Caption transcript for Special Guest: Ron Cantor, Part 2

• 00:16 BRETHREN, MY HEART'S DESIRE AND PRAYER TO GOD FOR ISRAEL IS THAT THEY MIGHT BE SAVED.
• 00:23 FOR THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE JEW AND THE GREEK
• 00:27 FOR THE SAME LORD OVER ALL IS RICH UNTO ALL THAT CALL UPON HIM.
• 00:43 SHALOM AND WELCOME TO OUR PROGRAM.
• 00:44 I'M MYLES WEISS.
• 00:45 AND I'M KATHARINE WEISS
• 00:47 AND WE WANT TO WELCOME YOU TO ANOTHER SEGMENT WITH RON CANTOR.
• 00:49 YES, WHAT AN EXCITING SET OF INTERVIEWS.
• 00:51 HE HAS JUST GOT THIS GREAT BOOK "IDENTITY THEFT"
• 00:53 AND WHAT'S GREAT ABOUT IT AND WE'LL BE TALKING ABOUT IS HOW IT'S BIBLICAL IN BASIS.
• 00:58 IT'S REALLY ILLUMINATING SCRIPTURE AND THAT'S WHAT'S IMPORTANT.
• 01:01 THIS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT BOOK.
• 01:02 "THE" MOST IMPORTANT BOOK
• 01:04 EXACTLY AND HIS BOOK IS REALLY ILLUMINATING THE JEWISH IDENTITY OF JESUS
• 01:07 AND WE'VE GOTTEN SOME FEEDBACK FROM OUR INTERVIEW LAST WEEK.
• 01:10 THAT'S WHY WE WANTED TO DO ANOTHER ONE WITH HIM.
• 01:12 THIS IS A SEMINAL ISSUE FOR THE CHURCH AND THE WORLD TODAY
• 01:16 BECAUSE OF ALL THE CONFLICT AROUND ISRAEL,
• 01:19 ALL OF THE RISING OF ANTI-SEMITISM
• 01:21 AND THE MISUNDERSTANDING THROUGHOUT THE AGES ABOUT THE JEWISH IDENTITY OF YESHUA.
• 01:26 WELL THERE'S A HUGE HUNGER OUT THERE IN BELIEVERS TODAY OF WANTING TO KNOW THEIR ROOTS.
• 01:33 AND THEIR ROOTS...
• 01:34 OUR IDENTITY...
• 01:36 NOT ONLY IN JESUS BUT IN OUR JEWISH MESSIAH, YESHUA, IT ADDS SO MUCH MYLES;
• 01:41 THERE SO MUCH OF DEPTH THAT COMES WHEN WE COME TO KNOW ALL THAT GOD'S INTENDED
• 01:46 THROUGH THE OLD AND THE NEW TESTAMENT FOR US.
• 01:49 EXACTLY, WE SEE THAT THE SEAMLESS CONNECTION
• 01:52 BETWEEN THE OLD TESTAMENT AND THE NEW TESTAMENT,
• 01:55 BETWEEN THE TANAKH AND THE B'RIT HADASHAH
• 01:57 IS JUST GOD'S HEART IS THAT WE WOULD UNDERSTAND THAT WE COME FROM SOMEWHERE,
• 02:02 WE COME FROM ABRAHAM, ISAAC AND JACOB.
• 02:04 JACOB IS ISRAEL.
• 02:06 AND SO THE IDEA OF AN ANTI-SEMITIC BELIEVER OR AN ANTI-SEMITIC CHURCH IS JUST AN OXYMORON,
• 02:12 IT CAN'T BE AND YET HISTORICALLY AND SADLY OVER THE CENTURIES IT HAS BEEN THAT WAY.
• 02:17 AND IT'S SO WONDERFUL THAT WE HAVE OUR PROGRAM THAT WE TAKE PEOPLE TO THE LAND,
• 02:21 TEACH IN THE LAND THE CONTEXT OF YESHUA,
• 02:24 THE CONTEXT IN HIS...
• 02:26 IN THE CULTURE WHICH HE TAUGHT IT FROM.
• 02:28 WHAT A DEPTH,
• 02:31 WHAT A REVELATION THAT GOD BEGINS TO UNFOLD THROUGH THE SCRIPTURES FOR BEING IN THE LAND.
• 02:34 IT'S REALLY TRUE.
• 02:36 WE ARE PRIVILEGED TO BE ABLE TO DO IT.
• 02:37 AND SO WE ARE GOING TO GO TO MY INTERVIEW WITH RON CANTOR AFTER THIS.
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• 03:13 RON THANKS FOR BEING WITH US AGAIN.
• 03:15 WE COULD SPEND MILLIONS OF SHOWS TALKING ABOUT "IDENTITY THEFT" AND YOUR WORK TODAY.
• 03:20 ONE OF THE GREAT THINGS YOU BRING OUT IN YOUR NOVEL
• 03:24 IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN RELIGION AND RELATIONSHIP BACK THEN AND TODAY.
• 03:29 CAN YOU TELL OUR VIEWERS A LITTLE ABOUT THAT?
• 03:30 WELL WE CAN LOOK AT RELIGION THROUGHOUT THE AGES AND SEE ALL KINDS OF TROUBLE.
• 03:36 WE THINK OF AL QAEDA TODAY OR HAMAS, HEZBOLLAH
• 03:40 WHO BASED ON RELIGION GOES OUT AND KILLS PEOPLE.
• 03:43 AND IT'S VERY EASY TO SAY, LOOK AT THOSE ISLAMISTS, WE WOULD NEVER DO THAT
• 03:47 BUT IF YOU JUST GO BACK A THOUSAND YEARS
• 03:50 YOU HAD CRUSADERS MARCHING THROUGH EUROPE FEELING THAT THEY HAD A COMMAND FROM GOD.
• 03:56 OF COURSE ONE OF THE REASONS OF THAT IS THAT THEY COULDN'T READ THE BIBLE.
• 04:01 YOUR TYPICAL CRUSADER COULDN'T SIT DOWN AND HAVE HIS DEVOTIONS IN THE MORNING
• 04:05 AND READ THE BOOK OF JOHN AND THE BOOK OF ACTS.
• 04:07 HE WAS TOLD WHAT TO BELIEVE BY THE POPES AND THE PRIESTS
• 04:12 AND THEY WERE TOLD THAT GOD WANTED THEM TO CONQUER THE HOLY LAND
• 04:15 AND SO THEY MARCHED ACROSS EUROPE KILLING WHOLE JEWISH COMMUNITIES...
• 04:22 JUST WHOLESALE MURDER.
• 04:24 IN FACT, OFTEN THE LAST THING A JEWISH CHILD MIGHT SEE WOULD BE THE CROSS ON THE CRUSADER'S SHIELD OR THEIR BANNER.
• 04:31 AND WHEN THEY ACTUALLY GOT TO JERUSALEM THEY SURROUNDED A SYNAGOGUE.
• 04:36 MANY OF THE JEWS...ABOUT A THOUSAND HAD FLED TO THE SYNAGOGUE AND HOPED FOR MERCY
• 04:40 BUT THE CRUSADERS THEY LIT THE SYNAGOGUE ON FIRE,
• 04:44 IT BURNED TO THE GROUND,
• 04:45 AND WHILE IT WAS BURNING THEY MARCHED AROUND IT SINGING "CHRIST WE ADORE THEE".
• 04:50 AND AS I WAS RESEARCHING FOR THIS BOOK I'M THINKING
• 04:53 THERE'S NO DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THAT AND ISLAMIC FUNDAMENTALISM.
• 04:58 IT'S THAT SAME RELIGIOUS ZEALOUS SPIRIT THAT'S NOT FROM GOD.
• 05:02 WHAT'S FROM GOD IS A LOVING RELATIONSHIP
• 05:07 NOT THIS BEING TOLD WHAT TO DO
• 05:10 A 'WORKS" RIGHTEOUSNESS THAT'S OFTEN THE BASIS OF THESE MOVEMENTS
• 05:16 IS THE MORE YOU DO THE MORE YOU GET.
• 05:18 IN ISLAM YOU GET 72 VIRGINS WHEN YOU DIE.
• 05:20 IN CATHOLICISM THEY HAD A PURGATORY
• 05:23 AND THERE WERE CERTAIN WAYS TO GET YOUR FRIENDS AND LOVED ONES OUT OF THIS FICTITIOUS PLACE CALLED PURGATORY.
• 05:30 AND PURGATORY, BY THE WAY, WAS MADE UP ON MADISON AVENUE IF YOU WILL.
• 05:36 IT WAS A MARKETING SCHEME TO RAISE MONEY FOR THE CHURCH
• 05:40 AND THAT'S HOW THEY BUILT THESE WONDERFUL BUILDINGS THAT WE SEE IN EUROPE.
• 05:44 THEY WOULD TELL FOLKS, GIVE MONEY AND YOUR LOVED ONES WILL GET OUT OF PURGATORY.
• 05:47 OF COURSE, THERE IS NO PURGATORY.
• 05:50 WE COME ALONE TO YESHUA AND ENJOY A RELATIONSHIP WITH HIM OR WE DON'T
• 05:55 BUT IT'S NOT BASED ON SOMEONE ELSE'S...
• 05:58 IT'S EXACTLY RIGHT AND IT COMES OUT ELOQUENTLY IN YOUR BOOK
• 06:02 THAT THERE IS SUCH A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN RELIGION AND WHAT IT PRODUCES
• 06:06 AND RELATIONSHIP AND WHAT THAT PRODUCES
• 06:09 BECAUSE SO MANY JEWISH PEOPLE...
• 06:11 WE KNOW THE HISTORY OF THE CHURCH, THE INSTITUTIONAL CHURCH
• 06:15 AND SO THAT'S WHY ONE OF THE REASONS WHY THE IDENTITY THEFT HAS TAKEN PLACE
• 06:19 IS THAT WE LOOK AT THE ACTIONS OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH OVER THE SEASONS AND THE CHURCH INSTITUTIONAL AND WE JUST SAY,
• 06:25 NO WAY, NO HOW, THAT CANNOT BE A LOVING GOD WHOSE DONE THIS.
• 06:28 AND WHAT'S HAPPENING NOW THANKS TO REPENTANCE IN THE CHURCH
• 06:31 AND BOOKS LIKE YOURS AND MINISTRIES LIKE OURS THAT ARE GOING AROUND THE WORLD
• 06:35 AND SAYING, WHAT A MINUTE, THERE'S A WHOLE OTHER STORY HERE THAT NEEDS TO BE TOLD,
• 06:39 AND THAT'S WHAT YOU'RE DOING.
• 06:41 AND ONE OF THE AMAZING FALLACIES THAT'S OUT THERE IS PETER AS THE POPE.
• 06:47 AS A JEW WHO BELIEVES IN JESUS YOU START REALIZING,
• 06:51 WAIT A MINUTE PETER REALLY NEVER HAD A TOUCH OF SIGNIFICANCE WITH ROME
• 06:57 SO YOU GO THROUGH THIS IN THE BOOK.
• 06:59 WELL ONE OF THE THINGS WE DO IN THE BOOK RIGHT IN THE BEGINNING
• 07:02 IS TO SHOW THE JEWISHNESS OF THE FAITH.
• 07:06 WE TALK ABOUT THE FACT THAT JESUS' NAME IS ACTUALLY "YESHUA".
• 07:09 NOW I CAN WORSHIP HIM WITH ANY NAME...
• 07:12 I'M SURE HE'S FINE WITH THAT
• 07:14 BUT YESHUA IS IMPORTANT BECAUSE IT MEANS "SALVATION".
• 07:17 WE TALK ABOUT THE FACT THAT MARY OR MARIA WAS NOT THE MOTHER OF YESHUA
• 07:22 BUT HER NAME WAS MIRIAM, A JEWISH NAME.
• 07:23 AND THEN PETER, HIS NAME... PETER SIMPLY MEANS "ROCK".
• 07:27 IN ARAMAIC IT'S "CEPHAS".
• 07:29 YESHUA SAID, YOU'RE MY ROCK, YOU'RE MY CEPHAS AND SO WE MADE A NAME OUT OF THAT
• 07:34 WHICH IS FINE IF YOUR NAME IS PETER.
• 07:36 I THINK IT'S A GREAT NAME.
• 07:38 IT'S COOL ACTUALLY.
• 07:39 IT MEANS "ROCK".
• 07:40 BUT THE CATHOLICS WENT ON TO SAY THAT HE WAS THE FIRST POPE
• 07:43 AND THE POPE IS THOUGHT TO BE THE BISHOP OF ROME
• 07:46 AND THE FACT OF THE MATTER IS THAT WE DON'T HAVE ANY RECORD OF PETER EVER BEING IN ROME.
• 07:51 HE CERTAINLY WAS NEVER THE BISHOP OF ROME.
• 07:54 THE HEADQUARTERS OF THE EARLY BELIEVERS WAS IN JERUSALEM, NOT IN ROME
• 07:59 AND THEN THEY HAD A SIGNIFICANT WORK IN ANTIOCH
• 08:02 BUT IT WASN'T UNTIL MANY DECADES LATER THAT ROME BECAME SIGNIFICANT.
• 08:07 WE ALSO KNOW PETER WASN'T INFALLIBLE AS WE SEE PAUL EVEN REBUKING HIM
• 08:13 WHEN HE WAS NERVOUS ABOUT EATING WITH GENTILES IN FRONT OF OTHER JEWISH BELIEVERS.
• 08:18 PAUL REBUKES HIM OVER THAT.
• 08:21 AND THE ACTS 15 COUNSEL SHOWS JAMES, WHO WE KNOW IF YOU WATCHED LAST WEEK
• 08:29 THAT JAMES IS ACTUALLY JACOB.
• 08:32 JACOB WAS THE LEADER OF THE EARLY BELIEVERS AT THAT POINT.
• 08:35 PETER WAS INITIALLY THE LEADER BUT THEN HE GAVE HIMSELF TO TRAVELING APOSTOLIC MINISTRY
• 08:40 AND JACOB WAS THE PRIMARY APOSTLE IN JERUSALEM.
• 08:43 SO I DON'T KNOW WHAT'S FUNNIER
• 08:46 IS THAT THE FIRST POPE WAS JEWISH OR THAT HE WAS MARRIED BUT PETER WAS BOTH.
• 08:54 EXACTLY, HE WAS NOT THE POPE
• 08:56 BUT HE WAS ONE OF THE LEADERS OF THE APOSTOLIC TEAM IN THE EARLY DAYS.
• 08:59 HE WAS A MESSIANIC JEW, A FISHERMAN, HE LOVED GOD, HE WAS AN EVANGELIST,
• 09:02 HE DIDN'T WEAR A FUNNY HAT,
• 09:04 HE PROBABLY DIDN'T HAVE A RING THAT PEOPLE KISSED
• 09:06 AND I DON'T MEAN TO BE DISRESPECTFUL TO OUR CATHOLIC FRIENDS.
• 09:09 THAT'S IMPORTANT BECAUSE THIS IS NOT AN ANTI-CATHOLIC MESSAGE.
• 09:11 WE'RE JUST TRYING TO GO OVER THE HISTORICITY OF IT AND ESTABLISH THE REALITIES OF THE DAY.
• 09:17 WE'RE TRYING TO SHOW THE GOSPEL IN ITS ORIGINAL JEWISH CONTEXT
• 09:23 SO THAT WHEN A JEWISH PERSON SEES IT, OKAY MAYBE HE WON'T AGREE WITH IT OR MAYBE HE WILL
• 09:28 BUT HE HAS TO SAY THIS WAS JEWISH, THIS WAS IN ISRAEL,
• 09:32 IT WASN'T IN ROME AND HE HAS TO DEAL WITH IT.
• 09:35 EXACTLY AND YOUR BOOK DOES A GREAT JOB OF DOING THAT.
• 09:38 ANOTHER ASPECT OF THE BOOK THAT REALLY CAUGHT MY ATTENTION
• 09:42 IS THE DISCUSSION OF THE SABBATH AND THE LORD'S DAY,
• 09:46 AN ANALYST DISCUSSION AMONG BELIEVERS...
• 09:49 A LOT OF CONFUSION...
• 09:50 A LOT OF CONTROVERSY.
• 09:52 I THINK WE MAY NEED SEVERAL SECTIONS...
• 09:54 SEVERAL INTERVIEWS TO GO OVER THIS
• 09:56 BUT LET'S START WITH WHY DID YOU LEAN SO HEAVILY ON THAT IN THE BOOK AND WHAT MADE YOU EMPHASIZE THAT?
• 10:02 WELL A FEW YEARS AGO I HEARD A TEACHING
• 10:05 BY A FELLOW BY THE NAME OF DAVID PAWSON, VERY POPULAR ENGLISH TEACHER
• 10:09 ABOUT THE MEANING OF THE LORD'S DAY.
• 10:12 NOW LET ME JUST SAY THIS FOR OUR VIEWERS.
• 10:14 WE CAN WORSHIP THE LORD ON ANY DAY WE WANT TO.
• 10:17 GOD IS NOT RELIGIOUS.
• 10:18 THAT'S ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE WANT TO PUT IN THE BOOK
• 10:21 IS WHILE WE ARE MAKING THESE POINTS
• 10:23 IT'S NOT BECAUSE WE WANT TO SAY YOU HAVE TO WORSHIP ON THE SABBATH OR YOU MUST DO THIS OR THAT.
• 10:29 IT'S MORE TO EXPOSE WHAT HAPPENED.
• 10:32 AND WHAT HAPPENED IS THE CHURCH, THEY DIDN'T JUST SAY YOU CAN WORSHIP ON SUNDAY,
• 10:36 THEY SAID YOU MUST WORSHIP ON SUNDAY.
• 10:38 THE LAODICEAN COUNCIL IN 364 SAID THAT IF A CHRISTIAN RESTS ON THE SABBATH...
• 10:46 THEY CALL THAT "JUDAIZING THE SABBATH".
• 10:48 HE WOULD BE CUT OFF FROM THE MESSIAH.
• 10:51 SO YOU WOULD GO TO HELL NOT FOR BEING A PEDOPHILE OR A RAPIST OR MURDERER,
• 10:57 YOU WOULD GO TO HELL FOR RESTING ON THE SABBATH.
• 11:01 SO IT WAS BECAUSE OF THOSE THINGS THAT I BEGAN TO DO RESEARCH
• 11:03 AND ONE OF THE SCRIPTURES THAT THIS HANGS ON IS IN THE BOOK OF REVELATION
• 11:08 WHERE JOHN SAYS, I WAS IN THE SPIRIT ON THE LORD'S DAY,
• 11:12 AND PEOPLE SAY, OH HE WAS IN THE SPIRIT ON SUNDAY,
• 11:14 WHICH WOULD BE A KIND OF FUNNY THING,
• 11:16 I WAS IN THE SPIRIT ON SUNDAY OR WEDNESDAY OR TUESDAY.
• 11:18 WHY WOULD HE SAY THAT?
• 11:20 WELL THE LORD'S DAY WAS ACTUALLY A SPECIFIC DAY DURING THE YEAR ON THE ROMAN CALENDAR.
• 11:24 IT HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH OUR LORD.
• 11:27 THE LORD IT SPOKE ABOUT WAS CAESAR.
• 11:29 YOU SEE BACK IN THE FIRST CENTURY DURING THE ROMAN EMPIRE THERE WAS SOMETHING CALLED "CAESAR WORSHIP".
• 11:36 THEY BELIEVED THAT CAESAR WAS GOD
• 11:38 AND IF YOU WERE A CITIZEN OR PART OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE,
• 11:42 ONCE A YEAR YOU HAD TO GO TO THE LOCAL MAGISTRATE,
• 11:45 BURN INCENSE TO CAESAR AND SAY THESE WORDS, "CAESAR IS GOD".
• 11:50 THIS WAS MANDATED, THIS WAS NOT AN OPTION.
• 11:53 IT WAS PART OF YOUR NECESSARY DUTY AS A CITIZEN. EVERYONE HAD TO.
• 11:59 YES, AND IF YOU DIDN'T DO IT YOU WOULD BE IN BIG TROUBLE.
• 12:02 THAT'S WHY WE HEAR OF ALL THESE BELIEVERS BEING ROUNDED UP,
• 12:04 BEING EATEN BY LIONS, BEING BURNED AT THE STAKE.
• 12:08 SO ON THIS DAY...
• 12:10 BY THE WAY THE THEME OF REVELATION IS NOT THE DAY THAT WE WORSHIP ON,
• 12:14 THE THEME OF REVELATION IS PERSECUTION.
• 12:17 IT'S HE WHO STANDS FIRM TO THE END SHALL BE SAVED
• 12:20 AND SO THAT'S WHY JOHN IS SAYING I WAS IN THE SPIRIT ON THIS DAY
• 12:25 THAT EVERY BELIEVER IN THE ROMAN EMPIRE WOULD BE TESTED WHETHER OR NOT THEY WERE WILLING TO STAND UP.
• 12:31 AND BY THE WAY IT BRINGS OUT PAUL'S STATEMENT IN ROMANS
• 12:34 IF YOU CONFESS WITH YOUR MOUTH JESUS IS LORD, YESHUA IS LORD,
• 12:37 AND BELIEVE THAT GOD HAS RAISED HIM FROM THE DEAD, YOU WILL BE SAVED.
• 12:41 IT STRENGTHENS THAT BECAUSE CONFESSION THAT YESHUA IS LORD COULD MEAN DEATH.
• 12:47 THIS IS SO IMPORTANT.
• 12:49 WHEN WE COME BACK I WANT TO PICK UP THIS THEME.
• 12:51 WE'LL BE BACK WITH RON RIGHT AFTER THIS.
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• 14:23 WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THIS SEEMING DISCREPANCY BETWEEN THE SABBATH AND THE LORD'S DAY
• 14:28 AND HOW THROUGHOUT HISTORY THERE'S BEEN SUCH CONTROVERSY AROUND THAT...
• 14:32 SUCH MISUNDERSTANDING.
• 14:33 WHAT ELSE CAN YOU TELL OUR VIEWERS ABOUT THAT PROCESS OF YOU UNCOVERING THE TRUTH OF IT
• 14:37 AND ALSO THE WAY YOU WOVE IT INTO THE BOOK.
• 14:39 WELL, WHAT WE TRIED TO DO...
• 14:41 WE HAVE OUR PROTAGONIST...
• 14:43 HIS NAME IS DAVID AND HE'S DISCOVERING ALL THESE THINGS.
• 14:46 HE'S SHARING WITH HIS FRIEND, HIS MENTOR, HIS ANGEL ALL OF HIS OBJECTIONS TO THE GOSPEL.
• 14:54 AND ONE OF THE THINGS HE BRINGS UP IS HE SAYS,
• 14:57 WHY DID YOU GUYS CHANGE THE SABBATH FROM SATURDAY TO SUNDAY?
• 15:01 OF COURSE THEN THE ANGEL GIVES HIM A WONDERFUL EDUCATION.
• 15:05 HE HAS AN ACTUAL VISITATION FROM THOMAS AND THEN HE GETS TO TALK TO A FELLOW WHO IS RAISED FROM THE DEAD BY PAUL.
• 15:15 EUTYCHUS
• 15:17 EUTYCHUS, YES...
• 15:18 AND EUTYCHUS FALLS OUT THE WINDOW...
• 15:19 MOST PEOPLE HAVE READ THAT STORY.
• 15:21 HE'S DEAD AND PAUL RAISES HIM FROM THE DEAD
• 15:24 BUT THERE'S A LITTLE PASSAGE THERE THAT SAYS
• 15:26 THAT THEY WERE MEETING ON THE FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK
• 15:30 AND PEOPLE JUST ASSUME, WELL THAT'S SUNDAY MORNING
• 15:33 BUT WHAT FOLKS DON'T UNDERSTAND IS THAT THIS ISN'T...
• 15:36 YOU KNOW IN ISRAEL AND THE NEW COMMUNITIES WHERE IN DIFFERENT CITIES AND DIFFERENT COUNTRIES,
• 15:42 THE GOSPEL WENT TO THE JEW FIRST SO THE LEADERSHIP WAS TYPICALLY JEWISH
• 15:46 AND THESE FOLKS WOULD WORK ON SUNDAY MORNING.
• 15:49 THEY COULDN'T WAKE UP AND GO TO A CHURCH SERVICE;
• 15:51 THEY HAD TO GO TO WORK.
• 15:52 THE SABBATH WAS THEIR DAY OFF
• 15:55 SO WHY DOES IT SAY THAT THEY MET ON THE FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK?
• 15:58 WELL FIRST OF ALL IN ISRAEL THE FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK IS SATURDAY NIGHT NOT SUNDAY MORNING.
• 16:03 IN FACT, IF I WAKE UP ON SATURDAY MORNING AND WE HAVE OUR SERVICE
• 16:07 AND I GREET PEOPLE BY SAYING "SHABBAT SHALOM", "HAVE A GREAT SABBATH"
• 16:11 BUT SATURDAY NIGHT NOBODY WOULD EVER SAY "SHABBAT SHALOM", WHY?,
• 16:16 THE SABBATH ENDED AT SUNDOWN AND THEY WOULD SAY 'SHAVUA TOV", "HAVE A GOOD WEEK".
• 16:20 DAVID STEARN WHO EDITED "THE COMPLETE JEWISH BIBLE",
• 16:24 HE ACTUALLY TRANSLATES THE FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK AS "MOTZEI SHABBAT"
• 16:29 WHICH IN HEBREW MEANS THAT TIME THE GOING OUT OF THE SABBATH
• 16:33 WHICH WOULD LEAD INTO THE NEW WEEK.
• 16:35 SO IT'S PROBABLE
• 16:37 AND AGAIN I AM NOT DOGMATIC ABOUT THESE THINGS
• 16:39 AND THERE ARE THINGS THAT ARE FUN TO DISCUSS
• 16:42 BUT WE DON'T WANT TO FIGHT OVER IT.
• 16:44 EXACTLY, AND PAUL SAID THAT.
• 16:45 HE SAID LET'S NOT JUDGE EACH OTHER IN FESTIVALS AND MOONS AND SABBATHS.
• 16:49 SO WE CAN DISCUSS IT...
• 16:50 TWO JEWS...THREE OPINIONS
• 16:51 BUT THE REALITY IS THAT IT'S ABOUT WORSHIPPING HIM.
• 16:54 WOULD IT HAVE BEEN LIKE A "HAVDALAH" SERVICE...
• 16:56 LIKE AN END OF SHABBAT SERVICE?
• 16:58 I THINK IT WAS SOMETHING LIKE THAT BECAUSE FIRST OF ALL THEY WANTED TO HEAR THE BIBLE.
• 17:02 AND AGAIN LET ME JUST SAY THERE WAS NO NEW TESTAMENT.
• 17:06 THE ONLY SCRIPTURE WAS THE OLD COVENANT
• 17:08 AND OF COURSE MANY CHURCH FATHERS DISOWNED THE OLD COVENANT AFTER THAT
• 17:13 NOT REALIZING THAT THAT WAS THE SCRIPTURE PAUL WAS SPEAKING ABOUT
• 17:17 WHEN HE SAID ALL SCRIPTURE IS GOD BREATHED AND USEFUL.
• 17:21 HE WAS SPEAKING OF THE OLD COVENANT
• 17:23 AND SO IT'S PROBABLE THAT THEY WOULD GO TO SYNAGOGUE
• 17:26 WITH NON-MESSIANIC JEWS IN THE MORNING AND GENTILES WOULD GO THERE AS WELL TO HEAR THE SCRIPTURES READ.
• 17:33 THAT WAS THE ONLY PLACE.
• 17:35 BELIEVE IT OR NOT THEY DIDN'T HAVE IPHONES BACK THEN AND IPADS
• 17:38 AND ALL THESE DIFFERENT VERSIONS OF THE BIBLE.
• 17:41 THE ONLY PLACE TO HEAR THE SCRIPTURES WAS IN THE SYNAGOGUE
• 17:44 AND THEN THEY WOULD PROBABLY GO HOME,
• 17:47 THEY WOULD REST AND THEN WOULD HAVE SOME SORT OF A HAGDALLAH GATHERING
• 17:50 AS THE COMING FORTH OF THE NEW WEEK OR THE GOING OUT OF THE SABBATH
• 17:54 AND THEN BELIEVERS WOULD MEET TOGETHER AS BELIEVERS ON SATURDAY EVENING.
• 17:59 WOW, IT'S A GREAT TEACHING, VERY HELPFUL AND REALLY I THINK THE POINT AGAIN IS...
• 18:04 THE POINT IS TO WORSHIP THE RIGHT ONE AND HOW WE DO THAT,
• 18:07 WHAT DAY WE DO THAT IS PHILOSOPHICAL AND WE HAVE DIFFERENCES ABOUT IT.
• 18:10 THE MAIN POINT IS TO SAY NO ONE EVER CHANGED THE SABBATH.
• 18:15 YOU CAN WORSHIP ON WEDNESDAY OR TUESDAY.
• 18:16 JUST DON'T SAY THAT THE SCRIPTURES HAVE CHANGED.
• 18:19 THAT'S GOOD, THAT'S REALLY GOOD.
• 18:21 AGAIN...THE BOOK
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• 18:26 THAT THIS IS AVAILABLE.
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• 18:51 CALLED "THE MOST HATED PEOPLE IN THE WORLD: MESSIANIC JEWS"...
• 18:54 THAT'S ME AND YOU...
• 18:56 EVERYONE HATES US EVEN MORE THAN THEY HATE JEWS...
• 18:58 EVEN MORE THAN THEY HATE CHRISTIANS...
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• 19:03 IT MAKES ME FEEL MORE BLESSED THAN EVER TO KNOW THAT.
• 19:06 WE ARE ALSO LIVING IN THE DAY WHEN GOD IS REVEALING ROMANS 9 THROUGH 11.
• 19:12 THERE'S SO MUCH LIGHT ON THAT PASSAGE RIGHT NOW.
• 19:15 I WAS TAUGHT IN THE EARLY DAYS IT WAS KIND OF PARENTHETICAL.
• 19:18 THE FACT IS IT IS PIVOTAL AND IT'S BEEN KIND OF UNDER WRAPS FOR 1700 YEARS OR SO
• 19:23 AND WE IN AMERICA, WE HAD OUR 911
• 19:26 WHERE THE COUNTRY AWAKENED TO THE DANGER OF RELIGIOUS ZEALOTS.
• 19:30 AND I FEEL LIKE GOD IS REALLY AWAKENING THE WORLD TO THE REALITY OF ROMANS 9 THROUGH 11
• 19:37 AND I KNOW THAT'S IN YOUR HEART AS WELL.
• 19:39 WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE FOR OUR VIEWERS TO KNOW ABOUT THAT REGARDING YOUR BOOK AND WHAT YOU SEE UNFOLDING?
• 19:43 WELL THE BIBLE DOES SAY IN ROMANS 11:25 AND 26
• 19:46 THAT AFTER THE FULLNESS OF THE NATIONS,
• 19:48 AND I BELIEVE THAT MEANS THE GOSPEL GOING TO EVERY NATION,
• 19:51 THAT ALL ISRAEL WILL BE SAVED.
• 19:54 THERE IS A JEWISH REVIVAL COMING AND THE GOSPEL'S MAKING ITS WAY
• 19:58 AND WE'RE ALREADY SEEING THE BEGINNING OF THIS JEWISH REVIVAL.
• 20:01 THE FACT THAT WE'RE ON TV AND THIS IS A JEWISH MINISTRY
• 20:05 AND PEOPLE ARE WATCHING AND THEY'RE NOT BURNING DOWN THE BUILDING COMING AFTER US
• 20:09 SHOWS THERE'S BEEN A SHIFT IN THE CHURCH
• 20:11 AND THERE'S BEEN A SHIFT AMONGST US AS JEWS
• 20:14 WHERE MANY JEWISH PEOPLE ARE COMING INTO THE KINGDOM.
• 20:17 THE BIBLE SAYS...
• 20:18 AND THIS IS ONE OF MY FAVORITE PASSAGES...
• 20:20 IN ROMANS 11:12 AND THEN I'LL READ VERSE 15...
• 20:26 ISRAEL'S TRANSGRESSION,
• 20:36 IN OTHER WORDS IF BY THE JEWISH PEOPLE DOING THE WRONG THING,
• 20:39 REJECTING THE GOOD NEWS,
• 20:40 CAUSED BLESSING FOR THE NATIONS
• 20:43 WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN WHEN THEY GET IT RIGHT,
• 20:45 WHEN GOD'S CHOSEN PEOPLE BEGIN TO FOLLOW THE JEWISH MESSIAH?
• 20:48 HE'S GOING TO RELEASE UNTOLD BLESSINGS FOR THE NATIONS.
• 20:54 HE CALLS IT "GREATER RICHES"
• 20:55 AND I ALWAYS WONDERED, GREATER THAN WHAT?
• 20:58 GREATER THAN ANYTHING WE'VE SEEN YET.
• 21:00 SO I'M PRETTY EXCITED ABOUT WHAT'S COMING
• 21:03 AND THAT'S ONE OF THE REASONS WE LIVE IN ISRAEL,
• 21:05 THAT'S WHY WE MOVED THERE TO BE PART OF THIS.
• 21:08 WE WANT TO SEE THIS END-TIMES JEWISH REVIVAL.
• 21:11 WE ONLY HAVE A COUPLE MINUTES LEFT.
• 21:13 WHY DON'T YOU TELL US A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE PROCESS OF ALIYAH OF MOVING TO ISRAEL.
• 21:17 WE NEED THE 2 MINUTE VERSION.
• 21:18 IT WAS TEN YEARS AGO
• 21:21 AND IF I'D KNOWN NOW WHAT I WOULD ENDURE I MAY NOT HAVE DONE IT.
• 21:25 LEARNING HEBREW WAS PROBABLY THE MOST GRUELING THING I'VE EVER BEEN THROUGH
• 21:30 BUT I VISITED ISRAEL IN 1991 AFTER READING "FROM BEIRUT TO JERUSALEM" BY THOMAS FRIEDMAN
• 21:35 AND I WAS SO INTRIGUED BY THESE PEOPLE
• 21:38 AND I WAS MARRIED TO A NATIVE BORN ISRAELI
• 21:40 AND I'M JEWISH AND I SAID, I HAVE TO GO.
• 21:42 AND I WENT THERE AND I JUST FELL IN LOVE WITH THESE PEOPLE.
• 21:46 I'M "ADHD", MAYBE YOU CAN SEE THAT, YOUR VIEWERS CAN SEE THAT,
• 21:49 AND WHEN I WENT TO ISRAEL FOR THE FIRST TIME
• 21:52 I FELT LIKE I DON'T HAVE TO BEHAVE LIKE AN AMERICAN,
• 21:55 I CAN BE FREE TO BE A LITTLE BIT OBNOXIOUS, AGGRESSIVE
• 21:59 AND I THOUGHT THESE ARE MY PEOPLE,
• 22:00 NOT BECAUSE I'M JEWISH BUT BECAUSE THEY'RE JUST...
• 22:03 I'M FREE HERE.
• 22:05 SO IN 2003 WE DROVE TO NEW JERSEY AND WE CHECKED INTO A HOTEL,
• 22:10 I CALLED UP MY MOTHER ON THE PHONE,
• 22:12 HAD MY THREE DAUGHTERS, MY WIFE AND WILL STAY ONE NIGHT THERE
• 22:16 THEN LEAVE THE NEXT DAY,
• 22:17 CALLED MOM UP AND SHE COULD NOT TALK.
• 22:19 SHE LITERALLY SAID, I...CAN'T..., BECAUSE OF THE TEARS.
• 22:24 AND I FELT LIKE THE WORST SON THERE'S EVER BEEN IN THE WORLD.
• 22:29 I WANTED TO GO HOME
• 22:30 BUT WE GOT ON THE PLANE THE NEXT MORNING
• 22:32 AND WE ACTUALLY DID GO HOME TO ISRAEL,
• 22:34 LANDED IN TEL AVIV AND I REMEMBER GETTING OUT
• 22:38 THINKING I AM THE WORST FATHER IN THE WORLD,
• 22:41 WE'RE GOING TO DIE HERE,
• 22:42 THE TERRORISTS ARE GOING TO KILL US,
• 22:44 IT'S ONLY A MATTER OF DAYS,
• 22:45 AND I HAVE ACTUALLY MOVED MY CHILDREN TO THE MIDDLE EAST
• 22:49 AND I'M GOING TO RAISE THEM HERE
• 22:50 AND I JUST FELT HORRIBLE AND EVERYONE WAS DEPRESSED.
• 22:53 AND I DON'T KNOW IF THIS IS AN ENCOURAGING STORY OR NOT
• 22:56 BUT WE WENT TO BED THAT NIGHT,
• 22:58 I DON'T KNOW WHAT HAPPENED WHEN WE WERE SLEEPING BUT WE WOKE UP,
• 23:01 IT WAS TEN YEARS AGO,
• 23:02 WE WOKE UP THE NEXT DAY, HIT THE GROUND RUNNING
• 23:04 AND WE'VE NEVER TURNED BACK.
• 23:06 WE'RE PART OF A PASTORAL TEAM IN TEL AVIV AND OUR CONGREGATION IS CALLED TIFERET YESHUA...
• 23:11 ARI AND SHIRA SORKO-RAM WHO ARE FROM THIS AREA IN DALLAS...
• 23:14 THEY'RE FORERUNNERS
• 23:16 RIGHT...THEY'RE THE SENIOR LEADERS AND WE LOVE SERVING WITH THEM AND WE LOVE LIVING THERE.
• 23:21 RON, WHAT A FASCINATING STORY,
• 23:23 WE THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR BEING WITH US.
• 23:25 IT'S GOING TO BE GREAT FOR OUR VIEWERS TO HEAR YOUR STORY.
• 23:28 WE'LL BE BACK AFTER THIS. LET'S HEAR SOME MUSIC FROM ZOLA,
• 23:33 A LOVER OF ISRAEL AND THE FOUNDER OF THIS MINISTRY.
• 23:36 SOMETIMES IN A DREAM I HEAR YOU CALL TO ME
• 23:41 LATE AT NIGHT OR WHEN I WAKE YOU CALL TO ME
• 23:47 LORD CAN THAT BE YOU?
• 23:50 LORD WHAT SHALL I DO?
• 23:53 IS IT REALLY YOU WHO CALLS MY NAME?
• 24:12 THAT WAS BEAUTIFUL MUSIC FROM ZOLA.
• 24:14 I LOVE HEARING WHAT GOD IS DOING.
• 24:17 YOU KNOW THE ENEMY IS SO BIG IN HIS VOICE THROUGH THE MEDIA, THROUGH ALL THE WOES
• 24:22 BUT YOU KNOW WHAT? JESUS...YESHUA, IS A JEW
• 24:26 AND HE'S COMING BACK TO A JEWISH JERUSALEM AND HE'S COMING BACK TO A LIVE MESSIANIC MOVEMENT
• 24:33 AND WE ARE SEEING IT HAPPEN TODAY MYLES AND THAT'S WHAT WE NEED TO FOCUS ON...
• 24:37 THE GOOD NEWS OF THE GOSPEL AND GOD'S REPORT
• 24:40 AND AS BELIEVERS WE NEED TO FEED ON THAT.
• 24:43 THAT'S REALLY TRUE.
• 24:44 I REALLY THINK WE CAN'T EMPHASIZE ENOUGH THE DAY OF ROMANS 9 THROUGH 11.
• 24:48 WE'RE SEEING THAT SCRIPTURE UNFOLD BEFORE US,
• 24:51 IT'S NOT A PARENTHETICAL SCRIPTURE,
• 24:53 IT'S A PIVOTAL PART OF THE ROMAN LETTER.
• 24:55 PAUL WAS CORRECTING ERRORS IN ROME
• 24:58 BUT ALSO GIVING US A BLUEPRINT FOR THE WAY THE CHURCH IS TO RELATE JEW AND GENTILE TOGETHER.
• 25:03 AND IF OUR REJECTION, JEWISH REJECTION NATIONALLY OF JESUS
• 25:08 HAS BEEN THE SALVATION OF THE WORLD
• 25:10 WHAT WILL OUR ACCEPTANCE BE BUT LIFE FROM THE DEAD AND THAT'S WHAT WE'RE SEEING.
• 25:14 IT'S HAPPENING.
• 25:15 WE'RE SEEING IT BECAUSE THERE ARE MOVEMENTS OF REVIVAL AND SALVATION ALL OVER THE WORLD NOW
• 25:19 THAT COINCIDE WITH THE REVIVAL IN THE JEWISH WORLD, REVIVAL AMONG THE MESSIANIC BELIEVERS
• 25:25 AND IS REALLY LOOKING TOWARD THE COMING OF THE LORD ISN'T IT?
• 25:27 THE MESSIANIC MOVEMENT IS HEALTHY TODAY.
• 25:30 WE ARE GROWING IN LEAPS AND BOUNDS
• 25:32 AND IT'S GOING DOWN TO THE NEXT GENERATION.
• 25:35 NOT ONLY THAT BUT WE ARE TAKING THE MESSAGE NOT JUST TO ISRAEL
• 25:39 BUT ISRAEL NOW IS TAKING IT BACK TO THE NATIONS AGAIN.
• 25:41 EXACTLY, WE HEARD THAT FROM RON,
• 25:43 WE HEARD THIS BEFORE THAT THE WORD WILL GO FORTH FROM ZION
• 25:46 AND NOW THERE ARE BELIEVERS IN THE LAND THAT ARE TAKING THE GOSPEL INTO THE NATIONS
• 25:51 AND IT'S JUST A FULFILLMENT OF THE PATTERNS THAT GOD SET OUT.
• 25:54 HE BROUGHT THE GOSPEL UP OUT OF JERUSALEM.
• 25:57 IT'S GONE AROUND THE WORLD TO THE WEST.
• 25:59 IT'S RISING IN CHINA
• 26:00 AND NOW FROM JERUSALEM THE WORD IS GOING FORTH INTO THE NATIONS.
• 26:04 WE'RE REALLY LIVING IN A TIME THAT'S SO CLOSE TO THE COMING OF THE LORD.
• 26:08 I MEAN WE'RE REALLY SEEING THE FULFILLMENT OF WHAT GOD HAS PROMISED IN THE SCRIPTURES
• 26:13 AND IT'S AMAZING TO BE PART OF THIS MESSIANIC MOVEMENT.
• 26:16 IT'S VERY IMPORTANT.
• 26:18 NOT LONG AGO THERE WAS SUCH AN INSULAR SENSE IN THE MESSIANIC MOVEMENT
• 26:22 AND NOW WE'RE CONNECTED TO THE CHURCHES AND JEWS AND GENTILES TOGETHER WORSHIPPING.
• 26:27 IT'S ALWAYS BEEN OUR HEARTBEAT.
• 26:29 AND THAT'S WHAT PAUL WAS REACHING FOR
• 26:30 AND NOW WE ARE SEEING IN OUR DAY LIFE FROM THE DEAD.
• 26:34 THERE'S REVIVAL IN THE NATIONS COINCIDING WITH THE RESTORATION OF ISRAEL,
• 26:39 THE ALIYAH, THE PEOPLE COMING BACK TO THE LAND
• 26:42 AND NOW THE SPRINKLING OF THE WATER OF THE WORD AND PEOPLE COMING ALIVE AS WE LOOK UP
• 26:48 BECAUSE OUR REDEMPTION IS DRAWING NEAR.
• 26:51 YES!
• 26:53 SO AS WE GO TODAY WE WANT TO REMIND YOU AS ALWAYS,
• 26:55 SHAL'ALU SHALOM YERUSHALAYIM
• 26:57 PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM.
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