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

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