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Caption transcript for Dateline Jerusalem: “Way of Worship” (3/10)

• 00:02 ♪♪♪
• 00:08 male announcer: God could have chosen anywhere
• 00:10 on earth, but he chose Israel.
• 00:13 He could have revealed his redemption anywhere;
• 00:17 he chose Jerusalem.
• 00:19 The house of the Lord might have been any place on earth;
• 00:22 he chose Mount Moriah.
• 00:25 Past, present, and future, the mountain of the Lord has been
• 00:29 a beacon of hope and remains a strategic site
• 00:33 for the next temple of God.
• 00:37 "Dateline Jerusalem: The Coming Temple."
• 00:43 David Hart: We are so glad you've joined us today.
• 00:46 Kirsten Hart: We are here on our set and we also have Dr.
• 00:51 Jeffrey Seif in Israel, teaching throughout this whole series and
• 00:56 you guys are new to these chairs and you have big shoes to fill
• 01:00 but you are more than ready and more than able, so we're so glad
• 01:05 that you're here with us.
• 01:06 Joshua Colson: We are very glad to be here.
• 01:07 You know, every time we've started one of these episodes,
• 01:10 we see different titles and they seem to go
• 01:12 someplace completely different.
• 01:13 I know you all love it when you see the title "Worship."
• 01:17 Today's modern worship is a little bit different than the
• 01:19 worship we're gonna be talking about back then because back
• 01:22 then's worship is more like a barbecue,
• 01:24 at least involving a sacrifice or so.
• 01:26 So today, we get to talk about how they used
• 01:29 to worship back then.
• 01:31 Kirsten: Alright, it's gonna be good.
• 01:32 David: Well, right now, we take you to Dr. Seif's
• 01:34 teaching in Jerusalem.
• 01:36 ♪♪♪
• 01:47 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Have you ever heard it said that people
• 01:49 just don't take time to smell the roses?
• 01:54 Well, in this case, it's smelling the rosemary and coming
• 01:57 from a field of it, here in Jerusalem,
• 02:01 it's a sweet smell in my nose.
• 02:05 I mention this by way of introduction to underscore that
• 02:08 in biblical literature over and again readers are informed that
• 02:13 sacrifices are a sweet aroma in God's nostrils.
• 02:19 Now, of course, God doesn't have nostrils per se.
• 02:22 It's an anthropomorphic ascription, that is to say it's
• 02:25 using a characteristic to describe.
• 02:28 But sacrifice is so very part and parcel.
• 02:31 When you look at Adam and Chava, Adam and Eve, in Eden, there was
• 02:35 sin and an animal was slaughtered and
• 02:38 they wore those skins.
• 02:39 There was a death to enable them to carry on with life
• 02:42 and you find that thematically.
• 02:44 What's just done in Genesis is institutionalized in Exodus with
• 02:49 the manufacture of this worship space.
• 02:51 Beginning in chapter 25 of [speaking in Hebrew]
• 02:54 of Exodus, guess what?
• 02:56 They're bringing resources to build the tabernacle.
• 02:59 Why?
• 03:01 "So that I might dwell among them."
• 03:05 And then they go with that tabernacle into the future.
• 03:08 Now, with the construction of this worship space that we find
• 03:12 all throughout biblical literature, and we find it
• 03:15 emerging in modernity here in Israel, which really was the
• 03:19 genesis for this series, because today people
• 03:22 don't speak of sacrifice and worship.
• 03:24 I mean, making a sacrifice as a tithe or an offering, but we
• 03:27 don't think of a sacrificial system, per se, replete with
• 03:31 priests and animals and sacrifices and et cetera.
• 03:35 Now, high church traditions have a bit more of that, you know,
• 03:38 with the incense and clergy that wear priestly paraphernalia
• 03:43 and are referred to as priests.
• 03:45 But in large measure, in American evangelicalism anyway,
• 03:49 there's much less of that, you know, and the minister's
• 03:52 a preacher, not a priest.
• 03:54 So the whole concept of sacrifice and priesthood and
• 03:57 sanctuary kind of falls into disuse, save the fact Bible
• 04:02 readers stumble into it.
• 04:03 Now, what I wanna do is look at the instruction manual
• 04:07 on the quick, where I'm looking here at Leviticus.
• 04:11 Now, the word "Leviticus" comes from a Latin word meaning
• 04:16 "pertaining to the Levites."
• 04:18 And if you look at the writing of Leviticus, it's
• 04:21 contemporaneous with the writings of Exodus when they're
• 04:26 there at the base of the mountain and they're building
• 04:28 the mishkan, this portable worship facility.
• 04:32 But once you build worship space, you need individuals
• 04:37 that know what to do in it.
• 04:39 Thus, the calling forth of Levites.
• 04:41 In fact, Leviticus in English as we know it comes from the Latin
• 04:46 "pertaining to the Levites."
• 04:47 Actually, in Hebrew, the book is called Vayikra which comes from
• 04:52 a word "And He called."
• 04:53 It comes from the opening statements:
• 04:55 "[speaking in Hebrew] And the Lord called to Moses."
• 05:00 And I'm really just interested in a statement in the next verse
• 05:03 where he says: "[speaking in Hebrew]
• 05:07 "He speaks of "bringing an offering."
• 05:10 Jesus speaks of [speaking in Hebrew]
• 05:12 in the newer testament.
• 05:13 He goes on to say here in verse 2:
• 05:16 "When those who bring an offering."
• 05:18 The whole concept of bringing an offering to a priest for a
• 05:21 sacrifice, again, as I've said, isn't part of the experience of
• 05:28 Christianity today or Judaism, for that matter.
• 05:31 Judaism is like a lecture house in synagogues.
• 05:34 Now, some synagogues refer to themselves as temples, but those
• 05:38 are reformed synagogues.
• 05:39 Those aren't traditional observant Jewish synagogues
• 05:43 because they would never call--you'd call it a synagogue
• 05:47 but never a temple because there's only one temple and
• 05:51 that's the temple in Jerusalem.
• 05:53 And they want that temple to be rebuilt and they want the
• 05:57 sacrifices, the bringing of the offering to the temples,
• 06:01 to be reconstituted.
• 06:03 There's one temple.
• 06:05 If you look at biblical literature, the whole notion of
• 06:10 central worship is so very central, though in so many ways,
• 06:14 it is so very lost today.
• 06:16 It's our job here to bring it to life and show you the value of
• 06:21 it for Christians today.
• 06:23 When you look in Leviticus and elsewhere in the Bible, there's
• 06:26 lots of instructions about it.
• 06:28 We're interested in one particular chapter, I'm not
• 06:31 gonna get to it now, where there's instructions for an
• 06:34 animal that's necessary for the purposes of dedicating sacred
• 06:40 space for purposes of things divine: a red heifer.
• 06:47 You're gonna learn about that and more as we look
• 06:50 at good news through the eyes of the Jews.
• 06:53 We open up the Bible and learn about yesterday and in this
• 06:56 program, in this series, we learn about what's happening
• 06:59 here in Jerusalem today in our series called
• 07:03 "Dateline Jerusalem."
• 07:08 Caleb Colson: Dr. Seif will continue his talk about the
• 07:10 mysterious red heifer in an upcoming program.
• 07:13 But right now, we'll hear from Isaac Mamo who was influential
• 07:18 in bringing five red heifers to Israel in preparation for the
• 07:21 purification procedures necessary for the next temple.
• 07:25 Our cameras documented the selection as well as the
• 07:28 inspection of the heifers in Texas.
• 07:30 And now that they've been taken to Israel,
• 07:32 we'll continue to keep you informed.
• 07:34 Here's Isaac Mamo.
• 07:37 Isaac Mamo: Welcome to Israel.
• 07:39 Welcome to Mount of Olive.
• 07:43 Mount of Olive actually is separated two.
• 07:47 One part is a cemetery.
• 07:49 The big Jewish cemetery in the world, I think.
• 07:52 When you are in the Old City, you can see the cemetery.
• 07:55 And other part of the mountain is what we call the Mount of
• 07:59 Olive because of all of the olives that grow here.
• 08:04 And we are actually in the center of the Mount of Olive, at
• 08:07 the front of the temple mountain.
• 08:11 We're looking for a place that we can make
• 08:13 the ceremony of the red heifer.
• 08:16 And the red heifer had to be done at the front of the temple.
• 08:23 So, we know that the temple was standing--the Holy of the Holies
• 08:27 stand where today's Dome of the Rock, 'kay?
• 08:32 Actually, the Dome of the Rock mentioned as the Rock.
• 08:35 In the Holy of the Holy, there was a rock.
• 08:38 On this rock was standing the ark, and it's had to be place
• 08:45 that you can see the temple.
• 08:47 It means something between the tree that we can see here,
• 08:52 to the tree that--it's somewhere here.
• 08:56 So this is the place that we think we can make
• 08:58 the ceremony of the red heifer.
• 09:02 We build a visitor center but to let people see the red heifer
• 09:09 but, at the same time, it will be a research center because we
• 09:13 believe that even if God will not let us to do it next year,
• 09:18 maybe this will take 10 years, maybe this will take 20 years,
• 09:22 but we have little experience that we can give to the next
• 09:25 generation to find a way to find the red heifer.
• 09:30 We know that in the book of Numbers we got the order
• 09:34 to make the red heifer.
• 09:36 More than the age of the 3 years, that nobody work with
• 09:42 her, and that she without blemish.
• 09:46 And actually, we know that the Bible say that we have to make
• 09:49 kind of a ceremony to burn this
• 09:52 red heifer together with hyssop and --
• 09:55 and the ashes was mixed with water, spring water,
• 10:02 and when we throw it on people they became to be pure.
• 10:08 Why? We don't know.
• 10:10 And I think that sometime, believers have to say,
• 10:13 "I don't know."
• 10:15 Sometime, believers have to say, "I don't understand."
• 10:20 I mean, this is maybe a kind of test for us as a believer.
• 10:27 ♪♪♪
• 10:33 David: I know you felt his energy and passion about this
• 10:35 subject, but I also feel like you guys have that same passion
• 10:39 about--well, you were there.
• 10:41 Caleb: I was there at the selection process.
• 10:43 In fact, I was following the story when I watched Zola
• 10:46 back as a teenager.
• 10:47 I would do current events on this in history class,
• 10:50 talking about the red heifer.
• 10:51 Everybody's "What's a red heifer?"
• 10:53 Like, "Numbers 19, it gives the qualifications
• 10:55 for this red heifer."
• 10:57 And they haven't found one in, like, 2000 years.
• 10:59 So I was so excited when we got the call that we were going to
• 11:02 Rockwall, Texas, and I was like, "Lord, this is amazing.
• 11:05 Thank you very much."
• 11:06 Kirsten: He's so excited.
• 11:08 He is ready, his people are just like, "Hallelujah, it's coming
• 11:13 soon," and you guys aren't that hallelujah-ish about it,
• 11:17 are you?
• 11:18 Joshua: They're excited because the red heifer
• 11:20 is needed to fulfill prophecy.
• 11:22 They're gonna take this red heifer, they are gonna
• 11:25 incinerate it, they're gonna take its ashes,
• 11:27 they're gonna mix it with--
• 11:29 Caleb: Gihon Spring water.
• 11:30 Joshua: Gihon Spring's water and this whole process is needed
• 11:33 for them to be able to bring in the third temple and it's
• 11:38 messing up the status quo because one group
• 11:42 of the Jews is, like, "Yes, we want this.
• 11:44 We want to bring it back."
• 11:45 And the other one's like, "No, we want business as usual," and
• 11:46 they're acting like the Pharisees
• 11:48 and the Sadducees of old fighting--
• 11:49 Caleb: But we personally don't support because we want
• 11:52 more time to minister to the Jewish people
• 11:55 that Yeshua has already come.
• 11:56 And so, some Christians are supporting this effort,
• 11:58 thinking, "We're making prophecy happen faster."
• 12:01 You cannot speed up or slow down prophecy.
• 12:03 It's gonna come in God's timing.
• 12:05 But witness to the lost. Why don't you do that?
• 12:09 Put your dollars toward ministries
• 12:10 that are supporting the lost.
• 12:11 That's what I think you should do.
• 12:13 Kirsten: Yeah, that's good. David: Love your enthusiasm.
• 12:15 Right now, we take you back to Dr. Seif's teaching
• 12:17 in Jerusalem.
• 12:20 Joshua: During the first century, there was a walkway
• 12:23 that led from the Pool of Siloam to the Holy House
• 12:25 of the Lord on the Temple Mount.
• 12:28 Caleb: Millions of devout pilgrims would have taken a
• 12:30 700-yard climb during the 3 holy days of the Jewish year,
• 12:35 Pesach, Shavuot, and Sukkot.
• 12:38 Joshua: Following the Roman destruction in 70 AD,
• 12:41 the walkway was completely covered by debris and dirt
• 12:44 for nearly 2000 years.
• 12:46 Caleb: Now, after 10 years of intense digging, the pilgrimage
• 12:50 road has been uncovered and leads to the earth's epicenter,
• 12:53 the Temple Mount.
• 12:56 Joshua: In the restoration process, a one-of-a-kind
• 12:58 gold bell was found.
• 13:00 Researchers believe it may have accidentally broken loose from
• 13:03 the tunic of the high priest as he made his way
• 13:06 up to the temple.
• 13:07 Caleb: Dr. Seif continues now from an underground tunnel
• 13:10 adjacent to the pilgrimage road.
• 13:15 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: I'm proximate to so much,
• 13:17 it's hard to know where to start.
• 13:20 Probably the best place to start is at a place where I can get
• 13:23 some sure footing because it's wet, the stones are slippery,
• 13:27 the path is precarious.
• 13:30 As you might well imagine, this isn't a frequented tourist area,
• 13:34 but we take you to places where visitors don't always go.
• 13:38 Now, in close proximity to this spot is the Pool of Siloam.
• 13:42 You might recall that Jesus, in the 9th chapter of the Gospel of
• 13:46 John, sent someone there to wash and the blind man got a miracle.
• 13:51 Proximate to that is a pathway that goes up to the temple
• 13:54 complex in Jesus's day and you might recall, and I'm gonna
• 13:57 visit the story in a moment, where there were individuals
• 14:01 that were buying and selling and trading and this invoked Jesus's
• 14:05 ire because space that was dedicated for religious purposes
• 14:11 had turned into a place for profit and enterprise, you know.
• 14:17 And I'm all for profit and enterprise, but if you've heard
• 14:19 the old expression that there's a time and place for everything.
• 14:23 In the 2nd chapter of the Gospel of John,
• 14:27 worship had deteriorated.
• 14:30 God had built a holy house, a Beit HaMikodash--Mikdash,
• 14:35 Mikodash, holy, kodash.
• 14:37 And it was defiled, and Jesus was chagrined.
• 14:41 We're told that he finds merchants selling sheep and oxen
• 14:45 and other kinds of things, paraphernalia,
• 14:47 money changers, and the like.
• 14:49 And again, adjacent to me in another corridor, proximate to
• 14:53 this space, you can see replications of that, leading
• 14:57 all the way up to the city, right up
• 15:00 to the temple complex itself.
• 15:03 Chagrined as he was by the commercialism associated with
• 15:08 sacred space, now think of this,
• 15:10 the temple is a refabricated Eden.
• 15:16 It's--the interior of it, with palm, with menorah which,
• 15:25 you know, the menorahs are like
• 15:26 [speaking in Hebrew] trees of life.
• 15:28 If you look at the cherubim, the guardian angel figures that were
• 15:32 carved into it, it--the Jerusalem temple is kind of a
• 15:39 bit of heaven on earth.
• 15:41 And to think that it was corrupted.
• 15:44 Jesus said, "Get these things out of here!
• 15:48 Stop making My Father's house a marketplace!"
• 15:53 God's house isn't a place for transacting business,
• 15:56 save for forgiveness itself.
• 15:59 And people made their way to Jerusalem only to be exploited.
• 16:03 That, indeed, is problematic.
• 16:06 And speaking of making our way to Jerusalem, here I am, as I
• 16:12 mentioned at the very outset, proximate to the Pool of Siloam,
• 16:15 that's down the hill further.
• 16:17 There's a lot of work being done there to continue to dig
• 16:20 around it, to expand the archeological find.
• 16:24 So much is happening here in Israel and I'm pleased to bring
• 16:27 you some information associated with it in this program,
• 16:31 "Dateline Jerusalem."
• 16:35 Caleb: On our last program we visited a full-size replica of
• 16:38 the tabernacle to better understand the layout and
• 16:41 attributes of the temple.
• 16:42 We were given insights regarding the altar of sacrifice and the
• 16:46 copper washbasin in the outer courtyard.
• 16:49 Ariel Simms continues his description now about the
• 16:52 priests' duties within the tabernacle, the holy place.
• 16:57 Ariel Simms: So, every day, the priests would go in, either
• 17:01 to keep the menorah lit, every day, to keep the lamp lit, or to
• 17:07 burn more incense on the altar of incense or, once a week on
• 17:11 Shabbat, they would eat the shewbread on the north side of
• 17:15 the tabernacle, the bread that sat all week long on the table
• 17:18 until Shabbat for they--when they would eat it.
• 17:21 The menorah was made of pure gold and made of one solid piece
• 17:25 of gold, meaning they didn't take different pieces
• 17:27 and attach them and weld them.
• 17:29 They took one big chunk of gold and they shaped it and molded it
• 17:32 and hammered it into this--into that beautiful piece of artwork.
• 17:36 And it didn't burn with a candle,
• 17:38 like we would think of today.
• 17:39 Rather, it burned with olive oil and a little piece of string
• 17:42 that came out the front.
• 17:43 Every day they would have to go in and fill more oil, cut the
• 17:47 wicks, replace the wick every once in a while,
• 17:50 and it was the only source of light in the entire room.
• 17:53 So, you can try to imagine if all the walls were covered in
• 17:57 gold inside, then all of that light would have reflected off
• 18:01 the walls and light up the whole room.
• 18:04 The table of shewbread on the north side of the tabernacle,
• 18:07 opposite from the lampstand, the menorah, on the table were 12
• 18:11 loaves of bread symbolizing God's provision
• 18:14 for the 12 tribes of Israel.
• 18:16 Also symbolizing the 12 months of the year.
• 18:19 So it symbolizes how God provides for all of his people
• 18:21 and all the time, all year long.
• 18:23 When they eat the bread, they eat it with olive oil and a
• 18:27 little plant called hyssop.
• 18:29 Hyssop in Hebrew, ezob, is a plant that is used
• 18:32 to make a modern Israeli spice called za'atar.
• 18:35 If you've tried it, it's good stuff.
• 18:37 But the plant, hyssop itself, occurs or is--shows up
• 18:42 quite a bit throughout the Old Testament as a plant
• 18:45 that represents purity.
• 18:47 I would say the most famous example is Psalm 51
• 18:50 when David says: "Purify me," or with hyssop.
• 18:53 The altar of incense, also called the inner altar, where
• 18:57 they would every day have to burn incense, where they didn't
• 19:03 sacrifice animals like they did here outside, but every day
• 19:06 the priests had to offer incense.
• 19:08 They would take different plants and herbs and flowers, grind it
• 19:11 into a very fine powder, sprinkle it on the altar, and it
• 19:16 would fill the entire room with a beautiful smell,
• 19:18 a beautiful aroma.
• 19:20 And that smell, that incense, that represents prayer, and
• 19:23 represents the prayers of the Israelites ascending to heaven,
• 19:26 and it also represents our prayers today as being like a
• 19:29 sweet and beautiful smell to the Lord.
• 19:33 So, the curtain separated between the Holy and Holy of
• 19:36 Holies, made up of what we call the holy colors which, the same
• 19:41 colors, the same materials and colors that was the first layer
• 19:44 that covered the tent on the outside.
• 19:47 Blue, purple, red, white, and then blue again.
• 19:50 We don't know the exact pattern, but we know roughly the shades
• 19:54 of the colors and the Hebrew names of these colors--or the
• 19:58 biblical names of these colors are not just the names of the
• 20:00 colors themselves, but also the names of the materials
• 20:02 they were made of.
• 20:04 And--but inside, stitched onto the veil that's separating
• 20:08 between the Holy and Holy of Holies with gold stitching
• 20:11 were angels called cherubim.
• 20:13 There are different types of angels throughout the Bible.
• 20:15 There's cherubim, seraphim, there's nephilim which
• 20:18 are bad angels, evil angels.
• 20:20 But the cherubim are the angels that represent the presence of
• 20:23 God and they're the angels that God has set before him
• 20:26 in order to guard his glory.
• 20:27 Only the high priest was allowed to go into the Holy of Holies,
• 20:31 and only once a year.
• 20:33 That day is Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement.
• 20:36 The same day that he was to make the atonement,
• 20:38 sacrifice, for the people.
• 20:40 So he would, on that day, he was the only person
• 20:42 in the entire compound, the high priest.
• 20:44 No one could even enter into the courtyard on that day.
• 20:48 First, he had to offer a personal sacrifice for himself
• 20:51 before he could make a sacrifice for all of Israel.
• 20:54 Then, he would walk in with the blood of the sacrifice, into the
• 20:59 Holy of Holies and sprinkle the blood
• 21:01 on the ark of the covenant.
• 21:03 And that would atone for the sins of Israel for that year.
• 21:06 And when the high priest went into the Holy of Holies, he
• 21:10 wasn't dressed all colorful and fancy like
• 21:12 he did the rest of the year.
• 21:13 He was dressed only in white, like a regular priest.
• 21:16 He had to come in humble and pure before the Lord.
• 21:19 ♪♪♪
• 21:26 Caleb: God wanted man to partake in this tabernacle
• 21:29 worship because it was a mirror of that which was in heaven, and
• 21:32 it foreshadowed redemption by the blood of Yeshua
• 21:35 that was to come.
• 21:36 Unfortunately, Satan has been working overtime to infiltrate
• 21:40 the body of Christ, the church, with a perverse form of worship.
• 21:44 It doesn't happen immediately.
• 21:46 It's a slight, slow and methodical altering of the truth
• 21:49 over time to get man to focus on self, which reverts to worship
• 21:54 of Satan and not the worship of God.
• 21:57 That's called apostasy, guys, and it is
• 21:59 a deliberate act of the enemy.
• 22:01 Well, I sat down with Mark Hitchcock to talk to him about
• 22:05 this coming great apostasy that's prophesied
• 22:07 in the Scriptures.
• 22:10 Caleb: Thanks for being with us again, Mark.
• 22:12 Mark Hitchcock: Yes.
• 22:14 Caleb: I know some people look at the church today as an
• 22:15 institution and they think the church is not
• 22:17 in very good shape.
• 22:19 I know there's a lot of prophetic words that Paul gives
• 22:21 about an apostasy, this coming apostasy,
• 22:23 that's coming to the church.
• 22:25 It's kind of there now.
• 22:26 What do you have to say about the prophetic apostasy or the
• 22:29 falling away that might hit believers?
• 22:32 Mark: Well, in 2 Thessalonians chapter 2, verse
• 22:34 3, it talks about The apostasy.
• 22:36 That's gonna be the final great apostasy that I think will
• 22:39 happen after the Rapture takes place.
• 22:41 Should be just a total falling away.
• 22:43 Caleb: Free for all.
• 22:45 Mark: Yeah, but when we look at today, yeah, you could say,
• 22:46 "Well, maybe we're kind of on the leading edge of that.
• 22:49 We're not there yet, but yeah, there are lots of prophecies in
• 22:52 the New Testament about apostasy.
• 22:54 You know, the last book of the New Testament, before the book
• 22:57 of Revelation, is the book of Jude.
• 22:59 It's a little 25-verse book that's basically about apostasy.
• 23:03 It's about falling away and I often refer to the book of Jude
• 23:05 as, like, the foyer to the book of Revelation.
• 23:08 It's kind of the lead-in to it, and it kind of is describing
• 23:12 what conditions will be like when the end times arrive.
• 23:15 But, you know, the apostle Paul says in 1 Timothy 4, verse 1,
• 23:19 he says the Spirit expressly says in the latter days,
• 23:23 many will fall away from the faith,
• 23:25 giving heed to seducing spirits and demonic doctrines.
• 23:29 He says in 2 Timothy, he says, "Evil men and seducers will grow
• 23:33 worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived."
• 23:36 So this world is headed towards a time of ultimate apostasy when
• 23:40 the Antichrist comes, declares he's God.
• 23:43 But we see a lot of this.
• 23:44 And apostasy is both doctrinal and moral.
• 23:46 Caleb: That's true.
• 23:47 Mark: So there's a doctrinal element.
• 23:49 We see, you know, people denying the essential truths of the
• 23:51 faith, but also all these moral issues
• 23:53 that are there are turning away as well.
• 23:54 So we see all of that really coming and cascading in our
• 23:58 world today and I think that's a real sign of the times.
• 24:01 It's a sign of Christ's coming.
• 24:03 Caleb: Yeah, so it gives us hope that good is on the way
• 24:05 when Messiah comes for us but, in the meantime,
• 24:08 we just have to double our efforts and speak the truth.
• 24:11 Mark: That's right, yeah.
• 24:12 As someone used to say: "The darker the outlook,
• 24:13 the brighter the upload."
• 24:15 And so, yeah, apostasy is a key sign of the times.
• 24:18 Caleb: Thank you, Mark.
• 24:19 Mark: Welcome.
• 24:21 Caleb: That's a heavy topic and it's prophetic
• 24:24 that Mark spoke about.
• 24:25 And you can learn more about these prophetic topics
• 24:27 in Mark's book, "The End."
• 24:28 We're getting it to you when you give an offering
• 24:31 to this ministry.
• 24:32 It's our way of saying Thank you and it's also a bookmark that
• 24:35 we're giving along with it, with Scriptures that Josh
• 24:38 and I selected that have prophetic meaning
• 24:40 that will help you along on your journey.
• 24:42 Kirsten: Caleb just said it's a heavy topic.
• 24:44 It's also, should I say, a heavy book.
• 24:47 It's a 500-page hardback book.
• 24:51 Not a cheap paperback one.
• 24:52 It's a good book that we would love to have you get
• 24:57 for a generous donation to this ministry.
• 25:00 Thank you in advance for that.
• 25:03 David: Also, may I say the footage that you're seeing in
• 25:06 this whole series, beautiful footage, all over Israel, we
• 25:09 would love to take you there to experience that in person.
• 25:13 We go both in the fall and the spring and, guys, I think,
• 25:16 aren't you gonna be going with us soon?
• 25:18 Caleb: We are so excited. Kirsten: Woo-hoo.
• 25:21 David: Will you be teaching? Caleb: Yes, we will.
• 25:22 David: We're gonna be leading worship on location.
• 25:24 Caleb: Yes, it's gonna be a great time.
• 25:26 Joshua: It's pretty much gonna be amazing.
• 25:27 David: Join us.
• 25:28 Kirsten: Yeah, falafel, all you can eat, shawarma, hummus, I
• 25:32 could go on forever.
• 25:33 Caleb: Well, speaking of worship, as Jeff talked about,
• 25:36 and Mark Hitchcock, there's a perversion of worship that was
• 25:39 going on back then with apostasy,
• 25:41 with altering the truth of God.
• 25:44 And you read in Revelation 2 and 3 there's some pretty heavy
• 25:47 messages that Yeshua himself gives to
• 25:49 the seven churches in Asia.
• 25:50 They're not very good.
• 25:52 Maybe one church out of that, Philadelphia,
• 25:53 gets a good gold star next to it.
• 25:55 But those churches are really around today.
• 25:58 You can see that in our institutions
• 26:00 of our places of worship.
• 26:02 And it's kind of that warning that apostasy is continuing to
• 26:05 seep in to the doctrine that we're teaching today,
• 26:08 just as it did in yesterday.
• 26:09 Jude talked about it, Peter, John, Yeshua.
• 26:12 It's still around. It's still a problem.
• 26:14 Joshua: It is a problem.
• 26:16 We're living in the time that Paul speaks about
• 26:17 in 2 Timothy 3:1 through 5.
• 26:19 He goes on and on about all these situations that we're
• 26:22 dealing with, people are gonna love money, they're gonna be
• 26:24 proud, they're gonna be blasphemers,
• 26:26 disobedient to their parents.
• 26:27 All these things, and we're dealing with that now.
• 26:29 The thing about apostasy that is so wicked
• 26:32 is that it's not accidental.
• 26:34 Don't pretend like it is. You're choosing to.
• 26:36 We're living in a day and age with our ability to communicate
• 26:39 through the Internet and everything else
• 26:40 that pride is rampant.
• 26:42 Everything has been directed and made about worshiping ourselves.
• 26:45 From the type of photos being created called selfies, to how
• 26:48 we have complete shrines online for everything
• 26:50 we do every moment of the day.
• 26:52 I'm not trying to attack any of you for your pages, but you are
• 26:55 supposed to make your life about God and about the Father, and
• 26:59 direct your focus and everyone else's to him.
• 27:01 Kirsten: And that's exactly what we desire
• 27:03 to do on this program.
• 27:05 Every week, tell your friends, tune in, go online.
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• 27:14 More coming up in the weeks ahead
• 27:16 but we have to close for now.
• 27:17 Joshua: Yeah, we do.
• 27:18 So as we always say: "Shaalu shalom Yerushalayim."
• 27:20 David: Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.
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