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Caption transcript for Called Together: “Salvation Returns” (2/8)

• 00:05 Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is that they might be saved
• 00:11 for there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek
• 00:14 for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon Him.
• 00:36 Hi, I'm David Hart.
• 00:37 Welcome to Zola Levitt Presents.
• 00:39 And I'm Kirsten Hart.
• 00:40 Welcome to our program and our series "Called Together".
• 00:43 Yes, it's exciting but also prophetic that
• 00:46 Gentile Christians are working side by side
• 00:49 with believing Jewish brothers and sisters to reach the Jewish people.
• 00:53 That's right,
• 00:54 originally God called the Hebrew people, the Nation of Israel
• 00:59 to be the salvation to the entire world.
• 01:02 That was their purpose.
• 01:04 That's why God looked on the earth and saw Abram
• 01:07 and said, Because of your faith I will bless the nations.
• 01:10 Amen!
• 01:11 They're called to be the Light.
• 01:12 Eitan Shishkoff will be continuing his teaching in Haifa.
• 01:15 Chaim Malespin will have interviews.
• 01:17 We'll have a wonderful Hebrew lesson.
• 01:20 Stay with us.
• 01:27 In a profound conversation within the Godhead recorded by Isaiah
• 01:32 we hear God speaking to the Messiah and saying,
• 01:36 It's too small a thing for you to raise up the Tribes of Jacob.
• 01:40 As you see on the wall behind me the
• 01:42 banners of the Tribe of Jacob.
• 01:44 I have given you as a Light to the Gentiles.
• 01:47 ... or " laGoyim "
• 01:49 so that you will be my Salvation to the ends of the earth.
• 01:52 And of course, "My Salvation" in Hebrew is " Yeshu'ati ",
• 01:55 "My Yeshua", "My Jesus".
• 01:57 Now, when I was a young man
• 01:59 I looked at the state of the world
• 02:00 and I thought to myself,
• 02:02 something has to correct this mess.
• 02:04 And of course that was like 50 years ago.
• 02:06 We're talking about the 1960's.
• 02:08 And what I thought was, whatever the answer is
• 02:11 it has to be right, it has to be valid for
• 02:14 all Tribes, all peoples, all languages,
• 02:17 no matter what the education no matter what the racial background.
• 02:20 And you know what?
• 02:21 It's exactly the cause
• 02:23 because God says that He loves all mankind
• 02:27 and that He has sent His Son to save all of us.
• 02:32 This universality of God's heart for mankind is really
• 02:36 what led Him to choose Israel in order to be
• 02:38 a servant people to bring Salvation to all the earth.
• 02:42 And I want to share with you a couple of places
• 02:45 in the New Testament that speak about this.
• 02:47 For instance, in the Book of Acts
• 02:49 we read...
• 03:07 What a profound statement of the fact that all mankind is created
• 03:11 out of one blood, out of Adam, out of one people.
• 03:14 And in fact, when we look at recorded history,
• 03:17 approximately a quarter of recorded historic time went by
• 03:22 before Abraham even appeared on the scene.
• 03:24 So God obviously has a breadth of concern for all of humanity.
• 03:30 This is also expressed in the very final book of the Bible,
• 03:34 the Book of Revelation where we see...
• 03:47 That beloved, is where we're going to stand
• 03:49 one day through faith in the Messiah.
• 03:51 But before then, we have an assignment together.
• 03:55 And that is to bring His Salvation not only
• 03:58 to the ends of the earth but also to Israel.
• 04:02 Lets continue in this profound opportunity
• 04:06 that has fallen to our generation.
• 04:16 Eitan, thank you for the reminder
• 04:17 that the plan of salvation
• 04:19 is for all people including us.
• 04:21 David, that's the Good news of the day!
• 04:25 Now here's Chaim with a prophetic call to all Gentiles.
• 04:35 Another beautiful morning here
• 04:36 in our nation's capital, Jerusalem.
• 04:38 And I'm here with Jim Schutz, my good friend.
• 04:40 It has been a pleasure to see the fruits,
• 04:43 the results of the work they've been doing at The Joseph Project.
• 04:46 He's the CEO of The Joseph Project.
• 04:48 That's the largest importer of
• 04:49 humanitarian aide here in the Land of Israel.
• 04:51 and they are distributing to the poor and needy all over.
• 04:54 Why do you do this Jim as a Christian?
• 04:57 There's very clear teaching in the New Testament
• 04:59 as to why Christians, Gentiles who accepted Jesus as the Messiah,
• 05:04 how they should relate to the Jewish people and the nation of Israel.
• 05:07 First of all they shouldn't be ignorant of the mystery.
• 05:09 They shouldn't be arrogant towards them.
• 05:10 They shouldn't think that they were removed from the tree
• 05:13 so that Christians could replace them or something like that.
• 05:16 Romans 11 is very clear
• 05:18 and it brings us to a place of mercy that
• 05:20 it's as if God has been waiting
• 05:22 to see the fruit of the Gospel in the Gentiles.
• 05:25 Which is understanding that Israel has a gift
• 05:28 and calling that can never be revoked
• 05:30 which will result in life from the dead for the world.
• 05:31 There's an amazing chapter in the Old Testament
• 05:33 that gives us a very similar picture.
• 05:35 And that's Isaiah 49.
• 05:37 Christians understand Isaiah 49 as speaking
• 05:39 about the Gospel going to the Nations.
• 05:42 And you get to verse 12
• 05:43 and it says,
• 05:46 Sinim - the Chinese
• 05:47 Then Zion comes back into the picture
• 05:49 and says, but God you forgot me.
• 05:51 And God says, No it is impossible,
• 05:53 you are written on the palm of my hand.
• 05:54 And then he goes on as if he's proving to Israel,
• 05:57 establishing the case about
• 05:59 his love for Israel that can never be forgotten,
• 06:02 and how he will prove that to them.
• 06:03 He says later on,
• 06:05 I will raise my hand to the Gentiles
• 06:22 That's the promise here.
• 06:24 And what is the call to the Gentiles there?
• 06:26 It is a love that is unusual.
• 06:28 The love of a foster parent or father
• 06:31 Or a nursing mother at a time of nursing that's a passion there.
• 06:34 That child is the center for them of the whole universe, in a way,
• 06:38 that licks the dust off their feet.
• 06:40 That's a picture of royalty humbling themselves before
• 06:44 the precious sons and daughters of Zion.
• 06:48 This is how God is proving to Zion
• 06:50 that he hasn't forgotten them
• 06:52 and he's looking again for the fruit of the Gospel in the nations
• 06:57 to understand his eternal love for them
• 07:00 and how important it is for the whole world
• 07:03 for life from the dead.
• 07:06 Let's bear fruit together in this
• 07:08 olive tree as Jew and Gentile.
• 07:10 Yes, and amen.
• 07:11 I'm excited.
• 07:14 David -Now let's go back to Haifa for more teaching from Eitan.
• 07:18 Imagine that you're standing on the shores
• 07:20 of the Mediterranean Sea looking out
• 07:22 and you're watching boats cross in front of your eyes,
• 07:26 much like the boats that you just saw in this banner.
• 07:29 This is the way people traveled in the ancient world.
• 07:31 This is the way that nations were joined together.
• 07:34 In God's foreknowledge, even in the time of Abraham,
• 07:37 He saw the incredible need of mankind for His forgiveness,
• 07:42 for reconciliation with a Holy God.
• 07:46 And so He told Abraham, initially in Chapter 12 of Genesis,
• 07:50 Through your seed all the nations, all the
• 07:53 families of the earth will be blessed.
• 07:55 Now again, twice more God promises this to Abraham.
• 08:00 Then the third time He says it as a result of Abraham's obedience
• 08:04 in the issue of sacrificing his son Isaac.
• 08:07 Let's listen.
• 08:27 I love the fact that the Bible connects Hebrew Scriptures,
• 08:31 New Covenant, it's all really one fabric.
• 08:33 And in the Book of Galatians
• 08:35 all the way forward in the 1st Century, we read the
• 08:38 interpretation that this was "seed" singular, why?
• 08:42 Because it was a son of Abraham.
• 08:46 It was a son of Abraham that he was ready to sacrifice.
• 08:49 And in response covenentally, God had to sacrifice His Son.
• 08:55 That always amazes me that really it was
• 08:57 the obedience of one human being
• 08:59 that brought salvation into all the earth.
• 09:03 Then we see at the beginning of the New Testament,
• 09:05 the very first verse of the Book of Matthew,
• 09:15 So the continuity is powerful.
• 09:18 And then we come a little bit later on in the Book of Luke
• 09:21 where Simeon, he's welcoming this child,
• 09:26 the Christ-child, the Messiah in Jerusalem.
• 09:30 And here's what he says, because Simeon recognizes
• 09:34 that this baby is assigned to become the Savior of all the world.
• 09:55 So this is why we can say
• 09:57 that Israel is a messenger people
• 09:59 to bring the Salvation of God
• 10:01 to all the families of the earth.
• 10:09 Shalom Havarim
• 10:10 "Hello Friends'
• 10:11 Here's a Hebrew word that you can use
• 10:13 when you bring your petitions before the Lord.
• 10:15 You can say B'Shem Yeshua
• 10:17 "In the name of Yeshua."
• 10:18 And when you pray you can say
• 10:20 Yeshua ha-Mashiach
• 10:23 which means "Jesus the Messiah"
• 10:26 And most importantly we want to say
• 10:28 Todah Yeshua
• 10:30 "Thank you Jesus."
• 10:33 Thank you Deanna for another wonderful Hebrew Lesson.
• 10:36 David and I love our Founder Zola Levitt
• 10:40 and the teaching that he gave us.
• 10:42 This is one of the first things that
• 10:44 we learned from Zola Levitt
• 10:46 that the name "Jesus' wasn't really his name.
• 10:48 It was Yeshua which means "Salvation"
• 10:51 which is such a beautiful name.
• 10:53 Yes
• 10:54 So we have B'Shem Yeshua
• 10:58 "In the Name of Jesus-Yeshua"
• 11:02 I love this one.
• 11:03 Tada Yeshua
• 11:05 Thank you Yeshua
• 11:06 Thank you Yeshua
• 11:08 And we are so thankful to him.
• 11:09 We will be right back.
• 11:13 Are Gentile believers meant to adopt the Mosaic Law?
• 11:15 Is there a separate Salvation Covenant for Israel
• 11:18 that removes the necessity of Faith in Yeshua?
• 11:21 Eitan Shishkoff tackles these questions and more
• 11:24 in today's Resource "What About Us?"
• 11:27 In this book Eitan uncovers concrete Scriptural evidence
• 11:30 of God's original plan for Jews and Gentiles
• 11:34 to become One in Messiah
• 11:36 and work together for salvation of national Israel.
• 11:39 Learn the importance of how the Gentile Church
• 11:41 should relate to the remarkable Messianic movement
• 11:44 of Jews accepting Jesus.
• 11:46 An important read for believers in all walks of life.
• 11:49 Please call us or go online
• 11:51 and ask for the Resource "What About Us?"
• 11:55 We'll return to the program in just a moment
• 11:57 but first I wanted to ask
• 11:59 if you've ever thought about what it takes to put this program together.
• 12:03 I can assure you its a lot more than just
• 12:06 lights - camera - action.
• 12:08 There's a lot of prayer and planning.
• 12:10 Our family is a lot like yours.
• 12:12 We pray and we plan.
• 12:15 And we hope that you'll be praying for us
• 12:17 and planning to help support us too.
• 12:27 If you're thinking about visiting the Holy Land
• 12:29 come on a Zola Tour
• 12:31 where the Scriptures come to life
• 12:33 as you get teaching from a Messianic perspective.
• 12:36 Our Spring Tour goes to Israel and Petra.
• 12:39 In the Fall you can add a cruise of Greece and Ephesus.
• 12:43 Come to Israel.
• 12:45 See the Jewish roots of your faith.
• 12:47 Call us at 1-800-WONDERS
• 12:50 Or click on the levitt.com/tour info
• 12:58 Kirsten and I have both grown up in the Church.
• 13:00 And every time that we open up our hymnal
• 13:03 we sing wonderful songs of the Holy Land.
• 13:06 And I cannot tell you how wonderful it is
• 13:10 to not only sing those songs
• 13:12 but to sing them on the grounds
• 13:15 where Jesus has walked,
• 13:17 where he has taught,
• 13:18 where he has healed.
• 13:20 And we would love for you to join us
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• 13:23 Go to our website levitt.com
• 13:25 We go every Spring and every Fall.
• 13:27 And the best thing about the Zola Tours
• 13:29 of course, you are walking in the Holy Land
• 13:31 but we have some of the best Messianic Teachers in the world
• 13:34 that will be with you every single day.
• 13:36 Now here is Chaim Malespin
• 13:39 teaching us on "The Cup of Covenant".
• 13:49 Here we are in Judea and Samaria
• 13:51 what some call the West Bank
• 13:52 in what the United Nations calls a settlement.
• 13:55 Yes this is the very place
• 13:57 where Abraham, Isaac and Jacob lived,
• 13:59 dug their wells, planted their vineyards.
• 14:01 This is right where the sun stood still.
• 14:03 Where the walls of Jericho fell.
• 14:06 This is the very place that I was married.
• 14:09 Not far away from where the Tabernacle rested for 369 years.
• 14:12 When us Jewish people get married we step on
• 14:15 what we call the "Cup of Covenant"
• 14:17 much like this.
• 14:18 And we seal the deal.
• 14:20 Now this is directly fulfilling what the
• 14:24 ancient prophet Jeremiah spoke about
• 14:26 in Jeremiah Chapter 33 verse 10 where he says
• 14:30 this place, in the territory of Benjamin,
• 14:32 in the mountains around Jerusalem.
• 14:33 And Jerusalem is literally over there.
• 14:42 She looked amazing that night
• 14:44 ...the voice of the Bridegroom.
• 14:45 I didn't look so bad myself.
• 14:52 And we're seeing that us people getting married
• 14:54 we're fulfilling those words.
• 14:56 And what I did
• 14:57 I took just like we did in the ancient custom,
• 14:59 I took the cup of covenant.
• 15:01 I presented it to her father
• 15:02 and if he agrees to it he takes a sip.
• 15:04 And he did.
• 15:05 The we present it to the Bride to be.
• 15:07 If she agrees she takes a sip.
• 15:08 And she did - yes.
• 15:10 And then we go and get married
• 15:13 and step on the cup and seal the deal.
• 15:15 I know Passover is coming up.
• 15:16 That's the time when this Jewish faith
• 15:19 was presented to any and all who wish to be part of it.
• 15:23 And they're presented a cup.
• 15:25 Some call it Communion.
• 15:27 And that's what we're waiting for now together
• 15:29 is the marriage in heaven.
• 15:38 My name is Dima Kavanov.
• 15:39 I am from Russia and I live in Jerusalem 17 years.
• 15:44 And I believe all Christians in the world
• 15:49 should support Jewish people
• 15:51 because it's the Promised Land and the choice of God.
• 15:56 And she holds a love in God and you need
• 16:01 to support the Jewish people I think.
• 16:05 Could you tell us a little bit about yourself
• 16:07 and how you caught God's heart for the Jewish people?
• 16:10 My name is Estera Wieia and I come from Poland.
• 16:13 Already when I was living in Poland
• 16:16 I was studying the Scriptures.
• 16:18 As I was getting deeper into God's Word
• 16:21 I started discovering not only God's love for the Jewish people
• 16:25 But also the holidays that Jews celebrate.
• 16:28 And I was reading the Bible I realized
• 16:31 that God calls those holidays "His Feasts"
• 16:34 And so we started studying more and more
• 16:36 in our church and in our Bible study.
• 16:38 And somewhere in the process of that
• 16:41 I felt like the Holy Spirit was telling me,
• 16:43 Now I want you to get to know my people.
• 16:46 And so that was a clear message to me
• 16:49 that I need to come to Israel
• 16:50 and get to know the Jewish people here.
• 16:53 And so when I got to know the ICEJ, the
• 16:56 International Embassy here in Jerusalem
• 16:59 I felt that was the answer from the Lord.
• 17:01 And so I joined the media department of the ICEJ.
• 17:04 And through my work as a writer
• 17:06 I've been able to serve the Jewish people here in the Land
• 17:10 but also bless the Church worldwide.
• 17:14 David - Now let's go back to Eitan as he wraps up this week's teaching.
• 17:19 The rulership of Israel was committed to the Tribe of Judah.
• 17:22 And as the son of David, Solomon inherited that rulership.
• 17:26 He began his reign over Israel by sending a message to King Hiram
• 17:33 up the coast in the kingdom of Tyre, which is today's Lebanon.
• 17:37 Together these 2 men, a Jewish visionary,
• 17:40 and a Gentile king with resources,
• 17:42 built the Temple in Jerusalem.
• 17:44 The question is, did they only build it for the Jewish people?
• 17:48 Or was there something already happening that also included the nations?
• 17:54 Well let me read to you from Solomon's Dedication Prayer in I Kings 8.
• 17:59 And I think it will unlock this little question.
• 18:30 This moves me.
• 18:32 I just want to say that
• 18:33 the fact that all the way back then,
• 18:35 we're talking 3,000 years ago
• 18:37 when Gentiles were presumably pagans,
• 18:41 didn't really know the God of Israel,
• 18:43 couldn't even be saved really, accept through
• 18:45 the sacrifices of the Temple,
• 18:47 God was already seeing in the construction of the Temple
• 18:51 through this Jewish and Gentile king
• 18:53 really the prayer of all peoples.
• 18:56 And I love the place that says in Isaiah
• 19:02 Now, this is going to be expressed in the later days.
• 19:05 How do I know it?
• 19:07 For one thing, the prophet Joel says
• 19:20 Beloved, we're looking at an amazing time of harvest,
• 19:23 a time when the Good News, the love of God through Yeshua
• 19:27 is going to go into all the world.
• 19:29 Just as Yeshua promised to the disciples in the
• 19:31 very beginning of the Book of Acts, when he says,
• 19:43 Well, these are the days in which we are living.
• 19:46 We're going to see the Gospel come full circle.
• 19:49 It's been to the nations.
• 19:51 Now it's coming to Israel.
• 19:53 And we're a part of that together
• 19:55 just as Solomon and Hiram were.
• 20:03 Thank you so much Eitan.
• 20:04 We are back today with Dr. Jeffrey Seif
• 20:08 who is not only a Bible professor,
• 20:11 an author,
• 20:13 but I hear that you are also a policeman.
• 20:15 Is that right?
• 20:16 On the side for years.
• 20:17 I can't believe that.
• 20:18 How do you be a policeman on the side?
• 20:20 Girl, they say we choose our end of the law.
• 20:22 I took it on a whole other level.
• 20:23 I really do it deep.
• 20:25 That's good.
• 20:26 A man of many hats.
• 20:28 Our teaching today from Eitan,
• 20:30 we're talking about the call for the
• 20:32 Jewish people to be a Light to the world.
• 20:35 And we grew up thinking the Christians were called to be the Light.
• 20:40 Well!
• 20:42 (Laughing) Here we go!
• 20:43 You know...
• 20:43 Teach us.
• 20:44 Well the Lord teaches us in Isaiah
• 20:51 So there it is.
• 20:53 He says it's not just there for the Jews thing,
• 20:56 it's something new for the world.
• 20:58 God's always had a heart for the world.
• 21:00 I mean, God doesn't want to move amongst a small sector of society.
• 21:04 There's a lot of people out there
• 21:06 and God loves them all.
• 21:07 Well wasn't that their original role
• 21:09 to bring salvation...?
• 21:10 Ah, but they did bring salvation, didn't they?
• 21:12 Yes, and they didn't live it out finally and fully.
• 21:14 And that was Paul.
• 21:15 What he tapped into is the plan all along
• 21:20 was the Torah would point to Yeshua.
• 21:23 And it was in Yeshua the mandate to go global is fulfilled.
• 21:27 The world's not going to convert and become Jews.
• 21:29 The world's not going to practice Judaism.
• 21:32 But the mandate is fulfilled to be a Light to the world
• 21:37 in He whois the Light of the world.
• 21:40 Oh, that's good isn't it?
• 21:41 So good, it really is.
• 21:43 We've talked about modern Jewish people,
• 21:47 the Messianic movement.
• 21:48 They realize they still have that calling, right?
• 21:53 To bring salvation through Yeshua.
• 21:56 It was bought through Yeshua.
• 21:58 But this carrying of the Light,
• 22:00 I'm almost thinking
• 22:02 how did we think it transferred to Christians?
• 22:04 Well, I don't know.
• 22:06 We don't think about other people's experience.
• 22:09 And Jesus said, you are the Light of the world,
• 22:12 so Christians pick up John 8:12 and we're the Light of the world
• 22:15 and we take it and run with it and that's great.
• 22:17 And people don't think about the brother from another mother.
• 22:20 They don't think about the root unfortunately.
• 22:24 But it's my understanding all along that God wanted to...
• 22:28 I mean the whole world's messed up.
• 22:30 We know that in the first 5 minutes of the Bible.
• 22:32 God wanted to fix it.
• 22:33 And Israel was given the Covenants,
• 22:35 the Mandates, the Scriptures.
• 22:37 And Yeshua fulfills that.
• 22:39 And now we move forward and go global.
• 22:41 It's Jews and non-Jews together.
• 22:44 The point is it's Light to the world.
• 22:47 [In Hebrew] "All the Nations"
• 22:50 Not just the Jewish Nation.
• 22:52 And that is bringing about the prophetic Word as we work together.
• 22:56 This whole series is "Called Together"
• 22:58 We are called together.
• 23:00 You have a different background, how you grew up.
• 23:02 We grew up differently.
• 23:03 But together we're called
• 23:05 to take the Light and be the Light.
• 23:07 Yes, and it is important that we do that.
• 23:10 And you know, if I can just at the risk of sounding
• 23:12 shameless and entrepreneurial,
• 23:14 we're talking about a biblical issue.
• 23:16 But if you look at just pound for pound, dollar for dollar,
• 23:19 a way to get the Word out...
• 23:21 We can go knocking on doors but just on television now
• 23:24 We're in hundreds and hundreds of thousands of doors,
• 23:27 hundreds and hundreds of thousands of heads
• 23:29 and hearts as well.
• 23:31 This is a good bang for the buck
• 23:33 for those who help us turn the lights on here
• 23:35 so we can get the Light out there.
• 23:38 And as we're called together
• 23:39 as Eitan has been teaching us,
• 23:41 We're called together to bring that Light
• 23:44 through our relationship together.
• 23:46 That's right.
• 23:47 And there's a lot of darkness to dispel.
• 23:50 This is so eye opening for us
• 23:52 to hear this from you today.
• 23:53 Thank you so much.
• 23:54 Right now we're going to go to a Messianic song.
• 23:59 ♪ Singing in Hebrew ♪
• 26:35 Thank you Carolyn Hyde.
• 26:36 I am hoping someday when we're in Israel
• 26:38 we can meet with her and maybe even
• 26:41 be in her congregation sometime
• 26:43 that would be wonderful.
• 26:45 We have a big family here on Zola Levitt Presents.
• 26:48 Our family is here in America,
• 26:50 it's in Israel,
• 26:51 we're across the world.
• 26:53 And it's just so wonderful that these "Called Together"
• 26:55 programs that we've been bringing so many people together.
• 26:58 And what I got from today is
• 27:01 That it's not you are called to be the Light
• 27:03 or you are called to be the Light.
• 27:05 We are called to bring the Light of Salvation to the whole world.
• 27:11 That's right, that's good.
• 27:12 We always like to end the program
• 27:14 with this wonderful prayer
• 27:15 Sha'alu Shalom Yerushalayim
• 27:17 Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.
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