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LOOK TO THE NORTH
THE SOUTH
THE EAST
THE WEST
ALL THE LAND WHICH THOU SEEST
TO THEE WILL I GIVE IT
AND TO THY SEED FOREVER.
INDEED... HE WHO WATCHES OVER ISRAEL WILL NEITHER SLUMBER NOR SLEEP.
HEARTY SHALOM TO ALL OF YOU.
JEFFREY SEIF HERE
WITH ZOLA LEVITT PRESENTS.
THIS TIME THE 6TH OF AN 8 PART SERIES CALLED "ERETZ ISRAEL".
"ERETZ"...WHAT'S THAT?...
YOU SPEAKING IN TONGUES BUDDY?
YES,THAT'S THE HEBREW TONGUE.
IT MEANS "LAND".
AND WE'RE TAKING YOU THERE.
NOT JUST THERE
BUT TODAY A FASCINATING PLACE THERE CALLED ARMAGEDDON.
HEBREW "HAR" MEANS "MOUNTAIN"
AND "MEGIDDO" IT'S A PLACE WHERE MANY BATTLES WERE FOUGHT.
SPEAKING OF WHICH NOW WE'LL BEGIN WITH ANCIENT BATTLES WITH THE PHILISTINES
AS WE CONSIDER WARS LONG AGO.
KING DAVID SITS ON HIS THRONE
KNOWING FULL WELL THAT HIS KINGDOM HAD NOT COME EASILY;
ACCEPT BY THE STRENGTH OF THE LORD.
AND IT CAME TO PASS THAT DAVID SMOTE THE PHILISTINES AND SUBDUED THEM.
AND HE SMOTE MOAB.
AND HE SLEWED THE SYRIANS TWO AND TWENTY THOUSAND MEN.
AND ALL THEY OF EDOM BECAME DAVID'S SERVANTS
AND THE LORD PRESERVED DAVID WITHER SO EVER HE WENT.
AND DAVID REIGNED OVER ALL ISRAEL
AND DAVID EXECUTED JUDGMENT AND JUSTICE UNTO ALL HIS PEOPLE.
AND DAVID'S SONS WERE CHIEF RULERS.
THE BIBLE SPEAKS OF WARS
AND RUMORS OF WARS
BUT FOR DAVID
IT WAS MORE THAN JUST A RUMOR
CAUSE HE FORGED OUT A KINGDOM BY DINT OF HIS DETERMINATION
AND WITH GOD'S HELP OF COURSE, HIM BEING THE ANOINTED ONE OF GOD.
WELL RIGHT HERE, ARMAGEDDON,
HIS SON SOLOMON LEARNED ABOUT THAT AND MORE.
COME WITH ME NOW
AS WE GO OFF TO ARMAGEDDON.
DAVID CARVED IT OUT...
SOLOMON SOLIDIFIED IT.
TO WHAT EXACTLY AM I REFERRING?
LET ME SHOW YOU.
SOLOMON'S KINGDOM
THERE'S SOMETHING OF A VAST EXPANSE.
MEGIDDO IS SOMETHING AT THE HEARTLAND OF IT.
HE HAD TO FORTIFY, DEFEND AND USE THIS
TO HOLD OFF INVADING FORCES FROM THE NORTH AND FROM THE EAST.
INTO MEGIDDO WE'LL GO.
IT'S CALLED "THE PROMISED LAND"
AND THE REASON WHY IT'S CALLED "THE PROMISED LAND"
IS BECAUSE GOD PROMISED THAT LAND.
AND HE PROMISED IT TO A PARTICULAR PEOPLE
WHO WERE DESTINED TO MAKE A BID AT A PARTICULAR PLACE.
AND IF YOU'RE GOING TO FIGHT TO SECURE A TOEHOLD IN A REGION
YOU'RE GOING TO NEED SPACE TO FIGHT FROM.
HENCE, MEGIDDO HERE...
ARMAGEDDON...
A CHARIOT CITY...
AMONG OTHER THINGS A PLACE
THAT HAS BEEN A SANCTUARY
FOR MANY A KING
AS EVIDENCED BY LAYER UPON LAYER
THAT HARKS TO KINGS THAT CAME HERE,
SECURED, RE-SECURED AND DEVELOPED THIS PIECE OF LAND.
THIS PIECE OF LAND IS A FASCINATING PIECE BY THE WAY.
IT EXTENDS ON THE ONE HAND OVER TOWARD EGYPT.
THIS PROMISED LAND THEN EXTENDS UPWARD TOWARD THE EUPHRATES
AND IT EXTENDS EASTWARD BY THE WAY
BEYOND WHAT WE CALL THE "JORDAN RIVER" TODAY.
IT'S A PIECE OF LAND THAT WAS GIVEN TO A PARTICULAR PERSON.
AS I NOTED A MINUTE AGO,
A PROMISED LAND.
OH, IT'S ONE THING
TO SAY THAT IT'S MINE,
ITS ANOTHER THING
TO HOLD OFF BELLIGERENTS
THAT ARE MINDED TO SAY THAT'S NOT THE CASE.
AND THAT TENSION...
THAT BACK AND FORTH
HAS BEEN THE STORY OF THE AGES
WHICH IS WHY, BY THE WAY,
WHEN YOU LOOK WITH ME IN THE BOOK OF CHRONICLES,
II CHRONICLES CHAPTER 9, VERSE 25,
WE'RE TOLD THAT SOLOMON,
WHO UNDER HIS ADMINISTRATION THE KINGDOM REALLY WAS EXPANDED.
IT HAD DIMINISHED SOME AFTERWARD.
UNDER HIS ADMINISTRATION
WE SPEAK HERE OF THOUSANDS OF STALLS FOR HORSES, FOR CHARIOTS.
AND IT'S SOLOMON WHO WILL PARTICIPATE
IN WHAT WE CALL "CHARIOT CITIES" HERE IN THE BIBLICAL TEXT.
AND WHY IS THAT?
BECAUSE FROM CITIES LIKE THIS
AND ALONG ROADS LIKE THIS
FORCES HAD TO GO OUT TO PROTECT THE WORLD FROM BELLIGERENTS.
AND SOLOMON DID THAT DURING HIS ADMINISTRATION CERTAINLY.
WE'RE TOLD THAT, FORTIFIED AS HE WAS, AND STRENGTHENED AS HE WAS
BY CERTAIN OUTPOST CITIES LIKE THIS,
WE'RE TOLD THAT SOLOMON REIGNED IN VERSE 26
OVER ALL THE KINGS FROM THE RIVER.
AND THE RIVER HERE IS HARKING TO THE EUPHRATES RIVER.
THE WORD "EBREW" OR "HEBREW" MEANS "BEYOND THE RIVER"
AND THE ANCESTORS CAME FROM BEYOND THE RIVER
AND SECURED A PLACE HERE
THAT WAS BEQUEATHED BY GOD IN THE LAND OF CANAAN.
AND HERE WE'RE TOLD
THAT THE REIGN OF SOLOMON
EXTENDED UP TO THE RIVER ON THE NORTHERN AND EASTERN FRONT
TO THE LAND OF THE PHILISTINES.
AND THIS HARKS, BY THE WAY,
TO THE AREAS THAT RUN ALONG THE SEA
WHERE THERE WAS SOME MAJOR CITIES THERE.
"GATH" IS MADE FAMILIAR BECAUSE OF GOLIATH;
"ASHKELON", "ASHDOD" AND OTHERS...
THE PHILISTINE NEVER HAD SWAY OVER THIS WHOLE REGION
BUT THEY DID HAVE A TOE HOLD OF IT.
BUT HERE THE CHRONICLER WANTS TO SAY ON THE ONE HAND
THE KINGDOM EXTENDED UP TO THE EUPHRATES
AND THEN IN CANAAN PROPER,
THE COASTLINE AREAS WHAT HE CALLS
WHERE THE PHILISTINE REIGNS
AND THEN HE NOTES AS WELL
AS FAR AS THE BORDER OF EGYPT.
THERE'S A RIVER THERE THAT DEMARCATES THE BORDER
AND IT SHOWS SOMETHING OF AN EXPANDED KINGDOM,
A KINGDOM THAT GOD GAVE TO A PARTICULAR PEOPLE...
AVARAM...ABRAHAM...
WHOM THE LORD SAID,
"COME WITH ME ON A JOURNEY TO A LAND THAT I WILL SHOW YOU".
AND ABRAHAM ROLLED THE DICE AGAINST AN UNCERTAIN FUTURE
AND HE CAME AND WALKED THIS LAND.
AND NOW, SOME CENTURIES LATER...
NOW...I MEAN I'M HARKING BACK TO SOLOMON'S ERA.
MANY THINGS HAVE HAPPENED SINCE
BUT WE SEE THE STORY
OF GOD WATCHING OVER HIS WORD TO PERFORM IT
AS A CERTAIN PEOPLE STRUGGLE
AGAINST SINS IN THEIR OWN PERSONS,
AGAINST CIRCUMSTANCES THAT IMPOSE UPON THEM.
DIFFICULTIES, STRUGGLES, TRIALS AND ALL...
GOD WATCHES OVER HIS WORD TO PERFORM IT
TO GIVE THIS LAND TO A PEOPLE
AND TO SECURE HIS PEOPLE IN HIS LAND
AS A TESTIMONY TO HIS GREATNESS...
GREATNESS THAT EXTENDED TO THE PAST,
TO THE PRESENT
AND THAT WILL BE KNOWN THE MORE SO IN THE FUTURE
AS WE CONSIDER THE TESTIMONY OF GOD AT WORK IN THE WORLD HERE
"B'ERETZ YISRAEL"...
"IN THE LAND OF ISRAEL".
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(JEFF SPEAKING)
THIS IS THE BEAUTIFUL GOLAN HEIGHTS IN NORTHERN ISRAEL,
AN IMPORTANT PART OF DAVID AND SOLOMON'S KINGDOM NEARLY 3,000 YEARS AGO.
AS NOTED ON RECENT PROGRAMS
THIS LAND WAS ALSO INCLUDED
IN GOD'S COVENANT WITH MOSES AND JOSHUA
AS AN INHERITANCE FOR THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL.
DAVID DOLAN JOINS US NOW FROM THIS STRATEGIC SITE
WHERE HE CONTINUES HIS CHRONOLOGY
OF THE MODERN STATE OF ISRAEL.
I'M STANDING IN AN ISRAELI
ARMY BUNKER ON THE GOLAN HEIGHTS
ON ONE OF THE
HIGHEST HILLSHERE.
BEHIND ME IS DAMASCUS AND SYRIA
ABOUT 35 MILES AWAY.
WE'LL TALK MORE ABOUT THEM
IN A FEW MINUTES.
IN THE EARLY 1950'S...
650,000 JEWS CAME TO THIS LAND FROM ARAB COUNTRIES,
MANY OF THEM KICKED OUT IN ANGER
BECAUSE THE ARABS WERE SO UPSET
THAT THE STATE OF ISRAEL HAD BEEN REBORN.
AND THEY SETTLED ALL OVER THE COUNTRY.
MEANWHILE ARAB TERROR ATTACKS INCREASED.
OVER 1,000 JEWS WERE KILLED BETWEEN 1951 AND 55...
400 OF THEM FROM THE GAZA STRIP.
MEANWHILE IN EGYPT
GAMAL NASSER FORGED TIES
WITH THE SOVIET UNION
AND STARTED TO RECEIVE WEAPONS FROM THEM.
HE NATIONALIZED THE SUEZ CANAL WHICH THE BRITISH HAD BUILT
ANGERING BRITAIN VERY, VERY MUCH.
A SECRET PLAN WAS DEVISED
BETWEEN BRITAIN, FRANCE AND ISRAEL
TO STRIKE AT EGYPTIAN FORCES
IN THE GAZA STRIP
AND THE SINAI PENINSULA
AND GET BACK THE SUEZ CANAL.
IN OCTOBER 29, 1956
THAT WAR BEGUN.
BUT THE UNITED STATES,
DWIGHT EISENHOWER,
WAS VERY UPSET OVER THIS.
HE FEARED AND EAST-WEST CLASH,
A SUPER POWER WAR
AND HE BASICALLY ORDERED FRANCE AND BRITAIN
TO CALL OFF THEIR FORCES
AND ISRAEL TO STOP ITS OFFENSIVE.
THE ISRAELIS HAD GOTTEN ALL THE WAY TO THE SUEZ CANAL.
AND IN EARLY NOVEMBER
A CEASE FIRE WAS DECLARED
AND BY MARCH THE NEXT YEAR
ISRAELI FORCES HAD COMPLETELY WITHDRAWN FROM THE LAND THEY CAPTURED,
THE GAZA STRIP
AND THE SINAI PENINSULA.
IN THE SUMMER OF 1964
THE ARAB COUNTRIES
AND THE PALESTINIANS
MET TOGETHER IN JERUSALEM
TO FORM A NEW ORGANIZATION,
THE PALESTINE LIBERATION ORGANIZATION.
YASSER ARAFAT WAS THE HEAD
OF THE LARGEST FACTION.
IN 1965 AND 66
THE SYRIANS STEPPED UP THEIR ATTACKS
ON THE JEWISH COMMUNITIES IN THE HULA VALLEY BELOW
FROM THIS GOLAN HEIGHTS.
IN APRIL OF 1967
THEY ACTUALLY DESTROYED
AN ENTIRE KIBBUTZ,
KIBBUTZ GADOT.
THERE WERE AIR BATTLES,
THERE WERE TANK BATTLES.
MEANWHILE, DOWN IN EGYPT,
NASSER WAS VOWING OPENLY
THAT HE WOULD DESTROY ISRAEL.
HE ORDERED UN FORCES
WITHDRAWN FROM THE SINAI PENINSULA IN MAY OF 67
HE BLOCKADED THE ISRAELI PORT OF ELATH
WHICH IS AN ACT OF WAR.
AND HE TOLD THE WORLD,
"WE'RE GOING TO ATTACK ISRAEL".
HE MADE ALLIANCES WITH IRAQ,
WITH SYRIA, WITH JORDAN,
WITH OTHER ARAB COUNTRIES.
THE ISRAELIS WERE FACING FORCES
THREE TIMES AS LARGE AS THEY HAD...
TANK FORCES,
THE AIR FORCES...
ALL SUPPLIED BY THE SOVIET UNION.
THEY FEARED THEY WOULD BE DESTROYED.
SO THEY TOOK A DECISION TO TAKE THE FIRST STRIKE.
IN A CAREFULLY CALIBRATED ATTACK
THEY STRUCK THE EGYPTIAN AIR FORCE IN ITS BASES...
15 LOCATIONS...
WIPED OUT 90 PER CENT OF EGYPTIAN AIR FORCE.
THEY DID THE SAME THING BEHIND ME HERE IN SYRIA
LATER THAT AFTERNOON.
THEIR ENEMIES WERE DEFENSELESS FROM THE AIR EFFECTIVELY.
IT ONLY TOOK 2 DAYS
FOR ISRAEL TO CAPTURE THE OLD CITY OF JERUSALEM.
AND BY JUNE 10TH,
JUST 5 DAYS AFTER THE WAR BEGAN
THEY HAD CAPTURED THIS ENTIRE GOLAN HEIGHTS,
THE ENTIRE WEST BANK
AND THE ENTIRE SINAI PENINSULA
UP TO THE SUEZ CANAL.
THE ARAB WORLD WAS SHOCKED
BY ISRAEL'S LIGHTNING VICTORY
IN THE SIX DAY WAR.
THE SOVIETS WERE HUMILIATED
AND THEY BROKE ALL DIPLOMATIC TIES WITH ISRAEL.
ISRAEL THOUGH OFFERED TO PULL OUT OF MOST OF THE TERRITORY IT CAPTURED.
THE ARAB LEADERS MET IN SEPTEMBER IN KHARTOUM
AND SAID, "NO NEGOTIATIONS..."
"NO PEACE WITH ISRAEL..."
"ISRAEL MUST BE DESTROYED."
RIGHT AFTER THAT
A WAR BEGAN CALLED
"THE WAR OF ATTRITION"...
THE EGYPTIANS STRIKING ISRAELI FORCES ALMOST EVERY DAY
AND HUNDREDS OF SOLDIERS WERE KILLED
UNTIL THAT ENDED IN THE SUMMER OF 1970.
THE NEXT WAR WOULD BE THE YOM KIPPUR WAR.
THIS TIME THE ARABS DIDN'T ANNOUNCE IT IN ADVANCE.
THEY MADE SECRET PLANS
TO STRIKE ISRAEL
ON THE HOLIEST DAY OF ITS YEAR...
YOM KIPPUR...
WHEN MOST JEWS ARE FASTING...
TELEVISION AND RADIO IS SHUT DOWN.
AT NOON THE SIRENS WENT OFF
ON OCTOBER 6, 1973
SIGNALING THAT ANOTHER WAR
WAS ABOUT TO BEGIN.
MEN ALL OVER THE COUNTRY RUSHED TO THEIR POSITIONS
AND IN 2:00 PM IN THE AFTERNOON
THE WAR BEGAN.
ISRAEL THIS TIME WAS ON THE RUN.
THEY WERE PUSHED OFF OF MOST OF THIS GOLAN HEIGHTS.
THEY WERE PUSHED BACK IN THE SINAI ALMOST TO THEIR BORDERS.
IT WAS A TERRIBLE WAR WITH VERY HIGH CASUALTIES.
BUT BY THE SECOND WEEK OF THE WAR
ISRAEL WAS TURNING THE TIDE
WITH HELP FROM THE UNITED STATES.
THE SOVIETS WERE VERY UNHAPPY WITH THIS
AND ON OCTOBER 25TH
THEY BEGAN LOADING THEIR OWN FORCES INTO AIRCRAFT
WITH OBJECT OF COMING HERE...
THEIR OWN MEN ON THE GROUND
TO AID SYRIA AND EGYPT.
THE UNITED STATES CALLED A NUCLEAR ALERT
IN RESPONSE TO THAT
AND THE SOVIETS BACKED DOWN
AND A CEASE FIRE WAS DECLARED.
BUT ISRAEL LOST OVER 2,300 SOLDIERS IN THAT WAR
WITH MANY, MANY MORE CASUALTIES.
AND THE GOVERNMENT OF ISRAEL,
HUMILIATED BY THIS DEFEAT,
INITIAL DEFEAT AT LEAST,
WOULD LATER BE TOSSED OUT OF OFFICE
AND THE LIKUD PARTY WOULD RISE TO POWER...
THE LABOR PARTY THAT HAD RULED SINCE 1948 WOULD BE FINISHED.
FOR THE LORD THY GOD BRINGETH THEE INTO A GOOD LAND...
A LAND OF FIG TREES AND POMEGRANATES...
A LAND OF OLIVE OIL AND HONEY.
ARISE...
WALK THROUGH THE LAND...
FOR ALL THE LAND WHICH THOU SEEST
TO THEE WILL I GIVE IT
AND TO THY SEED FOREVER.
WORSHIP IN THE SHADOWS OF ABRAHAM, ISAAC AND JACOB.
BEHOLD THE LAND OF THE COVENANT.
I LIKE THAT LITTLE PICTURE SEGMENT
BECAUSE YOU CAN SEE ISRAEL.
PEOPLE CAN GO THERE AS WELL WITH US CAN'T THEY TRACIE?
THEY CAN.
YOU CAN WATCH
THIS WONDERFUL PROGRAM
WITH DR. SEIF
AND IT'S TOTALLY AMAZING
BUT THE INTIMACY
AND THE PRESENCE OF YESHUA
IN THE HOLY LAND
IS REALLY UNSPEAKABLE.
I JUST READ AN ARTICLE ABOUT IT ACTUALLY
IN A RECENT LEVITT LETTER
JUST HOW PERSONALLY FOR ME
WHEN I TOUCHED THE WESTERN WALL
I ALMOST FELT AS IF THE PRESENCE OF THE LORD OVERSHADOWED ME.
AND THAT'S WHAT WE WANT TO OFFER YOU.
THAT'S WHAT YOU CAN GET
WHEN YOU COME TO ISRAEL WITH US.
YEA, ITS MORE THAN A VACATION...
IT'S A DIVINE ENCOUNTER ISN'T IT?
YOU KNOW WHAT?
I WANT OUR VIEWERS TO MAKE IT A DIVINE APPOINTMENT.
I THINK THAT YOU'RE WATCHING THIS SHOW TODAY
BECAUSE IT MAY BE GOD'S CALL FOR
YOU TO MAKE A DIVINE APPOINTMENT
TO COME WITH US.
AND ITS A PRIVILEGE DR. SEIF
WHAT I DO IN THE OFFICES.
I'M LIKE YOUR PERSONAL TRAVEL LIAISON.
I'M GOING TO TAKE CARE OF ALL THE DETAILS
WHEN YOU REGISTER WITH US
SO THAT OUR FOLKS
CAN EXPERIENCE YESHUA.
THEY'RE PAYING TO COME WITH US
AND I GET PAID TO TAKE OF THE DETAILS
SO THEY CAN HAVE THOSE INTIMATE MOMENTS IN THE LAND.
WELL THERE YOU GO!
YOU HEARD WHAT THE LADY SAID.
IF GOD IS CALLING YOU,
WHY DON'T YOU CALL US
AT 1-800-WONDERS
OR GO ON LINE TO WWW.LEVITT.COM
AND WE'LL GET ALL SORTS OF INFORMATION TO YOU...
ISRAEL TRAVEL BEING ONE.
WE HAVE AN OFFER ON THE PROGRAM
THAT'S COMING UP A LITTLE LATER,
A PILGRIM'S MAP
OF THE HOLY LAND.
IN FACT YOU MIGHT WANT TO GET IT
AND KEEP IT
AND GO TRAVERSE THE LAND.
WE HAVE ONE AS WELL
OF JERUSALEM AND BETHLEHEM.
WE LOOK AT JESUS' LIFE
FROM THE WOMB...
BETHLEHEM TO THE TOMB...
JERUSALEM...
A FASCINATING STORY.
IF YOU LIKE BIBLICAL INFORMATION
YOU MIGHT LIKE THE MAPS.
HEY, IT COMES TO YOU
FREE FOR THE ASKING...
OUR LEVITT LETTER.
YOU MIGHT WANT TO GO AHEAD
AND CONTACT US
AND THERE'S LOTS OF STORIES
WE WANT TO SEND YOU...
SPEAKING OF WHICH...
DAVID DOLAN AND I SPEAK OF STORIES OF RECENT BATTLES
IN THE LAND OF ISRAEL.
DAVID,
IN THE NEW TESTAMENT
"YAKOV" OR "JAMES"
SPOKE OF THE QUESTION
WHAT CAUSES WARS
AND HE SAID THERE ARE PASSIONS WITHIN
THAT ARE EXPRESSED THROUGH WAR.
WE SEE A LOT OF THAT HERE DON'T WE?
WE DEFINITELY DO JEFF
AND YOU KNOW I WAS REVIEWING THE SINAI WAR
AND THE SIX DAY WAR
AND THE YOM KIPPUR WAR
AND I EMPHASIZED
THAT NASSER, THE EGYPTIAN LEADER
WHO GOT THE FORCES TOGETHER
IN 67 AND 73...
HE WAS QUOTING
FROM THE KORAN MOSTLY.
AND THE TRUTH IS
HE WAS A SOCIALIST.
HE WASN'T A RELIGIOUS MAN
BUT HE USED THE FORCE
OF THAT RELIGION
TO GET ALL OF HIS PEOPLE,
FRANKLY, RILED UP...
THERE CANNOT BE A JEWISH STATE
BECAUSE ISLAM IS THE
FINAL REVOLUTION OF TRUTH
AND THEREFORE
WE HAVE TO HAVE THIS WAR.
AND IT BROUGHT TOGETHER
IN THE CASE OF THE SIX DAY WAR
SIX DIFFERENT NATIONS.
AND THE 73 WAR WE HAD
ALL SORTS OF PARTICIPATION.
THAT'S MODERNITY IN BIBLICAL ANTIQUITY...
THE EGYPTIANS SWEPT UP TO MEGIDDO AS WELL
AND IT'S JUST A NEVER ENDING STORY ISN'T IT?
NOTHING IS NEW UNDER THE SUN
IN THAT SENSE.
AND IT'S REALLY TRUE.
AND I THINK THE ROOT CAUSE
IS THE DESIRE OF SATAN TO
NOT SEE THE BIBLE FULFILLED...
NOT SEE THE MESSIAH COME...
NOT SEE HIM COME AGAIN...
AND THE JEWISH PEOPLE AS YOU WELL KNOW,
BEING PART OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE,
ARE THE SYMBOL ON EARTH OF THE VERACITY OF THE SCRIPTURES.
AND I THINK THAT'S REALLY THE ROOT CAUSE OF SO MUCH OF THIS.
I'M INCLINED TO AGREE.
IF THERE'S A SPAT...
IF THERE'S A WAR AND MISUNDERSTANDING
IF IT HAPPENED ONCE BUT CYCLICAL THROUGH NATURE OVER THOUSANDS OF YEARS
FROM THE BIBLICAL PAGES
TO THE PAGES OF MODERN NEWSPAPERS
ITS GOT TO BE MORE SPIRITUAL THAN MATERIAL.
AND LIKE YOU SAID
A ROOT CAUSE IN A KIND OF SPIRITUAL WARFARE.
WELL YOU KNOW WE HAVE
THE UN PARTITION PLAN IN 1948
OFFERING THE PALESTINIANS
A STATE.
AND WHERE ARE WE 60 SOME YEARS LATER?
WE HAVE A PARTITION PLAN.
LET'S HAVE A PALESTINIAN STATE HERE
AND LET'S HAVE AN ISRAELI STATE....
AND NOTHING'S BEEN RESOLVED IN BETWEEN.
AND THAT'S JUST 60 YEARS
BUT REALLY YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT 6,000 YEARS ALMOST
AND IT HAS BEEN A REPEATING CYCLE ALL ALONG.
AND ITS RESOLUTION AWAITS A DIPLOMAT
GREATER THAN WHATEVER POLITICIAN MIGHT APPEAR.
THE ANTI-CHRIST WILL LAY SIEGE TO THE CLAIM TO MAKE PEACE
BUT REALLY IT WILL TAKE EMERGENCE OF THE "PRINCE OF PEACE" TO SETTLE ALL THIS.
DON'T YOU THINK?
I ABSOLUTELY AGREE.
COVERING THESE WARS AS A JOURNALIST
AND SEEING THE DIPLOMATS COME AND GO,
THE DIFFERENT PRESIDENTS
AND THE DIFFERENT SPECIAL ENVOYS
FROM EUROPE AND THE VATICAN, ETC.
AND WE'RE STILL AT THE SAME PLACE.
COVERING THIS AS A BIBLICAL THEOLOGIAN
I SAY "COME LORD JESUS"!
AMEN
HAVE YOU EVER NOTICED WHEN YOU
OPEN UP YOUR BIBLES AT THE BACK
AND LOOK AT A MAP
MORE TIMES THAN NOT
IT REFERS TO THE LAND OF ISRAEL
AS PALESTINE.
QUESTION...
WHAT DEVIL EVER SLIPPED THAT IN THERE!
THE REASON WHY I SAY THAT IS BECAUSE THE BIBLE DOES NOT REFER TO THE LAND AS "PALESTINE".
CHRISTIAN THEOLOGIANS DO AND THEY'RE PROUD TO DO IT
BUT THAT'S POLITICALLY AND SPIRITUALLY DRIVEN IT SEEMS TO ME.
WHEN THE LORD BROUGHT HIS PEOPLE INTO THAT LAND
THERE WAS A NAME GIVEN...
THE LAND OF ISRAEL.
WELL WHERE DID PALESTINE COME FROM?
WE INTERVIEW A PROFESSOR IN ISRAEL WHO EXPLAINS.
AFTER THE BAR KOCHBA REVOLT
IN THE 2ND CENTURY A.D.
WHEN THE ROMANS WAS TO CHANGE
THE CHARACTER OF THE LAND
FROM THE LAND OF THE JEWS
TO THE LAND WITHOUT JEWS,
WITHOUT A CONTROLLING BY JEWS,
THEY STARTED TO CALL THE LAND
"THE PROVINCE OF PALESTINE".
AND THE MUSLIMS TOOK THIS ANCIENT NAME
FROM THE 2ND CENTURY A.D.
AND USED IT AS THEIR HOME.
WHEN THE ARABS CAME HERE,
WHEN THE MUSLIMS CAME HERE
IN THE 7TH CENTURY A.D.
WHICH IS VERY LATE IN RELATIVITY TO THE JEWISH HISTORY,
THE 7TH CENTURY A.D. IS VERY ANTIQUE IN THE AMERICANS POINT OF VIEW
BUT HERE IN ISRAEL... 700'S...IT'S NOT MUCH.
THEY USED NAME...
THEY CALLED THIS "THE LAND OF ISRAEL"...
THEY CALLED IT A "JUDE PALESTINE".
THE WAS THE OFFICIAL NAME OF THE ARABS AND THE TURKISH AND THE BRITISH
UNTIL WHEN THE STATE OF ISRAEL WAS BORN.
♪PROMISED BY JEHOVAH THROUGH HIS PROPHETS♪
♪HOW THEY WEPT FOR YOU MY ISRAEL...♪
♪ISRAEL...♪
♪IS...RA...EL♪
♪IN THAT DAY THE LORD WILL COME♪
♪AND ALL WILL BOW BEFORE THE THRONE OF HE WHO IS THE KING.♪
♪ISRAEL THE PROMISED LAND WILL SEE HIS KINGDOM COME.♪
♪IN THAT DAY THE LORD WILL COME♪
♪AND ALL WILL BOW BEFORE THE THRONE OF HE WHO IS THE KING.♪
♪ISRAEL THE PROMISED LAND WILL SEE HIS KINGDOM...♪
♪COME!♪
WELL YOU KNOW THEY SAY THAT MUSIC TAMES THE SAVAGE BEAST.
AND ZOLA'S PIECE HAS A CALMING EFFECT ON AN OTHERWISE UNHAPPY CAMPER.
I AM CHAGRINED BY THE WAY TRENDS AND CULTURE WANT TO BE POLITICALLY CORRECT
AND CALL WHAT IS ISRAEL "PALESTINE".
AT BEST THE PHILISTINE,
THE ANCIENT,
THOSE WHO WERE THE ANCIENT PHILISTINES
JUST HAD A LITTLE TOEHOLD
IN THE REGION HERE,
NEVER MIND ISRAEL PROPER.
IN FACT THIS IS ISRAEL UNDER THE DAYS...
UNDER THE ADMINISTRATION RATHER
OF DAVID AND SOLOMON
AND NOW MODERN ISRAEL
IS JUST A SMALL PART OF THAT.
AND WHAT WAS THE PHILISTINE HOLDINGS...
AND THE PHILISTINES WERE SEA FARING PEOPLE,
NOT SAND FARING PEOPLE OF ISLAMIC PERSUASION...
THEY JUST HAD A LITTLE TOEHOLD THERE.
SO MUCH DECEIT...
IT IS SICKENING BY THE WAY...
I USED TO THINK IT WAS JUST PROBLEMATIC IGNORANCE
BUT REALLY IT'S DIABOLICAL
AND THOSE THAT ARE MINISTERS AND PROFESSORS THAT ADVOCATE
FOR CALLING THIS REAL ESTATE "PALESTINE"
FOR MY MONEY THEY ALL SHOULD BE SUED FOR MALPRACTICE.
IT'S NOT BEYOND THE PALE OF REASON FOR BIBLE TEACHERS TO USE BIBLE LANGUAGE.
JESUS REFERRED TO THE LAND AS "ISRAEL'
SPEAKING OF WHICH,
NEXT WEEK WE'RE GOING TO HERE FROM HIM
AS WE OPEN UP THE NEW TESTAMENT
AS WE CONSIDER OUR SERIES,
"ERETZ ISRAEL... THE LAND OF ISRAEL."
OUR OFFERS ON THIS PROGRAM
ARE BEAUTIFUL MAPS
FROM THE HOLY LAND.
"THE PICTORIAL MAP OF JERUSALEM"
IS A MARVELOUS DISPLAY
THAT INCLUDES COLOR PICTURES,
CHURCHES, AND BIBLICAL SITES
IN JERUSALEM.
"THE PILGRIMS MAP OF THE HOLY LAND"
IS A VERY SPECIAL MAP
OF MODERN ISRAEL SHOWING SITES
OF BIBLICAL IMPORTANCE.
GET READY TO LOCATE THE
CITIES AND TOWNS OF THE BIBLE
WITH THESE MAPS
FROM THE HOLY LAND.
WE'RE REQUIRED TO GO
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