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Episode: “Tim LaHaye, Author of the ‘Left Behind’ Series”

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00:06 BRETHREN, MY HEART'S DESIRE AND PRAYER TO GOD FOR ISRAEL IS THAT THEY MIGHT BE SAVED.
00:13 THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE BETWEEN >>THE JEW AND THE GENTILE.
00:16 FOR THE SAME LORD OVERALL IS RICH UNTO ALL THAT CALL UPON HIM.
00:23 ZOLA LEVITT PRESENTS
00:25 CONSIDERING THE TIMES AND SEASONS OF OUR WORLD TODAY, HERE'S ZOLA LEVITT.
00:32 SHALOM, HELLO AGAIN.
00:32 EVERY YEAR IN DALLAS, WHERE OUR PROGRAM ORIGINATES, THERE IS A PRE-TRIB MEETING.
00:39 IT'S A MEETING OF PROFESSORS, AUTHORS AND SO ON,
00:42 WHO SUPPORT THIS DOCTRINE, WHICH I, MYSELF SUPPORT.
00:46 I THINK IT'S THE BEST WAY TO READ THE BIBLE.
00:49 WE GO TO IT AND WE FILM SOME PERSONALITIES.
00:52 THIS YEAR WE WERE ABLE TO CATCH >>UP WITH TIM LAHAYE.
00:54 HE IS THE ORIGINATOR OF THE "LEFT BEHIND" SERIES, THE BOOKS AND THE MOVIES.
00:59 I DON'T KNOW. THERE'S JUST NO END TO THIS. HE SOLD 35 MILLION BOOKS.
01:05 THAT MAKES IT ONE OF THE MOST, >>THE BIGGEST BEST SELLERS OF A CENTURY.
01:10 HAL LINDSAY, I REMEMBER, SOLD 25 MILLION COPIES OF "LATE GREAT PLANET" EARTH.
01:15 IT'S AS IF GOD MAKES SPECIAL PROVISION FOR A COMMUNITY NOT VERY WELL SERVED
01:22 BY PROPHECY TEACHING FROM PODIUMS AND FROM CHURCHES,
01:28 BY PUTTING OUT BEST SELLING BOOKS, STUDY BIBLES AND SO FORTH.
01:32 IN FACT, TIM LAHAYE HAS A PROPHECY STUDY BIBLE
01:34 AND I WAS HONORED TO HAVE WRITTEN THE CHAPTER ON THE 7 FEASTS IN THAT BIBLE.
01:40 TIM HAS A LOT TO SAY ABOUT THE >>END TIMES.
01:43 AS I GO AROUND TO CHURCHES, I'M GETTING MORE AND MORE QUESTIONS ON IT.
01:47 IN FACT, I'VE PRETTY MUCH TURNED >>INTO A PROPHECY TEACHER, NOW.
01:50 I COME TO TEACH ABOUT ISRAEL AND ABOUT THE CHOSEN PEOPLE AND THE >>KINGDOM AND SO ON,
01:55 BUT I END UP TEACHING END TIMES PROPHECY A WHOLE LOT OF THE TIME.
01:58 WHEN I OPEN UP TO QUESTIONS >>THOSE ARE THE QUESTIONS I GET.
02:02 SO WE PUT SOME QUESTIONS TO TIM >>LAHAYE, AN EXPERT, >>AND GOT SOME VERY GOOD ANSWERS.
02:08 OUR FIRST QUESTION WAS, "WHAT >>SPECIFIC EVENTS HAPPENING TODAY SUGGEST THAT THIS IS REALLY THE >>END TIMES?"
02:17 WELL, THE MOST SPECIFIC OF ALL EVENTS HAS TO BE THE REGATHERING OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL IN THE >>LAND.
02:25 WE KIND OF PUT THE PIVOTAL DATE >>AS 1948 WHEN THEY WERE RECOGNIZED AS A NATION.
02:30 DR. JOHN WALVOORD, WHO'S PROBABLY THE MOST RESPECTED AUTHORITY ON BIBLE PROPHECY LIVING TODAY,
02:36 HAS CALLED THAT THE SUPER SIGN >>OF THE END OF THE AGE.
02:40 I WOULD CERTAINLY AGREE. IT'S REALLY 2 FOLD.
02:44 I LIKE TO EMPHASIZE THE >>MIRACLE OF 1,700 YEARS WITHOUT >>A HOMELAND.
02:50 IT'S UNPRECEDENTED IN ALL OF HISTORY.
02:52 I'M A STUDENT OF HISTORY. >>I MAJORED IN IT IN COLLEGE AND >>SEMINARY AND SO ON.
02:57 I FIND THAT NO NATION IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD HAS BEEN ABLE TO SUCCEED 300 TO,
03:03 AT BEST, 500 YEARS OF BEING >>UPROOTED FROM ITS HOMELAND AND SCATTERED TO SOME OTHER PLACE.
03:10 SOONER OR LATER THEY SINK BENEATH THE SANDS OF TIME.
03:12 YET HERE WE HAVE ISRAEL 1,700 YEARS LATER IS ABLE TO BE GATHERED FROM RUSSIA
03:20 AND FROM AMERICA AND FROM EUROPE AND ALL OVER THE WORLD DOWN INTO >>THE HOLY LAND.
03:26 TODAY WE HAVE 6 MILLION OF THEM.
03:29 NOT TO RECOGNIZE THAT, TO FAIL TO SEE THAT THAT IS THE HAND OF >>GOD BRINGING THEM BACK,
03:37 WHICH IS ONE A MIRACLE AND >>NUMBER TWO, IT IS PROPHETICALLY >>STRATEGIC.
03:42 AS A MATTER OF FACT, THE GATHERING TOGETHER OF ISRAEL BEGINNING BACK IN THE WWI
03:48 COULD VERY WELL BE THE BEGINNING >>OF THE BIRTH PAINS THAT JESUS TALKED ABOUT IN MATTHEW 24.
03:56 I FIND THAT ALL OTHER SIGNS FALL INTO PLACE AS A RESULT OF THAT.
04:00 WE ASKED TIM LAHAYE "TO WHAT >>DEGREE MILITANT ISLAM IS A PART >>OF THE END TIMES SCENARIO?"
04:10 THAT'S AN INTERESTING QUESTION AND I THINK SCHOLARS OF PROPHECY >>ARE CONFUSED ABOUT THAT
04:14 BECAUSE IT'S A PHENOMENON THAT WE THOUGHT WAS KIND OF DONE AWAY >>WITH AND THAT ISRAEL
04:19 WOULD BE THE TARGET OF RUSSIA AND THE ARAB HOARDS THAT COME DOWN WITH RUSSIA.
04:26 THAT STILL MAY BE. IT STILL IS GEO-POLITICALLY POSSIBLE.
04:31 I THINK THAT RUSSIA IS STILL THE >>DESIGNEE OF EZEKIEL 38 & 39.
04:36 IF THAT HAPPENS IN THE NEXT FEW >>YEARS, THEN GOD IS GOING TO SUPERNATURALLY SOLVE THE ISLAMIC PROBLEM.
04:43 THE BITTER HATRED BETWEEN THE >>ARAB WORLD AND THE JEWISH WORLD
04:47 THAT GOES WAY BACK TO BIBLE >>TIMES, IS COMING TO A FOCUS AND >>THE INTERESTING THING IS
04:54 THE WHOLE WORLD IS FOCUSING ON >>THE MIDDLE EAST, >>JUST LIKE THE BIBLE PREDICTED,
05:00 THAT THAT WOULD BE THE CENTER STAGE.
05:02 WHEN I WAS WRITING OUR FICTION >>SERIES OF BOOKS,
05:05 I WAS INTRIGUED BY HOW MANY TRIPS THE ANTI-CHRIST TOOK TO JERUSALEM.
05:11 IT'S ALMOST LIKE HE HAD AN OBSESSION.
05:13 HERE HE IS THE KING OF THE >>WORLD, HE'S GOT A NEW BABYLON,
05:16 HEAD OF A NEW COMMERCIAL SYSTEM, AND THE WHOLE THING FOR 7 YEARS,
05:21 AND YET HE FINDS HIMSELF GOING >>DOWN INTO JERUSALEM.
05:25 THAT IS ONE OF THE REASONS WE KNOW THAT PRAETORISM CAN'T POSSIBLY BE TRUE
05:28 BECAUSE THEY CLAIM THAT NERO WAS >>THE ANTI-CHRIST. NERO WAS NEVER IN JERUSALEM.
05:35 HOW CAN HE DESECRATE THE TEMPLE IN JERUSALEM WHEN HE WAS NEVER >>THERE?
05:39 THERE ARE A LOT OF THINGS THAT >>HAVEN'T BEEN FULFILLED.
05:42 BUT THE ANTI-CHRIST IS FOCUSING >>IN ON THE END TIMES
05:47 AND WE HAVEN'T EVEN GOTTEN TO >>THE TIME OF THE ANTI-CHRIST YET.
05:50 YET EVERY NIGHT ON THE EVENING >>NEWS, WHAT NATION DO WE SEE? WE SEE ISRAEL.
05:56 PUT THAT IN PERSPECTIVE.
05:57 A MISSIONARY OUT IN SINGAPORE TOLD ME, IF YOU DREW A CIRCLE >>AROUND SINGAPORE FOR 2,000 MILES
06:04 YOU WOULD ENCOMPASS 50 PERCENT >>OF THE WORLD'S POPULATION.
06:10 WHEN DID WE SEE SINGAPORE ON THE >>EVENING NEWS LAST?
06:14 YET THAT'S THE CENTER OF THE WORLD'S POPULATION.
06:17 INSTEAD THE WORLD'S EYES ARE ON >>THE MIDDLE EAST.
06:20 FRANKLY, ZOLA, I KNOW YOU LOVE >>AMERICA AND YOU LOVE ISRAEL, AS I DO.
06:27 I WANT TO TELL YOU I'M CONVINCED >>THAT THE BLESSINGS OF GOD ON AMERICA
06:32 IN SPITE OF ALL THE THINGS WE'VE >>DONE WRONG;
06:35 MURDERING THE UNBORN, >>PORNOGRAPHY, CRIME, DRUG PUSHING >>AND ALL THE REST.
06:40 I'M NOT IGNORANT OF ALL OF THE >>EVILS OF AMERICA.
06:47 AND YET GOD CONTINUES TO BLESS >>OUR COUNTRY.
06:49 I'M CONVINCED THE REASON, OR ONE OF THE REASONS IS BECAUSE WE'VE >>BEEN GOOD TO THE JEW.
06:56 I AM SO PROUD OF AMERICA AND TO BE AN AMERICAN FOR A NUMBER OF >>REASONS.
07:02 ONE IS, WE HAVE AN UNPRECEDENTED >>HISTORY OF BEING GOOD TO THE JEW.
07:07 SURE, WE'RE NOT PERFECT, BUT YOU CANNOT FIND ANOTHER NATION
07:11 WHERE JEWS HAVE BEEN WELCOMED >>INTO OUR COUNTRY AND MADE TO BE >>FIRST CLASS CITIZENS.
07:19 THEY SERVE IN THE U.S. SENATE.
07:20 WE HAVE A JEWISH SENATOR THAT'S GOING TO RUN FOR THE PRESIDENCY >>OF THE COUNTRY.
07:26 WHERE DO JEWS HAVE THAT KIND OF >>FREEDOM?
07:29 THEY'RE ABLE TO BUY UP MAJOR >>CORPORATIONS AND INVEST IN NEW >>BUSINESSES.
07:34 THEY HAVE THE SAME FREEDOM ALL >>THE REST OF US HAVE.
07:37 GOD'S UNCONDITIONAL PROMISE; I WILL BLESS THOSE THAT BLESS YOU;
07:42 IS THE PROMISE THAT WE'RE SEEING >>FULFILLED IN AMERICA TODAY.
07:46 THAT'S WHY I'M TRYING TO ENCOURAGE THE CHURCH
07:48 TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE BLESSINGS OF GOD IN MATERIAL >>THINGS AND IN FREEDOM AND SO ON
07:55 TO PROPAGATE THE GOSPEL AROUND >>THE WORLD.
07:56 THAT'S WHAT WE'RE REALLY FOR, SO >>THAT WE CAN TAKE ADVANTAGE OF ADVANCING THE CAUSE OF CHRIST
08:03 DURING THIS UNPRECEDENTED TIME >>OF BLESSING.
08:05 I JUST HOPE AND PRAY THAT >>AMERICA WILL NEVER CHANGE THIS NATIONAL POLICY TOWARD ISRAEL.
08:12 WELL, THE END TIMES SCENARIO IS COMPLEX.
08:14 THERE ARE MANY FACETS TO IT. MILITANT ISLAM IS JUST ONE OF THOSE.
08:19 ANOTHER IS THE DOCTRINE THAT THE >>CHURCH HAS REPLACED ISRAEL.
08:25 WE ASKED TIM LAHAYE TO COMMENT >>ON THAT.
08:29 THE REPLACEMENT THEOLOGY OR >>SUPER-SESSIONISM OR SOMETHING,
08:34 THEY'VE GOT FANCY THEOLOGICAL WORDS FOR
08:36 "THE CHURCH HAS REPLACED ISRAEL >>IN THE PLAN OF GOD".
08:40 I WOULD SAY THAT PEOPLE THAT TEACH THAT EITHER, >>ONE, ARE IGNORANT OF THE BIBLE,
08:46 OR, TWO, THEY DON'T TAKE THE BIBLE LITERALLY.
08:49 BECAUSE PAUL MAKES IT VERY CLEAR.
08:52 THERE ARE 3 CATEGORIES OF PEOPLE >>IN THIS WORLD.
08:55 THERE ARE JEWS, THERE ARE >>GENTILES AND THE CHURCH OF GOD.
08:58 EITHER JEWS OR GENTILES CAN GET >>INTO THE CHURCH THE SAME WAY, BY PERSONAL FAITH IN JESUS,
09:05 BUT YOU'RE EITHER ONE OF THOSE >>3 CATEGORIES OF PEOPLE.
09:10 I'M CONVINCED ALSO FROM ANOTHER >>STANDPOINT AND THAT IS
09:14 THERE ARE SO MANY PASSAGES OF GOD'S PROMISES TO ISRAEL
09:18 THAT IF ISRAEL DOESN'T FULFILL >>THOSE PROMISES, THEN GOD ISN'T FAITHFUL.
09:24 WE KNOW THAT'S AN UNTHINKABLE THING.
09:25 I KNOW PEOPLE SAY THE CHURCH NOW >>REPLACES--
09:29 NO, THE CHURCH WAS STARTED DIFFERENTLY, >>AT A DIFFERENT TIME IN HISTORY,
09:33 IT HAD A DIFFERENT MISSION THAN >>ISRAEL AND IT HAS A DIFFERENT FUTURE.
09:40 THE CHURCH IS, ONE OF THESE DAYS IS GOING TO BE ALL GONE AT THE >>SAME TIME
09:44 WHEN JESUS SHOUTS FROM HEAVEN >>AND WE'RE TAKEN UP INTO THE AIR.
09:49 WE MEET OUR LOVED ONES IN THE CLOUDS AND THEN IN THE AIR.
09:52 THEN WE'RE WITH THE LORD JESUS IN THE FATHER'S HOUSE DURING THE >>7 YEARS OF TRIBULATION.
09:58 THEN WE COME BACK AND AT THAT POINT IN TIME, >>THE JEWS AND THE SAVED GENTILES
10:04 WILL GO IN AND POPULATE THE >>MILLENNIUM AND WE WILL HAVE THE >>PRICELESS PRIVILEGE
10:08 OF RULING AND REIGNING WITH CHRIST IN THAT NEW MILLENNIUM >>THAT IS JUST GOING TO BE BEYOND >>COMPREHENSION.
10:16 AFTER THAT, GOD'S WONDERFUL PLAN >>IS HEAVEN.
10:20 THAT'S ONE OF THE THINGS I'VE TRIED TO ADDRESS IN MY NEWEST >>BOOK, "MERCIFUL GOD OF PROPHECY"
10:27 AND THE WONDERFUL PLAN HE HAS FOR YOU IN THE END TIMES.
10:30 I'VE SEEN IN A NEW LIGHT HOW MERCIFUL GOD IS, AS SEEN FROM THE PROPHETS.
10:36 THE HEBREW PROPHETS TELL US, THEY DEFINE GOD'S NATURE AS MERCIFUL, GRACIOUS,
10:42 LONG SUFFERING, SLOW TO ANGER, REPENTS OF DOING EVIL AND HE'S >>MERCIFUL AND FORGIVING.
10:50 THAT'S THE KIND OF GOD PEOPLE NEED IN THIS 20TH CENTURY.
10:54 OF COURSE WE NEED AN OMNIPOTENT, >>SUPREME GOD OF CREATION AND JUDGE OF THE UNIVERSE,
11:01 BUT I LIKE TO PRAY LIKE THE LORD >>JESUS TAUGHT US TO PRAY - OUR FATHER, WHICH ART IN HEAVEN.
11:10 YOU KNOW, WHEN THE DISCIPLES ASKED HIM THAT QUESTION
11:11 AND I THINK THIS IS KIND OF TANTAMOUNT TO A PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP TO GOD.
11:16 THEY SAID, LORD, TEACH US TO PRAY.
11:18 HE DIDN'T SAY, PRAY ALMIGHTY GOD, CREATOR OF HEAVEN OF EARTH,
11:23 SOVEREIGN OF THE UNIVERSE AND REMEMBERER OF ALL THINGS. HE DIDN'T SAY THAT AT ALL.
11:29 HE SAID PRAY, OUR FATHER. WHENEVER I HEAR THOSE WORDS
11:33 IT'S SUCH A TENDER VIEW FROM THE >>SAVIOR HIMSELF, WHO KNEW THE >>FATHER BEST ON HOW WE, MORTALS,
11:41 AFTER WE'RE SAVED, CAN PRAY TO GOD.
11:45 ANOTHER INTERESTING THING I FOUND ABOUT THE MERCIFUL GOD
11:49 IS HE IS REVEALED THROUGH THE PROPHETS.
11:52 NOWHERE IN THE BIBLE HAVE I FOUND GOD SAYING TO MANKIND,
11:57 ALL YOU PERFECT PEOPLE, TURN AND COME TO ME.
12:03 HE DOESN'T HAVE THAT KIND OF A >>SELECTIVE OFFER.
12:05 IN FACT, THE MIRACLE OF MIRACLES >>IS, HERE WE HAVE THIS HOLY, RIGHTEOUS, ALL MIGHTY GOD
12:11 AND HE SAYS TO SINNERS LIKE >>ISRAEL WHEN ISRAEL HAD COMMITTED >>EVERY FOUL SIN OF IDOLATRY,
12:19 SPIRITUAL ABOMINATION AND FORNICATION, HE SAID,
12:22 TURN TO ME WITH ALL YOUR HEART >>AND I'LL RECEIVE YOU.
12:27 I FIND THAT ABSOLUTELY INCREDIBLE.
12:47 COME WITH ZOLA LEVITT AND SEE FOR YOURSELF THE LAND OF THE COVENANT.
12:52 ZOLA PUTS ON ONE OF THE MOST SPECTACULAR TRIPS YOU COULD EVER BE ON.
12:56 THE WHOLE GROUP, EVERYBODY JUST >>PUTS EVERYTHING TOGETHER. IT SPECTACULAR.
13:01 WITH WHAT WAS CHOSEN FOR US TO >>DO, AS WELL AS WHO GUIDED US,
13:06 WHO SPOKE WITH US, >>THE OTHER PEOPLE ON THE TRIP--
13:10 OTHER PEOPLE HAVE SAID THEY WENT ON CRUISES AND TRIPS LIKE THIS
13:14 AND IT WAS ALL HISTORICAL AND THEY SAW A LOT OF SITES.
13:17 BUT THIS WAS SPIRITUAL. THIS WAS REALLY GOOD.
13:19 SO I'M REALLY GLAD I PICKED ZOLA LEVITT'S GROUP TO TOUR THE HOLY LAND.
