Caption transcript for Shavuot—Pentecost: Part 1 (1/3)

• 00:05 IT IS WRITTEN IN THE SCRIPTURES THAT WE SHOULD JOURNEY TO JERUSALEM THREE TIMES A YEAR.
• 00:10 WE ARE GOING UP TO THE CITY OF GOD, TO JERUSALEM TO CELEBRATE.
• 00:21 THE LORD TOLD THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL TO HONOR SEVEN HOLY CELEBRATIONS EACH YEAR
• 00:25 INVOLVING THREE JOURNEYS TO JERUSALEM.
• 00:28 EACH FESTIVAL WOULD BE UNIQUELY FULFILLED IN THE COMING OF THE MESSIAH.
• 00:49 THE LORD SAID TO MOSES, COUNT 50 DAYS 'TIL THE DAY AFTER THE 7TH SABBATH,
• 00:55 THEN YOU SHALL MAKE OFFERINGS TO THE LORD.
• 00:59 BRING FROM YOUR DWELLING TWO WAVE LOAVES.
• 01:02 THEY SHALL BE OF FINE FLOUR AND BAKED WITH LEAVEN.
• 01:05 ON THAT SAME DAY YOU ARE TO PROCLAIM A SACRED ASSEMBLY AND DO NO REGULAR WORK.
• 01:10 THIS IS TO BE A LASTING ORDINANCE FOR THE GENERATIONS TO COME WHEREVER YOU LIVE.
• 01:17 SHALOM, HELLO AGAIN.
• 01:18 I'M SANDRA LEVITT.
• 01:20 WELCOME BACK TO ZOLA LEVITT PRESENTS.
• 01:22 WHEN WE WERE IN ISRAEL, ZOLA AND I USUALLY TEACH AT CAESAREA MARITIME
• 01:27 AND ONE OF THE LESSONS WE TEACH THERE IS ABOUT PREPARATION.
• 01:30 WE TEACH ABOUT CORNELIUS BEING PREPARED.
• 01:33 WE TEACH ABOUT PETER BEING PREPARED.
• 01:36 AS YOU KNOW, ZOLA WENT ON TO BE WITH THE LORD APRIL 19.
• 01:40 HE PREPARED US ALSO.
• 01:42 I THINK GOD PREPARES US EVERY SINGLE DAY OF OUR LIVES TO DO WHAT HE WANTS US TO DO.
• 01:47 I'M HERE WITH DR. JEFFREY SEIF TODAY.
• 01:49 I THANK YOU FOR COMING AND TALKING WITH US.
• 01:52 JEFFREY IS A JEWISH BELIEVER AND HE IS GOING TO HELP US WITH ZOLA LEVITT PRESENTS.
• 01:58 I AM SO GLAD TO HAVE HIM BACK.
• 02:00 HE STARTED WITH ZOLA IN 1986.
• 02:03 THEY DID THE INSTITUTE OF JEWISH AND CHRISTIAN STUDIES,
• 02:06 WONDERFUL 12 VOLUMES OF KNOWING ABOUT YOUR JEWISH ROOTS, TERRIFIC.
• 02:12 WELCOME BACK JEFF, IT IS SO GOOD TO HAVE YOU.
• 02:14 IT'S A PLEASURE TO BE HERE,
• 02:16 ALBEIT UNDER TRYING CIRCUMSTANCES FOR EVERYONE.
• 02:19 YOU KNOW, WE WERE TALKING BEFORE WE GOT GOING,
• 02:21 PEOPLE LOVE TO HEAR HOW JEWISH PEOPLE WERE SAVED.
• 02:24 HOW WERE YOU SAVED?
• 02:25 TELL ME HOW THAT ALL WORKED.
• 02:28 WELL, YEARS AGO, I WAS AN OLD HIPPIE
• 02:32 (SANDRA LAUGHING)
• 02:34 AND IT WAS DURING THE EARLY 70'S INITIALLY WHEN I MADE A DECISION.
• 02:39 SOME FELLOW WITH LONG HAIR CAME UP AND STARTED TALKING TO ME ABOUT JESUS
• 02:42 AND I WAS INTO GETTING HIGH AND REBELLING AND GIRLS AND ROCK AND ROLL AND ALL THE REST.
• 02:49 I WAS REALLY VERY EMPTY INSIDE AND HE REALLY PRESSED ME AND I MADE A DECISION FOR THE LORD.
• 02:53 THEN I WENT ON FOR AWHILE AND BACKSLID AWAY FROM IT ALL
• 02:57 AND JEWS FOR JESUS REALLY PICKED ME UP OFF THE PAVEMENT.
• 03:00 I'M 25-26.
• 03:01 I WAS LIVING IN THE YMCA IN URBAN CHICAGO.
• 03:05 I'D NEVER GONE TO COLLEGE.
• 03:06 I FLUNKED OUT OF HIGH SCHOOL AND I WAS ATTENDING A--
• 03:08 A JEWISH GUY FLUNKING OUT OF HIGH SCHOOL,
• 03:10 HOW CAN THAT HAPPEN? YAH, I WAS JUST HIGH ALL THE TIME.
• 03:11 I WASN'T REALLY IN GOOD SHAPE, YOU KNOW THIS "DR. SEIF",
• 03:15 BUT FOR THE GRACE OF GOD, THE "GOD'S HONEST TRUTH",
• 03:18 ABSOLUTELY.
• 03:19 I WENT-- WHEN I FELT A CALL OF GOD ON MY LIFE AND I RECEIVED IT
• 03:22 WHEN I WAS PARTICIPATING IN THE JEWS FOR JESUS MINISTRY IN CHICAGO.
• 03:25 TRUTH BE KNOWN, WHEN I WENT TO GO TO BIBLE COLLEGE,
• 03:30 THEY TOOK ME IN ON ACADEMIC PROBATION BECAUSE MY GRADES WERE SO BAD;
• 03:33 THEY WERE ALL DS AND FS AND EVERYTHING.
• 03:35 BUT, WHAT HAPPENED IS THE LORD CALLED ME AND I GOT IN, ROLLED UP MY SLEEVES
• 03:39 AND JUST HAD A LOVE FOR THE WORD AND A LOVE FOR THE MINISTRY
• 03:42 AND I FELT CALLED AND I PURSUED IT AND WOUND UP
• 03:45 FINISHING WITH A MASTERS AND DOCTORATE AT SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY, HERE.
• 03:48 I'M JUST GLAD THE LORD CALLED ME INTO THE MINISTRY.
• 03:50 AND ISN'T IT INTERESTING HOW HE CALLS US.
• 03:52 WE WERE TALKING ABOUT IT.
• 03:55 I NEVER THOUGH THAT I WOULD BE DOING WHAT I'M DOING, EVER.
• 03:58 SPEAKING IN FRONT OF PEOPLE, SPEAKING IN FRONT OF AUDIENCES
• 04:02 AND YET, I, LIKE IN PHILIPPIANS 1:6
• 04:11 WHAT A GREAT VERSE.
• 04:13 IT'S WHAT WE'RE SUPPOSED TO DO.
• 04:14 WE'RE SUPPOSED TO WITNESS.
• 04:15 WE'RE SUPPOSED TO TALK ABOUT OUR JEWISH ROOTS.
• 04:18 I LOVE THAT AND AS WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THAT, I WANT TO TALK ABOUT SHAVUOT SOME,
• 04:22 OR AS WE KNOW IN THE CHRISTIAN LANGUAGE, PENTECOST.
• 04:27 SHAVUOT IS A FASCINATING HOLIDAY.
• 04:30 SAD TO SAY FOR THE AVERAGE CHRISTIAN PERSON IN THE WORLD,
• 04:32 THE LANGUAGE DOESN'T MEAN MUCH BECAUSE IT'S JEWISH IN NATURE
• 04:35 AND SO MANY, SAD TO SAY, HAVE LOST SIGHT OF THE JEWISH ROOTS OF THE FAITH.
• 04:38 SHAVUOT, WE'RE GOING TO EXPLORE IT SOME.
• 04:41 IT'S A MAJOR EVENT IN THE OLD TESTAMENT ECONOMY.
• 04:44 MOSES AFFECTIONATELY CALLED MOSHE RABBEINU, OR MOSES OUR TEACHER
• 04:49 SPELLS IT OUT IN LEVITICUS 23, THAT THIS IS A MAJOR EVENT AND INTERESTINGLY,
• 04:53 THE BIRTH OF THE CHURCH, ACTS CHAPTER 2 CORRELATES WITH IT TO THE DAY.
• 04:58 ISN'T THAT INTERESTING?
• 05:00 ZOLA ALWAYS USED TO SAY, THE BIBLE IS A BOOK WITH THE ANSWERS IN THE BACK.
• 05:03 RIGHT.
• 05:05 I ALWAYS USED TO LAUGH ABOUT THAT, BUT I'D READ THE OLD TESTAMENT
• 05:07 AND THEN I WOULD GO IN THE NEW TESTAMENT, IT'S ONE BOOK, IT'S NOT TWO BOOKS.
• 05:10 RIGHT.
• 05:11 IT'S ONE JEWISH--
• 05:12 WE'RE GOING TO EXPLORE IT.
• 05:14 THERE'S AN OLD SAYING THAT THE OLD TESTAMENT IS THE NEW TESTAMENT CONCEALED
• 05:17 AND THE NEW TESTAMENT IS THE OLD TESTAMENT REVEALED.
• 05:20 I THINK THE LORD RAISED UP THIS MINISTRY, PARTICULARLY,
• 05:23 THIS WONDERFUL MINISTRY TO HELP JEWISH PEOPLE COME TO UNDERSTAND JESUS
• 05:28 AND THE HELP JESUS PEOPLE UNDERSTAND THE JEWISH PEOPLE AND THE JEWISH SCRIPTURE
• 05:33 AND WE WANT THESE TWO WORLDS TO MARRY AND KISS EACH OTHER.
• 05:36 THERE'S GREAT BIBLE STUDY.
• 05:37 IT'S A WONDERFUL BIBLE STUDY. IT SURELY IS.
• 05:39 BACK AFTER THIS.
• 05:41 FOR INSIGHTFUL PERSPECTIVES OF ISRAEL AND BIBLE PROPHECY,
• 05:45 ASK FOR OUR FREE MONTHLY NEWSLETTER, THE LEVITT LETTER.
• 05:48 WHEN YOU CALL, BE SURE TO ALSO AS FOR OUR FREE CATALOG WITH THE LATEST VIDEOS, BOOKS AND MUSIC.
• 05:54 OUR CORRESPONDENCE COURSE, THE INSTITUTE OF JEWISH-CHRISTIAN STUDIES INCLUDES
• 05:58 READING PACKETS, TEACHING CASSETTES AND MAIL-IN TESTS.
• 06:03 YOU MAY WANT TO JOIN US ON AN UPCOMING TOUR OF ISRAEL,
• 06:05 GREECE OR THE HOLY LAND EXPERIENCE THEME PARK IN ORLANDO, FLORIDA.
• 06:09 PLEASE CONTACT US FOR MORE INFORMATION.
• 06:12 AND JESUS SAID UNTO THEM, DO NOT BE AFRAID.
• 06:18 GO TELL MY BRETHREN TO GO INTO GALILEE.
• 06:21 THERE THEY WILL SEE.
• 06:25 IT STRENGTHENS OUR FAITH TO KNOW THAT JESUS WALKED ON THE WATER AND THAT WE CAN CALL OUT TO HIM.
• 06:31 IT MAKES THE WHOLE SCRIPTURES COME TO LIFE.
• 06:44 BEHIND ME IS A SITE THAT HAS INSPIRED MILLIONS AND IT IS GOING TO INSPIRE YOU.
• 06:53 JERUSALEM, WORLD CITY, CENTER OF THE EARTH, THE CAPITAL OF GOD'S HOMELAND, ISRAEL.
• 07:02 JERUSALEM, CENTER OF THE UNIVERSE FOR RELIGIOUS TORAH OBSERVANT JEWS,
• 07:09 SOME OF WHOM ARE BEHIND ME RIGHT NOW
• 07:11 BRISTLING WITH ENTHUSIASM AS THE GO TO THE WESTERN WALL TO PRAY,
• 07:16 TO SEEK GOD, LOOKING FOR ANSWERS TO HUMAN DILEMMAS.
• 07:19 IN THE CROWD, AS WELL, THERE'S CHRISTIANS MOVING ABOUT,
• 07:23 MAKING THEIR WAY TO WALK IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF JESUS.
• 07:27 BEHIND ME IS A PICTURE THAT JESUS SAW, THE WESTERN WALL, THE WAILING WALL,
• 07:34 IT'S THE RETAINING WALL ATOP WHICH STOOD THE TEMPLE IN JESUS' DAY,
• 07:39 THE BEIT HAMIKDASH, THE HOLY HOUSE.
• 07:43 ON TOP THAT SPACE NOW, HOWEVER, THERE'S THE MUSLIM DOME OF THE ROCK
• 07:47 MAKING THIS SITE OF CENTRAL SIGNIFICANCE TO MUSLIMS, AS WELL.
• 07:53 IT'S A MAJOR CITY.
• 07:55 I'M SO PLEASED TO BRING YOU JERUSALEM.
• 07:58 OF COURSE, YOU CAN'T ALL GO WITH ME TO JERUSALEM, BUT IT'S GREAT TO BRING IT TO YOU.
• 08:03 WHAT I WANT TO DO IS LOOK AT A STORY THAT CENTERS IN JERUSALEM.
• 08:08 WE'RE GOING TO BE LOOKING AT A THREE PART TREATMENT OF A MAJOR FEAST IN THE OLD TESTAMENT,
• 08:15 WHERE JEWS FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD WOULD MAKE THEIR WAY TO JERUSALEM.
• 08:20 IT'S CALLED THE FEAST OF PENTECOST.
• 08:23 IT'S FOUND AMONG OTHER PLACES IN LEVITICUS CHAPTER 23,
• 08:27 WHERE IT'S NOTED AS A PILGRIM FEAST.
• 08:30 WOMEN AND MEN OF JEWISH EXTRACT WOULD MAKE THEIR WAY TO JERUSALEM
• 08:35 JUST BEFORE THE PASSOVER TIME.
• 08:37 THEY WOULD STAY FOR THE BETTER PART OF SEVEN PLUS WEEKS IN JERUSALEM
• 08:42 AND THEN THEY'D LEAVE AFTER PENTECOST.
• 08:45 IT'S A GREEK WORD MEANING "50 DAYS".
• 08:48 THE HOLIDAY IS KNOWN TO JEWS AS "ATZERET" OR MEANING "CONCLUSION".
• 08:53 IT'S KNOWN TO JEWISH PEOPLE AS "CHAG ZEMAN MATAN TORAH",
• 08:56 THE FEAST OF THE GIVING OF THE TORAH.
• 08:58 IT'S A FEAST, PENTECOST, THAT IS,
• 09:01 THAT NOT ONLY HAS IMPORTANCE FOR WOMEN AND MEN OF JEWISH EXTRACT,
• 09:05 BUT, LIKEWISE CHRISTIAN FRIENDS FIND THEMSELVES GLUED TO PENTECOST
• 09:11 FOR A VARIETY OF REASONS, GOOD REASONS I MIGHT ADD.
• 09:15 CHRISTIAN FOLK FIRST EXPERIENCE IN PENTECOST IN CHAPTER 2 IN THE BOOK OF ACTS
• 09:19 WHEREIN DISCOVERED "RUACH HAKODESH",
• 09:22 THE HOLY SPIRIT IS POURED OUT UPON INDIVIDUALS
• 09:26 IN PROXIMITY TO WHERE I'M STANDING RIGHT NOW.
• 09:29 CHRISTIANITY OWES ITS ROOTS TO THE PICTURE BEHIND ME.
• 09:34 IN MUCH THE SAME WAY, THERE'S CERTAIN SEGMENTS OF CHRISTIANITY
• 09:38 THAT ARE PARTICULARLY WELDED TO PENTECOST.
• 09:40 THOSE OF THE CHARISMATIC PENTECOSTAL FAMILIES OF FAITH
• 09:43 ARE MINDED OF AN EXPERIENCE 100 YEARS AGO.
• 09:46 THE WORD PENTECOST CAUSES THEM TO HARK BACK TO THE PENTECOSTAL EXPERIENCE OF 100 YEARS AGO.
• 09:52 THOSE OF OUR TRADITIONAL FRIENDS, WHEN THINKING OF PENTECOST,
• 09:55 HARK BACK TO THE NEW TESTAMENT EXPERIENCE.
• 09:58 DIFFERENT WAYS, DIFFERENT DAYS, DIFFERENT PEOPLE FIND SOME SIGNIFICANCE IN PENTECOST.
• 10:04 FOR OUR PURPOSES, WHAT I WANT TO DO
• 10:06 IS GO BACK TO PENTECOST,
• 10:10 PARTICULARLY I'M MINDED TO LOOK AT PENTECOST "ROOTS" IN THE OLD TESTAMENT,
• 10:16 THE JEWISH "ROOTS" OF THE PENTECOSTAL STORY.
• 10:21 I'LL DO THAT IN THIS SEGMENT, FOLLOWED THEN IN THE SECOND
• 10:24 BY LOOKING AT PENTECOST'S "BOOTS" IN THE NEW TESTAMENT STORY.
• 10:29 I WANT YOU TO SEE HOW THE SPIRIT EXPERIENCE IS NOT UNIQUE TO ACTS CHAPTER 2,
• 10:34 BUT IT'S FOUND IN THE VERY BEGINNINGS OF SCRIPTURE.
• 10:37 SO, WE'LL LOOK AT PENTECOST'S "ROOTS" IN GENESIS.
• 10:41 WE'LL THEN LOOK AT ITS "BOOTS" IN THE NEW TESTAMENT.
• 10:45 THEN THIRDLY, WE'LL LOOK AT PENTECOST'S "FRUITS" IN YOU AND I.
• 10:51 ALL THAT SAID, I INVITE YOU TO OPEN YOUR BIBLES PLEASE TO GENESIS CHAPTER 1.
• 10:56 IN HEBREW, GENESIS IS KNOWN AS BERESHITH.
• 11:00 I KNOW IT SOUNDS LIKE I'M CUSSING A LITTLE ON TV,
• 11:02 BUT BERESHITH COMES FROM THE HEBREW BEGINNINGS.
• 11:05 BERESHITH MEANS BEGINNINGS AND IT COMES FROM GENESIS 1:1.
• 11:09 WHEREIN THE WORD SAYS
• 11:10 (SPEAKING HEBREW)
• 11:18 NOW, WHAT I WANT TO DO IS LOOK WITH YOU AT BEGINNINGS,
• 11:21 FOR IMMEDIATELY AFTER INFORMING THAT GOD CREATED THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH,
• 11:26 THEN THERE'S A LITTLE NARRATIVE WHERE WE'RE TOLD THAT THE EARTH IS WITHOUT FORM,
• 11:30 THAT IT'S VOID, THAT THERE'S CHAOS, THAT DARKNESS PREVAILED ON EARTH.
• 11:36 INTO THAT CHAOS, COMES ANOTHER STORY IN GENESIS CHAPTER 1 VERSE 2, WE'RE TOLD
• 11:44 (SPEAKING HEBREW)
• 11:57 THERE'S CHAOS, THERE'S DARKNESS IN GENESIS.
• 12:03 BUT, THEN THERE YOU HAVE RUACH ELOHIM, THE SPIRIT OF GOD,
• 12:09 THERE MOVING OVER THAT CIRCUMSTANCE AND THE SPIRIT OF GOD WILL BRING FORTH LIFE.
• 12:16 OH, IT'S A GREAT STORY AND THERE WONDERFUL APPLICATIONS TODAY.
• 12:22 GOING, BACK TO YESTERDAY, WE CAN LOOK IN THE GENESIS TEXT AND CONTINUE ON AND SEE
• 12:26 WHERE THE CREATION NARRATIVE CONTINUES TO UNFOLD.
• 12:30 IF YOU'LL LOOK WITH ME TO CHAPTER 1 VERSE 26, THEREIN WE'RE TOLD
• 12:35 (SPEAKING HEBREW)
• 12:50 GOD IS TALKING.
• 12:53 HE SAYS, "LET US".
• 12:54 TO WHOM IS HE SPEAKING?
• 12:56 WELL, WE'VE SEEN THE HOLY SPIRIT AROUND IN CREATION ALREADY.
• 12:59 WE KNOW IN THE GOSPEL OF JOHN THAT JESUS IS AROUND IN CREATION, AS WELL
• 13:03 FROM THE FIRST CHAPTER.
• 13:04 HERE WE SEE THE MANUFACTURE OF HUMANKIND.
• 13:07 GOD SAYS, LET US MAKE MAN IN OUR IMAGE AND IN OUR LIKENESS,
• 13:13 A FASCINATING STORY,
• 13:15 HOW WE'RE MADE IN THE "IMAG0 DE", THE IMAGE OF GOD, A SPECIAL CREATION.
• 13:19 AS WE FOLLOW IN THE NARRATIVE WE'RE TOLD
• 13:21 THAT WE'RE MADE HEAD AND SHOULDERS HIGHER THAN OTHERS INTELLECTUALLY,
• 13:25 THAT WE HAVE A MUCH LARGER CEREBRAL CORTEX,
• 13:28 THE MIND IS GREATER, OUR CAPACITY IS GREATER.
• 13:31 SAD TO SAY, HOWEVER, HUMAN CAPACITY IS DIMINISHED BECAUSE OF SIN.
• 13:38 EVEN THOUGH WE HAVE A LOT OF MATERIAL, WE HAVE A LOT GOING FOR US,
• 13:42 A LOT OF WONDERFUL INNATE CHARACTERISTICS,
• 13:44 THE PROBLEM IS THAT SIN ENTERS THE STAGE OF THE HUMAN DRAMA
• 13:48 AND THE RACE BECOMES VITIATED, IT BECOMES DEFILED.
• 13:51 I WANT TO CONTINUE ON IN THE STORY, PLEASE.
• 13:53 IF YOU'LL LOOK IN CHAPTER 2:7 THERE'S SOMETHING HERE
• 13:56 THAT I THINK THAT HAS SIGNIFICANT IMPORT,
• 13:58 NOT JUST FOR ADAM AND EVE, BUT FOR US TODAY.
• 14:03 WE'RE TOLD IN CHAPTER 2:7, HERE WE HAVE ADAM, HERE WE HAVE MAN,
• 14:20 HAVING ALREADY NOTED HOW THE HOLY SPIRIT IS AROUND AND ACTIVE, PARTICIPATING,
• 14:27 BRINGING FORTH LIFE OUT OF CHAOS EARLIER IN GENESIS,
• 14:31 HERE WORTH NOTING, IS THE FACT THAT THERE'S ADAM
• 14:33 RATHER LANGUISHING IN SOME LIFELESS STATE UNTIL SUCH TIME AS THE LORD SHOWS UP
• 14:38 AND BREATHES INTO HIS NOSTRILS THE BREATH OF LIFE, IN THE WAKE OF WHICH,
• 14:43 ACCORDING TO THE TEXT, HE THEN BECOMES A LIVING BEING.
• 14:48 FRIENDS, I BELIEVE THAT THERE ARE MYRIAD APPLICATIONS FOR US TODAY,
• 14:52 BECAUSE I THINK THERE'S A LOT OF PEOPLE THAT LIVE A LIFE,
• 14:54 BUT THEY REALLY ARE LIVING A NON-LIFE.
• 14:56 THEY DON'T HAVE THE KIND LIFE THAT'S AVAILABLE.
• 14:58 WHY NOT, BECAUSE THEY DON'T HAVE THE SPIRIT THAT'S AVAILABLE.
• 15:03 WHAT I WANTED TO SHOW IN THIS FIRST PROGRAM SIMPLY IS
• 15:07 THAT IF YOU LOOK AT THE GENESIS ACCOUNT, GOD'S SPIRIT IS THERE,
• 15:11 BRINGING FORTH THE CREATIVE ORDER AND WE SEE THAT GOD'S SPIRIT IS THERE
• 15:15 BRINGING FORTH LIFE AND BREATHING LIFE INTO HUMANITY.
• 15:19 FRIENDS THAT HAS A LOT OF APPLICATIONS, A LOT OF IMPLICATIONS FOR US TODAY.
• 15:26 I BELIEVE THAT THERE ARE A LOT OF PEOPLE THAT HAVE A LIFE, BUT IT'S A NON-LIFE.
• 15:31 I BELIEVE THAT A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE PERENNIALLY DISSATISFIED WITH LIFE.
• 15:35 YOU MIGHT NOT KNOW WHAT IT IS, BUT WHEN YOU LOOK IN A MIRROR,
• 15:37 YOU DON'T LIKE WHAT YOU SEE, WHEN YOU DO AN INTERNAL INVENTORY,
• 15:40 YOU DON'T LIKE THE WAY YOU FEEL, THERE'S A SCRATCH, YOU CAN'T GET TO IT,
• 15:45 YOU'RE ITCHING, BUT YOU CAN'T GET RID OF THE PAIN.
• 15:48 THERE'S A LOT OF ANGST THAT PEOPLE LIVE WITH.
• 15:51 A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE DISSATISFIED, THEY BLAME IT ON THEIR CIRCUMSTANCES,
• 15:54 THEY BLAME IT ON THEIR PARTNER, THEY BLAME IT ON THEIR SPOUSE.
• 15:58 YOU MIGHT HAVE HEARD IT SAID PEOPLE MARRY FOR AN IDEAL, THEY THINK THEY GOT A RAW DEAL,
• 16:02 THEY GO SEARCHING FOR A NEW DEAL.
• 16:04 IT HAPPENS, PEOPLE ARE DISSATISFIED.
• 16:06 THEY WANT A NEW SPOUSE, THEY WANT A NEW HOUSE,
• 16:09 THEY NEED THIS, NEW COLOR CAR,
• 16:11 NEW THIS AND NEW THAT, GET THIS SURGERY, CHANGE THIS, CHANGE THAT.
• 16:15 IF YOU'LL PERMIT THIS BIBLE TEACHER, THIS JEWISH GUY,
• 16:20 ÷ WITH JERUSALEM BEHIND HIM AND THE BIBLE IN FRONT OF HIM,
• 16:23 IF YOU'D JUST PERMIT ME TO TELL YOU THAT MAYBE THAT WHAT YOU NEED IN LIFE IS
• 16:28 WHAT'S NOTED HERE AT THE VERY BEGINNING OF LIFE AND THAT IS MAYBE, JUST MAYBE
• 16:34 COULD IT BE THAT WHAT YOU NEED IS FOR THE LORD TO COME ALONG AND BREATHE INTO YOU HIS BREATH,
• 16:40 THE BREATH OF LIFE THAT YOU CAN BE A LIVING BEING AND THAT'S THE STORY OF PENTECOST.
• 16:47 WE SEE IT IN ACTS CHAPTER 2, BUT ONE OF THE THINGS THAT'S NOTED IN GENESIS CHAPTER 1
• 16:53 IS THAT IT'S AVAILABLE TO YOU, TO ALL OF US.
• 16:56 SCRIPTURE SAYS, BUT TO ALL WHO RECEIVED HIM, WHO BELIEVED IN HIS NAME
• 17:04 I'M SO GLAD TO BROADCAST THE BIBLE FROM A JEWISH PERSPECTIVE
• 17:09 AND I HOPE THAT TODAY YOU'LL TAKE A MOMENT AND ASK THE LORD TO COME INTO YOUR LIFE
• 17:13 AND EXPERIENCE HIS SPIRIT, CHANGING YOUR CHAOS AND BRINGING LIGHT AND ORDER.
• 17:19 GOD BLESS YOU.
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• 17:32 JEFF, THAT IS GREAT TEACHING.
• 17:35 I LOVE HEARING ABOUT, ESPECIALLY IN GENESIS 2:7
• 17:39 AND THE LORD GOD FORMED MAN OF THE DUST OF THE GROUND AND BREATHED INTO HIM, LIFE.
• 17:43 BREATHED A SPIRIT INTO HIM.
• 17:45 EVERY MAN IS LOOKING FOR A SPIRIT.
• 17:47 IT'S A GREAT STORY. IT'S WHAT WE ALL NEED, TOO, ISN'T IT.
• 17:49 IT'S WONDERFUL AND I THINK ABOUT, WHEN I'M IN ISRAEL,
• 17:51 I'VE SEEN SHAVUOT AND I'VE SEEN THEM COME DOWN TO THE WESTERN WALL
• 17:54 AND THEY'RE WAVING EVERYTHING, CROPS FROM THE GROUND THAT REALLY IN YOUR HAND,
• 18:00 YOU CAN SEE THE DUST STILL ON SOME OF THE CROPS.
• 18:03 IT'S JUST TERRIFIC.
• 18:05 YES, THAT'S THE FRUITS, THE WATER COMES DOWN, NURTURES AND THEN THE PRODUCE GOES UP.
• 18:08 IT'S A GREAT TEACHING.
• 18:10 GOD'S BLESSINGS COMING DOWN ON US, IT'S AMAZING WHAT CAN WELL UP FROM US IN LIFE.
• 18:15 WHAT YOU AND I NEED AND EVERY VIEWER WITHIN THE SOUND OF OUR VOICES.
• 18:18 IS GOD NOT JUST WONDERFUL FROM THESE TEACHINGS, THAT WE JUST TAKE FOR GRANTED SOMETIMES.
• 18:23 THESE TEACHINGS ARE IN FRONT OF US AND THEY'RE WONDERFUL.
• 18:27 WE'RE GOING TO GO TO WILL KING, OUR MAN IN JERUSALEM, MY SON
• 18:31 AND HE'S GOING TO INTERVIEW A YOUNG MAN BY THE NAME OF JEREMY GIMPEL AND THIS YOUNG MAN,
• 18:36 SPEAKING OF LAND, WANTS PEOPLE TO KNOW THE LAND OF ISRAEL.
• 18:42 IT'S A WONDERFUL TESTIMONY TO GOD'S PEOPLE AND TO WHAT GOD HAS DONE.
• 18:48 BACK AFTER THIS.
• 18:50 JEREMY, THE STORY OF HOW YOU CAME TO BE IN ISRAEL
• 18:53 IS REALLY A UNIQUE ONE, ONE I REALLY ENJOY.
• 18:56 IT STARTS WITH YOUR GRANDPARENTS, IS THAT RIGHT?
• 18:58 THAT IS RIGHT.
• 18:59 IN 1916 WHEN MY GRANDFATHER WAS ONLY 15 YEARS OLD,
• 19:02 HE WALKED FROM RUSSIA TO ISRAEL.
• 19:05 IT TOOK HIM ABOUT A YEAR AND A HALF AND FOR THE FIRST 6 MONTHS
• 19:08 HE SLEPT ON THE FLOOR IN THE CENTER OF THE COUNTRY, EVENTUALLY MOVING TO JERUSALEM.
• 19:11 MY FATHER WAS BORN IN JERUSALEM.
• 19:13 AFTER FINISHING HIS IDF SERVICE, HE WENT BACK TO AMERICA,
• 19:15 GOT LOST IN THE EXILE FOR ABOUT 20 YEARS AND IN 1991
• 19:20 AS SADDAM HUSSEIN WAS DROPPING SCUD MISSILES ON ISRAEL, MY 2 OLDER BROTHERS,
• 19:24 DANIEL AND MICAH, THEY DROPPED EVERYTHING THEY WERE DOING, THEY SAID, "IT'S TIME TO GO HOME".
• 19:28 THEY FLEW BACK TO ISRAEL AND MY PARENTS WERE, WELL, OUR 2 OLDEST CHILDREN ARE BACK
• 19:32 AND I GUESS IT'S TIME TO GO HOME.
• 19:34 BUT, WHAT I'D LIKE TO POINT OUT MUST IMPORTANTLY ABOUT THAT STORY
• 19:38 IS THAT WHEN MY GRANDFATHER FIRST CAME TO ISRAEL,
• 19:41 HE WAS RUNNING AWAY FROM ANTI-SEMITISM IN RUSSIA, THE POGROMS, THE HATRED, THE FEAR
• 19:45 AND HE WAS RUNNING AWAY IN HOPE OF ESTABLISHING A NEW JEWISH HOMELAND.
• 19:49 WHEN MY FAMILY CAME BACK TO ISRAEL THE SECOND TIME, WE WEREN'T RUNNING AWAY ANYMORE.
• 19:54 WE WERE RUNNING TO ISRAEL, TO SUPPORT, TO PRAY, TO SERVE IN THE ARMY, TO LOVE,
• 19:58 TO DO ALL THAT WE COULD TO HELP ISRAEL SURVIVE AND THOSE 2 COMINGS ARE TOTALLY DIFFERENT
• 20:02 AND THAT'S THE REVOLUTION THAT'S GOING ON IN THE WORLD.
• 20:04 WITH ALL THE TOURISTS THAT ARE NOW COMING TO ISRAEL,
• 20:06 I KNOW THAT ALL OF THEM SAY, "YOU'RE GOING TO ISRAEL, WHAT'S GOING ON?"
• 20:10 BUT, THEY'RE ALL COMING BECAUSE THEY KNOW IT'S THE RIGHT THING TO DO.
• 20:13 THEY'RE COMING TO SUPPORT, NOT TO TRAVEL.
• 20:16 WHEN YOUR FAMILY RAN TO ISRAEL, WHAT DID YOU RUN TO?
• 20:19 WHAT AREA DID YOU SETTLE IN?
• 20:22 MY FATHER WAS BORN IN JERUSALEM AND IT JUST SEEMED LIKE THE NATURAL PLACE TO GO RIGHT HOME
• 20:26 AND WE MOVED TO THE FRENCH HILL NEIGHBORHOOD AND WE SETTLED THERE.
• 20:29 I STARTED GOING DIRECTLY INTO ISRAELI SCHOOL AND IN AMERICA I WAS A PRETTY GOOD STUDENT
• 20:33 AND FOR ABOUT 2 YEARS I WAS LISTENING TO A TEACHER SPEAK TO ME IN GREEK,
• 20:37 THEN SLOWLY BUT SURELY, I EVENTUALLY LEARNED HEBREW
• 20:39 AND BECAME TOTALLY IMMERSED IN ISRAELI SOCIETY.
• 20:43 PART OF THAT ISRAEL SOCIETY IS THAT PEOPLE DO SERVE IN THE ARMY.
• 20:46 ABSOLUTELY.
• 20:47 AFTER FINISHING HIGH SCHOOL, I SPENT OVER 2 YEARS LEARNING IN THE YESHIVA,
• 20:51 A TORAH ACADEMY OUTSIDE THE CITY OF HEBRON,
• 20:54 PREPARING MYSELF SPIRITUALLY TO ENTER INTO THE ARMY BECAUSE WHEN I WENT INTO THE ARMY,
• 20:57 I DIDN'T WANT TO JUST GO INTO THE ARMY AS A SOLDIER, I WANTED TO GO IN AS A LEADER.
• 21:02 VERY QUICKLY I RAISED THE RANKS IN THE ISRAELI ARMY
• 21:05 AND I BECAME AN OFFICER IN THE GIVATI BRIGADE BASED OUT OF THE GAZA STRIP
• 21:09 AND I BROUGHT ALL OF THE TORAH KNOWLEDGE THAT I LEARNED IN MY YESHIVA
• 21:13 AND TRIED TO BRING IT TO MY SOLDIERS TO REMIND THEM
• 21:15 THAT WE HAVE THE MERIT TO NOW SERVE IN THE FIRST ARMY SINCE THE TIMES OF KING DAVID.
• 21:20 THAT'S A PERSPECTIVE THAT MOST ISRAELIS DON'T HAVE.
• 21:23 THEY JUST WERE BORN HERE, THEY LIVE, THEY DON'T SEE THE MIRACLE IN THE STATE OF ISRAEL
• 21:26 AND COMING FROM THE EXILE, COMING FROM ATLANTA, GA., LIVING IN ISRAEL,
• 21:30 SEEING A COKE CAN IN HEBREW IS A MIRACLE TO ME
• 21:33 AND I WANTED TO BRING THAT TORAH PERSPECTIVE OF THE FULFILLMENT OF THE PROPHECIES
• 21:37 OF THE INGATHERING OF THE EXILE TO MY SOLDIERS, TO TEACH THEM
• 21:40 THAT WE'RE NOT JUST ON A MISSION TO PROTECT ISRAEL, WE'RE ON A MISSION FOR GOD.
• 21:44 HAVING SERVED IN GAZA, WHAT STORIES STAND OUT IN YOUR MIND, WHAT PARTICULAR INSTANCE?
• 21:48 ALL OF THE TIME GOD'S HAND IS HERE, PROTECTING ISRAEL.
• 21:52 I BELIEVE THE IDF IS AN INCREDIBLE POWERFUL FORCE IN THE WORLD,
• 21:55 BUT THE TRUE FORCE IS THE GOD OF ISRAEL PROTECTING THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL
• 21:59 AND SEEING GOD'S HAND LITERALLY PROTECTING MY SOLDIERS EVERYDAY,
• 22:02 IT'S IMPOSSIBLE TO JUST SAY THIS DAY OR THAT DAY,
• 22:05 BECAUSE EVERYDAY IT WAS MIRACLE AFTER MIRACLE.
• 22:07 I REMEMBER BULLETS WHIZZING OVER MY HEAD, SAYING,
• 22:10 "MY GOODNESS, THAT WAS JUST A FEW INCHES AWAY",
• 22:12 LITERALLY FEELING THAT ANGELS WERE PROTECTING ME
• 22:14 AND JUST THE ENTIRE SERVICE WAS ONE GIANT BLESSING FROM GOD.
• 22:18 AFTER HAVING FOUGHT AND SERVED IN GAZA,
• 22:20 HOW THEN DID IT FEEL TO SEE THE LAND HANDED OVER TO TERRORISTS?
• 22:24 THERE'S SO MANY THINGS ABOUT THE DISENGAGEMENT THAT PAIN ME,
• 22:30 NOT JUST THE FACT THAT WE ARE APPEASING THE TERRORISM,
• 22:35 WE'RE SAYING, "GOOD WORK, YOU SCARED US, WE RAN AWAY, YOU BOMB US ENOUGH WE'LL LEAVE,
• 22:39 KEEP ON BOMBING US IN JERUSALEM AND WE'LL LEAVE."
• 22:41 ASIDE FROM THAT MESSAGE THAT WE'RE SENDING OUR TERRORISTS, IT'S NOT OUR LAND TO DIVIDE.
• 22:46 GOD GAVE THE LAND OF ISRAEL TO THE JEWISH PEOPLE.
• 22:49 WHO DO WE THINK WE ARE, GIVING IT AWAY TO THE INFIDEL,
• 22:52 TO THOSE WHO SEEK TO DESTROY THE JEWISH PEOPLE IN GOD'S GIVEN LAND?
• 22:55 THAT IS THE SOURCE OF MY PAIN.
• 22:57 THE SOURCE OF MY PAIN IS THAT THE JEWISH PEOPLE
• 22:58 HAVE NOT YET REALIZED THEIR ROLE IN THE WORLD AS GOD'S CHOSEN PEOPLE.
• 23:03 WE NEED TO BRING THAT MISSION, THAT VISION TO THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL.
• 23:08 THAT IS WHAT PAINS ME.
• 23:09 WITH THE NEWLY ELECTED GOVERNMENT, DO YOU FORESEE ANOTHER DISENGAGEMENT POSSIBLY?
• 23:13 THIS GOVERNMENT, ON ONE HAND IT TERRIFIES ME,
• 23:17 BECAUSE NOW THE LEFT HAVE A TRUE STRONGHOLD IN ISRAEL.
• 23:20 BUT, ON THE OTHER HAND, GOD WORKS IN MYSTERIOUS WAYS
• 23:23 AND SOMETIMES THE REDEMPTION CAN COME IN THE BLINK OF AN EYE.
• 23:27 OUR SAGES TEACH US THAT.
• 23:28 ALTHOUGH IT LOOKS LIKE WE'RE IN THE BLEAKEST OF TIMES
• 23:30 AND IT LOOKS LIKE MORE SETTLEMENTS ARE GOING TO BE UPROOTED,
• 23:33 MORE PEOPLE KICKED OUT OF THEIR HOME AND SENT TO HOTELS AND TENTS,
• 23:36 I BELIEVE THAT THE GOD OF ISRAEL IS ON THE SIDE OF THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL
• 23:40 AND HIS LOVE FOR US IS UNCONDITIONAL, ALTHOUGH WE ARE A STIFF-NECKED NATION,
• 23:43 HIS LOVE FOR US WILL PREVAIL AND HE'LL PROTECT US,
• 23:46 ALTHOUGH WE WANT TO SEND OURSELVES ON A LEMMING-TYPE SUICIDE
• 23:50 TOWARDS THE HAMAS NEW ELECTED PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY,
• 23:53 I HOPE THAT GOD WILL SOMEHOW HAVE HIS HAND INVOLVED AND PROTECT US FROM OURSELVES,
• 23:59 THE SAME WAY A FATHER WOULD PROTECT HIS CHILD, SAY,
• 24:01 DON'T STICK YOUR HAND IN THAT LIGHT FIXTURE,
• 24:04 YOU'RE GOING TO BURN YOURSELF, YOU'RE GOING TO GET ELECTROCUTED,
• 24:06 I HOPE THAT GOD WILL SEND US MESSAGES TEACHING US THE RIGHT WAY
• 24:09 AND THE VALUE OF THE LAND OF ISRAEL.
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• 25:46 WELCOME BACK.
• 25:48 JEFF, THAT WAS A GREAT INTERVIEW WITH JEREMY, WASN'T IT.
• 25:50 FASCINATING.
• 25:51 HE'S A NICE YOUNG MAN.
• 25:53 I'VE MET HIM AND I LOVE HIS ZEAL FOR ISRAEL AND THE LAND OF ISRAEL.
• 25:57 I'M JUST ALWAYS EXCITED WHEN JEWS LOVE THEIR LAND.
• 26:01 THERE'S SO MANY HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF JEWISH PEOPLE LIKE HIM IN ISRAEL
• 26:06 AND AROUND THE WORLD.
• 26:07 IT'S JUST EXCITING TO KNOW THEY KNOW.
• 26:10 THAT'S RIGHT AND ISN'T IT AMAZING WHO WOULD HAVE THOUGHT YEARS AGO
• 26:13 THAT GOD WOULD BRING BACK A PEOPLE DISPERSED FOR CENTURIES
• 26:17 AND BRING THEM BACK TO THE ANCESTRAL HOMELAND.
• 26:19 THAT'S PROPHETIC. THE BIBLE KNEW.
• 26:21 SURELY DID.
• 26:23 ALL THE PROPHECY IN THE BIBLE TALKS ABOUT THE JEWS COMING BACK TO THEIR LAND.
• 26:26 I'M SO THRILLED THAT WE CAN REPORT ON WHAT GOD IS DOING IN THAT LAND
• 26:30 AND THAT WE CAN BRING TESTIMONIES OF INDIVIDUALS
• 26:32 THAT ARE HIS PEOPLE RETURNED TO THAT LAND.
• 26:36 I LOVE IT. I JUST LOVE IT.
• 26:38 IN THE COMING WEEKS WE'RE GOING TO DO MORE PROGRAMS THAT ZOLA RECORDED BEFORE HIS DEATH
• 26:44 AND I THINK YOU'LL ENJOY THOSE, TOO.
• 26:46 AND WE'RE GOING TO CONTINUE TO MAKE PROGRAMS AND MAKE GOOD CHRISTIAN TV
• 26:50 AND HELP YOU UNDERSTAND JEWISH ROOTS.
• 26:53 AND AS YOU GO, ALWAYS, SHA'ALU SHALOM YERUSHALAYIM, PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM.