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Caption transcript for Future Congress 2: “Messianic Voices” (6/7)

• 00:02 (Voice of Dr.Todd Baker)
• 00:04 THE JUDEO-CHRISTIAN FAITH IS NOT AFRAID OF INQUIRY AND ANALYSIS WITH THE CRITICAL MIND. IT'S NOT.
• 00:10 SO IF THEY'RE OPEN TO THE EVIDENCE
• 00:12 THEY WILL SEE IT AS TRUE AND THEY'LL COME TO FAITH JUST LIKE MANY SKEPTICS.
• 00:16 I MEAN I WAS A FORMER ATHEIST WHEN I CAME TO FAITH.
• 00:19 BECAUSE IF YOU'RE SEEKING TRUTH GOD'S NOT GOING TO LEAVE YOU IN THE DARK.I DON'T BELIEVE THAT.
• 00:25 HE'S GOING TO SHOW YOU THE TRUTH
• 00:27 AND THE TRUTH IS THE ONE WHO SAID, "I AM THE WAY, THE TRUTH, AND THE LIFE."
• 01:12 SHALOM AND WELCOME TO OUR PROGRAM.I'M MYLES WEISS.
• 01:14 AND I'M KATHARINE WEISS
• 01:16 AND WE WANT TO WELCOME YOU TO OUR PROGRAM TODAY.
• 01:18 WE HAVE A SPECIAL PROGRAM WHERE WE'RE GOING TO HEAR FROM SEVERAL MESSIANICS
• 01:21 ABOUT HOW THEY CAME TO SAVING FAITH.
• 01:23 YES.EXACTLY.
• 01:25 IT'S SUCH A DIFFICULT QUESTION THAT PEOPLE ASK ALL THE TIME.
• 01:27 ON THE ONE HAND IF JEWISH PEOPLE GAVE US THE BIBLE HOW COME MORE OF THEM DON'T SEE JESUS?
• 01:31 ON THE OTHER HAND, DO THEY BECOME GENTILES WHEN THEY BECOME BELIEVERS IN YESHUA
• 01:36 AND THAT'S THE QUESTION WE ASK AS JEWS.
• 01:38 I THINK BACK TO ACTS 15, ONE OF THE FIRST DOCTRINAL ISSUES THAT NEEDED TO BE SETTLED
• 01:42 WAS CAN THE GENTILES COME INTO FAITH OF YESHUA
• 01:45 BECAUSE IT WAS SUCH A JEWISH THING.
• 01:48 IT WAS CONSIDERED A SECT OF JUDAISM.
• 01:50 AND YET THEY SETTLED THAT ISSUE THAT GENTILES COULD BE BROUGHT INTO THE FAITH
• 01:55 BUT NOW AT THE END OF THE AGE IT'S THE OPPOSITE ISSUE WE'RE DEALING WITH
• 01:59 WHICH IS CAN JEWS COME TO FAITH IN JESUS.
• 02:02 CAN THAT HAPPEN AND THEY STILL RETAIN THEIR JEWISH IDENTITIES.
• 02:05 AND THAT IS THE BEAUTIFUL THING OF THIS PROGRAM.
• 02:08 YES
• 02:10 VERY CLEARLY WE'VE BEEN ABLE TO SHARE FOR MANY YEARS THAT, YES,
• 02:13 JEWS CAN COME TO SAVING FAITH AND REMAIN AS A JEW.
• 02:17 YES
• 02:18 THEY DON'T BECOME A GENTILE.
• 02:20 EXACTLY.
• 02:21 NOT ONLY THAT, BUT YOU SAID IT WAS THE MOST JEWISH THING YOU EVER DID.
• 02:24 THAT'S EXACTLY TRUE.
• 02:25 AND SO IF YOU'LL JOIN US NOW AT THE FUTURE CONGRESS
• 02:27 WHERE WE WERE ABLE TO CATCH UP WITH THESE MESSIANIC LEADERS
• 02:30 AND HEAR FROM THEM REGARDING THEIR WALK OF FAITH.
• 02:33 SO LET'S GO TO THEM RIGHT NOW.
• 02:36 I'VE BEEN A JEWISH BELIEVER NOW FOR GOING ON 41 YEARS.
• 02:40 I BECAME A BELIEVER ON NEW YEARS EVE 1972 AS A MATTER OF FACT.
• 02:44 COMING DOWN FROM A SOMEWHAT DRUG RELATED EXPERIENCE.
• 02:48 AT THAT POINT THE LORD JUST TOUCHED MY HEART AND SAID THAT JESUS WAS THE DOOR TO THE TRUTH
• 02:55 AND I COULD FIND THE TRUTH ABOUT MY OWN BACKGROUND AND HERITAGE.
• 03:01 WELL I WALKED AWAY THAT NIGHT JUST STUNNED AS A JEW BECAUSE I HAD REJECTED JESUS ALL MY LIFE.
• 03:06 AT THAT PARTICULAR TIME I STARTED JUST GOING TO THESE CRAZY BIBLE STUDIES THAT THESE PEOPLE WERE HAVING.
• 03:13 A LOT OF YOUNG PEOPLE WERE GETTING SAVED BACK THEN.
• 03:15 IT WAS DURING THE JESUS GENERATION.
• 03:18 I STARTED BECOMING INVOLVED AND DISCOVERED, WOW, THIS JESUS WAS JEWISH
• 03:24 AND NOT ONLY THAT HE'S THE JEWISH MESSIAH.
• 03:28 THE LONG AWAITED JEWISH MESSIAH THAT WE'VE WAITED FOR ALL THESE YEARS FOR.
• 03:32 I CAN HAVE A LIVING RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD THROUGH HIM.
• 03:37 AT THAT POINT ON IT WAS JUST EXCITING TO BE INVOLVED IN YOUNG PEOPLE'S MINISTRY.
• 03:42 WE DIDN'T REACH OUT TO JEWISH PEOPLE AT THAT TIME.
• 03:46 WE JUST REACHED OUT TO ANYBODY AND THOUGHT THE LORD WAS JUST GOING TO RETURN AT ANY MOMENT.
• 03:50 WE WERE ANXIOUSLY AWAITING.
• 03:54 FOR ABOUT 14 YEARS I'VE BEEN INVOLVED IN REACHING OUT TO MY PEOPLE.
• 03:58 WE WERE ALWAYS INVOLVED IN LOCAL CHURCH MINISTRY.
• 04:01 ALWAYS CONNECTED TO THE JEWISH ROOTS OF OUR FAITH.
• 04:04 WE DID PASSOVERS AND THINGS TO OUR LOCAL ASSEMBLY AND FELLOWSHIP THAT WE'RE INVOLVED IN.
• 04:09 BUT THERE WAS A CERTAIN POINT IN TIME WHEN A DOOR OPENED UP
• 04:13 AND I THOUGHT THAT IF I WAS GOING TO GO INTO PASTORAL MINISTRY,
• 04:16 BECOMING A PART OF A MESSIANIC JEWISH CONGREGATION WOULD BE THE DOOR TO GO OR THE WAY TO GO.
• 04:23 SO WE'VE BEEN DOING THAT FOR 14 YEARS AT ADAT SHALOM HERE IN DALLAS.
• 04:26 WE'RE A MISSION CONGREGATION OF FIRST BAPTIST DOWNTOWN.
• 04:30 DR. CRISWELL HAD A REAL HEART FOR THE JEWISH COMMUNITY AND SEEMED TO WANT TO OPEN THIS DOOR
• 04:37 AND WE'VE BEEN FOLLOWING A PATH OF FAITHFULLY TRYING TO BE A PART OF THIS OUTREACH.
• 04:46 OFTEN WE'LL SAY TO THEM, LOOK, DON'T TAKE OUR WORD FOR WHAT WE'RE SAYING ABOUT YESHUA.
• 04:51 READ THE BOOK FOR YOURSELF.
• 04:54 READ IT FOR YOURSELF.
• 04:56 BECAUSE THE JUDEO-CHRISTIAN FAITH IS NOT AFRAID OF INQUIRY AND ANALYSIS WITH THE CRITICAL MIND.IT'S NOT.
• 05:05 SO IF THEY'RE OPEN TO THE EVIDENCE THEY WILL SEE THAT IT IS TRUE AND THEY'LL COME TO FAITH JUST LIKE MANY SKEPTICS.
• 05:11 I MEAN I WAS A FORMER ATHEIST WHEN I CAME TO FAITH.
• 05:14 BECAUSE IF YOU'RE SEEKING TRUTH, GOD'S NOT GOING TO LEAVE YOU IN THE DARK.
• 05:19 I DON'T BELIEVE THAT.
• 05:21 HE'S GOING TO SHOW YOU THE TRUTH
• 05:22 AND THE TRUTH IS THE ONE WHO SAID, "I AM THE WAY, THE TRUTH, AND THE LIFE."
• 05:27 BUT I WAS RAISED IN THE ORTHODOX TRADITIONS OF JUDAISM INSIDE AFRICA.
• 05:32 I WENT TO PRIVATE JEWISH SCHOOLS FOR ALL MY SCHOOLING LIFE.
• 05:36 WE'D [FILE IN] EVERY MORNING AND SAY ALL THE PRAYERS.
• 05:40 REALLY I HAD VERY FEW NON-JEWISH FRIENDS.
• 05:43 I DIDN'T KNOW NON-JEWS BECAUSE WE LIVED IN A VERY CLOSE AND CLOSED JEWISH COMMUNITY.
• 05:49 SO BASICALLY WHAT HAPPENED WAS
• 05:52 I'VE ALWAYS BELIEVED IN THE ONE, TRUE GOD, THE GOD OF ABRAHAM, ISAAC, AND JACOB.
• 05:57 IT WAS NEVER EVER A QUESTION,
• 05:58 BUT JESUS WAS NEVER AN OPTION.
• 06:01 THERE WAS A GREEK-CHRISTIAN,
• 06:04 ACTUALLY HE WAS A QUASI-CHRISTIAN,
• 06:06 ACTUALLY HE WAS IN A CULT. [LAUGHTER]
• 06:09 I'M JUST DOWNGRADING HIM, BUT HE DID KNOW THE BIBLE.
• 06:13 HE DID KNOW THE BIBLE, BUT HE WAS KIND OF WEIRD.
• 06:16 I DIDN'T WANT TO BECOME WEIRD LIKE HIM, BUT HE KNEW THE BIBLE
• 06:20 AND HE KEPT ON TELLING ME ABOUT JESUS.
• 06:22 FINALLY I SAID, LOOK, I'M A JEW AND JEWS DON'T BELIEVE IN JESUS.
• 06:26 SO I REALLY JUST SAID I DON'T WANT TO TALK ABOUT JESUS ANYMORE.
• 06:31 HE OPENED UP HIS BIBLE.
• 06:33 I GUESS IT WAS THE NIV.
• 06:35 IT WAS SOME KIND OF EASY TO READ ENGLISH TRANSLATION AND HE OPENED IT UP TO PSALM 22.
• 06:39 FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE FAMILIAR WITH IT,
• 06:41 IT STARTS OFF SAYING, "MY GOD, MY GOD, WHY HAVE YOU FORSAKEN ME?"
• 06:44 THEN IT GOES DOWN IN VERSES 16 - 18 SAYING,
• 06:47 "THEY PIERCED MY HANDS AND MY FEET. THEY CAST LOTS FOR MY GARMENTS..."
• 06:51 AS I'M READING THAT I'M LIKE, I DON'T READ THE NEW TESTAMENT.
• 06:55 JEWS DON'T BELIEVE IN THE NEW TESTAMENT.
• 06:57 SO I GAVE IT BACK TO HIM NOT REALIZING THAT GOD HAD TRICKED ME. [LAUGHTER]
• 07:01 IN A GOOD WAY OBVIOUSLY. [AMEN]
• 07:03 AND I WAS READING THE OLD TESTAMENT
• 07:05 AND I HAD NO CLUE HOW KING DAVID COULD HAVE BEEN WRITING ABOUT JESUS.
• 07:09 SO FROM THAT TIME ON THERE WAS A SEED IN MY HEART
• 07:12 BUT THE CONCLUSION I CAME TO TO TRY AND OVERCOME THIS OBSTACLE,
• 07:16 WHAT I SAW AS AN OBSTACLE TO THIS JESUS QUESTION
• 07:19 WAS I THOUGHT, LET ME GO AND READ THE ORIGINAL HEBREW.
• 07:22 SO WHEN I WAS ON LEAVE I WENT TO MY GRANDMOTHER'S HOUSE AND READ HER TENACH IN THE HEBREW.
• 07:26 I JUST THOUGHT WELL IT'S A BAD TRANSLATION
• 07:29 SO THE CHRISTIANS TRY TO MAKE IT SOUND LIKE IT'S JESUS.
• 07:32 SO I READ IT AND I WAS SHOCKED AT HOW SIMILAR IT WAS TO THE NIV
• 07:35 NOT EXACTLY THE SAME, BUT SIMILAR.
• 07:37 SO I HAD THIS JESUS QUESTION IN MY HEART THAT WAS UNANSWERED.
• 07:42 THEN TO KIND OF MAKE A VERY LONG STORY VERY SHORT,
• 07:45 WHEN I FINISHED THE ARMY I WENT TO ISRAEL AND LIVED THERE FOR A SEASON IN THE SHEFAYIM KIBBUTZ,
• 07:53 THEN I WENT TO NEW YORK TO STUDY AS A STUDENT.
• 07:56 I WENT BACK TO ISRAEL IN THE SUMMER OF 1984,
• 07:59 IT WAS ACTUALLY JULY OF 1984,
• 08:01 AND I WAS STAYING ON SHEFAYIM KIBBUTZ AGAIN
• 08:03 AND I HAD A VISION OF JESUS IN JERUSALEM THREE TIMES.
• 08:06 AND HE APPEARED TO ME.
• 08:08 IT'S TOO LONG TO SUMMARIZE IN SUCH A SHORT SPACE OF TIME,
• 08:13 BUT ESSENTIALLY IMMEDIATELY FOR THE FIRST TIME I KNEW HE WAS A JEW.
• 08:18 I THOUGHT, WOW, HE LOOKS SO JEWISH.I WAS SHOCKED.
• 08:20 I WAS LITERALLY SHOCKED, TAKEN ABACK.
• 08:22 HE APPEARED TO ME IN THE OLD CITY.
• 08:24 THE SECOND THING I KNEW IMMEDIATELY IS THIS IS MORE THAN A MAN.
• 08:29 THE THIRD THING THAT I KNEW IMMEDIATELY
• 08:31 IS THAT HE KNEW EVERYTHING I'D DONE AND EVERY SIN I'D EVER COMMITTED
• 08:34 AND YET HE LOVED ME WITH A PERFECT AND UNCONDITIONAL LOVE. [AMEN]
• 08:37 MY PARENTS BECAME BELIEVERS BEFORE I DID AND PRAYED ME INTO THE KINGDOM.
• 08:43 I WAS LOST IN THE OCCULT.
• 08:45 I WAS LOST IN JEWISH MYSTICISM, IN KABBALAH,
• 08:48 IN LOTS OF DIFFERENT THINGS,
• 08:50 ROCK AND ROLL, THE GOTH MOVEMENT,
• 08:53 THE UNDERGROUND SCENE AND THINGS LIKE THAT.
• 08:57 TO THE TESTIMONY OF GOD PRESERVING THE JEWISH PEOPLE I CAN SAY THAT GOD PRESERVED ME.
• 09:04 NEVER INVOLVED IN DRUGS, NEVER INVOLVED IN ALCOHOL, PARTYING, ALWAYS KIND OF A LONER,
• 09:11 ALWAYS HAD THAT DISTINCT CALL OF SEPARATION AND I KNEW IT.
• 09:16 MY PARENTS REALLY PRAYED ME IN AND I ACTUALLY CAME TO FAITH IN A MEETING IN SOMEONE'S HOUSE.
• 09:25 A JEWISH WOMAN HAD A SHOFAR AND A TALID AND JUST ASKED TO PRAY FOR ME
• 09:30 AND THAT PRAYER LED TO ME FULLY RECEIVING YESHUA
• 09:34 AND REALLY RECEIVING THAT CALL BACK TO OUR PEOPLE
• 09:39 AND CONNECTING BACK WITH THAT HERITAGE.
• 09:41 [AMEN]
• 09:42 WHEN YOU BECAME A BELIEVER
• 09:44 AND YOU HAVE THE BENEFIT OF AT LEAST BEING
• 09:47 IN A JEWISH HOME AND FAMILIAR WITH JUDAISM.
• 09:51 MY JEWISHNESS GOES BACK TO MY GREAT-GREAT-GRANDFATHER
• 09:54 WHO WAS ORTHODOX.
• 09:56 WHEN YOU PUT YESHUA THE MESSIAH
• 09:59 IN HIS BIBLICAL JEWISH CONTEXT AND EVERYTHING
• 10:03 NOT ONLY WAS IT REVELATIONAL
• 10:06 BUT WAS IT REVOLUTIONARY FOR YOU?
• 10:08 IT WAS.
• 10:10 I GREW UP SECULAR, SO MY HOUSE WASN'T AS TRADITIONAL.
• 10:12 WE KEPT CERTAIN THINGS.
• 10:14 THERE WAS ALWAYS DISTINCT MARKS OF BEING A JEW THAT MY MOTHER REMINDED ME OF.
• 10:21 I HAVE AN UNCLE WHO'S ORTHODOX
• 10:23 WHO'S PART OF THE ORTHODOX UNION IN NEW YORK CITY.
• 10:26 IN TERMS OF THAT I GREW UP REALLY WITH A SENSE OF WHY DO THE PEOPLES TREAT US THE WAY THAT THEY DO?
• 10:36 I DIDN'T REALLY UNDERSTAND ANTI-SEMITISM.
• 10:39 IT WAS WHEN I REALLY BEGAN TO LOOK AT THE SCRIPTURE
• 10:42 AND BEGIN TO SEE GOD'S CALL OVER US
• 10:46 AND HOW WE TREATED MESSIAH AS THE ENTIRE HUMAN RACE
• 10:52 THAT I REALLY BEGAN TO HAVE THINGS OPEN UP TO ME.
• 10:55 IT REVOLUTIONIZED ME WHEN I BEGAN TO RESTUDY THE SCRIPTURES IN HEBREW,
• 11:03 WHEN I BEGAN TO RESTUDY THOSE THINGS IN THE ORIGINAL CONTEXT,
• 11:07 THEN IT REALLY KIND OF OPENED THINGS UP
• 11:09 THAT CHRISTIAN MENTORS AND WHEN I WOULD VISIT IN CHURCHES COULDN'T REALLY ANSWER ME WITH.
• 11:19 IT'S OUR JOY TO BRING YOU THESE TESTIMONIES OF JEWISH PEOPLE COMING TO SAVING FAITH.
• 11:24 THEY CAME FROM SO MANY VAST BACKGROUNDS.
• 11:27 ONE WAS AGNOSTIC.
• 11:28 ONE WAS A DRUG ADDICT.
• 11:30 CONSERVATIVE.
• 11:31 AND YOU YOURSELF, MYLES, THE FIRST TIME YOU CAME TO FAITH,
• 11:34 DIDN'T YOU FEEL LIKE YOU WERE THE ONLY JEW THAT HAD EVER?
• 11:37 I BELIEVE THAT'S A TYPICAL EXPERIENCE FOR JEWISH PEOPLE.
• 11:40 YOU TOLD ME THAT JESUS WAS YOUR MESSIAH.
• 11:43 I THOUGHT IT WAS THE CUTEST THING I HAD EVER HEARD, BUT NOT FOR ME, BECAUSE I'M JEWISH.
• 11:47 BUT THAT STARTED THIS INVESTIGATION ON MY PART.
• 11:50 YOU SAID, WELL, YOU'RE NOT REALLY AN HONEST SEEKER.
• 11:52 YOU CHALLENGED ME...
• 11:54 BECAUSE IF YOU WERE YOU'D AT LEAST LOOK IN YOUR OWN BOOK,
• 11:56 WHICH I HADN'T DONE SINCE MY BAR MITZVAH.
• 11:58 SO KATHARINE CHALLENGED ME AND THEN GOD OPENED UP THE WINDOWS OF HEAVEN ON MY BEHALF.
• 12:02 HE WAS SO GRACIOUS THAT HE SENT SUPERNATURAL ENCOUNTERS LIKE THE DAMASCUS ROAD EXPERIENCE OF PAUL
• 12:08 AND ALSO SENT ME ON A JOURNEY THROUGH THE SCRIPTURES.
• 12:11 THE BEREAN ROAD OF STUDY.
• 12:13 REALLY WHEN I ASKED THE SIMPLE QUESTION, IS JESUS THE MESSIAH OF THE JEWS,
• 12:17 GOD BEGAN TO ANSWER THAT QUESTION.
• 12:20 HE ANSWERED IT OUT OF THE WORD
• 12:21 AND HE ANSWERED IT BY ENCOUNTERS WITH HIMSELF IN VARIOUS SETTINGS.
• 12:25 I THINK THAT'S TRUE FOR ANY OF US AS JEWS.
• 12:27 WE DON'T WANT LEAVE OUR JEWISHNESS.
• 12:30 THAT WOULD BE THE WORST THING.
• 12:31 RIGHT.
• 12:32 BUT IT'S HARD FOR US TO REALIZE THAT IN FACT
• 12:35 BECOMING A BELIEVER IN YESHUA, IN JESUS, IS THE MOST JEWISH THING WE CAN DO.
• 12:39 THAT'S WHAT HAPPENED TO ME.
• 12:40 I LIKE TO SAY THAT GOD WAS GREATER THAN I WAS
• 12:45 AND HE WAS ABLE TO OVERCOME MY DOUBTS AND MY WRESTLING AND REALLY WAS JUST AWESOME.
• 12:51 I WOUND UP CALLING THE ORGANIZATION CALLED THE JEWS FOR JESUS
• 12:54 AND I SAID, I THINK I MIGHT PERHAPS, POSSIBLY, MAYBE,
• 12:58 I DON'T KNOW BE BECOMING A...
• 13:00 HAS THIS HAPPENED TO ANYBODY ELSE?
• 13:02 THEY LAUGHED.
• 13:03 THEY SAID, YES, A FEW OF US.
• 13:05 WHY DON'T YOU CALL BACK AND WE'LL TALK ABOUT THIS.
• 13:08 SEVERAL MONTHS LATER I WAS ON THE STREETS OF NEW YORK CITY
• 13:11 AND I SAW THE BUILDING FOR THE JEWS FOR JESUS.
• 13:15 IT SAID, JEWS FOR JESUS, ESTABLISHED 32 AD, GIVE OR TAKE A YEAR.
• 13:20 I THOUGHT THAT WAS A PRETTY GOOD TESTIMONY OF THE WAY THIS ALL STARTED.
• 13:24 WHAT YOU ALSO SAID TO ME WHEN YOU WERE STUDYING THE BOOK THAT YOU SAW HOW ABSOLUTELY JEWISH IT WAS.
• 13:29 IT WAS MIND-BOGGLING TO ME.
• 13:31 I ACTUALLY WONDERED WHY HADN'T MY RABBI TOLD ME THESE THINGS?
• 13:34 I THINK THAT'S A PRETTY COMMON EXPERIENCE
• 13:36 IS THAT WE SEE THAT THIS TAKES PLACE,
• 13:38 ALL THE NEW TESTAMENT, THE BRIT HADASHAH TAKES PLACE IN THE JEWISH CONTEXT.
• 13:42 THE JEWISH CULTURE AND ALL OF THE CUSTOMS AND THE LANGUAGE AND EVERYTHING IS SO RELATED
• 13:48 TO THE HISTORY OF MY PEOPLE THAT WE JUST ARE OVERWHELMED BY THIS HOMECOMING FEELING
• 13:54 THAT TAKES PLACE WHEN WE COME TO FAITH.
• 13:57 I THINK THAT IS AVAILABLE TO ANYONE WHO IS WATCHING THIS.
• 14:00 FOR OUR JEWISH VIEWERS AND ALSO FOR OUR GENTILE VIEWERS,
• 14:03 YOU CAN COME HOME TO FAITH.
• 14:05 STAY TUNED FOR MORE.
• 14:18 (Voice of Zola Levitt)
• 14:21 YOU CAN LEARN ABOUT THESE THINGS IN OUR BOOK, THE SEVEN FEASTS OF ISRAEL AND COMPANION BOOKLETS SINCE PASSOVER IS SO IMPORTANT.
• 14:26 THE COMPANION BOOK IS THE MIRACLE OF PASSOVER
• 14:28 AND THEN THE THIRD IN THAT SMALL SERIES, THE CHRISTIAN LOVE STORY,
• 14:32 AMPLIFIES THE JEWISH WEDDING APPOINTED PASSOVER AND HAVING TO DO WITH THE KINGDOM TO COME.
• 14:37 THOSE THREE TOGETHER I'M SURE ARE THE BEST THREE ITEMS OUR MINISTRY EVER OFFERED.
• 14:42 WE'VE JUST SENT OUT I SUPPOSE HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF THEM.
• 14:46 THEY'RE WELL WORTH OWNING. SO GET THAT.
• 14:49 LET'S CALL IT THE FEAST PACKAGE, THE THREE BOOKLETS.
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• 14:57 OUR WEEKLY TELEVISION SERIES,
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• 15:00 AND OUR WEBSITE.
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• 15:08 THROUGH OUR....
• 15:09 TO THE JEW FIRST FUND...
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• 15:18 AS WE SERVE TOGETHER UNTIL OUR MESSIAH RETURNS.
• 15:55 ISRAEL.
• 15:57 YOU KNOW THE SONGS OF ASCENT SAYS THAT THERE'S A SPECIAL BLESSING FOR THOSE THAT MAKE PILGRIMAGE TO ISRAEL.
• 16:02 I KNOW WATCHING THOSE SCENES OF THE BELOVED ISRAEL
• 16:05 THAT IT'S IN YOUR HEART TO GO
• 16:07 AND WE JUST WANT TO MAKE IT AVAILABLE FOR YOU AND HOST YOU.
• 16:11 YOU CAN COME WITH US OR ANYONE ELSE, JUST COME TO ISRAEL.
• 16:15 IF IT'S IN YOUR HEART, GOD'S PUT IT THERE.
• 16:17 SO JUST RECEIVE THAT BLESSING THAT COMES WHEN YOU MAKE PILGRIMAGE.
• 16:21 THERE'S A SPECIAL BLESSING, MYLES.
• 16:23 RIGHT.IT'S REALLY TRUE.
• 16:25 TO HEAR ABOUT OUR TOURS,
• 16:26 TO LEARN ABOUT WHAT WE'RE DOING
• 16:27 AND TO GET SOME GREAT INFORMATION ABOUT ISRAEL,
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• 16:49 THE GREAT ABILITY WE HAVE TO PRODUCE DRAMAS FROM THE BIBLE IN ISRAEL
• 16:54 AND ALSO TO BRING YOU GREAT INTERVIEWS AND JUST PICTURES FROM THE LAND
• 16:58 A REAL SENSE OF THE CONNECTION THAT WE WANT YOU TO HAVE WITH THE LAND AND THE PEOPLE.
• 17:02 WE NEED YOUR GIFTS OF FUNDS TO DO THAT.
• 17:04 WOULD YOU CONSIDER SENDING SOMETHING THIS WEEK
• 17:07 SO THAT WE CAN CONTINUE TO BRING YOU THESE GREAT PROGRAMS?
• 17:10 NOW LET'S CONTINUE WITH OUT FOUR MESSIANIC LEADERS
• 17:14 AND HEAR SOME MORE ABOUT REACHING OUT IN FAITH.
• 17:19 IT'S A JOY TO BE ABLE TO COME
• 17:21 AND WHEN WE DO LESSONS TO HAVE THAT JEWISH MINDSET AND JEWISH CONTEXT FROM WHICH WE CAN TEACH
• 17:26 BECAUSE I BELIEVE THAT'S THE WAY TO LEARN SCRIPTURE.
• 17:29 THAT'S THE WAY TO BE ABLE TO SEE THINGS, I THINK, AS GOD HAD INTENDED IT,
• 17:36 WHICH IS TO HAVE A CONTINUITY.
• 17:38 I BELIEVE THERE'S A CONTINUITY BETWEEN THE OLD COVENANT, THE TENACH,
• 17:42 AND THE BRIT HADASHAH, THE NEW TESTAMENT.
• 17:44 I BELIEVE THE SCRIPTURES THEY TELL ONE COMPLETE STORY FROM GENESIS TO REVELATION.
• 17:49 TO ME IT JUST...EVEN AS I SOMETIMES SHARE WITH REGARD TO MY TESTIMONY.
• 17:56 AS A JEW ALL THE PIECES BEGAN TO FIT TOGETHER.
• 18:00 THE PIECES OF WHAT ABOUT THE JEWISH PEOPLE?
• 18:03 WHY ARE THEY CALLED?
• 18:04 WHY ARE THEY CALLED THE CHOSEN PEOPLE?
• 18:06 WELL THEY'RE CHOSEN FOR A PARTICULAR REASON AND A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
• 18:09 THEY WERE CHOSEN TO BRING ABOUT REDEMPTION.
• 18:11 THEY WERE CHOSEN, OF COURSE, TO BRING ABOUT GOD'S GLORY.
• 18:15 BUT THERE'S A REASON TO IT.
• 18:18 THERE'S A PARTICULAR CONTEXT TO EVERYTHING.
• 18:23 I REALLY BELIEVE AND I'VE BELIEVED THIS FOR YEARS,
• 18:25 ROMANS 11:15, SPEAKING OF ISRAEL.
• 18:27 IT SAYS...
• 18:29 IF THEIR FALLING AWAY IS THE RIGHT RECONCILING OF THE WORLD,
• 18:31 WHAT WOULD THEIR ACCEPTANCE BE BUT LIFE FROM THE DEAD?
• 18:34 I REALLY BELIEVE WITH ALL MY HEART IF THE MESSIANIC MOVEMENT, THE MODERN MESSIANIC MOVEMENT,
• 18:38 IS GOING TO BE ANYTHING EVEN CLOSE TO THE 1ST CENTURY MESSIANIC MOVEMENT
• 18:42 THAT IS AS JEWISH BELIEVERS AND THOSE WHO ARE PART OF THE MESSIANIC MOVEMENT
• 18:46 WHETHER JEW OF GENTILE, WE NEED TO HAVE A HEART FOR THE NATIONS.
• 18:49 LIKE PAUL THE APOSTLE, HE GAVE HIS LIFE FOR ROME, A NATION THAT HATED ISRAEL,
• 18:54 THAT HATED THE JEWS, A NATION RULED BY CAESAR.
• 18:58 HE GAVE, HE SHED HIS BLOOD FOR THAT NATION, FOR A GENTILE NATION.
• 19:01 I BELIEVE UNTIL WE START HAVING THE LOVE OF GOD, GOD'S HEART FOR THE GENTILE NATIONS,
• 19:07 WE'RE NOT GOING TO COME TO THE PLACE THAT GOD WANTS US TO BE AT AS A NATION.
• 19:11 I JUST FEEL THAT THERE'S, I WILL ALWAYS HAVE A PASSION FOR MY PEOPLE
• 19:15 AND BY THE GRACE OF GOD WE'RE SEEING MANY JEWISH PEOPLE COMING TO THE LORD THROUGH OUR MINISTRY ON A REGULAR BASIS.
• 19:20 BUT I BELIEVE THAT THAT NEEDS TO BE COVERED WITH IT'S NOT TO THE JEW ONLY, IT'S TO THE JEW FIRST.
• 19:25 IT'S THE GREAT COMMISSION, NOT THE GREAT OMISSION.
• 19:28 I REALLY BELIEVE THAT THAT'S THAT FLAME, THAT SPARK, THAT FIRE FOR THE NATIONS.
• 19:34 CAN YOU IMAGINE JEWISH BELIEVERS WINNING THE NATIONS TO YESHUA
• 19:40 THE IMPACT THAT THAT'S GOING TO HAVE ON THE NATIONS?
• 19:43 WE CAN HAVE ALL THE STOP ANTI-SEMITISM CAMPAIGNS IN THE WORLD.
• 19:48 THEY'RE NOT GOING TO DO A THING
• 19:49 UNLESS IT'S A MOVE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT.
• 19:52 WHEN IT'S JEWISH BELIEVERS THAT ARE LEADING THE NATIONS TO GOD, GUESS WHAT?
• 19:56 PEOPLE ARE GOING TO LOVE US.
• 19:57 YOU'RE NOT GOING TO BE ABLE TO STOP THEM FROM LOVING ISRAEL.
• 20:00 BECAUSE THEY'RE GOING TO KNOW,
• 20:02 HEY, IT WAS A JEWISH BROTHER OR A JEWISH SISTER THAT LEAD ME TO MY MESSIAH
• 20:06 AND THAT LEAD ME INTO THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE TRUE AND LIVING GOD.
• 20:09 ZECHARIAH 8:23 SPEAKS ABOUT A TIME COMING
• 20:12 WHEN IT SAYS THAT 10 PEOPLE FROM EVERY TRIBE OF THE NATION
• 20:16 IS GOING TO GRAB THE SLEEVE OF ONE JEWISH MAN AND SAY,
• 20:19 WE'VE HEARD THAT YOU KNOW GOD AND THAT GOD IS WITH YOU.
• 20:22 WE WANT TO COME WITH YOU.
• 20:24 HOW IS THAT GOING TO HAPPEN UNLESS WE GO TO THE NATIONS FIRST
• 20:28 AND UNLESS WE HAVE A HEART FOR THE NATIONS.
• 20:30 WHEN YOU'VE GOT A HEART FOR THE NATIONS, WHEN YOU LOVE PEOPLE, PEOPLE KNOW THAT YOU LOVE THEM.
• 20:36 MOST OF OUR MINISTRY'S INVOLVED IN SOWING.
• 20:38 WE DON'T REAP AS MUCH BUT THAT IS COMING.
• 20:41 AGAIN, SOWING AND REAPING ARE THE SAME.
• 20:44 YOU'RE NOT BETTER IF YOU REAP AND ANOTHER ONE JUST SOWS.
• 20:46 THEY'RE ALL INTERRELATED AND THEY'RE ALL ESSENTIAL TO THE EVANGELISTIC PROCESS.
• 20:51 IN ORDER TO REAP IN ISRAEL YOU'VE FIRST GOT TO PATIENTLY AND I MEAN PATIENTLY SOW THE SEED AMONG THE JEWISH PEOPLE.
• 20:58 WHERE OUR APPROACH IS VERY PERSONAL AND CONVERSATIONAL
• 21:04 AND WE'RE ABLE TO DEAL WITH OBJECTIONS THAT ARE TYPICALLY RAISED AGAINST YESHUA
• 21:12 AND WE'RE ABLE TO ANSWER THOSE I THINK SATISFACTORILY.
• 21:15 EACH TIME WE GO THE OPENNESS GROWS AND GROWS AND GROWS.
• 21:20 I'VE SAID THIS IN PRINT AND ARTICLES FOR THE LEVITT LETTER,
• 21:23 ARTICLES IN MY OWN NEWSLETTER, SEARCH THE SCRIPTURES,
• 21:26 THAT THE INCREASING UNIVERSAL RECEPTIVITY OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE OVER THERE TO THE GOSPEL
• 21:30 AND TO YESHUA IS A CLEAR SIGN OF WHAT'S TO OCCUR WHEN HE RETURNS.
• 21:36 THAT'S WHEN THE BLINDERS WILL BE REMOVED.
• 21:39 THE PARTIAL BLINDNESS THAT PAUL TALKS ABOUT IN ROMANS 11:25 I BELIEVE...
• 21:44 THAT THAT WILL BE REMOVED AND THEY WILL RECEIVE HIM
• 21:47 AS A NATION.
• 21:48 THEY WILL RECEIVE JESUS AS THE MESSIAH.
• 21:50 THE FACT THAT WE'RE SEEING THIS NOW
• 21:51 AND WE'RE SEEING IT PROGRESSIVELY AND INCREASINGLY LIFTED
• 21:55 AGAIN TELLS ME THAT JESUS IS COMING VERY, VERY SOON.
• 22:01 THAT'S EXCITING.
• 22:03 I REMEMBER WHEN ZOLA WAS ALIVE AND WE STARTED DOING THESE GOSPEL OUTREACHES TO ISRAEL.
• 22:09 HE WAS AMAZED AT THEIR OPENNESS EVERYWHERE.
• 22:14 HE SAID, YOU COULDN'T DO THIS 10 OR 20 YEARS AGO IN ISRAEL.
• 22:16 HE SAID THAT TO ME AROUND 2000.
• 22:19 HE SAID YOU COULDN'T SEE THIS, YOU WOULDN'T SEE THIS 10 OR 20 YEARS AGO.
• 22:23 HE EVEN SAW THE PROPHETIC SIGNIFICANCE OF THAT.
• 22:29 MY SISTER HAS A BIBLE HERE THAT'S CALLED THE ONE NEW MAN BIBLE.
• 22:31 IT JUST JUMPED OUT AT ME.
• 22:33 THERE REALLY IS ONE NEW MAN.
• 22:35 ONE NEW MAN IS MADE UP OF JEWS AND GENTILES.
• 22:39 NOW IT DOESN'T MEAN JEWS BECOMING GENTILES OR GENTILES BECOMING JEWS.
• 22:43 WE ALL ARE OURSELVES, BUT THE BEAUTIFUL THING ABOUT THE MODEL THAT WE HAVE AT GATEWAY
• 22:48 IS THAT THEY EXPECT JEWS TO BE JEWS, BUT FULFILLED JEWS.
• 22:51 I EXPECT CHRISTIANS TO BE CHRISTIANS AND DO THINGS THAT CHRISTIANS DO.
• 22:56 AS IN NON-JEWISH CHRISTIANS, WE'RE NOT TRYING TO CHANGE EACH OTHER.
• 23:00 BELIEVING THE UNITY OF THE FAITH IS NOT UNIFORMITY.
• 23:05 UNIFORMITY, THAT'S CALLED A CULT.
• 23:07 THERE'S A BEAUTIFUL PLETHORA AND DIVERSITY IN THE LORD
• 23:14 BUT IT'S ALLOWING EACH OTHER AND ENCOURAGING EACH OTHER TO FLOURISH IN WHO WE ARE.
• 23:18 IF YOU'RE A JEW, BE THE BEST JEW YOU CAN BE.
• 23:21 IF YOU'RE A GENTILE, BE THE BEST GENTILE YOU CAN BE.
• 23:24 WHATEVER YOU DO, DO IT THE BEST THAT YOU CAN DO IT.
• 23:28 SO BY THE GRACE OF GOD WE'RE SEEING MANY JEWISH PEOPLE
• 23:32 ON A REGULAR BASIS COME TO FAITH, AND GENTILES.
• 23:35 THERE'S OTHER PLACES LIKE IN THE NAPA VALLEY THROUGH THE FATHER'S HOUSE IN VACAVILLE.
• 23:42 THEY'VE STARTED A MESSIANIC MINISTRY THE SAME AS OURS.
• 23:46 UNDER MYLES IN FACT, WHICH IS REALLY FLOURISHING.
• 23:49 THEY'VE ONLY BEEN GOING A FEW MONTHS
• 23:51 AND I THINK THEY HAVE AROUND 300 IN ATTENDANCE ALREADY.
• 23:53 I GOT TO MINISTER THERE AT THE SECOND SERVICE.
• 23:56 THIS IS NOT SOMETHING THAT MAN MADE UP.
• 23:59 I REALLY BELIEVE THAT THE DOORS OF THE CHURCH NEED TO BE WIDE OPEN TO THE JEWISH PEOPLE
• 24:07 BUT WITH THE UNDERSTANDING THAT WE'RE NOT TELLING YOU TO BECOME CHRISTIANS.
• 24:11 I KNOW SOME THAT ARE CONFUSED WITH SOME CHRISTIANS.
• 24:15 WE'RE TELLING YOU TO BECOME FULFILLED OR COMPLETED JEWS.
• 24:18 AS A JEW COME TO YOUR MESSIAH IN YESHUA.
• 24:21 BECAUSE THE TERM CHRISTIAN IMPLIES I'VE LEFT MY JEWISH ROOTS.
• 24:25 WHEN A JEWISH PERSON COMES TO FAITH IN YESHUA, IN JESUS,
• 24:28 NOTHING COULD BE FURTHER FROM THE TRUTH.
• 24:30 WE ARE COMPLETELY COMING BACK TO OUR JEWISH ROOTS.
• 24:33 BECAUSE JESUS IS A JEW.
• 24:36 HIS NAME IS YESHUA, HIS HEBREW NAME.
• 24:38 THE DISCIPLES WERE JEWS.
• 24:40 THE APOSTLES WERE JEWS.
• 24:42 THE SCRIPTURES WERE WRITTEN BY JEWS.
• 24:45 IT IS OUR JOY AT ZOLA LEVITT MINISTRIES TO BRING YOU THESE PROGRAMS.
• 24:49 CHRISTIANITY THROUGH JEWISH EYES.
• 24:51 YOU'RE HEARING FROM JEWISH BELIEVERS WHO HAVE COME TO SAVING FAITH AND NOT ONLY THAT
• 24:56 BUT THEY'RE ESTABLISHING THAT THIS WAS A JEWISH THING TO BEGIN WITH.
• 24:59 AND GOD IS TURNING THE WHOLE THING AROUND FROM BEING ONLY FOCUSED ON THE GENTILES
• 25:04 BUT HE'S SAVING THE JEWISH PEOPLE IN MASSES...
• 25:08 YES.YES.
• 25:09 IN MY OPINION.
• 25:11 WELL THERE'S NOT MANY OF US SO WE SEE REALLY A SIGNIFICANT PORTION OF JEWISH PEOPLE
• 25:15 COMING TO FAITH IN THESE DAYS AS WE APPROACH THE END OF THE AGE.
• 25:19 RIGHT.RIGHT.
• 25:20 AND I WANT TO THANK OUR VIEWERS.
• 25:22 BECAUSE OF YOUR SUPPORT
• 25:23 AND BECAUSE OF YOUR GIFTS OF FUNDS WE'RE ABLE TO SHOW YOU THESE PROGRAMS.
• 25:26 WE'RE ABLE TO EDUCATE.
• 25:28 WE'RE ABLE TO TAKE THIS MESSAGE TO THE NATIONS.
• 25:31 GOD IS DOING A RESTORATION UNLIKE ANYTHING BEFORE.
• 25:37 HE'S RESTORING HIMSELF IN OUR EYES AND IN THE GENTILE EYES AS A JEWISH JESUS.
• 25:43 THAT'S REALLY TRUE.
• 25:45 WE'VE HEARD THAT ISRAEL IS THE TIME CLOCK OF THE NATIONS AND OF THE PROPHETIC AGES.
• 25:48 WE REALLY SEE THAT.
• 25:49 THAT WITH THE ESTABLISHING OF THE NATION OF ISRAEL
• 25:52 BEGAN THIS TICKING CLOCK LEADING UP TO HIS COMING
• 25:54 INCLUDING THIS CONTINUED RESTORATION - THE LAND,
• 25:58 THE PEOPLE, AND NOW THE SPIRIT COMING ALIVE THROUGH YESHUA.
• 26:02 IT'S SO GREAT TO HEAR THESE TESTIMONIES OF THESE PEOPLE
• 26:06 THAT ARE SERVING THROUGH JEWISH MINISTRY WITH A HEART FOR THE NATIONS AS WELL.
• 26:10 AGAIN, GOING BACK TO THAT SIGNATURE SCRIPTURE OF THE ONE NEW MAN.
• 26:14 THAT GOD IS MAKING THE TWO ONE, JEWS AND GENTILES.
• 26:18 HE'S BREAKING DOWN THE MIDDLE WALL OF PARTITION
• 26:20 THAT HAS ALWAYS BEEN IN HIS HEART THAT WE WOULD WORSHIP HIM TOGETHER.
• 26:23 RIGHT.AND WE'RE SEEING YOUNG PEOPLE LIKE NEVER BEFORE,
• 26:26 JEWISH MEN AND WOMEN COMING TO SAVING FAITH.
• 26:30 THAT IS BECAUSE OF YOUR GIFTS OF FUNDS.
• 26:32 THEY HELP US TO BRING THESE MESSAGES, SHARE THESE MESSAGES,
• 26:36 AND EDUCATE THE CHRISTIAN WORLD AROUND US
• 26:38 THAT THERE IS AN IDENTITY THAT JESUS WANTS US TO KNOW ABOUT
• 26:42 AND IT'S HIM AS OUR JEWISH MESSIAH.
• 26:44 THAT'S GREAT.
• 26:46 WELL, UNTIL WE SEE YOU AGAIN,
• 26:47 WE WANT TO REMIND YOU AS ALWAYS,
• 26:49 SHA'ALU SHALOM YERUSHALAYIM
• 26:51 PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM
• 26:55 (Voice of Zola Levitt)
• 26:57 YOU CAN LEARN ABOUT THESE THINGS IN OUR BOOK,
• 26:59 THE SEVEN FEASTS OF ISRAEL AND COMPANION BOOKLETS SINCE PASSOVER IS SO IMPORTANT.
• 27:04 THE COMPANION BOOK IS THE MIRACLE OF PASSOVER
• 27:06 AND THEN THE THIRD IN THAT SMALL SERIES, THE CHRISTIAN LOVE STORY,
• 27:10 AMPLIFIES THE JEWISH WEDDING APPOINTED PASSOVER AND HAVING TO DO WITH THE KINGDOM TO COME.
• 27:15 THOSE THREE TOGETHER I'M SURE ARE THE BEST THREE ITEMS OUR MINISTRY EVER OFFERED.
• 27:20 WE'VE JUST SENT OUT I SUPPOSE HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF THEM.
• 27:24 THEY'RE WELL WORTH OWNING.
• 27:26 SO GET THAT.
• 27:27 LET'S CALL IT THE FEAST PACKAGE, THE THREE BOOKLETS.