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• 00:01 David Hart: For thousands of years, people have been drawn to the Holy Land. Maybe you're one of those. Find out more about that today
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• 00:27 that call upon him."
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• 00:49 David: Thank you for joining us today
• 00:50 on "Zola Levitt Presents," I'm David Hart.
• 00:52 Kirsten Hart: I'm Kirsten Hart.
• 00:53 Jeffrey Seif: Jeffrey Seif.
• 00:55 Kirsten: Today we'll be discussing
• 00:56 on our brand-new series, "Return to Eden,"
• 00:58 about the very first Hebrew Abram, Avram,
• 01:03 who God called from his homeland to a brand-new unknown place.
• 01:07 Jeffrey: Yes, Ur of Chaldea.
• 01:09 He had a Kuwaiti passport and he didn't return to Canaan,
• 01:14 he turned toward it.
• 01:16 God beckoned him out.
• 01:17 Kirsten: Brand-new land.
• 01:18 Jeffrey: Yes, and the Lord beckons us to brand-new places,
• 01:21 too, doesn't he?
• 01:22 David: He's still calling us.
• 01:23 Jeffrey: Yes, he does. He calls.
• 01:25 The word "calling" is fascinating.
• 01:26 It's not just reserved for Bible characters.
• 01:28 God calls people today.
• 01:30 Kirsten: And in this next segment,
• 01:32 where are you teaching from?
• 01:33 Jeffrey: The wilderness of Judea.
• 01:35 It's a fascinating place that looks like the end of the earth.
• 01:38 David: Let's go there right now.
• 01:40 ♪♪♪
• 01:52 Jeffrey: Salim.
• 01:56 Avram came from, in effect, the crossroads of civilization.
• 02:02 I mention that because when we look at early Genesis we see
• 02:05 that individuals were scattered all over the face of the earth,
• 02:08 but eventually they federate into various groups, and they
• 02:12 cluster around places where there was water.
• 02:15 And if you look at a topographical map,
• 02:17 whether it's Mesopotamia--
• 02:19 which is a Greek word meaning between the rivers--
• 02:22 or the Nile deltas,
• 02:23 you have civilizations that emerge.
• 02:26 In early Genesis there was a watered place called Eden,
• 02:29 and they were scattered, but then from Mesopotamia
• 02:33 one is beckoned to make his way
• 02:36 back to the land that was once Eden.
• 02:39 This fella's name was Avram and he's known as a Ebreu, Hebrew.
• 02:45 Etymologically, the word "ebreu" comes from a word
• 02:48 meaning beyond the river.
• 02:50 He is on the other side of the Euphrates and he is beckoned
• 02:54 to come this way, driven by certain impulses in his breast.
• 02:59 He wants to get back to the ancestral homeland,
• 03:03 and he gathers what he has.
• 03:06 He was a pastoral sort, that is sheep, goats, livestock,
• 03:10 and he goes on a journey back to Eden.
• 03:15 I wanna open up the text and take a look at Eden as we go on
• 03:17 our journey to understand the story of the return to Eden.
• 03:27 Jeffrey: It's a long journey, hundreds and hundreds of miles
• 03:30 over tough uncharted real estate.
• 03:34 To make that trek, something's got to be stimulated
• 03:37 within your heart of hearts to do it.
• 03:39 Much as Abraham made that journey some time back, it's
• 03:42 interesting, Hebrews have made their way back to the ancestral
• 03:45 homeland here and many others too.
• 03:48 Christians, particularly, come here in the tune of millions
• 03:53 to walk where Jesus walked.
• 03:55 There's just something about being in what's called
• 03:57 the Holy Land.
• 03:59 The Bible doesn't call itself that.
• 04:02 There is this designation that's descriptive,
• 04:04 the Land of Promise, thus Promised Land,
• 04:07 and certainly the real estate itself is holy,
• 04:10 because inasmuch as God dwelt in Eden,
• 04:14 so too he made his footstool and his throne to dwell
• 04:18 in the city of Yerushalaim.
• 04:21 I want to explore Abraham in a minute and those impulses
• 04:24 and do that with the context of understanding that people tend--
• 04:28 all of life tends to move-- I want you to hear me
• 04:32 on this--it moves where there's water.
• 04:35 There's something that--there's something that's quenched in the
• 04:39 soul to come to Ha'aretz Canaan, Eretz Yisrael,
• 04:43 the land of the promise.
• 04:46 I want to look please in early Genesis, chapter 2,
• 04:51 and note how the place called Eden is noteworthy
• 04:58 because of its water.
• 05:00 And I wanna develop that a little.
• 05:02 We read in chapter 2, verse 10:
• 05:03 "[speaking foreign language]
• 05:06 And a river went out, from Eden,
• 05:11 [speaking foreign language]
• 05:13 and it watered the garden."
• 05:16 I mention this because where you have an abundance of water,
• 05:23 there's life that grows up around it.
• 05:26 And if you look at the temple itself in Jerusalem,
• 05:33 Lawrence Stager, professor of archeology, Harvard University,
• 05:37 I heard him give a lecture on Jerusalem itself,
• 05:40 the way it was mapped out in the antiquity
• 05:43 relative to Solomon's Temple, and he observes--
• 05:45 he lights upon the Gihon.
• 05:48 It was a spring that emanates from underneath the city,
• 05:51 and it would go out and water the garden.
• 05:55 It would go down from there to, you know,
• 05:58 the valley of Ge-hinnom as it's known today, the Kidron.
• 06:01 It makes its way round and his thesis was that the temple
• 06:05 complex itself was set up topographically in order
• 06:10 to mimic the watered garden that is Eden.
• 06:17 I mention this within the context of observing
• 06:19 that there's something within the heart, in the soul,
• 06:24 that beckons people to come.
• 06:26 There's even language in literature,
• 06:27 "Taste and see that the Lord is good."
• 06:29 It plays the living waters.
• 06:32 You know, there's an old song, "Come to the waters,
• 06:34 stand by my side, you know, you won't be denied."
• 06:38 The language is just so rich in biblical text.
• 06:42 Coming to Israel is coming to the garden, it's coming
• 06:46 to a place in a religious sense where there is
• 06:49 a fountain of living water.
• 06:52 ♪♪♪
• 06:59 ♪♪♪
• 07:04 Jeffrey: It didn't even exist.
• 07:09 What am I referring to?
• 07:11 The great world-class city behind me.
• 07:16 It was nothing but sand.
• 07:20 When Israel itself was under the hands
• 07:23 of the Turkish Ottoman Empire, nothing developed there.
• 07:28 I'm coming to you from the city of Jaffa.
• 07:31 Yafo, as it's known in Hebrew, has a long history
• 07:34 going back to Bible days.
• 07:36 Behind me was absolutely nothing.
• 07:40 At least until the Jews got here.
• 07:44 Tel Aviv, Jews raised money, purchased some land,
• 07:48 and built a school here, a very unique school.
• 07:52 The purpose of that school?
• 07:54 To teach this newly minted language called modern Hebrew.
• 08:00 It had fallen into disuse.
• 08:02 Hebrew was the language of the synagogue and prayer
• 08:05 but a nation was born and a language to go with it.
• 08:11 So much was born here.
• 08:13 Speaking of the Hebrew language, I'd like to go back to the book
• 08:16 Bereishit, Genesis, and unpack a verse in brief and give
• 08:21 an application that resonates with me.
• 08:24 We're told in 2:15:
• 08:27 "[speaking foreign language]
• 08:29 And he took,
• 08:30 [speaking foreign language]
• 08:32 that is, the Lord God took the man
• 08:34 [speaking foreign language]
• 08:36 and he put him.
• 08:38 He took him and placed him in Eden."
• 08:40 And here's what I wanna get to:
• 08:42 "[speaking foreign language] to work her,
• 08:46 [speaking foreign language] and to care for her."
• 08:49 Conceptually here, God takes a man and he puts him in a place
• 08:54 where he was destined to work.
• 08:56 He was destined to throw his energies against that.
• 09:01 Now, I've long said as someone who's raised boys,
• 09:05 if you can find a woman that you love and work that you love,
• 09:08 I've told my sons, that's 95% of life right there.
• 09:12 And I think you'd say amen to that.
• 09:13 It's good if a man can find something that suits him.
• 09:17 I mention that because here there's a man that's brought
• 09:20 to a place and he's ideally suited for it.
• 09:24 This, by the way, is something of a prototype
• 09:28 of something to come later.
• 09:30 I mention that because Adam, as we know,
• 09:33 is gonna get kicked out of the garden.
• 09:35 Later on, this fella Avram is gonna be beckoned
• 09:38 to return to it,
• 09:39 and in the 15th chapter of the book Bereishit, of Genesis,
• 09:43 we're told: "On that day Adonai cut a covenant with Abraham."
• 09:48 In Hebrew: "Karat berit."
• 09:51 Karat comes from a word meaning to cut.
• 09:54 We might think of making a deal.
• 09:57 Oh, and today, in colloquial English,
• 09:59 people talk about cutting a deal.
• 10:02 It really comes from a literal reading of the literature.
• 10:05 God cut a deal.
• 10:07 There was a sacrifice. That's another story.
• 10:08 "God cut a covenant with Abram, saying,
• 10:12 'I give this land to your seed.'"
• 10:16 It's not just that it's given to him,
• 10:18 that it's given to his progeny.
• 10:21 And it's not just given for the moment,
• 10:23 it's given in perpetuity.
• 10:26 Now this is a nice day here in modern Israel,
• 10:28 and the land is abuzz.
• 10:29 People are taking time off.
• 10:31 They've worked very hard to cultivate all of this, to bring
• 10:34 the miracle of Israel out of the earth into the modern world.
• 10:38 And there's activity, there's music,
• 10:40 there's a kind of bustling atmosphere that brisks here.
• 10:44 What's the point that I wanna make to you from here?
• 10:47 Interestingly, when you look at biblical literature,
• 10:50 God puts a man and he puts him at a place
• 10:53 and there's a work that he's uniquely styled to accomplish.
• 10:58 And this, by the way, is telling of the fact that as we develop
• 11:04 the story further on that God tells Avraham
• 11:07 [speaking foreign language]
• 11:09 and his progeny, there's a land, there's a place,
• 11:11 where you're destined to and destined to flower
• 11:14 in that particular land.
• 11:16 And that flowering is something that exists in perpetuity right
• 11:19 into the modern era as is amply attested by the fact that I'm
• 11:25 coming to you now from the miracle that is Israel.
• 11:29 "Oh, a little better than 100 years ago, people started
• 11:31 returning and you know what?
• 11:34 God was with them.
• 11:37 You know, God [speaking foreign language]
• 11:39 the Germans.
• 11:40 I've seen belt buckles of the Nazis that give voice to that."
• 11:43 Well, not so.
• 11:45 Various empires have risen their--have, you know, held high
• 11:49 their torch and risen and they've been falled--
• 11:52 they've fallen in the course of history and circumstance but
• 11:55 [speaking foreign language]
• 11:57 the people of Israel live an ample attestation
• 12:00 that God watches over his Word to perform it.
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• 13:28 Now, let's go back to the Holy Land to hear more
• 13:31 from Jeff on location.
• 13:34 ♪♪♪
• 13:44 [speaking foreign language]
• 13:47 Jeffrey: "But from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil
• 13:50 [speaking foreign language] you must not eat.
• 13:54 [speaking foreign language] For in the day that you eat,
• 13:58 [speaking foreign language] from him,
• 14:00 [speaking foreign language] you will surely die."
• 14:04 And with that warning, came that which became the nemesis
• 14:08 of humanity, that is they ate.
• 14:11 Houston, we have a problem.
• 14:13 And God had an answer.
• 14:15 Of course, you know the Genesis text there in Genesis 2 is where
• 14:17 that story is told and then eventually they're forced
• 14:20 to get out of Eden.
• 14:22 And off they go.
• 14:24 They left God's presence in some sense, but they never left
• 14:27 God's providence because he had a plan.
• 14:30 He had a will for it even so.
• 14:33 The question is how do we fix that which is broken?
• 14:37 Well, I'll tell you how. We do it right here.
• 14:41 I know, it looks like rocks only, but this is sacred space.
• 14:46 We're coming from the place where the Mishkan dwelt,
• 14:51 what we refer to as the tabernacle.
• 14:54 You say, "Jeffrey, this doesn't look like Jerusalem to me."
• 14:58 You're right.
• 14:59 But it dwelt here in Shiloh 369 years before it made
• 15:04 the move up to the mountain.
• 15:06 This was the headquarters of Israelite existence.
• 15:10 And what's referred to as the West Bank today, you know,
• 15:13 it's hotly contested.
• 15:15 People say, "Well, this is, you know, Palestinian territory.
• 15:18 The Jews have no history."
• 15:20 Well, tell it to the people that built all this up,
• 15:22 because we're right, not just at the ruins
• 15:25 of the place in general, but specifically we are where
• 15:30 the Holy Place and the Holy Place was
• 15:33 right behind me when that tent first stood.
• 15:37 It's a fascinating story.
• 15:39 There's a problem in the Bible but God didn't just leave it
• 15:41 as a problem.
• 15:42 He had a plan for a solution and central to the plan was a place
• 15:47 where women and men would bring sacrifice,
• 15:50 inasmuch as a Adam and Eve
• 15:52 made a sacrifice to placate the divine,
• 15:55 so too Israelites were beckoned to do much the same.
• 15:59 We read in the book Exodus, with Moshe Rabbenu, with Moses,
• 16:04 how they make their way into the wilderness,
• 16:06 and instructions are given.
• 16:08 It starts in the 25th chapter of Exodus and works its way to the
• 16:12 end of the book where there's instructions given about
• 16:15 the manufacture of the space that is going to long abide
• 16:20 in this place.
• 16:22 And after the particulars were given in Exodus, there's
• 16:26 something interesting that's noted that really harks back to
• 16:30 Genesis itself, according to a number of biblical commentators.
• 16:34 This sacred space was developed, the tabernacle,
• 16:38 and then this is before it got here,
• 16:40 but the particulars of it with a courtyard
• 16:42 and the Holy of Holies with the ark and the Holy Place
• 16:48 with the candelabra/menorah, with the incense altar,
• 16:53 with the table of showbread, and all of that.
• 16:56 The particulars were spelled out.
• 16:58 It was manufactured and after all of that which was created,
• 17:03 we're told in chapter 40, verse 33b in Exodus:
• 17:07 "So Moses finished the work."
• 17:09 It fascinates me that you have the creation of the sacred space
• 17:14 and it concludes then with, "And it was all--Moses finished it.
• 17:17 It was completed."
• 17:19 I mention that because if you look at the creations in heaven
• 17:22 and earth and the story of Adam and Eve,
• 17:25 in early Genesis we're told in chapter 2:
• 17:28 "[speaking foreign language] God had made it," and then,
• 17:32 "[speaking foreign language] that he made it.
• 17:37 He finished it on the seventh day
• 17:39 [speaking foreign language] and he rested.
• 17:44 He finished it."
• 17:46 It's interesting, you have the Creation
• 17:48 and then there's a completion notation.
• 17:51 Similarly, with the creation of sacred space,
• 17:54 there's a completion notation.
• 17:56 There are a number of these little connections
• 17:58 here in the literature.
• 17:59 I don't have time to develop all of them, but coming to you from
• 18:03 this place, the sun is rising over me right now
• 18:07 and it comes from the east and heads this way.
• 18:10 You might remember from Eden, the couple left
• 18:14 and they went to the East.
• 18:16 But now there's this return.
• 18:18 They're returning back to the place called Paradise.
• 18:22 And those that make their way back come to a place
• 18:26 that's defined as rest.
• 18:29 God rested, Moses rested, and there's something about finding
• 18:33 your way home to God and yes, you, and I mean you, can find a
• 18:38 rest that's been made available to you and for you by he who
• 18:44 gives rest to weary souls and he who gives a sacrifice
• 18:48 for the sins that burden them.
• 18:51 ♪♪♪
• 18:58 David: I would say one of the questions maybe in this series
• 19:01 this week is why do our souls long for peace
• 19:04 and rest in our lives?
• 19:07 Jeffrey: Yes, people are so unrested, aren't they?
• 19:09 Kirsten: Right. David: Many.
• 19:10 Jeffrey: Yes, and it really is a problem.
• 19:12 And the Bible speaks of a rest and there's a place
• 19:15 where our soul can rest in Israel.
• 19:17 David: We sing about it every week out of the hymnal.
• 19:20 ♪ When peace like a river, ♪
• 19:22 Kirsten: I go, "Oh, that's kind of good.
• 19:24 That's like the river in Eden."
• 19:26 David: But do we practice it, that's the question.
• 19:28 Jeffrey: It's a million-dollar question,
• 19:30 and this is a million-dollar segment
• 19:31 now as our very own Chaim Malespin
• 19:34 is gonna speak to Doron who is an Israeli,
• 19:37 a leader of a prayer ministry, a ministry of rest.
• 19:39 Coming to you from Jerusalem.
• 19:42 ♪♪♪
• 19:50 Chaim Malespin: So there is a growing interest in nations
• 19:52 to come to Jerusalem and to come to the Temple Mount.
• 19:56 Why, in your opinion, is this?
• 19:58 Doron Keidar: Well, all the Temple Mount movements
• 20:00 and organizations in Israel, every one of them, verbatim,
• 20:04 say the same thing.
• 20:06 [speaking foreign language]
• 20:09 "It will be called a house of prayer for all nations."
• 20:11 So we believe in that. I believe in that.
• 20:14 That the nations are gonna stream to Zion.
• 20:16 They're gonna stream to God's holy house and that's going to
• 20:20 be part of the restoration that God brings, not just to Israel
• 20:23 but to the world as a whole because that's gonna be the glue
• 20:26 in which God is going to breathe life through Israel
• 20:30 and through--onwards to the nations.
• 20:32 Chaim: Do you think that the rebuilding of the temple
• 20:35 is a reconstruction of Eden that was lost?
• 20:38 Doron: Absolutely.
• 20:41 The genesis of the Temple Mount starts with Adam and Eve.
• 20:44 God takes the piece of earth as we know.
• 20:48 He makes clay, breathes life into it, et cetera, et cetera.
• 20:50 That's Adam, the first human being.
• 20:52 He's created according to Jewish tradition from the very earth
• 20:55 of the Temple Mount.
• 20:57 Future then, you have also the Garden of Eden which is the
• 21:00 place he's dwelling in, in this heavenly place as you will,
• 21:04 Gan Eden, which is what we say, "You're going to heaven,"
• 21:07 in Hebrew we say, "Gan Eden," by the way.
• 21:10 I know in Christian English speaking,
• 21:13 you use a different term.
• 21:15 Heaven and Eden, right?
• 21:17 But in Hebrew you use the same term for both Eden and heaven.
• 21:21 And so the point is in Jewish tradition, we believe this
• 21:25 is where Adam was created out of the earth.
• 21:27 We believe this is where the Garden of Eden was.
• 21:31 And we also believe this is where heaven will meet earth.
• 21:34 So this is the very navel of the earth, the very place
• 21:37 where heaven meets earth literally.
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• 22:40 from one of those markets.
• 22:42 ♪♪♪
• 22:51 Sarah Liberman: Shalom Haverim, and welcome back
• 22:53 to our series on the seven species,
• 22:55 [speaking foreign language]
• 22:57 about the fruit of the promise that God gave to the people
• 23:00 of Israel as they entered into the land.
• 23:02 Today, we're talking about the pomegranate.
• 23:05 Now, the word for pomegranate in Hebrew is rimmon, and it is one
• 23:11 of the fruit that the spies brought back from spying out
• 23:13 the land to symbolize the fruitfulness of this new
• 23:16 wonderful place that God was bringing the people of Israel.
• 23:20 In Israel, here today, we eat it in the feast of Rosh HaShana.
• 23:24 Because the pomegranate has so many seeds inside of it,
• 23:28 it is a sign of abundance and people eat it
• 23:30 as a sign of abundance for the coming year.
• 23:34 Now, the pomegranate was also featured in the tabernacle and
• 23:37 in the Temple of Solomon it was featured on the pillars within
• 23:41 the temple and worn on the edge of the priest's garments.
• 23:46 There was a bell and then there was a pomegranate as a sign
• 23:49 of abundance and the fruitfulness of God.
• 23:51 So this week, as you contemplate the fruit and blessing of the
• 23:55 Lord, may your life resemble the--this pomegranate,
• 23:59 full of abundance and seeds for the kingdom of God.
• 24:04 ♪ Sing a song of Israel, sing a song of love. ♪
• 24:09 ♪ Sing a song of Israel, joy and peace and love. ♪
• 24:13 ♪ For my family's home now, ♪
• 24:15 ♪ God has brought us home now. ♪
• 24:17 ♪ Sing a song of Israel. ♪
• 24:21 ♪ For this land is my land. ♪
• 24:25 ♪ This God's land is my land. ♪
• 24:30 ♪ He promised my fathers that this land is mine. ♪
• 24:38 ♪ Sing a song of Israel, sing a song of love. ♪
• 24:42 ♪ Sing a song of Israel, joy and peace and love. ♪
• 24:46 ♪ For my family's home now, ♪
• 24:49 ♪ God has brought us home now. ♪
• 24:51 ♪ Sing a song of Israel. ♪
• 24:55 ♪ For my family's home now, ♪
• 24:57 ♪ God has brought us home now. ♪
• 25:02 ♪ Sing a song of Israel. ♪
• 25:07 David: As you are watching our program today,
• 25:09 there are people right now getting
• 25:10 on an airplane heading to Tel Aviv, Israel,
• 25:13 and what's that saying we've heard?
• 25:16 Kirsten: Well, it's a great saying,
• 25:18 that you just don't simply go to Israel.
• 25:20 That God calls you there as he's been calling people
• 25:24 for thousands of years from Abraham.
• 25:27 He was the first one that God said,
• 25:29 "Come to this land," right?
• 25:31 Jeffrey: Yes, and he's all about beckoning people
• 25:33 to his place.
• 25:35 Unfortunately, when he calls, we don't all pick up the phone,
• 25:39 or sometimes the line is busy 'cause we're talking
• 25:41 to other gods.
• 25:43 That's something worth fixing, isn't it?
• 25:45 David: We're so thankful that our son--
• 25:47 Kirsten: Got the call. David: Got the call.
• 25:49 Kirsten: And listened to it. And he picked it up.
• 25:50 Jeffrey: He picked up the phone.
• 25:52 That's the best answer when God calls us.
• 25:53 David: He said yes.
• 25:55 Kirsten: And thousands of people, thousands,
• 25:56 are making Aliyah, they're going up to Jerusalem
• 26:00 and to Israel, and actually, our son Ryan,
• 26:03 who works at the International Christian Embassy
• 26:05 in Jerusalem, just this past week,
• 26:08 they've filmed 300 people from France making Aliyah.
• 26:12 Unbelievable.
• 26:13 Jeffrey: Yes, and all of that, to me, is a template
• 26:15 in the natural, what happens in the spiritual.
• 26:17 And our viewers can tap into that.
• 26:19 They feel called to these panels behind us, and for those
• 26:23 that can't come to Israel, we bring it to you.
• 26:27 Kirsten: That's the beauty of "Zola Levitt Presents."
• 26:30 And all of your support for this program makes it possible
• 26:36 for people around the world to go to Israel, to Jerusalem,
• 26:40 by way of this program.
• 26:42 Jeffrey: Or visitors' presents help us to present.
• 26:45 David: And I'll say, too, we feel like we're home
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• 26:53 Jeffrey: It surely does, yes.
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