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Caption transcript for The Feast of Lights: “‘You Are the Light of the World’” (2/3)

• 00:07 FROM TIME IN IMMEMORIAL...
• 00:09 FORCES OF DARKNESS HAVE UNMASKED AND THREATENED THE JEWS WITH EXTINCTION.
• 00:13 IN EVERY GENERATION, HOWEVER, GOD PROVIDED A LEADER
• 00:17 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.
• 00:52 NAHUK SHAMAETH >>NAHUK SHAMAETH TO YOU TOO.
• 00:54 BY THE WAY, THAT'S THE WAY
• 00:56 JEWISH PEOPLE SAY "HAPPY HOLIDAYS"
• 00:59 AND WE ARE LOOKING AT A HOLIDAY AREN'T WE?
• 01:01 THE HOLIDAY OF HANUKKAH
• 01:03 THE FESTIVAL OF LIGHTS.
• 01:05 THE FEAST OF RE-DEDICATION.
• 01:07 WHAT A WONDERFUL VISUAL WE HAVE FOR US.
• 01:09 THEY PLAY GAMES, THEY EAT;
• 01:11 THEY DO WHAT IS A WONDERFUL THING.
• 01:14 THEY SPIN THE DREIDEL, AND THEY PLAY THE GAME.
• 01:16 WHAT ARE THESE?
• 01:17 WELL, THERE'S "NES GADOL HIYAH SHAM"
• 01:21 IN HEBREW, "A GREAT MIRACLE HAPPENED THERE"
• 01:25 AND I HAD HEARD THAT THEY WOULD PLAY THIS GAME
• 01:27 SO THAT THE ROMANS WOULDN'T KNOW WHAT THEY WERE DOING.
• 01:29 ONLY THEY KNEW THE HEBREW LETTERS
• 01:31 ARE YOU ANY GOOD AT PLAYING THIS?
• 01:33 OH, SOMETIMES I WON ALL THE CHOCOLATES, SOMETIMES I DIDN'T
• 01:37 OH,THERE YOU GO. HEY, YOU WON! THAT'S BINGO >>THAT'S RIGHT!
• 01:39 YOU GOT ON THE "HEH" THERE >>THAT'S RIGHT I GOT THE "HEH"!
• 01:41 THAT'S ROLLING UP THE WINNING NUMBER
• 01:43 YES, AND THEN THEY LIGHT THE CANDLE.
• 01:44 THEY LIGHT THE MENORAH.
• 01:46 IT'S A NINE ARM MENORAH
• 01:48 AND THEY TAKE THE SERVANT CANDLE OR THE SHAMASH,
• 01:50 AND THEY LIGHT EACH ONE EVERY SINGLE NIGHT TO
• 01:53 COMMEMORATE EACH NIGHT THAT THE OIL STAYED.
• 01:56 I THINK IT'S FASCINATING THE WAY THE JEWISH PEOPLE KEEP LIGHT AROUND
• 02:00 AND KEEP LIGHT ALIVE.
• 02:01 YES
• 02:02 HANUKKAH IS THE FEAST OF DEDICATION,
• 02:04 IT'S THE FEAST OF LIGHTS
• 02:06 AND THE WHOLE THING WITH PIERCING THE DARKNESS IS RATHER STRIKING.
• 02:09 WELL, REMEMBER GOD SAID THEY WERE TO BE A LIGHT UNTO THE GENTILES
• 02:13 YES.
• 02:14 AND HERE VERY VISUAL LIGHT.
• 02:17 RIGHT, AND FOR PEOPLE THAT'S BEEN SO ENGULFED IN THE DARKNESS.
• 02:20 HANUKKAH TELLS THE STORY ABOUT HOW DARKNESS HAD ENGULFED THE JEWISH PEOPLE,
• 02:26 BUT GOD IS THE PROTECTOR OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE
• 02:29 AND LO AND BEHOLD THE JEWS ARE STILL HERE,
• 02:31 DIFFICULTIES NOT WITHSTANDING.
• 02:33 ALL KINDS OF PEOPLE HAVE COME AND GONE.
• 02:36 THE ROMANS HAVE COME AND GONE,
• 02:37 THE GREEKS HAVE COME AND GONE.
• 02:39 BUT THE JEWS ARE STILL HERE.
• 02:40 AND WE'RE STILL HERE.
• 02:42 GREAT THOUGHT AS WE CONTINUE OUR LOOK AT HANUKKAH.
• 02:49 AFTER THE HARVEST DAY THE OLIVES WOULD BE COLLECTED
• 02:53 AND TAKEN DOWN TO THE CRUSHING INSTALLATION.
• 02:56 AT THAT POINT THE OLIVES WOULD BE PLACED INTO A STONE BASIN, ALL TWENTY TO FORTY POUNDS,
• 03:02 AND EVEN MORE AS THE OLIVES HAD BEEN GATHERED FROM THE VARIOUS TREES.
• 03:06 AND IN THE BASIN YOU HAVE A STONE WHEEL THAT'S STANCE.
• 03:10 ATTACHED TO THIS WHEEL IS A WOODEN BEAM
• 03:14 AND EITHER BY PEOPLE PUSHING THIS STONE WHEEL AROUND ON THE OLIVES
• 03:17 OR A DONKEY PULLING THE WHEEL,
• 03:19 THE WHEEL WOULD ROTATE ON TOP OF THE OLIVES AND COMPLETELY CRUSH THE OLIVE FRUIT INTO A MASH.
• 03:25 NOW DURING THIS CRUSHING PROCESS IT WOULD OF COURSE BE OLIVE OIL THAT WAS RELEASED.
• 03:30 THIS INITIAL OLIVE OIL WAS USED FOR SPECIAL PURPOSES
• 03:35 AND WE KNOW FROM THE BIBLE AS
• 03:36 WELL AS OTHER ANCIENT LITERATURE
• 03:38 THAT OLIVE OIL HAD BOTH SECULAR
• 03:40 AS WELL SACRED PURPOSES.
• 03:42 AND ESPECIALLY FOR RELIGIOUS PURPOSES THIS INITIAL OLIVE OIL
• 03:46 WOULD BE COLLECTED AND USED IN THE ANOINTING OF PRIESTS AND KINGS, PROPHETS.
• 03:52 THESE BASKETS ARE FILLED WITH THE MASH AND THEN BROUGHT OVER HERE TO THE BEAM PRESS
• 03:58 WHICH IS THE SECOND STAGE OF THE OLIVE PRODUCTION.
• 04:06 NOW THERE ARE SEVERAL OF THESE BASKETS THAT ARE PLACED ONE ABOVE THE OTHER
• 04:11 ON TOP OF THIS STONE TABLE THAT YOU SEE HERE
• 04:14 AND ACROSS THE TOP OF THESE BASKETS IS LAID A PIECE OF WOOD THAT WOULD PROVIDE EVENNESS
• 04:19 TO THE SQUEEZING THAT WOULD TAKE PLACE UNDERNEATH THIS WOODEN BEAM.
• 04:34 NOW THE WEIGHTING IS DONE BY STONES.
• 04:38 EACH STONE IS QUITE HEAVY.
• 04:39 WOULD TAKE BETWEEN TWO TO FOUR MEN TO LIFT A STONE LIKE THIS,
• 04:43 WHERE ROPES WOULD BE ATTACHED AND LAID AT THIS END OF THE BEAM.
• 04:47 WITH EVERY STONE THAT'S ATTACHED,
• 04:49 MORE WEIGHT IS GOING TO BE GIVEN TO SQUEEZE DOWN ON THESE BASKETS
• 04:53 AND GET OUT ALL THE OLIVE OIL POSSIBLE,
• 04:57 WHICH THEN FLOWS INTO THE CHANNEL AND DOWN A SHOOT SUCH AS YOU SEE HERE INTO THEIR BASIN.
• 05:05 OLIVE OIL, A PRECIOUS COMMODITY DEEMED LIQUID GOLD IN THE ANCIENT WORLD.
• 05:13 IT WAS USED IN THE HOME AND TEMPLE ALIKE
• 05:16 AND WE ARE GOING TO BE TELLING THE STORY ABOUT OIL AS WE CONTINUE.
• 05:21 THE FEAST OF LIGHTS CELEBRATES A GREAT MIRACLE THAT HAPPENED MANY, MANY YEARS AGO
• 05:26 WHEN JUDAISM WAS THREATENED WITH DESTRUCTION
• 05:30 BENEATH THE YOKE OF
• 05:31 ANTIOCHUS EPIPHANES
• 05:32 BENT ON ISRAEL'S DEMISE.
• 05:35 BUT A GREAT MIRACLE HAPPENED THERE.
• 05:37 THE TEMPLE TO JEHOVAH WAS DEDICATED AFRESH
• 05:41 AND THERE WAS A MIRACLE THAT OLIVE OIL THAT WAS GATHERED FOR BUT ONE DAY LASTED FOR EIGHT,
• 05:48 HENCE...
• 05:53 THAT WAS THERE.
• 05:55 HERE WE ARE IN BARUCH HASHEM CONGREGATION, A MESSIANIC CONGREGATION
• 05:57 WHERE THE LIGHT OF GOD'S PRESENCE SHINES.
• 06:20 THE WINDOWS SILLS IN THE TEMPLE WERE DESIGNED IN SUCH A WAY
• 06:24 WHERE THE LIGHT THAT WAS RADIANT THEREIN WOULD BE DISPENSED WITHOUT.
• 06:29 CONVERSELY WHEN ARCHITECTS BUILD BUILDINGS TODAY
• 06:32 THE IDEA IS TO GET THE LIGHT IN FROM THE ENVIRONMENT.
• 06:35 BUT THAT LITTLE NUANCE IS VERY TELLING IN JUDAISM,
• 06:38 THE BELIEF WAS THAT THE "BEIT HA-MIKDASH", THE HOLY HILL WAS A LIGHT THAT WAS SET ON A HILL.
• 06:44 YOU MIGHT RECALL THE LORD HIMSELF EMPLOYED OUT UNDERSTANDING IN SAYING
• 06:48 THAT YOUWERE THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD SPEAKING TO HIS "TALMIDIM", HIS DISCIPLES,
• 06:52 SAYING THEN THAT A CITY SET ON A HILL SHOULD NOT BE HIDDEN BUT GIVE LIGHT TO ALL IN THE HOUSE.
• 06:59 WELL THERE'S A TIME WHEN JEWISH PEOPLE REMEMBER A MIRACLE OF LIGHTS PARTICULARLY,
• 07:04 IT'S THE HOLIDAY OF HANUKKAH.
• 07:08 THE LIGHT OF GOD'S WAYS IN JUDAISM WERE THREATENED WITH EXTINCTION
• 07:12 AS ANTIOCHUS EPIPHANES WAS BENT ON DESTROYING JUDAISM.
• 07:18 GOD, HOWEVER, SEEMED VERY BENT ON PRESERVING.
• 07:21 I FIND IT TO BE A VERY INTERESTING STORY PERSONALLY.
• 07:24 IT'S NOT A STORY THAT'S UNIQUE TO ANTIOCHUS EPIPHANES
• 07:28 FOR IN EVERY GENERATION WE SEE INDIVIDUALS RAISE THEIR HOARY HEAD
• 07:33 AND INVEST ENERGY AT THE DESTRUCTION OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE.
• 07:36 I'M LOOKING HERE AT PSALMS 119, LOOKING IN VERSES 86 THROUGH 88.
• 07:43 THEREIN THE AUTHOR SAYS...
• 07:53 THAT'S A GREAT HANUKKAH TEXT THERE.
• 07:55 THEY PERSECUTED ME WRONGLY, AND STILL DO FOR THAT MATTER. AND THE PSALMIST SAYS...
• 08:04 DAVID WAS 1,000 BC.
• 08:07 THIS STORY OF LOOKING TO ERADICATE JEWS IS NOT NEWS AT ONE LEVEL. IT'S BEEN AROUND.
• 08:14 HE SAYS THEY ALMOST MADE AN END OF ME ON EARTH...
• 08:31 I THINK THIS IS A GREAT PSALM FOR A VARIETY OF REASONS.
• 08:36 CERTAINLY IT HARKS BACK TO THE STORY OF DAYS GONE BY
• 08:40 WHEN IN PREVIOUS DAYS ANTIOCHUS EPIPHANES, HITLER, SOME ISLAMIC CONQUEROR, WHATEVER,
• 08:47 PEOPLE FOR REASONS OF THEIR OWN ARE BENT ON THE DESTRUCTION OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE.
• 08:53 AND HERE THE PSALMIST SAYS, "LORD REVIVE ME. KEEP ME ALIVE."
• 08:57 AND SURELY IT IS THAT
• 08:58 "GOD WHO KEEPS WATCH OVER ISRAEL
• 09:01 NEITHER SLUMBERS NOR SLEEPS."
• 09:03 AND THOUGH THE TROUBLES MAY COME
• 09:06 "GOD IS AN EVER PRESENT HELP
• 09:08 IN TIME OF TROUBLE."
• 09:09 AND SO THE JEWISH PEOPLE GO ON THROUGH HISTORY.
• 09:14 THERE'S A STORY IN HISTORY THAT HAS WALKED OFF THE PAGES IN CERTAIN RESPECTS
• 09:19 THAT'S EMERGING TODAY AND AS WE LOOK AT HANUKKAH,
• 09:22 THAT IS THE STORY THAT WE RECALL GOD'S FAITHFULNESS IN KEEPING WATCH OVER JEWISH PEOPLE,
• 09:27 I'M REMINDED OF THE STORY THE EMERGENCE OF MESSIANIC JUDAISM IN THIS OUR CENTURY.
• 09:35 THE LAST TWENTY YEARS HAVE BEEN FASCINATING FOR A VARIETY OF REASONS.
• 09:39 WE'VE SEEN AN ENORMOUS REVIVAL OF JEWISH PEOPLE COMING TO FAITH
• 09:45 HERE AT BARUCH HASHEM CONGREGATION IN DALLAS WE'RE AT A PLACE
• 09:49 WHERE JEWISH PEOPLE GATHER ON A WEEKLY BASIS WITH NONE JEWISH FRIENDS AND SYMPATHIZERS.
• 09:55 AND WHAT DO THEY DO?
• 09:56 THEY WORSHIP THE GOD OF ABRAHAM, ISAAC AND JACOB,
• 10:01 INDIVIDUALS THAT WANT TO EXPERIMENT WITH BEING JEWISH ON ONE HAND
• 10:05 AND A FOLLOWER OF JESUS ON THE OTHER.
• 10:08 IT SADDENS ME AT ONE LEVEL MUCH AS ANTIOCHUS EPIPHANESWANTED TO RID THE WORLD OF JUDAISM,
• 10:14 I THINK THERE ARE SOME MISINFORMED INDIVIDUALS WITHIN THE CHURCH
• 10:17 THAT WANT TO RID JEWISH BELIEVERS IN JESUS OF THINGS JEWISH.
• 10:22 THAT IS TO SAY THE THINKING IS,
• 10:24 "WELL NOW THAT YOU'VE ACCEPTED JESUS YOU NEED TO SHED ALL OF THESE JEWISH TRAPPINGS."
• 10:27 WELL LET ME JUST TELL YOU IN NO UNCERTAIN TERMS, I DO NOT BELIEVE THAT TO BE THE CASE.
• 10:32 INDIVIDUALS OF JEWISH EXTRACT ARE COMING TO FAITH IN DROVES AND BEING JOINED BY INDIVIDUALS
• 10:38 THAT ARE NON-JEWISH BUT HAVE A SPECIAL BURDEN ON THEIR PLACE FOR JEWISH PEOPLE
• 10:42 AND THEY GATHER TOGETHER AND WORSHIP,
• 10:44 THEY'RE INTERESTED IN RECONCILIATION BETWEEN JEWS AND NON-JEWS,
• 10:48 THEY'RE INTERESTED IN WORSHIPPING JESUS THE MESSIAH TOGETHER ALL SAVED BY GRACE
• 10:53 COMING TO TERMS WITH EACH OTHER AS THROUGH MESSIAH, JESUS
• 10:57 THE WALLS OF HOSTILITY ARE BROKEN DOWN
• 11:00 AND THEY HAVE PEACE IN THE ONE WHO HAS MADE BOTH ONE
• 11:03 AND BROKEN DOWN THE DIVIDING WALL OF HOSTILITIES IN DAYS GONE BY.
• 11:07 THAT SAID, I BELIEVE THAT MUSLIMS CAN BE CONVERTED
• 11:11 AND COME TO FAITH IN MESSIAH AND BE UNITED WITH JEWISH PEOPLE.
• 11:14 OTHER PEOPLE FROM OTHER PERSUASIONS CAN LIKEWISE COME TO FAITH,
• 11:19 JEWISH PEOPLE CAN COME TO FAITH IN JESUS.
• 11:21 IT'S MY UNDERSTANDING THAT
• 11:23 THE "KEHILLA", THE CONGREGATION
• 11:25 OF THE FAITHFUL, IS A PLACE
• 11:26 WHERE LOVE IS EXPRESSED AND
• 11:27 BROADCAST IN THE WORLD
• 11:30 LIKE TO THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD THAT JESUS REALLY IS.
• 11:32 A LIGHT THAT WE CELEBRATE THIS SEASON IN HANUKKAH.
• 11:48 YOU KNOW JEFF IT'S INTERESTING TO SEE THE SYNAGOGUE TODAY.
• 11:51 YOU'RE INTERVIEWING AND TALKING AND TEACHING
• 11:53 IN THE BARUCH HASHEM IN DALLAS.
• 11:55 YES, A WONDERFUL SYNAGOGUE.
• 11:57 BUT IT'S A DIFFERENT KIND OF SYNAGOGUE.
• 12:00 IT IS VERY DIFFERENT. IT'S A MESSIANIC.
• 12:02 YES, AND LITTLE DO PEOPLE KNOW THAT IN MAJOR CITIES ACROSS AMERICA NOW,
• 12:07 THERE ARE THESE CONGREGATIONS OF JEWISH PEOPLE
• 12:09 WHO BELIEVE IN JESUS.
• 12:11 THEY ASK ME ALL THE TIME, "HOW MANY JEWS ARE THERE IN ISRAEL THAT HAVE BEEN SAVED
• 12:14 THAT ARE REAL BELIEVERS?" AND I SAY,
• 12:16 "I SAY SIX THOUSAND",
• 12:17 BUT I DID NOT KNOW THERE'S MORE THAN THAT.
• 12:19 YES, I GOT A RESEARCH GRANT TWO YEARS AGO TO GO OVER THERE AND LOOK IT UP.
• 12:23 WE'RE LOOKING IN THE VICINITY OF TEN THOUSAND MESSIANIC JEWS IN ISRAEL TODAY
• 12:27 AND WE'RE LOOKING AT CONGREGATIONS IN JUST ABOUT EVERY MAJOR CITY,
• 12:32 ABOUT 140 OF THEM.
• 12:33 IT REALLY IS QUITE A STORY TO TELL.
• 12:35 WELL RIGHT NOW WE'RE GOING TO HEAR A STORY FROM RABBI MARTY WALDMAN,
• 12:41 A SPIRITUAL LEADER OF BARUCH HASHEM CONGREGATION,
• 12:43 A MAJOR MESSIANIC JEWISH CONGREGATION IN DALLAS, TEXAS. YOU'RE GONNA LOVE IT!
• 12:50 RABBI WALDMAN, GREAT TO SEE YA!
• 12:52 HEY, THANKS JEFF, IT'S WONDERFUL TO BE HERE WITH YOU.
• 12:54 YES, THANK YOU FOR OPENING YOUR DOORS AND ALLOWING US TO COME AND FILM HERE IN THE SYNAGOGUE.
• 12:59 LISTEN, WHAT ELSE WOULD WE DO DURING HANUKKAH?..(LAUGHING)
• 13:01 WELL TELL US A LITTLE BIT ABOUT WHAT YOU'RE DOING.
• 13:04 FRANKLY, THE MESSIANIC MOVEMENT IS BURGEONING IN AMERICA, WORLDWIDE IN ISRAEL, CORRECT?
• 13:09 IT IS, SURE.
• 13:10 WE'RE SEEING MUCH, MUCH GROWTH
• 13:12 HERE IN THE UNITED STATES
• 13:14 AND ALSO AROUND THE WORLD.
• 13:15 ESPECIALLY EXCITING IS WHAT'S HAPPENING IN ISRAEL.
• 13:19 YES, AND MY UNDERSTANDING IS BEYOND THIS BARUCH HASHEM CONGREGATION
• 13:22 IS LIKE A MEGA CHURCH OF MESSIANIC CONGREGATIONS.
• 13:25 IT'S LARGE.IT'S ONE OF THE LARGER MESSIANIC SYNAGOGUES PROBABLY IN THE WORLD.
• 13:30 WE'RE NOT THE LARGEST BUT WE'RE PROBABLY IN THE TOP TEN.
• 13:33 THE LORD'S GIVEN YOU A BEAUTIFUL FACILITY HERE AND LOTS OF FRIENDS BEHIND YOU.
• 13:38 AND THE LORD GAVE YOU A VISION FOR SOMETHING PARTICULAR BEYOND THE LOCAL CONGREGATION HERE,
• 13:42 AN UMBRELLA GROUP TO BRING A BUNCH OF PEOPLE TOGETHER.
• 13:46 CAN YOU TELL US WHAT THAT'S ALL ABOUT?
• 13:47 YES, THAT INITIATIVE IS CALLED
• 13:50 "TOWARD JERUSALEM COUNCIL II"
• 13:52 AND AS YOU MENTIONED THE LORD GAVE IT TO ME.
• 13:55 I WOULD SAY HE PUT IT IN MY HEART PROBABLY TEN YEARS AGO.
• 13:59 AND FROM THAT POINT ON WE'VE SEEN A LOT HAPPEN IN TEN YEARS THROUGH OUR TRAVEL,
• 14:04 THROUGH OUR EXPERIENCES AND INTERACTIONS WITH LEADERS OF THE CHURCH,
• 14:08 LEADERS OF MESSIANIC GROUPS OVER THE PAST TEN YEARS. IT'S JUST BEEN PHENOMENAL.
• 14:12 WHAT'S THE VISION?
• 14:14 "TOWARD JERUSALEM COUNCIL II", THE ULTIMATE VISION THAT CONCRETIZED ALL OF OUR TRAVELS
• 14:19 IS TO SEE A SECOND JERUSALEM COUNCIL SIMILAR TO THE FIRST,
• 14:23 KIND OF A MIRROR IMAGE, IF YOU WILL.
• 14:26 WE BELIEVE THAT THE CHURCH HAS OVER THE CENTURIES BECOME
• 14:32 A LITTLE BIT ASKEW IN TERMS OF IT'S ALIGNMENT WITH ISRAEL AND WITH IT'S JEWISH ROOTS
• 14:39 AND SO, "TOWARD JERUSALEM COUNCIL II" IS IN ONE WAY
• 14:42 ATTEMPTING TO RECONCILE THAT OUT OF ALIGNMENT HISTORY.
• 14:48 SEE, WHEN I LOOK AT HISTORY BETWEEN THE CHURCH AND THE JEWS IT'S NOT A HAPPY STORY.
• 14:52 BUT BELIEVING THAT IT'S BETTER TO LIGHT CANDLES THAN IT IS TO FOREVER CURSE THE DARKNESS,
• 14:57 IT'S NICE TO SEE THE LIGHT OF GOD, HIS LOVE THAT'S SHINING.
• 15:01 NOW THERE ARE A NUMBER OF CHRISTIAN CHURCHES THAT ARE GETTING BEHIND YOU
• 15:05 AND WANTING TO BE THE REMORSEFUL OF WHAT'S HAPPENED WITH THE JEWS
• 15:10 AND CHRISTIAN COMPLIANCE WITH ALL THAT.WHAT'S THE STORY? >>OH JEFF, IT'S JUST AMAZING
• 15:13 BECAUSE WE WERE VERY SURPRISED TO SEE THE OPEN DOORS
• 15:17 THAT GOD HAD BEEN PROVIDING FOR US IN THE CHURCH.
• 15:21 OUR PRIMARY MEETINGS AND AS WE CONTINUE OUR MEETINGS CONTINUE TO BE WITH CHURCH LEADERS.
• 15:28 OF COURSE WE LOVE TO MEET WITH ANY CHURCH FOLKS BUT CHURCH LEADERS HAVE OPENED THEIR DOORS,
• 15:35 OPENED THEIR HEARTS, THE HOLY SPIRIT SEEMS TO BE MINISTERING BEFORE WE EVEN GET THERE.
• 15:40 ALL KINDS OF CHURCHES TOO I UNDERSTAND. >>THAT'S RIGHT
• 15:42 EVERYTHING FROM THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH TO THE FREEST CHARISMATIC CHURCH.
• 15:48 NOW, SPEAKING OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH,
• 15:50 MY UNDERSTANDING IS THAT THE POPE INVITED YOU TO COME.
• 15:53 THAT'S RIGHT.
• 15:54 TELL ME ABOUT THAT WOULD YOU PLEASE?
• 15:56 SURE.ONE OF OUR INITIATIVES TOOK US TO ROME
• 15:59 AND WHILE WE WERE IN ROME
• 16:01 WE RECEIVED A PHONE CALL AND AN INVITATION TO VISIT THE POPE IN THE VATICAN.
• 16:05 SO WE WENT AND WE VISITED WITH THE POPE, WITH THE CURRENT POPE
• 16:10 AND HE BASICALLY WANTED TO KNOW,
• 16:13 "HOW DID WE JEWS WHO BELIEVE IN JESUS COME TO KNOW HIM?"
• 16:19 AND SO EACH OF US, AND THERE WERE ABOUT FIVE OF US, GAVE OUR TESTIMONIES.
• 16:24 AND AFTER WE COMPLETED OUR TESTIMONIES HE WAS QUITE MOVED AND HIS REACTION WAS,
• 16:33 "IF YOU ARE WHO YOU SAY YOU ARE THIS IS ESCHATOLOGICAL AND JESUS MUST BE COMING SOON."
• 16:40 WOW, SO HE CUED INTO THE PROPHETIC SIGNIFICANCE OF JEWISH PEOPLE COMING TO FAITH.
• 16:45 OH, ABSOLUTELY.
• 16:46 OKAY, SO THERE'S A LEADER, I MEAN, HE SPEAKS TO AND FOR MILLIONS.
• 16:50 WHO ELSE? WHAT OTHER OPEN DOORS HAVE YOU GOTTEN?
• 16:54 WHEN THIS INITIATIVE FIRST WAS PUT IN MY HEART I FELT THE LORD SAY TO ME,
• 17:00 "IT NEEDS TO BE CONFIRMED BY JACK HAYFORD."
• 17:02 OF COURSE I DIDN'T KNOW JACK HAYFORD AT THE TIME
• 17:04 BUT THE DOOR WAS OPEN FOR ME
• 17:06 SO I MET WITH JACK HAYFORD AND
• 17:09 SHARED MY VISION WITH HIM OF "TOWARD JERUSALEM COUNCIL II"
• 17:13 AS IT IS NOW CALLED AND HE READ IT.IT WAS ON PAPER.HE READ IT AND SAID,
• 17:18 "MARTY THIS IS GOD."
• 17:20 AND I ASKED HIM IF HE WOULD PLEASE BE INVOLVED WITH US
• 17:23 AND HE SAID HE COULDN'T ON DAILY BASIS BUT PLEASE USE HIS NAME,
• 17:27 ANY DOORS THAT WOULD BE OPENED BY USING HIS NAME, HE'D BE HAPPY TO DO THAT.
• 17:31 WELL, PASTOR JACK'S REALLY FRIENDLY TO MESSIANIC JEWISH MOVEMENT ISN'T HE?
• 17:34 YES, HE IS.
• 17:35 NOW IF INDIVIDUALS WANT TO GET INVOLVED,
• 17:37 THEY WANT TO FIND OUT ABOUT "TOWARD JERUSALEM COUNCIL II".
• 17:39 IS THERE A WEB SITE THAT THEY CAN GO TO?
• 17:40 THEY CAN THEY CAN GO TO
• 17:42 TJCII.ORG
• 17:46 WE'LL GET THAT UP ON THE SCREEN AND SO PEOPLE CAN KNOW ABOUT IT.
• 17:49 LISTEN, I'M REALLY THRILLED,
• 17:51 I'M SO PLEASED BY OUR FRIENDSHIP THAT'S EXTENDED OVER THE YEARS
• 17:55 AND IT'S JUST WONDERFUL TO SEE WHAT GOD'S DOING IN MESSIANIC JUDAISM.
• 17:58 ANYTHING YOU WANT TO SAY ON THAT BEFORE WE CLOSE OUT?
• 18:01 YES, MESSIANIC JUDAISM IS BLOSSOMING, IT IS AFFECTING NOW THE GREATER CHURCH WORLD,
• 18:07 IT IS AFFECTING THE GREATER WORLD COMMUNITY IN GENERAL.
• 18:10 WE ARE SUCH A SMALL PART OF THE BODY OF MESSIAH AND YET GOD HAS BEGUN TO USE THIS VERY SMALL
• 18:16 PART OF THE BODY MESSIAH TO AFFECT THE GREATER BODY IN AMAZING WAYS.
• 18:21 IT'S JUST PHENOMENAL TO SEE.
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• 19:13 "FOR THE LORD THY GOD BRINGETH THEE INTO A GOOD LAND."
• 19:17 "A LAND OF FIG TREES AND POMEGRANATES."
• 19:20 "A LAND OF OLIVE OIL AND HONEY."
• 19:24 "ARISE, WALK THROUGH THE LAND."
• 19:29 "FOR ALL THE LAND WHICH THOU SEEST, TO THEE WILL I GIVE IT AND TO THY SEED FOREVER."
• 19:37 "WORSHIP IN THE SHADOWS OF ABRAHAM, ISAAC AND JACOB."
• 19:44 "BEHOLD THE LAND OF THE COVENANT."
• 19:53 THAT'S ISRAEL.
• 19:54 PEOPLE ASK ME A LOT TIMES,
• 19:56 "WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE TIME TO GO TO ISRAEL?"
• 19:58 AND JEFF I'D TELL THEM,
• 20:00 "ANY TIME I CAN GO IS MY FAVORITE TIME."
• 20:02 AND THAT'S MY WISH FOR EVERYONE IS TO GO TO ISRAEL.
• 20:04 YES, WITH US OR WITH SOMEONE. >>RIGHT. >>BUT JUST GET THERE.
• 20:07 IT'S A TRIP OF A LIFETIME.
• 20:08 I AGREE.IT WAS INTERESTING TO SEE YOU INTERVIEW MARTY.
• 20:10 OH, HEY LISTEN, MARTY'S A CHAMP,
• 20:11 GREAT BROTHER IN THE LORD.
• 20:13 IT'S ONE OF THE LARGEST MESSIANIC CONGREGATIONS IN THE UNITED STATES. >>YES.
• 20:17 I DID NOT REALIZE THAT TILL SEVERAL YEARS AGO.
• 20:19 MOST PEOPLE DON'T REALIZE THAT WE LIVE IN DAY AND TIME WHEN THERE'S
• 20:21 THOUSANDS, AND THOUSANDS, AND THOUSANDS OF JEWISH PEOPLE COMING TO FAITH.
• 20:25 ZOLA LEVITT MINISTRIES, THROUGH THIS BROADCAST,
• 20:27 WE GET INTO HOUSES AND HOMES, HEADS AND HEARTS
• 20:30 OF JEWISH PEOPLE COAST TO COAST AND ALL OVER THE WORLD
• 20:32 AND BEARS FRUIT FOR THE KINGDOM.
• 20:34 ZOLA ALWAYS WOULD SAY,
• 20:35 "THEY WERE LOOKING FOR THE MESSIAH
• 20:38 AND THEY WERE BELIEVERS, JEWISH BELIEVERS, THAT ACCEPTED MESSIAH.
• 20:42 RIGHT. RIGHT. >>THAT'S THE GOOD NEWS.
• 20:44 IT SURELY IS, AND GOOD NEWS IS WHAT WE TEACH.
• 20:47 ZOLA INTERVIEWED A TANK COMMANDER, WONDERFUL STORY,
• 20:50 A BELIEVER COMING TO KNOW THE MESSIAH.
• 20:54 (ZOLA SPEAKING)
• 20:54 SIMCHA DAVIDOV IS A JEWISH
• 20:57 BELIEVER WHO WAS BORN IN ISRAEL.
• 20:59 I ASKED HIM HOW HE CAME TO HIS
• 21:00 FAITH IN YESHUA, JESUS.
• 21:03 FIRST HEARD HIM A LOT THEN I TRAVELED ASIA, AUSTRALIA,
• 21:07 ENGLAND, CAME TO THE UNITED STATES IN 1975
• 21:12 AND IN WEST VIRGINIA I WORKED AT WESTINGHOUSE
• 21:14 AND MANY PEOPLE THERE IN THE BIBLE BELT REALIZED I'M FROM ISRAEL
• 21:19 AND STARTED SHARING WITH ME ABOUT THE BIBLE, OUR LORD AND THE NEW TESTAMENT YESHUA, JESUS.
• 21:26 AND I LISTENED AND IN 1978 I STARTED READING, COMPARING PROPHESIES,
• 21:33 READING THE WHOLE NEW TESTAMENT AND COMPARING THE PROPHESIES FROM OUR PROPHETS
• 21:38 WITH WHAT THE NEW TESTAMENT SAID ABOUT THE FULFILLMENT IN YESHUA.
• 21:43 AND IN THE FALL OF '78 I REALIZED THAT THIS IS TRUE.
• 21:46 AND I WAS GETTING TIRED OF MY OLD LIFESTYLE AND JUST EVERYTHING TO A POINT
• 21:52 AND I HAD FAITH TO BELIEVE THE YESHUA IS MY MESSIAH
• 21:56 AND I REMEMBER IN MY OLD LIVING ROOM IN THE FALL OF 1978
• 21:59 I PRAYED PROBABLY THE FIRST TIME IN MY LIFE, SERIOUSLY PRAYED AND CALLED ON THE GOD OF ISRAEL,
• 22:06 ASKED HIM TO FORGIVE MY SINS AND ASKED YESHUA TO COME INTO MY HEART AND SAVE ME
• 22:12 AND I'VE BEEN SHARING WITH PEOPLE THIS THE GREATEST THING THAT HAPPENED IN MY LIFE.
• 22:17 IT REALLY CHANGED YOUR LIFE.
• 22:18 YES, IT CHANGED MY LIFE.
• 22:20 I'VE NEVER BEEN THE SAME AND FOLLOWING YESHUA SINCE THEN
• 22:23 AND WENT TO BIBLE COLLEGE IN THE STATES
• 22:27 AND LEARNED ABOUT THE LORD, STUDYING THE BIBLE. AND THE LAST FEW YEARS
• 22:32 I'VE BEEN COMING EVERY YEAR TO ISRAEL HELPING IN THE MINISTRY HERE COMING BACK HOME.
• 22:37 YOU SEEM LIKE A VERY GENTLE, SOFT SPOKEN MAN TO HAVE BEEN A DOCK WORKER
• 22:41 AND A SOLDIER IN A TERRIBLE WAR.
• 22:44 HAS YESHUA DONE THIS FOR YOU?
• 22:46 YEH, HE SURE KIND OF SMOOTHED OUT MY ROUGHED EDGES.
• 22:50 I USED TO BE WILD AND I GREW UP IN A KIBBUTZ, ATHEIST, COMPLETELY ATHEIST.
• 22:57 AN ATHEIST KIBBUTZ? NOBODY BELIEVED IN GOD THEN?
• 22:59 NO, NO NONE,
• 23:01 NO ONE IN MY FAMILY, NO ONE IN MY KIBBUTZ TO MY KNOWLEDGE BELIEVED IN GOD,
• 23:04 DEFINITELY NOT IN YESHUA IN THE NEW TESTAMENT.
• 23:07 YES.
• 23:09 AND I SERVED IN THE ARMY FOR THREE YEARS AS A TANK COMMANDER.
• 23:13 YOU WERE A TANK COMMANDER? >>TANK COMMANDER.
• 23:15 BOY, IT'S A TOUGH JOB.
• 23:17 THEN I WORKED IN A LOT FOR AWHILE IN 1973 ENLISTED BACK IN THE WAR, YOM KIPPUR WAR.
• 23:24 AS WE KNOW IT WAS A TERRIBLE EXPERIENCE HERE IN ISRAEL
• 23:27 AND MORE THAN THREE THOUSAND ISRAELI' DIED IN THAT WAR, MANY PEOPLE WOUNDED,
• 23:32 IT WAS A BIG SHOCK IN ISRAEL
• 23:44 ♪PRAY FOR THE CITY OF GOD.♪
• 23:48 ♪LIFT UP YOUR EYES TO THE MOUNTAINS.♪
• 23:52 ♪PRAY FOR THE TREES OF THE HILLS OF JUDEA♪
• 23:55 ♪AND PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM.♪
• 24:00 ♪PRAY FOR THE PEOPLE OF GOD.♪
• 24:04 ♪REMEMBER THE LEAST OF HIS BRETHREN.♪
• 24:08 ♪PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL♪
• 24:12 ♪AND PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM.♪
• 24:16 ♪SHA'ALU, SHA'ALU SHALOM♪
• 24:20 ♪SHA'ALU SHALOM.♪
• 24:24 ♪SHA'ALU, SHA'ALU SHALOM♪
• 24:28 ♪YERUSHALAYIM.♪
• 24:48 ♪SHA'ALU, SHA'ALU SHALOM♪
• 24:52 ♪SHA'ALU SHALOM♪
• 24:56 ♪SHA'ALU, SHA'ALU SHALOM,♪
• 24:59 ♪YERUSHALAYIM.♪
• 25:04 ♪PRAY FOR THE KINGDOM OF GOD.♪
• 25:08 ♪PRAY FOR THE TIME OF HIS COMING.♪
• 25:12 ♪ PRAY FOR THE TEMPLE OF WORSHIP IN ISRAEL♪
• 25:15 ♪AND PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM♪ ♪
• 25:23 BEAUTIFUL MUSIC IS IT NOT?
• 25:25 AND GREAT STORY.
• 25:28 DIDN'T YOUR HEART JUST THRILL WHEN RABBI WALDMAN WAS
• 25:32 SHARING WHAT WAS HAPPENING WITH JEWISH PEOPLE COMING TO FAITH
• 25:35 AND CHRISTIAN PEOPLE GETTING BEHIND THE MOVEMENT?
• 25:38 ISN'T THAT GREAT?
• 25:39 IT'S WHAT THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO DO.
• 25:41 THAT'S WHAT THE GOOD NEWS IS.
• 25:42 YES, IT SURELY IS.
• 25:44 I THINK IT'S FASCINATING PERSONALLY THAT JEWISH PEOPLE ARE COMING TO FAITH IN JESUS,
• 25:49 THEY'RE CELEBRATING HANUKKAH,
• 25:51 THEY'RE LIVING AS JEWS, EVEN SO, AND IT MAY WELL BE THAT THERE'S SOMEONE
• 25:55 WITHIN THE SOUND OF MY VOICE OF JEWISH EXTRACT AND YOU'RE CURIOUS TO LEARN ABOUT JESUS
• 26:03 AND YOU'RE INTERESTED HOW TO FOLLOW JESUS AND BE A JEW, EVEN SO.
• 26:08 AND IF THAT'S YOU I WANT TO WRITE ME A LETTER.
• 26:11 I'M GOING TO GET BACK TO YOU.
• 26:13 IF YOU'RE INTERESTED IN TRYING TO FIND A SYNAGOGUE CLOSE BY LIKE BARUCH HASHEM,
• 26:17 WE WANT TO STEER YOU IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION, SO PLEASE
• 26:20 IN A MOMENT YOU'LL SEE A P.O. BOX. IF YOU WOULD WRITE US A LETTER
• 26:24 AND LET US KNOW HOW WE CAN HELP YOU.
• 26:26 WE'RE HERE FOR YOU
• 26:28 AND IF THERE'S A NON-JEWISH PERSON AS WELL THAT'S INTERESTED IN JESUS,
• 26:31 WE LOVE EVERYONE DON'T WE?
• 26:32 WE DO.
• 26:34 WE WANT EVERYONE TO KNOW YESHUA HA'MASHIACH, JESUS THE MESSIAH.
• 26:38 REMEMBER THIS,
• 26:39 SHA'ALU SHALOM YERUSHALAYIM,
• 26:41 PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM.