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Episode: “Roadmap Bonus Interviews”
During the ten-episode Roadmap to Armageddon series, we have briefly heard from prophecy experts and Bible scholars. On this program, we bring you additional information that will help you better understand not only what is happening in our world today but also what lies ahead.

Caption transcript for “Roadmap Bonus Interviews”

  • 00:07 ♪♪♪ David Hart: Thank you so much for joining us today.
  • 00:09 We hope you've watched our past programs, our series on "Road
  • 00:13 Map to Armageddon."
  • 00:14 We've had many interviews with experts and not a whole lot of
  • 00:20 time to show those on our last programs.
  • 00:22 Kirsten Hart: Right, that's why we want to bring you this extra
  • 00:24 program with bonus interview segments, very timely.
  • 00:29 And Josh and Caleb, you met with some experts in this field.
  • 00:33 Caleb Colson: Oh, yes, we did.
  • 00:34 Joshua Colson: It's amazing when you meet with an expert.
  • 00:36 I mean, I kind of live with an expert, but here's the deal.
  • 00:38 You get talking with these guys about any topic and it's not a
  • 00:40 2- to 3-minute conversation.
  • 00:42 In fact, they're saying, "Can we keep going?"
  • 00:44 60 minutes into this conversation.
  • 00:45 We want people to be able to hear the meat of these topics.
  • 00:48 There is so much biblically that goes into answering these
  • 00:51 questions and we live in a day and age where the idea of a
  • 00:54 pre-Tribulation Rapture is fallen so out of what-- what's--
  • 00:59 what are we looking for?
  • 01:01 Caleb: The normality.
  • 01:02 Joshua: The normality of what people believe in, yeah.
  • 01:03 Caleb: When we were teaching about pre-Tribulation Rapture in
  • 01:05 "Road Map to Armageddon," it really struck a nerve.
  • 01:07 We got a lot of comments, a lot of interesting comments, people
  • 01:11 saying that's not true, that doesn't exist.
  • 01:13 So we were at a pre-Tribulation conference and there were as
  • 01:17 many excellent speakers that were discussing that.
  • 01:20 And so we want to go more into what they have to say about a
  • 01:24 pre-Tribulation Rapture, guys, so here are some of
  • 01:26 these interviews.
  • 01:28 I think you're gonna enjoy them.
  • 01:30 Caleb: I know you're a proponent, a teacher, of a
  • 01:32 pre-Tribulation Rapture that believers are spared from
  • 01:35 the wrath.
  • 01:37 Why is it that you believe that?
  • 01:38 I know it's fallen out of favor recently.
  • 01:40 You have COVID start and everybody goes, "We're in the
  • 01:42 Tribulation now this has happened."
  • 01:44 I don't believe that's the case but what are the evidences in
  • 01:49 scripture that that is the case, that we are saved from
  • 01:52 that wrath?
  • 01:53 Dr. Andy Woods: Well, one is what you just said.
  • 01:56 There's a number of passages.
  • 01:58 1 Thessalonians 1:10, 1 Thessalonians 5:9, et cetera, et
  • 02:01 cetera, that say we're not pre, you know, destined for the
  • 02:05 coming wrath of God.
  • 02:06 And what are the seal, trumpet, and bowl judgments?
  • 02:10 They're in the book of Revelation.
  • 02:12 They're a manifestation of his wrath.
  • 02:14 So we can't-- if we're in it, then God broke his promise.
  • 02:19 And the other thing is when you look at the futuristic section
  • 02:23 of the book of Revelation, the book of Revelation is divided
  • 02:27 into three, right?
  • 02:28 The things that you've seen, the things that are, the things that
  • 02:32 will take place after these things.
  • 02:35 The things that take place after these things is the
  • 02:38 futuristic section.
  • 02:39 There is no reference to the church either in word or concept
  • 02:46 on the Earth, not only there, but in any
  • 02:49 eschatological passage.
  • 02:52 You know, Ezekiel 38 and 39 there's no reference to the
  • 02:55 church on Earth.
  • 02:57 Zechariah 12 through 14, there's no reference to the church on
  • 03:00 the Earth and--
  • 03:02 Lee Brainard: Well, a lot of it is just simply trusting
  • 03:04 the plain statements of scripture and not being swayed
  • 03:07 by arguments that sound persuasive,
  • 03:11 but don't have substance in them.
  • 03:12 For instance, I will go to Revelation 3:10 and it says,
  • 03:14 "Because you've kept the word of my patience, I also will keep
  • 03:18 you from the hour of trial that's coming upon the whole
  • 03:20 world to try those that dwell upon the Earth."
  • 03:22 Now, this is just common sense that a 6th-grader
  • 03:25 can understand.
  • 03:26 The hour of trial, it comes upon the whole globe.
  • 03:29 There has not been an hour of trial that comes upon the whole
  • 03:32 globe since the flood.
  • 03:34 That means this is in the future.
  • 03:36 I don't understand how anyone can look at the first five seals
  • 03:40 and then say, "I think we're in the seals right now."
  • 03:42 It doesn't make any sense to me.
  • 03:44 If you look, the first seal is the rise and reign of
  • 03:46 the Antichrist.
  • 03:47 Well, unless you spiritualize that, where's the Antichrist?
  • 03:50 And then you come to the second seal: peace is taken from
  • 03:53 the Earth.
  • 03:54 Well, spotted wars here and there across the globe, that is
  • 03:56 not peace taken from the Earth.
  • 03:59 And then the fourth seal takes a quarter of the
  • 04:01 world's population.
  • 04:02 Well, we're not seeing that.
  • 04:04 Caleb: That's right.
  • 04:06 Kirsten: For 45 years, this ministry has taught a
  • 04:11 pre-Tribulation Rapture.
  • 04:14 I think Zola Levitt was probably on the cutting edge at that time
  • 04:18 to come out and say, "I believe this is how it's happening."
  • 04:22 You guys teach the same thing.
  • 04:24 Joshua: We do because the Word of God is consistent.
  • 04:26 So whether it's been 45 years or 2000 years, what Yeshua preached
  • 04:30 and what's in the Word remains the same and steadfast.
  • 04:33 We live in a time period where man likes to try to alter the
  • 04:37 Word of God through what seems to be something that people want
  • 04:40 to hear for the day, what tickles their ears and things
  • 04:44 like that.
  • 04:45 And what we're seeing is that you can't do that.
  • 04:47 Caleb: And see, God wanted to spare us the bride from
  • 04:50 his wrath.
  • 04:52 The wrath is for the wicked.
  • 04:53 And that time of the Tribulation is not meant for us because
  • 04:56 we're gonna be up in heaven, we're gonna be celebrating the
  • 04:58 marriage supper of the Lamb.
  • 05:00 So, it's very important that we are spared from that, that time
  • 05:03 of judgment, because it has been prophesied for millennia that
  • 05:08 it's gonna occur.
  • 05:09 And the subject of this great Tribulations for the last
  • 05:12 3.5 years of the Tribulation is very important topic.
  • 05:16 And not a lot of people understand what that
  • 05:19 really means.
  • 05:20 Kirsten: And you have some bonus interview from two people that
  • 05:25 are experts in all of this on what that great Tribulation time
  • 05:30 might look like.
  • 05:31 Let's go there right now.
  • 05:34 Jeff Kinley: Yeah, so, there'll be a one world religion in the
  • 05:36 first part of the Tribulation period.
  • 05:38 But Satan, because his long ambition is to, as you said, be
  • 05:42 worshiped and to rule the world, he's gonna do that through
  • 05:45 personifying himself through the Antichrist.
  • 05:47 So at that point, he's gonna basically say, "Look, I'm tired
  • 05:50 of these other religions.
  • 05:52 Christianity's gotta go," the Rapture's already happened.
  • 05:55 "Islam's gotta go," that'll probably happen with Ezekiel
  • 05:57 38:39 war and then all that's left are the Jews.
  • 06:01 And so all the bull's eye goes back to the Jewish people.
  • 06:04 And so Satan is gonna put a target on them, try to
  • 06:07 exterminate them from the planet.
  • 06:09 And that's when that mid time-- that midpoint event happens with
  • 06:12 the abomination of desolation.
  • 06:14 Andy: The tribulation is for the salvation of the Jewish nation.
  • 06:18 It's a time of Jacob's trouble but, you know, she-- he will be
  • 06:23 saved out of it.
  • 06:24 Well, we're, as the church, you know, we're not Jacob and
  • 06:29 certainly we've benefited from Israel.
  • 06:32 We would have nothing as a church if it wasn't for Israel,
  • 06:35 but we don't take over Israel's place, and so--
  • 06:40 Kirsten: When we interviewed, oh, my gosh, 8 years ago now,
  • 06:44 for our positions with Zola Levitt Ministries and for, at
  • 06:48 that time, it was "Zola Levitt Presents," now, "Our Jewish
  • 06:51 Roots" program, we had an interview with Mark Levitt who
  • 06:56 is Zola Levitt's son.
  • 06:58 And at that time, Mark asked us, he said, "Do you believe in
  • 07:03 replacement theology?"
  • 07:06 And I thought, "I don't even know what replacement
  • 07:09 theology is."
  • 07:10 I mean, we grew up in the church and I honestly had no idea that
  • 07:15 some churches believe that they have replaced the Jewish people.
  • 07:20 I, thank goodness, have-- and never-- was never taught that.
  • 07:24 David: Yeah, Sunday School, I don't remember hearing that or
  • 07:27 even from the pulpit.
  • 07:28 Kirsten: But it's everywhere.
  • 07:30 Let's kick out the Jewish people and replace it with the
  • 07:33 Christian church, which we do not believe in.
  • 07:37 Caleb: Absolutely not.
  • 07:38 But it's gained traction again in this world, especially since
  • 07:41 the war with Hamas on October 7.
  • 07:45 The new message that the church
  • 07:47 is pushing, because we read comments online and people send
  • 07:50 us their messages, is that the Israelites in the land today
  • 07:53 aren't the real Israelites.
  • 07:54 It's a new insidious twist on replacement theology saying,
  • 07:57 "Oh, it's the Africans in Africa.
  • 08:00 They're the real Israelites," or "It's the British in England.
  • 08:03 They're the lost ten tribes."
  • 08:05 And there's so many perverse spins on things because Satan
  • 08:08 has always tried to dilute the waters of potency of God's
  • 08:12 chosen people.
  • 08:14 He wants to remove him.
  • 08:15 I mean, he tried through Hitler.
  • 08:16 I mean, 6.5 million Jews dead.
  • 08:20 Obviously, Satan thought that those Jewish people were the
  • 08:23 real Jews because he wouldn't have wasted his time
  • 08:25 annihilating them.
  • 08:26 Joshua: That's how the enemy always has done.
  • 08:28 I always equate this even when I was talking with my children
  • 08:30 about this topic, how is it that you can hurt a daddy the most?
  • 08:34 You hurt a daddy the most by hurting his kids.
  • 08:37 And so the plan of the enemy has been very simple.
  • 08:39 He has tried to attack the children of God since the very
  • 08:42 beginning because he wants to cut a quick into the heart
  • 08:44 of God.
  • 08:46 And it's our responsibility to defend the people of Israel.
  • 08:48 And to understand that the covenants that God made with
  • 08:50 Israel are resolute and everlasting.
  • 08:52 When God makes a covenant with somebody, it goes on eternally.
  • 08:55 Now, the people who are not from Israel who accept Yeshua as
  • 09:00 their Lord and Savior, yes, they are a part of the kingdom and
  • 09:04 they will spend eternity with him.
  • 09:05 But it doesn't transpose the promises that God made
  • 09:08 specifically to Israel over to them just because they believe
  • 09:10 in Yeshua.
  • 09:12 David: And you guys talked to more experts about this topic.
  • 09:14 Let's go there now.
  • 09:17 Andy: Satan has always worked in history to destroy the Jewish
  • 09:22 nation and the Jewish people.
  • 09:24 Now, why is that?
  • 09:25 Because God, as one of the ways he's gonna bring his covenant
  • 09:29 back-- his kingdom back to the Earth, has made an unconditional
  • 09:32 covenant with the Jewish nation.
  • 09:34 In other words, they are his instrument through which he'll
  • 09:39 bless the whole world, Genesis 12, verse 3.
  • 09:41 So Satan likes his position of authority.
  • 09:45 So what better way to keep it than to try to blot out the
  • 09:50 nation through which the kingdom is gonna come one day.
  • 09:53 So that's how I understand Jew hatred, the world against
  • 09:58 Israel, that you see today, but you see it really all the way
  • 10:02 through the Bible.
  • 10:04 You go to-- you go to the book of Esther, Haman, you know, is
  • 10:07 developing a plan to exterminate the Jews.
  • 10:10 You've got Adolf Hitler, World War Two era, et cetera.
  • 10:14 And so the current war in Israel is just sort of an outworking of
  • 10:19 that angelic-- I would call it an angelic conflict.
  • 10:24 Olivier Melnick: And the two key words again, are demonic
  • 10:26 and irrational.
  • 10:28 Only Satan can make the irrational look and
  • 10:30 sound rational.
  • 10:31 And it is demonic, it is from Satan, because, and going back
  • 10:35 to the Tribulation now, he wants-- he knows that at the end
  • 10:38 of the 7-year Tribulation, the time of Jacob's trouble, the
  • 10:41 Jewish people will corporately say, "Blessed is you who comes
  • 10:44 in the name of the Lord, Baruch Habah B'shem Adonai."
  • 10:47 And that's when Yeshua comes back.
  • 10:49 A lot-- most Christians actually don't know that Jesus, Yeshua,
  • 10:52 does not return-- not the Rapture; the Second Coming.
  • 10:55 Does not return until the Jewish people call on him.
  • 10:59 And that's connected to Zechariah 12:10.
  • 11:02 And so, what we have here is with Satan, who knows that his
  • 11:06 career is going to be an end-- it's gonna be ended when Yeshua
  • 11:12 returns and he doesn't really care for his retirement plan.
  • 11:16 He doesn't like where he's going.
  • 11:17 So if he could stop the Jews from calling on Jesus, then his
  • 11:22 job is safe.
  • 11:23 He's gonna keep his job and he's not-- and Jesus is not
  • 11:25 coming back.
  • 11:26 So that's what he's-- that's what he's been doing for
  • 11:28 2000 years.
  • 11:29 More than that.
  • 11:31 He's been behind anti-Semitism and he's gonna try.
  • 11:33 He tried at the First Coming to stop Jesus from coming and he's
  • 11:36 gonna try again, and he's not gonna succeed.
  • 11:39 But casualties, unfortunately, will take place and the
  • 11:43 casualties that we-- when it comes to the Jewish people, we
  • 11:46 look at 'em from Zachariah 13:8-9, that two-thirds of the
  • 11:49 Jewish people will die during the Tribulation and one-third
  • 11:54 will be refined as silver and gold.
  • 11:56 And that's that one-third that will say, "Blessed is he who
  • 11:59 comes in the name of the Lord," at the end of the 7 years.
  • 12:01 The important part about that scripture, I-- the first time I
  • 12:05 saw that scripture, I got really upset.
  • 12:06 I told my wife, she's the one who led me to the Lord 40
  • 12:09 years ago.
  • 12:10 And I-- early on I said, "You know, I don't like this.
  • 12:12 This is the-- two-thirds of the Jews are gonna be killed during
  • 12:15 the Tribulation.
  • 12:16 That's if it's happened today, that's more than the Holocaust.
  • 12:19 That's 10 million out of the 15 million.
  • 12:21 And the Holocaust was 6 million.
  • 12:22 I don't like this, but it's part of the Word.
  • 12:24 So I can't take it out.
  • 12:26 I can't rewrite the Bible."
  • 12:28 And then she said, "Think about it.
  • 12:30 It's a percentage, not a number."
  • 12:32 And I go like, "So what?"
  • 12:34 And she said, "Well, if it's a percentage, if we lead Jewish
  • 12:37 people to their Messiah before the Rapture, they'll come
  • 12:40 with us.
  • 12:41 That percentage remains the same, 2 to 1, but the number can
  • 12:44 be reduced."
  • 12:45 And that got me encouraged.
  • 12:47 And now I'm really excited about getting my people saved.
  • 12:49 Joshua: So you've talked about the importance and I'm sure in
  • 12:52 your books and whatnot that we have to get these
  • 12:55 numbers shifted.
  • 12:56 We have to get more lives into the kingdom, with what you do in
  • 12:59 your ministry.
  • 13:01 What do you recommend for people who are watching and how they
  • 13:03 can be effective in ministering to the Jewish people and
  • 13:06 fighting this anti-Semitism that you're seeing rising up?
  • 13:09 There's a couple of things that I would recommend people do.
  • 13:12 One thing is when you talk to-- when you talk to Jewish people,
  • 13:16 as a believer, as a Christian, a lot-- I do this seminar a lot
  • 13:22 and a lot of Christians do not have a clue about the history of
  • 13:27 the Jewish people seen through the lens of anti-Semitism, which
  • 13:30 a lot was done by the Church, by pseudo-Christians.
  • 13:34 You know, the Crusades, the Inquisition, the Holocaust, the
  • 13:37 Black Plagues, Martin Luther, all those things.
  • 13:39 So I tell Christians when you walk into a a conversation, when
  • 13:42 you walk into a room, and you wanna talk to a Jewish person,
  • 13:45 you wanna have a conversation, it's very important you
  • 13:47 understand that you bring baggage with you.
  • 13:49 And I have this slide that I show in my seminar.
  • 13:52 It's like an old-fashioned suitcase, and all the labels of
  • 13:54 all the city you visited and it says, "Black Plague," "Pograms,"
  • 13:58 "Holocaust," "Martin Luther," "Inquisition," "Crusades."
  • 14:01 And I tell the people, "This is a Christian baggage.
  • 14:04 You need to know it exists.
  • 14:05 You cannot ignore it.
  • 14:07 You need to know what's inside."
  • 14:08 So you have to know about every single one because your
  • 14:10 Jewish friend is gonna go, "What about the," fill in the blank?
  • 14:12 And you can't just say, like, "Well, I don't know, but Jesus
  • 14:15 loves you."
  • 14:16 That doesn't work.
  • 14:17 You need to know the history so you can relate to the people.
  • 14:19 That's one thing.
  • 14:20 The next thing is, and I think this is where we are right now.
  • 14:25 I think that Jewish outreach has shifted again where--
  • 14:30 since October 7.
  • 14:32 Probably a little before that, but October 7 was
  • 14:33 like, you know, the world knows now.
  • 14:35 Where I think we need to equip and mobilize Bible-believing,
  • 14:43 Bible-studying followers of Yeshua, the few Christians that
  • 14:47 are real Christians, we mobilize them to be ready to be what I
  • 14:53 call the new righteous among the nations.
  • 14:55 Those who are gonna just open their homes to Jewish people and
  • 14:58 say, "You're in trouble; come in."
  • 15:01 I don't want my Jewish-- my Christian friends to say, "I'll
  • 15:04 pray for the peace of Jerusalem."
  • 15:05 That's good.
  • 15:06 But it's just like, that's the foundation.
  • 15:08 We are at a place where Jewish people need to know they have
  • 15:11 Christian friends.
  • 15:12 And that means that if those Christian friends have to open
  • 15:15 their homes to rescue and shelter the Jewish people, I
  • 15:18 think that's what's coming next.
  • 15:20 And a great opportunity we're gonna have is going to be to
  • 15:23 share the gospel with these people once they stay in
  • 15:26 Christian homes because they have nowhere to go.
  • 15:28 And I don't think we're too far from that happening against the
  • 15:31 Jews globally, and certainly in America.
  • 15:34 J.B. Hixson: If the Rapture were to happen today, then maybe in
  • 15:37 the next, you know, few months, till America falls apart.
  • 15:40 But here's the thing, it could fall apart before the Rapture.
  • 15:44 I tell people all the time, "Has it ever occurred to you that if
  • 15:48 the Lord tarries his Coming, we might be raptured someday as a
  • 15:50 Chinese citizen?"
  • 15:52 I mean, we tend to think in terms of American exceptionalism
  • 15:55 and-- but America's only been around 200 and, what,
  • 15:58 73-some-odd years, 247 years, I should say.
  • 16:03 I mean, that's nothing compared to 6000 years of human history.
  • 16:06 Caleb: And I don't see them showing up in Bible prophecy.
  • 16:08 I don't see them rescuing Israel.
  • 16:09 I don't see them, yeah, helping their greatest ally.
  • 16:12 So something has to happen.
  • 16:13 I agree to diminish America's place on the world stage.
  • 16:20 David: We are true Americans.
  • 16:21 We love living in America.
  • 16:24 The question is, are we a part of the end times?
  • 16:27 Joshua: I'm very glad you asked this question.
  • 16:29 This question is asked a lot.
  • 16:30 What exact verses point to exactly where America is in the
  • 16:34 end times?
  • 16:35 And I will tell you they are nowhere.
  • 16:37 No verses.
  • 16:38 Caleb: People get really riled up about this subject matter
  • 16:41 because they look at symbolism of different things, like the
  • 16:44 young lions of Tarshish, eagles wings.
  • 16:46 They say, "America has to be one of them."
  • 16:49 I don't believe it is.
  • 16:50 You know, if it says in Revelation, "All nations come
  • 16:54 together" or "All nations go to war," then maybe America
  • 16:58 is included.
  • 16:59 But I believe we are-- we're kind of beaten down on the world
  • 17:02 stage because of certain things like the Rapture which may
  • 17:04 diminish our power play.
  • 17:07 Kirsten: That's an interesting point of view.
  • 17:09 And we've been obviously in church, literally, our whole
  • 17:14 lives and there are so many different viewpoints and that's
  • 17:19 why we're looking at the two of you and also Zola Levitt, our
  • 17:23 founder, what his viewpoint was, and as a ministry, what we are
  • 17:28 standing behind.
  • 17:29 And that's important that we're doing this program all
  • 17:32 about this.
  • 17:34 Caleb: That's right.
  • 17:35 So we got to speak to more experts and ask them what
  • 17:38 happens to America in Bible prophecy.
  • 17:40 Let's hear what they have to say.
  • 17:43 William Koenig: You know, we know that the biblical
  • 17:45 significance of the land of Israel.
  • 17:47 Joshua: Yes, sir.
  • 17:49 William: God gave it to, Genesis 15:18, from the Euphrates River
  • 17:53 through about four or five modern-day Arab countries into
  • 17:56 the Great River in Egypt.
  • 17:58 And this is God's covenant land.
  • 18:01 And I documented over many years, 25-plus years where we
  • 18:05 pressured Israel to divide their land, we have these enormous
  • 18:09 record-setting catastrophes that happened the same day within
  • 18:11 24 hours.
  • 18:13 And I noticed the greater the pressure on Israel to create an
  • 18:17 Arab state in Judea and Samaria and possibly divide Jerusalem,
  • 18:21 the greater the corresponding catastrophe.
  • 18:23 On September 22, Bibi Netanyahu was at the UN and the
  • 18:29 Biden-brokered US-Israeli-Saudi deal was about to
  • 18:35 be consummated.
  • 18:37 There was so much enthusiasm.
  • 18:39 Even Bin Salman from-- the Crown Prince Bin Salman of Saudi
  • 18:43 Arabia was on US TV, talking about this special moment of a
  • 18:47 normalized relations with Israel, and Netanyahu, this is
  • 18:51 such a poignant message that we're about ready to move into a
  • 18:56 time of great peace, in the-- in Israel with the Palestinians and
  • 19:03 in the Middle East.
  • 19:04 And that this was a record moment, a record-setting moment.
  • 19:08 And friends of mine on the inside in Israel were concerned.
  • 19:12 What did Netanyahu promise to the Saudis?
  • 19:15 Did it have to do with the Temple Mount, sovereignty, and
  • 19:18 issues like that?
  • 19:19 But it was so prophetic, I believe because there was a
  • 19:23 euphoria in the international community, hearing an Israeli
  • 19:28 and Saudi leader talk about this new moment of peace in 2 weeks
  • 19:34 and a day after, when you all were in Israel, October 7
  • 19:38 changed things dramatically.
  • 19:40 So what Netanyahu was talking about at the UN was completely
  • 19:44 different 13--15 days later.
  • 19:48 And so I think that what that does, Joshua, it leads us into
  • 19:51 the prophetic alignment.
  • 19:53 I address this often.
  • 19:54 Our American presidents have all, despite, I mean, they're
  • 19:58 friends of Israel in many contexts, but their peace
  • 20:02 efforts have accelerated final day events and that's-- and
  • 20:06 that's what we're seeing today.
  • 20:07 Right before Ezekiel 38 and 39, Jeremiah 49:34 through 39, that
  • 20:12 deals with modern-day Elam, or modern-day Elam, which is Iran.
  • 20:16 It's just accelerating prophetic events and I think we're right
  • 20:20 there, right now.
  • 20:22 Caleb: All the trouble that God goes through, through the
  • 20:24 Tribulations, not just to judge the wicked, but he's trying to
  • 20:28 prove to his own people that he's God.
  • 20:30 He's trying to save the whole house of Israel.
  • 20:32 All that work to get our stubborn hearts to turn to him?
  • 20:36 Andy: Well, what does he say about the nation of Israel?
  • 20:39 He calls them a stiff-necked people and I had a fellow that
  • 20:42 led me to Christ and he gave me probably the best piece of
  • 20:47 theology I've ever received.
  • 20:49 He said, "God knocks us down so that we look up."
  • 20:52 And if we're all honest with ourselves, that's how all of us
  • 20:56 are saved.
  • 20:58 He's-- God has dealt with us individually.
  • 20:59 Well, there's a knocking down coming for the Jewish people.
  • 21:04 They're gonna think that the Antichrist is their Messiah for
  • 21:09 3.5 years until he goes into the temple and betrays them and
  • 21:15 replicates what one of their villains, Antiochus Epiphanes,
  • 21:20 did in the past.
  • 21:21 And that, what Antiochus did is stitched on the hearts of the
  • 21:25 Jewish people.
  • 21:27 They all know that history.
  • 21:28 And when the same thing happens but in a wider scale, that's the
  • 21:32 knocking down.
  • 21:33 And that's why God in the second half of that Tribulation period
  • 21:37 is, you know, that the Spirit is being poured out on them, that
  • 21:42 they will look upon whom they have pierced and mourn greatly.
  • 21:46 And so that's sort of how I see things working.
  • 21:50 Jeff: So that, in essence though, God will use that to
  • 21:53 help the Jewish people come to know him because you'll have
  • 21:57 144,000 young Jewish male, Billy Grahams essentially, you know,
  • 22:01 preaching the gospel everywhere.
  • 22:02 You're gonna have the two witnesses that are doing
  • 22:04 incredible miracles during that time.
  • 22:06 The temple will be rebuilt during that time as well.
  • 22:08 So I think that will illustrate what Yeshua has done for the
  • 22:12 Jewish people.
  • 22:13 The two witnesses will point to that.
  • 22:15 So many great things are happening.
  • 22:16 Miracles are gonna be going on during this time.
  • 22:17 And so it'll be a time, I think, where the Bible says one-third
  • 22:21 of the Jewish people will come to faith in him.
  • 22:23 And thus, all Israel will be saved, as Paul said in
  • 22:25 Romans 11.
  • 22:27 Lee: The Tribulation isn't God rubbing his hands because he
  • 22:30 gets to go back to the law.
  • 22:31 He's rubbing his hands with excitement because he gets to go
  • 22:34 back to the people that are under the law and bring them
  • 22:36 into the new covenant so they can have salvation through the
  • 22:39 new covenant in Jesus Christ's blood because God cannot fulfill
  • 22:44 his promises to his people, Israel, that are in the Old
  • 22:47 Testament, the land, the temple, the throne, the kingdom, until
  • 22:50 they believe in the Messiah.
  • 22:53 Caleb: And he wants that remnant, he wants the whole
  • 22:55 house of Israel, to be saved.
  • 22:56 Lee: Amen.
  • 22:58 Caleb: And that's what it takes, unfortunately, takes them going
  • 23:00 through that suffering that they're enduring from the beast
  • 23:03 and all that till they finally look upon him and the whole
  • 23:06 house of Israel's saved.
  • 23:07 Lee: Amen.
  • 23:09 To me, it's a tear-jerking, body-convulsing experience to
  • 23:15 think about the fact that some glorious day, the whole house of
  • 23:20 Israel is gonna look upon their Messiah and his crucified hands.
  • 23:24 And can you imagine that mixture of feelings they're gonna have:
  • 23:27 the shame and the remorse and the excitement and the joy.
  • 23:30 Caleb: They'll mourn like for their only son.
  • 23:32 Yeah, it's-- but such joy is gonna come after that because
  • 23:36 they're gonna see their Messiah ruling and reigning, what
  • 23:39 they've been waiting for their whole lives.
  • 23:43 Kirsten: This has kind of been a heavy topic program today.
  • 23:47 Good and full of so much information.
  • 23:50 I've got to say, I think one of my takeaways will be there's no
  • 23:55 time like the present, right now, to reach our Jewish
  • 24:00 brothers and sisters.
  • 24:02 And the two of you have been, oh, so good for so many years,
  • 24:07 talking about the lower the percentage.
  • 24:11 It's not how many, but it's a percentage of, and it's our time
  • 24:16 to make a difference.
  • 24:17 Am I right on that, you guys?
  • 24:19 Joshua: One hundred percent right.
  • 24:20 We cannot change Bible prophecy.
  • 24:22 What has been spoken is going to come to pass, but we can change
  • 24:25 that starting number.
  • 24:26 So we know that two-thirds are gonna perish of the Jewish
  • 24:29 people, right?
  • 24:30 So if two-thirds is our percentage, instead of that
  • 24:33 being millions of people as a starting number, we can get so
  • 24:36 many Jewish people saved that that could be two-thirds of
  • 24:39 100,000, two-thirds of 10,000.
  • 24:42 I mean, I'm gonna aim for the smallest number possible,
  • 24:44 because our job, what we have been commissioned to do, our
  • 24:48 primary focus, is to go out and to minister to Israel, to tell
  • 24:52 them about their Messiah, to lead them to Yeshua, so that
  • 24:55 every single one of God's children can be saved, can spend
  • 24:59 eternity with him.
  • 25:01 Caleb: That's right.
  • 25:02 We're called not just to the Jew but to the Jew first, but also
  • 25:05 to the Gentile, to everyone.
  • 25:07 Yeshua wants everyone to come to know him and his sacrifice
  • 25:12 was enough.
  • 25:13 His blood was enough to cover the sins of the entire world,
  • 25:15 everyone past, present, and future.
  • 25:17 But it's a choice each of you have to make.
  • 25:20 Are you going to accept his sacrifice and his atonement to
  • 25:22 cover your sins?
  • 25:24 Are you gonna repent?
  • 25:25 Are you gonna ask him into your heart?
  • 25:27 You're going to declare him to be the Lord of your life?
  • 25:28 Or you're gonna do things your own way, the way of self?
  • 25:31 And that's why it's so pertinent: we're living in these
  • 25:34 last days.
  • 25:35 Now, the end times are coming soon.
  • 25:37 We feel that impendingness, you know?
  • 25:41 That we have to go out, we gotta go forth, and that's why we're
  • 25:44 really focusing on the gospel message lately because time
  • 25:48 is short.
  • 25:49 Joshua: Because the message of the day-- of today has always
  • 25:51 said it's about you.
  • 25:52 The message of today says it's your truth, it's your
  • 25:55 preferences, it's you, you, you, you.
  • 25:57 And that's why we say "No, no, no.
  • 25:58 The gospel says that we're to go out to everyone else."
  • 26:02 Kirsten: And this ministry, I believe we have an urgency
  • 26:08 because if we look at the times and what's happening, I think
  • 26:12 we're close.
  • 26:14 October 7 in Israel, that triggered, boy, that was-- that
  • 26:19 was such an incredibly hard day.
  • 26:21 But I hope that in a way maybe the good that can come from that
  • 26:25 is that people's hearts, hopefully through the pain, the
  • 26:30 horrible pain, will turn back to God.
  • 26:34 And what an incredible opportunity for us who believe
  • 26:39 that Yeshua is Messiah and that he already came, to be a voice
  • 26:44 and a positive voice and show so much love and compassion to the
  • 26:48 Jewish people and especially those that are in Israel
  • 26:51 right now.
  • 26:52 David: We want to bring so much more of this insightful
  • 26:54 information to you.
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  • 27:02 And we want to continue bringing this gospel every week.
  • 27:05 Guys, I can't believe it's time to go.
  • 27:07 It's been so good today.
  • 27:09 Thank you for your insight today.
  • 27:11 We end with this.
  • 27:13 Caleb: That's right.
  • 27:14 Don't forget to Shaalu shalom Yerushalayim.
  • 27:16 David: Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.
  • 27:19 David: Our resource this week, "The End," written by
  • 27:22 Mark Hitchcock.
  • 27:23 This 500-page hardcover book is made available to you for your
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  • 27:30 The accompanying bookmark by Joshua and Caleb provides
  • 27:33 important scripture from God's Word concerning the end.
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