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• 00:01 David Hart: Coming up on "Zola Levitt Presents," we meet
• 00:02 YouTube sensation and recording artist, Joshua Aaron.
• 00:06 Stay with us.
• 00:13 male announcer: Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God
• 00:15 for Israel is that they might be saved.
• 00:19 For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek,
• 00:22 for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that
• 00:25 call upon him.
• 00:27 "Zola Levitt Presents."
• 00:31 ♪♪♪
• 00:37 David: Welcome to "Zola Levitt Presents,"
• 00:38 I'm David Hart.
• 00:39 Kirsten Hart: I'm Kirsten Hart.
• 00:41 Jeffrey Seif: Jeffrey Seif.
• 00:42 Kirsten: Today on "Zola Levitt Presents,"
• 00:44 you get to meet Joshua Aaron.
• 00:46 He is a messianic musician and artist, and he is our friend.
• 00:52 Dave: Not only a friend, we are huge fans, I would say,
• 00:54 of this guy.
• 00:56 He's become a dear friend.
• 00:57 We really call him a family member, and we're so glad
• 01:00 that he's a part of our team.
• 01:01 Chaim Malespin, also a musician.
• 01:03 We love him and Dov Schwarz today.
• 01:07 You know, these guys, don't you?
• 01:08 Jeffrey: Yes, and a word there, younger generation.
• 01:13 When I started off in this, I was new and wet behind the ears,
• 01:18 and a guy took me under his wing named Zola Levitt.
• 01:21 And this ministry is all about helping the young to get
• 01:24 a launch, and we want to do that.
• 01:26 With a name like Joshua and Aaron, who can lose?
• 01:30 There's gotta be anointing all over that guy's destiny.
• 01:32 Let's go to Joshua Aaron right now.
• 01:38 Dave: How long have you been living in Israel?
• 01:39 You made Aliyah.
• 01:41 Joshua Aaron: Yeah, made Aliyah a few times, actually.
• 01:43 You know, I live in the sea--on the Sea of Galilee, next to my
• 01:46 man, Chaim Malespin, and we've got just a great thing going on.
• 01:51 The Galilee families, Galilee guys.
• 01:53 We get together and we worship together, we pray together.
• 01:55 We have fun together, just encourage and challenge
• 01:58 each other.
• 01:59 But I grew up in Pennsylvania.
• 02:01 It was interesting growing up because I grew up in a Catholic
• 02:02 town and had an Orthodox Jewish grandmother on one side,
• 02:06 and a Catholic grandmother on the other side.
• 02:08 My father was born and raised in Pennsylvania,
• 02:11 Polish Catholic family.
• 02:14 They went to the Catholic charismatic meetings in the
• 02:16 basement of the Catholic church, but my mom got saved.
• 02:20 My mom and dad got saved at a full gospel businessmen's
• 02:22 meeting in 1977, a year before I was born.
• 02:27 You could do the math but yeah, I'm almost 40.
• 02:30 Dave: Thank you, I'm too tired to--
• 02:33 Joshua: Yeah, I didn't think you could do the math
• 02:35 so--I'm kidding.
• 02:37 So, my mom was invited to come to this full gospel
• 02:40 businessmen's meeting where Rabbi Martin Chernoff was
• 02:43 traveling and sharing the message of the Tanakh from
• 02:49 a Jewish perspective to Christian men.
• 02:52 And these Christian men were saying hey to my dad, "Hey Andy,
• 02:55 we've got a rabbi coming to town.
• 02:58 Invite--bring a Jewish wife."
• 03:00 So, my mom didn't want to hear anything about the gospel.
• 03:02 She loved my dad.
• 03:04 He was Catholic but she didn't care.
• 03:06 You know, she was raised religious, but she was at that
• 03:08 point where she believed in God still, but she didn't really
• 03:11 want much to do with religious Judaism because she saw a lot of
• 03:14 coldness.
• 03:16 When she moved from Israel to America, she moved to the other
• 03:19 holy land for the Jewish people, New York City.
• 03:22 And but there it was, it felt cold and kind of lifeless.
• 03:27 Like they're praying to God, but it felt empty to her.
• 03:29 She said, "I used to always talk to God."
• 03:31 She said, "I didn't always see it in my religious circle."
• 03:34 But she married my dad.
• 03:35 She didn't care that he was Christian, she just loved him.
• 03:37 But this rabbi comes to town.
• 03:40 After all these Christian men saying, "Hey, my mother's name's
• 03:42 Hannah so they caused to call her Channah because they
• 03:43 couldn't pronounce her name.
• 03:45 You know, "Channah, take your pick, either you're a Jew or
• 03:47 you're a Christian."
• 03:48 And she's like--it's confusing, 'cause, you know, did the
• 03:50 Italians stop becoming Italian when they accepted the Lord?
• 03:54 Because in her mind, she's Jewish by birth, by blood.
• 03:57 But this rabbi came to town, Rabbi Martin Chernoff, and he
• 04:00 shared the gospel from a way she'd never heard before, shared
• 04:03 about this great rabbi, not named Jesus, named Yeshua that
• 04:07 he had 12 Talmidim, not disciples, Talmidim.
• 04:11 And they did a thing called Mikveh, Mikvah, and they
• 04:13 celebrated Pesach.
• 04:15 He used all this Jewish terms that--which is what they would
• 04:18 have used 2,000 years ago.
• 04:20 And mom, up until that point, she really--she was open to the
• 04:27 idea, but she knew that Christianity was for the
• 04:30 Gentiles, Judaism was the only thing for the Jews.
• 04:33 Maybe Elvis along the way might have helped.
• 04:36 She loved his gospel songs.
• 04:37 She loved how great thou art and some of his gospel stuff was
• 04:40 just amazing.
• 04:42 But that night, he shared the good news to my mom in a Jewish
• 04:45 way like she had never heard before.
• 04:47 And she said, "That night I didn't convert to Christianity."
• 04:51 She said, "I completed my Judaism when I accepted the
• 04:54 greatest rabbi that ever lived as my Jewish Messiah."
• 04:58 So, I grew up with that connection, that understanding,
• 05:00 and we kind of had a balance.
• 05:03 We still went to church, but we'd drive two hours every few
• 05:06 months to Beth Yeshua, messianic synagogue in Philly, over two
• 05:10 hours.
• 05:11 And then my grandmother would make us do--you know every time
• 05:13 we went to her house on Shabbat, she'd put the kippah on my head.
• 05:16 "You're Jewish.
• 05:17 Your mother's Jewish."
• 05:19 She'd always remind so that the Christians didn't get me
• 05:21 all the way.
• 05:23 She always was trying to make sure, and I'm so glad she did.
• 05:25 I'm so glad she did because as I became a father 13 years--I have
• 05:30 a 13-year-old, I can't believe it.
• 05:32 I started thinking, how I am gonna raise my kids?
• 05:36 And I realized I want to raise my kids in the oldest form of
• 05:39 Judaism, that's messianic Judaism 'cause we go back
• 05:42 2,000 years.
• 05:44 Every modern form of Judaism today goes back, it goes back,
• 05:46 but it doesn't go back 2,000 years.
• 05:48 And it's been just a beautiful journey, still kind of learning
• 05:51 as we go, but it's been a beautiful journey.
• 05:55 ♪♪♪
• 06:03 ♪ Speak to the land, oh man of war, ♪
• 06:06 ♪ to every isle and distant shore. ♪
• 06:08 ♪ All God's people say amen. ♪
• 06:11 ♪ Raise a shout. ♪
• 06:12 ♪ He's come again. ♪
• 06:14 ♪ Woah, oh, oh, oh. ♪
• 06:19 ♪ Woah, oh, oh, oh. ♪
• 06:24 ♪ Woah, oh, oh, oh. ♪
• 06:30 ♪ Woah, oh, oh, oh. ♪
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• 07:06 ♪ Keep on singing till he comes again, ♪
• 07:10 ♪ then we'll sing some more. ♪
• 07:16 ♪ We'll keep on singing till he comes again, ♪
• 07:21 ♪ then we'll sing forevermore. ♪
• 07:26 ♪ Yes, we all know he's coming again. ♪
• 07:32 ♪ Yes, we know he's coming again. ♪
• 07:36 ♪ We know he's coming again. ♪
• 07:42 ♪ Yes, we know. ♪♪
• 07:44 David: We love your music and I know that there's so much more
• 07:47 coming from you.
• 07:48 Tell us how you got started in--I know you call yourself a
• 07:53 YouTube artist, and I think you're more than that.
• 07:57 But just tell us how you got started quickly.
• 08:00 I know you're so busy.
• 08:01 How you got started, where you think you're going with your
• 08:03 music, and who you want to reach.
• 08:05 Joshua: Well, I really feel like I think we're all called to
• 08:07 be a bridge in some way, so I feel like I'm called to be a
• 08:10 bridge between Judaism, messianic Judaism, and the
• 08:13 church bringing everybody together 'cause I believe that's
• 08:17 who Messiah's coming back for, one bride.
• 08:20 So, music is the tool and, you know, when I write, I kind of
• 08:24 write with that in mind to bring people together.
• 08:26 "How Great Is Our God," for instance,
• 08:27 I didn't write that song.
• 08:29 A friend of mine, Ed Cash and Chris Tomlin wrote that song,
• 08:31 and I think another guy with them.
• 08:33 I heard the world version came out and they sang it in several
• 08:36 languages.
• 08:37 David: Loved it. Joshua: And I loved it too.
• 08:40 But when they finished, they got to the last language I'm
• 08:42 like--I'm waiting for Hebrew because I mean, they didn't have
• 08:45 to sing in Hebrew but in my mind, we're in a prophetic day
• 08:49 and age where Israel shouldn't exist.
• 08:51 I mean, it's miraculous.
• 08:53 By great grandparents were killed in the Holocaust.
• 08:54 My grandmother came here.
• 08:56 My mom was born here and this never happened in the history of
• 09:01 the world where a nation was come back to life just like as
• 09:04 the prophets said, especially after 2,000 years
• 09:06 and the language.
• 09:08 And when they sang that song, I just felt like it was the right
• 09:11 time to meld this and I thought, I need to do this song in
• 09:14 Hebrew.
• 09:16 So I just sang it in Hebrew.
• 09:17 We did a music video, and that's when people just started finding
• 09:20 the song on YouTube.
• 09:22 It was such a blessing to me and hopefully a blessing to many.
• 09:24 That kind of became, like I said, like a bridge to
• 09:27 reach the church.
• 09:29 And they all knew it.
• 09:30 You know, it reminds me of the Psalms, you know, King David
• 09:32 would write a song and he'd be like to the tune of dances with
• 09:35 lilies, for instance.
• 09:37 Everybody knew what dances with lilies was, but he was singing a
• 09:40 new lyric so they could just jump right in.
• 09:42 They might not have known the words, but they knew half of the
• 09:44 portion of the song.
• 09:46 They knew the music and that's kind of what "How Great Is Our
• 09:48 God" did for, I think, a lot of Christians.
• 09:51 Like, I already know the song. I'll sing it in Hebrew.
• 09:54 In my mind, I know the words and it became a cool gateway for
• 09:57 people to understand.
• 09:59 You know, I think there's power in the language of Hebrew, a
• 10:02 language that was dead for 2,000 years but now it's back again.
• 10:07 David: It's hard to fathom that there are churches in
• 10:09 America that defend replacement theology.
• 10:12 Joshua Aaron: You know, the Bible says, "I'm not ashamed of
• 10:14 the gospel.
• 10:16 It's the power of God unto salvation to those who believe."
• 10:18 For some reason, we always stop at that verse.
• 10:20 The verse isn't over yet, to the Jew first and also to the
• 10:22 Gentile.
• 10:24 It's like this message always had that pattern.
• 10:26 And Romans 11:11, "I say then, have they stumbled
• 10:32 that should fall?
• 10:34 God forbid."
• 10:35 Romans 11:11, "But rather through their fall salvation has
• 10:39 come unto the Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy."
• 10:43 Now, verse 12, "Now if the fall of them be the riches of the
• 10:47 world, and the diminishing of the them the riches of the
• 10:49 Gentiles, how much more will their fullness be?"
• 10:53 I really believe this speaks of the time when us as a whole, our
• 10:58 people, are going to accept the Lord and we need
• 11:00 to look at that.
• 11:02 If you look at the Scripture as if there is no Jew and the
• 11:05 Gentiles have replaced, you can almost just delete the Book of
• 11:09 Revelations because Jewishness is back again.
• 11:11 There's a temple again.
• 11:13 There's references to the feasts.
• 11:15 I mean, it's all Jewish from front to back, you know?
• 11:19 And I--all I can say is there's just been some teaching
• 11:23 throughout history.
• 11:25 My grandmother, you know, knew about this.
• 11:27 She was raised Orthodox.
• 11:30 She was Orthodox. She knew about all this.
• 11:32 She didn't know anything good about Christianity, but she was
• 11:34 taught everything bad historically.
• 11:36 So, we need to, as believers or as Christians that might be
• 11:42 watching, we need to look at the Word of God and take it at face
• 11:45 value, not a filter through something that perhaps might
• 11:49 have fit politically 1600 years ago, but what fits in the
• 11:54 kingdom today through the Word of God.
• 11:56 David: That's it right there.
• 11:58 Joshua: That's it right there.
• 11:59 Dave: In America, we want to pray for Israel, we want to pray
• 12:03 for you, and Chaim and those who are here.
• 12:06 How can we specifically pray for you?
• 12:09 Joshua: Specifically?
• 12:11 David: Specifically.
• 12:12 Joshua: Man, that God would keep our--the body of Messiah
• 12:14 intact and that we'd be the head and not the tail.
• 12:18 I believe that this is the season, you know, the pioneers
• 12:21 of the messianic movement in Israel.
• 12:23 It was hard, it was hard.
• 12:25 They plowed on hard soil, hard asphalt, you know?
• 12:29 But I feel, I really believe now that all these young, this young
• 12:32 generation's born and raised coming out of this land being
• 12:36 raised in this land, that they would become the head and not
• 12:40 the tail, that they would be the business owners, that they would
• 12:42 be the great tentmakers, like Paul was, but also at the same
• 12:45 time bold in their faith, that God would raise up the local
• 12:48 body to lead with boldness, not just spiritually, by financially
• 12:54 but by the example of their families, and I believe that is
• 12:58 happening but that America would continue to pray.
• 13:03 You know, the Bible I think in James, Book of Yacov.
• 13:06 That was his name.
• 13:08 It says to good to those who need it, especially to the
• 13:10 household of faith.
• 13:12 So, you remember the household of faith here in Israel.
• 13:14 ♪ My salvation, whom shall I fear? ♪
• 13:23 ♪ The Lord is my light, my salvation, ♪
• 13:29 ♪ whom shall I be afraid? ♪♪
• 13:40 Jeffrey: I love music, worship music,
• 13:42 messianic worship music.
• 13:44 I just wouldn't want to be a messianic musician or any
• 13:48 musician for that matter, and I say this in all sincerity 'cause
• 13:52 it's such a precarious living.
• 13:54 I know these folk.
• 13:56 They're on the road and they go week to week and rely on
• 13:58 donations, and that's a hard living.
• 14:00 I don't know why I put it down.
• 14:02 That's so much like my very own in a ministry like this, we rely
• 14:06 on people who fall in love with what we're all about just like a
• 14:10 musician does.
• 14:12 If you enjoy the kind of praise that comes forth in the worship,
• 14:16 messianic and in the teaching messianic, please help put us on
• 14:20 the map just like we're trying to help put young talent
• 14:22 on the map.
• 14:24 David: Right, you know what I say about that?
• 14:25 We all have our gifts, some are musicians, some are teachers.
• 14:28 Just like Dov Schwarz who is one of our teachers in the series,
• 14:32 we are able to bring him because of your support.
• 14:35 We just want to thank you for that.
• 14:37 Kirsten: And we thank you and that we hope you watched Dov
• 14:38 series, "Watch Therefore And Be Ready."
• 14:41 And Dave, you actually had a time that you met with Dov to
• 14:45 ask him a few questions.
• 14:46 Here's David's interview with Dov now.
• 14:49 David: I am sitting here at one of my favorite spots in
• 14:54 Israel, the Sea of Galilee.
• 14:57 It's breathtaking and one of my favorite spots.
• 15:01 Today, we were on a boat on the Jesus boat worshiping, having a
• 15:06 great time, and now we're with my brother, my new brother or
• 15:09 Zola Levitt brother, Dov Schwarz.
• 15:13 We're so glad you're with us today.
• 15:15 Dov Schwarz: David, such a blessing to be here with you and
• 15:17 you're in good company.
• 15:19 Mashiyach Yeshua loved this spot too.
• 15:23 David: So, how many times have you come to Israel starting
• 15:28 as a child?
• 15:29 Dov: Well, I've been coming to Israel for about 22 years and
• 15:33 started moving this direction about eight or nine years ago,
• 15:38 but made the final move a couple years ago.
• 15:41 You know, my mother heard from the prophets.
• 15:44 I'll bring them back from the north, south, east, and west,
• 15:47 and she moved here in 1984 so I had a second home here for a
• 15:52 while, but there's nothing like a Jew coming back to his
• 15:57 homeland living here in Israel.
• 16:00 David: As a young boy, did you feel a calling that someday
• 16:03 you'd be living in Israel?
• 16:04 Dov: It's interested you bring that up because when I was
• 16:07 a little boy, I started hearing about prophecy.
• 16:10 A book called "The Late Great Planet Earth" by Hal Lindsey
• 16:14 came out and the Jesus movement was sweeping America.
• 16:17 And during that time as a little boy, I began hearing about
• 16:22 Israel, the significance of Israel that would become even
• 16:25 more so in my lifetime.
• 16:29 So, good question.
• 16:31 David: Zola Levitt Ministries has been around for about 38
• 16:33 years now, and I believe that there's a new generation that is
• 16:37 being a part of this wonderful ministry.
• 16:40 Can you tell me about that?
• 16:41 Dov: You know, Zola Levitt Ministries has been such a
• 16:44 blessing to me because as a Jewish believer in Mashiyach
• 16:47 Yeshua, I want to understand the balanced authentic teaching of
• 16:52 the Bible which includes the Jewishness of our faith.
• 16:56 But like I said, the great thing about Zola's ministry and those
• 16:59 who've helped carry it on, it's so balanced.
• 17:01 It's so authentic.
• 17:03 It's such good Bible teaching, so it's been such a blessing
• 17:05 for me.
• 17:07 And I'd like to share with you how that relates to
• 17:08 Bible prophecy.
• 17:10 We live in such an important generation where Bible prophecy
• 17:14 is leaping off the pages, right?
• 17:16 And so, I love the opportunity, the platform that Zola Levitt
• 17:21 Ministry provides to teach Bible prophecy in an authentic and
• 17:25 balanced way, right?
• 17:27 We know, we know the Messiah Yeshua, well, he could come back
• 17:31 in the clouds for us in the Rapture at any moment, and we
• 17:34 also know the time of the tribulation is coming, the
• 17:36 return of Messiah to sit on the throne of David in Jerusalem.
• 17:42 You know David, one of the questions I'm asked all the time
• 17:44 is, "Well, couldn't the Lord come back, yes, today in the
• 17:47 clouds in the Rapture, or a thousand years from now?"
• 17:50 And my answer is absolutely not.
• 17:52 And they say, "Well, people have been talking about this for
• 17:54 thousands of years."
• 17:56 And I say, yeah, but 1500 years ago, there was no Israel.
• 18:02 The land of Israel, the Promised Land
• 18:04 wasn't called by its biblical name, right?
• 18:06 There weren't many Jews in the land then.
• 18:08 A thousand years, 500 years ago, but now the prophetic words of
• 18:14 the Bible proclaimed by the apostles is coming to pass right
• 18:20 in front of us in our lifetime.
• 18:23 David: For the last five days, we've been on a bus and
• 18:25 everywhere we look out the window, things are in bloom.
• 18:30 It's beautiful here.
• 18:31 I think that that's part of prophecy.
• 18:34 Can you explain that?
• 18:35 Dov: Well, pinch yourself David because you are seeing the
• 18:39 Bible come to life and the prophet Isaiah, he
• 18:44 speaks to the time where the wilderness will blossom
• 18:47 like the rose, yeah?
• 18:49 And we're seeing it all across Israel.
• 18:50 You're watching this.
• 18:52 You'll be driving through the desert and see fruit groves and
• 18:55 all kinds of things like this.
• 18:57 In the Dead Sea, you know, we're gonna go fishing in the
• 18:59 Dead Sea one day.
• 19:01 That water is gonna be fresh and it's gonna be watered by this
• 19:04 river flowing under the king's throne, hallelujah, right?
• 19:08 And so, we are living in that time.
• 19:10 We're watching a preview of that time come springing out of this
• 19:17 Promised Land right before our very eyes.
• 19:22 So, the prophet Jeremiah are just blossoming in front of us.
• 19:29 You know what that makes me want to do?
• 19:31 That makes me want to watch for the coming of the
• 19:33 Messiah Yeshua.
• 19:35 It makes me want to hunger and thirst for righteousness and if
• 19:38 we'll do that, Messiah Yeshua promises we will be filled.
• 19:42 Filled, what do you mean?
• 19:43 Filled with Ruach Hakodesh, the Holy Spirit who will help us and
• 19:47 direct us.
• 19:49 He's a great helper, David, amen?
• 19:50 And so, he will help us through these prophetic times.
• 19:55 I say it this way, we have an apostolic, prophetic end times
• 20:00 life to live.
• 20:01 The words of the apostles are flying off the pages, fulfilling
• 20:03 the words of the prophets.
• 20:06 End times meaning Yeshua's coming and we need to be ready.
• 20:11 What a blessing to partner with you and Zola Levitt Ministries
• 20:14 to do just that.
• 20:18 ♪♪♪
• 20:24 announcer: Our resource this week, the series
• 20:26 "Watch Therefore And Be Ready" on DVD.
• 20:30 This eight-program series points to prophecy being fulfilled,
• 20:34 encouraging us to be ready for the Messiah's return.
• 20:37 Each program includes location teaching, reports from Israel,
• 20:42 in-studio analysis.
• 20:44 Plus music from David and Kirsten Hart.
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• 20:52 "Watch Therefore And Be Ready."
• 20:55 ♪♪♪
• 20:57 ♪ When we're there, when we're there ♪
• 20:59 ♪ in the land of Zion next year in Jerusalem. ♪
• 21:03 [singing in Hebrew]
• 21:06 ♪ next year in Jerusalem. ♪
• 21:08 ♪ Oh Lord, we'll be with you and no more tears. ♪
• 21:10 ♪ Oh Lord, thy kingdom come, thine will be done next year. ♪
• 21:14 [singing in Hebrew]
• 21:16 ♪ next year in Jerusalem. ♪
• 21:18 [singing in Hebrew]
• 21:22 ♪ next year in Jerusalem. ♪♪
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• 22:06 Jeffrey: [speaking in German]
• 22:11 I know you're probably not ready for a German lesson.
• 22:13 It means you are like a flower.
• 22:15 I'm of German Jewish extract and I remember my
• 22:18 mother saying that.
• 22:20 You are like a flower.
• 22:21 Speaking of which, isn't Israel like a flower that's just
• 22:26 blooming today?
• 22:27 Kirsten: Everywhere, Everywhere.
• 22:29 David: I think one of your favorite spots was when we saw
• 22:32 mustard seed or mustard growing and it's wild there.
• 22:38 It's everywhere in the spring.
• 22:40 Kirsten: On the Mount of Beatitudes, and Jesus was
• 22:43 teaching right in that area and I we talk about the tours.
• 22:47 I know you're talking about flowers and your mom, and then
• 22:49 we turn it to tours but it does relate.
• 22:53 Tours are the Zola Levitt.
• 22:55 Jeffrey: Yes, in fact, our producer Ken Berg, his favorite
• 22:58 time to be there is in the spring.
• 23:00 Of course, he's all about flowers and pictures.
• 23:02 He's so attuned to that, but it's just great to see the land
• 23:06 come alive and it's a modern miracle, isn't it?
• 23:09 David: Isn't that part of the prophetic that's going on right
• 23:11 there now?
• 23:12 Jeffrey: Yes it is.
• 23:14 It's prophesied Israel will emerge at the end of the days.
• 23:16 In so many ways, it was a withered flower and if you'll
• 23:18 permit, speaking of flowers, in Matthew chapter 6, a lot of us
• 23:23 feel like we're withering up in so many ways, shriveling under
• 23:27 the heat of trials and tribulations.
• 23:30 The Lord says in chapter 6, if you'll permit, and I mention
• 23:34 this because I sit here holding the Bible, might as well open it
• 23:36 up every now and again.
• 23:38 What do you think?
• 23:39 Yeshua said, "Consider the lilies of the field," in chapter
• 23:42 6, verse 28.
• 23:44 "Consider the lilies, how they grow.
• 23:47 They neither toil nor spin.
• 23:51 Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his glory clothed
• 23:55 himself like one of these."
• 23:58 And it goes on to say, "Inasmuch as God can take care of the
• 24:02 lilies in the field, that means that he can take care of people
• 24:08 like me and you."
• 24:11 Isn't it true?
• 24:13 Just like Israel seemed to have been pounded into oblivion under
• 24:17 hundreds of years of a hot sun, the land had deteriorated, and
• 24:22 there can be areas in your life where you can feel the
• 24:26 deterioration or not feel it but think about it in your life
• 24:30 and others.
• 24:32 And it is so easy to become discouraged.
• 24:34 Do you know the word "encourage" comes from a word meaning to
• 24:38 breathe courage in.
• 24:41 Sins, circumstances, Satan sucks courage out.
• 24:47 When I hear the Lord's words, I am encouraged that he can make
• 24:52 your desert to bloom.
• 24:55 And it's because we live by faith, we can be a little more
• 24:58 gracious with our resources and our energies.
• 25:01 So many people are just out for themselves but because we know
• 25:06 the one who holds our hand and the keys to our future, we can
• 25:11 be a little gracious and give up in order to let him work through
• 25:15 us because we believe that inasmuch as he takes care of the
• 25:18 flowers, he can take care of us and he can take care of Israel.
• 25:23 What do you think?
• 25:24 Kirsten: That's true and I love the thought that we brought
• 25:27 you today with Joshua Aaron and the interview with Dov, we are
• 25:31 seeing God blooming and new life coming from people that have
• 25:36 made Aliyah to Israel.
• 25:38 Jeffrey: Yes and he put a new song in their hearts.
• 25:43 That's what some people, you know, they're just playing the
• 25:47 same old negative narrative.
• 25:49 But we're told in Scripture, the Lord can put a new song in our
• 25:52 heart and rejuvenate us and revive us.
• 25:56 Isn't that fantastic?
• 25:58 David: There was a full plain of Ethiopians making Aliyah
• 26:00 recently that our son had a part in.
• 26:04 They're coming from everywhere.
• 26:05 Jeffrey: Yes, I know they're coming.
• 26:07 Tell me about your son's involvement, please.
• 26:11 David: He works with International Christian Embassy
• 26:12 in Jerusalem, and he was able to film these Ethiopians making
• 26:18 Aliyah to Israel.
• 26:20 Jeffrey: You know who else was involved in it?
• 26:22 Everyone who supported the International Christian Embassy.
• 26:26 You know, even in our ministry here, you know who's
• 26:30 involved in it?
• 26:31 Is it just me? Is it just you?
• 26:33 Is it just you? Is it just the crew?
• 26:35 No, it's all of you, you who believe God and are inspired to
• 26:41 share and help get the gospel out from a Jewish perspective
• 26:45 and help bring people back to the Lord, back to Israel, to
• 26:48 revive this perspective, this Jewish perspective that's been
• 26:52 gone so long.
• 26:54 Kirsten: And you are doing it.
• 26:55 You, our viewers, are making all of this happen.
• 26:58 Thank you for joining us today to hear stories of people that
• 27:02 are being drawn to Israel just like I believe you are being
• 27:05 drawn there also.
• 27:07 Join us next week.
• 27:09 We have much more on "Zola Levitt Presents."
• 27:10 Jeff?
• 27:12 Jeffrey: Yes, and as you go, [speaking in Hebrew].
• 27:17 David: Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.
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