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Caption transcript for The Gospel According to Isaiah: “Summary” (8/8)

• 00:12 HE IS DESPISED AND REJECTED OF MEN,
• 00:17 WOUNDED FOR OUR TRANSGRESSIONS AND BRUISED FOR OUR INIQUITIES.
• 00:24 HE IS BROUGHT AS A LAMB TO THE SLAUGHTER.
• 00:29 WRITTEN 700 YEARS BEFORE CHRIST, ISAIAH KNEW THAT THIS PROPHETIC SCRIPTURE
• 00:34 WOULD ONE DAY BE FULFILLED IN THE LAMB OF GOD,....JESUS.
• 00:46 A HEARTY SHALOM TO ALL OF YOU.
• 00:50 JEFFREY SEIF HERE WITH MY GOOD FRIEND SANDRA LEVITT.
• 00:54 SHALOM JEFF. HOW ARE YOU?
• 00:55 HELLO, HELLO.
• 00:56 WE'RE DOING A WRAP ON ISAIAH TODAY, AREN'T WE?
• 00:58 YES, AND IT'S KIND OF SAD.
• 00:59 I'VE REALLY ENJOYED ISAIAH.
• 01:01 I'VE ENJOYED HIS INSIGHTS INTO GOD'S SALVATION,
• 01:04 HIS PLAN OF SALVATION
• 01:06 AND YET GOD IS TELLING HIM,
• 01:08 "YOU NEED TO BEHAVE A LITTLE BIT THERE."
• 01:09 ISAIAH IS INCREDIBLE.
• 01:13 ISAIAH IS THE MOST OFT QUOTED OLD TESTAMENT PROPHET IN THE NEW TESTAMENT
• 01:18 FOR A VARIETY OF REASONS.
• 01:20 I KNOW THAT YOU'VE EXPLORED SOME OF THOSE REASONS WITH US THROUGH THIS SERIES.
• 01:25 WE'RE GOING TO REVIEW SOME TODAY AND THEN MOVE ON PAST ISAIAH TO ANOTHER PROPHET, ZECHARIAH.
• 01:32 BUT FIRST, WE'RE GOING TO CONSIDER SOME HIGHLIGHTS OF THE GOSPEL IN ISAIAH,
• 01:36 THE STORY OF JESUS' DEATH, BURIAL AND RESURRECTION FORETOLD YEARS BEFOREHAND
• 01:43 THROUGH THE MOUTH AND PEN OF ISAIAH THE PROPHET.
• 02:38 COMING TO YOU FROM THE MOUNT OF OLIVES ON A CALM, PEACEFUL SATURDAY MORNING.
• 02:44 BEHIND ME, OF COURSE, IS THE CITY OF JERUSALEM.
• 02:48 GOD'S CITY. THE CENTER OF THE EARTH. A WONDERFUL CITY.
• 02:53 I'M SURE YOU NOTED THERE'S THE DOME OF THE ROCK BEHIND ME.
• 02:55 IT WASN'T THERE IN JESUS' DAY.
• 02:58 IT WAS A CITY LIKE THAT,
• 02:59 BUT NOT QUITE THAT.
• 03:01 ISLAM HADN'T YET ARISEN.
• 03:03 ISLAM WOULD BE CENTURIES REMOVED.
• 03:05 WHAT STOOD ON TOP OF MOUNT
• 03:06 MORIAH BEHIND ME WAS
• 03:07 THE BEIT HA'MIKDOSH,
• 03:09 THE TEMPLE,
• 03:10 WHERE INDIVIDUALS WOULD COME TO BRING SACRIFICES FOR THEIR SINS.
• 03:15 IT'S A BEAUTIFUL CITY. I'M SO PLEASED TO BE HERE AND TO TELL YOU FROM THIS CITY
• 03:19 THE STORY OF THE 8TH CENTURY PROPHET ISAIAH WHO PREDICTED
• 03:23 THAT THERE WOULD BE A NEW WAY THAT GOD WOULD AFFECT THE SACRIFICE FOR SINS.
• 03:28 THE TEMPLE COMPLEX THAT STOOD BEHIND ME ONCE UPON A TIME WOULD BE A PLACE FOR RITUAL SLAUGHTER
• 03:35 WHERE PENITENCE WOULD BRING THEIR ANIMALS WITH A MIND TO PLACATE GOD AND APPEASE HIM
• 03:40 AND TO SHOW THEIR CONTRITION AND THEIR WANTING TO BE RIGHT WITH HIM.
• 03:44 ISAIAH, THE PROPHET, HAD SAID IN
• 03:45 HIS WORD THAT GOD DOESN'T JUST
• 03:48 SIMPLY DESIRE SACRIFICES
• 03:50 AND NEW MOONS AND THE LIKE,
• 03:52 BUT RATHER HE WANTS THERE
• 03:53 TO BE REPENTANCE.
• 03:55 AND NOT ONLY THAT, BUT HE SAYS THAT GOD IS GOING TO EFFECT SOMETHING NEW IN THE EARTH.
• 04:00 OH, IT'S SUCH A THRILL TO BE ABLE TO TELL YOU THAT STORY.
• 04:03 IN FACT, IF YOU WOULD, PLEASE, TURN IN YOUR BIBLES, TO ISAIAH CHAPTER 53.
• 04:08 I WANT TO REVIEW WITH YOU WHAT ARGUABLY IS THE GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD.
• 04:13 THEREIN IN CHAPTER 53, VERSE 1, THE PROPHET STARTS OFF AND HE SAYS...
• 04:23 THE STORY THAT I'M ABOUT TO TELL, SADLY TO SAY,
• 04:25 SOME ARE BLINDED AND DON'T QUITE PERCEIVE IT.
• 04:28 THE PROPHET SAYS AS MUCH, THAT THERE WILL BE SOMETHING OF A VEIL.
• 04:31 THAT NOT ALL WILL PERCEIVE THE MESSAGE HEREIN.
• 04:35 HE GOES ON TO DESCRIBE THE MESSIAH,
• 04:37 THE SERVANT OF THE LORD.
• 04:39 AND WHAT DOES HE SAY?
• 04:40 HE SAYS THAT THIS PERSON, IN VERSE 2...
• 04:49 AT FACE VALUE THAT MIGHT NOT SEEM LIKE MUCH, BUT THE FARMERS THAT ARE HEARING ME SAY,
• 04:52 "WAIT A MINUTE. IF THE EARTH ISN'T WATERED LIFE DOESN'T COME FORTH FROM IT."
• 04:57 CAN YOU THINK OF THE MESSIAH IN RELATIONSHIP TO UNWATERED EARTH?
• 05:01 REMEMBER THE FACT THAT HIS MOTHER MARIAM HAD NOT YET MARRIED JOSEPH.
• 05:08 JESUS MADE HIS ENTRANCE ONTO THE STAGE OF THE HUMAN DRAMA THROUGH THE AGENCY OF THE
• 05:13 "RUACH HAKODESH",
• 05:14 THE HOLY SPIRIT.
• 05:15 FOR BEFORE THEY CAME TOGETHER,
• 05:17 SHE TURNED UP PREGNANT.
• 05:19 YOU CAN RECALL THE STORY, HOW SHE AND JOSEPH HUMBLY MADE THEIR WAY TO BETHLEHEM.
• 05:26 THERE WAS NO ROOM AT THE INN AND SO THE CHRIST CHILD
• 05:29 MADE HIS ENTRANCE ONTO THE STAGE OF THE HUMAN DRAMA UNDER THE MOST HUMBLE OF CIRCUMSTANCES.
• 05:35 THIS MIRACLE BORN CHILD.
• 05:38 NOW I KNOW THAT SOME TAKE OFFENSE AND SAY,
• 05:40 "WELL WAIT A MINUTE.THE WHOLE IDEA OF A VIRGIN BIRTH SOUNDS SO VERY CHRISTIAN,"
• 05:44 "BUT IT HAS NO PLACE IN JEWISH CONCEPTUALIZATION."
• 05:46 I CAN UNDERSTAND THAT AT ONE LEVEL, BUT THINK ABOUT THIS...
• 05:49 ABRAHAM AND SARAH, ABRAHAM BEING THE FOUNDER OF THE RACE,
• 05:53 WAS UNABLE TO GIVE BIRTH THROUGH SARAH.
• 05:56 AND SHE WAS SO OLD WHEN THE CHILD CAME,
• 05:59 THAT SHE LAUGHED UPON HEARING
• 06:01 THAT THE CHILD WAS GOING TO BE COMING.
• 06:03 AND SO THEY NAMED THE CHILD ISAAC, OR "LAUGHTER".
• 06:06 THE POINT IS THE JEWISH PEOPLE AS A RACE;
• 06:09 WE COME THROUGH STOCK THAT COULDN'T BEAR NATURALLY.
• 06:13 THIS BOY ISAAC GROWS UP. HE MARRIES A WOMAN, REBECCA, AND WHAT DO WE KNOW OF HER?
• 06:19 SHE'S UNABLE TO BEAR.
• 06:21 THE TEXT TELLS US THAT ISAAC
• 06:22 INTERCEDES FOR HER
• 06:24 AND THEN A CHILD COMES FORTH;
• 06:25 TWO CHILDREN, ACTUALLY, ESAU AND JACOB.
• 06:28 YOU MIGHT RECALL IN THE STORY THAT ESAU MARRIES.
• 06:31 JACOB PARTICULARLY LOVES A WOMAN, RACHEL.
• 06:34 SHE, HOWEVER, IS UNABLE TO CONCEIVE. SHE IS VEXED BY IT ALL.
• 06:40 WHAT HAPPENS, THE TEXT SAYS, IS
• 06:41 THAT THE LORD OPENS UP HER WOMB.
• 06:43 THE REASON WHY I MENTION THAT IS
• 06:45 TROUBLING AS IT MIGHT SOUND AT FACE VALUE,
• 06:48 FOR A JEWISH PERSON TO THINK ABOUT A VIRGIN GIVING BIRTH TO A MESSIAH, TO A SAVIOR,
• 06:52 WE SEE THAT THE HEBREW RACE COMES FORTH FROM WOMBS THAT WERE CLOSED.
• 06:58 SO THE MESSIAH'S ENTERING THE SAME WAY TO ME IS PERFECTLY CONGRUENT
• 07:03 AND CONSISTENT WITH HEBREW LITERATURE.AND IT'S CONSISTENT WITH WHAT THE PROPHET SAYS, TOO.
• 07:07 HE SAYS THAT THIS PERSON IS GOING TO COME FORTH AS A ROOT OUT OF DRY GROUND.
• 07:11 HE'S GOING TO SPRING UP.
• 07:13 AS IF THAT WASN'T SHOCKING ENOUGH, WHAT COMES NEXT IS RATHER INTERESTING.
• 07:16 HE SAYS IN VERSE 3...
• 07:25 FOR MY JEWISH FRIENDS THAT MIGHT BE WATCHING THAT MIGHT TAKE OFFENSE AT ME,
• 07:28 I DON'T PERSONALIZE IT.AND FOR OTHERS THAT MIGHT TAKE OFFENSE, I DON'T PERSONALIZE IT EITHER.
• 07:33 I REALIZE THERE'S STUFF IN THIS STORY TO TAKE OFFENSE OVER.
• 07:37 IN FACT, IT'S PREDICTED THAT THE MESSIAH WOULD BE, IN FACT, DESPISED AND REJECTED BY MEN.
• 07:42 HE WAS TREATED COOLLY BY SOME, CRUELLY BY OTHERS.
• 07:47 DISTANCE WAS THE WORD. BUT HE LOVED DESPITE.
• 07:51 YOU KNOW IT'S GREAT TO HAVE THE LOVE OF GOD IN OUR HEARTS SO THAT WAY WE CAN BE
• 07:55 MORE KINDLY DISPOSED TOWARD THOSE THAT MIGHT NOT BE AS FAIR TO US AS WE WOULD WISH.
• 08:00 WELL THIS MESSIAH, WE'RE TOLD IN ADVANCE IN THE 8TH CENTURY BC,
• 08:04 WE'RE TOLD THAT HE IS TO BE DESPISED AND REJECTED BY MEN,
• 08:08 A MAN OF SORROWS AND ACQUAINTED WITH GRIEF.
• 08:11 I'LL TELL YOU, THE REASON WHY I'M SMILING RIGHT NOW ISN'T JUST BECAUSE THE SUN IS IN MY FACE
• 08:15 AND THAT I'M HAPPY TO BE IN THIS PLACE RIGHT HERE.
• 08:17 I'M SMILING BECAUSE THE PEACE OF GOD IS IN MY HEART EVEN AMIDST TRYING CIRCUMSTANCES.
• 08:22 A PEACE THAT'S AVAILABLE.WHY? BECAUSE HE BORE OUR SORROWS. HE TOOK IT UPON HIM.
• 08:29 AND IF WE WOULD JUST GIVE IT TO HIM, HE'D BE HAPPY TO TAKE IT AND GIVE US SOMETHING IN RETURN
• 08:33 - A NEW LIFE.
• 08:35 WE'RE TOLD IN VERSE 4, LEST YOU DON'T BELIEVE ME, OUT OF VERSE 3, WE'RE TOLD THAT...
• 08:42 ISN'T IT WONDERFUL IN THE 8TH CENTURY BC,
• 08:46 THIS JEWISH PROPHET ENVISIONS A MESSIAH WHO WOULD MAKE HIS ENTRANCE
• 08:49 ONTO THE STAGE OF THE HUMAN DRAMA THROUGH A VIRGIN BIRTH?
• 08:52 HE WOULD BE DESPISED AND REJECTED AND THAT HE WOULD BEAR OUR SINS, BEAR OUR SORROW.
• 08:57 THE REASON WHY I SAY SINS IN VERSE 5 HE SAYS...
• 09:10 THE VISION OF CHRIST DYING ON THE CROSS,
• 09:14 SWEATING BLOOD IN THE GARDEN OF GETHSEMANE,
• 09:17 BEING TAKEN AWAY BEFORE VARIOUS MOCK TRIBUNALS
• 09:22 AND THEN FINALLY BEING EXECUTED AT GOLGOTHA.
• 09:25 THE STORY ON THE ONE HAND SOUNDS SO VERY NEW TESTAMENT AND IT IS,
• 09:29 BUT IT'S PREDICTED IN THE OLD TESTAMENT WHERE IN THE 8TH CENTURY,
• 09:32 MANY YEARS IN ADVANCE THIS HEBREW PROPHET TALKS ABOUT
• 09:35 THE COMING SERVANT OF THE LORD AND INFORMS
• 09:37 THAT HE IS GOING TO BE WOUNDED
• 09:39 FOR OUR TRANSGRESSIONS;
• 09:41 THAT HE IS GOING TO BE
• 09:42 BRUISED FOR OUR INIQUITIES
• 09:43 AND THAT BY HIS STRIPES
• 09:45 WE ARE GOING TO BE HEALED.
• 09:47 LISTEN, THERE'S BIBLICAL MEDICINE FOR LIFE'S ASSORTED HURTS.
• 09:53 IT'S ALL PREDICTED MANY YEARS BEFOREHAND.
• 09:57 I KNOW WHEN IT COMES TO THE CROSS,
• 09:58 THAT JEWISH PEOPLE HAVE BEEN USED TO HEARING, "YOU JEWS KILLED JESUS!"
• 10:03 ANGRY MOBS HAVE HOWLED AND LAID AT THE FEET OF THE JEWISH RACE THE DEATH OF CHRIST.
• 10:12 WHAT SAY THOSE IN VERSE 10 TO THIS WHERE IT SAYS...
• 10:21 JESUS DID NOT DIE BECAUSE OF JEWS.
• 10:23 JESUS DIED BECAUSE OF ALL OF "YOUS". YOU AND ME, ALL OF US TOGETHER.
• 10:28 HE DIED FOR SINS. HE DIED BECAUSE OF SIN, NOT BECAUSE OF JEWS.
• 10:32 AND JEWS DON'T HAVE EXCLUSIVE RIGHTS TO SIN PROBLEMS.
• 10:36 IT'S SOMETHING THAT'S UBIQUITOUS.
• 10:37 IT'S EVERYWHERE IN THE HUMAN RACE, IS IT NOT?
• 10:39 IF WE WANT TO HANG THE DEATH OF JESUS ON SOMEONE, LET'S PUT IT WHERE IT BELONGS.
• 10:44 LET'S BLAME GOD FOR IT. NOW, OF COURSE, THAT'S NOT GOING TO HAPPEN.
• 10:47 I'M JUST SAYING FOR RHETORICAL PURPOSES, IT'S GOOD NEWS, NOT BAD NEWS.
• 10:52 THAT IT PLEASED THE LORD TO BRUISE HIM. THE LORD HAS PUT HIM TO GRIEF...
• 11:08 THE REASON WHY GOD WAS PLEASED, WHY HE SO LOVED THE WORLD
• 11:12 TO SEND HIS ONLY SON INTO THE WORLD IS THROUGH THE AGONY OF THE CROSS,
• 11:18 HE COULD ENVISION THE ECSTASY OF UNTOLD MILLIONS COMING TO LIFE THROUGH HIS SACRIFICIAL DEATH.
• 11:25 HE DID IT FOR US. HE GAVE HIS LIFE THAT WE COULD HAVE LIFE.
• 11:29 NOW I REALIZE THAT JEWISH FRIENDS WILL SAY,
• 11:32 "AW!LISTEN, THE WHOLE IDEA OF SOMEONE DYING ON THE CROSS FOR SINS AND SHEDDING BLOOD..."
• 11:39 "...I JUST GO TO GOD DIRECTLY. I DON'T NEED THAT."
• 11:43 THIS VISTA BEHIND ME REMINDS US THAT WE DO.AND THE REASON WHY I SAY THAT IS CENTURIES AGO,
• 11:51 WHEN "MOSHE RABANU", WHEN MOSES LIVED,
• 11:55 THROUGH HIS WORDWE'RE TOLD OF THE MANUFACTURER OF A TABERNACLE, THEN A TEMPLE;
• 12:00 A PLACE WHERE ISRAEL WAS BECKONED TO COME AND BRING THEIR SACRIFICES.
• 12:04 AND WE'RE TOLD IN NO UNCERTAIN TERMS IN THE BOOK OF LEVITICUS CHAPTER 17, VERSE 11,
• 12:10 THAT WITHOUT BLOOD SACRIFICE,
• 12:12 THERE'S NO REMISSION OF SIN.
• 12:14 THE WHOLE CONCEPT OF GIVING LIFE, SACRIFICE, GIVING LIFE FOR FORGIVENESS,
• 12:20 CONCEPTUALLY THAT'S ROOTED IN THE HEBREW BIBLE, NOT THE CHRISTIAN MESSAGE.
• 12:24 I THINK THAT IS RATHER PROFOUND. I THINK THAT THIS TEXT IS RATHER PROPHETIC WHERE WE'RE TOLD
• 12:29 THAT IT WAS THE LORD'S GOOD WILL TO BRUISE HIM.
• 12:33 HE HAS PUT HIM TO GRIEF IN ORDER TO THEN MAKE HIMSELF A SACRIFICE FOR SINS.
• 12:39 IN RESPONSE TO ALL THIS, WE'RE TOLD THEN AS HE CLOSES IN VERSE 12...
• 12:54 IS IT NOT WONDERFUL NEWS, GOOD NEWS FROM ANCIENT JEWS,
• 12:58 ISAIAH PARTICULARLY, THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ISAIAH?
• 13:02 I THINK IT'S FASCINATING, PERSONALLY,
• 13:04 THAT YEARS BEFORE JESUS MADE HIS ENTRANCE THROUGH MARY, THE PROPHETIC WORD MADE THE ENTRANCE
• 13:10 THROUGH THE GREATEST JEWISH PROPHET IN THE OLD TESTAMENT, ...ISAIAH
• 13:14 AND HELPED US TO HAVE A VISION OF THE COMING CHRIST MANY YEARS BEFOREHAND.
• 13:21 (ZOLA PLAYING THE RECORDER)
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• 14:03 I LOVE THIS PLACE. I'M SO THRILLED TO BE HERE.
• 14:09 SOME DAY YOU NEED TO COME HERE AND JOIN SANDRA AND I AND VISIT THIS PLACE.
• 14:14 BUT FRANKLY, I'M JUST GLAD YOU CAN BE HERE RIGHT NOW THROUGH THE MIRACLE OF TELEVISION.
• 14:19 THOUGH I'M GLAD YOU'RE HERE WITH US AND ANXIOUS FOR YOU TO COME WITH US.
• 14:24 AT ONE LEVEL I AM NOT PARTICULARLY ANXIOUS FOR YOU TO GET TO THIS PLACE,
• 14:29 BECAUSE I AM STANDING IN THE MIDDLE OF A CEMETERY
• 14:32 AMIDST THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS OF TOMBS.
• 14:37 I READ THE NAMES A MOMENT AGO.
• 14:40 I SAW AN ABRAHAM.
• 14:44 I SAW A MOSES.
• 14:47 I SAW A NUMBER OF HEBREW PEOPLE THAT ARE LAYING TO REST AND PRAY TELL, WHY ARE THEY HERE?
• 14:56 THEY MADE ARRANGEMENTS TO GET HIGH TICKET SEATS, BALCONY SEATS TO THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH.
• 15:10 RELIGIOUS JEWS BELIEVE IN THE RESURRECTION OF THE DEAD.
• 15:16 RELIGIOUS JEWS BELIEVE THAT WHEN MESSIAH COMES THERE WILL BE A RESURRECTION TO LIFE.
• 15:23 RELIGIOUS JEWS BELIEVE THAT MESSIAH WILL MAKE HIS WAY OVER THIS MOUNTAIN
• 15:29 AND MAKE HIS WAY THROUGH THE
• 15:31 EASTERN GATES OF JERUSALEM
• 15:32 BEHIND ME.
• 15:35 AND THESE JEWS, THESE DEDICATED JEWS PAID DEARLY
• 15:40 TO BE LAID TO REST HERE AT THE BALCONY
• 15:44 TO HAVE FRONT ROW SEATS TO THE GREATEST DRAMA IN HUMAN HISTORY.
• 15:51 I DON'T KNOW IF I COULD AFFORD TO BE BURIED HERE, AND YOU KNOW WHAT?
• 15:57 I DON'T KNOW THAT I NEED TO BE. WHY IS THAT?
• 16:01 BECAUSE SOMEONE PAID THE PRICE FOR MY FRONT ROW SEAT ALREADY.
• 16:07 THEY NOT ONLY PAID THE PRICE FOR MY RESURRECTION, THEY GUARANTEED ME ACCESS TO IT.
• 16:16 THERE WAS A RABBI.IN FACT, HAD HE NOT COME TO KNOW JESUS,
• 16:22 HE'D BE THE SORT THAT WOULD WANT TO BE BURIED RIGHT HERE.
• 16:25 HIS NAME WAS SAUL, COMMONLY REFERRED TO AS PAUL.
• 16:31 I WANT TO PICK UP IN A STATEMENT OF HIS IN THE 26TH CHAPTER IN THE BOOK OF ACTS
• 16:37 WHERE HE'S GIVING VOICE TO HIS OWN FAITH.HE TALKS HERE ABOUT THE RESURRECTION OF THE DEAD.
• 16:46 WE'VE ALREADY CONSIDERED ISAIAH'S PREDICTIONS ABOUT HOW THE MESSIAH WOULD COME.
• 16:51 HE'S TO MAKE HIS ENTRANCE ONTO THE STAGE OF THE HUMAN DRAMA THROUGH A VIRGIN.
• 16:55 HE WOULD BE DESPISED AND REJECTED.HE'D GO TO THE CROSS.
• 16:58 HE'D BE BURIED.HE'D RISE AGAIN.THERE'D BE AN OUTPOURING OF THE HOLY SPIRIT.
• 17:06 THE BELIEVER'S WERE GATHERED TOGETHER, HUDDLED TOGETHER RATHER, FEARFULLY,
• 17:10 AND THEN THERE WAS THE SOUND OF A MIGHTY RUSHING WIND.
• 17:15 IT FILLED THE HOUSE WHERE THEY WERE AND THEY ALL WERE FILLED WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT
• 17:20 AND BEGAN TO WITNESS, TESTIFY TO THE THINGS OF THE KINGDOM.
• 17:24 NOW PAUL WASN'T THERE FOR THAT EVENT. WHEN HE HEARD ABOUT THAT EVENT,
• 17:29 HE HIMSELF WAS OF THE PERSUASION THAT HE NEEDED TO WIPE OUT THOSE THAT WERE PARTY TO THAT STORY.
• 17:36 BUT HE WAS ON THE ROAD TO DAMASCUS ONE FATEFUL DAY
• 17:39 AND HE BECAME RADICALLY TRANSFORMED AND WHAT DOES HE SAY?
• 17:43 HE'S STANDING BEFORE AGRIPPA, GIVING AN ACCOUNTING FOR HIS FAITH AND HE SAYS...
• 18:18 AND PAUL SAID THAT CHRIST WOULD SUFFER
• 18:22 AND THAT HE WOULD BE THE FIRST TO RISE FROM THE DEAD
• 18:27 THE MESSIAH IS REFERRED TO AS THE FIRST BORN OF MANY BRETHREN.
• 18:31 BECAUSE HE LIVES I CAN FACE TOMORROW.
• 18:35 BECAUSE HE LIVES I CAN SEE LIFE ON THE OTHER END OF THE GRAVE.
• 18:40 THOUGH DEPOSITED IN THE EARTH, HE WAS DEPOSITED AND ROSE.
• 18:45 THOSE THAT ARE BURIED IN HIM, WILL RISE BECAUSE OF HIM.
• 18:49 AND WE'LL HAVE ACCESS TO THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH, THE BEST BALCONY SEATS IN THE HOUSE.
• 19:35 THAT'S ISRAEL.
• 19:36 I LOVE GOING TO ISRAEL.
• 19:37 I HOPE YOU WANT TO GO SOME DAY WITH US.
• 19:40 WE DID FILMING ON THE MOUNT OF OLIVES.
• 19:42 IT WAS A GORGEOUS, GORGEOUS MORNING.
• 19:44 IT WAS QUIET. IT WAS SHABBAT. NOTHING WAS MOVING.
• 19:47 JEFF DID JUST A WONDERFUL TEACHING ON ISAIAH ON THE MOUNT OF OLIVES.
• 19:50 IT WAS WONDERFUL.
• 19:51 WELL, THANK YOU. I'VE GOT A GREAT IDEA.
• 19:53 LET'S DO SOME MORE WONDERFUL TEACHING. >>OKAY!
• 19:55 FROM ZECHARIAH [IN HEBREW].
• 19:58 LET ME HERE YOU SAY ZECHARIAH [IN HEBREW].
• 19:59 YEAH, UH HUH. ZECHARIAH. [LAUGHING]
• 20:00 PEOPLE DON'T WANT TO SAY THAT.
• 20:02 NO, THEY REALLY WANT TO SAY ZECHARIAH. >>I KNOW.
• 20:03 THERE'S A STORY HERE WORTH TELLING IN CHAPTER 12, VERSE 10.
• 20:07 PREDICTIVE IS ZECHARIAH WHEN HE SAYS...
• 20:24 THE IMPLICATIONS OF THIS ARE RATHER PROFOUND AREN'T THEY, SANDRA?
• 20:27 VERY PROFOUND. THEY KNOW WHO THE MESSIAH IS, THEN.
• 20:30 I'M HOPING THAT PEOPLE MIGHT GET TO KNOW A LITTLE BIT
• 20:32 THROUGH THIS SERIES AS WE'VE EXPLORED ISAIAH,
• 20:35 WHAT HE HAD TO SAY ABOUT THE COMING REDEEMER.
• 20:38 IN THE OLD TESTAMENT,
• 20:39 WE'VE REALLY TALKED ABOUT THE OLD TESTAMENT THIS TIME.
• 20:41 WE'VE DONE SOME IN THE NEW, BUT REALLY...
• 20:43 AND THIS HOW THE FIRST CHRISTIANS WITNESSED.
• 20:47 THEY WITNESSED OUT OF THE OLD TESTAMENT.
• 20:48 ALL JEWISH BELIEVERS,
• 20:50 THERE WASN'T A THOUGHT TO A NEW TESTAMENT. >>THAT'S RIGHT.
• 20:52 IT'S AN INTERESTING FACT ABOUT THE NEW TESTAMENT CHRISTIANS.
• 20:54 THEY DIDN'T HAVE A NEW TESTAMENT.
• 20:55 THAT'S RIGHT. THAT'S EXACTLY RIGHT.
• 20:57 SO, THEY HAD TO WITNESS OUT OF HERE.
• 20:58 AND WHEN IN THE NEW TESTAMENT THE AUTHOR SAYS,
• 21:00 "STUDY TO SHOW THYSELF APPROVED UNTO GOD,"
• 21:03 "A WORKMAN NEEDETH NOT BE ASHAMED"
• 21:04 "RIGHTLY DIVIDING THE WORD OF TRUTH,"
• 21:06 HE'S TALKING ABOUT THE OLD TESTAMENT. >>THAT'S RIGHT. THAT'S RIGHT.
• 21:07 TO ME IT'S CRYSTAL CLEAR...
• 21:16 THOSE LISTENING, I WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT GOD WANTS TO POUR OUT A SPECIAL SOMETHING UPON YOU.
• 21:23 THAT'S WHAT THIS IS ALL ABOUT. THIS PROGRAM IS NOT ABOUT SANDRA OR MYSELF.
• 21:28 IT'S NOT ABOUT TELEVISION. IT'S ABOUT A MESSAGE GETTING TO YOU.
• 21:31 IT'S GOOD NEWS FROM ANCIENT JEWS.
• 21:33 WHETHER IT'S THE PROPHET ZECHARIAH, OR ISAIAH,
• 21:38 IT'S ALL ABOUT HEARING THE WORD OF THE LORD FROM THE WORD OF THE LORD
• 21:42 AND GETTING INTO HEARS AND MINDS.AMEN? >>AMEN.
• 21:44 YOU KNOW WHAT ELSE I LIKE ABOUT IT IS ZOLA'S MUSIC.
• 21:47 GOD REALLY GAVE ZOLA A SPECIAL TALENT IN MUSIC. ZOLA WOULD SAY,
• 21:52 "I REALLY DON'T WRITE THE MUSIC.
• 21:54 GOD GIVES ME THIS MUSIC. I'M THE STENOGRAPHER."
• 21:57 HIS MUSIC REFLECTED EXACTLY WHERE HE WAS IN HIS WALK. IT WOULD REFLECT THE SERIES.
• 22:03 MAYBE MESSIAH TALKS ABOUT MESSIAH.YOU CAN HERE THIS IN THE MUSIC AND IT'S WONDERFUL.
• 22:10 I'D LIKE YOU TO HEAR IT NOW.
• 22:17 ♪(ORCHESTRA PLAYING)♪
• 22:25 ♪MESSIAH, MESSIAH; CAN HE BE MESSIAH?♪
• 22:29 ♪THE ONE WHOM THE PROPHETS FORETOLD?♪
• 22:34 ♪THE LOVE THAT HE TEACHES; THE MESSAGE HE PREACHES;♪
• 22:39 ♪IS IT HE IN THE SCRIPTURES OF OLD?♪
• 22:56 ♪I HEARD THEM SHOUT HOSANNA WHEN HE CAME.♪
• 23:02 ♪THEY CRIED ALOUD THEIR PRAISES TO HIS NAME.♪
• 23:07 ♪COULD HE BE THE ONE?♪
• 23:11 ♪ HE SAID, IT IS DONE.♪
• 23:21 ♪MASHIACH, MASHIACH,♪
• 23:23 ♪YESHUA HA'MASHIACH;♪
• 23:28 ♪THE ONE WHOM THE PROPHETS FOREKNEW?♪
• 23:35 ♪THE LOVE THAT YOU BROUGHT ME; THE MESSAGE YOU TAUGHT ME;♪
• 23:39 ♪I KNOW IN MY HEART IT IS YOU.♪
• 23:43 ♪THE LOVE THAT YOU BROUGHT ME; THE MESSAGE YOU TAUGHT ME;♪
• 23:47 ♪I KNOW IN MY HEART...♪
• 23:50 ♪IT IS YOU.♪
• 24:00 SUCH A PLEASURE TO TELL YOU THE BIBLE STORY AND TO SHOW YOU THE BIBLE'S WORLD.
• 24:06 WE'VE CONSIDERED ZECHARIAH 12.
• 24:08 I WANT TO LOOK IN CHAPTER 14 REAL QUICK AS WE BEGIN A WRAP HERE...
• 24:22 SOUNDS LIKE THE DOGS OF WAR ARE GOING TO BE UNLEASHED, SANDRA.
• 24:25 WHAT DO YOU THINK?
• 24:26 BUT WHO'S THE VICTOR?
• 24:27 AND WHO LEADS US TO VICTORY?
• 24:29 LET'S READ ON AND FIND OUT.
• 24:31 THAT'S RIGHT. WE GO ONTO VERSE 3...
• 24:51 HE FIGHTS FOR US AS HE DOES EVERY DAY.
• 24:55 AT ONE LEVEL IT SEEMS A TAD BIT UNCHARACTERISTIC.
• 24:57 "THE LORD WILL GO FORTH AND FIGHT AS HE FIGHTS IN THE DAY OF BATTLE."
• 25:02 IF I UNDERSTAND CORRECTLY, NATIONS ARE MOBILIZED AGAINST ISRAEL IN DAYS END.
• 25:10 I BELIEVE WE ARE SEEING PRECURSORS TO THAT, BY THE WAY. >>OH, I AGREE.
• 25:13 IT'S SCARY AT ONE LEVEL TO SEE THIS RABID ANTI-SEMITISM UNLEASHED
• 25:18 ON THE PLANET AND IT SEEMS TO BE CASCADING UPWARD.
• 25:21 BUT THE GOOD NEWS IS MESSIAH IS HERE. >>THAT'S RIGHT.
• 25:25 HE'S WITH US.
• 25:27 HISTORY IS NOT SPIRALING OUT OF CONTROL. >>NO.RIGHT. GOD IS IN CONTROL.
• 25:30 THERE'S SOMEONE THAT'S CONTROLLING AND GUIDING HISTORY TO A POINT
• 25:33 IN AS MUCH AS HE DESCRIBED THAT THE MESSIAH'S GOING TO COME IN THE FIRST COMING,
• 25:37 HERE IN THE SECOND COMING, ENVISIONED IN THIS TURBULENT WORLD
• 25:42 IS A CLIMAX WHERE THE LORD COMES.
• 25:45 AND CAN'T YOU SEE HIM?
• 25:46 CAN'T YOU SEE HIM COMING
• 25:47 SUPERNATURALLY COMING DOWN;
• 25:49 THE MOUNT OF OLIVES SPLITTING
• 25:50 AND THERE HE IS IN ALL HIS GLORY.
• 25:53 WE WILL SEE HIM IN ALL HIS GLORY.
• 25:55 WE WILL BE WITH HIM IN ALL HIS GLORY. IT SAYS...
• 26:06 ONE GOD.
• 26:08 AS OPPOSED TO ALLAH AS GOD OR WHATEVER. >>MANY GODS, MANY GODS.
• 26:10 THERE'S A COMPETING VALUE SYSTEM OVER THERE IN JERUSALEM TODAY,
• 26:15 IS THERE NOT? >>I'M AFRAID SO.
• 26:16 ISLAM RAISES ITS HOARY HEAD.
• 26:18 WELL IT SOUNDS AS IF THERE IS A STORY YET TO UNFOLD HERE.
• 26:21 WE'VE LOOKED AT THE FIRST COMING OF JESUS;
• 26:23 THE SECOND COMING OF JESUS IS COMING IN A NEW SERIES ON DANIEL.
• 26:27 BATTLES... WE'RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT BATTLES.
• 26:29 BUT THAT'S ANOTHER STORY. >>BUT THAT'S ANOTHER STORY.
• 26:32 THANK YOU, AGAIN, FOR YOUR PRAYERS AND YOUR SUPPORT.
• 26:34 YOU ALL ARE A BLESSING TO US.
• 26:37 GOD BLESS YOU AND SHA'ALU SHALOM YERUSHALAYIM,
• 26:39 PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM.