Home » Zola TV » Video Archives » ZLM Video

Caption transcript for Psalms of Ascent: “Psalms 120 & 121” (1/8)

• 00:09 ♪PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM♪
• 00:14 ♪JERUSALEM♪
• 00:17 ♪MAY THEY PROSPER WHO LOVE YOU♪
• 00:21 ♪JERUSALEM♪
• 00:24 ♪IT'S FOR THEM MY BRETHREN AND COMPANION'S SAKE♪
• 00:30 ♪I WILL PRAY FOR YOU♪
• 00:34 ♪JERUSALEM♪
• 00:45 SHALOM AND WELCOME TO ZOLA LEVITT PRESENTS.
• 00:48 I'M SANDRA AND I AM SO EXCITED TO BE PART OF THIS NEW SERIES ON THE PSALMS OF ASCENT...
• 00:54 PSALMS 120 THROUGH 134...
• 00:56 SOME OF THE GREAT CHAPTERS IN THE PSALMS...
• 00:59 SO ENCOURAGING...SO HOPEFUL...
• 01:01 SHOWING GOD'S PLAN NOT ONLY FOR ISRAEL IN HER TIMES OF WAR OR TROUBLES BUT ALSO FOR US.
• 01:08 MY GOOD FRIEND, DR. JEFFREY SEIF,
• 01:11 WILL BE DOING THE TEACHING ON LOCATION IN ISRAEL.
• 01:14 WE BEGIN WITH PSALMS 120...
• 01:17 AND AS MY FRIEND JEFF WOULD SAY,
• 01:19 "OFF WE GO TO ISRAEL".
• 01:23 KING DAVID HAD BEEN HERE BEFORE.
• 01:27 MORE THAN ONCE THEY HAD COME TO THE TABLE EXTENDING PLEASANTRIES AND SPEAKING OF PEACE.
• 01:32 YET THEY DID SO WITH LYING LIPS AND DECEITFUL TONGUES.
• 01:38 WOULD THIS EVENING BE ANY DIFFERENT?
• 01:42 COULD THIS EXCHANGE BRING PEACE AMONG THE NATIONS?
• 01:45 "MY SOUL HATH LONG DWELT WITH HIM THAT HATED PEACE."
• 01:50 "I AM FOR PEACE...."
• 01:53 "BUT WHEN I SPEAK..."
• 01:55 "THEY ARE FOR WAR!"
• 02:01 THE PSALMIST SAYS IN [CHAPTER] 120, VERSE 7,
• 02:18 ISN'T IT TRAGIC IN HUMAN AFFAIRS
• 02:21 THAT INDIVIDUALS CAN BE SINCERE
• 02:24 ON THE ONE HAND
• 02:25 ONLY TO HAVE TO CONTEND WITH INDIVIDUALS THAT ARE DISINGENUOUS ON THE OTHER.
• 02:30 THEY LACK CANDOR...
• 02:31 THEY'RE NOT FORTHRIGHT...
• 02:33 THEY'RE DECEITFUL...
• 02:34 THERE'S ALL KINDS OF MACHINATIONS.
• 02:37 SOME CALL IT THE WORLD OF POLITICS WHERE PEOPLE ARE FOREVER POSTURING...
• 02:43 BUT WHAT IS THE TRUTH?
• 02:45 WHO KNOWS?
• 02:47 IN FACT, SOMETIMES IN POLITICAL CONVERSATION TRUTH IS THE FIRST CASUALTY.
• 02:51 I'M SPEAKING TO YOU FROM ISRAEL NOW,
• 02:53 NOT JUST ANY PLACE,
• 02:55 IT'S A HILL.
• 02:56 IT'S NOT JUST ANY HILL,
• 02:57 BUT ODDLY IT'S CALLED
• 02:59 "THE HILL OF EVIL COUNSEL".
• 03:02 AT ONE LEVEL ITS SO FITTING
• 03:05 BECAUSE BEHIND ME PLACED ATOP THIS HILL, IF YOU CAN IMAGINE THAT,
• 03:09 IS THE REGIONAL HEADQUARTERS FOR THE UNITED NATIONS.
• 03:15 AND IF EVER THERE WAS A PLACE WHERE THERE'S POLITICAL JOCKEYING GOING ON IT IS THERE.
• 03:22 IN FACT, IT'S RATHER TRAGIC IT SEEMS TO ME.
• 03:25 THE UN STARTED OFF AS A GREAT IDEA...
• 03:28 "LET'S ALL GET TOGETHER AND WORK OUT OUR PROBLEMS AND MAKE LOVE AND NOT WAR".
• 03:33 IT MAKES GOOD SENSE.
• 03:35 BUT ITS ONE OF THOSE CASES WHERE THE REALITY DOESN'T QUITE LIVE UP TO THE IDEAL
• 03:40 AND THE REASON IS BECAUSE THE UNITED NATIONS
• 03:43 SOMETIMES DISPARAGINGLY CALLED "THE UNITED NOTHING"
• 03:46 IN SO MANY WAYS IS IN THE HANDS OF PEOPLE WITH MONEY AND OIL
• 03:50 AND THE NET RESULT IS THAT THE JEWS ALWAYS GET CASTIGATED.
• 03:55 ITS INTERESTING, BY THE WAY, THAT THIS WOULD BE THE FIRST OF THE PSALMS OF ASCENT,
• 04:00 IN PART BECAUSE NOT ONLY IS THE STORY OF POLITICAL INTRIGUE AND BACKBITING...
• 04:05 NOT ONLY IS IT TRUE IN EVERY GENERATION
• 04:08 BUT HERE THE STATEMENT COMES ON THE HEELS OF THE PSALMIST SAYING IN VERSE 5,
• 04:17 AND PRAY TELL...WHO WAS KEDAR?
• 04:19 THIS WAS THE SECOND SON OF ISHMAEL.
• 04:23 AND WHAT'S MEANT BY THE "TENTS OF KEDAR"?
• 04:25 WELL IN THIS CONTEXT, BEDOUINS PARTICULARLY.
• 04:29 IT SEEMS TO ME THAT THIS IS SOMEONE THAT KNOWS WHAT IT IS TO BE DUPED BY THESE PEOPLE
• 04:33 AND WE'RE GOING BACK THOUSANDS OF YEARS.
• 04:36 AND GOODNESS IT COULD BE SAID THINGS JUST DON'T CHANGE...
• 04:40 ITS DISTRESSING!
• 04:42 WELL, TALK ABOUT DISTRESSING,
• 04:44 THE PSALMIST STARTS OFF WITH THAT VERY WORD.
• 04:46 IT SAYS,
• 05:00 "IN MY DISTRESS"
• 05:01 IT'S DISTRESSFUL ON THE ONE HAND...
• 05:03 STRIKING...DISTURBING.
• 05:06 I'D NEVER IN MY LIFE HAD A PROBLEM WITH DEPRESSION
• 05:08 BUT FRANKLY WHEN I CONTEMPLATE THE WAY THE JEWS ARE FOREVER CASTIGATED IN THE UNITED NATIONS
• 05:14 I'LL TELL YOU, IT IS RATHER DEPRESSING BECAUSE IT'S UNREAL.
• 05:18 WHILE IT'S TRUE THAT WE HAVE OUR "BERNIE MADOFFS,"
• 05:21 WE HAVE OUR SCOUNDRELS,
• 05:23 WE DEAL WITH THEM.
• 05:24 THERE ARE ISRAELI POLITICIANS THAT GO BAD...
• 05:26 WE DEAL WITH IT...
• 05:28 THE COURTS ARE OPEN AND THEY DRUG TO AND THROUGH THE COURTS.
• 05:31 BUT ON THE WHOLE THE TRUTH IS THAT THE JEWS ARE A GOOD LOT AND ISRAEL IS A GREAT STATE.
• 05:35 WE'RE SURROUNDED BY SHENANIGANS.
• 05:38 AND THAT IS SO TRUE TODAY.
• 05:39 THE WORLD AROUND HERE HAS COME ABLAZE.
• 05:42 THERE'S CASCADING UNREST IN LIBYA,
• 05:45 CERTAINLY IN YEMEN, BAHRAIN,
• 05:48 ALL THE COUNTRIES ROUND ABOUT JORDAN, SYRIA, EGYPT, TUNISIA...
• 05:54 EVERYWHERE ROUND ABOUT...
• 05:55 HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH JEWS...
• 05:57 HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH ISRAEL...
• 05:59 IT HAS EVERYTHING TO DO WITH PEOPLE BEING OPPRESSED BY WICKED OPPRESSORS...
• 06:05 ISLAMIC LORDS, KINGS, GENERALS,
• 06:08 PEOPLE THAT CAME TO POWER MARGINALIZED OTHERS AND ABUSED THEIR OWN.
• 06:13 WHAT THEY ALL HAVE IN COMMON, HOWEVER,
• 06:15 IS A DISTAIN FOR THE JEW...
• 06:17 THE WILLINGNESS TO MAKE ISRAEL THE WORLD'S PROBLEM,
• 06:20 IN PART TO DEFLECT FROM THEIR OWN MISDEEDS.
• 06:24 AND IT IS SO VERY DECEITFUL THE WAY THIS PLAYS OUT POLITICALLY.
• 06:28 WHATEVER ISRAEL DOES
• 06:30 IN THE UNITED NATIONS THERE'S A BLOCK OF ARAB COUNTRIES THAT AUTOMATICALLY VOTES AGAINST IT
• 06:35 WHETHER THERE'S ANY WRONG DONE OR NOT.
• 06:37 AND BEYOND THAT THERE'S FIFTY OR SIXTY COUNTRIES IN TOW THAT HAVE OIL AGREEMENTS
• 06:42 AND OTHERS WITH THESE ARAB COUNTRIES THAT ARE JUST GOING TO GO WHEREVER THEY GO.
• 06:46 THE NET RESULT IS THAT WHATEVER JEWS DO WE'RE CASTIGATED HERE.
• 06:50 AND THE PROBLEM IS...
• 06:52 THE FACADE IS IT HOLDS OUT THE IDEAL OF BEING LIBERAL, HONEST AND EARNEST SEEKING WORLD PEACE.
• 06:57 BUT TRUTH BE KNOWN ITS FALLEN PREY TO MALICIOUS INTENTIONS.
• 07:02 AND THAT IS WHAT INVOKES THE IRE OF THIS PSALMIST.
• 07:05 AND HE SAYS IN VERSE 2, HE SAYS,
• 07:23 WELL TO BE SURE THIS HAS POLITICAL RAMIFICATIONS IN THE WORLD THAT WE LIVE IN TODAY
• 07:29 AND IT HAD POLITICAL RAMIFICATIONS YESTERDAY.
• 07:32 IT HAS PERSONAL APPLICATIONS TOO.
• 07:34 THE PSALMIST HERE IS WRITING A SONG THAT BECKONS INDIVIDUALS
• 07:39 OR THAT SPEAKS TO INDIVIDUALS THAT ARE BECKONED OUT OF VARIOUS PLACES
• 07:43 TO COME TO JERUSALEM AND WORSHIP.
• 07:45 THEY WANT TO COME TO A SAFE HARBOR.
• 07:47 IN A WORLD THAT'S PRECARIOUS OUTSIDE
• 07:49 THEY WANT TO COME TO JERUSALEM TO GOD'S HOLY HILL AND GOD'S HOLY HOUSE
• 07:54 AND SEEK HIM THERE FOR THE TROUBLES OF THEY DAY AND SO THEY PRAY.
• 07:57 AND WE DO WELL TO STAND WITH THEM AS THEY WANT TO STAND AGAINST DECAY, DECEIT
• 08:02 AND DEAL WITH THE ATTENDANT DESPAIR THAT'S ALL ABOUT ISRAEL
• 08:06 AS INDIVIDUALS ARE LOOKING TO CARVE OUT SPACE HERE IN THE ANCESTRAL HOMELAND.
• 08:14 FOR INSIGHTFUL PERSPECTIVES OF ISRAEL AND BIBLE PROPHECY
• 08:18 ASK FOR OUR FREE MONTHLY NEWSLETTER "THE LEVITT LETTER".
• 08:21 WHEN YOU CALL BE SURE TO ASK FOR OUR FREE CATALOGUE
• 08:24 WITH THE LATEST VIDEOS, BOOKS, AND MUSIC.
• 08:27 OUR CORRESPONDENCE COURSE,
• 08:29 "THE INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH CHRISTIAN STUDIES"
• 08:31 INCLUDES READING PACKETS, TEACHING CDS, AND MAIL-IN TESTS.
• 08:36 YOU MAY WANT TO JOIN US ON AN UPCOMING TOUR OF ISRAEL OR PETRA
• 08:39 OR CRUISE THE MEDITERRANEAN VISITING GREECE AND EPHESUS.
• 08:42 PLEASE CONTACT US FOR MORE INFORMATION.
• 08:49 I THINK ALL BELIEVERS WANT PEACE.
• 08:52 I KNOW I DO.
• 08:53 AND AS JEFF SAYS,
• 08:55 "NOBODY REALLY WANTS TO BE AROUND MALICIOUS PEOPLE".
• 08:57 THEIR LIVES REALLY DO AFFECT OUR LIVES.
• 09:01 I LIKE IN PSALM 120, VERSE 1, IT SAYS,
• 09:04 "IN MY DISTRESS I CRIED UNTO THE LORD...AND HE HEARD ME"
• 09:08 GOD HEARS US...
• 09:10 WHATEVER LIES, WHATEVER DECEITS,
• 09:12 WHATEVER PROBLEMS IN OUR LIVES...GOD HEARS US.
• 09:16 LET'S GO BACK TO JEFF AND PSALM 121.
• 09:21 "I WILL LIFT UP MINE EYES UNTO THE HILLS FROM WHICH COMETH MY HELP"
• 09:25 "MY HELP COMETH FROM THE LORD WHICH MADE HEAVEN AND EARTH"
• 09:29 "HE WILL NOT SUFFER THY FOOT TO BE MOVED"
• 09:33 "HE THAT KEEPETH WILL NOT SLUMBER"
• 09:35 "BEHOLD, HE THAT KEEPETH ISRAEL SHALL NEITHER SLUMBER NOR SLEEP"
• 09:41 "THE SUN SHALL NOT SMITE THEE BY DAY NOR THE MOON BY NIGHT"
• 09:45 "THE LORD SHALL PRESERVE THY GOING OUT AND THY COMING IN"
• 09:49 "FROM THIS TIME FORTH AND EVEN FOREVERMORE"
• 10:00 IN PSALM 121,
• 10:02 ONE OF THE MORE FAMOUS OF THESE PSALMS OF ASCENT,
• 10:05 PSALMS THAT WERE SONG ALONG THE WAY,
• 10:08 WE HAVE AN INTERESTING EXPRESSION IN [CHAPTER] 121, VERSE 3,
• 10:11 AND HE SAYS, AND I QUOTE,
• 10:20 AND AS I MOVE ABOUT THIS TERRAIN THAT'S NOT ALL TOGETHER COMFORTABLE
• 10:24 I CAN'T HELP BUT THINK OF INDIVIDUALS THAT WOULD MAKE THEIR WAY THROUGH LIFE IN A VERY PRECARIOUS WAY.
• 10:30 I THINK OF ANIMALS THAT WOULD TRAVERSE THE HILLS THAT NEED TO BE VERY SURE FOOTED.
• 10:34 AND IN THIS PSALM THE PSALMIST SPEAKS TO GOD BEING NOT JUST THE WIND BENEATH OUR WINGS,
• 10:41 TO HARK TO A POPULAR SONG,
• 10:43 BUT GOD HIMSELF BEING THE ONE THAT HELPS US TO BE SURE FOOTED.
• 10:47 I WANT TO EXPLORE THIS PSALM WITH YOU
• 10:49 IN THE INTEREST OF HELPING YOU TO BE MORE SURE FOOTED AS YOU MAKE YOUR JOURNEY THROUGH LIFE.
• 10:55 AND SO IF YOU WOULD PLEASE, OPEN UP YOUR BIBLE TO PSALM [CHAPTER] 121.
• 10:59 I WANT TO READ IT IN MY VERSION AND UNPACK IT.
• 11:03 YOU GO AHEAD AND READ IT IN YOURS.
• 11:04 ITS SAYS IN HEBREW,
• 11:33 IS THIS SOUNDING FAMILIAR TO YOU?
• 11:35 YOU READ IN THE OPENING IN GENESIS,
• 11:42 AND THAT CREATOR GOD IS A HELPER.
• 11:44 AND THIS PSALMIST SAYS THAT HE LIFTS HIS EYES TO THE LORD, TO THE HILLS,
• 11:50 TO GET IN TOUCH WITH THE LORD, TO IN AFFECT BE HIS HELPER.
• 11:53 HE SAYS,
• 12:19 WHAT A PROMISE!
• 12:21 NOW WHEN WE OPEN UP THE PSALMS WE'RE GOING BACK THOUSANDS OF YEARS
• 12:25 AND MANY OF US MAY NOT CONCEPTUALLY THINK IN TERMS OF
• 12:28 "LOOKING TO THE HILLS" TO SEE HELP COME FROM THE LORD FROM THOSE HILLS.
• 12:34 AND THE REASON WHY IS BECAUSE WE'RE NOT ANCIENT ISRAELITES WHO WERE BEHOLDING TO SPACE.
• 12:40 THE REASON WHY I SAY THAT IS IN THE TORAH, IN THE SCRIPTURE, IN NO UNCERTAIN TERMS
• 12:45 THERE WAS A PLACE THAT GOD WOULD MAKE HIS NAME TO DWELL, HIS GLORY TO DWELL,
• 12:50 AND THE ISRAELITES WERE BECKONED NOT TO SEARCH FOR GOD EVERYWHERE
• 12:54 BUT TO GO THERE TO A PLACE CALLED "JERUSALEM".
• 12:58 AND HERE THE COMPLIANT ARE DUTIFULLY MAKING THEIR WAY THERE
• 13:02 WITH A SONG WHERE THEY GIVE VOICE TO "LIFTING UP THEIR EYES TO THE HILLS"
• 13:07 LOOKING TO FIND GOD THERE.
• 13:08 AND LET ME TELL YOU AS SOMEONE WHO HAS LED PILGRIMS TO ISRAEL FOR YEARS,
• 13:14 A THING THAT FASCINATES ME IS THE EXPERIENCE THAT PILGRIMS HAVE WHEN THEY MAKE THEIR WAY TO JERUSALEM.
• 13:22 PEOPLE COME, YOU'LL SEE ON THIS PROGRAM,
• 13:25 THAT ADVERTISE IF YOU WANT TO COME TO ISRAEL COME WITH US
• 13:27 AND PEOPLE HAVE BEEN TAKING US UP ON THE OFFER FOR YEARS.
• 13:30 AND THEY'LL ALWAYS ASKED ME "WELL YOU KNOW JEFF WHAT'S YOUR FAVORITE SITE IN THE HOLY LAND?"
• 13:34 QUITE FRANKLY HAVING SEEN A LOT OF THE STONES BEFORE,
• 13:37 ONE OF MY FAVORITE SITES IS TO LOOK AT THE FACES OF PILGRIMS WHO MAKE THEIR WAY TO JERUSALEM.
• 13:44 AND WHY IS THAT?
• 13:46 WELL ON THE ONE HAND MANY WITH ME CONSTRUE THE FACT THERE IS A JEWISH PRESENCE IN ISRAEL...
• 13:50 FULFILLS BIBLE PROPHECY...
• 13:52 THERE'S A SENSE IN WHICH THEY'RE WALKING INTO A WORLD
• 13:55 THAT'S UNFOLDING ACCORDING TO A BIBLICAL PLAN.
• 13:57 BEYOND THAT THERE'S THE SENSE OF WALKING IN THE FOOTSTEPS JESUS.
• 14:01 BEYOND THAT THERE'S A SENSE ESPECIALLY WHEN THEY TOUCH THE STONES THERE AT THE WESTERN WALL...
• 14:06 THERE'S A SENSE IN WHICH THEY WALK BACK INTO HISTORY
• 14:09 AND AT SOME LEVEL EXPERIENCE WHAT THE PSALMIST IS SINGING ABOUT HERE
• 14:13 AS HE GIVES VOICE TO LIFTING UP HIS EYES TO THE HILLS TO FIND HELP FROM GOD.
• 14:19 OH MANY HAVE LOOKED TO THE PSALMS TO FIND HIM,
• 14:22 ESPECIALLY IN TIMES OF DISTRESS.
• 14:25 AND AS I UNPACK IT TO YOU HERE FROM A PLACE NOT FAR FROM JERUSALEM...
• 14:30 I AM COMING TO YOU IN PROXIMITY INTO A PLACE CALLED "ANATHOTH" WHERE JEREMIAH FAIRED FROM.
• 14:35 IT WAS A PRIESTLY CITY
• 14:37 AND THE RELIGIOUS WOULD LEAVE THEIR STATIONS IN THEIR VARIOUS TOWNS AND CITIES
• 14:41 AND THEY WOULD MAKE THEIR WAY TO JERUSALEM AS A PILGRIM.
• 14:45 THEY'D GO ON A PILGRIMAGE
• 14:47 AND IT'S MY HOPE THAT YOU THROUGH EXPERIENCING THIS SERIES WILL SIMILARLY BE MINDED,
• 14:51 IF NOT TO MAKE IT TO JERUSALEM,
• 14:53 AT LEAST TO LIFT UP YOUR EYES TO THE HILLS AND FIND JEHOVAH GOD THERE.
• 14:57 AND WHY SHOULD YOU DO THAT?
• 14:59 ...BECAUSE LIKE THE PSALMIST
• 15:01 YOU WILL FIND THAT YOUR HELP WILL COME FROM THE LORD WHO MADE HEAVEN AND EARTH.
• 15:17 ♪SHA' A' LU SHALOM♪
• 15:19 ♪YERUSHALAYIM♪
• 15:21 ♪SHA' A' LU, SHA' A' LU SHALOM♪
• 15:25 ♪IN THE HOLY CITY OF JERUSALEM♪
• 15:32 ♪WE WILL PRAY FOR PEACE...♪
• 15:35 ♪SHA' A' LU SHALOM♪
• 15:45 PSALM 121 IS PROBABLY ONE OF MY FAVORITE VERSES IN THE ENTIRE BIBLE.
• 15:49 ITS ALSO KNOWN AS "THE TRAVELER'S PRAYER"
• 15:52 AND SOMEBODY THAT TRAVELS NEEDS A PRAYER I PROMISE YOU.
• 15:56 IN FACT, I PUT MY NAME IN SOME OF THESE VERSES, FOR INSTANCE,
• 16:00 "HE WILL NOT SUFFER 'SANDRA'S' FOOT TO BE MOVED,"
• 16:03 "HE THAT KEEPETH 'SANDRA' WILL NOT SLUMBER."
• 16:06 PUT YOUR NAME IN THERE...
• 16:08 TRY IT...
• 16:09 I THINK YOU'RE GOING TO LIKE IT.
• 16:10 TRACIE I LOVE WHAT JEFF SAID ABOUT
• 16:11 SEEING THE PILGRIMS AND SEEING THEIR FACES.
• 16:14 I LOVE SEEING THEIR FACES IN ISRAEL.
• 16:15 SANDRA IT IS TOTALLY AMAZING
• 16:17 AND I'M SO GLAD YOU BROUGHT UP PSALM 121.
• 16:19 AS YOU WELL KNOW,
• 16:20 THE DAY THAT WE
• 16:21 COME INTO JERUSALEM
• 16:22 WE COME OVER THAT HILL
• 16:23 AND WE TAKE THE PILGRIMS
• 16:25 RIGHT UP TO MOUNT SCOPUS.
• 16:26 MOUNT SCOPUS IS A VERY SPECIAL PLACE IN JERUSALEM...
• 16:28 YOU SEE THE WHOLE CITY IN ONE VIEW.
• 16:32 AND TO SEE THE LOOK ON THE PASSENGER'S FACES
• 16:34 WHERE THEY SEE WHERE JESUS' MAIN MINISTRY IS.
• 16:38 AND WHEN WE READ THAT PSALM THEY'RE OVERCOME.
• 16:41 IT IS ELECTRIFYING...
• 16:42 IT REALLY IS ELECTRIFYING.
• 16:44 IT'S TOTALLY ELECTRIFYING.
• 16:46 THE FACES ARE INCREDIBLE.
• 16:47 THEY GET THAT "AAHA MOMENT"...
• 16:48 "THIS IS MY SAVIOR'S LAND".
• 16:50 AND WHAT'S NEAT ABOUT OUR TRIP SANDRA AS YOU WELL KNOW IS
• 16:53 THAT WE REALLY ONLY
• 16:54 ADVERTISE TO YOU THE
• 16:55 VIEWERS OF THIS SHOW.
• 16:57 AND SO THE TRIPS ARE
• 16:58 LIKE A FAMILY TRIP.
• 16:59 PEOPLE COME AS STRANGERS
• 17:00 BUT THEY LEAVE AS FRIENDS
• 17:01 AND THEY LEAVE AS
• 17:02 PEOPLE WHO HAVE REALLY
• 17:04 COME TO KNOW THE LORD IN A PERSONAL WAY.
• 17:06 AND THEY REALLY DO FORGE THOSE RELATIONSHIPS.
• 17:08 I STILL TALK TO PEOPLE THAT I HAVE KNOWN...
• 17:11 I DON'T KNOW... 15 YEARS OR MORE
• 17:13 THAT HAVE BEEN ON SOME OF THE ORIGINAL TOURS.
• 17:15 IT'S JUST....
• 17:16 I LOVE IT...
• 17:17 PLEASE GO TO ISRAEL WITH US.
• 17:19 YOU KNOW THIS WEEK I WANT YOU TO GET THE LEVITT LETTER.
• 17:22 IT'S FREE AND IT IS SO FULL OF WONDERFUL INFORMATION ABOUT ISRAEL.
• 17:27 IN FACT OUR TOURS ARE ON IT.
• 17:29 SO IT WOULD BE SOMETHING GOOD FOR YOU ALL TO GET THIS WEEK.
• 17:31 EITAN SHISHKOFF IS A BELIEVER WHO LIVES IN ISRAEL.
• 17:37 HE IS A MUSICIAN, HE'S A WRITER,
• 17:39 HE'S A FOUNDER OF "TENTS OF MERCY".
• 17:42 THE BIBLE TELLS US THAT GOD HELPS US.
• 17:45 WE TOO NEED TO HELP OTHERS TOO.
• 17:47 HERE'S EITAN IN ISRAEL.
• 17:52 SHALOM, I AM EITAN SHISHKOFF
• 17:54 OF "TENTS OF MERCY" IN ISRAEL.
• 17:58 WE'RE ACTUALLY SITTING IN MY OFFICE IN KIRYAT YAM
• 18:01 WHICH IS RIGHT NEXT TO THE HAIFA BAY.
• 18:03 AND I WANT TO TALK ABOUT THE MIRACLE OF ISRAEL'S RESTORATION
• 18:09 AND THE FACT THAT IN THE CHANGING AND UNCERTAIN TIMES THAT WE'RE IN
• 18:14 THERE ARE SOME THINGS THAT ARE OF GREAT ENCOURAGEMENT.
• 18:17 NAMELY, THE FACT THAT GOD FULFILLED HIS PROMISE TO HAVE MERCY ON HIS PEOPLE,
• 18:23 ON HIS SCATTERED JEWISH PEOPLE
• 18:24 THAT HAVE BEEN SCATTERED TO THE NATIONS FOR SOME 18, 19 CENTURIES
• 18:31 SINCE THE DESTRUCTION OF THE TEMPLE IN JERUSALEM.
• 18:34 AND THERE'S A CHAPTER IN THE BOOK OF JEREMIAH, CHAPTER 30,
• 18:38 IN WHICH GOD SPEAKS ABOUT THE WOUNDING AND THE INCURABLE AFFLICTION
• 18:43 THAT THE JEWISH PEOPLE WILL ENDURE IN THE DIASPORA.
• 18:47 AND WE CERTAINLY KNOW FROM HISTORY THAT THAT'S THE CASE.
• 18:50 BUT THEN HE GOES ON AND HE GIVES THIS VERSE,
• 18:59 ONE DAY IN PRAYER GOD SPOKE THIS VERY REALTY TO ME HIGHLIGHTING THE WORD "MERCY".
• 19:06 I DIDN'T KNOW THIS VERSE WAS EVEN IN THE BIBLE
• 19:09 BUT I FELT A DOWNLOAD OF GOD'S MERCY, OF HIS COMPASSION,
• 19:13 PARTICULARLY TOWARD OUR SCATTERED PEOPLE.
• 19:16 THIS WAS AT THE SAME TIME AS THE JEWISH PEOPLE
• 19:20 WERE BEING RELEASED FROM THE FORMER SOVIET UNION AROUND 1989.
• 19:23 AND IT WAS A WAVE OF THE SENSE OF GOD'S HEART OF BRINGING HIS PEOPLE BACK,
• 19:29 OF NOT ALLOWING THEM TO STAY AND OF FULFILLING HIS WORD
• 19:32 THAT HE WOULD RESTORE ISRAEL TO BE ONCE AGAIN A PLACE OF FLOWING MILK AND HONEY.
• 19:39 AND CERTAINLY HE HAS DONE THAT.
• 19:42 WE HAVE SEEN OVER A MILLION JEWISH PEOPLE RETURN FROM THE FORMER SOVIET UNION OVER LESS THAN 20 YEARS TIME.
• 19:48 AND THIS IS WHAT GOD SAYS AS WELL IN THE BOOK OF ISAIAH
• 19:53 WHERE HE SAYS THAT "YOU SHOULD NOT SAY THAT THE LORD HAS FORSAKEN THEE"
• 19:58 "BUT THAT HE HAS HAD MERCY ON HIS AFFLICTED."
• 20:01 "CAN A WOMAN FORGET THE CHILD THAT IS NURSING AT HER BREAST?"
• 20:06 "NO MORE WILL I FORGET YOU THAN THAT WOMAN WOULD FORGET HER CHILD."
• 20:16 THIS IS AN AMAZING IMAGE OF YESHUA ON THE CROSS OF HIS CRUCIFIXION
• 20:21 WHICH GOD HERE IS JOINING TOGETHER AS A WAY OF EXPRESSING HIS LOVE TO ALL OF ISRAEL.
• 20:26 I WOULD LIKE TO SAY THAT GOD HAS PERFORMED A MIRACLE IN BRINGING HIS PEOPLE BACK TO ISRAEL
• 20:34 AND THIS IS AN ULTIMATE EXPRESSION OF HIS MERCY AND HIS COMPASSION.
• 20:38 YOU CAN COUNT ON IT.
• 20:41 ♪ADONAI,♪
• 20:43 ♪ADONAI, ADONENU♪
• 20:46 ♪MAH ADIR SHIMCHA B'COL♪
• 20:49 ♪HA-ERETZ♪
• 20:52 ♪ADONAI, ADONAI, ADONENU♪
• 20:56 ♪ASHER T'NAH HODCHA AL HA-SHAMAYIM♪
• 21:12 ♪WHEN I CONSIDER YOUR HEAVENS♪
• 21:16 ♪THE WORK OF YOUR FINGERS♪
• 21:19 ♪THE MOON AND THE STARS WHICH YOU ORDAIN♪
• 21:24 ♪WHAT IS MAN♪
• 21:26 ♪THAT YOU ARE MINDFUL OF HIM♪
• 21:29 ♪AND THE SON OF MAN♪
• 21:32 ♪THAT YOU VISIT HIM?♪
• 21:39 ♪OH LORD OUR LORD,♪
• 21:42 ♪HOW EXCELLENT IS YOUR NAME IN ALL OF THE EARTH♪
• 21:46 ♪OH LORD,♪
• 21:48 ♪HOW EXCELLENT IS YOUR NAME♪
• 21:51 ♪OH LORD, OUR LORD,♪
• 21:54 ♪HOW EXCELLENT IS YOUR NAME IN ALL OF THE EARTH♪
• 21:58 ♪O LORD,♪
• 21:59 ♪HOW EXCELLENT IS YOUR NAME♪
• 22:06 ♪AND WE KNOW THAT OUR ACCUSER♪
• 22:10 ♪YOU CAN STILL WITH THE PRAISES OF SINGERS,♪
• 22:15 ♪WE INFANTS AND BABES WHOM YOU'VE ORDAINED♪
• 22:20 ♪WHAT IS MAN THAT YOU ARE MINDFUL OF HIM♪
• 22:25 ♪AND THE SON OF MAN THAT YOU VISIT HIM?♪
• 22:35 ♪OH LORD OUR LORD,♪
• 22:37 ♪HOW EXCELLENT IS YOUR NAME IN ALL OF THE EARTH♪
• 22:42 ♪OH LORD,♪
• 22:44 ♪HOW EXCELLENT IS YOUR NAME♪
• 22:46 ♪OH LORD, OUR LORD,♪
• 22:49 ♪HOW EXCELLENT IS YOUR NAME IN ALL OF THE EARTH♪
• 22:53 ♪OH LORD,♪
• 22:55 ♪HOW EXCELLENT IS YOUR♪
• 22:57 ♪NAME♪
• 23:00 ♪YOUR HOLY NAME♪
• 23:05 ♪GIVEN SO FREELY♪
• 23:08 ♪FOR US TO CLAIM THE NAME♪
• 23:11 ♪YESHUA♪
• 23:14 ♪YOU CAME A LITTLE LOWER THAN THE ANGELS♪
• 23:20 ♪AND YOU HUMBLED YOURSELF♪
• 23:26 ♪ONLY TO BE EXALTED♪
• 23:30 ♪MESSIAH...♪
• 23:31 ♪YOU'RE EXALTED♪
• 23:41 ♪OH LORD, OUR LORD,♪
• 23:44 ♪HOW EXCELLENT IS YOUR NAME IN ALL OF THE EARTH♪
• 23:48 ♪O LORD, HOW EXCELLENT IS YOUR NAME♪
• 23:52 ♪OH LORD, OUR LORD,♪
• 23:55 ♪HOW EXCELLENT IS YOUR NAME IN ALL OF THE EARTH♪
• 23:59 ♪OH LORD, HOW EXCELLENT IS YOUR NAME♪
• 24:04 ♪OH LORD, OUR LORD,♪
• 24:07 ♪HOW EXCELLENT IS YOUR NAME IN ALL OF THE EARTH♪
• 24:11 ♪OH LORD,♪
• 24:13 ♪HOW EXCELLENT IS YOUR NAME♪
• 24:15 ♪HOW EXCELLENT IS YOUR NAME♪
• 24:18 ♪HOW EXCELLENT♪
• 24:20 ♪IS YOUR...♪
• 24:22 ♪NAME♪
• 24:34 THAT WAS MARTY GOETZ AND HIS MUSIC.
• 24:36 I HAVE TO TELL YOU THAT MARTY GOETZ IS ONE OF MY FAVORITE MUSICIANS...
• 24:39 I'M SORRY...NEXT TO ZOLA.
• 24:41 BUT THAT'S OKAY I THINK THAT'S PROBABLY FAIR.
• 24:43 SO HOW ARE YOU?
• 24:45 GOOD TO HAVE YOU.
• 24:46 I'M FINE.
• 24:46 THAT'S GOOD COMPANY
• 24:47 MESSIANIC?
• 24:48 YES, MESSIANIC BELIEVER.
• 24:50 MATTER OF FACT I DID SOME MUSIC WITH ZOLA A FEW YEARS BACK.
• 24:52 THAT'S RIGHT YOU DID. >>YEAH
• 24:53 I REMEMBER THAT.
• 24:54 SO HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN IN MUSIC?
• 24:56 OH BOY!
• 24:57 I'VE BEEN PLAYING PROFESSIONALLY SINCE I WAS 19
• 24:59 BUT I'VE BEEN PLAYING FROM THE SCRIPTURES BEFORE THE LORD, YESHUA SINCE I WAS 25.
• 25:08 OH WOW! >>YES
• 25:09 NOT VERY LONG
• 25:10 AND I'M 29 NOW
• 25:11 YES, THAT'S RIGHT.
• 25:12 THAT'S WHAT WE ALL SAY. IT'S OKAY
• 25:14 WELL IT'S REALLY GOOD TO HAVE
• 25:15 AND I'M EXCITED ABOUT THESE PSALMS OF ASCENT.
• 25:17 WHAT IS THE TRADITION WITH THESE PSALMS?
• 25:19 WELL, THE PSALMS OF ASCENT WERE PSALMS THAT THEY SANG...
• 25:22 "T'HELIM" OF COURSE IS THE HEBREW WORD WHICH MEANS "PRAISES"
• 25:25 AND IT COMES FROM THE SAME WORD AS "PRAISE"
• 25:28 AND THESE ARE SONGS THAT THEY SANG AS THEY WENT UP TO JERUSALEM.
• 25:31 PSALM 121, 124 AND 129 ARE "ANTIPHONAL" PSALMS >>ANTIPHONAL
• 25:37 AND I JUST THINK ITS SO COOL TO HEAR THE RESPONSE
• 25:40 AS THESE PEOPLE WALKING UP AND TALKING TO EACH OTHER AND ENCOURAGING EACH OTHER...
• 25:45 I JUST THINK ITS FUN.
• 25:46 ARE YOU GOING TO START?
• 25:47 YOU GO AHEAD.
• 25:48 OKAY, I'LL START.
• 25:50 "I WILL LIFT UP MINE EYES UNTO THE HILLS FROM WHEN COMETH MY HELP"
• 25:53 "MY HELP COMES FROM THE LORD WHO MADE HEAVEN AND EARTH"
• 25:57 "HE WILL NOT SUFFER THY FOOT TO BE MOVED. HE THAT KEEPETH THEE WILL NOT SLUMBER"
• 26:02 'BEHOLD, HE WHO KEEPS ISRAEL SHALL NEITHER SLUMBER NOR SLEEP"
• 26:06 "THE LORD IS THY KEEPER. THE LORD IS THY SHADE UPON THE RIGHT HAND."
• 26:10 "THE SUN SHALL NOT STRIKE YOU BY DAY NOR THE MOON BY NIGHT"
• 26:14 "THE LORD SHALL PRESERVE THEE FROM ALL EVIL.HE SHALL PRESERVE THY SOUL"
• 26:18 "THE LORD SHALL PRESERVE YOUR GOING OUT AND YOUR COMING IN"
• 26:21 "FROM THIS TIME FORTH AND EVEN FOREVERMORE."
• 26:25 CAN'T YOU SEE IT? >>OH, ABSOLUTELY
• 26:26 I JUST LOVE IT.
• 26:28 JOIN US NEXT WEEK.
• 26:29 WE'RE GOING TO DO PSALMS 122 AND 123.
• 26:31 REMEMBER THE LORD HEARS US WHEN WE CALL FOR HIM,
• 26:35 THE LORD WHO MADE HEAVEN AND EARTH.
• 26:37 GOD BLESS YOU,
• 26:38 AND SHA'ALU SHALOM YERUSHALAYIM
• 26:40 PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM