Caption transcript for Age of Terror Continued: “Trials and Tribulations” with Tom McCall (8/12)

• 00:28 SHALOM, HELLO AGAIN.
• 00:29 WELL I'M BACK AFTER MY BYPASS OPERATION.
• 00:32 MY BROKEN HEART IS FIXED.
• 00:34 I STILL FEEL A LITTLE BIT WEAK >>AND MY VOICE IS SO-SO,
• 00:38 BUT, I'M VERY GLAD TO BE BACK WITH YOU.
• 00:40 IT WAS ABOUT SIX WEEKS AGO I HAD >>MY OPERATION AND I'VE BEEN CONVALESCING
• 00:45 AND HAD A COUPLE OF SETBACKS, BUT IN GENERAL, I FEEL OKAY.
• 00:48 BOY, LIKE THE SURGEON SAID, >>I MIGHT HAVE ANOTHER 20 YEARS, >>SO STAY TUNED.
• 00:53 NOW, WE RAN NEW PROGRAMS RIGHT DURING THIS SIX WEEKS BECAUSE WE MAKE THEM ABOUT THAT FAR AHEAD.
• 01:01 WE HAVE SOME ALWAYS ON THE SHELF >>SO WE RAN GOOD INTERVIEWS
• 01:05 AND RELEVANT STUFF RIGHT ALONG, >>SO DON'T GET CONFUSED.
• 01:10 I KNOW I MAY LOOK A LITTLE THINNER.
• 01:12 I HAVE LOST A BUNCH OF WEIGHT AND MY SHIRTS ARE BIG
• 01:15 AND I TELL YOU WHAT, IF YOU WANT TO LOSE SOME WEIGHT, THAT'S ONE >>WAY OF DOING IT.
• 01:19 BUT, YOU REALLY DO HAVE TO HAVE >>CHEST PAIN AND SO ON.
• 01:22 NOW, THIS PROGRAM IS ABOUT PERSECUTION.
• 01:26 THIS IS THE LOT OF ALL CHRISTIANS.
• 01:29 THAT'S WHAT THE LORD SAID, YE SHALL HAVE TRIBULATION,
• 01:32 THEY'LL PERSECUTE YOU AS THEY PERSECUTED ME.
• 01:35 THEY'LL KILL YOU IN MY NAMESAKE. YOU'LL BE HATED OF ALL NATIONS.
• 01:40 I ALWAYS APPLY THAT TO ISRAEL >>AND PEOPLE TELL ME, BUT IT'S TO CHRISTIANS, IT'S TO THE CHURCH.
• 01:46 IT'S THE SAME THING IN THE LORD'S PARLANCE.
• 01:49 HE'S TALKING TO DISCIPLES THAT ARE ISRAELIS AND THAT ARE CHURCH MEMBERS AND THAT ARE CHRISTIANS.
• 01:55 BUT, IN CASE, WE ARE PROMISED TO >>BE HATED OF ALL NATIONS
• 01:59 AND YOU KNOW WHAT, IT'S REALLY >>STARTING TO HAPPEN.
• 02:01 IT'S EASY TO SEE THAT.
• 02:02 POLITICIANS, PEOPLE, >>COMMENTATORS GO OUT OF THEIR WAY >>TO KNOCK CHRISTIANS.
• 02:08 ANDY ROONEY, I'LL NEVER WATCH HIM AGAIN,
• 02:10 JUST SPENT A WHOLE 2 MINUTES >>THERE AT THE END OF 60 MINUTES
• 02:14 OF IGNORANT COMMENTS ABOUT CHRISTIANS.
• 02:16 BUT, IN ANY CASE, WE'RE GOING TO >>GO BACK AND GET THE ORIGINAL.
• 02:18 WE'RE GOING TO GO OVER TO CAESAREA WITH PAUL STANDING TRIAL,
• 02:21 ONE OF THE FIRST CHRISTIANS PERSECUTED AND WE'RE GOING TO STUDY THAT
• 02:25 AND THEN WE'RE GOING TO GO TO TOM MCCALL IN THE STUDIO,
• 02:27 A SEGMENT THAT WE RECORDED >>EARLIER SO I LOOK A LITTLE BIT >>DIFFERENT IN THAT ONE.
• 02:33 NOW, WE'RE GOING TO LOCATION IN CAESAREA ON THE ISRAELI COAST.
• 02:39 OUR THEME IN THIS PROGRAM IS THE >>PERSECUTION OF BELIEVERS,
• 02:43 SOMETHING THAT'S JUST GONE ON THROUGH ALL THE AGES.
• 02:46 THE LORD WARNED ABOUT IT.
• 02:47 PAUL WARNED ABOUT IT AND IT IS >>PAUL THAT WE'RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT.
• 02:51 HE WAS PERSECUTED FOR BEING A MESSIANIC BELIEVERS
• 02:55 BECAUSE HIS TROUBLES BEGAN WITH >>UNSAVED JEWS AFTER HIM.
• 02:58 I ALWAYS SAY I HAVE 3 KINDS OF >>PEOPLE IN OPPOSITION TO ME,
• 03:03 THE JEWS, THE MUSLIMS AND THE CHRISTIANS
• 03:05 AND I DON'T MEAN ALL OF ANY OF >>THOSE, BUT DEPENDING ON THEIR POINT OF VIEW,
• 03:10 I SEEM TO OFFEND SOMEBODY EVERY >>TIME AND SO DID PAUL.
• 03:15 PAUL'S CRIMES, SO-CALLED, START OUT IN ACTS 21.
• 03:19 IF YOU READ THE CHAPTER, I'M NOT >>GOING TO READ IT ALL TO YOU,
• 03:23 BUT, THROUGH THESE CHAPTERS IN >>THE ACTS 20'S
• 03:25 YOU CAN PLAINLY SEE HE HADN'T DONE ANYTHING,
• 03:28 NOT TO THE JEWS OR ANYONE ELSE, >>BUT UNSAVED JEWS ACCUSED HIM
• 03:33 AND GAVE HIM SOME TROUBLE IN JERUSALEM AND HE IS SENT TO FELIX HERE AT CAESAREA.
• 03:40 NOW, THIS PLACE WAS A ROMAN >>OCCUPATION TOWN, YOU MIGHT SAY,
• 03:45 IT WAS THE ROMAN CAPITAL OF THEIR OCCUPATION OF ISRAEL,
• 03:49 A HUGE CITY, TENS OF THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE, A MAGNIFICENT HARBOR, >>A BIG THEATER.
• 03:54 WE FILMED HERE IN MANY PLACES BEFORE.
• 03:57 WE'RE TRYING TO DOWN TO THE PRISON AND COURTHOUSE
• 04:00 AND NOBODY IS CERTAIN WHERE THEY WERE,
• 04:02 BUT THIS IS SOME OF THE CONSTRUCTION IN THE SO-CALLED CAPITAL HILL OF THE PLACE.
• 04:10 SO, WE THOUGHT WE'D SHOW THIS.
• 04:11 HE WAS SENT HERE FOR TRIAL, SENT TO FELIX WHO WAS A ROMAN JUDGE >>WHO HAD A JEWISH WIFE,
• 04:17 BUT, AS YOU READ THE TEXT IT'S >>CLEAR, FELIX DOESN'T KNOW EXACTLY WHAT TO DO ABOUT HIM
• 04:23 AND HE'S HELD FOR SOME 2 YEARS >>AND HE FINALLY APPEALED TO CAESAR AND YOU KNOW,
• 04:30 ROMAN LAW IS DISCUSSED IN THE SCRIPTURE.
• 04:32 IT'S INTERESTING, IT PERTAINS SOMEWHAT TO AMERICAN LAW.
• 04:53 THAT'S VERY FAMILIAR IN AMERICAN >>COURTROOMS.
• 04:56 YOU'RE ENTITLED TO A TRIAL AND >>TO FACE YOUR ACCUSERS AND TO DEFEND YOURSELF.
• 05:00 I THINK WE'RE ALSO FAMILIAR WITH WAITING 2 YEARS FOR THAT TRIAL, >>WHICH ALSO HAPPENED TO PAUL.
• 05:06 IN ANY CASE, HE DID DEFEND HIMSELF AND FINALLY BEFORE KING AGRIPPA,
• 05:10 TO WHOM HE DID QUITE AN EFFECTIVE WITNESS TO SAY THE TRUTH,
• 05:14 HE TOLD HIM ABOUT THE LORD IN HIS DEFENSE AND IT COMES DOWN THIS WAY.
• 05:35 AND PAUL DOES NOT SHRINK, HE'S TALKING TO THE KING AND HE SAYS
• 05:51 IN OTHER WORDS, LET THEM BE JEWS >>AND CHRISTIANS AS I AM,
• 05:54 JUST TAKE THESE BONDS OFF AND THEY'LL BE IN WONDERFUL CONDITION.
• 05:59 WELL, ULTIMATELY HIS APPEAL TO CAESAR PREVAILS AND HE'S SENT TO >>ROME AND THIS IS PRETTY MUCH,
• 06:09 HE WAS EFFECTIVE ALWAYS, HE EVEN >>SAVED JAILERS AS IN PHILIPPI.
• 06:15 IT SENT HIM AWAY FROM HIS MISSION AND THERE HE WAS IMPRISONED
• 06:22 AND THERE HE DIED AND HE PROBABLY SHOULDN'T HAVE APPEALED TO CAESAR.
• 06:28 THERE'S A PHRASE HERE IN THE SCRIPTURES AFTER HE SPOKE TO AGRIPPA
• 06:34 A COUPLE OF VERSES LATER THE KING SAYS
• 06:54 IT'S A TEMPTATION TO THINK OF >>THE LORD'S DISTINCTION BETWEEN >>CAESAR AND GOD
• 07:00 WHEN HE'S SHOWN THE COIN AND ABOUT PAYING TAXES
• 07:04 AND HE SAYS, WHOSE IMAGE IS ON THIS COIN AND THEY SAY, CAESAR'S
• 07:06 AND HE SAYS WELL, RENDER UNTO CAESAR WHAT IS CAESAR'S
• 07:10 AND UNTO GOD WHAT IS GOD'S.
• 07:11 PAUL, I DON'T KNOW, HE MIGHT HAVE APPEALED TO GOD RATHER THAT CAESAR,
• 07:18 BUT HAVING APPEALED TO CAESAR, HE THEN HAD TO REPORT TO TRIAL >>IN ROME.
• 07:22 HE'S PERSECUTED THAT'S ALL THERE IS TO IT BECAUSE OF HIS FAITH.
• 07:27 FAITH SHOULD NOT BE A CRIME IN >>THIS WORLD.
• 07:31 BUT, PERSECUTION IS THE LOT OF >>EVERY BELIEVER.
• 07:35 THEY'RE ALWAYS PERSECUTED AND IT >>STARTED WITH CAIN AND ABEL
• 07:38 AND AS DR. MCCALL OF OUR MINISTRY OFTEN SAYS
• 07:42 THEY'RE IN THE WORLD, CAIN PEOPLE AND ABEL PEOPLE.
• 07:46 AND CAIN PEOPLE ALWAYS KILL THE ABEL PEOPLE.
• 07:50 IT'S GOING ON TODAY.
• 07:51 IT'S GOING ON IN SUDAN.
• 07:52 IT'S ALWAYS MASKED, WE DON'T >>WANT TO REPORTS THEY'RE MUSLIMS >>DOING IT FOR SOME REASON.
• 07:58 BUT, MUSLIM SOLDIERS RIDE UP ON >>VILLAGES WHERE THERE'S PEOPLE WHO ARE CHRISTIANS
• 08:04 AND ALSO ANIMIST, AFRICAN RELIGIN,
• 08:07 BUT IN ANY CASE THEY'RE NOT MUSLIMS
• 08:09 AND THEY CALL IT FIGHTING, BUT >>IT'S NOT FIGHTING
• 08:12 AS WE SAID IN THE LEVITT LETTER, >>THE FIGHTING GOES THIS WAY.
• 08:15 THE ARMED SOLDIERS RIDE IN, THE UNARMED VILLAGERS RUN FOR THEIR LIVES,
• 08:19 THE FASTER RUNNERS MAY BE SAVED >>AND THE SLOWER ONES RAPED OR MURDERED OR BOTH
• 08:25 AND THAT GOES ON IN ENORMOUS NUMBERS.
• 08:29 WE WRITE ABOUT IT, WE DITHER, WE WRING OUR HANDS.
• 08:31 KOFI ANNAN AND THE U.N. CAN >>REALLY WRING HANDS BETTER THAN >>ALMOST ANYONE IN THE WORLD,
• 08:38 BUT NOBODY DOES MUCH ABOUT IT.
• 08:40 NOW, THEY'RE SENDING IN, AS I SPEAK,
• 08:43 AFRICAN TROOPS AND SO ON TO TRY >>AND CONTROL IT,
• 08:45 BUT, THE WORLD FEELS GUILTY GOING BACK THROUGH THESE GENECIDES
• 08:51 ALL THE WAY BACK TO WWII, BUT >>IT'S VERY SLOW TO DO SOMETHING.
• 08:56 CHRISTIANS ALSO ARE PERSECUTED >>IN SAUDI ARABIA.
• 08:59 I MEAN EVERY SINGLE DAY THE COUNTRY OF SAUDI ARABIA,
• 09:03 WHICH I BELIEVE TO BE OUR PUBLIC >>ENEMY NUMBER ONE
• 09:06 GET AWAY WITH LITERALLY, BLOODY MURDER, WITH TORTURE,
• 09:10 IF YOU JUST EVEN TRIED TO ENTER >>SAUDI ARABIA WITH A PASSPORT
• 09:17 THAT IDENTIFIED YOU AS SAY FROM >>ISRAEL, I THINK YOU WOULD BE >>KILLED IN THE PASSPORT OFFICE.
• 09:23 IF YOU CAME FROM AMERICA, IT >>WOULD BE A LOT OF DISCUSSION AS >>TO WHAT YOU ARE DOING THERE,
• 09:30 WHY YOU WANT TO COME AND SO ON.
• 09:31 THE ISRAELIS ARE WELCOMING THE >>ARABS AND ALWAYS HAVE,
• 09:36 THAT IS TO SAY THEY LIVE WITH THEM HERE IN THE LAND.
• 09:38 THEY HAVE NOT PUT THEM OUT OR PERSECUTED THEM IN ANY WAY DESPITE WHAT CNN TELLS YOU.
• 09:44 BUT, THE PALESTINIANS, WHO ARE >>THE MUSLIMS AROUND HERE.
• 09:48 WELL, WHAT CAN I SAY, THEY'VE DETERIORATED TO A NATION OF MURDERERS.
• 09:54 I'M TALKING ABOUT CHRISTIANS, >>BY THE WAY, NOT JUST ISRAELIS,
• 09:57 BUT, THE CHRISTIANS WHO LIVED IN BETHLEHEM HAVE BEEN RUN OUT OF TOWN.
• 10:02 THERE THE CHRISTIANS AT BEIT JALA HAVE HAD ARAFAT'S THUGS BREAK INTO THEIR HOUSES
• 10:08 AND GO TO THE UPPER BEDROOMS AND >>WITH THEIR RIFLES
• 10:10 AND SHOOT BULLETS ACROSS A >>VALLEY AT GILO, A NEIGHBORHOOD >>OF JERUSALEM.
• 10:16 WE FILMED THE VERY AREA AND PEOPLE OF GILO HAD TO BUILD A >>WALL JUST TO HOLD BACK BULLETS
• 10:22 AND IN A CHEERY WAY THEY PAINTED, THEY USED TO HAVE A >>BEAUTIFUL VIEW OF THAT VALLEY.
• 10:28 WELL, THEY PAINTED THE VIEW ON THE WALL SO THAT THEY COULD LOOK >>AT IT ANYWAY
• 10:32 AND THEY HIDE BACK THERE FROM >>ORDINARY THUGS WHO SIMPLY WANT >>TO MURDER THEM.
• 10:37 THE FAR EAST, INDONESIA, CHINA, >>NOWHERE ARE CHRISTIANS COMFORTABLE IN THIS WORLD.
• 10:44 FINALLY, IT COMES DOWN TO >>AMERICA AND OUR RECENT ELECTION.
• 10:47 I THINK PERSONALLY PRES. BUSH HAS BEEN DISLIKED, NOT FOR ANYTHING HE'S DONE,
• 10:54 I DON'T KNOW THAT HE'S DONE ANYTHING WRONG.
• 10:55 I MEAN, THE WAR ON TERRORISM IS, I DON'T HAVE TO STAND HERE AND SAY IT'S A NECESSITY, BUT IT IS,
• 11:02 BUT I THINK HE'S PERSECUTED NOT BECAUSE OF THE WAR BUT BECAUSE >>HE CALLED EVIL, EVIL.
• 11:07 HE NAMED THE NATIONS THAT WERE EVIL AND THEY WERE IRAN, IRAQ, >>NORTH KOREA,
• 11:14 HE'S ABSOLUTELY PROVED HIS POINT >>AND FROM THAT DAY ON THE CAIN PEOPLE HATED HIM
• 11:21 AND WANTED, IN EFFECT, TO KILL >>HIM, THAT IS GET HIM OUT OF OFFICE
• 11:25 AND ALL THE MEDIA AND ALL THE MOVIE STARS AND THE MICHAEL MOORES
• 11:29 AND DAN RATHER AND PETER >>JENNINGS AND ALL TAKEN TOGETHER COULD NOT GET HIM OUT OF OFFICE.
• 11:36 I REALLY AM REMINDED OF PAUL HERE FIRST IN JERUSALEM WITH THE UNSAVED JEWS
• 11:42 AND HERE IN CAESAREA WITH THE >>INHOSPITABLE ROMANS AND FINALLY >>SENT OFF THE ROME,
• 11:47 WELL, I THINK THAT PRES. BUSH >>WILL SURVIVE LONGER THAN PAUL, >>I HOPE SO.
• 11:52 KNOW THAT IF YOU ARE A CHRISTIAN >>AND A REAL CHRISTIAN
• 11:57 AND DOING SOMETHING FOR CHRIST >>IN THIS WORLD, YOU WILL BE PERSECUTED.
• 12:17 ASK FOR OUR FREE MONTHLY NEWSLETTER, THE LEVITT LETTER
• 12:22 AND OUR CATALOG WITH VIDEOS, BOOKS AND MUSIC.
• 12:25 OUR CORRESPONDENCE COURSE, THE >>INSTITUTE OF JEWISH-CHRISTIAN STUDIES INCLUDES
• 12:30 READING PACKETS, TEACHING CASSETTES AND MAIL IN TESTS.
• 12:34 DID YOU KNOW THAT ZOLA TAKES TOURS TO ISRAEL, GREECE
• 12:38 AND THE HOLY LAND EXPERIENCE >>THEME PARK IN ORLANDO FLORIDA.?
• 12:42 PLEASE CONTACT US FOR MORE INFORMATION.
• 12:49 HAVE YOU SEEN THE PROMISED LAND, >>WHERE THE DISCIPLES CAST THEIR NETS,
• 12:57 WHERE JESUS GAVE THE SERMON ON >>THE MOUNT, WHERE ROMAN COLUMN STILL STAND,
• 13:06 WHERE THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS WERE FOUND, WHERE BIBLE PROPHECY IS >>BEING FULFILLED?
• 13:16 OPEN YOUR EYES TO ISRAEL.
• 13:20 WELL, COME WITH US ON ONE OF TOURS OF ISRAEL.
• 13:23 YOU KNOW, YOU'RE STRANGERS IN A >>FOREIGN LAND, SO TO SPEAK.
• 13:26 7 YEARS PLUS FROM TODAY YOU'RE GOING TO START LIVING 1000 YEARS >>IN ISRAEL.
• 13:31 THAT'S RIGHT, IN THE KINGDOM UNLESS YOU'RE IN THE FOREIGN SERVICE,
• 13:35 YOU'RE GOING TO LIVE WITH THE KING IN JERUSALEM,
• 13:37 YOU'RE THE QUEEN OF THE KINGDOM >>TO COME.
• 13:38 IF YOU'RE A BORN AGAIN BELIEVER, THAT'S WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN.
• 13:42 BUT, YOU KNOW, THE BELIEVERS FROM JERUSALEM
• 13:45 WERE TRAPPED IN FOREIGN LANDS SOMETIMES IN THE BIBLE.
• 13:48 IN BABYLON THEY SAT BY A RIVER AND PEOPLE REQUESTED SING US THE >>SONGS OF ZION,
• 13:54 WHICH WERE WORLD FAMOUS, TOM TELLS ME.
• 13:56 THE ISRAELIS COMPOSE SOME PRETTY GOOD MUSIC.
• 13:59 OH, THE SONGS OF THE TEMPLE, THE PSALMS WERE PLAYED.
• 14:05 APPARENTLY THEY WERE PLAYED WORLD WIDE
• 14:06 AND THAT WAS ONE OF THE THINGS THAT THE QUEEN OF SHEBA CAME TO >>SEE SOLOMON ABOUT
• 14:10 THE MUSIC, REALLY?
• 14:12 THE MUSIC AND THE ASCENT TO THE TEMPLE.
• 14:15 GOSH, I WISH I COULD HEAR IT.
• 14:16 WELL, I WOULD LOVE TO HEAR WHAT >>THE MUSIC SOUNDED LIKE.
• 14:20 IT WAS AN ALL-MALE CHOIR OF LEVITICAL PRIESTS
• 14:23 AS THEY SANG DAILY IN THE TEMPLE.
• 14:26 IT SAID THAT COMING UP FROM JERICHO
• 14:30 THE PILGRIMS COULD HEAR THE MUSIC COMING FROM THE TEMPLE.
• 14:36 WOW.
• 14:36 AND THEY WOULD SING ALONG WITH >>THE PRIESTS AS THEY HEARD IT.
• 14:40 WHAT A THRILLING IDEA.
• 14:41 NO WONDER THE BABYLONIANS SAID, >>SING US THE SONGS OF ZION
• 14:44 AND THEY SAID, HOW CAN WE SING >>THE SONGS OF ZION IN A FOREIGN LAND.
• 14:47 BABYLON BECAME THEIR HOME AWAY FROM HOME FOR THE JEWISH PEOPLE >>FOR A LONG TIME.
• 14:53 ONLY ABOUT 55,000 JEWISH PEOPLE CAME BACK FROM BABYLON AFTER THE >>BABYLONIAN CAPTIVITY.
• 15:01 IT'S SORT OF LIKE ISRAEL TODAY, HOW MANY JEWS AROUND THE WORLD CAME BACK ORIGINALLY TO ISRAEL,
• 15:11 ONLY SAY A FEW HUNDRED THOUSAND.
• 15:13 THERE'S 15 MILLION JEWS IN THE >>WORLD TODAY THEY SAY
• 15:15 AND ONLY 5 OR 6 MILLION IN ISRAEL TODAY
• 15:19 SO THE REST ARE STILL OUT IN THE >>GENTILE COUNTRIES.
• 15:21 THAT'S WHAT IT WAS BACK AT THE TIME OF THE RETURNING FROM THE >>BABYLONIAN CAPTIVITY
• 15:26 JEWISH PEOPLE LIVED THERE FOR >>HUNDREDS AND HUNDREDS OF YEARS.
• 15:28 IN FACT, THE MAJOR TALMUD THAT IS STUDIED BY THE RABBIS TODAY IS CALLED THE BABYLONIAN TALMUD.
• 15:39 THE OTHER ONE IS CALLED THE JERUSALEM TALMUD.
• 15:41 IT WASN'T MADE IN JERUSALEM, IT WAS MADE IN TIBERIUS.
• 15:44 YOU KNOW, I SAW AN ARTICLE THAT >>MADE A POINT I HADN'T EVER THOUGHT OF,
• 15:48 IT SAID FROM NEBUCHADNEZZAR, >>WHO TOOK AWAY PEOPLE TO BABYLON >>TO SADDAM HUSSEIN,
• 15:57 THERE WAS A THRIVING JEWISH COMMUNITY IN BABYLON.
• 16:00 WELL, IT CERTAINLY BECAME A >>THRIVING JEWISH COMMUNITY AROUND >>THE NEW TESTAMENT TIME.
• 16:10 PETER SAYS, HE'S WRITING FROM >>BABYLON, SOME PEOPLE SAY THAT'S >>CODE WORD FOR ROME,
• 16:14 BUT, MANY SAY NO, NO HE WAS IN BABYLON WHERE THERE WAS A LARGE >>JEWISH COMMUNITY.
• 16:19 IN FACT HE WAS THE APOSTLE TO THE CIRCUMCISION AFTER ALL.
• 16:23 THEN, AT ANY RATE, THERE WAS A STRONG LIBRARY THERE AND JEWISH >>SCHOLARS THERE
• 16:31 AND THEY COMPILED THE ORAL LAW >>IN THE BABYLONIAN TALMUD,
• 16:37 WHICH IS CONSIDERED TO BE THE MOST AUTHENTIC OF THE TWO.
• 16:41 SO, AT LEAST THROUGH SAY THE 5-6 CENTURIES THERE WAS A THRIVING >>JEWISH COMMUNITY.
• 16:48 SOMEWHERE ALONG THE LINE IT BECAME A RUINS.
• 16:53 NOT MUCH IS SAID ABOUT BABYLON >>IN ALL OF THIS WAR IN IRAQ
• 17:01 AND OUR TROOPS OVER THERE AND EVERYTHING.
• 17:02 TRUTH TO TELL, THE GUARDIANS OF THE CITY OF THE ANCIENT RUINS OF >>THE CITY OF BABYLON
• 17:12 ARE THE UNITED STATES MARINES RIGHT NOW AND WE HAVE A MARINE UNIT THERE.
• 17:19 SADDAM HUSSEIN CONSIDERED >>HIMSELF THE NEW NEBUCHADNEZZAR
• 17:24 AND HE BUILT A PALACE >>OVERLOOKING THE RUIN OF BABYLON >>THAT YOU CAN SEE NOW.
• 17:29 THERE ARE THE RUINS AND THE OLD >>COURSE OF THE EUPHRATES RIVER COMING THROUGH IT.
• 17:37 NOW, THERE'S SOME PROPHECY ABOUT >>THAT, THAT IN THE END TIMES THE CITY,
• 17:46 THE OLD CITY OF BABYLON IS GOING TO BE RESTORED AND WILL BECOME THE CAPITAL OF THE ANTICHRIST,
• 17:57 THE WORLD WIDE CAPITAL OF THE ANTICHRIST.
• 17:59 THERE'S A DEBATE ABOUT THAT AMONG BIBLICAL SCHOLARS,
• 18:03 BUT, I THINK THAT'S CORRECT AND >>THERE'S THE MYSTERY BABYLON,
• 18:07 WHICH IS THE FALSE RELIGIONS OF THE WORLD, THE WOMAN, THE HARLOT >>WHO RIDES THE BEAST TO POWER,
• 18:14 BUT, ALSO THERE IS THIS CITY, THIS GEOPOLITICAL CITY
• 18:18 THAT HAS THE POLITICS AND THE ECONOMICS AND THE MILITARY
• 18:24 AND THE RELIGIOUS CENTER OF THE ANTICHRIST IN THE GREAT TRIBULATION.
• 18:30 IT'S GOING TO BE DESTROYED BY >>THE LORD LIKE SODOM AND GOMORRAH >>IN ONE HOUR.
• 18:36 WELL, THERE'S A PERSECUTOR OF >>RELIGIOUS PEOPLE, THE ANTICHRIST >>HAS NO EQUAL
• 18:42 AND THIS STARTED WAY BACK WHERE WE WERE ON LOCATION WHERE PAUL >>WAS IN PRISON
• 18:48 IN CAESAREA.
• 18:49 HE WAS A CHRISTIAN BELIEVER AND HE WAS PERSECUTED BECAUSE HE WAS >>A MESSIANIC JEW.
• 18:54 IN CAESAREA AT THE TIME, UNDER >>THE ROMANS WAS THE GENTILE CAPITAL OF ISRAEL
• 19:01 AND JUDEA AND GALILEE AND SO FORTH.
• 19:03 THAT'S WHERE THERE THEY REALLY CONTAINED CONTROL OVER ISRAEL, >>ESPECIALLY JERUSALEM.
• 19:09 THE RABBIS HAD AN OLD SAYING THAT WHEN CAESAREA RISES, JERUSALEM FALLS.
• 19:17 WHEN JERUSALEM RISES, CAESAREA FALLS.
• 19:21 AND SO IT HAS HAPPENED.
• 19:22 THUS IT IS TODAY.
• 19:23 NOW JERUSALEM IS ASCENDING AS THE CAPITAL OF ISRAEL AND THE RIGHTFUL CAPITAL OF ISRAEL.
• 19:30 WELL, SO THERE'S SOME FEELING THAT EVEN IN ANCIENT TIMES
• 19:38 THE ROMANS HAD CONTROL OVER ISRAEL AND DESTROYED ISRAEL UNDER TITUS AND UNDER HADRIAN
• 19:46 AND THE GENTILE WORLD POWERS WANT TO BE SAME TODAY,
• 19:52 AND WILL WANT TO DO THE SAME UNDER THE ANTICHRIST.
• 19:55 THERE IS THE SOME THINKING THAT THE U.N. IS GOING TO MOVE OUT OF >>NEW YORK TO SOMEWHERE,
• 20:03 MAYBE EUROPE, MAYBE SWITZERLAND, >>MAYBE AFRICA, MAYBE THE EAST.
• 20:10 GOOD RIDDANCE.
• 20:11 BUT, THERE IS SOME THINKING, A RUMOR, I DON'T KNOW HOW STRONG >>IT IS OR TRUE IT IS,
• 20:18 BUT THAT THE U.N. WOULD MOVE IT'S HEADQUARTERS,
• 20:24 INTERNATIONAL HEADQUARTERS TO BABYLON, A REVIVED CITY OF BABYLON.
• 20:29 NOW, WOULDN'T THAT BE SOMETHING.
• 20:30 THAT WOULD BE SOMETHING, IT REALLY WOULD.
• 20:33 IT WOULD REALLY FIT INTO PROPHECY.
• 20:35 GETTING BACK TO CAESAREA,
• 20:36 THAT'S WHERE PAUL FOUND HIMSELF IN PRISON UNDER THE GENTILES FOR >>2 YEARS.
• 20:43 HE WAS FINALLY SO EXASPERATED WITH THE TREATMENT HE WAS GETTING
• 20:48 AND HE WAS A ROMAN CITIZEN, THAT >>HE APPEALED TO CAESAR.
• 20:52 "I APPEAL TO CAESAR" AND THAT WAS A RIGHT EVERY ROMAN CITIZEN HAD.
• 20:59 HE TOOK ADVANTAGE OF IT.
• 21:01 WELL, HE WOUND UP IN ROME.
• 21:04 I DON'T KNOW IF THAT WAS SO SMART, ANYWAY GOT OFF--
• 21:10 HE GOT OUT OF CAESAREA.
• 21:11 YAH, HE GOT OUT OF CAESAREA.
• 21:13 CAESAREA IS VERY IMPORTANT, TOO.
• 21:14 THAT'S WHERE CORNELIUS, ROMAN SOLDIER, THE FIRST GENTILE TO ENTER INTO THE CHURCH,
• 21:22 I TEACH THIS ON OUR TOURS.
• 21:23 PEOPLE CAN'T BELIEVE, I TEACH A >>WHOLE SERIES CALLED "HOW CAN A GENTILE BE SAD?"
• 21:29 BASED ON THE FACT THAT WHEN I >>WAS SAVED, YOU CAN REMEMBER 1971 >>WHEN I FIRST MET YOU,
• 21:36 I THINK I KNEW ALL THE JEWISH CHRISTIANS IN AMERICA.
• 21:39 THERE WEREN'T THAT MANY THEN.
• 21:40 I COULD HAVE THEM ALL OVER FOR DINNER.
• 21:41 WELL, THE IDEAS THE PEOPLE IN >>THE CHURCHES THINK IT ALWAYS WAS A GENTILE FAITH, A CHURCH FAITH.
• 21:54 EVEN WHEN THEY WENT TO ISRAEL TO >>WITNESS AFTER 1948
• 21:58 THEY HELD SERVICES AT 11 AM ON >>SUNDAY MORNINGS.
• 22:01 WELL, SUNDAY'S A WORK DAY IN ISRAEL.
• 22:03 PEOPLE WERE IN SCHOOL AND IN THEIR OFFICES, THEY COULDN'T COME.
• 22:06 NOW THEY'VE ADAPTED TO IT, TO THEIR SYSTEMS.
• 22:09 BUT, THE IDEA OF "HOW CAN A GENTILE BE SAVED?" WAS,
• 22:14 PEOPLE WOULD SAY TO ME, YOU'RE >>A CHRISTIAN, REALLY?
• 22:19 HOW DID YOU GET SAVED?
• 22:21 HOW DOES A JEWISH PERSON EVER GET IT?
• 22:23 HOW IN THE WORLD DID YOU GET SAVED?
• 22:25 I DIDN'T GROW UP IN CHURCH
• 22:26 AND I HAD TO GET ALL MY INFORMATION FROM THE BIBLE AS FAR AS I COULD SEE.
• 22:30 JEWISH PEOPLE WERE SAVED RIGHT >>AND LEFT IN THE GOSPELS.
• 22:33 THE FIRST CHRISTIANS WERE JEWS.
• 22:33 SO, I INVENTED AS A TEACHING CALLED, "HOW CAN A GENTILE BE SAVED?"
• 22:39 AND I CHALLENGED THEM TO GET ME >>A PROOF TEXT FOR GENTILE SALVATION.
• 22:44 NOBODY COULD DO IT.
• 22:44 IT'S ACTS 11:18 "THEN HATH GOD GRANTED REPENTANCE UNTO LIFE TO >>THE GENTILES ALSO".
• 22:50 BUT, IT'S NOT EVEN THE GOSPELS, >>IT AWAITS CAESAREA,
• 22:54 IT AWAITS PETER'S VISIT TO CORNELIUS
• 22:56 WHERE THE FIRST GENTILE OF THE >>CHURCH AGE IS SAVED.
• 23:00 I DELIGHT IN TEACHING THIS.
• 23:01 I POINT OUT WHEN PETER PERCEIVES >>THEIR FAITH THERE, HE SAYS,
• 23:06 OF THE TRUTH I SEE THAT GOD IS >>NO RESPECTER OF PERSONS.
• 23:10 THAT'S USED TODAY TO LET THE >>BLACKS COME TO CHURCH, LET THE >>HISPANICS COME
• 23:17 AND LET THE JEWS COME, GOD FORBID.
• 23:18 BUT, IT WAS ORIGINALLY USED TO >>LET THE WHITE, EUROPEANS JOIN THE CHURCH
• 23:23 THEY THE ROMAN OFFICERS HE WAS >>TRYING TO, AND THEIR WIVES.
• 23:27 HE WAS OF THE ITALIAN BAND.
• 23:29 EXACTLY, HE WAS A CENTURION, HE WAS LIKE A COLONEL.
• 23:31 HE WAS AN IMPORTANT OFFICER AND >>HIS FRIENDS WERE OBVIOUSLY OFFICER CORPS.
• 23:37 BUT, WHITE PEOPLE FROM EUROPE IS >>THE POINT.
• 23:40 AND ALSO IN CAESAREA THERE WAS A >>JEWISH QUARTER
• 23:43 WHERE THE JEWISH PEOPLE LIVED IN >>THE LARGELY GENTILE CITY OF CAESAREA
• 23:49 THAT'S WHERE HEROD THE GREAT WAS >>AND WHERE HEROD ANTIPUS SOMETIMES STAYED
• 23:57 AND WHERE PILOT HAD HIS MAIN OFFICE.
• 24:01 BUT, THERE WAS A JEWISH QUARTER THERE AND THAT'S WHERE PHILLIP, >>THE DEACON LIVED.
• 24:07 HE HAD 2 DAUGHTERS WHO WERE PROPHETESSES.
• 24:13 SOMEBODY SAID, HE MUST HAVE REALLY HAD A HIGH TELEPHONE BILL.
• 24:19 (LAUGHING)
• 24:21 PHILLIP AND APPARENTLY THEN, >>THERE'S A MESSIANIC CONGREGATION
• 24:27 THAT WAS THERE IN CAESAREA AT THAT TIME
• 24:31 AND THEY COULD LOOK AFTER PAUL AND HIS NEEDS, TOO WHILE HE WAS >>IN INCARCERATION THERE.
• 24:38 IT'S SO INTERESTING, WHEREVER YOU GO IN ISRAEL,
• 24:41 I MEAN, NOT ONLY ARE YOU PROBABLY WALKING ON GRAVES,
• 24:44 BECAUSE IT'S A SMALL COUNTRY AND >>MILLIONS OF PEOPLE HAVE DIED >>THERE ESPECIALLY IN JERUSALEM,
• 24:49 BUT YOU'RE ALSO WALKING ON ARCHAEOLOGICAL DIGS, TELS,
• 24:53 LITTLE HILLS, MOUNDS OF EARTH >>THAT COVER TREASURES OF THINGS.
• 24:59 CAESAREA HAS BEEN WELL EXCAVATED >>SO YOU CAN SEE STANDING WALLS AND THE THEATER
• 25:04 AND MAGNIFICENT THINGS THAT WOULD NEVER BE COVERED OVER,
• 25:07 BUT, UP THE COAST AT DOR, ALONG >>AT AKKO, JUST INCREDIBLE.
• 25:14 AND ISRAEL WITH THE EXCEPTION OF >>SOLOMON'S REIGN
• 25:20 NORMALLY DID NOT LOOK OUT TO THE >>WEST, TO THE MEDITERRANEAN IT NORMALLY LOOKED WITHIN.
• 25:28 IT WAS, THIS WAS GOD'S CHOSEN PLACE AND THE TEMPLE,
• 25:33 EVERYTHING LOOKED TO THE TEMPLE, EVERYTHING LOOKED TO JERUSALEM
• 25:35 AND THEY DIDN'T REALLY CARE ABOUT WHAT WAS GOING ON, ON THE MEDITERRANEAN
• 25:41 OR OUT IN THE OCEANS AND THINGS >>OF THAT NATURE.
• 25:44 IT WAS A MATTER OF BUILDING UP >>A COUNTRY THAT WAS A WORSHIP TO GOD.
• 25:50 TOM, YOUR WISDOM IS, YOU'RE THE >>ONE GUEST I DON'T HAVE TO REHEARSE ANYTHING WITH
• 25:58 OR TALK ABOUT WHAT WE'RE GOING >>TO SAY.
• 26:00 IT'S ALWAYS A PLEASURE TO TALK >>TO YOU AND THANK YOU FOR SHARING.
• 26:03 TIME GOES BY PRETTY FAST WHEN YOU'RE HERE.
• 26:06 YOU'LL BE DOING MORE ARTICLES IN >>THE LEVITT LETTER AND PEOPLE WILL--
• 26:10 LOOK FORWARD TO IT, YES.
• 26:12 HOW'S YOUR SCHOOL OF TYRANNUS?
• 26:13 THE SCHOOL OF TYRANNUS IS DOING WELL.
• 26:15 WE HAVE LOCAL CLASSES IN TYLER, >>TEXAS,
• 26:18 BUT, ALSO ON TUESDAY EVENING WE >>HAVE AN INTERNET CLASS.
• 26:22 THAT'S WHAT I KNOW.
• 26:23 THAT IS ALL AROUND THE WORLD AND >>WE HAVE PEOPLE-
• 26:27 HOW DO THEY LINK ON THERE?
• 26:27 THEY LINK ON THROUGH SCHOOLOFTYRANNUS.NET,
• 26:30 WHICH IS OUR WEBSITE,
• 26:31 THEN GO TO OUR CHAT ROOM AND THEY CAN PARTICIPATE WITH OUR LOCAL PEOPLE
• 26:38 AND WE HAVE WONDERFUL >>DISCUSSIONS OF THE WORD OF GOD.
• 26:42 WE'RE GOING THROUGH ROMANS RIGHT NOW.
• 26:43 GET ON THERE, YOU'LL LEARN SOMETHING. HE'S MY TEACHER.
• 26:47 SHA'ALU SHALOM YERUSHALYIM >>PRAY FOR THE PEACE OFJERUSALEM.