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Caption transcript for The Holy Days of Our Lord (2012): “Trumpets” (6/11)

• 00:03 IT IS WRITTEN IN THE SCRIPTURES THAT WE SHOULD JOURNEY TO JERUSALEM THREE TIMES A YEAR.
• 00:08 WE ARE GOING UP TO THE CITY OF GOD,
• 00:10 TO JERUSALEM, TO CELEBRATE.
• 00:17 THE LORD TOLD THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL TO HONOR SEVEN HOLY CELEBRATIONS EACH YEAR
• 00:22 INVOLVING THREE JOURNEYS TO JERUSALEM.
• 00:24 EACH FESTIVAL WOULD BE UNIQUELY FULFILLED IN THE COMING OF THE MESSIAH.
• 00:43 SHALOM, AND WELCOME TO ZOLA LEVITT PRESENTS.
• 00:45 I'M MYLES,
• 00:46 THIS IS KATHARINE.
• 00:47 WE'RE CONTINUING WITH OUR SERIES
• 00:49 ON THE HOLY DAYS OF OUR LORD.
• 00:51 YOU KNOW THIS WEEK WE'RE GOING TO BE LEARNING FROM OUR FOUNDER, ZOLA,
• 00:54 ABOUT THE FEASTS OF TRUMPETS,
• 00:55 WHICH IS THE FEAST OF BLOWING.
• 00:57 IT'S THE TIME THE SHOFAR IS BLOWN - THE RAM'S HORN.
• 01:00 IT REALLY PICTURES THE COMING OF THE LORD.
• 01:03 IT LOOKS BACK TO THE BINDING OF ISAAC.
• 01:05 IT'S AN AMAZING FEAST THAT SETS US UP FOR THE WHOLE FALL FEASTS DOESN'T IT?
• 01:08 IT'S THE BEGINNING OF THE FALL FEASTS.
• 01:10 IT'S THE BEGINNING OF THE DAYS OF BLOWING.
• 01:12 THERE'S LIKE A HUNDRED DIFFERENT SOUNDS THAT ARE MADE IN THE SYNAGOGUE AT THIS TIME.
• 01:16 YES.THAT'S RIGHT.
• 01:18 IT REALLY IS PREPARING US FOR THE DAY OF ATONEMENT...
• 01:20 THE TEN DAYS OF AWE ARE A TIME OF INTROSPECTION
• 01:23 AND LOOKING TO YOURSELF TO OPEN YOUR SOUL TO GOD
• 01:26 AND ALLOW HIM TO LOOK INTO YOU
• 01:28 SO YOU ARE PREPARED FOR THE NEXT FEAST WHICH IS THE DAY OF ATONEMENT.
• 01:31 AND SO IT'S A VERY IMPORTANT FEAST.
• 01:33 WE'RE GOING TO HEAR ALL ABOUT IT FROM ZOLA
• 01:35 SO LET'S GO TO LOCATION
• 01:37 AND LEARN ABOUT THE FEAST OF TRUMPETS.
• 01:41 THE LORD SAID,
• 01:43 "SPEAK TO THE ISRAELITES AND SAY TO THEM,"
• 01:45 "'THESE ARE MY APPOINTED FEASTS,"
• 01:48 "THE APPOINTED FEASTS OF THE LORD WHICH YOU ARE TO PROCLAIM AS SACRED ASSEMBLIES.'"
• 01:53 "'ON THE FIRST DAY OF THE SEVENTH MONTH YOU ARE TO HAVE A DAY OF REST;"
• 01:58 "A MEMORIAL OF BLOWING OF TRUMPETS, A HOLY CONVOCATION.'"
• 02:03 "'DO NO REGULAR WORK, BUT PRESENT AN OFFERING MADE TO THE LORD BY FIRE.'"
• 02:08 "'PRAISE THE LORD."
• 02:10 "PRAISE HIM WITH THE SOUND OF THE TRUMPET."
• 02:12 "LET EVERYTHING THAT HAS BREATH PRAISE THE LORD."
• 02:17 [SOUND OF SHOFAR BLOWING]
• 02:22 WELL, WE ARE AT THE CENTER OF THE EARTH.
• 02:23 WHAT CAN I SAY?
• 02:25 THIS IS THE SOUTHWESTERN PINNACLE OF THE TEMPLE WALL.
• 02:29 FURTHER BACK BEHIND ME THE WALL WOULD GO BACK INTO THE WESTERN WALL, SO-CALLED THE WAILING WALL
• 02:35 WHERE THE PRAYING GOES ON.
• 02:37 UP ABOVE THIS CORNER WOULD BE THE AL-AQSA MOSQUE,
• 02:40 THE MUSLIM MOSQUE, WHICH IS ON THE ANCIENT TEMPLE SITE
• 02:44 AND FURTHER ALONG THE TOP PLATFORM WOULD BE THE DOME OF THE ROCK, ANOTHER MUSLIM MOSQUE.
• 02:50 AND HERE, TWO RELIGIONS AT LEAST, ISLAM AND JUDAISM, WORSHIP ALL THE TIME.
• 02:55 CHRISTIANS COME GALORE TO SEE.
• 02:57 IT'S NOT FAR AWAY.
• 02:59 OFF TO MY RIGHT WOULD BE THE CHURCH OF THE HOLY SEPULCHER,
• 03:02 THE STATIONS OF THE CROSS, AND OTHER CHRISTIAN SITES.
• 03:04 EVEN THE ARMENIAN CHURCH IS VERY NEAR HERE, JUST UP THE HILL TO MY RIGHT.
• 03:09 THIS IS THE MOST SOUGHT AFTER, FOUGHT OVER PIECE OF REAL ESTATE IN THE WORLD.
• 03:15 THAT'S ALL THERE IS TO THAT.
• 03:17 AND HERE WE ARE GOING TO TALK ABOUT THE FEASTS OF TRUMPETS.
• 03:20 BECAUSE IT WAS HERE, ON THAT PINNACLE OVER MY HEAD,
• 03:23 THAT THE TRUMPET PLAYER BLEW THE TRUMPET ON THAT FEAST OF TRUMPETS
• 03:28 TO CALL IN THE PEOPLE FOR THE FESTIVAL.
• 03:31 THE FEAST IS DESCRIBED IN LEVITICUS 23, VERSE 24 AND 25.
• 03:51 A HOLIDAY FOR TRUMPETS IS ALL IT SAYS BY THE WAY.
• 03:55 IT DOESN'T SAY IT IS THE NEW YEAR,
• 03:56 AND IT'S REALLY NOT THE NEW YEAR.
• 03:58 BUT IT HAS COME TO BE THAT
• 04:00 BECAUSE I GUESS IN AGRARIAN TIMES THIS WAS THE TIME OF YEAR THAT THE HARVEST IS IN
• 04:04 AND THE PEOPLE COULD COME
• 04:06 AND THE FALL FEASTS - TRUMPETS, ATONEMENT, AND TABERNACLES, ARE ALL IN A ROW IN THE SAME MONTH.
• 04:11 THAT WOULD BE THE MONTH OF TISHRI, THE SEVENTH MONTH ON THE JEWISH CALENDAR.
• 04:16 EXODUS 23:16 SUPPLIES THIS,
• 04:34 THE FEAST OF INGATHERING IS ANOTHER WAY OF PUTTING IT
• 04:36 ABOUT THE FALL FEASTS WHEN THE HARVEST HAS COME IN.
• 04:40 YOU KNOW, THE LORD USED THAT IMAGE OF PEOPLE WORKING IN FIELDS.
• 04:44 TAKE THE IDEA TODAY.
• 04:47 YOU WOULD HAVE PALESTINIAN AND JEWISH WORKERS SIDE BY SIDE
• 04:50 ON SOME FARMS WORKING TOGETHER HARVESTING A FIELD.
• 04:53 TECHNICALLY THE TRUMPET WOULD SOUND,
• 04:56 THE FESTIVAL OF TRUMPETS WOULD START,
• 05:00 AND OF COURSE AT THE SOUND OF THAT TRUMPET BLAST, WHICH IS REPEATED THROUGHOUT THE LAND...
• 05:03 THE TEMPLE TRUMPETER STOOD HERE AND HE BLEW IT,
• 05:06 AND THEN ANOTHER ON THE MOUNT OF OLIVES,
• 05:08 AND ANOTHER IN THE JUDEAN DESERT,
• 05:10 AND ANOTHER UP NORTH AND SO ON.
• 05:12 THEY ALL BLEW IT TOGETHER
• 05:14 AND THAT WOULD CALL EVERYBODY TO THE TEMPLE.
• 05:16 WELL, THE JEW WOULD GET UP AND GO TO THE TEMPLE.
• 05:18 THE HARVEST IS OVER ONCE THE TRUMPET SOUNDS.
• 05:21 THE PALESTINIAN WOULD FINISH HARVESTING IN THAT FIELD.
• 05:24 THE LORD ACTUALLY SAID,
• 05:26 "WHERE THERE ARE TWO WORKING IN A FIELD I WILL TAKE THE ONE AND LEAVE THE OTHER."
• 05:30 THE RAPTURE OF THE CHURCH IS SAID TO BE ON THIS FESTIVAL OF TRUMPETS
• 05:34 AND IT MAKES GOOD SENSE FOR THE RAPTURE TO BE ON THE FEAST OF TRUMPETS.
• 05:38 IF THE LORD WAS CRUCIFIED ON PASSOVER, WHICH OF COURSE HE WAS,
• 05:42 AND BURIED ON UNLEAVENED BREAD,
• 05:44 AND RAISED ON FIRST FRUITS,
• 05:46 AND SENT THE HOLY SPIRIT AT PENTECOST,
• 05:48 THESE ARE THE FIRST FOUR FEASTS RIGHT IN A ROW.
• 05:50 WELL, HE'S NOTHING ON THAT LEVEL SINCE PENTECOST
• 05:55 AND MANY EXPECT THAT ON THE FEAST OF TRUMPETS HE'LL COME DOWN FOR THE CHURCH
• 06:00 WHEN THAT TRUMPET SOUNDS AT THE SOUND OF THE LAST TRUMPET AS THE SCRIPTURE SAYS.
• 06:05 YOU HEAR WORK GOING ON HERE
• 06:07 BECAUSE THIS HAS BEEN FULLY EXCAVATED.
• 06:09 THE ARCHAEOLOGISTS WORK DAY AND NIGHT TO DO THIS WORK.
• 06:12 OUR MINISTRY HAS ACTUALLY CONTRIBUTED TO THIS WORK OVER HERE.
• 06:15 WE WANT TO SEE THE TEMPLE ON EARTH, THE JEWISH HISTORY COME TO THE SURFACE.
• 06:19 THE MUSLIMS HAVE THE OPPOSITE VIEW.
• 06:21 UP ON TOP THERE THEY HAVE PURPOSELY DUG OUT AND DESTROYED MOSAIC WALKS
• 06:27 AND EVIDENCE OF THE JEWISH PRESENCE HERE
• 06:29 IN ORDER TO SUPPORT THE MYTH THAT THEY SAY
• 06:32 THAT THE JEWS NEVER REALLY WERE HERE AND THERE WAS NEVER A TEMPLE HERE.
• 06:36 THAT OF COURSE IS CRAZY.
• 06:37 THE WALL OF THE TEMPLE IS RIGHT BEHIND ME.
• 06:39 JOSHUA AT JERICHO, THIS IS A TYPE OF THE RAPTURE OF THE CHURCH.
• 06:45 I HAVE SAID IT BEFORE IN OTHER CONTEXT,
• 06:47 BUT AT THE SOUND OF THE SHOUTS AND THE TRUMPETS,
• 06:51 JOSHUA TOOK HIS PEOPLE INTO THE PROMISED LAND.
• 06:54 1 THESSALONIANS 4:16 SAYS,
• 07:03 HE'LL TAKE HIS CHURCH TO THEIR PROMISED LAND
• 07:05 THAT IS THE CHOSEN PEOPLE AGAIN TO THE PROMISED LAND.
• 07:08 AND JESUS AND JOSHUA HAVE THE SAME NAME.
• 07:10 IN HEBREW THEIR NAME IS YESHUA, JOSHUA..THAT SIMPLY.
• 07:15 IN TISHRI THERE ARE 10 DAYS OF AWE.
• 07:18 THIS FEAST OF TRUMPETS IS ON TISHRI 1
• 07:21 BUT THE DAY OF ATONEMENT IS ON TISHRI 10.
• 07:24 SO THEY HAVE TO AFFLICT THEIR SOULS, THINKING ABOUT THEIR SINS ON A DAY OF ATONEMENT
• 07:30 SO THEY PREPARE FOR IT THROUGH THOSE TEN DAYS OF AWE, SO-CALLED.
• 07:34 THEY COMPLETE FOR THE YEAR ALL THEIR CONFESSIONS AND CONFESS ALL OF THEIR SINS.
• 07:41 IN JESUS' TIME, AND TODAY IN ISRAEL, THE FESTIVAL IS CELEBRATED ON 2 DAYS ACTUALLY.
• 07:47 THE TRUMPET IS BLOWN AT THE VERY BEGINNING.
• 07:50 GOD DID NOT GIVE THE FESTIVAL A TITLE BY THE WAY.
• 07:53 IT IS JUST CALLED A FEAST FOR THE BLOWING OF TRUMPETS.
• 07:56 THAT'S ALL IT SAYS IN SCRIPTURE.
• 07:58 IT DOES NOT SAY ROSH HASHANAH,
• 08:00 WHICH MEANS "THE HEAD OF THE YEARS".
• 08:02 THE TRADITION IS THAT THE KOHANIM BLESSED THE CONGREGATION
• 08:06 FORMING THEIR HANDS LIKE THIS, WHICH I CAN DO AS A LEVITE.
• 08:10 A LOT OF PEOPLE CAN'T, BUT ANYWAY I WAS BORN TO THIS.
• 08:14 MY NAME IS LEVITT.
• 08:15 THEY FORMED THIS V-SHAPE WITH THEIR HANDS.
• 08:18 WHY THIS V?
• 08:19 TO LET THE SPIRIT OF GOD LOOK THROUGH THEIR HANDS
• 08:22 AT THE CONGREGATION BELOW, WHICH THEY ARE BLESSING.
• 08:25 AND AT THE END OF EACH OF OUR SERVICES
• 08:29 IN OUR MESSIANIC CONGREGATION, SHALOM SHALOM, IN DALLAS,
• 08:32 TO WHICH YOUR ARE CORDIALLY INVITED ANY FRIDAY NIGHT AT 7:30 AT THE BIBLICAL ARTS CENTER,
• 08:37 I ALWAYS CONCLUDE THE SERVICE BY SAYING,
• 08:40 "Y'VA-REH'HA ADONAI V'UISH-M'REHA..."
• 08:43 "MAY THE LORD BLESS AND KEEP YOU..." AND SO FORTH.
• 08:45 I GIVE THE AARONIC BLESSING TO THE CONGREGATION.
• 08:48 YOU KNOW, THE THOUGHTS AT ROSH HASHANAH TURN TWO WAYS.
• 08:51 IT'S A CELEBRATION AND YET IT'S A CONFESSION TIME
• 08:56 OR A TIME TO BE CONSCIOUS OF OUR SINS SO WE CAN CONFESS AT YOM KIPPER.
• 09:00 SO THEY EAT APPLES AND HONEY - SWEETNESS AND PROVIDENCE
• 09:05 THAT GOD TOOK CARE OF US OUT THERE IN THE WILDERNESS.
• 09:09 SO THE NEW YEAR IS BOTH A TIME OF UNSETTLED FATE BECAUSE WE ARE GOING TO THE DAY OF ATONEMENT
• 09:17 AND WE CERTAINLY HOPE GOD WILL FORGIVE US,
• 09:20 AND A TIME OF CELEBRATION.
• 09:22 THE SWEETNESS OF THE APPLES AND HONEY REMINDS US THAT HE NEVER FORGETS US.
• 09:26 EVEN OUT IN THE WILDERNESS WHERE THEY WERE WANDERING,
• 09:29 HE GAVE THEM MANNA
• 09:30 AND HE GAVE THEM THE MEANS TO BUILD SHELTERS TO STAY OVERNIGHT OUT IN THE COLD.
• 09:34 MICAH 7:18 SAYS...
• 09:55 GOD WILL THROW THEIR SINS INTO THE WATER
• 09:57 AND SO THE TASHLICH SERVICE ACTUALLY SHOWS THROWING BREAD,
• 10:02 LEAVENED BREAD, WHICH IS SIN, INTO THE WATER.
• 10:05 IT'S A FASCINATING SERVICE.
• 10:07 THEN THE TRUMPET IS SPOKEN OF AGAIN WAY BACK IN THE NEW TESTAMENT,
• 10:12 THIS IS A SYMBOL THROUGHOUT THE SCRIPTURES OBVIOUSLY.
• 10:14 REVELATION 11:15...
• 10:29 THE COMPOSER HANDEL USED THAT TEXT IN HIS MAGNIFICENT MESSIAH ORATORIO,
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• 12:03 ISRAEL IS A BEAUTIFUL LAND
• 12:04 AND IT'S AN HISTORIC LAND.
• 12:06 IT'S OUR JOY TO BRING PEOPLE THERE.
• 12:09 IT'S A LIFE-CHANGING EXPERIENCE.
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• 12:12 IT CHANGED THEIR LIVES.
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• 12:16 AND NOW, BACK TO ZOLA.
• 12:19 WELL, OUR LOCATION IS THE CENTER OF THE EARTH AS I SAID.
• 12:22 I DON'T KNOW HOW ELSE TO DESCRIBE IT...
• 12:24 THE TEMPLE SITE IN THE OLD CITY OF JERUSALEM.
• 12:27 BEHIND ME IS THE PARAPET,
• 12:28 THE SOUTHWESTERN CORNER OF THE TEMPLE,
• 12:30 VERY, VERY HIGH WHERE THE TRUMPETER BLEW THE RAM'S HORN
• 12:34 TO BEGIN THIS FEAST OF TRUMPETS, WHICH WE'RE TALKING ABOUT.
• 12:37 ABOVE US ARE THE AL-AQSA MOSQUE AND THE DOME OF THE ROCK.
• 12:40 AND BEHIND ME ALONG THAT WESTERN WALL, THE FAMOUS WAILING WALL
• 12:45 WHERE THE JEWS ARE PRAYING AND ARE PREPARING,
• 12:48 IF IT IS THE FEAST OF TRUMPETS,
• 12:50 THEN FOR THE DAY OF ATONEMENT TEN DAYS LATER...
• 12:52 THE TEN AWESOME DAYS BEFORE WHICH THEY MUST CONFESS ALL OF THEIR SINS FOR THE WHOLE YEAR.
• 12:57 IN THE PROPHETIC SCHEDULE, AND THE FEASTS DESCRIBE A WONDERFUL SUCCESSION OF PROPHECY:
• 13:02 I HAD SAID BEFORE THE LORD WAS CRUCIFIED ON PASSOVER...
• 13:05 BURIED ON UNLEAVENED BREAD...
• 13:07 RAISED ON FIRST FRUITS...
• 13:08 SENT THE HOLY SPIRIT AT PENTECOST,
• 13:10 AND INDEED, FROM PENTECOST...
• 13:12 LATE MAY LET'S SAY...
• 13:14 OVER TO THE FEAST OF TRUMPETS SOMEWHERE IN SEPTEMBER.
• 13:16 THAT'S A LONG PERIOD.
• 13:18 AND THAT PERIOD EXPRESSES THE SEASON OF GRACE.
• 13:21 IT'S THE ONLY TIME SPAN THAT'S NOT EXACT,
• 13:24 BECAUSE WE DON'T KNOW EXACTLY WHEN THE LORD WILL BLOW THAT TRUMPET
• 13:27 AND CALL THE CHURCH HOME.
• 13:29 THIS IS THE RAPTURE; OF COURSE,
• 13:31 THE FEAST OF TRUMPETS IS WHAT WE ARE ANTICIPATING.
• 13:33 I CAN'T BE DOGMATIC ABOUT IT BECAUSE THE LORD SAID NO MAN KNOWS THE DAY.
• 13:37 AND HE SAID "AT SUCH A TIME AS YE THINK NOT."
• 13:40 BUT LET ME PUT IT THIS WAY:
• 13:42 IF HE DOES WHAT HE DID FOUR TIMES BEFORE,
• 13:43 HE SHOULD COME ON A FEAST OF TRUMPETS.
• 13:45 YOU MIGHT SAY IF NO MAN KNOWS HOW CAN YOU BEGIN TO SAY IT?
• 13:49 WELL, THE CHURCHES DON'T STUDY THE FEASTS,
• 13:52 YOU'RE CERTAINLY NOT GOING TO STUMBLE OVER THEM IN THE SEMINARIES
• 13:54 AND THE JEWS HAVE THEM COMPLETELY MIXED UP.
• 13:57 THEY CALL THIS ONE NEW YEARS,
• 13:58 WHERE GOD SAID IN EXODUS 12 THAT THE 1ST MONTH, NISAN,
• 14:02 THE MONTH OF PASSOVER IS THE HEAD OF THE MONTHS TO YOU.
• 14:05 SO THEY'VE CHANGED TO A FISCAL YEAR
• 14:07 AND CHURCHES FORGETTING THE OLD TESTAMENT
• 14:10 AND THE LORD CAN ACTUALLY DO WHAT HE DID FOUR TIMES BEFORE AND SURPRISE ALMOST EVERYBODY.
• 14:14 NOW, HIS VOICE IS AS A TRUMPET.
• 14:18 A FESTIVAL FOR TRUMPETS
• 14:20 AND AT ONE PLACE IN THE BIBLE
• 14:22 THE LORD'S VOICE IS HEARD AT THE BEGINNING OF THE BOOK OF REVELATION
• 14:26 AND IT SAYS THAT HIS VOICE SOUNDS LIKE A TRUMPET.
• 14:44 AND SO THE BOOK OF REVELATION BEGINS WITH THE LORD'S VOICE SOUNDING LIKE A TRUMPET,
• 14:48 HIS HAIR WHITE AS WOOL AND FIRE AND SHARP SWORD COMING OUT OF HIS MOUTH.
• 14:53 THE DESCRIPTION OF A FIGURE IN A VISION,
• 14:55 WHICH MUST HAVE REALLY UPSET THE PROPHET JOHN OUT THERE,
• 14:59 OR I SHOULD SAY, THE APOSTLE JOHN ON THE ISLAND OF PATMOS
• 15:04 WHERE HE HAD BEEN BANISHED TO DIE ALONE OUT THERE.
• 15:07 WELL, HE REALLY ANNOUNCES THE RETURN OF THE KING.
• 15:11 THAT IS THE FIRST RETURN WHEN THE LORD CAME BACK TO DICTATE TO HIM THE BOOK OF REVELATION.
• 15:16 BUT WE LOOK TO THE SECOND COMING;
• 15:18 MATTHEW 24 SAYS IT VERY WELL IN VERSES 30 AND 31.
• 15:32 WHY SHOULD THEY MOURN?
• 15:34 WELL, THEY DID NOT RECEIVE HIM IF THEY ARE STILL ON EARTH SUCH AS WHEN THEY COME TO JERUSALEM.
• 15:38 IT SAYS, "THEY SHALL LOOK UPON ME, WHOM THEY'VE PIERCED"
• 15:41 "AND MOURN FOR HIM AS AN ONLY SON"
• 15:44 "AND A FOUNT OF CLEANSING WILL BE OPENED UNTO THE HOUSE OF DAVID."
• 15:46 THAT'S ZECHARIAH 12:10.
• 16:04 SO THE LORD'S TRUMPET SOUNDS THEN AS HE RETURNS EVEN IN THE SECOND COMING.
• 16:10 1 THESSALONIANS 4:16 IS VERY CLEAR...
• 16:19 OR 1 CORINTHIANS 15: 51 & 52...
• 16:26 IN THE TWINKLING OF AN EYE AT THE SOUND OF THE LAST TRUMPET.
• 16:29 SO A FESTIVAL OF TRUMPETS IS VERY MEANINGFUL IN SCRIPTURE, THERE'S NO QUESTION.
• 16:34 NOW, IN THE WEDDING STORY, WHICH WE TELL AN AWFUL LOT OF THE TIME
• 16:38 BECAUSE AFTER ALL THE RELATIONSHIP OF THE MESSIAH AND THE CHURCH IS AS GROOM TO BRIDE.
• 16:44 IT IS A WEDDING.
• 16:46 THE LORD CAME TO CHOOSE A BRIDE.
• 16:48 JUST AS ABRAHAM SENT HIS SERVANT ELIEZER ALL THE WAY TO HARAN
• 16:52 TO FIND A WIFE FOR HIS ONLY SON ISAAC,
• 16:55 GOD SENT TO ISRAEL, TO CHOOSE A BRIDE.
• 17:01 HE SENT HIS SON TO CHOOSE A BRIDE FROM THE SAME FAMILY.
• 17:05 AND YOU KNOW, WHEN THE LORD,IN THE GARDEN OF GETHSEMANE, SAID, "LET THIS CUP PASS FROM ME,"
• 17:10 THE LORD DIDN'T ANSWER.
• 17:12 GOD COULD HAVE SENT LEGIONS OF ANGELS.
• 17:14 AND HE SENT A LEGION TO STRENGTHEN HIM,
• 17:17 BUT HE DID NOT SAY,"ALL RIGHT, LET'S MARRY THE ROMANS, THE EGYPTIANS, THE GREEKS..."
• 17:22 "I'VE HAD ENOUGH OF THESE PEOPLE."NO.
• 17:23 EVEN THOUGH HIS OWN MARRIAGE...
• 17:25 JEHOVAH IS MARRIED TO ISRAEL AND THEY ARE SEPARATED.
• 17:28 THAT MARRIAGE IS IN A STORMY SHAPE.
• 17:30 THE BOOK OF HOSEA DETAILS THAT.
• 17:32 HOSEA'S WIFE WAS UNFAITHFUL TO HIM.
• 17:34 SHE CHEATED WITH OTHER MEN.
• 17:37 SHE BECAME A PROSTITUTE.
• 17:39 FINALLY SHE DETERIORATED SO MUCH AS TO BECOME A SLAVE AND SHE WAS BEING AUCTIONED AT AN AUCTION.
• 17:45 AND WHO WAS THE HIGH BIDDER?
• 17:46 HOSEA, WHO BOUGHT HER BACK
• 17:48 AND TOOK HER HOME AND SANCTIFIED HER AGAIN.
• 17:50 AND SO JEHOVAH WILL RECLAIM ISRAEL IN THE END AND BE RECONCILED TO HIS WIFE.
• 17:55 BUT HE STILL SENT HIS SON TO THE SAME PEOPLE TO CHOOSE A BRIDE
• 17:59 AND HE BEGAN HIS MINISTRY HERE IN ISRAEL
• 18:02 WITNESSING UNTO THE LOST SHEEP OF THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL
• 18:05 AS HE TOLD HIS DISCIPLES AND THEN OUT INTO THE WORLD,
• 18:08 THOSE WHO WOULD ACCEPT THE MESSIAH OF ISRAEL.
• 18:10 WELL, AT THAT WEDDING, JOHN THE BAPTIST, THE BEST MAN WILL SAY,
• 18:15 IT IS THE BRIDEGROOM THAT HATH THE BRIDE.
• 18:17 BUT THE FRIEND OF THE BRIDEGROOM WHO STANDS WITHOUT AND HEARS HIS VOICE REJOICES WITH HIM,
• 18:22 "THIS IS MY JOY FULFILLED", HE SAYS.
• 18:25 AND IN II CORINTHIANS 11:2 PAUL PUTS IT THIS WAY,
• 18:47 WE ARE INDEED THE BRIDE OF CHRIST NOW.
• 18:50 BUT IN THE COMING KINGDOM WE WILL BE THE WIFE OF CHRIST.
• 18:54 AND REVELATION 19: 7, 8 AND 9
• 18:57 THIS IS ONE OF THE BEAUTIFUL PASSAGES FOR BELIEVERS TO READ IN OUR GREAT HOPE.
• 19:01 IT SAYS,
• 19:09 NOTICE WHAT'S ALWAYS BEEN CALLED THE BRIDE.
• 19:11 THE CHURCH IS NOW CALLED THE WIFE.
• 19:13 AND SCRIPTURE IS SO ACCURATE...
• 19:15 THIS IS AFTER THE WEDDING IN HEAVEN.
• 19:34 WHEN I USED TO WRITE BOOKS, I LOOKED AT SCRIPTURES LIKE THAT ONE IN REVELATION 25 WHICH SAID
• 19:39 "WRITE" W-R-I-T-E,
• 19:41 "WRITE FOR THESE WORDS ARE TRUE AND FAITHFUL."
• 19:44 WELL, THAT IS OUR DESTINY TO BE THE BRIDE OF CHRIST NOW,
• 19:48 HIS WIFE AT THE WEDDING AND THE QUEEN OF THE KINGDOM TO COME.
• 19:54 THE TRUMPET IN SCRIPTURE IS A SYMBOL OF LIBERATION.
• 19:57 OF COURSE, ARMIES BLEW THE TRUMPET WHEN THEY LIBERATED A TERRITORY OR PEOPLE.
• 20:01 THE LIBERTY BELL IN PHILADELPHIA HARKS BACK TO THE JUBILEE YEAR IN ISRAEL.
• 20:08 ON THE SIDE OF IT IS A SCRIPTURE LEVITICUS 25:10,
• 20:12 "TO PROCLAIM LIBERTY THROUGHOUT THE LAND, TO ALL OF THE INHABITANTS THEREOF"
• 20:17 THEY USED A TRUMPET.
• 20:18 WE USE A BELL.
• 20:20 AND IT WAS NOT A BRASS TRUMPET OF COURSE, IN BIBLICAL TIMES, BUT A RAM'S HORN.
• 20:26 THEY TAKE THE HORN AND TREAT IT A CERTAIN WAY AND STRETCH IT OUT
• 20:29 SO THAT THE CURVE BECOMES A LONG, MORE GENTLY CURVED INSTRUMENT
• 20:34 AND IT IS A VERY EFFICIENT INSTRUMENT.
• 20:36 A GOOD PLAYER CAN MAKE QUITE A SOUND ON THE THING.
• 20:39 AND, OF COURSE, WE ARE ALL GOING TO HEAR IT AT LEAST ONCE AT THE SOUND OF THE LAST TRUMP.
• 20:43 WE VISITED A SHOFAR MAKER IN TEL AVIV.
• 20:48 (SHOFAR MAKER) YOU CAN SEE HALF OF THE RAM HORN IS EMPTY
• 20:52 AND HOLLOW WITH THE BONE INSIDE.
• 20:57 AND HALF OF IT IS FULL
• 21:00 SO IN ORDER TO DRILL THE FULL SIDE
• 21:04 WE HAVE TO STRAIGHTEN THE FULL SIDE.
• 21:08 WHAT WE ARE DOING
• 21:09 IS WE'RE HEATING THIS AREA.
• 21:12 WE'RE STRAIGHTENING IT USING PRESSING.
• 21:16 THIS IS HOW WE GET THE SHAPE OF THE SHOFAR.
• 21:19 AFTER THAT, WE START GRINDING AND THEN POLISHING.
• 21:23 WE MAKE A FINAL SMOOTH POLISHING
• 21:26 AND THIS IS THE FINAL RESULT.
• 21:28 (BLOWING SHOFAR)
• 21:32 (ZOLA) THE SHOFAR HAS A UNIQUE SOUND.
• 21:34 HERE WE'RE SEEING A MAN PLAYING ONE IN JERUSALEM.
• 21:37 RECENTLY WE CAME ACROSS AN AMERICAN WOMAN
• 21:39 WHO CAN PLAY NOT ONE, BUT TWO SHOFARS AT ONCE WITH REMARKABLE SKILL.
• 21:43 WE THOUGHT IT WAS WORTH SHOWING HER TO YOU.
• 21:46 BELIEVE ME... THIS IS NOT EASILY DONE.
• 21:58 YOU KNOW THE MAKING OF A SHOFAR
• 22:00 IS SUCH A METAPHOR FOR OUR LIFE
• 22:02 AND OUR WALK WITH THE LORD.
• 22:04 THINK ABOUT IT - THE SHAPING, THE HEAT, THE COLD.
• 22:06 THERE'S WATER, THERE'S FIRE, THERE'S THIS FORMING OF OUR LIVES TO BE USEFUL TO THE LORD
• 22:12 JUST LIKE THIS SHOFAR IS USEFUL TO THE RABBIS AND TO THOSE WHO BLOW IT.
• 22:16 IT REALLY IS A PICTURE OF HOW GOD WANTS TO FORM US
• 22:19 INTO A VOICE SPEAKING TO OUR GENERATION.
• 22:22 THAT'S WHAT I LOVE ABOUT THIS SHOW.
• 22:24 I FEEL LIKE ZOLA LEVITT PRESENTS IS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR GOD TO SPEAK TO THE WORLD
• 22:28 ABOUT WHO HE IS AND ABOUT HIS SOON RETURN.
• 22:31 SPEAKING OF HIS SOON RETURN,
• 22:33 WE HAD A CHANCE TO INTERVIEW TIM LAHAYE,
• 22:35 WHO IS GOING TO TEACH US
• 22:37 ABOUT THE PROPHECIES INVOLVED IN TRUMPETS AND THE COMING OF THE LORD.
• 22:42 THE ULTIMATE EVENT, OF COURSE,
• 22:44 IS THE COMING OF JESUS CHRIST
• 22:45 TO SET UP HIS ONE THOUSAND YEAR MILLENNIAL KINGDOM
• 22:48 AFTER WHICH THERE IS THE GREAT WHITE THRONE JUDGMENT
• 22:51 AND AFTER THAT THE ETERNAL FUTURE.
• 22:53 WE ARE ASSURED OF ALL OF THOSE THINGS
• 22:55 BECAUSE OF THE ACCURACY OF THE PROPHECY FULFILLED ALREADY.
• 23:00 AND YET THERE ARE SOME SIGNS, INDICATIONS.
• 23:03 FOR EXAMPLE, I HAVE WRITTEN ON THE SUBJECT OF CHINA.
• 23:07 THAT IS JUST ONE OF THE MANY INDICATIONS THAT THE KINGS OF THE EAST,
• 23:12 AS IT SAYS IN REVELATION 16
• 23:14 WOULD MARCH ACROSS THE DRIED UP EUPHRATES RIVER
• 23:17 IN PREPARATION FOR THE GREAT ARMAGEDDON BATTLE
• 23:20 THAT OCCURS JUST PRIOR TO THE COMING OF CHRIST.
• 23:24 WELL I FIND THAT IT'S RATHER INTERESTING WITH MANY OTHER SIGNS OF OUR TIMES.
• 23:28 IT LOOKED LIKE THAT WE COULD ANTICIPATE THAT EVENT.
• 23:31 IT ALSO IS THAT THIS PERIOD OF TIME
• 23:33 THAT CHINA IS REACHING OUT TO BECOME A MAJOR WORLD PLAYER ON THE STAGE OF THE HISTORY.
• 23:40 AND FOR 5,000 YEARS, CHINA HAS NOT BEEN A THREAT TO ANYONE.
• 23:45 BUT TODAY IN OUR LIFETIME, WE ARE SEEING THE CAPACITY
• 23:48 AND THE FACT THAT THEY COULD SEND A HUGE ARMY ACROSS THE DRIED UP EUPHRATES RIVER
• 23:53 AGAINST CHRIST IN THE BATTLE OF ARMAGEDDON.
• 23:56 BUT TO ME THE MOST DYNAMIC THING WILL BE THE FULFILLMENT OF THE SEVEN-YEAR TRIBULATION PERIOD.
• 24:02 AND JESUS TALKED ABOUT THAT...
• 24:04 A TIME WHEN THE EARTH WOULD BE TRIED
• 24:06 MORE THAN AT ANY OTHER TIME IN PAST HISTORY
• 24:08 OR EVER WOULD BE AGAIN.
• 24:10 AND THAT'S MENTIONED IN THE OLD TESTAMENT ABOUT 49 TIMES IN DIFFERENT WORDS...
• 24:15 A TIME OF JACOB'S TROUBLE...
• 24:17 IT'S THE LAST SEVEN YEARS TO THE NATION OF ISRAEL WHEN GOD WILL BE WORKING ON THEIR BEHALF,
• 24:23 BUT ALSO WILL BE CONVICTING THE WORLD.
• 24:25 WHEN EXCITING EVENTS TAKE PLACE,
• 24:28 ACTUALLY IT'S ALL RECORDED IN REVELATION CHAPTER 6 THROUGH 19.
• 24:32 AND IN THAT EXTENDED PERIOD YOU HAVE MORE PROPHETIC INFORMATION ABOUT THAT SEVEN-YEAR PERIOD
• 24:39 THEN ANY OTHER COMPARABLE PERIOD OF TIME IN ALL OF WORLD HISTORY.
• 24:42 SO WE HAVE THAT SPECIAL TIME
• 24:45 AND YOU ASK YOURSELF " WHAT IS THAT FOR?"
• 24:47 THAT IS FOR PEOPLE TO MAKE A CHOICE ABOUT WHAT WILL THEY DO REGARDING JESUS CHRIST.
• 24:52 YOU HAVE TWO GREAT POWERS,
• 24:54 ANTICHRIST ON ONE HAND
• 24:55 AND CHRIST HIMSELF ON THE OTHER HAND, THROUGH THE 144,000 WITNESSES.
• 25:00 PEOPLE WILL EITHER TAKE THE MARK OF THE BEAST OR THE MARK OF CHRIST.
• 25:03 THEY HAVE TO MAKE A CHOICE.
• 25:05 JUST LIKE TODAY, PEOPLE HAVE TO MAKE A CHOICE.
• 25:07 WHENEVER THEY HEAR THE GOSPEL THEY HAVE TO MAKE A CHOICE.
• 25:10 IS THIS FOR ME?
• 25:11 WILL I ACCEPT THIS?
• 25:13 DO I BELIEVE JESUS IS THE MESSIAH
• 25:15 THAT FULFILLED ALL THOSE PROPHECIES THAT ARE IN THE SCRIPTURE?
• 25:18 SO MANY THAT NO OTHER HUMAN BEING COULD EVER QUALIFY.
• 25:21 ONLY JESUS COULD BE THAT PERSON.
• 25:23 AND HE WAS THE GIFT OF GOD,
• 25:25 THE LAMB OF GOD THAT TAKES AWAY THE SIN OF THE WORLD
• 25:28 AND NOW WHEN PEOPLE HEAR THAT, THEY HAVE TO MAKE A CHOICE.
• 25:30 WILL I ACCEPT?
• 25:32 WILL I MAKE THAT PERSONAL?
• 25:33 DID HE DIE FOR ME?
• 25:34 AND IF THEY CHOOSE JESUS
• 25:36 BY FAITH, THEY BECOME CHRISTIANS.
• 25:38 AND IF THEY REJECT HIM,
• 25:40 THEY LOSE THEIR OPPORTUNITY FOR ETERNAL LIFE.
• 25:43 AND I BELIEVE THAT IS THE PRIMARY FUNCTION OF LIFE ON THIS PLANET...
• 25:48 TO MAKE OUR CHOICE WHERE WE'RE GOING TO SPEND ETERNITY.
• 26:33 YOU KNOW THE FEASTS OF TRUMPETS REALLY SHOWS US
• 26:35 THAT THERE'S AN HISTORICAL, A PROPHETIC AND A PERSONAL MEANING TO THESE FEASTS.
• 26:39 HISTORICALLY IT WAS ABOUT ISRAEL;
• 26:41 PROPHETICALLY IT POINTS TO THE MESSIAH;
• 26:44 AND PERSONALLY IT'S REALLY ABOUT US AND OUR WALK WITH THE LORD.
• 26:47 A SHOFAR IS USED FOR SO MANY THINGS.
• 26:49 IT'S A CALL TO AWAKEN;
• 26:51 IT'S A CALL TO ASSEMBLE;
• 26:53 AND IT'S A CALL TO LOOK UP.
• 26:54 YES, TO LOOK UP AS IT SAYS IN 1 THESSALONIANS 5 AND 1 CORINTHIANS 15,
• 26:59 IT'S A CALL TO LOOK FOR THE COMING OF THE LORD,
• 27:03 BECAUSE THIS SOUND WILL COME AND WE WILL ALL BE BROUGHT UP IF WE KNOW HIM.
• 27:07 SO WE WANT TO REMIND YOU, OF COURSE, THAT WE CONTINUE TO BRING YOU THESE SHOWS
• 27:11 BECAUSE OF YOUR GIFTS OF FUNDS.
• 27:13 SO PLEASE STAND WITH US AND HELP US TO EXPAND THIS MINISTRY.
• 27:16 WE REALLY FEEL LIKE IN THE DAY THAT WE'RE LIVING WE'RE GETTING CLOSE TO THE END.
• 27:20 WE'RE LOOKING FOR THE RETURN OF THE LORD
• 27:22 AND WE WANT TO AWAKEN THE WORLD TO WHO YESHUA IS AND TO THE PLACE OF ISRAEL,
• 27:26 BOTH FOR THE CHURCH AND FOR THE LOST.
• 27:29 SO UNTIL WE SEE YOU AGAIN, WE WANT TO REMIND YOU,
• 27:32 SHA'ALU SHALOM YERUSHALAYIM
• 27:34 PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM