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Episode: “2017—The Year in Ahead”

New from Jerusalem, Myles and Katharine preview the series and programs scheduled to air in the coming year: Joseph: Dreamer / Redeemer, Encounters with Yeshua, Times of the Signs, plus new projects on the horizon, including a prophecy series that will explore the future of the nations vis-à-vis Israel.

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Caption transcript for “2017—The Year in Ahead”

00:18 Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel
00:22 is that they might be saved,
00:25 for there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek
00:28 for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon Him.
00:43 Welcome to Israel!
00:45 We love bringing you
00:47 these programs from ZLM.
00:49 For over 30 years we've been
00:51 documenting the miracle of Israel.
00:53 Israel moves forward through prayer
00:56 and we thank you for
00:58 your prayers for this ministry
01:00 and your support
01:01 because we know that without that
01:03 we couldn't continue on.
01:04 Yeah, we've really been
01:05 enjoying taking up the mantle that Zola began
01:08 and going forward with these messages
01:10 about the prophetic timing of the Lord
01:12 regarding the restoration of Israel.
01:15 We come to you directly from Israel.
01:17 We try to bring you programs that are
01:19 encouraging, that are enlightening,
01:21 that build up your faith or bring you to faith.
01:24 One of the greatest pictures of Yeshua
01:26 is the story of Joseph the Patriarch.
01:28 In fact, our series, "Joseph, Dreamer -Redeemer"
01:31 was so popular we're going to
01:33 show it to you again in 2017.
01:35 And we want to give you some highlights from
01:37 that program right now.
02:04 From the pit to the palace,
02:07 From certain death to abundant life,
02:11 Joseph, the Patriarch
02:13 who pictures Messiah.
02:17 Zola Levitt Presents,
02:19 "Joseph, Dreamer - Redeemer"
03:11 Myles - Stripped of his robe
03:13 Joseph laid at the bottom of an empty water cistern
03:16 beaten and bruised .
03:18 Katharine and I descended the steps of a similar cistern
03:20 in Jerusalem, where we experienced first hand
03:23 the loneliness of a pit well below ground level.
03:29 We're here in the traditional spot
03:31 of where Jesus was kept the night he was betrayed,
03:34 the night before He went to the cross.
03:36 We're in the pit Myles.
03:37 Yeah, just as Joseph was in the pit,
03:40 a picture of the bigger pit to come
03:42 which was the death of Yeshua on the cross.
04:40 There's so many parallels with the life of Yeshua.
04:43 It's amazing.
04:44 That's why we wanted to bring you this story
04:46 Joseph's story speaks of the suffering
04:49 and then the exaltation.
04:51 Yeshua's story is one of suffering and exaltation.
04:53 He comes as the Suffering Servant.
04:55 He returns as the Lion of the Tribe of Judah.
04:58 Even the parallel in the bride that is given to Joseph.
05:01 Joseph is given an Egyptian bride.
05:03 What a picture of the international church,
05:06 every tongue and every tribe,
05:08 people from every nation are being
05:10 called out in this Church age
05:13 and being knit to the Jewish Bridegroom of Heaven.
05:16 What a story!
05:17 And now at the end of the age
05:19 God has his eye back on his own brethren,
05:21 his own Jewish people, the natural seed of Abraham.
05:24 And we are recognizing Yeshua in greater numbers
05:27 than any time since the book of Acts.
06:09 Those were some scenes from our
06:11 series "Joseph, Dreamer - Redeemer"
06:13 What a terrific picture of Jesus.
06:15 Amen, Joseph is such a picture
06:17 of how we need to operate in this world.
06:20 Be ready to forgive.
06:21 Know that people maybe have heard us
06:24 that God wants us to stand in a place of forgiveness.
06:27 And I think so often of the Jewish people
06:30 that do that very thing Myles.
06:31 They have to continue to posture their self for reconciliation.
06:35 It's our joy to bring you these programs
06:38 from the Land and the Temple Mount behind us.
06:41 And we're here showing you the
06:43 goodness of God in the land of the living.
06:46 Yeah, it's really a story of restoration.
06:48 Even the actors we get to use when we do the dramas
06:51 Jews and Arabs together acting
06:53 out the stories from the Bible.
06:54 It's such a picture of God's desire for reconciliation.
06:57 Well, we have had some great feed back
07:00 about the "Days of Remembrance",
07:02 our series that focuses on the Feasts of the Lord.
07:04 In fact, you met someone yesterday.
07:06 Yeah, I met somebody just yesterday
07:07 who told me that they so impacted her heart
07:09 that she actually made plans to come here.
07:12 And then when she was here in the Land,
07:14 which the Land can only do,
07:15 which is to cause something to be reborn in you
07:18 which is a desire to return to the
07:20 Land that God has promised.
07:22 WOW - so let's go to some scenes from
07:24 "Days of Remembrance"
07:33 Passover has been called the crown jewel of the Feasts.
07:35 It's the first of the Feasts
07:37 and it comes in the spring.
07:39 In fact, in Leviticus 23
07:41 we're mandated on the first month
07:43 and the fourteenth day
07:45 to keep the Feast of Passover.
07:47 Why?
07:48 Because the most important thing
07:50 that has happened in the history of man
07:52 has been the shed blood of the Lamb.
07:54 And Passover is the picture,
07:56 the story of redemption that comes
07:58 due to the shed blood of Yeshua, HaMashiach .
08:02 All of these foods have
08:03 a symbolic meaning as well.
08:05 You see the Feast we're about to partake of.
08:07 But these particular symbolic foods we have
08:10 the burnt sacrifice of the Lamb
08:12 pictured in that bone.
08:14 We have the bitter herb, the Maror.
08:16 We have the Kharoset
08:17 Which is a picture of the work and the
08:21 labor of being in the land of Egypt
08:24 and the deliverance that God brought from
08:25 the building of the bricks and
08:27 the making of the pyramids
08:28 and the other structures.
08:29 We have the Karpas , the fresh new life
08:32 of being delivered out of Egypt,
08:34 out of the bondage of slavery.
08:36 And then some time in the middle ages
08:38 we believe they added a roasted egg
08:40 which some people say
08:41 that looks back to the burnt Temple
08:44 and the mourning for us to be back
08:46 in Y erushalayim and back in the Temple.
08:52 You're familiar with the word "Pentecost"
08:54 but the Hebrew "Shavuot" speaks
08:56 of the Feast of Weeks.
08:58 It's 50 days after Passover
09:00 and it takes place 7 weeks and 1 day.
09:03 It's the day after the Shabbat, the 49th day.
09:06 So 50 days, Feast of Weeks.
09:09 And it's one of the three major Feast periods.
09:17 Sinai, when the Word was received
09:19 50 days after the leaving of Egypt
09:24 the Jewish people come to the foot of Mount Sinai.
09:27 And just as they gathered in Mount Zion
09:30 in the book of Acts
09:33 There is this, in Sinai,
09:35 the Word is given amidst thunder and lightning and this
09:39 manifest presence of God Almighty
09:43 thundering and shaking and just overwhelming
09:46 the people gathered at the foot of the mountain.
09:49 Well, similarly as Yeshua promised
09:52 when the believers gathered on Mount Zion
09:56 there was Spirit came to them
10:00 with tongues of fire.
10:01 There was a mighty rushing wind.
10:02 There was the same kind of power,
10:05 authority of God manifest presence of the Lord
10:07 came to the believers and birthed this
10:10 new thing that God was doing in the earth.
10:18 Rosh Hashannah / Yom Teruah is full
10:21 of the blowing of the Shofar.
10:23 And they're announcing the
10:25 appointment we have with God.
10:27 It's a time of repentance.
10:28 It's a time of remembrance.
10:30 In fact, Genesis 22,
10:32 the binding of Isaac the Akedah
10:35 is the signature verse and the signature passage
10:38 that is spoken of during this season.
10:41 On this holiday, on this Feast day
10:42 we speak about the binding of Isaac. Why?
10:45 Because Isaac pictures the promised son to come.
10:48 The 40 years prior to the
10:50 destruction of the Temple
10:51 which was in 70 A.D. that God rejected
10:54 the Yom Kippur sacrifices every year.
10:57 So for 40 years the Jewish people were not forgiven.
11:00 And there were 4 different signs.
11:02 We don't have time to go into each sign
11:04 but these signs would tell them
11:05 whether or not God forgave the people.
11:08 And those 40 years God did not.
11:10 Now you have to ask yourself,
11:12 What happened 40 years before 70 A.D.?
11:15 Yeshua died as the ultimate once for
11:18 all sin and for all time sacrificed.
11:21 He died, gave His life as the ultimate Yom Kippur sacrifice.
11:25 Incredible.
11:40 ♪ UMordechai yatza milifnei hamelech ♪
11:43 ♪ Bil'vush malchut ve'ateret zahav , ♪
11:47 ♪ UMordechai yatza milifnei hamelech ♪
11:50 ♪ Veha'ir Shushan tzohala us'meichah . ♪
11:54 ♪ Lay'hudim hay'tah orah vesimchah , ♪
11:57 ♪ Orah vesimchah, vesasson viy'kar . ♪
12:01 ♪ Lay'hudim hay'tah orah vesimchah , ♪
12:04 ♪ Orah vesimchah, vesasson viy'kar . ♪♪
12:17 You know, the Feasts of the Lord
12:19 are not just for the Jewish people.
12:21 They are for us as Gentiles
12:23 to learn of the "Moadims" of the Lord
12:25 the "Set times", the "Appointed times"
12:28 where God ordains to meet with His people.
12:30 And it's so amazing to be here on the Mount of Olives.
12:33 We hear the call to prayer for the Muslims.
12:35 There was a shofar blowing a few minutes ago.
12:38 There's such contention in
12:39 the atmosphere spiritually
12:41 but it's the exact opposite of what God intends
12:43 because He desires that all people will come to know Him,
12:46 know His love and not be at odds with one another.
12:49 In fact, He says that He's not willing
12:51 that any should perish
12:52 but all come to everlasting life.
12:53 Right, it's really important
12:55 that we are here in the Land proclaiming
12:57 this news from a Jewish perspective at this time.
13:01 Yes, especially at this time
13:03 as the world is in tumult and as we're
13:06 looking towards the 2nd coming of the LORD.
13:08 I love how the story of Ruth
13:10 talks about that knitting in
13:12 to the commonwealth of Israel,
13:13 that beautiful picture where
13:15 she says, [Speaking Hebrew]
13:22 What a picture of the heart of the LORD.
13:24 Yeah, I'm so grateful that God
13:26 brought us together Myles.
13:28 And as we journey on
13:30 may we continue to do what God
13:32 has called us to do.
13:33 Yeah, you know we are so grateful that you partner with us,
13:37 you pray for us, you send us.
13:38 We can't do this without you.
13:40 There's no large funding organization behind us.
13:42 This is a individual by individual community effort.
13:46 And we're grateful that you are seeing this picture of Ruth
13:50 that you may feel like you are a Ruth
13:52 knit in to the commonwealth of Israel.
13:55 And together we get to proclaim the
13:57 goodness of God and the reality of Yeshua,
14:00 His Jewish identity and the beautiful
14:03 call to all the nations for revival.
14:06 Both of those things are happening now.
14:08 And so that's important that we come here
14:11 and bring you the message
14:13 to proclaim the story of Yeshua from these mountain tops.
14:17 And we are grateful to come and do it.
14:19 This year we actually were able to begin a new series
14:23 that you'll be seeing a few clips from.
14:25 We're calling it "Yeshua" -
14:26 "Close Encounters with Yeshua"
14:28 And it's really the story of the journey of faith,
14:31 how people come to and maybe struggle with
14:34 the idea of who He is in His Divinity and in His humanity.
14:38 And so here's a few clips now from
14:41 "Close Encounters with Yeshua"
14:44 I didn't know what to do.
14:45 I was a secret believer for four years.
14:48 And during that time I just didn't know who I could talk with.
14:53 But after four years the Lord led me to a Messianic Congregation.
14:58 And there I found that I wasn't the
15:00 only Jew in the world who believes.
15:02 There are many more.
15:03 Also, I grew up thinking that Christians hated me.
15:07 Because I grew up with the stories
15:08 of the Holocaust and so forth.
15:10 And so what did I know?
15:13 And I found out in this congregation
15:15 there were many Christians who love the Jewish people.
15:19 And that made such an impression on me
15:22 that I went through a healing.
15:25 This angelic being tells us not to be afraid,
15:29 that a Savior had just been born here in the City of David.
15:35 The Messiah! - Born here in Bethlehem!
15:39 This Angel says, "You'll find Him
15:43 wrapped in cloth, laying in a manger.
15:48 In a manger - where we feed our sheep!
15:52 And then an amazing Army of Angels above us
15:57 praising God and saying, çSpeaking Hebrew]
16:05 "Peace on earth, good will to all men."
16:09 I tell you, it was unbelievable!
16:12 We hurried to Bethlehem where we found the Babe
16:15 along with His parents, Mary and Joseph.
16:20 I have to wonder, Who am I
16:24 that I should gaze upon the face of the newborn Messiah?
16:30 On the 8th day, according to the Law of Moses,
16:35 He was brought to the Temple in Jerusalem.
16:38 It was there that He was given the name "Yeshua".
16:43 "Salvation"!
16:46 And they were sitting here.
16:48 And I'm pretty sure that the accounts of the
16:51 New Testament came out maybe from this hall.
16:55 Because the first believers,
16:58 the first followers of Jesus Christ,
17:00 the eyewitnesses of Jesus' life
17:02 they gather here and they were saying,
17:05 "I was there you remember"
17:07 "when the catching of the fish?"
17:09 "I was there when the blind was healed."
17:11 And they were building the story -
17:14 their memories -
17:16 their experience and their beliefs.
17:19 Even the testimony that you are witnessing
17:21 of this wonderful Priest that we got
17:24 the chance to hear his testimony.
17:27 So here, Myles, a Jewish believer
17:29 and a Catholic believer
17:31 testifying about Jesus' Jewish identity
17:34 and so excited about the miracles
17:36 that are happening in Magdala.
17:38 Yeah, it was very encouraging
17:40 to meet this Catholic Priest
17:42 and to see that he is a born-again believer
17:45 in the Church.
17:46 But he is a born-again believer
17:47 with real fellowship,
17:49 Preaching the Gospel.
17:50 Preaching the Gospel.
17:51 It was so encouraging to spend time with him.
17:54 I am told that the words of the prophet Isaiah
17:57 were read today in our synagogue.
18:01 Apparently it was read perfectly
18:03 by Yeshua Ben Yosef .
18:05 I've known Yosef for years.
18:07 He's a simple carpenter
18:10 and his son Yeshua seems to be a fine man,
18:15 blessed with special wisdom.
18:20 Reports are that Yeshua had a
18:21 remarkable immersion
18:23 in the river Jordan recently
18:25 where the heavens opened up -
18:27 and the very voice of Adonai was heard.
18:33 After His reading Yeshua proclaimed
18:36 that the words of Isaiah had been fulfilled.
18:40 Good news for the poor,
18:43 the imprisoned,
18:45 the blind.
18:49 I want to believe it -
18:51 I really do.
18:53 But here in Nazareth we need to see it first.
18:57 Then we believe.
19:06 We're a little further down the mountain now,
19:08 the actual Garden of Gethsemene.
19:10 It was a place - this very place
19:12 or something exactly like this
19:14 where Yeshua came to be pressed out
19:16 for your salvation and for mine.
19:36 We are so grateful to be here on the Mount of Olives
19:39 with the Good News of Yeshua.
19:41 In the background you may hear the
19:42 Muslim call to prayer.
19:44 It's the season of the shofars coming up to Rosh HaShanah.
19:47 We just see that there's all this
19:49 tumult in the world,
19:51 all this conflict.
19:52 And yet in the midst of it
19:53 the Good News of Yeshua cuts through all of that.
19:55 It's a mandate to us.
19:57 In fact, Romans 1:16 says,
20:09 And we have the opportunity of
20:10 bringing this to people.
20:11 Right, we're so grateful
20:12 that you're helping us
20:13 to be here in the Land
20:15 and to proclaim the Good News of the Lord
20:18 here in Jerusalem.
20:20 It is the birthplace of all things and
20:22 it's the combination of all things.
20:25 So it's, you know, we're not afraid of the birth pangs,
20:30 because God has a prophetic plan.
20:33 And that's what this ministry stands for
20:35 is to show you His prophetic plan
20:37 with the Jewish people and with the nations.
20:40 Yes, it's so amazing that Yeshua Himself said in John 4,
20:44 salvation is of the Jews.
20:46 The Covenant comes through the Jewish people
20:49 but everyone is welcome to come into this love
20:52 with the Lord and with each other.
20:54 It's just that we have to say "yes" to Him.
20:57 And that's sort of the tipping point that we're looking for.
21:00 Well, we are always interested in bringing you prophetic messages
21:04 about where we are in the world and
21:06 how close we are to the coming of the Lord.
21:08 And so one of our most popular series lately has been
21:12 "Times of the Signs"
21:14 which really speaks about the events that are taking place
21:18 and puts them in a biblical context
21:20 so we can understand how this Bible is
21:23 coming true in our lifetime
21:25 How the headlines are catching up to the Bible.
21:28 So here are some excerpts from
21:29 "Times of the Signs"
22:19 In Matthew Chapter 24
22:21 It's talking about all the
22:22 signs that will come before
22:24 the Lord Jesus returns to the earth
22:25 Jesus gives this long list of signs.
22:28 I always think it's interesting when people say
22:30 we shouldn't be looking for signs.
22:31 But when Jesus' disciple said
22:33 what will be the sign of your coming
22:34 and the end of the age?
22:35 He didn't say, well don't worry about it.
22:36 He gave this long litany of signs.
22:38 I have to search hard to see if there's
22:39 any possible sign that isn't
22:40 converging right now
22:42 And I haven't found one yet.
22:43 For instance, Russia's involved in
22:45 a major invasion of Israel in Ezekiel 38 and 39
22:48 that includes Iran and Turkey.
22:50 The relationship Russia is building
22:52 with Iran and Turkey
22:53 are stronger than ever and
22:55 Iran and Turkey are adverse to Israel.
22:58 That's one thing.
22:59 What about it says in Revelation 11
23:01 there will come a time when 2 witnesses
23:04 who are preaching Jesus will be killed by the anti-Christ.
23:07 And it says the whole world will see them.
23:09 100 years ago they used to say that Bible can't be true,
23:13 how could the whole world
23:14 see 2 guys lying in the streets?
23:16 Well, I'll pull out my cell phone
23:18 and I'll tell you I can see them
23:19 on the Internet on my cell phone, my iPhone.
23:20 That's right.
23:21 What about the mark of the Beast?
23:23 Someday they say there'll be no one to buy or sell.
23:26 A cashless society.
23:27 Well what about the
23:29 biometric chip technology we got right now?
23:31 I call these the last days
23:33 of the last day.
23:34 WOW
23:36 I heard a painfully ironic statement
23:39 that Jewish and Christian martyrs say,
23:42 I will die for what I believe.
23:45 And Muslim martyrs will say,
23:49 You will die for what I believe.
23:51 The name Allah came from one of the many gods
23:53 that were worshiped in the desert.
23:56 It is the name of the Moon God.
23:57 In fact, the Crescent and the Star that
23:59 you see throughout the symbolism of Islam
24:02 has a great connection to
24:04 the Baal worship of history
24:07 to the worship of the mother-son cult
24:09 to the worship of that which is not
24:11 of Jehovah, the God of Abraham Isaac and Jacob.
24:16 They are different.
24:18 The Islamic State under al-Baghdadi
24:21 has a desire to set up a Caliphate,
24:24 a world-wide kingdom.
24:26 He calls himself self appointed Caliph, the spiritual leader.
24:30 He's doing everything...
24:31 And the man is brilliant.
24:33 Strategy is his number one expertise.
24:36 They are capturing Christians in the
24:40 area where they're in control.
24:42 They're beheading the adults,
24:44 they're burning the children alive.
24:47 You know we have this
24:48 brokenness from the fall of man.
24:50 But God is going to restore all of us who say "yes" to Him
24:54 to a place that is like the Garden of Eden
24:57 and possibly even more glorious
24:59 because it will have no corruption in it at all.
25:01 The fall will be over and the restoration will be complete.
25:05 Yeah, we'll know those loved ones that have gone before us.
25:08 You know, everything we partake of in this earth that is good
25:12 will be magnified in this heavenly Jerusalem,
25:15 in this heavenly place that we're going to.
25:17 And we do not want one of you to be left out.
25:21 And so remember, do not be afraid,
25:23 do not be a coward,
25:25 do not shrink back in these times
25:27 for God Himself will give us
25:29 the strength, the hope, the peace, the faith
25:31 that we need to persevere.
25:33 And He Himself will fulfill all of the
25:36 Feasts with the trump of God
25:38 and He Himself will call us home
25:41 and then come again and Tabernacle with man.
25:48 We're planning a new prophecy series for 2017.
25:51 It doesn't have a name yet
25:52 but we want to really update all of you
25:55 on where we are in time
25:56 because things are changing rapidly
25:58 in America, Israel, the Middle East.
26:00 Nations are aligning in new ways.
26:02 They're really aligning according to the Bible.
26:04 And so we really want you to hear about that
26:07 and see that from the Land.
26:09 We just feel like the Scriptures in Esther
26:13 are really relevant for who you are
26:16 and who we are together.
26:18 Think about this, how Mordecai, my Hebrew name,
26:20 how Mordecai said, [Speaking Hebrew]
26:31 And I think together
26:32 Absolutely
26:34 that we can accomplish great things
26:35 in proclaiming the Good News of the Lord.
26:37 Right.
26:38 Well we've always felt like this is part of our mandate
26:40 to the Church to be that strength,
26:44 to this people, the Jewish people here in the Land
26:47 and to stand with them and to not hold silent
26:49 but to be that voice.
26:51 And you by supporting us is enabling us to help us to bring these messages
26:56 to awaken the Church to their shared destiny
26:59 and to awaken Jewish people to their Covenant promises.
27:02 Yeah, you know we're here in the midst of the conflict.
27:04 Right behind us is the most contested
27:07 real estate on planet earth,
27:08 the Temple Mount.
27:10 And we hear the Muslim call to Prayer.
27:11 It's Friday and so the energy is up
27:14 regarding private prayers for the Muslims.
27:16 And in the midst of that
27:17 the hope " Hatikva ", "The Hope"
27:20 is that the voice of the Lord, Sar Shalom ,
27:23 the Prince of Peace
27:25 would be heard in this Land.
27:26 And that's really what we're going for.
27:28 We really want to continue to bring
27:30 the voice of the Lord to you so that you can
27:33 stand with what's happening here
27:35 as we look towards the second coming.
27:37 Amen!
27:38 We're really getting close to the coming of the Lord.
27:41 And we want to be able to continue to work with you together.
27:44 It's a privilege for us.
27:45 And I believe it's a privilege for you
27:47 because you've been brought into the kingdom
27:49 for such a time as this.
27:51 And we always like to close our program
27:53 with a reminder from Psalm 122:6
27:56 Sha' a'lu Shalom Yerushalayim
27:59 Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.

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