Caption transcript for Acts: Then and Now — “The First and the Last” (8/8)

• 00:13 GO YE THEREFORE AND TEACH ALL NATIONS,
• 00:16 BAPTIZING THEM IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER, AND OF THE SON, AND OF THE HOLY SPIRIT.
• 00:21 TEACHING THEM TO OBSERVE ALL THINGS WHATSOEVER I HAVE COMMANDED YOU.
• 00:26 AND LO, I AM WITH YOU ALWAYS,
• 00:29 EVEN UNTO THE END OF THE WORLD.
• 00:42 SHALOM, AND WELCOME
• 00:43 TO ZOLA LEVITT PRESENTS.
• 00:45 I'M MYLES WEISS.
• 00:46 THIS IS MY WIFE KATHARINE
• 00:47 MY CO-HOST.
• 00:49 AND WE ARE BLESSED TODAY TO BRING YOU THE NEXT AND LAST IN OUR SERIES
• 00:52 "ACTS, THEN AND NOW... THE STORY CONTINUES".
• 00:56 AND IT'S BEEN AN INCREDIBLE RIDE.
• 00:58 I'M SORRY TO SEE IT END
• 00:59 BECAUSE IT'S SUCH AN AMAZING STORY
• 01:01 TO SEE THE GOSPEL GO AROUND THE WORLD AND COME BACK TO ISRAEL.
• 01:05 REALLY ISRAEL IS THE BEGINNING POINT AND THE END POINT.
• 01:08 IT'S THE FINISH LINE AS WELL AS THE POINT OF GESTATION.
• 01:11 SO HERE WE ARE BACK IN ISRAEL.
• 01:13 AND IT'S GREAT TO SHOW THEM THE GOOD NEWS FROM THE MIDDLE EAST.
• 01:17 IT'S THE PASSION OF OUR HEART.
• 01:19 WE'VE ALWAYS LIKED TO SAY "ANCIENT ROCKS AND LIVING STONES"
• 01:22 AND WE GOT TO SHOW YOU SOME OF THESE LIVING STONES
• 01:24 THAT ARE ACTUALLY LIVING OUT THEIR CALL IN THE LAND.
• 01:28 WE REALLY NEED TO RIGHTLY DIVIDE THE WORD TO UNDERSTAND WHERE WE ARE IN THE BIBLICAL TIME FRAME.
• 01:34 IN I CORINTHIANS 10:32 IT SAYS,
• 01:46 SO THEY'RE NOT JUST TWO PEOPLE GROUPS, THE SAVED AND UNSAVED.
• 01:49 THERE ARE ACTUALLY THREE PEOPLE GROUPS THAT GOD IS DEALING WITH...
• 01:52 THERE'S JEWS...THE CHURCH... AND THE NATIONS.
• 01:56 AND SO IT'S SO WONDERFUL TO SEE GOD'S FULFILLMENT OF EACH CALL.
• 02:01 THAT'S RIGHT AND IT'S IMPORTANT TO DIVIDE THOSE
• 02:03 SO WE KNOW WHO GOD IS SPEAKING TO.
• 02:05 AS I HEARD ONE BROTHER SAY,
• 02:07 "WE CAN BORROW THE PROMISES AS A CHURCH"
• 02:08 "BUT GIVE THEM BACK IF THEY BELONG TO THE JEWISH PEOPLE"
• 02:11 BECAUSE THEY ARE "BOTH/AND"
• 02:11 GOD IS THE GOD OF "BOTH/AND".
• 02:13 WE'RE REALLY SEEING IN THIS SERIES THE REALITY OF REVELATIONS 1:11
• 02:17 (SPEAKING HEBREW)
• 02:27 AND REALLY YESHUA IS DISPLAYING IN HIMSELF THROUGH THE BIRTH OF THE CHURCH
• 02:31 AND GOING ON TO WRAP THINGS UP
• 02:33 AS THE END OF THE AGE THAT HE IS.
• 02:35 IT'S ALL ABOUT HIM.
• 02:37 NOW THIS INTERVIEW WE'RE ABOUT TO SEE IS WITH PETER TSUKAHIRA,
• 02:40 ONE OF OUR DEAR FRIENDS IN THE LAND...
• 02:42 HE'S A MENTOR...
• 02:43 HE'S A FRIEND...
• 02:44 HE'S A GREAT TEACHER.
• 02:45 HE SAID SOMETHING VERY INTERESTING TO ME.
• 02:47 HE SAID THAT IF WE DON'T STUDY THE HEBREW SCRIPTURES, THE OLD TESTAMENT,
• 02:51 IT'S LIKE COMING IN IN THE MIDDLE OF A MOVIE.
• 02:54 WE KNOW HOW IT ENDS BUT WE'RE NOT SURE WHY.
• 02:57 SO IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT TO KNOW THAT THE FOUNDATION OF OUR FAITH AS BELIEVERS...
• 03:02 CHRISTIANS...MESSIANIC...
• 03:04 THOSE THAT FOLLOW YESHUA...
• 03:06 THE END OF OUR STORY IS ALL ABOUT THE CULMINATION OF THIS SEAMLESS STORY
• 03:10 BETWEEN THE OLD TESTAMENT AND THE NEW TESTAMENT.
• 03:12 IT'S ALL ABOUT HIM...
• 03:14 IT'S HIS STORY.
• 03:16 SO LET'S GO TO ISRAEL ON LOCATION WHERE I HAD A CHANCE TO TALK WITH PETER TSUKAHIRA.
• 03:35 PETER YOU MAY HAVE HEARD THIS BEFORE
• 03:37 BUT YOU DON'T LOOK JEWISH
• 03:38 AND HERE YOU ARE IN ISRAEL.
• 03:39 HOW DID THAT HAPPEN?
• 03:41 WELL MYLES I'M A JAPANESE-AMERICAN ISRAELI.
• 03:44 I HAVE A JAPANESE FACE,
• 03:45 AN AMERICAN VOICE
• 03:46 AND AN ISRAELI PASSPORT.
• 03:48 MY WIFE AND I CAME HERE 24 YEARS AGO
• 03:51 AND WE'VE BEEN LIVING ON MOUNT CARMEL IN THE HAIFA SINCE THEN.
• 03:56 SHE'S A JEWISH GIRL FROM NEW YORK CITY.
• 03:58 AND YOU HAVE A MESSAGE ABOUT THE GOSPEL LEAVING JERUSALEM.
• 04:04 THIS SHOW IS ABOUT THE GOSPEL GOING AROUND THE WORLD
• 04:06 BUT REALLY WHERE IT BEGAN.
• 04:07 TELL US ABOUT THAT.
• 04:08 WELL WE BELIEVE VERY STRONGLY
• 04:10 THAT ISRAEL'S CALLING AND GIFTING WAS TO BE A LIGHT TO THE NATIONS.
• 04:15 WE WERE NEVER MEANT TO BE A LIGHT JUST UNTO OURSELVES.
• 04:18 AND THE GOSPEL OF THE KINGDOM BEGAN HERE
• 04:20 AND APOSTLE PAUL WAS AMONG THE FIRST TO TAKE IT OUT OF THIS COUNTRY.
• 04:26 AND HE MADE THIS STRATEGIC DECISION IN THE 16TH CHAPTER OF ACTS TO TAKE THE GOSPEL WEST.
• 04:32 HE HAD THIS MACEDONIAN VISION
• 04:34 AND IT WAS TO TAKE THE GOSPEL TO EUROPE FIRST.
• 04:37 AND SO THEY GOT THIS CULTURE TRANSFORMING MESSAGE BEFORE ANYONE ELSE IN THE WORLD.
• 04:41 AND BASICALLY, TO MAKE A LONG STORY SHORT, BUILT A CIVILIZATION OUT OF IT
• 04:47 AND THEN OF COURSE IT CONTINUED WEST AND TO THE NEW WORLD OF NORTH AMERICA.
• 04:53 AND THE UNITED STATES IS AN EXAMPLE OF ANOTHER CULTURE
• 04:56 THAT TOOK BIBLICAL TRUTH TO THE FOUNDATIONS AND ROOTS OF THEIR SOCIETY AND CULTURE
• 05:01 AND BECAME GREAT BECAUSE GOD WAS IN THOSE ROOTS.
• 05:06 THAT'S REALLY IMPORTANT.
• 05:07 WE'RE ACTUALLY STANDING IN LIBERTY BELL PARK IN JERUSALEM.
• 05:10 AND THERE'S A REAL CONNECTION BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND ISRAEL
• 05:13 AND IT SEEMS THAT ONE THING YOU WRITE ABOUT
• 05:16 IS THAT CULTURES COME AND GO DEPENDING ON HOW THEY TREAT ISRAEL AND THE JEWISH PEOPLE.
• 05:21 WELL YOU KNOW THE UNITED STATES IS REALLY IN THE BALANCE
• 05:24 BECAUSE THE REVELATION OF GOD'S KINGDOM AND SUPPORT FOR ISRAEL
• 05:29 IS BEGINNING TO WANE IN THE MAINSTREAM OF AMERICAN CULTURE.
• 05:34 AND WE'RE ALSO SEEING SOME REAL SHOCKWAVES GO OUT.
• 05:37 EUROPE OF COURSE IS EVEN MORE ADVANCED IN THE LOSS OF THAT REVELATION
• 05:42 OF ISRAEL AS THE FOUNDATION OF GOD'S KINGDOM.
• 05:47 I WAS JUST HEARING ON THE NEWS TODAY HOW THE CRISIS THAT'S GOING ON IN EUROPE
• 05:52 AND THEY'RE THINKING ABOUT BORROWING MONEY FROM THE CHINESE JUST TO KEEP THE EUROZONE GOING.
• 05:57 AMERICA IS NOT AT THAT PLACE NOW
• 06:01 BUT AMERICA NEEDS TO STAND WITH ISRAEL
• 06:03 AND RESTORE THE FOUNDATIONS OF GOD'S KINGDOM AT THEIR ROOTS OF AMERICAN SOCIETY AND CULTURE.
• 06:09 SO WHERE YOU WORK IN HAIFA...
• 06:12 AND I KNOW YOU GO AROUND THE WORLD
• 06:13 BUT WHERE YOU WORK YOU'RE REALLY REACHING OUT TO EVERY STRATA OF SOCIETY
• 06:17 AND DOING SOME REALLY OUTRAGEOUS GATHERINGS
• 06:21 FOR EXAMPLE JEWS AND ARABS.
• 06:23 WE FEEL THAT OUR MANDATE ON MOUNT CARMEL
• 06:26 IS TO RESTORE THE ALTAR OF THE LORD THAT WAS BROKEN DOWN
• 06:29 AND TO MAKE A PLACE WHERE MEN AND WOMEN OF ALL KINDS...
• 06:32 JEWS AND ARABS AND IMMIGRANTS FROM THE FORMER SOVIET UNION AND OTHERS WHO COME
• 06:37 WHERE MEN AND WOMEN WITH REAL NEEDS IN THEIR LIVES
• 06:40 CAN FIND A PLACE TO MEET WITH THE LIVING GOD
• 06:42 AND MAKE A SACRIFICE THAT'S ACCEPTABLE TO HIM.
• 06:45 AND WE BELIEVE WHEN THAT'S DONE
• 06:47 THE FIRE OF GOD'S PRESENCE WILL BE RESTORED AND PEOPLE'S LIVES WILL BE CHANGED.
• 06:53 WE'RE BEGINNING TO SEE THAT HAPPEN
• 06:54 AND OVER THE YEARS WE'VE BEEN WORKING THERE
• 06:56 AND BUILDING THAT CONGREGATION FOR THE LAST...
• 06:58 JUST OVER 20 YEARS.
• 07:00 WE'VE SEEN SOME SIGNIFICANT RESULTS BUT WE KNOW WE'VE GOT A LONG WAY TO GO.
• 07:05 I KNOW YOU HAVE A BUSINESS BACKGROUND IN ADDITION TO BEING A PASTOR AND TEACHER.
• 07:09 WHAT DO YOU SEE FOR THE MARKETPLACE HERE IN ISRAEL FOR THE MESSIANIC LEADERS?
• 07:14 WELL YOU KNOW ISRAEL IS A VERY VIBRANT PLACE IN TERMS OF BUSINESS.
• 07:18 THERE'S A REAL MINI-SILICON VALLEY HERE
• 07:22 AND GREAT ENTREPRENEURS AND A LOT OF INNOVATION THAT COMES OUT OF ISRAEL.
• 07:25 WE'RE SEEING MORE AND MORE OF BELIEVERS BEING DRAWN IN TO HELP BUILD UP THE ISRAELI ECONOMY
• 07:31 AND TO LEARN BUSINESS SKILLS IN THE MARKET PLACE.
• 07:34 AND WE BELIEVE THIS IS PART OF GOD'S INTENTION.
• 07:37 WHEN YOU GO ALL THE WAY BACK TO WHEN ISRAEL CAME OUT OF BONDAGE IN EGYPT
• 07:42 GOD MET THEM IN THE DESERT AND GAVE THEM THE TORAH.
• 07:45 THE TORAH IS NOT JUST A RELIGIOUS MANUAL.
• 07:48 IT COVERS GOD'S RULERSHIP IN EVERY AREA OF SOCIETY AND EVERY CORNER OF CULTURE
• 07:54 AND THAT REALLY IS OUR BIBLICAL FOUNDATION AND THE AUTHORITY FOR SENDING OUR BELIEVERS OUT
• 07:59 INTO EVERY AREA OF ISRAELI SOCIETY SO THAT ONE DAY ALL ISRAEL SHALL BE SAVED.
• 08:04 WOW!AMEN!
• 08:06 SPEAKING OF THE GOSPEL GOING AROUND THE WORLD
• 08:09 YOU'VE JUST RETURNED FROM THE EAST.
• 08:11 WHAT'S GOING ON IN CHINA AND BEYOND?
• 08:13 WELL MYLES AS FAR AS I KNOW I'M THE ONLY ISRAELI LEADER OF A MESSIANIC CONGREGATION WITH AN EAST-ASIAN BACKGROUND
• 08:22 AND SO ONE OF MY CALLINGS IS TO GO OUT TO THE FAR EAST.
• 08:26 AND I JUST RETURNED FROM KOREA AND SINGAPORE
• 08:29 AND THE INTEREST IN ISRAEL AMONG THE BELIEVERS THERE IS SPIKING
• 08:33 AND WE'RE TALKING TENS OF THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE
• 08:35 ARE JUST AWAKENING TO THE SIGNIFICANCE OF ISRAEL AND THE FULFILLMENT OF PROPHESIES
• 08:41 AND WE'RE SEEING IT BEGIN TO REALLY CHANGE THE WHOLE CHARACTER OF THE CHURCH MOVEMENT IN SOME OF THESE COUNTRIES.
• 08:47 THEY ARE INTENT ON BRINGING THE GOSPEL BACK TO JERUSALEM
• 08:52 AND COMPLETING THE WORK OF THE GREAT COMMISSION
• 08:54 AND NOW GOD IS GIVING THEM A GREAT VISION
• 08:57 OF COMING AND BEING A PART OF THE WONDERFUL THINGS
• 09:00 GOD IS DOING HERE IN THE LAND OF ISRAEL.
• 09:01 AND ONE OF THE THINGS THAT YOU'RE DOING IS YOU GATHER PEOPLE FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD
• 09:05 TO TEACH THEM ABOUT THE "ONE NEW MAN"
• 09:08 AND ABOUT THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ISRAEL AND THE CHURCH.
• 09:10 WE HAVE A SCHOOL THAT WE OFFER TWO TIMES A YEAR IN MARCH AND NOVEMBER
• 09:14 CALLED "THE MT. CARMEL SCHOOL OF MINISTRY".
• 09:17 AND IN THIS SCHOOL WE REACH OUT TO BELIEVERS FROM ALL NATIONS
• 09:21 TO COME AND TO BE IMMERSED IN ISRAEL
• 09:24 BUT NOT THROUGH THE EYES OF THE ISRAELI TOURIST INDUSTRY
• 09:28 BUT TO BEGIN TO SEE THIS INCREDIBLE LAND
• 09:31 THROUGH THE EYES OF THE LOCAL BELIEVERS
• 09:33 BOTH MESSIANIC JEWS AND ARAB CHRISTIANS.
• 09:36 AND FOR MANY OF THE PEOPLE WHO COME TO THIS SCHOOL IT IS A LIFE CHANGING EXPERIENCE.
• 09:40 THEY NEVER REALIZED WHAT GOD WAS DOING HERE
• 09:44 AND IT'S REALLY A REVELATORY EXPERIENCE FOR SO MANY OF THEM.
• 09:47 YEAH THAT'S REALLY WHAT THE THEME OF THIS SERIES IS
• 09:50 THAT THERE WAS THE BEGINNING OF THE CHURCH
• 09:52 BUT TODAY WHEN PEOPLE VISIT
• 09:54 THEY NEED TO SEE THE ANCIENT ROCKS
• 09:55 BUT THEY NEED TO MEET THE LIVING STONES AS WELL.
• 09:57 AND THAT'S WHAT WE DO.
• 09:59 I LOVE THAT ABOUT ZOLA'S MINISTRY AS WELL
• 10:01 THAT WE REALLY WANT TO STAY IN TOUCH WITH WHAT IS GOD DOING TODAY?
• 10:04 SO WHAT'S THE EMPHASIS FOR YOU RIGHT NOW ON MT. CARMEL?
• 10:07 WELL WE'RE WORKING ON RAISING UP A NEXT GENERATION OF YOUNG LEADERS
• 10:12 WHO ARE NATIVE HEBREW SPEAKERS,
• 10:15 WHO ARE RUSSIAN SPEAKERS,
• 10:17 WHO ARE ARABIC SPEAKERS
• 10:18 WHO WILL GO FURTHER THAN US.
• 10:20 WE'RE A PIONEERING GENERATION.
• 10:23 SO MANY OF US ARE IMMIGRANTS TO THIS LAND
• 10:25 BUT THE NEXT GENERATION THEY WILL TAKE THIS GOSPEL TO THE HEART OF ISRAEL.
• 10:28 AND OUR JOB NOW IS TO PREPARE THEM,
• 10:30 TO EQUIP THEM AND TO SEND THEM OUT.
• 10:32 I'VE HEARD THAT WHEN A CULTURE BEGINS TO CREATE THEIR OWN MUSIC,
• 10:36 BEGIN TO WRITE THEIR OWN WORSHIP MUSIC
• 10:39 THAT SOMETHING IS SHIFTING.
• 10:40 AND I KNOW WITH KAREN'S MUSIC AND OTHERS IN ISRAEL THAT THAT'S BEGINNING TO HAPPEN.
• 10:44 THERE'S A FRESH WORSHIP COMING OUT OF ISRAEL NOW.
• 10:48 WELL ONE OF THE AMAZING THINGS IS
• 10:50 ALTHOUGH THE MESSIANIC BODY IN THIS LAND IS RELATIVELY SMALL IN TERMS OF NUMBERS
• 10:54 THE NUMBER OF SONGS...
• 10:56 ORIGINAL SONGS THAT ARE BEING WRITTEN AND SUNG THROUGHOUT THE CONGREGATIONS IN THIS LAND
• 11:00 IS A GREAT PROPORTION HIGHER THAN ANYWHERE YOU'RE GOING TO FIND IN THE REST OF THE NATION.
• 11:05 WOW!
• 11:07 THERE IS A NATIONAL WORSHIP CONFERENCE THAT IS HELD ANNUALLY
• 11:11 WHERE THE WORSHIP LEADERS FROM ALL THE CONGREGATIONS
• 11:13 BRING THE FIVE TOP SONGS THAT WERE WRITTEN IN THEIR CONGREGATION IN THAT YEAR.
• 11:17 AND THESE CONGREGATIONS THROUGH THAT CONFERENCE THEN GO ALL OVER THE NATION IN A MATTER OF MONTHS
• 11:22 AND IT LINKS US TOGETHER AS ONE BODY THROUGHOUT THE LAND...
• 11:26 BETTER THAN OUR THEOLOGY THE SONGS AND THE WORSHIP
• 11:29 AND PARTICULARLY FOR THE YOUNG PEOPLE.
• 11:32 SOME OF THESE NEW WORSHIP SONGS HAVE BECOME LIKE ANTHEMS FOR THEM.
• 11:35 IT'S SUCH A TRANSFORMATION FROM WHEN YOU FIRST ARRIVED HERE I THINK
• 11:39 AND I JUST WANT TO SAY...
• 11:40 WE HAVE A FEW MINUTES LEFT...
• 11:41 WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE TO SAY TO THE WEST?
• 11:43 YOU KNOW WHAT I WOULD SAY TO THE UNITED STATES
• 11:46 IS THAT IS THAT IT'S TIME TO STRENGTHEN THE THINGS THAT REMAIN.
• 11:51 AND I BELIEVE THAT THERE IS ONE MORE BIG REVIVAL COMING TO THE UNITED STATES
• 11:56 AND THIS REVELATION OF ISRAEL IS IN THE FOUNDATION OF IT.
• 12:00 AND WE PRAY FOR THE UNITED STATES.
• 12:02 SO MANY OF US ARE AMERICAN BORN AND WE'RE HERE AS IMMIGRANTS.
• 12:06 AND WHEN I GET A CHANCE I GO BACK AND SHARE THIS MESSAGE ABOUT ISRAEL
• 12:10 BECAUSE I BELIEVE IT IS IMPORTANT,
• 12:11 IT'S A TRIGGER MESSAGE OF WHAT GOD WANTS TO DO IN AMERICAN NEXT.
• 12:15 AMEN...THANK YOU.
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• 13:04 THE BIBLE LANDS...
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• 13:24 AND WITNESS THE WORD COME TO LIFE AS NEVER BEFORE.
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• 13:36 IT'S BEEN SAID THAT ISRAEL IS THE CENTER OF THE WORLD
• 13:40 EVEN IN THE ANCIENT MAPS
• 13:41 ISRAEL WAS PLACED IN THE MIDDLE OF ALL THE OTHER CONTINENTS SURROUNDING IT.
• 13:45 IT IS SUCH A PLACE OF PURPOSE.
• 13:47 IT IS SUCH A PLACE OF PROMISE.
• 13:49 IT IS A WONDERFUL PLACE TO COME VISIT.
• 13:51 WE'D LOVE FOR YOU TO COME WITH US ON A TOUR.
• 13:53 COME AND SEE HOW THE ACTS OF GOD ARE STILL CONTINUING TODAY
• 13:57 AND HOW THE BIBLE COMES ALIVE WHEN YOU JOIN US IN THIS TIME.
• 14:02 IT'S REALLY TRUE.
• 14:04 WE'D LOVE TO HOST YOU IN THE LAND.
• 14:06 IT'S VERY HARD TO KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON IN THE WORLD OF THE MIDDLE EAST
• 14:09 WITHOUT REALLY HEARING THE INSIDE TRACK BECAUSE OF THE CONDITION OF THE NEWS MEDIA.
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• 14:16 EXACTLY WHAT'S GOING ON
• 14:18 BEHIND THE SCENES.
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• 14:20 ABOUT WHAT'S COMING
• 14:21 AND WHAT'S IN THE FUTURE.
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• 14:28 IT'S A FREE NEWSLETTER.
• 14:30 WE'D LOVE TO SEND IT TO YOU.
• 14:31 OUR OFFER THIS WEEK
• 14:33 IS "ACTS THEN AND NOW"
• 14:34 THE VERY SERIES YOU'RE SEEING.
• 14:36 WE WERE BLESSED TO BE ABLE
• 14:37 TO HAVE FILMED THIS
• 14:39 AND TO BE ABLE TO SEE IT GET TO YOU
• 14:40 BECAUSE WE REALLY NEED TO KNOW
• 14:42 WHAT'S ACTUALLY GOING ON IN ISRAEL
• 14:43 AND HOW GOD IS GOING TO FULFILL
• 14:45 HIS WORD IN THE LAND...
• 14:47 HOW HE'S DOING IT AND HOW HE WILL CONTINUE TO DO THAT.
• 14:49 WE HAVE A SPECIAL TREAT NOW AS WE GO BACK TO JERUSALEM.
• 14:53 WE'RE GOING TO HEAR A WORD FROM ASHER INTRATER,
• 14:56 ONE OF THE LEADERS OF A MESSIANIC CONGREGATION AND A SENDING CENTER TO THE NATIONS.
• 15:01 HE'S GOT A WORD FOR US AS THE BODY OF CHRIST WORLDWIDE.
• 15:04 SO LET'S GO TO ASHER AS HE BRINGS US A FRESH EXHORTATION.
• 15:10 THIS WEEK I WAS PRAYING
• 15:12 AND I HAD A CERTAIN SENSE OF UNDERSTANDING
• 15:15 THAT I WANTED TO SHARE WITH ALL OF YOU FOR A LITTLE DISCERNMENT.
• 15:18 I FELT THAT THE TIME HAS COME
• 15:22 FOR THE BODY OF MESSIAH IN ISRAEL THAT IS WHAT WE CALL THE "REMNANT" OF ISRAEL
• 15:28 THAT IS THE GROUP OF MESSIANIC JEWS...
• 15:30 JEWISH BELIEVERS IN YESHUA, JESUS IN ISRAEL.
• 15:33 THE TIME HAS COME FOR THIS BODY TO BEGIN TO TAKE LEADERSHIP
• 15:38 IN THE WORLDWIDE BODY OF MESSIAH WITHIN THE INTERNATIONAL CHURCH.
• 15:43 I THOUGHT, "WHY IS THAT?"
• 15:45 THERE HAVE BEEN TIMES IN HISTORY
• 15:47 WHEN DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE BODY,
• 15:50 DIFFERENT LOCATIONS,
• 15:51 DIFFERENT NATIONS,
• 15:52 DIFFERENT CITIES,
• 15:54 HAVE TAKEN A LEAD HISTORICALLY IN A PROPHETIC REVELATION;
• 15:59 AND THEY HAVE A MESSAGE TO BRING TO THEM.
• 16:01 I WAS PRAYING...I THOUGHT
• 16:03 "WELL WHAT MESSAGE DOES THE LORD WANT TO BRING OUT OF THE MESSIANIC BODY HERE IN ISRAEL?"
• 16:08 AND I WAS SURPRISED...
• 16:10 MY SENSE WAS THAT THE MESSAGE WAS THE CALL FOR UNITY FROM JOHN 17
• 16:18 THIS LAST GREAT PRAYER OF YESHUA WHEN HE PRAYED FOR US
• 16:21 TO BE ONE WITH GOD AND TO BE ONE WITH ONE ANOTHER.
• 16:25 FIRST HE PRAYED FOR HIS OWN DISCIPLES, JEWISH BELIEVERS HERE IN ISRAEL,
• 16:29 AND THEN HE PRAYED FOR EVERYONE ELSE IN THE WORLD WHO WOULD COME TO FAITH THROUGH THEM,
• 16:35 THAT WE WOULD ALL BECOME ONE TOGETHER.
• 16:39 THERE'S A LITTLE SURPRISE
• 16:40 BECAUSE FOR MOST OF THE YEARS WE AS MESSIANIC JEWS
• 16:43 WERE NOT LOOKING AT THAT AS OUR PRIMARY MESSAGE.
• 16:46 WE WEREN'T LOOKING AT THE NATIONS...
• 16:48 WE WEREN'T LOOKING AT THE CHURCH...
• 16:49 WE WEREN'T LOOKING AT UNITY.
• 16:50 WE WERE LOOKING FOR OUR OWN MESSAGE TO OUR OWN PEOPLE.
• 16:54 BUT THERE'S SOMETHING IMPORTANT ABOUT THE CALL IN JOHN 17 FOR UNITY OF THE BODY EVERYWHERE.
• 17:00 I THINK IT'S CONNECTED TO THE VISION IN ROMANS 11
• 17:05 WHERE PAUL DESCRIBES THE BODY AS AN OLIVE TREE
• 17:11 AND THAT EACH DIFFERENT NATIONAL GROUP IS GRAFTED IN TO THIS ONE OLIVE TREE.
• 17:16 AND THE OLIVE TREE IS THE ORIGINAL MESSIANIC BODY.
• 17:19 IN OTHER WORDS, THERE'S A CONNECTION BETWEEN THE UNITY OF THE OLIVE TREE IN ROMANS 11
• 17:25 AND THE UNITY OF THE PRAYER IN JOHN 17.
• 17:29 IT IS THE RELATIONSHIP OF THE INTERNATIONAL BODY WITH THE MESSIANIC BODY HERE...
• 17:36 THE ROOT THAT HELPS TO BRING ABOUT THE UNITY OF THE PRAYER THAT WE SEE IN JOHN 17.
• 17:44 IT'S INTERESTING THAT THIS GOES BACK SO FAR TO A ROOT IN THE BIBLE
• 17:50 ALL THE WAY BACK TO THE TIME OF ABRAHAM...
• 17:52 THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ISRAEL AND THE NATIONS.
• 17:55 WE JEWS OF COURSE ARE VERY PROUD OF ABRAHAM.
• 17:59 BUT WHAT WAS GOD'S FIRST COVENANT WITH ABRAHAM?
• 18:02 WAS IT HE WAS TO BE A BLESSING TO THE NATIONS?
• 18:06 RIGHT AT THE FIRST COVENANT THERE IS A CONNECTION BETWEEN ISRAEL AND THE NATIONS.
• 18:11 AS YOU LOOK AT THOSE VERY FIRST COVENANTS WITH ABRAHAM
• 18:14 YOU SEE GOD ALWAYS TOLD HIM, "TAKE THE LAND, BE A BLESSING TO THE NATIONS."
• 18:20 "TAKE THE LAND, BE A BLESSING TO THE NATIONS."
• 18:23 AND ABRAHAM WAS CAUGHT IN BETWEEN THOSE TWO THINGS.
• 18:27 THE BLESSINGS TO THE NATIONS HAVE GONE OUT THROUGH THE GOSPEL OF YESHUA, JESUS THE MESSIAH.
• 18:34 AND YET, THE CALL TO TAKE THIS LAND, TO COME BACK,
• 18:38 IS SOMETHING THAT HAS NOT BEEN UNDERSTOOD BY THE CHURCH.
• 18:41 AND WE BELIEVE BOTH OF THOSE HAVE TO TAKE PLACE.
• 18:44 AND WHAT IS TO BE THE CONNECTION BETWEEN ISRAEL AND THE NATIONS.
• 18:49 ISRAEL AND THE NATIONS OF THEMSELVES THERE CAN BE NO CONNECTION.
• 18:54 BUT WHEN YOU HAVE JEWISH BELIEVERS, THE MESSIANIC REMNANT IN ISRAEL:
• 18:58 AND YOU HAVE TRUE BELIEVERS IN YESHUA THROUGHOUT THE NATIONS,
• 19:02 THERE IS A SPIRITUAL CONNECTION BETWEEN THEM AND THEY FORM THE BOND OF UNITY
• 19:08 EVEN BETWEEN JEWISH BELIEVERS IN ISRAEL
• 19:11 AND BETWEEN ARAB BELIEVERS WHO HAVE BECOME CHRISTIANS,
• 19:15 WHO HAVE COME TO KNOW THE LORD.
• 19:17 THERE IS A BOND OF UNITY IN THE SPIRIT.
• 19:19 AND NOW AS THE MESSIANIC MOVEMENT, THE MESSIANIC BODY OF ISRAEL IS RISING
• 19:22 WE ARE SEEING IT WILL BE A PLATFORM, A TOOL FOR GOD TO BRING ABOUT JOHN 17 UNITY
• 19:30 WHICH MEANS WE HAVE TO ADOPT THE NATIONS IN OUR HEART JUST AS ABRAHAM DID.
• 19:34 HE WAS CALLED TO BE A FATHER TO THE NATIONS.
• 19:36 WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE A FATHER?
• 19:38 TO ADOPT THEM AS WE ADOPT THE NATIONSIN THE HEART AND THEY ADOPT US
• 19:42 WE WILL BECOME ONE TOGETHER.
• 19:47 ♪OUR FATHER♪
• 19:52 ♪WHO ART IN HEAVEN♪
• 19:59 ♪HALLOWED BE THY NAME♪
• 20:05 ♪THY KINGDOM COME THY WILL BE DONE♪
• 20:11 ♪IN EARTH AS IT IS IN HEAVEN♪
• 20:18 ♪GIVE US THIS DAY OUR DAILY BREAD♪
• 20:24 ♪AND FORGIVE US OUR SINS♪
• 20:27 ♪AS WE FORGIVE THOSE WHO ARE AGAINST US♪
• 20:36 ♪LEAD US NOT♪
• 20:40 ♪INTO TEMPTATION♪
• 20:44 ♪BUT DELIVER US FROM EVIL♪
• 21:07 ♪OUR FATHER♪
• 21:12 ♪WHO ART IN HEAVEN♪
• 21:18 ♪HALLOWED BE THY NAME♪
• 21:25 ♪THY KINGDOM COME♪
• 21:28 ♪THY WILL BE DONE♪
• 21:31 ♪IN EARTH AS IT IS IN HEAVEN♪
• 21:38 ♪GIVE US THIS DAY OUR DAILY BREAD♪
• 21:43 ♪AND FORGIVE US OUR SINS♪
• 21:47 ♪AS WE FORGIVE THOSE WHO ARE AGAINST US♪
• 21:57 ♪LEAD US NOT♪
• 22:00 ♪INTO TEMPTATION♪
• 22:04 ♪BUT DELIVER US FROM EVIL♪
• 22:14 ♪FOR THINE IS THE KINGDOM♪
• 22:17 ♪AND THE POWER AND THE GLORY FOREVER♪
• 22:27 ♪FOR THINE IS THE KINGDOM♪
• 22:30 ♪AND THE POWER AND THE GLORY FOREVER♪
• 22:36 ♪AND EVER♪
• 22:41 ♪AMEN...♪
• 22:47 ♪AMEN♪
• 22:56 ♪MY LORD♪
• 23:05 ISRAELI MUSIC...
• 23:06 IT'S SUCH A BLESSING.
• 23:08 WE'VE HAD SO MANY DIVERSE MUSICIANS COME AND SHARE WITH US THEIR GIFTS.
• 23:12 IT'S SO AMAZING.
• 23:14 EVEN PETER MENTIONED THAT IT'S THE MARK OF A REVIVAL
• 23:16 WHEN THE INDIGENOUS BODY BEGINS TO RELEASE ITS OWN SONG.
• 23:19 AND ISRAEL IS ALIVE.
• 23:21 I CAN'T SAY IT ENOUGH.
• 23:22 GOD HAS BROUGHT ISRAEL BACK FROM THE GRAVE
• 23:25 AND HE'S ORDAINED THAT THEY WOULD BE A PRAISE IN THE EARTH.
• 23:29 WHEN THEY FIRST CAME TO THE LAND
• 23:31 IT WAS BUT A SWAMP IN SOME PLACES
• 23:33 AND THE ARABS WOULDN'T EVEN GO TO THAT ONE POINT OF THE AREA IN JAFFA
• 23:39 BECAUSE THEY CALLED IT THE PLACE WHERE PEOPLE DIED
• 23:41 BECAUSE THERE WAS SO MUCH MALARIA.
• 23:43 BUT THE LORD GAVE THE ISRAELIS AN ABILITY AND AN INGENUITY TO DO THAT WHICH THEY COULD DO
• 23:49 WHICH WAS DRAIN THE SWAMP.
• 23:51 AND IT'S BECOME ONE OF THE MOST FRUITFUL PLACES FOR FRUIT TO COME OUT OF ISRAEL...
• 23:55 THE PRODUCTION OF ORANGES AND AGRICULTURAL FRUIT.
• 23:59 SO THIS BARREN LAND HAS BLOOMED
• 24:01 AND THE PEOPLE ARE BLOOMING
• 24:03 AND IT'S SUCH A JOY TO BRING YOU THAT FRAGRANCE FROM THE LAND.
• 24:07 IT REALLY IS.
• 24:08 YOU KNOW WITH THIS SERIES WE'VE BEEN ABLE TO SEE
• 24:11 HOW THE GOSPEL WAS BIRTHED IN JERUSALEM
• 24:13 BECAUSE OF THE SUFFERING...
• 24:14 A PRICE PAID BY THE LORD
• 24:16 AND HOW IT'S GONE AROUND THE WORLD...
• 24:17 TOUCHED THE ENTIRE GENTILE WORLD.
• 24:19 NOW IT'S ARISING AGAIN IN THE MIDDLE EAST
• 24:22 AND WE'RE SEEING IT IN ISRAEL.
• 24:23 AND OUR FRIENDS, THE MESSIANIC IN ISRAEL,
• 24:26 WAVING THE FLAG AT THE FINISH LINES SAYING WELCOME
• 24:29 BRINGING THE FUTURE AND THE HOPE TO ISRAEL
• 24:33 BECAUSE IT'S ALL ABOUT SAR SHALOM, THE PRINCE OF PEACE.
• 24:36 IT'S AMAZING THAT THE TESTIMONY WE HEAR ON THE NEWS IS ALWAYS SO NEGATIVE.
• 24:41 IT'S ALWAYS ABOUT THE PRESSURE AND THE CONTENTION BETWEEN THE NATIONS
• 24:46 BUT GOD IS GOING TO HAVE THE FINAL WORD.
• 24:49 IN FACT, HE SAYS IN ISAIAH 19:24,
• 24:52 "THE LORD SAYS,
• 25:01 HE'S SPEAKING ABOUT "THAT DAY"
• 25:03 IN A DAY IN THE FUTURE WHEN THE NATIONS WILL BE TOGETHER IN HOLINESS.
• 25:07 THERE WILL BE A HIGHWAY OF HOLINESS FROM EGYPT TO ASSYRIA THROUGH ISRAEL.
• 25:12 SPEAKING OF THE EGYPTIANS, WE'VE SEEN THE ARAB SPRING SO CALLED
• 25:18 AND THE PAIN AND THE SUFFERING THAT HAS COME OUT OF THIS...
• 25:21 WHAT'S REALLY BECOME A SPRING BOARD FOR THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD.
• 25:24 AND OUR DEAR FRIEND, FATHER SAMAAN FROM EGYPT, A COPTIC PRIEST IN EGYPT
• 25:29 HAS HAD SERVICES WITH THOUSANDS OF EGYPTIANS
• 25:32 IN A CAVE OUTSIDE OF CAIRO YELLING THE NAME OF JESUS,
• 25:36 WELCOMING HIM AND CALLING REALLY
• 25:39 ESSENTIALLY SAYING "MARANATHA",
• 25:41 SAYING "COME LORD JESUS".
• 25:43 AND THAT HAS GONE OUT AROUND THE WORLD...
• 25:45 THAT CRY...
• 25:45 THAT HEART CRY IS REALLY GOING OUT.
• 25:48 AND WE'VE SEEN IN THIS SERIES HOW THE PEOPLE
• 25:50 BOTH JEW AND GENTILE,
• 25:51 JEWS AND ARABS,
• 25:53 THE EGYPTIANS, THE PERSIANS
• 25:54 ARE ALL SAYING THE SAME THING ESSENTIALLY,
• 25:56 "WE NEED SOMETHING GREATER,"
• 25:58 "WE NEED LORD JESUS".
• 26:00 AND WE'RE SEEING THAT WE'RE COMING TO THE DAY
• 26:03 WHEN GOD IS GOING TO PREPARE EVERYONE
• 26:07 AND HE'S GOING TO RETURN.
• 26:09 WE'RE GOING TO SEE...
• 26:10 WE'RE GOING TO LOOK UP AND SEE HIM APPEAR IN THE SKY
• 26:12 AS HE SAID IN HIS PROPHETIC WORD.
• 26:14 AND I'M JUST AM SO GRATEFUL TO BE PART OF A WORK RIGHT NOW
• 26:20 WHERE WE GET TO PROCLAIM THESE WORDS
• 26:22 AND BE ABLE TO GO OVERSEAS AND BRING THESE MESSAGES.
• 26:25 WE CAN'T DO IT WITHOUT HELP.
• 26:27 WE REALLY CAN'T DO IT WITHOUT HELP.
• 26:29 AND THE GIFTS OF FUNDS HELP THE MINISTRIES OVER THERE...
• 26:32 HELP US BRING THE MESSAGE OF HOPE
• 26:34 AND HELP US BRING THE MESSAGE OF FAITH THAT'S ALIVE TODAY.
• 26:37 IT'S A MESSAGE OF FAITH
• 26:39 AND THAT'S WHAT PLEASES GOD IS OUR FAITH.
• 26:41 RIGHT...WITHOUT FAITH IT'S IMPOSSIBLE TO PLEASE HIM.
• 26:44 AND SO AS WE GO TODAY
• 26:45 WE WANT TO REMIND YOU PLEASE
• 26:48 SHA'ALU SHALOM YERUSHALAYIM
• 26:50 PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM