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Episode: “The Rapture”
At a graveyard on Mount Zion, Zola teaches about the “catching up” of Believers, the first End Times event on the prophetic calendar. In the studio, David and Kirsten talk with Jeff about the amazing surprise and timing of the Rapture of the Church.
Series: “Thy Kingdom Come (2018)”
The Future of Believers
Originally produced in 2001 and now refreshed with improved sound and picture quality, each of the 12 programs of Thy Kingdom Come searches Bible prophecy to reveal the glorious future events awaiting all Believers in Messiah. In the studio, David and Kirsten Hart introduce Zola Levitt’s timeless, on-location teachings and his original music, with analysis from senior theologian, Dr. Jeffrey Seif.

Caption transcript for Thy Kingdom Come (2018): “The Rapture” (2/12)

  • 00:01 Next up on the prophetic calendar is the Rapture.
  • 00:04 We'll be discussing that today on Zola Levitt Presents.
  • 00:13 Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is that they might be saved,
  • 00:19 for there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek,
  • 00:22 for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon Him.
  • 00:44 Shalom Havarim and welcome to Zola Levitt Presents.
  • 00:47 I'm David Hart.
  • 00:48 And I'm Kirsten Hart.
  • 00:49 Jeffrey Seif!
  • 00:50 We are in our series, "Thy Kingdom Come"
  • 00:53 Which first aired in 2001 with our Founder, Zola Levitt.
  • 00:57 He passed on in 2006 but we're able to have his teaching.
  • 01:03 And how many times have you and I said,
  • 01:04 We wish that we could have sat at this table with Zola...
  • 01:08 And just chat and learn from him.
  • 01:09 So we think that you may have some stories.
  • 01:11 "If ya can't be with the one you love, love the one you're with".
  • 01:14 We do, we do.
  • 01:15 But listen, kudos to you.
  • 01:17 That " Shalom Havarim "...
  • 01:18 You're really gettin the gist of this thing!
  • 01:20 Natural
  • 01:21 Yes.
  • 01:22 One good story, a Zola story.
  • 01:24 I'll tell you what I liked about him the most.
  • 01:26 He was authentic.
  • 01:27 I used to say that he was the authentic article in a world of frauds.
  • 01:30 Love him or hate him, he was direct, he was to the point,
  • 01:33 He had a kind of down to "earthiness"
  • 01:36 that distinguished him in Christian television,
  • 01:40 that was so hyped up!
  • 01:40 Right, that's how we feel too.
  • 01:42 Right now, let's go to Zola's teaching in Israel.
  • 01:48 Well, we're going to talk about the Rapture,
  • 01:50 and we've come to a very special cemetery
  • 01:52 where many people lie here who the Lord will definitely call to Him.
  • 01:57 These are the first missionaries to the Jews in modern Israel.
  • 02:03 Some of these graves go back to the beginning of the 1800's, and so on.
  • 02:08 Little children and the Bishop of Jerusalem...
  • 02:12 some with Hebrew lettering on their tombstones and so on.
  • 02:18 Truly witnesses to those to whom the Gospel goes first,
  • 02:24 to the Jews, as Jesus said when He came to this earth,
  • 02:26 at Matthew 10:5-6
  • 02:29 "I come only unto the lost sheep of the House of Israel".
  • 02:32 And those were the instructions he gave his Disciples.
  • 02:36 And when we leave this earth in the Rapture,
  • 02:41 the great translation of the Church to Heaven,
  • 03:07 The next verse says, "Comfort one another with these words and
  • 03:11 that's what we're doing.
  • 03:13 We're teaching about the Rapture
  • 03:14 and I hope you are greatly comforted
  • 03:16 because by golly, you're going to defeat death.
  • 03:19 This is the greatest Promise, I suppose in all the Scripture,
  • 03:23 and it's a Promise you can't get anywhere else,
  • 03:25 only Jesus Christ is going to make a re-appearance.
  • 03:30 You know, here in Jerusalem there is an empty tomb.
  • 03:33 This is Jesus' Tomb they say.
  • 03:35 But, anyhow there's an empty tomb somewhere from which He rose.
  • 03:40 Reverend van der Hoeven,
  • 03:42 the retired Director of
  • 03:44 the Christian Embassy in Jerusalem said
  • 03:46 if he went to the Tomb of Mohammed or the Tomb of Buddha he would find
  • 03:52 them sealed, their body still inside
  • 03:55 buried, dead and not come out.
  • 03:58 And if he stood there and said, "Help me",
  • 04:02 well they would say, "We couldn't even help ourselves!"
  • 04:06 He says, But at the empty Tomb of Christ
  • 04:08 He doesn't have to say anything.
  • 04:10 Just see that it's empty and that's help enough.
  • 04:14 Now the Scripture begins in
  • 04:18 I Thessalonians 4:13-14.
  • 04:21 The subject is that the people in Thessalonica
  • 04:24 wrote to Paul asking about the dead.
  • 04:27 Some people in the Church had died and
  • 04:30 Paul had preached that the Lord is soon to return.
  • 04:33 And that's correct teaching in any Christian generation.
  • 04:36 He may...He may.
  • 04:37 So we always remind people that He's on His way.
  • 04:40 If He tarries, He tarries,
  • 04:42 but we still need to remind people that Christ may come at any moment,
  • 04:47 and he had done that with them.
  • 04:49 And he's the one that had taught them this term "Rapture",
  • 04:52 "raptura" in the Latin Vulgate Bible,
  • 04:56 and it came to the English word "rapture",
  • 04:58 but anyhow it's the word for "caught up".
  • 05:02 That's how it is.
  • 05:03 The Lord catches us up like the fish in the net, in the Gospel.
  • 05:08 And when people tell you the word "rapture" isn't in the Scripture... it is.
  • 05:12 It's the English words "caught up".
  • 05:14 It's simply a Latin word.
  • 05:17 But they were concerned for the people that had
  • 05:19 "fallen asleep", they called it.
  • 05:21 And he wrote to them saying this in I Thessalonians 4:13,
  • 05:44 He is the example.
  • 05:45 His Tomb is empty.
  • 05:48 This Rapture is coming.
  • 05:49 It's at an unexpected time, is one problem with it,
  • 05:54 that is Christians should be living like Christians,
  • 05:57 and occupied with God's work at all times because
  • 06:01 we don't know when He's coming.
  • 06:03 He said in Luke 12:40,
  • 06:11 So there's a warning.
  • 06:12 You know when Christ went with His disciples to the Upper Room,
  • 06:16 He revealed so much there.
  • 06:18 John 14:1-3 said, "Let not your heart be troubled,"
  • 06:21 "you believe in God, believe also in Me."
  • 06:24 "In My Father's House there are many mansions."
  • 06:26 "I go to prepare a place for you,"
  • 06:28 "And if I go I'll come back and take you there"
  • 06:30 "So you may be where I am."
  • 06:32 In other words, He's going to leave, He said,
  • 06:34 but He's going to return,
  • 06:36 and He's going to return for the Church.
  • 06:38 And He did do this, that is, He rose from the dead,
  • 06:42 and He did ascend into Heaven.
  • 06:45 Before He did, you know He held a Bible School.
  • 06:47 I would love to the Lord's 40 Day Bible School,
  • 06:50 six week Bible School.
  • 06:52 It says in Acts 1:3
  • 07:03 Well that's what we're doing.
  • 07:05 I just wish the churches were doing this,
  • 07:08 and the seminaries would take their responsibility
  • 07:11 to teach the things of the Kingdom of God,
  • 07:13 but some of the things I'm saying
  • 07:15 many Christians are hearing them for the first time in their lives.
  • 07:18 Although they've gone to church their whole life
  • 07:20 or one of the great seminaries that are supposed to teach prophecy
  • 07:24 but somehow just doesn't do it.
  • 07:27 You know I hear all the time, prophesy's controversial.
  • 07:30 I don't know what the controversy is
  • 07:33 but when is Christianity not controversial?
  • 07:36 It ought to be a doctrine that supercedes all earthly doctrines,
  • 07:40 and it ought to raise some controversy.
  • 07:43 The ascension of the Lord is also in Acts 1:10-11,
  • 08:05 So, not only does He ascend,
  • 08:07 but He will come back out of Heaven the same way.
  • 08:12 That 40 Day Bible School sure changed Peter, didn't it?
  • 08:14 Before the Lord came out of His grave
  • 08:18 Peter was saying, he didn't know the man.
  • 08:21 Three times he denied Him.
  • 08:23 After the Lord taught him 40 days he could
  • 08:25 speak at Pentecost of the things of the Kingdom,
  • 08:28 that is, quoting from the Prophet Joel, and the Psalms,
  • 08:32 he was a Bible giant all of a sudden.
  • 08:35 Well the Rapture comes as a surprise.
  • 08:38 The Lord described it in other Scripture,
  • 08:40 as "in a twinkling of an eye",
  • 08:42 or "like lightning across the sky".
  • 08:44 So, it's fast, it's sudden,
  • 08:46 it's hard to predict.
  • 08:47 When there's a big storm and you hear thunder,
  • 08:49 you expect lightning,
  • 08:51 but you don't know in which instant that lightning will come.
  • 08:54 We know that the Lord is coming
  • 08:56 but we don't know what night He's coming.
  • 08:58 And for this reason I favor the pre-Tribulation Rapture
  • 09:02 over all other theories
  • 09:04 because the Rapture has no event before it and it comes as a surprise.
  • 09:08 without going into all the theology about it,
  • 09:12 it's so simple to think if it came at the end of the Tribulation
  • 09:16 it would be quite easy to watch all the events in the Tribulation.
  • 09:19 Put the thing on a calendar.
  • 09:21 It'd be exactly 7 years after
  • 09:23 the anti-Christ makes a covenant with Israel.
  • 09:25 I could check my calculations
  • 09:28 when he goes into the Temple and
  • 09:30 blasphemes at the mid point of the Tribulation 3 1/2 years later.
  • 09:33 The book of Revelation gives me the twelve hundred and sixty days and so on.
  • 09:37 I can't miss it.
  • 09:39 I could be packed the night the Lord comes,
  • 09:41 if it were that simple that it was at the end of the tribulation.
  • 09:46 Likewise, in the middle of the Tribulation,
  • 09:48 I could be packed.
  • 09:50 You don't need to pack anything in the Rapture.
  • 09:53 Of course the Lord has all you need for your whole eternal life.
  • 09:56 But we used to say this on the radio
  • 09:59 when I had a program where people could call in,
  • 10:01 and we decided not to say that we'll be packed for the Rapture
  • 10:06 because we would start a denomination called "Packers",
  • 10:08 people that carry luggage around to show
  • 10:11 that they are going to be ready when the Rapture occurs.
  • 10:14 But anyhow, in the book that the ministry has,
  • 10:16 "Raptured", written years ago.
  • 10:18 Dr. McCall and I wrote it.
  • 10:20 And we have a chapter called,
  • 10:22 "Pre-Trib verses Mid-Trib,
  • 10:24 verses Post Trib verses No-Trib."
  • 10:26 There's people out there, could you believe?,
  • 10:27 that don't think there's a Rapture at all,
  • 10:29 in spite of all the Scripture I just quoted,
  • 10:32 but we deal even with that position.
  • 10:34 But we take up each position fairly and
  • 10:38 with good reason that we give in that book,
  • 10:40 we come down strongly as Pre-Tribulation Rapture.
  • 10:43 So, if the Rapture does not occur,
  • 10:46 I'll be back, right after this.
  • 10:58 Our Resource this week,
  • 10:59 the Book "Raptured" by Dr. Tom S. McCall and Zola Levitt.
  • 11:04 Packed with relevant Scriptures
  • 11:06 this Book presents the various views of
  • 11:08 when the Rapture of the Church might happen,
  • 11:11 and suggests which views seems most correct.
  • 11:14 This doctrine is not always understood by the Church
  • 11:17 but it will affect everyone on earth,
  • 11:19 in the twinkling of an eye.
  • 11:21 Contact us and ask for
  • 11:23 the Book "Rapture".
  • 11:27 Our Founder, Zola Levitt established this ministry in 1979.
  • 11:31 Today, we continue bringing you the Good News of Messiah,
  • 11:35 and the truth about Israel.
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  • 11:59 as we continue explaining the Jewish roots of our Christian faith.
  • 12:04 Right now, let's go back to Zola's teaching
  • 12:07 on the Rapture.
  • 12:10 You know, in my ministry people have thought it's
  • 12:14 a novelty that I want to witness to the Jews,
  • 12:17 but I'm standing by a grave
  • 12:19 of a man, a doctor.
  • 12:20 It says M.D. after his name,
  • 12:22 "Missionary to the Jews"
  • 12:24 Died 1826.
  • 12:26 This has been a mission ever since Jesus did it,
  • 12:28 and all generations.
  • 12:30 It's just, I don't know what is better tolerated today or whatever.
  • 12:34 Anyhow, about the Lord's coming,
  • 12:46 You know, you can see this working out,
  • 12:48 say in the first century field where
  • 12:51 there is a Jew and a Gentile
  • 12:53 working a farm together.
  • 12:55 There were people in the Land,
  • 12:56 sojourners at that time.
  • 12:58 They might have been field workers.
  • 13:00 And then the Feast of Trumpets would come.
  • 13:02 Symbolic of the Rapture, the Trumpets sounds.
  • 13:04 From the Temple they blew a Trumpet and
  • 13:07 then that was repeated from field to field throughout the Land.
  • 13:09 The trumpet or shofar player
  • 13:12 would sound the call,
  • 13:14 and the Jews would immediately report to their Worship,
  • 13:16 the Feast of Trumpets,
  • 13:18 the end of the Harvest.
  • 13:20 And the Gentile would finish taking the crops of course,
  • 13:25 it wasn't his festival.
  • 13:26 So there you saw acted out,
  • 13:28 the Lord taking one from a field
  • 13:31 but leaving the other and so on.
  • 13:34 Now, when is all this going to happen?
  • 13:36 Well, "Soon and very Soon" says the Hymn
  • 13:40 And why not?
  • 13:43 And who's going?
  • 13:44 Well, first of all the Church itself is all going.
  • 13:51 Revelation 3:10 describes just that it's
  • 13:56 before the Tribulation in this way,
  • 13:58 "because thou hast kept the Word of My patience.
  • 14:00 This is addressed to the "Good Church",
  • 14:03 the Church of Philadelphia.
  • 14:04 Out of the Seven Churches it's the one which receives
  • 14:07 nothing but commendations and no criticisms from the Lord.
  • 14:13 He says,
  • 14:23 So, before the Tribulation every Christian goes.
  • 14:28 You know, this question of partial Rapture
  • 14:33 used to come up on my radio program.
  • 14:35 Someone told me one day, "only the good Christians are going.
  • 14:38 Well, I don't know any.
  • 14:40 You know the Physician comes to heal the sick
  • 14:42 "The Church," as Morey Shrosen of Jews for Jesus said once,
  • 14:47 "The Church is not a museum for Saints, It's a hospital for sinners."
  • 14:51 The people that are going need to go, let me put it that way.
  • 14:54 I need to go.
  • 14:55 I certainly need a new body I can tell you that.
  • 14:58 But you know we shouldn't predict when the Rapture's coming.
  • 15:02 That's a mistake.
  • 15:03 In 1988, if you remember, there was a book circulated,
  • 15:06 it was given away, really.
  • 15:07 All over the country people got excited
  • 15:09 the Rapture was going to be...I think it was September 11th, 1988.
  • 15:13 He calculated the simple arithmetic 40 years since a generation and so on.
  • 15:20 It went defunct of course immediately after the 11th
  • 15:25 cause there wasn't the Rapture.
  • 15:26 Nothing changed.
  • 15:28 The Prestonwood Baptist Church in Dallas
  • 15:30 had me come in the next year in 1989
  • 15:34 to do a six week teaching on "89 Reasons why we can't predict the Rapture".
  • 15:41 We shouldn't predict the Rapture.
  • 15:43 If somebody convinced you that the Rapture is, say a month from now,
  • 15:46 well my goodness, you could make credit card purchases,etc.
  • 15:51 I laugh because somebody said, "Don't do that because"
  • 15:54 "when you get to the Judgment Seat of Christ" in Heaven,
  • 15:56 "You might see those receipts on His desk!"
  • 15:59 That's quite possible.
  • 16:02 The Church doesn't go through the Tribulation for another reason
  • 16:05 because it's not mentioned from Revelation 4, verse 1
  • 16:08 in which a Trumpet sounds all the way out to Revelation 19.
  • 16:12 The world is in tremendous calamity,
  • 16:14 and things are... judgments are falling all over the place,
  • 16:19 people are dying but there's no instruction given to the Church
  • 16:23 as to what to do about this or where to hide or where to go.
  • 16:26 I don't think that the Church is here at all.
  • 16:30 In the Tribulation I think we have all,
  • 16:32 every Believer in Jesus Christ,
  • 16:33 gone on before then in the Rapture.
  • 16:36 All souls that are conscious once, are conscious for eternity.
  • 16:41 We all have eternal life.
  • 16:43 The question is, Are we with God?, Are we not with God?
  • 16:47 John 5:28-29 says,
  • 17:04 I'm afraid so.
  • 17:06 These graves will open
  • 17:08 and this good missionary to the Jews,
  • 17:09 and this good Bishop of Jerusalmen all these others will come out
  • 17:13 and will go to the Lord!
  • 17:15 Every grave will open and unbelievers will
  • 17:18 then be bound to Satan unto Judgment at the end.
  • 17:21 We'll talk in later programs about that.
  • 17:24 Believers go on to be with the Lord
  • 17:28 and will be conscious always.
  • 17:30 Everybody will have and eternal life.
  • 17:33 It's just some will be with God and some will not.
  • 17:35 That is the important point.
  • 17:37 The Jews say the Old Testament doesn't speak of this division, this Resurrection, but it does!
  • 17:44 Daniel 12:2-3 says this,
  • 18:03 My Goodness!
  • 18:04 Now in the New Testament we learn that all men die of course,
  • 18:08 "It's appointed unto men once to die and then the judgment."
  • 18:12 But Jesus is the first example of the permanent Resurrection.
  • 18:17 He is the First Fruit of those that have died.
  • 18:21 You know, it says this in I Corinthians 15:20-23,
  • 18:48 So, I think we all have a number in this Resurrection,
  • 18:52 or we go in ranks,
  • 18:53 or we go with our church or our contemporaries somehow
  • 18:56 because the Gospel says,
  • 18:57 "The hairs of your head are all numbered."
  • 18:59 The Dead in Christ rise first obviously.
  • 19:02 They have lower numbers.
  • 19:05 Then we are changed.
  • 19:07 The change says that our bodies are reconstituted for Eternal Life.
  • 19:13 Again, the Jews say it's not in the Old Testament, but it certainly is.
  • 19:17 Job 14:13-15,
  • 19:27 (wrath be past) That is the Tribulation.
  • 19:30 The Old Testament Saints will be raised at the end of the Great Tribulation.
  • 19:37 "A set time".
  • 19:38 In Hebrew it's munah
  • 19:40 like the time of your military hitch.
  • 19:41 It is a "set time".
  • 19:43 It's a precise time that ends at a precise moment.
  • 19:46 Job philosophizes,
  • 19:59 Job says, no matter how long I'm in the grave,
  • 20:02 you'll want the work of your hands...Job's body, My body, he says.
  • 20:06 And he triumphantly says in a verse we all quote, Job 19:25
  • 20:24 You know death, our common fear,
  • 20:26 is totally defeated by this Rapture.
  • 20:30 It says "We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed."
  • 20:33 That's I Corinthians 15:51-53
  • 20:37 And the Christian ultimately does not even fear death.
  • 20:42 It is the last enemy the Bible says.
  • 20:46 But Christ defeats it.
  • 20:48 And finally, in I Corinthians 15:55-57, it says this,
  • 21:06 Amen!
  • 21:30 [Scenes of Israel]
  • 22:20 We are back at the table right now with Dr. Jeff.
  • 22:22 So great to be with you today.
  • 22:25 I think you may know this,
  • 22:27 Kirsten and I both grew up in the Church.
  • 22:28 I am a Pastor's son,
  • 22:30 Kirsten, minister of music's daughter.
  • 22:31 We grew up in kind of different denominations.
  • 22:34 And we've heard some different doctrine on the Rapture.
  • 22:37 And I have a feeling that in Messianic circles
  • 22:40 there's different views on the Rapture too.
  • 22:42 Is that correct?
  • 22:44 Well, you know there's always confusion at the borders of knowledge.
  • 22:46 People weren't talking about Bible prophecy
  • 22:48 in Israel years ago.
  • 22:50 And I'm glad that its back on the table,
  • 22:52 with the wonderful events like the
  • 22:54 re-constitution of Israel as a Nation State.
  • 22:56 ,People are looking at "What's God up to in the world"
  • 23:00 "and how does it relate to the Jews in the world to come?
  • 23:03 So with all things new there's always confusion,
  • 23:05 but I can live with the confusion.
  • 23:07 Even if people don't have all the right answers,
  • 23:09 people are always asking the right question,
  • 23:11 What's God up to in the world?
  • 23:12 I think with Zola, the Thessalonia text
  • 23:14 is a principle go-to one.
  • 23:16 Therein we're told specifically the Lord is going to come down,
  • 23:19 the Trumpet's going to blow,
  • 23:20 and we're out a here.
  • 23:21 What do you guys think of that?
  • 23:23 We sang that song.
  • 23:24 Do you remember the song "Two men walking up a hill"
  • 23:27 "One disappears and one's left standing still"
  • 23:29 Do you remember that?
  • 23:30 "I wish we'd all been ready."
  • 23:31 And I kind of grew up thinking...
  • 23:33 Was that Keith Green?
  • 23:34 Yes, it's an old one.
  • 23:35 But...
  • 23:36 Larry Norman
  • 23:37 It's dating us.
  • 23:38 But it's almost like it was going to be a scary thing.
  • 23:40 and "yoooove been left behind!"
  • 23:42 It was a scary...
  • 23:43 but it's not a scary event.
  • 23:45 Well, it is a warning, you know?
  • 23:47 We want to be ready.
  • 23:48 People are moved either by fear of punishments
  • 23:51 or promises of rewards.
  • 23:53 You know, "Quit smoking",
  • 23:54 "I need to quit smoking."
  • 23:55 But you go to the doctor and he says,
  • 23:57 Listen, if you do quit smoking, you can do this,
  • 23:59 and if you don't quit smoking, you're gonna die.
  • 24:00 Sometimes people need motivated,
  • 24:02 they need prodded a little bit.
  • 24:04 So, I understand the Gospel text about
  • 24:07 the story of being taken away.
  • 24:08 But here, this is framed as Good News in verse 18 of Chapter 4.
  • 24:14 We're told to encourage one another, to infuse courage.
  • 24:18 And speaking of encouraging one another,
  • 24:20 I don't want to ramble here.
  • 24:21 I want to hear from you.
  • 24:22 No, you're good.
  • 24:23 But I want to speak to the viewers about the words, "one another".
  • 24:26 We all exist in webs of relationships.
  • 24:29 This story is important.
  • 24:32 It's not only important to Zola Levitt Presents
  • 24:33 that we make some new friends,
  • 24:35 but it's important to get the Word out about
  • 24:37 God, what He is up to in the world today.
  • 24:40 Would you please encourage your friends, neighbors and co-workers
  • 24:46 to take a look at the Good Book with Zola Levitt Presents.
  • 24:48 We're on social media,
  • 24:50 we're on television.
  • 24:52 Talk about the program and let them know there's a new world dawning,
  • 24:56 and Zola Levitt Presents is going to give insights
  • 24:59 on how that new world is arising.
  • 25:01 That's right.
  • 25:02 I may be off here, forgive me,
  • 25:04 but I'm not sure if I'm hearing a whole lot about
  • 25:07 Rapture in the pulpit these days.
  • 25:09 Well, there's less and less I think.
  • 25:12 People think, "Well those crazies".
  • 25:14 Listen, I frankly was embarrassed to talk about Bible prophecy
  • 25:18 because there's so many crazies out here
  • 25:20 in the market place of ideas.
  • 25:22 I remember I sat down and had a conversation
  • 25:25 with the Advisor in my doctoral program, Billy Abraham,
  • 25:28 who took his PHD out of Oxford University.
  • 25:31 I did my dissertation under him and I said,
  • 25:34 You know, I don't want to talk so much about Bible prophecy because
  • 25:37 it's so riddled with conjecture,
  • 25:39 and I don't want to be associated with the crazies.
  • 25:41 I thought he'd go in his English accent,
  • 25:43 "Well, yes Jeffrey you have a point."
  • 25:45 But he said, "No Jeff, listen.
  • 25:46 "All the more there's a need for people
  • 25:49 that want to be responsible theologians
  • 25:52 to offer a cogent telling of these things.
  • 25:54 Because if those of us that are more
  • 25:57 responsibly trained in theology don't give voice to these things,
  • 26:01 then we give it over to the crazies by default.
  • 26:04 Which is one of the reasons why I say,
  • 26:06 not just in talking to you,
  • 26:07 but in talking to you!
  • 26:09 Please tell your friends to join me, we, us,
  • 26:12 as we unpack truths in Biblical literature
  • 26:16 that are relevant for you today.
  • 26:19 And I like that word "truth".
  • 26:20 I know you're about to say something..sorry.
  • 26:22 because we've seen the crazies.
  • 26:23 The crazies make the news.
  • 26:25 Not all of this.
  • 26:26 The crazies make the news in saying,
  • 26:28 He's coming on October!
  • 26:30 Here's the date.
  • 26:31 And we can't predict cause it said, no man knows.
  • 26:34 Only the Son of Man, right?
  • 26:36 What are the pastors gonna think of that?
  • 26:37 It's Scripture and it's relevant for today.
  • 26:40 And that's what we're all about on Zola Levitt Presents.
  • 26:43 The Hebrew word emit comes from the
  • 26:45 first letter of the Hebrew Alphabet,
  • 26:47 the middle letter of the Hebrew Alphabet,
  • 26:49 and the last letter of the Hebrew Alphabet,
  • 26:52 to pull it all together.
  • 26:54 And that's what we want to do in these programs
  • 26:57 with our guests,
  • 26:58 and here our guests is our Founder really,
  • 27:00 who is speaking to us from the grave with an older series.
  • 27:03 But the name of the game is get the story straight
  • 27:06 and get the story out.
  • 27:07 That's good.
  • 27:08 I can't believe how quick this went today.
  • 27:10 It's time to end our program - end us.
  • 27:13 Sha'alu Shalom Yerushalayim
  • 27:16 Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem.
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Episodes in this series

  1. Overview
  2. The Rapture
  3. The Judgment Seat of the Righteous
  4. The Wedding
  5. The Second Coming
  6. The Throne of Judgment
  7. The Kingdom Begins
  8. The Kingdom in Progress
  9. The Gog & Magog Invasion
  10. The Great White Throne of Judgment
  11. Eternity
  12. The Music

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