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Episode: “The Coming Invasions” with Joel Rosenberg

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00:10 BRETHREN, MY HEART'S DESIRE AND PRAYER TO GOD FOR ISRAEL IS THAT THEY MIGHT BE SAVED.
00:16 FOR THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE JEW AND THE GENTILE,
00:19 FOR THE SAME LORD OVER ALL IS RICH UNTO ALL THAT CALL UPON HIM.
00:27 WITH SANDRA LEVITT AND DR. JEFFREY SEIF
00:33 A HEARTY SHALOM TO ALL OF YOU.
00:36 JEFFREY SEIF HERE WITH MY GOOD FRIEND SANDRA LEVITT.
00:40 SHALOM.
00:41 WELCOME TO ZOLA LEVITT PRESENTS.
00:42 JEFFREY SEIF, SANDRA LEVITT, GOOD TO SEE YOU.
00:44 HOW ARE YOU DOING?
00:45 GOOD. AND WE'VE GOT A GREAT PROGRAM.
00:48 THIS FRIENDS, WILL BE 30 MINUTES OF TV WORTH WATCHING.
00:54 SANDRA YOU INTERVIEWED JOEL ROSENBERG IN JERUSALEM.CORRECT?
00:59 JUST WAS ONE OF MY - I CAN'T EVEN TELL WHAT A HIGHLIGHT THAT IS FOR ME.
01:02 HE IS A TERRIFIC CHRISTIAN WRITER.
01:04 HE HAS WRITTEN "THE LAST JIHAD", "THE LAST DAYS", "EZEKIEL OPTION".
01:07 HE'S GOT A NEW BOOK CALLED "EPICENTER" AND JUST A TERRIFIC AUTHOR.
01:12 A GREAT CHRISTIAN AUTHOR AND JUST A REALLY NICE GUY TO INTERVIEW.
01:16 RIGHT. AND HE'S GOT A JEWISH PARENT TOO. >>ABSOLUTELY.
01:18 HE'S OF THE MESSIANIC JEWISH VARITY AS WELL.
01:21 REALLY HAS A WORD FOR THE MIDDLE EAST ISRAEL BIBLE PROPHECY.
01:27 I TOLD HIM WHEN I WAS INTERVIEWING HIM, I SAID,
01:29 "I READ ONE OF YOUR BOOKS".IN FACT IT WAS "THE LAST DAYS".
01:31 AND I READ IT AND I WAS SO SCARED WHEN I READ IT I COULD HARDLY -
01:34 I'D HAVE TO LOOK UNDER THE BED BEFORE I GOT IN BED BECAUSE IT WAS SO GRIPPING AND SO -
01:39 IT HAD EVERYTHING I LIKE IN A NOVEL.
01:41 IT WAS ABOUT ISRAEL, END TIMES, HAD A LITTLE ROMANCE IN IT, A LITTLE MYSTERY IN IT.
01:44 IT WAS TERRIFIC AND HE IS TERRIFIC AND I THINK YOU'LL REALLY ENJOY THE INTERVIEW.
01:50 YEAH.HE'S GRIPPING.
01:51 IN FACT, SOME OF HIS BOOKS,
01:52 "EPICENTER", A MUST READ.
01:54 "THE EZEKIEL OPTION",
01:56 HONESTLY SANDRA, I COULD NOT PUT IT DOWN.
01:59 PEOPLE SOMETIMES ACCUSE US OF PEDDLING OUR OWN MERCHANDISE ON TV.
02:02 NO, WE'RE PEDDLING SOMEBODY ELSE'S.
02:04 GET IT. BUT LISTEN UP,
02:06 YOU'RE GONNA LOVE JOEL ROSENBERG.
02:10 I KNOW THAT WHEN ONE OF YOUR BOOKS CAME OUT,
02:12 I THINK "THE LAST JIHAD" CAME OUT,
02:14 THAT YOU WERE ON ALL THE TALK SHOWS
02:16 BECAUSE IT WAS IMMEDIATELY AFTER 911
02:19 AND THEY WANTED TO KNOW HOW YOU KNEW
02:21 THAT THERE WAS A PLANE GONNA CRASH
02:23 INTO THE WORLD TRADE CENTER OR A BUILDING.
02:25 WELL, IT WAS STRANGE
02:26 BECAUSE YOU'RE RIGHT.
02:27 THE FIRST PAGE OF "THE LAST JIHAD"
02:29 WHICH IS A NOVEL, >>IT IS A NOVEL.
02:31 PUTS YOU INSIDE THE COCKPIT OF A HIGH-JACKED JET. >>RIGHT.RIGHT.
02:34 HI-JACKED BY RADICAL ISLAMIC TERRORISTS
02:35 COMING IN ON A KAMIKAZE ATTACK
02:37 MISSION INTO AN AMERICAN CITY.
02:39 I WROTE THIS 9 MONTHS BEFORE SEPTEMBER 11TH.
02:42 AS THE PLOT UNFOLDED MY FICTIONAL AMERICAN PRESIDENT GETS INTO A WAR
02:47 WITH SADDAM HUSSEIN OVER TERRORISM AND WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION.
02:51 I WAS LITERALLY FINISHING "THE LAST JIHAD" ON THE MORNING OF SEPTEMBER 11TH IN OUR HOME,
02:56 15 MINUTES AWAY FROM THE AIRPORT IN WASHINGTON D.C.
03:00 WHERE AT THAT MOMENT FLIGHT 77 WAS BEING HI-JACKED,
03:03 TURNED AROUND, FLOWN OVER OUR HOUSE AND INTO THE PENTAGON.
03:06 WHEN "THE LAST JIHAD" WAS PUBLISHED IN THE FALL 02',
03:10 YEAH, PEOPLE WERE JUST INTRIGUED, "HOW COULD YOU HAVE -
03:12 THE DETAILS IN MY BOOK ARE DIFFERENT
03:15 BUT THE CONCEPT AND THE TRAJECTORY OF EVENTS ARE QUITE REALISTIC
03:19 AND SEEM TO FORESHADOW WHAT WAS COMING. AND SO PEOPLE WOULD SAY,
03:24 "HOW COULD YOU HAVE KNOWN?"
03:26 "WHAT DO YOU THINK IS GOING TO HAPPEN NEXT?"
03:27 "AND BY THE WAY, ISN'T YOUR NAME ROSENBERG?" AND I'D SAY, "YES".
03:30 THEY'D SAY, "ISN'T THAT JEWISH?" AND I'D SAY, "YES".
03:33 AND THEY SAID, "BUT YOU GOT ALL THESE CHARACTERS AT THE END OF YOUR BOOK,
03:37 THEY'RE ALL TALKING ABOUT JESUS AREN'T THEY?" I SAID, "YES".
03:39 "WELL WHAT IS THAT?" "ARE YOU A BORN AGAIN?" "ARE YOU AN EVANGELICAL".
03:42 I SAID, "YES, ACTUALLY THAT'S TRUE."
03:44 THEY SAID, "HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE?"
03:45 "HOW CAN YOU BE JEWISH AND BELIEVE IN JESUS?"
03:47 SO I'D SAY TO THESE RADIO SHOW HOSTS,
03:49 "LOOK, YOU KNOW, IT IS AN INTERESTING STORY
03:51 BUT I'M SURE YOU DON'T HAVE TIME ON YOUR PROGRAM FOR ME TO TELL YOU."
03:54 THEY SAID, "NO, NO."A GUY WRITES A NOVEL THAT BASICALLY COMES TRUE, THAT'S INTERESTING.
03:57 A JEW WHO BELIEVES IN JESUS, NEVER HEARD OF IT, TELL ME YOUR STORY.
04:00 AND I WAS ON ABOUT 160 RADIO AND TV SHOWS IN LESS THAN 60 DAYS.
04:05 ALMOST ALL ASKED THAT QUESTION,
04:07 AND I HAD THE PRIVILEGE OF TALKING ABOUT MY FAITH WITH ABOUT 20 MILLION PEOPLE
04:11 IN THAT SEASON BETWEEN THANKSGIVING AND CHRISTMAS 2002.
04:17 AND FOR US IT'S NOTHING UNUSUAL
04:19 BUT I GUESS PEOPLE JUST DON'T BELIEVE THAT JEWS
04:22 REALLY CAN COME TO BELIEVE THAT YESHUA IS THE MESSIAH.
04:25 I KNOW.I KNOW. AS I SAID,
04:26 MY FATHER THOUGHT HE WAS THE FIRST -
04:28 THE AMAZING THING REALLY IS HOW MANY JEWISH PEOPLE
04:32 NOW BELIEVE IN YESHUA. >>THAT'S RIGHT.
04:35 HERE IN ISRAEL I THINK IT WAS LESS THAN A DOZEN
04:37 IN 1967 WHEN I WAS BORN.
04:38 NOW THE NUMBERS ARE OVER 10,000. >>OVER 10,O00. AMAZING.
04:40 WORLDWIDE AS I UNDERSTAND IT,
04:42 THERE WERE LESS THAN 2,000 BELIEVERS WORLDWIDE IN 1967.
04:47 TODAY FROM THE NUMBERS OF THE PEOPLE I TALK TO
04:49 ABOUT 100,000 LINK TO MESSIANIC JEWISH CONGREGATIONS
04:53 MAYBE UP TO 300,000 THAT ARE GOING TO BIBLE CHURCHES
04:57 AND OTHER NON DENOMINATIONAL CHURCHES.
04:58 THAT'S REALLY EXTRAORDINARY.
04:59 NOW IT'S NOT BY ANY MEANS ENOUGH IN MY VIEW
05:02 BUT THE TRAJECTORY IS DRAMATIC.
05:04 IT IS WONDERFUL TRAJECTORY.
05:05 ZOLA AND I WOULD GO TO CHURCHES,
05:07 WITHOUT FAIL SOMEONE WOULD COME UP TO US
05:10 AFTER HE GOT THROUGH SPEAKING AND SAY,
05:12 "I JUST FOUND OUT," >>YES.
05:14 "I JUST FOUND OUT MY MOTHER WAS JEWISH,"
05:16 "MY GRANDMOTHER WAS JEWISH, WHAT CAN I DO?"
05:18 I THINK NUMBERS ARE
05:20 WIDER THAN THAT
05:21 OR LARGER THAN THAT
05:22 BECAUSE OF SO MANY PEOPLE
05:23 EITHER DON'T KNOW
05:24 THAT THEY'RE JEWISH
05:25 OR EVEN THOUGH THEY KNOW THAT THEY HAVE
05:26 A JEWISH GRANDFATHER, GRANDMOTHER,
05:28 THEY DON'T IDENTIFY THEMSELVES AS JEWISH
05:29 THEREFORE NOBODY IS PICKING THAT UP.
05:31 I THINK GOD IS DOING SOMETHING REALLY EXTRAORDINARY AT THIS MOMENT.
05:34 AND BY THE WAY,
05:35 AS I WRITE IN THE NEW BOOK, "EPICENTER"
05:37 IT'S NOT JUST JEWS
05:38 THAT ARE COMING TO KNOW THE LORD,
05:39 MUSLIMS ARE COMING TO KNOW THE LORD IN JUST RECORD NUMBERS.
05:42 IT'S AN UNTOLD STORY IN ITSELF.
05:44 I THINK I READ SOME NUMBERS THAT YOU HAD PUBLISHED
05:47 THAT 3,000 A DAY OR JUST AN INCREDIBLE NUMBER -
05:51 I QUOTE A LEADING SAUDI CLERIC WHO IS ON AL JAZEERA SATELLITE TELEVISION
05:55 WARNING PEOPLE IN THE MUSLIM WORLD THAT 667 MUSLIMS A DAY, HE SAID,
06:01 ARE COMING TO KNOW JESUS AS THE SAVIOR AND THAT 6 MILLION A YEAR, HE SAID,
06:07 ARE COMING TO CONVERT TO CHRISTIANITY.
06:10 NOW, I CAN'T CONFIRM THOSE NUMBERS. >>RIGHT. RIGHT.
06:12 BUT THE FACT THAT A LEADING SAUDI CLERIC
06:13 IS TELLING PEOPLE THIS IS SO BAD,
06:15 IT'S CLEARLY RESONATING IN THE MUSLIM CULTURE THAT SOMETHING IS GOING ON.
06:20 RIGHT, AND WHAT IS GOING ON
06:22 AND CAN THEY STOP IT? >>GOD IS MOVING. GOD IS MOVING.
06:25 AND IF THEY'RE SAYING THAT MANY
06:27 IT HAS TO BE WORSE THAN WHAT THEY'RE SAYING.
06:29 ABSOLUTELY. IN IRAN, FOR EXAMPLE,
06:31 I SITE THE LEADERS OF THE HOUSE CHURCH MOVEMENT THERE TODAY WHO SAY
06:35 THAT IN 1979 THERE WERE ONLY 500 KNOWN MUSLIM CONVERTS TO CHRISTIANITY.
06:42 TODAY THESE GUYS SAY THERE ARE OVER A MILLION.
06:44 AND THERE'S -ONE GUY TOLD ME HE THINKS THAT THERE'S OVER 4 MILLION
06:49 I ONLY PRINTED THE MILLION NUMBER BECAUSE I JUST THOUGHT,
06:52 OBVIOUSLY NONE OF THIS CAN BE VERIFIED YET.
06:54 BUT JUST LIKE WHAT'S GOING ON IN CHINA,
06:56 WE HEARD FOR MANY YEARS THAT HUGE THINGS WERE HAPPENING.
06:59 NOW WE'RE BEGINNING TO GET A SENSE OF THE NUMBERS.
07:03 I KNOW THE MUSLIMS -
07:04 IN SAUDI ARABIA IT'S ILLEGAL EVEN TO HAVE A BIBLE.
07:07 CAN YOU IMAGINE THE PERSECUTION,
07:09 THE TENACITY THEY HAVE IF THEY REALLY BELIEVE THAT THIS IS THE MESSIAH?
07:14 WELL THIS IS JUST EVIDENCE THAT GOD IS MOVING.
07:16 THAT HIS HOLY SPIRIT IS MOVING IN A WAY I DON'T THINK WE'VE EVER SEEN IT.
07:20 IT'S CERTAINLY FIRST CENTURY LIKE
07:21 BUT IT'S WAY, WAY BEYOND THAT.
07:24 IN SUDAN, FOR EXAMPLE,
07:26 THERE'S OVER A MILLION SUDANESE WHO'VE COME TO CHRIST
07:28 JUST SINCE THE YEAR 2000 THESE SUDANESE EVANGELICAL LEADERS TOLD ME.
07:32 AND IT'S NOT THAT THERE'S A GUN TO THE PEOPLE'S HEAD SAYING,
07:35 "BELIEVE IN JESUS OR WE'LL KILL YOU.",
07:37 IT'S JUST THE OPPOSITE.
07:38 THERE'S A RADICAL ISLAMIC JIHADIST GOVERNMENT THERE.
07:41 THEY'RE COMMITTING GENOCIDE.
07:44 AND THEY'RE PUTTING GUNS TO PEOPLE'S HEAD SAYING,
07:46 "IF YOU CONVERT TO CHRISTIANITY WE WILL KILL"
07:47 AND PEOPLE ARE CONVERTING ANYWAY. WHY?
07:49 AS ONE LEADER PUT IT TO ME,
07:50 "PEOPLE HAVE SEEN WHAT REAL RADICAL ISLAM LOOKS LIKE",
07:53 "AND THEY WANT JESUS INSTEAD."
07:55 AND THAT'S THE POINT.
07:57 WE DON'T REALLY KNOW WHAT RADICAL MUSLIM, ISLAM LOOKS LIKE IN THE UNITED STATES.
08:01 IT'S COMING. WE HAVE OUR FIRST ELECTED SENATOR.
08:04 WE HAVE MUSLIMS
08:06 WANTING MOSQUES TO BE PROMOTED EVERYWHERE.
08:09 THEIR MUEZZINS ARE EVERYWHERE.
08:12 WE DON'T REALLY HAVE A CLUE.
08:13 WE JUST DON'T HAVE A CLUE.
08:15 WELL, THIS IS WHY I ORIGINALLY WROTE THE FIRST BOOK,
08:18 "THE LAST JIHAD"
08:19 BECAUSE MOST AMERICANS WEREN'T EVEN FAMILIAR WITH THE TERM "JIHAD".
08:22 MY PUBLISHER AT THE TIME SAID, "JIHAD" -
08:24 "I'M NOT SURE THAT PEOPLE WILL KNOW HOW TO SPELL IT, >>WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?
08:26 "THEY DON'T KNOW WHAT IT MEANS."
08:27 BELIEVE ME, TIME WILL TELL
08:28 AND PEOPLE WILL KNOW. >>RIGHT.
08:30 AND THAT'S WHERE WE ARE.
08:32 AGAIN, FICTION HAS A FUNNY WAY OF BEING ABLE TO CAPTURE PEOPLE'S IMAGINATION
08:36 FOR THINGS THAT MIGHT BE COMING DOWN THE ROAD
08:38 THAT THEY MIGHT NOT BE THINKING ABOUT.
08:40 IN 2001 WHEN I WAS WRITING THIS
08:42 WE WERE TAKING ABOUT THE ELECTION, THE PALM BEACH TROUBLES,
08:45 HANGING CHADS, THE SUPREME COURT, HEALTH CARE, TAX CUTS.
08:49 BUT SOMETHING WAS COMING.
08:51 I HONESTLY DIDN'T THINK IT WAS COMING AS FAST AS IT DID.
08:54 I WILL CONCEDE THAT.
08:55 YOU KNOW U.S. NEWS AND WORLD REPORT DESCRIBED ME AS A MODERN NOSTRADAMUS.
08:59 I'M NOT. I'M NOT A PSYCHIC. I'M NOT A CLAIRVOYANT.
09:01 I DON'T CALL MISS CLEO IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT TO GET MY PLOT IDEAS.
09:05 I ADMIT IT HAS BEEN UNCANNY THE WAY A LOT OF THESE NOVELS
09:08 KEEP FORESHADOWING THE FUTURE.
09:09 IT IS, BUT IT ISN'T.
09:11 IF YOU WATCH ISRAEL YOU KIND OF KNOW WHICH WAY THE WORLD'S GOING TO GO.
09:15 ISRAEL IS GOD'S TIMEPIECE.
09:16 I THINK THAT'S TRUE.
09:17 ALWAYS HAS BEEN. ALWAYS WILL BE.
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10:05 "FOR THE LORD THY GOD BRINGETH THEE INTO A GOOD LAND",
10:10 "A LAND OF FIG TREES AND POMEGRANATES",
10:13 "A LAND OF OLIVE OIL AND HONEY."
10:16 "ARISE, WALK THROUGH THE LAND."
10:21 "FOR ALL THE LAND WHICH THOU SEEST, TO THEE WILL I GIVE IT AND TO THY SEED FOREVER."
10:29 WORSHIP IN THE SHADOWS OF ABRAHAM, ISAAC AND JACOB.
10:37 BEHOLD THE LAND OF THE COVENANT.
10:46 TAKING HER LEAD FROM ZOLA,
10:47 SANDRA LOVES TO COME OUT OF THESE SPOTS SAYING,
10:50 "IN ISRAEL THAT'S THE WAY WE SEE IT."
10:53 THAT IS THE WAY WE SEE IT. AND YOU KNOW WE'D LOVE FOR YOU TO SEE IT TOO.
10:58 I WAS REMINDED IN OUR LAST TRIP TO ISRAEL HOW ONE TRIP IN ISRAEL
11:03 IS THE EQUIVALENT OF ONE YEAR IN BIBLE COLLEGE.
11:07 IT JUST BRINGS IT ALIVE.
11:09 AND THERE WERE A NUMBER OF PASTORS THAT WENT WITH US.WHY?
11:12 BECAUSE MEMBERS OF THEIR CHURCHES SPORTED THE BILL AS A GIFT TO THE PASTOR.
11:17 IT'S ACHURCH'S WAY OF SAYING, "WE LOVE YOU AND WE WANT YOU TO BE BLESSED."
11:22 AND BLESSED THEY WERE. WEREN'T THEY SANDRA?
11:25 IT IS WONDERFUL TO SEE THE PASTORS COME ALIVE AGAIN.
11:28 SOME OF THEM ARE OLD PASTORS,
11:30 SOME OF THEM WERE NEW PASTORS.
11:32 BUT THE OLD ONES, THEY SEEMED TO GET A NEW SPARK.
11:35 AND IT WAS JUST GREAT TO SEE.
11:37 AND IF THEY'RE SPARKED UP,
11:39 THAT'S GOING TO HAVE GOOD CONSEQUENCES FOR THE CHURCH AT HOME. >>RIGHT.
11:42 BUT THE YOUNG ONES TOO, THEY WERE SO EXCITED,
11:44 LIKE "OH, I KNEW EVERYTHING IN BIBLE COLLEGE AND NOW I'M REALLY SEEING IT".
11:48 AND THEY GOT THE DATES, THEY GOT THE STRUCTURES.
11:50 TERRIFIC!
11:52 IT SOUNDS SELF SERVING AT ONE LEVEL BECAUSE WE WANT FOLK TO GO TO ISRAEL WITH US.
11:55 BUT GO WITH ANYBODY.GO!
11:58 IT'S LIKE LOOKING AT THE BIBLE IN BLACK AND WHITE
12:00 BUT WHEN YOU HAVE ISRAEL IN VIEW, VOILA', TECHNICOLOR AND STEREO.
12:05 IT BRINGS DEPTH.DOESN'T IT?
12:07 I CAN'T EVEN TELL YOU HOW MUCH DEPTH IT BRINGS TO MY LIFE.
12:10 IN TALKING ABOUT DEPTH, WE WERE TALKING TO JOEL ROSENBERG.
12:13 WHAT A REALLY NICE, NICE MAN.
12:16 TOOK THE TIME TO TALK TO US.
12:18 WE TALKED ABOUT MUSLIMS COMING TO FAITH.
12:21 WE TALKED ABOUT ISRAEL BEING A TIMEPIECE FOR WARS, RUMORS OF WARS.
12:25 PEOPLE THOUGHT THAT HE WAS ON TOP OF EVERYTHING.
12:29 THAT HE HAD SOME KIND OF SECRET INFORMATION ABOUT ISRAEL
12:33 AND ABOUT THE WARS AND PLANES CRASHING.
12:36 HE DOES, IN A WAY.
12:37 ISRAEL IS GOD'S TIMEPIECE.
12:40 AND HE WATCHES ISRAEL AS ALL WE SHOULD.
12:43 BACK AFTER THIS.
12:46 SO NOW YOU'VE WRITTEN "EPICENTER".
12:47 "EPICENTER" IS A NON FICTION. >>RIGHT.
12:49 WHAT WAS YOUR REASONING FOR THAT?
12:51 WELL, WITH THE FOUR NOVELS NOW,
12:52 "THE LAST JIHAD","THE LAST DAYS"
12:54 "EZEKIEL OPTION","COPPER SCROLL"
12:56 THERE'S OVER 1.2 MILLION COPIES
12:58 OF THE BOOKS IN PRINT AND EACH
12:59 OF THEM HAD THIS KIND OF WAY OF
13:01 SEEMING TO FORESHADOW EVENTS.
13:04 SO TYNDALE CAME TO ME AND SAID,
13:05 "WOULD YOU WRITE"
13:07 "A NON FICTION BOOK?"
13:08 "AND FIRST OF ALL EXPLAIN,"
13:10 "HOW DID YOU GO FROM DOING POLITICAL STUFF TO WRITING THESE NOVELS?"
13:13 "YOU'RE TELLING PEOPLE JOEL, THAT YOU'RE BASING THESE THINGS ON BIBLE PROPHESIES."
13:16 "OBVIOUSLY SADDAM ISN'T PROPHECY."
13:18 "KAMIKAZES AREN'T IN PROPHECY."
13:20 "SO EXPLAIN WHAT YOU MEAN."
13:22 AND I'M TAKING PROPHESIES AND THEN BREAKING THEM UP AND SAYING,
13:24 "WHAT ARE THE EVENTS THAT WOULD HAVE TO GET US TO THOSE MAJOR EVENTS?"
13:27 LIKE EZEKIEL 38 AND 39, >>RIGHT. RIGHT.
13:30 RUSSIA AND IRAN FORMING A MILITARY ALLIANCE TO DESTROY ISRAEL.
13:33 AND SO THE FIRST TWO BOOKS LEAD UP TO THAT MOMENT.
13:35 "EZEKIEL OPTION" LOOKS AT THAT MOMENT.
13:38 SO THE FIRST TWO CHAPTERS OF "EPICENTER" EXPLAIN MY REASONING AND MY TRAJECTORY.
13:44 AND THEN I LAY OUT 10 HEADLINES, FUTURE HEADLINES THAT I BELIEVE WE'RE GOING TO SEE.WHY?
13:50 THEY'RE EACH BASED ON CERTAIN BIBLE PROPHECIES.I DESCRIBE THE PROPHECY AND THEN I SAY,
13:54 "LOOK, I CAN'T TELL YOU THAT THIS HEADLINE IS GOING TO HAPPEN IN OUR LIFETIME,"
13:58 "OR IT WOULD HAPPEN TOMORROW. I DON'T KNOW.BUT HERE'S WHAT THE SCRIPTURES SAY."
14:01 "NOW LETS LOOK AT WHAT'S GOING ON IN THE WORLD TO SAY,"
14:04 "ARE THERE ANY EVIDENCES THAT WE MAY BE MOVING IN THAT DIRECTION OR GETTING EVEN CLOSER?"
14:08 SO I INTERVIEWED RUSSIAN OFFICIALS, ISRAELI OFFICIALS, ARAB LEADERS, AMERICAN LEADERS.
14:14 WE GOT ACCESS TO PREVIOUSLY CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS FROM THE CIA, THE WHITE HOUSE, STATE DEPARTMENT.
14:19 JOEL IT IS AMAZING THAT PEOPLE ARE COMING TO KNOW THE LORD.
14:22 IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT THEIR FAITHS ARE.
14:24 I REALLY THINK THEY UNDERSTAND THAT THE END TIMES ARE CLOSE ALSO.
14:27 I THINK SO TOO.
14:29 I LIKE THE MUSLIMS COMING,
14:30 THE CHRISTIANS COMING,
14:31 THE JEWS COMING.
14:33 THEY'RE UNDERSTANDING, I THINK IT'S THEY CAN SEE,
14:34 ESPECIALLY IN IRAQ,
14:35 OUR SOLDIERS,
14:36 HOW NICE THEY ARE,
14:37 AND HOW KIND THEY ARE.
14:39 I LOVE HEARING
14:40 THAT IRAQ ISN'T AS BAD
14:41 AS WHAT WE THINK.
14:43 ALL WE GET BACK IN THE MEDIA IS HOW AWFUL IRAQ IS,
14:45 HOW WE NEED TO GET OUT OF THERE,
14:46 DEMOCRACY WILL NEVER WORK.
14:47 DEMOCRACY IS THE BEST THING WE'VE GOT.
14:50 THERE ARE MULTIPLE STORIES AND ONLY ONE OF THEM IS BEING TOLD.
14:53 AND IT'S THE BAD NEWS. >>RIGHT. RIGHT.
14:55 AND THERE'S A LOT OF TREMENDOUS GOOD NEWS GOING ON.
14:57 BUT I THINK IT'S FASCINATING THAT YOU TALK ABOUT THE END TIMES.
15:00 THERE IS A SENSE GOING ON AROUND THE WORLD I THINK.
15:03 THAT SOMETHING IS NOT THE SAME AS IT WAS.
15:05 YOU GOT THAT IRANIAN PRESIDENT, MAHMOUD AHMADNINEJAD,
15:09 WHICH IS CHALLENGING TO SAY.
15:10 I TELL PEOPLE, "JUST SAY, AHMAD GENOCIDE"
15:12 "AND YOU'LL GET THE SENSE OF WHERE THIS GUY'S GOING."
15:14 "A MAD DOG IN JIHAD" IS WHAT WE SAY. >>THERE YOU GO.
15:16 HE'S SAYING THAT HIS SHIITE ESCHATOLOGY, HIS END TIMES THEOLOGY IS SAYING
15:21 THAT THE END OF THE WORLD IS RAPIDLY APPROACHING,
15:23 THAT THE WAY TO HASTEN THE COMING OF THE ISLAMIC MESSIAH,
15:26 KNOWN AS THE 12TH IMAM OR THE MAHDI, IS TO ANNIHILATE ISRAEL,
15:30 WHOM HE CALLS "THE LITTLE SATAN" AND THE UNITED STATES WHOM HE CALLS "THE GREAT SATAN".
15:35 END TIMES THEOLOGY IS CENTRAL TO THE IRANIAN GOVERNMENT
15:39 AND IRAN IS "THE CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER"
15:41 TO THE UNITED STATES, ISRAEL AND OUR ALLIES IN THIS REGION.
15:45 SO SUDDENLY END TIMES THEOLOGY IS IN PLAY.
15:48 IT'S FASCINATING, I HAD BEEN ON 220 RADIO AND TELEVISION SHOWS
15:52 JUST IN THE LAST COUPLE OF MONTHSAND I WAS ON CNN AT ONE POINT
15:55 DURING THE MIDST OF THE LEBANON WAR AND THE ANCHOR SAID,
15:59 "ALRIGHT NOW JOEL, DO YOU BELIEVE WE'RE LIVING IN THE LAST DAYS?"
16:03 "YOU'VE WRITTEN A BOOK CALLED "THE LAST DAYS".BASED ON EVERYTHING THAT YOU'RE SEEING",
16:07 "WHAT ARE THE SIGNS WE SHOULD BE WATCHING FOR AND ARE WE IN THE END TIMES?"
16:12 I'M THINKING, THIS IS NOT THE ZOLA LEVITT SHOW,
16:14 THESE ARE UNBELIEVERS! >>THIS IS NOT PAT ROBERTSON.
16:17 THIS IS CNN. >>RIGHT. RIGHT.
16:19 AND IT WAS REALLY FASCINATING.
16:20 AND THIS HAS HAPPENED TIME AND TIME AGAIN.
16:22 I WAS ON A PROGRAM WITH SEAN HANNITY'S CO-HOST, ALAN COLMES.
16:28 NOW, ALAN IS JEWISH, NOT A BELIEVER. >>NO, A LIBERAL.
16:31 HE'S VERY LIBERAL.
16:32 I LIKE ALAN.I DON'T AGREE WITHH IM BUT I REALLY LIKE HIM.
16:34 SO ANYWAY, HE ASKED ME ON HIS RADIO SHOW, AND HE SAID -
16:37 AND I KNOW THAT HE'S DOING THIS JUST BECAUSE THERE WAS A WASHINGTON POST STORY
16:40 SAYING I HAD BEEN INVITED TO THE WHITE HOUSE TO TALK ABOUT, ARE WE LIVING IN THE LAST DAYS?, AT A BIBLE STUDY.
16:45 AND THIS HAS GOTTEN OUT AND SO I KNEW HE WAS JUST GOING TO KIND OF POKE FUN AT THIS.
16:49 SO HE SAID, "SO NOW JOEL, HOW SOON UNTIL JESUS COMES BACK?"
16:53 OH, YEAH, THEY DO THAT ALL THE TIME.
16:54 AND I SAID, "ALAN I CAN'T TELL YOU."
16:56 I WALKED HIM THROUGH THE MATTHEW 24 STUFF.
16:57 HE SAID, "YOU'RE THE MODERN NOSTRADAMUS. YOU KNOW, RIGHT?"
17:00 "SO, IS IT CLOSE? LIKE SHOULD I BUY GREEN BANANAS?"
17:04 "SHOULD I EVEN BOTHER TO PICK UP MY CLEANING FROM THE DRY CLEANERS?"
17:08 "WHAT SHOULD I DO, JOEL?"
17:10 I SAID, "ALAN, YOU REALLY WANT TO KNOW WHAT TO DO?"
17:11 HE GOES, "YEAH, I WANT TO KNOW WHAT TO DO."
17:13 I SAID, "WHY DON'T YOU ACCEPT JESUS AS THE MESSIAH. TIME IS GETTING CLOSE."
17:15 GOOD FOR YOU!
17:17 AND HE PULLED BACK AND HE SAID, "YOU'VE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME."
17:18 "YOU'RE TRYING TO LEAD ME TO JESUS ON MY OWN RADIO SHOW?"
17:21 I SAID, "I'M JUST SAYING, YOU WERE PRESSING ME..."
17:22 "...WHAT SHOULD I DO IN LIGHT OF ALL THESE THINGS GOING ON IN THE WORLD?"
17:25 "AND I'M JUST SAYING, JESUS LOVES YOU ALAN AND IT'S TIME TO GET ON BOARD."
17:30 YEAH, GOD DOESN'T WANT ANYONE TO PERISH. >>ABSOLUTELY.
17:33 AND THESE ARE THE WORDS THAT ARE COMING TRUE.
17:34 AND IF I CAN'T GET YOUR ATTENTION ONE WAY,
17:36 I'M GOING TO GET IT ANOTHER WAY.
17:38 AND GIVEN WHAT'S GOING ON IN THE MIDDLE EAST,
17:40 THERE'S JUST ENORMOUS ANXIETY COMBINED WITH ENORMOUS INTEREST AT THE POLITICAL LEVEL,
17:43 MILITARY LEADERS, INTELLIGENCE LEADERS.
17:46 I GOT INVITED TO THE CIA.
17:47 THE WIFE OF A TOP OFFICIAL OF THE CIA HAD BEEN READING THE BOOKS.
17:51 AND AT NIGHT, SHE'D BE LIKE, "HONEY, HONEY.THIS GUY, HE KEEPS TELLING THE FUTURE!"
17:55 "YOU GOT TO GO MEET WITH HIM!" >>I KNOW! I KNOW!
17:57 THERE'S JUST A LOT OF IT. I'M JUST SEEING A SLIVER OF IT.
18:00 YOU GUYS OBVIOUSLY SEE SO MUCH OF IT.
18:03 IT'S HAPPENING ALL OVER.
18:04 AND I THINK THE KEY IS THAT WE NOT BE ASHAMED OF WHAT WE BELIEVE.
18:06 THAT WE'RE OUT THERE AND IN AS COMPELLING AND A WINSOME AND GENTLE MANNER AS POSSIBLE SAY,
18:12 "HERE'S WHAT WE BELIEVE AND THIS IS WHAT'S GOING IN THE WORLD."
18:15 AND THERE IS A WAY TO SEE A DEGREE OF THE FUTURE.
18:19 IF YOU ONLY LOOK AT THE WORLD THROUGH POLITICAL AND/OR ECONOMIC LENSES,
18:24 I DON'T THINK YOU CAN SEE IN THREE DIMENSIONS.
18:26 YOU ALSO HAVE TO USE THE 3RD LENS OF SCRIPTURE TO UNDERSTAND A LITTLE BIT MORE CLEARLY.
18:31 NOT WITH TOTAL PRECISION.
18:33 THE BIBLE DOESN'T TELL YOU WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN IN THAILAND
18:35 OR WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN IN CAMBODIA OR WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN WITH THE DOLLAR.
18:38 BUT THERE ARE COUNTRIES, EPICENTER COUNTRIES, MIDDLE EAST COUNTRIES,
18:42 WHERE HE GIVE US QUITE A BIT OF THE SENSE OF WHERE THE BASIC TRAJECTORY OF EVENTS WILL GO.
18:48 AND AS WE LOOK AT THAT, WE REALIZE THAT THIS IS ALL IN KEEPING
18:51 WITH WHAT GOD LAID OUT THOUSANDS OF YEARS AGO.
18:54 BUT IT'S OUR HOPE.
18:56 IT IS OUR HOPE.
18:57 AND WITHOUT THAT WE HAVE NO HOPE.
18:58 AND I THINK 911 REALLY DID CHANGE
19:00 A WHOLE LOT OF THE WAY PEOPLE LOOKED AT THE WORLD.
19:04 I THINK IT REALLY WAS A WAKE UP CALL.
19:05 AND THEN I THINK OTHER CURRENT EVENTS HAVE PULLED US, EVERYONE IN.
19:10 AND I THINK EVERYONE IS REALLY CONCERNED.
19:12 WE DON'T KNOW EXACTLY IF THIS
19:15 IRANIAN THREAT TOWARDS ISRAEL
19:16 IS PROPHETIC. TIME WILL TELL.
19:18 BUT ONE WAY OR THE OTHER
19:19 SOMETHING HORRIBLE IS COMING.
19:21 ISRAEL IS VERY LIKELY TO BE IN AN APOCALYPTIC WAR POSSIBLE IN THE NEXT YEAR.
19:26 CERTAINLY IN THE NEXT COUPLE OF YEARS.
19:28 AND THE UNITED STATES MAY BE DIRECTLY INVOLVED IN THAT WAR AS WELL.
19:31 AND THE QUESTION BECOMES,
19:33 "ARE WE PREPARED TO STAND WITH ISRAEL, TO BLESS ISRAEL, TO SUPPORT HER?"
19:38 AND NOT JUST IN THE MATERIAL SENSE OF BEING HERE AND BRING TOURISTS
19:43 AND HUMANITARIAN RELIEF WHICH WE ALL NEED TO DO.
19:46 BUT ALSO TO SAY, "YOU KNOW WHAT? THERE IS HOPE."
19:48 "WE BELIEVE THE MESSIAH HAS COME AND HE GIVES US HOPE."
19:51 "AND TO THE EXTENT THAT YOU'RE OPEN TO LISTENING TO IT",
19:53 "WE'D LOVED TO SHARE HOW GOD HAS GIVEN US COURAGE IN THESE LAST DAYS."
19:58 THE ONLY WAY TO BE A FRIEND TO A JEWISH PERSON AS WELL AS TO A MUSLIM PERSON,
20:02 AS WELL AS TO A PERSON, IS TO LET THEM KNOW THAT THERE IS HOPE, THERE IS TRUTH,
20:07 THERE IS SALVATION IN YESHUA.
20:09 AND I THINK, "LOOK, THIS IS, YOU KNOW, NO TIME LIKE THE PRESENT, RIGHT?
20:13 THERE IS NO TIME LIKE THE PRESENT.
20:15 I MEAN WE'VE GOT TO BE - SO THIS IS - MY WIFE AND I, WE JUST FEEL COMPELLED.
20:18 WE'RE WRITING THESE NOVELS,
20:20 WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THESE ISSUES,
20:21 WE'RE GETTING THINGS- WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THESE THINGS WITH PEOPLE.
20:24 BUT WE ALSO HAVE TO DO SOMETHING TO GET THE GOSPEL AROUND THE WORLD.
20:29 AND PARTICULARLY HERE IN THE EPICENTER.
20:30 WELL, IT SOUNDS LIKE YOUR JUST DOING A GREAT JOB!
20:32 THANK YOU FOR BEING WITH US.
20:34 I REALLY APPRECIATE IT.
20:36 WELL, IT'S SUCH AN HONOR TO FINALLY MEET YOU.
20:37 AND GOD BLESS YOU IN THE MINISTRY THAT YOU AND ZOLA HAVE LED.
20:42 AND I JUST APPRECIATE BEING WITH YOU TODAY.
20:44 THANK YOU.
20:45 THANK YOU.
21:12 ♪ THY KINGDOM COME! THY WILL BE DONE ♪
21:17 ♪ HERE ON THE EARTH AS IN HEAVEN. ♪
21:24 ♪ LORD, TAKE ME WITH YOU TO ISRAEL. ♪
21:31 ♪ LORD, TAKE US HOME, ♪
21:34 ♪ TAKE US HOME. ♪
22:08 GREAT MESSIANIC JEWISH MUSIC.
22:12 GREAT MESSIANIC JEWISH BROTHER, JOEL ROSENBERG.
22:15 REALLY A NICE GUY.
22:17 YOU SAID THAT SOME PEOPLE WONDER WHETHER HE WAS CLAIRVOYANT,
22:21 THAT HE COULD SEE HIS WAY INTO THE FUTURE.
22:23 THEY WONDERED HOW HE DID IT.
22:24 WHEN HE WAS INTERVIEWED ON THE TALK SHOWS
22:27 AFTER HIS BOOKS CAME OUT
22:29 ALL THE TALK SHOW HOSTS SAID,
22:30 "HOW DID YOU KNOW A PLANE WAS GOING
22:32 TO CRASH INTO THE WORLD TRADE CENTER?"
22:34 AND HIS SUBJECT WAS IT CRASHED INTO WASHINGTON D.C.
22:38 AND HE SAID, "I GOT MY NEWS OUT OF THE BIBLE."
22:42 THAT'S RIGHT. HE'S A BIBLE READER.
22:44 BIBLE READERS CAN BE IN THE KNOW.
22:46 AND ISRAEL IS GOD'S TIMEPIECE.
22:48 ALWAYS HAS BEEN ALWAYS WILL BE.
22:50 YES IT IS.
22:51 AND WE'RE GOING TO BE LOOKING AT THE CLOCK SOON
22:53 IN A SERIES ON "DANIEL AND THE LAST DAYS' BATTLE FOR PLANET EARTH".
22:59 GREAT SEGMENTS, GREAT INTERVIEWS, GREAT NEWS.
23:03 A STORY WORTH HEARING AND IT'S COMING UP SOON.
23:45 ANGER IN GAZA.
23:47 WAR IN LEBANON.
23:49 RUMBLINGS IN IRAN.
23:51 AS THE WORLD FOCUSES ON THE MIDEAST QUAGMIRE, ZOLA LEVITT MINISTRIES PRESENTS
24:12 DAVID FOUGHT GOLIATH
24:14 HERE IN THE VALLEY OF ELAH
24:15 SOME THREE THOUSAND YEARS AGO.
24:17 AND THE DESCENDANTS OF DAVID
24:18 AND THE DESCENDANTS
24:20 OF THE PHILISTINES
24:21 HAVE BEEN FIGHTING EVER SINCE.
24:23 WE CONSIDER THIS AND MORE IN OUR SERIES "DANIEL AND THE LAST DAYS' BATTLE FOR PLANET EARTH".
24:28 I HOPE YOU'LL BE LOOKING FOR IT.
24:40 I'D LIKE YOU TO OPEN UP YOUR BIBLES PLEASE AND TURN TO ZEPHANIAH CHAPTER THREE.
24:46 I KNOW MANY DON'T READ ZEPHANIAH AND THAT'S A SHAME.
24:49 THERE'S A BEAUTIFUL PASSAGE IN HERE IN THE 16TH VERSE.
25:11 WHEN I READ THIS AND OTHER TEXTS I GET THE IMPRESSION THAT
25:14 GOD HAS ISRAEL'S BACK.
25:17 THAT HE'S LOOKING OUT FOR HER.
25:19 WHAT DO YOU THINK SANDRA?
25:20 I AGREE JEFF.
25:21 AND YOU GO ON IN THE SCRIPTURE AND IT SAYS,
25:25 HOW MANY TIMES DO WE GET UPSET OR THINK THAT
25:28 SOMETHING HORRIBLE IS HAPPENING IN THE WORLD
25:30 AND HE QUIETS US WITH HIS LOVE?
25:33 IT SOUNDS LIKE A HUSBAND TALKING TO A WIFE.
25:37 IT SOUNDS LIKE A MAN BEING TENDER
25:38 AND GENTLE TOWARD A WOMAN.
25:41 ALL THE WARS THAT WE'RE HEARING ABOUT
25:44 AND THE RUMORS OF WARS,
25:45 "I WILL QUIET YOU WITH MY LOVE."
25:47 THAT'S BEAUTIFUL! >>IT'S WONDERFUL!
25:48 AND IF GOD'S ORIENTED THAT WAY
25:50 I WONDER WHY GOD'S PEOPLE CAN'T BE ORIENTED THAT WAY
25:54 JUST A LITTLE BIT MORE.
25:57 IT SEEMS TO ME THAT WE TOLERATE
25:59 THE LAMBASTING OF ISRAEL, THE JEWISH PEOPLE.
26:03 IT SEEMS THAT OUR DISPOSITION IN OUR CULTURE
26:06 IS CHARACTERIZED THE MORE SO BY ABANDONMENT THAN SUPPORT.
26:10 THAT'S NOT THE SPIRIT I COME UPON
26:13 WHEN I OPEN UP BIBLICAL LITERATURE.
26:16 I AGREE.I AGREE.
26:18 WE SAY EVERY WEEK,
26:19 "SHA'ALU SHALOM YERUSHALAYIM",
26:20 "PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM".
26:22 THERE'S A REASON WE SAY THAT.
26:23 IT'S NOT BECAUSE ITS CUTE AND DARLING.
26:25 IT'S BECAUSE WE NEED TO PRAY.
26:27 RIGHT.
26:28 I SAY LET'S PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM
26:30 AND LET'S "SAY" FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM.
26:33 LET'S SPEAK UP FOR THE THINGS THAT GOD SPEAKS UP FOR.
26:37 WE MEAN NO ANIMUS TOWARD PEOPLE OF ARAB EXTRACT
26:40 BUT WE JUST BELIEVE THAT GOD HAS A PLAN FOR ISRAEL.
26:43 AMEN.AND AS YOU GO,
26:44 SHA'ALU SHALOM YERUSHALAYIM,
26:47 PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM.

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