Caption transcript for Daniel and the Last Days’ Battle for Planet Earth: “The Battle for Time” (2/8)

• 00:41 ANGER IN GAZA
• 00:43 WAR IN LEBANON
• 00:45 RUMBLINGS IN IRAN
• 00:47 AS THE WORLD FOCUSES ON THE MIDEAST QUAGMIRE,
• 00:52 ZOLA LEVITT MINISTRIES PRESENTS:
• 01:00 A HEARTY SHALOM TO ALL OF YOU.
• 01:02 JEFFREY SEIF HERE WITH MY FRIEND SANDRA LEVITT.
• 01:05 SHALOM. HELLO. WELCOME BACK.
• 01:06 JEFF, WHERE ARE WE GOING TODAY?
• 01:08 WELL, WE'RE GOING TO LOOK AT TIME.
• 01:10 YOU EVER HEARD THE EXPRESSION, "IT'S ABOUT TIME"?
• 01:13 LET'S LOOK AT TIME IN DANIEL.
• 01:15 I'D LIKE TO BEGIN BY LOOKING IN CHAPTER 12, VERSE 8, HE SAYS,
• 01:21 AFTER THE LORD GIVING HIM A VISION.
• 01:29 HE'S BEFUDDLED, HE'S CONFUSED.
• 01:41 SEEMS TO ME THAT IN TEXT TIME IS MARKED OUT.
• 01:45 IT'S UNFOLDING ACCORDING TO A CERTAIN PROGRAM
• 01:49 AND THERE'S THIS TIME OF THE END.
• 01:51 AND THE DANIEL PROPHECY COMES ALIVE AS WE MOVE TOWARD THAT TIME.
• 01:57 FASCINATING STORY!
• 01:58 IT'S A WONDERFUL STORY.
• 01:59 THEY WERE LOOKING FOR TIME.
• 02:02 THEY WATCHED THE TIME.
• 02:03 THE LOOKING AND COMING OF THE MESSIAH,
• 02:04 THEY'RE WAITING FOR THE MESSIAH.
• 02:06 AND DANIEL IS TALKING ABOUT THE MESSIAH'S COMING.
• 02:09 "GO ON YOUR WAY AND SEAL IT UP" AND WE GO ON.
• 02:13 BUT EVERYBODY LOOKS AT TIME,
• 02:15 WHAT TIME IS IT?
• 02:16 WE WEAR WATCHES, THE SUN, THE MOON,
• 02:18 EVERYONE WANTS TO KNOW WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN.
• 02:20 JEWISH PEOPLE BELIEVE THAT HISTORY DOESN'T' JUST SPIRAL OUT OF CONTROL.
• 02:25 BUT THERE'S A CERTAIN ORDER TO TIME AS IT UNFOLDS.
• 02:29 RIGHT, THAT'S THEIR BOOK.
• 02:31 YES. AND IN THIS BOOK WE SEE SECRETS TO WHAT WILL HAPPEN IN TIME BEFORE THE END OF TIME.
• 02:37 YOU'RE GOING TO ENJOY IT
• 02:39 AS WE LOOK AT DANIEL AND THE LAST DAYS' BATTLE FOR PLANET EARTH.
• 02:52 ABOUT THE TIME OF JESUS BIRTH
• 02:54 ANCIENT WISE MEN SUCH AS THE ESSENES
• 02:57 SEARCHED THE HEAVENS FOR ANSWERS TO VEXING EARTHLY DILEMMAS.
• 03:02 SOME THOUGHT THE MOVEMENT OF THE SUN AND MOON
• 03:05 WOULD TELL THEM WHEN THEY COULD EXPECT
• 03:07 THE LONG AWAITED DELIVERER.
• 03:20 THE ANCIENT ESSENES BELIEVED THAT THEY WERE LIVING AT THE RAGGED EDGE OF TIME.
• 03:23 WHILE DRIVING TO THEIR 1ST CENTURY HEADQUARTERS,
• 03:26 I WONDERED IF THE PROPHET DANIEL MIGHT PERHAPS DO A BETTER JOB
• 03:30 OF DECIPHERING THE TIMES AND THE SEASONS.
• 03:35 "IT'S ABOUT TIME."
• 03:36 THAT'S WHAT THEY SAY WHEN THEY'RE FRUSTRATED.
• 03:38 "IT'S ABOUT TIME".
• 03:40 WELL, AT THIS PLACE IT REALLY IS ABOUT TIME. OR IT WAS ABOUT TIME ANYWAY.
• 03:43 WE ARE AT THE HEADQUARTERS
• 03:45 OF THE ESSENE COMMUNITY,
• 03:47 A SECT THAT EXISTED CONTEMPORANEOUS WITH THE TIMES OF JESUS
• 03:51 WHERE PEOPLE WERE REALLY BENT ON INTERPRETING TIME.
• 03:54 THEY PENNED LITERATURE.
• 03:56 WE HAVE EXPERTS COMING IN THIS PROGRAM
• 03:58 THAT ARE GOING TO BE UNPACKING SOME OF THE MYSTERIES IN ESSENE LITERATURE
• 04:03 AND GIVING A WINDOW INTO HOW THEY UNDERSTOOD THE TEXT.
• 04:06 WELL, HERE NOW IN THE 9TH CHAPTER OF DANIEL,
• 04:10 WE SEE WHERE THIS WISE AUTHOR SPEAKS ABOUT TIME AND HE SAYS IT'S ABOUT TIME.
• 04:15 OH YES, IT'S ABOUT TIME ALRIGHT. 70 WEEKS IN PARTICULAR.
• 04:20 IN DANIEL CHAPTER 9 HE TALKS ABOUT TIME.
• 04:23 OH, HE'S TALKED ABOUT IT IN OTHER WAYS WITH SEEING VISIONS OF BEASTS.
• 04:27 HE'S SEEN VISIONS OF VARIOUS ANIMALS.
• 04:31 HE'S SEEN VISIONS OF STATUES
• 04:33 AND NOW HE'S SEES A VISION OF THE CALENDAR UNFOLDING
• 04:37 TO A POINT WHERE HE SEES SOMETHING ABOUT
• 04:39 THE FIRST COMING OF THE MESSIAH
• 04:41 AND THE SECOND COMING OF THE MESSIAH.
• 04:43 THIS PROPHECY, THE 70 WEEKS
• 04:46 IS DEEMED BY SOME TO BE THE MOST FASCINATING PROPHECY IN ALL OF BIBLICAL LITERATURE.
• 04:53 VERSE 24 HE SAYS,
• 04:59 AND THEN HE GOES ON TO DESCRIBE
• 05:00 69 WEEKS OR ELSEWHERE HE SPEAKS
• 05:03 WEEKS OF YEARS.
• 05:05 SO WE'RE NOT TALKING ABOUT
• 05:06 A WEEK LITERALLY
• 05:07 AS MUCH AS A 7 YEAR PERIOD.
• 05:09 HE SEES 69 WEEKS
• 05:11 AND THEN A FAMOUS FINAL WEEK,
• 05:15 A TRIBULATION PERIOD
• 05:17 AS IT'S REFERRED TO.
• 05:19 WHEN YOU FOLLOW THE STORY IN DANIEL YOU'LL COME UPON THIS.
• 05:22 YOU CAN JUST PLEASE READ THE TEXT. IT'S FASCINATING.
• 05:25 HE SEES A TIME COMING FOR THE CUTTING OFF OF THE ANOINTED ONE.
• 05:29 WHAT'S FASCINATING ABOUT THIS 70 WEEKS PROPHECY GOING OUT TO 69 WEEKS, OR 69 YEARS,
• 05:34 IS THE FACT THAT IF ONE TAKES THE LAUNCHING OFF POINT,
• 05:55 HE GOES OUT 69 YEARS, WEEKS OF YEARS.
• 05:57 INTERESTINGLY, IF YOU LOOK AT THE DECREE IN NEHEMIAH CHAPTER 1 AND CHAPTER 2,
• 06:01 WHEN JERUSALEM WAS TO BE REBUILT, THIS FALLS ON
• 06:04 THE 14TH OF MARCH 445
• 06:08 AND IF YOU TAKE 69 WEEKS
• 06:10 AND YOU GO BY THE BIBLICAL CALENDAR 360 DAYS IN THAT YEAR,
• 06:15 YOU ADD UP THOSE DAYS.
• 06:17 THE MOMENT WHEN THIS SEASON EXPIRES IS WHEN JESUS
• 06:21 IN APRIL THE 6TH
• 06:24 MAKES HIS WAY INTO JERUSALEM IN 32 A.D. RIDING ON A HORSE.
• 06:28 FASCINATING, YOU'LL SEE IN DANIEL.
• 06:30 HE TALKS ABOUT THE COMING OF THE MESSIAH AND BRINGS IT DOWN TO THE DAY.
• 06:46 IT IS ALL ABOUT TIME.
• 06:47 I LIKE IN REVELATION 12:12
• 06:49 AT THE END WHERE IT SAYS,
• 07:01 JEFF, HIS TIME IS SHORT
• 07:02 YES. IT'S AN INTERESTING PASSAGE
• 07:04 FOR A VARIETY OF REASONS.
• 07:06 APPARENTLY, THINGS HEAT UP
• 07:08 AT DAYS END.
• 07:09 THE DEVIL SEEMS TO HAVE A MORE ACTIVE INTEREST IN STIRRING IT ALL UP.
• 07:14 THINGS JUST GO FROM BAD TO WORSE IT SEEMS.
• 07:17 IN NOT JUST WRATH, BUT HE COMES DOWN WITH GREAT WRATH.
• 07:21 HE'S REALLY ANGRY.
• 07:23 BUT THIS IS THE END TIME.
• 07:25 AND THAT'S WHAT I THINK IS IMPORTANT FOR US TO KNOW.
• 07:27 IF WE BELIEVE A PRE-TRIB RAPTURE, WE'RE OUT OF HERE.
• 07:31 THIS IS FOR PEOPLE THAT ARE LEFT BEHIND.
• 07:33 THIS IS THE HORROR THAT THEY HAVE TO GO THROUGH.
• 07:36 YES. NOW THE WAY SOMEONE DIVIDES UP TIME
• 07:39 PROPHECY STUDENTS SEE THAT WORLD GOES TOWARD CERTAIN POINT IN TIME. RIGHT.
• 07:45 THERE'S A RAPTURE,
• 07:47 THERE'S A TAKING AWAY OF THE BELIEVERS. RIGHT. RIGHT.
