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• 00:01 Kirsten Hart: It's all about
• 00:03 restoring a relationship with your creator.
• 00:05 We'll be discussing that 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," I'm David Hart.
• 00:52 Kirsten: I'm Kirsten Hart. Jeffrey Seif: Jeffrey Seif.
• 00:54 David: I can't believe we're finishing up this series.
• 00:56 It's been a fascinating series to us.
• 00:58 What did you say about it?
• 00:59 Kirsten: Return to Eden, I thought we were gonna have
• 01:01 our Indian Jones caps,
• 01:03 and we were gonna go hiking and find Eden.
• 01:05 David: Felt like we should actually.
• 01:07 Jeffrey: Yeah, a little bit of that,
• 01:08 but it's more than that.
• 01:10 Kirsten: It's about relationship.
• 01:11 Is that--is that a good word for the series?
• 01:14 Jeffrey: I think it's fair to say, because a relationship
• 01:16 got broken at the very beginning of the Bible,
• 01:19 and God's in the fixer-upper business.
• 01:23 Kirsten: That's good.
• 01:24 David: Right now let's go
• 01:26 to Dr. Seif's teaching in Jerusalem.
• 01:36 Jeffrey: It's great to look back, isn't it?
• 01:38 When Yeshua made his entrance into Jerusalem,
• 01:41 they were so excited.
• 01:43 Jews came out en masse, welcomed him like a rock star,
• 01:46 waving branches, saying, "Baruch haba b'shem Adonai,"
• 01:50 "Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord."
• 01:53 And you know, when he came to Jerusalem, he said as much that
• 01:57 when he returns, the Jewish population would be so pleased
• 02:00 to welcome him in the name of the Lord.
• 02:04 Well, of course there was a stony road that was walked,
• 02:10 however, through history when Jews were exiled
• 02:13 from this promised land.
• 02:15 Then now, providentially, Jewish people made their way back.
• 02:21 And you know, there comes a point in time when--and we're
• 02:24 seeing it as I speak, when once again attention is galvanized on
• 02:32 Jerusalem proper to see what God is doing in this land.
• 02:37 Two thousand years ago, Jesus made his entrance
• 02:40 onto the stage of the human drama.
• 02:42 So spectacular was it when he entered through the gate here.
• 02:48 And interestingly, there's an appointment with destiny again
• 02:52 at a place called Jerusalem.
• 02:55 I mention that because in the book Revelation,
• 03:00 John in the 21st chapter sees Jerusalem once again making
• 03:05 its entrance onto the stage of the drama.
• 03:08 Of course, we're seeing that inching along now through time
• 03:12 and circumstances in the modern world.
• 03:14 But even this, a modern phenomena that is Israel
• 03:18 will be eclipsed.
• 03:20 He says that this Jerusalem will come down out of heaven.
• 03:24 And interestingly, in verse 22, John says that,
• 03:27 "He saw no temple in her," and it isn't that God
• 03:33 lost interest in the temple.
• 03:35 The temple itself, as we've explored through this series,
• 03:39 is a fabricated facsimile of Eden where God made himself
• 03:46 to dwell initially.
• 03:48 But then problems entered and now God makes his name
• 03:52 to dwell therein in the holy of holies.
• 03:55 And the temple itself--the tabernacle and temple itself
• 04:00 is a replication of Eden.
• 04:02 But with this new world to come, this new Jerusalem,
• 04:05 as we're going to explore, it in effect the city proper
• 04:08 is the tabernacle.
• 04:11 And we're told in verse 24, harking back to the words
• 04:14 of the prophets, "The nations shall walk by its light,
• 04:17 and the kings of the earth bring their glory into it."
• 04:22 Interestingly and fascinatingly that we live in a point in time
• 04:26 when Jerusalem is gaining significance and tension
• 04:31 as we have a capital moved to Jerusalem
• 04:34 with the United States, and it riles up the nations.
• 04:36 Why do the nations rage?
• 04:38 Here, there'll come a point in time
• 04:40 when the nations make peace.
• 04:42 We're told in verse 26, "They'll bring into it,"
• 04:45 that is this New Jerusalem,
• 04:47 "the glory and honor of the nations."
• 04:50 There's a new world dawning at the ragged edge of time.
• 04:54 Jerusalem centers significantly in it and we're told that the
• 05:00 individuals are invited into it, those whose names
• 05:05 are written in the Book of Life.
• 05:10 My wife and I go out to eat on occasion and the finer
• 05:12 restaurants will ask us if we have a reservation.
• 05:15 It's important to book it in advance.
• 05:18 Similarly here in this new world to come, the door is open
• 05:23 to those who have made their reservations,
• 05:26 those who have booked them in advance.
• 05:30 Let me encourage you if you haven't done that to do that.
• 05:34 There's a beautiful offer on the table.
• 05:36 There's a new world coming, a world that wipes away depravity,
• 05:40 and sickness, and all the rest.
• 05:42 You can get a jump on that world.
• 05:44 I don't know what kind of circumstances you find yourself
• 05:46 in right now, but I know there's a great God who comes down out
• 05:50 of heaven, who makes his Spirit to abide within as he comes
• 05:55 and makes his homes with us.
• 05:57 May it be that you're of that ilk who have experienced that
• 06:02 and, by virtue of your so doing, that you have your name
• 06:05 written in the Book of Life.
• 06:07 ♪♪♪
• 06:15 Jeffrey: The paradise restored in Revelation employs
• 06:19 language akin to Genesis.
• 06:21 It comes replete with beautiful flora, and fauna,
• 06:24 and trees, and rivers.
• 06:26 It's a paradise, but there's something missing
• 06:30 in this New Jerusalem paradise.
• 06:33 And you know what's missing? The temple.
• 06:37 Very, very interesting. John is very explicit.
• 06:41 We'll see that in a moment, but if you will please turn with me
• 06:44 to Revelation 21, where he says in verse 2, "I saw the holy
• 06:48 city--the New Jerusalem-- coming down out of heaven."
• 06:52 And there's a voice in verse 3 saying, "Behold,
• 06:57 the dwelling of God is among men."
• 07:01 Now, that's significant.
• 07:03 In church talk, people talk about the shekinah,
• 07:06 the shekinah glory, the Hebrew "sekinah."
• 07:09 It means "the dwelling."
• 07:11 Once upon a time in a land far away called Eden,
• 07:15 God dwelt and walked with Adam and Heva.
• 07:19 Sin made its entrance onto the stage of the human drama
• 07:22 and there was a breach.
• 07:23 The first couple were kicked out of dodge.
• 07:26 They went to the east and said, "Don't come back."
• 07:29 That's what the boss said.
• 07:32 But here now, paradise is restored and God dwells among
• 07:36 them, we're told in the text.
• 07:38 And in verse 4, he goes on to say, "He'll wipe away every tear
• 07:43 from their eyes, and death shall be no more."
• 07:49 As I've crossed into the 60s, I'm 62, and as I make my journey
• 07:55 from the womb to the tomb, I realize that with age,
• 07:58 people can become beset with various circumstances.
• 08:01 The body doesn't perform as we'd like.
• 08:05 Isn't it good to know there's a place, there's a perfect hope
• 08:08 for the saints, a place where there's no more tears.
• 08:12 Later on we'll see he says that there's healing, that
• 08:16 there's--but he goes onto say here an immediate mourning
• 08:22 and crying cease.
• 08:24 It's great, isn't it?
• 08:26 In verses 9 and on, this New Jerusalem is described
• 08:31 in Revelation 21:22.
• 08:34 He says, as I noted previously, "I saw no temple in her."
• 08:40 It's interesting, there's the New Jerusalem which comes down,
• 08:42 and John notes there's no temple.
• 08:46 Expositors have wrestled with that.
• 08:48 What are the issues there?
• 08:49 Certainly the Revelation was written subsequent to the
• 08:52 destruction of the temple in Judea, thus he's envisioning
• 08:56 Jerusalem coming down without a temple.
• 08:59 That could be it.
• 09:00 But I think more to the point, he goes on to say the reason
• 09:03 why there's no temple in this paradise restored
• 09:07 is because the city itself is the temple.
• 09:11 He says, "I saw no temple in her, for its Temple is Adonai
• 09:15 Elohei-Tzva'ot and the Lamb."
• 09:18 Fascinating, the city has no need for sun or moon,
• 09:21 and it harks back to the Genesis text
• 09:23 where there's the created order before that.
• 09:26 In verse 24, he says something that is strikingly important
• 09:31 in my estimation, important for all of us.
• 09:33 He says, "The nations shall walk by its light."
• 09:39 As we look at the language of paradise restored, what I want
• 09:44 to accentuate is the nations' participation in it.
• 09:50 Strikingly important it seems to me because with paradise
• 09:54 being restored, the divine design is being restored.
• 09:59 It's being recovered. It's being fulfilled.
• 10:01 Recall how when the faith walk began with Avraham, Abraham.
• 10:08 It comes from the word "father of the nations."
• 10:13 He is a Hebrew from "Ibru," a word meaning
• 10:17 "beyond the river."
• 10:19 He crossed the Euphrates.
• 10:21 He traveled along the fertile crescent and came
• 10:23 to this land of promise.
• 10:25 He, in effect, went back to the garden.
• 10:27 And the promise was that, "In you all the families
• 10:32 of the earth will be blessed."
• 10:35 "Kol ha-goiim," all the nations.
• 10:38 It wasn't to be a Jew things, it's to be a you thing.
• 10:41 It's for the world at large.
• 10:43 And what's fascinating is that that's noted specifically
• 10:46 here in this final text, in this eschatological text.
• 10:51 Eschatology speaks of last things in biblical literature.
• 10:54 Protology speaks of first things.
• 10:57 The alpha and the omega, the beginning and the end.
• 10:59 If you look at the book end of biblical literature in Genesis,
• 11:03 the divine design was for all people to cultivate
• 11:06 a relationship with a present God, and that is noted as well
• 11:11 finally in the restoration as we make our way through the
• 11:14 biblical text and onto the 21st chapter of the book Revelation.
• 11:21 "The nations shall walk by its light."
• 11:24 He says here, "The nations shall walk by its light."
• 11:27 The Matthian story begins with the nations--
• 11:30 individuals coming to Jerusalem bearing gifts.
• 11:34 And as it was in the beginning of the newer Testament with
• 11:38 offering gifts to the kings, so it is people present
• 11:42 to the Lamb as well, the kings of the earth come.
• 11:44 May we not wait til then. May we all come now.
• 11:48 ♪♪♪
• 11:56 announcer: Our resource this week, the series,
• 11:58 "Return to Eden," on DVD.
• 12:00 In this ten-program series, Dr. Jeffrey Seif uncovers how the
• 12:04 Lord bridged the relationship gap caused by mankind's sin in
• 12:08 the Garden of Eden by creating a special relationship with
• 12:11 a people and a land that eventually led to the Messiah.
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• 13:19 Now, let's go back to Jeff teaching in Israel.
• 13:24 ♪♪♪
• 13:29 Jeffrey: I'm a city boy myself and I didn't grow up
• 13:33 having my hands in the soil, never mind
• 13:35 with a byproduct of it.
• 13:37 But you know, so much of America was rural once upon a time and
• 13:40 people knew what it was to touch the earth's produce.
• 13:45 I mention that because when we look in Revelation chapter 22,
• 13:49 therein we see that there's water coming from God's throne,
• 13:53 from his presence, and that it waters the earth, and life
• 13:58 comes, and produce is abundant, and with it health and healing.
• 14:03 I wanna read the text, not just talk about it, and with it show
• 14:06 a great example how we'll begin at the end of the Bible,
• 14:10 eschatology, and then we'll push to protology,
• 14:13 to the very beginning of it.
• 14:15 We'll work with a prophet on the way, but if you look in 22:1, "
• 14:19 Then the angel showed me a river of the water of life--bright as
• 14:24 crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb."
• 14:28 It's interesting, we'll see in Ezekiel in a moment that the
• 14:32 prophet saw with this rebuilt temple that there's going
• 14:36 to be a water bust.
• 14:38 I say that tongue in cheek.
• 14:40 You know, it wasn't a plumbing problem that caused
• 14:41 the water to flow.
• 14:43 We'll look at that in a moment.
• 14:44 We'll see how when the temple's rebuilt, he alights upon
• 14:46 this water that comes forth and brings with it health
• 14:49 and healing, eastward down.
• 14:53 It's a fascinating story.
• 14:55 Arguably, John the Revelator here is alighting upon that.
• 14:59 Whereas Ezekiel saw and articulated specifically the
• 15:03 temple would be built by God, here, the temple,
• 15:06 it's the throne of God and of the Lamb Jesus's sacrifice
• 15:09 is associated with.
• 15:11 It's a beautiful story, and I want you to see
• 15:13 how it's developed.
• 15:15 If you will, go with me please to Ezekiel, in chapter 47.
• 15:19 Well, first in chapter 43, he alighted upon going back
• 15:23 to the temple and God's presence being there.
• 15:26 And God being present in a locale harks back
• 15:28 to an edenic motif.
• 15:30 Once upon a time, God was present with Adam and Heva,
• 15:34 but then his presence was withdrawn
• 15:37 and they were pushed out.
• 15:39 Now we're looking at restoration motifs.
• 15:41 He says here that, in 47, "Then he," that is the Lord,
• 15:44 "brought me back to the door of the House."
• 15:47 And he notes, "Behold, water was flowing out from under
• 15:51 the threshold of the House eastward--for the front
• 15:54 of the House faced east."
• 15:56 You might recall as well, Eden had its entrance and exit.
• 16:00 It was all eastward.
• 16:02 That's the way it was oriented.
• 16:03 The way, when they were disoriented,
• 16:05 they were cast out eastward.
• 16:07 The temple is built towards the east.
• 16:10 That's where the entrance is.
• 16:11 Where here, interestingly, there's a water break,
• 16:14 or so it seems but not really.
• 16:16 This water comes from the throne of God and it starts off,
• 16:20 the prophet says in verse 3, as ankle deep,
• 16:23 and then in verse 4, waist deep,
• 16:25 and then in verse 5 it is a gushing river
• 16:28 that he can't traverse.
• 16:30 And he goes on to note how the waters go toward the eastern
• 16:33 region, and they go down to the Arabah and enter the sea.
• 16:38 And if you've been to Israel, you know that--you know, you go
• 16:41 eastward of Jerusalem and it drops off to the Judean
• 16:45 wilderness and goes all the way to the lowest point
• 16:47 on the earth, what's called the Dead Sea.
• 16:50 What's noted in Ezekiel is the Dead Sea, it all comes to life.
• 16:53 It's healed.
• 16:55 And the real estate, which is very barren, it flowers.
• 17:00 John the Revelator saw that in the age to come that
• 17:05 the world is brought back to life.
• 17:08 He uses the imagery there of water flowing from
• 17:10 the throne of God.
• 17:12 We see in Ezekiel centuries prior, he envisions the temple
• 17:15 being rebuilt and water flowing from.
• 17:19 Let me tell you how this relates to Eden.
• 17:23 If you'll go with me please to Genesis chapter 2,
• 17:28 there's a fascinating story.
• 17:29 I'll open it from the Hebrew.
• 17:31 He says, "Venahar yotze me'edenm,"
• 17:35 and a river flowed from Eden, "le hashkot et-haggan,"
• 17:39 toward the Garden.
• 17:41 We're told, "U missham yippared vehayah le'arbaah rashim,"
• 17:46 and from there it divided.
• 17:48 We're told in Genesis that Eden had a river and this river
• 17:55 was the source that life emanated from Eden.
• 17:59 We see that and it's worth noting as well, when they were
• 18:03 kicked out of Eden, when the temple was built, the prophet
• 18:07 sees there that there will be this water gushing eastward
• 18:11 out of the temple complex, and we see the story much
• 18:16 the same in Revelation.
• 18:18 Again, it's an edenic motif that begins in Genesis, flows through
• 18:23 the whole of the Bible, and it ends in Revelation.
• 18:25 Let me tell you, Revelation deals with things to come, but
• 18:28 when it comes to that living water and being healed by it,
• 18:31 you don't need to wait til Revelation chapter 21
• 18:34 because Yeshua said that, "He who believes in me,"
• 18:37 as the Scripture has said, that out of them
• 18:39 will come this living water.
• 18:43 ♪♪♪
• 18:48 David: Do you feel like you're in Bible class?
• 18:49 We kinda feel like we are.
• 18:51 And one of the questions we may have for you today is,
• 18:54 why the name New Jerusalem?
• 18:56 Jeffrey: Well, it's in the Bible and what's interesting is
• 19:00 when John puts pen to paper to write Revelation,
• 19:03 the old Jerusalem was destroyed by the Romans.
• 19:06 People would've thought, "Well, I guess
• 19:08 we're done with all that."
• 19:09 Well, not too quick because we're reviving Jerusalem
• 19:13 still in the biblical economy.
• 19:15 David: Lots of preparation right now I believe
• 19:16 for the new temple.
• 19:18 Jeffrey: Today, yes, and it's interesting how God's preparing
• 19:20 people's hearts.
• 19:21 Many people, Christian people, thought God was
• 19:23 just done with the Jew, we're all through,
• 19:24 but we see an emergent interest and fascination as Israel
• 19:29 emerges, as Jerusalem emerges in the modern world.
• 19:32 Kirsten: And many people feel that way.
• 19:34 Jeffrey: Many people feel that way,
• 19:36 and we're going to hear from one now.
• 19:38 Dr. Robert Mawire just came back from Israel, and he fares
• 19:44 from the country of Zimbabwe.
• 19:53 Dr. Robert Mawire: The plan of God cannot be stopped,
• 19:55 cannot be sabotaged.
• 19:56 The will of God will be established.
• 19:59 The Messiah of Israel will come back to Israel and the Jewish
• 20:03 people will say, "Blessed is he that cometh in the name
• 20:08 of the Lord."
• 20:09 Do you know, I just come back from Israel
• 20:11 and the Jewish people are saying that.
• 20:13 The speaker of the Knesset was saying that.
• 20:16 The president of Israel was saying that at the meeting.
• 20:20 Because we come from the nations in the name of the Lord.
• 20:23 And he was saying, "Blessed are you who have come
• 20:26 to Yerushalayim in the name of the Lord,"
• 20:28 to literally fulfill the Words of the Scriptures,
• 20:32 because we're living in an amazing time,
• 20:35 a time like no other time in history when all the prophecies
• 20:39 are going to be fulfilled in Jerusalem, at Temple Mount.
• 20:44 We haven't seen nothing yet.
• 20:46 The full battle for Jerusalem is coming,
• 20:50 because this is the place where the Africans are coming
• 20:53 back in the tens of thousands.
• 20:55 The South Americans are coming in the tens of thousands.
• 20:58 The Europeans are coming in the tens of thousands.
• 21:00 The Asians are coming.
• 21:02 At this meeting just three weeks ago,
• 21:04 there were 70 nations represented.
• 21:07 Members of parliament, leaders of the world, all gathered
• 21:11 together again in Jerusalem because the future
• 21:15 of Jerusalem has just begun.
• 21:17 What we are seeing is the beginning.
• 21:20 We will see a struggle for Jerusalem and we will see
• 21:22 the Lord triumph over the forces of darkness.
• 21:26 And the law shall go forth from Yerushalayim.
• 21:31 ♪♪♪
• 21:38 female announcer: For many, a trip to the holy land
• 21:40 is the dream of a lifetime.
• 21:43 The Bible truly comes alive as you see the sights where so many
• 21:47 biblical events happened, where the teaching is always
• 21:50 from a Messianic perspective.
• 21:52 Come on a Zola tour in the spring to see Israel and Petra,
• 21:56 or in the fall to add a cruise to Greece and Ephesus.
• 22:00 See the land of the Bible for yourself.
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• 22:09 David: We could not do this program without inviting you
• 22:11 to join us on a Zola Levitt tour.
• 22:13 We go to Greece, Israel, and Petra two times a year.
• 22:17 We would love for you to join us.
• 22:19 Right now, let's go to Israel with Sarah Liberman as she
• 22:22 teaches on the dates, which is one of the seven species.
• 22:31 Sarah Liberman: Shalom haverim.
• 22:33 Welcome back to our series on the seven species,
• 22:36 the fruit of the land of Israel.
• 22:38 And today, we're talking about dates.
• 22:41 Now, the word for "date" in Hebrew is "tah-mahr."
• 22:45 Dates are a superfood.
• 22:47 They have a ton of health benefits.
• 22:49 And in Bible times, they were used to make honey, and that's
• 22:52 where we get the promise that God was gonna bring them
• 22:55 into a land flowing with milk and honey.
• 22:59 Dates in Israel grow in the Jordan valley.
• 23:02 It's a special place where incredible dates grow and the
• 23:06 best species for you to try is a date called medzhul.
• 23:10 Now, in the Bible we have this incredible verse,
• 23:13 an amazing promise in Psalm 92.
• 23:16 It says that, "The righteous man will flourish like the date
• 23:20 tree," or like the palm tree, and that's because the palm
• 23:23 trees are so tall and so beautiful.
• 23:26 So, this week, I pray that you will flourish
• 23:30 like the palm tree.
• 23:32 [speaking foreign language]
• 23:35 ♪♪♪
• 23:38 ♪ Take us there, take us there to the land of Zion ♪
• 23:41 ♪ Next year in Jerusalem ♪
• 23:43 ♪ L'Shana Haba'ah B'Yerushalayim ♪
• 23:46 ♪ Next year in Jerusalem ♪
• 23:48 ♪ O hear, O Israel ♪
• 23:50 ♪ O Israel, hear ♪
• 23:52 ♪ O Lord, thy kingdom come ♪
• 23:53 ♪ Thy will be done next year ♪
• 23:54 ♪ L'Shana Haba'ah B'Yerushalayim ♪
• 23:57 ♪ Next year in Jerusalem ♪
• 24:02 ♪ Over there, over there in the land Zion ♪
• 24:05 ♪ Next year in Jerusalem ♪
• 24:07 ♪ L'Shana Haba'ah B'Yerushalayim ♪
• 24:10 ♪ Next year in Jerusalem ♪
• 24:13 ♪ O Lord, you're near to us ♪
• 24:14 ♪ O Lord, you're near ♪
• 24:15 ♪ O Lord, thy kingdom come ♪
• 24:17 ♪ Thy will be done next year ♪
• 24:18 ♪ L'Shana Haba'ah B'Yerushalayim ♪
• 24:21 ♪ Next year in Jerusalem ♪
• 24:26 ♪ A land of rest, of thee I sing ♪
• 24:33 ♪ A Zion blessed, receive thy king ♪
• 24:39 ♪ A promised land, of thee I tell ♪
• 24:45 ♪ Receive thy kingdom, Israel ♪
• 24:56 ♪ When we're there, when we're there ♪
• 24:57 ♪ in the land of Zion, next year in Jerusalem ♪
• 25:01 ♪ L'Shana Haba'ah B'Yerushalayim ♪
• 25:04 ♪ Next year in Jerusalem ♪
• 25:06 ♪ O Lord, we'll be with you and no more tears ♪
• 25:09 ♪ O Lord, thy kingdom come ♪
• 25:10 ♪ Thy will be done next year ♪
• 25:12 ♪ L'Shana Haba'ah B'Yerushalayim ♪
• 25:15 ♪ Next year in Jerusalem ♪
• 25:17 ♪ L'Shana Haba'ah B'Yerushalayim ♪
• 25:20 ♪ Next year in Jerusalem ♪♪
• 25:28 Kirsten: We are almost at the end of our brand-new series,
• 25:31 "Return to Eden," and we just wanted to let you know
• 25:34 that this series, all programs in this series,
• 25:37 are available on a DVD for purchase.
• 25:40 And I am a Sunday school teacher, and this is a wonderful
• 25:43 resource that you can pop in the DVD, play it for your classes,
• 25:48 small groups, Sunday school.
• 25:50 Every program, every series that we have is available.
• 25:53 Go to levitt.com and look at the different series that we have.
• 25:56 And it's a great resource for people.
• 25:58 Jeffrey: It really is, and it helps us pay the bills.
• 26:00 Kirsten: It does. David: Right, can I say this?
• 26:02 About this series, we have felt your passion about every viewer
• 26:06 or a family member having a personal relationship
• 26:09 with Christ.
• 26:11 Jeffrey: Yes, I certainly would--
• 26:12 David: Thank you.
• 26:14 Jeffrey: I don't wanna just be some eccentric theologian.
• 26:15 It's all about joining people.
• 26:16 We've all been kicked out of the Garden.
• 26:18 For me, early Genesis isn't about them, it's about me,
• 26:21 and God has a plan to bring us all back together.
• 26:24 And we all live in a desert in so many ways.
• 26:26 We could use a little garden space in our life.
• 26:29 David: And I think you have a testimony of where you came from
• 26:32 to where you are now, teaching about this passion about Eden
• 26:37 Jeffrey: Who's to think--I never thought I'd be a teacher.
• 26:38 I was such a bad student earlier on in life.
• 26:40 Kirsten: I wasn't a great one either.
• 26:42 Jeffrey: I heard you had problems in college.
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