Caption transcript for “To The Jews First” with Rev. Todd Baker

• 00:08 BRETHREN, MY HEART'S DESIRE AND PRAYER TO GOD FOR ISRAEL IS THAT THEY MIGHT BE SAVED.
• 00:14 THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE JEW AND THE GENTILE.
• 00:18 FOR THE SAME LORD OVER ALL IS RICH UNTO ALL THAT CALL UPON HIM.
• 00:27 CONSIDERING THE TIMES AND SEASONS OF OUR WORLD TODAY, HERE'S ZOLA LEVITT.
• 00:33 SHALOM, HELLO AGAIN.
• 00:36 TODD BAKER IS WITH US.
• 00:37 REV. TODD BAKER WORKS WITH OUR MINISTRY IN VARIOUS CAPACITIES.
• 00:41 HE'S AN ASSISTANT PASTOR WITH ME AT OUR MESSIANIC CONGREGATION.
• 00:46 MOSTLY, HE'S A MISSIONARY TO ISRAEL.
• 00:49 YOU GO TO ISRAEL TO WITNESS TO THE JEWS LIKE THE BIBLE SAYS TO DO.
• 00:53 ABSOLUTELY. WE GO TWICE A YEAR.
• 00:56 OUR REASON FOR GOING IS, OF COURSE, BASED IN SCRIPTURE.
• 01:01 PAUL SAYS IN ROMANS 1:16, IF I COULD READ THAT:
• 01:16 SO WE SEE HERE THE DIVINE ORDER OF EVANGELISM LAID OUT.
• 01:21 THE GOSPEL IS TO GO TO THE JEW FIRST.
• 01:23 HE MAKES A GOOD POINT.
• 01:25 HOW MANY CHURCHES REALLY SEND MISSIONARIES TO THE JEWS OF ISRAEL?
• 01:29 NOT MANY.
• 01:30 I HARDLY EVER-- YOU SEE MAPS.
• 01:33 I TRAVEL TO A LOT OF CHURCHES AND THERE'S FLAGS IN BORNEO
• 01:35 AND FLAGS IN PRACTICALLY EVERY, YOU KNOW, THEY'RE GOING TO THE ESKIMOS.
• 01:40 MORE POWER TO THEM.
• 01:42 I WISH THEY WOULD GO TO ISLAM AND TO EVERYWHERE IN THE WORLD
• 01:46 BUT NOBODY EVER SEEMS TO OBEY THIS BIBLICAL ADMONITION THAT THE GOSPEL IS TO GO TO THE JEW FIRST.
• 01:52 THEY NEVER GO TO THE JEWS OF ISRAEL.
• 01:54 NO, AND THE THING THAT HAS BEEN PARTICULARLY FRUSTRATING TO ME
• 01:58 IS I WOULD ATTEND THESE MISSION CONFERENCES IN SEMINARY AND ON MY OWN BECAUSE
• 02:03 I HAVE A HEART FOR MISSIONS AND THEY WOULD ADDRESS HOW WE NEED TO GO THROUGHOUT THE WORLD.
• 02:09 THEY WOULD NAME ALL THE NATIONS.
• 02:11 THEY WOULD EVEN HAVE MISSIONARIES WHO WENT TO THESE NATIONS.
• 02:13 INVARIABLY IT SEEMED LIKE NONE WAS GOING TO ISRAEL TO THE JEWISH PEOPLE.
• 02:17 THAT REALLY CONCERNED ME.
• 02:20 THIS WAS THE MISSION OF JESUS CHRIST. ABSOLUTELY.
• 02:23 IN FACT JESUS SAID IN MATTHEW 10:6 WHEN HE SENT THE 12 OUT, HE SAID:
• 02:35 GO ONLY UNTO THE LOST SHEEP. THAT'S RIGHT.
• 02:37 HE SAID I'M SENT ONLY UNTO THE LOST SHEEP OF THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL.
• 02:40 THAT'S RIGHT. HE SAID THAT IN MATTHEW 15.
• 02:41 HE SAID I AM NOT SENT BUT TO THE LOST SHEEP OF THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL.
• 02:45 YOU SEE THAT PATTERN FOLLOWED BY PAUL AND THE APOSTLES IN THE BOOK OF ACTS.
• 02:49 NOW PAUL AS WE KNOW WAS AN APOSTLE TO THE GENTILES.
• 02:53 HE SAID I MAGNIFY MY OFFICE IN THAT RESPECT.
• 02:56 YET WHEN YOU READ THE ACCOUNTS GIVEN IN THE BOOK OF ACTS
• 03:00 WHEN HE WOULD GO THROUGHOUT THE GENTILE WORLD,
• 03:03 WHERE DID HE GO TO FIRST? HE WENT TO THE SYNAGOGUES.
• 03:05 ALWAYS TO THE SYNAGOGUES.
• 03:07 THAT'S WHO WOULD BE INTERESTED IN THE NEWS THAT THE MESSIAH HAS COME, OF COURSE.
• 03:10 THEN THE JEWS WOULD CONVERT THE LOCAL GENTILES,
• 03:13 WHEN THE JEWS BECAME CONVERTED THE CHURCH SPREAD THROUGH THE EMPIRE.
• 03:19 ROMANS 10:1, THE SCRIPTURE OF OUR MINISTRY IS ON EVERY ENVELOPE AND EVERYTHING WE SEND OUT.
• 03:25 PAUL IS SAYING:
• 03:33 PAUL'S PASSION FOR THE SALVATION OF ISRAEL WAS SO INTENSE
• 03:39 THAT HE MAKES AN ASTOUNDING STATEMENT IN ROMANS 9 WHERE HE SAYS:
• 03:50 OF COURSE ONCE YOU ARE SAVED YOU ARE ETERNALLY SECURE.
• 03:53 HE WAS POSING A HYPOTHETICAL THERE, BUT THAT'S HOW BAD,
• 03:56 THAT'S HOW MUCH HE YEARNED FOR ISRAEL'S SALVATION.
• 04:00 I THINK IF YOU'RE GOING TO GO TO THE JEWISH PEOPLE
• 04:02 YOU NEED TO HAVE THAT KIND OF DESIRE, AN ARDENT DESIRE REALLY.
• 04:06 AND THEY LISTEN TO YOU OVER THERE BECAUSE, WELL FOR ONE THING YOU'RE NOT JEWISH.
• 04:10 IF I WERE TO, MYSELF, WELL I HAVE GONE MANY TIMES,
• 04:13 BUT I GET ALL KIND OF FIGHT BACK BECAUSE I'M NOT SUPPOSED TO BELIEVE IN JESUS. I'M A JEW.
• 04:19 JACOB DAMKANI WHO HAS BEEN ON OUR PROGRAM,
• 04:22 AN ISRAELI MISSIONARY TO HIS OWN PEOPLE GETS ALL KINDS OF PROBLEMS.
• 04:28 BUT YOU'RE A GENTILE, SOFT-SPOKEN AND PLAINLY TO SEE A RIGHTEOUS GENTILE.
• 04:34 THEY'LL LISTEN TO YOU AND THEY DON'T MIND YOUR BELIEVING IN CHRIST.
• 04:39 THEY CAN SPOT THE PHONIES FROM THE SINCERE.
• 04:43 JEWISH PEOPLE, ESPECIALLY IN ISRAEL, ARE NATURALLY AND UNDERSTANDABLY GUARDED.
• 04:48 ONCE YOU BEGIN TALKING TO THEM AND YOU DISPLAY A KNOWLEDGE OF THEIR HISTORY
• 04:53 AND AN APPRECIATION FOR THEIR HERITAGE THEN YOU CAN GO FROM THAT TO THE SCRIPTURES
• 05:00 AND YOU CAN SHOW THEM HOW THEIR HISTORY HAS BEEN FORETOLD FROM BEGINNING TO END.
• 05:05 GOD SAYS IN ISAIAH 46:10:
• 05:10 WELL, A PRIME EXAMPLE OF THAT IS ISRAEL.
• 05:13 WHEN THEY SEE FOR THEMSELVES IN THE WORD OF GOD IN THEIR BIBLE, THEY CALL THE "TENACH".
• 05:18 WE CHRISTIANS CALL THAT THE OLD TESTAMENT.
• 05:20 WHEN THEY SEE IN THERE PROPHECIES ABOUT THEIR HISTORY EVEN TODAY IT AMAZES THEM.
• 05:26 FOR INSTANCE IN ISAIAH 66:7-9 WE HAVE AN AMAZING PROPHECY THERE
• 05:31 WHERE ISAIAH THE PROPHET PREDICTS THAT ISRAEL WOULD BECOME A NATION
• 05:35 OR BE BORN A NATION IN ONE DAY AFTER TRAVAIL AND SUFFERING.
• 05:40 I BELIEVE THAT WAS FULFILLED MAY 14, 1948 WHEN THEY WERE DECLARED A NATION IN ONE DAY
• 05:47 BY THE U.N. GENERAL ASSEMBLY JUST RIGHT AFTER THE TRAVAIL OF THE HOLOCAUST.
• 05:52 WHEN YOU CAN SHOW THEM PROPHECIES LIKE THAT
• 05:54 CORRELATED WITH THEIR HISTORY TO THIS TIME IT ARRESTS THEIR ATTENTION.
• 05:59 YOU CAN GO FROM THAT STREAM OF PROPHECY OVER TO MESSIANIC PROPHECY.
• 06:06 I SHOULD STRESS, TOO, IT'S NOT PRECISELY OUR MINISTRY OFFICE,
• 06:11 BUT OUR FRIENDS, OUR DONORS, OUR SUPPORTERS THAT SEND YOU.
• 06:15 YES.
• 06:16 WE HAVE A FUND CALLED THE "TO THE JEW FIRST" FUND.
• 06:20 WE HAVE VARIOUS FUNDS IN OUR MINISTRY.
• 06:22 WE SUPPORT A SETTLEMENT OVER THERE. WE PLANT TREES.
• 06:24 WE SUPPORT OUR TV CREWMAN WHO HAVE LITTLE WORK WITH PEOPLE JUST NOT COMING
• 06:32 AND OUR TOUR PEOPLE ESPECIALLY WITH GETTING HARDLY ANY GROUPS.
• 06:36 OUR GROUPS KEEP GOING, BUT OTHER GROUPS HAVE STOPPED.
• 06:39 WE HAVE FUNDS, "GOOD NEWS FROM A FAR COUNTRY" FUND AND SO FORTH.
• 06:43 BUT YOUR FUND, AND I DON'T DO THIS AND I'M NOT THE ONE TO THANK,
• 06:47 BUT I JUST ADVERTISE IT SO TO SPEAK.
• 06:49 I SAY IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO SEND A MISSIONARY TO THE JEWS OF ISRAEL
• 06:53 AND I KEEP SAYING TO THE JEWS OF ISRAEL
• 06:55 BECAUSE PLENTY OF CHURCHES SEND MISSIONARIES TO THE ARABS OF ISRAEL AND ALWAYS HAVE.
• 06:59 YOU DRIVE THROUGH NAZARETH AND YOU COME TO THE FRANK SINATRA CHILDREN'S HOME.
• 07:04 THE CHAIRMAN DECIDED THAT HE SHOULD GIVE SOMETHING AND HE DID.
• 07:08 AND IN OTHER PLACES AMERICANS HAVE DONE A LOT FOR THE ARABS OF ISRAEL.
• 07:14 NOBODY SEEMS TO HAVE DONE MUCH FOR THE JEWS OF ISRAEL
• 07:18 IN TERMS OF SALVATION OR CHRISTIAN WITNESS.
• 07:22 IT PUTS ME IN MIND OF THE TIME I MET THE PASTOR OF THE FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF BETHLEHEM.
• 07:29 THERE IS SUCH A CHURCH.
• 07:31 I ASSUMED, RIGHT AT THE BEGINNING HERE WE ARE. THAT'S WHERE THE LORD WAS BORN.
• 07:36 I SAID TO HIM, DO YOU HAVE A GOOD CONGREGATION?
• 07:39 HE SAID, OH, LOTS AND LOTS OF PEOPLE COME.
• 07:41 BUT BETHLEHEM IS REALLY AN ARAB TOWN LATELY.
• 07:46 I SAID TO HIM, WELL DO THE JEWS COME? HE SAID, THE JEWS? OF COURSE NOT!
• 07:53 IF JESUS AND HIS DISCIPLES SHOWED UP, WHAT, THEY COULDN'T COME?
• 07:59 I THINK WHAT THAT SHOWS IS IT'S AN EPIDEMIC PROBLEM AMONG THE GENTILES AND THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH.
• 08:05 THE LACK OF UNDERSTANDING AND APPRECIATION FOR THE JEWISH ROOTS OF OUR CHRISTIAN FAITH.
• 08:09 THE INTERESTING THING IS THAT AS YOU KNOW AND AS YOU HAVE SAID, JESUS WAS JEWISH.
• 08:17 THE FIRST CHRISTIANS WERE JEWISH.
• 08:19 THE FIRST CHURCH WAS IN JERUSALEM.
• 08:21 THE NEW TESTAMENT WAS WRITTEN BY JEWS COVER TO COVER INCLUDING LUKE AND IT IS A JEWISH BOOK.
• 08:28 OF COURSE WE DO HAND OUT THE B'RIT HADASHAH OVER THERE.
• 08:34 THE NEW TESTAMENT. THE NEW TESTAMENT IN HEBREW.
• 08:37 SHOW ME THAT WRITING IN HEBREW. PEOPLE DON'T BELIEVE IT.
• 08:41 IT OPENS THIS WAY BECAUSE ENGLISH BOOKS OPEN BACKWARDS.
• 08:45 AND IT'S IN HEBREW, IN THEIR LANGUAGE.
• 08:49 IT HARKENS BACK TO WHAT GOD SAID TO ISRAEL IN JEREMIAH 31:31 WHEN HE SAID:
• 08:57 BEHOLD, I WILL MAKE A NEW COVENANT, A B'RIT HADASHAH WITH THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL
• 09:03 IN MATTHEW 26 JESUS SAID: THIS IS THAT COVENANT
• 09:07 WHICH SHALL BE RATIFIED BY MY SHED BLOOD.
• 09:10 SO IT IS A COVENANT AND A BOOK THAT WAS FIRST INTENDED FOR THE JEWISH PEOPLE.
• 09:15 UNFORTUNATELY OVER THE CENTURIES AS THE CHURCH DIVORCED ITSELF FROM ITS JEWISH MOORINGS
• 09:22 WE HAVE PEOPLE NOW ESPOUSING ALL KINDS OF CRAZY THEOLOGICAL IDEAS, I.E. REPLACEMENT THEOLOGY
• 09:29 THAT DEEMPHASIZES THE IMPORTANCE OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE IN ISRAEL.
• 09:34 OUR MINISTRY IS DIRECTED TOWARD BRINGING BACK THE JEWISH MESSAGE OF THE GOSPEL, OF YESHUA, WHICH CAME FROM--
• 09:41 HOW GOOD WOULD AN OLIVE TREE DO IF YOU SAW IT OFF AT GROUND LEVEL
• 09:45 AND STAND IT UP SOMEWHERE ELSE? CUT IT OFF FROM ITS ROOTS.
• 09:49 NOT VERY GOOD. IT WOULD DIE QUICKLY.
• 09:50 THERE ARE DEAD CHURCHES ALL OVER THE PLACE. I REALLY AND TRULY--
• 09:55 ONCE IN A GREAT WHILE I GET AN INVITATION TO TALK TO ONE OF THE DENOMINATIONS, WE'LL SAY,
• 10:01 AND I TRY TO GET A LINE ONTO THESE PEOPLE REALLY KNOW SOME BIBLE
• 10:07 OR ARE THEY JUST CURIOUS TO SEE WHAT THIS TELEVISION PERSONALITY HAS TO SAY?
• 10:11 WHEN IT'S THE LATTER, IT'S A HARD JOB FOR ME BECAUSE
• 10:14 YOU QUOTE AN OBVIOUS SCRIPTURE AND YOU JUST GET BLANK LOOKS.
• 10:17 YOU HAVE TO START WITH STEP 1.
• 10:20 THERE WAS A HUGE CHURCH HERE IN DALLAS THAT INVITED ME TO SPEAK TO THE EVANGELISM COMMITTEE.
• 10:27 I THOUGHT WELL THAT SHOULD BE INTERESTING.
• 10:30 WHEN I WENT IN AND I HEARD THEIR--
• 10:32 I WAS A SPEAKER AT THE END OF A MEETING
• 10:35 AND I LISTENED TO THE PROCEDURE OF THE MEETING FOR A WHILE
• 10:38 AND I BEGAN TO UNDERSTAND NOBODY IN THAT ROOM WAS SAVED.
• 10:41 I SPOKE FINALLY ON THE 4 SPIRITUAL LAWS.
• 10:46 I JUST TRIED TO PREACH SALVATION DOCTRINE.
• 10:49 I WAS NOT INVITED BACK. I DON'T KNOW IF ANYBODY LISTENED OR NOT.
• 10:54 BUT I SAID TO THEM YOU'RE NOT EVANGELISTS, YOU'RE A MEMBERSHIP COMMITTEE.
• 10:58 YOU'RE JUST GOING AROUND KNOCKING ON DOORS AND GETTING PEOPLE TO JOIN.
• 11:02 IT'S SO FUNNY, THIS WITNESS. IT'S SO--
• 11:06 OVER IN ISRAEL THE DENOMINATIONS ARE AWFUL, MOSTLY.
• 11:11 THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH OF DOWNTOWN JERUSALEM ON REHOV HA'NEVIIM, THE STREET OF THE PROPHETS,
• 11:16 HAS A SIGN IN FRONT OF THE CHURCH INVITING PEOPLE TO SUNDAY WORSHIP.
• 11:20 THAT SIGN, IN JERUSALEM, THE CAPITAL OF ISRAEL IS NOT IN HEBREW AT ALL.
• 11:24 IT IS IN ENGLISH AND ARABIC.
• 11:27 IT'S ANTICIPATED THAT THE JEWS WILL NOT WANT TO COME. THEY'RE NOT INVITED.
• 11:31 I THINK AGAIN IT'S A SIGN THAT THESE MAINLINE DENOMINATIONS DO NOT READ THEIR BIBLE,
• 11:39 DO NOT INTERPRET IT CORRECTLY AND DO NOT APPRECIATE THE JEWISHNESS OF IT.
• 11:44 I CAN TELL YOU THAT THEY ARE VERY OPEN.
• 11:48 ISRAEL IS WITHIN THE 10-40 WINDOW.
• 11:51 I ASSUME YOU KNOW WHAT THE 10-40 WINDOW IS.
• 11:53 IT'S THAT AREA OF THE WORLD THAT IS HARDEST TO EVANGELIZE
• 11:56 AND IT INCLUDES, OF COURSE, MUCH OF THE MUSLIM WORLD AS WELL.
• 11:59 HOW DO YOU SAY 10-40? WHAT IS IT?
• 12:01 10-40 WINDOW, IT IS BASED ON THE LONGITUDE, LATITUDE OF THE AREA.
• 12:04 OH, OKAY. GOOD.
• 12:06 BUT THE JEWISH PEOPLE ARE OPEN TO HEAR ABOUT THE EVIDENCE FOR JESUS BEING THE MESSIAH
• 12:12 PRIMARILY THROUGH MESSIANIC PROPHECY.
• 12:16 YOU HAVE A BOOKMARK HERE, IF I CAN FIND IT.
• 12:19 HERE IT IS. IT'S CALLED THE PROPHESIED MESSIAH.
• 12:22 ON THE BACK WE SHOW THEM ALL THE MAJOR MESSIANIC PROPHECIES THAT ARE MADE IN THE OLD TESTAMENT,
• 12:28 THE TENACH, AND THEIR CORRESPONDING FULFILLMENT BY YESHUA IN THE NEW TESTAMENT, THE B'RIT HADASHAH.
• 12:34 I REMEMBER WHEN WE WERE TALKING TO ONE YOUNG MAN IN A MUSIC STORE.
• 12:39 WE SHOWED HIM THE PROPHESIES ABOUT THE MESSIAH.
• 12:42 HE WOULD BE PIERCED IN HIS ATONING DEATH, PSALM 22:16, ISAIAH 53:5 AND ZECHARIAH 12:10
• 12:50 AND THE FULFILLMENT OF THAT BY JESUS ON HIS DEATH
• 12:52 WHEN HE DIED ON THE CROSS IN JOHN 19:34-37 AND HE WAS AMAZED.
• 12:58 HE IMMEDIATELY SAW THE CORRELATION BETWEEN THE PREDICTION
• 13:03 AND THE FULFILLMENT CULMINATING IN YESHUA.
• 13:06 WE SAID THAT'S JUST ONE PROPHECY.
• 13:08 SOME ESTIMATE THERE ARE OVER 300 PROPHECIES THAT YESHUA FULFILLED AT HIS FIRST COMING.
• 13:14 IF YOU WERE TO TAKE 48 OF THOSE PROPHECIES,
• 13:19 THE PROBABILITY OF THOSE BEING FULFILLED BY CHANCE IS 1-10 WITH 157 ZEROS AFTER IT.
• 13:26 THE MESSIANIC PROPHECY IS A POWERFUL WAY TO WIN THEM.
• 13:30 HE'S TODD BAKER, REV. TODD BAKER.
• 13:33 HE'S A GRADUATE OF DALLAS SEMINARY AND VERY, VERY COMPETENT AT WITNESSING TO JEWISH PEOPLE AND WE SEND HIM.
• 13:40 OF COURSE WE SEND HIM.
• 13:42 YOUR CHURCH NEEDS TO SEND SOMEBODY TO THE JEWISH PEOPLE IN ISRAEL, TOO.
• 13:44 THE BIBLE SAYS THE GOSPEL IS TO GO TO THE JEW FIRST. IT WAS JESUS' OWN MISSION.
• 13:49 WE NEVER THINK ABOUT THIS, BUT THANKS TO OUR SUPPORTERS
• 13:52 WHO SUPPORT OUR "TO THE JEW FIRST" FUND, AND YOU CAN DO THAT IF YOU WISH.
• 13:58 I'M NOT PUSHING IT. WE HAVE SEVERAL FUNDS.
• 14:01 OUR MINISTRY GIVES A LOT OF MONEY AWAY, UNLIKE THE SEMINARIES
• 14:04 WHICH LATELY ARE SAYING WE'VE HAD A TERRIBLE DOWNTURN BECAUSE OF THE ECONOMY.
• 14:10 WE'RE HAVING OUR BEST TIMES EVER BECAUSE WE BLESS ISRAEL
• 14:14 AND WE SEND PEOPLE LIKE THIS TO WITNESS TO JESUS' REAL BROTHERS OVER THERE.
• 14:19 YOU CAN DO IT TOO.
• 14:22 WE'LL BE BACK WITH REV. TODD BAKER RIGHT AFTER THIS.
• 14:31 I'VE BEEN LISTENING TO ZOLA FOR 5 OR 6 YEARS.
• 14:37 WHEN MY MOTHER CALLED AND SAID I'M PLANNING A TRIP TO ISRAEL, WOULD YOU LIKE TO GO?"
• 14:41 I DIDN'T HESITATE. I SAID, "ABSOLUTELY".
• 14:43 SHE SAID "DO YOU KNOW ANYWHERE OR HOW TO GET THERE?"
• 14:45 I SAID, "ABSOLUTELY. LET ME GIVE ZOLA A CALL".
• 14:47 THIS IS THE MOST SPECIAL PLACE IN THE WORLD AND THIS WAS THE PLACE WE WANTED TO BE.
• 14:51 WE CAN'T IMAGINE THAT WE'RE HERE.
• 14:54 I MEAN, IT'S JUST, YOU KNOW, WE JUST CAN'T IMAGINE WE'RE HERE.
• 15:02 WELL OUR TRIPS TO ISRAEL, THEY KEEP ON GOING AS I SAY IN EVERY PROGRAM.
• 15:06 I'VE JUST DETERMINED THAT EVERYBODY NEEDS TO GO AND SEE THIS LAND
• 15:10 BEFORE YOU GO AT GOVERNMENT EXPENSE IN THE KINGDOM TO COME.
• 15:13 DON'T YOU WANT TO SEE THE PLACE WHERE YOU'RE GOING TO RESIDE 1,000 YEARS?
• 15:17 THAT'S TRUE, ISN'T IT TODD?
• 15:19 WHEN YOU GO OVER THERE YOU FEEL LIKE YOU'RE GOING HOME, REALLY.
• 15:21 ABSOLUTELY. IT'S FUNNY YOU SHOULD MENTION THAT.
• 15:23 WHEN I CAME BACK HERE AND I'VE BEEN BACK FOR ABOUT 2 1/2 WEEKS NOW,
• 15:27 THE PASSPORT CONTROL LADY IN DETROIT WHEN WE FLEW THROUGH DETROIT SHE SAID WELCOME HOME.
• 15:34 I COULDN'T HELP BUT MUTTER UNDER MY BREATH, I'M NOT HOME.
• 15:37 YOU'RE NOT HOME. THAT'S RIGHT.
• 15:39 YOU HAVE SOME WHAT THEY CALL "WAR STORIES" FROM THE FIELD. ALL MISSIONARIES DO.
• 15:44 YOU HAVE STUFF, A MISSION FIELD, AS A LOT OF PEOPLE. TELL ME A COUPLE OF THINGS.
• 15:51 THESE STORIES WILL BE DOCUMENTED IN UPCOMING LEVITT LETTERS, BUT 2 IN PARTICULAR I THINK.
• 15:56 WHEN WE WERE IN TEL AVIV AND WHEN WE GO OVER TO WITNESS IN ISRAEL, IT'S VERY SIMPLE,
• 16:02 WE PRAY, WE'RE LED BY THE SPIRIT AND WE WALK THE STREETS.
• 16:06 OUR SECOND DAY IN TEL AVIV WE STOPPED IN THIS MINI-MART TO BUY SOME WATER.
• 16:12 IT WAS A MINI-MART COMBINATION POOL HALL.
• 16:15 THERE WAS A YOUNG ISRAELI LADY IN THERE AND WE STARTED TALKING TO HER ABOUT ISRAEL BEING THE SUPER SIGN OF THE END TIMES.
• 16:21 WE TOLD HER THAT THE REGATHERING OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE BACK INTO THEIR ANCIENT HOMELAND
• 16:27 IS THE GREATEST FULFILLMENT OF PROPHECY SINCE THE TIME OF YESHUA.
• 16:32 WE SHOWED HER THE SCRIPTURES; DEUTERONOMY 31:3, EZEKIEL 37. SHE WAS AMAZED.
• 16:42 WE FURTHER TOLD HER IF PROPHECIES ABOUT THE HISTORY OF YOUR PEOPLE
• 16:46 HAVE COME TO PASS 100 PERCENT ACCURATELY, THEN THERE'S OTHER SETS OF PROPHECIES
• 16:53 THAT WERE MADE ABOUT THE CENTRAL PERSON OF THE JEWISH FAITH AND THAT'S THE MESSIAH.
• 16:58 SO, OF COURSE, WE SHOWED HER SOME OF THOSE PROPHECIES IN THE TENACH
• 17:03 AND THEIR CORRESPONDING FULFILLMENT BY YESHUA IN THE NEW TESTAMENT.
• 17:07 SHE MADE A STATEMENT THAT REALLY QUITE SURPRISED ME.
• 17:10 SHE SAID YOU KNOW I'VE ALWAYS WANTED TO READ THE NEW TESTAMENT.
• 17:14 AMONG THE JEWS, SOME OF THEM, THEY WON'T EVEN TAKE A NEW TESTAMENT INTO THEIR HOUSE
• 17:20 BECAUSE THEY ARE WRONGLY TAUGHT BY THEIR RABBIS THAT IT IS AGAINST THE JEWISH PEOPLE.
• 17:25 WHEN SHE SAID THAT I HAD TO SMILE AS BIG AS JIMMY CARTER
• 17:29 BECAUSE WE HAPPENED TO HAVE A HEBREW NEW TESTAMENT WITH US.
• 17:33 I TOLD HER GOD KNEW THE DESIRE OF YOUR HEART
• 17:38 AND HE SENT US OVER HERE TO FULFILL THAT DESIRE.
• 17:42 WE'RE GOING TO GIVE YOU A FREE COPY OF THE NEW TESTAMENT.
• 17:44 SHE WAS JUST ABSOLUTELY GRATEFUL FOR IT.
• 17:48 SHE SAID SHE WOULD READ IT.
• 17:50 WE GAVE HER MATERIALS ABOUT THE MESSIANIC PROPHECIES AND SHE SAID SHE WOULD STUDY THEM.
• 17:55 WHENEVER WE DO THAT WE TELL THEM, DON'T TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT.
• 17:58 STUDY THE SCRIPTURES YOURSELF AND SEE IF HE IS NOT THE MESSIAH.
• 18:04 IF YOU LOOK AT IT WITH AN OPEN MIND YOU WILL COME TO THE CONCLUSION AS YOU HAVE LONG AGO
• 18:09 THAT HE IS THE MESSIAH AND THEREFORE WORTHY OF BELIEF.
• 18:13 AND THE TOOL YOU'RE USING THERE, TO OPEN THE SCRIPTURE AND SAY LOOK, THE HISTORY OF YOUR LAND IS HERE.
• 18:20 IT'S A POWERFUL WITNESS.
• 18:22 IT'S THE ONLY PLACE IN THE WORLD YOU COULD DO IT, TOO. YES, SIR.
• 18:24 I DON'T CARE IF YOU SENT MISSIONARIES TO THE SOUTH SEA ISLANDS, THE FORESTS, THE ESKIMOS, ETC.
• 18:30 THERE'S NO WHERE ELSE YOU COULD SAY HERE'S A BOOK ABOUT YOUR LAND AND YOUR PEOPLE.
• 18:33 REALLY IT'S A UNIVERSAL APPEAL.
• 18:35 IT'S NOT CONFINED JUST TO THE ORTHODOX.
• 18:37 YOU CAN SAY THAT TO ANY ISRAELI OVER THERE.
• 18:41 WITH THE NAMES OF THESE TOWNS.
• 18:42 I SAID BEFORE BETHLEHEM IS AN ARAB TOWN.
• 18:46 IT'S AN ARAB TOWN RIGHT THIS MINUTE, BUT FOR HEAVEN'S SAKE, KING DAVID WAS BORN AND CORONATED THERE.
• 18:51 JESUS CHRIST WAS BORN THERE. THESE ARE JEWS. IT WAS A JEWISH TOWN.
• 18:57 IT IS NOT, AS HANAN ASHRAWI TOLD ME,
• 18:59 JESUS CHRIST IS A PALESTINIAN PROPHET BORN IN BETHLEHEM IN MY COUNTRY.
• 19:04 PALESTINE DIDN'T EVEN EXIST.
• 19:06 I DIDN'T LAUGH, BUT I ALMOST DID.
• 19:10 TELL ME ANOTHER ONE.
• 19:13 THERE WAS A FAMILY THAT WE HAD MET, I BELIEVE IT WAS OUR THIRD GOSPEL OUTREACH THERE
• 19:18 THAT WE BECAME FAST FRIENDS WITH THEM.
• 19:20 WE MET THEM AT KIBBUTZ ENGEV.
• 19:23 YOU'VE BEEN GOING FOR QUITE A WHILE HAVEN'T YOU? QUITE A WHILE. YES.
• 19:26 ABOUT 2 1/2 YEARS AND BEFORE THEN I TRAVELED WITH YOU OVER THERE AS A BIBLE TEACHER.
• 19:32 YES, TODD'S ASSOCIATED WITH OUR TOURS AND OFTEN COMES AND HELPS OUT.
• 19:36 SO WE HAD ESTABLISHED A STRONG TIE WITH THIS FAMILY.
• 19:39 SO MUCH SO THAT THE MOTHER OF THE FAMILY CONSIDERS ME A MEMBER OF THEIR FAMILY.
• 19:44 SHE MEANS THAT WHEN SHE SAYS IT.
• 19:46 FOR A GENTILE TO ACHIEVE THAT POSITION--
• 19:48 IT'S GOD. I DON'T TAKE ANY CREDIT FOR IT.
• 19:51 IT'S THE FAVOR OF THE GOD OF ISRAEL AMONG HIS PEOPLE SO THAT THEY CAN BE TOLD THIS MESSAGE.
• 19:55 WHAT BETTER TIME THAN NOW, WHEN THE END IS UPON US?
• 19:58 SHE INVITED US, THIS LADY INVITED US TO HER HOUSE IN ZURYIAGAL
• 20:04 TO CELEBRATE THE PASSOVER, WHICH AS YOU KNOW,
• 20:07 WHEN THEY ASK YOU TO COME CELEBRATE THE PASSOVER, THAT IS QUITE A PRIVILEGE.
• 20:11 THAT IS A PRIVILEGE. I HAD PRAYED BEFORE.
• 20:13 OF COURSE, THE SCRIPTURE SAYS INVITE THE STRANGER IN, SO SHE DID.
• 20:17 SO ME AND MY COLLEAGUE, ROBERT CUCCIA
• 20:19 WE HAD PRAYED THAT WE WOULD HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY AT SOME POINT DURING THAT NIGHT
• 20:25 WHEN WE WERE GOING TO CELEBRATE THE PASSOVER WITH THEM TO SHARE WITH THEM
• 20:28 HOW THE MESSIAH IS REVEALED IN THE PASSOVER.
• 20:30 BEFORE THE MEAL WE WERE ABLE TO DISCUSS HOW THE PASSOVER MATZA IS A POWERFUL METAPHOR FOR THE MESSIAH.
• 20:40 IT'S UNLEAVENED. LEAVEN STANDS FOR SIN IN THE BIBLE.
• 20:45 THE MESSIAH WOULD BE SINLESS, WITHOUT LEAVEN.
• 20:47 IT'S STRIPED. ISAIAH 53: WITH HIS STRIPES WE WERE HEALED.
• 20:51 IT'S PIERCED. PSALM 22:16: THEY'VE PIERCED MY HANDS AND FEET.
• 20:56 SHE WAS AMAZED AT THAT, SO MUCH SO THAT AFTER WE HAD FINISHED CELEBRATING THE PASSOVER
• 21:03 AND IT WAS A 4 HOUR PRESENTATION I WAS HELPING HER CLEAN UP IN THE WEE HOURS OF THE MORNING.
• 21:10 SHE SAID, YOU REALLY ENJOYED CELEBRATING THE PASSOVER HERE. I SAID, ABSOLUTELY.
• 21:15 SHE SAID, DID YOU FEEL THE PRESENCE OF GOD HERE? I SAID, YES, I DID.
• 21:18 SHE SAID, I WISH, I WISH I COULD FEEL THAT.
• 21:22 IT WAS ALMOST AS IF SHE WAS SAYING IT OUT OF AN ENVY IN A GOOD WAY.
• 21:26 WHAT DOES PAUL SAY IN ROMANS 11:14 TO THE GENTILE BELIEVERS?
• 21:31 THEY WANT TO KNOW THIS MESSIAH THAT YOU BELIEVE IN.
• 21:34 I TOLD HER YOU CAN HAVE THAT.
• 21:42 ASK TO RECEIVE GOD'S SPIRIT THROUGH FAITH IN THE MESSIAH.
• 21:45 SHE SAID, WHO SAID THAT ABOUT ASKING AND KNOCKING?
• 21:48 I SAID YESHUA SAID THAT. SHE SAID THAT IS VERY WISE.
• 21:51 SO PLEASE PRAY FOR HER. SHE'S VERY, VERY CLOSE TO COMING TO FAITH.
• 21:55 WE CONTINUE TO BUILD RELATIONSHIPS WITH THAT FAMILY.
• 21:59 GOD KNOWS WHO SHE IS, FOLKS. LET'S PRAY FOR HER.
• 22:03 THE THING THAT REALLY, I THINK IS ASTOUNDING
• 22:08 IS THAT WE HAVE BEEN OVER THERE DOING THIS PARTICULAR MINISTRY 5 TIMES
• 22:13 AND EACH AND EVERY TIME THE MAJORITY OF THE ISRAELIS ARE OPEN TO OUR WITNESS.
• 22:18 YOU REALLY ARE SOWING SEEDS AND SOWING THEM IN FERTILE SOIL. IT FEELS RIGHT.
• 22:22 YES. ABSOLUTELY.
• 22:24 I HAVE A THEORY AS TO WHY THEY ARE SO OPEN.
• 22:26 REMEMBER THE PROPHECY JESUS GAVE IN MATTHEW 23:39.
• 22:31 HE SAID: YOU SHALL NOT-- HE'S TALKING TO THE NATION
• 22:33 SEE ME HENCEFORTH UNTIL YE SHALL SAY
• 22:36 (SPEAKING HEBREW)
• 22:41 IN OTHER WORDS, THAT IS A PROPHECY THAT WHEN JESUS COMES BACK TO JERUSALEM IN ISRAEL
• 22:45 THE JEWISH PEOPLE WILL BE OPEN TO RECEIVE HIM.
• 22:49 I THINK THAT NOW THERE IS A SPIRIT OF RECEPTIVITY.
• 22:53 I THINK THAT IS A STRONG INDICATOR THAT HIS COMING IS SOON.
• 23:00 YOU HAVE AN ENVIABLE MINISTRY, I'LL SAY THAT.
• 23:04 I'M PRIVILEGED. I'M PRIVILEGED BY GOD.
• 23:06 YOU'RE MAKING THE JEWS JEALOUS. YOU'RE PROBABLY MAKING SOME OF THE GENTILES JEALOUS.
• 23:11 PEOPLE CAN DO THIS. I MEAN YOU CAN TRAVEL TO ISRAEL AND WITNESS.
• 23:15 OH, SURE. IT IS PERFECTLY SAFE.
• 23:17 IT WAS ABSOLUTELY GORGEOUS THIS TIME OF THE YEAR, ESPECIALLY IN THE GALILEE.
• 23:20 YOU CAN TRAVEL TO ISRAEL TO WITNESS, BUT YOU CAN'T TRAVEL TO SAUDI ARABIA TO WITNESS.
• 23:24 NO. YOU'LL END UP IN JAIL.
• 23:27 OTHER PLACES IN NOT JUST THE ISLAMIC WORLD,
• 23:30 BUT CHRISTIANS AREN'T PARTICULARLY WELCOME IN A LOT OF PLACES.
• 23:35 THERE IS NO SUCH-- PEOPLE ASK ME ALL THE TIME IN THE CHURCHES
• 23:39 ABOUT ISRAELI LAWS AGAINST WITNESSING AND SO ON AS IF THERE ARE SUCH THINGS.
• 23:44 THEY MADE A LAW ABOUT GIVING SOMETHING OF VALUE
• 23:48 TO SOMEONE TO INDUCE THEM TO CHANGE HIS RELIGION.
• 23:53 I THINK WHAT HAPPENED THERE, THERE WERE MORMONS OR SOMEBODY LIKE THAT.
• 23:56 YES, IT WAS THE MORMONS. IT WAS TARGETED ESPECIALLY FOR THEM. THAT IS TRUE.
• 23:59 THEY WERE GIVING PEOPLE STUFF. YOU COME TO OUR CHURCH,
• 24:01 WE'LL LET YOU USE THIS CAR, GIVE YOU A JOB.
• 24:04 OF COURSE WE DON'T DO THAT.
• 24:06 AS WE'VE SAID, WHEN WE GIVE THESE OUT THEY SAY, DO WE HAVE TO PAY YOU ANYTHING?
• 24:10 WE SAY ABSOLUTELY NOT. WE'RE GIVING BACK TO YOU WHAT YOU GAVE THE WORLD.
• 24:15 I THINK THIS APPLIES TO YOU AND I'VE SAID THIS TO MANY ISRAELIS.
• 24:19 WHEN I LOOK AT A JEWISH PERSON, I KNOW 3 THINGS ARE TRUE.
• 24:23 ONE, THE BIBLE IS TRUE.
• 24:26 GOD KEEPS HIS PROMISES AND GOD EXISTS BECAUSE OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE.
• 24:31 JEREMIAH 31:35-37, GOD PROMISED THAT HE WOULD PRESERVE AND PROTECT THE JEWISH NATION FOREVER.
• 24:40 THEY WOULD NEVER CEASE TO BE A NATION.
• 24:43 REAL CHRISTIANS DON'T GIVE ANYTHING OF VALUE WITH A WITNESS EXCEPT A CROSS AND IT CAN BE HEAVY.
• 24:50 AND OFFENSIVE TO SOME JEWS WHO THEY REMEMBER THE CRUSADERS COMING IN AND DESTROYING THEIR SYNAGOGUES.
• 24:58 THAT WAS NOT A GOOD WITNESS. THEY WERE ANTI-SEMITIC.
• 25:02 THEY BURNT SYNAGOGUES. THEY KILLED PEOPLE.
• 25:04 DO YOU GET SOME STATIC? DO GET SOME PEOPLE WHO SAY I DON'T WANT TO HEAR IT?
• 25:08 YES WE DID.
• 25:09 ONE TIME WE WERE ON, NEAR THE JAFFA GATE
• 25:13 AND WE HAD SOME ANTI-MISSIONARY JEWS COME UP.
• 25:16 THEY TOLD US YOU CAN'T PASS THIS OUT HERE. BANDS OF VIGILANTES.
• 25:20 YES. AND WE WERE WITNESSING TO 2 PEOPLE.
• 25:22 ONE WAS FROM AMERICA AND THE OTHER WAS FROM ETHIOPIA.
• 25:25 THEY WERE TRYING TO TAKE AWAY THE HEBREW NEW TESTAMENTS WE GAVE THEM
• 25:29 AND THE MESSIANIC JEWISH GOSPEL TRACTS WE GAVE THEM.
• 25:32 THEY'RE AFRAID OF THEM. YES.
• 25:33 I CALMLY TOLD THEM THIS IS A DEMOCRACY.
• 25:37 WE HAVE THE FREEDOM TO EXCHANGE IDEAS HERE. THIS IS NOT AGAINST THE LAW.
• 25:40 THE 2 WE WERE WITNESSING TO TOLD THEM TO GO AWAY.
• 25:44 THEY WANTED TO HEAR MORE ABOUT WHAT WE WERE SAYING.
• 25:48 THIS IS THE YAD LACHIM. I KNOW WHO YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT.
• 25:51 IT'S A SELF APPOINTED BUNCH OF PEOPLE POLICING FOR MISSIONARIES.
• 25:55 ONE TIME WE WERE MAKING A PRO- GRAM, I THINK IT WAS AT KORAZIM IN GALILEE WHERE JESUS PREACHED.
• 26:01 THERE'S A BEAUTIFUL SYNAGOGUE STILL INTACT.
• 26:04 THESE PEOPLE CAME YELLING AND WALKING THROUGH THE SHOT RIGHT BETWEEN ME AND THE CAMERAS
• 26:10 SAYING, YOU CAN'T SAY THAT HERE, YOU CAN'T-- BECAUSE I HAD A BIBLE OPEN.
• 26:13 IT'S FUNNY, IF YOU HAVE A BIBLE YOU COULDN'T BE A JEW.
• 26:17 THEY OBJECTED TO MY TEACHING. THEY WERE LISTENING FOR A MINUTE AND THEN THEY BROKE IT UP.
• 26:23 WELL MY PRODUCER SAID SOMETHING IN HEBREW TO THEM.
• 26:26 HE JUST POINTED AT THEM AND SPOKE SOME HEBREW AND THEN WE STARTED UP AGAIN.
• 26:29 THIS TIME THEY DIDN'T INTERRUPT.
• 26:32 I SAID TO HIM AFTER, WHAT DID YOU TELL THEM, DANNY?
• 26:33 WHAT BEAUTIFUL, SPIRITUAL--
• 26:35 HE SAID, I SAY TO THEM YOU BREAK UP THE SHOT AGAIN YOU SEE WHAT HAPPENS.
• 26:40 [LAUGHING]
• 26:41 HE KNOWS HOW TO HANDLE THE CROWD.
• 26:43 TODD, IT'S GREAT TO HAVE YOU. WE'RE OUT OF TIME. I'M SORRY.
• 26:46 HE'S A MISSIONARY TO ISRAEL, TODD BAKER, AND WE SEND HIM. YOU SEND HIM.
• 26:51 THANKS A LOT, BECAUSE GOD WILL THANK YOU FOR THE JEWISH SOULS WON BY THESE GUYS THAT WE SEND OVER THERE.
• 26:56 SHA'ALU SHALOM YERUSHALAYIM, PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM.