Caption transcript for Israel, My Love: Part 2 (2/6)

• 00:07 HE'S GOING TO PREACH CHRIST AND HIM CRUCIFIED.
• 00:10 FAMINE, PESTILENCE, EARTHQUAKES, WARS, THE SECOND RESURRECTIONS OF UNBELIEVERS.
• 00:16 WELL, I THINK WHEN GOD CHOOSES A PEOPLE, THE DEVIL CHOOSES..
• 00:18 THE BELIEVERS WILL BE..
• 00:20 SHA'ALU SHALOM YERUSHALAYIM, PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM.
• 00:23 ZOLA LEVITT MINISTRIES IS PROUD TO PRESENT
• 00:26 A SERIES HIGHLIGHTING OVER ONE QUARTER CENTURY OF TELEVISION PROGRAMS.
• 00:39 SHALOM, HELLO AGAIN. I'M SANDRA LEVITT.
• 00:41 WE'RE BACK AGAIN WITH A RETROSPECTIVE OF ZOLA LEVITT'S MINISTRY.
• 00:45 I'M HERE WITH DR. JEFFREY SEIF AND WE'RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT ISRAEL.
• 00:48 IN FACT, I JUST GOT BACK FROM ISRAEL AND I THINK YOU'LL FIND THAT INTERESTING.
• 00:52 ZOLA MADE A SERIES FROM 1986 CALLED "ISRAEL MY LOVE".
• 00:56 20 YEARS AGO IF YOU CAN IMAGINE THAT.
• 01:00 I THINK THAT MESSAGE IS VERY TIMELY TODAY, FRANKLY.
• 01:05 DEVELOPING A LOVE FOR ISRAEL AND THE JEWISH COMMUNITY, THAT LOVE'S ALREADY IN THE BIBLE.
• 01:10 GOD'S WORD DOES NOT COME BACK VOID.
• 01:12 NO IT DOESN'T AND WE WANT PEOPLE TO DEVELOP AN APPRECIATION FOR GOD'S LOVE FOR THE JEWISH PEOPLE
• 01:16 AND HIS PLAN AND WE'RE GOING TO LEARN ABOUT IT IN THIS SEGMENT, AREN'T WE.
• 01:19 WE ARE. BACK AFTER THIS.
• 01:29 (SPEAKING HEBREW) YOU ARE LOVELY ISRAEL.
• 01:34 (SPEAKING HEBREW) YOU HAVE ALWAYS BEEN MY LOVE.
• 01:46 (SPEAKING HEBREW) YES, I'VE LOVED YOU, ISRAEL.
• 01:50 (SPEAKING HEBREW) AS HE LOVES YOU FROM ABOVE.
• 02:17 ♪WHERE'S A LAND AS FAIR AS THEE ♪ISRAEL, AHAVTI,
• 02:21 ♪WHO COULD KEEP FROM LOVING ♪THEE ISRAEL, AHAVTI,
• 02:28 ISRAEL, AHAVTI, ISRAEL MY LOVE.
• 02:32 IT WAS A WILDERNESS HERE LESS THAN 40 YEARS AGO.
• 02:35 THESE PEOPLE THAT CAME 40 YEARS THROUGH THE ORIGINAL WILDERNESS
• 02:37 AFTER THE EXODUS FROM EGYPT BUILT THESE HOTELS, THESE CONDOMINIUMS,
• 02:43 THIS ART MUSEUM WHERE I STAND IN THAT AMOUNT OF TIME AND THEY HAVE RENEWED AN ANCIENT LAND.
• 02:50 IT'S A CONCEPT THAT'S HARD TO GRASP FOR AMERICANS
• 02:54 BECAUSE AMERICA IS REALLY A LITTLE OVER 200 YEARS OLD
• 02:57 AND DOESN'T HAVE A PAST THAT GOES BACK TO A PATRIARCH WHO CAME HERE 4000 YEARS AGO,
• 03:02 TO A GREAT KING WHO ASCENDED A THRONE 3000 YEARS AGO,
• 03:06 TO A MESSIAH WHO ARRIVED 2000 YEAR AGO,
• 03:10 TO CRUSADERS WHO CAME AND RAPED THIS LAND 1000 YEARS AGO.
• 03:14 THAT KIND OF HISTORY IS BEYOND OUR KIN, IT'S BEYOND OUR EXPERIENCE.
• 03:18 I GUESS I COULD GO ON AND ON.
• 03:21 I DON'T WANT TO SOUND BIASED OR TO MAKE A POLITICAL SPEECH,
• 03:24 BUT IT'S THE MYSTERY OF MY LIFETIME WHY THIS PARTICULAR, PECULIAR PEOPLE,
• 03:29 WHOM GOD CHOSE ARE HOUNDED SO MUCH AND CHASED AROUND SO MUCH.
• 03:33 WHAT IN THE WORLD HAVE THEY DONE?
• 03:36 YOU KNOW, MY MOST PERSONAL EXPERIENCE HERE AT THIS WALL
• 03:38 WHEN MY LITTLE BOY AARON WAS BORN AND I WENT UP TO THE WALL
• 03:43 AND I PUT A PAPER IN A CRACK BETWEEN THE STONES.
