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• 00:03 David Hart: Welcome to "Our Jewish Roots." In today's special program, we look at recent preparations by rabbis in Israel to ready the
• 00:13 building of a third temple. Join us now for an inside look.
• 00:18 David: We are so glad you've joined us today.
• 00:20 I am David Hart.
• 00:21 Kirsten Hart: I'm Kirsten Hart.
• 00:22 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: I am Jeffrey Seif.
• 00:24 I've got something in my heart, in my head,
• 00:26 and in my hand: press pass.
• 00:29 Not trespass; press pass.
• 00:31 The reason why I mention that is today we're bringing you some
• 00:34 news, breaking news you're not gonna get in the mainstream
• 00:38 news, but it's biblical news because there's stuff happening
• 00:42 in Israel and "Our Jewish Roots" wants to bring it to you.
• 00:46 And there's stuff happening in America that Israel is
• 00:49 interested in about, yes?
• 00:50 David: Oh, yes.
• 00:51 Kirsten: Ooh, I want one of those cards,
• 00:54 but you know what?
• 00:55 I don't have that card, but I have the knowledge of what
• 00:57 you're about to bring.
• 00:59 Hang on to your hats.
• 01:01 This is gonna be a rollercoaster ride.
• 01:02 Temple preparations.
• 01:06 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: For decades, an organization in Israel called
• 01:09 "The Temple Institute" has been
• 01:11 searching the globe for a pure red heifer in order to initiate
• 01:16 the building of the third temple and purify the Levitical
• 01:20 priesthood to officiate therein.
• 01:23 Numbers chapter 19 outlines the importance of the ashes of the
• 01:27 red heifer in ceremonial Hebraic worship but the qualifications
• 01:32 for that red cow are extremely precise,
• 01:36 very elusive in nature, the particulars of which are found
• 01:40 in Jewish rabbinical literature.
• 01:43 Not only must the cow be completely red,
• 01:45 but it cannot contain even two different colored hairs,
• 01:49 no visual blemish, as well as many other difficult criteria.
• 01:55 To help narrow down the search internationally,
• 01:57 the Jewish Christian organization,
• 01:59 Boneh Israel, led a small group of Israeli rabbis to Rockwall,
• 02:04 Texas, if you can imagine that.
• 02:07 Here, the rabbis believe they've finally found several suitable
• 02:11 candidates around one year of age.
• 02:14 Not one, but several, amazing.
• 02:18 I got the opportunity to speak with the owner of the red heifer
• 02:21 ranch, Ty Davenport, to find out how he feels on the matter.
• 02:28 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Ty, you have a 1400-acre ranch here.
• 02:31 Ty Davenport: Yes, I do.
• 02:33 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: And you have Jewish scholars from
• 02:36 Israel, from Jerusalem, coming to your ranch
• 02:40 to look at your cattle.
• 02:42 Can you tell the story about how this one just fortuitously,
• 02:45 accidentally, providentially never was tagged,
• 02:49 so there's never a blemish?
• 02:50 Ty: Yes, we literally tagged the calves the first day they're
• 02:55 born or the second day because after that they get too fast to
• 02:58 catch 'em.
• 02:59 We have to rope 'em otherwise we can go up there that first
• 03:02 couple of days and get hold of the calf and tag it.
• 03:05 And we like to--that we will know who the momma was and we
• 03:08 give it the same number as the mother.
• 03:12 Well, we had gone and already tagged the calves that day and
• 03:17 everything I had was tagged.
• 03:19 And like I said earlier, once it has a hole in its ear,
• 03:21 that's a blemish and it disqualifies it,
• 03:24 so I told 'em, "I don't have what you want."
• 03:27 But we went ahead and looked anyways through the ranch and
• 03:31 drove all across the ranch looking and we'd just about
• 03:34 given up and made one last look.
• 03:38 Out of the woods comes this momma with her newborn baby.
• 03:40 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Just so happened.
• 03:42 Now, when you said to them, "I don't think you have--"
• 03:46 we're talking about the scholars from The Temple Institute.
• 03:51 Ty: Yes, sir.
• 03:52 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Now, for those who don't know,
• 03:53 and if you've been to Israel, these are Hasidic Jews that are
• 03:58 all about building the accoutrements that go along with
• 04:03 the temple that's going to be raised up.
• 04:06 Believed at the end of days a temple is gonna be rebuilt and a
• 04:11 number of the furnishings have already been built but they need
• 04:15 to dedicate it with a sacrificial animal and they
• 04:19 believe that you may have the one
• 04:22 and they're all about inspecting.
• 04:24 They have to find out, yeah?
• 04:26 Ty: So once these gentlemen saw this heifer,
• 04:29 they got on the telephone and called Jerusalem--
• 04:32 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: They sent scouts first to come and
• 04:33 check it out.
• 04:35 Ty: They used the scouts, right.
• 04:36 Said, "We're gonna be back," and Byron called me.
• 04:39 He said, "We'll be back in three days,
• 04:41 and we're bringing some rabbis from Jerusalem that are gonna
• 04:44 fly in to examine the calf."
• 04:47 And they did.
• 04:48 And that's when--I didn't think much of it,
• 04:52 but all of a sudden, the news media shows up and all these
• 04:55 rabbis and people I've never seen before,
• 04:58 and they all came to see this heifer and we knew then we
• 05:04 had--this was something special that the Lord had planned.
• 05:07 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Now, I said something to you off-camera
• 05:10 that--you humbled me in your response to it.
• 05:13 I said, "Look," because when I had learned about this red
• 05:17 heifer story years ago, I learned if they ever found one,
• 05:20 it would be worth millions and millions of dollars and I said
• 05:23 to you, "Hey, get a lawyer," and you said,
• 05:26 "No, you're going to gift it."
• 05:29 Ty: All my life, I've just prayed and Daddy's always
• 05:32 given me the desires of my heart.
• 05:35 So, when I told him I wanted to be a cowboy and go full-time
• 05:39 ranching, he gave me a ranch and allowed me to sell my veterinary
• 05:44 practice and now I've been out here since 1997.
• 05:49 I've always just prayed, "I wanna be a good steward of your
• 05:51 land and your cattle, Lord."
• 05:53 And when this came up, weren't even a question about it.
• 05:57 I'm not gonna sell this heifer.
• 05:59 I'll give her to you.
• 06:01 You know, this is--to be a part of these end times,
• 06:07 to be a part of this last temple that I believe is going to be
• 06:13 erected, is like, "Wow."
• 06:18 It just humbles you, you know, to know you can be a part of it.
• 06:23 Itshack "Tsaki" Momo: Let me translate what he said.
• 06:26 He said we think we've found--we think we've found a red heifer.
• 06:31 ♪♪♪
• 06:38 David: So it's looking like they've found the red heifer.
• 06:40 We're not sure about that but what's next after that?
• 06:43 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Well, you know, if you're gonna
• 06:45 rebuild a temple, you've got to dedicate it.
• 06:46 Thus, the red heifer.
• 06:48 You need animals, you need incense,
• 06:49 you need the accoutrements: shovels,
• 06:51 altars, and all the rest.
• 06:53 It's all being assembled.
• 06:54 David: It's all coming together, yeah.
• 06:56 Kirsten: I could talk about all of this for days.
• 06:59 I don't think I'm the only one that's fascinated by this.
• 07:02 You were right there.
• 07:04 Please tell me, it's got to be big, right?
• 07:07 If the rabbis from The Temple Institute in Jerusalem fly to
• 07:11 Rockwall, Texas?
• 07:13 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: They--now, these are religious Jews,
• 07:15 you know, the long beards, the payos, the curls.
• 07:18 They were like high school cheerleaders,
• 07:21 for goodness' sake.
• 07:22 They were just so excited, rolling around
• 07:25 in the mud with heifers.
• 07:27 It really was a sight to behold.
• 07:29 It was different.
• 07:31 Kirsten: But this isn't necessarily good news?
• 07:34 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Depends how you look at it.
• 07:36 For them, they were excited because the rebuilding of the
• 07:38 temple, depending on how you look at Bible prophecy,
• 07:42 it also could be a portent of trials to come.
• 07:45 Kirsten: That's what I'm thinking.
• 07:46 There's so much more in this program.
• 07:48 Now, we get to go to Israel.
• 07:51 Wait 'til you meet this guy. He's fascinating.
• 07:53 He is the official incense supplier for the third temple.
• 07:58 Let's go to Israel right now.
• 08:01 Guy Erlich: I'm Guy Erlich
• 08:02 and this is the Balm of Gilead Farm.
• 08:03 We are standing at the hill of the frankincense,
• 08:06 part of my plantation.
• 08:08 Over here, the vast majority of the trees are boswellia sacra,
• 08:12 the true frankincense.
• 08:13 The frankincense of the incense of the early temple,
• 08:16 the frankincense of the present of the three Magus.
• 08:20 And the vast majority of the plants here
• 08:23 are frankincense trees.
• 08:26 The frankincense comes from the resin
• 08:29 which come out from the bark.
• 08:31 There is a special method of making a chip,
• 08:35 a cut at the branch and then we let the resin go out and dry.
• 08:40 And after about between one week
• 08:42 to ten days we collect the dry resin.
• 08:45 It's called tears because it--
• 08:46 most of them have the shape of the tear.
• 08:49 And this is the main raw material from the frankincense.
• 08:54 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: This is Guy's Garden of Eden where he
• 08:57 comes daily to inspect and tenderly care for his rare
• 09:01 collection of plants.
• 09:04 Actually, he started it all for medicinal purposes but it seems
• 09:08 there were bigger plans for his life,
• 09:10 a bigger reason for it all.
• 09:13 Guy: Along the years, a lot of Temple friends
• 09:15 are coming to visit me.
• 09:17 I've become a magnet for Temple friends.
• 09:20 In the beginning I found it quite annoying.
• 09:24 I started my venture in order to be an economic boost to my
• 09:29 family, not to serve the third Temple.
• 09:33 And I can tell you that the--on the first time that a lot of
• 09:38 Temple friends are coming to meet me,
• 09:40 the people of The Temple Institute.
• 09:41 Rabbi Ariel was here several times,
• 09:45 even with his family.
• 09:51 Yehuda Glick, Yehuda Etzion-- a lot of them.
• 09:54 And when Rabbi Ariel was here for the fifth time,
• 09:59 I told him, "Rabbi Ariel, when the Temple will come from the
• 10:01 sky I'll be more than happy to supply the incense for the Holy
• 10:04 Temple, but forget it, I'm not going to build you a Temple."
• 10:08 He was very upset with me.
• 10:10 He told me that I don't know what my destination is.
• 10:14 I started with my plants with a desire to make a medication
• 10:17 out of them.
• 10:19 And this is still my main goal.
• 10:22 But along the years I understood that my plants
• 10:24 have some other purposes.
• 10:27 And if they will be able to serve the Third Temple,
• 10:31 I'd be more than happy to be the one that would bring it.
• 10:35 So I promised Rabbi Ariel that I'd do my best to have as many
• 10:44 ingredients of the Holy Temple as I can.
• 10:47 And there are eight known ingredients and another three
• 10:53 unknown ingredients.
• 10:56 To find out what are the unknown ingredients and to try to have
• 11:00 the best quality of ingredients so when there will be a Temple
• 11:03 we will have the resin.
• 11:05 We will not have to wait for this.
• 11:08 And about two months ago, as far as I understand it,
• 11:14 I become officially--I officially became the incense
• 11:20 provider for the Third Temple.
• 11:23 The frankincense was used in different places.
• 11:26 The main place was as part of the 11 ingredients of the
• 11:31 incense of the Holy Temple.
• 11:32 It was burned on the golden altar.
• 11:36 It was also put as pieces of resin on the table of bread.
• 11:42 There was a family of Kohanim, Beit HaMikdash,
• 11:45 who were in charge for making the incense for the Holy Temple,
• 11:49 and their office was called the Frankincense Office.
• 11:55 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: This amazing garden collection is
• 11:57 located adjacent to the northern part of the Dead Sea,
• 12:01 the lowest spot on planet Earth.
• 12:04 Guy has called his site the Balm of Gilead Farm,
• 12:08 named after another plant he considers
• 12:11 one of his personal treasures.
• 12:14 Guy: This is the balm of Gilead,
• 12:15 Commiphora gileadensis.
• 12:17 The main plant, it is identified as a Commiphora gileadensis.
• 12:21 This originally came from Saudi Arabia.
• 12:27 We are in the spring time.
• 12:28 All the winter it was naked, without leaves.
• 12:32 It was quite miserable and very stressed.
• 12:35 But now it's starting to be hot and its leaves are coming back.
• 12:41 So this is a waking up balm of Gilead.
• 12:45 I'm using different parts of the plant.
• 12:47 I'm using the resin, I'm using the fruit,
• 12:50 and I'm using the leaves.
• 12:51 First of all, it was one of the most important medication of
• 12:55 ancient time.
• 12:56 The plant was so important that it served--so it served as the
• 12:59 first ingredient of the incense of the Holy Temple.
• 13:03 For the incense they used the dried branches.
• 13:06 This is what Professor Zohar Amar claiming.
• 13:09 In the period of the second Temple,
• 13:11 the balm of Gilead was the sole component,
• 13:13 the only component, of the anointing oil
• 13:15 of the kings of Israel.
• 13:17 There is a very interesting saying that the gold from the
• 13:21 three Magi's gift was not real gold.
• 13:28 It was the balm of Gilead.
• 13:30 It was more precious than gold.
• 13:32 And that was the oil that was needed to anoint the new king.
• 13:41 Guy: This myrrh was the second ingredient of the incense
• 13:43 of the Holy Temple.
• 13:45 This myrrh was also the second gift of the three magis.
• 13:51 It was a very important plant in ancient time
• 13:53 as a medication, spirituality.
• 13:57 It got a lot of use in ancient time and even nowadays we have a
• 14:01 lot of medical potential lie in this.
• 14:04 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Strangely enough, when Guy first started
• 14:07 his farm, he knew nothing about agriculture.
• 14:10 We asked him to explain why he pursued his dream in one of the
• 14:14 most difficult places in the world to keep things green.
• 14:19 Guy: I guess out of curiosity and persistence.
• 14:24 And maybe a guiding hand from above,
• 14:29 I don't know.
• 14:31 I am a--I am not a religious Jew.
• 14:34 But I find myself a great believer.
• 14:37 My faith is very strong.
• 14:40 And I considered it--I find the strength to keep on going with
• 14:45 my mission due to the understanding that there is a
• 14:50 meaningful thing with my plants.
• 14:53 It can be to the direction of the Third Temple.
• 14:56 It can be to the direction of medicine.
• 14:59 Both of them are sacred for me.
• 15:01 This is how to burn the incense in the Temple.
• 15:06 Not on direct fire; on coal.
• 15:08 Sometimes, they put some salt in order to make
• 15:10 the coal a bit cooler.
• 15:14 But this is how to burn the incense,
• 15:16 chopped resin put on coal.
• 15:19 ♪♪♪
• 15:26 Kirsten: I could literally watch and rewatch
• 15:29 that interview dozens of times.
• 15:30 In fact, I actually have
• 15:32 'cause I think it's absolutely fascinating.
• 15:35 Israel's back, Jerusalem is back,
• 15:38 they're ready for their Third Temple,
• 15:40 even for the incense.
• 15:42 Fascinating.
• 15:43 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Yes, and here we're looking
• 15:44 at the particulars.
• 15:46 Evangelicals have long felt in their heart of hearts,
• 15:48 God's up to something new in the world with the emergence of the
• 15:51 nation state of Israel.
• 15:52 But now we're looking at temple-related issues.
• 15:55 It adds a little frosting to the cake.
• 15:58 David: This is something we've learned right here and I
• 16:00 don't think we hear a lot about it in our churches these days,
• 16:02 what's going on.
• 16:04 It's pretty exciting.
• 16:05 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Yeah, a lot don't take up the question of
• 16:07 Bible prophecy and that's something that we do,
• 16:08 because we're all about looking at what God is up to
• 16:12 in Israel and through Israel.
• 16:13 Kirsten: I think this is one of my favorite programs ever,
• 16:16 because it's about the future but the Jewish people all are
• 16:19 rejoicing, and we're rejoicing too.
• 16:22 We'll be right back.
• 16:25 David: Our resource this week, the series,
• 16:26 "Jeremiah: Hope Over the Horizon," on DVD.
• 16:30 The prophet Jeremiah was called to warn Judah that judgment was
• 16:33 coming at the hands of the Babylonians.
• 16:36 What we find woven through his writings is a message of hope
• 16:39 and deliverance.
• 16:41 These nine programs feature Bible teaching by Dr. Jeffrey
• 16:43 Seif with special guest, Dr. Michael Brown.
• 16:47 Contact us and ask for the Jeremiah series on DVD.
• 16:53 David: "Our Jewish Roots" is more
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• 17:00 Kirsten: On Facebook and Twitter,
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• 17:09 David: On our YouTube channel, you'll find Faith Foundations,
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• 17:17 Kirsten: Or find everything on our website, levitt.com.
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• 17:27 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: This is one of the more fascinating
• 17:29 interviews I've had opportunity to be engaged in in years.
• 17:33 I'm here with Levi Chazan at a famous place.
• 17:37 How are you doing, Mr. Chazan?
• 17:39 Levi Chazan: Very well, thank you.
• 17:40 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Can you tell us where we are and what
• 17:42 you're doing here?
• 17:44 Levi: Okay, we're located about 20 minutes out of
• 17:46 Jerusalem in a place called--a settlement called Mitzpe
• 17:49 Yericho, which is right outside of Jericho,
• 17:53 overlooks Jericho, and what we have established over here and
• 17:58 what will be these premises, is a field school that is going to
• 18:02 be the preparations for the beginning of the Third Temple.
• 18:07 In this field school, it's very unique.
• 18:08 We will train priests and kohanim,
• 18:11 Levites, in order to participate in their work in the Temple
• 18:15 service in Jerusalem.
• 18:16 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Now, I think this is a fascinating story.
• 18:19 You live it and breathe it and participate in it day after day.
• 18:24 So it's just--I mean,
• 18:26 I'm not saying it's pedestrian or mundane.
• 18:28 It certainly isn't, but to think for a moment there's a vision to
• 18:32 regather the priesthood, to build a school,
• 18:35 to train, to prepare for sacrifices.
• 18:38 That's incredible.
• 18:40 Levi: You have to realize that the Jewish people have been
• 18:42 out of touch for the last 2000 years,
• 18:45 not only separated from the land,
• 18:47 but separated from their service.
• 18:49 And a great aspect of the Jewish people's service which is listed
• 18:53 in the Bible is the service which took place
• 18:56 in the Temple in Jerusalem.
• 18:58 That was the main, main part of the Jewish people's lives: their
• 19:01 cycle, their holidays, whenever it was.
• 19:04 Everything centered around the Temple in Jerusalem.
• 19:08 The Jewish people have been out of touch with that.
• 19:10 They've been away from that.
• 19:11 They've been removed from anything remotely resembling any
• 19:16 type of service in the Temple and what we're doing over here
• 19:19 is to get them renewed with this work,
• 19:23 to prepare them in order to teach them all the aspects of
• 19:27 the Temple service itself and what they have to do,
• 19:29 where they have to go, and this, we're planning here to raise a
• 19:33 generation of priests and Levites that will be able,
• 19:37 when the time comes, to work in the Temple service in Jerusalem.
• 19:40 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Mr. Chazan, what are the lines here all
• 19:42 about and what's up with the stones?
• 19:44 Levi: Well, this is actually where the groundbreaking was
• 19:49 done a few days ago.
• 19:51 This is basically the base of the altar itself.
• 19:54 The first stage of the field school is to build the altar.
• 19:58 That's the most important aspect of the field school.
• 20:00 And what you see over here is the line markings,
• 20:03 is exactly where the site of the altar will be.
• 20:06 And so what we've done over here is started construction on the
• 20:09 altar and that's the pile that you can see over here with the
• 20:12 hole, and is actually--it's actually very historical because
• 20:17 when King David first came to Jerusalem,
• 20:19 the first thing that he did, our rabbi's a blessed memory teach
• 20:22 us, is that he dug under the Temple Mount itself in order to
• 20:27 establish the outlet for the wine and water libations which
• 20:32 were poured on the altar.
• 20:34 You know, there was--on top of the altar there was tunnels
• 20:36 which led underground and King David himself actually dug those
• 20:39 tunnels out in order to prepare.
• 20:41 So the first stage that we've done is also made a hole in the
• 20:46 ground in order to prepare our model over here for the wine and
• 20:49 water libations.
• 20:51 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: I am astounded.
• 20:54 A couple of days ago, the news crews were here,
• 20:57 advertising the story.
• 20:58 There was some groundbreaking.
• 21:00 I can still see the chalk lines here where the mizbeah,
• 21:03 where the altar's going to be.
• 21:05 Fascinating.
• 21:07 What do you have here?
• 21:08 Levi: We have over here a model which is one of the
• 21:11 projects of our non-profit organization.
• 21:14 And our goal over here with this model,
• 21:16 this wooden model, is actually to produce a model which people
• 21:20 could afford and our goal is to have every Jewish home is to
• 21:24 have a Temple model in their house in order to awaken the
• 21:27 desire for rebuilding the Temple in its
• 21:29 proper place in Jerusalem.
• 21:31 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: So the vision here is every home,
• 21:33 just like there's a tzedakah box at every Shabbas table.
• 21:36 To have right next to it a model of the--
• 21:38 Levi: That's correct, that's correct.
• 21:40 Every home to have a Temple model and in this way we hope
• 21:43 that the Jews will have a desire to rebuild the temple in
• 21:45 Jerusalem where it's supposed to be.
• 21:47 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: And what do you have underneath it,
• 21:48 if I can hold.
• 21:50 Levi: Sure, these are the blueprints of the field school.
• 21:54 You see over here, this is the hill that's right behind us,
• 21:58 with the one-to-one scale of the Temple
• 22:01 and the altar inside of it.
• 22:03 And when we're building over here,
• 22:04 the model, you have to realize this is not just a small
• 22:07 version of it.
• 22:09 This is actually one-to-one scale of the same Temple which
• 22:11 was in Jerusalem 2000 years, which stood there.
• 22:15 We're talking about a--the building which is about 20
• 22:19 stories high.
• 22:20 Just the altar itself is 5 meters,
• 22:23 and it's humungous task.
• 22:25 It's unbelievable task to undertake,
• 22:28 but we plan to build it over here on this mountain.
• 22:30 You can see over here the blueprints for the altar itself.
• 22:33 This is, obviously, the main--for the main part of the
• 22:36 work of the field school, because this is where most of
• 22:38 the work of the priests took place,
• 22:40 was on the altar itself.
• 22:45 We also have the blueprints of the Temple itself,
• 22:47 of the field school, exactly the way that it was situated in
• 22:51 Yerushalayim in its proper place.
• 22:53 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: I mean, this is surreal at one level.
• 22:55 I just can't believe I'm having this conversation with you and
• 22:59 I'm looking at preliminary sketch documents,
• 23:02 I'm here post-groundbreaking for a field school to train kohanim
• 23:08 for sacrifices.
• 23:09 It blows the mind.
• 23:12 Levi: Well, you know, it's interesting that you say that
• 23:14 but if you would, you know, look back,
• 23:15 if we would have this conversation 100 years ago,
• 23:18 and we would be talking that Jews would live in Jerusalem,
• 23:21 Jews would live in the land of Israel,
• 23:23 people would also--people would also say,
• 23:24 "Well, that blows the mind.
• 23:26 That's something that can't be believed."
• 23:28 But the Jews have returned, right?
• 23:30 We have a state of our own now, 60 years have already passed.
• 23:33 The next natural step with the Jews returning to its land and
• 23:38 rebuilding Jerusalem is, once again,
• 23:40 going to the Temple Mount and rebuilding the Temple.
• 23:43 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: It's so cutting edge.
• 23:46 It's--I mean, how do you feel personally?
• 23:48 You're right here at the threshold of breaking ground.
• 23:53 Is there some kind of calling from God to be engaged
• 23:57 in this kind of enterprise?
• 23:59 Levi: Well, you know, we read the Bible,
• 24:01 we study about King David and his time period,
• 24:05 and King David himself talked about "How can I live in my
• 24:08 well-established house where the Temple of the Lord
• 24:11 is in a tent?"
• 24:12 And we say to ourselves, "You know,
• 24:14 how could it be that here we are,
• 24:15 we're in our well-established houses today,
• 24:17 60 years after the fact that the Jews have returned to the land,
• 24:20 and where's the house of God today?
• 24:22 What is being done to the house of God?
• 24:24 And we have no answer for that.
• 24:26 So we're taking concrete steps in order to actually start the
• 24:30 process of the Third Temple right here.
• 24:32 The first Jews came here, you know,
• 24:34 to establish the land.
• 24:35 It was also they rolled up their sleeves and they rolled in the
• 24:38 dirt and they had to make roads and they had to construct
• 24:40 houses, you know.
• 24:42 Everything there that had to be done was done,
• 24:46 and once we have this base, the next natural step is rebuilding
• 24:49 of the Temple for God.
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• 24:56 David: This has been such an interesting program today,
• 24:59 and Kirsten and I have had so many questions: questions like,
• 25:02 are you ready?
• 25:04 What's prohibiting the Temple from being built right now?
• 25:07 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Well, the land where it's to be located
• 25:10 happens to be controlled by Islamic authorities who have
• 25:15 placed their one of the most sacred shrines
• 25:18 in the Islamic world.
• 25:19 Last I checked, two objects can't occupy the same space at
• 25:23 the same time, so there's religious Jewish enthusiasms
• 25:27 about the rebuilding of the Temple, as we've seen.
• 25:30 There's Christians eschatologically that are
• 25:32 interested in it, but there are--Islamic friends have a
• 25:36 claim to the site as well, so we'll have to report on this
• 25:40 unfolding story as time goes on.
• 25:41 Kirsten: There is so much.
• 25:43 Just real quick, to touch on that red heifer.
• 25:46 Once those ashes--once they have the ashes,
• 25:49 is there anything to stop them from doing the ritual of the red
• 25:54 heifer over the nation of Israel?
• 25:57 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Well, the particulars of it so far as the
• 26:00 Temple goes, the ashes are used for dedicating the Temple and we
• 26:05 don't have the Temple there to dedicate right now.
• 26:07 So I suppose they will have those ashes and store it and
• 26:12 they'll find an appropriate time to use it.
• 26:13 David: We really all need to stay tuned for what's coming up
• 26:15 with all of that.
• 26:17 Kirsten: And keep watching the news.
• 26:18 Watch the news from Israel.
• 26:20 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Yes, it's just one of those stories and,
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• 26:28 by the way, we'll be back in business next week.
• 26:30 Until then, Shaalu shalom Yerushalayim.
• 26:34 Kirsten: Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.
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