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Caption transcript for The Holy Days of Our Lord (2012): “Overview” (1/11)

• 00:02 IT IS WRITTEN IN THE SCRIPTURES
• 00:04 THAT WE SHOULD JOURNEY TO JERUSALEM THREE TIMES A YEAR.
• 00:07 WE ARE GOING UP TO THE CITY OF GOD...TO JERUSALEM
• 00:11 TO CELEBRATE.
• 00:17 THE LORD TOLD THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL
• 00:19 TO HONOR SEVEN HOLY CELEBRATIONS EACH YEAR INVOLVING THREE JOURNEYS TO JERUSALEM.
• 00:24 EACH FESTIVAL WOULD BE UNIQUELY FULFILLED IN THE COMING OF THE MESSIAH.
• 00:43 SHALOM AND WELCOME
• 00:45 TO ZOLA LEVITT PRESENTS.
• 00:46 I'M MYLES.
• 00:47 THIS IS KATHARINE.
• 00:48 AND TODAY WE'RE
• 00:49 BEGINNING A SERIES CALLED
• 00:50 "THE HOLY DAYS OF THE LORD...
• 00:51 SHADOWS OF THINGS TO COME."
• 00:53 I LOVE THE FEASTS MYLES
• 00:55 BECAUSE IT'S A TIME WHERE WE GET TO REFLECT NOT ONLY WHAT THE LORD HAS DONE
• 00:58 BUT WHAT HE'S GOING TO DO.
• 01:00 HE KEPT THE FIRST THREE AND HE'S ABOUT TO KEEP THE NEXT FOUR.
• 01:04 SO WE GET TO SEE A LITTLE BIT
• 01:06 ABOUT WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN IN THE FUTURE WITH OUR LIFE WITH THE LORD.
• 01:09 IT'S REALLY TRUE.
• 01:11 THERE'S THE HISTORICAL, A PROPHETIC AND A PERSONAL MEANING
• 01:14 TO EACH OF THE FEASTS OF THE LORD.
• 01:16 THERE'S THE HISTORICAL MEANING BECAUSE IT RELATES TO ISRAEL;
• 01:19 THERE'S A PROPHETIC MEANING BECAUSE IT POINTS TO THE MESSIAH;
• 01:22 AND THERE'S A PERSONAL MEANING.
• 01:23 THERE'S ALWAYS SOMETHING IN IT FOR YOU AND FOR ME.
• 01:25 THERE'S ALWAYS TEACHING IN HERE THAT YOU'LL GET SOMETHING OUT OF FOR YOUR OWN LIFE.
• 01:29 WHAT A THRILL FOR US TO BE HERE,
• 01:32 TO RE-INTRODUCE THIS SERIES.
• 01:33 OUR FOUNDER ZOLA LEVITT DID THIS SERIES BEFORE HE WENT TO HEAVEN.
• 01:37 AND SO TODAY LET'S BEGIN
• 01:39 WITH THE OVERVIEW OF THE FEASTS OF THE LORD... A SHADOW OF THINGS TO COME.
• 01:46 SHALOM, HELLO AGAIN.
• 01:47 WE'RE IN THE KIDRON VALLEY
• 01:49 IN JERUSALEM JUST DOWN THE HILL
• 01:51 FROM THE TEMPLE SITE.
• 01:52 BEHIND ME YOU CAN SEE THE WALL
• 01:54 HERE ON THE EASTERN SIDE
• 01:55 AND OF COURSE THE EAST GATE WHERE IN THE SECOND COMING ALL OF US WILL GO THROUGH
• 02:00 THE GATE WITH THE COMING KING,
• 02:02 THE LORD JESUS, WHEN HE RETURNS.
• 02:04 NOW THE PEOPLE WENT
• 02:06 THROUGH THIS GATE
• 02:07 FOR MANY, MANY CENTURIES
• 02:09 AND OUT IN THE WILDERNESS THEY WENT THROUGH A GATE ON THE EAST SIDE OF THE TABERNACLE
• 02:12 ALWAYS ON THE EAST TO KEEP THEIR BACK TO THE SUN
• 02:15 WHICH IS OUT THIS WAY OF COURSE...
• 02:17 WE'RE HERE IN THE MORNING.
• 02:18 AND THEY DID NOT WANT TO COPY THE EGYPTIAN SUN WORSHIP
• 02:21 SO THEY TURNED THEIR BACKS TO THE SUN
• 02:23 AND WENT IN TO DEAL WITH GOD.
• 02:25 AND IN DEALING WITH GOD THEY CELEBRATED FEASTS
• 02:29 AND THESE FEASTS ARE THE WORLD'S OLDEST FEASTS BY A LONG SHOT....
• 02:33 3500 YEARS AGO GOD GAVE MOSES ON MOUNT SINAI THE INSTRUCTIONS FOR THESE OBSERVANCES.
• 02:40 THERE'S NO OTHER SOCIETY THAT'S ANY COMPETITION WITH THE AGE OF THESE FEASTS.
• 02:45 THE OLDEST THAT I CAN THINK OF OFF- HAND
• 02:47 THAT ARE STILL KEEPING THE SAME FEASTS
• 02:49 THAT THEY STARTED AT THE BEGINNING OR THE SAME WORSHIP STYLE,
• 02:52 THE SAME GOD THE SAME LANGUAGE
• 02:54 ARE THE MUSLIMS AND THAT'S ONLY 13 CENTURIES.
• 02:56 SO REALLY WE HAVE FOR EXAMPLE WHAT WE CALL "ANCIENT ROME"
• 03:02 IS HALFWAY BACK TO THE FIRST PASSOVER
• 03:04 SO THESE ARE OLD INDEED.
• 03:07 IT'S REALLY SOBERING TO THINK
• 03:09 THAT THE MIDDLE-EAST IS THE WORLD'S TREASURE AS FAR AS ANTIQUITY.
• 03:13 AND IN THE MIDDLE EAST THE JEWISH PEOPLE ARE BY FAR THE OLDEST ORIGINALS.
• 03:18 EVERY OTHER COUNTRY...
• 03:20 THE EGYPTIANS TODAY ARE ARABS AND NOT THE PYRAMID BUILDERS.
• 03:23 THE TURKS TODAY ARE MUSLIMS;
• 03:25 THEY ARE NOT CHURCHES OF ASIA THAT WERE THERE IN THE ROMAN EMPIRE.
• 03:29 THEY'VE ALL CHANGED EXCEPT ISRAEL.
• 03:32 WITH THE RESTORATION OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE TO THIS LAND
• 03:35 GOD HAS RECREATED THE ORIGINALS
• 03:38 AND THEY SPEAK THE SAME LANGUAGE, SING THE SAME HYMNS,
• 03:40 PRAY THE SAME PRAYERS, WORSHIP THE SAME GOD
• 03:43 AND MOST IMPORTANTLY THEY REALLY DO KEEP THE SAME FEASTS.
• 03:46 NOW THIS WAS GOD'S FIRST CORPORATE DEALING WITH THE PEOPLE AS A NATION...
• 03:52 A WHOLE PEOPLE.
• 03:53 BEFORE THIS HE DEALT WITH PATRIARCHS.
• 03:54 HE TALKED TO ABRAHAM,
• 03:56 HE DEALT WITH ISAAC, WITH JACOB AND SO FORTH
• 03:58 BUT NOW HE'S DEALING WITH A NATION OF 2 TO 3 MILLION I SUPPOSE
• 04:03 AND THESE FEASTS WERE TO BE COMMEMORATED BY ALL OF THE PEOPLE
• 04:08 NOT JUST A FEW PATRIARCHS.
• 04:10 AND THE FEASTS THEMSELVES WERE PICTURES OF THINGS TO COME.
• 04:13 A PICTURE IS WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS THEY SAY.
• 04:16 IT WOULD TAKE TEN THOUSAND, A HUNDRED THOUSAND WORDS TO DESCRIBE MESSIAH TO COME.
• 04:20 BUT THESE FEASTS AS WE'LL SEE ARE CLEAR PICTURES OF HIM.
• 04:24 NOW THEN FROM MOUNT SINAI WE HAVE A NEW PEOPLE...
• 04:27 NEW LAWS...
• 04:29 CERTAIN TIMES THAT THEY ARE GOING TO OFFER SACRIFICES,
• 04:31 HAVE SERVICES, GIVE CELEBRATIONS...
• 04:34 THREE TIMES A YEAR THE LORD SAID...
• 04:36 THREE PERIODS IN THE YEAR ON WHICH SEVEN FEASTS WOULD BE CELEBRATED.
• 04:40 HE SAID THAT THEY WERE TO COME UP TO JERUSALEM
• 04:43 SO OBVIOUSLY THEY WEREN'T SUPPOSED TO LEAVE THE LAND...
• 04:46 THE PSALMIST SAYS NOT TO LEAVE THE LAND AND CRIES
• 04:49 "HOW DO WE SING THE SONG OF THE LORD IN A FOREIGN PLACE?"
• 04:53 AND SO ON.
• 04:55 OUR PILGRIMS THAT COME ON THE TOURS KNOW VERY WELL WHY NOT TO LEAVE THE LAND.
• 05:00 IT'S A LONG AND ARDUOUS FLIGHT TO ISRAEL FROM AMERICA
• 05:03 AND THEY HAVE TROUBLE SLEEPING IN THE AIRPLANE
• 05:06 AND EVERY TIME I REMIND THEM WHAT THE PSALMIST SAID.
• 05:09 ANYWAY, DEUTERONOMY 16,
• 05:11 GOD MAKES HIMSELF VERY CLEAR...
• 05:32 THOSE THREE FEAST TIMES; WE CALL THEM BASICALLY
• 05:34 "PASSOVER", "PENTECOST"
• 05:36 AND "TABERNACLES,
• 05:37 ARE IN SPRING,
• 05:39 IN EARLY SUMMER
• 05:40 AND IN FALL...
• 05:42 THE BEGINNING OF FALL.
• 05:43 THEY MARK OUT MOMENTS IN THE MESSIAH'S CAREER
• 05:46 AND THEY TELL HIS STORY FROM THE CRUCIFIXION
• 05:48 WHICH WAS AT PASSOVER
• 05:50 TO THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE MILLENNIAL KINGDOM
• 05:52 WHICH WILL BE ON A "FEAST OF TABERNACLES".
• 05:54 EVEN THE SUMMER SEASON
• 05:56 WHEN THERE ARE NO FEASTS FROM THE LATE MAY OR EARLY JUNE EVENT OF PENTECOST
• 06:00 AFTER THE FALL EVENT OF THE FEAST OF TRUMPETS,
• 06:03 THERE'S A LONG SUMMER
• 06:05 AND IN THAT SUMMER THE CHURCH AGE PASSES, SO TO SPEAK,
• 06:09 BETWEEN THE LORD'S FIRST ADVENT AND HIS SECOND.
• 06:12 JEREMIAH 8:20 SAYS IN EFFECT
• 06:14 "THE SUMMER'S OVER AND WE'RE NOT YET SAVED."
• 06:17 NOW ONE FOURTH OF THE BIBLE,
• 06:19 SOME SAY EVEN A THIRD,
• 06:20 IS PROPHECY.
• 06:21 THAT IS WHAT MAKES THE BIBLE A SPECIAL BOOK.
• 06:23 THAT IS WHAT MAKES IT THE WORD OF GOD.
• 06:26 IT SIMPLY HAS ACCURATE PROPHECY
• 06:28 AND THAT'S ALL THERE IS TO THAT...
• 06:30 ANYONE COULD SEE THAT IF THEY'LL LOOK AT IT.
• 06:32 THE FEASTS ARE GIVEN IN LEVITICUS 23,
• 06:35 ALL SEVEN OF THEM IN ONE CHAPTER.
• 06:37 BECAUSE THE PEOPLE COULDN'T REALLY READ AND STUDY AND SO FORTH
• 06:41 AND BOOKS IN THOSE DAYS WERE COMPLICATED BIG SCROLLS,
• 06:44 THEY WERE GATHERED IN ONE PLACE WHERE THEY COULD LOOK AT THEM
• 06:48 OR BE TAUGHT THEM BY A PRIEST AND SO ON
• 06:50 SO THEY COULD REMEMBER THE SEVEN FEASTS.
• 06:52 IT WAS VERY IMPORTANT
• 06:54 BECAUSE AN ERROR IN CELEBRATING THESE FEASTS HAD VERY DIRE CONSEQUENCES.
• 06:59 THE "DAY OF ATONEMENT" FOR EXAMPLE,
• 07:02 THE PUNISHMENT FOR FAILING TO CONFESS IN THAT DAY
• 07:05 OR FOR DOING WORK IN THAT DAY
• 07:08 WAS TO BE CUT OFF FROM AMONG THE PEOPLE,
• 07:10 IT SAYS, DESTROYED FROM AMONG THE PEOPLE,
• 07:13 THAT IS IN LEVITICUS 23 ALSO.
• 07:15 AND TO BE DESTROYED FROM AMONG THE PEOPLE
• 07:18 IS THE SPIRITUAL PUNISHMENT WE CALL "EX-COMMUNICATION"
• 07:21 WHERE THE PRIESTS HAD THE AUTHORITY TO TELL THE PEOPLE,
• 07:24 "WELL, NO NEED TO RETURN TO THE TEMPLE ANYMORE,
• 07:28 YOUR SACRIFICES ARE NOT EFFICACIOUS NOW,
• 07:31 YOU CANNOT OBTAIN REDEMPTION AGAIN,
• 07:34 SO YOU'RE NOT CHOSEN ANYMORE,
• 07:37 YOU'RE NOT JEWISH ANYMORE..."
• 07:38 MY GOODNESS, THAT'S A TERRIBLE PUNISHMENT TO ANY PERSON.
• 07:43 IT'S SOMETHING THAT JUST DOESN'T EXIST IN CHRISTIANITY.
• 07:46 THERE IS NO PASTOR WITH THE AUTHORITY TO PUT YOU OUT OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH.
• 07:50 OCCASIONALLY CHRISTIAN DENOMINATIONS EX-COMMUNICATE SOMEBODY
• 07:54 FOR WHAT THEY CONSIDER A TERRIBLE SIN AND SO ON
• 07:57 BUT THAT'S NOT BIBLICAL,
• 07:58 THAT'S ERROR.
• 08:00 NO ONE CAN TAKE YOU OUT OF CHRIST'S HAND
• 08:02 AND THAT'S ALL THERE IS TO THAT.
• 08:03 HE SAID, "NO ONE PLUCKS THEM FROM MY FATHER'S HAND."
• 08:06 NOW THE FEASTS WERE A GUIDE UP UNTIL THE MESSIAH CAME.
• 08:10 THAT'S A VERY IMPORTANT POINT.
• 08:11 WE HAVE A CONFUSION TODAY...
• 08:13 SOME PEOPLE SAY WE NEED TO KEEP ALL THE FEASTS...
• 08:15 OTHER PEOPLE SAY THE FEASTS WERE CRUCIFIED WITH CHRIST ON THE CROSS,
• 08:18 WE DON'T NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THEM AT ALL.
• 08:20 I'VE HAD PASTORS HOSTILE TO JUDAISM SAYING
• 08:23 "DON'T INVITE ME TO A PASSOVER...THOSE THINGS WERE CRUCIFIED WITH CHRIST".
• 08:27 THAT'S NOT JUST BEING IGNORANT OF THE BIBLE...
• 08:30 THAT'S NOT HOW IT IS.
• 08:32 COLOSSIANS 2:16 SAYS,
• 08:33 AND VERY CLEARLY,
• 08:35 "LET NO MAN INSTRUCT YOU
• 08:37 AS TO FESTIVALS AND HOLY DAYS,
• 08:39 OF FOOD AND DRINK..."
• 08:40 AND SO ON...
• 08:41 ALL THESE OBSERVANCES...
• 08:42 AND THEN HE SAYS,
• 08:44 "FOR THESE WERE SHADOWS
• 08:45 OF THE THINGS TO COME."
• 08:46 IN EFFECT THEY WERE PICTURES OF CHRIST.
• 08:48 DR. MCCALL OF OUR MINISTRY SAYS,
• 08:50 "WHEN I TRAVEL I CARRY A PICTURE OF MY FAMILY
• 08:54 AND I LOOK AT THE PICTURE AS I TRAVEL
• 08:56 BUT I DON'T LOOK AT THE PICTURE WHEN I'M AT HOME WITH THEM,
• 08:58 I LOOK AT THEM."
• 09:00 BEFORE CHRIST CAME PEOPLE LOOKED AT PICTURES OF MESSIAH TO COME
• 09:05 BUT NOW THAT HE HAS COME THEY LOOK AT HIM AND NOT AT THE FEASTS.
• 09:09 IF YOU DO "PASSOVER",
• 09:10 THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB,
• 09:12 THE EXODUS FROM EGYPT,
• 09:14 YOU'RE DOING TYPE SYMBOLS OF THINGS THAT WERE ACCOMPLISHED WITH THE SACRIFICE OF CHRIST
• 09:18 AND THE EXODUS WHICH IS THE TRIP THROUGH THE HUMAN LIFE FOR THE BELIEVER.
• 09:24 SO DON'T BE CONFUSED...
• 09:26 IGNORANCE OF THE FEASTS IS NOT THE WAY TO GO...
• 09:28 AND OBSERVING THEM IS NOT NECESSARILY THE WAY TO GO.
• 09:31 ALTHOUGH I WILL SAY, AS I SAY THAT,
• 09:33 THESE ARE GOD'S LAWS AND THERE'S NO HARM IN KEEPING ANY OF THEM.
• 09:37 THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO EAT KOSHER WHO CARRY OUT EVERYTHING THEY CAN OF THE OLD TESTAMENT...
• 09:41 THERE'S NO HARM IN IT BUT ITS EXTRA EFFORT...
• 09:44 IT'S NOT EXTRA CREDIT; BY THE WAY,
• 09:46 IT DOESN'T COUNT ANY.
• 09:48 NO WORK OF MERIT THAT WE DO ADDS TO OUR SALVATION.
• 09:51 WE'RE EITHER SAVED OR WE'RE NOT SAVED...THAT'S IT...
• 09:54 IT DOESN'T DEPEND ON OUR BEHAVIOR;
• 09:56 IT'S THE FREE GIFT OF GOD LEST ANY SHOULD BOAST.
• 09:58 PEOPLE KEEPING ALL THESE LAWS
• 09:59 TEND IN A TINY WAY TO BE BOASTFUL
• 10:02 BECAUSE I HAVE MET THEM.
• 10:04 THEY SAY, "AREN'T YOU KEEPING PASSOVER THIS YEAR?
• 10:06 WELL WE ARE, WE'RE HAVING A SEDER,
• 10:08 WE'RE ALL DRESSING IN COSTUME..." AND WHATEVER.
• 10:10 I GET THE SENSATION THEY ARE...THE OLD EXPRESSION "LORDING IT OVER ME"
• 10:15 BUT NO...I DON'T' KEEP THEM
• 10:17 BUT I DO TEACH THEM AND MAKE PEOPLE AWARE OF THEM AS I'M TEACHING THEM TO YOU NOW.
• 10:21 FOR THE KNOWLEDGE KNOW THAT THEY ARE PICTURES OF THINGS TO COME.
• 10:25 THE FEASTS WERE A WAY OF OBEDIENCE.
• 10:28 I SAMUEL SAYS THIS ABOUT OBEDIENCE, ITS VERY INTERESTING.
• 10:33 "AND SAMUEL SAID,
• 10:58 THE PROPHET JUST TOLD TO SAUL,
• 11:00 THAT HE WAS REJECTED FOR DISOBEDIENCE.
• 11:02 THE IDEA IS ANY OBSERVANCE LIKE A SACRIFICE IS INFERIOR TO SIMPLE BELIEF...
• 11:08 THAT IS THE WAY TO GO.
• 11:11 AND IT'S TAKEN TO A FAULT AGAIN BY MODERN JUDAISM
• 11:15 WHICH USES A SCRIPTURE LIKE THIS TO GET RID OF THE BLOOD SACRIFICE LET'S SAY
• 11:21 WHICH THEY CAN'T MAKE CAUSE THERE'S NO TEMPLE.
• 11:23 IF YOU ASK A JEWISH PERSON, "ARE YOU DOING SACRIFICES SOMEWHERE?"
• 11:26 BECAUSE THE LAW REQUIRES IT
• 11:28 AS LONG AS YOU'RE KEEPING SOME OF THE LAW
• 11:30 ARE YOU KEEPING IT ALL?
• 11:32 AND THE ANSWER MIGHT BE
• 11:33 "WELL GOD SAID CLEARLY OBEDIENCE IS BETTER THAN SACRIFICE
• 11:36 SO I'M OBEDIENT TO GOD,
• 11:38 I'M DOING THIS AND THAT..." AND SO ON.
• 11:40 THAT'S A BIT OF A STRETCH FROM THIS VERSE
• 11:42 BUT IN ANY CASE GOD WANTS OBEDIENCE
• 11:44 AND THE FEASTS WERE GIVEN TO THE PEOPLE FOR ONE THING,
• 11:47 TO LEARN TO OBEY.
• 11:48 THEY WEREN'T EASY TO DO...
• 11:50 TRIPS TO JERUSALEM THREE TIMES A YEAR IF YOU LIVE IN NORTHERN GALILEE WERE ARDUOUS.
• 11:54 IF YOU LIVED IN THE SOUTHERN PART OF THE COUNTRY,
• 11:57 THAT WAS A LONG TRIP.
• 11:58 ABRAHAM CAME FROM BEERSHEBA TO JERUSALEM...
• 12:00 IT WAS A THREE DAY JOURNEY.
• 12:02 THEN THE FEASTS WERE GIVEN AS KIND OF A LANGUAGE
• 12:05 BY WHICH TO WORSHIP GOD
• 12:06 AND EACH FEAST WAS LIKE LETTERS OF THE LANGUAGE,
• 12:10 AN ALPHABET SO TO SPEAK...
• 12:11 TUTORS TO MESSIAH,
• 12:13 TEACHERS TO TAKE US TO MESSIAH.
• 12:15 GALATIANS 3 IS VERY CLEAR ON THAT,
• 12:56 SO IN GALATIANS IT'S MADE CLEAR
• 12:59 THAT THE LAW WAS A TEACHER...
• 13:01 WE WENT THROUGH IT LIKE AN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL YOU MIGHT SAY...
• 13:04 NOW WE'RE IN HIGH SCHOOL OR COLLEGE
• 13:06 AND THE RESPONSIBILITY IS OURS TO HAVE FAITH RATHER THAN TO PERFORM BEFORE THE LORD.
• 13:12 BACK AFTER THIS.
• 13:31 ♪ SHA'A'LU SHALOM YERUSHALAYIM ♪
• 13:35 ♪ SHA'A'LU, SHA'A'LU SHALOM ♪
• 13:39 ♪ IN THE HOLY CITY OF JERUSALEM ♪
• 13:46 ♪ WE WILL PRAY FOR PEACE ♪
• 13:49 ♪ SHA'A'LU SHALOM ♪
• 13:59 MYLES AND I
• 14:00 WOULD LIKE TO INVITE YOU
• 14:01 TO COME TO ISRAEL WITH US.
• 14:03 IT'S A LIFE CHANGING OPPORTUNITY
• 14:04 ANYBODY WHO COMES TO THE LAND
• 14:06 ALWAYS GETS A LITTLE BIT FRESHER
• 14:08 AND A TASTE OF THE LORD
• 14:09 IN A NEW WAY.
• 14:10 THE WORD COMES ALIVE.
• 14:11 AND SO PLEASE COME WITH US.
• 14:12 1-800-WONDERS
• 14:13 IS THE NUMBER THAT YOU CALL.
• 14:15 NOW BACK TO ZOLA AND MORE OF
• 14:17 "THE HOLY DAYS OF OUR LORD".
• 14:21 WE'RE IN THE KIDRON VALLEY
• 14:23 AND LOOKING UP AT THE EASTERN WALL OF JERUSALEM.
• 14:25 PEOPLE WENT UP HERE
• 14:26 THROUGH THAT EAST GATE
• 14:28 YEAR IN, YEAR OUT.
• 14:29 THEY MADE THEIR ALIYAH,
• 14:30 THEIR ASCENSION TO JERUSALEM
• 14:32 TO CELEBRATE THE THREE FEAST SEASONS.
• 14:35 AND THEY DID IT THROUGH THEIR WHOLE LIVES.
• 14:37 A WISE RABBI SAID,
• 14:39 "THE IMPORTANT THING IN JUDAISM IN THE LONG RUN
• 14:41 IS NOT SPIRITUAL HIGHS, BUT CONSISTENCY IN THE OBSERVANCE."
• 14:45 THEY LIVED THE LAW DAY BY DAY, WEEK BY WEEK, MONTH BY MONTH.
• 14:49 THE FEASTS WERE GIVEN BY GOD, NOT BY THE GOVERNMENT;
• 14:52 THEY WERE CALLED "HOLY CONVOCATIONS".
• 14:54 IN OUR COUNTRY WE HAVE JULY 4TH,
• 14:57 IT'S "INDEPENDENCE DAY" BUT THAT WAS GIVEN BY THE GOVERNMENT.
• 15:00 THEY WROTE A DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE...
• 15:01 FOUGHT FOR INDEPENDENCE...
• 15:02 THEY WON AND WE HAVE THAT DAY...
• 15:04 LABOR DAY...
• 15:06 COLUMBUS DAY...
• 15:07 ARMISTICE DAY...
• 15:08 THEY'RE ALL GOVERNMENT FEASTS...
• 15:09 POLITICAL FEASTS.
• 15:11 THESE ARE FESTIVALS GIVEN BY GOD
• 15:13 AND I WANT TO STRESS,
• 15:14 AND I MENTIONED BEFORE
• 15:15 THE MUSLIM WHICH IS A REPLACEMENT THEOLOGY
• 15:18 IS THE ONLY COMPETITOR FOR AGE TO THE JEWISH FEASTS.
• 15:22 BUT I SHOULD SAY THAT THE SO CALLED JEWISH FEASTS ARE BIBLICAL FEASTS.
• 15:25 THEY ARE THE CHRISTIAN FEASTS TOO...
• 15:27 THERE ARE NO OTHER CHRISTIAN FEASTS.
• 15:29 SOME CHURCHES MADE ADVENT CALENDARS WITH SEVEN DIFFERENT FEASTS
• 15:33 BUT THAT'S AGAIN THE WORKS OF MEN, ITS POLITICAL,
• 15:35 IT'S A GOVERNMENT DOCUMENT SO TO SPEAK.
• 15:38 THE ONLY FEASTS ARE THE ONES I'M TALKING ABOUT FOR JEWS
• 15:41 AND FOR ADOPTED JEWS WHO ARE THE CHRISTIANS.
• 15:44 THIS IS ALL THERE IS...OKAY?
• 15:47 GOD WANTED TO MEET HIS PEOPLE IN TIME.
• 15:49 GOD MEETS PEOPLE DURING THE STUFF WE CALL "TIME"...
• 15:53 THAT'S WHERE HE MEETS US.
• 15:55 AND HE DOES IT BY MAKING A SCHEDULE OF FEASTS.
• 15:57 BEFORE CALENDARS AND CLOCKS ISRAEL LIVED BY THESE FEASTS.
• 16:02 YOU REALLY CAN KEEP A YEARLY SCHEDULE WITHOUT A CALENDAR BY WATCHING THE MOON
• 16:07 AND GOD SAID HE PUT THE HEAVENLY BODIES UP THERE
• 16:09 FOR SIGNS AND FOR SEASONS.
• 16:11 WELL "PASSOVER" OCCURS ON
• 16:13 THE 14TH DAY OF THE FIRST MONTH
• 16:14 IN LEVITICUS 23
• 16:16 AND THAT IS THE FIRST FULL MOON OF SPRING.
• 16:18 NOW IF YOU SEE THAT MOON
• 16:20 YOU KNOW THAT "UNLEAVENED BREAD" GIVEN IN THE NEXT VERSE...
• 16:23 IT STARTS THE NEXT NIGHT...
• 16:24 SO THE NEXT NIGHT YOU CELEBRATE THAT.
• 16:26 "FIRST FRUITS" IS THE SUNDAY AFTER
• 16:29 AND YOU WOULD CELEBRATE THAT EASILY.
• 16:31 THEN COUNT 50 DAYS TO "PENTECOST"...
• 16:34 SO YOU COUNT THOSE DAYS AND DO "PENTECOST".
• 16:37 THEN THE NEXT FEAST, "THE FEAST OF TRUMPETS"
• 16:39 IS ON THE FIRST DAY OF THE SEVENTH MONTH.
• 16:42 WELL THAT'S AN EASY ONE TO SPOT...
• 16:44 THE 7TH NEW MOON OF THE YEAR...
• 16:46 THAT'S EASY TO SEE.
• 16:47 AND THEN "DAY OF ATONEMENT" TEN DAYS LATER
• 16:49 AND "THE FEAST OF TABERNACLES" FIVE DAYS AFTER THAT...
• 16:52 IT'S GIVEN THAT WAY IN LEVITICUS 23.
• 16:54 IF YOU COULD REMEMBER THAT MUCH
• 16:56 YOU HAD A SORT OF A CALENDAR FOR THE WHOLE YEAR
• 16:58 AND YOU COULD MEET GOD IN TIME.
• 17:01 AND THAT WAS THE WAY THEY MET GOD.
• 17:04 DATING THE FEASTS ARE SORT OF LODGINGS FOR TRAVELERS...
• 17:07 PLACES WHERE YOU STOP AND THINK.
• 17:10 AND CHRIST FULFILLED ALL THESE...
• 17:13 I SAID BEFORE, WE WERE DISCUSSING...
• 17:15 IT'S VERY SIMPLE...
• 17:16 HE WAS CRUCIFIED ON "PASSOVER",
• 17:17 BURIED ON "UNLEAVENED BREAD" THE NEXT NIGHT,
• 17:20 ROSE ON 'FIRST FRUITS" THE FOLLOWING SUNDAY,
• 17:22 SENT THE HOLY SPIRIT AT "PENTECOST" 50 DAYS LATER.
• 17:26 THEN THE LONG SUMMER GOES BY
• 17:27 AND I GUESS HE WILL RETURN ON THE "FEAST OF TRUMPETS"...
• 17:30 I SAY THAT BUT I DON'T WANT TO EITHER CONTRADICT THE DOCTRINE OF EMINENCY,
• 17:35 THAT'S A WHOLE NOTHER SUBJECT,
• 17:37 BUT IF HE DOES WHAT HE DID FOUR TIMES BEFORE
• 17:39 HE WILL RETURN WITH THE TRUMPET ON THE "FEAST OF TRUMPETS",
• 17:42 THAT WOULD BE THE RAPTURE OF THE CHURCH,
• 17:44 AND THEN THE "DAY OF ATONEMENT" 10 DAYS LATER ON THE CALENDAR,
• 17:48 HE WILL RETURN IN THE SECOND COMING AND THE JEWISH PEOPLE
• 17:53 "WILL LOOK UPON HIM WHOM THEY'VE PIERCED AND MOURN FOR HIM AS FOR AN ONLY SON", ZECHARIAH 12:10,
• 17:58 OR ROMANS 11:26, "ALL ISRAEL WILL BE SAVED WHEN THE DELIVERER SHALL COME OUT OF ZION."
• 18:05 BY THE WAY, HE'LL COME PRETTY MUCH RIGHT HERE.
• 18:08 IF I WERE STANDING HERE
• 18:09 I'D LOOK UP THAT HILL TO THE SUMMIT OF THE MOUNT OF OLIVES.
• 18:12 IF IT WERE THE SECOND COMING I WOULD SEE HIM COME RIGHT OVER THAT HILL.
• 18:15 IT'S LIKE AN ISRAELI WHO I WAS WITNESSING TO TOLD ME, I SAID
• 18:19 "WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO
• 18:21 WHEN YOU HEAR THAT THE MESSIAH IS STANDING ON THE MOUNT OF OLIVES?"
• 18:23 HE SAID, "I GUESS I'LL GO UP AND SAY, "SIR, IS THIS YOUR FIRST TRIP TO ISRAEL?"
• 18:27 THAT'S KIND OF A JOKE AND ITS A SAD JOKE IN A WAY.
• 18:30 THIS WOULD NOT BE HIS FIRST TRIP, IT WOULD BE HIS SECOND.
• 18:33 BUT ANYWAY HE WILL THEN ESTABLISH THE KINGDOM ON THE "FEAST OF TABERNACLES"
• 18:37 WHEN HIS TABERNACLE WILL BE AMONG US.
• 18:40 GET OUR "SEVEN FEASTS OF ISRAEL" BOOK AVAILABLE IN THIS MINISTRY.
• 18:44 I THINK YOU WILL ENJOY THAT BIBLE STUDY.
• 18:46 IT IS BASIC AND YOU WON'T LEARN IT AT A SEMINARY,
• 18:48 THEY JUST DON'T TEACH THESE THINGS AND THAT'S ALL THERE IS TO THAT.
• 18:52 NOW, THERE WERE TIMES THAT THERE WERE TWO CALENDARS.
• 18:56 THERE WAS A CIVIL AND RELIGIOUS CALENDAR ON WHICH PEOPLE MET GOD...
• 18:59 THEY TOO HAD GOVERNMENT HOLIDAYS,
• 19:01 "CHANUKAH" IS ONE...
• 19:02 "PURIM" IS ONE, THE FESTIVAL OF ESTHER,
• 19:05 THE FESTIVAL OF RE-DEDICATION...
• 19:06 AND SO THEY TOO HAD PERIODS,
• 19:09 TWO BASIC CALENDARS
• 19:11 AND WE ALL WHO ARE SAVED HAVE A BASIC CALENDAR,
• 19:14 WE WERE BORN ON A GIVEN CALENDAR
• 19:17 BUT WE WERE RE-BORN AT A CERTAIN DATE LATER IN OUR LIVES...
• 19:20 NO ONE'S BORN A CHRISTIAN.
• 19:22 I HAD A LETTER FROM SOMEBODY THAT SAID
• 19:23 "I WAS BORN A CHRISTIAN"
• 19:25 OR "I'M BORN A BAPTIST"...
• 19:26 I DOUBT IT...
• 19:28 HE HAD TO HAVE BECOME A BAPTIST IN ORDER TO BECOME A CHRISTIAN BY AN ACT OF VOLITION.
• 19:31 IN THE YEAR THERE ARE TWO RAINS...
• 19:33 ONE IN THE SPRING AND ONE IN THE FALL...
• 19:35 AS THERE ARE TWO COMINGS OF THE LORD.
• 19:37 HOSEA SPEAKS TO THIS VERY ELOQUENTLY.
• 19:40 HOSEA 6, VERSE 2,
• 20:00 SO HOSEA COMPARES IT TO THE TWO RAINS,
• 20:02 THE TWO SEASONS,
• 20:04 THE TWO ONGOING CALENDARS,
• 20:06 THE BIRTH AND THE REBIRTH.
• 20:08 SO IN THE END THE FEASTS ARE APPOINTMENTS WITH GOD BY THE PEOPLE
• 20:12 AND EACH FEAST IS ITS OWN SHADOW OF THINGS TO COME.
• 20:19 YOU KNOW WE DON'T
• 20:20 KEEP THE FEASTS FOR SALVATION...
• 20:22 THAT'S A FREE GIFT
• 20:23 BY THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB.
• 20:25 BUT WE LEARN SO MUCH FROM STUDYING THEM.
• 20:26 COLOSSIANS 2:16 TELLS US NOT TO JUDGE ONE ANOTHER
• 20:29 REGARDING FEASTS OR SABBATHS OR NEW MOONS OR FESTIVALS
• 20:33 BUT TO BE KINDLY TOWARDS ONE ANOTHER REGARDING THOSE THINGS.
• 20:36 THEY'RE NOT A MATTER OF SALVATION.
• 20:38 IN THIS NEXT SEGMENT ZOLA IS GOING TO SPEAK WITH HIS OLD FRIEND DAN HENDRICKSON.
• 20:42 HE'S AN ORTHODOX JEW WHO KEEPS THE FEASTS...
• 20:44 DOES NOT KNOW JESUS YET...
• 20:46 BUT GIVES US SOME INSIGHT INTO THE WAY THE JEWISH PEOPLE KEEP THE FEASTS.
• 20:51 WELL "PASSOVER" THE BEGINNING OF THE "FEAST OF UNLEAVENED BREAD"
• 20:54 I SEE YOU HAVE A PLATE THERE IN YOUR HAND WITH UNLEAVENED BREAD.
• 20:57 THE SYMBOLS OF "PASSOVER" INCLUDE OF COURSE
• 20:59 THE UNLEAVENED BREAD ITSELF
• 21:01 WHICH WE BAKE TO THIS DAY
• 21:02 EVEN AS THEY DID...
• 21:03 WE DID IN THE LAND OF EGYPT.
• 21:05 WHAT HAPPENED WAS
• 21:06 WE HAD NO TIME AT ALL
• 21:07 FOR THE BREAD TO LEAVEN
• 21:09 AND SO WE JUST WERE FORCED TO TAKE IT BEFORE IT ROSE AND IT LOOKS LIKE THIS BASICALLY.
• 21:14 THIS IS WHAT WE CALL "MATZAH".
• 21:16 WELL THE FESTIVAL OF "UNLEAVENED BREAD" GOES ON FOR A WHILE
• 21:19 AND THEN SOMEWHERE IN THERE IS THE FESTIVAL OF "FIRST FRUITS"
• 21:22 WHERE YOU COUNT...
• 21:23 WE COUNT FROM THE BEGINNING OF "PASSOVER"...WE COUNT 49 DAYS
• 21:28 AND ON THE 50TH DAY WE CELEBRATE THE GIVING OF THE LAW OR THE "FEAST OF WEEKS".
• 21:34 THE SEVEN WEEKS PASS...
• 21:35 MOSES WENT TO MOUNT SINAI,
• 21:38 HE GOT THE LAW FROM THE HAND OF GOD.
• 21:40 THIS IS THE LAW THAT THE JEWS HAVE LIVED BY FOR THESE THOUSANDS OF YEARS.
• 21:45 IT'S ALSO THE TIME OF THE BEARING OF FIRST FRUITS,
• 21:49 THE WHEAT PARTICULARLY
• 21:51 WHICH IS RIPENED NOW IN THE LAND OF ISRAEL,
• 21:53 IS BROUGHT TO A KOHEN.
• 21:55 AND EVEN TODAY THE RELIGIOUS FARMERS WILL BRING AN OFFERING OF THE FIRST FRUITS
• 22:02 TO A "KOHEN", TO A PRIEST, A DESCENDENT OF THE PRIESTLY HOUSE OF AARON.
• 22:07 THEY LITERALLY CARRY THIS OUT...
• 22:08 THEY LITERALLY CARRY IT AND BRING IT TO A PRIEST
• 22:11 OR THEY WILL GIVE THE MONETARY EQUIVALENT.
• 22:14 ALRIGHT AND THEN THERE'S THE LONG SUMMER IN WHICH NO FEASTS OCCUR...
• 22:18 THERE MAY BE SOME NATIONAL HOLIDAYS BUT EVENTUALLY YOU COME TO ROSH HASHANAH.
• 22:22 WELL, ROSH HASHANAH,
• 22:24 OR LITERALLY THE START OF THE YEAR, THE HEAD OF THE YEAR
• 22:26 IS THE BEGINNING OF THE YEAR
• 22:28 IN WHICH A TIME OF INTROSPECTION
• 22:30 IN WHICH WE REMEMBER THAT WE ARE CREATURES, WE ARE CREATED.
• 22:34 IT'S ALSO CALLED THE "FEAST OF TRUMPETS"
• 22:36 AND THE TRUMPET REFERRED TO IS THIS...
• 22:39 THIS IS A SHOFAR,
• 22:40 THIS IS A RAM'S HORN.
• 22:41 AND THE PRIEST WOULD BLOW THIS DURING THE TIME OF THE FESTIVAL
• 22:45 AND ROSH HASHANAH LEADS IN TO THE PENITENTIAL HOLIDAY OF "YOM KIPPUR",
• 22:50 THE "DAY OF ATONEMENT"
• 22:52 AT WHICH TIME WE REPENT OF OUR SINS AGAINST GOD AND HIS LAWS.
• 22:57 AND NOW THIS "FESTIVAL OF ATONEMENT" IS VERY IMPORTANT...
• 23:01 EVEN THE MOST LIBERAL JEWS KEEP THIS ONE.
• 23:04 I CAN REMEMBER HANK GREENBERG WOULDN'T PLAY BASEBALL ON THAT DAY...
• 23:08 SANDY KOUFAX WOULDN'T PITCH ON YOM KIPPUR.
• 23:10 SANDY KOUFAX WOULD NOT PITCH
• 23:12 AND LIKE THE JEWS IN AMERICA EVEN THAT DON'T REALLY KEEP OTHER FEASTS MAYBE,
• 23:16 REALLY GET UP FOR THE SYNAGOGUE FOR THIS "TESHUVAH", THIS "REPENTANCE".
• 23:20 THERE'S NO QUESTION ABOUT THAT.
• 23:21 THE BIBLE SAYS IN MANY PLACES
• 23:23 THAT "EVEN IF YOUR SINS ARE AS SCARLET"
• 23:25 BUT IF YOU REPENT "THEY WILL BE WASHED CLEAN AS LAMB'S WOOL."
• 23:30 BUT THE "DAY OF ATONEMENT" IS SET ASIDE BY GOD
• 23:33 FOR THOSE SINS CONDUCTED INADVERTENTLY AGAINST HIM.
• 23:38 WELL DAN THEN TELL US SOMETHING ABOUT THE "FEAST OF TABERNACLES".
• 23:42 THE "FEAST OF TABERNACLES" OR THE "FEAST OF TENTS"
• 23:45 RECALLS OUR WANDERING FOR FORTY YEARS IN THE DESERT
• 23:48 WHERE WE LIVED IN LITTLE HUTS
• 23:51 THAT WE COULD MAKE OUT OF LOCAL PRODUCE
• 23:54 AND WE ACTUALLY BUILD THESE HUTS
• 23:58 WHICH ARE TEMPORARY DWELLINGS WITH ROOFS THAT YOU CAN LOOK THROUGH AND SEE THE STARS...
• 24:03 MANY OF US WILL EAT OUR MEALS THERE...
• 24:06 WE'LL STUDY THERE...
• 24:07 AND MANY PEOPLE WILL ACTUALLY SLEEP FOR THE TIME OF THE FESTIVAL
• 24:11 IN THESE HUTS...IN THESE TENTS.
• 24:13 TELL US ABOUT THE "FESTIVAL OF CHANUKAH".
• 24:16 AT THE "FEAST OF LIGHTS"
• 24:18 WE COMMEMORATE THE VICTORY OVER THE GREEKS
• 24:20 AND THE MIRACLE OF THE LIGHT WHICH LASTED EIGHT DAYS
• 24:25 ALTHOUGH THERE WAS ONLY OIL ENOUGH FOR ONE DAY
• 24:27 WITH BY LIGHTING OURSELVES A CANDLE
• 24:29 FOR EACH OF THE EIGHT DAYS
• 24:31 AND THIS BRINGS TO MIND THE VICTORY THAT GOD GAVE US
• 24:36 AND THE CLEANSING OF THE TEMPLE AFTER IT WAS DEFILED BY THE GREEKS.
• 24:40 WELL TELL US ABOUT "PURIM".
• 24:42 I SEE YOU HAVE AN EXTRAORDINARY ARTIFACT OF WORSHIP.
• 24:46 WELL DURING THE "FEAST OF PURIM"
• 24:50 WE READ THE STORY OF THE BOOK OF ESTHER, WHAT HAPPENED,
• 24:56 AND EVERY TIME THE NAME OF HAMAN THE WICKED IS MENTIONED
• 25:00 THE CHILDREN ALL HAVE LITTLE DEVICES...
• 25:03 THIS IS ONLY ONE SORT...
• 25:05 THERE ARE MANY, MANY DIFFERENT DEVICES...
• 25:06 AND EVERY TIME THE NAME OF THE WICKED HAMAN IS MENTIONED....
• 25:09 (SPINNING MAKES LOUD NOISE)
• 25:11 THE CHILDREN MAKE NOISE TO DROWN OUT HIS NAME
• 25:13 SO THAT WE WON'T HEAR THE NAME OF WICKED HAMAN
• 25:15 (ZOLA LAUGHING) >>YOUR GONNA TO HEAR THESE GROGGERS
• 25:18 SO THAT HIS NAME WILL BE ERASED.
• 25:20 THEY'RE VERY EFFECTIVE NOISE MAKERS.
• 25:22 AND YOU KEEP ALL THESE FESTIVALS THROUGHOUT THE YEAR.
• 25:25 OH YES...OH YES.
• 25:27 ANY SERIOUS JEW WILL KEEP THESE FESTIVALS
• 25:30 YES, ABSOLUTELY.
• 25:31 THESE ARE ALL REQUIRED.
• 25:33 THANK YOU DAN... I APPRECIATE IT.
• 25:34 MY PLEASURE
• 26:17 ZOLA WAS A MUSICIAN BEFORE HE MET THE CALL TO MEET HIS MESSIAH
• 26:21 AND YOU GET TO HEAR A LITTLE BIT OF HIM PLAYING IN ISRAEL.
• 26:24 IT'S SO WONDERFUL
• 26:25 TO HEAR HIS PASSION ABOUT MUSIC AND A PASSION ABOUT THE LORD.
• 26:29 YES, YOU KNOW ALL OF US WHEN WE HEAR THAT CALL
• 26:31 IT SUPERSEDES EVERYTHING ELSE DOESN'T IT?
• 26:34 AND WHATEVER GIFTS WE HAVE ARE BROUGHT BEFORE THE LORD
• 26:36 AND THEN HE REDISTRIBUTES AS HE WILLS.
• 26:38 AND IT'S AMAZING.
• 26:40 THIS IS THE BEGINNING OF A SERIES.
• 26:42 WE'VE SEEN THE OVERVIEW TODAY
• 26:43 BUT NEXT WEEK WILL BE THE CROWN JEWEL "PASSOVER"
• 26:46 AND THEN BEYOND THAT WE'RE GOING TO GO THROUGH ALL THE FEASTS.
• 26:48 WE'LL SEE "UNLEAVENED BREAD"
• 26:50 AND "FIRST FRUITS",
• 26:51 "SHAVUOUT" OR "PENTECOST".
• 26:52 WE'LL SEE "ATONEMENT"
• 26:54 AND "TRUMPETS" AND "TABERNACLES"...
• 26:56 ALL THE FEASTS OF THE LORD WILL BE ON DISPLAY IN THE COMING MONTHS.
• 26:59 IT'S GOING TO BE AMAZING TEACHING...WONDERFUL.
• 27:02 YOU KNOW THIS MINISTRY CONTINUES BECAUSE OF YOUR FAITHFUL DONATIONS.
• 27:07 WE WANT TO ENCOURAGE YOU TO CONTINUE TO SUPPORT US.
• 27:09 HELP US TO GO TO ISRAEL TO PRODUCE THESE GREAT SHOWS
• 27:12 AND TO BRING YOU THESE AMAZING STORIES FROM ISRAEL
• 27:16 AND THIS INCREDIBLE UNVEILING OF THE BIBLE.
• 27:19 UNTIL WE SEE YOU AGAIN
• 27:21 WE JUST WANT TO ENCOURAGE YOU
• 27:22 SHAL'ALU SHALOM YERUSHALAYIM.
• 27:24 PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM.
• 27:29 (Zola speaking) YOU CAN LEARN ABOUT THESE THINGS
• 27:31 IN OUR BOOK "THE SEVEN FEASTS OF ISRAEL"
• 27:33 AND COMPANION BOOKLETS.
• 27:35 SINCE PASSOVER IS SO IMPORTANT
• 27:37 THE COMPANION BOOK IS "THE MIRACLE OF PASSOVER"
• 27:39 AND THEN THE THIRD IN THAT,
• 27:41 THE SMALL SERIES THE "CHRISTIAN LOVE STORY"...
• 27:43 IT AMPLIFIES THE JEWISH WEDDING,
• 27:45 APPOINTED PASSOVER AND HAVING TO DO WITH THE KINGDOM TO COME.
• 27:48 THOSE THREE TOGETHER I'M SURE ARE THE BEST OF THE THREE ITEMS OUR MINISTRY EVER OFFERED.
• 27:54 WE'VE JUST SENT OUT I SUPPOSE HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF THEM AND WELL WORTH KNOWING.
• 27:59 SO GET THAT.
• 28:00 CALL IT "THE FEAST PACKAGE", THE THREE BOOKLETS.