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Episode: “A Burdensome Stone”

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Caption transcript for “A Burdensome Stone”

00:17 BRETHREN, MY HEART'S DESIRE AND PRAYER TO GOD FOR ISRAEL IS THAT THEY MIGHT BE SAVED,
00:24 FOR THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE JEW AND THE GREEK
00:27 FOR THE SAME LORD OVER ALL IS RICH UNTO ALL THAT CALL UPON HIM.
00:39 WITH DR. JEFFREY SEIF
00:42 HEARTY SHALOM TO ALL OF YOU.
00:44 JEFFREY SEIF HERE
00:46 AND I AM PLEASED TO WELCOME YOU TO ANOTHER EDITION OF ZOLA LEVITT PRESENTS.
00:50 SOMETIME BACK A YOUNG GUY CAME UP TO ME AND HE SAYS,
00:53 "MAN, YOU KNOW I REALLY DIG ISRAEL."
00:56 WELL SO DOES THIS NEXT GUEST COMING UP, GABBI BARKAY.
01:01 DR. BARKAY IS A HEAD ARCHEOLOGIST IN JERUSALEM.
01:06 BARKAY IS EXPERT IN THE TEMPLE MOUNT
01:11 WHERE HE IS THE GUY THAT OVERSEES THE ONLY OFFICIAL EXCAVATION OF RUINS THERE.
01:17 OH IT'S A PLEASURE TO TAKE YOU TO PLACES YOU NORMALLY WOULDN'T GO
01:21 AND TO HEAR PEOPLE YOU NORMALLY WOULDN'T HEAR.
01:24 GET READY FOR THIS...
01:26 DR. GABBI BARKAY IN JERUSALEM.
01:32 I BELIEVE THAT WE'RE WORKING WITH ONE OF THE CRIMES OF THE CENTURY...FLAGRANT DECEIT.
01:39 WHAT'S HAPPENING AT THE TEMPLE MOUNT
01:41 OR WHAT HAS HAPPENED AND WHAT YOU'RE SORTING THROUGH HERE.
01:43 CAN YOU EXPLAIN THAT TO US PLEASE?
01:45 YES, THE TEMPLE PASSED EXTREME CHANGES SINCE THE NINETIES.
01:52 THERE WAS A STATUS QUO WHICH WAS PREVAILING UPON THE TEMPLE MOUNT FOR CENTURIES...
01:57 ALL THAT WAS BROKEN IN THE NINETIES
02:00 WITH THE VERY STRANGE OSLO ACCORDS.
02:06 WHEN THERE WERE RUMORS ORIGINATING FROM WASHINGTON, D.C.
02:13 ABOUT THE POSSIBLE SOLUTION OF THE CONFLICT OF THE NEAR EAST.
02:19 THEY UNDERSTOOD THAT THE CRUX OF THE PROBLEM IS THE TEMPLE MOUNT
02:23 SO THE IDEA WAS BASICALLY
02:28 THAT THERE WILL BE A SPLIT SOVEREIGNTY UPON THE TEMPLE MOUNT
02:31 IN THE FUTURE TO COME...AGREEMENT.
02:34 AND THEN THE WAQFA AUTHORITIES,
02:38 OR THE ISLAMIC TRUST,
02:40 BEGAN LIKE MAD TO PENETRATE ALL THOSE SUBTERRANEAN UNITS
02:45 WHICH EXIST UPON THE TEMPLE MOUNT.
02:47 THE TEMPLE MOUNT IS HONEYCOMBED
02:49 WITH MORE THAN 50 CAVITIES,
02:52 PASSAGEWAYS, CISTERNS, AND SUBTERRANEAN UNITS.
02:56 THIS WORK WAS ACCOMPANIED ALSO BY INTENSIVE DIGGING
03:02 AND CHANGING OF THE INFRASTRUCTURE.
03:06 INSTEAD OF TWO MAJOR ISLAMIC BUILDINGS
03:09 WHICH STOOD THERE FOR CENTURIES,
03:11 THE DOME OF THE ROCK, AND THE AL AQSA MOSQUE,
03:14 IN 1998 WE ARE WITNESSING THE EXISTENCE
03:18 OF FOUR MAJOR ISLAMIC STRUCTURES...
03:21 A GIGANTIC SUBTERRANEAN MOSQUE
03:24 BY THE NAME OF AL-MUSALLA AND MARWANI
03:26 BUILT INTO THE SO CALLED "SOLOMON STABLES"
03:30 WHICH IS NEITHER SOLOMON'S NOR STABLES,
03:33 OTHERWISE THE NAME IS OKAY. >>(JEFF LAUGHING)
03:38 THE BUILDING OF THAT MOSQUE HAS ROOM FOR MORE THAN 10,000 WORSHIPPERS.
03:46 IT IS THE LARGEST MOSQUE IN THE HISTORY OF PALESTINE
03:50 AND ALL THIS WAS MADE ILLICITLY IN THE NINETIES.
03:55 IN 1999 THERE WAS A GIGANTIC PIT DUG
03:59 TO A DEPTH OF 12 METERS TO A LENGTH OF 40 METERS
04:04 IN FRONT OF THAT MOSQUE.
04:06 THEY DUG THAT PIT AND PENETRATED INTO ANCIENT LAYERS OF THE TEMPLE MOUNT
04:11 IN THE MOST DESTRUCTIVE WAY EMPLOYING BULLDOZERS
04:16 AND THEY REMOVED FROM THE TEMPLE MOUNT
04:18 APPROXIMATELY 400 TRUCK LOADS OF EARTH
04:22 SATURATED WITH ARCHEOLOGICAL MATERIAL
04:25 WHICH WAS DUMPED MOST OF IT IN THE KIDRON VALLEY.
04:29 ALL THAT BROUGHT US TO THIS PROJECT.
04:34 WE SIFT THROUGH THE EARTH WHICH WAS REMOVED FROM THE TEMPLE MOUNT.
04:39 IT IS A TRAGEDY.
04:40 IT IS A BARBARIC ACT.
04:44 HERE WE HAVE THE CORNERSTONES OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION.
04:48 THE TEMPLE MOUNT APPEARS MORE THAN TWENTY TIMES IN THE NEW TESTAMENT ALONE.
04:52 THIS IS SOMETHING THAT DIDN'T SHAKE THE WORLD...WHY?
04:58 BECAUSE IT IS POLITICALLY INVOLVED...WHY?
05:02 BECAUSE PEOPLE THINK THAT IT IS OVER EXAGGERATED BY ONE PARTY.
05:09 I THINK THAT FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF CULTURE HERITAGE
05:12 THIS IS A BRUTAL DESTRUCTION OF CULTURAL HERITAGE.
05:17 IT IS PART OF WHAT I WOULD CALL A "CULTURAL INTIFADA".
05:24 (Jeff speaking) THIS PILE OF RUBBLE RESCUED FROM THE KIDRON VALLEY
05:26 IS BUT A SMALL PART OF THE IMMENSE AMOUNT OF MATERIAL TAKEN FROM THE TEMPLE MOUNT.
05:31 DR. BARKAY'S TEAM PATIENTLY SIFT THROUGH THE REMAINS.
05:35 THOUSANDS OF OBJECTS HAVE BEEN FOUND COVERING ALL PERIODS OF HISTORY ON THE MOUNT.
05:41 VERY INTERESTINGLY IN THE 1920'S AND 1930'S
05:46 THE WAQFA AUTHORITIES, THE TEMPLE MOUNT ISLAMIC TRUST,
05:51 ISSUED A BOOKLET FOR VISITORS WHICH SAYS THAT BEYOND ANY DOUBT
05:57 THE TEMPLE MOUNT OR THE NOBLE SANCTUARY AS THEY CALL IT
06:01 IS THE PLACE OF SOLOMON'S TEMPLE.
06:03 IT IS BEYOND ANY DOUBT,
06:05 IT IS STATED THERE.
06:06 JERUSALEM WAS CALLED BY THE ARABS "CITY OF THE TEMPLE".
06:11 RIGHT
06:13 AND IT WAS CALLED BY THE ARABS
06:16 "THE PLACE OF SOLOMON'S TEMPLE".
06:18 AND THERE ARE MANY REFERENCES IN EARLY ISLAMIC LITERATURE
06:22 TO THE TEMPLE OF JERUSALEM.
06:24 SUDDENLY FROM THE 1990'S WE HAVE A TEMPLE DENIAL.
06:28 I'LL TELL YOU IT IS SOMETHING VERY SERIOUS.
06:32 THIS IS USING ANCIENT HISTORY AS A POLITICAL TOOL.
06:39 I THINK THIS SHOULD NOT HAPPEN.
06:44 WE CALL IT THE TEMPLE MOUNT
06:47 BUT WE COULD JUST AS EASILY CALL IT "THE TENSION MOUNT".
06:52 AND WHY IS THAT?
06:54 BECAUSE TENSION SURELY "MOUNTS" IN AND AROUND JERUSALEM IN THESE PROPHETIC TIMES.
07:05 JUST ABOUT EVERY DAY NOW WE HEAR ABOUT NEWS IN EAST JERUSALEM.
07:10 DAVID DOLAN OUR MAN IN JERUSALEM...
07:13 HE'S A REPORTER ON THE GROUND FOR US.
07:16 HE USED TO WORK FOR CBS AND OTHERS AND NOW HE HELPS US
07:20 BY TAKING US TO PLACES AND TAKES US TO STORIES IN AND AROUND JERUSALEM.
07:25 OFF WE GO NOW TO DAVID AT NOF ZION IN EAST JERUSALEM.
07:33 THE NAME OF THIS NEW JEWISH NEIGHBORHOOD IS NOF ZION
07:36 WHICH MEANS IN HEBREW "A VIEW OF ZION"
07:38 AND INDEED YOU CAN SEE BEHIND ME
07:40 IT HAS A BEAUTIFUL VIEW OF MOUNT ZION AND THE OLD CITY.
07:44 AND ONE OF THE CENTERPIECES OF THAT IS THE HURVA SYNAGOGUE.
07:47 THIS IS A REBUILT SYNAGOGUE.
07:50 IT WAS JERUSALEM'S BIGGEST SYNAGOGUE FOR MANY, MANY DECADES
07:53 DESTROYED BY THE JORDANIANS IN 1948 AND THEN REBUILT BY ISRAEL ONLY RECENTLY.
07:59 PART OF THE REASON THAT THIS NEIGHBORHOOD IS SO CONTROVERSIAL
08:03 IS IT WILL BE MAINLY ORTHODOX JEWS THAT LIVE HERE
08:07 AND THESE CONSTRUCTION ITEMS YOU SEE ARE MEANT TO BUILD THE FIRST OF TWO SYNAGOGUES HERE.
08:14 RECENTLY THERE WAS A DEDICATION CEREMONY FOR THIS
08:17 AND THERE WERE PROTESTS FROM SOME OF THE ARABS
08:19 THAT LIVE IN THESE HOMES THAT YOU CAN SEE RIGHT ABOVE THIS JEWISH DEVELOPMENT.
08:24 THIS IS THE EDGE OF THE ARAB NEIGHBORHOOD OF JABL MUKABER.
08:29 AND THE AMERICANS HAVE ALSO PROTESTED THE BUILDING OF THIS NEIGHBORHOOD.
08:33 THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT...
08:34 BELIEVING MAYBE THIS IS PART OF A GRAND PLAN
08:36 TO JOIN THE WESTERN PART OF JERUSALEM TO THE JEWISH SUBURB OF MA'ALE ADUMIM
08:43 IN THE EASTERN JUDEAN DESERT
08:45 WITH A RING OF JEWISH HOMES GOING RIGHT AROUND THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF JERUSALEM.
08:52 THEY SAY THAT THIS WILL EFFECTIVELY CUT THE WEST BANK, JUDEA AND SAMARIA INTO
08:57 AND PREVENT A CONTIGUOUS PALESTINIAN STATE FROM BEING FORMED.
09:02 BUT THE JEWISH RESIDENTS HERE POINT OUT THAT THIS IS JEWISH OWNED LAND,
09:05 IT HAS BEEN FOR SOME TIME
09:07 AND THAT OF COURSE THIS IS THE OLD CITY OF JERUSALEM,
09:11 THIS IS THE TEMPLE MOUNT,
09:12 THIS HAS BEEN SACRED JEWISH LAND FOR MANY, MANY, MANY, MANY CENTURIES,
09:17 IN FACT, 3 MILLENNIA,
09:19 AND THEY BELIEVE VERY MUCH THAT THEY HAVE A RIGHT TO BE LIVING HERE.
09:22 THE ARABS DON'T AGREE AND SO WE CAN EXPECT SOME MORE TROUBLE AHEAD.
09:29 (Jeff talking) DAVID TALKED TO ONE OF THE RESIDENTS OF NOF ZION
09:32 AND ASKED HIM IF HE THOUGHT THERE COULD BE A PEACEFUL SOLUTION.
09:37 I'M QUITE SURE BECAUSE THE MINUTE THAT WE'LL UNDERSTAND
09:40 THAT WE ARE HERE FOR LAST
09:43 AND WE ARE NOT HERE TO MOVE ANY OTHER PLACE...
09:46 OR WE ARE NOT GOING TO SWIM BACK TO EUROPE,
09:49 THAT WE'LL GO FOR PEACE.
09:54 (David) WELL IT CERTAINLY LOOKS TO ME
09:55 LIKE IT'S WITHIN PROXIMITY OF THE HOLIEST PLACE FOR JUDAISM,
09:59 THE TEMPLE MOUNT;
10:00 IT'S JUST UP THE HILL HERE.
10:02 TEMPLE MOUNT IN THE GULF,
10:05 ISRAELI JEWISH WAR
10:08 AND ALSO FOR THE CHRISTIAN AND WORLDWIDE...
10:11 YOU KNOW IN THE TALMUD WE SAY THAT THE LIFE OF THE NATION COMING FROM THE JEWISH PEOPLE
10:22 AND IT'S COMING FROM THE TEMPLE MOUNT.
10:24 SO YOU HAVE A SOURCE OF LIVING THAT'S COMING FROM THERE.
10:28 SO IF YOU TRY TO PUSH US FROM EXERCISING OUR RIGHTS HERE
10:34 THEN ALL THE OTHER NATIONS ALSO WILL SUFFER.
10:39 FOR INSIGHTFUL PERSPECTIVES OF ISRAEL AND BIBLE PROPHECY
10:43 ASK FOR OUR FREE MONTHLY NEWS LETTER "THE LEVITT LETTER".
10:46 WHEN YOU CALL BE SURE TO ASK FOR OUR FREE CATALOGUE WITH THE LATEST VIDEOS, BOOKS, AND MUSIC.
10:51 OUR CORRESPONDENCE COURSE, "THE INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH CHRISTIAN STUDIES" INCLUDES
10:56 READING PACKETS, TEACHINGS CDs, AND MAIL-IN TESTS.
10:59 YOU MAY WANT TO JOIN US ON AN UPCOMING TOUR OF ISRAEL OR PETRA
11:03 OR CRUISE THE MEDITERRANEAN VISITING GREECE AND EPHESUS.
11:06 PLEASE CONTACT US FOR MORE INFORMATION.
11:09 I'VE HAD A BLAST
11:10 THE BIGGEST THING THAT I REALLY HAVE TO SAY
11:11 IS THAT I'VE GOTTEN MY MONEY'S WORTH ALREADY
11:13 AND WE'RE ABOUT HALF WAY THROUGH THE TRIP.
11:15 IT'S JUST BEEN UNBELIEVABLE HOW MUCH WE'VE SEEN,
11:17 INCREDIBLY PROFESSIONAL,
11:19 REALLY WELL THOUGHT OUT.
11:20 EVERY WHERE WE GET YOU CAN TELL
11:21 THAT THEY THOUGHT ABOUT THE FACT THAT WE WERE COMING.
11:23 IT'S REALLY NICE TO BE SO WELL TAKEN CARE OF.
11:25 I HAVE FELT SO SAFE HERE.
11:27 I FEEL SAFER HERE THAN I DO IN THE UNITED STATES.
11:29 LET ME ENCOURAGE YOU TO MAKE A TRIP OF A LIFETIME TO COME HERE.
11:32 YOU'LL LOVE IT
11:33 I PROMISE.
11:39 ISRAEL...
11:41 IF YOU WANT TO TAKE A LOOK
11:44 WHY NOT TAKE A PEEK WITH ME?
11:47 AND CALL 1-800-WONDERS
11:49 AND GET THAT BALL ROLLING.
11:51 IT SEEMS THESE DAYS I'M EITHER GOING TO ISRAEL OR COMING FROM ISRAEL.
11:55 I'M IN AND OUT AND I LOVE IT.
11:58 BEYOND THE LAND ITSELF
12:00 I ALWAYS LOVE TO GO WITH PEOPLE WHO LIKE TO TAKE A LOOK.
12:04 IF YOU'D LIKE TO TAKE A BOOK
12:06 THE OFFER ON THIS PROGRAM IS "SATAN IN THE SANCTUARY"
12:11 WRITTEN BY THE LATE ZOLA LEVITT AND DR. TOM MCCALL.
12:16 THIS BOOK WORKS WELL WITH THIS PROGRAM BECAUSE WE'RE LOOKING AT THE TEMPLE MOUNT.
12:21 BUT BEYOND THE TELEVISION PROGRAM
12:23 IF YOU WANT TO LOOK AT THE DEVIL'S PROGRAM TO GET HIS ARMS AROUND PLANET EARTH
12:28 AND IF YOU WANT TO LOOK AT BIBLE PROPHECY...
12:31 "SATAN IN THE SANCTUARY".
12:34 SEEMS THAT NEWS IS BREAKING THESE DAYS
12:36 AND WE HAVE A MONTHLY MAGAZINE.
12:40 IT IS YOURS FOR THE ASKING
12:42 BUT YOU GOTTA ASK.
12:44 1-800-WONDERS
12:47 IS THE NUMBER TO CALL
12:49 YOU CAN GO TO OUR WEBSITE
12:51 WWW.LEVITT.COM
12:56 WE HAVE A MAGAZINE
12:57 WE WANT TO SEND IT TO YOU.
12:59 AND AS JESUS SAID
13:00 "ASK AND YOU WILL RECEIVE".
13:04 IF YOU LIKE WHAT WE'RE ALL ABOUT
13:06 AND WANT TO BE ON THE RECEIVING END
13:08 WE HAVE SOCIAL NETWORK CONTACTS
13:09 THROUGH MYSPACE, TWITTER, FACE BOOK, YOUTUBE...
13:16 ZOLA LEVITT...
13:20 LOOK IT UP.
13:23 SPEAKING ABOUT LOOKING UP...
13:25 LIFT UP YOUR HEADS AND YOUR HEARTS NOW.
13:27 LANCE LAMBERT IS ONE OF THE GREATEST IN THE INDUSTRY.
13:32 A CHRISTIAN WITH A DEEP LOVE FOR THE LORD...A BRITISH FELLOW.
13:37 FASTEN YOUR SEATBELTS.
13:39 HE'S COMING TO US NOW FROM JERUSALEM WHERE DAVID DOLAN SAT DOWN WITH HIM AND HAD A TALK.
13:48 I REMEMBER VERY WELL WHEN I WAS...
13:51 I COULDN'T HAVE BEEN MORE THAN 14 OR 15...
13:55 I REMEMBER ALLEN REDPATH GETTING VERY STEAMED UP ONE SUNDAY MORNING
14:02 GRIPPING THE SIDES OF THE PULPIT AND SAYING,
14:04 "AS SURE AS I STAND HERE"
14:06 "GOD WILL JUDGE THE BRITISH EMPIRE AND THE BRITISH ISLES"
14:12 "FOR WHAT THEY HAVE DONE TO THE JEWISH PEOPLE."
14:15 HE SAID, "AT THIS VERY TIME THE ROYAL AIR FORCE IS BOMBING SURVIVORS OF THE HOLOCAUST..."
14:21 "AND THE ROYAL NAVY IS SHELLING THEM AND RAMMING THEIR SHIPS."
14:26 HE SAID, "AND THEN THEY'RE TAKEN EITHER INTO CYPRUS OR INTO MAURITIUS."
14:32 AND HE SAID, "THE TIME WILL COME WHEN THERE WILL BE NO EMPIRE"
14:37 "AND BRITAIN WILL BE AN OFFSHORE ISLAND OF EUROPE."
14:44 AND I REMEMBER SOME PEOPLE GETTING UP AND WALKING OUT
14:49 AND I THOUGHT THEY MIGHT BE...
14:51 I WAS ONLY A KID...
14:52 I THOUGHT OH THEY'VE GOT LUNCHEON APPOINTMENTS,
14:54 THE PASTOR IS GOING ON RATHER LATE AND SO THEY'RE OFF TO THEIR LUNCHEON APPOINTMENTS.
14:59 ACTUAL FACT I LEARNED LATER THAT THEY WERE PATRIOTS
15:05 WHO WERE HORRIFIED THAT THE PASTOR COULD SAY SUCH A THING
15:09 ABOUT THE GREAT BRITISH EMPIRE UPON WHICH THE SUN NEVER SET.
15:14 BUT THE SUN DID SET ON IT.
15:16 AND IT SET ON IT EXACTLY THE TIME THAT ISRAEL BECAME A STATE IN 1948.
15:24 THAT WAS THE BEGINNING OF THE DISILLUSION OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE.
15:28 I HAVE SAID AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN OVER THE LAST FEW YEARS
15:31 THAT AMERICA IS HEADING EXACTLY FOR THE SAME SITUATION.
15:37 WELL LANCE THAT'S A VERY STRONG STATEMENT.
15:40 IT MIGHT BE SHAKING SOME OF THE VIEWERS IN AMERICAN RIGHT NOW.
15:44 HOW CLOSE DO YOU THINK WE MIGHT BE TO SUCH AN UNLEASHING OF JUDGMENT? >>VERY, VERY CLOSE...
15:49 VERY CLOSE INDEED.
15:52 I PERSONALLY BELIEVE
15:54 AND I SAY THIS VERY CAREFULLY...
15:56 THAT THE BLAME FOR THIS SITUATION
15:59 LIES AT THE DOOR OF THE CHURCH IN AMERICA.
16:07 HOW SO?
16:09 SHE HAS BEEN MORE INTERESTED IN WALL TO WALL CARPETING,
16:12 MINISTERS OF EDUCATION,
16:14 MINISTERS OF YOUTH,
16:15 MINISTERS OF OLD AGE,
16:16 MINISTERS OF EVERYTHING...
16:18 WONDERFUL ENTERTAINMENT...
16:20 MARVELOUS CHOIRS...
16:22 GREAT MUSIC...
16:23 THEY HAVE ORGANS, PIANOS AND EVERYTHING ELSE
16:26 AND HAS NOT UNDERSTOOD THAT THEY HAVE A RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE NATION IN WHICH THEY'RE FOUND.
16:35 THE CHURCH ON THE WHOLE WITH GLORIOUS EXCEPTIONS THROUGHOUT NORTH AMERICA,
16:44 BOTH UNITED AND CANADA
16:46 HAS BEEN ASLEEP.
16:49 IT'S TRUE THAT A NUMBER OF EVANGELICAL LEADERS WENT TO MR. BUSH TO WARN HIM
16:58 BUT BY AND LARGE THE CHURCH HAS BEEN ASLEEP
17:02 BECAUSE THEY BELIEVE THAT THE UNITED STATES WOULD NEVER FALL,
17:06 WOULD NEVER COLLAPSE
17:08 AND THAT'S AN IMPOSSIBILITY
17:10 JUST LIKE PEOPLE THOUGHT BRITAIN COULD NEVER COLLAPSE...
17:13 IT'S AN IMPOSSIBILITY.
17:15 IT SEEMS SO.
17:16 ALSO AT THE TIME...
17:17 A MAJOR EMPIRE.
17:18 YES AND LOOK AT THE AMERICAN DOLLAR...
17:22 IT'S VIRTUALLY LOSING ITS VALUE.
17:25 WE REALLY FEEL IT OVER HERE IN ISRAEL.
17:27 ABSOLUTELY WE DO.
17:29 NOW THERE IS REAL TALK AS TO WHETHER TO CHANGE THE DOLLAR TO ANOTHER CURRENCY...
17:36 I MEAN THAT'S UNBELIEVABLE...
17:38 THE ALMIGHTY DOLLAR.
17:42 AND MIGHT JUST ADD TO THIS THAT JERUSALEM IS THE BOTTOM LINE IN THIS WHOLE CONFLICT.
17:50 THE REAL CONFLICT IN BATTLE IS OVER JERUSALEM
17:57 INDEED I CAN BE MORE SPECIFIC...
18:02 IT IS OVER ONE SQUARE MILE...
18:05 IT IS THE TEMPLE MOUNT WHERE THE HOUSE OF THE LORD RUNS THROUGH IT...
18:11 THAT IS THE KEY TO THIS CONFLICT.
18:14 THERE WILL BE NO PEACE
18:16 BECAUSE THE PALESTINIANS AND THE ISLAMIC WORLD INSISTS ON HAVING JERUSALEM AND THE TEMPLE MOUNT
18:26 AND ISRAEL FINDS IT IMPOSSIBLE TO LET GO OF JERUSALEM.
18:32 AFTER ALL THE WORD JERUSALEM DOESN'T OCCUR ONCE IN THE KORAN.
18:39 AND YET IT IS MENTIONED IN THE BIBLE...
18:41 ONCE OR TWICE.
18:42 WELL IT'S MENTIONED... OH SOME 600 TIMES IN THE BIBLE BOTH OLD AND NEW TESTAMENT.
18:49 AND I THINK THIS BATTLE FOR JERUSALEM IS REALLY THE BOTTOM LINE OF THE WHOLE CONFLICT,
19:00 THAT THIS IS NOT JUST A POLITICAL CONFLICT
19:04 IT IS A THEOLOGICAL
19:06 IF I MAY PUT IT THAT WAY.
19:08 AND A GOOD EXAMPLE OF THAT IS AHMADINEJAD IN IRAN.
