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Caption transcript for The Gospel According to Isaiah: “Jesus’ Condemnation” (3/8)

• 00:12 HE IS DESPISED AND REJECTED OF MEN
• 00:17 WOUNDED FOR OUR TRANSGRESSIONS AND BRUISED FOR OUR INIQUITIES.
• 00:24 HE IS BROUGHT AS A LAMB TO THE SLAUGHTER.
• 00:29 WRITTEN 700 YEARS BEFORE CHRIST,
• 00:32 ISAIAH KNEW THAT THIS PROPHETIC SCRIPTURE
• 00:34 WOULD ONE DAY BE FULFILLED IN THE LAMB OF GOD, JESUS.
• 00:45 SHALOM, JEFFREY SEIF HERE AND I'M HERE WITH MY GOOD FRIEND SANDRA LEVITT.
• 00:50 SHALOM.
• 00:52 WE ARE GOING TO DO THE 3RD OF AN 8 PART TREATMENT
• 00:56 OF THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ISAIAH.
• 00:59 IN THIS SEGMENT WE ARE GOING TO FOCUS ON THE CONCEPT OF THE SUFFERING SERVANT
• 01:05 AS WE EXPLORE WHAT SCRIPTURE SAYS ABOUT JESUS AND THE OLD TESTAMENT.
• 01:10 NOT A PRETTY SIGHT JEFF, BUT ONE I THINK WE NEED TO REMEMBER.
• 01:19 IT'S A PICTURE THAT WE CANNOT FORGET.
• 01:22 TRUE, IT'S NOT A GREAT STORY IT'S A BIBLICAL STORY.
• 01:26 IT'S NOT EVEN A NEW TESTAMENT BIBLICAL STORY AS WE SEE WHEN WE EXPLORE ISAIAH.
• 01:32 WE'RE GOING BACK SEVEN HUNDRED OR SO YEARS BEFORE JESUS
• 01:35 AND WE WILL SEE HOW THE STORY OF THE SUFFERING SERVANT IS TOLD IN THE OLD TESTAMENT TEXT.
• 01:42 HE IS DESPISED AND REJECTED OF MEN.
• 01:45 A MAN OF SORROWS AND ACQUAINTED WITH GRIEF AND WE HID AS IT WERE OUR FACES FROM HIM.
• 01:51 HE WAS DESPISED AND WE ESTEEMED HIM NOT.
• 01:54 SURELY HE HATH BORNE OUR GRIEFS AND CARRIED OUR SORROWS
• 01:57 YET WE DID ESTEEM HIM STRICKEN AND SMITTEN OF GOD AND AFFLICTED.
• 02:01 BUT HE WAS WOUNDED FOR OUR TRANSGRESSIONS.
• 02:04 HE WAS BRUISED FOR OUR INIQUITIES.
• 02:06 THE CHASTISEMENT OF OUR PEACE WAS UPON HIM AND WITH HIS STRIPES WE ARE HEALED.
• 02:13 SPEAKING FROM THE CHURCH OF THE GALLICANTU, THE LATIN FOR "WHERE THE ROOSTER SANG",
• 02:24 WE'RE GOING TO BE LOOKING AT THE STORY OF YESHUA'S ARREST.
• 02:30 YOU MIGHT RECALL THAT HE WAS ARRESTED IN THE GARDEN OF GETHSEMANE.
• 02:35 HE WAS MANHANDLED BY SOLDIERS AND BROUGHT TO THE RESIDENCE OF CAIAPHAS.
• 02:41 BEHIND ME HERE AT THE CHURCH OF THE GALLICANTU
• 02:45 IS A RELIEF THAT DEPICTS WHEN THE LORD WAS TAKEN AWAY.
• 02:50 IT MAY WELL HAVE BEEN THESE STEPS THAT HE TROD OR STEPS LIKE THEM.
• 02:55 I'M STANDING ATOP RIGHT NOW WHAT WAS THE RESIDENCE OF CAIAPHAS HIMSELF.
• 03:01 BEFORE SPEAKING TO THE CONTEXT TO THE SITE WHERE I AM,
• 03:06 I'D LIKE TO LOOK AT THE BIBLICAL TEXT, ONE WRITTEN IN THE 8TH CENTURY BC
• 03:14 MANY HUNDREDS OF YEARS PRIOR A GREAT OLD TESTAMENT PROPHET LIVED AND WALKED
• 03:20 AND HIS NAME WAS ISAIAH.
• 03:22 IN THE 53RD CHAPTER OF ISAIAH, PREDICTED WAS THAT THE MESHIACH, THAT THE MESSIAH
• 03:29 WAS GOING TO BE MAN-HANDLED, REJECTED AND SPIRITED AWAY.
• 03:33 IN CHAPTER 53 VERSE 3 HE SAYS.
• 04:08 INTERESTINGLY, FASCINATINGLY, PROPHETICALLY,
• 04:13 ISAIAH HAD GIVEN VOICE TO THE FACT THAT THE MESSIAH WAS GOING TO COME AND BE HUMBLE.
• 04:18 HE WAS GOING TO FALL INTO THE HANDS OF MAN
• 04:22 AND BE SPIRITED AWAY TO A RATHER INGLORIOUS END
• 04:27 FROM WHICH HE WOULD RISE VICTORIOUS AT THE RESURRECTION.
• 04:30 BUT, THAT'S ANOTHER STORY.
• 04:32 OUR STORY TODAY IN THIS THE 3RD OF AN 8 PART SERIES OF ISAIAH
• 04:37 EXPLORES WHAT THE PROPHET SAYS ABOUT JESUS ARREST,
• 04:43 HIS ULTIMATE REJECTION CULMINATING FINALLY IN THE CROSS.
• 04:49 IN CONJUNCTION WITH TELLING THAT STORY AND GIVEN THE FACT
• 04:53 THAT SO OFTEN INDIVIDUALS TALK ABOUT HOW THE JEWS REJECTED CHRIST,
• 04:57 I'D LIKE YOU TO GO WITH ME PLEASE TO THE 18TH CHAPTER OF THE GOSPEL OF JOHN,
• 05:02 THEREIN THE STORY IS TOLD HOW SOME 2000 YEARS AGO JESUS CAME TO THIS VERY PLACE,
• 05:10 THE RESIDENCE OF CAIAPHAS THE HIGH PRIEST
• 05:15 AND THERE HE WAS HANDED OFF TO A RATHER INGLORIOUS ENDING
• 05:20 OR SO IT WOULD SEEM AN ENDING ON CALVARY'S CROSS.
• 05:23 WE'RE TOLD THAT WHEN JESUS WAS ARRESTED IN THAT GARDEN,
• 05:27 YOU'LL SEE THIS IF YOU LOOK AT 3 AND 4 IN YOUR BIBLE IN THE 18TH CHAPTER OF THE JOHANNITE TEXT,
• 05:31 THE GOSPEL OF JOHN, YOU'LL SEE THAT WHEN THEY CAME TO ARREST JESUS IN THE GARDEN THAT NIGHT,
• 05:36 THEY CAME WITH TORCHES, LANTERNS AND WEAPONS.
• 05:39 WHY DID THEY COME AND ARREST JESUS WITH TORCHES, LANTERNS AND WEAPONS?
• 05:43 BECAUSE THEY GOT HIM IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT
• 05:46 AND WHY DID THEY ARREST JESUS IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT?
• 05:49 BECAUSE THEY COULDN'T ARREST JESUS DURING THE DAY.
• 05:52 AND WHY COULDN'T THEY ARREST JESUS DURING THE DAY?
• 05:55 BECAUSE CROWDS OF JEWS WERE RUNNING AROUND THE CITY SAYING
• 06:04 REMEMBER WHEN JESUS CAME INTO JERUSALEM SOME 2000 YEARS AGO, THEY LINED THE STREETS.
• 06:10 JESUS ENJOYED A CONSIDERABLE AMOUNT OF POPULARITY
• 06:14 AMONGST THE RANK AND FILE OF THE JEWISH POPULATION.
• 06:19 BUT, THERE WERE THOSE OF THE RULING ELITE THAT WERE JEALOUS AND HOLDING POWER AS THEY DID,
• 06:25 THERE WERE SOME OF THEM, CAIAPHAS AS A FOREMOST,
• 06:29 THAT WERE MINDED TO HAVE JESUS SPIRITED AWAY AND EXECUTED.
• 06:32 BUT, GOD HAD A PLAN TO BRING ABOUT GOOD IN THE WORLD
• 06:36 THROUGH HIS DEATH ON THE CROSS, DID HE NOT?
• 06:38 WE'RE GOING TO RETURN TO THIS STORY IN A MOMENT
• 06:40 AND CONTINUE TO LOOK AT JESUS ULTIMATE REJECTION
• 06:44 AS WE CONSIDER THIS AND MORE IN THE 53RD CHAPTER OF ISAIAH.
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• 07:29 BEHIND ME IS THE MT. OF OLIVES, AT THE BASE OF WHICH IS THE GARDEN OF GETHSEMANE.
• 07:37 YOU MIGHT RECALL IT WAS A FATEFUL EVENING MANY YEARS AGO
• 07:42 WHEN FOLLOWING THE CELEBRATION OF THE PASSOVER SEDER, THE JEWISH HOLIDAY OF PESSACH,
• 07:48 YESHUA AND SOME OF HIS DISCIPLES WENT OUT TO PRAY IN THAT GARDEN.
• 07:56 BUT, THE BLISS OF PRAYER WAS INTERRUPTED.
• 08:00 JUDAS, WHO LEFT THE SUPPER PREVIOUSLY, HAD PROCURED A BAND OF SOLDIERS
• 08:06 AND HE BROKE THE NIGHT AS HE AND THOSE TROOPS
• 08:10 PRESENTED WITH THE EXPRESSED PURPOSE OF TAKING JESUS INTO CUSTODY.
• 08:16 WE'VE ALREADY CONSIDERED IN THE ISAIAH TEXT HOW PRESAGED,
• 08:20 HOW FORETOLD WAS IT THAT THE MESSIAH WAS GOING TO BE REJECTED AND TAKEN AWAY.
• 08:25 NOW, LOOKING AT THE 18TH CHAPTER OF JOHN'S GOSPEL,
• 08:29 WE COME TO A PLACE WHERE THE STORY UNFOLDS IN VERSE 3
• 08:45 RECALL, IT WAS THE WEE HOURS OF THE MORNING.
• 08:48 JESUS WAS TAKEN INTO CUSTODY.
• 08:50 LOOKING IN VERSE 12, JOHN TELLS US..
• 09:20 YOU MIGHT REMEMBER IN JOHN'S GOSPEL SOME TIME EARLIER,
• 09:24 YESHUA HAD COME AND HE HAD RAISED ELIEZER, LAZARUS FROM THE DEAD,
• 09:30 CREATING SUCH A STIR IN THE PROCESS
• 09:34 AS THE CROWDS WERE SO EXCITED ABOUT WHO WAS THIS ONE THAT RAISES FROM THE DEAD,
• 09:39 THAT THE HIGH PRIEST WAS PARTICULARLY DISCONCERTED AND SAID,
• 09:43 LOOK WE'VE GOT TO DO SOMETHING.
• 09:45 THE WHOLE JEWISH WORLD IS GOING AFTER HIM AND WHAT WAS THE THING THAT HE DECIDED TO DO.
• 09:52 WELL, IT WAS PASSOVER TIME.
• 09:55 JESUS WOULD HAVE CELEBRATED THE PASSOVER JUST ON THE OUTSKIRTS,
• 09:58 JUST SOMEWHAT REMOVED FROM THE TEMPLE MOUNT, WHICH IS BEHIND ME.
• 10:02 HE THEN AFTER THAT PASSOVER SEDER WENT TO THE MT. OF OLIVES TO THE BASE OF THE MOUNTAIN,
• 10:07 TO THE GARDEN OF GETHSEMANE WHERE HE WAS THEN TAKEN INTO CUSTODY
• 10:12 IN THE WEE HOURS OF THE MORNING AND THEN HE WAS TAKEN FROM THE GARDEN OF GETHSEMANE
• 10:19 TO CAIAPHAS' RESIDENCE, THE PLACE FROM WHICH I STAND TODAY.
• 10:27 TODAY A GREAT SHRINE IS BUILT ATOP THE SITE.
• 10:31 IN FACT, I'M HERE BESIDE A STATUE AND THERE'S A LATIN AT THE BASE OF THE STATUE,
• 10:38 WHICH SAYS, "I DON'T KNOW HIM."
• 10:42 YOU MIGHT RECALL THERE WAS PETER EMBOLDENED AS HE WAS,
• 10:47 HE SAID, LORD, I'LL NEVER DENY YOU IN RESPONSE TO WHICH THAT FATEFUL EVENING THE LORD SAYS,
• 10:54 YOU'RE GOING TO DENY ME 3 TIMES AND THE COCK IS GOING TO CROW THIS EVENING.
