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Caption transcript for Eretz Israel (The Land of Israel): “Entering the Promised Land” (4/8)

• 00:09 LOOK TO THE NORTH
• 00:12 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
• 00:31 AND TO THY SEED FOREVER.
• 00:35 INDEED... HE WHO WATCHES OVER ISRAEL
• 00:38 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 THE FOURTH OF AN 8 PART TREATMENT OF THE LAND OF ISRAEL.
• 01:08 SO MANY PEOPLE TODAY ARE TRYING TO LEAD JEWS OUT OF ISRAEL.
• 01:13 WHEN I READ THE BIBLE I READ OF GOD LEADING JEWS TO ISRAEL,
• 01:18 FOREMOST OF WHOM IS A FELLOW NAMED MOSES WHO LED THE ISRAELITES TO THE PROMISED LAND,
• 01:26 THE LAND THAT WAS GIVEN TO THEM AND THEIR DESCENDANTS FOREVER.
• 01:30 LET'S CONSIDER THE STORY
• 01:32 AS WE GO ON WITH OUR STORY
• 01:33 AND LOOK AT MOSES IN THE LAND OF ISRAEL.
• 01:40 THESE ARE THE WORDS WHICH MOSES SPOKE TO ALL ISRAEL.
• 01:45 THE LORD OUR GOD SPOKE UNTO US IN HOREB SAYING,
• 01:49 "BEHOLD, I HAVE SET THE LAND BEFORE YOU."
• 01:52 "GO IN AND POSSESS THE LAND WHICH THE LORD SWEAR UNTO YOUR FATHERS ABRAHAM, ISAAC AND JACOB"
• 01:59 "TO GIVE UNTO THEE AND TO THEIR SEED AFTER THEM."
• 02:03 AND THE LORD SAID UNTO ME,
• 02:06 "LIFT UP THINE EYES WESTWARD AND NORTHWARD AND SOUTHWARD AND EASTWARD"
• 02:12 "AND BEHOLD IT WITH THINE EYES."
• 02:16 "BUT CHARGE JOSHUA AND ENCOURAGE HIM AND STRENGTHEN HIM,"
• 02:20 "FOR HE SHALL GO OVER BEFORE THIS PEOPLE"
• 02:23 "AND HE SHALL CAUSE THEM TO INHERIT THE LAND WHICH THOU SHALT SEE."
• 02:32 WE CALL HIM, "MOSHE RABANU",
• 02:35 "MOSES, OUR TEACHER",
• 02:37 BUT HE WASN'T JUST A TEACHER
• 02:38 HE WAS A GUIDE
• 02:40 AND HE LED HUNDREDS OF HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF JEWISH PEOPLE
• 02:44 THROUGH A BARREN WASTELAND EN ROUTE TO A PROMISED LAND.
• 02:49 AND HERE WE ARE AT THAT WASTELAND
• 02:51 AND HERE WE'RE GOING TO THAT PROMISED LAND.
• 02:54 AS BIBLE READERS KNOW,
• 02:56 THAT HE WENT TO IT BY WAY OF A PLACE CALLED JERICHO.
• 02:59 WE'RE GONNA FIND IT...
• 03:00 GET A LITTLE HELP WITH THE GPS.
• 03:02 WE'RE GONNA MAKE OUR WAY
• 03:03 AS WE WALK IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF MOSES
• 03:06 EN ROUTE TO THE PROMISED LAND.
• 03:40 IT HAD BEEN DECADES AND MANY DESPAIRED.
• 03:42 MOSES KEPT GOING BECAUSE THE LORD HAD SPOKEN TO HIM AND GIVEN HIM A PARTICULAR VISION.
• 03:48 A PARTICULAR VISION
• 03:50 FOR A PARTICULAR PEOPLE
• 03:51 TAKING RESIDENCY IN A PARTICULAR PLACE.
• 03:54 LET ME SHOW IT TO YOU ON A MAP HERE.
• 03:56 GET A GOOD LOOK AT THIS.
• 03:58 THEY LEFT "MITSRAYIM",
• 04:01 "EGYPT"...
• 04:02 IT'S OFF THE MAP RIGHT HERE.
• 04:03 AND THEY MADE THEY'RE WAY TO HAR SINAI,
• 04:05 SINAI; IT'S OFF THE MAP HERE STILL.
• 04:07 AND THEN THEY CAME UP TO KADESH BARNEA
• 04:09 AFTER WHICH THEY WANDERED FOR APPROACHING FOUR DECADES.
• 04:12 AND AFTER WANDERING IN THE WILDERNESS THEY FINALLY ARE HERE
• 04:16 EN ROUTE TO JERICHO
• 04:18 WHERE THEY'RE GONNA MAKE THEIR WAY IN TO WHAT'S CALLED
• 04:22 "THE PROMISED LAND".
• 04:24 AND WHY IS IT CALLED "THE PROMISED LAND"?
• 04:25 BECAUSE GOD PROMISED IT TO A PARTICULAR PEOPLE.
• 04:28 THE BORDERS ARE DELINEATED CLEARLY.
• 04:31 YOU HAVE THE GREAT SEA,
• 04:33 THE MEDITERRANEAN,
• 04:34 THE RIVER OF EGYPT,
• 04:36 NOTED IS THE DEAD SEA,
• 04:37 THE JORDAN RIVER
• 04:39 GOING UP TOWARD THE EUPHRATES
• 04:40 AND EXTENDING EASTWARD.
• 04:42 THIS IS ACTUALLY A CONSERVATIVE MAP.
• 04:44 THERE'S A COGENT ARGUMENT
• 04:46 WE'RE MOVING EASTWARD STILL.
• 04:48 IN ANY CASE WE WANT TO TAKE A LOOK AT THIS LAND...
• 04:51 WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS ABOUT IT.
• 04:52 WE HEAR A LOT OF IT IN THE PRESS.
• 04:54 LET'S SEE IF WE CAN BE IMPRESSED BY THE BIBLICAL TEXT.
• 04:57 COME WITH ME.
• 04:58 LET'S GO HAVE A TALK FROM JERICHO.
• 05:07 WELL THERE'S A MAP
• 05:09 AND THERE'S A MAP.
• 05:10 TODAY INDIVIDUALS ARE FOND OF SPEAKING OF THE ROADMAP FOR PEACE.
• 05:14 AND TYPICALLY THOSE THAT ARE ENGAGED IN THE ROADMAP FOR PEACE
• 05:18 ARE SIMPLY LOOKING TO CARVE UP ISRAEL PIECE BY PIECE BY PIECE.
• 05:23 I LOOK AT THE BIBLE AS SOMETHING OF A ROADMAP
• 05:26 AND THEREIN IT DELINEATES CLEARLY WHAT GOD'S WILL IS...
• 05:31 WHAT HIS WAYS ARE...
• 05:32 WHAT HIS INTENTIONS ARE FOR PEOPLE AND PLACES.
• 05:35 AND IT IS SO EXPLICIT.
• 05:38 IT'S NOT EVEN A TACIT INFERENCE.
• 05:41 IT'S NOTED VERY CLEARLY.
• 05:42 IN FACT IN EXODUS CHAPTER 32
• 05:45 MOSES IS ON RECORD PETITIONING GOD,
• 05:48 REMINDING HIM OF HIS OWN PROMISE NOTED TO THE PATRIARCHS,
• 05:52 TO AVRAHAM, TO YITZHAK AND YAKOV...
• 05:55 ABRAHAM, ISAAC AND JACOB, SAYING, QUOTE,
• 05:58 IN CHAPTER 32 VERSE 13,
• 06:13 LET ME ASK YOU A QUESTION.
• 06:14 HOW LONG DO YOU THINK FOREVER IS?
• 06:17 SEEMS TO ME THAT FOREVER IS LIKE A REALLY LONG TIME.
• 06:24 WHAT IS THIS LAND THAT'S VOUCHSAFE TO THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL THAT THEY ARE TO HAVE FOREVER?
• 06:30 WELL, THERE ARE VARIOUS REFERENCES TO THE BORDERS I SHOWED YOU ON THE MAP.
• 06:35 NOW LET ME SHOW YOU ON THE BIBLICAL MAP
• 06:36 BECAUSE IT'S NOTED VERY, VERY CLEARLY.
• 06:39 IF YOU'LL GO,
• 06:40 ITS CALLED "BAH-MID-BAR",
• 06:42 WHICH MEANS "IN THE WILDERNESS"
• 06:43 AND IT'S A FITTING TITLE
• 06:45 AS YOU CAN SEE WE'RE OUT HERE IN THE WILDERNESS,
• 06:47 VERY ARID, VERY DRY
• 06:48 AND THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL ACCORDING TO THE BIBLICAL TEXT
• 06:51 WENT ON A LONG AN ARDUOUS JOURNEY
• 06:53 EN ROUTE TO A LAND THAT'S CALLED
• 06:55 "THE PROMISED LAND"
• 06:57 THAT IS VOUCHSAFE TO GENERATIONS OF JEWS IN PERPETUITY FOREVER,
• 07:02 ACCORDING TO THE TEXT.
• 07:04 THE BOUNDARIES, AS I'VE SHOWED YOU ON THE MAP,
• 07:06 ARE DELINEATED IN CHAPTER 34 OF NUMBERS.
• 07:10 WE'RE TOLD, THE LORD SPOKE TO MOSES...
• 07:12 NOTICE IT'S "THE LORD SPOKE",
• 07:14 ITS NOT "A SECRETARY OF STATE SPOKE",
• 07:17 IT'S NOT "A PRESIDENT SPOKE",
• 07:19 IT'S NOT "THE UNITED NATIONS"
• 07:21 COMMONLY REFERRED TO AS "THE UNITED NOTHING" SPOKE,
• 07:24 IT IS "THE LORD SPOKE" SAYING,
• 07:27 "COMMAND THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL"
• 07:29 THE LANGUAGE IS VERY STRONG,
• 07:30 "COMMAND",
• 07:31 IT SOUNDS SOMEWHAT FORCEFUL TO ME.
• 07:34 "AND SAY, WHEN YOU COME INTO THE LAND OF CANAAN"...
• 07:37 AND THE FIRST STOP HERE IS JERICHO
• 07:40 WHERE THERE WAS A BATTLE ROYAL PLAYED OUT
• 07:42 AND WE KNOW HOW GOD MIRACULOUSLY ENABLED THEM TO HAVE SUCCESS IN THAT CONFLAGRATION...HE SAYS,
• 07:48 "WHEN YOU COME INTO THE LAND, THIS IS THE LAND THAT SHALL FALL TO YOU AS AN INHERITANCE."
• 07:55 NOTE AGAIN THE LANGUAGE,
• 07:57 ITS NOT JUST A BATTLE FOR NOW,
• 08:00 IT'S A BATTLE FOR TOMORROW IN NO UNCERTAIN TERMS.
• 08:04 HE SAYS, "WHEN YOU COME INTO THE LAND THAT WILL FALL TO YOU AS AN INHERITANCE, THE LAND OF CANAAN"
• 08:09 AND THEN HE GOES TO ITS BOUNDARIES
• 08:12 AND THEN THE LITERATURE IS EXPLICIT IN NOTING THE BOUNDARIES THAT I SHOWED YOU ON THE MAP.
• 08:19 NOW AT THE RISK OF SOUNDING NEGATIVE...
• 08:23 AND IT'S NOT LIKE THE HEAT IS GETTING TO ME OUT HERE...
• 08:26 BUT LET ME SAY, AS CLEAR AS IT IS THAT THIS LAND IS COMMITTED TO A PARTICULAR PEOPLE,
• 08:32 I'M CLUELESS AT ONE LEVEL HOW REASONING BIBLE PEOPLE JUST DON'T SEEM TO GET IT...
• 08:40 MAKES NO SENSE TO ME AT ONE LEVEL.
• 08:42 THERE MUST BE SOME KIND OF BLINDNESS OVER THE EYES OF SOME BIBLE READERS.
• 08:46 JEWS ARE FOREVER BEING ACCUSED OF HAVING A BLINDNESS,
• 08:48 THEY READ THE BIBLE AND THEY CAN'T SEE IT,
• 08:51 WELL TO ME IT ISN'T JUST A QUESTION OF WHY JEWS CAN'T SEE THINGS ABOUT JESUS IN THE BIBLE,
• 08:58 ITS WHY JESUS PEOPLE CAN'T SEE THINGS ABOUT JEWS IN THE BIBLE
• 09:02 LIKE THE FACT THAT THERE IS A PARTICULAR PEOPLE THAT'S GIVEN A PARTICULAR PLACE.
• 09:07 FRANKLY, AT THE RISK OF SOUNDING OVERLY PESSIMISTIC,
• 09:10 THIS IS A SERIES I SHOULDN'T EVEN HAVE TO MAKE.
• 09:13 IT IS JUST SO SIMPLE,
• 09:14 IT IS SO "ONE PLUS ONE EQUAL TWO"
• 09:16 AND THAT IS THAT GOD GAVE THIS LAND TO THE JEW.
• 09:20 AND THE STORY IS PLAYED OUT RATHER DRAMATICALLY
• 09:23 AFTER SPENDING MANY, MANY YEARS IN A WILDERNESS.
• 09:26 THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL BEGAN THEIR CONQUEST OF CANAAN.
• 09:29 LEAVING THE BASE CAMP THEY HAVE A STRUGGLE AT JERICHO RIGHT BEHIND ME.
• 09:36 AND THEN THERE'S A CAMPAIGN TO THE SOUTH THAT WILL GO UP NORTH
• 09:40 AND THE END RESULT WILL BE
• 09:41 IS THAT THE MAIN BACKBONE OF CANAANITE RESISTANCE WILL BE BROKEN
• 09:46 ENABLING THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL TO TAKE THEIR INHERITANCE.
• 09:51 FRIENDS, IF WE READ THE BIBLE...
• 09:54 IF WE BELIEVE THE BIBLE...
• 09:56 LET'S STAND UP FOR WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS
• 09:58 AND SUPPORT THE JEWISH BID FOR RESIDENCY HERE IN THE ANCESTRAL HOMELAND.
• 10:21 FOR INSIGHTFUL PERSPECTIVES OF ISRAEL AND BIBLE PROPHECY
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• 10:54 (JEFF SPEAKING)
• 10:57 THE BACKDROP THIS WEEK TO OUR CONTINUED STORY OF THE MODERN STATE OF ISRAEL
• 11:01 IS THE HISTORIC, INDEPENDENCE HALL IN TEL AVIV.
• 11:05 HERE'S DAVID DOLAN.
• 11:09 I'M STANDING IN INDEPENDENCE HALL IN TEL AVIV
• 11:11 WHERE THE STATE OF ISRAEL
• 11:13 WAS DECLARED IN 1948
• 11:15 BUT MUCH HAPPENED IN THE YEARS BEFORE THAT
• 11:17 THAT LED TO THAT HISTORIC MOMENT.
• 11:19 IN 1931 THE ARAB LEADER OF THE LAND, HAJ AMIN HUSSEINI,
• 11:23 HELD A PAN-ISLAMIC CONFERENCE
• 11:25 BRINGING MUSLIMS FROM AROUND THE REGION
• 11:27 WHERE THEY DECLARED THERE WILL BE NO JEWISH STATE HERE IN THE LAND.
• 11:30 TWO YEARS LATER A MAN NAMED ADOLF HITLER CAME TO POWER IN GERMANY
• 11:34 SOON AFTER WRITING "MEIN KAMPF"
• 11:36 WHERE HE DECLARED THAT ALL THE JEWS OF EUROPE WOULD BE SLAUGHTERED.
• 11:39 250,000 JEWISH REFUGEES FLED GERMANY DURING THE 1930'S AND CAME HERE TO LIVE IN THE LAND.
• 11:46 AS THE NUMBERS INCREASED THE MUSLIM RESISTANCE INCREASED AS WELL.
• 11:50 AND IN 1936 AN ARAB GENERAL STRIKE WAS HELD.
• 11:54 80 JEWS WERE KILLED IN RIOTING THROUGHOUT THE LAND.
• 11:58 AS A RESULT OF THAT THE BRITISH HELD A CONFERENCE
• 12:00 AND DECIDED TO PARTITION THE LAND INTO AN ARAB AND A JEWISH STATE,
• 12:04 NO LONGER PROMISING TO FULFILL THE MANDATE'S CALL
• 12:07 FOR JUST A JEWISH STATE WEST OF THE JORDAN RIVER.
• 12:10 SOON AFTER THAT ANOTHER GENERAL STRIKE BROKE OUT IN 1938.
• 12:14 MORE JEWS WERE KILLED,
• 12:16 MORE ARABS WERE KILLED.
• 12:18 THE ARABS HERE FELT FOR SURE THAT HITLER WOULD LAUNCH A WAR IN EUROPE
• 12:21 AND WOULD BE VICTORIOUS AND THEY WOULD NEVER HAVE TO PUT UP WITH THE JEWISH STATE HERE.
• 12:26 IN 1939 AS A RESULT OF THAT VIOLENCE THE BRITISH ISSUED SOMETHING CALLED
• 12:30 "THE WHITE PAPER"
• 12:31 AT A CONFERENCE IN LONDON.
• 12:33 IT PROPOSED A BI-NATIONAL STATE
• 12:35 IN WHICH THE JEWS WOULD BE A MINORITY.
• 12:37 ONLY 75,000 MORE JEWS WOULD BE LEAD INTO THE LAND AFTER THAT
• 12:41 AND THEN NO MORE.
• 12:43 WELL, THE JEWS REALIZED THIS WAS A RECIPE FOR DISASTER...
• 12:46 THEY WOULD PROBABLY BE KILLED BY THE ARAB MAJORITY HERE IN THE LAND.
• 12:51 NEVERTHELESS, THEY ACCEPTED THIS PLAN.
• 12:53 LATER THAT SAME YEAR HITLER INVADED POLAND AND WORLD WAR II BEGAN.
• 12:58 IT WOULD BE A DISASTER FOR THE JEWISH PEOPLE.
• 13:01 THEY HOLOCAUST WOULD TAKE THE LIVES OF 600,000,000 JEWS.
• 13:05 FEW JEWS IN THE LAND HERE BELIEVED WHAT THEY WERE HEARING,
• 13:08 THAT THIS MASS SLAUGHTER WAS TAKING PLACE.
• 13:10 MEANWHILE GERMAN GENERAL ROMEL
• 13:12 WAS ON HIS WAY TO PALESTINE
• 13:14 WITH THE GOAL OF DRIVING THE JEWS OUT OF THE LAND AND TAKING THE HOLY LAND FOR GERMANY.
• 13:20 IT DIDN'T HAPPEN.
• 13:22 HIS FORCES WERE STOPPED IN EGYPT BY ALLIED FORCES WHICH BY NOW INCLUDED THE UNITED STATES.
• 13:26 THAT WAS IN JULY OF 1942.
• 13:30 DURING THE WAR WINSTON CHURCHILL PROMISED THE JEWS A STATE DESPITE "THE WHITE PAPER"
• 13:35 AND THEY FOUGHT WITH HIM AND HELPED HIM IN HIS WAR EFFORT.
• 13:39 BY 1947 THE BRITISH WANTED OUT OF THIS CONFLICT.
• 13:42 FOLLOWING THE WAR
• 13:44 THE NEW GOVERNMENT IN LONDON WENT BACK ON THAT PROMISE OF A JEWISH STATE,
• 13:47 AGAIN PROPOSING A BI-NATIONAL STATE.
• 13:49 ATTACKS WERE LAUNCHED AGAINST BRITISH POSITIONS HERE IN THE LAND BY VARIOUS JEWISH GROUPS...
• 13:55 TRAINS WERE BLOWN UP AND OTHER THINGS.
• 13:57 IN CAIRO HAJ AMIN HUSSEINI
• 13:59 WAS ORGANIZING AN ARAB ARMY
• 14:01 TO TAKE THE LAND AFTER THE WAR.
• 14:03 IN NOVEMBER OF 1947 THE UN VOTED
• 14:06 TO PARTITION THE LAND INTO A JEWISH AND ARAB STATE.
• 14:09 THE JEWISH STATE WOULD BE IN THREE DIFFERENT PARTS.
• 14:11 IT WAS A RECIPE FOR DISASTER
• 14:14 AND YET IT WAS STILL ACCEPTED BY THE JEWS.
• 14:17 AND YET THE STATE OF ISRAEL WAS BORN
• 14:20 IN THIS HALL, MAY 14TH, 1948.
• 14:23 THIS DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
• 14:25 WAS SIGNED BY DAVID BEN-GURION
• 14:27 AND 18 OTHER DELEGATES.
• 14:28 THE STATE OF ISRAEL WAS BORN.
• 14:57 FOR THE LORD THY GOD BRINGETH THEE INTO A GOOD LAND
• 15:01 A LAND OF FIG TREES AND POMEGRANATES
• 15:05 A LAND OF OLIVE OIL AND HONEY
• 15:08 ARISE...WALK THROUGH THE LAND
• 15:12 FOR ALL THE LAND WHICH THOU SEEST
• 15:15 TO THEE WILL I GIVE IT
• 15:18 AND TO THY SEED FOREVER
• 15:21 WORSHIP IN THE SHADOWS OF ABRAHAM, ISAAC AND JACOB
• 15:26 BEHOLD THE LAND OF THE COVENANT
• 15:38 IN SO MANY WAYS ISRAEL IS A MODERN MIRACLE.
• 15:43 AND WHEN PEOPLE COME IN CONTACT WITH MIRACLES
• 15:46 IT HAS A WAY OF BLESSING.
• 15:48 AND SO WE ARE ALL ABOUT WANTING TO BLESS YOU TO GET YOU TO THE MIRACLE.
• 15:52 AND TRACIE WORKS WITH US TO HELP FACILITATE THAT.
• 15:55 GLAD YOU'RE HERE TRACE.
• 15:57 IT'S GREAT TO BE HERE DR. SEIF.
• 15:58 WHAT DO PEOPLE NEED TO DO IF THEY WANT TO GO TO ISRAEL WITH ME AND YOU?
• 16:01 WE HAVE MADE IT EASIER THAN EVER.
• 16:03 PEOPLE CAN GO TO OUR WEBSITE.
• 16:04 WE HAVE TOTALLY EXPANDED IT.
• 16:06 THEY CAN GET OUR BROCHURE,
• 16:07 OUR REGISTRATION FORM;
• 16:08 THEY CAN EVEN REGISTER ON LINE.
• 16:10 THEY'RE GONNA WANT TO DO THAT MONTHS IN ADVANCE.
• 16:11 WE DO PLAN OUR TOURS AT LEAST A YEAR IN ADVANCE.
• 16:14 THEY DO SELL OUT QUICKLY.
• 16:15 BUT PEOPLE CAN ALSO CALL ME AT 1-800-WONDERS
• 16:18 I'M IN THE OFFICE EACH DAY
• 16:20 AND I WOULD LOVE TO TALK TO YOU ABOUT OUR TRIPS.
• 16:22 AND I'D LOVE TO TALK TO YOU IF YOU'RE THERE WITH US ON THOSE TRIPS
• 16:26 WITH ME AND TRACE AND MY WIFE AND FRIENDS.
• 16:28 HEY LISTEN, IF YOU WANT TO HEAR FROM US
• 16:30 BUT CAN'T GO TO ISRAEL WITH US,
• 16:32 WE'RE HAPPY TO SEND YOU OUR MAGAZINE JUST FOR THE ASKING.
• 16:36 ITS IS BREAKING NEWS TODAY
• 16:38 AND WE'D LIKE TO LOOK AT
• 16:39 WITH BIBLICAL PERSPECTIVES.
• 16:41 AND SO IF YOU'RE GAME TO HEAR FROM US THEN CONTACT US AT
• 16:45 1-800-WONDERS
• 16:47 OR ON OUR WEBSITE LEVITT.COM
• 16:49 I SHOULD SAY AS WELL
• 16:50 THAT COMING UP IN A LITTLE BIT
• 16:52 IS THE OFFER ON TODAY'S PROGRAM,
• 16:53 A BOOK THAT I WROTE CALLED
• 16:55 "GUNS AND MOSES".
• 16:57 AN ODD TITLE
• 16:58 BUT I THINK SOMETIMES GOD IMPOSES UPON US
• 17:01 TO CONTEND FOR THAT WHICH HE HAS FOR US.
• 17:04 WELL THERE'S A BATTLE ROYAL GOING ON IN ISRAEL.
• 17:07 WHENEVER GOD HAS HIS WILL WORKING,
• 17:09 SATAN HAS AN ASSIGNMENT AGAINST IT
• 17:11 AND ME AND DAVID DOLAN
• 17:13 ARE GOING TO TAKE YOU NOW
• 17:15 TO OUR NORTHERN MOST MILITARY OUTPOST IN OVERLOOK.
• 17:18 COME WITH US AND HAVE A LOOK.
• 17:23 WE'RE HERE COURTESY OF
• 17:24 THE ISRAELI ARMY, LITERALLY,
• 17:26 THEY GAVE US ACCESS
• 17:27 TO A BASE THAT'S RIGHT
• 17:29 AT THE CORNER WHERE WE HAVE
• 17:31 JORDAN ON ONE END,
• 17:32 SYRIA ON THE OTHER
• 17:33 AND ISRAEL.
• 17:34 GOODNESS...WHAT A PLACE!
• 17:36 AND WHAT A STRUGGLE TO GET TO THIS PLACE, YES DAVID?
• 17:38 WELL ABSOLUTELY
• 17:39 WE'RE AT THE SOUTHERN END OF THE GOLAN HEIGHTS
• 17:42 WHERE WE HAD INTENSE BATTLES IN 1967,
• 17:44 INTENSE BATTLES IN 1973,
• 17:47 THIS POSITION AND MANY ISRAELI POSITIONS
• 17:50 WERE OVERRUN BY THE SYRIANS IN THAT WAR.
• 17:53 AND WE HAVE THESE THREE COUNTRIES THAT HAVE ALSO HAD OTHER STRUGGLES...
• 17:56 SYRIA, AND JORDAN HAVE HAD NEAR CIVIL WAR A COUPLE OF TIMES...
• 18:02 STRUGGLES BETWEEN THEM AS WELL.
• 18:04 WE HAVE A DISPUTE OVER WATER GOING ON...
• 18:06 VERY LITTLE WATER.
• 18:07 WE'RE HERE ON A HOT DAY
• 18:08 AND THE THREE COUNTRIES WANT IT.
• 18:10 WE HAVE THE SEA OF GALILEE RIGHT BELOW
• 18:12 WHICH OF COURSE IS SUCH A STRATEGIC FRESH WATER RESERVOIR FOR ISRAEL.
• 18:17 AND SYRIA WOULD LIKE IT BACK AND AGAIN,
• 18:20 ESPECIALLY FOR AN AMERICAN AUDIENCE,
• 18:22 WE'RE TALKING ABOUT SYRIA BEING JUST A FEW MILES HERE.
• 18:24 WE'RE TALKING ABOUT JORDAN BEING RIGHT BEHIND US HERE AS WELL.
• 18:28 WE CAN LITERALLY SEE...
• 18:29 AND I'M LOOKING DOWN THIS WAY TOWARDS THE VALLEY BELOW
• 18:33 WHERE THERE'S ISRAELI COMMUNITIES.
• 18:34 WE CAN SEE COMMUNITIES FROM THE THREE COUNTRIES
• 18:36 RIGHT HERE MEETING TOGETHER IN THIS LITTLE SPACE
• 18:39 AND OF COURSE COUNTRIES JORDAN AND ISRAEL HAVE A PEACE PACT BUT WITH SYRIA
• 18:43 CERTAINLY NO PEACE AT ALL THERE.
• 18:45 WELL WHEN I THINK OF PEACE
• 18:48 I'M REMINDED OF A PEACE OF GOD
• 18:50 THAT COMES FROM WALKING IN A COVENANT WITH GOD.
• 18:52 AND ROLLING THE TAPE BACK THOUSANDS OF YEARS,
• 18:54 HE SPOKE TO MOSES AND HE HAD A PEACE PLAN FOR PLANET EARTH
• 18:58 AND IT ENTAILED GIVING A CERTAIN PEOPLE
• 19:00 A CERTAIN PARCEL OF REAL ESTATE
• 19:02 AND HERE WE STAND.
• 19:03 IT SEEMS LIKE ITS PROPHECY BEING FULFILLED
• 19:06 WITH ISRAEL EMERGING
• 19:07 AMIDST ALL THESE TENSIONS.
• 19:09 IT REALLY IS
• 19:10 AND YOU KNOW WE HAD AS PART OF THE MANDATE GIVEN TO BRITAIN
• 19:14 TO HELP ESTABLISH A JEWISH STATE...
• 19:16 RE-ESTABLISH AS YOU POINTED OUT
• 19:18 BECAUSE IT WAS HERE IN ANCIENT TIMES...
• 19:21 THIS AREA WAS MEANT TO BE PART OF THAT STATE.
• 19:23 AND IT WAS ONLY BECAUSE OF A DISPUTE BETWEEN BRITAIN AND FRANCE
• 19:25 THAT IT WAS HANDED OVER TO FRANCE
• 19:27 WHICH THEN INCLUDED IT IN THE MANDATE FOR SYRIA.
• 19:30 SO THERE WOULDN'T HAVE BEEN THIS STRUGGLE ON THIS PARTICULAR HEIGHTS
• 19:33 IF THE ORIGINAL DECLARATION AFTER WORLD WAR I
• 19:37 HAD BEEN ADHERED TO.
• 19:39 BUT THERE WAS A LOT OF PRESSURE THAT CAME FROM THE ARAB WORLD AGAINST THAT
• 19:42 AND SO WE HAVE THIS STRUGGLE
• 19:44 AND OF COURSE ITS STILL GOING ON TODAY...
• 19:46 THE SYRIANS DEMANDING THAT ISRAEL EVACUATE THIS PLATEAU.
• 19:49 THERE IS PEACE AS I SAID BETWEEN JORDAN AND ISRAEL
• 19:52 BUT CERTAINLY NOT THIS OTHER ONE.
• 19:53 AND WHERE IT WILL END UP WE DON'T KNOW
• 19:55 BUT THE FACT THAT WE'RE AT A BASE
• 19:57 AND THESE GUYS ARE ON THE LOOK OUT ALL THE TIME
• 19:59 JUST ILLUSTRATES THAT THAT BATTLE STILL GOES ON.
• 20:02 YES AND I LOVE TO BRING CAMERA CREWS HERE
• 20:05 AND DAVID I'M GLAD YOU'RE HERE WITH US TO EXPLAIN IT SOME.
• 20:08 WITH THE BIBLE IN VIEW I'M REMINDED WHEN I LOOK AT THIS GORGEOUS VISTA
• 20:13 AND I THINK OF THE TENSIONS
• 20:14 WE'RE LOOKING AT REAL ESTATE
• 20:16 THAT WAS VOUCHSAFE TO THE JEWISH PEOPLE.
• 20:18 AND I'M REMINDED AS WE STAND HERE,
• 20:20 AND AS YOU REMIND US OF BATTLES PRESENT
• 20:23 AND AS I THINK OF BATTLES IN BIBLE DAYS
• 20:26 I'M REMINDED OF A STRUGGLE THAT GOES BACK
• 20:28 TO THE PAGES OF THE BIBLICAL TEXT
• 20:30 AND ITS ALL ABOUT ESTABLISHING GOD'S KINGDOM PLAN
• 20:32 HERE ON EARTH AS IT IS IN HEAVEN.
• 22:44 BEAUTIFUL PSALM.
• 22:46 PSALM 147 GIVES VOICE IN VERSE 2
• 22:49 TO GOD'S BUILDING UP JERUSALEM
• 22:52 AND THEN GOES ON TO TALK ABOUT
• 22:53 GATHERING THE OUTCASTS
• 22:55 AND HEALING AND BINDING WOUNDS.
• 22:57 I DON'T KNOW WHAT IT TAKES TO IMPRESS YOU
• 23:00 BUT THAT IS HAPPENING TODAY.
• 23:02 IT'S AN EXAMPLE WHERE THE BIBLE SAYS IT
• 23:04 AND THE MODERN NEWS SHOWS IT.
• 23:07 BUT WHEN GOD IS AT WORK IN THE WORLD,
• 23:09 HELL IS JUST THERE PRESSING AGAINST
• 23:11 AND WHILE GOD IS GATHERING
• 23:13 THERE ARE FORCES THAT ARE BENT ON SCATTERING.
• 23:16 LET'S JUST GIVE AWAY WHAT GOD IS DOING
• 23:18 SO IT'S AN OLD, OLD STORY...
• 23:21 GOES BACK TO GENESIS
• 23:22 AT THE VERY BEGINNING...
• 23:24 THE STRUGGLE.
• 23:25 WELL, ZOLA LEVITT AND TOM MCCALL
• 23:27 LOOK AT A MAP
• 23:28 AND TALK ABOUT THE BACK AND FORTH,
• 23:30 THE POLITICAL INTRIGUE THAT SO MUCH CONSTITUTES WHAT GOES ON IN ISRAEL.
• 23:34 IT'S NOT JUST POLITICAL AND SPIRITUAL.
• 23:36 BUT OFF WE GO NOW TO HEAR ZOLA AND TOM.
• 23:41 IT INCLUDES A
• 23:42 LARGE AREA HERE
• 23:44 IN EVEN DAMASCUS.
• 23:45 WELL THIS IS MOST OF SYRIA
• 23:46 AS WE SEE SYRIA TODAY
• 23:48 EVEN IT'S A VERY ANCIENT CAPITAL CITY, DAMASCUS
• 23:52 AS YOU SAY,
• 23:54 SO WE'RE IN A TIME WHERE
• 23:55 THERE'S A PEACE CONFERENCE
• 23:57 THAT'S SAID TO BE BASED
• 23:58 ON ISRAEL GIVING
• 23:59 THE GOLAN HEIGHTS
• 24:00 WHICH A SMALL AREA
• 24:02 JUST NORTH OF THE SEA OF GALILEE
• 24:04 RELATIVE TO THIS WHOLE PORTION.
• 24:05 OVER TO SYRIA
• 24:06 WHEN IN REALITY OR BIBLICALLY
• 24:08 WHAT GOD GAVE TO ISRAEL
• 24:10 WAS THE MOST PART OF SYRIA.
• 24:12 THAT'S RIGHT
• 24:13 AND THEN IT GOES ON
• 24:14 DOWN THE JORDAN RIVER
• 24:15 ALL THE WAY TO
• 24:16 THE BEGINNING POINT
• 24:18 ON THE DEAD SEA.
• 24:20 NOW WE CAN SEE
• 24:21 AS YOU WERE INDICATING THERE
• 24:23 HOW THIS MATCHES UP
• 24:24 WITH MODERN ISRAEL
• 24:26 WITH ITS OVERLAY
• 24:27 AND WE SEE THAT ISRAEL
• 24:30 GOES DOWN BELOW
• 24:31 TO THE RED SEA AND ARAD.
• 24:35 IT'S REALLY FURTHER DOWN
• 24:36 IN THE WILDERNESS OF ZIN NOW
• 24:37 BECAUSE IT GOES TO THE RED SEA
• 24:40 BUT ITS ALL DESERT FROM HERE SOUTH.
• 24:42 THAT'S RIGHT
• 24:43 NOT FERTILE LAND.
• 24:44 AND THEN WE HAVE
• 24:45 UP HERE IN THE NORTH
• 24:46 WHAT YOU WERE POINTING OUT
• 24:48 ABOUT THE GOLAN HEIGHTS.
• 24:49 IT'S MARKED CLEARLY THERE.
• 24:51 AND YET HOW THE ORIGINAL BOUNDARY
• 24:53 THAT WAS GIVEN BY THE LORD THROUGH MOSES
• 24:55 TO JOSHUA
• 24:57 WAS WAY OVER INTO HERE.
• 24:58 SO GOD SAID,
• 24:59 THIS GOES TO ISRAEL
• 25:00 AND THE PEACE CONFERENCE
• 25:02 IS TALKING ABOUT
• 25:03 WHETHER THIS PART
• 25:04 GOES TO SYRIA.
• 25:05 EXACTLY...
• 25:06 OR THE WEST BANK SO CALLED,
• 25:07 WHICH IS JUDAH AND SAMARIA...
• 25:09 WAS ALL OF THIS IN HERE
• 25:11 AND WHAT'S UNDER DISCUSSION
• 25:12 IS WHETHER THIS OUGHT TO GO BACK TO JORDAN
• 25:15 AND YET ALL OF THIS
• 25:17 AT LEAST TO THE JORDAN RIVER
• 25:18 WAS PART OF THE ORIGINAL LAND GRANT
• 25:21 GIVEN BY THE LORD THROUGH MOSES TO THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL.
• 25:43 HAVE YOU EVER HEARD THE SONG
• 25:45 "MAP MAKER, MAP MAKER, MAKE ME A MAP"?
• 25:48 OKAY...IT SAYS "MATCHMAKER"
• 25:50 BUT I WANT TO BORROW IT
• 25:52 BECAUSE I WANT TO MAKE A MATCH BETWEEN YOUR UNDERSTANDING AND WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS
• 25:56 AND SOMETIMES A PICTURE HELPS TO DO IT.
• 25:59 AND NEVER MIND THIS FACSIMILE OF AN ANCIENT MAP,
• 26:04 TRUTH OF THE MATTER IS THE BIBLE GIVES A ROADMAP FOR PEACE
• 26:07 AND IT LETS YOU KNOW WHAT PIECES GO WHERE
• 26:10 AND IT IS SO CLEAR IN THE BIBLICAL TEXT WHO GETS THE REAL ESTATE.
• 26:13 OH GOODNESS, WE HEAR IN THE BEGINNING OF DEUTERONOMY THE LAND OF THE AMORITES NOTED,
• 26:18 AND HEADING SOUTH AT THE END OF DEUTERONOMY MOSES SEES TO ZOAR,
• 26:23 HE SEES NORTH TO DAN,
• 26:24 HE SEES A PARTICULAR PEOPLE HAVING A PARTICULAR PLACE
• 26:28 AND I WANT YOU TO SEE IT TOO.
• 26:31 AND WHY IS THAT?
• 26:32 BECAUSE THERE MIGHT BE THIS DAWNING REALIZATION THAT DIFFICULTIES ASIDE,
• 26:37 GOD IS WATCHING OVER HIS WORD TO PERFORM IT
• 26:40 AND HE WHO WATCHES OVER ISRAEL WILL WATCH OVER YOU.
• 26:43 WELL THINKING OF WATCHING...
• 26:45 THANK YOU FOR WATCHING US.
• 26:47 AND AS YOU GO NOW,
• 26:48 SHA'ALU SHALOM YERUSHALAYIM
• 26:51 PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM