Home » Zola TV » Video Archives » ZLM Video

Caption transcript for Journey of Restoration: “The Destiny of the Heartland” (10/10)

• 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...
• 00:16 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.
• 00:32 ...How God is really gathering the Jews
• 00:37 Through the blood of Jesus Christ we've been grafted-in
• 00:39 and now this is our city also.
• 00:52 Shalom and welcome to our program.
• 00:54 I'm Myles Weiss
• 00:55 I'm Katharine Weiss.
• 00:57 And we have got a wonderful conclusion to our series "Journey of Restoration"...WOW.
• 01:02 Well this whole story is about restoration
• 01:05 because God has restored the people to their land
• 01:07 and then brought people to help them rebuild their land.
• 01:11 It's such an incredible story.
• 01:13 Listen to this verse from Isaiah.
• 01:15 God's speaking about the days in which we're living
• 01:18 and he says that,
• 01:28 Well right now as we are talking to you
• 01:31 there's a group of Orthodox Jewish settlers up in the communities in Samaria
• 01:36 and Christians that have been brought by God to stand with them
• 01:40 to plow, to plant, to reap, to harvest the grapes and other fruits of the land
• 01:47 and it is just a wonderful story of redemption
• 01:49 that God is doing right there in the mountains of Israel, the heartland of Israel.
• 01:54 And this is the story of the heartland.
• 01:57 On the news you may hear it called the west bank.
• 02:00 It is not the west bank of the Jordan...
• 02:02 it is the heartland of Israel
• 02:04 where Abraham, Isaac and Jacob walked;
• 02:07 where Yeshua himself walked.
• 02:09 One of these great Christian ministries is a man named Tommy Waller who has 11 children
• 02:14 and God has led him on a pathway to be an organic farmer among the Amish in America.
• 02:20 And it was preparing him... preparing him...and getting him ready for this phase of his life
• 02:26 when God would bring him to Israel to stand with the Jewish people to see the land restored.
• 02:32 And that's what we're going to see.
• 02:35 So this program takes place in the heartland.
• 02:38 It's a picture of God's redemption, the Jews, the Christians, the shared destiny.
• 02:42 So let's go to Tommy Waller's interview with me in Jerusalem.
• 02:48 So we are 7 years living off the land;
• 02:52 we grew our own food organically.
• 02:55 My children... of course we have 11 children
• 02:58 and so everything was in...we just went to 100 percent faith.
• 03:05 Everything we did from our children to our food to our clothes
• 03:09 to everything that we did, we did it by faith...everything.
• 03:14 And it turned our world around.
• 03:19 When everything else was going one direction we were going in the opposite direction.
• 03:24 And from that Amish community we became really a solid family.
• 03:31 I still had people in the real world
• 03:36 and so some business guys that I was friends with invited me to go to Israel.
• 03:41 You said Israel guys starting showing up, and you were meeting them...
• 03:45 Yeah, these guys just coming in talking about Israel
• 03:47 and talking about how significant it was and what was going on...
• 03:50 and this was all like...WOW, what is this?
• 03:53 These were Christians or were they Jewish guys?
• 03:54 Christians... these were Christians.
• 03:56 I still had not met the Jewish people yet.
• 03:58 I had not even...it was not even on the radar yet.
• 04:01 WOW
• 04:02 And the Father was really preparing me for this.
• 04:06 I can see it obviously looking back.
• 04:08 So as we...2004 these guys invited me to go with them to Israel.
• 04:18 They were looking at marketing some products... Israel products...from here.
• 04:26 I came over here when one of the friends here in Israel
• 04:30 who we were connected to with these products said,
• 04:36 Tommy, you're a farmer; and I said, yeah.
• 04:39 He said, I have a friend in the Mount of Blessing that's growing a vineyard...
• 04:44 I want to take you there.
• 04:46 At the time I didn't really know what "the green line" was; I didn't know what Samaria...
• 04:54 what it really was accept for "the Good Samaritan" and "the Woman at the Well";
• 04:59 and those were the terms that I knew.
• 05:01 So for our viewers you are talking about the Biblical heartland of Israel. Yes...yes
• 05:06 We hear on the news as "the west bank".
• 05:07 Right...I knew there was something up though because the first time I went...
• 05:12 this was towards the end of the intifada
• 05:14 and we went to the Ariel Hotel there and we jumped into, or we got into an armored vehicle
• 05:22 with a guy with an M-16 laying in-between the seats.
• 05:25 So I knew then that this was a little different then where we came from.
• 05:30 We left Ariel and we went to Mount Blessing...Mount Gerazim and we met Meir...
• 05:40 my really first encounter with a religious Jewish man.
• 05:45 When he took me to the vineyard I will never forget...
• 05:49 I was standing in the middle of that vineyard...
• 05:51 it was a small vineyard then.
• 05:53 We were standing in the middle of that vineyard
• 05:55 and he opened the Bible up to me and read Jeremiah 31.
• 05:59 It says you shall yet plant vines on the mountains of Samaria
• 06:04 and I remember being just stunned by that
• 06:08 because, one, I had really never experienced the Word of God physically...
• 06:15 just reading the Word and then being able to touch it.
• 06:19 And then here was this Jewish man who was also planted right here in the land.
• 06:26 He's believing Amos 9:15... you'll be planted here never to be taken out again.
• 06:31 Never to be taken away and Amos 9 also speaks about
• 06:35 the vineyards and the sweet wine dripping from the mountains of Israel.
• 06:38 There's so many scriptures now that just came alive to me after I began to come here.
• 06:55 It's been a good season.
• 06:57 Plentiful rain and now the days are filled with the warmth of the sun.
• 07:02 Soon we will see a bountiful harvest.
• 07:07 I am Joshua and this is my land.
• 07:11 It is rich and fertile, blessed by HaShem.
• 07:14 Many years ago Abraham journeyed across the roads that encompassed these very fields
• 07:21 and God promised him that one day his seed would inherit this very land.
• 07:29 Come see for yourself this miracle of life.
• 07:33 Walk the land of Abraham...Isaac...and Jacob.
• 07:37 Witness with me this magnificent land of promise.
• 07:49 For your free brochure on our next tour to Israel call 1-800-WONDERS
• 07:57 As you can tell when people come to the land of Israel,
• 08:01 the scripture comes alive in 3 dimensions.
• 08:04 Tommy had a revolution in his life.
• 08:06 He probably had read those scriptures all along
• 08:09 but when you're in the land and you're seeing it happening...
• 08:11 its 3 dimensional...you're seeing God fulfill his prophecy.
• 08:15 And then God leads him and his family to fulfill the prophecy by everybody moving.
• 08:22 It's so funny that we hear in the media about the settlers
• 08:26 and all the storyline that's not true.
• 08:29 The prophetic word is that God would plant the Jews in the land
• 08:32 never to be plucked up again in Amos 9:15.
• 08:35 And then He would bring these strangers alongside, Isaiah 61..
• 08:39 bring them alongside just like Tommy and so Tommy's story is kind of an emblematic story
• 08:44 of what's going to be happening in the days ahead.
• 08:47 And so now let's pick up the interview where Tommy's telling us about his journey
• 08:51 and how he came to Israel and then brought his family as well.
• 08:57 I knew at that moment that I was so stunned by that
• 09:02 and fortunately the Father had us free to be able to move.
• 09:06 We were able to because we didn't have debt,
• 09:10 we didn't have anything holding us where we were at.
• 09:15 I came home and I told Sherri, I said I feel like we're supposed to be here
• 09:20 and she said, I'm with you.
• 09:25 And so my older sons, my first 5 children were boys...
• 09:34 so when you have 5 boys you're a strong man, you know...you've got a lot of strength.
• 09:40 And my sons are amazing young men and they came here with me in the first several trips
• 09:51 and we just got to work... we just started working.
• 09:54 Tell our viewers... what does that mean?
• 09:56 We started helping plant vineyards
• 09:59 and we started helping to take care of them,
• 10:01 to be the vinedressers.
• 10:03 Isaiah 65:1 says that foreigners will come and be your vinedressers and your plowmen.
• 10:08 None of these were really a reality until we started walking in that place.
• 10:14 And I know people say how do you know its prophecy?
• 10:18 But...I've come after nine years now here.
• 10:23 The prophecy of desolation has happened.
• 10:27 We've got evidence that Israel was a desolate place
• 10:31 and many parts of Israel are still seeing that desolation.
• 10:36 But right now we're seeing the agricultural restoration of Israel
• 10:40 which is the prophetic word here.
• 10:43 Joel starts out talking about the devastation...
• 10:47 there's no more figs, no more apples, no more vines, no more oil, no more...
• 10:51 the whole list of the produce that Joel talks about.
• 10:56 And now I'm sure the people on your tour have tasted every one of those things...
• 11:04 the pomegranate...it's all back.
• 11:07 And so the reality of Israel's restoration is physical...
• 11:15 you can touch it... you can taste it.
• 11:18 And it's amazing that you were living a physical life when you unplugged,
• 11:24 when you got off the grid and you were growing.
• 11:26 You were divinely set up to touch, to taste,
• 11:30 to know that God was redemptive in the land, in the physical.
• 11:35 He prepared us in so many ways that I was so not aware of
• 11:41 because even living in an Amish community
• 11:44 was so much like living around the religious Jews.
• 11:48 And it gave me the ability to respect them and to love them and to appreciate them.
• 11:54 There were so many things that I was very ignorant about
• 11:59 that the Father just showed us in a really big way that this was what he was doing.
• 12:10 And the fact that we were even living in this generation,
• 12:14 living for such a time as this, was just...I still pinch myself
• 12:20 to be on these mountains, to see now since we started to bringing the volunteers here
• 12:27 we've seen the vineyards exponentially multiply.
• 12:33 Tell me about that...how much time were you in Israel and how much time were you in the states
• 12:37 and how is your family and what is your time spent?
• 12:40 Well Myles we're actually... we're a long way from an Amish community now.
• 12:45 I mean we have 15 different countries coming here to be in the land
• 12:48 just to come and to harvest the grapes in the last year
• 12:53 and so over the last year and a half there's been over 500 people...
• 12:58 there's been over 1,000 people come since we started coming here
• 13:03 just to work in the land and to taste the grapes and the wine.
• 13:08 Even Yeshua said that I'll not drink this cup again
• 13:17 until we drink it again in the kingdom, my Father's kingdom.
• 13:22 So that's not going to be California wine.
• 13:26 You know what, in Isaiah 25 it speaks about this feast,
• 13:31 this end-times feast and what's happening...we're preparing for a huge feast.
• 13:39 The beautiful thing is that the Jewish people are looking for it too.
• 13:44 And I think that's what our viewers maybe don't even know
• 13:47 that there's a shared view for redemption that the religious Jewish people, modern orthodox
• 13:55 who say...that you're in touch with here...there's a shared view of redemption.
• 13:59 Right
• 14:00 Some philosophical differences but...
• 14:02 Right...obviously...but you know what, that's a major and most...
• 14:07 a lot of Christians who don't get the Israel thing
• 14:11 this is a major part of our faith to believe that every word is true, that the Word of God,
• 14:19 the scripture that we share...
• 14:22 the Jewish people and us together...is such good news.
• 14:28 It is good news and I am meeting so many Jewish people
• 14:34 that are so excited about this redemption.
• 14:38 And I really want to as a part of what we're doing
• 14:44 is to get Christians to come on and to live...
• 14:48 You know, even Yeshua said they did not know the time of the visitation...
• 14:53 they did not know the time of the visitation
• 14:56 and I think that Christians don't know that the signs are obvious.
• 15:03 The vineyards are back...
• 15:07 The figs are back...
• 15:09 The wheat is back...
• 15:11 The grain and the oil is back.
• 15:14 It's time.
• 15:24 For insightful perspectives on Israel and Bible prophecy
• 15:28 ask for our free monthly newsletter the "Levitt Letter".
• 15:32 At levitt.com you can read the newsletter, watch the TV program
• 15:37 or visit our on-line store.
• 15:40 Stay current with us on social media via Facebook and Twitter.
• 15:43 Come with us on a tour of Israel or Petra or a cruise to Greece and Ephesus.
• 15:50 Please contact us for more information.
• 15:55 If you see this work as something worthy of your financial support
• 15:58 please consider donating today.
• 16:01 Call us at 1-800-WONDERS or donate on-line at levitt.com
• 16:06 or write to us at Zola, Box 12268, Dallas,TX 75225.
• 16:13 And thank you...
• 16:17 Our resource this week, the DVD set of the series "Journey of Restoration".
• 16:23 Travel along with a tour of pilgrims to the Sea of Galilee,
• 16:27 to Jerusalem and down to the Judean desert.
• 16:30 In addition to learning the historical significance
• 16:33 you will see for yourself how the LORD is restoring the Jewish people and the Promised Land.
• 16:39 Contact us and ask for the DVD set "Journey of Restoration".
• 16:48 Our resource this week is this DVD series
• 16:51 and we would just love to make it available to anybody who would love to have it.
• 16:56 You know I think that so many times Myles
• 16:58 that people want other people to catch the heart for Israel
• 17:01 and I know that this tour really shows God's heart for Israel
• 17:06 Exactly...that's really well put.
• 17:08 Another way to know God's heart for Israel is to receive our newsletter, the Levitt Letter.
• 17:12 We produce this every month... it's free to you.
• 17:15 We'd be glad to send it to you
• 17:16 just get in touch with us at 1-800-WONDERS or levitt.com
• 17:20 and if you can... send us a donation as well.
• 17:23 This whole ministry moves forward by your gifts of funds.
• 17:27 And so let's go now to our next interview which is with Aaron Lipkin.
• 17:32 He has partnered with Tommy Waller up in Samaria.
• 17:36 You can see it in the heartland of Israel.
• 17:38 They've partnered together...
• 17:40 Jew and Christian to see the land flourish and to get ready for the coming of Messiah.
• 17:45 Let's go to Israel.
• 17:49 And during the last two years I heard of a very interesting project of Christians coming
• 17:57 and not to wake up at 7:00 in the morning and eat breakfast at the hotel
• 18:03 and then go off to the bus and tour the land.
• 18:06 They are waking up at 4:00 in the morning out of their temporary house
• 18:13 and they are working hard, sometimes from sunrise sometimes till sunset, why,
• 18:19 because they want to help the Jewish people
• 18:22 and they feel that they are fulfilling prophecy by doing what they are doing...
• 18:27 by harvesting just like it's mentioned in the Bible.
• 18:30 And so I decided that I have to see this...I have to meet them.
• 18:35 So one day I met with Tommy Waller at the house of David Rubin in Shiloh
• 18:42 and this was the first encounter.
• 18:44 Since then Tommy and I are great friends...we are brothers
• 18:51 and his family is my family and my family is his family and it's just amazing.
• 18:58 For many years Katharine and I would bring groups to Shiloh
• 19:02 and it was usually the high point of the tour
• 19:04 because people would see the difference between the west bank, so called,
• 19:09 and the reality of the communities...
• 19:12 vibrant, living communities in accordance with the Bible right here in the center of Israel.
• 19:17 And it's amazing; it's so calm and it's so...
• 19:21 it's peaceful and it's so spiritual to walk in those hills
• 19:26 and to see the places that our forefathers walked on.
• 19:29 I bring groups and we stand at Bethel and look at Mount Baal Hazor
• 19:34 where Abraham stood and God promised him the land.
• 19:38 And this is right...this is really close to where I live.
• 19:41 Every time I drive on the road I see in my mind
• 19:46 Abraham, Isaac and Jacob walking with me and blessing me.
• 19:50 And this is the where these things happen.
• 19:53 I feel so blessed, so lucky to be living not just there but at this special time.
• 20:01 It's the historical aspect that we share together in the Bible
• 20:04 but you're also living for the future.
• 20:07 There's something about the shared destiny of Jews and Christians.
• 20:11 Tell our viewers how you see that.
• 20:13 We are living in a special time.
• 20:19 For 2,000 years the Jewish people was dispersed all over the world
• 20:23 and for the past 200 years we're starting to come back to Israel.
• 20:28 We are already here and we should not take that for granted.
• 20:33 I mean just to think about the fact that Hebrew,
• 20:36 this language that was...
• 20:38 I won't say dead but it wasn't used in day to day life.
• 20:42 Suddenly it's a live language...
• 20:45 it's a language that has a slang, that has its special characteristics.
• 20:50 This is just a sign of a bigger rebirth...a bigger, I would say
• 20:58 resurrection of the bones that were dried and were in the diaspora
• 21:03 and now returned back to the land and are living in Israel is a miracle just by that.
• 21:11 And also the fact that we're so prosperous and so...
• 21:13 we are also blessing the world with the science that we have and the high tech.
• 21:17 But the question is, is all of this a coincidence?
• 21:22 And in my mind and in the mind of my community of the denomination that I belong to
• 21:31 this is not a coincidence...this is part of God's plan.
• 21:36 This is part of the process of redemption, part of the days of the Messiah.
• 21:42 And so everything that is happening is viewed through the glasses of the Bible
• 21:49 and everything that has happened
• 21:51 we immediately go to the prophets and we see where it happens.
• 21:54 When we see the harvesters of Tommy Waller harvesting the grapes...
• 21:58 when the Rabbi of Ofra where I live came to see the harvesters
• 22:02 that were working in Ofra with the grapes and the vines
• 22:07 everybody came and we stood in a circle with Rabbi Gisser, my Rabbi, and he said
• 22:13 let's sing together the Song of Ascent.
• 22:16 And it was so magical to stand there all of us Jews and Gentiles in the vines
• 22:22 in the land of Israel at the time of redemption and so we share that view.
• 22:29 We share the fact that now is a special time
• 22:33 and we really need to do whatever we can to be part of this movement of redemption.
• 22:49 So often in the scriptures we hear the Hebrew phrase...
• 22:51 (speaking Hebrew), when you come into the land over and over again.
• 22:57 And this story, this journey of restoration
• 22:59 is so much about the coming into the land
• 23:02 according to God's timetable and God's prophetic word.
• 23:05 And Aaron Lipkin is such an example of that...
• 23:08 someone who's choosing to live according to the Bible in the mountains of Samaria...
• 23:14 WOW...it's so great to interview him.
• 23:16 And he's seen the prophetic time that we're in,
• 23:19 the restoration time that we're in that God's restoring all things.
• 23:22 He's restoring these two people so they can walk together in love.
• 23:27 That's a sign and a wonder.
• 23:29 Exactly...he's welcoming the Christians up into the mountains
• 23:32 in order for them to work together.
• 23:34 It's our joy to bring this to you to let you know
• 23:38 that there's no ridge here or there's no west bank.
• 23:43 It's the heartland, it's the very heart of the heart of the matter...Samaria...
• 23:47 and it's where God intended his people to dwell
• 23:50 and it's a joy to see Amos 9-15 come alive.
• 23:54 We're going to hear from Cliff today.
• 23:56 He's one of the pastors on our tour.
• 23:58 We have so many amazing people come from around the world and the states
• 24:03 and it's our joy to show them the land and they bring so much life to the tour
• 24:08 because God is coming alive in new ways for them.
• 24:11 So let's go now and hear Pastor Cliff.
• 24:17 I think that there's a real tug on my heart to bridge the gap
• 24:22 and let us come back to our Jewish roots
• 24:24 because the original founders of this first century church...
• 24:28 all their leaders were Jewish and great men even men that weren't of Apostles...
• 24:34 Stephen...he was a great man... preached a great message.
• 24:37 It cost him his life...
• 24:39 the message that he preached cost him his life.
• 24:41 But these were great leaders...
• 24:43 men that were hand selected and full of the Holy Spirit and they were great leaders.
• 24:46 And I think that there's a restoration as Pastor Myles talked about...
• 24:53 of not only Israel and the spirituality...the land's being restored physically
• 24:59 but spiritually and the church is coming back together
• 25:02 and I really see it in a greater light now that I've been here.
• 25:09 It's just burning in my spirit.
• 25:13 I see it coming back together as the "one man" that Paul talked about that Christ created.
• 25:22 There's neither Jew nor Greek, male or female...
• 25:24 it's all one in the kingdom.
• 25:26 And I really sense that coming back together
• 25:28 and sense a tug on my heart to convey that message to the church...
• 25:34 let's get back and support our brothers the Israelis
• 25:38 and support that because that's a God thing.
• 25:45 I know you heard the heart of Pastor Cliff
• 25:48 and really he expressed the heart of this ministry
• 25:50 when he asks for prayer for Israel, for our brothers and sisters in the land.
• 25:54 We move forward in this ministry because of your gifts of funds.
• 25:59 There's so much more we want to do.
• 26:01 We've got a great idea for the planning.
• 26:03 We're planning the book of Joseph...
• 26:05 we want to tell his story because it's such a picture of Messiah.
• 26:08 There are other follow-offs we want to do.
• 26:11 We want to keep you apprised of what's going on in the heartland
• 26:13 with Tommy Waller and Aaron Lipkin.
• 26:16 There's so many things we want to do but we really need your help and partnership
• 26:19 so we thank you in advance for helping us to keep this message coming to you.
• 26:23 Absolutely, and we do move forward only through prayer
• 26:27 and we thank you for praying for the peace of Jerusalem,
• 26:30 for praying for the borders of Jerusalem,
• 26:32 the people of Jerusalem.
• 26:34 And thank you for praying for this ministry
• 26:37 so that this ministry continues to stay on the air
• 26:39 to communicate the truths of God's heart
• 26:42 for the people of God,
• 26:43 all people that he has the apple of his eye...and it's Israel.
• 26:48 We thank you for sharing this journey of restoration with us.
• 26:52 Until we see you again we always like to remind you
• 26:56 Shal'Alu Shalom Yerushalayim
• 26:58 Pray for the peace of Jerusalem
• 27:03 Our resource this week, the DVD set of the series "Journey of Restoration".
• 27:09 Travel along with a tour of pilgrims to the Sea of Galilee,
• 27:13 to Jerusalem and down to the Judean desert.
• 27:16 In addition to learning the historical significance
• 27:19 you will see for yourself how the LORD is restoring the Jewish people and the Promised Land.
• 27:25 Contact us and ask for the DVD set "Journey of Restoration".
• 27:33 Our monthly newsletter the "Levitt Letter" is free
• 27:35 and full of insightful articles and news commentary from a messianic perspective.
• 27:40 Visit levitt.com to find our newsletter along with current and past programs,
• 27:45 our television schedule, and much more.
• 27:48 Your donations to Zola Levitt Ministries
• 27:50 help these organizations bless Israel.