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Caption transcript for Journey of Restoration: “Up to Jerusalem” (4/10)

• 00:05 I LOVE ISRAEL,
• 00:06 I LOVE THE PEOPLE.
• 00:08 IT'S TOTALLY SO...
• 00:09 IT'S INDESCRIBABLE.
• 00:11 IT FEELS LIKE HOME...
• 00:12 IT JUST FEELS LIKE HOME.
• 00:14 WELCOME TO JERUSALEM...
• 00:15 IT JUST TOOK MY BREATH AWAY.
• 00:17 IT JUST SHOWS THE FINGER PRINT OF GOD EVERYWHERE.
• 00:19 TO REALIZE HOW SPECIAL THIS CITY AND THE PEOPLE WERE TO THE LORD...
• 00:24 IT'S GOD'S CHOSEN LAND AND JESUS WALKED ON IT.
• 00:28 I THINK THERE'S A RESTORATION AS PASTOR MYLES TALKED ABOUT.
• 00:31 HOW GOD IS REALLY GATHERING THE JEWS.
• 00:36 THROUGH THE BLOOD OF JESUS CHRIST WE'VE BEEN GRAFTED-IN
• 00:40 AND NOW THIS IS OUR CITY ALSO.
• 00:53 SHALOM AND WELCOME TO OUR PROGRAM.I'M MYLES WEISS
• 00:56 I'M KATHARINE WEISS.
• 00:57 AND WE'RE SO GLAD TO BE WITH YOU TODAY.
• 00:59 WE'RE GOING TO CONTINUE OUR JOURNEY OF RESTORATION.
• 01:01 THIS SHORT TIME WE'VE BEEN FROM THE MEDITERRANEAN TO THE GALILEE,
• 01:05 "THE JESUS TRIANGLE" THEY CALL IT WHERE JESUS DID MOST OF HIS MINISTRY.
• 01:09 AND NOW WE HEAD TO JERUSALEM.
• 01:12 WE'RE GOING UP TO JERUSALEM.
• 01:13 IT'S ALWAYS SPOKEN OF AS "UP TO JERUSALEM".
• 01:15 WE'RE GOING TO TAKE A CIRCUITOUS PATH BY GOING THROUGH THE JEZREEL VALLEY
• 01:19 AND DOWN TO BET SHEAN AND THEN QUMRAN AND THEN WE'RE GOING TO GO UP TO JERUSALEM.
• 01:24 AND BET SHEAN IS NOTED IN JOSHUA 17 AND I SAMUEL 31.
• 01:30 IT'S ONE OF THE OLDEST TELS THAT WE HAVE,
• 01:32 ONE OF THE OLDEST ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITES IN ISRAEL.
• 01:35 AND THERE'S SOME SIGNIFICANT BIBLICAL EVENTS THAT TOOK PLACE THERE.
• 01:38 BUT WHAT'S REALLY NOTICEABLE
• 01:40 IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL ATMOSPHERE OUT OF BET SHEAN AND AT QUMRAN.
• 01:44 ONE WAS DEDICATED TO THE ROMAN LIFE, THE ROMAN LIFESTYLE AND THE GODS OF ROME.
• 01:49 AND THE OTHER WAS A PLACE OF SEPARATION
• 01:52 WHERE THE ESSENES ATTEMPTED TO FIND A CLOSER WALK WITH THE GOD OF ISRAEL
• 01:57 AND BY THE WAY WHERE THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS WERE FOUND; GOD'S GIFT...
• 02:01 BIRTHDAY PRESENT TO THE NEW STATE OF ISRAEL IN 1947,
• 02:06 QUMRAN, THE PLACE WHERE AN ARAB SHEPHERD BOY THREW A STONE INTO A CAVE
• 02:12 AND UNEARTHED THE GREATEST BIBLICAL TREASURE OF OUR TIME.
• 02:15 ABSOLUTELY...ESTABLISHING THAT THE WORD OF GOD IS TRUE AND REAL
• 02:19 WE KNOW THAT AS BELIEVERS
• 02:21 BUT THE WHOLE WORLD KNOWS IT NOW.
• 02:23 YES, SO IT'S ALWAYS WONDERFUL TO SEE THIS CONTRAST BETWEEN BET SHEAN AND QUMRAN
• 02:28 SO WITHOUT ANY FURTHER ADO
• 02:30 LET'S GO UP TO JERUSALEM BY WAY OF BET SHEAN.
• 02:35 (Myles Weiss speaking) THE BIBLICAL HILL CALLED TEL BET SHEAN
• 02:38 IS MADE UP OF 21 LAYERS OF ROOMS
• 02:40 DATING AS FAR BACK AS THE 5TH MILLENNIUM B.C.
• 02:44 I SAMUEL 31 STATES THAT THE VICTORIOUS PHILISTINES
• 02:47 HUNG THE BODY OF KING SAUL ON THE WALLS OF BET SHEAN.
• 02:51 IN THE ROMAN PERIOD THE CITY WAS RENAMED SCYTHOPOLIS
• 02:55 AND BECAME THE CAPITAL CITY OF THE DECAPOLIS.
• 02:58 OUR TOUR GUIDE YUVAL SHEMSH
• 03:00 TELLS US THAT IT FLOURISHED DURING THE CHRISTIAN OR BYZANTINE PERIOD AS WELL.
• 03:12 INDEED SCYTHOPOLIS BECAME A CHRISTIAN CITY
• 03:17 DURING THE 4TH CENTURY A.D. THE TIME OF CONSTANTINE.
• 03:20 AND REMEMBER THE REASON IT WAS NAMED "BYZANTINE" PERIOD
• 03:23 BECAUSE THEY SAID IT'S THE NEW CAPITAL CITY IN BYZANTIUM WHICH IS ISTANBUL OF TODAY.
• 03:29 SO INSTEAD OF ROME AS IT WAS BEFORE, BYZANTIUM BECAME THE NEW CAPITAL OF THE EMPIRE,
• 03:35 A CITY WHICH HE NAMED AFTER HIS OWN NAME CONSTANTINOPOLIS, THE CITY OF CONSTANTINE.
• 03:41 AND THAT'S REASON WE ARE NAMING IT THE BYZANTINE PERIOD,
• 03:45 THE TIME THAT CHRISTIANITY BECAME THE OFFICIAL RELIGION ALL OVER THE EMPIRE.
• 03:52 BEFORE THE CHRISTIANS WERE PERSECUTED...
• 03:54 NOT TO FORGET THAT...
• 03:56 MANY OF THEM FOUND THEIR DEATH IN AMPHITHEATERS LIKE THE ONE HERE IN BET SHEAN...
• 04:00 ALL OVER THE EMPIRE.
• 04:02 BUT THEN HE COULDN'T STOP THE FORCES WITH CONSTANTINE
• 04:06 AND AT SOME POINT HERE IT BECAME THE OFFICIAL RELIGION ALL OVER THE EMPIRE.
• 04:11 AND WE'RE GOING TO ENTER THE THEATRE OF SCYTHOPOLIS
• 04:16 AND ALL OF US SAW ONE ALREADY...THE ONE IN CAESAREA.
• 04:20 REMEMBER THAT.
• 04:21 SO HERE YOU SEE SOMETHING VERY SIMILAR
• 04:24 BUT MOST OF WHAT YOU'LL SEE...
• 04:27 90 PER CENT OF THE THEATRE YOU ARE ABOUT TO SEE...
• 04:29 IT IS INTACT AS IT WAS FOUND.
• 04:42 SO WE'RE IN THE THEATRE OF SCYTHOPOLIS, BET SHEAN
• 04:46 AND MOST OF THE STONES SEATS YOU ARE LOOKING AT ARE INTACT AS IT WAS FOUND.
• 04:52 ON THE FAR CORNER TO THE RIGHT IT WAS RE-DONE
• 04:56 BUT WHAT YOU SEE TODAY IT IS ONLY THE FIRST LEVEL OF SEATS OR THE FIRST TIER.
• 05:02 THERE WAS ANOTHER ONE RIGHT BEHIND YOU
• 05:04 AND THE THIRD ONE HIGHER...
• 05:06 ALL TOGETHER 7,000 SEATS.
• 05:13 (Myles Weiss speaking) WHILE THERE'S NO SPECIFIC REFERENCE IN THE GOSPELS
• 05:16 TO JESUS VISITING SCYTHOPOLIS
• 05:19 THE ROAD FROM THE GALILEE TO JERICHO AND ON UP TO JERUSALEM PASSED THROUGH SCYTHOPOLIS.
• 05:25 THIS WAS THE PRIMARY ROUTE FOLLOWED BY PILGRIMS FROM GALILEE
• 05:28 TO THE GREAT FESTIVALS IN THE HOLY CITY.
• 05:31 IT WAS ALSO THE "GATEWAY CITY" LEADING TO THE OTHER MEMBER CITIES OF DECAPOLIS.
• 05:36 A "CARDO" OR SHOPPING CENTER WAS CENTRAL TO SCYTHOPOLIS
• 05:41 LINED WITH MARBLE COLUMNS AND STONE PAVEMENTS.
• 05:44 IT WAS A MAGNIFICENT CITY
• 05:46 BUT A PAGAN ONE THAT WORSHIPPED FOREIGN GODS.
• 05:49 WHILE THE RESIDENTS OF SCYTHOPOLIS SOUGHT AFTER THE RICHES OF THIS WORLD,
• 05:53 THE RESIDENTS OF THIS SITE FLED FROM ITS TRAPPINGS.
• 05:57 THIS IS QUMRAN, THE NEXT STOP ON OUR JOURNEY.
• 06:00 YUVAL TELLS US ABOUT THE MONASTIC LIFE OF THE ESSENES.
• 06:09 THE JEWISH PEOPLE DURING THE SECOND TEMPLE PERIOD WAS DIVIDED TO THREE MAJOR SECTS...
• 06:17 THE PHARISEES THAT WE READ ABOUT THEM IN THE BIBLE...
• 06:19 THE SADDUCEES AND THE ESSENES.
• 06:23 THE ESSENES AS THE SADDUCEES THEY ALL CAME FROM UPPER CLASS FAMILIES, PRIESTLY FAMILIES
• 06:29 AND THEY USED TO LIVE IN THE UPPER CITY OF JERUSALEM MOST OF THEM.
• 06:34 BUT BY THE END OF THE 2ND CENTURY B.C.
• 06:37 MANY OF THEM HAVE DECIDED TO LEAVE JERUSALEM
• 06:39 WHICH IN THEIR EYES BECAME A CORRUPTED CITY AND ESPECIALLY THE HIGH PRIEST.
• 06:45 THEY HAVE NAMED HIM "THE WICKED PRINCE"
• 06:48 BECAUSE THE HIGH PRIEST BACK THEN HE WAS THE JEWISH KING
• 06:50 ALEXANDER JANNAEUS WAS TRYING TO HOLD TWO POSITIONS...
• 06:54 TO SERVE AS A HIGH PRIEST IN THE TEMPLE AND AT THE SAME TIME AS THE KING OF THE PEOPLE.
• 07:00 AND REMEMBER WHAT YESHUA SAID ABOUT IT.
• 07:03 "YOU CANNOT SERVE GOD AND MAMMON AT THE SAME TIME."
• 07:07 SO WITH IT CAME A LOT OF CORRUPTION AND THEY TREATED THE TEMPLE AS A CENTRAL BANK.
• 07:12 IT BECAME A WAY FOR THEM
• 07:13 JUST A WAY TO MAKE MORE AND MORE MONEY
• 07:16 BECAUSE TO REMIND YOU ALL EVERY PILGRIM WHO CAME TO THE TEMPLE IN JERUSALEM
• 07:20 HAD TO PAY HEAVY TAX; THE TEMPLE TAX.
• 07:24 SO THE ESSENES DIDN'T WANT TO HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH IT.
• 07:29 IN THEIR EYES JERUSALEM BECAME A CORRUPT CITY;
• 07:31 THE HIGH PRIEST A CORRUPT MAN
• 07:33 AND THEY DECIDED TO LEAVE.
• 07:35 AND THEY CAME DOWN TO THE DESERT; THEY CROSSED THE DESERT, LIVED BY THE DEAD SEA
• 07:39 AND THEY ESTABLISHED WHAT WE SEE HERE...RUINS OF...
• 07:42 YOU CAN MAYBE THINK ABOUT IT AS A MONASTERY WHERE ONLY CHOSEN MEN WERE ALLOWED TO SERVE.
• 07:48 AND WHEN THEY CAME THEY BROUGHT WITH THEM SCROLLS,
• 07:52 BIBLICAL SCROLLS, OTHER SCROLLS THAT THEY BROUGHT FROM JERUSALEM
• 07:57 AND THEY LIVED HERE IN THIS LOCATION FOR QUITE MANY YEARS UP UNTIL 68 A.D.
• 08:08 KNOWING THAT THE ROMAN ARMY IS ON THE WAY
• 08:12 THE ESSENES TOOK THE MOST VALUABLE THINGS THAT THEY POSSESSED, THE SCROLLS,
• 08:16 AND HID THEM IN THE CAVES NEARBY.
• 08:18 AND THEY WERE LEFT THERE LADIES AND GENTLEMEN
• 08:21 FOR 19 CENTURIES AND NO ONE KNEW ABOUT THEM.
• 08:24 FOR 19 CENTURIES THEY WERE THERE
• 08:27 UNTIL THEY WERE DISCOVERED BY A SHEPHERD BOY WHO WAS LOOKING AFTER A LOST SHEEP.
• 08:32 AND THAT'S WHAT THE GOOD SHEPHERD DOES.
• 08:34 NOT FAR AWAY FROM HERE THERE IS A CAVE KNOWN AS Q1.
• 08:38 "Q" STANDS FOR "QUMRAN" THE NAME OF THE SITE.
• 08:41 AND RIGHT THERE HE WENT TO LOOK FOR THE LOST SHEEP AND FOUND IT.
• 08:44 LATER MORE SCROLLS WERE DISCOVERED IN OTHER CAVES.
• 08:47 SO FAR SCROLLS WERE DISCOVERED IN 11 CAVES
• 08:52 AND WE TAKE ALL THE FRAGMENTS AND WE PIECE THEM TOGETHER AND WE WILL GET ABOUT 900 SCROLLS.
• 08:58 SO WE ARE GOING TO TELL YOU MORE ABOUT IT SOON
• 09:03 BUT NO DOUBT THAT WE ARE TALKING ABOUT
• 09:05 THE NUMBER ONE ARCHAEOLOGICAL DISCOVERY IN THE WHOLE COUNTRY; PERHAPS IN THE WHOLE WORLD.
• 09:09 THE OLDEST MANUSCRIPT OF THE BIBLE THAT WAS WRITTEN IN HEBREW WAS DISCOVERED HERE
• 09:14 WHILE BEFORE THE OLDEST TEXT OF THE BIBLE WE HAD WAS ONLY 1,000 YEARS OLD.
• 09:19 THE SCROLLS ARE GOING BACK TO THE 1ST CENTURY B.C.
• 09:23 THEY ARE 1,100 YEARS OLDER.
• 09:26 AND WHEN THE TEXT WAS COMPARED IT WAS IDENTICAL.
• 09:31 SO EVEN THOUGH WE HAVE A GAP OF 1,100 YEARS OR EVEN MORE IT WAS IDENTICAL.
• 09:37 AND THAT WAS THE PROOF THAT INDEED WE ARE ALL SHARING READING THE WORD OF GOD.
• 09:54 FOR INSIGHTFUL PERSPECTIVES ON ISRAEL AND BIBLE PROPHECY
• 09:58 ASK FOR OUR FREE MONTHLY NEWSLETTER "THE LEVITT LETTER".
• 10:02 AT LEVITT.COM YOU CAN READ THE NEWSLETTER,
• 10:05 WATCH THE TV PROGRAM,
• 10:07 OR VISIT OUR ON-LINE STORE.
• 10:10 STAY CURRENT WITH US ON SOCIAL MEDIA VIA FACEBOOK AND TWITTER.
• 10:14 COME WITH US ON A TOUR OF ISRAEL OR PETRA
• 10:17 OR A CRUISE TO GREECE AND EPHESUS.
• 10:20 PLEASE CONTACT US FOR MORE INFORMATION.
• 10:25 (Voice of Zola Levitt) YOU CAN LEARN ABOUT THESE THINGS
• 10:27 IN OUR BOOK "THE SEVEN FEASTS OF ISRAEL"
• 10:30 AND COMPANION BOOKLETS
• 10:31 SINCE PASSOVER IS SO IMPORTANT.
• 10:33 THE COMPANION BOOK IS "THE MIRACLE OF PASSOVER"
• 10:36 AND THEN THE THIRD IN THAT SMALL SERIES
• 10:37 "THE CHRISTIAN LOVE STORY" AMPLIFIES THE JEWISH WEDDING,
• 10:41 APPOINTED PASSOVER AND HAVING TO DO WITH THE KINGDOM TO COME.
• 10:44 THOSE THREE TOGETHER I'M SURE ARE THE BEST THREE ITEMS OUR MINISTRY EVER OFFERED.
• 10:49 I MEAN WE'VE JUST SENT OUT I SUPPOSE HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF THEM AND ARE WELL WORTH KNOWING.
• 10:54 SO GET THAT...
• 10:56 CALL IT THE "FEAST PACKAGE"... THE THREE BOOKLETS.
• 11:00 WE WOULD LOVE TO SEND YOU OUR LEVITT LETTER.
• 11:02 IT'S A FULL NEWS MAGAZINE
• 11:04 WITH UP TO THE MINUTE NEWS ABOUT ISRAEL.
• 11:06 AND YOU KNOW WE HAVE A GREAT TEAM OF RESEARCHERS
• 11:08 THAT COMB THROUGH THE NEWS
• 11:09 FROM THE INTERNET AND AROUND THE WORLD
• 11:11 TO BRING YOU THE MOST RELEVANT INFORMATION FOR THE SEASON
• 11:14 THAT YOU RECEIVE THIS.
• 11:16 SO PLEASE FEEL FREE TO ASK FOR THIS
• 11:18 AT 1-800-WONDERS
• 11:19 OR LEVITT.COM
• 11:21 AND WHEN YOU DO RECEIVE THIS,
• 11:22 IF YOU ALSO SEND FUNDS,
• 11:24 THAT HELPS US SEND IT TO WHOEVER WOULD LIKE TO RECEIVE IT.
• 11:26 ABSOLUTELY, IT KEEPS EVERYTHING MOVING FORWARD.
• 11:30 YOU KNOW I ALSO WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT THERE ARE OTHER RESOURCES THAT ARE AVAILABLE FOR YOU.
• 11:34 THERE'S A WONDERFUL DOCUMENTARY
• 11:37 THAT'S BEEN MADE WITH ZOLA
• 11:39 CALLED "SECRETS OF THE SCROLLS"
• 11:41 AND IT GOES A LITTLE BIT DEEPER INTO THE DISCOVERY OF THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS.
• 11:45 EXACTLY, SO LET'S GO TO QUMRAN
• 11:47 WHERE OUR GUIDE YUVAL SHEMSH IS STANDING RIGHT NEAR THE CAVE
• 11:51 WHERE THE ACTUAL DEAD SEA SCROLLS WERE FOUND.
• 11:53 HERE WE GO TO QUMRAN.
• 12:05 THIS IS KNOWN AS "Q4".
• 12:08 "Q" STANDS FOR QUMRAN;
• 12:09 "4", CAVE NUMBER 4.
• 12:12 AND REMEMBER THAT SO FAR THE SCROLLS WERE DISCOVERED IN 11 CAVES.
• 12:16 MOST OF THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS WERE DISCOVERED HERE IN THIS CAVE ALONE...IN Q4.
• 12:21 SO OUT OF THE 900 SCROLLS 530 OF THEM WERE FOUND HERE.
• 12:29 BUT NOT...
• 12:31 AGAIN...THE SCROLLS NOT IN VERY GOOD CONDITION IN Q4
• 12:36 THEY DISCOVERED TINY FRAGMENTS...14,000 FRAGMENTS.
• 12:40 THEY KEPT LOOKING.
• 12:42 LATER ON THEY DISCOVERED 1,000 MORE.
• 12:45 SO WE'RE TALKING ABOUT 15,000 FRAGMENTS OF SCROLLS
• 12:49 THAT IF WE'LL PUT THEM TOGETHER WE WILL GET 530 OUT OF THE 900.
• 12:55 YOU KNOW THE FIRST MAN TO UNDERSTAND WHAT IT WAS, WAS PROFESSOR SUKENIK
• 13:01 BECAUSE HE KNEW THE HISTORY WELL.
• 13:04 AND IMMEDIATELY AS HE WAS LOOKING AT THE SCROLLS AND SAW THE HEBREW ALPHABET
• 13:09 SO HE IMMEDIATELY MADE THE RIGHT CONNECTION HE BEGAN TO SHIVER.
• 13:13 HE BEGAN TO SHIVER.
• 13:14 HE WAS THE FIRST MAN TO REALIZE WHAT IT WAS...
• 13:17 WHAT HE WAS HOLDING.
• 13:19 AND THAT'S AN AMAZING STORY
• 13:22 BECAUSE THE EXACT DATE THAT THIS MAN, PROFESSOR SUKENIK, WAS LOOKING AT IT,
• 13:28 IT WAS AN HISTORICAL DAY FOR THE JEWISH PEOPLE.
• 13:31 YOU SHOULD LISTEN CAREFULLY.
• 13:34 THIS WAS THE NOVEMBER 29TH 1947.
• 13:41 I'LL REPEAT IT AGAIN...
• 13:42 NOVEMBER 29TH 1947.
• 13:45 ON THE SAME DAY, THE VERY DAY,
• 13:47 THE UNITED NATIONS TOOK THE DECISION TO ESTABLISH THE STATE OF ISRAEL
• 13:52 KNOWN AS THE "PARTITION PLAN".
• 13:56 REMEMBER I TOLD YOU ABOUT THAT?
• 13:58 1947 THE U.N. TOOK THE DECISION TWO YEARS AFTER THE WAR, AFTER THE JEWISH HOLOCAUST,
• 14:06 THE U.N. TOOK THE DECISION TO ESTABLISH THE STATE OF ISRAEL.
• 14:10 AND SO IT WAS NOT A COINCIDENCE
• 14:13 NO DOUBT IT WAS GOD'S TIMING...
• 14:15 GOD'S TIMING.
• 14:28 B'RIT HADASHAH, THE NEW TESTAMENT, TELLS US
• 14:31 THAT EVERY GOOD AND PERFECT GIFT COMES DOWN FROM THE FATHER OF LIGHTS ABOVE
• 14:35 WITH WHOM THERE'S NO SHADOW OF TURNING.
• 14:37 WHEN GOD GIVES GIFTS HE GIVES PERFECT GIFTS.
• 14:41 AND THERE'S A THEME IN RESTORATION OF GOD WANTING ALWAYS TO LEAD TOWARDS
• 14:46 THE REVELATION OF THE BRIDE OF YESHUA MADE UP OF JEWS AND GENTILES TOGETHER.
• 14:51 NOW WATCH THIS.
• 14:53 IN PREPARATION FOR THIS INCREDIBLE BIRTHDAY PRESENT THAT HE WAS GOING TO GIVE TO ISRAEL
• 14:58 THERE WAS SOME PRECEDENCE THAT LED TO IT
• 15:00 NOT THE LEAST OF WHICH WERE TURNING POINTS IN THE MODERN ERA
• 15:05 THAT SIGNIFIED CHANGES COMING TO THE CHURCH
• 15:08 AND CHANGES COMING TO ISRAEL
• 15:10 THAT WOULD CULMINATE WITH THIS AMAZING STORY
• 15:13 OF GOD BASICALLY WRITING A BLANK CHECK TO BOTH THE JEWS AND CHRISTIANS SAYING,
• 15:17 MY WORD IS TRUE AND ALL FLESH IS GRASS, THE FLOWER FADES, LIFE COMES AND GOES,
• 15:26 HUMAN LIFE COMES AND GOES BUT MY WORD IS ESTABLISHED FOREVER.
• 15:29 AND THESE SCROLLS FOREVER ESTABLISH THAT HIS WORD IS SUCH.
• 15:34 IN FACT HE SAYS IN PSALM 138 VERSE 2,
• 15:37 I HAVE MAGNIFIED MY WORD ABOVE MY NAME.
• 15:40 NOW ONLY GOD CAN SAY THAT.
• 15:41 I'VE MAGNIFIED MY WORD ABOVE MY NAME.
• 15:44 NOW WE KNOW THE LIVING WORD IS MAGNIFIED AS WELL.
• 15:47 BUT AT THE END OF THE 19TH CENTURY
• 15:50 WHEN THEODORE HERZL REALIZED THAT THE JEWISH PEOPLE NEEDED A HOMELAND
• 15:53 BECAUSE OF ANTI-SEMITISM THAT WAS RISING IN EUROPE
• 15:57 HE WENT TO THE CROWNED HEADS OF EUROPE...
• 15:59 AND WHO DID HE GO WITH?
• 16:01 HE WENT WITH A CHRISTIAN PASTOR.
• 16:03 AND BETWEEN THE CHRISTIAN PASTOR AND THE JEWISH PIONEER
• 16:06 THEY STARTED TO GET FAVOR MOVING TOWARDS CREATING A JEWISH HOMELAND.
• 16:10 AT THE SAME TIME THAT WAS GOING ON TWO THINGS WERE HAPPENING IN THE WORLD.
• 16:14 THE CHURCH WAS AWAKENING TO THE RESTORATION OF THE GIFTS OF THE SPIRIT
• 16:18 AND THE HEBREW LANGUAGE WAS BEING RESTORED AS WELL.
• 16:22 AND ELIEZER BEN-YEHUDA WAS RESTORING THE HEBREW LANGUAGE
• 16:25 AS THE GIFTS OF THE SPIRIT WERE COMING BACK TO THE CHURCH...
• 16:28 BOTH HAPPENING AT THE SAME TIME.
• 16:30 IN 1906 WHEN THE WORLD COMMUNITY TRIED TO GIVE UGANDA TO THE JEWISH PEOPLE
• 16:37 THE JEWISH PEOPLE SAID THANK YOU, LO TADA..."NO THANKS".
• 16:41 WE'LL WAIT FOR JERUSALEM...
• 16:43 BECAUSE EVERY YEAR FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS AT THE PASSOVER SEDER WE SAY WHAT?
• 16:47 "L'SHANAH HABA'AH B'YERUSHALAYIM"...
• 16:49 "NEXT YEAR IN JERUSALEM"
• 16:52 WE NEVER SAID "NEXT YEAR KAMPALA LUMPUR".
• 16:55 WE SAY "NEXT YEAR IN JERUSALEM".
• 16:58 AND SO THE JEWISH PEOPLE SAID NO THANK YOU TO THE WORLD'S COMMUNITY.
• 17:01 AT THE SAME TIME THAT THEY SAID NO, WE'LL WAIT FOR ISRAEL
• 17:04 THE HOLY SPIRIT CAME IN POWER IN AZUSA STREET
• 17:07 AND THE PENTECOSTAL MOVEMENT, THE CHARISMATIC MOVEMENT
• 17:10 BLEW OUT AND WENT AROUND THE WORLD TOUCHING NATIONS.
• 17:16 WE KEEP MOVING FORWARD IN THE RESTORATION MOVING TOWARDS THIS GREAT GIFT.
• 17:20 IN 1948 WHEN THIS GIFT WAS GIVEN...
• 17:23 THE SCROLLS WERE DISCOVERED...
• 17:25 THE SAME TIME A YOUNG MAN NAMED BILLY GRAHAM WAS RELEASED FULL TIME INTO HIS MINISTRY
• 17:31 AND WENT AROUND THE WORLD AS THE GREATEST EVANGELIST IN THE MODERN ERA.
• 17:35 GOD'S RESTORING THE JEWISH PEOPLE.
• 17:37 HE'S RESTORING THE CHURCH.
• 17:39 HE'S GROWING ISRAEL.
• 17:40 HE'S GROWING THE BELIEVERS.
• 17:43 THERE'S A SHARED DESTINY THAT HE'S ALWAYS LOOKING AT THAT'S LEADING TO THE BRIDE OF CHRIST.
• 17:48 IT'S LEADING TO THE SHARED DESTINY FOR THE BRIDE OF CHRIST.
• 17:51 WE COULD GO FORWARD FROM THERE.
• 17:52 IN 1967 WHEN JERUSALEM CAME BACK TO THE JEWISH PEOPLE
• 17:56 THE CHARISMATIC RENEWAL TOUCHED ALL THE MAINSTREAM DENOMINATIONS AROUND THE WORLD.
• 18:00 IN 1973 WHEN THE YOM KIPPUR WAR WAS FOUGHT AND WON
• 18:04 CHUCK SMITH AND THE ENTIRE JESUS PEOPLE MOVEMENT
• 18:07 BLEW OUT ALL ACROSS THE WESTERN UNITED STATES
• 18:10 AND ALSO TOUCHED MANY, MANY YOUNG PEOPLE.
• 18:12 AND IN FACT THE "JEWS FOR JESUS" SO CALLED...
• 18:15 MANY MESSIANICS WERE BORN OF THE SPIRIT
• 18:17 AND THEY ARE NOW THE SPIRITUAL PIONEERS IN THIS PLACE.
• 18:21 SO THE PIONEERS THAT CAME HERE WERE THE ESSENES.
• 18:24 MOVE FORWARD 2,000 YEARS,
• 18:27 THE PIONEERS OF THEODORE HERZL AND THOSE THAT CAME TO BUILD THIS COUNTRY IN THE PHYSICAL
• 18:31 AND NOW THE PIONEERS THAT ARE HERE SPIRITUALLY LOOKING FOR THE COMING OF THE KING.
• 18:37 HERE'S WHAT THE SCRIPTURE SAYS,
• 18:39 THESE VERY SCROLLS THAT WERE FOUND HERE SAID,
• 18:41 "LISTEN TO THE WORD OF THE LORD."
• 18:55 AND THE ANSWER IS YES.
• 18:57 NOVEMBER 29, 1947 THE SCROLLS WERE FOUND WHEN THE VOTE WAS TAKEN.
• 19:01 FAST FORWARD JUST A FEW MONTHS...MAY 14, 1948
• 19:05 AND THE VOTE WAS TAKEN AND THE STATE OF ISRAEL WAS BORN.
• 19:10 AND NOW WE'RE LOOKING AT THIS TOGETHER.
• 19:13 JEWS AND CHRISTIANS ARE NOW LABORING TOGETHER LOOKING TOWARDS REDEMPTION
• 19:17 AND LOOKING UP BECAUSE WE KNOW OUR REDEMPTION DRAWS CLOSE.
• 19:20 AMEN.
• 19:38 1948 THE DISCOVERY OF THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS
• 19:42 IT IS SUCH A REMARKABLE THING FOR US TO SEE THAT GOD NOT ONLY KEEPS HIS WORD
• 19:49 BUT HE PERFORMS HIS WORD.
• 19:50 HE SAID IT.HE DOES IT.
• 19:52 AND IT'S OUR JOB TO BELIEVE IT.
• 19:54 THAT'S WHAT YOU SAY MYLES.
• 19:55 BUT IT'S SO AMAZING BECAUSE NOT ONE JOT NOR ONE TITTLE SHALL BE REMOVED
• 20:00 BECAUSE GOD IS SUPREME AND HE IS IN CHARGE
• 20:02 AND THAT IS SUCH A SURE PLACE TO PUT OUR FAITH.
• 20:05 WE DON'T HAVE TO WORRY REALLY WHAT MAN OR WARS OR PEOPLE ARE DOING
• 20:09 BECAUSE OUR FAITH IS IN THE WORD OF GOD AND IT IS TRUE.
• 20:13 SO WE LEAVE QUMRAN AND WE HEAD UP TO JERUSALEM.
• 20:17 IT'S GOING TO BE SUCH A BLESSING TO BRING YOU THE HEART OF THE HEART OF THE MATTER...
• 20:22 THE EPICENTER OF THE WORLD.
• 20:25 YOU KNOW IT IS THE PLACE THAT DAVID DESIRED TO BUILD A HOUSE OF GOD.
• 20:30 SO LET'S TAKE YOU NOW TO JERUSALEM.
• 20:38 (MUSIC)
• 21:00 I LIKE TO READ THE PSALMS OF ASCENT.
• 21:02 THERE ARE SEVERAL OF THEM LEADING UP TO JERUSALEM
• 21:04 BUT THE FAVORITE ONE FOR BEING HERE IS THIS ONE.
• 21:50 AND WE SAY AS YOU KNOW AT THE END OF EVERY PROGRAM
• 21:52 WE ALWAYS SAY WHAT?
• 21:53 "SHAL'ALU SHALOM YERUSHALAYIM"
• 21:55 PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM.
• 21:58 SO I WANT TO SAY A TRADITIONAL PRAYER THAT SANCTIFIES THE MOMENT.
• 22:02 THERE'S A PRAYER THAT WE PRAY THAT SAYS, GOD YOU ARE THE SAME MIRACLE WORKING GOD TODAY
• 22:08 THAT YOU WERE IN THE TIMES OF OUR FOREFATHERS
• 22:11 AND YOU CAN DO WHATEVER WE NEED DONE,
• 22:13 YOU CAN BE WHOEVER WE NEED YOU TO BE IN THIS MOMENT.
• 22:16 SO JUST CLOSE YOUR EYES AND RECEIVE THIS AS FROM THE LORD.
• 22:20 (SPEAKING HEBREW)
• 22:27 LORD WE THANK YOU FOR KEEPING US AND BRINGING US TO THIS MOMENT...
• 22:32 THIS MOED...THIS PRECIOUS, SPECIAL TIME TO BE WITH YOU THE HASHEM YESHUA.AMEN
• 22:39 I WANT TO THANK GOD FOR PRESERVING YOU ALL AND GRANTING YOU THE DESIRES OF YOUR HEART
• 22:46 TO BRING YOU HERE TO THE CITY OF THE GREAT KING.
• 22:49 AND I ALSO WANT TO TAKE A MOMENT TO PRAY FOR MY PEOPLE.
• 22:52 IF YOU'LL JOIN WITH ME JUST ONCE AGAIN.
• 22:55 I JUST WANT TO SEND THIS SHOUT OUT TO MY OWN PEOPLE TO HEAR AND TO COME TO OUR MESSIAH.
• 23:03 SO THIS IS THE SHEMA, THIS IS THE CENTRAL PRAYER OF ALL OF HEBREW LIFE.
• 23:08 AND FOR YOUR MICROPHONES SAKE IT MIGHT GET LOUD.
• 23:12 (Myes singing) ♪SHI'MA YIS'RA'EIL♪
• 23:17 ♪ADONAI ELOHEINU♪
• 23:20 ♪ADONAI ECHAD.♪
• 23:24 ♪BARUCH SHEM K'VOD MALCHUTO L'OLAM VA'ED.♪
• 23:30 (Myles interprets) HEAR, O ISRAEL,
• 23:32 THE LORD OUR GOD, THE LORD IS ONE.
• 23:35 BLESSED BE THE NAME OF THE LORD FOREVER AND EVER.
• 23:38 AMEN...AMEN
• 23:40 MAY IT BE THAT MY OWN PEOPLE WOULD COME TO KNOW YESHUA HAMASHIACH.AMEN
• 23:51 ISRAEL IS DEFINITELY A CONTRAST YOU KNOW.
• 23:54 WE HAD TIBERIUS AND GREEN, PLUSH LANDS AND QUMRAN...
• 23:57 IT JUST TURNS INSTANT DESERT.
• 24:00 AND YET RIGHT OUTSIDE OF QUMRAN THEY HAVE HUGE DATE TREE PALMS THAT THEY'RE GROWING.
• 24:05 AND SO YOU KNOW IT SPEAKS OF JUST THE POWER OF GOD TO HIDE HIS WORD...AND THE WORD THERE.
• 24:12 AND THEN THE STORY THEY GAVE WHERE ON THE SAME DAY THAT ISRAEL IS DECLARED BY THE U.N.
• 24:17 AND THOSE ARE DISCOVERED.
• 24:19 IT JUST SHOWS THE FINGER PRINT OF GOD EVERYWHERE.
• 24:21 YOU SEE HIS FINGERPRINT.
• 24:22 IT'S OVERWHELMING TO SAY THE LEAST...
• 24:26 THE HOLY CITY OF GOD.
• 24:28 AND THE BASIC AREA THAT ABRAHAM MET MELCHIZEDEK, THE KING OF SALEM...
• 24:35 THE KING AND HIGH PRIEST OF SALEM...OF THIS PLACE...
• 24:38 LIKE YESHUA, WITHOUT BEGINNING OF DAYS AND NO END OF DAYS
• 24:43 AND ALL OF THE HISTORY THAT WE KNOW ABOUT THIS AND WHERE WE'RE AT
• 24:47 AS I WAS SHARING WITH OUR DRIVER ABOUT THE BLESSING OF BEING GRAFTED-IN TO THIS.
• 24:53 AS A GENTILE THROUGH THE BLOOD OF JESUS CHRIST WE'VE BEEN GRAFTED-IN
• 24:57 AND NOW THIS IS OUR CITY ALSO.
• 25:00 IT FEELS LIKE HOME.
• 25:02 IT JUST FEELS LIKE HOME.
• 25:04 AND I CAN'T DESCRIBE IT BEYOND THAT...
• 25:07 IT JUST FEELS LIKE...
• 25:09 I'VE COME HOME...
• 25:11 AND IT'S LIKE YOUR PARENTS ARE HERE...
• 25:14 IT'S LIKE YOUR ANCESTORS ARE HERE...
• 25:17 IT'S LIKE...I'M HOME.
• 25:19 AND IT'S JUST INCREDIBLE.
• 25:22 IT'S REALLY BEYOND DESCRIPTION.
• 25:34 I KNOW YOU APPRECIATE THOSE TESTIMONIES LIKE WE DO.
• 25:37 I REMEMBER THE DOWNLOAD OF INSIGHT
• 25:40 THAT YOUNG BRIAN WAS GETTING WHILE HE WAS IN THE LAND.
• 25:43 AND ALSO CLIFF WHO'S A PASTOR...
• 25:45 THE WAY HE WAS SEEING THE BIBLE IN A WHOLE NEW WAY
• 25:48 AND THE PERSONAL UPLIFTING THAT HE AND HIS WIFE MARILYN WERE EXPERIENCING WAS A JOY FOR US.
• 25:54 YOU KNOW WE KNOW THAT NOT EVERYONE CAN COME TO ISRAEL
• 25:57 AND SO IT'S SUCH A JOY FOR US TO BE ABLE TO BRING YOU THESE MESSAGES
• 26:01 AND TO TAKE YOU ON A TOUR IN THIS WAY
• 26:03 SO THAT YOU GET TO SEE THE INCREDIBLE WEALTH OF THE WORD
• 26:07 THAT THE WAY WORD COMES ALIVE WHEN WE'RE THERE TOGETHER.
• 26:09 SO WE THANK YOU FOR SENDING US,
• 26:11 FOR STANDING WITH US FINANCIALLY SO THAT WE CAN GO AND BRING YOU THESE MESSAGES.
• 26:15 WE UNDERSTAND THAT AMERICA...
• 26:17 THOSE THAT ARE VIEWING...
• 26:18 WHOEVER SEES THESE PROGRAMS WILL GET A VIEW OF ISRAEL,
• 26:22 THE JEWISH PEOPLE, THE WORD OF GOD AND YESHUA HIMSELF
• 26:25 IN A CLEAR WAY THAT THEY MAY NOT GET SOMEWHERE ELSE.
• 26:28 YES, SO PLEASE, WHATEVER YOU CAN DO, SEND US A GIFT.
• 26:32 IT JUST IS A WAY OF STANDING WITH US
• 26:35 TO CONTINUE THE WORD OF THE LORD GOING OVER THE AIRWAVES
• 26:39 THE CHRISTIANITY THROUGH JEWISH EYES
• 26:42 AND THAT THE LORD HAS A PLAN FOR ISRAEL AND FOR YOU.
• 26:46 IT'S TRUE.
• 26:47 AND SO UNTIL WE SEE YOU AGAIN
• 26:49 WE ALWAYS LIKE TO CLOSE OUR PROGRAM BY REMINDING YOU,
• 26:52 SHAL'ALU SHALOM YERUSHALAYIM
• 26:54 PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM.
• 26:58 (Voice of Zola Levitt) YOU CAN LEARN ABOUT THESE THINGS
• 27:00 IN OUR BOOK "THE SEVEN FEASTS OF ISRAEL" AND COMPANION BOOKLETS
• 27:04 SINCE PASSOVER IS SO IMPORTANT.
• 27:06 THE COMPANION BOOK IS "THE MIRACLE OF PASSOVER"
• 27:08 AND THEN THE THIRD IN THAT SMALL SERIES
• 27:10 "THE CHRISTIAN LOVE STORY" AMPLIFIES THE JEWISH WEDDING,
• 27:14 APPOINTED PASSOVER AND HAVING TO DO WITH THE KINGDOM TO COME.
• 27:17 THOSE THREE TOGETHER I'M SURE ARE THE BEST THREE ITEMS OUR MINISTRY EVER OFFERED.
• 27:22 I MEAN WE'VE JUST SENT OUT I SUPPOSE HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF THEM AND ARE WELL WORTH KNOWING.
• 27:28 SO GET THAT...
• 27:29 CALL IT THE "FEAST PACKAGE"... THE THREE BOOKLETS.
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