Caption transcript for Thy Kingdom Come (2018): “The Second Coming” (5/12)

• 00:02 On today's program we take a look at the Second Coming
• 00:03 when the Lamb of God becomes the Lion of Judah
• 00:06 next, on Zola Levitt Presents.
• 00:14 Brethren, my hearts desire and prayer to God for Israel is that they might be saved,
• 00:21 for there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek,
• 00:23 for the same Lord over all
• 00:26 is rich unto all that call upon Him.
• 00:46 Welcome to Zola Levitt Presents.
• 00:47 I'm David Hart.
• 00:49 I'm Kirsten Hart
• 00:50 Jeffrey Seif!
• 00:51 Welcome to our series "Thy Kingdom Come"
• 00:53 which first aired in 2001
• 00:56 and Dr. Seif is with us today. We're so glad
• 00:58 that you are back at this table.
• 01:00 Glad to be back until the kingdom comes.
• 01:02 Yes.
• 01:03 And you have a great title, Senior Theologian.
• 01:04 Yes a great title.
• 01:06 It is.
• 01:07 But you know it's overstated.
• 01:07 I think its a good one.
• 01:09 How can someone be an expert of God at the end of the day?
• 01:12 Right.
• 01:12 You know.
• 01:13 Maybe we all will be one day. I don't know.
• 01:16 There's a lot to master there. I've read a few books but what of it?
• 01:19 Today's program is about the Rapture and Second Coming.
• 01:24 Now, they are two seperate events. Right?
• 01:27 Sometimes people confuse them and mesh them into one.
• 01:30 Well they happen in reasonable close proximity
• 01:34 but they are two seperate events.
• 01:36 Zola spells it out and we'll have an opprotunity to pontificate as we go.
• 01:40 Good.
• 01:41 That's right.
• 01:42 We have so much more in this program.
• 01:44 Now let's go to Israel and hear from Zola Levitt.
• 01:49 Well we've come today to the Mount of Olives.
• 01:52 Which is in the words of Zechariah next to Jerusalem on the east.
• 01:55 And indeed it is.
• 01:56 And we are filming in a grave yard.
• 01:59 Why so many graves around? People want to be buried where the Messiah
• 02:04 will certainly find them when He comes in the resurrection.
• 02:07 You can see from here the Eastern Wall of the Temple.
• 02:11 The Golden Gate where we will enter with the Lord in the Second Coming.
• 02:15 Of course, the site is dominated now by the Moslem Dome of the Rock, the golden dome.
• 02:22 But there are churches on the mount and missions of all kinds.
• 02:27 This is the center of the earth. What can I say?
• 02:31 This is the famous location in the world over which there has been much controversy lately and in the past.
• 02:39 You could have stood here for 4000 years and watched Jewish history.
• 02:43 Abraham offered Isaac in sadrifice on that mountain down there.
• 02:47 That is where the dome is traditionally.
• 02:51 King David made his city and Soloman put the Temple where the dome is.
• 02:55 The Second Temple was there in which the Messiah came and taught.
• 03:00 Hadrian put up a temple of Jupiter there after the Temple was erected in 70 A.D.
• 03:07 Then the Moslems came and they put their temple on Hadrian's pillars, this dome.
• 03:13 Then the Crusaders rode in and they threw out the Moslems for a while and occupied the place
• 03:20 put a cross on top of the dome and made it a church.
• 03:24 That's the moment when there was a Christian cross on a Moslem dome on Roman pillars on Jewish land.
• 03:31 It's a place like no other in the world.
• 03:33 And the history goes on there.
• 03:35 They are fighting over it today arguing who gets the mount.
• 03:37 Of course, it's the site of the ancient Jewish Temple. No question there.
• 03:41 That is being talked about. And then the tribulation will come.
• 03:45 The Lord's house will come and stand in the same place again in the kingdom to come.
• 03:50 And finally, of course, the city behind me it has no end.
• 03:54 It will go on in eternity. God will create a new heaven and a new earth and one single city.
• 04:00 Not a New York or not a New London or not a New Tokyo but a new Jerusalem.
• 04:07 So this city that you see behind me, this is forever.
• 04:11 Well, but we want to talk about the Second Coming.
• 04:15 That day the Lord comes down from my left down this mountain.
• 04:18 Down the Mount of Olives in through that East Gate with all His believers with him.
• 04:24 The scene is pictured in stirring scripture in the Book of Revelation.
• 04:27 Revelation 19 verse 11 and that says this.
• 05:17 This is no lamb this time the Lord comes as a lion.
• 05:32 Gooly, what a title. And why written on his thigh?
• 05:34 We talked about it in our introductory program in this series.
• 05:37 A name written on the thigh of a man on horseback is easily seen at eye level, you see.
• 05:44 Then if Jesus is waering the Jewish prayer shawl, the name is right above the fringes
• 05:50 so it will be easy for people to know who is the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords.
• 05:55 And, of course, amoung those people are the people on the ground.
• 05:58 The Jewish people in Jerusalem trying to cope with Armageddon.
• 06:01 They shall look upon him whom they've pearced and morned for him as for an only son.
• 06:07 They will be saved as Paul says when the Deliverer shall come out of Zion.
• 06:13 In Psalm 110 the Psalmist waxxes very eloquent. pictures it poetically.
• 06:38 Well we say Melchizedek in English. Melchizedek in Hebrew is the King of Righteousness.
• 06:43 And the Lord appointed him a priest. Abraham paid tithes to Melchizedek.
• 06:48 The idea being it was well before the Levites.
• 06:52 So it wasn't a priesthood to which Abraham would owe sacrifice.
• 06:56 But he did to Melchizedek. He is a man who God picked out for Himself to be a priest.
• 07:03 And in like manner He chose the Messiah as well to be a priest.
• 07:07 The scene is pictured in a day like no other. In Zechariah 14:4
• 07:14 His feet shall stand that day upon the Mount of Olives
• 07:17 which is next to Jerusalem on the east. Then in verse 6
• 07:34 A very unusuall day.
• 07:52 It's one of the most basic scriptures in the Bible.
• 07:57 The Second Coming of Christ to start the Kingdom.
• 08:01 God brings the Jews back to Israel for this.
• 08:05 Deuteronomy 30:3-5 we use the scripture all the time in many contexts.
• 08:10 The regathering of the Jews to their promised land.
• 08:41 We use the verse in our tour brochures to invite holocaust survivors.
• 08:45 They deserve to see the land.
• 08:47 And the Lord said, "God will bring thee into the land which thou fathers posessed."
• 08:51 And we feel we can do no less but to help them get here.
• 08:54 Thank you for your support of that project.
• 08:57 The Second Coming is the ultimate reward to the
• 09:02 Jews and to the adopted Jews, to the Christians.
• 09:05 That is, this is the end of God's promise to the chosen people.
• 09:10 Their promised land, a righteous king, righteous princes and governers, and, of course,
• 09:18 the queen of the kingdom to come, all the believers of all ages.
• 09:22 It's a wonderful moment. It's a reward to the Jews in the sense that when He comes back,
• 09:29 as we pointed out, the Jews will look upon Him whom they pierced and mourn for him.
• 09:34 In other words, they will realize when He comes,
• 09:37 the most hostile Rabbi in Jerusalem to Christanity will look in the face of Jesus Christ
• 09:44 and be saved in a moment. He will realize this has got to happen. This is the scripture.
• 09:51 Paul said it and Zechariah said it. You know, the Rapture and the Second Coming,
• 09:57 that is Jesus coming first for His church and taking them out the world and then
• 10:01 7 years later after the Tribulation, His Second Coming, those two comings that is to say
• 10:10 His return at the end of the age, is the concern of 1 in every 25 verses in the Bible.
• 10:19 Back after this.
• 10:30 Our Resource this week,
• 10:32 "Thy Kingdom Come" music CD.
• 10:35 These 11 songs written and performed by Zola Levitt
• 10:39 were produced in 2001 for the original TV series.
• 10:43 Featuring Zola playing his oboe with a powerful combination
• 10:47 of piano, orchestra, voice, and synthesizer.
• 10:51 These songs will give your soul a little glimpse of heaven.
• 10:55 Contact us and ask for "Thy Kingdom Come" music CD.
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• 11:48 Right now let's go back to Zola at the Mount of Olives.
• 11:54 Okay, back to the Second Coming which is going to pass me by.
• 11:58 If it happened right now why my gosh the Lord would pass right through here.
• 12:01 Here are the graves. Here are the people burried to await the
• 12:05 resurrection on the Mount of Olives.
• 12:07 It's descibed as well in the Gospels as it is in Revelation and the Prophets.
• 12:13 Mark is quoting the prophet Joel I think.
• 12:32 It's quite an event obviously. One of a kind.
• 12:50 My goodness,the Jews especialy. We said earlier He will gather
• 12:57 the Jews and bring them to Israel. Indeed, they will have to suffer through the
• 13:02 Tribulation and it is called in other scripture the time of Jacob's trouble.
• 13:06 In figure the thing is really a judgement that comes down especially on the Jews.
• 13:14 Moishe Rosen of Jews for Jesus though was saying that's it's only churches teaching
• 13:18 about the Tribulation. He finally started to think they're talking away our Tribulation.
• 13:23 They're saying they're going through it which isn't so.
• 13:27 They never say that it really is hardest of all upon Israel. But it really is.
• 13:34 We're going to come to that.
• 13:48 Two thirds of Israel will perish in the Tribulation.
• 14:10 In the end Israel will be saved. Then Romans 11:26 is clear.
• 14:45 Well, you know, why all these judgements and why all this terror?
• 14:49 Really and truely it's been earned by men who did not know the Lord was their God.
• 14:58 Went on their own way and that is just the way of the world and how things have worked out.
• 15:03 And it is rather sad.
• 15:05 Zechariah 13 is just typical when he says at the end "They shall say the Lord is my God."
• 15:15 The problem is they have not said the Lord is my God earlier than that.
• 15:18 They have done religion. They have worn shawls. They have covered their heads.
• 15:22 They have bowed at the Wall. They have wept. They have kept festivals.
• 15:25 But they have not said the Lord is my God one by one by one. That is what is necessary.
• 15:44 This is the Second Coming obviously.
• 16:04 My goodness. Ungodly used once, twice, three, four, is it five times in a sentence.
• 16:11 This is the reason. It's not that men are born evil.
• 16:18 They are born in sin and the original sin goes on and it's passed to generations & so on.
• 16:24 But the main fault that Jude points out that Zechariah points out that all of them seem to
• 16:29 teach is they have not said the Lord is my God.
• 16:32 Have you said that the Lord is your God?
• 16:35 You know I don't often stop and evangelize but standing here on the Mount of Olives and
• 16:41 thinking of the destruction to come to this city, unnecessary detruction to be honest with
• 16:48 you. If technically everyone in the city of Jerusalem came to the Messiah today
• 16:52 there would be peace on earth good will toward men. That would be it.
• 16:56 We know it isn't going to happen. It is written otherwise.
• 16:59 But still in all, I just want to say to each individual person
• 17:03 you have to choose a side at this time. I mean it.
• 17:06 We're coming to the end. The trouble in Israel is not really surprizing.
• 17:10 It's the result of ungodlyness and the Prophets have said it.
• 17:17 And it is written too that the end is near.
• 17:20 I know people have said it for centuries and generations and so on but there are just too many
• 17:26 signs in place to tell us the end really is here.
• 17:30 When I teach the Lord's prophecy in Matthew 24 the famine, the pestilence, the earthquakes,
• 17:36 the false prophets, the false christ, and so on,
• 17:38 love waxxing cold, inequity abounding.
• 17:42 You know I used to teach it and I used to say it isn't quite ready yet.
• 17:45 I don't say that any more. My goodness.
• 17:48 It's as ready now as well when I taught about disease to say one of the things. Pestilence.
• 17:55 Golly, I was talking about Asian Flu in the 70s.
• 17:59 I was talking about Legionaires Disease in the 80s.
• 18:02 I was talking about AIDS in the 90s.
• 18:04 How much worse can it get at this time with the Ebola Virus and Tuberculosis
• 18:10 and airplanes carrying germs around the world from country to country.
• 18:13 You know, this world could come to an end. If there were no God,
• 18:18 I would fear that there is no future for any of us.
• 18:21 That being true, let me say this to you. Just say to God, come into my heart.
• 18:27 I accept His sacrifice for my sin. And lead my life for me
• 18:33 beause I am not leading it well myself and I need Your help.
• 18:37 I saw a sheet of paper at the house from a dear friend that
• 18:41 said "Dear Friend, I am God. I will be taking care of your affairs today.
• 18:47 Please know that I won't need any help from you.
• 18:50 It's kind of a joke but really a person who is Godly and believes
• 18:55 knows the meaning of that intimately.
• 19:03 ♪ instrumental music ♪
• 19:59 Our Resource this week,
• 20:01 "Thy Kingdom Come" music CD.
• 20:04 These 11 songs written and performed by Zola Levitt
• 20:07 were produced in 2001 for the original TV series.
• 20:12 Featuring Zola playing his oboe with a powerful combination
• 20:15 of piano, orchestra, voice, and synthesizer.
• 20:20 These songs will give your soul a little glimpse of heaven.
• 20:24 Contact us and ask for "Thy Kingdom Come" music CD.
• 21:03 You've seen some beautiful footage today of our Zola Levitt tour.
• 21:08 We go to Greece, Israel, and even Petra.
• 21:11 We would love for you to join us on a Zola Levitt tour.
• 21:13 You can find all the information on levitt.com
• 21:15 With us today is Dr. Seif who has been to Israel. Have you been to Greece and Petra?
• 21:21 I've been there. Let me tell you about my first trip with Zola.
• 21:24 And honestly, listening to you reminded me of that.
• 21:27 The tourist were there. We got to Jerusalem.
• 21:31 And I was so anxious to get to the Western Wall.
• 21:33 I was rooming with Zola. Too cheap to get seperate rooms for both of us.
• 21:38 laughter ha ha
• 21:39 I so wanted to get to the Wall. Late at night we got a cab.
• 21:43 And we went to the Wall together.
• 21:45 And he told me afterward, he said you know frankly,
• 21:48 I just derived a lot of joy by seeing you so happy.
• 21:52 It's the thrill of a lifetime to visit Israel 1st, 2nd time. Right?
• 21:56 Right.
• 21:57 You guys are still basking in that aren't you?
• 21:58 Yes. Yes.
• 21:59 And that's one of your favorite things too.
• 22:00 You've mentioned that. Is seeing all of you, you viewers
• 22:03 experience Israel for the first time. There's nothing like it.
• 22:07 Right and in Bible prophecy experiencing Israel is going to rise to the fore isn't it?
• 22:12 And that's what we are talking about is prophecy this whole series.
• 22:15 And today Zola was teaching on the Second Coming
• 22:20 and the fact that there is another battle.
• 22:23 Question of the day,
• 22:24 Yeah.
• 22:25 Another battle.
• 22:26 In the world today Israel's a question mark.
• 22:28 When the Kingdom comes literally it's going to be the central capital.
• 22:32 But there's going to be trouble in River City.
• 22:35 According to Revelation 20 we are told that
• 22:39 when the millennial reign ends the cat gets out of the bag.
• 22:44 Satan is released and there's another battle royal to duke it out.
• 22:49 We're safe in God's hands before all this but there is still trouble to come.
• 22:55 How many times have we heard that time is coming today, tomorrow, next week?
• 23:00 Any idea when that time might be?
• 23:03 Yeah, after 1000 years has been completed.
• 23:05 Yeah. Huh hmmm, yeah.
• 23:06 And so what you have is just to look at the literature lierally, sequentially.
• 23:12 Yeshua Jesus Christ has come back for the taking away of
• 23:18 the believers in Revelation some time before this.
• 23:21 The Rapture. We talk about being enraptured.
• 23:25 A woman speaks of being enraptured by a man.
• 23:28 It means to be taken, swept off your feet.
• 23:32 Well, what we call the Rapture speaks to the time when the
• 23:36 church, the bride is swept off of her feet to go meet the Lord in the air.
• 23:41 But then when the Lord comes from the air with his army,
• 23:45 those are the taken up saints for his coming.
• 23:50 For His setting up the Kingdom where Jerusalem is central.
• 23:55 And that goes on for some time but then at the end of that
• 23:59 as the Bible says the cat gets let out of the bag and there's a final conflict.
• 24:04 And that's what I don't understand.
• 24:06 Because honestly, if I were God I'd be like you're done. I'm keeping you in there.
• 24:11 I guess I don't understand the let's let him out again .
• 24:15 And you know, the truth of the matter is, at one level neither do I.
• 24:19 I have my opinions on it. There's a lot that I don't understand.
• 24:23 But I do understand this.
• 24:24 That our perspective needs to be guided by Biblical language.
• 24:31 A lot of times people will say, "Professor, what do you think?"
• 24:35 And because you have Dr. in front of your name you're suppose to be a better thinker.
• 24:38 I like to stay close to the literature.
• 24:40 We're not given an explaination specifically.
• 24:43 But we could tacitly try and gain inferences for why that is.
• 24:48 But in God's wisdom that's the way He planned it.
• 24:51 Not because I said it. Not because Zola said it.
• 24:53 But because John said it.
• 24:55 Right.
• 24:57 Very explicitly he says, "When 1000 years has ended, Satan will be released from his prison.
• 25:02 And will come out to deceive the nations."
• 25:05 The nations here have an opportunity to make a choice.
• 25:08 May people choose well. Then and now.
• 25:12 Right. Wow.
• 25:13 I don't think any of us will be here during that time. Right?
• 25:16 Well, we're going to be taken up. We're going to be the millennial saints.
• 25:19 We're not going to be of that ilk.
• 25:22 Right.
• 25:23 That turns away.
• 25:24 There is so much more to come.
• 25:26 Thank you so much for joining us and would you do
• 25:29 what Zola did for so many years? Close us out.
• 25:32 Love it!
• 25:33 Sha'alu Shalom Yerushalayim
• 25:36 Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem.
• 25:41 ♪ I see the stars. I hear the rolling thunder ♪
• 25:47 ♪ Thy power throughout the universe displayed ♪
• 25:54 ♪ Then sings my soul, my Saviour God, to Thee ♪
• 26:00 ♪ How great Thou art, how great Thou art ♪
• 26:06 ♪ Then sings my soul, my Saviour God, to Thee ♪
• 26:13 ♪ How great Thou art, how great Thou art ♪
• 26:19 ♪ Orchestra Interlude ♪
• 26:21 ♪ When Christ shall come with shout of acclamation ♪
• 26:28 ♪ And take me home, what joy shall fill my heart ♪
• 26:34 ♪ Then I shall bow in humble adoration ♪
• 26:40 ♪ And then proclaim, my God, how great Thou art ♪
• 26:47 ♪ Then sings my soul, my Saviour God, to Thee ♪
• 26:53 ♪ How great Thou art, how great Thou art ♪
• 27:00 ♪ Then sings my soul, my Saviour God, to Thee ♪
• 27:06 ♪ How great Thou art, how great Thou art ♪
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