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Episode: “God is Coming”
Myles and Katharine recount how Abraham’s travels in the desert led him into dependence and relationship with his God. Interviews: Dean Bye, Director of Return Ministries; and Chaim Malespin, Director of the Aliyah Return Center in Tiberias, Israel.
Series: “Close Encounters with Yeshua”
This ten-program series focuses on how Jesus/Yeshua supernaturally came and ministered on Earth, and today calls all mortals to draw near to Him. David and Kirsten Hart introduce each episode from the studio, while Myles and Katharine Weiss teach in Israel, using dramatic re-enactments and interviews with Believers about their journeys to faith in Yeshua, the Jewish Messiah.

Caption transcript for Close Encounters with Yeshua: “God is Coming” (1/10)

  • 00:01 Hi, I'm David Hart.
  • 00:02 And I'm Kirsten Hart.
  • 00:03 Welcome to Zola Levitt Presents.
  • 00:05 We're excited to be a part of this first series
  • 00:08 "Close Encounters with Yeshua".
  • 00:09 Myles will be on location teaching
  • 00:12 in the Judean wilderness
  • 00:14 between Jerusalem and Jericho.
  • 00:16 We'll also have a reenactment with an Israeli actor
  • 00:18 And an interview with Israeli believers
  • 00:21 that run the Aliyah Return Center.
  • 00:25 Stay with us.
  • 00:34 It was not long ago our first encounter
  • 00:36 on the waters of the Galilee.
  • 00:38 My hand is completely restored.
  • 00:41 He said, Your faith has saved you.
  • 00:44 I've heard Yeshua speak in our synagogue.
  • 00:48 He talked about the Kingdom of God.
  • 00:51 Then He showed us His wounds in His hands and His feet.
  • 00:54 I believe He really is a King.
  • 01:07 Shalom Haverim, Hello Friends
  • 01:09 and welcome to our program.
  • 01:10 I'm Myles Weiss.
  • 01:12 And I'm Katharine Weiss.
  • 01:13 And we want to welcome you to our new series
  • 01:15 "Close Encounters with Yeshua.
  • 01:16 We bring you into the life of Yeshua as a Jewish man.
  • 01:20 Yeah, this is so great to contextualize Him,
  • 01:22 to realize that He is the Jewish Messiah
  • 01:24 and the Savior of the World
  • 01:26 and to really help our viewers
  • 01:28 and help whoever sees this to understand
  • 01:30 that Christianity came from somewhere.
  • 01:32 Yes
  • 01:33 That's been a theme for this program for over 30 years.
  • 01:35 Christianity through Jewish eyes - Right?
  • 01:37 Yes.
  • 01:39 And it was so awakening for you when you saw the Scriptures
  • 01:41 that the whole life of Jesus was a Jewish man.
  • 01:44 It was stunning, life changing obviously.
  • 01:47 But really I remember feeling like
  • 01:49 Why didn't my Rabbi tell me this - What Happened?.
  • 01:51 Where was the idea that this
  • 01:52 is absolutely a Jewish story
  • 01:55 and that God in His grace has opened
  • 01:57 the Gospel to the whole world?
  • 01:58 Right - so we'll also take you to hear from people in the Land
  • 02:01 and how they're journey coming to know their Messiah
  • 02:04 and how they overcame the same things that you did Myles.
  • 02:07 Yeah, well it's not overcoming our own sin
  • 02:09 but truthfully the sins of the Church,
  • 02:12 the historical Church which has been persecutory to the Jewish people.
  • 02:16 So it's a great stumbling block for our people.
  • 02:18 But the good news in this program and in this series
  • 02:21 we're going to see close encounters with Yeshua
  • 02:24 both at the time of Jesus
  • 02:26 through biblical reenactments
  • 02:27 and also living testimonies from today.
  • 02:29 So let's begin with our first drama.
  • 02:41 His name is Zacharias.
  • 02:45 He's a Priest in a Temple like me.
  • 02:48 He burns incense on the Holy Altar.
  • 02:54 I'm not sure what to think of it.
  • 02:57 They tell me, one day he was visited by an Angel who stood by the altar
  • 03:01 and told him he would father a child.
  • 03:05 He's an old man and his wife Elizabeth
  • 03:10 she's well past such notions.
  • 03:14 But it happened.
  • 03:18 They bore a child
  • 03:22 and named him "Yochanan" - "John"
  • 03:26 Not exactly a family name
  • 03:29 but apparently given to him by the Angel well before his birth.
  • 03:36 On the 8th day they came to circumcise the child.
  • 03:39 Zecharias prophesied.
  • 03:42 He said the Lord God of Israel
  • 03:45 has visited His people and granted "redemption" - "gahula",
  • 03:53 said his son would go ahead of the one who's yet to come,
  • 04:00 a "Deliverer" from the House of David,
  • 04:06 a Savior.
  • 04:13 It's a promise
  • 04:16 given to us long ago
  • 04:19 by Abraham
  • 04:21 and our Fathers.
  • 04:29 I pray it is so.
  • 04:36 More than ever we welcome Him
  • 04:40 Mashiach
  • 04:43 The Anointed One
  • 05:01 Some people have always believed in
  • 05:02 the promises that are in this Book.
  • 05:05 Some people have believed
  • 05:06 before the Book was written.
  • 05:08 We're here in the desert,
  • 05:09 desert Midbar,
  • 05:11 one of the root words for the word to speak.
  • 05:14 And it's here that God speaks.
  • 05:16 It's here in the loneliness,
  • 05:18 in the solitude and the quiet
  • 05:20 that the God of all creation spoke,
  • 05:23 called Abraham from here.
  • 05:25 Think about what this place means to God.
  • 05:27 It's a place where we become dependant on Him.
  • 05:31 This isn't like in Egypt where there's a
  • 05:33 giant Nile River to overflow and create crops.
  • 05:36 Here life moves forward by God's protection,
  • 05:40 by God's anointing,
  • 05:42 by God's covering
  • 05:43 and His provision.
  • 05:44 This is a place of testing,
  • 05:46 a place of proving.
  • 05:48 This is a place where Abraham, Isaac and Jacob
  • 05:51 came up from to go into the Promised Land.
  • 05:55 When you think about the desert
  • 05:57 you think about the harsh conditions.
  • 05:59 It's brutal during the day
  • 06:01 and it's cold at night.
  • 06:02 And without the protection of God
  • 06:04 and a cloud during the day to keep you cool,
  • 06:07 a pillar of fire at night to keep you warm
  • 06:10 like He did with Moses and the children of Israel in the wilderness.
  • 06:13 Without that provision from God.
  • 06:15 Without water from a rock.
  • 06:17 Without Him guiding you into
  • 06:19 the ability to live in a place like this.
  • 06:22 To come through this we cannot make it.
  • 06:24 This is where we learn dependence on God.
  • 06:27 This is where we learn that what is written in here
  • 06:31 is in fact true, prophetic and is coming true in our lives.
  • 06:35 It's coming true in our day.
  • 06:37 We are in an exciting time right now.
  • 06:39 This entire series is about the power of Yeshua
  • 06:42 the reality of the supernatural act of God
  • 06:46 intervening in man's life
  • 06:48 by becoming a Savior,
  • 06:50 by becoming a provision,
  • 06:52 by becoming the One who brings protection
  • 06:55 in life and through all eternity.
  • 06:58 Out here you can almost sense Abraham traveling up to the Land.
  • 07:04 You can sense Isaac and Jacob coming through this place.
  • 07:07 Moses with the children of Israel.
  • 07:10 And it's a place where Joshua walked with Moses before he took the land.
  • 07:17 A type of Yeshua taking back the earth for Himself.
  • 07:20 John was out in the wilderness calling people to repentance.
  • 07:24 And Yeshua Himself driven into the wilderness by the Spirit in order
  • 07:29 to be tested 40 days and 40 nights,
  • 07:32 a parallel with Moses who went up on the mountain
  • 07:34 for 40 days and 40 nights.
  • 07:36 Cause God was fulfilling His Scripture in Deuteronomy 18:[18]
  • 07:47 That prophet, that provision, the Priest,
  • 07:51 that King to come is Yeshua Ha Mashiach, Jesus of Nazareth.
  • 07:56 Good news today that many, many more Jewish people
  • 07:59 are understanding that He is in fact our Messiah.
  • 08:03 We're coming closer to Him.
  • 08:05 It's in a place like this that we realize that we
  • 08:08 need to listen, to hear Him speak
  • 08:11 and to know that our dependence is not a bad thing.
  • 08:14 Our dependence is a necessary thing.
  • 08:16 We like to be self-sufficient
  • 08:19 especially in the modern world.
  • 08:21 We like to feel like we are in charge of things,
  • 08:22 we are in control of things,
  • 08:24 we've got it all figured out.
  • 08:25 But the reality is when you go down deep enough,
  • 08:28 when you come out to a place like this
  • 08:29 you realize how small you are
  • 08:32 and how dependant you are on the Creator of the heavens and the earth.
  • 08:37 We're praying that throughout this series
  • 08:40 you're going to have an experience of the words of Jesus,
  • 08:42 the calling of Jesus,
  • 08:44 and the future that He wants to create for you,
  • 08:47 a life now abundantly
  • 08:49 and a life with Him eternally.
  • 08:51 So let's draw near to Yeshua.
  • 08:53 Let's have a close encounter with Yeshua.
  • 09:03 Our offer on this program
  • 09:05 "Sons of Israel"
  • 09:07 3 DVDs featuring
  • 09:08 the teaching of Zola Levitt
  • 09:10 on location in Israel.
  • 09:12 This 9 part series chronicles
  • 09:14 the fascinating lives of
  • 09:16 some of God's key men
  • 09:18 from Abraham, Moses and David
  • 09:21 to the Messiah and the apostles.
  • 09:24 An informative and stunningly
  • 09:26 beautiful history
  • 09:27 of the people God chose
  • 09:29 and the special men among them
  • 09:31 that He used for His purposes.
  • 09:33 A 9 part series on 3 DVDs
  • 09:37 "Sons of Israel"
  • 09:40 Hi, my name is Belinda Moon
  • 09:42 and I'm a 2nd generation contributor
  • 09:44 to Zola Levitt Ministries.
  • 09:46 My parents supported the ministry.
  • 09:48 And I found it when Myles and Katharine came on board.
  • 09:51 Through their teaching
  • 09:53 I have learned a lot about the Bible
  • 09:55 and why it's important for me to stand with Israel.
  • 09:58 Please join me in supporting this ministry.
  • 10:08 It's amazing that in our day
  • 10:10 people believe all kinds of things about
  • 10:12 the supernatural,
  • 10:14 about darkness,
  • 10:15 about aliens.
  • 10:17 And yet they have the hardest time believing in the supernatural
  • 10:19 birth, death and resurrection of Yeshua Ha Mashiach.
  • 10:24 And yet that is the story of God.
  • 10:26 It's a love story from start to finish.
  • 10:28 It begins with a wedding in the Garden
  • 10:30 and it ends with a wedding that's to come
  • 10:32 between the Bridegroom of heaven
  • 10:34 and those that say "yes" to Him.
  • 10:35 And the desert is a place to say "yes".
  • 10:38 It was in a desert like this that
  • 10:40 Abraham said "yes" and took upon himself
  • 10:43 the Covenant that God made for him with him
  • 10:46 which was to covenant with the descendents
  • 10:51 of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob whose name is Israel
  • 10:54 to have the Land of Promise
  • 10:56 and to bring forth the Messiah of Promise.
  • 10:59 In Genesis 3:15 we see the battle between Light and darkness
  • 11:04 as God says to the serpent - He warns him
  • 11:19 That's speaking of the Cross,
  • 11:22 the execution stake,
  • 11:24 the tree upon which Yeshua would be sacrificed.
  • 11:28 No man took His life.
  • 11:29 He laid it down for you and for me.
  • 11:32 It was my sin that put Him there
  • 11:34 and yours as well.
  • 11:36 I remember before I came to faith
  • 11:38 I didn't even believe in sin.
  • 11:39 It's pretty funny looking back now.
  • 11:41 Cause I know I am a sinner who needs a Holy God to touch him.
  • 11:47 In Matthew 1:1 in the Brit Hadashah, the New Covenant,
  • 11:51 prophesied by Jeremiah in Chapter 31,
  • 11:58 The writing says,
  • 11:59 [Speaking Hebrew]
  • 12:10 And that's the story about how salvation
  • 12:13 came through a certain family,
  • 12:15 came through a certain line.
  • 12:16 There were promises made to Moses,
  • 12:19 promises made to Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses,
  • 12:21 to all of the tribes of Israel.
  • 12:24 In fact, to the Tribe of Judah
  • 12:26 that it would be from the Tribe of Judah
  • 12:28 which is where David is from.
  • 12:31 From the seed of David that Messiah would come.
  • 12:33 It's all laid out in this Book
  • 12:34 but it's supernaturally orchestrated by God.
  • 12:37 There's no way that man can make this happen.
  • 12:41 There's no way that it could be coincidence.
  • 12:43 There's no way that it's possible
  • 12:45 for the events of these 66 books which are cohesive
  • 12:49 and make one story stretched over thousands of years
  • 12:52 that they could hold together
  • 12:54 accept for the reality of a supernatural God
  • 12:57 intervening in the life of man.
  • 13:00 The promise to King David was that there would
  • 13:03 always be someone to rule on his throne.
  • 13:06 How is that possible?
  • 13:07 Kings come and go, people die.
  • 13:10 But what if a King came who was from eternity?
  • 13:14 What if a King came for example out of David's home town Bethlehem
  • 13:17 as Micah said in Chapter 5:2?
  • 13:29 What if the prophets were right and
  • 13:33 the story was written and it was set
  • 13:35 and Yeshua was going to come from the Tribe of Judah
  • 13:39 from the line of David,
  • 13:40 from the City of David
  • 13:42 to come and be Salvation for you and for me?
  • 13:45 That's what this series is about.
  • 13:49 We're looking for our close encounters with Yeshua.
  • 13:52 We're looking to grow in our understanding
  • 13:54 that He is in fact the Promised Seed,
  • 13:57 the Promised Messiah.
  • 13:58 And He's looking for a relationship with you.
  • 14:00 The desert is about dependence and relationship.
  • 14:04 Come on out to the desert with us
  • 14:06 and have an encounter with Yeshua.
  • 14:41 For more information on our next tour to Israel call:
  • 14:50 We would love to host you
  • 14:51 on a Pilgrimage to Israel.
  • 14:53 There's nothing like it in the world.
  • 14:55 Everybody that comes with us
  • 14:57 raves about our tours
  • 14:59 because you really see the Bible come alive.
  • 15:01 And it's just life changing.
  • 15:02 So we want to invite you to come with us
  • 15:04 in Spring or in Fall.
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  • 15:08 And go to the Land that belongs to God.
  • 15:10 Absolutely,
  • 15:12 Go to the places where God has made covenant with man.
  • 15:15 And He is continuing to keep His covenant with the Land itself.
  • 15:18 It's blooming in these days
  • 15:20 and we want to show you God's miraculous
  • 15:22 rebirth of the Land of Israel.
  • 15:24 You know it's been said that
  • 15:26 the sound of the shofar is
  • 15:27 the sound of God's provision.
  • 15:30 In Genesis 22 God provided a ram.
  • 15:34 And it is the same for us today.
  • 15:36 He is the God of provision.
  • 15:39 So let's go now to the Judean desert
  • 15:41 and hear the sound of the shofar.
  • 15:45 [Myles blowing the shofar]
  • 15:54 The sound of the shofar goes back to Genesis 22
  • 15:57 when Abraham and Isaac walked through a place like this
  • 16:00 and went up to the mountains of Israel.
  • 16:04 It was where God Himself provided the scapegoat
  • 16:07 to take Isaac's place.
  • 16:09 There's so much promise in the Word of God.
  • 16:12 But also only God can bring His Word to pass.
  • 16:16 Man cannot do it.
  • 16:18 Abraham was promised in Genesis 12
  • 16:21 that he would be the father of many.
  • 16:24 And in his own self
  • 16:25 and in Sarah's own strength
  • 16:27 they could not bring that promise to pass.
  • 16:29 Only God could provide the seed
  • 16:33 that would bring the promise
  • 16:35 of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
  • 16:37 And in that promise Abraham was willing
  • 16:40 to let it all go because God said,
  • 16:42 Would you come up in a journey and
  • 16:45 worship me on the mountain.
  • 16:47 And would you be willing to give me
  • 16:49 the very best of your life.
  • 16:51 And that is your son.
  • 16:52 And he was willing.
  • 16:54 But there was a voice from heaven.
  • 16:55 It was an Angel.
  • 16:56 And we'll hear time and time again as
  • 16:58 we have close encounters with Yeshua in this series.
  • 17:02 Close encounters with God that is the Angel of the Lord that speaks.
  • 17:06 It's the Angel of the Lord or Yeshua Himself
  • 17:09 that reveals the way of salvation.
  • 17:11 And it was the ram in the thicket.
  • 17:14 That is where the shofar is born.
  • 17:17 You know the provision that God makes is
  • 17:20 such a picture of what would come in the future
  • 17:22 because we couldn't be saved by the blood of Isaac.
  • 17:26 It had to be supernatural blood that came from above.
  • 17:29 Their life is in the blood
  • 17:31 Scripture tells us.
  • 17:32 And it has to be like kind.
  • 17:34 So God Himself had to come
  • 17:36 through the line of Abraham to
  • 17:38 become the Promised Messiah
  • 17:40 and to go to the cross for and for me.
  • 17:42 You know one thing about the desert
  • 17:43 reminds me a lot about the story of Ruth.
  • 17:46 I like the...
  • 17:48 what's happening now in the world.
  • 17:49 There's so much of what is called inter-marriage
  • 17:52 but it really is the coming together
  • 17:54 of the Gentiles and the Jews
  • 17:55 to find the House of Bread together.
  • 17:57 There's a great story in this
  • 17:59 where the coming up from the desert again
  • 18:01 and looking for the House of Bread,
  • 18:03 looking for sustenance
  • 18:05 and finding it in the Promised Land.
  • 18:07 And it was Ruth the Gentile Moabitess
  • 18:09 who was outside the Covenant
  • 18:11 who came in and knitted herself
  • 18:13 to the Covenant of Abraham,
  • 18:15 to the Covenant of Israel
  • 18:16 and brought Naomi into the Promised Land.
  • 18:18 Together they found Boaz, the Lord of the harvest.
  • 18:21 I love how she had her close encounter
  • 18:24 with the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
  • 18:26 She said, Your people shall be my people, your God my God.
  • 18:30 Where you go I will go.
  • 18:32 And we know that God is calling many of you, our viewers
  • 18:35 to have that same wedding with the Land and the people that
  • 18:39 God has planned to give this Land.
  • 18:41 You know it's the Land of Promise.
  • 18:43 It's not a land of ease.
  • 18:45 There has to be a plan.
  • 18:46 And it is His plan of promise
  • 18:48 and He Himself will bring it to pass.
  • 18:50 It's so humorous in a sense, it's so ironic that
  • 18:53 there's such a struggle over the Land of Israel.
  • 18:55 The Land of Israel in its current form
  • 18:57 is a fraction of the promise that was made to Abraham
  • 19:00 because in Genesis 17
  • 19:02 He tells Abraham to look up and see
  • 19:04 everywhere his eyes could see from the
  • 19:07 River Euphrates to the Great River in Egypt the River Nile.
  • 19:10 That's a much bigger promise
  • 19:12 than what we're currently battling over.
  • 19:14 But the Land Covenant is part of the story.
  • 19:17 In this series, "Close Encounters with Yeshua"
  • 19:20 we're going to see the promise to the Land,
  • 19:22 the promise to the people,
  • 19:24 and this new thing that God is doing in the earth
  • 19:27 of bringing Christians into a loving relationship with Israel
  • 19:30 and then calling us together to become His Bride.
  • 19:34 And that's where we're headed,
  • 19:35 to a wedding in the sky.
  • 19:46 We love the story of Ruth
  • 19:48 how that pictures the Jews and Gentiles
  • 19:50 together going into the Land
  • 19:52 and worshipping God together.
  • 19:53 We see that today.
  • 19:54 We see the Land being restored,
  • 19:56 the people coming back.
  • 19:57 And we even see it into heaven.
  • 19:58 In Revelation 19 where the Bride, made up of the Jews and Gentles,
  • 20:02 has made herself ready.
  • 20:03 Absolutely
  • 20:04 There's a company of people, of Gentile believers that are
  • 20:07 reading the Scriptures and seeing that it's
  • 20:09 our job to comfort the people.
  • 20:11 It says in Isaiah 40 "Comfort Ye, Comfort Ye, Comfort Ye My People.
  • 20:16 And one of the ways we comfort the people of Israel
  • 20:19 is to see them brought back into the Land of God's promise for them.
  • 20:23 Myles interviews a father and son team up in the Galilee.
  • 20:27 Let's go now and hear from them.
  • 20:31 One of our biggest projects is certainly
  • 20:33 helping the Jewish people home.
  • 20:35 And that begins with helping the Church understand its role.
  • 20:37 And so how do they interact with the Jews in their own communities?
  • 20:41 How can they do it from a relational standpoint so that
  • 20:44 they can be with those same Jews
  • 20:46 who ultimately will make their return to the Land of Israel?
  • 20:50 Bringing the Russian Jews home, it was one thing.
  • 20:53 You know, you paid off their debts,
  • 20:55 you helped them with their paperwork,
  • 20:57 you got them on our bus to the airport,
  • 20:59 and the Jewish agency took over and brought them home.
  • 21:02 Working with North American Jews,
  • 21:03 they're not bringing 2 bags home.
  • 21:05 Some of them are bringing 2 containers home.
  • 21:07 And when they get here how do we work with them here?
  • 21:10 We bring them up to the Galilee to a place called the Aliyah Return Center.
  • 21:15 There we want to give them vacations.
  • 21:17 We want them to interact with Christians
  • 21:19 at a place where there's a reflection of unconditional love.
  • 21:24 You might call it like the Green Hilton.
  • 21:27 It's a Hotel, a Guest House which gives free stay
  • 21:30 as well as regular international guests,
  • 21:33 world changing intercessors, etc.
  • 21:35 Also, it gives and matchmakes between
  • 21:38 Jewish people who are returning and making their home here...
  • 21:42 We give them their first home in the nation,
  • 21:44 and then help them find a permanent home.
  • 21:46 And we do that up here in the Galilee.
  • 21:49 We provide for some of the new "Olim" that are coming back.
  • 21:52 I'm working with my son-in-law.
  • 21:54 I was at a worship evening and I met this girl
  • 21:57 who is so enthralled with the restoration of Israel,
  • 22:00 the return and the restoration of Israel,
  • 22:02 that she said, I'm just in love with God's plans.
  • 22:05 And I said, are you Jewish?
  • 22:06 And she says, No I'm not but I love the Jewish people.
  • 22:09 And I was a soldier in the Army having seen
  • 22:11 divine protection over my life at that time.
  • 22:13 And I told her some of this.
  • 22:15 We ended up falling in love.
  • 22:16 And the ministry she was a part of
  • 22:18 was called "Return Ministries"
  • 22:19 And they helped Jewish people return
  • 22:21 along with other ministries,
  • 22:23 helped them to return here to Israel.
  • 22:24 But as I said, we need to help them get absorbed
  • 22:27 integrated, attached, acclimated, acculturated,
  • 22:31 all these nice words.
  • 22:33 Pretty much, get their roots to go deep in the soil of Israel
  • 22:35 and not to be uprooted.
  • 22:37 Amos 9, says they will no longer be pulled out of the Land that I've given them.
  • 22:41 So we said, How can we do that?
  • 22:43 And we thought of this idea,
  • 22:44 my father-in-law and myself.
  • 22:46 We have found that the last words of Jesus before He ascended were,
  • 22:56 I don't believe those Words are rescinded.
  • 22:58 And yet going into Judea and Samaria is not the popular thing to do.
  • 23:01 So what we like to do is take our new olim into Judea and Samaria.
  • 23:05 We want them to see Elon Moreh.
  • 23:07 We want them to know where Abraham first worshipped.
  • 23:10 We want them to know where the Ark stood for 369 and a half years.
  • 23:14 We want them to know where Jacob had a dream on a hard rock and
  • 23:18 woke up and said, Hey this is an awesome Place.
  • 23:20 We want them to know that where 80% of their Bible comes from is
  • 23:26 a place that we together whether we're Jew or non-Jew
  • 23:29 need to stand together before so much pressure
  • 23:33 that's coming from the nations.
  • 23:34 Right now the biggest and most ground breaking thing
  • 23:37 that I've ever heard of in Israel
  • 23:39 is that the Jewish Agency of Israel,
  • 23:41 friend of Netanyahu our Prime Minister,
  • 23:43 has signed an agreement to work with us fully and
  • 23:47 completely as partners in developing a huge kibbutz
  • 23:50 that was deserted right here in the Jordan Valley.
  • 23:53 You know what Ezekiel says about the Jordan Valley
  • 23:56 but I specifically like Ezekiel 36 verse 24
  • 24:08 And I feel that I'm a part of that as a believer and this
  • 24:11 is just I think the first fruits of the rest of the harvest.
  • 24:16 I'd like you to look directly at the camera
  • 24:18 and bring a word, a prayer request
  • 24:20 or anything you'd like our viewers
  • 24:23 to know about or pray for.
  • 24:25 I want to call you to understand the era in which we live
  • 24:31 in where there is an Israel, when there is a liberated Jerusalem.
  • 24:34 And what is our role as Gentiles cooperating
  • 24:38 with what God is doing in this hour.
  • 24:41 Brothers and Sisters, family from all over the world
  • 24:45 I want to ask you to number one pray
  • 24:47 for God's restoration plans and the fulfillment
  • 24:50 of 700 prophecies of the Jews coming back home.
  • 24:55 Join with us.
  • 24:57 Come and see for yourself what God is doing.
  • 24:59 Come and become a return member with us.
  • 25:02 It's just pretty much helping sponsor
  • 25:04 another Jewish family while you yourself
  • 25:06 are there with them meeting them.
  • 25:08 And lastly, come volunteer.
  • 25:10 But don't wait too long because
  • 25:12 God's prophesies are being fulfilled
  • 25:13 right now in and through us
  • 25:15 and it's an adventure.
  • 25:16 So let's have an adventure together.
  • 25:20 ♪YESHU-AH♪
  • 25:26 ♪YESHU-AH♪
  • 25:32 ♪YESHU-AH♪♪
  • 25:44 We love Chaim's videos
  • 25:46 on this ministry's Facebook Page.
  • 25:49 He's funny,
  • 25:50 he's insightful
  • 25:51 and I promise you will not be bored
  • 25:53 watching his videos.
  • 25:55 He and his adorable family
  • 25:56 made Aliyah from America
  • 25:59 and now they live up in the Galilee area.
  • 26:01 Our son made Aliyah
  • 26:05 in a sense, not officially.
  • 26:07 We're Galileans.
  • 26:08 Well, he moved to Jerusalem
  • 26:10 just this past August and he is working with the
  • 26:13 International Christian Embassy.
  • 26:16 So he is busy there helping people himself
  • 26:19 make Aliyah.
  • 26:20 And it's just amazing to see
  • 26:22 what is happening in the Holy Land.
  • 26:24 People are coming.
  • 26:25 They're coming from the North, South, East and the West
  • 26:29 to move back to God's Country.
  • 26:31 That's right.
  • 26:31 We were just with our son.
  • 26:33 And it was amazing to us to see him
  • 26:35 walking in the same steps that Jesus, Yeshua has walked.
  • 26:39 And it's just amazing to watch his life.
  • 26:42 It's wonderful.
  • 26:43 Now, social media is an important part of this ministry.
  • 26:46 Didn't you just start a Twitter Page?
  • 26:47 I did...
  • 26:49 I've go to be honest with you
  • 26:50 that I am new at Twitter.
  • 26:52 I don't understand it completely
  • 26:54 but it's a wonderful tool.
  • 26:56 So if you're not connected with us
  • 26:57 we would love for you to join us
  • 26:59 on our social media,
  • 27:00 Facebook, Twitter or YouTube.
  • 27:02 You will be hearing more from Chaim as we continue our series
  • 27:06 Close Encounters with Yeshua.
  • 27:08 But please make sure to see him and his videos.
  • 27:11 Learn more about his life on our social media pages.
  • 27:14 Thank you so much for joining us today.
  • 27:16 As we say on this program
  • 27:17 Sha'alu' Shalom Yerushalayim
  • 27:20 Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem
  • 27:24 Our monthly newsletter the Levitt Letter
  • 27:27 is free and full of insightful articles
  • 27:29 and news commentary from a messianic perspective.
  • 27:32 Visit levitt.com to find our newsletter
  • 27:35 along with current and past programs,
  • 27:37 our television schedule
  • 27:38 and much more!
  • 27:40 Don't forget to order this week's resource
  • 27:42 by calling 1-800-WONDERS
  • 27:45 or you can purchase it from our catalogue
  • 27:47 at levitt.com
  • 27:50 Your donations to Zola Levitt Ministries
  • 27:52 help these organizations
  • 27:53 bless Israel.

Episodes in this series

  1. God is Coming
  2. Humble Beginnings
  3. Jewish Context
  4. Miraculous Ministry
  5. Prophecy Fulfilled
  6. Living Water
  7. Mountaintop Experience
  8. Life Laid Down
  9. Empty Tomb
  10. Interview with Gary Bayer

Guest organizations and links

Bonus Material