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Caption transcript for The Holy Days of Our Lord (2012): “Purim / Hanukkah” (9/11)

• 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,
• 00:11 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.
• 00:25 EACH FESTIVAL WOULD BE UNIQUELY FULFILLED IN THE COMING OF THE MESSIAH.
• 00:44 SHALOM AND WELCOME TO ZOLA LEVITT PRESENTS
• 00:46 I'M MYLES
• 00:47 THIS IS MY WIFE KATHARINE
• 00:48 AND WE'RE CONTINUING IN OUR STUDY OF THE HOLY DAYS OF OUR LORD.
• 00:52 HANUKKAH AND PURIM ARE TWO EXTRA BIBLICAL FEASTS.
• 00:56 IN OTHER WORDS, THEY'RE NOT MANDATED IN LEVITICUS 23 LIKE THE OTHER HOLY DAYS
• 01:00 AND YET THEY'RE VERY SIGNIFICANT TO THE JEWISH PEOPLE.
• 01:03 HANUKKAH FOR EXAMPLE IS THE FEAST OF DEDICATION.
• 01:06 IT'S WHEN THE JEWISH PEOPLE WERE DELIVERED FROM ANTIOCHUS BETWEEN THE TESTAMENTS
• 01:11 AND YESHUA KEPT THE FEAST.
• 01:12 YES, IN JOHN 10:22 HE KEPT THE FEAST, THE FEAST OF DEDICATION,
• 01:17 HE'S THERE, HE SHOWS UP.
• 01:19 IT'S WRITTEN ALSO THAT THE HANUKKAH LIGHTS WERE SO BRIGHT IN THE TIME OF THE LORD.
• 01:23 IT WOULD LIGHT UP ALL OF JERUSALEM.
• 01:25 AMAZING...
• 01:26 THINK ABOUT THAT THOUGH...
• 01:27 IT'S THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD...
• 01:28 YESHUA...JESUS CHRIST...
• 01:31 THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD IS STRIDING THROUGH SOLOMON'S PORCH IN JERUSALEM WITH THE WHOLE CITY LIT UP...
• 01:35 THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD IN JERUSALEM BEING LIT UP FOR THE FEAST OF DEDICATION.
• 01:39 SO LET'S GO TO ZOLA IN ISRAEL IN FRONT OF THE KNESSET AS HE TEACHES US ABOUT HANUKKAH.
• 01:52 IN THE FIRST CENTURY IT WAS TRADITION TO LIGHT AN OIL LAMP
• 01:55 ON EACH NIGHT OF THE EIGHT-DAY CELEBRATION CALLED HANUKKAH,
• 02:00 THE FEAST OF DEDICATION OR FESTIVAL OF LIGHTS.
• 02:04 ON THE 25TH DAY OF KISLEV, IN 164 B.C. THE PREVIOUSLY DEFILED TEMPLE WAS CLEANSED
• 02:11 AND REDEDICATED TO THE SERVICE OF THE LORD.
• 02:14 THE MESSIAH AND HIS DISCIPLES CELEBRATED THIS TRADITION.
• 02:18 AS IT STATES IN THE GOSPEL OF JOHN CHAPTER 10,
• 02:22 "AT THAT TIME, THE FEASTS OF THE DEDICATION TOOK PLACE IN JERUSALEM."
• 02:26 "IT WAS WINTER AND JESUS WAS WALKING IN THE TEMPLE IN THE PORTICO OF SOLOMON."
• 02:36 HANUKKAH, THE FESTIVAL OF LIGHTS.
• 02:38 IT IS ONE OF THOSE FESTIVALS
• 02:40 WHERE THE JEWISH PEOPLE LIGHT A CANDELABRA
• 02:43 AND THERE IS A BEAUTIFUL ONE BEHIND ME...
• 02:44 A MENORAH IT'S CALLED IN HEBREW.
• 02:47 THIS SEVEN-BRANCHED MENORAH IS THE ONE FROM THE TABERNACLE
• 02:50 AND IT IS A VERY ORNATE ONE.
• 02:52 YOU CAN SEE THE FIGURE OF MOSES WITH HIS HANDS LIFTED UP AND HELD UP DURING A BATTLE
• 02:57 AND MANY OTHER FIGURES OF JEWISH HISTORIES ARE CARVED ON IT.
• 03:00 WE ARE ON CAPITOL HILL IN EFFECT.
• 03:02 RIGHT ACROSS FROM ME IS THE KNESSET,
• 03:04 THE PARLIAMENT OF ISRAEL.
• 03:07 AND THIS IS A PUBLIC PARK.
• 03:09 PEOPLE COME AND GO OF COURSE WITH CHILDREN AND SO ON ALL DAY LONG.
• 03:12 AND WE CAME HERE TO TELL THE STORY OF THIS FESTIVAL.
• 03:15 IT IS ALL PROPHESIED IN DANIEL 8
• 03:37 AND DANIEL HAD A VISION OF VARIOUS ANIMALS WITH DIFFERENT NUMBERS OF HORNS AND SO ON.
• 03:41 AND WE WOULD PERHAPS BE A LITTLE CONFUSED,
• 03:44 BUT THE ANGEL HERE INTERPRETS THAT VISION.
• 04:02 WHEN ALEXANDER OF GREECE ATTACKED MEDO-PERSIA, IT WAS BROKEN UP INTO FOUR KINGDOMS.
• 04:08 THAT'S A HISTORICAL FACT.
• 04:11 AND IT SAYS,
• 04:18 THIS IS INTERESTING.
• 04:20 WHILE HE'S TELLING THIS STORY HIS PROPHECY LEAPS TO THE END TIMES BECAUSE HE SAYS,
• 04:33 THIS IS OBVIOUSLY A REFERENCE
• 04:35 TO THE ANTICHRIST
• 04:37 AND THE END TIMES OF ISRAEL
• 04:39 AND IT SAYS,
• 04:49 IT IS AS IF GABRIEL IS SAYING WHILE I AM ON THE SUBJECT OF GRECO/SYRIAN KINGDOMS AND RULERS AND SO ON;
• 04:57 THERE IS A DARK PRINCE OF THE END TIMES OUT OF THE SAME PEOPLE.
• 05:00 AND THIS IS THE PASSAGE THAT CONVINCES MANY THAT THAT PERSONALITY WILL BE SYRIAN
• 05:06 OR GRECO/SYRIAN OR SOMETHING OF THAT NATURE.
• 05:09 IT SAYS,
• 05:21 THIS IS ONE OF THE MOST SURPRISING PROPHECIES...
• 05:26 A MAN WHO WILL DESTROY MANY BY WAY OF PEACE
• 05:28 AND HERE WE ARE IN A TIME OF PEACE PROCESSES OF ISRAEL AND SO ON,
• 05:32 AND FINDING THAT SOMEONE WILL DESTROY MANY WITH PEACE.
• 05:44 SO, IN OPPOSING THE MESSIAH, OF COURSE, HE'LL LOSE.
• 05:46 BUT AT A TIME WHEN PRACTICALLY THE WHOLE WORLD AT LEAST PRETENDS TO MAKE PEACE HERE,
• 05:54 IT IS SOBERING TO READ OF DESTRUCTION BY WAY PEACE.
• 05:58 WELL, IT WAS CELEBRATED BY THE MESSIAH HIMSELF IN JOHN 10:22.
• 06:07 THIS FESTIVAL COMES IN DECEMBER NORMALLY.
• 06:10 HE HAD COME HERE FOR THE FESTIVAL.
• 06:12 JESUS WALKED IN THE TEMPLE IN SOLOMON'S PORCH...
• 06:15 THAT'S THE SOUTHERN END OF THE TEMPLE
• 06:17 ABOVE THE HOLY GATES BY THE SOUTHERN STEPS OF THE TEMPLE.
• 06:19 THAT'S WHERE THE POOR PEOPLE TYPICALLY ENTERED THE TEMPLE.
• 06:58 A VERY IMPORTANT PASSAGE OBVIOUSLY.
• 07:00 AND THEN HE UTTERS THE FINAL STATEMENT,
• 07:03 "I AND MY FATHER ARE ONE".
• 07:06 YOU KNOW, AT THIS MOMENT,
• 07:09 THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD REVEALS HIMSELF ON THE FESTIVAL OF LIGHTS.
• 07:16 AND WHEN HE SAYS "I AND MY FATHER ARE ONE,"
• 07:18 THIS IS THE MOST CLEAR ANNOUNCEMENT OF HIS MESSIAH-SHIP...HIS KING-SHIP.
• 07:23 THE PASSAGE IS GRIPPING BECAUSE HE SAID IT OUTRIGHT IN THE TEMPLE, SURROUNDED
• 07:34 AND IT SAYS
• 07:45 THAT'S A KIND OF IRONY THAT MAKES THIS JEWISH WRITING IN MY VIEW.
• 07:49 THAT'S A WAY OF SAYING THAT THE RICOCHET IS MORE DEADLY THAN THE DIRECT HIT
• 07:55 AND THE WAY HE PUT IT IS SUCH AN ISRAELI WAY OF SPEAKING.
• 08:01 WELL, THE HISTORY OF THE THING,
• 08:03 "KHANU" MEANS "RESTED"
• 08:06 AND "KHA" IS THE NUMBER 25.
• 08:08 THEY RESTED ON THE 25TH
• 08:11 AND ON THE 25TH DAY OF THE MONTH KISLEV, ROUGHLY DECEMBER,
• 08:15 HANUKKAH, THE MIRACLE HAPPENED.
• 08:18 AND I SUSPECT THIS IS WHERE WE GOT DECEMBER 25TH.
• 08:23 I CAN JUST HEAR THE ROMANS SAYING,
• 08:25 "THERE'S A FESTIVAL ALREADY AT THIS TIME OF YEAR, MAYBE WE OUGHT TO TAKE IT OVER."
• 08:31 THEY HAD THEIR OWN PAGAN FESTIVAL, "SATURNALIA" AT THE SAME TIME OF YEAR
• 08:35 AND EARLY CHRISTIANS BEGAN TO THINK THEY NEEDED A FESTIVAL I SUPPOSE AT THAT TIME.
• 08:41 BUT IN ANY CASE, SOMEBODY SAID "WHAT IS KISLEV?"
• 08:43 WELL, KISLEV WAS DECEMBER ON THE ROMAN CALENDAR
• 08:46 SO THEY MADE DECEMBER 25TH JESUS' BIRTH...I DON'T KNOW... THAT'S JUST SPECULATION.
• 08:51 ANYWAY THERE'S A TRADITION THEN OF A CANDLE LIGHTING ON THAT DAY, THE MENORAH
• 08:58 AND THE MENORAH IS SUPPOSED TO BE IN THE WINDOW FOR ALL TO SEE.
• 09:03 THIS MADE THINGS VERY TOUGH ON THE JEWS IN THE INQUISITION.
• 09:07 IN SPAIN WITH FORCED CONVERSIONS,
• 09:09 SOME JEWS WEAKENED UNDER THE DURESS AND THE TORTURES
• 09:14 AND, OF COURSE, THEY TOLD THE PRIEST WE CONVERT, WE BELIEVE... OKAY...HAVE IT YOUR WAY.
• 09:18 BUT THEN THEIR HOUSES WERE WATCHED ESPECIALLY ON HANUKKAH AND EACH SABBATH
• 09:23 TO SEE IF CANDLES COULD BE SEEN IN THE WINDOW,
• 09:26 AND IF THEY WERE, THEY HAD BACKSLIDDEN AND SO FORTH AND IT WAS AN AWFUL TIME.
• 09:31 THE LAW TOLD THEM TO DO THIS THING AND YET THEY WERE CAUGHT FOR DOING IT.
• 09:36 THE HANUKKAH MENORAH HAS A CENTRAL CANDLE CALLED THE "SHAMASH"
• 09:40 WITH WHICH YOU LIGHT ALL OF THE OTHER CANDLES AND THAT MEANS "SERVANT".
• 09:44 IT'S A SERVANT CANDLE.
• 09:46 IT IS THE ONE THAT LIGHTS ALL OF THE OTHERS
• 09:48 AND IT'S SO OBVIOUSLY A TYPE OF THE MESSIAH.
• 09:50 HE IS THE SUFFERING SERVANT OF ISAIAH 53 AND I THINK THE MENORAH ITSELF TESTIFIES TO HIM.
• 09:57 CHARITIES FOR THE BLIND ARE USUALLY REMEMBERED ON THIS DAY,
• 10:03 THE FESTIVAL OF LIGHTS; BECAUSE OF THE BLIND NEVER SEE LIGHT SO THEY ARE HELPED AT THIS TIME.
• 10:08 CHILDREN PLAY A GAME WITH A LITTLE TOP THEY SPIN WITH FOUR LETTERS ON IT...A DREIDEL.
• 10:12 THE FOUR LETTERS ARE THE INITIALS OF "NES GADOL HAYA SHEM"...
• 10:16 "A GREAT MIRACLE HAPPENED HERE".
• 10:19 THE JEWISH DESTINY IS TO BE A LIGHT UNTO THE NATIONS...
• 10:24 THIS GOD TOLD ABRAHAM.
• 10:27 BUT, AS THEY HAVE NO MESSIAH, IN GENERAL...
• 10:31 AND I SAY THAT NOW "IN GENERAL"
• 10:33 BECAUSE DURING THE TIME THAT I HAVE BEEN IN THE LORD, SOME 30 YEARS,
• 10:36 I HAVE SEEN SO MANY JEWS COME
• 10:38 THAT I'M BEGINNING TO SAY "IN GENERAL" RATHER THAN THEY HAD NO MESSIAH...
• 10:42 BUT THEY ARE PERSUADING PEOPLE ABOUT MORTGAGES, DRESS, JEWELRY...WHATEVER,
• 10:49 BUT THEY ARE BORN SALES PEOPLE AND INFLUENTIAL IN THEIR COMMUNITIES,
• 10:55 AND HAVING NO MESSIAH, THEY SELL THEM SOMETHING ELSE.
• 10:58 BUT THEY REALLY WERE TO BE THE SALESMEN OF CHRIST IT STANDS TO REASON.
• 11:03 AND IN THE TRIBULATION, COMING UP,
• 11:05 WHEN GOD NEEDS WITNESSES,
• 11:07 HE WILL CALL 144,000 OF WHOM?
• 11:10 12,000 OF EACH OF THE 12 TRIBES OF ISRAEL.
• 11:12 SO THEY WILL BE A LIGHT UNTO THE WORLD STILL AGAIN.
• 11:16 AND NOW IN DANIEL 9:27 IT SAYS THAT THE ANTICHRIST WILL BREAK THE COVENANT WITH THE JEWS
• 11:23 AND THAT HE WILL DESECRATE THE TEMPLE.
• 11:27 MATTHEW 24:15, THE LORD HIMSELF SAID,
• 11:29 "WHEN YOU SEE THAT ABOMINATION OF DESOLATION STAND IN THE HOLY PLACE,"
• 11:33 "FLEE INTO THE HILLS OF JUDEA"
• 11:35 AND SO THERE WAS A DESECRATION OF THE TEMPLE.
• 11:39 WELL, THAT'S WHAT HAPPENED ORIGINALLY.
• 11:41 THE SYRIANS HAD TAKEN OVER IN THE TEMPLE AND ANTIOCHUS HAD A PIG SACRIFICED ON THE ALTAR...
• 11:47 IT WAS HORRIBLE.
• 11:48 THE MACCABEES ATTACKED HIM, REBELLED...
• 11:50 A SUCCESSFUL REBELLION...
• 11:52 THEY TOOK THE TEMPLE BACK BUT THEY FOUND A CANISTER OF OIL THAT WAS ONLY TO LAST ONE DAY
• 11:57 AND IT WAS SEVEN MORE DAYS TO CONSECRATE NEW OIL, BUT YOU COULDN'T LET THE FLAME GO OUT.
• 12:05 IT WAS AN ETERNAL LIGHT.
• 12:07 THE TEMPLE CANDLESTICK, THIS ONE, HAS TO ALWAYS BE LIT
• 12:11 AND SO THEY PRAYED OVER THAT CAN OF OIL AND FED IT INTO THE LAMP AND THEY WAITED THAT DAY
• 12:15 AND IT STAYED LIT THAT DAY AND THAT NIGHT AND THE NEXT DAY AND THE NEXT NIGHT...
• 12:19 AND IT STAYED FOR EIGHT DAYS.
• 12:21 AND THAT IS THE EIGHT CANDLESTICKS.
• 12:23 THEY LIGHT ANOTHER ONE EACH NIGHT FOR EIGHT NIGHTS.
• 12:26 WELL IN MESSIAH'S TIME, THE ROMANS WERE...
• 12:29 YOU KNOW, THE JEWS WERE AN OCCUPIED NATION SO MUCH OF THE TIME...
• 12:33 THE ROMANS WERE IN CHARGE THEN...
• 12:36 LATER THE MUSLIMS
• 12:37 AND THEN THE CRUSADERS
• 12:39 AND FINALLY THE ANTICHRIST WILL DEFAME IN THE TEMPLE.
• 12:42 BUT WE COULD ALWAYS REMEMBER
• 12:44 THAT THE JEWISH NATION WAS SAVED AT HANUKKAH BY THIS GREAT MIRACLE.
• 12:48 AND IT WAS SAVED ALSO AT PURIM BY STILL ANOTHER MIRACLE,
• 12:53 AND WE'LL TELL YOU THAT STORY RIGHT AFTER THIS.
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• 14:07 ISRAEL...
• 14:09 THERE'S NOTHING LIKE IT...
• 14:11 IT IS THE CENTER OF THE WORLD
• 14:13 AND IT IS A BEAUTIFUL PLACE TO VISIT.
• 14:15 IT'S OUR JOY TO TAKE YOU THERE
• 14:16 SO COME WITH US ON OUR NEXT TOUR.
• 14:18 I LOVE TO TEACH THE BIBLE
• 14:20 BUT THERE'S NOTHING LIKE TEACHING THE BIBLE IN ISRAEL WHERE IT ALL TOOK PLACE...
• 14:23 SO COME WITH US.
• 14:24 LET'S GO BACK TO ZOLA.
• 14:26 HE'S NOW GOING TO TEACH US ABOUT PURIM, THE FEAST OF ESTHER
• 14:28 IN ANOTHER PICTURE OF THE DELIVERANCE OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE BY THE HAND OF GOD.
• 14:35 PURIM IS ANOTHER FESTIVAL WHERE THE JEWISH PEOPLE ARE DELIVERED...
• 14:39 THIS ONE OVER IN PERSIA AND ESTHER IS THE SUBJECT OF IT.
• 14:43 OF COURSE THE BOOK OF ESTHER TELLS THE ENTIRE STORY.
• 14:46 THE WICKED PRIME MINISTER HAMAN PLOTTED AGAINST THE JEWS
• 14:49 AND PERSUADED THE KING THAT THEY SHOULD BE ELIMINATED.
• 14:53 HOW MANY TIMES HAS THIS HAPPENED IN HISTORY?
• 14:56 AND ESTHER GOT IN THE WAY.
• 14:59 SHE FASTED THREE DAYS IN PRAYER FOR HER PEOPLE.
• 15:02 SHE APPEALED TO THE KING
• 15:05 AND IN ANY CASE THEY OVERCAME HAMAN
• 15:08 AND THEY WERE NOT EXECUTED THEY WERE SPARED
• 15:10 AND SO EVERY YEAR ON ADAR 14...
• 15:13 THAT IS THE 14TH DAY OF THE 12TH MONTH
• 15:17 OR SOMETIMES THERE IS AN ADAR 2...A LEAP MONTH ON THE JEWISH CALENDAR.
• 15:22 SEVEN TIMES IN EVERY 19-YEAR CYCLE, IF YOU'LL BELIEVE ME, THERE IS A LEAP MONTH.
• 15:28 BUT IN ANY CASE, PURIM IS EXACTLY ONE MONTH BEFORE PASSOVER.
• 15:34 SINCE PASSOVER IS ON THE FIRST FULL MOON OF SPRING,
• 15:37 PURIM IS ALWAYS ON THE LAST FULL MOON OF WINTER
• 15:40 AND IT IS EASY TO LOCATE THAT FESTIVAL.
• 15:43 THEY ARE ALL DESIGNED THAT WAY AS WE SAID IN OTHER PROGRAMS IN THIS SERIES.
• 15:48 GOD PUT THE HEAVENLY BODIES UP THERE FOR SIGNS AND FOR SEASONS
• 15:51 AND THE PEOPLE WHO REALLY DIDN'T HAVE CALENDARS DEPENDED ON THE HEAVENLY BODIES.
• 15:56 IT'S ALSO KNOWN AS THE FESTIVAL OF LOTS
• 15:58 BECAUSE LOTS WERE DRAWN TO CHOOSE WHAT DAY THE JEWISH PEOPLE WOULD BE DESTROYED
• 16:03 AND SO, THEY REMEMBER THAT WAY.
• 16:07 THE CELEBRATION IN THE SYNAGOGUE IS INTERESTING.
• 16:11 THEY READ THE WHOLE BOOK OF ESTHER,
• 16:13 SO CALLED "THE WHOLE MEGILLAH".
• 16:15 THEY READ IT FROM THE TOP TO THE BOTTOM.
• 16:16 AND THE CHILDREN HAVE GRAGGERS IN THEIR HAND...
• 16:20 AWFUL NOISE-MAKERS THAT THEY SHAKE RATHER LIKE WE DO AT NEW YEARS OR MARDI GRAS.
• 16:26 THEY MAKE A LOT OF NOISE WHEN THE RABBI PRONOUNCES THE NAME OF HAMAN, THE PRIME MINISTER.
• 16:31 AND I REMEMBER AS A LITTLE KID SITTING IN THE SYNAGOGUE
• 16:35 IN A COSTUME DRESSED AS MORDECAI OR SOMEBODY IN THE STORY,
• 16:38 AND THE RABBI READING SLOWLY THROUGH THE WHOLE MEGILLAH
• 16:43 AND ALL OF US WAITING WITH OUR BATED BREATH AND OUR NOISE-MAKERS READY
• 16:47 AND FINALLY HE WOULD HAVE TO..."HAMAN"...
• 16:50 AND THE SYNAGOGUE WOULD JUMP UP AND DOWN WITH THE NOISE AND THE RACKET.
• 16:56 AND ALL WE KIDS WOULD RUN AROUND THE PLACE...
• 16:59 IT WAS A FREE-FOR-ALL.
• 17:00 THE SYNAGOGUE AND ITS FORMAL AISLES AND PLATFORMS AND SON ON
• 17:04 WAS ALL PUT INTO THE HANDS OF THE CHILDREN FOR PURIM
• 17:07 AND WE HAD A GOOD TIME WITH IT.
• 17:09 THERE IS A PROPHETIC SIGNIFICANCE TO THIS FESTIVAL.
• 17:12 ALTHOUGH THE NAME OF GOD IS NOT MENTIONED ANYWHERE IN THE BOOK.
• 17:15 YOU KNOW THE SCOFIELD BIBLE POINTS OUT WHEREVER THE JEWS ARE, EVEN OUTSIDE OF THE LAND,
• 17:20 GOD IS WITH THEM AND HIS PROVIDENCE ALWAYS SAVES THEM.
• 17:23 AND IN THIS CASE,
• 17:25 ESTHER'S FAST IS LIKE THE THREE DAYS THAT THE LORD WAS AWAY BEFORE HIS RESURRECTION.
• 17:31 SHE FASTED EXACTLY THREE DAYS
• 17:33 AND ESTHER THEN TRIUMPHING OVER EVIL, OVER HAMAN, BECOMES THE CHRISTIAN WALK, A NEW LIFE.
• 17:40 WE, TOO, TRIUMPH OVER EVIL, OVER SIN AND OUR NEW DECREE TRIUMPHS.
• 17:45 THE KING READ OUT A NEW DECREE
• 17:47 AND OUR NEW DECREE OF COURSE IS CALLED THE NEW TESTAMENT.
• 17:52 AND WE TRIUMPH ALONG WITH CHRIST
• 17:55 AND ONE DAY WE'LL BE RESURRECTED JUST AS HE WAS.
• 18:05 (Zola speaking) TO FIND OUT MORE ABOUT THE FESTIVALS OF HANUKKAH AND PURIM,
• 18:09 OUR PRODUCER KEN BERG SPOKE TO SANDY WINGATE,
• 18:12 A GENTILE BELIEVER WHO LIVES IN ISRAEL.
• 18:15 SANDY, THANKS SO MUCH FOR TAKING TIME TO BE WITH US TODAY
• 18:18 AND SHARING WITH US.
• 18:20 COULD YOU EXPLAIN FOR US, PLEASE WHAT'S ON THE TABLE
• 18:22 AND JUST EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENS IN ISRAEL DURING HANUKKAH?
• 18:26 WELL HANUKKAH IS A VERY FESTIVE TIME
• 18:29 AND OF COURSE IT TAKES PLACE USUALLY IN DECEMBER
• 18:32 BECAUSE IT IS THE CALENDAR MONTH OF KISLEV
• 18:36 AND SO IT'S COLD AND SOMETIMES RAINY...
• 18:40 IT COULD SNOW EVEN,
• 18:42 BUT IN THE HOME IT'S A WARM ATMOSPHERE BECAUSE YOU HAVE THE MENORAH.
• 18:46 IN AMERICA OR IN EUROPE, WE KNOW IT AS THE MENORAH
• 18:49 BUT IT IS REALLY THE HANUKKAH
• 18:51 AND DISTINCT FROM THE REGULAR JEWISH MENORAH
• 18:54 WHICH HAS SEVEN BRANCHES
• 18:56 AND THIS HAS EIGHT PLUS ONE.
• 18:58 AND THE MENORAH YOU SEE HAS ONE CANDLE THAT IS RAISED
• 19:05 AND THAT IS BECAUSE IT'S THE "SHAMASH" OR "THE SERVANT CANDLE"
• 19:07 AND IT IS USED TO LIGHT THE OTHER CANDLES.
• 19:11 BY THE LAST NIGHT OF HANUKKAH YOU WOULD LIGHT EIGHT
• 19:14 AND YOU ALWAYS START WITH THE CANDLE FOR THAT EVENING
• 19:21 BUT YOU ADD THE CANDLES FROM THE LEFT.
• 19:25 SO FOR TOMORROW NIGHT, WE WOULD PUT THE CANDLE HERE
• 19:28 AND THEN LIGHT IT FROM THAT CANDLE FIRST.
• 19:31 AND IS OTHER MENORAHS HERE?
• 19:33 YES, THIS ONE YOU SEE HAS ALL EIGHT CANDLES
• 19:36 AND IT IS QUITE BRIGHT BY THE TIME THE LAST NIGHT OF HANUKKAH COMES.
• 19:39 DIFFERENT STYLES...
• 19:41 THERE'S NOT AN OFFICIAL STYLE
• 19:44 ALTHOUGH I THINK MOST PEOPLE TRADITIONALLY LIKE THE ONE THAT LOOKS LIKE THE MENORAH.
• 19:50 AND WHAT ELSE ON THIS TABLE IS USED AT HANUKKAH?
• 19:53 THIS IS THE DREIDEL
• 19:55 AND IT IS USED TO PLAY A GAME
• 19:58 THAT WAS PLAYED IN THE TIME THAT HANUKKAH TOOK PLACE ORIGINALLY, IN AROUND 167 B.C.
• 20:07 OR B.C.E. "BEFORE THE COMMON ERA".
• 20:09 AND THE CHILDREN WOULD BE LOOKING AT THE TORAH AND STUDYING THE TORAH
• 20:14 BUT THEY WOULD HAVE DREIDELS, USUALLY MADE OF CLAY, HANDY,
• 20:18 SO IF THE GREEKS CAME, THE SOLDIERS CAME
• 20:22 THEY COULD SWITCH QUICKLY AND HIDE THEIR SCRIPTURES
• 20:25 AND LOOK LIKE THEY ARE PLAYING GAMES.
• 20:28 AND THE LETTERS ON THE DREIDEL STAND FOR "NES GADOL HAYA SHAM"
• 20:33 OR "NES GADOL HAYA PO"
• 20:36 "PO" IS "HERE".
• 20:37 IF YOU ARE IN ISRAEL, WE SAY "A GREAT MIRACLE HAPPENED HERE".
• 20:40 IF YOU ARE IN AMERICA OR EUROPE OR ANOTHER COUNTRY YOU SAY "A GREAT MIRACLE HAPPENED THERE"
• 20:46 MEANING ERETZ ISRAEL.
• 20:47 WELL, WHAT ABOUT THE FESTIVAL OF PURIM?
• 20:49 PURIM IS A HOLIDAY THAT STARTS AT THE SYNAGOGUE
• 20:51 BECAUSE ONE OF THE MITZVOT OF PURIM IS TO GO TO THE SYNAGOGUE AND TO READ THE BOOK OF ESTHER.
• 21:00 AND EVERY TIME THE NAME OF HAMAN WHO IS THE VILLAIN IS SAID,
• 21:05 THEN YOU MAKE AS MUCH NOISE TO BOO OUT HIS NAME.
• 21:11 AND THAT'S WHY YOU USE THINGS LIKE THE, THE GROGGER, OR ANY KIND OF NOISE MAKER,
• 21:16 IT'S TO GET HIS NAME OUT OF HEARING.
• 21:19 AND THEN ALSO WHEN YOU HEAR THE NAME OF MORDECAI, WHO IS THE HERO,
• 21:24 AND ESTHER WHO IS THE HEROINE,
• 21:26 YOU CHEER AND CLAP AND MAKE AS MUCH NOISE AS POSSIBLE.
• 21:29 SO IT STARTS AT THE SYNAGOGUE BECAUSE IT IS REQUIRED TO READ THROUGH THE BOOK OF ESTHER.
• 21:37 THEN PEOPLE COME HOME TO THEIR FAMILIES OR GO TO PARTIES.
• 21:40 CHILDREN, ESPECIALLY GO TO PARTIES AND THEY WEAR COSTUMES.
• 21:44 THIS IS AN EXAMPLE OF A PART OF A COSTUME...A WIG.
• 21:48 YOU WOULD WEAR SOMETHING LIKE THIS?
• 21:50 YES, I'VE WORN WIGS LIKE THIS
• 21:51 BUT MINE WAS A BRIGHT ORANGE RED BUT VERY METALLIC LOOKING.
• 21:56 MASKS...AND THERE IS A REASON FOR THE MASKS AND THE COSTUMES
• 22:00 BECAUSE THERE'S A HIDDEN ASPECT TO PURIM.
• 22:04 AND THE HIDDENNESS IS THAT IN THE WHOLE BOOK OF ESTHER THE NAME OF GOD IS NEVER MENTIONED
• 22:09 AND YET GOD IS VERY MUCH BEHIND THE SCENES ORCHESTRATING THE PRESERVATION OF HIS PEOPLE.
• 22:18 AND THIS IS THE IDEA OF THE COSTUMES.
• 22:22 AND ALSO THAT IT IS A FESTIVE TIME.
• 22:24 WELL SANDY, IF YOU ARE NOT JEWISH YOURSELF,
• 22:26 WHY THE INTEREST IN JEWISH THINGS?
• 22:29 WELL, I HAVE BEEN INVOLVED IN THE JEWISH COMMUNITY FOR MORE THAN 30 YEARS
• 22:32 IN MANY ASPECTS AND MANY LEVELS.
• 22:35 ONE ASPECT IS TO BUILD A BETTER RELATIONSHIP AND A BETTER UNDERSTANDING.
• 22:41 CERTAINLY I SHARE MY FAITH WHEN IT'S APPROPRIATE AND IF I'M ASKED.
• 22:47 BUT THE HOLIDAYS FOR ME AS A GENTILE CHRISTIAN ARE VERY SPECIAL
• 22:53 BECAUSE THEY'RE BIBLICAL HOLIDAYS.
• 22:55 EVEN THOUGH HANUKKAH IS NOT COMMANDED IN THE SCRIPTURES, IT IS MENTIONED,
• 23:01 NOT IN THE TANAKH,
• 23:02 NOT IN THE HEBREW BIBLE,
• 23:04 BUT IN JOHN CHAPTER 10 IT IS MENTIONED THAT JESUS WAS IN JERUSALEM,
• 23:07 IT WAS THE FEAST OF DEDICATION WHICH IS HANUKKAH.
• 23:10 PURIM OF COURSE IS FROM THE BOOK OF ESTHER.
• 23:13 FOR ME AS A BELIEVER IN JESUS, IN YESHUA, THE HOLIDAYS HAVE BOTH A HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE
• 23:21 AND THEY HAVE A MESSIANIC SIGNIFICANCE
• 23:26 AND IT'S ALSO A WAY THAT I IDENTIFY FIRST OF ALL WITH THE GOD OF ISRAEL.
• 23:31 THE GOD THAT I LOVE AND WORSHIP IS THE GOD OF ISRAEL...
• 23:33 THAT'S HIS NAME.
• 23:35 AND AS A BELIEVER IN JESUS AND AS A GENTILE I'M IDENTIFYING MYSELF WITH THE JEWISH PEOPLE
• 23:41 AND THAT I OWE A DEBT TO THE JEWISH PEOPLE FOR ALL THAT I HAVE RECEIVED SPIRITUALLY.
• 23:47 MY FAITH IS JEWISH.
• 23:48 AND WHEN MY LORD COMES BACK
• 23:50 HE IS COMING BACK AS THE KING OF THE WORLD... BUT AS ISRAEL'S KING.
• 23:55 AND SO THERE'S A CONNECTION IN TERMS OF THE SCRIPTURE
• 23:59 AND IN TERMS OF MY OWN HERITAGE AS A BELIEVER EVEN THOUGH I AM NOT JEWISH.
• 24:03 AND I HAVE A FATHER ABRAHAM AS WELL.
• 24:06 WELL, SANDY, THANKS SO MUCH FOR YOUR TIME AND FOR THE INTERVIEW.
• 24:09 YOU'RE WELCOME.
• 26:03 BEAUTIFUL MUSIC BY ZOLA.
• 26:05 IT'S SO GREAT TO HEAR HIM PLAY THE MUSIC THAT HE LOVES.
• 26:08 AND ALSO TO SEE SANDY TALK ABOUT THE FEASTS
• 26:11 AND ALL THE DIFFERENT THINGS THAT TAKE PLACE IN BOTH HANUKKAH AND PURIM.
• 26:15 A GENTILE WOMAN AND YET SHE KEEPS THE FEAST.
• 26:17 EXACTLY,
• 26:18 WE HAVE SO MUCH TO LEARN
• 26:19 WHETHER A JEW OR GENTILE.
• 26:21 THERE'S SO MUCH WE CAN GET FROM STUDYING THESE HOLIDAYS...
• 26:23 THESE FEASTS...THESE HOLY DAYS.
• 26:24 YOU KNOW, PURIM IS REALLY ABOUT DELIVERANCE
• 26:27 AND IT REMINDS ME OF THE SCRIPTURE IN ESTHER 4:14,
• 26:30 IN THE HEBREW IT SAYS,
• 26:31 (SPEAKING HEBREW)
• 26:36 "WHO KNOWS WHETHER YOU HAVE BEEN BROUGHT INTO THE KINGDOM FOR SUCH A TIME AS THIS?"
• 26:40 THAT'S WHAT MORDECAI SAYS TO ESTHER.
• 26:42 AND I WANT TO THANK YOU
• 26:44 FOR STANDING WITH THIS MINISTRY
• 26:46 AND STANDING WITH THE JEWISH PEOPLE.
• 26:48 I BELIEVE YOU'VE BEEN BROUGHT INTO THE KINGDOM
• 26:50 FOR SUCH A TIME AS THIS.
• 26:51 WE'RE IN THAT SEASON WHERE THE PRESSURE IS ON ISRAEL.
• 26:54 GOD IS GOING TO DELIVER HER AGAIN.
• 26:57 IT DOESN'T MATTER IF IT'S HAMAN OR HEROD OR HITLER OR HAMAS,
• 27:01 GOD WILL DELIVER THE JEWISH PEOPLE
• 27:03 AND WE CAN BE PART OF THAT.
• 27:04 SO THANK YOU AND REMEMBER IT'S YOUR GIFTS OF FUNDS
• 27:07 THAT ALLOW US TO BRING THIS TEACHING TO THE WORLD AT LARGE.
• 27:11 SO STAND WITH US WOULD YOU?
• 27:12 UNTIL WE SEE YOU AGAIN, PLEASE,
• 27:15 SHA'ALU SHALOM YERUSHALAYIM...
• 27:17 PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM.
• 27:21 (Zola speaking) LISTEN; READ MY OLD BOOK,
• 27:23 "JESUS THE JEW'S JEW".
• 27:25 THIS IS VIRTUALLY MY FIRST BOOK
• 27:27 WHEN I STARTED TO WRITE THESE BOOKS IN THE EARLY 70'S.
• 27:29 I WAS WRITING 3 OR 4 AT A TIME.
• 27:31 I THINK IT'S EITHER THE FIRST OR ONE OF THE FIRST THAT CAME OUT
• 27:34 AND IT'S STILL A GOOD SELLING BOOK.
• 27:36 A VERY INTERESTING APPROACH TO OUR LORD AS A JEW.
• 27:40 AND OF COURSE YOU CAN HAVE THE LEVITT LETTER OR THE CATALOGUE..
• 27:43 THOSE THINGS ARE FREE...
• 27:44 JUST SEND US YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS
• 27:46 AND YOU'LL BEGIN RECEIVING THEM.