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

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