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Episode: “Western Wall”

The Western Wall, once called “Wailing Wall,” now called HaKotel (The Wall), is the closest Jewish people can get to the site of the Holy of Holies. After Myles shows us a Bar Mitzvah celebration at the Wall, we hear how King David purchased the threshing floor atop Mount Zion. Guests include Hannah Ben-Haim and Eitan Shishkoff.

Series: “Zion Forever”

This long-awaited, nine-part series looks back at Israel’s history and forward into prophecy while remembering the present status of the Temple Mount, the most contested real estate on Earth. Throughout the series, we hear from Our Man in Haifa Eitan Shishkoff, and Zola Levitt’s music complements the narrative and scenes of Israel.

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Caption transcript for Zion Forever: “Western Wall” (2/9)

00:04 There are tears on this wall;
00:06 there are stains on this wall
00:08 from the years of wailing here
00:10 mourning the loss of the Temple.
00:13 But there was a first Temple;
00:14 there was a second Temple;
00:16 and there is a Temple to come.
00:45 For Zion's sake
00:47 I will not hold my peace
00:49 and for Jerusalem's sake
00:51 I will not rest
00:53 until her righteousness goes forth as brightness
00:57 And her salvation as a lamp that burns.
01:10 Shalom and welcome to our program.
01:12 I'm Myles Weiss
01:13 and I'm Katharine Weiss.
01:14 And we want to welcome you
01:15 to our series "Zion Forever".
01:17 We're going to emphasize the City of David,
01:20 the Temple Mount;
01:21 some of the heartbeat of God.
01:23 Correct...
01:24 because these are contested areas
01:26 that are always in the news in some form or another
01:28 because the media of the world
01:30 and some of the enemies of Israel
01:31 are saying that there has never been a Jewish presence there.
01:33 But we know from scripture
01:35 archeology
01:36 history
01:37 by means of conquest
01:38 and international law going back to the League of Nations
01:41 and the United Nations
01:43 that Israel has a right to be where we are.
01:46 And it's not only that.
01:47 The Church...
01:48 God is calling the Church
01:50 to carry His heart for His people and His Land.
01:53 We continue to remind you.
01:56 We have gotten this beautiful Word, the Scripture.
01:59 The Holy Prophets came through the Jewish people.
02:02 Our Messiah was Jewish.
02:04 But more importantly in our day...
02:06 or most important
02:07 there's a moral clarity
02:09 that they're holding for us against the war on terror.
02:12 The war on terror is prophesied by the Bible.
02:16 Isaiah says...
02:21 and we are living in that time right now.
02:24 We're hearing all kinds of what my grandmother would call
02:26 "bubba mysis" - "grandmother's tales"
02:28 coming across the media airwaves
02:30 regarding what's happening in Israel.
02:31 But the truth is still the truth.
02:33 This Word is true.
02:35 God is fulfilling it.
02:36 And if we're going to understand what's going on in the world
02:39 we have to look through the lens of the Bible.
02:41 Its the only way we can interpret
02:44 what's happening there isn't it?
02:45 It's wonderful.
02:46 There's a great awakening happening
02:48 in the Church I know.
02:50 And we're just so grateful
02:51 to be able to show you now
02:53 a little bit from the Western Wall.
03:01 Talk about the Jewish presence in the Land...
03:03 behind us you see the Western Wall.
03:05 It's the outer retaining wall
03:07 to the Temples that existed here.
03:09 Right now its being contested;
03:11 being said that there never was
03:13 a Jewish presence in the Land,
03:15 never a Temple.
03:16 And yet this goes back to the time of David doesn't it?
03:18 Absolutely
03:19 3,000 years ago
03:21 David decided and declared
03:23 that this is the capital
03:24 of the Jewish people.
03:25 No other people group
03:27 have ever claimed that this is the capital.
03:29 It is the Jewish capital
03:31 of the Jewish people.
03:32 Not Muslims...not Turks
03:34 not the Mamluks who marched through here.
03:36 Its the Jewish homeland
03:38 and they're here to stay.
03:39 Hallelujah!
03:40 You know its really true.
03:41 This Ha Makom - "The Place"
03:43 This Western Wall is the closest
03:45 that the Jewish people can get
03:46 to the former Holy Place.
03:48 Its in there.
03:49 It is there.
03:50 And it is "Ha Makom"
03:51 "The Place".
03:52 Its the place of vision.
03:53 It's the place of life.
03:54 The place that God looked forward
03:57 to see what He would do here.
03:58 And He said that He would
04:00 "establish David's throne forever".
04:02 How will He do that?
04:03 He'll do that
04:04 because the Son of David,
04:05 David's greater son Yeshua
04:07 is going to rule and reign
04:09 from this place
04:10 in this capital.
04:11 Now we're here today...
04:12 its Bar Mitzvah day.
04:13 Its a day that Jewish kids are
04:15 celebrating their entrance into Jewish life
04:17 with the celebration of the Bar Mitzvah
04:19 becoming sons of the law,
04:21 sons of the Torah.
04:22 And its a celebration day.
04:24 Its a day when the Jewish people
04:26 remember where we've come from
04:27 and look forward to where we're going.
04:29 And I believe the day is coming
04:31 when everyone here
04:32 will look upon Him who we have pierced.
04:34 And mourn as if for an only son
04:36 and say as the scripture says,
04:38 they will bow their knee
04:40 and they will say that Jesus is LORD
04:42 to the glory of God the Father.
04:44 That day is coming.
04:45 And it will be established here
04:46 at Ha Makom the throne of God.
04:49 David...King David
04:50 bought this place from a Jebusite;
04:53 from Ornan the Jebusite.
04:56 He bought the threshing floor.
04:58 And he did that purposefully
05:00 because he wanted this to be
05:01 a legal establishing place
05:03 for the LORD.
05:12 ♪ Shalom aleinu ♪ "Peace for us"
05:13 ♪ v'al kol Yisrael ♪♪ "and for all Israel"
05:15 We're hearing the sounds of celebration.
05:17 Behind me you see a picture of the Temple.
05:19 And we're at Ha Makom
05:21 as close as we can get
05:22 to the "The Place".
05:23 The place where the Holy of Holies stood.
05:25 It is the most sacred place
05:27 in all of Jewish life.
05:29 And it is here
05:30 where people are coming today
05:31 to celebrate the Bar Mitzvah.
05:32 It's such an awesome time.
05:34 It's such a time of joy and remembering
05:36 the good things of the LORD
05:37 and the promises to Israel.
05:39 In fact, they're singing that all of Israel
05:41 will stay and will be here.
05:44 And God has established this
05:46 as "The Place" for the Jewish people to dwell
05:48 now and forever.
05:50 In fact, Amos 19 says...
05:58 and that's the season that we're in right now.
06:01 This Temple built by Solomon
06:03 because David had blood on his hands.
06:05 It was built by Solomon
06:06 and then rebuilt by Nehemiah and Ezra
06:09 and then rebuilt again by Herod.
06:12 And when Herod did it
06:13 he built this with a platform that was
06:15 16 football fields wide.
06:18 This is "The Place".
06:19 And this is the place where God
06:21 has established His throne forever.
06:23 And His promise to David
06:25 was that there would always be a king dwelling in here forever
06:29 And that looks forward to the Meshiach.
06:32 It looks forward to the "King of Kings"
06:34 "Melech Hamelachim" (King of Kings)
06:36 "Adonai v' Adonai" (Lord of Lords)
06:38 There are tears on this wall;
06:39 There are stains on this wall
06:41 from the years of wailing here
06:44 mourning the loss of the Temple.
06:46 But there was a first Temple,
06:48 there was a second Temple
06:49 and there is a Temple to come.
06:53 ♪ Israel, my love ♪
06:58 ♪ Israel, my promised ♪
07:02 ♪ Chosen of God ♪
07:06 ♪ Chosen for me ♪
07:10 ♪ Homeland forever ♪
07:14 ♪ Land of Messiah ♪
07:18 ♪ Israel, my love ♪
07:26 ♪ Our God watches thee. ♪♪
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08:53 you messages from God's Land.
08:55 We not only do the segments here
08:57 but we also take you
08:59 to the Land of Israel itself
09:01 and teach where Jesus taught.
09:03 It's such a privilege
09:04 and we love sharing that with you.
09:06 So we want to thank you.
09:07 Yeah.
09:08 You know the battle over Zion
09:09 is not merely a battle over land
09:12 and its not just a real estate issue.
09:14 It's a battle for the souls of men.
09:16 It's a battle over ideas.
09:18 And there's going to come a great separation.
09:20 And that's why this program is so relevant to us now
09:23 because we see
09:24 even in the upcoming segment
09:26 the importance of the winnowing
09:28 that's going to take place in the Master's hands.
09:31 We're going to hear from our tour guide,
09:32 a dear friend of ours,
09:33 Hannah Ben Haim.
09:35 She's been living in the Land for many years
09:36 with her husband Eliyahu.
09:38 They're leaders in the Messianic body.
09:39 But they also have a tremendous burden
09:42 to awaken the West
09:44 to the realities of life in the Land
09:47 and the prophetic significance of Israel.
09:50 So let's go to Hannah Ben Haim now from Jerusalem.
09:55 Hannah we're here at the City of David.
09:57 The Temple Mount behind us.
09:59 What a connection
10:00 and what an amazing story
10:02 that David as king came here
10:04 and established this capital
10:06 and bought the threshing floor.
10:08 tell us about that.
10:09 Absolutely...absolutely
10:11 We are so privileged to be here today.
10:14 To be back in the City of David
10:16 and to be looking at the area of where the Temple once stood
10:21 that David did everything for to prepare.
10:25 And we read about
10:26 this account of David.
10:28 David sinned - you know.
10:30 David had many sins.
10:32 But in this instance David sinned because
10:33 he had counted his physical strength,
10:36 his mighty army.
10:37 Exactly
10:38 And then of course
10:39 he chooses to fall into the hand of God.
10:41 And this is recorded in II Samuel 24.
10:44 And at the time that this plague is hitting Israel
10:48 and thousands of people are dying...
10:50 70,000
10:51 70,000 have already died.
10:53 I look at this as David's low point in his life.
10:57 It says...
11:09 Hallelujah!
11:10 He saved Jerusalem at that time.
11:12 And he says to the Angel of Death...
11:18 What is it enough of?
11:20 This is the place where there's a red line
11:22 on the face of the earth.
11:23 It is enough of death.
11:25 And God Himself intervenes,
11:27 stops the same Angel
11:29 that's destroying them in Exodus 12
11:32 and now gives them basically another chance.
11:36 Because its a love story
11:38 and its always been intended
11:39 for the seed of life
11:40 to be coming from this place.
11:42 And because God chose this place.
11:44 We read about this in II Samuel
11:48 Yes
11:49 but of course we've read about it in Genesis.
11:51 Genesis 22 tells us
11:53 this is the place.
11:54 This is Mount Moriah.
11:55 This is His Holy Mountain.
11:57 Ha Makom
11:57 Yes!
11:58 And in Exodus 15
12:00 he talks about when
12:01 they have come out of the Red Sea
12:03 they talk about
12:04 the mountain of His inheritance.
12:06 Here it is!
12:07 He chose it for His everlasting Sanctuary.
12:10 So of course the LORD Himself is not going to allow this place to be destroyed.
12:14 And at this point,
12:16 after the Angel of Death
12:17 has been stopped here
12:20 on what we call the threshing floor of Araunah
12:24 David is told by the prophet
12:26 to go and make a sacrifice.
12:28 And he goes up to the Jebusite...
12:30 Remember this would be outside of the City at that time.
12:33 The City ended right about where we're standing.
12:36 And over there would have been a high place
12:39 of an enormous piece of bedrock
12:41 that extended outside of the Land.
12:43 A perfect place for a threshing floor
12:46 because a threshing floor must be exposed;
12:48 a threshing floor must be a hard surface.
12:51 And that's what David approaches
12:53 the Jebusite Araunah.
12:55 He buys it from him.
12:57 Now, this reminds me
12:59 of how Hebron was bought by Abraham
13:00 for the burial of Sarah.
13:02 Full price.
13:03 Full price.
13:04 "I'm not going to take this as a gift."
13:05 No deals.
13:06 Araunah says, here take it my Lord,
13:08 here's everything you need.
13:09 And David says a very important thing.
13:12 He says...
13:22 David understands the principle of sacrifice.
13:25 Sacrifice must cost you.
13:26 It's you giving to the mighty God.
13:29 And so he pays him this exorbitant amount of money.
13:32 If you notice... 50 silver shekels.
13:35 And here we have the contract right here in the Word of God.
13:39 So David buys that threshing floor as we know.
13:41 He wasn't allowed because of the blood on his hands
13:44 to build actually the first Temple.
13:47 But it would be given to his son Solomon.
13:49 So he buys the threshing floor.
13:52 That's that hard surface
13:54 that today there's a golden dome over.
13:57 And there he will do everything he can
14:00 to prepare the way for Solomon
14:02 to build the first Temple.
14:03 So well before
14:05 United Nations resolutions;
14:07 well before
14:09 peace processes;
14:10 Well before
14:11 all the mishegas in the modern world
14:13 King David 1,000 years before the birth of Yeshua
14:17 3,000 years ago
14:19 he bought this place full price legally.
14:22 Absolutely...absolutely
14:24 And this would be the extension of the City in the time of Solomon.
14:28 Solomon will build to the north
14:31 and include that area
14:32 that is called the "Temple Mount" today.
14:35 Yes
14:36 Not everyone calls it the Temple Mount.
14:37 Yes
14:38 But initially when we start thinking about the Temple
14:41 and the Temple Mount
14:43 and all that's there now
14:45 it's very interesting that
14:47 the Muslims, the Jews, and the Christians
14:49 all believe that the final judgment area
14:52 on the face of the earth
14:53 is the Temple Mount
14:55 Now David saw that.
14:56 And he writes about it...
15:00 And that's the picture of the threshing floor.
15:02 And the promise to David
15:04 his seed...
15:05 that his seed would be on this throne forever.
15:08 Forever...and we know who was part of the seed of David.
15:11 The Tribe of Judah the seed of David.
15:13 Fulfilling that promise.
15:15 The threshing floor itself
15:17 there is an incredible parallel
15:18 with what's going on in the modern world.
15:20 Please... tell us about that.
15:22 A threshing floor...
15:23 Now a lot of us because we're not agrarian today
15:25 don't understand that.
15:27 So a threshing floor is where you bring the harvest in.
15:29 Now we're talking about wheat or barley;
15:32 the staple of life if you'd like.
15:36 And you would come at the end of the season
15:39 with your wheat and your barley
15:41 and you would bring the sheaves to the threshing floor.
15:45 Now, you'd lay the sheaves down on the threshing floor
15:49 after they had dried in the field.
15:50 And actually...
15:52 immediately after Pesach
15:53 we start counting the Omer.
15:55 And that's the sheaves for the wheat harvest.
15:58 So every day they went out and cut some of the wheat.
16:01 And then you have to do something kind of awful.
16:05 Excuse me for saying that.
16:06 You need a threshing sledge.
16:08 Yes.
16:10 Now a threshing sledge is sort of a big, chunky, teethy, heavy
16:14 not very beautiful item.
16:16 And it must be dragged across the sheaves
16:20 that are placed there on the threshing floor.
16:22 You know in the book of Isaiah,
16:24 Isaiah 41, he says...
16:32 That means they were new and fresh and ready to cut up.
16:36 And what you do is
16:37 you drag that threshing sledge across the threshing floor
16:41 and you keep dragging it, and keep dragging it.
16:44 And at the end it is absolutely chopped up into little bits.
16:48 It is a mess!
16:50 Now, talk about the end of the age.
16:52 You don't think it's going to be a little confusing who's who?
16:54 It's getting messy.
16:55 It's getting messy...
16:57 It's getting messy.
16:58 Now, in the book of Matthew
17:00 we hear John speaking to us, alright?
17:03 In Matthew 3 he says...
17:20 Now, there's the update.
17:22 That's what the LORD is about to do.
17:24 So after God uses, unfortunately Israel
17:27 to be the threshing sledge.
17:29 This was His choice.
17:30 And after, we know,
17:32 the nations will be brought to this place
17:34 for harvesting the seed which will go into the barn.
17:38 Judgment of sheep and goat nations.
17:40 Absolutely, we're talking about separation.
17:42 We're talking about that which has weight
17:45 and that which has no substance;
17:47 hay, wood and stubble.
17:48 You have to separate them.
17:51 Now, weight is of course the picture of Glory itself.
17:56 God has put His glory in us as seeds of righteousness for Him.
18:01 And so that weight which is the same word as glory
18:06 will of course bring the seed to the ground.
18:09 So, when the LORD of the harvest,
18:12 whom we know who he is,
18:13 will take His winnowing fork
18:16 and start throwing this mess up in the air;
18:18 that which has no weight
18:20 will blow into unquenchable fire.
18:22 Alright?
18:24 That is pretty good picture of some place I don't want to go.
18:26 Alright?
18:27 I don't know about you.
18:28 But that's not where I want to go.
18:29 But that which has weight will fall to the ground.
18:31 Kavod
18:32 Kavod...it will fall to the ground.
18:36 His "Glory" will bring us down, if you'd like.
18:39 And you know my favorite part of that scripture in Matthew is
18:43 "He will thoroughly cleanse His threshing floor.
18:47 He won't leave any of it behind.
18:49 He'll bring it all into the barn.
18:51 This is that picture of the end of the age.
18:53 But the big operation
18:56 of this separation
18:57 only will come with wind.
19:00 Wind
19:01 Wind is that which the harvester will throw it up
19:05 only when there's a good wind.
19:06 Now, we have a nice prevailing western wind in Jerusalem.
19:09 And of course, you don't have to be a rocket scientist to figure that out.
19:13 It usually starts around
19:14 2:00 in the afternoon.
19:16 And so we have this picture of
19:18 the harvester waiting for the wind.
19:21 Now, that word wind "ruach"
19:23 has two other meanings.
19:25 One is of course "the Spirit";
19:27 a "ruach" is Spirit.
19:29 The other one is "the Breath of God Himself"
19:32 WOW..
19:33 Now "Ruchi" God's breath is not my breath.
19:37 It's not even similar to what in Hebrew is my breath.
19:41 So God uses His Spirit as the breath to separate between that which will fall to the ground
19:47 and that which will be carried into that unquenchable fire.
19:51 That's the picture of the threshing floor.
19:54 That place of separation.
19:55 That final judgment.
19:57 Yes
19:58 And that barn coming down from that Holy Jerusalem.
20:02 WOW!...Awesome!
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20:46 there's nothing like it.
20:48 It's where you see the
20:49 prophetic scriptures come alive.
20:51 You're going to see the
20:53 fulfillment that he said
20:54 he would bring the Jewish
20:55 people back to the Land,
20:57 he would establish them
20:58 in their ancient homeland
20:59 and that he would
21:00 cause it to bloom.
21:01 And it's where
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21:04 died and will soon return.
21:06 So we invite you to come with us
21:08 and see for yourself
21:10 a little bit of where
21:12 you'll be spending
21:13 1,000 years with our LORD.
21:14 That's good.
21:16 A lot of what we do together as Jew and Gentile
21:18 is celebrate the goodness of God.
21:20 And what He's showed us in Ephesians 2:14
21:23 that there's a time coming,
21:25 He came to the cross,
21:26 when He will break down
21:27 the middle wall of partition
21:29 so that Jews and Gentiles could worship Him together.
21:31 And one of the great things
21:32 about this work that's going on right now is that
21:35 that awakening is increasing around the world.
21:38 As we go to "Our Man in Haifa"
21:40 Eitan Shishkoff
21:42 I want you to be listening
21:43 for the connection between
21:45 the Tanakh's story of the Jews and Gentiles together
21:48 and the B'rit Hadeshah;
21:50 the Old Testament, the New Testament.
21:51 The connection of this work that God is doing
21:54 in bringing Jews and Gentiles together
21:56 and what that means prophetically
21:58 for the future.
21:59 Let's go to Eitan in Israel.
22:03 Shalom and welcome.
22:05 I am being joined this afternoon by
22:06 Mosha and Roni
22:07 who it turns out
22:09 are neighbors of mine.
22:10 We live here in the same area.
22:12 And as you can see and hear behind me
22:14 we're at the shores of the Mediterranean Sea.
22:17 And the Mediterranean has great significance in the scriptures.
22:21 In the Hebrew scriptures we read in the book of II Chronicles
22:25 that it was along these waters that King Hiram from Tyre
22:31 which is just up into today's Lebanon
22:33 sent massive timbers, supplies and manpower
22:37 to Solomon to build the original Temple in Jerusalem.
22:41 To me that's a fantastic example
22:44 of the kind of cooperation between Jews and Gentiles
22:48 that's being called for today.
22:51 In fact, I love this story
22:53 in which appears in I Chronicles
22:56 and then II Kings.
22:58 Solomon looked to Hiram;
23:00 he actually asked him
23:02 to assist him in the process of building the Temple.
23:06 And this process was something that
23:08 involved the personnel as I mentioned
23:11 and the material from Lebanon
23:14 from up over the border.
23:16 In fact, we're not very far from that border right now.
23:18 And if it was a clear day
23:20 we would be able to see
23:22 the border with Israel and Lebanon.
23:24 So this cooperation was profound
23:27 because Solomon needed
23:29 the resources and the friendship of Hiram
23:33 in order to complete the Temple.
23:35 The Temple was built.
23:37 And when the Temple was completed
23:39 there was a dedication.
23:41 That dedication was something amazing.
23:43 Because we read in the scriptures
23:45 that the Glory in the presence of God
23:48 descended as a cloud upon that place.
23:52 Now, to me that's an image of
23:54 what the God of Israel wants to do again
23:56 through the cooperation of Jewish and Gentile followers
24:00 of the Messiah Yeshua.
24:02 And I appreciate these gentlemen joining me
24:05 in order to make this statement
24:07 that we are looking for
24:09 that kind of partnership once again today.
24:13 You know, for over 20 years
24:15 Myles and I have been contending
24:17 by the heart of God,
24:19 he put his heart in our heart,
24:20 to contend to build
24:21 bridges between Jews and Christians
24:23 and to understand Biblically
24:25 where we stand and what God is doing.
24:28 And we can align with His Word
24:30 and not with our opinions
24:32 because I think so much of our life
24:34 we have to really not filter it
24:36 through our humanistic love
24:38 or justice view.
24:41 But the God view of mankind
24:43 and what his plan is.
24:45 Really, it's a sovereignty issue.
24:47 And we need his discernment more than ever.
24:49 I love what Daniel says.
24:51 It says...
24:58 That's really true.
24:59 And to take action
25:00 we need wisdom to know
25:01 which actions to take.
25:02 I'm thinking about the many times
25:04 that we've stood with our Arab-Christian friends
25:06 bringing sound systems to our Churches
25:09 and helping to raise funds
25:10 for different outreaches to the Muslim community.
25:12 And yet, during this time now
25:15 we realize that as that is going on
25:17 there's this pressure on the Arab believers in the Land
25:21 to divorce themselves from the Messianic body.
25:24 And we are praying for
25:25 that unity that Eitan was referring to.
25:27 But it has to be in spirit and in truth.
25:29 Those that know the LORD
25:31 will worship Him in spirit and in truth.
25:33 And the pressure is there to draw back
25:35 and to become almost subservient
25:38 to a message that is against Israel.
25:40 And that's very dangerous.
25:41 Right, to try to...
25:43 we usually like to say,
25:45 walk through the raindrops.
25:47 You know, sometimes we're going to get wet
25:49 if we stand with what God says.
25:50 Sometimes there's going to be consequences
25:52 but we need to take those actions
25:54 because we want to be on the side of the LORD
25:56 and not on the side of just being kind
26:00 or appeasing for the sake...
26:03 I think we're not saying as clearly as we could Myles.
26:06 We could just come right out and say
26:08 there's some Christian organizations
26:10 that have withdrawn their support of Israel
26:13 because they are viewing it through
26:16 a humanistic love lens
26:18 and not the scriptural lens.
26:19 Exactly, and they're looking for a peace and justice
26:21 or a human solution that is not God's issue.
26:24 You said it exactly.
26:24 You said "sovereignty".
26:26 And this is an issue of God's sovereignty.
26:28 God called the Jewish people back to the Land.
26:30 He prophesied it then He did it.
26:31 He is establishing them in the Land.
26:33 He prophesied it and He is doing it.
26:35 And now,
26:36 there is the water of the Word
26:37 the water of the Spirit
26:38 that's coming on all flesh
26:40 including the Jewish people in the Land
26:42 so that we would cry out,
26:44 "Baruch Haba B'Shem Adonai"
26:45 "Blessed is He who comes in the Name of the LORD"
26:48 At the same time that is going on
26:50 some organizations are divorcing themselves
26:53 from that establishing of God in the Land.
26:56 And that is a very dangerous place to be.
26:58 We do not want to be opposing
27:00 what God is doing in the earth.
27:02 Amen
27:03 And that's why we always end our program
27:05 with this spiritual injunction
27:07 from Psalm 122:6.
27:09 The only place in the Word
27:11 that a town is called for us to pray for
27:13 which is Jerusalem.
27:15 And we say to you;
27:16 we ask you to hold this tightly to your heart.
27:19 Sha'alu Shalom Yerushalayim
27:21 Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.
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