• 03:46 IT'S WHAT THE PEOPLE DO.
• 03:48 GOD SAID HE LIVED RIGHT BEHIND THIS WALL AND SO THE WALL IS SORT OF HIS MAILBOX.
• 03:52 IF YOU WRITE A SPECIAL PRAYER OR A THANK YOU NOTE ON A PIECE OF PAPER,
• 03:56 YOU CAN FOLD IT UP AND GIVE IT RIGHT TO GOD.
• 03:59 IN NUMBERS 6:24-26 THE LORD BLESS THEE AND KEEP THEE,
• 04:03 THE LORD MAKE HIS FACE SHINE UPON THEE AND BE GRACIOUS UNTO THEE,
• 04:07 THE LORD LIFT UP HIS COUNTENANCE UPON THEE AND GIVE THEE PEACE.
• 04:10 AND OF COURSE MANY A MINISTER CLOSES HIS SERVICE THAT WAY.
• 04:14 WHEN I WAS A LITTLE BOY IN THE SYNAGOGUE THE RABBI SAID THAT AT THE END OF THE SERVICE,
• 04:18 BUT IT IS SPECIFICALLY APPOINTED TO THE LEVITES,
• 04:21 THE JEWISH PEOPLE AMONG THE PRIESTHOOD OF THAT FAMILY OF LEVITE, AS I AM.
• 04:27 MY NAME LEVITT IS REALLY LEVITE IN HEBREW AND THEY HAVE THIS DUTY, ACTUALLY,
• 04:33 TO BLESS THE PEOPLE AND THEY DO IT ON THE FIRST DAY OF THE MONTH
• 04:37 AT 8 O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING AND IT'S A WONDERFUL CELEBRATION.
• 04:41 ZOLA WAS THE SMARTEST MAN I EVER KNEW.
• 04:44 HE WAS CURIOUS ABOUT EVERYTHING.
• 04:46 HE LOVED GOOD FOOD.
• 04:47 HE WANTED TO KNOW HOW THINGS WERE MADE.
• 04:49 HE WANTED TO KNOW ANSWERS ABOUT THE UNIVERSE AND NATURE
• 04:53 AND I THINK THAT'S WHY WE DID SOME ON THESE WONDERFUL SERIES WE DID.
• 04:57 YES, "EVIDENCE OF GOD" IS ONE EXAMPLE.
• 04:59 IT'S NOT JUST ABOUT TAKING A LEAP INTO BLIND FAITH IS IT,
• 05:03 THAT GOD HAS LEFT A LOT OF EVIDENCES THAT PROVE UP THE CHRISTIAN STORY.
• 05:08 SOME PEOPLE THINK, WELL GOD DIDN'T MAKE THE WORLD,
• 05:10 THERE'S NO CREATOR AT ALL INVOLVED IN PERSONALLY.
• 05:13 NOT SO, IN "EVIDENCES OF GOD", ZOLA SHOWS ANOTHER STORY AS HE LOOKS AT THE BIBLE IN ONE HAND
• 05:19 AND MODERN SCIENCE AND SHOWS HOW THE TWO GO TOGETHER, THEY DON'T COME APART.
• 05:31 OH, LORD, OUR LORD, HOW EXCELLENT IS THY NAME IN ALL THE EARTH.
• 05:38 WHEN I CONSIDER THE HEAVENS, THE WORK OF THY FINGERS,
• 05:43 THE MOON AND THE STARS, WHICH THOU HAST ORDAINED,
• 05:46 WHAT IS MAN THAT THOU ART MINDFUL OF HIM,
• 05:51 FOR BY HIM WERE ALL THINGS CREATED THAT ARE IN HEAVEN AND IN EARTH,
• 05:56 VISIBLE AND INVISIBLE AND HE IS BEFORE ALL THINGS AND BY HIM ALL THINGS EXIST.
• 06:05 THEREFORE, YOU ARE MY WITNESS SAYETH THE LORD THAT I AM GOD.
• 06:17 IF YOU SIT IN THE FRONT CENTER OF GEOMETRY CLASS
• 06:21 AND THE TEACHER DRAWS A SQUARE ON THE BLACKBOARD AND YOU LOOK AT IT, IT'S A SQUARE.
• 06:26 BUT, IF YOU COME TO CLASS THE NEXT DAY
• 06:28 AND YOU HAPPEN TO GET A SEAT OVER ON THE FIRST CHAIR OF THE ROW ON THE END,
• 06:32 YOU'RE LOOKING AT IT SIDEWAYS, NOW IT LOOKS LIKE A RECTANGLE.
• 06:36 NOW, YOU KNOW IT DIDN'T CHANGE, YOUR EYE WILL COMPENSATE,
• 06:40 IF THE TEACHER SAYS IT'S A SQUARE, IT'S A SQUARE.
• 06:42 BUT, IT LOOKS TO YOU LIKE A RECTANGLE
• 06:45 BECAUSE YOUR PERSPECTIVE HAS SLIGHTLY CHANGED.
• 06:48 AS I SAID, I GREW UP IN A KIBBUTZ AND I GREW UP ON THIS PHILOSOPHY,
• 06:53 SO, SINCE I WAS A BABY I'VE HEARD ABOUT EVOLUTION,
• 06:58 BUT WHEN I STARTED MY STUDIES IN THE UNIVERSITY ALREADY CAME AS A BELIEVER IN YESHUA HAMASHIACH.
• 07:04 SO, IT WAS VERY CLEAR FOR ME THAT I CAN'T PUT THEM TOGETHER;
• 07:10 I CANNOT LINK THEM TOGETHER AND LIVE WITH THEM TOGETHER.
• 07:13 REALLY, I SAW IT AND I STILL SEE IT AS AN ENEMY OF GOD, ENEMY TO THE BIBLE.
• 07:22 WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT THE POSSIBILITY OF THIS HAPPENING BY ANY NATURAL EXPLANATION,
• 07:27 YOU'RE COMPARING THIS WITH LIKE WINNING A LOTTERY, A MILLION TO ONE LOTTERY.
• 07:31 HOW LIKELY IS THAT TO HAPPEN A MILLION TIMES IN A ROW?
• 07:34 STILL, THAT IS MUCH MORE LIKELY THAN THAT SOMETHING
• 07:37 THAT'S A CHANCE OF ONE PART IN TEN TO THE FORTIETH SHOULD HAPPEN.
• 07:49 WHICH IS TO SAY SOMEBODY WHO REALLY DOESN'T BELIEVE GOD
• 07:52 AND THEN LOOKS AT NATURE EVEN WITH THE NAKED EYE, EVEN STANDING,
• 07:57 I ALWAYS SAY AT THE DEAD SEA IN ISRAEL
• 07:59 BECAUSE THERE'S A PLACE WHERE THERE'S NOTHING IN THE ATMOSPHERE, NO POLLUTION,
• 08:04 NO LIGHTS AROUND YOU ON THE GROUND AND YOU SEE SO MANY STARS
• 08:07 THAT YOU JUST KNOW THAT GOD PUT THEM THERE AND THAT'S WHAT THE CHAPTER GOES ON TO SAY,
• 08:12 NATURE ITSELF TESTIFIES THAT GOD EXISTS AND IF MEN TURN AWAY FROM HIM AND WON'T SEE HIM,
• 08:18 THEN THE TURN INTO ALL SORTS OF SIN AND SO FORTH
• 08:21 BECAUSE THEY'RE JUST TURNING AWAY FROM PLAIN EVIDENCE THAT'S HE'S LEFT THERE.
• 08:24 FAITH DOESN'T ALWAYS NEED PROOF, BUT IT SURE IS GREAT WHEN PROOF SHOWS UP.
• 08:30 BIBLICAL ARCHAEOLOGY SPEAKS TO THE DISCIPLINE OF INDIVIDUALS THAT GO THROUGH THE HOLY LAND
• 08:36 AND DIG UP ARTIFACTS THAT PROVE UP THE BIBLE STORY.
• 08:39 ZOLA WAS A BIBLICAL ARCHAEOLOGIST.
• 08:41 HE WOULD DIG INTO THE WORD AND TELL GREAT STORIES, ONE OF WHICH WAS THE "HOUSE OF DAVID".
• 08:46 THE "HOUSE OF DAVID" IS ONE OF OUR LONGEST SERIES THAT WE HAD, MADE IN 1994.
• 08:51 I HOPE YOU ENJOY.
• 08:53 ON JULY 21, 1993, DR. AVRAHAM BIRAN, AN ISRAELI ARCHAEOLOGIST
• 09:03 DISCOVERED A REMARKABLE STONE BEARING AN INSCRIPTION WRITTEN IN ANCIENT ARAMAIC.
• 09:08 HE HAD FOUND THE FIRST REFERENCE OUTSIDE THE BIBLE TO KING DAVID
• 09:13 AND A RULING DYNASTY, EVIDENCE OF THE "HOUSE OF DAVID".
• 09:22 ♪RAISE UP A KING, ♪ONE OF YOUR OWN,
• 09:31 ♪CALL HIM TO LEAD US, ♪ESTABLISH HIS THRONE.
• 09:40 ♪I HAVE CHOSEN A SHEPHERD ♪AFTER MY HEART,
• 09:50 ♪KING OF MY PEOPLE ♪MY ANOINTED ONE.
• 10:02 IN SPRING THE GALILEE AREA IN NORTHERN ISRAEL IS ABLAZE WITH COLOR,
• 10:07 THE PERFECT SETTING FOR THESE BABY LAMBS TO BASK IN THE WARM AFTERNOON SUN.
• 10:12 NOT FAR FROM HERE IS THE MOUNT OF BEATITUDES ALONG THE SHORE OF THE SEA OF GALILEE.
• 10:17 IT'S HERE WE STOP WITH OUR TOUR GROUPS AND STUDY ABOUT
• 10:20 THE GOOD SHEPHERD WHO LAID DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS SHEEP.
• 10:24 FROM THIS VANTAGE POINT WE CAN VERY OFTEN SEE FLOCKS OF SHEEP
• 10:27 BEING LED THROUGH THE OPEN FIELDS.
• 10:29 THESE SHEEP FOLLOW THE SHEPHERD BECAUSE THEY TRUST HIM
• 10:32 TO KEEP THEM FROM HARM AND LEAD THEM TO SAFETY.
• 10:35 THEIR VERY SURVIVAL IS DEPENDENT ON THE SHEPHERD.
• 10:38 THE WORD SACRIFICE MEANS GIVING UP SOMETHING YOU LOVE
• 10:40 AND THE TEACHING WAS THAT THAT ANIMAL HAD TO BE A MEMBER OF THE HOUSEHOLD;
• 10:44 THEY HAD TO REALLY GET CLOSE TO THAT ANIMAL BEFORE THEY COULD BRING IT HERE
• 10:47 AND SO THE HEAD OF THE FAMILY WHO HAS BROUGHT THE ANIMAL HERE HAS A GREAT ATTACHMENT FOR IT.
• 10:52 THE PRIEST GIVES HIM A VERY SHARP KNIFE.
• 10:54 THEY RAISE THE CHIN OF THE ANIMAL;
• 10:56 THE KNIFE IS PLACED THERE AND DRAWN VERY SOFTLY ACROSS THE THROAT.
• 10:59 IT'S ONLY INTENDED TO CUT THESE TWO ARTERIES HERE.
• 11:02 THE ANIMAL LOSES CONSCIOUSNESS, OF COURSE, RIGHT AWAY,
• 11:05 IT'S DYING, BUT IT DOESN'T MAKE A SOUND.
• 11:08 THAT'S KOSHER KILLING.
• 11:09 YOU KNOW, I GET UPSET WHEN I THINK OF ALL THE PAIN JESUS HAD WHEN HE WAS OUR LAMB.
• 11:13 THE ANIMAL SUFFERED VERY LITTLE, BUT JESUS SUFFERED MUCH FOR OUR SIN.
• 11:18 IN 1989 GERSHON SOLOMON AND THE TEMPLE MOUNT FAITHFUL TOOK THEIR FIRST MAJOR STEP.
• 11:24 IN THIS PUBLIC CEREMONY, THEY DEDICATED THE CORNERSTONE TO THE NEXT TEMPLE.
• 11:29 DRAWING WATER FROM THE POOL OF SILOM, THEY ANOINTED THE STONE
• 11:33 JUST A SHORT DISTANCE FROM THE TEMPLE MOUNT.
• 11:36 THE CORNERSTONE LOOKS CRUDE AT THIS STAGE BECAUSE IT WAS FOUND THIS WAY
• 11:40 AND NOT AS YET BEEN REFINISHED AND POLISHED AS IT WAS ORIGINALLY.
• 11:45 WHEN WE RETURN, WE WILL SHOW YOU THE PASSOVER,
• 11:50 ONE OF THE MOST POWERFUL PRESENTATIONS ZOLA EVER MADE.
• 11:56 FOR INSIGHTFUL PERSPECTIVES OF ISRAEL AND BIBLE PROPHECY,
• 12:00 ASK FOR OUR FREE MONTHLY NEWSLETTER, THE LEVITT LETTER.
• 12:03 WHEN YOU CALL, BE SURE TO ALSO AS FOR OUR FREE CATALOG WITH THE LATEST VIDEOS, BOOKS AND MUSIC.
• 12:09 OUR CORRESPONDENCE COURSE, THE INSTITUTE OF JEWISH-CHRISTIAN STUDIES INCLUDES
• 12:13 READING PACKETS, TEACHING CASSETTES AND MAIL-IN TESTS.
• 12:17 YOU MAY WANT TO JOIN US ON AN UPCOMING TOUR OF ISRAEL, GREECE
• 12:20 OR THE HOLY LAND EXPERIENCE THEME PARK IN ORLANDO, FLORIDA.
• 12:24 PLEASE CONTACT US FOR MORE INFORMATION.
• 12:26 IF YOU HAD BUT ONE WORD TO DESCRIBE ISRAEL, WHAT WOULD THAT ONE WORD BE?
• 12:30 INCREDIBLE.
• 12:32 FULFILLMENT.
• 12:33 UNBELIEVABLE.
• 12:34 WOW.
• 12:36 SHALOM.
• 12:37 FABULOUS.
• 12:39 SABABA, WHICH MEANS AWESOME.
• 12:42 LOVE, THE LOVE OF GOD.
• 12:46 PHENOMENAL, PHENOMENAL, PHENOMENAL.
• 12:57 THAT'S ISRAEL.
• 12:58 YES, WE'RE STILL GOING TO ISRAEL.
• 13:00 YES, IT'S SAFE THERE.
• 13:02 YOU KNOW, ZOLA ALWAYS SAID, YOU'RE GOING TO LIVE IN ISRAEL 1000 YEARS, PLUS ETERNITY.
• 13:07 YOU NEED TO SEE WHERE YOU'RE GOING TO LIVE.
• 13:10 COME WITH US TO ISRAEL.
• 13:12 IT'S A WONDERFUL PLACE TO BE.
• 13:13 IT SURELY IS AND IT WAS PERHAPS APPRECIATED THE MOST BY THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL
• 13:18 THAT GOT OUT OF EGYPT THAT FINALLY GOT IN THERE AND I BET IT SEEMED LIKE AN ETERNITY.
• 13:22 THE STORY OF THE PASSOVER IS ONE OF THE GREATEST STORIES EVER TOLD.
• 13:26 IN FACT, CHRISTIANS CAN LOOK AT THE LORD'S SUPPER, COMMUNION AND THE PASSOVER
• 13:31 AND SEE HOW ALL THIS FITS TOGETHER.
• 13:33 ZOLA TOLD THE PASSOVER STORY AND HE TOLD IT WELL, DIDN'T HE.
• 13:36 HE TOLD IT WONDERFULLY.
• 13:38 NOW, WHY SHOULD WE KNOW THE PASSOVER TO BEGIN WITH?
• 13:42 AFTER ALL, ISN'T THIS JUST AN OLD COVENANT FEAST?
• 13:45 WE'RE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS, AND THAT IS TRUE.
• 13:47 BUT, YOU KNOW, FIRST OF ALL OUR LORD DID THIS.
• 13:50 HE THOUGHT THIS WAS VERY IMPORTANT.
• 13:51 HE DID THIS ON HIS LAST EARTHLY NIGHT.
• 13:54 THERE A LOT OF THING YOU MIGHT DO TONIGHT
• 13:56 IF YOU WERE GOING ON TRIAL FOR YOUR LIFE IN THE MORNING,
• 13:59 HE CHOSE THAT IT WOULD THIS, THE CROWN JEWEL OF THE FEASTS GOD GAVE TO ISRAEL.
• 14:06 IT'S THE YOUNGEST CHILD HAS ASKED FATHER TO EXPLAIN THE EXODUS, IN EFFECT,
• 14:13 WHY DO WE EAT THE UNLEAVENED BREAD, WHY DO WE DO THIS,
• 14:14 WHY DO WE EAT THESE BITTER HERBS, WHY DO WE DO ALL THESE CEREMONIES?
• 14:18 IN REPLY, FATHER READS THE WHOLE HAGGADAH, THE WHOLE BOOK OF PASSOVER AND I MEAN,
• 14:24 HE GOES ON AND HE GOES ON AND IT TAKES HOURS TO HEAR THE STORY OF THE EXODUS
• 14:30 AND HEAR IT TOLD RIGHT AND IT'S A BEAUTIFUL STORY.
• 14:33 THE MOST BEAUTIFUL PART IS IT'S A TYPE OF SALVATION.
• 14:37 TO THOSE WHO UNDERSTAND THE NEW TESTAMENT AND HOW WE ARE SAVED IN CHRIST,
• 14:40 THE STORY OF THE EXODUS IS A VERY, VERY BEAUTIFUL SYMBOLIC REPRESENTATION OF IT.
• 14:47 AFTER ALL WE HAVE A PEOPLE THAT ARE SLAVES AND WE SAY WE WERE SLAVES TO SIN.
• 14:52 THEN THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB GOT THEM OUT OF IT
• 14:56 AND SO WE GO TO THE BLOOD OF CHRIST AND WE'RE DELIVERED FROM SLAVERY
• 15:00 AND THEN THE TRIP THROUGH THE RED SEA, WELL, THAT'S OUR BAPTISM
• 15:06 JUST LIKE THE HEBREW NATION YOU WENT IN THE WATER AND YOU CAME OUT SAFELY AGAIN.
• 15:11 THEN THE WILDERNESS, THAT'S WHERE WE ARE NOW,
• 15:14 WE'RE IN THE SINAI, IN THIS UNFORGIVING WORLD.
• 15:16 THIS PLACE WHERE THERE'S SO MUCH LAW AND IT'S SO HARD TO GET BREAD AND WATER
• 15:21 AND WE ARE EVER MOVING, THOUGH, TOWARD HEAVEN, JERICHO.
• 15:26 LOOK AT THAT, STRIPED, PIERCED, THEY SHALL LOOK UPON ME WHOM THEY'VE PIERCED.
• 15:31 PURE, NO LEAVEN IN IT, SINLESS LIKE HIS BODY.
• 15:34 THIS IS THE ONLY PICTURE WE HAVE OF JESUS.
• 15:36 THIS PIECE OF BREAD, THIS THIRD CUP OF WINE AT THE PASSOVER TABLE, THAT IS COMMUNION.
• 15:44 NOW, YOU UNDERSTAND BETTER, WHEN YOU TAKE IT NEXT TIME, REMEMBER WHAT THE SIGNIFICANCE IS.
• 15:51 KNOWING ABOUT OUR JEWISH ROOTS IS VERY IMPORTANT,
• 15:55 BUT ALSO KNOWING THAT THE BIBLE IS ONE BOOK, NOT JUST THE OLD TESTAMENT,
• 15:58 NOT JUST THE NEW TESTAMENT, BUT ONE BOOK.
• 16:02 IT LETS US KNOW WHAT GOD'S WILL IS FOR US AND I THINK THAT IS REALLY IMPORTANT.
• 16:06 JEFF, BOTH YOU AND ZOLA WERE RAISED IN A JEWISH HOUSE.
• 16:10 HOW DID THAT GO?
• 16:12 ZOLA HELPED UNDERSCORE THE JEWISH NATURE OF BOTH THE OLD AND THE NEW TESTAMENTS.
• 16:16 HE WAS ABLE TO BRING THAT INTO HIS CONVERSATION OF THE NEW TESTAMENT.
• 16:19 YOU KNOW, I ENJOY DOING THAT TOO, JUST LIKE HE DID.
• 16:23 ZOLA'S SERIES ON THE COVENANTS REALLY EXPLORED HOW OLD TESTAMENT PROPHECY
• 16:27 IS FULFILLED IN THE NEW AND "THE BIBLE, THE WHOLE STORY",
• 16:30 ZOLA JUST SHOWED HOW IT'S SEAMLESS.
• 16:32 GREAT STORY WASN'T IT.
• 16:33 GREAT STORY.
• 16:35 WELL, HELLO AGAIN.
• 16:37 TONIGHT IS THE THIRD IN OUR SERIES OF SEVEN STUDIES,
• 16:40 WHICH WE CALL, "THE BIBLE, THE WHOLE STORY"
• 16:43 AND WE'VE DIVIDED THE BIBLE, TAKING IT COVER TO COVER, INTO SEVEN BIG PORTIONS
• 16:50 AND WHEN WE TAKE UP PROPHECY TONIGHT, IT'S FOLLOWING A LOOK INTO THE ABRAHAMIC COVENANT
• 16:57 AND THE LAW, WHICH WERE THE FIRST TWO SECTIONS.
• 17:00 THEN WE COME TO SCRIPTURES IN THE OLD TESTAMENT
• 17:03 THAT DESCRIBE MESSIAH'S MISSION VERY PRECISELY.
• 17:08 IF YOU HAVE YOUR BIBLE, TURN WITH ME TO ISAIAH 53
• 17:11 AND HERE WE CAN FIND SCRIPTURES THAT APPLY SO CLOSELY TO THE CAREER OF JESUS CHRIST
• 17:18 AND NO ONE ELSE THAT WE'RE HARD PRESSED TO DOUBT WHO MESSIAH IS.
• 17:30 (SPEAKING HEBREW)
• 17:32 AND I WILL ESTABLISH MY COVENANT WITH YOU,
• 17:35 NEITHER SHALL ALL FLESH BE CUT OFF ANYMORE BY THE WATERS OF A FLOOD.
• 17:42 (SPEAKING HEBREW)
• 17:44 AND I WILL MAKE OF THEE A GREAT NATION, I WILL BLESS THEE AND MAKE THY NAME GREAT.
• 17:50 (SPEAKING HEBREW)
• 17:54 AND THE LORD THY GOD WILL BRING THEE INTO THE LAND WHICH THY FATHER POSSESSED.
• 17:59 (SPEAKING HEBREW)
• 18:02 AND I WILL PUT MY LAW IN THEIR MINDS AND WRITE IT IN THEIR HEARTS.
• 18:13 SHALOM, HELLO AGAIN.
• 18:16 YOU MAY BE WONDERING WHY I'M DRESSED LIKE THIS.
• 18:19 WELL, THOSE WHO'VE READ THE INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE TABERNACLE IN THE SCRIPTURES,
• 18:26 REALIZE THAT I'M DRESSED AS THE HIGH PRIEST OF ISRAEL.
• 18:30 THIS IS WHAT HE WORE IN THE TABERNACLE IN THE WILDERNESS.
• 18:34 (SPEAKING HEBREW)
• 18:38 GOD'S LAW GIVEN TO MOSES IS REVERED WEEKLY
• 18:40 IN THE MANY MESSIANIC CONGREGATION THROUGHOUT ISRAEL AND AROUND THE WORLD.
• 18:45 ALONG WITH PAUL THE APOSTLE, THESE FELLOWSHIPS REJOICE IN THE FACT THAT
• 18:49 WHEREFORE THE LAW WAS OUR SCHOOLMASTER TO BRING US UNTO CHRIST
• 18:52 THAT WE MIGHT BE JUSTIFIED BY FAITH.
• 18:55 IT WASN'T THAT THE LAW SAVED PEOPLE, IT WOULD NOT SAVE ANYBODY,
• 18:59 IT WAS THAT THEY DEMONSTRATED THEIR FAITH BY KEEPING THIS LAW.
• 19:03 LET ME SAY THE WORSHIP WAS NOT PRETTY.
• 19:06 THERE WERE NO PEWS IN THE TABERNACLE, NO SERVICES, NO SERMONS,
• 19:10 YOU DIDN'T COME IN THERE AND SIT DOWN.
• 19:12 IT HAD A SACRIFICIAL ALTAR OUT FRONT AND IT WAS A PLACE OF SACRIFICE.
• 19:18 WHEN SOLOMON CONSECRATED THE FIRST TEMPLE AND HE MADE A MAGNIFICENT SPEECH ABOUT THAT.
• 19:24 GOD ACCEPTED THE PLACE UNTO HIMSELF.
• 19:31 IT WAS A PLACE FOR SHEDDING THE BLOOD FOR THE REMISSION OF SINS.
• 19:36 WHEN POLITICIANS STARTED TALKING ABOUT DIVIDING UP THE LAND OF ISRAEL IN THE 90'S,
• 19:41 ZOLA FIRED BACK WITH "ISRAEL BY DIVINE RIGHT",
• 19:44 A SERIES THAT SAYS ISRAEL IS ISRAEL'S LAND, IT IS ZIONISM AT ITS FINEST.
• 19:50 ZIONISM IS NOT A DIRTY WORD.
• 19:53 GOD IS A ZIONIST AND ZOLA LOVED ISRAEL.
• 20:12 ♪ISRAEL: BY THE WORD ♪OF JEHOVAH.
• 20:17 ♪ISRAEL: BY THE WILL ♪OF THE LORD.
• 20:22 ♪ISRAEL: BY DIVINE RIGHT! ♪ISRAEL: CALLING US HOME.
• 20:38 ♪ISRAEL: BY DIVINE RIGHT! ♪OUR GOD IS CALLING US HOME.
• 20:57 (BLOWING RAM'S HORN)
• 21:06 WELL WE CAME ALL THE WAY HERE TO JERICHO AND BROUGHT THE RAM'S HORN,
• 21:10 THE TRUMPET OF THE BIBLE WITH WHICH THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL BLEW DOWN THE WALLS
• 21:16 AS IT SAYS IN THE BOOK OF JOSHUA.
• 21:20 THIS IS A DESCRIPTION OF WHAT THE LAND LOOKED LIKE
• 21:23 ABOUT THE TIME OF ABRAHAM WHEN HE FIRST CAME TO THIS AREA.
• 21:28 HE CAME FROM THE NORTH AND CAME DOWN TO THIS AREA,
• 21:34 WHICH IS SHECHEM BETWEEN THE TWO MOUNTAINS THAT WE ALREADY MENTIONED
• 21:38 AND THEN HEADED ON DOWN TO BEERSHEBA WHERE HE LIVED.
• 21:42 WE WENT ON ALL SIDES OF THIS QUESTION.
• 21:44 WE TALKED WITH RABBIS, WITH PALESTINIANS, WITH JOURNALISTS, WITH BEDOUINS
• 21:48 AND ALL KINDS OF THEOLOGICAL REPRESENTATIVES OF THIS QUESTION, THE JEWS IN ISRAEL.
• 21:57 IT REALLY STARTED LAST SPRING WITH THIS ISSUE OF CHRISTIANITY TODAY.
• 22:02 I DON'T TAKE THAT MAGAZINE, I SURE NEVER WOULD,
• 22:05 BUT IT COVERED WHAT IT CALLS "CHRISTIAN ZIONISM"
• 22:09 AND PRETENDED THAT THE IDEA OF THE JEWS IN ISRAEL OR ISRAEL BEING IMPORTANT IN PROPHECY
• 22:15 IS JUST THE IDEA OF A FEW CRAZY TEACHER, I GUESS AND NOT A VERY POPULAR IDEA.
• 22:22 I DON'T KNOW, THERE ARE PEOPLE READING THIS BIBLE
• 22:26 WHO THINK THAT THE JEWS HAVE NO RIGHT TO ISRAEL.
• 22:29 IF YOU CAN TELL ME HOW YOU CAN HAVE THOSE TWO POSITIONS,
• 22:34 THAT IS READ THIS BOOK AND ITS PROMISES TO THE CHOSEN PEOPLE ABOUT THE PROMISED LAND
• 22:39 AND STILL HOLD THAT THEY SHOULDN'T HAVE THE LAND SOMEHOW, ARE NOT WORTHY OF THE LAND
• 22:44 OR WHATEVER, I'D LIKE TO KNOW HOW YOU FIGURE THAT OUT.
• 22:47 I'D LIKE TO HEAR ABOUT THAT.
• 22:49 ZOLA WAS ABLE TO GET FASCINATING INTERVIEWS WITH WONDERFUL PEOPLE,
• 22:53 ONE OF WHOM WAS BENJAMIN NETANYAHU, FORMER PRIME MINISTER OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL.
• 22:58 LET'S HEAR WHAT HE HAS TO SAY RIGHT NOW.
• 23:01 TODAY THE PRINCIPAL BATTLE AGAINST ISRAEL
• 23:05 IS NOT THE BATTLE OF BULLETS OR EVEN THE BATTLES OF BOMBS,
• 23:09 ALTHOUGH WE HAVE PLENTY OF THOSE BEING LAUNCHED AGAINST US,
• 23:12 THE PRINCIPAL METHOD APPLIED BY THE ENEMIES OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE AND OF ZIONISM
• 23:17 AND OF THE JEWISH STATE IS SLANDER AND IS LIES.
• 23:22 THAT'S WHAT THEY DO.
• 23:24 THEY'VE CONDUCTED A TERRIFIC CAMPAIGN TO REVERSE, TO STAND THINGS ON THEIR HEAD.
• 23:29 IT IS NOT THE ARABS WHO ATTACK THE JEWS, BUT THE JEWS WHO ATTACK THE ARABS.
• 23:32 IT IS NOT THEY WHO ATTACKED US FROM JUDEA AND SAMARIA
• 23:36 AND WE WHO DEFENDED OURSELVES AND GAINED REENTRY INTO THESE TERRITORIES IN THE PROCESS,
• 23:41 BUT WE WHO SOUGHT OUT TO ATTACK THEM IN THE FIRST PLACE.
• 23:45 IT IS NOT THEY WHO POSSESS 21 STATES 500 TIMES THE SIZE OF ISRAEL,
• 23:49 BUT WE WHO HAVE THIS HUGE MONSTROUS STATE THAT CAN FIT UNDER MY THUMB ON A MAP.
• 23:56 WHAT A TIMELY INTERVIEW FROM BENJAMIN NETANYAHU.
• 24:00 WHO'D THINK THAT IT'S MANY YEARS AGO.
• 24:03 THE SITUATION HASN'T CHANGED.
• 24:05 SPEAKING OF THE SITUATION, SANDRA, YOU JUST GOT BACK FROM ISRAEL.
• 24:08 WHAT DID YOU FIND?
• 24:10 WELL, YOU KNOW IT WAS INTERESTING.
• 24:11 THAT INTERVIEW WAS BEFORE HE WAS PRIME MINISTER AND THAT WAS MANY, MANY YEARS AGO
• 24:16 AND HE IS STILL TALKING ABOUT THE POLITICS ON THE GROUND,
• 24:20 HOW THE PERCEPTION OF EVERYONE IS, OF ISRAEL.
• 24:24 SO, YOU KNOW, WE WERE FILMING A COUPLE OF WEEKS AGO
• 24:26 AND WE WERE TALKING ABOUT HOW WE WANTED TO BE IN ISRAEL.
• 24:29 I NEEDED TO BE THERE JEFF, I NEEDED TO SEE REALLY AND TRULY WHAT WAS GOING ON.
• 24:34 YOU WERE THERE WITH ROCKETS RED GLARE BURSTING IN AIR.
• 24:38 YOU WERE IN NORTHERN ISRAEL.
• 24:39 I WAS IN NORTHERN ISRAEL, I WAS IN SOUTHERN ISRAEL,
• 24:41 I WAS DOWN BY THE EGYPT BORDER WHERE GALID SHALIT WAS KIDNAPPED.
• 24:46 I WAS DOWN THERE TALKING TO THE ARMY DOWN THERE.
• 24:49 WE WERE EVERYWHERE.
• 24:50 A LOT OF FOLK WATCHING SAYING, WHAT A BRAVE WOMAN.
• 24:53 YOU KNOW, I DIDN'T THINK ABOUT IT.
• 24:55 I HAD PRAYED ABOUT IT AND YOU KNOW WE HAD TALKED ABOUT IT
• 24:58 AND I JUST REALLY FELT LIKE THAT'S WHERE GOD WANTED US.
• 25:02 WE INTERVIEWED LOTS OF PEOPLE, TALKED TO LOTS OF PEOPLE.
• 25:05 I TALKED TO ONE LADY WHO, IT WAS SO FUNNY,
• 25:09 SHE WAS RIGHT ON THE BORDER, MAYBE A MILE FROM LEBANON AND SHE SAID,
• 25:14 I'M NOT MOVING, I'M NOT LEAVING, THIS IS MY HOME, I'M NOT MOVING.
• 26:02 I'LL TELL YOU THE TRUTH, THE REAL FEELING IS THE ISRAEL IS ARE STANDING STRONG THIS TIME.
• 26:07 THEY'RE NOT BACKING DOWN THIS TIME AND IT'S WONDERFUL THING TO SEE THEM ALL COMING TOGETHER
• 26:14 WITH THIS ONE COMMON GOAL OF LOVING THE LAND AND STAYING THERE.
• 26:18 AMAZING.
• 26:19 SO, THE MOOD ON THE GROUND IS UPBEAT?
• 26:21 VERY UPBEAT, EVEN THE LEFT-WINGERS ARE SEEING THAT, YES, THIS IS WHAT WE NEED TO DO.
• 26:27 THEY'RE FINALLY UNDERSTANDING THAT IF WE DON'T TAKE CARE OF IT NOW,
• 26:30 IT'S GOING TO COME BACK IN TWO YEARS OR THREE YEARS, IT'S GOING TO COME BACK.
• 26:33 IT WAS A REAL BLESSING TO GO.
• 26:37 WELL, YOU HAVE A BLOG, BY THE WAY, ON OUR WEBSITE
• 26:41 FOR FOLK THAT WANT TO GET YOUR DAY BY DAY CALL.
• 26:44 IT WAS FUN. I ENJOYED DOING IT.
• 26:45 AS WE GO,
• 26:46 SHA'ALU SHALOM YERUSHALAYIM, PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM.