Caption transcript for Abraham: Father of Faith — “The Promised Son” (5/8)

• 00:00 (♪ Theme Music ♪)
• 00:22 ( Speaking Hebrew )
• 00:29 ♪ ♪
• 00:48 Myles: SHALOM AND WELCOME TO
• 00:49 ZOLA LEVITT PRESENTS.
• 00:50 I'M MYLES WEISS.
• 00:51 Katharine: AND I'M
• 00:52 KATHARINE WEISS AND WE WANT TO
• 00:53 WELCOME YOU BACK TO OUR SERIES
• 00:54 IN THE LIFE OF ABRAHAM.
• 00:56 Myles: I KNOW; IT'S SO EXCITING
• 00:57 TO SEE HOW THIS LIFE OF FAITH
• 00:58 GETS PLAYED OUT FOR US BECAUSE
• 01:00 IT'S VERY SIMILAR TO OURS.
• 01:01 THERE'S A HISTORICAL,
• 01:03 A PROPHETIC AND A PERSONAL
• 01:04 MEANING THAT WE CAN DRAW
• 01:06 OUT OF THE LIFE OF ABRAHAM.
• 01:07 Katharine: WELL,
• 01:08 IT'S VERY PERSONAL FOR THEM NOW.
• 01:09 THEY'VE WAITED ALMOST 2 DECADES
• 01:11 FROM THE FIRST PROMISE
• 01:12 IN GENESIS 12,
• 01:13 TO NOW, GOD IS COMING TO THEM,
• 01:15 THE TWO ANGELS
• 01:17 AND THE LORD HIMSELF.
• 01:18 HE'S RECONFIRMING
• 01:19 THE COVENANT PROMISE THAT
• 01:20 HE'D HAVE, THAT SHE WOULD BE
• 01:22 THE ONE THAT WOULD HAVE THE SON
• 01:24 AND IT WOULD BE BETWEEN
• 01:25 ONE MAN AND ONE WOMAN.
• 01:27 AND GOD IS SAYING,
• 01:28 "THIS IS MY PLAN, NO EXTRAS."
• 01:30 AND SO SARAH, YOU KNOW,
• 01:33 IT'S GOD'S APPOINTED TIME,
• 01:34 NOT OUR TIME,
• 01:36 AND SOMETIMES THAT'S DIFFICULT.
• 01:39 Myles: THERE'S A DISCREPANCY
• 01:40 SOMETIMES BETWEEN WHAT GOD
• 01:41 PROMISES AND THE TIMING HE HAS
• 01:43 AND WHAT WE TRY TO MAKE HAPPEN
• 01:45 IN THAT INSTANCE.
• 01:46 THE SCRIPTURE TELLS US
• 01:47 THAT HOPE DEFERRED
• 01:48 MAKES THE HEART SICK,
• 01:49 BUT WHEN THE DESIRE COMES,
• 01:51 IT'S A TREE OF LIFE.
• 01:52 AND WE'RE ABOUT TO SEE THAT
• 01:53 HERE IN GENESIS 18 AND 19.
• 01:56 LET'S GO TO OUR DRAMA AS WE SEE
• 01:57 ABRAHAM AND SARAH RECEIVE THEIR
• 01:59 VISITORS IN THE HEAT OF THE DAY.
• 02:05 Narrator: AND THE LORD
• 02:06 APPEARED UNTO ABRAHAM
• 02:07 IN THE PLAINS OF MAMRE.
• 02:38 ( Speaking Hebrew )
• 03:30 ( Sarah Laughing )
• 03:36 ( Speaking Hebrew )
• 03:56 Myles: WHEN YOU COME TO ISRAEL,
• 03:57 YOU'LL EXPERIENCE THAT
• 03:58 VERY HOSPITALITY THAT
• 03:59 WE SEE ABRAHAM EXEMPLIFYING
• 04:01 WITH THESE STRANGERS THAT COME.
• 04:03 THREE MEN APPEAR.
• 04:04 "MEN" APPEAR.
• 04:06 WHAT WE REALLY ARE SEEING
• 04:07 ARE TWO ANGELS AND A THEOPHANY,
• 04:09 THE PRESENCE
• 04:10 OF THE LORD HIMSELF
• 04:11 AT THE FRONT OF ABRAHAM'S TENT.
• 04:13 WE KNOW THIS IS A THEOPHANY.
• 04:14 HE'S DIFFERENT
• 04:15 FROM THE OTHER TWO.
• 04:16 THE OTHER TWO WILL BE GOING ON
• 04:17 TO SODOM TO TAKE CARE
• 04:19 OF SOME KIND OF BUSINESS THERE,
• 04:21 BUT THIS ONE STAYS WITH ABRAHAM.
• 04:23 AND ABRAHAM RUSHES TO CREATE
• 04:27 A COVENANT MEAL WITH THEM.
• 04:28 THAT'S A VERY IMPORTANT PART
• 04:29 OF THE STORY OF COVENANT.
• 04:31 THERE'S ALWAYS
• 04:32 A SHARED TIME OF FOOD.
• 04:33 THERE'S ALWAYS
• 04:34 A SHARED TIME OF HOSPITALITY.
• 04:35 IT REMINDS ME OF JESUS
• 04:37 MAKING THE LAST SUPPER
• 04:38 WITH HIS DISCIPLES
• 04:40 OR PREPARING FISH
• 04:42 FOR THE FISHERMEN ON THE SHORE
• 04:44 AFTER HIS RESURRECTION.
• 04:45 THERE'S A WAY THAT
• 04:46 THERE'S SOMETHING AROUND
• 04:47 THE BREAKING OF BREAD
• 04:48 THAT BRINGS US TOGETHER
• 04:49 AND RATIFIES OR TOUCHES
• 04:51 THE REALITY OF COVENANT.
• 04:53 THAT'S WHAT WE SEE HERE
• 04:54 WITH THIS APPEARANCE
• 04:56 OF THE LORD AND THE TWO ANGELS.
• 04:57 IT'S INTERESTING
• 04:58 THAT THIS CENTER MAN, THIS ONE,
• 05:00 APPEARS BETWEEN
• 05:02 THE TWO ANGELS,
• 05:03 OR COMES WITH TWO ANGELS.
• 05:04 SCRIPTURE TELLS US ABOUT GOD
• 05:05 THAT HE DWELLS
• 05:07 BETWEEN THE TWO CHERUBIM
• 05:08 AND THAT'S WHAT WE SEE HERE.
• 05:10 ABRAHAM IS ENCOUNTERING THESE
• 05:13 ANGELS AND THE LORD HIMSELF
• 05:15 IN THE MIDST OF
• 05:16 THE PAIN OF CIRCUMCISION,
• 05:17 IN THE MIDST OF THIS
• 05:18 INCREDIBLE HARSH ENVIRONMENT
• 05:19 HE IS GIVEN TO HOSPITALITY
• 05:21 WHICH IS A HEARTBEAT
• 05:23 OF THE CULTURE HERE.
• 05:24 THE VISITOR DOESN'T INQUIRE
• 05:25 ABOUT SARAH'S PRESENCE,
• 05:27 WHERE SHE IS.
• 05:28 SHE'S IN THE TENT AND THE LORD
• 05:29 HIMSELF SAYS THAT SHE WILL BEAR
• 05:31 A CHILD AND IT MAKES HER LAUGH.
• 05:33 IT DRIVES THEM JUST OVER THE
• 05:34 EDGE TO THINK THAT THEY, BEING
• 05:36 PAST THE AGE OF CHILDBEARING,
• 05:38 ARE GOING TO BEAR A CHILD
• 05:40 AND HE SAYS WITHIN A YEAR
• 05:41 HE'LL RETURN AND THERE WILL BE
• 05:43 A CHILD FOR THEM.
• 05:45 AND THE LAUGHTER BECOMES
• 05:46 THE NAME OF THIS PROMISED SON
• 05:48 "YITZCHAK," "LAUGHTER."
• 05:49 I THINK HERE IS ONE
• 05:51 OF THE MOST IMPORTANT TAKEAWAYS
• 05:52 FROM THIS SECTION OF THE STORY.
• 05:54 THE WORD COMES, "IS ANYTHING
• 05:57 TOO HARD FOR THE LORD?"
• 05:59 AND I WANT YOU TO HEAR
• 06:00 THAT WORD TODAY.
• 06:01 I WANT YOU TO APPLY THAT
• 06:02 TO YOUR OWN LIFE.
• 06:03 I WANT TO APPLY IT TO MY OWN.
• 06:04 IS ANYTHING TOO HARD
• 06:06 FOR THE LORD?
• 06:07 HE IS THE GOD OF MIRACLES,
• 06:08 HE'S THE GOD OF SECOND CHANCES,
• 06:10 HE'S THE GOD OF THE PROMISE
• 06:12 AND THAT'S WHAT THE WORD IS
• 06:13 THAT COMES TO THEM HERE.
• 06:14 IS ANYTHING TOO HARD
• 06:15 FOR THE LORD?
• 06:16 THAT WHICH IS IMPOSSIBLE
• 06:17 WITH MAN IS POSSIBLE WITH GOD.
• 06:20 AND SO AS THE STORY UNFOLDS,
• 06:22 WE REALLY BEGIN TO SEE THAT
• 06:24 WHEN GOD MAKES THE COVENANT,
• 06:26 HE FULFILLS HIS WORD.
• 06:27 THERE'S SUCH A DIFFERENCE
• 06:28 BETWEEN WHO ABRAHAM WAS
• 06:30 BEFORE THE COVENANT CUTTING
• 06:32 AND THE CIRCUMCISION
• 06:34 AND WHO HE IS AFTER.
• 06:35 BEFORE, HE WAS TRYING TO MAKE
• 06:36 THINGS HAPPEN IN THE NATURAL,
• 06:38 WITH NO POSSIBLE GOOD EFFECT.
• 06:40 BUT, AFTERWARDS,
• 06:42 HE BECOMES ONE WHO IS
• 06:43 DEPENDENT ON THE GLORY OF GOD,
• 06:45 THE MIRACLE-WORKING POWER
• 06:47 OF GOD AND THE BLESSING OF GOD.
• 06:49 AND WE SEE THAT UNFOLDING.
• 06:50 I WANT YOU ALSO TO GRAB HOLD OF
• 06:53 THAT TODAY, THAT GOD IS FOR YOU;
• 06:55 THERE IS NOTHING
• 06:56 THAT IS TOO HARD FOR OUR GOD.
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• 07:37 Narrator: THEY HAD
• 07:38 GOOD REASON TO LAUGH.
• 07:40 BOTH ABRAHAM AND SARAH
• 07:41 HAD BEEN INFORMED BY THE LORD
• 07:43 THAT THEY WERE GOING TO
• 07:45 GIVE BIRTH TO A SON,
• 07:47 EVEN IN THEIR LATER YEARS.
• 07:52 BUT THE LORD'S MESSAGE FOR
• 07:53 SODOM WAS ANYTHING BUT GOOD.
• 08:01 ( Speaking Hebrew )
• 08:58 Myles: WE'RE IN THE AREA
• 08:59 OF THE DEAD SEA
• 09:01 WHERE SODOM AND GOMORRAH
• 09:02 NO DOUBT WERE EXISTING
• 09:03 AT THE TIME OF ABRAHAM.
• 09:05 YOU KNOW, THE JUDGMENTS OF GOD
• 09:08 ARE REALLY DIFFICULT
• 09:09 TO UNDERSTAND AND WE LIKE
• 09:10 TO THINK OF GOD AS LOVING ONLY
• 09:12 AND THAT HE WOULDN'T JUDGE.
• 09:13 THE GOOD NEWS IS THAT WHEN
• 09:15 THE JUDGMENTS OF GOD COME,
• 09:16 HE MAKES A PROVISION,
• 09:17 A WAY OF ESCAPE
• 09:19 THAT'S PICTURED IN THIS STORY.
• 09:20 ABRAHAM IS GOING TO BE SEEN NOW
• 09:23 IN HIS ROLE AS AN INTERCESSOR,
• 09:25 VERY IMPORTANT INSTRUCTION
• 09:27 FOR US AND THE NEW TESTAMENT
• 09:28 BELIEVERS, BECAUSE THE ROLE
• 09:30 OF INTERCESSION IS REALLY ABOUT
• 09:32 RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD.
• 09:33 IN FACT, THE WAY GOD SPEAKS
• 09:35 OF IT IN VERSE 17, HE SAYS,
• 09:38 ( Speaking Hebrew )
• 09:44 THE LORD SAID:
• 09:48 THEY ARE SO CLOSE,
• 09:50 THEY ARE SO KNOWN
• 09:51 ONE OF ANOTHER
• 09:53 THAT GOD'S TESTIMONY OF ABRAHAM,
• 09:55 HIS FRIEND, IS,
• 09:56 "I DON'T EVEN HIDE FROM HIM
• 09:57 THAT WHICH I'M DOING."
• 09:58 I WANT TO WALK WITH GOD
• 09:59 IN THAT WAY.
• 10:00 SO WHAT WE'RE SEEING DEVELOP
• 10:01 HERE IS THIS RELATIONSHIP WHERE
• 10:05 WHAT'S UNFOLDING IS THE REALITY
• 10:07 THAT GOD CAN TRUST ABRAHAM
• 10:09 AND ABRAHAM CAN TRUST GOD.
• 10:11 IT'S A GENUINE RELATIONSHIP.
• 10:13 IT REMINDS ME OF JOHN 15
• 10:14 IN THE NEW TESTAMENT WHERE
• 10:16 JESUS SAID TO HIS DISCIPLES:
• 10:21 WHY? WHEN?
• 10:23 "WHEN YOU DO THAT
• 10:24 WHICH I COMMAND YOU."
• 10:25 I WANT TO WALK WITH THE LORD
• 10:26 IN SUCH A WAY
• 10:27 THAT HE CAN CALL ME HIS FRIEND.
• 10:29 WELL, THE ROLE OF INTERCESSION
• 10:30 IS VERY, VERY POWERFUL.
• 10:32 IT'S VERY IMPORTANT.
• 10:33 IT REALLY IS
• 10:34 FOR EVERY SINGLE BELIEVER
• 10:36 IN THE NEW TESTAMENT ERA.
• 10:38 WE REALLY NEED TO UNDERSTAND
• 10:39 THAT WE CAN AFFECT THE WAY
• 10:41 THE WORLD UNFOLDS.
• 10:43 WE CAN AFFECT THE HISTORY
• 10:44 AND THE DESTINY OF PEOPLE
• 10:46 THROUGH OUR PRAYER.
• 10:48 IT'S GOD'S GIFT TO US,
• 10:50 INTERCESSION.
• 10:52 IT'S REALLY A POWER
• 10:53 THAT'S GIVEN TO US BY GOD.
• 10:55 IT'S A WAY THAT HE ESTEEMS
• 10:57 OUR OPINION.
• 10:58 HE INCLUDES US IN THE PROCESS
• 11:00 OF WHAT HE DOES.
• 11:02 AND WE LEARN FROM INTERCESSION,
• 11:03 FROM PRAYER,
• 11:04 THAT HE ACTUALLY HEARS US.
• 11:05 AND THAT'S WHAT WE SEE
• 11:06 WITH ABRAHAM.
• 11:07 ABRAHAM ACTUALLY BEGINS
• 11:08 TO BARGAIN WITH GOD ABOUT THE
• 11:10 FUTURE OF SODOM AND GOMORRAH.
• 11:12 "IF THERE ARE 50 RIGHTEOUS,
• 11:14 WILL YOU SPARE THEM?"
• 11:15 AND HE WORKS HIS WAY DOWN TO 10.
• 11:17 "IF THERE ARE 10 RIGHTEOUS,
• 11:18 WOULD YOU SPARE THEM?"
• 11:20 YOU KNOW, THE RABBIS SAY
• 11:21 THAT THAT'S THE BASIS
• 11:22 OF THE MODERN "TEN-MAN MINION."
• 11:24 THE REASON WHY THERE'S
• 11:25 A TEN-MAN REQUIREMENT IN JUDAISM
• 11:28 FOR A PRAYER MEETING,
• 11:29 IS BECAUSE OF THIS PROCESS
• 11:32 OF THE TEN RIGHTEOUS
• 11:34 THAT ARE BEING LOOKED FOR
• 11:35 BY ABRAHAM AND GOD TOGETHER.
• 11:38 WE KNOW FOR US,
• 11:39 AS BELIEVERS IN YESHUA,
• 11:41 WHEREVER TWO OR MORE
• 11:42 ARE GATHERED IN HIS NAME,
• 11:43 HE'S THERE.
• 11:44 BUT THAT TEN-MAN MINION
• 11:46 IS STILL A TRADITION
• 11:47 IN PRESENT-DAY JUDAISM
• 11:49 BASED ON THIS STORY
• 11:50 FROM SODOM AND GOMORRAH.
• 11:52 THIS IS REALLY A STORY
• 11:54 OF RELATIONSHIP AND WE SEE THIS
• 11:56 OVER AND OVER AGAIN
• 11:57 AS ABRAHAM IS TALKING TO GOD,
• 12:00 GOD IS TALKING TO HIM AND
• 12:02 THEY'RE SPEAKING FACE TO FACE,
• 12:03 FRIEND TO FRIEND.
• 12:04 IT'S LIKE THE INTERCESSORS
• 12:06 IN THE OLD TESTAMENT;
• 12:07 MOSES STANDING IN FOR ISRAEL,
• 12:09 ELIJAH INTERCEDING
• 12:10 FOR THE NATION OF ISRAEL,
• 12:12 AND NOW, FOR YOU AND I,
• 12:14 WE ARE ALL TO STAND IN FOR
• 12:16 OUR FRIENDS, FOR OUR FAMILIES,
• 12:18 AND I WOULD SAY,
• 12:19 FOR THE NATION OF ISRAEL.
• 12:21 I WANT TO CALL ON YOU
• 12:23 TO STAND WITH ME AS WE PRAY
• 12:26 FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM,
• 12:27 AS WE STAND IN, IN INTERCESSION,
• 12:30 FOR THE FUTURE
• 12:31 OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE
• 12:32 AND THE NATION OF ISRAEL.
• 12:36 ♪ ♪
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• 13:09 Katharine: ISRAEL IT'S THE LAND
• 13:10 OF COVENANTS, IT'S THE LAND
• 13:12 OF PROMISE, IT'S THE HOLY LAND.
• 13:14 AND WE WOULD LOVE TO HOST YOU
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• 13:17 THAT'S COMING UP WITH US.
• 13:19 THE BIBLE SAYS IN PSALM 84:
• 13:25 THERE'S A SPECIAL BLESSING
• 13:27 AS YOU SET YOUR HEART
• 13:28 TO GO TO ISRAEL.
• 13:29 GOD REALLY DOES SOMETHING
• 13:30 AMAZING.
• 13:31 Myles: IT'S TRUE; I HEAR
• 13:32 THAT FEEDBACK ALL THE TIME
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• 14:13 THEY'VE HAD ON HISTORY
• 14:14 AND, REALLY, ON OUR LIVES
• 14:15 AS WE LEARN FROM THEM.
• 14:17 YOU KNOW, AS THE STORY
• 14:18 OF ABRAHAM UNFOLDS,
• 14:20 IT'S JUST SO AMAZING THAT WE GET
• 14:23 TO PARTAKE OF HIS WALK OF FAITH
• 14:25 AND REALLY SEE HOW
• 14:27 THE UPS AND DOWNS, EVEN THOUGH
• 14:29 THEY AFFECT MAN AND WOMAN,
• 14:31 GOD ALWAYS COMES THROUGH.
• 14:32 Katharine: ABRAHAM WAS SET APART
• 14:34 SO HE COULD STEP IN,
• 14:35 SO HE COULD BE THAT INTERCESSOR
• 14:38 TO INTERCEDE FOR LOT
• 14:39 AND HIS FAMILY.
• 14:41 AND GOD RESCUED LOT
• 14:42 AND HIS FAMILY.
• 14:43 THOSE THAT WERE WILLING.
• 14:44 Myles: RIGHT, AND GOD CALLS HIM
• 14:46 A PATRIARCH, CALLS HIM A PROPHET
• 14:47 AND THEN CALLS ABRAHAM
• 14:48 "MY FRIEND."
• 14:49 Katharine: RIGHT.
• 14:50 Myles: AND HE SPEAKS TO HIM
• 14:51 ABOUT HOW HE'S GOING TO
• 14:52 TELL HIM BEFOREHAND
• 14:54 THESE THINGS THAT ARE COMING
• 14:55 AND HE REALLY DOES TRY
• 14:56 TO RESCUE LOT AND HIS FAMILY.
• 14:57 HE MAKES THE PROVISION,
• 14:59 AND WE'RE ABOUT TO SEE
• 15:01 HOW THAT PLAYS OUT,
• 15:02 BUT GOD ALWAYS MAKES A PROVISION
• 15:05 AND WE REALLY SEE THAT
• 15:06 IN THESE VERSES, IN THIS DRAMA.
• 15:08 SO LET'S RETURN TO OUR STORY
• 15:10 AS WE SEE LOT AND HIS FAMILY
• 15:12 DEALING WITH THE JUDGMENT
• 15:14 COMING ON SODOM.
• 15:21 Narrator: AND THERE CAME
• 15:22 TWO ANGELS TO SODOM AND SAID
• 15:24 UNTO LOT, "HAST THOU FAMILY
• 15:26 HERE IN SODOM?
• 15:28 IF SO, TAKE THEM FROM THE CITY,
• 15:30 FOR THE LORD HAS SENT US
• 15:32 TO DESTROY IT."
• 15:34 AND LOT WARNED HIS SONS-IN-LAW
• 15:36 OF THE PENDING DESTRUCTION
• 15:38 BUT THEY WOULDN'T LISTEN.
• 15:49 ( Speaking Hebrew )
• 17:00 Myles: GOD HAS WARNED
• 17:01 ABRAHAM AND LOT
• 17:02 ABOUT THE IMPENDING JUDGMENT.
• 17:04 YOU KNOW, HE WARNED NOAH.
• 17:06 HE WARNS US
• 17:07 ABOUT JUDGMENT TO COME.
• 17:08 I THINK ABOUT NEW TESTAMENT
• 17:09 BELIEVERS, THAT WE'VE BEEN
• 17:11 WARNED, THAT WE NEED TO BE
• 17:12 LOOKING FOR THAT BLESSED HOPE
• 17:15 BECAUSE WHEN JUDGMENT
• 17:16 COMES IN THE EARTH, WE COULD
• 17:17 BE TAKEN UP BY RAPTURE,
• 17:19 BEFORE THE JUDGMENT COMES.
• 17:20 Katharine: AND GOD WORKS
• 17:21 WITH ABRAHAM
• 17:22 AS HE DOES WITH A FRIEND.
• 17:24 IN THE INTERCESSION,
• 17:25 THE ANGEL ACTUALLY WENT
• 17:27 AND GRABBED HOLD OF LOT
• 17:29 AND HIS WIFE.
• 17:30 THERE WAS EVEN A HALTING
• 17:31 AT THAT MOMENT,
• 17:33 AND IT IS THE ANGEL OF THE LORD
• 17:34 THAT CAUSED THEM
• 17:35 TO MOVE FORWARD.
• 17:36 AND LOT'S WIFE MUST HAVE HAD
• 17:39 SOMETHING IN HER HEART THAT
• 17:40 WAS NOT ABLE TO RISE UP AND GO,
• 17:43 LIKE SARAH WAS WITH ABRAHAM,
• 17:46 BECAUSE SHE GOT PARTWAY OUT
• 17:48 AND EVEN THOUGH DESTRUCTION
• 17:49 WAS COMING, SHE LOOKED BACK.
• 17:51 Myles: SHE DID, AND THERE WAS
• 17:52 A WARNING NOT TO LOOK BACK.
• 17:53 PEOPLE QUESTION THE SCIENCE
• 17:54 OF THIS THING, BUT I REMEMBER
• 17:56 GROWING UP AND SEEING
• 17:57 A NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SPREAD
• 17:59 ABOUT THE DESTRUCTION OF POMPEII
• 18:02 IN ITALY IN 79 A.D.
• 18:04 AND IN AN INSTANT,
• 18:06 PEOPLE WERE FROZEN IN THE ACT
• 18:08 OF LIVING THEIR LIVES,
• 18:09 JUST AS IF FIRE AND BRIMSTONE
• 18:11 HAD COME FROM HEAVEN.
• 18:12 IT CAME OUT OF A VOLCANO
• 18:13 AND THEY WERE FROZEN IN TIME.
• 18:15 SO I BELIEVE IT'S VERY REAL,
• 18:17 SCIENTIFICALLY PROVEN.
• 18:18 IN FACT, JOSEPHUS SAYS THAT
• 18:21 HE HAD SEEN THE PILLAR OF SALT
• 18:24 THAT WAS ALLEGEDLY LOT'S WIFE
• 18:26 SOMEWHERE IN THIS AREA.
• 18:27 SO IT'S SCIENTIFICALLY POSSIBLE
• 18:30 THAT THIS HAPPENED THE WAY
• 18:31 THE SCRIPTURE TELLS IT AND
• 18:33 WE DON'T NEED TO QUESTION THAT,
• 18:34 BECAUSE IT REALLY IS THE WAY
• 18:36 GOD WAS BRINGING JUDGMENT
• 18:38 IN THAT DAY.
• 18:39 REALLY THE QUESTION FOR US IS
• 18:40 WHAT ARE WE LOOKING BACK TO?
• 18:42 LET'S NOT LOOK BACK.
• 18:43 LET'S GO FORWARD WITH THE LORD.
• 18:45 Katharine: AND MAKE OUR PURSUIT
• 18:46 OF HIM WHO'S PURSUING US.
• 18:48 EVEN THOUGH LOT HAD PITCHED
• 18:50 HIS TENT WHERE THE WORLD WAS,
• 18:52 WHERE DESTRUCTION WAS,
• 18:54 YOU SEE, THE MERCY OF GOD,
• 18:55 INTERVENING IN HIS LIFE
• 18:57 AND HIS FAMILY'S LIVES.
• 19:00 LOT REALLY COOPERATED.
• 19:02 THE SCRIPTURE EVEN SAYS
• 19:03 IN PETER, "RIGHTEOUS LOT."
• 19:05 I DON'T HOW THAT WORKS OUT,
• 19:06 BUT GOD DOES,
• 19:07 AND HE'S SO MERCIFUL.
• 19:09 Myles: YES, IT'S INTERESTING,
• 19:10 BECAUSE THE BIBLE SAYS,
• 19:11 "IN JUDGMENT, REMEMBER MERCY"
• 19:12 AND I THINK WE SEE THAT
• 19:13 WITH PETER'S TESTIMONY
• 19:15 ABOUT RIGHTEOUS LOT,
• 19:16 THAT GOD IS MERCIFUL
• 19:17 IN THE MIDST OF JUDGMENT.
• 19:18 HE MAKES A WAY OF ESCAPE FOR US
• 19:21 AS HE DID FOR THEM.
• 19:22 AMOS 3:7 SAYS, THAT HE
• 19:24 WILL NOT HIDE WHAT HE IS DOING
• 19:26 FROM HIS SERVANTS, THE PROPHETS,
• 19:28 AND WE'RE GOING TO FIND OUT
• 19:29 THAT ABRAHAM WAS NOT ONLY
• 19:31 A PATRIARCH BUT HE WAS ALSO
• 19:32 A PROPHET AND WHAT WE'RE SEEING
• 19:34 HERE IN THIS INCREDIBLE STORY
• 19:36 OF JUDGMENT, ESCAPE
• 19:38 AND THE AMAZING DRAMA OF THIS
• 19:41 IS THAT ALWAYS GOD IS SOVEREIGN.
• 19:43 HE'S ALWAYS WANTING THE BEST
• 19:44 FOR YOU AND FOR ME
• 19:45 AND HE'S ALWAYS WANTING
• 19:46 TO MAKE A WAY FOR US
• 19:48 THROUGH THE TIMES OF JUDGMENT.
• 19:56 Katharine: MYLES, YOUR TEACHING
• 19:57 ABOUT JUDGMENT AND HOW SCIENCE
• 20:00 HAS ESTABLISHED THAT
• 20:01 IT WAS ACTUALLY A REALITY.
• 20:02 Myles: POSSIBLY,
• 20:03 THE WAY IT HAPPENED IN ITALY
• 20:05 AND THEN WE SEE IT
• 20:06 IN THE SCRIPTURES.
• 20:07 AND YET WE SEE GOD'S MERCY
• 20:08 ALWAYS REACHING FOR MANKIND
• 20:11 AND THAT'S REALLY THE THEME
• 20:12 OF THAT PART OF THE STORY,
• 20:13 ISN'T IT, THAT GOD
• 20:14 WAS MAKING A WAY WHERE
• 20:16 THERE SEEMED TO BE NO WAY.
• 20:17 I THINK ABOUT TODAY
• 20:18 IN TODAY'S TIMES, WE HAVE SUCH
• 20:20 MISINFORMATION COMING TO YOU
• 20:22 THROUGH THE AIRWAVES
• 20:23 AND OUT OF THE MIDDLE EAST
• 20:25 AND ONE OF OUR GREAT FRIENDS
• 20:26 IN THE MINISTRY
• 20:27 IS AVI AND RACHEL LIPKIN.
• 20:29 RACHAEL WAS BORN IN EGYPT.
• 20:31 SHE IS AN EGYPTIAN JEW AND SHE'S
• 20:34 ABLE TO INTERPRET THE ARAB MEDIA
• 20:36 FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF ISRAEL
• 20:38 AND FOR YOU AND ME, SO WE GET
• 20:39 TO UNDERSTAND WHAT'S BEING SAID
• 20:41 IN ARABIC AMONGST THEMSELVES,
• 20:43 VERSUS WHAT'S BEING SAID FOR
• 20:45 OUR CONSUMPTION IN THE WEST,
• 20:46 IN ENGLISH.
• 20:47 KATHARINE WAS ABLE TO
• 20:48 INTERVIEW HER, AND SO LET'S GO
• 20:50 TO KATHARINE'S INTERVIEW
• 20:51 WITH RACHEL LIPKIN.
• 20:55 Katharine: RACHEL,
• 20:56 I KNOW THAT YOU KNOW ARABIC,
• 20:57 SO YOU ARE ABLE TO DECIPHER
• 20:58 WHAT THE NEWS IS NOT PICKING UP.
• 21:00 TELL US A LITTLE BIT
• 21:01 ABOUT WHAT YOU'RE HEARING.
• 21:03 Rachel: OKAY, I AM WORKING
• 21:04 FOR THE RADIO AUTHORITY
• 21:06 ALREADY MORE THAN 35 YEARS
• 21:09 AND MY FIRST LANGUAGE IS ARABIC,
• 21:13 LIKE, I KNOW ENGLISH,
• 21:14 I KNOW FRENCH AND
• 21:16 I CAN UNDERSTAND SPANISH TOO.
• 21:19 FOR ME, I WENT THROUGH SO MUCH
• 21:21 IN THE AUTHORITY RADIO,
• 21:24 AND, IN THE END,
• 21:25 I GOT TO A POINT THAT
• 21:26 THE MOST IMPORTANT WORK
• 21:28 THAT I COULD DO IS TO LISTEN
• 21:30 TO THE ARABS' COMMUNICATION,
• 21:33 LIKE RADIO, TV, CABLE,
• 21:35 EVERYTHING, AND HEAR ABOUT
• 21:37 WHAT THEY SAY, REALLY,
• 21:39 WITH THEIR OWN WORDS.
• 21:42 I KNOW WHAT THEY ARE TALKING
• 21:43 TO THE WEST ARE NOT THE SAME
• 21:46 WHAT THEY ARE TALKING
• 21:47 TO THE ARAB COUNTRIES.
• 21:48 THIS ACTIVITY
• 21:50 OF THE MUSLIM BROTHERS
• 21:51 ARE ALREADY A LONG TIME AGO,
• 21:54 AND WE KNEW THAT THIS IS NOT
• 21:58 AN ISSUE OF A VERY SHORT TIME.
• 22:02 Katharine: YOU WERE IN EGYPT.
• 22:03 YOUR FATHER WAS THROWN IN JAIL
• 22:05 FOR THE SIMPLE FACT
• 22:06 OF BEING A JEW.
• 22:07 Rachel: EXACTLY; NOT ONLY HIM,
• 22:08 BUT ALL THE JEWS WERE CAPTURED,
• 22:10 MEN AND BOYS, PUT IN PRISONS.
• 22:12 Katharine: AND NOW IT'S
• 22:13 ACCELERATING EVEN BEYOND SUCH,
• 22:15 SINCE THE SPRING
• 22:17 OF THE UPRISING.
• 22:18 Rachel: UPRISING, YES, BUT YOU
• 22:20 HAVE TO UNDERSTAND THAT THIS IS,
• 22:21 LIKE, THE FIRST STEP IS TO
• 22:23 TAKE CARE OF THE JEWS IN EGYPT,
• 22:25 AND NOW THEY ARE TAKING CARE OF
• 22:28 THE CHRISTIANS.
• 22:29 YOU KNOW THAT THE LAST
• 22:30 FEW MONTHS AND YEAR,
• 22:32 THEY ARE AGAINST THE CHRISTIANS
• 22:34 VERY OPENLY AND NOBODY,
• 22:36 NOBODY CAN TAKE CARE OF THEM.
• 22:38 WE ARE SEEING ALREADY A LOT
• 22:42 OF CHRISTIANS WHO ARE FLEEING
• 22:44 OUTSIDE OF EGYPT.
• 22:45 SOME OF THEM ARE BEING KILLED
• 22:47 AND YOU HAVE TO UNDERSTAND ALSO
• 22:49 THAT THE CHRISTIANS
• 22:50 ARE THE MAIN PEOPLE OF EGYPT
• 22:54 AND THEY HAVE A LOT OF WEALTH,
• 22:56 THEY HAVE A LOT OF MONEY
• 22:57 AND THE MUSLIMS, TO TAKE CARE
• 23:01 OF THESE CHRISTIANS,
• 23:02 THEY TAKE THE MONEY,
• 23:03 THEY TAKE THE GIRLS,
• 23:05 THEY GET MARRIED TO THEM
• 23:06 AND THEY POOL THEM TO BE
• 23:08 A BABY FACTORY FOR THE MUSLIMS
• 23:11 AND, LIKE THIS,
• 23:13 THE CHRISTIAN ETHNIC GROUPS
• 23:15 WHO ARE IN EGYPT
• 23:17 ARE COMPLETELY DESTROYED.
• 23:19 Katharine: WHAT CAN AMERICANS DO
• 23:20 TO BE MORE EDUCATED IN THIS?
• 23:25 Rachel: IT'S VERY DIFFICULT.
• 23:27 VERY DIFFICULT FOR PEOPLE
• 23:28 WHO DON'T UNDERSTAND
• 23:30 WHAT IS THE MUSLIM RELIGION.
• 23:34 AND IF YOU GO TO THE KORAN AND
• 23:36 YOU KNOW EXACTLY WHAT THEY ARE
• 23:38 TALKING ABOUT, THEY DON'T TAKE
• 23:40 NO CHRISTIANS AND NO JEWS,
• 23:41 LIKE, A FRIEND.
• 23:43 THE MORE YOU ARE
• 23:44 AN EXTREMIST ISLAMIC PERSON,
• 23:48 YOU GO THROUGH THE BOOK.
• 23:49 AND IF YOU GO THROUGH THE BOOK,
• 23:51 YOU HAVE TO GET RID OF
• 23:52 THE JEWISH AND THE CHRISTIANS.
• 23:54 AND LIKE THIS,
• 23:55 THEY ARE DOING, THEY ARE DOING
• 23:56 WHAT THE KORAN IS SAYING.
• 23:58 THERE IS SOME MUSLIMS WHO ARE
• 24:01 NOT EXACTLY WITH THE SAME WAY
• 24:04 WITH THIS ISLAMIC, BUT WHEN
• 24:05 YOU SEE THAT EGYPT, FOR EXAMPLE,
• 24:08 NOW HAS 75% EXTREMIST PEOPLE
• 24:12 ARE IN THE GOVERNMENT,
• 24:13 THEN YOU CAN SEE
• 24:14 WHERE EGYPT IS GOING.
• 24:17 Myles: THAT IS SUCH
• 24:18 AN INCREDIBLE INTERVIEW
• 24:19 THAT KATHARINE DID WITH RACHEL.
• 24:21 THE TIMES THAT WE'RE LIVING IN
• 24:24 REQUIRE THIS KIND OF INSIGHT
• 24:26 INTO WHAT'S GOING ON BEHIND
• 24:28 THE SCENES IN THE MIDDLE EAST.
• 24:29 WE CAN'T REALLY GET OUR NEWS
• 24:31 FROM THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA.
• 24:32 THE TIME WE FILMED THAT,
• 24:34 THERE HADN'T YET BEEN
• 24:35 THE ELECTION IN EGYPT
• 24:38 AND SHE WAS VERY PRESCIENT
• 24:39 IN THE WAY THAT SHE SPOKE ABOUT
• 24:40 WHAT WAS COMING AND WHAT'S
• 24:42 COME TO PASS, WHICH HAS BEEN
• 24:43 AN ELECTION THAT'S MADE
• 24:46 THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD
• 24:47 RISE TO THE SURFACE.
• 24:48 SO WHAT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE
• 24:50 AN ARAB SPRING, AS I SAID,
• 24:52 HAS BECOME AN ARAB SPRINGBOARD
• 24:55 FOR THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD.
• 24:56 SO THERE'S A LOT OF CONTROVERSY
• 24:59 TAKING PLACE RIGHT NOW ABOUT
• 25:00 WHAT IT WILL CONTINUE TO MEAN,
• 25:02 BUT THERE HAVE BEEN MANY VOICES
• 25:04 IN ISRAEL AND AMONG MESSIANICS
• 25:06 AND OTHERS IN THE WORLD SAYING
• 25:08 TO BE CAREFUL AND BE AWARE THAT
• 25:10 THIS MAY NOT BE WHAT
• 25:11 IT APPEARS TO BE.
• 25:12 THE WESTERN MEDIA ARE SPEAKING
• 25:14 IN GLOWING TERMS ABOUT
• 25:16 AN ARAB DEMOCRACY,
• 25:17 BUT IT DOESN'T LOOK THAT WAY.
• 25:20 IT LOOKS AS THOUGH WE NEED
• 25:21 TO CONTINUE TO KEEP OUR EYES
• 25:22 ON THE LORD, DOESN'T IT?
• 25:24 Katharine: YEAH, HEBREWS
• 25:25 TALKS ABOUT KEEPING YOUR EYES
• 25:27 ON THE LORD, "LOOKING UNTO JESUS
• 25:28 THE AUTHOR AND THE FINISHER
• 25:29 OF OUR FAITH."
• 25:31 AND SOMEHOW ABRAHAM IS MAKING IT
• 25:33 INTO THE NEW COVENANT AND I WANT
• 25:36 TO BRING THIS OUT, BECAUSE
• 25:37 EVEN IN THE MIDST OF THE MOST
• 25:39 WICKED CIRCUMSTANCE, THE LORD
• 25:40 WAS ABLE TO DELIVER LOT.
• 25:42 IT SAYS IN II PETER 2:7 THAT GOD
• 25:46 DELIVERED RIGHTEOUS LOT OUT OF
• 25:49 THE REALLY HARD CIRCUMSTANCE.
• 25:50 SO HE COULD TAKE OUR LIVES
• 25:52 AND DELIVER US IN
• 25:53 THE MOST DIFFICULT CIRCUMSTANCE,
• 25:55 MYLES, THAT WE ARE LIVING IN,
• 25:57 REALLY, TIMES
• 25:58 THAT ARE PERPLEXING.
• 25:59 Myles: THEY ARE.
• 26:00 THERE'S PERPLEXITY OF NATIONS.
• 26:01 SEEMS TO BE NO WAY OUT
• 26:03 FOR MANY PEOPLE.
• 26:04 THERE'S PRESSURE THAT'S COMING
• 26:05 ECONOMICALLY AND EMOTIONALLY,
• 26:07 SPIRITUALLY
• 26:08 AND PEOPLE ARE LOOKING
• 26:09 HERE AND THERE FOR ANSWERS
• 26:10 AND FOR SOLUTIONS AND WE KNOW
• 26:12 THAT THE WRITER OF HEBREWS WAS,
• 26:13 IN FACT, CORRECT:
• 26:14 "LOOKING UNTO JESUS, THE AUTHOR
• 26:16 AND FINISHER OF OUR FAITH."
• 26:18 THAT IS WHERE OUR SOLUTION
• 26:19 COMES FROM.
• 26:20 Katharine: HEBREWS
• 26:22 IS THE BOOK THAT WE GO TO.
• 26:23 ANY OF THE QUESTIONS
• 26:24 THAT WE HAVE, OR IN GENESIS,
• 26:25 WE GO TO THE BOOK OF HEBREWS
• 26:26 AND HE ANSWERS THEM ALL, RIGHT?
• 26:27 Myles: RIGHT,
• 26:28 THEY'RE INTERPRETED THROUGH
• 26:29 A JEWISH PERSPECTIVE AND
• 26:31 SO WE GET TO SEE THE CONFLUENCE
• 26:32 BETWEEN THE OLD TESTAMENT
• 26:34 AND THE NEW TESTAMENT BECAUSE
• 26:36 THEY'RE PERFECTLY CONNECTED.
• 26:38 AND SO, AS WE GO TODAY,
• 26:40 WE WANT TO REMIND YOU,
• 26:41 SHAL'ALU SHALOM YERUSHALAYIM
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