Caption transcript for “Feast of Lights from Jerusalem”

• 00:06 FROM TIME IMMEMORIAL FORCES OF DARKNESS HAVE AMASSED
• 00:09 AND THREATENED THE JEWS WITH EXTINCTION.
• 00:12 IN EVERY GENERATION, HOWEVER, GOD PROVIDED A LEADER
• 00:16 WHO WOULD SHINE THE LIGHT OF GOD'S FAITHFULNESS.
• 00:19 HANUKKAH...
• 00:21 THE JEWISH FEAST OF LIGHTS
• 00:23 HARKS BACK TO A TIME WHEN JUDAISM WAS THREATENED WITH EXTINCTION.
• 00:27 A HERO EMERGED, LIT THE LAMP OF HOPE AND DELIVERED ISRAEL.
• 00:32 FROM GENERATION TO GENERATION JEWS LIGHT LAMPS IN THEIR HOMES TO COMMEMORATE THE VICTORY
• 00:38 AND TO RETELL THE STORY
• 00:40 OF THE FEASTS OF LIGHTS.
• 00:46 HEARTY SHALOM TO ALL OF YOU.
• 00:48 JEFFREY SEIF HERE
• 00:49 PLEASED TO WELCOME YOU
• 00:51 TO A VERY, VERY SPECIAL EDITION OF ZOLA LEVITT PRESENTS,
• 00:56 PRESENTING TO YOU FROM A VERY, VERY SPECIAL PLACE.
• 01:00 BEHIND ME...
• 01:02 YERUSHALAYIM... JERUSALEM.
• 01:05 UNDERNEATH ME...
• 01:07 THE MOUNT OF OLIVES.
• 01:09 HEY, MANY PREACHERS CAN'T TELL YOU THEY'RE COMING FROM THERE.
• 01:12 WE OPEN UP OUR BIBLES AND TALK.
• 01:14 BUT HERE I'M COMING TO YOU FROM THE BIBLE LAND TO TELL A STORY.
• 01:19 TO GET SOME HELP IN THE TELLING OF THAT STORY
• 01:22 LET ME TO EXPLAIN THIS...
• 01:24 GIVE YOU A LITTLE HEBREW LESSON HERE...
• 01:26 IT'S CALLED A "MENORAH".
• 01:29 IN IT ARE A VARIETY OF CANDLES
• 01:32 THAT ARE LIT, EIGHT IN TOTAL,
• 01:34 TO COMMEMORATE A VERY, VERY
• 01:36 SPECIAL EVENT THAT TOOK PLACE
• 01:38 HERE MANY, MANY YEARS AGO...
• 01:41 A MIRACULOUS EVENT.
• 01:43 IN FACT JEWS SAY,
• 01:44 "NES GADOL HAYA SHEM",
• 01:47 THAT "A GREAT MIRACLE HAPPENED..."
• 01:49 AND WHAT WAS THAT MIRACLE?
• 01:51 MANY YEARS AGO THIS LAND WAS OVERRUN BY THE SYRIANS.
• 01:56 IT SEEMS THERE'S A LOT OF ARMIES,
• 01:58 A LOT OF SOLDIERS HAVE SCHLEPPED THROUGH THIS PART OF THE WORLD
• 02:01 AND LITTLE ISRAEL HAS BEEN CAUGHT IN THE CROSS FIRES FROM TIME IMMEMORIAL.
• 02:07 WELL THERE WAS A TIME WHEN THE SYRIANS OVERRAN YERUSHALAYIM, JERUSALEM.
• 02:14 THEY IN THE PROCESS OVERTOOK THE "BEIT HA-MIKDASH", THE TEMPLE.
• 02:20 THEY DEDICATED IT TO THE SERVICE OF A PAGAN GOD
• 02:23 AND DESECRATED THE HOLY OF HOLIES,
• 02:26 AFFECTED WHAT WE CALL "THE DESOLATING SACRILEGE"
• 02:30 BY OFFERING SWINE'S FLESH IN THE PLACE THAT WAS THE LORD'S INTERIOR ROOM
• 02:37 IN THE "BEIT HA-MIKDASH",
• 02:39 "THE TEMPLE"
• 02:40 IN THE HOLY OF HOLIES.
• 02:43 WELL GOD FORTUITOUSLY, PROVIDENTIALLY GAVE A VICTORY TO ISRAELITES
• 02:48 THAT WANTED TO STAND UP AND CONTEND FOR THE REAL ESTATE
• 02:51 IN THE WAKE OF WHICH THE TEMPLE WAS REDEDICATED.
• 02:54 THERE WAS ONLY A LITTLE BIT OF OIL
• 02:56 BUT IT LASTED FOR THE EIGHT DAYS NEEDED TO PURIFY THE TEMPLE COMPLEX.
• 03:02 AND ANNUALLY JEWISH PEOPLE COMMEMORATE THAT EVENT.
• 03:07 WELL LET ME GIVE YOU SOME HEBREW WORDS HERE...
• 03:10 "CHOSHECH"... "CHOSHECH"...
• 03:15 IS A HEBREW WORD FOR "DARKNESS".
• 03:17 "OHR" IS A HEBREW WORD
• 03:21 FOR "LIGHT".
• 03:23 IF YOU WERE TO VISIT A SYNAGOGUE
• 03:25 YOU'D DISCOVER THAT THERE IS A LIGHT THAT HANGS OVER THE "ARON KODESH",
• 03:29 THE "ARK" WHERE THE TORAH SCROLLS ARE KEPT.
• 03:33 THIS KEEPING A MEMORIAL LIGHT GOING HAS ITS ROOTS IN THE TEMPLE COMPLEX
• 03:38 AND ITS SOMETHING THAT'S ACCENTUATED,
• 03:41 PARTICULARLY DURING THE "FEAST OF HANUKKAH".
• 03:45 IN BIBLE DAYS OIL WAS USED.
• 03:47 IN SYNAGOGUES TODAY THEY USE ELECTRICITY.
• 03:50 THE MANUFACTURE OF THE OIL WAS VERY SPECIAL
• 03:53 WHICH REMINDS ME HERE AT THE BASE OF THE MOUNT OF OLIVES IS A PLACE CALLED
• 04:00 "GETHSEMANE"...
• 04:03 "GETHSEMANI" IN HEBREW.
• 04:05 "GETH" MEANS "PRESS",
• 04:08 "SHEMAN" MEANS "OIL".
• 04:11 THE PROCESS OF SQUEEZING THE OIL OUT OF THE OLIVES IS VERY FASCINATING.
• 04:16 THERE'S AN ART FORM TO THE SCIENCE, IN FACT, AND IT'S TAKEN VERY, VERY, VERY SERIOUSLY.
• 04:24 IN FACT, THE OLIVE ITSELF IS A MAJOR CROP HERE...
• 04:29 THINK OF THIS...
• 04:31 I'M COMING TO YOU FROM WHAT'S CALLED THE "MOUNT OF OLIVES"
• 04:34 AND THERE ARE TREES ROUND ABOUT.
• 04:36 AND IN BIBLE DAYS,
• 04:38 IN BYGONE DAYS,
• 04:39 THERE WAS A SPECIAL PRESS THERE
• 04:42 AT THE BASE, "GETHSEMANI".
• 04:44 YOU WOULD PRESS THE OIL...
• 04:46 PRESS THE OLIVE RATHER...
• 04:48 AND THEN THE LIFE GIVING OIL WOULD COME OUT.
• 04:51 AND IF YOU CAN IMAGINE THAT,
• 04:52 IF YOU CAN RECALL ONE NIGHT THE LORD HIMSELF, YESHUA, JESUS THAT IS,
• 04:56 WAS THERE READY TO GIVE HIS LIFE.
• 04:59 HAVE YOU EVER HEARD THE EXPRESSION, "SWEAT AND BLOOD"?
• 05:02 WELL YOU REMEMBER HOW HE DID THAT... HOW HE WAS UNDER THE PRESSURE AGONIZING,
• 05:06 "LORD, LET THIS CUP PASS FROM ME, BUT NOT MY WILL, BUT THY WILL BE DONE.",
• 05:13 AND HE'S SWEATING BLOOD IN THE PROCESS.
• 05:17 SEEMS LIKE IN DIFFERENT WAYS, DIFFERENT PEOPLE HAVE SWEAT BLOOD IN THIS PART OF THE WORLD.
• 05:22 THE STORY OF HANUKKAH AS I'D SAID A MOMENT AGO
• 05:25 HARKS BACK TO A TIME WHEN THE JEWISH STATE WAS DECIMATED.
• 05:29 IT SEEMS TO HAPPEN "L'DOR V'DOR",
• 05:32 "FROM GENERATION TO GENERATION".
• 05:35 THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT THIS REAL ESTATE THAT DRAWS CONFLICT.
• 05:40 JUST TO LOOK AT IT GEOGRAPHICALLY,
• 05:42 FRANKLY, IT SHOULD REALLY COME AS NO SURPRISE
• 05:45 IN THAT ISRAEL ITSELF
• 05:46 IS THE NATURAL LAND BRIDGE THAT
• 05:48 CONNECTS AFRICA, ASIA, EUROPE...
• 05:51 SO ARMIES THAT ARE LOOKING
• 05:52 TO ADVANCE ARE GOING TO COME
• 05:54 THROUGH THIS PART OF THE WORLD.
• 05:56 AND IF YOU'RE LOOKING AT REAL ESTATE THAT HAS SEEN VARIOUS CIVILIZATIONS COME AND GO,
• 06:01 ALWAYS THIS LITTLE PARCEL'S CAUGHT IN THE CROSSHAIRS.
• 06:04 THE HANUKKAH STORY TELLS ONE SUCH TIME
• 06:07 BUT THERE ARE A VARIETY OF STORIES, BY THE WAY,
• 06:09 A VARIETY OF BIBLICAL HOLIDAYS
• 06:11 THAT TALK ABOUT HOW THE FORCES OF "CHOSHECH", "DARKNESS"
• 06:16 ARE ENDEAVORING TO EXTINGUISH THE VOICE OF "OHR",
• 06:21 THE VOICE OF "LIGHT".
• 06:23 PASSOVER TELLS OF A TIME WHEN A CERTAIN NATION STATE EMERGED IN EGYPT
• 06:28 THAT WAS HELL-BENT ON DESTROYING JEWS.
• 06:32 THE JEWISH HOLIDAY OF "PURIM", REVOLVING AROUND THE BOOK OF ESTHER,
• 06:36 TALKS ABOUT A TIME IN PERSIA, HOW A CIVILIZATION WAS BENT ON DESTROYING JEWS.
• 06:43 HANUKKAH TELLS A STORY
• 06:45 OF HOW THE SYRIANS WERE BENT
• 06:46 ON DESTROYING THE JEWS
• 06:49 AND THEY CAME EVER SO CLOSE.
• 06:52 JEWS REMEMBER THAT PARTICULAR EVENT...
• 06:55 IN FACT ALL THOSE HOLIDAYS AND ALL THOSE STRUGGLES.
• 06:57 THERE'S A WORD IN HEBREW "ZIKAR"
• 07:00 WHICH MEANS "TO REMEMBER".
• 07:03 AND WE'RE A PEOPLE
• 07:04 THAT HAS A MIND OF HISTORY
• 07:05 AND WE OPEN UP THE BIBLE AS I'M GOING TO DO IN THE NEXT SEGMENT.
• 07:08 WE'RE GOING TO SEE HOW VARIOUS FORCES IS MARSHALED
• 07:11 TO EXTINGUISH THE ISRAELITE LIGHT AND THEN TO DIMINISH THE TESTIMONY OF THE GOD OF ISRAEL.
• 07:21 IN EVERY GENERATION HIS SAVING POWER IS EVIDENCED
• 07:24 AND I WANT TO CONSIDER PROPHETICALLY THE DESTINY OF THIS LAND.
• 07:29 HANUKKAH IS BUT ONE STORY OF HOW THE ASSYRIANS OVERRAN.
• 07:33 A SMALL RAGTAG MILITIA DECIDED TO STAND UP AND GOD GAVE THEM GREAT VICTORY.
• 07:39 AND IT SEEMS THAT IN DIFFERENT WAYS, IN DIFFERENT DAYS,
• 07:41 DIFFERENT PEOPLE ARE INSPIRITED WITH A MIND TO TAKE SUCH A STAND
• 07:45 TO CONTEND FOR THIS LAND FOR THE JEWISH RIGHT IN THE REAL ESTATE
• 07:50 AND FOR GOD'S PLANS ON THE LAND.
• 07:52 WELL I WANT TO TELL THAT STORY.
• 07:54 HANUKKAH TELLS THAT STORY.
• 07:56 JEREMIAH'S GOING TO TELL THAT STORY
• 07:59 AND IN THE PROCESS OF SO DOING
• 08:01 WE'RE GOING TO HEAR GOD'S MID EAST PEACE PLAN...
• 08:05 HANUKKAH...
• 08:06 A STORY OF DELIVERANCE...
• 08:08 A STORY THAT'S ROOTED IN THE BIBLICAL NARRATIVE.
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• 08:50 SOME OF THIS MAY BE NEW TO YOU
• 08:52 BUT LET ME ASK IF YOU CAN
• 08:53 FINISH THIS LITTLE LINE.
• 08:54 READY?
• 08:55 FINISH IT IF YOU WILL.
• 08:56 "THIS LITTLE LIGHT OF MINE..."
• 09:00 "I'M GOING TO LET IT SHINE."
• 09:03 I BET YOU HEARD THAT, DIDN'T YA?
• 09:05 WELL THIS IS A SHINING BOX HERE.
• 09:07 I EARLIER SPOKE ABOUT A MENORAH,
• 09:09 JEWS LIGHT THIS SPECIAL LIGHT STAND ANNUALLY FOR A PERIOD OF EIGHT DAYS.
• 09:16 THE MENORAH COMES IN VARIOUS FORMATIONS.
• 09:19 THIS ONE IS A BEAUTIFUL PIECE.
• 09:22 THE CANDLES ARE LIT INSIDE.
• 09:24 THERE'S ONE UP HERE,
• 09:26 IT'S CALLED THE "SHAMUS"
• 09:27 AND YOU USE THE "SHAMUS",
• 09:29 THE "SERVANT"
• 09:30 TO LIGHT THE OTHERS.
• 09:31 THERE'S DIFFERENT CONFIGURATIONS
• 09:33 BUT WHAT'S IMPORTANT IN THE JEWISH WORLD
• 09:35 IS FOR EVERY JEWISH HOME TO LET THAT LITTLE LIGHT SHINE.
• 09:40 YOU KNOW IN THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH THERE'S OLD SONGS, "GIVE ME OIL IN MY LAMP, KEEP ME BURNING"...
• 09:46 THE WHOLE IDEA OF LIGHT SHINING IN DARKNESS IS SO GERMANE TO THE BIBLICAL STORY
• 09:52 THAT WE'RE TO "SHINE AS LIGHTS IN A DARKENED WORLD" IS A BIBLICAL CONCEPT.
• 09:57 THE FORCES OF DARKNESS, HOWEVER,
• 09:58 THE DEVIL'S CALLED "THE PRINCE OF DARKNESS"
• 10:00 AND THE EXTINGUISHING THE LIGHT IS PLAYED OUT IN DIFFERENT WAYS.
• 10:05 I WANT YOU TO GO WITH ME NOW TO THE BOOK OF JEREMIAH.
• 10:08 THIS STORY PRE-DATES THE HANUKKAH STORY
• 10:12 OF WHICH THE HANUKKAH IS JUST A CONTINUATION OF IT IN SOME SENSE AS YOU'LL SEE.
• 10:17 IN THE 33RD CHAPTER GOD IS ON RECORD HERE
• 10:20 TALKING ABOUT HIS PRESERVING POWER FOR HIS PEOPLE IN THIS LAND
• 10:26 AND IT'S THE STORY OF PRESERVATION THAT'S COMMEMORATED IN THE HANUKKAH STORY.
• 10:31 WE'RE TOLD IN CHAPTER 33,
• 10:52 YOU KNOW THE STORY... THE NIGHT COMES AND THE STARS COME;
• 10:56 THE DAY COMES AND THE SUN COMES.
• 10:59 IT SEEMS THAT GOD'S ALWAYS GOT A LIGHT SHINING.
• 11:01 THERE IS A VERY PREDICTABLE FORMATION IN THE CYCLE OF NATURE...VERY, VERY PREDICTABLE,
• 11:08 VERY ESTABLISHED... IMMOVABLE.
• 11:11 AND THE LORD SAYS, "MY COVENANT WITH DAVID IS SOMETHING AKIN TO THAT."
• 11:16 HE GOES ON TO SAY,
• 11:18 "MY COVENANT WITH DAVID WILL BE BROKEN IF THAT ORDER OF THE LIGHTS AND THE NIGHT AND THE DAYS CAN BE BROKEN."
• 11:26 AND IT CAN'T BE BROKEN.
• 11:27 GOD'S LOVE FOR DAVID AND HIS DESCENDANTS AND HIS LAND CAN'T BE BROKEN.
• 11:31 WE'RE TOLD IN VERSE 24 THEN,
• 11:51 YOU KNOW, YOU HAVE HERE IN THE JEREMIAH TEXT, PEOPLE ARE SAYING GOD'S CAST AWAY THE JEWS.
• 11:56 PAUL WAS VERY EXPLICIT IN SAYING, "MAY IT NEVER BE",
• 11:59 BUT MANY IN THE CHURCH SAY, "LET IT BE"... GO FIGURE.
• 12:04 BUT JEREMIAH IS ON RECORD HERE
• 12:06 AND THE LORD IS SPEAKING THROUGH HIM AND TO HIM SAYING,
• 12:09 "LISTEN... A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE SAYING GOD'S CAST OFF THE JEWS... MAY IT NEVER BE!"
• 12:14 THE JEWISH PRESENCE IS AS FIXED AS THE SUN AND THE MOON AND THE STARS.
• 12:19 HE SAYS IN VERSE 25,
• 12:34 THERE'S SOMETHING FIXED,
• 12:36 THERE'S SOMETHING ESTABLISHED.
• 12:38 AND LET ME TELL YOU SOMETHING.
• 12:40 WHEN GOD ESTABLISHES SOMETHING
• 12:43 THE FORCES OF DARKNESS ARE BENT ON UPROOTING IT.
• 12:49 AND HENCE THERE'S A STRUGGLE.
• 12:52 IT HAPPENS IN DIFFERENT WAYS,
• 12:53 IN DIFFERENT GENERATIONS,
• 12:56 DIFFERENT EMPIRES,
• 12:58 DIFFERENT RELIGIONS.
• 12:59 IT'S ALL ABOUT SNUFFING OUT A LIGHT.
• 13:05 YOU AND I FRIENDS HAVE TO PRAYERFULLY AND CAREFULLY
• 13:08 PARTICIPATE IN KEEPING THE LIGHT BURNING, KEEPING THE TORCH LIT.
• 13:17 IT'S SO IMPORTANT IN THE BIBLICAL TEXT.
• 13:19 JEREMIAH SAYS IT OVER AND AGAIN IN DIFFERENT WAYS
• 13:22 AND HE APPEALS TO THE NIGHT LIGHTS AND THE LIGHTS BY DAY TO SAY,
• 13:27 "LISTEN... IT'S A SYMBOL OF GOD'S KEEPING POWER."
• 13:31 AND SO AS I'D SAID EARLIER,
• 13:33 JEWS IN THE HANUKKAH SEASON,
• 13:34 WHEN WE REMEMBER HOW THEY TRIED TO KILL US,
• 13:37 WE LIGHT LIGHTS TO COMMEMORATE.
• 13:40 I HAVE PLEASANT MEMORIES OF HANUKKAH.
• 13:43 IT IS IN EFFECT THE JEWISH CHRISTMAS.
• 13:47 AND THE REASON WHY I SAY THAT...
• 13:48 CHRISTMAS IS CELEBRATED ONE DAY,
• 13:50 HANUKKAH IS CELEBRATED EIGHT DAYS
• 13:52 AND I'M PLEASED TO INFORM YOU THAT IN JEWISH HOMES,
• 13:56 THE KIDDOS GET GIFTS FOR EVERY ONE OF THE THEM.
• 13:59 HOW WOULD YOU LIKE TO HAVE CHRISTMAS FOR EVERY DAY OF THE WEEK AND THEN SOME?
• 14:04 OH, IT WAS SPECIAL AND I REMEMBER BECAUSE WE CELEBRATED GIFT GIVING...
• 14:09 IT WAS A HAPPY SEASON
• 14:11 BECAUSE WE REMEMBERED THAT THOUGH HELL HAS AN ASSIGNMENT AGAINST US,
• 14:15 GOD HAS A PLAN FOR US.
• 14:19 NOT JUST FOR US, THE JEWISH PEOPLE, LET ME SAY WITH A BIBLE IN HAND,
• 14:24 BUT THROUGH THE JEWS TO ALL OF "YOU'S".
• 14:26 IT'S NOT JUST ABOUT REDEEMING A PEOPLE IN A LAND
• 14:30 BUT ITS GOD'S PLAN TO SPREAD HIS LIGHT OVER PLANET EARTH.
• 14:36 I'M GOING TO ROLL OUT OF THIS SEGMENT IN A MOMENT
• 14:38 AND COME BACK AND EXPLAIN THAT A LITTLE MORE
• 14:40 BUT LET ME LET YOU KNOW THAT THE HANUKKAH STORY,
• 14:44 THE DEDICATION STORY,
• 14:45 THE PRESERVATION STORY OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE
• 14:47 ISN'T JUST FOR JEWS,
• 14:49 ITS FOR ALL OF "YOUS".
• 14:51 AND I'LL GET TO THAT STORY IN A MOMENT.
• 14:56 MY SUGGESTION...
• 14:57 COME TO ISRAEL...
• 14:58 YOU'LL ENJOY IT...
• 14:59 THIS NINE - TEN DAY TRIP HAS TOTALLY REVOLUTIONIZED THE WAY I LOOK AT...
• 15:04 THE PROFOUND MEANING AND THE HISTORY BEHIND EVERYTHING AND...
• 15:07 WE'VE SEEN A LOT OF GREAT THINGS...
• 15:09 WE'VE LEARNED SO MUCH...
• 15:10 WHAT CAN BE MORE SPECIAL THAN COMING TO GOD'S LAND WITH GOD'S PEOPLE?
• 15:14 IF YOU WANT TO FALL IN LOVE WITH ISRAEL AND GOD'S CHOSEN PEOPLE
• 15:18 I INVITE YOU TO COME...
• 15:20 YOU WILL NOT BE DISAPPOINTED.
• 15:22 JOIN US IN ISRAEL FOR A TRIP OF A LIFETIME.
• 15:27 I WANT TO GO BACK TO JEREMIAH
• 15:28 IN A MOMENT.
• 15:29 BUT LET ME TAKE YOU TO SOMETHING
• 15:30 THAT'S A LITTLE MORE FAMILIAR.
• 15:32 I WANT YOU TO TURN IN YOUR BIBLES PLEASE
• 15:34 TO THE GOSPEL OF JOHN, THE 10TH CHAPTER,
• 15:37 AND I WANT YOU TO SEE HOW JESUS,
• 15:39 THE TORAH OBSERVANT JEW THAT HE WAS,
• 15:41 IS PARTICIPATING IN THE CELEBRATION OF HANUKKAH.
• 15:46 ISN'T THAT SOMETHIN'?
• 15:47 WE'RE TOLD IN JOHN, CHAPTER 10, VERSE 22,
• 15:50 "NOW IT WAS THE FEAST OF DEDICATION IN JERUSALEM".
• 15:53 AND "DEDICATION" IN ENGLISH IS "HANUKKAH" IN HEBREW.
• 16:13 HIS FEET ARE TREADING THERE
• 16:16 AND IT'S THE SEASON WHEN JEWISH PEOPLE REMEMBER THE DEDICATION OF THE TEMPLE.
• 16:21 NOW LET ME TELL YOU...
• 16:23 THE LIGHT IN THE TEMPLE...
• 16:24 THERE'S SOMETHING VERY, VERY UNIQUE.
• 16:28 I'M NOT AN ARCHITECT BUT I KNOW THIS,
• 16:31 THAT THE WAY WINDOWS ARE CONSTRUCTED;
• 16:33 IT'S DESIGNED IN SUCH A WAY TYPICALLY TO BRING LIGHT INTO THE HOUSE.
• 16:39 YOU HAVE SKYLIGHTS,
• 16:41 THERE'S DIFFERENT MECHANISMS IN ARCHITECTURE.
• 16:44 THE NAME OF THE GAME IS TO BRING LIGHT IN.
• 16:47 BUT WHAT'S INTERESTING ABOUT THE HOUSE THAT YESHUA WAS WALKING AROUND IN...
• 16:52 AND JEWISH LITERATURE IS VERY DELIBERATE IN EXPLAINING THIS.
• 16:55 WHAT WAS UNIQUE ABOUT IT WAS THAT THE SILLS WERE DESIGNED IN SUCH A WAY TO DISPLACE LIGHT.
• 17:01 IN OTHER WORDS, IT WAS DESIGNED THAT THE LIGHT THAT WAS LIT ON THE HILL
• 17:05 SHOULD BE SPREAD FORTH FROM THE HILL.
• 17:08 WHICH IS ONE OF THE REASONS BY THE WAY, WHEN THE PRIEST, THE "KOHEN GADOL",
• 17:15 "AARON" YOU CAN RECALL,
• 17:16 WHEN HE WOULD BLESS THE PEOPLE AND SAY "MAY THE LORD BLESS YOU AND KEEP YOU",
• 17:20 HE WOULD EXTEND HIS HANDS WITH THIS SYMBOL.
• 17:23 AND IT WAS IN EFFECT TO INDICATE RAYS OF LIGHT.
• 17:26 HE WOULD HAVE THE BEIT HA-MIKDASH BEHIND HIM, THE HOLY PLACE,
• 17:32 AND HE WOULD THERE BLESS.
• 17:35 AND IT'S THE IMAGERY OF RAYS OF LIGHT, SYMBOLIC,
• 17:38 IT'S NOT ONLY BUILT INTO HIS GESTURING BUT IT WAS ACTUALLY BUILT INTO THE FACILITY ITSELF.
• 17:47 REMEMBER JESUS IS ON RECORD SPEAKING OF A CITY THAT IS SET ON A HILL CANNOT BE HID.
• 17:54 BUT HE REFERENCES A LIGHT THAT'S PUT ON A STAND TO GIVE LIGHT TO ALL.
• 17:58 WELL THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT THAT HERE IN THE HANUKKAH STORY TO BE SURE
• 18:03 BECAUSE IT'S ALL CELEBRATED AROUND LIGHT.
• 18:06 AND AS I'D NOTED HERE IN THE 10TH CHAPTER OF THE JOHANNINE GOSPEL,
• 18:09 JESUS IS THERE IN "THE FEAST OF LIGHTS",
• 18:12 HE'S WALKING AROUND THE TEMPLE COMPLEX
• 18:14 AND WHAT KIND OF LIGHT DOES HE SHARE HERE?
• 18:18 HE SAYS IN VERSE 28 THAT THERE'S A GIFT ON THE TABLE, HE SAYS,
• 18:32 THE PROMISE HERE IS TO THOSE THAT FOLLOW.
• 18:36 YESHUA, JESUS PREVIOUSLY IN THE CHAPTER REFERENCED HIMSELF AS A SHEPHERD
• 18:41 WHO WAS IN EFFECT GOING TO LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR THE SHEEP.
• 18:45 HE MENTIONED WHAT JEWS KNOW ALL TOO WELL.
• 18:49 CERTAINLY WHEN REMEMBERING THE HANUKKAH STORY
• 18:51 HE REMEMBERS THAT THERE ARE WOLFS THAT COME TO STEAL, TO KILL AND TO DESTROY.
• 18:59 AND THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT
• 19:00 ANTIOCHUS EPIPHANIES,THE SYRIAN,
• 19:02 DID WHEN HE CAME HERE AND OVERRAN JERUSALEM, STEALING, KILLING AND DESTROYING.
• 19:08 BUT YESHUA SAID, "I CAME THAT THEY MIGHT HAVE LIFE AND LIFE ABUNDANT."
• 19:13 AND JUST BEFORE THAT BY THE WAY
• 19:15 HE REFERENCED TO THE "LIGHT STORY",
• 19:17 THE LIGHT OF WORLD,
• 19:18 HE IN THE 9TH CHAPTER GAVE LIGHT TO THE BLIND.
• 19:21 HE OPENED THE EYES SO THERE COULD BE LIGHT AND THERE COULD BE VISION.
• 19:25 AND THERE IN THE 10TH CHAPTER, JESUS REFERENCES HIMSELF AS A SHEPHERD.
• 19:30 SHEEP WALKING LOW TO THE GROUND AND NOTED AS HAVING POOR VISION;
• 19:35 THE SHEPHERD IN EFFECT GIVES EYES OR HE GIVES LIGHT TO THE SHEEP.
• 19:39 HE IS ABLE TO THEN SAY, "THIS IS THE WAY, WALK IN IT"
• 19:43 AS HE GOES BEFORE THEM AND LEADS THEM TO GOOD PASTURE.
• 19:46 HE IN EFFECT DISPLACES THE DARKNESS
• 19:49 AND LEADS THEM TO GOOD PASTURES THAT THEY COULDN'T OTHERWISE FIND.
• 19:54 OH, THE IMAGERY HERE IS FASCINATING BY THE WAY
• 19:57 AND THE STORY IS WONDERFUL
• 20:01 ESPECIALLY IN THIS PRECARIOUS WORLD.
• 20:04 BEHIND ME ONCE STOOD THE TEMPLE COMPLEX IN JERUSALEM
• 20:08 AND NOW THERE'S AN ISLAMIC SHRINE BEHIND ME.
• 20:11 BELLOWING OUT OF LOUD SPEAKERS ARE ISLAMIST CLERICS
• 20:15 CALLING INDIVIDUALS TO PRAYER.
• 20:18 A FASCINATING WORLD,
• 20:20 A CONFLUENCE OF RELIGIONS.
• 20:22 WHAT KIND OF LIGHT CAN COME OUT OF THIS WORLD?
• 20:24 WELL THERE IS A PLAN OF REDEMPTION ON THE TABLE.
• 20:29 CERTAINLY WE KNOW FROM THE HANUKKAH STORY
• 20:31 THAT GOD REDEEMED HIS PEOPLE OF ISRAEL AS A NATION STATE,
• 20:35 AS A RELIGIOUS SYSTEM.
• 20:37 WE KNOW AS WELL FROM THE JESUS STORY TOLD HERE ON THE FEAST OF HANUKKAH
• 20:41 THAT YESHUA IS ALL ABOUT REDEEMING INDIVIDUALS.
• 20:45 OF COURSE HE'S SPEAKING TO JEWISH INDIVIDUALS
• 20:49 BUT AS I SAID A MOMENT AGO,
• 20:51 ITS NOT JUST ABOUT JEWS,
• 20:52 THE REDEMPTION STORY NOTED IN JEREMIAH,
• 20:55 THE FIXED PLAN OF GOD'S ABIDING LOVE FOR HIS PEOPLE
• 20:59 ISN'T JUST FOR HIS PEOPLE, THE JEWISH PEOPLE.
• 21:03 BECAUSE THE TRUTH OF THE MATTER IS GOD MADE HUMAN KIND,
• 21:08 NOT JUST JEWISH KIND.
• 21:10 IT SAYS IN THE BIBLICAL TEXT
• 21:12 (SPEAKING HEBREW)
• 21:23 MY COUSINS, THE ARAB FRIENDS OF MINE,
• 21:27 INDIVIDUALS THAT AREN'T SEMITIC BUT OTHER PEOPLE GROUPS,
• 21:31 WE'RE ALL MADE IN GOD'S IMAGE
• 21:34 AND THERE'S A SPARK AND THERE'S A PLAN TO REDEEM NOT JUST JEWS BUT "YOUS" AND ITS NOTED...
• 21:40 ITS NOTED...
• 21:42 ITS BROADCAST IN THE HEBREW BIBLE
• 21:46 GOD'S PLAN TO REDEEM THE ARAB PEOPLES THAT ARE MUSLIM STATES NOW.
• 21:51 ROUND ABOUT ME NOW IS A SEASON OF PRAYER,
• 21:53 A CALLING OF FAITHFUL MUSLIMS TO TURN THEIR HEARTS TOWARD ALLAH.
• 21:59 DID YOU KNOW THAT THE SAME GOD IN JEREMIAH WHO PROMISED A FIXED PLAN AND A STEADY PURPOSE FOR THE JEWISH PEOPLE...
• 22:08 DO YOU KNOW THAT HE ALSO WAS EXPLICIT IN INFORMING
• 22:12 THAT HE HAS A PLAN FOR THE MUSLIM PEOPLE,
• 22:15 FOR THE ARAB PEOPLE.
• 22:17 YOU'RE SAYING, "JEFFREY COULD IT BE?"
• 22:19 BEHIND ME AS I'VE SAID IS A CALL TO PRAYER FOR THE ISLAMIST FAITHFUL.
• 22:25 IS THERE A CALL OF GOD ON THEM? ...YES.
• 22:28 I WANT YOU TO TURN WITH ME TO JEREMIAH, CHAPTER 48, VERSE 47.
• 22:33 THERE'S DEVASTATIONS IN THE WORLD BUT YOU KNOW WHAT HE SAYS?
• 22:46 MOAB IN YESTERDAY IS JORDAN OF TODAY.
• 22:50 HE SAYS, "I WILL BRING THEM BACK".
• 22:52 MOABITE PEOPLE, ARABIC PEOPLE WILL BE RECONCILED TO HIM AND TO THEIR LAND.
• 22:57 HE SAYS, "I WILL BRING THEM BACK."
• 22:59 WHEN?
• 23:01 IN THE LATTER DAYS.
• 23:05 IN CHAPTER 49, VERSE 6, MUCH THE SAME, HE SAYS,
• 23:08 "AND I WILL BRING THEM BACK."
• 23:10 WHO?
• 23:11 THE CAPTIVES OF AMMON.
• 23:13 THE AMMONITES DWELT JUST ABOVE THE MOABITES,
• 23:19 NEIGHBORS IF YOU WILL, IN A LAND THAT IS JORDAN TODAY,
• 23:26 BUT IT WENT BY ANOTHER NAME YESTERDAY.
• 23:29 GOD SAYS, "I'M GOING TO CALL YOU BACK."
• 23:33 OH I WANT TO LOOK AT "THE FEAST OF LIGHTS" STORY
• 23:35 AND I'M GOING TO CONTINUE IT AFTER THE BREAK AND EXPLORE HOW THERE'S A UNIFICATION MOTIF...
• 23:42 GOD ACCOMPLISHING HIS WILL AND WAYS ON PLANET EARTH
• 23:46 AND GATHERING THE EXILES OF ISRAEL, THE JEWISH PEOPLE, NON-JEWISH PEOPLE,
• 23:52 AND BRINGING PEACE ON EARTH AND GOOD WILL TOWARD MEN.
• 25:13 OH LET THE LIGHT SHINE.
• 25:16 WE'RE TOLD THAT THE WORD IS A LIGHT UNTO OUR PATH.
• 25:21 AND WHAT DOES THE WORD DECLARE IN JEREMIAH?
• 25:23 HE SAYS THAT HE IS GOING TO REDEEM HIS PEOPLE.
• 25:28 IN CHAPTER 48 WE SPOKE OF MOAB
• 25:32 AND THEN AMMON,
• 25:35 EDOM FOLLOWS
• 25:36 AND THEN IN VERSE 39
• 25:38 OF CHAPTER 49
• 25:40 HE SPEAKS OF THE ELAMITES
• 25:42 BEING RESTORED.
• 25:43 ELAM IN ANTIQUITY IS PERSIA
• 25:46 WHEREIN THAT PART OF THE WORLD WHERE IRAN STANDS.
• 25:49 GOD HAS A PEACE PLAN FRIENDS.
• 25:52 LISTEN, LET ME CLOSE HERE IN
• 25:54 JEREMIAH CHAPTER 51, VERSE 10,
• 26:04 THERE IS A WORK THAT'S GOING TO BE UNFOLDING ON PLANET EARTH, THE REDEMPTIVE WORK
• 26:10 WHEN HIS KINGDOM COMES AND HIS WILL IS DONE.
• 26:14 AND THE STORY OF HANUKKAH REMINDS US IN EVERY GENERATION HOW GOD WATCHES OVER HIS WORD,
• 26:22 HE WATCHES OVER HIS COVENANT PEOPLE.
• 26:25 LET ME ENCOURAGE YOU IF YOU'RE A NATURAL JEW
• 26:29 TO MAKE PEACE WITH THE GOD OF ISRAEL THROUGH THE MESSIAH.
• 26:32 IF YOU'RE NOT OF JEWISH EXTRACT
• 26:35 LET ME TELL YOU, YOU CAN BE GRAFTED IN AND YOU CAN BE PART OF GOD'S PEACE PLAN.
• 26:40 AND WHAT A PLAN IT IS.
• 26:42 THANK YOU FOR EXPLORING IT WITH ME AND AS YOU GO NOW,
• 26:45 SHA'ALU SHALOM YERUSHALAYIM
• 26:48 PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM