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

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