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Caption transcript for Journey of Restoration: “Reforestation and Revelation” (3/10)

• 00:06 I LOVE ISRAEL,
• 00:07 I LOVE THE PEOPLE.
• 00:09 IT'S TOTALLY SO...
• 00:10 IT'S INDESCRIBABLE.
• 00:12 IT FEELS LIKE HOME...
• 00:13 IT JUST FEELS LIKE HOME.
• 00:15 WELCOME TO JERUSALEM...
• 00:16 IT JUST TOOK MY BREATH AWAY.
• 00:18 IT JUST SHOWS THE FINGER PRINT OF GOD EVERYWHERE.
• 00:20 TO REALIZE HOW SPECIAL THIS CITY AND THE PEOPLE WERE TO THE LORD...
• 00:25 IT'S GOD'S CHOSEN LAND AND JESUS WALKED ON IT.
• 00:29 I THINK THERE'S A RESTORATION AS PASTOR MYLES TALKED ABOUT.
• 00:33 HOW GOD IS REALLY GATHERING THE JEWS.
• 00:37 THROUGH THE BLOOD OF JESUS CHRIST WE'VE BEEN GRAFTED-IN AND NOW THIS IS OUR CITY ALSO.
• 00:53 SHALOM AND WELCOME TO OUR PROGRAM.I'M MYLES WEISS
• 00:56 AND I'M KATHARINE WEISS.
• 00:58 AND WE ARE CONTINUING OUR JOURNEY OF RESTORATION,
• 01:00 A DREAMCOME TRUE, WE BRING ISRAEL TO YOU.
• 01:03 IT'S SUCH A BLESSING TO BE ABLE TO BRING ONE OF OUR TOURS TO OUR VIEWERS.
• 01:07 OUR PRODUCER...IT WAS HIS IDEA TO BRING THIS TO OUR VIEWERS.
• 01:11 THERE'S SOME PEOPLE THAT MIGHT NOT BE ABLE TO MAKE THE LONG JOURNEY
• 01:15 SO THAT'S BEEN IN OUR HEART TO BRING THIS TO THEM.
• 01:18 IT'S SO WONDERFUL WHEN GOD PUTS ISRAEL IN YOUR HEART.
• 01:21 MAYBE YOU CAN'T GET THERE
• 01:22 BUT HE'S PUT A COMPASS IN YOU; A SPIRITUAL COMPASS.
• 01:25 AND WE'RE ON OUR WAY UP TO THE NORTHERN PART OF ISRAEL THIS WEEK.
• 01:28 WE'RE GOING TO GO TO TEL DAN IN THE NORTHERN SECTION.
• 01:31 AND ON OUR WAY WE'RE GOING TO DO SOME TREE PLANTING.
• 01:34 WHAT IS THIS ABOUT JEWS AND TREES?
• 01:36 I GREW UP DOING THIS.
• 01:38 THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT THE PLANTING OF THE LAND THAT'S BEEN IN THE HEART OF THE LORD
• 01:42 AND IT'S EVEN IN LEVITICUS 19:23.
• 01:45 THE SCRIPTURE SAYS
• 01:46 (SPEAKING HEBREW).
• 01:54 AND WE SEE THAT AND OUR VIEWERS OUR TOURISTS;
• 01:57 OUR PILGRIMS HAVE A CHANCE TO PARTICIPATE.
• 01:59 WELL GOD ORDAINED IT BECAUSE HE WANTS OUR CHILDREN'S CHILDREN TO SEE THE PLANTING.
• 02:04 WE PLANT FOR THE NEXT GENERATION.
• 02:06 IT'S A GENERATIONAL BLESSING.
• 02:08 AND YOU PLANTED A TREE FOR OUR SONS.
• 02:09 I DID.
• 02:10 WE'VE PLANTED THEM FOR CONGREGATIONS.
• 02:12 WE'VE PLANTED THEM FOR PEOPLE THAT ARE PASSED ON
• 02:14 AND FOR OUR CHILDREN TO COME.
• 02:16 AND IT'S JUST A WONDERFUL WAY OF BLESSING THE LAND;
• 02:19 OF HELPING ISRAEL TO GROW AS ISRAEL'S SUCH MUCH ABOUT LIFE.
• 02:23 ABSOLUTELY >>AND IN EVERY FORM...
• 02:24 THE VALUE OF THE LIFE
• 02:26 AND THE PRODUCTIVITY OF GOD'S LIFE
• 02:28 YES, AND SO WE HAVE A CHANCE TO PARTICIPATE WITH THAT
• 02:31 WHEN WE TAKE OUR PILGRIMS THERE AND THEY PLANT.
• 02:33 IT'S WONDERFUL TO SEE THAT TAKE PLACE.
• 02:36 SO WITHOUT ANY FURTHER ADO
• 02:38 LET'S GO TO ISRAEL AND PLANT SOME TREES IN THE NAME OF THE LORD.
• 02:43 THIS IS FROM ISAIAH 35.
• 03:06 I'VE TOLD YOU THAT WE'RE WALKING IN PROPHETIC FULFILLMENT.
• 03:09 YOU'RE WOVEN INTO THE FABRIC OF HISTORY BY BEING HERE AND PLANTING THESE TREES.
• 03:16 KATHARINE AND I COME EVERY TIME WE PLANT TREES FOR OUR FAMILY, FOR FRIENDS; FOR RELATIVES
• 03:20 AND WE ALWAYS KNOW THAT IT'S CONNECTED TO A RESTORATION THAT IS PART OF A HUGE REDEMPTION.
• 03:27 THE REDEMPTION THAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR AS BELIEVERS IS CONNECTED TO THE REDEMPTION
• 03:31 THAT THE JEWISH PEOPLE KNOW IN THEIR BONES IS PART OF THE RESTORATION OF THIS LAND.
• 03:37 IT'S AN ORGANIC THING.
• 03:39 I'LL TELL YOU TWO QUICK STORIES BEFORE WE PRAY AND PLANT.
• 03:42 WHEN I WAS A YOUNG BOY WE WOULD GO EVERY...
• 03:45 3 DAYS A WEEK WE WOULD GO TO HEBREW SCHOOL.
• 03:48 WE WOULD BRING 25 CENTS WITH US EACH TIME WE WOULD GO.
• 03:50 AND WE WOULD TAKE IT AND GIVE IT TO THE TEACHER.
• 03:53 AND THE TEACHER WOULD GIVE US A LITTLE STAMP OF A TREE
• 03:56 AND THE TREE WOULD GO INSIDE A LITTLE BOOKLET.
• 03:58 AND WHEN THE BOOKLET...
• 04:00 WHEN THE PAGE WAS FILLED IT FORMED A SHAPE OF A TREE.
• 04:03 AND WHEN THAT TREE WAS FULL IT WAS ENOUGH MONEY THERE TO PLANT A TREE IN ISRAEL.
• 04:07 SO ALL AROUND THE WORLD LITTLE JEWISH KIDS WERE PLANTING TREES IN ISRAEL.
• 04:12 FOR 50...60...70 YEARS IT'S BEEN GOING ON...LONGER THAN THAT.
• 04:15 AND YOU'RE PART OF THAT TRADITION NOW
• 04:18 WHERE YOU'RE RE-PLANTING, RE-FORESTING THIS ENTIRE PLACE.
• 04:21 THIS IS NOT...
• 04:23 IT WAS NEVER INTENDED TO BE A GNOSTIC OR GREEK MENTALITY
• 04:26 DIVORCED FROM THE GOODNESS OF GOD AND HIS CREATION.
• 04:30 IT WAS ALWAYS INTENDED TO BE AN ORGANIC, SUBSTANTIVE REDEMPTION.
• 04:34 IN FACT, WHEN GOD LOOKED UPON HIS CREATION HE SAID IT WAS GOOD.
• 04:37 YES, THERE'S A FALL.
• 04:39 YES, THERE'S WORK TO BE DONE.
• 04:41 BUT THE REALITY IS THAT THIS BEAUTY IS ALWAYS IN THE HEART OF GOD.
• 04:44 WHEN WE WERE HERE A NUMBER OF YEARS AGO
• 04:47 WE CAME TO THE NEOT KEDUMIM, THE BIBLICAL FOREST AND BIBLICAL GARDENS.
• 04:51 AND WHEN WE GOT THERE WE CAME UPON A SCRIBE, ZACHARIAH.
• 04:55 HE WAS SITTING THERE WRITING THE BIBLE.
• 04:57 HE WAS A THIRD GENERATION SCRIBE.
• 05:00 HE TOOK SUBSTANCES FROM THE GROUND,
• 05:04 TWO WHITE POWDERS THAT HEHAD MADE OUT OF THE SUBSTANCES FROM PLANTS.
• 05:08 HE MIXED THEM TOGETHER.
• 05:10 THEY BECAME BLACK INK.
• 05:12 WHEN THE BLACK INK WAS THERE HE PUT IT IN A LITTLE CONTAINER.
• 05:15 HE TOOK A TURKEY QUILL FROM THE LAND.
• 05:17 HE DIPPED THE TURKEY QUILL IN THERE
• 05:19 AND HE WROTE ON THE PARCHMENT FROM THE ANIMALS FROM THE LAND.
• 05:23 HE WROTE THE BIBLE.
• 05:25 HE HAPPENED TO BE WRITING THE BOOK OF ESTHER WHEN WE ARRIVED
• 05:28 WHICH AS "MORDECAI" I APPRECIATED THAT.
• 05:30 BUT THE FACT IS THAT THIS MAN WHO WAS BORN HERE,
• 05:34 WHOSE PARENTS WERE BORN HERE
• 05:36 AND WAS A THIRD GENERATION WRITER OF THE BIBLE
• 05:39 WAS WRITING THE BIBLE WITH THE SUBSTANCES THAT CAME OUT OF THE EARTH,
• 05:43 WHERE HE PUT HERE BY GOD,
• 05:46 AND HE AS A PART OF THIS LAND WAS WRITING THE WORD THAT COMES OUT TO YOU AND ME
• 05:51 SO THAT WE CAN FOLLOW THE GOD OF ABRAHAM, ISAAC AND JACOB.
• 05:54 AND THAT'S WHAT YOU'RE PARTICIPATING WITH TODAY AS WE PLANT THESE TREES.
• 05:59 HERE'S A PRAYER... A PLANTER'S PRAYER.
• 06:02 AND I'LL SAY IT IN ENGLISH.
• 06:59 AMEN AND AMEN.
• 07:03 (Katharine Weiss speaking) AND SO WE'RE OFF TO PLANT A FOREST.
• 07:11 IT STARTS WITH A SAPLING, A SPADE AND SOME ELBOW GREASE.
• 07:15 AND IT'S SO REWARDING TO KNOW WE'RE INVESTING IN THE FUTURE OF THE PROMISED LAND.
• 07:28 THEN BACK ON THE BUS AS OUR JOURNEY CONTINUES.
• 07:33 WE'RE NOW HEADING TO TEL DAN
• 07:35 THE MOST NOTED CITY OF THE KINGDOM, THE KINGDOM OF ISRAEL.
• 07:40 (Katharine Weiss speaking) WE'RE APPROACHING THE FOOTHILLS OF MOUNT HERMON.
• 07:44 IT'S LUSH GREEN WITH FLOWING STREAMS AND LITTLE WATERFALLS.
• 07:48 WE WALKED ALONG THE WINDING, SCENIC PATH LEADING TO TEL DAN
• 07:53 WHERE YOU CAN SEE THE HEAVY WALLS THAT DATE BACK TO THE TIME OF JEROBOAM
• 07:57 WHO WAS THE KING OF THE NORTHERN ISRAEL KINGDOM IN THE 10TH CENTURY B.C.
• 08:04 JEROBOAM WOULD HAVE SAT RIGHT HERE
• 08:07 AND EXACTLY AS IT IS RECORDED IN THE BIBLE.
• 08:12 YOU CAN ALSO SEE A STONE BENCH HERE FOR THE ELDERS.
• 08:17 REMEMBER THE ELDERS USED TO SIT AT THE GATE
• 08:20 AND YOU ALL REMEMBER THE STORY ABOUT BOAZ AND RUTH
• 08:24 HOW HE BROUGHT THE ELDERS TO THE CITY GATES AND WE HAVE TALKED ABOUT THAT AS WELL.
• 08:28 THE ELDERS WERE SITTING HERE WATCHING THE MAIN GATE
• 08:31 WATCHING FOR THE PEOPLE WHO WERE COMING IN OR OUT
• 08:35 BUT ESPECIALLY ON THOSE WHO ARE COMING IN
• 08:37 MAYBE TO LOOK FOR SUSPICIOUS PEOPLE OR POTENTIAL SPIES,
• 08:42 PEOPLE WITH A LOT OF EXPERIENCE
• 08:44 PLUS NOTHING BETTER TO DO SO THEY CAME TO THE CITY GATE.
• 08:50 AND YOU CAN SEE AS YOU LOOK FURTHER IN
• 08:54 YOU CAN SEE THE INNER DOORS.
• 08:57 THEY WERE RIGHT HERE
• 08:59 AND THEN A THIRD GATE FURTHER IN...
• 09:02 IN TIMES OF CONFLICT, IN TIMES OF WAR TO MAKE IT MORE DIFFICULT TO BREAK IN.
• 09:06 SO ONCE AGAIN IF YOU ARE THE ENEMY TRYING TO BREAK IN THROUGH THE SECOND DOOR
• 09:10 YOU WILL BE DELAYED HERE, RIGHT?
• 09:13 AND FROM ABOVE THE DEFENDERS OF THE CITY WERE ABLE TO THROW BOULDERS, BOILING OIL
• 09:19 ON THOSE THAT WERE TRAPPED IN THAT ZONE, OR THE KILLING ZONES.
• 09:24 BUT IT WAS ALWAYS A MAJOR PLACE, THE CITY GATE,
• 09:28 A GATHERING PLACE.
• 09:30 THERE WAS A MARKET HERE DURING THAT TIME OF PEACE, ALWAYS VERY BUSY.
• 09:36 IN THE YEAR 1993 THEY CAME UP WITH AN AMAZING ARCHAEOLOGICAL DISCOVERY
• 09:43 RIGHT HERE WHERE YOU STAND AT THE CITY GATE.
• 09:46 AS THEY WERE LOOKING DOWN ON THE GROUND THEY SAW A STONE WITH SHARP CORNERS
• 09:50 AND THEY THOUGHT IT WOULD BE WORTHWHILE TO CHECK IT OUT.
• 09:53 SO THEY TOOK THE STONE OUT AND AS THEY TURNED UPSIDE DOWN THEY DISCOVERED AN INSCRIPTION ON IT.
• 09:59 AND I'M HOLDING THE PICTURE OF THIS STONE RIGHT HERE.
• 10:04 AS YOU CAN SEE IF YOU LOOK CAREFULLY THERE ARE 2 PIECES TO IT.
• 10:07 THE LARGER PIECE WAS DISCOVERED IN 1993, NOT THAT LONG AGO.
• 10:12 AND THE SMALLER PIECE A YEAR LATER, 1994.
• 10:15 IT IS WRITTEN IN ARAMAIC.
• 10:18 AND WE'RE MISSING OTHER PARTS OF IT.
• 10:20 IT WAS PROBABLY A LARGE STONE TABLET WRITTEN IN ARAMAIC
• 10:24 WHICH CAME TO GLORIFY THE NAME OF HAZAEL.
• 10:29 HAZAEL WAS THIS KING OF ASSYRIA AND HE'S MENTIONED IN THE BIBLE.
• 10:33 AND IT IS WRITTEN ON THE STONE HOW HE, THE KING HIMSELF WITH OF COURSE WITH HIS ARMY
• 10:38 HAD DEFEATED AND CONQUERED 70 KINGS AND KINGDOMS.
• 10:43 AND THE AMAZING PART IS THAT AMONG THE NAMES OF THE 70 KINGS AND KINGDOMS IT IS ALSO WRITTEN,
• 10:52 "JEROME, SON OF AHAB"...(MISSING WORD)..."KING OF ISRAEL."
• 10:59 WE KNOW THAT HE WAS THE KING OF ISRAEL BACK THEN.
• 11:02 AND THEN IT SAYS, "AHAZYAHU, SON OF JEROME, HOUSE OF DAVID"...
• 11:08 FROM THE HOUSE OF DAVID IN OTHER WORDS.
• 11:11 AND IT IS THE FIRST TIME EVER THAT THE NAME OF DAVID
• 11:14 WAS DISCOVERED IN ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE.
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• 12:18 IT'S OUR WAY OF SAYING THAT WE WANT YOU TO BE INFORMED
• 12:20 ABOUT WHAT'S GOING ON IN THE MIDDLE EAST...ESPECIALLY ISRAEL.
• 12:23 IT'S GOT A PROPHETIC THRUST TO IT.
• 12:26 THERE'S A HEBREW LESSON, THERE'S SOME FINANCIALLY ADVICE...
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• 12:36 YES, ABSOLUTELY.
• 12:38 WE WANT PEOPLE TO SHARE IN THE BLESSING OF DOING THESE PROGRAMS,
• 12:42 OF BRINGING FORTH THE LIFE THAT GOD INTENDED
• 12:45 FOR THE JEWISH PEOPLE AND THE CHRISTIANS TOGETHER.
• 12:48 WE'RE GOING TO CONTINUE NOW WITH OUR JOURNEY OF RESTORATION
• 12:52 AS WE'RE GOING TO GO BACK AND HEAR THE TESTIMONY OF YUVAL SHEMSH.
• 12:57 I THINK THAT THERE'S A REAL MOVEMENT NOW
• 13:00 AMONG ISRAELIS AND JEWISH PEOPLE AROUND THE WORLD.
• 13:03 WHO IS THIS JESUS?
• 13:06 AND I THINK THAT MORE AND MORE PEOPLE ARE, LIKE YOU SAY,
• 13:09 ARE ENTERTAINING THE IDEA OF WHO HE IS.
• 13:12 SO YOU STUDIED THE NEW TESTAMENT BECAUSE OF BEING A GUIDE AND YOU KNOW IT VERY WELL.
• 13:17 HOW HAS THAT AFFECTED YOUR LIFE?
• 13:20 WELL I THINK THAT OVER THE YEARS
• 13:24 LISTENING TO PASTORS,
• 13:28 LEARNING MORE AND MORE ABOUT JESUS, ABOUT YESHUA,
• 13:32 I CAME TO THE CONCLUSION THAT HE IS THE ONLY WAY.
• 13:38 WOW
• 13:41 AS HE SAID, HE CAME TO THE LOST SHEEP OF ISRAEL.
• 13:45 YES
• 13:47 AND IT TOOK A WHILE TO CROSS THE LINE
• 13:51 BUT IT WASN'T EASY
• 13:53 NO >>BUT I DID.
• 13:55 AND I THINK THAT I FEEL MUCH MORE HAPPY AND COMPLETE WITH MYSELF.
• 14:00 YES...IT'S A VERY JEWISH STORY
• 14:02 VERY MUCH >>AND I THINK THAT FOR OUR VIEWERS THEY NEED TO UNDERSTAND
• 14:06 THAT IT'S VERY PERSONAL AND PRIVATE HERE
• 14:10 AND IT'S NOT THE SAME AS WITH AMERICAN CHURCH LIFE
• 14:14 BECAUSE IT'S A VERY...
• 14:16 IT'S JUST SO MUCH SOCIAL PRESSURE AND EMOTIONAL PRESSURE AROUND THIS UNDERSTANDING
• 14:24 BUT I THINK IT'S REALLY GOOD FOR OUR VIEWERS
• 14:27 TO UNDERSTAND THAT THIS WORD IS GOING OUT.
• 14:30 B'RIT CHADASHAH IS BEING LOOKED AT
• 14:32 AND IT'S BEING LOOKED AT
• 14:34 IN A WAY THAT IT HASN'T BEEN SINCE THE 1ST CENTURY
• 14:37 WHEN IT CAME TO US. >>CORRECT
• 14:39 AND NOW IN ISRAEL IT'S BEING LOOKED AT AGAIN...
• 14:42 "HE" IS BEING LOOKED AT AGAIN.
• 14:45 YES...AND PEOPLE I THINK THEY ARE WILLING TO LISTEN
• 14:48 BECAUSE MOST JEWISH PEOPLE;
• 14:50 ISRAELIS LIKE MY FRIENDS, THEY DON'T REALLY...
• 14:54 CAN ASSOCIATE WITH THE ORTHODOX WAY SO MUCH. >>YES...YES
• 14:58 AND THEY UNDERSTAND THAT THEY CANNOT FULFILL THE LAW.
• 15:03 AND ONLY THROUGH GRACE THERE IS...
• 15:06 THEY'LL HAVE PEACE AND SALVATION.
• 15:08 WOW
• 15:09 SO WHEN YOU TALK WITH THEM ABOUT IT
• 15:12 THEY START TO UNDERSTAND.
• 15:13 THEY ARE WILLING TO LISTEN
• 15:14 AND THAT'S A BLESSING
• 15:17 THAT'S WONDERFUL.
• 15:18 YES, YOU MAKE A VERY STRONG CASE
• 15:19 FOR WHY MY WIFE AND I CONTINUE TO DO THIS...
• 15:22 SCHLEP OVER HERE ALL THE TIME
• 15:24 AND GIVE OUR LIVES TO THIS MESSAGE
• 15:26 BECAUSE IT'S JUST THE MOST IMPORTANT THING IN THE WORLD
• 15:30 AND IT HAS TO DO WITH THE COMING OF MESSIAH.
• 15:32 CORRECT
• 15:33 THANK YOU SO MUCH
• 15:34 THANK YOU
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• 16:08 (Katharine Weiss speaking) BACK ON THE BUS OUR JOURNEY CONTINUES
• 16:12 THROUGH THE BEAUTIFUL GOLAN HEIGHTS TO CAESAREA PHILIPPI
• 16:15 WHERE AS WE FIND OUT SHORTLY
• 16:17 JESUS VISITED AT LEAST ONCE DURING HIS MINISTRY.
• 16:20 2,000 YEARS AGO CAESAREA PHILIPPI WAS A GRECO-ROMAN CITY LOCATED NEAR THE FLOWING SPRING;
• 16:27 ONE OF THE SOURCES OF THE JORDAN RIVER ON THE FOOTHILLS OF MOUNT HERMON,
• 16:31 A HEATHEN ROMAN SHRINE WHICH INCLUDES RITUAL COURTYARDS WAS BUILT NEAR THIS PAGAN GROTTO
• 16:38 YUVAL TELLS US MORE.
• 16:42 SO RIGHT NOW WE ARE STANDING NEARBY THE CAVE
• 16:46 KNOWN AS "THE GROTTO OF PAN", THE RESIDENCE OF PAN.
• 16:49 AND THE WAY THE HISTORIANS DESCRIBED IT
• 16:55 WE UNDERSTAND THAT THERE WAS INDEED A PIT HERE WHICH IS NOW COVERED UP.
• 17:00 AS YOU CAN SEE THERE ARE BIG ROCKS, BOULDERS THAT FELL FROM THE TOP OF THE CAVE DOWN
• 17:05 AND THE WHOLE THING WAS COVERED UP.
• 17:08 BUT HERE THEY USED TO OFFER SACRIFICES.
• 17:12 FIRST THEY SLEW THE SACRIFICES ON ALTARS.
• 17:16 AND YOU CAN SEE THERE IS ONE RIGHT BEHIND ME, A SQUARE ALTAR,
• 17:19 AND ANOTHER ONE TO YOUR RIGHT
• 17:22 WHERE THEY USED TO SLAY THE ANIMALS AND THEN TO THROW THEM DOWN INTO THIS DEEP PIT
• 17:26 AND THEN TO LOOK FOR BLOOD ALONG THE WATER STREAM.
• 17:30 SO THIS IS IT.
• 17:32 THIS IS THE IDOLS BACK THEN
• 17:36 AND THE PAGAN WORSHIPERS WERE LOOKING AT THE GATES OF HELL, THE GATES OF HADES.
• 17:41 AND DURING THE TIME OF HEROD THE GREAT A BIG TEMPLE WAS BUILT HERE OUTSIDE THE CAVE.
• 17:47 WHAT IS LEFT OF IT...
• 17:48 IT'S THE WALL THAT YOU SEE HERE...
• 17:51 AND ALL THE DECORATED STONES THAT WE SEE AROUND
• 17:54 WERE PART OF THIS TEMPLE FACADE BUILT BY KING HEROD THE GREAT THE YEAR 19 B.C.
• 18:02 FURTHER UP TO YOUR RIGHT YOU CAN SEE QUITE A LARGE COURTYARD,
• 18:07 A PLATFORM KNOWN AS THE COURT OF PAN FOR DIFFERENT CEREMONIALS.
• 18:13 ALL THE NICHES IN THE WALL WERE DECORATED WITH STATUES OF PAN AND ECO;
• 18:19 THE INSCRIPTIONS THERE IN THE ROCK IN GREEK DEPICTING THE NAME OF ECO AND PAN.
• 18:27 FURTHER IN THE RUINS OF MORE SHRINES AND TEMPLES, THE WONDERFUL ZEUS AND APHRODITE.
• 18:36 THE SACRED AREA OF THE CITY WAS RIGHT HERE,
• 18:39 THE MOST SACRED AREA NO DOUBT, THE GROTTO, THE CAVE HERE...
• 18:42 THE GROTTO OF PAN WHILE THE CITY WAS RIGHT BEHIND YOU...
• 18:46 THE LARGE CITY CAESAREA PHILIPPI PANEAS DOWN THERE.
• 18:53 (Myles Weiss speaking) IN THE 2ND CENTURY B.C. HEROD THE GREAT'S SON PHILIP
• 18:58 NAMED THIS PLACE IN HONOR OF AUGUSTUS.
• 19:01 AND TO DIFFERENTIATE IT FROM CAESAREA MARITIMA IT BECAME KNOWN AS CAESAREA PHILIPPI.
• 19:07 HERE AT THE NORTHERN MOST EXTENT OF JESUS' MINISTRY
• 19:10 THE MASTER COULD BE ALONE WITH HIS DISCIPLES
• 19:13 AND IT WAS HERE THAT HE WOULD ASK ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT QUESTIONS HE WOULD EVER ASK.
• 19:23 LADIES AND GENTLEMEN WE ARE TALKING ABOUT THE CENTER OF PAGAN WORSHIP
• 19:28 THAT WAS HERE IN THE LAND.
• 19:30 AND WHENEVER THEY WERE PRAYING
• 19:32 IF IT WAS IN THE SOUTH... DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE COUNTRY
• 19:35 THEY USED TO FACE THIS SITE... THE GATES OF HELL.
• 19:40 YOU ARE LOOKING AT THE GATES OF HELL...THE GATES OF HADES.
• 19:44 SO I THINK WE ALL START TO UNDERSTAND WHY IT WAS THAT IMPORTANT FOR YESHUA, FOR JESUS,
• 19:49 TO WALK ALL THE WAY FROM THE CENTER OF HIS MINISTRY...
• 19:53 CAPERNAUM...SOME 30 MILES AWAY FROM HERE
• 19:56 AND TO ASK THE QUESTION, "WHO DO MEN SAY THAT I AM?"
• 19:59 HE BROUGHT THE DISCIPLES TO THE CENTER OF PAGAN WORSHIP.
• 20:03 "WHO DO MEN SAY THAT I AM?"...
• 20:05 IN THIS PAGAN WORLD WE'RE LIVING IN.
• 20:07 THEY WERE SURROUNDED WITH PAGANS BACK THEN.
• 20:10 AND HERE IS THE STORY IN MATTHEW 16.
• 20:13 MATTHEW 16
• 20:57 WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT HOW EVERYTHING THAT GOES ON IN THE LAND AND IN THE WORD
• 21:01 IS CONNECTED IN AN ORGANIC WAY.
• 21:03 WHAT AN ILLUSTRATED SERMON TO COME TO THE PLACE THAT WAS KNOWN AS THE GATES OF HELL
• 21:09 IN ORDER TO FOREVER SETTLE THAT YESHUA ALONE HAS COMPLETE AUTHORITY OVER EVERY DEMON god,
• 21:16 OVER EVERY FORM OF SATANIC WORSHIP,
• 21:18 OVER EVERY KIND OF OTHER WORLDLY EVENT
• 21:22 BECAUSE HE IS THE KING OF KINGS AND THE LORD OF LORDS.
• 21:25 AND SO WHEN THE DISCIPLES WERE GATHERED AROUND THEM THISQUESTION COMES UP
• 21:28 AND PETER GETS IT BY REVELATION FROM HEAVEN.
• 21:32 AND IT'S NOT BUILT ON PETER THE ROCK
• 21:35 IT'S BUILT ON THE ROCK OF THE REVELATION OF YESHUA, THE REVELATION OF MESSIAH.
• 21:40 AND THIS IS THE PERFECT PLACE TO DO IT.
• 21:43 AND SO WHEN YOU SEE THIS WE NEED TO REMEMBER THAT NOT ONLY IS HE EXPRESSING FULL AUTHORITY
• 21:49 BUT HE'S GIVING US SOME LESSONS THROUGHOUT TIME FOR US TODAY
• 21:53 BECAUSE A NATURAL QUESTION THAT WOULD COME AFTER PETER SAYS
• 21:58 YOU ARE THE CHRIST THE SON OF THE LIVING GOD...
• 22:00 A NATURAL QUESTION I MIGHT ASK IS WHO DO MEN SAY YOU ARE?
• 22:06 WHO DO MEN SAY YOU ARE?
• 22:09 AND WHO DO MEN SAY YOU ARE?
• 22:11 AND I WOULD SUBMIT TO YOU THAT AFTER THE REVELATION OF CHRIST, THE SON OF THE LIVING GOD
• 22:17 COMES THE JOURNEY OF DESTINY FOR EACH ONE OF US WHERE GOD REVEALS TO US WHO WE ARE
• 22:25 AND WHAT WE'RE SUPPOSED TO DO WITH THIS REVELATION...
• 22:28 HOW WE'RE TO LIVE THAT OUT...
• 22:29 HOW WE'RE TO WALK THAT OUT...
• 22:31 A UNIQUE AND SPECIAL WAY THAT EACH ONE OF US MINISTERS AND TOUCHES OUR GENERATION
• 22:37 AND ESSENTIALLY BECOMES THE SHOFAR, THE LIVING SOUND OF THE LORD IN OUR GENERATION.
• 22:43 SO WHEN YOU COME TO THIS PLACE
• 22:44 AS YOU ARE ENJOYING THE REVELATION THAT GOD IS SAYING
• 22:48 I HAVE COMPLETE AUTHORITY OVER THIS DEMONIC MESS
• 22:51 HE'S ALSO SAYING DAUGHTER...SON... I HAVE A PURPOSE FOR YOU...
• 22:56 I HAVE A DESTINY FOR YOU...
• 22:58 I HAVE WORK FOR YOU TO DO TO WALK WITH ME AND TO SEE ME DO MY WORK THROUGH YOU.
• 23:05 AND THIS IS THE PERFECT PLACE FOR THAT REVELATION.
• 23:07 THERE'S A GREAT PICTURE FROM THE STORY IN EPHESIANS
• 23:11 WHEN RAV SHAUL...WHEN PAUL WAS WRITING THE EPHESIAN LETTER.
• 23:15 HE TALKED ABOUT THE JOURNEY THAT WE'RE ON
• 23:18 AND HE USED THREE KEY WORDS IN THAT LETTER THAT I THINK IS BASED ON THIS REVELATION.
• 23:23 HE SAID THAT WE'RE SEATED IN HEAVENLY PLACES...
• 23:26 BECAUSE OF THAT WE CAN WALK IN LOVE...
• 23:29 AND BECAUSE OF THAT WE CAN STAND AGAINST THE WILES OF THE ENEMY.
• 23:35 WE ARE TO BE SEATED...
• 23:37 KNOW WHERE WE ARE.
• 23:39 WE'RE NOT STARTING FROM HERE
• 23:40 WE'RE STARTING FROM THE REVELATION OF CHRIST, THE SON OF THE LIVING GOD.
• 23:44 AND THEN BECAUSE OF THAT WE CAN WALK IN LOVE...EPHESIAN 4 AND 5.
• 23:48 AND BECAUSE OF THAT WALK WE HAVE AUTHORITY OVER THE DEVIL HIMSELF
• 23:53 AND WE CAN STAND AGAINST THE WILES OF THE ENEMY
• 23:56 BECAUSE WE HAVE AUTHORITY BASED ON THE REVELATION OF WHO YESHUA IS.
• 24:00 TODAY I WOULD ASK YOU TO BE ASKING THE LORD AS YOU'RE WALKING AROUND HERE,
• 24:05 GOD WHAT'S NEXT FOR ME?
• 24:07 AFTER THIS TRIP TO ISRAEL...
• 24:09 AFTER WE GO HOME
• 24:11 HOW DO YOU WANT ME TO EXPRESS THIS REVELATION OF WHO YOU ARE THROUGH MY LIFE?
• 24:16 AND I BELIEVE GOD WANTS TO SPEAK TO US ALL WHILE WE'RE HERE.
• 24:19 SO LET ME PRAY FOR YOU, OKAY?
• 24:21 FATHER I THANK YOU SO MUCH THAT FLESH AND BLOOD HAS NOT REVEALED THIS TO US,
• 24:26 BUT OUR FATHER IN HEAVEN
• 24:28 THAT JESUS IS THE SON OF THE LIVING GOD.
• 24:31 AND WE THANK YOU TODAY FOR YOUR SACRIFICE FOR US...
• 24:35 THE ONE...TRUE...SACRIFICE...
• 24:37 THE ONLY SACRIFICE THAT'S NECESSARY AND THAT WAS NEEDFUL
• 24:41 SO THAT MEN MIGHT WALK WITH YOU AND KNOW YOU.
• 24:43 AND GOD I ASK FOR EACH ONE IN OUR GROUP
• 24:46 THAT AS WE WALK HERE TODAY AND THE REST OF THE TIME WE'RE IN ISRAEL
• 24:49 THAT YOU WOULD SPEAK TO US QUIETLY, CLOSELY, INTIMATELY
• 24:54 ABOUT HOW YOU WANT US TO LIVE OUT THAT WHICH YOU'VE GIVEN TO US BY WAY OF REVELATION.
• 25:00 AND WE WILL GIVE YOU THE THANKS LORD,
• 25:03 THE HASHEM YESHUA IN THE NAME OF JESUS AMEN AND AMEN.
• 25:10 CAESAREA PHILIPPI IS A PERFECT PLACE TO TALK ABOUT THE AUTHORITY OF THE BELIEVER.
• 25:15 THE LORD HIMSELF WANTS US TO SIT IN HEAVENLY PLACES WITH HIM AND TO REST WITH HIM
• 25:21 AND THEN WALK OUT OUR CHRISTIANITY IN HIS VICTORY
• 25:24 WITH HIS NAME AGAINST ALL THE POWERS OF THE ENEMY.
• 25:27 EXACTLY SO
• 25:29 YOU KNOW I SAW AN AMAZING THING THIS LAST MONTH AS WE WERE WORKING ON THE NEWSLETTER.
• 25:32 A PRISONER WROTE IN THANKING US FOR THE FREE NEWSLETTER.
• 25:35 AND THEN SOMEONE ELSE WROTE IN SAYING
• 25:37 I WANT TO GIVE YOU SOMETHING EXTRA
• 25:40 SO THAT THE PRISONERS CAN GET THE NEWSLETTER FOR FREE. >>WOW
• 25:43 AND I REALLY SAW THE SENSE OF COMMUNITY
• 25:45 WHERE ONE WAS TAKING CARE OF ANOTHER.
• 25:47 IT WAS THE MOST AMAZING PICTURE I HAD OF THE VIEWER'S COMMUNITY.
• 25:50 WOW...AND WE WANT TO SAY THANK YOU FOR THAT...
• 25:53 FOR THAT HEART THAT YOU SEE THAT THIS REACHES BEYOND JUST WHAT YOUR HANDS CAN BE A PART OF.
• 26:00 WHEN YOU GIVE TO THIS MINISTRY
• 26:03 WE'RE TOUCHING PEOPLE IN PRISONS IN ISRAEL AND ALL OVER THE PLACE...
• 26:06 ORPHANS AND WIDOWS...
• 26:08 AND KEEPING THIS GOING.
• 26:10 YES, IT'S REALLY AN IMPORTANT MESSAGE.
• 26:12 AS WE SEE THE DAY OF THE LORD COMING WE KNOW THAT THE RETURN OF THE LORD IS SOON.
• 26:16 AND THE PEOPLE STANDING...
• 26:18 THE NATIONS RISING UP IN RAGE AGAINST ISRAEL...
• 26:20 THAT IS NOT GOING TO STOP...
• 26:22 IT'S GOING TO BE CONTINUING AND INCREASING.
• 26:25 AND SO WHAT WE'RE DOING HERE AS YOU KNOW BECOMES SO IMPORTANT
• 26:29 BECAUSE GOD IS ASKING US AND ALLOWING US TO BRING THE TRUTH OVER THE AIRWAVES.
• 26:34 JUST LIKE AT CAESAREA PHILIPPI HE'S GREATER THAN THE DEMONIC...
• 26:38 WELL HERE HE'S GREATER THAN THE PRINCE OF THE POWER OF THE AIR.
• 26:41 WE COULD SAY GREATER THAN PRINCE OF THE POWER OF THE AIRWAVES
• 26:44 BECAUSE THE TRUTH CAN GO FORWARD FROM THIS MINISTRY
• 26:47 AND WE'RE GRATEFUL THAT YOU'RE STANDING WITH US IN THAT.
• 26:50 WE ALWAYS LIKE TO END OUR PROGRAM BY REMINDING YOU
• 26:54 OF THIS VERY IMPORT VERSE FROM PSALM 122, VERSE 6,
• 26:58 SHAL'ALU SHALOM YERUSHALAYIM
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