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Episode: “Place for Israel”
Despite past failures, the Jewish people’s regathering in their ancestral homeland as a modern nation provides visible proof of God’s presence and providence.
Series: “Dateline Jerusalem”
The Coming Temple
The Lord’s divine plan revolved around a specific people, a place, and a promise. This ten-part series spotlights plans to reconstruct the Temple in Jerusalem featuring Dr. Jeffrey Seif, with the Bearded Bible Brothers, and David and Kirsten Hart.
Transcript
Caption transcript for Dateline Jerusalem: “Place for Israel” (6/10)
- 00:08 male announcer: God could have chosen anywhere on Earth, but he chose Israel. He could have revealed
- 00:16 his redemption anywhere; he chose Jerusalem.
- 00:18 The house of the Lord might have been any place on Earth;
- 00:22 he chose Mount Moriah.
- 00:24 Past, present, and future, the mountain of the Lord has been a
- 00:28 beacon of hope and remains a strategic site for the next
- 00:33 temple of God.
- 00:36 "Dateline Jerusalem: The Coming Temple."
- 00:42 David Hart: We are so glad you've joined us today.
- 00:44 Kirsten Hart: We are in our series
- 00:46 "Dateline Jerusalem."
- 00:47 We have the two gorgeous brothers, sorry, David.
- 00:51 David: Hey!
- 00:53 Kirsten: These Jewish guys that are sitting in these
- 00:54 important seats today.
- 00:55 We're thankful that you're here on set,
- 00:57 teaching us.
- 00:58 Joshua Colson: We've very grateful to be here.
- 00:59 Kirsten: Yeah, I--we travel as a ministry to Israel a lot,
- 01:03 two times a year on tours.
- 01:05 I love traveling, but there's something about coming home
- 01:09 and having a place to land.
- 01:12 And that's what we're talking about today,
- 01:13 right, with the Jewish people.
- 01:15 Joshua: That is.
- 01:16 You see, you take that for granted because not everybody's
- 01:18 always had that, and the Jewish people,
- 01:20 for 2000 years, were scattered and didn't have a place
- 01:22 to call home.
- 01:23 Caleb Colson: That's true. Joshua: Then all of a sudden.
- 01:25 Caleb: Here it happens.
- 01:26 In Isaiah 66:8 it was prophesied,
- 01:28 "Can a nation be born in a day?"
- 01:30 And the answer is yes, on May 14, 1948,
- 01:34 prophecy fulfilled for this generation's own eyes,
- 01:37 that's a miracle.
- 01:38 David: We go now to Dr. Seif's teaching in one of my
- 01:40 favorite places: the Eastern Gate in Jerusalem.
- 01:43 Let's go there now.
- 01:46 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: I love the Kidron Valley and I love the
- 01:49 fact that I'm coming to you from it.
- 01:51 You can see the Eastern Jerusalem wall behind me and
- 01:55 this beautiful picture of terraced gardens.
- 02:00 Of course, you hear some noise too because the Kidron Valley is
- 02:03 right up against a major thoroughfare here,
- 02:07 and tourists are just coming all around this city,
- 02:10 wanting to get a piece of the miracle that is Israel.
- 02:14 I can't control the noise, I can't control the voice that
- 02:16 comes from all of that, but I wanna look at the voice from
- 02:19 this, the Bible itself, and underscore with you how and why
- 02:24 it is that this land is so very special.
- 02:27 What it is that makes it that.
- 02:29 Well, I'm looking at Ezekiel 37 here and we're looking at
- 02:32 prophetic literature, and the author says in verse 5,
- 02:36 he says--
- 02:37 [speaking in Hebrew]
- 02:43 "And you will dwell in the land that I've given
- 02:47 to Jacob My servant--"
- 02:49 [speaking in Hebrew]
- 02:53 "the land where your fathers dwelt."
- 02:57 You've heard of Israel referred to as the Promised Land,
- 03:01 and here, Ezekiel is speaking to refugees and he gives voice to
- 03:05 the fact that they're gonna come back to this land and,
- 03:09 by the way, we're living in the coming back to the land moment.
- 03:12 I mean, it really is one of those stories where you find
- 03:15 something in the biblical Word and in the modern newspaper and
- 03:19 you can look at those two in tandem.
- 03:22 The prophet predicted a return and we're living in the return
- 03:26 which is why I'm coming to you here from the Kidron Valley.
- 03:30 Now, God's gonna do something special here and it says--or he
- 03:34 says, rather, as I go on through 25,
- 03:37 that this is a land that was bequeathed to not only Jacob,
- 03:41 but his children and his children's children,
- 03:43 and he says--
- 03:44 [speaking in Hebrew]
- 03:46 that is, throughout all generations or forever.
- 03:49 Now, a Bible reader knows that God gave a people real estate.
- 03:57 People wonder why the Jews read the Bible
- 04:00 and they can't see Jesus.
- 04:01 I wonder why Christians read the Bible and can't see Jews because
- 04:05 it seems so rather clear in the literature that God gave a
- 04:08 people a land.
- 04:11 What is it that makes the place so special?
- 04:15 And it's not the fact that Hebrew people live in it,
- 04:19 and our Arab cousins and others.
- 04:23 What makes it special isn't the human inhabitants of it,
- 04:27 though it's given to certain people.
- 04:30 What makes it special according to the text,
- 04:33 and I wanna pick up here in verse 26,
- 04:35 the Lord says--
- 04:36 [speaking in Hebrew]
- 04:41 "And I will set My sanctuary in it."
- 04:45 What makes the place is the fact that God makes this his place.
- 04:52 It was like that since the dawn of creation,
- 04:54 actually, in Gan Eden and we explored this earlier.
- 04:58 In Eden, God dwelt with humankind.
- 05:02 If one asks the question, "Where was Eden?"
- 05:06 well, Eden in antiquity is Israel in biblical literature
- 05:11 and modern Israel is, in effect, the real estate where God dwelt
- 05:17 with his people.
- 05:19 And the sanctuary was to be built here that he might dwell
- 05:24 with them again.
- 05:25 Now, when you look at biblical prophecy,
- 05:28 and this program deals with it, when we look at "Dateline
- 05:32 Jerusalem" we're interested in the story,
- 05:34 to be sure, of what's happening here in this land.
- 05:39 But there's an undercurrent.
- 05:41 It's not simply displaced persons returning to an
- 05:44 ancestral homeland, though it is that.
- 05:47 But in conjunction with that, religious sensibilities are
- 05:52 brought to bear.
- 05:54 Not with all Israelis; many tend to be very,
- 05:56 very secular, but amongst the religious,
- 06:00 who are more tethered to biblical ways of thinking and
- 06:04 being because religious Jews understand themselves to be
- 06:08 people of the book.
- 06:10 There's an inextricable relationship between the people
- 06:13 and the Bible.
- 06:14 And with that attention to the Bible,
- 06:18 there's an inextricable relationship between the Hebrew
- 06:21 people and the land.
- 06:23 Now, with the return to the land,
- 06:26 Bible readers are cueing into the fact that God is going to
- 06:30 rebuild his sanctuary here in the land,
- 06:34 and it's part of that forever future package that is--
- 06:38 it's for future days to come.
- 06:41 It's for the world to come.
- 06:42 He says, again, just in verse 26: "And I will set My sanctuary
- 06:47 in the midst," and it's all part of religious Jewish anticipation
- 06:53 of a rebuilding of a temple once upon a time that existed behind
- 06:58 me and, in time, they believe it's going to be built and
- 07:02 dedicated again.
- 07:07 Caleb: The International Christian Embassy Jerusalem has
- 07:10 sensed a growing interest in Zion's importance
- 07:13 in the end times.
- 07:14 They host an annual event during Sukkot,
- 07:16 the Feast of Tabernacles, attended by more
- 07:18 than 2000 Christians from 70 countries.
- 07:21 We asked David Parsons, vice president of the Embassy,
- 07:25 what he believed the most important sign was concerning
- 07:28 the end of the age.
- 07:30 David Parsons: Well, the return of the Jewish people to
- 07:33 their ancient homeland is clearly the most unmistakable
- 07:38 sign to our generation that we're nearing
- 07:42 the end of the age.
- 07:43 All the prophets talk about it.
- 07:45 All of 'em agree that there's a process going on.
- 07:48 We don't know exactly how long this will take to play out,
- 07:53 but it's a sign that just as the building of the ark was a sign
- 08:03 to the ancient world that you're about to be judged.
- 08:08 When Noah built the ark in humility and obedience before
- 08:12 God, he condemned the rest of the world
- 08:15 to his righteous judgment.
- 08:17 And the most unmistakable sign to us that we're nearing the end
- 08:23 of the age and God's judgment of the nations is the building up
- 08:27 of Zion.
- 08:28 This is Psalm--the book of Psalms that when the Lord shall
- 08:32 build up Zion, he shall appear in his glory,
- 08:35 this time to judge the nations, to rule in righteousness and
- 08:38 peace on the throne of David from Jerusalem
- 08:42 over all the nations.
- 08:43 So, you know, the Temple Mount is basically that throne of the
- 08:48 Lord for what we call the millennium or the Messianic age.
- 08:55 Caleb: Yehuda Glick is a former Knesset member and an
- 08:58 outspoken advocate for the rights of all nations to worship
- 09:01 upon the Temple Mount.
- 09:04 Yehuda Glick: Psalm 125-- 132, God called upon Zion.
- 09:08 God wants us to choose Zion.
- 09:12 That's the meeting place. He's inviting us to a date.
- 09:16 "Come to a date with me," God says.
- 09:18 HaShem says, "Come to a date with me, where?
- 09:21 In my holy dwelling place, Zion, house of prayer
- 09:26 for all nations."
- 09:29 Not all nations called to convert to Judaism.
- 09:32 All nations to remain who they are.
- 09:34 You're Indonesian, or you're American,
- 09:37 or you're Dutch, or you're Moroccan,
- 09:39 or you're Tunisian, or you're Chinese,
- 09:43 but there's one HaShem.
- 09:45 We're all part of one harmony. We're diverse.
- 09:51 Some of us are violins and some of us are drums and some of us
- 09:54 are trumpets and some of us are saxophones and some of us are
- 09:56 cellos and some of us are pianos.
- 09:59 But we're all playing in the same symphony,
- 10:02 in the same orchestra.
- 10:04 The orchestra that's called about,
- 10:05 that we want to announce, "He is One,
- 10:07 his name is One."
- 10:10 ♪♪♪
- 10:16 David Hart: Kirsten and I have had the privilege of being
- 10:19 in the office of Yehuda Glick.
- 10:21 It really was kind of life-changing.
- 10:23 His passion, his stories were just incredible.
- 10:27 Kirsten: He--you're right.
- 10:28 He is so passionate, but he also gives these beautiful word
- 10:32 pictures and I grew up playing the cello and it's a big violin.
- 10:38 So I grew up playing in symphonies and when Yehuda just
- 10:41 said and he mentioned about, "We're all playing in the same
- 10:45 symphony of praise to God," it gave me goosebumps 'cause I love
- 10:50 playing my cello in the symphonies,
- 10:52 and I can't even imagine what it'd be all together to lead
- 10:56 worship and sing.
- 10:57 Caleb: I find that amazing how he has that understanding of
- 10:59 God's nature, of the unity that God wants in the body of
- 11:03 Messiah, but it's so close but so far.
- 11:06 He says, you know, he wants the temple to be a house of prayer
- 11:08 for all nations.
- 11:09 That's prophesied but it won't occur till Yeshua is ruling from
- 11:12 that temple.
- 11:14 So the next temple that's gonna be built,
- 11:15 there's no way to bring Hindus and Muslims and Buddhists and
- 11:18 everybody together to that until Yeshua is the unifying factor.
- 11:22 And so, yeah, Israel was reborn in a day,
- 11:25 but that was a super sign as David Parsons said,
- 11:29 you know, previously, like the ark was a sign that judgment
- 11:33 was to come.
- 11:34 This is a sign that something bad is coming.
- 11:36 Yeah, there's good, God will redeem his people.
- 11:39 But a tribulation is coming which most people
- 11:41 fail to recognize.
- 11:42 Kirsten: If you don't mind, I'm jumping in real quick,
- 11:46 we've grown up in the church and we grow up thinking,
- 11:49 "Oh, that third temple is gonna be so horrible.
- 11:52 It's the antichrist temple, which is what you're teaching,
- 11:54 which is right.
- 11:56 But I'll tell you, listening to some of these special guests we
- 11:59 have throughout our program, there's a part of me,
- 12:01 I'm like, "Ooh, that third temple's gonna be wonderful."
- 12:05 So, it's hard, 'cause you see what--
- 12:06 Caleb: Is an answer to prayer for them.
- 12:08 Kirsten: I know, and the passion.
- 12:10 I wanna jump in that.
- 12:11 But then I also have the head knowledge of what we read
- 12:14 in the Bible.
- 12:15 That's--it's hard.
- 12:16 Caleb: And during the Tribulation,
- 12:18 everything will be going well for the Jewish people.
- 12:19 First 3 1/2 years they're worshiping God in the temple.
- 12:23 It's at the middle point that everything turns against them.
- 12:25 So it's--that's what we gotta remember, you know?
- 12:28 It will not end up well.
- 12:30 They need to know Yeshua now as their Savior.
- 12:32 David: Love this topic.
- 12:33 More on it in a little bit, but right now we go back
- 12:36 to Dr. Seif's teaching in Jerusalem.
- 12:40 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: I've been making television
- 12:42 in Israel for years.
- 12:44 And usually, when you set up a site to shoot,
- 12:47 you're looking for quiet.
- 12:48 Well, good luck here, you know, it's just not gonna happen
- 12:52 because the throngs.
- 12:54 I mean, it was intense just getting to location.
- 12:57 And if you're wondering what the location is,
- 12:59 well, the site behind me is a famous one: City of Jerusalem,
- 13:05 the Temple Mount.
- 13:07 Of course, there's a Islamic shrine there.
- 13:10 In Bible days, of course, there was the Jewish temple and we've
- 13:12 been looking at that in the series and,
- 13:14 by the way, there are hundreds and thousands of people around
- 13:18 me right now, looking at it.
- 13:20 It was an incredible traffic jam just to get here early
- 13:22 in the morning.
- 13:23 And all around me, there are throngs,
- 13:25 people coming just to experience.
- 13:28 Well, I could say the experience of modern Israel,
- 13:31 I think, a lot of times people wanna go see where Jesus
- 13:34 walked yesterday.
- 13:36 Not as interested in where he's walking today.
- 13:39 And again, I'm not casting aspersions on people around me.
- 13:42 I don't like to generalize or criticize anyway,
- 13:44 but beyond looking at the old bricks in Israel,
- 13:48 there's the story of the new ones and what God is doing here
- 13:52 in this start-up nation, and that's what it's called
- 13:55 in so many ways.
- 13:57 So much commerce, so much industry, so much innovation,
- 14:01 so much energy comes now from this miracle,
- 14:06 which some appropriately refer to as a miracle in the desert.
- 14:10 The land was barren. There was nothing here.
- 14:12 But now in so many ways, it's come to life,
- 14:15 and on so many days, so many people are making their way here
- 14:19 to come and experience the life and,
- 14:20 indeed, it's the trip of a lifetime.
- 14:24 In Bible days a prophet spoke of the day
- 14:26 when the nations will come.
- 14:28 Ezekiel in so many ways is my go-to source in this series,
- 14:33 and here in chapter 37 at the very end,
- 14:36 I wanna read this to you because it's so appropriate with all of
- 14:39 the peoples round about me.
- 14:40 The prophet closes the chapter
- 14:42 in verse 28, saying--
- 14:45 [speaking in Hebrew]
- 14:48 "And the nations will know that I am the LORD."
- 14:53 Israel's reemergence, in effect, is a testimony
- 14:57 to the world at large.
- 15:00 And as I've said, and as you can probably hear,
- 15:03 there's the world at large around me right now.
- 15:05 So many languages, even as I speak.
- 15:07 He goes on to say not just--
- 15:09 [speaking in Hebrew]
- 15:12 that the nations might know that I am the LORD,"
- 15:14 he says in conjunction with
- 15:16 [speaking in Hebrew]
- 15:18 "when I sanctify Israel,
- 15:20 when I do that special work in the land."
- 15:23 And there's a real special sanctifying work in the land
- 15:26 going on right now.
- 15:28 And then, finally--
- 15:30 [speaking in Hebrew]
- 15:35 "And My sanctuary will be in their midst for ever."
- 15:40 Now, there's that Hebrew word "le'olam" that's ubiquitous in
- 15:43 Ezekiel, that when he talks about the people regathering and
- 15:50 a temple being reconstructed, the word "le'olam" is attached
- 15:56 to it over and over and over again, "forever."
- 16:00 I mention that because some will read Ezekiel and understandably
- 16:04 say, "Well, you know, the prophet there was talking about
- 16:06 people coming back from exile in Babylonia," going back to Bible
- 16:12 times, and we've looked at that, we've unpacked that.
- 16:15 Yeah, you know, they came back then and the prophecy's already
- 16:19 been fulfilled.
- 16:21 The nations observed the miracle,
- 16:23 the reconstruction of the temple.
- 16:26 Some then say that the story of the emergence of modern Israel,
- 16:31 while it might be interesting, it's not theologically
- 16:34 significant because God is through with the Jew.
- 16:37 That's their perspective.
- 16:39 And thus, some would incline to look at texts like the one that
- 16:42 I just read wherein the author envisions God's regathering the
- 16:46 Hebrew people back to the land and rebuilding the temple
- 16:49 as prophecy fulfilled in yesteryear.
- 16:53 But there's this thorny word that keeps appearing that begs
- 16:56 us to look into the future and that is the word "le'olam" or
- 17:00 forever, that God's gonna do something with the regathering
- 17:04 of the nation state, with the remanufacture of the temple
- 17:08 complex over-- behind me right now,
- 17:12 and it's gonna be something that is gonna go on forever.
- 17:16 In so many ways, so many people are all around me today,
- 17:20 looking at the miracle that is indeed now and forever.
- 17:24 I mention that because, as you've heard me to say,
- 17:28 you don't need me-- to hear me to say it,
- 17:30 you can probably pick up the ambient noise: the languages,
- 17:33 peoples, cultures, they come here from every culture,
- 17:38 every tribe, every language.
- 17:40 There's a kind of magnetism here in the miracle that is Israel.
- 17:45 And why?
- 17:46 Because something's stirring. God is up to something.
- 17:50 And a reemergent temple to come is part of that thing.
- 17:54 Here, we're looking at the nation state,
- 17:56 but there are interesting things that will emerge from it and
- 18:00 we'll continue to explore that as we consider more
- 18:03 in "Dateline Jerusalem."
- 18:07 Caleb: The reemergence of a temple has caused increased
- 18:10 concern by the Islamic authority that presently oversees the
- 18:13 Temple Mount.
- 18:15 Our cameras captured the recent visit of some Jewish people
- 18:18 whose every step was monitored very carefully by police.
- 18:22 There's a prophetic sense in the air that has stirred an increase
- 18:25 in hope for many Bible believers,
- 18:28 as well as consternation by those who oppose any change
- 18:31 of the status quo upon the Mount.
- 18:34 Yehuda: Look, my master's is in history.
- 18:37 I can tell you about what was.
- 18:39 I can't tell you about the future.
- 18:41 That's--the most difficult thing for me to predict is the future.
- 18:44 But I can tell you what our mission is for today.
- 18:47 Our mission is to change the music on Temple Mount.
- 18:51 Is to make Temple Mount holy again.
- 18:53 And the way to do it is by more people coming there
- 18:55 and demanding, yes, call upon your government and tell 'em:
- 19:00 Guys, we wanna be--we want this prohibition of allowing to carry
- 19:05 a Bible in Temple Mount should be removed.
- 19:08 This prohibition of being able to worship together
- 19:10 on Zion should be removed.
- 19:14 We have to stand up for our human basic liberal religious
- 19:21 rights, to pray, to worship, to worship the one and only God.
- 19:26 Where?
- 19:28 In the place that he chose, in Zion.
- 19:29 That's the call.
- 19:32 David Parsons: Well, as a spokesman for the International
- 19:36 Christian Embassy Jerusalem, I try to speak for as broad a
- 19:41 group as I can, and especially as far as our official position.
- 19:45 We think it's good to encourage temple awareness,
- 19:49 the importance, the significance of the temple in Jewish history,
- 19:55 and I'd also add that we think it's important that Christians
- 19:59 be responsible, we practice a responsible brand of Christian
- 20:04 Zionism that we're not gonna go agitating,
- 20:07 even if we think we know exactly how things are gonna play out
- 20:10 and we wanna try and force things.
- 20:13 It's a sensitive issue, the Temple Mount.
- 20:15 It is the main fault line in the Israeli-Palestinian debate.
- 20:21 Even moving your embassies here, you can do it without blowing up
- 20:24 the Middle East, but you have a few Jews go up and pray on the
- 20:28 Temple Mount, the whole place explodes.
- 20:30 And we need to be sensitive to that and realize that and not
- 20:33 put Israel in danger.
- 20:36 Caleb: Just thinking logically,
- 20:38 the Temple Mount shouldn't be a place of turmoil and contest.
- 20:41 I mean, you look at the Qur'an, Yerushalayim,
- 20:44 the Temple Mount, the Dome of the Rock,
- 20:46 not even mentioned anywhere in that.
- 20:48 But elementary logic states, you know,
- 20:50 if the child has a ball and he doesn't play with it,
- 20:53 he doesn't want it, he doesn't care for it.
- 20:54 Another child comes, takes that ball from him,
- 20:56 then suddenly, he wants the ball.
- 20:58 It's a spiritual force, being moved by the enemy against
- 21:02 the Arab people that causes this turmoil to want something
- 21:05 they cannot have: God's holy mountain.
- 21:07 Now, I got an opportunity to sit down with Mark Hitchcock,
- 21:10 the Bible prophecy expert, where he explains
- 21:13 when this turmoil all began.
- 21:15 It was the rebirth of the state of Israel.
- 21:19 Caleb: We're back with Mark Hitchcock.
- 21:21 You're a pastor, you're a Bible prophecy teacher,
- 21:23 you're an author.
- 21:25 It's very interesting, Mark.
- 21:27 May 14, 1948, the state of Israel was reborn and,
- 21:31 before that point, people thought,
- 21:32 you know, that prophecy, you know,
- 21:34 made an allegory symbolism but it really woke up the church,
- 21:37 that event happening.
- 21:39 So was it really prophetic?
- 21:41 Some people, "Oh, maybe that really wasn't prophesied.
- 21:43 It was an accident."
- 21:44 That couldn't have been an accident, could it?
- 21:46 Mark Hitchcock: No, there's no way.
- 21:48 I mean, it's really--it's been called the Miracle
- 21:49 on the Mediterranean.
- 21:51 You had a group of people who had been banished
- 21:53 to 70 different countries for 2000 years,
- 21:56 brought back to their land.
- 21:58 Their language had died out.
- 21:59 Caleb: Yeah, it was a dead language.
- 22:01 Mark: Yeah, so it's a miracle.
- 22:02 There's no way that that could just,
- 22:04 you know, have happened.
- 22:05 And you know, and there's a lot of prophecy in Scripture that
- 22:07 tells us that.
- 22:08 Ezekiel 36 and 37 talks about this regathering to their
- 22:12 homeland of the Jewish people.
- 22:13 And I like to call 1948 and the regathering of Israel to their
- 22:16 land the super-sign of the end times,
- 22:19 because almost all the other prophecies are related in one
- 22:22 way or another to Israel being in their land.
- 22:24 You know, for instance, it says:
- 22:26 "The Antichrist, the event that starts the 7-year
- 22:28 Tribulation, Antichrist, makes a treaty with the many in Israel."
- 22:31 Well, he can't do that if they're not in Israel.
- 22:34 You have Ezekiel 38 and 39, this Gog-Magog invasion,
- 22:37 an invasion of the land of Israel.
- 22:39 Well, that comes after Ezekiel 36 and 37 where they've been
- 22:42 regathered now, back to their land so,
- 22:45 so many prophecies are dependent upon the Jewish people being
- 22:48 back in their land in the end times.
- 22:51 The whole idea of a third rebuilt Jewish temple,
- 22:54 they're not gonna rebuild a temple there if they're not back
- 22:57 in their land.
- 22:58 So that really is the super-sign in many ways,
- 23:01 and here we are now, it's been 75 years since the rebirth of
- 23:04 Israel and, you know, how much longer can this go until the
- 23:08 Rapture takes place?
- 23:09 I don't think--it doesn't seem to me
- 23:10 like very much longer.
- 23:12 Caleb: That's right.
- 23:13 I think we are barreling toward the end and we should stay ready
- 23:16 because Yeshua's coming quickly.
- 23:17 Mark: Yeah. Caleb: Well, thank you, Mark.
- 23:20 David Hart: Thank you so much, Mark, for your insight.
- 23:23 Dr. Seif, that you've seen in this series,
- 23:26 recorded this a while back and now he is traveling the world.
- 23:29 He's a busy guy and he wanted to say hi to you from Germany.
- 23:33 Here's Dr. Seif.
- 23:36 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Just finished ministering here
- 23:37 at Tuebingen in Germany.
- 23:40 If you look around here, we-- there's a lot of people at
- 23:43 the altar, you know.
- 23:45 It's a wonderful ministry center here.
- 23:47 I was able to speak from the Torah Portion of the week and we
- 23:51 looked at the spirit of this age,
- 23:52 particularly with an application,
- 23:54 you know, it manifests with all this perversion,
- 23:57 sexual, relational, gender, and otherwise in culture.
- 24:01 Great place to come here to kind of seek the Lord
- 24:03 and get purified.
- 24:06 Just greetings to all of my friends from "Our Jewish Roots"
- 24:09 from Tuebingen in Germany.
- 24:11 Was in England a few days ago and now Germany and homeward
- 24:14 bound in short order.
- 24:16 God bless.
- 24:18 Caleb: Thank you, Jeff, for those words of encouragement.
- 24:20 You're still gonna see Jeff speaking in this series,
- 24:23 "Dateline Jerusalem."
- 24:25 He's the teacher for this--be his last series and afterwards,
- 24:27 Josh and I will be taking over, but he'll still show up from
- 24:30 time to time.
- 24:31 And if you give an offering to us today,
- 24:33 we wanna give something to you in return.
- 24:35 This book, "The End" by Mark Hitchcock,
- 24:38 who I recently interviewed, along with these bookmarks,
- 24:41 will be our love gift to you.
- 24:44 Words of prophecy, words of prophecy in this book,
- 24:47 it's a lot to learn and it will encourage you in the faith.
- 24:50 Kirsten: We want to encourage you also to financially support
- 24:54 this ministry.
- 24:55 You may have followed us since Zola days.
- 24:58 If you remember watching Zola, we have had different teachers.
- 25:02 We continue with the same heartbeat,
- 25:04 the same mission, but we cannot continue on unless you
- 25:09 financially help get us there.
- 25:11 So, in advance, I'd like to thank you in Hebrew, toda.
- 25:14 Toda raba, which is thank you very much,
- 25:17 for investing in this prophetic voice.
- 25:20 Talk about prophecy, right? A lot of it today.
- 25:23 Caleb: That's right.
- 25:24 Like Mark said, Israel being reborn was a super-sign
- 25:28 of the end times.
- 25:29 And it really was a game-changer because before that,
- 25:32 most people thought that prophecy was completely
- 25:34 fulfilled by 70 A.D. or that it was an allegory.
- 25:37 But when they saw a literal fulfillment of these prophecies,
- 25:40 that means that the things written in Daniel and
- 25:43 Revelation, all of that, has to literally happen.
- 25:46 And it will happen again someday soon.
- 25:48 Joshua: Now, if you've been in church at any point in time
- 25:50 in your life, you know that there are a bunch of different
- 25:52 views on prophecy.
- 25:53 And if it's grounded in Scripture, that's fine.
- 25:56 But recently, Satan has been pushing a very dangerous concept
- 26:00 and idea, and that is the idea that we,
- 26:02 as the body of Christ, will have to live through the Tribulation,
- 26:05 endure the Father's wrath.
- 26:07 When we look recently with COVID,
- 26:08 this was kind of like a trial run,
- 26:10 if you will, for the church.
- 26:11 What are you gonna do when you face Tribulation?
- 26:13 What are you gonna do when everyone says,
- 26:15 "Shut down your doors or you're gonna get the plague?"
- 26:18 And unfortunately, we didn't fare as well as we should have
- 26:20 in that time.
- 26:21 And we're seeing now more.
- 26:23 Caleb: The repercussions of more and more people not
- 26:26 believing in the Rapture, the harpazo,
- 26:28 the saving away of the bride, so that we can go be with Messiah
- 26:32 one day.
- 26:33 And Mark has talked about--Mark Hitchcock,
- 26:35 and we like to talk about--on the Bearded Bible Brothers
- 26:38 online, but we do believe that we are spared from the wrath of
- 26:42 the Father and that we will not endure the Tribulation
- 26:45 'cause he has such a better destiny for us.
- 26:47 The marriage supper of the Lamb is waiting for us.
- 26:49 So we should be encouraged and it says in 1 Thessalonians 4:18:
- 26:53 "Comfort one another with these words."
- 26:55 That should be something encouraging to one of us that we
- 26:57 will not endure that wrath.
- 26:59 Kirsten: And we'd like to encourage all of you to continue
- 27:02 watching this series.
- 27:03 We have more to come next week.
- 27:05 Caleb: Yes.
- 27:06 Joshua: Yes, we do. So "Shaalu shalom Yerushalayim."
- 27:09 David: Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.
- 27:12 David: Our resource this week,
- 27:14 "The End," written by Mark Hitchcock.
- 27:16 This 500-page hardcover book is made available to you for your
- 27:20 generous donation to Zola Levitt Ministries.
- 27:22 The accompanying bookmark by Joshua and Caleb provides
- 27:25 important Scripture from God's Word concerning the end.
- 27:29 Please remember we depend on your generous gifts which allow
- 27:32 us to bring timely updates regarding Bible prophecy and the
- 27:35 end of days.
- 27:37 Thank you so much for your continuous support
- 27:39 of this ministry.
- 27:42 David: Visit our website, levitt.com,
- 27:44 for tour information, broadcast schedule,
- 27:47 free monthly newsletter, and online store.
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