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• 00:01 On this program we're going to learn about the Zion Gate.
• 00:04 I'm standing here.
• 00:05 You can see the bullet holes above
• 00:07 and the Mezuzah behind me.
• 00:08 The conflict of the Jewish people returning to the land
• 00:12 and God's goodness in opening up the gates of Jerusalem.
• 00:23 ♪ My heart was glad when they said to me ♪
• 00:30 ♪ Let us go up, let us go up to the Gates of Jerusalem ♪
• 00:38 ♪ Our feet will stand in the house of the Lord ♪
• 00:44 ♪ Yes let us go up, let us go up to the Gates of Jerusalem ♪
• 00:55 ♪ the Gates of Jerusalem ♪
• 01:03 Shalom, and welcome to our program. I'm Myles Weiss
• 01:05 and I'm Katharine Weiss.
• 01:06 Welcome back to our series in Jerusalem
• 01:09 Ancient Gates and Future Glory.
• 01:12 This is really exciting.
• 01:14 We get to bring the gates of Jerusalem to you.
• 01:16 Last week we looked at the Dung Gate,
• 01:18 the one that enters into the Western Wall.
• 01:20 This week the Zion Gate.
• 01:21 The Zion Gate...it's such an important gate.
• 01:24 It's where the Israeli IDF went in and took back
• 01:28 the holiest place to the Jewish people, the Western Wall.
• 01:32 They entered in through the Zion Gate.
• 01:35 So on the outside of the Zion Gate
• 01:37 you will literally see bullet holes left there
• 01:39 to remind them of the bitterness of the loss,
• 01:44 but of the victory at the same time.
• 01:46 And on one side you'll see a Mezuzah,
• 01:48 which is God's signpost to us.
• 01:51 And it's His command for us to put this Mezuzah on our door and on our gates
• 01:56 to remind us to love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, soul and might
• 02:00 and to teach our children the way when we rise up and when we sit down.
• 02:04 That's well said.
• 02:05 And we enjoy doing that with our children.
• 02:06 Absolutely.
• 02:08 They're grown men now, but still it's always important to pass on
• 02:10 the legacy of what God is building in your family and through your family.
• 02:14 Yes.
• 02:16 Well our guests today, we have Shimon Gibson the archaeologist.
• 02:18 His book, "The Final Days of Jesus; the Archaeological Evidence"
• 02:22 verifies through the dirt, through the rocks,
• 02:25 through the science of it that in fact the Word is true.
• 02:28 We knew that.
• 02:30 And David Parsons from the International Christian Embassy in Jerusalem.
• 02:33 The great spokesman, the media director for the international work
• 02:36 and just a real heart for Israel and for the church at large.
• 02:41 And special music by Marty Goetz, Psalmist,
• 02:44 Messianic leader, musician and a good friend of our ministry.
• 02:48 So without any further ado,
• 02:50 let's go to the Zion Gate and see what we can learn.
• 02:52 We'll see you there.
• 03:04 We're here in Jerusalem.
• 03:06 Behind me is the Mt of Olives.
• 03:08 To my right, the Zion Gate
• 03:11 Psalm 87 verse 2 tells us,
• 03:14 [speaking Hebrew]
• 03:18 The Lord loves the gates of Zion.
• 03:21 How much more so right here at the Zion Gate.
• 03:24 And you can see behind me that this gate was won by a hard fought battle
• 03:29 Absolutely, Jerusalem was known as Zion When David took this City
• 03:34 and also when the Israelites took back the City in 1967.
• 03:39 The Israelites came and took back the City of our LORD through this Gate.
• 03:43 And behind me you can see bullet holes.
• 03:48 The bullet holes remind us
• 03:49 that there's always a battle over Zion, which means "signpost"
• 03:53 and there's always a battle for the Word of God and the truth of the Word.
• 03:57 Not only is Jerusalem the desire of all nations
• 04:00 you can see that there's conflict in this nation.
• 04:03 God says that we're not to hold our peace;
• 04:07 give Him rest till He makes Jerusalem...Zion a praise in the all the world.
• 04:13 Right now those two things aren't matching,
• 04:17 but that is why God has called us as "watchmen on the wall"
• 04:20 to stand and to make up that hedge and to pray for His will to be done in this earth.
