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Episode: “Israel: Center of Contention” with David Dolan, Part 1

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Caption transcript for “Israel: Center of Contention” with David Dolan, Part 1

00:17 BRETHREN, MY HEART'S DESIRE AND PRAYER TO GOD FOR ISRAEL
00:21 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
00:43 HEARTY SHALOM TO ALL OF YOU.
00:44 JEFFREY SEIF...
00:45 GLAD TO WELCOME YOU AGAIN TO ZOLA LEVITT PRESENTS.
00:49 WE'VE GOT A GOOD ONE FOR YOU NOW
00:52 AND I'M GLAD THE PRESSURE'S NOT ON ME...WHY?
00:55 WE HAVE A SPECIAL GUEST.
00:57 DAVID DOLAN... GOOD TO SEE YOU MY FRIEND.
01:00 IT'S GOOD TO SEE YOU JEFF...ALWAYS.
01:02 ALL THE WAY FROM THE LAND OF ISRAEL
01:05 AND YOU HAVE BEEN THERE FOR HOW LONG?
01:07 IT WILL BE 30 YEARS THIS NOVEMBER
01:09 AND ISRAEL'S 62,
01:11 SO NEARLY HALF OF ISRAEL'S MODERN EXISTENCE.
01:14 HALF THE LIFETIME IN THE NATION STATE OF ISRAEL
01:17 YOU'VE BEEN THERE.
01:19 ARE YOU A JEWISH GUY THAT MADE ALIYAH
01:21 THAT DECIDED TO MOVE THERE OR IS THERE ANOTHER STORY?
01:23 I WOULD LOVE TO SAY I WAS...
01:25 BUT NO, MY MOTHER'S GRANDFATHER WAS JEWISH
01:28 AND HER MAIDEN NAME IS A COMMON, "HAZAN",
01:31 A VERY COMMON JEWISH NAME,
01:32 BUT HE MARRIED A CATHOLIC WOMAN
01:34 AND MY FATHER IS IRISH-CATHOLIC
01:37 AND I WAS RAISED CATHOLIC.
01:39 I BECAME A BORN AGAIN BELIEVER AT AGE 18 JUST OUT OF HIGH SCHOOL.
01:43 MY BROTHER BECAME A BELIEVER IN COLLEGE AND SHARED WITH ME.
01:46 AND I HAD AN IMMEDIATE DESIRE TO GO TO ISRAEL
01:50 AND I CAN ONLY SAY THAT IT WAS A SUPER NATURAL GOD GIVEN DESIRE
01:54 BECAUSE I DIDN'T KNOW WHERE ISRAEL WAS EVEN...
01:56 EXCEPT ITS EAST OF NEW YORK SOMEWHERE
01:58 AND DIDN'T KNOW ANY JEWS THAT I KNEW OF,
02:01 DIDN'T KNOW AT THAT TIME THAT MY GREAT GRANDFATHER WAS JEWISH.
02:04 BUT YOU FELT THE LORD PROMPTING YOU TO GO.
02:07 VERY STRONGLY.
02:08 THERE'S A LOT OF PEOPLE THAT FOLLOW OUR MINISTRY
02:10 THAT JUST HAVE AN UNCANNY LOVE FOR THE LORD AND THE JEWISH PEOPLE,
02:15 THEY FEEL CALLED.
02:17 AND THAT'S WHY PEOPLE WATCH IN LARGE MEASURE.
02:19 AND YOU ARE KIND OF AN EXTENSION OF THAT,
02:22 SIMILARLY OUT OF YOUR LOVE FOR THE LORD AND THE JEWS
02:25 YOU ACTUALLY WENT THERE...WHY?
02:27 WELL REALLY I ONLY WENT THERE JUST TO SEE THE LAND FOR A YEAR.
02:32 I WENT TO LIVE ON A KIBBUTZ WITH A CHRISTIAN GROUP
02:36 AND THAT'S ALL I THOUGHT IT WAS GOING TO BE
02:38 EXCEPT WHEN I WAS PREPARING TO GO...
02:39 I WAS FASTING AND PRAYING FOR 3 DAYS
02:41 OUT IN THE NORTHWEST WHERE I'M FROM...
02:43 THE LORD SPOKE TO ME CLEARLY THAT HE WAS MOVING ME TO ISRAEL
02:47 AND TO SELL ALL MY POSSESSIONS.
02:48 WELL I KNEW I WASN'T LEGALLY JEWISH
02:51 AND HOW WAS I GOING TO BE LIVING IN ISRAEL?
02:53 SO I HAD SOME FAITH,
02:55 I SOLD SOME THINGS
02:56 BUT I KEPT THE BEST OF IT BACK,
02:58 PUT IT IN MY AUNT'S LAKE CABIN,
03:00 IT GOT STRUCK BY LIGHTNING 3 YEARS LATER,
03:01 BURNED DOWN, I LOST EVERYTHING....
03:03 SO YOU SHOULD LISTEN TO THE LORD WHEN HE TELLS YOU.
03:05 BUT HE WAS GIVING ME A CALL
03:07 AND WHAT I FOUND OUT WHEN I GOT THERE JEFF
03:09 IS THAT I HAD A PROFESSION
03:12 THAT COULD GIVE ME A VISA TO REMAIN IN THE LAND...
03:15 I WAS ALREADY WORKING IN RADIO.
03:17 YOU MENTIONED YOU WENT TO MOODY BIBLE INSTITUTE.
03:19 I WAS WORKING FOR MOODY RADIO IN SPOKANE
03:21 AND ALSO IN SECULAR RADIO AND BROADCASTING
03:24 AND I WAS THERE ON A KIBBUTZ FOR A YEAR...
03:26 A CHRISTIAN MINISTRY THERE,
03:28 "THE VOICE OF HOPE" OUT OF CALIFORNIA.
03:30 THEY FOUND OUT I HAD RADIO BACKGROUND,
03:31 ASKED ME TO COME WORK IN SOUTH LEBANON FOR THEIR STATION
03:34 AND THAT LED TO WORK WITH CBS, WITH CBN,
03:37 WITH MANY OTHER MEDIA OUTLETS
03:39 AND I JUST CONTINUED ON EVER SINCE.
03:41 NOW OUR VIEWERS HAVE BEEN SEEING YOU AND HEARING YOU
03:45 TAKE THEM OVER THE MIDDLE EAST IN OUR SERIES "JEHOVAH'S TREASURE"
03:51 WHERE YOU'VE BECOME SOMETHING LIKE A CELEB,
03:53 A GUIDE TO THE PERPLEXED AS YOU'RE LEADING PEOPLE
03:56 INTO ALL THESE HISTORICAL PLACES.
04:00 BUT NOW WE WANT TO GO CONTEMPORARY
04:02 AND IF I CAN LEAN ON YOUR LOVE FOR THE LORD,
04:05 YOUR EXPERTISE AFTER 30 YEARS IN ISRAEL
04:09 AND YOUR BACKGROUND AND CAREER IN JOURNALISM...
04:14 WE IN AMERICA ARE DISCONCERTED BIBLE BELIEVER SORTS,
04:18 ISRAEL LOVING SORTS,
04:19 BECAUSE WE JUST DON'T FEEL WE'RE GETTING THE REAL STORY.
04:21 OH REALLY?
04:23 YOU SAY THAT TONGUE IN CHEEK...
04:24 YOU BELIEVE THAT TO BE THE CASE AS WELL.
04:26 I DO...
04:27 I KNOW IT TO BE THE CASE
04:29 AND I'VE WRITTEN SEVERAL BOOKS
04:31 AND IN ONE I DETAILED SOME OF THE THINGS I SAW AT CBS EVEN
04:33 WHERE THEY WERE PLAYING AROUND WITH FILM AND SHENANIGANS THAT WENT ON, ETC.
04:38 THAT SHOULDN'T HAVE HAPPENED
04:39 AND I THINK THE MEDIA OFTEN DOES HAVE A BIT OF AN AGENDA
04:43 AND ITS USUALLY NOT ONE THAT IS FOR ISRAEL OR PRO-ISRAEL.
04:47 WELL WHAT CAN WE DO?
04:50 YOU KNOW WE PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM
04:52 BUT WE WANT TO "SAY" FOR THE PEACE AND THE TRUTH OF JERUSALEM...
04:57 A LITTLE PLAY ON WORDS THERE...
04:59 IN OUR MINISTRY...
05:00 AND WE DO THAT VISA VIES ON NATIONALLY SYNDICATED TELEVISION
05:04 AND YOU DO IT IN YOUR OWN WAY AS WELL
05:06 TO COUNTER BALANCE WHAT I THINK IS JUST DECEIT,
05:10 FLAGRANT MISREPRESENTATION OF THE FACTS RELATIVE TO ISRAEL,
05:14 WOULD YOU AGREE?
05:16 WELL I THINK THAT THE HISTORICAL CONTEXT IS ALMOST ALWAYS MISSING
05:20 AND THAT IS A SHAME.
05:23 WHEN WE TALK ABOUT FOR INSTANCE THE JEWISH SETTLEMENTS
05:26 IT SOUNDS LIKE JEWS HAVE SUDDENLY APPEARED
05:30 IN LAND THAT THE ARABS HAD FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS
05:33 AND JEWS HAVE NO CONNECTION TO IT.
05:35 WELL OF COURSE IT'S THE OPPOSITE...
05:36 THIS IS JUDEA AND SAMARIA...
05:38 THIS IS THE BIBLICAL HEARTLAND OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE.
05:40 THAT DOESN'T NECESSARILY MEAN
05:42 THAT THERE ISN'T A POLITICAL PROBLEM THERE...
05:44 THERE IS...
05:45 BUT WE NEED TO GIVE THAT BACKGROUND.
05:47 WHEN WE TALK ABOUT JEWS LIVING IN EAST JERUSALEM
05:50 AND THAT THEY SHOULDN'T BE BUILDING...
05:52 WELL HISTORICALLY JEWS HAVE LIVED IN THAT AREA FOR 3,000 YEARS
05:55 SO THAT NEEDS TO BE BROUGHT IN AT LEAST TO THE STORY.
05:59 THE 67 BORDERS...
06:01 WE HEAR THAT MENTIONED AS IF THESE WERE SACROSANCT BORDERS BETWEEN TWO NATIONS...
06:05 JORDAN AND ISRAEL.
06:07 WELL YOU KNOW JORDAN HAD COME IN 1948 DURING THE WAR AND TAKEN THAT AREA.
06:11 THEY DIDN'T LEGALLY OWN IT AND THAT WAS A CEASE FIRE LINE...
06:14 THE 67 BORDERS FROM THE 1948 CONFLICT.
06:18 SO THE CONTEXT IS OFTEN MISSING IN NEWSPAPER REPORTS AND RADIO AND TELEVISION REPORTS
06:22 AND SOMETIMES IT'S JUST HONESTLY BECAUSE THERE ISN'T ENOUGH TIME TO GO INTO THAT.
06:27 WELL WE'RE GOING TO TAKE SOME TIME.
06:30 BUT JUST TO LOOK AT A MENU OF SOME ISSUES THAT WE CAN EXPLORE
06:33 IN CONTEXTS THAT ARE GERMANE TO THE EXPERIENCE IN MODERN ISRAEL TODAY...
06:37 WE'LL LOOK AT SOME ISSUES WITH YOU OF JERUSALEM...
06:42 BUILDING IN JERUSALEM...
06:43 SOME BORDER ISSUES...
06:44 WHAT ARE THE HOT SPOTS?
06:46 WHAT ARE SOME OTHER ONES THAT YOU THINK ARE WORTHY OF SOME EXPLORATION?
06:48 THE GOLAN HEIGHTS...
06:51 DOES ISRAEL HAVE NO RIGHT TO BE UP THERE AS IS IMPLIED?
06:56 WELL AGAIN THERE'S A HISTORICAL SITUATION THERE.
06:59 THAT WAS CONSIDERED PART OF THE LAND THAT ISRAEL WOULD GET,
07:03 THE JEWISH STATE WOULD GET, UNDER THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS MANDATE IN 1922.
07:07 IT WAS ONLY LATER REMOVED BY BRITAIN
07:09 AND MOVED OVER TO THE FRENCH MANDATE
07:11 TO SET UP THE STATE OF SYRIA.
07:13 DIFFERENT THINGS LIKE THIS...
07:15 SO BASICALLY THE SITUATION IS MUCH MORE FLUID.
07:18 IT'S NOT NEARLY AS CONCRETE AS IT'S OFTEN PORTRAYED.
07:21 AND THAT'S ONE AREA.
07:22 THE GAZA STRIP IS ANOTHER.
07:24 THIS IS AN AREA THAT WAS OCCUPIED BY EGYPT IN 1948.
07:28 BEFORE THAT IT ALSO WAS IMPLIED
07:31 TO BE PART OF THE AREA THAT JEWS COULD SETTLE IN
07:34 AND IN FACT JEWS HAD LIVED THERE FOR HUNDREDS OF YEARS.
07:36 GAZA CITY AS I'M SURE YOU KNOW
07:38 WAS A CENTER OF JEWISH LIFE,
07:40 SO AGAIN, WHEN WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE NEGOTIATIONS
07:44 AND JEWS PULLING OUT OF THESE AREAS,
07:46 LET'S LOOK AT THE HISTORICAL CONTEXT AS WELL AND GET THAT IN MIND.
07:50 AND WE'RE GOING TO DO IT
07:52 AND WE ARE GOING TO DO IT WITH YOU.
07:56 WE LOVE BRINGING YOU EXPERTS
07:58 AND WE'VE GOT A GOOD ONE...
08:00 HE'S GOING TO SHARE...
08:02 WE'RE GOING TO EXPLORE THE TRUTH OF ISRAEL AS WE CONTINUE WITH ZOLA LEVITT PRESENTS.
08:10 FOR INSIGHTFUL PERSPECTIVES OF ISRAEL AND BIBLE PROPHECY
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08:24 OUR CORRESPONDENCE COURSE, "THE INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH CHRISTIAN STUDIES" INCLUDES
08:28 READING PACKETS, TEACHINGS CDs, AND MAIL-IN TESTS.
08:32 YOU MAY WANT TO JOIN US ON AN UPCOMING TOUR OF ISRAEL OR PETRA
08:36 OR CRUISE THE MEDITERRANEAN VISITING GREECE AND EPHESUS.
08:39 PLEASE CONTACT US FOR MORE INFORMATION.
08:46 THE WAY ISRAEL IS MISREPRESENTED IN THE MEDIA REALLY SADDENS ME DEEPLY.
08:52 IN THE WORLD AT LARGE JEWS ARE VILIFIED
08:55 AND ISRAEL IS DISPARAGED OUTRIGHT IN SO MANY WAYS.
08:59 I COUNT IT AN HONOR...
09:02 I AM THRILLED TO BE ABLE TO COUNTERBALANCE THE DECEIT
09:06 WITH WHAT I CONSIDER TO BE MORE TRUTHFULNESS IN TELLING.
09:09 IF YOU'RE INTERESTED IN LOOKING AT ISRAEL WITH A JEWISH SET OF EYES,
09:14 WITH A BIBLICAL SET OF PERSPECTIVES,
09:17 OUR LEVITT LETTER...
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09:28 WE'LL SEND IT TO YOU FOR THE ASKING ON A MONTHLY BASIS.
09:32 THIS IS CHOCK FULL OF REALLY GOOD STORIES.
09:36 ITS NOT MY SERMONS,
09:37 IT'S A COLLECTION OF NEWSWORTHY SOURCES
09:41 THAT WE GATHER ON A DAILY BASIS
09:44 AND WE PRESENT IT TO YOU EVERY MONTH.
09:45 DAVID DOLAN IS WITH ME ON THIS PROGRAM HAS A COLUMN IN THERE,
09:49 AS DO A NUMBER OF OTHERS THAT YOU'LL WANT TO HEAR.
09:53 IF YOU WANT TO STUDY A LITTLE MORE DEEPLY,
09:57 SOME YEARS AGO WITH ZOLA LEVITT I DEVELOPED WHAT WE CALL
09:59 "THE INSTITUTE OF JEWISH AND CHRISTIAN STUDIES".
10:03 THAT'S GOING TO BE THE OFFER ON THIS PROGRAM.
10:07 THOSE WHO SIGN UP FOR THAT WILL GET THESE NOTEBOOKS
10:10 AND IT COMES WITH CDS AND NOTES AND TESTS...
10:14 IT'S AN ACTUAL CORRESPONDENCE COURSE ENABLING YOU TO DIG DEEPER INTO THE WORD.
10:21 IF YOU WANT TO DIG DEEPER INTO THE WORD AND INTO THE WORLD AND GO WITH US,
10:25 YOU MIGHT WANT TO CHECK OUT ZOLA LEVITT MINISTRIES ON FACEBOOK, ON YOUTUBE...WE'RE THERE,
10:33 WE'RE DOING EVERYTHING WE CAN TO GET THE WORD OUT
10:37 AND WE CAN DO IT WITH FRIENDS LIKE YOU.
10:40 AND WE CAN DO IT WITH FRIENDS LIKE YOU... DAVID DOLAN WELCOME BACK.
10:45 THANK YOU
10:47 IT'S GOOD AGAIN TO BE HERE.
10:48 I WANT TO READ A BIBLICAL VERSE
10:50 AND ASK WHAT YOU THINK ABOUT IT.
10:51 IN PSALM 120 THE PSALMIST SAYS IN VERSE 7,
10:54 "I AM FOR PEACE BUT WHEN I SPEAK THEY ARE FOR WAR."
11:00 HE MEANT WELL,
11:02 HE FOUND HIMSELF IN A WORLD WHERE EVERYBODY WAS AT HIS THROAT.
11:07 IT SEEMS THAT'S THE CASE IN ISRAEL TODAY.
11:10 YOU KNOW JEFF I OFTEN QUOTE THAT PSALM,
11:13 THE ENTIRE PSALM,
11:14 IT'S A SHORT ONE,
11:16 WHEN I GO OUT SPEAKING TO CONGREGATIONS AND GROUPS
11:18 BECAUSE I THINK IT SO ADEQUATELY AND FULLY TYPIFIES THE SITUATION.
11:23 1947... THE JEWISH LEADERSHIP,
11:26 PRE-ISRAEL,
11:27 ACCEPTS THE U.N. PARTITION PLAN;
11:30 THE ARAB NATIONS REJECT IT AND GO TO WAR.
11:32 1967... EGYPT AND SYRIA LAUNCH A WAR
11:36 BACKED BY THE SOVIET UNION.
11:38 AFTERWARDS ISRAEL OFFERS TO GIVE BACK ALL OF THE CAPTURED TERRITORY...
11:41 THE SINAI PENINSULA, THE GOLAN HEIGHTS,
11:43 THE WEST BANK, JUDEA AND SAMARIA...
11:45 THE ARABS MEET IN KHARTOUM AND ISSUE THE FAMOUS "FOUR NO'S"...
11:49 NO NEGOTIATION...
11:50 NO PEACE...
11:51 THE OSLO PEACE ACCORDS WERE SIGNED IN 1993...
11:54 THEY END IN TERROR AND VIOLENCE...
11:56 NO PEACE.
11:58 AND AGAIN ISRAEL TRYING TO GET BACK TO THE PEACE TABLE THE PAST FEW YEARS...
12:01 THE PALESTINIAN LEADERSHIP GIVING THIS CONDITION
12:03 AND THAT CONDITION AND THIS CONDITION
12:05 AND THE TERRORISM CONTINUING.
12:07 SO IT EXACTLY TYPIFIES WHAT IS GOING ON.
12:09 IT DWARFS ME...
12:11 AND BY THE WAY WE DIDN'T JUST SET UP...
12:13 HERE I'M GOING TO QUOTE FROM A TEXT THAT YOU OFT EMPLOYED...
12:16 I MEAN I JUST KIND OF PULLED THAT OUT OF NOWHERE HERE...
12:18 I DIDN'T KNOW THAT WAS A "GO TO" TEXT FOR YOU.
12:21 IT SEEMS TO ME THAT JEWS AND ISRAEL
12:24 ARE REPRESENTED AS BEING INTRANSIGENT IN THEIR DISDAIN FOR ARABS,
12:29 THEIR REFUSAL TO WANT TO PARTICIPATE IN A PROCESS TO HELP ARABS COME INTO THEIR OWN...
12:35 THAT'S JUST COMPLETE NON-REALITY.
12:37 PRIME MINISTER NETANYAHU LAST JUNE A YEAR AGO SAID
12:41 "WE WILL ACCEPT A PALESTINIAN STATE,"
12:44 "A TWO-STATE SOLUTION".
12:46 THAT HAS BEEN SAID BY EHUD OLMERT BEFORE HIM AND OTHER ISRAELI LEADERS...
12:49 THE LATE YITZHAK RABIN...
12:51 SHIMON PEREZ, THE PRESIDENT OF ISRAEL.
12:53 THE DESIRE FOR REAL PEACE WITH PALESTINIANS IS DEFINITELY THERE
12:56 TO THE POINT THE OPINION POLLS SHOW
12:58 TWO-THIRDS OF THE ISRAELI PUBLIC
13:00 ARE WILLING TO TAKE YET ANOTHER RISK
13:03 AND GIVE UP YET MORE LAND.
13:05 NOW THEY PULLED OUT OF GAZA AND WHAT DID THEY GET?
13:08 ....ROCKETS.
13:09 THEY PULLED OUT OF LEBANON.
13:10 WHAT DID THEY GET?
13:11 ...ROCKETS.
13:12 WHICH MAKES IT ALL THE MORE NOBLE TO MY WAY OF THINKING BECAUSE...
13:16 HERE WE'LL GIVE LAND FOR PEACE....
13:18 AND HERE TAKE THE GAZA...
13:19 AND WHAT DO WE GET?
13:20 APPROACHING 10,000 ROCKETS.
13:22 TO BE WILLING TO DO IT AGAIN
13:24 MOST WOULDN'T TRY AGAIN,
13:26 WE'D JUST LEARN FROM OUR MISTAKES.
13:28 AND IT IS TRUE THAT PRIME MINISTER NETANYAHU ISSUED
13:32 A CONDITIONAL YES FOR THAT.
13:34 IN OTHER WORDS HE SAID IT WOULD HAVE TO BE A DEMILITARIZED STATE,
13:37 IT WOULD HAVE TO BE ONE THAT ISRAELI AIRCRAFT COULD FLY OVER
13:40 AND WATCH THE GROUND SITUATION, ETC.
13:43 THERE'S A FEW RESTRICTIONS
13:45 BUT STILL LIKE YOU SAY, TO BE WILLING...
13:48 A LIKUD PARTY LEADER OF THE RIGHT WING TO BE WILLING TO SAY,
13:51 "I DO ACCEPT IN PRINCIPLE THIS TWO-STATE SOLUTION"
13:54 IS AMAZING GIVEN THE RESULTS SO FAR.
13:56 BUT THAT IS BECAUSE AS THE PSALMIST SAID,
13:59 "I AM FOR PEACE"...
14:00 THE ISRAELIS DESPERATELY...
14:02 AND I'VE LIVED THERE 30 YEARS...
14:03 THIS IS NOT JUST A POLITICAL LINE OR PROPAGANDA...
14:07 THEY DESPERATELY WANT PEACE.
14:09 YOU KNOW EVERY YOUNG ISRAELI MALE AND MOST OF THE FEMALES,
14:13 THEY GO INTO THE ARMY.
14:14 PARENTS DON'T WANT THEIR KIDS GOING OFF TO WAR
14:16 ANYMORE THAN AMERICAN PARENTS WANT THAT.
14:18 BUT WHAT CAN YOU DO?
14:20 ISRAEL'S FOR PEACE...
14:21 THEY'RE WANTING WAR.
14:23 IRAN...SPONSORING THESE MILITIAS, HAMAS AND HEZBOLLAH...
14:26 DID ISRAEL INVITE IRAN, A COUNTRY THEY WERE AT PEACE WITH
14:29 UNTIL THE SHAH WAS OVERTHROWN
14:30 TO COME AND SET UP THESE MILITIAS AND ATTACK THEM?
14:32 OF COURSE NOT.
14:34 THEY WANT PEACE BUT IT TAKES TWO TO REALLY MAKE PEACE.
14:37 AND HE SAYS HERE IN VERSE TWO,
14:39 "DELIVER MY SOUL OH LORD FROM LYING LIPS AND FROM A DECEITFUL TONGUE".
14:45 THERE'S SO MUCH OF THAT TODAY
14:47 WHERE JEWS ARE PAINTED AS A NEFARIOUS, EVIL SORT...
14:52 JUST RUNNING ROUGHSHOD OVER THE POOR,
14:55 DISPOSSESSED, DISENFRANCHISED ARAB PEOPLES
14:58 WHO HAVE BEEN ABUSED BY THEM...
15:00 COMPLETE, COMPLETE FANTASY.
15:02 IT IS AND YOU KNOW THE ISRAELI PEOPLE FOR THE MOST PART,
15:05 THEY RECOGNIZE THAT THE ARABS ARE THEIR PHYSICAL COUSINS,
15:10 THAT THEY'VE LIVED IN THE REGION ALL THESE CENTURIES
15:12 AND THEY HAVE A RESPECT FOR THEM AND FOR THEIR CULTURE.
15:14 IN FACT WHEN YOU LISTEN TO YOUNG ISRAELIS SPEAKING,
15:17 HALF THE SLANG THEY USE IS ARABIC SLANG.
15:20 THERE'S A LOT OF INTERACTION BETWEEN THE CULTURES
15:23 AND THEY REALLY DO WANT PEACE.
15:24 AND TO BE FAIR THERE ARE OF COURSE ARAB LEADERS
15:26 THAT WANT IT AND HAVE IMPLEMENTED IT...
15:28 KING HUSSEIN OF JORDAN...
15:30 THE LATE KING HUSSEIN...
15:31 MUBARAK CARRIES OUT THE PEACE TREATY THAT SADDAT SIGNED IN EGYPT.
15:34 IT'S A COLD PIECE BUT NEVERTHELESS ITS THERE.
15:36 PARTS OF THE PALESTINIAN LEADERSHIP...
15:38 YASSER ARAFAT SIGNED AN ACCORD.
15:40 IT DIDN'T LAST BUT THEY DO REALLY WANT PEACE.
15:43 BUT THERE'S ENOUGH THERE THAT DON'T WANT IT
15:46 AND CONTINUE TO SAY ISRAEL'S THE PROBLEM,
15:48 ISRAEL'S THE INTRANSIGENT PARTY HERE
15:50 AND I CAN TELL YOU THE ISRAELI PEOPLE
15:53 WOULD GO ALMOST TO ANY DEGREE
15:55 TO HAVE REAL PEACE THAT WOULD REALLY END THE CONFLICT.
15:58 AFTER ALL THEY'RE FACING A WAR THAT AS THE DEFENSE MINISTER BARAK HAS WARNED,
16:03 A WAR THAT COULD COME HAT WOULD BRING IT INTO EVERYBODY'S HOME...
16:05 MISSILES IN EVERY CITY AND TOWN...
16:07 WHO WANTS THAT?
16:09 THEY DESPERATELY WANT PEACE BUT AGAIN IT TAKES TWO TO MAKE IT.
16:11 AND IT TAKES TWO TO TANGO.
16:14 I HAVE A CAREER IN THE PAST IN LAW ENFORCEMENT
16:18 AND I'VE RESPONDED TO MANY HOMES IN DOMESTIC VIOLENCE...
16:21 AND HE SAYS, "BOY IF SHE'D JUST DO THIS AND THAT AND THIS AND THAT THEN I'D BE HAPPY."
16:27 AND THEN SHE TRIES TO DO THIS AND THAT BUT IT DOESN'T HAPPEN.
16:30 THE CYCLE OF ABUSE CONTINUES IN HOMES
16:33 MUCH AS IT CONTINUES IN THE JEWISH HOMELAND.
16:38 ITS SPIRITUAL... IT'S TRAGIC
16:40 AND WE'LL EXPLORE THE STORY SOME MORE.
17:20 IN PSALM 137 THE AUTHOR SPOKE OF HOLDING JERUSALEM ABOVE HIS HIGHEST JOY.
17:28 IT IS SUCH A JOY FOR ME TO GO IN AND OUT OF ISRAEL.
17:31 AND IT WOULD BE A JOY FOR ME IF YOU WOULD COME WITH ME.
17:37 WE GO ALL THE TIME.
17:39 IT'S A THRILL FOR ME.
17:40 MORE IMPORTANTLY IT WOULD BE A THRILL FOR YOU
17:44 AS YOU VISIT THE ANCESTRAL, BIBLICAL HOMELAND;
17:48 AS YOU VISIT THE PLACE WHERE THE DRAMA WAS PLAYED OUT.
17:53 YOU READ ABOUT IT IN GOD'S WORD
17:55 AND AS YOU WALK THERE YOU MAY WELL HEAR THE LORD BREATHE A WORD INTO YOU AND SAY,
18:02 "THIS IS THE WAY - WALK IN IT."
18:05 IT'S A FASCINATING PLACE.
18:07 ITS A SAFE PLACE TO GO.
18:09 DO CONSIDER COMING WITH ME PLEASE.
18:14 THE LATE ZOLA LEVITT WILL SHARE SOME MUSIC RIGHT NOW
18:17 AND I KNOW THAT YOUR HEART WILL BE BLESSED AS YOU HEAR MUSIC FROM ZOLA LEVITT.
18:36 (ZOLA PLAYING THE FLUTE)
20:18 I DIDN'T WRITE THIS BOOK...
20:20 IT SAYS IT RIGHT HERE IN PSALM 137 RELATIVE TO JERUSALEM
20:24 HOW PEOPLE IN VERSE 7 ARE SAYING,
20:26 "LET US DESTROY IT...LET US BURN IT...BURN IT TO THE GROUND RIGHT DOWN TO ITS FOUNDATIONS."
20:31 IT'S RIGHT THERE.
20:34 JERUSALEM IN HEBREW "YERUSHALAYIM", "CITY OF PEACE",
20:39 OH HOW IT GENERATES TENSION THEN AS NOW. >>YES
20:46 DAVID DOLAN YOU LIVE THERE, TELL ME ABOUT IT.
20:48 I LIVE RIGHT IN THE CENTER OF JERUSALEM.
20:51 YOU'VE BEEN TO MY APARTMENT.
20:52 I LOOK OUT OVER THE TEMPLE MOUNT IN THE OLD CITY
20:55 AND IT'S A LOVELY VIEW
20:56 BUT AS YOU SAY YOU CAN OFTEN FEEL THE TENSION.
20:59 I CAN SOMETIMES HEAR THE FRIDAY PRAYERS COMING FROM THE TEMPLE MOUNT,
21:03 THE MUSLIM PRAYERS UP THERE,
21:05 YOU CAN HEAR THE ANGER IN THE VOICE OFTEN OF THE IMAMS,
21:08 THE PREACHERS THAT ARE SPEAKING.
21:10 YOU SEE IT MANIFESTED OFTEN IN CLASHES AND POLICE ACTIONS AND THAT SORT OF THING.
21:15 SO IT IS THE CITY OF PEACE
21:17 BUT UNTIL THE MESSIAH COMES TO REIGN AND RULE FROM THE CITY
21:20 THERE'S GOING TO BE CLASHES AND TENSION.
21:22 AND OF COURSE THE SCRIPTURES TOLD US THAT...
21:24 THE MESSIAH TOLD US THAT DURING HIS FIRST APPEARANCE.
21:26 IN AMERICA WE PLACE A PREMIUM ON THE FREEDOM OF SPEECH
21:31 AND AREN'T KINDLY DISPOSED TOWARD THOSE WHO USE IT TO INCITE,
21:35 HOWEVER, IN JERUSALEM ON A WEEKLY BASIS THE CITY OPENS UP
21:40 FOR INDIVIDUALS OF THE ISLAMIC FAITH
21:43 TO HEAR THEIR LEADERS SPEAK AND THEY DOLE OUT INVECTIVE ALL THE TIME.
21:48 AND EVEN IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT I SOMETIMES WAKE UP
21:51 AND I HEAR THE CALL TO PRAYER AT 3:00 IN THE MORNING FROM THE MOSQUE
21:55 AND I DON'T SPEAK ARABIC FLUENTLY
21:58 BUT I UNDERSTAND QUITE A BIT,I WORKED IN LEBANON, ETC.
22:02 I HAVE HEARD THE LIVE CALL TO PRAYER
22:05 PRAISING HEZBOLLAH, PRAISING HAMAS,
22:09 PRAISING ACTS OF TERROR.
22:10 THIS IS IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT WHEN MOST ISRAELIS ARE ASLEEP.
22:14 THERE'S A FEW POLICEMEN OUT, A FEW BORDER POLICEMEN
22:15 BUT THEY'RE NOT REALLY MONITORING THINGS
22:18 AND THE ARAB POPULACE IS HEARING THIS INCITEMENT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT
22:22 TO PRAISE THESE TERROR GROUPS AND TERRORISTS.
22:25 IT'S REALLY QUITE A SHAME.
22:27 NOW MOST OF THE TIME I HAVE TO SAY THEY DON'T DO THAT
22:29 BUT OCCASIONALLY YOU HEAR THAT
22:31 ESPECIALLY IN TIMES OF HEIGHTENED TENSION.
22:33 AND I'M INCLINED TO THINK THAT WHILE THE TENSION ENTAILS LAND AND STICKS AND BRICKS,
22:38 WHO LIVES WHERE, HOMES HERE AND THERE...
22:41 ITS NOT ABOUT LANDS,
22:42 ITS NOT ABOUT STICKS AND BRICKS...
22:44 THERE'S SOME SPIRITUAL COMPONENT THAT DRIVES THESE FORCES
22:48 AND IT SEEMS TO COME TO A HEAD IN JERUSALEM.
22:52 WELL OF COURSE THE GOD OF ISRAEL WHO SAID,
22:55 "I'M THE ONLY GOD AND ALL OTHERS ARE FALSE GODS" SAID,
22:59 "I WILL PLACE MY FEET IN JERUSALEM."
23:02 "THIS WILL BE THE FOOTSTOOL FOR MY FEET."
23:05 "THE TEMPLE TO MY NAME WILL BE BUILT HERE."
23:07 THE MESSIAH WILL REIGN FROM HERE...
23:09 SO HE DESIGNATED THAT PIECE OF LAND.
23:12 AND YOU KNOW I LOVE TO LIVE IN JERUSALEM
23:14 BUT I ALSO LOVE TO GO DOWN TO TEL AVIV BECAUSE I LIKE THE WATER.
23:17 THERE'S NOTHING SPECIAL PHYSICALLY ABOUT JERUSALEM...
23:20 ITS NOT ON A LAKE OR A RIVER OR A SEA BED OR ANYTHING.
23:23 I LIKE THE MOUNTAINS AND STUFF
23:24 BUT YOU KNOW IT'S NOT THE MOST BEAUTIFUL PHYSICAL PLACE ON EARTH
23:27 BUT IT IS THE SPIRITUAL CENTER THAT GOD DESIGNATED.
23:30 AND OF COURSE THE BIBLE SAYS THERE'S AN ENEMY TO GOD...SATAN.
23:34 AND HE KNOWS THE SCRIPTURES AND HE FIGHTS AGAINST THAT ALL THE TIME.
23:38 RIGHT AND ALL THE TIME HUNDREDS OF TIMES IN THE BIBLE
23:41 JERUSALEM IS SACRED TO GOD.
23:43 HE MAKES HIS NAME TO DWELL THERE.
23:45 WHAT'S INTERESTING IS NOWHERE IS JERUSALEM MENTIONED IN THE QURAN
23:49 YET INDIVIDUALS OF THE ISLAMIC PERSUASION ARGUE...
23:52 "THIS IS OUR LAND..."
23:53 "THIS IS OUR REAL ESTATE... WE LIVE HERE..."
23:55 "THE JEWS HAVE NO PLACE HERE."
23:56 THE FACT THAT CHRISTIANS CAN BELIEVE IT...
24:00 THE FACT THAT BIBLE BELIEVERS CAN BUY THE NARRATIVE
24:04 IS THE EPITOME OF SPIRITUAL BLINDNESS IN MY HUMBLE OPINION.
24:09 AND I WOULD SAY ALSO BIBLICAL IGNORANCE
24:11 BECAUSE YOU CAN'T READ THE BIBLE WITHOUT JERUSALEM BEING MENTIONED...
24:15 WHAT IS IT...700 SOME TIMES THAT IT'S MENTIONED IN THERE?
24:18 IT GOES ALL THE WAY BACK TO THE JEBUSITE PERIOD
24:21 BEFORE KING DAVID EVEN CAPTURED IT, IT'S MENTIONED.
24:24 AND THEN HIS CAPTURE,
24:26 THE REIGN OF ALL THE KINGS THERE,
24:28 ALL THE MIRACLES THAT TOOK PLACE THERE,
24:29 ALLTHE PROPHETS THAT OPERATED OUT OF THERE...
24:31 IT IS THE HEART AND SOUL OF THE BIBLE.
24:33 AND OF COURSE IT IS THE PLACE THAT JESUS HIMSELF,
24:36 YESHUA HIMSELF, PROPHESIED WOULD NOT ONLY BE THE CENTER OF CONFLICT
24:40 BUT THE PLACE HE WOULD COME BACK TO.
24:42 SO HOW YOU CAN BE A CHRISTIAN AND NOT SEE IT
24:44 AS THE CENTER OF THE EARTH IS REALLY A MYSTERY.
24:48 EVEN PEOPLE THAT ARE NOMINALLY CHRISTIAN,
24:51 THEY'RE NOT REALLY BIBLICALLY LITERATE OR BIBLICALLY ENGAGED,
24:54 BUT JUST IN MEMORY PEOPLE KNOW JESUS WAS A JEW,
24:57 HE CAME TO ISRAEL,
24:59 IT'S THE ANCESTRAL HOMELAND,
25:00 MOSES LED THE PEOPLE FROM EGYPT...
25:03 THERE'S STUFF IN THE CULTURAL SCRIPT THAT PEOPLE SHOULD KNOW...
25:07 WAIT A MINUTE...
25:09 EVEN IF THEY DON'T SPEND THEIR TIME POURING THROUGH THE BIBLICAL TEXT...
25:11 IN MEMORY PEOPLE KNOW DARN WELL THAT LAND BELONGS TO JEWISH PEOPLE.
25:16 IN PSALM 105...
25:18 I OFTEN QUOTE THAT...
25:19 IT SAYS...GOD SAYS,
25:21 "I HAVE THIS LAND... IT'S MINE..."
25:23 "BUT I'M GOING TO GIVE IT TO ABRAHAM'S DESCENDANTS"
25:25 "THROUGH ISAAC AND JACOB AS AN EVERLASTING COVENANT."
25:30 "AD OLAM" IN HEBREW, "UNTIL ETERNITY"
25:33 THIS IS GOING TO BE A COVENANT FOR A THOUSAND GENERATIONS IT SAYS.
25:37 THAT SOUNDS LIKE A LONG TIME.
25:38 IT IS A LONG TIME AND IT MEANS OF COURSE
25:40 THAT GOD HAS ALREADY MADE UP HIS MIND...
25:42 THIS IS WHAT HE SAYS ABOUT IT.
25:44 NOW DOES THAT MEAN THAT ARABS CAN'T LIVE THERE?NO
25:47 DOES IT MEAN THAT PEOPLE LIKE MYSELF
25:48 OF A GENTILE BACKGROUND CAN'T BE THERE?NO
25:50 THERE WAS ALWAYS OTHER CULTURES AND OTHER PEOPLE GROUPS
25:54 THERE IN KING DAVID'S TIME AND THROUGHOUT THE HISTORY
25:56 BUT IT MEANS IT BELONGS PRIMARILY TO THE JEWISH PEOPLE.
25:59 AND THE IDEA IN PARTICULAR
26:01 THAT THEY SHOULD NOT BE IN CONTROL OF THE TEMPLE MOUNT,
26:03 THE HOLIEST SITE ON EARTH FOR THE JEWISH PEOPLE FOR 3,000 YEARS
26:06 IS A PRETTY ABSURD CONTENTION I WOULD SAY.
26:09 YES, THERE ARE MANY THINGS THAT ARE ABSURD
26:12 AND IN SOME WAYS FOR MY MONEY JUST PLAIN EVIL.
26:18 NEXT WEEK WE'LL BE HEARING FROM DAVID DOLAN AGAIN.
26:22 AFTER THAT A SERIES THAT WE DID IN PROPHECY,
26:27 WE LOOKED AT THE BOOK OF ESTHER
26:29 AND CONSIDERED HOW A WICKED MAN RAISED HIS HOARY HEAD TO DESTROY THE JEWS
26:35 BUT GOD RAISED UP A WOMAN TO STAND.
26:38 INASMUCH AS GOD HAS RAISED UP DAVID IN HIS DAY,
26:42 YOU IN YOUR WAY AND ME IN MINE,
26:44 SO IT IS THAT WE LIVE IN A WORLD WHERE GOD RAISES PEOPLE TO STAND FOR THE JEWISH PEOPLE.
26:48 THANK YOU FOR DOING THAT
26:49 AND AS YOU GO NOW,
26:51 SHA'ALU SHALOM YERUSHALAYIM
26:53 PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM

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