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• 00:04 And so, in a parallel way
• 00:06 the Jewish people are looking for
• 00:08 "Yemot HaMashiach"
• 00:09 "The Day of Messiah"
• 00:11 It is amazing, this parallel yearnings of
• 00:14 the Christian believers and the Jewish people
• 00:16 looking for the day of Messiah.
• 00:45 For Zion's sake I will not hold my peace,
• 00:48 and for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest,
• 00:53 until her righteousness goes forth as brightness,
• 00:57 and her salvation as a lamp that burns.
• 01:10 Shalom, and welcome to our program.
• 01:12 I'm Myles Weiss
• 01:13 And I'm Katharine Weiss
• 01:14 And we want to welcome you to our series "Zion Forever"
• 01:18 We're talking about the City of David and the Temple Mount.
• 01:21 The most contested real estate on the planet I would say.
• 01:24 And not without cause
• 01:25 because Jerusalem from God's point of view is the center of the earth.
• 01:30 It's the center of the center
• 01:32 because God chose it to be the apple of His eye.
• 01:35 Israel is only 8,000 square miles.
• 01:40 You can drive from east to west in about an hour and 45 minutes
• 01:45 from north to south in about 8 hours roughly.
• 01:49 And the surrounding nations surrounding...
• 01:53 they have what? 5 million miles?
• 01:55 5 million miles - the Muslim world.
• 01:58 And we need you to know
• 01:59 that does not just mean the Arab world.
• 02:01 Many Arabs are Muslims but not all Muslims are Arabs,
• 02:05 they're also made up of the Iranians who are Persian,
• 02:07 the Turks who are Turkish,
• 02:09 and even into Africa - Sudanese and the Somalians
• 02:12 they are from...
• 02:14 they have received and taken the Muslim religion ideology
• 02:19 but they are not Arabs.
• 02:20 So we are talking about a huge number of people
• 02:23 and a tremendous amount of land surrounding this little place.
• 02:27 And I always like to go back to Psalm 2...
• 02:37 ...or bring down Israel.
• 02:39 But God sits in the heavens and laughs.
• 02:41 And as His believers we need to be that strong in our faith
• 02:45 and not waiver, that God is in control.
• 02:48 You know, we're really seeing the beginning of the time
• 02:51 when the nations are pointing against Jerusalem,
• 02:54 they're tilting towards Jerusalem.
• 02:55 And Zechariah speaks very strongly about that,
• 02:58 the stumbling block that Jerusalem becomes.
• 03:01 And really Joel tells us in Joel 3...
• 03:11 which is really the Kidron Valley.
• 03:12 And so our first segment
• 03:14 we'll be speaking to you from the Kidron Valley.
• 03:16 So let's go there now.
• 03:23 King David established Jerusalem 3,000 years ago.
• 03:27 He made it the capital of the Jewish people.
• 03:30 No other people,
• 03:32 no other nation in the world
• 03:33 has made it their capital,
• 03:35 no monarchs, no Muslims,
• 03:37 no Turks...no one Myles.
• 03:39 It's really true.
• 03:40 You know, it's said that
• 03:42 Israel is 85 miles wide
• 03:43 but 50 centuries deep.
• 03:45 And we're really seeing that.
• 03:47 Standing here we recognize that
• 03:48 it's like the archaeological tells throughout the nation,
• 03:51 the archeological sites.
• 03:53 They're layered one on top of the other,
• 03:55 one culture on another.
• 03:56 Think about this.
• 03:58 This area was held 3,000 years ago by the Canaanites,
• 04:01 in particular, the Jebusites.
• 04:03 At 1,000 BC,
• 04:05 that's 3,000 years ago,
• 04:07 King David took it over
• 04:09 and made it the capital of Israel.
• 04:11 Then in 586 the Babylonians came
• 04:14 and took the Jews into captivity.
• 04:17 At 538 BC the Persians came,
• 04:20 conquered the Babylonians, and took over.
• 04:22 And they lasted here until 332 when Alexander the Great came with the Greeks.
• 04:28 In fact, there's a great story
• 04:30 about Alexander the Great coming into Jerusalem
• 04:32 and laying prostrate before Shimon Ha'Sadik, the High Priest at the time.
• 04:38 And the Greeks, they were scandalized that their emperor
• 04:43 would lay face down before the High Priest of Israel.
• 04:46 But you know why?
• 04:47 Because he had seen him in a dream.
• 04:49 Several times before a battle, a decisive battle,
• 04:53 Alexander the Great saw the picture,
• 04:55 the picture of the High Priest of Israel in his dreams.
• 04:59 And so he lay prostrate before him,
• 05:01 a phenomenon in history.
• 05:03 And the Greeks were here until 63 BC
• 05:05 when the Romans took over.
• 05:07 The Romans were in charge here until 70 AD.
• 05:10 They destroyed Jerusalem as Yeshua had predicted that they would.
• 05:14 And then in 324 AD Constantine came
• 05:18 and made it a so-called Christian nation.
• 05:21 He made the Roman empire a Christian empire in name only.
• 05:26 And that lasted until 638 when the Muslims came up
• 05:29 from Baghdad through Jordan and into Israel.
• 05:33 And they ruled here until the Crusaders came slashing and dashing in 1099,
• 05:39 a tremendous slaughter between the Crusaders and the Muslims.
• 05:42 Many Jewish people were killed as well.
• 05:44 And the Crusaders were here until 1266 AD when the Mamluks,
• 05:50 the Muslims from Cairo came up and took over here for a short time.
• 05:55 They ruled here until the Ottomans came in 1517,
• 05:58 the Ottoman Turks.
• 06:00 And they were here until the British with the white horsemen of Australia
• 06:04 marched into Jerusalem in 1917, World War I,
• 06:08 and began the British Mandate
• 06:11 in which they divided up the Middle East according to their own likes
• 06:15 and gave a small section to Israel which became a state in 1948.
• 06:20 And in 1948 the prophetic clock started ticking.
• 06:25 And we're looking forward from Ezekiel 36:37
• 06:29 the rising from the graves and coming into the Land
• 06:33 to the season we're in now.
• 06:34 And God is sprinkling clean water on His people
• 06:37 and calling us back to Himself.
• 06:39 And we're looking forward to the Book of Revelation.
• 06:42 Absolutely!
• 06:43 You know, the Book of Revelations in 20 it says
• 06:46 that the LORD Himself shall return and conquer Jerusalem.
• 06:50 The King of Glory,
• 06:52 the One and Only Jesus our Messiah
• 06:54 will return to this place, this HaMakom
• 06:58 and He will establish His Kingdom rule for 1,000 years.
• 07:02 And you...
• 07:03 if you are a believer will be with Him.
• 07:06 I want to invite you
• 07:07 to say "yes" to Yeshua
• 07:09 and meet us here for the Millennial Kingdom.
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• 07:43 (Myles speaking) Further up Mount Moriah
• 07:44 I met with Dr. Shimon Gibson
• 07:46 an expert on the 2nd Temple period.
• 07:48 He is the author of "The Final Days of Jesus: The Archaeological Evidence"
• 07:54 Shimon, you have been writing about
• 07:56 this famous area since the early 90's.
• 07:58 Tell us a little bit
• 07:59 about the discoveries and the history,
• 08:02 the research that you've done here.
• 08:03 Well, since the beginning of the 20th century
• 08:06 archeologists haven't been
• 08:07 permitted to research
• 08:09 the underground subterranean
• 08:11 parts of the Temple Mount.
• 08:13 So, we have to base ourselves on archival materials.
• 08:17 And I was given the opportunity
• 08:19 of looking at all of the cisterns, channels and tunnels
• 08:25 which exist beneath the Temple Mount
• 08:27 in an archive in London.
• 08:29 And as a result, I wrote a book
• 08:30 with a colleague of mine, David Jacobson.
• 08:32 And really it's a ruin of subterranean spaces.
• 08:36 And all of the these areas tell us a story
• 08:39 about how the Temple Mount developed
• 08:42 all the way from the Biblical period,
• 08:46 but especially for that time which existed
• 08:49 in the 1st century, at the time of Jesus.
• 08:53 And here we are at the Golden Gate.
• 08:55 This is on the east side of the Temple Mount.
• 08:59 And it's here, according to Jewish and Christian belief,
• 09:03 the Messiah will return.
• 09:05 Exactly so.
• 09:06 Now, there's a Muslim cemetery here which,
• 09:09 allegedly precludes the Messiah, Mashiach coming through here.
• 09:13 But I think that he can probably take care of that.
• 09:15 And you've written about the Via Dolorosa
• 09:17 and the challenges, basically to that pathway to the crucifixion,
• 09:23 and tell us about that as well.
• 09:25 I decided at some point to write a book called "The Final Days of Jesus: Archaeological Evidence"
• 09:33 concentrating on all the archaeological facts
• 09:36 that we know about
• 09:37 Jerusalem at the time of Jesus,
• 09:39 and also in terms of
• 09:40 the movements of Jesus
• 09:41 within the city and outside as well.
• 09:44 And piecing it all together,
• 09:47 it's quite amazing the results which have come out of that.
• 09:51 And one of them is that as a result of
• 09:55 the Crusaders hard way of dealing with the inhabitants of Jerusalem
• 10:00 when they conquered Jerusalem in 1099.
• 10:03 They simply killed everyone in site
• 10:05 whether or not they were Jewish, Muslim or local Christian.
• 10:10 As a result, the whole tradition of the Via Dolorosa
• 10:13 from the place of the trial to the place of the crucifixion
• 10:17 was shifted from one side of the city to the other.
• 10:19 Wow, so what is your belief about the actual findings,
• 10:23 what you saw there and where the pathway would really be?
• 10:26 Well, the trial can now be placed in the old palace of Herod the Great
• 10:32 which is situated on the west side of the city.
• 10:35 And 99% of all scholars all over the world would agree on that.
• 10:40 And so the Via Dolorosa, the path that was taken
• 10:45 when Jesus was taken by the Roman soldiers
• 10:48 from Pontius Pilate to the place of crucifixion
• 10:51 would have led from the west side of the city
• 10:55 towards the north, through the city
• 10:57 to the Gennath Gate.
• 10:58 He was then led outside to Golgotha which is now
• 11:01 beneath the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.
• 11:04 And indeed, together with another colleague of mine, Joan Taylor,
• 11:07 I wrote a book about the archeology of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.
• 11:11 And what's interesting is that they used to be
• 11:13 an enormous cavity there, a quarry.
• 11:15 So Golgotha wasn't really consisting of crosses
• 11:21 which were on top of a knoll, a kind of little hillock,
• 11:26 but actually was within a basin-like area
• 11:29 which had been quarried out for stone in antiquity.
• 11:32 So, it was very much a public display, not a hill far away
• 11:35 as we hear in the hymns.
• 11:37 Yes, I mean you would be passing along the road
• 11:40 which would come out of the city
• 11:42 and you could then see on right as you came out of the city,
• 11:45 you would see this large quarry area
• 11:48 with tombs which had been cut into the scarps;
• 11:51 little gardens below because the water would have come down from the large pool which was there.
• 11:58 Hence, we hear in the Gospel of John regarding the Garden which
• 12:02 was in the area close to the tomb of Joseph of Aramathea
• 12:07 where Jesus was brought for burial.
• 12:10 And so, regarding the current availability
• 12:13 of artifacts from these sites,
• 12:16 how do you...
• 12:17 I know there's a Temple sifting project
• 12:19 and there are people that are trying to find things that are here.
• 12:22 But it's really limited isn't it, as to what you can do.
• 12:26 As an archaeologist, I would love to excavate in the Temple Mount area.
• 12:30 But there are religious sensitivities.
• 12:33 It is a Muslim place of worship.
• 12:37 The Haram al-Sharif in Arabic,
• 12:39 the Splendid Enclosure
• 12:43 and that's where, according to tradition,
• 12:45 Muhammed alighted to the heavens.
• 12:47 And so on that basis, there's no possibility of excavating within.
• 12:52 However, you can do a lot of research
• 12:54 based on even the examination of the external walls,
• 12:58 here on the left of this gate you can see the remains of large stones at the base of the wall
• 13:05 which can be dated all the way back to the Hasmoneon period,
• 13:09 to the late Hellenistic period
• 13:11 and perhaps even earlier.
• 13:12 And on the far left you can see a little gate there which is
• 13:15 blocked up just behind the tombs over there.
• 13:18 And what's interesting is, at the base of this Gate,
• 13:21 that might be the Shusan Gate
• 13:23 which is referred to in the texts.
• 13:25 Through which the sunlight would have then fallen through the gate,
• 13:29 straight through in the direction of the Temple itself,
• 13:34 the House of God.
• 13:36 It would have, because of all the gold which is on the exterior of the Temple,
• 13:39 it would have made this the most amazing monument.
• 13:43 And so you can imagine when Jesus comes into the City
• 13:46 coming from the direction of Bethany
• 13:50 surrounded by His followers,
• 13:52 it must have been an amazing view to see this golden Temple,
• 13:56 the House of God beckoning Him from a distance.
• 14:06 What lies ahead for Jerusalem?
• 14:08 This City, so precious to God,
• 14:11 has been at the center of Bible history
• 14:13 for more than 4,000 years.
• 14:15 And its future?
• 14:17 Zola Levitt reveals the answer in this week's resource.
• 14:21 A booklet entitled "Jerusalem Forever"
• 14:24 Zola writes about the history of this great city
• 14:28 and its future for believers.
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• 15:07 As a scientist you are majoring in what is, not speculation,
• 15:11 theological prejudices, or a mind set.
• 15:15 You've mentioned before that you're looking for objective evidence.
• 15:20 And I believe you found some and you've really opened the door for other scientists as well.
• 15:25 I have no problem in describing myself as a Biblical archeologist.
• 15:28 But I'm looking at the science.
• 15:31 And we have to be very exact about how we interpret
• 15:36 the evidence that comes out of the ground.
• 15:39 But here, we can bring together Biblical texts, information that comes from alternative sources
• 15:47 such as the writings of Josephus Flavius
• 15:50 who was a Jewish historian of the first century.
• 15:52 And put that together with archaeology
• 15:55 and it allows us to re-create Jerusalem at the time of Jesus.
• 15:59 And it tells us about the difficulties that Jesus had
• 16:03 getting His message across in this very important city.
• 16:07 Because the streets were narrow.
• 16:09 There were a lot of houses built up one against the other.
• 16:13 The public spaces available to Him were quite pagan,
• 16:17 you know, the Hippodrome and the Theatre.
• 16:20 It was not the sort of place He would go to.
• 16:22 So, the only place that He could really get His message across
• 16:25 was either within the area of the Temple itself, within the outer courts
• 16:31 or within the two pools close to the Temple,
• 16:35 the Bethesda and Siloam pools
• 16:37 where He could then also deal with aspects relating to healing
• 16:42 which of course were so important in terms of His mission.
• 16:46 And that's what I was just thinking.
• 16:48 That there were only two miracles in Jerusalem,
• 16:50 one at Beth Hesed, the Bethesda pool;
• 16:53 and the other at the Pool of Siloam.
• 16:56 Yes, both stories are recounted in the Gospel of John.
• 17:00 What's interesting, I've done research on the Bethesda pool
• 17:05 which is just in this direction just beyond the Temple Mount.
• 17:09 And I found something really quite interesting
• 17:11 because in the Gospel of John in chapter 5 we hear about
• 17:15 the murmuring on the water
• 17:17 Yes
• 17:18 when the invalid is taken in and Jesus takes him in;
• 17:21 there's something really interesting.
• 17:23 We found the steps and landings,
• 17:25 another flight of steps and landings.
• 17:27 Landings of course, so that the beds could be placed there for
• 17:30 those who are unable to walk down into the water themselves.
• 17:34 And the murmuring is because there you have a reservoir,
• 17:38 the so-called Northern Pool
• 17:41 and through a little tunnel at the base of the wall there
• 17:45 water was brought into the Southern Pool.
• 17:48 Whenever water came through then you get the bubbling up of the air which is being expelled
• 17:55 And that is the murmuring on the waters.
• 17:57 Some translations say the "stirring" of the water.
• 17:59 Exactly
• 18:00 But there's an interface between supernatural and the natural
• 18:03 perhaps at those places.
• 18:06 (Katharine speaking) From the Pool of Siloam in Jerusalem
• 18:08 we take you to the north of Israel
• 18:11 to hear from "Our Man in Haifa"
• 18:13 Eitan Shishkoff
• 18:16 Shalom
• 18:17 I'm sitting right next to the Haifa Bay.
• 18:20 And really, the Haifa Bay lies in the shadow
• 18:23 of Mount Carmel just to the south of us.
• 18:26 I know most of you will remember the story of Elijah the Prophet
• 18:30 who called down fire on to Mount Carmel.
• 18:32 I just want to remind you what it says in the scriptures
• 18:35 in I Kings, Chapter 18
• 18:58 This was quite a major event
• 19:01 during a time when Israel was far from God.
• 19:05 It's really interesting
• 19:07 because today if we were able to see it,
• 19:11 the entire slope of Mount Carmel
• 19:13 is covered with high-rise apartments.
• 19:15 There'a a huge, modern international harbor.
• 19:18 And behind me you can even see an ocean freighter
• 19:22 which is bringing commercial goods
• 19:25 from the ports of the world
• 19:27 into Israel through Haifa.
• 19:29 This tremendous influx of population
• 19:34 was not there in Elijah's time.
• 19:36 In Elijah's time we're talking about a mountain
• 19:39 and we're talking about people having come from the neighboring area.
• 19:44 Just up the coast is where Jezebel was from.
• 19:46 Jezebel and Ahab, you will remember were queen and king at that time
• 19:50 and the spiritual struggle was immense.
• 19:54 Interestingly, now...
• 19:56 what should we say?
• 19:57 more than 2 1/2 millennia later
• 20:01 there is still a struggle on Mount Carmel and in this area
• 20:05 because, of course, the present-day residents of Israel
• 20:09 are not all worshipping the God of Israel.
• 20:11 Many are worshipping material things.
• 20:14 Other are worshipping, actually, eastern gods
• 20:21 and all kinds of false idols.
• 20:24 So this battle continues until today
• 20:27 and I want to bring you into this battle in the way of prayer.
• 20:30 It was in the book of James that we read the statement
• 20:40 And Elijah has given us an example
• 20:42 because it didn't rain for 3 1/2 years.
• 20:44 But as soon as Elijah appealed to God;
• 20:46 called down fire from heaven,
• 20:48 then they saw the cloud the size of a man's hand
• 20:51 over these waters.
• 20:53 And then the rain began to fall.
• 20:55 The rain of the Holy Spirit will come on this Land.
• 20:57 But it's really depending
• 20:59 on our prayers... yours and mine.
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• 21:41 We are looking forward to the end of the age
• 21:43 and the beginning of something fantastic, something wonderful.
• 21:46 Behind me, over my left shoulder
• 21:48 you see the Golden Gate
• 21:49 the Messiah's Gate.
• 21:51 We are looking for Yeshua to come down,
• 21:53 touch the Mount of Olives
• 21:54 and then come through the Messiah's Gate
• 21:56 as He said He would;
• 21:57 as Zechariah said He would.
• 21:59 And so, in a parallel way the Jewish people are looking for
• 22:03 Yemot HaMashiach
• 22:05 "The Day of Messiah"
• 22:06 Isn't it amazing?
• 22:08 These parallel yearnings of the Christian believers and the Jewish people
• 22:11 looking for the Day of Messiah.
• 22:14 And He will reveal Himself
• 22:15 and we Jewish people look upon Him who we have pierced
• 22:18 and mourn as if for an only son
• 22:20 and then welcome in a greater way Him.
• 22:22 And that' why we, as we bring people to the Land,
• 22:25 we always want to be connected to the body of Messiah here.
• 22:28 We want to help them.
• 22:29 We want to support them.
• 22:31 Pray for them.
• 22:32 Support them financially.
• 22:33 Because we believe in Galatians 6:10
• 22:41 And that's a mandate that's been on Katharine and myself for many, many years.
• 22:45 You know, the day of Jacob's trouble will precede that.
• 22:48 And we're looking towards the
• 22:50 A'harit HaYamim
• 22:51 "the end of days".
• 22:53 There's some wonderful promises in Jeremiah 30 and 31
• 22:56 about the New Covenant,
• 22:58 about the New Day,
• 22:59 about in spite of Jacob's trouble
• 23:01 how God is going to bring His people to Himself.
• 23:04 And we're looking forward to Revelation 20:1
• 23:08 where the Lamb Himself will be the Light of the Kingdom.
• 23:12 We won't even need the sun and the moon
• 23:14 because the Lamb Himself,
• 23:15 Yeshua will be the Light of the Kingdom.
• 23:18 As we close this segment
• 23:20 I want to invite Katharine to come and join me.
• 23:22 And I want you to join with me
• 23:24 as I call for the Jewish people to know our God
• 23:27 in this central prayer of all Hebrew life.
• 23:31 ♪ Sh'ma Yis'ra'eil ♪
• 23:35 ♪ Adonai Eleinu ♪
• 23:38 ♪ Adonai echad ♪♪
• 23:42 Hear O Israel
• 23:43 The LORD our God
• 23:44 The LORD is One.
• 23:46 ♪ Barukh sheim k'vod ♪
• 23:48 ♪ malkhuto l'olam va'ed ♪♪
• 23:53 Blessed is Your Holy Name
• 23:55 which is Blessed forever and ever!
• 23:58 Amen
• 24:13 ♪ Sha'a'lu ♪
• 24:14 ♪ Sha'a'lu Shalom ♪
• 24:16 ♪ Sha'a'lu Shalom ♪
• 24:20 ♪ Sha'a'lu ♪
• 24:22 ♪ Sha'a'lu Shalom ♪
• 24:25 ♪ Yerushalayim ♪
• 24:29 ♪ Pray for the Kingdom of God ♪
• 24:33 ♪ Pray for the time of His coming ♪
• 24:37 ♪ Pray for the Temple of worship in Israel ♪
• 24:40 ♪ and pray for the peace ♪
• 24:42 ♪ of Jer-u-salem. ♪♪
• 24:46 You know, there's a call going out to all of us today to hear.
• 24:51 The Shema is all about, hear O Israel
• 24:54 but it's about hearing,
• 24:55 for all of us to hear that the LORD our God is One.
• 24:58 And that there's a destiny for each of us to walk in.
• 25:01 For the Jewish people
• 25:02 it is to make pilgrimage home.
• 25:04 For the Gentiles
• 25:06 it is to not only reap the harvest in these last days
• 25:09 but it's to stand with His people
• 25:11 and to be that Watchman on the Wall.
• 25:13 And to never give the LORD silence day or night
• 25:16 until He makes Jerusalem a Praise in all the earth.
• 25:20 Well that is really well said.
• 25:22 It's really a spiritual battle.
• 25:24 Sometimes, when we do programs like this
• 25:26 people can think, Oh, well they don't like Muslims
• 25:28 or, they're against the Arab people.
• 25:29 It's completely untrue.
• 25:31 Not our heart at all.
• 25:33 No, what is true is that we're seeing a spiritual battle
• 25:35 that goes all the way back to Genesis 3:15
• 25:38 when there was the confrontation between God
• 25:41 and Satan, the Serpent, in the Garden.
• 25:43 And the warning came to Satan
• 25:46 that God was going to raise up the seed of the woman, Messiah
• 25:50 to bruise his head and that he would bruise His heel.
• 25:54 In other words, at the cross Messiah's heel would be bruised
• 25:57 He would take a blow for all of humanity
• 26:00 but He would crush
• 26:01 Amen!
• 26:02 the work of the Devil.
• 26:03 And that's what we're seeing played out.
• 26:05 And so the way that works with Israel is that
• 26:07 if the enemy can keep the Jewish people from coming home,
• 26:10 keep the Jewish people from calling on Him
• 26:13 then he can lengthen his time as ruler of this world.
• 26:16 But his time is short, and he knows it.
• 26:18 And so that's why there's more and more tumult in the area.
• 26:21 But we really see that it is primarily a spiritual battle.
• 26:25 We don't war against flesh and blood.
• 26:27 And that's what's being played out right now in the Land.
• 26:30 It's so important that we remember
• 26:33 that love is the victory of a believer
• 26:35 and love is the victory...
• 26:37 to love people, and to walk in that love
• 26:41 and to let that overflow in these days.
• 26:44 And part of that love is to be honest about what you believe.
• 26:46 I have an orthodox, Jewish friend who...
• 26:49 and this may be surprising to you.
• 26:50 An orthodox, Jewish friend who says to me,
• 26:52 Myles, if you really believe that Jesus is Messiah,
• 26:55 than if you love me, you'll tell me that.
• 26:57 I won't agree - for now.
• 26:59 I may not agree but at least I know you love me
• 27:01 because you're telling me the most important thing to you.
• 27:04 And that's a very mature attitude.
• 27:06 One that we don't hear very often but the fact is that
• 27:09 God is going to sort it all out
• 27:11 because Zion is His place.
• 27:14 And that is also why every time
• 27:16 we end our program with this simple prayer
• 27:19 Sha'a'lu Shalom Yerushalayim
• 27:21 Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.
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