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Caption transcript for Abraham: Father of Faith — “Circumcision as a Forever Sign” (7/8)

• 00:01 (♪ Theme Music ♪)
• 00:29 ( Speaking Hebrew )
• 00:36 ♪ ♪
• 00:49 Myles: SHALOM AND WELCOME
• 00:50 TO ZOLA LEVITT PRESENTS.
• 00:52 I'M MYLES WEISS.
• 00:53 Katharine: AND I'M
• 00:54 KATHARINE WEISS AND WE WANT
• 00:55 TO WELCOME YOU TO OUR SERIES
• 00:56 ON "THE LIFE OF ABRAHAM,
• 00:57 THE FATHER OF FAITH."
• 00:58 Myles: IT'S REALLY WONDERFUL
• 00:59 TO THIS, FINALLY WE'RE COMING
• 01:01 TO THE POINT THAT
• 01:02 THEY'VE BEEN WAITING FOR.
• 01:03 ABRAHAM AND SARAH HAVE
• 01:05 BELIEVED GOD, THEY FALTERED,
• 01:06 THEY BELIEVED AGAIN AND
• 01:07 NOW ISAAC IS GOING TO BE BORN.
• 01:09 Katharine: THE APPOINTED TIME.
• 01:10 Myles: EXACTLY, GALATIANS 4:4
• 01:12 SAYS: "WHEN THE FULLNESS OF TIME
• 01:14 HAD COME,
• 01:15 GOD SENT FORTH HIS SON."
• 01:17 AND, REALLY, ISAAC IS A PERFECT
• 01:19 PICTURE OF YESHUA HA MASHIACH,
• 01:20 JESUS CHRIST, AND SO WE'RE
• 01:22 GOING TO SEE HOW THAT WILL
• 01:24 UNFOLD, BUT LET'S GO TO
• 01:25 ABRAHAM AND SARAH AS JOY FILLS
• 01:28 THEIR LIVES WITH THE BIRTH
• 01:29 OF THEIR SON, ISAAC.
• 01:33 Narrator: AND THE LORD
• 01:34 VISITED SARAH AS HE HAD SAID.
• 01:37 AND THE LORD DID UNTO SARAH
• 01:38 AS HE HAD SPOKEN, FOR SARAH
• 01:41 CONCEIVED AND BARE ABRAHAM
• 01:43 A SON IN HIS OLD AGE
• 01:46 AT THE SET TIME OF WHICH GOD
• 01:48 HAD SPOKEN TO HIM.
• 01:52 ( Speaking Hebrew )
• 03:06 Myles: WE ARE AT ONE OF THE MOST
• 03:07 EXITING PARTS OF THIS STORY,
• 03:09 I MEAN, THE WHOLE STORY
• 03:10 IS FULL OF MIRACLES,
• 03:11 OF PROMISES FULFILLED,
• 03:13 BUT HERE WE HAVE
• 03:14 THE JEWISHNESS OF THE GOSPEL
• 03:16 PORTRAYED IN
• 03:17 THE STRONGEST POSSIBLE TERMS.
• 03:19 THE PROMISE COMES
• 03:20 TO ABRAHAM AND SARAH
• 03:22 THAT THEY WILL CONCEIVE AND,
• 03:23 LO AND BEHOLD, JUST AS PROMISED,
• 03:25 BECAUSE GOD DOES
• 03:27 WHAT HE SAYS HE'S GOING TO DO--
• 03:28 HE SAYS WHAT HE DOES,
• 03:29 AND HE DOES WHAT HE SAYS--
• 03:30 THEY HAVE THE SON.
• 03:32 THE SON IS ISAAC,
• 03:34 ISAAC: YITZCHAK,
• 03:35 MEANS "LAUGHTER"
• 03:36 BECAUSE OF THE IMPOSSIBILITY
• 03:38 WITH MAN,
• 03:39 BUT THE POSSIBILITY WITH GOD,
• 03:40 IT CAUSED THEM TO LAUGH,
• 03:42 AND SO HIS NAME IS LAUGHTER.
• 03:44 DO YOU KNOW THAT THIS PICTURE
• 03:46 OF ISAAC, THE PROMISED SON,
• 03:48 IS SUCH A PARALLEL TO YESHUA
• 03:51 HA MASHIACH, JESUS CHRIST,
• 03:53 THE ONE THAT THE GENTILES CALLED
• 03:55 JESUS CHRIST IS THE PROMISED SON
• 03:57 OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE,
• 03:59 AND THIS IS THE CENTER,
• 04:00 THE HEARTBEAT, OF THE JEWISHNESS
• 04:02 OF THE GOSPEL AND MAY BE
• 04:03 THE HEARTBEAT OF OUR MINISTRY
• 04:06 BECAUSE IT DEMONSTRATES
• 04:08 IN NO UNCERTAIN TERMS
• 04:10 THAT THIS GOSPEL WHICH HAS BEEN
• 04:12 PREACHED AROUND THE WORLD FOR
• 04:13 2,000 YEARS IS A JEWISH GOSPEL;
• 04:16 IT BELONGS HERE IN ISRAEL.
• 04:18 IT BELONGS AMONG
• 04:21 MY JEWISH PEOPLE AND TOGETHER,
• 04:22 FOREVER, JEWS AND GENTILES
• 04:24 ARE UNITED BY OUR FAITH
• 04:26 IN YESHUA HA MASHIACH.
• 04:28 LISTEN TO THE PARALLELS
• 04:29 BETWEEN THESE TWO.
• 04:31 THIS MESSIAH OF ISRAEL
• 04:32 HAD TO BE A HEBREW
• 04:34 AND SO IN GENESIS 21:3,
• 04:36 ISAAC IS BORN OF THE LINE
• 04:39 OF EBER, ABRAHAM THE HEBREW.
• 04:41 MATTHEW 1:1,
• 04:42 JESUS, A SON OF THE HEBREWS.
• 04:45 HE IS THE SON OF PROMISE.
• 04:46 WE SEE THIS IN GENESIS 17
• 04:49 AND ALSO IN LUKE, CHAPTER 2.
• 04:52 BOTH BIRTHS
• 04:53 WERE FORETOLD BY ANGELS.
• 04:55 THEY WERE PROPHESIED, PROMISED
• 04:57 BY AN ANGELIC VISITATION.
• 04:59 IN GENESIS 18:18, THE ANGEL
• 05:01 COMES TO ABRAHAM AND SARAH.
• 05:04 IN LUKE 1:34, THE ANGEL COMES
• 05:06 TO MIRIAM, MARY AND JOSEPH.
• 05:10 IT'S A MIRACULOUS BIRTH; IT'S
• 05:11 SOMETHING THAT COULDN'T HAPPEN.
• 05:12 REMEMBER, ABRAHAM AND SARAH WERE
• 05:14 WELL BEYOND CHILDBEARING YEARS.
• 05:17 SO IT IS WITH MARY, MIRIAM.
• 05:19 SHE WAS A VIRGIN.
• 05:20 SHE COULD NOT HAVE A CHILD AND
• 05:22 YET MIRACULOUSLY THE HOLY SPIRIT
• 05:24 CAME UPON HER AND SHE BORE
• 05:27 A MIRACULOUS CHILD AS WELL.
• 05:30 HE'S THE ONLY SON OF PROMISE
• 05:31 TO ABRAHAM EVEN THOUGH ISHMAEL
• 05:33 WAS BORN AND ABRAHAM LOVES
• 05:35 ISHMAEL, THE ONLY ONE BORN
• 05:37 OF HIS OWN LOINS IS ISAAC,
• 05:39 A PROMISED SON, THE ONLY SON.
• 05:42 AND WHAT IS GOD THE FATHER'S
• 05:43 TESTIMONY OF JESUS?
• 05:49 AND BEYOND THAT...
• 05:54 INCREDIBLE.
• 05:56 JESUS AND ISAAC BOTH CARRIED
• 05:59 THE WOOD FOR THE SACRIFICE
• 06:01 UP MOUNT MORIAH, (Mor-ee-ah)
• 06:02 UP MOUNT MORIAH.
• 06:04 ISAAC CARRIED THE WOOD
• 06:05 FOR THE SACRIFICE, YOU REMEMBER,
• 06:07 WHEN ABRAHAM TOOK HIM OUT.
• 06:09 AND YESHUA, JESUS, CARRIED
• 06:11 AT LEAST THE CROSS BEAM, CARRIED
• 06:13 THE WOOD FOR THE CRUCIFIXION,
• 06:15 FOR THE SACRIFICE,
• 06:16 UP TO THE PLACE OF SACRIFICE,
• 06:20 BOTH PARALLELING PERFECTLY
• 06:22 IN THE SCRIPTURE.
• 06:24 ISAAC WENT WILLINGLY AND WE SEE
• 06:26 THAT PORTRAYED IN SCRIPTURE,
• 06:28 AND WE KNOW THAT THE SON OF MAN
• 06:30 LAID DOWN HIS LIFE
• 06:31 FOR THE SINS OF THE WORLD.
• 06:33 IT IS SUCH AN INCREDIBLE
• 06:35 PARALLEL OF PROMISE,
• 06:37 SUCH AN AMAZING PICTURE
• 06:38 OF THE MESSIAH IN ISAAC,
• 06:41 THAT SEED, THAT BIRTH,
• 06:42 THAT PROMISE, THAT GOES
• 06:43 ALL THE WAY BACK TO THE GARDEN.
• 06:45 GENESIS 3:15, THAT THROUGH
• 06:47 THE SEED OF THE WOMAN,
• 06:48 THE WORLD WOULD BE REDEEMED;
• 06:51 AND WE SEE IT PICTURED IN ISAAC
• 06:52 AND FULFILLED
• 06:54 IN YESHUA HA MASHIACH.
• 06:55 SO COMING TO YOU FROM ISRAEL,
• 06:58 COMING TO YOU FROM THIS PLACE
• 06:59 WHERE THE GOSPEL WENT FORTH,
• 07:00 I WANT TO ENCOURAGE YOU
• 07:02 TO LOOK FOR YOURSELF.
• 07:04 DO WHAT I DID AT AGE 33.
• 07:06 LOOK INTO THIS BOOK YOURSELF
• 07:08 AND FIND OUT THE TRUTH
• 07:10 THAT JESUS IS THE PROMISED SON.
• 07:15 (♪ Music & Clapping ♪)
• 07:29 Narrator: AND THE CHILD GREW
• 07:31 AND WAS WEANED.
• 07:32 AND ABRAHAM MADE A GREAT FEAST
• 07:34 THE SAME DAY THAT ISAAC
• 07:35 WAS WEANED.
• 07:40 AND SARAH SAW THE SON OF HAGAR
• 07:42 NAMED ISHMAEL WHO WAS MOCKING.
• 07:46 AND SARAH SAID, "CAST OUT
• 07:48 THIS BONDWOMAN AND HER SON,
• 07:51 FOR THE SON OF THE BONDWOMAN
• 07:52 SHALL NOT BE HEIR
• 07:54 WITH MY SON ISAAC."
• 07:56 AND ABRAHAM TOOK BREAD
• 07:58 AND A JAR OF WATER
• 07:59 AND GAVE IT UNTO HAGAR
• 08:01 AND HE SENT HER AWAY.
• 08:04 AND SHE WANDERED
• 08:05 IN THE WILDERNESS OF BEERSHEBA
• 08:07 WITH HER SON ISHMAEL.
• 08:11 AND THE WATER IN THE JAR
• 08:12 WAS SPENT.
• 08:14 IN THIS DRY, BARREN WILDERNESS
• 08:16 THERE WAS LITTLE HOPE
• 08:17 OF FINDING WATER,
• 08:19 LITTLE HOPE TO SURVIVE.
• 08:23 BROKENHEARTED AND OVERCOME
• 08:24 BY DESPAIR, HAGAR CAST THE CHILD
• 08:27 UNDER ONE OF THE SHRUBS.
• 08:30 PERHAPS THE SHADE
• 08:31 WOULD COOL HIM,
• 08:32 POSTPONE THE INEVITABLE.
• 08:35 AND SHE WALKED AWAY.
• 08:38 HAGAR HAD EXPERIENCED
• 08:39 AN ENCOUNTER WITH
• 08:40 A HEAVENLY BEING ONCE BEFORE.
• 08:43 IN HER AFFLICTION,
• 08:44 AN ANGEL HAD APPEARED
• 08:46 AND TOLD HER OF
• 08:47 THE FORTHCOMING BIRTH OF A SON.
• 08:49 AND NOW, THAT VERY SON
• 08:52 WAS DYING.
• 08:54 IN THIS TIME OF GREAT TROUBLE,
• 08:56 COULD GOD SAVE HER SON?
• 08:59 "LET ME NOT SEE THE DEATH
• 09:01 OF MY CHILD," SHE SAID.
• 09:03 AND GOD OPENED HER EYES
• 09:06 AND SHE SAW A WELL OF WATER.
• 09:10 AND GOD HEARD THE VOICE
• 09:11 OF THE LAD AND THE ANGEL OF GOD
• 09:14 SAID UNTO HER,
• 09:16 "FEAR NOT, FOR GOD HATH
• 09:18 HEARD THE VOICE OF THE LAD.
• 09:21 ARISE; LIFT UP THE LAD
• 09:24 FOR I WILL MAKE HIM
• 09:25 A GREAT NATION."
• 09:28 AND HAGAR GAVE ISHMAEL WATER
• 09:30 FROM THE WELL.
• 09:33 AND GOD WAS WITH THE LAD
• 09:35 AND HE GREW AND DWELT
• 09:37 IN THE WILDERNESS OF PARAN.
• 09:48 Myles: SUCH A HUMAN STORY,
• 09:50 THE CHARACTERS IN THIS STORY.
• 09:51 THEY'RE JUST LIKE YOU AND ME.
• 09:53 THEY'RE SO HUMAN,
• 09:54 THE JEALOUSY, THE CONSTERNATION
• 09:56 BETWEEN THEM AND ESPECIALLY
• 09:57 AT THIS PART, THE DIFFICULTY
• 10:00 BETWEEN SARAH AND HAGAR.
• 10:02 IT'S JUST SO INCREDIBLE.
• 10:04 Katharine: WELL, SARAH
• 10:05 HAD BEEN GIVEN A SON.
• 10:07 THE SON THAT SHE'D
• 10:08 LONG-AWAITED FOR WAS COME.
• 10:11 ISAAC, THE ONE MEANS LAUGHTER.
• 10:14 AND IT HAD BEEN THREE YEARS AND
• 10:15 IT'S THE TIME OF HIS WEANING.
• 10:17 IT WAS A WEANING PARTY
• 10:19 AND IT WAS WHEN SHE CAUGHT
• 10:21 OUT OF THIS CORNER OF HER EYE,
• 10:24 ISHMAEL MOCKING.
• 10:26 THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT A WOMAN.
• 10:27 YOU CAN TOUCH US, BUT ONCE
• 10:29 YOU TOUCH OUR KIDS, THAT'S IT.
• 10:32 AND SHE SAID TO ABRAHAM,
• 10:34 "CAST OUT THE BONDWOMAN
• 10:36 AND HER SON."
• 10:37 AND SO HERE WE HAVE
• 10:39 THIS NEW STEP THAT ABRAHAM
• 10:42 IS CALLED TO DO.
• 10:43 Myles: YES IT IS.
• 10:44 BUT YET ABRAHAM LOVES ISHMAEL
• 10:46 AND THAT'S SO IMPORTANT FOR US
• 10:48 TO REMEMBER BECAUSE IT EVEN SAYS
• 10:50 IN VERSE 18:
• 10:52 ( Speaking Hebrew )
• 10:56 ...OF ISHMAEL, A GREAT NATION.
• 10:58 ISHMAEL IS GOING TO HAVE 12 SONS
• 11:00 OUT OF WHOM WILL COME 12 TRIBES.
• 11:03 IT WILL BECOME A GREAT NATION
• 11:05 AND, YOU KNOW,
• 11:06 THE BLESSING OF GOD
• 11:07 HAS BEEN ON THE SONS OF ISHMAEL.
• 11:09 IN VERY SIMPLE TERMS,
• 11:11 JUST BY THE OIL WEALTH
• 11:13 AND THE BREADTH OF THE LAND
• 11:15 THAT THE SONS OF ISHMAEL HAVE.
• 11:16 ITS BEEN AN INCREDIBLE BLESSING
• 11:18 FOR THEM, AND THE THING
• 11:20 THAT WOULD MAKE IT
• 11:21 A COMPLETE BLESSING WOULD BE
• 11:23 FOR THE SONS OF ISHMAEL
• 11:24 TO RETURN TO THEIR
• 11:26 FATHER ABRAHAM AND TO THE GOD
• 11:27 OF THEIR FATHER ABRAHAM.
• 11:29 AND I THINK THAT'S WHAT
• 11:30 YOU AND I ARE LONGING FOR,
• 11:32 IS THAT THE SONS OF ISHMAEL
• 11:34 WOULD SAY YES
• 11:35 TO THE GOD OF ABRAHAM.
• 11:37 MANY CENTURIES LATER
• 11:38 CAME MOHAMMED AND THE STORY
• 11:40 OF ISLAM AND THE ENTIRE
• 11:42 MYTHOLOGY THAT'S GROWN UP
• 11:44 AROUND THAT AND THE LARGE
• 11:47 SEGMENT OF THE ISHMAELITE
• 11:48 POPULATION THAT HAS COME
• 11:49 TO FOLLOW THOSE WAYS.
• 11:51 BUT, YOU KNOW,
• 11:52 THERE ARE THOSE AMONG US,
• 11:54 AMONG THE SONS OF ISHMAEL,
• 11:55 THAT ARE TURNING
• 11:57 TO THE GOD OF ABRAHAM.
• 11:58 Katharine: AND THEY'RE COMING
• 11:59 THROUGH THE MESSIAH
• 12:01 WHICH WILL OPEN THE DOOR
• 12:03 FOR THEM TO HAVE THE FULL
• 12:04 INHERITANCE AND NOT BE DECEIVED
• 12:06 BY THE LIES OF MOHAMMAD.
• 12:08 GOD MADE A WAY FOR HAGAR
• 12:10 AND HE MADE A WAY FOR ISHMAEL.
• 12:13 HE AGAIN VISITED THEM
• 12:14 IN THE DESERT AND SHOWED HIMSELF
• 12:17 TO BE FAITHFUL TO THEM EVEN
• 12:18 IN THE TIME OF THEIR DISTRESS.
• 12:19 Myles: YEAH, AND THERE'S
• 12:20 GENERATIONAL PICTURES
• 12:22 OF THE POSSIBILITIES
• 12:23 OF RECONCILIATION.
• 12:24 ONE OF MY FAVORITES
• 12:26 IS IN GENESIS 32
• 12:28 WHEN JACOB IS TOUCHED BY GOD
• 12:30 AND BECOMES ISRAEL;
• 12:32 AND YET ONE CHAPTER LATER,
• 12:34 THERE IS A RECONCILIATION
• 12:35 BETWEEN HIM AND ESAU,
• 12:37 ESAU BEING A DESCENDANT
• 12:39 OF ISHMAEL.
• 12:40 IN OTHER WORDS, GOD IS
• 12:41 PROPHESYING THE POSSIBILITY
• 12:43 OF TRANSFORMATION IN THE HEART
• 12:45 OF THE SONS OF ISHMAEL,
• 12:47 THE SONS OF ESAU,
• 12:48 WHEN THEY SEE THE TOUCH OF GOD
• 12:51 ON THE SONS OF ISAAC.
• 12:52 THE HOPE THAT IS IN THE LAND,
• 12:54 THE HOPE THAT IS IN THE WORLD
• 12:56 TODAY IS IN SAR SHALOM,
• 12:58 IS IN THE PRINCE OF PEACE.
• 12:59 WHEN WE ARE TOUCHED BY GOD,
• 13:01 WHETHER WE'RE THE SONS OF ISAAC
• 13:02 OR THE SONS OF ISHMAEL,
• 13:04 WHEN WE'RE TOUCHED BY GOD,
• 13:05 THERE'S A TRANSFORMATION
• 13:07 AND HATE IS CHANGED TO LOVE,
• 13:09 AND WE'VE SEEN IT.
• 13:10 WE'VE SEEN IT IN THE LAND.
• 13:11 Katharine: WELL, IT'S BEEN ONE
• 13:12 OF OUR COMMITMENTS TO NOT ONLY
• 13:14 PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM
• 13:16 BUT TO PRAY FOR THE VEIL
• 13:18 OF ISLAM TO BE REMOVED
• 13:20 OFF THE ARABIC PEOPLE.
• 13:21 Myles: YES.
• 13:22 Katharine: AND WE'VE WORKED
• 13:23 REALLY HARD FOR THAT
• 13:24 AND WE KNOW THAT GOD
• 13:25 IS WORKING WITH US IN IT.
• 13:26 SO WE JUST ARE SO BLESSED
• 13:27 TO BE A PART OF SEEING
• 13:28 THE RECONCILIATION.
• 13:29 Myles: IT'S AMAZING.
• 13:30 THERE'S NO OTHER WAY
• 13:31 IN THIS WORLD
• 13:32 FOR RECONCILIATION TO COME
• 13:33 OTHER THAN THROUGH THE PRINCE
• 13:35 OF PEACE AND WE'VE SEEN IT.
• 13:36 WE'VE SEEN JEWS AND ARABS
• 13:37 DWELLING TOGETHER IN PEACE
• 13:39 BECAUSE OF THE SPIRITUAL
• 13:40 TRANSFORMATION THAT HAS COME
• 13:42 WHEN THEY'VE BEEN TOUCHED
• 13:43 BY THE GOD OF ABRAHAM,
• 13:45 AND SO THIS PICTURE
• 13:46 OF THE WRANGLING
• 13:47 BETWEEN ISAAC AND ISHMAEL
• 13:49 IS ONLY ONE PART OF THE STORY.
• 13:50 THERE'S A FUTURE AND A HOPE
• 13:52 FOR ANYONE THAT WILL SAY YES
• 13:54 TO THE MESSIAH.
• 13:56 (♪ Music ♪)
• 14:03 (♪ Music ♪)
• 14:35 WE WOULD LOVE TO HOST YOU
• 14:36 IN ISRAEL, AND TO MAKE THAT
• 14:38 AS EASY AS POSSIBLE,
• 14:39 I HAVE WITH US HERE TODAY,
• 14:41 OUR TRAVEL MANAGER, TRACIE.
• 14:42 TRACIE, WHAT'S NEW
• 14:43 IN ZOLA LEVITT TOURS?
• 14:45 Tracie: WELL, OF COURSE,
• 14:46 YOU AND KATHARINE HAVE BEEN
• 14:47 WITH US FOR ABOUT A YEAR
• 14:48 AND WE JUST KEEP GETTING
• 14:50 RAVE REVIEWS, EVEN
• 14:51 THIS LAST TOUR THAT CAME BACK.
• 14:53 PEOPLE ARE JUST CALLING IN,
• 14:54 SAYING HOW MUCH YOUR PRESENCE
• 14:57 MEANT TO THEM.
• 14:58 AND WHAT YOU HAVE TO REALIZE
• 14:59 ABOUT OUR TOURS IS,
• 15:00 BECAUSE THEY'RE VERY SMALL,
• 15:01 THE FEEDBACK I KEPT GETTING WAS,
• 15:03 "I CAN'T BELIEVE I GOT
• 15:04 ONE-ON-ONE TIME
• 15:05 WITH MYLES AND KATHARINE."
• 15:07 AND I THINK THE REASON PEOPLE
• 15:08 CONSIDER THAT SO SPECIAL,
• 15:09 MYLES, IS MOST OTHER TOURS DON'T
• 15:11 HAVE THAT MESSIANIC COMPONENT.
• 15:13 THEY'LL HAVE A GUIDE, BUT THEY
• 15:14 JUST DON'T HAVE TOUR PASTORS
• 15:16 THAT HAVE THE RICH EXPERIENCE
• 15:18 THAT YOU AND KATHARINE DO AND
• 15:19 THAT MAKES ALL THE DIFFERENCE.
• 15:20 Myles: WE LOVE DOING IT.
• 15:22 Tracie: AND SPEAKING OF PASTORS,
• 15:23 I KNOW THAT YOU HAVE A LOT
• 15:24 OF EXPERIENCE BEING IN ISRAEL
• 15:26 WITH TOUR GROUPS AND I WANT
• 15:27 TO INVITE THE PASTORS OUT THERE.
• 15:28 IF YOU GET A GROUP OF TEN
• 15:30 OR MORE, FOR TEN PAYING PEOPLE,
• 15:32 ONE COMES FREE.
• 15:33 WE'D LOVE TO HAVE
• 15:34 20 PAYING PEOPLE AND YOU
• 15:35 AND YOUR SPOUSE CAN COME FREE.
• 15:37 BUT WHAT THAT MEANS, MYLES,
• 15:38 IS THAT COME ON THE TOUR,
• 15:40 THEIR FOCUS CAN BE
• 15:41 SOLELY SPIRITUAL.
• 15:42 YOU CAN ACTUALLY GO TO OUR
• 15:43 WEBSITE AND LOOK AT SOME VIDEO
• 15:45 THAT I JUST RECORDED ON
• 15:46 THREE COMMONLY ASKED QUESTIONS.
• 15:48 WHY ZOLA TOURS?
• 15:49 IS ISRAEL SAFE?
• 15:50 AND WHAT ABOUT
• 15:51 THE GREECE EXTENSION?
• 15:52 SO COME WITH US.
• 15:54 MYLES AND KATHARINE,
• 15:55 I REALLY THINK, WILL EXCEED
• 15:56 YOUR EXPECTATIONS AND I'D LOVE
• 15:57 TO HELP WITH THAT PROCESS.
• 15:59 Myles: THANK YOU SO MUCH,
• 16:00 TRACIE, YOU REALLY DO FACILITATE
• 16:01 AND WE HEAR THAT FEEDBACK
• 16:02 ON THE TOURS; IN FACT,
• 16:04 JUST NOW ON OUR LAST TOUR,
• 16:05 WE KEPT HEARING
• 16:06 OVER AND OVER AGAIN
• 16:07 HOW IT WAS SO EASY TO DO.
• 16:09 I KNOW AS A PASTOR
• 16:10 IT'S A BLESSING TO HAVE TRACIE
• 16:12 THERE TO TAKE CARE OF
• 16:13 ALL THE DETAILS
• 16:14 SO THAT ALL YOU HAVE TO DO
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• 16:18 AND THE PROCESS BEGINS.
• 16:19 WE REALLY WOULD LOVE
• 16:20 TO HOST YOU IN ISRAEL.
• 16:21 IT'S LIFE-CHANGING.
• 16:23 A GOOD WAY TO KNOW WHAT WE'RE
• 16:24 DOING HERE AT THE MINISTRY
• 16:25 IS TO RECEIVE OUR LEVITT LETTER.
• 16:27 IT'S FREE TO YOU,
• 16:28 HAS BIBLE TEACHING,
• 16:30 A HEBREW LESSON, OTHER ARTICLES
• 16:32 THAT ARE VERY EDIFYING.
• 16:33 AND REALLY, AS WE SEE THE DAY
• 16:35 APPROACHING, IT'S IMPORTANT
• 16:36 TO HAVE NEWS THAT YOU CAN'T GET
• 16:38 IN THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA
• 16:39 AND THAT'S WHAT WE DELIGHT
• 16:40 IN BRINGING TO YOU.
• 16:41 IT'S REALLY A CLEARINGHOUSE
• 16:43 FOR THE BEST OF
• 16:44 THE MOST IMPORTANT OF THE NEWS
• 16:45 THAT YOU SHOULD HAVE
• 16:46 IN YOUR HANDS.
• 16:48 AND OUR OFFER THIS WEEK,
• 16:49 ZOLA'S HIGHLIGHTS, THESE ARE
• 16:50 SOME OF THE GREATEST WORKS
• 16:52 THAT HE DID BEFORE HE GRADUATED
• 16:54 TO HEAVEN.
• 16:55 YOU CAN GET AHOLD OF THIS
• 16:56 BY GETTING IN TOUCH WITH US.
• 16:57 OUR ANNOUNCER,
• 16:58 LATER IN THE PROGRAM,
• 16:59 WILL TELL YOU HOW TO GET AHOLD
• 17:01 OF THAT OFFER FOR THIS WEEK.
• 17:03 NOW, LET'S GO BACK TO
• 17:05 THE WAY OF THE PATRIARCHS
• 17:06 AS THE UNFOLDING OF THE JOURNEY
• 17:10 OF ABRAHAM AND SARAH CONTINUES
• 17:12 THE JOURNEY OF FAITH
• 17:13 THAT COMES DOWN THROUGH TIME
• 17:15 THROUGH THE LINEAGE
• 17:16 OF ABRAHAM, ISAAC AND JACOB
• 17:18 DOWN TO YOU AND TO ME.
• 17:24 Narrator: AND IT CAME TO PASS
• 17:25 AT THAT TIME, THAT ABIMELECH,
• 17:27 KING OF GERAR,
• 17:29 AND PHICOL, THE CHIEF CAPTAIN
• 17:31 OF HIS ARMY, MET WITH ABRAHAM.
• 17:33 ( Speaking Hebrew )
• 18:53 Narrator: AND HE CALLED
• 18:54 THE PLACE BEERSHEBA,
• 18:56 BECAUSE IT WAS THERE
• 18:57 THAT THEY BOTH SWORE AN OATH.
• 19:00 THUS, THEY MADE A COVENANT.
• 19:03 THEN ABIMELECH AND PHICOL,
• 19:06 THE CHIEF CAPTAIN, RETURNED
• 19:08 TO THE LAND OF THE PHILISTINES.
• 19:10 AND ABRAHAM LIVED A LONG TIME
• 19:12 AS A FOREIGNER IN THE LAND
• 19:13 OF THE PHILISTINES.
• 19:17 Myles: THE SOUND
• 19:18 OF RUNNING WATER,
• 19:19 WHAT A BEAUTIFUL SOUND!
• 19:21 YOU AND I TAKE IT FOR GRANTED.
• 19:22 WE JUST GO TO OUR TAP,
• 19:23 TURN THE KNOB
• 19:25 AND WATER FLOWS OUT SO EASILY.
• 19:27 BUT IN THE MIDDLE EAST,
• 19:28 IN ISRAEL, IT IS THE DIFFERENCE
• 19:30 BETWEEN LIFE AND DEATH,
• 19:32 AND THAT'S REALLY WHAT WE SEE
• 19:33 PICTURED IN THIS PART
• 19:34 OF OUR STORY, WHERE THE WATER
• 19:36 IS SO NEEDED IN BEERSHEBA
• 19:38 IN THE SOUTH, THE NEGEV,
• 19:40 IN THE DESERTS OF ISRAEL,
• 19:42 THAT THERE'S CONTENTION BETWEEN
• 19:44 THE SERVANTS OF ABIMELECH
• 19:46 AND THE SERVANTS OF ABRAHAM.
• 19:48 AND SO ABRAHAM GIVES
• 19:50 SEVEN EWE LAMBS TO ABIMELECH
• 19:53 AS A SIGN, AS A TESTIMONY, THAT
• 19:56 THOSE WELLS WERE DUG BY HIMSELF
• 19:59 AND ABIMELECH RECEIVES THEM.
• 20:00 AND THAT WORD, BEERSHEBA,
• 20:02 IS THE WORD FOR SEVEN WELLS.
• 20:05 IT ALSO MEANS COVENANT OR OATH.
• 20:07 THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT
• 20:08 THE SEVEN EWE LAMBS
• 20:10 AS A TESTIMONY THAT IS ALSO
• 20:12 A TESTIMONY TO THE FULLNESS
• 20:13 OF WHAT IS TAKING PLACE HERE.
• 20:15 YOU KNOW, SEVEN IS THE NUMBER
• 20:17 OF COMPLETION OR FULLNESS
• 20:19 AND WE REALLY SEE THE STORY
• 20:20 COMING TO A PEAK HERE AND THIS
• 20:22 INCREDIBLE RELATIONSHIP THAT
• 20:25 COMES TO A COVENANT RELATIONSHIP
• 20:27 BETWEEN THIS KING AND ABRAHAM,
• 20:30 THE FATHER OF FAITH.
• 20:32 IT'S GOT SOME BEAUTIFUL PICTURES
• 20:33 IN IT FOR OUR DAY
• 20:35 FOR THE FUTURE,
• 20:36 FOR THE HOPE THAT IS IN ISRAEL
• 20:38 WHAT CAN HAPPEN
• 20:39 WHEN JEW AND GENTILE,
• 20:40 WHEN THE CHILDREN OF ABRAHAM
• 20:42 AND THOSE THAT DO NOT KNOW
• 20:43 THE GOD OF ABRAHAM COME TOGETHER
• 20:45 THROUGH KNOWLEDGE
• 20:47 OF THE MESSIAH.
• 20:49 YOU KNOW, ABRAHAM,
• 20:51 HE PLANTS A TAMARISK TREE HERE.
• 20:54 AND THE TAMARISK TREE
• 20:55 IS SUCH A HUGE PICTURE FOR US
• 20:57 OF THE LENGTH OF LIFE
• 21:00 AND THE IMPORTANCE OF LIFE
• 21:01 BEYOND JUST THE TEMPORARY.
• 21:04 BUT IT REALLY PICTURES SOMETHING
• 21:05 THAT'S ALMOST ETERNAL.
• 21:07 IT POINTS TO ETERNITY.
• 21:09 THERE WAS A TREE IN THE GARDEN.
• 21:11 THERE ARE TREES
• 21:12 OF SIGNIFICANT STATURE
• 21:14 THROUGHOUT THE SCRIPTURE.
• 21:15 THE PSALMIST USED THE TREE
• 21:17 AS A PICTURE
• 21:18 OF HEALTH AND WHOLENESS.
• 21:20 AND WE SEE A TREE IN REVELATION,
• 21:23 THE LEAVES OF WHICH ARE USED
• 21:24 FOR THE HEALING OF THE NATIONS.
• 21:26 THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT A TREE
• 21:29 THAT SPEAKS OF A COMMITMENT,
• 21:30 A COVENANT,
• 21:31 AND LENGTH OF LIFE BEYOND THAT
• 21:33 WHICH IS A SHORT LENGTH OF LIFE,
• 21:35 LIKE THE LENGTH OF A MAN'S LIFE.
• 21:38 WE SEE THAT HERE IN THAT
• 21:39 PLANTING OF THE TAMARISK TREE.
• 21:41 IN FACT, WHEN ABRAHAM PLANTS
• 21:42 THE TREE, HE CALLS THIS PLACE
• 21:45 AND HE CALLS ON THE NAME
• 21:46 OF THE LORD AS EL-OLAM,
• 21:49 THE ETERNAL GOD.
• 21:51 THE TREE HAS A CERTAIN
• 21:52 SIGNIFICANCE FOR US, TOO,
• 21:53 AS BELIEVERS IN THE WEST END,
• 21:55 HERE IN THE LAND, TOO,
• 21:57 BECAUSE IT'S THE OLIVE TREE
• 21:59 THAT PICTURES THE ANCIENT
• 22:01 ISRAEL SAP, THE ROOT,
• 22:04 THE MESSIANIC ROOT OF OUR FAITH
• 22:06 THAT GOES BACK TO ABRAHAM
• 22:08 AND THAT FLOURISHES
• 22:09 THROUGH THE CROSS OF YESHUA
• 22:11 AND THE GENTILES IN THE WORLD
• 22:12 BEING GRAFTED IN
• 22:14 TO THAT OLIVE TREE.
• 22:16 WHEN A TREE IS GRAFTED, WHEN
• 22:18 THE WILD OLIVE TREE BRANCHES ARE
• 22:20 GRAFTED INTO THE NATURAL TREE,
• 22:24 IT'S DONE THROUGH A CROSS
• 22:25 IN THE BRANCH OF THE OLIVE TREE,
• 22:29 AND SO YOU, AS A GENTILE,
• 22:31 ARE GRAFTED IN TO
• 22:33 THE NATURAL OLIVE TREE OF ISRAEL
• 22:35 AND TOGETHER WE BECOME A MORE
• 22:37 FRUITFUL TREE FOR THE LORD.
• 22:39 WE BECOME A PICTURE
• 22:41 OF THE PLANTING OF THE LORD,
• 22:43 THE OLIVE TREE, FULL OF FRUIT
• 22:46 THAT BRINGS FORTH LIGHT
• 22:47 AND FEEDS AND SUSTAINS EVERYONE
• 22:50 WHO COMES IN CONTACT WITH IT.
• 22:52 AND THAT'S REALLY THE PICTURE
• 22:54 OF THE TREE THAT WE SEE HERE.
• 22:56 WATER, TREES,
• 22:59 SYMBOLS OF GOD HIMSELF,
• 23:01 PICTURES OF WHO HE IS
• 23:03 AND HOW HE BRINGS US TOGETHER
• 23:05 TO ACCOMPLISH HIS PURPOSES
• 23:07 IN THIS WORLD.
• 23:09 I THINK ABOUT BEERSHEBA AND HOW
• 23:11 IN THE BEGINNING WITH ABRAHAM
• 23:14 THERE WAS CONTENTION
• 23:15 OVER THE WATER
• 23:16 AND HOW NOW HERE WE ARE
• 23:17 AT THE END OF THE AGE, LOOKING
• 23:19 TO THE RETURN OF THE LORD
• 23:20 AND THERE'S CONTENTION NOW
• 23:21 EVEN ABOUT THE ABILITY
• 23:23 OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE
• 23:24 TO LIVE IN THE PLACE
• 23:26 WHERE ABRAHAM DUG THE WELLS.
• 23:29 JUST LAST WEEK,
• 23:30 THERE WERE ROCKETS FIRING
• 23:32 INTO BEERSHEBA FROM GAZA
• 23:35 AND I'M THINKING THAT
• 23:37 ONLY GOD HIMSELF CAN STOP THAT.
• 23:39 ONLY GOD HIMSELF
• 23:40 CAN BRING CLOSURE
• 23:42 TO THESE ANCIENT CONTENTIONS.
• 23:44 AND HE DOES THAT
• 23:45 BY BELIEF AND FAITH
• 23:47 INTO YESHUA HA MASHIACH.
• 23:50 THAT IS THE HOPE FOR THIS AREA.
• 23:52 SO THIS IS A STORY CULMINATING
• 23:54 AND LOOKING FORWARD TO
• 23:57 THE SACRIFICE OF ISAAC
• 23:59 AND THE PICTURE OF MESSIAH
• 24:00 IN THAT, BUT TAKES PLACE
• 24:01 HERE IN BEERSHEBA,
• 24:03 A TIME OF WATER, WELLS, LIFE,
• 24:06 TREES BEING PLANTED
• 24:08 ALL POINTING TO THE ETERNAL GOD.
• 24:15 GOD IS A COVENANT-KEEPING GOD.
• 24:16 HIS PROMISE TO ABRAHAM
• 24:17 STANDS TODAY.
• 24:18 THE SANDS OF THE SEA,
• 24:20 THE STARS OF THE HEAVENS,
• 24:21 THE JEWS AND CHRISTIANS,
• 24:23 A SHARED DESTINY
• 24:24 AND, OF COURSE,
• 24:25 THERE'S GOING TO BE CONTESTING
• 24:27 AGAINST THE WILL OF GOD.
• 24:28 Katharine: YEAH, THE ENEMY
• 24:29 IS REALLY ALIVE, SATAN,
• 24:31 AND HE DOES NOT WANT GOD'S WORD
• 24:33 TO BE BROUGHT TO PASS.
• 24:35 Myles: HE DOESN'T WANT THE JEWS
• 24:36 IN THE LAND.
• 24:37 Katharine: RIGHT,
• 24:38 SO THERE'S ALWAYS THAT CONFLICT.
• 24:39 YOU KNOW, AND BUT GOD
• 24:40 IS A COVENANT-KEEPING GOD
• 24:42 AND HE HAS MADE ABRAHAM
• 24:44 THE FATHER OF THE NATIONS
• 24:45 AND GOD SHOWS US HOW HIS PLAN IS
• 24:48 UNFOLDED THROUGH THE SCRIPTURES,
• 24:50 SO WE NEED TO KEEP OUR EYE
• 24:51 ON THE SCRIPTURES
• 24:52 AND OUR EYE ON THE LORD.
• 24:53 WE HAVE A REALLY UNIQUE CLIP
• 24:55 THAT WE'D LIKE TO SHARE
• 24:56 WITH YOU.
• 24:57 THE FOUNDER
• 24:58 OF ZOLA LEVITT PRESENTS
• 24:59 IS GOING TO SHARE A LITTLE BIT
• 25:00 OF INSIGHT UPCOMING.
• 25:04 Zola: WELL, THERE'S
• 25:05 A COINCIDENCE TO THINK ABOUT,
• 25:07 AN EASY WAY TO REMEMBER
• 25:08 WHEN ABRAHAM WAS.
• 25:09 ISRAEL WAS BORN
• 25:10 IN MODERN TIMES IN 1948 A.D.
• 25:14 SOME EXPOSITORS OF
• 25:16 THE OLD TESTAMENT PUT THE BIRTH
• 25:18 OF ABRAHAM IN 1948 B.C.
• 25:22 ISN'T THAT INTERESTING?
• 25:24 GENESIS 12:3 STILL HOLDS TRUE
• 25:26 TODAY IN TODAY'S WORLD:
• 25:28 "I WILL BLESS THEM
• 25:29 THAT BLESS ISRAEL
• 25:30 AND I WILL CURSE HIM
• 25:31 THAT CURSES YOU."
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• 25:36 Myles: I AM SO GLAD TO HEAR ZOLA
• 25:37 QUOTE THAT SEMINAL SCRIPTURE,
• 25:39 "I WILL BLESS THOSE
• 25:40 WHO BLESS YOU
• 25:41 AND CURSE THOSE WHO CURSE YOU."
• 25:42 YOU KNOW, CIVILIZATIONS
• 25:44 HAVE RISEN AND FALLEN
• 25:45 BASED ON HOW THEY'VE TREATED
• 25:46 ISRAEL AND THE JEWISH PEOPLE.
• 25:48 WHERE ARE THE GREEKS OF OLD?
• 25:50 WHERE ARE THE ROMANS?
• 25:51 IN FACT, EVEN BRITAIN,
• 25:53 AFTER WORLD WAR II,
• 25:54 WENT INTO DECLINE
• 25:55 BECAUSE THEY CHOSE OIL OVER
• 25:57 STANDING WITH THE JEWISH PEOPLE.
• 25:59 IT'S A LONG, SAD STORY.
• 26:00 THE FACT IS THAT WE NEED TO
• 26:02 TAKE HEART--TAKE THIS TO HEART
• 26:04 AND WE NEED TO ASK OURSELVES,
• 26:05 AS AMERICANS, WILL WE BE
• 26:07 THOSE WHO STAND WITH ISRAEL,
• 26:10 ISRAEL'S MESSIAH
• 26:11 AND THE JEWISH PEOPLE?
• 26:12 Katharine: RIGHT,
• 26:13 WE WANT TO BE ON THE RIGHT SIDE
• 26:14 OF THAT SCRIPTURE,
• 26:16 NOT THE WOE SIDE
• 26:17 BUT THE BLESSING SIDE,
• 26:18 AND WE'VE SEEN PEOPLE PROSPER
• 26:20 FROM STANDING WITH ISRAEL.
• 26:22 AND THERE'S A GREAT WARNING
• 26:24 FOR US NOT TO DO THAT,
• 26:26 NOT TO STAND.
• 26:27 Myles: RIGHT, AND WE WANT
• 26:28 THE BLESSING AND WE WANT AMERICA
• 26:30 TO BE BLESSED.
• 26:31 Katharine: WE WANT OUR VIEWERS
• 26:32 TO HAVE THE BLESSING
• 26:33 AT THE SAME TIME.
• 26:34 Myles: YES, FOR STANDING
• 26:35 WITH ISRAEL AND SO AS WE GO
• 26:36 TODAY, WE WANT TO REMIND YOU,
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