Caption transcript for The Holy Days of Our Lord (2012): “Passover” (2/11)

• 00:02 IT IS WRITTEN IN THE SCRIPTURES THAT WE SHOULD JOURNEY TO JERUSALEM THREE TIMES A YEAR.
• 00:07 WE ARE GOING UP TO THE CITY OF GOD...
• 00:10 TO JERUSALEM TO CELEBRATE.
• 00:17 THE LORD TOLD THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL TO HONOR SEVEN HOLY CELEBRATIONS EACH YEAR
• 00:22 INVOLVING THREE JOURNEYS TO JERUSALEM.
• 00:25 EACH FESTIVAL WOULD BE UNIQUELY FULFILLED IN THE COMING OF THE MESSIAH.
• 00:44 SHALOM AND WELCOME TO
• 00:45 ZOLA LEVITT PRESENTS.
• 00:47 I'M MYLES AND THIS
• 00:48 IS MY WIFE KATHARINE
• 00:49 AND WE ARE DELIGHTED TODAY
• 00:50 TO BRING YOU "PASSOVER"
• 00:52 WHICH ZOLA CALLS "THE CROWN JEWEL OF THE FEASTS OF THE LORD".
• 00:55 THIS IS SOME OF THE ELEMENTS THAT YOU'LL SEE IN THE PASSOVER AND REALLY THE COMMUNION...
• 01:00 THE CHRISTIAN COMMUNION... COMES FROM THE PASSOVER DOESN'T IT?
• 01:03 IT COMES FROM THE PASSOVER
• 01:04 AND ITS PART OF OUR LIFE AS CHRISTIANS.
• 01:06 PASSOVER IS THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB;
• 01:09 IT'S THE SALVATION;
• 01:10 IT'S THE ATONEMENT;
• 01:12 IT'S EVERYTHING.
• 01:14 THE PRAYERS THAT I PRAY THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB WOULD COVER US AND THE DEATH ANGEL WOULD FLY AWAY OVER US MYLES.
• 01:20 EXACTLY, IT'S THE KEY TO ETERNAL LIFE PICTURED IN THE PASSOVER.
• 01:23 SO WE TEACH THIS IN ORDER TO UNDERSTAND THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB
• 01:27 AND UNDERSTAND THE POWER OF THE RESURRECTION OF YESHUA.
• 01:30 AND SO NOW LET'S JOIN ZOLA ON LOCATION AS HE TEACHES US ABOUT PASSOVER.
• 01:39 SPEAK TO ALL THE CONGREGATION OF ISRAEL,
• 01:42 "EVERY HOUSEHOLD SHALL TAKE AN UNBLEMISHED MALE LAMB
• 01:45 AND KILL IT ON THE 14TH DAY OF THE MONTH AT TWILIGHT.
• 01:49 TAKE SOME OF THE BLOOD AND PUT IT ON THE TWO DOORPOSTS
• 01:53 AND ON THE LINTEL OF THE HOUSE WHERE YOU EAT IT.
• 01:55 WITH A BELT ON YOUR WASTE,
• 01:58 YOUR SANDALS ON YOUR FEET
• 02:00 AND YOU STAFF IN YOUR HAND
• 02:02 SO YOU SHALL EAT IT IN HASTE.
• 02:04 IT IS THE LORD'S PASSOVER."
• 02:07 SHALOM...HELLO AGAIN!
• 02:08 ON THIS PROGRAM "PASSOVER"
• 02:10 THE CROWN JEWEL OF THE JEWISH FEASTS,
• 02:12 THE FIRST ONE,
• 02:13 THE OLDEST FESTIVAL OF ANY NATION ANYWHERE.
• 02:16 SINCE IT'S THE FIRST OF THE SEVEN BIBLICAL FEASTS GOD GAVE MOSES FROM MOUNT SINAI
• 02:21 AND SINCE THAT WAS 3500 YEARS AGO
• 02:23 AND SINCE THE JEWISH NATION IS THE ONLY ONE
• 02:26 WORSHIPPING THE SAME GOD,
• 02:27 SPEAKING THE SAME LANGUAGE,
• 02:29 SINGING THE SAME SONGS,
• 02:30 PRAYING THE SAME PRAYERS AS THEY WERE 3500 YEARS AGO.
• 02:33 AND THIS IS THE OLDEST FESTIVAL IN THE WORLD AND IT HAS NO COMPETITOR.
• 02:38 I SAID IN THE PREVIOUS PROGRAM IF WE GO BACK TO WHAT WE CALL THE "ANCIENT ROMAN EMPIRE"
• 02:45 THAT'S HALF-WAY BACK TO THE FIRST PASSOVER.
• 02:47 THE NIGHT THEY PUT THE BLOOD ON THEIR DOORPOSTS IN THEIR HOMES IN EGYPT...
• 02:51 THEY COOKED THAT UNLEAVENED BREAD AS FAST AS THEY COULD
• 02:54 AND THEY WERE OUT OF THERE...
• 02:55 2 OR 3 MILLION PEOPLE IN ONE NIGHT...
• 02:58 DELIVERANCE FROM BONDAGE.
• 03:00 PASSOVER HAPPENED ONCE AND THE PEOPLE WERE DELIVERED.
• 03:04 IT'S LIKE SALVATION THAT HAPPENS ONCE
• 03:07 AND YOU'RE TOTALLY DELIVERED FROM SIN, FROM BONDAGE, FROM SLAVERY.
• 03:11 BOTH ARE BY THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB.
• 03:13 IT'S VERY INTERESTING WHICHEVER TESTAMENT I READ, THE OLD TESTAMENT OR THE NEW;
• 03:18 I COULD SAY I WAS DELIVERED FROM BONDAGE BY THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB.
• 03:21 THE BOOK OF EXODUS TELLS THE WHOLE STORY.
• 03:24 IN EXODUS 12 IT SAYS,
• 04:04 SO THIS VERY IMPORTANT FEAST THAT'S CELEBRATED...
• 04:06 THIS INCREDIBLE MIRACLE IS TO GO ON AND ON.
• 04:10 THEY WENT INTO THE SEA AND IT CANCELLED THE OWNERSHIP OF THE EGYPTIANS OVER THEM.
• 04:16 IN OTHER WORDS, THEY WERE SLAVES, THEY WENT ON DRY LAND,
• 04:19 THE EGYPTIAN ARMIES WENT INTO THE SEA, THE WATER COVERED THEM
• 04:22 AND THAT CANCELLED THEIR OWNERSHIP
• 04:24 IN THE SAME WAY AS BAPTISM CANCELS THE OWNERSHIP OF SIN OVER YOU.
• 04:29 YOU KNOW YOU'RE BURIED IN BAPTISM WITH CHRIST BUT RAISED TO WALK IN THE NEWNESS OF LIFE
• 04:35 AND SIN'S POWER OVER YOU JUST DOES NOT HAVE THE SAME HOLD FROM THERE ON.
• 04:39 PASSOVER IS THE FIRST RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN GOD AND THE JEWISH NATION.
• 04:44 WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT IT, BEFORE THIS NIGHT OF THE EXODUS,
• 04:48 GOD ALWAYS DWELT WITH ONE PERSON AT A TIME IN EFFECT.
• 04:52 HE DEALT WITH ABRAHAM... WELL HE DEALT WITH ADAM, HE DEALT WITH NOAH.
• 04:56 BUT HE DEALT WITH ABRAHAM, ISAAC AND JACOB AND JOSEPH.
• 04:58 JOSEPH IS A BEAUTIFUL SYMBOL OF THE LIFE OF THE MESSIAH HIMSELF
• 05:04 REJECTED BY HIS OWN BROTHERS, THE JEWS, HE BECOMES A RULER AMONG THE GENTILES
• 05:09 AND THEN IN THE END HIS BROTHERS COME BACK TO HIM AND THEY ARE RECONCILED.
• 05:13 SO THE LIFE OF CHRIST IS REFLECTED IN JOSEPH'S LIFE.
• 05:16 BUT UP TO THERE, GOD STILL DEALT WITH ONE PERSON AT A TIME,
• 05:20 EVEN TO MOSES, DEALING, TALKING TO HIM ALONE,
• 05:23 BUT ON PASSOVER NIGHT AS WE JUST READ, HE TALKS TO THE WHOLE NATION.
• 05:27 PUT THAT BLOOD ON YOUR DOORPOST
• 05:29 THAT ANGEL WILL PASS OVER YOU
• 05:31 AND HE WON'T SLAY YOUR FIRSTBORN.
• 05:33 AND THAT ESTABLISHED THE PASSOVER.
• 05:35 WELL THEY TELL THE STORY IN THE FESTIVAL EVERY YEAR,
• 05:38 BUT THE HISTORY OF THE THING IS GIVEN IN SPECIAL FOODS.
• 05:42 THEY HELP US WITH SPIRITUAL REMINDERS.
• 05:45 WE EAT UNLEAVENED BREAD,
• 05:46 WE DO THE BITTER HERBS,
• 05:48 WE TAKE UP SOME WINE AND SO FORTH.
• 05:50 IT'S A FAMILY HOLIDAY CELEBRATED AT HOME
• 05:54 AND EVERYBODY WILL GET TO THE SYNAGOGUE FOR SAY...YOM KIPPUR, FOR ROSH HASHANAH,
• 06:00 BUT AT PASSOVER THEY GATHER AROUND THE FAMILY TABLE AT HOME.
• 06:04 AND THAT'S WHERE IT'S HELD.
• 06:06 THE SMALLEST CHILD
• 06:07 WHO CAN CHANT FOUR QUESTIONS ASKS THE FATHER FOUR QUESTIONS.
• 06:12 EVERY CHILD DID THIS, BOY OR GIRL, IN HIS TURN WHEN EVERYBODY WAS ONCE THE YOUNGEST CHILD.
• 06:17 I CAN REMEMBER NERVOUSLY GETTING READY.
• 06:20 THEY TAUGHT IT TO ME IN HEBREW SCHOOL.
• 06:22 I MUST HAVE BEEN SIX, SEVEN... I DON'T KNOW.
• 06:24 AND THE I INTONED THE FAMOUS QUESTION...
• 06:27 (singing in Hebrew)
• 06:32 "HOW IS THIS NIGHT DIFFERENT FROM ALL OTHER NIGHTS?"
• 06:35 AND OF COURSE IT'S DIFFERENT FROM ALL OTHER NIGHTS
• 06:37 AND THIS NIGHT A HUGE NATION WAS EMANCIPATED IN A SINGLE NIGHT.
• 06:42 WELL THERE'S THE FOURTH CUP FOR THE PROPHET ELIJAH TO COME ANNOUNCE THE MESSIAH
• 06:47 AND THE LITTLE CHILD GOES TO THE DOOR.
• 06:49 IN MY HOUSE I WENT OUTSIDE THE DOOR,
• 06:51 DOWN THE STREET, TO THE CORNER
• 06:52 CAUSE THE GENTILES LIVED BETWEEN ME AND THE CORNER
• 06:55 AND I DIDN'T WANT THE MESSIAH TO OVERLOOK US IN CASE HE CAME TO OUR STREET.
• 06:59 AND IN OTHER HOUSES THEY JUST OPENED THE DOOR,
• 07:01 BUT ANYHOW THEY'RE EXPECTING ELIJAH.
• 07:03 SOME PLACES SET A CUP OF WINE.
• 07:05 WELL A CUP OF WINE IS REQUIRED FOR HIM
• 07:07 BUT WE SET A TABLE, SILVERWARE, COFFEE, NAPKINS,
• 07:11 WE EXPECTED ELIJAH TO SIT DOWN AND TAKE A BREAK AT OUR HOUSE.
• 07:15 HE NEVER CAME.
• 07:16 AND I KNOW WHY NOW.
• 07:17 WE'LL EXPECT ELIJAH AT THE SECOND COMING.
• 07:20 HE'S BEEN PROMISED.
• 07:22 BUT IN ANY CASE THE HAGGADAH, THE BOOK OF PASSOVER, GOES ON TELLING THE STORY
• 07:26 AND WE EAT SPECIAL FOODS OF BITTER HERBS TO REMEMBER THE BITTERNESS OF SLAVERY.
• 07:31 WE DIP THE PARSLEY IN SALT WATER TO REMEMBER THE IN AND OUT OF THE SEA.
• 07:35 PIECES OF THE STORY ARE GIVEN AS WE TAKE THE FOODS.
• 07:40 THAT HAGGADAH HAS COME OUT AND IT'S A BEST SELLER.
• 07:43 IT CAME OUT ORIGINALLY DURING THE EXODUS
• 07:46 AND THERE'S BEEN NEW EDITIONS EVERY YEAR FOR MORE THAN 3,000 YEARS...
• 07:49 EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM ENDING WITH THE PRAYER,
• 07:52 "L'SHANAH HA'BA' AH B'YERUSHALAYIM",
• 07:55 "NEXT YEAR IN JERUSALEM".
• 07:57 WE ARE THE ONLY PEOPLE WHO PRAY "NEXT YEAR IN JERUSALEM".
• 08:01 THE MUSLIM DOESN'T PRAY THAT,
• 08:03 THE CHRISTIAN DOESN'T PRAY THAT.
• 08:04 BUT TO THE JEWS, JERUSALEM IS ABSOLUTELY PRECIOUS.
• 08:08 I WANT TO REPEAT THAT AT SUCH A TIME AS SOME PEOPLE ARE DISCUSSING
• 08:11 SPLITTING THE THING UP BETWEEN THE JEWS AND THE MUSLIMS AND SO ON.
• 08:14 THE CHRISTIAN POPE COMES AND ENCOURAGES THAT SORT OF THING.
• 08:17 THIS CITY IS IN THE JEWISH HEART AND ALWAYS HAS BEEN.
• 08:22 AT THE TABLE, BIBLICALLY, WE HAVE THE UNLEAVENED BREAD,
• 08:26 THE LAMB, THE BITTER HERBS AND THE WINE.
• 08:31 THESE THINGS ARE BIBLICAL.
• 08:32 THE OTHER THINGS HAVE BEEN ADDED OVER THE YEARS BY TRADITION, BY RABBIS,
• 08:37 BUT THOSE THINGS ARE PURELY BIBLICAL.
• 08:39 WE TAKE FOUR CUPS OF THE WINE.
• 08:41 THEY ILLUSTRATE FOUR PROMISES.
• 08:44 IN EXODUS 6 GOD SAYS THIS,
• 08:48 VERSE 6,
• 09:11 SO THERE'S FOUR PROMISES GIVEN IN SCRIPTURE
• 09:13 AND WE DRINK THE FOUR CUPS OF WINE.
• 09:15 THE LAST ONE, ELIJAH'S CUP,
• 09:17 PROMISES THE RETURN OF THE MESSIAH.
• 09:20 MALACHI 4:5 SAYS,
• 09:26 WE UNDERSTAND THE GREAT AND DREADFUL DAY OF THE LORD TO MEAN THE SECOND COMING.
• 09:31 BUT IF YOU HAVEN'T BELIEVED IN YESHUAH - JESUS AS THE MESSIAH
• 09:37 THEN YOU'RE STILL LOOKING FOR THE MESSIAH'S FIRST COMING.
• 09:39 IN ANY CASE, YOU'RE LOOKING FOR ELIJAH.
• 09:42 THE JEWS LOOK OUTSIDE FOR HIM
• 09:44 AND CHRISTIAN PEOPLE AWAIT THE SECOND THE COMING WHEN THEY WILL SEE ELIJAH.
• 09:48 SOME SAY HE'S ONE OF THE TWO WITNESSES.
• 09:50 THAT'S QUITE POSSIBLE.
• 09:52 HE WAS TRANSLATED IN THE OLD TESTAMENT
• 09:53 AND MAY HAVE ANOTHER TASK TO DO IN HIS MINISTRY.
• 09:56 HE IS NOT DEAD, HE IS ALIVE SOMEWHERE.
• 09:59 THE JEWS TAKE A BAG OF MATZATOSH,
• 10:01 IT HAS THREE COMPARTMENTS
• 10:03 AND THEY TAKE THREE PIECES OF THE UNLEAVENED BREAD AND PLACE THEM IN A STACK IN THAT BAG.
• 10:08 SOME TEACH IN JUDAISM THAT THE THREE PIECES OF MATZAH REPRESENT THE THREE PATRIARCHS.
• 10:14 OTHERS TEACH THEY REPRESENT THE HIGH PRIEST,
• 10:17 THE ORDINARY LEVITICAL PRIEST,
• 10:19 AND THEN THE CONGREGATION OF THE PEOPLE.
• 10:21 BUT I THINK THEY TEACH THE FATHER, THE SON AND THE HOLY SPIRIT
• 10:25 BECAUSE WE TAKE OUT THE MIDDLE PIECE, THE SON,
• 10:28 WE BREAK IT, WE WRAP IT, WE BURY IT, HIDE IT AWAY
• 10:32 AND BRING IT FORTH AGAIN AT THE THIRD CUP.
• 10:35 IT'S CALLED THE "AFIKOMEN";
• 10:37 IT'S THE HEART OF PASSOVER AND THE MOST MAGNIFICENT MOMENT.
• 10:41 WELL THERE'S A FULL FESTIVAL DAY AT THE END AND IT IS A REMINDER THAT WE CROSSED THAT RED SEA.
• 10:49 YOU KNOW THE HASSIDS ACTUALLY POUR WATER ON THE FLOOR
• 10:52 AND THEY SING AND DANCE TO COMMEMORATE THE IDEA
• 10:55 THAT WE COULD ENTER A GREAT OCEAN LIKE THAT.
• 10:58 IT REALLY IS QUITE A DISTANCE ACROSS THE RED SEA IF YOU LOOK ON ANY MAP.
• 11:03 AND THEY WOULD SURVIVE THAT CROSSING AND BE SAFE FROM SLAVERY FOREVER.
• 11:26 ♪SHA'A'LU SHALOM YERUSHALAYIM♪
• 11:29 ♪SHA'A'LU, SHA'A'LU SHALOM♪
• 11:33 ♪IN THE HOLY CITY OF JERUSALEM♪
• 11:40 ♪WE WILL PRAY FOR PEACE♪
• 11:43 ♪SHA'A'LU SHALOM♪
• 11:54 THAT'S ISRAEL
• 11:55 AND WE WOULD LOVE
• 11:56 TO TAKE YOU THERE,
• 11:57 THE LAND WHERE
• 11:58 THE BIBLE COMES ALIVE.
• 12:00 IT IS THE BEST,
• 12:01 THERE'S NOTHING LIKE IT.
• 12:02 SO NOW WE'RE GOING TO GO BACK
• 12:04 AND HEAR SOME MORE FROM ZOLA.
• 12:08 WELL THERE'S A NEW PROBLEM WITH OUR TOURS
• 12:11 AND IT HAS TO DO WITH BETHLEHEM WHERE OUR LORD WAS BORN,
• 12:14 WHERE WE FIRST SAW THE LAMB.
• 12:16 AND THAT IS OF COURSE THAT IT WAS GIVEN OVER TO ARAFAT AND THE MUSLIMS A FEW YEARS AGO
• 12:22 AND THE CHRISTIANS HAVE BEEN MOVING OUT OF THE CITY AND YOU SURE CAN'T BLAME THEM.
• 12:26 THE MUSLIMS ARE NOT FRIENDLY TO THEM TO SAY THE LEAST.
• 12:29 AND SO IT'S NOT AS NICE A TOUR SITE AS IT ONCE WAS
• 12:33 AND YET I THOUGHT ABOUT IT,
• 12:36 YOU KNOW THEY HAVE THE MANAGER SCENE THERE
• 12:38 IN THE CHURCH OF THE NATIVITY IN THE CENTER OF TOWN
• 12:42 BUT THE LORD WASN'T BORN IN THE CENTER OF TOWN.
• 12:44 THERE WERE ANIMALS IN ATTENDANCE AND SO ON,
• 12:47 SHEPHERDS AND SO FORTH,
• 12:49 THEY DON'T HANG AROUND THE CENTER OF TOWN.
• 12:51 THERE'S A ROAD INTO BETHLEHEM
• 12:52 THAT GOES THROUGH THE SURROUNDING HILLS
• 12:54 WHERE YOU COULD SEE THE CITY FROM AFAR OFF
• 12:57 AND I'M SURE AS MARY AND JOSEPH PASSED THAT THEY LOOKED AT THE CITY
• 13:03 AND THE FARMERS TOLD THEM THERE'S NOT POINT YOU GOING IN THERE.
• 13:06 YOU CAN'T FIND A PLACE FOR YOUR WIFE.
• 13:07 IF SHE'S ABOUT TO GIVE BIRTH
• 13:09 MAKE YOURSELF COMFORTABLE THERE IN THE CAVE WITH THE ANIMALS AS YOU CAN
• 13:13 AND WE'LL ATTEND TO YOU AND SO ON.
• 13:15 THAT PROBABLY IS WHAT HAPPENED.
• 13:17 AND SO WE TAKE OUR TOURS TO THE SHEPHERD'S FIELDS.
• 13:20 BUT THEREBY HANGS A TALE.
• 13:22 THOSE SHEPHERDS PROVIDED THE LAMBS FOR THE SACRIFICES AT THE TEMPLE.
• 13:27 THEY INSPECTED EACH LAMB TO MAKE SURE IT WAS WITHOUT BLEMISH.
• 13:30 IT COULDN'T BE SOLD TO SOMEONE WHO WANTED TO SACRIFICE IT IF IT HAD SOME FLAW
• 13:34 SO THEY LOOKED AT EACH LAMB VERY CAREFULLY.
• 13:37 AND IT IS SO REASONABLE THAT THEY WOULD BE THE FIRST ONES TO SEE THE LAMB OF GOD.
• 13:41 THAT IS ANOTHER REASON WHY THE LORD WAS BORN IN BETHLEHEM
• 13:45 AMONG ALL THE OTHER GOOD REASONS
• 13:47 AND ACCORDING TO THE PROPHECY OF THE BOOK OF MICAH.
• 13:52 WELL WHEN WE WENT THE LAST TIME
• 13:54 NOT ONLY DID DONKEYS WALK UP AND SO ON AS WE STOOD OUT IN THOSE SHEPHERD'S FIELDS
• 13:58 BUT WE SAW A SHEPHERD BRINGING A FLOCK OF LAMBS
• 14:02 AND CARRYING IN HIS ARMS A BABY LAMB SO NEWLY BORN
• 14:06 THAT THE UMBILICAL CORD WAS STILL THERE.
• 14:08 AND HE COULDN'T WALK TO KEEP UP WITH THE FLOCK
• 14:11 SO THE SHEPHERD CARRIED HIM.
• 14:13 OUR PEOPLE WERE VERY BLESSED TO SEE THAT GOOD SHEPHERD CARRYING THAT LAMB.
• 14:16 WHEN THE LORD APPROACHED JOHN FOR HIS BAPTISM
• 14:20 JOHN COULD HAVE SAID ANY NUMBER OF THINGS
• 14:23 "BEHOLD THE SON OF GOD, KING OF KINGS, LORD OF LORDS."
• 14:25 HE SAID,
• 14:27 "BEHOLD THE LAMB OF GOD WHO TAKETH AWAY THE SINS OF THE WORLD."
• 14:31 THAT'S A TREMENDOUS STATEMENT.
• 14:34 IT WAS ONLY ISRAEL THAT WAS UNDER THE LAW.
• 14:35 YOU'D THOUGHT HE WOULD SAY
• 14:37 "WHO TAKES AWAY THE SINS OF ISRAEL"
• 14:38 BUT AS THE SPIRIT GAVE HIM UTTERANCE HE PROPHESIED
• 14:41 AND HERE WAS THE LAMB THAT WAS SO POWERFUL A SACRIFICE OF GOD
• 14:46 IT WOULD FORGIVE THE SINS OF THE WHOLE WORLD.
• 14:48 AND SO THE RELIGIOUS PEOPLE HAVE ALWAYS UNDERSTOOD THE IDEA OF THE LAMB OF GOD,
• 14:53 THE SACRIFICE OF GOD TO DELIVER PEOPLE FROM SIN,
• 14:57 JUST AS HE DELIVERED PEOPLE IN THE EXODUS.
• 15:00 JESUS CAME TO BETHANY TO CELEBRATE THE PASSOVER IN THAT LAST FATAL WEEK
• 15:07 AND I THINK YOU KNOW THE EVENTS.
• 15:09 HE WAS WELCOMED AS KING,
• 15:10 PEOPLE WERE JEALOUS AND TROUBLED
• 15:13 AND FINALLY MATTHEW 27:45 SAYS
• 15:17 THAT THE TOWN GREW DARK AS HE WAS CRUCIFIED EVEN IN THE MIDDLE OF THE DAY,
• 15:22 THE CROWDED TEMPLE WAS IN DARKNESS.
• 15:24 IN THAT SACRIFICE THOUGH THERE WAS JUSTIFICATION FOR THE SINS OF THE THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE,
• 15:31 THE MILLIONS OF PEOPLE WHO FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS BROUGHT THEIR SACRIFICES TO THE TEMPLE
• 15:36 AND THE OTHER TEMPLES BEFORE IT
• 15:37 AND THE TABERNACLE.
• 15:39 IT SAYS IN ROMANS 3:25
• 15:41 GOD IN HIS FORBEARANCE WENT ALONG WITH AN UNREGENERATE PEOPLE UNTIL THE TIME OF MESSIAH
• 15:48 WHEN HE COULD IN EFFECT LOOK BACK AT WHAT THEY HAD DONE,
• 15:50 THEIR OBEDIENCE, THEIR FAITH
• 15:52 AND SAVE THEM.
• 15:54 SO SALVATION WAS ACCOMPLISHED IRONICALLY FOR ALL THE PEOPLE WHO HAD COME TO THAT TEMPLE
• 15:59 WITH THOSE BLOOD SACRIFICES
• 16:00 AT THE MOMENT THAT HE WAS SACRIFICED IN THE SAME PLACE:
• 16:04 IN THE SAME TEMPLE.
• 16:05 IT WAS THE LAST SUPPER BEFORE HE WENT UP THERE.
• 16:08 THAT OF COURSE WAS A PASSOVER MEAL INCLUDING THE LAMB, THE BITTER HERBS.
• 16:12 WE KNOW THEY HAD THE BITTER HERBS
• 16:14 BECAUSE THEY DIPPED THE BITTER HERBS
• 16:16 AND WHEN THEY ASKED AT THE TABLE WHICH OF US WILL BETRAY YOU LORD?
• 16:21 HE SAID, "WATCH FOR THE ONE WHO DIPS AFTER ME."
• 16:23 THEY ALL STOOD AND DIPPED IN THE COMMON BOWEL
• 16:25 AND JUDAS' HAND WAS JUST AFTER THE LORD'S.
• 16:28 THE WASHING, WHICH IS PART OF THE CEREMONY,
• 16:30 THE LORD WASHED THE DISCIPLES FEET THAT NIGHT.
• 16:33 AND OF COURSE THE WINE WHICH IS ALSO PART OF THE FESTIVAL CEREMONIES.
• 16:40 JOHN WAS TO SEE THE LAMB AGAIN
• 16:42 AND WHEN HE WROTE THE BOOK OF REVELATIONS
• 16:43 HE SPECIFIED THE LORD'S RETURN AT THAT TIME.
• 16:46 AND AS A LAMB IN REVELATION 5:6
• 16:49 HE IS DESCRIBED AS A LAMB.
• 16:51 WE CAN CONCLUDE THE POINT WITH HOW WE GET SAVED.
• 16:55 I PETER 1:18 AND 19,
• 16:58 IS IT BY KNOWING PASSOVER,
• 17:01 BY DOING TRADITIONS OF THE FATHERS OR WHAT'S IT BY?
• 17:03 HE SAYS,
• 17:18 IT IS NOT BY THE TRADITIONS OF THE FATHERS
• 17:20 BY DOING THE JEWISH LAWS,
• 17:22 BY CELEBRATING PASSOVER,
• 17:23 BY DOING ANY WORK OF MERIT THAT WE'RE SAVED,
• 17:26 BUT BY THE SACRIFICE OF A SPOTLESS LAMB.
• 17:29 PAUL SAYS, I CORINTHIANS 5:7,
• 17:32 "PURGE OUT THE OLD LUMP AND BECOME A NEW LUMP UNLEAVENED,"
• 17:36 "FOR CHRIST OUR PASSOVER IS SACRIFICED FOR US."
• 17:40 "PURGE OUT THE LEAVEN", HE SAYS.
• 17:41 THERE IS A WONDERFUL MIDRASH, A JEWISH SERMON, OR PHILOSOPHY
• 17:46 THAT SAYS THAT THE FIRST STEP OF FAITH IS A HARD ONE.
• 17:50 IT'S INTO THE RED SEA.
• 18:01 YOU KNOW THERE ARE
• 18:02 SOME IN ISRAEL
• 18:03 THAT ARE WANTING TO HURRY UP
• 18:05 THE FULFILLMENT OF PROPHESY
• 18:06 BY SEEING THE THIRD TEMPLE COME TO BE
• 18:08 BY SEEING THE TEMPLE REBUILT
• 18:09 AND GERSHON SALOMON AND HIS TEAM OF THE TEMPLE MOUNT FAITHFUL
• 18:13 ARE ACTUALLY PRACTICING SACRIFICES NEAR THE TEMPLE MOUNT.
• 18:17 WHEN THIS SERIES WAS RECORDED
• 18:19 OUR PRODUCER KEN BERG HAD A CHANCE TO INTERVIEW HIM ABOUT THEIR WORK.
• 18:24 GERSHON CAN YOU TELL US WHAT'S HAPPENING HERE TODAY?
• 18:27 YEAH, WE ARE HERE IN A, I WOULD SAY, IN A HISTORICAL GODLY MOMENT.
• 18:32 WE PERFORM A PASSOVER SACRIFICE.
• 18:38 UNFORTUNATELY WE COULD NOT DO IT ON THE TEMPLE MOUNT
• 18:41 WHICH IS THE RIGHT PLACE TO DO IT...IN THE TEMPLE.
• 18:44 AND PASSOVER SACRIFICE CAN BE DONE
• 18:47 EVEN WHEN THE TEMPLE IS STILL NOT REBUILT...
• 18:50 BUT ON THE TEMPLE MOUNT.
• 18:52 WE ASK THE PERMISSION OF THE ISRAELI AUTHORITIES TO DO IT ON THE TEMPLE MOUNT,
• 18:58 ON THE RIGHT PLACE,
• 19:00 AND UNFORTUNATELY THEY SHOWED WEAKNESS AND DID NOT AGREE TO GIVE US THE PERMISSION TO DO IT.
• 19:07 SO WE DECIDED TO DO IT IN ANY CASE HERE IN THIS PLACE ON THIS HILL.
• 19:12 I WOULD SAY THIS IS MORE A SYMBOLIC PASSOVER SACRIFICE
• 19:20 OR I WOULD SAY, AN OPENING FOR THE REAL PASSOVER SACRIFICE WHICH WE BELIEVE,
• 19:27 AND WE ARE DOING THE BEST,
• 19:29 AND WE MAKE THE START OF THE CAMPAIGN
• 19:31 THAT IT WILL BE DONE ON THE RIGHT PLACE ON THE TEMPLE MOUNT,
• 19:35 AND I BELIEVE INSIDE THE TEMPLE WHICH IS SOON TO REBUILD,
• 19:40 BECAUSE NOBODY CAN STOP THIS GODLY, HISTORICAL PROCESS
• 19:44 OF THE COMING BACK OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE,
• 19:47 THE ISRAELI NATION,
• 19:49 BACK TO HIS HOMELAND,
• 19:51 BACK TO THE LAND WHICH GOD GAVE HIM IN AN ETERNAL COVENANT 4,000 YEARS AGO.
• 19:58 WHAT DO YOU SAY TO THOSE PEOPLE WHO SAY
• 20:01 "MY, HOW BARBARIC TO BE KILLING AN ANIMAL LIKE THIS...
• 20:05 THE SHEDDING OF BLOOD"?
• 20:07 FIRST OF ALL LET ME TELL YOU
• 20:09 THAT ALL THOSE WHO ARE SAYING IT
• 20:12 ENJOY VERY MUCH TO EAT MEAT EVERY DAY,
• 20:16 JUST THEY LEAVE THE WORK TO DO FOR OTHERS.
• 20:20 THEY WILL KILL IT FOR THEM
• 20:22 AND THEY WILL EAT IT
• 20:23 AND THEY ENJOY IT VERY MUCH.
• 20:25 I BY MYSELF, PERSONAL I AM VEGETARIAN
• 20:28 BECAUSE I CANNOT SEE HOW PEOPLE ARE KILLING ANIMALS AND EATING THEM.
• 20:33 BUT THIS IS A DIFFERENT THING.
• 20:35 THIS IS A SACRIFICE FOR THE GOD OF ISRAEL,
• 20:39 THE GOD OF THE UNIVERSE
• 20:41 WHICH COMMANDED US TO DO IT.
• 20:42 YOU KNOW THE PASSOVER SACRIFICE IS SPECIAL...
• 20:46 HAS A SPECIAL SIGNIFICANCE...
• 20:49 IT GOES TO THE DEEPEST ROOTS OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE;
• 20:54 OF THE ISRAELI NATION
• 20:57 TO THE TIME THAT GOD MADE THIS NATION A NATION IN THE EXODUS FROM EGYPT.
• 21:06 (Zola Speaking) IN THE BOOK OF EXODUS
• 21:07 THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL ARE FREED FROM SLAVERY IN EGYPT
• 21:10 AND THEY SET OUT FOR THE PROMISED LAND.
• 21:12 THEIR PATH TO THE LAND OF MILK AND HONEY TOOK THEM THROUGH HARSH WILDERNESS.
• 21:17 TODAY THIS DESERT IS STILL A DRY, DESOLATE LANDSCAPE THAT HAS A CERTAIN BEAUTY
• 21:22 BUT IT IS DIFFICULT TO SURVIVE HERE.
• 21:24 WE SPOKE TO AN EXPERT ON THIS DESERT
• 21:26 IN ORDER TO FIND OUT WHAT IT WAS LIKE
• 21:28 FOR THE ANCIENT ISRAELITES TO WANDER IN THIS WILDERNESS FOR FORTY YEARS.
• 21:33 WHEN WE SPEAK ABOUT THE TRAIL OF THE ISRAELITE
• 21:36 WE HAVE TO REMEMBER THAT IN THOSE TIMES
• 21:39 THE MAIN ROAD THAT WAS...
• 21:42 IT WAS VIA MARIS CONNECTED BETWEEN EGYPTIAN EMPIRE TO MESOPOTAMIA.
• 21:46 THESE ARE LIKE...
• 21:47 SHOULD TAKE THIS WAY
• 21:49 BUT THEN GOD STOPPED THEM.
• 21:51 HE WAS AFRAID THAT THEY WILL MAKE A WAR IN FRONT BEFORE THEY WILL COME TO THE COUNTRY...
• 21:57 TO CANAAN WITH THE PALESTINE.
• 21:59 PHILISTINES >>PHILISTINES
• 22:01 SO HE ASKED THEM TO TURN TO THE RED SEA DESERT...
• 22:06 COULD BE THAT THIS IS THE DESERT THAT WE TALK ABOUT IT.
• 22:10 SEFI COULD YOU PAINT A VISUAL PICTURE FOR US
• 22:13 OF WHAT IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN LIKE
• 22:15 FOR THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL PASSING THROUGH THIS DESERT ON A DAY TO DAY BASIS?
• 22:19 WHEN THEY CROSS THE DESERT
• 22:21 THEY ORDER TO BRING THE SHEEPS AND THE GOATS
• 22:24 MOSES WILL TAKE THEM FOR ONE PLACE OF GRAZING TO OTHER PLACE OF GRAZING.
• 22:29 IN THIS CASE HE TAKE THEM TO A PLACE THAT YOU HAVE SOME WATER...
• 22:34 NOT MUCH BECAUSE WE SPEAK ABOUT WILDERNESS
• 22:37 BUT THAT THEY HAVE SOMETHING.
• 22:38 THEY WOULD STOP TIME TO TIME,
• 22:39 THEY WOULD TAKE THE WATER,
• 22:41 THEY WOULD MAKE THE GOATS AND THE SHEEP...
• 22:42 THEY WOULD NOT MOVE FAST...
• 22:44 WE SPEAK ABOUT MANY PEOPLE...
• 22:45 THEY CANNOT MOVE FAST.
• 22:47 THEY WOULD MAKE BETWEEN 15 TO 30 KILOMETER A DAY.
• 22:53 WELL HOW DO YOU THINK THAT THEY ORGANIZED SUCH A LARGE GROUP OF PEOPLE DAY BY DAY
• 22:57 GOING FROM PLACE TO PLACE?
• 22:59 VERY COMPLICATED...
• 23:01 VERY COMPLICATED.
• 23:03 I HAVE EXPERIENCE WITH THE BEDOUIN FAMILY THAT I LIVE WITH THEM...WAS A BEDOUIN FAMILY
• 23:08 AND I GO WITH THEM 100 KILOMETERS TO GRAZING THEIR SHEEPS
• 23:12 BECAUSE IT WAS A YEAR WITHOUT ANY RAIN.
• 23:14 SO I KNOW HOW IT'S WORK WHEN YOU GOING WITH THE CATTLE,
• 23:17 WITH EVERY SINGLE MOVE...
• 23:19 AND TIME TO TIME DURING THE DAY WE DON'T DO ANYTHING... WE JUST WALK.
• 23:23 BUT IN THE NIGHT, IN THE EVENING...YOU STOP...
• 23:27 YOU STOP TO MAKE THE FOOD...
• 23:29 SUDDENLY ALL THE LIFE STOP ...UNDERSTAND?
• 23:32 SEFI IT SEEMS THAT GOD CREATED A VERY SPECIAL ANIMAL IN THE CAMEL.
• 23:37 A CAMEL CAN STAY A LONG TIME WITHOUT ANY WATER...
• 23:40 ABOUT 2 WEEKS WITHOUT ANY WATER...
• 23:43 AND IF THERE'S BEEN VEGETATION THEY CAN STAY MONTHS WITHOUT ANY WATER...
• 23:47 THEY USE THE WATER FROM THE LITTLE VEGETATION THAT THEY EAT.
• 23:50 THREE DAYS WITHOUT ANY FOOD IS NOTHING FOR THE CAMEL.
• 23:53 YOU SEE THAT IT'S A VERY BIG ANIMAL...
• 23:55 FOUR STICKS AND BIG, BIG TANK OF WATER AND FOOD FOR SPARE TIME...
• 24:03 THAT'S WHAT THEY HAVE...
• 24:04 YOU UNDERSTAND?
• 24:06 THE HUMP IS NOT WATER BY THE WAY...
• 24:07 MANY PEOPLE THINK THAT THE HUMP IS WATER...
• 24:09 WELL IF ITS DAMP ITS FAT...
• 24:11 BUT THEY USE THIS FAT AFTER A LONG TIME IN THE DESERT
• 24:15 AND SOME TIME YOU CROSSING IN PLACE THAT YOU DON'T HAVE MUCH HAVE FOOD.
• 24:19 THIS IS HIS SPARE FOOD.
• 24:22 THE SPARE WATER...
• 24:24 IT'S IN THE BELLY.
• 24:25 WHEN THEY ARE VERY THIRSTY ALL OF THIS GOES INSIDE.
• 24:28 ITS LIKE 'WHFFF', YOU KNOW,
• 24:29 SUCK IT IN INSIDE ALL THIS SKIN HERE
• 24:32 AND THEN WE KNOW THAT THEY ARE THIRSTY.
• 24:35 EVERYTHING ARE PLANNED...
• 24:37 TO BE PROTECTED UNDER DESERT CONDITION...
• 24:39 WIND...SANDSTORM...EVERYTHING...
• 24:42 HE CAN SURVIVE...
• 24:44 HE IS THE BEST SURVIVOR IN THE DESERT...
• 24:46 I LOVE THEM.
• 25:38 PASSOVER IS AN AMAZING FEAST.
• 25:39 IT'S THE FIRST OF THE SEVEN FEASTS OF THE LORD.
• 25:41 YOU KNOW THERE'S SO MANY PICTURES IN THIS FEAST
• 25:44 THAT HAVE TO DO WITH MESSIAH AREN'T THERE?
• 25:46 THERE IS THE BREAD AND THE BODY...
• 25:49 THERE'S THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB...
• 25:50 THERE'S JUST SO MUCH THAT POINTS TO YESHUA
• 25:52 AND IT SETS UP ALL SEVEN FEASTS DOESN'T IT?
• 25:55 IT'S BEAUTIFUL...
• 25:56 IT'S LIKE...IT IS COMMUNION FOR THE CHRISTIANS
• 25:59 AND IT'S PASSOVER FOR THE JEWS
• 26:01 BUT THEY'RE BOTH ONE IN THE SAME.
• 26:03 THEY REALLY ARE.
• 26:04 THERE'S A STORY OF DELIVERANCE FROM BONDAGE
• 26:06 WHETHER IT WAS EGYPT FOR THE JEWISH PEOPLE
• 26:08 OR OUR DELIVERANCE FROM SIN AS BELIEVERS... AS CHRISTIANS.
• 26:11 AND REALLY IS THE SAME STORY.
• 26:12 IT'S A SEAMLESS CONNECTION...
• 26:14 THIS SETS UP ALL THE OTHER FEASTS
• 26:16 BECAUSE IT'S REALLY THE BEGINNING OF THE WHOLE THE STORY.
• 26:18 WE COME TO THE LORD THROUGH THIS PROPHETIC ACT OF THE PASSOVER.
• 26:23 SO MANY YEARS WHEN WE WOULD HOLD THIS PASSOVER IN OUR HOME
• 26:25 AND PEOPLE WOULD COME AND THEY WOULD LOOK INTO THESE THINGS
• 26:28 AND REALLY HAVE A REVELATION OF WHO YESHUA IS
• 26:30 JUST BY DOING THE PASSOVER.
• 26:32 WE'RE NOT SAVED BY KEEPING THESE FEASTS OR THESE HOLY DAYS
• 26:36 BUT WE SEE WHAT GOD INTENDED US TO HAVE COMPLETELY IN YESHUA.
• 26:40 YOU KNOW MYLES I WAS RAISED CATHOLIC
• 26:42 AND ALWAYS USED TO HEAR "THE LAMB OF GOD WHO TAKES AWAY THE SINS OF THE WORLD."
• 26:48 AND THAT'S SO RANG TRUE TO ME
• 26:50 AND NOW I KNOW EVEN MORE SO WITH YESHUA BEING THE LAMB OF GOD.
• 26:53 EXACTLY AND ISN'T IT AMAZING EVEN TODAY
• 26:56 THAT THE MATZO THAT WE USE IS STRIPPED AND PIERCED AND BROKEN IN THE CEREMONY.
• 27:01 IT'S JUST AN AMAZING PICTURE OF THE PROPHECIES THAT ISAIAH SPOKE OF
• 27:05 THAT THE MESSIAH WOULD BE PIERCED AND BROKEN FOR OUR SINS,
• 27:09 FOR OUR SALVATION...
• 27:10 INCREDIBLE.
• 27:11 AND THEN THE CUPS
• 27:12 INCLUDING THE CUP OF REDEMPTION
• 27:14 THAT SPEAKS ABOUT OUR WEDDING TO THE LORD,
• 27:16 ABOUT HIS BLOOD SPILLED OUT FOR US.
• 27:18 AMAZING STORY...
• 27:19 AMAZING FEAST
• 27:20 AND WE'RE JUST SO GRATEFUL TO BRING THIS TO YOU.
• 27:23 WE WANT TO REMIND YOU THAT WE ARE ABLE TO DO THIS
• 27:25 BECAUSE OF YOUR GIFTS OF FUNDS
• 27:27 SO PLEASE CONTINUE TO SUPPORT US
• 27:29 SO THAT WE CAN BRING THESE SHOWS TO YOU.
• 27:31 AND AS WE GO TODAY WE WANT TO REMIND YOU PLEASE
• 27:35 SHAL'ALU SHALOM YERUSHALAYIM.
• 27:37 PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM.