Caption transcript for Ruth: “Road to Bethlehem” (2/8)

• 00:05 IT WAS A JOURNEY NO ONE EXPECTED.
• 00:08 FAMINE IN JUDAH HAD BROUGHT THEM TOGETHER IN MOAB
• 00:13 AND NOW...
• 00:14 NOTHING COULD TEAR THEM APART.
• 00:18 FOR NAOMI THE RETURN TO BETHLEHEM WAS A BITTER ONE.
• 00:22 BEHIND HER LAY HER HUSBAND AND TWO SONS BURIED IN FOREIGN SOIL.
• 00:28 FOR RUTH...
• 00:30 A NEW LAND...
• 00:33 A NEW PEOPLE...
• 00:36 A REDEEMER...
• 00:38 AN EXTRAORDINARY JOURNEY OF UNYIELDING DEVOTION.
• 00:42 A LOVE STORY FOR THE AGES.
• 00:55 SHALOM AND WELCOME
• 00:56 TO OUR SHOW.
• 00:57 I'M MYLES WEISS
• 00:58 AND WITH ME
• 00:58 IS MY CO-HOST
• 00:59 AND MY WIFE,
• 01:00 KATHARINE.
• 01:01 WE ARE IN THE STORY
• 01:03 OF "RUTH: YOUR PEOPLE SHALL BE MY PEOPLE"
• 01:05 AND GOSH...THEY'RE IN AN INHOSPITABLE ATMOSPHERE...
• 01:08 A DESERT PLACE.
• 01:09 IT WAS TOUGH FOR US WITH MODERN CONVENIENCES.
• 01:12 WHAT ABOUT THEM BACK THEN?
• 01:13 NAOMI WAS WITHOUT SORTS...
• 01:15 I MEAN HERE SHE HAD NO HUSBAND,
• 01:17 SHE'D LOST HER TWO SONS
• 01:19 AND SHE FEELS RESPONSIBLE FOR HOW TO CARE FOR THE NEXT PHASE OF WHAT THEY'RE GOING TO BE DOING.
• 01:24 EXACTLY AND IMAGINE HER LOOKING AT THE HILLS AND THINKING
• 01:26 "MOSES MAY BE BURIED SOMEWHERE AROUND HERE."
• 01:29 AND "AM I GOING TO MAKE IT INTO THE PROMISED LAND?"
• 01:32 "WILL I GET BACK TO MY LAND AND MY PEOPLE?"
• 01:34 IT'S A REALLY AN AMAZING STORY
• 01:36 BUT REDEMPTION COMES AT THE END.
• 01:37 SO WE WANT YOU TO ENJOY THIS NEXT PART OF THE SERIES...
• 01:40 "RUTH: YOUR PEOPLE SHALL BE MY PEOPLE".
• 01:47 GRIEF STRICKEN BY THE DEATH OF HER HUSBAND AND TWO SONS
• 01:50 NAOMI'S RETURN TO BETHLEHEM HAS NOT BEEN A PLEASANT ONE.
• 01:56 HER DAUGHTER'S-IN-LAW HAVE A ACCOMPANIED HER AND OFFERED THEIR SUPPORT
• 02:00 BUT IT ALL SEEMS SO HOPELESS.
• 03:10 I IMAGINE THAT THE ROAD FROM MOAB TO BETHLEHEM
• 03:12 WAS DIFFICULT LIKE THE ONE WE SEE HERE.
• 03:15 AND THESE WOULD BE THE TYPE OF BUILDINGS
• 03:16 THEY WOULD SEE ALONG THE WAY.
• 03:18 SOMETHING LIKE THIS,
• 03:19 THESE SMALL STONES,
• 03:20 THE ONLY BUILDING MATERIALS AVAILABLE...
• 03:22 THE DIRT TO MAKE MUD TO HOLD THEM TOGETHER...
• 03:24 ANY PLACE TO FIND A SHELTER.
• 03:27 IMAGINE HOW GRATEFUL
• 03:28 THEY WOULD BE FOR AN OASIS,
• 03:30 FOR PALM DATES,
• 03:31 FOR ANY KIND OF WATER
• 03:32 OR FOOD ALONG THE ROAD.
• 03:34 IT WAS A DIFFICULT PATH,
• 03:35 A DIFFICULT ROAD.
• 03:37 IT REMINDS ME
• 03:38 JUST AS NAOMI IS A PICTURE OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE...
• 03:41 IT REMINDS ME OF THE ROAD THAT THE JEWISH PEOPLE HAVE HAD THROUGHOUT HISTORY.
• 03:46 HOW DIFFICULT A ROAD IT HAS BEEN.
• 03:48 IN THE SOVEREIGNTY OF GOD, IN HIS GRACIOUSNESS HE BROUGHT US BACK TO OUR LAND
• 03:53 AND ESTABLISHED US AS A STATE MAY 14, 1948.
• 03:57 BUT YOU KNOW THERE ARE PEOPLE IN THE WORLD TODAY, POLITICIANS, MEDIA PEOPLE,
• 04:02 AND HEADS OF STATE EVEN... EVEN THE UNITED NATIONS
• 04:06 WHO WOULD TELL US THIS IS NOT OUR HISTORY, THIS IS NOT OUR LAND.
• 04:10 AND YOU KNOW THAT IS A LIE.
• 04:11 THEY'RE TRYING TO REVISE HISTORY.
• 04:13 BUT THE FACT IS THAT THIS IS THE LAND GIVEN TO THE JEWISH PEOPLE.
• 04:17 THIS IS THE LAND WHERE WE BELONG
• 04:19 AND I AM SO GRATEFUL...
• 04:21 WE ARE SO GRATEFUL FOR VIEWERS LIKE YOU
• 04:24 WHO HAVE CHOSEN NOT ONLY TO WED YOURSELF TO THE GOD OF THE BOOK,
• 04:29 TO THE GOD OF ABRAHAM,
• 04:30 BUT ALSO TO THE PEOPLE OF ABRAHAM.
• 04:33 THE BLESSING OF ABRAHAM IS UPON YOU.
• 04:35 GENESIS 12:1-3 SAYS
• 04:44 AND YOU ARE THOSE WHO ARE IN LINE FOR BLESSING
• 04:47 AS YOU HAVE DETERMINED TO BECOME FRIENDS WITH THE JEWISH PEOPLE.
• 04:51 YOU KNOW RUTH'S NAME MEANS "FRIENDSHIP".
• 04:55 WHAT A TYPE, WHAT A PICTURE,
• 04:57 WHAT A HEART THAT SHE HAD.
• 04:59 NAOMI WAS IN A TIME
• 05:00 OF REAL SUFFERING.
• 05:02 DON'T YOU JUST NEED A FRIEND
• 05:04 IN THAT KIND OF A TIME?
• 05:06 RUTH PICTURES THAT KIND OF A FRIEND COMING ALONG SIDE NAOMI.
• 05:09 HERE SHE'D LOST HER HUSBAND.
• 05:11 SHE'D LOST BOTH HER SONS.
• 05:14 IT'S ONE THING TO LOSE A HUSBAND;
• 05:16 IT'S ANOTHER THING TO LOSE BOTH SONS.
• 05:18 AND SHE IS ON THIS ARDUOUS JOURNEY BACK TO BETHLEHEM.
• 05:22 SHE HEARD THERE WAS BREAD BACK IN BETHLEHEM,
• 05:25 SO SHE BEGAN THE TREK.
• 05:27 AND HER DAUGHTERS-IN-LAWS BEGAN TO TAKE THIS TREK WITH HER.
• 05:31 THEY BEGAN TO JOURNEY ALONG THIS ROAD BACK TO BETHLEHEM.
• 05:34 RUTH HAD BEGUN TO SAY,
• 05:36 YOUR GOD IS OUR GOD
• 05:38 AND WE'RE GOING WITH YOU.
• 05:39 NAOMI WAS SO CONCERNED
• 05:42 FOR THEIR WELFARE,
• 05:43 FOR THEIR LIFE,
• 05:45 SHE BEGAN TO TELL THEM -
• 05:46 I THINK YOU MIGHT HAVE A BETTER SHOT GOING BACK TO MOAB.
• 05:50 BUT LITTLE DID SHE KNOW
• 05:52 THAT GOD HAD A BIGGER PLAN.
• 05:54 YES, YOU KNOW SOMETIMES PEOPLE WILL COME TO YOU AND SAY -
• 05:57 WHAT IS THIS INTEREST IN ISRAEL THAT YOU HAVE?
• 06:00 WHY ARE YOU SO CONCERNED WITH THE JEWISH PEOPLE?
• 06:02 WHY DON'T YOU GO BACK TO BUSINESS AS USUAL?
• 06:04 WHY NOT GO BACK TO CHURCH AS YOU USED TO KNOW IT?
• 06:07 WHY WOULD YOU BE SO OBSESSED WITH AND CONCERNED WITH THIS THING?
• 06:10 BUT I WANT TO TELL YOU,
• 06:12 YOU ARE LOVING WHAT GOD LOVES,
• 06:13 AND YOU'RE BEING CONCERNED ABOUT WHAT GOD IS CONCERNED ABOUT.
• 06:16 AND THAT'S WHAT MAKES US SO GRATEFUL TODAY
• 06:18 TO BE ABLE TO STAND HERE AND SAY
• 06:20 THAT YOU ARE THOSE WHO ARE GOING TO STAND
• 06:23 WITH THE JEWISH PEOPLE IN THE DAYS AHEAD.
• 06:25 YOU KNOW IT'S GOING TO BE DIFFICULT.
• 06:27 THERE ARE GOING TO BE TIMES
• 06:29 WHEN YOU'RE GOING TO WANT TO TURN BACK AND GO TO THE OLD WAYS,
• 06:32 TO GO TO THAT WHICH IS MORE COMFORTABLE,
• 06:34 THAT WHICH IS SIMPLER.
• 06:35 BUT THERE IS A TIME COMING WHEN YOUR REWARD WILL BE GREAT
• 06:38 BECAUSE YOU HAVE STOOD IN THE HEAT OF THE DAY
• 06:41 AND STOOD THE TEST OF TIME
• 06:42 AND DETERMINED TO BE A TRUE FRIEND TO THE GOD OF ISRAEL
• 06:47 AND THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL.
• 06:48 AS YOU HAVE DETERMINED TO GIVE YOURSELVES TO THAT WHICH HE LOVES,
• 06:52 HE'S GOING TO GIVE HIMSELF TO THE REDEMPTION THAT HE'S PROMISED YOU.
• 06:56 YOU KNOW THERE ARE GREAT THINGS AHEAD FOR YOU IN THE NAME OF YESHUA.
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• 09:00 WE'RE COMING TO A SIGNIFICANT
• 09:02 POINT IN THE STORY
• 09:03 WHERE A PHRASE
• 09:05 THAT HAS COME DOWN
• 09:06 THROUGH TIME
• 09:07 AND ECHOES THROUGH
• 09:08 THE CENTURIES TO US
• 09:09 IS SPOKEN BY RUTH
• 09:11 WHERE SHE SAYS,
• 09:12 [SPEAKING HEBREW]
• 09:21 LISTEN TO THE WHOLE VERSE.
• 09:22 THIS IS RUTH 1:16.
• 09:39 WHAT A TESTIMONY THAT HAS COME TO US THROUGH THE CENTURIES TO SAY
• 09:44 THE CHALLENGE BEFORE YOU TO STAND WITH THE GOD OF ABRAHAM
• 09:49 AND THE PEOPLE OF ABRAHAM.
• 09:50 WHAT A PICTURE.
• 09:51 WHAT A BEAUTIFUL THING
• 09:53 TO SEE NAOMI HAVE SUCH STRENGTH COME FROM RUTH AT THIS TIME.
• 09:57 THE ROOT MEANING OF RUTH
• 09:59 IS "FRIENDSHIP".
• 10:00 AND SHE FOLLOWS
• 10:02 AFTER THAT ROOT MEANING
• 10:03 TO BE A FRIEND TO NAOMI IN THIS TIME OF SUFFERING...
• 10:07 GOES BEYOND THAT WHICH IS COMFORTABLE
• 10:09 AND GOES INTO A PLACE WHERE SHE LITERALLY CLINGS TO NAOMI
• 10:13 AND MAKES THE COMMITMENT TO BE A FRIEND.
• 10:17 WHERE ORPAH,
• 10:18 AS WE SEE IN SCRIPTURE,
• 10:20 SHE'LL KISS NAOMI.
• 10:22 AND THAT SCRIPTURE MEANS "TO LOVE LIGHTLY".
• 10:25 WHEREAS RUTH MEANS "TO CLEAVE".
• 10:29 SHE LITERALLY CLEAVED TO NAOMI IN THIS TIME
• 10:32 ON THE ROAD BACK TO BETHLEHEM.
• 10:35 YOU KNOW IT'S AMAZING THAT RUTH DIDN'T KNOW THE END FROM THE BEGINNING.
• 10:38 SHE DIDN'T KNOW HOW DIFFICULT THE ROAD AHEAD WAS.
• 10:41 SHE DIDN'T KNOW THAT THEY WOULD WIND UP IN BETHLEHEM,
• 10:44 IN THE HOUSE OF BREAD,
• 10:45 WITH ALL THE SUSTENANCE,
• 10:46 WITH THE KINSMAN REDEEMER,
• 10:47 ALL THE GREAT THINGS THAT WOULD BE UNFOLDING.
• 10:50 BUT IT'S NOT SO FOR YOU AND FOR ME,
• 10:51 BECAUSE WE'VE READ THE REST OF THE BOOK.
• 10:53 WE KNOW THAT IF WE CLING TO THAT
• 10:55 WHICH GOD WANTS US TO CLING TO
• 10:57 THAT HE'S GOING TO MAKE A GOOD END FOR US.
• 11:00 THAT HE'S GOING TO BRING US INTO OUR DESTINY.
• 11:02 HE'S GOING TO BRING US INTO THE FUTURE THAT HE HAS FOR US.
• 11:06 BUT RUTH DIDN'T KNOW THAT.
• 11:07 SHE DID IT JUST BASED ON LOVE.
• 11:08 IT WAS AN INTUITIVE GRASPING TO NAOMI.
• 11:11 YOU KNOW YOU LOOK AROUND HERE
• 11:12 AND YOU CAN SEE WHY MARK TWAIN IN 1862
• 11:15 SAID THAT THIS WAS JUST A BARREN, ROCKY PLACE.
• 11:18 HE CAME BACK TO AMERICA
• 11:19 AFTER HAVING VISITED
• 11:21 WHAT WAS CALLED PALESTINE THEN.
• 11:22 YOU KNOW PALESTINE WAS NAMED BY THE ROMANS.
• 11:25 IT IS NOT A PEOPLE-GROUP THAT CAME IN 1964 OR 1967.
• 11:28 THE ROMANS NAMED ISRAEL "PALESTINA" IN ORDER TO WIPE OUT ANY JEWISH REMEMBRANCE HERE.
• 11:34 MARK TWAIN CAME BACK TO AMERICA
• 11:36 AND SAID IT'S JUST ROCKS AND DIRT.
• 11:38 THERE'S NOTHING THERE, HE WROTE IN "INNOCENCE ABROAD".
• 11:41 BUT THEN GOD IN HIS SOVEREIGNTY
• 11:43 BROUGHT THE RUTHS AND THE NAOMIS TOGETHER
• 11:45 AND BROUGHT US INTO THE LAND,
• 11:47 INTO BETHLEHEM, THE HOUSE OF BREAD,
• 11:49 INTO A PLACE THAT WOULD BECOME LAVISH - FULL OF FRUIT,
• 11:53 FULL OF GOODNESS,
• 11:54 FULL OF A FUTURE.
• 11:55 THAT'S WHAT WE SEE TODAY...
• 11:56 THAT AS WE WILL GO WHERE GOD GOES
• 11:59 AND AS WE WILL CLING TO THAT WHICH HE CLINGS TO,
• 12:01 HE BRINGS US INTO AN EXPECTED END.
• 12:04 SO ALTHOUGH WE MAY NOT SEE THE END FROM THE BEGINNING,
• 12:07 BY FAITH WE CAN WALK WITH HIM
• 12:09 AND WE CAN KNOW THAT HE IS GOOD
• 12:11 AND THAT HIS MERCY ENDURES FOREVER.
• 12:13 IT'S AN AMAZING STORY.
• 12:14 HERE IN THE MIDST OF THE DESERT,
• 12:16 ON THE WAY INTO BETHLEHEM,
• 12:19 WE SEE THAT THIS IS THE UNFOLDING OF THIS INCREDIBLE STORY.
• 12:23 "YOUR PEOPLE SHALL BE MY PEOPLE,"
• 12:25 "AND YOUR GOD MY GOD."
• 12:27 WHAT A TESTIMONY THROUGHOUT TIME.
• 12:35 ♪WHEN WE'RE THERE, WHEN WE'RE THERE,♪
• 12:36 ♪IN THE LAND OF ZION♪
• 12:38 ♪NEXT YEAR IN JERUSALEM♪
• 12:40 ♪L'SHANAH HA'BA' AH B'YERUSHALAYIM♪
• 12:43 ♪NEXT YEAR IN JERUSALEM♪
• 12:45 ♪O LORD WE'LL BE WITH YOU AND NO MORE TEARS♪
• 12:48 ♪O LORD THY KINGDOM COME, THY WILL BE DONE NEXT YEAR♪
• 12:51 ♪L'SHANAH HA'BA' AH B'YERUSHALAYIM♪
• 12:54 ♪NEXT YEAR IN JERUSALEM♪
• 12:56 ♪L'SHANAH HA'BA' AH B'YERUSHALAYIM♪
• 12:59 ♪NEXT YEAR IN JERUSALEM♪
• 13:13 GOING TO ISRAEL IS A LIFE CHANGING EXPERIENCE.
• 13:15 EVERY TIME I GO I GET A GREATER REVELATION IN THE WORD
• 13:18 AND A GREATER UNDERSTANDING OF MESSIAH AND HIS KINGDOM.
• 13:21 I'M GRATEFUL TODAY TO HAVE TRACIE, OUR TRAVEL MANAGER, WITH US.
• 13:24 TRACIE, WHAT'S COMING UP IN OUR TOURS?
• 13:26 OUR TOURS ARE SO SPECIAL MYLES TO ME
• 13:28 BECAUSE WE DO THE EXACT
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• 13:53 PASSENGER LIAISONS.
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• 13:56 IN FACT, OUR TOUR GUIDE
• 13:58 WAS VOTED 2004 TOUR GUIDE
• 14:00 OF THE YEAR IN ISRAEL.
• 14:01 I FEEL LIKE OUR TOURS
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• 14:03 MORE THAN THAT,
• 14:04 I'M IN THE OFFICE EVERY DAY
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• 14:12 IS TO RECEIVE THE LEVITT LETTER.
• 14:14 IT IS A GREAT UP TO THE MINUTE
• 14:16 NEWSLETTER ABOUT WHAT'S GOING ON
• 14:18 IN THE MIDDLE EAST.
• 14:19 IT HAS GREAT ARTICLES
• 14:20 WRITTEN BY MYSELF AND OTHERS.
• 14:21 AND OUR OFFER THIS WEEK IS
• 14:24 A STORY THAT I'VE WRITTEN CALLED
• 14:25 "AN EPIC LOVE STORY, JEWS AND GENTILES TOGETHER IN MESSIAH"
• 14:30 IT'S A REALLY WONDERFUL THING THAT GOD IS DOING IN THESE END TIMES.
• 14:34 THIS IS A WORK THAT GOES THROUGH THE ROMANS 9 THROUGH 11 AND THE HISTORY OF THE CHURCH,
• 14:40 THE DIVISION BETWEEN JEWS AND GENTILES
• 14:42 AND HOW GOD MEANT FROM THE BEGINNING OF TIME FOR US TO WORSHIP HIM TOGETHER.
• 14:46 SO I WANT TO INVITE YOU TO CALL IN AND GET THAT BOOKLET AS WELL.
• 14:50 NOW...LET'S GET BACK TO OUR STORY OF RUTH AS THEY ARE ON THE ROAD TO BETHLEHEM.
• 14:57 AND THEY CAME TO BETHLEHEM AT THE BEGINNING OF THE BARLEY SEASON.
• 15:03 10 YEARS HAD PASSED SINCE NAOMI HAD LEFT BETHLEHEM BECAUSE OF FAMINE IN THE LAND.
• 15:10 REPORTS WERE THAT THE LORD HAD VISITED HIS PEOPLE ONCE AGAIN
• 15:14 AND NOW THERE WAS BREAD UPON THE TABLES OF BETHLEHEM.
• 15:18 FOR RUTH IT WAS ALL VERY NEW.
• 15:22 WOULD AN ENTRANCE THROUGH THE CITY GATE BRING WITH IT A NEW LIFE?
• 15:28 FOR NAOMI IT ALL REKINDLED A TRAGIC STORY.
• 15:33 BEHIND HER IN A FOREIGN LAND SHE HAD LAID TO REST HER LOVING HUSBAND AND HER ONLY TWO SONS.
• 15:59 NAOMI IS IN
• 16:00 THE FURNACE OF AFFLICTION.
• 16:01 SHE IS SUFFERING WITH THE LOSS
• 16:03 OF HER HUSBAND AND HER TWO SONS.
• 16:05 THE DRAMA IS PLAYING OUT BETWEEN
• 16:07 HER AND HER DAUGHTERS-IN-LAW.
• 16:09 THEY'RE ABOUT TO COME INTO
• 16:10 AN AMAZING PROVISION,
• 16:11 BUT AT FIRST SHE CAN'T SEE IT.
• 16:13 SHE CAN'T SEE THE END FROM THE BEGINNING AS I'VE SAID.
• 16:15 SO SHE IS EVEN TELLING PEOPLE AROUND HER - DON'T CALL ME NAOMI ANYMORE.
• 16:19 CALL ME MARA, WHICH MEANS "BITTER",
• 16:22 BECAUSE THE LORD HAS DEALT DIFFICULTY WITH ME.
• 16:24 HE HAS TREATED ME HARSHLY.
• 16:26 SHE IS NOT SEEING THE PROVISION THAT IS ABOUT TO BE UNVEILED FOR HER.
• 16:31 AS YOU LOOK BEHIND ME YOU CAN SEE THIS INCREDIBLE FIELD.
• 16:34 THE FRUITFULNESS OF WHAT GOD HAS BROUGHT TOGETHER IN THE LAND OF ISRAEL.
• 16:38 AND YOU KNOW HE IS SUCH A GOOD GOD THAT HE MADE A PROVISION FOR PEOPLE LIKE RUTH AND NAOMI.
• 16:44 HE MADE A PROVISION IN THE WORD FOR THOSE WHO ARE WITHOUT,
• 16:47 FOR THOSE WHO ARE POOR,
• 16:48 FOR THE FOREIGNER,
• 16:49 FOR THE VISITOR,
• 16:51 FOR THE ONES WHO MAY NOT HAVE A FIELD THAT THEY CAN GROW THEIR OWN FOOD.
• 16:54 LISTEN TO THIS FROM THE WORD.
• 16:56 THIS IS FROM DEUTERONOMY IN CHAPTER 23, VERSE 25:
• 17:11 IN OTHER WORDS, WHEN THERE WAS A WEALTHY PERSON
• 17:13 WHO HAD A FIELD OF SAY THIS DIMENSION,
• 17:15 THEY WERE CONSTRUCTED BY THE WORD OF GOD TO TAKE WHAT THEY NEEDED,
• 17:19 BUT TO ALWAYS LEAVE A CORNER OF THE FIELD FOR THOSE AROUND THEM.
• 17:25 THERE'S AN INTERESTING LESSON IN THAT FOR ALL OF US AND THE WAY WE LIVE OUR LIVES.
• 17:29 YOU KNOW YESHUA HIMSELF TOOK USE OF THAT SCRIPTURE.
• 17:32 LATER ON WE SEE IN LUKE,
• 17:34 IN THE BRIT HADASHAH, IN THE NEW TESTAMENT,
• 17:36 WE SEE IN LUKE, CHAPTER 6 WHERE JESUS AND THE DISCIPLES WERE OUT AND ABOUT ON A SABBATH DAY
• 17:45 AND THEY CAME UPON A FIELD MUCH LIKE THIS
• 17:47 AND DID EXACTLY WHAT IS TALKED ABOUT IN THIS SCRIPTURE.
• 17:58 SO GOD MADE PROVISION FOR YESHUA AND THE DISCIPLES,
• 18:02 FOR YOU AND ME,
• 18:02 FOR THE STRANGER,
• 18:03 FOR THE FOREIGNER, FOR THE POOR,
• 18:05 FOR THE WIDOWS, FOR THE ORPHANS,
• 18:07 THAT THE GRAIN WOULD EITHER BE STANDING IN THE CORNER
• 18:09 OR IF IT HAD FALLEN TO THE GROUND
• 18:11 IT COULD BE PICKED UP AND TAKEN AWAY AS WELL.
• 18:13 IT WAS THE MANDATE FOR THE WEALTHY PERSON WHO OWNED THE FIELD
• 18:17 TO LEAVE THAT FOR THOSE AROUND THEM.
• 18:20 IT'S INTERESTING, ISN'T IT, THAT THIS VERY LAND IS SO FRUITFUL,
• 18:24 IT'S SO BOUNTIFUL,
• 18:26 IT'S BEEN SUCH AN INCREDIBLE TRANSFORMATION THAT GOD HAS DONE OVER THIS LAST CENTURY.
• 18:31 YOU KNOW WHEN YOU GO IN YOUR BACKYARD IN THE WEST
• 18:33 AND YOU TURN ON YOUR SPRINKLER SYSTEM,
• 18:36 YOU CAN THANK THE ISRAELIS FOR THAT.
• 18:38 BECAUSE THEY WERE IN NEED OF EVERY DROP OF WATER TO GROW THE LAND HERE
• 18:42 AND SO THEY INVENTED DRIP IRRIGATION FOR THIS LAND
• 18:46 AND YOU ARE THE BENEFICIARY OF THAT.
• 18:48 AND I THINK ABOUT HOW GOD WOULD SO LIKE THE SURROUNDING NATIONS
• 18:53 TO ENJOY THE SAME BENEFIT OF THE CORNERS OF THE FIELD.
• 18:57 IMAGINE, IF THE NATIONS SURROUNDING ISRAEL
• 19:00 COULD TAKE THAT SAME MANDATE
• 19:02 AND ALLOW THE INCREDIBLE GENIUS AND THE HARD WORK
• 19:05 AND THE GRACE OF GOD THAT'S COME THROUGH THIS LAND TO GROW THESE INCREDIBLE CROPS
• 19:11 AND IF THE SURROUNDING NATIONS WOULD ALLOW THE ISRAELI'S TO HELP THEM TO GROW
• 19:16 AND TO BUILD AND TO CULTIVATE IN THE SAME WAY THAT IT'S DONE HERE.
• 19:20 WOULDN'T THAT BE A DIFFERENT STORY THAN WHAT WE SEE IN THE HEADLINES?
• 19:23 I THINK THIS IS A REAL PICTURE OF THE HEART OF GOD
• 19:25 THAT HE CREATES THIS INCREDIBLE BOUNTY
• 19:28 AND THEN HE DETERMINES THAT IF YOU ARE THE INITIAL RECIPIENT OF THAT BOUNTY
• 19:35 THAT IT IS UPON YOU...
• 19:37 HE EXPECTS YOU TO GO AHEAD AND SHARE THAT WITH THOSE AROUND YOU.
• 19:41 I WANT TO ENCOURAGE YOU TODAY
• 19:43 THAT WHATEVER GLORY, GRACE OR GOODNESS THAT YOU ARE EXPERIENCING IN YOUR LIFE
• 19:48 THAT THAT'S NOT JUST FOR YOU.
• 19:50 THAT'S LIKE THE CORNERS OF THE FIELD.
• 19:52 IT'S TO BE SHARED WITH EVERYONE AROUND YOU.
• 19:54 IT'S ALMOST LIKE THE MARRIAGE CHUPPAH.
• 19:57 THE SIDES ARE OPEN BECAUSE THE GLORY OF GOD IS TO BE ON US
• 20:01 AND IT'S TO BE SPREAD OUT TO TOUCH EVERYONE AROUND OUR LIVES.
• 20:05 SO I WANT TO ENCOURAGE YOU TODAY TO ALLOW GOD TO COME THROUGH YOU AND BLESS EVERYONE AROUND YOU.
• 20:16 ♪PTACH ET SHA'AREI HASHAMAYIM♪
• 20:24 ♪TZROF ET LIBENU♪
• 20:34 ♪IM LEHAVOT CHAYIM♪ ♪LE NOCHECHUTCHA ANACHNU♪
• 20:37 ♪KOL KOCH ZKUKIM♪
• 20:43 ♪BIGVURATCHA TZLACH ALEYNU♪
• 20:53 ♪KACH ET CHAYEINU ET NOFSHENU♪
• 21:02 ♪V'ET SHIMCHA♪
• 21:04 ♪CHATOM AL LIBENU♪
• 21:12 ♪LEHIT 'ARERUT ANACHNU♪
• 21:16 ♪KAN BOCHIM♪
• 21:22 ♪HATBEL OTANU BA'ESH UVMAYIM♪
• 21:30 ♪TAVO MALCHUT'CHA♪
• 21:34 ♪YE'ASEH RETZONCHA♪
• 21:40 ♪KAN AL PNEI HA'ARETZ♪
• 21:44 ♪KFI SHEBASHAMAYIM♪
• 21:49 ♪TAVO MALCHUT'CHA♪
• 21:53 ♪YE'ASEH RETZONCHA♪
• 21:59 ♪KAN AL PNEI HA'ARETZ♪
• 22:04 ♪KFI SHEBASHAMAYIM♪
• 22:08 ♪AM..E...N♪
• 22:15 ♪AMEN♪
• 22:23 ♪AM..E...N♪
• 22:25 THAT WAS MORE BEAUTIFUL MUSIC FROM SASHA AND ANYA,
• 22:28 OUR RUSSIAN BELIEVERS IN ISRAEL
• 22:30 AND YOU'LL HEAR MORE FROM THEM THROUGHOUT THE SERIES.
• 22:32 AND NOW WE'LL GO TO ARIE BAR-DAVID,
• 22:35 OUR MESSIANIC BELIEVER AND TOUR GUIDE IN ISRAEL
• 22:38 WHO'S GOING TO SPEAK TO YOU
• 22:40 ABOUT THE ROUTE THAT RUTH AND NAOMI MIGHT HAVE TAKEN FROM MOAB TO BETHLEHEM.
• 22:45 SO LET'S LISTEN TO HIM.
• 22:49 LAST WEEK
• 22:50 WE TALKED ABOUT THE LAND WHICH
• 22:53 THE STORY OF RUTH TOOK PLACE
• 22:55 AND THIS IS THE LAND OF ISRAEL.
• 22:57 LET US GO MORE EXACT NOW TO THE SITES THEMSELVES.
• 23:01 BETHLEHEM AND THE FIELDS OF MOAB.
• 23:04 ONE IS WEST OF THE DEAD SEA,
• 23:07 THE OTHER IS EAST OF THE DEAD SEA.
• 23:10 LET US REMEMBER YOU HAVE AN EYE CONNECTION BETWEEN THE TWO.
• 23:14 WHAT WOULD BE THE OPTIONAL WAY FOR NAOMI TO GO TO MOAB?
• 23:20 NO DOUBT...FIRST TO JERUSALEM.
• 23:23 FROM JERUSALEM GOING DOWN TO WHAT WE CALL THE VALLEY OF NAHAL PRAT...
• 23:29 TO JERICHO...RELAX THERE...
• 23:32 CROSS THE JORDON TO BETHABARA
• 23:34 AND FROM THERE CLIMB ALL THE WAY UP TO THE MOUNTAINS.
• 23:39 THIS WOULD TAKE FOUR DAYS.
• 23:41 I BELIEVE THAT WHEN THEY CAME BACK...NAOMI AND RUTH...
• 23:46 THEY CHOSE THE SAME WAY.
• 23:49 THEY WOULD REMEMBER THAT EVEN THESE ROADS WHICH WILL TAKE FOUR DAYS...
• 23:53 YOU ARE NOT DOING IT ALONE.
• 23:55 YOU JUST TAKE A CARAVAN THAT IS CROSSING THE WAY
• 24:01 AND THEN YOU JOIN THE CARAVAN...
• 24:03 THEY WOULD PROTECT YOU...
• 24:05 THEY WILL CHARGE YOU FOR THE HOTELS, OF COURSE, AT NIGHT.
• 24:08 BUT WITHOUT THEM IT WOULD BE VERY DANGEROUS TO MAKE THIS ROUTE.
• 24:13 AND THIS IS WHAT JESUS SAID ABOUT THE GOOD SAMARITAN.
• 24:17 THE STORY OF THE GOOD SAMARITAN HAPPENED HERE
• 24:20 IN THIS DANGEROUS ROAD BETWEEN JERUSALEM AND JERICHO.
• 24:26 WHAT A STORY OF REDEMPTION
• 24:28 AND YET IT'S SUCH A DARK TIME NOW
• 24:29 AS THEIR STRUGGLING TO GET TO THE PROMISED LAND.
• 24:33 AND I THINK ABOUT THE COMMITMENT THAT RUTH MADE TO NAOMI
• 24:37 AND THE VERY WAY THAT SHE SAYS,
• 24:40 "YOUR GOD WILL BE MY GOD AND YOUR PEOPLE MY PEOPLE"...
• 24:43 NOT JUST THE ONE BUT BOTH.
• 24:45 AND I THINK FOR US AS BELIEVERS TODAY
• 24:47 IT'S VERY IMPORTANT THAT WE UNDERSTAND
• 24:50 THAT NOT ONLY ARE WE RECEIVING THE JEWISH MESSIAH
• 24:53 BUT WE'RE ALSO KNITTING OURSELVES TO THE JEWISH PEOPLE.
• 24:57 SO MANY PEOPLE IN THE WORLD THEY SAY,
• 24:59 "OH YES" TO THE GOD OF ABRAHAM, ISAAC AND JACOB
• 25:02 BUT "I'M NOT SO SURE ABOUT THE JEWISH PEOPLE".
• 25:05 BUT I DON'T THINK WE HAVE THAT PRIVILEGE.
• 25:06 I THINK OUR COMMITMENT THAT WE MAKE TO THE GOD OF ISRAEL IS ALSO TO THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL.
• 25:11 AND RUTH REALLY EXEMPLIFIES THAT.
• 25:14 RIGHT...NOT ONLY DOES SHE SAY "YOUR PEOPLE SHALL BE MY PEOPLE, YOUR GOD MY GOD",
• 25:18 BUT SHE SAID "WHERE YOU GO I WILL GO".
• 25:20 SHE GAVE NAOMI SOMETHING THAT FAITH CAN ONLY GIVE
• 25:25 AND IT'S COURAGE.
• 25:27 SHE GAVE HER COURAGE TO GO BACK AND EVEN TO FACE HER SHAME OF LOSING SO MUCH.
• 25:33 THAT WORD "GO" IN THE HEBREW MYLES...
• 25:35 THAT MEANS "SOJOURN".
• 25:37 SO IT WASN'T NECESSARILY A SURE THING WHAT RUTH KNEW WHAT SHE WAS GETTING INTO.
• 25:41 SHE KNEW THAT SHE WOULD SOJOURN WITH NAOMI IN THE LAND OF PROMISE.
• 25:46 WHEREVER IT TOOK THEM
• 25:47 WHEREVER IT TOOK THEM
• 25:48 IT'S A REAL COMMITMENT
• 25:49 AND THE WORD FOR "HOPE" IN HEBREW IS "TIKVAH"
• 25:52 AND IT FIRST APPEARS IN THE BOOK OF RUTH
• 25:54 WHICH IS INTERESTING BECAUSE WHO WOULD HAVE THOUGHT IN THE 1940'S
• 25:58 THAT THERE WOULD EVER BE A HOPE FOR THE JEWISH PEOPLE AGAIN
• 26:00 AS WE WERE BEING DESTROYED IN THE HOLOCAUST.
• 26:03 AND YET IN 1948 HOPE AROSE
• 26:06 AND GOD IN HIS SOVEREIGNTY COMMANDED THAT A NATION WOULD BE BORN IN A DAY
• 26:11 AND SO IT WAS MAY 14, 1948 THAT HOPE, "TIKVAH", CAME TO THE JEWISH PEOPLE
• 26:16 SO MUCH SO
• 26:17 THAT THE JEWISH NATIONAL ANTHEM
• 26:20 IS CALLED "HATIKVAH"
• 26:22 AND FOR US AS JEWISH PEOPLE
• 26:24 IT'S THE EXPRESSION OF OUR BELIEF THAT GOD WILL TAKE CARE OF US,
• 26:28 THAT HE IS OUR HOPE
• 26:29 AND FOR US WHO BELIEVE IN MESSIAH
• 26:30 WE KNOW THAT YESHUA IS HATIKVAH.
• 26:34 HE IS THE HOPE.
• 26:35 SO...
• 26:36 WE WANT TO THANK YOU FOR BEING WITH US
• 26:38 AND FOR TODAY WE SAY,
• 26:40 SHA'ALU SHALOM YERUSHALAYIM
• 26:42 PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM