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Episode: “The Triumph of God in Human History”
God turns our mourning into joy, as vividly demonstrated in this concluding program. The Jews are bidden to commemorate God’s saving power and goodness in an annual celebration, Purim. We should all celebrate God’s goodness, thereby banishing the passing clouds of pain and despair.
Series: “Esther”
For Such A Time As This
The Book of Esther is one of the Jewish people’s favorites. In this eight-program television series, Dr. Jeffrey Seif explains its details, and points out that, like Esther herself, we Believers may be alive for such a time as this.

Note: A newer version of this series is available.

Caption transcript for Esther: “The Triumph of God in Human History” (8/8)

  • 00:22 ♪OUT OF ZION...ZION♪
  • 00:26 ♪COMES YOUR SALVATION♪
  • 00:31 ♪AND A NATION WILL BE FORMED OUT OF HIM♪
  • 00:35 ♪YEAH AND A PEOPLE WILL BE BORN OUT OF HIM♪
  • 00:40 ♪OUT OF ZION...ZION♪
  • 00:44 ♪COMES YOUR SALVATION♪
  • 00:55 HEARTY SHALOM TO ALL OF YOU.
  • 00:57 JEFFREY SEIF HERE
  • 00:58 PLEASED TO WELCOME YOU AGAIN
  • 01:01 TO ZOLA LEVITT PRESENTS.
  • 01:03 TODAY WE'RE PRESENTING THE EIGHTH OF AN EIGHT PART TREATMENT
  • 01:06 OF THE FASCINATING BOOK OF ESTHER.
  • 01:09 WHAT A WOMAN!
  • 01:11 WHAT A STORY!
  • 01:13 THERE'S VIRTUE AND THERE'S VICE...
  • 01:15 A WICKED HAMAN HAS COME TO A MUCH DESERVED INGLORIOUS END
  • 01:21 AND NOW MORDECAI WHO IS RISEN IN THE REALM
  • 01:25 IS SPEAKING TO THE JEWS ABOUT THAT AND GOOD THINGS TO COME.
  • 01:33 PUR...A SIMPLE CUBE LIKE OBJECT.
  • 01:37 PUR HAD BEEN USED TO DETERMINE THE DATE OF DEATH FOR EVERY JEW IN THE PERSIAN EMPIRE.
  • 01:43 NOW, ONE YEAR LATER, MORDECAI CONSIDERS A BRIGHTER DAY.
  • 02:27 WITH THE ROLL OF THE DICE
  • 02:28 IT WAS DECREED
  • 02:29 THAT ON A CERTAIN DAY
  • 02:31 A CERTAIN PEOPLE
  • 02:32 WOULD BE ANNIHILATED.
  • 02:35 SOUNDS LIKE SOMETHING FROM WORLD WAR II WHEN I THINK OF GENOCIDE
  • 02:39 BUT IT'S A STORY THAT GOES BACK TO THE BIBLE WHEN IN SHUSHAN, THE CAPITAL,
  • 02:46 THERE WAS A WICKED MAN HAMAN WHO THREW THE DICE AND DETERMINED WITH IT
  • 02:52 THAT A PEOPLE WOULD COME TO AN END.
  • 02:55 TRAGIC...HORRIBLE...
  • 02:58 THAT SOMEONE COULD BE SO WICKED.
  • 03:01 BUT EVEN IN A DARK WORLD LIKE THAT GOD RAISED UP SOMEONE
  • 03:05 AND BROUGHT ABOUT DELIVERANCE FOR THE PEOPLE
  • 03:08 WITH A NET RESULT THAT AS THAT THOSE WHO HAD GRIEF
  • 03:12 WERE ABLE TO EXPERIENCE THEIR GRIEF,
  • 03:14 THEIR SADNESS TURNED INTO GLADNESS.
  • 03:17 IT SAYS IT EXPLICITLY IN CHAPTER 9, VERSE 22.
  • 03:20 I'LL READ IT IN MY VERSION.
  • 03:21 TAKE A PEAK IN YOURS...
  • 03:23 WE'RE TOLD,
  • 03:48 WHAT A STORY HERE.
  • 03:50 INDIVIDUALS THAT THOUGHT ALL IS LOST GOT A NEW LEASE ON LIFE.
  • 03:57 AND THAT MY FRIENDS IS THE GOSPEL STORY IN A NUTSHELL...
  • 04:03 THAT INDIVIDUALS WHO THROUGH SIN AND CIRCUMSTANCE CAN BE FINISHED
  • 04:08 BY VIRTUE OF WHAT JESUS DID INDIVIDUALS ARE ABLE TO SECURE A NEW LEASE ON LIFE.
  • 04:17 OH THAT'S THE STORY IN THE BOOK OF ESTHER
  • 04:19 IN WHICH CASE HERE WHAT HAPPENED IS GOD RAISED UP A WOMAN...
  • 04:23 THE WOMAN'S NAME WAS "HADASSAH",
  • 04:27 "ESTHER",
  • 04:29 AND SHE WAS PLACED FOR SUCH A TIME TO AFFECT A VERY GREAT DELIVERANCE.
  • 04:35 IT COULD BE THAT THERE ARE SOME WITHIN THE SOUND OF MY VOICE THAT NEED A DELIVERANCE.
  • 04:40 I DON'T KNOW WHAT THAT WOULD MEAN TO YOU.
  • 04:43 BUT SPEAKING TO YOU WITH THE BIBLE ON ONE HAND
  • 04:46 AND THE COMING TO YOU FROM THE MOUNT OF OLIVES HERE IN ISRAEL,
  • 04:51 I WANT TO REMIND YOU THAT THERE IS A GOD WHO LIVES;
  • 04:56 THERE IS A GOD WHO CAN TURN YOUR SORROW INTO REJOICING.
  • 05:54 FROM MY EARLIEST MEMORIES AS A CHILD
  • 05:56 I RECALL THE CELEBRATION OF PURIM.
  • 06:00 WE READ IN THE TEXT HOW IT WAS DECREED THE JEWS SHOULD CELEBRATE THE HOLIDAY...
  • 06:04 AND CELEBRATE IT WE DO FROM GENERATION TO GENERATION.
  • 06:09 WE USED TO EAT SPECIAL FOODS.
  • 06:11 THERE WAS THIS HOMENTASH
  • 06:12 AND THIS FOOD THAT WE'D EAT TO REMIND US OF THE HAT THAT HAMAN WAS ALLEGED TO HAVE WORN.
  • 06:18 WE HAVE SPECIAL CELEBRATIONS IN THE SYNAGOGUE ON THE HOLIDAY...
  • 06:22 DIFFERENT THINGS THAT WE DO TO REMEMBER THE EVENT.
  • 06:26 BEFORE GETTING AWAY FROM THE EVENT...
  • 06:29 AN EVENT WHERE ESTHER GETS A CONSIDERABLE AMOUNT OF RECOGNITION AND RIGHTLY SO...
  • 06:34 BUT BEFORE WE GET AWAY FROM HER IN THE STORY I WANT TO ALIGHT UPON MORDECAI SOME.
  • 06:39 AND THE REASON WHY I WANT TO DO THAT IS BECAUSE THE TEXT DOES THAT.
  • 06:43 IN THE 10TH CHAPTER THE BOOK FINISHES OFF BY TALKING ABOUT MORDECAI,
  • 06:49 A FELLOW WHO WE KNOW BECAME GREAT.
  • 06:52 AFTER HAMAN'S DEMISE WE SEE MORDECAI'S RISE WHERE ALL OF HAMAN'S HOLDINGS...
  • 06:58 AND THEY WERE VAST...
  • 06:59 WENT UNDER MORDECAI'S SUPERINTENDENCY.
  • 07:02 SO THIS WAS A MAN WHO LIKE ESTHER WENT FROM RAGS TO RICHES.
  • 07:07 SOMETIMES WHEN PEOPLE FAIR WELL
  • 07:09 THEY FORGET THOSE THAT ARE LESS FORTUNATE...
  • 07:12 BUT NOT SO WITH MORDECAI.
  • 07:15 LET'S CONSIDER THE WAY THE STORY ENDS.
  • 07:17 WE'RE TOLD OF HIM THAT HE IT SAYS,
  • 07:34 WHY WAS HE GREAT?
  • 07:36 WHY WAS HE ESTEEMED?
  • 07:38 WELL WE'RE TOLD HERE IN THE TEXT,
  • 07:56 THE TEXT TELLS US THAT MORDECAI, AS GREAT AS HE BECAME,
  • 08:00 HE REMEMBERED THOSE THAT WERE LESS FORTUNATE.
  • 08:05 AND AS I NOTED, SOME PEOPLE WHEN THEY ELEVATE IN LIFE
  • 08:09 THEY'RE SO ANXIOUS TO LEAVE THEIR HUMBLE ORIGINS
  • 08:12 THEY FORGET THE PEOPLE,
  • 08:14 THEY FORGET THE RACE,
  • 08:15 THEY FORGET THE SOCIAL STRATA OF THOSE THAT ARE LESS FORTUNATE...
  • 08:19 NOT SO WITH MORDECAI...
  • 08:21 AS HE BECAME GREAT HE REMEMBERED THE NEEDS OF HIS BRETHREN.
  • 08:27 AND SO IT IS WE'RE TOLD AS WE GET AWAY FROM THE STORY
  • 08:30 THAT THERE WAS A MAN WHO WAS HELD IN HIGH ESTEEM
  • 08:34 BECAUSE OF HIS SHARING,
  • 08:35 BECAUSE OF HIS CARING.
  • 08:37 I HOPE SOME OF YOU WILL TAKE THAT AS A CHALLENGE
  • 08:40 AS YOU ASK YOURSELF THE QUESTION
  • 08:42 HOW YOU CAN CONCEIVABLY USE YOUR INFLUENCE AND RESOURCE
  • 08:46 TO BE A BLESSING IN THE WORLD.
  • 08:49 MORDECAI WAS LIKE THAT
  • 08:51 AND HE'S REMEMBERED HERE IN THE BIBLICAL TEXT
  • 08:53 AND WE'RE TOLD THAT THOSE OF US THAT ARE LIKE THAT,
  • 08:56 WE'RE GOING TO BE REMEMBERED TOO.
  • 08:59 CERTAINLY BY VIRTUE OF OUR ACCEPTING JESUS
  • 09:01 WE HAVE OUR NAME WRITTEN IN THE LAMB'S BOOK OF LIFE
  • 09:04 AND OUR GOOD WORKS FOLLOW US TO THE OTHER SIDE OF THE GRAVE
  • 09:09 WHEN WE AWAKEN TO HEAR THE WORDS...
  • 09:10 "WELL DONE GOOD AND FAITHFUL SERVANT."
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  • 09:58 FOR THE LORD THY GOD BRINGETH THEE INTO A GOOD LAND;
  • 10:02 A LAND OF FIG TREES AND POMEGRANATES;
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  • 10:10 ARISE, WALK THROUGH THE LAND
  • 10:14 FOR ALL THE LAND WHICH THOU SEEST TO THEE WILL I GIVE IT
  • 10:19 AND TO THY SEED FOREVER.
  • 10:22 WORSHIP IN THE SHADOWS OF ABRAHAM, ISAAC AND JACOB.
  • 10:28 BEHOLD THE LAND OF THE COVENANT.
  • 10:36 I'M IN AND OUT OF ISRAEL ALL THE TIME.
  • 10:40 I WON'T BENEFIT IF YOU GO
  • 10:41 BUT YOU WILL
  • 10:43 AND THAT'S THE GOD'S HONEST TRUTH. ISN'T IT?
  • 10:45 IT IS.
  • 10:46 I HAVE HEARD STORY AFTER STORY
  • 10:47 FROM OUR PASSENGERS THIS LAST YEAR
  • 10:48 ABOUT HOW IT'S CHANGED THEIR LIFE.
  • 10:50 PEOPLE ARE AFRAID IT'S GOING TO CHANGE THEIR LIFE...
  • 10:52 THEY'RE GONNA GET BLOWN UP
  • 10:53 AND THAT'LL BE THE END OF IT.
  • 10:54 THE FEAR IS THE BIG INHIBITOR ISN'T IT?
  • 10:56 ABSOLUTELY
  • 10:57 AND WHAT I WANT TO TELL OUR VIEWERS
  • 10:59 IS THAT IN 27 YEARS
  • 11:00 WE'VE NEVER HAD ONE PROBLEM.
  • 11:02 WE HAVE NEVER CANCELLED ONE TOUR.
  • 11:04 IN FACT, OUR VIEWERS NEED TO KNOW
  • 11:06 THAT WE'RE A GUARANTEED DEPARTURE TOUR.
  • 11:08 IF WE SAY WE'RE GOING,
  • 11:09 WE'RE GOING.
  • 11:10 WE'RE ALL ABOUT ISRAEL WHETHER THE GROUPS ARE BIG OR SMALL
  • 11:12 BECAUSE WE WANT PEOPLE TO SEE THE LAND
  • 11:14 AND WE WANT THEM TO BE FILLING UP THEIR HOTELS AND RESTAURANTS.
  • 11:16 AND WHAT'S NEAT ABOUT OUR TOUR
  • 11:17 IS AS YOU KNOW DR. SEIF
  • 11:18 IS THAT BECAUSE WE GO THREE TIMES A YEAR
  • 11:20 THE TOURS ARE SMALL.
  • 11:21 A LADY I JUST TALKED WITH WENT ON A TOUR...
  • 11:23 28 BUSES.
  • 11:25 RIGHT...YOU CAN GET A TELEVANGELIST OR WHATEVER SAYING,
  • 11:27 "COME WITH ME TO ISRAEL"
  • 11:28 BUT YOU'LL NEVER SEE THE GUY BUT WITH BINOCULARS, IT'S SO BIG.
  • 11:31 WE DO IT A COUPLE TIMES A YEAR
  • 11:33 BECAUSE IT KEEPS IT SMALL...TWO...THREE BUSES.
  • 11:36 ITS MANAGEABLE...
  • 11:37 YOU GET TO KNOW PEOPLE.
  • 11:38 RIGHT AND WHAT I WANT OUR VIEWERS TO KNOW...
  • 11:40 I GET CALLS ALL THE TIME...
  • 11:42 "IS DR. SEIF GOING TO BE ON THE TOUR?"
  • 11:43 YES...JEFF IS ON EVERY TOUR.
  • 11:45 AND SO MANY PASSENGERS WANT THAT AND WHAT DR. SEIF WILL DO IS
  • 11:48 HE'S GOING TO OPEN UP THE WORD DEVOTIONALLY
  • 11:50 AT ALL THE KEY HISTORICAL SITES,
  • 11:52 DO DEVOTIONS IN THE EVENING.
  • 11:53 WE'RE GOING TO REALLY BOND AS A GROUP
  • 11:55 AND I WANT YOU TO COME WITH US.
  • 11:56 PLEASE...
  • 11:57 YOU HEARD WHAT THE LADY SAID.
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  • 12:16 BUT WE'LL JUST GET THAT TO YOU TO GET THE BALL ROLLING.
  • 12:20 TALK ABOUT ROLLING
  • 12:21 THERE'S A STEAM ROLLER ROLLING OVER THE MIDDLE EASTERN WORLD.
  • 12:24 IS FANATIC ISLAM A GLOBAL THREAT?
  • 12:27 I WANT TO OFFER YOU THE BOOK.
  • 12:29 I'LL JUST TELL YOU ON THE FRONT END THE ANSWER IS "YES".
  • 12:31 THE OFFER FOR THE PROGRAM
  • 12:34 IS THE SERIES...A DVD SERIES
  • 12:35 ON "ESTHER,"
  • 12:36 "FOR SUCH A TIME AS THIS"...
  • 12:38 DVDS...8 PROGRAMS...
  • 12:40 YOU'RE GOING TO LOVE IT.
  • 12:42 AND NOW ESTHER AND MORDECAI LOOK OVER A LIFE WELL LIVED AND USED
  • 12:47 AT THE HAND OF GOD IN THEIR LIFE AND AFFAIRS.
  • 12:50 OFF TO THAT STORY WE GO.
  • 13:28 THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL LIVE.
  • 13:31 IT'S NOT TO SAY
  • 13:32 THERE AREN'T FORCES BENT
  • 13:34 ON TRYING TO SEE THAT WE DON'T,
  • 13:35 BUT WE DO.
  • 13:37 AND THE REASON WHY WE LIVE IS BECAUSE GOD LIVES.
  • 13:39 AND THAT'S THE REASON WE SING A SONG...JEWS THAT IS...
  • 13:42 FROM HERE IN ISRAEL AND ALL OVER THE WORLD...
  • 13:45 "THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL LIVE".
  • 13:48 WELL THE STORY IN THE BOOK OF ESTHER TAKES PLACE
  • 13:52 AGAINST THE BACKDROP OF SOMEONE ENDEAVORING TO SEE TO IT THAT WE DON'T LIVE.
  • 13:57 YOU CAN RECALL THERE'S HAMAN...
  • 14:00 SOMETHING OF A WICKED SORT...
  • 14:02 BENT ON DESTROYING THE JEWISH PEOPLE.
  • 14:04 HE HATED MORDECAI
  • 14:07 AND NOT JUST MORDECAI
  • 14:08 BUT BY EXTENSION ALL JEWS EVERYWHERE.
  • 14:12 AND HE UTILIZED HIS INFLUENCE TO ENACT A SCHEME TO ANNIHILATE THE JEWS.
  • 14:20 AND SO DISPATCHED FROM THE CAPITAL OF SHUSHAN WERE COURIERS
  • 14:24 THAT TOOK MESSAGES ALL OVER THIS VAST MEDIA-PERSIAN EMPIRE
  • 14:30 EXTENDING FROM INDIA ON THE ONE HAND
  • 14:33 ALL THE WAY TO ETHIOPIA ON THE OTHER.
  • 14:36 JEWS WERE SCATTERED ABOUT
  • 14:37 BUT IT WAS DECREED INTO LAW THAT A DAY WOULD BE SET ASIDE
  • 14:43 TO DESTROY THE JEWISH PEOPLE.
  • 14:46 SEEMS, HOWEVER, THAT DIFFICULTIES IN THE WORLD ASIDE,
  • 14:49 GOD ALWAYS HAS HIS OWN.
  • 14:52 IN THE BOOK OF ESTHER WE'RE TOLD THERE WAS A FELLOW MORDECAI
  • 14:56 WHO PUSHED HIS CHARGE FORWARD...
  • 14:59 HER NAME WAS "HADASSAH" IN HEBREW.
  • 15:02 IT'S A BEAUTIFUL NAME FOR A BEAUTIFUL GIRL.
  • 15:04 IT COMES FROM THE WORD FOR A PARTICULAR KIND OF TREE...
  • 15:07 A MYRTLE TREE.
  • 15:08 COMING HERE
  • 15:10 FROM THE MOUNT OF OLIVES WHERE THERE'S GREENERY ROUND ABOUT
  • 15:13 HADASSAH ARGUABLY HAD A LITTLE OLIVE TINT IN HER SKIN...
  • 15:16 A LITTLE SOMETHING SPECIAL.
  • 15:18 IN FACT SHE'S SO SPECIAL
  • 15:20 THAT SHE HAS WORKED HER WAY INTO THE JEWISH PSYCHE FOR LOVELINESS AND CARING AND SHARING
  • 15:24 SO MUCH SO THAT IN ISRAEL HERE
  • 15:26 THERE'S EVEN A HOSPITAL NAMED AFTER HER CALLED HADASSAH HOSPITAL.
  • 15:31 WELL HER CARING AND SHARING CAME TO BLOOM IN THE STORY IN THE BOOK OF ESTHER
  • 15:35 WHEN SHE WAS FORTUITOUSLY ELEVATED TO BECOME QUEEN.
  • 15:40 SPEAK OF RAGS TO RICHES,
  • 15:42 HERE'S A GIRL WHO NOT JUST BECAUSE OF HER BEAUTY
  • 15:45 BUT BECAUSE OF AN INNER BEAUTY
  • 15:47 SHE HAD SOMETHING A LITTLE EXTRA
  • 15:49 AND SHE CAUGHT THE ATTENTION OF A KING NAMED XERXES.
  • 15:53 THE NET RESULT IS THAT SHE BECOMES QUEEN
  • 15:56 AND THEN WHEN IN THE EMPIRE HAMAN ENACTS HIS SCHEME TO DESTROY THE JEWS
  • 16:03 SHE'S WELL PLACED TO UTILIZE HER INFLUENCE TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT.
  • 16:08 OH I'M REMINDED OF WHEN MORDECAI PETITIONS HER "PLEASE DEAR YOU HAVE TO"
  • 16:13 AND SHE SAYS "I CAN'T, I CAN'T"...
  • 16:15 BUT THEN SHE'S REMINDED THAT SHE HAD COME INTO THE KINGDOM FOR SUCH A TIME AS THIS.
  • 16:22 ALL OVER THE WORLD TODAY
  • 16:25 JEWISH PEOPLE REMEMBER ESTHER AND MORDECAI AND THE FEAST OF PURIM
  • 16:30 THAT COMMEMORATES WHEN THE JEWS WERE GIVEN PERMISSION TO DEFEND THEMSELVES
  • 16:36 AGAINST THOSE THAT WOULD LOOK TO DESTROY THEM.
  • 16:40 AND IN SYNAGOGUES TODAY THE WORLD OVER JEWS READ THE STORY OF THE BOOK OF ESTHER
  • 16:45 AND EVERY TIME MORDECAI'S NAME IS MENTIONED WE GO "HOORAH...HOORAH"...
  • 16:50 IT'S QUITE A PARTY ATMOSPHERE.
  • 16:52 EVERY TIME HAMAN IS MENTIONED WE GO "BOOH...BOOH...BOOH".
  • 16:56 THE STORY THAT I WANT TO LEAVE YOU WITH, HOWEVER,
  • 16:58 IS THE STORY OF ONE WOMAN WHO UTILIZED HER INFLUENCE
  • 17:02 AND CHANGED THE COURSE OF HISTORY BY VIRTUE OF HER SO DOING
  • 17:07 AND SHE'S ALWAYS REMEMBERED THEN AS A WOMAN WHO TOOK A STAND
  • 17:11 "FOR SUCH A TIME AS THIS."
  • 17:19 ♪OVER HERE IN EGYPT,♪
  • 17:21 ♪WE'VE BEEN HERE WAY TOO LONG♪
  • 17:25 ♪JUST WAITING FOR A SAVIOUR♪
  • 17:26 ♪OR SOMEONE TO COME AND TAKE US HOME♪
  • 17:30 ♪CAUSE YOU KNOW WE'VE BEEN HURTING HERE,♪
  • 17:32 ♪ENSLAVED FOR FAR TOO LONG♪
  • 17:36 ♪AND WE HEARD OF A FAR OFF LAND♪
  • 17:38 ♪WHERE MILK AND HONEY FLOW♪
  • 17:41 ♪WE WANNA GO,♪
  • 17:43 ♪WE WANNA GO TO THE PROMISED LAND♪
  • 17:53 ♪SO HERE COMES YOUNG MOSES WITH FIRE IN HIS EYES♪
  • 17:58 ♪IT TOOK A BURNING BUSH TO MAKE HIM REALIZE♪
  • 18:04 ♪FOR THE ONE WHOM GOD HAS CALLED♪
  • 18:06 ♪NO HE CANNOT BE DENIED♪
  • 18:09 ♪SO HE WENT TO THE PHARAOH WANTING FREEDOM♪
  • 18:12 ♪OR HE WOULD SEE DEMISE♪
  • 18:14 ♪LET EM GO,♪
  • 18:17 ♪LET MY PEOPLE GO♪
  • 18:20 ♪PHARAOH SAID NO♪
  • 18:26 ♪HAD HE BROUGHT US OUT FROM EGYPT♪
  • 18:29 ♪BUT NOT SPLIT THE SEA BEFORE US♪
  • 18:32 ♪IT WOULD HAVE BEEN ENOUGH♪
  • 18:34 ♪IT WOULD HAVE BEEN ENOUGH♪
  • 18:37 ♪HAD HE BROUGHT US TO THE MOUNTAIN♪
  • 18:40 ♪BUT NOT GIVEN US COMMANDMENTS♪
  • 18:42 ♪IT WOULD HAVE BEEN ENOUGH♪
  • 18:45 ♪IT WOULD HAVE BEEN ENOUGH♪
  • 18:52 ♪BEEN IN THE DESERT TRADING IDOLS FOR OUR TEARS♪
  • 18:57 ♪HOW COULD WE ALREADY FORGET♪
  • 19:00 ♪IT WAS YOUR MIRACLES THAT BROUGHT US HERE♪
  • 19:04 ♪PILLAR OF FIRE, AND MANNA FROM ABOVE♪
  • 19:09 ♪YOU EVEN GAVE US YOUR WORD IN STONE,♪
  • 19:11 ♪IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN ENOUGH♪
  • 19:14 ♪SHOULD HAVE BEEN ENOUGH♪
  • 19:16 ♪REMEMBER WHAT HE'S DONE♪
  • 19:19 ♪IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN ENOUGH♪
  • 19:25 ♪HAD HE GIVEN US COMMANDMENTS♪
  • 19:28 ♪BUT NOT LED US INTO ZION♪
  • 19:30 ♪IT WOULD HAVE BEEN ENOUGH♪
  • 19:33 ♪IT WOULD HAVE BEEN ENOUGH♪
  • 19:36 ♪HAD HE LED US INTO ZION♪
  • 19:39 ♪BUT NOT GIVEN US THE PROPHETS♪
  • 19:42 ♪IT WOULD HAVE BEEN ENOUGH♪
  • 19:45 ♪IT WOULD HAVE BEEN ENOUGH♪
  • 19:50 ♪WHOAAAAOO♪
  • 19:55 ♪WHOAAAAO YEAH♪
  • 20:02 ♪WELL ARE YOU SAVED BY THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB?♪
  • 20:05 ♪ARE YOU SAVED BY THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB?♪
  • 20:08 ♪ARE YOU SAVED BY THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB?♪
  • 20:10 ♪OHHHH YEAH♪
  • 20:13 ♪WE ARE WASHED BY THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB♪
  • 20:16 ♪WE ARE WASHED BY THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB♪
  • 20:19 ♪WE ARE WASHED BY THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB♪
  • 20:21 ♪OHHHH YEAH♪
  • 20:23 ♪HAD HE WALKED UPON THE WATER♪
  • 20:27 ♪HAD HE CALMED THE STORMY SEA♪
  • 20:30 ♪IT WOULD HAVE BEEN ENOUGH♪
  • 20:33 ♪IT WOULD HAVE BEEN ENOUGH♪
  • 20:35 ♪HAD HE FED THE FIVE THOUSAND♪
  • 20:38 ♪HAD HE RAISED THEM FROM THE DEAD♪
  • 20:41 ♪IT WOULD HAVE BEEN ENOUGH♪
  • 20:44 ♪IT WOULD HAVE BEEN ENOUGH♪
  • 20:47 ♪WHEN HE DIED FOR OUR TRANSGRESSIONS♪
  • 20:50 ♪WHEN HE SET THE CAPTIVES FREE♪
  • 20:52 ♪OH IT WAS ENOUGH♪
  • 20:55 ♪YEAH...IT WAS ENOUGH♪
  • 20:57 ♪OHH LAI LAI LAI LAI LAI LAI LAI♪
  • 21:02 ♪LAI LAI LAI LAI LAI♪
  • 21:04 ♪OH IT WAS ENOUGH♪
  • 21:06 ♪YEAH IT WAS ENOUGH♪
  • 21:09 ♪OHH LAI LAI LAI LAI LAI LAI LAI♪
  • 21:13 ♪LAI LAI LAI LAI LAI♪
  • 21:15 ♪LORD YOU ARE ENOUGH♪
  • 21:18 ♪MORE THAN ENOUGH♪
  • 21:24 ♪MORE THAN ENOUGH♪
  • 21:31 SHE SINGS,
  • 21:32 SHE TALKS
  • 21:33 AND SHE'S BACK.
  • 21:34 HELLO SHARON >>HELLO AGAIN
  • 21:36 WHAT A GREAT LADY.
  • 21:39 TELL ME ABOUT THAT SONG.
  • 21:40 I THINK I'VE HEARD IT BEFORE.
  • 21:41 YOU PROBABLY HAVE HEARD
  • 21:43 SOME OF THE LYRICS BEFORE.
  • 21:45 WE ACTUALLY FOR THE CHORUS OF THAT SONG
  • 21:46 WE TOOK THE DIRECT ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF "DAYENU"
  • 21:50 WHICH IS A PASSOVER SONG THAT THE JEWISH PEOPLE HAVE BEEN SINGING FOR YEARS AND YEARS.
  • 21:54 AND THE CONCEPT OF IT IS
  • 21:56 "IT WOULD HAVE BEEN ENOUGH"
  • 21:58 YOU KNOW GOD HAS DONE SO MANY MIRACLES THROUGHOUT TIME
  • 22:00 WHETHER IT'S THE PURIM STORY...
  • 22:01 THE PASSOVER STORY...
  • 22:03 AND IT WOULD HAVE BEEN ENOUGH
  • 22:04 IF HE NEVER DID ONE MORE THING FOR US.
  • 22:06 IT WOULD HAVE BEEN ENOUGH.
  • 22:07 BUT AS WE KNOW HE CONTINUES TO BLESS US.
  • 22:09 AND THE HEBREW FOR THAT IS "DAYENU"... >>"DAYENU"
  • 22:13 IT IS SUFFICIENT.
  • 22:14 WE CELEBRATE GOD'S SUFFICIENCY IN MEMORY IN OUR JEWISH HOLIDAYS
  • 22:19 AND ZOLA LEVITT'S GOING TO TAKE US INTO THE "SHUL", INTO THE SYNAGOGUE
  • 22:22 AND TALK TO US ABOUT HOW WE JEWS CELEBRATE PURIM.
  • 22:28 THE CANTOR TO BEGIN WITH
  • 22:29 IS CHANTING FROM THE MEGILLAH,
  • 22:31 FROM THE BOOK OF ESTHER.
  • 22:33 NOW WATCH WHAT HAPPENS
  • 22:35 WHEN HE COMES TO HAMAN'S NAME.
  • 22:44 (CHILDREN YELLING AND SCREAMING AND MAKING NOISE)
  • 22:47 HAMAN WANTED TO WIPE OUT THE JEWISH PEOPLE
  • 22:50 AND HE DIDN'T SUCCEED IN DOING THAT.
  • 22:52 AS A MATTER OF FACT
  • 22:53 HE'S VERY WELL REMEMBERED BY THE JEWISH PEOPLE AS YOU CAN SEE.
  • 22:56 WATCH WHAT THE RING LEADER UP HERE DOES.
  • 22:58 HE'S THE INSTIGATOR...
  • 23:00 OF ALL THE RACKET.
  • 23:06 AND I MEAN IT WAS ALL STOPS OUT.
  • 23:07 WHEN I WAS A LITTLE KID
  • 23:09 WE RAN THROUGH THE SYNAGOGUE UP AND DOWN THE AISLES
  • 23:11 SO WE WERE SOAKING WET AND WE WERE SCREAMING.
  • 23:17 NOW THESE FOLKS ARE BAKING "HOMENTASHEN"
  • 23:20 WHICH IS A SPECIAL DELICACY...
  • 23:22 FRUITS, SEEDS, PRUNES....
  • 23:24 A DELICIOUS FILLING IN THE MIDST OF PASTRIES
  • 23:29 AND THEY'RE VERY, VERY LOVELY TO EAT.
  • 23:34 IT'S HAND WORK...
  • 23:35 YOU DON'T GET MUCH HAND WORK THESE DAYS
  • 23:37 BUT THESE FOLKS WHO WORK AT THE KOSHER BAKERY HAVE CLEAN HANDS AND A PURE HEART
  • 23:41 AND THEY MAKE THESE THINGS BY HAND.
  • 23:46 AND YOU LOOK LIKE A PRINCESS.
  • 23:48 WELL AND YOU LOOK LIKE A JOKER.
  • 23:49 WELL THANK YOU VERY MUCH
  • 23:51 AND AREN'T WE ALL PLAYING LIKE LITTLE KIDDOS? >>YES WE ARE.
  • 23:54 I KNOW THIS IS SO FUN.
  • 23:55 WE HAVE NOISE MAKERS HERE.
  • 23:58 IT'S A PARTY IN THE STUDIO RIGHT NOW.
  • 24:01 YEAH ALL OVER THE JEWISH WORLD
  • 24:03 WE JUST KIND OF GET INTO THIS.
  • 24:08 THE GRAGGERS...
  • 24:09 ALL THE PARTY STUFF...
  • 24:10 YEAH ITS FUN!
  • 24:11 IN THE SYNAGOGUE WHENEVER HAMAN'S NAME IS MENTIONED
  • 24:14 WE GO "BOOO...BOOO" AND STAMP OUR FEET >>YEP!
  • 24:17 AND WHEN MORDECAI IS MENTIONED
  • 24:18 WE GO "HEY...HEY" >>SURE...YEAH"
  • 24:20 TO REMEMBER... WHY DO WE MAKE FOOLS OUT OF OURSELVES?
  • 24:23 WELL TO CELEBRATE.
  • 24:25 TO CELEBRATE THE INCREDIBLE STORY THAT IS PURIM...
  • 24:28 GOD SAVING HIS PEOPLE.
  • 24:31 I REMEMBER THAT TO WATCH ADULTS TO DRESS UP LIKE THIS IS STRIKING. >>HMMMHMMM
  • 24:36 LITTLE KIDS DRESS UP AND THEY LOVE IT >>OH YES!
  • 24:38 BUT IT LEAVES AN IMPRESSION ON THE KIDDOS...
  • 24:41 "WHY ARE MY PARENTS ACTING SO WEIRD?"
  • 24:44 ...OR WEIDER THAN NORMAL.
  • 24:45 BUT WE'RE KIND OF CELEBRATING A GREAT MIRACLE.
  • 24:49 WHAT'S THE MIRACLE?
  • 24:50 YOU KNOW THERE WAS A DECREE OUT
  • 24:53 TO DESTROY THE JEWISH PEOPLE
  • 24:54 AS WE'VE SEEN THROUGH HISTORY
  • 24:56 THAT WAS NOT THE LAST TIME
  • 24:57 THAT THERE HAS BEEN SOMETHING THAT HAS TRIED TO DESTROY OUR PEOPLE
  • 25:00 BUT JEREMIAH 31 STATES
  • 25:03 THAT AS LONG AS THERE'S STARS IN THE SKIES
  • 25:05 THE JEWISH PEOPLE WILL BE HERE.
  • 25:07 AND THAT SPEAKS TO ALL OF GOD'S CHILDREN.
  • 25:08 HE PROTECTS US...
  • 25:10 HE PRESERVES US YESTERDAY, TODAY AND IN YEARS TO COME.
  • 25:13 WELL I LIKE THE SONG "THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL LIVE"
  • 25:16 AND GOD ONLY KNOWS PEOPLE HAVE TRIED TO PREVENT US LVING
  • 25:20 FROM TIME IMMEMORIAL
  • 25:21 FROM BIBLE DAYS AS PER THE BOOK OF ESTHER
  • 25:24 RIGHT UP TO THE PRESENT. >>EXACTLY.
  • 25:25 IT'S SPOOKY...
  • 25:27 IT'S DEMONIC
  • 25:28 IT REALLY IS...IT IS.
  • 25:29 BUT WE CAN REST ASSURED
  • 25:31 WE KNOW THE END OF THE STORY
  • 25:32 AND GOD PROTECTS US.
  • 25:34 HE'S PRESERVED US
  • 25:35 AND HE'S GOING TO CONTINUE TO.
  • 25:37 AND THAT'S GOOD NEWS FOR JEWS, >>YES
  • 25:38 AND IT'S GOOD NEWS FOR "YOUS".
  • 25:42 I SAY THAT BECAUSE GOD'S PRESERVING POWER ISN'T LIMITED TO A RACE...
  • 25:48 IF YOU'LL MAKE SPACE...
  • 25:50 IF YOU'LL MAKE A PLACE FOR HIM IN YOUR HEART.
  • 25:52 THE SAME LORD IS LORD OF ALL ISN'T HE? >>YES
  • 25:56 AND HE BESTOWS HIS RICHES UPON ALL WHO CALL UPON HIM. >>YES
  • 26:00 THAT MEANS ME...YOU... ALL OF US TOGETHER.
  • 26:04 SHARON IT'S BEEN A THRILL HAVING YOU WITH US.
  • 26:06 IT'S BEEN SO MUCH FUN.
  • 26:08 SO THANKS FOR INVITING ME.
  • 26:10 WE NEED TO DO THIS AGAIN.
  • 26:11 I JUST COULDN'T THINK OF A BETTER PERSON TO TELL THE ESTHER STORY THAN YOU.
  • 26:14 WELL THANK YOU.
  • 26:15 THIS IS MY FAVORITE STORY TO TELL
  • 26:16 SO I'M HONORED TO BE HERE.
  • 26:17 AND LIKE ESTHER IN HER DAY
  • 26:18 YOU'RE A RISING STAR IN YOUR DAY AND OUR DAY
  • 26:20 AND I LOOK FORWARD TO FOLLOWING YOUR CAREER.
  • 26:23 THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
  • 26:24 I'LL LOOK FORWARD TO FOLLOWING YOURS TOO YOU KNOW
  • 26:26 BECAUSE GOD RAISES UP PEOPLE...
  • 26:28 ME...YOU...SHARON...
  • 26:29 ALL OF US...
  • 26:31 SO DO CONSIDER TURNING YOUR HEARTS TOWARD HIM AND SEEING WHERE HE LEADS YOU.
  • 26:34 IF HE LEADS YOU TO US
  • 26:36 YOU CAN FIND US.
  • 26:36 YOU CAN FIND US ON FACEBOOK,
  • 26:38 YOUTUBE,
  • 26:39 WE'RE ALL ABOUT GETTING OUT THERE.
  • 26:40 AND AS YOU GO WITH US ON THE JOURNEY WE'LL SEE YOU NEXT WEEK.
  • 26:42 AND AS YOU GO NOW,
  • 26:43 SHA'ALU SHALOM YERUSHALAYIM
  • 26:45 PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM

Episodes in this series

  1. Beautiful Inside and Out
  2. Chosen for a Purpose
  3. Called to be Courageous
  4. Undone by a Woman
  5. God Rewards the Righteous
  6. Justice at Last!
  7. Fight We Must!
  8. The Triumph of God in Human History

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