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Caption transcript for The Holy Days of Our Lord (2012): “Tabernacles” (8/11)

• 00:02 IT IS WRITTEN IN THE SCRIPTURES THAT WE SHOULD JOURNEY TO JERUSALEM THREE TIMES A YEAR.
• 00:07 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
• 00:44 TO ZOLA LEVITT PRESENTS.
• 00:46 I'M MYLES
• 00:47 THIS IS MY WIFE KATHARINE
• 00:48 AND WE ARE IN THE SERIES
• 00:50 "THE HOLY DAYS OF OUR LORD, SHADOWS OF THINGS TO COME".
• 00:53 WOW...WE ARE NOW ABOUT TO LEARN
• 00:55 ABOUT THE FEAST OF TABERNACLES...SUKKOT.
• 00:58 AND IT'S THE LAST OF THE SEVEN FEASTS...
• 01:00 NOT THE END OF OUR SERIES...
• 01:02 BUT THE LAST OF THE FEASTS
• 01:03 AND IT REALLY IS ABOUT THE CULMINATION OF ALL THINGS ISN'T IT?
• 01:06 AND THE JEWS...THEY ACTUALLY MAKE A BOOTH
• 01:09 AND IT'S TO REMIND THEM THAT OUR LIFE HERE IS TEMPORAL,
• 01:13 THAT WE'RE SOJOURNERS, THAT WE'RE JUST PASSING THROUGH
• 01:16 AND SO WE'RE TO KEEP A LIGHT TOUCH ON HOW MUCH WE FOCUS ON THIS EARTH.
• 01:20 EXACTLY, AND IT REALLY LOOKS FORWARD
• 01:21 TO THE TIME WHEN YESHUA WILL COME
• 01:24 AND TABERNACLE WITH MAN AS IMMANUEL, "GOD WITH US",
• 01:27 SO IT'S A WONDERFUL FEAST.
• 01:29 LET'S GO RIGHT AWAY TO OUR FOUNDER ZOLA LEVITT
• 01:32 TEACHING TEN YEARS AGO IN ISRAEL, RIGHT NOW.
• 01:38 THE 15TH DAY OF THE 7TH MONTH SHALL BE THE FEAST OF TABERNACLES.
• 01:42 TAKE FOR YOURSELVES THE BEAUTIFUL TREES,
• 01:45 BRANCHES OF PALM TREES, THE BOUGHS OF LEAFY TREES, AND WILLOWS OF THE BROOK.
• 01:55 AND YOU SHALL REJOICE BEFORE THE LORD YOUR GOD FOR SEVEN DAYS.
• 02:00 ALL WHO ARE NATIVE ISRAELITES SHALL DWELL IN BOOTHS
• 02:03 THAT YOUR GENERATIONS MAY KNOW
• 02:05 THAT I MADE THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL DWELL IN BOOTHS
• 02:07 WHEN I BROUGHT THEM OUT OF THE LAND OF EGYPT.
• 02:10 I AM THE LORD YOUR GOD.
• 02:13 SHALOM, HELLO AGAIN.
• 02:15 WELL WE CAME TO THE WILDERNESS OUTSIDE OF JERUSALEM
• 02:17 TO TALK ABOUT THE FEAST OF TABERNACLES.
• 02:20 THE ROAD IN THE PICTURE BACK THERE IS THE ROAD RIGHT UP INTO JERUSALEM.
• 02:24 AND OTHERWISE RIGHT OUTSIDE OF THE TOWN IS REAL DESERT
• 02:29 LIKE THE DESERT OF THE WILDERNESS THAT THE CHOSEN PEOPLE WENT THROUGH.
• 02:33 NOW THE FEAST OF TABERNACLES IS THE LAST ONE, THE 7TH ONE.
• 02:36 IN LEVITICUS 23:33 IT SAYS,
• 03:01 WELL THIS IS AN ODD TRANSLATION.
• 03:03 THE WORD IS SUKKOT IN HEBREW.
• 03:04 TENTS, TABERNACLES LIKE THIS ONE...
• 03:07 THEY FOUND MATERIALS IN THE WILDERNESS
• 03:10 AS THEY TRAVELED THOSE FORTY YEARS THAT WERE PROVIDED BY GOD.
• 03:15 THE IDEA THAT HE PROVIDES FOR HIS PEOPLE IN THE WILDERNESS IS VERY IMPORTANT,
• 03:18 BECAUSE THE WILDERNESS IN THE WHOLE FEAST STORY
• 03:22 STANDS FOR THIS LIFE THAT WE'RE LEADING IN THIS WORLD.
• 03:25 IT WORKS THIS WAY.
• 03:27 THE SYMBOLS FROM PASSOVER TEACH US THAT THE BITTER HERBS AT THE TABLE
• 03:31 REPRESENT THE BITTERNESS OF SLAVERY,
• 03:34 THAT'S OUR LIVES BEFORE WE WERE SAVED.
• 03:36 THEN COMES THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB,
• 03:37 THE WAY THEY GOT OUT IN THE EXODUS.
• 03:40 THAT IS OUR SALVATION OF COURSE.
• 03:42 WE ARE ALSO SAVED FROM BONDAGE BY THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB.
• 03:46 THEN THEY WENT INTO THE RED SEA AND CAME OUT AGAIN SAFELY,
• 03:49 AS WE GO INTO THE WATERS OF BAPTISM AND COME OUT AGAIN SAFELY.
• 03:53 AND THEN WHAT DO WE DO BUT TRAVEL IN THIS WILDERNESS.
• 03:56 BUT GOD PROVIDES AS WE TRAVEL IN THIS LIFE.
• 03:59 HE SAID HE WOULD AND WITH HIS CHOSEN PEOPLE FOR FORTY YEARS HE PROVIDED MATERIAL LIKE THIS.
• 04:03 QUAIL FLEW OVER, THEY ATE, THEY SURVIVED, AND THEY WANDERED.
• 04:08 THIS IS VERY SYMBOLIC FOR US.
• 04:12 THE HISTORY OF THE THING,
• 04:13 IT'S THE THIRD MAJOR ENCOUNTER THEY'VE HAD WITH THE LORD AS A NATION.
• 04:17 YOU SEE BEFORE THE EXODUS,
• 04:20 BEFORE HE TALKED THROUGH MOSES AND TO THE PEOPLE ABOUT GETTING OUT OF EGYPT,
• 04:26 HE HAD ONLY TALKED TO ONE PERSON AT A TIME.
• 04:29 TO ADAM, TO NOAH, TO ABRAHAM, ISAAC, JACOB.
• 04:32 BUT NOW HE'S TALKING TO A NATION.
• 04:34 AND HE TALKED TO THE NATION AT PASSOVER WITH THIS TREMENDOUS EXODUS.
• 04:38 THEN HE TALKED TO THEM AT PENTECOST, SO TO SAY,
• 04:42 WHICH IS THE TRADITIONAL GIVING OF THE LAW FROM SINAI;
• 04:47 THAT IS WHAT THE RABBI'S HOLD.
• 04:49 AND NOW TABERNACLE IS THE THIRD MAJOR ENCOUNTER OF GOD TALKING TO THE WHOLE NATION.
• 04:55 IT SYMBOLIZES THE END OF THE HARVEST FOR THE YEAR.
• 04:58 EVERYTHING IS IN,
• 04:59 EVERYTHING HAS BEEN HARVESTED.
• 05:01 THE PEOPLE HAVE BOUNTIFUL GIFTS FROM THE PROMISED LAND THAT GOD HAS MADE FERTILE.
• 05:08 THE THING IS USUALLY IN OCTOBER;
• 05:11 ON THE HEBREW CALENDAR TISHREI 15-21.
• 05:15 THAT ROUGHLY STARTS, GIVE OR TAKE, MID-SEPTEMBER OR SO, MAYBE A LITTLE LATER
• 05:19 AND TYPICALLY TABERNACLE IS AFTER THAT IN OCTOBER.
• 05:23 IT'S THE HAPPIEST FEAST.
• 05:25 IT'S THE KINGDOM FEAST.
• 05:26 IT WILL BE CELEBRATED IN THE KINGDOM TO COME.
• 05:30 ZECHARIAH 14:16 SAYS,
• 05:33 "...ALL THOSE NATIONS WHICH CAME UP AGAINST JERUSALEM SHALL GO UP FROM YEAR TO YEAR"
• 05:37 "TO WORSHIP THE LORD AND TO CELEBRATE THE FEAST OF TABERNACLES."
• 05:42 THEY'LL ALL COME TO JERUSALEM FOR A THOUSAND YEARS TO CELEBRATE THIS FEAST.
• 05:46 PROBABLY THE OTHER FEASTS WILL BE CELEBRATED TO,
• 05:48 BUT THIS ONE IS SPECIFICALLY IS NOTED IN SCRIPTURE TO BE CELEBRATED BY NAME.
• 05:53 OF COURSE AT PASSOVER, WHEN THE LORD SAT DOWN HIS WINE GOBLET HE SAID,
• 05:58 "I'LL NOT DRINK OF THIS WINE TILL I DRINK IT NEW WITH YOU IN MY FATHER'S KINGDOM",
• 06:01 INDICATING WE'D DRINK PASSOVER WINE WITH HIM OR HAVE PASSOVER.
• 06:05 BUT TABERNACLES IS GIVEN BY NAME.
• 06:08 THESE BOOTHS WILL SURVIVE
• 06:10 AND THE IDEA IS THE LORD'S TABERNACLE,THE HOUSE OF GOD
• 06:14 WILL BE REBUILT IN JERUSALEM AND OCCUPIED BY THE KING.
• 06:17 WE'LL BE WITH HIM AS THE QUEEN OF THE KINGDOM TO COME
• 06:21 SO, THE GRAND FEAST OF TABERNACLES
• 06:24 IS THAT THOUSAND YEARS, LIVING IN HIS TABERNACLE IN EFFECT.
• 06:29 WELL THE ISRAELITES DWELL IN THESE SUKKOTS, THESE BOOTHS, THESE TENTS SEVEN DAYS.
• 06:34 THEY TEACH THEIR CHILDREN THE STORY OF HOW THEY WERE SUSTAINED IN THE WILDERNESS.
• 06:38 SOME JUST TAKE MEALS,
• 06:39 SOME STAY OVERNIGHT,
• 06:41 BUT GOD SAYS "...ALL THAT ARE ISRAELITES BORN WILL DWELL IN BOOTHS."
• 06:44 AND THERE'S A WONDERFUL CELEBRATION.
• 06:47 THERE WAS AT THE TEMPLE.
• 06:48 THERE IS AT THE SYNAGOGUES TODAY.
• 06:50 A POURING OF WATER FOR ONE THING.
• 06:53 THIS IS ABOUT THE HIGH PRIEST TAKING WATER FROM THE POOL OF SILOAM,
• 06:59 WHICH IS DOWN THE SOUTHERN END OF THE HILL BELOW THE TEMPLE,
• 07:04 AND GATHERING WATER FROM THERE
• 07:06 AND POURING A BASIN AT THE FOOT OF THE ALTER IN A GRAND CEREMONY.
• 07:11 JOSEPHUS, FIRST CENTURY HISTORIAN SAID,
• 07:13 "IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN THIS CELEBRATION, YOU'VE NEVER SEEN A FESTIVAL CELEBRATION".
• 07:18 IT WAS SO GRAND.
• 07:19 THEY CIRCLED THE ALTAR SEVEN TIMES,
• 07:23 THEY BEAT WITH WILLOW BRANCHES.
• 07:25 THE LIGHTING OF THE TEMPLE WAS FOUR GIGANTIC CANDELABRAS,
• 07:31 FOUR HUGE LIGHTS WITH SO MUCH FLAME COMING OUT OF THEM THAT IT SAID
• 07:38 EVERY COURTYARD THROUGHOUT JERUSALEM WAS LIT THROUGH THE NIGHT BY THOSE CANDELABRA.
• 07:45 THE LORD COVERS IT IN THE PSALMS AND SAYS,
• 07:48 "IT'S ABOUT THE PILLAR OF FIRE THAT WAS OUT THERE IN THE WILDERNESS."
• 07:53 THAT IS WHAT THEY ARE REMEMBERING.
• 07:55 THE POURING OF WATER REMEMBERS MOSES STRIKING THE ROCK AND GOD PROVIDING WATER FOR HIS PEOPLE.
• 08:00 AND SO A GRAND CELEBRATION TO MARK THIS HAPPIEST FEAST.
• 08:04 WE MIGHT CALL IT KIND OF THEIR FESTIVAL OF THANKSGIVING.
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• 09:02 ♪SHA'A'LU SHALOM YERUSHALAYIM♪
• 09:06 ♪SHA'A'LU, SHA'A'LU SHALOM♪
• 09:10 ♪IN THE HOLY CITY OF JERUSALEM♪
• 09:16 ♪WE WILL PRAY FOR PEACE♪
• 09:20 ♪SHA'A'LU SHALOM♪
• 09:30 THAT'S ISRAEL.
• 09:32 WE LOVE IT, YOU WILL LOVE,
• 09:33 WE WANT YOU TO COME WITH US,
• 09:35 WE KNOW YOU'LL HAVE A LIFE CHANGING TIME WITH US
• 09:37 AND WE KNOW THAT THERE'S SO MUCH THAT YOU ARE WANTING TO LOOK INTO ISRAEL
• 09:41 SO WE WANT TO SHARE IT WITH YOU.
• 09:43 IT'S TRUE...ZOLA SAID THAT GOING TO ISRAEL IS LIKE 10 YEARS IN SUNDAY SCHOOL...
• 09:47 IT REALLY IS.
• 09:48 A GREAT WAY TO STAY IN TOUCH WITH US
• 09:50 IS THROUGH THE LEVITT LETTER.
• 09:51 YOU CAN RECEIVE IT BY GETTING IN TOUCH WITH US.
• 09:53 IT'S FREE TO YOU AT LEVITT.COM
• 09:55 AND THIS WEEK'S OFFER IS
• 09:57 "THE HOLY DAYS OF OUR LORD",
• 09:58 THE VERY SERIES THAT WE'RE WATCHING
• 09:59 THAT ZOLA PRODUCED OVER 10 YEARS AGO.
• 10:02 IT'S FULL OF INFORMATION
• 10:03 AND FULL OF REVELATION
• 10:05 ABOUT THE DAYS OF OUR LORD
• 10:06 AND THE FEASTS OF THE LORD.
• 10:08 SO NOW LET'S GET BACK TO ZOLA ON LOCATION.
• 10:12 TRADITIONALLY THERE ARE FOUR SPECIES OF BUILDING MATERIALS
• 10:15 THAT GOD SOMEHOW LAID AROUND THE SINAI, AROUND THE DESERT AS THEY WANDERED.
• 10:20 THERE WAS THE ETROG, THE CITRON,
• 10:23 AND DIFFERENT FRUITS AND BRANCHES, PALM BRANCHES AND SO ON,
• 10:26 WHICH THEY NEEDED TO BUILD THESE SUKKOT AND TO TRIM THEM OUT TO MAKE THEM DECENT FOR HABITATION.
• 10:33 THEY WERE ALWAYS TO BE FOUND EVEN IN AN EMPTY DESERT.
• 10:36 I DON'T KNOW IF YOU'VE SEEN THE SINAI OR THE JUDEAN DESERT,
• 10:39 OR THE WILDERNESS OF SEINE, OR ANY OF THESE PLACES WHERE THEY WENT,
• 10:42 BUT THEY'RE NOT FRIENDLY DESERTS.
• 10:44 THEY'RE NOT FOR BEGINNERS.
• 10:46 YET THE WHOLE NATION, OLD PEOPLE, CHILDREN, EVERYONE SURVIVED AND GOD SAW TO IT.
• 10:52 NOW THAT WANDERING SORT OF ANSWERS TO A LONG SUMMER.
• 10:57 YOU KNOW THE FEASTS ARE PLANNED WITH 3 IN THE SPRING, MORE OR LESS IN APRIL.
• 11:01 THOSE ARE OF COURSE PASSOVER, UNLEAVENED BREAD, AND FIRST FRUITS.
• 11:05 THEN WE SKIP 50 DAYS AND WE HAVE PENTECOST.
• 11:08 THAT'S LATE MAY, EARLY JUNE.
• 11:10 BUT THEN THERE'S THE LONG SUMMER
• 11:12 AND IT GOES ALL THE WAY OVER TO THE FALL FEASTS AND THE 7TH MONTH OF THE YEAR
• 11:16 WHICH IS MORE OR LESS SEPTEMBER
• 11:18 AND FINALLY ENDING WITH TABERNACLES, USUALLY IN OCTOBER.
• 11:22 JEREMIAH SAYS IN JEREMIAH 8:20 A VERY TELLING VERSE.
• 11:28 "THE SUMMER IS OVER, THE HARVEST IS PASSED, AND WE'RE NOT YET SAVED."
• 11:34 THIS IS A CRY OUT IT SEEMS ALMOST TO MODERN ISRAEL.
• 11:38 IT'S JUST ABOUT OVER.
• 11:39 THE HARVEST IS ABOUT TO FINISH.
• 11:41 THE TRUMPET IS GOING TO SOUND.
• 11:42 THAT'S THE FIRST FALL FEAST.
• 11:44 THAT WOULD BE THE RAPTURE.
• 11:45 ONLY THE SAVED ARE GOING IN THAT ONE.
• 11:48 IT WOULD BE A TRAGEDY IF ISRAEL IS UNSAVED STILL AT THAT POINT.
• 11:53 NOW AT TABERNACLES THE LORD DID SOME OF HIS MOST BASIC TEACHINGS.
• 11:57 IN JOHN 7 HIS BROTHERS TEMPT HIM TO GO DOWN.
• 12:02 THEY'RE ALMOST TEASING HIM.
• 12:03 YOU KNOW YOU DO SOME PUBLIC RELATIONS FOR YOUR MINISTRY.
• 12:07 YOU'RE THE SAVIOR.
• 12:08 GO DOWN THERE TO JERUSALEM AND TELL THEM.
• 12:10 I MEAN THEY REALLY DIDN'T HOLD TO THE TEACHINGS OF THEIR OLDER BROTHER
• 12:15 AND ALMOST LIKE JOSEPH'S BROTHERS, JUST REFUSED TO BOW TO THE ONE WHOM GOD WAS INSPIRING.
• 12:21 BUT HE WENT DOWN TO THE TEMPLE AND HE TAUGHT,
• 12:23 AND HE TAUGHT BEAUTIFULLY.
• 12:25 HE TAUGHT ABOUT THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD.
• 12:27 IN JOHN 9:5 HE SAYS,
• 12:34 ALSO IN JOHN 8:12, THE SAME, THE 1,000 YEAR REIGN.
• 12:39 HE TAUGHT OF THAT.
• 12:41 THE KINGDOM.
• 12:42 ITS MAGNIFICENT TEACHINGS THAT HE GAVE AT THE FEAST OF TABERNACLES.
• 12:47 HE REALLY DISCLOSED SOME MAGNIFICENT THINGS.
• 12:50 JOHN 4:10 IS ABOUT SALVATION.
• 12:53 THIS IS WHEN HE WAS WITNESSING TO THE SAMARITAN WOMAN.
• 13:11 IT WAS TOLD TO ME BY DR. CHARLES RYRIE, AUTHOR OF THE STUDY BIBLE,
• 13:15 THAT THE ONE VERSE HERE IS THE MOST PERFECT OF ALL WITNESSES.
• 13:19 IT HAS FOUR ELEMENTS... WHAT HE TOLD HER.
• 13:21 "IF THOU KNEWEST THE GIFT OF GOD..."
• 13:23 SO, SALVATION IS A FREE GIFT OF GOD.
• 13:26 "...AND WHO IT IS THAT SAITH TO THEE 'GIVE ME TO DRINK'..."
• 13:29 SO, IF YOU KNOW THE SAVIOR, IF YOU KNOW THE MESSIAH,
• 13:32 YOU MUST KNOW THE RIGHT, THE VALID MESSIAH.
• 13:36 "...THOU WOULDEST ASKED OF HIM"
• 13:40 YOU MUST ASK FOR THIS SALVATION.
• 13:42 IT'S NOT AUTOMATIC.
• 13:43 "...AND HE WOULD HAVE GIVEN THEE LIVING WATER."
• 13:46 HE GIVES IT FREELY.
• 13:47 THIS IS SO PERFECT.
• 13:49 ANOTHER TEACHING OF THE LORD THAT IS SO WONDERFUL.
• 13:52 YOU KNOW HIS NAME WAS SALVATION.
• 13:54 YESHUA, THE NAME, JESUS' NAME IN HEBREW - YESHUA, MEANS SALVATION.
• 14:01 THAT'S THE WORD FOR SALVATION.
• 14:03 SO THE VERSE THAT SAYS,
• 14:05 "MARY CALLED HIS NAME YESHUA, SALVATION, BECAUSE HE BRINGS HIS PEOPLE SALVATION", MAKES SENSE.
• 14:11 IF WE HAVE THE NAME JESUS, WHICH IS A TRANSLITERATION FROM THE GREEK,
• 14:15 THEN YOU DON'T GET IT.
• 14:17 "SHE CALLED HIS NAME JESUS BECAUSE HE BROUGHT HIS PEOPLE SALVATION"
• 14:20 DOESN'T MEAN ANYTHING.
• 14:21 BUT IF WE KNOW HIS TRUE NAME IT DOES MEAN A GREAT DEAL.
• 14:25 WELL DURING TABERNACLES JESUS AMPLIFIED THESE THINGS MAGNIFICENTLY.
• 14:29 HE TAUGHT OF THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD.
• 14:31 HE TAUGHT OF LIVING WATER.
• 14:32 HE TAUGHT OF THE WORD MADE FLESH...SUBTLETIES.
• 14:38 HE ALSO DISCLOSED THAT THE HOLY SPIRIT WAS COMING IN VERSES 37 - 39.
• 14:44 IF YOU READ JUST JOHN 7 IT'S A WONDERFUL, WONDERFUL CHAPTER.
• 14:49 AND HE TAUGHT THAT HE WAS GOD AMONG THE PEOPLE.
• 14:53 YOU KNOW WHEN YOU GO BACK TO THE BEGINNING OF THE FEAST OF TABERNACLES IN EXODUS 25
• 14:59 GOD FIRST TELLS THE PEOPLE TO GATHER THE MATERIALS.
• 15:01 THEY HAD PLENTY OF STUFF FROM EGYPT.
• 15:03 THE EGYPTIANS BID THEM "GOODBYE" AND "GOOD RIDDANCE."
• 15:07 THEY GAVE THEM GOLD AND SILVER AND LINENS
• 15:11 AND ALL KINDS OF THINGS THAT THEY TOOK WITH THEM IN THE EXODUS
• 15:15 BECAUSE AFTER ALL, AFTER 10 PLAGUES THEY WERE JUST GLAD TO SEE THEM GO
• 15:18 AND WHATEVER THEY NEEDED THEY GAVE THEM.
• 15:20 GOD SAID TO BRING THOSE MATERIALS.
• 15:23 THEY SAY THE WOMEN GAVE THE BRONZE.
• 15:25 MIRRORS IN THOSE DAYS WERE POLISHED BRONZE
• 15:28 AND IN A VERY WONDERFUL GIFT THE WOMEN TOOK THEIR BRONZE MIRRORS
• 15:33 AND HANDED THEM IN TO BE MELTED DOWN
• 15:35 TO MAKE THE BRONZE LAVER OF WATER FOR THE FRONT OF THE TABERNACLE.
• 15:39 THAT WAS QUITE A GIFT.
• 15:42 BUT IN EXODUS 25:8 GOD TELLS THE PURPOSE OF THE WHOLE THING,
• 15:46 HE SAYS TO TAKE THOSE MATERIALS
• 15:52 THAT IS MAGNIFICENT THAT GOD IS GOING TO DWELL WITH HIS PEOPLE.
• 15:57 THERE WERE OTHER TRIBES IN THE SINAI WITH OTHER GODS.
• 16:00 THE EGYPTIANS HAD A LOT OF GODS.
• 16:01 THEY HAD THEIR MAGICIANS CONSULTING ALL SORTS OF FALSE GODS.
• 16:05 BUT NOBODY CLAIMED THEIR GOD LIVED WITH THEM.
• 16:07 THEY LOOKED TO HEAVEN.
• 16:09 THEY LOOKED TO STATUES.
• 16:10 THEY LOOKED TO VALLEYS.
• 16:11 THEY LOOKED TO MOUNTAINS.
• 16:12 BUT NOBODY SAID, "HE'S RIGHT OVER IN THE TENT."
• 16:14 "THAT'S HIS APARTMENT ON EARTH."
• 16:16 "HE CREATED THIS WHOLE WORLD AND HE LIVES HERE AMONG US BECAUSE WE'RE HIS CHOSEN PEOPLE."
• 16:21 WELL, JESUS IN THAT WONDERFUL CHAPTER TEACHING AT THE FEAST OF TABERNACLES
• 16:26 TEACHES THE WORD MADE FLESH - GOD DWELLING AMONG HIS PEOPLE,
• 16:31 THE WHOLE IDEA OF THE TABERNACLE.
• 16:34 IN PRACTICE THE EARTHLY BODY THAT WE HAVE IS THIS TABERNACLE, THE TABERNACLE OF THE SPIRIT.
• 16:42 WE NEED TO CARE FOR IT.
• 16:44 WE NEED TO TREAT IT WELL.
• 16:46 2 CORINTHIANS 5:1 SAYS,
• 16:57 WHEN WE DIE, THIS TABERNACLE IS NO GOOD ANYMORE.
• 17:01 WE HAVE ANOTHER TABERNACLE UP THERE IN HEAVEN.
• 17:03 "TO BE ABSENT FROM THE BODY IS TO BE PRESENT WITH THE LORD," PAUL TAUGHT.
• 17:07 WE SIMPLY AWAIT EITHER OUR DEATH, WHICH IS...
• 17:12 I REMEMBER WATCHING AN OLD YIDDISH MOVIE, A JEWISH MOVIE, CALLED "HESTER STREET".
• 17:18 IT WAS REALLY MADE IN AMERICA,
• 17:20 BUT IT WAS ABOUT THE PEOPLE WHO CAME OVER FROM EUROPE BEFORE THE TURN OF THE CENTURY- VERY POOR,
• 17:25 FROM VERY RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES OF JEWS IN EUROPE.
• 17:28 THEY STARTED OUT ON THE EAST SIDE OF NEW YORK AND THEY MADE LITTLE BUSINESSES.
• 17:34 THEY WORKED IN SWEAT SHOPS AND SO ON.
• 17:35 BUT THERE WAS A TOUCHING SCENE WHERE A LETTER CAME FROM THE OLD COUNTRY
• 17:39 AND THE HERO IN THE STORY TAKES IT TO A RABBI WHO CAN READ AND ASKS HIM WHAT IT SAYS.
• 17:45 THE RABBI LOOKS AT IT, THEN LOOKS DEEPLY AT THE MAN AND SAYS,
• 17:49 "YOUR FATHER HAS BEEN FREED",
• 17:52 MEANING THAT HIS EARTHLY BODY WAS GONE AND HE HAS BEEN FREED.
• 17:57 SO, WHEN WE'RE FREED WE'RE GOING TO HEAVEN TO THE LORD,
• 18:02 AND THEN BACK HERE TO RULE THIS EARTH WITH THE LORD.
• 18:04 SO THE MAGNIFICENT SPIRITUAL SONG BY ISAAC WATTS,
• 18:08 "JOY TO THE WORLD, THE LORD IS COME."
• 18:11 "LET EARTH RECEIVE HER KING!"
• 18:14 AND HE RULES THE WORLD.
• 18:16 HE MAKES THE NATIONS PROVE.
• 18:26 TEACHING ON TABERNACLES IS SO RICH
• 18:29 BECAUSE IT REALLY SPEAKS ABOUT GOD AND MAN COMING TOGETHER...
• 18:32 "GOD WITH US" TABERNACLING...
• 18:34 IT'S A WONDERFUL TEACHING ABOUT THE IMPERMANENCE OF LIFE
• 18:37 AND OUR NEED TO MEET WITH THE ONE WHO MADE US.
• 18:40 SOME SUPPORTERS OF ISRAEL ARE SOME OF THE GREATEST PEOPLE THAT WE'VE MET.
• 18:44 THERE ARE CHRISTIAN ZIONISTS, PEOPLE WHO BELIEVE IN ISRAEL WHO STAND WITH THE JEWISH PEOPLE.
• 18:48 AMONG THEM IS THE INTERNATIONAL CHRISTIAN EMBASSY.
• 18:51 BACK WHEN THIS WAS RECORDED
• 18:53 WE WERE ABLE TO GET AN INTERVIEW WITH THE INTERNATIONAL CHRISTIAN EMBASSY
• 18:56 AND THIS INTERVIEW WILL REALLY BLESS YOU.
• 18:58 SO LET'S GO THERE ON LOCATION RIGHT NOW.
• 19:02 CHUCK KING, THANKS FOR BEING WITH US TODAY.
• 19:04 THANK YOU.
• 19:05 CAN YOU GIVE US A BACKGROUND TO THE CHRISTIAN EMBASSY
• 19:07 AND WHAT ITS PURPOSE IS HERE IN JERUSALEM?
• 19:09 CERTAINLY.
• 19:11 THE CHRISTIAN EMBASSY IS ACTUALLY COMING UP ON ITS 20TH ANNIVERSARY.
• 19:15 IT BEGAN OUT OF A VISION IN 1980
• 19:19 FROM A GROUP OF BELIEVERS WHO WERE HERE THAT HAD A HEART TO CELEBRATE THE FEAST OF TABERNACLES.
• 19:25 THAT HAPPENED IN 1980 AT THE ANGLICAN SCHOOL HERE.
• 19:28 THERE WERE ABOUT 1,000 CHRISTIANS THAT CAME.
• 19:30 AND FROM THAT CELEBRATION, THAT FIRST CELEBRATION OF THE FEAST OF TABERNACLES,
• 19:34 THE MINISTRY THE INTERNATIONAL CHRISTIAN EMBASSY BEGAN.
• 19:37 OUT OF A BIBLICAL MANDATE TO LOVE AND COMFORT ISRAEL, THE JEWISH PEOPLE,
• 19:43 AND ALSO TO STAND IN SOLIDARITY WITH JERUSALEM AS THE UNDIVIDED CAPITAL OF THIS NATION.
• 19:48 WELL, CHUCK, DO THINK THAT THE CHURCH TODAY
• 19:50 HAS A TRUE UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT THE FEAST OF TABERNACLES IS REALLY ABOUT?
• 19:54 I DON'T KNOW IF SPECIFICALLY THEY HAVE AN UNDERSTANDING OF THE FEAST OF TABERNACLES,
• 19:58 BUT I DO THINK THERE IS A GROWING AWARENESS IN THE CHURCH
• 20:02 ABOUT OUR RESPONSIBILITY TOWARDS ISRAEL
• 20:04 AND THE CONNECTION THAT THE CHURCH HAS,
• 20:06 THE PROPHETIC CONNECTION THAT THE CHURCH HAS,
• 20:08 AND THE RESPONSIBILITY TOWARDS ISRAEL AND WHY WE SHOULD BE INVOLVED.
• 20:12 AND HOW WOULD YOU DEFINE THAT RESPONSIBILITY?
• 20:14 WELL BECAUSE OUR FAITH HAS GROWN OUT OF THE TREE,
• 20:19 WE ARE THE BRANCHES OF THE TREE THAT PAUL DESCRIBED.
• 20:23 OUR MESSIAH COMES FROM THIS NATION.
• 20:27 THE BOOK THAT WE PLACE OUR FAITH IN COMES FROM THIS NATION
• 20:30 AND REALLY BECAUSE OF THOSE THINGS
• 20:34 AND ALSO BECAUSE OF THE HISTORICAL EVENTS THAT HAVE HAPPENED
• 20:38 WHERE THE CHURCH I BELIEVE HAS RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE ANTI-SEMITISM THROUGHOUT THE AGES,
• 20:43 WE HAVE A RESPONSIBILITY TO ACTUALLY RESTORE THE RELATIONSHIP
• 20:49 AND SHOW WHAT OUR FAITH IS TRULY ABOUT
• 20:53 AND THAT IS ONE PEOPLE UNDER ONE GOD.
• 20:56 WELL, CHUCK, WHAT EXACTLY DOES THE CHRISTIAN EMBASSY DO
• 21:00 DURING THE FEAST OF TABERNACLES?
• 21:02 WELL, THE FEAST OF TABERNACLES IS AN EVENT THAT ATTRACTS APPROXIMATELY 5,000 BELIEVERS FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD.
• 21:10 THE MAIN EMPHASIS I THINK OF THE FEAST OF TABERNACLES IS WORSHIP.
• 21:14 YOU KNOW IT'S A BIBLICAL FEAST THAT IS A FEAST OF REMEMBRANCE
• 21:19 TO THINK ABOUT THE WAY THAT GOD WAS WITH THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL
• 21:23 AS THEY TRAVELED THROUGH THE DESERT AND TO COME AND TABERNACLE WITH THE LORD.
• 21:28 OF COURSE WE'RE ANTICIPATING THE REIGN OF THE MESSIAH WHEN HE COMES
• 21:33 AND WHEN ALL NATIONS WILL GATHER TO CELEBRATE THE FEAST OF THE LORD.
• 21:36 BUT I'D SAY THAT THE MAIN THING ABOUT THE FEAST OF TABERNACLES IS PRAISE AND WORSHIP.
• 21:41 WE HAVE A CHOIR, A DANCE COMPANY, AN ORCHESTRA,
• 21:48 AND THESE ARE MEMBERS OF THE FEAST TEAM WHO ARE RECRUITED FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD.
• 21:53 MANY NATIONS ARE REPRESENTED IN THE MUSIC TEAM ITSELF.
• 21:57 IT'S JUST A SPECTACULAR EVENT WHERE WE INCORPORATE THE ARTS.
• 22:01 REALLY IT'S A WAY WE CAN SAY TO ISRAEL
• 22:06 WE'RE COMING TO WORSHIP WITH YOU AND THIS IS THE WAY THAT WE WANT TO DO IT,
• 22:11 WITH A MULTI-CULTURAL KIND OF EXPRESSION, AND DIFFERENT MUSICAL STYLES AS WELL.
• 22:15 NOT ONLY THAT, BUT WE HAVE TEACHING SEMINARS THROUGHOUT THE DAY.
• 22:19 WE OFFER MANY OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE PILGRIMS WHO COME
• 22:24 TO EXPERIENCE ISRAEL IN A UNIQUE KIND OF WAY.
• 22:27 WE PARTICIPATE IN THE JERUSALEM MARCH,
• 22:30 WHICH IS A BIG EVENT HERE IN THE CITY.
• 22:34 ACTUALLY THE FEAST PILGRIMS OCCUPY ABOUT 50% OF THE SPACE NOW IN THE JERUSALEM MARCH
• 22:40 WHERE THE PILGRIMS COME AND MARCH IN THEIR NATIONAL COSTUMES.
• 22:43 ALSO THERE'S THE TREE PLANTING.
• 22:45 WE HAVE, THE CHRISTIAN EMBASSY HAS TWO TREE FORESTS NOW WITH OVER 50,000 TREES
• 22:51 THAT CHRISTIANS HAVE PLANTED TO HELP REBUILD ZION.
• 22:55 THERE ARE VISITS TO YAD VASHEM AND VARIOUS OTHER SITES.
• 22:58 ALSO WE HAVE A DESERT CELEBRATION, THE EREV SUKKOT, THE FIRST NIGHT OF THE FEAST
• 23:03 WHERE WE TAKE THE PILGRIMS TO A SITE RIGHT NEXT TO THE DEAD SEA
• 23:08 AND GIVE THEM A TASTE OF WHAT IT WAS LIKE FOR THE PILGRIMS
• 23:11 THAT WERE WANDERING THROUGH THE WILDERNESS ON THEIR WAY TO THE LAND OF ISRAEL.
• 23:16 THAT'S HOW WE BEGIN SUKKOT.
• 23:17 IT'S GREAT.
• 23:20 WELL, HOW DOES THE JEWISH COMMUNITY RECEIVE YOUR CELEBRATION OF THE FEAST OF TABERNACLES?
• 23:23 I THINK THEY'RE OVERWHELMINGLY SUPPORTIVE AND FAVORABLE TOWARDS US.
• 23:28 YOU CAN SEE THAT DEFINITELY WHEN YOU PARTICIPATE IN THE JERUSALEM MARCH
• 23:31 BECAUSE THE ISRAELIS ARE LINING THE STREETS
• 23:33 AND IT'S SUCH AN OVERWHELMING REALIZATION FOR THEM THAT THERE ARE CHRISTIANS IN THE WORLD
• 23:40 THAT LOVE AND CARE ABOUT THIS COUNTRY AND WANT TO DO SOMETHING IN SUPPORT FOR THEM.
• 23:46 SO I THINK IT'S VERY WELL RECEIVED.
• 23:49 ACTUALLY WE HAVE ONE OF THE NIGHTS OF THE FEAST OF TABERNACLES
• 23:52 SPECIFICALLY DEDICATED FOR THE ISRAELI COMMUNITY TO COME AND TO CELEBRATE WITH US
• 23:59 AND THEY DO COME.
• 24:01 THERE ARE SOME WITHIN THE BODY OF CHRIST, THE BELIEVERS, THE CHURCH,
• 24:06 WHO WOULD LOOK AT THE OLD TESTAMENT AND SAY THAT IT'S OLD.
• 24:09 THEY WOULD LOOK AT LEVITICUS 23 FOR INSTANCE
• 24:12 AND SAY THAT THE FEASTS REALLY HAVE NO SIGNIFICANCE TODAY.
• 24:15 WHAT WOULD YOU SAY TO THOSE PEOPLE?
• 24:17 WELL I THINK THAT IF WE'RE CHRISTIANS THAT MEANS THAT WE'RE FOLLOWERS OF JESUS.
• 24:24 WE'RE FOLLOWERS OF YESHUA
• 24:25 AND WE WANT TO DO WHAT OUR MASTER DID.
• 24:28 THE FEASTS OF ISRAEL WERE GIVEN AS PERPETUAL FEASTS OF REMEMBRANCE.
• 24:32 ALTHOUGH THERE ISN'T A GREAT UNDERSTANDING NOW OF WHAT THE FEASTS ARE ALL ABOUT,
• 24:39 THAT DOESN'T MEAN THAT WE CAN'T LEARN ABOUT THEM
• 24:41 AND LEARN ABOUT WHAT THEIR SIGNIFICANCE IS FOR US
• 24:44 BECAUSE THEY DO REVEAL GOD'S PLAN AND GOD'S CHARACTER AND HIS NATURE.
• 25:33 IT'S SO WONDERFUL TO HEAR ZOLA PLAYING THE MUSIC HE LOVED IN THE LAND THAT HE LOVED.
• 25:37 THERE'S NOTHING QUITE LIKE IT.
• 25:38 THIS FEAST OF TABERNACLES REALLY IS THE CULMINATION OF ALL 7 FEASTS
• 25:43 AND IT SPEAKS ABOUT GOD COMING TOGETHER WITH MAN DOESN'T IT?
• 25:47 IT'S THE TABERNACLING OF GOD WITH MAN
• 25:50 BUT IT'S ALSO A REMEMBRANCE THAT OUR LIFE IS TEMPORAL.
• 25:54 AND I LOVED IT WHEN WE PUT UP A TABERNACLE IN OUR BACKYARD...
• 25:57 A BOOTH AS THEY CALL IT...
• 25:59 A TEMPORARY DWELLING.
• 26:01 WE USED THE 7 SPECIES
• 26:03 AND WE HAD A GREAT TIME INVITING PEOPLE OVER AND SHARING WHAT THE WORD SAYS ABOUT THIS HOLIDAY.
• 26:09 JESUS KEPT EVERY ONE OF THESE MYLES AND WE SHOULD TOO.
• 26:13 YES WE WOULD DO IT ALL WITH THE HIGH PRIEST CEREMONY POURING OUT THE WATER
• 26:16 WHICH IS WHEN JESUS SAID THAT "ANYONE WHO THIRSTS... COME TO ME...YOU WILL NEVER THIRST AGAIN".
• 26:21 WE HAD SUCH A GREAT TIME OPENING OUR HOME IN THAT WAY AND OUR HEARTS IN THAT WAY.
• 26:27 THE HEBREW CONCEPT IS...
• 26:30 IT'S ABOUT THE WELCOMING OR THE HOSPITALITY
• 26:32 OF ANYONE WHO WANTS TO COME INTO THE TABERNACLE
• 26:35 AND IT REALLY LOOKS FORWARD TO JOHN 3:16
• 26:38 WHICH PREACHES TO US THAT WHOSOEVER WILL CAN COME AND DRINK FROM THE WATERS OF LIFE.
• 26:43 WHOSOEVER WILL IS WELCOME TO COME DRAW FROM THE WELLS OF SALVATION
• 26:47 AND THAT'S REALLY THE STORY OF THE FEASTS ISN'T IT?
• 26:50 ABOUT WHO YESHUA IS
• 26:51 AND SO UNTIL WE SEE YOU AGAIN, WE WANT TO SAY,
• 26:55 SHA'ALU SHALOM YERUSHALAYIM...
• 26:57 PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM.