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• 00:04 And just as David was looking for
• 00:06 a son of Saul or Jonathan that he might bless,
• 00:08 so, the God of Heaven is looking for many more sons.
• 00:13 He wants you to know him.
• 00:15 He wants to be your Father.
• 00:17 He wants you to call upon him as Abba, Father.
• 00:20 And then, he wants to heal you just as he's healing all of us
• 00:24 who have said, "yes" to him.
• 00:52 For Zion's sake I will not hold my peace,
• 00:56 and for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest
• 00:59 until her righteousness goes forth as brightness
• 01:03 and her salvation as a lamp that burns.
• 01:17 Shalom, and welcome to our program.
• 01:19 I'm Myles Weiss.
• 01:20 And I'm Katharine Weiss.
• 01:21 And welcome to our series, "Zion Forever".
• 01:24 You know it's such a privilege to be talking about the Jewish
• 01:27 presence in the Land,
• 01:28 the history of the Land,
• 01:29 the reality of David's life,
• 01:32 and the importance of the Temple Mount
• 01:34 and the City of David.
• 01:36 It really does verify that all the political things
• 01:39 we see happening today
• 01:41 we really need to be seen through the lens of Scripture.
• 01:43 Yeah
• 01:44 There's no other way to understand it.
• 01:46 We're really coming into a time in this program
• 01:48 where we'll be looking at the mercy of God
• 01:51 beginning to be developed in David's life
• 01:54 and how choices that he made
• 01:55 will lead to him becoming who God wants him to be.
• 01:58 In fact, in II Samuel 9 David will ask the question,
• 02:01 ( Speaking Hebrew )
• 02:05 "Is there anyone from the house of Saul who I may bless?"
• 02:09 You know, its' so funny how God looks upon the heart.
• 02:12 Man looks on the outward,
• 02:13 but God looks on the heart.
• 02:14 And God found David a man after His own heart.
• 02:18 We can read about that in Acts 13:22
• 02:21 about how that man wants to be like the world
• 02:25 but God wants us to be like him
• 02:27 and affect the world.
• 02:29 And that's surely what David did.
• 02:31 He affected the world around him
• 02:32 because he didn't respond to it.
• 02:34 But he responded to the commands of God.
• 02:37 Yeah, really...
• 02:38 choosing the vertical over the horizontal
• 02:40 is one way I look at it.
• 02:41 Choosing what God is saying
• 02:43 rather than what man is requiring.
• 02:44 And we're privileged at this time to be
• 02:47 for this program we were able to go to Ein Gedi,
• 02:48 one of the most beautiful places.
• 02:51 It's an oasis really, isn't it?
• 02:53 Let's go now to Ein Gedi.
• 03:01 We're in the wilderness
• 03:03 where David ran from Saul
• 03:04 for 13 years.
• 03:06 Talk about the making
• 03:07 of a man of God.
• 03:09 This is where the Ein Gedi springs are.
• 03:11 " Ein Gedi " "spring of a young goat"
• 03:13 also called " Ein David " "The Spring of David"
• 03:17 Because this is where...
• 03:18 right around here
• 03:19 where David hid from Saul.
• 03:22 You know, David was anointed King
• 03:25 but then he was pursued by the King Saul
• 03:28 who was a man not after God's on heart
• 03:30 but was a man of man's choosing.
• 03:32 In that time the Israelites wanted a king like everybody else.
• 03:37 And they got it.
• 03:38 And he was a horrible, horrible ruler.
• 03:41 He sought after David.
• 03:42 He let jealousy come into his heart.
• 03:45 And he was just captivated by taking David out.
• 03:49 And David just kept proving himself
• 03:51 over and over and over again
• 03:53 by the wisdom of God
• 03:54 that he wasn't out to take Saul's throne
• 03:56 or even the kingdom
• 03:58 but he was simply out to please the LORD.
• 04:01 That's why God calls him "a man after My own heart".
• 04:04 Yes, actually in Hebrew
• 04:06 (Speaking Hebrew)
• 04:08 "I'm seeking a man after My own heart"
• 04:11 And God was doing that with David.
• 04:13 Now, in the process of running from Saul
• 04:15 David and Jonathan formed a bond
• 04:17 that gives us a beautiful picture of a manly friendship
• 04:21 that's trying to be co-opted in our world today.
• 04:23 But the fact is, it was a really good comradery
• 04:27 a true friendship of man to man
• 04:29 that served David and Jonathan for many, many years.
• 04:33 It's an interesting note here
• 04:34 that when Saul earlier had ripped the coat of Samuel
• 04:39 in disobedience to the LORD
• 04:41 Samuel took note of it.
• 04:43 But here, where David has a chance to actually kill Saul
• 04:47 he does not take that chance.
• 04:49 Saul comes into a cave like this to relieve himself.
• 04:52 He's there...
• 04:53 And David comes and cuts the fringe off of his cloak,
• 04:57 the fringe that speaks of Saul's connection to God,
• 05:01 Saul's connection to Torah, to the Word of God,
• 05:03 and Saul's anointing and choosing by the LORD,
• 05:06 however temporary, it was God's choosing.
• 05:08 And David, being a man after God's own heart
• 05:11 would not kill the king.
• 05:13 Yeah, it says his heart was stricken.
• 05:15 And he had realized that he had touched something
• 05:17 that God didn't want him to touch.
• 05:19 Man was provoking him,
• 05:20 Go ahead...
• 05:21 God's delivered him into your hands.
• 05:23 Here he is in the cave.
• 05:24 It's your opportunity to be done with this Saul
• 05:26 and be now made king.
• 05:28 But you know what?
• 05:29 After David did some much as touched that part of the garment
• 05:34 he was heartbroken.
• 05:36 Yes, and think about what it did within David.
• 05:39 His conscience was smitten.
• 05:41 He was beginning to be a changed man from things like that.
• 05:44 And he acted with restraint.
• 05:46 He did not let vengeance take over him.
• 05:48 Because of that restraint
• 05:50 we see that he begins to picture the LORD Messiah.
• 05:53 He begins to picture David's greater son, Yeshua.
• 05:56 He had respect for God,
• 05:58 not revenge against man.
• 06:00 And he didn't allow his soul to get corrupted.
• 06:02 And that's why he could bring forth these beautiful psalms
• 06:05 of streams in the desert
• 06:06 and this incredible meeting with God in the wilderness place
• 06:09 that we all need to know about
• 06:11 because he was a man who honored God.
• 06:13 Now, it's very notable that at this same time
• 06:16 once Saul realizes that David was in the cave with his men
• 06:19 he has this seeming repentance,
• 06:22 he has some tears,
• 06:23 but they're temporary tears.
• 06:25 Temporary tears...
• 06:26 Often we've seen what goes on in the outward
• 06:29 isn't necessarily what's happening on the inward.
• 06:32 He has this...
• 06:33 Is this not my son David?
• 06:35 And he has this wonderful, emotional response
• 06:38 but there was no transformation.
• 06:40 Yes, that's exactly so.
• 06:42 And we really see the difference between
• 06:44 an outer show which Saul was given to
• 06:46 and an inner transformation
• 06:48 that we saw in David when he touched Saul.
• 06:50 Now, Saul does something very interesting
• 06:52 that gets played out later in the story of David.
• 06:54 He says that, I can see that you are going to be the king.
• 06:58 You have been more righteous than me.
• 07:01 Will you please remember my seed?
• 07:03 Will you remember my children and their children's children?
• 07:07 And do not wipe my name from the face of the earth.
• 07:10 And David is going to honor that request later on.
• 07:15 (Katharine speaking) The same waters that restored David and his men
• 07:18 refresh us today.
• 07:20 Let's hear from Myles about the mercy of God.
• 07:25 It's a phenomenon
• 07:27 that as Saul asked David for mercy
• 07:30 he asked him to remember his seed.
• 07:32 In doing that David is going to look more and more like Yeshua
• 07:37 In fact, a little further in the story David will actually ask
• 07:42 Is there anyone from the house of Saul and Jonathan
• 07:46 that I might find to bless?
• 07:48 And brought before him is who?
• 07:50 Mephibosheth
• 07:52 What a great name.
• 07:53 " Mephibosheth ", his name means
• 07:55 "Shame-taker"
• 07:56 It means "Image-breaker"
• 07:58 And what David is going to do
• 08:00 by expressing his mercy to Mephibosheth
• 08:03 is actually transformed him almost to his likeness image.
• 08:07 What he'll do is he'll call Mephibosheth in
• 08:10 and Mephibosheth will say not unlike David said to Saul,
• 08:14 Am I a dead dog before you Lord?
• 08:17 And David will say, I want you to come
• 08:19 and eat at my table continually.
• 08:22 And as he does that
• 08:24 he's going to be healed of the reproach of the past.
• 08:27 Think about the parallel
• 08:29 between Mephibosheth and your life and mine.
• 08:32 Mephibosheth was a cripple.
• 08:35 He was injured in a fall which made him lame in his feet.
• 08:39 And that's the description of him.
• 08:41 Isn't that how you and I are?
• 08:43 Before we find Yeshua,
• 08:45 or rather, when He finds us?
• 08:47 We are lame in the way we walk.
• 08:49 We are crippled in our approach to life.
• 08:51 But God calls us to his banqueting table
• 08:55 and his banner over us is love.
• 08:57 And David called Mephibosheth to his banqueting table
• 09:00 and had him feed there, eat there, sit there all the days of his life
• 09:04 and in so the healing process began.
• 09:08 In doing that, David is very much like Yeshua.
• 09:12 It's the kindness of God that leads to repentance.
• 09:16 It's the " hesed ", the "mercy"
• 09:18 that leads to repentance in turning to the LORD.
• 09:21 In fact, it's God who initiates the relationship with us.
• 09:25 We love Him, because He first loved us.
• 09:28 It was David who called for Mephibosheth.
• 09:30 It is God who accepts us as we are.
• 09:34 But because of His peace and His calming Spirit
• 09:37 He's restores us and transforms us.
• 09:39 He changes us into His likeness and image
• 09:42 as we allow Him to work on our inner life.
• 09:45 And just as David was looking for a son of Saul or Jonathan
• 09:49 that he might bless,
• 09:51 So the God of Heaven is looking for many more sons.
• 09:54 He wants you to know Him.
• 09:57 He wants to be your Father.
• 09:59 He wants you to call upon Him as Abba, Father.
• 10:02 And then He wants to heal you
• 10:04 just as He is healing all of us who have said "yes" to Him.
• 10:07 What a picture here where the rivers are flowing in the desert.
• 10:11 Where we're being watered by the goodness of God.
• 10:14 We're seeing the mercy of God.
• 10:16 Even the birds playing in the pools remind me of the beauty
• 10:19 of being freed before the LORD
• 10:21 because of His healing power,
• 10:23 His mercy, His transformation.
• 10:25 What a great story
• 10:27 and what a great picture of our very great God,
• 10:30 the greater son of David,
• 10:32 Yeshua HaMashiach.
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• 11:45 The scriptures come alive.
• 11:46 You're seeing it in this program and in this series
• 11:49 how the Bible absolutely comes alive
• 11:51 when you walk through the Land.
• 11:53 There's so many parallels between David and Jesus.
• 11:56 When David went to take the stronghold of Zion
• 12:00 the Jebusites mocked him and said,
• 12:01 even the blind and the lame would be able to defend...
• 12:07 because the fortress was so high.
• 12:09 It's so interesting to note, Myles
• 12:11 that in the scripture in John 9 it talks about
• 12:14 how Jesus healed the blind man
• 12:16 and then in John 5, and the lame.
• 12:18 So there's only 2 miracles in Jerusalem
• 12:21 and Jesus himself was backing up David
• 12:24 or David was confirming what Jesus was doing
• 12:27 and showing forth the miracles that God does.
• 12:31 Yeah, it's an amazing connection, actually.
• 12:33 Historian, Shahar Shilo will illuminate
• 12:35 some of these great verses about healing.
• 12:37 But first,archaeologist, Eli Shukron tells of
• 12:40 his discoveries at the Pool of Siloam.
• 12:49 Okay, we're in the Pool of Siloam.
• 12:51 That pool was found in 2004.
• 12:53 How did they find it?
• 12:55 I have my experience about how I found the Pool of Siloam.
• 12:59 We can see that all this area
• 13:01 was covered with dirt,
• 13:03 like 18 feet of dirt.
• 13:07 All this area was covered with dirt.
• 13:10 And the municipality here wanted to build here a pipe.
• 13:12 And the bulldozers started to work here.
• 13:15 And what happened when the bulldozers started to work here
• 13:17 I was here around
• 13:19 and I found a camera
• 13:21 and I came to take a picture of this area.
• 13:24 I didn't know that there was something below the dirt.
• 13:28 And when the bulldozers started to work here
• 13:31 I heard the bulldozers scratching the stone.
• 13:35 Once, two, three, four times I heard them
• 13:39 and then I stopped them.
• 13:41 I said, I think it must be below that dirt.
• 13:45 It must be something below that dirt.
• 13:48 And what I did,
• 13:49 I started to clean the area and I found 3 stairs.
• 13:53 I'll show you which stairs I found in the beginning
• 13:57 of the excavation of the Pool of Siloam,
• 14:02 that Pool of Siloam that was built here before 2,000 years ago.
• 14:06 Let's see the first stone that was found.
• 14:09 And from that first stone we started the excavation.
• 14:13 Let's see it.
• 14:14 This way...
• 14:18 I found first this stone.
• 14:21 And if you look
• 14:22 you can see that stone is broken.
• 14:23 Why is it broken?
• 14:24 Because of the bulldozer.
• 14:26 When I heard the bulldozer
• 14:27 I didn't see the stone.
• 14:29 I heard them scratching the stone
• 14:31 here and here and here.
• 14:33 And then, when I undertood that there was something here
• 14:38 I stopped him.
• 14:39 When I stopped him I started to clean.
• 14:41 When I stopped him I didn't see the stone, why?
• 14:44 Because the bulldozer has a finger,
• 14:46 and when you have a finger 1 inch - 1 foot of finger
• 14:49 I can't see the stone.
• 14:51 It's covered with the dirt.
• 14:52 All this area is covered with dirt.
• 14:54 And I started to clean one stone.
• 14:56 And then I go that way.
• 14:58 I saw another stone.
• 14:59 So I cleaned that stone and then go that way.
• 15:01 And then, I cleaned that stone.
• 15:03 And so, 3 steps,
• 15:05 1...2...3,
• 15:07 this is the beginning of the excavation.
• 15:09 And from that moment I started to do some section here
• 15:13 and I found 10 stairs.
• 15:15 And from here I started a huge excavation
• 15:20 and found the Siloam Pool.
• 15:22 That Siloam pool,
• 15:24 the Pool of Siloam before 2,000 years ago.
• 15:26 And when I did the excavation
• 15:28 I found coins between that stone in the cement of that pool
• 15:34 And those coins take us to the mid of 1st century B.C.
• 15:40 The coins were from the Hashmonaim King.
• 15:44 His name is Alexander Jannaeus.
• 15:46 And they found
• 15:47 that coin here
• 15:49 in the foundation
• 15:50 of those stairs.
• 15:51 And it give us an understanding
• 15:53 of when they built that pool.
• 15:56 And that pool was built in the time of the 1st century B.C.
• 16:01 So it means in the time of Jesus
• 16:03 that pool was already being used
• 16:06 as a pool that everyone came and made the ritual bath here.
• 16:09 And from here they started to walk to the Temple.
• 16:11 We're talking about a huge pool.
• 16:13 One acre of pool built as steps.
• 16:16 The water came through that pool from the Gihon Spring.
• 16:19 From the spring this high quality of water for purity
• 16:23 coming into the pool, making a ritual bath,
• 16:26 and from here walking to the temple.
• 16:28 This is the real Saloam Pool
• 16:31 from 2,000 years before, in the time of Jesus.
• 16:40 Shahar, you discovered an amazing parallel
• 16:43 between the time of David and the time of Jesus.
• 16:46 Could you tell our viewers about it?
• 16:47 With pleasure
• 16:48 As a historian
• 16:49 I'm looking at the Scriptures.
• 16:50 I did not excavate the Pool of Siloam.
• 16:52 My very good friend,
• 16:53 Eli Shukron, the archaeologist did.
• 16:55 And we were looking at Scriptures
• 16:56 and we say, wait...
• 16:58 King David is being actually coming to Jerusalem,
• 17:01 so says, II Samuel, Chapter 5,
• 17:04 with his troops,
• 17:05 standing outside the walls of Jerusalem
• 17:07 besieging it, I should say, in a way.
• 17:09 And the Jebusite King stands on the wall and mocking him
• 17:11 and saying to him, thy shall not come here
• 17:13 until you remove the blind and the lame.
• 17:16 Remember that... this disabled people.
• 17:18 It's like as if he's mocking young King David,
• 17:20 I can put the blind and the lame
• 17:22 they cannot see you,
• 17:23 they cannot pull swords,
• 17:24 but still they can cope with you.
• 17:25 David does not get offended.
• 17:27 He storms the city with his troops
• 17:28 saying, whoever wants to conquer the Jebusite fortress
• 17:31 shall touch the gutter and we shall win.
• 17:33 And then, Jerusalem it says,
• 17:35 and David has captured the fortress of Zion
• 17:38 and called it the "City of David".
• 17:39 Then I'm looking at the Scriptures.
• 17:41 I'm continuing on to the book of John.
• 17:43 Chapter 5, we learn that John speaks about Jesus
• 17:46 performing a miracle in the Pools of Bethesda
• 17:48 healing the impotent person,
• 17:50 healing the disabled.
• 17:51 Then we learn from Chapter 9, verse 7 and 8
• 17:54 that a blind person was actually recovering
• 17:58 from his blindness here in the Pool of Siloam.
• 18:00 And ask yourself, wait...
• 18:03 The Galilee has more than 30 different miracles according to the Scriptures.
• 18:07 How come Jerusalem was neglected?
• 18:09 Only two miracles?
• 18:11 And then, it strikes you that you say, wait...
• 18:13 Jerusalem was the place of crucifixion and resurrection.
• 18:16 But yet, it had to do something from the millennium from David to Jesus.
• 18:20 David, the founder of the House of David
• 18:23 where Jesus would come from in 1,000 years,
• 18:26 is the one to come and conquer Jerusalem the first time
• 18:29 coping with the blind and the lame.
• 18:31 Jesus would do the same thing,
• 18:33 still addresses the same issue
• 18:35 but only this time no force is being involved.
• 18:37 He is coming with mercy and grace
• 18:39 and he heals the blind and the lame
• 18:41 and therefore Jerusalem can become what it is,
• 18:43 " Shalem "
• 18:44 You know the city of Shalem?
• 18:45 Yes
• 18:46 It's the city of " shalom ", the city of "peace"
• 18:47 complete...whole.
• 18:48 This is what it is.
• 18:50 Only when Jesus recovers those 2 people
• 18:51 can Jerusalem become complete and whole.
• 18:53 So he came as " Sar Shalom "
• 18:55 and recovered what David...
• 18:58 This is how I look at the Bible.
• 19:00 Otherwise, I couldn't understand why only 2 miracles
• 19:02 would happen within the borders of Jerusalem
• 19:04 unless Jesus was aiming towards something higher...
• 19:08 That is fantastic.
• 19:09 Well we bring our people here,
• 19:10 our passengers, tourists, pilgrims.
• 19:12 They come and they read the Psalms of Ascent
• 19:14 as we are up on the mountains.
• 19:16 But tells us about the findings here
• 19:18 and the connection with the Psalms of Ascent.
• 19:19 So from this pool leads a whole staircase
• 19:22 leading straight up to the Temple Mount.
• 19:23 It's about 750 yards from here.
• 19:25 And as you walk;
• 19:26 and you can see the stairs being shown in the movie right now.
• 19:28 These are actually the stairs, which are the ascents,
• 19:31 from the songs of Psalms.
• 19:33 15 chapters in Psalms starts with the words, "The Song of Ascents".
• 19:36 We learn from the Jewish early commentators
• 19:39 which is named the " Mishna "
• 19:41 the famous Mishna.
• 19:42 It speaks about, in a specific chapter,
• 19:43 about the High Priest coming down with the Levites
• 19:46 all the way down here to the Pool of Siloam
• 19:47 with the Golden Bowl
• 19:49 pouring some of the water,
• 19:50 taking the water from the Pool of Siloam,
• 19:52 walking up playing the trumpets
• 19:54 and the drums and the horns.
• 19:56 All the music, actually singing the Songs of Ascent
• 19:59 all the way from here to the Temple Mount
• 20:01 all the way up.
• 20:02 As he goes there he would put it on the altar.
• 20:04 And then starts the celebration of the Tabernacle on the Temple Mount itself.
• 20:09 So people can actually walk today.
• 20:10 WOW!
• 20:11 Jesus and David are in both hands,
• 20:13 close your eyes and walk with me all the way to the Temple Mount.
• 20:15 This is an awesome feeling.
• 20:17 That's amazing!
• 20:18 Thank you so much.
• 20:19 Pleasure.
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• 21:05 You know, just as the Pool of Siloam
• 21:06 speaks of God's mercy
• 21:08 we're going to hear from Eitan Shiskoff
• 21:10 "Our Man in Haifa"
• 21:11 And he's going to connect the waters of Israel
• 21:13 to the goodness of God
• 21:15 and the Gospel going out to the nations.
• 21:17 Let's hear from Eitan now.
• 21:20 Shalom.
• 21:22 One of the most prominent promises in all of scripture
• 21:25 is the promise to King David
• 21:26 that one of his sons would sit on the throne forever;
• 21:31 the throne of Israel,
• 21:32 the king of Israel.
• 21:33 It's fascinating to me that above Yeshua's head
• 21:37 on the very cross where he was crucified
• 21:39 is declared in 3 languages,
• 21:41 one of them being Hebrew,
• 21:43 that he was " Melech Yisrael " the "King of Israel".
• 21:47 Of course, today very few Israelis
• 21:49 know that he is King of Israel.
• 21:51 And this is one of the reasons that I am speaking to you
• 21:54 from the Haifa Bay
• 21:56 near where I myself live,
• 21:58 and where our ministry is conducted,
• 22:00 because I want you to connect
• 22:03 with the Land of Israel,
• 22:04 the people of Israel,
• 22:06 and of course, the waters of Israel.
• 22:09 Yeshua, as far as we read in the New Testament,
• 22:12 didn't spend that much time by the Mediterranean.
• 22:15 Maybe he might of taken a field trip here once or twice.
• 22:18 But the waters that we associated with Yeshua
• 22:21 are the waters of the Sea of Galilee,
• 22:23 today called the Kinneret.
• 22:26 On the Galilee Yeshua calmed the storm.
• 22:29 On the Galilee he showed the fishermen
• 22:31 where the great harvest of fish would come.
• 22:34 On the shores of the Galilee
• 22:36 he fed thousands and thousands of people
• 22:38 out of just a few loaves and fish.
• 22:40 And for me, that represents a provision
• 22:44 even a contradiction
• 22:47 to the kind of anxiety and anguish
• 22:52 that exist all around us today.
• 22:55 So when I see the water,
• 22:58 what it represents to me is the provision of God.
• 23:01 And as we read the account of Yeshua
• 23:03 I encourage you to just really
• 23:07 zoom in on this incredible dynamic
• 23:11 between Yeshua and the disciples
• 23:13 because that's the dynamic that he calls us to.
• 23:15 I hope that when you read Matthew, Mark, Luke and John
• 23:18 your looking not only at history,
• 23:21 but your looking at yourself
• 23:23 your looking at the nature of relationship
• 23:25 to which we're called with the Messiah.
• 23:28 In fact, he called them to leave their nets and to follow him.
• 23:32 And they did.
• 23:34 As we follow him,
• 23:35 as we face storms,
• 23:37 as we face a lack of provision in our lives,
• 23:41 as we face moments of uncertainty
• 23:44 I'm confident that by trusting in Him
• 23:46 he will provide for you
• 23:49 and you will be able to fish for men
• 23:52 as he instructed those fishermen.
• 23:56 ♪ So we will pray to you our anger,♪
• 24:02 ♪ So we will weep in desperate shame. ♪
• 24:08 ♪ Knowing You hear and will remember, ♪
• 24:13 ♪ Blessed our God, we call Your Name. ♪
• 24:21 ♪ How can we sing a song of Zion, ♪
• 24:26 ♪ How can we sing a song of joy? ♪
• 24:32 ♪ If I forget you, O Jerusalem ♪
• 24:38 ♪ Promises made forevermore. ♪
• 24:44 ♪ How can we sing a song of Zion ♪
• 24:49 ♪ How can we sing a song of joy? ♪
• 24:55 ♪ If I forget you, O Jerusalem ♪
• 25:01 ♪ Promises made forevermore. ♪♪
• 25:16 How beautiful to hear Carol Cantrell
• 25:18 singing one of Zola's songs.
• 25:20 You know, there's a longing in that song
• 25:22 and there's a longing in all of us
• 25:23 for the purpose and the plan of God.
• 25:25 Exactly true.
• 25:26 And the longing,
• 25:27 we really see that in this program,
• 25:29 this ark of history.
• 25:30 We've gone from Ein Gedi,
• 25:32 where David hid from Saul
• 25:34 and where the waters are still refreshing.
• 25:35 We saw the Pool of Siloam where healing takes place and the mercy of God to Bethesda,
• 25:40 also where...just the loving kindness of God in touching the people.
• 25:47 And even to modern Haifa, where we sat with Eitan Shiskoff.
• 25:50 We heard him speak about the Gospel going forth
• 25:53 and the provision of God for our lives.
• 25:55 It's really one long story.
• 25:58 The fact that it's being contested in the media today doesn't really matter.
• 26:02 The truth is in the Word.
• 26:04 And it's one real long story of restoration.
• 26:07 It's almost like death to life.
• 26:10 Death to life and life everlasting.
• 26:13 That Psalm, that's in Zola's song...137
• 26:16 it speaks about the desire to come out of captivity back to the Land.
• 26:20 Well, that's also true for us coming out of sin and finding Messiah.
• 26:24 And it also says in that Psalm,
• 26:27 that I have set Him as my chief joy.
• 26:30 That the LORD is our chief joy.
• 26:32 I can remember memorizing that in Bible college.
• 26:35 And it's so important to hide the Word of God in our hearts in these days.
• 26:39 And to let that River come forth in us.
• 26:41 The Bible talks about out of our bellies will flow rivers of living water.
• 26:46 So not only can we see and hear what happened in ancient times
• 26:50 but we are living in these modern times
• 26:52 where God is doing miracles.
• 26:54 That's really great.
• 26:55 One of the things we get to do at this program
• 26:57 and what our viewers get to participate in
• 26:59 is really stepping into the prophetic fulfillment of God's Word.
• 27:03 Because that's what's happening,
• 27:05 certainly with the restoration of Israel, the Jewish people
• 27:07 and the church learning where she comes from
• 27:11 and what her debt is to the Jewish people.
• 27:14 That's why we always end our programs with this prayer
• 27:17 from Psalm 122, verse 6;
• 27:19 Sha'alu Shalom Yerushalayim.
• 27:20 Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.
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• 27:31 from a Messianic perspective.
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• 27:39 and much more.
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