Caption transcript for “Israel’s Faithful Advocates”

• 00:01 ♪♪♪
• 00:11 ♪♪♪
• 00:17 Joshua Colson: Hey everybody, I’m Joshua.
• 00:20 Caleb Colson: And I’m Caleb. Joshua: He’s my literal brother.
• 00:21 That’s why we’re called the “Bearded Bible Brothers” because
• 00:23 we like the Bible.
• 00:24 If you check out the news today, there’s probably one prevailing
• 00:28 thing you’re gonna hear on any of the channels, and that is
• 00:30 that Israel, it’s the center of all the world’s problems.
• 00:33 They demonize them.
• 00:35 They mock them.
• 00:36 They pretty much say that they’re terrible.
• 00:37 That’s called anti-Semitism, and class, that is anti-biblical.
• 00:42 Caleb: And it’s not just in the mainstream media, Josh.
• 00:44 We’re seeing this kind of message prevailing in the
• 00:47 church, in evangelical congregations and ministries.
• 00:50 They are teaching replacement theology, saying that God has
• 00:53 replaced Israel in his covenant plans with the church.
• 00:56 I guess they haven’t read Romans 9 through 11 yet.
• 00:59 Joshua: No, I don’t think they have, nor have they seen the
• 01:01 felt boards in Sunday school on the very same chapters.
• 01:04 Luckily there are believers who are fighting for Israel, and
• 01:08 today we get to showcase the Messianic Jews and believing
• 01:11 Gentiles who do support the nation of Israel.
• 01:13 First up, we want to introduce you to Daniel Cohen.
• 01:16 He’s a three-time Emmy Award winning journalist who doesn’t
• 01:19 care about the Emmys.
• 01:20 In fact, he said he threw them in a storage unit, never
• 01:22 to be seen again.
• 01:23 He’s the host of “The Daniel Cohen Show” on Pastor Jack
• 01:25 Hibbs’s “Real Life Network.”
• 01:26 He’s a broadcast correspondent living in Israel, declaring the
• 01:29 true news that the legacy media doesn’t want you to know, and
• 01:32 he’s awesome.
• 01:34 Caleb: Then you’re gonna hear from Barry Segal of Vision for
• 01:36 Israel Ministries and learn how he was originally connected to
• 01:39 Zola Levitt Ministries.
• 01:41 But first, let’s hear from Daniel Cohen.
• 01:43 Joshua: They’re both awesome.
• 01:46 Caleb: So this is Daniel Cohen.
• 01:47 You are a three-time Emmy Award-winning journalist.
• 01:51 You have such an amazing pedigree, but right now you have
• 01:53 “The Daniel Cohen Show” on Jack Hibbs’s “Real Life Network.”
• 01:57 Can you tell us more of your history of journalism and how
• 02:00 you got into it?
• 02:01 Daniel Cohen: So, I’m a Jewish follower of Yeshua, Jesus, and
• 02:03 that’s always what I lead with.
• 02:04 That’s the first thing.
• 02:06 That’s first and foremost.
• 02:07 I’m a father.
• 02:08 I’m a husband, and I live in Israel.
• 02:10 I live in Herzliya, and the Lord brought my family there in 2020
• 02:13 during the pandemic, kept us there throughout through
• 02:16 the war.
• 02:17 And I’m very happy to have connected with Pastor Jack, Jack
• 02:20 Hibbs’s “Real Life Network,” RealLifeNetwork.com.
• 02:22 We just launched two years ago on Pentecost, actually, two
• 02:25 years ago.
• 02:26 The content’s reaching two million people per month.
• 02:28 It’s insane.
• 02:29 Caleb: And it’s free, right?
• 02:30 Daniel: God’s hand is all over it.
• 02:32 Yeah, that’s it.
• 02:33 This is the thing.
• 02:34 Don’t want any money.
• 02:36 Caleb: What kind of things have you been covering lately?
• 02:37 Because I believe we are close to the return of Yeshua.
• 02:39 Daniel: Something that’s deep in our hearts right now that we are
• 02:40 watching and speaking on really closely is this divide in
• 02:42 the church.
• 02:44 It comes down to this, this one thing, do you believe that
• 02:46 Jesus, that Yeshua, came to reveal the God of the Old
• 02:50 Testament, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, or that Jesus
• 02:53 came to replace the God?
• 02:55 Caleb: I like that word.
• 02:57 Daniel: The God of the of the Old Testament.
• 02:58 God’s not a promise breaker.
• 03:00 And if he breaks his promise, if he breaks his promise to the
• 03:02 Jewish people, if you’re a Gentile, what hope do you have?
• 03:05 Joshua: How do you encourage believers in America to
• 03:07 support Israel?
• 03:09 Daniel: Well, I believe that right now is a time
• 03:10 for the church to sort of be shaken.
• 03:12 Joshua: Yeah.
• 03:13 Daniel: After the terror attack on October 7, my family was
• 03:15 begging me.
• 03:16 I had family I remember saying, “I’ll buy you a first
• 03:18 class ticket today to get out of there.”
• 03:20 And I prayed and I said, “Lord, if you want me to go, if you
• 03:23 want us to leave, we’ll leave.”
• 03:25 When Jesus was a baby, they whisked him away to Egypt.
• 03:27 I’m not going to just be like, “No.
• 03:29 Okay, Lord, if you want me to go, I will, but I feel like you
• 03:32 brought us here for this.
• 03:33 I feel like you brought me here, and we’ve planted these roots,
• 03:36 and we’ve been through what we’ve been through so that we
• 03:38 can be here and be truth tellers on the front lines.”
• 03:40 He answered our prayer.
• 03:41 My wife and I, we were on our faces in prayer after October 7.
• 03:44 The days after, there are rockets flying all over
• 03:46 the place.
• 03:47 There’s an invasion here.
• 03:48 Hezbollah could be launching an attack from Lebanon,
• 03:50 from the north.
• 03:51 We’re surrounded in a ring of fire.
• 03:52 Israel’s surrounded on all sides by Hamas, the Houthis, by
• 03:54 Hezbollah, by all of these terror groups who have promised
• 03:57 and sworn to wipe Israel off the map.
• 03:59 I have videos on my social media holding my phone.
• 04:01 There’s an Iron Dome launch site 200 meters from my front door.
• 04:04 Joshua: Oh my goodness.
• 04:06 Daniel: I go, listen, and you could, I could hear on my phone,
• 04:09 you hear [imitating sound of missile launch].
• 04:12 And then my house shakes.
• 04:13 And I’m in my basement, in my mamad, my bomb shelter, which is
• 04:16 a concrete-fortified room with a sealed door, you know?
• 04:19 And so our prayer life went from, “Bless these nuggets,” to,
• 04:22 “Lord, bless us, protect us.
• 04:24 Lord, we know you will.”
• 04:26 We know–and he has, and I know that he does, and I know that
• 04:28 he will.
• 04:29 Caleb: No, but this is amazing because God brought you there
• 04:31 for a very specific timing, just like he brought us, because as
• 04:34 soon as that happened, we went out to the streets, and we
• 04:36 started making videos and coverage.
• 04:38 And we hashtagged it with “Operation Al-Aqsa Flood,” and
• 04:40 then all the Islamists started watching our videos.
• 04:43 Daniel: Do you know what you just did?
• 04:46 I ask people all the time, “You know what they call October 7?
• 04:49 They call it the Al-Aqsa Flood.”
• 04:52 Where is Al-Aqsa?
• 04:53 Al-Aqsa’s a mosque on the Temple Mount.
• 04:55 It’s not anywhere near Gaza.
• 04:57 They don’t care about Gaza.
• 04:58 They don’t care about the people of Gaza.
• 05:00 This is a spiritual war.
• 05:03 It’s a spiritual war.
• 05:04 It’s a war for the heart.
• 05:05 It’s the heart of Jerusalem, the Temple Mount, the ancient
• 05:07 temples once stood.
• 05:09 That’s what it’s all–they call it the Al-Aqsa Flood.
• 05:10 Not about Gaza, not at all.
• 05:12 It’s not about land. Well, it is about land.
• 05:13 It’s about God’s heart.
• 05:15 I hope your audience picks up on what you just said.
• 05:17 It’s a spiritual war, and Al-Aqsa Flood is the proof.
• 05:20 But I want to encourage your audience with this.
• 05:22 The promises of God are yes and amen.
• 05:23 And if you want to be used, if you want to be a weapon in the
• 05:26 kingdom, the most powerful thing that you can do if you want to
• 05:29 be a weapon in the arsenal of the Lord is one thing, say one
• 05:32 word, and what is it?
• 05:33 Caleb: Yes.
• 05:35 Daniel: Say yes. Just say yes.
• 05:36 Say yes to whatever he puts on your heart.
• 05:38 And if you put something on your heart, and you say, “Gosh, Lord,
• 05:40 I don’t know how I’m going to be able to get that done,” perfect,
• 05:42 because if you could do it without the Lord–he doesn’t
• 05:45 need us.
• 05:46 But if you can figure out how to do it by yourself–
• 05:47 Caleb: Then it’s not him.
• 05:49 Daniel: How is he going to be glorified?
• 05:50 How’s he going to be magnified in that?
• 05:52 So, so say yes.
• 05:53 And so God was such a gentleman in how he moved us to Israel and
• 05:56 how he brought us there and kept us there.
• 05:57 The promise of God is yes and amen, and whatever that is in
• 05:59 your life, say yes.
• 06:01 Joshua: Thank you for taking the time with us today.
• 06:03 Daniel: God bless you guys, and let’s do this again soon.
• 06:05 Joshua: All right.
• 06:08 Caleb: This is really an honor, and most people may not know,
• 06:11 unless they watched Zola going back decades, your connection
• 06:15 with Zola Levitt Ministries.
• 06:16 I’d love for you to share how it all began.
• 06:18 Barry Segal: I remember one specific program that he was
• 06:22 taping when, in the midst of the Gulf War, when Saddam Hussein
• 06:26 was thrusting about 39 Scud missiles against Israel in 39
• 06:30 days, I believe it was, all ending on the Eve of Purim.
• 06:33 And they came to film us to see what it’s like, what are we
• 06:36 doing as a family.
• 06:38 Our son was like one or two years old at the time.
• 06:41 We had to put him in a gas mask tent, and we’d have to seal our
• 06:45 wooden door with like rolls of adhesive tape until, at the end
• 06:50 of the war, we just lifted the tape and picked up the
• 06:53 door completely.
• 06:54 But that was one of the most-watched viewed programs
• 06:59 Zola told me that had ever been seen because it really was
• 07:04 a live reality show of what life in Israel can be like in the
• 07:08 midst of a war.
• 07:10 Caleb: But y’all were also involved in music, which was his
• 07:13 expertise, you know, gained a degree in composition.
• 07:16 And your wife, Batya, y’all did a lot of musical arrangements
• 07:20 with him, did you not?
• 07:21 Barry: Batya, when I met her in the winter of ’81 to ’82,
• 07:26 I actually walked into a Bible study of musicians
• 07:29 and songwriters.
• 07:31 And I would venture to say there were not more than about 300
• 07:35 Jewish believers in all of Israel in those years and not
• 07:39 more than about 60 sabra, Israeli-born believers, and my
• 07:43 wife being one of them.
• 07:45 And really, the gifting that she had was absorbed from the fact
• 07:51 that her father, and she coming from an Orthodox Jewish family,
• 07:55 he would sing in the tradition of Yemenite Jewry.
• 07:59 He would sing the scriptures every morning, much like going
• 08:03 to an African American Black gospel church.
• 08:06 So he would sing through the scriptures while her older
• 08:09 brothers and sisters were off to work or whatever.
• 08:12 So she was absorbing this, and God would just download upon her
• 08:15 as a new believer songs like “Hodu La’Adonai,” “Give Thanks
• 08:19 to the Lord, For He is Good,” “Sos Asis,” you know, “Rejoice
• 08:23 Greatly,” and many other songs that came through the years.
• 08:26 So I think you’re right, exactly.
• 08:28 There was this great passion and love of Zola, who excelled in
• 08:31 music, together with us.
• 08:34 Now, my background is I came out of Motown, so I’m from the home
• 08:37 of soul music, and then later grew up in my teen years, moving
• 08:42 to Cleveland, Ohio, the home of rock and roll.
• 08:44 So, and then playing ultimately in a rock and roll band, rhythm
• 08:48 and blues.
• 08:49 So, you know, I think that’s a mutual bond that those of us who
• 08:53 are musicians and songwriters and lovers of all kinds of music
• 08:57 like Zola, we can just connect instantly.
• 09:00 And Batya and I both in our heritage are known as Levites,
• 09:04 so I didn’t wear my Levi blue jeans tonight, but it is one of
• 09:08 the parts of life.
• 09:09 And so since then, we’ve recorded seven albums, and we
• 09:13 just recently finished four new songs, two of which we’ve put up
• 09:18 on YouTube under the name Barry & Batya Segal.
• 09:21 And one of the things we want to leave behind for the body of
• 09:24 Messiah, as well as for the global audience, is just the
• 09:29 heritage of the richness that God has given us to write and
• 09:33 produce music, along with many other gifted people out there,
• 09:36 but we’ll continue until we can’t, you know?
• 09:38 Look, if the Rolling Stones can continue in their 80s, we can
• 09:41 easily do it.
• 09:43 Caleb: Amen.
• 09:45 Joshua: The “Bearded Bible Brothers” is an outreach of Zola
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• 09:51 Levitt Letter,” or call 1-800-WONDERS.
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• 10:03 Your donations and love gifts help us continue our mission to
• 10:07 bring the gospel to the Jew first.
• 10:09 We thank you for your faithful support.
• 10:13 Joshua: Zola Levitt Ministries was founded in 1979, just
• 10:16 a couple of years before my brother was founded.
• 10:19 But Chosen People Ministries, they were founded before us in
• 10:21 1894, just a couple of years before I was founded.
• 10:25 Now this Messianic Jewish ministry partnered with Zola
• 10:28 back in the day, and they are still going strong, declaring
• 10:30 the truth of God’s love for the Jews.
• 10:33 Coming up, you’re gonna hear from Doctor Mitch Glaser.
• 10:35 He’s the president of Chosen People Ministries, and he, ooh,
• 10:39 he’s gonna share with you insightful studies on
• 10:41 evangelical Christians’s resolve towards Israel since the October
• 10:45 7 massacre.
• 10:46 Caleb: You’re also going to hear from Brad Dacus, founder and
• 10:49 president of the Pacific Justice Institute.
• 10:52 He has created a nonprofit legal firm that helps with
• 10:56 disenfranchised individuals fighting for their religious
• 10:59 liberties in America, and he does it free of charge.
• 11:03 He also has a heart for the Jewish people and fights for
• 11:06 their liberties against anti-Semitic doctrine and
• 11:10 persecution that comes against the Jews from universities
• 11:13 like Columbia.
• 11:14 He’s fought every single professor and institution that
• 11:17 has tried to criminalize or hurt or persecute the Jewish people
• 11:20 since October 7.
• 11:21 And he also brings and protects Jewish immigrants
• 11:24 who come from host nations that persecute them as well.
• 11:29 Joshua: Get out of here, Columbia.
• 11:30 Do the right thing.
• 11:31 But first, Doctor Mitch Glaser with Chosen People Ministries.
• 11:34 Check it out.
• 11:37 Caleb: I’m here with Doctor Mitch Glaser, the President, CEO
• 11:41 of Chosen People Ministries.
• 11:42 Dr. Mitch Glaser: I am.
• 11:44 Caleb: Thank you for joining me today.
• 11:45 Dr. Mitch Glaser: You’re welcome.
• 11:46 It’s wonderful to be here and just delighted to meet you guys.
• 11:48 It’s great.
• 11:49 Caleb: I’m delighted to meet someone in Chosen People
• 11:52 Ministries because I know that the rich history of y’all going
• 11:55 back in the connection with Zola Levitt, our founder, and how he
• 11:59 was a part of Chosen People Ministries.
• 12:01 How did Chosen People Ministries get started, and what’s the
• 12:04 connection with Zola Levitt Ministries?
• 12:05 Dr. Mitch Glaser: Chosen People began in 1894.
• 12:08 And in 1894, a Hungarian rabbi came to the United States, went
• 12:12 to the Lower East Side with about a million and a half
• 12:15 million other Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe, heard
• 12:17 a Polish Presbyterian missionary to the Jews preaching the gospel
• 12:21 in Yiddish.
• 12:23 It happens all the time.
• 12:24 And so he came to faith, and then decided that God wanted him
• 12:27 to reach his own people, particularly the immigrants that
• 12:30 kept coming in like himself.
• 12:32 And so we did a lot of good works, a lot of benevolence,
• 12:34 feeding, vocational training, citizenship training, you know,
• 12:39 all sorts of things.
• 12:41 So I’m the seventh president of Chosen People Ministries, and
• 12:44 we’re in our 132nd year, and we are thanking God for
• 12:48 his faithfulness.
• 12:49 We’re in 21 countries, 20 plus cities, about 25 staff members
• 12:53 in Israel, and we are busy doing what Leopold Cohn did.
• 12:57 We’re preaching the gospel, caring for our people any way we
• 13:01 can, standing against anti-Semitism, standing for
• 13:04 Israel, and everything else.
• 13:06 And I was in seminary, I think, or maybe I just graduated, when
• 13:11 I found out about there was this new bearded Jewish believer with
• 13:16 a strange name, Zola, whoever, you know, Zola Levitt, sounded
• 13:20 Jewish, you know?
• 13:22 I found out about him coming to faith.
• 13:23 And in those days, he was a Jesus Movement baby, but unlike
• 13:27 I was, a typical middle-class Jewish, druggie, hippie.
• 13:33 You know, Zola actually had held real jobs, you know, and was
• 13:37 a real musician and all sorts of other things.
• 13:41 Anyway, eventually, I got to meet Zola and really enjoyed
• 13:44 his company.
• 13:45 I know he’s in heaven, rejoicing in the Lord, but boy, our whole
• 13:48 movement would have been richer if he would have stayed
• 13:50 around longer.
• 13:52 He was just such a force to be reckoned with.
• 13:54 You know, he’s part of our legacy, so we share a legacy.
• 13:57 Caleb: Well, I wanted to ask you, because y’all are taking
• 14:01 part in this revolutionary survey about Christians and
• 14:04 their perspective, their view after October 7 concerning
• 14:08 Israel, the Jewish people.
• 14:09 I just want to hear more about that.
• 14:11 Dr. Mitch Glaser: We found out that the percentages of
• 14:14 Christians that are pro-Israel and favorable towards the Jewish
• 14:18 people has not gone down since October 7.
• 14:23 The NAE evangelicals went up, and we’re talking about 70%
• 14:26 and over.
• 14:28 It was stunning.
• 14:29 We then asked the question, why?
• 14:31 And that’s the most important part of the survey.
• 14:33 Can I tell you the why?
• 14:35 Caleb: I would love to know.
• 14:36 Dr. Mitch Glaser: Okay, because most Christians continue to
• 14:40 believe that God gave Israel a covenant through Abraham.
• 14:45 Caleb: So, they believe the Bible is what you’re saying.
• 14:48 Dr. Mitch Glaser: We love Genesis 12:1-3, you know?
• 14:51 And the evangelicals are even higher.
• 14:55 It’s like 10 points higher, almost 80%.
• 14:58 They believe that the land belongs to the Jewish people.
• 15:01 The Jewish people should be an entity that is blessed and
• 15:05 prayed for by Christians because of the unconditional nature and
• 15:10 the ongoing nature of the Abrahamic covenant, which
• 15:14 promised the people the land and the future of Israel.
• 15:17 You know, if you love the Bible, you love the Lord, you love the
• 15:20 Jewish people, I just wanna say you are doing great.
• 15:23 And as a Jewish believer, I’m so proud to be associated with
• 15:28 evangelicals because of the fervency with which they love my
• 15:32 people, our people.
• 15:34 Caleb: Mitch, it has been a pleasure to speak with you and
• 15:36 learn about the good things that God has been doing with
• 15:39 your ministry.
• 15:40 How can people get a hold of Chosen People Ministries and
• 15:43 donate and take action?
• 15:44 Dr. Mitch Glaser: You go to ChosenPeople.com, and go to the
• 15:47 Chosen People YouTube site also, and I think that’ll give
• 15:51 you plenty.
• 15:52 Caleb: It was a pleasure getting to speak with you, Mitch.
• 15:54 You are truly a general in the faith, and I’m very humbled to
• 15:57 be able to sit with you.
• 15:58 Dr. Mitch Glaser: Thank you.
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• 16:04 Caleb: I am here with Brad Dacus, the founder of Pacific
• 16:08 Justice Institute.
• 16:09 In this founding of this institute, you protect people
• 16:12 who don’t have a voice, it sounds like, people who are
• 16:14 disenfranchised, who have conservative values,
• 16:17 Judeo-Christian values, and they need someone to stand up
• 16:20 for them.
• 16:21 Is that really how this got started?
• 16:23 Brad Dacus: Yeah, it was back in 1997.
• 16:24 I was the Western Director of the Rutherford Institute.
• 16:27 I opened an office for them from scratch five years earlier,
• 16:31 coordinated litigation in 14 Western states.
• 16:33 And then the national office, it contracted and it shut down the
• 16:37 regional offices.
• 16:39 And they said, “Brad, we don’t want to lose you.
• 16:40 In fact, we’re going to promote you.
• 16:42 We want you to head up our public affairs office in
• 16:44 Washington D.C.
• 16:45 You won’t handle just the West.
• 16:46 You’ll handle all the media interviews for everything we do,
• 16:49 radio, television, all across the United States, and you’ll
• 16:52 testify before Congress.
• 16:54 You’ll have a higher salary, larger office, larger staff.”
• 16:58 So I’m like–
• 16:59 Caleb: Hey, man.
• 17:00 Brad: Hey, higher salary.
• 17:02 So I went ahead, and I prayed.
• 17:05 And when I did, the Lord brought this question straight dead
• 17:08 center to my brain, which was, “Brad, what desires do I put on
• 17:11 your heart?”
• 17:12 The answer was to make sure people get the help where it’s
• 17:15 needed most here on the West Coast.
• 17:16 The next question was, “What do you choose to follow, that or
• 17:18 something else, like my obsession with security?”
• 17:21 Caleb: And I wanna hear what kind of cases that you’re doing
• 17:23 that may be related to the Jewish people, anti-Semitism.
• 17:27 Brad: Then as I saw, in the news, not one college or high
• 17:32 school, but across the United States, an open exhibition of
• 17:38 hate, anti-Semitism, but actual hate against Jewish students
• 17:42 because they were Jews, I wanna get on film.
• 17:47 I want to push this out in our media.
• 17:48 I want to also send this to all the Jewish organizations that
• 17:51 we know.
• 17:52 And it was a public pledge that I gave to defend every single
• 17:56 Jewish student in every campus, university, and high school in
• 18:00 the United States of America that’s being bullied by these
• 18:03 anti-Semitic mobs, pro-Hamas mobs, oftentimes, or even
• 18:09 pro-Hamas or anti-Semitic professors.
• 18:12 Columbia University is a classic example.
• 18:14 Caleb: It’s the biggest example right there.
• 18:16 Brad: Over 100 professors signed a letter in support of basically
• 18:19 Hamas, disgraceful, shameful, and what they did to
• 18:24 the students.
• 18:25 So, we took these on.
• 18:27 Our first one was out of Santa Barbara, the public high school.
• 18:29 And this girl could not go to class because of these students
• 18:33 and their mob mentality of bullying and harassment
• 18:37 and hate.
• 18:38 And we stepped in, and we represented her and prevailed
• 18:42 very nicely, and she has no problem going to class.
• 18:44 In addition, we’re also helping on asylum.
• 18:47 This is very important because you may have people out there
• 18:49 watching this right now who know people who are directly impacted
• 18:52 by this.
• 18:54 That is to say, they’re Jewish or Christian, and they’re coming
• 18:56 from a communist country.
• 18:59 They came from a Muslim country.
• 19:01 And the Muslim countries are filled with hate towards both
• 19:03 Christians and Jews, and it’s gotten worse and worse.
• 19:07 These people, they come to the United States, and they’re
• 19:10 seeking religious asylum because they’re going to get their
• 19:11 throats slit or killed, and it’s very real.
• 19:16 And yet, up until recently, until we came along, they often
• 19:20 didn’t have representation, so we go out of our way to protect
• 19:24 the Jewish people.
• 19:25 I preach at churches.
• 19:26 I love sharing the gospel.
• 19:28 But at the same time, I know that, as a Christian, the love
• 19:30 of Christ compels me not to be silent and not to turn the other
• 19:34 way to our Jewish brothers and sisters who are in need
• 19:37 of protection.
• 19:39 Caleb: Well, Brad, I am blown away by everything you’re
• 19:41 telling me, and clearly God has poured out his favor upon you
• 19:45 because you have his heart.
• 19:47 Everything that you’re doing is what he desires us to do.
• 19:50 You’re preaching the gospel.
• 19:52 You’re protecting his chosen people, and I just wanna thank
• 19:54 you for all that you’re doing, and thank you for joining me
• 19:56 today, Brad.
• 19:58 Brad: Thank you, and Caleb, I love what you’re doing.
• 19:59 And the more people hear and the more people that are exposed to
• 20:03 your ministry, I think the more education and the more
• 20:06 understanding there is.
• 20:08 And education and understanding is one of the greatest tools to
• 20:11 fight bigotry and hatred.
• 20:13 So God bless you, and keep doing what you’re doing.
• 20:15 Caleb: Thank you so much, Brad.
• 20:17 Brad: Thank you.
• 20:18 Caleb: This has been an all-star cast of amazing interviews of
• 20:21 people who support the Jewish state, and our final interview
• 20:25 is no exception with our good friend Jeff Futers of First
• 20:29 Century Foundations.
• 20:30 We have grown to know Jeff over the years.
• 20:32 His ministry’s in Canada, and it first started as raising funds
• 20:36 for nonprofits in Israel.
• 20:37 Then they began tours in Israel, and now they even have a
• 20:40 television program, “First Century Foundations,” that
• 20:43 teaches about the archaeological evidence that verifies
• 20:46 the Bible.
• 20:47 Joshua: It is always amazing to be with Jeff.
• 20:49 He’s tall.
• 20:50 He’s Canadian.
• 20:51 And his opinions, well, they’re from the Bible.
• 20:53 I think you should listen to Jeff.
• 20:55 Let’s check him out.
• 20:58 Jeff Futers: Caleb, Joshua, thanks for being on the
• 20:59 podcast today.
• 21:01 Well, it’s great to be together, you know?
• 21:03 It’s great, you know, doing what we do.
• 21:06 Joshua: What do you have going right now with your ministry?
• 21:08 What’s some of the big projects that you’re focusing on?
• 21:10 Jeff: Well, the big one, the next season, we’re calling it
• 21:13 “The True Israel.”
• 21:15 So, we’re talking about a lot of the topics that maybe a lot of
• 21:19 people don’t realize or understand about.
• 21:22 And to try and combat some of the lies that are being told
• 21:24 about Israel right now and all the negativity, we want to talk
• 21:28 about the positive things.
• 21:29 What are the things that the Jews give to the world or have
• 21:33 given to the world?
• 21:34 We get it from Israel.
• 21:36 So all of these things that we get from the Jewish people that
• 21:40 have benefited society, and all of the foundational stones that
• 21:44 those are built on come from, wait for it–
• 21:48 Caleb: Israel, Judeo-Christians.
• 21:49 Jeff: Judeo-Christian values.
• 21:51 And so, you know, Judaism was first, and then Jesus came, made
• 21:57 it better, I think.
• 21:59 And so it’s amazing to think about all of the positive
• 22:03 elements that come from, you know, we say Israel, that come
• 22:06 from the Jewish people and this monotheistic society that
• 22:11 worships the one true God, the God of Abraham, Isaac,
• 22:14 and Jacob.
• 22:16 Joshua: There’s so much about this I love, though, from so
• 22:17 many angles.
• 22:19 Number one, it’s so easy to get caught up in the negative.
• 22:20 And when you’re focusing on the negative, when everything is
• 22:23 about the bad, you’re giving glory to those who create the
• 22:25 negative things, right, to the enemy.
• 22:27 And so I have always been a big proponent of, even though
• 22:30 understanding we have to articulate it so people know
• 22:31 what the problem is, that the focus needs to go on God.
• 22:34 He’s the one that fixes it.
• 22:35 He’s the ultimate finisher, and too often we overlook that
• 22:37 because we’re complaining about how bad the things are.
• 22:40 Caleb: You know, we hear a lot on social media from Christians
• 22:44 who say, “God has replaced Israel and the Jewish people in
• 22:48 his covenant plans.
• 22:49 We’re the new Israel.
• 22:51 Oh, they broke this covenant with God, which is the Mosaic
• 22:54 covenant, therefore, God says, ‘I’m done with you, and I’m
• 22:57 moving on to a new people.’
• 22:58 Forget the Abrahamic covenant.
• 23:00 The veil of the difference between which covenant, you
• 23:01 know, God has made and which is eternal, which is conditional.”
• 23:05 But the information that we got from Mitch for the conclusion of
• 23:10 this poll was actually positive.
• 23:12 It was that the majority of Christians still understand and
• 23:17 believe the truth written in the Bible, that the Abrahamic
• 23:19 covenant is eternal, that it grants the Jewish people to a
• 23:25 land possession, which is the land of Israel, and the right
• 23:28 to exist.
• 23:30 Jeff: And you know, what you’re talking about is extremely true.
• 23:33 And the sad sort of flip side to that is that the loudest voices
• 23:38 in our society right now are the minority who hate Israel, who
• 23:43 don’t understand the truth about it, and so the call today,
• 23:48 I mean, if you’re listening and if you’re watching, is use your
• 23:51 voice because we are the majority.
• 23:55 There are more of us than there are of them, and we need to be
• 23:58 speaking out against anti-Semitism, but more than
• 24:01 that, speaking up for Judeo-Christian values.
• 24:06 Joshua: I’m gonna tell you right now, if you’re confused about
• 24:08 what your calling is, if you have Yeshua living inside your
• 24:12 heart, you all have this one calling, that you’re called to
• 24:15 go out to the entire world.
• 24:16 You’re called to go share what you have seen, right, what he’s
• 24:19 done in your life.
• 24:20 Jeff: Using our voice is one of the most important things that’s
• 24:23 got to happen, especially now when Judeo-Christian values are
• 24:28 slipping away.
• 24:30 And we need to speak up for our country.
• 24:32 And I think we need, as individuals, as groups, I think
• 24:37 it’s important that groups of believers come together, that
• 24:41 Christians and Jews come together and amplify our voices,
• 24:45 so that we can be heard and see change.
• 24:49 Joshua: Jeff, that’s incredible.
• 24:51 You are my favorite person who is just a little bit shorter
• 24:54 than us, but not a lot.
• 24:55 Thanks, seriously, for having this conversation and
• 24:57 hanging out.
• 24:59 Jeff: It was great to talk to you guys.
• 25:00 I’m glad to be in that category, even though I’m sure it’s
• 25:02 fairly small.
• 25:03 Joshua: When you add up all our heights together, it’s like 27
• 25:05 feet, so it doesn’t really matter.
• 25:07 Jew or Greek, we’re just one team.
• 25:09 Jeff: Well, thanks again.
• 25:10 This has been fantastic and should do it again.
• 25:13 Caleb: We will.
• 25:17 Joshua: Brother. Caleb: Yes?
• 25:19 Joshua: Do you wanna know my take on all of these amazing
• 25:21 ministries that we’ve been dealing with today?
• 25:22 Caleb: Yes, I do.
• 25:24 Joshua: They’re awesome, but it’s not just that
• 25:25 they’re awesome.
• 25:26 It’s that we’re not alone.
• 25:28 There are others, other ministries that have not been
• 25:29 deceived, that are willing to stand for the truth.
• 25:31 When you stand for the truth of God’s Word, it’s never gonna
• 25:33 be popular.
• 25:35 It’s going to be the worst.
• 25:36 In fact, you’re gonna be going, “Why is everybody doing this?”
• 25:38 And then it’s in the Bible.
• 25:39 That’s why, because he says it.
• 25:40 Yeshua promised us that we were going to suffer persecution for
• 25:43 his name’s sake.
• 25:44 And in fact, in John 15:20-21, Yeshua said, “Remember the word
• 25:48 that I said to you, A servant is no greater than his master.
• 25:52 If they persecuted Me, they will persecute you.
• 25:55 If they kept My word, then they will keep yours also.
• 25:59 But all of these things that they will do to you for My
• 26:02 name’s sake, because they do not know Him who sent Me.”
• 26:06 Caleb: That’s really part of the job requirement of being a
• 26:08 believer in Yeshua, is enduring that persecution for the sake of
• 26:12 his name, and you get a reward in heaven for doing so.
• 26:15 But that just truly, you know, is evidence that we are a threat
• 26:19 to the enemy, if he takes his, you know, limited resources and
• 26:23 time to try to take us out.
• 26:25 Here at Zola Levitt Ministries, we utilize the “Bearded Bible
• 26:29 Brothers” as our method of outreach with our television
• 26:32 program broadcasting around the world, with social media, with
• 26:35 using every technology at our disposal to reach the world with
• 26:39 the gospel of Yeshua.
• 26:40 But it comes at a high price, not just spiritually,
• 26:43 emotionally, but physically as well.
• 26:45 Joshua: If you want to be a part of Zola Levitt Ministries, it’s
• 26:47 super easy.
• 26:48 We use technology, and it’s not a bad thing.
• 26:50 You can go to BeardedBibleBros.com,
• 26:52 click on donate.
• 26:54 You can call 1-800-WONDERS, tell them to donate.
• 26:55 You can go to any of our social media sites and be a part.
• 26:59 Ask the Holy Spirit today what he’s wanting you to do through
• 27:02 your prayer, through your money, through your physical action, to
• 27:05 be a part of this ministry.
• 27:06 As we go, we remind you to Sha’alu shalom, Yerushalayim.
• 27:10 Caleb: Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.
• 27:12 Joshua: Like right now, it’s a good time for peace.
• 27:15 ♪♪♪
• 27:22 Caleb: To the shock of no one, most world governments have
• 27:25 turned against Israel, but unfortunately, so have many
• 27:28 church congregations.
• 27:29 Very few ministries are supporting the Jewish people or
• 27:33 teaching the truth about Israel in God’s covenant plans.
• 27:36 Joshua: In fact, if you scroll through social media, you’ll see
• 27:38 feed after feed of churches teaching that the Jewish people
• 27:41 are not God’s chosen people and not the fulfillment of
• 27:43 a covenant.
• 27:45 At Zola Levitt Ministries, we’ve been preaching the same message
• 27:47 for 47 years.
• 27:48 Why?
• 27:50 Because God’s message does not change.
• 27:51 The Jewish people are his chosen people, but he also made a way
• 27:54 for the Gentile to be grafted in.
• 27:56 Consider donating to this ministry to be a part today of
• 27:59 getting this message out.
• 28:00 You can call 1-800-WONDERS, or you can click on the link below
• 28:03 at Levitt.com.
• 28:05 Joshua: Did you know the “Bearded Bible Brothers” is an
• 28:07 outreach of Zola Levitt Ministries?
• 28:09 That means we are entirely donor-funded.
• 28:11 Consider giving at Levitt.com.
• 28:13 You can also join the Bearded Bible Bonanza to access
• 28:16 additional content at Patreon.com/BeardedBibleBonanza.
• 28:20 Please support our mission to spread the gospel of Yeshua by
• 28:22 subscribing to our social media and sharing our online messages.
• 28:26 And as always, pray for the peace of Jerusalem.