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Caption transcript for Acts: Then and Now — “Upon this Rock” (7/8)

• 00:13 GO YE THEREFORE AND TEACH ALL NATIONS,
• 00:16 BAPTIZING THEM IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER, AND OF THE SON, AND OF THE HOLY SPIRIT.
• 00:21 TEACHING THEM TO OBSERVE ALL THINGS WHATSOEVER I HAVE COMMANDED YOU.
• 00:25 AND LO, I AM WITH YOU ALWAYS,
• 00:29 EVEN UNTO THE END OF THE WORLD.
• 00:42 SHALOM, AND WELCOME
• 00:43 TO ZOLA LEVITT PRESENTS.
• 00:44 I'M MYLES WEISS.
• 00:45 THIS IS MY WIFE KATHARINE
• 00:46 ...MY CO-HOST.
• 00:48 AND WE ARE BLESSED TODAY
• 00:49 TO BRING YOU OUR SERIES
• 00:50 "ACTS, THEN AND NOW... THE STORY CONTINUES".
• 00:53 AND WE'RE REALLY SEEING HOW THE STORY IS CONTINUING.
• 00:56 THE BIBLE TELLS IT AND NOW WE'RE SEEING IT PLAYED OUT IN ISRAEL.
• 00:59 YEAH, IT'S ALIVE...
• 01:00 THE BIBLE'S ALIVE AND GOD'S PEOPLE ARE ALIVE.
• 01:03 HE RESURRECTED THE LAND OF ISRAEL
• 01:05 AND HE'S RESURRECTING THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL.
• 01:07 IT'S SO WONDERFUL TO BE ABLE TO SHOWCASE THEM HERE ON ZOLA LEVITT PRESENTS.
• 01:12 JESUS...HE DEMONSTRATED HIS SERMONS FROM HIS SURROUNDINGS.
• 01:16 AND WE'RE GOING TO SEE A LITTLE BIT OF THAT IN CAESAREA PHILIPPI
• 01:18 CAESAREA PHILIPPI IS A PLACE WHERE A LIGHT AND DARKNESS WERE IN COLLISION
• 01:23 AND WE'RE GOING TO SEE OUR BELIEVING GUIDE YUVAL
• 01:26 SPEAK TO US ON LOCATION AT CAESAREA PHILIPPI.
• 01:29 SO LET'S GO TO HIM RIGHT NOW.
• 01:36 WE ARE STANDING IN THE CITY
• 01:38 KNOWN AS CAESAREA PHILIPPI
• 01:40 WHICH ORIGINALLY
• 01:41 WAS NAMED PANIAS.
• 01:43 THE CITY WAS ESTABLISHED BY ALEXANDER THE GREAT;
• 01:46 BY THE GREEKS;
• 01:48 AND THEY NAMED IT AFTER THE GREEK IDOL PAN
• 01:52 WHO WAS KNOWN AS THE IDOL OF THE FOREST AND THE SHEPHERDS.
• 01:56 FOR THE GREEKS HE WAS A VERY SCARY GOD;
• 02:00 HE WAS DESCRIBED AS HALF-HUMAN, HALF-GOAT.
• 02:04 THE ENGLISH WORD "PANIC" COMES HIS NAME..."PANICA" OR "PANIC".
• 02:09 AND THE LOCAL PEOPLE OF THE CITY;
• 02:12 THE CITY PANIAS THAT BECAME LATER KNOWN AS CAESAREA PHILIPPI,
• 02:16 USED TO OFFER SACRIFICES TO THIS IDOL IN THE CAVE RIGHT BEHIND ME.
• 02:22 INSIDE THE CAVE...
• 02:23 AND THE CAVE WAS DESCRIBED BY DIFFERENT HISTORIANS...
• 02:26 THERE WAS A FAULT...
• 02:27 THERE WAS A CRACK...
• 02:29 AND THE PEOPLE USED TO OFFER THE SACRIFICES...
• 02:32 COULD HAVE BEEN HUMAN SACRIFICES...
• 02:34 AND DOWN TO THE PIT...
• 02:36 THEY USED TO THROW THEM DOWN INTO THE PIT.
• 02:38 AND THEN THEY WERE FOLLOWING THE WATER STREAM RIGHT BEHIND ME LOOKING FOR BLOOD.
• 02:43 IF THEY SAW BLOOD IN THE WATER IT WAS A BAD SIGN FOR THEM.
• 02:47 IT MEANT THAT THE OFFERING WAS NOT RECEIVED...
• 02:50 WAS NOT ACCEPTED BY PAN.
• 02:53 BUT IF THE WATER STAYED CLEAR IT WAS A GOOD SIGN FOR THEM.
• 02:56 IN THEIR MINDSET OF THE LOCAL PEOPLE
• 03:00 THE CAVE WE SEE RIGHT BEHIND ME WAS ONE OF THE DOORWAYS THAT LED TO HADES...TO THE UNDERWORLD.
• 03:11 THE GREEK PEOPLE BELIEVED THAT ALL MEN...
• 03:16 ALL PEOPLE ARE GOING TO ONE PLACE...
• 03:17 THEY ARE GOING TO THE UNDERWORLD AFTER THEIR DEATH.
• 03:20 SO WHEN THEY BURY THEIR DEAD THEY USED TO PUT COINS ON THEIR EYES AND IN THEIR MOUTH
• 03:26 AND THAT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE THE FEE THAT THEY HAD TO PAY FOR THE FERRYMAN
• 03:30 WHO WOULD TAKE THEM WITH A BOAT ACROSS THE RIVER TO THE UNDERWORLD.
• 03:37 SO ONLY THEIR GODS OR THEIR IDOLS HAD ETERNAL LIFE...
• 03:41 NOT THE PEOPLE...
• 03:43 ALL PEOPLE WENT TO ONE PLACE...
• 03:46 TO HADES.
• 03:47 SO WE ARE LOOKING IN A WAY AT THE DOORWAYS OR THE GATES...
• 03:51 ONE OF THE DOORWAYS THAT LEAD TO HELL...TO HADES.
• 03:54 AND IN THEIR MINDSET THE HIGH MOUNTAIN NEARBY...
• 03:57 WE'RE NOW AT THE BASE OF MT. HERMON...
• 03:59 THE HIGH MOUNTAIN WAS THE PLACE WHERE THEIR GODS WERE LIVING
• 04:04 AS IT WAS IN GREECE AND THE OLYMPUS.
• 04:07 AND THE GODS IN ETERNAL LIFE LIVE UPON HIGH MOUNTAINS
• 04:10 BUT THE PEOPLE...
• 04:11 THEY ALL GO TO ONE PLACE...
• 04:12 TO HADES.
• 04:14 SO JESUS CAME HERE TO SHOW AND TO ASK THE QUESTION
• 04:18 "WHO DO MEN SAY THAT I AM?"
• 04:20 IN THIS PAGAN CENTER...WORSHIP CENTER IN THE ENTIRE COUNTRY.
• 04:24 IT IS PROBABLY ALSO THE REASON WHY HE ALSO TOOK PETER, JAMES AND JOHN TO THE HIGH MOUNTAIN,
• 04:33 ACTUALLY IT MEANS FROM MT. HERMON
• 04:36 AND WAS TRANSFIGURED BEFORE THEIR EYES TO SHOW THAT HE WAS THE TRUE WAY,THE TRUE GOD...
• 04:41 AND ALL THOSE FALSE IDOLS THAT PEOPLE BACK THEN USED TO WORSHIP RIGHT HERE.
• 04:47 WE'RE IN A VERY UNUSUAL LOCATION IN ISRAEL
• 04:50 HERE IN THE GOLAN HEIGHTS,
• 04:52 NEAR THE VILLAGE OF KIRYAT SHMONA IS CAESAREA PHILIPPI.
• 04:57 IT'S MENTIONED IN THE SCRIPTURES OF COURSE.
• 04:59 WATER COMES DOWN HERE FROM MT. HERMON
• 05:03 AND THE SNOW MELTS AND GOES INTO POOLS HERE
• 05:07 AND THEN EVENTUALLY FORMS THE NORTH JORDAN RIVER
• 05:10 AND THAT IN TURN FLOWS INTO THE NORTH SIDE OF THE SEA OF GALILEE
• 05:14 AND THAT FRESH WATER FULL OF FISH FORMS THAT LAKE.
• 05:18 AND THE JORDAN, BY THE WAY, CONTINUES ON DOWN SOUTH
• 05:21 GATHERING THE PARTICLES OF EARTH
• 05:24 AND REACHES THE DEAD SEA
• 05:26 AND THERE IT'S SO SALTY THERE ARE NO FISH AND SO ON.
• 05:30 IT DESCRIBES OUR LORD BECAUSE HE BEGINS COMING DOWN FROM HEAVEN LIKE THE SNOW ON MT. HERMON.
• 05:37 THEN INTO THE SEA OF GALILEE FRESH LIVING WATER...
• 05:41 THAT'S WHERE HIS MINISTRY WAS IN CAPERNAUM ON THE SEASHORE OF THE SEA OF GALILEE.
• 05:46 AND THEN IT FLOWED DOWN...
• 05:48 HIS CAREER IN THE EARTH GATHERING UP THE PARTICLES...
• 05:51 THE SALT OF THE EARTH...US.
• 05:53 AND THE WATER BECOMES HEAVY WITH THE SALT OF THE EARTH.
• 05:57 AND AS IT GETS DOWN TO THE DEAD SEA IT IS SO SALTY THAT EVERYTHING DIES
• 06:02 AND OF COURSE CHRIST DIED
• 06:03 BUT THE WATER DOES NOT STAY THERE IN THE DEAD SEA
• 06:07 IT EVAPORATES AND IT GOES BACK TO HEAVEN AS CHRIST ASCENDED TO HIS FATHER.
• 06:12 AND THEN THE PREVAILING WINDS DRIVE IT UP NORTH AGAIN
• 06:16 AND IT FALLS BACK DOWN ON MT. HERMON AS SNOW
• 06:19 AND THEN GOES AROUND AGAIN.
• 06:23 THIS IS AN IMPORTANT SITE
• 06:24 HERE IN ISRAEL...
• 06:26 CAESAREA PHILIPPI
• 06:27 WHERE THE KINGDOMS IN CONFLICT ARE REALLY SEEING CLEARLY
• 06:31 AS YESHUA CAME HERE WITH HIS DISCIPLES.
• 06:33 WE READ ABOUT IT IN MATTHEW CHAPTER 16.
• 07:03 JESUS GOES ON TO TELL PETER THAT FLESH AND BLOOD HAS NOT REVEALED THIS TO HIM
• 07:08 BUT "MY FATHER IN HEAVEN".
• 07:10 AND JESUS IS LETTING HIM KNOW
• 07:12 THAT HE'S GOT THE REVELATION OF THE PERSON AND THE IDENTITY OF THE CHRIST, OF THE MASHIACH.
• 07:18 WHAT AN IMPORTANT PASSAGE OF SCRIPTURE.
• 07:21 IT'S THE PLACE WHERE THESE KINGDOMS IN CONFLICT
• 07:23 BETWEEN THE KINGDOM OF DARKNESS AND THE KINGDOM OF LIGHT CONFRONTING ONE ANOTHER.
• 07:28 THIS PLACE WAS GIVEN OVER TO THE MOST HORRIBLE SACRIFICES AND IDOLATRY.
• 07:35 AND YET HERE COMES THE KING OF KINGS, LORD OF LORDS TO THIS PLACE OF DARKNESS
• 07:42 AND TELLS THEM "THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN HAS COME TO YOU."
• 07:45 IT GOES ON TO SAY
• 07:47 (SPEAKING HEBREW)
• 07:53 "UPON THIS ROCK I WILL BUILD MY CHURCH"...
• 07:57 THE ROCK OF THE REVELATION OF WHO HE IS...
• 07:59 YOU ARE THE CHRIST THE SON OF THE LIVING GOD.
• 08:02 THE QUESTION COMES TODAY AFTER WE KNOW WHO IS
• 08:06 HE ASKS US WHO ARE YOU... IN MY LIFE...IN ME?
• 08:10 WHO IS CHRIST...HOW DOES CHRIST EXPRESS HIMSELF THROUGH MY LIFE?
• 08:15 YOU KNOW, THIS PLACE IS A KINGDOM IN CONFLICT IDENTITY AREA
• 08:19 BECAUSE IT WAS ORIGINALLY NOT GIVEN TO THE TRIBE OF DAN...
• 08:22 THEY WERE TO BE IN THE SOUTH AROUND TEL AVIV
• 08:25 BUT THEY CHOSE THIS PLACE THINKING IT WAS A SOFTER, EASIER WAY
• 08:28 AND THAT KIND OF OPENS IN COMPROMISE...
• 08:32 OPENED THE DOOR FOR THE KIND OF IDOLATRY THAT WE SEE GREW UP IN THIS PLACE.
• 08:37 SO WE NEED TO FIND OUT WHAT OUR INHERITANCE IS AND STAND IN THAT PURPOSE...
• 08:42 STAND IN THAT PLACE...
• 08:44 IN THAT DESTINY.
• 08:45 THAT'S WHY THE QUESTION COMES TODAY AFTER WE KNOW WHO HE IS...
• 08:48 WHO DOES GOD SAY WE ARE?
• 08:51 I WANT TO ASK YOU TODAY...
• 08:52 WILL YOU STAND IN THE INHERITANCE...
• 08:54 IN THE PURPOSE...
• 08:56 IN THE IDENTITY THAT GOD HAS GIVEN YOU
• 08:58 IN ORDER TO SEE HIS KINGDOM EXPAND IN THE DAYS AHEAD.
• 09:02 I BELIEVE YOU WILL...
• 09:03 IN YESHUA'S NAME.
• 09:16 FOR INSIGHTFUL PERSPECTIVES OF ISRAEL AND BIBLE PROPHECY
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• 09:31 "THE INSTITUTE OF JEWISH-CHRISTIAN STUDIES"
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• 09:38 YOU MAY WANT TO JOIN US ON AN UPCOMING TOUR OF ISRAEL OR PETRA
• 09:41 OR CRUISE THE MEDITERRANEAN VISITING GREECE AND EPHESUS.
• 09:45 PLEASE CONTACT US FOR MORE INFORMATION.
• 09:52 THE BIBLE LANDS...
• 09:54 YOU'VE READ ABOUT THEM.
• 09:55 NOW ENCOUNTER THEM FOR YOURSELF.
• 09:57 WALK IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF JESUS AT THE JORDAN...
• 10:00 GALILEE...
• 10:02 JERUSALEM.
• 10:03 JOURNEY IN THE SHADOW OF PAUL TO ATHENS...
• 10:06 CORINTH...
• 10:07 EPHESUS.
• 10:08 JOIN MYLES AND KATHARINE WEISS ON A TOUR OF THE BIBLE LANDS.
• 10:13 AND WITNESS THE WORD COME TO LIFE AS NEVER BEFORE.
• 10:17 CALL 1-800-WONDERS
• 10:24 THAT'S ISRAEL THE LAND OF COVENANTS.
• 10:26 AND I'M HERE TODAY WITH
• 10:28 TRACIE, OUR TRAVEL MANGER,
• 10:29 WHO ALWAYS MAKES THE TRIP
• 10:31 SO SMOOTH AND WONDERFUL FOR EVERYONE THAT JOINS US.
• 10:34 THANK YOU SO MUCH TRACIE.
• 10:35 IT'S GREAT TO BE WITH YOU AGAIN KATHARINE.
• 10:37 INTERESTINGLY I JUST HAD LUNCH
• 10:39 WITH MY ISRAELI LAND AGENT...
• 10:41 SHE WAS IN TOWN.
• 10:43 SHE'S REALLY THE ONE THAT MAKES THE TRIPS RUN SMOOTHLY DURING THE TOUR.
• 10:46 AND ONE THING THAT SHE HIGHLIGHTED TO ME
• 10:48 THAT I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT OUR VIEWERS KNOW KATHARINE
• 10:50 IS THAT YOU'LL HEAR ABOUT ISRAEL TOURS...
• 10:52 AND YOU'LL HEAR "10 DAY TOUR".
• 10:54 BUT OUR SMALLEST TRIP IS ACTUALLY AN "11" DAY TOUR.
• 10:58 WE SPEND 3 DAYS IN TIBERIUS
• 11:00 INSTEAD OF 2 DAYS WHICH MOST TOURS DO.
• 11:03 THERE'S REALLY A LOT OF THINGS THAT ARE DIFFERENT ON OUR TOUR
• 11:06 BESIDE THE FACT THAT YOU GET AN EXTRA DAY.
• 11:07 AND I THINK PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW THAT FOR THE PRICE COMPARISON.
• 11:10 BUT ALSO ON OUR TOURS WE HAVE A PASSENGER LIAISON
• 11:14 AND A TOUR PASTOR ON EACH BUS.
• 11:16 MOST TOURS ONLY HAVE A GUIDE AND A DRIVER.
• 11:18 WE STAY IN THE BEST ACCOMMODATIONS.
• 11:20 OUR WHOLE COMPANY...
• 11:22 AS YOU KNOW THIS...
• 11:23 ZOLA TOURS WAS FOUNDED
• 11:24 SOLELY FOR YOU...
• 11:25 SOLELY FOR THE FAITHFUL VIEWERS
• 11:27 OF ZOLA LEVITT MINISTRIES.
• 11:28 AND IT'S A JOY
• 11:29 TO HAVE YOU AND MYLES ON TOUR...
• 11:31 ALL OF YOUR EXPERIENCE IN CHURCHES
• 11:33 AND IN LEADING TOURS TO ISRAEL.
• 11:34 AND SO I JUST WANTED
• 11:35 TO GIVE THOSE DETAILS.
• 11:37 YOU CALL ME TODAY...
• 11:38 1-800-WONDERS...
• 11:39 I WOULD LOVE TO TALK TO YOU.
• 11:40 GO TO LEVITT.COM...
• 11:41 AND WE'VE GOT 3 TOURS COMING UP THIS YEAR
• 11:43 AND I'D LOVE FOR YOU TO JOIN US.
• 11:45 IT'S GOING TO BE GREAT...
• 11:46 IT'S GOING TO BE SO MUCH FUN.
• 11:47 THERE'S ONE THING ABOUT GOING TO ISRAEL
• 11:49 BUT IT'S ANOTHER THING WHEN YOU GO WITH SOMEBODY THAT HAS A JEWISH PERSPECTIVE.
• 11:52 I THINK IT ADDS ANOTHER DIMENSION OF LIGHT AND KNOWLEDGE TO YOUR TRIP.
• 11:58 WE'RE GOING TO GO NOW TO HAIFA WITH ONE OF OUR MEN ON THE LAND.
• 12:02 HIS NAME IS EITAN
• 12:04 AND HE'S GOING TO SHARE A LITTLE BIT ABOUT HIS MINISTRY.
• 12:08 EITAN WE WERE LOOKING AT THE CONTINUITY
• 12:11 FROM THE BOOK OF ACTS
• 12:12 ALL THE WAY INTO THE PRESENT DAY
• 12:14 AND HOW GOD IS RESTORING FIRST THE LAND AND NOW THE PEOPLE COMING BACK.
• 12:17 TELL US ABOUT YOUR STORY OF ALIYAH COMING HOME.
• 12:20 WELL IT HAPPENED
• 12:21 AFTER QUITE A FEW YEARS MYLES.
• 12:23 IT WAS WAY BACK IN 1977
• 12:26 THAT I RECEIVED AN INSTRUCTION...
• 12:30 A REVELATION IN MY HEART THAT MY DESTINY WOULD BE IN ISRAEL.
• 12:33 AT THE TIME I WAS A YOUNG HUSBAND AND FATHER.
• 12:35 I HAD ONLY REALLY RECENTLY COME BACK TO MY JEWISH ROOTS.
• 12:38 AND 15 YEARS LATER
• 12:39 AFTER EXPERIENCE IN THE MESSIANIC MOVEMENT IN THE STATES
• 12:43 AND BEGINNING TO INTERACT WITH ISRAELI BELIEVERS
• 12:46 AND TAKING A PRELIMINARY TRIP HERE TO ISRAEL
• 12:49 WE MADE THE DECISION TO MOVE OUR FAMILY.
• 12:53 MY WIFE AND I WERE BOTH 45 YEARS OLD
• 12:56 AND SHE WAS 6 MONTHS PREGNANT AND WE ALREADY HAD 3 CHILDREN
• 12:59 SO IT WAS A BIG STEP
• 13:01 AND WE'VE NEVER REGRETTED IT.
• 13:03 AND YOU PERSEVERED THROUGH SOME HARD TIMES.
• 13:05 THERE'VE BEEN SOME DIFFICULTIES ESTABLISHING YOUR WORK HERE
• 13:08 AND BECOMING A HELP TO THE NATION.
• 13:11 TELL US ABOUT THAT AS WELL.
• 13:12 WELL FIRST OF ALL,
• 13:14 ANYONE COMING TO ISRAEL FROM THE DIASPORA ENCOUNTERS DIFFICULTY.
• 13:16 IT DOESN'T MATTER WHETHER THEY'RE FROM THE WEST, THE EAST...
• 13:19 FROM WHATEVER CONTINENT...
• 13:20 JUST BECAUSE IT'S A HUGE ADJUSTMENT TO MOVE.
• 13:23 IN OUR CASE, TO ESTABLISH THE WORK
• 13:26 WE DIDN'T ASSUME THAT WE WOULD PIONEER OUR WORK
• 13:29 BUT AS IT BECAME CLEAR THAT THAT'S WHAT GOD WANTED US TO DO
• 13:33 ABOUT 3 YEARS AFTER WE ARRIVED IN ISRAEL
• 13:36 WE FOUND OURSELVES OPENING A CONGREGATION WITH 3 HOUSE GROUPS.
• 13:40 THE DIFFICULTIES HAD TO DO BOTH WITH TRANSPORTATION
• 13:44 BECAUSE THE PEOPLE TO WHOM WE WERE REACHING OUT
• 13:47 WERE WITHOUT PRIVATE AUTOMOBILES MOST OF THEM.
• 13:49 BUT THE GOOD THING IS THAT THE NEIGHBORHOOD IN WHICH WE ESTABLISHED THE WORK
• 13:52 WHICH IS HERE IN THIS INDUSTRIAL SECTION OF KIRYAT YAM IN THE HAIFA BAY AREA.
• 13:58 MOST OF THE PEOPLE LIVE CLOSE ENOUGH TO GET TO THE SERVICES.
• 14:01 SO THERE WERE ECONOMIC CHALLENGES
• 14:03 BUT ALSO THERE WAS PERSECUTION WITHIN TWO YEARS OF PLANTING THE WORK.
• 14:08 WE WERE FIREBOMBED IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT
• 14:09 AND FORTUNATELY NOBODY WAS HURT
• 14:11 BUT THE FACILITY WAS BASICALLY DEVASTATED
• 14:15 AND IT WAS A GUT CHECK...
• 14:17 ARE WE WILLING TO WALK THROUGH THE TERRITORY
• 14:20 THAT THE BELIEVERS WALKED THROUGH IN THE FIRST CENTURY?
• 14:23 IN FACT, ONE OF THE VERSES THAT CAME TO ME RESOUNDINGLY WAS
• 14:26 "LORD, THANK YOU THAT YOU'VE COUNTED US WORTHY TO SUFFER FOR YOUR NAME"
• 14:30 WHICH THE APOSTLES PRAYED TO YESHUA.
• 14:32 WE KNOW SO LITTLE OF THAT IN THE WEST.
• 14:35 WE'RE VERY COMFORTABLE...
• 14:36 WE DON'T REALLY UNDERSTAND THAT.
• 14:38 WE KNOW THE CHURCH AROUND THE WORLD SUFFERS PERSECUTION
• 14:41 BUT RIGHT HERE YOU'VE BEEN FACED WITH HAVING TO PERSEVERE.
• 14:45 YES AND NOT OURSELVES ONLY
• 14:47 BECAUSE BY NOW THERE ARE PEOPLE IN ARAD, BE'ER-SHEVA, ASHDOD, MEVASERET TZION...
• 14:53 PEOPLE AROUND THE COUNTRY AS ISRAELI BELIEVERS WHO ARE BEING PERSECUTED.
• 14:59 BUT YOU KNOW WHAT?
• 15:01 THE PERSECUTION IN A WAY AS THOSE FIRST BELIEVERS STATED IT...
• 15:04 IT'S AN HONOR...
• 15:05 IT MEANS THAT A SPARK IS BEING STRUCK THAT NEEDS TO BE STRUCK
• 15:09 AND THE NATION IS BEGINNING TO BE CHALLENGED.
• 15:12 AT THE SAME TIME MANY OF THE PEOPLE IN ISRAEL ARE HEARING FOR THE FIRST TIME
• 15:16 THAT YESHUA IS JEWISH,
• 15:18 THAT BELIEVING IN HIM DOES NOT CONVERT US TO CHRISTIANITY BUT DRAWS US BACK TO OUR HERITAGE.
• 15:23 THAT'S SUCH A STUNNING THING.
• 15:25 I THINK THAT MOST OF US WHO COME TO FAITH
• 15:27 WE REALIZE "I'M MORE JEWISH NOW THAN I EVER WAS!"
• 15:30 THAT'S WHAT HAPPENED TO YOU I SEE.
• 15:32 COMPLETELY...
• 15:33 I WOULDN'T BE HERE IN ISRAEL IF THAT WASN'T THE CASE.
• 15:35 AND YOU SAID SOMETHING ON EAST AND WEST.
• 15:37 IT REMINDS ME OF JEREMIAH SAYING
• 15:38 THAT I WOULD NO LONGER BE KNOWN AS THE GOD WHO BROUGHT YOU UP OUT OF EGYPT
• 15:42 BUT THE ONE WHO BROUGHT YOU FROM THE NORTH AND SOUTH, EAST AND THE WEST.
• 15:44 AND I THINK YOU HAVE A VERY INTERNATIONAL WORK HERE.
• 15:47 WE DO.
• 15:48 IT BEGAN LARGELY WITH IMMIGRANTS FROM THE FORMER SOVIET UNION
• 15:51 TOGETHER WITH IMMIGRANTS FROM THE STATES ON NORTH AMERICA
• 15:55 WHICH IS REALLY A BEAUTIFUL IRONY
• 15:57 BECAUSE I GREW UP IN THE TIME WHEN THE U.S. AND SOVIET COMPETITION WAS HUGE
• 16:01 AND EXPECTED ALMOST WORLD WAR III.
• 16:03 BUT ADDED TO THAT THERE HAVE BEEN EUROPEANS, JEWS FROM ETHIOPIA
• 16:07 AND NOW WE'RE GETTING AN INCREASING NUMBER OF NATIVE ISRAELIS
• 16:11 AS WELL AS THE CHILDREN WHO'VE GROWN UP IN THE LAND
• 16:13 WHO NO LONGER COULD BE CALLED IMMIGRANTS BECAUSE THEY'RE SPEAKING HEBREW...
• 16:17 GOING TO SCHOOL...
• 16:18 SERVING IN THE ARMY AND GOING OFF TO COLLEGE.
• 16:20 SO PEOPLE COMING UP NOW...
• 16:21 KIDS GROWING UP...
• 16:23 IT'S COMPLETELY NATURAL AND NORMAL TO BE JEWISH...
• 16:26 TO BE AN ISRAELI AND TO BE A BELIEVER IN YESHUA.
• 16:28 IT IS...
• 16:29 THERE ARE STILL CHALLENGES WITHIN ISRAELI SOCIETY
• 16:31 BUT IT'S BECOMING SOMETHING THAT'S MORE APPARENT
• 16:34 AND THEREFORE BECOMING PART OF THE FABRIC OF THE COUNTRY.
• 16:38 I'M THINKING ABOUT THE SIMILARITY
• 16:41 BETWEEN THE DAY IN WHICH WE'RE LIVING AND THE BOOK OF ACTS.
• 16:44 YOU MENTIONED SEVERAL THINGS.
• 16:45 WHAT ABOUT THE REPRODUCTION OF CONGREGATIONS
• 16:48 AND THE SPREADING OF THE GOSPEL SIMILAR TO THE EARLY DAYS?
• 16:52 TO ME THAT'S ONE OF THE MOST DISTINGUISHING MARKS
• 16:55 OF THE FIRST CENTURY MESSIANIC-JEWISH MOVEMENT IN ISRAEL
• 16:58 IS THAT OUT OF JERUSALEM AND THEN OUT OF THE OTHER CENTERS
• 17:02 THEY BEGAN TO SEND TEAMS INTO PLACES THAT DID NOT HAVE CONGREGATIONS.
• 17:07 WELL INTERESTINGLY 2,000 YEARS LATER WE HAVE QUITE A SIMILAR SITUATION IN WHICH ISRAEL,
• 17:12 THOUGH IT'S THE BIRTH OF THE GOSPEL AND OF COURSE YESHUA'S HOME,
• 17:15 HAS NOT HAD INDIGENOUS HEBREW SPEAKING CONGREGATIONS FOR ALMOST 2,000 YEARS.
• 17:22 AND SO YOU'RE COMING BACK TO A RELATIVELY CLEAN SLATE...
• 17:26 NOT IN TERMS OF THE HISTORY OF THE CHURCH
• 17:28 BUT IN TERMS OF A LOCAL EXPRESSION OF FAITH IN YESHUA.
• 17:33 AND OF COURSE THAT MEANS TO TAKE THE FORM OF COMMUNITY.
• 17:36 THAT'S WHAT THEY DID IN THE BOOK OF ACTS.
• 17:38 THEY PLANTED COMMUNITIES OF BELIEVERS...
• 17:40 BELIEVERS WHO SHARED THEIR STUFF WITH EACH OTHER...
• 17:42 BELIEVERS WHO MADE AN IMPACT ON THE SOCIETY.
• 17:45 AND WHAT WE HAVE SEEN HERE MYLES
• 17:48 IS THAT BY INVESTING IN THE SPIRITUAL SONS AND DAUGHTERS
• 17:52 AND JUST BY FOSTERING AN ATTITUDE OF EXPANSION,
• 17:57 AND YOU CAN DO AS MUCH AS GOD GIVES YOU TO DO,
• 18:02 WE HAVE SEEN ANOTHER FOUR CONGREGATIONS BIRTHED OUT OF THIS ONE.
• 18:05 SO THERE'S A LITTLE NETWORK AND IT'S ISRAELI AND IT'S GROWING
• 18:11 AND WE ARE ANTICIPATING THAT IT WILL CONTINUE.
• 18:14 IT'S ALL SO RELATIONAL...
• 18:16 IT'S SO UNLIKE THE INSTITUTIONALIZED OR ORGANIZED RELIGION
• 18:20 THAT PEOPLE FEAR SO MUCH.
• 18:21 IT'S REALLY A FAMILY.
• 18:23 IT IS...
• 18:24 IT'S AN EXTENDED FAMILY
• 18:25 AND THERE'S AN ORGANIC FEEL TO IT.
• 18:27 IT DOESN'T LOOK AT FIRST TO HAVE THE SAME RAPIDITY OF MULTIPLICATION.
• 18:33 BUT WHAT I SENSED EARLY ON IN OUR TIME HERE IN ISRAEL MYLES
• 18:36 WAS THAT BY INVESTING A LOT IN A FEW PEOPLE
• 18:40 THAT GOD CHOSE ME TO GIVE MY LIFE TO AS A FATHER
• 18:43 AND AS A COACH,
• 18:45 AS AN ENCOURAGER, AS A FRIEND...
• 18:46 THAT THOSE PEOPLE...
• 18:48 THOSE MEN...
• 18:49 THOSE COUPLES
• 18:51 ARE NOW LEADERS OF WHOLE OTHER CONGREGATIONS.
• 18:54 ONE OF THEM HAS STARTED A BIBLE COLLEGE,
• 18:56 THERE ARE A MINISTRY TO HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS,
• 18:59 THERE'S AN INTERNATIONAL MESSIANIC PAPER IN THE RUSSIAN LANGUAGE...
• 19:02 AND THE BORDERS KEEP GROWING AND STRETCHING OUT
• 19:05 BECAUSE OF THAT QUALITY WITH A FEW WHICH IS BASICALLY THE PATTERN THAT JESUS GAVE US.
• 19:10 HE LAID HIS LIFE DOWN
• 19:12 ESSENTIALLY FOR THOSE TWELVE GUYS
• 19:14 AND THAT'S HOW WE GOT HERE.
• 19:16 SO BY GOING DEEPER YOU'RE ACTUALLY GOING WIDER AS WELL.
• 19:19 IT TURNS OUT THAT WAY.
• 19:21 BUT IT CONTINUES BECAUSE TO ME THE FUTURE IS IN THE YOUNG PEOPLE.
• 19:26 AND THE YOUNG ISRAELI BELIEVERS IN ISRAEL...
• 19:29 TO ME THAT'S WHERE THE GREATEST ACTION IS HAPPENING.
• 19:32 THEY'RE INVENTING NEW MUSIC...
• 19:34 THEY'RE PRAYING "GOD WHAT SHOULD I DO WITH MY LIFE?"
• 19:37 I HAVE A 23 YEAR OLD SON
• 19:39 AND AN 18 YEAR OLD DAUGHTER
• 19:41 AND THEY AMAZE ME.
• 19:43 THEY'VE SERVED IN THE ISRAELI ARMY
• 19:45 AND THEY'RE JUST SPREADING OUT.
• 19:48 WORSHIP IS COMING BACK INTO A FOREFRONT
• 19:52 AND PRAYER AND REACHING OUT TO DISADVANTAGED PEOPLE...
• 19:57 ALL THESE REAL ESSENTIALS OF THE GOSPEL...
• 20:00 WHAT YESHUA DID WITH HIS LIFE.
• 20:02 AND YOU KNOW MYLES;
• 20:03 WE NEED TO HAVE YESHUA PRESENT IN ISRAEL...
• 20:06 NOT SOME REMOTE VERSION OF HIM
• 20:11 OR REFERENCES TO HIM
• 20:12 BUT HIS PRESENCE.
• 20:14 AMEN
• 20:15 WHY TENTS OF MERCY?
• 20:16 OF ALL THE NAMES YOU COULD HAVE CHOSEN OR YOU WERE GIVEN...
• 20:19 WHY TENTS OF MERCY?
• 20:20 WELL BACK IN 1989 WHEN THE BERLIN WALL HAD FALLEN
• 20:24 AND THE SOVIET SYSTEM WAS CRUMBLING,
• 20:26 GOD GAVE ME A VISION OF AN OASIS IN THE DESERT
• 20:29 AND COMMUNICATED TO ME THAT THAT OASIS WAS TO BE HERE IN ISRAEL
• 20:33 AND THAT PEOPLE NOT ONLY FROM THE SOVIET UNION BUT OTHER NATIONS
• 20:36 WOULD BE RETURN TO ISRAEL
• 20:38 AND THEY WOULD NEED PHYSICAL SUSTENANCE,
• 20:40 I.E. HUMANITARIAN AID
• 20:42 AS WELL AS THE LIVING WATER OF HEALING AND SALVATION IN YESHUA.
• 20:45 AND THAT IMAGE CAME WITH THIS WHISPERED PHRASE
• 20:50 "TENTS OF MERCY"
• 20:51 AND AT THE SAME TIME GOD JUST GAVE ME A DOWNLOAD
• 20:54 OF WHAT HE MEANT BY MERCY AND COMPASSION OF THE SAME WORD.
• 20:58 IN HEBREW IT'S "RACHAMIM"
• 21:00 WHICH IS RELATED TO THE HEBREW WORD FOR "WOMB"
• 21:03 SO IT'S A MATERNAL, CARING, COMPASSIONATE LOVE
• 21:06 THAT I DON'T CLAIM FOR MYSELF BUT IN SEVERAL PLACES IN THE SCRIPTURE,
• 21:10 NOTABLY IN JEREMIAH 30:18 HE SAYS,
• 21:13 "I WILL BRING BACK THE SCATTERED PEOPLE OF ISRAEL AND ESTABLISH MY TENTS OF JACOB WITH MERCY."
• 21:35 ♪O PRAISE THE LORD ALL YE NATIONS♪
• 21:40 ♪PRAISE HIM ALL YE PEOPLES♪
• 21:44 ♪FOR HIS MERCY AND KINDNESS ARE GREAT TOWARD US♪
• 21:49 ♪AND THE TRUTH OF THE LORD IS FOREVER♪
• 21:56 ♪O PRAISE THE LORD ALL YE NATIONS♪
• 22:00 ♪PRAISE HIM ALL YE PEOPLES♪
• 22:05 ♪FOR HIS MERCY AND KINDNESS ARE GREAT TOWARD US♪
• 22:10 ♪AND THE TRUTH OF THE LORD IS FOREVER♪
• 22:17 ♪IN THE COURTS OF THE LORD'S HOUSE♪
• 22:21 ♪IN THE MIDST OF THEE O JERUSALEM♪
• 22:26 ♪I WILL OFFER TO YOU A SACRIFICE OF THANKSGIVING♪
• 22:35 ♪O PRAISE THE LORD ALL YE NATIONS♪
• 22:40 ♪PRAISE HIM ALL YE PEOPLES♪
• 22:45 ♪FOR HIS MERCY AND KINDNESS ARE GREAT TOWARD US♪
• 22:50 ♪AND THE TRUTH OF THE LORD IS FOREVER♪
• 22:57 ♪LET THOSE WHO FEAR THE LORD NOW SAY♪
• 23:01 ♪HIS LOVING KINDNESS IS EVERLASTING♪
• 23:06 ♪I WILL CALL UPON HIS NAME♪
• 23:10 ♪AND LIFT THE CUP♪
• 23:12 ♪OF YESHUA...A...A♪
• 23:38 ♪IN THE COURTS OF THE LORD'S HOUSE♪
• 23:42 ♪IN THE MIDST OF THEE O JERUSALEM♪
• 23:47 ♪I WILL CALL UPON YOUR NAME♪
• 23:51 ♪AND LIFT THE CUP♪
• 23:54 ♪OF YESHUA♪
• 23:57 ♪O PRAISE THE LORD ALL YE NATIONS♪
• 24:01 ♪PRAISE HIM ALL YE PEOPLES♪
• 24:06 ♪FOR HIS MERCY AND KINDNESS ARE GREAT TOWARD US♪
• 24:11 ♪AND THE TRUTH OF THE LORD IS FOREVER♪
• 24:15 ♪HIS MERCY AND KINDNESS ARE GREAT TOWARD US♪
• 24:20 ♪AND THE TRUTH...♪
• 24:22 ♪OF THE LORD♪
• 24:28 ♪IS FOREVER♪
• 24:46 THE RUSSIANS ARE IN JERUSALEM.
• 24:49 THE RUSSIANS HAVE COME HOME FROM THE NORTH.
• 24:51 THE BIBLE TALKS ABOUT IN JEREMIAH 16:4
• 24:54 THAT HE WILL NO LONGER BE KNOWN AS THE GOD THAT BROUGHT THEM OUT OF THE LAND OF EGYPT
• 25:00 OR OUT OF THE RED SEA
• 25:02 BUT HE'S GOING TO BE THE GOD WHO BROUGHT THEM FROM THE NORTH AND FROM ALL THE SURROUNDING NATIONS
• 25:07 AND BRINGING THEM BACK TO THE LAND THAT HE GAVE TO THEIR FATHERS.
• 25:10 AND WE ARE SEEING THIS PROPHECY BEING FULFILLED NOW
• 25:14 AND EITAN IS MINISTERING TO THE NEEDS OF THE RUSSIANS AS THEY COME HOME.
• 25:18 IT'S REALLY TRUE.
• 25:20 THERE'S SO MANY THINGS THAT WE GET TO BE INVOLVED WITH AT ZOLA LEVITT MINISTRIES.
• 25:23 WE WANT TO TELL YOU
• 25:24 THAT IF YOU WANT TO KNOW WHAT WE'RE DOING
• 25:25 YOU CAN RECEIVE
• 25:26 OUR FREE MONTHLY NEWSLETTER,
• 25:28 THE LEVITT LETTER.
• 25:29 WE HAVE THE PRIVILEGE
• 25:30 OF WRITING FOR IT.
• 25:31 IT'S ALSO FULL
• 25:32 OF AMAZING ARTICLES
• 25:33 ABOUT SPIRITUAL IMPORT
• 25:34 AND ALSO CURRENT EVENTS,
• 25:36 UP TO THE MINUTE NEWS
• 25:37 FROM THE LAND.
• 25:38 ALSO, THIS WEEK OUR OFFER
• 25:39 IS THE BOOK AND CD SET
• 25:41 "COMING, THE END" ABOUT ISRAEL
• 25:47 AND RUSSIA IN PROPHECY.
• 25:48 REALLY THIS SHOW IS ABOUT
• 25:50 THE GOOD NEWS OF THE CONNECTION
• 25:51 OF THE RUSSIANS.
• 25:52 BUT THERE IS A FUTURE COMING
• 25:54 WHERE THERE'S GOING TO BE SOME DIFFICULT TIMES
• 25:55 THAT WILL INCLUDE INVASION FROM THE NORTH AND THE EAST.
• 25:59 THIS PROGRAM IS REALLY ABOUT THE MERCIES OF GOD.
• 26:02 TODAY ESPECIALLY
• 26:03 WE'RE SEEING THE MERCY OF GOD
• 26:05 BEING EXPRESSED IN THE MINISTRY
• 26:06 TO THOSE WHO ARE WITHOUT.
• 26:08 THE PSALMIST SAID
• 26:09 "HODU L'ADONAI KI TOV, KI L'OLAM CHASDO",
• 26:13 "GIVE THANKS TO THE LORD FOR HE IS GOOD AND HIS MERCY ENDURES FOREVER".
• 26:18 AND THIS PROGRAM HAS REALLY BEEN ABOUT THE MERCIES OF GOD.
• 26:21 IN SPITE OF WHAT MAY BE HAPPENING IN THE FUTURE
• 26:24 WE NEED TO BE PREPARING OURSELVES,
• 26:26 PREPARING THE BODY.
• 26:27 WE NEED TO BE STANDING WITH ISRAEL IN THIS TIME...
• 26:30 DURING THIS DAY.
• 26:31 IT'S SO IMPORTANT
• 26:33 AND SO WE'RE GRATEFUL THAT YOU'VE CHOSEN TO WORK WITH US,
• 26:36 TO STAND WITH US,
• 26:37 TO PARTNER WITH US.
• 26:38 YOU KNOW WE CAN'T GO FORWARD WITHOUT YOUR GIFTS OF FUNDS.
• 26:41 WE NEED YOUR HELP IN ORDER TO GO TO ISRAEL
• 26:43 IN ORDER TO BRING YOU THESE PROGRAMS FROM THE LAND, FROM AROUND THE WORLD.
• 26:47 WE CAN'T DO IT WITHOUT YOU.
• 26:49 WE NEED TO WORK TOGETHER IN THIS.
• 26:50 AND THIS MESSAGE NEEDS TO GO OUT IN OUR DAY.
• 26:53 AND SO AS WE GO TODAY WE WANT TO REMIND YOU
• 26:57 SHA'ALU SHALOM YERUSHALAYIM
• 26:59 PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM