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

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