Caption transcript for Thy Kingdom Come (2018): “The Wedding” (4/12)

• 00:01 I love a good wedding,
• 00:02 and on today's program we'll be talking about
• 00:04 the biggest and best wedding ever!
• 00:07 Stay with us
• 00:08 on Zola Levitt Presents.
• 00:14 Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel
• 00:18 is that they might be saved,
• 00:21 for there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek,
• 00:24 for the same Lord over all
• 00:26 is rich unto all that call upon Him.
• 00:46 Thank you for joining us today
• 00:47 on Zola Levitt Presents.
• 00:48 I'm David Hart.
• 00:49 I'm Kirsten Hart.
• 00:50 Jeffrey Seif!
• 00:51 We are in our series "Thy Kingdom Come"
• 00:54 which first aired in 2001 with Zola Levitt.
• 00:57 We also have with us today,
• 00:59 Dr. Jeffrey Seif.
• 01:00 I love your title,
• 01:01 "Senior Theologian"
• 01:03 You look like one.
• 01:05 Sounds very boring, but thank you.
• 01:06 And today Zola's teaching on
• 01:09 the wedding feast in heaven,
• 01:11 which is appropriate
• 01:12 because I heard that it's your anniversary.
• 01:14 How many hours have you been married?
• 01:16 My first wife, may she rest in peace,
• 01:18 went to be with the Lord.
• 01:20 I've remarried to Barrie.
• 01:21 Today is two and a half years.
• 01:24 We celebrate the anniversary every month, actually.
• 01:26 Now, did you have a formal...
• 01:28 You'll have to forgive us,
• 01:30 the Christian people, the Gentiles,
• 01:31 did you have a formal Jewish Wedding?
• 01:33 We had a formal Jewish Wedding.
• 01:35 Jack Hayford came in and officiated it, as a friend,
• 01:38 along with Jonathan Burnis,
• 01:39 another mogul in Messianic Jewish television.
• 01:43 Actually we had about a dozen or so Rabbis there,
• 01:48 and about 30 Theologian Professors,
• 01:50 and about 500 people.
• 01:52 It was a gala event.
• 01:53 So if one couldn't get the words out
• 01:55 the next one could step in,
• 01:56 and the next one could step in.
• 01:58 No, they were just there cause they're old friends.
• 02:00 There's going to be a Feast,
• 02:02 and a Wedding in Heaven.
• 02:04 I think weddings should be celebrated.
• 02:06 They're really important moments
• 02:07 The way it relates to important moments Biblical moments,
• 02:11 well Zola really...
• 02:13 he really "hung the moon" on this one.
• 02:15 That's what this program is about today.
• 02:17 Right now let's go to Zola in Israel
• 02:20 and hear more about that.
• 02:24 You know, ever since God saw that it was
• 02:27 not good for man to be alone
• 02:29 and gave him a partner,
• 02:31 marriage throughout the Bible is stressed.
• 02:34 And in a wonderful way in the New Testament
• 02:38 it becomes part of a mission of our Lord
• 02:41 who came to earth literally to choose a wife.
• 02:44 You know, when John the Baptist was preaching to begin with,
• 02:48 he was down at the Dead Sea and he ate locusts and honey,
• 02:52 He baptized people,
• 02:54 he preached the doctrine of repentance,
• 02:56 a rather hard doctrine.
• 02:58 And then Jesus came, was baptized, and
• 03:00 it seemed that the Pharisees would
• 03:03 rather have had John to be the Messiah,
• 03:08 if they had to have a Messiah on their hands.
• 03:11 Their attitude was not really faithful,
• 03:13 it was that they'd have to admit
• 03:17 there was a Messiah in the Land,
• 03:19 okay, but they'd rather it be John.
• 03:20 And they kept coming to John asking him if
• 03:24 he were not the Messiah.
• 03:26 And on the occasion in John 3:29 he says this,
• 03:43 To put that down in American terms,
• 03:45 he said, "I'm not the Groom here."
• 03:48 "The Lord, the Messiah, He's the Groom."
• 03:51 "But I'm the best man."
• 03:52 "I'm the friend of the Bridegroom"
• 03:53 "which stands without and hears His voice."
• 03:55 That answers to a custom where the Bridegroom
• 03:59 took the Bride into a chamber and
• 04:02 consummated their marriage and then
• 04:03 told the best man through the door
• 04:05 that he had himself a wife,
• 04:07 and then the best man would tell the guests.
• 04:08 And they would begin to celebrate.
• 04:10 That was a custom in the Scriptures.
• 04:13 And John is saying, "That's my job".
• 04:15 "I'm His friend, "I'm the..."
• 04:18 I just keep saying "Best Man" because
• 04:20 that's American parlance, but
• 04:22 he's the friend of the Bridegroom
• 04:24 who stands without and hears him.
• 04:25 He's the first to know he has a wife.
• 04:28 They proposed with a cup of wine, you know,
• 04:31 and Jesus did that in Matthew 26:29
• 04:34 and He said,
• 04:43 He took up his cup.
• 04:44 He gave thanks.
• 04:45 He said,
• 04:46 Baruch ata Adonai Eloheinu Melekh ha-olam,
• 04:48 bo're p'ri ha-gafen
• 04:49 "Blessed are Thou O God, King of the Universe,"
• 04:52 "Creator of the Fruit of the Vine"
• 04:55 It's a toast to the Bride.
• 04:57 He had already said, "I Am the True Vine".
• 04:59 The disciples obviously are branches, and then
• 05:01 the "Fruit of the Vine" that's the Believers.
• 05:04 That's us.
• 05:05 And we're also branches who bear other fruits.
• 05:08 And so He is making a toast to His Bride,
• 05:11 the "Church".
• 05:13 And then He says, "I'll drink it again with you in the Kingdom."
• 05:17 And in the Kingdom...
• 05:18 or on the way to the Kingdom,
• 05:20 there really will be a grand wedding!
• 05:24 You know, Paul prepares the Bride
• 05:26 in 2 Corinthians 11:2
• 05:38 So, in the end, we really are going to marry Him.
• 05:43 It says in Revelation 19:7-8,
• 06:03 You know, linen in Scripture,
• 06:05 the whiteness of it is purity.
• 06:08 The Priests in the Temple, when they were sacrificing
• 06:11 wore white linen.
• 06:12 And we will wear a white wedding dress
• 06:15 when we marry the Lord.
• 06:17 I'm not sure that all wedding dresses aren't
• 06:18 taken from this passage,
• 06:20 but in any case,
• 06:21 everyone, all the believers,
• 06:23 I'm not saying just the Church.
• 06:27 All the Believers will be there at the wedding.
• 06:29 Some will be wedding guests,
• 06:31 but the Church is in particular, the Bride of Christ.
• 06:34 But you know, the Old Testament also
• 06:37 characterizes a marriage.
• 06:39 Jehovah married Israel
• 06:41 and it is characterized in the book of Hosea.
• 06:45 We're going to come to that.
• 06:46 Hosea and Gomer had a rather stormy relationship, as a matter of fact.
• 06:50 And they are separated at the moment, but
• 06:54 not divorced.
• 06:55 They were reconciled and come back together.
• 06:58 And the book of Hosea details that.
• 07:00 Hosea's wife really was unfaithful to him.
• 07:03 She ran off!
• 07:05 She became...
• 07:07 first took lovers,
• 07:08 but finally supported herself as a prostitute,
• 07:11 but then she descended to a life of a slave,
• 07:14 and she was being sold at an auction.
• 07:17 And who was the high bidder?
• 07:19 Hosea, her husband.
• 07:21 He bought her back,
• 07:23 took her home,
• 07:24 redeemed her,
• 07:25 reconciled to her.
• 07:27 The whole thing seems to be the story of
• 07:29 Jehovah and Israel
• 07:31 whose relationship has always been a little stormy,
• 07:34 let's face it.
• 07:35 From the beginning He chose them,
• 07:37 He married them,
• 07:38 but they were unfaithful from time to time,
• 07:41 they ran off,
• 07:42 sometimes behaved as badly as did Gomer.
• 07:45 We characterize this in our past program,
• 07:49 showing Gomer and Hosea at the auction, with actors.
• 07:53 And Israel will eventually be redeemed by God,
• 07:58 in the Tribulation
• 08:00 when they are put upon by the whole world.
• 08:02 Paul says, "All Israel will be saved when the
• 08:04 Deliverer shall come out of Zion."
• 08:07 He'll yet reconcile them back to Himself
• 08:10 although they will have suffered losses as did Gomer.
• 08:14 In the end, God will buy them back and
• 08:16 take them home and sanctify them.
• 08:18 And so we have sort of two marriages,
• 08:20 Jehovah marrying Israel,
• 08:23 and His Son marrying His Bride, the Church.
• 08:28 You know, when Jesus took that cup,
• 08:31 that's how they proposed, with a cup of wine.
• 08:33 He said to God,
• 08:36 "Let this cup pass from me."
• 08:38 in the Garden of Gethsemane.
• 08:39 You remember He wept
• 08:41 as if it were
• 08:42 drops of blood falling to the ground.
• 08:44 He was afraid to be crucified.
• 08:46 He was a man.
• 08:47 It hurt to be crucified.
• 08:49 And He prayed to God but did not say,
• 08:53 "Alright, you're right, we won't marry you and Israel,"
• 08:55 "We will marry you to Egypt or Rome or Greece."
• 08:59 God didn't react that way at all.
• 09:00 He sent an Angel to strengthen Him.
• 09:03 The answer in affect was,
• 09:04 "We're going to marry in the same family as I did."
• 09:07 The type is Abraham, sending his servant Eliezer to find a Bride for Issac.
• 09:12 There were girls in Canaan where they lived,
• 09:14 but he sent the servant all the way to Haran, up in Northern Syria,
• 09:19 to take a wife from the family they had left
• 09:22 when they came out of Ur to Canaan in the first place,
• 09:25 and found Rebekah, a Hebrew girl,
• 09:28 comely, a virgin,
• 09:31 she would make a fine wife for his master.
• 09:34 And the idea was she was from the same family.
• 09:38 He showed her the gifts that Isaac sent and
• 09:40 she was wooed and won,
• 09:42 sand she is a picture of the Church because
• 09:45 we are...we really haven't seen our Bridegroom.
• 09:49 Let's face it.
• 09:49 We have not seen Jesus face to face.
• 09:51 But the Holy Spirit, like Eliezer, the servant
• 09:54 has brought us the gifts.
• 09:56 And we see the gifts and we're wooed and won,
• 09:57 and willing to go off and marry this Jewish Prince, like Rebekah.
• 10:01 Somewhere she went to the wilderness on a camel,
• 10:05 we're going to Heaven in the Rapture.
• 10:07 But we're going to meet our Bridegroom and marry Him there.
• 10:10 We'll be back after this.
• 10:22 Our Resource this week,
• 10:24 "A Christian Love Story" Booklet and CD.
• 10:27 Read and listen along to the beautiful story
• 10:30 of the wedding customs of Israel in Messiah's time,
• 10:33 and how He fulfilled these traditions,
• 10:36 calling out His Bride, the Church.
• 10:38 A striking and inspiring example
• 10:41 of Scriptural logic and elegance.
• 10:43 Contact us and ask for
• 10:45 "A Christian Love Story" Booklet and CD.
• 10:51 Discovering the truth about Israel through the lens of Scripture
• 10:54 is getting more difficult to find in our world today.
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• 11:51 Now let's go back to Zola's teaching in Israel.
• 11:56 Well, obviously I'm standing under a chuppah
• 11:59 which is a canopy for a Jewish Wedding.
• 12:02 This is a beautiful thing.
• 12:03 They get it out every time.
• 12:04 And it represents the Bridal Chamber
• 12:06 that they used to use in the 1st Century for the weddings.
• 12:10 And I'm going to tell you about that.
• 12:12 Inside the roof it's embroidered with a verse from Song of Solomon
• 12:16 about the sound of joy and the sound of myrrh
• 12:20 and the voice of the Bridegroom,
• 12:21 the voice of the Bride and so on.
• 12:23 And we're in a Rose Garden in Jerusalem
• 12:26 which is a fabulous place.
• 12:27 Sixteen thousand roses
• 12:30 of varieties of roses are in this one garden.
• 12:33 It's a magnificent place,
• 12:35 a place you'll never see on CNN and the networks of course because that
• 12:38 would be a positive picture of Israel.
• 12:41 But it's very typical in this Land.
• 12:43 Gorgeous!
• 12:44 And when I see all these roses and this chuppah,
• 12:47 of course I want to tell you the "Christian Love Story"
• 12:51 I've said it many times in many contexts but
• 12:54 it is part of the Passover demonstration,
• 12:56 since it happened in the Upper Room at Passover.
• 12:59 You know, to tell you where I got this,
• 13:02 it was not original with me,
• 13:03 I was a Teacher at a small what they called
• 13:07 a Hebrew Christian Mission back then.
• 13:09 A "Messianic Congregation" they would call it now in the 70's.
• 13:13 And one night I took some things out of a briefcase I had with me
• 13:18 and there was a tract in there
• 13:19 at the bottom of the briefcase I did not recognize.
• 13:22 It wasn't mine.
• 13:24 And it told the outline of the love story I'm about to tell.
• 13:27 It was from a ministry called "The Friends of Israel"
• 13:30 which was run by Marvin Rosenthal.
• 13:34 But I want to credit him because a lot of this came from there.
• 13:38 But I researched it over the years and added a few things.
• 13:41 But the idea was, in the 1st century
• 13:45 a young man would fall in love with
• 13:47 a girl in the market or whatever.
• 13:49 Any man can tell you it takes 5 seconds to fall in love.
• 13:51 The problem is to get the girl.
• 13:53 So he would find out where she lived or follow her home
• 13:56 and he would show up with a marriage contract.
• 13:59 That was the first date.
• 14:00 They didn't have dating under Jewish law.
• 14:04 It wasn't that they didn't believe in love,
• 14:06 but they really believed in love at first sight.
• 14:09 And they always thought it didn't matter how long you dated and courted,
• 14:14 you always married a stranger anyhow.
• 14:16 So, maybe that's true.
• 14:18 Anyhow, the young man would present this contract,
• 14:22 he would pour her a cup of wine,
• 14:24 and he would have a price with him for the Bride.
• 14:27 And if she picked up the cup and drank it, it was "Yes"
• 14:31 and if she left it there, her intuition told her that wasn't her cup,
• 14:38 she could leave.
• 14:39 Now if she did pick it up and drink it,
• 14:42 well that was saying "yes"
• 14:43 and he would make a little speech,
• 14:44 "I go to prepare a place for you",
• 14:46 and he'd go back to his father's house
• 14:48 to build her a mansion,
• 14:50 a Bridal Chamber.
• 14:51 Maybe a separate building or decorate a room in the father's house, but anyway
• 14:55 that would be their mansion for their honeymoon.
• 14:58 And meanwhile at her place she would wait for him.
• 15:01 It took a while.
• 15:02 He was going to build this thing.
• 15:04 And whenever she went out she wore a veil.
• 15:07 The veil is our faith.
• 15:08 They don't recognize us out there
• 15:10 because of the contract we have with our Bridegroom.
• 15:13 And then at night she would trim an oil lamp
• 15:17 because the Bridegroom's liked to come at midnight.
• 15:20 They came like thieves in the night.
• 15:22 You know, she was called "consecrated",
• 15:24 "set apart", "bought with a price"
• 15:26 Now this oil lamp of course became a symbol that she
• 15:29 really was faithful waiting for him.
• 15:32 properly trimmed it at night,
• 15:35 that it was ready to go when he came.
• 15:37 And when he came like a thief in the night
• 15:39 she would light that lamp and go through the night.
• 15:41 She had to have a lamp in her hand.
• 15:43 And thereby the Lord told a parable.
• 15:45 There were 10 virgins
• 15:47 5 had oil in their lamps
• 15:48 and 5 did not.
• 15:50 And he actually did come.
• 15:52 It says it was midnight and a cry was made,
• 15:54 "Behold the Bridegroom cometh!"
• 15:56 "Go ye out to meet him!
• 15:58 And the 5 with the oil went out to meet him
• 16:00 and they went and it says, "The Door was shut".
• 16:03 That is the door to the mansion, to the Bridal Chamber.
• 16:07 The others ran out to buy some oil, it says.
• 16:10 Now what was the problem?
• 16:12 They knew who was out there.
• 16:14 Nobody said, "Who's shouting out there?"
• 16:16 And they knew what they needed.
• 16:19 They went to get oil.
• 16:20 They wanted to get married.
• 16:22 Virgins want to get married.
• 16:23 What was the problem?
• 16:25 They just didn't think he was coming that night.
• 16:27 There should never be a night that we don't think the Lord could come.
• 16:30 Because even He said,
• 16:32 "I come at such a time"
• 16:34 "as ye think not."
• 16:36 So every night we should be conscious
• 16:38 that this could be our wedding night with the Lord,
• 16:39 my goodness!, when He comes for us
• 16:42 and takes us to Heaven for this wedding.
• 16:44 Well, over at his house he's building on the Bridal Chamber.
• 16:48 His Father was the judge on when the thing was done.
• 16:50 His Father had done this previously in his own life,
• 16:53 his older sons have done it, and so on.
• 16:56 And so he would exam it from time to time.
• 16:59 So if you see a young man building a Bridal Chamber,
• 17:02 there's no use to say, "When's the big day?"
• 17:04 Because he will say, "I don't know. Only my Father knows."
• 17:08 That's the way Jesus answered in his role as the Bridegroom
• 17:13 in the Gospel, when He was asked about the Kingdom.
• 17:16 Well then, when the chamber really was done,
• 17:19 his father approved,
• 17:20 he would tell him to go get his girl.
• 17:22 And he would take his brothers, his Groomsmen,
• 17:24 and they would go to her house at midnight,
• 17:27 making sure everyone was asleep, and
• 17:30 wanting to sneak up on her, actually.
• 17:32 And the rules were though, that when they got close enough to be heard,
• 17:36 someone in the wedding party had to shout.
• 17:39 And when she heard that shout she knew he'd be there in just a moment.
• 17:43 And so it says in the Scripture, I Corinthians 4:16,
• 17:47 "The Lord Himself will
• 17:48 descend from Heaven with a shout."
• 17:51 That shout, that cry that was made in the parable,
• 17:54 That is the signal that the Bridegroom is coming for the Bride.
• 17:58 And then she would come out and they would go on.
• 18:01 And the love story goes on.
• 18:03 Our ministry offers it as a study booklet, if you'd like to have it.
• 18:08 In Hosea 2:16
• 18:18 These Hebrew words in the English Bible
• 18:21 simply mean, "Thou shalt call me husband and no more master."
• 18:29 Masters and false gods in affect that were
• 18:32 "competitors" to the real God..."Idols".
• 18:34 Baali was an idol in the north country
• 18:36 and Baalim is the plural of that, of the idols.
• 19:24 Jezreel - which is a word for "Israel"
• 19:41 He draws the distinction here between Believers
• 19:43 of whatever Nation, of whatever kind. Jews and Gentiles,
• 19:46 that those that weren't his people before, like the outlying nations,
• 19:51 will be His people, and He will be their God and their Husband.
• 19:55 Jeremiah 3:14 says,
• 20:07 In the end the Lord will bring His wife, His Bride to the Kingdom to come.
• 20:13 Amen!
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• 20:54 Our Resource this week,
• 20:56 "A Christian Love Story" Booklet and CD.
• 20:59 Read and listen along to the beautiful story
• 21:02 of the wedding customs of Israel in Messiah's time,
• 21:05 and how He fulfilled these traditions,
• 21:08 calling out His Bride, the Church.
• 21:10 A striking and inspiring example
• 21:13 of Scriptural logic and elegance.
• 21:15 Contact us and ask for
• 21:17 "A Christian Love Story" Booklet and CD.
• 21:23 I think I could talk "wedding" all day.
• 21:27 I love being in love.
• 21:29 I love being married to this guy.
• 21:31 You're amazing!
• 21:32 And you're celebrating,
• 21:34 we talked about at the beginning of the program,
• 21:36 an anniversary today.
• 21:37 Yes, I was married for about 30 years to my first wife,
• 21:40 may she rest in peace.
• 21:42 She went to be with the Lord.
• 21:43 I since remarried,
• 21:44 and we celebrate our anniversary every month.
• 21:47 Okay, we're going to do that.
• 21:48 We're going to start.
• 21:49 Hey! Wait!
• 21:50 It gets expensive David!
• 21:52 You know, we can teach about weddings theologically.
• 21:54 You guys are in it how long?
• 21:56 Twenty-eight.
• 21:57 Good years.
• 21:59 We live in a world today where people marry for an ideal.
• 22:01 They think they got a raw deal,
• 22:02 they go searching for a new deal.
• 22:04 And you guys are approaching a 30 year marker.
• 22:07 A lot of people out there are languishing for love.
• 22:11 What's your secret?
• 22:13 What do you think?
• 22:16 We laugh a lot.
• 22:17 I mean, we really do.
• 22:19 We have a lot of joy.
• 22:21 You're quiet right now.
• 22:23 No, I'm thinking.
• 22:24 I just know that the Lord put us together,
• 22:26 and so thankful for our ministry together.
• 22:28 We sing together...
• 22:30 That's a much more spiritual answer.
• 22:31 traveling together and...
• 22:33 I new it was right!
• 22:34 We laugh a lot.
• 22:35 We have a lot of joy.
• 22:37 Well, laughter's good medicine,
• 22:38 joy, simcha , it's all good
• 22:40 At wedding ceremonies people say, Til death do they part.
• 22:42 I don't know why we even say it any more.
• 22:44 I don't think people mean it.
• 22:46 Our older viewers that watch...
• 22:47 Well we were more pre-disposed in my generation
• 22:50 to take those vows seriously.
• 22:51 But we live in a world today... God help us.
• 22:54 Right.
• 22:56 And I know Zola taught.
• 22:58 And Zola taught so much today on the wedding feast up in heaven.
• 23:01 Are we eating?
• 23:04 We are celebrating, right?
• 23:06 Are we going to eat up there?
• 23:07 Well it's interesting that the Bible begins
• 23:09 with a food problem in the Garden of Eden.
• 23:10 And it ends with the marriage supper of the Lamb.
• 23:12 And there's a whole lot of food in between.
• 23:14 Jesus did a lot of His teachings around food.
• 23:17 It's very interesting the way it works.
• 23:20 Human experience begins with food.
• 23:22 When a baby breast feeds and re-connects and
• 23:25 all special events, you know, boy asks a girl out for a meal.
• 23:30 It's more than just going out to Dairy Queen.
• 23:32 He and she are exploring possibilities for the future.
• 23:35 The big question is popped at a dinner oftentimes,
• 23:39 and it's celebrated with a meal.
• 23:40 Barrie and I are going out tonight.
• 23:42 Food factors into the equation but
• 23:44 it's so interesting to look at the biblical story the way Zola does.
• 23:47 People are interested in Bible prophecy but
• 23:49 they didn't get the connection to the Jewish Wedding,
• 23:53 to the Groom going away and then coming back.
• 23:55 It's a great story!
• 23:56 It's a great story.
• 23:57 And we've read his book.
• 23:58 Yes.
• 23:59 Zola's book if you don't have it.
• 24:00 It is wonderful!
• 24:02 All about the marriage feast.
• 24:04 But growing up in church we don't understand the Jewish connections.
• 24:07 People don't and that is so tragic.
• 24:10 I like to say with my own life and ministry
• 24:12 and our television program too.
• 24:15 We want to help Jewish people come to know Jesus,
• 24:17 and we want to help Jesus people come to know Jews.
• 24:20 There's so much that's been lost
• 24:22 by throwing the Jewish story out of the biblical drama.
• 24:26 And it is so highlighted.
• 24:28 Zola not only wrote a book on it,
• 24:30 when I was with him we did a series,
• 24:32 "Beloved Thief", a musical...
• 24:34 Right.
• 24:35 about the whole story as it relates to Bible prophecy.
• 24:38 It's a real "zinger".
• 24:39 It's good.
• 24:41 I don't think we even knew about that until we read that booklet.
• 24:45 Which is sad, isn't it?
• 24:46 It is very sad that we in the Church
• 24:48 don't understand this marriage feast.
• 24:51 This sounds trite, I think but I think we think,
• 24:54 "Oh, we're going to be able to eat without getting fat."
• 24:55 That's almost the Christian viewpoint,
• 24:57 the Christian women's viewpoint of the marriage feast in heaven.
• 25:00 But it is so symbolic.
• 25:02 It is.
• 25:03 Because with the Jewish wedding feasts and the time and the
• 25:07 groom going off and building a room,
• 25:09 and we don't understand unless we know about the Jewish aspect.
• 25:13 Here's the way I look at it.
• 25:14 People read the Bible absent a Jewish perspective.
• 25:17 It's a great story.
• 25:18 It comes in black and white.
• 25:19 It's crystal clear.
• 25:20 But when you have a Jewish understanding.
• 25:22 All of a sudden it's technicolor, and it's Dolby sound.
• 25:26 It gives these various hues and nuances
• 25:29 which wouldn't otherwise be there.
• 25:31 And I think people are missing....
• 25:32 I appreciate our friends that help support this ministry
• 25:35 so we can get it out there on the airwaves.
• 25:37 Yep, that's great.
• 25:38 This program is gone way too fast.
• 25:40 I think you could have talked all day on marriage
• 25:42 and the Feast and all that,
• 25:44 but, thank you for joining us today.
• 25:46 We're going to go to a Zola song.
• 25:47 Oh yes, and happy anniversary to you.
• 25:49 Well thank you very much.
• 25:50 Right now we're going to go to a Zola song
• 25:52 as we end our program...
• 25:54 In Psalm 122:6 it says, Sha'alu' Shalom Yerushalayim
• 26:00 Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem.
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