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• 00:01 Kirsten Hart: What will it be like when Jesus returns and sets
• 00:06 up his kingdom here on earth? Find out next on "Zola Levitt Presents."
• 00:10 ♪♪♪
• 00:15 male announcer: "Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God
• 00:18 for Israel is, that they might be saved.
• 00:22 For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek:
• 00:24 for the same Lord over all is rich unto all
• 00:27 that call upon him."
• 00:30 "Zola Levitt Presents."
• 00:32 ♪♪♪
• 00:46 David Hart: Thank you for joining us today
• 00:47 on "Zola Levitt Presents."
• 00:49 I'm David Hart.
• 00:50 Kirsten: I'm Kirsten Hart.
• 00:51 Jeffrey Seif: Jeffrey Seif.
• 00:53 David: We are in the middle of our series,
• 00:54 "Thy Kingdom Come," which first aired in 2001.
• 00:55 And we've heard teaching on the rapture
• 00:57 and on the second coming.
• 00:59 Kirsten: And now we're at the kingdom, finally,
• 01:03 that happens on earth.
• 01:04 David: Setting up the kingdom.
• 01:05 Kirsten: Right, and that's what Zola's teaching today,
• 01:07 but we have your extra insight, our senior theologian.
• 01:10 Jeffrey: Well, we're all working at penetrating
• 01:13 into the biblical text.
• 01:15 You know, Jesus did say, "Pray, 'Thy kingdom come
• 01:19 and thy will be done,'"
• 01:21 so it should be more the forefront of Christian thinking.
• 01:26 Jesus seems to have placed it there.
• 01:28 It's kinda fallen into the background.
• 01:29 We think about the kingdom as when we die and we're jettisoned
• 01:32 into the new experience, but there is a future on earth
• 01:37 in Revelation that's noted, and that's to be explored.
• 01:42 A world where Israel becomes more central in the kingdom,
• 01:45 Jerusalem's the capital city, and Messiah's who's returned
• 01:48 reigns there, and their saints gather there attending
• 01:52 to affairs in a rejuvenated planet.
• 01:55 It's a fascinating story.
• 01:57 Kirsten: It is.
• 01:58 I for one cannot wait to see what this earth is gonna look
• 02:01 like, and what that throne is gonna be like,
• 02:03 and to see our King of kings reigning on this earth.
• 02:06 We'll be learning more about that kingdom with Dr. Seif
• 02:10 and Zola Levitt.
• 02:11 Let's go to Zola now in Israel.
• 02:15 Zola Levitt: Well, the gate that you can see behind me in
• 02:18 the eastern wall of the temple is the Golden Gate or the East
• 02:21 Gate, the gate that faces the Mount of Olives
• 02:23 where I'm standing.
• 02:25 And it is the gate through which the King will enter
• 02:28 and we that are with him, as it says in Revelation.
• 02:32 And when we go through that gate, we are really gonna change
• 02:34 societies, from the one we're in now where Christians
• 02:37 are a minority to a kingdom where believers will be
• 02:41 a vast majority.
• 02:43 In fact, we'll run the place.
• 02:45 We'll be the princes, the governors,
• 02:46 as the Scripture says, and of course with
• 02:49 the head of the church, Jesus, as the King.
• 02:53 Psalm 72:1-11 puts it this way, "Give the king thy judgments,
• 02:58 O God, and thy righteousness unto the king's son.
• 03:01 He shall judge thy people with righteousness,
• 03:03 and thy poor with judgment.
• 03:05 The mountains shall bring peace to the people,
• 03:07 and the little hills, by righteousness.
• 03:10 He shall judge the poor of the people, he shall save the
• 03:12 children of the needy, and shall break in pieces the oppressor."
• 03:16 And so the passage goes on.
• 03:19 Psalm 72 is wonderful kingdom Scripture.
• 03:22 And 2 Timothy 2:11-12, "It is a faithful saying:
• 03:27 For if we be dead with him, we shall also live with him:
• 03:30 If we suffer, we shall also reign with him: if we deny him,
• 03:35 he also will deny us."
• 03:37 So, believing on the Lord of course is the way to go,
• 03:40 now and in the kingdom to come.
• 03:42 And I say that because some people will be,
• 03:44 as we pointed out, in natural bodies born unbelievers.
• 03:48 They will be compelled to come to the King, the Lord of Hosts.
• 03:53 You know, Christianity offers what Islam does, the idea that
• 03:59 if you suffer now, you'll be recompensed in the next life.
• 04:03 With that simple idea, the Muslims have converted people
• 04:08 the world around who are the have-nots, who feel that they
• 04:14 have gotten a raw deal now and they want a better deal later,
• 04:17 but Christianity says the same thing.
• 04:20 "If we suffer, we shall also reign with him."
• 04:24 We Christians ought to point out to the underdog
• 04:26 that a wonderful kingdom is certainly coming.
• 04:29 And life in the kingdom, it will be styled of holiness,
• 04:32 righteousness, joy, peace.
• 04:36 Satan will be bound.
• 04:38 He'll be in hell and unable to run the world as he does now,
• 04:43 and that means even the unbelievers in the kingdom
• 04:45 will be much more reasonable and less sinful people
• 04:50 than unbelievers now.
• 04:52 Unbelievers, someone said, really, the problem isn't
• 04:54 they're sinful, it's that they're boring.
• 04:56 They have nothing interesting to talk about.
• 04:59 They don't talk about Scriptures, or the future,
• 05:01 or the King, or that sort of thing of course.
• 05:04 They talk about what your sign you're born under
• 05:06 or whatever they're talking about now.
• 05:08 And liberal churches sing the song of the unbeliever
• 05:12 all the time, this psychology, and that latest theory
• 05:16 of life, and so on.
• 05:18 But in the kingdom, the unbeliever will be
• 05:20 curious about the King.
• 05:21 He'd have to be.
• 05:24 The Lord will be on television all the time,
• 05:27 as I observed in another program.
• 05:30 He's there in the temple to be seen.
• 05:32 People will bring their friends to see Jesus
• 05:34 and to hear him preach.
• 05:36 My goodness, of course they will.
• 05:37 And righteous princes, righteous governors
• 05:39 throughout the society.
• 05:41 It'll just a changed world.
• 05:44 Ezekiel 48:35 points out, "It was round about eighteen
• 05:48 thousand measures: and the name of the city from that day
• 05:52 shall be, Yahweh Shammah, The Lord is there."
• 05:57 Gives a dimension of the city and says, "The Lord is there."
• 06:01 Jesus Christ will sit on the throne of David in the kingdom
• 06:05 and only in the kingdom.
• 06:07 The error called progressive dispensationalism,
• 06:10 which has started Moody Bible Institute, Dallas Seminary,
• 06:13 and plenty of others down a slippery slope
• 06:16 to amillennialism, it starts with the error
• 06:20 that Jesus is now in this church age on the throne of David.
• 06:25 An eighth grader could see that's not so.
• 06:28 It's a kingdom event, and as soon as we start confusing
• 06:31 events from one dispensation to another, from one time period
• 06:34 to another, that way lies madness.
• 06:37 So, as I'm passing over the subject of Jesus sitting
• 06:41 on the throne of David, let me point out it's in the kingdom
• 06:43 and only in the kingdom.
• 06:45 The throne of David hasn't been restored.
• 06:47 It will only be restored when the kingdom begins.
• 06:50 Now, the 1,000-year kingdom they call it, why?
• 06:52 Because in Revelation 20 and that chapter only, it
• 06:56 gives the fact that the kingdom is 1,000 years long.
• 07:01 It's not given in Old Testament, it's just given as a government,
• 07:05 as a way of the world, but it doesn't give the length,
• 07:09 and the length is important.
• 07:11 In Revelation 20, it's not given once by the way,
• 07:13 but six times it says it's 1,000 years long.
• 07:16 It's a very elegant time period because if you look
• 07:20 at the biblical history of the world, there has been
• 07:23 about 6,000 years of that already.
• 07:26 Someone calculated--Bishop Usher calculated Adam
• 07:28 was around 4,000 B.C.
• 07:31 He added all the genealogies in the Bible together, and assuming
• 07:33 they're all given end-to-end correctly and none left out,
• 07:38 that would be about 6,000 years ago.
• 07:41 Well, "A thousand years unto the Lord is as a day
• 07:44 and a day is a thousand years," 2 Peter 3:8.
• 07:47 So, that 1,000 years on the end, the kingdom, would be a Sabbath.
• 07:51 It would be the seventh day, the seventh 1,000-year period,
• 07:55 and it's rather elegant to think of it that way.
• 07:58 Be back after this.
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• 09:44 Now let's go back to Zola in Israel teaching
• 09:46 on the millennial kingdom.
• 09:50 Zola: Well, that last Sabbath I mentioned, the 1,000-year
• 09:53 kingdom, that's truly the time of rest and peace.
• 09:56 That's a real Sabbath.
• 09:58 I mean, after the world we're in, that 1,000 years is just
• 10:00 gonna be wonderful and people are eager to get to it.
• 10:03 And look behind me at the wild olive trees.
• 10:06 We're on the edge of the Mount of Olives
• 10:08 where it meets up with the city.
• 10:09 And look at the Gentiles, so to say, the wild olive trees
• 10:12 trying to go into the city for the kingdom.
• 10:15 It just is a demonstration of what's going on.
• 10:18 You know, the olive tree starts off from the ground out of roots
• 10:23 that are healthy and it nourishes the tree the whole
• 10:26 time, then it drops other shoots around it, strong, young trunks,
• 10:30 and regenerates itself, so to say.
• 10:33 And I always think of it as the church and the Jews.
• 10:36 The Jews are the roots to begin with.
• 10:39 The tree will always take its nourishment
• 10:41 from the beginning, from the roots.
• 10:43 And then later on, young trunks come up, the wild branches
• 10:47 or whatever, they're grafted in, and that is the church.
• 10:51 And together, there they are trying to get into the city.
• 10:54 I don't blame 'em.
• 10:56 Well, when that kingdom starts, though, we're gonna have
• 10:58 a two-tiered society.
• 10:59 There's going to be the people that are changed,
• 11:01 all of the believers resurrected,
• 11:04 the Old Testament saints, the church,
• 11:06 the tribulation period, believers, and then there's
• 11:10 going to be the people who come in natural bodies
• 11:13 out of the tribulation, the sheep, from the judgment
• 11:17 of the sheep and the goats.
• 11:19 These people will marry and they will have children
• 11:23 in the kingdom, and those children will be unbelievers,
• 11:25 children of Adam, so-called.
• 11:28 So, there will be an ever-growing population
• 11:30 of unbelievers as the kingdom goes on.
• 11:33 The believers of course, the ones that are changed,
• 11:36 that are resurrected, don't marry and give in marriage.
• 11:40 They are different and so they don't have children,
• 11:43 so an unbelieving population growing throughout the kingdom
• 11:48 is the second tier of the society.
• 11:50 But of course, the pressure's on them to come to the Lord.
• 11:55 The law of the Sermon on the Mount obtains on them.
• 11:59 After all, the Lord said, "If the right hand offend thee,
• 12:02 cut it off.
• 12:03 If the eye offend thee, pluck it out."
• 12:05 We don't practice that now, but we're not in the kingdom now.
• 12:08 That's the kingdom law being told to people
• 12:11 who are going to the kingdom.
• 12:13 The subject of the sermon is the kingdom of God.
• 12:16 Well, Isaiah puts it this way in 65:20,
• 12:22 "There shall be no more thence an infant of days,
• 12:25 or an old man that hath not fulfilled his days;
• 12:28 for the child shall die an hundred years old; but
• 12:31 the sinner being an hundred years old shall be accursed."
• 12:35 Well, the implication is that unbelievers will commit sins
• 12:39 and sometimes sins unto death, and so some people will die.
• 12:45 We're on an area of the Mount of Olives where there's children
• 12:48 playing and so on, you can hear that in the background.
• 12:51 If a person is a hundred years old and dies, it'll sort of be
• 12:54 a tragedy, meaning that everyone will have the long lifespans
• 12:58 of Genesis, 1,000 years won't be strange.
• 13:02 In fact, that'll be normal.
• 13:04 And once you're resurrected, you don't die again.
• 13:09 The ever-growing population of unbelievers, though,
• 13:11 will suffer some deaths.
• 13:13 They will also undergo conversion, for goodness' sake.
• 13:16 They'll go up from year to year to worship the Lord.
• 13:19 Zechariah 14:16-19 says, "And it shall come to pass,
• 13:23 that every one that is left of all the nations
• 13:25 which came against Jerusalem shall even go up from year
• 13:28 to year to worship the King, the Lord of hosts,
• 13:31 and to keep the feast of tabernacles."
• 13:34 Every year they're gonna keep the feast of tabernacles,
• 13:36 and even now Christians comes from all over the world
• 13:40 at the time of the feast of tabernacles to keep the feast.
• 13:45 And you can see there's unbelievers in sin if you read
• 13:47 on in this passage, Zechariah 14:16-19.
• 13:51 It goes on this way, "And it shall be, that whoso will not
• 13:54 come up of all the families of the earth unto Jerusalem
• 13:57 to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, even upon them
• 14:00 shall be no rain."
• 14:02 There will be unbelievers who say, "I don't wanna go and hear
• 14:04 him preach again," I suppose, something like that,
• 14:07 or "I don't wanna go to Jerusalem.
• 14:09 I'm not of your faith."
• 14:11 The rain'll dry up there. Their land will be cursed.
• 14:15 Then it says, "If the family of Egypt go not up, and come not,"
• 14:20 as if God knows who might omit the old Jewish festival,
• 14:24 "then they'll have no rain; there shall be the plague,
• 14:27 wherewith the Lord will smite the heathen
• 14:29 that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles.
• 14:32 This shall be the punishment of Egypt, and the punishment
• 14:34 of all nations that come not up to keep the feast
• 14:37 of tabernacles."
• 14:39 So, that festival is important in the kingdom to come
• 14:41 and it's the one that's symbolic of the kingdom.
• 14:44 While all the festivals will be recreated,
• 14:47 tabernacles is germane to the kingdom to come.
• 14:50 And the people will come up to the temple.
• 14:53 That's why they'll be saved. They'll hear the King preach.
• 14:56 Whenever he did, people were saved, and it won't be
• 14:59 any different in the kingdom.
• 15:01 When they approach, it says the temple--Ezekiel 43:1-2,
• 15:06 "Afterward he brought me to the gate, even the gate
• 15:08 that looketh toward the east."
• 15:10 That was the gate you saw over my shoulder earlier
• 15:12 in the program.
• 15:14 "And behold, the glory of the God of Israel came from the way
• 15:16 of the east: and his voice was like a noise of many waters:
• 15:20 and the earth shined with his glory."
• 15:23 God's shekinah glory will still attend the temple in the kingdom
• 15:27 to come as it started out in the tabernacle way back
• 15:30 in the wilderness 35 centuries ago after the exodus.
• 15:36 And there will be sacrifices in the kingdom to come.
• 15:39 And every time I say this, I get a hundred letters teaching me
• 15:42 that you don't need sacrifices anymore once the kingdom starts.
• 15:46 Yeah, the unbelievers do. They're approaching God.
• 15:50 When an unbeliever approaches God, he's got to have
• 15:52 a blood sacrifice.
• 15:54 If a person's a believer, he has Christ's sacrifice.
• 15:58 If he's an unbeliever, he has to sacrifice.
• 16:01 Isaiah 56:7 says, "Even them will I bring to my holy
• 16:05 mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer:
• 16:08 their burnt offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted
• 16:11 upon mine altar; for mine house shall be called
• 16:15 a house of prayer for all people."
• 16:18 The Muslims use this particular verse these days to try
• 16:21 to justify grabbing the Temple Mount.
• 16:24 It's supposed to become a house of prayer for all people.
• 16:27 They don't understand the context of the Scripture
• 16:29 or the fact that this is for believers in the Lord
• 16:32 Jesus Christ in the kingdom to come, not now.
• 16:35 And it was never their mount of course, but they are trying
• 16:38 every way to try to seize it.
• 16:41 That's one way they have tried.
• 16:44 It's a different world.
• 16:46 The condition of the world is completely changed.
• 16:49 Isaiah 12:1-6 describes it.
• 16:52 "And in that day thou shalt say, O Lord, I will praise thee:
• 16:56 though thou wast angry with me, thine anger is turned away,
• 16:59 and thou comfortedst me.
• 17:01 Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid:
• 17:05 for the Lord Jehovah is my strength and my song;
• 17:08 he also is become my salvation."
• 17:10 And the praise verse goes on beautifully, wonderfully.
• 17:16 You know, it's a time that life will be a matter of worshiping
• 17:21 God, day and night, all the time, and not a city
• 17:25 of emergencies and problems like we have today in Jerusalem
• 17:29 and all other cities.
• 17:31 Jeremiah 23:5-6 puts it this way.
• 17:34 "Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will raise unto
• 17:37 David a righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and prosper,
• 17:41 and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth.
• 17:44 In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell
• 17:48 safely: and this is his name whereby he shall be called,
• 17:52 Adonai Tsidkenu, The Lord Our Righteousness."
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• 18:51 Go to see God's land.
• 18:53 We're talking about the kingdom today, and we can go and you can
• 18:58 go see where this kingdom will be established for 1,000 years.
• 19:01 David: That's right.
• 19:03 Even seeing Zola's teaching, it feels like he is
• 19:06 with us right now.
• 19:07 I can't believe he's been gone since 2006, but I believe
• 19:11 that his teaching is still relevant for us today.
• 19:14 Would you say so?
• 19:15 Jeffrey: Well, I think so.
• 19:17 To open up the Bible, I mean, this is thousands of years old.
• 19:20 We can handle someone that's been gone for a few
• 19:22 that are giving voice to it.
• 19:25 In his day, he was at the forefront of looking at it
• 19:27 from a Jewish perspective.
• 19:30 And relative to the kingdom, let me get you guys
• 19:33 to weigh in on this.
• 19:35 Why should I get all the attention?
• 19:36 Kirsten: 'Cause you're our senior theologian.
• 19:38 Jeffrey: Well, you're kind, but let's hear some text, let
• 19:40 the text get some attention, and I wanna pitch it to you guys.
• 19:43 If you look at the kingdom come talk in Revelation,
• 19:48 John speaks of this heavenly ambassador,
• 19:52 this angel coming down to seize the devil.
• 19:54 He has a chain.
• 19:56 We're told in verse 2 that this devil gets bound.
• 20:00 Today in church talk, "We bind you, Satan," okay,
• 20:02 but the real binding binding here.
• 20:04 The devil is bound.
• 20:07 In verse 3, he's thrown into an abyss.
• 20:09 It's locked and sealed, so that way this creature
• 20:13 can't go about deceiving.
• 20:16 We live in a world today, isn't it true, where people are
• 20:21 off-ended by people who are deceitful, malicious, gaming.
• 20:28 People have been hurt and disoriented just
• 20:31 because of lawlessness, iniquity, deceit, correct?
• 20:35 David: The sad thing to us, I think, is that we see
• 20:38 that in the church, defeat.
• 20:41 Jeffrey: One would want to come to a church as a refuge
• 20:43 from all of that, and defeated people come in to church,
• 20:46 but there are players in churches too unfortunately,
• 20:50 because people bring their human nature along with them.
• 20:52 People can digress back into that.
• 20:54 People can escape their former lives, and their base instincts,
• 20:58 and sinful natures, but then those natures can catch up.
• 21:02 People can be darkened.
• 21:03 They can be bested by the darker side
• 21:05 of their own natures, correct?
• 21:07 Now, what about a world-- it might be hard to imagine.
• 21:11 To speak to the viewers for a moment.
• 21:13 Recently, a movie came out, "I Can Only Imagine,"
• 21:17 and there was a song along with it.
• 21:19 Go with me on a journey, and David, be the tour guide
• 21:22 on this one.
• 21:24 Let's imagine a world without deceit, when there
• 21:27 can be trust between brothers and sisters,
• 21:30 when there's honesty between spouses.
• 21:33 What would a world look like where there's a devil who's
• 21:36 bound, sent away, and it's replaced by a world of fidelity
• 21:41 and peace, honesty, and earnest caring and sharing.
• 21:43 What do you think?
• 21:45 David: I think about what's it gonna be like in heaven.
• 21:46 We're gonna all have to be together in heaven,
• 21:48 and live together in heaven, and be friendly to one another,
• 21:53 and all of that.
• 21:54 What's that gonna be like?
• 21:56 Jeffrey: Yes, well, it certainly is gonna be better
• 21:57 than what we have over here.
• 21:59 David: But why can't it be here?
• 22:00 Jeffrey: My understanding is this is supposed to be a
• 22:03 practice run for world to come, the church gathering
• 22:07 and the people.
• 22:08 And for me, the church isn't stained glass windows,
• 22:11 collection boxes, pipe organs, and pews.
• 22:14 It's this organic relationship between human beings.
• 22:18 And to varying degrees, people are at different levels
• 22:21 of maturity, but we're endeavoring to distance ourself
• 22:25 from the darker sides of our own natures which we possess.
• 22:29 It seems to me that the whole thing is a practice run
• 22:31 for things to come and we'll find it perfect here.
• 22:35 There's more of a perfected state to look at here
• 22:38 in the 20th chapter.
• 22:39 People complain, "Well, in the church today,
• 22:41 there's imperfection."
• 22:42 Well, there's imperfection in your own head if you'll
• 22:44 just take an honest look.
• 22:45 But here, it seems to me that darkness is banished
• 22:48 because the prince of darkness, you know, that genie
• 22:50 is put in a bottle.
• 22:52 Kirsten: And as it should be.
• 22:54 That's a future--the kingdom here on earth is another
• 22:58 picture, in the 1,000 years, of what it will be
• 23:00 forever in eternity.
• 23:02 And we talk about that more in the series, but I just--
• 23:06 I don't understand how we can have that kingdom
• 23:08 we're talking about, no more deceit,
• 23:10 the peace and the love between everyone,
• 23:13 but yet people will rise up and not want to follow
• 23:16 the King of kings sitting on his throne.
• 23:18 Jeffrey: Let me ask you a question.
• 23:20 When you guys lead worship, you're dealing
• 23:22 with human beings.
• 23:24 We all have flesh, but you're trying to lift people up to live
• 23:28 a world that's closer to this than closer to just
• 23:32 being driven by what's in this and in this, correct?
• 23:35 David: Right, what happened to you the other day
• 23:37 in the car in the church parking lot?
• 23:38 Kirsten: Oh, watching people go into church.
• 23:40 And everyone watching this program hopefully by now
• 23:44 knows that we are church people.
• 23:45 We're Mr. and Mrs. Church.
• 23:47 We grew up in the Christian denomination.
• 23:49 And I was sitting in our car, and our windows are kind of dark
• 23:53 so I don't know if people saw me sitting there watching them,
• 23:55 but I saw people walking into our church building defeated
• 24:00 and zero joy.
• 24:03 And I'm not trying to cut the church, but that's kind of what
• 24:06 I see, what we're experiencing, and that's why I look to this
• 24:10 time and think, "That's the way it should be."
• 24:13 But I would want us to embrace some of that now.
• 24:16 Because we pray, "Thy kingdom come," you know,
• 24:18 the future kingdom, but I'd love some of that now.
• 24:21 David: Scripture. Practice the Scripture.
• 24:23 Jeffrey: Practice the Scripture.
• 24:25 And you know, we're beckoned to put it on.
• 24:27 It doesn't necessarily come natural.
• 24:29 The apostle says, "Put on the armor of God,
• 24:31 the breastplate of righteousness,
• 24:35 the shield of faith, the helmet of salvation."
• 24:37 You have to don that stuff sometimes
• 24:40 and it's an act of the will.
• 24:42 And by virtue of so doing, we can banish
• 24:45 the prince of darkness until such time
• 24:47 as he's ultimately and more fully banished
• 24:50 in the kingdom to come at this juncture.
• 24:53 Kirsten: Just lock that lock, and tie it tight,
• 24:55 and keep him away forever.
• 24:57 It's coming. It's coming, isn't it?
• 24:59 Jeffrey: Yes.
• 25:01 Kirsten: Right, we'll have so much more coming up
• 25:02 on our series, "Thy Kingdom Come."
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• 25:08 There's good news that we have.
• 25:11 We're gonna leave you with some Zola music for the end
• 25:13 of our program today.
• 25:14 But first.
• 25:16 Jeffrey: We'll leave you with some Bible music
• 25:17 in Psalm 122, verse 6.
• 25:19 "Sha'alu shalom Yerushalayim."
• 25:22 both: Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.
• 25:26 ♪ Israel, my love ♪
• 25:30 ♪ Israel, my promised ♪
• 25:34 ♪ Chosen of God ♪
• 25:38 ♪ Chosen for me ♪
• 25:42 ♪ Homeland forever ♪
• 25:46 ♪ Land of Messiah ♪
• 25:50 ♪ Israel, my love ♪
• 25:54 ♪ Our God watches thee ♪
• 25:59 ♪ Does the rose still bloom in the desert? ♪
• 26:03 ♪ Does the olive tree bask in the sun? ♪
• 26:07 ♪ Do the children laugh? ♪
• 26:09 ♪ Are the soldiers home? ♪
• 26:11 ♪ Is the age-old fighting done? ♪
• 26:15 ♪ Has Messiah come? ♪
• 26:17 ♪ Has the King returned? ♪
• 26:19 ♪ Are we saved? ♪
• 26:21 ♪ Oh blessed be He ♪
• 26:23 ♪ When the King comes home to the land he loves ♪
• 26:27 ♪ can we live ♪
• 26:28 ♪ can we pray, can we be? ♪
• 26:32 ♪ Israel, my love ♪
• 26:36 ♪ Israel, my promised ♪
• 26:40 ♪ Chosen of God ♪
• 26:44 ♪ Chosen for me ♪
• 26:48 ♪ Homeland forever ♪
• 26:52 ♪ Land of Messiah ♪
• 26:56 ♪ Israel, my love ♪
• 27:05 ♪ How God watches thee ♪♪
• 27:15 ♪♪♪
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