Caption transcript for Special Guest: Ron Cantor, Part 2

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