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Caption transcript for The Feast of Lights: “The Feast of Dedication” (3/3)

• 00:06 FROM TIME IN IMMEMORIAL...
• 00:08 FORCES OF DARKNESS HAVE AMASSED 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
• 00:35 JEWS LIGHT LAMPS IN THEIR HOMES TO COMMEMORATE THE VICTORY
• 00:38 AND TO RETELL THE STORY OF....
• 00:48 SHALOM,
• 00:49 THRILLED THAT YOU'RE WITH US FOR THE THIRD OF A THREE PART
• 00:52 TREATMENT OF THE JEWISH HOLIDAY CALLED "HANUKKAH"
• 00:56 "HANUKKAH",
• 00:57 FEAST OF DEDICATION, FEAST OF LIGHTS,
• 01:00 ALL THE OLIVE OIL, WONDERFUL, WONDERFUL.
• 01:03 SO MUCH IN IT.
• 01:05 HANUKKAH IS A FASCINATING STORY
• 01:07 AND WE HAVE BEEN EXPLORING IT.
• 01:09 WE'VE LOOKED AT THE HISTORY OF HANUKKAH.
• 01:11 WHAT I NEED YOU TO DO THIS GO ROUND IS TO
• 01:14 MAKE SURE YOU HAVE A BIBLE IN FRONT OF YOU
• 01:16 BECAUSE IN A FEW MOMENTS WE'RE GOING TO VISIT THE BOOK OF DANIEL,
• 01:20 WE'RE GOING TO LOOK AT THE GOSPEL OF MATTHEW
• 01:23 AND WE'RE GOING TO STUDY UP HOW THIS JEWISH HOLIDAY
• 01:26 CONNECTS TO THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS.
• 01:28 LAST WEEK WE SAW IT ALL HARVESTED.
• 01:30 THEN WE SAW IT PRESSED.
• 01:32 THE OLIVE OIL IS SO IMPORTANT IN THE FAMILY HOME.
• 01:35 WHAT IS OIL IN THE BIBLE?
• 01:36 WELL, THERE YOU GO.
• 01:38 THE BIBLE IS A LIGHT TO THE WORLD AND DANIEL AND MATTHEW SHED LIGHT
• 01:44 AND HANUKKAH INDEED IS THE FEAST OF LIGHTS.
• 01:47 IT'S A FEAST THAT WE ALL DO WELL TO PAY ATTENTION TO.
• 01:50 AND OIL IN THE BIBLE IS THE HOLY SPIRIT.
• 01:53 THAT'S RIGHT.
• 01:54 AND CAN'T WE SEE THAT EVERY TIME
• 01:56 WE HEAR ABOUT HANUKKAH, THE FESTIVAL OF LIGHTS?
• 01:58 YES, SO WE HAVE A DRAMA COMING,
• 02:00 WE'VE LOOKED AT THE GATHERING AND THE PRESSING OF OIL
• 02:03 AND NOW WE'LL CONSIDER SOME HOW IT'S USED IN THE HOME.
• 02:06 HOW IS IT USED? IT'S JUST LIKE US.
• 02:09 WE'RE GATHERED, WE GET PRESSED AND NOW WE GET USED.
• 02:11 IT'S GREAT.
• 02:12 THAT'S RIGHT.
• 02:13 AND OUR STORY CONTINUES.
• 02:15 THE OLIVE OIL COLLECTED IN THE
• 02:17 BASIN HERE COULD BE USED FOR A
• 02:19 VARIETY OF PURPOSES, AMONGST
• 02:20 THEM, COOKING, FOR COSMETICS,
• 02:22 AND ALSO AS FUEL FOR LIGHTING
• 02:24 OIL LAMPS. LET'S GO NOW AND HAVE A LOOK AT A FIRST CENTURY HOME A
• 02:27 AND SEE HOW OLIVE OIL WAS USED.
• 02:39 FROM THE OLIVE OIL WHICH IS JUST BEEN PRESSED OUTSIDE,
• 02:43 IT WOULD HAVE BEEN BROUGHT INTO THE HOME AND STORED IN LARGE POTTERY JARS.
• 02:48 FROM THAT LARGE JAR THE LADY OF THE HOME WOULD GATHER THE OIL INTO A SMALLER POTTERY CONTAINER
• 02:54 AND GO AROUND THE HOME FILLING UP THE VARIOUS OIL LAMPS
• 02:58 WHICH HAD BEEN PLACED IN VARIOUS WINDOW SILLS AND NICHES AROUND THE HOME.
• 03:02 THE OIL WOULD BE POURED THROUGH THE SMALL ROUND OPENING ON THE TOP OF THE OIL LAMP.
• 03:08 THERE WOULD HAVE BEEN A WICK IN THE NOZZLE OF THE LAMP MADE OF FLAX WHICH IS A PLANT FIBER
• 03:13 WHICH WOULD HAVE THEN BEEN LIT GIVING LIGHT TO VARIOUS PARTS OF THE HOME.
• 03:18 JESUS HIMSELF MADE REFERENCE TO OIL LAMPS.
• 03:21 ONE CONTEXT HE SPEAKS OF TAKING AN OIL LAMP AND PLACING IT ONTO A LAMP STAND
• 03:26 WHICH WOULD HAVE BEEN A PRACTICE IN THE FIRST CENTURY.
• 03:33 AND AS THE DAY CAME TO A CLOSE IN THE FIRST CENTURY
• 03:35 THE FAMILY RESTED BY THE FLICKERING LIGHT OF LITTLE CLAY LAMPS
• 03:39 FUELED FROM THE FRUIT OF THE OLIVE TREE.
• 03:47 OIL. IT WASN'T JUST USED IN HOMES IN GENERAL.
• 03:52 IT WAS USED IN ONE SPECIAL HOUSE IN PARTICULAR, THE "BEIT HAMIKDASH",
• 03:58 THE HOLY HOUSE, THE TEMPLE IN JERUSALEM.
• 04:03 THERE, BIBLE READERS MAY REMEMBER, THAT IN THE HOLY PLACE
• 04:08 WAS PLACED A CANDELABRA, A MENORAH.
• 04:11 LEVITICAL PRIESTS PAID SPECIAL ATTENTION TO THE MANUFACTURE OF OLIVE OIL WHEN THEY PLACED IT
• 04:19 THEREIN IN ORDER TO KEEP THAT LAMP BURNING MINUTE AFTER HOUR
• 04:24 AFTER DAY AFTER WEEK AFTER A MONTH, ON AND ON INTO THE FUTURE.
• 04:28 WELL, THE TEMPLE NO LONGER STANDS.IN THE WAKE OF IT'S DESTRUCTION IN 70 AD,
• 04:34 THE SYNAGOGUE CAME INTO VOGUE THE MORE SO.
• 04:37 AND HERE IN SYNAGOGUES WE HAVE THE LIGHT ABOVE US THAT STILL BURNS.
• 04:42 A LIGHT THAT IS PLACED IN FRONT OF THE ARK OF THE COVENANT
• 04:46 WHEREIN WHICH ARE PLACED THE TORAH SCROLLS.
• 04:49 BEHIND ME HERE AT BARUCH HASHEM CONGREGATION OF THE TORAH SCROLLS,
• 04:53 TRUTH BE KNOWN FOR ME AND FOR YOU, WE NEED THAT WHICH IS BEHIND ME IN FRONT OF US
• 04:58 FOR THE PSALMIST SAID AS YOU MIGHT RECALL,
• 05:08 THE WORD SAYS A NUMBER OF THINGS THAT ARE PREDICTIVE AND PRESCRIPTIVE.
• 05:12 THE SCRIPTURE PRESCRIBES A WAY WE OUGHT TO LIVE AND IT PREDICTS
• 05:17 WHAT WILL BE HAPPENING IN LIFE AS IT IS LIVED.
• 05:20 I'M LOOKING HERE AT A HANUKKAH STORY THAT WAS TOLD IN ADVANCE ACTUALLY IN THE BOOK OF DANIEL.
• 05:26 HERE IN CHAPTER 9 PICKING UP AT VERSE 27
• 05:30 WE HAVE A VERY FAMOUS TEXT OR TRUTH BE KNOWN, VERY INFAMOUS
• 05:34 FOR HEREIN THE STORY OF ONE OF THE WORLD'S WORST CREATURES IS TOLD,
• 05:40 ANTIOCHUS EPIPHANES IN ANTIQUITY.
• 05:44 HE WAS KNOWN AS THE ONE THAT DESECRATED THE HOLY PLACE.
• 05:48 THE PROPHET SAYS HERE IN VERSE 27....
• 05:54 (THIS IS WHERE WE GET AN UNDERSTANDING OF A TRIBULATION PERIOD BEING SEVEN YEARS)
• 06:02 (PREDICTED WAS THAT HE WOULD GO INTO THE HOLY PLACE AND SACRIFICE THEREIN)
• 06:20 INTERESTING, DANIEL ENVISIONED THAT IN THE FUTURE FROM HIS VANTAGE POINT
• 06:27 ONE WOULD COME WHO WOULD ENTER THE HOLY PLACE AND DESECRATE IT.
• 06:30 THIS BY THE WAY, WAS FULFILLED PROPHECY AT ONE LEVEL
• 06:34 BECAUSE ANTIOCHUS EPIPHANES, THE SYRIAN HAD GONE INTO JERUSALEM, TAKEN THE CITY,
• 06:40 TAKEN THE TEMPLE, GONE INTO THE HOLY PLACE AND THERE HE SET UP A SHRINE TO ZEUS.
• 06:47 HE NOT ONLY DID THAT, AS IF THAT WASN'T BAD ENOUGH, AND THAT OF COURSE IS AN EGREGIOUS OFFENSE,
• 06:53 HE NOT ONLY DID THAT, HE MADE IT AGAINST THE LAW FOR JEWS TO BE JEWS.
• 06:58 OUTLAWED WAS CIRCUMCISION,
• 07:00 OUTLAWED WERE TORAH SCROLLS,
• 07:02 OUTLAWED WAS SATURDAY OBSERVANCE OF THE "SHABBAT", THE SABBATH.
• 07:07 HE DID EVERYTHING HE COULD BY RULE OF LAW TO BREAK IT ALL DOWN.
• 07:11 AND HERE DANIEL PREDICTED ONE WOULD COME CUNNINGLY
• 07:16 AND HE WOULD BRING AN END TO SACRIFICE AND OFFERING
• 07:21 AND HE WOULD SET UP THIS HEINOUS ABOMINATION WHICH MAKES DESOLATE.
• 07:27 THE REASON WHY I KNOW THAT THIS ISN'T JUST FULFILLED IN THE HANUKKAH STORY OF DAYS GONE BY
• 07:33 IS BECAUSE JESUS HARKS BACK TO THIS STORY.
• 07:36 AND JESUS REMINDS READERS OF IT IN THE 24TH CHAPTER OF MATTHEW,
• 07:42 IF YOU'LL TURN THERE WITH ME, THIS IS A VERY FAMOUS TEXT AS WELL.
• 07:46 IN MATTHEW CHAPTER 24 JESUS IS SPEAKING TO HIS DISCIPLES ABOUT THE WORLD'S END.
• 07:52 THE CHAPTER BEGINS WITH THE DISCIPLES SAYING:
• 07:55 TELL US, WHEN WILL THIS BE?
• 07:57 AND WHAT WILL BE THE SIGN OF YOUR COMING AND OF THE CLOSE OF THE AGE?
• 08:02 AND IN CONJUNCTION WITH DISCUSSION OF A WORLD AT WAR,
• 08:05 WITH PEOPLE AT THE RAGGED EDGE, WITH WITS BEING FRAYED, WITH PEOPLE BEING DISORIENTED,
• 08:13 INTOXICATED WITH FEAR AND DISCOURAGEMENT IN CONJUNCTION WITH ALL OF THAT,
• 08:18 HE THEN SAYS IN VERSE 15....
• 08:39 IT'S A VERY FAMOUS EXPRESSION AND IT'S IMPORTANT FOR A VARIETY OF REASONS.
• 08:44 IT SHOWS THAT THE HANUKKAH STORY IS TO BE KEPT ALIVE, IT'S NOT JUST RELEGATED TO DAYS GONE BY.
• 08:52 NOW THE REASON WHY I SAY THAT IS THE DESOLATING SACRILEGE AFFECTED UNDER ANTIOCHUS
• 08:59 WHICH WAS THEN FINALLY BROUGHT TO AN END WHEN THE MACCABEES ROSE UP AND RETOOK JERUSALEM
• 09:06 AND RETOOK THE TEMPLE AND THEY REDEDICATED THE TEMPLE THROUGH THIS MIRACLE,
• 09:12 THEY GOT IT ALL DONE IN A DAY, THEY WERE ABLE TO FIX THIS
• 09:17 AND MAKE RIGHT THE PROBLEM WITH ANTIOCHUS EPIPHANES,
• 09:21 BUT IN MAKING THAT RIGHT IT DIDN'T PUT AN END TO THE STORY
• 09:26 BECAUSE JESUS INFORMS THAT ONE LIKE ANTIOCHUS RISES UP AT LAST DAYS.
• 09:36 AND IN CONJUNCTION WITH A WORLD AT WAR, RUMORS OF WARS
• 09:40 AND WITH ALL OF THAT THIS PERSON THEN MAKES THIS ABOMINATION WHICH MAKES DESOLATE.
• 09:48 IN FACT PAUL SAYS AS MUCH IN II THESSALONIANS,
• 09:51 HE'S TALKING ABOUT THIS ANTI-MESSIAH, THIS ANTI-CHRIST.
• 09:56 AND WHAT DOES HE DO?
• 09:58 HE EFFECTS THE ABOMINATION TO USE THE EXPRESSION IN II THESSALONIANS...
• 10:01 "HE TAKES HIS SEAT IN THE TEMPLE
• 10:04 OF GOD AND PROCLAIMS HIMSELF
• 10:05 THAT HE IS GOD."
• 10:07 AND BY VIRTUE OF SO DOING OF COURSE,
• 10:09 HE JUST REENACTS THE RITUAL THAT ANTIOCHUS HAD SET IN MOTION YEARS AGO.
• 10:14 I THINK WE NEED TO KEEP AN EYE ON PROPHECY.WE NEED TO KEEP AN EYE ON ISRAEL.
• 10:19 WE NEED TO KEEP AN EYE ON WHAT GOD IS DOING IN THE WORLD.WE NEED TO KEEP AN EYE ON ISLAM.
• 10:24 THERE ARE A NUMBER OF THINGS THAT BIBLE WATCHERS NEED TO WATCH,
• 10:26 BUT ESPECIALLY LET'S PRAY AND LET'S WATCH
• 10:30 AND LET'S BE IN THE READY WITH OUR EYES IN THE WORD AND OUR HEARTS SEEKING THE LORD
• 10:35 AND SEE WHAT HE WILL SPEAK TO US AS WE FIND OURSELVES AMIDST THE TURBULENCE OF TRYING TIMES
• 10:40 ON OCCASION AS WE WALK WITH THE LORD AND SEE HIS WILL AND WAYS MANIFESTED ON EARTH.
• 10:55 DANIEL SPELLS IT OUT PRETTY CLEARLY.
• 10:58 THE ANTI-CHRIST GOES INTO THE TEMPLE
• 11:00 AND DESECRATES IT JUST LIKE ANTIOCHUS.
• 11:02 YES, IT'S SCARY STUFF, IT'S SERIOUS STUFF ISN'T IT?.
• 11:06 IT IS SERIOUS STUFF
• 11:08 AND YET FOR US AS BELIEVERS IT'S NOT ABOUT US.
• 11:10 IT'S REALLY ABOUT THE UNBELIEVER.
• 11:12 RIGHT, ON THE ONE HAND IT'S BAD NEWS
• 11:14 AND THE OTHER HAND IT'S GOOD NEWS.
• 11:16 RIGHT. PAY ATTENTION,
• 11:17 THIS IS WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN.
• 11:18 GOD'S LEFT THE WORD TO UNDERSTAND WHAT'S GOING ON.
• 11:22 I BELIEVE THAT ONE OF THE THINGS THAT
• 11:24 WE'RE TO DO AT ZOLA LEVITT MINISTRIES IS TO TEACH ON BIBLE PROPHECY
• 11:28 AND THE CHRISTIAN TELEVISION SHOULDN'T BE ALL ABOUT "HAPPY-CLAPPY",
• 11:32 WE NEED TO LOOK AT WHAT'S SERIOUS AND WHAT'S COMING AS WELL
• 11:35 AND AS YOU SAID IT'S GOOD NEWS FOR ALL OF US AT THE END OF THE DAY
• 11:37 BECAUSE OUR REDEMPTION DRAWS NEAR.
• 11:39 BUT ISN'T WONDERFUL THAT GOD GIVES US THIS
• 11:42 SO THAT WE CAN SEE EXACTLY WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN.
• 11:44 NOTHING NEW UNDER THE SUN.
• 11:46 THAT'S RIGHT. AND JESUS IS THE ONE TO SHOW US THE WAY. >>RIGHT.
• 11:50 IN A MOMENT WE'RE GOING TO LOOK AT WHAT JESUS SAID
• 11:56 AS HE CELEBRATED HANUKKAH IN JOHN CHAPTER 10.
• 12:01 THE LANGUAGE OF BIBLICAL LITERATURE IS RATHER INTERESTING.
• 12:05 THE BIBLE TALKS ABOUT GOD'S
• 12:07 WRATH BEING POURED OUT.
• 12:09 THE BIBLE TALKS ABOUT GOD'S LOVE
• 12:11 BEING POURED OUT.
• 12:13 WHEN I THINK OF GOD'S WRATH BEING POURED OUT I'M REMINDED OF THE STORY IN DANIEL 9.
• 12:18 IT TALKS ABOUT THE TRIBULATION PERIOD.
• 12:20 THE BIBLE PREDICTS A WORLD GOING DOWN INTO A NADIR; THAT IS TO A LOW POINT.
• 12:26 THE BIBLE TALKS ABOUT THE DEVIL MAKING HIS ENTRANCE ONTO THE STAGE OF THE HUMAN DRAMA
• 12:31 PERSONIFIED AT A CERTAIN LEVEL IN THE PERSON OF AN ANTI-CHRIST,
• 12:36 AN ANTI-MESSIAH WHO DECEIVES THE WORLD.
• 12:40 PAUL TELLS US THAT
• 12:42 THIS PERSON WILL APPEAR
• 12:44 AS AN ANGEL OF LIGHT.
• 12:45 IN FACT, THE WORD "LUCIFER"
• 12:47 ITSELF IS A LATIN EPITHET
• 12:49 MEANING "LIGHT BEARER"
• 12:51 AND SO IT IS HE COMES WITH BRIGHT IDEAS.
• 12:54 IN FACT, A WHOLE WORLD FALLS INTO HIS DOMAIN,
• 12:58 EXCEPT THERE ARE SOME THAT RESIST, I MIGHT ADD.
• 13:01 JEWISH PEOPLE COME TO KNOW THE TRUTH.
• 13:03 THEY'RE NOT GOING TO WORSHIP THIS FELLOW.
• 13:06 WE'RE TOLD IN SCRIPTURE IN THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENT ALIKE ABOUT AN ANTI-CHRIST WHO COMES
• 13:11 AND ENTERS INTO THE TEMPLE MOUNT BEHIND ME.
• 13:17 THE BIBLE TELLS US THAT THE ANTI-CHRIST IS GOING TO GO
• 13:19 INTO THIS RE-FABRICATED TEMPLE AND DESECRATE IT.
• 13:23 THAT'S SOMETHING HE DID IN DAYS GONE BY.
• 13:26 DAYS GONE BY THE HANUKKAH STORY COMMEMORATES THE SEASON WHEN
• 13:29 ANTIOCHUS EPIPHANES DESECRATED THE TEMPLE
• 13:33 AND THEN IT TALKS ABOUT FAITHFULNESS,
• 13:36 HOW HE RAISES UP A JUDAH MACCABEE AND OTHERS
• 13:39 TO GET BEHIND HIM TO THEN THROW OFF THE SYRIAN YOKE AND REDEDICATE THE TEMPLE.
• 13:44 THAT NOT ONLY HAPPENED IN DAYS GONE BY,
• 13:47 JESUS SAYS THE SAME THING IS GOING TO HAPPEN IN DAYS AHEAD
• 13:51 AS THE ANTI-CHRIST ENTERS THE SCENE, THE WORLD GOES AFTER HIM,
• 13:55 HE DESECRATES A TEMPLE THAT'S BUILT ON THIS TEMPLE MOUNT BEHIND ME.
• 14:00 IT'S A TRAGIC STORY FOR A VARIETY OF REASONS.
• 14:03 THAT'S THE BAD NEWS. THE GOOD NEWS IS THAT
• 14:05 GOD SHOWS HIMSELF TRIUMPHANT WHEN THE MESSIAH COMES, HIS SERVANT WITH THE SAINTS WITH HIM
• 14:12 AND THEN BATTLES AGAINST THE ANTI-CHRIST AND HIS DEMONIC MINIONS
• 14:17 AND GETS THE BETTER OF THE DAY IN THE WAKE OF WHICH WE HAVE A NEW HEAVEN AND A NEW EARTH.
• 14:23 NOW SPEAKING ABOUT A NEW HEAVEN AND A NEW EARTH,
• 14:27 LET ME TALK ABOUT BRINGING A LITTLE HEAVEN INTO YOUR EARTH
• 14:31 BECAUSE IN ADVANCE OF THE DAY WHEN GOD MAKES ALL THINGS NEW ON THE PLANET,
• 14:36 THERE'S A WAY THAT HE CAN MAKE ALL THINGS NEW IN YOU
• 14:40 AND I THINK ONE OF THE BEST PLACES TO TELL THIS STORY IS FROM THIS PLACE
• 14:45 AND IT'S A GREAT TIME TO DO IT AT HANUKKAH TIME.
• 14:47 I WANT TO TAKE YOU TO THE "JOHANNINE GOSPEL", THE GOSPEL OF JOHN, CHAPTER 10
• 14:52 WHERE IT IS HANUKKAH AND JESUS GIVES A LITTLE HOMILY, HE GIVES A LITTLE TALK HERE.
• 14:58 LET'S LOOK AT WHAT IT WAS IN JOHN CHAPTER 10 AND VERSE 22..
• 15:06 AND I TRUST YOU KNOW THAT THE FEAST OF DEDICATION IS HANUKKAH, THE FEAST OF LIGHTS.
• 15:14 JESUS LOVED JEWISH PEOPLE, HE WAS JEWISH PEOPLE,
• 15:18 HE CELEBRATED AS A JEWISH PERSON, HE WORSHIPPED WITH OTHER JEWS,
• 15:21 AND THERE'S JESUS AT THE TEMPLE. WE'RE TOLD THAT HE WALKED AND THEN IN VERSE 24 WE'RE TOLD...
• 15:37 TOO MANY CHURCHMEN HAVE CONCLUDED TO MY WAY OF THINKING
• 15:40 THAT IN THE FIRST CENTURY JESUS CAME AND THE JEWS REJECTED JESUS SO JESUS REJECTED ALL THE JEWS.
• 15:48 NOW AT ONE LEVEL THAT'S REALLY BAD THEOLOGY.
• 15:52 ON ANOTHER LEVEL, IN ADDITION, IT'S REALLY BAD HISTORY
• 15:55 BECAUSE ALL THE JEWS DIDN'T REJECT JESUS.
• 15:57 THIS STATEMENT REFLECTS A KIND OF POLARIZATION.
• 16:00 THAT IS TO SAY THAT WERE SOME JEWS THAT WERE SERIOUSLY FOR JESUS,
• 16:04 THERE WERE SOME JEWS EMPHATICALLY AGAINST HIM
• 16:06 AND THEN THERE'S THE LIONS SHARE OF JEWISH PEOPLE CAUGHT IN BETWEEN,
• 16:11 SOMEWHAT AMBIVALENT, NOT KNOWING WHICH WAY TO GO.
• 16:14 HERE JESUS PRESENTS IN THE TEMPLE AND JEWS SURROUND HIM AND SAY,
• 16:19 "TELL US WHO YOU ARE, WHAT YOU'RE ALL ABOUT. WHAT IS THIS?"
• 16:32 JESUS HAD TRAVELED ABOUT THE TOWNS AND VILLAGES OF JUDEA HEALING, CASTING OUT DEMONS,
• 16:40 THERE WAS ENOUGH MANIFEST PRESENCE WHEN HE WAS PRESENT TO GIVE EVIDENCE TO THE FACT THAT
• 16:47 THERE WAS SOMETHING BEYOND HIM, THAT HE WAS MORE THAN A MAN, MORE THAN A CARPENTER.
• 16:53 THE MIRACLES TESTIFY IN AS MUCH AS THE HANUKKAH STORY.
• 16:56 THERE ARE THE SYRIANS THAT HAVE OVERWHELMED THE JUDEANS
• 17:00 BUT GOD GIVES THE ARMIES VICTORY OVER THE SYRIANS.
• 17:03 AND NOT ONLY THAT HE GIVES THEM A MIRACLE TO CELEBRATE WITH THE FEAST OF DEDICATION.
• 17:07 MIRACLES AUTHENTICATE GOD'S WORKING IN THE WORLD.
• 17:12 WELL, PEOPLE SEE AND EXPERIENCE THE MIRACULOUS, THEY HEAR THE LORD CALLING.THE LORD SAID,
• 17:22 OH WOULD THAT IT WOULD BE
• 17:24 THAT YOU WOULD HEAR THE LORD'S VOICE SPEAKING TO YOU THROUGH HIS WORD.
• 17:29 I WOULD CONSIDER IT SUCCESS IN LIFE WHERE INSIDE YOUR HEART NOW YOU WOULD BE RESOLVING
• 17:35 TO MAKE A DECISION FOR THE LORD THAT AT HANUKKAH TIME, THE FEAST OF DEDICATION,
• 17:40 THAT YOU WOULD MAKE A DECISION TO DEDICATE YOUR LIFE TO SERVING THIS GOD WHO KNOWS YOU,
• 17:45 WHOSE CALLING YOU, WHO HAS A WONDERFUL PLAN FOR YOUR LIFE,
• 17:50 AS A SHEPHERD WANTS TO LEAD YOU INTO A SUCCESSFUL FUTURE.
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• 18:41 "I SHALL STAND WITHIN THE WONDER OF YOUR WALLS OH JERUSALEM."
• 18:46 "I SHALL WALK WITHIN THE SPLENDOR OF YOUR GATES."
• 18:51 "BEAUTIFUL FOR SITUATION THE JOY OF THE WHOLE EARTH."
• 18:56 "SURELY THE LORD HAS BLESSED THEE AND MADE HIS FACE SHINE UPON THEE."
• 19:03 " COME TO ZION WITH SONGS AND EVERLASTING JOY."
• 19:09 "COME, WORSHIP
• 19:11 IN THE SPLENDOR
• 19:12 OF HIS HOLINESS."
• 19:17 THAT'S ISRAEL.
• 19:18 YOU HEAR ME SAY, "THAT'S ISRAEL AND THAT'S THE WAY WE SAY IT."
• 19:21 IT WAS SOMETHING THAT ZOLA SAID
• 19:22 AND IT'S KIND OF A TRADITION I'D LIKE TO CONTINUE ON.
• 19:24 THAT IS ISRAEL. IT'S THE WAY WE SEE IT. IT'S WHAT WE LOVE. GO TO ISRAEL.
• 19:29 AND TRADITION CAN BE GOOD.
• 19:32 OF COURSE, WE JEWS ARE SOMETIMES ACCUSED
• 19:34 OF BEING TOO MUCH INTO TRADITION
• 19:35 BUT AS THIS MINISTRY MOVES INTO THE FUTURE
• 19:37 WE CAN CARRY THE PAST ALONG NOW CAN'T WE?
• 19:40 I THINK SO TOO.
• 19:41 AND ZOLA HAD AN EMPLOYEE THAT WORKED WITH THE MINISTRY
• 19:43 AND HER NAME IS JANE ROSENBERG
• 19:44 AND SHE WAS SO SWEET AND SO LOVELY.
• 19:46 SHE REMINDED YOU OF JUST THE OLD SWEDE, JEWISH LITTLE MAMMA.
• 19:50 YIDDISH MAMMA.
• 19:52 YES, THAT YOU WANT TO JUST PINCH HER LITTLE CHEEK.
• 19:55 BUT SHE SAT DOWN AND TALKED WITH ZOLA ABOUT HANUKKAH
• 19:57 AND WHAT THE MEMORIES WERE FOR HER AND WHAT THE MEMORIES WERE FOR ZOLA.
• 20:00 I'D LIKE YOU TO WATCH THAT.
• 20:01 IT'S A WONDERFUL, WONDERFUL, SWEET INTERVIEW.
• 20:05 CAN YOU TALK ABOUT HANUKKAH WITH ME A LITTLE BIT?
• 20:07 HANUKKAH WAS REALLY, REALLY THE JOYOUS OCCASION.
• 20:11 WE KNEW IT AS CHILDREN AS A BIG THING BECAUSE OF GIFTS. WE WERE GOING TO GET GIFTS.
• 20:16 WE WERE GETTING A HANUKKAHGELT, WHICH IS... >>HANUKKAH GOLD.
• 20:19 HANUKKAH GOLD. >>CASH! (LAUGHING) FINE SILVER!
• 20:22 OH THAT IT WAS SUCH A BIG DEAL WHO KNOWS HOW MUCH,
• 20:24 MAYBE IT WAS 10 OR 15 CENTS, I DON'T REMEMBER. >>YEH, RIGHT!
• 20:27 BUT IT WAS HUGE TO US AT THE TIME.
• 20:30 AND OF COURSE IT WAS THE GAMES WE PLAYED AND WAITING FOR THE LIGHTS.
• 20:35 EACH NIGHT THE CANDLE
• 20:37 WAS GOING TO BE LIT
• 20:38 BY ONE OF THE OTHER CHILDREN,
• 20:40 USUALLY I WAS THE YOUNGEST SO I DON'T REMEMBER LIGHTING IT MYSELF
• 20:42 BUT A BOY OR A GIRL COULD LIGHT THE CANDLES.IT DIDN'T MATTER.
• 20:45 SO ONE OF THEM, ONE OF MY BROTHERS OR SISTERS UNDOUBTEDLY DID IT.
• 20:50 AND THEN AGAIN WE CHILDREN WERE SENT TO "HAYDER".
• 20:54 THAT'S A JEWISH SCHOOL THAT WOULD BE IN THE SYNAGOGUE. A HEBREW SCHOOL.
• 20:58 WE CALLED IT JEWISH SCHOOL OR HEBREW SCHOOL.
• 21:00 IT WOULD HAPPEN RIGHT WHEN WE GOT OUT OF SCHOOL WENT DIRECTLY TO HAYDER. >>YES.
• 21:05 SOME LEARNED TO READ AND WRITE YIDDISH, JEWISH.
• 21:08 EVERY DAY BUT FRIDAY.
• 21:09 OH, NO NOT FRIDAY.
• 21:11 FIRST OF ALL YOU WEREN'T EVEN ALLOWED TO WRITE THEN. >>YES. (LAUGHING)
• 21:13 BUT WE WOULD GO THE REST OF THE WEEK AND BEFORE HANUKKAH
• 21:17 WE WOULD PUT ON PLAYS THAT WE WERE GOING TO DO DURING THE WEEK OF HANUKKAH
• 21:22 AND OUR PARENTS WOULD COME AND SEE THESE PLAYS PUT ON.
• 21:26 RATHER LIKE CHRISTMAS IS TODAY. CHILDREN PUT ON COSTUMES AND GIVE A PLAY.
• 21:31 REALLY IN THE SAME.
• 21:33 AND OF COURSE IN THE HOUSE THERE WAS SUCH JOYFULNESS.
• 21:37 IT WAS A JOYFUL HOLIDAY. WE KNEW IT.WE SENSED IT.
• 21:41 AND OF COURSE IT WAS NOT ONLY GETTING GIFTS, IT WAS GIVING.
• 21:45 JEWISH IS BEING CHARITABLE AND WE ARE TAUGHT CHARITY FROM THE BEGINNING.
• 21:51 WE WOULD DISTRIBUTE.WE WOULD HAVE TO TAKE PART OF OUR MONEY,
• 21:55 WE KNEW IT WOULD GO INTO THE CHARITY BOX THAT WE HAD ON THE DOOR ALL YEAR ROUND. >>KUPPAH.
• 22:00 KUPPAH. RIGHT.
• 22:01 AND IT'S REALLY JUST A FUN...
• 22:04 THE BAKING AND THE COOKING. ALL THE GOODIES THAT WE HAD.
• 22:09 IT'S SO LIKE CHRISTMAS IS TODAY AS I MENTIONED EARLIER,
• 22:13 MAYBE PEOPLE WENT BACK TO GET THE DATE FOR CHRISTMAS FROM THE INCEPTION OF HANUKKAH.
• 22:17 CURIOUS HOW THESE HAVE COME ALONG IN THE SAME WAY.
• 22:20 I DON'T THINK IT'S A COINCIDENCE DO YOU ZOLA? >>NO, I DON'T REALLY.
• 22:22 REALLY >>I THINK IT'S A COMMEMORATION.
• 22:25 A BIBLICAL FESTIVAL IS THE WAY TO PUT IT. >>RIGHT.
• 22:28 AND THE PEOPLE DO WHAT THEY DO EXCEPT FOR THE...
• 22:32 I ALWAYS THOUGHT IT WAS SO POPULAR TO GIVE CASH
• 22:35 BECAUSE CHRISTMAS GIFTS WERE NOTORIOUSLY RETURNED (LAUGHING).
• 22:38 RETURNED GIFTS. NO, WE GAVE MOSTLY MONEY.
• 22:40 WE WOULD GET LITTLE BAGS OF NUTS, FRUITS, JUST LIKE THEY DO HERE.
• 22:44 BUT THE MOST THING WAS THE MONEY.
• 22:46 IT'S NICE TO REMEMBER THE POOR AT SUCH A TIME
• 22:48 AND THAT TOO COMES WITH CHRISTMAS. >>ABSOLUTELY.
• 22:52 I THINK THAT A LOT OF MISSIONS TO THE POOR,
• 22:54 A SPECIAL EMPHASIS ON CHRISTMAS TIME.
• 22:56 WELL, IT WAS ANOTHER HOLIDAY WHERE WE WERE TAUGHT IF WE KNEW THAT PEOPLE WERE ALONE
• 23:00 THAT THEY HAD NOBODY TO COME IN TO SEE THEM, THEY WERE LONELY, WE WOULD MAKE A VISIT.
• 23:28 ♪(ZOLA PLAYING THE RECORDER)♪
• 24:33 BEAUTIFUL MUSIC WITH A GREAT SERIES ON THE FIRST CHRISTIANS.
• 24:37 TAKES US BACK TO THE WORLD WHEN
• 24:39 THOSE FIRST CHRISTIANS WERE ALL JEWS
• 24:41 AND I'M EXCITED THAT WE LIVE IN A DAY AND TIME
• 24:43 WHEN MORE JEWISH PEOPLE ARE COMING TO FAITH.
• 24:46 AND AS JEWISH PEOPLE COME TO FAITH,
• 24:48 THE STORY OF PASSOVER AND HANUKKAH, PURIM ALL THE JEWISH FEASTS
• 24:52 NOW SURFACES IN CHRISTIAN CONSCIOUSNESS AS THROUGH THE SERIES.
• 24:56 IT'S LIKE ALL THE LIGHTS ARE THERE AND I THINK
• 24:59 HANUKKAH'S A WONDERFUL EXAMPLE OF THE LIGHT'S BEAM THERE.
• 25:02 YES, JESUS SAID IN FACT THAT HE WAS THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD.
• 25:06 AND A WOMAN BRINGS IN THAT LIGHT OF THE WORLD.
• 25:09 YES, PASSOVER TIME A WOMAN LIGHTS THE CANDLES.
• 25:12 RIGHT.
• 25:13 IN FACT HANUKKAH IS A HOLIDAY..
• 25:15 THAT'S WHY JEAN IS SO GOOD TO TELL THE STORY..
• 25:17 IT'S A WOMAN'S WORLD THAT'S CELEBRATED IN THE HOME
• 25:20 MORE THAN IN THE "SHUL", MORE THAN IN THE SYNAGOGUE.
• 25:22 AND IT'S A HAPPY TIME. IT'S A TIME TO REMEMBER.
• 25:25 REMEMBER NOT ONLY OURSELF BUT REMEMBER THE POORER PEOPLE OF THE WORLD,
• 25:28 THAT THERE ARE PEOPLE THAT NEED OUR HELP.
• 25:30 YES AND IT'S GREAT THE WAY THE MOTHER REALLY DOES SET THE TONE
• 25:33 FOR SO MUCH WITH THE PRESENTS, WITH THE CHILDREN
• 25:35 AND IT SHEDS A LITTLE LIGHT IN THE DARKENED WORLD
• 25:39 WHEN JEWISH PEOPLE GATHER TOGETHER
• 25:40 AND CELEBRATE THE FEAST OF LIGHTS AND THE FEAST OF DEDICATION.
• 25:43 AGAIN, IT'S THE WHOLE CONCEPT OF THE VISUAL OF THE OLIVE TREE
• 25:48 BEING HARVESTED, BEING PRESSED,
• 25:50 AND ALL OF US.. LIKE US BEING POURED OUT
• 25:53 AND BEING ABLE TO WITNESS TO OUR FRIENDS AND OUR FAMILY.
• 25:56 RIGHT. AND ISN'T THAT SO MUCH LIKE JESUS
• 25:58 WHO WAS PRESSED AND SQUEEZED AND OUT CAME THE HEALING BALM?
• 26:03 YOU KNOW I THINK OF JESUS SHEDDING HIS BLOOD ON CALVARY'S CROSS.
• 26:08 IN FACT I'M REMINDED OF A VERSE WHERE JESUS SAID,
• 26:19 I BELIEVE THAT INDIVIDUALS NEED TO COME TO KNOW JESUS
• 26:22 AND I HOPE THAT SOME OF YOU WANT TO GO THAT DIRECTION
• 26:25 AS A RESULT OF THIS PROGRAM TODAY.
• 26:28 JEFF, THANK YOU FOR THE TEACHING.
• 26:29 HANUKKAH IS A WONDERFUL, WONDERFUL HOLIDAY.
• 26:32 EXCITING.
• 26:33 COME TO KNOW THE MESSIAH AND, SHA'ALU SHALOM YERUSHALAYIM,
• 26:37 PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM.