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Caption transcript for Journey of Restoration: “The Journey Begins” (1/10)

• 00:05 I LOVE ISRAEL, I LOVE THE PEOPLE.
• 00:08 IT'S TOTALLY SO... IT'S INDESCRIBABLE.
• 00:10 IT FEELS LIKE HOME...IT JUST FEELS LIKE HOME.
• 00:13 WELCOME TO JERUSALEM... IT JUST TOOK MY BREATH AWAY.
• 00:17 IT JUST SHOWS THE FINGER PRINT OF GOD EVERYWHERE.
• 00:20 TO REALIZE HOW SPECIAL THIS CITY AND THE PEOPLE WERE TO THE LORD...
• 00:24 IT'S GOD'S CHOSEN LAND AND JESUS WALKED ON IT.
• 00:28 I THINK THERE'S A RESTORATION AS PASTOR MYLES TALKED ABOUT.
• 00:32 HOW GOD IS REALLY GATHERING THE JEWS.
• 00:36 THROUGH THE BLOOD OF JESUS CHRIST WE'VE BEEN GRAFTED-IN AND NOW THIS OUR CITY ALSO.
• 00:52 SHALOM AND WELCOME TO OUR PROGRAM.
• 00:54 I'M MYLES WEISS
• 00:55 AND I'M KATHARINE WEISS.
• 00:57 AND WE HAVE A GREAT NEW SERIES FOR YOU TODAY, "JOURNEY OF RESTORATION".
• 01:01 YOU KNOW WHEN WE BRING PEOPLE TO ISRAEL IT'S ALWAYS A LIFE-CHANGING EXPERIENCE.
• 01:05 BUT NOT EVERYONE CAN COME TO ISRAEL AND SO WE HAVE DECIDED TO BRING ISRAEL TO YOU.
• 01:09 A DREAM COME TRUE... ISRAEL COMES TO YOU.
• 01:12 AND SO WE'RE GOING TO TAKE YOU FROM DAN TO BEERSHEVA,
• 01:14 FROM THE MEDITERRANEAN TO THE JORDON VALLEY
• 01:16 AND YOU'RE GOING TO GET AN INSIDER'S VIEW
• 01:19 OF THE WONDERFUL THINGS THAT WE EXPERIENCE WHEN WE'RE HOSTING PILGRIMS IN THE LAND.
• 01:23 YOU KNOW ISRAEL IS SUCH A PLACE
• 01:25 WHERE YOU WILL FEEL THE PRESENCE OF GOD LIKE NO OTHER.
• 01:28 IT'S A PLACE THAT GOD PROMISED THAT HE WOULD PUT HIS NAME FOREVER.
• 01:31 IT IS THE CENTER OF THE WORLD;
• 01:33 IT'S WHERE HE SENT HIS SON TO DIE AS RANSOM TO REDEEM MANKIND BACK.
• 01:39 THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE IT.
• 01:40 THERE IS NOTHING LIKE ISRAEL,
• 01:41 IN FACT WE BEGIN OUR TOUR IN NETANYA.
• 01:44 YOU AND I GO THERE A LITTLE BIT AHEAD OF TIME.
• 01:46 RIGHT...IN NETANYA
• 01:48 YES
• 01:49 AND IT'S ON THE MEDITERRANEAN COAST.
• 01:50 YOU AND I GO A DAY AHEAD SO WE CAN PREPARE; WE CAN PRAY;
• 01:53 AND YOU'RE ALWAYS BRINGING PSALM 91 WITH US WHEN WE GO.
• 01:56 ABSOLUTELY
• 01:58 IT'S UNDER THE SHADOW OF THE WINGS OF THE LORD.
• 02:00 AND IN A MOMENT YOU'LL SEE WHAT THAT MEANS IN THIS PARTICULAR PROGRAM
• 02:03 AS WE ARE LITERALLY GOING TO BE SPEAKING TO YOU
• 02:06 FROM UNDER THE SHADOW OF THE WINGS IN NETANYA.
• 02:10 SO LET'S GO ON LOCATION AND BEGIN OUR JOURNEY OF RESTORATION.
• 02:15 WE'RE HERE IN NETANYA.
• 02:17 IT'S BEAUTIFUL.
• 02:19 THE MEDITERRANEAN'S BEFORE US AND BEHIND US IS A MONUMENT TO ISRAEL.
• 02:23 YOU KNOW, WHEREVER YOU GO IN ISRAEL
• 02:25 YOU WILL SEE SOMETHING OF PAST AND SOMETHING OF THE PRESENT.
• 02:28 AND IT'S THE ISRAELI PEOPLE REMEMBERING FROM WHENCE THEY'VE COME...
• 02:32 REMEMBERING THE HOLOCAUST AND NOW TO THE HOPE OF THEM BEING HERE IN THE LAND.
• 02:36 AND MYLES TWO YEARS AGO WE WALKED PAST THESE WINGS
• 02:40 RIGHT
• 02:41 AND WE WERE JUST TAKEN BACK BY GOD'S SIGN TO US.
• 02:44 ALL THROUGHOUT ISRAEL THERE'S SIGNS.
• 02:46 AND THESE WINGS TO ME REFLECT PSALM 91.
• 02:50 OUR PILGRIMS ARE COMING TO THIS VERY SPOT
• 02:52 BECAUSE THEY WANT TO SEE
• 02:54 "HE THAT DWELLS IN THE SECRET PLACE OF THE MOST HIGH"
• 02:56 "WILL ABIDE UNDER THE SHADOW OF THE ALMIGHTY".
• 02:59 PSALM 91 SPEAKS ABOUT NO MATTER WHAT THE WORLD HAS PLANNED FOR ISRAEL
• 03:04 GOD HAS OTHER PLANS FOR ISRAEL,
• 03:06 FOR THE JEWISH PEOPLE,
• 03:08 AND FOR THOSE OF US WHO ARE KNIT TO ISRAEL;
• 03:11 GRAFTED-IN BY FAITH IN YESHUAHA MASHIACH.
• 03:13 IN FACT, THE END OF THAT PSALM HAS THE VERY WORD "YESHUATI"
• 03:17 THE VERY NAME YESHUA... SALVATION IS IN THAT PSALM.
• 03:20 AND IT'S SUCH A BEAUTIFUL STORY
• 03:22 BECAUSE IT REMINDS US OF THE STORY OF RUTH
• 03:25 WHERE BOAZ TOOK HIS WINGS, TOOK HIS TALLIT AND SPREAD IT OVER RUTH.
• 03:30 AND JUST AS I'M DOING THIS WITH KATHARINE
• 03:32 SO IT IS THAT THE LORD IS SPREADING HIS WINGS OVER ISRAEL
• 03:35 AND THE PROMISES TO HER ARE "YES" AND "AMEN".
• 03:41 (Katharine speaking) THE LORD'S PRESENCE IS FELT IN THIS LAND THE VERY MOMENT YOU STEP OFF THE PLANE.
• 03:45 YOUR INNER SPIRIT BEARS WITNESS TO THE FACT THAT YOU'VE MADE IT HOME.
• 03:49 (Myles) WELCOME HOME
• 03:50 (Katharine) WELCOME
• 03:52 (Myles) WELCOME HOME. I DON'T KNOW WHERE YOU LIVE BUT THIS IS HOME.
• 03:55 (Katharine) NICE TO HAVE YOU WITH US.
• 03:57 (Myles) COME ON IN
• 03:58 (Katharine) NICE TO MEET YOU.
• 04:01 (Pilgrim) I'VE SEEN A LOT OF THE NEWSLETTERS
• 04:03 (Katharine) OH, WONDERFUL, WELL WE'RE SO GLAD YOU'RE HERE IN ISRAEL. IS THIS YOUR FIRST TIME?
• 04:08 (Pilgrim) IT IS
• 04:09 (Katharine) WONDERFUL...WONDERFUL
• 04:11 (Myles) YOU'RE GOING ON THE TRIP OF A LIFETIME AND I SAY WELCOME HOME. YOU'LL SEE WHY IN A FEW DAYS.
• 04:15 (Katharine) NICE TO HAVE YOU WITH US.
• 04:18 (Myles) WELCOME HOME EVERYBODY. GOOD TO SEE YOU.
• 04:21 (Katharine) HI...NICE TO MEET YOU.
• 04:24 (Myles speaking) AFTER A GOOD NIGHT'S REST OUR GROUP BOARDS THE BUS
• 04:26 AND WE'RE ON OUR WAY TO CAESAREA.
• 04:28 CAESAREA MARITIMA WAS BUILT BY HEROD THE GREAT,
• 04:31 THE SAME KING WHO BUILT ISRAEL'S HOLIEST OF ALL STRUCTURES...THE TEMPLE.
• 04:36 HEROD BUILT AN IMMENSE HARBOR HERE THAT ACCOMMODATED 300 SHIPS AT A TIME.
• 04:41 THE THEATRE SEATS 3,500 PEOPLE WITH A MAGNIFICENT VIEW OF THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA.
• 04:47 WE STARTED OUR DAY IN THE THEATRE
• 04:49 AS OUR GUIDE YUVAL SHEMSH TELLS US ABOUT THE BIBLICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF THIS SITE.
• 04:56 (Yuval speaking) AND WE KNOW THAT IT WAS HERE IN CAESAREA
• 04:59 THAT PAUL GAVE HIS TESTIMONY RIGHT?
• 05:02 HE WAS KEPT HERE IN PRISON FOR 2 YEARS IF YOU'LL REMEMBER THAT STORY IN THE BOOK OF ACTS.
• 05:06 AND IT WAS HERE IN CAESAREA THAT HE HAD SHARED HIS TESTIMONY
• 05:11 TELLING ABOUT WHAT HAD HAPPENED TO HIM ON THE ROAD TO DAMASCUS,
• 05:14 THE EVENT THAT CHANGED HIS LIFE AND FOR THE LIFE OF MANY OTHERS LATER ON.
• 05:19 AND WE STRONGLY BELIEVE THAT WHEN PAUL GAVE HIS TESTIMONY IT WAS RIGHT HERE IN THE THEATRE.
• 05:26 IN THE BIBLE IT IS WRITTEN THAT JUST BEFORE HE GAVE HIS TESTIMONY
• 05:30 KING AGRIPPA FROM GALILEE...
• 05:33 KING AGRIPPA CAME TO VISIT FESTUS, THE GOVERNOR OF THE CITY
• 05:37 AND HE CAME HERE WITH HIS WIFE BERNICE.
• 05:40 REMEMBER THAT STORY.
• 05:41 AND KNOWING THAT PAUL IS ABOUT TO SHARE HIS TESTIMONY
• 05:44 THEY TOLD THE GOVERNOR THAT THEY WOULD LIKE TO HEAR THIS MAN AS WELL.
• 05:48 AND THEY WERE TOLD, TOMORROW YOU WILL HIM.
• 05:51 AND IT'S WRITTEN IN THE BIBLE THAT THE FOLLOWING DAY THEY CAME...
• 05:55 THE NEXT DAY THEY CAME WITH A GREAT POMP, BIG CROWDS, AND THEY ENTERED THE AUDITORIUM.
• 06:00 THAT'S WHAT IT SAYS.
• 06:03 BUT IF WE CHECK IT OUT IN THE GREEK BIBLE WHICH WAS WRITTEN FIRST IN THE GREEK LANGUAGE,
• 06:07 THE BIBLE IS WRITTEN IN GREEK,
• 06:08 IT IS WRITTEN THAT THEY CAME ALL TO THE ACCOUSTICON.
• 06:12 AND WHAT IT MEANS "ACCOUSTICON"...
• 06:14 "A PLACE OF HEARING"...
• 06:15 A "THEATRE", OKAY...
• 06:17 THE THEATRE, THE CAME TO THE ACCOUSTICON...
• 06:19 THEY CAME TO THE THEATRE.
• 06:21 SO WE CAN VISUALIZE IT WHEN PAUL WAS BROUGHT IN AND HE WAS IN CHAINS.
• 06:26 HE HAD TO STAND IN THE MIDDLE OF WHAT IS KNOWN AS THE ORCHESTRA
• 06:31 PERHAPS ON THE STAGE
• 06:33 AND THEN YOU CAN IMAGINE FESTUS, AGRIPPA, BERNICE... SITTING HERE IN THESE BOXES
• 06:38 WITH A BIG CROWD AND THEN LISTENING TO PAUL.
• 06:41 THIS IS THE PLACE LADIES AND GENTLEMEN WHERE PAUL GAVE HIS TESTIMONY, RIGHT HERE.
• 06:50 WHAT YOU'RE DOING IS PROPHETIC.
• 06:53 BY COMING TO THE LAND YOU'RE FULFILLING THE PROMISES OF GOD
• 06:58 THAT THIS LAND WOULD BE RESTORED,
• 07:00 THAT THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL WOULD BE RESTORED
• 07:03 AND THAT GOD WOULD BRING THE NATIONS TOGETHER;
• 07:06 BRING THE NATIONS INTO THE COMMONWEALTH OF ISRAEL.
• 07:09 NOW I HAVE A DEBT TO YOU AS WELL.
• 07:11 BECAUSE PAUL STOOD HERE
• 07:12 AND BECAUSE CORNELIUS OPENED HIS HEART TO THE LORD
• 07:15 AND BECAUSE THE HOLY SPIRIT CAME AND POURED OUT HIS LIFE ON CORNELIUS,
• 07:19 THE GOSPEL WENT FORTH FROM HERE TO ALL THE NATIONS TO THE WEST AND AROUND THE WORLD
• 07:25 AND IS COMING BACK TO MY JEWISH PEOPLE.
• 07:28 SO HERE WE ARE AT THE END OF THE AGE,
• 07:30 THE FIRST SHALL BE LAST;
• 07:32 THE LAST SHALL BE FIRST.
• 07:33 AND GOD IS BRINGING THE WORD BACK
• 07:35 AND THE JEWISH PEOPLE ARE BEING MADE ALIVE BY THE SPIRIT OF GOD
• 07:40 FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE THE 1ST CENTURY THERE'S A MOVE OF THE SPIRIT HERE IN ISRAEL
• 07:46 THAT IS SO STRONG THAT THE WORD OF THE LORD IS BEING SENT OUT AGAIN FROM JERUSALEM,
• 07:51 FROM ISRAEL TO THE NATIONS ONCE AGAIN.
• 07:54 AND IF YOU THINK ABOUT IT THIS IS A PLACE WHERE KINGDOMS ARE IN CONFLICT.
• 07:58 THERE'S THE SPIRIT OF ROME.
• 08:00 THERE'S THE HOLY SPIRIT AND THE SPIRIT OF MAN ALL VYING FOR ATTENTION.
• 08:05 AND ISN'T THAT SOMETHING LIKE WHAT WE'VE EXPERIENCED IN THE CHURCH TODAY?
• 08:08 REALLY, THIS IS A PLACE WHERE ENTERTAINMENT, WHERE PASSIVITY
• 08:13 AND WHERE EVEN VILE ENTERTAINMENT TOOK PLACE.
• 08:16 AND WE ARE SUBJECT TO THOSE SAME FORCES TODAY.
• 08:20 GOD IS TRYING TO GET US TO THINK HEBREW THOUGHTS.
• 08:23 IT'S BEEN SAID THAT THERE ARE THREE SPIRITS AT WORK IN THE WORLD;
• 08:26 THE THREE MINDSETS THAT ARE AT WORK IN THE WORLD...
• 08:29 THE BARBARIAN SPIRIT,
• 08:31 THE GREEK MINDSET,
• 08:32 AND THE HEBRAIC MINDSET.
• 08:34 THE BARBARIAN SAYS WHICH GOD, WHAT DOES IT MATTER?GOD, I DON'T KNOW GOD.
• 08:38 AND THEY WIND UP HAVING A VERY CRUEL AND INTIMIDATING LIFE THAT COMES FROM THAT MINDSET,
• 08:44 SO WE THAT AT WORK IN THE WORLD TODAY
• 08:46 IN CERTAIN POLITICAL SYSTEMS AND CERTAIN RELIGIOUS SYSTEMS.
• 08:49 THERE'S THE GREEK MINDSET.
• 08:51 THE GREEKS SAY WHICH GOD SHOULD I SERVE?
• 08:54 AND THE JEWISH MINDSET;
• 08:56 THE HEBREW MINDSET, WE KNOW WHO GOD IS AND WE SAY WHAT DO YOU WANT FROM ME,
• 09:00 BECAUSE WE KNOW WHO HE IS AND THE QUESTION IS,
• 09:03 HOW SHALL WE SERVE HIM; WHAT DO WE DO?
• 09:05 AND SO YOU'RE HERE BECAUSE YOU'VE SETTLED WHO HE IS
• 09:09 AND YOUR DESIRE IS TO SERVE HIM
• 09:11 AND TO KNOW HIM
• 09:12 AND TO WALK WITH HIM
• 09:14 AND SO BY WALKING THIS LAND AND BY BEING HERE IN THIS PLACE
• 09:17 WE'RE KNITTING OUR HEARTS TOGETHER WITH THE HEART OF PAUL.
• 09:19 WE'RE SAYING ONCE AGAIN THE GOSPEL IS GOING FORTH
• 09:22 AND WE'RE COMMITTING IN A FRESH WAY TO LET THE HEBRAIC MINDSET;
• 09:26 THE MINDSET OF THE BIBLE INFUSE OUR LIVES AND GO FORTH THROUGH OUR LIVES, AMEN?
• 09:31 (People) AMEN
• 09:32 AMEN, ALLELUIA
• 09:36 (Katharine speaking) A SHORT DISTANCE FROM THE THEATRE IS A WONDERFUL LOOKOUT OF THE SURROUNDING AREA.
• 09:39 IT'S LIKE WALKING BACK IN TIME THROUGH THE PAGES OF THE BIBLE.
• 09:43 AND HERE TO YOUR LEFT YOU CAN SEE HEROD'S PALACE.
• 09:47 STRAIGHT AHEAD...THE HIPPODROME THAT WAS USED FOR CHARIOT RACES
• 09:52 AND IF YOU ALL HAVE WATCHED THE OLD MOVIE, HOLLYWOOD MOVIE "BEN HUR"
• 09:56 IT SHOWS SUCH A HIPPODROME.
• 09:58 FAR AWAY OVER THE WALL WAS THE LOCATION OF THE HARBOR.
• 10:03 REMEMBER THE BIG HARBOR?
• 10:05 IT WAS ABLE TO HOLD 100 ROMAN SHIPS BACK THEN.
• 10:08 AND LOOK AT THE PALACE;
• 10:11 IT WAS ONE OF HIS SUMMER PALACES FOR HEROD THE GREAT.
• 10:14 AND THE LOWER LEVEL GOES BACK TO HEROD'S TIME.
• 10:17 THE TOP LEVEL WAS ADDED LATER;
• 10:19 IT WAS JUST A NICE GARDEN BUT NOTICE THE LOCATION NEARBY THE WATER, BEAUTIFUL PALACE.
• 10:25 OF COURSE HE KNEW EXACTLY WHAT TO DO,
• 10:30 HOW DO YOU SEE IT AT HOME,
• 10:31 "LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION", OKAY, THERE YOU GO.
• 10:36 IF YOU'RE GOING TO VISIT HERE AND TO SEE STONE TABLETS, WHICH IS A REPLICA
• 10:43 BUT IT IS A VERY IMPORTANT I THINK ARCHAEOLOGICAL DISCOVERY THAT WAS MADE HERE AT CAESAREA.
• 10:51 IT IS THE STONE TABLET THAT YOU ARE ABOUT TO SEE
• 10:53 DEPICTING THE NAME OF PONTIUS PILOT, THE GOVERNOR.
• 10:57 THIS STONE TABLET WAS DISCOVERED IN THE THEATRE AS ONE OF THE STEPS
• 11:01 AND SO WE THINK THAT IT WAS RE-USED; IT WAS TAKEN AWAY FROM A DIFFERENT STRUCTURE
• 11:06 AND THEN WAS RE-USED TO RENOVATE THE THEATRE AT SOME POINT.
• 11:10 BUT THE NAME OF PONTIUS PILOT IS ON THAT STONE
• 11:15 THE FIRST TIME EVER
• 11:17 THAT THE NAME OF PONTIUS PILOT WAS DISCOVERED IN ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITES.
• 11:21 SO BESIDES THE BIBLE AND THE HISTORIANS DESCRIBING HIM
• 11:24 HERE WE HAVE ARCHEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE FOR HIM.
• 11:30 FOR INSIGHTFUL PERSPECTIVES ON ISRAEL AND BIBLE PROPHECY
• 11:34 ASK FOR OUR FREE MONTHLY NEWSLETTER "THE LEVITT LETTER".
• 11:38 AT LEVITT.COM YOU CAN READ THE NEWSLETTER,
• 11:41 WATCH THE TV PROGRAM,
• 11:43 OR VISIT OUR ON-LINE STORE.
• 11:46 STAY CURRENT WITH US ON SOCIAL MEDIA VIA FACEBOOK AND TWITTER.
• 11:49 COME WITH US ON A TOUR OF ISRAEL OR PETRA
• 11:53 OR A CRUISE TO GREECE AND EPHESUS.
• 11:56 PLEASE CONTACT US FOR MORE INFORMATION.
• 12:00 OUR RESOURCE FOR THIS PROGRAM IS "DISCOVERING OUR JEWISH ROOTS",
• 12:05 A ONE-OF-KIND STUDY WITH 9 CDS AND WORKBOOK
• 12:09 THAT BEGINS WITH A SURVEY OF OLD TESTAMENT MESSIANIC PROPHESIES.
• 12:13 THIS SIMPLE AND DIRECT LESSON PLAN COVERS A VAST RANGE OF TOPICS
• 12:17 PACKAGED IN A HANDSOME CUSTOM ALBUM WITH A MATCHING 21 PAGE STUDY BOOKLET.
• 12:22 DON'T MISS YOUR OPPORTUNITY TO ENHANCE YOUR UNDERSTANDING
• 12:25 OF THE JEWISH ROOTS OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH.
• 12:30 I REALLY RECOMMEND THAT "DISCOVERING OUR JEWISH ROOTS" CD SET.
• 12:33 IT'S A GREAT INTRODUCTION TO MANY OF THE TOPICS WE COVER ON THIS PROGRAM.
• 12:37 MANY QUESTIONS THAT YOU HAVE WILL BE ANSWERED THROUGH THAT CD SET.
• 12:41 I ALSO WANT TO RECOMMEND OUR NEWSLETTER TO YOU...
• 12:44 "THE LEVITT LETTER".
• 12:45 IT'S FREE TO YOU EVERY MONTH.
• 12:47 IT'S NOT ONLY A NEWSLETTER ABOUT WHAT WE'RE DOING HERE AT THE MINISTRY
• 12:50 BUT REALLY WILL GIVE YOU AN INSIDER'S VIEW OF WHAT'S GOING ON IN ISRAEL,
• 12:53 WHERE WE ARE IN THE PROPHETIC TIMETABLE,
• 12:55 AND REALLY HOW TO INTERPRET THE NEWS
• 12:58 BECAUSE AS YOU KNOW WE DON'T ALWAYS HEAR THE TRUTH THROUGH THE MAINSTREAM NEWS MEDIA.
• 13:02 SO THOSE ARE REALLY GOOD RESOURCES FOR YOU.
• 13:05 WE'RE GOING TO BE GOING TO MEGIDDO.
• 13:07 WE'RE GOING TO TRAVEL NORTHEAST FROM THE COAST TO MEGIDDO.
• 13:10 WE'RE GOING TO SEE ONE OF THE OLDEST TELS OR AN ARCHAEOLOGICAL DIG,
• 13:15 ONE OF THE OLDEST ONES IN THE WORLD.
• 13:16 THERE ARE LAYERS, GENERATIONS OF HISTORY AT MEGIDDO.
• 13:19 IT'S A PLACE WHERE THE END OF THE BATTLES WILL BE WON.
• 13:23 EXACTLY, SO IN FACT NAPOLEON HIMSELF SAID, THIS IS A GREAT PLACE FOR A BATTLE.
• 13:28 WELL, HOWEVER, IT'S GOING TO BE WHERE KINGDOMS IN CONFLICT ARE GOING TO FIND THEIR RESOLUTION.
• 13:34 ARMAGEDDON IS A POOR TRANSLATION OF "HAR MEGIDDO", "THE MOUNTAIN OF MEGIDDO".
• 13:40 WE'RE GOING TO SEE THAT EXPLAINED BY OUR MESSIANIC GUIDE, YUVAL SHEMSH.
• 13:44 YOU KNOW HE CAME TO FAITH OVER THE COURSE OF HIS CAREER AS A TOUR GUIDE.
• 13:50 HE'S BEEN TOUR GUIDING FOR MORE THAN 20 YEARS
• 13:53 AND IN THAT PROCESS OF GOING THROUGH THE BIBLE AND WALKING THROUGH THE BIBLE HE BECAME A BELIEVER.
• 13:58 AND MEGIDDO IS A SIGNIFICANT PLACE.
• 14:00 IT'S GOT INCREDIBLE HISTORY.
• 14:02 IT'S WHERE THE RIGHTEOUS KING JOSIAH WAS KILLED.
• 14:05 IT HAS HISTORY BEING SO CLOSE TO NAZARETH,
• 14:08 THE PLACE THAT YESHUA COULD LOOK AND SEE THE FUTURE
• 14:11 WHICH HE KNEW WOULD BE TAKING PLACE THERE.
• 14:13 SO WITHOUT ANY FURTHER ADO LET'S GO TO MEGIDDO IN ISRAEL.
• 14:19 SO ALL THE ARMIES WHO CAME
• 14:22 AGAINST THE NATION OF ISRAEL
• 14:25 BACK IN...
• 14:27 ALL THROUGHOUT HISTORY...
• 14:29 THEY ALWAYS CAME RIGHT THROUGH HERE, THROUGH THE VALLEY
• 14:31 BECAUSE IT'S A MOUNTAIN PASS,
• 14:33 SO AS WE SPEAK ABOUT THE FINAL WAR, THE FINAL BATTLE,
• 14:36 THE ONLY WAY YOU CAN BRING IN TO THE LAND MIGHTY ARMIES WOULD BE THROUGH THE VALLEY, OKAY,
• 14:41 TO FOLLOW FROM THE NORTHEAST THE JORDAN VALLEY FIRST
• 14:44 AND THEN THE JEZREEL VALLEY ON YOUR WAY TO THE COASTAL PLAINS.
• 14:48 AND INDEED FOR CENTURIES THE VALLEY YOU ARE FACING WAS A BATTLE ZONE
• 14:53 AND GREAT, GREAT WARS, BATTLES TOOK PLACE RIGHT HERE
• 14:56 AND AGAIN ONE MORE YET TO COME THE FINAL WAR, THE FINAL BATTLE.
• 15:01 AS YOU LOOK ACROSS THE VALLEY YOU WILL SEE A BIG CITY UP THERE ON THE MOUNTAINS
• 15:05 AND LADIES AND GENTLEMEN YOU'RE LOOKING AT NAZARETH,
• 15:09 THE TOWN OF NAZARETH, THE BIG CITY ON TOP OF THE HILLS, OKAY.
• 15:14 WHEN CHRIST WAS BORN; WHEN YESHUA WAS BORN IN THIS COUNTRY HE WAS BORN IN BETHLEHEM
• 15:19 BUT HE WAS BROUGHT UP IN NAZARETH THE TOWN UP THERE WHICH WAS MUCH SMALLER.
• 15:25 TODAY IT'S A VERY LARGE CITY
• 15:26 BUT BACK THEN WE ARE TALKING ABOUT A SMALL VILLAGE WITH MAYBE 20 FAMILIES, OKAY.
• 15:31 BUT YESHUA HAD BEEN BROUGHT-UP, UP THERE ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE MOUNTAINS.
• 15:36 AND YOU CAN FIND THIS VERY SYMBOLIC, VERY POWERFUL THOUGHT.
• 15:40 YOU KNOW THIS SIDE OF THE VALLEY IN A WAY REPRESENTS EVIL.
• 15:44 WE HAVE TALKED ABOUT THE WORSHIP OF BAAL ON THE HIGH PLACES, MOUNT CARMEL OR HERE AT MEGIDDO
• 15:52 BUT AS YOU LOOK JUST THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION
• 15:56 YOU ARE LOOKING AT THE PLACE WHERE OUR SAVIOR HAD BEEN BROUGHT-UP.
• 16:00 AND ONE DAY THEY ARE GOING TO MEET...GOOD AND EVIL RIGHT HERE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE VALLEY.
• 16:09 YOU KNOW ISRAEL IS LAND WHERE THE PAST IS IMPORTANT, THE PRESENT AND THE FUTURE.
• 16:14 MEGIDDO IS CERTAINLY ONE OF THOSE SITES WHERE WE SEE THE HISTORY OF ISRAEL
• 16:17 AND WHAT'S COMING IN THE FUTURE.
• 16:20 NOW WE'RE GOING TO GO UP TO MOUNT CARMEL.
• 16:22 MOUNT CARMEL IS A SIGNIFICANT HISTORICAL SITE
• 16:25 AND A GREAT PLACE WHERE GOD IS DOING SOME AWESOME THINGS TODAY.
• 16:29 WELL AS WE KNOW IN THE BIBLE
• 16:31 MOUNT CARMEL IS WHERE ELIJAH CONFRONTED THE PROPHETS OF BAAL.
• 16:35 YES...YES
• 16:36 AND THAT CONFRONTATION IS STILL GOING ON IN THE HEAVENLIES
• 16:39 AS THE CARMEL ASSEMBLY ON TOP OF MOUNT CARMEL
• 16:42 HAS SET THEIR SIGHTS ON BREAK-THROUGH WORSHIP
• 16:45 AND THE PREACHING OF THE "ONE-NEW MAN" MESSAGE
• 16:48 WHICH HAD TOTALLY IMPACTED OUR LIVES TEN YEARS AGO OR MORE.
• 16:51 AND THE "ONE-NEW MAN" MESSAGE FROM EPHESIANS 2
• 16:54 IS ABOUT THE BREAKING DOWN OF THE MIDDLE WALL OF PARTITION BETWEEN JEW AND GENTILE,
• 16:59 ESPECIALLY AS WE SEE IN THEIR ASSEMBLY
• 17:01 JEWS AND ARABS WORSHIPPING GOD TOGETHER.
• 17:04 SO LET'S GO TO MOUNT CARMEL AND SEE WHAT GOD IS DOING TODAY
• 17:08 AND WHAT HE'S SET HIS SIGHTS ON FOR THE FUTURE.
• 17:11 (Rita Tsukahira speaking) GOD HAS BROUGHT YOU TO ISRAEL
• 17:14 TO JUST NOT GO ON A TOUR AND SEE THE SITES, GET SOME EXPOSURE,
• 17:19 BUT TO REALLY GET THE HEART OF GOD FOR WHAT HE'S DOING IN THIS LAND RIGHT NOW.
• 17:24 AND IT'S NOT SOMETHING THAT YOU CAN JUST TEACH.
• 17:28 YOU CAN TEACH IT BUT TO SEE IT, TO FEEL IT, TO SMELL IT, TO HOLD IT,
• 17:33 TO CONNECT WITH US AS THE BODY.
• 17:38 I BELIEVE THE LORD HAS CHOSEN MYLES AND KATHARINE
• 17:41 TO REALLY MAKE THAT BRIDGE HAPPEN IN A VERY DEEP WAY
• 17:45 BECAUSE YOUR LIVES ARE SO IMPACTED BY THE UNDERSTANDING THAT GOD'S GIVEN
• 17:51 AND SO THE FACT THAT THEY HAVE GONE OUT IN THE SENSE TO BE AMBASSADORS.
• 17:55 IT'S NOT JUST ABOUT ISRAEL.
• 17:57 IT IS ABOUT UNDERSTANDING WHO ISRAEL IS IN GOD'S HEART AND IN GOD'S PLAN.
• 18:03 BUT IT'S UNDERSTANDING THAT THERE IS A BODY RIGHT NOW.
• 18:07 JUST TO GIVE YOU A LITTLE BIT OF HISTORY ABOUT WHO WE ARE,
• 18:11 AS I SAID, PETER AND I OBEYED A CALL THAT WE RECEIVED WAY BACK.
• 18:15 WHEN WE FIRST BECAME BELIEVERS WE WERE HIPPIES...OHHH!...
• 18:19 BELIEVE IT OR NOT...
• 18:21 HIPPIES IN THAT WE WERE PEOPLE WHO WERE SEEKING A RADICALLY DIFFERENT LIFESTYLE
• 18:27 AND A RADICALLY DIFFERENT WAY OF SOCIETY BACK IN THE LATE 60'S AND EARLY 70'S
• 18:36 AND BY THE GRACE OF GOD HE BROUGHT US TO A PLACE IN NEW MEXICO.
• 18:41 ANYBODY FROM NEW MEXICO?
• 18:42 NOW, I HEARD "ARIZONA"...CLOSE BUT NOT EXACTLY.
• 18:46 BUT HE BROUGHT US TO A PLACE THERE CALLED "SHALOM"
• 18:50 AND IN THIS COFFEE HOUSE MINISTRY WE WERE INTRODUCED
• 18:54 TO ANOTHER GROUP OF PEOPLE THAT WE DIDN'T KNOW, WHO ARE REALLY PIONEER HIPPIES.
• 18:59 ONE OF THEM WAS A MAN NAMED ANDREW...ANDREW SHISHKOFF WHO LATER BECAME EITAN,
• 19:05 A VERY DEAR BELOVED FRIEND OF MYLES AND KATHARINE AS WELL.
• 19:09 AND HE GAVE HIS STORY THAT NIGHT
• 19:11 AND IT WAS SO COMPELLING TO ME BECAUSE IT WAS REALLY MY STORY.
• 19:15 THEY HAD LOST A FRIEND;
• 19:17 OUR FRIEND HAD BEEN KILLED...
• 19:18 ALL OF THIS IN OUR HIPPY GRASPING LED TO NOTHING...
• 19:22 LED TO JUST MORE DESPERATION.
• 19:24 AND I REALLY THOUGHT I COULD NEVER GO HOME AGAIN.
• 19:27 I JUST THOUGHT I'M GOING TO BE OUT IN THE DESERT TO DIE...YOU KNOW.
• 19:32 LIKE MOSES SAID, YOU CALL ME OUT HERE TO DIE.
• 19:34 I DIDN'T KNOW WHERE AND WHAT BUT WHEN I GOT INTRODUCED TO THE MESSIAH OF ISRAEL...
• 19:39 AND IT WAS RIGHT AFTER THE 1973 WAR
• 19:42 AND ACTUALLY THE DAY THE WAR BROKE OUT WHICH WAS IN OCTOBER 73', YOM KIPPUR.
• 19:48 YOM KIPPUR IS THE HOLIEST DAY OF THE JEWISH YEAR.
• 19:52 AND EVEN THOUGH I WAS A HIPPY LIVING MY LIFE WAY OUT IN THE MIDDLE OF AS I SAID NOWHERE
• 19:58 IN THE DESERT, THE HIGH MOUNTAINS OF NEW MEXICO,
• 20:02 I WENT TO SYNAGOGUE.
• 20:04 AND ON THAT DAY I HAD HITCH-HIKED THERE...
• 20:07 YOU'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO DRIVE.
• 20:10 IT WAS TOO FAR TO WALK.
• 20:13 AND I WENT IN THERE AND ON THAT DAY SOMEBODY CAME RUNNING INTO THE SYNAGOGUE
• 20:16 AND HE SAID THEY JUST BOMBED US...US.
• 20:20 YOU KNOW JEWS FROM ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD... THAT "US" BECOMES ONE
• 20:26 BECAUSE WHAT HAPPENS IN ISRAEL AFFECTS EVERY JEW IF THEY IDENTIFY AS A JEW.
• 20:32 AND I KNEW SOMETHING HUGE WAS HAPPENING.
• 20:35 AND IT WAS PART OF THE PROPHETIC FULFILLMENT THAT WE OF COURSE ARE STILL SEEING HAPPENING.
• 20:40 BUT EVEN I AND MY DIFFERENT STATE OF MIND KNEW THAT THIS WAS A SIGNIFICANT EVENT.
• 20:46 SO WHEN JUST A FEW WEEKS LATER AS I HEARD ANDREW, EITAN TELL HIS STORY...AND THEY WERE JEWS,
• 20:52 THEY WERE JEWISH HIPPIES WHO FOUND THEIR MESSIAH TO THE SHOCK OF ALL OF US.
• 20:57 IT WAS THIS FOREIGN GOD...
• 21:01 THIS JESUS WHO LIVED IN A CATHOLIC CHURCH...
• 21:04 NO I DON'T SAY THAT TO OFFEND ANY CATHOLICS
• 21:06 BUT I'M TELLING YOU AS A NEW YORK JEW
• 21:08 GROWING UP IN A VERY STRONGLY CULTURALLY JEWISH HOME,
• 21:12 JESUS...AND WE PREFER TO CALL HIM BY HIS HEBREW NAME "YESHUA"
• 21:17 WHICH I HOPE YOU'VE ALREADY HEARD OR IF YOU HAVEN'T, MEANS "SALVATION".
• 21:22 YESHUA IS HIS HEBREW NAME.
• 21:25 AND SO WHEN I HEARD THAT HE'S THE ONE WHO CAME 2,000 YEARS AGO FOR HIS OWN
• 21:34 AND THE SCRIPTURE SAID THAT HIS OWN KNEW HIM NOT.
• 21:37 AND THAT IS US...
• 21:39 WE DIDN'T KNOW HIM
• 21:41 BECAUSE HE'S BEEN SO PAINTED OVER BY THOUSANDS OF YEARS OF CULTURAL CHANGE,
• 21:46 OF HIM BECOMING SOMETHING THAT HE WASN'T.
• 21:50 HE WAS...WELL HE'S THE SON OF GOD WHO CAME FOR HIS OWN PEOPLE
• 21:54 AND HE DIED ON THE HOLIDAY OF PASSOVER
• 21:57 WHEN WE ALL KNEW THAT THE LAMB WAS SLAUGHTERED
• 22:00 AND THE BLOOD PUT ON THE DOOR SO THE ANGEL OF DEATH,
• 22:04 REALLY THE DEATH, WOULD GO OVER THE JEWISH HOMES.
• 22:07 AND THAT'S WHAT HE DID.
• 22:09 BUT WE DIDN'T KNOW THIS.
• 22:11 WE ONLY KNEW HIM AS A STATUE SO FOREIGN FROM THE MENTALITY OF JEWS.
• 22:15 SO MY LIFE CHANGED BECAUSE I HAD A REVELATION THAT NIGHT.
• 22:19 I SAID, NO, NO, NO, NO I DON'T WANT TO HEAR ABOUT IT.
• 22:22 BUT MY HEART JUST BROKE AND ALL THE SIN AND ALL THE DARKNESS AND ALL THE FILTH
• 22:27 THAT I WANTED TO BE CLEANSED ON THAT YOM KIPPUR A FEW WEEKS EARLIER GOT CLEANSED THAT NIGHT.
• 22:34 AND I NEVER FORGOT IT.
• 22:35 AND I STAND BEFORE YOU IN TEARS
• 22:37 BECAUSE YOU SHOULD NEVER FORGET...NEVER...
• 22:41 THAT YOU WERE SAVED BY GRACE.
• 22:47 (Katharine speaking) TO SEE THIS BUILDING ON TOP OF MOUNT CARMEL IS TO WITNESS A MODERN DAY MIRACLE.
• 22:52 ADJACENT TO THE SANCTUARY ARE FACILITIES TO FEED, CLOTHE AND TRAIN THE NEEDY
• 22:57 SO THAT THEY MIGHT BE BETTER EQUIPPED TO BE PRODUCTIVE MEMBERS OF THEIR COMMUNITY.
• 23:05 WE HAD 500 VOLUNTEERS FROM 40 NATIONS COME AND BUILD THIS
• 23:09 AND THIS WAS THE FIRST FREE-STANDING MESSIANIC CONGREGATION BUILT
• 23:14 PROBABLY IN 2000 YEARS.
• 23:16 AND SO FOR THAT THE SIGNIFICANCE OF IT IS
• 23:19 THAT GOD CHOSE THE VERY, VERY TOP OF MOUNT CARMEL.
• 23:22 THIS IS THE ALTAR OF THE LORD.
• 23:25 AND EVERY WEEK YOU WILL SEE PEOPLE AS WE PREACH THE WORD OF GOD
• 23:30 COME FORWARD AND GIVE THEIR LIVES BECAUSE IT'S AN ALTAR.
• 23:34 AND WHAT'S THE ALTAR?IT'S THE MEETING PLACE OF GOD AND MAN.
• 23:39 WE'RE NOT LOOKING FOR A CHRISTIAN CHURCH.
• 23:42 WE DON'T NEED ANYMORE, ESPECIALLY NOT IN ISRAEL
• 23:44 WITH OUR HISTORY OF ANTI-SEMITISM THAT PEOPLE EQUATE WITH THE CHURCH, WHY?
• 23:50 BECAUSE PEOPLE BEARING CROSSES CRUCIFIED THOUSANDS
• 23:54 AND KILLED THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE DURING THE CRUSADES
• 23:57 AND PEOPLE WITH CROSSES SENT PEOPLE OFF TO AUSCHWITZ AND TO CONCENTRATION CAMPS.
• 24:02 WE KNOW THEY WERE NOT TRUE CHRISTIANS BUT THIS IS THE CONCEPT OF THE CROSS.
• 24:07 SO YOU DON'T SEE A CROSS HERE.
• 24:09 YOU SEE HERE THE 12 STONES.
• 24:11 AND WHAT DO THE 12 STONES STAND FOR? THE 12 TRIBES.
• 24:15 BUT WE...REMEMBER I MENTIONED BEFORE BELIEVE STRONGLY IN THE ONE NEW MAN...JEW AND ARAB.
• 24:22 SO ONE OF OUR STONES IS ACTUALLY FROM A CITY THAT'S NOW IN THE WEST BANK CALLED JENIN.
• 24:27 IT WAS CARRIED HERE AND IT'S ONE OF OUR STONES
• 24:31 BECAUSE WE ARE TO EMBRACE THE ONE NEW MAN
• 24:34 BECAUSE YESHUA BROKE DOWN THE WALL OF PARTITION.
• 24:38 SO WE HAVE THE 12 STONES,
• 24:40 COUNT THEM, THEY'RE HIDDEN SOME OF THEM.
• 24:42 AND WE BELIEVE STRONGLY IN AN OPEN HEAVEN.
• 24:45 AND THE POWER AND THE FIRE WILL FALL.
• 24:50 SO WE HAVE OUR WORSHIP TEAM HERE.
• 24:52 WE HAVE JEWS AND ARABS TOGETHER, A COUPLE OF GERMANS THROWN IN THERE
• 24:55 AND FEW OTHER PEOPLE IN OUR WORSHIP TEAM.
• 24:58 WE HAVE DANCE.
• 24:59 WE HAVE REJOICING
• 25:00 AND WE HAVE WARFARE
• 25:02 BECAUSE YOU ALL KNOW WE'RE IN THE BATTLE NO MATTER WHERE YOU ARE.
• 25:05 BUT WE HAPPEN TO BE RIGHT IN THE BATTLE WITH 25 KILOMETERS OR MILES SOUTH OF THE BORDER...
• 25:11 I ALWAYS FORGET BUT THOSE ROCKETS CAN COME
• 25:14 AND WE JUST REALLY APPRECIATE WHO YOU ARE
• 25:18 FOR STANDING WITH US AND FOR COMING AT THIS TIME.
• 25:23 (Katharine Weiss speaking) WHAT A BLESSING IT WAS TO HEAR RITA'S TESTIMONY OF GOD'S PROVISION IN THE LAND
• 25:26 AND THEN A DOUBLE PORTION; ANOTHER BLESSING, PAM SINGER MINISTERED IN SONG.
• 25:33 ♪OH, HE WILL BLESS YOU♪
• 25:37 ♪I KNOW HE WILL BLESS YOU.♪
• 25:40 I THINK RIGHT HERE IN MOUNT CARMEL IS THE HIGHLIGHT OF THE DAY.
• 25:43 YEAH, THE BLESSING WAS JUST...
• 25:45 THE PRESENCE OF THE LORD WAS AMAZING...
• 25:47 AND IT STILL IS...STILL IS.
• 25:49 I AGREE...
• 25:51 THERE'S NOTHING LIKE LISTENING AND HEARING AND FEELING IT FROM SOMEONE THAT'S HERE DOING IT
• 25:56 AND THIS TRULY PUT EVERYTHING IN PERSPECTIVE.
• 25:59 ANYTIME YOU GO ANYWHERE TO HEAR ABOUT IT, THE HISTORY ETC. IS AWESOME.
• 26:04 THOUGH WHEN YOU FEEL IT IS JUST INDESCRIBABLE
• 26:08 AND THAT'S WHAT THIS WAS.
• 26:09 I GOT OFF AT THE AIRPORT AND THEY SAID "WELCOME HOME".
• 26:13 I'M GOING, OH MY GOSH, I NEVER LOOKED AT IT LIKE THAT...
• 26:18 BUT I'M HOME.
• 26:21 I THINK YOU CAN SEE FROM LYNN'S TESTIMONY HOW MUCH THAT SHE LOVES THE LAND,
• 26:26 THE LAND OF GOD'S COVENANT.
• 26:28 AND WE LOVE BRINGING IT TO YOU.
• 26:30 WE LOVE SHARING GOD'S HEART FOR ISRAEL
• 26:32 BUT WE CAN'T CONTINUE WITH THESE PROGRAMS WITHOUT YOUR SUPPORT
• 26:36 SO WE JUST WANT TO PUT THAT OUT THERE TO YOU AND REMIND YOU
• 26:39 THAT WITHOUT YOUR GIFTS OF FUNDS WE WON'T BE ABLE TO CONTINUE
• 26:42 SO THANK YOU FOR THE GIFTS OF FUNDS AND THANKS STANDING WITH US AS WE STAND WITH ISRAEL.
• 26:47 EXACTLY SO
• 26:49 IT'S A JOY TO BRING THESE PROGRAMS TO YOU
• 26:51 AND WE LOOK FORWARD TO BRINGING YOU MORE.
• 26:53 YOU KNOW WE'VE ONLY JUST BEGUN THIS JOURNEY OF RESTORATION
• 26:55 SO STAY WITH AND UNTIL WE SEE YOU AGAIN REMEMBER,
• 26:59 SHAL'ALU SHALOM YERUSHALAYIM
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