• 11:00 WELL, WE PICK UP IN THE NARRATIVE HERE IN JOHN IN VERSE 15 WITH PETER HIMSELF.
• 11:11 ARGUABLY THAT OTHER DISCIPLE IS JOHN HIMSELF
• 11:14 WHO'S NOT INTERESTED IN MENTIONING HIMSELF BY NAME.
• 11:18 IT SEEMS TO BE HIS HABIT TO BE PARTICULARLY HUMBLE.
• 11:30 JOHN HIMSELF FOLLOWED JESUS MORE CLOSELY, BUT PETER BEGAN TO PEEL OFF.
• 11:38 YOU KNOW, THERE'S THE EXPRESSION TO "PETER OUT", WHICH MEANS TO RUN OUT OF STEAM.
• 11:43 JOHN HIMSELF FOLLOWS ALONG, BUT PETER CREATES DISTANCE.
• 12:01 I DON'T THINK IT WAS JUST ACCIDENTAL THAT PETER WAS AT THE MARGINS HOWEVER.
• 12:16 NUMBER ONE DENIAL.
• 12:31 HERE WE HAVE THE FIRE.
• 12:34 MOVING ON DOWN TO VERSE 25..
• 12:58 NOW, WHAT HAVE WE HERE?
• 13:00 THE STORY OF PETER'S DENIAL IS OFTEN TOLD,
• 13:04 BUT IT'S PARTICULARLY IMPORTANT FOR OUR PURPOSES TO NOTE THAT JESUS' REJECTION,
• 13:13 JESUS BEING PUSHED TO THE PERIPHERY WAS SOMETHING THAT DIDN'T HAPPEN
• 13:18 BECAUSE OF PETER'S DENIAL, IT'S NOT SOMETHING THAT HAPPENED
• 13:22 BECAUSE THE JUDEAN HIGH PRIEST AND HIS CRONIES
• 13:26 WERE OF THE PERSUASION THAT THE WORLD WOULD BE A BETTER PLACE WITHOUT JESUS IN IT,
• 13:30 THE REASON WHY JESUS WAS MARGINALIZED WAS BECAUSE
• 13:34 PREDICTED IN THE HOLY WRIT IN THE 8TH CENTURY BC, MANY HUNDREDS OF YEARS PRIOR,
• 13:41 WAS THE FACT THAT THE MESSIAH WAS GOING TO MAKE HIS ENTRANCE
• 13:44 ONTO THE STAGE OF THE HUMAN DRAMA AND BE DESPISED AND REJECTED BY MEN.
• 13:50 HE WOULD BE A MAN OF SORROWS AND ACQUAINTED WITH GRIEF.
• 13:55 HE'D BE ONE FROM WHOM MEN HID THEIR FACES AND HERE WE'RE LOOKING AT ONE SUCH MAN, WELL,
• 14:03 IT'S A FIGURE OF ONE WHERE PETER SAYS, I KNOW HIM NOT.
• 14:11 I THINK IT'S A FASCINATING STORY.
• 14:16 AND IT'S PARTICULARLY IMPORTANT TO ME
• 14:18 TO UNDERSCORE THE OLD TESTAMENT, NEW TESTAMENT CONNECTION.
• 14:23 FARING FROM THE JEWISH WORLD, I KNEW THE STORY OF JESUS' BIRTH,
• 14:28 I KNEW WHAT CHRISTMAS WAS AND I KNEW THAT JESUS WAS CONDEMNED TO THE CROSS AND REJECTED.
• 14:33 THESE THINGS I KNEW.
• 14:34 WHAT I DIDN'T KNOW WAS THAT THIS STORY UNFOLDS ACCORDING TO A PATTERN
• 14:42 THAT WAS OUTLINED IN THE JEWISH BIBLE.
• 14:45 AND THAT'S A STORY WORTH TELLING.
• 14:49 I'M THRILLED TO NOT JUST PREACH THE GOSPEL BUT TO PREACH THE MESSIANIC JEWISH GOSPEL
• 14:58 AND UNDERSCORE THE CONNECTION BETWEEN THE JEWISH LITERATURE
• 15:03 AND THE JEWISH SAVIOR, THE MESSIAH, ONE KNOWN TO THE WORLD AT LARGE AS JESUS.
• 15:10 THE ONE KNOWN IN HIS OWN DAY AND TIME BY THE NAME YESHUA.
• 15:15 A HEBREW VERB THAT NAME IS MEANING..
• 15:23 SO HERE WE ARE AT THE SPOT, IT'S A FAMOUS SPOT AT ONE LEVEL.
• 15:27 I THINK PERSONALLY IT'S A SPOT THAT PEOPLE CAN RELATE TO
• 15:30 SIMPLY BECAUSE WHILE IT'S EASY TO EXPRESS ANGST AND SAY
• 15:35 "WELL, PETER I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU DENIED HIM".
• 15:38 BUT THE TRUTH OF THE MATTER IS I THINK IN OUR OWN WAYS ON VARIOUS DAYS
• 15:44 WE CAN RELATE TO THIS MAN WHO SAYS, "I KNOW HIM NOT".
• 15:50 PEOPLE CAST DISPERSIONS AT THE JEWS AND SAY "I CAN'T BELIEVE THE JEWS REJECTED JESUS".
• 15:56 JESUS DIDN'T DIE BECAUSE OF JEWS.
• 15:58 HE DIED BECAUSE OF ALL OF "YOUS", ALL OF US.
• 16:02 JESUS DIED BECAUSE OF SIN, NOT BECAUSE OF JEWS PARTICULARLY.
• 16:06 IN FACT, WE'RE TOLD THAT THE REASON THE SON OF GOD CAME INTO THE WORLD
• 16:22 SO IT IS THAT JESUS' REJECTION ITSELF IS SOMETHING THAT WAS PART OF HIS PLAN,
• 16:27 SOMETHING HE SUBMITTED TO.
• 16:29 AND AGAIN, PARTICULARLY AT THIS JUNCTURE, I WANT TO UNDERSCORE THE FACT
• 16:33 THAT JESUS' REJECTION IS A STORY THAT WAS TOLD BEFORE JESUS EVER CAME OUT OF MARY'S WOMB.
• 16:40 FOR ISAIAH THE PROPHET HAD SPOKEN AND PREDICTED
• 16:44 THAT THE MESSIAH WOULD COME INTO THE WORLD AND INITIALLY BE DESPISED AND REJECTED BY MEN.
• 16:53 ♪♪
• 17:53 THAT'S ISRAEL.
• 17:54 EVERY TIME I WATCH THAT JEFF, I WANT TO GO BACK TO ISRAEL THAT DAY, RIGHT NOW.
• 17:59 IT'S HOME. IT'S JUST HOME.
• 18:01 HOME SWEET HOME FOR THE BIBLE READER.
• 18:03 IT'S WONDERFUL.
• 18:05 THE BIBLE JUST COMES ALIVE.
• 18:06 ONCE YOU'VE SEEN ISRAEL EVERYTHING COMES ALIVE.
• 18:09 I LOVED, LOVED YOUR TEACHING DOWN AT THE MT. OF OLIVES, DOWN AT GETHSEMANE.
• 18:13 THAT IS A WONDERFUL TEACHING ABOUT PETER AND THE SUFFERING SERVANT.
• 18:16 WONDERFUL TEACHING.
• 18:18 YOU KNOW IF THE LORD HADN'T RAISE UP ISRAEL AS A NATION-STATE
• 18:20 WE WOULDN'T BE ABLE TO TEACH FROM THAT LAND WOULD WE?
• 18:23 THAT'S RIGHT.
• 18:24 BUT LOOK AT THE EXPERIENCES WE GET TO KNOW.
• 18:26 WE GET TO SEE CAIAPHAS' HOUSE, ACTUAL STONES.
• 18:29 WE GET TO SEE WHERE PETER DENIED THE LORD.
• 18:32 IT'S A VISUAL FOR US TO REMEMBER WHAT A HORRIBLE PRICE MESSIAH PAID FOR US.
• 18:38 ABSOLUTELY.
• 18:40 YOU KNOW THE AVERAGE CHRISTIAN READS THE BIBLE AND A MESSAGE IN CHURCH AND STARES AT A PODIUM.
• 18:45 BUT, HERE, THROUGH THE MIRACLE OF MODERN TELEVISION,
• 18:48 WE GET TO DO ISRAEL AS A BACKDROP AND I THINK IT ENHANCES ONE'S ABILITY TO SEE THE STORY.
• 18:53 YOU KNOW IT'S REALLY INTERESTING WHEN WE'RE IN ISRAEL THERE IS A PLACE THAT PEOPLE CRY.
• 18:58 AT EVERY SINGLE PLACE WE GO TO SOMEBODY REALLY GETS EMOTIONAL
• 19:02 BECAUSE IT'S THE LAND OF THE BIBLE.
• 19:05 IT'S THE LAND OF THE BIBLE AND GOD'S BRINGING PEOPLE BACK TO THE LAND OF THE BIBLE.
• 19:08 WE'RE LOOKING HERE AT ISAIAH AND I'M REMINDED OF A VERSE IN ISAIAH CHAPTER 60:9,
• 19:15 THE PROMISE IS TO THE JEWISH PEOPLE.
• 19:23 SO IT IS THAT WE LIVE IN A DAY AND TIME WHEN ALL OVER THE WORLD JEWS ARE MAKING THEIR WAY BACK.
• 19:29 ITS SOMETHING OF A SECOND EXODUS.
• 19:31 AND NOW WE'RE GOING TO SHOW YOU SOME OF THE EXODUS,
• 19:33 THE MIRACLE OF THE REGATHERING OF JEWISH PEOPLE IN THE MODERN NATION-STATE OF ISRAEL.
• 19:41 AND SO THEY COME BY AIR, ARRIVING AT BEN-GURION AIRPORT IN TEL AVIV
• 19:45 AND BY SHIP AT THE PORT OF HAIFA.
• 19:47 THESE RUSSIAN IMMIGRANTS SETTING THEIR FEET ON ISRAEL'S SOIL FOR THE FIRST TIME
• 19:52 ARE PART OF AN AMAZING STORY OF CHRISTIAN COMPASSION.
• 19:55 AN IMMENSE UNDERTAKING NAMED "OPERATION EXODUS"
• 19:59 CALLS FOR FIFTY SAILINGS FROM ODESSA, RUSSIA TO HAIFA
• 20:03 BRINGING 25,000 JEWISH IMMIGRANTS.
• 20:06 WE TALKED TO SOME OF THE VOLUNTEERS ABOUT THEIR VOYAGE TO ODESSA
• 20:09 AND THEIR RETURN TO ISRAEL.
• 20:11 WHEN WE CAME IN IT WAS VERY, JUST VERY OPPRESSIVE, VERY DARK
• 20:16 AND YOU SAW A FEW OF THE RUSSIAN OFFICIALS
• 20:19 AND THEY CAME ON BOARD ALL WITH THEIR UNIFORMS ON
• 20:23 AND VERY STARK AND IT WAS VERY, VERY COLD.
• 20:26 BUT THEN A COUPLE HOURS LATER THE FIRST "OLEH" CAME ON AND IT WAS AN EXCITING TIME.
• 20:34 IT WAS JUST AND EXCITING TIME TO SEE THE PEOPLE COMING ON, OLD AND YOUNG,
• 20:39 PEOPLE IN WHEEL CHAIRS, PEOPLE BEING CARRIED UP IN BLANKETS,
• 20:43 LITTLE KIDS COMING ON AND YOUNG PEOPLE.
• 20:48 IT WAS AN EXCITING TIME.
• 20:50 AS WE WERE PULLING OUT SOMEBODY HAD A SHOFAR
• 20:52 AND WE BLEW IT AND EVERYONE WAS SINGING.. (HEBREW)
• 20:57 ON DECK AND EVERYBODY WAS DANCING.
• 20:59 IT WAS..
• 21:00 YOU CAN'T EXPLAIN SOMETHING LIKE THIS.
• 21:03 YOU HAVE TO EXPERIENCE IT.
• 21:05 WE HAD A DAY OF SINGING.
• 21:07 WE HAD ONE OF OUR PEOPLE SING TO THEM AND I SAW SUCH EMOTION.
• 21:11 I SAW SUCH TEARS.
• 21:13 I SAW SUCH JOY FOR ISRAEL.
• 21:15 AND THEY ALL STOOD UP TO THE FLAG OF ISRAEL.
• 21:18 IT WAS AN AMAZING THING THAT HAPPENED YESTERDAY.
• 21:20 THE SONG, THE SINGING..
• 21:22 ISRAEL SONGS AND ALL THE SONGS THAT ARE OF ISRAEL WE SANG TO THEM YESTERDAY.
• 21:30 AND THEY GOT UP AND A FEW OF THEM HAD COURAGE TO DANCE.
• 21:33 THEY NEVER DANCED THESE DANCES IN THEIR LIVES
• 21:35 AND I THINK YESTERDAY THEY BECAME AWARE THEY ARE COMING HOME TO ISRAEL.
• 21:40 AND IT REALLY HIT THEM.
• 21:42 WE COULD SEE IT.
• 21:43 IT WAS CLEAR SAILING THE WHOLE WAY.
• 21:45 EVERYTHING WAS BEAUTIFUL, EVERYTHING.
• 21:47 IT WAS JUST A BLESSED TRIP, BLESSED.
• 21:50 BLESSED BY THE LORD GOD ALMIGHTY.
• 21:52 ONE OF THE SCRIPTURES THAT ESPECIALLY MOTIVATED THE MEN
• 21:55 WHO ORGANIZED AND FINANCED THIS JOURNEY WAS A SCRIPTURE THAT SAYS..
• 22:09 SO THEY SAID TO THEMSELVES "WELL, THE SHIPS OF TARSHISH, THAT MEANS SHIPS"
• 22:13 USUALLY THAT WAS A GENERIC TERM FOR SHIPS IN BIBLICAL TIMES.
• 22:16 SO, THEY WOULD NOT COME ON AIRPLANES, THEY WOULD COME ON SHIPS.
• 22:18 AND THEY WOULD BRING THEIR SILVER AND GOLD,
• 22:20 MEANING THEY WOULD BRING THEIR POSSESSIONS WITH THEM.
• 22:22 NOW WHEN THE IMMIGRANTS COME ON AIRPLANES THEY ARE ONLY ABLE TO BRING TWO SUITCASES PER PERSON.
• 22:27 THEY HAVE TO LEAVE ALMOST EVERYTHING THEY OWN BEHIND
• 22:29 IN RUSSIA OR WHEREVER THEY CAME FROM AND PEOPLE IN RUSSIA HAVE THINGS.
• 22:33 THEY HAVE HOMES.
• 22:34 SOMETIMES THEY HAVE CARS.
• 22:36 AS A MATTER OF FACT THERE'S FIFTEEN CARS ON THIS SHIP
• 22:38 THAT ARE BROUGHT BY IMMIGRANT FAMILIES
• 22:40 THAT OBVIOUSLY COULD NEVER HAVE BROUGHT THEIR CARS WITH THEM IF THEY HAD COME ON AIRPLANES.
• 22:44 AND THERE'S LITERALLY THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS OF POUNDS OF LUGGAGE ON THIS BOAT.
• 22:50 EACH PERSON IS ALLOWED TO BRING 250 KILOS OF LUGGAGE WITH THEM
• 22:55 INSTEAD OF 40 KILOS LIKE ON AN AIRPLANE.
• 22:58 AND AS A MATTER OF FACT WE KNOW THAT MANY PEOPLE HAVE BROUGHT AS MUCH AS 1,000 KILOS PER PERSON.
• 23:02 SO, WE BELIEVE IT'S A FULFILLMENT OF THAT SCRIPTURE
• 23:05 THAT THE IMMIGRANTS ARE COMING FROM THE NORTH COUNTRY.
• 23:07 IT'S AN EXODUS EVEN GREATER THAN THE EXODUS TO EGYPT IN TERMS OF THE NUMBERS INVOLVED
• 23:11 AND IN TERMS OF, TO ME, THE MIRACULOUS EVENTS,
• 23:14 THE COLLAPSE OF THE SOVIET UNION AND THE COMPLETE RELEASE OF THE SOVIET JEWS TO COME,
• 23:19 EASTERN EUROPE BEING FREED FROM COMMUNISM.
• 23:21 UNBELIEVABLE, MIRACULOUS EVENTS HAVE TAKEN PLACE
• 23:24 ALL INVOLVING AROUND THE RELEASE OF THE SOVIET JEWS.
• 23:26 I THINK ITS GREATER THAN EXODUS TO EGYPT IN MANY WAYS.
• 23:28 ♪SHORE TO DISTANT SHORE.
• 23:32 ♪ALWAYS AS OF YORE, ♪YOURS FOREVERMORE.
• 23:39 ♪NOW THAT WE'VE COME, LORD, ♪NOW THAT WE'RE HOME, LORD,
• 23:47 ♪STRETCH OUT YOUR ARM ♪AND PROTECT US.
• 23:55 ♪SHIELD US FROM DANGER, ♪QUIET THE STRANGER.
• 24:02 ♪SEND OUR MESSIAH AND ♪WE'LL TRULY BE HOME.
• 24:24 MY HEART STILL THRILLS WHEN I THINK HOW THE LORD
• 24:28 IS BRINGING JEWISH PEOPLE FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD BACK TO THE ANCESTRAL HOMELAND.
• 24:35 INDIVIDUALS WHO THEMSELVES WERE DESPISED, REJECTED IN THE WORLD AT LARGE.
• 24:41 THE LORD IN HIS WORD SAYS THROUGH ISAIAH
• 24:43 THAT THE COASTLANDS FROM THE COASTLANDS THEY WILL COME IN ISAIAH CHAPTER 60.
• 24:49 SO IT IS AS WELL, IN AS MUCH AS THE JEWISH PEOPLE GENERALLY
• 24:53 HAVE HAD SOME BEING DESPISED AND REJECTED TO CONTEND WITH,
• 24:56 THE QUINTESSENTIAL JEW IN THE WORLD, JESUS HIMSELF,
• 24:59 WE'RE TOLD IN ISAIAH WAS TO BE DESPISED AND REJECTED BY MEN.
• 25:04 SANDRA, IT SEEMS TO ME THAT GOD CAN HAVE A WAY WHERE PEOPLE HAVE A TOUGH START,
• 25:08 BUT STILL THEY REBOUND FROM IT BECAUSE GOD'S GOT A PLAN.
• 25:12 WHAT DO YOU THINK?
• 25:16 GOD HAS THE PLAN AND HOW MANY TIMES HAVE WE SEEN THE PLAN
• 25:20 AND IT DIDN'T MAKE SENSE TO ANY OF US AND IN THE END IT'S BEAUTIFUL.
• 25:23 I LOVE ISAIAH 6:8 WHERE IT SAYS,
• 25:35 SOMEBODY FELT THE NEED TO GO AND GET THESE PEOPLE.
• 25:41 "SEND ME" I THINK IS JUST A BEAUTIFUL THOUGHT TO HELP THE JEWISH PEOPLE COME BACK HOME.
• 25:45 IT'S ENCOURAGING TOO BECAUSE TODAY THERE'S A STIRRING.
• 25:48 ABSOLUTELY.THERE'S A LOT OF ANTI-SEMITISM IN THE WORLD.
• 25:50 THERE'S A LOT OF PEOPLE THAT DON'T LIKE JESUS IN THE WORLD.
• 25:52 THERE'S A LOT OF PEOPLE THAT DON'T LIKE JEWS IN THE WORLD.
• 25:56 THAT'S THE BAD NEWS.THE GOOD NEWS IS THAT THERE IS A STIRRING.
• 25:59 THERE ARE INDIVIDUALS.THERE IS AN ARMY THAT GOD IS RAISING UP
• 26:03 TO PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM, THAT SEES GOD'S HAND
• 26:07 IN BRINGING THE JEWISH PEOPLE BACK TO THE ANCESTRAL HOMELAND,
• 26:11 THAT SEES JESUS IN THE OLD TESTAMENT. THAT'S A WONDERFUL STORY.
• 26:15 BUT YOU THINK ABOUT WHEN WE GO TO ISRAEL HOW WE FEEL THAT IT'S OUR HOME.
• 26:20 WE DON'T TO LEAVE EITHER.CAN YOU IMAGINE THESE PEOPLE HAVING BEEN PERSECUTED,
• 26:25 HAVING BEEN MALIGNED AND BEING ABLE TO REALLY TRULY GO HOME.
• 26:29 HAS TO BE JUST A WONDERFUL, WONDERFUL FEELING FOR THEM.
• 26:35 I WANT TO THANK EVERYONE AGAIN FOR YOUR PRAYERS, FOR YOUR THOUGHTS, FOR YOUR SUPPORT.
• 26:37 IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT IN THESE END TIMES.
• 26:42 AND REMEMBER SHA'ALU SHALOM YERUSHALAYIM PRAY OR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM.