miracle.
• 25:39 Kirsten: It is, and we're thankful
• 25:41 for all our viewers and--
• 25:43 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: All of our friends, yes.
• 25:44 Kirsten: --more next week.
• 25:45 David: We have a song from our founder, Zola Levitt.
• 25:47 But before we do that, we end with--
• 25:49 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Always like this.
• 25:50 Next week, let's do it again.
• 25:52 Till then, Shaalu shalom Yerushalayim.
• 25:54 Kirsten: Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.
• 25:57 ♪ So rise now and walk ♪
• 26:01 ♪ Through the loveliness of Israel ♪
• 26:05 ♪ And all that you can see ♪
• 26:10 ♪ I give it unto thee ♪
• 26:21 ♪ Out of thee I'll make a mighty nation ♪
• 26:24 ♪ Out of thee ♪
• 26:26 ♪ I'll bless the other lands ♪
• 26:29 ♪ Thy children are my children ♪
• 26:33 ♪ I give the Promised Land of Israel ♪
• 26:37 ♪ I give my land to thee ♪
• 26:40 ♪ Get thee out and journey into Canaan ♪
• 26:45 ♪ Leave thy land and leave thy father's house ♪
• 26:49 ♪ Unto the land I give thee ♪
• 26:53 ♪ I give the Promised Land of Israel ♪
• 26:57 ♪ I give my land to thee ♪
• 27:01 ♪ Unto the land I give thee ♪
• 27:05 ♪ I give my land to thee ♪
• 27:12 ♪ To thee ♪
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