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Episode: “A Place of Revelation”

Tom McCall, senior theologian and author, gives us the history of Caesarea Philippi, now called Banias, including some of the ideas the Messiah taught here. Next, we go to Tel Aviv to hear the testimonies of several messianic believers.

Series: “This Is Israel”

Tired of waiting 20 years for CNN and the other networks to show Israel as the modern, beautiful country it really is, Zola and his crew decided to do it themselves. Viewers will be as surprised as our pilgrims to see that this much-criticized nation is at least the equal of our own and in some ways superior!

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Caption transcript for This Is Israel: “A Place of Revelation” (7/12)

00:03 WHAT A PROGRAM WE HAVE FOR YOU TODAY.
00:05 WE'RE GOING TO THE SITE OF THE BIBLICAL CEASAREA-PHILIPPI,
00:09 IN THE GOLAN HEIGHTS, AND THEN THE OPPOSITE
00:12 TO MODERN TEL AVIV TO A MESSIANIC COFFEE SHOP
00:15 AND BOOKSTORE COMING UP NEXT.
00:17 [ music playing ]
00:49 [ music playing ]
00:56 ISRAEL IS REALLY >>A PLACE OF REVELATION.
00:58 THAT'S WHAT IT IS ABOVE ALL THINGS.
01:00 THERE GOD REVEALED HIMSELF
01:02 THROUGH BOTH THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS.
01:05 AND HE'S REVEALING HIMSELF THERE TODAY WITH WHAT IS GOING ON IN
01:08 ISRAEL OBVIOUSLY FOR THE LAST GENERATION.
01:11 AND THIS IS A VERY >> IMPORTANT POINT.
01:13 THE NEWS NETWORKS KNOW NOTHING ABOUT GOD OR THE BIBLE OR THAT
01:16 ISRAEL IS THE SPECIAL PROMISED LAND AND GOD IS ACTIVE THERE.
01:22 THE SEMINARIES, DALLAS, MOODY,
01:24 AND THE ONES WE HAVE CRITICIZED LATELY --
01:27 THAT'S THE FIRST >> LINE OF CRITICISM --
01:30 IS THEY HAVE DE-EMPHASIZED ISRAEL UNTIL THEIR GRADUATES
01:32 ARE NOT KNOWLEDGEABLE ABOUT THE PLACE EVEN THOUGH
01:35 AT THE SAME TIME, THEY SAY THEY KNOW GOD
01:37 IS WORKING THERE AND SO FORTH.
01:39 WELL, IF GOD S WORKING THERE THEN IT IS EXTREMELY IMPORTANT.
01:42 WELL, AT CEASAREA-PHILIPPI, WHERE WE ARE GOING,
01:46 JESUS REVEALED AN >> IMPORTANT TRUTH THAT HE, >> IN FACT, WAS THE SON OF GOD.
01:51 REALLY HE GOT PETER, HE ELICITED IT FROM PETER.
01:53 WE'LL TELL YOU ABOUT THAT IN OUR LESSON.
01:55 THIS IS SOMETHING YOU WON'T SEE ON CNN, A BEAUTIFUL WATERFALL, A GREEN BEAUTIFUL AREA.
02:03 THE THING IS CALLED BANIAS TODAY,
02:06 THAT'S AN ARABIC >> CORRUPTION OF THE TERM PAN FOR THE GREEK GOD PAN.
02:12 WE WILL REVIEW THAT FOR YOU IN THE LESSON, CEASAREA-PHILIPPI.
02:15 THIS IS THE >> NORTHERN PART OF ISRAEL.
02:19 THIS IS THE SEA OF GALILEE AND THE NORTH JORDAN RIVER.
02:22 AND THIS IS >> THE BOUNDARY OF LEBANON,
02:24 AND OVER HERE, >> THE BOUNDARY WITH SYRIA.
02:27 AND CEASAREA-PHILIPPI OR >> BANIAS IS WAY UP HERE
02:30 50 MILES UP FROM DAMASCUS.
02:34 WE ARE UP NORTH IN THE GOLAN HEIGHTS.
02:38 AND THIS IS THE AREA THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT GIVING BACK TO SYRIA THESE DAYS.
02:42 THERE IS A SIMPLE PROOF THAT THIS IS JEWISH LAND.
02:45 BEFORE SYRIA WAS EVEN THOUGHT OF, THERE WAS A JEWISH CULTURE THERE AT CEASAREA-PHILIPPI.
02:52 JESUS AND HIS MEN WERE >> COMFORTABLE GOING THERE.
02:55 AND THE CITY WAS THERE AND A JEWISH FORTRESS AND SO FORTH.
02:59 IT IS A BEAUTIFUL AREA THAT OUR TOURS ALWAYS GO THERE.
03:01 AND I CERTAINLY HOPE THEY ARE NOT GOING TO GIVE IT AWAY.
03:05 MATTHEW 16:13-14 WILL TAKE US TO OUR LESSON AND IT SAYS:
03:12 WHEN JESUS CAME INTO THE COAST OF CEASAREA-PHILIPPI HE ASKED
03:16 THE DISCIPLES, "WHOM DO MEN SAY THAT I THE SON OF MAN IS?"
03:21 AND THEY SAID, "SOME SAY YOU ARE JOHN THE BAPTIST AND SOME ELIAS
03:25 "AND OTHERS JEREMIAH, ONE OF THE PROPHETS" AND SO ON.
03:28 WELL, I WENT THERE YEARS AGO AND I DEALT WITH THIS PASSAGE
03:32 AND WE WILL CUT AWAY TO THAT OLD FOOTAGE RIGHT NOW.
03:34 NOW, I LOOK A LITTLE DIFFERENT HERE,
03:36 BUT THE LESSON HASN'T CHANGED.
03:37 IN VERSE 15, HE SAYS, "YES, BUT WHO DO YE SAY THAT I AM?"
03:46 WHAT IS THEIR THEORY.
03:48 NEVER MIND WHAT THE CROWDS ARE SAYING.
03:51 THERE IS A SILENCE, I SUPPOSE, AND THEN PETER THE IMPULSIVE
03:54 SPEAKS UP, "THOU ART THE CHRIST, THE SON OF THE LIVING GOD."
04:00 THIS IS PETER'S CONFESSION.
04:02 THIS IS A VERY IMPORTANT >> STATEMENT BECAUSE IT GIVES
04:05 THE MAXIMUM FOR GETTING INTO THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH.
04:09 THIS IS ENTRY FEE.
04:10 THAT'S ALL IT IS.
04:12 BUT IT HAS TO BE REAL.
04:13 TO RECOGNIZE HE IS THE SON OF THE LIVING GOD.
04:15 WHEN HE SAID "CHRIST," >> IT IS GREEK FOR MESSIAH.
04:20 IT IS NOT A FAMILY NAME.
04:22 JESUS DID NOT HAVE A FAMILY NAME.
04:24 HE WAS "JESUS OF NAZARETH," WAS THE STYLE OF FAMILY NAMES THEN.
04:28 CHRIST IS THE GREEK FOR [ speaking Greek ],
04:30 THE ENGLISH OF WHICH IS MESSIAH.
04:32 THEY'RE ALL THE SAME WORDS.
04:34 SO PETER IS SAYING YOU ARE >> MESSIAH, THE SON OF GOD.
04:36 IN OTHER WORDS, CO-EQUAL WITH GOD.
04:38 A STUNNING STATEMENT, AND ONE I SUPPOSE,
04:42 THAT HAD NOT AS YET BEEN UTTERED BY ANY OF THEM.
04:44 AND THEN THE LORD SAID, "YOU'RE BLESSED, PETER,
04:47 "BLESSED BECAUSE >>OF DIVINE REVELATION."
04:50 NO MAN COULD HAVE TOLD PETER EXACTLY THIS THING IN TRUTH
04:55 THAT JESUS IS THE SON OF GOD.
04:58 HE EMPHASIZED IT VERY PERSONALLY BY USING HIS FULL NAME.
05:03 "BLESSED ART THOU, SIMON BAR JONAH,"
05:07 YOU CAN HEAR IT IN ARAMAIC:
05:08 [ speaking Aramaic ] GIVING HIS FULL NAME.
05:14 THIS IS ARAMAIC NAME AND ARAMAIC FORM.
05:16 AND THEREFORE, OF COURSE, JESUS SPOKE ARAMAIC.
05:19 NO ONE QUIBBLES WITH THAT.
05:21 AND HE WOULD HAVE SPOKEN THIS WAY CERTAINLY TO HIS JEWISH CONFESSOR, PETER.
05:27 AND SOME ARGUE THAT THE ENTIRE GOSPELS ARE IN GREEK.
05:30 IT CERTAINLY CAN'T BE.
05:33 IT IS DOUBTFUL THAT ANY KIND OF REMARK LIKE THIS AIMED TO JEWISH PEOPLE WOULD BE IN GREEK.
05:38 A SHAME IT IS THAT THE CONFESSION OF MESSIAH FIRST
05:41 COMES IN A GENTILE AREA FROM A FISHERMAN HERE IN GALILEE
05:47 AND NOT FROM THE >> HIGH PRIEST IN JERUSALEM.
05:52 THAT'S WHERE IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN.
05:54 AND OF COURSE, THE LORD WAS IN JERUSALEM FIRST BEFORE HE DEPARTED AND WENT TO GALILEE.
05:58 NOW, THEN, IMPORTANT STUFF.
06:00 IN VERSE 18, THE LORD TURNS TO PETER AND HE SAYS,
06:05 "THOU ART, PETER, AND UPON THIS ROCK WILL I BUILD MY CHURCH."
06:11 AND WHAT DOES HE MEAN?
06:13 WELL, FIRST OF ALL, THE ROCK IS THE PROFESSION
06:16 OF FAITH THAT WE JUST REPEATED.
06:19 "THOU ART THE CHRIST, THE SON OF THE LIVING GOD."
06:22 THAT IS HOW >> YOU GET INTO THE CHURCH.
06:24 SO ON THAT IS THE CHURCH BUILT.
06:27 THAT IS PERSON BY PERSON BY PERSON WHO SAYS THAT.
06:30 NO ONE IS BORN A CHRISTIAN.
06:31 NO ONE BORN INTO THE CHURCH.
06:33 THEY MUST UTTER THAT AND MEAN THAT TO BE IN THE CHURCH.
06:37 IN THE SECOND WAY THE ROCK REPRESENTS MESSIAH SMITTEN
06:40 AND THE CRUCIFIXION IN JERUSALEM.
06:45 IN THE SAME MANNER AS IN THE WILDERNESS WHEN THE PEOPLE NEED
06:48 WATER AND MESSIAH OF COURSE, GIVES THE LIVING WATER.
06:51 MOSES STRUCK A ROCK AND OUT CAME THE LIVING WATER.
06:55 AND WATER THAT KEPT THEM ALIVE WHILE THEY WENT TO THE PROMISED LAND.
06:58 SO IN A SECOND SENSE, HE'S THE ROCK.
07:00 THERE ARE MANY WAYS THAT THIS PARTICULAR RICH, TYPE OR SYMBOL
07:04 IS FULFILLED IN THE BIBLE.
07:06 BEHIND ME ON THE ROCK CLIFFS OF BANIAS ARE LITTLE NICHES,
07:11 WHERE LITTLE IDOLS WERE PLACED AND THE WHOLE PLACE IS DEDICATED
07:15 TO THE GOD PAN, THE FLUTE-PLAYING GOD,
07:18 CREATION OF MEN'S IMAGINATION.
07:21 AND PEOPLE STILL COME HERE TO VISIT AND TO LOOK AT THE THING.
07:24 NOT TO WORSHIP PAN HOPEFULLY.
07:26 BUT TO LOOK AT THE MOUNTAIN WITH ITS ROCK CLIFFS DEDICATED TO THESE GODS.
07:30 AND SO IN A THIRD SENSE, JESUS STANDS WITH THAT AS A BACKDROP
07:34 AND SAYS, HERE IN FRONT OF THESE ROCKS WITH THEIR GODS ON THEM,
07:39 "I BUILD MY CHURCH ON THIS ROCK."
07:42 WHAT THIS MAN SAID.
07:44 AND IN A FOURTH SENSE, OF COURSE, PETER'S NAME AND SO ON.
07:48 IT WAS A BRILLIANT REMARK AND ONE I CAN MAKE A WHOLE PROGRAM ABOUT.
07:51 BUT THOSE ARE THE IMPORTANT POINTS.
07:54 THERE IS A RABBINICAL PARABLE BY THE WAY, THAT SEES ABRAHAM AS THE ROCK.
07:59 AND EVERY TIME GOD WANTED TO BUILD A FOUNDATION OF THE HUMAN
08:02 RACE HE WOULD STRIKE WATER.
08:04 SUCH AS TRYING TO BUILD >> IT IN NOAH'S GENERATION, >>THE FLOOD CAME.
08:07 BUT WHEN HE SAW ABRAHAM COMING,
08:10 SO IT SAYS, GOD SAW A ROCK ON WHICH HE COULD BUILD A FAITHFUL PEOPLE.
08:17 AND SO HE BUILT A CHOSEN PEOPLE.
08:19 INTERESTING.
08:21 VERSE 19, THE KEYS OF THE KINGDOM ARE GIVEN TO PETER.
08:24 HE USED THEM TWICE VERY EFFECTIVELY.
08:28 ONCE IN ACTS 2, FOR THE JEWS AT PENTECOST,
08:31 AND ONCE IN ACTS 10 FOR THE GENTILES WITH CORNELIUS AT CEASAREA.
08:36 WE SAID IT IN ONE OF THE OTHER PROGRAMS, IN ACTS 2,
08:39 THE HOLY SPIRIT CAME AND THE JEWISH MESSAGE CONCERNING THE PROPHET JOEL.
08:44 "I WILL POUR OUT MY SPIRIT ON ALL FLESH AND THE PSALMS OF DAVID."
08:47 THE LORD SAID UNTO MY LORD.
08:49 EXPERT TEACHING TO JEWS.
08:51 AND THEN TO CORNELIUS, "GOD IS NO RESPECTER OF PERSONS."
08:55 ANY ONE OF ANY NATION THAT FEARS HIM IS RESPECTED WITH HIM.
09:00 AND SO HE OPENED -- PETER IS LIKE THE DOOR KEEPER
09:04 FOR THE KEYS AND OPENS IT FOR JEWS AT PENTECOST AND FOR GENTILES IN ACTS 10 IN CEASAREA.
09:12 AND THAT IS IN KEEPING WITH THE ORDER GIVEN IN THE GOSPEL AS
09:15 PAUL WROTE TO THE JEW FIRST AND ALSO TO THE GREEK.
09:18 OR AS JESUS SAID IN HIS ASCENSION.
09:20 "BE MY DISCIPLES IN JERUSALEM AND JUDEA AND THEN IN SAMARIA
09:24 "AND THEN TO THE GENTILES AND THEN TO THE UTTERMOST PARTS OF THE EARTH."
09:27 GOING ON IN VERSE 20, HE DOESN'T WANT THEM TO TELL IT TO ANY MAN.
09:33 TELL NO MAN.
09:34 WHY?
09:35 BECAUSE THE TIMING IS OFF.
09:37 IT IS WRONG.
09:38 THE ANNOUNCEMENT OF HIS >> MESSIAH-SHIP AWAITED THE >>LAST PASSOVER.
09:42 ACCORDING TO TYPE.
09:44 AT PASSOVER, THE THIRD YEAR, THEN THE LORD WOULD COME IN
09:47 AND THEY WOULD SEE THE CONNECTION.
09:50 HOW REMARKABLE, A LAMB IS SACRIFICED IN EGYPT
09:54 AND JOHN THE BAPTIST BEFORE HE WAS BEHEADED,
09:57 OF THIS MAN, BEHOLD THE LAMB OF GOD WHICH TAKETH AWAY THE SINS OF THE WORLD.
10:02 AND SEE HE IS EXECUTED ACTUALLY RIGHT ON PASSOVER LIKE WE KILLED THE LAMB.
10:08 AND WHAT AN ODD DAY FOR AN EXECUTION.
10:10 IN OTHER WORDS, HE MUST HAVE BEEN QUITE A WITNESS TO QUITE A FEW.
10:14 THAT'S SOWING A SEED DEEP IN RICH SOIL.
10:16 AND IN VERSE 21, >> THE LORD STARTS TO PROPHECY,
10:19 HE HAS TO GO TO JERUSALEM.
10:21 HE HAS TO BE CRUCIFIED AND RAISED AGAIN ON THE THIRD DAY.
10:23 AND PETER SAID, "NO, DON'T LET IT HAPPEN.
10:26 "I WON'T LET IT HAPPEN TO YOU, LORD."
10:27 HE MEANS WELL.
10:28 THE LORD SAYS, "GET THEE BEHIND ME."
10:30 IN OTHER WORDS, DON'T SIDE WITH THE DEVIL AGAINST MY PLAN.
10:33 THAT IS MY PLAN.
10:37 AND THE THING YOU CAN'T GRASP, AND CAN'T UNDERSTAND,
10:39 HERE'S PETER WHO GAVE THIS MAGNIFICENT CONFESSION,
10:41 THE STANDARD OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH FOR ALL OF ITS HISTORY
10:45 AND IN 2000 YEARS AND HE HEARD THE STATEMENT OF JESUS AND HE
10:49 REACTED TO IT AND LATER HE SAID, "I DON'T EVEN KNOW THE MAN."
11:13 "THUS SAITH THE LORD GOD, I SHALL GATHER YOU FROM THE
11:16 "PEOPLES AND ASSEMBLE YOU OUT OF THE COUNTRIES WHERE YOU HAVE
11:20 "BEEN SCATTERED AND I WILL GIVE YOU THE LAND OF ISRAEL,
11:24 "THE WILDERNESS AND >> DRY LAND SHALL BE GLAD.
11:27 "THE DESERT SHALL REJOICE AND BLOSSOM AS THE ROSE.
11:31 "YOU SHALL KNOW THAT I AM THE LORD WHEN I BRING
11:34 "YOU INTO THE LAND OF ISRAEL."
11:39 WELL, YOU KNOW, GO TO ISRAEL YOURSELF AND SEE IT.
11:43 BECAUSE WE ARE LIMITED HERE TO SHOWING IT WITH OUR COUPLE OF >> CAMERAS.
11:48 CNN AND THE NETWORKS >> ARE COMMITTED TO >>CRITICIZING THE PLACE.
11:51 THEY AREN'T GOING TO SHOW YOU ANYTHING REALLY PRETTY.
11:53 AND I WANT YOU TO SEE IT.
11:55 IF NOT WITH US, WITH SOME OTHER TOUR.
11:57 BUT GET THERE IN THIS LIFE.
11:59 WELL, RECENTLY, TOM, OUR SENIOR THEOLOGIAN WENT TO BANIAS
12:03 AND HE STOOD ABOUT A HUNDRED YARDS BACK FROM WHERE I WAS
12:07 IN THAT EARLIER FOOTAGE.
12:09 SORT OF BY THE >> FACE OF THE ROCK ITSELF.
12:12 WE'LL BETTER UNDERSTAND JESUS' REFERENCE TO THE GATES OF HELL
12:16 WHEN WE HEAR TOM'S TEACHING.
12:19 HERE IS THE ACTUAL GROTTO OF THE GOD PAN.
12:24 IT IS A LARGE CAVE AND IN ANCIENT TIMES,
12:27 THERE WAS A RIVER >> BACK THAT WAS VERY DEEP.
12:31 IT WAS CALLED THE RIVER OF THE ABYSS BACK THERE.
12:35 AND THAT'S WHY THEY ASSOCIATED IT WITH THE RIVER STYX.
12:39 IN FRONT OF THIS GROTTO, >> THERE WAS A TEMPLE
12:43 AND THEY MADE SACRIFICES >>IN THIS TEMPLE TO THE GOD PAN.
12:50 AND THE SACRIFICIAL ANIMALS WERE THROWN OFF INTO THE ABYSS, INTO THE RIVER.
12:58 IT WAS A MAJOR PART OF PAGAN WORSHIP IN THOSE DAYS.
13:04 AND AS WE MOVE ALONG, THIS WHOLE SANCTUARY AREA,
13:08 WE FIND A DEEP NICHE RIGHT HERE THAT IS THE NICHE OF WORSHIP
13:16 OF THE GOD PAN WITH -- IN ANCIENT TIMES,
13:19 THERE WAS A STATUTE THERE AND PEOPLE WOULD CONGREGATE OUTSIDE
13:24 OF THIS NICHE AREA AND WORSHIP THE SHEPHERD GOD.
13:28 THE GOD THAT WAS IN THE FORM OF A MAN AND A GOAT.
13:32 THEY WOULD WORSHIP HIM IN THIS NICHE.
13:36 AND THE WHOLE AREA HERE WAS A CAMPUS OF WORSHIP TO THE GOD PAN.
13:43 NEXT TO THIS GENERAL AREA, THERE WAS THE TEMPLE OF ZEUS.
13:49 AND YOU GO ON AND THERE ARE OTHER THINGS THAT HAVE TO DO
13:53 WITH THE WORSHIP OF PAN AND THE DANCING GOATS AND ALL OF THE
13:57 THINGS THAT WERE A PART OF THE WORSHIP OF THE GOD PAN
14:02 AND IN MOST IDOLATROUS AREA OF THE NATION OF ISRAEL DURING THE FIRST CENTURY.
14:25 HERE WE ARE AT THE VERY GATES OF HELL AS JESUS WAS SAYING ALL OF
14:30 THIS TO HIS DISCIPLES.
14:32 AND IN THE MYTHOLOGY OF THE GREEKS, THIS WAS WHERE A DEAD
14:37 PERSON ENTERED INTO HADES, INTO THE RIVER STIX.
14:42 AND THIS WAS MORE OR LESS THE GATE THROUGH WHICH HE ENTERED.
14:48 BUT JESUS SAID, "WITH THE >> REVELATION THAT YOU HAVE >>RECEIVED, PETER, AND DISCIPLES,
14:54 "YOU ARE GOING TO BE BUILT UPON THIS ROCK AND THE GATES OF HELL
15:02 "WILL NOT PREVAIL >> AGAINST THIS TESTIMONY."
15:05 THE GATES OF HELL WILL NOT PREVAIL AGAINST THIS TRUTH
15:11 OF THE DEITY AND THE MESSIAHSHIP OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST.
15:18 WELL, ALL OF THAT CAME OUT IN THE NEXT FEW DAYS AS JESUS
15:24 AND HIS THREE CLOSEST DISCIPLES, HIS SORT OF "IN" GROUP,
15:28 PETER, JAMES AND JOHN WENT UP THE HIGH MOUNTAIN, PERHAPS MT. HERMON.
15:34 IN THE BACKGROUND WHERE THE >> HILLS BEGAN TO SLOPE UP.
15:42 MANY THOUSANDS OF FEET HERE BEHIND US AT BANIAS AND HE TOOK
15:48 THEM TO THE TRANSFIGURATION OF HIS PERSON.
15:53 HIS VERY DEITY SHOWN FORTH.
15:56 WHAT HAD BEEN HIDDEN THROUGH THE CLOTHING OF HIS HUMAN BODY.
16:02 AND VERY MUCH HIDDEN IN HIS WEAKNESS AS A HUMAN WAS NOW SHINING FORTH.
16:09 AND WAS BEING REVEALED TO HIS DISCIPLES.
16:15 NOW, YOU KNOW, THE SAME QUESTION THAT HE ASKED THE DISCIPLES
16:21 IS BEING ASKED OF US TODAY.
16:24 AND TO YOU, WHO DO YOU SAY THAT THE SON OF MAN IS?
16:30 DO YOU THINK HE'S JUST A PROPHET?
16:32 DO YOU THINK HE'S >> JUST A NICE MAN?
16:34 DO YOU THINK HE'S JUST A GOOD TEACHER?
16:37 OR HAS THE FATHER REVEALED TO YOU THAT HE IS THE MESSIAH,
16:43 THE CHRIST, THE SON OF THE LIVING GOD?
16:47 IF HE'S REVEALED THAT TO YOU,
16:49 IT CERTAINLY HASN'T BEEN BY ANYTHING ANY HUMAN HAS DONE.
16:54 IT HASN'T BEEN BY ANYTHING ANYBODY TOLD YOU
16:56 OR PERSUADED YOU.
16:58 IT IS BECAUSE THE FATHER >>HAS REVEALED IT TO YOU.
17:06 TOM'S TEACHING IS ALWAYS INFORMATIVE.
17:08 BUT YOU KNOW, HE BROKE HIS ANKLE UP THERE.
17:10 HE TURNED AROUND RIGHT AFTER THAT AND SLIPPED ON A ROCK
17:13 AND I WONDER IF IT'S NOT JUST SPIRITUAL WARFARE BECAUSE OF ALL
17:16 THAT HE DISCLOSED UP THERE ABOUT SATAN AND HIS WORKS.
17:21 ANYWAY, THANKS TO THOSE OF YOU WHO PICKED UP THE HINT
17:25 AND WROTE IN AND HELPED DEFER THE EXPENSE IN FLYING HIM HOME
17:28 FIRST CLASS AND SO FORTH, HE'S OKAY.
17:31 HE WORE A CAST FOR A WHILE AND HAD SURGERY AND CAME THROUGH
17:34 LIKE A TROOPER AND ALWAYS A SMILE ON HIS FACE.
17:36 YOU KNOW, SPEAKING OF SPIRITUAL WARFARE.
17:39 THIS IS GOING ON >>IN TEL AVIV THESE DAYS.
17:42 THE MESSIANICS ARE OPPOSED BY THE ORTHODOX JEWS.
17:45 OH, BOY, THEY ARE ON OPPOSITE POLES.
17:47 AND KEN BERG OUR PRODUCER NOW TAKES US TO DUGIT IN TEL AVIV,
17:52 THIS IS A COFFEE SHOP AND BOOKSTORE.
17:55 DUGIT HAS REFERENCE TO A SMALL FISHING BOAT WHICH
17:59 IS AN EXCELLENT IMAGE FOR A PLACE WHERE EVANGELISM IS DONE.
18:14 PEOPLE FROM THE STREET.
18:15 PEOPLE WHO DON'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT GOD,
18:19 THEY COME IN FOR THE CUP OF COFFEE
18:24 OR BECAUSE OF THE BIG SIGN WE HAVE AND THEY LOOK
18:26 AND THEY SEE MESSIANIC, MESSIANIC WHAT IS THAT?
18:31 AND MANY PEOPLE COME IN SAYING >> WHAT ARE YOU GUYS ABOUT?
18:34 WHAT IS IT ALL ABOUT, YES.
18:36 SO THE TERM "MESSIANIC" >> IS NOT NECESSARILY KNOWN
18:38 HERE IN TEL AVIV, THERE'S A QUESTION AS TO WHAT
18:42 MESSIANIC MEANS; IS THAT CORRECT?
18:44 ABSOLUTELY NOT.
18:45 IF I WERE TO COME IN HERE AND ASK YOU AS SOMEONE LIVING
18:49 HERE IN TEL AVIV, WELL, A JEWISH PERSON, WHAT IS MESSIANIC?
18:52 WHAT WOULD YOU SAY?
18:53 I WOULD SAY WE ARE MESSIANICS AND WE ARE ETHNIC JEWS.
19:00 MY MOTHER IS JEWISH >> AND MY FATHER IS JEWISH.
19:03 AND I BELIEVE THAT JESUS,
19:05 HE'S THE MESSIAH >>FOR JEWS AND GENTILES.
19:10 THEY SAY, ARE YOU CHRISTIANS?
19:13 AND I SAY, NOT EXACTLY.
19:16 SAY WHAT IS THAT >> SUPPOSED TO MEAN?
19:19 AND THAT LEADS TO THE WHOLE WITNESSING PROCESS.
19:21 HAS IT BEEN DIFFICULT SOMETIMES THOSE WHO WOULD NOT OBVIOUSLY GO
19:26 ALONG WITH WHAT YOU ARE SAYING AND THEY ARE STANDING OUTSIDE
19:29 AND TRYING TO TELL PEOPLE OTHERWISE, I GUESS.
19:32 SOMETIMES IT IS REALLY DISTRACTING
19:34 AND SOMETIMES IT IS VERY DISCOURAGING.
19:37 I MEAN, WE HAVE SEEN HERE SO MANY TESTIMONIES OF PEOPLE
19:40 COMING TO THE LORD IN SPITE OF WHAT THOSE PEOPLE ARE DOING.
19:44 AND SO I AM JUST HOLDING ONTO THAT.
19:48 SHAUL, WILL YOU TELL ME HOW YOU CAME TO YOUR FAITH IN JESUS?
19:52 THERE WERE MANY PEOPLE THAT WERE ON THE WAY TO YESHUA,
19:57 I'M SURE THAT THEY PRAYED.
20:00 AND THE LAST LINK THAT I CAME TO YESHUA IS THAT ONE DAY AFTER
20:06 BEING IN A CONCERT OF STEVIE WONDER,
20:08 I SAW AN EVANGELIST GOT BEATEN BY SOME RELIGIOUS PEOPLE.
20:13 ORTHODOX PEOPLE?
20:15 YES, AND I WAS IN SHOCK FROM THAT.
20:20 PEOPLE THAT HIT PEOPLE AND HIT THE MAN
20:22 JUST BECAUSE HE WAS SHARING BOOKS.
20:25 AND AFTERWARDS, I STARTED TO INTERFERE WITH THEM
20:30 AND THEN WHEN WE GO, WHEN THEY GO,
20:32 I STARTED TO SPEAK WITH HIM.
20:36 AND HE START TO SPEAK VERY CALMLY AND VERY KINDLY
20:38 ABOUT YESHUA, ABOUT JESUS.
20:41 AND I WAS IN SHOCK FROM THAT.
20:44 AND SO I ASKED >> FOR MORE STUFF FROM HIM.
20:47 AND HE GAVE ME HIS BOOK.
20:49 AND AFTER READING HIS BOOKS, I JUST -- JUST COMPARED IT
20:54 WITH THE OLD TESTAMENT I HAVE IN THE HOUSE FROM THE ARMY TIME,
21:00 AND SINCE THEN, GOD OPENED MY EYES AND MY HEART
21:05 AND I STARTED TO READ ALL OF THE BOOKS OF THE PROPHETS
21:08 AND I STARTED FROM GENESIS.
21:11 AFTER A WHILE, I TALKED WITH DAMKANI
21:16 AGAIN IN SHABBAT >>AND HE INVITED ME TO THE HOUSE.
21:20 DAMKANI WAS THE EVANGELIST?
21:21 DAMKANI WAS THE EVANGELIST, YEAH.
21:23 AT THAT TIME, THERE WAS A MEETING OF CONGREGATION
21:29 AND I WAS IMPRESSED VERY >> MUCH FROM THE KINDLY PEOPLE.
21:33 I THOUGHT ALL OF THE TIME THAT THOSE MESSIANIC JEWISH,
21:37 THEY ARE HIDING SOMETHING.
21:39 SO I WANTED TO KNOW WHAT THEY ARE HIDING.
21:42 AND SO I WAS SURPRISED TO REALIZE THAT THERE WAS NO HIDING.
21:45 ACTUALLY THERE WAS TRUTH >> AND NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH.
21:49 AND I JUST OUT OF SUSPICIOUS, BECAUSE ALL OF THE TIME WE ARE
21:54 TAUGHT NOT TO OPEN THE NEW TESTAMENT.
21:57 AND THAT BOOK DOES NOT BELONG TO THE JEWISH PEOPLE.
22:00 AND EDUCATION >> ACTUALLY FROM CHILDHOOD,
22:03 I WAS ALL OF THE TIME TERRIFIED >> TO GO FURTHER THAN THAT.
22:08 AND AFTER TALKING WITH JEWISH WOMAN AND ABOUT HER TESTIMONY,
22:13 EVERYTHING WAS SO CLEAR TO ME.
22:15 AND SO I DECIDED TO ACCEPT YESHUA TO MY HEART
22:18 AND AFTER I ACCEPT HIM, WHEN I PRAYED,
22:21 I FELT THE PRESENCE OF THE LORD.
22:24 AND I FELT THE TOUCH OF THE HOLY SPIRIT IN MY HEART.
22:28 AND FOR THREE HOURS, I WAS OUT THERE IN UNBELIEVABLE REALITY
22:34 AND I FELT SAFE AND PROTECTED AND EVERYTHING WAS CHANGED FROM THAT MOMENT.
22:40 WHY DO YOU THINK >> SO MANY DON'T SEE IT?
22:43 A PART OF IT IS EDUCATION.
22:47 ACTUALLY ME AS A MAN, AS AN ISRAELI GUY,
22:50 WHEN I WAS YOUNG, I WAS TAUGHT NOT TO EVEN TOUCH THE NEW TESTAMENT.
22:57 UNTIL I WAS SAVED, >> I DON'T HAVE THE COURAGE
23:00 TO OPEN THE NEW TESTAMENT.
23:04 AND WE WERE TAUGHT THAT ACTUALLY, THE BLAME OF THE
23:09 HOLOCAUST AND ALL OF THE BAD THINGS THAT HAPPENED TO THE
23:13 JEWISH NATION, AS A NATION,
23:16 AS A COUNTRY IS JUST BECAUSE OF YESHUA.
23:21 JUST BECAUSE OF HIM, ANTISEMITISM STARTED TO HAPPEN.
23:26 EVERYTHING IS EDUCATION FROM THE DAY THAT WE STARTED TO STUDY IN
23:31 SCHOOL AND EVEN BEFORE THAT, FROM OUR MOTHER'S WOMB.
23:35 WHAT DO YOU FRIENDS THINK AND YOUR FAMILY ABOUT THIS >> NEW FAITH THAT YOU HAVE?
23:39 FIRST, THEY REALLY REJECTED THAT AND HATED WHAT I HAVE DONE.
23:44 THEY THOUGHT THAT I WAS A TRAITOR.
23:47 MY FATHER DIDN'T WANT TO >>EAT WITH ME AT THE SAME TABLE.
23:50 MY MOTHER THOUGHT, SHE SAID THAT THIS IS NOT REPENTANCE.
23:53 IF I WANT TO GET, TO GO AND REPENT,
23:56 I SHOULD GO TO A SYNAGOGUE AND DO ALL OF THE THINGS THAT RABBI ORDERED TO DO.
24:01 AND I SHOW HER THROUGH THE SCRIPTURES EVERYTHING.
24:04 I TOLD HER THAT REPENTANCE CAN COME ONLY WITH THE POWER OF GOD.
24:08 AND FIRST, THEY DIDN'T UNDERSTAND IT SO MUCH.
24:12 AND THEY CALLED ME ALL OF THE >> TIME THAT I AM A TRAITOR
24:15 AND I AM A SHUMATE AND MANY BAD NAMES, BUT AFTER A WHILE,
24:20 MY PARENTS CAME TO THE CONGREGATION AND THEY SAW
24:25 THIS IS SOMETHING DIFFERENT.
24:28 IT IS NOT A CHURCH.
24:29 IT IS NOT SOMETHING I HAVE TO BE A MONK FOR ALL OF MY LIFE
24:35 AND ALL OF THESE THINGS THAT THEY SEE IN MOVIES OR TV.
24:38 THEY SAW THIS IS SOMETHING REAL, DEEP, AND REAL FRANK AND STRONG.
24:47 AND THEY REACTED AFTER THAT, THERE WAS SOMETIMES THEY WERE
24:51 OCCASION OF DISAGREEMENTS, BUT THEY REALIZED THAT NOW THEY
24:55 REALIZE IT IS A PART OF MY LIFE, A VERY, VERY PART, DEEP THING
25:02 AND VERY DEEP THING IN MY LIFE.
25:17 [ music playing ]
25:47 ISRAEL IS CERTAINLY STILL A PLACE OF REVELATION.
25:49 WE CAN SEE THAT AND ALSO OF CONFLICT.
25:51 WE CAN SEE THAT, TOO.
25:53 YOU KNOW, ANOTHER MEANING OF JESUS STANDING UP THERE AT
25:56 CEASAREA-PHILIPPI AND SAYING,
25:58 "UPON THIS ROCK >> I WILL BUILD MY CHURCH,"
26:00 PICTURE THAT ROCK THE WAY IT WAS WITH THE STATUES OF PAN AND THE
26:03 OTHER GODS ALL OVER IT IN THE BACKDROP BEHIND HIM AS HE SPOKE.
26:08 AND HE IS SAYING ON THIS GREEK AND ROMAN PAGANISM WILL I BUILD MY CHURCH.
26:13 I WILL BRING THE TRUTH AND SUPERIMPOSE IT ON THEIR GODS.
26:16 AND INDEED, IN GREECE AND ROME, THE CHURCH REALLY CAUGHT FIRE.
26:20 THAT'S HOW IT GOT TO EUROPE AND AMERICA.
26:23 IT STARTED FIRST IN ISRAEL.
26:25 BUT THE CHURCH WAS BUILT >> REALLY IN GREECE AND ROME.
26:28 ON THAT ROCK, SO TO SAY.
26:30 WELL, NATIONAL SALVATION >> AWAITS HIS RETURN.
26:33 ISRAEL WILL BE SAVED AT THE END.
26:35 ALL OF ISRAEL WILL BE SAVED
26:36 WHEN THE DELIVERER SHALL COME OUT OF ZION,
26:38 PAUL SAID IN ROMANS 11:26.
26:41 WHEN THEY SHALL LOOK UPON HIM WHOM THEY PIERCED, IN ZECHARIAH 12:10.
26:45 BUT IT'S A SHAME TO MAKE THE JEWS WAIT THOUGH.
26:49 MY GOSH, THE TRIBULATION, ARMAGEDDON, THE ANTICHRIST,
26:52 ALL OF THAT WHEN >> WE CAN WITNESS TO THEM NOW.
26:55 AND BRING THEM WITH US IN THE RAPTURE.
26:57 GO AHEAD, EVEN IF YOU FAIL,
26:59 YOU HAVE PICKED ONE OF THE 144,000 IN THE TIME
27:03 OF REVELATION I SUPPOSE IF YOU WITNESS TO THEM NOW.
27:05 SO MEANWHILE, WE NEED TO HONOR THE CHOSEN
27:08 PEOPLE AND WE NEED TO >> WITNESS TO THEM.
27:10 AND GET THIS SERIES,
27:12 THAT'S A START.
27:14 LEARN ABOUT ISRAEL
27:15 AND SEE HOW IT REALLY IS.
27:16 NOT THE WAY THEY SHOW IT
27:17 ON THE NETWORKS.
27:18 THIS IS ISRAEL,
27:19 12 PROGRAMS IN ALL.
27:20 VERY GOOD TESTIMONY
27:21 AND VERY GOOD BIBLE LESSONS.
27:23 ALSO GET OUR LEVITT LETTER AND CATALOG.
27:26 THOSE ARE ALWAYS FREE.
27:27 JUST SEND US YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS.
27:29 AND WE VERY MUCH APPRECIATE
27:30 THE GIFTS OF FUNDS, FOLKS.
27:32 THIS IS HOW WE REALLY ARE ABLE
27:34 TO TAKE A TV CREW ALL
27:35 THE WAY TO ISRAEL,
27:36 ALL OF THESE PLACES AND ALL OF
27:37 THE PROBLEMS THAT THAT INVOLVES.
27:39 IT IS QUITE EXPENSIVE,
27:40 BUT WE VALUE YOUR SUPPORT.
27:43 AND AS YOU PRAY ABOUT THAT.
27:47 AND SHA'ALU SHALOM YERUSHALAYIM.
27:48 PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM.
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31:16 WHAT A PROGRAM WE HAVE FOR YOU TODAY.
31:18 WE'RE GOING TO THE SITE OF THE BIBLICAL CEASAREA-PHILIPPI,
31:22 IN THE GOLAN HEIGHTS, AND THEN THE OPPOSITE
31:25 TO MODERN TEL AVIV TO A MESSIANIC COFFEE SHOP
31:28 AND BOOKSTORE COMING UP NEXT.
31:30 [ music playing ]
32:02 [ music playing ]
32:09 ISRAEL IS REALLY >>A PLACE OF REVELATION.
32:11 THAT'S WHAT IT IS ABOVE ALL THINGS.
32:12 THERE GOD REVEALED HIMSELF
32:15 THROUGH BOTH THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS.
32:18 AND HE'S REVEALING HIMSELF THERE TODAY WITH WHAT IS GOING ON IN
32:21 ISRAEL OBVIOUSLY FOR THE LAST GENERATION.
32:24 AND THIS IS A VERY >> IMPORTANT POINT.
32:26 THE NEWS NETWORKS KNOW NOTHING ABOUT GOD OR THE BIBLE OR THAT
32:29 ISRAEL IS THE SPECIAL PROMISED LAND AND GOD IS ACTIVE THERE.
32:35 THE SEMINARIES, DALLAS, MOODY,
32:37 AND THE ONES WE HAVE CRITICIZED LATELY --
32:40 THAT'S THE FIRST >> LINE OF CRITICISM --
32:43 IS THEY HAVE DE-EMPHASIZED ISRAEL UNTIL THEIR GRADUATES
32:45 ARE NOT KNOWLEDGEABLE ABOUT THE PLACE EVEN THOUGH
32:47 AT THE SAME TIME, THEY SAY THEY KNOW GOD
32:50 IS WORKING THERE AND SO FORTH.

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Episode 7 of 12 in series

Production Code: 707

Type: Episode

Play Time: 28:32

Year: 2000

Series code: VTI

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Host: Zola Levitt

Guests: Tom McCall

Air dates: 2000-Jun-04, 2005-Feb-06

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