19:13 HE BELIEVES THE ISLAMIC MESSIAH IS COMING AND THEREFORE THEY CAN CAUSE MAYHEM IN THE WORLD
19:26 BECAUSE THE KORAN SAYS HE WILL COME AT SUCH A TIME.
19:34 THERE ARE THINGS THAT I THINK ABOUT
19:36 AND THERE ARE THINGS THAT I DON'T JUST THINK ABOUT BUT I FEEL ABOUT.
19:40 IF THAT'S EVEN THE RIGHT WAY TO SAY IT...
19:42 THINGS THAT TOUCH ME DEEPLY
19:46 AND WHEN I THINK TODAY OF THE RISE OF JEW HATRED
19:50 AND THE UNREASONABLENESS OF IT ALL
19:53 IT TOUCHES ME DEEPLY... SOULISHLY.
19:58 WHEN I THINK OF THE INSANITY OF IT ALL
20:01 KNOWING AS I DO THE JEWS ARE A GOOD PEOPLE AS FAR AS A PEOPLE GO.
20:07 AND I KNOW ISRAEL IS A GREAT COUNTRY AS FAR AS COUNTRIES GO.
20:13 ETHICAL...MORAL...FULL OF VALUE AND VIRTUE.
20:18 KNOWING THAT AS I DO,
20:19 KNOWING THE PEOPLE AND THE LAND AS I DO
20:22 I'M STRUCK BY THE MADNESS THAT SEEMS TO BE PREVAILING IN THE CURRENT ECONOMY...
20:28 A WORLD THAT SEEMS TO BE DRIFTING AWAY FROM COMMON SENSE INTO NONSENSE.
20:35 A WORLD OF NON REASON WHERE ONCE AGAIN MUCH AS HITLER RAISED HIS HOARY HEAD IN A BYGONE ERA
20:43 SO IT IS TODAY
20:45 THAT WORLD ATTENTION FOCUSES ON JERUSALEM WITH DISTAIN AND WITH ABANDONMENT.
20:52 IT'S FOR THAT REASON BY THE WAY
20:54 THAT I'M SO VERY THRILLED TO SEE CHRISTIANS COMING HERE IN DROVES.
21:00 THIS IS EXEMPLIFIED ANNUALLY BY THE BIGGEST MAJOR EVENT IN JERUSALEM THE PEOPLE COME TO
21:07 IS SPONSORED BY THE INTERNATIONAL CHRISTIAN EMBASSY
21:12 WHERE THOUSANDS UPON THOUSANDS COME.
21:16 AND IT MAKES SUCH A DIFFERENCE NOT JUST IN THE ECONOMY...
21:20 CERTAINLY THE HOTEL OWNERS ARE GLAD TO SELL THE ROOMS
21:23 AND THE RESTAURANTS ARE GLAD TO FILL UP A TABLE,
21:26 BUT THE HEART OF ISRAEL IS TOUCHED BY VIRTUE OF THE FACT
21:31 THAT PEOPLE WANT TO COME HERE AND TOUCH ISRAEL
21:33 AND NOT JUST ON THE ANNUAL FEAST OF TABERNACLES EVENT
21:37 BUT THROUGH THE YEAR OUR MINISTRIES TAKES TOURS,
21:41 OTHER MINISTRIES TAKE TOURS
21:43 AND WE COME AND PILGRIMS COME STILL TO THIS MYSTERIOUS LAND
21:48 AND ARE TOUCHED BY VIRTUE OF THEIR ENCOUNTER
21:51 MUCH AS ISRAELIS THEMSELVES ARE TOUCHED BY YOUR PRESENCE.
21:56 SPEAKING OF PRESENCE,
21:57 IN THE BOOK ZECHARIAH
21:59 THE LORD PROMISES THAT IN A VERY SPECIAL WAY
22:02 HE IS GOING TO MAKE HIS PRESENCE FELT HERE IN JERUSALEM
22:07 JUST AT THE TIME WHEN JERUSALEM IS PUSHED TO THE BRINK.
22:12 OH THIS PROPHET SAW THAT ISRAEL WOULD BE RECONSTITUTED IN THE LATTER YEARS
22:16 AND HE SAW JERUSALEM EMERGE AS THE CAPITAL OF THIS PROPHETIC LAND WITH DESTINY ALL OVER IT.
22:24 BUT HE SAW WARS, HE SAW ENEMIES, HE SAW ABANDONMENT IN THE 12TH CHAPTER, HE SAW ANTI-SEMITISM
22:31 AND HE ALSO SAW IN VERSE 8, HE SAYS, "IN THAT DAY THE LORD WILL DEFEND".
22:39 OH WE HASTEN THE DAY WHEN HE DEFENDS "THE INHABITANTS OF JERUSALEM".
22:47 AND HE SAYS THE ONE WHO IS FEEBLE AMONG THEM WILL BE LIKE DAVID.
22:53 "O HASTEN THE DAY LORD."
22:55 AND HE SAYS IN VERSE 9,
22:57 "IT WILL BE ON THAT DAY THAT I WILL SEEK TO DESTROY THE NATIONS THAT COME AGAINST JERUSALEM."
23:06 INASMUCH AS THE DEVIL RAISES UP AN ARMY TO DO HARM
23:10 THE LORD RAISES UP AN INTERCESSORY ARMY TO DO GOOD.
23:15 IF YOU WANT TO PARTICIPATE WITH THE ZOLA LEVITT MINISTRY'S ARMY,
23:19 AND WE'RE BUT ONE GROUP IN THIS LARGER BATTLE FORMATION HERE,
23:24 YOU CAN VISIT OUR WEBSITE AT
23:26 WWW.LEVITT.COM,
23:29 YOU CAN CALL 1-800-WONDERS,
23:33 YOU CAN FIND A WAY TO CONNECT WITH WHAT WE'RE DOING AND WITH US,
23:37 PARTICIPATE IN HOLDING BACK PRAYERFULLY AND CAREFULLY THE FORCES OF DARKNESS.
23:45 THIS IS A LAND WITH DESTINY,
23:47 THESE ARE INTERESTING TIMES
23:49 AND I BELIEVE THAT GOD IS CALLING A PEOPLE LIKE ME AND LIKE YOU
23:53 AND THAT WE TOGETHER ARE STANDING UP FOR JESUS,
23:56 STANDING UP FOR JEWS,
23:59 STANDING UP FOR THE CAPITAL CITY OF JERUSALEM.
24:11 (Zola playing the piano)
25:17 IN ALL HONESTY THERE'S JUST SOMETHING MYSTERIOUS ABOUT JERUSALEM,
25:23 ABOUT THE TEMPLE MOUNT
25:25 THAT KEEPS BECKONING ME THAT WAY.
25:28 AND I'M THERE ALL THE TIME
25:30 AND SO I THINK IF IT WAS JUST NOVELTY IT WOULD HAVE LONG SINCE WORN OFF.
25:35 I WAS THERE 5 TIMES JUST IN THE LAST 12 MONTHS
25:38 AND IT DOESN'T SEEM TO GO AWAY.
25:44 THAT SENSE OF THE TEMPLES BEING SPECIAL SEEMS TO REVERBERATE THROUGHOUT THE BIBLE.
25:50 I'M LOOKING IN PSALM CHAPTER 137, VERSE 6
25:54 WHERE THE AUTHOR SPEAKS ABOUT SETTING JERUSALEM ABOVE THE HIGHEST JOY.
26:02 AGAIN IT'S A WAY OF GIVING VOICE TO THIS MYSTERIOUS BECKONING TOWARD JERUSALEM.
26:09 IF YOU'RE MINDED THAT WAY AS WELL THEN LET'S JUST BE FRIENDS.
26:15 I HOPE YOU'LL TAKE US UP ON THE OFFER TO VISIT THE LAND WITH US OR TO UNITE WITH US,
26:21 TO GET OUR NEWSLETTER TO SOMEHOW GET CONNECTED.
26:25 THE MOST IMPORTANT CONNECTION, HOWEVER, IS ONE'S RELATIONSHIP WITH THE LORD
26:31 AND I HOPE THAT AS WE LOOK AT THE BIBLE AND HUMAN AFFAIRS
26:34 I HOPE THE LORD IS SPEAKING TO YOU AND BECKONING YOU TO COME HIS WAY.
26:40 I'M PLEASED TO BE ABLE TO PARTICIPATE IN THAT TO THE EXTENT THAT YOU'LL LET ME.
26:44 AS WE GO NOW LET ME THANK FOR GOING WITH US NOW.
26:48 I'LL SIGN OFF THE WAY I ALWAYS DO AS THE PSALMIST SAID,
26:52 SHA'ALU SHALOM YERUSHALAYIM
26:55 PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM

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Production Code: 1001

Type: Episode

Play Time: 28:32

Year: 2010

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Closed Captioned

Host: Jeff Seif, David Dolan

Guests: Dr. Gabriel Barklay, Lance Lambert

Air dates: 2010-Jan-31, 2011-Feb-13

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