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Caption transcript for The First Christians (2019): “Death” (9/9)

• 00:01 Jeffrey Seif: Death is
• 00:04 a tough subject, isn't it? We're going to look at it today with grace, and we can do so
• 00:07 because we know we're going to a better place.
• 00:10 We're going to consider that today on "Zola Levitt Presents."
• 00:19 male announcer: Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer
• 00:21 to God for Israel is that they might be saved.
• 00:25 For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek,
• 00:28 for the same Lord over all is rich unto all
• 00:32 that call upon him.
• 00:34 "Zola Levitt Presents."
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• 00:44 ♪♪♪
• 00:53 David Hart: We thank you so much for joining us today on
• 00:55 "Zola Levitt Presents." I'm David Hart.
• 00:56 Kirsten Hart: I'm Kirsten Hart.
• 00:58 Jeffrey: I'm Jeffrey Seif.
• 00:59 And I am reminded of a verse where Paul said,
• 01:01 "O death, where is thy victory?
• 01:02 Where is thy sting?"
• 01:04 We get the better of it all because of the Lord, don't we?
• 01:06 Kirsten: And it's fascinating to learn about the traditions of
• 01:10 death, I know we don't like talking about death,
• 01:13 in the first century that Zola's been teaching us
• 01:16 throughout the whole series.
• 01:17 But now we talk about, what did they do when someone dies?
• 01:19 Jeffrey: Yes, yes.
• 01:21 Zola's gone on to his reward, and we all will eventually, and
• 01:24 it's great to have a look.
• 01:25 David: I think it's interesting we started this
• 01:27 series with the birth, and we end the series with death.
• 01:30 Jeffrey: That's right, from the womb to the tomb.
• 01:33 Kirsten: And that's what we've been talking about this
• 01:35 whole series.
• 01:36 "The First Christians," first taught in 1995 with Zola Levitt,
• 01:39 our founder.
• 01:40 And it's been fascinating to learn all about the traditions
• 01:43 of the first Christians, and today death.
• 01:46 David: And right now, we go to a first century tomb with
• 01:49 archaeologist Bob Mullins.
• 01:52 Bob Mullins: We are situated in an authentic rolling stone
• 01:55 tomb of the first century.
• 01:57 This is exactly the same kind of tomb that Jesus was buried in
• 02:00 almost 2,000 years ago.
• 02:02 Several tombs of this type are known throughout the country,
• 02:05 including Jerusalem, where today visitors can see Herod's family
• 02:09 tomb.
• 02:10 This particular site is located in the Shephelah region of
• 02:13 Israel, about 20 miles southwest of Jerusalem.
• 02:18 This tomb is hewn right out of the solid rock.
• 02:22 To gain entrance into the tomb, one passes by means of a low
• 02:25 doorway.
• 02:26 And you recall that in the gospels, Mary Magdalene had to
• 02:29 bend down and peek through the door in order to see into
• 02:32 the tomb.
• 02:33 This door is sealed by means of a large rolling stone.
• 02:37 Once you come into the tomb, there are two rooms.
• 02:40 And one passes into an inner room, where the body was laid
• 02:44 and allowed to decay for the period of about one year.
• 02:48 Later, the bones were collected and transferred to the first
• 02:51 room, where we have these channels where the bone boxes,
• 02:54 or ossuaries, were placed.
• 02:56 And in this way, many, many generations of people were
• 03:00 buried.
• 03:03 Zola Levitt: Here on the Mount of Olives and nearby
• 03:05 Bethany, archaeologists have uncovered some very interesting
• 03:08 stone coffins or ossuary.
• 03:11 Some of these boxes bear the sign of the cross, while others
• 03:15 have Hebrew inscriptions that way "to Jesus son of Joseph,"
• 03:19 and "to Jesus the Lord."
• 03:22 Inscriptions bearing the names of Lazarus, Martha, and Mary
• 03:25 were also found, followed by the cross mark.
• 03:29 Archaeologist Clermont Ganneau, who unearthed the Bethany site,
• 03:32 said, "In this group of sarcophagi, some of which have
• 03:36 Christian symbols, we are, so to speak, witnessing the actual
• 03:40 unfolding of Christianity."
• 03:43 Bob: The body was first washed and anointed with spices
• 03:46 and perfumes.
• 03:48 Since there was no embalming of the body, decay was imminent,
• 03:51 thus the spices and perfumes would help counteract the smell
• 03:55 of the rotting corpse.
• 03:57 After coating the body with spices and perfumes, the body
• 04:01 was then wrapped with linen cloths.
• 04:02 Now, this was based on a ruling made by Rabbi Gamaliel in the
• 04:07 first century that bodies should be wrapped in white cloths.
• 04:12 You see this practice carried out in the case of both Lazarus
• 04:16 and Jesus.
• 04:26 After the body had been prepared, male relatives carried
• 04:30 it on a bira with a woman carrying a jar of perfume
• 04:33 walking in front.
• 04:36 Death in Jesus's day was not a hushed up affair, and there was
• 04:40 much wailing and even tearing of clothes.
• 04:53 Once the body arrived at the tomb, the male relatives would
• 04:57 carry the body through the main entrance, where the rolling
• 04:59 stone had been rolled back.
• 05:02 And passed directly into the inner room, the second room,
• 05:05 where the body was placed on a burial bench.
• 05:14 Once the body was in place, perfume would be poured on the
• 05:18 linen cloths.
• 05:20 They would then leave the tomb, roll the stone into place,
• 05:23 sealing the tomb, and then allowing the body to decay.
• 05:30 Zola: This is the Mount of Olives, and it is a mountain of
• 05:33 graveyards.
• 05:34 Under my feet are layers and layers, centuries of graves.
• 05:40 Chosen people lived here, and they were buried here at least
• 05:43 from the announcement of Zachariah that Messiah would
• 05:47 come to the Mount of Olives.
• 05:49 They have been buried here.
• 05:51 Zachariah 14:4 says, "His feet will stand that day on the Mount
• 05:55 of Olives," which is next to Jerusalem on the east.
• 05:58 And that's where we are, and up on the summit is when he
• 06:00 will--he will come.
• 06:01 And they read it as, of course, the first coming if they don't
• 06:06 believe in Jesus.
• 06:07 But nevertheless, the Messiah, whoever he is, will come down
• 06:10 this mountain.
• 06:11 So, they're buried here so they can be in the resurrection.
• 06:14 And where did they get the idea of the resurrection?
• 06:17 Well, those who know the Scriptures certainly read it in
• 06:20 the Old Testament.
• 06:21 The Scripture is full of it.
• 06:24 We have say Isaiah 26:19, which is very clear, "Thy dead men
• 06:31 shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise.
• 06:35 Awake and sing, ye that dwell in durst; for thy dew is as of the
• 06:39 dew of herbs and the earth shall cast out the dead."
• 06:44 That is very clear.
• 06:47 Or Daniel 12:2, "And many of them that sleep in the dust of
• 06:51 the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to
• 06:55 shame and everlasting contempt."
• 06:57 Daniel even shows the destinations, heaven and hell,
• 07:01 of the people who have slept.
• 07:02 They will all arise.
• 07:04 Every soul that was ever conceived is conscious for all
• 07:09 eternity.
• 07:10 The question is not, do they live again?
• 07:12 The question is, where do they live again?
• 07:14 Job 14 is a magnificent passage of resurrection.
• 07:18 And Job, you know, has been in the ground for so long, this is
• 07:22 one of the most ancient Bible books.
• 07:24 Most commentators make it 4,000 years old, way back around the
• 07:28 time of Abraham.
• 07:29 And Job said this to the Lord, "as the waters fail from the
• 07:34 sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up, so man lieth down and
• 07:38 riseth not; till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake,
• 07:42 nor be raised out of their sleep."
• 07:44 If we stopped reading there, we would think, well, Job is simply
• 07:47 saying what we suspect, men die, they don't live again, and so
• 07:52 on.
• 07:53 But Job goes on and he says this, "O that thou wouldest hide
• 07:58 me in the grave, that thou wouldst keep me secret, until
• 08:03 thy wrath be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time
• 08:09 and remember me."
