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

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