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Caption transcript for The Messianic Miracle: “Revival in America and Israel” with Dr. Michael Brown (1/4)

• 00:09 WHO'D EVER THINK WE'D BE ALIVE TO SEE THE AMAZING DAY
• 00:13 WHEN GOD WOULD AGAIN VISIT HIS PEOPLE IN A VERY SPECIAL WAY?
• 00:18 THIS IS THE DAY...
• 00:20 AND THIS IS THE WAY THAT ZOLA LEVITT PRESENTS...
• 00:23 "THE MIRACLE OF THE MODERN MESSIANIC JEWISH REVIVAL"
• 00:30 HEARTY SHALOM TO ALL OF YOU.
• 00:32 JEFFREY SEIF HERE
• 00:33 PLEASED TO WELCOME YOU AGAIN
• 00:35 TO ANOTHER EDITION OF
• 00:36 ZOLA LEVITT PRESENTS.
• 00:38 THIS TIME PRESENTING THE MIRACLE OF THE MESSIANIC REVIVAL...
• 00:43 WHAT A STORY!
• 00:45 YOU'RE GOING TO LOVE IT.
• 00:47 AND YOU'RE GOING TO GO WITH ME NOW
• 00:48 TO BARUCH HASHEM CONGREGATION IN NORTH DALLAS,
• 00:52 ONE OF THE GREATEST MESSIANIC COMMUNITIES IN THE WORLD.
• 00:56 I'M THERE MINISTERING...
• 00:57 YOU'LL SEE THAT IN A MOMENT OR TWO...
• 00:59 ME WITH A YAMAKA AND A "TALLIS", THE PRAYER SHAWL...
• 01:02 IT'S PART OF THE EXPERIENCE OF BEING JEWISH.
• 01:05 MANY PEOPLE LOVE JEWISH THINGS AND LOVE YESHUA THERE AT BARUCH HASHEM AND ALL OVER THE WORLD.
• 01:10 OFF WE GO NOW TO LOOK AT THAT AND MORE.
• 01:16 WHO IN THE WORLD DO YOU THINK YOU ARE?
• 01:22 OR...
• 01:24 WHO IN THE WORLD DO WE THINK THAT WE ARE?
• 01:31 WELL WHO'S THE "WE"?
• 01:35 MESSIANIC JEWS ARE CONSTITUTED BY VARIOUS SORTS,
• 01:40 ONE OF WHICH, ARE INDIVIDUALS LIKE MYSELF WHO HAVE JEWISH EXTRACT ORIGINALLY.
• 01:46 AND WE WRESTLE WITH THE QUESTION NOW...
• 01:51 WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE ON THE ONE HAND
• 01:54 WHILE WITH THE JESUS PEOPLE ON THE OTHER?
• 01:58 WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE BUT WITH THE JESUS PEOPLE?
• 02:07 JEWISH INDIVIDUALS THAT WRESTLE WITH THAT QUESTION ANSWER IT DIFFERENTLY
• 02:13 BUT THE THING THAT UNITES US
• 02:14 IS WE'RE ALL GAME TO TINKER WITH THE QUESTION,
• 02:18 SO MESSIANIC JEWS ARE IN PART CONSTITUTED BY INDIVIDUALS
• 02:23 THAT ARE LOOKING TO SCRATCH THAT PARTICULAR ITCH.
• 02:27 THEOLOGY HAS BEEN DESCRIBED BY THE DICTUM
• 02:29 "FIDES QUAERENS INTELLECTUM"...
• 02:32 "FAITH IN SEARCH OF UNDERSTANDING".
• 02:34 THERE ARE INDIVIDUALS THAT ARE MINDED TO WANT TO SORT THAT OUT.
• 02:38 SIMILARLY MESSIANIC JEWISH PARTICIPANTS...
• 02:41 THERE ARE THOSE OF NON-JEWISH EXTRACT
• 02:45 THAT ARE OURSELVES WORKING WITH OTHER KINDS OF RELATED QUESTIONS
• 02:52 LIKE...
• 02:54 WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE "GRAFTED-IN" TO JEWISH COMMUNAL EXPERIENCE?
• 02:58 AS PER ROMANS, CHAPTER 11, VERSES 11 THROUGH 25,
• 03:03 AND...
• 03:04 WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE FELLOW CITIZENS WITH THE JEWISH PEOPLE?
• 03:07 AS PER EPHESIANS, CHAPTER 2, VERSES 1 THROUGH 22.
• 03:11 THERE ARE INDIVIDUALS THAT ARE CONCERNED WITH THAT STORY
• 03:15 BECAUSE WHEN WE READ THE "B'RIT HADASHAH", THE NEW TESTAMENT,
• 03:20 THEREIN THE APOSTLE TO INDIVIDUALS OF NON-JEWISH EXTRACT PRINCIPALLY
• 03:23 ADVOCATES FOR SOME KIND OF BEING CONNECTED TO THE JEWISH PEOPLE.
• 03:28 WHILE WE INHABIT IN A WORLD THAT ACCENTUATES THE DISCONNECT...
• 03:32 "WHILE THERE ARE JEWS OVER HERE..."
• 03:34 "THERE'S CHRISTIANS OVER THERE"
• 03:35 ..."NEVER SHALL THE TWAIN MEET"
• 03:37 WHILE WE MIGHT HAVE INHABITED THAT REAL ESTATE,
• 03:39 SOME OF US OPENED UP THE BIBLE
• 03:41 AND WE SEE ANOTHER KIND OF VISION CAST THEREIN.
• 03:45 WHEN WE LOOK AT THE YESHUA STORY, THE JESUS STORY,
• 03:48 WE SEE INTRINSIC RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN JEWS AND JESUS
• 03:51 AND WHEN WE LOOK AT THE BIRTH OF THE GOSPEL STORY BEYOND ISRAEL'S BORDERS
• 03:56 WE HEAR THE PRINCIPAL ADVOCATE OF THAT STORY
• 03:59 TALKING ABOUT CONNECTION, NOT DISCONNECTION DISTAIN.
• 04:04 MESSIANIC JEWS ON THE ONE HAND ARE INDIVIDUALS OF JEWISH EXTRACT
• 04:08 THAT ARE WORKING WITH THE QUESTIONS,
• 04:09 THERE ARE INDIVIDUALS THAT ARE OF NON-JEWISH EXTRACT
• 04:12 THAT ARE LOOKING TO WORK WITH THE GRAFTED-IN FELLOW HEIRS AND CITIZENSHIP QUESTION.
• 04:16 I MIGHT ADD THERE ARE SCORES OF INDIVIDUALS
• 04:19 WHO THOUGH RAISED AS CHRISTIANS
• 04:21 DISCOVER IN THE PROCESS THAT THERE'S JEWISH BLOOD IN THE VEIN;
• 04:27 THERE'S A JEWISH NARRATIVE IN THE FAMILY THOUGH HUSHED FOR YEARS.
• 04:32 MESSIANIC JEWS THEN ARE CONSTITUTED IN PART
• 04:35 BY INDIVIDUALS THAT ARE GAME TO EXPLORE.
• 04:38 WHAT DOES THAT ALL MEAN?
• 04:41 THERE'S SOMETHING OF A REBIRTH...
• 04:44 A RENAISSANCE WITHIN THE INDIVIDUAL.
• 04:47 IN ORDER TO EXPERIENCE AND EXPLORE THAT
• 04:50 INDIVIDUALS PARTICIPATE IN THE MESSIANIC JEWISH WORLD.
• 04:54 AND BEYOND THOSE BY THE WAY
• 04:56 WHO OPT TO PARTICIPATE COMMUNALLY IN THE MESSIANIC JEWISH EXPERIENCE.
• 05:03 THE CONGREGATIONAL MOVEMENT IS THE TIP OF AN ENORMOUS ICEBERG.
• 05:10 BEYOND THE CAMPUSES OF MESSIANIC CONGREGATIONS ALL OVER THE WORLD
• 05:14 THERE ARE INDIVIDUALS IN CHRISTIAN CHURCHES
• 05:17 THAT ARE LOVERS OF ZION
• 05:20 THAT PRAYERFULLY AND CAREFULLY LIFT US UP AND HELP,
• 05:23 THAT CHEER US ON...
• 05:26 INDIVIDUALS THAT ARE THRILLED.
• 05:29 RECENTLY I VISITED A FAMILY,
• 05:31 SONJA AND DENNIS,
• 05:33 NOT OF JEWISH EXTRACT THEMSELVES,
• 05:35 WENT TO THE HOME AND SONJA HAD A STAR OF DAVID AROUND HER NECK,
• 05:41 THERE'S A SHOFAR ON TOP OF HER REFRIGERATOR,
• 05:45 THERE'S A MENORAH RIGHT NEXT TO HER CHINA IN THE CHINA CABINET...
• 05:49 AN ABSOLUTE LOVER OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE.
• 05:52 THERE ARE HUNDREDS AND HUNDREDS
• 05:54 AND HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS...
• 05:55 WE ARE NOT ALONE.
• 05:59 SO... (PEOPLE CHEERING AND CLAPPING)
• 06:06 WHILE DAVID STERN'S "RABBI"
• 06:10 AND I CAN UNDERSTAND WHY HE WOULD THINK THE WAY HE DID
• 06:13 WHILE HE SAID THERE'S A CHRISTIAN CHAIR ON THE ONE HAND
• 06:16 AND A JEWISH CHAIR ON THE OTHER...
• 06:17 IN THE 80'S HE SAID THERE IS NO PLACE IN-BETWEEN.
• 06:21 IT SEEMS TO ME THAT A PLACE IN-BETWEEN IS ON THE RISE.
• 06:26 IT'S WHAT I CALL A MIRACLE IN MODERNITY.
• 06:31 SO...
• 06:32 WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE?
• 06:38 WELL FOR MY MONEY
• 06:41 IRRESPECTIVE OF OUR VARIOUS BACKGROUNDS AND ROLES
• 06:46 WE ARE ALL PARTICIPANTS IN THE REVIVAL OF MESSIANIC JEWISH EXPERIENCE AND UNDERSTANDING
• 06:54 AND THUS BY ASSOCIATION
• 06:56 WE ARE ALL PARTICIPATING IN WHAT I CONSTRUE TO BE AN ABSOLUTE MODERN MARVEL.
• 07:06 THE MESSIANIC MOVEMENT IS VERY NEW
• 07:09 AND I RAISE A VARIETY OF QUESTIONS
• 07:11 AND YOU'LL BE HEARING THEM AS WE GO ON
• 07:12 AS I AM TRYING TO EXPLORE WITH YOU...
• 07:14 WHAT ON GOD'S EARTH IS GOD DOING?
• 07:16 WE'RE GOING TO HEAR FROM MICHAEL BROWN NOW,
• 07:18 AN EXPERT IN HIS OWN RIGHT AND A GOOD FRIEND OF MINE,
• 07:21 AS HE HELPS US TO EXPLORE THE MESSIANIC REVIVAL.
• 07:27 DR. MICHAEL BROWN I AM THRILLED THAT YOU ARE HERE WITH US TODAY.
• 07:30 GLAD TO BE WITH YOU JEFF.
• 07:32 NOW I WANT TO TALK ABOUT YESTERDAY TO BEGIN WITH.
• 07:33 WE'RE LOOKING AT THE MESSIANIC REVIVAL,
• 07:35 THE MIRACLE OF JEWISH PEOPLE COMING TO FAITH...
• 07:38 INITIALLY IN BIBLE DAYS ALL JEWS...CORRECT?
• 07:40 YES, WHEN WE THINK OF THE BOOK OF ACTS...
• 07:43 IF WE WERE BACK THERE,
• 07:45 TRANSPORTED BACK
• 07:46 FOR MOST OF US IT WOULD BE VERY JARRING
• 07:48 BECAUSE THE FIRST BELIEVERS WERE SO JEWISH...
• 07:50 THE WHOLE SETTING WAS SO JEWISH.
• 07:51 ONE OF THE THINGS THAT IS REALLY EYE-OPENING TO ME
• 07:53 IS THIS PETER WHO IS MIGHTILY USED BY GOD IN THE BOOK OF ACTS.
• 07:56 HE NEEDS A VISION FROM GOD...
• 07:58 A SUPERNATURAL CONFORMATION
• 08:00 TO SEND THEM EVEN INTO THE HOME OF A GENTILE.
• 08:03 HE DIDN'T WANT TO GO.
• 08:04 NO...
• 08:06 HE WAS NEUROTIC ABOUT IT.
• 08:07 IT WAS DIFFERENT FOR HIM
• 08:09 AND FOR SURE HE HADN'T EATEN ANYTHING THAT WAS UN-KOSHER AT THAT POINT FOR BIBLICAL STANDARDS.
• 08:12 BUT THE THING THAT'S SO EXCEPTIONAL IS NOT THAT HE WAS JEWISH...
• 08:16 OF COURSE HE WAS JEWISH...
• 08:17 HIS JEWISH ROOTS...
• 08:18 JEWISH MESSIAH, JEWISH PROPHETS,
• 08:19 JEWISH LAW, JEWISH SETTING,
• 08:21 WHY WOULDN'T IT BE JEWISH?
• 08:22 THE THING THAT WAS SO EXTRAORDINARY
• 08:24 WAS THAT THE HOLY SPIRIT WAS POURED OUT.
• 08:25 THE DAYS THAT JOEL SPOKE ABOUT...
• 08:27 SO IMPORTANT...
• 08:28 IN JOEL, CHAPTER 2, VERSE 28 IT SAYS,
• 08:37 PETER QUOTES IT IN ACTS, CHAPTER 2, VERSE 17 AND HE SAYS,
• 08:44 PETER ADDS THOSE WORDS,
• 08:45 "IN THE LAST DAYS"
• 08:47 TO SAY "THIS IS IT!"...
• 08:48 THIS IS THE IN BREAKING OF THAT PROMISED TIME...
• 08:50 THE MESSIAH HAS COME,
• 08:52 HE'S DIED,
• 08:53 HE'S RISEN FROM THE DEAD AND HE SENDS HIS SPIRIT.
• 08:55 AND THAT'S WHY YOU HAD THIS INCREDIBLY EXPLOSIVE GROWTH.
• 08:58 WE DON'T KNOW HOW MANY TENS OF THOUSANDS...
• 09:00 HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF JEWS CAME TO FAITH IN THAT FIRST CENTURY
• 09:04 BUT SOME HISTORIANS PUT THE NUMBER WAY, WAY UP THERE
• 09:07 OF JEWS WHO WERE MASSIVELY SWEPT INTO THE KINGDOM.
• 09:10 THE SPIRIT CAME AND EVERYTHING CHANGED.
• 09:13 YES AND WITH THE PASSAGE OF TIME
• 09:15 AS WE EXTEND OUT IN TIME
• 09:17 AND EXTEND OUT IN MILES
• 09:19 IT SEEMS THAT MANY LOST SIGHT OF THE JEWISH ROOTS OF THE MOVEMENT
• 09:22 AND THE MOVEMENT BECAME UN-JEWISH,
• 09:25 NON-JEWISH AND ANTI-JEWISH EVENTUALLY.
• 09:27 IT'S RATHER TRAGIC CORRECT?
• 09:29 IF YOU HAD SOMEONE THAT HAD WATCHED ZOLA SHOW FOR YEARS
• 09:32 AND NOW WATCHING YOU
• 09:34 AS YOU'RE ON EVERY WEEK...
• 09:35 AND THEN THEY DIDN'T SEE IT FOR TEN YEARS
• 09:37 AND THEY COME BACK UP
• 09:38 AND THERE'S A NEW HOST
• 09:40 AND THEY CHANGE THE NAME
• 09:41 AND THE SHOW GETS UP EVERY WEEK AND BASHES ISRAEL
• 09:44 AND ITS AN ISLAMIC PROGRAM
• 09:46 AND YOU SAY...
• 09:47 WHAT HAPPENED?...
• 09:48 THIS IS NOT THE ZOLA...
• 09:49 WHAT HAPPENED?
• 09:50 WELL IT'S ALMOST AS EXTREME WHAT HAPPENED WITH THE EARLY CHURCH...
• 09:53 SO JEWISH...
• 09:55 SO MUCH IN KEEPING WITH THE FULFILLMENT OF WHAT WAS WRITTEN IN THE OLD TESTAMENT...
• 10:00 THE PROMISED MESSIAH HAS COME.
• 10:01 AND THEN A FEW CENTURY'S GO BY
• 10:04 AND THERE ARE NOW DECREES MADE
• 10:06 THAT WE HAVE TO SEPARATE FROM EVERYTHING JEWISH...
• 10:08 THERE ARE DECREES IN THE MIDDLE AGES UNDER CATHOLICISM IN ITS WORST FORM
• 10:13 FOR A JEW TO BE BAPTIZED...
• 10:15 HE HAD TO RENOUNCE ANY CONNECTION TO ANYTHING JEWISH...
• 10:18 HE HAD TO SAY I'M GOING TO EAT PORK..
• 10:21 AND I'M GOING TO WORSHIP MARY...
• 10:23 HOW IN THE WORLD DID THIS HAPPEN?
• 10:24 ...YOU'RE JARRING!
• 10:25 YOU DEVELOPED THAT IN YOUR BOOK
• 10:27 "OUR HANDS ARE STAINED WITH BLOOD" CORRECT?
• 10:29 YES
• 10:30 AND WE'RE GOING TO GET YOUR WEBSITE UP
• 10:32 WHERE PEOPLE CAN GO TO IT AND GET THAT BOOK AND MORE.
• 10:35 YOU'VE WRITTEN A NUMBER.
• 10:37 OKAY, THAT WAS THEN.
• 10:39 LET'S TALK ABOUT NOW FOR A SECOND.
• 10:40 LET'S FAST-FORWARD THE TAPE...
• 10:42 JEWS TURNED ON TO JESUS...
• 10:44 OKAY...
• 10:45 THE WAY WERE.
• 10:46 BUT NOW TODAY...
• 10:48 SEVENTIES...
• 10:49 SOMETHING HAPPENED...
• 10:50 IT GOT YOU INVOLVED AND ME.
• 10:51 WHAT'S THAT ALL ABOUT?
• 10:52 YEAH IT'S AN EXTRAORDINARY THING.
• 10:54 ON THE ONE HAND A LOT OF PEOPLE HAVE HEARD ABOUT THE JESUS PEOPLE MOVEMENT
• 10:57 IT WAS FRONT PAGE TIME MAGAZINE JUNE OF 1971 COVER STORY...
• 11:01 JESUS REVOLUTION...
• 11:02 HIPPIES, RADICALS,
• 11:04 REBELS GETTING SAVED FROM ALL AROUND THE WORLD.
• 11:06 BUT THE STORY BEHIND THE STORY
• 11:08 WAS THAT A DISPROPORTIONATE NUMBER OF THOSE PEOPLE WERE JEWS...
• 11:12 GOD WAS SAYING "IT'S TIME"...
• 11:13 HE STILL WORKING AROUND THE WORLD
• 11:15 BUT HE'S ACCELERATING HIS WORK ...
• 11:16 MORE AND MORE GENTILES COMING TO FAITH IN THE LAST 50 YEARS PROBABLY
• 11:20 THAN COMBINED ALL CHURCH HISTORY BEFORE THAT.
• 11:22 BUT ALONG WITH THAT THIS JEWISH HARVEST RISING, GROWING...
• 11:26 AND...
• 11:28 IT'S RECOVERING ITS ROOTS.
• 11:29 ITS SAYING,
• 11:31 YOU KNOW I DON'T SEE IN THE NEW TESTAMENT
• 11:32 THAT SUNDAY HAS BECOME THE SABBATH
• 11:34 AND THAT I'M NOT ALLOWED TO HAVE SATURDAY SABBATH.
• 11:36 I DON'T SEE THAT I'M SUPPOSED TO HAVE AN EASTER EGG HUNT
• 11:39 WHEN INSTEAD I CAN HAVE THE CELEBRATION
• 11:42 OF THE DEATH AND RESURRECTION OF JEWISH, YESHUA WITHIN THE PASSOVER.
• 11:45 THOSE IDEAS WERE COMPLETELY FOREIGN TO ME WHEN I GOT SAVED IN 1971.
• 11:49 SO THE GOOD NEWS IS
• 11:51 THAT JEWISH PEOPLE COME TO FAITH MIRACULOUSLY AS A REVIVAL MOVE
• 11:54 BUT WITH THAT WE BRING OUR OWN ISSUES, BAGGAGE AND QUESTIONS
• 11:58 AND START TO PUT QUESTIONS...
• 12:00 WHAT IS THIS THAT WE CALL CHRISTIANITY TODAY
• 12:03 THAT'S PICKED UP PAGAN BAGGAGE
• 12:05 AND WHAT MIGHT IT LOOK LIKE INITIALLY?
• 12:07 AND OUT OF THOSE QUESTIONS EVOLVES THE MESSIANIC JEWISH EXPERIENCE.
• 12:11 LOOK I'M ETERNALLY GRATEFUL TO MY GENTILE BROTHERS AND SISTERS,
• 12:15 MY CHURCH FRIENDS THAT LED ME TO JESUS.
• 12:17 I AM TOTALLY AT HOME ON A SUNDAY MORNING CHURCH SERVICE
• 12:20 WHERE PEOPLE LOVE JESUS AND WORSHIP AND HONOR HIM
• 12:23 BUT I'M TOTALLY AT HOME IN A SEVENTH DAY SABBATH MESSIANIC JEWISH SERVICE
• 12:27 WHERE PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT YESHUA THE MESSIAH.
• 12:29 WHEN I WAS SAVED NO ONE HEARD OF SUCH A THING.
• 12:32 NOW IT'S BECOMING COMMON PLACE.
• 12:34 IN FACT EVEN GENTILES ARE SAYING,
• 12:36 "HEY, I WONDER WHAT ABOUT THE SEVENTH DAY SABBATH?"
• 12:38 WELL LISTEN THERE'S SO MUCH TO WONDER ABOUT.
• 12:41 WE'RE WORKING THROUGH THIS SERIES
• 12:43 AND WE'RE JUST BEGINNING HERE
• 12:45 TO EXPLORE THE MIRACLE OF THE MESSIANIC JEWISH EXPERIENCE.
• 12:49 DR. BROWN HOW BOUT WE DO THIS AGAIN IN TWO WEEKS?
• 12:52 YOU COME ON BACK.
• 12:53 WE WANT TO HEAR MORE.
• 12:55 WITH JOY
• 12:56 SUCH A BLESSING... SUCH AN EXPERT...
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• 14:25 TALK ABOUT NEWS...
• 14:26 WE LIKE TO LOOK AT THE GOOD NEWS THROUGH THE EYES OF THE JEWS
• 14:29 AND THE LATE ZOLA LEVITT WROTE
• 14:31 "JESUS, THE JEW'S JEW".
• 14:34 HOW'S THAT FOR A TITLE?
• 14:35 MOST PEOPLE DON'T TALK ABOUT THE JEWISH ROOTS OF YESHUA JESUS
• 14:38 BUT WE'RE ALL ABOUT THAT
• 14:40 AND IF YOU WANT TO HEAR IT...
• 14:41 NOT JUST READ IT...
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• 14:46 SPEAKING OF COMING UP...
• 14:48 GOOD FRIEND OF MINE...
• 14:49 RABBI MARTY WALDMAN IS HERE WITH US,
• 14:52 ONE OF THE LEADERS IN THE MESSIANIC JEWISH REVIVAL.
• 14:56 MARTY...GOD BLESS YOU.
• 14:58 GOOD TO SEE YOU.
• 14:59 THANK YOU JEFF.
• 15:00 IT'S WONDERFUL TO SEE YOU.
• 15:02 YOU WERE THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNION OF MESSIANIC JEWISH CONGREGATIONS WEREN'T YOU?
• 15:06 I WAS FOR FOUR YEARS.
• 15:08 AND WHEN PROMISE KEEPERS HAD A MILLION PEOPLE OUT THERE ON THE MALL AND MOSH OF WASHINGTON
• 15:12 YOU WERE ONE THAT STOOD UP AND REPRESENTED US.
• 15:14 I DID.
• 15:16 AND YOU LEAD ONE OF THE LARGEST MESSIANIC CONGREGATIONS IN THE WORLD TOO DON'T YOU?
• 15:21 WELL...
• 15:23 ONE OF...
• 15:24 I'M NOT JUST BLOWING STARDUST IN YOUR FACE
• 15:26 BUT I WANT OUR VIEWERS TO KNOW THAT WERE TALKING WITH SOMEONE SIGNIFICANT.
• 15:28 YES IT'S LARGE.
• 15:30 NOT TO BOAST
• 15:31 BUT TO BOAST IN THE LORD.
• 15:32 SO YOU REALLY ARE AN AUTHORITY OF THE MESSIANIC JEWISH REVIVAL.
• 15:36 CAN YOU EXPLAIN THAT IN A MOMENT?
• 15:37 WHAT IS THIS THING ...JEWS FOR JESUS?
• 15:39 WHAT'S THAT?
• 15:41 A NUMBER OF YEARS AGO
• 15:42 GOD BEGAN TO POUR OUT HIS HOLY SPIRIT UPON JEWISH PEOPLE IN THE JEWISH COMMUNITY
• 15:46 MANY OF WHOM SUPERNATURALLY BEGIN TO TURN THEIR HEARTS TO YESHUA
• 15:51 AND REALIZED THAT HE IS OUR TRUE MESSIAH.
• 15:53 AND SO AFTER A PERIOD OF TIME
• 15:56 THERE WAS ENOUGH ACCUMULATION OF JEWISH PEOPLE
• 15:58 WHO CAME TO FAITH IN YESHUA AND FOLLOWED HIM AS OUR MESSIAH
• 16:02 THAT WE BEGAN TO FORM CONGREGATIONS.
• 16:05 AND THOSE CONGREGATIONS NEEDED TO COME TOGETHER
• 16:08 AND THERE WERE UNIONS FORMED
• 16:10 AND ORGANIZATIONS FORMED TO HELP US HANG TOGETHER.
• 16:12 NOW WE'RE GOING TO PUT UP A WEBSITE ADDRESS
• 16:15 AS PEOPLE MIGHT WANT TO VISIT MESSIANIC CONGREGATIONS
• 16:18 AND THEY CAN GO TO AND FIND THEM ALL OVER THE COUNTRY
• 16:21 AND ALL OVER THE WORLD.
• 16:22 HOW MANY JEWISH BELIEVERS IN YESHUA ARE THERE MARTY?
• 16:24 IT DEPENDS ON WHO YOU TALK TO.
• 16:26 I JUST RECENTLY VISITED ONE WEBSITE
• 16:28 THAT DECLARED THERE WERE 350,000 JEWISH PEOPLE WHO BELIEVE IN JESUS OR YESHUA.
• 16:34 BUT THAT WAS AN ORTHODOX JEWISH WEBSITE.
• 16:38 I WOULD SAY THAT BECAUSE THEY CONSIDER A JEWISH PERSON HAVING A JEWISH MOTHER
• 16:43 AND NOT ONLY A JEWISH FATHER AND GENTILE MOTHER
• 16:48 THAT THAT NUMBER MAY ACTUALLY BE DOUBLE,
• 16:51 PERHAPS EVEN TRIPLE.
• 16:53 THERE MAY BE EVEN A MILLION JEWISH PEOPLE TODAY
• 16:55 WHO BELIEVE THAT YESHUA IS OUR MESSIAH...
• 16:59 THE MESSIAH OF ISRAEL.
• 17:00 AND RABBI WE WANT YOU TO TELL US MORE ABOUT THAT.
• 17:03 RIGHT NOW JASON SOBEL, A YOUNG MESSIANIC LEADER,
• 17:06 WILL SPEAK TO US ABOUT THE MIRACLE THAT IS THE MESSIANIC JEWISH REVIVAL.
• 17:12 SHALOM.
• 17:14 MY NAME IS RABBI JASON SOBEL
• 17:16 AND I'M EXCITED ABOUT THE FUTURE OF THE MESSIANIC JEWISH MOVEMENT
• 17:20 AND WHAT GOD IS DOING.
• 17:22 I BELIEVE THAT WE ARE LIVING IN A "MO'AD", AN APPOINTED TIME.
• 17:26 YESHUA JESUS SAID,
• 17:27 WHAT CAN A SCRIBE WHO UNDERSTANDS THE KINGDOM OF GOD BE COMPARED TO?
• 17:32 LIKE A HOUSEHOLDER THAT BRINGS FORTH BOTH NEW AND OLD TREASURES.
• 17:37 MESSIANIC JUDAISM IS THE COMING TOGETHER OF THE NEW AND THE OLD TREASURES.
• 17:43 THE SCRIBE WHO HAD BEEN WELL VERSED AND TRAINED IN THE TORAH
• 17:47 AND OF THE JEWISH ROOTS,
• 17:48 THE TRADITIONS,
• 17:49 THE FOUNDATIONS OF THE FAITH
• 17:51 BUT A TRUE SCRIBE,
• 17:53 A SCRIBE FOR THE MALKUTA SHMAYA,
• 17:55 THE SCRIBE FOR THE KINGDOM,
• 17:56 ALSO UNDERSTOOD THE PURPOSE AND POWER OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD
• 18:02 AND UNDERSTOOD HOW THAT IS LIVED OUT AND DEMONSTRATED
• 18:06 IN THE LIFE OF THOSE WHO FOLLOW THE MESSIAH OF ISRAEL.
• 18:10 THE MESSIANIC JUDAISM IS NEVER SETTLING FOR HALF AN INHERITANCE.
• 18:15 WE NEED BOTH THE NEW AND THE OLD.
• 18:18 WHEN THERE IS A FUSION BETWEEN OLD AND NEW,
• 18:21 BETWEEN "RUACH" AND "EMET", SPIRIT AND TRUTH,
• 18:25 WHEN THERE IS A COMING TOGETHER OF THE ROOTS AND SHOOTS
• 18:29 THIS ACCELERATES AND ADVANCES THE MALKUTA SHMAYA,
• 18:33 THE KINGDOM OF GOD ON EARTH AS IT IS IN HEAVEN.
• 18:36 THIS MEANS TORAH AND BESORAH,
• 18:40 THE OLD AND THE NEW COVENANT COMING TOGETHER.
• 18:42 THIS MEANS JEWS WHO FOLLOWED THE MESSIAH OF ISRAEL IN COVENANTAL FAITHFULNESS.
• 18:48 AND THEIR FAITH IN YESHUA MAKES THEM BETTER JEWS
• 18:52 AND IS A TESTIMONY TO BOTH JEW AND GENTILE OF THE REALITY OF THE MESSIAH OF ISRAEL.
• 18:58 IT'S OPERATING LIVING TORAH IN THE SPIRIT AND THE POWER OF GOD.
• 19:04 IT IS NOT FREEDOM FROM TORAH BUT ITS FREEDOM IN THE TORAH,
• 19:09 AN EMPOWERMENT BY GOD TO LIVE OUT EVERYTHING THAT HE HAS BLESSED OUR FOREFATHERS AND OUR FOREMOTHERS WITH.
• 19:16 IT'S A COMING TOGETHER OF JEW AND GENTILE, WHEN THE ROOTS AND THE SHOOTS CONNECT,
• 19:21 THIS IS ZECHARIAH, CHAPTER 14...
• 19:24 JEW AND GENTILE GOING UP TO JERUSALEM TO WORSHIP.
• 19:28 JEWS AND GENTILES IN MUTUAL LOVE, IN MUTUAL BLESSING...
• 19:32 ENCOURAGING ONE ANOTHER...
• 19:34 GENTILES WANTING TO UNDERSTAND AND LEARN ABOUT THE ROOTS OF THEIR FAITH...
• 19:38 ITS JEWS WANTING TO COME BACK TO THE HERITAGE AND TRADITIONS OF THEIR FATHER
• 19:43 BEING RENEWED IN FAITH THROUGH YESHUA, THE MESSIAH OF ISRAEL.
• 19:48 AS THESE THINGS ADVANCE FORWARD AND JEW AND GENTILE COME TOGETHER
• 19:53 AND LEARN AND BLESS ONE ANOTHER
• 19:55 AND THIS FUSION OCCURS
• 19:57 WE WILL LITERALLY SEE LIFE FROM THE DEAD IN ALL THE WORLD.
• 20:01 THANK YOU.
• 20:03 ...HALLELUJAH♪
• 20:04 ♪WE WORSHIP YOU♪
• 20:07 ♪FOR WHO YOU ARE♪
• 20:12 ♪YOU ARE GOD♪
• 20:15 ♪YES YOU ARE... YES YOU ARE...
• 20:19 WELL THERE'S RABBI JASON.
• 20:20 AND YOU'VE HEARD FROM RABBI WALDMAN
• 20:22 AND YOU'LL BE HEARING FROM RABBI WALDMAN AGAIN.
• 20:25 IN THIS SERIES I WANT TO GIVE YOU A WINDOW INTO THE MESSIANIC REVIVAL.
• 20:30 NOW LET'S CONSIDER THE REVIVAL THAT IS ISRAEL...WHAT A STORY!
• 20:35 GO WITH ME THERE.
• 20:37 MY SUGGESTION...
• 20:38 COME TO ISRAEL, YOU'LL ENJOY IT.
• 20:40 THIS NINE - TEN DAY TRIP HAS TOTALLY REVOLUTIONIZED THE WAY I LOOK AT...
• 20:46 THE PROFOUND MEANING AND THE HISTORY BEHIND EVERYTHING AND...
• 20:49 WE'VE SEEN A LOT OF GREAT THINGS...
• 20:51 WE'VE LEARNED SO MUCH...
• 20:53 WHAT CAN BE MORE SPECIAL THAN COMING TO GOD'S LAND WITH GOD'S PEOPLE?
• 20:56 IF YOU WANT TO FALL IN LOVE WITH ISRAEL AND GOD'S CHOSEN PEOPLE I INVITE YOU TO COME...
• 21:02 YOU WILL NOT BE DISAPPOINTED.
• 21:04 JOIN US IN ISRAEL FOR A TRIP OF A LIFETIME.
• 21:08 BY ALL MEANS...
• 21:10 VISIT ISRAEL
• 21:11 AND VISIT ISRAEL WITH US.
• 21:14 IF YOU CALL 1-800-WONDERS
• 21:17 YOU CAN GET THE BALL ROLLING
• 21:19 AND YOU WILL THEN SPEAK TO TRACIE.
• 21:21 GOOD TO SEE YOU TRACIE.
• 21:22 GOOD TO SEE YOU TOO.
• 21:23 WHAT'S INVOLVED IN GOING TO ISRAEL
• 21:25 FOR PEOPLE THAT ARE INTERESTED?
• 21:26 PEOPLE CALL...
• 21:28 THEY TALK TO ME
• 21:29 AND WE HAVE FOUR DIFFERENT TRIPS THAT WE OFFER.
• 21:31 WE OFFER AN ISRAEL TRIP TEN DAY,
• 21:33 THEY CAN ADD ATHENS,
• 21:34 THEY CAN ADD PETRA
• 21:36 AND RIGHT NOW I AM BOOKING OUR LARGEST TOUR IN THE COMPANY'S 28 YEAR HISTORY.
• 21:40 I'M GLAD TO SEE IT COMING ALIVE
• 21:42 BECAUSE A LOT OF PEOPLE WANT TO GO TO ISRAEL
• 21:44 AND THEY'RE THINKING "LET'S JUST DO IT NOW"
• 21:46 IT'S A GREAT TIME TO GO...YES?
• 21:47 IT IS TOTALLY COMING ALIVE DR. SEIF...
• 21:49 PEOPLE ARE ON FIRE MORE THAN EVER FOR GOD
• 21:52 AND WHEN YOU GO TO ISRAEL
• 21:53 YOU ARE GOING TO DEVELOP AN INTIMACY WITH GOD LIKE YOU NEVER FELT BEFORE
• 21:57 BECAUSE YOU'RE ACTUALLY GOING TO SEE WHERE JESUS WALKED
• 21:59 AND YOUR GOING TO EXPERIENCE HIS PRESENCE IN A NEW AND MIGHTY WAY.
• 22:03 THAT WAS YOUR EXPERIENCE THERE YES? >>IT WAS...
• 22:05 THAT WAS MY PERSONAL EXPERIENCE WHICH REALLY SURPRISED ME
• 22:07 BECAUSE I'VE WORKED IN MINISTRY MY WHOLE LIFE, GONE TO SEMINARY...
• 22:09 BUT THERE'S NOTHING LIKE THE INTIMACY
• 22:11 THAT COMES FROM ACTUALLY BEING IN THE HOLY LAND.
• 22:13 THERE'S NOTHING LIKE WALKING IN THE LAND.
• 22:16 ABSOLUTELY
• 22:17 BY ALL MEANS COME FRIENDS.
• 22:19 AND NOW WE'RE GOING TO HEAR ZOLA LEVITT INTERVIEW A BELIEVER IN THE LAND.
• 22:23 OH THERE'S A REVIVAL OF JESUS PEOPLE COMING TO FAITH
• 22:27 AND THERE ARE VARIOUS COMMUNITIES THAT ARE EMERGENT IN THE WORLD...
• 22:30 IN AMERICA...
• 22:32 IN EUROPE...
• 22:33 OFF WE GO NOW TO HEAR FROM ZOLA LEVITT IN ISRAEL.
• 22:38 I'VE BEEN COMING HERE CLOSE TO 20 YEARS.
• 22:41 THE MESSIANIC BELIEVING
• 22:43 COMMUNITY HAS GROWN
• 22:45 BY LEAPS AND BOUNDS
• 22:46 IT SEEMS TO ME.
• 22:47 IT CERTAINLY HAS.
• 22:48 WHEN WE CAME HERE TO THE CITY OF NETANYA
• 22:50 WE WERE SURE THAT WE WERE THE ONLY BELIEVERS IN THE CITY
• 22:53 AND IT WAS MANY MONTHS BEFORE WE DISCOVERED THAT THERE WERE TWO OR THREE MORE.
• 22:58 BUT FROM THAT TIME 17 YEARS AGO TO THIS
• 23:00 THE ACTUAL CONGREGATION HAS GROWN FROM TWO OR THREE TO ABOUT FORTY.
• 23:06 AND IT'S THE SAME SITUATION ALL OVER THE COUNTRY
• 23:08 AND IN FACT MAYBE FIFTEEN YEARS AGO YOU COULD FIND A HANDFUL OF CONGREGATIONS IN THE COUNTRY...
• 23:15 FIVE...SIX...SEVEN.
• 23:17 NOW THERE'S SOME THIRTY...
• 23:19 ALL OVER THE COUNTRY...
• 23:20 GROUPS OF MESSIANIC JEWS MEETING.
• 23:23 IT WAS ABOUT THAT PERIOD IN TIME
• 23:25 WHEN I WROTE MY BOOK
• 23:26 "THE UNDERGROUND CHURCH OF JERUSALEM"
• 23:27 AND IT REALLY WAS UNDERGROUND.
• 23:29 YOU HAD TO KNOW PEOPLE TO FIND...
• 23:32 IT WAS A DR. ZHIVAGO SITUATION...
• 23:34 WHISPER OVER THE FENCE.
• 23:36 AND NOW SERVICES ARE ANNOUNCED AREN'T THEY?
• 23:40 MANY TIMES WE FIND
• 23:41 OUR DETRACTORS
• 23:43 ANNOUNCING OUR SERVICES
• 23:44 FAR MORE THAN WE ARE ABLE TO.
• 23:46 VERY DIFFICULT FOR US TO GO INTO THE NETANYA LOCAL NEWSPAPER
• 23:49 AND SAY "THIS IS THE MESSIANIC CONGREGATION SERVICES"
• 23:52 BUT THOSE WHO ARE OUR...
• 23:55 WHO ARE THE KIND OF RADICAL FRINGE AGAINST US
• 23:59 USUALLY MAKE THOSE KINDS OF NOISES
• 24:02 AND EVERYBODY KNOWS WHERE WE ARE
• 24:03 AND WHO WE ARE
• 24:04 AND WHAT TIME WE MEET
• 24:05 AND WHAT WE DO WITHIN CERTAIN BOUNDS AND LIMITS.
• 24:10 WELL THAT'S RABBI LODEN IN ISRAEL
• 24:13 AND ONCE AGAIN RABBI WALDMAN IN THE STATES.
• 24:16 GOOD TO SEE YOU MARTY.
• 24:18 GOOD TO SEE YOU JEFF THANKS.
• 24:19 NOW YEARS AGO WHEN ZOLA FILMED THAT
• 24:21 THERE WERE THIRTY SOME MESSIANIC CONGREGATIONS IN ISRAEL.
• 24:23 HOW MANY ARE THERE NOW?
• 24:24 JEFF IT HAS EXPLODED...
• 24:25 THE MESSIANIC MIRACLE CONTAINS THE FACT THAT
• 24:29 THERE ARE NOW APPROXIMATELY
• 24:30 130 MESSIANIC CONGREGATIONS IN ISRAEL.
• 24:33 THAT'S SOMETHING!
• 24:35 THAT IS A MIRACLE.
• 24:36 SOME PEOPLE THINK THAT'S PATHETIC...
• 24:39 THOSE THAT DON'T LIKE JEWISH BELIEVERS IN YESHUA...
• 24:41 BUT SOME THINK IT'S PROPHETIC.
• 24:43 WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT THAT?
• 24:44 IT IS PROPHETIC JEFF
• 24:45 BECAUSE IT HAS BEEN ALMOST 2,000 YEARS
• 24:48 SINCE WE'VE SEEN ANY JEWISH PRESENCE AT ALL IN ISRAEL OF ANY SIGNIFICANCE.
• 24:52 AND IN 1948, AS WE KNOW,
• 24:54 THE STATE OF ISRAEL WAS BORN...
• 24:56 IN 1967 JERUSALEM BECAME THE CAPITAL OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE
• 25:01 AGAIN OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL...
• 25:03 THAT HASN'T HAPPENED IN ALMOST 2,000 YEARS
• 25:05 AND YESHUA SAID IN LUKE, CHAPTER 21,
• 25:08 WHEN YOU SEE THAT HAPPEN
• 25:09 THEN YOU KNOW IT'S NEAR THE END.
• 25:12 AND SO THE GREAT SECRET AND THE GREAT MIRACLE
• 25:14 I THINK THAT'S TAKING PLACE TODAY WHICH IS RELATIVELY UNKNOWN
• 25:18 IS THE RETURN OF THE MESSIANIC JEWS...
• 25:21 THE JEWISH PEOPLE WHO ARE FOLLOWING YESHUA AS OUR MESSIAH.
• 25:24 AND SO NOW WE SEE FROM 1991
• 25:27 APPROXIMATELY 30 CONGREGATIONS GROWN TO TODAY 2010, TO AT LEASE 130.
• 25:35 AND THERE ARE ESTIMATES OF MORE THAN THAT ACTUALLY.
• 25:39 AND IT IS SOMETHING TO BEHOLD AND TO BE PART OF IT.
• 25:44 IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN THE STORY WE'RE GOING TO HAVE SOME WEBSITES UP...
• 25:48 YOU WANT TO CLICK ON THEM AND FIND OUT ABOUT A MESSIANIC CONGREGATION NEAR YOU.
• 25:54 WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT THE LOCAL EXPRESSION OF FAITH IN YESHUA WITH THE JEWISH PERSPECTIVE?
• 25:58 THE LOCAL EXPRESSION IN THE UNITED STATES?...
• 26:00 OR ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD?
• 26:02 YEAH...
• 26:03 THE LOCAL EXPRESSION OF YESHUA IS A NEW PHENOMENON.
• 26:06 AND SO IN SOME WAYS WE'RE FINDING OUR WAY
• 26:08 BUT IN MANY ASPECTS WE ARE ACTUALLY REJECTED BY THE JEWISH COMMUNITY.
• 26:14 IN SOME CIRCLES WE ARE REJECTED BY THE CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY...
• 26:17 AN UNKNOWN ENTITY
• 26:19 AND SOME PEOPLE ARE AFRAID OF US
• 26:21 BUT IT'S A MIRACLE.
• 26:23 THE LORD PROVIDED SOMETHING FOR US THAT WE HAVEN'T SEEN IN SO MANY CENTURIES
• 26:28 AND NOW HERE WE ARE...
• 26:29 WE'RE BACK.
• 26:30 YES AND WHAT IS UNKNOWN WE WANT TO MAKE KNOWN.
• 26:34 STAY TUNED WILL HAVE MORE PROGRAMS TO COME ON THE MESSIANIC REVIVAL.
• 26:39 AND AS YOU GO NOW,
• 26:40 SHA'ALU SHALOM YERUSHALAYIM
• 26:42 PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM