Home » Zola TV » Video Archives » ZLM Video

Caption transcript for The First Christians (2019): “The Family” (4/9)

• 00:01 Jeffrey Seif: Dr. James Dobson spent a lifetime focusing on the family. "Zola Levitt Presents" is
• 00:10 gonna focus on the family today. We're gonna do it our way looking at family life
• 00:13 in 1st-century Judea.
• 00:16 ♪♪♪
• 00:21 male announcer: "Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God
• 00:24 for Israel is that they might be saved.
• 00:28 For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek:
• 00:30 for the same Lord over all is rich unto all
• 00:33 that call upon him."
• 00:36 "Zola Levitt Presents."
• 00:39 ♪♪♪
• 00:49 CC BY ABERDEEN CAPTIONING 1-800-688-6621 WWW.ABERCAP.COM
• 00:54 David Hart: Thank you for joining us today
• 00:55 on "Zola Levitt Presents," I'm David Hart.
• 00:57 Kirsten Hart: I'm Kirsten Hart.
• 00:58 Jeffrey: I'm Jeffrey Seif,
• 01:00 and I say let's take a look at family today.
• 01:04 Kirsten: We love family, we have a family,
• 01:07 but it's kind of interesting.
• 01:08 Today you're gonna learn that Israeli life in 1st century
• 01:12 revolved around a little, tiny olive.
• 01:15 How important that olive was.
• 01:17 Jeffrey: But what's interesting, you know,
• 01:18 families live on industry, what's produced,
• 01:20 and the olive wasn't just an industry.
• 01:22 It was that there.
• 01:23 People hear of the Mount of Olives,
• 01:25 but it lights up the house.
• 01:26 Love lights up the house, too, and I hope this program lights
• 01:30 up the homes of those that view it.
• 01:32 David: That's right.
• 01:33 Right now let's go to Israeli archeologist Bob Mullins
• 01:36 to find out more about the olive.
• 01:40 Bob Mullins: The olive tree is mentioned
• 01:41 in the Bible some 50 times.
• 01:43 One of the first references to the olive is in the book of
• 01:47 Genesis, where following Noah's flood we have a dove
• 01:50 that returns to the ark with an olive branch in its mouth.
• 01:55 Since that time the olive tree has been a symbol of peace
• 01:58 and prosperity.
• 02:01 One of the most noticeable things about the olive tree is
• 02:04 the character of its leaves.
• 02:06 You'll notice that the olive leaf has both a dark side
• 02:11 and a lighter silvery underside, and the rabbis of Jesus's day
• 02:16 made this connection between the effect of light by the movement
• 02:21 of the leaves with the wind and one of the most important
• 02:25 products of the olive tree, and that is the fruit of the olive
• 02:28 tree, whose oil would be used for oil lamps.
• 02:33 And so, we have light in connection with the tree itself
• 02:36 and light in connection with the olive oil.
• 02:40 The olive tree blossoms between March and April,
• 02:43 and in fact, this is between the time of Passover and the time
• 02:47 of Pentecost 50 days later.
• 02:51 By July the fruit is fully formed on the tree,
• 02:54 but it is still unripe.
• 02:56 Now, the method that's used today is the same method
• 02:57 that was used 2,000 years ago.
• 03:03 What they did is they laid at the base of the tree a cloth
• 03:07 that would catch the fruit as it came down from the tree.
• 03:11 The method of gathering the fruit was different
• 03:14 in various ways.
• 03:16 For example, it was possible to climb up into the tree
• 03:18 and pick the fruit by hand.
• 03:21 One could also up in the tree shake the branches, and this
• 03:24 would release some of the fruit, and it was also possible on the
• 03:28 ground with long sticks to reach up and hit the tree
• 03:31 and also knock down the fruit, as well.
• 03:35 ♪♪♪
• 03:45 ♪♪♪
• 03:51 Bob: After the harvesting the olives would be collected and
• 03:54 taken down to the crushing installation and at that point
• 03:58 the olives would be placed into a stone basin,
• 04:02 all 20 to 40 pounds and even more of the olives
• 04:05 that had been gathered from the various trees,
• 04:08 and in the basin you have a stone wheel that stands.
• 04:12 Attached to this wheel is a wooden beam and either by people
• 04:16 pushing this stone wheel around on the olives or a donkey
• 04:20 pulling the wheel, the wheel would rotate on top of the
• 04:22 olives and completely crush the olive fruit into a mash.
• 04:27 Now, during this crushing process there would, of course,
• 04:30 be olive oil that was released.
• 04:32 This initial olive oil was used for special purposes, and we
• 04:36 know from the Bible as well as other ancient literature that
• 04:39 olive oil had both secular as well as sacred purposes,
• 04:44 and especially for religious purposes this initial olive oil
• 04:47 would be collected and used in the anointing of priests
• 04:50 and kings, prophets.
• 04:54 These baskets are filled with the mash and then brought
• 04:58 over to the beam press, which is the second stage
• 05:02 of the olive production.
• 05:07 Now, there are several of these baskets that are placed one
• 05:11 above the other on top of this stone table that you see here
• 05:15 and across the top of these baskets is laid a piece of wood
• 05:18 that would provide evenness to the squeezing that would
• 05:21 take place underneath this wooden beam.
• 05:26 ♪♪♪
• 05:35 Bob: Now, the weighting is done by stones.
• 05:38 Each stone is quite heavy.
• 05:40 It would take between two to four men to lift a stone like
• 05:43 this, where ropes would be attached and laid
• 05:46 at this end of the beam.
• 05:48 With every stone that's attached more weight is gonna be given to
• 05:52 squeeze down on these baskets and get out all the olive oil
• 05:56 possible, which then flows into the channel and down a chute
• 06:02 such as you see here into the basin.
• 06:06 The olive oil collected in the basin here could be used for
• 06:08 a variety of purposes, amongst them cooking, for cosmetics,
• 06:13 and also as fuel for lighting oil lamps.
• 06:16 Let's go now and have a look at a 1st-century home
• 06:18 and see how olive oil was used.
• 06:22 ♪♪♪
• 06:30 Bob: From the olive oil which has just been pressed outside,
• 06:34 it would have been brought into the home and stored
• 06:36 in large pottery jars.
• 06:39 From that large jar the lady of the home would gather the oil
• 06:43 into a smaller pottery container and go around the home filling
• 06:47 up the various oil lamps which had been placed
• 06:49 in various window sills and niches around the home.
• 06:54 The oil would be poured through the small round opening
• 06:57 on the top of the oil lamp.
• 06:59 There would have been a wick in the nozzle of the lamp made
• 07:02 of flax, which is a plant fiber, which would have then been lit
• 07:06 giving light to various parts of the home.
• 07:09 Jesus himself made reference to oil lamps.
• 07:12 One context he speaks of taking an oil lamp and placing it
• 07:15 onto a lampstand, which would have been a practice
• 07:17 in the 1st century.
• 07:23 Zola Levitt: And as the day came to a close in
• 07:24 the 1st century, the family rested by the flickering light
• 07:28 of little clay lamps fueled from the fruit of the olive tree.
• 07:32 ♪♪♪
• 07:39 Zola: Well, when we come into the 1st-century
• 07:41 Israeli home, as Bob was telling us, oil was just everything.
• 07:46 It was used for light, for healing,
• 07:49 for religious purposes, for cooking.
• 07:53 Very important to their lives.
• 07:56 As to the religious purposes, you know, the whole miracle
• 07:59 of Hanukkah, which is celebrated every year in December,
• 08:02 is about oil.
• 08:04 When the Maccabees overran the temple and rebelled against
• 08:10 the Antiochus Epiphanes who was ruling Jerusalem
• 08:12 at the time in 165 B.C. everything was fine,
• 08:17 except they discovered there was only one small can of oil
• 08:23 for the grand menorah in the--
• 08:26 the candlestick in the holy place in the temple.
• 08:31 That was awful because it--
• 08:33 the oil had to be carefully consecrated,
• 08:36 and we're gonna talk about that.
• 08:37 It was very special for that candlestick, and it would take
• 08:41 a week to do that, but they lit the one day's oil
• 08:44 and they prayed and as the week went on the light remained
• 08:47 and remained and remained and now to this day every synagogue
• 08:51 has an eternal light.
• 08:53 It never is off day and night, every day of the year,
• 08:56 on and on, and it burned eight days.
• 08:59 And so, the Jews light a candle, another candle every night
• 09:02 for eight nights at Hanukkah to celebrate that miracle.
• 09:07 To the Christian, oil is the Holy Spirit in the Scripture
• 09:10 from start to finish and a very, very important symbol.
• 09:14 The Christian is indwelt and the concept is given
• 09:18 in 2 Corinthians 4.
• 09:21 "For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness,
• 09:24 hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge
• 09:27 of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
• 09:30 But we have this treasure in earthen vessels,
• 09:34 that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us."
• 09:37 These are earthen vessels.
• 09:39 This is a picture of a Christian, an oil lamp.
• 09:42 With this lamp I can light another and another
• 09:43 and another and the first one is not diminished
• 09:46 and all I have to do is continually replenish the oil.
• 09:49 In other words, taking the Holy Spirit as I walk
• 09:52 and the flame burns brightly and can ignite others.
• 09:56 That is a prime symbol, and the Lord used it with Revelation 2:3
• 10:01 in talking to the seven churches of Asia.
• 10:04 When he found error he would say,
• 10:06 "I'll remove your candlestick if you don't correct it."
• 10:09 Of course, the candlestick is another form of an oil lamp.
• 10:12 You fill the base with oil and with wicks and the light
• 10:15 is brought up the branches, so the Lord was gonna
• 10:17 remove the candlestick altogether.
• 10:20 The candlestick was the sign that the church was alive,
• 10:24 that it was lit, that the light was there.
• 10:26 The Lord himself, of course, called the light of the world.
• 10:29 In the tabernacle there was a strict prohibition
• 10:33 against creating oil that was not authentic.
• 10:37 Everything in the tabernacle had to be simply perfect:
• 10:40 the incense, the perfumes, the various things.
• 10:44 And when I say the tabernacle, of course, I refer to the--
• 10:47 back in the Exodus the tent that God told them to make.
• 10:50 The instructions run from Exodus 25 on for many chapters and
• 10:55 concerning the materials within the thing and especially
• 11:02 the oils, the incense, and so on.
• 11:04 He gave--actually gave the chemistry that was supposed
• 11:06 to be used and, frankly, it was quite expensive.
• 11:09 They had gathered treasure of the Egyptians when they left,
• 11:12 and they had these things, but there would probably be
• 11:15 a temptation not to use the finest things and to withhold
• 11:18 some things for themselves, so it says this in Exodus 31:34,
• 11:24 or Exodus 30:34, "And the Lord said unto Moses,
• 11:27 Take unto thee sweet spices, stacte, and onycha,
• 11:31 and galbanum," I don't know these things,
• 11:34 "these sweet spices with pure frankincense:
• 11:37 of each shall there be a like weight."
• 11:39 It's a recipe.
• 11:41 "And thou shalt make it a perfume, a confection after the
• 11:45 art of the apothecary, tempered together, pure and holy."
• 11:49 The idea of all this perfection and expensive materials
• 11:52 and exact recipes is that: pure and holy.
• 11:56 And so it was with the lamps, the--and the altar of incense
• 12:02 and so on and, finally, he wraps it all up
• 12:04 at the end of the chapter with a single verse.
• 12:06 It's quite striking.
• 12:08 "Whosoever shall make like unto that, to smell thereto--"
• 12:12 In other words, a synthetic version.
• 12:14 May make one with cheaper ingredients that smells the same
• 12:18 and acts the same and maybe burns the same.
• 12:21 "Whosoever shall make like unto that, to smell thereto,
• 12:24 shall even be cut off from among his people."
• 12:27 An interesting explanation of God's concern over the synthesis
• 12:33 of these materials for the tabernacle as given in the
• 12:36 Scofield Bible, where he likens the synthetic product to
• 12:41 bringing in false worship from outside in the community,
• 12:46 like a church that, say, hires professional musicians
• 12:50 to come in and play for the service.
• 12:52 The musicians are better.
• 12:53 They're probably finer than the musicians that happen
• 12:57 and people that play instruments and go to the church.
• 12:59 Obviously, if you get the city symphony orchestra and the opera
• 13:02 choir to do Handel's "Messiah" and you do this in your church,
• 13:06 it's going to be a magnificent performance,
• 13:09 and people have done that.
• 13:10 It was done in Handel's time, but it usually was done, by the
• 13:13 way, in Handel and Bach's time, by the people of the church
• 13:16 who were the competent musicians.
• 13:18 Nowadays that's not true and some churches hire musicians.
• 13:22 Well, when you bring them in, they're like that synthetic oil.
• 13:24 They smell like it too.
• 13:27 That is, they play the right notes for sure and they sing
• 13:29 the right notes, but condemns the idea that they are not
• 13:33 really part of the worship prescribed of the Lord.
• 13:36 The composer Handel, or Bach, they were Christian people
• 13:40 who saw the face of God, in Handel's words, or with Bach's
• 13:44 music he said, "This for the greater glory of God,"
• 13:47 on the front page constantly.
• 13:49 They were believers, but bringing in synthetic
• 13:51 musicians--and this happened in my own life because before
• 13:54 I came to the Lord I was a professional musician,
• 13:56 and I was an oboe player, and I would get once in a while
• 13:59 what was called an Easter gig or a Christmas gig,
• 14:01 a job to play in a church, though I was
• 14:05 an unbeliever entirely, a purely unsaved
• 14:07 Jewish, and I would play for money.
• 14:09 I would play well.
• 14:11 I would thrill to the fine music, but I had no idea what
• 14:14 these people believed and couldn't care less, so that,
• 14:19 I think, is what is explained here.
• 14:21 Now, as we look on further with the oil we'll see that it is
• 14:24 crucial to marriage and family life among the first Christians.
• 14:30 ♪♪♪
• 14:40 ♪♪♪
• 14:49 announcer: Our resource this week the music CD, "Zion Song."
• 14:53 During his lifetime, Zola Levitt composed
• 14:56 over 200 Spirit-filled songs.
• 14:59 Now David and Kirsten Hart, studio hosts
• 15:01 of "Zola Levitt Presents," provide fresh interpretations
• 15:05 to 11 of Zola's compositions.
• 15:08 Enjoy this beautiful music yourself or share of the CD
• 15:12 with a friend.
• 15:13 Contact us and ask for "Zion Song."
• 15:19 ♪♪♪
• 15:29 ♪ Sha'alu shalom Yerushalayim. ♪
• 15:32 ♪ Sha'alu, sha'alu shalom. ♪
• 15:37 ♪ For the holy city of Jerusalem ♪
• 15:44 ♪ we will pray for peace. ♪
• 15:47 ♪ Sha'alu shalom. ♪
• 15:55 ♪ Shalom. ♪
• 15:58 Kirsten: We have been talking about family life.
• 16:00 We love our family, and I just want to encourage you a great
• 16:03 thing for you to do as a family is go to Israel.
• 16:09 We go two times a year. We have wonderful trips.
• 16:12 You get to learn about the Holy Land and Yeshua.
• 16:15 Come with us.
• 16:17 Now let's go back to Israel to hear more from Zola.
• 16:23 Zola: With marriage oil was all important, too,
• 16:27 because the bride had to trim an oil lamp every night.
• 16:31 I think you know the story.
• 16:33 If you watch our program we've told it in many forms,
• 16:35 but, well, the bridegroom would propose one night
• 16:38 with a cup of wine.
• 16:39 If she would drink it, he'd say, "I go to prepare a place for
• 16:41 you," and go back to his father's house where he'd build
• 16:44 a little mansion for them, a bridal chamber
• 16:47 for the honeymoon.
• 16:48 And immediately that night she would trim an oil lamp and put
• 16:51 that by her bed and that was because the bridegrooms liked
• 16:55 to come at midnight.
• 16:57 They'd come with a shout, as the Lord himself will descend from
• 16:59 heaven with a shout, and take her away, so she had to have
• 17:03 a lamp in her hand because of the rough terrain and there were
• 17:06 no street lamps and there was rocky,
• 17:09 hilly territory in ancient Israel.
• 17:11 And so, that oil lamp became the sign that she was waiting and
• 17:15 the fact that she had oil in hand to trim it, the fact that
• 17:20 she knew he could come for her at any moment.
• 17:23 And in Matthew 25, of course, we read the parable
• 17:25 of the ten virgins.
• 17:27 Five had oil in their lamps, five did not, and the--
• 17:30 it was midnight and a cry was made,
• 17:32 "Behold, the bridegroom cometh.
• 17:34 Go ye out to meet him."
• 17:36 Well, the five without oil couldn't do that.
• 17:39 It says they went out to buy some oil.
• 17:42 Now, they knew what they needed.
• 17:44 They knew who the bridegroom was.
• 17:46 They weren't surprised by his-- by the cry that was made.
• 17:50 They wanted to get married. They were virgins.
• 17:52 Virgins wanna get married. What was the problem?
• 17:55 They just didn't think he was coming that night.
• 17:58 We should never have a night when we think the Lord
• 18:00 isn't coming tonight.
• 18:02 He can come any night.
• 18:04 I like to say, "He more likely will come tonight
• 18:06 than last night.
• 18:08 He didn't come last night."
• 18:09 Surely having paid the price he did for this bride,
• 18:12 he's certainly gonna come back for this church,
• 18:14 for the Jews and Gentiles that believe in him.
• 18:17 So, oil was important in that, too, and with family life in
• 18:22 general, once this home is made and once the oil is brought in
• 18:27 and it's lit and it's heated and it's functioning,
• 18:32 the home was the center of everyone's life.
• 18:36 Now, that may seem like an obvious statement,
• 18:39 but we are maybe in a generation where the home is just
• 18:42 a place where, as one comedian put it,
• 18:45 you put your stuff while you go out and get more stuff.
• 18:48 We do not center around the home the way they did.
• 18:52 Schooling was done, of course, in the synagogue.
• 18:54 That they had schools, but at home the idea was that
• 18:57 the morality of Jewish life, the religion,
• 19:01 the spiritual quality was taught to the children by the parents.
• 19:04 Nobody depended on teachers, et cetera,
• 19:07 to teach that as we're seeming to try to do in our society.
• 19:11 Correction was done at home.
• 19:14 The Bible is clear on disciplining children.
• 19:16 Don't spare the rod, et cetera, and children were expected
• 19:21 to learn from their parents how to live as proper members
• 19:24 of the Jewish society.
• 19:26 They still are, and people that give the Jews their due realize
• 19:30 that in the Jewish community the children aren't wild.
• 19:33 There is no need for special programs that rehabilitate them
• 19:36 from bad habits or find them jobs or whatever.
• 19:39 There never has been in any country any problem
• 19:41 with the Jewish community in that respect.
• 19:45 Worship was occasionally prescribed, that is,
• 19:48 through the year.
• 19:50 Passover is a home holiday to be conducted by the father of the
• 19:52 family, to be prepared by the mother of the family,
• 19:55 in which the children of the family have specific jobs.
• 19:59 Mother would make a magnificent meal and set out her special
• 20:02 Passover dishes.
• 20:04 Father would don a tabernacle robe, the kittel,
• 20:06 and he would conduct the service.
• 20:08 The children would ask the four questions,
• 20:11 go to the door to see if the prophet Elijah
• 20:13 was coming to announce the coming of the Messiah.
• 20:16 All these functions were family functions, and yet this is one
• 20:22 of the grand high feasts.
• 20:24 It wasn't done at the synagogue.
• 20:25 In Jesus's time you took your lamp to the temple,
• 20:28 and you offered it, and then you took it home
• 20:30 and you had Passover that night.
• 20:33 Today, you hold the thing at your house.
• 20:36 The synagogue may have a Passover in general for singles
• 20:39 or people out of town, et cetera,
• 20:41 but Passover was a family holiday at home.
• 20:45 Hanukkah is much the same.
• 20:47 There are services at the synagogue, of course,
• 20:49 in these seasons, but at home is where the religious worship is.
• 20:53 You might think of it like Christmas is a home holiday
• 20:58 and the Easter is a church holiday,
• 21:00 so they had the same concept.
• 21:03 The spiritual and worldly inheritance came from this home
• 21:07 life, this home worship and, you know, when the gospel came
• 21:11 to the Jews in the 1st century it was very often brought
• 21:14 right into the home.
• 21:16 Think of Zacchaeus the tax collector in Jericho.
• 21:18 Jesus went to his home to sup with him.
• 21:21 Lydia's house was used.
• 21:23 The jailer who took Paul in Philippi, and we examined
• 21:27 his jail on one of our tours.
• 21:29 It's still there, and Paul said to him, "Believe on the Lord
• 21:34 Jesus," Acts 16:31, "and thou shalt be saved,
• 21:38 thy and thine house."
• 21:40 The whole household would be saved, and so it was.
• 21:43 In Cornelius's house.
• 21:45 Most important to Gentile salvation.
• 21:47 In Acts 10, when Peter came to the house of Cornelius,
• 21:49 there were his friends, his wife, their wives,
• 21:51 Roman officers, and he still held forth and said,
• 21:54 "Of a truth I perceive God is no respecter of persons."
• 21:57 The Lord had taken him to Caesarea to begin the mission
• 22:01 to the Gentiles and there Gentiles were saved.
• 22:07 It seems that the two become, Jews and Gentiles,
• 22:10 one in a household to God and those very terms are used
• 22:15 in one of the most elegant passages in Scripture
• 22:18 that explain this.
• 22:19 Ephesians 2.
• 22:21 "Wherefore remember," I read from verse 11,
• 22:24 "that ye being in times past Gentiles in the flesh,
• 22:27 who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called
• 22:30 the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands;
• 22:32 that at that time ye were without Christ,"
• 22:35 he's talking to the Gentiles, "being aliens from
• 22:37 the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants
• 22:41 of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world."
• 22:44 Then he gets on in the passage.
• 22:46 Tells about how Christ is brought to the Gentiles and then
• 22:49 in verse 19, "Now therefore ye are no more strangers
• 22:53 and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints,
• 22:56 and of the household of God; and are built upon
• 22:59 the foundation of the apostles and prophets,
• 23:01 Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone;
• 23:05 in whom all the building fitly framed together groweth
• 23:07 unto a holy temple in the Lord."
• 23:10 So, that is how the household ultimately becomes even
• 23:15 the building of the Lord, the Spirit, and the church.
• 23:20 ♪♪♪
• 23:27 [singing in Hebrew]
• 25:30 Kirsten: That was the music of Zipporah Bennett
• 25:32 and her group.
• 25:34 We're so thankful that they were with us in 1995.
• 25:36 Check her out. She's still singing today.
• 25:39 Family. It's all about family today.
• 25:41 Jeffrey: Yeah, I feel for those that have trouble
• 25:43 in the family.
• 25:44 You know, I tell my wife, Barry, that home is wherever she is,
• 25:49 and people live alone today, and even people live together
• 25:52 with people and there is pain.
• 25:54 Recovering a biblical approach to family
• 25:56 is so, so, so important.
• 25:59 David: We love social media, and our kids are on it
• 26:01 all the time.
• 26:03 Back in the day they didn't have all that, so I think family
• 26:06 might have been a little tighter back in the day, you think?
• 26:08 Jeffrey: Well, there's a lot of distractions, you know?
• 26:10 I don't think social media meets the needs.
• 26:13 People talk about connecting.
• 26:15 There is still a lot of disconnection,
• 26:17 and back in the day they're not distracted by television.
• 26:20 Sorry.
• 26:21 Yeah, I know, you know, but a lotta times people just zone
• 26:24 out, and they don't do things together,
• 26:27 and it's important to recover that.
• 26:29 It used to be back in the day people would gather together
• 26:31 around a family Bible and pray together.
• 26:33 My wife and I do that in the morning.
• 26:35 Simple things there are that people can do
• 26:38 to strengthen a family.
• 26:40 Thank you for strengthening our family.
• 26:42 That is to say "Zola Levitt Presents"
• 26:44 is a ministry, and it's all hands on deck
• 26:48 helping to move forward, and it's your contributions
• 26:50 to this family that help us feed the kids.
• 26:53 There is a world out there that needs to know the Lord and that
• 26:57 needs biblical medicine for life's assorted hurts,
• 27:00 and we think the Great Physician delivers through
• 27:03 "Zola Levitt Presents."
• 27:05 David: I gotta say I'm looking forward to next week.
• 27:07 It's all about agriculture in the 1st century.
• 27:10 We'd love for you to join us for that.
• 27:12 Jeffrey: Do it, please.
• 27:13 And as you go now, sha'alu shalom Yerushalayim.
• 27:17 Kirsten: Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.
• 27:21 male announcer: Our monthly newsletter, "The Levitt Letter,"
• 27:23 is free and full of insightful articles and news commentary
• 27:27 from a messianic perspective.
• 27:29 Visit levitt.com to find our newsletter,
• 27:32 along with current and past programs,
• 27:34 our television schedule, and much more.
• 27:37 female announcer: Don't forget to order this week's
• 27:39 resource by calling 1-800-WONDERS,
• 27:43 or you can purchase it from our store at levitt.com.
• 27:47 male announcer: Your donations to Zola Levitt Ministries
• 27:49 help these organizations bless Israel.
• 27:52 female announcer: Thanks again for joining us this week.
• 27:55 Zola Levitt Ministries and this television program depend
• 27:58 on tax-deductible donations from viewers like you.
• 28:04 ♪♪♪
• 28:14 ♪♪♪
• 28:21 ♪♪♪
• 28:25 male announcer: This has been a paid program brought to you
• 28:27 by Zola Levitt Ministries.