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Caption transcript for The Feast of Lights: “The Story of Hanukkah” (1/3)

• 00:07 FROM TIME IMMEMORIAL
• 00:09 FORCES OF DARKNESS HAVE UNMASKED AND THREATENED THE JEWS WITH EXTINCTION.
• 00:13 IN EVERY GENERATION, HOWEVER,
• 00:16 GOD PROVIDED A LEADER WHO WOULD SHINE THE LIGHT OF GOD'S FAITHFULNESS.
• 00:20 HANUKKAH, THE JEWISH FEAST OF LIGHTS, HARKS BACK TO A TIME
• 00:25 WHEN JUDAISM WAS THREATENED WITH EXTINCTION.
• 00:28 A HERO EMERGED, LIT THE LAMP OF HOPE AND DELIVERED ISRAEL.
• 00:33 FROM GENERATION TO GENERATION JEWS LIGHT LAMPS IN THEIR HOMES TO COMMEMORATE THE VICTORY
• 00:39 AND TO RETELL THE STORY OF...
• 00:47 SHALOM, JEFFREY SEIF HERE WITH MY GOOD FRIEND SANDRA LEVITT
• 00:51 SHALOM
• 00:52 AND TOGETHER WE ARE GOING TO BE DOING
• 00:54 THE FIRST OF A THREE PART SERIES
• 00:56 ON THE JEWISH VERSION OF CHRISTMAS.
• 00:59 A HOLIDAY CALLED "HANUKKAH".
• 01:02 GREAT HOLIDAY IN THE JEWISH WORLD ISN'T IT SANDRA?
• 01:04 IT'S A FUN HOLIDAY.
• 01:06 IT SURELY IS.
• 01:07 IT'S JUST A GREAT HOLIDAY >>YES
• 01:08 FUN, FUN, FUN
• 01:09 FUN MEMORIES FOR ME,
• 01:10 I REMEMBER I WAS A
• 01:11 YOUNGSTER WHEN I GOT
• 01:12 A LITTLE FIRE TRUCK
• 01:14 AND I THOUGHT I DIED
• 01:15 AND WENT TO HEAVEN THEN,
• 01:16 TELL YOU THE TRUTH
• 01:17 IT WAS THE GREATEST THING IN ALL THE WORLD.
• 01:18 YOU GET EIGHT GIFTS, NOT JUST ONE GIFT,
• 01:20 YOU GET EIGHT GIFTS. THAT'S ALWAYS FUN!
• 01:22 EIGHT DAYS OF PRESENTS.
• 01:23 OF COURSE, THERE'S THE CONTEMPORARY WAY TO CELEBRATE IT.
• 01:26 WE NEED TO FOCUS A LITTLE ON WHAT THE "IT" IS.
• 01:29 A STORY THAT GOES BACK TO THE SECOND CENTURY BC
• 01:32 WHEN PEOPLE WERE TRYING TO KILL JEWS.
• 01:35 AND THAT'S WHAT'S IMPORTANT TODAY,
• 01:36 IS THAT THE JEWS STOOD UP AND SAID,
• 01:40 "NO MORE." "NO MORE."
• 01:42 "WE'RE NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANY MORE."
• 01:44 AND THAT'S A GREAT HOLIDAY
• 01:45 YES, WE NEED TO REMEMBER THAT YEAR AFTER YEAR TOO
• 01:48 BECAUSE IT WAS THE SYRIANS BACK THEN,
• 01:50 ANTIOCHUS EPIPHANES WAS BENT ON DESTROYING THE JEWS, SECOND CENTURY BC,
• 01:55 RAN INTO THE TEMPLE, SET UP AN ALTAR TO ZEUS
• 01:59 AND DESECRATED IT.
• 02:00 HORRIBLE! >>PIGS BLOOD EVERYWHERE.
• 02:02 I CAN'T IMAGINE THE VISUAL
• 02:04 THAT THE JEWS SAW WHEN THEY
• 02:05 CAME BACK TO THE TEMPLE.
• 02:07 YES, HE NOT ONLY HATED JEWS, HE WENT OUT OF HIS WAY TO INSULT THE JEWS,
• 02:10 RIGHT. ABSOLUTELY >>TO DEFAME THE GOD OF ISRAEL
• 02:13 IS THIS SOUNDING FAMILIAR TODAY?
• 02:14 YES, GENERATION TO GENERATION
• 02:16 IT JUST GOES ON AND ON AND ON >>YES
• 02:18 NOWWHAT WE HAVE ON THE MENU TO DO HERE AS I SAID
• 02:21 IS TO CELEBRATE WITH YOU BY TEACHING THREE PROGRAMS DEALING WITH HANUKKAH.
• 02:28 IN A MOMENT ARCHAEOLOGIST, ROBERT MULLINS IS GOING TO COME
• 02:31 AND HE IS GOING TO TEACH A LITTLE BIT ABOUT OIL.
• 02:35 THE HANUKKAH STORY IS A MIRACLE.
• 02:38 "NES GODOL HAYAH SHAM", A GREAT MIRACLE HAPPENED THERE.
• 02:40 A MIRACLE THAT HAD TO DO WITH THE MENORAH, WITH THE CANDELABRA,
• 02:44 A MIRACLE OF OIL, WITH THE DEDICATION,
• 02:46 THE REDEDICATION OF THE TEMPLE IN JERUSALEM
• 02:50 THE OLIVE TREE IS MENTIONED IN THE BIBLE SOME FIFTY TIMES.
• 02:53 ONE OF THE FIRST REFERENCES TO THE OLIVE IS IN THE BOOK OF GENESIS
• 02:58 WHERE FOLLOWING NOAH'S FLOOD
• 03:00 WE HAVE A DOVE THAT RETURNS TO THE ARK WITH AN OLIVE BRANCH IN ITS MOUTH.
• 03:05 SINCE THAT TIME THE OLIVE TREE
• 03:06 HAS BEEN A SYMBOL OF
• 03:08 PEACE AND PROSPERITY.
• 03:11 ONE OF THE MOST NOTICEABLE THINGS ABOUT THE OLIVE TREE IS THE CHARACTER OF ITS LEAVES.
• 03:17 YOU'LL NOTICE THAT THE OLIVE LEAF HAS BOTH A DARK SIDE AND A LIGHTER, SILVERY UNDERSIDE.
• 03:25 AND THE RABBIS OF JESUS' DAY MADE THIS CONNECTION
• 03:28 BETWEEN THE EFFECT OF LIGHT BY THE MOVEMENT OF THE LEAVES WITH THE WIND
• 03:34 AND ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT PRODUCTS OF THE OLIVE TREE,
• 03:37 AND THAT IS THE FRUIT OF THE OLIVE TREE, WHO'S OIL WOULD BE USED FOR OIL LAMPS.
• 03:43 AND SO WE HAVE LIGHT IN CONNECTION IN THE TREE ITSELF
• 03:47 AND LIGHT IN CONNECTION WITH THE OLIVE OIL.
• 03:50 THE OLIVE TREE BLOSSOMS BETWEEN MARCH AND APRIL
• 03:53 AND IN FACT THIS IS BETWEEN THE TIME OF PASSOVER AND THE TIME OF PENTECOST FIFTY DAYS LATER.
• 04:00 BY JULY THE FRUIT IS FULLY FORMED ON THE TREE BUT IT IS STILL UNRIPE.
• 04:06 NOW, THE METHOD THAT'S USED TODAY IS THE SAME METHOD THAT WAS USED 2000 YEARS AGO
• 04:14 WHAT THEY DID IS THEY LAID AT THE BASED OF THE TREE A CLOTH
• 04:18 THAT WOULD CATCH THE FRUIT AS IT CAME DOWN FROM THE TREE.
• 04:21 THE METHOD OF GATHERING THE FRUIT WAS DIFFERENT IN VARIOUS WAYS.
• 04:26 FOR EXAMPLE, IT WAS POSSIBLE TO CLIMB UP INTO THE TREE AND PICK THE FRUIT BY HAND.
• 04:31 ONE COULD ALSO, UP IN THE TREE, SHAKE THE BRANCHES AND THIS WOULD RELEASE SOME OF THE FRUIT.
• 04:37 IT IS ALSO POSSIBLE ON THE GROUND WITH LONG STICKS
• 04:40 TO REACH UP AND HIT THE TREE AND ALSO KNOCK DOWN THE FRUIT AS WELL.
• 04:56 I'M COMING TO YOU FROM THE MOUNT OF OLIVES.
• 04:58 BEHIND ME IS THE GREATEST VISTA IN THE WORLD,
• 05:04 JERUSALEM, YOUNG AND OLD.
• 05:07 YOU SEE THE NEW JERUSALEM
• 05:09 AND YOU THE SEE THE WALL
• 05:10 AROUND THE OLD CITY.
• 05:12 FASCINATING PICTURE
• 05:14 HERE FROM THE MOUNT OF OLIVES.
• 05:16 AND IN MY HAND, YES...OLIVES.
• 05:20 IN ANCIENT ISRAEL THEY WERE ALL FARMERS AND THEY LOVED BRINGING IN THE FRUITS OF THE EARTH.
• 05:26 AND THE OLIVES WERE USED WITH OTHER FRUITS OF THE EARTH TO MAKE LIGHT;
• 05:30 THE OIL WAS USED FOR LIGHT AND FOR COOKING AND FOR A VARIETY OF THINGS.
• 05:35 OH, THEY LOVED TO GATHER IN THE OLIVES!
• 05:37 AND YOU KNOW SOMEONE WANTED TO GATHER IN THIS CITY BEHIND ME.
• 05:41 IT WAS A CHOICE FRUIT; IT WAS A CHOICE OLIVE IN THE EYES OF ANTIOCHUS EPIPHANES, THE MADMAN.
• 05:49 HISTORY STUDENTS RECALL HOW IN THE SECOND CENTURY BC, A MAN NAMED ANTIOCHUS AROSE.
• 06:00 STUDENTS RECALL HOW JUDEA HAD BEEN ANNEXED INTO THE LARGER SYRIAN PROVINCE.
• 06:06 AND SO IT IS THAT JUDEANS WERE IMPOSED UPON BY ANTIOCHUS
• 06:14 WHO FOISTED PAGAN PRACTICES ONTO THE JEWISH WORLD.
• 06:19 IT WAS HORRIBLE AND ANTIOCHUS WAS INVOLVED IN A WAR WITH THE THALAMIC DYNASTY IN EGYPT.
• 06:27 TO HELP PAY FOR THE WAR HE SEIZED JERUSALEM AND HE SAYS, "I GOT TO GET ME THAT."
• 06:33 HE SEES GOLD IN THE TEMPLE, HE SAYS, "I GOT TO GET THAT."
• 06:37 AND BEYOND THAT THERE WAS SOMETHING THAT HE DIDN'T LIKE IN JUDEA.
• 06:41 HE DIDN'T LIKE JUDAISM AND HE SAID, "I GOT TO GET RID OF THAT."
• 06:46 AND WHAT DOES ANTIOCHUS DO?
• 06:48 HE USES HIS INFLUENCE AND BY DINT OF DETERMINATION
• 06:51 HE PRESSES HIS ARMIES TO BREAK THROUGH JERUSALEM. THEY BREACH THE CITY.
• 06:57 THEY GO INTO THE TEMPLE AND THEY GO INTO THE VERY HOLY OF HOLIES
• 07:03 AND THERE THEY SET UP AN ALTAR, A SHRINE TO ZEUS.
• 07:08 AND UPON THAT ALTAR WHAT DO THEY DO?
• 07:10 THEY SLAY PIGS; THEY SACRIFICE SWINE'S FLESH, INDEED AN ABOMINATION.
• 07:19 THEY DID OTHER THINGS AS WELL, SAD TO SAY, TO GET RID OF JEWS AND JUDAISM.
• 07:25 WHAT DO THEY DO?
• 07:27 THEY MAKE IT AGAINST THE LAW TO KEEP KOSHER.
• 07:31 NOT ONLY DO WE HAVE TO SACRIFICE PIGS TO ZEUS BUT INDIVIDUALS HAVE TO EAT IT THEMSELVES.
• 07:38 NOT ONLY ARE JEWS PROHIBITED FROM KEEPING KOSHERITE LAWS, JEWS ARE FORBIDDEN TO CIRCUMCISE.
• 07:46 BEYOND THAT, JEWS ARE FORBIDDEN TO KEEP THE SABBATH.THERE IS AN OLD SAYING,
• 07:51 "IT'S NOT THE JEWS WHO KEEP THE SABBATH,BUT RATHER IT'S THE SABBATH THAT KEEPS THE JEWS."
• 08:00 SO WHAT HAVE WE HERE?
• 08:02 WE HAVE A WORLD THAT'S FOISTED ONTO THE JEWISH WORLD.
• 08:06 WE HAVE ANTIOCHUS EPIPHANES IN HIS DAY HELL BENT ON DESTROYING JEWS.
• 08:12 HELL BENT ON DESTROYING JUDAISM, BELIEVING THAT THE WORLD WOULD BE A BETTER PLACE WITHOUT JEWS.
• 08:21 AND SO HE SET HIMSELF TO DESTROY IN AS MUCH AS THE DEVIL COMES TO STEAL, TO KILL AND TO DESTROY,
• 08:31 HE SETS HIMSELF TO ERADICATE JUDAISM FROM THE WORLD. IT'S A HORRIBLE STORY IS IT NOT?
• 08:39 TRAGICALLY IT'S A STORY THAT'S PLAYED OUT FROM GENERATION TO GENERATION.
• 08:45 YESTERDAY THERE WAS ANTIOCHUS EPIPHANES MINDED TO DESTROY JUDAISM AND JEWS.
• 08:52 BEFORE HIM WAS A PHARAOH
• 08:54 IN EGYPT WHO WAS DETERMINED
• 08:56 TO RID THE WORLD OF JEWS.
• 09:00 AFTER HIM THERE WAS THIS LEADER AND THAT LEADER,
• 09:02 WE GET INTO THE MODERN ERA,
• 09:04 WE HAVE "HITLERS" IN MY PARENTS GENERATION,
• 09:07 WE HAVE STALIN ERADICATING JEWS IN HIS DOMINION,
• 09:11 IN THE MODERN WORLD WE HAVE MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD SWEARING THAT THE WORLD'S A BETTER PLACE
• 09:19 FOR ISRAEL TO BE DRIVEN OFF THE FACE OF THE EARTH AND THE STORY GOES ON AND ON AND ON.
• 09:24 AMIDST THE TURBULENCE OF OFTEN TRYING TIMES
• 09:27 JEWS HAVE CARVED OUT A LITTLE SPACE AROUND DECEMBER WHEN JEWS COMMEMORATE THE FACT,
• 09:35 THOUGH THERE WILL BE THOSE AGAINST US, THERE'S A GOD WHO'S FOR US.
• 09:39 AND HANUKKAH TELLS THAT STORY AND THERE'S A VARIETY OF SPIN-OFFS FROM IT,
• 09:44 BUT FUNDAMENTALLY HANUKKAH IS A WAY THE JEWS CELEBRATE THE FACT THAT
• 09:49 "HE WHO KEEPETH WATCH OVER ISRAEL NEITHER SLUMBERS NOR SLEEPS."
• 09:57 AND SO IT IS FROM GENERATION TO GENERATION JEWS GATHER AND THEY REMEMBER "NES GADOL HAYAH SHAM",
• 10:05 THAT A GREAT MIRACLE HAPPENED THERE.
• 10:10 AND JEWS REMEMBER HOW GOD GATHERED TOGETHER HIS PEOPLE.
• 10:14 IT'S INTERESTING HOW AGRARIAN LANGUAGE IS USED.
• 10:18 JEWS ARE CONSIDERED AT ONE LEVEL IN THE BIBLICAL TEXT THE "APPLE OF GOD'S EYE".
• 10:23 JEWS ARE COMPARED TO AS A FIG TREE AND IN SOME SENSE JEWS ARE LIKE THE FRUITS OF THE OLIVE.
• 10:29 THE OLIVE IS TAKEN, IT'S PRESSED, IT'S SQUEEZED,
• 10:34 BUT GOOD THINGS COME OUT OF THAT OLIVE WHEN IT IS.
• 10:37 SO PLEASED YOU'RE STAYING WITH US AND WATCHING THIS HANUKKAH STORY
• 10:41 AND WE'LL CONTINUE TO ATTEND TO ITS PARTICULARS AS OUR STORY CONTINUES TO UNFOLD.
• 10:47 GOD BLESS.
• 10:49 (ZOLA PLAYING THE RECORDER)
• 11:01 JEFF IT'S GREAT SEEING YOU ON THE MOUNT OF OLIVES.
• 11:03 THE MOUNT OF OLIVES IS REALLY A WONDERFUL VISUAL FOR US.
• 11:06 IT SURELY IS AND JUST THINK ABOUT IT
• 11:08 THE MOUNT OF OLIVES. >>OLIVES. YES
• 11:10 THESE WERE FARMERS THERE AND PEOPLE VALUED THE FRUITS OF THE EARTH.
• 11:16 IT SHOWS WHAT THE EARTH BRINGS FORTH
• 11:20 AND HERE ARE THE OLIVES, THEY USED IT FOR EVERYTHING.
• 11:23 NOTHING WENT TO WASTE.
• 11:24 YES, IN DIFFICULT TIMES LIFE HAS ADVERSITY,
• 11:27 BUT THE JEWS KEEP BEARING FRUIT KIND OF LIKE THE OLIVE,
• 11:30 LIKE THE FRUITS OF THE EARTH.
• 11:31 AND WE'RE REMINDED OF THAT WHEN WE SEE THE OLIVES.
• 11:34 YES, I THINK SO OFTEN THAT JEWS HAVE BEEN THROUGH SO MUCH,
• 11:37 BUT WE REMEMBER YEAR AFTER YEAR HOW GOD'S BEEN FAITHFUL.
• 11:42 "HE WHO KEEPS WATCH OVER ISRAEL NEITHER SLUMBERS NOR SLEEPS."
• 11:55 THE OLIVE, ONE LITTLE FRUIT OF THE EARTH,
• 11:59 BIG APPLICATIONS FROM THIS FRUIT THAT'S PRESSED,
• 12:03 THE OIL OF WHICH THEN IS USED TO LIGHT LAMPS ALL OVER ANCIENT ISRAEL, A MILLENNIA AGO.
• 12:10 THE OIL IS USED TO COOK AND LEVITICAL PRIESTS HAD SPECIAL APPLICATIONS
• 12:16 AS THEY USED THE OIL TO LIGHT THE LAMPS IN THE "BEIT HA-MIKDASH", THE TEMPLE,
• 12:21 A STORY THAT WE'LL ATTEND TO IN A MOMENT.
• 12:29 JUDAISM SAGES GOING TO GREAT DETAIL
• 12:31 TO TALK ABOUT HOW THERE WAS A SPECIAL GROUP OF PRIESTS THAT WERE VESTED WITH RESPONSIBILITY
• 12:37 TO MANUFACTURE THE OLIVE OIL THAT WAS USED IN THE TEMPLE.
• 12:42 TODAY THE TEMPLE IN JERUSALEM NO LONGER STANDS, HOWEVER.
• 12:46 IT WAS DESTROYED IN 70 AD AND THE "MENORAH", THE CANDELABRA THAT WAS USED IN THE TEMPLE
• 12:52 WAS CARRIED OFF TO ROME, IN FACT, AS A RELIC IT WAS THERE PLACED,
• 12:56 IT WAS GIVEN A PRIVATE PLACE AS A SYMBOL FOR THE ROMANS OF HOW THEY CONQUERED JUDEA.
• 13:01 IN THE ABSENCE OF THE TEMPLE PROPER THE SYNAGOGUE DEVELOPED
• 13:04 AND IT DEVELOPED IN SUCH A WAY TO KEEP THE MEMORY OF THE TEMPLE ALIVE,
• 13:10 IN FACT, WE SEE THERE'S A LAMP THAT'S LIT RIGHT IN FRONT OF THE ARK OF THE COVENANT.
• 13:15 THE "ARON KODESH", THE ARK OF THE COVENANT CONTAINS THE SCRIPTURES.
• 13:19 HERE WE HAVE THE TEN COMMANDMENTS (SPEAKING HEBREW).
• 13:23 THESE ARE JUST ABBREVIATED REMINDERS OF THESE VARIOUS TEN COMMANDMENTS.
• 13:28 AND UNDERNEATH HERE WE HAVE (SPEAKING HEBREW);
• 13:33 "BLESSED IS HE WHO COMES IN THE NAME OF THE LORD."THIS IS CALLED FROM PSALM CHAPTER 118.
• 13:40 YOU MIGHT RECALL THAT WHEN JESUS SPOKE IN MATTHEW CHAPTER 24,
• 13:45 THERE HE GIVES THE OLIVET DISCOURSE ON THE MOUNT OF OLIVES
• 13:49 AND THIS IS PRECIPITATED IN THE 23RD CHAPTER BY HIM TELLING THE RELIGIOUS LEADERS THAT,
• 13:54 "YOU WILL NOT SEE ME AGAIN UNTIL YOU'RE READY TO SAY,"
• 13:57 "BLESSED BE HE WHO COMES IN THE NAME OF THE LORD."
• 14:00 THAT'S WHAT THIS IS, (SPEAKING HEBREW),
• 14:05 IN FACT, I'M COMING TO YOU FROM BARUCH HASHEM CONGREGATION.
• 14:09 IT'S A MESSIANIC JEWISH CONGREGATION MADE UP OF JEWS AND NON-JEWS WHO LOVE THE LORD,
• 14:15 LOVE THE "ANOINTED ONE", THE MESSIAH OF ISRAEL AND GATHER HERE TO PRAY AND SAY,
• 14:20 "BLESSED BE HE WHO COMES IN THE NAME OF THE LORD."
• 14:37 THE SCRIPTURES. BIBLICAL TRUTH PIERCES THE DARKNESS NOW DOESN'T IT?
• 14:43 LONG BEFORE THE INVENTION OF THE PRINTING PRESS,
• 14:46 USED WERE SCROLLS THAT ARE HERE BEHIND ME IN FRONT OF YOU.
• 14:51 TORAH SCROLLS, WHEREIN THE WORD OF GOD IS WRITTEN BY HAND WORD FOR WORD.
• 14:59 THERE ARE BEAUTIFUL COVERS THAT ADORN THESE.HERE WE HAVE ONE THAT SAYS, (SPEAKING HEBREW)
• 15:05 THIS IS THE CONGREGATION BARUCH HASHEM,
• 15:07 THE MESSIANIC JEWISH SYNAGOGUE WHERE WE ARE RIGHT NOW
• 15:10 AND UNDERNEATH I SEE HERE EMBROIDERED A HEBREW EXPRESSION, (SPEAKING HEBREW),
• 15:18 THERE'S AN EXPRESSION, "IT'S A TREE OF LIFE" TO THOSE WHO GRAB HOLD OF IT.
• 15:24 SCRIPTURE IS A TREE OF LIFE. SPEAKING OF LIFE YOU MIGHT RECALL WHERE JESUS SAID,
• 15:35 WE'RE LOOKING AT OIL. OIL IS USED TO LIGHT A LAMP IN HANUKKAH.
• 15:40 "NES GADOL HAYAH SHAM" IS THE FAMOUS JEWISH EXPRESSION,
• 15:44 "A GREAT MIRACLE HAPPENED THERE".
• 15:47 YOU MIGHT RECALL ONCE UPON A TIME THERE WERE INDIVIDUALS
• 15:50 WHO THOUGHT THE WORLD WOULD BE A BETTER PLACE WITHOUT JEWS IN IT.
• 15:53 IT'S A STORY THAT UNFORTUNATELY PLAYS OUT "DOR L'DOR", GENERATION TO GENERATION.
• 15:58 ANTIOCHUS EPIPHANES WANTED TO RID THE WORLD OF TORAH SCROLLS,
• 16:02 GET RID OF MENORAHS, GET RID OF JEWS ENTIRELY. BUT GOD HAD OTHER PLANS.
• 16:08 HERE, LOOKING IN THE SCRIPTURE I'M HARKING BACK TO THE BOOK IN HEBREW, IT'S CALLED "SHEMOT",
• 16:14 WE KNOW IT AS EXODUS.YOU MIGHT RECALL THAT THE LORD CALLS "MOSHE RABANU",
• 16:20 HE CALLS MOSES OUT OF EGYPT INTO THE SINAI AND THEN OUT OF THE SINAI INTO THE MINISTRY
• 16:28 AND HE IS BECKONED TO GO BRING ABOUT A GREAT DELIVERANCE.A GREAT MIRACLE HAPPENED THERE.
• 16:33 CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, SOME TWO MILLION OF WHICH, ARE FREED FROM EGYPT,
• 16:37 ARE LED IN TOE DOWN TO SINAI AND THERE AT THE BASE OF THE MOUNTAIN,
• 16:41 ARE GIVEN SOME INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF A TABERNACLE.
• 16:45 AND HERE IN EXODUS CHAPTER 37, VERSE 17,
• 16:49 NOTED IS THE MANUFACTURE OF A LAMP STAND OF PURE GOLD,
• 17:02 IT'S SHAFT, IT'S BRANCHES, IT'S BOWLS ARE DESCRIBED HEREIN,
• 17:04 WHEREIN WE'RE INFORMED IN THE LITERATURE
• 17:06 THAT THERE WAS THIS MAGNIFICENT MENORAH THAT WAS MADE,
• 17:08 A LAMP THAT WAS TO BE KEPT LIT TO SERVE AS A REMINDER OF GOD'S PRESENCE.
• 17:12 IT'S CUTE AT ONE LEVEL. THERE ARE SONGS IN THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH,
• 17:18 (SINGING) "GIVE ME OIL IN MY LAMP KEEP ME BURNING".
• 17:21 THERE'S "THIS LITTLE LIGHT OF MINE I'M GONNA LET IT SHINE".
• 17:26 NOW I REALIZE IT SOUNDS FUNNY FOR A JEWISH FELLOW
• 17:28 IN A TALLIS AND A YAMIKA TO SING THOSE SONGS.
• 17:32 I JUST MENTION THIS TO UNDERSCORE THE FACT THAT THE CONCEPT OF GOD'S LIGHT SHINING,
• 17:38 HIS SCRIPTURE SHINING IN A DARKENED WORLD,
• 17:42 HAS ITS ROOTS IN THE WAY THE JEWISH PEOPLE CELEBRATED.
• 17:46 YOU MIGHT RECALL JEWISH FARMERS GATHERED THEIR FRUITS, THE OLIVE.
• 17:52 THE OLIVES WERE PRESSED, SQUEEZED AND USED TO MAKE FOOD AND USED TO MAKE LIGHT.
• 17:58 I'M REMINDED BY THE WAY HOW AT THE BASE OF THE MOUNT OF OLIVES
• 18:02 IS A GARDEN CALLED GETHSEMANE,
• 18:05 IN HEBREW "THE OLIVE PRESS",
• 18:07 WHERE THERE WAS SOMEONE THERE
• 18:08 THAT WAS SQUEEZED,
• 18:09 WENT THROUGH A LOT OF PRESSURE
• 18:11 AND OUT OF HIS BEING SQUEEZED CAME A SOURCE OF LIFE AND LIGHT FOR ALL PEOPLE,
• 18:15 THAT IS "YESHUA HA'MESHIAC",
• 18:18 JESUS THE MESSIAH WENT ON TO DIE ON THE CROSS
• 18:22 AND HE IS THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD TO LIGHTEN MY WORLD AND TO LIGHTEN YOURS.
• 18:26 I SURELY HOPE THAT YOU WILL RECEIVE HIM AND WALK UNDER THE LIGHT OF HIS LIGHT.
• 18:31 GOD BLESS YOU.
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• 19:52 THAT'S ISRAEL. IT'S A WONDERFUL PLACE TO GO. I ENCOURAGE YOU TO GO TO ISRAEL.
• 19:56 YOU KNOW JEFF, AROUND HANUKKAH TIME IN ISRAEL,
• 19:58 I LOVE TO SEE PEOPLE WALKING AROUND WITH DOUGHNUTS
• 20:01 AND THEY EAT ALL THESE DOUGHNUTS.
• 20:02 PEOPLE THAT DON'T EAT SWEETS ALL YEAR ROUND EAT THESE DOUGHNUTS.
• 20:05 AND ISN'T IT AMAZING THAT THERE CAN ACTUALLY BE A HANUKKAH IN ISRAEL?
• 20:09 ISRAEL.YES. >>JEWS RE-GATHERED BACK PROPHETICALLY IN THESE DAYS.
• 20:13 FASCINATING. >>IT'S MORE THAN FASCINATING.
• 20:16 THEY GO IN THE SYNAGOGUES AND THEY CELEBRATE
• 20:19 THIS WONDERFUL TRIUMPH OVER EVIL. >>YES.
• 20:23 IT'S SOMETHING FOR US ALL TO REMEMBER.
• 20:25 FROM GENERATION TO GENERATION. >>GENERATION.
• 20:27 AND ISN'T THAT GREAT?
• 20:28 WE'RE GOING TO JOIN TOM MCCALL
• 20:29 AS HE INTERVIEWS DICK LUDIG AT THE GREAT PASSION PLAY IN ARKANSAS.
• 20:34 BACK AFTER THIS.
• 20:37 WELL DICK YOU'VE BROUGHT US INTO
• 20:38 THE KADOSH, THE FIRST ROOM
• 20:40 OF THE TABERNACLE BUILDING.
• 20:42 CAN YOU TELL US ABOUT THIS ROOM?
• 20:43 WELL THIS IS A
• 20:45 VERY INTERESTING CHAMBER.
• 20:46 OF COURSE YOU KNOW IT WAS MADE
• 20:48 OUT OF WOOD AND IT WAS THEN
• 20:50 COVERED WITH FINE GOLD
• 20:52 AND IT'S THE FIRST HOLY PLACE REALLY INSIDE THE TABERNACLE.
• 20:56 WE HAVE "HOLY GROUND", "MOST HOLY GROUND" AND THEN FINALLY "THE HOLY OF HOLIES".
• 20:59 BUT THIS WAS THE LAST STOP FOR MOST PRIESTS, THEY COULDN'T GO ANY FARTHER.
• 21:02 AND OF COURSE THERE IS THREE WONDERFUL PIECES OF FURNITURE IN HERE.
• 21:05 EACH ONE HAS A SIGNIFICANCE IN GOD'S PLAN.
• 21:08 WELL, WE'RE IN FRONT OF ONE RIGHT NOW, THE MENORAH,
• 21:11 AND IT'S A VERY BEAUTIFUL
• 21:13 RENDITION OF THE MENORAH.
• 21:15 CAN YOU EXPLAIN WHAT THE BRANCHES ARE AND THE TOPS?
• 21:20 WELL I'LL GIVE YOU WHAT I BELIEVE.I'M NOT OLD ENOUGH TO REMEMBER EVERYTHING.
• 21:23 BUT YOU KNOW IT WAS A SEVEN BRANCH MENORAH, BUT MANY OF US BELIEVE IT'S SIX.
• 21:28 OF COURSE THE CENTRAL BRANCH IS THE SERVANT.
• 21:30 THESE REPRESENT THE SIX DAYS OF THE WEEK AND THESE ARE OLIVE OIL LAMPS UP IN HERE.
• 21:35 THEY HAD A WICK AND THEY WERE FILLED WITH PURE OLIVE OIL.
• 21:38 A SIMPLE PURPOSE WAS TO BRING LIGHT INTO THIS CHAMBER.
• 21:41 IT'S THE ONLY LIGHT HERE AND OF COURSE GOD IS LIGHT
• 21:44 AND IT'S VERY IMPORTANT THAT WE HAVE LIGHT WHEN WE'RE WORKING WITH THINGS.
• 21:47 WHAT IS IT MADE OF?
• 21:49 IT WAS MADE OUT OF PURE GOLD. A LITTLE EXPENSIVE.
• 21:54 THE TALENT OF GOLD THAT IT WAS MADE FROM CAME FROM EGYPT
• 21:57 AND IT WAS SOMEWHERE BETWEEN 75 AND 85 POUNDS AND IT WAS WROUGHT INTO THIS SHAPE.
• 22:03 HOW DID THE SLAVES OF EGYPT, THE HEBREW PEOPLE,GET ALL THIS GOLD TO MAKE SUCH A THING?
• 22:08 I THINK THE EGYPTIANS WERE SO GLAD TO BE RID OF THEM AFTER THE PLAGUES
• 22:13 THAT THEY WERE GIVING THEM ANYTHING..... "JUST DON'T COME BACK!"
• 22:17 NOW THIS NOT ONLY HAD A SIGNIFICANCE FOR THE PRIESTS
• 22:21 WHO WERE WORKING IN THE TABERNACLE IN ANCIENT DAYS
• 22:24 BUT IT ALSO HAS A SIGNIFICANCE WITH REGARD TO THE MESSIAH.
• 22:29 AH, YES IT CERTAINLY DOES.
• 22:30 OF COURSE WE KNOW JESUS IS THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD. AND THIS WAS THE ONLY LIGHT HERE.
• 22:34 AND IN OUR WORLD JESUS IS THE ONLY LIGHT TOO.
• 22:39 HOW DOES JESUS FULFILL THIS REPRESENTATION HERE, THIS MENORAH?
• 22:45 HE IS THE LIGHT, DOES IT ALSO IMPACT UPON US AS HIS BELIEVERS?
• 22:50 I BELIEVE SO.
• 22:52 YOU KNOW THIS CHAMBER THAT WE'RE STANDING IN ACTUALLY REPRESENTS ALMOST THE COMPLETION,
• 22:57 THE LAST DAYS OF OUR LIVES AS A CHRISTIAN AND ONE OF THE THINGS WE HAVE TO REMEMBER IS THAT
• 23:01 IN OUR LIVE WE NEED THE LIGHT OF GOD'S WORD AND HIS LOVE TO SHINE DOWN ON US
• 23:06 JUST LIKE THE LIGHT FROM THE MENORAH.
• 23:08 IT WARMS US, IT PROTECTS US, IT SHOWS US THE WAY.
• 24:28 AND THAT'S ZOLA PLAYING HIS RECORDER,
• 24:30 LOVING EVERY BIT OF PLAYING HIS RECORDER.
• 24:33 HIS MUSIC WILL GO ON FOREVER.
• 24:35 JEFF I REALLY LOVE DOING THIS SEGMENT ABOUT HANUKKAH
• 24:39 AND THE OLIVE BRANCH AND THE MENORAHS AND IT'S JUST GREAT.
• 24:42 YES, THERE'S SO MUCH IN IT
• 24:44 AND ZOLA WAS A MUSICIAN,
• 24:45 HE WAS A TEACHER,
• 24:47 HE WROTE ON HANUKKAH,
• 24:49 HE WROTE ON THE VARIOUS JEWISH FEASTS.
• 24:51 THE TEMPLE.
• 24:52 ALL THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE TEMPLE
• 24:54 THAT IT HAS WITH MESSIAH AND THE JEWISH PEOPLE.
• 24:58 RIGHT, HE AND I WROTE A BOOK TOGETHER >>RIGHT.
• 25:00 TWENTY SOME YEARS AGO CALLED "THE HOUSE THAT GOD BUILT".
• 25:02 ONE OF MY FAVORITE BOOKS. BELIEVE IT OR NOT. >>OH, REALLY!
• 25:03 I LOVED IT. >>I DIDN'T KNOW THAT. THANK YOU!
• 25:05 AND THE TABERNACLE IN THE WILDERNESS.
• 25:07 OF COURSE THIS IS A STORY IN HANUKKAH
• 25:09 ABOUT HOW THE TEMPLE WAS DESECRATED YEARS AGO
• 25:12 AND AS YOU MENTIONED ON THE OUTSET HOW ANTI-SEMITISM RAISES
• 25:16 IT'S HOARY HEAD FROM GENERATION TO GENERATION.
• 25:19 THIS IS NOTHING NEW. >>RIGHT.
• 25:21 THERE'S ALSO BEEN ANTI-SEMITISM.
• 25:22 AND THE FACT THAT JEWISH PEOPLE CELEBRATE GOD'S FAITHFULNESS
• 25:26 TO RESTORE AND TO REDEEM IS IMPORTANT
• 25:28 BECAUSE AMIDST THE TURBULENCE OF TRYING TIMES
• 25:31 I THINK WE DO WELL TO BE REMINDED OF THE FACT THAT
• 25:33 THERE IS A GOD WHO WATCHES, WHO CARES,
• 25:36 WHO CAN PULL THE RABBIT OUT OF THE HAT
• 25:37 AND CHANGE CIRCUMSTANCES.
• 25:39 AND IT'S A GREAT VISUAL
• 25:40 NOT JUST FOR THE JEWS BUT FOR US.
• 25:43 YES IT IS.
• 25:44 AND I THINK TO MAKE MUSIC ABOUT IT,
• 25:46 TO PUT GOD'S WORD, HIS WILL AND HIS WAYS TO SONG,
• 25:49 TO DEVELOP A HOLIDAY
• 25:51 THAT CHILDREN CAN GATHER TOGETHER AND CELEBRATE
• 25:54 AND YOU KNOW IT'S INTERESTING,
• 25:56 TAKING ANTI-SEMITISM WITH ANTIOCHUS EPIPHANES
• 25:59 AND TURNING IT INTO A HOLIDAY TO CELEBRATE GOD'S GOODNESS >>RIGHT.
• 26:03 DIFFICULTIES NOT WITHSTANDING >>BUT IT'S THE PERSEVERANCE.
• 26:07 RIGHT >>THEY PERSEVERED THROUGH,
• 26:09 THEY PERSEVERED ON AND WE HAVE A GREAT HOLIDAY BECAUSE OF IT.
• 26:13 YES, AND THERE'S A LESSON IN THERE
• 26:14 IF WE COULD ALL JUST LEARN HOW TO DEAL WITH ADVERSITY
• 26:19 AND HOW TO FIND WAYS TO KEEP FAITH IN GOD ALIVE
• 26:22 AMIDST THE TURBULENCE OF TRYING TIMES.
• 26:24 JEWS HAVE BEEN AROUND FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS! (LAUGHING). >>THEY'RE NOT STUPID!
• 26:27 THERE'S A REASON THAT THEY CELEBRATE THIS HOLIDAY. >>CORRECT.
• 26:32 AND IT'S A WONDERFUL REASON. >>THAT'S RIGHT.
• 26:34 PLEASE JOIN US NEXT WEEK.
• 26:36 AS YOU GO, SHA'ALU SHALOM YERUSHALAYIM,
• 26:39 PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM.