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• 00:01 Why are 2 Gentiles the new Studio Host of Zola Levitt Presents?
• 00:05 How did that happen?
• 00:07 Stay tuned and find out.
• 00:14 Brethren, My heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel
• 00:18 is that they might be saved,
• 00:21 for there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek,
• 00:24 for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon Him.
• 00:38 Welcome to Zola Levitt Presents.
• 00:39 I'm Kirsten Hart.
• 00:41 And I am David Hart
• 00:42 Today's a special day.
• 00:43 We have the Producer and the Director of
• 00:46 Zola Levitt Presents,
• 00:47 Ken Berg, with us today.
• 00:49 This is probably the first time in a while
• 00:52 you've been sitting in front of the camera.
• 00:54 You're usually behind the camera.
• 00:55 It's the first time in fact.
• 00:57 I have interviewed people before on camera
• 00:59 but I really much prefer being behind the camera,
• 01:03 not in front of the camera.
• 01:04 Well, you look good on camera - welcome.
• 01:06 Thank you, thank you, welcome to you both.
• 01:08 Thank you for being new members of our team as you are.
• 01:11 You've come in and done one little series so far.
• 01:14 You did well.
• 01:16 And I know each program is going to get even better.
• 01:17 Thank you.
• 01:19 We're loving the new series coming up too - it's great.
• 01:21 Yeah, it will be.
• 01:23 We're going to have some repeats for a while,
• 01:24 which we'll introduce.
• 01:26 Then we're going to get into a brand new series.
• 01:29 And looking forward to that.
• 01:30 We are too.
• 01:31 You met Zola in the 70's?
• 01:35 In the 70's.
• 01:36 I was but a child.
• 01:38 I even have notes in front of me cause
• 01:40 how do you remember 38 years of highlights
• 01:44 just within the few minutes that we have?
• 01:46 How did you meet him?
• 01:47 WOW - You know it started back in 1978
• 01:50 when I had written a little script,
• 01:53 a little movie script,
• 01:54 very low budget, shoe string project
• 01:57 that I called "Wonder Man".
• 01:58 It was based on the anti-Christ
• 02:00 and the end times and so forth.
• 02:02 And I was wondering who could really be on camera to host this program.
• 02:05 And at the time I had been listening to Zola Levitt on radio.
• 02:08 He had a daily radio show called..
• 02:11 Out of Dallas?
• 02:12 Out of Dallas called "The Heart of the Matter"
• 02:14 The "Heart" - [Hart]
• 02:16 And I was so taken by his ability to
• 02:18 speak to extemporaneous issues,
• 02:20 to speak to vital issues.
• 02:22 People would call in and he would have answers just like that.
• 02:24 And I said, this guy is so great I'd love to meet him one day.
• 02:26 So I called him and said, Zola, I've written this script.
• 02:29 Would you be the on-camera person for this?
• 02:32 He said, Sure!
• 02:34 Had he ever done TV before?
• 02:37 He'd never done TV before.
• 02:38 So he was just a radio man.
• 02:39 No, no no.
• 02:41 All this is a "God Thing", it really is as the story goes along.
• 02:44 And so in one day, just a couple of hours,
• 02:48 he knocked it out really well.
• 02:50 And we got to know each >>other pretty well during >>the course of that filming.
• 02:53 It was literally "film", 16 mm film at the time...
• 02:57 before video tape.
• 02:58 Soon thereafter in the course of doing that
• 03:01 that Channel 39 came to him at about that same time
• 03:05 and said, Zola, we have a one hour slot for a Christmas Special.
• 03:10 Would you like to be the host on this one hour TV Special?
• 03:14 And Zola came to me and said, Ken Channel 39...
• 03:18 the CBN network station at that time.
• 03:21 said, They've come to me. Would you like to produce this program?
• 03:24 I said, Why not? We had a great time with the WONDER MAN,
• 03:26 why not do this?
• 03:28 And we did.
• 03:29 We had a great time.
• 03:30 I even had Zola up on a rooftop putting up a star on top of his chimney
• 03:33 to the tune of "Fiddler on the Roof".
• 03:35 So that kind of launched our video time together.
• 03:41 It went very well.
• 03:44 And soon thereafter Zola came to me and said,
• 03:46 Well you know, that went so well, why don't we try this on a weekly basis?
• 03:50 And I've got to give all the credit to Zola
• 03:52 cause out of his own pocket he had to take the money, the funding
• 03:55 to get us rolling on the weekly program.
• 03:58 And it was soon thereafter,
• 04:01 after we had been on the air
• 04:03 maybe a couple months I think,
• 04:04 CBN Network came to us and said, We like what you're doing.
• 04:07 Kirsten - Out of Virginia Beach.
• 04:09 Out of Virginia Beach.
• 04:09 It was national.
• 04:11 They said, we'd like to air your program on our network.
• 04:14 So that's in fact how we started it.
• 04:17 The national following to this day
• 04:19 has been very important to us.
• 04:21 And some of the viewers can even remember those early days.
• 04:24 I hear from them occasionally,
• 04:26 saying, I remember when we started with Zola way back when.
• 04:28 Was there any other program out at that time doing what Zola did?
• 04:32 Not certainly in the way that we did it.
• 04:34 I think we were one of the first
• 04:36 where we would bring the Messianic teachings,
• 04:38 the Jewish roots of Christianity
• 04:41 and address it in a different way.
• 04:43 We would take Zola out on location
• 04:46 and put him in Biblical robes.
• 04:48 Nobody else was doing.
• 04:49 And He looked great with the beard.
• 04:51 And he was a musician.
• 04:53 And he loved music.
• 04:54 He was so proud of his music.
• 04:56 He'd write a new song...
• 04:57 Ken, I wrote this new song - what do you think of it?
• 04:59 I'd always say it was great and eventually
• 05:01 it would wind up being on the program.
• 05:03 Any idea how many songs?
• 05:04 Oh - hundreds, hundreds.
• 05:06 And to this day people enjoy
• 05:08 listening to his music.
• 05:09 We love it.
• 05:10 We do.
• 05:11 At this formative years I have to point this out
• 05:13 that Dr. Thomas McCall, a Christian Gentile,
• 05:19 was very important to the beginning of the ministry.
• 05:23 And I bring this up because
• 05:25 you being Christians and Gentiles
• 05:27 some people would say,
• 05:28 What's this all about?
• 05:30 Jewish and Gentile?
• 05:32 Well it was formative at these early years.
• 05:34 It was very important then.
• 05:36 And it remains important to this day.
• 05:38 Dr. Thomas McCall helped Zola write many of his books.
• 05:40 He went on location with us to Israel.
• 05:43 And we really did have a great time together.
• 05:47 We did musicals.
• 05:49 "Beloved Thief" and others.
• 05:50 And this carried on for 25 years.
• 05:53 It was a remarkable run that I cherish to this day.
• 05:57 David- We've loved watching some of
• 05:59 his videos of his teaching.
• 06:01 And we're just so sad that we didn't get to meet him
• 06:04 before he passed in 2006 I believe
• 06:06 from cancer - is that correct?
• 06:08 Yes, I believe that was the year.
• 06:09 I'm pretty bad on days, but I think that was correct.
• 06:11 And it left us wondering,
• 06:13 could this program really continue.
• 06:15 And thankfully, his wife, Sandra, came in and helped for a period of time,
• 06:21 just on her own.
• 06:22 Another Gentile Christian.
• 06:25 And soon thereafter,
• 06:28 Dr. Jeffrey Seif came in to help Sandra
• 06:31 in telling the stories.
• 06:33 We went to Israel together,
• 06:35 we went to Greece and so forth,
• 06:36 and continued the teaching of the Jewish roots of Christianity.
• 06:39 What's Jeff's background?
• 06:41 Jeff has been a professor of a number of Christian Universities - Institutes.
• 06:47 Christ for the Nations here in Dallas.
• 06:49 And we have worked together.
• 06:51 In fact, I did a series for Christ for the Nations many years ago and
• 06:56 understood his ability to communicate on camera.
• 07:00 And I said, Jeff, would you take over this program?
• 07:03 Just yourself, and carry on.
• 07:04 And he did.
• 07:05 Big shoes to fill.
• 07:06 Big shoes to fill.
• 07:08 So we had a great time together on a number of series.
• 07:10 We were in jeeps traveling around Israel together.
• 07:13 You can put us in jeeps.
• 07:15 We don't mind.
• 07:16 [all laughing]
• 07:17 That might happen.
• 07:18 That might happen in time.
• 07:20 How many times have you been to Israel?
• 07:22 I've been to Israel now 68 times.
• 07:25 WOW!
• 07:26 Unreal.
• 07:28 And you know, it's like going home for me every time.
• 07:30 I love it.
• 07:31 Personally, I'm not Jewish, I'm a Christian.
• 07:34 I was raised a "PK" as they >>say, a "Preacher's Kid".
• 07:37 Yes, me too.
• 07:39 And the fullness and the understanding
• 07:41 of the whole Messianic element
• 07:42 did not become real in my own life
• 07:44 until being around Zola and Jeff and those who followed.
• 07:47 And I'm still learning as you guys will be learning too.
• 07:50 How's you Hebrew?
• 07:52 Very bad.
• 07:54 I don't mean to put you on the spot.
• 07:56 There's no excuse after all these years
• 07:57 why I don't speak Hebrew.
• 07:59 Can you communicate in Israel?
• 08:00 I can find my way to the bathroom.
• 08:01 Nice!
• 08:02 " Ha Sherutim "
• 08:04 And I can order a cup of water.
• 08:06 As you know " Ken " in Hebrew means "Yes".
• 08:09 Which can be very problematic because
• 08:11 I think people are talking to me - and they are just saying "yes".
• 08:14 But I love going to Israel.
• 08:17 I really, really do.
• 08:19 So after Jeff Seif,
• 08:21 Katharine and Myles.
• 08:23 Katharine and Myles I had worked with
• 08:25 on another project for Rosemary Schindler,
• 08:27 the Schindler family.
• 08:29 We had done a video together over there.
• 08:31 And Katharine and Myles were on that tour.
• 08:35 And I saw that they too, just like Jeff
• 08:38 were able to communicate on camera so very well.
• 08:42 So I asked them after a period of time,
• 08:43 Katharine, Myles would you join us on the program
• 08:47 and be the hosts of the program
• 08:48 and travel to Israel?
• 08:49 And they said, Yeah.
• 08:50 And they welcomed it and they jumped on board
• 08:52 and did a great job
• 08:54 and I appreciate the time they spent with us.
• 08:55 Were they 6 years?
• 08:56 It was about 5 or 6 years.
• 08:57 And we still have them on now
• 09:00 Yes, yes, we'll continue to see repeats for awhile.
• 09:02 And we just so do appreciate to this day.
• 09:05 They have a Messianic Synagogue in the San Francisco area and
• 09:09 I would encourage anybody in that area
• 09:11 to visit their Synagogue
• 09:13 and see Myles and Katharine.
• 09:14 Can I say this also,
• 09:16 that every time that we see a video in each program
• 09:20 which are so great...
• 09:22 Every video that you do from Israel with the Jewish actors,
• 09:26 that's Ken producing those.
• 09:28 They're so good.
• 09:30 How do you put all of that group together
• 09:32 and they're so good in their acting?
• 09:35 Well, thank you so much.
• 09:37 It's got to come from the Lord.
• 09:39 I don't pat myself on the back saying
• 09:41 how great this or that was or whatever.
• 09:46 I have a great team
• 09:47 that's with me even here in the studio with me today.
• 09:50 And the Lord just brought all the pieces together miraculously.
• 09:52 Hosts, such as yourself
• 09:54 and the crew members here as well as in Israel
• 09:57 just kind of show up at our door.
• 09:59 What you have done, what you do
• 10:01 especially with the dramatic videos.
• 10:04 And they're not videos but
• 10:05 presentations, reenactments.
• 10:07 That sets this program apart.
• 10:09 So this is who has done all of that.
• 10:11 Bravo!
• 10:12 Well thank you.
• 10:14 We've not stopped.
• 10:16 Because after Myles and Katharine
• 10:17 now we have David and Kirsten Hart.
• 10:20 And we thank you so much for...
• 10:22 We're honored.
• 10:23 Very much so.
• 10:25 You know, it really is a God thing.
• 10:28 I go back to this Jewish Christian element for those
• 10:32 who wonder at home, Well why are you doing this Christian element?
• 10:36 It was here from the very beginning with Dr. Tom McCall,
• 10:40 Sandra Levitt comes in,
• 10:41 I myself a Christian,
• 10:43 and you know we're all learning together.
• 10:46 You look at the Gospels for instance.
• 10:48 It's all the same story about Yeshua.
• 10:50 But you got Matthew, Mark, Luke, John...
• 10:54 All these different aspects,
• 10:55 different perspectives
• 10:57 of who this Messiah was.
• 10:59 So that's what we're doing.
• 11:00 We're taking different elements.
• 11:02 We will continue to have this Messianic teaching
• 11:04 from those in Israel who...
• 11:06 And that's our passion also.
• 11:08 Yeah!
• 11:09 We love it!
• 11:09 It's so rich.
• 11:10 I mean we are learning so much.
• 11:12 And our eyes have been opened so much more.
• 11:14 I come from a background like
• 11:15 you did, as a Pastor's son.
• 11:18 And we thought we knew it all about the Bible.
• 11:20 But our eyes even as we learn and
• 11:22 we are dedicated right now to this program
• 11:24 and learning more about Zola Levitt and how he taught.
• 11:28 But our eyes have been opened and
• 11:30 we love the teaching that we've experienced.
• 11:32 Once you get a taste of it, at least for myself,
• 11:34 you just want to know more...
• 11:36 you want to know more.
• 11:37 Because the New Testament takes on such new life
• 11:39 when you understand the types and shadows
• 11:42 of Yeshua in the Old Testament.
• 11:44 And so I'm learning to this very day.
• 11:47 So the Messianic element will continue
• 11:51 on this program perhaps even more so.
• 11:54 We're going into a little bit more of a "Magazine" format
• 11:58 to include multiple Messianic teachers.
• 12:01 But all Yeshua again is always the center of what we are doing.
• 12:05 Right - great people who will be teaching.
• 12:07 Absolutely.
• 12:08 We're excited to meet them
• 12:09 and to hang with them in Israel.
• 12:10 Absolutely - Yeah.
• 12:12 Thank you again for joining us.
• 12:14 Thank you Ken.
• 12:15 Now coming up
• 12:16 Wayne Fornier will be with us in the studio.
• 12:19 He will be asking David and me about our stories.
• 12:21 That's coming up.
• 12:24 We live in a topsy turvy world where news events
• 12:27 are sometimes twisted often leading to untruth.
• 12:31 Here at Zola Levitt Presents we believe it's
• 12:33 important to tell the truth of God's Word, the bible,
• 12:36 and we believe it should be proclaimed to
• 12:39 Israel and the nations.
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• 12:46 Thank you.
• 12:54 For many a trip to the Holy Land is the dream of a lifetime.
• 12:58 The bible truly comes alive as you see the sites
• 13:02 where so many biblical events happened; where the
• 13:05 teaching is always from a Messianic perspective.
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• 13:25 Wayne Fournier is in the studio with us now and
• 13:28 I think we're about to have some questions.
• 13:30 You're exactly right.
• 13:31 You know earlier the two of you were interviewing
• 13:33 Ken Berg, the executive producer of Zola Levitt Presents
• 13:36 asking him all sorts of questions.
• 13:38 We did.
• 13:39 Well, now it's time to turn the tables.
• 13:40 Uh oh, here we go.
• 13:41 And that's why I'm here exactly.
• 13:43 Kirsten, I'd like to begin with you first.
• 13:45 The last time we were together you were telling
• 13:47 me and all of us how you came to faith in God and in Jesus.
• 13:50 I want to explore a little bit more about the Jewish roots.
• 13:54 When did you become involved?
• 13:56 Well, I grew up in the east, the east coast.
• 13:59 Born in New York and raised in New Jersey.
• 14:01 I went to public school.
• 14:03 There were synagogues on every corner.
• 14:05 Here in Dallas there are churches on every corner.
• 14:08 Back east there are synagogues on every corner.
• 14:10 So it wasn't foreign to me.
• 14:12 I went to school with a girl that was Jewish.
• 14:16 She was one of my best friends.
• 14:18 I see.
• 14:19 I remember going to her house around Passover time.
• 14:22 I walked in and the whole house was covered in foil.
• 14:26 That was new to me.
• 14:27 I'd never seen anything like that before and realized...
• 14:29 You know, now, I understand that they were
• 14:32 cleaning all the leaven out of the house.
• 14:34 So I grew up going to Seders.
• 14:37 It wasn't foreign and it was something that I loved.
• 14:41 My parents, I was just talking to them,
• 14:43 and my Mom said, "Oh my gosh, we loved watching Zola Levitt!"
• 14:46 back in the 70's and early 80's.
• 14:49 Uh huh.
• 14:50 So it's not foreign to me.
• 14:52 It's very comfortable.
• 14:54 And I love the Jewish lifestyle.
• 14:56 You grew up around Jewish friends in New Jersey.
• 14:57 I did.
• 14:58 Yeah.
• 15:00 A lot of us, when we find ourselves
• 15:01 in a situation like you just described,
• 15:03 we don't necessarily ask questions
• 15:05 especially when we're younger.
• 15:07 I don't know if you asked many questions of your
• 15:09 Jewish friend when you were a teenager.
• 15:11 I didn't.
• 15:12 I remember thinking - that's really weird
• 15:14 to have a whole house filled with foil,
• 15:16 but she explained a little of it and I thought - Okay,
• 15:18 that's just they did.
• 15:21 So you saw Judaism as a separate religion from Christianity,
• 15:24 which it is,
• 15:26 but you never really thought about the fact
• 15:28 that Christianity came out of Judaism.
• 15:30 I didn't think it applied to me.
• 15:32 I understood what they were doing and it was
• 15:36 kind of like, well, that's what they do
• 15:38 and we do something different.
• 15:40 I know that sounds horrible,
• 15:41 but so many of us have been raised that way
• 15:44 and taught that that's for the Jewish people
• 15:46 and this is for the Christians.
• 15:48 We didn't even have the word "gentile."
• 15:50 It wasn't even in, do you know what I mean?
• 15:52 It wasn't even in my vocabulary.
• 15:54 It was Christians and Jewish people
• 15:56 and there was a separation.
• 15:59 Is that horrible?
• 16:00 Not really.
• 16:01 When did you come to think of it differently though?
• 16:04 When did you say to yourself, I want to know
• 16:06 more about the Jewish roots of Christianity?
• 16:08 I attended Bible College back in 1984.
• 16:12 That will date me.
• 16:13 I'm fifty-one.
• 16:14 There, there world, I'm fifty-one.
• 16:16 And proud of it.
• 16:17 I love it!
• 16:19 But when I went to Bible College,
• 16:20 one of my first classes
• 16:22 I had a professor and he told us, he said...
• 16:25 And this was literally the first class.
• 16:27 He said, "I want you to forget about everything that you've learned.
• 16:31 Everything that a bible teacher or Sunday school
• 16:35 teacher or your pastor taught you, wipe it clean.
• 16:38 The slate is clean."
• 16:40 At first I thought, that's horrible!
• 16:41 Who does that?
• 16:42 That's just against what I believe in.
• 16:45 And he said, "Wipe it clean, because now I want you to
• 16:48 build your faith on what you have learned.
• 16:52 Not what someone else has taught you,
• 16:53 what you have learned
• 16:55 and what you have walked through in your life.
• 16:57 Read through the bible..."
• 16:58 I mean it was just kind of an
• 17:00 eat-it-up-and-digest-it
• 17:02 and then know why I believe what I believe.
• 17:06 That was a wonderful foundation to learn more
• 17:10 about our Jewish heritage and our roots.
• 17:13 I bet you read the bible with new eyes.
• 17:15 I did, and I fell asleep on it a lot, too.
• 17:17 [laughing]
• 17:19 When you read through Old Testament Leviticus
• 17:22 sometimes you fall asleep.
• 17:24 It's wonderful, but you can get sleepy.
• 17:26 But I learned so much.
• 17:29 Our first trip to Israel opened my eyes to learn
• 17:33 more about truth.
• 17:36 Things that we have been taught here in Christianity,
• 17:39 and it's wonderful, in our churches,
• 17:41 but we've been taught by so many people
• 17:44 that don't have a Jewish perspective
• 17:46 and that have never been to Israel.
• 17:48 Walking those streets opened my eyes to oh,
• 17:53 there is so much more.
• 17:54 So the things that we've learned are off.
• 17:58 When you combine it with the Jewish knowledge,
• 18:02 then it comes together and makes sense.
• 18:04 You have had quite a journey, Kirsten Hart.
• 18:06 It's just beginning.
• 18:08 We're glad to have you here with Zola Levitt Presents.
• 18:10 Thank you.
• 18:11 Ok, thank you.
• 18:13 Well, we're coming right back with David Hart, but
• 18:15 right now we want to show you something from our
• 18:17 popular prophecy series, "Times of the Signs."
• 18:20 We have a preview for you.
• 18:22 So let's take a look.
• 19:13 And yet today we see incredible tension as the
• 19:16 story of the Hebraic Messiah, the Jewish story,
• 19:21 the history of Bethlehem is being re-written and
• 19:24 re-interpreted in order to fit into a new version of Replacement Theology.
• 19:30 The number of Christians that are turning against Israel in foolishness.
• 19:33 Yes.
• 19:34 And they're heeding the devil's message.
• 19:36 Because God has still kept His promise.
• 19:40 The nation that blesses Israel is going to be blessed.
• 19:46 One and a half percent of Europe is born again Christians.
• 19:52 That's shocking.
• 19:53 When I shared that recently with a friend from the U.K.
• 19:56 he said, "One and a half >>percent might be generous."
• 19:58 I was going to say, that's an exaggeration, right?
• 20:00 So, that's just incredible.
• 20:03 It's so hard for us to comprehend that.
• 20:05 So you have an anti-Semitic group
• 20:07 and you have a continent that's void of a personal,
• 20:12 intimate relationship with the Messiah, Jesus of Israel.
• 20:18 Hello and welcome back.
• 20:19 We're in the studio with David and Kirsten Hart,
• 20:22 the new hosts of the Zola Levitt Presents show.
• 20:25 We just finished speaking with your wife and
• 20:27 learning about her, David, and I wanted to ask you
• 20:30 a little bit about your growing up and coming to
• 20:32 faith in Christ, in Yeshua.
• 20:35 Tell us about that.
• 20:36 Sure.
• 20:37 I grew up in southern California.
• 20:39 At a young age, I believe I was two years old, when
• 20:43 my pastor, who's also my father
• 20:46 and my musical mother would have me...
• 20:48 You're a preacher's kid?
• 20:49 Yes.
• 20:50 They would have me standing on a chair in between them.
• 20:54 I can remember...
• 20:55 I don't know if I remember, but I think
• 20:57 I have a picture of me at two years old standing on
• 21:00 a chair singing gospel music with them.
• 21:03 Now I'm glad you mentioned that, because music is a
• 21:06 big part of your ministry, your life.
• 21:09 It is my life.
• 21:10 Any you're bringing that to this ministry.
• 21:12 Tell us about that please.
• 21:14 Well, let's see, growing up in a pastor's home
• 21:17 my dad was not only a pastor, but he sings.
• 21:20 Actually I'm wondering if he's singing in heaven now.
• 21:23 He is in heaven.
• 21:25 His first minister of music way back in the what?
• 21:29 50's?
• 21:31 60's possible?
• 21:33 I wasn't even born then.
• 21:34 [laughing]
• 21:36 I believe it was the 60's,
• 21:38 was a guy by the name of Bill Gaither that some of you may know.
• 21:41 I've heard that name.
• 21:42 And let's see, his piano player, our accompanist
• 21:45 every week was Sandy Patty.
• 21:47 So I grew up with some really great musicians.
• 21:50 So you learned a thing or two about music?
• 21:51 I did.
• 21:53 At an early age.
• 21:54 And you sing now.
• 21:55 I do sing now.
• 21:57 I love singing Zola's songs.
• 21:58 We're going to be hearing from you singing later on
• 22:01 I believe in this show and certainly that's something
• 22:04 that you do bring to the ministry.
• 22:06 How has learning about the Jewish roots of your
• 22:08 Christianity and bringing that together with your music,
• 22:11 how do you see that impacting what
• 22:15 you have to say now on this show?
• 22:17 I've got to say this, too, that our son living in Israel
• 22:20 is learning so much about his Jewish roots
• 22:24 and we want to learn also
• 22:27 that he doesn't know more than we do.
• 22:29 [laughter]
• 22:30 That may be hard to do since he lives there.
• 22:32 That's right.
• 22:33 I know Zola's songs talk so much about Jewish roots
• 22:36 and we're loving bringing his songs back.
• 22:38 Well good.
• 22:39 Let's hear it now.
• 22:41 Here it is - David Hart with "Yeshua."
• 22:45 ♪ Yeshua You came unto our fathers ♪
• 22:51 ♪ Yeshua You came to us alone ♪
• 22:57 ♪ Yeshua the lost sheep of Israel ♪
• 23:03 ♪ Yeshua You came unto our own ♪
• 23:10 ♪ Yeshua the lost sheep of Israel ♪
• 23:16 ♪ Yeshua You came unto our own ♪
• 23:31 ♪ For we like sheep have gone astray ♪
• 23:38 ♪ Everyone to his own way ♪
• 23:43 ♪ You alone took the blame ♪
• 23:49 ♪ And now we ask in Your holy Name ♪
• 23:56 ♪ For we like sheep have gone astray ♪
• 24:02 ♪ Everyone to his own way ♪
• 24:08 ♪ You alone took the blame ♪
• 24:14 ♪ And now we ask in Your holy Name ♪
• 24:26 David Hart - "Yeshua"
• 24:27 I know that Zola would be pleased.
• 24:29 And we're honored.
• 24:30 Thank you.
• 24:32 Our new series titled, "Called Together" is coming soon
• 24:36 and it's still being edited.
• 24:38 We'd love to give you a sneak peek.
• 24:40 Here it is.
• 24:46 When I discovered this story I was really quite
• 24:50 astounded to find the degree of cooperation that
• 24:54 existed between King Solomon and King Hiram.
• 24:58 As a matter of fact, it was right along this bay,
• 25:01 these waters are where Hiram brought cedar trees
• 25:05 from Lebanon all the way to Jerusalem
• 25:07 to help build the temple.
• 25:10 This is the story that's found in 1 Kings 5,
• 25:12 and it starts with an amazing statement.
• 25:15 Here we are in Judea and Samaria, what some call
• 25:18 "The West Bank" in what the United Nations calls a "settlement."
• 25:22 Yes, this is the very place where Abraham, Isaac
• 25:24 and Jacob lived, dug their wells, planted their vineyards.
• 25:27 This is right where the sun once stood still,
• 25:30 where the walls of Jericho fell.
• 25:32 This is the very place that I was married,
• 25:35 not far away from there the Tabernacle rested for 369 years.
• 25:39 When us Jewish people get married we step on what we
• 25:42 call the Cup of Covenant much like this and we seal the deal.
• 25:48 Since 1998 after Rwandan Genocide
• 25:53 we were praying, seeking the peace of Rwanda.
• 25:57 Then in our prayer the Lord speak to us
• 26:02 to pray for Jerusalem if we want to have a peace in our country.
• 26:07 It was a little complicated.
• 26:09 We say, how can we pray for Jerusalem, Israel
• 26:12 when we have problems in Rwanda?
• 26:15 We come from the Genocide
• 26:17 and many people could not believe that.
• 26:20 Shalom
• 26:21 Ma nishma
• 26:23 Ma nishma !
• 26:26 When you meet somebody who
• 26:28 speaks Hebrew for the 1st time
• 26:29 you don't be scared
• 26:31 or like, be very polite.
• 26:33 You just be friendly.
• 26:35 And probably that would be an ice breaker.
• 26:36 ma nishma
• 26:38 What's up?
• 26:40 We think you're going to love our new series
• 26:43 "Called Together"
• 26:44 It's a brand new format.
• 26:45 More kind of Magazine Style.
• 26:48 And every week we'll have our friend, Eitan Shishkoff
• 26:52 from Israel present the "meat",
• 26:54 the Messianic Teaching
• 26:56 which is so good.
• 26:57 We also love Chaim Malespin
• 26:59 who is on location in Israel.
• 27:01 He was an IDF soldier.
• 27:02 Yes
• 27:03 He's strong and also he has
• 27:04 wonderful insight into the bible.
• 27:06 Oh, and we also have...
• 27:08 Every program will have a Hebrew Lesson.
• 27:11 Can't wait for that.
• 27:12 It's going to be great!
• 27:13 We love to end our program
• 27:14 with this prayer,
• 27:15 Sha alu' Shalom Yerushalayim
• 27:17 Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem.
• 27:21 Our monthly Newsletter the Levitt Letter
• 27:23 is free and full of insightful articles
• 27:26 and news commentary from a Messianic perspective.
• 27:29 Visit levitt.com to find our Newsletter
• 27:32 along with current and past programs,
• 27:34 our television schedule,
• 27:36 and much more.
• 27:37 Don't forget to order this week's resource
• 27:40 by calling 1-800-WONDERS
• 27:43 or you can purchase it from our store at levitt.com
• 27:47 Your donations to Zola Levitt Ministries
• 27:49 help these organizations bless Israel.