Caption transcript for Ezekiel and the MidEast ‘Piece’ Process: “Prophecies of Israel’s Last-Days Rise” (4/8)

• 00:02 WITH DR. JEFFERY SEIF AND SANDRA LEVITT
• 00:08 THE LORD SAID UNTO EZEKIEL,
• 00:10 "SON OF MAN, CAN THESE BONES LIVE?"
• 00:20 PROPHECY UPON THESE BONES AND SAY UNTO THEM,
• 00:23 "OH YE DRY BONES, HEAR THE WORD OF THE LORD."
• 01:02 A HEARTY SHALOM TO ALL OF YOU.
• 01:04 JEFFERY SEIF HERE WITH MY CO-HOST AND ASSOCIATE
• 01:07 AND FRIEND, SANDRA LEVITT.
• 01:08 SHALOM
• 01:09 AND WELCOME BACK
• 01:10 TO THE EZEKIEL SERIES.
• 01:11 GOD TELLS EZEKIEL IN OUR BIBLE
• 01:13 THAT HE IS THE GOD OF RESTORATION AND RENEWAL.
• 01:16 GOD RESTORES OUR HEARTS AND RESTORES OUR LAND.
• 01:19 IT'S A WONDERFUL STORY.
• 01:20 IT'S A GREAT STORY AND IT'S THERE IN THE BIBLE,
• 01:23 IF ONLY WE COULD GET IT INTO THE MIND AND THE HEART.
• 01:28 BUT WE WANNA HELP, DON'T WE?
• 01:29 WE DO WANNA HELP.
• 01:31 HERE WE ARE, WE'RE TEACHING ABOUT EZEKIEL.
• 01:33 WE'RE TELLING PEOPLE ABOUT THE RENEWAL AND THE RESTORATION.
• 01:35 AND OFF WE GO TO EDEN; IT'S A GARDEN PARADISE.
• 01:40 YES, THIS IS THE IMAGERY EMPLOYED IN EZEKIEL
• 01:43 TO SPEAK OF GOD'S PLAN TO SAVE AND REPLENISH HUMANKIND.
• 01:50 AND THE LORD SPOKE UNTO EZEKIEL,
• 01:53 "PROPHECY THEREFORE CONCERNING THE LAND OF ISRAEL."
• 01:57 "OH MOUNTAINS OF ISRAEL, YE SHALL SHOOT FORTH YOUR BRANCHES"
• 02:02 "AND YIELD YOUR FRUIT TO MY PEOPLE, ISRAEL."
• 02:06 "FOR BEHOLD, I AM FOR YOU AND I WILL TURN UNTO YOU AND YE SHALL BE TILLED AND SOWN."
• 02:15 "AND I WILL MULTIPLY UPON YOU MAN AND BEAST"
• 02:19 "AND THEY SHALL INCREASE AND BRING FRUIT"
• 02:22 "AND YE SHALL KNOW THAT I AM THE LORD."
• 02:29 BEAUTIFUL PONDS, PLEASANT GENTLE RUNNING CREEKS,
• 02:34 FOLIAGE ROUND ABOUT, DEEP AND BEAUTIFUL COLORS.
• 02:41 I'M COMING TO YOU FROM A NATIONAL PARK
• 02:44 IN THE MODERN NATION STATE OF ISRAEL.
• 02:47 AND THIS LUSH, THIS GORGEOUS ENVIRONMENT REMINDS ME OF PREDICTIONS IN THE BIBLE,
• 02:52 WHEREIN THE PROPHETS ENVISION THAT A LAND THAT WAS DESOLATE WILL COME BACK TO LIFE.
• 02:59 AND FRIENDS WE'RE LIVING AT THE SEASON AS THE REJUVENATION.
• 03:03 BIBLE TIME'S COMING ALIVE BEFORE OUR EYES.
• 03:09 SPEAKING OF BIBLE TIMES, IN CHAPTER 36 OF EZEKIEL,
• 03:13 THE PROPHET HERE ENVISIONS THAT THIS PLACE ISRAEL THAT WAS DESOLATE AT ONE POINT
• 03:19 WOULD AGAIN BECOME LIKE "GAN EDEN", LIKE "EDEN".
• 03:24 IN FACT THE PROPHET SAYS THAT THE LAND WOULD BE GREATER THAN IT'S FORMER ESTATE
• 03:28 AND USES THE VISION OF PARADISE TO DESCRIBE IT.
• 03:32 PARADISE COMES FROM A LATIN WORD MEANING ENCLOSED GARDEN.
• 03:35 AND HERE FROM THIS BEAUTIFUL GARDEN TYPE AREA IN THIS NATIONAL PARK,
• 03:40 I WANNA BRING YOU THE WORD OF THE LORD.
• 03:42 CHAPTER 36, VERSE 1
• 03:44 (SPEAKING HEBREW)
• 03:45 AND THOU
• 03:47 (SPEAKING HEBREW)
• 03:48 SON OF MAN,
• 03:49 (SPEAKING HEBREW)
• 03:52 PROPHECY TO THE MOUNTAINS OF ISRAEL,
• 03:55 (SPEAKING HEBREW)
• 03:58 AND SPEAK TO THOSE MOUNTAINS OF ISRAEL,
• 04:00 (SPEAKING HEBREW)
• 04:02 HEAR THE WORD OF THE LORD.
• 04:05 AND WHAT IS THE WORD, GOING ON IN VERSE 2?
• 04:27 IN AS MUCH AS THOSE PEOPLE HAVE WASTED YOU AND DONE THIS TO YOU, THE LORD GOES ON TO SAY,
• 04:33 "I WILL MULTIPLY BACK TO YOU MANY TIMES OVER WHAT WAS TAKEN FROM YOU."
• 04:38 HE SAYS IN VERSE 4:
• 04:49 AS HE GOES ON TO SAY IN VERSE 9,
• 05:05 I'D IMAGINE THESE INDIVIDUALS WHO WERE FARMERS WERE THRILLED TO LEARN
• 05:11 THAT THERE HUMBLE ESTATE WOULD BE TRANSFORMED.
• 05:16 THEY WERE TOLD THAT GOD HAD SOMETHING GOOD FOR THEM.
• 05:19 AND THIS IS A WORD FOR ALL OF US IN THE SENSE THAT SOMETIMES WE CAN BE BESTED BY DESPAIR,
• 05:26 DISORIENTED BY CIRCUMSTANCES, WE FEEL THAT WE'VE BEEN RAVAGED BY SIN,
• 05:32 WE'VE BEEN VICTIMIZED AND WE'VE LOST WHAT'S RIGHTFULLY OURS.
• 05:37 AND HERE WE ARE DISTANT FROM WHAT WE WOULD WISH FOR OUR LIVES.
• 05:42 ISN'T IT GOOD TO KNOW THERE'S A GOD WHO SAYS, "I AM FOR YOU, NOT AGAINST YOU."
• 05:47 WHO SAYS, "I'LL RESTORE YOU."
• 05:49 WHO SAYS, "I'LL MAKE THE RAINS TO COME DOWN AND I'LL BUILD YOU UP AGAIN."
• 05:53 THAT'S A WORD FOR ISRAEL AND THAT'S A WORD FOR US.
• 05:57 AND IT'S A WORD THAT COMES TO US FROM EZEKIEL.
• 06:00 AND TO HIS WORD WE'LL ATTEND AS WE CONSIDER EZEKIEL AND THE MIDDLE EAST PIECE PROCESS.
• 06:08 A FRUITLESS VINE,
• 06:10 TO THE PROPHET EZEKIEL, GOD'S PICTURE OF A FAITHLESS ISRAEL.
• 06:14 AND THE WORD OF THE LORD CAME UNTO EZEKIEL,
• 06:18 "BEHOLD THE WOOD OF THE VINE IS CAST INTO THE FIRE FOR FUEL."
• 06:23 "AND SO WILL I GIVE THE INHABITANTS OF JERUSALEM."
• 06:28 GOD'S PURPOSE FOR HIS PEOPLE WOULD BE MADE CLEAR,
• 06:31 EVEN IN THE PURGING FIRE.
• 06:37 BIBLE WRITERS EMPLOY A CONSIDERABLE AMOUNT OF NATURE IMAGERY.
• 06:41 IN EZEKIEL THE 15TH CHAPTER THERE THE PROPHET SEES ISRAEL AS A VINE.
• 06:46 ISRAEL'S NOT FAIRING VERY WELL, BRANCHES ARE BROKEN OFF AND THROWN INTO THE FIRE,
• 06:51 IT'S A TOUGH STORY.
• 06:53 INTERESTINGLY, IN THE JOHANNINE GOSPEL, THE GOSPEL OF JOHN THE 15TH CHAPTER,
• 06:56 YESHUA, JESUS SAYS MUCH THE SAME.
• 06:59 WELL SO MUCH FOR THE BAD NEWS, THERE IS A DISCIPLINE THAT'S TRUE,
• 07:02 BUT GOD'S MERCY TRIUMPHS OVER HIS JUDGMENT.
• 07:06 EZEKIEL SAYS THAT GOD'S GOING TO VISIT ISRAEL WITH JUDGMENT, BUT THAT'S NOT THE FULL STORY,
• 07:11 BECAUSE HIS MERCY GETS THE BETTER.
• 07:13 COME WITH ME I'M GOING TO SHOW YOU THE MIRACLE ON THE EASTERN PART OF THE MEDITERRANEAN HERE
• 07:17 AS TEL AVIV CELEBRATES IT'S 100TH BIRTHDAY.
• 07:20 COME WITH ME.
• 07:29 (SPEAKING HEBREW)
• 07:32 "AND I WILL MULTIPLY MEN UPON YOU"
• 07:36 SAYS THE PROPHET EZEKIEL HERE IN CHAPTER 36, VERSE 10.
• 07:41 HE GOES ON TO SAY,
• 07:43 (SPEAKING HEBREW)
• 07:45 "AND THE CITIES WILL BE INHABITED."
• 07:48 GOD'S GOT A GREAT FUTURE FOR THIS PART OF THE WORLD.
• 07:53 OH FRIENDS, MANY YEARS AGO EZEKIEL WAS IN A PLACE CALLED TEL AVIV, INTERESTINGLY,
• 08:01 IN ANOTHER PART OFTHE WORLD.
• 08:03 AND HE IS CALLED FORTH.
• 08:05 HE IS GIVEN VISIONS OF A WORLD TO COME.
• 08:09 HE SEES GOD'S JUDGMENT UPON JUDAH,
• 08:13 BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY HE SEES RESTORATION
• 08:17 AND THE LITERATURE IS RICH IN RESTORATION MOTIFS.
• 08:21 AND HERE HE'S EXPLICIT.
• 08:23 SPEAKING OF GOD RAISING UP A FUTURE GENERATION AND REBUILDING THE CITIES OF ISRAEL.
• 08:30 AND WHAT A PLACE TO TELL THAT STORY, HERE AT THE EASTERN RIM OF THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA,
• 08:37 WITH THE BEAUTIFUL VISTA OF TEL AVIV IN THE BACKGROUND.
• 08:41 OH AND THE ATMOSPHERE HERE IS BRISK WITH ACTIVITY, WITH LIFE.
• 08:46 AS CONSTRUCTION PEOPLE ARE BUSY APPLYING THEIR TRADE.
• 08:50 AS TOURISTS ARE COMING HERE FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD TO WITNESS THE MIRACLE IN THE DESERT.
• 08:58 I'LL TELL YOU ONE TRIP TO ISRAEL IS BETTER THAN 100 SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSONS.
• 09:03 WHY IS THAT?
• 09:05 YOU BREATHE THE AIR, YOU SOAK IT IN, AND YOU SEE THAT EVERY WORD OF GOD PROVES TRUE.
• 09:12 GOD IS TRULY AT WORK IN THE WORLD.
• 09:14 TEL AVIV CELEBRATES IT'S 100TH ANNIVERSARY
• 09:18 AND IT WASN'T LONG AGO HERE JUST TO MY LEFT IN NEVE TZEDEK;
• 09:24 THERE WAS AN OASIS OF JUSTICE AS JEWS MADE THEIR WAY HERE
• 09:29 TO BEGIN CARVING OUT A PLACE IN THE WORLD.
• 09:31 BUT THEY'RE DRIVEN MORE THAN BY JUST AMBITION.
• 09:34 THERE'S A SENSE OF PROVIDENCE THAT'S GUIDING AND WORKING THROUGH THEIR EFFORTS.
• 09:38 FOR 100 YEARS LATER WE HAVE THIS,
• 09:40 WE HAVE THE MIRACLE OF TEL AVIV THAT'S GROWING AND GLOWING,
• 09:45 IT'S A BEACON OF LIGHT AND HOPE FOR ISRAEL AND THE FREEDOM LOVING PEOPLES OF THE WORLD.
• 09:52 I HOPE YOU'LL JOIN WITH ME
• 09:54 IN PRAYING AGAINST AND STANDING AGAINST THE VOICES OF OPPRESSION AND TOTALITARIANISM
• 10:00 THAT WOULD WANNA GET IN THE WAY OF WHAT'S HAPPENING HERE IN THIS PART OF THE WORLD.
• 10:04 I DON'T CARE WHAT YOU HEAR ON THE NEWS, JEWISH PEOPLE ARE GOOD PEOPLE, DESCENT PEOPLE,
• 10:10 JUST PEOPLE,EQUITABLE PEOPLE.
• 10:12 YES WE HAVE OUR SCOUNDRELS AND YES WE DEAL WITH THEM,
• 10:16 BUT YOU'RE LOOKING AT A JUST AND ORDERLY SOCIETY.
• 10:19 A MIRACLE HERE ON THE RIM OF THE MEDITERRANEAN.
• 10:22 A MIRACLE THAT EZEKIEL, THE PROPHET, SPOKE ABOUT MANY, MANY, MANY YEARS AGO.
• 10:43 FOR INSIGHTFUL PERSPECTIVES OF ISRAEL AND BIBLE PROPHECY
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• 11:14 HEY YOU LIKE THIS GUYS? YEAH!!!
• 11:16 (Narrator) JOIN US IN ISRAEL FOR A TRIP OF A LIFETIME.
• 11:19 MY FATHER'S COME 5 TIMES BEFORE AND LOVES ISRAEL.
• 11:24 AND THIS IS MY 1ST TIME
• 11:26 AND I CAN'T TELL YOU HOW, BEYOND WORDS...
• 11:29 THE MEANING OF COMING HOME.
• 11:31 IT'S BEYOND MY COMPREHENSION
• 11:35 AND I NEVER THOUGHT I WOULD SEE THIS.
• 11:38 I NEVER THOUGHT THIS WOULD BE LIKE THIS.
• 11:40 SO THE EXPERIENCE HAS TO BE HAD IN PERSON.
• 11:44 ISRAEL IS A LAND THAT IS BLOOMING;
• 11:47 THE FLOWERS, THE CROPS.
• 11:49 ISRAEL EXPORTS TO EUROPE ALMOST 250 MILLION DOLLARS WORTH OF FLOWERS EVERY YEAR.
• 11:56 IT IS A BOOMING ECONOMY, A BOOMING PLACE.
• 11:59 I WOULD LOVE TO SHOW YOU ISRAEL.
• 12:02 YOU KNOW I COME FROM A GERMAN, JEWISH FAMILY
• 12:05 AND I USE TO HEAR IN THE HOME, (SPEAKING GERMAN)
• 12:08 "YOU ARE LIKE A FLOWER". LIKE A FLOWER
• 12:10 AND I THINK THAT'S WHAT GOD SAYS TO ISRAEL.
• 12:13 ISRAEL IN THE DESERT WILL BLOSSOM AGAIN.
• 12:16 NOW IN THIS PROGRAM YOU'VE SEEN SOME DRAMAS.
• 12:18 YOU'VE SEEN A PICTURE OF FRUITLESSNESS
• 12:21 AND YOU'RE GONNA SEE ONE IN A MOMENT ABOUT FRUITFULNESS.
• 12:25 THE JUDGMENT AND RESTORATION MOTIFS, ABOUND IN EZEKIEL.
• 12:30 IF YOU WANNA PICK UP THE SERIES, IT IS OUR OFFER IN THIS PROGRAM.
• 12:34 "EZEKIEL AND THE MIDEAST PIECE PROCESS."
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• 12:43 IF YOU'RE INTERESTED YOU CAN ACQUIRE OUR MAGAZINE AS WELL.
• 12:46 WE'D LOVE TO SEND IT TO YOU.
• 12:48 IT'S YOURS FOR THE ASKING.
• 12:50 IF YOU'RE INTERESTED IN GOD'S WORD,
• 12:52 IF YOU'RE INTEREST IN GOD'S WORLD.
• 12:54 IF YOU WANNA LOOK AT GOD'S PROPHECY BEING FULFILLED TODAY
• 12:58 IN AND THROUGH THE JEWISH PEOPLE AND THROUGH THE CHURCH,
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• 13:08 WELL HERE I WANT YOU TO WATCH AS WE CONTINUE OUR STORY
• 13:12 AND WE LEARN ABOUT THE REJUVENATION AVAILABLE IN OUR MESSIAH.
• 13:19 A ONCE DRY DESOLATE LAND NOW RESTORED WELCOMES NEW LIFE.
• 13:25 THUS SAYETH THE LORD,
• 13:27 "YE SHALL SHOOT FORTH YOUR BRANCHES AND YEILD YOUR FRUIT TO MY PEOPLE OF ISRAEL,"
• 13:32 "FOR BEHOLD I AM FOR YOU AND I WILL MULTIPLY UPON YOU MAN AND BEAST"
• 13:39 "AND THEY SHALL INCREASE AND BRING FRUIT."
• 13:43 "AND YE SHALL KNOW THAT I AM THE LORD."
• 13:51 (Jeff speaking) IT'S CALLED A "SHOUK", THE MARKETPLACE
• 13:53 AND WHAT A MARKETPLACE IT IS HERE IN JERUSALEM.
• 13:57 THE ATMOSPHERE JUST BRISTLES WITH LIFE AND ACTIVITY.
• 14:01 IT'S TEAMING WITH PEOPLE COMING TO GET SOME OF THE GOOD FRUITS OF THE EARTH.
• 14:05 FRUITS THAT WERE PRODUCED "ERETZ YISRAEL", IN THE "LAND OF ISRAEL".
• 14:11 THERE'S ALL KINDS OF FRUITS HERE, BUT YOU KNOW IT WASN'T ALWAYS THE CASE.
• 14:16 100 PLUS YEARS AGO MARK TWAIN CAME TO THIS LAND AND COMMENTED HOW DESOLATE IT WAS.
• 14:23 THERE WAS NOTHING TO SPEAK OF HERE, BUT RUIN AND DECAY.
• 14:27 THAT WAS THEN, THIS IS NOW
• 14:30 AND AS I'VE SAID, THE ATMOSPHERE BRISTLES WITH LIFE,
• 14:33 THE LAND HAS PRODUCED IT'S FRUITS.
• 14:35 JEWS PRAY FOR FRUITS OF THE EARTH BEFORE A MEAL, BEFORE A DRINK
• 14:41 AND LOW AND BEHOLD WE HAVE IT ALL AROUND US NOW
• 14:44 AS PEOPLE COME HERE IN ORDER TO TASTE SOME OF THE GOODNESS
• 14:48 THAT IS PART OF THE EXPERIENCE OF THE REVIVED NATIONSTATE OF ISRAEL.
• 14:53 INTERESTINGLY EZEKIEL, TO GO BACK TO HIS WORD, SAID AS MUCH IN CHAPTER 36, VERSE 35 HE SAYS:
• 15:01 "(SPEAKING HEBREW)
• 15:07 THE LAND THAT WAS DESOLATE HAS
• 15:10 BECOME LIKE THE GARDEN OF EDEN."
• 15:13 THE NATIONAL ANTHEM FOR ISRAEL ITSELF IS "HATIKVA",
• 15:18 LANGUAGE THAT'S GLEANED FROM EZEKIEL, THE PROPHET.
• 15:21 AND IT SEEMS TO ME THAT THE SCENE IN FRONT OF ME,
• 15:24 THAT WHICH TAKES PLACE AROUND ME WAS ENVISIONED YEARS AGO.
• 15:28 A PROPHET WHO WAS DISPLACED FROM HIS PLACE OF ORIGIN,
• 15:32 WHO NO DOUBT DESPAIRED FOR LIFE ITSELF AND ENVISION BEYOND LIFE'S ABYSMAL CIRCUMSTANCES
• 15:38 THAT THERE'D BE A COMING BACK TO LIFE.
• 15:41 HE PROMISED IT, WE'RE SEEING IT HERE IN YERUSHALAYIM, THE CITY OF PEACE.
• 15:53 THE SHOUK IS THE MARKETPLACE OF ISRAEL.
• 15:55 FRESH FLOWERS, FRESH FRUIT, ANYTHING YOU WANT IS AT THE SHOUK.
• 16:00 IT IS A WONDERFUL MARKETPLACE.
• 16:02 DR. TOM MCALL CAME TO ZOLA MANY YEARS AGO AND SAID,
• 16:05 "NOBODY KNOWS ISRAEL LIKE YOU DO."
• 16:07 "PLEASE DO A PROGRAM."
• 16:09 "PLEASE SHOW PEOPLE WHAT ISRAEL REALLY LOOKS LIKE."
• 16:11 IT'S NOT DUSTY ROADS, IT'S NOT DESOLATE, IT IS GORGEOUS.
• 16:15 IT IS FULL OF MUSEUMS, IT'S FULL OF PEOPLE THAT LOVE LIFE, IT'S A WONDERFUL PLACE TO GO.
• 16:22 SO WE SHOT THIS SERIES CALLED, "THIS IS ISRAEL."
• 16:24 IN FACT IT WAS ONE OF THE 1ST THINGS I EVER DID WITH ZOLA.
• 16:27 HERE IS, "THIS IS ISRAEL."
• 16:48 WELL WE'VE MOVED WITHIN THE CITY ONCE BUILT ON SAND DUNES.
• 16:51 AND AS YOU CAN SEE BEHIND ME THEY'VE BUILT QUITE A CITY HERE.
• 16:55 CNN AND THE NETWORKS DRIVE PAST PLACES LIKE THIS EVERYDAY, THEY NEVER SHOW THEM TO YOU.
• 17:00 THIS IS ISRAEL, THIS IS TEL AVIV AND IT'S AVERAGE.
• 17:04 IT'S NOT...WE COULD 100 PLACES IN THE CITY AND HAVE WONDERFUL BUILDINGS,
• 17:09 MODERN VIEWS LIKE THIS.
• 17:11 IT'S A PLACE OF REAL OPPORTUNITY.
• 17:14 PEOPLE HAVE COME HERE AND BUILT A MAGNIFICENT, HUGE, AND WONDERFUL CITY.
• 17:19 YOU KNOW, THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE SAYS THIS,
• 17:34 THAT'S VERY SIGNIFICANT I THINK
• 17:36 IN A TIME WHEN WE'RE DISCUSSING DIVIDING THE LAND BETWEEN THOSE OF ANOTHER RELIGION AND JUDAISM.
• 17:44 WHEN BEFORE, THE PALESTINIANS SO CALLED, HELD A HALF OF JERUSALEM SAY,
• 17:50 THEY BLEW UP THE SYNAGOGUES THERE.
• 17:52 THEY TOOK GRAVESTONES AND PAVED ROADS WITH THEM.
• 17:55 THEY REALLY DID NOT ALLOW THE OTHER RELIGION ANY BREATHING SPACE AT ALL.
• 18:00 IN FACT JEWISH PEOPLE WERE SIMPLY FORBIDDEN TO GO THEIR HOLY SITES
• 18:04 AND THAT'S THE END OF THAT.
• 18:05 NOW THAT THE JEWISH PEOPLE ARE IN CHARGE, PEOPLE OF ALL FAITHS COME,
• 18:09 CHRISTIANS AND MUSLIMS AND JEWS ALIKE OR WHEREVER THEY LIKE IN THIS LAND.
• 18:14 IT'S A RESTORED LAND, IT'S A DIFFERENT LAND.
• 18:18 YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU GO BACK TO WHAT MARK TWAIN SAID
• 18:21 AND I HAVE A QUOTATION FROM HIM WORTH LOOKING AT.
• 18:23 HE CAME AND TOURED HERE AND HE WROTE A BOOK CALLED, "INNOCENCE ABROAD,"
• 18:28 AND WHEN HE TOURED IN ISRAEL, THE THINGS HE WROTE ABOUT THIS PLACE ARE EYE OPENING.
• 18:33 HE FOUND IT A TERRIBLE LAND, AN ABANDONED LAND
• 18:37 AND THIS WAS IN THE 19TH CENTURY BEFORE THE JEWS CAME BACK TO THE LAND.
• 18:43 IT SAYS IT'S,
• 18:51 SADLY THAT'S WHAT THE LAND LOOKED LIKE AT THAT TIME.
• 18:54 AND YET WE HAVE SO MANY VERSES, ZEPHANIAH 2:7 SAYS,
• 18:58 "THE COAST LINE SHALL BE FOR REMANENT OF MY PEOPLE OF JUDAH"
• 19:02 "WHEN I TURN AWAY THEIR CAPTIVITY AND BRING THEM BACK."
• 19:04 AND I COULD GO ON AND ON.
• 19:06 DEUTERONOMY CHAPTER 30:1-5,
• 19:09 "THEY'LL COME BACK INTO THE LAND THEIR FATHERS POSSESSED AND THEY SHALL POSSESS IT"
• 19:12 AND THEY'LL HAVE EVEN MORE THAN THEIR FATHERS HERE.
• 19:14 SO AS YOU CAN SEE, MARK TWAIN WOULD BE STUNNED TO SEE THIS SCENE BEHIND ME, I'M SURE.
• 19:20 GOLDA MEIR SAID,
• 19:25 THAT'S THE SOUTHERN DESERT OF ISRAEL,
• 19:27 THAT'S LIKE ARIZONA OR CALIFORNIA, VERY, VERY DRY AND HOT.
• 19:30 SHE SAID
• 19:40 THAT WAS SO VERY TRUE AND NOT VERY SURPRISING
• 19:43 WHEN YOU CONSIDER WHAT THE LORD ORIGINALLY SAID TO ABRAHAM IN GENESIS CHAPTER 12:
• 20:02 AND THEN MOST COMPELLING,
• 20:13 INDEED, THIS IS ISRAEL'S REAL MISSION, BLESSING ALL NATIONS OF THE EARTH
• 20:18 AND THEY DO IT WELL BY GIVING THE BIBLE, GOODNESS BY GIVING BIRTH TO THE MESSIAH,
• 20:22 BY SENDING OUT THE ORIGINAL MISSIONARIES.
• 20:25 IN SOME WAYS THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH IS THE RESULT OF A JEWISH MISSION,
• 20:29 WELL NOT JUST IN SOME WAYS, THAT'S A FACT.
• 20:31 AND PEOPLE THROUGH THE AGES RECOGNIZE THIS.
• 20:35 ARTHUR BALFOUR IN EUROPE,
• 20:38 IN ENGLAND, ONE OF GOD'S KEY MEN
• 20:41 GAVE OUT A DECLARATION
• 20:43 THAT THE JEWS REALLY DO HAVE A HISTORICAL RIGHT TO ESTABLISH THEIR OWN COUNTRY,
• 20:49 IN THEIR OWN LAND, OF THEIR OWN SOCIETY.
• 20:51 AND HE SAID THIS IN 1917 AND IT WAS AN ORIGINAL INSPIRATION FOR THE JEWS TO COME BACK HERE
• 20:58 AND POSSESS THE LAND THEIR FATHERS POSSESSED.
• 21:01 THE IDEA OF THE JEWS COMING BACK IS ZIONISM.
• 21:06 NOW THAT TERM HAS BEEN THROWN AROUND, THE ARABS IN A PUBLIC RELATIONS MOVE
• 21:13 DECIDED TO SAY THAT ZIONISM IS RACISM.
• 21:16 NOTHING COULD BE FURTHER FROM TRUTH AND I MEAN THAT.
• 21:19 ZIONISM BRINGS ALL JEWS BACK TO ISRAEL, THAT'S WHAT IT'S ABOUT.
• 21:23 THEY COME FROM ALL NATIONS AND THEY COME TO THIS LAND
• 21:26 AND THAT MEANS THAT PEOPLE WHO ARE WHITE, PEOPLE WHO ARE BLACK, LIKE THE ETHIOPIANS,
• 21:32 PEOPLE FROM RUSSIA, CHINA, THE ORIENT PEOPLE, JEWISH PEOPLE FROM EVERY NATION.
• 21:37 IT'S THE OPPOSITE OFF RACISM.
• 21:39 THIS IS THE ONLY COUNTRY THAT BROUGHT BLACK PEOPLE FROM AFRICA HERE,
• 21:43 NOT AS SLAVES, BUT AS 1ST CLASS CITIZENS.
• 21:46 AND NOT TO WORK HERE, BUT AS OWNERS OF THIS LAND.
• 21:50 THEY DO NOT HAVE TO APPLY TO LIVE HERE,
• 21:52 THEY ARE PROMISED THIS LAND BY ALMIGHTY GOD FOR GOODNESS SAKE.
• 21:57 SO ZIONISM IN REALITY IS THE OPPOSITE OF RACISM SINCE IT DEALS WITH ALL RACES.
• 22:04 AND THAT WAS ZOLA LEVITT.
• 22:06 YOU HEARD WHAT THE MAN SAID, GOD'S BRINGING IT ALL BACK TO LIFE.
• 22:10 GOD'S WORD SAYS IT, NEVER MIND ZOLA LEVITT.
• 22:13 THERE ARE AMPLE TESTIMONIES IN THE WORLD TODAY
• 22:15 ABOUT WHAT GOD IS DOING TO AND THROUGH ISRAEL.
• 22:20 THAT'S RIGHT.
• 22:21 WE TALKED TO ARIEH ELDAD,
• 22:22 A DOCTOR IN THE KNESSET
• 22:24 WITH A CHRISTIAN ALLIED CAUCUS.
• 22:26 HE REALLY IS INVOLVED WITH THE CHRISTIANS.
• 22:29 HE'S A JEWISH GUY WHO LOVES CHRISTIANS.
• 22:31 HE THINKS THE CHRISTIANS ARE OUR HOPE AND HE IS RIGHT.
• 22:35 DR. ELDAD WAS FASCINATING TO TALK TO.
• 22:38 WE TALKED TO HIM IN HIS HOUSE.
• 22:39 JUST A GORGEOUS CORNER OF THE WORLD OF ISRAEL.
• 22:42 HERE'S DR. ELDAD.
• 22:48 BECAUSE WE DO NOT HAVE TOO MANY FRIENDS ALL OVER THE WORLD
• 22:51 AND WE MUST, MUST APPRECIATE THE TRUE FRIENDSHIP
• 22:56 OF SOME CHRISTIAN COMMUNITIES IN THE STATES.
• 22:59 IT'S NOT ONLY THAT I'M MEMBER OF THE CAUCUS,
• 23:03 I GO WITH GROUPS OF SOME OF MY FRIENDS TO TEMPLE MOUNT.
• 23:07 TO PROTEST FOR THE FACT THAT WE ARE NOT ALLOWED TO PRAY THERE.
• 23:12 JEWS AND CHRISTIANS ARE NOT ALLOWED TO PRAY OVER TEMPLE MOUNT.
• 23:16 AND THEN I GO TO THE CHURCHES AND COMMUNITIES IN THE STATE TO SPEAK THERE,
• 23:24 TO TELL THEM ABOUT THE PROMISED LAND
• 23:29 AND HOW WE BUILD A NEW STATE IN OUR HOLY LAND
• 23:35 AND HOW IMPORTANT IT IS FOR THE WHOLE WORLD
• 23:39 THAT WE FULFILL WHAT IS WRITTEN IN THE BIBLE, IN THE BIBLE THAT'S RIGHT
• 23:44 THAT WE BELIEVE IN.
• 23:46 DR. ELDAD ONE OF MY FAVORITE THINGS WHEN I'M IN ISRAEL IS TO BE ON THE SEA OF GALILEE.
• 23:50 AND WE SING THE STAR SPANGLED BANNER, BUT THEN WE SING HATKIVA
• 23:54 AND WITHOUT FAIL I CRY AT HATIKVA,
• 23:57 HATIKVA, THE HOPE OF ISRAEL.
• 24:00 WHAT IS THE HOPE OF ISRAEL IN HATIKVA?
• 24:03 THE PROBLEM WAS CREATED AT THE END OF THE 19TH CENTURY
• 24:09 WHERE JEWS WERE IN APPALLING CONDITIONS IN EASTERN EUROPE
• 24:14 AND THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE HERE.
• 24:18 AND JUST THE WAKE OF THE ZIONIST MOVEMENT
• 24:24 THAT ADOPTED THIS POEM AS OUR NATION ANTHEM.
• 24:28 AND WE STILL NEED THIS HOPE,
• 24:32 BECAUSE WE ARE BETWEEN 2 SUNS.
• 24:35 THE SUN OF SECULAR ZIONISM IS GOING DOWN,
• 24:39 THE SUN OF RELIGIOUS ZIONISM
• 24:42 WHO KNOWS THAT THE LAND OF ISRAEL BELONGS TO THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL,
• 24:47 IS ON THE RISING.
• 24:49 WE ARE IN THE MIDDLE,
• 24:51 WE ARE IN THE TWILIGHT ZONE,
• 24:54 THAT'S WHY I CREATED A NEW PARTY IN ISRAEL CALLED "HATIKVA".
• 24:59 WE NEED THIS HOPE,
• 25:02 WE NEED TO BRIDGE BETWEEN THE 2 COMMUNITIES,
• 25:05 THE SECULAR AND THE RELIGIOUS COMMUNITY OF ISRAEL,
• 25:09 TO TAKE THE ENERGY,
• 25:11 THE POWER SOURCES OF THE RELIGIOUS COMMUNITY AND TO INFUSE THEM,
• 25:16 RE-INFUSE THEM TO THE SECULAR ZIONISM
• 25:19 WHO LOST OF THE BASICS BELIEF.
• 25:22 AND THEY ARE NOT SO SURE THAT THIS IS OUR LAND AND WE ARE ENTITLED TO HAVE IT.
• 25:27 I BELIEVE THAT THE GREATER PROMISES FOR THE STATE OF ISRAEL
• 25:33 COMES FROM THOSE WHO BELIEVE,
• 25:36 THOSE WHO KNOW WHAT WE ARE DOING HERE,
• 25:38 KNOWS THAT IT IS NOT AN HISTORIC ACCIDENT THAT JEWS END UP IN ISRAEL.
• 25:45 THEY KNOW WHY WE ARE HERE AND WHAT OUR GOALS IN LIFE ARE.
• 25:51 WELL YOU'VE HEARD FROM DR. ELDAD, YOU'VE HEARD FROM ZOLA LEVITT,
• 25:56 YOU'VE HEARD FROM EZEKIEL,
• 25:58 YOU'VE HEARD FROM SANDRA AND JEFF.
• 26:00 I HOPE YOU'VE HEARD FROM GOD ABOUT THE NEW LIFE,
• 26:05 ABOUT THE RESTORATION THAT'S AVAILABLE.
• 26:07 IF YOU NEED IT, YOU CAN GET IT.
• 26:08 I LOVED SEEING WHAT GOD DID TO ISRAEL.
• 26:12 THE RESTORATION,
• 26:13 THE BRINGING BACK OF THE PEOPLE,
• 26:14 THE BRINGING BACK OF THE DESERT
• 26:16 TURNING INTO A WHOLE OTHER GARDEN.
• 26:19 IT IS A WONDERFUL TALE OF RESTORATION.
• 26:22 HOWEVER, NEXT WEEK WE'RE GONNA LOOK AT GOD'S JUDGMENT
• 26:26 ON THOSE NATIONS THAT COME AGAINST ISRAEL
• 26:30 AND THAT IS REALLY EXCITING.
• 26:32 STAY TUNED FOR THAT.
• 26:33 AND AS YOU GO,
• 26:34 SHA 'ALU SHALOM YERUSHALAYIM.
• 26:36 PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM.