Caption transcript for Journey of Restoration: “Prophecy and the Patriarchs” (9/10)

• 00:05 I love Israel...
• 00:06 I love the people.
• 00:08 Totally so...it's indescribable.
• 00:10 And it feels like home...
• 00:12 it just feels like home.
• 00:14 Welcome to Jerusalem...
• 00:15 it just took my breath away.
• 00:17 It just shows the finger print of God everywhere.
• 00:19 To realize how special this city and the people were to the LORD.
• 00:23 It's God's chosen land and Jesus walked on it.
• 00:28 I think there's a restoration as Pastor Myles talked about...
• 00:31 How God is really gathering the Jews.
• 00:36 Through the blood of Jesus Christ we've been grafted-in
• 00:39 and now this is our city also.
• 00:53 Shalom and Welcome to our program.
• 00:54 I'm Myles Weiss.
• 00:55 And I'm Katharine Weiss.
• 00:57 And we are continuing our "Journey of Restoration".
• 01:00 You know, Acts 3:20 and following says
• 01:03 that Jesus would go to heaven and be waiting there
• 01:05 until the time of His coming kingdom
• 01:07 and then He would restore all things.
• 01:10 And so the Journey of Restoration includes
• 01:12 the restoration of Israel and the Jewish people.
• 01:15 And part of our tour that we get to do if people would like to;
• 01:19 we take them down to Petra and it is one of the most amazing sites to see.
• 01:23 We actually leave Eilat and we go down to the Jordan Valley, all the way into Petra.
• 01:30 Petra is in Jordan and we're going to see it in a few minutes.
• 01:33 And the fact is that it is part of the prophetic timetable
• 01:37 that is clicking away as weprepare for the return of the LORD.
• 01:40 And so without any further ado let's go to Petra in Jordan.
• 01:48 (Myles Weiss speaking)
• 01:50 Petra...the historical and archaeological city in southern Jordan
• 01:53 is sometimes referred to as the "Rose City"
• 01:55 due to the color of the stone out of which it is carved.
• 01:59 The city was established around 312 bc and became the capital of the Nabataeans,
• 02:04 a nomadic tribe that migrated from Arabia during the 6th century bc
• 02:10 The area had originally been inhabited by the Edomites.
• 02:13 When the Nabataens arrived they carved grandiose buildings,
• 02:17 temples and tombs out of the solid sandstone rock.
• 02:21 An amazing feat even if it were done today.
• 02:24 Our tour group winds its way through the narrow canyons
• 02:27 and then as if out of nowhere the remarkable structure called "the treasury" stands before us.
• 02:34 Our Petra guide tells us more.
• 02:38 Can you see what I'm showing you?
• 02:41 This is what we have behind me...
• 02:44 the name of it is "the treasury".
• 02:47 The treasury name is not the real name of it.
• 02:52 "Treasury" name was given by the local people who were the Bedouins
• 02:57 who lived in the city of Petra when it was lost.
• 03:01 And they thought Pharaoh the King, the king of Egypt did hide his treasure inside the urn.
• 03:10 Can you see the urn?
• 03:13 So when you look at the urn very carefully you're going to see many bullet marks
• 03:17 because they did shoot at the urn for getting the treasure down...
• 03:22 and no treasure, it was a legend story.
• 03:25 And this is how the name of "the treasury" came out.
• 03:28 But to say to you the real name of it...
• 03:31 Nobody can mention the real name of it until nowadays except offering you two names,
• 03:37 where the first name would be "a tomb"
• 03:39 and the second name would be "a temple".
• 03:42 But the Nabataens started to carve out this in 100 years bc.
• 03:47 Imagine you are looking at something which is over 2,000 years old
• 03:51 and is still in a perfect condition today
• 03:55 because the location of the treasury
• 03:57 is in a perfect location against rain and wind.
• 04:02 In a way, it has been sheltered naturally.
• 04:05 So they started to carve it in 100 years bc.
• 04:10 It took them to finish it 13 years...1...3...to finish it.
• 04:16 And what do you see on the facade?
• 04:18 You see what the Nabataens have been influenced by.
• 04:21 So when you look right at the top...
• 04:23 look at my finger please.
• 04:25 You can see the urn where the urn would be an Egyptian influence
• 04:28 and then right and left side you can see the broken eagles
• 04:33 where the eagles would be a Greek influence.
• 04:36 (Katharine Weiss speaking)
• 04:38 Buildings such as these when exposed to the elements
• 04:40 on a daily basis for thousands of years
• 04:42 are hard to find and yet here they are.
• 04:45 These structures have survived because they are so well sheltered.
• 04:49 This really has been a place of survival.
• 04:53 Might it be in the future as well?
• 04:56 Does this Rose City have a place in Biblical prophecy?
• 05:02 Here we are in Petra; it is the place of some great prophetic words and speculation.
• 05:10 You've heard some history regarding the formation of this place.
• 05:14 And we're also looking at the future here as well...
• 05:18 Isaiah chapter 62:10-12 and Isaiah 63...
• 05:24 form a picture of the coming of Messiah.
• 05:27 There's something spoken of there about the hiding away at the time of transition.
• 05:33 Remember we spoke about the time of John the Baptist; John the Immerser,
• 05:38 that was a time of transition.
• 05:41 While there was a corrupt priesthood in the temple
• 05:44 at the same time John was out at the Jordan River baptizing people unto repentance
• 05:50 and including baptizing Yeshua.
• 05:53 So it was a transitional period
• 05:55 where the priesthood was failing
• 05:57 a clean priesthood was arising embodied by John the Baptist
• 06:01 and at the same time a transitional period
• 06:04 leading to the crucifixion of the LORD.
• 06:06 Well so it is with regarding Petra.
• 06:09 There is a lot of speculation about what the future may hold here.
• 06:12 Whether this will be in fact a place for Jewish folks to come
• 06:17 and hide when the anti-Christ is arising.
• 06:20 At the same time that the 144,000 will be preaching and bringing in the greatest harvest
• 06:25 at the end of the age; another transitional period,
• 06:29 including what's spoken of as the time of the one
• 06:32 whose garment is dipped in blood coming from Bozra...
• 06:36 Messiah Himself spoken of in Isaiah 63 and also in Revelation 19.
• 06:43 So we're really in a place that may hold the future,
• 06:47 so much so that Professor Blackstone at the end of the previous century
• 06:51 came somewhere in here and hid many, many Bibles and New Testaments
• 06:56 in order for the Jewish folks fleeing to here to see the Gospel in Hebrew
• 07:03 when they would come here to hide from the rising of the dark kingdom.
• 07:09 Well we don't know where they are.
• 07:11 We don't know if they will be used.
• 07:13 We don't know exactly what this will mean.
• 07:15 But we do know that it points to a time that will be very, very dark
• 07:20 and will lead to a time of incredible light
• 07:23 when the Messianic kingdom will come on earth.
• 07:26 Because Yeshua will come...
• 07:28 He will come first to the kingdom to establish His kingdom here in Israel
• 07:33 and then also He will come back to rule and to reign.
• 07:37 He's going to set up a new heaven and a new earth.
• 07:40 And we'll know not many years from now what roll Petra plays in the unfolding of God's story.
• 07:47 (Katharine Weiss speaking)
• 07:49 As we walk through Petra's canyons we can't help but wonder
• 07:54 about the many gods that had been revered within these limestone walls.
• 07:59 Ancient tombs, Hellenistic gods, they've all come and gone
• 08:03 along with the people who created them.
• 08:06 What an assurance we have...what a blessing to know that the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob
• 08:12 the one who created our infinite universe still lives and cares for His own
• 08:20 We have an incredible symmetry here...
• 08:26 Old Testament and New Testament what was...what is...and what will be.
• 08:31 Isaiah speaks really clearly,
• 08:33 Isaiah 62; "For Zion's sake I will not hold My peace"
• 08:37 and He's calling believers in the day in which we're living
• 08:41 to rise up and stand with the old olive tree Israel.
• 08:44 The call is to the gentile church to come up,
• 08:48 the international church to come and wrap itself as the notzrim,
• 08:52 as the shoots around the olive tree
• 08:55 and then partake of the oil of the Holy Spirit that fuels the olive tree, the Messianic root
• 09:02 and ties it together with Jew and Gentile.
• 09:06 From that strength there's to be a standing with Israel
• 09:10 and especially with the body of Messiah in Israel and around the world.
• 09:15 Well those scriptures in Isaiah 62 continue to speak about the pressure
• 09:22 that is coming on the nations of the world to decide where they stand,
• 09:28 these are the Israel where they stand vis-a-vis the church as well
• 09:32 and so the pressure that is coming...
• 09:34 the wine press, the treading out, the change that is coming in this world
• 09:40 is coming through the fact that Jerusalem
• 09:42 is becoming a stumbling block for all the nations
• 09:45 and there's going to be a dividing between the nations
• 09:48 as to sheep nations and goat nations.
• 09:51 That all looks forward to the coming of the LORD.
• 09:55 Those same scriptures from Isaiah 62 and 63
• 09:59 of the one coming out of Bozrah with His garment dipped in blood
• 10:02 are repeated in Revelation 19, when He comes on the white horse
• 10:08 with His garment dipped in blood
• 10:12 and His name is faithful and true;
• 10:14 He is the Word of God and out of His mouth comes the Word;
• 10:18 He is the living Word.
• 10:20 What is the blood?
• 10:22 It is the blood of His sacrifice
• 10:24 as well as the blood of those rebellious nations that will not come in to an understanding
• 10:32 and receiving and a walking with Him in His salvation.
• 10:37 It is a very powerful, very humbling, very holy set of verses
• 10:43 and it's tied to the incredible future that is awaiting those who are the bride...
• 10:49 the Jews and Gentiles together.
• 10:51 We're called out together as the Bride of Christ; as the Bride of Messiah.
• 10:55 They are the ones who in Revelation 19 are called
• 10:59 His wife who is making herself ready
• 11:02 and so there's a readying period that's going on now in the transitional time
• 11:07 and then those that making themselves ready will come with Him to rule and to reign
• 11:12 I'm looking forward to the one who is fit to rule and to reign.
• 11:17 His name is Yeshua HaMashiach
• 11:20 and He's coming sooner than we know
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• 13:11 So now we're going to go from Jordan up, back into Israel
• 13:16 to Be'er Sheva where so many of the patriarchal stories took place.
• 13:20 So let's go to the well of the seven oaths.
• 13:24 (Myles Weiss speaking)
• 13:26 Tel Be'er Sheva is an archaeological site that sits adjacent to a now dry river bed.
• 13:31 The Be'er Sheva river is little more than a trickle of water
• 13:35 accept on a few days a year when flash floods run down its banks
• 13:39 and the waters find their way to the desert plain and then the Mediterranean Sea.
• 13:44 Our Israeli tour guide, Yuval Shemsh, tells us more.
• 13:49 Along the river bed of Be'er Sheva
• 13:51 over the years...centuries, people dug wells
• 13:55 and one of them is right here right behind me.
• 13:58 There is no doubt that this was an ancient well
• 14:04 that goes back even before the city was established
• 14:07 because most of the ruins we are going to see
• 14:09 are going back to the time of Hezekiah, 8th century bc
• 14:15 The archaeological digs took place here
• 14:18 in-between 1969 and 1976 by Professors Aharoni and Herzog.
• 14:28 And you can even see again the reconstruction line.
• 14:31 Below the line, remember it is original; above the redone.
• 14:36 But most of what you'll see inside was back to that time of Hezekiah
• 14:42 but the well is more ancient.
• 14:45 We don't know exactly how old it is
• 14:48 but most people believe that the well goes back to the time of Abraham.
• 14:52 So where was the city at the time of Abraham?
• 14:55 Probably at that time the people have lived in tents
• 14:58 as the Bedouins who are still coming here
• 15:00 and so there was no structures here on the hill.
• 15:04 And the people used to live in simple dwellings, simple tents as the bedouins.
• 15:12 But here notice that in relation to the river bed the one is higher...is very high.
• 15:18 So the reason they began to dig the well here and not further down
• 15:25 was because of safety... because of security.
• 15:27 So it shows that there was something under here.
• 15:31 Otherwise you could have dug the well further down and to save a lot of work
• 15:35 because the depth of the well here, it's 70 meters; it is about 210 feet.
• 15:43 If we were digging such a well further down you could save a lot of work, right?
• 15:47 But to place it on a hill, there was a reason for it... for protection.
• 15:50 But we don't see ruins her from the time of Abraham
• 15:53 so it explains why, because people were living in tents at that time.
• 15:59 So during the time of Hezekiah as you can see the well was located outside the city gate.
• 16:06 It was here from this city, from this place
• 16:13 that Abraham sent away Hagar and the boy Ishmael with her.
• 16:21 In the book of Genesis 21 it says,
• 16:47 See from here she went away, the way that we came from
• 16:50 and we saw what a big and large desert it is.
• 16:55 Obviously in desert areas the most precious thing is water...
• 17:01 you cannot survive without water
• 17:03 And the Bible tells about a big conflict that took place over the wells
• 17:08 between the servants of Abimelech and Abraham.
• 17:51 So "Be'er Sheva"... "be'er" in Hebrew means "well" "sheva", "to swear an oath".
• 18:01 Both of them swear by the well.
• 18:06 And it came to pass at that time that Abimelech, King of Gerar;
• 18:10 and Phicol, the chief captain of his army met with Abraham.
• 19:36 And he called the place Be'er Sheva because it was there that they both swore an oath.
• 19:42 Thus they made a covenant.
• 19:45 Then Abimelech and Phicol, the chief captain returned into the land of the Philistines.
• 19:52 And Abraham lived a long time as a foreigner in the land of the Philistines.
• 20:09 I want to speak to you from this place
• 20:11 because it's the perfect place to end our tour
• 20:15 because it goes all the way back to the beginning of the story
• 20:19 and looks forward to the future of the story.
• 20:22 And what's the story been?
• 20:23 The story has been about heaven coming to earth.
• 20:26 The story has been about the conflict;
• 20:28 not just between people groups,
• 20:31 but the conflict between heaven and earth
• 20:33 and the desire for God to dwell with His people;
• 20:36 the desire from God for us to know Him.
• 20:40 And so these wells represent this long term conflict between Abraham and his opposing forces;
• 20:48 between Isaac and the Philistines
• 20:51 and between Jacob and Esau.
• 20:52 And generation after generation we see this conflict between
• 20:56 what represents the spirit and what represents the flesh.
• 20:59 And it continues into our day
• 21:01 but there's some real hope in these stories.
• 21:04 This begins in Genesis 21 as we've heard.
• 21:06 It continues all the way through Genesis 26 and onward.
• 21:09 And in Genesis 26 it's Isaac who dwelt near Gerar which is now Gaza
• 21:15 and that conflict continues.
• 21:18 And in fact when they dug the wells,
• 21:20 the first time they dug the wells they called it "Sitna" which means "conflict".
• 21:23 And the second time they called it "Esek" which means "conflict to the point of hatred".
• 21:28 And finally they dug a well and said it is Rehoboth.
• 21:32 And what is "Rehoboth"?
• 21:33 "There is enough room for all of us".
• 21:35 Have we heard that along this journey that the Israelis are waiting
• 21:41 for someone in the neighborhood to say "we have enough room"?
• 21:45 God gave a blessing to Ishmael and his descendants.
• 21:49 He made him very great, gave him 12 sons,
• 21:52 millions of acres of land and untold wealth under the land...
• 21:57 the fatness...the oil of land... was given to Ishmael and his descendants.
• 22:02 The Israelis have a small piece of land here
• 22:05 that they've cultivated to the point of being the land of milk and honey as God promised
• 22:11 and we're waiting for the time when a local person or party will say,
• 22:18 It is enough. I have enough.
• 22:21 You are free to dwell here.
• 22:23 We will not try to kill you.
• 22:25 And that's the story that we see in the story of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob
• 22:29 because Jacob and Esau each had their own transforming event.
• 22:34 Jacob in Genesis 32, he has the River Jabbok experience
• 22:39 where he wrestles with the angel of the Lord, maybe the LORD Himself
• 22:43 and he winds up with a crippled thigh and a constant leaning on God for the rest of his life.
• 22:50 And his name is changed from "Jacob" to "Israel".
• 22:54 By the way, if there's any doubt about whether the Jewish people have a right to be here,
• 22:59 Jacob's name is Israel and he's here...
• 23:05 he's crippled in the natural but he becomes a prince with God, an overcommer with God.
• 23:11 Something happens to him and there's a transformation that is for the rest of his life.
• 23:16 Well I suggest that something must have happened to Esau as well
• 23:20 because Jacob is living in fear of his meeting again with Esau.
• 23:25 But in Genesis 33 he comes with 400 men... Jacob does.
• 23:31 And he's coming out to meet Esau assuming that he's going to get wiped out by his brother
• 23:36 who has committed to kill him after the death of their father.
• 23:41 And Jacob is coming forward in fear and Esau does a miraculous thing.
• 23:46 He says to him, it is enough my brother, I have enough.
• 23:52 Jacob tries to give him gifts and he tries to buy him
• 23:55 and he tries to honor him and to laud him with substance
• 23:59 and Esau says, no, I have enough...
• 24:02 rehoboth...there's enough room at the wells.
• 24:06 And Esau says to Jacob I have enough.
• 24:08 And what does Jacob say?
• 24:10 He says, when I looked upon his face it was if I had seen the face of God.
• 24:16 And I will tell you that when I look upon my former Muslim friends
• 24:21 who have become born again believers in the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob
• 24:26 it is as if I have seen the face of God.
• 24:29 When you meet a former Muslim who has had an encounter
• 24:32 with the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob through Yeshua,
• 24:35 they are so full of love for the Jewish people, for the land of Israel
• 24:40 that they live from the place of I have enough,
• 24:43 I know you belong here.
• 24:46 I know you've been placed here by God and we can do this together.
• 24:49 We can live in peace.
• 24:52 And I submit that the hope of the world
• 24:54 is the transforming affect of an encounter with Yeshua,
• 24:57 whether it's for the Jew or for the Arab;
• 25:00 whether it's for the sons of Isaac or the sons of Ishmael,
• 25:03 when we have an encounter with Yeshua HaMashiach we're changed
• 25:07 and we come away saying we have enough.
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• 25:54 You know God has a plan for all people groups.
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• 26:03 It's exactly so,
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• 26:16 This controversy in Be'er Sheva and the Negev area is going to continue.
• 26:20 Some Biblical scholars believe that Obadiah, verses 20 and 21
• 26:24 are actually speaking about the aliyah at the end of the age
• 26:28 when Spanish Jews will come and upset the demographics of the area.
• 26:32 There will be so many Jewish people in that area
• 26:35 that the change will come between the number of Edomites, or sons of Esau,
• 26:40 and the numbers of Israelites that will be there.
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