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Caption transcript for Psalms of Ascent: “Psalms 122 & 123” (2/8)

• 00:09 ♪PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM♪
• 00:14 ♪JERUSALEM♪
• 00:17 ♪MAY THEY PROSPER WHO LOVE YOU...
• 00:21 ♪JERUSALEM♪
• 00:24 ♪IT'S FOR THEM MY BRETHREN AND COMPANION'S SAKE♪
• 00:30 ♪I WILL PRAY FOR YOU...♪
• 00:34 ♪JERUSALEM♪
• 00:47 SHALOM AND WELCOME TO ZOLA LEVITT PRESENTS.
• 00:50 I'M SANDRA AND WE CONTINUE OUR STUDY OF THE PSALMS OF ASCENT,
• 00:54 PSALMS 120 THROUGH 134.
• 00:57 MY GOOD FRIEND DR. JEFFREY SEIF WILL DO THE TEACHING ON PSALM 122 AND 123
• 01:02 IN ISRAEL ON LOCATION...
• 01:04 ALWAYS EXCITING FOR ME...
• 01:06 MUSIC...MARTY GOETZ JOINS US WITH SOME INSPIRATIONAL MUSIC.
• 01:09 JOIN US NOW AS WE GO BACK TO KING DAVID'S TIMES AND THE GATES OF JERUSALEM.
• 01:19 "I WAS GLAD WHEN THEY SAID UNTO ME,"
• 01:22 "LET US GO INTO THE HOUSE OF THE LORD."
• 01:25 "OUR FEET SHALL STAND WITHIN THY GATES O JERUSALEM."
• 01:29 JERUSALEM IS BUILT AS A CITY THAT IS COMPACT TOGETHER.
• 01:34 "PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM."
• 01:36 "THEY SHALL PROSPER THAT LOVE THEE."
• 01:39 "PEACE BE WITHIN THY WALLS AND PROSPERITY WITHIN THY PALACES."
• 01:44 "FOR MY BRETHREN AND COMPANION'S SAKE I WILL NOW SAY, 'PEACE BE WITHIN THEE'."
• 01:55 (Jeff speaking) "OUR FEET HAVE BEEN STANDING WITHIN THY GATES O JERUSALEM."
• 02:00 A WORD UTTERED IN THE PSALMS WAY BACK WHEN.
• 02:04 WORDS THAT ARE UTTERED
• 02:06 IN THIS VERY DAY,
• 02:07 NOT JUST BY THE PILGRIM'S
• 02:09 THAT FREQUENT THIS PLACE.
• 02:10 AND BY "THIS PLACE"
• 02:11 I MEAN JERUSALEM
• 02:13 WHERE I'M COMING TO YOU IN FRONT OF ONE OF THE MORE FAMOUS GATES...THE ZION GATE.
• 02:19 AND IF YOU LOOK IN THOSE HOLES IN THE WALL BEHIND ME,
• 02:23 THOSE WEREN'T DONE BY KAMIKAZE PIGEONS...
• 02:26 NO...
• 02:27 THERE WAS A BATTLE ROYAL THAT WAS ENGAGED IN HERE
• 02:31 GOING BACK TO THE SIX DAY WAR
• 02:34 WHERE THE JORDANIANS WERE VERY SPIRITED.
• 02:37 OH AND THE FIGHTING WAS INTENSE AT WHAT'S CALLED "THE LION'S GATE",
• 02:43 AT "THE DUNG GATE"
• 02:45 THE BATTLE ROYAL RAGED HERE
• 02:47 UNTIL FINALLY AFTER SO MANY YEARS SEPARATED FROM THE HEART OF JUDAISM...
• 02:53 FINALLY, AS IT SAYS IN ANOTHER TEMPLE HOLIDAY
• 02:58 "NES GADOL HAYAH SHAM"...
• 02:59 "A GREAT MIRACLE HAPPENED".
• 03:01 WHAT WAS IT IN THIS CASE?
• 03:03 JERUSALEM FELL BACK INTO JEWISH HANDS WITH THE NET RESULT THAT JEWS CAN NOW SAY,
• 03:08 "OUR FEET ARE STANDING WITHIN THY GATES O JERUSALEM."
• 03:16 AND IF YOU STAND HERE LONG,
• 03:18 BECAUSE WE'RE IN A JEWISH STATE
• 03:20 YOU DISCOVER ITS NOT JUST JEWISH FEET THAT WALK THROUGH THE GATE,
• 03:24 THE DOORS ARE SWUNG OPEN TO PEOPLE THAT PROFESS DIFFERENT RELIGIONS...
• 03:29 BE IT ISLAM,
• 03:30 BE IT CHRISTIANITY,
• 03:33 BE IT SOMETHING ELSE,
• 03:34 BE IT NO RELIGION,
• 03:36 CERTAINLY JEWISH PEOPLE...
• 03:37 THE DOORS ARE SWUNG WIDE OPEN WITH NO LITMUS TEST OF ACCEPTABILITY.
• 03:43 AND THAT'S BECAUSE THIS REAL ESTATE FINALLY AND FULLY IS IN JEWISH HANDS.
• 03:48 AND YOU KNOW...I'M EXCITED.
• 03:50 AND SO IS THE PSALMIST WHO IN CHAPTER 122 SAID IN HIS LANGUAGE...
• 03:56 LET'S WALK THROUGH IT SLOWLY,
• 04:09 OH WHAT A THRILL IT IS TO BE ABLE TO SAY THAT.
• 04:11 LET ME TELL YOU, THE FACT THAT I CAN SAY IT
• 04:14 IS ATTESTED TO THE FACT THAT MANY PAID A GREAT PRICE
• 04:18 IN ORDER THAT PEOPLE LIKE ME AND YOU CAN SAY IT.
• 04:22 LET ME ENCOURAGE YOU BY THE WAY TO COME HERE AND SAY IT AS WELL.
• 04:26 I'VE BEEN AROUND LONG ENOUGH AND I'VE SEEN THE FACES OF CHRISTIAN PEOPLE LIGHT UP
• 04:33 WHEN THEY WALK THE STREETS OF JERUSALEM.
• 04:36 AND WHEN THEY WALK THROUGH THIS GATE AND OTHERS LIKE IT
• 04:40 IT IS SUCH A THRILL, SLEEPLESS ARE THE NIGHT,
• 04:44 NOT JUST BECAUSE OF JET LAG
• 04:46 BUT BECAUSE OF THE ECSTASY THAT ACCOMPANIES BIBLE READERS
• 04:49 WHO AFTER READING THE STORY FOR YEARS CAN NOW WALK IN AFFECT BACK IN TIME
• 04:55 AND INTO THE PAGES OF THE BIBLICAL TESTIMONY.
• 04:59 WHAT A PLACE!
• 05:00 I THANK GOD FOR IT.
• 05:02 I'M SO THRILLED THERE'S A JEWISH PRESENCE HERE IN IT.
• 05:05 IF WE GO THROUGH PSALM CHAPTER 122 WE COME TO AN EXHORTATION.
• 05:10 BEYOND SIMPLY REJOICING THAT WE CAN BE HERE THERE IS A PETITION FOR PRAYER.
• 05:15 IT SAYS,
• 05:21 AND LET ME TELL YOU THAT THE NEED FOR THAT IS AS GREAT NOW
• 05:26 AS IT WAS WHEN IT WAS UTTERED BACK THEN.
• 05:31 INTERESTINGLY PILGRIMS WERE MAKING THEIR WAY TO JERUSALEM THEN AS NOW
• 05:36 AND ONCE HERE THEY'RE HEARING LEVITICAL CHOIRS SING THESE VARIOUS PSALMS OF ASCENT.
• 05:44 BEYOND THAT THEY THEMSELVES ARE PARTICIPATING BACK AND FORTH IN IT ALL
• 05:48 AND THEY'RE BECKONED TO PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM
• 05:54 FRIENDS AS A BATTLE ROYAL RAGES AROUND ISRAEL...
• 05:59 ISRAEL'S VERY RIGHT TO EXIST.
• 06:02 GOODNESS ISRAEL NEEDS PRAYERS...
• 06:05 ISRAEL NEEDS CARES.
• 06:07 AND LET ME TELL YOU WHEN JEWS VISIT ISRAEL JEWS EXPECT JEWS TO COME TO THE ANCESTRAL HOMELAND
• 06:13 BUT I'VE SEEN IT ON MORE THAN ONE OCCASION
• 06:15 WHERE JEWISH PEOPLE ARE THRILLED WHEN CHRISTIANS COME.
• 06:18 AND WHY IS THAT?
• 06:20 BECAUSE MANY JEWISH PEOPLE FEEL THAT CHRISTIANS HAVE ABANDONED THEM OUTRIGHT HERE.
• 06:25 OH THE PRESS IS PRESSING AGAINST ISRAEL.
• 06:29 AND WHEN CHRISTIAN PEOPLE COME
• 06:31 AND THEY SPEND THEIR MONEY IN THE RESTAURANTS AND IN THE HOTELS
• 06:34 AND WALK THE LAND AND SHARE AND CARE AND OFFER A PRAYER
• 06:37 IT DOESN'T GO UNNOTICED.
• 06:40 THE LIKES OF PRIME MINISTERS AND GENERALS COME OUT TO GREET CHRISTIAN GROUPS.
• 06:47 AND WHY IS THAT?
• 06:49 BECAUSE YOUR PRESENCE IS APPRECIATED HERE
• 06:52 AND YOUR PRAYERS ARE APPRECIATED HERE
• 06:55 I DON'T SAY THAT SIMPLY BECAUSE IT'S AN EXTENSION OF MY OWN SENTIMENT...NO...
• 06:59 THE BIBLE BECKONS US TO DO THAT.
• 07:02 AND BY THE WAY IF YOU'LL PERMIT A LITTLE PARENTHETICAL EXCURSION HERE,
• 07:07 INASMUCH AS THE BIBLE ENCOURAGES US TO PRAY FOR JERUSALEM AND FOR THE ISRAELITE STATE HERE,
• 07:13 I'M HARD PRESSED TO UNDERSTAND HOW ANY BIBLE READING PERSON
• 07:16 COULD DISAVOW A JEWISH PRESENCE IN THE ANCESTRAL HOMELAND.
• 07:21 AND IS THE CASE TODAY MANY ARE ROUTING FOR THE PEOPLE
• 07:24 THAT ARE TRYING TO DRIVE JEWS INTO THE SEA...
• 07:27 CHRISTIAN PEOPLE... CLAIMING TO BE CHRISTIAN...
• 07:30 CLAIMING THAT ISRAEL HAS NO RIGHT TO EXIST...
• 07:32 ISRAEL IS A MISTAKE...
• 07:34 IT'S A FLUKE IN HISTORY...
• 07:36 ITS AN EXTENSION OF WESTERN COLONIALISM...
• 07:39 GOD IS THROUGH WITH THE JEW...
• 07:41 ITS ALL ABOUT YOU...
• 07:42 THE JEWS ARE NON-EXISTENT...
• 07:44 AND THEY'RE INSULTED BY THE FACT THAT THERE'S A JEWISH PRESENCE HERE.
• 07:46 LET ME TELL YOU SOMETHING...
• 07:48 THAT IS NOT THE SENTIMENT OF THE PERSON WHO WRITES THIS BIBLE, WHO WROTE THIS PASSAGE
• 07:52 AND IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE SPIRIT WITHIN WHICH IT IS WRITTEN.
• 07:56 OH FRIENDS, TODAY NOW MORE THAN EVER, WE NEED TO IN FACT PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM
• 08:02 AND STAND BEHIND THOSE MINDED TO CONTEND FOR IT.
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• 08:51 PSALM 122 ENCOURAGES US TO PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM.
• 08:56 YOU HEAR US DO IT ALMOST EVERY SINGLE PROGRAM,
• 09:00 "SHA' A' LU SHALOM YERUSHALAYIM"
• 09:02 "PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM"
• 09:05 IF WE CAN DO NOTHING ELSE FOR ISRAEL,
• 09:07 IF WE CANNOT GO TO ISRAEL,
• 09:09 IF WE CANNOT SUPPORT ISRAEL,
• 09:10 WE CAN CERTAINLY PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM.
• 09:14 HERE'S JEFF...PSALM 123
• 09:20 A MAID SERVANT AWAITS HER REWARD
• 09:23 TOTALLY DEPENDENT UPON HER MASTER.
• 09:26 SHE WAITS.
• 09:28 "BEHOLD, AS THE EYES OF SERVANTS LOOK UNTO THE HANDS OF THEIR MASTERS"
• 09:33 "AND AS THE EYES OF A MAIDEN UPON THE HAND OF THE MISTRESS,"
• 09:37 "SO OUR EYES WAIT UPON THE LORD OUR GOD UNTIL HE HAS MERCY UPON US."
• 09:44 "HAVE MERCY UPON US O LORD... HAVE MERCY UPON US."
• 09:54 THE KEY WORD HERE
• 09:55 IS THE WORD "DEPENDENCE".
• 09:58 THAT'S WHAT THE PSALMIST
• 10:00 IS TALKING ABOUT
• 10:01 WHEN HE LIKENS ISRAELITES
• 10:03 TO A SERVANT
• 10:05 AND GOD BEING THE MASTER.
• 10:07 AND INASMUCH AS SERVANTS ARE DEPENDENT ON THEIR MASTER
• 10:12 SO TOO ARE ISRAELITES DEPENDENT ON GOD.
• 10:16 IT WAS A PSALM THAT WAS FRAMED IN TURBULENT TIMES.
• 10:21 AND SPEAKING OF TURBULENT TIMES
• 10:23 I'M COMING TO YOU FROM A PLACE WHERE INDEED THE TIMES WERE ONES VERY TURBULENT.
• 10:30 HARKING BACK TO THE BATTLE OF JERUSALEM,
• 10:33 JERUSALEM WAS UNDER SIEGE
• 10:35 AND NEW IMMIGRANTS WERE JUST BASICALLY GIVEN A GUN AND SOME BASIC TRAINING
• 10:39 AND MARSHALED INTO THE FLEDGLING ISRAELI DEFENSE FORCES.
• 10:44 THEY DID THE BEST THEY COULD
• 10:46 BUT THEY CAME FROM DIFFERENT NATIONS,
• 10:47 THEY DIDN'T COMMUNICATE WELL
• 10:49 AND SHY OF 150 OF THEM WERE SLAUGHTERED HERE AT A PLACE CALLED "LATRUN".
• 10:56 AND HERE IN LATRUN COMMEMORATED ON THESE PLAQUES
• 10:59 ARE SOLDIERS THAT DIED IN THE ARMORED DIVISION.
• 11:03 I WANT YOU TO HEAR SOME OF THESE NAMES
• 11:06 BECAUSE I WANT YOU TO UNDERSTAND HOW JEWS REMEMBER THE BIBLE IN THE WAY THAT WE DO OUR NAMES.
• 11:11 DANIEL...WELL FIRST,
• 11:12 NAPHTALI OVER HERE...
• 11:14 DANIEL...
• 11:17 YISRAEL, ISRAEL...
• 11:20 YOSEPH, THAT'S MY NAME IN HEBREW...
• 11:23 MY ENGLISH NAME JEFFREY SEIF... YOSEPH LEVI, MY HEBREW...
• 11:27 AVRAHAM, ABRAHAM...
• 11:30 DO THESE NAMES SOUND FAMILIAR?
• 11:33 EVEN IF THE SOUNDS DON'T SOUND FAMILIAR
• 11:36 THE CONTEXT OF PSALM 123 MAY INDEED BE FAMILIAR TO YOU
• 11:41 IF YOU HAVE EVER FOUND YOURSELF IN TROUBLE.
• 11:46 THE PSALMIST AS I'VE SAID SPEAKS FROM TROUBLESOME TIMES.
• 11:50 I WANT YOU TO HEAR HIM AND FEEL HIM.
• 11:53 IN VERSE 1, HE SAYS.
• 12:17 AND WHILE THE EYES ARE LOOKING THE HEART IS SPEAKING.
• 12:21 IN VERSE 3...
• 12:22 OH IT'S SO PASSIONATE,
• 12:34 SURELY IT WAS THE HEART CRY OF THOSE WHO FOUGHT AND DIED HERE.
• 12:41 IN FACT HERE IN LATRUN I INTERVIEWED AVIGDOR KHAHALANI SOME TIME AGO,
• 12:46 A VERY FAMOUS GENERAL, RIGHT ON TOP OF HIS TANK.
• 12:49 AND I ASKED HIM IF HE PRAYED AND HE SMILED AND HE SAYS,
• 12:52 "WELL IN THE MIDDLE OF A BATTLE I DON'T' ALWAYS HAVE TIME BUT LISTEN,"
• 12:56 "AT THE BEGINNING OF THE DAY IT WASN'T UNCOMMON TO START WITH A PRAYER."
• 13:01 NOT EVERYONE IS AN ENDURING PRAYER WARRIOR THROUGH THE COURSE OF THE DAY,
• 13:05 BUT STILL PEOPLE LIFT THEIR LAMENTS, THEIR CHALLENGES GODWARD.
• 13:10 IN THE CASE OF THE PSALMIST HERE,
• 13:13 THE CONTEXT OF ITS PENNING WAS THE ISRAELITES HAVE COME BACK FROM CAPTIVITY
• 13:19 AND THE PEOPLES ROUND ABOUT ARE GIVING THEM THE DICKENS OF A TIME,
• 13:25 A REALLY, REALLY HARD TIME.
• 13:27 YOU CAN RECALL IN THE DAYS OF EZRA, NEHEMIAH
• 13:31 HOW THE NEIGHBORING PEOPLES WERE TRYING TO PREVENT THE ISRAELITES FROM GETTING A TOEHOLD IN THE FLEDGLING STATE.
• 13:41 THE PSALMIST GOES ON TO SAY,
• 13:42 "WE'RE THE SCORN OF PEOPLE ROUND ABOUT."
• 13:45 "THEY'RE JUST HUMILIATING US,"
• 13:47 "THEY'RE DOING EVERYTHING THEY CAN TO THWART US."
• 13:50 AND IN THE MIDST OF ALL THAT THEY'RE CRYING,
• 13:52 "LORD BE GRACIOUS UNTO US", "LORD BE GRACIOUS UNTO US."
• 13:57 ISN'T THIS A PSALM FOR TODAY AS ISRAELITES LIKE YESTERDAY HERE IN THE MODERN LAND TODAY
• 14:06 ARE LOOKING TO MAKE A BID TO SECURE RESIDENCY IN THE ANCESTRAL, GOD-GIVEN HOMELAND?
• 14:15 LORD, HELP US.
• 14:17 LORD, BE GRACIOUS UNTO US.
• 14:20 LEST YOU THINK THIS PSALM ONLY APPLIES TO JEWS,
• 14:24 LET ME SPEAK TO YOU FOR A MOMENT
• 14:26 AND SAY THAT THE CRY OF MANY OF THE RIGHTEOUS HAS BEEN "LORD, HELP US."
• 14:31 THE SCRIPTURE SAYS THAT THOSE THAT LOOK TO HIM WILL NOT BE DISAPPOINTED
• 14:36 AND SO I BEGAN ON SOMETHING OF A SOUR NOTE...
• 14:39 SOUR...OR SOMBER WOULD BE A BETTER WORD I THINK...
• 14:42 AND OF COURSE THAT WOULD BE THE CASE...
• 14:44 I'M STANDING IN FRONT OF A MEMORIAL TO THOSE WHO HAVE DIED.
• 14:48 BUT TRUTH BE KNOW PEOPLE COME TO THESE MEMORIALS...
• 14:51 CHILDREN COME ON FIELD TRIPS,
• 14:53 SOLDIERS COME AND VISIT AND REMEMBER THOSE THAT PAID THE ULTIMATE SACRIFICE.
• 14:59 AND IT'S DESIGNED TO ENCOURAGE US TO BE BOLD AND TO CONTEND.
• 15:05 I THINK THAT'S THE INTENTION OF THE PSALMIST ENDEAVORING AS HE IS
• 15:09 TO GIVE VOICE TO THE QUEST TO SEEK GOD AMIDST TURBULENCE OF TRYING TIMES.
• 15:14 THE GOOD NEWS IS THAT THOSE WHO SEEK HIM FIND HIM,
• 15:18 DIFFICULTIES NOTWITHSTANDING, CHALLENGES BEING WHAT THEY MAY,
• 15:22 STILL, IF WE PERSEVERE, IF WE SEEK HIM WE'LL FIND HIM...
• 15:27 IF WE SEEK HIM WITH ALL OF OUR HEART.
• 15:41 ♪SHA' A' LU SHALOM ♪YERUSHALAYIM♪
• 15:45 ♪SHA' A' LU, SHA' A' LU SHALOM♪
• 15:49 ♪IN THE HOLY CITY OF JERUSALEM♪
• 15:56 ♪WE WILL PRAY FOR PEACE...♪
• 15:59 ♪SHA' A' LU SHALOM♪
• 16:09 THE PSALMS OF ASCENT ARE SO PERSONAL.
• 16:12 FOR INSTANCE, IN PSALMS 123, VERSE 1,
• 16:25 TRACIE, WE SEE GOD WHEN WE GO TO ISRAEL.
• 16:27 WE SEE GOD,
• 16:28 IT IS TRUE SANDRA.
• 16:30 AND I WAS JUST THINKING
• 16:31 ABOUT THAT VERSE.
• 16:32 YOU KNOW, WE DO WAIT
• 16:33 UPON THE LORD
• 16:34 AND SO MANY OF OUR VIEWERS,
• 16:36 YOU OUT THERE,
• 16:37 HAVE BEEN SO SUPPORTIVE
• 16:38 OF ZOLA LEVITT MINISTRIES.
• 16:39 AND YOU KNOW THAT ZOLA TOURS WAS CREATED 28 YEARS AGO,
• 16:42 SOLELY FOR YOU.
• 16:43 WE ONLY TAKE PEOPLE THAT WATCH THE TV SHOW TO ISRAEL.
• 16:45 IT IS A FAMILY TOUR
• 16:47 AND WHEN PEOPLE GO OVER THERE
• 16:48 THE THINK I HEAR TIME AND TIME AGAIN IS
• 16:50 "TRACIE, I HAD NO IDEA THE PRESENCE OF YESHUA WAS SO STRONG IN THE HOLY LAND."
• 16:54 AND IT IS!IT IS! >>YES
• 16:56 I KNOW SITES THAT I HAVE BEEN AT PERSONALLY
• 16:58 AND HOW MANY TIMES I HAVE BEEN...
• 16:59 FORTY PLUS TIMES...
• 17:01 AND THERE ARE STILL SITES THAT MAKE ME WEEP...
• 17:04 JUST THE PRESENCE OF THE LORD BEING THERE.
• 17:07 IT IS...
• 17:08 I HAVE SAID BEFORE SANDRA
• 17:09 THAT I WOULD TRADE
• 17:10 MY 5 YEARS AT SEMINARY
• 17:11 FOR 10 DAYS IN ISRAEL
• 17:12 BECAUSE THERE IS A KNOWING. >>OH YEAH
• 17:13 I WROTE AN ARTICLE IN THE
• 17:14 FEBRUARY LEVITT LETTER,
• 17:15 I INVITE YOU TO
• 17:16 CHECK IT OUT ON-LINE.
• 17:17 IT JUST BASICALLY SAID,
• 17:18 "I FEEL LIKE AS A SINGLE WOMAN"
• 17:20 "THAT MY RELATIONSHIP WITH THE LORD"
• 17:21 "WENT FROM A DATING TO A MARRIAGE RELATIONSHIP." >>YEAH
• 17:23 THERE IS A LEVEL OF KNOWING
• 17:24 WHEN YOU'RE AT THAT WESTERN WALL >>INTIMACY... JUST AN INTIMACY
• 17:27 WHEN YOU GET BAPTIZED IN THE JORDAN RIVER
• 17:28 AND I WANT YOU TO COME WITH US.
• 17:29 GO ON-LINE AT LEVITT.COM,
• 17:33 CLICK ON "TOURS",
• 17:34 ALL THE INFO IS THERE.
• 17:35 WE ACTUALLY BOOK OUR TRIPS
• 17:36 A YEAR IN ADVANCE SO YOU CAN
• 17:38 FIT IT IN YOUR CALENDAR.
• 17:39 WE WANT YOU TO COME.
• 17:40 WE INVITE YOU TO DO THAT.
• 17:41 IN FACT I'M GLAD YOU MENTIONED THE LEVITT LETTER.
• 17:43 LOVE FOR YOU ALL TO GET THE LEVITT LETTER.
• 17:45 IT IS STILL ONE OF THE BEST
• 17:47 LITTLE NEWSLETTERS YOU CAN GET.
• 17:49 LOTS OF INFORMATION ABOUT ISRAEL
• 17:51 LOTS OF INFORMATION ABOUT BELIEVERS
• 17:53 REALLY A GOOD BOOKLET FOR YOU TO HAVE
• 17:55 YOU KNOW, WE NEED TO HELP PEOPLE
• 17:59 AND THERE ARE PEOPLE THAT CANNOT READ THE BIBLE BUT THEY CAN READ US.
• 18:04 EITON SHISHKOFF IS ONE OF THOSE PEOPLE
• 18:07 WHO HELP PEOPLE WHO REALLY DEPEND ON THE NEED OF OTHERS.
• 18:12 LET'S JOIN EITON IN ISRAEL AND SEE HOW HE HELPS THEM.
• 18:18 SHALOM, I'M EITON SHISHKOFF
• 18:20 AND WE'RE STANDING IN OUR
• 18:21 HUMANITARIAN AIDE WAREHOUSE IN
• 18:23 KIRYAT YAM NEAR THE HAIFA BAY.
• 18:25 AND WHAT YOU SEE SURROUNDING ME
• 18:27 ARE MANY GREEN BAGS FILLED WITH ALL KINDS OF FOOD AND SUPPLIES FOR PASSOVER.
• 18:34 WE ARE GOING TO BE DISTRIBUTING THESE BAGS TO NEEDY FAMILIES HERE IN THE AREA
• 18:39 AND COOPERATION WITH LOCAL CITY AUTHORITIES
• 18:44 BECAUSE WE REALLY BELIEVE IN WHAT THE SCRIPTURE TALKS ABOUT
• 18:49 AND WHAT IT SAYS
• 18:50 THAT HE WHO HONORS THE POOR
• 18:52 HONORS THE LORD.
• 18:53 AND ADDITION TO THAT WE SEE THIS PATTERN
• 18:56 IN THE ORIGINAL MESSIANIC JEWISH COMMUNITY IN THE BOOK OF ACTS
• 19:00 AS THE INFLUX OF BELIEVERS CAME TO FAITH IN YESHUA THEY CREATED A COMMUNITY
• 19:10 IN WHICH IT WAS OF A PRIMARY IMPORTANCE TO SHARE WHAT THEY HAD WITH EACH OTHER.
• 19:16 AND IN FACT IT SAID THEY SHARED WITH EACH OTHER
• 19:18 TO SUCH AN EXTENT THAT NO ONE HAD WANT.
• 19:20 WELL WE'RE NOT GOING TO BE ABLE TO SUPPLY ALL OF THE HAIFA BAY AREA WITH SUPPLIES FOR PASSOVER
• 19:26 BUT I THINK IT WILL BE VERY PLEASANT FOR SOME FAMILIES TO RECEIVE PASSOVER COOKIES...
• 19:31 THEY'RE KOSHER...
• 19:33 AND TO BE ABLE TO SHARE SOME OF WHAT GOD HAS GIVEN US.
• 19:37 THE LOGO ON THE SIDE OF THE BAGS IS OUR OASIS SYMBOL WHICH COMES FROM THE BOOK OF JEREMIAH
• 19:45 THAT TALKS ABOUT GOD BRINGING
• 19:47 HIS PEOPLE BACK IN MERCY.
• 19:49 AND THE DEMONSTRATION OF MERCY
• 19:52 IS SOMETHING THAT'S VERY, VERY ESSENTIAL.
• 19:54 IT GOES ALL THE WAY BACK TO THE TORAH
• 19:57 WHERE THE LORD INSTRUCTS ISRAEL TO LEAVE THE CORNERS OF A FIELD AVAILABLE FOR THE POOR PEOPLE
• 20:06 TO GLEAN AND TO BRING IN HARVEST SO THEY'LL HAVE SOMETHING TO EAT.
• 20:10 SO WE BELIEVE THAT IN RENEWING THE MESSIANIC JEWISH COMMUNITY IN ISRAEL
• 20:14 THAT IT IS ESSENTIAL FOR US ALSO
• 20:17 TO BE DISTRIBUTING AIDE TO THOSE IN NEED
• 20:19 AND WE'RE VERY GRATEFUL TO BE ABLE TO DO IT.
• 20:22 IT'S PART OF OUR IDENTITY...
• 20:24 IT'S PART OF WHO WE ARE
• 20:26 BOTH AS JEWISH ISRAELIS
• 20:28 AND AS MESSIANIC JEWS
• 20:30 AND WE'RE GRATEFUL FOR THOSE
• 20:31 FROM OUTSIDE OF THE LAND THAT
• 20:33 JOIN US AND HELP US TO DO THIS.
• 20:35 IF YOU'RE INTERESTED IN
• 20:36 DOING THAT YOU CAN CONTACT US,
• 20:38 THE INFORMATION
• 20:39 WILL BE AVAILABLE.
• 20:40 TODAH HABAH,
• 20:41 THANK YOU SO MUCH.
• 20:44 ♪ONE THING...♪
• 20:46 ♪I HAVE ASKED OF THE LORD,♪
• 20:49 ♪THAT WILL I SEEK AFTER♪
• 20:54 ♪THAT I MAY DWELL IN THE HOUSE OF THE LORD...
• 21:00 ♪ALL THE DAYS OF MY LIFE♪
• 21:07 ♪FOR ONE DAY IN YOUR COURTS OH LORD...♪
• 21:12 ♪IS TO ME FAR BETTER...♪
• 21:16 ♪THAN ANY TREASURE THIS WORLD COULD AFFORD...♪
• 21:21 ♪IN A THOUSAND DAYS OF THIS LIFE♪
• 21:27 ♪OH TO BEHOLD THE BEAUTY OF THE LORD,♪
• 21:32 ♪THE BEAUTY OF THE LORD♪
• 21:34 ♪YOU'RE BEAUTIFUL MY LORD♪
• 21:37 ♪AND TO INQUIRE IN YOUR TEMPLE,♪
• 21:43 ♪TO INQUIRE IN YOUR TEMPLE...♪
• 21:47 ♪THAT'S MY DESIRE OH LORD,♪
• 21:51 ♪MY DESIRE OH LORD♪
• 21:56 ♪AND ONE THING YOU HAVE ASKED OF ME LORD...♪
• 22:01 ♪THAT WILL I SEEK AFTER♪
• 22:06 ♪I WILL SEEK YOUR FACE MY LORD...♪
• 22:11 ♪EVERY DAY OF MY LIFE.♪
• 22:16 ♪I NEED TO BEHOLD THE BEAUTY OF THE LORD♪
• 22:21 ♪THE BEAUTY OF THE LORD♪
• 22:23 ♪YOU'RE BEAUTIFUL MY LORD♪
• 22:27 ♪TO BE YOUR CHILD PURE AND HUMBLE♪
• 22:32 ♪JUST A CHILD PURE AND HUMBLE♪
• 22:36 ♪THAT'S MY DESIRE OH LORD,♪
• 22:41 ♪ALL THAT YOU REQUIRE MY LORD.♪
• 22:52 (PIANO INTERLUDE)
• 23:06 ♪OH TO BEHOLD THE BEAUTY OF THE LORD♪
• 23:11 ♪THE BEAUTY OF THE LORD♪
• 23:14 ♪YOU'RE BEAUTIFUL MY LORD♪
• 23:17 ♪KEEP THE FIRE IN THIS TEMPLE,♪
• 23:22 ♪KEEP THE FIRE IN THIS TEMPLE♪
• 23:27 ♪BURNING HIGHER MY LORD,♪
• 23:31 ♪EVER HIGHER MY LORD♪
• 23:37 ♪FOR ONE THING I HAVE ASKED OF YOU LORD...♪
• 23:42 ♪THAT WILL I SEEK AFTER♪
• 23:47 ♪THAT I MAY DWELL IN THE HOUSE OF THE LORD...♪
• 23:52 ♪ALL THE DAYS OF MY LIFE♪
• 24:03 ♪ALL...♪
• 24:06 ♪THE DAYS OF MY...♪
• 24:10 ♪LIFE♪
• 24:26 BEAUTIFUL WORDS,
• 24:27 "ONE THING I ASK... SEEK THE LORD".
• 24:30 MARTY WHAT BEAUTIFUL MUSIC1
• 24:31 WELL THANK YOU
• 24:33 WELL NOW HERE'S MY QUESTION THIS TIME.
• 24:34 YES
• 24:35 OKAY, WHY MESSIANIC MUSIC?
• 24:37 WHY NOT COUNTRY OR BLUES OR POPULAR MUSIC?
• 24:42 WHY MESSIANIC?
• 24:43 WELL I STARTED OUT TRYING TO DO ALL THOSE THINGS.
• 24:46 OH REALLY? >>I WAS IN NEW YORK CITY
• 24:48 TRYING TO GET ON BROADWAY
• 24:50 AND THINGS LIKE THAT...
• 24:51 CABARET MUSIC...
• 24:52 AND THAT'S REALLY WHERE I GOT MY START.
• 24:54 BUT I BECAME A BELIEVER AT THE AGE OF 25
• 24:57 AND I HAD COLLABORATED ON MUSIC WITH MY COUSIN
• 25:01 AND HE WAS QUITE A BRILLIANT SONG WRITER.
• 25:04 BUT WHEN I MOVED TO CALIFORNIA FROM NEW YORK
• 25:06 I HAD NO ONE WITH WHOM TO WORK.
• 25:09 AND I HAD JUST BECOME A BELIEVER,
• 25:11 BRAND NEW BELIEVER. >>WOW
• 25:12 SO I OPENED THE BIBLE
• 25:14 BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT BELIEVERS SHOULD DO
• 25:16 THAT'S WHAT BELIEVERS SHOULD DO...RIGHT.
• 25:18 AND THE FIRST THING I LOOKED AT WAS PSALM 23.
• 25:21 THAT WAS THE FIRST THING I RECOGNIZED
• 25:23 CAUSE I DIDN'T KNOW MUCH OF THE SCRIPTURES.
• 25:25 BUT PSALM 23 I KNEW.
• 25:26 THEY SAY THAT IN EVERY... >>EVERYBODY KNOWS THAT, ISN'T THAT FUNNY?
• 25:29 RIGHT, EVERY JEWISH FUNERAL THEY SAY IT. >>OH YEAH
• 25:31 SO I SAT DOWN AT THE PIANO
• 25:32 AND STARTED TO PLAY SIMILAR TO THE WAY ZOLA WOULD DO IT
• 25:37 AND JUST A SONG CAME OUT.
• 25:40 AND THAT SONG, DEBBIE BOONE...
• 25:43 DO YOU KNOW WHO DEBBIE BOONE IS?
• 25:44 YEAH, OH, WELL SURE, SURE
• 25:45 DEBBIE BOONE,
• 25:47 PAT BOONE'S DAUGHTER, "YOU LIGHT UP MY LIFE".
• 25:48 SHE RECORDED IT ON HER FIRST GOSPEL ALBUM
• 25:51 SO I THOUGHT,
• 25:52 "HMMM, OBVIOUSLY GOD... THIS IS WHAT HE WANTS ME TO DO."
• 25:55 "THIS IS WHERE I NEED TO BE."
• 25:56 SO THAT'S WHERE I BEGAN AND I'VE BEEN DOING IT NOW FOR....
• 25:58 A LONG TIME LONG TIME, WE DON'T HAVE TO SAY... >>YES, A LONG TIME
• 26:00 TELL ME HOW MANY ALBUMS.
• 26:02 WELL WE PROBABLY HAVE ABOUT EIGHT DIFFERENT RECORDINGS,
• 26:05 NOT THAT MANY,
• 26:06 BUT WE HAVE NICE ASSORTMENT
• 26:08 OF DIFFERENT... >>ALL MESSIANIC OR....
• 26:10 ALL MUCH FROM THE PSALMS AND FROM THE SCRIPTURES
• 26:15 I WOULD SAY WHEN I SAY "MESSIANIC" I'M MESSIANIC
• 26:18 BUT SOME OF THE MUSIC DOESN'T HAVE THAT STYLE NECESSARILY
• 26:21 BUT IT'S DEFINITELY MESSIANIC
• 26:23 CAUSE IT COMES FROM ME.
• 26:24 AND THE LOVE OF YESHUA
• 26:25 YES, AND FROM THE WORD OF GOD, THAT'S RIGHT.
• 26:27 AND THAT'S WHAT WE DO,
• 26:28 THANK YOU.
• 26:30 I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO THE REST OF THE SERIES AND ALL YOUR MUSIC.
• 26:32 ITS REALLY, REALLY BEEN EXCITING.
• 26:33 WELL THANK YOU.
• 26:35 SO KEEP SEEKING THE LORD,
• 26:36 KEEP LIFTING YOUR EYES TO SEE HIM.
• 26:38 NEXT WEEK WE'RE GOING TO STUDY PSALM 124 AND 125.
• 26:42 GOD BLESS YOU,
• 26:44 AND SHA'ALU SHALOM YERUSHALAYIM
• 26:46 PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM