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Caption transcript for Psalms of Ascent: “Psalms 132 & 133” (7/8)

• 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 JERUSALEM♪
• 00:46 SHALOM AND WELCOME TO ZOLA LEVITT PRESENTS.
• 00:49 I'M SANDRA
• 00:51 IT HAS BEEN SUCH A BLESSING TO BE PART OF THIS SERIES,
• 00:54 "THE PSALMS OF ASCENT"... PSALMS 120 THROUGH 134.
• 00:58 THE LESSONS THIS WEEK ARE JOYFUL.
• 01:00 WE SEE KING DAVID DANCING AND HAVING GREAT JOY IN HIS LIFE.
• 01:05 MY GOOD FRIEND DR. JEFFREY SEIF IS ON LOCATION TEACHING PSALMS 132 AND 133.
• 01:11 MARTY GOETZ WILL JOIN US LATER WITH SOME MUSIC.
• 01:14 AND AS JEFF SAYS, "WE'RE OFF TO ISRAEL".
• 01:23 IN THE BOOK OF PSALMS, CHAPTER 132,
• 01:26 THE PSALMIST SPEAKS WITH ABANDON.
• 01:29 "ARISE O LORD AND COME INTO THY RESTING PLACE"
• 01:34 "YOU AND THE ARK OF YOUR MIGHT"
• 01:37 "LET THY PRIESTS BE CLOTHED WITH RIGHTEOUSNESS"
• 01:40 "AND LET THY SAINTS SHOUT FOR JOY"
• 01:43 "FOR THE LORD HATH CHOSEN ZION"
• 01:46 "HE HATH DESIRED IT FOR HIS HABITATION"
• 01:49 "THIS IS MY REST FOREVER"
• 01:56 DAVID WAS KNOWN TO BE A MAN
• 01:58 AFTER GOD'S OWN HEART.
• 02:00 THIS AMPLY ATTESTED
• 02:01 IN BIBLICAL LITERATURE
• 02:02 AND IT'S SO WELL DEMONSTRATED
• 02:04 BY HIS WANTING SO MUCH TO HAVE A RESTING PLACE FOR THE ARK.
• 02:09 IN THE TORAH, THE PENTATEUCH SO CALLED,
• 02:12 THE ARK OF THE COVENANT IS MANUFACTURED
• 02:15 BUT WE DON'T HAVE A DESIGNATED RESTING PLACE SET OUT.
• 02:20 WE'RE TOLD THAT "IT IS TO GO TO THE PLACE THAT I WILL SHOW YOU."
• 02:24 LATER IT BECAME VERY CLEAR THAT YERUSHALYIM, THAT JERUSALEM WAS TO BE THE CAPITAL CITY
• 02:30 AND DAVID SEEMS SO VERY ANXIOUS, ECSTATIC IN FACT
• 02:34 ABOUT FINALLY HAVING THE OPPORTUNITY TO USHER THE ARK INTO THE CAPITAL CITY.
• 02:40 I THINK DAVID'S ENTHUSIASM...
• 02:43 AND BY THE WAY THE WORD "ENTHUSIASM"
• 02:45 COMES FROM THE GREEK "EN-THEOS" WHICH MEANS "IN GOD".
• 02:48 I THINK A REASON WHY HE WAS SO ENTHUSIASTIC WAS BECAUSE DAVID KNEW MORE THAN ANYONE
• 02:53 HOW GOD IN FACT WAS THE SOURCE OF HIS SUCCESS.
• 02:56 HE WAS THRILLED.
• 02:58 AND IN FACT THERE ARE MANY PEOPLE TODAY THAT SIMILARLY ARE THRILLED IN GOD
• 03:02 SEEING HIM AS THE SOURCE OF THEIR SUCCESS.
• 03:07 THEY USED TO STREAM HERE IN BIBLE DAYS
• 03:09 AND THEY STILL KEEP COMING.
• 03:11 AND BY "HERE" WHAT DO I MEAN?
• 03:13 THESE ARE THE VERY STEPS HERE THAT LED UP TO THE TEMPLE PROPER.
• 03:16 YOU ARE GETTING A PICTURE OF JERUSALEM.
• 03:18 THIS IS AUTHENTIC REAL ESTATE...
• 03:21 THESE STEPS...NO EMBELLISHMENT.
• 03:23 JESUS HIMSELF MAY WELL HAVE WALKED UP THE THOSE STEPS ALONG WITH THE APOSTLES.
• 03:27 THE REASON WHY I SAY "APOSTLES"
• 03:29 IS BECAUSE EVEN AFTER THE DEATH AND THE BURIAL AND THE RESURRECTION OF YESHUA, JESUS,
• 03:35 THEY STILL FREQUENTED THE TEMPLE.
• 03:37 LUKE TELLS US IN ACTS THAT THEY CAME HERE.
• 03:40 AND SO JEWS COME TO THIS PLACE HERE.
• 03:42 CHRISTIANS COME HERE.
• 03:44 THEY COME IN DROVES.
• 03:46 IN THE PSALMS THERE'S A SECTION THERE CALLED "THE PSALMS OF ASCENT"
• 03:51 FOR THOSE THAT ARE MAKING A PILGRIMAGE.
• 03:53 AND THERE'S A WONDERFUL EXPRESSION HERE IN CHAPTER 132.
• 03:58 LET ME GIVE IT TO YOU IN HEBREW AND EXPLAIN IT IN ENGLISH.
• 04:00 HE SAYS,
• 04:08 AND WHY IS THAT?
• 04:09 BECAUSE OF THE ARK'S MAKING ITS RESTING PLACE HERE.
• 04:14 LET ME GIVE IT TO YOU IN HEBREW IN VERSE 8 AND WALK THROUGH IT WITH YOU SOME.
• 04:18 HE SAYS,
• 04:38 HERE THE PSALMIST IS BECKONING,
• 04:39 "LORD ARISE, YOU COME INTO THIS PLACE."
• 04:44 DAVID CERTAINLY GAVE VOICE TO ENTHUSIASM ABOUT BRINGING GOD'S ARK INTO THIS PLACE.
• 04:51 HIS SON SOLOMON ACTUALLY DEVELOPED THE PLACE IN HIS WAKE
• 04:57 AND THEN FORMALLY AND FULLY THE "KOHANIM", THE "PRIESTS"
• 05:00 WERE GIVEN TO WORSHIPPING THE LORD HERE
• 05:04 AND LEADING PEOPLE INTO WORSHIP HERE IN THIS VERY PLACE.
• 05:07 I WANT YOU TO GO WITH ME TO VERSE 13 PLEASE
• 05:11 CAUSE THERE'S SOMETHING HERE THAT'S SO VERY SIGNIFICANT TO MY WAY OF THINKING...
• 05:14 NOT TO SAY THAT WHAT I SAID PREVIOUSLY WASN'T.
• 05:17 IT SAYS IN THE SCRIPTURE,
• 05:35 OH FRIENDS, WHY IS IT THAT PEOPLE THAT NAME THE NAME OF THE LORD HAVE LOST SIGHT OF THIS.
• 05:41 IT SEEMS TO ME THERE'S SOMETHING ABIDING HERE.
• 05:44 THERE'S NOT JUST AN AFFECTION
• 05:45 THERE'S AN ABIDING AFFECTION.
• 05:47 AND WHY DO I SAY THAT?
• 05:49 BECAUSE IN VERSE 14,
• 05:50 VERY, VERY CLEARLY RELATIVE TO THIS CITY AND THIS PLACE HE SAYS, AND I QUOTE,
• 06:01 NOW TO MY WAY OF THINKING
• 06:03 FOREVER SOUNDS LIKE A REALLY LONG TIME.
• 06:07 AND FOR THOSE THAT HAVE DISREGARDED BIBLICAL UNDERSTANDING
• 06:11 AND TO REPLACE IT WITH REPLACEMENT THEOLOGIES THAT ARGUE...
• 06:15 "WELL GOD KIND OF LOVED THIS PLACE ONCE UPON A TIME BUT HE'S SINCE MOVED ON."
• 06:19 "IT'S NOT ABOUT JEWS, ISRAEL, ZION..."
• 06:22 "EHHHH... IT'S ALL A BIG MISTAKE."
• 06:24 ...EVEN TAKE THAT SERIOUSLY
• 06:25 ...THOSE THAT OPT FOR THAT.
• 06:27 AND BY THE WAY THAT IS SO MUCH OF WHAT'S CALLED CHRISTIANITY TODAY.
• 06:29 THOSE THAT OPT FOR THAT DON'T READ THIS.
• 06:33 THEY DON'T TAKE IT SERIOUSLY,
• 06:34 THEY DON'T TAKE IT LITERALLY.
• 06:36 BUT THOSE THAT TAKE IT LITERALLY, TO MY WAY OF THINKING,
• 06:39 ARE BEHOLDING TO COME TO TERMS WITH THE FACT
• 06:43 THAT GOD HAS GIVEN THIS REAL ESTATE TO A PARTICULAR PEOPLE,
• 06:47 THERE'S A PARTICULAR PLACE.
• 06:48 AND WHY?
• 06:50 BECAUSE HE HAS MADE HIS NAME TO DWELL... HERE.
• 06:53 BEFORE I GET OUT OF THIS TAKE LET ME SAY THAT THE GOD WHO HAS MADE HIS NAME TO DWELL HERE
• 06:59 SIMILARLY HAS DEVELOPED A WAY WHERE PEOPLE CAN HAVE HIS NAME TO DWELL IN HERE.
• 07:05 PEOPLE TALK ABOUT INVITING THE LORD INTO THEIR HEART.
• 07:08 IT'S NOT THAT THERE'S A LITTLE PLACE IN THE LEFT VENTRICLE
• 07:11 THAT OPENS UP AND THE LORD GOES INTO THAT.
• 07:15 THE EXPRESSION "INVITING THE LORD INTO THE HEART"
• 07:17 IS BORN OUT OF INVITING HIM INTO THE CENTER OF OUR BEING.
• 07:22 THERE'S A BUSY PLACE AROUND HERE...
• 07:24 YOU CAN HEAR NOISES...
• 07:25 LIFE IS VERY BUSY IN SO MANY WAYS
• 07:27 AND WE CAN BECOME DISTRACTED.
• 07:29 BUT LET ME ENCOURAGE YOU AS I'M TALKING TO YOU FROM THIS PLACE.
• 07:33 THIS PSALMIST THAT TALKS ABOUT "ARISE O LORD AND COME INTO YOUR RESTING PLACE"
• 07:38 ...OF COURSE LITERALLY HE MEANS HERE MATERIALLY
• 07:40 BUT SPIRITUALLY IT APPLIES TO HERE.
• 07:43 I HOPE YOU GET THE MESSAGE
• 07:45 AND I HOPE YOU DO WHAT THE PSALMIST SAID.
• 08:02 SHALOM, I'M MYLES WEISS.
• 08:04 AND I'M KATHARINE WEISS.
• 08:06 WE KNOW YOU ARE
• 08:07 BEING BLESSED BY
• 08:08 DR. JEFFREY SEIF'S
• 08:09 GREAT TEACHING ON THE PSALMS OF ASCENT
• 08:10 AND WE WANT TO TELL YOU ABOUT
• 08:11 OUR NEW SERIES COMING UP CALLED
• 08:13 "THE BOOK OF RUTH: YOU'RE PEOPLE SHALL BE MY PEOPLE".
• 08:16 IT'S GOING TO BE HERE SOON ON ZOLA LEVITT PRESENTS.
• 08:19 MYLES AND I HAD THE PRIVILEGE TO BE IN ISRAEL
• 08:21 DURING THE TIME OF SHAVUOT PENTECOST
• 08:23 TO SHARE SOME OF THE WONDERFUL INSIGHTS
• 08:25 REGARDING THE GREAT WOMAN OF GOD.
• 08:27 IT'S A GREAT STORY OF REDEMPTION AND LOVE FOR ALL...
• 08:31 YOU DON'T WANT TO MISS IT.
• 08:32 AND NOW BACK TO SANDRA AND JEFF.
• 08:37 KING DAVID WAS KNOWN AS A MAN AFTER GOD'S OWN HEART.
• 08:40 I NEVER GET TIRED OF SEEING THE SOUTHERN STEPS
• 08:43 AND THINKING THAT MY MESSIAH WAS THERE
• 08:45 AND THAT KING DAVID WALKED THERE ALSO.
• 08:48 MY PRAYER IS THAT I ALWAYS SHOUT "JOY TO THE LORD".
• 08:52 BACK TO ISRAEL AND PSALMS 133.
• 08:58 IN BIBLE TIMES OLIVE OIL WAS USED FOR COOKING,
• 09:01 FOR LIGHT,
• 09:03 FOR OINTMENT
• 09:05 AND PERHAPS MOST IMPORTANTLY FOR ANOINTING.
• 09:08 "BEHOLD HOW GOOD AND HOW PLEASANT IT IS FOR BRETHREN TO DWELL TOGETHER IN UNITY."
• 09:14 "IT'S LIKE THE PRECIOUS OINTMENT UPON THE HEAD"
• 09:17 "THAT RAN DOWN UPON THE BEARD,"
• 09:19 "EVEN AARON'S BEARD"
• 09:21 "THAT WENT DOWN TO THE SKIRTS OF HIS GARMENT"
• 09:24 "LIKE THE DEW THAT DESCENDED UPON THE MOUNTAINS OF ZION."
• 09:36 PSALM 133 IS ONE OF THE BETTER KNOWN PSALMS IN THE CHRISTIAN WORLD AND IN THE JEWISH WORLD.
• 09:42 OH IN THE JEWISH WORLD IN AMERICA ANYWAY
• 09:44 JEWS GROW UP SINGING
• 09:46 (SPEAKING HEBREW)
• 09:49 FROM THE FIRST VERSE,
• 09:55 AND IN A WORLD THAT'S SO CHARACTERIZED BY FRACTURE...
• 09:59 FRACTURE BEING FELT AT THE FAMILY LEVEL...
• 10:01 PEOPLE BREAKING UP AND THEY'RE LEAVING...
• 10:03 AT THE WORK LEVEL...
• 10:04 PEOPLE GOING IN AND OUT OF BUSINESSES IN PLACES OF EMPLOYMENT.
• 10:07 FRACTURE IS SO COMMON,
• 10:09 I GUESS THE SONG "BEHOLD HOW GREAT IT IS WHEN BRETHREN DWELL TOGETHER"
• 10:12 REALLY STRIKES A CHORD IN THE ALIENATED WEST.
• 10:16 THE QUESTION IS REALLY WHETHER THAT'S WHAT THIS IS TALKING ABOUT
• 10:19 THOUGH BY SURE IT APPLIES...
• 10:21 TO BE SURE IT APPLIES
• 10:23 BUT THERE'S A VERY RESPONSIBLE ARGUMENT THAT WHAT WE'RE LOOKING AT HERE
• 10:27 IS A PSALM THAT WAS ORIGINALLY PENNED IN WHAT'S CALLED THE POST EXILIC ERA.
• 10:31 WHAT'S THAT?
• 10:33 WELL JEWS WERE COMING BACK FROM EXILE IN BABYLONIA
• 10:37 AND THERE'S SPARTAN FEW MAKING A GO OF IT IN ISRAEL
• 10:42 TO REBUILD THE ANCESTRAL HOMELAND
• 10:44 KIND OF SORT OF LIKE TODAY.
• 10:47 AND THOSE RETURNING ISRAELITES WERE UP AGAINST INSURMOUNTABLE ODDS OR SO IT SEEMED.
• 10:52 WARRIORS WERE BENT ON GETTING THE BETTER OF THEM...
• 10:55 CIRCUMSTANCES WERE GETTING THE BETTER OF THEM...
• 10:58 THEY REALLY FELT PRESSED BETWEEN A ROCK AND A HARD PLACE.
• 11:01 AGAINST THAT BACKDROP THEN
• 11:04 THE SONG, "BEHOLD HOW GOOD AND PLEASANT IT IS WHEN BRETHREN DWELL TOGETHER IN UNITY"
• 11:09 THE EMPHASIS IS CONSTRUED LESS ON CONCORD...
• 11:12 THAT IS PERSONAL GOOD FEELING AND AGREEMENT
• 11:15 AS MUCH AS COHABITATION...
• 11:17 PEOPLE ACTUALLY LIVING AND DWELLING TOGETHER.
• 11:20 AND THAT'S THE STATE IN ISRAEL TODAY...
• 11:22 AND THAT IS PEOPLE HAVE VARYING PHILOSOPHIES, POLITICAL IDEOLOGIES...
• 11:27 BUT PEOPLE STAY TOGETHER AS ISRAELITES,
• 11:30 AND DIFFERENCES NOTWITHSTANDING, TOGETHER ISRAELITES HOLD BACK THE PREVAILING CHAOS.
• 11:38 AND IN THAT SENSE HE GOES ON TO SAY...WELL IN THIS VERSION,
• 11:51 AND THE IMAGERY HERE IS HARKING TO THE ORDINATION OF AARON.
• 12:04 THE IMAGERY HERE IS RATHER ARCHAIC.
• 12:06 IT HARKS BACK TO A TIME WHEN PRECIOUS OINTMENT, PRECIOUS OIL
• 12:11 WAS POURED ON THE PRIESTS HEAD AND IT FLOWED DOWN.
• 12:15 WHAT'S MEANT BY THAT IMAGERY AND HOW DOES IT APPLY TO THE CONTEXT?
• 12:19 WELL PERHAPS A KEY WOULD BE TO LOOK AT WHAT COMES NEXT.
• 12:22 HE SPEAKS OF
• 12:29 INASMUCH AS THE DEW COMES DOWN FROM HERMON AND SPREADS FAR AND WIDE,
• 12:35 HE'S HARKING TO AN IMAGERY HERE IN NATURE.
• 12:38 BY THE WAY, I WAS AT MOUNT HERMON JUST A FEW DAYS AGO...LAST WEEK.
• 12:43 ARE YOU READY FOR THIS?
• 12:44 I'M FILMING IN THE SPRING...
• 12:46 LAST WEEK 4 FEET OF SNOW IN ONE FALL ON MOUNT HERMON.
• 12:51 I OBSERVED THEN HOW AS I MADE MY WAY AT THE BASE OF HERMON AND EXTENDING OUTWARDS
• 12:57 HOW THE WATER WAS RUSHING.
• 13:00 THERE'S A PLACE THERE..."BANIAS"
• 13:02 KNOWN AS CAESAREA PHILIPPI IN THE NEW TESTAMENT
• 13:04 WHERE THERE'S LITTLE DRIBBLES OF WATER USUALLY...NOW IT GUSHES.
• 13:09 SIMILARLY THERE'S A PLACE I'VE SHOT AT MANY TIMES...TEL DAN
• 13:13 WHERE THERE'S A STREAM AND NOW THE STREAM'S RUSHING WATER.
• 13:16 WHAT HAPPENS IS THE WATER, THE SNOW, THE DEW HITS HERMON
• 13:21 AND FROM THERE IT SPREADS OUT THROUGHOUT THE LAND.
• 13:24 IT SEEMS THAT PEOPLE DWELLING TOGETHER IN ZION...
• 13:30 IT SEEMS IT HAS THE NET EFFECT OF BRINGING STRENGTH THROUGHOUT THE LAND.
• 13:36 AND THAT SEEMS HIS POINT...
• 13:38 AND THAT STRENGTH IS GOD ORDAINED
• 13:40 AND IT IS PRECIOUS WHETHER IT COMES FROM THE RAIN, THE SNOW, SPRINGS...
• 13:45 IMPORTANT IS WATERING THE LAND OF ISRAEL.
• 13:50 AND IT SEEMS THAT IT'S WATERED BY THE BRETHREN AS I'D SAID DWELLING TOGETHER.
• 13:55 BY WAY OF APPLICATION WHAT CAN WE GLEAN FROM THAT?
• 13:59 AS I SAID A MOMENT AGO THAT IN A WORLD THAT IS SO CHARACTERIZED BY FRACTURE, BY DISARRAY,
• 14:06 THIS DWELLING TOGETHER,
• 14:08 THIS PREMIUM ON THAT TO ME IS A WORD THAT MODERNS NEED TO HEAR.
• 14:13 IT SEEMS THAT WE GET OUT SO EARLY IN RELATIONSHIPS.
• 14:17 I SAY IN MARRIAGE YOU KNOW WE MARRY FOR AN IDEAL,
• 14:20 WE THINK WE GOT A RAW DEAL;
• 14:21 WE GO SEARCHING FOR A NEW DEAL.
• 14:24 WE'RE HAPPY TO GET INTO RELATIONSHIPS
• 14:25 BUT THEN WHEN THE RAIN FALLS AND THE HEAT COOLS A LITTLE BIT
• 14:30 WE GET OUT OF DODGE.
• 14:32 BETTER IT IS THAT WE STAY TOGETHER BECAUSE THAT INVARIABLY TRANSLATES INTO SUCCESS IN LIFE.
• 14:39 WHY DO I SAY THAT?
• 14:41 I SAY THAT BECAUSE THE PSALMIST SAID IT.
• 14:43 AND WHY DID HE SAY IT?
• 14:44 BECAUSE IT WAS TRUE
• 14:46 AND WHY DID HE SAY IT ON THE WAY UP TO JERUSALEM?
• 14:49 OR RATHER, WHY DID THIS PSALM MAKE ITS WAY INTO A SECTION OF LITERATURE THAT'S SUNG BY PILGRIMS?
• 14:55 BECAUSE BY THEIR DWELLING TOGETHER, BY THEIR WORSHIPPING THE GOD OF ISRAEL,
• 15:00 IT PROVIDES A KIND OF UNITY
• 15:02 THE RELIGION PROVIDES A WAY FOR PEOPLE TO GET TOGETHER.
• 15:07 IT MAKES ROOM FOR DEALING WITH FOIBLES, FOR SNAFUS, FOR SINS...
• 15:11 WE COVER IT WITH A LITTLE GRACE THAT'S LIKENED TO OIL ELSEWHERE
• 15:14 AND WE LEARN TO LUBRICATE THE SYSTEM AND GET ALONG AND GET THINGS DONE.
• 15:19 WELL, ALL THINGS SAID, WHAT CAN I SAY?
• 15:22 I'LL CLOSE LIKE I BEGAN.
• 15:25 (SPEAKING HEBREW)
• 15:29 "BEHOLD HOW GOOD AND PLEASANT IT IS WHEN BRETHREN DWELL TOGETHER IN UNITY."
• 15:42 IT'S BEEN A GOOD SEASON.
• 15:45 PLENTIFUL RAIN
• 15:46 AND NOW THE DAYS ARE FILLED WITH THE WARMTH OF THE SUN.
• 15:50 SOON WE WILL SEE A BOUNTIFUL HARVEST.
• 15:54 I AM JOSHUA
• 15:56 AND THIS IS MY LAND.
• 15:59 IT IS RICH AND FERTILE
• 16:01 BLESSED BY HASHEM.
• 16:03 MANY YEARS AGO ABRAHAM JOURNEYED ACROSS THE ROADS THAT ENCOMPASSED THESE VERY FIELDS.
• 16:08 AND GOD PROMISED HIM THAT ONE DAY HIS SEED WOULD INHERIT THIS VERY LAND.
• 16:17 COME...SEE FOR YOURSELF THIS MIRACLE OF LIFE.
• 16:20 WALK THE LAND OF ABRAHAM, ISAAC AND JACOB.
• 16:24 WITNESS WITH ME THIS MAGNIFICENT LAND OF PROMISE.
• 16:37 FOR YOUR FREE BROCHURE ON OUR NEXT TOUR TO ISRAEL CALL:
• 16:45 "HOW GOOD IT IS FOR BRETHREN TO DWELL TOGETHER."
• 16:49 I REMEMBER BEING IN TEL AVIV AND STANDING ON THE CORNER
• 16:52 AND HEARING THE DIFFERENT LANGUAGES FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD
• 16:56 AND THINKING "WHAT HARMONY...WHAT UNITY WE HAVE WITH OUT BRETHREN."
• 17:01 TRACIE IT KIND OF FEELS THAT WAY WHEN WE'RE ON THE TOUR.
• 17:04 IT DOES
• 17:05 THE PASSENGERS REALLY DO BECOME A FAMILY
• 17:07 YOU KNOW IT'S FUNNY
• 17:08 PEOPLE THINK OF ME LIKE THEIR DAUGHTER OR THEIR SISTER
• 17:11 WHEN THEY CALL IN TO BOOK A TOUR.
• 17:12 THEY FROM THAT FIRST PHONE CALL...
• 17:14 WHICH I REALLY TAKE ABOUT 30 OR 45 MINUTES WITH EACH PASSENGER...
• 17:17 THEY GET A FEELING OF EASE.
• 17:20 THEY KNOW THAT WE HAVE PREPARED EVERYTHING IN ADVANCE,
• 17:22 WE TAKE CARE OF ALL THE DETAILS,
• 17:24 WE HOLD THEIR HAND EVERY STEP OF THE WAY.
• 17:26 WE WANT YOU TO COME ON TOUR WITH US.
• 17:27 ALL YOU HAVE TO DO
• 17:29 IS MEET US AT THE AIRPORT IN NEW YORK
• 17:30 AND WE TAKE CARE OF ALL THE DETAILS FROM THERE.
• 17:32 IT'S GREAT AND WE SEE PEOPLE TAKING CARE OF EACH OTHER ON THE TOUR.
• 17:36 THEY REALLY DO BECOME LIKE FAMILY.
• 17:38 THEY HELP THE OLDER PEOPLE,
• 17:39 THE YOUNG PEOPLE;
• 17:41 THEY HELP WATCH THEM A LITTLE BIT.
• 17:43 IT IS A UNITY,
• 17:44 YOU REALLY SEE BRETHREN COMING TOGETHER IN UNITY.
• 17:47 THEY DO AND I THINK THAT JUST INCREASES THEIR EXPERIENCE WITH YESHUA MORE
• 17:50 WHEN THEY SEE PEOPLE AND THEY SEE CHRISTIANS CARING FOR ONE ANOTHER.
• 17:53 THE GOOD THING ABOUT OUR TRIPS...
• 17:55 IT'S VERY LIKE- MINDED PEOPLE...
• 17:57 REALLY IT'S JUST THE VIEWERS OF OUR SHOW...
• 18:00 THAT'S WHO WE CUSTOMIZE THIS TRIP FOR,
• 18:03 WE WANT YOU TO COME WITH US,
• 18:05 WE'LL HOLD YOUR HAND EVERY STEP OF THE WAY.
• 18:07 YOU CAN GO TO LEVITT.COM
• 18:09 CLICK ON TOURS
• 18:11 AND I'LL ANSWER THAT PHONE CALL WHEN YOU CALL
• 18:13 AND WE WANT YOU TO COME WITH US.
• 18:14 IT'S WONDERFUL PLEASE COME WITH US IT'S A TRIP OF A LIFETIME
• 18:17 OUR OFFER THIS WEEK
• 18:18 IS THE "PSALMS OF ASCENT"
• 18:20 IT'S THE FULL DVD 8 PROGRAMS
• 18:22 MUSIC...VIDEO
• 18:24 IT IS SOMETHING I THINK
• 18:25 YOU'LL WANT TO KEEP.
• 18:26 EITAN JOINS US FROM HAIFA SHARING THE IMPORTANCE OF WORKING TOGETHER.
• 18:34 SHALOM, I'M EITAN SHISHKOFF
• 18:36 OF "TENTS OF MERCY"
• 18:37 IN THE HAIFA BAY AREA.
• 18:38 IN FACT WE'RE STANDING ON THE SHORE OF THE HAIFA BAY.
• 18:41 AND IT WAS RIGHT ALONG THIS MEDITERRANEAN COAST THAT A KING FROM UP THE COAST,
• 18:47 THE KING OF TYRE, A MAN NAMED "HIRAM" SENT LOGS AND WORKERS DOWN THE COAST,
• 18:53 THEY UNLOADED AT THE PORT OF JOPPA
• 18:56 AND BROUGHT THOSE MATERIALS UP TO JERUSALEM TO CORROBORATE WITH A JEWISH KING,
• 19:01 A MAN NAMED "SOLOMON", THE SON OF DAVID,
• 19:03 TO BUILD THE VERY FIRST TEMPLE IN JERUSALEM.
• 19:06 THE STORY IS TOLD IN I KINGS CHAPTER 5
• 19:09 AND TO ME IT IS ONE OF THE MOST FASCINATING AND RELEVANT STORIES OF OUR ERA
• 19:14 BECAUSE THE TEMPLE REPRESENTED THE DWELLING PLACE FOR GOD.
• 19:19 IT WAS THE PLACE WHERE GOD WOULD MANIFEST HIS GLORY.
• 19:22 IT WAS THE PLACE WHERE PEOPLE WERE CALLED TO COME AND WORSHIP THE LIVING GOD OF ISRAEL.
• 19:27 TODAY WE'RE IN A PARALLEL SITUATION.
• 19:30 THERE'S A GENERATION OF JEWISH BELIEVERS IN THE MESSIAH,
• 19:35 ACTUALLY THE MESSIAH, JESUS, THE SON OF DAVID,
• 19:38 AND OUR GENERATION AGAIN IS BEING CALLED TO ESTABLISH THE PRESENCE OF GOD IN ISRAEL.
• 19:44 INTERESTINGLY, SOLOMON ASKED HIRAM TO HELP HIM BUILD THAT TEMPLE.
• 19:49 HIRAM WAS A GENTILE.
• 19:50 HE WASN'T A PART OF ISRAEL
• 19:52 BUT HE BECAME AN INTEGRAL PART OF THE ESTABLISHING OF THE PRESENCE OF GOD
• 19:56 IN THE LAND OF ISRAEL AND IN THE EARTH.
• 19:59 THIS STORY IN I KINGS, CHAPTER 5 TO ME REPRESENTS WHAT GOD AGAIN WANTS TO DO.
• 20:04 HE WANTS TO BRING JEWISH AND GENTILE FOLLOWERS OF THE SON OF DAVID, THE MESSIAH YESHUA
• 20:09 TOGETHER IN ORDER TO CREATE A HOME FOR GOD IN THE LAND.
• 20:14 AND WE ARE GRATEFUL FOR THE "HIRAMS" OF OUR GENERATION
• 20:18 BECAUSE THERE IS A PARTNERSHIP THAT ARISES OUT OF FRIENDSHIP.
• 20:23 THE SCRIPTURE RECORDS THAT HIRAM AND DAVID WERE DEEP PERSONAL FRIENDS
• 20:29 AND IT'S THIS KIND OF FRIENDSHIP
• 20:30 THAT WE APPRECIATE THROUGH THE VIEWERS OF THIS PROGRAM
• 20:34 AND FOR ME THIS IS AN OPPORTUNITY TO SAY,
• 20:37 PLEASE COME AND PARTNER WITH US.
• 20:40 BE THE "HIRAMS" OF THIS DAY TOGETHER WITH THE "SOLOMONS"
• 20:44 WHO ARE LIVING HERE IN THE LAND IN ISRAEL
• 20:46 THAT WE MIGHT AGAIN SEE THE GLORY OF GOD DISPLAYED IN ISRAEL.
• 20:50 I BELIEVE WE'RE GOING TO HAVE A LOT TO CELEBRATE IN THE LIFE TO COME.
• 20:54 THANK YOU SO MUCH.
• 20:58 ♪NOW MAY THE GOD OF PEACE♪
• 21:03 ♪WHO BROUGHT UP FROM THE DEAD♪
• 21:06 ♪OUR YESHUA♪
• 21:09 ♪THAT GREAT SHEPHERD OF THE SHEEP♪
• 21:15 ♪MAKE YOU COMPLETE♪
• 21:19 ♪IN ALL YOU DO♪
• 21:22 ♪AS YOU DO HIS WILL♪
• 21:29 ♪AND MAY YOU ALWAYS PLEASE♪
• 21:34 ♪THE ONE WHO FINDS HIS PLEASURE IN YOU♪
• 21:40 ♪THROUGH THE BLOOD OF HIS OWN SON.♪
• 21:45 ♪TO HIM BE GLORY,♪
• 21:50 ♪TO HIM BE GLORY♪
• 21:55 ♪FOREVER AND EVER,♪
• 21:59 ♪AMEN♪
• 22:07 (MARTY SPEAKING THE HEBREW BLESSING)
• 22:09 "Y'VARECH'CHA ADONAI V'YISHMARECHA"
• 22:13 "MAY THE LORD BLESS YOU AND KEEP YOU"
• 22:16 "YA'EIR ADONAI PANOV AYLECHA, VEECHUNECHA"
• 22:21 "MAY THE LORD MAKE HIS FACE TO SHINE UPON YOU"
• 22:26 "AND BE GRACIOUS UNTO YOU"
• 22:29 "YEESA ADONAI PANAR AYLECHA" "V'YASEM LECHA SHALOM"
• 22:36 "MAY THE LORD LIFT UP HIS COUNTENANCE UPON YOU"
• 22:40 "AND GIVE YOU HIS PEACE"
• 22:44 ♪AND MAY YOU ALWAYS PLEASE♪
• 22:48 ♪THE ONE WHO FINDS SUCH PLEASURE IN YOU♪
• 22:56 ♪THROUGH THE BLOOD♪
• 22:58 ♪OF HIS OWN...SON♪
• 23:05 ♪TO HIM BE GLORY♪
• 23:08 ♪TO YOU BE GLORY♪
• 23:14 ♪FOREVER♪
• 23:16 ♪AND EVER♪
• 23:20 ♪AMEN...♪
• 23:27 ♪AMEN♪
• 23:40 EITAN SHISHKOFF REALLY PRACTICES WHAT HE PREACHES.
• 23:44 HE BELIEVES IN WORKING WITH JEWS AND GENTILES.
• 23:47 I WISH YOU'D REMEMBER TO PRAY FOR HIM.
• 23:49 AND IF YOU FEEL SO LED TO DONATE TO HIS MINISTRY
• 23:52 YOU CAN SEND IT TO ZOLA LEVITT PRESENTS
• 23:55 AND WE WILL GET EVERY 100 PERCENT TO HIM.
• 23:59 I LOVE WORKING WITH JEWS AND GENTILES.
• 24:01 HOW DOES MUSIC HELP JEWS AND GENTILES WORK TOGETHER?
• 24:05 WELL YOU KNOW I WAS THINKING ABOUT THAT
• 24:07 AND THE PSALMS IS THE PRAYER BOOK,
• 24:09 THE HYMN BOOK OF ISRAEL. >>THAT'S RIGHT
• 24:11 AND THE PSALMS ARE MEANT TO BE SUNG. >>THAT'S RIGHT
• 24:13 SO WHEN I WAS GROWING UP IN THE SYNAGOGUE
• 24:16 THEY WOULD SING PSALMS.
• 24:18 I DIDN'T REALLY RECOGNIZE IT AT THAT POINT.
• 24:20 BUT HOW DID THEY SING IT?
• 24:21 HOW DO THEY KNOW THE TUNES TO SING?
• 24:23 USUALLY IT WOULD BE THE CANTOR
• 24:25 AND THEY WOULD BE KIND OF SET TUNES THEY WOULD HAVE FOR DIFFERENT PRAYERS.
• 24:28 WHEN I BECAME A BELIEVER
• 24:30 I NOTICED THEY DID PSALMS IN THE CHURCH.
• 24:32 LIKE IN A REAL CHURCH.
• 24:33 EXACTLY AND SO IT'S INTERESTING
• 24:36 HOW THE JEWISH HYMN BOOK HAS BECOME THE HYMN BOOK FOR THE CHURCH. >>IT IS
• 24:40 WHICH IS FITTING
• 24:42 BECAUSE THE GOSPEL IS THE POWER OF GOD TO SALVATION TO EVERYONE WHO BELIEVES
• 24:46 TO THE JEW FIRST AND ALSO TO THE GENTILE.
• 24:48 AND I THINK PEOPLE LIKE EITAN, THEY SEE THAT IT'S WONDERFUL
• 24:51 THAT THE GOSPEL HAS COME TO THEM
• 24:53 BUT ISRAEL IS TO BE A LIGHT TO THE NATIONS.
• 24:56 THAT'S CORRECT
• 24:57 AND SO THEY SEE THEMSELVES AS FULFILLING THAT PURPOSE
• 25:01 AND MUSIC IS A WAY OF BRINGING THEM TOGETHER
• 25:04 BECAUSE IT'S A TRADITION IN BOTH HOUSES.
• 25:07 IT DOESN'T EXACTLY SAY THIS IS MESSIANIC
• 25:09 OR THIS IS JEWISH
• 25:11 OR THIS IS GENTILE...
• 25:12 THIS IS MUSIC FOR ALL BELIEVERS. >>CORRECT
• 25:15 AND SO THAT'S WHAT MAKES IT
• 25:16 AND MESSIANIC MUSIC HAS HAD A KIND OF A NICE BLUSH ON THE EARTH...
• 25:21 PEOPLE LIKE PAUL WILBUR
• 25:22 AND JOEL CHERNOFF AND PEOPLE LIKE THAT...
• 25:24 AND STUART DAUERMANN...
• 25:26 THERE'S SO MANY GREAT ARTISTS
• 25:27 AND THEY PUT THAT MUSIC OUT THERE.
• 25:30 AND I SING SONGS THAT HAVE HEBREW IN THEM.
• 25:33 I DRAW FROM MY SYNAGOGUE BACKGROUND >>THAT'S RIGHT
• 25:36 AND TRY TO INFUSE IT INTO THE SONGS.
• 25:39 THERE'S SOME NEW ARTISTS THAT ARE DOING A LOT OF THAT.
• 25:41 I WISH I DID A LITTLE BIT MORE OF THAT.
• 25:42 AND ISN'T IT PRETTY...
• 25:43 I LOVE HEARING THE HEBREW WORDS IN THE MUSIC.
• 25:46 IT REALLY CONNECTS ME TO THE OLD TESTAMENT.
• 25:49 YES, WELL HEBREW IS A VERY MUSICAL LANGUAGE.
• 25:51 I MEAN YOU WOULD SAY IN THAT FIRST BOOK OF THE BIBLE IT SAYS,
• 25:55 "AND THE EARTH WAS WITHOUT FORM AND VOID"
• 25:57 BUT IN HEBREW IT'S "TOHU VA VOHU". >>OOH YEAH
• 26:01 WHICH ALMOST SOUNDS LIKE A LYRIC.
• 26:03 IT'S JUST THE WAY IT IS.
• 26:04 IT'S A BEAUTIFUL...
• 26:05 AND SOME OF THE SCRIPTURES EVEN
• 26:07 LIKE ISAIAH THEY SAY WAS A SINGER.
• 26:08 SOME OF THE PASSAGES...
• 26:10 WOW...I CAN'T SEE ISAIAH SINGING...
• 26:11 "YOU'RE GOING DOWN... YOU'RE GOING OUT"
• 26:13 WELL...I HAVE A SONG FROM ISAIAH 53,
• 26:15 "WHO HAS BELIEVED OUR REPORT?"
• 26:17 AND IT IS MEANT TO BE SUNG.
• 26:19 IT'S A BEAUTIFUL LANGUAGE
• 26:21 AND IT DOES BRING US ALL TOGETHER AS ONE FAMILY, ONE CREATION.
• 26:24 AND THAT'S WHAT GOD WANTS.
• 26:26 GOD WANTS US IN UNITY.
• 26:28 WANT YOU TO THINK ABOUT THIS WEEK
• 26:29 "LET US ALL DWELL IN UNITY".
• 26:32 NEXT WEEK IS OUR VERY LAST PROGRAM ON THE SERIES
• 26:36 AND WE'LL HAVE A REVIEW OF ALL THE PROGRAMS.
• 26:39 AND GOD BLESS YOU,
• 26:40 AND, SHA'ALU SHALOM YERUSHALYIM
• 26:42 PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM