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• 00:09 BRETHREN, MY HEART'S DESIRE AND PRAYER TO GOD FOR ISRAEL IS THAT THEY MIGHT BE SAVED.
• 00:16 THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE JEW AND THE GENTILE.
• 00:18 FOR THE SAME LORD OVERALL IS RICH UNTO ALL THAT CALL UPON HIM.
• 00:24 ZOLA LEVITT PRESENTS
• 00:28 CONSIDERING THE TIMES AND SEASONS OF OUR WORLD TODAY, HERE'S ZOLA LEVITT.
• 00:34 THIS PROGRAM IS A SPECIAL PRESENTATION SENT TO COLLEGES
• 00:38 WHERE ZOLA INTENDS TO SPEAK DURING THIS SUMMER AND FALL.
• 00:42 IF YOU'RE ASSOCIATED WITH ANY UNIVERSITY, PLEASE CONTACT THIS MINISTRY TO SCHEDULE ZOLA.
• 00:48 I'M GOING TO DISCUSS A SUBJECT THAT I THINK NEEDS DISCUSSED.
• 00:53 ON COLLEGE CAMPUSES TODAY, UNIVERSITIES, EVERYPLACE, THERE IS A KIND OF AN ANTI-ISRAEL;
• 01:02 DIVESTITURE MOVEMENTS AND ANTI-JEWISH MOVEMENTS, ANTI-SEMITISM AND SO FORTH,
• 01:08 ALL BASED ON THE IDEA THAT SOMEHOW THE JEWS ARE OCCUPYING THE COUNTRY OF ISRAEL
• 01:14 AND THAT IT'S REALLY ARAB LAND AND IT BELONGS TO PALESTINIAN PEOPLE.
• 01:19 IT'S BECAUSE THE THING JUST ISN'T TRUE;
• 01:23 WHAT'S BEING PUBLISHED IN THE MEDIA AND WHAT'S BEING SAID ON CAMPUS OFTEN
• 01:28 IS SIMPLY NOT THE TRUTH THAT THIS DISCUSSION IS NECESSARY.
• 01:33 THERE ARE 4 POINTS TO JEWISH OWNERSHIP OF ISRAEL
• 01:38 AND THERE'S NO QUESTION OF JEWISH OWNERSHIP OF ISRAEL.
• 01:42 FIRST OF ALL, THEY ARE THE ONLY PEOPLE IN THE WORLD WITH A LAND GRANT TO THE LAND OF ISRAEL.
• 01:48 OF COURSE THE LAND GRANT IS IN THE BIBLE AND MANY PEOPLE DON'T APPRECIATE THE BIBLE,
• 01:52 BUT LET ME POINT OUT THAT THE BOOK OF GENESIS IN WHICH THE LAND IS GIVEN TO THE JEWS
• 02:00 IS REPEATED IN THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS, WHICH WERE FOUND IN CAVES IN ISRAEL
• 02:06 AND CARBON DATED AT 200 B.C. THEY REPEAT THE LAND GRANT.
• 02:12 IN OTHER WORDS, ONE DOESN'T HAVE TO BELIEVE THE BIBLE.
• 02:15 THIS IS AN ANCIENT FIND. THIS IS ARCHAEOLOGY.
• 02:19 THERE IN PLAIN WRITING IS THE IDEA THAT THE JEWISH PEOPLE GET THE LAND OF ISRAEL.
• 02:25 YOU DON'T HAVE TO EVEN BELIEVE THAT IT'S TRUE.
• 02:30 YOU ONLY HAVE TO BELIEVE THERE WERE JEWISH PEOPLE,
• 02:32 THERE WAS A LAND OF ISRAEL AND IT WAS GIVEN TO THEM.
• 02:36 THAT IS, EVEN IF IT WAS FICTION; SOMEONE WROTE IT DOWN
• 02:40 AND GAVE A TITLE TO SOME PEOPLE CALLED JEWS OUT OF THE COUNTRY OF ISRAEL.
• 02:48 THE WHOLE WORLD RECOGNIZES THIS CONCEPTION OF PRIOR TITLE.
• 02:53 THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS WERE WRITTEN 200 B.C.
• 02:59 MOHAMMED WAS NOT TO BE BORN UNTIL 600 A.D. THAT'S 800 YEARS LATER.
• 03:06 THERE'S NO QUESTION OF WHAT TITLE IS PRIOR. THE JEWISH TITLE IS PRIOR.
• 03:11 THE IDEA THAT A NATIVE PEOPLE ARE IN A LAND IMMEDIATELY IMPLIES PRIOR TITLE.
• 03:20 IN THE UNITED STATES, IN OUR HISTORY, WE HAD NATIVE PEOPLE HERE.
• 03:25 WE CALLED THEM INDIANS AND SO FORTH, BUT THEIR REAL NAME, AND WE CALL IT THAT TODAY,
• 03:30 IS NATIVE AMERICANS, BECAUSE WE ALL ADMIT THAT THEY WERE HERE FIRST.
• 03:35 THEY HAVE REAL TITLE TO THIS LAND EVEN THOUGH IT WAS TAKEN FROM THEM
• 03:40 AND WE'VE OCCUPIED IT, THEY WERE THE ORIGINALS.THE INDIANS WERE NEVER CALLED OCCUPIERS.
• 03:46 WHEN OUR PIONEERS WENT OUT WEST, MOST CERTAINLY THEY DIDN'T WRITE TO WASHINGTON AND SAY
• 03:52 WE'RE HAVING PROBLEMS OUT HERE; THE INDIANS ARE TRYING TO OCCUPY THIS LAND.
• 03:57 THE INDIANS CAME WITH THE LAND.
• 03:59 THEY ALSO DID NOT REPORT THAT THE INDIANS WERE SETTLERS. THAT DOESN'T MAKE ANY SENSE.
• 04:07 LIKEWISE, IN ISRAEL THE ISRAELIS ARE THE INDIANS, SO TO SPEAK.
• 04:12 THEY ARE THE NATIVE PEOPLE, THE OLDEST PEOPLE BY FAR.
• 04:15 IF THE BIBLE IS TO BE BELIEVED AT ALL, THEN THEY WERE THERE FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS,
• 04:21 BUT WE DON'T HAVE TO RELY ON THE BIBLE.
• 04:23 I'M GOING TO PRESENTLY DISCUSS THE HISTORY OF THE PLACE AND THE ARCHAEOLOGY THAT HAS BEEN FOUND.
• 04:29 IF ONE DOESN'T HOLD TO THE SCRIPTURES, ONE WOULD GO THEN TO SECULAR HISTORY
• 04:36 AND WOULD FIND THE SAME THING - THAT THE JEWS ARE NATIVE TO THE LAND.
• 04:40 WHEN I SAY NATIVE, THAT IS THEY ARE THE FIRST PEOPLE BUILDING STRUCTURES,
• 04:45 SETTLING THE PLACE AFTER NOMADS, AFTER CANAANITES, JEBUSITES, PEOPLE OF THAT SORT.
• 04:53 THEY WERE THERE ESSENTIALLY FIRST, BUT THEY WERE NOT ARABS AT ALL.
• 04:57 THERE WERE NO ARABS IN THE LAND FOR CENTURIES LATER.
• 05:03 SO THE JEWISH PEOPLE ARE ACTUALLY THE ORIGINALS AND THEY HAVE THE GRANT TO THE LAND.
• 05:09 I WANT TO POINT OUT THAT IN THIS ENTIRE WORLD OF MORE THAN 200 NATIONS,
• 05:14 NO OTHER PEOPLE HAS ANY KIND OF A GRANT TO THEIR LAND, NOT A RELIGIOUS GRANT
• 05:19 OR EVEN A FICTIONAL GRANT OR A FABLED GRANT, NO KIND.
• 05:25 THE JEWISH PEOPLE ARE THE ONLY ONES WITH A GRANT TO LAND, THAT GRANT IS TO THE LAND OF ISRAEL.
• 05:30 IT'S CLEAR, WHEN IT WAS GIVEN, AT LEAST SCRIPTURALLY,
• 05:34 IT WAS GIVEN FOR MORE THAN THE JEWS HOLD TODAY.
• 05:38 NOT JUST SIMPLY THE WEST BANK, GAZA, THE GOLAN HEIGHTS;
• 05:41 THE GRANT IN THE SCRIPTURE, IF IT'S TO BE BELIEVED,
• 05:45 REACHES FROM THE WADI EL-ARISH IN THE SINAI DESERT
• 05:49 COMPLETELY OVER TO THE EUPHRATES RIVER ON THE NORTH EASTERN SIDE OF ISRAEL,
• 05:54 TAKING IN EVEN THE CITY OF DAMASCUS, MOST OF JORDAN, THE SOUTHERN AREAS AND THE DESERTS.
• 06:01 IT'S MUCH LARGER, AS GIVEN TO THE JEWISH PEOPLE THAN THEY HAVE TODAY.
• 06:07 IT'S A SIGNIFICANT POINT WHEN YOU THINK OF IT
• 06:09 THAT THEY ARE SETTLING FOR FAR LESS THAN THEY WERE GIVEN.
• 06:13 EVEN THIS IS ATTEMPTED TO DENY TO THEM.
• 06:19 NOW, TO THE HISTORY.
• 06:21 LET'S SUPPOSE SOMEONE SAID, OK, THE SCRIPTURE IS SIMPLY JEWISH WRITING, IT'S PARTISAN TO THEM.
• 06:28 THEY PROBABLY HAVE EDITED IT A HUNDRED TIMES AND CHANGED THINGS AROUND, IF YOU LIKE.
• 06:32 ALTHOUGH YOU CAN'T SAY THAT, FROM THE TIME OF THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS ON
• 06:36 IN WHICH THERE'S A COMPLETE COPY OF SCRIPTURE, EXCEPT FOR THE BOOK OF ESTHER,
• 06:41 THE ENTIRE HISTORY BOOKS, THE GENESIS LAND GRANT AND ALL OF IT IS IN THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS.
• 06:46 THOSE ARE WRITTEN MATERIALS. THEY CAN NOT HAVE BEEN FAKE. THEY'VE BEEN CARBON DATED.
• 06:50 YOU HAVE TO SETTLE THAT 200 B.C. THEY DID HAVE A GRANT.
• 06:53 EVEN BEFORE THAT, GREEK HISTORIANS, ROMAN HISTORIANS
• 06:58 OBSERVED THAT THE JEWS OCCUPIED THE LAND OF ISRAEL.
• 07:02 IT WAS JEWISH LAND. THERE'S NO QUESTION OF IT.
• 07:05 I HAVE HERE, A COPY OF A ROMAN HISTORY BOOK, "JOSEPHUS, THE ESSENTIAL WRITINGS".
• 07:12 IT SAYS ON THE COVER, AN ILLUSTRATED EDITION OF JEWISH ANTIQUITIES AND THE JEWISH WAR.
• 07:20 IT DOESN'T SAY ANYTHING ABOUT ARAB ANTIQUITIES OR ARAB WARS
• 07:25 BECAUSE THEY WERE NOT YET, AT THE TIME OF JOSEPHUS,
• 07:29 WHO WAS A ROMANIZED HISTORIAN OF THE 1ST CENTURY.
• 07:34 THERE WERE NO PALESTINIANS TO SPEAK OF, MORE THAN TO SPEAK OF,
• 07:40 THERE SIMPLY WERE NO PALESTINIANS IN THIS WORLD.
• 07:43 THE COUNTRY WAS NAMED PALESTINE BY THE EMPEROR HADRIAN IN 135 A.D., LATER THAN JOSEPHUS.
• 07:51 AGAIN, THERE WERE NO ARABS INVOLVED.
• 07:55 THE ROMANS PICKED THE NAME BECAUSE IT RELATED TO THE ANCIENT PHILISTINES,
• 08:00 ENEMIES PERENNIALLY OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE.
• 08:04 IT WAS ANOTHER ONE OF THOSE FINAL SOLUTIONS TO THE JEWISH PROBLEM.
• 08:07 THE FACT IS THE PALESTINIANS HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH THE ARABS. THEY WERE GREEKS.
• 08:13 THEY CAME FROM THE ADRIATIC AREAS AND FROM CYPRESS.
• 08:17 THEY PURSUED MARINE VENTURES ALONG THE COAST LANDS OF THE EAST, EVERYWHERE IN THE MIDDLE EAST.
• 08:24 THEY WERE IN TYRE, SIDON, DOWN TO GAZA AND SO FORTH.
• 08:29 THEY OFTEN TIMES FOUGHT WITH THE PEOPLE INLAND TO PROTECT THEIR INVESTMENTS.
• 08:34 THERE WERE NO ARABS INVOLVED IN THIS.
• 08:38 NOT UNTIL THE BIRTH OF MOHAMMED, DID THE ARABS BEGIN TO TAKE AN INTEREST IN THE COUNTRIES AROUND THEM.
• 08:47 OF COURSE, ISRAEL WAS ONE OF THOSE.
• 08:49 BUT THEY DID NOT CALL THEMSELVES PALESTINIANS THEN.
• 08:52 THE FACT IS THE ARABS DID NOT CALL THEMSELVES PALESTINIANS UNTIL 1964 A.D.
• 09:00 IN 1948, FOR EXAMPLE, THE JEWISH PEOPLE WERE KNOWN AS PALESTINIANS
• 09:06 AND THE ARABS REJECTED THE NAME. THEY DID NOT WANT TO BE CALLED PALESTINIANS.
• 09:11 THAT WAS A JEWISH TERMINOLOGY.
• 09:14 A STORY IS TOLD THAT PALESTINIAN FARMERS WENT TO CALIFORNIA IN THE 19TH CENTURY
• 09:20 TO SHOW FARMERS IN CALIFORNIA HOW TO PLANT VINEYARDS
• 09:24 AND TO CULTIVATE A LAND THAT IS VERY MUCH LIKE ISRAELI LAND; A LAND OF MOUNTAINS, DESSERTS,
• 09:29 VARIOUS CLIMATES, ALMOST SEMI-TROPICAL, ARID IN SOME PLACES.
• 09:37 THEY SHOWED THEM HOW TO PLANT THE VINEYARDS.
• 09:40 THE STORY IS TRUE. BUT ALL OF THOSE PALESTINIAN FARMERS WERE JEWISH.
• 09:45 THERE WAS NO INDIGENOUS PALESTINIAN CULTURE; NO GOVERNMENT, NO COUNTRY.
• 09:52 A LEGITIMATE GOVERNMENT LEAVES THINGS BEHIND.
• 09:56 THERE ARE NO DOCUMENTS, NO CURRENCY, NO LEGAL FORMS, NO STATIONARY IF YOU WILL, NOTHING.
• 10:04 THIS IS COMPLETELY A MODERN PEOPLE, IF IT'S A PEOPLE AT ALL.
• 10:10 IN REALITY THE PALESTINIANS ARE MADE UP OF ARABS WHO CAME ACROSS THE BORDERS
• 10:16 PRINCIPALLY SINCE 1948 WHEN THE JEWS STARTED TO BUILD A MODERN NATION.
• 10:20 IT HAPPENS IN MANY PLACES IN THE WORLD.
• 10:22 IT HAPPENED HERE IN TEXAS AND IN CALIFORNIA
• 10:25 WHERE MEXICANS CAME TO TAKE JOBS AND CENTRAL AMERICANS AND SO ON.
• 10:29 IN FLORIDA WHERE CUBANS CAME AND THE WORKERS ARE WELCOME.
• 10:34 THEY'RE PAID A DAYS WAGE FOR A DAYS WORK. THEY'RE WORK IS NEEDED.
• 10:37 THEY ARE USUALLY SKILLFUL AND COOPERATIVE. SO THEY WERE HERE IN AMERICA.
• 10:43 AS THE ARABS CAME INTO ISRAEL, THEY AT FIRST WERE SKILLFUL AND COOPERATIVE AND
• 10:47 THEN BEGAN TO CHAFE UNDER WHAT THEY CALL AN OCCUPATION.
• 10:52 IT WAS NOT AN OCCUPATION. THE JEWS HAD SIMPLY RETURNED TO THEIR NATIVE LAND.
• 10:57 I'M GOING TO COME BACK AFTER THIS WITH SOME TALK ABOUT THE ARCHAEOLOGY THAT DETERMINES OWNERSHIP OF LAND
• 11:07 AND ALSO THE PRINCIPLE BY WHICH WE AMERICAN IMMIGRANTS, WE WHITE, BLACK AND YELLOW PEOPLE
• 11:14 OCCUPY THIS CONTINENT - MILITARY CONQUEST.
• 11:18 I'LL BE BACK AFTER THIS.
• 11:24 THUS SAYETH THE LORD GOD. I SHALL GATHER YOU FROM THE PEOPLES
• 11:29 AND ASSEMBLE YOU OUT OF THE COUNTRIES WHERE YOU'VE BEEN SCATTERED.
• 11:32 I WILL GIVE YOU THE LAND OF ISRAEL, THE WILDERNESS AND THE DRY LAND SHALL BE GLAD.
• 11:38 THE DESERT SHALL REJOICE AND BLOSSOM AS THE ROSE.
• 11:42 YOU SHALL KNOW THAT I AM THE LORD WHEN I BRING YOU INTO THE LAND OF ISRAEL.
• 11:51 OUR TOURS OF ISRAEL HAVE CONTINUED FOR 30 YEARS.
• 11:55 I TOOK MY FIRST ONE IN 1973 AND THIS IS WHERE I PICKED UP THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE PLACE.
• 12:02 I'VE ALWAYS BEEN A STUDENT OF THE BIBLE, BUT IN ALL THAT TRAVEL IN ISRAEL,
• 12:08 TALKING TO PEOPLE ON ALL SIDES OF THIS QUESTION,
• 12:10 INCLUDING PALESTINIAN AUTHORITIES LIKE FEISEL HUSSEINI, HANAN ASHRAWI,
• 12:16 JOURNALISTS, PEOPLE ON THE STREET, MERCHANTS AND OF COURSE THE ISRAELI PEOPLE.
• 12:24 I'VE LEARNED A LOT.
• 12:27 I'M ABSOLUTELY SHOCKED BY WHAT'S GOING ON ON OUR CAMPUSES AND IN OUR NEWSPAPERS.
• 12:32 THERE SEEMS TO BE ALMOST NO ATTEMPT TO GIVE A TRUTHFUL ESTIMATION OF WHAT'S GOING ON OVER THERE.
• 12:41 I SAID I'D DISCUSS THE ARCHAEOLOGY AND THAT'S A FASCINATING PART OF ISRAEL.
• 12:48 THIS IS SOMETHING AMERICANS SIMPLY DON'T HAVE,
• 12:51 WHICH IS THOUSANDS OF YEARS OF HISTORY IN THE GROUND.
• 12:55 WE HAVE IT IN TERMS OF FINDING AN INDIAN BURIED 10,000 YEARS AGO AS IT WAS SAID,
• 13:04 OR A BURIAL GROUND USUALLY MORE RECENT, ARROWHEADS AND TOMAHAWKS.
• 13:09 THAT'S ABOUT THE HISTORY THAT WE CAN FIND HERE.
• 13:11 BUT IN ISRAEL YOU FIND A HISTORY OF ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS
• 13:18 EVEN PREDATING KING SOLOMON, KING DAVID AND SO ON.
• 13:23 RECENTLY, AN ARCHAEOLOGIST ON OUR PROGRAM, IAN STERN,
• 13:28 TOLD ME THAT THEY HAVE FOUND IN THE CITY OF DAVID,
• 13:32 WHICH IS A HILLSIDE BENEATH THE SOUTHERN WALL OF THE TEMPLE PLATFORM,
• 13:36 LARGE PILLARS, BIG, MASSIVE PILLARS FROM THE TIME OF ABRAHAM 10 0R 15 FEET HIGH.
• 13:45 THIS IS SOME BUILDING FOR 2,000 B.C.
• 13:49 4,000 YEARS AGO A LOT OF THE WORLD WAS STILL LIVING IN THE FORESTS.
• 13:52 IN ISRAEL, PEOPLE WERE BUILDING STRUCTURES.
• 13:58 ABRAHAM APPARENTLY SAW THESE PILLARS AND IT CLEARS UP SOMETHING OF A MYSTERY.
• 14:03 THE BIBLE STORY IS THAT ABRAHAM WAS TO TAKE ISAAC TO MT. MORIAH AND OFFER HIM IN SACRIFICE.
• 14:10 I THINK EVERYBODY IN THE WORLD MUST KNOW THE STORY.
• 14:12 BUT HOW DID HE FIND THIS PARTICULAR MOUNTAIN?
• 14:15 THEY CAME FROM BEERSHEBA FROM THE SOUTHERN SIDE OF JERUSALEM.
• 14:19 THEY MUST HAVE ENTERED THE CITY OVER A HILL THAT IS NOW CALLED THE PROMENADE
• 14:24 FROM WHERE YOU CAN VIEW THE CITY OF JERUSALEM.
• 14:27 WALKING STRAIGHT TOWARD WHAT IS NOW THE TEMPLE MOUNT
• 14:29 THEY WOULD HAVE COME INTO THE BOTTOM OF WHAT,
• 14:32 1,000 YEARS AFTER ABRAHAM, BECAME THE CITY OF DAVID.
• 14:36 RIGHT THERE THE PILLARS STOOD, APPARENTLY, BECAUSE THEY HAVE FALLEN WHERE THEY STOOD.
• 14:42 THEY HAVE BEEN IDENTIFIED AS BELONGING TO THE TIME.
• 14:47 WHEN ABRAHAM SAW THOSE HE MUST HAVE HEADED STRAIGHT THERE.
• 14:52 FROM THERE ON UP THE HILL IS THE TEMPLE PLATFORM
• 14:57 AND UNDOUBTEDLY HE WOULD HAVE WALKED UP THAT HILL TO OFFER HIS SON IN SACRIFICE
• 15:03 BECAUSE IN THOSE DAYS THE WORSHIP PLACE WAS CALLED THE HIGH PLACE.
• 15:08 IT WAS ALWAYS THE HILL ABOVE THE CITY, IT LOOKED DOWN ON ALL THE PEOPLE.
• 15:14 WHATEVER HOUSE OF WORSHIP THERE WAS OR GROVE OR ALTAR
• 15:19 WAS PUT UP ON THIS HIGH HILL ABOVE THE CITY.
• 15:22 FROM THE CITY OF DAVID, THAT IS THE HILL THAT ONE SEES, MT. MORIAH.
• 15:26 THE MT. OF OLIVES IS ON ONE SIDE. IT'S HIGHER.
• 15:29 MT. ZION IS ON THIS SIDE, BUT FROM THE CITY OF DAVID STRAIGHT UP THE HILL
• 15:33 IS THE HIGH PLACE, EVIDENTLY FOR THAT CIVILIZATION THAT ABRAHAM FOUND
• 15:39 AND THE SCRIPTURE INDICATES THE PRIEST MELCHIZEDEK AND PERSONALITIES LIKE THAT,
• 15:46 BUT THAT'S SCRIPTURE.OKAY.
• 15:48 WHAT WAS FOUND IN THE GROUND, THAT'S CERTAIN ARCHAEOLOGY,
• 15:53 WHETHER YOU BELIEVE SCRIPTURE OR NOT,
• 15:55 ARE ALTARS FROM JOSHUA'S TIME WITH ANCIENT HEBREW WRITING.
• 16:00 THE STONE PROVING THE HOUSE OF DAVID.
• 16:03 IT SAYS IN PLAIN ARAMAIC, AND I COULD READ IT, IT'S VERY CLEAR, THE HOUSE OF DAVID.
• 16:10 SOMETHING LIKE THAT, SCHOLARS HAVE FOR CENTURIES SAID,
• 16:15 DAVID IS A MYTHICAL FIGURE SORT OF LIKE HOMER'S HEROES IN HIS NOVELS
• 16:19 AND THAT HE DIDN'T REALLY LIVE. HE WAS ABOUT THAT SAME TIME.
• 16:24 I REMEMBER WHEN I WENT TO COLLEGE, I WENT TO INDIANA UNIVERSITY,
• 16:28 I WAS STUDYING FOR A DOCTORATE THERE.
• 16:31 I LEARNED THAT KING DAVID WAS AT THE SAME TIME AS THE GREEK MYTHOLOGY
• 16:38 AND HE WAS PROBABLY A MYTHOLOGICAL CHARACTER AND THIS SORT OF THING.
• 16:43 WELL, THAT'S NOT TRUE.
• 16:45 A STONE WITH HOUSE OF DAVID WRITTEN ON IT, JUST AS THE BIBLE SPECIFIES
• 16:49 IS EXTANT FROM ABOUT 800 B.C. DAVID MUST HAVE LIVED ABOUT 150 OR SO YEARS BEFORE THAT,
• 16:57 BUT THIS STONE WAS CARVED BY AN ENEMY OF ISRAEL
• 17:00 IN THE COUNTRY TO THE NORTH THEY WERE AT WAR WITH,
• 17:04 BUT CARVED IN THE ARAMAIC LANGUAGE SO THAT IT'S CLEAR TO READ.
• 17:07 THAT IS EVIDENCE THAT DAVID EXISTED.
• 17:11 EASILY YOU SEE THESE TWO PIECES OF ARCHAEOLOGY; AN ALTAR FROM JOSHUA'S TIME IN HEBREW WRITING
• 17:17 AND A STONE FROM DAVID'S TIME WITH HOUSE OF DAVID WRITTEN IN ARAMAIC
• 17:23 WHICH THE JEWS ALSO USED, ARE FOOLPROOF OF JEWISH PRIMACY IN THE LAND
• 17:30 AS OF 3,500 YEARS AGO AND 3,000 YEARS AGO.
• 17:35 NOW THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS, THEY ARE ONE OF THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL FINDS OF ALL TIME.
• 17:41 THAT IS, ONE WANTS TO FIND THE WRITING IN THE GROUND. THAT'S WONDERFUL.
• 17:46 WHEN WE FOUND THE ROSETTA STONE IN EGYPT,
• 17:49 WE BROKE A CODE AND WERE ABLE TO READ HIEROGLYPHICS AND OTHER LANGUAGES READILY.
• 17:53 I EXAMINED THE ROSETTA STONE. IT'S IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
• 17:56 IT'S A LARGE PIECE OF STONE WITH CLEAR WRITING ON IT.
• 18:00 BUT IT'S ONLY ONE STONE WITH ABOUT 4 PARAGRAPHS OF WRITING.
• 18:05 THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS ARE VOLUMINOUS, SCROLL AFTER SCROLL AFTER SCROLL,
• 18:09 THE ENTIRE BIBLE, OTHER NOVELS, AN ALLEGORY OF THE BATTLE OF SONS OF LIGHT AND SONS OF DARKNESS.
• 18:19 ALL THESE THINGS FROM BEFORE THE 1ST CENTURY
• 18:24 AND FOR 50 YEARS AFTERWARD ARE WRITTEN DOWN IN HEBREW.
• 18:30 THIS, AGAIN, PROVES PRIMACY OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE IN THE LAND.
• 18:36 THEN THE CITIES THAT WERE BUILT; THEY HAVE THE BIBLICAL NAMES;
• 18:40 NAZARETH, BETHLEHEM, JERUSALEM ARE OBVIOUSLY JEWISH CITIES.
• 18:45 ARABS LIVE IN ALL 3 AND ARE WELCOME, BECAUSE OF THE TIMES.
• 18:52 THOSE ARE JEWISH CITIES THAT HAVE BIBLE NAMES. THAT'S ALL THERE IS TO THAT.
• 18:57 THE ARABS DID NOT BUILD THOSE CITIES OR MOST ANY CITY IN ISRAEL.
• 19:03 JERUSALEM IS A PARTICULAR CONTROVERSY BECAUSE THE JEWS CLAIM IT AS THEIR CAPITAL
• 19:08 AND IT ALWAYS WAS, BUT THE MUSLIMS CLAIM IT TOO.
• 19:12 BUT JERUSALEM IS NOT GIVEN IN THE KORAN. IT'S NOT MENTIONED EVEN ONCE.
• 19:18 IT'S MENTIONED MORE THAN 700 TIMES IN THE BIBLE.
• 19:21 THE REFERENCE TO JERUSALEM IS A REFERENCE TO AL QUDS, OR THE FARTHEST MOSQUE,
• 19:27 A PLACE DISTANT FROM MECCA IS ALL WE CAN ASCERTAIN.
• 19:33 YOU COULD HAVE PICKED ALMOST ANY CITY AND I HAVE A FEELING JERUSALEM WAS CHOSEN BY INTERPRETERS
• 19:39 SIMPLY BECAUSE ISRAEL HAS BEEN THE HARD NUT TO CRACK IN THE MIDDLE EAST.
• 19:43 THE ARABS HAVE COME OUT OF SAUDI ARABIA, CONQUERED 22 MIDDLE EASTERN NATIONS,
• 19:47 BUT THEY NEVER REALLY HAVE BEEN ABLE TO PUT THE JEWS OUT OF ISRAEL.
• 19:52 WHEN THE JEWS WERE AWAY IN DISPERSION, PEOPLE COULD COME AND OCCUPY
• 19:57 AND SUNDRY PEOPLE DID FROM EVERYPLACE, ALL COUNTRIES AROUND THE MIDDLE EAST.
• 20:01 BUT WHEN THE JEWS RETURNED IN 1948,
• 20:04 BY THE WAY, SINGING THEIR SAME SONGS AND PRAYING THE SAME PRAYERS
• 20:09 AS THEY DID WHEN THEY WERE THERE 3,000 YEARS AGO, THEN JERUSALEM WAS JEWISH ONCE AGAIN.
• 20:16 THEY HAVE PERSISTED THERE.
• 20:18 IF THE BIBLE HAD ONLY ONE PROPHECY IN IT,
• 20:23 THAT THE JEWS WOULD BE DISPERSED AND NEARLY 2,000 YEARS AGO RETURN TO THEIR LAND,
• 20:29 IT WOULD BE A VALUABLE BOOK OF PROPHECY.
• 20:31 IT WOULD BE SOMETHING TO RECKON WITH.
• 20:34 ARCHAEOLOGY IS FOOLPROOF. YOU CAN'T FAKE IT.
• 20:40 I SUPPOSE YOU COULD TAKE A STONE AND START CARVING
• 20:42 IF YOU KNOW ANCIENT ARAMAIC AS IT WAS WRITTEN DOWN 3,00O YEARS AGO,
• 20:49 BUT IT'S TOO PREPOSTEROUS WHEN ARCHAEOLOGISTS WITH NO AXE TO GRIND, DIG INTO THE GROUND.
• 20:56 THEY DATE THINGS WITH CARE.
• 20:58 SOME OF THEM ARE VERY SKEPTICAL OF SCRIPTURE, OBVIOUSLY, IN ISRAEL.
• 21:03 WE LEARN BIBLE MINIMALISTS AND BIBLE MAXIMALISTS.
• 21:09 THE MINIMALISTS SAY THE BIBLE IS NOT TO BE RELIED ON.
• 21:12 IT'S JUST A RELIGIOUS BOOK, BEAUTIFUL POETRY, ETC.
• 21:16 IT'S WELL DONE, BUT NOT TO BE RELIED ON AS A SCIENTIFIC TEXT AND THEY DON'T RELY ON IT.
• 21:21 NEVERTHELESS, THEY DON'T FIND ARCHAEOLOGY THAT DISPROVES IT EITHER.
• 21:26 THE BIBLE MAXIMALISTS SAY USE THE BIBLE WHEN YOU DIG BECAUSE IT WILL TELL YOU WHERE TO DIG.
• 21:32 FRANKLY, I HEARD A STORY OF FARMERS WHO PLANT THE TAMARIN TREE
• 21:36 ACCORDING TO WHERE THE BIBLE SAYS IT WILL GROW WELL AND THEY PROSPER DOING THAT.
• 21:41 SO YOU HAVE BOTH VIEWS.
• 21:43 I'M BRINGING THAT UP PURPOSELY BECAUSE IT'S NOT PARTISAN.
• 21:47 THE BIBLE SEEMS TO BE A TRUTHFUL BOOK AS FAR AS THAT GOES.
• 21:51 THEY USE IT IN THAT MANNER.
• 21:54 NOW, ARCHAEOLOGY, AGAIN, SIMPLY ESTABLISHES PRIMACY LIKE NOTHING ELSE.
• 22:00 IF I DIG IN MY YARD AND I FIND A TOMAHAWK,
• 22:04 I DON'T THINK IT'S FROM AN ANCESTOR OF MINE, THAT IS, A WHITE EUROPEAN IMMIGRANT.
• 22:10 I KNOW IT'S FROM THE INDIANS. I KNOW THAT.
• 22:13 WELL, IF I FIND WRITTEN MATERIAL IN ANCIENT HEBREW OR ARAMAIC,
• 22:18 I KNOW IT'S FROM THE JEWS IF THAT HAPPENS IN ISRAEL.
• 22:22 THE WHOLE WORLD KNOWS IT AND THE WHOLE WORLD RESPECTS THE IDEA OF PRIOR TITLE.
• 22:28 WHEN YOU BUY A PIECE OF PROPERTY YOU BUY TITLE INSURANCE WITH IT.
• 22:33 WHAT IS THAT STUFF? IT'S EXPENSIVE.
• 22:35 WELL, THE INSURANCE COMPANY GUARANTEES THE TITLE TO BE, IN EFFECT, AN ORIGINAL.
• 22:41 YOU HAVE THE TITLE TO THE PROPERTY AND THERE IS NO PRIOR TITLE.
• 22:46 THEY WILL RESEARCH THE TITLE TO BE SURE THERE ARE NO OTHER CLAIMANTS
• 22:51 AND IF SOMEBODY DOES STEP FORWARD, YOU'VE PAID A PREMIUM.
• 22:54 THE INSURANCE COMPANY WILL GO TO BATTLE WITH HIM AND DEFEND YOUR INTERESTS,
• 22:58 OR IN THE END PAY YOU OFF. THEY GUARANTEE THAT YOUR TITLE HOLDS SWAY.
• 23:04 WELL, THERE'S NO BETTER TITLE THAN A PIECE OF ARCHAEOLOGY IN THE EARTH.
• 23:08 THERE'S JUST NOTHING TO REPLACE IT.
• 23:11 PEOPLE'S LAWYERS COME AND GO AND DRAW TITLES DURING ALL THE MANY CENTURIES,
• 23:15 BUT ARCHAEOLOGY IS FOOLPROOF.
• 23:19 NOW, THE LAST POINT - LAND CONQUERED. TT GOES TO THE LAST CONQUEROR.
• 23:26 THOSE ARE THE RULES IN THIS WORLD.
• 23:27 THERE HAS TO BE SOME RULES AND THAT'S THE MOST CONVENIENT THING.
• 23:32 FRANKLY, LAND IN THIS WORLD GOES TO THE GUY WITH THE MOST GUNS.
• 23:36 THAT'S WHAT HAS HAPPENED FOR CENTURIES.
• 23:39 THAT'S WHAT HAPPENED HERE IN AMERICA.
• 23:42 WE IMMIGRANTS HAVE NO REAL RIGHT TO THIS LAND OTHER THAN OUR SOLDIERS WON IT IN BATTLE.
• 23:49 THERE WAS A WORLD COURT PROCEEDING OVER DANSING,
• 23:55 WHICH IS A COUNTRY THAT WAS IN AN UNFORTUNATE LOCATION AT THE END OF WORLD WAR II.
• 24:02 THEY WERE SORT OF POLISH AND GERMAN BOTH.
• 24:05 THEY SPOKE THE GERMAN LANGUAGE, THEY HAD POLISH CUSTOMS, THEY ARE LOCATED BETWEEN THOSE TWO NATIONS.
• 24:11 THE GERMANS SWEPT OVER THEM ON THEIR WAY TO RUSSIAN,
• 24:15 THEN THE RUSSIANS SWEPT OVER THEM ON THEIR WAY TO GERMANY AT THE END OF THE WAR.
• 24:19 THEY WANTED TO BE POLES, RATHER THAN GERMANS, IN ORDER TO BE ON THE WINNING SIDE.
• 24:25 THEY TOOK THE CASE TO THE WORLD COURT.
• 24:28 THE WORLD COURT LOOKED AT THE CASE AND DECIDED IT IN THEIR FAVOR.
• 24:33 THEY ARE POLES NOW BECAUSE THE RUSSIANS, WHO WERE ALLIED WITH POLAND WERE THE LAST CONQUERORS.
• 24:43 IT'S JUST THAT SIMPLE.
• 24:45 NOW IF WE APPLY THE RULE TO THE UNITED STATES
• 24:48 AND NOBODY'S CALLING TEXAS, MEXICO, WE WERE THE LAST CONQUERORS.
• 24:53 NOBODY IS CALLING LOUISIANA, FRANCE, WE PURCHASED IT, WE'RE THE LAST THROUGH THERE.
• 24:59 THEN, WHY WOULDN'T WE DO THAT WITH THE WEST BANK IN ISRAEL, SO CALLED WEST BANK.
• 25:04 THE JEWS CONQUERED IT LAST IN THE 6 DAY WAR IN 1967.
• 25:09 THERE'S NO QUESTION OF THAT. THE WHOLE WORLD SAW THAT.
• 25:13 WHY ARE THEY CALLED OCCUPIERS SINCE THEIR ARCHAEOLOGY IS RIGHT THERE IN THE GROUND?
• 25:17 WHY ARE THEY CONSIDERED SOJOURNERS IN THE LAND
• 25:22 WHEN ALL OF THE PROOFS I'VE GIVEN ARE OBTAINED TODAY AND ARE KNOWN BY ALL SIDES?
• 25:29 PERHAPS THE MEDIA DOESN'T KNOW WHAT I'M SAYING, BUT THEY OUGHT TO.
• 25:33 THEY'RE DECIDING JUST A LITTLE BIT TO MUCH ABOUT THIS SITUATION
• 25:37 THEY'VE GOT MOST OF THE WORLD UP IN ARMS ABOUT ISRAEL AND THE WHOLE THING IS TERRIBLY UNFAIR.
• 25:44 IT'S UNFAIR TO BOYCOTT A DEMOCRACY.
• 25:47 IT'S UNFAIR TO DIVEST FROM A GOING FREE COUNTRY IN FAVOR OF A DICTATORSHIP.
• 25:55 I GUESS I HARDLY HAVE TO PUT THESE THINGS INTO WORDS,
• 25:58 BUT I CHALLENGE ANYBODY TO HAVE ME COME AND SPEAK AND SAY THESE THINGS ON A UNIVERSITY CAMPUS,
• 26:05 IN A CHURCH, IN A CIVIC MEETING.
• 26:07 I'M OPEN AND I WILL NOT CHARGE ANY FEE OR TRAVEL EXPENSE TO DO THAT.
• 26:12 I FEEL THAT THIS IS A NECESSARY THING TO SAY EVERYWHERE AS LONG AND LOUD AS I CAN.
• 26:19 ONCE AGAIN, A PRIOR TITLE, THE HISTORY, THE ARCHAEOLOGY AND THE MILITARY CONQUEST
• 26:26 ALL POINT TO JEWISH OWNERSHIP OF THE LAND OF ISRAEL.
• 26:31 THERE'S NO OTHER QUESTION AND NO OTHER CLAIM THAT CAN HOLD UP TO THE JEWISH CLAIM.
• 26:38 IT'S TIME THAT THE WHOLE WORLD REALIZED IT AND GAVE A CHANCE TO THIS BRAVE, YOUNG DEMOCRACY
• 26:45 TO OVERCOME THE EVIL THAT'S GOING ON IN THAT LAND EVERY DAY,
• 26:50 RIGHT NOW WHILE WE READ THESE THINGS IN THE MEDIA.
• 26:55 IF YOU'RE ASSOCIATED WITH AND UNIVERSITY, PLEASE CONTACT THIS MINISTRY TO SCHEDULE ZOLA.