• 08:11 A set time, in Hebrew a tmunah.
• 08:13 It's a precise time, it's the time of the military hitch.
• 08:17 It ends at a given moment.
• 08:19 Job is simply saying to God, "Give me the time you want me
• 08:23 to be in the grave.
• 08:25 And when the time is up," he goes on, "If a man die,
• 08:29 shall he live again?"
• 08:31 What a question.
• 08:33 And he says, "All the days of my appointed time will I wait,
• 08:36 until my change comes."
• 08:39 Change as in the New Testament, they shall not all sleep, but
• 08:43 they shall all be changed.
• 08:45 And he says this, Job 11:15, "Thou shalt call, and I will
• 08:50 answer thee.
• 08:51 Thou wilt have a desire to the work of thine hands."
• 08:54 Job's body is the work of God's hands, and he will want it back
• 08:58 as he wants back everybody he ever made.
• 09:02 Why don't the Jewish people today talk about resurrection?
• 09:05 The synagogue just doesn't seem the read the Scriptures because
• 09:08 it's here and I've just read it to you.
• 09:11 In Matthew 22, the Messiah commented on the same thing in a
• 09:16 debate about the resurrection.
• 09:18 It says, "Jesus answered and said unto them, 'Ye do err, not
• 09:23 knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God--'" If they don't
• 09:27 read the Scripture, of course you don't know the Scriptures.
• 09:29 He says, "For in the resurrection they neither marry,
• 09:32 nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in
• 09:35 heaven.
• 09:36 But as touching the resurrection of the dead, have ye not read
• 09:39 that which was spoken unto you by God, saying, 'I am the God of
• 09:42 Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?
• 09:46 God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.'"
• 09:49 His point being whenever you sleep, it doesn't matter,
• 09:53 God will wake you.
• 09:54 He's the God of the living, and resurrection is a Jewish thing,
• 10:00 a normal thing, a thing that will happen to every soul.
• 10:04 Those believing in Jesus Christ, those believing in the Messiah,
• 10:11 are raised to the kingdom and eternal life and eternity.
• 10:14 You know, even Jewish commentators, extra-biblical,
• 10:18 spoke of this.
• 10:20 Baruch tractate of the first century, rabbinical writing,
• 10:25 said in regard to the Messiah when he comes, and quote,
• 10:30 "All who have fallen asleep in hope of him shall rise again."
• 10:35 This is a concept in Judaism that when Messiah comes at
• 10:41 least, he will raise the dead like Zachariah said.
• 10:44 But the problem is people today who, gosh, some Jewish people
• 10:49 have given up waiting for the Messiah.
• 10:51 It's like the scene in "Fiddler on the Roof," where they're
• 10:53 packing to leave because there's a pogrom, they have to get out
• 10:56 of their little town in three days.
• 10:58 And people come to the old rabbi and they say, "Rabbi, we've been
• 11:01 waiting so long for the Messiah.
• 11:03 Wouldn't this be a wonderful time for him to come?"
• 11:06 And the rabbi has nothing more to offer than to say, "We'll
• 11:10 have to wait somewhere else."
• 11:12 They lose the hope, and then they forget that Messiah has
• 11:18 the power, he does, and he has the retroactive power.
• 11:22 If Job of 4,000 years ago expects to be raised, I expect
• 11:27 to be raised if I fall asleep.
• 11:29 And all who have fallen, as Baruch said, in hope of him
• 11:32 shall rise again.
• 11:34 The New Testament puts it very clearly, 1 Thessalonians 4:16,
• 11:40 "The Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with a
• 11:41 voice of the archangel and the sound of the trump of God.
• 11:45 And the dead in Christ will rise first, and we which are alive
• 11:48 and remain shall join together with them in the clouds."
• 11:52 The resurrection of the church, the Rapture, all the dead rise
• 11:55 first he made the point.
• 11:57 The Thessalonicans had evidently written to Paul about, "Well,
• 12:00 what about those who have died?
• 12:03 Are they going?"
• 12:04 And Paul said not just going, going first.
• 12:08 So, we see it clearly in 1 Thessalonians 4:16 and 17, the
• 12:12 great Rapture Scripture.
• 12:13 Or in 1 Corinthians 15:51 and 52 I alluded to before.
• 12:22 "At the sound of the last trumpet, we shall not all sleep,
• 12:25 but we shall all be changed at the sound of the last trumpet.
• 12:28 For this corruptible flesh must put on incorruption, this mortal
• 12:32 body must put on immortality."
• 12:35 As we stand here on this mountain, a busy mountain,
• 12:37 tourist buses going by on all sides, funerals in progress,
• 12:41 people being buried in hope of resurrection, soil being taken
• 12:46 from the mountain to send back to the United States and other
• 12:48 places where Jewish people are dying and cannot be transferred
• 12:52 here for one reason or another to be buried with that soil in
• 12:56 the hope of the resurrection to come.
• 12:59 Back after this.
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• 14:39 with Zola Levitt.
• 14:43 Zola: We've moved our location now.
• 14:45 And behind me, you can see the East Gate, where the church will
• 14:49 enter with the Lord, and all the saints at the day of the
• 14:53 resurrection.
• 14:55 Around that gate, you can perceive gravestones too.
• 14:59 These are Moslem graves in another one of those attempts
• 15:03 to prevent the entrance of the Jewish king.
• 15:06 You can remember Pharaoh in Egypt and the infanticide.
• 15:09 You can remember Herod in the Bible killing the children in
• 15:13 Bethlehem.
• 15:14 And here is another of these attempts.
• 15:16 They suppose that the king of the Jews cannot walk through a
• 15:18 graveyard to enter Jerusalem through that East Gate.
• 15:21 They've blocked it up, they suppose.
• 15:23 Well, they underestimate the king of the Jews.
• 15:27 The Bible delivers us from what it calls the last enemy, death.
• 15:31 The message is that it is not a permanent thing.
• 15:35 It is a kind of a transition onto eternal life, and the issue
• 15:39 is location as they say.
• 15:42 Are you going to be with God, or are you going to be somewhere
• 15:44 else?
• 15:45 The first Christians had lives full of hope and joy.
• 15:50 Their leaders showed them the way.
• 15:51 Jesus Christ was the first man permanently resurrected.
• 15:56 He wasn't the only one resurrected.
• 15:58 They saw Lazarus come out of his grave.
• 16:00 They saw a striking thing when he was resurrected in Jerusalem
• 16:06 and the graves were opened.
• 16:08 "And many bodies of the saints which slept arose and came out
• 16:12 of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the
• 16:15 holy city, and appeared unto many."
• 16:18 I mean, people were walking the streets that other people knew.
• 16:22 Dead people were walking the streets alive.
• 16:24 And the passage goes on, "Now when the centurion and they that
• 16:29 were with him, watching Jesus, saw the earthquake, and those
• 16:32 things that were done, they feared greatly saying, 'Truly
• 16:35 this was the Son of God--'" They gave the credit to the Lord.
• 16:42 Some commentaries kind of skip over that passage.
• 16:45 There is an explanation for it that's quite nice, we've said it
• 16:48 on the program before.
• 16:49 Once an old lady called my radio talk show and she said when she
• 16:54 was a little girl, her old Bible teacher taught her this passage,
• 16:58 so this goes back I guess to the Lincoln administration.
• 17:01 But what her old Bible teacher said was this, "The festival
• 17:05 that day was firstfruits.
• 17:07 The people that were raised therefore were Jesus's
• 17:11 offering."
• 17:12 On firstfruits, the farmers brought the first of their crops
• 17:15 to the temple as a thank offering to God.
• 17:18 Well, Jesus is not a farmer who raises crops.
• 17:21 Jesus raises people.
• 17:22 So, on that Sunday, he raised a few.
• 17:26 We should be calling what we say Easter as firstfruits, that's
• 17:30 its biblical name.
• 17:31 Easter is the name of Ishtar, the Babylonian goddess of
• 17:34 fertility, nothing at all to do with the Lord, with the Bible,
• 17:36 with resurrection, or anything at all.
• 17:39 It's just about fertility and we need to get rid of it.
• 17:41 Firstfruits, Leviticus 23:10 to 12, is very clearly what's being
• 17:46 meant here.
• 17:47 And if we quote the Scripture, we see there was a festival.
• 17:51 "Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, 'When
• 17:54 ye be come in the land which I give unto you, and shall reap
• 17:59 the harvest thereof, then ye shall bring a sheaf of the
• 18:01 firstfruits of your harvest unto the priest.
• 18:05 And he shall wave the sheaf before the Lord to be accepted
• 18:07 for you.
• 18:09 On the morrow after the Sabbath the priest shall wave it."
• 18:12 This is the week of Passover.
• 18:14 The context shows Passover and the 14th day of the month.
• 18:18 And then unleavened bread, a festival of a week starting on
• 18:21 the 15th.
• 18:22 And on the Sunday whenever it is during that week is the festival
• 18:26 of firstfruits.
• 18:27 That is its correct name.
• 18:29 And if we learn to say first, we realize there's a second, a
• 18:31 third, a fourth.
• 18:32 1 Corinthians 15:22 points out in Adam, all die.
• 18:37 All natural men see death.
• 18:39 But in Christ shall all be made alive again.
• 18:42 But each man in his own order, it says.
• 18:45 Christ the firstfruits, then we which are his when he comes.
• 18:48 It's appointed to all flesh to die, except the generation in
• 18:52 the church when the Rapture comes, they shall not really see
• 18:56 death.
• 18:57 But all other Christians and Old Testament saints died, but it's
• 18:59 not an important issue.
• 19:01 In Christ, all are made alive again, each in his own order.
• 19:04 We evidently all have a number in this resurrection.
• 19:08 You know, the dead in Christ will rise first.
• 19:10 Well, they must have lower numbers.
• 19:12 It's like one of those busy places that you go in, they give
• 19:15 you a number, you know you'll be served.
• 19:17 Well, I can tell you you'll be served in this resurrection if
• 19:19 you believe in Jesus Christ.
• 19:21 He not only demonstrated, he appealed--appeared before his
• 19:26 disciples 40 days.
• 19:28 He taught them the things of the kingdom of God.
• 19:30 It says in Acts 1:3 they talked to him about the coming kingdom,
• 19:35 and they said, "Will thou at this time restore the kingdom of
• 19:38 heaven unto Israel?"
• 19:39 And he said, "It's not for you to know the times and seasons of
• 19:42 my Father," but implying that it should surely would be in
• 19:46 Israel.
• 19:48 And so, we look forward not just to resurrection, but to 1,000
• 19:51 years with the king in Israel here.
• 19:54 I'm glad to show it to you on television, but the good news is
• 19:58 you're going to see it live.
• 19:59 Everybody's going to go on an Israel tour, some for 1,000
• 20:02 years at government expense if you understand me.
• 20:05 The king of the Jews will see that you get there.
• 20:09 Someone who watches our program indicated to me that a certain
• 20:13 pastor somewhere was saying it's foolish to listen to Zola
• 20:17 Levitt, he's obviously a double agent for the Israeli
• 20:20 government.
• 20:21 I love it, it's true in a sense.
• 20:23 I've been working for the king of the Jews for 25 years, and
• 20:27 that is the real government of Israel.
• 20:29 He is the one on the throne, and when he returns, you will see
• 20:32 righteous government in Israel.
• 20:33 And you will see it last, a peace process that works, 1,000
• 20:37 years of peace.
• 20:39 They shall not learn war anymore in my holy mountain.
• 20:42 They'll beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into
• 20:45 pruning hooks when the king shall have judged the nations.
• 20:51 Well, as the Lord said so succinctly to his disciples on
• 20:54 the occasion of his resurrection, they all would
• 20:59 come, they would sit on 12 thrones, they would judge the 12
• 21:02 tribes of Israel.
• 21:03 Every Christian, good, bad, and medium, will be resurrected from
• 21:07 the dead.
• 21:09 Nicodemus came to Christ by night.
• 21:11 He was convicted.
• 21:12 He'd heard the teaching.
• 21:14 He wasn't sure about his sins.
• 21:16 He spoke to the Lord about what it is to be born again.
• 21:20 The Lord was very clear with him, "For God so loved the world
• 21:24 that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever shall
• 21:27 believe in him should not perish, but have everlasting
• 21:30 life."
• 21:32 If you believe in the Son whom God hath sent, then we'll meet
• 21:37 together at the gate you see behind me.
• 21:40 In the day of the resurrection, he'll come down the Mount of
• 21:42 Olives with all of us who believe in him, and we'll enter
• 21:44 that gate and take our kingdom.
• 21:48 ♪♪♪
• 21:51 [singing in foreign language]
• 24:15 David: Kind of hard to believe that this footage that
• 24:18 we see today of Zipporah Bennett was back in 1995.
• 24:21 She's still active today.
• 24:23 We love her messianic leading and her music.
• 24:26 Thank you, Zipporah.
• 24:28 Kirsten: Great style, and thank you for being with us in
• 24:30 every program in this series.
• 24:31 It's been a good series.
• 24:33 Jeffrey: And it's tough, it's tough to end on death, you know?
• 24:36 But it's interesting, speaking of singing.
• 24:37 You know, the last thing they did after the last supper, it
• 24:40 says they sung.
• 24:42 And then Yeshua went to the Garden of Gethsemane and he
• 24:45 faced his end.
• 24:48 Kirsten: And we all go.
• 24:50 I mean, we were just talking about that, there's only one way
• 24:52 out unless the Rapture happens, and that could happen.
• 24:55 But most of us face death.
• 24:57 And it's just interesting to hear about, learn about the
• 25:01 first century Christians who were Jewish.
• 25:05 Jeffrey: Yes, and let me tell you about a 21st century
• 25:07 Christian who's Jewish who deals with death a little,
• 25:10 and that's me.
• 25:12 At 64 years of age, I realized, truth be known, that he better
• 25:17 part of my life has been lived.
• 25:19 And frankly, I think about death.
• 25:22 I do that in part, my wife and I, who's 65, we take the Lord's
• 25:25 Supper every morning.
• 25:27 And of course, whenever someone takes the Lord's Supper, we're
• 25:29 remembering someone's death until he comes.
• 25:32 And when I think of death, it's not a scary thing, but I do
• 25:35 think about the verse where the Lord says, "Lay up for
• 25:38 yourselves treasures in heaven, where rust and moth don't
• 25:42 consume."
• 25:44 And I say that, it's not like I want to get utility out of
• 25:46 death.
• 25:48 And I don't want to be fearful, but I want to be careful.
• 25:52 But I want to give you a challenge, please, like me, if
• 25:54 you're thinking about things to come, by all means lay up for
• 25:57 yourselves treasures in heaven.
• 26:01 And I'd like to ask you from the bottom of my heart, please to
• 26:05 put some of those treasures in heaven through a deposit slip
• 26:09 that has Zola Levitt Ministries on it.
• 26:12 I believe and we believe, and I hope you believe, that there's
• 26:16 value in what we do here.
• 26:18 Please, I want to challenge you.
• 26:20 For every dime, for every dollar, for every $100, $1,000,
• 26:24 whatever it is, God sees.
• 26:26 Lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven.
• 26:29 David: That's right.
• 26:30 I was on Facebook today, this morning.
• 26:32 I like to give birthday greetings.
• 26:35 And two people that have passed away came up to give a birthday
• 26:38 greeting today. You know what?
• 26:39 None of us are exempt from death.
• 26:42 Kirsten: And that's why we hope, as you just said, that all
• 26:45 of you know you're going.
• 26:47 We're here for one purpose here at "Zola Levitt Presents," and
• 26:50 that's to present the good news of Yeshua and eternal life.
• 26:55 Jeffrey: Amen.
• 26:56 You know, we've heard from our late founder, Zola Levitt, back
• 26:59 in 1995.
• 27:00 And I know he's singing where he is.
• 27:03 We're going to see him one day and see the Lord.
• 27:05 As you go now, [speaking in foreign language]
• 27:10 pray for the peace of Jerusalem.
• 27:12 [singing in foreign language]
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