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Caption transcript for The Messianic Miracle: “The Congregational Movement” with Dr. Erez Soref (2/4)

• 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"
• 00:31 HEARTY SHALOM TO ALL OF YOU.
• 00:32 JEFFREY SEIF HERE
• 00:33 PLEASED TO WELCOME YOU AGAIN
• 00:35 TO ZOLA LEVITT PRESENTS,
• 00:36 PRESENTING THE SECOND OF A FOUR PART TREATMENT
• 00:39 OF THE MIRACLE THAT IS THE MESSIANIC JEWISH REVIVAL.
• 00:44 COME WITH ME NOW TO BARUCH HASHEM CONGREGATION IN NORTH DALLAS.
• 00:49 I'M GOING TO BE UNPACKING A QUESTION THERE THAT I'M GOING TO EXPLORE
• 00:52 AS WE LOOK AT "WHAT ON GOD'S EARTH IS GOD DOING IN ALL OF THIS?"...
• 00:56 THIS MIRACLE OF JEWISH PEOPLE COMING TO FAITH TODAY.
• 00:59 WE'LL BEGIN THERE AND WE'VE GOT OTHER PLACES TO GO AFTER.
• 01:08 QUESTION NUMBER TWO...
• 01:12 "WHAT ON GOD'S EARTH DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING?"
• 01:21 OR...
• 01:24 "WHAT ON GOD'S EARTH DO WE THINK WE'RE DOING?"
• 01:31 IN LATIN THE WORD TO "DO" APPEARS AS A SUFFIX WITH "ATE"
• 01:42 AS IN "DESIGNATE",
• 01:45 "AUTHENTICATE",
• 01:47 "PARTICIPATE"...
• 01:49 ALL OF WHICH SORT OF HARK TO SOME SORT OF ACTION.
• 01:56 IN OLD ENGLISH, "DOING APPEARS AS DOTH"... "DOEST"...
• 02:02 AND IT PRINCIPALLY MEANS TO "PERFORM"
• 02:06 AS AN ACTION TO EXECUTE A PARTICULAR PIECE OF WORK.
• 02:14 QUESTION...
• 02:17 "WHAT IS THE WORK AT HAND?"
• 02:24 I'D LIKE YOU TO OPEN UP YOUR BIBLES PLEASE
• 02:26 TO THE BOOK OF ISAIAH, CHAPTER 61.
• 02:32 I WANT TO EXPLORE THERE SOMETHING THAT WAS REFERENCED BY YESHUA HIMSELF
• 02:39 IN AN ENVIRONMENT WHEN THINGS BECAME A TAD BIT CANTANKEROUS
• 02:44 AS HAPPENS EVERY NOW AND AGAIN
• 02:45 BY WELL INTENDED PEOPLE WHO JUST DO NOT UNDERSTAND.
• 02:50 AND THERE'S TYPICALLY AN AVERSION TO NEW IDEAS...
• 02:53 THERE ARE ALL KINDS OF DEFENSE MECHANISMS THAT FLARE UP
• 02:57 AND SO IN YESHUA'S OWN DAY THERE WERE PEOPLE WHO RESISTED.
• 03:01 THERE'S A STORY IN THE 61ST CHAPTER
• 03:05 WHERE THE LORD HARKENED TO IT IN A SHAUL, IN A SYNAGOGUE,
• 03:19 THE TERM "GOSPEL" ISN'T A CHRISTIAN TERM EXPLICITLY,
• 03:24 THOUGH CHRISTIANS CARRY THE LABEL,
• 03:25 IT'S BORN OUT OF THE JEWISH PROMISE OF AN ANOINTED ONE
• 03:30 EMPOWERED BY THE SPIRIT WHO WOULD BRING GOOD NEWS.
• 03:34 ONE OF THE CONCOMITANTS OF THAT GOOD NEWS IF YOU'LL LOOK DOWN TO VERSE 4,
• 03:38 THOSE THAT ARE THUS EMPOWERED BY THAT "RUACH", BY THAT SPIRIT...
• 03:44 I WANT TO READ THE TEXT,
• 03:45 WERE' TOLD...
• 04:04 TO GIVE SOME KIND OF GLOSS TO THAT...
• 04:09 THAT RESPONDS TO MY RHETORICAL QUESTION...
• 04:14 "WHAT ON GOD'S EARTH DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING?"
• 04:18 I THINK WE'RE DOING THAT...
• 04:23 I THINK THERE'S A STORY THAT WAS EJECTED, REJECTED,
• 04:28 THAT JEWISH PEOPLE HAVE BEEN DEJECTED.
• 04:31 I SEE A FLUKE...
• 04:33 I SEE A PROBLEM IN HUMAN HISTORY
• 04:35 AND WE ARE FOCUSING...
• 04:37 IT IS THE OBJECT OF OUR INTENTION.
• 04:40 "OBJECT" MEANS TO "THROW AT" IN THE LATIN.
• 04:43 "SUBJECT" MEANS TO "THROW UNDER".
• 04:46 "REJECT", "EJECT" MEANS TO "THROW OUT".
• 04:50 WHEN I LOOK AT THE BIBLE STORY
• 04:52 I SEE A JEWISH STORY FROM GENESIS TO REVELATION.
• 04:58 WHEN I LOOK AT THE FIRST PARTICIPANTS OF THAT STORY
• 05:00 I DISCOVER INDIVIDUALS WHO LIVED AND FUNCTIONED AS A JEW.
• 05:06 IF SOMEONE WENT UP TO PETER IN HIS DAY AND SAID
• 05:09 "HOW DOES IT FEEL TO BE THE POPE OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH?"
• 05:12 HE WOULD BE CLUELESS WHAT YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT.
• 05:16 (PEOPLE LAUGHING)
• 05:17 THIS WAS THE GUY THAT WHEN WAS FIRST PRESENTED...
• 05:20 WHEN THE LORD SAID "EAT NON KOSHER FOODS"
• 05:22 HE SAID "LORD I DON'T DO THAT SORT OF THING".
• 05:25 HOW'S THAT FOR THE FIRST POPE? ...KEEPING KOSHER.
• 05:29 (PEOPLE LAUGHING)
• 05:32 (PEOPLE CLAPPING)
• 05:35 NOT ONLY THAT...
• 05:38 WHEN I LOOK AT THE STORY
• 05:40 WE'RE TOLD THAT YESHUA HEALED PETER'S MOTHER-IN-LAW.
• 05:44 WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THAT?
• 05:45 THE FIRST POPE HAVING A MOTHER-IN-LAW.
• 05:49 (PEOPLE LAUGHING)
• 05:51 NOW...I'M NOT GOING OUT OF MY WAY TO BE DISRESPECTFUL.
• 05:55 WHAT I'M ENDEAVORING TO DO SIMPLY IS TO UNDERSCORE
• 05:58 THAT WHEN WE LOOK AT THE STORY IT'S JEWISH
• 06:00 BUT WITH THE PASSAGE OF TIME
• 06:02 THAT STORY FELL OFF THE PAGES OF HISTORY
• 06:06 AND IT FELL OUT OF THE PULPITS OF CHURCHES
• 06:09 WHERE INDIVIDUALS ARE MORE GIVEN TO ADVOCATE FOR A DISPLACEMENT OF THE JEWS,
• 06:14 THE REPLACEMENT OF THE JEWS...
• 06:16 THEY'RE YESTERDAY'S NEWS...
• 06:17 WE HAVE THE NEW TESTAMENT,
• 06:18 THEY HAVE THE OLD TESTAMENT...
• 06:19 WE HAVE THE NEW BOOK,
• 06:21 THAT'S THE JEW BOOK...
• 06:22 THIS IS FOR US,
• 06:23 THAT IS FOR THEM...
• 06:25 NEVER THE TWAIN SHALL MEET.
• 06:27 THERE ARE SOME OF US THAT DO NOT BUY THAT NARRATIVE.
• 06:31 (PEOPLE CHEERING...CLAPPING).
• 06:37 AND THOSE OF US THUS MINDED...
• 06:41 THE WORLD THINKS WE'RE CRAZY AND SAY "BE DAMNED"...
• 06:45 WELL WHAT OF IT?
• 06:48 THERE'S SOME OF US THAT WANT TO PARTICIPATE IN THE MESSIANIC VISION
• 06:54 WHERE INDIVIDUALS ARE CALLED TO...
• 06:57 TO USE THE LANGUAGE OF THE TEXT...
• 06:59 "REBUILD OLD RUINS",
• 07:03 "RAISE UP FORMER DESOLATIONS",
• 07:06 "REPAIR RUINED CITIES".
• 07:11 YOU SAY "WELL SEIF YOU'RE TEACHING SOMETHING NEW"...
• 07:13 NOT TRUE,
• 07:14 I'M JUST TEACHING SOMETHING THAT'S BEEN FORGOTTEN...
• 07:18 THAT'S ALL.
• 07:20 (PEOPLE CHEERING...CLAPPING)
• 07:22 I DON'T DO THINGS NEW.
• 07:24 MAYBE IT'S NEW TO THIS GENERATION
• 07:27 BUT THIS STORY IS PART OF THE IMPULSES THAT BIRTHED THIS FIRST CENTURY JESUS MOVEMENT...
• 07:33 A WORLD...
• 07:34 ANOTHER PLACE...
• 07:35 ANOTHER GENERATION.
• 07:37 I'M A GUY WHO'S PRINCIPALLY INVESTED IN RESURRECTING A LOST STORY.
• 07:45 I'M ALL ABOUT WANTING TO HELP JEWISH PEOPLE COME TO UNDERSTAND JESUS.
• 07:51 AND I WANT TO HELP JESUS PEOPLE COME TO UNDERSTAND THE JEWS.
• 07:57 (PEOPLE CHEERING...CLAPPING)
• 07:59 NEVER MIND "WE"...
• 08:00 WE SIMILARLY...
• 08:01 COLLECTIVELY...
• 08:02 FRIEND, ASSOCIATES, AFFILIATES...
• 08:05 WE ALL FIND VALUE IN THAT PARTICULAR ENDEAVOR.
• 08:10 WE'RE A PEOPLE THUS MINDED AND THUS SIMILARLY ENGAGED.
• 08:16 AND SO THAT IS IN EFFECT MY RESPONSE TO THE QUESTION
• 08:22 "WHAT ON GOD'S EARTH DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING?"
• 08:30 IT'S GREAT COMING TO YOU FROM BARUCH HASHEM CONGREGATION IN NORTH DALLAS.
• 08:33 I GO THERE ALL THE TIME.
• 08:35 NOW WE'RE GOING TO GO AND HEAR FROM DR. EREZ SOREF,
• 08:38 THE PRESIDENT OF THE "ISRAEL COLLEGE OF THE BIBLE"
• 08:42 VESTED WITH RESPONSIBILITY TO RAISE UP MESSIANIC LEADERS IN THE LAND OF ISRAEL.
• 08:48 DR. SOREF
• 08:50 WHAT EXACTLY ARE YOU DOING IN ISRAEL WITH
• 08:53 "ISRAEL COLLEGE OF THE BIBLE"?
• 08:54 WELL JEFF YOU KNOW
• 08:56 IN THE LAST 30 YEARS
• 08:59 THE NUMBER OF JEWISH BELIEVERS
• 09:01 AND ACTUALLY ALSO
• 09:02 ARAB BELIEVERS IN ISRAEL...
• 09:04 MAINLY JEWISH BELIEVERS...
• 09:05 HAVE GROWN SO MUCH
• 09:07 THAT MESSIANIC EDUCATION HAS BECOME A VERY IMPORTANT CENTERPIECE
• 09:13 AMONG MESSIANIC JEWS IN ISRAEL
• 09:17 AND SO AT OUR COLLEGE WE TEACH BIBLE THEOLOGY IN VARIOUS AREAS OF MINISTRY
• 09:25 TO EQUIP MESSIANIC JEWISH STUDENTS AND ARAB ISRAELI STUDENTS TO SERVE OUR PEOPLE IN THE LAND.
• 09:32 IT'S A FASCINATING STORY.
• 09:34 I'VE HEARD THAT MORE JEWISH PEOPLE HAVE COME TO FAITH
• 09:37 IN THE LAST 20 YEARS IN ISRAEL THAN IN THE PREVIOUS 20 CENTURIES
• 09:41 AND THERE'S QUITE A REVIVAL GOING ON
• 09:43 AND YOU'RE RIGHT THERE PREPARING IT
• 09:46 AND RAISING UP WOMEN AND MEN TO SERVE IN IT.
• 09:48 THAT IS VERY, VERY EXCITING.
• 09:51 I'D SAY 20 YEARS AGO WE HAD 30 CONGREGATIONS THROUGHOUT THE LAND.
• 09:58 TODAY THERE ARE OVER 150.
• 10:01 AND THERE ARE MANY, MANY YOUNG ISRAELIS WHO ARE HUNGRY AND THIRSTY FOR PURPOSE
• 10:09 AND IN THE MESSIAH IS REALLY OUR MISSING LINK AS JEWISH PEOPLE IN ISRAEL AND WORLDWIDE.
• 10:16 SO MORE AND MORE JEWISH PEOPLE
• 10:20 AS YOU SAID IN A REVIVAL FORM ACCEPT YESHUA AS OUR MESSIAH
• 10:26 AND FOLLOW HIM TO A TRANSFORMED LIFE IN RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD.
• 10:31 WERE YOU BORN IN ISRAEL?
• 10:33 I WAS...I WAS BORN IN ISRAEL
• 10:34 RAISED IN ISRAEL?
• 10:35 YES
• 10:36 JEWISH GUY
• 10:38 WHAT'S THE 45 SECOND VERSION OF YOUR OWN COMING TO FAITH
• 10:40 AND PARTICIPATING IN ALL OF THIS?
• 10:42 I WENT THROUGH THE ENTIRE ISRAELI SCHOOLING SYSTEM
• 10:44 AND HAD NOT HEARD ANYTHING ABOUT JESUS OF NAZARETH...YESHUA...
• 10:48 AND AFTER MY MILITARY SERVICE
• 10:51 I WENT TO TRAVEL THE WORLD LIKE A LOT OF ISRAELIS
• 10:54 AND FOR THE FIRST TIME IN MY LIFE WHEN I WAS TWENTY-TWO
• 10:57 I MET A GROUP OF CHRISTIANS WHO TOLD ME ABOUT YESHUA,
• 11:02 THAT HE IS THE JEWISH MESSIAH
• 11:04 WHICH OF COURSE I NEVER HEARD ABOUT.
• 11:06 SO THESE WEREN'T PROFESSIONAL MISSIONARIES TO THE JEW TYPE PEOPLE
• 11:09 THEY WERE JUST CHRISTIANS WHO LOVE JEWISH PEOPLE... LOVE THE LORD.
• 11:11 FAR FROM IT...
• 11:13 THEY WERE YOUNG PEOPLE...
• 11:15 SOME OF THEM WERE INTO THE KIND OF STUFF I WAS INTO AT THE TIME WHEN THEY MET ME...
• 11:18 AND THEY TOLD ME YESHUA CHANGED THEIR LIVES.
• 11:22 I THINK MOST OF THEM HAD NEVER MET A JEWISH PERSON BEFORE
• 11:24 AND I REALLY HAD A WALL OF DEFENSE AT FIRST
• 11:30 BUT I SAW SOMETHING IN THEIR LIFE...
• 11:31 A QUALITY I KNEW I DIDN'T HAVE...
• 11:34 A SPIRITUAL QUALITY.
• 11:35 I GUESS YOU DID SEE SOMETHING
• 11:37 AND NOW YOU'RE ALL ABOUT HELPING OTHERS GET THE VISION.
• 11:41 ABSOLUTELY
• 11:42 AND IT'S HAPPENING
• 11:44 AND YOU'RE THERE
• 11:46 FROM THE VERY, VERY START OF MY WALK WITH YESHUA
• 11:52 AND AFTER HIM GOD HAS GIVEN ME TWO THINGS...
• 11:56 A GREAT HUNGER FOR HIS WORD...
• 11:59 AND A REAL ZEAL AND DESIRE TO SHARE THIS GREAT DISCOVERY THAT YESHUA IS OUR MESSIAH...
• 12:06 HE'S NOT THE GENTILE'S MESSIAH...
• 12:07 HE'S OUR MESSIAH FIRST AND FOREMOST...
• 12:10 HE'S FOR THE GENTILES AS WELL.
• 12:11 SO THAT IS REALLY WHAT I'M DEDICATING MY LIFE TO SHARE IT WITH OUR PEOPLE.
• 12:16 YES AND TO SHARE IT AS AN EDUCATOR...
• 12:19 "ISRAEL COLLEGE OF THE BIBLE"
• 12:20 AND WE'LL GET THE WEB SITE UP ON THE SCREEN.
• 12:23 THAT'S JUST A WONDERFUL MINISTRY.
• 12:24 AND THANK YOU BY THE WAY
• 12:27 FOR INVITING ME TO BE AN ADJUNCT PROFESSOR THERE.
• 12:29 WELL IT'S A PRIVILEGE...
• 12:30 WE LOOK FORWARD TO MORE OF THOSE CLASSES.
• 12:34 I HAVE BEEN INVOLVED IN THEOLOGICAL EDUCATION FOR TWENTY-ONE YEARS
• 12:37 AND I REALLY BELIEVE IN IT
• 12:39 AND I THINK IT'S SO IMPORTANT TO RAISE UP THE NEXT GENERATION.
• 12:42 AND THIS IS A WHOLE NEW GENERATION IN ISRAEL.
• 12:45 TALK ABOUT THE WORK IF YOU WOULD FOR 60 SECONDS...
• 12:47 LET US KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON.
• 12:49 WELL...AS I SAID...
• 12:51 BECAUSE OF THE GREAT GROWTH...
• 12:53 THIS REVIVAL...
• 12:54 THERE ARE MANY, MANY PEOPLE THAT COME
• 12:56 AND ARE HUNGRY AND THIRSTY TO KNOW GOD'S WORD,
• 12:59 TO SERVE OUR PEOPLE IN MESSIAH AND SO TO STAND IN THAT GAP,
• 13:06 TO MEET THAT NEED WE SET UP "ISRAEL COLLEGE OF THE BIBLE"
• 13:10 A COUPLE OF DECADES AGO ACTUALLY IT STARTED
• 13:12 AND THAT IS WHAT WE DO.
• 13:16 WE HAVE BOTH JEWISH BELIEVERS IN YESHUA
• 13:19 AS WELL AS SOME ARAB BELIEVERS IN YESHUA
• 13:22 AND TOGETHER WE WORSHIP THE GOD OF ISRAEL
• 13:25 AND TRAIN MEN AND WOMEN TO SHARE HIS LOVE WITH OUR PEOPLE.
• 13:29 THAT'S A GREAT STORY...
• 13:31 JEWISH PEOPLE AND ARAB PEOPLE WORSHIPPING TOGETHER, STUDYING TOGETHER
• 13:35 AND I SO MUCH BELIEVE IN HELPING RAISE UP A GENERATION.
• 13:39 YOU'VE MAYBE HEARD THE EXPRESSION,
• 13:41 "BEFORE YOU GET THE STORY OUT YOU GOT TO GET THE STORY STRAIGHT"
• 13:44 AND TO PARTICIPATE IN HELPING LEADERS
• 13:46 COME TO TERMS WITH THE ESSENCE AND SUBSTANCE OF THE BIBLICAL STORY IS SO IMPORTANT.
• 13:51 HOW DO YOU DO IT FROM A DECIDEDLY MESSIANIC JEWISH PERSPECTIVE?
• 13:55 WE HAVE 40 SECONDS LEFT...
• 13:57 WHAT'S THAT ALL ABOUT?
• 13:58 THIS IS REALLY THE RICHNESS
• 14:00 BECAUSE TO UNDERSTAND THE NEW TESTAMENT PROPERLY
• 14:03 YOU HAVE TO BE GROUNDED IN THE HEBREW SCRIPTURE
• 14:07 AND THAT IS OUR GREATEST ADVANTAGE
• 14:09 BECAUSE AS JEWS WE LIVE, WE GROW WITH THE HEBREW SCRIPTURE
• 14:14 AND THAT TRULY BRINGS THE DEPTH OF THE NEW TESTAMENT,
• 14:18 SO IT'S VERY NATURAL AND VERY DEEP.
• 14:20 STUDYING THE HEBREW BIBLE IN THE ANCESTRAL HOMELAND
• 14:25 WITH JEWISH PEOPLE WHO HAVE BEEN TURNED ON TO YESHUA...
• 14:28 THAT IS EXCITING STUFF!
• 14:30 THANKS FOR SHARING IT FOR A LITTLE BIT WITH US
• 14:33 AND THOSE INTERESTED
• 14:34 CAN FIND OUT MORE
• 14:35 THROUGH YOUR WEB SITE.
• 14:37 DR. SOREF THANK YOU FOR THE TIME.
• 14:38 MY PLEASURE
• 14:41 ♪IT'S THE YEAR OF JUBILEE♪
• 14:43 ♪AND OUT OF ZION'S HILL♪
• 14:45 ♪SALVATION COMES...♪
• 14:48 ♪WHO WAS AND WHO IS♪
• 14:52 ♪AND WHO IS TO COME...
• 14:57 ♪COME LET US GO UP♪
• 15:00 ♪TO THE MOUNTAIN OF THE LORD♪
• 15:04 ♪TO THE HOUSE♪
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• 16:05 NOT LONG AGO ZOLA LEVITT PRODUCED A SERIES ON
• 16:08 "THE SEVEN FEASTS OF ISRAEL"...
• 16:09 THIS IS A GOOD ONE.
• 16:10 IT LOOKS AT THE OLD TESTAMENT FEASTS
• 16:13 AND SHOWS HOW THEY RELATE TO YESHUA, TO TODAY,
• 16:15 TO BIBLE PROPHECY...
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• 16:21 LATER ON YOU'LL LEARN HOW YOU CAN GET THAT.
• 16:24 RABBI WALDMAN, GOOD TO SEE YOU AGAIN!
• 16:26 JEFF IT'S WONDERFUL TO SEE YOU.
• 16:28 THERE'S A LOT TO GET A HOLD OF IN THE MESSIANIC JEWISH COMMUNITY.
• 16:31 WE WANT TO LOOK AT THE BIBLE WITH JEWISH EYES...
• 16:33 LIKE THE FEASTS.
• 16:35 WHAT OTHER WAYS DO MESSIANIC JEWS CONTRIBUTE TOWARDS CHRISTIAN UNDERSTANDING?
• 16:39 YOU KNOW JEFF THE FEASTS AND THE SERIES THAT ZOLA DID IS A WONDERFUL SERIES
• 16:44 AND THAT'S ONE OF THE WAYS THAT THE MESSIANIC JEWS
• 16:47 ACTUALLY BRING LIGHT TO WHAT WE CALL THE OLD TESTAMENT OR WHAT WE CALL "THE TANAKH".
• 16:53 MANY PEOPLE HAVE SORT OF FORSAKEN THE OLDER TESTAMENT, OR THE OLDER COVENANT
• 16:59 BECAUSE OF A LACK OF UNDERSTANDING
• 17:01 AND THINKING THAT WE HAVE SOMETHING NEW
• 17:03 BUT ACTUALLY THE MESSIAH, YESHUA, BRINGS SO MUCH LIGHT TO THE OLD TESTAMENT
• 17:10 AND MUCH OF IT IS DONE RIGHT THROUGH THE FEASTS OF THE SEVEN FEASTS OF ISRAEL.
• 17:14 YESHUA SAID "IF YOU'D LISTEN TO MOSES YOU'D LISTEN TO ME FOR MOSES SPOKE OF ME".
• 17:19 IF YOU THROW OUT THE OLDER TESTAMENT YOU NEVER GET A SENSE OF HOW THAT'S THE CASE.
• 17:23 YES THAT IS EXTREMELY TRUE.
• 17:25 AND I BELIEVE THAT'S ONE OF THE REASONS
• 17:26 THAT GOD HAS RESURRECTED...
• 17:28 RESTORED THE MESSIANIC JEWISH MOVEMENT OF THE FIRST CENTURY.
• 17:32 WE HAVEN'T SEEN MESSIANIC JEWS AROUND FOR ALMOST 1800 YEARS
• 17:37 AND ALL OF A SUDDEN NOW, OUT OF THE BLUE,
• 17:39 GOD CHOSE THIS VERY MOMENT IN HISTORY
• 17:42 TO RESURRECT A MESSIANIC JEWISH COMMUNITY FROM THE FIRST CENTURY
• 17:46 JUST LIKE THE ORIGINAL FOLLOWERS OF YESHUA...OF JESUS
• 17:50 WHO WERE ALL JEWISH IN THE VERY FIRST PART OF THE FIRST CENTURY.
• 17:54 HOW DOES IT FEEL TO PARTICIPATE IN THAT?...
• 17:57 YOU BEING AT THE VANGUARD OF THAT MOVEMENT.
• 17:59 JEFF IT'S WONDERFUL...
• 18:01 IF I KEEP MY EYES FOCUSED ON THE MESSIAH.
• 18:03 IF I HAPPEN TO LOOK AROUND
• 18:05 AND I BEGIN TO SENSE ALL THE DISDAIN
• 18:08 EITHER FROM THE JEWISH COMMUNITY OR THE CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY
• 18:11 AND THE CONFUSION THAT SOME PEOPLE EXPERIENCE...
• 18:14 THAT IS SOMEWHAT DISCOURAGING.
• 18:15 BUT IF I KEEP MY EYES FOCUSED ON THE MESSIAH
• 18:18 AND I SEE WHAT GOD IS DOING AMONG US
• 18:20 THEN I AM EXTREMELY EXCITED...
• 18:23 I'M EXTREMELY EXCITED.
• 18:24 I WOULD THINK OUT THERE IN THE WORLD
• 18:26 THAT IT'S A MARVEL TO BEHOLD...
• 18:27 THAT PEOPLE SURELY WOULD THINK "WOW... LOOK WHAT GOD IS DOING!"
• 18:30 BUT INSTEAD THERE ARE JEWISH PEOPLE WHO DON'T LIKE US
• 18:33 BECAUSE WE BELIEVE IN YESHUA JESUS...
• 18:35 THERE ARE JESUS PEOPLE THAT DON'T LIKE US CAUSE WE'RE TOO JEWISH
• 18:38 AND WE'RE KIND OF THERE BETWEEN A ROCK AND A HARD PLACE...YES?
• 18:40 WE ARE BETWEEN A ROCK AND A HARD PLACE
• 18:42 BUT IT'S ACTUALLY A GOOD PLACE
• 18:44 BECAUSE JEWISH PEOPLE LIKE TO RAISE QUESTIONS.
• 18:47 WE DON'T OFTEN LIKE TO HAVE A SPOTLIGHT ON US
• 18:50 BUT WE LIKE TO RAISE QUESTIONS
• 18:52 BECAUSE WE WANT PEOPLE TO THINK.
• 18:53 AND SO BELIEVE IT OR NOT
• 18:55 GOD RAISES LOTS OF QUESTIONS IN THE SCRIPTURES
• 18:58 AND THE RESTORATION OF THE MESSIANIC JEWISH MOVEMENT
• 19:02 HAS RAISED NUMEROUS QUESTIONS AMONG CHRISTIANS, AMONG JEWS
• 19:05 AND PEOPLE IN THE WORLD.
• 19:07 AND I PITCHED A QUESTION TO EITAN SHISKOFF,
• 19:10 A FRIEND OF YOURS AND MINE
• 19:11 A DEAR FRIEND
• 19:12 A MESSIANIC LEADER IN ISRAEL.
• 19:14 AND I ASKED HIM,
• 19:15 WELL..HE WAS ASKED,
• 19:17 "DO YOU THINK THAT PEOPLE REALLY GET IT?"...
• 19:20 THE STORY OF JEWISH PEOPLE WHO BELIEVE IN YESHUA.
• 19:22 LET'S HEAR EITAN KNOW.
• 19:25 I WOULD HAVE TO SAY THAT
• 19:26 THIS IS THE BEGINNING
• 19:28 OF AN UNDERSTANDING.
• 19:29 AND I THINK THERE ARE POCKETS
• 19:31 WHERE THERE IS ENORMOUS
• 19:32 COMPREHENSION AND IT'S EXCITING.
• 19:34 BUT I THINK THAT'S ONLY
• 19:36 A SEED THAT'S GROWING
• 19:38 AND OF COURSE THE CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY IN AMERICA IS A MULTI-HEWED THING.
• 19:45 IT'S NOT THAT YOU JUST HAVE ONE TYPE OF BELIEVER I WOULD SAY
• 19:50 EVEN AMONG STRONGLY BIBLE BELIEVING PEOPLE IN AMERICA.
• 19:55 THE UNDERSTANDING OF ISRAEL IN GENERAL IS STILL VERY MIXED
• 20:00 AND OF COURSE MUCH OF WHAT PEOPLE ARE READING IN THEIR PAPERS AND MAGAZINES...
• 20:04 SEEING IN THE PRESS
• 20:06 IS NOT ALTOGETHER POSITIVE
• 20:09 AND CAN REALLY HURT THE BIBLE BELIEVER FROM GETTING A TRUE PICTURE
• 20:15 OF THE WAY THAT GOD'S HEART IS CONNECTED WITH ISRAEL AND WHAT HE CALLS US TO AS BELIEVERS.
• 20:21 BUT I PREFER TO FOCUS ON THE PART THAT IS GROWING
• 20:25 AND WHEN I TRAVEL IN THE STATES AND MEET PEOPLE AND SPEAK
• 20:29 I FIND A GROWING UNDERSTANDING AND EXCITEMENT.
• 20:33 PEOPLE SOMEHOW ARE SENSING...
• 20:36 BIBLE BELIEVING PEOPLE ARE SENSING THAT THERE'S REBIRTH OF A JEWISH COMMUNITY ...
• 20:42 OF PEOPLE WHO LOVE AND FOLLOW YESHUA AND EMBRACE HIM AS THE MESSIAH
• 20:47 BUT ARE MAINTAINING A JEWISH LIFE AND AN IDENTITY
• 20:50 AND A HERITAGE IS SOMETHING THAT IS...IT'S A PROPHETIC SIGN...
• 20:55 AND IT'S REALLY PART AND PARCEL OF WHAT GOD TELLS IN THE PROPHETS
• 21:00 THROUGH EZEKIEL AND ISAIAH AND JEREMIAH AND HOSEA AND ALL THESE GUYS...
• 21:03 WHAT GOD IS SAYING IS,
• 21:05 WHEN I BRING YOU BACK TO THE LAND THERE WILL BE A REVIVAL...
• 21:09 A RESTORATION...
• 21:10 A SPIRITUAL RESURRECTION...
• 21:12 AND THEN YOU WILL KNOW DAVID YOUR KING.
• 21:15 AND OF COURSE THAT'S CODE LANGUAGE FOR THE MESSIAH.
• 21:17 WE KNOW WHO THAT IS.
• 21:20 MY SUGGESTION...
• 21:21 COME TO ISRAEL...
• 21:22 YOU'LL ENJOY IT...
• 21:24 THIS NINE - TEN DAY TRIP HAS TOTALLY REVOLUTIONIZED THE WAY I LOOK AT...
• 21:29 THE PROFOUND MEANING AND THE HISTORY BEHIND EVERYTHING AND...
• 21:32 WE'VE SEEN A LOT OF GREAT THINGS...
• 21:33 WE'VE LEARNED SO MUCH...
• 21:35 WHAT CAN BE MORE SPECIAL THAN COMING TO GOD'S LAND WITH GOD'S PEOPLE?
• 21:39 IF YOU WANT TO FALL IN LOVE WITH ISRAEL AND GOD'S CHOSEN PEOPLE I INVITE YOU TO COME...
• 21:45 YOU WILL NOT BE DISAPPOINTED.
• 21:46 JOIN US IN ISRAEL FOR A TRIP OF A LIFETIME.
• 21:51 IT'S GREAT TO GO TO ISRAEL
• 21:53 AND IF YOU GO WITH ME...
• 21:54 IF YOU COME WITH US
• 21:55 YOU'RE GOING TO SEE THE MESSIANIC JEWISH MOVEMENT IN ISRAEL...
• 21:59 YOU'RE GOING TO TASTE THAT REVIVAL.
• 22:01 DON'T YOU LOVE IT?
• 22:02 CALL 1-800-WONDERS
• 22:04 AND GET THE BALL ROLLING
• 22:05 AND TRACIE WILL HELP YOU WALK THROUGH THE PROCESS.
• 22:08 GOOD TO SEE YOU TRACE
• 22:09 GOOD TO SEE YOU TOO
• 22:10 YOU ARE OUR TRAVEL MANAGER CORRECT?
• 22:12 THAT'S WHAT YOU DO...
• 22:14 HELP PEOPLE GET TO AND THROUGH THE LAND OF ISRAEL.
• 22:15 AND I LOVE IT.
• 22:17 I LOVE IT DR. SEIF BECAUSE GOING TO ISRAEL
• 22:19 HAS BEEN THE ABSOLUTE JOY OF MY LIFE
• 22:21 AND ACTUALLY TALK TO PEOPLE
• 22:23 AND TO HELP THEM MAKE THEIR DREAM COME TRUE IS TOTALLY AMAZING.
• 22:25 AND WHAT'S REALLY NEAT IS WE'VE ACTUALLY MADE IT EASIER THAN EVER
• 22:28 TO REGISTER FOR OUR TRIPS.
• 22:30 YOU CAN GO TO LEVITT.COM,
• 22:33 REGISTER ON LINE...
• 22:34 ALL THE INFORMATION IS THERE.
• 22:36 BUT I AM THERE IN THE OFFICE EACH DAY
• 22:38 AS A RESOURCE FOR PEOPLE TO CALL THAT HAVE QUESTIONS...
• 22:40 AND WE REALLY HOLD THEIR HAND EVERY STEP OF THE WAY.
• 22:42 IS IT SAFE?
• 22:44 WHAT DO I PACK?
• 22:45 HOW MUCH FOR THIS AND THAT?
• 22:46 YOU TAKE CARE OF IT FOR THEM.
• 22:48 I TAKE CARE OF THAT
• 22:48 AND WHAT'S ALSO EXCITING
• 22:50 IS I HAVE ONE LADY ORGANIZING A GROUP FOR NEXT SUMMER
• 22:52 THAT IS GOING TO BE ABLE TO COME FREE
• 22:55 BECAUSE SHE HAS OVER 10 PAYING PASSENGERS.
• 22:57 MANY PEOPLE DON'T KNOW WE OFFER A DEAL WHERE
• 22:59 IF YOU HAVE 10 PAYING PASSENGERS 1 PERSON COMES FREE.
• 23:02 PASTOR CAN TAKE THAT ONE.
• 23:04 ABSOLUTELY, SO ESPECIALLY
• 23:05 IF A PASTOR IS TRYING TO GET A GROUP TOGETHER...
• 23:08 PASTOR DON'T ORGANIZE THAT GROUP YOURSELF...
• 23:09 YOU COME WITH US AND WE'LL TAKE CARE OF ALL THE DETAILS.
• 23:11 RIGHT AND THEN THEY'LL HELP ME DO THE BAPTISMS IN THE JORDAN RIVER...
• 23:14 ALWAYS A HIGHLIGHT.
• 23:15 THAT'S RIGHT.
• 23:16 ANOTHER HIGHLIGHT IS GOING TO
• 23:18 "KING OF KINGS CHURCH"
• 23:19 WHICH IS TOTALLY AMAZING
• 23:20 TO WORSHIP YESHUA IN JERUSALEM. >>YES
• 23:22 IT'S UNSPEAKABLE
• 23:23 PLEASE COME WITH US... WE'D LOVE TO HAVE YOU.
• 23:25 AND OFF WE GO NOW AS ZOLA LEVITT SOME YEARS AGO
• 23:28 SPOKE TO ONE OF THE LEADERS OF A MESSIANIC MOVEMENT IN ISRAEL.
• 23:34 IT'S ABOUT 35
• 23:35 MESSIANIC FELLOWSHIPS
• 23:37 THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY
• 23:38 ALL THE MAIN CITIES
• 23:40 HAVE AT LEAST ONE
• 23:42 IN THEIR CITIES...
• 23:44 IT'S GROWING.
• 23:45 IN FACT EVERY SIX MONTHS
• 23:47 THERE IS A NEW FELLOWSHIP WHICH IS GROWING.
• 23:49 NOW THERE ARE AMONG THE NEW IMMIGRANTS
• 23:54 THERE IS A RUSSIAN FELLOWSHIP BIRTHED
• 23:58 ALL OVER IN HAIFA AND TIBERIAS AND SO FORTH.
• 24:01 SO WE SEE A REAL GROWTH OF THE BODY NOT ONLY IN NUMBERS
• 24:07 BUT ALSO IN MATURITY.
• 24:10 THERE'S MORE UNITY BETWEEN THE FELLOWSHIPS
• 24:12 AND BETWEEN THE LEADERS
• 24:13 AND PASTORS GET TOGETHER
• 24:15 AND PRAY AND SHARE.
• 24:17 SO I THINK GOD IS DOING SOMETHING EXCITING HERE.
• 24:20 AND THE EXCITEMENT HERE
• 24:22 WITH BELIEVERS IN ISRAEL
• 24:24 IS SOMETHING REALLY SPECIAL.
• 24:26 THESE PEOPLE JUST DO ANYTHING
• 24:29 AND GO TO ANY TROUBLE TO FELLOWSHIP TOGETHER
• 24:31 AND WE ASKED ABOUT WHAT'S SO SPECIAL.
• 24:35 THEY HELP ME TO WORK OUT PROBLEMS THAT I WOULDN'T KNOW HOW TO WORK OUT BY MYSELF.
• 24:43 AND THEY HELP ME TO LOOK AT IT FROM GOD'S POINT OF VIEW ALSO
• 24:46 AND IT REALLY HELPS ME.
• 24:48 IT GIVES ME...
• 24:51 LIKE A FAMILY TO BELONG TO.
• 24:54 THAT WAS BACK IN 1991
• 24:57 AND HERE WE ARE SOME TWENTY YEARS LATER.
• 25:00 A LOT'S HAPPENED ISN'T THAT RIGHT RABBI MARTY?
• 25:02 TREMENDOUS THINGS HAVE HAPPENED JEFF.
• 25:05 IT'S JUST AMAZING WHAT'S HAPPENED IN THE LAND OF ISRAEL
• 25:08 AND ACTUALLY ALL OVER THE WORLD.
• 25:10 THERE HAS BEEN A TREMENDOUS REVIVAL
• 25:12 AMONG JEWISH PEOPLE IN THE FORMER SOVIET UNION SINCE THAT TIME.
• 25:16 AND IT INCREASED THE NUMBER...
• 25:19 IT JUST MUSHROOMED...
• 25:21 THE NUMBER OF JEWISH PEOPLE WHO NOW BELIEVE IN YESHUA
• 25:24 AND FOLLOW HIM AS THEIR MESSIAH.
• 25:26 THE NUMBER OF CONGREGATIONS HAVE MUSHROOMED SINCE 1991.
• 25:29 HAS IT HAPPENED WITHOUT A FIGHT?
• 25:32 HAS THE MINISTRY IN ISRAEL BEEN CHECKERED WITH DEMONIC ASSAULTS?
• 25:37 YES, IF YOU GO TO ISRAEL
• 25:39 AND YOU TALK TO SOME OF THE BELIEVERS THERE TODAY...
• 25:42 SOME OF THE JEWISH BELIEVERS...
• 25:44 YOU'LL DISCOVER THAT IT'S VERY MUCH LIKE THE NEW TESTAMENT...
• 25:47 LIKE THE BOOK OF ACTS.
• 25:49 THEY ARE ASSAULTED BY SOME OF THE ORTHODOX...
• 25:51 THEY ARE ASSAULTED BY DIFFERENT PEOPLE
• 25:53 BUT THE AVERAGE ISRAELI IS OKAY WITH THE MESSIANIC JEWS.
• 25:58 YES AND IT SEEMS TO ME THAT MESSIANIC BELIEVERS THAT I HAVE TALKED TO
• 26:02 ARE OKAY WITH THE ASSAULT IF YOU WILL...
• 26:04 THAT IS...
• 26:05 LET'S BE FORGIVING, LET'S BE GRACIOUS...
• 26:07 THEY DON'T UNDERSTAND.
• 26:08 WELL OF COURSE NONE OF US LIKE IT PHYSICALLY
• 26:10 BUT WE ARE HONORED TO BE NUMBERED
• 26:12 AMONG THOSE WHO COULD BE WITH YESHUA
• 26:14 AND WITH THOSE WHO FOLLOWED HIM EARLY IN THE FIRST CENTURY.
• 26:17 YOU KNOW CHRISTIANS USED THE TERM IN THE WEST...
• 26:19 "IT'S PART OF THE CULTURE."
• 26:21 BUT TO BE A FOLLOWER OF YESHUA IS NOT PART OF THE CULTURE IN ISRAEL TODAY.
• 26:24 NO IT'S NOT AT ALL
• 26:26 AND IN FACT IT'S SOMETIMES VERY, VERY DIFFICULT TO FOLLOW THE MESSIAH IN ISRAEL.
• 26:30 YES BUT TAKE A STAND WE MUST.
• 26:32 WE MUST...ABSOLUTELY.
• 26:33 IT'S A LOT EASIER HERE IN NORTH AMERICA.
• 26:35 WE CAN PROMOTE MESSIANIC JUDAISM HERE OPENLY
• 26:39 BECAUSE WE LIVE IN A COUNTRY THAT ALLOWS THE FULL FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION...
• 26:44 NOT SO IN ISRAEL.
• 26:45 YES AND WE'LL CONSIDER THE STORY OF THAT MESSIANIC JEWISH EXPRESSION.
• 26:49 GOD BLESS YOU AS YOU GO NOW, THOUGH.
• 26:51 SHA'ALU SHALOM YERUSHALAYIM
• 26:53 PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM