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Caption transcript for Journey of Restoration: “Resistance and Rest” (5/10)

• 00:05 I LOVE ISRAEL,
• 00:06 I LOVE THE PEOPLE.
• 00:08 IT'S TOTALLY SO...
• 00:09 IT'S INDESCRIBABLE.
• 00:11 IT FEELS LIKE HOME...
• 00:12 IT JUST FEELS LIKE HOME.
• 00:14 WELCOME TO JERUSALEM...
• 00:15 IT JUST TOOK MY BREATH AWAY.
• 00:17 IT JUST SHOWS THE FINGER PRINT OF GOD EVERYWHERE.
• 00:19 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
• 00:39 AND NOW THIS IS OUR CITY ALSO.
• 00:52 SHALOM AND WELCOME TO OUR PROGRAM.
• 00:54 I'M MYLES WEISS
• 00:56 AND I'M KATHARINE WEISS.
• 00:57 AND WE ARE CONTINUING OUR JOURNEY OF RESTORATION, THE STORY OF ISRAEL.
• 01:01 WE'RE BRINGING ONE OF OUR TOURS TO YOU.
• 01:03 IT'S A JOY TO BRING A TOUR TO OUR VIEWERS.
• 01:06 SOME MIGHT NOT BE ABLE TO MAKE IT SO WE'RE BRINGING IT DIRECTLY TO YOU.
• 01:10 RIGHT, AND HERE WE CAN SEE ON OUR MAP THAT AFTER LANDING IN TEL AVIV...
• 01:13 WE STARTED IN NETANYA ON THE MEDITERRANEAN COAST.
• 01:16 THEN WE WENT UP TO CAESAREA MARITIMA
• 01:19 OVER TO MEGIDDO...
• 01:21 TO MOUNT CARMEL...
• 01:23 TO THE SEA OF GALILEE
• 01:26 AND AT THE SEA OF GALILEE IN THAT AREA WE WENT UP ON THE MOUNT OF BEATITUDES.
• 01:30 WE WENT TO CAPERNAUM, JESUS' HEADQUARTERS IN THE NORTH...
• 01:34 THEN TO THE JORDAN RIVER TO BE BAPTIZED
• 01:37 WE WENT UP TO DAN...TO TEL DAN
• 01:39 WHICH IS AT THE NORTH TO CAESAREA PHILIPPI
• 01:42 AND THEN TO BEIT SHEAN
• 01:45 TO QUMRAN AND THEN FINALLY UP TO JERUSALEM.
• 01:48 AND WE'RE CONTINUING OUR STORY TODAY.
• 01:50 WE ALSO HAVE AN AMAZING BUS DRIVER, DAVID.
• 01:53 YES, HE'S WONDERFUL
• 01:55 HE'S SUCH A BLESSING MYLES.
• 01:57 HE STARTS OUR DAY WITH JOY AND WE'RE SAFE IN HIS HANDS AS HE DRIVES THE ROADS.
• 02:01 AND HE HAS FAVOR IN THE LAND AND HE'S A BLESSING TO OUR MINISTRY.
• 02:05 HE'S BEEN WITH US FOR VERY MANY YEARS.
• 02:08 HE LOVES OUR MINISTRY.
• 02:09 SO NOW WE'RE GOING TO TAKE YOU TO MASADA.
• 02:15 (Katharine Weiss speaking) AS OUR BUS HEADS SOUTH
• 02:19 THE WINDING HIGHWAY LEADS US THROUGH THE BARREN WILDERNESS ADJACENT TO THE DEAD SEA.
• 02:24 WE PASS QUMRAN AND NOW WE CAN SEE THE MOUNTAIN STRONGHOLD OF MASADA LOOMING IN THE DISTANCE.
• 02:30 A TRAIL FOR THE STRONG HEART ZIGZAGS ITS WAY UP THE TOP.
• 02:34 AS FOR ME AND MY HOUSE, WE'LL TAKE THE CABLE CAR THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
• 02:39 AND UP WE GO SOME 1400 FEET TO THE UPPER LEVEL FORTIFICATION BUILT BY KING HEROD IN 35 B.C.
• 02:47 AT THE TOP OF THE MOUNTAIN YUVAL TELLS US ABOUT KING HEROD'S REMARKABLE BUILDING PROJECT.
• 02:54 SO WE'RE GOING TO TRAVEL AND TO SEE THOSE AMAZING STRUCTURES
• 02:58 AND INDEED UNDERSTANDABLE WHY HEROD WAS CONSIDERED SUCH A GREAT BUILDER.
• 03:04 HERE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE DESERT HE EVENTUALLY CREATED AN ARTIFICIAL OASIS
• 03:09 WITH A SOPHISTICATED WATER SYSTEM, BEAUTIFUL GARDEN, IMPRESSIVE STRUCTURES.
• 03:16 BUT IT'S NOT THE MAIN STORY.
• 03:20 OUR MAIN STORY GOES BACK TO THE YEARS 72 - 73 A.D.
• 03:26 WE'RE TALKING ABOUT 75 - 76 YEARS AFTER HEROD'S DEATH...
• 03:33 THE HEROIC STAND OF THE ZEALOTS,
• 03:36 THE JEWISH FAMILIES WHO CAME HERE AFTER THE DESTRUCTION OF THE TEMPLE.
• 03:42 AND ONCE AGAIN, THROUGHOUT THE REVOLT THE JEWISH ZEALOTS CAME AND TOOK OVER
• 03:49 AND THEN OTHERS FOLLOWED THEM WITH THEIR FAMILIES.
• 03:53 JOSEPHUS WROTE THAT ALTOGETHER 967 PEOPLE CAME TO MASADA;
• 03:58 WOMEN, MEN, CHILDREN TO THIS FORTRESS THAT WAS BUILT LONG BEFORE BY HEROD THE GREAT.
• 04:06 AND JOSEPHUS ALSO WROTE THAT WHEN THEY CAME
• 04:12 SINCE IT WAS STILL AN ACTIVE PLACE; AN ACTIVE FORTRESS,
• 04:15 THE STOREROOMS WERE ALL FULL WITH FOOD AND THE CISTERNS FULL WITH WATER.
• 04:20 WE BELIEVE THAT SINCE THE ROMANS CAME HERE ONLY IN 72
• 04:27 THAT THE ZEALOTS ARE THE PEOPLE WHO WERE HERE
• 04:29 THEY DIDN'T HAVE ENOUGH TIME TO PREPARE THEMSELVES FOR A POSSIBLE CONFLICT.
• 04:34 THEY COULD HAVE SENT PEOPLE FROM HERE TO THE EIN GEDI
• 04:36 WHICH IS ONLY 10 MILES AWAY FROM HERE TO BRING WATER TO BRING FOOD.
• 04:40 IN EIN GEDI THERE WAS A BIG CITY AT THAT TIME.
• 04:42 THE CITY OF EIN GEDI WAS NOT DESTROYED BY THE ROMANS.
• 04:46 THEY DIDN'T HARM THEM BECAUSE THEY WERE NOT INVOLVED IN THEIR REVOLT.
• 04:49 SO BY THE TIME THAT THE ROMANS CAME
• 04:54 THE PEOPLE THE ZEALOTS WITH THEIR FAMILIES HERE ON TOP OF MASADA
• 05:00 HAD ENOUGH FOOD AND WATER TO SURVIVE FOR SEVERAL YEARS.
• 05:03 THE ROMANS COULDN'T AFFORD THEMSELVES TO STAY AT THE BASE OF THE MOUNTAIN
• 05:07 AT THE BASE OF THE CLIFF THAT LONG
• 05:10 BECAUSE WHEN THEY CAME THEY BEGAN TO BUILD A WALL
• 05:14 AT THE BASE OF THE CLIFF ALL AROUND IT AND CAMPS FOR THE SOLDIERS.
• 05:19 WE BELIEVE THAT ABOUT TWO AND A HALF LEGIONS CAME TO MASADA... EVEN MORE
• 05:26 SO MORE THAN 10,000 SOLDIERS, ROMAN SOLDIERS, CAME HERE.
• 05:30 THEY BROUGHT WITH THEM SEVERAL THOUSAND SLAVES JEWISH SLAVES
• 05:33 THAT WERE CAPTURED DURING THE REVOLT IN JERUSALEM AND IN OTHER PLACES.
• 05:38 AND THEY HAD TO BUILD FOR THEM THE CAMPS AND THE WATER AROUND MASADA.
• 05:42 SO THERE WERE ALL TOGETHER 8 CAMPS LOCATED IN DIFFERENT PLACES;
• 05:48 FOUR CAMPS ON THE EAST SIDE; FOUR MORE ON THE OTHER SIDE.
• 05:52 ALL THE CAMPS THE ROMAN CAMPS WERE CONNECTED WITH THE SIEGE WALL.
• 05:56 IT IS BY THE WAY THE MOST PERFECT ROMAN SIEGE SYSTEM EVER TO BE FOUND IN THE WORLD
• 06:03 AND UNESCO YEARS AGO THEY DECLARED MASADA AS A HERITAGE SITE, WORLD HERITAGE SITE.
• 06:12 WHEN THE ROMANS WHEN THEY HAD REALIZED THAT THEY WOULD HAVE TO SPEND HERE YEARS
• 06:19 THEY DECIDED TO TRY AND TO CONQUER MASADA
• 06:23 BECAUSE THE THOUGHT EARLIER WAS TO DO WHAT?
• 06:26 TO WAIT UNTIL THE PEOPLE UP ON THE MOUNTAIN WON'T HAVE ENOUGH FOOD, WATER
• 06:31 AND THEN THEY WILL SURRENDER BEFORE THEM
• 06:35 BUT THAT WAS NOT THE CASE.
• 06:36 SO THAT'S WHY THEY DECIDED TO BUILD AN ATTACK RAMP ON THE WEST SIDE OF MASADA
• 06:41 WHICH YOU CAN SEE IT RIGHT HERE IN THE MODEL.
• 06:44 AND THEN ALONG THIS RAMP WHICH WAS BACK THEN MUCH WIDER AND HIGHER
• 06:48 THEY BEGAN TO PUSH THIS WAR TOWER ON WHEELS ALL THE WAY TO THE TOP.
• 06:53 AMAZING...YOU'LL SEE IT WHEN WE ARE GOING TO BE ON THE OTHER SIDE
• 06:56 AND AS WE WILL LOOK DOWN WE WILL SEE THE RAMP.
• 06:58 AND THEN WITH A BATTERING RAM
• 07:01 THEY BEGAN TO KNOCK DOWN THE WALL TO BREAK THE WALL IN ORDER TO GET IN.
• 07:09 (Myles Weiss speaking) THIS IS THE VIEW THE ZEALOTS WOULD HAVE HAD
• 07:12 LOOKING DOWN UPON THE ENCROACHING ROMAN LEGION.
• 07:15 MONTH AFTER MONTH THE RAMP GREW CLOSER TO THEIR WALLS.
• 07:19 DAY BY DAY THE SHADOW OF THE MIGHTY BATTERING RAM INCHED CLOSER TO THEIR DOORWAY.
• 07:24 THEY KNEW IT WAS JUST A MATTER OF TIME.
• 07:29 OUR GROUP ENTERS MASADA'S ANCIENT SYNAGOGUE WHERE YUVAL CONTINUES.
• 07:35 THE ROMANS ARE JUST ABOUT BREAK IN.
• 07:38 THEY HAVE MANAGED TO BUILD ANOTHER WALL
• 07:40 BUT THEY WERE USING THIS TIME WOODEN BEAMS AND SAND AT THE BACK.
• 07:44 SO THE BATTERING RAM WAS NOT SO AFFECTIVE.
• 07:47 SO WHAT THEY DID THEY DECIDED TO SET FIRE IN IT USING FLAMING ARROWS AND OIL.
• 07:54 WHEN THE WOODEN WALL WAS BURNED DOWN IT WAS ALREADY LATE AFTERNOON
• 07:59 AND THEN THE ROMANS ARE TAKING THE DECISION, SILVA THE ROMAN GENERAL TO RETREAT
• 08:06 TO LEAVE BACK TO THEIR CAMPS AND TO WAIT FOR THE NEXT DAY
• 08:09 BECAUSE USUALLY ROMAN SOLDIERS DID NOT FIGHT AT NIGHT TIME.
• 08:12 THEY DIDN'T KNOW WHAT TO EXPECT ON TOP OF THE MOUNTAIN HERE.
• 08:16 SO THE DECISION WAS TO GO BACK TO THE CAMPS AND TO WAIT FOR THE NEXT DAY.
• 08:20 AND THAT WAS THE CRUCIAL NIGHT THAT ELEAZAR THE JEWISH COMMANDER
• 08:25 GATHERED THE PEOPLE HERE IN THIS SYNAGOGUE AND SPOKE BEFORE THEM.
• 08:29 AND YOU'VE HEARD THE SPEECH
• 08:31 SAYING THAT IT WILL BE THE BETTER WAY FOR THEM
• 08:33 TO LEAVE THIS WORLD AS FREE AND NOBLE PEOPLE NOT TO FALL ALIVE INTO THE HANDS OF THE ROMANS
• 08:38 BECAUSE THEY KNEW WHAT WILL HAPPEN.
• 08:42 SO THE DECISION THEY DID WAS A VERY TOUGH DECISION
• 08:47 AND JOSEPHUS DESCRIBED IT AND IT IS A VERY SHOCKING STORY, VERY DIFFICULT
• 08:52 BUT THE DECISION WAS THAT FIRST EVERY MAN WILL KILL HIS OWN WIFE AND CHILDREN
• 08:58 AND THEY DID IT BY A SLAUGHTERING KNIFE.
• 09:01 THEY JUST SIMPLY CUT THEIR THROAT UNTIL THEY LOST THEIR BLOOD AND DIED.
• 09:07 THEN OUT OF THE MEN TEN MEN WERE CHOSEN WHO WERE TO KILL THE OTHER MEN.
• 09:13 SO THOSE WHO WERE NOT CHOSEN LAID DOWN ON THE GROUND TO WAIT FOR THEIR TURN.
• 09:19 OUT OF THE TEN MEN ONE WAS CHOSEN TO KILL THE NINE MEN AND THEN KILLED HIMSELF.
• 09:26 SO THE MOST PEOPLE WERE KILLED ACTUALLY BY OTHERS.
• 09:31 BUT THERE WERE ONLY 5 SURVIVORS.
• 09:33 YOU SHOULD KNOW THAT.
• 09:34 THAT'S HOW JOSEPHUS KNEW ABOUT THE STORY...2 WOMEN AND 5 CHILDREN.
• 09:38 WE DON'T KNOW IF THEIR HUSBANDS WERE HERE WERE WITH THEM OR NOT.
• 09:42 MAYBE WHEN THEY CAME FROM JERUSALEM OR JUDEA THEY CAME BY THEMSELVES...
• 09:46 ONLY THE WOMEN AND THE 5 CHILDREN
• 09:49 AND THEY FOUND A PLACE TO HIDE HERE ON TOP OF MASADA.
• 09:54 AND THE FOLLOWING DAY WHEN THE ROMANS WERE UP HERE THEY JUST TURNED THEMSELVES IN
• 10:00 AND THEY MET JOSEPHUS AND THEY DESCRIBED IT FOR HIM
• 10:03 ALL ABOUT THAT HAPPENED HERE THE SUICIDE AND THE SPEECH.
• 10:09 WE DO NOT KNOW WHAT HAD HAPPENED TO THEM LATER ON...
• 10:12 IF THEY WERE TAKEN AS PRISONERS OR WERE KILLED WE DON'T KNOW
• 10:15 BUT WE CAN JUST IMAGINE HOW IT FELT LIKE FOR THE ROMANS
• 10:19 WHEN THEY CAME UP THE FOLLOWING MORNING UP TO THE MOUNTAIN
• 10:22 EXPECTING RESISTANCE AND THEN NOTHING...SILENCE.
• 10:39 FOR INSIGHTFUL PERSPECTIVES ON ISRAEL AND BIBLE PROPHECY
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• 11:02 OR A CRUISE TO GREECE AND EPHESUS.
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• 11:10 OUR RESOURCE FOR THIS PROGRAM...
• 11:12 THE FLAG OF ISRAEL
• 11:14 THIS BEAUTIFUL 3 X 5 FOOT FLAG
• 11:16 PROUDLY BOAST 2 BLUE STRIPES
• 11:19 AND THE STAR OF DAVID ON A FIELD OF WHITE.
• 11:22 FLY THIS FLAG TO CELEBRATE THE BIRTH OF THE MODERN STATE
• 11:26 EACH APRIL ON ISRAEL'S INDEPENDENCE DAY.
• 11:29 OR YOU MAY DECIDE TO FLY IT JUST TO SHOW YOUR LOVE FOR THE HOLY LAND AND THE JEWISH PEOPLE.
• 11:35 CONTACT US AND ASK FOR THE FLAG OF ISRAEL.
• 11:41 YOU KNOW KATHARINE AND I ARE PRIVILEGED TO WRITE FOR THE LEVITT LETTER.
• 11:44 IT'S A NEWS MAGAZINE THAT TELLS YOU WHAT'S GOING ON IN ISRAEL.
• 11:47 IT HAS A FINANCIAL LESSON,
• 11:49 SOME PROPHETIC WORDS ABOUT WHERE WE ARE IN TIME REGARDING THE COMING OF THE LORD.
• 11:52 AND WITH TODAY'S MAINSTREAM MEDIA NOT BRINGING THE TRUE INFORMATION ABOUT THE MIDDLE EAST
• 11:58 IT'S A REALLY GOOD THING FOR YOU.
• 11:59 IT'S FREE TO YOU.
• 12:01 JUST GET IN TOUCH WITH US AT 1-800-WONDERS OR LEVITT.COM.
• 12:04 WE'D BE GLAD TO SEND IT TO YOU.
• 12:06 AND IF YOU CAN SEND US A DONATION THAT HELPS US SEND IT TO WHOEVER DOES NEED IT.
• 12:10 RIGHT, LIKE YOU WERE SAYING BEFORE WE SEND IT TO BE PEOPLE
• 12:12 THAT ARE IN JAIL OR IN PRISON WHO CAN'T AFFORD TO.
• 12:15 EXACTLY SO
• 12:16 YOU KNOW THE STORY OF MASADA IS SUCH A HEAVY STORY.
• 12:19 ONE OF THE THINGS THAT'S NOT WIDELY KNOWN
• 12:21 IS ONE OF THE REASONS WHY ELEAZAR AND HIS MEN WERE RELUCTANT TO FIGHT BACK AGAINST THE ROMANS
• 12:25 BECAUSE THEY KNEW THAT IT WAS JEWISH SLAVES
• 12:28 THAT WERE BUILDING THE RAMP THAT WAS COMING UP TO MASADA ITSELF
• 12:32 AND SO THEY WERE RELUCTANT TO ENGAGE BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T WANT TO KILL THEIR OWN BRETHREN.
• 12:36 RIGHT WELL THEY WITHSTOOD THEM FOR SO LONG THEY FINALLY GOT THE SLAVES AND SAID
• 12:41 THIS IS HOW WERE GOING TO DO IT
• 12:42 WE'RE GOING TO HAVE THEM BUILD IT...THE RAMP.
• 12:44 YES, EXACTLY SO
• 12:46 EXACTLY, AND EVEN IN THE MIDST OF THE HEAVINESS THERE'S SOME SILVER LININGS IN THE STORY AREN'T THERE?
• 12:50 ABSOLUTELY
• 12:51 EZEKIEL IS FOUND AGAIN...
• 12:52 EZEKIEL 37 IS FOUND IN THE SYNAGOGUE...
• 12:55 THE PLANTING OF THE WORD OF GOD
• 12:58 THAT THE JEWISH PEOPLE ARE SAYING THESE SUFFERINGS MIGHT COME OUR WAY
• 13:03 BUT GOD HIMSELF IS A RESURRECTED GOD AND HE WILL REVIVE US AND HE WILL RESTORE US.
• 13:08 EXACTLY SO
• 13:09 THERE'S ALWAYS A SILVER LINING WITH THE LORD.
• 13:12 LET'S GO BACK TO THE SYNAGOGUE IN MASADA AND HEAR THE REST OF THE STORY.
• 13:17 DO YOU REMEMBER WAY BACK AT CAESAREA MARITIME WE SPOKE ABOUT HEROD AND KINGDOMS IN CONFLICT
• 13:24 AND THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE HEBRAIC VIEW OF THE WORLD AND THE ROMAN VIEW OF THE WORLD
• 13:30 AND THE WAY THAT THOSE KINGDOMS ARE ALWAYS GOING TO BE IN CONFLICT
• 13:34 AND ARE STILL BEING PLAYED OUT WITH US THE CHURCH...YES?
• 13:38 WELL I THINK MASADA IS ONE OF THE GREATEST EXAMPLES OF THAT CONFLICT
• 13:44 AND YOU'RE SITTING IN THE SYNAGOGUE.
• 13:46 WHEN THE ZEALOTS CAME HERE THEY REFUSED TO LIVE IN THE COMFORT SPOTS OF THE ROMANS.
• 13:52 THEY LIVED IN THE WALLS.
• 13:55 NOW I DON'T ADVOCATE ASCETICISM
• 13:57 AND I DON'T ADVOCATE EPICUREANISM.
• 14:00 WE'RE NOT GOING TO INDULGE OVERLY OR TORTURE OURSELVES
• 14:03 BUT IT IS NOTABLE THAT THEY WERE...
• 14:05 IT WAS IMPORTANT TO THEM TO NOT PARTAKE OF THE ROMAN SYSTEM IN ANY WAY.
• 14:10 YOU ARE ALSO SITTING IN THE SYNAGOGUE WHERE WHEN THE QUMRAN SCROLLS WERE FOUND
• 14:16 EZEKIEL 37 WAS FOUND IN THIS BUILDING.
• 14:20 EZEKIEL 37 IF YOU REMEMBER IS THE PASSAGE WHERE GOD PROPHESIED
• 14:24 THAT THE GRAVES ARE GOING TO OPEN,
• 14:28 THE BONES ARE GOING TO COME TOGETHER
• 14:30 AND THAT THERE WILL BE A RENAISSANCE OR REBUILDING OF THE NATION OF ISRAEL.
• 14:34 IN FACT IT WAS A CLEAR PROPHETIC PICTURE OF WHAT HAPPENED IN NAZI GERMANY
• 14:39 AND THE REBIRTH THAT FOLLOWED SHORTLY THEREAFTER.
• 14:43 WELL THAT WAS FOUND RIGHT HERE.
• 14:45 GOD CONFIRMS HIS WORD WITH SIGNS.
• 14:47 HE CONFIRMS HIS WORD AND DOES WHAT HE SAYS HE'S GOING TO DO.
• 14:50 AND THAT'S REALLY OUR STORY ISN'T IT?
• 14:52 GOD SAYS AND THEN HE DOES IT
• 14:55 AND OUR JOB IS TO BELIEVE IT RIGHT?
• 14:58 AND THAT'S WHAT HAPPENED.
• 14:59 AND IN THIS SETTING IT'S REALLY A PLACE FOR US TO CONSIDER
• 15:04 WHAT WE ARE BEING CALLED TO AS THE CHURCH OF GOD IN THIS ERA IN THIS TIME.
• 15:10 ARE WE BEING CALLED TO LIVE FOR ENTERTAINMENT?
• 15:15 ARE WE BEING CALLED TO LIVE AS ROMANS WITHIN A CHURCH SETTING?
• 15:20 OR CAN WE LEARN SOMETHING FROM THE ZEALOTS
• 15:22 AND LEARN SOMETHING FROM THE PROPHETS THROUGHOUT THE CENTURIES
• 15:26 AND REALLY ADD IN TO OUR HEARTS THE PICTURE THAT WE GET FROM RUTH...RUTH THE GENTILE...
• 15:32 RUTH THE MOABITESS... RUTH THE ONE THAT IS GRAFTED IN TO THE COMMONWEALTH OF ISRAEL
• 15:38 AND BECOMES THE ANCESTOR OF KING DAVID
• 15:40 AND THEREBY THE ANCESTOR OF YESHUA HAMASHIACH, JESUS CHRIST...DAVID'S GREATER SON.
• 15:46 AND SO YOU REPRESENT RUTH.
• 15:49 REMEMBER HER CRY?
• 15:51 SHE CAME FROM THE DESERT, THE DESERT "MIDBAR"... IT MEANS "TO SPEAK".
• 15:54 WHENEVER WE'RE IN THIS QUIET PLACE
• 15:57 WHEN THESE ZEALOTS WERE HERE
• 15:59 WHEN WE ARE TRAVELING THROUGH HERE
• 16:00 IT'S A TIME FOR US TO HEAR WHAT GOD IS SAYING.
• 16:03 LET HIM WHO HAS EARS TO HEAR HERE WHAT THE SPIRIT IS SAYING TO THE CHURCH.
• 16:08 AND THAT'S WHAT SEASON THAT WE'RE IN RIGHT NOW.
• 16:11 WELL WHAT DID RUTH SAY TO NAOMI HER JEWISH MOTHER-IN LAW,
• 16:14 SHE SAID DON'T LET ME GO FROM YOU, WHERE YOU GO I WILL GO, WHERE YOU LIVE I WILL LIVE,
• 16:20 YOUR PEOPLE SHALL BE MY PEOPLE AND YOUR GOD MY GOD.
• 16:24 AND I SUBMIT TO YOU THAT THE AWAKENING THAT'S TAKING PLACE
• 16:27 IN THE CHURCH OF GOD TODAY AROUND THE WORLD IS THAT SAME MESSAGE.
• 16:31 THAT'S THE MESSAGE THAT IS GOING TO THE ISRAELITES AROUND THE WORLD,
• 16:35 THE HEBREWS IN THE DIASPORA AND THOSE THAT ARE LIVING HERE
• 16:38 IS THAT THE HEART CRY THAT'S COMING FROM YOU AS RUTH THE GENTILE TO NAOMIS
• 16:45 IS LET'S GO INTO THE HARVEST FIELD AND MEET BOAZ TOGETHER.
• 16:49 AND THAT'S WHERE WE'RE AT NOW.
• 16:51 WE'RE LOOKING FOR THE KINSMAN REDEEMER, WE FOUND HIM AND WE'RE GOING TO SEE HIM AGAIN.
• 16:55 AND THIS STORY IS CONTINUED TO UNFOLD.
• 16:58 I JUST WANT TO TAKE A MOMENT AND READ PART OF ELEAZAR'S SPEECH TO THE BRETHREN HERE
• 17:04 BEFORE THEY DID THAT DASTARDLY THING.
• 17:06 IT WAS A TERRIBLE CHOICE.
• 17:08 THERE'S NO GOOD CHOICE TO SUBMIT TO ROME OR SUICIDE.
• 17:11 I DON'T ADVOCATE SUICIDE, WE WOULD NEVER DO THAT.
• 17:13 IT IS AGAINST THE LAWS OF GOD BECAUSE IT'S MARRING THE IMAGE OF GOD.
• 17:18 WE UNDERSTAND THAT THEY WERE CAUGHT.
• 17:20 WE UNDERSTAND THAT.
• 17:22 WE DON'T ADVOCATE IT.
• 17:23 BUT HERE IS SOMETHING OF WHAT HE SAID,
• 18:14 WHEN YOU PUT YOURSELVES IN THEIR POSITION IT'S ALMOST UNFATHOMABLE.
• 18:18 YOU KNOW... HOW WOULD WE DO THIS...
• 18:19 HOW COULD I KILL MY WIFE AND CHILDREN AND THEN MYSELF?
• 18:23 YOU KNOW IT'S AN UNFATHOMABLE THING.
• 18:25 BUT IT BRINGS UP FOR US THE IDEA OF COMMITMENT
• 18:28 AND THE IDEA OF BEING COMMITTED TO THE ONE TRUE GOD,
• 18:31 COMMITTED TO YESHUA
• 18:33 AND COMMITTED TO RUACH HA KODESH, THE HOLY SPIRIT
• 18:36 AND FOLLOWING THE WAYS OF OUR GOD ALL THE DAYS OF OUR LIVES.
• 18:40 AND I'D LIKE TO CLOSE WITH SOMETHING THAT WE DON'T USUALLY GET AN OPPORTUNITY TO DO.
• 18:45 I WOULD LIKE YUVAL TO COME AND STAND WITH ME.
• 18:48 IS THERE ANYONE ELSE WHO KNOWS FOR A FACT THAT THEY HAVE JEWISH BLOOD IN THEIR BACKGROUND?
• 18:53 ANYBODY HERE THAT'S JEWISH BY FAMILY?
• 18:55 YOU COME PLEASE.
• 18:58 I WANT TO GIVE YOU AN OPPORTUNITY TO PRAY
• 19:01 FOR YOUR JEWISH BROTHERS AND SISTERS AROUND THE WORLD
• 19:04 AS THE CHURCH AS THE BELIEVERS I WANT YOU TO SAY LIKE THE ZEALOTS SAID
• 19:10 AND LIKE RUTH SAID
• 19:12 AND LIKE EZEKIEL SAW
• 19:14 THAT THIS...RESTORATION IS CONTINUING UNTIL WE SEE THE DAY OF THE LORD.
• 19:19 I'M GOING TO ASK KATHARINE TO COME AND LEAD US IN PRAYER.
• 19:21 AND IF YOU'D JUST STRETCH YOUR HANDS TOWARDS US OR JUST HOWEVER YOU FEEL LED TO PRAY OUT FOR US
• 19:27 WE WANT TO PRAY FOR THE JEWISH PEOPLE.AMEN?
• 19:33 FATHER WE JUST THANK YOU FOR THIS OPPORTUNITY TO BE HERE IN YOUR LAND IN THE DESERT
• 19:38 WHERE YOU SPEAK SO CLEARLY AND WE LIKE RUTH ALIGN OURSELVES WITH YOUR WORD
• 19:43 THAT YOUR PEOPLE SHALL BE OUR PEOPLE, YOUR GOD OUR GOD
• 19:48 AND WHERE YOU GO WE WILL GO AND WHERE YOU DIE WE WILL DIE.
• 19:53 AND FATHER WE JUST THANK YOU LORD FOR A SOLEMN ASSEMBLY FATHER,
• 19:57 A HOLY CRY FOR YOU TO STAND WITH YOUR PEOPLE AND BE THE PROTECTOR AND BE THE KEEPER OF ISRAEL.
• 20:05 FATHER WE THANK YOU THAT YOU ARE NOT ASKING THEM TO TAKE THEIR OWN LIFE
• 20:11 BUT YOU'RE ASKING THEM TO STAND IN YOUR LIFE.
• 20:13 SO WE AGREE FATHER THAT EZEKIEL 37 WILL COME ALIVE,
• 20:18 THAT NOT ONLY THAT YOU HAVE BROUGHT THEM BACK
• 20:20 AND THAT YOU ARE BREATHING BREATH INTO THEM
• 20:22 BUT THEY WILL BECOME YOUR ARMY, THE ARMY OF THE LIVING GOD
• 20:26 AND THAT THE ANGELS OF THE LIVING GOD WILL KEEP THEM,
• 20:29 PROTECT THEM, AND BE THE DEFENDER OF ISRAEL.
• 20:32 BEIT SHEM YESHUA,
• 20:33 IN THE NAME OF JESUS, AMEN
• 20:36 (Myles Weiss speaking) AMEN...AMEN...THANK YOU
• 20:39 TODAH RABAH...
• 20:40 THANK YOU VERY MUCH
• 20:43 THAT WAS A HOLY MOMENT UP IN THE SYNAGOGUE IN MASADA.
• 20:46 WHAT A BLESSING FOR OUR PILGRIMS TO BE ABLE TO PRAY TOGETHER
• 20:49 ABOUT STANDING WITH ISRAEL IN THE DAYS IN WHICH WE'RE LIVING.
• 20:53 IT'S OUR PRIVILEGE TO STAND WITH WHAT GOD
• 20:55 HAS ORDAINED THE JEWISH PEOPLE TO HAVE IS THEIR LAND.
• 20:59 AND WE GO TO JERUSALEM;
• 21:01 WE GO AND CELEBRATE SHABBAT TOGETHER.
• 21:04 SO HERE WE GO...
• 21:05 UP TO JERUSALEM.
• 21:08 (Myles) SHABBAT SHALOM
• 21:09 (People respond) SHABBAT SHALOM
• 21:11 THIS IS THE TIME OF THE WEEK IN WHICH WE WILL REMEMBER GOD'S REST.
• 21:18 IT BEGINS 18 MINUTES BEFORE SUNSET
• 21:22 BECAUSE 18 IS THE NUMERICAL EQUIVALENT OF THE LETTERS THAT EQUAL "CHAI" OR "LIFE"
• 21:29 AND SO WE BEGIN THIS SHABBAT 18 MINUTES BEFORE SUNDOWN
• 21:32 AND THEN, BELIEVE IT OR NOT, IT ENDS SATURDAY EVENING
• 21:36 WHEN THE FIRST THREE STARS COME OUT IN THE SKY.
• 21:39 ANOTHER HIDDEN BEAUTIFUL MESSAGE FOR MY PEOPLE.
• 21:44 REMEMBER CHAD, THE THREE IN ONE, THERE IT IS AGAIN.
• 21:47 IT'S CONSIDERED THE QUEEN OF THE WEEK, THE SABBATH QUEEN.
• 21:53 I REMEMBER GROWING UP I WAS RAISED BY TWO JEWISH MOTHERS WHICH EXPLAINS A LOT.
• 21:58 BUT MY GRANDMOTHER AND MY MOTHER WOULD GATHER AND LIGHT THE CANDLES
• 22:04 WHICH WE'RE NOT DOING HERE
• 22:05 BUT KATHARINE LIGHTS THE CANDLES EVERY WEEK.
• 22:07 AND WHENEVER THAT'S DONE THE PEACE OF GOD DESCENDS ON THE HOME.
• 22:12 SO I WOULD ENCOURAGE YOU TO LOOK INTO THIS CEREMONY NOT AS A RITUAL
• 22:17 BUT BECAUSE IT'S A WAY OF KIND OF BREATHING INTO THE SABBATH REST.
• 22:22 AND KATHARINE'S GOT A REALLY GOOD WORD ABOUT IT NOT BEING A MESSAGE OF DON'TS.
• 22:28 COULD YOU TELL THEM?
• 22:30 SURE...WELL AS YOU SLOW DOWN AND FIND GOD'S REST
• 22:34 IT'S NOT SO MUCH "DON'T"...
• 22:36 THANK YOU...
• 22:37 IT'S NOT SO MUCH WHAT YOU CAN'T DO
• 22:40 BUT IT'S WHAT YOU SHOULD BE DOING.
• 22:41 SO YOU SHOULD BE SPENDING MORE TIME WITH YOUR FAMILY.
• 22:44 YOU SHOULD BE ENJOYING CREATION...
• 22:46 TAKING LONG WALKS...
• 22:48 ENJOYING LIFE...
• 22:49 SINGING SOME SONGS.
• 22:50 IT'S NOT ABOUT PUTTING OUT A LOT OF EFFORT.
• 22:54 IT'S ABOUT WHAT WE CAN DO AND WHAT WE SHOULD BE DOING WHICH IS SPENDING MORE TIME WITH FAMILY,
• 22:59 MORE TIME WITH FRIENDS, HAVING LAUGHS, AND MAKING AN EFFORT TO GO OUT OF OUR WAY
• 23:06 LIKE YOU DO ON SUNDAY...
• 23:08 TO HAVE SUNDAY DINNER WITH EACH OTHER.
• 23:10 SO THAT'S WHAT IT IS.
• 23:11 IT'S GOING OUT OF OUR WAY AND MAKING THAT SPECIAL TIME WITH OUR FAMILY.
• 23:15 SO THINK OF SHABBAT AS A TIME OF "DO'S"...NOT OF "DON'TS" OKAY?
• 23:19 AND SO ALONG THAT LINE THE SABBATH IS CONSIDERED THE QUEEN OF THE WEEK.
• 23:26 IF YOM KIPPUR, THE DAY OF ATONEMENT IS THE MOST IMPORTANT HOLIDAY IN THE YEAR
• 23:31 WELL, SHABBAT IS THE MOST IMPORTANT DAY OF THE WEEK,
• 23:34 IN FACT, BEGINNING WEDNESDAY
• 23:36 OFTEN PEOPLE WILL BEGIN TO CLEAN THE HOUSE AND PREPARE AND GET READY
• 23:41 AND THE WEEK KIND OF LENDS ITSELF GOING UP TOWARDS SHABBAT
• 23:44 AND THEN SATURDAY EVENING IT RECEDES AWAY FROM SHABBAT BACK INTO THE WORK A DAY WORLD.
• 23:50 THERE'S A GREAT PRACTICE THAT WE DO WHICH IS CALLED "LE SHAN HATOV"
• 23:55 SAY IT LOUDER
• 23:56 "LE SHAN HATOV"
• 23:58 "LE SHAN HAVTOV"
• 24:00 WHICH MEANS "POSITIVE SPEECH"
• 24:03 ONLY SPEAKING FOR 24 HOURS A GOOD WORD OVER ONE ANOTHER,
• 24:08 TO YOUR SPOUSE, TO YOUR CHILDREN, TO YOUR FAMILY, TO YOU YOUR FRIENDS.
• 24:11 AND IF YOU MAKE A MISTAKE AND YOU BY ACCIDENT SAY SOMETHING NEGATIVE...
• 24:17 REPENT AND SAY TO THE PERSON I'M SORRY, THIS IS SHABBAT
• 24:22 AND I WANT TO BE IN CONCERT WITH THE PRESENCE AND THE POWER OF THE LORD
• 24:26 AND I WANT TO THANK HIM FOR THIS TIME THAT WE HAVE TOGETHER.
• 24:30 ALRIGHT?
• 24:31 AND SO WE ALSO START THE HOLIDAY WITH THE SHABBAT.
• 24:36 WE START THE SHABBAT WITH BREAD AND WINE.
• 24:39 WE KNOW THAT IT GOES BACK TO THE SEDER
• 24:42 BUT IT ALSO IS THE TIME OF A KIDDISH, A BLESSING,
• 24:44 "BARUCH ATA ADONAI ELOHEINU MELEKH HA'OLAM"
• 24:48 "HAMOTZI LECHEM MIN HA'ARETZ."
• 24:50 "BLESSED ART THOU O LORD OUR GOD, KING OF THE UNIVERSE"
• 24:53 "WHO BRINGS FORTH BREAD FROM THE EARTH."
• 24:56 AND WE ALSO WANT TO SAY
• 24:57 THANK YOU FOR BEING THE BREAD OF HEAVEN THAT CAME TO EARTH
• 25:01 WENT INTO THE EARTH,
• 25:02 CAME UP OUT OF THE EARTH
• 25:04 AND WENT BACK TO HEAVEN AS A RANSOM FOR US.
• 25:07 SO TAKE SOME BREAD AND SAY THANK YOU TO GOD.
• 25:10 Katharine: AMEN...THANK YOU LORD
• 25:11 Myles: BARUCH HASHEM
• 25:20 WE ALSO TAKE THE CUP AND WE SAY
• 25:22 "BARUKH ATAH ADONAI ELOHEINU"
• 25:25 "MELEKH HA'OLAM BOREI PRI HAGAFEN"
• 25:28 "BLESSED ART THOU O LORD OUR GOD,"
• 25:31 "KING OF THE UNIVERSE WHO CREATES THE FRUIT OF THE VINE."
• 25:34 AND WE SAY ALSO
• 25:35 THE HASHEM YESHUA WE THANK YOU THAT BECAUSE OF YOUR SACRIFICE WE CAN BE THE BRANCHES...
• 25:41 YOU'RE THE VINE AND WE ARE THE BRANCHES AND WE'RE ETERNALLY CONNECTED TO THE LORD.
• 25:46 BARUCH HASHEM
• 25:47 TAKE SOME
• 25:48 Katharine: SHABBAT SHALOM
• 25:55 AND THEN WE SAY...
• 25:56 SHABBAT SHALOM
• 26:00 I LOVE THE RHYTHM OF THE HEBREW LIFE.
• 26:02 YOU SEE IT EVEN WHEN THERE'S A TRAGIC STORY,
• 26:05 THERE'S A RHYTHM OF THE RETURN TO JOY,
• 26:07 THE RETURN TO REST
• 26:09 AND THERE'S ALWAYS SOMETHING UPLIFTING, THE LA CHAIM...
• 26:11 "TO LIFE" IN THE MIDST OF THE STORY OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE WHICH HAS BEEN A DIFFICULT STORY.
• 26:16 AND SO EVEN THOUGH WE'VE COME INTO MASADA
• 26:18 WE END UP IN JERUSALEM WITH THE SABBATH
• 26:21 AND IT'S JUST SO WONDERFUL.
• 26:22 ABSOLUTELY
• 26:23 AND GOD IS TEACHING US ALL THE RHYTHM OF REST RIGHT MYLES,
• 26:27 AND HIS COMPLETED WORK AND FINISHED WORK.
• 26:29 SO WE'RE SO GRATEFUL THAT YESHUA PAID THE PRICE FOR ALL OF US.
• 26:34 AND WE JUST WANT TO REMIND YOU AGAIN THAT WE DON'T...
• 26:36 WE'RE NOT ABLE TO BRING YOU THESE PROGRAMS WITHOUT YOUR GIFTS OF FUNDS
• 26:40 SO THANK YOU FOR SENDING IN A SPECIAL GIFT TODAY
• 26:43 SO THAT THESE PROGRAMS CAN CONTINUE TO COME YOUR WAY
• 26:47 AND WE WOULD APPRECIATE IT.
• 26:49 WE THANK YOU SO MUCH IN ADVANCE.
• 26:50 THAT'S RIGHT
• 26:52 WE ALWAYS LIKE TO END OUR PROGRAM
• 26:53 BY REMINDING YOU WHAT IT SAYS IN PSALM 122, VERSE 6
• 26:56 SHAL'ALU SHALOM YERUSHALAYIM
• 26:59 PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM.
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• 27:15 FLY THIS FLAG TO CELEBRATE THE BIRTH OF THE MODERN STATE
• 27:19 EACH APRIL ON ISRAEL'S INDEPENDENCE DAY.
• 27:22 OR YOU MAY DECIDE TO FLY IT JUST TO SHOW YOUR LOVE FOR THE HOLY LAND AND THE JEWISH PEOPLE.
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