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Caption transcript for Sons of Promise: “For the Love of Rachel” (7/8)

• 00:27 AND THE LORD APPEARED UNTO ISAAC AND SAID,
• 00:31 "DWELL IN THIS LAND AND I WILL BE WITH YOU AND BLESS YOU."
• 00:36 "FOR TO YOU AND YOUR DESCENDANTS I GIVE ALL THESE LANDS"
• 00:41 "AND I WILL PERFORM THE OATH WHICH I SWORE TO YOUR FATHER ABRAHAM"
• 00:45 "AND I WILL MAKE YOUR DESCENDANTS MULTIPLY AS THE STARS OF HEAVEN"
• 00:51 "AND IN YOUR SEED ALL THE NATIONS OF THE EARTH SHALL BE BLESSED."
• 01:04 SHALOM AND WELCOME TO OUR PROGRAM.
• 01:07 I'M MYLES WEISS.
• 01:08 AND I'M KATHARINE WEISS
• 01:09 AND WE WANT TO WELCOME BACK TO OUR SERIES"SONS OF PROMISE".
• 01:13 YES, IT'S GREAT TO BE LEARNING ABOUT ISAAC AND JACOB AND NOT ONLY SO;
• 01:16 SEEING HOW THE LINE OF COVENANT COMES THROUGH ABRAHAM, ISAAC AND JACOB WHO IS ISRAEL.
• 01:22 WE SEE THAT CHANGE.
• 01:23 AND ISRAEL IS THE NATION TODAY THE JEWISH PEOPLE.
• 01:26 IT WASN'T TOTALLY AUTOMATIC.
• 01:28 THEY HAD TO BELIEVE INTO THE CALL THAT GOD PLACED...
• 01:32 SAME WITH US.
• 01:33 THERE WAS A PROMISE BUT ABRAHAM BELIEVED INTO IT;
• 01:36 THEN ISAAC DID AND NOW JACOB JUST HAS.
• 01:39 YOU KNOW, HE'S HAD AN ENCOUNTER WITH THE LORD AS HIMSELF,
• 01:43 THE ACCESS TO HEAVEN;
• 01:44 THE ANGEL OF THE LORD COMING UP AND DOWN THE LADDER.
• 01:47 IN JOHN 1:51 IT SAYS THAT JESUS IS THAT ACCESS, HE IS THAT LADDER.
• 01:53 RIGHT, HE SAID TO NATHANIEL THAT YOU WILL SEE GREATER THINGS THAN THIS.
• 01:56 YOU'LL SEE THE HEAVENS OPEN AND THE ANGEL OF GOD DESCENDING AND ASCENDING AT THE SON OF MAN.
• 02:00 AND YOU KNOW ALL THROUGHOUT HUMAN HISTORY, RELIGION, THE SPIRITUALITY, THE OCCULTS,
• 02:05 EVERY WHICH-A-WAY PEOPLE ARE TRYING TO GET TO GOD
• 02:09 OR WHO THEY IMAGINE GOD TO BE.
• 02:11 AND THEN WE FIND OUT LO AND BEHOLD 2,000 YEARS AGO GOD COMES TO MAN AND THAT'S THE WAY IT HAPPENS.
• 02:17 WE DON'T COME TO GOD BECAUSE WE CAN'T.
• 02:19 HE MADE ACCESS JUST AS YESHUA DID AT THE CROSS.
• 02:22 SO JACOB IS FORESHADOWING THAT AND SEEING THAT IN THIS STORY
• 02:26 AND THAT'S WHERE WE WILL PICK UP
• 02:28 WHEN WE ACTUALLY BEGIN TO SEE THE NEXT GENERATION OF THE LOVE AFFAIR.
• 02:32 AS WE PICK UP OUR BIBLICAL NARRATIVE LET'S GO TO THE DRAMA
• 02:35 WHERE WE'RE GOING TO SEE JACOB MEETING RACHEL.
• 02:42 THE JOURNEY FROM BEERSHEBA TO HARAN HAD BEEN LONG AND ARDUOUS.
• 02:47 ALONG THE WAY, IN BETHEL JACOB HAD EXPERIENCED A HEAVENLY ENCOUNTER IN A DREAM
• 02:52 WHERE THE LORD SAID, "I WILL GIVE THIS LAND TO YOU"
• 02:56 "AND ALL THE FAMILIES OF THE EARTH SHALL BE BLESSED BECAUSE OF YOU AND YOUR DESCENDANTS."
• 03:01 NOW, NEARLY 500 MILES FROM BEERSHEBA, HARAN WAS FINALLY IN SITE.
• 03:07 THIS WAS THE LAND OF HIS MOTHER'S FATHER BETHUEL, AND HIS MOTHER'S BROTHER LABAN.
• 03:14 NOW THERE WERE SHEPHERDS IN THE FIELD TENDING THEIR FLOCKS.
• 03:18 A WELL WAS NEARBY AND, IN KEEPING WITH THE TRADITION OF THE DAY; A ROCK COVERED THE WELL UNTIL THE EVENING HOURS.
• 03:54 SO JACOB PICKED UP HIS FEET AND WALKED AND WENT.
• 03:58 IT WAS ABOUT A 500 MILE JOURNEY TO PADAN ARAM.
• 04:02 THE RABBIS SAY THAT HIS HEART LIFTED UP HIS FEET
• 04:06 WHICH IS A REALLY COOL WAY OF SAYING IT
• 04:07 BECAUSE NEHEMIAH 8:10 TELLS US THAT THE JOY OF THE LORD IS OUR STRENGTH.
• 04:11 TALKING ABOUT THE JOY OF THE LORD, LOOK AT BEHIND ME.
• 04:16 WE'RE IN THE MARKET PLACE.
• 04:17 WE'RE IN SHABBAT, IT'S THE FRIDAY MORNING LEADING UP TO SHABBAT
• 04:20 AND AS KATHARINE SAID IT'S LIKE CHRISTMAS EVERY WEEKEND.
• 04:23 EVERY TIME SHABBAT COMES AROUND THE WHOLE CITY IS JUST BUSTLING
• 04:27 GETTING READY FOR SHABBAT TONIGHT WHEN THINGS WILL SLOW DOWN, QUIET DOWN
• 04:32 AND AT SUNDOWN THE CITY WILL COMPLETELY GET QUIET AND REST
• 04:37 AND FAMILY AND GOD AND LOVE WILL COMPLETELY OVERTAKE THE PLACE.
• 04:40 IT'S REALLY QUITE AWESOME.
• 04:42 I IMAGINE IT WAS AMERICAN WAS LIKE ON A SUNDAY A HUNDRED YEARS AGO
• 04:46 BUT IT'S LIKE THAT NOW HERE IN JERUSALEM.
• 04:48 THIS IS A PICTURE OF THE SONS OF PROMISE.
• 04:51 INCREDIBLE HOW MAN OPENS THE DOOR TO THE SPIRIT
• 04:55 AND WE CAN CHOOSE WHICH SPIRIT WE'RE GOING TO LET IN.
• 04:57 WILL IT BE GOD?
• 04:58 WILL IT BE MAN?
• 04:59 WILL IT BE ANTI-GOD?
• 05:01 AND WE SEE THAT THE INQUIRY ABOUT WHO LABAN IS, IS COMING NOW FROM JACOB
• 05:05 AND HE'S GOING TO ASK ABOUT LABAN, HIS RELATIVE,
• 05:08 AND WE'RE GOING TO FIND OUT THAT THE DECEIVER WILL BE DECEIVED;
• 05:12 THAT JACOB IN HIS NATURAL MAN AS A DECEIVER IS GOING TO BE DECEIVED BY LABAN.
• 05:17 THAT WILL UNFOLD IN A DRAMA A LITTLE BIT FURTHER DOWN THE ROAD.
• 05:21 THERE'RE THREE MENTALITIES AT WORK IN THE WORLD AT ALL TIMES...
• 05:24 THE BARBARIAN MENTALITY,
• 05:26 THE GREEK MENTALITY AND THE HEBRAIC MENTALITY.
• 05:27 AND THERE'S INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE THREE OF THEM
• 05:31 AND SO THERE ALWAYS AT WORK TO SEE WHICH ONE WILL HAVE PREEMINENCE;
• 05:34 WHICH ONE WILL HAVE THE DOMINANCE.
• 05:36 WE'RE HOPING THAT THE HEBRAIC WILL ALWAYS WIN OUT.
• 05:39 IT'S GOD'S POINT OF VIEW.
• 05:41 YESTERDAY I HIT A HARD SPOT HERE IN JERUSALEM EMOTIONALLY
• 05:44 AND WE RAN INTO PROVIDENTIALLY SOME PEOPLE THAT KATHARINE HAD LED TO ISRAEL YEARS AGO.
• 05:50 THEY WERE WALKING IN THE JOY OF THE LORD
• 05:52 AND THEY LAID THEIR HANDS ON ME, PRAYED FOR ME;
• 05:54 GOD JUST FILLED MY SPIRIT WITH HIS SPIRIT AND THAT'S THE SPIRIT THAT YOU FEEL HERE TODAY.
• 06:00 YOU CAN SENSE THAT THERE WAS NO CHANCE MEETING.
• 06:03 AND FOR JACOB THERE WERE NO CHANCE MEETINGS AT ALL.
• 06:06 GOD WAS ORDERING HIS STEPS JUST AS HE ORDERED MY STEPS HERE IN YERUSHALAYIM YESTERDAY.
• 06:11 GOD IS ORDERING LABAN'S STEPS.
• 06:13 HE'S GOING TO BRING HIM INTO HIS DESTINY IN SPITE OF THE FLESH,
• 06:16 IN SPITE OF THE DECEPTION OF LABAN, IN SPITE OF WHAT'S COMING TO HIM IN THE NATURAL
• 06:21 WE'RE GOING TO SEE THAT GOD IS ULTIMATELY THE SOVEREIGN AND HE'S GOING TO HAVE HIS WAY.
• 06:26 WE'LL BE BACK AFTER THIS.
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• 07:10 NOW RACHEL WAS A SHEPHERDESS AND SHE BROUGHT HER FATHER'S SHEEP TO THE AREA OF THE WELL.
• 08:14 AND RACHEL RAN TO TELL HER FATHER ABOUT THIS VISITOR FROM A FOREIGN LAND.
• 08:18 HIS NAME WAS JACOB, THE SON OF ISAAC.
• 08:24 HERE WE ARE FRIDAY MORNING IN JERUSALEM AND ITS PRE-SHABBAT.
• 08:29 IT IS BEAUTIFUL HERE.
• 08:31 THE STREETS ARE HUSTLING AND BUSTLING WITH WOMEN AND MEN
• 08:34 BUYING THEIR LAST MINUTE THINGS FOR SHABBAT.
• 08:36 MY HONEY BROUGHT ME FLOWERS.
• 08:38 IT'S CUSTOMARY TO BUY FLOWERS, FRESH BREAD,
• 08:40 AND TO BE READY FOR THE WEEKEND AHEAD.
• 08:43 IT'S SUCH A BLESSING AND WE'RE SO GRATEFUL TO BRING YOU THESE LIVE SHOTS FROM JERUSALEM.
• 08:48 THE FLAVOR, THE COLOR, THE SMELLS ARE JUST BREATHTAKING.
• 08:51 THANK YOU FOR MY FLOWERS.
• 08:53 YOU'RE WELCOME
• 08:56 AND THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT YACOV (JACOB) DID.
• 08:59 IT SAYS IN THE SCRIPTURE (SPEAKING HEBREW) HE KISSED HER
• 09:03 AND IT'S THE FIRST AND ONLY TIME IN THE BIBLE THAT NON-MARRIED PEOPLE KISSED.
• 09:08 IT WAS NOT A KISS OF PASSION.
• 09:10 IT WAS A KISS OF GREETING AND A KISS OF LOVE
• 09:12 BECAUSE HE REALIZED THAT HE HAD FULFILLED HIS MOM'S WISHES
• 09:15 AND FOUND SOMEONE THAT WAS OF THE TRIBE;
• 09:18 FOUND SOMEONE THAT WAS IN THE FAMILY WHICH WAS A BIG DEAL
• 09:21 BECAUSE THE DESIRE OF HIS MOTHER'S HEART WAS THAT HE WOULD
• 09:25 MARRY WITHIN THE TRIBES OF ISRAEL, WITHIN THE FAMILY,
• 09:29 UNLIKE HIS BROTHER ESAU WHO WENT TO THE HITTITES TO MARRY AND TO THE SONS OF ISHMAEL.
• 09:34 HE FOUND HIS BRIDE, RACHEL, AMONG THE DISTANT FAMILY MEMBERS
• 09:40 AND IT'S THE ONLY TIME THAT HAPPENS.
• 09:42 HE SEES HER AS A SHEPHERDESS.
• 09:44 YOU KNOW THERE'S SO MUCH IN SCRIPTURE ABOUT SHEPHERDING AND SHEPHERDESSES AND THE SHEEP
• 09:49 AND ISN'T IT INCREDIBLE THAT JACOB IN A SAMSONESQUE MOMENT;
• 09:53 HE MOVES THE STONE OFF THE WELL AND SHE IS ABLE TO WATER THE SHEEP.
• 10:00 AND YOU KNOW THERE'S SOMETHING IN THAT FOR YOU AND FOR ME
• 10:03 BECAUSE IT'S ONLY WHEN THE STONE IS ROLLED AWAY THAT THE SHEEP CAN BE WATERED.
• 10:08 WE SEE THAT EVERY TIME WE GO TO THE GARDEN TOMB
• 10:11 AND THERE'S THAT IMPRINT OF THE STONE THAT HAS BEEN ROLLED AWAY
• 10:15 AND IS THE PRECIOUSNESS, KNOWING THAT THE TOMB IS EMPTY.
• 10:19 BECAUSE WHEN THE STONE IS ROLLED AWAY THE SHEEP CAN BE WATERED...
• 10:22 THAT'S YOU AND THAT'S ME.
• 10:24 WE REALLY SEE GOD'S GOVERNMENT COMING INTO PLAY HERE
• 10:27 EVEN THOUGH IT'S TAKING TIME GOD IS GOING TO HAVE HIS WAY IN THIS STORY.
• 10:31 THERE ARE ALWAYS THESE TURNAROUNDS IN THE BIBLE.
• 10:33 THERE'S ALWAYS A TIME WHEN THERE'S DIFFICULTY AND HARDSHIP
• 10:37 AND YOU THINK THAT THE GOOD GUYS ARE GOING TO LOSE OUT
• 10:40 AND THERE MAY BE A LONG WAIT BEFORE GOD'S JUSTICE COMES
• 10:44 BUT THERE ALWAYS IS A TIME WHEN GOD'S JUSTICE COME AROUND.
• 10:48 THINK ABOUT PHARAOH OPPRESSING THE HEBREW PEOPLE FOR 400 YEARS
• 10:52 AND THEY CRIED OUT AND IT SEEMS THAT GOD WAS DEAF
• 10:55 BUT WHEN HIS TIME CAME DELIVERANCE CAME.
• 10:58 AND WHEN HAMAN CAME TO DESTROY THE JEWISH PEOPLE IN PERSIA
• 11:01 AND GOD TURNED IT AROUND AND MORDECAI WAS VICTORIOUS
• 11:05 AND THE JEWISH PEOPLE WERE SPARED ONCE AGAIN.
• 11:08 AND EVEN IN THE NEW TESTAMENT WHEN SAUL OF TARSUS CONSENTED TO STEPHEN'S STONING.
• 11:13 AND GOD... SOMETIME LATER PAUL (SAUL) HIMSELF WAS STONED,
• 11:17 NOT UNTO DEATH BECAUSE GOD HAD A PURPOSE FOR PAUL AND A PURPOSE TO RELEASE THROUGH HIS LIFE.
• 11:23 IT'S ALWAYS ABOUT DESTINY.
• 11:24 IT'S ALWAYS ABOUT YOUR DESTINY AND MINE.
• 11:27 YOU KNOW JACOB IS ABOUT TO BE DECEIVED BY LABAN.
• 11:30 AND ISN'T IT AMAZING THAT THE SAME DECEPTION THAT HE USED ON ISAAC WHEN ISAAC'S EYES WERE DIM
• 11:37 ARE ABOUT TO COME BACK ON HIM AS HE IS GOING FULL OF WINE AND IN THE DARKNESS
• 11:42 AND HE'S GOING TO BE DECEIVED ABOUT WHICH BRIDE HE IS WITH.
• 11:46 AND SO WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND IN THE BIBLE
• 11:48 BUT IT'S ALWAYS COMING BACK TO THE SOVEREIGNTY OF GOD AND THE PURPOSES OF GOD.
• 11:54 LABAN IS GOING TO CHANGE HIS WAGES TEN TIMES...TEN THE NUMBER OF TESTING.
• 11:58 BUT GOD IS GOING TO HAVE HIS WAY AND JACOB IS GOING TO BE THE FATHER OF THIS NATION.
• 12:04 ABRAHAM, YITSHAK (ISAAC) AND YACOV (JACOB), A SON OF PROMISE LEADING TO THIS,
• 12:10 THE SONS OF PROMISE ALIVE AND WELL AND BACK IN THEIR LAND.
• 12:13 WE'LL BE BACK AFTER THIS.
• 12:59 HELLO, I'M WAYNE FOURNIER
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• 14:25 AND ISRAEL REMAINS HIS TIMEPIECE.
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• 15:02 NOW...LET'S GO BACK TO THE PROGRAM, "SONS OF PROMISE, ISAAC AND JACOB".
• 15:13 JACOB LOVED RACHEL AND AGREED WITH HER FATHER LABAN
• 15:17 TO WORK SEVEN YEARS IN EXCHANGE FOR THE RIGHT TO MARRY.
• 15:21 LABAN AGREED BUT AT THE LAST MOMENT HE DECEIVED JACOB
• 15:25 GIVING HIM HIS OLDER DAUGHTER LEAH INSTEAD.
• 15:29 UNDETERRED JACOB AGREED TO WORK YET ANOTHER SEVEN YEARS
• 15:33 FOR RACHEL, THE DAUGHTER HE DEEPLY LOVED.
• 16:18 WHAT A JOURNEY WE HAVE BEEN ON WITH JACOB...WAS SENT OUT BY HIS MOM TO GO TO PADAN ARAM.
• 16:24 PADAN ARAM WAS KNOWN AS A PLACE FILLED WITH ROGUES.
• 16:27 ACCORDING TO THE RABBIS IT WAS A ROGUES PLACE
• 16:29 AND RACHEL WAS THERE ALMOST AS A LILY AMONG THORNS.
• 16:34 SHE WAS AN UNUSUALLY PURE AND RIGHTEOUS PERSON
• 16:37 EVEN THOUGH SHE AND JACOB WOULD HAVE THEIR ISSUES
• 16:40 SHE WAS A PURE PERSON IN THE MIDST OF GOD'S PURPOSES.
• 16:43 YOU KNOW IT'S INTERESTING THAT THERE'S CONSIDERATION
• 16:45 AND QUESTIONING ALWAYS ABOUT THE POLYGAMY OF THE DAY...
• 16:48 YOU KNOW... LEAH AND RACHEL AND SO MANY OF THESE GUYS HAD SO MANY WIVES OR SEVERAL WIVES.
• 16:53 GOD'S PATTERN HAS ALWAYS BEEN ONE MAN AND ONE WOMAN GOING BACK TO GENESIS 2:24 IN THE GARDEN.
• 16:59 WE SEE IT FROM THE WORDS OF YESHUA IN MATTHEW 19
• 17:02 AND THEN EVEN IN PAUL'S WRITINGS THE HOLY SPIRIT THROUGH PAUL IN EPHESIANS 5:31
• 17:08 HE SPEAKS ABOUT THE PROCESS OF COMING TOGETHER AS ONE.
• 17:12 AND IT'S ONE MAN...ONE WOMAN.
• 17:14 PEOPLE ARE TRYING TO CHANGE THAT
• 17:16 EITHER THROUGH POLYGAMY OR OPEN MARRIAGE
• 17:18 OR OTHER KINDS OF MARRIAGE
• 17:19 BUT THAT GOD'S PATTERN; ALWAYS HAS BEEN; ALWAYS WILL BE THAT'S THE BEST.
• 17:24 IT'S NOTABLE THAT IN THE DECEIVING THAT TAKES PLACE FROM LABAN
• 17:30 AND THEN THE DECEIVING THAT TAKES PLACE WHEN JACOB GOES IN TO SEE LEAH.
• 17:34 IT'S IN THE DARK AND IT'S THE WINE AND THE DARKNESS
• 17:37 AND IT'S REALLY SPOKEN OF EVEN BY JOSEPHUS, THE HISTORIAN.
• 17:41 HE SAYS JACOB WAS DELUDED BY WINE AND DARKNESS...
• 17:44 "DELUDED" BY WINE AND DARKNESS.
• 17:46 WELL, YOU KNOW HE WHO COMPARES HIMSELF IS NOT WISE.
• 17:49 WE'RE SUPPOSED TO HAVE MERCY ON THOSE THAT HAVE GONE BEFORE US
• 17:52 BECAUSE WE'RE SUBJECT TO LIKE ISSUES AND SO GOD IS MERCIFUL TOWARDS HIM
• 17:57 AND BRINGS HIM THROUGH THAT FIRST ONE TO BRING HIM TO HIS WIFE.
• 18:01 EVENTUALLY HE AND RACHEL WILL GET TOGETHER.
• 18:03 AND THEY MOVE FROM INFATUATION TO A MATURE LOVE.
• 18:07 IT TAKES YEARS TO GO FROM INFATUATION AND LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT TO A MATURE LOVE.
• 18:12 AND THAT'S THE PROCESS THAT TAKES PLACE IN MARRIAGE.
• 18:15 ALL ALONG WE SEE JACOB'S STEPS BEING ORDERED BY GOD.
• 18:19 IT REMINDS ME OF PSALM 31:15 WHICH SAYS THAT MY TIMES ARE IN YOUR HANDS....
• 18:28 THAT'S THE PSALMIST SPEAKING TO THE LORD.
• 18:30 AND I WANT TO SAY THAT TO YOU TODAY
• 18:32 THAT WHATEVER YOU'RE GOING THROUGH, WHATEVER YOU'RE SEEING UNFOLD BEFORE YOU IN YOUR LIFE,
• 18:37 YOUR TIMES IF YOU BELONG TO YESHUA, YOUR TIMES ARE IN GOD'S HANDS.
• 18:41 HE'LL BE WITH YOU.
• 18:42 HE'LL BRING YOU THROUGH IT
• 18:43 AND HE'LL BRING YOU INTO THE NEXT PHASE OF YOUR LIFE
• 18:46 BECAUSE HE'S A GOD OF COVENANT AND HE'S A GOD OF DESTINY.
• 18:49 SO JUST REMEMBER YOUR TIMES ARE IN HIS HANDS.
• 19:02 YOU KNOW WHAT A JOY JACOB FOUND WHEN HE FOUND LABAN'S FAMILY
• 19:06 AND THEN HE SAW THE LOVE OF HIS LIFE, RACHEL.
• 19:09 BUT THEN THE TEST CAME WHEN LABAN PUT HER BEHIND THE FIRST DAUGHTER TO COME, LEAH.
• 19:17 THERE'S SO MANY TESTS THAT COME IN OUR LIFE
• 19:19 WHEN GOD PROMISES US SOMETHING AND WE SEE THERE'S A PLAN
• 19:22 BUT THEN THE TEST COMES.
• 19:24 YES, IT'S NOT AUTOMATIC RIGHT?
• 19:25 NO
• 19:26 THERE'S GOD'S DESTINY FOR US.
• 19:28 THEN THERE'S A PAYING OF A PRICE
• 19:30 AND THERE'S TIME WHEN MATURITY TAKES TIME.
• 19:33 IT'S JUST NOT ALWAYS A STRAIGHT LINE.
• 19:35 SEVEN YEARS....HE WORKED.
• 19:37 THE FIRST ROUND
• 19:38 FIRST ROUND
• 19:39 YES
• 19:41 THE SECOND TIME, ANOTHER SEVEN YEARS...SO FOURTEEN YEARS TO GET RACHEL.
• 19:45 YES
• 19:46 AND THEN THE LORD GAVE HIM LOVE FOR BOTH OF THESE
• 19:48 AND OUT OF THE WIVES HE BUILT THE 12 TRIBES.
• 19:51 RIGHT AND IT'S NOT GOD'S DESIGN BUT GOD WORKED IT TOGETHER FOR GOOD.
• 19:54 EXACTLY, THAT'S A GOOD WAY OF LOOKING AT IT.
• 19:57 YOU KNOW ONE OF THE THINGS WE GET TO DO WHEN WE GO TO ISRAEL
• 20:01 IS WE GET TO WORK WITH TODD BAKER
• 20:04 WHO IS THE STAFF THEOLOGIAN FOR ZOLA LEVITT MINISTRIES.
• 20:07 AND HE HAS A MINISTRY CALLED "TO THE JEW FIRST"
• 20:10 AND WHENEVER WE GO TO ISRAEL TODD COMES USUALLY WITH A PARTNER
• 20:14 AND THEY PREACH THE GOSPEL TO THE JEWS AND TO THE ARABS
• 20:17 ALONGSIDE OR PARALLEL WITH OUR TRIP TO ISRAEL.
• 20:21 AND IT'S ALWAYS WONDERFUL TO HEAR THE FRUIT OF WHAT'S GOING ON WITH TODD
• 20:25 AND TO HEAR HOW YOUR FUNDS, YOUR BENEVOLENCE FUNDS THAT WE HAVE
• 20:28 ARE HELPING TO SEE THE GOSPEL GO FORWARD IN OUR GENERATION.
• 20:32 I AM SO GRATEFUL AS A JEWISH PERSON THAT THE GOSPEL IS BEING PREACHED ONCE AGAIN.
• 20:37 AS IT WAS AT FIRST IT IS BEING PREACHED AGAIN IN ISRAEL.
• 20:40 SO LET'S GO TO MARK LEVITT'S INTERVIEW WITH DR.TODD BAKER.
• 20:45 WELL HELLO FROM BEN YEHUDA STREET.
• 20:47 I'M HERE WITH TODD BAKER,
• 20:48 THE LEADER OF OUR "TO THE JEW FIRST" EFFORT.
• 20:51 TODD, HOW ARE YOU TODAY?
• 20:52 I'M DOING GREAT MARK.
• 20:54 IT'S WONDERFUL TO BE IN YERUSHALAYIM,
• 20:56 THE CITY OF THE GREAT KING,
• 20:58 BRINGING THE GOSPEL OF JESUS BACK TO HIS PEOPLE, THE JEWISH PEOPLE.
• 21:02 WELL THIS TRIP MARKS 93 MISSIONARIES THAT OUR MINISTRY HAS SENT TO ISRAEL.
• 21:08 AND TODD, SOME FOLKS BELIEVE THAT BECAUSE AMERICAN JEWS MAY SEEM STAND-OFFISH ABOUT HEARING ABOUT THEIR MESSIAH
• 21:16 THAT WITNESSING TO JEWISH ISRAELIS MUST BE VERY TOUGH.
• 21:20 WHAT DO YOU SAY ABOUT THAT?
• 21:22 WELL ON THE CONTRARY.
• 21:24 EACH TIME WE COME OVER HERE AND CARRY OUT THESE OUTREACHES THREE TIMES A YEAR
• 21:27 THE YOUNG PEOPLE IN PARTICULAR SEEM TO BE MORE AND MORE OPEN TO HEARING ABOUT YESHUA
• 21:33 AND READING THE NEW TESTAMENT AND LOOKING AT THE EVIDENCE FOR HIM BEING THE MESSIAH.
• 21:38 AND I THINK PART OF THE REASON IS AS WE DRAW NEARER TO THE RETURN OF THE LORD TO ISRAEL
• 21:43 THAT PARTIAL BLINDNESS THAT PAUL TALKS ABOUT IN ROMANS 11 IS LIFTING
• 21:48 AND AS WE KNOW IT WILL COMPLETELY LIFT WHEN THEY SEE YESHUA, JESUS COMING TO THE MOUNT OF OLIVES.
• 21:53 BUT THE FACT THAT WE'RE SEEING IT NOW IS A GOOD INDICATOR THAT HIS RETURN IS NEAR
• 21:58 AND HE'S OPENING THE HEARTS AND MINDS OF HIS PEOPLE.
• 22:04 YOU KNOW WE'RE STANDING ON A SPOT HERE WHERE EACH DAY
• 22:07 A BLOOD MOBILE COMES AND RECEIVES DONATIONS OF BLOOD.
• 22:11 AND THIS IS ONE OF TODD'S FAVORITE PLACES TO TALK ABOUT THE BLOOD OF JESUS
• 22:14 WHICH HE SHED FOR JEW AND GENTILE ALIKE.
• 22:19 YEAH...WE TRIED TO GIVE BLOOD THIS TIME
• 22:21 BUT WE COULDN'T BECAUSE THE DAY'S CYCLE DIDN'T WORK OUT
• 22:25 BUT WE DEFINITELY DO THAT WHEN WE CAN AND I WILL DO IT AGAIN IN THE FUTURE
• 22:31 AND LIKE YOU SAID IT'S A WONDERFUL OPPORTUNITY
• 22:34 TO WORK IN THE IMPORTANCE OF BLOOD IN THE BIBLE.
• 22:36 LEVITICUS 17:11 SAYS WITHOUT THE SHEDDING OF BLOOD THERE IS NO REMISSION OF SINS
• 22:42 AND THE LIFE OF THE FLESH IS IN THE BLOOD.
• 22:45 AND BLOOD ATONEMENT...
• 22:47 IN THE OLD COVENANT ITS ANIMAL SACRIFICES
• 22:50 POINT TO THE ONCE FOR ALL PERFECT ATONING SACRIFICE OF YESHUA.
• 22:54 AND THAT'S ONE OF THE MAIN COMPONENTS IN OUR WITNESS TO THE JEWISH PEOPLE OVER HERE
• 22:59 BECAUSE THEY'RE VERY FAMILIAR WITH THE IMPORTANCE OF BLOOD
• 23:02 AGAIN COMING FROM UNDERSTANDING AND READING THE TORAH.
• 23:07 WELL LET'S SEGUE-WAY NOW TO TODD IN THE TRENCHES
• 23:11 AS HE GIVES A B'RIT HADASHAH
• 23:12 AND EXPLAINS ITS SIGNIFICANCE TO A JEWISH ISRAELI.
• 23:17 I'M HERE WITH AVI CHAI, AN ISRAELI,
• 23:20 AND WE'VE BEEN SHARING WITH HIM HA'BESORA YESHUA HA'MESHIACH,
• 23:24 "THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO JESUS CHRIST".
• 23:27 AND AVI, YOU HAVE READ THE TANAKH,
• 23:30 OR WHAT CHRISTIANS CALL THE OLD TESTAMENT, CORRECT?
• 23:33 CORRECT
• 23:34 HAVE YOU EVER READ THE B'RIT HADASHAH
• 23:37 OR WHAT CHRISTIANS CALL "THE NEW TESTAMENT?
• 23:39 NO, I NEVER READ IT.
• 23:41 WELL PART OF OUR MINISTRY AS AN EXPRESSION OF LOVE AND GRATITUDE TO YOUR PEOPLE
• 23:46 FOR GIVING US BOTH TESTAMENTS OF THE BIBLE
• 23:48 IS TO GIVE YOU A COMPLETE JEWISH BIBLE WITH THE TANAKH, OR THE OLD TESTAMENT,
• 23:54 AND THE B'RIT HADASHAH, THE NEW TESTAMENT.
• 23:57 AND THE MESSIAH CONNECTS BOTH OF THEM TOGETHER.
• 24:01 IN THE TANAKH YOU HAVE PROPHESIES, VERY DETAILED PROPHESIES ABOUT THE MESSIAH.
• 24:06 AND THEN WHEN YOU COMPARE IT WITH THE LIFE OF JESUS IN THE NEW TESTAMENT
• 24:10 I THINK YOU'LL SEE THAT HE IS THE MESSIAH.
• 24:13 ALRIGHT, THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
• 24:14 YOU'RE WELCOME.
• 24:16 YOU'RE WELCOME AND JUST IN PARTING I LIKE TO SAY THAT WHEN I LOOK AT AN ISRAELI
• 24:21 I KNOW THAT THREE THINGS ARE TRUE;
• 24:23 ONE, THE GOD OF ISRAEL EXISTS;
• 24:25 TWO, THE BIBLE IS TRUE;
• 24:28 AND THREE, GOD KEEPS HIS PROMISES,
• 24:31 AND THE JEWISH PEOPLE ARE PROOF OF THAT.
• 24:35 AND THAT'S BASICALLY WHAT WE DO OVER HERE
• 24:38 IS WE BRING JESUS BACK TO THE JEWISH PEOPLE, HIS PEOPLE;
• 24:42 GIVE THEM AN OPPORTUNITY TO LEARN ABOUT WHY JESUS IS THE MESSIAH
• 24:48 AND HISTORICAL PROOF GIVEN IN THE B'RIT HADASHAH, OR THE NEW TESTAMENT.
• 24:53 REMEMBER IN JEREMIAH 31:31 GOD PROMISES THAT HE WILL MAKE A NEW COVENANT,
• 24:58 A B'RIT HADASHAH WITH THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL.
• 25:01 AND THANKS TO YOUR SUPPORT WE ARE ABLE TO BRING THE NEW COVENANT
• 25:08 AS THE FULFILLMENT OF THE OLD COVENANT TO THE JEWISH PEOPLE.
• 25:12 GOD BLESS YOU
• 25:16 WHAT A JOY TO BE PART OF A MINISTRY
• 25:18 THAT MINISTERS TO THE JEWISH PEOPLE AND SEE SALVATION COME.
• 25:22 GALATIANS 6:10 SAYS DO GOOD TO ALL MEN,
• 25:26 ESPECIALLY TO THE HOUSEHOLD OF FAITH
• 25:29 AND THAT'S WHAT HAS BEEN A MOTTO FOR YOU AND I
• 25:31 IS THAT NOT ONLY DO WE BLESS ISRAEL, NATIONAL ISRAEL,
• 25:35 BUT WE MAKE SURE THAT WE DON'T HIDE THE BEST GIFT
• 25:38 WHICH IS THE SALVATION.
• 25:40 EXACTLY AND I LOVE THE WAY TODD DOES THIS.
• 25:43 I LIKE THAT WHEN WE GET TO SEE HIM IN ISRAEL,
• 25:45 TO SEE THE FRUIT OF HIS LABORS,
• 25:46 TO SEE THE PARTNERSHIPS THAT GO ON
• 25:48 AND REALLY HE'S PREACHING TO THE JEWS AND THE ARABS.
• 25:51 WE SEE PEOPLE COMING TO FAITH AND THEIR LIVES BEING ENRICHED.
• 25:54 IT'S REALLY MEANINGFUL.
• 25:56 IT'S SOMETHING WE GET TO DO AS A COMMUNITY AS A ZOLA LEVITT MINISTRY COMMUNITY.
• 25:59 I THINK IT'S SO IMPORTANT
• 26:01 BECAUSE THERE ARE A LOT OF MINISTRIES THAT ARE JUST TOUCHING THE NATIONAL
• 26:04 WHICH IS GOOD BUT IT'S SO IMPORTANT THAT THE GOSPEL IS NOT HID TO YOUR PEOPLE.
• 26:12 I AGREE, I TOTALLY AGREE.
• 26:14 I'M GRATEFUL THAT WE GET TO BE PART OF THAT.
• 26:17 YES
• 26:18 WE REALLY NEED TO RECOGNIZE THAT THIS STORY, THE SONS OF PROMISE STORY,
• 26:24 IS REALLY "DOR'V'DOR" AS THE BIBLE SAYS,
• 26:27 ITS "GENERATION TO GENERATION"
• 26:29 AND IT'S ONGOING TODAY.
• 26:31 IT'S GOING TO INCREASE AS WE SEE THE DAY APPROACHING.
• 26:34 WE'RE GOING TO SEE MORE AND MORE THE LIGHT BEING SHOWN THROUGHOUT THE WORLD
• 26:38 AND MORE PEOPLE COMING TO KNOW THE LORD
• 26:41 AND WE'RE GOING BE LOOKING UP BECAUSE OUR REDEMPTION DRAWS CLOSE.
• 26:44 SO TILL WE SEE YOU AGAIN,
• 26:47 AS ALWAYS, WE LIKE TO CLOSE THE PROGRAM BY REMINDING YOU PLEASE,
• 26:51 SHAL'ALU SHALOM YERUSHALAYIM
• 26:53 PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM.
• 26:57 OUR RESOURCE ON THIS PROGRAM, "SONS OF PROMISE" ON DVD
• 27:01 FOR YOUR DONATION OF $65 OR MORE YOU'LL RECEIVE ALL 8 PROGRAMS
• 27:05 WHICH RECOUNT THE HISTORY OF ABRAHAM'S FAMILY THROUGH ISAAC AND JACOB.
• 27:09 GOD'S ETERNAL COVENANT WITH THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL IS REVEALED
• 27:13 AND PROVED FAITHFUL AGAINST THE BACKDROP OF THE MODERN MIRACLE OF ISRAEL.
• 27:17 CALL 1-800-WONDERS AND ASK FOR THE "SONS OF PROMISE" DVD
• 27:22 OR VISIT US AT LEVITT.COM
• 27:26 OUR MONTHLY NEWSLETTER, THE LEVITT LETTER IS FREE
• 27:29 AND FULL OF INSIGHTFUL ARTICLES AND NEWS COMMENTARY FROM A MESSIANIC PERSPECTIVE.
• 27:34 VISIT LEVITT.COM TO FIND OUR NEWSLETTER
• 27:37 ALONG WITH CURRENT AND PAST PROGRAMS,
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• 27:41 YOUR DONATIONS TO ZOLA LEVITT MINISTRIES
• 27:44 HELP THESE ORGANIZATIONS BLESS ISRAEL.