Caption transcript for The Holy Days of Our Lord (2012): “Pentecost” (5/11)

• 00:01 IT IS WRITTEN IN THE SCRIPTURES
• 00:03 THAT WE SHOULD JOURNEY TO JERUSALEM THREE TIMES A YEAR.
• 00:06 WE ARE GOING UP TO THE CITY OF GOD...
• 00:09 TO JERUSALEM TO CELEBRATE.
• 00:16 THE LORD TOLD THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL TO HONOR SEVEN HOLY CELEBRATIONS EACH YEAR
• 00:21 INVOLVING THREE JOURNEYS TO JERUSALEM.
• 00:23 EACH FESTIVAL WOULD BE UNIQUELY FULFILLED IN THE COMING OF THE MESSIAH.
• 00:42 SHALOM AND WELCOME TO ZOLA LEVITT PRESENTS.
• 00:45 I'M MYLES.
• 00:46 THIS IS KATHARINE.
• 00:47 AND WE ARE CONTINUING IN OUR SERIES
• 00:48 "THE HOLY DAYS OF OUR LORD... SHADOWS OF THINGS TO COME"
• 00:52 WE'RE AT THE TIME OF LOOKING AT PENTECOST
• 00:54 OR SHAVUOT... THE FEAST OF WEEKS
• 00:56 WHICH TAKES PLACES 50 DAYS AFTER THE FEAST OF FIRST FRUITS.
• 01:00 IT'S WHERE THE CHURCH WAS BIRTHED...
• 01:03 IT'S ON THE SOUTHERN STEPS
• 01:05 AND JOSEPHUS, ONE OF THE HISTORIANS, EVEN QUOTES THAT THIS IS WHERE GAMALIEL TAUGHT...
• 01:11 THIS IS WHERE PAUL TAUGHT...
• 01:13 AND OBVIOUSLY THIS IS WHERE JESUS WALKED UP TO THE TEMPLE.
• 01:16 SO THE SOUTHERN STEPS HAS SO MANY WONDERFUL MEANINGS FOR US
• 01:19 AND IT'S WHERE THE HOLY SPIRIT WAS POURED OUT.
• 01:21 RIGHT, AND ZOLA'S GOING TO DO A GREAT JOB OF TEACHING US ABOUT
• 01:25 THE ACCURACY OF THE TIME THAT WE'RE IN...
• 01:27 THE ACCURACY OF THE WAY THE FEAST WAS KEPT...
• 01:29 HOW THE CHURCH WAS BIRTHED...
• 01:31 IT'S AN AMAZING STUDY...
• 01:32 YOU'RE GOING TO REALLY ENJOY THIS.
• 01:34 WE WANT TO GO TO ZOLA NOW ON THE SOUTHERN STEPS OF THE TEMPLE IN JERUSALEM.
• 01:43 THE LORD SAID TO MOSES,
• 01:46 COUNT 50 DAYS TO THE DAY AFTER THE SEVENTH SABBATH.
• 01:49 THEN YOU SHALL MAKE OFFERINGS UNTO THE LORD.
• 01:53 BRING FROM YOUR DWELLINGS TWO WAVE LOAVES.
• 01:56 THEY SHALL BE MADE OF FINE FLOUR AND BAKED WITH LEAVEN,
• 01:59 ON THAT SAME DAY, YOU ARE TO PROCLAIM A SACRED ASSEMBLY AND DO NO REGULAR WORK.
• 02:04 THIS IS TO BE A LASTING ORDINANCE FOR THE GENERATIONS TO COME WHEREVER YOU LIVE.
• 02:13 WE'RE AT THE CENTER OF THE EARTH!
• 02:15 SHALOM, HELLO, AGAIN.
• 02:16 THIS IS WHERE JESUS AND HIS DISCIPLES ENTERED THE TEMPLE.
• 02:19 BEHIND ME IS A STAIRCASE, SOMEWHAT RESTORED.
• 02:22 BUT IT IS AUTHENTIC.
• 02:24 IT IS WHERE HE AND HIS DISCIPLES FIRST TOOK THEIR RITUAL BATHS.
• 02:28 THERE ARE "MIKVAOT", OR "RITUAL BATHS" DOWN BELOW,
• 02:32 CERTAINLY A SYMBOL OF BAPTISM
• 02:34 AND THEN THEY WALKED UP THE STEPS,
• 02:36 IN AND OUT OF THE HOLY GATES WHENEVER THEY VISITED THE TEMPLE.
• 02:39 THIS WAS THE ENTRANCE FOR THE POOR PEOPLE AND THE PLAIN PEOPLE IN THE LAND.
• 02:42 AND EXCEPT ON THE OCCASION WHERE HE RODE THE DONKEY DOWN FROM THE MOUNT OF OLIVES,
• 02:46 OUR LORD USED THIS ENTRANCE TO THE TEMPLE.
• 02:49 WELL, WE ARE HERE BECAUSE HERE IS WHERE THE HOLY SPIRIT CAME.
• 02:52 THIS PROGRAM IS ABOUT PENTECOST, SHAVUOT, GOD'S POWER, THE SPIRIT AND THE LAW.
• 02:58 I SAY "SHAVUOT" IN HEBREW BECAUSE THAT MEANS "WEEKS",
• 03:01 AND IT'S CALLED "THE FESTIVAL OF WEEKS" MANY TIMES...
• 03:04 THAT'S SEVEN SEVENS.
• 03:07 AND YOU CAN SEE WHY...
• 03:08 IN VERSE 15 IT SAYS,
• 03:26 THE LORD IS HONORING SUNDAY HERE.
• 03:29 IN OUR LAST PROGRAM ON FIRSTFRUITS,
• 03:31 I DISCUSSED HOW THE RABBIS GOT RID OF FIRSTFRUITS SOMEWHERE ALONG THE LINE
• 03:37 BECAUSE IT WAS SO SYMBOLIC OF THE RESURRECTION.
• 03:40 IT MUST HAVE CAUSED A LOT OF CONVERSIONS TO THE FAITH IN THE MESSIAH AND SO THEY OMITTED IT.
• 03:45 IT HARDLY APPEARS ANYMORE ON THE JEWISH CALENDAR.
• 03:48 BUT WHEN THEY DID THAT THOUGH AS I JUST READ, YOU'D HAVE TO START COUNTING FROM THAT DAY,
• 03:54 THEY GOT THE COUNTING WRONG.
• 03:55 THEY STARTED FROM THE SECOND DAY OF THE PASSOVER FESTIVAL
• 03:58 AND THEY COUNT ANY DAY OF THE WEEK THAT IS 50 DAYS AFTER THAT.
• 04:02 BUT IT WOULDN'T BE CORRECT
• 04:04 BECAUSE AS I READ, PENTECOST HAS TO BE ON THE MORROW AFTER THE SABBATH OR ON SUNDAY.
• 04:09 ANYHOW, THERE IS A LOT TO THIS HOLIDAY THAT THEY HAVE KIND OF CAKED ONTO IT
• 04:14 BUT I LIKE THE IDEA OF THE SPIRIT.
• 04:17 IN CHRISTIANITY A SIMILAR THING HAS HAPPENED.
• 04:21 THEY DIDN'T LIKE THE IDEA OF THE HOLY SPIRIT COMING TO THE JEWISH TEMPLE
• 04:24 SO THEY HAVE ALWAYS TAUGHT THAT IT CAME TO THE UPPER ROOM.
• 04:28 THAT'S CRAZY.
• 04:30 YOU CAN'T PUT 3000 PEOPLE TO THE UPPER ROOM.
• 04:32 WE TAKE OUR TOURS THERE ALL OF THE TIME.
• 04:34 IT SIMPLY WON'T HOLD THAT AMOUNT OF FOLKS FOR ONE THING.
• 04:37 THERE IS ANOTHER THEORY THAT THE 120 WERE THERE
• 04:40 AND THAT THEY RECEIVED THE HOLY SPIRIT
• 04:42 WHILE WALKING DOWN MOUNT ZION TOWARD THE TEMPLE SITE.
• 04:45 IT JUST DOESN'T WORK.
• 04:47 IT SAYS IN ACTS 2:16
• 04:50 A MIGHTY ROARING WIND
• 04:51 FILLED THE HOUSE WHERE THEY WERE SITTING.
• 04:53 "HOUSE" IN JUDAISM PARLANCE THE "BAYIT" FOR THE WORD "HOUSE"
• 04:58 IS "THE TEMPLE", THE HOUSE OF GOD.
• 05:00 THE LORD SAID IN MATTHEW 23:39,
• 05:02 "YOUR HOUSE IS LEFT UNTO YOU DESOLATE"
• 05:05 AND THEY UNDERSTOOD THAT HE MEANT THE TEMPLE.
• 05:07 NO, OF COURSE, THE HOLY SPIRIT CAME HERE.
• 05:09 DON'T TRY TO MAKE IT LESS JEWISH.
• 05:11 THIS IS GOING ON EVERYWHERE.
• 05:13 OUR SEMINARIES WOULD LOVE IT.
• 05:15 BUT IT WAS IN SOLOMON'S PORTICO
• 05:18 WHICH RAN THE WHOLE LENGTH OF THAT SOUTHERN WALL YOU SEE BEHIND ME
• 05:22 AND MORE THAN YOU CAN SEE WAY OVER PAST THIS TURKISH WALL THAT IS STICKING STRAIGHT UP.
• 05:27 ALL THE WAY TO THE POWER PIT OF THE CORNER OF THE WESTERN SIDE THERE WAS AN AREA OF PILLARS
• 05:32 WHERE PEOPLE MET OTHER FOLKS AT THE FEAST WHO CAME DOWN FROM THE NORTH
• 05:36 OR PERHAPS JESUS MET LAZARUS FROM BETHANY OVER THE HILL HERE AT THAT PLACE.
• 05:41 BUT ANYHOW, THAT IS WHERE THEY GOT TOGETHER.
• 05:44 THAT IS WHERE THE 3000 WERE SAVED.
• 05:46 THAT'S WHERE PETER PREACHED THE SERMON.
• 05:48 THAT'S WHERE THE HOLY SPIRIT CAME.
• 05:50 NOW, I SAID THE SPIRIT AND THE LAW
• 05:52 BECAUSE THE RABBIS HAVE SAID THAT PENTECOST WAS THE TIME THAT THE LAW WAS GIVEN AT SINAI.
• 05:59 IT'S POSSIBLE.
• 06:01 IT MEANS THAT AFTER PASSOVER THEY JOURNEYED THE SEVEN WEEKS OR SO AND THEN CAME TO SINAI.
• 06:07 I'M NOT SO SURE.
• 06:09 BUT ANYWAY IT'S NOT SCRIPTURAL.
• 06:11 IT'S JUST SOMETHING THEY PUT ON THAT HOLIDAY
• 06:13 AND I THINK BECAUSE IT'S A FESTIVAL OF HARVEST REALLY,
• 06:16 IT'S THE BARLEY AND WHEAT HARVEST OF THE SPRING
• 06:19 WHEN THEY COME OUT OF THE AGRARIAN SOCIETY
• 06:22 AND THEY HAVE BECOME LESS FARMERS AND MORE TRADESMEN AND SO FORTH,
• 06:25 THE HARVEST DIDN'T MAKE AS MUCH SENSE SO THEY SEEMED TO CHANGE IT TO SOMETHING ELSE.
• 06:29 ANYWAY, THERE'S NO TRADITION OF THE LAW...
• 06:31 THERE'S A TRADITION
• 06:33 BUT THERE'S NO SCRIPTURAL SUPPORT FOR THE LAW BEING GIVEN AT SHAVUOT.
• 06:36 THE GREEK WORD "PENTECOST" STANDS FOR "SHAVUOT"
• 06:41 THE SEVEN WEEKS IN HEBREW.
• 06:44 AND IT IS THE HARVEST THAT THEY DEPENDED ON ONCE THEY GOT TO THE LAND.
• 06:49 SO IT WAS 41 YEARS AFTER THIS ANNOUNCEMENT,
• 06:51 40 YEARS WANDERING AND ANOTHER YEAR TO HARVEST
• 06:54 UNTIL THEY REALLY COULD CELEBRATE THIS.
• 06:56 THE TRADITION IN JUDAISM IS IT TAKES SEVEN WEEKS BETWEEN PASSOVER AND PENTECOST
• 07:01 TO COMPLETE THE WHEAT HARVEST.
• 07:03 AND THE MODERN JEWS READ THE SCROLLS OF RUTH
• 07:05 WHO SLEPT IN THE FIELDS OF BOAZ QUITE NEAR HERE OFF TO MY RIGHT AT BETHLEHEM.
• 07:10 THE HARVEST TIME IS THE COUNTING OF THE OMER FROM FIRST FRUITS TO PENTECOST.
• 07:16 BUT THEY HAVE IT WRONG.
• 07:19 THEY COUNT FROM THE SECOND DAY OF PASSOVER.
• 07:21 AND THEY DO A TIME OF MOURNING.
• 07:24 THEY STAY UP ALL NIGHT
• 07:27 BECAUSE THE JEWS THEY SAY FELL ASLEEP OUT THERE IN THE WILDERNESS
• 07:31 WHEN MOSES CAME DOWN WITH THE LAW AND HE HAD TO WAKE THEM UP AND THIS SORT OF THING.
• 07:35 ALL OF THAT IS WHAT THEY CALL IN YIDDISH, "BUBBA MEISAH" TALES,
• 07:39 THEY'RE "GRANDMOTHER STORIES",
• 07:41 THEY'RE THINGS THAT ARE MADE UP TO GIVE THE HOLIDAY A LITTLE BIT OF HYPE.
• 07:46 BY THE WAY, WE'RE IN THE MIDDLE OF BUSY JERUSALEM...
• 07:48 TOURIST BUSES GOING...
• 07:49 PILGRIMS COMING
• 07:51 AND WE JUST HAVE TO DO WHAT WE CAN DO AMONGST ALL OF THAT.
• 07:54 THIS CITY HAS NEVER STOPPED
• 07:55 NOT SINCE THE DAY THAT DAVID TOOK IT.
• 07:57 BUT ANYHOW THIS TIME OF MOURNING...
• 08:00 THEY HAVE A MOURNING DURING THAT SEVEN WEEKS
• 08:04 AND THEN THEY STAY UP ALL NIGHT TO READ THE SCRIPTURES
• 08:07 TO MAKE UP FOR THE JEWS THAT SLEPT THEY SAY.
• 08:09 THEY EAT DAIRY FOOD AND NOT MEATS
• 08:11 BECAUSE IT'S EASIER TO STAY AWAKE ON DAIRY FOOD RATHER THAN MEAT.
• 08:15 ALL OF THIS I'M SAYING IS JEWISH TRADITION.
• 08:17 NONE OF IT IS SCRIPTURAL.
• 08:18 BUT SINCE WE'RE HERE TO SAY WHAT THEY DO,
• 08:21 THAT'S WHAT THEY DO.
• 08:22 THE CONFIRMATION OF CHILDREN IS ALSO DONE AT PENTECOST.
• 08:28 I WAS CONFIRMED IN THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
• 08:29 BY THE WAY, EVERY NOW AND THEN, SOMEBODY WRITES IN AND SAYS,
• 08:32 "DO YOU HAVE ANY RIGHT TO SPEAK ABOUT JUDAISM?"
• 08:34 IT'S USUALLY A JEWISH PERSON.
• 08:36 AND TIME AND AGAIN I REPEAT THAT I WAS 7 YEARS AT HEBREW SCHOOL,
• 08:39 10 YEARS IN SUNDAY SCHOOL,
• 08:41 BAR MITZVAH AND CONFIRMED,
• 08:42 SANG IN THE SYNAGOGUE CHOIR,
• 08:44 BECAME THE CONDUCTOR OF THE CHOIR AND SO ON.
• 08:46 SO, YES, I HAD THE COMPLETE JEWISH EDUCATION
• 08:49 AND I KNOW THESE THINGS
• 08:50 AND I KNOW THEY ARE GOING ON.
• 08:52 BUT WHEN I CAME TO MESSIAH I BEGAN TO READ THE SCRIPTURES
• 08:55 AND FOUND SOME OF THE THINGS THEY ARE DOING JUST AREN'T RIGHT
• 08:59 AND SO I DRAW THOSE DISTINCTIONS FOR YOU EVERY TIME.
• 09:02 BACK AFTER THIS
• 09:21 ♪SHA'A'LU SHALOM YERUSHALAYIM♪
• 09:25 ♪SHA'A'LU, SHA'A'LU SHALOM♪
• 09:29 ♪IN THE HOLY CITY OF JERUSALEM♪
• 09:36 ♪WE WILL PRAY FOR PEACE SHA'A'LU SHALOM♪
• 09:49 THAT'S ISRAEL.
• 09:51 IT'S SUCH A BEAUTIFUL LAND.
• 09:52 WE'D LOVE TO TAKE YOU THERE.
• 09:54 MYLES AND I HAVE BEEN
• 09:54 SO MANY TIMES
• 09:56 AND IT'S OUR JOY
• 09:57 TO SHARE THIS JEWEL WITH YOU
• 09:58 RIGHT MYLES?
• 09:59 I MEAN THERE'S NOTHING LIKE IT.
• 10:00 IT'S REALLY TRUE.
• 10:01 I'M ACTUALLY LOOKING FORWARD
• 10:02 TO GOING AGAIN REALLY SOON.
• 10:03 IT NEVER GETS OLD.
• 10:05 NEVER
• 10:06 THE BEST WAY TO STAY IN TOUCH WITH US
• 10:07 IS THROUGH THE LEVITT LETTER.
• 10:09 IT'S FREE TO YOU.
• 10:10 JUST GET IN TOUCH WITH US
• 10:11 AT LEVITT.COM OR 1-800-WONDERS
• 10:13 AND WE'LL SEND IT TO YOU.
• 10:14 THIS WEEK OUR OFFERINGS ARE
• 10:16 "THE SPIRIT OF PENTECOST"...
• 10:17 THE CD AND THE BOOKLET.
• 10:20 THEY ARE TEACHINGS
• 10:21 SIMILAR TO WHAT YOU'RE HEARING
• 10:22 TODAY ON THIS SHOW
• 10:23 AND SO WE WANT TO ENCOURAGE YOU
• 10:25 TO WRITE IN
• 10:26 AND GET THOSE AS WELL.
• 10:27 AND NOW BACK TO ZOLA.
• 10:30 ABOVE THE SOUTHERN WALL OF THE TEMPLE, OVER ON THE OTHER SIDE,
• 10:34 WAS SOLOMON'S PORTICO,
• 10:36 A LONG SUCCESSION OF PILLARS,
• 10:39 A SHADED AREA WHERE PEOPLE MET
• 10:41 AND THAT IS WHERE I BELIEVE THE HOLY SPIRIT CAME.
• 10:45 NOT TO THE UPPER ROOM,
• 10:46 BUT HERE TO THE JEWISH TEMPLE.
• 10:47 NO POINT IN TRYING TO MOVE THE SPIRIT AWAY FROM THE JEWS.
• 10:50 THE HOLY SPIRIT IS STILL SAVING JEWS EVERYDAY.
• 10:52 AND THIS CHURCH...
• 10:54 I HAVE OFTEN SAID THAT AMERICANS DON'T SEE THAT MANY JEWS IN THE CHURCH
• 10:58 BUT I DID A STATISTICAL STUDY.
• 10:59 JEWISH ADULTS OCCUR ONLY ONE IN EVERY 200 PEOPLE IN AMERICA
• 11:03 AND AS I HAVE TRAVELED THE CHURCHES FOR NEARLY 30 YEARS
• 11:06 I CAN TELL YOU THAT ONE OF EVERY 200 PEOPLE IN ANY GROUP OF CHURCHES IS JEWISH.
• 11:12 THEY ARE EQUALLY SAVED, JEWS AND GENTILES.
• 11:16 THEY ARE ABSOLUTELY...
• 11:18 GOD HAS...
• 11:19 IT'S NOT A SMALL REMNANT.
• 11:20 IT'S SIMPLY A PER CAPITA STATISTIC.
• 11:23 THERE ARE AS MANY JEWS PER CAPITA SAVED AS GENTILES IN THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH.
• 11:26 AND THAT MAKES SENSE BECAUSE WHEN I LOOK BACK IN LEVITICUS 23
• 11:30 I SEE A FASCINATING VERSE INVOLVED WITH PENTECOST
• 11:34 WHICH IS ABOUT THE TWO WAVE LOAVES.
• 11:52 WELL, WE COULD READ THAT CODE VERY EASILY.
• 11:56 TALK ABOUT A BIBLE CODE
• 11:57 THIS IS AN EASY ONE.
• 11:59 THINGS BAKED WITH LEAVEN ARE SINFUL.
• 12:01 SO THESE TWO LOAVES COULDN'T BE CHRIST AND THE SPIRIT...
• 12:03 THEY ARE SINLESS.
• 12:04 THESE ARE ORDINARY MEN,
• 12:06 SINFUL MEN BAKED WITH LEAVEN.
• 12:07 BUT IT SAYS THEY ARE FIRSTFRUITS UNTO THE LORD.
• 12:10 SO THEY ARE RESURRECTED MEN,
• 12:12 THE FIRSTFRUITS OF THEM WHO RISE.
• 12:14 IN OTHER WORDS, THESE ARE CHRISTIANS.
• 12:18 AND HOW IS THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH DIVIDED IN TWO EQUAL PARTS?
• 12:22 I JUST SAID IT.
• 12:23 HALF IS JEWISH...
• 12:25 THAT IS PER CAPITA...
• 12:26 AND HALF IS GENTILE.
• 12:27 THESE TWO LOAVES ARE OF EQUAL WEIGHT.
• 12:29 TWO IS AN IMPORTANT NUMBER THROUGHOUT THE BIBLE.
• 12:31 THERE ARE TWO WITNESSES.
• 12:33 IT TAKES TWO TO ESTABLISH A TRUTH IN A JEWISH COURT.
• 12:35 AND THE LAW HANGS ON TWO COMMANDMENTS, DOESN'T IT?
• 12:39 THERE ARE ONLY TWO POSITIONS WITH GOD.
• 12:42 YOU'RE SAVED OR YOU'RE LOST.
• 12:44 AND THERE'S NOTHING IN BETWEEN.
• 12:46 IN ANY CASE, THIS IS A FESTIVAL OF HARVEST
• 12:50 AND JESUS USED THAT IMAGE TIME AND AGAIN.
• 12:53 IN JOHN 12:23-25, FOR EXAMPLE,
• 12:57 HE TALKS IN TERMS OF HARVEST AND HIS OWN MINISTRY.
• 13:33 WOW, IT'S A BEAUTIFUL, BEAUTIFUL SENTIMENT
• 13:35 WHICH HE GAVE IN TERMS OF A HARVEST.
• 13:38 HE CAME FOR A HARVEST, RIGHT?
• 13:40 AND ON FIRSTFRUITS AS WE POINTED OUT IN THE PROGRAM LAST WEEK,
• 13:43 HE DID A LITTLE HARVEST OF HIS OWN.
• 13:46 GRAVES OPENED
• 13:47 AND THE PEOPLE WERE WALKING ABOUT IN JERUSALEM...
• 13:49 WELL THAT WAS HIS OFFERING.
• 13:50 THE DAY WAS THE SUNDAY AFTER PASSOVER,
• 13:52 FIRSTFRUITS AMONG THE SEVEN FEASTS.
• 13:55 NOW, THE JEWS GATHERED HERE AT THE PORTICO IN ACTS 2...
• 14:00 YOU ALL KNOW THE STORY OF COURSE.
• 14:02 THEY GATHERED TO DO THE FEAST OF PENTECOST
• 14:06 AND THE DISCIPLES COULD EASILY COME IN HERE
• 14:09 EVEN THOUGH THEY WERE AT THAT POINT SORT OF WANTED MEN.
• 14:11 THEY COULD COME IN A CROWD OF HUNDRED OF THOUSANDS EVEN MILLIONS TO THE TEMPLE SITE...
• 14:16 IT IS LIKE A GIGANTIC SUPER BOWL...
• 14:18 CROWDS MOVING BACK AND FORTH...
• 14:20 AND THEY WERE IN THERE.
• 14:21 AND THEY FOUND THE SPIRIT.
• 14:25 THEY WERE THE BEGINNING.
• 14:27 WHEN THE CHURCH WAS BORN, THEY WERE IN EFFECT, THE FIRST MEMBERS OF THE CHURCH.
• 14:31 YOU KNOW, THE FIRST MISSION OF THE CHURCH IS EVANGELISM.
• 14:35 AND THEY WERE THE FIRST EVANGELISTS.
• 14:37 LET'S LOOK AT THE PASSAGE IN ACTS 2.
• 14:40 ITS SAYS,
• 14:51 THE PENTECOST PAINTING IN DALLAS AT THE BIBLICAL ART CENTER,
• 14:54 THIS MAGNIFICENT 124 FOOT LONG OIL PAINTING OF THE MIRACLE AT PENTECOST...
• 15:00 I WROTE THE BOOK WITH THE ARTIST IN THE EARLY 70s WHEN HE PAINTED THE THING
• 15:04 AND ASKED HIM WHY HE PAINTED IT THERE AT THE PORTICO.
• 15:07 AND HE SAID, "THAT'S WHERE IT HAPPENED."
• 15:09 HE ASKED THE RABBIS
• 15:10 AND HE ASKED CHRISTIAN SCHOLARS.
• 15:13 THE UPPER ROOM REALLY WON'T WASH OTHER THAN IN A LOCAL CHURCH.
• 15:16 HE MUST HAVE COME HERE TO THE TEMPLE, WHERE JESUS CAME,
• 15:20 WHERE ABRAHAM CAME TO SACRIFICE ISAAC,
• 15:22 THE PLACE WHERE THE FATHER CHOSE IN GENESIS 22:2,
• 15:26 "DON'T SACRIFICE IN ANY PLACE THOU SEEST BUT ONLY IN THE MOUNTAIN I TELL THEE OF."
• 15:30 SO HERE WE ARE AT PENTECOST
• 15:32 AND IT SAYS,
• 15:47 I WANT TO MAKE THAT POINT.
• 15:49 I ONCE HEARD A PREACHER SAY
• 15:51 THE GENTILE NEVER HAD A CHANCE UNTIL PENTECOST.
• 15:53 BUT THE GENTILE DIDN'T HAVE MUCH OF A CHANCE AT PENTECOST EITHER.
• 15:56 WHO WOULD BE AT THE TEMPLE ON A JEWISH HOLIDAY BUT JEWS?
• 15:59 AND IT'S OBVIOUS WHEN IT SAYS THEY WERE DWELLING AT JERUSALEM
• 16:02 JEWS OUT OF EVERY NATION UNDER HEAVEN.
• 16:05 AND THEN IT SAYS,
• 16:14 IT SHOULD BE STRESSED THAT THE TONGUES THEY WERE SPEAKING WERE NOT NONSENSE LANGUAGES.
• 16:17 THEY WERE GREEK AND LATIN
• 16:19 AND MACEDONIAN AND EGYPTIAN AND LIBYAN
• 16:21 AND 16 COUNTRIES ARE NAMED HERE WHERE IT ENUMERATES WHERE THEY CAME FROM
• 16:26 AND THOSE ARE THE LANGUAGES THEY SPOKE.
• 16:28 AND OF COURSE THEY DIDN'T EVEN NEED AN INTERPRETER
• 16:30 BECAUSE THE LISTENER HEARD IT, IT SAYS, IN HIS OWN LANGUAGE.
• 16:34 SO THESE GALILEANS PREACHED THE GOSPEL.
• 16:37 THE PENTECOSTAL POWER IS EVANGELISM...NOT MIRACLES.
• 16:41 OFTEN PENTECOST IS REFERRED TO AS THE PLACE WHERE TONGUES BEGAN... AND IT IS
• 16:45 BUT WHAT REALLY BEGAN WAS THE GREAT COMMISSION...
• 16:50 THE WITNESSING,
• 16:51 THE LEARNING THE LANGUAGES OF THE PEOPLE OF THE WORLD
• 16:53 AND GOING TO THEM AND TELLING THEM IN THEIR OWN LANGUAGE THAT THEY CAN UNDERSTAND
• 16:57 THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST...
• 16:59 IT'S GOING ON EVERYWHERE.
• 17:01 THAT IS THE WHOLE IDEA OF MISSIONS, YOU KNOW.
• 17:05 ACTS 1:8 SAYS,
• 17:18 THAT MUCH WE MIGHT HAVE EXPECTED.
• 17:19 I MEAN, THE LORD WHEN HE FIRST CAME SAID TO THE DISCIPLES,
• 17:22 "GO NOT INTO THE CITIES OF THE SAMARITANS OR THE GENTILES"
• 17:25 "BECAUSE I'VE ONLY COME TO THE LOST SHEEP OF THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL."
• 17:28 HE SENDS WITNESSES TO JERUSALEM AND JUDEA THAT WE EXPECT.
• 17:31 BUT THEN HE SAID, "SAMARIA,"
• 17:33 ...THEY MUST HAVE SAID "WELL THAT'S A CHANGE."
• 17:36 AND THEN HE SAID, "AND UNTO THE UTTERMOST PART OF THE EARTH.
• 17:40 BOY, IF WE TAKE THE GOSPEL OUT THERE TO THE UTTERMOST PART OF THE EARTH...
• 17:44 MY GOODNESS, THAT'S A DIFFERENCE.
• 17:48 BUT HE QUOTED JOEL,
• 17:54 I HEARD IT SAID, "WHAT ABOUT THE SOULS IN THE HOLOCAUST?"
• 17:57 WELL, I THINK WHEN YOU'RE GOING INTO A GAS CHAMBER YOU DO CALL ON THE NAME OF THE LORD.
• 18:02 I DON'T KNOW...
• 18:03 I HAVE TO CONTRAST IT WITH THE SCRIPTURE THAT SAYS
• 18:05 NO NAME UNDER HEAVEN BUT JESUS BY WHICH MEN ARE SAVED.
• 18:09 BUT WHEN WE GO OUT IN THE WORLD,
• 18:11 WHEN WE TEACH PEOPLE THE GOSPEL,
• 18:13 IT'S CLEAR THEY KNOW WHAT NAME TO CALL ON.
• 18:15 THEY DON'T HAVE TO DEPEND ON SIMPLY SAYING,
• 18:17 "OH GOD, HELP ME."
• 18:19 THEY SAY, "LORD JESUS, FORGIVE ME."
• 18:22 AND THAT IS SALVATION FOR SURE.
• 18:24 I DON'T KNOW ABOUT THE OTHER CASE BUT THAT IS SALVATION FOR SURE.
• 18:27 EVERY CHRISTIAN IS TO BE A SOUL WINNER NOT A COMMITTEE MEMBER IF YOU KNOW WHAT I AM SAYING
• 18:33 BUT A SOUL WINNER, A FAITHFUL WITNESS.
• 18:35 GOD IN THE TRIBULATION WILL CALL ON 144,000 OF THE 12 TRIBES OF ISRAEL
• 18:40 AND HE WILL SEND THEM INTO THE WORLD.
• 18:44 THAT IS A SPLENDID EXAMPLE OF WHAT GOD DOES WHEN IT'S UP TO HIM.
• 18:47 HE CALLS OUT WITNESSES
• 18:48 AND HE CALLS OUT JEWISH WITNESSES TO GO TO THE WHOLE WORLD.
• 18:52 SO..."SHAVUOT"...
• 18:54 WHAT DOES IT MEAN...PENTECOST?
• 18:56 IT MEANS REVIVAL.
• 18:57 THAT IS MOST INTENSIVELY WHAT IT MEANS.
• 19:00 WE'RE TO GO TO THE WORLD.
• 19:01 WE'RE TO LEARN THEIR LANGUAGES,
• 19:03 WE'RE TO SPEAK TO THEM ABOUT THE GOSPEL AND WE'RE TO GET THEM SAVED.
• 19:15 YOU KNOW, SEEING ZOLA
• 19:16 ON THE SOUTHERN STEPS
• 19:18 REMINDS ME AGAIN
• 19:19 THAT THE ESSENCE OF PENTECOST
• 19:20 IS THE BIRTH OF THE CHURCH
• 19:21 AND THE POWER OF SALVATION...
• 19:23 THE GOSPEL GOING FORTH THROUGH THE NATIONS.
• 19:25 THE GOSPEL HAS GONE ALL THE WAY AROUND THE WORLD TO THE WEST
• 19:28 AND NOW IT'S RETURNING TO ISRAEL
• 19:30 AND SO MANY NOW ARE CALLING UPON THE NAME OF YESHUA,
• 19:32 IT'S AN AWESOME TIME.
• 19:34 IN FACT, OUR PRODUCER, KEN BERG, WAS ABLE TO INTERVIEW A FOURTH GENERATION SABRA,
• 19:38 BORN IN THE LAND, MESSIANIC BELIEVER
• 19:40 WHO SPEAKS ABOUT HIS TIME OF COMING TO FAITH IN YESHUA, HA'MASHIACH.
• 19:45 LET'S GO TO KEN IN THAT INTERVIEW
• 19:48 AS I AM FOUR GENERATION JEWISH SABRA IN ISRAEL.
• 19:53 THE STORY HAS TO BE BIG BUT I WILL MAKE IT SHORT.
• 19:59 A SON OF A TRADITIONAL FAMILY
• 20:04 WHO LEFT THE FAITH OF HIS FAMILY WHEN HE WAS 13 YEARS OLD
• 20:10 BECAUSE HE COULDN'T SEE GOD IN FRONT OF HIM.
• 20:14 AFTER 20 YEARS SOMEBODY WAS TELLING ME ABOUT JESUS.
• 20:20 I SAID, "EVEN THOUGH THAT I'M NOT BELIEVING GOD,"
• 20:26 "I DON'T WANT TO HEAR THE NAME OF JESUS BECAUSE I AM A JEW."
• 20:30 BUT THE LORD WANTED SOMETHING ELSE
• 20:36 AND I STILL HEARD ABOUT JESUS
• 20:39 AND I WAS WILLING TO READ THE NEW TESTAMENT AS A HISTORY BOOK.
• 20:44 WHEN I SAW THE NEW TESTAMENT
• 20:48 AND ALSO IN THE BIBLE
• 20:50 THE TRUTH ABOUT JESUS;
• 20:52 IT'S LIKE A SHOCK TO ME.
• 20:57 IT WAS A SHOCK TO ME
• 20:58 AND I WANTED TO GO TO OPEN THE EYES OF MY PEOPLE, MY FRIENDS,
• 21:04 AND SHOW THEM THE TRUTH,
• 21:07 THAT THEY ARE SO BLIND BECAUSE OF THE TRADITION.
• 21:13 IT'S A DIFFICULT DECISION, ISN'T IT, TO BECOME A BELIEVER?
• 21:17 YES, BECAUSE YOU KNOW THAT THE FAMILY WILL COME AGAINST YOU
• 21:23 ESPECIALLY IF YOU COME FROM A TRADITIONAL FAMILY.
• 21:27 THEY TRY TO PUSH YOU OUT OF THE FAMILY.
• 21:30 BUT YOU KNOW THAT YOU HAVE A NEW FAMILY...
• 21:35 YOU HAVE A BIG FATHER... THAT HE WILL TAKE CARE OF YOU.
• 21:39 AND YOUR EARTHLY FAMILY WILL WANT TO SEE YOU
• 21:47 AND THEN YOU CAN SHARE WITH THEM.
• 21:50 THERE ARE THOSE WHO WOULD SAY
• 21:52 THAT YOU'RE EITHER A JEW OR YOU'RE A CHRISTIAN,
• 21:55 YOU CAN'T BE BOTH.
• 21:56 WHAT WOULD YOU SAY TO THOSE PEOPLE?
• 21:58 I SAY TO THEM, I DON'T CARE WHAT YOU CALL ME.
• 22:02 YOU CAN CALL ME A BUDDHIST,
• 22:04 YOU CAN CALL ME CHRISTIAN,
• 22:05 YOU CANNOT CALL ME NO JEW.
• 22:08 FIRST, NOBODY CAN TAKE THE JEWISHNESS FROM ME.
• 22:12 I WAS BORN INTO THE JEWISHNESS.
• 22:15 BUT IF YOU KNOW THAT I BELIEVE IN JESUS,
• 22:20 I DON'T CARE HOW YOU WILL CALL ME.
• 22:23 ANYONE CAN BELIEVE IN JESUS, JEW OR GENTILE.
• 22:28 SO NOBODY CAN COME AND BREAK THOSE WORDS
• 22:34 BECAUSE JESUS IS FOR EVERYBODY.
• 22:36 I BELIEVE THAT ALL WHO BELIEVE IN MY MESSIAH IS A REAL JEW...
• 22:44 IS A COMPLETE JEW...PERFECT JEW.
• 22:47 WE ARE STUDYING IN THE SERIES THAT WE ARE PRODUCING RIGHT NOW,
• 22:50 THE FEASTS OF THE LORD MENTIONED IN LEVITICUS 23.
• 22:54 DO YOU THINK THAT THEY STILL HAVE RELEVANCE TO US TODAY?
• 22:57 OF COURSE
• 23:00 YOU SEE, IF YOU KNOW THE FEASTS OF PASSOVER, "PESACH"
• 23:06 THE STORY OF OUR LIBERATION FROM BONDAGE,
• 23:11 I KNOW, EVERYBODY HAS TO KNOW,
• 23:16 THAT THE PEOPLE ARE STILL UNDER BONDAGE TO THEIR SINS
• 23:23 AND THEY NEED THIS LIBERATION FROM THE BONDAGE
• 23:27 AND ONLY IF THEY WILL LOOK ON YESHUA, JESUS,
• 23:34 THEY WILL BREAK THE BONDAGE.
• 23:37 SO WE HAVE THE MISSION TO GO AND SHOW IT TO THEM.
• 23:45 WE WERE TALKING BEFORE AND YOU MENTIONED THOSE THREE WORDS
• 23:48 WHICH HAD SO MUCH MEANING TO YOU..."I'LL BE BACK."
• 23:52 IT'S CONNECTED TO PASSOVER VERY, VERY MUCH.
• 23:56 THERE IS ONE ITEM ON THE SEDER PLATE CALLED AN AFIKOMAN.
• 24:03 AFIKOMAN IS NOT A HEBREW WORD;
• 24:06 IT IS A GREEK WORD COMING FROM THE WORD AFIKOMANOS.
• 24:13 WHEN I HEARD A FEW YEARS AGO THE MEANING OF THAT WORD...
• 24:20 IT'S A VERY PRECIOUS BROTHER THAT SPOKE ABOUT IT
• 24:26 AND HE SAID THAT THE MEANING IS "I WILL BE BACK."
• 24:33 AND AS I LOVE ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGAR
• 24:36 AND I LOVE HIS WORDS "I WILL BE BACK"
• 24:40 I UNDERSTOOD EVERYTHING ABOUT PASSOVER
• 24:44 BECAUSE OF THREE WORDS...
• 24:47 "I'LL BE BACK."
• 25:24 THAT'S ZOLA PLAYING THE MUSIC THAT HE LOVES SO MUCH, IN ISRAEL.
• 25:28 AND WE'RE TALKING ABOUT PENTECOST THIS TIME THIS WEEK MYLES.
• 25:30 TELL US A LITTLE BIT ABOUT WHAT YOU KNOW AND WHAT GOD'S BIRTHED IN YOU THROUGH THIS.
• 25:34 WELL THERE'S SUCH A PARALLEL
• 25:36 BETWEEN THE OLD TESTAMENT AND THE NEW TESTAMENT
• 25:38 ESPECIALLY DURING THE TIME OF SHAVUOT.
• 25:40 THESE FEASTS OF WEEKS TOOK PLACE 50 DAYS AFTER FIRST FRUITS
• 25:44 AND THERE'S AN AMAZING PARALLEL.
• 25:45 TRADITIONALLY THE JEWISH PEOPLE BELIEVED
• 25:47 THAT AT SINAI THE LAW WAS GIVEN.
• 25:50 WELL EVERYONE WAS IN TOWN TO CELEBRATE SHAVUOT
• 25:53 AND THE LAW WAS WRITTEN ON THE HEARTS OF THE FIRST CHURCH.
• 25:56 AT SINAI THE FIRE CAME ON THE MOUNTAIN TOP.
• 25:59 IN PENTECOST THE FIRE WAS ON THEIR HEADS LIKE TONGUES OF FIRE.
• 26:03 IN SINAI THE 3,000 WERE SLAIN
• 26:06 BECAUSE OF DISOBEDIENCE IN BUILDING THE GOLDEN CALF.
• 26:09 AT PENTECOST 3,000 WERE BORN AGAIN
• 26:11 WHEN PETER PREACHED FROM THE SOUTHERN STEPS.
• 26:14 AND AT SINAI A NATION WAS CALLED IN A DAY
• 26:17 JUST AS ON THE SOUTHERN STEPS AT PENTECOST THE NATION OF THE CHURCH WAS BORN.
• 26:23 IT'S AN INCREDIBLE PARALLEL
• 26:25 BETWEEN THE OLD TESTAMENT AND THE NEW TESTAMENT...
• 26:27 SEAMLESS CONNECTION FOR US AS BELIEVERS
• 26:30 THE WAY THAT GOD PROVIDES THIS SEAMLESS TRUTH FROM THE OLD TO THE NEW
• 26:34 AND KEEPS ON GOING TODAY
• 26:36 AND EVEN IN TODAY WHERE THE CHURCH HAS BEEN GROWING AROUND THE WORLD
• 26:40 AND NOW IS ARISING IN ISRAEL AGAIN
• 26:42 IN PREPARATION FOR THE NEXT FEAST.
• 26:45 I BELIEVE THAT IF THE LORD KEEPS THE PATTERN
• 26:48 THAT HE'S KEPT IN THE FIRST THREE FEASTS
• 26:51 THAT ON THIS FOURTH FEAST
• 26:52 THAT'S COMING UP NEXT WEEK ON OUR SHOW...
• 26:54 WHO KNOWS WHEN WITH THE LORD THE FEAST OF TRUMPETS MAY BE
• 26:58 THE TIME WHEN WE HEAR THAT TRUMPET PLAY
• 27:00 AND WE SEE HIM APPEAR IN THE SKY.
• 27:02 AND SO WE REALLY WANT TO ENCOURAGE YOU TO BE WITH US NEXT WEEK.
• 27:05 REMEMBER WE KEEP GOING
• 27:06 THROUGH YOUR GIFTS AND DONATIONS
• 27:08 SO PLEASE CONTINUE TO SUPPORT US
• 27:10 SO WE CAN BRING YOU THESE GREAT PROGRAMS.
• 27:11 UNTIL WE SEE YOU AGAIN WE WANT TO URGE YOU...
• 27:14 SHAL'ALU SHALOM YERUSHALAYIM.
• 27:17 PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM.