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Episode: “2022 — The Year in Review”

David and Kirsten Hart join Dr. Jeffrey Seif in reviewing the teaching series presented during this past year. These include 1) The Warrior King 2) Kings and Kingdoms, 3) Jeremiah: Hope Over the Horizon, 4) Faith of Our Fathers, and 5) Much Like Peter.

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Caption transcript for “2022 — The Year in Review”

00:03 David Hart: Welcome to "Our Jewish Roots" with insightful Bible teaching by Dr. Jeffrey Seif. On today's special program,
00:12 we review what the Lord has done through our ministry this year.
00:18 David: We are so thankful you've joined us today.
00:20 I am David Hart.
00:21 Kirsten Hart: I'm Kirsten Hart.
00:23 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Jeffrey Seif.
00:24 David: Well, it's another year that we have been
00:25 sitting at this table together.
00:28 Dr. Seif, I can't believe we're at the end of 2022.
00:31 It's been a good year for us. I don't know about you.
00:33 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Well, yes, it's been great sitting here
00:34 and I'm so appreciative of our friends that sit there
00:38 and are interested in what we have to share.
00:40 Kirsten: They do--all of you make this happen,
00:42 and we're in a season of thankfulness so, of course,
00:45 we're thankful for our viewers.
00:46 We're thankful for you. Tell us real quick.
00:49 I know you have a new degree in 2022, right?
00:52 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Well, the Lord graced, I pressed through
00:54 COVID and went back and forth to England many times and
00:56 finished up a degree from Cambridge University and
00:59 I'm pleased about that.
01:01 Now I'm pivoting again to go at it again, another 5-year journey
01:04 at Cambridge, but I like to keep learning.
01:07 I think the best teachers are students themselves, so.
01:10 David: Something I am so thankful for, our second time
01:13 to Israel this year, hallelujah.
01:16 It's been a while but we're back.
01:17 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: It's all opening up again, isn't it?
01:19 People are going to visit, you know.
01:21 COVID is kind of receding into the background and
01:24 I'm pleased about that.
01:26 Kirsten: And we just got back from our first
01:28 tour back from COVID.
01:30 You know, we filmed there a couple of times, you
01:32 were just there recently.
01:34 And we brought our first tour group to the Holy Land and we
01:38 just didn't know if that would be something that we'd do ever
01:40 again, so incredibly thankful.
01:43 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Yes.
01:44 Kirsten: To look back on this year and we started out this
01:46 year with the series about King David, right?
01:48 You taught that to us.
01:49 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Well, it was called "The Warrior King,"
01:51 and I was interested in David-like leadership
01:54 for Goliath-like times.
01:56 I think we need strong leadership, we need biblical
01:58 leadership, and I like taking a look at the book, the good book,
02:02 and looking at a great leader therein, David.
02:04 David: That's good.
02:05 Right now, let's look at some excerpts from that program.
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02:54 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: We are in a place that I wasn't
02:56 planning on taking you to.
02:57 I wasn't planning on being here myself.
03:00 I didn't know about this place a week ago.
03:03 Came here to Israel to shoot a series called
03:05 "The Warrior King" on David.
03:07 Little did I know that in conjunction with our arrival and
03:10 filming, we would have one of the greatest modern discoveries
03:16 in the history of biblical archeology.
03:20 I know it sounds overstated but it isn't.
03:24 Articles are appearing on major Israeli periodicals,
03:28 on the Internet.
03:30 Right here, the northeastern hills of Elah in the ruins of
03:35 Qeiyafa, we have a fortress that dates back 1000 BC.
03:41 Now what makes this find striking--and I'm coming to
03:45 you from the middle of it.
03:48 What makes it striking is the fact that right here,
03:53 very recently unearthed were the oldest Hebrew scripts
03:58 found to date, predating the discovery of the Dead Sea
04:03 Scrolls by almost a millennia.
04:06 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: I think it's a great story.
04:08 Jesus Christ--you know, when I grew up I thought his father and
04:12 mother were Mr. and Mrs. Christ, but I was reminded that actually
04:15 Christ itself is a Greek telling of the Hebrew Mashiach, Messiah,
04:23 and the word "Messiah" itself comes from a word in Hebrew,
04:27 "Anointed One."
04:29 And why is that?
04:30 Because in the Torah, there were individuals that, when they came
04:34 to office, they were anointed: prophets, priests, and kings.
04:40 And they were anointed with oil.
04:42 And here we are in an oil-making factory, just like
04:47 it was in Bible days.
04:50 And here, the olives are put in and they're ground down.
04:55 There's a number of grinding down processes to get the fruit
04:59 of the olive, to put the olives under pressure.
05:06 narrator: It was a surprise attack, and the
05:08 night belonged to David.
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05:22 narrator: In all the land of Israel there was no one who
05:24 could stand against God's anointed one.
05:26 No sword or weapon devised by man could defeat us.
05:30 [men shouting]
05:33 narrator: And the Philistines fled the night.
05:42 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Behind me is the Valley of Elah, a place
05:44 where David sparked a revolution, if you will.
05:48 For the longest, Israelites were oppressed, so pressed,
05:53 repressed, depressed, and impressed with the need that
05:57 something needed to change, and why was that?
05:59 Because the Pelishtim were working havoc over here, and not
06:04 just the Philistines here but different "stines" at different
06:07 places, and people were afraid.
06:10 They were ready for a change, if you will.
06:12 Talk about "we need change."
06:13 Well, they really wanted it.
06:15 They needed it, and the time was right.
06:18 Someone needed to stand up with some faith and
06:20 some biblical faith.
06:22 A lot of people have a lot of ideas about what needs
06:24 to happen in the world but, you know what, finally someone
06:27 stood up with God's idea.
06:29 And I love him for so doing and by virtue of his so doing, David
06:34 left a mark on biblical literature, not only in
06:37 his own day but extended for thousand years later.
06:40 It all started here.
06:42 What a fitting place to tell the story of the needing to
06:46 contend and war, if you will, for God's sake.
06:49 For us, for the most part, the implications are spiritual more
06:53 than material, but we need to recover that radical edge and I
06:56 wanna talk to you about that edge as we look at "The Warrior
06:59 King" and we consider the need for David-like leadership
07:03 in these Goliath-like times.
07:09 David: That was an excerpt from our series "Warrior King."
07:12 Dr. Seif, thank you so much for your teaching on that.
07:14 Brilliant, as always.
07:16 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Well, you're kind, but the story's in
07:17 the book, in the Bible, and goodness, you know, the times
07:21 were precarious and it's great to see God's man emerge.
07:24 We saw it yesterday; I'd like to see it today too.
07:28 Kirsten: We have so many things that you bring to light
07:32 that are from the Old Testament that are current to our lives
07:35 now and we also have so many things on our website,
07:40 levitt.com, that are bringing the old to new.
07:43 If you have missed any of our series, you are welcome to
07:46 go on levitt.com 24/7, even if you can't watch our program
07:53 on your television, you can watch old series, you
07:55 can watch the current ones.
07:57 We also have something that is wonderful that I kind of
08:00 discovered, looking on our website the other day.
08:02 It's called LLX, so LL is our Levitt Letter monthly
08:06 publication that we send out, but if you want timely,
08:10 up-to-date current events happening in Israel,
08:13 get on our website.
08:15 There's all kinds of information.
08:17 You can buy books, you can buy our series.
08:19 Gosh, I could go on and on about our website.
08:23 David: One of our series that we brought you this
08:25 last year is about Jeremiah.
08:28 Let's go to an excerpt right now about his life.
08:34 narrator: In the 6th century BC, one man stood alone against the
08:39 prevailing wickedness of God's people in the land of Judah.
08:43 The prophet Jeremiah was chosen by the Lord to warn of impending
08:48 judgment that would come at the hands of the Babylonians.
08:52 Visions of an exile left him heartbroken and in tears.
08:57 But Jeremiah remained faithful to his calling and recorded a
09:01 message that would speak to generations yet to come.
09:06 Standing tall, with faith in God, he understood better days
09:11 were coming and there was hope over the horizon.
09:20 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: It was a tough message.
09:22 Jeremiah explained what he meant by it.
09:24 He was explicit in his prophetic inventory.
09:28 If you look at the first 24 chapters of Jeremiah, it's an
09:31 anthology Baruch has assembled, his scribe, his helper, his
09:37 messages that were put to print and read and then destroyed,
09:42 and then put to print again.
09:44 He wasn't a popular fellow, to be sure.
09:46 People turned on him, and you can understand why: He did not
09:50 have a happy-clappy message.
09:52 His word was repent or else.
09:55 What was lacking in the world?
09:59 Truth, justice, and righteousness.
10:05 That was his day, but can I just ask you the question
10:09 rhetorically: isn't that so much like our own day as well?
10:17 You can pick up a newspaper or listen to a radio, watch
10:20 television, get the news, but the news is colored
10:24 by all kinds of views.
10:27 The coloration of it sometimes obfuscates the story,
10:32 that is, it blurs it, it hides it.
10:35 And I don't know today if we can trust across the board that our
10:40 news really is giving us the news, but rather it's giving us
10:45 political views, driven by particular agendas.
10:53 And what about justice?
10:55 We hear justice for this person, justice for that.
10:59 Justice is a really good thing, and I believe we should stand
11:05 for it, and I believe we should decry injustice.
11:11 There should be no place for it.
11:14 If you look at our founding documents in our culture,
11:17 there is a premium on justice for all, and that
11:22 should be held inviolate.
11:25 But quite frankly, I'm not sure the justice today, itself, or
11:30 the language of what's just, equitable, and fair, isn't
11:34 succumbing to all kinds of political intrigue, with
11:38 the net result that there's injustice that is parroted
11:42 in the name of justice.
11:51 narrator: Jeremiah has been a faithful servant of the Lord.
11:54 The message given to his people Judah had largely gone unheeded,
11:59 recorded for many years by his devoted scribe, Baruch.
12:03 But while the prophetic message had led to Judah's exile,
12:08 there was a better day coming.
12:11 There was still hope over the horizon.
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12:40 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: And that's the gospel truth.
12:42 It is to say that God so loved the world that he gave his only
12:48 Son that whoever would believe in him, irrespective of past
12:54 sins and circumstance, whoever, irrespective, would not perish,
13:01 but have everlasting life.
13:05 That's the Newer Testament version of the story.
13:08 Here in Jeremiah he's explicit that God will raise up unto
13:15 David, through him, I should say, this messianic deliverer,
13:21 and through him people will be saved, all people.
13:27 When I look in Jeremiah's world, there's tough stories
13:30 there but he sees beyond it and he knows indeed
13:35 there's hope over the horizon.
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13:49 Kirsten: Hope you enjoyed those highlights from our
13:52 "Prophet Jeremiah" series.
13:54 There were some harsh words that Jeremiah had for the
13:58 nation of Israel but there was always hope.
14:01 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: It was a tough moment politically.
14:03 It was a tough moment spiritually.
14:05 He spoke to the moment but he spoke beyond the moment.
14:08 That's the genius of Jeremiah.
14:11 Kirsten: It is, and the genius of this program is the
14:13 fact that we can take you to the Holy Land and you can see the
14:18 restored Israel that Jeremiah talked about.
14:21 Just incredible.
14:22 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Yes, and for those that don't go
14:24 with us to the land, we can show it to you through
14:27 the media that is television.
14:30 I wanna thank you for those of you that help us
14:33 get that job done.
14:35 I mention that because, if it wasn't for you, sitting there
14:40 and caring and sharing, we wouldn't be sitting here
14:43 caring and sharing as well.
14:45 And thank you for that.
14:46 Me, I think--I'm 67 years of age, one of the benefits--and
14:51 I'm oftentimes reminded of the problems associated with age.
14:54 One of the benefits is kids are grown up, house is paid for.
14:58 I'm not as worried about paying the bills as I was when
15:01 I was 30, 40, and 50.
15:03 There's a few extra dollars to spend and I like investing it.
15:07 If you're like me and find value in what we do, please invest in
15:11 the kingdom through "Our Jewish Roots," and do it today.
15:17 David: I know it's not good to have favorite series but
15:19 I've got to say one of my favorite series this
15:22 year was "Much Like Peter."
15:24 I think it's because we were able to go to Israel, sing
15:27 together on the Sea of Galilee.
15:30 We had dramatic reenactments that were filmed there on the
15:33 Sea of Galilee and Dr. Seif's teaching was so good.
15:36 Let's see some highlights from that program right now.
15:43 narrator: Sunrise on the Galilee.
15:46 Simon Peter prepares his nets for a day at sea.
15:49 Much like the sea, Peter was unpredictable, calm and steady
15:55 and then, in an instant, tempestuous.
15:59 As we reflect upon the Lord's most intriguing disciple,
16:03 we can see ourselves because we too have been broken
16:07 and then restored.
16:10 We too, in so many ways, are much like Peter.
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17:38 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Matityahu tells us that they were really
17:41 in trouble and far away from land, in fact.
17:45 And in verse 24, we're told they were a long way out.
17:48 A number of stadia, "many stadia."
17:52 Stadia in antiquity harks to a term about 600 feet if we're
17:56 looking at 2 football fields.
17:58 And they were many stadia out.
18:00 They were in a bad way. They were in trouble.
18:03 The sea was storm-tossed and these were hardened fishermen,
18:07 you know, they could handle tough terrain in the water, but
18:09 they were far out and it was the middle of the night,
18:11 you know, 3 to 6 a.m.
18:14 They did what the Lord told 'em to do, but
18:16 they sailed into trouble.
18:17 We're told in verse 25, "In the fourth watch of the night,"
18:21 again, this is using terms in antiquity, 3 to 6 a.m., "Yeshua
18:27 came to them, walking on the sea," according to the story.
18:31 Fascinating, "and they cried out with fear."
18:35 You know, the Bible speaks of fear.
18:37 [speaking in Hebrew] It's reverence.
18:38 This is panic, it's not reverence.
18:40 They're already in a bad way 'cause of their circumstances
18:43 but now things seem to have gotten worse.
18:46 We're looking at a snapshot here.
18:49 We're looking at a moment in the disciples' experience with
18:53 Yeshua where something very significant happened.
18:57 We see Yeshua appearing in a flash of heavenly light.
19:01 We see Moshe Rabbeinu, Moses, and Eliyyahu, they're with him.
19:07 There's a kind of congruence here between
19:09 the Testament stories.
19:11 There's a credence here that is that Yeshua is
19:15 the one of whom they spoke.
19:17 There's a kind of connectivity here.
19:20 There is--they're pointing to him and here
19:23 they are conversing with him.
19:26 Yeshua told the disciples to go into all the
19:29 world but they didn't go.
19:31 Sometimes there's a chasm between the rhetoric
19:34 and the reality.
19:35 I mention that because to get Peter to go into all the world,
19:39 God had to come and get him.
19:41 You know the story, we recounted it earlier, that a
19:43 vision comes to him, a blanket with all kinds of animals
19:47 in it that he doesn't eat.
19:49 "Eat, Pete," is the word, and this goes back
19:52 and forth three times.
19:54 We're told in Acts chapter 10, verse 19, that he's mulling his
19:59 vision around and all of a sudden, boom, boom, boom, he
20:02 hears a knock on the door.
20:03 And some messengers show up.
20:06 And it's rather interesting.
20:07 And they have a word for Peter in verse 22.
20:10 They say, "Cornelius."
20:13 These are dispatchers from Cornelius who had sent them
20:16 to Peter to get him to come and talk to him.
20:19 "Cornelius," we're told, "a centurion, a righteous and
20:23 God-fearing man well spoken of by all the Jewish people, was
20:26 directed by an angel for us to come and get you."
20:29 Coming from this place and coming from this book that
20:33 was--that tells the story of this place, oh, friends, I think
20:38 of the grace of God that is so very big, and it extends to
20:42 sinners like me and you and like those people that perform poorly
20:46 in our webs of relationships.
20:50 Oh, in so many ways we're all much like Peter.
20:54 Inasmuch as God gave Peter a break, would that we would do
20:58 the same for the Peters in our own world.
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21:11 Kirsten: The Peter series, in my opinion, is spectacular, is
21:15 just gorgeous visually also.
21:19 But I think what our people don't see is you had to battle
21:22 some rain, didn't you, and some wind and--
21:24 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: You can't control the environment.
21:25 You know, here we're in the studio.
21:27 You can control lights and sound.
21:28 You just got to work with it out there.
21:30 Happily, we have a great crew.
21:32 In America, you know, once of our guys, Bill Elliott, does
21:35 contract work with "National Geographic."
21:38 He's been in worse environments and learned to manage it.
21:41 And between the crew that we bring to Israel and the crew
21:44 that works with us there, it's straight up good team that we
21:49 can make it happen, irrespective of the weather.
21:51 Kirsten: Right, and we have a good team behind the scenes that
21:53 also run all of our social media sites.
21:58 They're quiet, they're not on camera all the time, but if you
22:01 are looking to find out what is currently happening in Israel,
22:06 to watch our programs, we are all over social media.
22:10 Dave, where are we?
22:12 David: YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Rumble, Instagram,
22:16 Vimeo, Dailymotion; you just have to go to
22:19 "Our Jewish Roots," and we'll be there.
22:22 Kirsten: Yeah, we're all over.
22:24 Something on YouTube especially that kind of, shall I say,
22:28 caught fire was our standalone program all about the
22:30 red heifer, and people are watching it; probably, as
22:34 we speak, they're watching it.
22:36 And we wanted to give you a little tidbit, an insight,
22:39 into what everybody is watching on YouTube.
22:43 Here's some of our red heifer program.
22:49 [men speaking in Hebrew]
22:55 Chanan Kuperski: [speaking in Hebrew]
23:04 So we have here rabbis, bigwig rabbis from the land of Israel.
23:08 All came out here and heard the news from last time that
23:11 we came out here, and they were dashing from excitement
23:16 and ecstatic of what they heard.
23:20 And we're hoping today--we just said a small prayer,
23:22 we just said now--we're hoping that God will help us inspect
23:27 and find the red heifer, if it's one, if it's two,
23:31 if it's many, it's many.
23:32 So we just are about now to do the inspection.
23:37 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: And the inspection begins.
23:40 According to Numbers chapter 19, a red heifer must be without
23:43 defect or blemish, nothing, and must have never
23:47 been placed under a yoke.
23:50 Well, these rabbis from Israel used the Mishnah, an ancient
23:53 oral collection of Jewish traditions, and with those
23:56 in mind, they meticulously inspect the hairs of
24:01 the heifer to be precise.
24:03 Not only must the cow be pure and red, but it cannot contain
24:07 more than two hairs of a different color.
24:10 Imagine that.
24:11 The cow has to be at least three years old, never haltered,
24:15 and never impregnated.
24:18 These qualifications have made the search for a perfect red
24:20 heifer a near impossibility throughout history.
24:25 And then, there's today.
24:28 Byron Stinson: There's a group of rabbis that have come
24:29 from Israel to find the perfect red heifer and that matters
24:34 because they wanna build the third temple.
24:37 They believe that if they build the third temple, the Messiah
24:41 will come, but that can't start until they find a cow,
24:44 a red heifer, without blemish, and then they want to kill
24:48 it, burn its ashes, mix its ashes from the springs
24:53 of the Gihon Springs.
24:55 That would be the closest spring to the temple, and then with a
24:59 special hyssop, sprinkle the water on the people at the
25:04 ceremony, and then the Spirit of the Lord will come
25:07 upon the people and that's the beginning of the construction
25:10 of the third temple.
25:13 Levi Chazan: These are the blueprints of the field school.
25:16 You see over here, this is the hill that's right behind us,
25:21 with the one-to-one scale of the temple and
25:24 the altar inside of it.
25:26 And what we're building over here, the model, you have to
25:28 realize this is not just a small version of it.
25:31 This is actually one-to-one scale of the same temple which
25:34 was in Jerusalem 2000 years, which stood there.
25:38 We're talking about a--the building which is
25:41 about 20 stories high.
25:43 Just the altar itself is 5 meters, and it's humungous task.
25:47 It's unbelievable task to undertake, but we plan to build
25:51 it over here on this mountain.
25:53 You can see over here the blueprints for the altar itself.
25:56 This is, obviously, the main--the main part of the work
25:59 of the field school, because this is where most of the work
26:02 of the priests took place, was on the altar itself.
26:09 Itshack "Tsaki" Momo: Let me translate what he said.
26:11 He said we think we've found--we think we've found a red heifer.
26:16 female: What? male: Wow.
26:23 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: This ministry does Israel,
26:25 this ministry does prophecy.
26:27 Looking at cattle making their way to Israel.
26:30 Some don't see much in it but there's indeed something to it
26:33 because before the temple is reconstructed, there needs
26:36 to be a special sacrifice with a red heifer, according
26:40 to Jewish religious authorities.
26:42 And we're seeing they made their way to Israel.
26:45 We love bringing you the news.
26:47 We think there's something special in this,
26:49 and I trust you agree.
26:51 Kirsten: Right, five made it to Israel safe and sound, right?
26:55 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Yes, they're just looking for one.
26:56 They got some extras.
26:58 Kirsten: They're gonna enjoy--those five are gonna live
26:59 a nice life, right now, I think.
27:02 And we just wanna say thank you to all of you
27:04 that make this program happen.
27:06 You kept us on the air for this year, for 2022.
27:10 We did it, we made it through, and thank you for everything
27:12 that you did, and all the teaching.
27:14 David: It's been a good year.
27:15 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Well, the real heroes are the ones we don't
27:17 see; I get to sit here on the set with you guys and stand in
27:19 Israel and you sing there, but we do it because you do it.
27:23 Thank you for helping us.
27:25 The whole gospel story spreads because people care to share.
27:30 Approaching the end of the year, please dig a little deep and
27:32 help us get into next year.
27:34 We surely would appreciate it, and I believe you
27:36 will be blessed for so doing.
27:38 David: And it's time to go now.
27:40 We leave you with a song from our founder,
27:42 Zola Levitt, and also--
27:43 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: A word from the Scripture:
27:45 Shaalu shalom Yerushalayim.
27:47 David: Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.
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28:26 David: This has been a paid program brought to you
28:28 by Zola Levitt Ministries.

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