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Caption transcript for Acts: Then and Now — “The Birth of the Church” (1/8)

• 00:13 GO YE THEREFORE AND TEACH ALL NATIONS
• 00:16 BAPTIZING THEM IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER AND OF THE SON AND OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
• 00:21 TEACHING THEM TO OBSERVE ALL THINGS WHATSOEVER I HAVE COMMANDED YOU
• 00:26 AND LO I AM WITH YOU ALWAYS EVEN UNTO THE END OF THE WORLD.
• 00:42 SHALOM AND WELCOME
• 00:43 TO ZOLA LEVITT PRESENTS
• 00:45 I'M MYLES WEISS
• 00:46 THIS IS MY WIFE KATHARINE
• 00:47 WE'RE EXCITED TODAY TO BRING YOU A NEW SERIES
• 00:50 "ACTS THEN AND NOW, THE STORY CONTINUES".
• 00:52 THERE'S SO MUCH DIFFICULT AND HARD NEWS THAT COMES FROM ISRAEL AND THE MIDDLE EAST.
• 00:57 IT'S GREAT TO TELL THE OTHER SIDE OF THE STORY.
• 00:59 IT'S ALWAYS GOOD.
• 01:01 AND YOU AND I HAVE ALWAYS ENJOYED SHARING THE GOOD NEWS THAT'S COMING FROM THE MIDDLE EAST.
• 01:04 WE LOVE TO TAKE PEOPLE TO ISRAEL
• 01:06 AND WE LOVE TO SHOW PEOPLE WHAT GOD IS DOING.
• 01:08 SEE HE'S STILL ALIVE TODAY AND HE'S STILL WORKING.
• 01:11 WE LOVE TO SHOW THEM THE "ANCIENT ROCKS" AND THE "LIVING STONES"
• 01:14 AND YOU'RE GOING TO GET A CHANCE TO SEE THIS IN THE SERIES.
• 01:18 IT'S SO WONDERFUL.
• 01:19 ROMANS 1:16 SAYS,
• 01:26 YOU'RE GOING TO SEE THE POWER OF GOD WORKING WITH THE JEWS AND THE GENTILES TODAY.
• 01:30 WE'RE SO EXCITED...SO STAY TUNED
• 01:33 AND LET'S GO NOW TO JERUSALEM WITH MYLES.
• 01:42 YERUSHALAYIM...
• 01:43 JERUSALEM...
• 01:45 THE CENTER OF THE EARTH...
• 01:47 THE PLACE WHERE HISTORY TAKES PLACE AND WHERE HISTORY WILL BE UNFOLDING IN THE FUTURE.
• 01:52 I'M ON THE SOUTHERN STEPS OF THE TEMPLE,
• 01:55 THE SECOND TEMPLE AT THE TIME OF YESHUA
• 01:57 AND IT WAS THE WONDER OF THE WORLD.
• 02:01 THERE WAS NOTHING LIKE IT.
• 02:02 AND HERE ON THE SOUTHERN STEPS WAS WHERE THE PILGRIMS
• 02:05 WOULD ENTER AND EXIT THREE TIMES A YEAR AS MANDATED BY LEVITICUS 23.
• 02:12 BEHIND ME IS THE MOUNT OF OLIVES,
• 02:14 YESHUA'S JERUSALEM HOME BASE AND WHERE HE WILL BE RETURNING TO.
• 02:20 THE GOSPEL STORY IS BOTH A BROAD SWEEP OF ALL OF HISTORY
• 02:26 AND ALSO A VERY INTIMATE, PERSONALLY TRANSFORMING WORK.
• 02:30 IT'S SO AMAZING TO ME THAT YESHUA CAN TOUCH THE ENTIRE WORLD AND ONE'S SOUL AT A TIME.
• 02:37 IT WAS NEARBY HERE WHERE THE UPPER ROOM TOOK PLACE.
• 02:41 THOSE SCENES...
• 02:43 FIRST THE LAST SUPPER SO CALLED WHICH WE KNOW WAS A PESACH,
• 02:46 A PASSOVER WHERE THAT MEAL TOOK PLACE WITH THE DISCIPLES WAS NEAR THIS AREA.
• 02:52 NOW THERE'S A TRADITIONAL SITE A LITTLE FURTHER AWAY
• 02:55 WHERE PILGRIMS COME TO WORSHIP AND TO PRAISE
• 02:57 AND IT'S BEAUTIFUL BUT IT WAS BUILT IN THE MIDDLE AGES.
• 03:00 IT'S INTERESTING TO NOTE THAT ZOLA BELIEVED THAT IT WAS RIGHT NEAR HERE,
• 03:04 NEAR SOLOMON'S PORTICO
• 03:06 NEAR THE SOUTHERN STEPS,
• 03:07 THAT THE ACTUALLY UPPER ROOM EXISTED.
• 03:09 WE DON'T KNOW FOR SURE
• 03:11 BUT WE DO KNOW THAT BASED ON THE OCCURRENCES THAT TOOK PLACE AFTER THE UPPER ROOM EXPERIENCES,
• 03:17 IT'S LIKELY THAT IT WAS NEARBY HERE BECAUSE OF THE MANY MIKVOT THAT ARE NEAR HERE.
• 03:23 MIKVOT ARE TRADITIONAL BAPTISMALS,
• 03:25 A VERY JEWISH KIND OF WAY OF CLEANSING IN ORDER TO BE READY TO MEET WITH THE LORD.
• 03:31 I'M THINKING ABOUT THE WAY THIS IS THE PLACE THAT YESHUA PREPARED FOR HIS PASSOVER
• 03:39 WHICH BECOMES OUR PASSOVER AND HOW 50 DAYS LATER THE DISCIPLES GATHERED NEARBY HERE,
• 03:46 THE 120 GATHERED IN THE UPPER ROOM
• 03:48 AND THE TRANSFORMATION THAT TOOK PLACE IN THEIR HEARTS.
• 03:53 YOU KNOW IN THAT SMALL ROOM THE FIRST TIME EVERYTHING WAS SET UP ACCORDING TO A PROPHETIC STYLE.
• 03:59 THERE WAS A 3 TIERED TABLE WHERE THE DISCIPLES WOULD LEAN AT DINNER.
• 04:04 AND EVERYONE TOOK THEIR RIGHTFUL PLACE.
• 04:06 JUDAS, INTERESTINGLY, HAD THE PLACE OF HONOR.
• 04:10 YESHUA TOOK THE PLACE OF THE MASTER OF THE TABLE.
• 04:14 AND PETER TOOK THE SERVANTS PLACE.
• 04:16 THAT'S WHY IT WAS SO STRANGE WHEN HE FORGOT TO WASH THE DISCIPLE'S FEET
• 04:21 AND WAS SO AMAZED WHEN YESHUA DID THAT INSTEAD BECAUSE IT WAS HIS JOB.
• 04:26 HE WAS TO SERVE.
• 04:29 AS WE'RE HERE ON THE SOUTHERN STEPS THINKING ABOUT THE SCOPE OF HISTORY THAT TAKES PLACE HERE
• 04:35 AND ALSO THE PERSONAL TOUCH OF THE MASTER IN EACH ONE OF OUR HEARTS AND LIVES
• 04:41 IT'S INTERESTING TO NOTE THAT IT IS ALWAYS BASED IN THE UNITY AMONG THE BELIEVERS.
• 04:48 LISTEN TO THE TEACHING THAT COMES FROM ACTS CHAPTER 2.
• 04:52 (SPEAKING HEBREW)
• 05:06 THEY WERE IN UNITY
• 05:07 JUST LIKE IT WAS PROPHESIED FROM PSALM 133
• 05:11 THAT WHEN THE BRETHREN DWELL TOGETHER IN UNITY
• 05:14 GOD COMMANDS THE BLESSING.
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• 06:03 YOU MAY WANT TO JOIN US ON AN UPCOMING TOUR OF ISRAEL OR PETRA
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• 06:21 YOU KNOW IT'S AMAZING
• 06:22 THAT GOD CAN DO SOMETHING
• 06:24 OF THE BROADEST SCOPE
• 06:25 AND EXTREMELY PERSONAL
• 06:27 AT THE SAME TIME.
• 06:28 REMEMBER THE ENTIRE NATION
• 06:30 WAS HERE
• 06:31 COMING UP TO JERUSALEM
• 06:32 FOR THE GREAT FEASTS.
• 06:34 THEY WERE HERE ON SHAVUOT.
• 06:35 THEY WERE GATHERED IN THE UPPER ROOM
• 06:37 BECAUSE THEY WERE IN TOWN TO WORSHIP THE LORD
• 06:40 ACCORDING TO THE MANDATED FEASTS OF LEVITICUS 23.
• 06:43 AND IN THAT UPPER ROOM GOD DID SOMETHING TO WRITE THE LAW ON OUR HEARTS.
• 06:49 IT'S SUCH AN AMAZING THING...
• 06:51 HE'S SO MUCH IN CHARGE OF ALL OF HISTORY AND EVERY SINGLE SOUL.
• 06:55 YOU KNOW HE GOES AFTER THE ONE BY LEAVING THE NINETY AND NINE.
• 06:58 THAT'S WHAT HE'S ABOUT TO DO WITH PETER HERE.
• 07:00 YOU REMEMBER WHEN PETER FAILED HIM AND THERE WAS THE WALK ON THE BEACH WHEN HE SAID TO PETER,
• 07:08 HE ASKED HIM VERY POINTEDLY,
• 07:10 (SPEAKING HEBREW)
• 07:18 AND BACK AT THAT TIME WE HAD NO IDEA THAT PETER WOULD COME THROUGH
• 07:21 AND ACTUALLY BE ABLE TO DO WHAT YESHUA ASKED HIM TO DO.
• 07:25 BUT NOW, HERE IT WAS, 50 DAYS LATER AT PENTECOST, SHAVUOT, THE FEAST OF WEEKS
• 07:30 WHEN ALL THE JEWISH PEOPLE WERE UP HERE
• 07:32 AND THOSE THAT WERE KNITTING THEMSELVES TO THE JEWS WERE HERE AS WELL.
• 07:36 THEY WERE HERE TO WORSHIP
• 07:38 AND IT WAS A REFLECTION OF
• 07:39 AND A FULFILLMENT OF
• 07:41 THAT WHICH HAPPENED AT SINAI.
• 07:43 AT SINAI AT THE FOOT OF THE GREAT MOUNTAIN THERE WAS THUNDERING AND LIGHTNING.
• 07:48 AND IN THE UPPER ROOM THERE WERE TONGUES OF FIRE ABOVE THE HEADS OF THE DISCIPLES.
• 07:53 AT SINAI THE WORD WAS GIVEN
• 07:56 AND THE JEWISH PEOPLE COUNT THAT AS THE TIME OF THE GIVING OF THE TORAH.
• 08:00 IN THE UPPER ROOM THE LAW WAS WRITTEN ON OUR HEARTS.
• 08:04 AT SINAI A NATION WAS BORN IN A DAY AS THE JEWISH PEOPLE BECAME A SOLIDIFIED NATION.
• 08:11 IN THE UPPER ROOM, THE CHURCH... "KEHILAT YESHUA",
• 08:14 THECONGREGATION OF JESUS WAS BORN IN A DAY.
• 08:18 AT SINAI 3,000 DIED BECAUSE OF DISOBEDIENCE.
• 08:22 IN THE UPPER ROOM THE PRAYERS WENT FORWARD
• 08:25 AND SOMEWHERE OUT HERE 3,000 WERE BORN AGAIN ACCORDING TO GOD'S MASTER PLAN.
• 08:31 IT'S SUCH AN INCREDIBLE SYMMETRY THAT ONLY GOD HIMSELF COULD DO.
• 08:36 AT THE SAME TIME SOMETHING WITH SUCH A HUGE SCOPE WAS GOING ON.
• 08:41 THE LORD WAS WORKING IN THE HEART OF PETER.
• 08:44 PETER WHO SAID I'LL GO ANYWHERE WITH YOU...
• 08:46 I'LL GO TO THE CROSS WITH YOU...
• 08:47 I'LL GO TO THE DEATH FOR YOU...
• 08:49 AND THEN FAILED.
• 08:52 AND YET JESUS RESTORED HIM.
• 08:55 AND PETER IS THE ONE WHO STOOD UP AND PREACHED THE GOSPEL FROM THIS PLACE.
• 09:00 AND I BELIEVE IT WAS SOMEWHERE RIGHT AROUND HERE THAT THE 3,000 WERE BORN AGAIN
• 09:05 BECAUSE THE MIKVOT ARE HERE...
• 09:07 THE BAPTISMALS ARE HERE TO RECEIVE THEM...
• 09:10 TO HAVE THEM MAKE THEIR COMMITMENT AND THE PROFESSION OF FAITH.
• 09:14 TODAY IN ISRAEL IT'S SUCH A MAJOR THING TO BE BAPTIZED.
• 09:19 FOR JEWISH PEOPLE IT'S SUCH A SIGNIFYING THING.
• 09:23 BUT WHEN WE ARE BAPTIZED IT'S REALLY SAYING THAT WE'RE TAKING ON SOMETHING NEW...
• 09:28 SOMETHING DIFFERENT.
• 09:29 AND IT COULD BE CULTURALLY A VERY DIFFICULT THING.
• 09:32 FOR FORMER MUSLIMS IT CAN BE A DEATH SENTENCE WHEN THEY COME TO THE LORD
• 09:37 WHEN THE WORD GOES FORWARD
• 09:39 WHEN THEY COME AS NEW BELIEVERS IN THE GOD OF ABRAHAM, ISAAC AND JACOB.
• 09:43 FOR SOME IT'S A DEATH SENTENCE.
• 09:45 SO BAPTISM IS VERY SERIOUS.
• 09:47 BUT IT'S ALSO SO JOYFUL.
• 09:49 AND HERE'S PETER,
• 09:50 THE ONE WHO FAILED,
• 09:52 THE ONE WHO WAS RESTORED BY YESHUA HIMSELF
• 09:55 AND HE STANDS UP AND SAYS,
• 09:56 "MEN OF ISRAEL, REPENT AND BE TRANSFORMED,"
• 10:01 "BE CHANGED BY RECEIVING THE LORD JESUS CHRIST".
• 10:06 WHAT AN AMAZING STORY
• 10:07 AND IT'S STILL GOING ON TODAY.
• 10:09 THE CHURCH WAS BORN HERE
• 10:11 AND THE CONGREGATION OF YESHUA IS ALIVE AND WELL TODAY
• 10:15 AROUND THE EARTH AND RIGHT BACK HERE IN JERUSALEM.
• 10:18 IT'S SO WONDERFUL TO BE HERE.
• 10:20 IT'S SO GREAT TO SEE THESE ANCIENT ROCKS AND TO TOUCH THE LIVING STONES...
• 10:25 BE ABLE TO SPEAK WITH THE LIVING BODY OF MESSIAH
• 10:29 AND TO KNOW THAT THEIR COMMITMENT IS JUST LIKE THOSE WHO GOT BAPTIZED THAT DAY;
• 10:33 THAT THEY WOULD FOLLOW YESHUA FROM THIS DAY FORWARD.
• 10:37 AND I WANT TO INVITE YOU TO MAKE A FRESH COMMITMENT TODAY AS WELL TO YESHUA,
• 10:41 THAT YOU WOULD FOLLOW HIM ALL THE DAYS OF YOUR LIFE
• 10:44 AND THAT HE CAN PUT HIS WORD IN YOUR HEART IN A FRESH AND LIVING WAY
• 10:49 AND BRING YOU INTO THE DESTINY THAT HE HAS FOR YOU.
• 11:12 THE BIBLE LANDS...
• 11:14 YOU'VE READ ABOUT THEM...
• 11:16 NOW ENCOUNTER THEM YOURSELF.
• 11:18 WALK IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF JESUS
• 11:20 OF THE JORDAN...
• 11:21 GALILEE...
• 11:23 JERUSALEM.
• 11:24 JOURNEY IN THE SHADOW OF PAUL TO ATHENS...
• 11:26 CORINTH...
• 11:28 EPHESUS.
• 11:29 JOIN MYLES AND KATHARINE WEISS ON A TOUR OF THE BIBLE LANDS
• 11:33 AND WITNESS THE WORD COME TO LIFE AS NEVER BEFORE.
• 11:44 THAT'S ISRAEL
• 11:45 IT IS BEAUTIFUL
• 11:47 IT'S SO WONDERFUL TO GO
• 11:49 AND TO SEE THE SACRED PLACES COME ALIVE,
• 11:51 THE PLACES THAT WE READ ABOUT IN THE BIBLE.
• 11:53 IT'S A LIFETIME EXPERIENCE...
• 11:55 ONCE IN A LIFETIME.
• 11:57 IT REALLY IS.
• 11:57 IT'S WONDERFUL
• 11:58 WE'D LOVE TO HOST YOU IN THE LAND.
• 12:00 AND A REALLY GOOD WAY TO KNOW WHAT WE'RE DOING
• 12:02 HERE AT ZOLA LEVITT PRESENTS
• 12:03 IS TO STAY IN TOUCH WITH US
• 12:04 THROUGH OUR NEWSLETTER.
• 12:06 IT'S FREE TO YOU
• 12:07 AND WE'D LOVE TO SEND IT TO YOU.
• 12:08 THE LEVITT LETTER.
• 12:09 AND WE ALSO WANT TO OFFER YOU
• 12:10 THIS WEEK OUR OFFER OF
• 12:12 "THE SPIRIT OF PENTECOST"
• 12:13 BOTH THE BOOKLET AND THE CD,
• 12:15 BOTH BY ZOLA LEVITT.
• 12:17 THEY ARE A REALLY GOOD
• 12:18 INTRODUCTION TO THIS VERY TOPIC.
• 12:19 WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE BIRTH OF THE CHURCH
• 12:21 AND REALLY THE TIME THAT IT CAME INTO BEING AT THE FESTIVAL OF PENTECOST.
• 12:25 BACK WHEN ISRAEL WAS REBORN IN 1948
• 12:29 THERE WAS AN EXCHANGE OF REFUGEES BETWEEN THE ARABIC COUNTRIES AND PERSIA AND ISRAEL.
• 12:35 WE ALWAYS HEAR ABOUT THE ARAB REFUGEES
• 12:38 BUT THERE WERE ALSO PERSIAN REFUGEES AND ARAB AND JEWISH REFUGEES
• 12:42 THAT CAME FROM ALL OVER THE SURROUNDING LANDS.
• 12:45 NOW ONE OF THOSE FAMILIES IS THE FORBEARERS OF OUR GUEST TODAY.
• 12:50 WE'RE GOING TO HEAR FROM YACOV DAMKANI.
• 12:52 HE'S A JEWISH EVANGELIST,
• 12:54 A BORN AGAIN BELIEVER WITH HIS ROOTS FROM PERSIA.
• 12:57 AND HE'S TEARING UP THE MIDDLE EAST AND ISRAEL
• 12:59 WITH PREACHING THE GOOD NEWS OF YESHUA HA MASHIACH.
• 13:02 SO LET'S GO TO MY INTERVIEW WITH HIM IN JERUSALEM.
• 13:07 YAKOV, WE'RE HERE IN THE LAND OF YESHUA.
• 13:10 FOR 2,000 YEARS WE JEWISH PEOPLE THOUGHT
• 13:13 THAT HE BELONGED TO SOMEONE ELSE
• 13:14 BUT HE BELONGS TO US.
• 13:15 INDEED
• 13:17 SO TELL US HOW DID YOU COME TO FAITH?
• 13:20 MY STORY ACTUALLY BEGINS IN THE SYNAGOGUE.
• 13:23 THAT'S WHERE I GREW UP.
• 13:25 AND THE SYNAGOGUE IN KIRYAT SHMONA, UPPER GALILEE
• 13:28 BENEATH THE GOLAN HEIGHTS NEXT TO THE BORDER WITH LEBANON
• 13:32 I LEFT RELIGION WHEN I WAS 15 YEARS OF AGE,
• 13:37 LEFT ISRAEL 22 YEARS OF AGE TO TRAVEL THE WORLD...
• 13:42 SOME MONTHS IN EUROPE.
• 13:44 ONE MONTH IN THE BAHAMAS...
• 13:47 FROM THE BAHAMAS WENT TO FLORIDA
• 13:50 AND FROM FLORIDA I HITCHHIKED TO NEW YORK, BROOKLYN...
• 13:53 FROM BROOKLYN MOVED TO NEW JERSEY
• 13:55 AND THERE IN NEW JERSEY A MAN NAMED JEFF, GENTILE CHRISTIAN BELIEVER WITH A HEART FOR GOD,
• 14:03 WITH THE SHINING EYES,
• 14:05 WITH THAT GLOW ON HIS FACE
• 14:07 CONFRONTED ME WITH THE GOSPEL OF THE KINGDOM.
• 14:10 AND OF COURSE AS A JEW THE NATURAL RESPONSE "I'M A JEW."
• 14:14 "I HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH JESUS".
• 14:16 AND THE MAN WAS VERY ACQUAINTED WITH THE OLD TESTAMENT
• 14:20 AND HE BEGAN TO UNFOLD BEFORE ME THE PROPHECIES FROM ISAIAH 53
• 14:26 TO DANIEL 9
• 14:27 TO JEREMIAH 31
• 14:29 TO THE PROMISE OF EZEKIEL
• 14:30 THAT GOD HIMSELF WOULD COME AND CLEANSE US AND PURIFY US
• 14:34 AND TAKE OUR HEART OF STONE AND GIVE US A NEW HEART
• 14:37 AND PLACE HIS SPIRIT WITHIN US
• 14:39 WHICH I REALLY BELIEVE THIS IS ONE OF THE GREATEST PROMISES OF GOD WHICH REALLY BRING THE SWORD
• 14:44 THAT CUT BETWEEN RELIGION AND TRUE FAITH.
• 14:48 RELIGION TRIED TO PUSH US INTO THAT BOX...
• 14:52 DO THAT...DON'T DO THAT...
• 14:53 AND IF YOU DO WHAT WE TELL YOU TO DO YOU'LL BE OKAY WITH GOD.
• 14:57 AND COME GOD AND SAYS
• 14:58 THERE WOULD BE IN OUR NEW HISTORY ISRAEL,
• 15:00 "I MYSELF WILL COME TO CLEANSE YOU."
• 15:03 "I MYSELF WILL PURIFY YOU."
• 15:06 "I'LL TAKE YOUR HEART OF STONE, GIVE YOU A NEW HEART AND PUT MY SPIRIT WITHIN YOU."
• 15:10 "NO MORE, NO MORE A TEMPLE MADE OUT OF STONES OF GOLD."
• 15:15 "I WILL MAKE YOU A HABITATION OF MY VERY PRESENCE."
• 15:20 AND WE'RE LIVING IN THAT HOUR RIGHT NOW.
• 15:22 WELL JEFF WAS REALLY BRINGING ALL THIS INTO MY UNDERSTANDING
• 15:27 AND THANKS TO HIS PATIENCE WITH ME,
• 15:30 HIS LOVE, HIS PERSEVERANCE, HIS PRAYER, HIS FASTING,
• 15:34 I HAVE TAKEN UPON MYSELF TO READ THE NEW TESTAMENT...
• 15:38 CAUSE I GREW UP... YOU DON'T TOUCH THAT BOOK
• 15:40 THE NEW TESTAMENT CAUSE US ALL OUR TROUBLE.
• 15:43 JESUS HAS COME... START NEW RELIGION.
• 15:46 THIS NEW RELIGION BEEN KILLING US 2,000 YEARS...WHO WANT TO DO ANYTHING WITH HIM?
• 15:50 WELL JEFF MANAGED TO REALLY HAVE ME DISTINGUISH BETWEEN JESUS THE JEW, YESHUA
• 15:56 AND SO CALLED CHRISTIANITY AND SO CALLED CHURCH.
• 16:00 AND THAT ALLOWED ME TO GET MY "WRONGS" TOGETHER AND READ THE NEW TESTAMENT.
• 16:07 AND I WAS AMAZED ONCE I STARTED READING THE NEW TESTAMENT.
• 16:10 EVERYTHING I READ THERE IN NEW JERSEY TOOK ME BACK HOME TO GALILEE, TO THE SYNAGOGUE,
• 16:15 TO JERUSALEM, TO THE TEMPLE.
• 16:18 ALL ABOUT THE FEASTS OF ISRAEL,
• 16:20 PASSOVER, THE SABBATH,
• 16:22 PENTECOST, TABERNACLE,
• 16:24 ALL ABOUT LOVE AND COMPASSION AND GRACE AND MERCY...
• 16:28 ALL ABOUT FORGIVENESS...
• 16:29 ALL ABOUT THE GOD OF ABRAHAM, ISAAC AND JACOB.
• 16:33 I DIDN'T READ NOTHING ABOUT THE TREES OF CHRISTMAS...
• 16:37 NOTHING ABOUT THE EGGS OF EASTER...
• 16:39 BUT EVERYTHING SO VERY JEWISH.
• 16:42 AND AS I READ THE NEW COVENANT MY IDENTITY AS A JEW WAS NOT JEOPARDIZED.
• 16:49 I ASKED GOD, "YOU SHOW ME AND I WILL BE YOUR SLAVE TO MY LAST BREATH."
• 16:56 AND IN HIS COMPLETE MERCY I HAD MY OWN "BURNING BUSH" EXPERIENCE.
• 17:00 REALLY I HAVE COME IN TOUCH WITH THE REALITY OF YESHUA RESURRECTION...
• 17:05 IN TOUCH WITH GOD'S FORGIVENESS...AND ROSE UP.
• 17:09 SO YOU ROSE UP...
• 17:11 AND YOU SOUND LIKE PETER AND THE DAYS OF SHAVUOT BACK IN THE DAY WHEN THE KEHILAT BEGAN.
• 17:16 YES
• 17:17 WHAT IS YOUR WORK LIKE TODAY?
• 17:18 PRAISE GOD FOR THIS "BURNING BUSH" EXPERIENCE WHICH I HAD...
• 17:21 THE "ROAD TO DAMASCUS" EXPERIENCE WHICH I HAD.
• 17:24 I ROSE UP WITH THIS CLEAR UNDERSTANDING
• 17:28 YESHUA HAD NO INTENTION TO BRING A NEW RELIGION TO THE WORLD.
• 17:32 HE'S THE NATURAL CONTINUATION OF GOD'S PROMISES TO ISRAEL.
• 17:36 AND I FELT LIKE I AM THE ONLY ONE NOW WHO UNDERSTANDS GOD IN THE SPIRIT
• 17:41 AND I MUST MAKE MY WAY BACK HOME TO ISRAEL
• 17:44 AND MAKE SURE ISRAEL WILL FOR ONCE UNDERSTAND JESUS IN A JEWISH CONTEXT.
• 17:49 I'VE COME IN TOUCH WITH THE COUNCIL OF GOD.
• 17:52 THE MIND OF GOD THROUGHOUT THE SCRIPTURES WHICH PROMISE
• 17:56 "I WILL PROVOKE ISRAEL TO JEALOUSY WITH THE GENTILE WORLD"
• 17:59 AND SO OUR WORK BEGAN WITH A MISSION TRUMPET OF SALVATION TO ISRAEL
• 18:04 AND THE WORK IS TO BRING THE BELIEVERS FROM THE NATIONS
• 18:08 AND THIS IS NOT A SMALL MIRACLE WHEN YOU SEE THE BELIEVERS FROM ACROSS THE GLOBE
• 18:14 ALL OF SUDDEN LOVING THE JEWS...
• 18:17 ALL OF A SUDDEN HAVING THIS GREAT COMPASSION FOR ISRAEL.
• 18:20 AND THE SAD THING ABOUT IT,
• 18:22 IT'S ALL...STARTS AND ENDS UP WITH ALL KIND OF ROMANTIC IDEAS.
• 18:27 AND OUR IDEAS AS A MISSION, TRUMPET OF SALVATION TO ISRAEL,
• 18:30 IS TO ACTUALLY GUIDE THIS LOVE, THIS COMPASSION INTO THE STREETS OF ISRAEL
• 18:36 TO REALLY BRING THE GOSPEL
• 18:38 BECAUSE THERE'S A GREAT LEVERAGE.
• 18:40 AND SOMEONE NEEDS TO GUIDE THESE PRECIOUS BROTHERS AND SISTERS FROM ACROSS THE GLOBE
• 18:45 WHICH GOD BY THE POWER OF THE HOLY SPIRIT PUT LOVE AND COMPASSION IN THEIR HEARTS
• 18:49 TO LET ISRAEL UNDERSTAND THAT THIS WHOLE YESHUA IS FROM GOD.
• 18:55 BECAUSE WHEN YOU GO BACK TO ACTS, TO ACTS CHAPTER 5,
• 18:59 WHAT DO YOU SEE THERE?
• 19:00 YOU SEE GAMALIEL GIVING ADVICE TO SANHEDRIN.
• 19:04 HE'S ADVISING THEM BECAUSE THEY ARE TRYING TO SHUT UP THE APOSTLE,
• 19:08 NOW THAT THE APOSTLE CANNOT REALLY SHUT THEIR MOUTH UP.
• 19:11 THEY ARE BEATING THEM UP BUT THEY ARE TAKING JOY IN THE BEATING UP.
• 19:15 RABBI GAMALIEL SAYS, "I SAY TO YOU, STAY AWAY FROM THESE MEN AND LEAVE THEM ALONE"
• 19:23 "FOR IF THIS PLAN OR ACTION SHOULD BE OF MEN IT WILL BE OVERTHROWN."
• 19:28 "BUT IF IT IS OF GOD YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO OVERTHROW THEM"
• 19:32 "OR ELSE YOU MAY EVEN BE FOUND FIGHTING AGAINST GOD."
• 19:37 NOW ISRAEL IN 2,000 YEARS HAS COME TO BELIEVE THAT THIS IS NOT FROM GOD.
• 19:42 AND NOW ALL OF A SUDDEN GOD BRINGS US BACK HOME AS DRY BONES
• 19:47 AND YESHUA IS RISING UP AGAIN THANKS TO THE HOLY SPIRIT THAT WORKS IN THE "ONE NEW MAN"...
• 19:55 THE GENTILES AND US THE JEWS...
• 19:58 AND TOGETHER WE WANT TO CONTINUE TO SHAKE THIS NATION WITH THE GOSPEL OF THE KINGDOM.
• 20:03 SO WE HAVE A BOOK "WHY ME?"
• 20:06 THIS BOOK "WHY ME" WE PASS OUT 400,000 COPIES IN HEBREW THROUGHOUT THE NATIONS.
• 20:13 AND SO WHAT WE REALLY WANT TO DO IS GIVE AN INVITATION,
• 20:21 A REAL INVITATION TO THE BELIEVERS FROM ACROSS THE GLOBE
• 20:24 TO COME AND TAKE PART IN THIS GREAT WORK BRINGING THE GOSPEL TO ISRAEL.
• 20:29 AFTER ALL THESE 30 YEARS OF WORK GOD GAVE US HOTEL GIGAL.
• 20:33 YOU CAN VISIT HOTELGIGAL.COM
• 20:36 AND REALLY SEE HOW FAR GOD REALLY BROUGHT US IN THE MISSION.
• 20:40 SO I'M VERY EXCITED WITH THE WORK OF THE LORD IN THIS COUNTRY.
• 20:44 AND AGAIN, SO MUCH OF IT EXTENDS TO THE BROTHERS AND SISTERS FROM ACROSS THE GLOBE
• 20:50 THAT GOD PUT LOVE AND COMPASSION IN THEIR HEARTS.
• 20:53 SO TOGETHER I BELIEVE ISRAEL WILL COME TO SEE YESHUA
• 20:57 IF WE JUST KEEP PERSEVERING AND ENDURING WITH THIS GLORIOUS GOSPEL OF THE KINGDOM.
• 21:05 ♪HEY...YESHUA IS THE VINE♪
• 21:08 ♪ISRAEL A SIGN FOR ALL TO SEE♪
• 21:12 ♪EVERY TRIBE AND TONGUE♪
• 21:14 ♪IS GRAFTED BY THE SON INTO THE OLIVE TREE♪
• 21:17 ♪AND IF CASTING THEM AWAY, HE RECEIVED THE WORLD INSTEAD♪
• 21:22 ♪THEN WHAT IS THEIR RETURN BUT LIFE FROM THE DEAD?♪
• 21:26 ♪AM ECHAD♪
• 21:28 ♪ADONAI ECHAD♪
• 21:30 ♪WE ARE...ONE PEOPLE♪
• 21:34 ♪AM ECHAD ADONAI ECHAD♪
• 21:37 ♪WE ARE..ONE PEOPLE, ONE GOD!♪
• 21:42 ♪ONE PEOPLE♪
• 21:49 ♪IN THAT DAY GOD WILL TAKE AWAY ALL THEIR SIN♪
• 21:55 ♪THEY SHALL BE SAVED AND HIS SERVANT DAVID SHALL BE THEIR PRINCE♪
• 22:01 ♪IN TEARS THEY HAVE SOWN BUT IN JOY SHALL THEY REAP♪
• 22:04 ♪HE WILL LEAD THEM HOME AS A SHEPHERD LEADS HIS SHEEP♪
• 22:09 ♪AM ECHAD♪
• 22:11 ♪WE ARE..ONE PEOPLE, ONE GOD!♪
• 22:17 ♪AM ECHAD♪
• 22:19 ♪WE ARE..ONE PEOPLE, ONE GOD!♪
• 22:26 ♪THERE IS BUT ONE GOD♪
• 22:32 ♪IN THE VALLEY OF DRY BONES,♪
• 22:35 ♪A HOLY WIND IS BLOWING MAKING NOISE♪
• 22:38 ♪IT'S THE SOUND OF A NATION,♪
• 22:40 ♪A HOLY CONGREGATION WITH ONE VOICE♪
• 22:44 ♪THEY ARE SINGING A NEW SONG♪
• 22:46 ♪UNTO THEIR GOD♪
• 22:48 ♪SHEMA YISRAEL ADONAI ECHAD♪
• 22:53 ♪AM ECHAD♪
• 22:56 ♪WE ARE..ONE PEOPLE, ONE GOD!♪
• 23:01 ♪AM ECHAD♪
• 23:04 ♪WE ARE..ONE PEOPLE, ONE GOD!
• 23:10 ♪THERE IS BUT ONE GOD♪
• 23:36 ♪AM ECHAD♪
• 23:39 ♪WE ARE..ONE PEOPLE, ONE GOD!♪
• 23:45 ♪AM ECHAD♪
• 23:47 ♪WE ARE...ONE PEOPLE♪
• 23:50 ♪GOD IS WITH US,♪
• 23:54 ♪IN HIM ALONE WE TRUST FOR OUR PEACE♪
• 23:58 ♪HIS LOVE IS FOREVER AND HIS MERCY NEVER WILL CEASE♪
• 24:03 ♪AND HE WILL SET HIS RESTING PLACE IN OUR MIDST♪
• 24:07 ♪EXTENDING HIS LOVE AND GRACE TO ALL WHO ARE HIS♪
• 24:12 ♪AM ECHAD♪
• 24:15 ♪WE ARE..ONE PEOPLE, ONE GOD!♪
• 24:21 ♪AM ECHAD♪
• 24:23 ♪WE ARE..ONE PEOPLE, ONE GOD!♪
• 24:28 ♪ONE PEOPLE♪
• 24:32 ♪AM ECHAD♪
• 24:36 ♪THERE IS BUT ONE GOD!♪
• 24:43 ♪THERE IS ONE GOD!♪
• 24:45 ♪ONE GOD!♪
• 24:47 ♪YEAH!♪
• 24:51 ♪ONE PEOPLE♪
• 24:59 THAT'S TED PEARCE'S MUSIC.
• 25:01 WE LOVE TED;
• 25:02 HE'S A FRIEND OF THE MINISTRY
• 25:03 AND A PERSONAL FRIEND OF OUR FAMILY.
• 25:04 ALWAYS GOOD TO HEAR FROM HIM.
• 25:06 WE'LL HEAR MORE OF HIS MUSIC DURING THIS SERIES.
• 25:08 HIS MUSIC HAS SUCH A HEBREW FEEL TO IT.
• 25:11 AND THE GOSPEL IS A HEBREW GOSPEL.
• 25:13 IN ALL THE LAND THERE IS A PLACE AND IT'S JERUSALEM.
• 25:17 AND IN JERUSALEM THERE IS A TEMPLE AND IT'S A TEMPLE MOUNT.
• 25:20 AND ON THE TEMPLE MOUNT THERE IS THE HOLY OF HOLIES, THE PLACE.
• 25:25 THAT'S WHY THE WESTERN WAILING WALL IS SO IMPORTANT BECAUSE
• 25:29 PEOPLE GO THERE BECAUSE THIS IS AS CLOSE AS THEY CAN GET...
• 25:32 THE JEWISH PEOPLE...TO THE PRESENCE OF THE LORD.
• 25:34 IT'S VERY SPECIAL TO THE LORD HIMSELF BECAUSE HE SAID HE'D PUT HIS NAME THERE.
• 25:38 YES, THIS IS SUCH A HEBRAIC STORY
• 25:40 AND WHAT WE GET A CHANCE TO DO IN THIS SERIES
• 25:42 WHICH IS SO WONDERFUL
• 25:44 IS TO CONNECT THE NEW TESTAMENT AND THE OLD TESTAMENT,
• 25:46 THE HEBREW SCRIPTURES AND THE B'RIT HADASHAH, THE NEW TESTAMENT,
• 25:49 THERE'S A SEAMLESS CONNECTION...
• 25:51 ALL 39 OLD TESTAMENT BOOKS WRITTEN BY JEWISH PEOPLE...
• 25:55 THE NEW TESTAMENT 27 BOOKS WRITTEN BY JEWISH PEOPLE.
• 25:58 LUKE WAS A PROSELYTE TO THE JEWISH PEOPLE.
• 26:00 THE GOSPELS,THE APOSTLES...
• 26:02 ALL JEWISH
• 26:04 THE FACT THAT WE GET A CHANCE TO CONNECT
• 26:06 THE NEW TESTAMENT STORY TO ITS HEBREW ROOTS
• 26:09 AND FOR THE WORLD...
• 26:10 FOR YOU ALL TO UNDERSTAND THAT THIS STORY IS NOT ABOUT THE JEWS GETTING SET ASIDE
• 26:15 BUT IN FACT IS A VERY HEBREW STORY.
• 26:18 JESUS WAS BORN A JEW,
• 26:20 DIED A JEW
• 26:21 AND IS RETURNING AS THE LION OF THE TRIBE OF JUDAH.
• 26:24 AND EVEN THE NEW JERUSALEM TO COME
• 26:26 IS GOING TO HAVE THE NAMES OF THE APOSTLES
• 26:28 AND THE NAMES OF THE 12 TRIBES WRITTEN IN IT.
• 26:31 WOW...WE ARE SO BLESSED TO BE ABLE TO BRING YOU THIS STORY
• 26:34 AND MAKE THESE CONNECTIONS
• 26:35 AS WE'LL SEE IN THE REST OF THIS SERIES
• 26:37 THE GOSPEL HAS GONE AROUND THE WORLD
• 26:39 AND IS NOW ARISING AGAIN IN ISRAEL.
• 26:44 SO AS WE GO TODAY
• 26:45 WE WANT TO REMIND YOU...PLEASE
• 26:47 SHA'ALU SHALOM YERUSHALAYIM...
• 26:49 PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM.