Caption transcript for Shavuot—Pentecost: Part 2 (2/3)

• 00:09 IT IS WRITTEN IN THE SCRIPTURES THAT WE SHOULD JOURNEY TO JERUSALEM THREE TIMES A YEAR.
• 00:14 WE ARE GOING UP TO THE CITY OF GOD, TO JERUSALEM TO CELEBRATE.
• 00:23 THE LORD TOLD THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL TO HONOR
• 00:27 SEVEN HOLY CELEBRATIONS EACH YEAR INVOLVING THREE JOURNEYS TO JERUSALEM.
• 00:32 EACH FESTIVAL WOULD BE UNIQUELY FULFILLED IN THE COMING OF THE MESSIAH.
• 00:53 THE LORD SAID TO MOSES, COUNT 50 DAYS 'TIL THE DAY AFTER THE 7TH SABBATH,
• 00:59 THEN YOU SHALL MAKE OFFERINGS TO THE LORD.
• 01:03 BRING FROM YOUR DWELLING TWO WAVE LOAVES.
• 01:06 THEY SHALL BE OF FINE FLOWER AND BAKED WITH LEAVEN.
• 01:09 ON THAT SAME DAY YOU ARE TO PROCLAIM A SACRED ASSEMBLY AND DO NO REGULAR WORK.
• 01:14 THIS IS TO BE A LASTING ORDINANCE FOR THE GENERATIONS TO COME WHEREVER YOU LIVE.
• 01:22 SHALOM, HELLO AGAIN.
• 01:23 I'M SANDRA LEVITT.
• 01:24 WELCOME BACK TO ZOLA LEVITT PRESENTS.
• 01:26 WE HAVE WITH US TODAY DR. JEFFREY SEIF.
• 01:29 I'M GLAD TO HAVE YOU BACK.
• 01:30 WE'RE TALKING ABOUT PENTECOST, SHAVUOT, HEBREW WORD SHAVUOT AND OF COURSE,
• 01:35 THE CHRISTIAN WORD, "PENTECOST".
• 01:38 I LOVE IN LEVITICUS 23:17 WHERE IT TALKS ABOUT
• 01:52 AND WE HAVE ON THE SET, ACTUALLY WE HAVE 2 LOAVES OF BREAD
• 01:55 AND THAT REALLY IS WONDERFUL REPRESENTATION.
• 01:58 YOU KNOW, HOW THE LORD ASKS HIS PEOPLE TO SACRIFICE
• 02:02 AND WHEN YOU THINK HOW HARD IT WAS TO MANUFACTURE BREAD,
• 02:04 THEY DIDN'T GO TO TOM THUMB OR ANY GROCERY AND PICK IT UP,
• 02:07 THEY HARVESTED IT,
• 02:08 THEY HAD TO SIFT IT, THEY HAD TO MAKE IT WITH FIND OIL.
• 02:11 AND THIS WAS LEAVEN BREAD.
• 02:12 THIS IS NOT UNLEAVEN.
• 02:14 THE LEAVEN BREAD TOOK A LONGER TIME TO FIX THAN THE UNLEAVEN.
• 02:17 THEY MUST HAVE LOVED THE LORD THE WAY THEY SERVED UP
• 02:20 THE FRUITS OF THEIR WORLD IN ORDER TO WORSHIP HIM.
• 02:22 THERE WAS A FEAST AND GOD COMMANDED THEM AS ONE OF THE SEVEN FEASTS
• 02:26 TO DO THIS AND YOU'RE RIGHT, THEY HAD TO THINK, THIS IS THE FEAST,
• 02:30 I'M GOING TO DO THIS FOR GOD.
• 02:32 AND SOMETIMES IT MAY VERY WELL SEEM SO TEDIOUS,
• 02:34 BUT AT THE END OF THE DAY WHEN WE GIVE UNTO THE LORD,
• 02:36 HE GIVES BACK SO MUCH, IT MAKES IT A PLEASURE.
• 02:38 I HAD A FRIEND ONE TIME TELL ME, IT'S GOOD TO BE TIRED IN THE LORD.
• 02:41 I THINK IT'S BETTER TO WEAR OUT THEN TO RUST OUT.
• 02:44 I AGREE WITH THAT.
• 02:46 WE WERE ALSO TALKING ABOUT YOUR TESTIMONY AND WE'VE GOTTEN UP TO YOUR,
• 02:49 THAT YOU WERE THE "WILD CHILD" AND THEN YOU WENT TO THEOLOGY
• 02:52 AND YOU HAVE YOUR THEOLOGY DEGREE.
• 02:53 MY QUESTION IS, "WHY DID YOU GO BACK AND GET A THEOLOGY DEGREE?"
• 02:58 WELL, I LOOK AT IT LIKE, I THINK THE WORD "VOCATION", SANDRA.
• 03:04 THE WORD "VOCATION", LIKE WHAT'S YOUR VOCATION,
• 03:07 COMES FROM THE WORD,VOCATIO WHERE YOU GET THE WORD FOR VOICE.
• 03:12 IT'S WHERE WE GET THE SENSE OF CALLING.
• 03:14 SOMEONE FEELS A VOICE DEEP WITHIN BECKONING THEM TO DO SOMETHING
• 03:19 AND I THINK IF YOU HAVE A CALL OF GOD ON YOUR LIFE,
• 03:22 YOU CAN EVEN HAVE ABYSMAL CIRCUMSTANCES.
• 03:25 THERE COULD BE INDIVIDUALS WITHIN THE SOUND OF OUR VOICES NOW
• 03:28 THROUGH THE TELEVISION THAT HAVE DIFFICULT CIRCUMSTANCES,
• 03:30 BUT INTO THAT THEY'VE RECEIVED THE LORD AND THERE'S A FUTURE AND A HOPE AND PLAN
• 03:36 AND THE LORD JUST STIRS YOU UP WITHIN THROUGH HIS SPIRIT AND BECKONS YOU ONWARD.
• 03:40 I REMEMBER GETTING UP IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT AND WAKING UP MY WIFE AND SAYING,
• 03:43 "PATTY, I THINK THE LORD WANTS ME TO GO GET AN ACADEMIC THEOLOGY DEGREE,"
• 03:48 PART OF IT IS AND I'LL TELL YOU WHAT, I WANTED TO GO GET A REAL CREDIBLE THEOLOGICAL EDUCATION.
• 03:55 I HONESTLY DON'T THINK THAT I'M ANY BETTER THAN SOMEONE THAT
• 03:58 ISN'T A GRADUATE OF A UNIVERSITY WITH A THEOLOGICAL DISCIPLINE,
• 04:01 I DON'T THINK I'M A BETTER PREACHER OR TEACHER.
• 04:03 FOR ME, I JUST WANTED TO BE AS EXCELLENT AS I COULD BE IN SERVING THE LORD.
• 04:09 I FELT THE LORD HAD GIVEN ME A BURDEN TO TEACH
• 04:11 AND I'VE BEEN A PROFESSOR AT A BIBLE COLLEGE FOR 17 YEARS
• 04:15 AND I JUST WANTED TO LOAD UP ON ALL THE NECESSARY EQUIPMENT
• 04:17 SO I COULD BE THE BEST THAT I COULD BE FOR THE LORD.
• 04:19 I THINK HE LED ME INTO IT.
• 04:21 HE PROMPTED ME, ALWAYS,
• 04:22 DON'T YOU THINK HE ALWAYS DOES THAT?
• 04:24 THAT'S WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT IN ACTS, THAT CORNELIUS AND PETER, THEY'RE PREPARED.
• 04:29 GOD PREPARES THEM FOR WHAT'S COMING UP.
• 04:31 I DON'T THINK HE JUST PUTS US OUT THERE AND SAYS, NO, NO, NO PREPARATION,
• 04:36 I'M GOING TO GET YOU READY TO DO THIS AND IT'S STEAD YOU WELL
• 04:40 TO BE TEACHING FOR 17 YEARS AND NOW YOUR TEACHING AGAIN AND WE'RE GLAD YOU HAVE YOU.
• 04:44 YOU KNOW, I REALLY NEVER EXPECTED THIS, TO TELL YOU THE TRUTH.
• 04:47 THIS IS JUST AN HONOR TO BE ABLE TO STAND IN HERE SOME AND TO REPRESENT THE MINISTRY,
• 04:52 TO REPRESENT THE CAUSE OF A JEWISH PERSPECTIVE ON SCRIPTURE, TALK ABOUT ISRAEL,
• 04:57 BIBLICAL LITERATURE, PUT IT ALL TOGETHER, TRY AND TALK TO PEOPLE ABOUT LIFE.
• 05:01 THIS IS A DREAM TO BE ABLE TO DO THIS TO THE EXTENT TO WHICH I AM DOING IT FOR A GUY LIKE ME.
• 05:05 I NEVER ANTICIPATED IT.
• 05:07 I DON'T THINK ANY OF US ANTICIPATE WHAT GOD WANTS US TO DO.
• 05:10 LOOK AT MOSES.
• 05:12 MOSES WENT TO GOD AND SAID, "I CAN'T TALK" AND GOD SAID, "YES YOU CAN."
• 05:16 ISN'T THAT THE BEAUTY OF THE LORD, NOT JUST FOR YOU AND I,
• 05:18 BUT FOR EVERYONE WITHIN THE SOUND OF OUR VOICE,
• 05:20 THAT WE CAN RESPOND TO GOD'S BECKONING WITHIN US AND HE CAN LEAD US ALL IN PLACES.
• 05:24 WE DON'T SEE THE FUTURE, DO WE?
• 05:26 NO, WE NEVER DO, BUT CAN'T YOU LOOK BACK AND DON'T YOU LOOK BACK
• 05:29 AND DON'T YOU LOOK BACK AND SAY, "OH, THAT'S WHY THAT HAPPENED
• 05:31 AND NOW THIS IS WHY THIS IS HAPPENING."
• 05:33 WHAT DO THEY SAY, HINDSIGHT IS 20/20 VISION.
• 05:35 WE CAN'T SEE THE FUTURE, BUT WE CAN SEE THE SHEPHERD.
• 05:37 BETTER THAT WE PUT OUR EYES ON HIM AND HE LEADS US TO THAT FUTURE.
• 05:41 I AGREE WITH YOU.
• 05:42 BACK AFTER THIS.
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• 06:29 I HOPE YOU'RE AS EXCITED ABOUT THE VISTA BEHIND ME AS I WAS WHEN I FIRST SAW IT YEARS AGO
• 06:37 WHEN I TOOK MY FIRST TRIP TO ISRAEL, MY HEART JUST WAS,
• 06:42 I WAS INTOXICATED BY ENTHUSIASM AND THE HOLY SPIRIT WHEN I SAW JERUSALEM,
• 06:47 THE CENTER OF THE EARTH, THE CENTER OF THE BIBLICAL EARTH,
• 06:51 THE CENTER OF GOD'S ECONOMY ON EARTH AND THERE THE CAPITAL CITY, I SAW,
• 06:56 I BREATHED THE AIR, I WALKED THE HILLS.
• 06:59 HERE WE ARE ON THE MT. OF OLIVES OVERLOOKING THIS WONDERFUL PICTURE OF JERUSALEM.
• 07:05 NOW, IT'S CHANGED A LITTLE BIT SINCE BIBLE DAYS.
• 07:07 A FEW HUNDRED YEARS AFTER JESUS, ISLAM CONQUERED AND IN THE WAKE OF ALL THAT,
• 07:12 THE DOME OF THE ROCK WAS PLACED THERE ON TOP OF THE MOUNTAIN
• 07:16 WHERE ONCE THE BEIT HAMIKDASH, THE HOLY HOUSE STOOD.
• 07:19 YOU MIGHT RECALL THAT THE LORD HAD INSTRUCTED MOSHE RABBEINU,
• 07:23 MOSES, TO BUILD A HOUSE
• 07:26 AND THE LORD HAD GUIDED DAVID MELECH YISRAEL,
• 07:29 DAVID THE KING OF ISRAEL TO THE CAPITAL CITY OF JERUSALEM
• 07:33 AND INSTRUCTED HIM TO BUILD THE HOUSE.
• 07:35 SO, THIS WONDERFUL TEMPLE WAS MANUFACTURED, IT WAS CONSTRUCTED HERE IN JERUSALEM.
• 07:40 THOSE WHO WORSHIPED IN THE TEMPLE HAD THE TORAH, THEY HAD THE SCRIPTURES,
• 07:46 WHEREIN NOTED ARE A NUMBER OF FEASTS WHEN ISRAELITES FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD
• 07:51 WERE TO COME TO THIS CAPITAL CITY AND CELEBRATE GOD'S GOODNESS,
• 07:55 HIS BLESSINGS, HIS COVENANT FAITHFULNESS.
• 07:58 ONE OF THOSE FEASTS HAS BEEN THE OBJECT OF OUR ATTENTION IN THIS THREE PART SERIES,
• 08:03 THE FEAST OF PENTECOST, A WONDERFUL OLD TESTAMENT FEAST.
• 08:07 YOU MIGHT SAY, WELL, HOLD ON PENTECOST IS A NEW TESTAMENT EXPERIENCE.
• 08:10 WELL, YES AND NO.
• 08:12 AS WE'LL EXPLORE IN A MOMENT, THERE IS THIS SPECIAL NEW TESTAMENT
• 08:16 TOUCHING DOWN OF PENTECOST IN ACTS CHAPTER 2 WITH SPECIAL VISITATION,
• 08:21 THIS MAJOR OUTPOURING OF THE HOLY SPIRIT,
• 08:23 BUT THE HOLY SPIRIT DIDN'T JUST BEGIN THE HOLY SPIRIT'S WORK IN THE NEW TESTAMENT ERA.
• 08:27 IN THE PREVIOUS PROGRAM WE LOOKED AT THE HOLY SPIRIT'S ROOTS
• 08:31 IN THE OLD TESTAMENT WORLD
• 08:33 AND THEN WE LOOKED AT THE HOLY SPIRIT'S BOOTS
• 08:35 IN THE NEW TESTAMENT WORLD.
• 08:37 WE LOOKED AT WHEN THE HOLY SPIRIT CAME DOWN ON THE DAY OF PENTECOST
• 08:39 AND PUT FEET TO HOLY SPIRIT EXPERIENCE.
• 08:43 THEN NEXT WEEK WE WILL LOOK AT THE FRUITS OF THE HOLY SPIRIT.
• 08:46 RIGHT NOW, WHAT I WANT TO DRAW YOUR ATTENTION TO IS A MAJOR OLD TESTAMENT FEAST
• 08:50 NOTED IN LEVITICUS CHAPTER 23, WE KNOW IT AS PENTECOST.
• 08:54 IT'S KNOWN TO JEWISH PEOPLE, HOWEVER, AS THE FEAST OF SHAVUOT.
• 08:58 THE WORD "SHAVUOT" IS THE PLURAL FORM OF THE WORD "SHEVA", WHICH MEANS WEEK.
• 09:03 IT'S THE FEAST OF WEEKS.
• 09:05 IN LEVITICUS 23:15 AND ON THE STORY IS TOLD.
• 09:08 YOU MIGHT RECALL THERE ARE VARIOUS FEASTS IN THE OLD TESTAMENT WORLD
• 09:11 IN AS MUCH AS CHRISTIANS DO CHRISTMAS AND EASTER AND OTHER FEASTS,
• 09:14 IN THE OLD TESTAMENT ECONOMY THERE WAS PESACH OR PASSOVER,
• 09:18 THERE WAS THE FEAST OF UNLEAVEN BREAD, THE FEAST OF FIRST FRUITS AND THEN A FEAST CALLED WEEKS,
• 09:24 SCHEDULES OUT SOME 50 DAYS AFTER THE PASSOVER, MAJOR, MAJOR EVENT
• 09:29 IN OLD TESTAMENT TIMES THE ISRAELITES WOULD MAKE THEIR WAY INTO JERUSALEM
• 09:33 JUST BEFORE PASSOVER, THEY WOULD SPEND A NUMBER OF WEEKS THERE
• 09:36 AND THEN AFTER SHAVUOT, THEY WOULD LEAVE.
• 09:39 THUS THEY REFERRED TO SHAVUOT AS THE FEAST "ATZERET"
• 09:45 FOR THIS WOULD MARK THE END OF THEIR PILGRIMAGE TO JERUSALEM.
• 09:50 WHY WOULD THEY COME, WHAT WOULD THEY CELEBRATE?
• 09:53 WELL, THEY CELEBRATED GOD'S GOODNESS, HIS BOUNTY.
• 09:56 WE'RE LOOKING AT AN ANCIENT AGRARIAN ECONOMY AND PEOPLE WERE FARMERS.
• 09:59 YOU KNOW, THEY'D GO OUT THERE AND THEY'D DIG THEIR FURROWS DEEP AND STRAIGHT
• 10:03 AND THEY'D PLANT THEIR SEED IN THOSE FURROWS, BUT THEY NEEDED THE WATERS TO COME DOWN.
• 10:07 IF THE WATERS, YOU KNOW, IF THERE WAS NO RAIN, THERE WAS NO GRAIN
• 10:10 AND IF THERE WAS NO GRAIN THERE WAS LOTS OF PAIN.
• 10:12 THEY WANTED TO MAKE BREAD AND HERE AT THIS HARVEST FESTIVAL
• 10:15 THEY'RE JUST CELEBRATING GOD'S GOODNESS AND SAYING THANK YOU
• 10:18 FOR LOOKING OUT FOR OUR NEEDS AND INTEREST.
• 10:20 THANK YOU FOR THE WATER, THANK YOU FOR POURING OUT YOUR BLESSINGS
• 10:23 AND THEY WOULD WAVE THE GRAIN BEFORE THE LORD.
• 10:26 THIS IS A MAJOR COMPONENT OF PENTECOST, BUT IT'S NOT THE ONLY ONE FROM A JEWISH PERSPECTIVE.
• 10:31 THERE IS A MESSAGE IN PENTECOST THAT IS STRIKING.
• 10:36 LET ME TELL YOU WHAT IT IS.
• 10:37 JEWS KNOW PENTECOST BY THE HOLIDAY, CHAG ZEMAN MATON TORAH
• 10:42 WHICH MEANS THE FEAST OF THE GIVING OF THE TORAH.
• 10:46 THE 6TH OF SIVAN IS THE DATE IN HEBREW CALENDAR WHEN MOSHE RABBEINEU,
• 10:51 WHEN MOSES ASCENDS HAR SINAI, MT. SINAI AND REMEMBER,
• 10:55 HE GOES UP AND HE IS COMMUNING WITH GOD AND ALL OF A SUDDEN THE LORD SAYS IN EXODUS,
• 11:01 THE LORD SAYS, "MOSES,MOSES GET YE DOWN FROM THE MOUNTAIN
• 11:05 FOR THESE CHILDREN WHOM YOU HAVE BROUGHT OUT OF THE LAND OF EGYPT THEY'VE CORRUPTED THEMSELVES
• 11:11 AND MOSES COMES DOWN FROM THAT MOUNTAIN.
• 11:14 MOSES IS NOT A "HAPPY CAMPER".
• 11:17 HE HAS BEEN INFORMED THAT THE CONGREGATION IS BACKSLIDING NOT LONG AFTER THEY LEFT EGYPT.
• 11:22 SO CHAGRINNED IS HE, THAT WHEN HE GOES DOWN AND HE SEES THEY'VE MADE THE GOLDEN CALF,
• 11:27 EVEN AARON HAS BEEN SWEPT UP IN ALL THIS, HE TAKES THE TABLETS,
• 11:31 THE COMMANDMENTS, WE KNOW AS THE DECALOGUE, THE 10 WORDS.
• 11:35 HE HAS THESE IN HAND AND HE TAKES THEM AND THE THROWS THEM DOWN, HE'S SO VEXED.
• 11:39 IN CONJUNCTION WITH THEN, HE SAYS, WHOEVER IS FOR JEHOVAH,
• 11:43 I WANT YOU TO JOIN ME IN THIS ENDEAVOR
• 11:46 AND A NUMBER OF INDIVIDUALS PUT SWORD ON THEIR THIGH
• 11:49 AND THEY GO AND THEY EXECUTE JUDGMENT AGAINST THE MALEFACTORS,
• 11:53 THOSE THAT WERE PARTICULARLY PROACTIVE IN INSTIGATING THE WORSHIP OF THE GOLDEN CALF.
• 11:58 WE'RE TOLD IN EXODUS THAT, THAT DAY 3000 SOULS WERE SLAIN.
• 12:04 A FASCINATING STORY.
• 12:05 I GLORY IN NO ONES DEATH.
• 12:07 WHAT HAPPENS IS WHEN THE LAW WAS FIRST GIVEN, WHEN MOSES COMES DOWN FROM THE MOUNTAIN
• 12:12 WITH THAT FIRST COVENANT, BECAUSE OF THE GUILTY STATE OF AFFAIRS,
• 12:15 3000 INDIVIDUALS WERE SLAIN.
• 12:18 JUDAISM CELEBRATES PENTECOST AS THE DAY WHEN MOSES CAME DOWN FROM THAT MOUNTAIN
• 12:25 AND FRIENDS ISN'T IT STRIKING THAT IT WAS ON THIS DAY WHEN THE HOLY SPIRIT COMES DOWN,
• 12:32 WHEN THE RUACH HAKODASH IS POURED OUT ON THOSE ASSEMBLED,
• 12:37 WE'RE TOLD THAT ON THAT DAY PETER GETS UP AND SPEAKS AND WHAT HAPPENS,
• 12:54 I THINK THAT'S A GREAT STORY HOW, IN THE OLD TESTAMENT ECONOMY
• 12:59 3000 INDIVIDUALS WERE LOST AND IN THE NEW TESTAMENT ECONOMY,
• 13:03 3000 INDIVIDUALS WERE ADDED.
• 13:06 IT'S ALMOST LIKE GOD'S BALANCING THE BOOKS.
• 13:09 THIS IS A GREAT STORY AND IT'S NOT ONLY A GREAT STORY BECAUSE OF WHAT HAPPENED BACK THEN,
• 13:14 THIS A GREAT STORY BECAUSE OF WHAT CAN HAPPEN TO US.
• 13:17 NOW, WHAT WE HAVE HERE IS AN OPPORTUNITY.
• 13:20 YOU'LL SEE IN ACTS CHAPTER 2 HE SAYS
• 13:52 SOMETIMES WHEN SOMEONE HAS AN ENCOUNTER WITH THE LORD, VIS-A-VIS, THE HOLY SPIRIT,
• 13:56 THERE'S ALL KINDS OF CHANGE AND INTERESTING PHENOMENON AND ACTIVITY.
• 14:00 IT'S ALL PART OF GOD'S TRANSITIONING US INTO SOMETHING ELSE.
• 14:04 HERE YOU HAVE THESE DISCIPLES; THEY WERE GATHERED TOGETHER IN A PURPOSELESS EXISTENCE.
• 14:08 BASICALLY THEY WERE AFRAID.
• 14:09 JESUS WAS CRUCIFIED.
• 14:11 THEY THOUGHT, OH MY GOD, WE DIDN'T SEE THIS COMING
• 14:13 AND NOW THEY'RE GOING TO COME AND GET US NEXT.
• 14:15 BUT, WHAT HAPPENS IS WHEN THEY RECEIVED THE HOLY SPIRIT,
• 14:18 THEY ARE TRANSFORMED, THEY ARE REJUVENATED.
• 14:21 THERE'S A REGENERATION AND THEY HAVE BOLDNESS WITH THIS HOLY SPIRIT EMPOWERMENT.
• 14:26 NOW, THE REASON WHY I MENTION THAT IS SIMPLY TO SAY
• 14:29 THAT SAME KIND OF EMPOWERMENT THAT WAS AVAILABLE TO THEM
• 14:32 IS AVAILABLE TO US, TO ME, YOU, ALL OF US TODAY.
• 14:36 I HOPE THAT YOU'RE GOING TO MAKE YOUR WAY TO A BIBLE BELIEVING CHURCH
• 14:40 AND YOU'RE GOING TO FIND OUT ABOUT THE GOD WHO LOVES YOU,
• 14:43 WHO SENT HIS SON TO DIE ON A CROSS FOR YOUR SINS AND WANTS TO COME INTO YOUR HEART
• 14:47 JUST AS HE DID MINE AND GIVE US A NEW HEART AND A NEW SPIRIT AND TO REGENERATE US ON THE INSIDE,
• 14:53 GIVE US LIFE, HOPE AND FUTURE. GOD BLESS YOU.
• 15:19 JEFF, THAT WAS TERRIFIC.
• 15:21 I LOVE HEARING ABOUT PENTECOST.
• 15:22 I LOVE THE WAY THAT THE "JEWISHNESS" COMES IN
• 15:25 AND THE WAY THE "CHRISTIANNESS" COMES IN.
• 15:27 IF 'CHRISTIANNESS" IS A WORD, I'M SURE, BUT I LOVE THAT.
• 15:29 WE'LL MAKE ONE UP. WE'LL MAKE THAT UP.
• 15:31 AND THANK YOU, BY THE WAY.
• 15:32 OH, I LOVE IT.
• 15:34 I ALWAYS REMEMBER ZOLA TEACHING THAT 3000, THAT LETTER KILLED, THE LAW KILLED,
• 15:38 BUT THAT WE HAVE SPIRIT IN MESSIAH AND I LOVE THAT.
• 15:42 THAT'S A PROFOUND TRUTH
• 15:44 THAT REALLY ROLLED OFF OF HIS TONGUE AND PEN INITIALLY,
• 15:47 BUT THANKS FOR GIVING ME THE COMPLIMENT.
• 15:49 LET'S PUT IT WHERE IT BELONGS.
• 15:51 HE DID SO MUCH AND THAT WAS ONE OF THEM.
• 15:53 BUT, TEACHING IS GOOD TEACHING.
• 15:55 I LOVED IT BECAUSE WHEN THEY AT THE PENTECOST, EVERYONE THOUGHT THEY WERE CRAZY,
• 16:00 THAT THEY WERE DRUNK OR THAT THEY WERE NOT THERE AND YET THEY WERE FILLED WITH THE SPIRIT
• 16:07 AND I THINK THAT'S JUST WONDERFUL, THEY WAY WE SHOULD BE.
• 16:10 ABSOLUTELY. EVERY DAY.
• 16:12 THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THAT TEACHING.
• 16:13 I CAN'T WAIT TO HEAR WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN NEXT.
• 16:15 OH, YOU'RE KIND. THANK YOU.
• 16:16 WE'RE GOING TO GO NOW TO WILL KING, OUR MAN IN JERUSALEM.
• 16:19 HE'S GOING TO SPEAK TO DAVID RUBIN
• 16:21 AND YOU'RE GOING TO HEAR AND EXCITING STORY OF FAITH AND SURVIVAL.
• 16:26 YOU MENTIONED THAT SHILOH IS ABOUT A 35 MINUTE DRIVE NORTH OF HERE FROM JERUSALEM.
• 16:30 YOU SAID THAT SOMETHING HAPPENED TO YOU ONE OF THOSE TIMES
• 16:33 WHEN YOU DRIVING FROM HOME.
• 16:34 CAN YOU TELL US A LITTLE ABOUT THAT?
• 16:36 WELL, THERE ARE A LOT OF TERROR ATTACKS
• 16:38 AND THE FEELING WAS ALWAYS,
• 16:41 "WELL, IT'S NOT GOING TO HAPPEN TO ME."
• 16:43 BUT, I WAS OUT ONE DAY WITH MY 3 YEAR OLD SON IN JERUSALEM AND WE WERE COMING BACK IN OUR CAR
• 16:48 WHEN SUDDENLY THERE WAS A MASSIVE HAIL OF BULLETS ON THE CAR.
• 16:52 THE CAR WENT TOTALLY DEAD AND I STARTED COASTING DOWN THE HILL.
• 16:57 I SAW BULLETS IN FRONT OF MY EYES.
• 16:59 SAW FOUR ORANGE SPARKS IN FRONT OF MY EYES.
• 17:02 APPARENTLY THE BULLETS HAD TRACERS ON THEM
• 17:05 BECAUSE THE TERRORIST WANTED TO SEE EXACTLY WHERE THE BULLET WAS HITTING.
• 17:08 I FELT A TERRIBLE PAIN IN MY LEFT LEG THAT I HAD NEVER FELT BEFORE
• 17:13 AND BLOOD STARTED COMING OUT LIKE AN OPEN FIRE HYDRANT.
• 17:18 I QUICKLY TURNED AROUND TO SEE MY SON AND SEE IF HE WAS OK.
• 17:22 I TURNED AND SAID, RUBY, "ARE YOU OK?" MY SON'S NAME IS RUBY.
• 17:26 I SAID ARE YOU OK AND HE WAS JUST SITTING THERE
• 17:29 WITH HIS MOUTH WIDE OPEN, HIS EYES WIDE OPEN.
• 17:32 I COULD SEE HE WAS BREATHING, BUT HE DIDN'T ANSWER ME WHEN I ASKED HIM IF HE WAS OK.
• 17:37 I DIDN'T SEE ANY BLOOD SO I THOUGHT THAT HE WAS IN SHOCK.
• 17:40 I QUICKLY TRIED TO START THE IGNITION AS FAST AS I COULD,
• 17:46 BUT, THE IGNITION DID NOT START. THE CAR DID NOT START.
• 17:48 I SHIFTED GEARS FROM PARK TO DRIVE TO NEUTRAL, WHATEVER I COULD.
• 17:52 I COULD NOT GET THAT CAR TO START.
• 17:55 FINALLY ON THE FIFTH OR SIXTH TRY THE CAR STARTED SMOOTHLY
• 18:00 AS IF IT HAD NEVER HAD TROUBLE STARTING BEFORE.
• 18:03 I HIT THE GAS WITH MY RIGHT FOOT.
• 18:06 I DROVE 120 MPH TO GET TO THE NEXT COMMUNITY, WHICH IS CALLED OFRA,
• 18:13 WHICH NORMALLY WOULD HAVE BEEN ABOUT A 6 OR 7 MINUTE RIDE, I GOT THERE IN ABOUT 2 MINUTES.
• 18:18 ALL THE WHILE MY LEG WAS POUNDING, BLOOD WAS COMING OUT
• 18:21 AND I COULD HAVE JUST COLLAPSED FROM LOSS OF BLOOD
• 18:25 OR CRASHED FROM DRIVING LIKE SUCH A LUNATIC,
• 18:29 BUT THE FACT IS I GOT THERE AND I HAD NEVER DRIVEN SO ALERTLY IN MY ENTIRE LIFE.
• 18:37 I GOT TO THE GATE OF OFRA.
• 18:40 I SHOUTED OUT TO WHOEVER COULD HEAR ME, "AMBULANCE, AMBULANCE"
• 18:45 AND A YOUNG WOMAN SITTING ON THE SIDE OF THE ROAD STARTED JUMPING UP AND DOWN SCREAMING
• 18:52 "AMBULANCE, AMBULANCE, DON'T YOU HEAR?"
• 18:55 AND AT THAT POINT EVERYONE WHO WAS WITHIN SOUND'S REACH CAME RUNNING OVER TO THE CAR.
• 18:59 SOME TEENAGERS FROM THE BUS STOP, A GAS STATION ATTENDANT CAME RUNNING UP TO CAR
• 19:05 AND HE QUICKLY RIPPED OFF MY SHIRT AND HE STARTED WRAPPING UP MY LEG.
• 19:09 I SAID, WHAT ARE YOU DOING?" HE SAID, "I'M ALSO A MEDIC."
• 19:12 HE STARTED WRAPPING UP MY LEG REAL TIGHT TO STOP THE BLOOD FLOW.
• 19:16 HE HANDED ME HIS CELL PHONE AND HE SAID, "HERE, TAKE THIS PHONE AND CALL YOUR WIFE."
• 19:22 I COULDN'T DIAL THE PHONE, MY HAND WAS SHAKING SO MUCH.
• 19:26 HE TOOK THE PHONE, HE SAID, "WHAT'S YOUR NUMBER?" HE DIALED IT FOR ME.
• 19:28 SO HE DIALED THE PHONE NUMBER AND CALLED MY WIFE.
• 19:32 I SAID, "I'VE BEEN SHOT IN THE LEG.
• 19:35 THEY'RE GOING TO BE TAKING ME TO AN AMBULANCE AND RUBY IS OK."
• 19:39 I WAS GOING TO ASK, SEEMS YOU WERE ABLE TO GET HELP RIGHT AWAY,
• 19:42 WHAT ABOUT YOUR SON'S CONDITION?
• 19:44 WELL, MY SON, I THOUGHT HE WAS JUST IN SHOCK, BUT THEN THE AMBULANCE PULLED..
• 19:49 SHE SAID, MY WIFE SAID, "OK, I'LL TRY TO GET TO THE HOSPITAL AS SOON AS I CAN."
• 19:54 AND SHE WAS ACTUALLY RELIEVED TO HEAR THIS, THIS PHONE CALL,
• 19:58 BECAUSE SHE HAD ALREADY GOTTEN A CALL FROM THE SECURITY SERVICE SAYING,
• 20:02 "WE DON'T KNOW WHERE YOUR HUSBAND IS. WE'RE TRYING TO LOCATE HIM."
• 20:05 ANYHOW, THE AMBULANCE PULLED UP AND THE MEDIC FROM THE AMBULANCE RAN OUT,
• 20:13 ONE OF THE MEDICS RAN OUT TO MY CAR AND HE STARTED PULLING MY SON OUT OF THE CAR.
• 20:16 I SAID, "NO, LEAVE HIM ALONE, HE NEEDS TO BE WITH HIS DADDY, HE'S JUST IN SHOCK."
• 20:20 HE SAID, "NO, I HAVE TO TAKE HIM OUT."
• 20:22 AND HE PULLED HIM OUT OF THE CAR AND HE STARTED RUNNING FRANTICALLY TO THE AMBULANCE
• 20:29 SHOUTING, "HE'S ALSO BEEN SHOT, HE'S ALSO BEEN SHOT, HE'S BEEN SHOT IN THE NECK."
• 20:33 WHAT WERE YOUR IMMEDIATE EMOTIONS?
• 20:36 WAS IT ONE OF ANGER OR RAGE AT GETTING SHOT BY THESE PEOPLE
• 20:39 OR WAS IT ONE OF CONCERN FOR YOUR SON?
• 20:41 I DIDN'T HAVE A CHANCE TO THINK.
• 20:43 TELL YOU THE TRUTH, I DID NOT EVEN THINK AT THAT POINT.
• 20:46 IT WAS ALL, EVERYTHING HAPPENED SO FAST I WAS JUST ACTING, I WAS JUST OPERATING ON INSTINCT.
• 20:52 THIS IS A STORY THAT REVERBERATES AND HAS SPIRITUAL RAMIFICATIONS
• 20:59 BECAUSE THE DAY AFTER OUR ARRIVAL IN THE HOSPITAL, I HAD A VISIT FROM THE RABBI OF SHILOH,
• 21:06 WHO CAME TO ME AND SAID, "DAVID, I JUST WANT TO KNOW IF YOU'VE STARTED COUNTING MIRACLES."
• 21:15 AND I THOUGHT FOR A SECOND AND I SAID, "NO, ACTUALLY I REALLY HAVEN'T."
• 21:20 I HADN'T EVEN HAD A CHANCE TO THINK ABOUT IT AS I JUST TOLD YOU.
• 21:25 THEN WHEN I STARTED TO THINK ABOUT IT, IT WAS JUST SO OVERWHELMING.
• 21:28 I WAS SHOT IN MY LEFT LEG EVEN THOUGH THE TERRORISTS WERE SHOOTING FROM THE RIGHT SIDE,
• 21:34 WHICH ENABLED ME TO DRIVE MY AUTOMATIC SHIFT CAR
• 21:38 WITH MY RIGHT LEG AS WE DO TO GET TO THAT AMBULANCE.
• 21:42 THERE'S NO WAY I COULD HAVE DRIVEN WITH THAT LEFT LEG POUNDING
• 21:44 OR ANY LEG POUNDING AND THE BLOOD FLOWING OUT.
• 21:49 THERE WAS JUST NO WAY.
• 21:51 SECONDLY, THE BULLET THAT WENT INTO MY SON'S HEAD, MISSED HIS BRAIN STEM BY 1mm.
• 21:58 THIS WE WERE TOLD BY THE HEAD OF THE DEPT. OF THE INTENSIVE CARE, CHILDREN'S WARD.
• 22:04 THIRDLY, THE BULLET WENT INTO MY LEG AND MISSED THE BONE TOTALLY OF MY LEG.
• 22:15 SO, THERE WERE MIRACLES THAT HAPPENED TO US, BUT THOSE ARE THE HIDDEN MIRACLES,
• 22:22 THOSE ARE THE ONES THAT YOU KIND OF HAVE TO LOOK FOR
• 22:24 AND THAT PEOPLE WHO ARE NOT BELIEVERS IN GOD
• 22:30 WILL TRY AND EXPLAIN AWAY AND RATIONALIZE THEM AWAY.
• 22:33 WELL, THE SHOOTING FROM THE RIGHT SIDE, YOU HAPPENED TO PICK YOU LEFT LEG UP, OK.
• 22:36 FIVE DAYS AFTER OUR ARRIVAL IN THE HOSPITAL I GET A PHONE CALL FROM THE CAR MECHANIC.
• 22:43 "HI, DAVID, THIS IS THE CAR MECHANIC, I JUST WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT WE HAVE THE CAR,
• 22:47 WE'VE STARTED ORDERING PARTS AND IT'S GOING TO BE A VERY EXPENSIVE JOB."
• 22:53 I CUT HIM OFF AT THIS POINT, I SAID, "LOOK I DON'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT A CAR.
• 22:57 I'M BEING WHEELED EVERYDAY IN MY WHEELCHAIR, I'M ALLOWED HALF AN HOUR
• 23:03 TO BE DISCONNECTED FROM THIS MACHINE THAT MY LEG IS CONNECTED TO,
• 23:07 TO GO VISIT MY SON IN THE OTHER BUILDING IN THE INTENSIVE CARE WARD OF THE CHILDREN'S BUILDING.
• 23:13 HE DOESN'T EVEN REMEMBER HIS SIBLINGS.
• 23:15 HE HAS TOTAL MEMORY LOSS.
• 23:17 HE'S LAYING IN HIS BED, HE CAN'T LIFT HIMSELF UP IN HIS BED AT ALL.
• 23:20 HE'S SLEEPING 22 HOURS OF THE DAY BECAUSE OF THE INTERNAL BLEEDING IN THE CEREBELLUM
• 23:25 AND YOU'RE TELLING ME ABOUT A CAR."
• 23:27 HE SAID, "I'M SORRY.
• 23:29 THAT'S NOT REALLY WHY I'M CALLING.
• 23:32 THE REAL REASON I'M CALLING IS BECAUSE I HAVE TO ASK YOU A QUESTION."
• 23:37 I SAID, "YAH, WHAT'S THE QUESTION?"
• 23:40 HE SAID, "I JUST WANT TO KNOW WHY CAN'T WE START THAT CAR?"
• 23:46 AND A CHILL WENT DOWN MY BACK BECAUSE I KNOW THAT I DROVE THAT CAR 120 MPH
• 23:53 AFTER IT HAD GONE DEAD AND I TRIED TO SHIFT GEARS AND I COULDN'T START IT
• 23:57 AND IT GOT US TO THAT AMBULANCE.
• 24:02 THEN AFTER THAT HE'S TELLING ME THE CAR WENT DEAD AND IT HAD TO BE TOWED FROM THERE TO BETEL,
• 24:10 WHERE THE POLICE STATION WAS AND FROM THERE IT HAD TO BE TOWED FROM THERE TO JERUSALEM
• 24:16 WHERE THE CAR MECHANIC WAS AND I'M TELLING YOU I KNOW THAT,
• 24:22 I JUST CAN'T EXPLAIN ANYWAY HOW THAT CAR STARTED.
• 24:27 IT SAVED YOU AND GOT YOU OUT OF THAT SITUATION AND NEVER STARTED AGAIN.
• 24:31 WELL, IN SHORT, I HAVE TO CONFESS TO YOU,
• 24:34 I'VE ALWAYS BEEN VERY SKEPTICAL OF MIRACLE STORIES,
• 24:37 THESE PERSONAL MIRACLE STORIES THAT PEOPLE TELL
• 24:39 AND I'VE BEEN A BELIEVER IN THE GOD OF ISRAEL FOR 25 YEARS,
• 24:42 BUT, ALL THAT I CAN SAY IS THAT WE WERE JUST CARRIED ON THE WINGS OF GOD
• 24:46 TO GET US TO THAT AMBULANCE AND I CAN'T BE SKEPTICAL ANY LONGER.
• 24:50 WE WERE JUST TOUCHED BY GOD, WE WERE TAKEN BY GOD AND AFTER THAT HAPPENED TO US,
• 24:56 I KNEW THAT WE WERE NEVER GOING TO BE THE SAME.
• 25:01 TELL US ABOUT SOME OF THE PROJECTS YOU'VE DONE FOR THE CHILDREN IN SHILOH.
• 25:04 I STARTED THE SHILOH ISRAEL CHILDREN'S FUND
• 25:07 TO DEVELOP CHILDREN'S PROJECTS FOR THE CHILDREN OF SHILOH
• 25:13 AND TO MAKE THEIR LIVES BETTER BECAUSE THEY'VE ALL BEEN TRAUMATIZED.
• 25:18 DAVID, THANK YOU FOR COMING AND SHARING YOUR TRULY MIRACULOUS STORY WITH US, WE APPRECIATE IT.
• 25:32 WASN'T THAT A GREAT STORY ABOUT A MAN SURVIVING TERRORISM AND GOD'S MERCY?
• 25:38 I LOVED IT. FASCINATING STORY.
• 25:41 YOU KNOW, MIRACLES ARE INCREDIBLE.
• 25:43 GOD SAVES PEOPLE IN THE WORLD TODAY AND SOMETIMES WE CAN FORGET THAT GOD IS ABLE,
• 25:48 HE HAS A STRONG HAND AND HE'S MINDED TO REDEEM HIS PEOPLE.
• 25:52 I'M ALWAYS AMAZED AT THE MIRACLES, THAT THERE ARE MIRACLES IN OUR LIVES
• 25:56 AND I THINK, WHEN WE'RE ON THE SEA OF GALILEE,
• 25:58 WE TALK ABOUT ALL THE MIRACLES ON THE SEA OF GALILEE.
• 26:01 EVERYDAY IS A MIRACLE IN OUR LIVES, LITTLE MIRACLES, BIG MIRACLES,
• 26:05 BUT MIRACLES THAT GOD LOVES US.
• 26:07 PEOPLE FORGET.
• 26:09 THERE MAY BE SOME PEOPLE THAT CAN REMEMBER A MIRACLE THAT THEY HAD
• 26:12 WHERE THEY'RE PRAYING FOR A MIRACLE THAT THEY NEED.
• 26:15 YOU KNOW WHEN YOU GET A BREAKTHROUGH LIKE THIS FELLOW DID,
• 26:18 YOU KNOW WHAT'S ESPECIALLY COMMENDABLE, WHAT HE DID, HE DIDN'T FORGET.
• 26:22 HE WAS MINDED TO GO GIVE BACK.
• 26:24 AND HE DID AND HE'S HELPING CHILDREN OUT.
• 26:26 GOD IS WONDERFUL.
• 26:28 THAT IS WHAT WE CALL A TZADEK IN THE JEWISH WORLD, A RIGHTEOUS PERSON,
• 26:31 SOMEONE WHO'S WANTING TO DO RIGHT IN THE WORLD.
• 26:33 IT'S A WAY OF SAYING "THANK YOU GOD."
• 26:35 CAN WE ALL LEARN FROM THAT EXAMPLE?
• 26:37 I THINK WE HAVE AND AS YOU GO,
• 26:40 SHA'ALU SHALOM YERUSHALAYIM, PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM.