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Caption transcript for Eretz Israel (The Land of Israel): “Promised to the Next Generation” (2/8)

• 00:09 LOOK TO THE NORTH
• 00:11 THE SOUTH
• 00:15 THE EAST
• 00:18 THE WEST
• 00:26 ALL THE LAND WHICH THOU SEEST
• 00:28 TO THEE WILL I GIVE IT
• 00:30 AND TO THY SEED FOREVER.
• 00:35 INDEED... HE WHO WATCHES OVER ISRAEL
• 00:37 WILL NEITHER SLUMBER NOR SLEEP.
• 00:56 HEARTY SHALOM TO ALL OF YOU.
• 00:58 JEFFREY SEIF HERE
• 00:59 PLEASED TO WELCOME YOU AGAIN
• 01:01 TO ZOLA LEVITT PRESENTS.
• 01:03 THIS WEEK THE 2ND OF AN 8 PART SERIES CALLED "ERETZ ISRAEL"
• 01:07 MEANING "THE LAND OF ISRAEL".
• 01:11 WHAT A LAND...
• 01:12 WHAT A STORY...
• 01:14 AND WE TAKE YOU ALL AROUND THAT LAND
• 01:15 TO TELL YOU THE STORY ALONG THE BACK ROADS,
• 01:19 THE ROADS LESS TRAVELED.
• 01:20 OH WE COULD TAKE YOU ON THE HIGHWAYS
• 01:22 BUT WE'D RATHER THE BYWAYS
• 01:23 AND WALK ALONG THE PATH THE PATRIARCHS MIGHT HAVE WALKED
• 01:28 AS THEY MADE THEIR WAY INTO THE LAND OF CANAAN.
• 01:32 LAST WEEK WE LOOKED AT ABRAHAM.
• 01:35 THIS WEEK HIS SON ISAAC.
• 01:37 OFF WE GO TO EXAMINE HIM
• 01:39 AND CONSIDER THE PROMISE THAT WAS MADE TO ABRAHAM...
• 01:41 WAS LIKEWISE MADE TO HIM AND HIS CHILDREN.
• 01:48 AND THE LORD APPEARED UNTO ISAAC AND SAID,
• 01:51 "SOJOURN IN THIS LAND AND I WILL BE WITH THEE AND WILL BLESS THEE."
• 01:57 "FOR UNTO THEE AND UNTO THY SEED I WILL GIVE ALL THESE COUNTRIES"
• 02:02 "AND I WILL PERFORM THE OATH WHICH I SWEAR UNTO ABRAHAM THY FATHER."
• 02:08 "AND I WILL MAKE THY SEED TO MULTIPLY AS THE STARS IN HEAVEN"
• 02:12 "AND WILL GIVE THY SEED ALL THESE COUNTRIES"
• 02:16 "AND IN THY SEED SHALL ALL THE NATIONS OF THE EARTH BE BLESSED."
• 02:24 IT'S CALLED "ADAMAH " IN HEBREW,
• 02:26 IT MEANS "EARTH".
• 02:28 "HEVAR" MEANS "THE DUST".
• 02:30 AND "ERETZ" MEANS "THE LAND".
• 02:33 AND MY HOW THE ISRAELITES LOVED IT.
• 02:36 ABRAHAM LOVED IT,
• 02:38 YITZKAK LOVED IT
• 02:40 AND APPARENTLY THEY LOVED A PLACE CALLED BE'ER SHEVA.
• 02:51 WE'RE GONNA GO TO IT.
• 02:52 COME WITH ME NOW.
• 03:21 THE ANCIENTS WERE ALL ABOUT TRYING TO UNDERSTAND THEIR WORLD AND COME TO KNOW IT.
• 03:25 LET ME GIVE YOU A WINDOW INTO HOW THEY PERCEIVED IT
• 03:29 BY EMPLOYING A MAP THAT WAS AKIN TO WHAT THEY WOULD HAVE USED
• 03:33 ON MATERIAL AKIN TO WHAT THEY WOULD HAVE PUT IT ALL ON.
• 03:38 TAKES AWHILE TO UNFOLD THIS.
• 03:40 THIS IS A BIG PIECE.
• 03:42 THE MEDITERRANEAN HERE MIGHT BE FAMILIAR TO YOU.
• 03:44 LET ME JUST SAY UP NORTH
• 03:46 AT THE TOP
• 03:47 IS THE ALPINE HIMALAYAN MOUNTAINS EXTENDING 7,000 MILES.
• 03:50 DOWN HERE YOU HAVE THE AFRICAN SAHARAN DESERT,
• 03:54 THE ARABIAN DESERT.
• 03:55 SANDWICHED IN BETWEEN
• 03:57 IS THIS AREA CALLED
• 03:58 "THE FERTILE CRESCENT",
• 04:00 THE LEVANT HERE EXTENDING OVER TO THE LAND OF CANAAN.
• 04:03 OF COURSE ABRAHAM MADE THIS JOURNEY AND SETTLED.
• 04:06 HIS SON ISAAC INHABITED
• 04:08 AND SPENT SOME TIME AT A PLACE HERE CALLED BE'ER SHEVA.
• 04:13 WE'RE GOING TO HAVE A LOOK.
• 04:30 IN THIS PART OF THE WORLD
• 04:32 PEOPLE PLACE A PREMIUM ON SOMETHING CALLED...
• 04:34 "WATER".
• 04:41 DO YOU HEAR THAT?
• 04:43 200 FEET...
• 04:46 NOT ONLY DOES THIS WELL GO DEEP,
• 04:48 THE STORY OF THE SITE
• 04:50 GOES DEEPER YET.
• 04:51 NOT 200 FEET
• 04:53 BUT GOING BACK THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS OF YEARS AGO.
• 04:58 I'M NOT OF A MIND TO TAKE YOU BACK
• 05:00 ALL THOSE THOUSANDS OF YEARS
• 05:01 BUT I WANT TO TAKE YOU BACK TO
• 05:03 A SPOT A FEW THOUSAND YEARS AGO
• 05:06 THAT'S NOTED IN THE BOOK "B'RESHEET"
• 05:08 "GENESIS".
• 05:11 FOR THEREIN WE LEARN ABOUT ABRAHAM AND HIS CLAN HERE,
• 05:16 "YITZHAK" OR "ISAAC" PARTICULARLY IN THIS STORY,
• 05:20 AND WE LEARN ABOUT PEOPLE NOT FAR FROM HERE CALLED THE PHILISTINES
• 05:25 AND WE LEARN ABOUT TENSIONS.
• 05:29 TENSIONS REVOLVING OVER WHAT?
• 05:32 WHO GETS WHAT IN THE LAND!
• 05:35 NOW HOW'S THAT FOR A STORY THAT'S NEW AND OLD?
• 05:38 IN THE GENESIS NARRATIVE AS WE'LL SEE,
• 05:41 THEY'RE FIGHTING OVER WATER.
• 05:45 THEY'RE FIGHTING OVER A WELL;
• 05:47 THE PHILISTINES AND YITZHAK, "ISAAC".
• 05:52 NOW SIMILARITIES ASIDE,
• 05:56 WHAT'S DISSIMILAR IS THE FACT THAT IN THIS CASE,
• 05:59 AT LEAST IN THE GENESIS CASE AS WE'LL SEE,
• 06:01 WE'RE DEALING WITH THE REAL PHILISTINE.
• 06:05 WHAT DO I MEAN BY THAT?
• 06:07 THE REAL PALESTINIANS SO CALLED ACCORDING TO HISTORY AND VARIOUS HISTORIES WERE SEAFARING PEOPLE
• 06:14 THAT CAME FROM GREECE AND FROM THE IONIAN ISLANDS,
• 06:17 A TALL PEOPLE.
• 06:20 AND WE NOTE IN THE BIBLE IN NO UNCERTAIN TERMS
• 06:23 HOW THEY SECURE A TOEHOLD PRINCIPALLY ALONG THE COAST.
• 06:27 THE NEVER PENETRATE FAR EAST.
• 06:29 THEY ESTABLISH A FEW CITIES
• 06:31 AND YOU HAVE SOME PHILISTINE HOLDINGS.
• 06:34 WELL THEY CAME FROM THE SEA.
• 06:37 BIBLE READERS KNOW OF ANOTHER MAN WHO TRAVERSED THE FERTILE CRESCENT
• 06:42 BEGINNING IN UR OF CHALDEA,
• 06:45 MAKES HIS WAY ALONG MESOPOTAMIA,
• 06:47 SETTLES IN HARAN SYRIA
• 06:49 AND EVENTUALLY HEARS...
• 06:52 "IT'S TIME TO GO".
• 06:54 IN GENESIS 12 HE MAKES HIS WAY DOWN FURTHER
• 06:58 AND HERE AT BE'ER SHEVA
• 07:00 WE ARE AT THAT SOUTHERN PENETRATION
• 07:03 NOT FAR SOUTH...THE NEGEV.
• 07:06 SO AS ONE CAN IMAGINE, HERE WATER WOULD BE IN HIGH DEMAND AND VERY SHORT SUPPLY.
• 07:12 WHEN WE ADD TO IT THE TRADE ROUTES, THE "VIA MARIS", "THE WAY OF THE SEA",
• 07:17 THAT WILL TAKE YOU DOWN TO EGYPT
• 07:19 CROSSES HERE
• 07:21 AS DOES "THE KING'S WAY",
• 07:22 "THE KING'S HIGHWAY" WHICH GOES UP THROUGH MODERN JORDAN.
• 07:25 IN ANY CASE, THESE ANCIENT ROADS MET HERE
• 07:27 AND HERE AT THE CROSSROADS
• 07:29 THE PHILISTINE AND YITZHAK MEET HERE.
• 07:32 BUT GOD MEETS THEM AT THE PLACE.
• 07:35 OH...THIS IS A PROPHETIC WORD.
• 07:37 WE'RE TOLD HERE IN CHAPTER 26 OF THE BOOK GENESIS
• 07:42 THAT YITZHAK, ISAAC, GOES TO AVIMELEK
• 07:46 WHICH SEEMS TO BE A TITLE NAME HERE OF THESE PHILISTINE KINGS.
• 07:49 AND WE'RE TOLD THAT THE LORD APPEARED TO HIM WITH AN AFFIRMATION.
• 07:53 AND NOTE IT SPECIFICALLY PLEASE...
• 07:55 "DWELL IN THE LAND" HE SAYS,
• 07:56 "AND I WILL BE WITH YOU"
• 07:58 IN NO UNCERTAIN TERMS HE SAYS,
• 07:59 "I WILL GIVE YOU ALL THESE LANDS"
• 08:01 "LIKE I SWORE TO YOUR FATHER ABRAHAM".
• 08:03 NOW, LET ME ASK YOU A QUESTION.
• 08:05 WHAT IS SO HARD TO UNDERSTAND ABOUT THAT?
• 08:09 THAT LANGUAGE IS VERY, VERY CLEAR.
• 08:11 IN VERSE 4, AS IF VERSE 3 IS NOT GOOD ENOUGH,
• 08:14 "AND I WILL GIVE TO YOUR DESCENDANTS ALL THESE LANDS."
• 08:18 WE'RE TOLD SPECIFICALLY AS WE MOVE THROUGH THE CHAPTER NOW IN VERSE 23,
• 08:24 WHEREIN BE'ER SHEVA IT'S NOTED EXPLICITLY WHERE COMING TO YOU NOW.
• 08:29 AND THE LORD APPEARED TO HIM AND SAID,
• 08:39 FRIENDS, I KNOW DIFFERENT PEOPLE HAVE DIFFERENT OPINIONS.
• 08:42 TODAY THERE'S THE MID EAST "PIECE" PROCESS
• 08:44 WHICH IS LITTLE MORE THAN WANTING TO CARVE UP JEWISH REAL ESTATE PIECE BY PIECE BY PIECE
• 08:49 TRYING TO SATISFY PEOPLE THAT HAVE SAID ON THE FRONT END,
• 08:52 "ALL THEY WANT TO DO IS DRIVE US INTO THE SEA".
• 08:54 NOW COME ON, LET'S WAKE UP AND SMELL THE COFFEE.
• 08:57 LET'S WAKE UP AND READ THE LITERATURE.
• 08:59 I BELIEVE THAT A BIBLE READER IS FORCED TO CONCLUDE IN NO UNCERTAIN TERMS
• 09:04 THAT GOD GAVE THIS PARTICULAR REAL ESTATE TO A PARTICULAR PEOPLE.
• 09:08 HE NOTED IT ALL OVER THE PLACE.
• 09:11 AND HE NOTED HERE IN THIS PLACE...BE'ER SHEVA.
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• 09:54 OR CRUISE THE MEDITERRANEAN VISITING GREECE AND EPHESUS.
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• 10:03 (Jeff speaking)
• 10:05 MUCH OF ISRAEL'S REMARKABLE HISTORY HAPPENED RIGHT HERE IN TEL AVIV.
• 10:09 DAVID DOLAN TELLS US MORE AS HE CONTINUES HIS STORY ON THE MODERN STATE OF ISRAEL.
• 10:16 I'M STANDING IN A SAND DUNE HERE NEAR THE COAST.
• 10:18 THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA IS OUT HERE.
• 10:20 BEHIND ME YOU SEE THE MODERN, THRIVING CITY OF TEL AVIV.
• 10:23 BUT MUCH OF THE COUNTRYSIDE,
• 10:25 100 - 150 YEARS AGO WAS LIKE THIS,
• 10:27 SANDY, JUST A BIT OF VEGETATION,
• 10:29 HARDLY ANY TREES,
• 10:30 NOT THAT MANY PEOPLE LIVING IN IT.
• 10:31 WHEN THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE BEGAN
• 10:33 IT WAS FAIRLY TOLERANT OF THE
• 10:35 JEWISH COMMUNITY LIVING THERE
• 10:37 WHICH WASN'T MANY PEOPLE
• 10:38 BUT IT WAS A FEW THOUSAND.
• 10:39 BUT THAT TOLERATION STARTED TO WANE AS THE CENTURIES WENT ON.
• 10:43 BY THE 1800S THERE WAS MAJOR VIOLENCE OCCURRING FROM TIME TO TIME
• 10:47 AGAINST THE JEWISH COMMUNITY.
• 10:49 THE CHRISTIANS WERE ALSO SUFFERING HERE UNDER THE OTTOMAN TURKISH RULE AT TIMES.
• 10:53 THERE WAS A MAJOR POGROM AGAINST THE JEWISH COMMUNITY OF DAMASCUS IN THE 1840'S
• 10:58 WHICH PROMPTED A MASS MIGRATION OF THE JEWS FROM THERE TO THE LAND.
• 11:01 THEY WERE ALSO COMING FROM EGYPT.
• 11:03 THEY WERE COMING FROM IRAQ TO THE EAST
• 11:05 AND WHAT LATER BECAME JORDAN AND OTHER PLACES.
• 11:08 AND SOME WERE EVEN COMING FROM EUROPE.
• 11:10 IN 1857
• 11:12 A RABBI IN EUROPE, IN SERBIA
• 11:13 HAD AN IDEA,
• 11:15 "LET'S RECREATE THE JEWISH STATE"
• 11:17 "LET'S BRING THE JEWISH PEOPLE BACK FROM AROUND THE WORLD."
• 11:19 HE ADVOCATED THIS IN HIS SYNAGOGUE
• 11:21 AND TOOK IT AROUND EUROPE.
• 11:23 IT WAS A VERY POPULAR PROGRAM BUT IT WAS A BIT PRE-MATURE.
• 11:26 THE TURKISH MUSLIMS WERE STILL RULING HERE.
• 11:28 IN 1839 THE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND SENT OUT A DELEGATION
• 11:32 TO EXAMINE THE VIOLENCE HAPPENING AGAINST THE JEWS.
• 11:35 THEY RECOMMENDED A JEWISH STATE HERE AS WELL.
• 11:38 THEY ADVERTISED THIS THROUGHOUT EUROPE IN DIFFERENT NEWSPAPERS, ETC.
• 11:42 SO THE DESIRE FOR THE JEWS TO RETURN HERE WAS GROWING.
• 11:45 THEN IN THE 1880s
• 11:47 AS THE JEWS WERE FINALLY A MAJORITY IN JERUSALEM AGAIN
• 11:50 FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 1700 YEARS,
• 11:53 THE POGROMS BROKE OUT IN RUSSIA.
• 11:55 WHOLE JEWISH COMMUNITIES WERE DESTROYED, WIPED OUT,
• 11:58 AND AGAIN A MASS MIGRATION OF JEWS BEGAN FROM THERE
• 12:02 AND LATER FROM POLAND.
• 12:03 MOST WENT TO NORTH AMERICA AND OTHER PARTS OF EUROPE.
• 12:05 BUT AROUND 25,000 CAME HERE TO THE LAND.
• 12:09 THIS BECAME KNOWN AS THE FIRST WAVE OF ALIYAH, OR IMMIGRATION GOING UP TO ZION.
• 12:14 AROUND THIS TIME
• 12:15 A FRENCH MILITARY OFFICIAL
• 12:17 NAMED ALFRED DREYFUS
• 12:18 WAS CHARGED WITH TREASON.
• 12:20 HE WAS TRIED IN PARIS.
• 12:22 A YOUNG JOURNALIST CAME TO COVER THE TRIAL FROM VIENNA NAMED THEODOR HERZL.
• 12:26 HE WAS SHOCKED
• 12:27 WHEN HE WAS FOUND GUILTY
• 12:28 ON SUCH FLIMSY EVIDENCE
• 12:30 AND LATER THAT CONVICTION
• 12:31 WAS OVERTURNED.
• 12:32 BUT THIS PROMPTED HIM TO WRITE A BOOK CALLED "THE JEWISH STATE",
• 12:36 AN ATTEMPT AT A MODERN SOLUTION TO THE JEWISH QUESTION.
• 12:39 IT ADVOCATED JEWS TO RETURN HERE FROM AROUND THE WORLD
• 12:42 AND HE IS CONSIDERED THE FATHER OF MODERN ZIONISM TODAY.
• 12:46 THE NEXT YEAR IN 1897
• 12:48 WE HAD THE FIRST
• 12:49 ZIONIST CONGRESS
• 12:50 IN BASEL, SWITZERLAND.
• 12:52 THIS BROUGHT TOGETHER JEWS
• 12:53 FROM AROUND EUROPE;
• 12:54 IN FACT, FROM THE UNITED STATES,
• 12:56 FROM AUSTRALIA
• 12:57 AND OTHER PARTS OF THE GLOBE.
• 12:58 AND THEY PUT TOGETHER A PROGRAM TO RE-CREATE A JEWISH STATE HERE.
• 13:02 THEY ALSO SHOWED THE NEW JEWISH FLAG,
• 13:05 THE NEW FLAG THAT ISRAEL WOULD HAVE WITH THE STAR OF DAVID IN THE CENTER OF IT.
• 13:08 THEY BEGAN THEIR MEETING BY SINGING WHAT WOULD BECOME ISRAEL'S NATIONAL ANTHEM,
• 13:13 "HATIKVA", "THE HOPE"
• 13:15 TO BE A FREE PEOPLE BACK IN THE LAND OF ZION AND JERUSALEM AFTER 2,000 YEARS OF EXILE.
• 13:20 MEANWHILE THE POGROMS CONTINUED IN RUSSIA.
• 13:23 THERE WAS ANOTHER WAVE OF JEWS COMING TO THE LAND FROM 1904 UNTIL 1914, ANOTHER 25,000 CAME.
• 13:30 WELL, THE LOCAL ARABS DIDN'T LIKE THIS.
• 13:32 AND ACTUALLY THE GROWING JEWISH NATIONALISM WAS CREATING AN AFFECT AMONGST THEM
• 13:38 AND GROWING ARAB NATIONALISM WAS RISING AT THE TIME
• 13:41 AND THEY DEMANDED THAT THE JEWISH IMMIGRATION TO THE LAND STOP.
• 13:44 IN 1898 THE FIRST ALL JEWISH TOWN WAS BUILT
• 13:48 JUST NORTH OF MODERN TEL AVIV CALLED "PETAH TIKVA",
• 13:50 "THE GATES OF HOPE".
• 13:52 I LIVED THERE WHEN I FIRST MOVED TO ISRAEL IN 1980.
• 13:54 IN 1909 JEWS GATHERED IN THESE SAND DUNES TO PLAN A NEW TOWN
• 13:59 THAT WOULD BECOME THE URBAN CENTER OF ISRAEL...TEL AVIV.
• 14:02 TODAY OVER A MILLION PEOPLE LIVING IN IT...
• 14:04 OVER 100 YEARS OLD...
• 14:06 A THRIVING CITY.
• 14:08 AS THE JEWS KEPT COMING BACK, HOWEVER, THE WINDS OF WAR WERE BLOWING IN EUROPE.
• 14:11 WORLD WAR I WAS ABOUT TO BEGIN.
• 14:13 IT WOULD CHANGE THE COURSE OF JEWISH HISTORY AS WELL.
• 14:27 THE OLD SAYING GOES "STEP BY STEP".
• 14:30 THE PATRIARCHS WALKED A NUMBER OF STEPS TO GET TO ISRAEL
• 14:32 AND MODERN ISRAELIS WALKED A NUMBER OF STEPS TO GET THERE AS WELL
• 14:37 IN THE MIRACLE THAT IS ISRAEL TODAY.
• 14:40 TRACIE...YOU TAKE PEOPLE TO ISRAEL TODAY WITH ZOLA LEVITT MINISTRIES
• 14:43 IF THEY WANT TO GO CHECK IT OUT, YES?
• 14:45 I DO. AND IT HAS BEEN THE JOY OF MY LIFE
• 14:48 TO TAKE PEOPLE TO ISRAEL.
• 14:49 OFTEN TIMES OUR CALLERS WILL SAY,
• 14:51 "WELL GEE, ARE MOST OF YOUR TRAVELERS JEWISH?",
• 14:53 BUT THEY REALLY AREN'T.
• 14:54 OUR CALLERS, AS YOU KNOW DR. SEIF,
• 14:55 AND OUR VIEWERS ARE REALLY CHRISTIAN PEOPLE
• 14:57 WHO JUST HAVE A LOVE OF YESHUA AND THE HOLY LAND
• 15:00 AND IT'S REALLY MY JOY AND PRIVILEGE TO LEAD OUR VIEWERS THROUGH HIS LAND.
• 15:04 SO YOU TALK ABOUT CALLERS.
• 15:05 THEY CALL 1-800-WONDERS
• 15:08 AND THEY CAN GET TO YOU.
• 15:09 RIGHT...THEY DO.
• 15:10 THEY CAN GO ON LINE...
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• 15:12 AND GET TO YOU.
• 15:13 EVERYTHING IS THERE ON LINE.
• 15:14 EVEN YOU CAN REGISTER ON LINE.
• 15:16 AND ACTUALLY, WE HAVE A REAL SPECIAL OFFER WE WANT TO MAKE AVAILABLE TODAY...
• 15:18 IF OUR VIEWERS HAVE A GROUP OF TEN OR MORE PEOPLE,
• 15:21 ONE PERSON CAN GO FREE.
• 15:23 THEY LEAD THE GROUP
• 15:24 AND ALL THE LOGISTICS FALL TO ME.
• 15:26 OUR VIEWERS, OUR PEOPLE THAT WATCH THE SHOW SO FAITHFULLY ARE PAYING
• 15:30 TO GO TO THE HOLY LAND TO HAVE THAT INTIMACY WITH THE LORD.
• 15:33 AND WE OFFER THAT.
• 15:35 IN FACT, WE'RE GOING TO SHOW YOU AN INTERVIEW RIGHT NOW
• 15:37 ONE OF OUR PRECIOUS TRAVELERS, SHARON, IN THIS LAST TOUR.
• 15:40 AND I WANT YOU TO SEE ABOUT HER EXPERIENCE IN ISRAEL.
• 15:44 THE HIGHLIGHT FOR ME
• 15:45 BEING IN THIS LAND OF YESHUA
• 15:48 IS THE FULLNESS OF JOY
• 15:50 THAT I FEEL BEING WITH FELLOW CHRISTIANS
• 15:53 AND BEING IN HIS HOLY LAND
• 15:56 WHERE HE WALKED AND TALKED.
• 15:57 THIS WAS THE FULFILLMENT OF A DREAM FOR ME AND MY HUSBAND.
• 16:02 WE HAD PLANNED TO COME ON THIS TRIP TOGETHER BEFORE HE PASSED AWAY.
• 16:07 AND SO FOR ME TO BE HERE TO FULFILL THAT DREAM WITH ZOLA
• 16:13 AND ITS UNSPEAKABLE.
• 16:16 SHARON IS A WONDERFUL HUMAN BEING ISN'T SHE?
• 16:19 SHE IS DR. SEIF.
• 16:20 AND I WOULD LOVE TO INVITE OUR VIEWERS
• 16:22 TO GO TO OUR WEBSITE AT LEVITT.COM
• 16:24 AND SEE EVEN MORE TESTIMONIALS FROM OUR TRAVELERS.
• 16:26 IT IS...ISRAEL TURNS PEOPLE AROUND, YES?
• 16:29 IT DOES...IT DOES
• 16:31 AND WOULD INVITE YOU TO COME WITH US ON OUR NEXT TOUR.
• 16:33 WELL YOU HEARD WHAT THE LADY SAID.
• 16:37 IF YOU CAN'T GO WITH US ON THE TOUR
• 16:39 I HOPE YOU'LL STILL GO WITH US ON THE JOURNEY.
• 16:42 WHAT DO I MEAN BY THAT?
• 16:43 THIS IS A MINISTRY NOT A TV SHOW.
• 16:46 AND WE'RE ALL ABOUT GETTING INFORMATION TO YOU
• 16:49 WITH A JEWISH VIEW.
• 16:50 WE HAVE A MAGAZINE
• 16:51 IT'S YOURS FOR THE ASKING...
• 16:52 THE LEVITT LETTER.
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• 16:54 IF YOU'LL CALL 1-800-WONDERS
• 16:56 OR YOU CAN SIGN UP FOR IT
• 16:57 BY GOING TO WWW.LEVITT.COM.
• 17:01 LATER ON THERE'LL BE AN OFFER
• 17:03 ON THE PROGRAM CALLED
• 17:04 "JERUSALEM FOREVER"
• 17:06 WRITTEN BY THE LATE ZOLA LEVITT,
• 17:08 OUR FOUNDER.
• 17:09 WE WANT PEOPLE TO SEE WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS ABOUT THE LAND,
• 17:13 ABOUT THE PEOPLE AND ABOUT HOW IT'S ALL COMING TOGETHER TODAY.
• 17:17 OFF WE GO TO CONSIDER THAT AND MORE.
• 17:22 THE WORD "SECULAR"
• 17:23 COMES FROM THE LATIN WORD
• 17:24 "SAECULARIS"
• 17:25 MEANING "OF THIS AGE".
• 17:27 AND THE THINKING IS THAT THE FORMATION OF SECULAR STATES
• 17:30 IS ALL MATERIAL AND NOT SPIRITUAL,
• 17:32 BUT THERE'S A RELIGIOUS VISION
• 17:34 THAT ENFORMED THE MANUFACTURE OF MODERN ISRAEL, CORRECT?
• 17:37 ABSOLUTELY, JEFF.
• 17:39 WE HEAR THAT THE ZIONIST MOVEMENT
• 17:41 WAS A SECULAR MOVEMENT.
• 17:43 AND IT'S TRUE
• 17:44 THAT THEODOR HERZL
• 17:45 WAS NOT A PROFESSING JEW.
• 17:47 HE DIDN'T ATTEND SYNAGOGUE, ETC.
• 17:49 BUT DOES ZIONISM REALLY BEGIN WITH HIM?
• 17:52 I SAY "NO".
• 17:53 YOU HAVE AN EXAMPLE IN THE 17TH CENTURY OF AN OBSERVANT JEW,
• 17:59 SHABBTAI TZVI,
• 18:01 WHO SAID "I AM THE MESSIAH".
• 18:03 WELL HE WASN'T THE MESSIAH
• 18:04 BUT THERE WAS A MILLION PEOPLE
• 18:06 THROUGHOUT EUROPE AND NORTH AFRICA
• 18:07 PREPARING TO COME BACK TO THIS LAND
• 18:09 WHERE HE SAID HE WAS GOING TO ESTABLISH A JEWISH STATE.
• 18:13 IT WAS IN THEIR HEARTS TO COME BACK HERE.
• 18:14 RIGHT, SO THERE ARE THOSE WITHIN THE MODERN ZIONISTIC MILIEU
• 18:18 WHICH MAY DENY THEIR RELIGIOUS BIBLICAL MOORINGS.
• 18:22 BUT STILL JEWS KIND OF DEVELOP IN A CULTURAL MATRIX
• 18:25 THAT'S SO MUCH ENFORMED BY THE TORAH.
• 18:28 EVEN IF THE MIND DOESN'T REALIZE IT
• 18:30 ZIONISM HAS ITS ROOTS IN BIBLICAL ZION
• 18:32 AND THAT'S PART OF THE CULTURE.
• 18:34 YOU SAY "I'M A SECULAR JEW",
• 18:36 YOU SCRATCH THE SURFACE
• 18:37 AND SAY "WHAT DOES JERUSALEM MEAN TO YOU?"
• 18:40 AND PEOPLE SAY "IT'S JUST JERUSALEM".
• 18:42 IT HAS TO BE IN JEWISH HANDS.
• 18:44 WE HAVE TO BE ABLE TO GO THERE.
• 18:45 IT IS...
• 18:46 ITS SOMETHING COME FROM THE HEART.
• 18:47 AND YOU KNOW JEFF THERE'S ANOTHER EXAMPLE.
• 18:49 JUST A FEW DECADES BEFORE HERZL CONVENED THE FIRST ZIONIST CONGRESS
• 18:53 WE HAD ANOTHER RABBI
• 18:54 YEHUDA ALKALAI
• 18:56 WHO WAS FROM SERBIA
• 18:58 AND HE SAID WE NEED TO GO BACK TO ZION.
• 19:00 AND THERE WAS, AGAIN, MILLIONS OF PEOPLE THROUGHOUT EUROPE,
• 19:03 ORTHODOX JEWS THAT WERE HOPING THIS WOULD LEAD TO SOMETHING.
• 19:07 WELL IT WAS A BIT PREMATURE
• 19:08 BECAUSE THE TURKS WERE STILL IN CONTROL OF THE AREA.
• 19:10 BUT AGAIN IT SHOWED
• 19:12 THAT THE ROOTS OF THE ZIONIST MOVEMENT, AS IT WERE,
• 19:13 WERE VERY MUCH FROM A SPIRITUAL ROOT INSIDE OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE.
• 19:17 YES AND IT COULD BE ARGUED TO BE TANGENTIAL HERE,
• 19:20 BUT EVEN IN THE 1800'S
• 19:21 THERE WERE CHRISTIAN THEOLOGUES THAT WERE READING THE BIBLE
• 19:24 THAT ARE SAYING, "LISTEN, GOD HAS AN APPOINTMENT WITH DESTINY"
• 19:27 "WITH JEWISH PEOPLE IN THAT REAL ESTATE."
• 19:29 "IT HAS TO BE."
• 19:30 ABSOLUTELY...
• 19:32 THE BALFOUR DECLARATION... THAT CAME OUT OF A CHRISTIAN MINISTER IN THE GOVERNMENT.
• 19:37 AND HE WAS LISTENING TO SOME OF THE THEOLOGIANS IN THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND
• 19:41 AND THE SCOTTISH CHURCH ALSO THAT WERE SAYING
• 19:43 THE JEWS ARE GOING TO GO BACK TO THE LAND AND REBUILD THEIR STATE
• 19:46 THE PROPHET SAID SO...
• 19:48 AND HE WAS A GOVERNMENT MINISTER
• 19:49 BUT HE WAS VERY MUCH INFLUENCED BY HIS PERSONAL FAITH.
• 19:52 AND ITS AMAZING,
• 19:53 EVEN THOUGH PEOPLE DON'T NECESSARILY KNOW IT,
• 19:57 WHAT YOU KNOW AND WHAT I KNOW
• 19:59 BECAUSE WE'RE BIBLE READERS
• 20:00 IS THAT GOD IS WATCHING OVER HIS WORD TO PERFORM IT
• 20:04 AND HE'S PERFORMING IT...HERE.
• 22:30 MANY PEOPLE MISTAKENLY THINK THERE IS NO MERCY IN THE HEBREW BIBLE.
• 22:36 WELL THE AUTHORS OF THE VARIOUS BOOKS NEVER GOT THE MEMO
• 22:39 BECAUSE THEY TALK ABOUT GOD'S MERCY
• 22:41 AND THAT WONDERFUL SONG IS A TESTIMONY FROM THE JEWISH WORLD THAT SINGS ABOUT IT.
• 22:47 OH FOR THE LOVE OF GOD.
• 22:49 THE LATE ZOLA LEVITT TALKED ABOUT THE LOVE OF GOD IN SO MANY WAYS
• 22:53 HOW IT'S REFLECTED IN THE OLD TESTAMENT AND THE NEW TESTAMENT.
• 22:57 AND HERE HE IS WITH DR. TOM MCCALL.
• 23:00 IT WAS A NEAT STORY AT ONE LEVEL.
• 23:02 THEY'RE THERE IN A BEDOUIN TENT IN ISRAEL.
• 23:05 WE DO SO MUCH OF THIS IN THE LAND OF ISRAEL.
• 23:08 AND ZOLA WAS THERE AND TOM WAS THERE WITH AN OPEN BIBLE.
• 23:13 THEY'RE REFLECTING ON THE PROMISES MADE TO THE PATRIARCHS.
• 23:17 OFF WE GO TO HEAR HIM NOW.
• 23:21 AND HE TOLD ISAAC THAT
• 23:24 THIS LAND IS ALL YOURS.
• 23:26 BUT THEN HE TURNED TO HIS OTHER SONS
• 23:29 AND BY THAT TIME SARAH HAD DIED
• 23:31 AND HE HAD MARRIED KETURAH
• 23:33 AND HE HAD OTHER SONS THROUGH KETURAH.
• 23:36 AND HE TOLD THEM THAT ISAAC WOULD HAVE
• 23:42 WHAT WE KNOW AS ISRAEL...CANAAN.
• 23:46 THE LITTLE COASTLINE SLIVER HERE.
• 23:48 THAT'S RIGHT
• 23:49 AND HIS OTHER SONS, ISHMAEL WOULD BE
• 23:52 TO THE SOUTH AND PARAN
• 23:53 AND HIS OTHER SONS WOULD GO EASTWARD
• 23:56 INTO WHAT WE KNOW AS JORDON,
• 23:58 WHAT USED TO BE MOAB AND EDOM
• 24:01 AND OUT INTO THE ARABIAN DESERT.
• 24:05 AND SO THE OTHER SONS OF ABRAHAM
• 24:09 WOULD HAVE ALL THIS VAST TERRITORY
• 24:12 BUT TO ISAAC WOULD COME THIS LAND
• 24:16 AND HE ALONE WOULD HAVE IT.
• 24:19 GOD SAID, "I HAVE REMEMBERED ISHMAEL,"
• 24:23 "I HAVE GIVEN HIM..."
• 24:25 "TWELVE PRINCES WILL COME FROM YOU..."
• 24:27 IF I REMEMBER THE PASSAGE...
• 24:28 BUT MY COVENANT I MAKE WITH ISAAC.
• 24:31 IT IS THROUGH ISAAC THAT THE PROMISE WOULD COME.
• 24:34 AND SO THE LAND
• 24:36 AND THE BLESSING
• 24:37 AND THE SEED
• 24:38 AND THE MESSIANIC HOPE,
• 24:40 THE LOOKING FORWARD TO THE COMING OF THE MESSIAH, THE CHRIST...
• 24:43 ALL OF THAT WOULD COME THROUGH ISAAC
• 24:46 NOT THROUGH THE OTHER SONS OF ABRAHAM.
• 24:51 HIS NAME IS ISAAC,
• 24:52 IN HEBREW, ITS "YITZHAK"
• 24:54 WHICH MEANS "TO LAUGH".
• 24:56 TO USE THAT NAME OUT OF CONTEXT
• 24:58 LET ME SAY THAT WHAT GOD PROMISED TO ABRAHAM AND ISAAC
• 25:02 IS NO LAUGHING MATTER.
• 25:03 HE PROMISED ISAAC AND HIS SONS LAND AMONG OTHER THINGS.
• 25:09 GENESIS 26 IS VERY CLEAR.
• 25:12 HE SAYS, "ABIDE IN THE LAND THAT I WILL TELL YOU", IN VERSE 2.
• 25:18 AND WHERE IS THAT LAND?
• 25:20 HERE...
• 25:21 ITS HERE...
• 25:23 THE LAND OF CANAAN.
• 25:24 THIS SHOWS A REASONABLE FACSIMILE OF THE LAND PROMISED IN ENTIRETY.
• 25:32 TRUTH BE KNOWN, MODERN ISRAEL ONLY OCCUPIES A SMALL PORTION OF THAT.
• 25:38 BUT THE REASON WHY THIS EXISTS ON A MAP
• 25:41 IS BECAUSE THE PROMISE EXISTS IN THE BIBLICAL ROADMAP.
• 25:46 IN VERSE 3 IT'S CLEAR,
• 25:48 "DWELL IN THIS LAND ISAAC."
• 25:51 "DWELL THERE AND I WILL BE WITH YOU"
• 25:53 "AND BLESS YOU AND YOUR DESCENDANTS."
• 25:57 IT IS CRYSTAL CLEAR.
• 26:00 IF SOMEONE CAN'T SEE THAT GOD'S GIVEN A LAND TO A PEOPLE,
• 26:05 IT'S BECAUSE THEY DON'T WANT TO SEE.
• 26:08 THERE'S AN OLD SAYING,
• 26:09 "TRYING TO REASON WITH SOMEONE WHO REFUSES TO REASON"
• 26:11 "IS LIKE TRYING TO GIVE MEDICINE TO A DEAD MAN."
• 26:14 AND IN SO MANY WAYS THAT'S THE CASE,
• 26:16 WHICH HELPS ME UNDERSTAND WHY JESUS SAID MORE THAN ONCE,
• 26:19 "HE WHO HAS EARS TO HEAR LET HIM HEAR."
• 26:21 BECAUSE WHILE PEOPLE HAVE BIOLOGICAL EARS
• 26:23 THEY DON'T ALL HAVE A MIND TO HEAR WHAT GOD WANTS TO SAY.
• 26:26 WELL WE WANT TO SAY IT,
• 26:28 WE WANT TO SHOW IT.
• 26:30 AND TOGETHER WE'RE HOPING WITH THE VISION, WITH THE WORD
• 26:32 WE CAN GET SOME BIBLICAL MEDICINE INTO THIS SIN-SICK WORLD.
• 26:37 THANK YOU FOR HELPING US DO THAT BY THE WAY.
• 26:40 APPRECIATE YOUR GOING ON THE JOURNEY WITH US.
• 26:42 AND AS YOU GO NOW, PLEASE...
• 26:44 SHA'ALU SHALOM YERUSHALAYIM
• 26:47 PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM