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• 00:31 From the pit to the palace,
• 00:34 from certain death to abundant life;
• 00:37 Joseph...the Patriarch
• 00:40 who pictures Messiah.
• 00:52 Shalom and welcome to our program, I'm Myles Weiss
• 00:54 And I'm Katharine Weiss
• 00:56 and we want to welcome you to our series on Joseph, the Dreamer/Redeemer.
• 01:00 Yeah, it's really amazing to watch the parallels between Joseph and Yeshua , Jesus.
• 01:06 It's an amazing story of this young man, the favorite of his father;
• 01:10 just as the firstborn of the Father is Yeshua
• 01:14 and how he's moving in this upcoming scene,
• 01:17 he's going from " Hebron " which means "fellowship"
• 01:20 to " Shechem " which means "shoulder".
• 01:23 It's something about the burden that he is about to come under.
• 01:26 It's really a picture of how Yeshua went from eternity,
• 01:30 from communion with the Father
• 01:32 into this world of strife, into this world of blood.
• 01:34 He went from eternity to the cross.
• 01:37 And Joseph is about to find his own trials isn't he?
• 01:39 And just as Joseph was sent by his father to go see the welfare of his brethren.
• 01:45 You know he was only seventeen?
• 01:47 And his father sent him out just to see how his brothers were.
• 01:51 And he had no idea what would befall his precious son after this.
• 01:56 The word "welfare" in Hebrew, it has a meaning the same as " shalom ".
• 02:02 So Jacob sent him out to go see the welfare, go see the shalom of your brethren.
• 02:07 Well he was not greeted with any kind of shalom .
• 02:10 He was greeted with hostility because of the dream that was in him.
• 02:14 Yeah
• 02:15 So let's go now and hear more of our story.
• 02:24 Clearly Joseph's dreams had set his brothers on edge.
• 02:28 It was bad enough, they thought,
• 02:31 that he was their father's favorite son.
• 02:35 Now he had delusions of grandeur.
• 03:06 There's such a theme of jealousy against the sovereignty of God.
• 03:12 Genesis 37:3 says,
• 03:13 (Speaking Hebrew)
• 03:18 Israel/Jacob loved Joseph above his brothers.
• 03:21 It's such a setup for jealousy and envy,
• 03:24 but that envy and jealousy is so dangerous isn't it?
• 03:28 Back in the story of Jacob and Esau
• 03:30 we see what the outflow of that jealousy becomes.
• 03:33 We're standing here with the Al Aqsa Mosque behind us.
• 03:36 The sons of Esau have built that mosque on the land given to the sons of Jacob.
• 03:41 And that envy, that jealousy
• 03:43 is still being played out in our lives today
• 03:45 here in Israel and around the world.
• 03:47 We see the danger of Islamic theology
• 03:50 and what happens to people when they come under that.
• 03:53 And it really goes back to that envy, that jealousy.
• 03:55 In fact. the Hebrew word for "envy", "jealousy" turning into murderous rage is " satam ".
• 04:01 It's one letter away from "Satan".
• 04:06 Well we see Joseph going to look for his brothers.
• 04:10 There's so many times that Joseph is looking for the welfare of his brothers.
• 04:15 But the brothers were not in the same place that Myles was talking about earlier.
• 04:19 They were eaten up with envy.
• 04:20 They were eaten up with anger.
• 04:22 They were eaten up with that the father was showing favoritism towards Joseph.
• 04:28 And I feel like there is so many times in our own lives
• 04:34 that we've experienced that betrayal.
• 04:36 And God wants us to know that there's a way through love that we can overcome.
• 04:42 And that's definitely what we see in Joseph's life.
• 04:44 WOW...what a picture of Yeshua .
• 04:46 Luke 19 tells us...
• 04:51 And John 3:16 tells us ...
• 04:57 And that Jesus didn't come into the world to condemn the world
• 05:00 but that he might save the world.
• 05:02 That's really this picture that we see with Joseph.
• 05:05 There was such a special sanctification, setting apart of Joseph
• 05:09 that just riled up that anger and that envy.
• 05:11 Just like the special nature of his birth through Rachel, the beloved wife (of Jacob).
• 05:18 Just as Jesus came as a virgin birth.
• 05:20 Which is very hard for a man to understand.
• 05:23 God's view is not the same as man's view is it?
• 05:25 Right, but God always makes a way.
• 05:28 The brothers were eaten up with so much envy and strife that
• 05:31 they actually threw him in a pit but their heart was that they were going to murder him.
• 05:36 We're going to see this unfold in our drama as it continues.
• 05:40 Joseph was a dreamer.
• 05:42 Just as Yeshua was speaking about his glorious future.
• 05:45 Imagine Yeshua at 12 years old in the Temple speaking to the priests with authority.
• 05:51 And here's Joseph coming as a young man with this authoritative view of the future
• 05:56 looking to something glorious that was going to happen, not quite understanding it.
• 06:00 Jesus knew what was coming.
• 06:02 But I was thinking about the parable
• 06:04 that Jesus tells us in Matthew
• 06:06 where God sends the prophets.
• 06:08 He sends those vineyard workers.
• 06:10 He sends words of warning.
• 06:11 He sends hope.
• 06:13 He sends all of these ways for the Israelites to find a way out of their sin.
• 06:18 And then finally he sends his own Son.
• 06:24 And they say let's kill him lest we have to listen to him.
• 06:27 And isn't that what's in the heart of the these brothers?
• 06:30 But God is going to deliver Joseph and we're going to see
• 06:34 an amazing story unfold as we continue.
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• 08:34 Myles - Stripped of his robe Joseph laid at the bottom
• 08:37 of an empty water cistern beaten and bruised.
• 08:40 Katharine and I descended the steps of a similar cistern in Jerusalem where we experienced
• 08:45 first hand the loneliness of a pit well below ground level.
• 08:52 We're here in a traditional spot of where Jesus was kept the night he was betrayed
• 08:57 the night before he went to the cross.
• 08:59 We're in the pit Myles.
• 09:00 Yeah, just as Joseph was in the pit,
• 09:02 a picture of the bigger pit to come
• 09:05 which was the death of Yeshua on the cross.
• 09:08 I'm going to read from Psalm 88, the traditional Psalm associated with this season of Jesus' life.
• 09:15 Remember this was written by the Psalmist hundreds of years before Jesus came.
• 09:23 O LORD my God by day I cry out.
• 09:25 At night I clamber in your presence.
• 09:27 Let my prayer come before you;
• 09:29 incline your ear to my call for help.
• 09:33 For my soul is surfeited with troubles
• 09:35 and my life draws near to the netherworld.
• 09:38 I am numbered with those who down into the pit.
• 09:41 I'm a man without strength.
• 09:45 My couch is among the dead
• 09:48 like the slain who lie in the grave
• 09:50 who are remembered no longer
• 09:52 and who are cut off from your care.
• 09:56 You have plunged me into the bottom of the pit into the dark abyss.
• 09:59 Upon me your wrath lies heavy
• 10:03 and with all your billows you overwhelm me.
• 10:07 You have taken my friends away from me
• 10:09 You have made me an abomination to them.
• 10:12 I am imprisoned and I cannot escape.
• 10:15 My eyes are growing dim through affliction.
• 10:20 Daily I call upon you O LORD
• 10:22 To you I stretch out my hands.
• 10:24 Will you work wonders for the dead?
• 10:27 Will the shades arise to give you thanks?
• 10:30 Do they declare your kindness in the grave,
• 10:33 your faithfulness among those who have perished?
• 10:37 Are your wonders made known in the darkness
• 10:40 or your justice in the land of oblivion?
• 10:44 But I O LORD cry out to you.
• 10:47 With my morning prayer I wait upon you.
• 10:51 Why O LORD do you reject me?
• 10:53 Why hide your face from me?
• 10:57 I am afflicted and in agony.
• 10:59 From my youth I am dazed with the burden of your dread.
• 11:04 Your furys have swept over me.
• 11:07 Your terrors have cut me off.
• 11:10 They encompass me like water all the day
• 11:13 on all sides they close in upon me.
• 11:16 Companion and neighbor you have taken from me
• 11:19 and my only friend is darkness.
• 11:34 Some of the places we take you on site are traditional sites
• 11:37 that are built over what may be the actual place where some of these events took place.
• 11:41 The Psalm 88 which is read down in that pit speaks about crying out from the pit.
• 11:46 And it's really in the area of Gallicantu or "rooster crowed"
• 11:51 commemorating that denial that came when Peter denied the LORD.
• 11:55 Well not only Peter but the LORD himself
• 11:58 when he was brought down to the pit in the time of his trial.
• 12:01 I can remember feeling the overwhelming separation from people or from even God Himself.
• 12:09 Can you imagine Yeshua and Joseph at that time?
• 12:12 Yeah, it's overwhelming.
• 12:13 That's why Psalm 88 is what is read down in the pit.
• 12:16 And if you see it in the Hebrew it says,
• 12:18 (Speaking Hebrew)
• 12:22 which means
• 12:26 And it's just a mournful crying out for deliverance isn't it?
• 12:29 So now let's go back to Jerusalem.
• 12:41 You know when we think about Jacob/Israel sending Joseph
• 12:47 to go see the welfare of his brethren.
• 12:50 You know that word welfare in the Hebrew means the " shalom ".
• 12:53 And that's such a picture of our heavenly Father
• 12:56 sending Jesus to bring his shalom to the people.
• 13:00 But when Joseph comes to his brothers their heart is not receptive.
• 13:05 They plotted in their heart for a long time to take care of this dreamer.
• 13:10 And they find the opportunity in this area in Shechem,
• 13:14 in this area where they're going to throw him in a pit
• 13:17 and they might even do something worse.
• 13:20 You know I think about the Scripture
• 13:22 you know it says in Psalms 55 about Yeshua, what he said.
• 13:26 He said...
• 13:37 That we enjoyed fellowship together; it was you my brothers who threw me into a pit.
• 13:43 So it's so poignant in this moment.
• 13:46 We see the Jewish people cooperating in
• 13:49 the sovereign plan of God of putting our Messiah in a pit.
• 13:55 And yet even in that the Scripture's so clear in Hebrews 1:9
• 14:02 And that's sort of the same tug of war
• 14:04 the same jealousy that causes this alienation
• 14:07 and yet this desire to look into it.
• 14:10 Think about this.
• 14:11 The brothers stripped Joseph of his coat
• 14:13 just as Yeshua was stripped and his robe was a scarlet robe;
• 14:17 a fake robe was put on him as a false king.
• 14:20 He was put in the pit just as Yeshua went into the tomb.
• 14:23 And then Judah steps up and says
• 14:26 let's not kill him, let's ransom him.
• 14:28 And isn't it amazing that Jesus is going to come from the line of Judah?
• 14:33 In fact, he's going to come through David from Judah as the Lion of the tribe of Judah.
• 14:39 And so this suffering servant that we see in Joseph
• 14:41 is going to be returning as the Lion of the Tribe of Judah.
• 14:46 And Joseph was put in the pit for shekels; he was sold for shekels.
• 14:50 Twenty
• 14:52 And just as Jesus is going to be sold for thirty pieces of silver.
• 14:56 So many parallels.
• 14:59 Such an incredible picture of the Messiah.
• 15:00 First, in his suffering
• 15:02 but we're beginning to hint at something glorious that is going to come
• 15:06 as Joseph shows us that we can be put in a pit
• 15:10 but God can keep us down if he has a plan for hearts as he does for you and us as well.
• 15:35 And so it was that Joseph was sold to a group of Ishmaelite traders for 20 pieces of silver.
• 15:44 Joseph was bound for Egypt
• 15:46 while his brothers reveled in the notion they would never see him again.
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• 16:51 Myles and I would love to host you on one of our tours
• 16:54 It is the land of miracles.
• 16:56 God is continually doing miracles today
• 16:59 proving Himself strong for the people of Israel.
• 17:01 And the Word will become alive to you
• 17:04 like no other place in the Land.
• 17:06 That's true.
• 17:08 You know, this story of Joseph parallels the story of Jesus in miraculous ways,
• 17:11 speaking of miracles.
• 17:13 Think about this.
• 17:15 Even the name "Judah", the brother whose idea it was to sell Joseph into slavery;
• 17:19 it was Judas in the New Testament whose idea it was to sell Yeshua for silver as well.
• 17:25 Well you know, we see Joseph; and all he did was have a dream
• 17:30 and share that dream.
• 17:31 But the heart of man is desperately wicked.
• 17:34 Who could know it?
• 17:35 And his brothers demonstrated that heart.
• 17:38 But thank God.
• 17:39 God had a deliverer for Joseph.
• 17:41 And it came with a band of people taking the dreamer
• 17:45 to be the deliverer as he goes to Egypt.
• 18:17 This had been the coat that Joseph's father had made for him
• 18:21 the coat of many colors
• 18:23 which he wore while tending his father's sheep.
• 18:27 It was a cunning plan they thought
• 18:30 that would provide evidence of Joseph's death by a wild beast.
• 18:35 The brothers bring the tattered coat
• 18:37 now covered with dried blood
• 18:40 to their father Jacob.
• 19:00 You know life is not without its trials.
• 19:03 You see, even God's patriarchs suffered immensely
• 19:07 under God's plan or along with God's plan.
• 19:10 You know I have 2 sons...
• 19:11 We have 2 sons of our own.
• 19:13 And I can't imagine the thought of sending my son off to see his other brothers
• 19:19 and then to find out that he was "killed".
• 19:23 I think there might have been some knowledge in the back of Jacob's mind that this
• 19:29 might not just have been by a wild animal,
• 19:32 it might have happened by the wild animal inside of them.
• 19:36 Yeah, it's really true.
• 19:37 Maybe that he was in a measure of denial
• 19:40 but also not wanting to believe that the other sons could do something like this.
• 19:44 It's the power of jealousy.
• 19:46 You know it also reminds me of that incredible moment
• 19:49 at the cross where Yeshua is separated from the Father.
• 19:53 That moment of tension when all the sin of the world is put on him and he cries out
• 19:58 Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani?
• 20:01 O my God why have you forsaken me?
• 20:03 Talk about separation of a father from a son,
• 20:05 that's the eternal version.
• 20:07 And it had been played out in Joseph's life
• 20:09 And it's just very poignant for any of us.
• 20:12 One of the reasons why we do this program is to continue to reach for our Jewish people
• 20:19 that they would know the " shalom " (peace) and the " ahava " (love)
• 20:22 that comes from relationship with Yeshua.
• 20:25 And Ron Cantor, our dear friend,
• 20:27 I interviewed him last week.
• 20:28 You may have seen that program.
• 20:29 I continued pressing him about the incredible work he's doing in Tel Aviv.
• 20:33 In fact,I asked him to explain,
• 20:35 How do you reach out to our Jewish people in Tel Aviv today?
• 20:39 So let's go to my interview with Ron.
• 20:42 For the most part we put most of our effort in training our people to reach out on their own
• 20:48 For Jewish people it's a little bit strange
• 20:51 when someone walks up to you on the street that you don't know
• 20:54 and in English they tell you that you need to believe in Yeshua .
• 20:58 And there's a lot of baggage that the Jewish people carry.
• 21:03 There's a big gap.
• 21:05 Not only from the holocaust which obviously Hitler wasn't a Christian
• 21:10 but he did say I'm just finishing what the church started.
• 21:14 You go back to the inquisitions when there were forced baptism and forced conversions,
• 21:18 the Crusades where thousands upon thousands of Jews
• 21:22 were murdered by people who called themselves Christians.
• 21:25 Obviously they weren't.
• 21:27 But my dad doesn't know the difference between the two.
• 21:30 So we have found that most people who come to faith and stick with the faith
• 21:35 it's through a friend or family member.
• 21:37 And honestly I think it's that way everywhere, not just in Israel.
• 21:40 Wherever I go I always ask, how many of you came to faith
• 21:44 primarily through some outreach campaign verses through a friend or family?
• 21:49 It's always 90 percent....
• 21:51 Now even if they went to a campaign
• 21:53 it was a friend or a family member that took them there.
• 21:56 So, our focus is to train our people to be ready
• 21:59 whether it's in their Israeli jobs or schools.
• 22:02 Be ready to give an answer for what they believe.
• 22:04 That's good.
• 22:05 It really is...and it makes sense.
• 22:07 It's a relational, social, cultural phenomenon
• 22:11 because we're a tribal people.
• 22:13 And it makes sense that most of the forward motion among the Jewish people is friendship.
• 22:20 It's relational.
• 22:22 So you've seen that in Tel Aviv.
• 22:24 Now, Tel Aviv has the reputation of being the city that plays here in Israel.
• 22:30 But I think in a sense that's an advent - it's advantageous for you
• 22:34 as someone who's reaching out
• 22:35 because there isn't the religious baggage as much
• 22:37 Correct?
• 22:38 Right.
• 22:39 I came out of the New Age.
• 22:40 I think many Jewish people come out of less than Shaul synagogue orientation.
• 22:45 We have people in our congregation that are still coming out of the New Age.
• 22:49 But they are attracted to the message.
• 22:51 They are not fully believers yet but they come every week, or almost every week.
• 22:55 And so you're right, Tel Aviv is the city that plays.
• 22:58 as opposed to Jerusalem, the city that prays.
• 23:02 But they're much more open to the message of the Gospel
• 23:07 because they've been turned off by the Orthodox.
• 23:09 They go to traditional synagogue and they don't find fulfillment
• 23:12 they feel judgment.
• 23:14 And then they come into a place and they say
• 23:16 Okay, this is Hebrew, the worship is in Hebrew, that guy speaking is in Hebrew.
• 23:21 But this is not like a traditional synagogue
• 23:23 and the people are happy,
• 23:25 their hands are lifted up, they're worshiping God.
• 23:27 So there's an attraction.
• 23:29 We had a young lady that came years ago.
• 23:31 She had gone through several traumatic experiences.
• 23:35 Her father had gotten sick.
• 23:36 She had come back to Israel to study law.
• 23:41 And a friend in her law school invited her to the congregation.
• 23:46 She came in and immediately felt the presence of God and became a believer.
• 23:50 But I want to be clear.
• 23:52 You mentioned revival.
• 23:53 We're not quite there yet.
• 23:55 I had the pleasure of working in the Brownsville Revival for a couple years.
• 23:59 And that was amazing, authentic.
• 24:02 What we're seeing here is not that.
• 24:05 We're not seeing hundreds of Israelis coming to faith every week.
• 24:07 But I want to be clear;
• 24:09 In 1948 there were 25 documented Messianic Jews in Israel...25!
• 24:16 Right
• 24:18 29 actually, but they asked them all to leave and promised them visas to other countries.
• 24:22 And 4 left, 25 stayed.
• 24:24 There were zero Messianic congregations.
• 24:27 So today, there's about 18,000 Messianic Jews all over the country
• 24:31 and about 120 plus congregations.
• 24:34 So it is a...
• 24:36 in Hebrew we say, (speaking Hebrew)"a type of revival".
• 24:41 And Ezekiel said that when...
• 24:44 Ezekiel 36:24...
• 24:46 I'm going to bring you back from all the countries where I scattered you.
• 24:48 Most people stop reading there.
• 24:50 But right after that he says,
• 24:52 And then I'm going to sprinkle clean water on you and you're going to be clean.
• 24:55 So we came back in 1948; we became a nation.
• 24:58 In 1967 Jerusalem was restored as the Capital.
• 25:01 And it is interesting Myles that just so many of the leaders in the Messianic movement;
• 25:08 not just in Israel but worldwide
• 25:10 came to faith just after 1967
• 25:13 in what was called the "Jesus Revolution"
• 25:15 primarily in the states but in other countries as well.
• 25:18 So there's a connection between the restoration of physical Israel
• 25:22 and Jewish people coming to faith.
• 25:27 It's wonderful to hear from Ron.
• 25:29 He is a good friend of ours.
• 25:31 You think of Jerusalem as really only the Holy City
• 25:34 but it's got several characteristics.
• 25:36 Tel Aviv as the city; characteristically as "the city that plays"
• 25:40 Jerusalem is "the city that prays"
• 25:42 and Haifa is "the city that works".
• 25:44 And I like to always pray for Tel Aviv,
• 25:46 where sin abounds, grace does much more abound.
• 25:49 And I've had that experience being out and sharing the Gospel
• 25:53 and sharing God's love, I should say.
• 25:55 And letting him unfold the Gospel through his love.
• 25:59 Yeah, we really see that with these ministries like Ron's.
• 26:01 And that's why we always ask you to join with us,
• 26:04 to partner with us
• 26:05 to help us to get these programs out.
• 26:07 One of our favorite programs that we've done is called
• 26:10 "Acts then and Now; the Story Continues"
• 26:12 And we highlight ministries
• 26:14 like Ron Cantor
• 26:15 like Eitan Shishkoff in the north.
• 26:17 And some of the other friends that we have there
• 26:20 who are the living witnesses
• 26:22 who are alive today and preaching the Gospel
• 26:24 in a relevant way that tells the Jewish people
• 26:27 you are not becoming a Gentile if you believe in Yeshua.
• 26:31 You're becoming a Jewish person
• 26:32 who believes in the Jewish Messiah.
• 26:34 It's very different.
• 26:35 I love it.
• 26:37 Myles always says the most Jewish thing he can do is believe in his Messiah.
• 26:39 And it's really true.
• 26:40 It's making us think again of what God's already told us.
• 26:44 Is that the Gospel is to the Jew first.
• 26:46 And thank God he's restoring his people in the Land.
• 26:50 He's sprinkling that clean water.
• 26:52 He's restoring that breath upon them.
• 26:54 And we are seeing miracles through this work that the LORD has done.
• 26:59 It does not take away anything from Jewish history,
• 27:01 from Jewish culture, from Jewish heritage
• 27:04 to explore a life of faith in Yeshua .
• 27:07 It's part and parcel of our life.
• 27:09 And so we appreciate you standing with us as we continue to reach for this together.
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