13:28 TOUR THE HOLY LAND WITH ZOLA >>LEVITT. CALL OR WRITE FOR MORE >>INFORMATION.
13:39 WE STILL CONTINUE OUR TOURS TO >>JERUSALEM ON OUR NORMAL SCHEDULE.
13:44 THEY ARE GOING ON WITHOUT EVENT.
13:46 I'VE PROVED MANY TIMES, IT'S MORE DANGEROUS TO STAY HOME THAN TO GO TO ISRAEL
13:51 DESPITE WHAT THE NEWS, THE WAY THEY COLOR IN WHAT IS GOING ON OVER THERE.
13:56 BUT THERE WILL COME A DAY WHEN IT WILL BE PERFECTLY PEACEFUL IN >>JERUSALEM
14:00 WHEN WE ALL LIVE THERE IN THE KINGDOM TO COME.
14:03 I REFER YOU TO ISAIAH 11:9;
14:21 ♪TAKE US THERE, TAKE US THERE TO THE LAND OF ZION NEXT YEAR IN JERUSALEM
14:26 ♪(HEBREW) NEXT YEAR IN JERUSALEM
14:31 ♪O HEAR, O ISRAEL, O ISRAEL HEAR >>O LORD, THY KINGDOM COME, THY WILL BE DONE NEXT YEAR!
14:37 ♪(HEBREW) NEXT YEAR IN JERUSALEM.
14:45 ♪OVER THERE, OVER THERE IN THE >>LAND OF ZION, NEXT YEAR IN JERUSALEM
14:50 ♪(HEBREW) NEXT YEAR IN JERUSALEM
14:56 O LORD, DRAW NEAR TO US, O LORD DRAW NEAR
14:58 ♪O LORD, THY KINGDOM COME THY WILL BE DONE NEXT YEAR
15:01 ♪(HEBREW) NEXT YEAR IN JERUSALEM
15:09 ♪AH LAND OF REST, OF THEE I SING >>AH, ZION BLESSED, RECEIVE THY KING
15:22 ♪AH PROMISED LAND, OF THEE I TELL RECEIVE THY KINGDOM, ISRAEL.
15:38 ♪WHEN WE'RE THERE, WHEN WE'RE THERE IN THE LAND OF ZION NEXT YEAR IN JERUSALEM
15:44 ♪(HEBREW) NEXT YEAR IN YERUSALEM
15:49 ♪O LORD, WE'LL BE WITH YOU AND >>NO MORE TEARS O LORD, THY KINGDOM COME
15:53 ♪THY WILL BE DONE NEXT YEAR
15:54 ♪(HEBREW) ♪NEXT YEAR IN JERUSALEM ♪(HEBREW) ♪NEXT YEAR IN JERUSALEM
16:08 IN ALL OF HISTORY HOW MANY WORLD >>EMPIRES HAVE THERE BEEN - 4 WORLD EMPIRES.
16:15 THERE HAVE MANY WHO HAVE TRIED; GINGUS KAHN, NAPOLEON BONAPARTE, >>ADOLPH HITLER,
16:20 AND THE LIST GOES ON AND ON, OF WOULD BE WORLD DICTATORS. THEY'VE ALL FAILED. WHY?
16:26 BECAUSE GOD SAID THERE WOULD BE >>4 UNTIL THE END TIMES WHEN A CONFEDERATION OF 10
16:32 WOULD GET TOGETHER AND THEN THEY WOULD APPOINT THE ANTI-CHRIST.
16:37 MY POINT IS, GOD HAS REVEALED HIMSELF.
16:41 PROPHECY IS HISTORY WRITTEN IN ADVANCE.
16:45 THESE FALSE PROPHETS COULDN'T DO IT.
16:47 THE GODS OF THIS WORLD CANNOT PREDICT THE FUTURE,
16:51 BUT THE GOD IN HEAVEN CAN REVEAL >>IT THROUGH HIS PROPHETS AND THAT'S WHAT HE'S DONE.
16:56 HERE WE HAVE THE BIBLE WITH OVER >>1,000 PASSAGES
17:01 THAT WERE PROPHETIC AT THE TIME >>THEY WERE WRITTEN.
17:05 ALL THE PROPHECIES THAT HAD TO >>DO WITH,
17:07 UP TO THE PRESENT TIME HAVE BEEN >>FULFILLED EXACTLY AS THE PROPHETS SAID.
17:13 THAT'S WHY I TAKE THE BIBLE LITERALLY AND TAKE PROPHECY LITERALLY.
17:17 IF YOU'VE HAD HALF OF THEM, >>ALL OF THE ONES THAT SHOULD BE >>FULFILLED UP TO THIS TIME,
17:22 WHICH ARE HALF THE PROPHECIES EVER WRITTEN, IF THEY'VE BEEN FULFILLED LITERALLY,
17:26 THEN THOSE THAT HAVE TO DO WITH THE YET FUTURE WILL BE TAKEN LITERALLY.
17:32 IN CASE ANY OF OUR LISTENERS >>HAVE A QUESTION OF WHO JESUS IS,
17:36 I'D LIKE TO HIGHLIGHT THAT IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE FACT THAT THERE ARE 109, AT LEAST,
17:41 MAYBE MORE, BUT 109 PROPHECIES ABOUT JESUS' FIRST COMING THAT >>HE FULFILLED LITERALLY.
17:49 LIKE EVERYBODY KNOWS WHERE JESUS WAS BORN, IN BETHLEHEM OF JUDEA.
17:53 IF IT WEREN'T FOR CHRISTMAS >>CAROLS, I DON'T THINK THEY WOULD >>UNDERSTAND
17:56 THAT THE PROPHET PREDICTED HE >>WOULD BE BORN IN BETHLEHEM 500 >>YEARS BEFORE HE WAS BORN.
18:03 THEN THERE ARE 108 OTHER PROPHECIES.
18:05 MY POINT IS, THE FIRST COMING OF >>JESUS IS A CERTIFIED FACT.
18:10 HISTORICALLY, NO ONE WITH ANY HISTORICAL SENSE DENIES THAT JESUS LITERALLY LIVED.
18:17 THERE ARE 3 TIMES AS MANY >>PROPHECIES CONCERNING HIS SECOND >>COMING
18:23 AS CONCERNING HIS FIRST, THAT IS A FACT.
18:26 IF THE FIRST ONE IS A FACT WITH >>ONLY 109,
18:29 THEN THE SECOND COMING WITH 321 PREDICTIONS IS CERTAIN TO COME >>TO PASS.
18:36 ZOLA, THAT'S WHAT YOU AND I REALLY ARE IN BUSINESS FOR. THAT'S OUR PASSION.
18:41 THAT'S WHAT DRIVES US ALL OVER THE WORLD AND AROUND THE WORLD >>TEACHING AND WRITING
18:46 AND COMMUNICATING THAT WE DON'T WANT ANYONE TO BE LEFT BEHIND,
18:50 BUT WE WANT THEM TO REALIZE THE >>FACT THAT JESUS IS COMING, COULD BE RAPIDLY APPROACHING
18:57 AND WE WANT THEM TO KNOW HIM PERSONALLY AND BE READY TO RECEIVE HIM.
19:04 REPLACEMENT THEOLOGY IS ONE ERROR BEING MADE TODAY.
19:09 THE LACK OF PROPHECY TEACHING, >>I THINK, IS ANOTHER ERROR. >>IT LEADS TO TIM LAHAYE'S WORK.
19:17 WE ASKED HIM, WHAT IS THE REASON FOR THE IMMENSE SUCCESS OF THE >>"LEFT BEHIND" SERIES.
19:24 THAT'S PROBABLY ONE OF THE MOST PROMINENT QUESTIONS I'M ASKED TODAY
19:29 FROM LARRY KING TO BILL O'REILLY >>TO WHO KNOWS WHO.
19:33 THEY ALL WANT TO KNOW, WHAT'S THE SECRET.
19:35 IT'S ALMOST LIKE THEY'RE COMING >>FROM THE PLACE WHERE,
19:36 WHO IN THE WORLD BUT A FEW FUNDAMENTALISTS WOULD EVER BE INTERESTED IN PROPHECY?
19:42 ALMOST EVERYBODY THAT HAS ANY >>RECOGNITION OF WHAT IS GOING ON >>IN THE WORLD TODAY
19:48 WANTS TO KNOW WHAT IS GOING TO >>HAPPEN IN THE FUTURE.
19:50 WE HAVE THE TWIN TOWERS EXPLODING AND ALMOST 3,000 >>PEOPLE KILLED IN ABOUT 2 HOURS.
19:56 THEN WE HAVE ALL KIND OF WORLD >>SHAKING EVENTS HAPPENING ALL OVER THE WORLD.
20:03 THEN YOU HAVE PIPSQUEAK >>DICTATORS THAT HAVE FOUND A WAY
20:08 OF DEVELOPING WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION AND BACTERIAL WARFARE.
20:13 THIS IS A SCARY TIME.
20:15 I DON'T MEAN TO BE A DOOMS DAY >>PROPHET,
20:16 BUT I'M JUST POINTING OUT THAT PEOPLE'S HEARTS ARE BEGINNING TO >>FAIL THEM FOR FEAR.
20:22 AND I MIGHT POINT OUT THAT THAT'S A PREDICTION THAT THE >>BIBLE SAID WHEN THE LAST DAYS,
20:29 MEN'S HEARTS WOULD FAIL THEM FOR FEAR.
20:31 BUT IF YOU KNOW THE PROPHECIES, YOU KNOW THAT GOD ISN'T GOING TO >>LET MAN DESTROY HIMSELF.
20:37 THAT IS WHAT PEOPLE ARE AFRAID OF.
20:39 I READ A BOOK TITLE IN THE >>WASHINGTON D.C. BOOK KIOSK JUST >>A FEW WEEKS AGO
20:45 AND THE BOOK TITLE WAS, "THE END OF HISTORY".
20:50 THAT DOESN'T SOUND VERY >>OPTIMISTIC TO ME, BUT SCIENTISTS >>AND HISTORIANS TODAY
20:54 ARE LOOKING AT WHAT'S GOING ON AND THEY SAY, HEY THIS WORLD IS >>OUT OF CONTROL.
20:58 IN FACT, JIMMY CARTER'S NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR BACK IN 1975,
21:07 BRZEZINSKI, WROTE A BOOK ENTITLED, "OUT OF CONTROL". HE'S TALKING ABOUT THE WORLD.
21:16 IT'S OUT OF CONTROL AND HE'S >>CONCERNED THAT THE LAST CENTURY
21:19 WAS THE MOST BARBARIC CENTURY IN >>THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD.
21:22 IF WE CONTINUE TO GO AND THIS CENTURY IS MORE BARBARIC THAN THE LAST,
21:26 WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN TO THE HUMAN RACE?
21:28 WE CAN TELL YOU WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN.
21:30 JESUS IS GOING TO COME BEFORE >>MAN CAN DESTROY HIMSELF FROM THE >>FACE OF THE EARTH.
21:37 WE TALKED WITH TIM ABOUT THE >>IDEA THAT THE SEMINARIES REALLY >>AREN'T TEACHING PROPHECY.
21:43 HIS SERIES, "LEFT BEHIND", REALLY DOES.
21:49 FICTION IS A VEHICLE TO THE MIND.
21:50 JUST LIKE YOU'RE USING >>TELEVISION TO GET INTO THE MINDS >>OF PEOPLE
21:54 THE MESSAGE THAT YOU HAVE, I USE FICTION.
21:57 IT'S A WAY OF CIRCUMVENTING THE PULPIT.
22:00 UNFORTUNATELY, YOU'RE RIGHT.
22:02 OUR SEMINARIES HAVE BEEN SILENT >>OR HOSTILE TO THE TEACHING OF PROPHECY,
22:07 EVEN THOUGH 28 PERCENT OF THE BIBLE WAS PROPHETIC WHEN IT WAS WRITTEN.
22:11 I CAN'T UNDERSTAND IT, IT'S JUST LIKE WIPING OUT OVER A QUARTER >>OF THE BIBLE AND SAY, WELL, WE WON'T TOUCH THAT.
22:16 IT'S THE MOST MOTIVATING FORCE >>IN THE WORLD.
22:19 WE'VE COME BACK IN FICTION AND PRESENTED THESE FACTUAL EVENTS >>OF PROPHECY
22:25 IN A FICTIONAL WAY AND PEOPLE HAVE GOTTEN HOOKED.
22:28 ZOLA, YOU'LL GET A KICK OUT OF THIS.
22:31 LAST YEAR, I WON'T MENTION THE >>DENOMINATION,
22:33 BUT AT ONE OF THE ANNUAL CONVENTIONS OF AN AMERICAN DENOMINATION,
22:36 A LIBERAL DENOMINATION, BY THE WAY, SOMEONE BROUGHT UP THE CASE ON THE FLOOR OF THE CONVENTION
22:41 OF WHAT THEY SHOULD DO ABOUT THE POPULARITY OF THE "LEFT BEHIND" >>SERIES OF PROPHETIC BOOKS.
22:49 THEY DISCUSSED IT FOR A FEW MINUTES AND THEN PASSED A RESOLUTION
22:53 THAT THEY NOTIFY THEIR CHURCHES >>AND THEIR PASTORS
22:57 TO PREACH MORE ON THE REFORM VIEW OF ESCHATOLOGY.
23:02 SO IT'S OBVIOUSLY A REFORMED DENOMINATION.
23:04 SO THEY SENT OUT THE MESSAGE >>THAT THIS WAS DECIDED OFFICIALLY AND VOTED ON BY THE DELEGATES AT >>THEIR CONVENTION.
23:11 SO THEY SENT THIS LETTER OUT, I GUESS IT WAS AN EMAIL, TO ALL THE PASTORS.
23:15 IN IT THEY TOLD THEM WHAT HAD BEEN DECIDED AND THEY SAID, NOW TEACH THE TRUTH,
23:20 BUT BE CAREFUL NOT TO SPEAK OUT AGAINST THE "LEFT BEHIND" SERIES
23:25 BECAUSE SO MANY OF YOUR PEOPLE >>ARE READING THEM.
23:28 THEY WILL GET UPSET WITH YOU BECAUSE THEY LIKE THEM.
23:34 TALKING WITH TIM LAHAYE IS VERY >>ENLIGHTENING, OBVIOUSLY.
23:36 HE'S ALERT TO PROPHECY DEVELOPMENTS AND SO ON. SO ARE A LOT OF TEACHERS.
23:41 WHEN I WAS SAVED 30 YEARS AGO >>THIS WAS THE POPULAR SUBJECT IN >>THE EARLY '70S.
23:50 HAL LINDSEY'S BOOK REALLY STARTED IT, >>"THE LATE, GREAT PLANET EARTH".
23:53 I REMEMBER BUYING A COPY OF THAT AS AN UNBELIEVER WHEN I WAS IN COLLEGE.
23:57 I READ IT AND I WAS FASCINATED.
24:00 I THINK IT WAS PART OF ONE OF >>THE BABY STEPS TOWARD SALVATION.
24:05 I UNDERSTOOD, AT LEAST, THAT THE >>BIBLE PROPHESIED A SITUATION
24:11 VERY LIKE WE HAD AROUND US BACK THEN.
24:14 THEN DALLAS SEMINARY, WHICH I WAS VERY CLOSE TO,
24:17 I'M ONE OF THE SPEAKERS ON THEIR >>APPROVED CHAPEL LIST.
24:22 IT'S A PRETTY CAREFUL LIST AND I >>APPRECIATE BEING ON IT.
24:27 BACK THEN, THAT WAS THE TALK OVER THERE AND AT MOODY AND SO ON.
24:33 ISRAEL HAD JUST WON THE 6 DAY WAR.
24:37 I'M TALKING ABOUT THE VERY EARLY 70'S. >>EVERYBODY WAS ON ISRAEL'S SIDE.
24:41 IT WAS OBVIOUS GOD WAS BRINGING >>HIS PEOPLE BACK.
24:43 THEY WERE RIGHT AFTER ALL, THE ONES WHO HELD OUT FOR THE JEWS >>COMING BACK TO THE LAND
24:49 IN A PROPER END TIMES SCENARIO >>THAT DID NOT INCLUDE REPLACEMENT THEOLOGY.
24:56 GOD WASN'T FINISHED WITH THE JEWS.
24:57 HE WAS GOING TO RESTORE THEM AND >>REBUILT THE PROMISED LAND.
25:00 THAT WAS THE ATMOSPHERE THEN. >>THEN CAME BOYCOTTS.
25:04 ISLAM STARTED TO BLAME ISRAEL AND SO FORTH.
25:10 THE MEDIA PICKED THAT UP. >>THINGS GOT A LITTLE CROSSWISE. >>ARAFAT WAS DOING HIS WORK.
25:16 IT GOT TO A SITUATION WHERE PEOPLE STARTED TO TURN THEIR BACKS ON ISRAEL
25:23 AND ON PROPHECY FOR VARIOUS REASONS.
25:25 WE COME ALL THE WAY TO TODAY >>WHERE I GO TO A CHURCH TO TEACH >>PROPHECY
25:30 AND I'M SOME KIND OF SPECIALIST. >>THAT SHOULDN'T BE.
25:34 PROPHECY IS ONE THIRD OF THE SCRIPTURES.
25:37 IT'S NOT A SPECIALIST THAT TEACHES PROPHECY, BUT JUST A BIBLE TEACHER.
25:41 IT'S THE BREAD AND BUTTER.
25:43 IT'S LEFT INSTEAD TO AUTHORS >>LIKE TIM LAHAYE, HAL LINDSEY AND >>TEACHERS LIKE MYSELF
25:51 DR. WALVOORD AND THE OTHERS. >>WE'RE MORE LIKE THE OLD SCHOOL.
25:56 IT'S JUST AT THE TIME THE END REALLY IS DRAWING NEAR.
26:01 I REMEMBER ONCE OVER DINNER WITH >>HAL LINDSEY.
26:03 I SAID TO HIM, YOU KNOW, HAL, >>YOU'RE GETTING GRAY AND SO AM I.
26:06 LOOKING BEHIND US, THERE DOESN'T SEEM TO BE ANY TEACHERS COMING >>ALONG DOING THIS STUFF;
26:14 TEACHING THE END TIMES.
26:15 HAL LINDSEY HAS A WAY OF PUTTING >>HIS FINGER RIGHT ON THE TRUTH AND HE SAID,
26:19 YOU KNOW, MAYBE THERE DOESN'T HAVE TO BE. >>WE'RE THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS.
26:25 THE END REALLY IS HERE. YOU DON'T NEED MORE END TIMES PROPHECY TEACHING.
26:30 IT COULD BE.
26:31 MAYBE THE PHENOMENAL SUCCESS OF >>"LEFT BEHIND" IS THAT PEOPLE ARE STARVING,
26:35 EVEN UNBELIEVERS ARE STARVING, BECAUSE A LOT OF THEM ARE BUYING >>THESE BOOKS.
26:39 THEY ARE LEARNING PROPHECY DESPITE THE UNWILLINGNESS OF OTHERS TO TEACH IT.
26:44 MANY OF THEM ARE GOING TO BE >>READY WHERE SOME PEOPLE WHO PLAY >>AT GOING TO CHURCH
26:51 ARE NOT GOING TO BE READY.
26:52 SO WE WERE HAPPY TO TALK WITH TIM LAHAYE AND TALK ABOUT THE "LEFT BEHIND" SERIES.
26:57 BY THE WAY, WE HEARTILY RECOMMEND IT.
26:59 THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH THOSE BOOKS WHATEVER.
27:00 PEOPLE ASK ME THAT ALL THE TIME; >>WHAT DO I THINK OF THEM? I THINK THEY ARE WONDERFUL.
27:04 IT'S AS SIMPLE AS THAT. >>AND SHA'ALU SHALOM YERUSHALAYIM, PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM.

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Dr. Tim LaHaye
- Tim LaHaye Ministries, Founder
- Pre-Trib Research Center, Founder
- Liberty University, Former Board of Trustees member
- Tim LaHaye Website
- Amazon
- IMDB
Zola Levitt
- Zola Levitt Ministries, Host and founder
- IMDB
- Amazon

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