Caption transcript for The Miracle of Passover (2012): Part 2 (2/2)

• 00:19 PASSOVER...
• 00:21 THE CROWN JEWEL OF BIBLICAL FEASTS,
• 00:23 SACRED TO JEWS AND CHRISTIANS ALIKE.
• 00:26 TAUGHT SINCE THE EXODUS 35 CENTURIES AGO
• 00:30 AND REVERED IN THE LORD'S SUPPER,
• 00:32 COMMUNION, THE EUCHARIST
• 00:34 AND BY ALL PEOPLES WHO RESPECT THE FREEDOM OF NATIONS.
• 00:38 HERE IS PASSOVER IN ALL ITS GLORY.
• 00:47 SHALOM AND WELCOME
• 00:48 TO ZOLA LEVITT PRESENTS
• 00:50 I'M MYLES
• 00:50 THIS IS KATHARINE
• 00:52 AND WE'RE CONTINUING TODAY
• 00:53 WITH THE MIRACLE OF PASSOVER.
• 00:55 THIS IS ACTUALLY PART 2.
• 00:56 OUR FOUNDER ZOLA LEVITT WILL BE TEACHING
• 00:58 EVEN THOUGH HE'S GRADUATED AND GONE TO HEAVEN.
• 01:00 WE HAVE SOME GREAT FOOTAGE OF HIM DOING A PASSOVER YEARS AGO.
• 01:03 AND REALLY WE'RE WALKING THROUGH THE CUPS OF THE LORD.
• 01:07 THERE ARE FOUR CUPS USED DURING THE PASSOVER SERVICE
• 01:11 AND WE'RE COMING UP TO THE CUP OF REDEMPTION,
• 01:13 THE PASSOVER CUP THAT HAS TO DO WITH REDEEMING US.
• 01:15 AND IT HAS TO DO WITH COMMUNION.
• 01:17 AND I HAD NO IDEA BEING RAISED A CHRISTIAN OR A CATHOLIC
• 01:21 THAT COMMUNION WAS SO TIED TO PASSOVER.
• 01:23 IT ACTUALLY COMES OUT OF THE PASSOVER SERVICE.
• 01:25 WHAT WE CONSIDER TO BE COMMUNION
• 01:27 COMES DIRECTLY FROM THE PASSOVER SERVICE.
• 01:29 SO LET'S JOIN ZOLA
• 01:31 AS HE CONTINUES WITH THE MIRACLE OF PASSOVER.
• 01:36 SHALOM, HELLO AGAIN
• 01:37 WELL, I'M DRESSED FOR PASSOVER
• 01:39 AND THAT'S WHAT WE'RE
• 01:40 GOING TO DO TONIGHT
• 01:41 THE SECOND HALF OF OUR PASSOVER
• 01:43 TEACHING WE STARTED LAST WEEK.
• 01:45 PASSOVER IS JUST THAT LONG AND YOU CAN'T MAKE IT MUCH SHORTER
• 01:48 AND SO WE'LL FINISH IT UP TONIGHT.
• 01:50 WE HAVE A STUDIO AUDIENCE AND LATER IN THE PROGRAM WE'LL OFFER YOU TEACHING MATERIALS.
• 01:56 DON'T TRY TO WRITE DOWN EVERYTHING I'M SAYING...REALLY I'D RATHER YOU WATCH.
• 01:59 WE HAVE A BOOK AND A CASSETTE AND VIDEOS AND SO ON...ALL OF THIS AVAILABLE TO YOU.
• 02:03 SO LET'S GO BACK TO THE STUDIO AND PASSOVER IN ALL ITS GLORY.
• 02:09 SHALOM, HELLO AGAIN.
• 02:11 WELL WE'RE IN THE MIDDLE OF PASSOVER.
• 02:13 LAST WEEK I EXPLAINED HOW THIS 3500 HUNDRED YEAR OLD FEAST,
• 02:16 THE WORLD'S OLDEST FEAST BY A LONG SHOT,
• 02:20 WAS STILL BEING SET UP IN JEWISH HOMES
• 02:23 AND I EXPLAINED THAT IN THE EXODUS THERE WERE 400 YEARS OF SILENCE
• 02:29 BEFORE THAT BLOOD SACRIFICE OF THE LAMB THAT GOT THEM OUT OF EGYPT
• 02:32 COMPARABLE TO THE 400 YEARS OF SILENCE FROM THE END OF THE OLD TESTAMENT TO WHEN JESUS CAME,
• 02:39 THE BLOOD SACRIFICE THAT TAKES US ALL OUT OF SLAVERY.
• 02:42 AND THEN WE WENT ON TO COMPARE THE LAMB AND JESUS,
• 02:48 THE LAMB OF EGYPT AND THE LAMB OF GOD...PRETTY MUCH THE SAME THING IN GOD'S VIEW.
• 02:53 AND THEN I EXPLAINED HOW WE HAVE A DAY OF PREPARATION TO SET UP...THIS TABLE CHANGE OVER,
• 02:59 THE DISHES, GET THE LEAVEN OUT OF THE HOUSE,
• 03:01 FATHER DONS THE KITTEL,
• 03:02 WE COME TO THE TABLE, WE LIGHT THE CANDLES,
• 03:04 WE HAD THEM LIT BY A FEMALE BECAUSE A FEMALE BROUGHT US THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD AFTER ALL
• 03:10 AND THEN WE DRANK THE FIRST CUP OF WINE, WE HID THE AFIKOMAN,
• 03:16 WE BROKE A PIECE OF BREAD THAT WAS THE MIDDLE OF A STACK OF THREE,
• 03:21 WE WRAPPED IT AND HID IT AWAY AND WE'LL COME TO IT LATER.
• 03:25 WE HAD A YOUNG CHILD ASK THE FOUR QUESTIONS AND WE STARTED THE STORY OF THE EXODUS,
• 03:32 ESPECIALLY THE FOODS ON THIS PLATE.
• 03:34 THERE'S BITTER OF HERBS
• 03:38 AND CHAROSES, A MIXTURE OF APPLES AND NUTS AND CINNAMON THAT REPRESENTS BRICK MORTAR
• 03:42 AND THEN THE PARSLEY WHICH WE DIPPED IN SALT WATER.
• 03:48 WE POINTED OUT ABOUT THE DIPPING IN THE GOSPEL, "THE ONE WHO DIPS AFTER ME".
• 03:51 AND WE CAME THROUGH THESE FOODS,
• 03:54 THE SECOND CUP WE POUR IT OUT SO IT LOOKS LIKE BLOOD FOR THE PLAGUES
• 04:00 AND WE HAD COME UP TO THIS EGG.
• 04:03 THERE'S AN EGG ON THIS PLATE.
• 04:05 THERE'S AN EGG IN WHAT WE CALL EASTER TOO,
• 04:08 BUT I'M GOING TO EXPLAIN HOW THIS REALLY IS NOT A VALID BIBLICAL SYMBOL.
• 04:12 IT'S NOT CALLED FOR IN THE SCRIPTURE.
• 04:14 THE EGG IS USED AS A SYMBOL OF FERTILITY.
• 04:18 NOW FERTILITY AND RESURRECTION ARE QUITE DIFFERENT THINGS.
• 04:22 YOU NOW, EVERY PLANT, EVERY BUG IS FERTILE.
• 04:26 WE GET RESURRECTION ONLY FROM JESUS CHRIST.
• 04:29 THE EGG SEEMS TO HAVE CREPT ON TO THE JEWISH FROM THE BABYLONIAN TIMES,
• 04:35 FROM NEBUCHADNEZZAR.
• 04:36 IT SEEMS TO HAVE CREPT INTO RESURRECTION SUNDAY THE SAME WAY.
• 04:41 IN OTHER WORDS, THAT SUNDAY IN THE BIBLE IS CALLED "FIRST FRUITS".
• 04:46 WHEN WE SAY "EASTER"
• 04:48 WE ARE PRONOUNCING THE NAME OF A BABYLONIAN GODDESS OF FERTILITY, "ISHTAR".
• 04:53 THIS LEAKS OVER FROM A PAGAN RITE AND THE BABYLONIANS HAD A FERTILITY RITE EVERY SPRING.
• 05:01 THEY HAD A VERITABLE ORGY,
• 05:02 THEY HAD TO GET AHEAD OF THE PLAGUES THAT WERE KILLING THEM ALL THE TIME
• 05:06 BECAUSE THEY DID NOT HAVE THE LAW OF GOD AND DID NOT LIVE IN A CONTINENT WAY
• 05:10 AND THEY HAD WHAT THE LORD CALLED "THE DISEASES OF EGYPT"
• 05:13 AND THEY WERE DECIMATED ALL THE TIME,
• 05:15 SO IN THE SPRING THEY WOULD ENCOURAGE A LOT OF FERTILITY AND HAVE THE FERTILITY GODDESS.
• 05:20 THEY WORSHIPPED THE THINGS IN NATURE OF FERTILITY,
• 05:23 THE TREES WERE PUTTING ON NEW CLOTHES,
• 05:25 SO THEY BOUGHT NEW OUTFITS,
• 05:27 THE RABBIT WHO WAS SO HEROICALLY FERTILE,
• 05:29 WE STILL HAVE THIS EASTER BUNNY.
• 05:31 YES, AND WE PLAY WITH EGGS TOO, THE PRIME SYMBOL OF FERTILITY.
• 05:37 WE COLOR THEM, WE HIDE THEM.
• 05:38 NOW LOOK, I'LL TELL YOU A TRUTH,
• 05:41 AN EGG HUNT IS AN ATTEMPT AT PREGNANCY, THAT'S WHAT THAT IS.
• 05:46 WELL, THINK ABOUT THAT.
• 05:48 AND IT'S ALMOST FUNNY WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT IT.
• 05:51 AND WE'RE DOING THIS BABYLONIAN RITE EVERY SPRING
• 05:54 AND CONFUSING IT WITH RESURRECTION SUNDAY, "FIRSTFRUITS".
• 05:57 IF WE WOULD ONLY CALL IT "FIRST FRUITS" BY ITS BIBLICAL NAME, A MUCH GREATER TRUTH EMERGES.
• 06:03 IF THERE'S A FIRST, THERE'S A SECOND, A THIRD.
• 06:06 WE'RE TALKING ABOUT RESURRECTION HERE.
• 06:09 IN I CORINTHIANS CHAPTER 15, VERSE 22 THE SCRIPTURE SAYS,
• 06:26 JESUS IS CALLED BY THE NAME OF A FESTIVAL.
• 06:29 HE HAS A NUMBER IN THIS RESURRECTION.
• 06:32 HE'S THE FIRST MAN PERMANENTLY RESURRECTED AND HIS NUMBER IS 1.
• 06:36 AND WE ALL HAVE A NUMBER.
• 06:38 EVIDENTLY, YOU GO INTO ONE OF THOSE CROWDED STORES WHERE THEY GIVE YOU A NUMBER,
• 06:41 YOU'RE CONFIDENT THAT YOU'LL BE SERVED AND YOU WILL BE SERVED.
• 06:44 WELL, IN THIS RESURRECTION IT SAYS THE DEAD IN CHRIST WILL RISE FIRST.
• 06:49 WELL, OBVIOUSLY THEY HAVE LOWER NUMBERS. (AUDIENCE LAUGHING)
• 06:52 WE GO IN ACTUAL RANKS IN THIS RESURRECTION.
• 06:55 IT'S THAT ORGANIZED.
• 06:56 YOU HAVE A NUMBER, AND I HAVE A NUMBER,
• 06:58 THE SCRIPTURE SAYS THE HAIRS OF YOUR HEAD ARE ALL NUMBERED.
• 07:01 SOME OF YOU HAVE HIGHER NUMBERS THAN I DO. (AUDIENCE LAUGHING)
• 07:05 BUT REALLY THE EGG IS A FERTILITY SYMBOL
• 07:10 AND FERTILITY AND RESURRECTION ARE REALLY QUITE DIFFERENT.
• 07:12 IT'S A LITTLE CRUSADE OF MY OWN.
• 07:14 I WISH WE COULD CALL THE FESTIVAL "FIRST FRUITS".
• 07:17 I REMEMBER A CHURCH WHERE THEY ASKED ME TO SPEAK ON "FIRST FRUITS".
• 07:21 A PASTOR CALLED AND SAID, "COULD YOU SPEAK TO US ON FIRST FRUITS?"
• 07:25 I WAS SO HONORED THAT FINALLY I HEAR SOMEBODY USE THE RIGHT NAME...THE BIBLICAL NAME FOR THE FESTIVAL.
• 07:32 I SAID, "I'LL BE GLAD TO COME".
• 07:33 I CAME TO THE CHURCH,
• 07:35 ON THE WAY IN I BROKE A BRANCH OFF A YOUNG TREE TO WAVE OVER THE CONGREGATION,
• 07:38 CAUSE THAT'S WHAT YOU DO ON FIRST FRUITS,
• 07:40 A THANK OFFERING FOR THE LORD MAKETH THE LAND FERTILE AGAIN AFTER THE EXODUS.
• 07:44 A DEACON TOLD ME, "BROTHER LEVITT, WE JUST PLANTED THOSE TREES."
• 07:48 I SAID, "YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO MAKE A SACRIFICE!" (AUDIENCE LAUGHING)
• 07:52 I REMEMBER THAT MORNING I SAT ON THE PODIUM,
• 07:56 THE PASTOR WANTED TO DO EVERYTHING RIGHT
• 07:58 AND HE SAID TO ME, "HOW DO I INTRODUCE YOU BROTHER LEVITT?"
• 08:00 "DO I CALL YOU A MESSIANIC JEW OR A COMPLETED JEW"
• 08:04 "OR A HEBREW CHRISTIAN, A JEWISH CHRISTIAN, WHAT ARE YOU?"
• 08:07 AND I THOUGHT A MINUTE AND I SAID,
• 08:09 "YOU KNOW WHEN MY PEOPLE WERE SAVED IN THE FIRST CENTURY THEY CALLED US CHRISTIANS."
• 08:14 (AUDIENCE LAUGHING)
• 08:15 THAT'S ALL THERE WAS TO THAT.
• 08:17 WELL, THAT IS THE PLATE INCLUDING THE EGG AND THIS IS HOW IT IS SET UP.
• 08:23 WHEN FATHER IS TELLING THE STORY
• 08:26 WE'VE PARTAKEN OF EACH OF THE FOODS AS HE COMES TO THAT ISSUE IN THE STORY.
• 08:30 SO WE DIPPED FOR THE RED SEA AND SO ON.
• 08:33 BUT THIS WHOLE PLATE IS A STORY OF SALVATION.
• 08:36 IT REALLY TELLS OF YOUR WHOLE LIFE...
• 08:38 THE BITTER HERBS BEFORE YOU WERE SAVED...
• 08:41 THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB...
• 08:43 YOUR COMING TO CHRIST...
• 08:45 THE RED SEA...
• 08:48 YOU KNOW WATER KILLS BUT THE HEBREW NATION WENT IN THERE AND CAME OUT SAFELY...
• 08:53 WELL YOU WENT INTO YOUR BAPTISM AND WENT OUT SAFELY,
• 08:55 YOU COULD DROWN IN THERE BUT YOU CAME OUT SAFELY LIKE THEY DID.
• 08:58 AND NOW YOU'RE IN THE WILDERNESS
• 09:00 WALKING ALONG IN THIS TOUGH AREA OF SO MUCH LAW WHERE IT'S SO HARD TO GET FOOD AND WATER
• 09:06 BUT WE'RE EVER HEADING TOWARD HEAVEN, JERICHO.
• 09:10 HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE EVER SEEN JERICHO?
• 09:12 A GREAT NUMBER OF PEOPLE
• 09:14 IT'S A BEAUTIFUL PLACE...FLOWERS AND GRAPEFRUITS AND ORANGES HANGING OFF THE TREES
• 09:19 AND COLD WATER RUNNING UP AND DOWN THE GUTTERS.
• 09:21 THIS IS WHERE GOD CHOSE TO SHOW HIS CHOSEN PEOPLE THEIR PROMISED LAND.
• 09:26 JERICHO IS A SYMBOL OF PARADISE,
• 09:29 OF HEAVEN, OF THE END OF THE EXODUS JOURNEY, OF THE END OF OUR JOURNEYS IN THIS LIFE.
• 09:35 THE CLINCHER IS THE NAME OF THE LEADER.
• 09:37 YOU RECALL WHEN THE CHOSEN PEOPLE WENT INTO THE PROMISED LAND AT JERICHO
• 09:41 IT WAS WITH SHOUTS AND TRUMPETS AND THE WALLS FELL DOWN.
• 09:44 AND THE NAME OF THE LEADER WAS JOSHUA, GENERAL JOSHUA.
• 09:48 WELL, WHO'S GOING TO TAKE OUT THE CHURCH?
• 09:51 WE CALL HIM JESUS BUT HIS NAME IN HEBREW IS "YESHUA".
• 09:54 IF YOU TRANSLATE THAT DIRECTLY TO ENGLISH WITHOUT THE GREEK TRANSLITERATION OF JESUS,
• 09:59 "YESHUA" MEANS "JOSHUA".
• 10:02 WE LOSE A BIBLE TYPE, A SYMBOL THAT'S WONDERFUL HERE.
• 10:06 THE FACT IS ONCE AGAIN JOSHUA IS GOING TO TAKE HIS CHOSEN PEOPLE TO THE PROMISED LAND
• 10:12 AT THE SOUND OF THE SHOUTS OF THE TRUMPETS.
• 10:24 SO IT'S A REPEAT PERFORMANCE,
• 10:26 THE RESURRECTION OR THE RAPTURE OF THE CHURCH IS LIKE THE ENTRY INTO JERICHO AFTER THE EXODUS.
• 10:33 WELL, AFTER ALL THOSE FOODS WE THEN HAVE THE REAL MEAL.
• 10:38 THESE ARE JUST APPETIZER FOODS OBVIOUSLY
• 10:40 AND NOW WE SERVE THE BEST MEAL OF THE YEAR
• 10:42 AND IT IS NOT LAMB THOUGH.
• 10:46 THEY USUALLY OMIT LAMB BECAUSE YOU KNOW YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO TAKE YOU LAMB TO THE TEMPLE,
• 10:50 OFFER IT TO GOD, HE HAD A PORTION...THE PRIEST TOOK A PORTION.
• 10:55 GOD LIKES LAMB EVIDENTLY.
• 10:57 THEY FEEL LIKE THEY'RE EATING IN FRONT OF HIM
• 10:59 AND SO THEY HAVE CHICKEN OR BEEF OR SOME OTHER KOSHER MEAT AND THEY EAT A WONDERFUL FEAST.
• 11:04 AND THEN AT THE END OF THIS FEAST FATHER GETS UP AGAIN, THE SERVICE GOES ON,
• 11:11 I MEAN WE'VE EATEN FOR TWO HOURS NOW,
• 11:13 PICTURE, THIS IS A LONG EVENING, I CAN TELL YOU.
• 11:16 AND AT THE END OF THIS MEAL THE LAST THING EATEN IS THAT HIDDEN AFIKOMAN.
• 11:22 YOU REMEMBER THE PIECE OF BREAD WE BROKE LAST WEEK.
• 11:25 WE TOOK THE MIDDLE PIECE OUT OF THIS BAG,
• 11:27 BROKE IT, WRAPPED IT UP IN A WHITE CLOTH...HID IT AWAY.
• 11:31 FATHER NOW BRINGS IT FORTH AGAIN, GETS IT OUT OF ITS HIDING PLACE.
• 11:40 AND THIS PIECE OF BREAD AND THE THIRD CUP OF WINE, THE CUP OF REDEMPTION,
• 11:46 IS THE LORD'S SUPPER.
• 11:49 IT'S NOT LIKE IT, IT IS IT.
• 11:51 IT'S THE ORIGINAL.
• 11:52 IT'S THE COMMUNION, THE EUCHARIST, WHATEVER YOU WANT TO CALL IT.
• 11:57 THIS RED AND THIS PARTICULAR WINE...YOU SEE I TOLD YOU...
• 12:01 YOU COULD SEE THE WHOLE SERVICE YOU'LL APPRECIATE IT BETTER.
• 12:05 SO THIS IS HOW IT COMES OUT OF THE SERVICE.
• 12:08 AND LET ME SAY A FEW WORDS ABOUT THE BREAD AND THE WINE.
• 12:12 WE CAN PICK UP JESUS DOING THIS IN THE GOSPEL.
• 12:15 MATTHEW CHAPTER 26, VERSE 26, IT SAYS,
• 12:26 NOW WHAT DID HE SAY IN THAT BLESSING?
• 12:27 WELL THE BLESSING OVER BREAD HAD BEEN THE SAME FOR 1500 YEARS.
• 12:31 "BARUCH ATAH, ADONAI ELOHEINU, MELECH HA-OLAM, HA-MOTZI LECHEM MIN HA-ARETZ."
• 12:36 "BLESSED ART THOU, O LORD OUR GOD, KING OF THE UNIVERSE,"
• 12:39 "WHO BRINGEST FORTH BREAD FROM THE EARTH"
• 12:41 AND SO THERE WAS A PROPHECY IN THAT BLESSING.
• 12:45 MEN DON'T WORRY IF THEY TRY TO PUT MY BODY IN THE EARTH THIS WEEK.
• 12:49 THIS BREAD IS MY BODY BUT GOD BRINGS FORTH BREAD FROM THE EARTH.
• 12:54 YOU CAN'T BURY A KERNEL OF WHEAT.
• 12:56 SOMETHING COMES UP AGAIN.
• 12:58 WHEN HE SAID THIS BREAD IS MY BODY IT'S NOT JUST A METAPHOR, THE BREAD IS UNLEAVENED.
• 13:03 IT'S PURE LIKE HIS BODY.
• 13:06 IT HAS STRIPES.
• 13:08 YOU HAVE TO GRILL IT.
• 13:10 BY HIS STRIPES ARE WE HEALED.
• 13:12 AND IT'S PIERCED WITH HOLES LIKE A PIE CRUST IS PIERCED,
• 13:15 YOU CAN SEE RIGHT THROUGH IT.
• 13:17 HE SAID, "I AM THE BREAD OF LIFE".
• 13:21 HE WAS BORN IN BETHLEHEM, "BEIT LEHEM"..."HOUSE OF BREAD".
• 13:25 HE WAS BURIED ON THE FESTIVAL CALLED "UNLEAVENED BREAD".
• 13:28 THIS IS THE ONLY PICTURE WE HAVE OF OUR LORD
• 13:31 AND WE GET OUR SALVATION SIMPLY LIKE THIS.
• 13:37 HIS BODY IS BROKEN FOR US.
• 13:40 WE PARTAKE OF IT AND WE INGEST THAT QUALITY OF RISING FORTH FROM THE EARTH.
• 13:46 THAT'S THE WONDERFUL PIECE OF BREAD THAT WE HID AWAY.
• 13:50 IT WAS THE MIDDLE OF THE THREE.
• 13:52 IF IT'S THE TRINITY, THEN THAT WHOLE CEREMONY WAS PERFORMED WITH THE BODY OF THE SON.
• 14:16 ♪SHA'A'LU SHALOM YERUSHALAYIM♪
• 14:20 ♪SHA'A'LU, SHA'A'LU SHALOM♪
• 14:24 ♪IN THE HOLY CITY OF JERUSALEM♪
• 14:31 ♪WE WILL PRAY FOR PEACE♪
• 14:33 ♪SHA'A'LU SHALOM♪
• 14:43 WOW...WE'RE COMING UP
• 14:44 ON ONE OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL
• 14:46 PARTS OF THE PASSOVER SEDER,
• 14:48 OR CEREMONY,
• 14:49 WHERE THE CUP OF REDEMPTION
• 14:50 SHOWS US THAT THERE'S A PICTURE OF A BRIDAL CEREMONY IN THE PASSOVER.
• 14:55 IT'S THE TIME WHEN THE LORD OFFERS THE BRIDE THE CUP
• 14:58 AND WE GET TO DRINK THE CUP OR NOT DRINK THE CUP.
• 15:01 IT'S A CHOICE THAT WE ALL HAVE.
• 15:03 WE GET TO SAY "YES" TO THE LORD
• 15:05 IT'S REALLY PICTURED HERE.
• 15:06 LET'S JOIN ZOLA AS HE CONTINUES
• 15:08 WITH THE CUPS OF THE LORD IN "THE MIRACLE OF PASSOVER".
• 15:13 WELL, WE JUST TALKED ABOUT THE BREAD AND HOW IT SPEAKS TO RESURRECTION.
• 15:17 WHEN WE INGEST THAT BREAD
• 15:19 WE INGEST THAT QUALITY OF COMING FORTH FROM THE EARTH OURSELVES.
• 15:23 WHEN HE HAD SAID THAT BLESSING
• 15:25 THEY'D SAID IT FROM TIME IMMEMORIAL,
• 15:26 BUT HE REALLY GAVE IT A NEW MEANING.
• 15:28 NOW, THE CUP...HE SAID,
• 15:30 "BARUCH HATA ADONAI ELOHENU MELLECH HA'OLAM, BORAY PERI HAGAFEN".
• 15:34 BLESSED ART THOU, OH LORD OUR GOD, KING OF THE UNIVERSE,
• 15:37 CREATOR OF THE FRUIT OF THE VINE.
• 15:39 WELL HE'D ALREADY SAID "I'M THE TRUE VINE".
• 15:41 THE DISCIPLES ARE THE BRANCHES.
• 15:43 IT'S US, THE CHURCH THAT IS THE FRUIT OF THE VINE OR THE FRUITS OF THE VINE.
• 15:48 AND WE'RE BRANCHES TOO,
• 15:49 AND WE BEAR FRUITS, BUT HE IS DRINKING A TOAST TO US.
• 15:53 AND WHY?
• 15:55 BECAUSE A CUP OF WINE WAS THE WAY THAT A BRIDEGROOM PROPOSED MARRIAGE.
• 15:59 HE DRANK A TOAST TO THE BRIDE.
• 16:01 HE SET IT BEFORE HER.
• 16:02 IT WORKED LIKE THIS.
• 16:04 SEE, THEY DIDN'T HAVE DATING AND COURTSHIP IN ISRAEL.
• 16:07 THE LAW WAS TOO STRICT FOR THAT.
• 16:08 THEY JUST PROPOSED ON THE FIRST DATE.
• 16:11 MY FATHER PROPOSED TO MY MOTHER ON THEIR FIRST DATE.
• 16:14 YOU KNOW THEY DIDN'T THINK ANYTHING OF MARRYING STRANGERS.
• 16:17 IN FIDDLER ON THE ROOF THERE'S A SONG, "THE FIRST TIME I SAW YOU WAS ON OUR WEDDING DAY".
• 16:21 THEY SAID NO MATTER HOW LONG YOU KNEW EACH OTHER YOU STILL ALWAYS MARRY A STRANGER. (LAUGHTER)
• 16:28 SOME PEOPLE ARE LAUGHING. (MORE LAUGHTER)
• 16:34 (ZOLA LAUGHS)
• 16:37 YOU KNOW REBEKAH MARRIED A STRANGER WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT IT.
• 16:40 REMEMBER REBEKAH...SHE'S LIKE AN ILLUSTRATION OF THE CHURCH.
• 16:43 SHE'S IN HER PLACE IN HARAN
• 16:45 AND HERE COMES A SERVANT SENT BY ABRAHAM.
• 16:47 ELIEZER COMES TO HER AND SHE WATERS HIS CAMELS
• 16:50 AND HE SHOWS HER BEAUTIFUL THINGS THAT A PERSPECTIVE BRIDEGROOM HAS SENT.
• 16:55 SHE SEES THESE THINGS AND SHE'S WOOED AND WON AND WILLING TO GO OFF AND MARRY HIM.
• 16:59 THAT'S OUR POSITION.
• 17:00 WE HAVE NOT REALLY SEEN JESUS CHRIST,
• 17:02 BUT WE HAVE SEEN THE GIFTS BROUGHT BY THE HOLY SPIRIT
• 17:05 AND WE'RE WOOED AND WON WILLING TO GO OFF AND MARRY THIS JEWISH PRINCE WE KNOW NOT WHERE.
• 17:10 SO REBEKAH IS REALLY AN ILLUSTRATION OF THE CHURCH.
• 17:13 IT'S A BEAUTIFUL STORY.
• 17:15 A PERFECT STRANGER COULD SPOT ANY LADY IN THE MARKET THAT DIDN'T HAVE A VEIL ON
• 17:19 AND FOLLOW HER HOME AND LEARN WHERE SHE LIVED AND COME TO HOUSE WITH A MARRIAGE CONTRACT.
• 17:25 HE WOULD ALSO BRING SOME MONEY.
• 17:27 THEY HAD A BRIDE PRICE.
• 17:29 HER FATHER WAS ENTITLED TO RECEIVE A PRICE FOR EACH DAUGHTER.
• 17:32 IT WAS THOUGHT THAT IF YOU RAISED SONS YOU HAD DEFENDERS AND WORKERS ON YOUR PLACE...
• 17:37 NATURAL ADVANTAGES.
• 17:39 BUT THE MEN THAT RAISED DAUGHTERS HAD NOTHING BUT LIABILITIES.
• 17:41 SOME OF YOU MEN MAY SYMPATHIZE WITH THAT. (LAUGHTER)
• 17:45 WHEN THEIR GIRLS GOT BIG ENOUGH...
• 17:46 THE BOYS WANTED TO MARRY THEM...
• 17:48 YOU COULD KIND OF CONSOLIDATE YOUR LOSSES. (LAUGHTER)
• 17:51 WELL, THE YOUNG MAN WOULD COME IN.
• 17:53 NOW IT DIDN'T HAVE TO BE A STRANGER.
• 17:55 IT COULD BE THE KID FROM THE NEXT FARM.
• 17:57 IT COULD BE A FELLOW AT WHO'S FEET YOU DROPPED A MAP TO YOUR HOUSE IN THE MARKET PLACE.
• 18:00 (LAUGHTER)
• 18:02 BUT ANYWAY, WHOEVER IT WAS,
• 18:04 HE WOULD COME IN AND SET DOWN THIS OBVIOUS ENVELOPE WITH A CONTRACT
• 18:07 WITH A BUNCH OF CASH IN THERE
• 18:09 AND SET A CUP OF WINE BEFORE YOU.
• 18:14 THERE YOU ARE LADIES;
• 18:15 TAKE ALL THE TIME YOU NEED.
• 18:17 TWO MINUTES, THREE MINUTES... (LAUGHTER)
• 18:20 READ THE CONTRACT,
• 18:22 COUNT THE MONEY. (LAUGHTER)
• 18:25 BUT EITHER LIFT UP THAT CUP AND DRINK IT...
• 18:27 OR IF YOUR INTUITION TELLS YOU SOMETHING ISN'T RIGHT
• 18:31 YOU DON'T HAVE TO DRINK IT, JUST WITHDRAW.
• 18:33 THAT GUY WILL PICK UP HIS STUFF AND LEAVE AND HE WON'T BE BACK.
• 18:38 OKAY...THAT'S HOW IT WORKED.
• 18:40 LET'S SAY IN OUR STORY THE GAL PICKS UP THE CUP AND SIPS FROM IT.
• 18:45 WELL, THEN THE YOUNG MAN WOULD JUMP UP AND SAY,
• 18:47 "I GO TO PREPARE A PLACE FOR YOU".
• 18:48 THEN HE'D GO BACK TO HIS FATHER'S HOUSE
• 18:50 AND BUILD HER A LITTLE MANSION -
• 18:52 A BRIDAL CHAMBER FOR THEIR HONEYMOON.
• 18:55 NOW, YOU CAN SEE THAT THIS IS THE GOSPEL.
• 18:58 THE LORD CAME FROM HIS FATHER'S HOUSE TO OUR HOUSE...
• 19:01 HE BROUGHT THE CONTRACT...
• 19:03 "B'RIT HADASHAH", THE NEW CONTRACT...
• 19:05 NEW TESTAMENT WE CALL IT.
• 19:07 DON'T LOSE YOUR NEW TESTAMENT...
• 19:08 THAT'S YOUR MARRIAGE LICENSE.
• 19:10 AND HE POURED THE CUP HERE AT THE PASSOVER TABLE,
• 19:15 SET IT BEFORE US.
• 19:17 THEY DRANK IT THAT NIGHT, THE CHURCH.
• 19:19 AND IT'S SET BEFORE YOU OFTEN.
• 19:22 AND HE PAID THE PRICE,
• 19:23 THE HIGHEST POSSIBLE PRICE...
• 19:25 THE VERY LIFE OF AN INNOCENT MAN.
• 19:27 YOU CAN'T PAY MORE THAN THAT.
• 19:30 AND HE MADE THAT SPEECH,"I GO TO PREPARE A PLACE FOR YOU"
• 19:33 AND HE WENT BACK TO HIS FATHER'S HOUSE.
• 19:35 AND HE SAID, "IN MY FATHER'S HOUSE ARE MANY MANSIONS".
• 19:38 I'S ENOUGH FOR THE WHOLE CHURCH THERE...WONDERFUL.
• 19:41 AND RIGHT NOW HE'S BUILDING A BRIDAL CHAMBER.
• 19:44 WE DON'T KNOW WHEN HE'S COMING.
• 19:46 IT COULD BE TONIGHT.
• 19:47 NO REASON WHY NOT TONIGHT.
• 19:49 MORE LIKELY TONIGHT THAN LAST NIGHT.
• 19:51 HE DIDN'T COME LAST NIGHT.
• 19:53 SO THERE WILL BE A NIGHT HE COMES.
• 19:56 A MAN DOESN'T PAY A PRICE LIKE THAT FOR A BRIDE AND NOT GO AND GET HER.
• 19:59 BELIEVE ME, THE YOUNG MAN WHOSE CUP SHE DRANK ALWAYS CAME BACK FOR HER, NO QUESTION.
• 20:05 WELL, SHE WENT ABOUT HER BUSINESS WEARING A VEIL IN THE TOWN.
• 20:09 THE VEIL IS HER FAITH...
• 20:11 THAT'S WHAT COVERS HER AND THEY DON'T RECOGNIZE HER, BUT THEY KNOW SHE'S ENGAGED.
• 20:14 THAT'S WHAT KEEPS THE WORLD FROM RECOGNIZING US REALLY,
• 20:18 OUR CONTRACT BEHIND THE SCENES WITH THE ONE WE LOVE AND ARE WAITING FOR.
• 20:23 THE CONTRACT SAID SHE HAD TO BE WAITING EVERY NIGHT.
• 20:25 SHE TRIMMED AN OIL LAMP.
• 20:27 THEY LIKED TO COME AT MIDNIGHT.
• 20:29 THEY LIKED TO COME LIKE THIEVES IN THE NIGHT.
• 20:31 SHE WAS CALLED CONSECRATED, SET APART, BOUGHT WITH A PRICE.
• 20:35 SHE'S NOT HER OWN.
• 20:36 THAT'S HOW PAUL DESCRIBES THE CHURCH.
• 20:38 HE SAID, "I WOULD PRESENT YOU A VIRGIN BRIDE TO MY LORD".
• 20:42 THAT'S THE STORY.
• 20:43 AND WHEN THE CHAMBER WAS FINALLY DONE
• 20:45 IT WAS UP TO THE FATHER OF THE GROOM WHEN THE CHAMBER WAS PROPERLY FINISHED.
• 20:49 YOU COULD SEE THE LOGIC THERE.
• 20:51 IF IT WERE UP TO THE YOUNG MAN HE WOULD THROW UP SOME KIND OF LEAN-TO AND GO GET THE GIRL.
• 20:54 (LAUGHTER)
• 20:56 HIS FATHER TOLD HIM WHEN IT WAS DONE.
• 20:58 SO IF YOU SAW A YOUNG MAN BUILDING A CHAMBER YOU MIGHT SAY TO HIM, WHEN IS THE BIG DAY?
• 21:03 BUT HE WOULD SAY, "I DON'T KNOW. ONLY MY FATHER KNOWS".
• 21:06 WHICH THE LORD SAID IN THE GOSPEL YOU SEE.
• 21:09 WELL, THE BIG NIGHT WOULD FINALLY COME.
• 21:11 THEY'D SLIP UP TO HER HOUSE IN THE DARK
• 21:14 MAKING SURE EVERYBODY IS ASLEEP.
• 21:16 NOW THE RULES WERE THEY COULDN'T JUST RUSH IN AND GRAB YOU OUT OF YOUR BED.
• 21:19 I MEAN THIS IS YOUR WEDDING NIGHT.
• 21:21 YOU MIGHT HAVE COLD CREAM ON YOUR FACE.
• 21:22 THE RULES WERE THAT WHEN THEY WERE CLOSE ENOUGH TO BE HEARD
• 21:26 SOMEONE IN THE WEDDING PARTY HAD TO SHOUT.
• 21:29 WHEN SHE HEARD THAT SHOUT SHE KNEW HE'D BE IN THERE IN A MOMENT.
• 21:33 SO THE PARABLE OF THE TEN VIRGINS
• 21:35 IT SAYS IT WAS MIDNIGHT AND A CRY WAS MADE.
• 21:38 OR THE GREAT RAPTURE SCRIPTURE,
• 21:39 I THESSALONIANS 4:16,
• 21:45 AND THEY'D RUSH IN AND GRAB THE BRIDE AND ALL THE GIRLS
• 21:48 AND RUN THEM OUT OF THE TOWN AND THROUGH TOWN INTO THE BRIDAL CHAMBER AT THIS FATHER'S HOUSE.
• 21:54 NOW I TELL THAT STORY TO ILLUSTRATE THE IMPORTANCE OF THIS CUP.
• 21:57 THIS CUP IS THE LORD'S PROPOSAL TO YOU.
• 21:59 IF YOU'RE WILLING TO WAIT FOR HIM EVERY NIGHT AND GO WITH HIM WHEN HE COMES,
• 22:03 THEN WHEN THEY SERVE YOU THIS CUP, DRINK IT.
• 22:06 NOW YOU LADIES HAVE HAD MORE CUPS POURED FOR YOU THAN YOU CAN POSSIBLY LIFT.
• 22:11 THAT'S NORMAL.
• 22:12 IDEALLY YOU PICK UP ONE GOOD ONE.
• 22:15 BUT YOU KNOW THE CUP YOU DON'T DRINK,
• 22:18 THAT FELLOW WOULD TAKE HIS STUFF AND GO.
• 22:21 HE'S NOT GOING TO COME BACK AGAIN.
• 22:23 THE ONE CUP YOU LIFT AND DRINK,
• 22:25 THAT YOUNG MAN WILL ALWAYS COME BACK.
• 22:27 SO WHEN THEY SERVE YOU JESUS' CUP, DRINK IT
• 22:29 AND WHEN HE COMES, HE'LL STOP AT YOUR HOUSE.
• 22:32 NOW THAT IS COMMUNION.
• 22:34 THAT'S THE BREAD.
• 22:35 THAT'S THE WINE.
• 22:37 I BROKE UP THE PIECE OF BREAD
• 22:38 BECAUSE THAT'S HOW WE GET OUR SALVATION.
• 22:41 THAT'S SIMPLY IT...
• 22:42 HIS BODY BROKEN FOR US...
• 22:44 THAT CUP.
• 22:46 YOU KNOW, WHEN WE SIN WE RENEW OUR VOWS SO TO SPEAK... WE DRINK IT OFTEN.
• 22:51 THE LORD PUT DOWN HIS CUP AND SAID,
• 22:53 "I'LL NOT DRINK THIS WINE UNTIL I DRINK IT NEW WITH YOU IN MY FATHER'S KINGDOM."
• 22:56 HE DOESN'T SIN, BUT HE'S WAITING TO DRINK ANOTHER CUP WITH US.
• 23:00 THE LAST CUP HE HAD WITH THE CHURCH WAS THEN ON PASSOVER NIGHT...
• 23:03 IMAGINE...HE MUST BE LOOKING FORWARD TO IT.
• 23:06 THAT'S THE THIRD CUP.
• 23:07 AND THE FOURTH CUP IS FOR ELIJAH.
• 23:10 ELIJAH HAS A CUP OF WINE IN FRONT OF AN EMPTY CHAIR
• 23:13 AND WE'RE WAITING FOR HIM TO COME AND ANNOUNCE THE MESSIAH.
• 23:16 MALACHI SAYS,
• 23:22 WELL, WE UNDERSTAND THAT TO BE THE SECOND COMING.
• 23:24 BUT THE JEWS HAVE NOT RECEIVED JESUS AND ARE STILL WAITING FOR ELIJAH.
• 23:28 THEY SEND THE YOUNG CHILD TO THE DOOR, OPEN IT...
• 23:31 LOOK OUT INTO THE STREET, SEE IF ELIJAH'S THERE.
• 23:33 IN MY TURN I WOULD WALK DOWN TO THE CORNER.
• 23:35 THERE WERE GENTILES LIVING BETWEEN US AND THE CORNER.
• 23:37 I THOUGHT MAYBE ELIJAH WOULD PASS BY AND NOT STOP AT OUR HOUSE.
• 23:41 WE HAD A TABLE SET.
• 23:43 I MEAN DISHES, SILVERWARE, COFFEE...EVERYTHING FOR ELIJAH IN CASE HE CAME.
• 23:48 HE NEVER DID COME
• 23:49 AND WE DON'T EXPECT HIM UNTIL THE SECOND COMING.
• 23:52 HE MAY BE ONE OF THE TWO WITNESSES.
• 23:54 AND THAT'S WHERE WE GO INTO THE HYMNS.
• 23:57 IT SAYS IN THE GOSPEL THEY SANG A HYMN AND WENT OUT TO THE MOUNT OF OLIVES.
• 24:01 I WANT TO TEACH YOU A HEBREW HYMN.
• 24:03 IT'S EASY ENOUGH TO LEARN.
• 24:04 IT ONLY HAS ONE WORD - "DAYENU".
• 24:07 SAY THAT...
• 24:08 (AUDIENCE: "DAYENU".)
• 24:09 DAYENU MEANS "ENOUGH".
• 24:11 AND IT'S AT THE END OF THIS LONG SERVICE.
• 24:13 BUT IT REALLY REFERS TO WHAT GOD DID FOR US IN THE EXODUS.
• 24:17 THE SONG IS LIKE...
• 24:19 THE FATHER SAYS SOMETHING LIKE,
• 24:21 "IF HE'D ONLY BROUGHT US OUT OF THE LAND OF EGYPT IT WOULD HAVE BEEN ENOUGH!"
• 24:25 AND YOU SING, "ENOUGH, ENOUGH, ENOUGH" TO THIS TUNE.
• 24:28 ♪DAY-DAYENU, DAY-DAYENU,♪
• 24:31 ♪DAY-DAYENU, DAYENU, DAYENU!♪
• 24:34 AND TWICE LIKE A FIGHT SONG...ALRIGHT?
• 24:37 AND THEN HE SAYS ANOTHER QUEUE
• 24:39 AND YOU SING ANOTHER VERSE
• 24:41 AND IT GOES ON AND ON.
• 24:42 SO LET'S TRY IT...READY?
• 24:43 IF HE HAD ONLY GIVEN US THE LAW IT WOULD HAVE BEEN ENOUGH!
• 24:46 ♪DAY-DAYENU, DAY-DAYENU,♪
• 24:49 ♪DAY-DAYENU, DAYENU, DAYENU! DAYENU!♪
• 24:53 ♪DAY-DAYENU, DAY-DAYENU,♪
• 24:56 ♪DAY-DAYENU, DAYENU, DAYENU!♪
• 24:59 COME ON, WANT YOU TO SING LIKE JEWS THAT HAVE HAD FOUR CUPS OF WINE! (LAUGHTER)
• 25:04 IF HE HAD ONLY GOTTEN US THROUGH THE WILDERNESS IT WOULD HAVE BEEN ENOUGH!
• 25:08 ♪DAY-DAYENU, DAY-DAYENU,♪
• 25:12 ♪DAY-DAYENU, DAYENU, DAYENU! DAYENU!♪
• 25:14 ♪DAY-DAYENU, DAY-DAYENU, DAY-DAYENU, DAYENU, DAYENU!♪
• 25:21 (APPLAUSE)
• 25:28 AND THAT BRINGS PASSOVER TO A CLOSE.
• 25:33 THEY SING THAT HYMN
• 25:34 AND IT MAY HAVE BEEN THE SAME HYMN.
• 25:36 THAT'S AN OLDIE BUT GOODIE.
• 25:38 THAT'S BEEN SUNG IN EVERY CULTURE IN EVERY GENERATION.
• 25:41 PASSOVER ENDS ON AN UPBEAT NOTE.
• 25:43 OH, THERE'S MORE HYMNS THAN THAT IN THE PASSOVER BOOK.
• 25:47 WE SANG A TON OF THEM.
• 25:48 YOU WOULD BE AT THE TABLE FROM SUNDOWN UNTIL MIDNIGHT ON A REAL PASSOVER.
• 25:53 YOU WOULD HEAR HOURS OF TEACHING.
• 25:55 YOU WOULD EXPERIENCE THE EXODUS ALL OVER AGAIN AS IF YOU WERE THERE.
• 25:59 IT WAS A THRILL.
• 26:01 IT WAS A WONDERFUL FAMILY HOLIDAY.
• 26:03 IT ENDS WHEN FATHER PRONOUNCES THIS GREAT BLESSING,
• 26:06 "L'SHANAH HABA'AH B'YERUSHALAYIM"...
• 26:09 "NEXT YEAR IN JERUSALEM".
• 26:12 AND, YOU KNOW, FOR 2,000 YEARS...
• 26:15 I REMEMBER INTERVIEWING THE MAYOR OF JERUSALEM.
• 26:17 WE SAW THE FOOTAGE.
• 26:19 AND HE SAID, "IS THAT POLITICS...2,000 YEARS OF YEARNING LIKE THAT?"
• 26:24 HE'D BEEN ACCUSED OF "IT'S PURE POLITICS THAT THE JEWS WANT ISRAEL" AND SO ON.
• 26:28 NO, THEY HAVE PRAYED,
• 26:29 THEY HAVE CRIED,
• 26:29 THEY HAVE WEPT.
• 26:31 AND NOW THAT THEY HAVE JERUSALEM AND CAN GO THERE FOR PASSOVER,
• 26:34 THE PRAYER HAS BEEN SAID SO LONG THAT IT CONTINUES BY MOMENTUM.
• 26:38 IT'S STILL IN THE HAGGADAH.
• 26:39 SO THEY SAY EACH TIME, "L'SHANAH HABA'AH B'YERUSHALAYIM"...
• 26:44 "NEXT YEAR IN JERUSALEM".
• 26:46 WE WONDER IF THEY'RE NOT SAYING,
• 26:48 "NEXT YEAR IN THE NEW JERUSALEM".
• 26:50 AND I ALWAYS SAY,
• 26:51 "SHA'ALU SHALOM YERUSHALAYIM"...
• 26:53 "PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM".
• 27:04 PASSOVER REALLY IS
• 27:05 THE CROWN JEWEL
• 27:07 OF THE FEASTS OF THE LORD.
• 27:08 WE'VE DONE SO MANY OF THESE,
• 27:09 KATHARINE AND MYSELF,
• 27:11 AND WE'VE ACTUALLY SEEN PEOPLE COME TO FAITH DURING THE PASSOVER SERVICE, HAVEN'T THEY?
• 27:15 IT'S A BEAUTIFUL CEREMONY.
• 27:16 IT'S A WEDDING CEREMONY.
• 27:18 IT'S A TIME WHERE THE LORD IS INVITING US TO HIS WEDDING IN THE SKY.
• 27:22 EXACTLY...
• 27:23 AND SO TODAY YOU CAN SAY "YES" TO THE LORD AS WELL.
• 27:25 YESHUA IS CALLING YOU.
• 27:26 THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB IS A FREE OFFER TO YOU.
• 27:28 WE WANT YOU TO SAY "YES" AS WELL.
• 27:30 AND AS WE GO TODAY REMEMBER...
• 27:33 SHA'ALU SHALOM YERUSHALAYIM...
• 27:35 PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM.