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Episode: “Answering Your Questions” (filmed June 2016)
Myles and Katharine discuss and answer questions sent in by viewers, and from followers on social media, including Facebook and Twitter.

Caption transcript for “Answering Your Questions”

  • 00:04 Coming up on Zola Levitt Presents
  • 00:06 we answer letters from viewers
  • 00:08 with issues you'll want to know about.
  • 00:29 Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel
  • 00:33 is that they might be saved
  • 00:35 for there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek
  • 00:38 for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon Him.
  • 00:54 Shalom, Havarim Welcome Friends to our program.
  • 00:57 I'm Myles Weiss.
  • 00:58 And I'm Katharine Weiss
  • 00:59 And welcome to Zola Levitt Presents.
  • 01:01 Today we are going to hear from you, our viewers.
  • 01:04 We love it when you write to us.
  • 01:05 We love hearing what you have to say
  • 01:08 and we love answering your questions.
  • 01:10 Yes we do.
  • 01:11 We have some great letters today we want to go over with you,
  • 01:13 some really profound issues that people write to us about,
  • 01:16 the concerns they have theologically, prophetically
  • 01:19 and so let's start with a letter from R.S.
  • 01:21 And he says...
  • 01:38 Well this goes to the heart beat of
  • 01:40 why we have this program,
  • 01:42 why we ask for your support,
  • 01:43 why we keep bringing this message to the entire world because
  • 01:46 we're getting closer to the time of His return.
  • 01:49 And He's not coming to Washington D.C.
  • 01:51 He's not coming to Mexico City.
  • 01:53 He's not coming to London or Paris.
  • 01:55 He is returning to Jerusalem
  • 01:57 according to Scriptures.
  • 01:59 Zechariah 14 and Acts Chapter 2
  • 02:02 speak about this Messiah coming back to the Mount of Olives.
  • 02:06 So the question that you're asking about
  • 02:08 Are the Jewish people looking for Him?
  • 02:10 We are looking for Messiah but there's a stumbling block
  • 02:13 because of the political history
  • 02:15 of the Church vis a vis the Jewish people.
  • 02:18 People sometimes come to me especially at our congregation
  • 02:21 and they say, I am just so impressed that you understand who Jesus is,
  • 02:25 and yet so many of your people don't know who He is.
  • 02:27 Well, that's why we bring our testimony.
  • 02:29 That's why we share our story.
  • 02:31 Because when my people look at the Gospel
  • 02:34 they don't always see Jesus first.
  • 02:37 First they see the Crusades, the Inquisition,
  • 02:40 the Pograms in Europe and the Holocaust
  • 02:42 all of which they associate with non-Jews
  • 02:45 or in our minds, before Yeshua , Christians.
  • 02:48 So it is a huge stumbling block of blood split,
  • 02:52 and persecution and exile
  • 02:54 that is connected with the Gospel.
  • 02:56 So it makes it harder for us.
  • 02:58 But there's some Good News growing
  • 02:59 in the Land, isn't there?
  • 03:01 Well I think we're further obviously than 30 years ago.
  • 03:04 But there's revival happening in Israel.
  • 03:08 And that's not something that you
  • 03:10 will hear on the secular news channel.
  • 03:13 But you'll hear it here.
  • 03:14 You know, there's revival
  • 03:16 and there's such a beautiful partnering
  • 03:19 that's happening in these times
  • 03:21 between the Church and the Jewish people.
  • 03:23 And it has to do with ministries like ours
  • 03:26 where we are saying that we need to be a bridge builder.
  • 03:29 We need to be an answer to the people
  • 03:32 that might have been hurt by the past views of Christianity.
  • 03:35 And there's bringing a new face of Christianity
  • 03:38 which is this "One New Man".
  • 03:40 Yes, the growing towards a "One New Man"
  • 03:43 where all will believe in the Messiah of Israel.
  • 03:45 Now, Matthew 23:39 that you refer to,
  • 03:49 it says, Baruch haba b'Shem Adonai.
  • 03:54 It leads up to what's called the spine of
  • 03:56 theological prophecy in the New Testament
  • 03:59 which is Matthew 24.
  • 04:01 And Matthew 24:14 tells the disciples
  • 04:05 that this Gospel
  • 04:06 will go into all the world,
  • 04:08 it will be preached around the world
  • 04:09 and then the end will come.
  • 04:11 So we have this dual focus
  • 04:14 on the part of the Lord where He's saying to the Jewish people,
  • 04:16 You better call on me,
  • 04:17 You better watch for me.
  • 04:18 I'm coming.
  • 04:19 And also says to the disciples
  • 04:21 that this Gospel will go around the world.
  • 04:23 And how would that happen?
  • 04:24 Because the Jewish Disciples who made up the first Church
  • 04:27 would go out to the whole world
  • 04:29 and preach the Gospel to the Gentiles
  • 04:31 multiplying the ability of this Good News
  • 04:34 to go around the world.
  • 04:35 And we see that now with the Gospel arising
  • 04:38 in China, and in India and in Africa and in Iran.
  • 04:42 Around the world the Gospel is growing
  • 04:44 because of those seminal words that Yeshua spoke back then.
  • 04:47 I love this story that we heard from our friends in China
  • 04:50 when we interviewed Brother Yun on the Mount of Olives.
  • 04:53 If you haven't seen that program you need to see it.
  • 04:55 It's about the "Back to Jerusalem"
  • 04:57 movement that's coming out of China.
  • 04:59 And I spoke to Brother Yun's agent,
  • 05:01 his young friend,
  • 05:03 about Mega Voice.
  • 05:05 This incredible small pocket sized
  • 05:08 solar powered water proof
  • 05:11 Audio Bible in the languages
  • 05:13 of the unreached people groups of the earth.
  • 05:15 It's no longer generations of translators...
  • 05:18 scribes translating the Word from original languages into
  • 05:24 the languages of the unreached groups.
  • 05:26 But now... [snaps his fingers]
  • 05:27 it's an instantaneous digital age where
  • 05:30 the Gospel's going around the world.
  • 05:31 And he said, well I can go one more, one better than that
  • 05:34 because we realize since we're in China...
  • 05:37 This was an expensive little piece of equipment
  • 05:39 that was developed between Israel, Canada and Australia.
  • 05:43 But they say, we go one better.
  • 05:44 What we do is we wire our people when we send them
  • 05:48 into the darkest places...
  • 05:50 into Iran, into Afghanistan, into North Korea.
  • 05:53 They send missionaries from China into these places
  • 05:57 and they are wired to be a hot spot
  • 05:59 so that everyone within a certain radius
  • 06:02 is offered a free download of the video Gospel in their own language.
  • 06:08 And I thought...
  • 06:09 We are at the Gate.
  • 06:10 we are near to the coming of the Lord.
  • 06:12 Even so come Lord Jesus.
  • 06:15 And I do believe that we are
  • 06:17 closer than we think Myles.
  • 06:19 Yeah.
  • 06:20 So I hope that answers your question.
  • 06:22 Yes, we are looking for Messiah .
  • 06:24 As our friend David Ruben said...
  • 06:26 He's an Orthodox Jewish man,
  • 06:28 the former Mayor of Shiloh.
  • 06:30 He said, Myles we'll all be on the mountain looking for Messiah .
  • 06:34 And if you're right I'll be like this.
  • 06:36 That's Jesus.
  • 06:37 And if I'm right you'll be like this.
  • 06:40 Praying like a Jewish person would pray.
  • 06:43 And so we know that there's a shared destiny
  • 06:46 as we look for the coming
  • 06:48 of the King of the Jews
  • 06:49 and the Savior of the world.
  • 06:51 I hope that helps you.
  • 06:53 We'll answer more of your questions after the break.
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  • 08:16 about Romans 9 through 11
  • 08:18 and it is all based on the Scripture
  • 08:20 that God has not forsaken His people
  • 08:23 and that it's the restoration time that we're in.
  • 08:26 And it's also a little bit of a touch
  • 08:29 of how to witness to a Jewish person.
  • 08:31 You know, we as Gentiles are to provoke the Jews
  • 08:34 to jealousy so that they want what we have.
  • 08:37 I remember when we were leading a tour in Israel
  • 08:41 somebody came up to me and reminded me of that when
  • 08:45 they were young Israeli and these tours would come
  • 08:48 that they would see these people praying
  • 08:51 and having this presence about them that they wanted and
  • 08:54 that they were viewing from a distance
  • 08:57 but they knew that they had something
  • 08:59 that they were lacking in their own life.
  • 09:01 So really coming to Israel is as a witness.
  • 09:03 It is.
  • 09:04 How we operate in the Land.
  • 09:06 How the fruit of the Spirit obviously.
  • 09:09 But the prayers, the songs, just the testimony of why we care.
  • 09:14 Because we believe the Word and we act on the Word.
  • 09:17 It is such a testimony.
  • 09:19 That person later came to faith.
  • 09:20 She became a Believer.
  • 09:21 And then joined one of our tours
  • 09:23 because she wanted to have the full experience of
  • 09:26 what it was like to be an Israeli Jewish Believer
  • 09:29 with a Christian tour group.
  • 09:32 Even though she had lived in the Land for many years
  • 09:35 she wanted to experience it in that light and she had a great time.
  • 09:38 That fellowship that she really was enjoying.
  • 09:41 Let's go to another letter here.
  • 09:42 This comes from S.N.R.S. in North Carolina.
  • 09:45 They say...
  • 10:01 Well, first of all some ministries, some organizations
  • 10:06 that are fundraising
  • 10:09 will take what I call "the crying Russian syndrome".
  • 10:12 They will highlight the worst of the worst.
  • 10:14 The most difficult and the most difficult.
  • 10:16 The fact is there are Israelis in need.
  • 10:18 There are 22 per cent of the Israelis are
  • 10:21 living but are living below the poverty line.
  • 10:23 It's primarily Holocaust Survivors, sad to say.
  • 10:26 It's also new immigrants and even some Arab-Israelis,
  • 10:29 the ultra-Orthodox.
  • 10:31 It's a mixed group.
  • 10:32 But they do have issues there.
  • 10:33 At the same time the economy is booming.
  • 10:35 It hasn't filtered down to everyone
  • 10:38 and so there are some people that are suffering.
  • 10:40 Now, what I encourage people to do is to be
  • 10:44 aware of organizations that are raising money for social activity
  • 10:49 but they are decidedly anti-Gospel,
  • 10:52 anti-Messianic body
  • 10:54 and against the work that we and others in the Land are doing.
  • 10:57 We want to support the groups that are doing social work,
  • 11:00 they're blessing the poor,
  • 11:02 but they are also bringing them the Good News.
  • 11:04 Right,the Eternal Salvation.
  • 11:05 Exactly.
  • 11:06 You know, it's one thing to invest in the Nation
  • 11:09 and that's good.
  • 11:10 Yes, Genesis 12
  • 11:11 We are to bless the children of Abraham.
  • 11:13 Absolutely.
  • 11:15 But there's also the mandate from Galations 6:10
  • 11:19 to bless those, to do good to all,
  • 11:22 especially to those of
  • 11:23 the household of faith.
  • 11:24 Right, right.
  • 11:25 And we want to support people that are
  • 11:27 bringing the Gospel along with social services.
  • 11:29 Be aware if they're bringing the Gospel
  • 11:31 and if they're also standing with Messianics.
  • 11:34 "Messianic" is somebody who is a Jewish person
  • 11:38 who believes in his Messiah...
  • 11:40 in Jesus as his Messiah.
  • 11:42 And it doesn't have any other trapping than that.
  • 11:45 You're just simply a man of faith.
  • 11:47 You didn't convert from Judaism.
  • 11:49 No, it's not a sin to be a Jew.
  • 11:50 You converted from sin
  • 11:52 and you kept your Jewish identity.
  • 11:54 Yeah, and I think that it's important
  • 11:55 that when we give...
  • 11:57 I know for us personally,
  • 11:58 we want to give our funds to
  • 12:00 organizations, to bodies, to
  • 12:02 living, fruitful works in Israel
  • 12:04 that are doing the work of helping
  • 12:06 the poor but also bringing them...
  • 12:09 like you said,
  • 12:10 the most important gift.
  • 12:11 A friend of mine in Israel said,
  • 12:12 If you bless Israel that's wonderful
  • 12:14 but if you hide the gift of Yeshua then you're
  • 12:17 keeping the greatest blessing from us.
  • 12:19 Absolutely.
  • 12:20 I believe that.
  • 12:21 Here's another letter.
  • 12:23 It comes from G.L.
  • 12:27 And it's kind of a complex letter
  • 12:30 so I'll Paraphrase it.
  • 12:32 It speaks about the covenant with Abraham,
  • 12:35 the grafting-in of the Gentiles
  • 12:37 and the different views of Scripture and the world that
  • 12:40 the Christians and the Jews have.
  • 12:42 So let me try to paraphrase it.
  • 12:44 And I'll read you my answer here.
  • 13:01 And sometimes people think that it's either / or
  • 13:03 but God can do both.
  • 13:05 He can save an individual Jewish person
  • 13:07 at the same time that I'm believing Romans 11:26
  • 13:10 that all Israel will be saved.
  • 13:11 But it's two different ways of viewing the world.
  • 13:14 God's capable of both which offends our
  • 13:16 tendency to put Him into a box.
  • 13:27 And some of these seeming dichotomies
  • 13:30 are throughout the Scripture.
  • 13:31 that's why some of it is hard to understand the person of Messiah
  • 13:34 because the Jewish people are looking for
  • 13:36 Mashiach ben Yosef , the son of Joseph.
  • 13:40 and others Mashiach ben David .
  • 13:42 So the Suffering Servant and the Reigning King.
  • 13:45 Well, which is He?
  • 13:46 Is the Messiah a Suffering Servant like Joseph?
  • 13:48 Or is He a Reigning King like David?
  • 13:51 Well, He's both, right?
  • 13:53 Right.
  • 13:54 He is the Suffering Servant who gave His life as Lamb of God.
  • 13:58 Isaiah 53, John 1:19,
  • 14:01 but He is also the Reigning King who
  • 14:05 will return as the Lion of the Tribe of Judah
  • 14:08 according to the Book of Revelation.
  • 14:10 Absolutely, Yeah.
  • 14:11 And it's our job to be like Abraham
  • 14:13 and to pray...
  • 14:15 You know, to pray that...
  • 14:16 to stand in that intercession for the one, you know,
  • 14:19 but to believe for the whole nation.
  • 14:21 Yeah, while we're waiting for Revelation 5:5
  • 14:24 when He comes as the Lion of Judah
  • 14:26 let's stand with Israel
  • 14:28 whether they are believers in Jesus or not
  • 14:30 let's stand with them because that is our mandate
  • 14:33 going back to the beginning of the Bible
  • 14:35 is to stand with what God is standing with
  • 14:37 and that is including the precious seed that
  • 14:41 he has brought through the children of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
  • 14:45 We'll be back after this.
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  • 15:31 Katharine and I recently heard from
  • 15:32 a Pastor of a large church here in America
  • 15:35 who asked us regarding the preaching, teaching
  • 15:38 of the message of Israel
  • 15:41 and the importance of Israel to the Church.
  • 15:42 He was concerned that if he did that with his congregation
  • 15:46 that they would think he was anti-Arab, anti-Palestinian.
  • 15:50 So he called and he wanted to
  • 15:52 get some advice and counsel about that.
  • 15:54 And I wanted to address that because
  • 15:55 I think there may be others out here,
  • 15:57 congregants, pastors, leaders, elders, deacons.
  • 15:59 Whoever you are, you may be concerned that
  • 16:02 because we promote Israel and we believe
  • 16:05 in the re-establishing, the rebirth of Israel
  • 16:08 because it's in the Bible that
  • 16:10 that means we're anti-Arab and
  • 16:11 nothing could be further from the truth.
  • 16:14 We've dedicated our lives and this ministry believes that God is
  • 16:17 not willing that any should perish
  • 16:20 but all come to everlasting life.
  • 16:22 And we've had our involvement with Arab ministries
  • 16:25 in the Land and in America for...
  • 16:28 since the beginning of our work.
  • 16:30 We have connections with believers who are Arabs.
  • 16:34 We believe that it's a blessing to the heart of God
  • 16:37 when Jews and Arabs get along together.
  • 16:39 And the glue for us is Sar Shalom , the Prince of Peace.
  • 16:44 Yeah.
  • 16:45 Well it was a mandate that God gave us when we began this ministry.
  • 16:48 The ministry that we have together as a Jewish believer
  • 16:52 and as a Gentile believer
  • 16:55 to hold the identity of Jesus as the Messiah of the Jews
  • 16:59 Yes
  • 17:00 But also to always pray for our Arab cousins
  • 17:03 and to reach for them.
  • 17:04 Yeah, for over 10 years, maybe 15 years I've been
  • 17:06 preaching a message called "Healing the Family Feud"
  • 17:09 which I think explains what's happened
  • 17:12 between the sons of Isaac and the sons of Ishmael.
  • 17:15 And it's up to us to be reaching for both.
  • 17:17 We need to reaching for the sons of Ishmael, the Arab peoples,
  • 17:21 as well as the sons of Isaac the Jewish people.
  • 17:23 I like what you say Myles.
  • 17:25 You say that to be pro-Israel
  • 17:27 is not to be anti-Arab.
  • 17:29 Yeah, say that again, that's good.
  • 17:31 Well to be pro-Israel
  • 17:33 or to be pro-Jerusalem
  • 17:35 is not to be anti-Arab,
  • 17:37 that God has an answer for us,
  • 17:40 for both the people groups.
  • 17:41 Yeah, we all need to come through the door of Messiah.
  • 17:44 Listen to Ephesians 2:14
  • 17:59 and that goes for male and female,
  • 18:01 Jew and Gentile, Jew and Arab.
  • 18:03 It goes for all of us who find ourselves in the Body of Messiah.
  • 18:07 We are to reach for and reach to one another in love.
  • 18:10 So to be pro-Israel is not to be anti-Arab.
  • 18:14 Quite the contrary.
  • 18:16 We want all to know the love of God.
  • 18:19 And we were given by the Ministry of Tourism
  • 18:21 when we were doing our TV show,
  • 18:24 one of the vehicles that they helped us have
  • 18:27 while we were going and doing these TV shows...
  • 18:29 You know, all the TV that's filmed is all filmed in Israel.
  • 18:34 I mean, we are there in the Land
  • 18:36 and wanting to bring you the
  • 18:38 authentic message from the Land itself.
  • 18:41 accept for this time in the studio,
  • 18:43 all the teachings done in Israel.
  • 18:45 So...but one of our drivers was a Muslim.
  • 18:49 And he was just the sweetest man and
  • 18:52 we got to share our faith with him.
  • 18:54 And one of his testimonies was to you Myles.
  • 18:57 He said, where your people are - order,
  • 19:00 where my people are - chaos.
  • 19:03 He was pretty funny.
  • 19:04 He was very funny.
  • 19:06 But it's not to bash the Arabs,
  • 19:08 but it's to bring an understanding
  • 19:11 that unless the Arab people come into the Light of Messiah
  • 19:14 they won't have the order that God wants them to have.
  • 19:17 When Islam is ruling over them
  • 19:19 it's the spirit, it's a dark spirit,
  • 19:21 it's an anti-Christ spirit and that
  • 19:23 anti-Christ spirit will bring chaos into their lives.
  • 19:27 So, it's our job to bring the Gospel.
  • 19:30 It's our job to bring the Light.
  • 19:32 It's our job to bring the love.
  • 19:34 We are never anti-Arab.
  • 19:36 We are pro-Arabs hearing the Good News of the Gospel.
  • 19:39 We're pro-Humanity.
  • 19:42 So, here's another one that is kind of related
  • 19:44 but it says...
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  • 20:13 He's referring to an article that we wrote, we published
  • 20:16 called "Hate Islam but love the Muslims"
  • 20:33 Well we received the blessing.
  • 20:34 Thank you for that.
  • 20:36 I wanted to recount an interesting thing that happened to us
  • 20:39 when we had the blessing and the
  • 20:41 privilege of speaking into Tehran, Iran.
  • 20:45 We were on Dr. Hormoz Shariat's television program
  • 20:49 for an hour that was broadcast in Farsi, their native language
  • 20:53 and translated into English in our ears
  • 20:55 so we could hear the Farsi and understand it.
  • 20:57 And for an hour we had a chance to preach and teach into Iran
  • 21:01 to new believers and pre-believers
  • 21:03 who were gathered to hear the Gospel
  • 21:05 which is going into Iran every evening
  • 21:09 by Dr. Hormoz Shariat's "Iran Alive" program.
  • 21:12 He said something fascinating to me.
  • 21:14 Now remember, these folks are coming out of Islam
  • 21:16 or recently come out of Islam
  • 21:17 which has the patriarchal, anti-Women
  • 21:20 kind of a mentality within marriage.
  • 21:22 And he said, Myles...
  • 21:24 right before we went on the air he said,
  • 21:26 Myles, they'll be listening to your words
  • 21:29 but they'll be watching your marriage.
  • 21:31 And we believe that we have an opportunity
  • 21:35 by the way we live and by the way we serve one another
  • 21:37 to demonstrate something of unity and love that can be
  • 21:41 a witness to those coming out of Islam
  • 21:44 because there's a lot of heartache in those marriages.
  • 21:48 Well, I'm grateful that God made a way for the women to
  • 21:52 have a voice in this time.
  • 21:53 You know, all through Scripture,
  • 21:55 whether it'd be Ruth or it's Esther,
  • 21:59 or whomever the Lord chooses...
  • 22:01 whether it'd be Mary Magdalene at the Gate
  • 22:03 waiting for the Messiah to return at the Garden Tomb,
  • 22:07 God gave women the ability to have a voice about the Good News.
  • 22:11 Yeah, and we know that the man is the head of the house
  • 22:15 but the woman is the neck and she turns the head.
  • 22:18 And so we know that we need to work together
  • 22:21 in order to bring the fullness of the Gospel
  • 22:23 and demonstrate a home picture of the love of God.
  • 22:27 We want that for our Muslim friends.
  • 22:29 We want them to be liberated from the oppression of Sharia,
  • 22:35 from the oppression that the Koran teaches
  • 22:37 about the alleged relationship between men and women.
  • 22:40 We'll be back after this.
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  • 23:17 Welcome back to our Letters section
  • 23:19 We have a letter from K.D.F. who writes...
  • 23:42 And the question that comes is
  • 23:43 where is America in Bible Prophecy?
  • 23:46 And this comes up a lot.
  • 23:48 Well, there are no specifics about America.
  • 23:51 There's been a lot of conjecture based on
  • 23:53 the cult of Anglo-Israelism
  • 23:55 that is set over the decades
  • 23:57 that America as a child of England
  • 23:59 is one of the young lions that
  • 24:01 is spoken of later in prophecy.
  • 24:02 But it really doesn't stand up to scrutiny
  • 24:06 as much as the solid Word of God which
  • 24:08 speaks about those sheep nations and
  • 24:11 goat nations that God will judge.
  • 24:13 Yeshua said in the Gospels that He would come and
  • 24:16 that He would judge nations according to
  • 24:19 whether they were sheep at His right hand
  • 24:20 or goats at His left.
  • 24:22 And so there is coming a reckoning for every nation
  • 24:25 regarding whether we stand with Israel and the Jewish people.
  • 24:29 Historically America has been a great friend of Israel.
  • 24:34 There's been a symbiotic or a
  • 24:36 very connected relationship,
  • 24:38 what they call the "no daylight relationship".
  • 24:41 It was so close that they were in mutual contact
  • 24:44 about world events and politics and military issues.
  • 24:48 Recently that has been less the case.
  • 24:51 Well, I think it has to do with people
  • 24:52 that have been influencing our
  • 24:54 governments or our schools...
  • 24:56 mainly Islam and pulling us away
  • 24:58 from our Judeo- Christian values
  • 25:01 and bringing us more into a
  • 25:03 secular humanistic value which
  • 25:05 piggy-backs on a Islamic mind set.
  • 25:10 Yeah it becomes kind of like a
  • 25:12 perfect storm of anti-Israelism
  • 25:14 that can come to any nation.
  • 25:16 And I believe that Zechariah Chapter 14
  • 25:20 really speaks about all the nations of the earth who will
  • 25:23 come against Israel at some point and
  • 25:26 Messiah Himself will intervene.
  • 25:27 And here's what the Word of God
  • 25:29 says about the nations of the world...
  • 25:56 Well, I think the mandate is upon us to practice now
  • 26:00 blessing and being part of and looking towards this millennial future
  • 26:04 where there will be this time of
  • 26:07 connecting with Israel when the real international
  • 26:11 "One New Man" of Ephesians Chapter 2
  • 26:13 will come to pass in reality and
  • 26:15 the nations of the world will join themselves
  • 26:18 to the Jewish Feast Festival
  • 26:21 to go up to Jerusalem
  • 26:22 in the seasons of the Lord
  • 26:24 to worship the Great King.
  • 26:26 And if not they will have no rain on their land
  • 26:29 which is a very serious problem.
  • 26:32 So I think that the mandates that are written in Scripture
  • 26:35 have to do with standing with Israel,
  • 26:37 blessing Israel,
  • 26:38 blessing the sons of Abraham and
  • 26:39 being prepared to join in the celebration
  • 26:43 according to the way God says to celebrate.
  • 26:45 And as a believer we can rest and be
  • 26:50 assured that, you know, God, Jesus is our King
  • 26:55 and that our President is not our king.
  • 26:58 Right
  • 26:58 Right, there is a higher
  • 27:01 accountability that we go to.
  • 27:03 There's a higher authority than the
  • 27:05 political authorities of this world.
  • 27:07 The kings of the earth rage against the King of Heaven
  • 27:10 but He laughs.
  • 27:11 And so we want to be worshipping the One-True-King
  • 27:14 as we see the day approaching.
  • 27:16 We always like to end our program by reminding you,
  • 27:19 Sha'a'lu Shalom Yerushalayim
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