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Caption transcript for Esther (2017): “Justice at Last!” (6/8)

• 00:05 Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel
• 00:09 is that they might be saved,
• 00:12 for there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek,
• 00:14 for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon Him.
• 00:40 Hello Friends, welcome to Zola Levitt Presents.
• 00:42 I'm David Hart.
• 00:43 And I'm Kirsten Hart.
• 00:45 We are in our series "Esther, for Such a Time as This".
• 00:50 Today, finally we see that the Jewish people have justice at last.
• 00:55 Dr. Jeffrey Seif will be teaching on location.
• 00:58 We love his teaching.
• 01:00 Our Guest Analyst in the studio is Ted Pearce.
• 01:03 We also love his music.
• 01:05 And we also love cookies,
• 01:06 especially these right here.
• 01:09 I'm already looking at the plate
• 01:11 trying to decide which one I need to sample
• 01:13 You'll learn what these are
• 01:15 and how they relate to the Feast of Purim
• 01:17 coming up on the program.
• 01:19 But first, let's go to our dramatic reenactment.
• 02:28 And the cat had the mouse cornered...
• 02:32 hemmed in.
• 02:35 Haman was minded to destroy the Jews,
• 02:37 but little did he know is that it was
• 02:39 about to turn on his own head there in the palace.
• 02:44 I'm coming to you from a palace right now,
• 02:47 a palace atop Masada.
• 02:51 "Masada" is a word meaning "fortress".
• 02:54 When Herod built it years ago
• 02:56 he knew that he was in a precarious place
• 02:59 as are Jews generally
• 03:01 and so he built this fantastic palace.
• 03:05 Well I got news for you
• 03:07 that Esther was in another palace,
• 03:08 another place, another day.
• 03:10 But there was danger.
• 03:13 Here you can see the remains in fact,
• 03:16 the plaster, the black line here,
• 03:18 reflects what archaeologists found.
• 03:20 Underneath it is the original,
• 03:22 above it is the reconstruction,
• 03:24 here at the place where planned was
• 03:28 a means for survival for the royal house.
• 03:32 Esther, our queen, was in the royal house
• 03:35 and there was no such fortress,
• 03:37 save the fact that the Lord had fortified her to enact a scheme.
• 03:41 We're told here in chapter 7, verse 4,
• 03:44 that she has her husband and Haman at a banquet,
• 03:48 and she informs that some are trying to destroy her.
• 03:53 Listen to it in the Hebrew.
• 03:54 I want to try and give you the emotion
• 03:56 and then I want to consider the implications for today.
• 04:00 In chapter 7, verse 4 she says, and I quote,
• 04:25 She told her husband that someone had the noose around her neck
• 04:29 and not just Esther herself but her people.
• 04:33 "What's going on?" says Xerxes, "Who's the man?"
• 04:38 And she points to Haman.
• 04:41 Today friends listen to me,
• 04:43 evil lurks as was the case yesterday.
• 04:47 In different ways, different days, different people are bent on the
• 04:54 destruction of the Jews, the slaughter, the annihilation.
• 05:01 Whatever threatens Israel threatens Jewish survival.
• 05:05 And I see Jews being harangued in the press,
• 05:09 I see Jews being lambasted in the United Nations,
• 05:14 I see Jews being assailed by nations round about this modern nation state,
• 05:22 and it tells me among other things
• 05:24 that there is nothing new under the sun.
• 05:29 And here's a woman who was there for such a time as this,
• 05:32 drawing attention to the fact that
• 05:35 she, we, the people of the Jews are about to be annihilated.
• 05:41 Oh friends we need to lift up our prayers Godward
• 05:45 to, as we say at the end of every program,
• 05:47 Sha'alu Shalom Yerushalayim ,
• 05:50 to "Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem".
• 05:52 And the reason why is as yesterday, today as well,
• 05:55 there are forces bent on the destruction of the Jews.
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• 06:09 that removes the necessity of faith in Yeshua?
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• 06:27 and work together for salvation of national Israel.
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• 08:06 And now the plot thickens as the king asks Esther
• 08:10 who plotted the coming slaughter of the Jewish people.
• 08:57 Many have sought to annihilate the Jews,
• 09:00 and it's very Jewish to turn things on their heads.
• 09:03 And I mention that because here atop Masada
• 09:06 where years ago, individuals made the decision to end life.
• 09:11 Here the celebration of generations to come
• 09:15 is enacted through the bar mitzvah behind me
• 09:19 where a Jewish family and friends
• 09:21 are celebrating someone coming of age.
• 09:26 In the Jewish world pikuach nefesh ,
• 09:28 the "preservation of life and the soul"
• 09:30 is extremely important.
• 09:33 Our story of Esther takes place against the backdrop of a time
• 09:37 when there was an interest in destroying Jewish people.
• 09:41 And as you recall Esther bids on behalf of the people,
• 09:47 informing her husband that they are facing dread end.
• 09:52 in Esther chapter 7, verse 4 we read,
• 10:10 That is to say, "Who's trying to annihilate you?"
• 10:19 Oh it's a reasonable question.
• 10:22 In the drama in Esther we know who this person is,
• 10:26 this wicked Haman, who enacted a scheme
• 10:29 to destroy the Jewish people.
• 10:31 We know who he was yesterday,
• 10:33 and today as well, we know in the person of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
• 10:37 we find someone bent on destroying the Jews.
• 10:40 But oh so subtly in various ways from pulpits around the world
• 10:45 ministers give voice to the fact that
• 10:47 God is through with the Jewish people,
• 10:50 thrown in the trash bin of biblical history.
• 10:54 And of course thus minded individuals can more readily
• 10:58 give credence to this rejected people vision
• 11:03 and then more easily be bent on doing us harm.
• 11:08 There's a mantra in the Jewish world, "never again",
• 11:12 and here atop Masada I say "never again",
• 11:16 and those that were singing behind me in the synagogue,
• 11:19 David, Melech Yisrael Chai Vekayam
• 11:21 David, the King of Israel lives.
• 11:24 With bar and bat mitzvahs we say,
• 11:27 "never again" as the people of Israel live.
• 11:31 Well people lived here because a woman stood up.
• 11:36 And here atop Masada, this fortress where
• 11:39 Jewish people took a stand against all odds, against the Romans,
• 11:44 let me encourage you like people were encouraged here,
• 11:48 like we're encouraged in the book of Esther,
• 11:50 let me encourage you please take a stand,
• 11:53 get behind God's people, the Jewish people,
• 11:55 pray for the peace of Jerusalem,
• 11:57 confront those that are bent on her demise,
• 12:01 and I know that God will bless you,
• 12:03 and I know that God will work through you
• 12:06 as a result of your so doing.
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• 12:51 Dr. Jeffrey Seif is teaching today
• 12:54 from the ancient fortress of Masada
• 12:57 which is one of the most famous places in Israel,
• 12:59 and it's a place that our Zola Tours
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• 13:08 Yes, go to our website levitt.com
• 13:10 You can find out all that information.
• 13:12 Now let's go to Deanna in Israel
• 13:14 for our Hebrew Lesson.
• 13:16 Not yet!
• 13:17 One?
• 13:18 Let's hear from Deanna.
• 13:19 Okay
• 13:25 Shalom Haverim
• 13:27 Over here is a Oznei Haman .
• 13:29 It is a traditional cookie for Purim.
• 13:32 It is also called the Hamantaschen .
• 13:34 It is made of butter, sugar, flour,
• 13:37 baking powder, salt, lemon zest,
• 13:40 and a little bit of jam in the middle.
• 13:41 It is fashioned after the hat of Haman,
• 13:44 the villain in the story of Esther.
• 13:46 It is a delicious reminder of how
• 13:49 God defeated Israel's enemies
• 13:52 in a very difficult time in our history.
• 13:54 So, I highly recommend making these treats.
• 13:57 They're very delicious!
• 14:02 Deanna, thank you for introducing us
• 14:04 to these wonderful cookies.
• 14:07 Yes.
• 14:07 Can I pick one out yet?
• 14:08 It's really difficult to have these
• 14:10 sitting right in front of us this whole time!
• 14:12 Most favorite Hebrew Lesson ever!
• 14:14 These are Hamantaschen
• 14:16 And some say they are Haman's ears,
• 14:20 and some say they are Haman's hat,
• 14:23 but it doesn't matter because they look amazing.
• 14:25 They smell amazing too.
• 14:27 The black ones have poppy seeds, right?
• 14:29 Yes.
• 14:30 And the brownish ones have nuts in them.
• 14:34 That's apricots.
• 14:35 Do you say "ah"pricot or "aa"pricot?
• 14:36 I say "ah"pricot.
• 14:37 I say "aa"pricot.
• 14:38 To"maa"to, To"mah"to.
• 14:40 But nothing bad about these.
• 14:42 Can I pick one out?
• 14:43 Not Yet.
• 14:44 Well, I want that one!
• 14:45 Soon.
• 14:46 Hamantaschen , the food of Purim.
• 14:49 Now let's go to Haman's demise.
• 15:53 He's wining and dining with the great King Xerxes one moment,
• 15:58 the next moment he's crying and dying as he is
• 16:04 taken away from the presence of the King.
• 16:07 Not long after, to then be thrust into
• 16:09 the presence of the King of Kings,
• 16:12 when he takes his last breath and wakes up
• 16:15 and meets his Creator on the other side of the grave,
• 16:18 and frankly, I would not want to be Haman.
• 16:23 His life ended rather quickly.
• 16:26 Behind me at Masada is a shrine to a life that ended very slowly.
• 16:34 The Jewish nation state in some sense came to an end here.
• 16:38 This is where the war against the Jews that Jesus talked about actually,
• 16:42 culminated in the early 70's A.D. at a place, Masada.
• 16:48 Round about me are forts
• 16:50 where Roman soldiers were garrisoned,
• 16:53 and behind me on my left is a ramp
• 16:56 that Jewish slaves were forced to build.
• 16:59 A bucket load of dirt, rock and sand at a time
• 17:03 went into that in order to build a ramp
• 17:06 that will breach the defenses high atop the fortress rock of Masada,
• 17:13 and breach it they did.
• 17:15 Flavius Josephus tells us of the way
• 17:19 those who defended the fortress came to an end.
• 17:22 There was valor, there was virtue;
• 17:25 there was love of God, country and family.
• 17:29 No such impulses resonated within Haman
• 17:32 who principally was in love with himself.
• 17:37 And we find in the biblical text
• 17:38 that he like so many others took issue with one Jew, Mordecai,
• 17:44 and with all Jews by extension.
• 17:46 The man was just doggedly determined
• 17:49 to see to it that they came to an end,
• 17:52 but of course as we know it all turned on his head.
• 17:55 We know the story, there was a banquet he was invited to.
• 17:58 little did he know that Esther was wise to him
• 18:02 and had a plan to turn on his own head his own schemes.
• 18:06 As the queen turned and said, "You are the man Haman",
• 18:10 the nemesis, the one who would be the undoing of myself and my people.
• 18:14 He's going to grab her,
• 18:16 squirming, pleading, begging,
• 18:19 the coward that he was,
• 18:20 only for Xerxes to see that and be all the more enraged against him.
• 18:25 He has his head covered, Haman is taken away.
• 18:29 And we're told in the book of Esther, chapter 7, verse 10
• 18:33 how it all came to an end.
• 18:46 " etz " is tree, it means "gallow" of course.
• 18:49 He had planned to have Mordecai swinging on that gallow,
• 18:52 but it didn't work out that way now did it?
• 18:54 We're told here,
• 19:06 We find it time and time again in the biblical text
• 19:09 where the wicked come to an end,
• 19:11 they are judged.
• 19:13 Sometimes when we're suffering
• 19:14 we feel that it'll never come to an end,
• 19:16 but God does bring resolution.
• 19:19 And he brings judgment to bear
• 19:22 against those that are His adversaries.
• 19:26 It may well be that you have an adversary,
• 19:30 and a thorny problem or situation that's
• 19:32 bigger than you and you can't control it.
• 19:35 We do well to seek the Lord because He is able to control.
• 19:40 The word "omnipotent" is used to describe God all powerful.
• 19:44 And we see Him at work here,
• 19:46 a work that finishes with Haman swinging on the gallows.
• 19:53 Thank you Dr. Seif.
• 19:54 We are at the table today with
• 19:56 our Guest Analyst, Ted Pearce.
• 19:59 We are so glad you're with us again today,
• 20:01 and all of your wonderful input in this series.
• 20:03 Well thank you very much,
• 20:04 it's been a blast!
• 20:06 We should do it again.
• 20:07 Insight, knowledge.
• 20:09 We're talking today about the judgment that
• 20:12 comes upon those...
• 20:14 we talk about the blessing for blessing,
• 20:16 the curse for curse,
• 20:18 the judgment that comes upon those
• 20:20 who go against God's people.
• 20:23 How have you seen that played out?
• 20:25 Well, this is very interesting when you think about it.
• 20:28 You know Purim is a...
• 20:30 Really, the Church is separated from Israel
• 20:32 by a calendar and a language.
• 20:34 We don't even know their calendar,
• 20:35 but on that calendar,
• 20:37 which you can read about,
• 20:38 they get it from the Bible,
• 20:39 there are certain Feast Days.
• 20:41 But then there's the Feasts of the Jews
• 20:43 which would be Purim and Hanukkah.
• 20:45 Well Purim is an interesting theme because
• 20:48 it celebrates Esther really.
• 20:52 And an interesting thing happens throughout history.
• 20:55 The Gulf War, the first war with Sadam Hussein
• 20:58 ended on Purim.
• 21:00 And it also ended with his sons being hung
• 21:03 just like Haman, who tried to kill the Jews,
• 21:07 Sadam Hussein's sons were hung.
• 21:09 But another really interesting thing
• 21:11 is at the end of World War II
• 21:13 there was a man named Julius Streicher
• 21:15 who was in charge of the "final solution" in wiping out all Jews.
• 21:18 He was Hitler's guide for that.
• 21:20 He was hung on Purim.
• 21:23 After the Nuremberg Trials
• 21:26 there were 10 Nazis who were hung on poles,
• 21:29 which is exactly what happened on Purim.
• 21:32 Haman's 10 sons were hung.
• 21:34 And again, this happened on Purim.
• 21:37 So there are things that seemed to happen on Purim
• 21:40 that the world doesn't really see,
• 21:42 because we don't know the Jewish Calendar.
• 21:44 But the Jewish people see it.
• 21:46 And so God has shown them several times on Purim
• 21:48 that He's the One watching over them,
• 21:50 and He will destroy their enemies.
• 21:52 Have you been over there for a Purim Celebration?
• 21:54 I don't know if "Celebration" is the word.
• 21:56 Oh, in Israel it is.
• 21:58 In Israel, it's borderline debauchery in many places.
• 22:02 It's a day of getting drunk, basically.
• 22:05 What it's come to.
• 22:07 Not necessarily in the religious community, but
• 22:09 that's pretty much how secular Israel celebrates Purim.
• 22:12 It's a day for celebrating.
• 22:14 Let's party cause tomorrow we die, whatever.
• 22:16 It's celebrating and it's also the
• 22:17 theme of "Never Again"
• 22:19 Right? That's part of that God
• 22:22 redeemed the people through Esther
• 22:24 but never again will this, or, let this happen.
• 22:27 Of course, with the Holocaust we see that happening again,
• 22:30 but then God says, you'll only go so far,
• 22:34 and there will be a curse to those
• 22:36 who come against My people.
• 22:38 Israel was born out of the Holocaust, you know?
• 22:40 Israel is a nation of Holocaust Survivors,
• 22:43 so "Never Again" is pretty much a daily thing there.
• 22:46 But yeah, they'll state that publicly
• 22:50 on Yom Hashoah, on Purim, on Tisha B'Av
• 22:53 It's a very common thing, yeah.
• 22:56 And a very common thing,
• 22:58 I know this is a strange transition to cookies!
• 23:01 But the thought of "Never Again"
• 23:03 He tried to kill us.
• 23:04 Let's eat.
• 23:05 Right?
• 23:06 One of us eat, that's how it goes.
• 23:08 These are part of the Feast.
• 23:09 Explain them.
• 23:10 Hamantaschen
• 23:11 Remember we learned that word.
• 23:13 Really smells good.
• 23:14 Well, it comes from the word "Haman"
• 23:15 Well, thank you.
• 23:16 We'll all take one.
• 23:18 I used to think it meant hats,
• 23:19 cause this looks like
• 23:20 George Washington's hat, you know?
• 23:22 It does, the 3 sided and 3 pointed.
• 23:24 Yeah, but Ken Berg, the Producer of this show told me
• 23:26 taschen actually means "ear".
• 23:27 So it's Haman's ear.
• 23:29 So we eat it, digest it.
• 23:31 Let's have some ear while we go to some music or something.
• 23:33 While we continue to eat these wonderful cookies
• 23:35 let's go to a song with Ted Pearce.
• 23:37 Oh, this is really good!
• 23:50 ♪ Hinei Lo Yanum v'lo yishan , Vi'lo yishan, v'lo yishan ♪
• 23:59 ♪ Hinei Lo Yanum v'lo yishan ♪
• 24:04 ♪ Shomer Yisrael ♪
• 24:08 ♪ Hinei Lo Yanum v'lo yishan , Vi'lo yishan, v'lo yishan ♪
• 24:16 ♪ Hinei Lo Yanum v'lo yishan ♪
• 24:21 ♪ Shomer Yisrael ♪
• 24:23 Now in English,
• 24:25 ♪ Behold, He neither slumbers nor sleeps He who keeps Israel ♪
• 24:32 Repeat
• 24:34 ♪ Behold, He neither slumbers nor sleeps He who keeps Israel ♪
• 24:43 Ted on guitar.
• 25:00 ♪ Hinei Lo Yanum v'lo yishan , Vi'lo yishan, v'lo yishan ♪
• 25:08 ♪ Hinei Lo Yanum v'lo yishan ♪
• 25:13 ♪ Shomer Yisrael ♪
• 25:17 ♪ Behold, He neither slumbers nor sleeps He who keeps Israel ♪
• 25:25 Repeat
• 25:26 ♪ Behold, He neither slumbers nor sleeps He who keeps Israel ♪
• 25:38 Gonna dedicate this verse to the United Nations.
• 25:44 ♪ I wouldn't poke a finger in the Eye of God if I were you. ♪
• 25:52 ♪ Cause just remember He's God and you're not
• 25:57 ♪ Or I'll have some bad news for you. ♪
• 25:59 And I quote
• 26:01 ♪ Hinei Lo Yanum v'lo yishan , Vi'lo yishan, v'lo yishan ♪
• 26:10 ♪ Hinei Lo Yanum v'lo yishan ♪
• 26:14 ♪ Shomer Yisrael ♪
• 26:18 ♪ Behold, He neither slumbers nor sleeps He who keeps Israel ♪
• 26:26 Repeat
• 26:27 ♪ Behold, He neither slumbers nor sleeps He who keeps Israel ♪
• 26:35 ♪ He who keeps Israel ♪♪
• 26:45 Thank you Ted for that great, great song.
• 26:48 It would be a shame to have all these wonderful Hamantaschen
• 26:51 and not share them with our crew.
• 26:53 You hardly get to see them,
• 26:54 here they are, come on in,
• 26:56 grab a cookie,
• 26:57 they're wonderful,
• 26:58 they're delicious.
• 26:59 We already had ours.
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