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Caption transcript for The Messianic Miracle: “The ‘Missing Link’ in World Mission and Blessing” with Dr. Erez Soref (4/4)

• 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?
• 00:17 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.
• 00:31 JEFFREY SEIF HERE
• 00:32 PLEASED TO WELCOME YOU AGAIN
• 00:34 TO ANOTHER EDITION OF ZOLA LEVITT PRESENTS.
• 00:36 A FASCINATING SERIES,
• 00:39 THAT'S WHAT WE HAVE ON THE MENU.
• 00:40 WE'RE GIVING A WRAP TO IT NOW
• 00:42 AS WE'RE LOOKING AT THE MODERN MESSIANIC REVIVAL.
• 00:46 I HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK AT ONE OF THE BIGGER, BETTER KNOWN CONGREGATIONS IN THE MOVEMENT,
• 00:51 BARUCH HASHEM CONGREGATION IN NORTH DALLAS.
• 00:55 OFF WE GO THERE NOW AND THEN I'LL COME BACK IN THE STUDIO
• 00:58 AND INTRODUCE YOU TO A NUMBER OF FRIENDS.
• 01:08 WHAT MAKES YOU THINK
• 01:14 THAT YOU'RE SO SPECIAL?
• 01:18 OR...
• 01:19 WHAT MAKES US THINK THAT WE'RE SO SPECIAL?
• 01:26 THE WORD "SPECIAL"
• 01:29 AND THE WORD "SPECIES"
• 01:33 ARE CUT FROM THE VERY SAME LATIN CLOTH.
• 01:39 THE WORD MEANS A PARTICULAR KIND,
• 01:43 A PARTICULAR SPECIES.
• 01:45 IT DOESN'T SPEAK OF BEING BETTER THAN SOMETHING OR SOMEONE.
• 01:52 THE WORD "SPECIAL" HARKS TO A PECULIAR AND DISTINGUISHING CHARACTERISTIC,
• 01:57 SOMETHING THAT MAKES SOMETHING SPECIAL,
• 01:59 NOT BETTER THAN,
• 02:00 BUT DISTINGUISHED FROM.
• 02:02 AND THE WORD "SPECIAL" CONNOTES SOMEONE OR SOMETHING DESIGNATED TO A PARTICULAR TASK
• 02:09 AND THUS "SPECIAL" BY VIRTUE OF THE ASSIGNMENT.
• 02:14 THERE ARE CERTAIN SPECIES THAT ACCOMPLISH CERTAIN THINGS IN ECHO SYSTEMS.
• 02:18 THEY ARE SPECIES THAT ARE SPECIAL ...
• 02:20 A LITTLE PLAY ON WORDS THERE...
• 02:22 AGAIN THEY'RE CUT FROM THE SAME CLOTH.
• 02:24 WELL WHAT MAKES YOU THINK THAT YOU'RE SO SPECIAL?
• 02:30 WHAT STRIKES ME AS "SPECIAL" PERSONALLY IS THE BURDEN THAT GOD HAS PLACED
• 02:38 UPON THE HEARTS OF VARIOUS INDIVIDUALS TO PARTICIPATE
• 02:45 IN THE MODERN DAY MIRACLE OF PIONEERING THE RESURRECTION FROM THE DEAD
• 02:55 OF A DECIDEDLY JEWISH-FRIENDLY, NEW TESTAMENT,
• 03:02 JEWISH-RELATED TESTIMONY AND COMMUNITY.
• 03:08 THAT MAKES US "SPECIAL"...
• 03:11 NOT BETTER THAN OTHERS NECESSARILY,
• 03:14 THOUGH I THINK ITS ALL PRETTY COOL,
• 03:16 THOSE OF US THAT PARTICIPATE IN THIS.
• 03:18 BUT "SPECIAL" IN THE SENSE OF A PARTICULAR SPECIES CALLED TO DO A CERTAIN THING
• 03:23 TO ATTEND TO A PARTICULAR KIND OF BUSINESS.
• 03:27 PERSONALLY I THINK THAT THIS IS SPECIAL
• 03:34 AND I KNOW THAT YOU WHO ARE LISTENING TO ME BELIEVE THIS TO BE THE CASE AS WELL.
• 03:41 AIN'T THAT THE GOD'S HONEST TRUTH?
• 03:44 I BELIEVE WE'RE LIVING IN A TIME, BY THE WAY,
• 03:47 WHEN GOD IS DRAWING INDIVIDUALS TO THE WHOLE MESSIANIC WORLD.
• 03:56 IT MEANS DIFFERENT THINGS TO DIFFERENT PEOPLE.
• 03:58 BUT THE WORD "CALLING" ITSELF AS IN...
• 04:01 "WELL, I FEEL CALLED BROTHER"
• 04:03 THE WORD "CALLING" COMES FROM THE LATIN "VOCATIO"
• 04:07 AND IT'S WHERE YOU GET THE WORD "VOICE".
• 04:11 "VOICE"...
• 04:14 WHEN INDIVIDUALS LOOK WITHIN THERE'S A SENSE IN WHICH THERE ARE CERTAIN PEOPLE THAT FEEL A PARTICULAR BECKONING.
• 04:21 WITHIN THE BREAST THERE'S SOMETHING THAT'S SOMETHING THAT'S PULSATING,
• 04:24 THAT'S MOVING PEOPLE IN DIFFERENT WAYS, DIFFERENT DAYS
• 04:28 TO COME IN ALIGNMENT WITH A SENSE OF WANTING TO PARTICIPATE IN TELLING THIS PARTICULAR STORY
• 04:36 AND ATTENDING TO THIS PARTICULAR KIND OF BUSINESS.
• 04:40 SO...WHAT HAVE WE HERE?
• 04:50 WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE?
• 04:52 WHAT ARE YOU DOING?
• 04:54 WHAT DO YOU HOPE TO ACCOMPLISH?
• 04:57 WHAT MAKES YOU SO SPECIAL?
• 05:04 IN MY OWN WAY
• 05:06 I ENDEAVOR TO UNPACK
• 05:07 SOME OF THAT.
• 05:10 BUT TO BRING CLOSURE TO IT,
• 05:13 THE WAY ILOOK AT IT, SIMPLY PUT...
• 05:15 IS AFTER 2,000 YEARS
• 05:18 ITS DESCRIBED BY THESE TWO WORDS...
• 05:22 "WE'RE BACK!".
• 05:25 (PEOPLE CHEERING, CLAPPING)
• 05:33 DIFFICULTIES NOTWITHSTANDING,
• 05:36 COME HELL OR HIGH WATER,
• 05:38 WE'RE NOT RETREATING,
• 05:39 WE'RE NOT GOING BACKWARD,
• 05:40 WE'RE NOT GOING AWAY.
• 05:43 GOD IS DOING GREAT THINGS IN OUR DAY.
• 05:49 AND I WANT TO THANK YOU
• 05:50 FOR PARTICIPATING IN THIS PARTICULAR MIRACLE.
• 05:57 PARTICIPATING IN BARUCH HASHEM IS ONE OF THE JOYS OF MY LIFE, PERSONALLY.
• 06:01 I GO THERE WHENEVER I CAN...
• 06:03 WHETHER I'M SPEAKING OR NOT MAKES NO DIFFERENCE.
• 06:05 I LOVE SITTING UNDER THE RABBI TO TELL YOU THE TRUTH.
• 06:08 I'M SO THRILLED THAT THE LORD IS RAISING UP LEADERS
• 06:10 AND DR. EREZ SOREF IS VESTED WITH RESPONSIBILITY TO FACILITATE THAT IN ISRAEL.
• 06:15 NOW WE'RE GOING TO HEAR AN INTERVIEW I CONDUCTED WITH DR. SOREF
• 06:18 WHO IS THE PRESIDENT OF THE "ISRAEL COLLEGE OF THE BIBLE".
• 06:23 DR. SOREF IT IS GREAT TO BE WITH YOU AGAIN.
• 06:26 MY PLEASURE
• 06:27 NOW WE CALL YOU DOCTOR
• 06:28 BECAUSE AFTER YOU CAME TO FAITH
• 06:30 YOU WENT TO WHEATON WHERE YOU TOOK A PHD, COUNSELING,
• 06:34 SO YOU ARE ALL ABOUT PENETRATING INTO THE HUMAN CONDITION
• 06:37 AND TRYING TO UNDERSTAND HUMAN EXPERIENCE.
• 06:39 HELP ME UNDERSTAND.
• 06:41 WE'RE LOOKING AT THE UNIQUENESS OF THE MESSIANIC JEWISH MOVEMENT.
• 06:44 IS THERE SOMETHING INSIDE THE HUMAN BREAST WHERE PEOPLE JUST WANT TO BE UNIQUE...PERIOD?
• 06:49 DEFINITELY...
• 06:50 I THINK AS HUMANS,
• 06:51 AT THE HEART OF
• 06:53 HUMAN EXPERIENCE
• 06:54 WE ALL WANT TO BE SPECIAL.
• 06:56 REALLY WHAT IT MEANS IS
• 06:57 WE ARE SEEKING
• 07:00 FOR SIGNIFICANCE.
• 07:02 AS MANY HAVE SAID CENTURIES BEFORE,
• 07:05 THERE'S A HOLE IN THE HUMAN HEART JUST THE SIZE OF GOD
• 07:09 AND THAT IS SOMETHING THAT...PEOPLE TRY TO FILL IT WITH MEANING IN ALL SORTS OF WAYS.
• 07:14 I PERSONALLY BELIEVE THAT THE PROPER WAY OF FILLING THAT HOLE
• 07:18 IS IN RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD THROUGH THE MESSIAH YESHUA.
• 07:22 GOT IT
• 07:23 THERE USED TO BE A BUTTON THAT PEOPLE WOULD WEAR...
• 07:25 "I FOUND IT!"
• 07:26 IT SEEMS TO ME THAT THERE'S SOMETHING PARTICULARLY UNIQUE
• 07:29 ABOUT THE MESSIANIC JEWISH EXPERIENCE
• 07:32 THAT THOSE OF US THAT PARTICIPATE HAVE STUMBLED INTO SOMETHING
• 07:36 THAT REALLY STANDS HEAD AND SHOULDERS WITHIN THE CHRISTIAN FOLD...
• 07:42 I MEAN THERE'S JUST SOMETHING DIFFERENT.
• 07:44 CHRISTIANS LOOK AT THIS...
• 07:45 JEWS LOOK AT THIS...
• 07:46 ITS UNIQUE.
• 07:47 DEFINITELY...
• 07:48 AS A MESSIANIC JEWISH PERSON...
• 07:50 I THINK EVERYWHERE...
• 07:51 BUT ALSO MAYBE ESPECIALLY IN ISRAEL...
• 07:53 AS A JEWISH PERSON YOU GROW UP AND ITS NOT A BIG DEAL
• 07:58 IN THE SENSE THAT EVERYBODY'S JEWISH IN ISRAEL.
• 08:01 SO YOU DON'T FEEL DIFFERENT THIS WAY.
• 08:03 BUT WHEN YOU BECOME A FOLLOWER OF YESHUA
• 08:06 THE GENERAL JEWISH PUBLIC WILL QUESTION YOUR JEWISHNESS,
• 08:12 WHEREAS MANY CHRISTIANS WILL FAIL TO UNDERSTAND
• 08:15 THAT YOU ARE STILL JEWISH AS A FOLLOWER OF MESSIAH.
• 08:18 AND IN A WAY THE MESSIANIC JEWISH EXPERIENCE FROM A PSYCHOLOGICAL STANDPOINT
• 08:23 IS KIND OF ON THE FRINGE OF BOTH WORLDS
• 08:26 OF THE JEWISH WORLD AND THE CHRISTIAN WORLD.
• 08:29 AND YET FOR US IT'S THE MOST NATURAL THING IN THE WORLD.
• 08:33 I WAS BORN JEWISH NOT BECAUSE I CHOSE IT OR I WAS BETTER OR WORSE THAN ANYBODY ELSE.
• 08:40 THAT IS MY HERITAGE.
• 08:42 IN A SENSE THAT IS MY CALLING FROM GOD.
• 08:45 AND BECOMING A FOLLOWER OF MESSIAH IS...
• 08:48 AGAIN I SAY GOD HAS OPENED MY EYES AND MY HEART TO SEE THAT.
• 08:53 AND I DON'T SEE ANY CONFLICT BETWEEN THE TWO
• 08:55 THOUGH THERE WOULD BE PEOPLE OUTSIDE WHO WOULD.
• 08:57 OH CERTAINLY
• 08:59 IT CAN BE SAID THAT MESSIANIC JEWS WANT TO HAVE CITIZENSHIP IN TWO WORLDS...
• 09:04 JEWISH WORLD AND THE JESUS WORLD.
• 09:06 AND BECAUSE WE WANT CITIZENSHIP IN BOTH,
• 09:08 MANY OF US HAVE TROUBLE FINDING REAL CITIZENSHIP IN EITHER
• 09:12 BECAUSE IT'S SO CONFLICTIVE.
• 09:14 HOW ARE JEWISH BELIEVERS BEARING UP WITH THE TENSIONS IN ISRAEL?
• 09:17 AND THERE ARE HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF JEWISH BELIEVERS IN YESHUA ON THE WHOLE.
• 09:23 ANY WORDS TO THE WISE FROM YOUR PERSPECTIVE
• 09:25 ABOUT HOW TO DEAL IN A WORLD WHERE WE'RE NOT ALWAYS LOVED?
• 09:29 WELL THAT'S AGAIN... A WIDER QUESTION...
• 09:33 BUT I HOPE THAT OUR ANSWER IS THAT WE ARE TRYING TO PLEASE GOD.
• 09:38 AND THAT WOULD AS JEWISH FOLLOWERS OF YESHUA...
• 09:42 THAT WILL COME ON ACCOUNT OF PLEASING MEN AND WOMEN AROUND US...PLEASING SOCIETY.
• 09:47 AND THIS IS SOMETHING I HOPE IS A SIGN OF MATURITY...
• 09:50 SPIRITUAL MATURITY,
• 09:51 TO SOME DEGREE PSYCHOLOGICAL MATURITY THAT WE CAN LIVE WITH
• 09:54 CAUSE WE WILL NOT SATISFY SOCIETY AROUND US.
• 09:57 HOPEFULLY WE'LL SATISFY THE MESSIAH AFTER WHOM WE FOLLOW.
• 10:00 OKAY SO CERTAINLY A JEWISH BELIEVER IN YESHUA AND JESUS IS UNIQUE.
• 10:04 THERE'S SOMETHING IN THE HUMAN CONDITION
• 10:06 WHERE WE WANT TO BE UNIQUE.
• 10:08 THERE'S CERTAIN TENSIONS ASSOCIATED WITH IT.
• 10:10 DIFFICULTIES ASIDE, WHAT ARE SOME OF THE HIGHLIGHTS OF MESSIANIC UNIQUENESS?
• 10:15 IN WHAT WAYS ARE WE DISTINCT?
• 10:17 NOT BETTER THAN OTHERS BUT JUST DIFFERENT.
• 10:19 FIRST OF ALL THE MESSIANIC JEWISH COMMUNITY, BOTH IN ISRAEL AND OUTSIDE OF ISRAEL, IS RELATIVELY SMALL.
• 10:26 THAT ALLOWS US FOR...
• 10:29 MANY TIMES MORE INTIMATE,
• 10:31 PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP
• 10:32 WITH ONE ANOTHER
• 10:34 THAN A LOT OF OTHERS.
• 10:36 THE DEFINITE RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD THAT WE HAVE IN MESSIAH ALSO...
• 10:41 AGAIN, STRENGTHENS OUR COMMUNITY IN THE SUPERNATURAL WAY.
• 10:45 AND THAT DOES BRING...
• 10:47 MANY TIMES YOU SEE MESSIANIC COMMUNITIES THAT ARE VERY SUPPORTIVE OF ONE ANOTHER,
• 10:53 VERY LOVING TO ONE ANOTHER...
• 10:54 REALLY STANDS OUT TO PEOPLE FROM OUTSIDE ALSO AS THEY LOOK.
• 10:58 SO IN WAYS WE ARE A PERSECUTED MINORITY,
• 11:00 A LITTLE OVERSTATED PERHAPS,
• 11:02 BUT THEN IT FACILITATES THE FORGING OF BONDS AMONGST PARTICIPANTS. >>EXACTLY
• 11:06 SO THERE'S A UNIQUE BOND,
• 11:07 THERE'S A UNIQUE TESTIMONY,
• 11:09 THERE'S SOME UNIQUE CHALLENGES
• 11:11 AND THOSE ARE WAYS THAT WE'RE SPECIAL ...WE'RE DISTINCT. >>EXACTLY
• 11:13 ON THE POSITIVE SIDE... NOT RELATED TO PROBLEMS
• 11:17 BUT IN TERMS OF POSSIBILITIES
• 11:19 DO YOU FIND CERTAIN UNIQUE CHARACTERISTICS THAT ARE JUST POSITIVE, NOT NEGATIVE?
• 11:24 DEFINITELY...
• 11:25 AGAIN I CAN SAY FOR THE AVERAGE ISRAELI THESE DAYS...
• 11:30 THE AVERAGE ISRAELI THESE DAYS HAS MORE TIME AND MORE MONEY IN HIS HANDS THAN EVER BEFORE...
• 11:35 BUT LESS IDEOLOGY THAN EVER BEFORE.
• 11:39 AND IN A SENSE IT LEAVES...
• 11:41 CREATES A REAL VACUUM AMONG ESPECIALLY YOUNGER PEOPLE IN ISRAEL.
• 11:46 AND PEOPLE ARE TRULY SEEKING FOR MEANING
• 11:49 AND PERSONALLY I BELIEVE THAT IS MECHANISM THAT GOD HAS ORDAINED IN PLACE
• 11:55 TO HELP US AS JEWISH PEOPLE FINDING THE TRUE MEANING IN THE MESSIAH AND FOLLOW HIM.
• 12:01 AND HE'S PUT YOU IN A PLACE AS THE DIRECTOR OF "ISRAEL COLLEGE OF THE BIBLE".
• 12:07 FRIENDS YOU CAN LOOK ON THE SCREEN.
• 12:09 WE'RE GOING TO GET THAT WEBSITE UP.
• 12:11 IF YOU'RE INTERESTED TO DISCOVER
• 12:12 WHAT THEY'RE ALL ABOUT
• 12:13 GO AHEAD DO SO.
• 12:15 TRAINING UP WOMEN AND MEN
• 12:16 TO SHINE THIS TORCH
• 12:17 IN THE LAND OF ISRAEL.
• 12:18 DR. SOREF THANK YOU SO MUCH.
• 12:20 IT'S GREAT TO BE WITH YOU AGAIN. >>THANKS
• 12:57 IT TOUCHES MY HEART
• 12:58 AND I TRUST IT TOUCHES YOURS.
• 13:02 IF THE WHOLE BUSINESS OF JESUS AND JEWS KIND OF RESONATES WITH YOU,
• 13:06 WHY NOT PICK UP A PHONE AND RING US?
• 13:10 CALL 1-800-WONDERS
• 13:11 WE'D BE THRILLED TO SEND YOU
• 13:13 A FREE MONTHLY MAGAZINE
• 13:15 TO GIVE YOU ALL KINDS OF PERSPECTIVE RELATED TO ISRAEL,
• 13:19 THE JEWISH ROOTS OF THE FAITH,
• 13:20 BIBLE PROPHECY AND MORE.
• 13:23 A SPECIAL OFFER ON THIS PROGRAM
• 13:25 COMING UP LATER
• 13:27 IS A BOOK WRITTEN BY THE LATE ZOLA LEVITT WITH DR. TOM MCCALL,
• 13:30 "THE BIBLE JESUS READ".
• 13:32 IT'S A LOOK AT THE BOOK
• 13:34 FROM JEWISH EYES
• 13:35 AND I KNOW YOU'RE GOING TO LOVE IT.
• 13:36 AND WE LOOK AT THE BOOK
• 13:38 AND LOOK AT THE WORLD WE LIVE IN
• 13:39 WITH RABBI MARTY WALDMAN.
• 13:40 GLAD TO HAVE YOU WITH US.
• 13:42 THANK YOU JEFF
• 13:43 WE ARE ALL ABOUT TRYING TO RE-DISCOVER YESHUA JESUS
• 13:48 IN THE CONTEXT OF HIS OWN DAY AND TIME.
• 13:50 I THINK THAT IS A MARVELOUS FIELD OF INQUIRY DON'T YOU?
• 13:55 YES...ABSOLUTELY.
• 13:56 AND ONE OF THE MARVELS OF THE RESTORATION
• 13:59 OF THE MODERN MESSIANIC MOVEMENT TODAY
• 14:03 IS THE DESIRE THAT WE HAVE TO RESTORE YESHUA OR JESUS' ORIGINAL JEWISH IDENTITY.
• 14:10 THERE HAS BEEN SO MUCH MISSING FROM THE BODY OF MESSIAH
• 14:14 AND FROM THE CHURCH
• 14:15 AND FROM THEOLOGY,
• 14:16 FROM THE STUDY OF THE BIBLE,
• 14:18 BECAUSE WE HAVE LOST THE JEWISH IDENTITY OF JESUS
• 14:21 AND THE IDENTITY OF HIS FIRST FOLLOWERS.
• 14:24 WHO WERE ALL JEWISH.
• 14:25 THAT IS SO TRUE
• 14:27 AND WE'RE ALL ABOUT WANTING TO RESTORE THAT...YES?
• 14:30 YES...ABSOLUTELY.
• 14:32 AND WHEN WE TEACH THE SCRIPTURES,
• 14:34 WE TEACH FROM A JEWISH PERSPECTIVE,
• 14:36 BOTH THE "TANAKH"... THE OLD TESTAMENT, AND THE NEW TESTAMENT,
• 14:40 WE WHO ARE JEWISH BELIEVERS,
• 14:43 BOTH OF US,
• 14:44 YOU AND I,
• 14:46 AND ALL THE HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF OTHER JEWISH BELIEVERS WHO ARE ALIVE TODAY,
• 14:50 WE LOVE TO TEACH THE NEW TESTAMENT AND THE OLD TOGETHER
• 14:53 ALL FROM A JEWISH PERSPECTIVE
• 14:55 SO THAT PEOPLE CAN REALLY UNDERSTAND THE TRUE NATURE OF SCRIPTURE.
• 14:59 YES...I THINK THIS IS THE CUTTING EDGE OF THEOLOGY TODAY
• 15:03 AND I KNOW THAT OUR VIEWERS THINK MUCH THE SAME,
• 15:06 THAT A LOT OF THE MAIN LINE DOCTRINES HAVE PLAYED THEMSELVES OUT
• 15:11 AND THERE'S A SENSE IN WHICH, LOOKING AT THE JESUS STORY WITH JEWISH EYES
• 15:15 GIVE PERSPECTIVE THAT'S BEEN LONG LOST AND IS NECESSARY TODAY.
• 15:19 ABSOLUTELY JEFF.
• 15:21 YOU KNOW THE LAST WORDS...
• 15:22 LAST PUBLIC WORDS OF YESHUA...
• 15:24 IN JERUSALEM HE SAID,
• 15:26 "YOU WILL NOT SEE ME AGAIN UNTIL YOU SAY,
• 15:30 "BARUCH HABA B'SHEM ADONAI",
• 15:32 "BLESSED IS HE WHO COMES IN THE NAME OF THE LORD",
• 15:35 SPEAKING ABOUT HIMSELF.
• 15:36 AND WE ARE GETTING NEARER AND NEARER TO THAT MOMENT IN HISTORY
• 15:39 WHEN MORE AND MORE JEWISH PEOPLE ARE SAYING,
• 15:42 "BARUCH HABA B'SHEM ADONAI",
• 15:44 "COME ADONAI YESHUA",
• 15:46 "COME LORD JESUS".
• 15:47 AMEN TO THAT.
• 15:48 AND AS EVIDENCE THEREOF, THERE ARE CONGREGATIONS,
• 15:51 THERE'S TELEVISION MINISTRIES,
• 15:52 WE'RE GOING TO GO NOW TO RABBI BARRY RUBIN
• 15:55 AND LEARN ABOUT MESSIANIC JEWISH PUBLISHING.
• 16:00 SHALOM
• 16:01 I'M RABBI BARRY RUBIN,
• 16:03 THE PRESIDENT OF
• 16:04 "MESSIANIC JEWISH PUBLISHERS".
• 16:06 WE'RE THE LARGEST
• 16:07 MESSIANIC-JEWISH
• 16:08 PUBLISHING HOUSE IN THE WORLD.
• 16:10 WE PUBLISH BOOKS AND BIBLES THAT ARE DESIGNED TO BLESS CHRISTIANS
• 16:14 WITH A GREATER UNDERSTANDING OF THE JEWISH ROOTS OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH
• 16:17 AND TO HELP JEWISH PEOPLE COME TO MEET THE MESSIAH
• 16:21 WHOSE NAME IS "YESHUA" IN HEBREW, AS YOU KNOW "JESUS" IN GREEK.
• 16:26 OUR FIRST PUBLICATION WAS DONE BY DR. HENRY EINSPRUCH
• 16:30 IN THE EARLY PART OF THE 1900'S
• 16:32 HE TRANSLATED THE GOSPEL OF MATTHEW INTO YIDDISH
• 16:36 SO THAT THE MANY JEWS
• 16:38 WHO ARE COMING FROM GERMANY TO ESCAPE HITLER
• 16:40 COULD READ THE GOSPEL
• 16:42 IN THEIR OWN NATIVE LANGUAGE.
• 16:44 AND SINCE THAT TIME WE'VE PUBLISHED ABOUT 60 OR 70 OTHER BOOKS INCLUDING MOST RECENTLY,
• 16:50 "THE COMPLETE JEWISH BIBLE".
• 16:52 NOW THIS BIBLE IS DESIGNED
• 16:54 TO HELP PEOPLE UNDERSTAND THE
• 16:56 JEWISHNESS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT
• 16:58 AND THE ENTIRE SCRIPTURE.
• 17:00 THE WORDS IN THE BIBLE
• 17:02 ARE TAKEN FROM GREEK
• 17:03 AND TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH
• 17:05 THAT SOUNDS LIKE IT'S JEWS.
• 17:08 FOR EXAMPLE...MATTHEW
• 17:10 IS NOT MATTHEW IN THIS,
• 17:11 ITS "MATITYAHU"
• 17:13 WHICH WAS REALLY
• 17:14 MATTHEW'S HEBREW NAME,
• 17:16 THAT'S WHAT HE WAS CALLED,
• 17:17 NOBODY KNEW HIM AS MATTHEW,
• 17:19 THAT WAS A LATER DERIVATION OF HIS NAME...
• 17:21 SAME WITH "YOCHANAN" OR JOHN.
• 17:23 SO THE COMPLETE JEWISH BIBLE AND THE JEWISH NEW TESTAMENT WHICH IS PART OF IT
• 17:27 HELPS TO RESTORE THE ORIGINAL AND ESSENTIAL JEWISHNESS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT.
• 17:32 WE PUBLISHED OTHER BOOKS,
• 17:34 FOR EXAMPLE THIS ONE HERE...
• 17:36 "YESHUA, A GUIDE TO THE REAL
• 17:37 JESUS IN THE ORIGINAL CHURCH"
• 17:39 HELPS EXPLAIN
• 17:40 THE JEWISH BACKGROUNDS
• 17:42 OF CHRISTIANITY.
• 17:43 AND THIS IS BECOMING
• 17:44 VERY POPULAR AMONG CHRISTIANS AS
• 17:46 THEY MORE AND MORE EXPLORE THE
• 17:48 JEWISH ROOTS OF THEIR OWN FAITH.
• 17:50 SO THAT'S WHAT OUR BOOKS ARE ABOUT.
• 17:52 UPCOMING WE HAVE NEXT SUMMER, THE SUMMER OF 2011,
• 17:57 WHAT WE HAVE CALLED
• 17:59 "THE COMPLETE JEWISH STUDY BIBLE".
• 18:02 THAT'S GOING TO USE THE TEXT FROM THE JEWISH NEW TESTAMENT MODIFIED FOR AMERICAN READERS
• 18:09 AS WELL AS THE COMMENTARY CALLED "THE JEWISH NEW TESTAMENT COMMENTARY"...SECTIONS OF THAT
• 18:16 IN ADDITION TO WHICH WE ARE GOING TO ADD COMMENTS AND NOTES FROM OTHER SCHOLARS
• 18:19 AND IT'LL ALL BE IN ONE VOLUME OF THE NEW TESTAMENT.
• 18:23 SO THAT SHOULD BE OUT IN JULY 1 OF 2011 AND WE EXPECT IT TO BE REALLY POPULAR AMONG CHRISTIANS
• 18:31 BUT ALSO WE BELIEVE JEWISH PEOPLE WILL READ THAT
• 18:33 TO LEARN REALLY MORE ABOUT THE FAITH THAT THE FOLLOWERS OF MESSIAH EXHIBITED.
• 18:41 SO WE'RE JUST TRYING TO RESTORE THE ORIGINAL JEWISHNESS BACK TO THE NEW TESTAMENT
• 18:46 AND THAT'S WHAT OUR PUBLISHING HOUSE IS ALL ABOUT.
• 18:51 RABBI RUBIN TALKS ABOUT MESSIANIC JEWISH PUBLISHING...
• 18:54 NOW I WANT TO TALK ABOUT JEWISH FLOURISHING
• 18:57 BY TAKING YOU TO THE LAND THAT IS ISRAEL.
• 19:01 MY SUGGESTION...COME TO ISRAEL...YOU'LL ENJOY IT...
• 19:04 THIS NINE - TEN DAY TRIP HAS TOTALLY REVOLUTIONIZED THE WAY I LOOK AT...
• 19:10 THE PROFOUND MEANING AND THE HISTORY BEHIND EVERYTHING AND...
• 19:13 WE'VE SEEN A LOT OF GREAT THINGS...
• 19:15 WE'VE LEARNED SO MUCH...
• 19:16 WHAT CAN BE MORE SPECIAL
• 19:17 THAN COMING TO GOD'S LAND WITH GOD'S PEOPLE?
• 19:20 IF YOU WANT TO FALL IN LOVE WITH ISRAEL AND GOD'S CHOSEN PEOPLE I INVITE YOU TO COME...
• 19:26 YOU WILL NOT BE DISAPPOINTED.
• 19:27 JOIN US IN ISRAEL FOR A TRIP OF A LIFETIME.
• 19:32 I'D LIKE TO TALK TO YOU ABOUT "PRESENTS" AND "PRESENCE".
• 19:36 YOU CAN GIVE SOMEONE A VACATION...THAT'S A PRESENT.
• 19:39 BUT WHEN YOU GO TO ISRAEL
• 19:40 ITS MORE THAN A PRESENT TO YOURSELF OR SOMEONE ELSE...
• 19:43 THERE'S "PRESENCE"...
• 19:44 THAT IS GOD IS THERE AND IT STIRS UP THINGS WITHIN YOU AND BRINGS HIM CLOSE.
• 19:50 AND IF YOU'LL CALL 1-800-WONDERS
• 19:52 YOU CAN COME WITH US
• 19:53 AND YOU'LL TALK TO TRACIE
• 19:55 WHO'LL WALK YOU THROUGH THE PROCESS.
• 19:56 THAT'S RIGHT
• 19:58 IT IS SO AMAZING BEING IN ISRAEL DR. SEIF.
• 20:00 AND I LOVE THAT ANALOGY OF THE PRESENCE OF THE LORD
• 20:02 BECAUSE WHAT I LOVE ABOUT OUR TRIPS
• 20:04 IS IT REALLY IS COMPRISED ONLY OF PEOPLE THAT WATCH OUR TV SHOW OR READ OUR NEWSLETTERS
• 20:08 AND SO THERE'S AN IMMEDIATE BOND THERE.
• 20:10 AND THE PEOPLE THAT COME ALREADY HAVE A VALUE OF ISRAEL
• 20:14 BUT ITS AMAZING HOW WHEN THEY ACTUALLY TOUCH THAT WAILING WALL
• 20:18 OR GET BAPTIZED IN THE JORDAN RIVER THEY SAY,
• 20:20 "I NEVER KNEW HOW STRONG THE PRESENCE OF GOD IS IN ISRAEL."
• 20:24 AND THE PRESENCE THROUGH THE PEOPLE...
• 20:26 IT'S AMAZING HOW ISRAELIS ARE TOUCHED BY THE LOVE.
• 20:28 IT IS AND ONE EXCITING THING IS THAT WE SEND MISSIONARIES ON OUR TRIP THAT COME WITH US.
• 20:33 WE REALLY GET INVOLVED IN THE LAND.
• 20:35 WE GO TO MESSIANIC CONGREGATIONS IN THE EVENING.
• 20:37 YOU GIVE DEVOTIONS IN THE EVENING.
• 20:39 WE REALLY GET IMMERSED IN THE CULTURE THERE.
• 20:41 AND I JUST THINK THAT WHEN PEOPLE COME
• 20:44 THAT THEY ARE GOING TO HAVE AN INTIMACY IN THEIR RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD THEY NEVER KNEW WAS POSSIBLE.
• 20:48 WE'RE NOT REALLY A TOUR BUSINESS.
• 20:50 WE DO TOURS TO ISRAEL EXCLUSIVE
• 20:52 BECAUSE IT'S A MINISTRY NOT JUST INDUSTRY. >>ABSOLUTELY
• 20:54 IT IS A MINISTRY
• 20:56 AND THE FEEDBACK FROM THE PASSENGERS THAT I HAVE WORKED WITH PERSONALLY HAS JUST...
• 21:00 IT'S EXCEEDED THEIR EXPECTATIONS.
• 21:02 I THINK ONE...
• 21:03 WE WORK VERY HARD
• 21:04 TO TAKE CARE OF ALL THE LOGISTICS
• 21:06 SO THAT WHEN PEOPLE COME THEY ARE FOCUSED ON YESHUA.
• 21:09 OUR GUIDES HAVE BEEN GUIDING FOR OVER 25 YEARS.
• 21:12 WE'VE BEEN GOING TO ISRAEL 27 YEARS...
• 21:14 NEVER CANCELLED ONE TOUR.
• 21:15 YOU PUT THIS TRIP IN OUR HANDS
• 21:18 AND WE WILL GIVE YOU THE TRIP OF A LIFETIME.
• 21:20 WELL YOU HEARD WHAT THE LADY SAID
• 21:22 AND SHE SAID IT,
• 21:24 ZOLA IN HIS OWN WAY IS GOING TO PLAY IT IN MUSIC WITH ZIPPORAH
• 21:27 AS WE GO NOW TO HIM IN THE LAND OF ISRAEL.
• 21:31 (Zola speaking)
• 21:32 WHEN THE FIRST CHRISTIANS
• 21:34 GATHERED TOGETHER FOR FELLOWSHIP
• 21:36 THEY SANG IN HEBREW
• 21:37 AND THEY MAY HAVE SOUNDED SOMETHING LIKE THIS...
• 21:40 (SINGING IN HEBREW)
• 22:03 THIS MUSIC WAS WRITTEN
• 22:05 BY ZIPPORAH BENNETT
• 22:06 AND IS BASED ON WORDS FROM THE PSALMS.
• 23:59 ZOLA, ZIPPORAH AND THE GROUP ARE THERE IN ISRAEL DOING A PIECE, "HEAR MY CRY".
• 24:04 WHEN IT COMES TO THE JEWISH VOICE,
• 24:07 RABBI WHAT'S THE CRY?
• 24:09 THE FIRST CRY IS TO REACH OUT TO THE JEWISH PEOPLE
• 24:14 WITH THE LOVE OF THE MESSIAH.
• 24:17 ONE OF THE THINGS THAT RAV SHAUL, THE APOSTLE PAUL,
• 24:20 EMPHASIZED IN ROMANS CHAPTER 11 IS THE JEWS HAVE TRANSGRESSED
• 24:26 IN ORDER TO OPEN THE DOORS FOR THE GENTILE WORLD TO HEAR THE GOOD NEWS
• 24:29 SO THAT THE GENTILE NATIONS OF THE WORLD, THE GENTILES,
• 24:32 WILL MAKE THE JEWISH PEOPLE JEALOUS,
• 24:34 MAKE ISRAEL JEALOUS.
• 24:36 FOR WHAT PURPOSE?
• 24:37 GOD DESIRES TO SAVE ALL THE NATIONS OF THE EARTH.
• 24:41 THAT'S HIS BIG PICTURE.
• 24:43 HE WANTS TO SAVE ALL THE NATIONS
• 24:45 BUT HE'LL NEVER DO IT WITHOUT HIS FIRST LOVE
• 24:47 ...ISRAEL.
• 24:49 AND HE WANTS TO SAVE ISRAEL.
• 24:51 HE WANTS ISRAEL TO COME TO KNOW THE LORD.
• 24:53 HE WANTS ISRAEL TO WALK UPRIGHTLY IN YESHUA BY FAITH.
• 24:56 IN FACT, THE APOSTLE PAUL SAYS IN ROMANS, CHAPTER 9,
• 25:00 "I WOULD EVEN BE SEPARATED FROM THE MESSIAH FOR THE SAKE OF MY OWN PEOPLE ACCORDING TO THE FLESH..."
• 25:06 "MY OWN KINSMEN."
• 25:07 "I WOULD BE SEPARATED FROM YESHUA."
• 25:09 IN CHAPTER 10 HE SAYS,
• 25:11 "MY HEART'S DESIRE AND MY PRAYER IS FOR THEIR SALVATION."
• 25:15 IN CHAPTER 11 HE SAYS,
• 25:17 "AND THIS IS WHY...NOT ONLY BECAUSE I LOVE ISRAEL BUT BECAUSE GOD LOVES ISRAEL"
• 25:22 "AND GOD WON'T MOVE PROPHETICALLY OVER THE WHOLE"
• 25:25 "APART FROM HIS PEOPLE ISRAEL."
• 25:28 THAT'S WHY I'M SO THRILLED THAT JEWISH PEOPLE ARE COMING BACK TO YESHUA TODAY...
• 25:33 NOT JUST BACK IN THE LAND OF ISRAEL
• 25:36 BUT WE'RE COMING BACK TO THE MESSIAH OF ISRAEL.
• 25:39 AND WHAT'S TRAGIC IS WHEN I HEAR THESE PASSIONS.
• 25:42 I READ IT IN THE SCRIPTURE...
• 25:44 I HEAR IT FROM YOU...
• 25:45 BUT I DON'T HEAR IT AS MUCH IN THE CHURCHES TODAY
• 25:49 AND IT'S RATHER ODD.
• 25:50 BUT IN SPITE OF THE SLOTH AND THE INDIFFERENCE AND EVEN THE ANTI-SEMITIC THEOLOGIES,
• 25:56 GOD IS AT WORK IN THE WORLD
• 25:58 AND JEWISH PEOPLE ARE COMING TO FAITH
• 26:00 AND THERE IS THE MIRACLE THAT IS ISRAEL
• 26:02 AND THE MIRACLE IN ISRAEL...
• 26:04 SOMETHING YOU PARTICIPATE, I PARTICIPATE AND WE PARTICIPATE IN IT TOGETHER.
• 26:09 YES, THERE'S AN ANONYMOUS POEM THAT GOES LIKE THIS:
• 26:11 "HOW ODD OF GOD TO CHOOSE THE JEW"
• 26:15 "BUT ODDER STILL ARE THOSE WHO CHOOSE THE JEWISH GOD AND HATE THE JEW."
• 26:21 JEFF I BELIEVE THE CHURCH HAS SHOT ITSELF IN THE FOOT OVER THE LAST NUMBER OF CENTURIES
• 26:26 BY NOT RECOGNIZING THE LOVE OF GOD,
• 26:29 THE CONTINUOUS AND FAITHFUL LOVE OF GOD,
• 26:31 THE SAME YESTERDAY, TODAY AND TOMORROW LOVE OF GOD FOR ISRAEL AND THE JEWISH PEOPLE.
• 26:36 AND HIS DESIRE IS THAT ALL OF ISRAEL WILL BE SAVED
• 26:40 AND THUS FULFILLING HIS PLAN AND HIS DESIRE
• 26:43 TOSAVE ALL THE NATIONS OF THE WORLD.
• 26:45 AMEN TO THAT
• 26:47 AND AS WE BREAK AWAY FROM THAT POINT AS WE FINISH UP THIS PROGRAM
• 26:52 IN THE MIRACLE OF JEWISH PEOPLE COMING TO FAITH...
• 26:55 THE MIRACLE OF THE EMERGENCE OF THE MESSIANIC JEWISH EXPERIENCE.
• 27:00 THANK YOU FOR GOING ON THE JOURNEY WITH US
• 27:02 AND AS YOU GO NOW,
• 27:03 SHA'ALU SHALOM YERUSHALAYIM
• 27:06 PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM