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• 00:01 Jeffrey Seif: Fascinated
• 00:04 by Israel, perhaps? Find out why today on "Zola Levitt Presents."
• 00:10 ♪♪♪
• 00:14 male announcer: "Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God
• 00:17 for Israel 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
• 00:27 that call upon him."
• 00:29 "Zola Levitt Presents."
• 00:32 ♪♪♪
• 00:42 ♪♪♪
• 00:49 David Hart: Thank you for joining us today
• 00:51 on "Zola Levitt Presents."
• 00:52 I'm David Hart.
• 00:53 Kirsten Hart: I'm Kirsten Hart.
• 00:54 Jeffrey: Jeffrey Seif.
• 00:56 David: We are in our brand new series, "Return to Eden,"
• 00:58 and I've gotta say that Kirsten and I are so excited
• 01:00 to be with you at this desk.
• 01:02 There's a whole lot to dig into with this series,
• 01:05 and we're so excited about it.
• 01:06 Jeffrey: Yes, Eden is so mysterious, and I'm very excited
• 01:11 to connect the dots between Eden and the temple in Jerusalem.
• 01:15 It might sound far-fetched. There's a very good story there.
• 01:19 Kirsten: This is going to be one of the best series I think
• 01:21 we've ever had here on "Zola Levitt Presents."
• 01:24 And now let's go to Israel, to Jerusalem,
• 01:27 to hear Jeff give an overview of the series.
• 01:31 ♪♪♪
• 01:35 Jeffrey: This isn't just a story.
• 01:38 Uh-uh, this is the story.
• 01:42 What am I talking about?
• 01:43 I am talking about the story of the ages written on the Bible's
• 01:49 pages, beginning in Genesis and extending all the way through
• 01:55 to the book of Revelation.
• 01:58 Now, that story begins in a place much like this.
• 02:04 I really don't know what you think of
• 02:06 when you think of gardens.
• 02:07 Versailles comes to mind,
• 02:09 this wonderfully-manicured landscape.
• 02:12 Truth be known, when I think of Eden, I think of a land
• 02:15 that's dense, it's rich with foliage.
• 02:20 Adam and then Hawwah, Adam and Eve, had it made.
• 02:24 It was just produced for them.
• 02:26 In short order, they're gonna get kicked out of Eden and
• 02:29 they're gonna have to go out there and put those furrows in
• 02:31 the ground, and put the seeds, and they're gonna eke out
• 02:34 an existence by the sweat of their brow.
• 02:37 But here, these trees were machines.
• 02:41 They just produced fruits.
• 02:43 All they had to do was pluck and eat.
• 02:45 It's real simple.
• 02:46 These trees in so many ways were all trees of life,
• 02:49 but there was one Tree of Life, and there was problems
• 02:53 associated with the tree.
• 02:55 We're gonna look at that story and more.
• 02:58 It's tragic, sin made its entrance onto the stage
• 03:01 of that drama, and they were kicked out of Eden
• 03:04 and they made their way east.
• 03:07 When we walk through the biblical text not long after,
• 03:11 we run into an individual named Avram, who feels an urge,
• 03:16 a beckoning to make his way back to his land, Eretz Kana'an,
• 03:22 the Land of Canaan.
• 03:24 Could it be that this land of promise, this land that's the
• 03:29 holy land, this land where God would make his name to dwell,
• 03:35 could this be that special place where God dwelt and walked
• 03:39 among men in the beginning of the biblical drama?
• 03:43 The answer is yes.
• 03:47 We are going to search out Eden.
• 03:50 This series is a one stop shop for individuals that wanna know
• 03:53 about Eden and who wanna know about recovering the tranquility
• 03:59 that you mankind lost at Eden.
• 04:03 Eden was a peaceful place.
• 04:05 Felicity was the order of the day, but sin made its entrance
• 04:09 onto the stage of the drama, and humanity was defiled,
• 04:13 and people experienced disequilibrium, disorientation,
• 04:18 and individuals wanna find a way to get it back.
• 04:22 Abraham wanted to go back to a special place
• 04:25 and the biblical text is full of these
• 04:28 going back to Israel story.
• 04:30 And why is that?
• 04:32 As you're going to see, Israel, in effect,
• 04:35 is the lost land of Eden.
• 04:39 And the temple complex itself that's set atop that hill,
• 04:45 and I'm coming to you from Jerusalem, you're gonna see in
• 04:48 this series how the temple was designed to represent
• 04:52 the Garden of Eden.
• 04:54 Oh, you're gonna learn about that and much more.
• 04:56 In the process, by the way, of sorting this out,
• 04:59 I went into the corridors of Harvard University,
• 05:02 University of Chicago, Liberty University, tapped into
• 05:06 the heads and hearts, the best of minds that are searching out
• 05:10 biblical literature to try and understand it,
• 05:13 and I'm in effect going to be a newspaper reporter
• 05:16 giving this story to you.
• 05:19 There are a number of things you're gonna get out of it,
• 05:22 one of which is some self-understanding.
• 05:27 And by that I mean someone that watches "Zola Levitt Presents"
• 05:32 is someone who's interested at looking at the good news
• 05:35 through the eyes of the Jews.
• 05:36 You're interested in Israel.
• 05:38 You have a passion for the place.
• 05:40 Rhetorically, I wanna raise the question, where does that
• 05:43 passion come from, that impulse deep within your breast
• 05:49 that just is fascinated by this promised land?
• 05:52 Let me tell you, that impulse that you have is the same
• 05:56 impulse that drove Abraham to return to this land.
• 06:02 It's that within you that wants to connect to this long lost
• 06:07 paradise that was Eden.
• 06:11 Truth be known, I'm bursting at the seams.
• 06:13 There's so much I wanna share,
• 06:15 and I'm gonna do it methodically, step by step.
• 06:18 In advance, I wanna thank you for going down this stretch
• 06:22 of highway with me.
• 06:23 I believe you're gonna benefit from it.
• 06:27 Having said that now, off we go on a journey back to Eden.
• 06:33 ♪♪♪
• 06:40 ♪♪♪
• 06:43 Jeffrey: I'm coming to you from paradise.
• 06:47 You say, "Really, now, Jeffrey?"
• 06:48 Yeah, the word "paradise" is a Latin word
• 06:52 meaning enclosed garden.
• 06:54 This is an enclosed garden.
• 06:56 But I don't wanna talk to you about a paradise,
• 06:59 I wanna talk about the paradise referred to
• 07:04 in biblical literature as Gan 'Eden.
• 07:08 Eden is an interesting word in and of itself.
• 07:11 In Hebrew, it harks to the word "pleasant."
• 07:15 Aramaic, "Eden" is known as fruitful or well-watered.
• 07:21 It all harks to a beautiful place in a world,
• 07:24 in a wilderness.
• 07:26 There's a place that was set apart
• 07:28 and something special happened there.
• 07:32 I'd like to begin our journey to and through biblical literature
• 07:37 where the author began in chapter 2, verse 8.
• 07:43 And we're in the book Bereishit, Genesis.
• 07:45 He says, "Vaiyitta Adonai Elohim gan be'eden mikkedem,"
• 07:51 and planted Lord God in Eden a garden, "mikkedem,"
• 07:58 in the east.
• 08:00 He goes on to say, "Vaiyasem sham ed ha'adam,"
• 08:05 and put there the man, "asher yatzar," whom he had formed.
• 08:12 And we're told as well as we read on,
• 08:15 "Vaiyatzmach Adonai Elohim ha'adamah,"
• 08:18 and made to come the Lord God
• 08:21 from the ground, "kol etz," every tree.
• 08:29 It's a beautiful story.
• 08:32 As Bible readers know, however, it went south
• 08:35 in reasonably short order.
• 08:39 We're told elsewhere in the text, "Vaiyomer Elohim na'aseh
• 08:43 Adam betzalmenu kidmutenu," who God said,
• 08:46 "Let us make man in our image."
• 08:50 Man was manufactured, fabricated, and placed in
• 08:54 the Garden, and then in no time flat, the thing went awry.
• 09:02 I'm interested in the Garden for a variety of reasons.
• 09:05 In this garden here, there's a flora and fauna.
• 09:10 There's a stream flowing behind me, reminding me of the river
• 09:15 that flowed out of Eden, from which it broke
• 09:19 into four distinct rivers.
• 09:22 It's a fascinating place and people wonder where it was.
• 09:29 It is hard to say at one level.
• 09:31 I've looked at some old maps.
• 09:34 Interestingly, the Egyptians, if you look at Egyptian hieroglyph,
• 09:39 they place Egypt at the center of the world and they have
• 09:42 an ocean surrounding it.
• 09:45 I saw a Babylonian cuneiform tablet similarly with Babylon
• 09:51 at the center, and then you similarly see
• 09:54 the oceans around it.
• 09:58 Cultures tend to put themselves at the center of the earth.
• 10:04 The question where Eden was is interesting in and of itself.
• 10:07 Certainly it's central to the biblical drama,
• 10:11 and as we're gonna see as we go through this series,
• 10:14 there really is a correlation between paradise lost
• 10:19 and the promised land itself.
• 10:23 Actually, in the biblical text, the word "promised land"
• 10:26 isn't mentioned, though it is mentioned,
• 10:29 we'll examine this later, how this land is promised.
• 10:33 There's a story in Genesis about Adam and Hawwah, Adam and Eve
• 10:38 getting kicked out of Eden, and then their game
• 10:41 to make their way back.
• 10:43 It's a fascinating story.
• 10:45 When you look at Eden, one of the things that we're gonna
• 10:48 explore is the correlation between Eden and the tabernacle
• 10:53 to come, and the temple to come, and then the new Jerusalem
• 10:57 to come later.
• 10:58 It's a fascinating story.
• 11:00 I mention that because in Eden we see trees.
• 11:04 There's the tree of the knowledge of good and evil
• 11:07 and the tree of life.
• 11:08 In the tabernacle, we see the menorah, a candelabra
• 11:12 with its branches.
• 11:14 It's a manufactured tree.
• 11:15 In Eden, when sin made its entrance onto the stage of
• 11:19 the human drama, it was remedied by a sacrifice.
• 11:23 Animal tunics were then put together to clothe Adam and Eve,
• 11:27 and we see in the temple, in the tabernacle,
• 11:30 there were sacrifices.
• 11:32 We see as well in Eden that God dwelt among them there
• 11:36 in the Garden.
• 11:38 They were kicked out of the Garden.
• 11:40 Sin made a separation.
• 11:42 But we see in the tabernacle as well that God there dwells among
• 11:46 his people in Kodesh HaKodashim, the Holy of Holies.
• 11:50 It's a fascinating story.
• 11:54 The Bible, I put it like this,
• 11:56 it's the greatest story ever told.
• 12:00 The Jewish connection to it in so many ways
• 12:03 is the greatest story never told.
• 12:06 And in this series, "Back to Eden,"
• 12:09 we're gonna begin in Genesis.
• 12:11 We're gonna finish in Revelation.
• 12:14 We're gonna see how the tabernacle and the temple
• 12:17 is central and how the cross is central too.
• 12:22 ♪♪♪
• 12:28 announcer: Are Gentile believers meant
• 12:29 to adopt the Mosaic law?
• 12:31 Is there a separate salvation covenant for Israel that we lose
• 12:34 the necessity of faith in Yeshua?
• 12:36 Eitan Shishkoff tackles these questions and more
• 12:39 in today's resource, "What About Us?"
• 12:42 In this book, Eitan uncovers concrete scriptural evidence
• 12:46 of God's original plan for Jews and Gentiles to become one in
• 12:50 Messiah and work together for salvation of national Israel.
• 12:54 Learn the importance of how the Gentile church should relate
• 12:57 to the remarkable Messianic movement
• 12:59 of Jews accepting Jesus.
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• 13:05 Please call us or go online and ask for the resource,
• 13:07 "What About Us?"
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• 13:41 ♪♪♪
• 13:44 David: So many of you watching today support us weekly,
• 13:47 and we just wanna say thank you from the bottom of our hearts.
• 13:50 Right now, let's go back to Israel.
• 13:56 Jeffrey: We're at the edge of the Judean wilderness.
• 13:59 "Midbar," wilderness, the resources are very spartan.
• 14:03 Jerusalem is on the other side of this wilderness.
• 14:07 Jericho is not far afield.
• 14:09 We're close to the Dead Sea as well.
• 14:11 We're really, in effect, at the edge of the world.
• 14:15 And as you can see, it's a dry world.
• 14:17 And as you can imagine, it's the kind of world
• 14:19 where it's a little tough to eke out an existence.
• 14:22 I mention that because Adam and Hawwah, Adam and Eve,
• 14:27 they were expunged.
• 14:29 They were forced to leave paradise.
• 14:33 And what I wanna do here is zero in on some
• 14:38 of that particular story.
• 14:40 I'm going to Bereishit, to Genesis, the 2nd chapter,
• 14:43 and I'm interested in verse 9.
• 14:46 And just before verse 9, we're told that the Lord breathed life
• 14:50 and created Adam.
• 14:53 And we're told as well, speaking of creation,
• 14:55 and I'm looking at verse 9,
• 14:57 "Vaiyatzmach Adonai Elohim ha'adamah,"
• 15:00 and he made, that is God made,
• 15:03 to grow from the ground, "kol etz," every tree,
• 15:07 "nechmad lemareh vetovv, lema'achol,"
• 15:10 trees that are pleasant to look at
• 15:13 as well as pleasant or good for food.
• 15:17 And we're told, "Ve'etz ha'chayyim beovch haggan,"
• 15:21 and in the middle of the garden there was the tree of life,
• 15:26 "ve'etz hadda'at tovv vara," as well as the knowledge
• 15:31 of good and evil.
• 15:35 There were a lot of trees in that garden.
• 15:36 I mean, it was plush. It was dense.
• 15:40 And I would imagine had the Lord not said--
• 15:44 singled out these trees and said,
• 15:45 "Don't touch 'em," that they would have never been touched.
• 15:49 The word "lust" itself arguably comes from a Latin derivative
• 15:53 meaning the desire for the forbidden.
• 15:56 That is to say once something becomes forbidden, it elicits
• 16:00 a kind of desire that might not have otherwise have been there.
• 16:04 So I say, if they were just one of a number of trees,
• 16:07 they would've walked by 'em.
• 16:09 But there's something about being singled out and saying,
• 16:12 "Don't do that," that elicits a kind of curiosity,
• 16:16 that elicits energies that prompts someone to do it.
• 16:20 And these--that dynamic is gonna make Adam and Hawwah, you know,
• 16:25 easy prey for a persona that's going to talk them
• 16:30 out of obedience and talk them out of paradise.
• 16:34 I wanna look at that a little more.
• 16:36 ♪♪♪
• 16:40 Jeffrey: There's something I want you to know,
• 16:43 and what I want you to know is about the word "know."
• 16:45 In Genesis, we're told with this tree, you know,
• 16:48 these trees just--things happen with them.
• 16:51 There's one that's called "ve'etz hadda'at tovv vara,"
• 16:55 the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
• 16:57 Just the word "knowledge," I wanna zero in on that.
• 17:00 In Hebrew, to know something, someone says, "Ani yodea,"
• 17:02 which means, "I know."
• 17:04 The word "yodea" or "to know" comes from the word "yod,"
• 17:06 which is hand.
• 17:08 It's rather interesting that there's--well,
• 17:09 we talk about carnal knowledge today, that to know someone.
• 17:13 It says Adam knew his wife.
• 17:15 Knowledge is experiential.
• 17:17 The point here and the problem here is that people
• 17:19 touch the wrong stuff.
• 17:21 There's something about "Do not touch"
• 17:23 that makes you want to do it.
• 17:24 It's the knowledge of sin.
• 17:26 They paid dearly for it back here,
• 17:28 and we pay dearly for it now.
• 17:31 God paid dearly to turn it around, by the way.
• 17:33 He sent his Son to redeem us from the slavery to sin,
• 17:37 but that's getting down further in the story.
• 17:40 Here in Genesis, sin makes its entrance onto the stage.
• 17:44 They touch, they get kicked out,
• 17:47 but on the out God starts to speak.
• 17:52 And there's a fellow, Avram, who from the edge of the world,
• 17:55 if you will, he starts to make his way back to Eden driven
• 17:59 by certain impulses, a sense that God has destined him
• 18:03 to come to a particular place.
• 18:05 That impulse, by the way, resonates in many today,
• 18:07 which is why you are even interested in
• 18:10 a program like this.
• 18:12 It's all about fixing what's broken in the human experience
• 18:15 and we believe that God's Son does just that,
• 18:18 and it's all about returning to Eden.
• 18:24 David: I'm thinking right now about one of my favorite Sunday
• 18:25 school teachers way back in third grade, and I remember
• 18:29 like it was yesterday her teaching on the Garden of Eden.
• 18:32 It seems like she was teaching more about the physical place
• 18:37 maybe more than the spiritual.
• 18:39 Does that make sense?
• 18:40 Jeffrey: Yeah, but I wasn't there with your Sunday school
• 18:43 class in third grade, you know?
• 18:45 I'm probably a little bit older.
• 18:47 But a lot of people have been fascinated by the Garden,
• 18:50 which is one of the reasons why I wanted to get into it,
• 18:53 because there's some news behind that news.
• 18:56 Kirsten: We're fascinated with it.
• 18:58 That's why we're thankful that you're teaching
• 18:59 this whole series.
• 19:01 Jeffrey: Yes, but even in me doing it, it's more of
• 19:03 a we thing than a me thing.
• 19:05 I'm part of a scholarly community, and you know,
• 19:08 I just don't like to come forth with my own impulses,
• 19:11 especially national TV.
• 19:14 I mention that because we have a great scholar
• 19:17 joining us on this one.
• 19:19 Seth Postel fairs from Israel College of the Bible.
• 19:24 He wrote a great book that dealt with this subject
• 19:27 and I'm pleased to get him here to talk to you about it.
• 19:31 You're gonna see it's in Genesis, but it's more
• 19:34 than just that and there.
• 19:36 ♪♪♪
• 19:41 Seth Postel: It is interesting, for instance in
• 19:43 the book of Ezekiel.
• 19:46 Ezekiel describes the new Jerusalem very much using
• 19:52 language from the story of the Garden of Eden.
• 19:54 And so, the river coming out from the temple to water--
• 20:00 you know, water comes out from this new temple
• 20:03 and there's all sorts of eidetic imagery.
• 20:06 You've got the tree of life and the fruit, the healing
• 20:08 of the nations, which draws a direct correlation
• 20:11 between Eden and Jerusalem,
• 20:14 and beyond that the promised land.
• 20:16 Of course, you have the book of Revelation that makes a very
• 20:18 close connection between the Jerusalem coming down from
• 20:22 heaven and the Garden of Eden.
• 20:25 Of interest is if you look at the Garden of Eden, in Genesis
• 20:29 chapter 2, verses 10 through 14, the boundaries of Eden
• 20:35 are described on the basis of rivers, of rivers.
• 20:39 And if you look at the rivers, you'll notice that these rivers
• 20:43 are described from south to north.
• 20:47 And what that does is it puts the land of Canaan right
• 20:51 at the center of that matrix of rivers.
• 20:55 Interestingly enough, how does God describe the boundaries of
• 20:59 the promised land to Abraham in Genesis chapter 15, verse 18?
• 21:03 He refers to a couple of those same rivers.
• 21:07 And so, just as Adam was exiled from this land
• 21:12 because of disobedience, God brings Abraham back
• 21:16 into this land ultimately to restore blessing,
• 21:20 blessing to Abraham, his descendants,
• 21:22 and to all the families on the earth.
• 21:30 female announcer: For many, a trip to the holy land
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• 22:01 Kirsten: Our series, "Return to Eden,"
• 22:03 is about the spiritual Garden of Eden,
• 22:06 but it's also about the one city,
• 22:08 the eternal city, Jerusalem.
• 22:11 You can go there for yourself to see
• 22:13 this unbelievable holy place.
• 22:16 Go to our website, levitt.com/tours, click on
• 22:19 the tour page, read all about the two tours we take,
• 22:22 spring and fall every year.
• 22:24 Sarah Liberman is back with us for this series and she will be
• 22:27 teaching about the seven species found in Deuteronomy 8.
• 22:32 Let's go to Jerusalem to hear from Sarah now.
• 22:41 Sarah Liberman: Shalom haverim.
• 22:43 Welcome to this new series about the seven species,
• 22:46 shivat haminim.
• 22:48 These are the fruit that God gives to the people of Israel as
• 22:51 a sign of his blessing and his provision when they enter
• 22:54 into the land.
• 22:56 Now, the word "minim" means "species,"
• 22:59 and the word "shivat" comes from the word "sheva"
• 23:02 in Hebrew, which means the number seven.
• 23:04 And in the Bible, the number seven is a symbol of completion.
• 23:08 Now, how do we know that?
• 23:09 Because in Hebrew, the word "sheva" comes from the same root
• 23:13 as the word "sabea," which means to be fully filled
• 23:16 or completely satisfied.
• 23:19 So, these seven species that God gives Israel are not only super
• 23:23 foods each of them in and of themselves, but God gives them
• 23:28 as a sign of his provision, as a sign that he will always
• 23:31 replenish and always provide for his people
• 23:34 so long as they follow him and obey.
• 23:37 Now, these seven species, shivat haminim,
• 23:40 were also featured in Solomon's temple.
• 23:43 In different places throughout the building and in what the
• 23:45 priests wore, those species were represented there as well.
• 23:50 But for us, Yeshua speaks of this fruitfulness
• 23:54 in John chapter 15, verse 16.
• 23:57 He says, "You did not choose me but I chose you.
• 24:02 And I've appointed you to go and bear fruit,
• 24:06 fruit that will last, then the Father will give you
• 24:10 whatever you ask in my name."
• 24:13 Our prayer as we go forward and explore these incredible fruit
• 24:17 and blessings is that you will go forward abiding in the Lord,
• 24:21 bearing much fruit, and that anything you will ask,
• 24:24 God will answer.
• 24:27 ♪ He said, "Pray for the peace of my home." ♪
• 24:36 ♪ And the whole world knows that the God of Israel ♪
• 24:42 ♪ moved his mighty arm ♪
• 24:45 ♪ and he brought us back from Egypt. ♪
• 24:47 ♪ And the whole world knows that our God ♪
• 24:49 ♪ has brought us home and we pray for peace. ♪
• 24:53 ♪ Yes, we pray Sha'alu Shalom. ♪
• 24:56 ♪♪♪
• 25:03 ♪ Yes, the whole world knows that our God ♪
• 25:06 ♪ has brought us home, ♪
• 25:07 ♪ and we pray for peace. ♪
• 25:09 ♪ Yes, we pray Sha'alu Shalom. ♪
• 25:13 ♪ All the world will ascend to Jerusalem. ♪
• 25:17 ♪ They will sing hallelujah, amen. ♪
• 25:21 ♪ They'll give thanks for the peace of Jerusalem. ♪
• 25:25 ♪ Peace on earth and good will to all men. ♪
• 25:32 ♪ And the whole world knows that the God of Israel ♪
• 25:38 ♪ moved his mighty arm ♪
• 25:40 ♪ and he brought us back from everywhere. ♪
• 25:42 ♪ The whole world knows that our God ♪
• 25:45 ♪ has brought us home and we pray for peace. ♪
• 25:48 ♪ Yes, we pray Sha'alu Shalom. ♪
• 25:50 ♪♪♪
• 25:57 ♪ Yes, the whole world knows that our God ♪
• 25:59 ♪ has brought us home and we pray for peace. ♪
• 26:03 ♪ Yes, we pray Sha'alu Shalom. ♪♪
• 26:07 David: We are honored to continue bringing Zola songs
• 26:09 to you every week.
• 26:11 We love his music and we're so honored to bring that to you.
• 26:14 We love his songs that really originate in Israel,
• 26:19 and that draws us to Israel.
• 26:23 We love going there.
• 26:24 We've been going now for about eight years,
• 26:27 and it's kind of our search for paradise.
• 26:30 Jeffrey: Does it have kind of a magnetic pull in your hearts?
• 26:33 What's that all about?
• 26:35 Kirsten: It does.
• 26:36 Personally, the first time I went, I just was curious to see
• 26:40 what the land looked like, to see the proximity of the cities
• 26:44 and how it related to my Bible.
• 26:46 But then once-- there's something.
• 26:48 You know, you know if you've been there,
• 26:50 there's something about being in Jerusalem.
• 26:53 That's the eternal city.
• 26:55 And talk about magnet, I just wanna go back.
• 26:57 David: And to sing "Holy Ground" right there,
• 27:00 life-changing.
• 27:02 Jeffrey: Yeah, you're literally standing
• 27:03 on holy ground.
• 27:05 Yes, and thank you for searching the Holy Book about the holy
• 27:08 ground as we do this every week on "Zola Levitt Presents."
• 27:13 And as you go now, sha'alu shalom Yerushalayim,
• 27:17 pray for the peace of Jerusalem.
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