• 07:50 AND THEN THERE'S THIS TRIBULATION PERIOD WHEN IT ALL GOES BAD
• 07:53 AND THAT'S PARTICULARLY WHAT WE'RE SEEING HERE. BAD TO WORSE.
• 07:55 BAD TO WORSE IS WHERE IT GOES.
• 07:57 MY ARGUMENT WOULD BE THAT BEFORE IT GOES BAD
• 07:59 THE BIRTH PANGS OF IT ALL
• 08:01 WOULD BE MANIFEST BEFORE THE DAWNING OF THE ERA.
• 08:03 IT'S LIKE TIME.
• 08:04 I CAN ALWAYS LOOK BEHIND MY LIFE
• 08:08 AND SEE WHERE GOD HAS BROUGHT ME.
• 08:09 IF I HAD THE OVERALL PICTURE OF TIME
• 08:12 I THINK I WOULD REALLY BE SCARED OF WHAT WAS AHEAD OF ME.
• 08:15 SO GOD IS ALWAYS GOOD TO US IN GIVING US THESE LITTLE,
• 08:18 WHAT I CALL "PEAKS" AT TIMES.
• 08:20 YEAH, AND THIS IS THE WINDOW INTO THE FUTURE.
• 08:22 WE'RE TOLD THE DEVIL WILL COME DOWN,
• 08:24 HE KNOWS HIS TIME IS SHORT.
• 08:26 IT REMINDS ME OF THE FACT THAT HISTORY IS NOT SPIRALING OUT OF CONTROL
• 08:30 BUT IS UNFOLDING ACCORDING TO A PRE-DETERMINED PATTERN.
• 08:36 THEY LIVED AT THE RAGGED EDGE OF TIME OR SO THEY CONSTRUED IT.
• 08:39 THEY BELIEVED THAT A COMING GREAT CONFLAGRATION WOULD FACILITATE A CONTEST
• 08:45 BETWEEN THE SONS OF DARKNESS AND THE SONS OF LIGHT.
• 08:48 AND THE WORLD WAS GOING TO
• 08:49 EMERGE OUT OF DARKNESS AND CHAOS
• 08:51 INTO LIGHT AS THERE WAS
• 08:53 A NEW ERA DAWNING,
• 08:55 OR SO THEY BELIEVED.
• 08:57 THE MESSIANIC ERA.
• 08:58 AND THE ESSENES HERE IN THIS VICINITY
• 09:00 BELIEVED THEY WERE HARBINGERS OF THE NEW WORLD TO COME.
• 09:05 THEY WROTE THEIR BELIEFS IN COMMENTARIES
• 09:07 SOME OF WHICH WERE PULLED OUT OF CAVES LIKE THIS, CAVE 11,
• 09:10 VERY FAMOUS CAVE IN FACT.
• 09:12 IT'S OFF THE BEATEN PATH SOME, WAY UP IN THE MOUNTAIN.
• 09:19 WE'RE LOOKING FOR TREASURE FOUND IN GOD'S WORD AND WE'VE BEEN LOOKING AT DANIEL.
• 09:22 HERE I'M INTERESTED IN THE 9TH CHAPTER PARTICULARLY.
• 09:25 AT LEAST THAT'S THE BEGINNING POINT.
• 09:27 WE'RE LOOKING AT TIME. THE ESSENES BELIEVED IN TIME.
• 09:30 THEY REGULATED THEIR DAYS VERY CONSCIOUSLY.
• 09:33 THEY BELIEVED THE YEARS WERE REGULATED CONSCIOUSLY.
• 09:36 AND THEY BELIEVED THAT THEY WERE AT THE PLACE IN TIME
• 09:39 WHEN THE NEW WORLD WAS TO COME WITH THE MESSIANIC ERA.
• 09:43 BUT IN CONJUNCTION WITH THAT NEW WORLD AND GOOD WORLD, THERE WAS A BAD WORLD TOO.
• 09:47 A BAD MOON RISING OR SO THEY PERCEIVED IT.
• 09:50 AND THEY DIDN'T PERCEIVE IT ALONE.
• 09:52 DANIEL FOR HIS PART ENVISIONED IN CHAPTER 9, VERSE 27, THAT THERE WOULD BE
• 09:57 THIS ANTI-MESSIAH
• 09:59 WHO WOULD MAKE A COVENANT
• 10:00 WITH INDIVIDUALS FOR 7 YEARS, FOR ONE WEEK.
• 10:03 BUT IN THE MIDDLE OF THAT 7 YEAR PERIOD
• 10:06 CALLED THE TRIBULATION PERIOD,
• 10:08 HE WOULD SHOW HIS COLORS, HIS DARK COLORS.
• 10:12 INDIVIDUALS THOUGHT HE WAS THE SAVIOR IN MANY RESPECTS.
• 10:15 BUT INSTEAD THEY FIND HIM TO BE A VULTURE,
• 10:18 ONE WHO ONLY INTENDS TO TRAP IT'S PREY
• 10:21 AND THEN PECK AWAY AT IT, TO EAT IT AND TO DESTROY IT.
• 10:25 DANIEL TELLS US THAT HE WILL CAUSE SACRIFICE TO CEASE IN A REBUILT TEMPLE,
• 10:30 THAT HE WILL PROCLAIM HIMSELF THAT HE IS GOD,
• 10:33 AND THAT HE WILL THEN PRESENT WITH THESE ABOMINATIONS,
• 10:36 THIS ABOMINATION WHICH MAKES DESOLATE ACCORDING TO DANIEL CHAPTER 9, VERSE 27.
• 10:43 AND THEN THERE WOULD BE AN END HE SAYS,
• 10:45 THAT THIS WILL HAPPEN UNTIL THE END, UNTIL THE CONSUMMATION.
• 10:49 THE ESSENES SPECIALIZED ACCORDING TO JOSEPHUS IN LOOKING AT THE END
• 10:53 BUT WE REALLY GET OUR READ OF THE END FROM THE BOOK REVELATION.
• 10:57 THEREIN JOHN SPOKE FROM A CAVE AS WELL.
• 10:59 IT WAS AN ISLAND OF PATMOS. NOT HERE.
• 11:02 SEEMINGLY AT THE EDGE OF CIVILIZED WORLD HERE IN THE DEAD SEA AREA.
• 11:07 FOR JOHN'S PART, HE WAS TAKEN AWAY TO AN ISLAND AND FROM A CAVE HE WAS GIVEN A WORD.
• 11:12 AND I WANT TO LOOK AT WHAT HE HAD TO SAY REAL QUICK IN REVELATION CHAPTERS 12 AND 13.
• 11:18 HE SPEAKS AT THE FIRST ABOUT A WOMAN IN HEAVEN WHO GIVES BIRTH TO A CHILD.
• 11:23 HE SAYS IN VERSE 5 THAT SHE BEARS A MALE CHILD,
• 11:28 ONE WHO IS GOING TO RULE THE WORLD, THE MESSIAH,
• 11:30 ONE WHO EVENTUALLY IS GOING TO HOLD SWAY OVER GOD'S CREATION.
• 11:34 JOHN SEES AS WELL THAT THIS BEAST WILL EMERGE
• 11:37 AND YOU KNOW IN AS MUCH AS DANIEL TALKS ABOUT BEASTS, SO DOES JOHN.
• 11:41 THIS BEAST EMERGES TO TRY AND KILL THE CHILD.
• 11:44 BUT TWAS NOT TO BE. WE'RE TOLD THE CHILD ESCAPED TO THE WILDERNESS
• 11:48 AND THEN WHAT HAPPENS IS HE GOES AFTER THE WOMAN WHO GIVES BIRTH TO THE CHILD.
• 11:54 AND PRAY TELL, WHO WAS IT THAT BROUGHT THE MALE CHILD, THE CHRIST CHILD INTO THE WORLD?
• 11:59 JESUS CAME THROUGH THE JEWISH PEOPLE.
• 12:02 WE'RE TOLD IN VERSE 12, CHAPTER 12, THE DEVIL WAS ENRAGED
• 12:06 AND THAT HE THEN SETS HIS WRATH ON THE WOMAN IN VERSE 13.
• 12:10 JOHN SAYS,
• 12:28 INTERESTINGLY THERE ARE DESCENDANTS OF THIS WOMAN,
• 12:31 OF COURSE THE WOMAN - JESUS CAME THROUGH THE JEWISH PEOPLE,
• 12:34 AND THERE ARE DESCENDANTS OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE THAT COME TO FAITH.
• 12:37 JOHN MENTIONS, WHETHER
• 12:38 FIGURATIVELY OR LITERALLY,
• 12:40 HE SEES 12,000 FROM EACH TRIBE,
• 12:42 THERE'S A MASSIVE ARMY
• 12:46 OF BELIEVERS, INDIVIDUALS
• 12:47 OF JEWISH EXTRACT
• 12:48 WHO COME TO FAITH.
• 12:50 AND WHAT HAPPENS IN AS MUCH AS THE DEVIL WASN'T ABLE TO DESTROY THE CHRIST CHILD,
• 12:53 WERE TOLD HERE THAT HE GOES AFTER THE PEOPLE GROUP
• 12:55 THAT BRINGS THE MESSIAH INTO THE WORLD,
• 12:57 EVEN THOSE WHO ACCORDING TO THE TEXT HAVE THE TESTIMONY OF JESUS.
• 13:02 WE'RE TOLD IN THE 13TH CHAPTER
• 13:04 THAT ONE OF THE WAYS THAT HE INVESTS ENERGIES AGAINST THESE BELIEVERS,
• 13:09 WE'RE TOLD THAT HE REQUIRES OF THEM A MARK.
• 13:14 IN VERSE 16 OF THE 13TH CHAPTER,
• 13:26 AND WITH THE LACK THEREOF INDIVIDUALS ARE UNABLE TO BUY AND SELL
• 13:30 AND SO THEY HAVE TO FLEE.
• 13:32 JESUS WARNED THAT WHEN JERUSALEM IS SURROUNDED BY ARMIES IN THESE LAST DAYS,
• 13:36 LET THOSE IN JUDEA FLEE TO THE MOUNTAINS, FLEE TO THE HILLS.
• 13:39 AND HERE WE ARE AT A HILL.
• 13:41 ACTUALLY YEARS AGO IT WAS A PLACE OF REFUGE.
• 13:44 INDIVIDUALS FLED HERE,
• 13:45 THEY DEPOSITED SCROLLS HERE FOR POSTERITY'S SAKE
• 13:48 AND NOT JUST IN CAVE 11,
• 13:50 BUT A PLETHORA OF CAVES ALL ABOUT
• 13:52 WHERE THEY LEFT A TESTIMONY OF HOW THEY ENVISIONED A WORLD AT DAYS' END.
• 13:58 IT'S FASCINATING TO ME.
• 14:00 I THINK THE BEST, BEST, BEST SOURCE FOR UNDERSTANDING THE WORLD AT DAYS' END
• 14:03 IS THE BIBLE ITSELF.
• 14:05 AND SO HERE IN THIS SERIES WE'RE GOING DOWN A ROAD THAT'S GOING TO LEAD US
• 14:09 TO UNDERSTANDING DANIEL AND THE LAST DAYS' BATTLE FOR PLANET EARTH.
• 14:14 AND THERE'S MORE TO COME.
• 14:29 FOR INSIGHTFUL PERSPECTIVES OF ISRAEL AND BIBLE PROPHECY,
• 14:32 ASK FOR OUR FREE MONTHLY NEWSLETTER, THE LEVITT LETTER.
• 14:35 WHEN YOU CALL, BE SURE TO ALSO ASK FOR OUR FREE CATALOG
• 14:38 WITH THE LATEST VIDEOS, BOOKS AND MUSIC.
• 14:41 OUR CORRESPONDENCE COURSE, THE INSTITUTE OF JEWISH-CHRISTIAN STUDIES
• 14:44 INCLUDES READING PACKETS, TEACHING CASSETTES AND MAIL-IN TESTS.
• 14:49 YOU MAY WANT TO JOIN US ON AN UPCOMING TOUR OF ISRAEL, GREECE
• 14:52 OR THE HOLY LAND EXPERIENCE THEME PARK IN ORLANDO, FLORIDA.
• 14:56 PLEASE CONTACT US FOR MORE INFORMATION.
• 15:03 ♪MASHIACH♪
• 15:09 ♪YESHUA♪
• 15:18 ♪MATZIL♪
• 15:24 ♪I'ALOM♪
• 15:34 ♪B'NISHMATI♪
• 15:38 ♪ANEE M'AMIN♪
• 15:41 ♪ANEE M'AMIN♪
• 15:55 ♪MESSIAH♪
• 16:03 ♪YESHUA♪
• 16:11 ♪SAVIOR♪
• 16:17 ♪FOREVER♪
• 16:26 ♪IN MY HEART♪
• 16:29 ♪I BELIEVE♪
• 16:35 ♪I BELIEVE♪
• 16:54 ♪I BELIEVE♪
• 17:07 OH, IT'S WONDERFUL TO BE HERE IN THE JORDAN RIVER.
• 17:10 SANDRA LEVITT AND I WANT TO INVITE YOU
• 17:12 TO JOIN US FOR A TRIP.
• 17:13 BUS LOAD OF PILGRIMS ARE HERE AND 6 PASTORS CAME WITH US
• 17:17 THAT ARE BEHIND US HERE BAPTIZING INDIVIDUALS.
• 17:21 WHY NOT YOU SOMETIME?
• 17:24 JOIN SANDRA LEVITT AND I FOR THE TRIP OF A LIFETIME HERE IN ISRAEL
• 17:28 AND BE BAPTIZED IN THE JORDAN RIVER.
• 17:41 IN AN EARLIER SEGMENT
• 17:43 YOU SAW JEFF AT QUMRAN.
• 17:44 WE SEE THESE SIGHTS ALSO
• 17:46 ON THE TOUR.
• 17:47 I ALWAYS SAY,
• 17:48 "GO TO ISRAEL. LEARN THE BIBLE IN ISRAEL."
• 17:51 IT IS A WONDERFUL EXPERIENCE.
• 17:53 JEFF, I SEE QUMRAN, I KNOW WHERE QUMRAN IS,
• 17:56 THE DEAD SEA IS THERE, MASADA IS THERE.
• 17:59 THIS IS A LIFETIME OF LEARNING
• 18:01 IN JUST A VERY SHORT TIME WHEN YOU'RE ON A TOUR.
• 18:03 YES, AND COME
• 18:05 LEARN AND GROW
• 18:06 WITH US. YES - US!
• 18:07 I'VE HEARD IT SAID
• 18:08 THAT ONE TRIP TO THE HOLY LAND
• 18:10 IS LIKE A YEAR OF BIBLE COLLEGE.
• 18:12 IT'S A REAL ILLUMINATING EXPERIENCE.
• 18:14 IT REALLY IS.
• 18:15 AND EVERYONE THAT COMES ON THE TOUR
• 18:16 SAYS THE SAME THING,
• 18:17 "I'M SO GLAD I CAME."
• 18:19 "MY BIBLE IS NEVER THE SAME".
• 18:20 RIGHT. AND WE WANT TO SHOW ISRAEL THROUGH JEWISH EYES.
• 18:23 NOW, SPEAKING OF A SET OF JEWISH EYES,
• 18:26 IN JERUSALEM THIS LAST TIME
• 18:28 WE PICKED UP PROFESSOR MAGEN BROSHI,
• 18:31 FORMER CURATOR OF THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS EXHIBIT IN ISRAEL.
• 18:35 A FASCINATING INDIVIDUAL,
• 18:38 A SCHOLAR IN HIS OWN RIGHT.
• 18:40 I REMEMBER WHILE DRIVING WITH HIM
• 18:42 FROM JERUSALEM TO QUMRAN,
• 18:43 WE WERE SNOOZING A LITTLE BIT. OH GOSH, WHAT FUN!
• 18:46 AND HE WAS ASKING ME ABOUT MY INTEREST IN THE SCROLLS
• 18:49 AND I TOLD HIM I USED TO TEACH IT AT A COLLEGE LEVEL.
• 18:51 AND "WELL, WHO WAS YOUR GUIDE?"
• 18:53 AND I'D MENTION, WELL GE'ZA VERMES WAS MY HERO,
• 18:56 WHO WAS AN OXFORD PROFESSOR.
• 18:58 AND HE GOES, "YES, GE'ZA AND I HAD TEA A FEW WEEKS AGO".
• 19:02 AND THEN I'D MENTION JAMES CHARLESWORTH OUT OF PRINCETON.
• 19:06 "YES, WE SPOKE MOST RECENTLY."
• 19:08 THIS GUY'S CONNECTED TO THE WORLD OF SCHOLARSHIP.
• 19:11 BUT THAT'S BEEN HIS LIFE.
• 19:13 THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS HAVE BEEN HIS LIFE.
• 19:15 AND I'M SO THRILLED THAT WE WERE ABLE TO SECURE AN INTERVIEW. ABSOLUTELY.
• 19:18 YOU'RE GOING TO LOVE THE INTERVIEW WITH PROFESSOR BROSHI.
• 19:22 AND THEN WE'RE FOLLOWING UP WITH ANOTHER SCHOLAR AS WELL.
• 19:25 WE'RE OF THE MIND TO GIVE WINDOWS INTO HOW JEWISH FOLK INTERPRETED WORLD'S END.
• 19:31 DANIEL GIVES US A WINDOW INTO THAT WORLD AND WE'RE STANDING AND INTERPRETING OURSELVES.
• 19:36 BUT NOW LET'S LOOK AND SEE HOW ANCIENT JEWS SAW THE WORLD AT WORLD'S END.
• 19:42 HAVING OVERSEEN THOSE SCROLLS,
• 19:45 WHAT DID YOU LEARN FROM THAT
• 19:47 ABOUT THE MATERIAL CULTURE,
• 19:49 ABOUT WHO THE ESSENES WERE?
• 19:50 THE ESSENES, THEY'RE UNLIKE ANYTHING EXISTING AT THAT TIME.
• 19:57 THEY WERE THE FIRST MONASTIC COMMUNITY IN THE WORLD.
• 20:03 IT WAS IN THE WESTERN WORLD.
• 20:05 THAT'S ONE OF THE THINGS THEY HAD,
• 20:07 WAS THIS CONCEPT OF AND REAL UNDERSTANDING OF TIME.
• 20:10 I REMEMBER SEEING FROM THE ISRAEL MUSEUM
• 20:12 A TYPE OF CALENDAR THAT WAS FOUND THERE.
• 20:16 IT WAS ALMOST A SUNDIAL THAT TOLD EXACT TIMES,
• 20:20 IT HAD ALSO FOR SUMMER AND WINTER AND VARIANCES LIKE THAT.
• 20:23 I THOUGHT THAT WAS A FASCINATING PIECE.
• 20:25 CERTAINLY TIME WAS VERY, VERY, VERY IMPORTANT FOR THEM.
• 20:31 WHEN DO YOU PRAY?
• 20:34 WHEN DO YOU HAVE YOUR SACRED MEALS?
• 20:36 EVERY MEAL IN THE COMMUNITY WAS SACRED.
• 20:39 WHEN DO YOU TAKE
• 20:41 THE RITUAL BATHS?
• 20:43 AND SO ON...
• 20:45 (HERE AT QUMRAN IT WAS MOST IMPORTANT) (SANDRA LEVITT SPEAKING)
• 20:47 (FOR THE ESSENE'S PRIEST TO BE ACCURATE)
• 20:50 (IN THEIR ASSESSMENT OF THE TIMES AND SEASONS.)
• 20:51 (WILL TALKED TO (STEPHEN PHANN,)
• 20:53 (AN EDITOR OF THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS)
• 20:55 (ABOUT THIS SUNDIAL'S PLACE)
• 20:57 (IN DETERMINING ACCURATE TIME.)
• 20:58 WELL, WILL WHAT WE HAVE HERE IS ACTUALLY A REAL SQUEEZE,
• 21:04 A FULL MOLD OF THE ORIGINAL SUNDIAL
• 21:06 THAT THEY FOUND IN THE EASTERN GATE HERE AT QUMRAN.
• 21:09 HERE AT A PLACE WHERE
• 21:10 YOU HAD PRIESTS WHO
• 21:12 ALWAYS HAD TO MAKE SURE
• 21:13 THAT EVERYTHING WAS
• 21:15 RIGHT ON TIME
• 21:15 AS GOD IS ON TIME
• 21:17 THEY HAVE TO BE ON TIME WITH HIM.
• 21:19 AND THIS WAS THE MOST EXACT TIMEPIECE THAT WE KNOW OF
• 21:22 FOR FINDING OUT ONE SINGLE HOUR OF THE DAY.
• 21:26 RIGHT, THE ESSENES WERE A KIND OF COMMUNITY UNTO THEIR OWN,
• 21:29 SEPARATE FROM TRADITIONAL JUDAISM AT THE TIME IN MANY WAYS.
• 21:32 LET ME ASK YOU,
• 21:34 WHAT'S THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THIS BEING A SUNDIAL AS OPPOSED TO TRADITIONAL JEWISH COUNTING
• 21:38 AND THINGS OF THAT NATURE THAT WERE BASED ON THE LUNAR CYCLES?
• 21:41 WELL, AT THE TEMPLE THEY DID HAVE SUNDIALS
• 21:44 BUT THEY WEREN'T QUITE LIKE THIS ONE.
• 21:46 IN FACT, THIS PARTICULAR SUNDIAL
• 21:47 IS PART OF THE ENOCHIC TELLING OF TIME.
• 21:51 AND THE BOOK OF ENOCH TELLS TIME ACCORDING TO THE SUN
• 21:55 AND ACCORDING TO THE RISING OF THE SUN
• 21:59 AT VARIOUS PLACES ALONG THE HORIZON
• 22:01 AND FROM THERE THEY GO ON TO SEE THEIR YEAR
• 22:05 ONLY IN THE TERMS OF THE SUN,
• 22:06 THE 364 DAY SOLAR YEAR
• 22:09 WHICH ACTUALLY MAKES THE LUNAR CALENDAR TOTALLY OBSOLETE.
• 22:14 I THINK IT'S INTERESTING THAT THEY USED A SUNDIAL
• 22:17 FOR THEIR APPOINTED TIMES AND SEASONS, IF YOU WILL,
• 22:19 TO TELL THEM WHEN EAT,
• 22:20 WHEN TO BATHE, ETC., ETC., WHEN TO PRAY.
• 22:22 YES, WELL, FROM HERE INSIDE THIS PARTICULAR SITE
• 22:27 HEAVEN CAME DOWN LIKE AN UMBILICUS FROM HEAVEN.
• 22:30 THEY UNDERSTOOD THAT THE ANGELS WERE AROUND ABOUT THEM
• 22:33 AND IT FORMED A WHOLE CONTINUUM GOING UP TO HEAVEN
• 22:35 WITH ALL THE HEAVENLY BEINGS AROUND THE THRONE
• 22:38 AND FINALLY GOD HIMSELF THERE.
• 22:40 SO TIME, IN KEEPING ON TIME, WAS EXTREMELY IMPORTANT
• 22:44 BECAUSE IF A PERSON THROUGH THE CALENDARS
• 22:47 HAD THEIR PASSOVER A WEEK TOO EARLY OR A DAY TOO LATE
• 22:51 THEY WERE SAYING THE PRAYERS THAT USED GOD'S NAME IN IT ON THE WRONG DAY.
• 22:57 THAT'S USING GOD'S NAME IN VAIN. WOW, YEAH.
• 23:00 SO TIME IS EXTREMELY IMPORTANT
• 23:02 AND SO IT WAS REALLY THE PURPOSE
• 23:04 AND THE RULE OF THE PRIESTS TO INTERPRET TIME PROPERLY
• 23:07 SO PEOPLE WOULD ACTUALLY BE PROPERLY IN SYNC
• 23:10 BETWEEN HEAVEN AND EARTH.
• 23:12 NOW, LET ME ASK YOU,
• 23:13 AS FAR AS THEIR END TIMES VIEWS,
• 23:15 WHAT ELSE, WHAT OTHER SCROLLS,
• 23:17 WHAT OTHER WRITINGS WERE FOUND HERE THAT MADE IT KIND OF,
• 23:19 IF YOU WILL, INTO CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE?
• 23:21 THE CONTINUUM THAT YOU MIGHT HAVE
• 23:27 BETWEEN WHAT WE HAVE AMONG THIS GROUP KNOWN AS THE ESSENES
• 23:30 WITH ALL THE WRITINGS
• 23:32 THAT THEY COLLECTED
• 23:33 AND ALL THE WRITINGS
• 23:34 THEY WROTE THEMSELVES,
• 23:35 THE CONNECTION WE PROBABLY HAVE CLOSEST WITH THE NEW TESTAMENT
• 23:39 IS WHAT HAPPENS THROUGH JOHN THE BAPTIST
• 23:41 WHO WOULD HAVE BEEN CONSIDERED EITHER AN EX-ESSENE
• 23:43 OR PART OF A MISSIONARY WING OF THE ESSENE MOVEMENT.
• 23:46 BUT ONE OF THE THINGS THAT THEY WOULD HAVE ALL BEEN IN AGREEMENT ABOUT
• 23:49 WAS THE ISSUE OF THE HEART.
• 23:52 YOU'VE GOT TO GET THE HEART RIGHT. RIGHT.
• 23:54 THE ISSUES OF TIME AND HOW PARTICULAR YOU HAVE TO BE ON THAT
• 23:58 HAD TO DO WITH HOW MUCH ONE EMPHASIZED THE HEART OVER AGAINST
• 24:02 THE ISSUES OF HALACHIC RITUAL.
• 24:05 WELL, STEVE WE'D LIKE TO THANK YOU FOR JOINING US TODAY
• 24:08 AND SHARING WITH US EVERYTHING ABOUT THE CALENDAR HERE
• 24:11 AND ALSO ABOUT THE SITE. THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
• 24:12 AND THAT'S DR. STEPHEN PHANN
• 24:14 AND WILL KING INTERVIEWING HIM.
• 24:16 I'M REALLY PROUD OF WILL.
• 24:18 HE'S TAKEN ON THE JOB OF LIVING IN ISRAEL AND REPORTING FOR US.
• 24:21 I'M REALLY PROUD OF HIM JEFF.
• 24:22 YOU REMIND ME OF THE LORD WHO SAID,
• 24:25 "THIS IS MY BELOVED SON WITH WHOM I AM WELL PLEASED". THAT'S RIGHT.
• 24:28 IT DOES A MOTHER'S HEART GOOD TO SEE A SON OR A DAUGHTER
• 24:32 FOLLOW IN THE LORD'S FOOTSTEPS. IT REALLY DOES.
• 24:34 JOHN SAYS, "NO GREATER JOY THAN TO KNOW"
• 24:36 "THAT MY CHILDREN FOLLOW THE TRUTH". RIGHT. ABSOLUTELY.
• 24:38 SEEMS TO ME THAT A NUMBER OF JEWISH CHILDREN ARE GOING TO BE FOLLOWING THE TRUTH.
• 24:41 IN DANIEL CHAPTER 12 WE'RE TOLD AS WE NOTED AT THE BEGINNING HERE THAT THE WORDS OF THE BOOK
• 24:47 ARE SEALED UP TO THE END AND AT THE END, THE VERY LAST VERSE, CHAPTER 12, VERSE 13,
• 25:01 IT'S INTERESTING THAT DANIEL ARISES TO HIS INHERITANCE AT THE END OF DAYS.
• 25:06 JEWISH PEOPLE BELIEVE IN RISING TO AN INHERITANCE.
• 25:10 INHERITANCE IS LIKE A FAMILY TERM,
• 25:12 WHAT YOUR FATHER, WHAT YOUR PARENTS BEQUEATH TO YOU
• 25:16 AND INTERESTINGLY, AS YOU BROUGHT OUT,
• 25:18 THE INHERITANCE IS THE RESURRECTION.
• 25:21 TALK ABOUT THAT FOR A MINUTE PLEASE.
• 25:22 RIGHT. WHAT HAPPENS AT THE END OF THE STORY?
• 25:24 THE END OF THE STORY IS -
• 25:25 AND AGAIN IT'S IN DANIEL CHAPTER 12.
• 25:27 AND IT SAYS IN DANIEL CHAPTER 12, VERSE 2,
• 25:39 THIS IS RESURRECTION.
• 25:40 YES, AND IT'S INTERESTING THAT THIS IS THE RESURRECTION
• 25:43 IN THE OLD TESTAMENT TEXT. RIGHT.
• 25:45 IT'S NOT A CHRISTIAN THING.
• 25:46 THIS IS A JEWISH THING.
• 25:48 RIGHT. MANY PEOPLE BELIEVED THAT THE CONCEPT OF THE RESURRECTION
• 25:50 IS BORNE OUT OF NEW TESTAMENT UNDERSTANDING. RIGHT. RIGHT.
• 25:52 IT CERTAINLY IS STRESSED THERE.
• 25:54 IN JOHN CHAPTER 11, VERSE 25 JESUS SAID,
• 25:56 "I AM THE RESURRECTION AND THE LIFE". AND THE LIFE, ABSOLUTELY.
• 25:58 BUT REMEMBER THAT BEFORE HE SAID THAT, IT'S PRECIPITATED BY A WOMAN SAYING,
• 26:02 "I KNOW THAT MY BROTHER WILL RISE AGAIN."
• 26:05 IN RESPONSE TO WHICH JESUS SAID, "I AM THE RESURRECTION."
• 26:08 AND THE POINT IS,
• 26:09 IT WAS ALREADY EXISTENT IN HER FRAME OF THINKING,
• 26:12 A RESURRECTION.
• 26:13 THIS IS A JEWISH WOMAN.
• 26:14 RIGHT. BUT ALSO ABRAHAM AND ISAAC.
• 26:16 ABRAHAM KNEW THAT IF SOMETHING HAPPENED TO ISAAC
• 26:18 AFTER HE SACRIFICED HIM, HE WOULD SEE HIM AGAIN.
• 26:21 RESURRECTION AGAIN.
• 26:23 RIGHT. THAT'S THE ARGUMENT WHY HE'D BE WILLING RIGHT. RIGHT
• 26:25 TO LET HIM BE SLAIN THERE IN MORIAH BECAUSE HE'D RISE AGAIN.
• 26:28 I THINK IT'S INTERESTING THAT JEWISH PEOPLE DO BELIEVE IN A RESURRECTION,
• 26:31 AN EMERGENCE FROM THE GRAVE
• 26:33 AT DAY'S END.
• 26:34 (SPEAKING HEBREW)
• 26:35 "THE RESURRECTION
• 26:37 TO LIFE".
• 26:38 ABSOLUTELY TO LIFE.
• 26:39 AND AS YOU GO, SHA'ALU SHALOM YERUSHALAYIM,
• 26:42 PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM.