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Episode: “2018: The year ahead”

From the Mount of Olives, a sneak peek at what’s coming in 2018.

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Caption transcript for “2018: The year ahead”

00:05 Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel
00:09 is that they might be saved,
00:12 for there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek,
00:15 for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon Him.
00:29 Shalom, Haverim Friends from the beautiful City of Jerusalem.
00:33 I am David Hart.
00:34 This is my wife Kirsten Hart,
00:36 and we are excited about the plans
00:38 that we have for 2018.
00:41 Some exciting things in store for you.
00:43 Zola Levitt was the pioneer, and
00:45 he started almost 40 years ago.
00:48 We promise you that we're going to continue
00:51 great Messianic teaching.
00:54 Next week on Zola Levitt Presents
00:57 we will continue our encore series,
00:59 "Esther, for Such a Time as This", with Dr. Jeffery Seif.
01:03 Now, let's go take a look.
02:07 The people of Israel live,
02:10 not to say there are not forces bent
02:12 on trying to see that we don't,
02:14 but we do.
02:16 And the reason why we live is cause God lives.
02:18 That's the reason why we sing a song,
02:20 Jews that is, from here in Israel,
02:22 and all over the world,
02:24 Am Yisrael Chai "The People of Israel Live"
02:28 Well the story of the book of Esther
02:30 takes place against the backdrop of someone
02:33 endeavoring to see that we don't live.
02:35 You can recall there's Haman,
02:38 something of a wicked sort
02:40 bent on destroying the Jewish people.
02:43 He hated Mordecai,
02:45 and not just Mordecai,
02:47 but by extension, all Jews everywhere,
02:51 and he utilized his influence to
02:54 enact a scheme to annihilate the Jews,
02:59 and so dispatched from the capital of Shushan
03:02 were couriers that took messages
03:04 all over this vast Media Persian Empire,
03:09 extending from India on the one hand
03:11 all the way to Ethiopia on the other.
03:15 Jews were scattered about but it was decreed into law,
03:19 that a day would be set aside to destroy the Jewish people.
03:25 Seems however that difficulties in the world aside,
03:28 God always has His own.
03:31 In the book of Esther we're told there was a fellow, Mordecai,
03:35 who pushed his charge forward.
03:38 Her name was Hadassah , in Hebrew,
03:40 who not just because of her beauty,
03:43 but because of an inner beauty,
03:45 she had something a little extra,
03:46 and she caught the attention of a King named Xeres.
03:51 The net result is that she becomes Queen,
03:53 and then when in the empire Haman enacts
03:57 his scheme to destroy the Jews,
04:00 she's well placed to utilize her influence
04:03 to do something about it.
04:06 Oh, I'm reminded of when Mordecai petitions her,
04:09 "Please dear, you have to",
04:11 and she says, "I can't, I can't",
04:13 but then, she's reminded that she had come into the kingdom
04:17 for such a time as this.
04:21 As we wait for the day when your feet will split the Mount of Olives,
04:26 when every knee is going to bow,
04:29 ♪ before the Holy One of Jacob ♪
04:33 ♪ Tremble O Earth ♪
04:36 ♪ at the presence of the Lord!♪
04:40 ♪ Tremble, O Nations ♪
04:42 ♪ before the God of Israel ♪
04:46 ♪ Tremble, O Earth ♪
04:49 ♪ at the presence of the Lord ♪
04:53 ♪ Tremble O Nations ♪
04:55 ♪ before the Holy One of Jacob ♪
04:59 Tremble O Earth ♪
05:03 ♪ at the presence of the Lord ♪
05:06 ♪ Tremble, O Nations ♪
05:09 ♪ before the God of Israel ♪
05:13 ♪ Tremble, O Earth ♪
05:16 ♪ at the presence of the Lord ♪
05:19 ♪ Tremble, O Nations ♪
05:21 ♪ before the Holy One of Jacob ♪
05:30 The people sing, ♪ Tremble, O Earth ♪
05:31 ♪ before the Holy One ♪
05:33 Repeat
05:35 ♪ before the Holy One ♪
05:41 ♪ before the Holy One of Jacob ♪♪
05:53 One of the things so unique
05:55 to Zola Levitt Presents
05:56 is our dramatic reenactments
05:58 where we use authentic Israeli actors.
06:02 And I just have to tell you that there's
06:03 no way that we could do this without your support
06:06 so we want to thank you for that.
06:07 We will also continue
06:09 to bring you Bible prophecy each week.
06:13 A new series this year in 2018 is titled
06:16 "Watch Therefore"
06:18 which is based in Matthew 24.
06:20 Our Messianic teacher for this series is Dov Schwarz.
06:24 He and his family live up in the Galilee,
06:26 up in the northern part of Israel,
06:29 and his family made Aliyah to this country
06:31 just a few years ago.
06:33 David, would you read parts of Matthew 24 for us?
06:36 We start at verse 36 where it says,
07:22 And now let's go to Dove with a preview
07:24 of this series, "Watch Therefore"
07:29 Messiah, Jesus is speaking in Matthew 24.
07:33 He's answering the questions of his disciples,
07:36 What will be the sign of your coming in the end of the age,
07:39 the Messianic age, when will that be,
07:41 and what will the signs of that be?
07:43 And the Lord talks to them about things like wars and rumors of wars,
07:46 things that will happen down through the ages,
07:48 that don't necessarily have anything to do
07:50 with the birth pains leading up to the birth of Israel,
07:53 and the return of the Messiah, Jesus,
07:55 but then there's a shift,
07:57 there's a shift in Matthew 24 beginning in verse 7,
08:01 "For nation will rise up against nation".
08:03 You know really in Greek that says "ethnos",
08:06 "ethnic" group will rise up against ethnic group,
08:09 and kingdom against kingdom.
08:11 And there will be famines, pestilences,
08:13 and earthquakes in various places.
08:15 All these are the beginning of birth pangs.
08:18 Our Messiah Yeshua tells us in Matthew Chapter 24 that
08:23 as it was in the days of Noah,
08:26 so will it be with the coming of the Son of Man.
08:32 There are characteristics in Noah's day that can help us understand
08:38 the generation that will see the coming of the Son of Man.
08:42 As this generation's characteristics will work in concert with
08:46 the birth pains and also the fig tree, Israel, blossoming.
08:54 Israel, the fig tree, is blossoming all around us.
08:57 You may even hear the sounds of construction.
09:00 Everywhere you go in Israel there's building and expansion.
09:03 That's because we're the fig tree generation.
09:05 And I spoke a little while about the
09:07 generation being a hundred years.
09:09 We find that out from the father of our faith, Father Abraham
09:13 in Genesis, chapter 15.
09:15 And in Genesis 15 as we understand
09:18 that this is the fig tree generation
09:22 we know that we need to be ready,
09:24 because Messiah Yeshua told us,
09:26 this generation will not pass away til all these things take place.
09:30 What "all things"?
09:33 All the trouble that is coming in the "Great Tribulation",
09:36 and the coming of Messiah Yeshua to sit on the throne of David.
09:40 The Messianic Age,
09:41 this time is winding down folks.
09:44 The world is the edge of World War III today.
09:49 Famine, there's more hungry people in this planet
09:51 than have ever been in the history of the world.
09:54 Diseases, pestilences that often come from animals,
09:58 "Bird Flu", "Pig Flu", HIV, AIDS,
10:02 tuberculosis, malaria,
10:04 and much, much more,
10:06 the "Zika" virus that we're hearing so much about today.
10:08 Now the pestilences are like never before.
10:11 I get this question, brother Perkins,
10:12 how do you know that that Bible is the correct book?
10:16 What about the Quran?
10:17 What about the Book of Mormon?
10:19 How do you know that Bible is the correct one?
10:21 The way we know that is because of the prophetic Word.
10:24 We have a Bible that's been written centuries old,
10:28 but it's like reading a current day newspaper.
10:31 You know, this proves to me the validity of this book,
10:34 This Word of God is true.
10:36 And again, as we see those indicators we know that it's true.
10:39 We've got an uphill battle because we
10:41 live in a sound bite, Tweeting culture,
10:46 but if we can encourage people to get back in the Word of God,
10:50 it really does mold and shape you.
10:52 The Bible is the "lamp to our feet and the light to our path.
10:54 It's the only standard for our beliefs, attitudes and practices.
10:57 It's the stake in the ground
10:59 in a very shifting world.
11:02 God said, Zechariah 14,
11:04 as soon as the Jewish people accept the Messiah
11:08 and say, Baruch haba b'shem Adonai
11:10 all the cursing in the earth will turn to blessing.
11:14 Can you imagine?
11:15 Look at all the cursing,
11:17 tornados and all that stuff.
11:18 Everything is going to be turned to blessing.
11:21 We can't even imagine what that's going to be like,
11:24 and it's key to the Jewish people accepting that Messiah,
11:27 and they're gathering in the Land,
11:28 and that's where they're going to see Him.
11:31 He's waiting to return to Jerusalem
11:34 to build a Temple,
11:36 a glorious new Temple.
11:38 You Can find it in Ezekiel 40 thru 48.
11:42 And then He will enter into the Eastern Gate of that Temple.
11:46 It's in Ezekiel 43,
11:48 where the Prophet Ezekiel sees the Glory of Adonai
11:52 coming through the Eastern Gate.
11:54 And what does he then do?
11:56 He sits upon His glorious throne,
12:00 the Throne of David in Jerusalem.
12:03 But later, the Apostle Paul is out with the Gospel in the nations,
12:06 and he explains to the Thessalonians
12:09 and other the times and seasons,
12:11 and he says this in I Thessalonians Chapter 5, he says,
12:14 that if you don't understand the season,
12:17 and the generation of the Day of the Lord,
12:19 that you'll walk in darkness,
12:22 that you'll walk in darkness,
12:23 so don't walk in darkness in this generation.
12:26 King Yeshua is coming!
12:28 And we need to be ready.
12:30 He says, Watch therefore and be ready.
12:33 He repeats it in Matthew 24,
12:35 Mark 13, Luke 21.
12:38 He repeats, Watch therefore and be ready.
12:39 Are you ready?
12:41 Are you ready for the coming of our Great King?
12:46 Thank you Dov for that message.
12:48 We too anticipate the soon return of Christ.
12:52 We are here on the Mount of Olives
12:55 where Yeshua, Jesus Himself soon will return once again.
13:01 What an exciting event it will be.
13:04 Also in 2018 we are bringing back Eitan Shishkoff
13:09 in a special encore presentation of "Called Together".
13:13 Eitan lives here in Israel and
13:15 taught from right here in the Holy Land about
13:18 the 2 Olive Branches coming together,
13:21 the Jew and the Gentile working in unison.
13:25 Now, let's hear an excerpt.
13:27 Here's Eitan Shishkoff.
13:39 Olive oil was an essential commodity in biblical Israel,
13:43 and along with its many commercial uses
13:47 it was also, of course you know, as people literate in the Bible,
13:51 it was used as the substance to anoint
13:54 prophets and priests and kings.
13:57 But among those it was the Priesthood
14:00 that received really the most attention
14:02 in the early books of the Bible.
14:04 I want to read to you from the book of Exodus
14:06 something that speaks of to me, of the heart
14:09 of what it means to be a Priest.
14:11 Now, we have to separate,
14:12 we're talking now about the Hebrew Priests in Israel,
14:16 not modern Priests of various Christian denominations.
14:29 So this was that heavy breastplate
14:31 with the 12 stones that represented the Tribes of Israel.
14:47 This is really the meaning of intercession,
14:49 is we take the need of other people,
14:51 and we bring it before the Lord
14:53 in Priestly intercession.
14:55 Welcome to Mount Moriah.
14:57 Welcome to Mount Zion.
14:58 Welcome to the very closest wall we can get to
15:00 to where the Temple stood.
15:01 Jews and Gentiles from all nations are here,
15:04 children, adults,
15:05 they're putting their prayers on those papers,
15:07 and they're putting them on that wall
15:09 because they believe that God will hear their prayer and answer it.
15:11 You know, it says in I Peter, Chapter 2,
15:14 it says, I lay in Zion the Cornerstone,
15:16 and it goes on,
15:17 that Cornerstone that was rejected by the builders
15:19 has become the chief Cornerstone.
15:21 And we're seeing people from Finland,
15:23 people from Denmark,
15:24 from U.S. Canada,
15:25 everywhere, praying here because why?
15:28 God placed His Name here.
15:30 There's very good teaching in the New Testament
15:32 as to why Christians, Gentiles who
15:35 accepted Jesus as the Messiah,
15:37 how they should relate to the Jewish people
15:39 and the nation of Israel.
15:41 First of all, they shouldn't be ignorant of the mystery,
15:42 they shouldn't be arrogant towards them,
15:44 they shouldn't think that they were removed from the tree so that
15:47 Christians could replace them,
15:48 or something like that.
15:50 Romans 11 is very clear
15:51 and it brings us to a place of mercy,
15:53 that it's as if God has been waiting
15:55 to see the fruit of the Gospel in the Gentiles,
15:58 which is understanding that Israel has a gift
16:01 and calling that can never be revoked
16:03 which will result in life from the dead for the world.
16:05 There's an amazing chapter in the Old Testament
16:07 that gives us a very similar picture
16:09 and that's in Isaiah 49.
16:10 Christians understand Isaiah 49 is speaking
16:13 about the Gospel going to the nations,
16:15 and you get to verse 12
16:17 and it says,
16:21 Then Zion comes back into the picture and says,
16:28 and then he goes on
16:29 as if he's proving to Israel,
16:31 establishing the case about his love for Israel that
16:34 can never be forgotten,
16:36 and how he will prove that to them,
16:37 and how he says later on,
16:38 I will raise my hand to the Gentiles...
16:56 That is the promise there,
16:58 and what is the call to the Gentiles there?
16:59 It's a love that is unusual.
17:01 My name is Estera Wieja
17:03 and I come from Poland.
17:05 Already when I was living in Poland
17:07 I was studying the Scriptures,
17:09 and as I was getting deeper into God's Word
17:12 I started discovering not only God's love
17:16 for the Jewish people,
17:17 but also the holidays that Jews celebrate,
17:19 and as I was reading the Bible I realize
17:22 that God calls those holidays "His Feasts",
17:25 and so we started studying more and more
17:28 in our church and in our Bible Study,
17:30 and somewhere in the process of that
17:33 I felt like the Holy Spirit was telling me,
17:35 "Now I want you to get to know my people.
17:37 And so that was a clear message to me
17:40 that I need to come to Israel,
17:42 and get to know the Jewish people here.
17:45 There's something that's happening in our generation
17:47 that hasn't happened before,
17:50 and that something is the completion of God's plan.
17:54 Let me explain.
17:56 It's only in this generation that there
17:58 have been thousands of Jewish people
18:00 who've come to faith in Jesus, as Jews.
18:04 Really until this generation,
18:06 if a Jewish person wanted to believe in Jesus, that was fine,
18:09 but he had to convert to Christianity.
18:11 Now, what's really amazing an ironic is
18:13 that in the 1st Century the question was exactly the reverse.
18:16 I mean, these guys back in the book of Acts,
18:19 they said, well we're not sure,
18:21 can the Gentiles actually be saved
18:22 without converting to Judaism?
18:24 They decided, yes.
18:26 But in the 21st Century for many,
18:29 the question is exactly the reverse,
18:31 Can a Jewish person be saved and come to a knowledge of God
18:35 without converting to Christianity?
18:37 Of course, I think my viewers know
18:40 that it all began in Israel,
18:42 but it's also going to end in Israel.
18:45 Yet, no one has been left out of God's story
18:48 as we've been speaking about in the previous weeks.
18:52 What I want to emphasize, right now as we conclude,
18:56 is that our friendship in the Lord is something
18:59 that causes a mutual humility,
19:02 a mutual respect,
19:03 a mutual appreciation,
19:06 and by that, we demonstrate to the world that
19:09 Jesus really is the Messiah
19:10 because He did day, by the love that you have for one another
19:14 all of the world will know.
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22:00 In 2018 we will bring you a new series by Messianic Teacher, Marty Waldman,
22:06 a series on the Book of Isaiah.
22:09 Let's go to a preview right now.
22:13 Here we are on the Mount of Olives,
22:16 in the area somewhere of the Garden of Gethsemene
22:19 just across the valley
22:22 looking at the Eastern Wall and the Eastern Gate,
22:25 and the Temple Mount, where the Temple
22:27 once stood and will stand again.
22:30 I want to look a little bit more at the "remez", at the "hint"
22:33 behind Isaiah's words in Isaiah 11,
22:37 but foundationally what the Prophet is speaking about
22:42 is bringing the "Shoot of Jesse", the "Shoot of Yishai ",
22:47 here's some shoots right here coming up from this olive tree,
22:50 reviving the kingdom of David.
22:54 But beyond that, He's speaking prophetically
22:58 about the coming of the Messiah.
22:59 King David has come and gone.
23:02 Now, we're talking about one of his descendants,
23:05 who will be the Messianic hope of Israel,
23:08 and the Deliverer ultimately of all the nations of the earth.
23:13 Continuing on from the steps which are behind me,
23:16 the very steps that Yeshua walked as
23:19 he was being brought to trial at Caiaphas' house.
23:22 We're looking at Isaiah 53,
23:25 having discussed Isaiah's prophetic word
23:28 about the Messiah's death,
23:30 about His suffering,
23:32 and now, about His Resurrection.
23:35 Look, Isaiah 53 was written
23:38 700 years before Yeshua was even born.
23:41 That's what makes these words so profound and so prophetic.
23:45 In Isaiah Chapter 40, verse 5, we read...
23:54 This "Glory", this "Glory of the Lord being revealed",
23:57 is something that has been hidden.
23:59 In fact, this Hebrew word "revealed" is also found in
24:02 Deuteronomy, Chapter 29, verse 29
24:05 where it says...
24:13 I believe Isaiah is prophetic here
24:18 even though he may not know who he's speaking about,
24:21 which is verified in the New Testament,
24:24 but is being prophetic in terms of speaking
24:27 about the "Son of Man", the "Son of God",
24:28 the "Messiah" - "Yeshua".
24:31 The Glory of the Lord will appear,
24:32 as we see in John, Chapter 1, Verse 14
24:35 when the Son of Man took on flesh,
24:39 the Word of God took on flesh,
24:42 and the Glory of the Lord was revealed to everyone.
24:49 ♪ For Zion's sake, I will not keep silent ♪
24:52 ♪ For Jerusalem I'll pray. ♪
24:55 ♪ For Zion's sake will my heart be burdened ♪
25:00 ♪ In my spirit I will say, ♪
25:03 ♪ He came to us and to all the nations ♪
25:07 ♪ He came that we might all be One ♪
25:10 ♪ For Zion's sake, I will not keep silent ♪
25:14 ♪ For Zion's sake I'll preach the Son ♪
25:18 ♪ Hear O Israel, the Lord our God is One ♪
25:25 ♪ He gave to us His Law ♪
25:29 ♪ He gave to us His Son ♪
25:32 ♪ Moriah, on Moriah ♪
25:36 ♪ He gave His only Son ♪
25:40 ♪ Moriah, on Moriah ♪
25:43 The Sacrifice is done ♪♪
25:50 Because of your financial support
25:52 we here at Zola Levitt Presents
25:54 are able to bring new programs about Israel,
25:58 and the prophetic in 2018.
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26:23 We thank you for your continued support
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26:28 And now, let's go to a song for an upcoming series.
26:31 Sha a'lu Shalom Yerushalayim
26:33 Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem
26:50 ♪ For I long to see the Kingdom come ♪
26:54 ♪ And in praise and prayers I sing ♪
26:58 ♪ And my life is yours til the end of time ♪
27:02 ♪ For the service of the King ♪
27:19 ♪ Father, Father, take this sheep ♪
27:23 ♪ Take one more unworthy sheep ♪
27:27 ♪ In my heart Thy Word I keep ♪
27:31 ♪ Father take this sheep ♪
27:35 ♪ Father take this sheep ♪♪

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