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

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