• 04:26 Katharine's referring to Isaiah 62
• 04:28 which calls us to be watchmen on the wall
• 04:31 and we really need to be that way.
• 04:32 The Zionist movement began in 1891 back in Europe in Austria
• 04:36 when Nathan Birnbaum wrote a story about it in the news
• 04:40 and then Herzl picked it up in 1895 and wrote "Der Judenstaat"
• 04:44 calling for a Jewish homeland.
• 04:46 And well, we've had a homeland.
• 04:47 We've been here forever.
• 04:49 In fact, when David named this "Zion" it was 3,000 years ago.
• 04:53 We've been here that long.
• 04:55 Myles, I'd like to just read that scripture.
• 04:57 It's Isaiah 22:6 and it says,
• 05:01 I've set watchmen on thy walls, O Jerusalem
• 05:04 which shall never hold their peace day or night.
• 05:07 They shall make mention of the LORD
• 05:09 and be not silent.
• 05:11 And that's what we need to do as God's watchmen on the wall
• 05:15 is to not hold our peace
• 05:17 but to stand with the people, the land and the plan that He has for this nation.
• 05:24 Right now within this Gate there are people who are praying
• 05:27 for the "one new man" to arise in Israel
• 05:30 for Jew and Gentile
• 05:31 for Jews and Arabs
• 05:32 to worship the LORD together.
• 05:34 And that is being contested.
• 05:35 But the Zion Gate speaks to us about the future also of Israel
• 05:39 because God is calling us to be here with Him.
• 05:43 He's going to touch down near here on the Mount of Olives.
• 05:46 He's going to come through the Eastern Gate
• 05:47 and we're going to see Him.
• 05:49 He's going to rule and reign from Zion for 1,000 years.
• 05:52 And we're looking forward to that day.
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• 06:13 and journey with the Gospel from Jerusalem to Ephesus, to Corinth and Athens.
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• 07:08 Thank you
• 07:11 We're coming through the Zion Gate
• 07:13 You can see life is teaming everywhere in this area,
• 07:15 cars are coming through.
• 07:17 This is a living city.
• 07:19 And it's appropriate that the Zion Gate leads to the Jewish Quarter,
• 07:22 also to the Armenian Quarter,
• 07:24 two of the four Quarters of the Old City.
• 07:26 Zion Gate...Zion
• 07:29 That word is so maligned in our day.
• 07:31 It's hard to believe that it still has the meaning that David meant it to have.
• 07:36 The Arabs have contested whether there has ever been a Jewish presence here.
• 07:40 And in a fit of humor that only God could provide
• 07:42 they actually called this gate "Bab an-Nabi Daud"
• 07:45 the "Gate of David the Prophet".
• 07:48 So they were acknowledging that David, King David, Yeshua's great, great...grandfather
• 07:53 was here in this place.
• 07:55 in fact he built this city 3,000 years ago and it still stands.
• 08:00 We need to be praying for the people that live inside this gate.
• 08:04 We need to be praying for the Jewish people in the Jewish Quarter.
• 08:07 We need to be praying for the religious.
• 08:10 We need to be praying for the believers in this land as well.
• 08:13 We need to call on the LORD for wisdom.
• 08:15 And that's what's needed in this hour.
• 08:17 There's a great push back against the Zionist movement.
• 08:21 In fact that word has become so negative
• 08:24 on college campuses in America for example
• 08:26 and around the world.
• 08:28 But its always been in the heart of God to lift up Zion,
• 08:31 to bless Zion.
• 08:33 The word "Zion" means "signpost"
• 08:35 and this place, this city, this Jewish restored homeland
• 08:40 is a signpost that the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, who is Israel
• 08:45 is alive and well and that His Word will stand forever.
• 08:50 And that's really what's contested here.
• 08:52 The contest is between the Word of God and the rest of the world
• 08:56 In fact the Word is elevated here in the very existence of Zion.
• 09:01 We also need to be praying about the church
• 09:03 that believers around the world
• 09:05 would come through the replacement theology that has overtaken it
• 09:09 that says that there is no place for Israel
• 09:11 there is no reality to ethnic Israel
• 09:14 and that the church has replaced it
• 09:17 when in fact Israel is called
• 09:19 and the gifts and callings are without repentance.
• 09:22 In fact God has never "uncalled" Israel.
• 09:25 And that what is seen here.
• 09:28 In the Zion Gate we see the reality of the restoration of Israel
• 09:31 the restoration of the Jewish people
• 09:33 and the calling of the Jewish people back to our homeland
• 09:36 where God promises that He will sprinkle clean water on us.
• 09:41 And we're seeing that happen with the first fruits of Zion
• 09:44 the Messianic movement.
• 09:46 We're seeing that as believers are rising throughout this Land.
• 09:49 20 years ago every believer knew everyone else in this Land.
• 09:53 And now they estimate that there are about 15,000.
• 09:57 Let's pray that the Body of Messiah continues to grow in Zion.
• 10:08 The Zion Gate really speaks about the return to Zion,
• 10:11 the going up to Zion,
• 10:13 the re-establishment of the Israel State of Zion in our modern era doesn't it?
• 10:18 Yes, you know the scripture talks about that blessed are you
• 10:21 whose feet have made...
• 10:23 are set to make pilgrimage and to go within the gates.
• 10:28 In Lamentations 1:4
• 10:32 it talks about that literally the road was in mourning because the gates were closed
• 10:36 and the people could not go up to keep the feasts or the festivals.
• 10:40 But that is not the day in which we're in now.
• 10:43 We're in the time of the fulfillment of Bible prophecy
• 10:47 when they are flowing up to Mount Zion, the City of our God.
• 10:52 Yes, in fact the nations are joining in.
• 10:55 The Jewish people are coming up to keep the feasts as always.
• 10:58 But now the nations are joining in
• 11:00 and it's a pre-cursor for the future and the millennial kingdom
• 11:03 when at the time of Tabernacles, Sukkot
• 11:06 That the entire world will come up to keep the feasts with the Jewish people.
• 11:10 It's no wonder that Deuteronomy 6:9 tells us
• 11:13 (speaking Hebrew)
• 11:17 Write them on the doorposts of your house and upon your gates.
• 11:21 It's a physical writing but it's a spiritual writing as well.
• 11:24 We are to keep this Word in us.
• 11:26 And I like it how that you post it by your eyes
• 11:30 so its a visual reminder of God
• 11:33 and His call on us to love Him
• 11:35 and to love Him with all of our heart.
• 11:37 And then to pass that on to our children which we love to do.
• 11:40 Well let's go to Jerusalem now.
• 11:42 We're going to hear from Shimon Gibson and he's going to speak to us about the Zion Gate.
• 11:49 The Zion Gate is located on the traditional Mount Zion on the southern side of the Old City.
• 11:55 And the gate itself dates from the time of Suleiman the Magnificent mid 16th century.
• 12:01 It's built under the remains of a medieval tower
• 12:04 a...apparently from the beginning of the 13th century.
• 12:08 Archaeological excavations revealed part of that original gate.
• 12:12 There are perhaps earlier gates there
• 12:14 but none have been excavated to date.
• 12:18 The gate itself led out of the Old City to the area of the summit of Mount Zion
• 12:25 on which there are a number of places connected to scripture.
• 12:29 One of them is the place of the tomb of King David.
• 12:33 The other is the traditional place of the Last Supper.
• 12:38 These are located at the Summit.
• 12:41 I'm actually standing here within an archaeological excavation just below Zion Gate.
• 12:47 And in this area according to tradition you had the house of Caiaphas, the High Priest
• 12:55 Who saw Jesus and deliberated about what to do about Him
• 13:00 prior to Him being taken to the Critorium
• 13:03 for a trial in front of the Roman Governor, Pontius Pilot.
• 13:08 Now these excavations have revealed palatial buildings dating from the 1st century.
• 13:15 The people who lived here were apparently priestly families
• 13:19 who are associated with some of these well known priests of that period and time.
• 13:26 And archaeological excavations have revealed some amazing finds dating back to that time.
• 13:34 (Myles speaking)
• 13:36 Tourists love to pass through the gates of this remarkable Old City.
• 13:40 It's like walking through a time tunnel back to the period of Biblical prophets and kings.
• 13:45 We talked to one of the tour guides, Tamar,
• 13:47 whose family has lived in this area for 10 generations.
• 13:53 Tamar thank you for being with us.
• 13:55 I know that you are an expert on the gates.
• 13:56 Could you say something about the importance of the discovery of these gates
• 14:00 relative to the Aliyah and people coming back to Israel?
• 14:03 Well its a gate.
• 14:05 Let's start with that.
• 14:06 The fact that this is an entrance to the Old City
• 14:09 in a way it gives a feeling of an entrance, a new life .
• 14:14 And that's something that I always feel when I come to the Old City.
• 14:17 I always ask myself which gate am I going to choose?
• 14:21 And that reminds me of my grandfather Yitzhak
• 14:24 who used to say that whenever you entered the Old City
• 14:27 always make sure that your first step is taken with your right foot.
• 14:32 Wow
• 14:33 And I think it symbolizes the Aliyah, immigration,
• 14:36 Jews coming to the land of Israel opening a new life starting with the right foot.
• 14:42 And it also explains the mezuzah on the inside of the right hand of the gate.
• 14:45 That tells you where the exit and the entrance is exactly
• 14:48 so you know where to take the...
• 14:50 Someone told me that the 3 valleys draw a picture of a Shin throughout Jerusalem,
• 14:55 that Jerusalem is the mezuzah of the LORD.
• 14:57 That's true.
• 14:59 The Shin is the letter that starts the word "Shaddai"
• 15:03 which is one of the Names of God.
• 15:05 I think that it emphasizes the fact that He guards us and takes care of us.
• 15:10 So when you have been studying the gates
• 15:12 is there something that struck you the first time,
• 15:14 an early impression,
• 15:16 or what captivated you about this?
• 15:18 Hmmm...first of all the differences.
• 15:20 I mean at first site they look all the same
• 15:21 but when you get into little details you are like, hey,
• 15:24 Jaffa Gate goes that way
• 15:26 but then Zion Gate goes to the other
• 15:28 not speaking of Damascus Gate which goes both ways.
• 15:31 and there is New Gate and the Dung Gate which you can go straight into the City.
• 15:37 So the names are different
• 15:40 you can't even think of paralleling the Lion's Gate to the Dung Gate, right?
• 15:46 There's something very unique in each one of them.
• 15:49 Thank you very much.
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• 16:32 so you could come see these ancient gates for yourself.
• 16:35 They are really something to behold.
• 16:38 They really are.
• 16:39 There's nothing like being in the Land and seeing the gates, seeing the entire Land
• 16:42 how God comes alive.
• 16:44 The scriptures come alive.
• 16:45 It's a wonderful experience.
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• 17:06 You know we meet so many amazing people as we travel the Land,
• 17:10 as we lead tours and do these interviews
• 17:13 but one of my favorite interviews is always with David Parsons
• 17:17 the Executive Media Director for the International Christian Embassy in Jerusalem.
• 17:22 David has a heart for Israel and for the Zionist movement
• 17:26 the best of the Zionist movement
• 17:28 that just comes alive when he speaks
• 17:30 and so I've been moved to tears moments when we've had time with him before.
• 17:35 Let's go to my interview with David Parsons right now.
• 17:39 David thank you for being with us.
• 17:41 We've been teaching on the Zion Gate...all the gates
• 17:43 but just coming through the Zion Gate
• 17:45 one cannot help but think about Sha'ar Zion The Gates of Zion
• 17:49 and the modern Zionist movement.
• 17:52 Tell us a little bit about the work here
• 17:54 and what your view is of the growth in the Zionist movement.
• 17:58 Well the International Christian Embassy in Jerusalem
• 18:01 is the ongoing legacy movement among evangelical Christians for centuries now.
• 18:08 The Christian Zionist movement pre-dates the Jewish political Zionist Movement
• 18:13 that's about 110 years old now.
• 18:16 Pre-dates by even several centuries
• 18:18 Christians who openly preached
• 18:21 and promoted the return of the Jews back to the Land.
• 18:24 All the Zionist leaders like Herzl, Rothchild, trying to bring Jews back here.
• 18:29 They all had Christian leaders who befriended them.
• 18:32 You had others who helped establish the Land.
• 18:36 Christians helped them learn how to farm again,
• 18:38 how to fight and defend themselves again, like Windgate or Patterson.
• 18:42 And then you had rescuers of Jews;
• 18:45 Christians who helped rescue them; helped them to come here.
• 18:49 And in modern times ministries like the Christian Embassy has been...
• 18:52 we've been helping with the actual physical return of Jews back to the Land
• 18:56 what's called "Aliyah".
• 18:58 And our ministry itself has helped over 115,000 Jews
• 19:02 come back from the former Soviet Union
• 19:04 now Jews from the West
• 19:06 from Ethiopia
• 19:08 and most recently the Bnei Menasha from India.
• 19:11 And this is quite a legacy.
• 19:15 But the prophets like Isaiah promise that when God would set His hand a second time
• 19:20 to bring the Jews back from all the lands where He had scattered them
• 19:25 that there would be Gentiles involved.
• 19:27 So even the Jewish people recognize these are the Gentiles that He would beckon to
• 19:32 to carry us on their arms
• 19:33 and be foster fathers and nursing mothers to them in the return.
• 19:39 David, speaking of the modern Zionist movement, the Christian Zionist movement
• 19:42 you've been here for 17 years this round.
• 19:45 I think you've seen this go from a trickle and maybe a fringe movement
• 19:51 to a mainstream movement which is now a flood.
• 19:57 I think denominations are being weighed in the balances at this point.
• 20:00 Yes, the Christian Embassy has been here since 1980.
• 20:03 I've been coming to Israel since 1982
• 20:06 and so over the past 3 or 4 decades I think we've seen Christian interest in Israel
• 20:13 grow from what could have been considered a fringe movement.
• 20:18 People on the edge of the evangelical movement too were interested in Israel,
• 20:22 interested in Hebraic roots, the Jewishness of Jesus,
• 20:25 Davidic worship, Hebraic worship.
• 20:28 Some people might have looked on it one or two generations ago and questioned it.
• 20:35 But now its really moved to mainstream.
• 20:38 There's hardly a prominent Christian ministry out there whether it's large or small
• 20:43 that doesn't have to include Israel as part of its ministry.
• 20:47 And it's either because it's already in the heart of the minister itself
• 20:52 or the people are demanding it.
• 20:55 You know people want the richness of the fatness of the root as Paul calls it.
• 21:01 And to understand not only the truths we can get from understanding the culture
• 21:07 the Jewish culture of Jesus or such but also the prophetic implications for our day.
• 21:12 Right, we are moving from sentiment and the accoutrement,
• 21:17 we're moving into a substantive view of this connection
• 21:20 and it seems to have something to do with the coming of the LORD, doesn't it?
• 21:23 I think so and I think that what we're witnessing
• 21:26 God is providing and building
• 21:29 a 24/7 worldwide global prayer support network for this nation for what's ahead.
• 21:36 That alone is very important
• 21:38 but also visiting the country
• 21:40 supporting Aliyah,
• 21:42 supporting projects here
• 21:43 so much we can be doing in our day to play our role in these end times.
• 21:46 Well thank you... thank you very much David.
• 21:51 ♪ My heart was glad when they said to me ♪
• 21:58 ♪ Let us go up, ♪
• 22:02 ♪ Let us go up to the Gates of Jerusalem ♪
• 22:07 ♪ Our feet will stand in the House of the LORD ♪
• 22:14 ♪ So let us go up ♪
• 22:16 ♪ Let us go up to the Gates of Jerusalem ♪
• 22:21 ♪ And we'll say Peace be within your walls ♪
• 22:25 ♪ And with all who delight in them ♪
• 22:28 ♪ And we'll say Peace be within your Gates ♪
• 22:33 ♪ The Gates of Jerusalem ♪
• 22:36 ♪ And we'll say Peace be within your walls ♪
• 22:41 ♪ And with all who delight in them ♪
• 22:44 ♪ For we know that's where His Praise awaits ♪
• 22:48 ♪ So let us go up, ♪
• 22:51 ♪ Let us go up to the Gates of Jerusalem ♪
• 22:56 ♪ Let us go up, ♪
• 22:59 ♪ Let us go up to the Gates of Jerusalem ♪
• 23:04 ♪ Yes, let us go up, ♪
• 23:07 ♪ Let us go up to the Gates of Jerusalem ♪
• 23:15 ♪ The Gates of Jerusalem ♪♪
• 23:23 That was Marty Goetz, Psalmist, Messianic musician
• 23:26 with another beautiful song about the place that we love so much.
• 23:30 There's nothing like singing the scripture
• 23:32 and letting it just come all the way in to your spirit.
• 23:34 Music is a spirit.
• 23:36 It comes and it either brings us up, brings us across, or brings us down.
• 23:39 And that music was very elevating.
• 23:41 Speaking of elevation
• 23:43 I was thinking about the verse that you were looking at before
• 23:45 that this whole idea of the City of David and Mount Zion
• 23:48 and the Zion Gate that leads in to it
• 23:51 Right Myles, you know I love this scripture
• 23:54 and Psalms 48 it says,
• 23:56 Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised
• 23:59 in the city of our God, in the mountain of His holiness.
• 24:04 And it talks about that this City is the joy of the whole earth.
• 24:09 Is Mount Zion on the sides of the north the City of the Great King?
• 24:15 Yes, Mount Zion associated with the great king, King David
• 24:19 and the Great King to come David's greater Son, Yeshua.
• 24:22 You know what's amazing to me
• 24:24 is that we've come into today in this program through the Zion Gate
• 24:27 and learned about Shah'ar Zion, the Zion Gate
• 24:30 There's all this contention about the word Zionism
• 24:33 Right
• 24:34 It's been so co-opted and so changed when it's this
• 24:37 beautiful thing on the heart of God to restore the Jewish people
• 24:41 to elevate the whole neighborhood if everyone
• 24:43 would realize what God is doing there.
• 24:45 But think about this, even in Arabic, the Arabs call this area
• 24:49 Bab a Naveed Daud, the Gate of the Prophet David.
• 24:54 So on one hand contesting that the Jewish people have ever been there...
• 24:58 There was no Holocaust. There was no Jewish presence.
• 25:01 There was no temple. There have never been any Jews there.
• 25:03 A lie.
• 25:05 On the other hand calling this gate the Gate of the Prophet David.
• 25:08 Right.
• 25:09 Understanding.
• 25:10 Well Zion, it speaks of a people, a place and a promise.
• 25:14 Yes, yes. That's good.
• 25:16 Yeah
• 25:17 It does. It's Sion in modern Hebrew it's Sion - Zion.
• 25:20 Sion means signpost.
• 25:22 Right
• 25:23 And that's what this is. And this gate leads us into this incredible area
• 25:26 and the story of God's restoration, which is really
• 25:29 what this is all about. God is restoring the Jewish people
• 25:32 to their land. He's restoring the Jewish people to our Messiah.
• 25:36 Right
• 25:37 He's offering an opening to the entire world to come in and celebrate His goodness
• 25:42 together with Israel.
• 25:44 Isn't it just like our God to leave these signposts in the earth
• 25:47 Yes
• 25:48 That I Am that I Am and no one can just take Him away.
• 25:52 They can't just say... They can't just wipe out 3,000 years of history.
• 25:55 Exactly, that's good.
• 25:57 David was actually... He made Jerusalem Zion.
• 26:00 He made it the capital of Israel 3,000 years ago.
• 26:04 Right
• 26:05 Exactly
• 26:06 Jerusalem is the most holy of holy places in the whole world.
• 26:11 It is the place where the bible is alive.
• 26:14 It is a place where the bible talks about.
• 26:16 And it's where Jesus was from. Where He did His ministry
• 26:18 and where He will return again.
• 26:19 Yes
• 26:20 And no wonder it's contested.
• 26:21 Yes
• 26:22 No wonder the enemy does not like the word Zion
• 26:25 Right
• 26:26 or the Jewish people for that matter.
• 26:28 That's another reason why I'm so grateful for people like
• 26:30 David Parsons and some of the other Christian Zionists that we meet that are so dedicated.
• 26:34 They understand. They love the Arab people.
• 26:37 They invite the Arab peoples in, but they understand that God has
• 26:40 built this, created it, and gifted it, and now is making
• 26:44 an invitation if only the world would respond.
• 26:47 And I want to thank you for your gifts of funds that let us stay on the air
• 26:51 and keep these messages coming to you about the importance of
• 26:55 Zion and about the importance of biblical, prophetic history.
• 26:59 Absolutely so.
• 27:01 For over 30 years you've been hearing on this program
• 27:04 this final phrase. We say it every time from Psalm 122 verse 6
• 27:08 And 30 years ago, over 30 years ago Zola started saying it.
• 27:12 We believe in it as well. We want you to remember...
• 27:15 Sha'alu Shalom Yerushalayim
• 27:18 Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.
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