Caption transcript for Ruth: “Redemption” (7/8)

• 00:05 IT WAS A JOURNEY NO ONE EXPECTED.
• 00:09 FAMINE IN JUDAH HAD BROUGHT THEM TOGETHER IN MOAB
• 00:12 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.
• 00:29 FOR RUTH...
• 00:30 A NEW LAND...
• 00:33 A NEW PEOPLE...
• 00:35 A REDEEMER...
• 00:37 AN EXTRAORDINARY JOURNEY OF UNYIELDING DEVOTION.
• 00:42 A LOVE STORY FOR THE AGES.
• 00:55 SHALOM AND WELCOME TO OUR SHOW.
• 00:57 I AM MYLES WEISS...
• 00:58 THIS IS MY WIFE AND MY CO-HOST KATHARINE.
• 01:00 AND TODAY WE ARE CONTINUING OUR SERIES
• 01:02 OF "RUTH, YOUR PEOPLE SHALL BE MY PEOPLE".
• 01:06 WOW...BOAZ IS PERSISTENT ISN'T HE?
• 01:07 HE IS AND HE REMINDS ME OF YOU MYLES.
• 01:09 YOU WERE PERSISTENT THANKFULLY IN OUR RELATIONSHIP OVER 25 YEARS AGO.
• 01:14 WE HAD TO OVERCOME SOME ISSUES OF FAMILY AND CULTURAL BACKGROUNDS
• 01:18 BUT GOD TRIUMPHED.
• 01:20 HE DID.
• 01:21 I REMEMBER YOUR MOM TELLING YOU THAT IF YOU MARRIED A JEWISH PERSON
• 01:24 YOU'D COME UNDER PERSECUTION, RIGHT?
• 01:26 BECAUSE THAT IS THE HISTORY OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE
• 01:28 THAT WE GET PERSECUTED
• 01:30 AND MY WIFE GRATEFULLY KNIT HERSELF TO ME
• 01:32 JUST AS RUTH IS PLANNING AS A MOABITESS,
• 01:35 AS SOMEONE OUTSIDE THE COVENANT OF ISRAEL
• 01:37 IS PLANNING ON HOPEFULLY BEING GRAFTED IN TO THE COMMONWEALTH OF ISRAEL AS EPHESIANS SAYS.
• 01:43 AND SHE'S GOING TO DO THAT THROUGH HER RELATIONSHIP WITH BOAZ.
• 01:47 HE IS GOING TO FIND OUT RIGHT NOW
• 01:49 IF HE IS THE RIGHTFUL KINSMAN
• 01:52 AND ABLE TO TAKE RUTH TO HIMSELF.
• 01:54 SO LET'S FIND OUT WHAT HAPPENS.
• 02:02 ON THE SURFACE BOAZ MEETING AT THE CITY GATE
• 02:04 MAY NOT SEEM TO BE ALL THAT IMPORTANT.
• 02:07 FACT IS IT WILL DETERMINE THE FUTURE OF BETHLEHEM AND ALL ISRAEL.
• 02:13 RUTH'S CLOSEST GUARDIAN KINSMAN TELLS BOAZ THAT HE WILL ACQUIRE ELIMELECH'S LAND.
• 02:20 BUT WHAT ABOUT RUTH?
• 03:11 AS YOU READ ALONG IN THE BOOK OF RUTH
• 03:13 YOU SEE THE TENSION GROWING BETWEEN BOAZ AND THE NEARER KINSMAN, THE GO'EL
• 03:18 WHO HAS THE FIRST RIGHT TO REDEEM NAOMI, RUTH AND LAND THAT BELONGS TO ELIMELECH.
• 03:24 IT'S REALLY TENSION BUILDING DRAMA AS THE STORY UNFOLDS.
• 03:28 AND WE SEE AS READER WE'RE ROOTING FOR BOAZ.
• 03:31 WE WANT HIM OF COURSE TO GET WITH RUTH
• 03:34 AND WE WANT TO SEE THAT LOVE AFFAIR COME TO ITS FRUITION.
• 03:36 BUT BOAZ BEING A MAN OF INTEGRITY
• 03:39 KNOWS THAT HE HAS TO GIVE THE OPPORTUNITY FIRST TO THE NEARER KINSMAN,
• 03:44 SO HE DOES THAT.
• 03:45 AND IN VERSE 7 OF CHAPTER 4 WE READ THIS,
• 04:03 READING ON IN VERSE 8 IN THE HEBREW IT SAYS,
• 04:05 (SPEAKING HEBREW)
• 04:09 WHICH IS GOOD NEWS TO US;
• 04:11 IT MEANS THE KINSMAN SAID TO BOAZ 'BUY IT FOR YOURSELF.'
• 04:13 IN OTHER WORDS HE IS REFUSING TO REDEEM RUTH AND NAOMI AND WHAT PERTAINS TO THEM
• 04:18 AND HE'S GIVING THE RIGHT TO BOAZ.
• 04:21 THAT'S GOOD NEWS FOR US BECAUSE WE'RE ROOTING FOR BOAZ.
• 04:23 AND SO WE SEE THAT IN THE CUSTOM OF THE DAY
• 04:27 THE GO'EL WHO REFUSED TO TAKE RESPONSIBILITY
• 04:30 WILL THEN TAKE OF HIS SANDAL,
• 04:31 HAND IT TO ONE WHO IS TAKING RESPONSIBILITY
• 04:34 AND THEN SOME SCHOLARS SAY THAT HE WOULD ACTUALLY WALK BAREFOOT FOR A SEASON THROUGH THE TOWN
• 04:39 ATTESTING TO FACT THAT HE WAS UNWILLING TO REDEEM THE FAMILY MEMBER'S WIFE AND CHILDREN.
• 04:47 THAT LINEAGE WOULD NO LONGER BE ALIVE IN ISRAEL
• 04:50 IT IS VERY SERIOUS.
• 04:52 BUT BOAZ WAS WILLING AND SO HE SAID YES.
• 04:54 SO WHAT WAS A SHAME TO ONE
• 04:57 WAS THE MARRIAGE LICENSE TO THE OTHER.
• 05:00 AND THE SANDALS ARE AN INTERESTING PART OF THE STORY
• 05:02 BECAUSE THEY HAVE THAT IDEA BUILT INTO THEM
• 05:06 OF BEING CONNECTED TO THE HOLINESS OF GOD IN A SENSE
• 05:09 BECAUSE WE SEE THROUGHOUT SCRIPTURE
• 05:11 THAT PEOPLE WOULD TAKE OFF THEIR SHOES
• 05:13 WHEN THEY'RE STANDING ON HOLY GROUND...MOSES DID THAT.
• 05:16 AND JOSHUA IN CHAPTER 5 CAME BEFORE THE CAPTAIN OF THE HOST OF THE LORD
• 05:20 WHICH MANY BELIEVE WAS A THEOPHANY,
• 05:22 A PRE-INCARNATE APPEARANCE OF JESUS CHRIST HIMSELF,
• 05:26 AND ASK THE CAPTAIN OF THE HOST OF THE LORD,
• 05:28 'ARE YOU FOR US OR FOR US OR FOR OUR ADVERSARIES?"
• 05:30 AND WHAT DID THE ANGEL OR THE VISITOR SAY?
• 05:33 HE SAID, 'NEITHER...BUT WHO IS ON THE LORD'S SIDE?' HE ASKED JOSHUA.
• 05:37 I THINK GOD IS ASKING US THAT TODAY IN THE NATIONS
• 05:39 AND CERTAINLY AS BELIEVERS,
• 05:41 "WHO IS ON THE LORD'S SIDE?"
• 05:43 JOSHUA TOOK HIS SHOES OFF AND KNELT FACE DOWN ON HOLY GROUND.
• 05:47 JOHN THE BAPTIZER, THE IMMERSER, "YOCHANAN HAMAMTBEEL",
• 05:53 HE SAID THAT "THERE'S ONE COMING AFTER ME WHO'S SHOES I AM UNWORTHY TO CARRY,"
• 05:58 "TO UNLOOSE, TO UNTIE HIS SANDALS",
• 06:02 SPEAKING OF COURSE OF YESHUA.
• 06:04 JOHN THE BAPTIST WAS VERY AWARE OF THAT CONNECTION WITH...
• 06:07 "I CAN'T EVEN COME BEFORE THE FEET OF THE ONE WHO IS COMING,
• 06:11 HE'S SO MUCH MORE POWERFUL, SO MUCH MORE IMPORTANT THAN I AM."
• 06:15 WHAT AN INCREDIBLE STORY.
• 06:17 WHAT AN AMAZING BOOK, THIS BOOK,
• 06:19 66 BOOKS ACTUALLY,
• 06:22 WRITTEN BY 40 AUTHORS OVER HUNDREDS OF YEARS
• 06:25 AND YET IT HANGS TOGETHER AS ONE COMPLETE STORY FROM GENESIS TO REVELATION...
• 06:29 ONE COMPLETE VERY JEWISH BOOK
• 06:32 ABOUT A VERY JEWISH SAVIOR.
• 06:34 IT'S AN AMAZING, AMAZING STORY.
• 06:36 AND RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF IT THERE IS RUTH AND BOAZ.
• 06:40 BOAZ WHOSE MOTHER WAS A GENTILE
• 06:42 WAS QUITE OPEN TO MARRYING A GENTILE.
• 06:46 GOD WHO IS NOT PREJUDICE
• 06:48 WAS WAY OPEN TO BRINGING A GENTILE INTO THE FAMILY OF ISRAEL,
• 06:54 INTO THE COMMONWEALTH OF ISRAEL
• 06:55 AND NOT ONLY SO, BUT BRINGING RUTH INTO THE VERY LINEAGE OF JESUS CHRIST.
• 07:01 SHE IS GOING TO BE AN ANCESTOR OF YESHUA HA MASHIACH.
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• 08:41 BOAZ PAID THE FULL PRICE
• 08:43 TO RESTORE THE FAMILY NAME
• 08:45 TO NAOMI AND RUTH.
• 08:46 HE PAID IT ALL
• 08:48 JUST LIKE THE LORD PAID IT ALL FOR YOU AND ME.
• 08:50 HE DIDN'T HOLD ANYTHING BACK
• 08:52 THAT WE WOULD HAVE THE RESTORATION
• 08:54 THAT HE'D INTENDED FOR US FROM THE BEGINNING.
• 08:56 I LOVE THE HEART OF GOD MYLES.
• 08:59 I LOVE HOW HE IS ABLE
• 09:01 TO GIVE US
• 09:02 WHEN WE THINK THERE'S NOTHING LEFT.
• 09:04 I CAN JUST SEE HOW HAPPY NAOMI WAS
• 09:08 THAT SHE WAS SEEING RUTH COME
• 09:11 AND BE ABLE TO HAVE A HOME AGAIN.
• 09:13 THAT WAS HER HEART'S DESIRE
• 09:15 THAT SHE WOULD HAVE A HOME.
• 09:16 BOAZ WANTED TO MAKE SURE
• 09:18 THAT IT WAS BORN WITNESS TO
• 09:19 BY THE ELDERS IN THE GATES
• 09:21 AND SO HE TOLD THEM
• 09:22 TO COME AND TO WITNESS
• 09:24 WHAT WAS HAPPENING.
• 09:25 IN VERSE 11 IN CHAPTER 4 WE READ,
• 09:38 AND IT GOES ON TO SAY...
• 09:39 AND I'LL READ IT IN THE HEBREW,
• 09:40 (SPEAKING HEBREW)
• 09:49 AND THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED.
• 09:50 BOAZ AND RUTH BECAME FAMOUS IN BETHLEHEM
• 09:53 AS THE MOTHER OF OBED
• 09:54 WHO BECOMES AN ANCESTOR TO KING DAVID
• 09:57 WHO BECOMES AN ANCESTOR TO YESHUA HA MASHIACH.
• 10:01 WOW...WHAT A LINEAGE,
• 10:02 WHAT A TESTIMONY.
• 10:03 AND IT'S ALL BECAUSE GOD
• 10:05 IS A GOD OF RESTORATION.
• 10:06 IN 20 YEARS OF COUNSELING
• 10:08 WE'VE SEEN SO MANY FAMILIES RESTORED,
• 10:10 WE'VE SEEN MARRIAGES RESTORED,
• 10:12 AND PARENTS AND CHILDREN COME BACK TO ONE ANOTHER
• 10:15 WHEN THEY ALLOW JESUS TO BE AT THE CENTER OF THEIR LIVES
• 10:18 ONE OF THE MOST PRECIOUS ONES THAT I REMEMBER
• 10:21 WAS WHEN WE WERE IN RUSSIA DOING MARRIAGE SEMINARS
• 10:24 AND WE HAD A CHANCE TO HAVE
• 10:27 A RE-COMMITMENT CEREMONY
• 10:29 TO THE COUPLES THAT WOULD WALK THROUGH THESE CEREMONIES.
• 10:32 AND IT WAS SO PRECIOUS
• 10:33 BECAUSE THEY HAD HEART'S DESIRE
• 10:35 THAT THEY WOULD BE MARRIED UNDER GOD'S CHUPPAH
• 10:38 AND THAT'S LITERALLY WHAT HAPPENED.
• 10:39 WE FELT THE HOLY SPIRIT COME OVER THIS TIME
• 10:43 AND WAS SO PRECIOUS,
• 10:44 IT WAS ALMOST LIKE GOD KISSED EACH AND EVERY ONE OF THEM.
• 10:47 IT'S REALLY TRUE...
• 10:48 THEY HAD BEEN MARRIED UNDER COMMUNISM
• 10:50 AND IT WAS JUST A 'RUBBER STAMP' MARRIAGE.
• 10:51 AND AS THEY BECAME BELIEVERS
• 10:53 THEY WERE SO EXCITED TO SEE GOD COME INTO THEIR FAMILY LIFE
• 10:56 THAT WE HAD A CHANCE TO PARTICIPATE WITH THEM.
• 10:58 AND THAT'S JUST ONE EXAMPLE
• 11:00 OF SO MANY TIMES THAT WE'VE SEEN THESE SITUATIONS
• 11:02 THAT ITS NOT THE COUNSEL OF MAN
• 11:04 BUT IT'S THE RESTORATION OF GOD THAT TAKES PLACE.
• 11:07 I THINK OF THAT COUPLE THAT WAS 25 YEARS ALIENATED FROM ONE ANOTHER
• 11:11 AND HOW GOD BROUGHT THEM BACK TOGETHER INTO INTIMACY.
• 11:14 AND I THINK ABOUT THE WORSHIP LEADER WHO HAD FALLEN
• 11:16 AND GOD RESTORED THEM
• 11:18 AND THEY ARE SERVING IN A COMMUNITY AND LEADING AGAIN...
• 11:22 JUST PHENOMENAL THINGS THAT CAN'T BE DONE BY THE HAND OF MAN,
• 11:25 THE PHILOSOPHIES OF MAN, PSYCHOLOGY...
• 11:27 NONE OF THAT WILL DO IT
• 11:28 BUT A GOD OF RESTORATION...
• 11:30 HE'S THE ONE THAT DOES IT ALL.
• 11:32 RIGHT...HE'S SO GOOD
• 11:33 HE'S SO FAITHFUL
• 11:34 AND I THINK THAT'S THE STORY OF RUTH AND BOAZ
• 11:36 THAT THEY ARE A PICTURE OF THE FULL RESTORATION
• 11:39 THAT'S AVAILABLE TO YOU AND TO ME
• 11:41 BECAUSE OF THE PRICE THAT WAS PAID IN BLOOD BY YESHUA HA MASHIACH.
• 11:46 SOME PEOPLE SPECULATE THAT THE VERY FIELD THAT RUTH GLEANED IN
• 11:49 MAY BE THE ONE THAT THE SHEPHERDS WERE WATCHING WHEN YESHUA WAS BORN IN BETHLEHEM.
• 11:55 SO WE SEE THAT THE CHILD IS BORN IN BETHLEHEM
• 11:58 AND IS PICTURE OF A GREATER CHILD TO COME,
• 12:02 THE ONE OF WHOM IT'S SAID
• 12:03 "UNTO US A SON IS BORN, UNTO US A CHILD IS GIVEN"
• 12:06 AND HE IS JESUS,
• 12:08 HE IS YESHUA,
• 12:09 HE IS THE JEWISH MESSIAH AND THE SAVIOR OF THE WORLD.
• 12:12 AND GOD'S SO AWESOME
• 12:14 THAT HE BRINGS JEWS AND GENTILES
• 12:16 TOGETHER AS ONE NEW MAN IN HIM
• 12:19 BREAKING DOWN THE MIDDLE WALL OF PARTITION
• 12:21 BECAUSE HE'S THE GOD OF RESTORATION
• 12:23 AND HE'S RESTORING ALL THINGS UNTO HIMSELF.
• 12:26 IT'S AN AMAZING STORY AND WE'RE GOING TO SEE A WEDDING TAKE PLACE.
• 12:32 I KNOW YOU'RE EXCITED ABOUT THAT.
• 12:33 WE'RE GOING TO SEE A WEDDING
• 12:35 THAT IS GOING TO BE CELEBRATING
• 12:36 THIS INCREDIBLE LOVE STORY OF RUTH AND BOAZ...
• 12:40 A PICTURE OF BELIEVERS AND THE BRIDEGROOM OF HEAVEN.
• 12:48 ♪WHEN WE'RE THERE, WHEN WE'RE THERE,♪
• 12:50 ♪IN THE LAND OF ZION♪
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• 13:51 I WENT TO A VERY POPULAR SEMINARY FOR 5 YEARS.
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• 15:08 THROUGHOUT THIS WHOLE SHOW...
• 15:10 SASHA AND ANYA
• 15:11 WHO WERE BROUGHT BY GOD
• 15:12 FROM RUSSIA TO ISRAEL
• 15:14 AND HAVE MADE
• 15:15 THIS AMAZING SOUNDTRACK
• 15:16 THAT WE'VE BEEN USING
• 15:17 FOR THIS SERIES.
• 15:18 SO NOW LET'S GO BACK TO OUR STORY...
• 15:20 AND THE MOMENT HAS COME...
• 15:22 WHAT WILL HAPPEN BETWEEN BOAZ, THE OTHER GO'EL AND RUTH?
• 15:26 STAY WITH US.
• 15:30 SO BOAZ TOOK RUTH AS HIS WIFE.
• 16:16 AND THE LORD BLESSED THEM WITH A SON.
• 16:29 YOU KNOW THERE'S ALWAYS
• 16:31 SO MANY SPECIAL TREATS
• 16:32 THAT GOD GIVES US
• 16:33 WHEN WE COME TO THE LAND.
• 16:34 THERE'S THESE TREASURES
• 16:35 THAT HE SAVES FOR PEOPLE
• 16:37 WHEN THEY COME HERE.
• 16:38 AND LAST NIGHT WE SAW THIS WEDDING, THESE TWO LIVES COMING TOGETHER
• 16:42 AND GOD, HIS GLORY SHINING ON...
• 16:44 IT WAS BEAUTIFUL.
• 16:45 IT REALLY WAS...
• 16:46 AND THE GLORY OF THE LORD
• 16:47 IS WHAT'S PICTURED IN THE CHUPPAH.
• 16:48 THEY'RE UNDER THIS CANOPY WHICH IS THE SHEKINAH GLORY,
• 16:51 THE BEAUTY OF THE LORD
• 16:53 AND THE SIDES ARE OPEN
• 16:54 BECAUSE THERE'S ENOUGH GLORY GIVEN TO A COUPLE
• 16:57 TO AFFECT EVERYONE AROUND THEM.
• 16:59 AND YOU COULD SEE THE NEIGHBORS, THE FRIENDS,
• 17:01 EVERYONE THAT WAS THERE BEING AFFECTED
• 17:03 BY THE INCREDIBLE BEAUTY OF THIS WEDDING LAST NIGHT.
• 17:07 AND IT REMINDED ME OF RUTH AND BOAZ
• 17:09 WHICH IS SUCH A MULTI-LEVEL STORY.
• 17:11 ITS JUST AN INCREDIBLE, MULTI-LAYERED STORY THAT HAS TO DO WITH COVENANT LOVE...
• 17:15 ROMANTIC LOVE...
• 17:17 FRIENDSHIP LOVE...
• 17:19 IT REALLY COVERS THE ENTIRE GAMUT OF THE STYLES OF LOVE THAT ARE EXISTING IN THE WORLD TODAY.
• 17:24 AND THIS BOOK IS REALLY A WORK OF ART.
• 17:28 IT'S REALLY A PIECE OF LITERATURE
• 17:29 THAT IS RENOWN FOR ITS POWER, FOR ITS ELEGANCE.
• 17:33 IT'S KNOWN IN THE SECULAR WORLD
• 17:35 AS WELL AS IN THE RELIGIOUS WORLD
• 17:36 AS A MAJOR MASTER PIECE OF WORK...
• 17:39 IT'S JUST SO ELEGANTLY LAID OUT.
• 17:41 AND I WAS THINKING ABOUT HOW RUTH AND BOAZ
• 17:44 WHEN THEY COME TOGETHER THERE IN THIS LAST SECTION
• 17:48 IN THIS LAST FEW VERSES OF THE BOOK
• 17:50 HOW IT SPEAKS ABOUT BOAZ BRINGING RUTH TO HIMSELF,
• 17:55 MARRYING HER,
• 17:57 TAKING HER TO HIMSELF...
• 17:58 THERE'S INTIMACY WORDS IN THERE IN THE HEBREW.
• 18:01 AND IT REALLY SHOWS THAT THEY ARE DEVELOPING SOMETHING
• 18:04 THAT WE WORKED ON FOREVER WITH OUR OWN MARRIAGE
• 18:07 AND WITH MANY OTHERS
• 18:08 WHERE WE TRY TO HELP PEOPLE TO GROW TOWARDS EACH OTHER,
• 18:11 TO GROW IN THEIR ABILITY TO RECOGNIZE THE COVENANT LOVE OF GOD
• 18:16 AND RECOGNIZE THE IMPORTANCE OF COMMUNICATION
• 18:19 AND TO BE ABLE TO CONNECT AND BE INTIMATE WITH EACH OTHER
• 18:21 AND TO RECOGNIZE ALSO COMMUNION,
• 18:24 OR THE SPIRITUAL ASPECT OF HAVING A REAL MARRIAGE.
• 18:27 AND I WAS THINKING ABOUT ON THE MULTI-LAYERED ASPECT
• 18:30 HOW THIS LAND IS AN EXAMPLE OF THAT MULTI-LAYERED LOVE COVENANT
• 18:36 THAT GOD HAS PUT IN THE WORLD.
• 18:39 THIS VERY PLACE...
• 18:41 THE FACT THAT WE EXIST HERE TODAY...
• 18:44 THAT THERE ARE BELIEVERS HERE...
• 18:46 THAT PEOPLE ARE HERE "AM YISRAEL CHAI", THEY SAY, "THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL LIVE'.
• 18:49 I WAS THINKING ABOUT EZEKIEL 36
• 18:53 AND THE PROMISES THAT GOD GIVES TO THE JEWISH PEOPLE.
• 18:57 HE SAYS IN VERSE 23 THAT,
• 19:14 IT REMINDED ME OF AMOS 9:15 THAT SAYS THAT
• 19:17 "GOD WILL BRING US BACK INTO THIS LAND"
• 19:20 "NEVER TO BE TAKEN OUT AGAIN."
• 19:22 AND THAT'S WHAT'S GOING ON TODAY
• 19:23 WHETHER IT'S MY MODERN ORTHODOX FRIENDS UP IN SAMARIA, THE HEART OF ISRAEL,
• 19:27 OR THE BELIEVERS RIGHT HERE IN JERUSALEM IN THE SURROUNDING AREAS.
• 19:31 I THINK ESPECIALLY ABOUT THE MESSIANIC REMNANT,
• 19:33 THE BELIEVING COMMUNITY HERE.
• 19:35 FOR US, WE MADE IT A LIFE'S BLESSING
• 19:40 TO BE ABLE TO BE FRIENDS WITH AND CONNECT THE BODY IN THE WEST WITH THE BODY HERE IN THE LAND.
• 19:46 AND IT'S SUCH A PRECIOUS THING TO SEE,
• 19:48 TO HEAR FROM BELIEVERS IN THE LAND
• 19:51 THE REVELATION THAT THEY HAVE IN THE WORD...
• 19:53 THE STRENGTH, AND THE MAJESTY THAT'S DISPLAYED OF THE LORD
• 19:58 THROUGH THEIR COMMITMENT TO THIS LAND, TO THIS PEOPLE
• 20:01 TO SEE AS MANY OF OUR JEWISH PEOPLE AS POSSIBLE COME TO KNOW OUR MESSIAH.
• 20:05 IT'S JUST VERY, VERY THRILLING TO BE HERE,
• 20:08 TO BE ABLE TO SEE THAT GOD MADE GOOD ON HIS PROMISE.
• 20:11 HE SAID HE WOULD BRING US BACK IN WHATEVER CONDITION WE WERE IN
• 20:14 AND THEN HE WOULD SPRINKLE CLEAN WATER UPON US.
• 20:17 AND THAT'S WHAT'S GOING ON TODAY.
• 20:19 GOD IS WATERING THE SOULS OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE
• 20:22 IN THE MIDST OF ALL THE TROUBLES IN THE WORLD,
• 20:24 IN THE MIDST OF ALL THE BAD PRESS AGAINST ISRAEL...
• 20:26 GOD IS AT WORK,
• 20:27 HE IS WATERING OUR SOULS,
• 20:29 AND HE'S GOING TO BRING US INTO REVELATION OF WHO OUR MESSIAH IS IN THE DAYS AHEAD.
• 21:02 ♪ KADOSH, KADOSH, KADOSH♪
• 21:09 ♪ ADONAI TZEVA'OT♪
• 21:12 ♪ MELO KOL HA'ARETZ K'VODO♪
• 21:22 ♪ KADOSH, KADOSH, KADOSH♪
• 21:28 ♪ ADONAI ELOHIM♪
• 21:32 ♪ EL ELYON, MELECH HAM'LACHIM♪
• 21:41 ♪ LACHEN NODEH VENARIA♪
• 21:51 ♪ NISHTACHAVEH LE FANEICHA♪
• 22:01 ♪ NEROMEM ET SHEM,♪
• 22:05 ♪ ET SHEM YESHUA♪
• 22:15 ♪ YESHUA...♪
• 22:19 ♪ YESHUA♪
• 22:24 ♪ KADOSH, KADOSH ATA♪
• 22:36 THANK YOU SASHA AND ANYA FOR THAT BEAUTIFUL MUSIC.
• 22:39 WHAT A BLESSING TO HAVE.
• 22:41 YOU KNOW MANY PEOPLE HAVE WONDERED
• 22:43 WHAT IS THE MEANING BEHIND THE WEDDING CHUPPAH
• 22:46 AND MYLES MENTIONED IT EARLIER
• 22:47 BUT WE'RE GOING TO LEARN A LITTLE BIT MORE FROM ARIE IN THE LAND.
• 22:54 ALMOST IN EVERY JEWISH MARRIAGE
• 22:57 YOU'LL FIND THE COUPLE STANDING UNDER A CHUPPAH.
• 23:01 WHAT IS A CHUPPAH?
• 23:02 ACTUALLY IT'S A COVERING.
• 23:04 LOOK HERE...SO BEAUTIFUL STANDING UNDER IT.
• 23:08 BUT THIS ELEMENT "TO COVER" THE COUPLE IS A BIBLICAL ELEMENT.
• 23:14 GOD SAYS IN ISAIAH CHAPTER 4 THAT IN THE DAY OF THE NEW ZION, THE NEW TEMPLE,
• 23:24 I WILL BE A CHUPPAH...
• 23:26 THIS IS THE WORD THAT GOD IS USING OVER JERUSALEM.
• 23:30 WE FIND THIS ELEMENT IN PSALMS CHAPTER 19
• 23:34 THAT THE SUN IS GETTING OUT EARLY FROM ITS CHUPPAH...
• 23:39 FROM THE COVERING.
• 23:41 WE FIND THIS ELEMENT EVEN IN NOAH,
• 23:44 THE BOW ARC,
• 23:46 WHEN GOD GAVE THE BOW ARC
• 23:48 IT WAS LIKE A CHUPPAH,
• 23:49 LIKE A COVERING,
• 23:51 A COVENANT OF COVERING OF PROTECTION.
• 23:54 AND IT'S SO BEAUTIFUL TO IMAGINE THAT ALSO,
• 23:59 WE'RE NOT SURE BUT BOAZ AND RUTH WERE STANDING UNDER THE CHUPPAH.
• 24:06 A CHUPPAH IS PROMISING...
• 24:08 ITS PROMISING OF GOD THAT ONCE YOU GO MY WAY I WILL COVER YOU,
• 24:13 I WILL BE OVER YOU,
• 24:15 I WILL BE A REAL PROTECTION FOR YOU TO THE REST OF YOUR LIFE.
• 24:23 I WAS STUDYING IN THE SCRIPTURE ABOUT THIS RUTH AND NAOMI
• 24:27 AND I WAS WONDERING WHY NAOMI WASN'T THE ONE THAT WAS CHOSEN TO BE MARRIED TO BOAZ.
• 24:32 WHY DID RUTH GET THE OPPORTUNITY MYLES?
• 24:34 IT'S A GREAT QUESTION.
• 24:35 AND IT IS A MYSTERY AT FIRST
• 24:37 BUT ONE PRACTICAL REASON IS NAOMI WAS PAST CHILDBEARING YEARS
• 24:41 AND SHE EVEN TOLD US THAT EARLIER IN THE STORY.
• 24:43 AND SO IT HAD TO BE RUTH
• 24:45 BECAUSE GOD WAS BREAKING SO MANY BARRIERS
• 24:47 BY THIS INCREDIBLE SEQUENCE OF EVENTS
• 24:50 TO BRING GRACE FORWARD AND OVERCOME THE SCRIPTURES OF THE LAW,
• 24:54 NOT BECAUSE HE'S DOING AWAY WITH THE LAW,
• 24:56 HE FULFILLED THE LAW,
• 24:57 BUT BECAUSE PEOPLE ARE TRYING TO OBEY THE LAW
• 25:00 AND YET GRACE WAS WHAT KNIT RUTH INTO THE LINEAGE OF ISRAEL,
• 25:04 THE LINEAGE OF MESSIAH.
• 25:05 THAT'S REALLY WHAT THIS IS ABOUT...
• 25:07 THE STORY IS ABOUT REDEMPTION.
• 25:09 REDEMPTION ALWAYS CONTAINS FRUITFULNESS...
• 25:11 IT HAS TO DO WITH FRUITFULNESS
• 25:13 WHETHER ITS BEARING CHILDREN,
• 25:14 SPIRITUAL CHILDREN,
• 25:15 SEEING SOULS COME TO GOD...
• 25:17 WHETHER ITS FRUITFULNESS IN OUR OWN LIVES,
• 25:19 THE WORK OF CHARACTER IN OUR LIVES,
• 25:21 IT'S ALWAYS RELATED TO THAT KIND OF PURPOSE IN THE LORD.
• 25:24 AND SO RUTH IN THAT STORY
• 25:27 GOD OVERCOMES SO MANY PREJUDICES...
• 25:30 A MOABITESS WHO COULDN'T HAVE BEEN PART OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF ISRAEL
• 25:33 IS PART OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF ISRAEL...
• 25:35 SOMEONE WHO IS OUTSIDE THE BLESSING IS BROUGHT INTO THE BLESSING...
• 25:38 A PICTURE OF THE BRIDE,
• 25:40 THE GENTILE BRIDE OF THE NATIONS
• 25:42 COMING INTO A RELATIONSHIP
• 25:44 WITH THE GOD OF ABRAHAM, ISAAC AND JACOB
• 25:47 WITH THE GOD OF ISRAEL,
• 25:49 WITH THE MASHIACH,
• 25:50 WITH THE MESSIAH OF ISRAEL.
• 25:52 ONLY GOD COULD DO THAT.
• 25:53 THERE'S NO WAY THAT IT COULD HAVE HAPPENED IN THE NATURAL...
• 25:55 THERE'S NO WAY FOR THAT TO UNFOLD OTHER THAN THE WAY GOD DID IT...
• 25:58 BY GRACE TRIUMPHING.
• 26:00 SO THIS STORY REALLY TELLS THAT AND VERY CLEARLY.
• 26:03 AND RUTH REALLY IS IN THE MIDDLE OF THE BOOK IN A WAY,
• 26:07 BETWEEN THE BEGINNING WHEN JOSHUA TOOK THE LAND;
• 26:11 LOOKING THROUGH THE LINEAGE THAT COMES THROUGH DAVID
• 26:14 TO YESHUA WHO WILL COME BACK AND TAKE THE ENTIRE LAND.
• 26:17 JUST AS JOSHUA TOOK THE PROMISED LAND,
• 26:19 JESUS IS GOING TO COME BACK AND TAKE THE WHOLE EARTH
• 26:22 BECAUSE IT'S HIS.
• 26:23 HE IS OUR BOAZ;
• 26:24 HE IS THE ONE WHO IS ABLE TO TAKE THE EARTH TO HIMSELF.
• 26:29 HE IS THE ONE WHO SANCTIFIES, WHO CHANGES, WHO TRANSFORMS AND WHO BRINGS A NEW LIFE.
• 26:36 WELL THAT'S IT FOR OUR SHOW TODAY.
• 26:38 THANK YOU FOR BEING WITH US
• 26:39 AND WE WANT TO SAY AS ALWAYS,
• 26:41 SHA'ALU SHALOM YERUSHALAYIM
• 26:43 PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM