Caption transcript for Ask The Professor: Insights on the Gospel of John — “His Last Days” (4/4)

• 00:29 HEARTY SHALOM TO ALL OF YOU.
• 00:31 JEFFREY SEIF HERE
• 00:33 AND I AM PLEASED TO WELCOME YOU
• 00:35 TO THE FORTH OF A FOUR PART SERIES WITH ZOLA LEVITT PRESENTS
• 00:40 CALLED "ASK THE PROFESSOR".
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• 00:44 BECAUSE I AM THAT.
• 00:47 BEFORE I EVER FELL BACKWARDS INTO TELEVISION
• 00:50 I WAS MOVING FORWARD AS A BIBLE COLLEGE AND SEMINARY INSTRUCTOR
• 00:55 ALL ABOUT TEACHING THE BIBLE
• 00:57 AND TEACHING IT FROM A JEWISH PERSPECTIVE.
• 01:01 THIS GETS ME TO THE STORY OF TODAY.
• 01:06 WE'RE LOOKING AT THE GOSPEL OF JOHN.
• 01:08 WE'RE TRYING TO EXPLORE JESUS.
• 01:11 IN THE 12TH CHAPTER OF THE GOSPEL OF JOHN,
• 01:15 YESHUA MAKES HIS TRIUMPHAL ENTRY INTO THE CITY OF YERUSHALAYIM, JERUSALEM.
• 01:23 TRUE OR FALSE?
• 01:26 SEE IF YOU KNOW.
• 01:28 JESUS WAS POPULARLY RECEIVED BY JUDEANS WHEN HE ENTERED JERUSALEM.
• 01:36 TRUE OR FALSE?
• 01:40 I LIKE TO ALIGHT UPON THAT
• 01:42 BECAUSE MOST PEOPLE THINK THAT JESUS WAS REJECTED BY THE JEWS
• 01:48 SO JESUS TURNED AROUND AND REJECTED THE JEWS.
• 01:52 THAT'S POPULAR SENTIMENT IN MANY CHRISTIAN PULPITS...
• 01:57 "WELL THE JEWS REJECTED JESUS."
• 01:59 POPULAR AS THE NOTION IS, UNFORTUNATELY, ITS JUST NOT BORN OUT BY THE BIBLICAL TEXT.
• 02:07 WE'RE TOLD IN JOHN CHAPTER 12, VERSE 12,
• 02:25 "HOSHANA" OR "HOSANNA",
• 02:28 "LORD SAVE US".
• 02:30 AND THEN SAID,
• 02:31 "BARUCH HABA HA SHEM ADONAI",
• 02:34 "BLESSED IS HE WHO COMES"
• 02:36 "IN THE NAME OF THE LORD",
• 02:38 "MELECH YISRAEL", "THE KING OF ISRAEL".
• 02:42 I MEAN THE CROWDS ARE FLOCKING.
• 02:46 WHERE DO PEOPLE GET THE IDEA THAT ALL THE JEWS SETS THUMBS DOWN ON JESUS?
• 02:50 IT'S NOT FOUND IN THE STORY.
• 02:53 BUT RATHER IT'S FOUND IN THE GORY TRUTH THAT PEOPLE JUST HATE JEWS.
• 03:00 JESUS DIDN'T HATE JEWS,
• 03:01 HE CAME TO US.
• 03:03 AND JEWS DIDN'T HATE JESUS,
• 03:05 THEY CAME TO HIM.
• 03:06 WHAT A STORY.
• 03:09 WE WORK OUR WAY THROUGH THE STORY, THE 13TH CHAPTER
• 03:13 WHERE YESHUA NOW HAS MADE HIS WAY INTO JERUSALEM
• 03:16 THAT FINAL WEEK CALLED "PASSION WEEK"
• 03:18 AND HE SITS DOWN AND HE CELEBRATES WHAT'S CALLED "THE LAST SUPPER"
• 03:25 MADE POPULAR IN CHRISTIAN CONSCIOUSNESS WITH DA VINCI'S PICTURE OF THE LAST SUPPER.
• 03:32 IT'S BEEN THE OBJECTS OF SOME BOOKS, MOST RECENTLY IN FACT.
• 03:35 WHAT'S REALLY HAPPENING THERE IN DA VINCI'S "LAST SUPPER"?...
• 03:38 YOU KNOW, THE DA VINCI CODE AND ALL THAT STUFF.
• 03:41 NOW NEVER MIND THE POPULAR PICTURE,
• 03:44 I'M INTERESTED IN WHAT KIND OF PICTURE WE GET FROM THE BIBLE.
• 03:50 HERE'S MY QUESTION.
• 03:51 WHEN YESHUA CELEBRATED THE LAST SUPPER
• 03:55 HE WAS PARTICIPATING, OR HE WAS DOING IT IN CONJUNCTION WITH WHAT JEWISH FESTIVAL MEAL?
• 04:07 IT'S MY QUESTION.
• 04:10 WAS IT A THANKSGIVING MEAL?
• 04:14 WAS IT A HANUKKAH FEAST?
• 04:19 IS JESUS WORKING WITH "THE DAY OF ATONEMENT",
• 04:23 A CELEBRATION MEAL THERE?
• 04:26 OR ARE WE TO CONSTRUE THIS STORY
• 04:28 IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE PASSOVER?
• 04:32 WELL, FIRST OF ALL "THE DAY OF ATONEMENT" IS NOT A FESTIVAL MEAL;
• 04:37 IT'S THE SEASON THAT'S MARKED BY NO EATING.
• 04:40 THANKSGIVING OF COURSE IS A SECULAR HOLIDAY...
• 04:43 THERE'S RELIGIOUS UNDERPINNINGS REMEMBERING THAT...
• 04:46 FOR GOD GIVING US THE LAND AND THE BOUNTY AS EVIDENCED BY THE EATING OF SPECIAL FOODS.
• 04:52 THE JEWISH BIBLE HAS ITS OWN THANKSGIVING FEAST..."SUKKOTH".
• 04:57 "HANUKKAH" CELEBRATES THE DEDICATION.
• 05:00 NO, IF YOU LOOK AT THE "LAST SUPPER" STORY HERE
• 05:03 IT'S PLAYED OUT AGAINST THE BACKDROP OF THE JEWISH PASSOVER
• 05:08 AND WHAT A STORY IT IS.
• 05:09 I HAVE SOME PARAPHERNALIA HERE.
• 05:11 JEWISH PEOPLE EAT UNLEAVENED BREAD AT THE PASSOVER.
• 05:15 AND IF YOU LOOK AT THIS BREAD
• 05:17 ITS INTERESTING TO ME THAT IT'S BOTH STRIPED AND PIERCED.
• 05:21 AND WHEN HE SAYS, "TAKE, EAT, THIS IS MY BODY"....
• 05:24 I MEAN JUST LOOKING AT PASSOVER BREAD HELPS YOU UNDERSTAND THAT.
• 05:27 SIMILARLY THERE'S ALL KINDS OF WINE THE JEWISH PEOPLE DRINK AT HOLIDAYS.
• 05:33 AND I SHOULD SAY THAT KOSHER WINE FOR PASSOVER HAS MORE ALCOHOL IN IT THAN REGULAR WINE,
• 05:38 WHICH LETS YOU KNOW WHY A LOT OF JEWS LOOK FORWARD TO THE FEAST...BUT NOT ME.
• 05:42 IN ANY CASE, WINE IS IMPORTANT.
• 05:44 THE FRUIT OF THE VINE.
• 05:46 TAKE IT HOWEVER YOU WANT IT.
• 05:48 IT'S ALL PART OF THE PASSOVER MEAL.
• 05:50 IF YOU LOOK IN THE 13TH CHAPTER
• 05:53 OF THE GOSPEL OF JOHN,
• 05:54 THE "FEAST OF PASSOVER"
• 05:55 IS NOTED.
• 05:57 AND I THINK IT'S FASCINATING BY THE WAY THAT YESHUA GOES OUT WITH THE PASSOVER STORY
• 06:01 BECAUSE HE MADE HIS ENTRANCE WITH THE PASSOVER STORY
• 06:05 AS I REFERENCED IN A PREVIOUS PROGRAM IN THIS SERIES.
• 06:08 IF YOU LOOK AT THE LORD, HE GOES INTO JERUSALEM AS A CHILD WITH HIS FAMILY TO CELEBRATE PASSOVER
• 06:14 AND THE FAMILY LEAVES.
• 06:16 AND IT'S DURING THAT SEASON WHEN JESUS FIRST ARTICULATES,
• 06:18 "I MUST BE ABOUT MY FATHER'S BUSINESS".
• 06:21 WELL IN THIS PARTICULAR SEGMENT HERE IN THE 13TH CHAPTER,
• 06:24 JESUS IS CELEBRATING EXACTLY WHAT THAT BUSINESS IS....
• 06:27 HIS GIVING HIS LIFE FOR PEOPLE LIKE ME AND YOU.
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• 07:16 IN THE JOHANNINE GOSPEL, THE 14TH CHAPTER, THE 18TH VERSE, THE LORD SAYS,
• 07:24 MAYBE IT'S THE SEASON IN LIFE THAT I'M IN
• 07:28 LOOKING AT 55 AND BEYOND NOW,
• 07:31 I REALIZE I WON'T BE HERE FOREVER.
• 07:33 AND I'VE ALREADY STARTED
• 07:35 TO SET IN MOTION
• 07:37 MY OWN INEVITABLE DEMISE WITH MY BOYS
• 07:40 TO PREPARE THEM FOR LIFE WITHOUT THEIR DAD...
• 07:42 WE'RE A PRETTY CLOSE FAMILY.
• 07:44 I DON'T WANT TO GET MOROSE HERE.
• 07:46 THIS IS THE LAST SUPPER AND THE LORD SAYS,
• 07:48 "LISTEN, I'M HEADIN OUT."
• 07:50 BEFORE HE DID SO HE TOLD THEM IN VERSE 17, RELATIVE TO THE HOLY SPIRIT WHOM HE WOULD SEND,
• 07:57 HE SAYS,
• 08:03 SO THERE'S THE PROMISE WHILE HE'S CHECKING OUT,
• 08:06 THERE'S ANOTHER PERSONALITY THAT WILL BE CHECKING IN.
• 08:10 HERE'S MY QUESTION MINDFUL OF THAT.
• 08:13 TRUE OR FALSE?
• 08:15 WITH THE COMING SPIRIT IN VIEW,
• 08:18 QUESTION, TRUE OR FALSE?
• 08:20 THE SPIRIT'S COMING WAS CLEARLY ENVISIONED IN THE OLD TESTAMENT.
• 08:26 TRUE OR FALSE?
• 08:28 WHAT SAY YOU?
• 08:31 HERE THE LORD IS SAYING,
• 08:32 "I'M GOING TO SEND THE SPIRIT."
• 08:34 IS THIS THE FIRST TIME THE JEWS HEARD IT?
• 08:36 OR WAS IT PRESAGED MANY YEARS BEFOREHAND?
• 08:40 THAT'S THE QUESTION.
• 08:43 WHAT'S THE ANSWER?
• 08:45 THE ANSWER IS THAT THE HOLY SPIRIT'S COMING WAS CLEARLY ENVISIONED IN THE OLD TESTAMENT.
• 08:53 IN FACT, ON THE DAY OF PENTECOST, AS YOU MIGHT RECALL,
• 08:56 WHAT WE CALL "PENTECOST",
• 08:58 CEPHAS...PETER, GETS UP AND SAYS THIS EXPERIENCE OF RECEIVING THE HOLY SPIRIT
• 09:04 AND SPEAKING WITH SPECIAL LANGUAGE BACK THEN,
• 09:07 THIS FULFILLS WHAT WAS SPOKEN OF BY THE PROPHET JOEL,
• 09:11 WHO IN CHAPTER 2, VERSE 28, SAYS, AND I QUOTE,
• 09:21 FLESH..."BASAR"
• 09:24 ALL FLESH...
• 09:25 NOT JUST JEWISH FLESH...
• 09:45 THE SPIRIT'S BEEN AROUND FOR A LONG TIME IN THE BIBLICAL WORLD
• 09:48 GOING BACK TO THE VERY FIRST BREATH WHERE WHEN GOD IS CREATING
• 09:53 WE'RE TOLD THE SPIRIT OF GOD IS MOVING OVER THE FACE OF THE WATERS.
• 09:57 AND INASMUCH AS THE LORD'S SPIRIT IS INVOLVED IN THE FIRST CREATION,
• 10:01 WHEN WE'RE RECREATED,
• 10:03 WHEN WE'RE BORN ANEW,
• 10:05 WHEN WE BLOW OFF OUR SINFUL PAST AND BECOME NEW FRESH, CLEANED UP CHILDREN OF GOD,
• 10:09 THE HOLY SPIRIT IS THERE AND AFTERWARDS AS WELL TO HELP GUIDE US INTO ALL THE TRUTH.
• 10:17 THERE'S TRUTH AND THERE'S THIS THING CALLED "DECEPTION".
• 10:22 WHAT HAPPENS IS YESHUA FINISHES THE LAST SUPPER AND THEN HE GOES OUT TO A PLACE CALLED GETHSEMANE
• 10:29 WHERE HE'S GOING TO GO TO PRAY.
• 10:33 AND WE'RE TOLD THAT YESHUA IS GOING TO BE ARRESTED THEN.
• 10:39 RELATIVE TO HIS ARREST
• 10:42 LET ME ASK YOU THIS.
• 10:44 TRUE OR FALSE?
• 10:46 JESUS' POPULARITY WAS SO GREAT
• 10:50 THAT THEY NEEDED TO SNEAK HIS ARREST IN AT NIGHT TO AVOID BEING SEEN.
• 10:57 TRUE OR FALSE?
• 11:00 FIRST OF ALL LET ME...
• 11:02 I DON'T WANT TO SAY APOLOGIZE...
• 11:04 BUT LET ME JUST BACK UP FROM THE QUESTION.
• 11:06 IT SEEMS A REALLY INSIGNIFICANT QUESTION AT ONE LEVEL,
• 11:09 BUT TO ME THE QUESTION IS PROFOUNDLY IMPORTANT
• 11:13 BECAUSE IF ONE'S WORKING WITH A CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK,
• 11:16 "ALL THE JEWS REJECTED JESUS AND THAT'S WHY THE JEWS ARE UNDER A BLANKET CONDEMNATION"....
• 11:21 "THEN THEY WENT TO ARREST JESUS AND THAT'S THAT."
• 11:24 YOU LOOK AT THE GOSPEL RECORD, HOWEVER, WE SEE A DIFFERENT STORY.
• 11:27 WE'RE TOLD WHEN THEY CAME TO ARREST JESUS IN JOHN CHAPTER 18, VERSE 3 AND 4 AND ON,
• 11:36 WE'RE TOLD,
• 11:50 ONE CAN EXPECT POLICE OR MILITARY TO COME WITH WEAPONS,
• 11:53 BUT THE REASON WHY WHEN THEY CAME TO ARREST THE LORD THEY CAME WITH TORCHES AND LANTERNS
• 11:59 WAS BECAUSE THEY ARRESTED JESUS IN THE WEE HOURS OF THE MORNING.
• 12:03 AND THE REASON WHY THEY ARRESTED JESUS IN THE WEE HOURS IN THE MORNING
• 12:07 IS BECAUSE THEY COULDN'T ARREST HIM DURING THE DAY.
• 12:10 AND THE REASON WHY THEY COULDN'T ARREST HIM DURING THE DAY WAS BECAUSE JEWS LOVED HIM.
• 12:19 WE CONSIDERED PREVIOUSLY HOW WHEN THE LORD MADE HIS WAY INTO JERUSALEM
• 12:24 THEY FILLED THE STREETS.
• 12:27 THERE WAS BARELY ENOUGH ROOM,
• 12:29 BARELY ENOUGH OXYGEN...
• 12:31 THERE'S THIS ENTHUSIASM...
• 12:33 "HOSANNA! LORD SAVE!"
• 12:37 IN FACT WE'RE TOLD THAT THE REASON WHY IN THEIR MIND
• 12:41 "SOME" OF THE RELIGIOUS LEADERS ARE BENT ON DESTROYING JESUS...
• 12:45 NOT ALL.
• 12:47 WE CONSIDERED EARLIER IN THIS SERIES HOW NICODEMUS,
• 12:49 A RULER OF THE JEWS, CAME AND SAID THAT HE AND THEY, SOME OF THEM, BELIEVED IN HIM, ETC.
• 12:55 BUT THERE'S A CONSPIRACY AMONG SOME TO RID THE WORLD OF JESUS.
• 12:59 THIS WANTING TO RID THE WORLD OF JESUS WAS PRECIPITATED BY THE RAISING OF LAZARUS
• 13:05 IN RESPONSE TO WHICH SOME OF THE LEADERS SAID, "LISTEN, WE GOT TO DO SOMETHING..."
• 13:08 "THE WHOLE JEWISH WORLD'S GOING TO GO AFTER HIM IF WE DON'T NIP THIS THING IN THE BUD."
• 13:13 SEEMS TO ME THAT THE LORD WAS VERY, VERY, VERY POPULAR WITH JEWISH PEOPLE
• 13:18 AND THIS INVOKED THE IRE OF SOME OF THE RELIGIOUS ELITE THAT FELT THAT THEY WERE BEING SIDELINED
• 13:23 WITH JESUS BEING THE NEW PRIMA BALLERINA IN THE RELIGIOUS BALLET.
• 13:28 I'M SURE THERE'S ANOTHER WAY TO SAY THAT BUT THE POINT IS,
• 13:31 IS THEY WERE JEALOUS AND BENT ON HIS DEMISE
• 13:35 SO THEY DON'T LOSE THEIR OWN POSITION.
• 13:37 THIS VISION IT SEEMS TO ME IS MARKEDLY DIFFERENT THAN WHAT'S OFTEN TAUGHT.
• 13:42 JOHN IS MADE TO SOUND ANTI-SEMITIC AS A BOOK
• 13:45 THAT CATEGORICALLY CONDEMNS THE JEWISH PEOPLE
• 13:48 BUT A CAREFUL READING OF THE JOHANNINE STORY SPEAKS OF A DIFFERENT STORY ALL TOGETHER.
• 13:54 WE SEE GOD'S LOVE FOR THE JEWS
• 13:56 AND WE EVEN SEE JEWISH LOVE FOR THE PERSON OF JESUS.
• 14:08 MY SUGGESTION...
• 14:09 COME TO ISRAEL...
• 14:10 YOU'LL ENJOY IT...
• 14:12 THIS NINE - TEN DAY TRIP HAS TOTALLY REVOLUTIONIZED THE WAY I LOOK AT...
• 14:17 THE PROFOUND MEANING AND THE HISTORY BEHIND EVERYTHING AND...
• 14:20 WE'VE SEEN A LOT OF GREAT THINGS...
• 14:22 WE'VE LEARNED SO MUCH...
• 14:23 WHAT CAN BE MORE SPECIAL THAN COMING TO GOD'S LAND WITH GOD'S PEOPLE?
• 14:27 IF YOU WANT TO FALL IN LOVE WITH ISRAEL AND GOD'S CHOSEN PEOPLE
• 14:31 I INVITE YOU TO COME...
• 14:33 YOU WILL NOT BE DISAPPOINTED.
• 14:35 JOIN US IN ISRAEL FOR A TRIP OF A LIFETIME.
• 14:40 I WANT YOU TO READ THE BIBLE...
• 14:42 YES I DO...
• 14:43 AND I'D LOVE FOR YOU TO WALK INTO THE PAGES OF THE BIBLE
• 14:48 AND BE TRANSFORMED TOO.
• 14:51 THE WORD "TRANSFORMATION" COMES FROM THE WORD "METAMORPHE",
• 14:55 "METAMORPHOSIS".
• 14:56 "META" MEANS "CHANGE".
• 14:58 "MORPHE" MEANS "FORM".
• 15:00 PEOPLE CAN REALLY CHANGE INTERNALLY BY EXPERIENCING JESUS IN THE LAND.
• 15:05 CORRECT TRACE?
• 15:06 THAT IS A GREAT ANALOGY DR. SEIF.
• 15:08 I CAN SAY THAT BECAUSE I'VE EXPERIENCED IT PERSONALLY.
• 15:11 YOU'VE BEEN OVER TO ISRAEL MANY TIMES.
• 15:13 I'VE BEEN THREE TIMES SO FAR.
• 15:15 AND THERE IS AN INTERNAL CHANGE
• 15:17 THAT YOU ABSOLUTELY CANNOT EXPECT
• 15:19 BUT THAT DOES OCCUR
• 15:20 WHEN YOU TOUCH THE WAILING WALL,
• 15:22 YOU GET BAPTIZED IN THE JORDAN RIVER.
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• 15:34 BUT IT'S HARD TO MESS UP A TRIP TO ISRAEL.
• 15:37 WELL WHAT'S NEAT IS...
• 15:39 GOING TO THE HOLY LAND WILL ALWAYS BE AMAZING
• 15:41 BUT WE ACTUALLY TRY TO TAKE IT TO THE NEXT LEVEL
• 15:44 BY COORDINATING ALL THE LOGISTICS.
• 15:46 I'M IN THE OFFICE FULL TIME EACH DAY.
• 15:48 I ACTUALLY AM REALLY LIKE EACH PASSENGER'S PERSONAL TRAVEL AGENT.
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• 15:54 WE HAVE 7 OR 8 FULL TIME PEOPLE ON THE GROUND AND IN THE BUSES DURING THE TRIP.
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• 16:09 ALL THE DETAILS
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• 16:11 SPEND THEIR TIME
• 16:13 THINKING ABOUT THE LORD
• 16:14 AND EXPERIENCING HIM.
• 16:15 IT REMINDS ME TOO,
• 16:16 A LOT OF TIMES FROM A TRAVEL PERSPECTIVE,
• 16:18 THE TRAVEL AGENT'S JOB IS OVER ONCE THEY GET TO ISRAEL.
• 16:21 BUT YOUR JOB ISN'T OVER UNTIL THEY COME BACK TO THE STATES,
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• 16:58 THEY'RE WANTING TO KNOW ABOUT THEIR JEWISH ROOTS
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• 17:18 I KNOW I GET LETTERS FROM JEWISH PEOPLE WHO DON'T BELIEVE IN JESUS,
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• 18:02 TO AND THROUGH ISRAEL.
• 18:04 I'M A PROFESSOR KIND OF GUIDE.
• 18:07 I'M ALL ABOUT GUIDING YOU TO AND THROUGH INFORMATION,
• 18:09 BIBLICAL INFORMATION.
• 18:11 THE OFFER ON THIS PROGRAM
• 18:13 IS A TEACHING SERIES CALLED
• 18:15 "DISCOVERING OUR JEWISH ROOTS".
• 18:20 TRUTH BE KNOWN,
• 18:21 THIS PROGRAM ITSELF, THIS SERIES
• 18:23 IS ALL ABOUT TEACHING
• 18:24 ON JEWISH ROOTS
• 18:26 BUT WE'VE GOT MORE OF IT LINED UP FOR YOU.
• 18:28 IF YOU'RE INTERESTED,
• 18:29 DO THINK ABOUT ACQUIRING THIS.
• 18:32 SPEAK OF ACQUIRING,
• 18:34 LET'S OPEN UP OUR BIBLE NOW
• 18:35 TO THE GOSPEL OF JOHN
• 18:37 AND SEE WHAT WE CAN ACQUIRE
• 18:38 AS WE FINISH UP ON THIS PARTICULAR SERIES.
• 18:41 SPEAKING OF FINISHING UP,
• 18:45 THE LORD FINISHES UP;
• 18:47 HE HAS SPENT THE BETTER PART OF THIRTY-THREE YEARS IN THIS EARTH SUIT.
• 18:51 THE REASON WHY I SAY THAT IS
• 18:53 NEVER MIND THE END OF THE JOHANNINE GOSPEL,
• 18:55 AT THE BEGINNING WE'RE TOLD
• 18:57 THAT JESUS WAS WITH GOD IN THE BEGINNING...
• 19:01 A CO-CREATOR... SOME OTHER EXISTENCE.
• 19:03 BUT WE'RE TOLD THAT HE TOOK ON EARTHLY FORM AND WAS FOUND IN FLESH,
• 19:08 HENCE THE TERM "INCARNATION".
• 19:11 THE WORD "CARNE" MEANS "BEEF" OR "MEAT"
• 19:14 AND THE LORD WAS "INCARNATED", HE TOOK ON FLESH.
• 19:18 BUT IT WAS TIME FOR THIS FLESH TO GET ON DOWN THE ROAD.
• 19:24 AND WE KNOW THAT HE ENDED WITH WHAT'S CALLED "CRUCIFIXION".
• 19:28 I'M SURE IT WAS EXCRUCIATING,
• 19:30 IN FACT, THE WORD "EXCRUCIATE" COMES FROM THE LATIN "EX CRUCIS"
• 19:35 WHICH MEANS "FROM THE CROSS".
• 19:37 HERE'S MY QUESTION FOR YOU.
• 19:40 MINDFUL OF ALL OF THAT,
• 19:43 ACCORDING TO THE NEW TESTAMENT, JESUS' CRUCIFIXION WAS FORETOLD IN THE HEBREW BIBLE.
• 19:49 WHAT BOOK?
• 19:53 I'M THINKING OF JOHN CHAPTER 19, VERSES 17 THROUGH 42 WHERE THE CRUCIFIXION STORY IS TOLD.
• 19:59 JOHN HARKS BACK TO THE HEBREW BIBLE TO GIVE VOICE TO JESUS' CRUCIFIXION.
• 20:05 WHAT BOOK?
• 20:07 MARK?
• 20:09 PSALMS?
• 20:11 2 CHRONICLES?
• 20:14 OBADIAH?
• 20:16 WHICH ONE?
• 20:19 WELL OBADIAH WAS A PROPHETIC INVECTIVE TO THE EDOMITES,
• 20:23 DESCENDANTS OF ESAU,
• 20:25 NOT HEBREW AT ALL.
• 20:26 2 CHRONICLES WAS A HISTORY BOOK.
• 20:28 MARK ISN'T AN OLD TESTAMENT STORY.
• 20:31 THE BOOK OF PSALMS IS THE ONE WE'RE AFTER.
• 20:34 PSALM CHAPTER 22 WHICH IS RATHER EXPLICIT.
• 20:37 IF YOU'LL LOOK IN VERSE 18 OF CHAPTER 22 OF PSALMS
• 20:43 THERE WE FIND SOME CONNECTION HERE.
• 20:46 IT'S FASCINATING.
• 20:48 IF ONE LOOKS AT THE STORY OF THE LORD ON THE CROSS,
• 20:52 "MY GOD, MY GOD WHY HAST THOU FORSAKEN ME?"...
• 20:55 YOU NEED TO LOOK AT
• 20:56 THE 22ND PSALM AND YOU'LL SEE
• 20:57 HOW IT CONNECTS RIGHT TO THAT.
• 20:59 BEYOND THAT, THE HAVING HANDS AND FEET PIERCED IS NOTED IN THE PSALM AS IT IS IN THE GOSPEL,
• 21:05 HAVING GARMENT DIVIDED, PEOPLE WANTING TO DIVIDE AND CASTING LOTS FOR,
• 21:10 IS NOTED IN THE GOSPEL AND ITS NOTED IN PSALM CHAPTER 22 AS WELL.
• 21:16 FASCINATING CONNECTIVITY THERE.
• 21:19 AND CONNECTIVITY IS WHAT WE'RE ALL ABOUT.
• 21:22 I REALLY WANT TO CONNECT YOU TO THE GOD OF PROPHESY
• 21:26 BECAUSE INASMUCH AS HE CAN SEE THOUSANDS
• 21:29 OR HUNDREDS IN A THOUSAND YEARS AHEAD IN DAVID'S CASE,
• 21:32 THE WAY HE CAN SEE THINGS THAT HAVE THEIR FULFILLMENT IN JESUS...
• 21:36 THERE'S A KIND OF POWER AT WORK THERE TO SEE INTO YOUR WORLD
• 21:39 AND HELP YOU FIND A BETTER FUTURE FOR YOURSELF.
• 21:42 AND BELIEVE ME, IF YOU WALK WITH GOD
• 21:44 YOU'RE GOING TO FIND THAT BETTER FUTURE.
• 21:46 IT DIDN'T LOOK GOOD FOR JESUS;
• 21:48 TO BE SURE, IT DIDN'T FEEL GOOD
• 21:50 IN THE SENSE THAT HE WAS CRUCIFIED.
• 21:52 BUT THERE'S A FAMOUS SERMON THAT GOES "SORROW COMES BUT JOY COMES IN THE MORNING"
• 22:00 AND WHILE THE LORD IS THERE FINISHING UP
• 22:02 AND THINGS ARE RATHER DIFFICULT
• 22:04 AND HE'S GIVING VOICE TO IT
• 22:05 AND ITS CONNECTING BACK TO THE HEBREW BIBLE,
• 22:07 OF COURSE THE LORD ROSE FROM THE GRAVE TO FULFILL PROPHECY
• 22:11 AND THEN HE APPEARED TO HIS DISCIPLES
• 22:14 AND HE KEEPS APPEARING,
• 22:15 HE KEEPS RETURNING.
• 22:16 INASMUCH AS HE VISITED THOSE THAT WALKED WITH HIM THEN
• 22:20 HE'S MINDED TO VISIT WITH PEOPLE THAT WALK WITH HIM NOW.
• 22:24 NOW HERE'S MY QUESTION,
• 22:26 GOING TO THE JOHANNINE GOSPEL AND BRINGING SOME CLOSURE HERE.
• 22:29 YESHUA, JESUS APPEARED IN VARIOUS WAYS AND AT VARIOUS TIMES TO HIS DISCIPLES.
• 22:35 IN ONE CASE SOME OF THE DISCIPLES WENT FISHING AT PETER'S BEHEST
• 22:40 IN THE WAKE OF WHICH JESUS APPEARED AND FACILITATED A MIRACLE CATCH.
• 22:44 HERE'S MY QUESTION.
• 22:45 WHERE WERE THEY?
• 22:48 DO YOU REMEMBER THE STORY IN JOHN CHAPTER 21 WHERE THEY'RE TIRED AND HE SAYS,
• 22:52 "TRY AGAIN... CAST THE NET AGAIN."
• 22:55 WHERE WERE THEY?
• 22:57 I'LL TELL YOU WHERE THEY WERE.
• 22:59 IT'S A PLACE WHERE TRACIE WANTS YOU TO VISIT
• 23:02 AND I WANT YOU TO VISIT
• 23:03 AND YOU WANT YOU TO VISIT.
• 23:05 WE'RE TOLD IN CHAPTER 21, VERSE 1
• 23:15 AND I WANT TO SEE YOU THERE IF YOU CAN GO.
• 23:21 WELL I WANT TO THANK YOU FOR GOING ON THE JOURNEY WITH US.
• 23:24 I HOPE YOU FIND IT WORTHWHILE TO LOOK AT THE BIBLE
• 23:28 FROM A JEWISH PERSPECTIVE.
• 23:57 ♪WE FOUGHT THE WORLD FOR THIS♪
• 24:00 ♪FOR JUST A PLACE TO BE♪
• 24:04 ♪TO REST OUR WEARY SOULS♪
• 24:07 ♪TO PRAY A PRAYER.♪
• 24:11 ♪THEY CAME TO FIGHT WITH US♪
• 24:15 ♪TO TAKE OUR LAND FROM US.♪
• 24:19 ♪BUT WHEN THE BATTLE'S DONE,♪
• 24:23 ♪WE WILL BE THERE...♪
• 24:27 ♪WE WILL BE THERE!♪
• 24:30 ♪WE WILL NEVER BE MOVED.♪
• 24:34 ♪WE WILL ALWAYS BE THERE!♪
• 24:41 ♪ON THE MOUNT OF MORIAH♪
• 24:44 ♪WE WILL WORSHIP MESSIAH!♪
• 24:48 ♪WE'LL PROCLAIM FOR ETERNITY♪
• 24:51 ♪ISRAEL IS OUR LAND!♪
• 24:55 ♪IN THE PAGES OF SCRIPTURE,♪
• 24:58 ♪IN THE LAW OF THE BIBLE,♪
• 25:02 ♪IN THE WORDS OF THE PROPHETS♪
• 25:11 ♪ISRAEL IS OUR LAND!♪
• 25:25 WELL YOU KNOW WHAT THEY SAY?
• 25:27 THEY GO..."THAT'S A WRAP!"
• 25:30 TV TALK FOR SAYING,
• 25:31 "WE'RE DONE."
• 25:33 AND WE ARE.
• 25:35 BUT I HOPE THE END FOR THIS SERIES, THIS PROGRAM AND SERIES,
• 25:39 WILL BE SOMETHING OF A BEGINNING FOR YOU.
• 25:43 PEOPLE GET OLD WHEN THEY STOP LEARNING NEW THINGS.
• 25:47 THE SCHOOL TEACHER IN ME WANTS YOU TO CONTINUE GROWING AND KNOWING.
• 25:51 AND I HOPE THAT OUR TREATMENT OF JOHN GIVES YOU A WINDOW INTO THE LITERATURE AND THE LORD'S HEART,
• 25:58 A WINDOW THAT WOULDN'T OTHERWISE BE THERE.
• 26:01 I WANT TO THANK YOU FOR BEING THERE,
• 26:03 FOR YOUR SHARING AND YOUR CARING ABOUT ZOLA LEVITT PRESENTS.
• 26:07 WRITE US.
• 26:08 IF YOU LIKE THIS SERIES LET ME KNOW ABOUT IT.
• 26:10 IT'S NEW FOR US TO DO THIS "PROFESSORIAL" GIG.
• 26:13 LET ME KNOW IF IT WORKS FOR YOU.
• 26:15 THANKS.
• 26:16 AS YOU GO NOW,
• 26:18 SHA'ALU SHALOM YERUSHALAYIM
• 26:20 PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM