Caption transcript for Thy Kingdom Come (2018): “The Kingdom Begins” (7/12)

• 00:01 David Hart: As we watch the news these days,
• 00:02 we see that our world is fallen and flawed.
• 00:05 Ever hope for a better world?
• 00:07 That day and kingdom is coming.
• 00:09 Find out more about that today on "Zola Levitt Presents."
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• 00:18 male announcer: "Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God
• 00:20 for Israel is that they might be saved.
• 00:24 For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek:
• 00:27 for the same Lord over all is rich unto all
• 00:30 that call upon him."
• 00:32 "Zola Levitt Presents."
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• 00:50 David: Thank you for joining us on "Zola Levitt Presents."
• 00:51 I'm David Hart.
• 00:53 Kirsten Hart: I'm Kirsten Hart.
• 00:54 Jeffrey Seif: Jeffrey Seif.
• 00:55 David: We are in the middle of our series,
• 00:57 "Thy Kingdom Come," which first aired in 2001
• 00:59 with our founder Zola Levitt.
• 01:01 We have our senior theologian.
• 01:05 It's a great title for you, fits you perfectly.
• 01:07 Jeffrey: It means I'm over 60.
• 01:08 Kirsten: We don't have any kind of title like that,
• 01:10 so that's a good title.
• 01:12 David: Great to have you with us.
• 01:13 Jeffrey: You're not that old.
• 01:14 Hey, it's great to be with you too.
• 01:16 And what a program to be on, by the way,
• 01:17 to look at things to come.
• 01:19 Kirsten: A thousand years.
• 01:21 A thousand years in Jerusalem, he'll be reigning.
• 01:24 What in the world does that look like?
• 01:25 Jeffrey: It's hard to grasp.
• 01:27 People don't talk about it. We will.
• 01:28 Kirsten: I think it's the best.
• 01:30 I think it's--so, will we be old?
• 01:32 Will we just remain at a certain age?
• 01:35 What is 1,000 years?
• 01:37 Jeffrey: Honey, you're timeless.
• 01:38 The rest of us might age.
• 01:39 You shouldn't worry. It's gonna be good.
• 01:41 We're gonna have a look at the book and find out
• 01:43 with Zola Levitt.
• 01:45 David: That's right.
• 01:46 Right now, let's go to Zola in Israel.
• 01:49 Zola Levitt: Well, the kingdom, the thousand-year
• 01:52 reign, the thing we're gonna pray for, "Thy Kingdom Come,"
• 01:55 this is germane to the Christian life.
• 01:58 We don't talk enough about it in the church,
• 02:00 but Luke 12:31-32 says, "But rather seek ye the kingdom
• 02:04 of God; and all these things shall be added unto you.
• 02:08 Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father's good pleasure
• 02:12 to give you the kingdom."
• 02:14 The kingdom is gonna be a wonderful age to live in,
• 02:16 my goodness.
• 02:18 The population basically will start out with all believers.
• 02:22 Old Testament saints, I mean from the Garden of Eden
• 02:25 all the way through, then the entire Christian church.
• 02:30 All the believers translated in the rapture came back
• 02:34 with the Lord.
• 02:35 We were in heaven with the Lord for the judgment seat of the
• 02:37 righteous and the wedding to the Lord, and then we return
• 02:39 in the second coming to start the kingdom along with
• 02:43 the resurrected Old Testament saints.
• 02:46 And the third group will be the sheep, the martyrs of the
• 02:49 Tribulation period, the ones who were beheaded for their faith,
• 02:55 and also the living of the time when the Lord holds
• 03:00 the sheep and goats' judgment.
• 03:02 The people alive who have not taken the number of the beast
• 03:08 and somehow survive the Tribulation will be designated
• 03:11 as sheep and taken to the kingdom.
• 03:13 The believers who were beheaded
• 03:14 will be resurrected at this time,
• 03:16 like the Old Testament saints, and also taken to the kingdom.
• 03:20 So on day one of the kingdom, we'll have a society
• 03:24 entirely of believers.
• 03:28 But you know, these people that came in in their natural bodies
• 03:30 from the Tribulation, the sheep, if a woman is pregnant
• 03:34 and she has her baby on day two, that is the first unbeliever
• 03:38 in the kingdom.
• 03:40 And so it will be, people in natural bodies who did not go in
• 03:42 the rapture, who were not changed for immortality will
• 03:47 marry and give in marriage right along, and they will have
• 03:51 a great many children.
• 03:52 There will be no death in the kingdom, or very little death.
• 03:56 The prophet says it'll be a shame for a man to die
• 03:58 at 100 years old.
• 04:00 Most people survive the entire 1,000-year kingdom.
• 04:04 Therefore, there is an ever-growing population of
• 04:07 unbelievers in the kingdom.
• 04:10 People suppose it's a time of bliss and so forth.
• 04:12 There is a time of bliss coming, which is eternity,
• 04:15 but the kingdom has some unbelievers.
• 04:17 Naturally, the pressure'll be on them to be saved
• 04:20 and they probably will be saved.
• 04:23 Jesus Christ, I guess, will be on television every night.
• 04:25 He'll be in the temple in Jerusalem.
• 04:28 He'll be here in this city which I didn't introduce to you
• 04:31 because I'm sure you know it.
• 04:33 This is Jerusalem and this is the heart of the kingdom.
• 04:38 Now, Daniel 7:13-14 says, "I saw in the night visions, and,
• 04:44 behold, one like the Son of man came with the clouds of heaven,
• 04:48 and came to the Ancient of days, and they brought him
• 04:51 near before him."
• 04:53 This is a parallel to the Revelation scenes of the throne
• 04:57 room in heaven, and here's the Son coming before the Father.
• 05:00 And it says, "And there was given him dominion, and glory,
• 05:03 and a kingdom, that all people, nations, and languages should
• 05:07 serve him: his dominion is an everlasting dominion,
• 05:10 which shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which
• 05:14 shall not be destroyed.
• 05:16 So, the kingdom goes on.
• 05:18 Nobody can stop it, nobody can hurt it, and it is for us.
• 05:23 This indeed is the time that the meek shall inherit the earth.
• 05:28 This is exactly the meaning of that.
• 05:32 Dwight Pentecost wrote a magnificent article in his
• 05:36 "Things to Come," and I just wanted to quote from it
• 05:39 because it's said so well.
• 05:41 "This Millennial time period," he wrote, "looked at from the
• 05:45 Father's side will be the public earthly honoring of His Son
• 05:48 just where men dishonored Him on this earth.
• 05:51 It will be the carrying out of God's promises to His Son,
• 05:54 and the prophecies concerning Him, to," quote, "give unto Him
• 05:57 the throne of His father David," unquote.
• 06:01 "It is the final trial of sinful man on this earth
• 06:04 before the earth is destroyed.
• 06:05 It will be God's answer of the prayer of his saints: 'Thy
• 06:08 Kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.'
• 06:11 Looked at from the perspective of Christ it is the time after
• 06:14 His long patience, He receives the kingdom of the world,
• 06:18 which He has been constantly 'expecting,' there at God's
• 06:20 right hand, and He will reign in righteousness.
• 06:23 At last He will be able to confer upon the meek of the
• 06:26 earth the place and inheritance He ever loved to promise them!
• 06:30 He will share all His kingly honors with His saints."
• 06:34 And so, Luke 11:2 says, "And he said unto them,
• 06:37 When ye pray, say, Our Father which art in heaven,
• 06:40 Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come.
• 06:42 Thy will be done, in heaven, as it is on earth."
• 06:46 This wonderful prayer, the Lord's prayer,
• 06:49 is about the kingdom.
• 06:50 That's exactly its subject.
• 06:53 Isaiah covers the government of the kingdom in this manner,
• 06:57 "For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the
• 07:01 government shall be upon his shoulders: and his name shall be
• 07:04 called Wonderful, Counselor, The mighty God,
• 07:06 The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.
• 07:09 Of the increase of his government and peace there shall
• 07:11 be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom,
• 07:14 to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice
• 07:19 from henceforth even for ever.
• 07:21 The zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this."
• 07:24 So, that should introduce the kingdom.
• 07:27 And when I come back, I'm gonna tell you a couple of events that
• 07:30 happened just after the second coming when the Lord
• 07:34 first establishes the kingdom to come.
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• 08:57 David: I think Zola would be so happy right now to know
• 08:59 that his ministry that he started over 35 years ago
• 09:03 is still thriving.
• 09:05 That could not happen without your financial support and we
• 09:07 just wanted to thank you for that.
• 09:09 Right now, let's go back to Zola's teaching in Jerusalem.
• 09:14 Zola: Well, you know, Daniel gives a kind of schedule of two
• 09:17 events at the beginning of the kingdom, or we might say just
• 09:21 after the second coming, and I was playing with those.
• 09:25 If you know something about the Jewish calendar and when
• 09:28 the various feasts occur, you can come up with
• 09:31 an interesting conclusion.
• 09:32 And I'm not insisting on this as doctrine, it's just, like I say,
• 09:36 I was playing with the numbers.
• 09:37 Daniel 12:11-12 says, "And from the time that the daily
• 09:42 sacrifice shall be taken away, and the abomination that maketh
• 09:46 desolate set up," that's the midpoint of the Tribulation
• 09:49 when the antichrist goes in and blasphemes in the temple.
• 09:53 The Lord called the abomination of desolation,
• 09:56 and also the prophet Daniel.
• 09:58 "There shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days,"
• 10:02 1,290 days after that midpoint.
• 10:06 Then it says, "Blessed is he that waiteth, and cometh
• 10:08 to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty days,"
• 10:12 1,335 days after that midpoint of the Tribulation.
• 10:17 Well, what I came up with was this.
• 10:21 The end of the Tribulation would really be
• 10:24 1,260 past the blasphemy of the antichrist.
• 10:28 That's exactly half of a 7-year period with 30-day months,
• 10:32 and that's actually given in Revelation 11, 1,260 days
• 10:37 is a half Tribulation period.
• 10:39 Well, if he wants 1,290 days so it extends 30 days
• 10:43 into the kingdom, so to speak.
• 10:45 And then his second number, 1,335 days, that extends
• 10:49 to 75 days into the kingdom.
• 10:53 And I started to wonder what events might happen
• 10:57 at those times.
• 10:59 There really are two things that have to happen
• 11:00 as the kingdom gets underway.
• 11:02 Number one, that judgment of the sheep and the goats.
• 11:04 When the Lord comes back in the second coming, all the souls
• 11:08 on earth that are alive have to be gathered before him
• 11:12 and he judges them, separates the sheep from the goats.
• 11:17 And the sheep go into the kingdom, the goats are bound
• 11:19 with Satan 1,000 years until the great white throne of judgment
• 11:24 at the end of the kingdom.
• 11:26 Well, he sets up that throne, I supposed, on the 30-day mark,
• 11:31 and then the second event would be the dedication
• 11:35 of the kingdom itself, of his millennial temple,
• 11:38 of the real start of the thing.
• 11:40 Like Solomon dedicating his temple if you remember, like the
• 11:45 feast of dedication that they did at rededication when
• 11:50 the Maccabees overthrew the Greco-Syrians in 165 B.C.,
• 11:57 and so he would dedicate his kingdom temple
• 12:00 with a special ceremony.
• 12:03 Well, from there, I decided, well, the end of the kingdom,
• 12:06 we know when the second coming is.
• 12:08 It's on a day of atonement, because in Zechariah 12:10 it
• 12:12 says, "Israel will look upon him whom they've pierced and mourn
• 12:15 for him as for an only son, and a fountain of cleansing will be
• 12:18 open until the house of David."
• 12:20 Paul says, "All Israel will be saved when the deliverer
• 12:22 shall come out of Zion."
• 12:24 So the second coming is on a day of atonement,
• 12:29 and we know the date.
• 12:30 It's the tenth day of the seventh month.
• 12:32 That's the day of atonement every year.
• 12:34 So, to get to the 30-day mark, we just go over to the 10th day
• 12:38 of the 8th month.
• 12:40 Now, that I think is when the Lord sets up that throne of
• 12:42 judgment, 30 days, answering to the idea that David was 30 when
• 12:48 he began to reign, Solomon was 30 when he began to reign, the
• 12:51 Lord was 30 when he began his earthly ministry of teaching.
• 12:55 Thirty seems to be, in Jewish culture and most every culture,
• 12:59 the age of the career maturity of a man, you might say.
• 13:04 A man could drive a car at 16, and he can vote at 21, but we
• 13:09 know that he should be about 30 before he's found his career.
• 13:13 And Jesus as the great judge in the kingdom then comes
• 13:16 to his throne, let's say at the 30-day period.
• 13:19 More compelling though is the 75 days.
• 13:22 If you go from the 10th day of the 7th month, 30 days would be
• 13:26 the 10th day of the 8th month, 30 more days, making 60 the 10th
• 13:30 day of the 9th month, then you need 15 more days to make up 75.
• 13:35 That would be the 25th day of the 9th month.
• 13:38 The 25th of Kislev.
• 13:40 That's not just any day, that's Hanukkah.
• 13:43 That's the feast of dedication.
• 13:45 Jesus celebrated it.
• 13:46 In John 10:22 it says, "It was winter and he came down
• 13:49 to Jerusalem for the feast of dedication."
• 13:52 That feast is when they rededicated the temple after
• 13:56 Antiochus, and it will be evidently the day that Christ
• 14:00 will dedicate his memorial temple on earth,
• 14:04 his ruling house in the kingdom to come.
• 14:06 That's my guess as to what those numbers in Daniel refer to.
• 14:10 Now, the government will be set up and it will be righteous
• 14:14 for a change.
• 14:15 Oh, won't that be nice?
• 14:17 And there's quite a bit of commentary in Scripture on not
• 14:20 just the king, but on the people that assist him in governing.
• 14:24 Isaiah 11:4-9 describes the kingdom itself
• 14:27 with these great passages.
• 14:29 "With righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with
• 14:31 equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite
• 14:34 the earth: with the rod of his mouth, and the breath of his
• 14:36 lips shall he slay the wicked."
• 14:38 And then all the passages that follow about the lion eating
• 14:42 straw like the ox, and a child playing at the snake's den.
• 14:46 And "They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy
• 14:50 mountain," the passage ends, "for the earth shall be full of
• 14:53 the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea."
• 14:57 What a wonderful time that'll be.
• 15:00 And then in regard to these judges, princes, people that
• 15:03 help the Lord govern, Ezekiel 45:8 says, "In the land shall be
• 15:08 his possession in Israel: and my princes shall no more oppress my
• 15:12 people; and the rest of the land shall they give to the house
• 15:15 of Israel according to their tribes."
• 15:17 It's a reference to the whole house of Israel which includes
• 15:21 believers of all times.
• 15:23 If the church is adopted and inherits the blessings of
• 15:27 Israel, well, this is one of the inheritances,
• 15:29 a portion of the land in Israel, and no more corrupt governors,
• 15:34 or princes they call them, over these people,
• 15:36 but perfectly righteous ones.
• 15:40 The disciples were wondering if they could have position
• 15:43 in the kingdom.
• 15:44 They spoke to Jesus about it and he said in Matthew 19:28,
• 15:48 "Verily I say unto you, That ye which have followed me, in the
• 15:51 regeneration when the Son of man shall sit in the throne of his
• 15:55 glory, ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones,
• 15:58 judging the twelve tribes of Israel."
• 16:01 So, the disciples do have an important position
• 16:03 in the kingdom to come.
• 16:05 Zechariah 3:7 says, "Thus saith the Lord of hosts; If thou wilt
• 16:09 walk in my ways, and if thou wilt keep my charge,
• 16:12 then thou shalt also judge my house, and shalt also keep
• 16:16 my courts, and I will give thee places
• 16:19 to walk among these that stand by," an implication
• 16:22 that all of us who follow him are rewarded
• 16:24 in the kingdom to come.
• 16:27 And that ends with a great verse, Zechariah 3:10, "In that
• 16:31 day, saith the Lord of hosts, shall ye call every man his
• 16:35 neighbor under the vine and under the fig tree."
• 16:39 The Scofield Bible says, "Verse 10 marks the time
• 16:41 of fulfillment as in the future kingdom.
• 16:44 It speaks of a security which Israel has never known since
• 16:47 the captivity, nor will know till the time
• 16:50 the kingdom comes," and that's quite right.
• 16:55 Israel now is in terrible tension, as you know.
• 16:58 It sort of always has been.
• 17:00 It's always been a difficult place to be and I think that's
• 17:04 just because it's real interesting to the enemy of God.
• 17:07 If he could somehow get rid of Jerusalem, get rid of the Jewish
• 17:10 people, this Bible would be the relic book of an extinct people
• 17:15 and of no interest.
• 17:16 But as long as they're here and as long as they survive,
• 17:18 and they will survive, you can count on this Bible being
• 17:22 important to the whole world.
• 17:24 Isaiah 26 wraps it up this way, "And I will restore thy judges
• 17:28 as at the first, and thy counsellors as at the beginning:
• 17:32 afterward thou shalt be called, The city of righteousness,
• 17:36 the faithful city."
• 17:38 This city that you see behind me is the capital of Israel today
• 17:42 and will be the capital for 1,000 years of the kingdom
• 17:46 to come.
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• 19:06 announcer: Our resource this week,
• 19:07 the Hebrew names of God cards.
• 19:10 This collection includes 12 vibrant, high-quality art cards,
• 19:14 each with Old and New Testament connections on the back,
• 19:17 with Scripture and beautifully written devotionals.
• 19:21 These art cards can be used for personal reflection, group
• 19:24 discussion, or as a beautiful gift for your friend or pastor.
• 19:29 For this resource and more, call 1-800-WONDERS
• 19:32 or visit us at levitt.com.
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• 20:09 Kirsten: The first time that we went to Israel, I remember
• 20:12 someone on the tour bus telling us, in Jerusalem,
• 20:17 "Pick out your place that you wanna live because you're
• 20:20 gonna be here for 1,000 years."
• 20:22 That's an amazing part of this program today
• 20:26 that we're learning about the 1,000-year reign of Christ
• 20:29 in Jerusalem, one city.
• 20:32 And the greatest thing is we can go and you can go see
• 20:36 that place where he will reign for 1,000 years.
• 20:38 We go every year, two times a year.
• 20:40 David: That's right.
• 20:41 You can find all the information on levitt.com.
• 20:43 Join us on a Zola Levitt tour.
• 20:46 Kirsten: Dr. Seif right here with us, 1,000 years.
• 20:49 I know at the beginning of the program I said,
• 20:51 "Will we be young or old?"
• 20:53 But I don't think it'll even matter, will it?
• 20:54 David: What does it look like?
• 20:56 Jeffrey: Well, it's tragic.
• 20:57 In the world today, people don't wanna deal with Israel
• 20:58 for 1,000 years.
• 21:00 They don't wanna deal with it for 1,000 seconds.
• 21:01 When the United Nations get together, the way they wanna
• 21:03 deal with Israel is to dismiss it entirely.
• 21:07 The problem isn't just with the world at large.
• 21:09 The church at large is predisposed
• 21:11 to just dismiss Israel.
• 21:13 When Christian theology initially developed, Israel
• 21:15 wasn't a player on the stage of nations and people
• 21:18 thought God was all done, and you know,
• 21:20 Israel was put to bed, put to rest.
• 21:23 And theology developed in its Catholic, Orthodox, and
• 21:26 Protestant varieties, but apparently God didn't read
• 21:29 the books because Israel has re-emerged fortuitously,
• 21:33 providentially in the end of days, and it's going to be a
• 21:36 headquarters in the final of days, but that doesn't comport
• 21:40 with the sensibilities of many Christians.
• 21:43 Kirsten: It's almost like they've had a different Bible,
• 21:45 because the 1,000-year reign of Christ in Jerusalem is
• 21:48 in this Bible that they dismiss.
• 21:50 Jeffrey: Right, it's noted specifically in Revelation.
• 21:52 The devil's unleashed.
• 21:54 There'll be 1,000--you know, he's bound up for 1,000 years
• 21:57 and then unleashed.
• 21:59 There's a period of success and prosperity.
• 22:01 It's headquartered in Jerusalem.
• 22:03 For as much as people talk about, "We're gotta go by what
• 22:05 the Bible says, what the Bible says," they might mean it as far
• 22:08 as salvation goes, but they don't mean it as far as the Jews
• 22:11 go, and salvation is from the Jews, not only in century 1
• 22:15 but in the world to come.
• 22:17 That's one of the reasons why I think programs like this are
• 22:20 important, because we wanna take a look at the book in a way
• 22:23 that includes the Jewish people and their own story.
• 22:27 And certainly if you look at Revelation, where you get the
• 22:31 word "millennial kingdom," the early church
• 22:34 was beholden to that.
• 22:36 Through time and circumstance, millennialism fell out of vogue.
• 22:40 It was dusted off and began emerging in the 1800s along
• 22:43 with the state of Israel.
• 22:45 I'm so pleased by that.
• 22:47 When you look at Ezekiel, he gives voice to something of the
• 22:49 world to come with the bounty and the beauty, gives voice
• 22:54 to the centralization of Israel in Zechariah where
• 22:58 the nations come.
• 22:59 In fact, your son works with the International Christian Embassy
• 23:02 Jerusalem, and people come now in advance
• 23:05 of that world to come, correct?
• 23:07 Kirsten: And they do, but I just--I guess we were
• 23:11 raised you look forward to this 1,000 years.
• 23:15 It's something exciting that we were taught, so I'm glad that we
• 23:17 were in churches that taught about this kingdom.
• 23:21 And the 1,000 years, I think about growing up as a child,
• 23:24 we thought, you know, "Are we gonna go up and down?"
• 23:27 I mean, is there an elevator, escalator, you know what I mean,
• 23:29 that takes us from heaven down to earth?
• 23:31 Are all believers on earth at that time?
• 23:33 Jeffrey: I think there's a blank, you know?
• 23:35 People look at religion to purchase fire insurance.
• 23:37 I've accepted Christ.
• 23:39 When I die, I'm with him and that's that.
• 23:41 There's no interest beyond that, but the Bible doesn't just give
• 23:44 voice to our own futures.
• 23:46 The world doesn't revolve around us entirely.
• 23:48 Maybe our old world--our own worlds do, but what's God
• 23:51 up to in the world, not just our world, and what's the plan?
• 23:55 And the Bible speaks to it.
• 23:57 Many people don't, we do.
• 23:58 That's why I thank you for helping us get the story out.
• 24:01 We're really game to get it straight.
• 24:03 David: Can I also say this?
• 24:04 I don't think until we started on this program we realized
• 24:08 how little the church is involved with Israel,
• 24:11 and I thought that we were.
• 24:13 I thought every church in America loved Israel and
• 24:16 supported Israel, but you're making it sound like we need
• 24:19 to do a whole lot more of that.
• 24:21 Jeffrey: Well, I think so.
• 24:22 Of course, you had the experience of being involved in
• 24:24 churches that were pro-Israel.
• 24:26 I'm glad they exist, but they are far and few between.
• 24:29 Denominations are not only not interested in Israel,
• 24:33 they are increasingly organizing against Israel.
• 24:36 David: I don't get that.
• 24:37 Jeffrey: I don't either.
• 24:39 It reminds me of American politics.
• 24:40 I can't believe people can be so stupid.
• 24:43 I mean, how can you read the Bible and not support a Jewish
• 24:47 presence in the homeland and not see what--we see what God is
• 24:51 up to in the Word, why can't we see it in the world today?
• 24:54 They match.
• 24:55 David: I think it should be mandatory that every pastor has
• 24:57 to go to Israel for a tour.
• 24:59 Jeffrey: You know, Zola thought that one trip to Israel
• 25:01 was worth ten years of Sunday school.
• 25:03 And really, and let me just say, whether you go with us or not,
• 25:07 you know, we do tours in and out of Israel
• 25:09 and you're more than welcome.
• 25:11 It would be a great way to gift your pastor and the pastor's
• 25:14 spouse to gift them a trip to Israel.
• 25:17 And it would be life-changing for them in terms of the
• 25:20 information they'd get and the inspiration they'd
• 25:22 come back with, just like you.
• 25:24 Kirsten: And their preaching changes.
• 25:25 I was just at a women's conference this past weekend
• 25:28 and I had the ladies raise their hands.
• 25:30 I said, "How many of you have gone to Israel?"
• 25:32 Not one hand raised, and they're all pastors wives.
• 25:36 And I said, "You've got to go because everything
• 25:38 in this world is about one city."
• 25:40 It's all about Jerusalem.
• 25:43 It's our future.
• 25:45 Jeffrey: Even if folk don't go with us, just go.
• 25:48 And if you can't go, invite your friends to watch
• 25:51 "Zola Levitt Presents."
• 25:53 We'll take you.
• 25:54 I mean, we can't put everybody on the bus, but--
• 25:57 Buses hold 50 people, this program services 500,000 plus
• 26:01 on a bad day.
• 26:02 We'll take you.
• 26:04 Kirsten: We'll take you. We have so much more to come.
• 26:06 Next week, we're discussing the marriage,
• 26:09 the wedding up in heaven.
• 26:12 I'm a wedding and marriage gal.
• 26:14 I love a good wedding and that's what we're discussing.
• 26:16 David: I think it's your favorite week.
• 26:17 Kirsten: It is, next week. Be sure to join us next week.
• 26:19 David: Also, we love to end this program with Zola's music.
• 26:23 Here's one of his songs.
• 26:24 And we also end this program with...
• 26:27 Jeffrey: Sha'alu shalom Yerushalayim.
• 26:29 both: Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.
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