Caption transcript for Shavuot—Pentecost (2007): Part 2 (2/3)

• 00:07 IT IS WRITTEN IN THE SCRIPTURES THAT WE SHOULD JOURNEY TO JERUSALEM THREE TIMES A YEAR.
• 00:12 WE ARE GOING UP TO THE CITY OF GOD, TO JERUSALEM TO CELEBRATE.
• 00:22 (ZOLA LEVITT SPEAKING)
• 00:24 THE LORD TOLD THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL TO HONOR SEVEN HOLY CELEBRATIONS EACH YEAR
• 00:28 INVOLVING THREE JOURNEYS TO JERUSALEM.
• 00:30 EACH FESTIVAL WOULD BE UNIQUELY FULFILLED IN THE COMING OF THE MESSIAH.
• 00:40 SHADOWS OF THINGS TO COME...
• 00:49 THE LORD SAID TO MOSES, COUNT 50 DAYS TILL THE DAY AFTER THE 7TH SABBATH,
• 00:57 THEN YOU SHALL MAKE OFFERINGS TO THE LORD.
• 01:00 BRING FROM YOUR DWELLINGS TWO WAVE LOAVES.
• 01:03 THEY SHALL BE OF FINE FLOWER AND BAKED WITH LEAVEN.
• 01:06 ON THAT SAME DAY YOU ARE TO PROCLAIM A SACRED ASSEMBLY AND DO NO REGULAR WORK.
• 01:11 THIS IS TO BE A LASTING ORDINANCE FOR THE GENERATIONS TO COME WHEREVER YOU LIVE.
• 01:19 SHALOM, GUYS AND GALS.
• 01:20 JEFFREY SEIF HERE
• 01:21 WITH MY FRIEND SANDRA LEVITT.
• 01:22 SHALOM, WELCOME BACK
• 01:23 YOU'LL SEE ON OUR TABLE
• 01:25 WE'VE GOT A HARVEST.
• 01:26 OR A SYMBOL THEREOF.
• 01:28 A SYMBOL, BUT IT DOES LOOK LIKE A HARVEST.
• 01:30 IT'S WONDERFUL, THE HARVEST,
• 01:31 THE FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT.
• 01:32 YES, IT'S AMAZING
• 01:33 GOD DOES A PLANTING IN OUR LIVES
• 01:35 AND REAPS FRUIT.
• 01:36 WE'RE THE BETTER FOR IT.
• 01:37 ABSOLUTELY,
• 01:39 AND GOD IS ALSO THE GREAT ACCOUNTANT.
• 01:41 HE KEEPS TRACK OF WHO IS SAVED AND WHO IS NOT.
• 01:43 PENTECOST, 3,000 SAVED, IN THE EXODUS 3,000 WERE KILLED.
• 01:48 YEAH, PEOPLE LOOSE SIGHT OF THE STORY
• 01:49 AS WELL AS MUCH OF THE OLD TESTAMENT HOW IT RELATES TO THE NEW.
• 01:52 3,000 PEOPLE WERE SLAIN WHEN MOSES COMES DOWN FROM THE MOUNTAIN RIGHT
• 01:56 WITH THE TABLETS. WITH THE TABLETS, YEAH.
• 01:57 BECAUSE THEY'RE LIVING IN SIN. RIGHT
• 01:59 IT WAS ON THAT VERY DAY IN THE NEW TESTAMENT ECONOMY
• 02:01 WHEN THE HOLY SPIRIT WAS POURED OUT, PRESTO,
• 02:04 3,000 PEOPLE COME TO LIFE.
• 02:06 GREAT BOOKKEEPER THAT GOD, HUH?
• 02:07 GOD'S A GREAT BOOKKEEPER.
• 02:08 I'M ALSO AMAZED AT HOW THE DISCIPLES WAITED.
• 02:11 THEY WAITED FOR THE COUNSELOR. JESUS SAID, YESHUA SAID,
• 02:14 "I WILL SEND THE COUNSELOR TO YOU." AND THEY WAITED FOR IT.
• 02:18 DO YOU THINK IT WAS HARD?
• 02:19 BOY I'D WANT THINGS RIGHT NOW, YOU KNOW HOW IT IS.
• 02:21 I MEAN RECEIVING THE HOLY SPIRIT,
• 02:23 WHAT BETTER CAN SOMEONE RECEIVE. RIGHT, THE COUNSELOR.
• 02:27 WAIT, BE PATIENT
• 02:28 BE PATIENT, WAIT.
• 02:29 MY PRAYER IS "LORD I NEED IT AND I NEED IT NOW!"
• 02:31 BE PATIENT. TEACH ME PATIENCE BUT GIVE IT TO ME NOW.
• 02:33 RIGHT RIGHT.
• 02:35 HERE'S JEFF ON THE MOUNT OF OLIVES TEACHING SHAVUOT-PENTECOST.
• 02:41 I HOPE YOU'RE AS EXCITED ABOUT THE VISTA BEHIND ME
• 02:44 AS I WAS WHEN I FIRST SAW IT.
• 02:47 YEARS AGO WHEN I TOOK MY FIRST TRIP TO ISRAEL,
• 02:50 MY HEART JUST WAS...I WAS INTOXICATED BY ENTHUSIASM
• 02:55 AND THE HOLY SPIRIT WHEN I SAW JERUSALEM,
• 02:59 THE CENTER OF THE EARTH, THE CENTER OF THE BIBLICAL EARTH,
• 03:02 THE CENTER OF GOD'S ECONOMY ON EARTH
• 03:05 AND THERE THE CAPITAL CITY, I SAW, I BREATHED THE AIR, I WALKED THE HILLS.
• 03:10 HERE WE ARE ON THE MOUNT OF OLIVES OVERLOOKING THIS WONDERFUL PICTURE OF JERUSALEM.
• 03:16 NOW, IT'S CHANGED A LITTLE BIT SINCE BIBLE DAYS.
• 03:18 A FEW HUNDRED YEARS AFTER JESUS, ISLAM CONQUERED AND IN THE WAKE OF ALL THAT,
• 03:23 THE DOME OF THE ROCK WAS PLACED THERE ON TOP OF THE MOUNTAIN
• 03:27 WHERE ONCE THE BEIT HAMIKDASH, THE HOLY HOUSE STOOD.
• 03:30 YOU MIGHT RECALL THAT THE LORD HAD INSTRUCTED MOSHE RABBEINU,
• 03:35 MOSES, TO BUILD A HOUSE.
• 03:37 AND THE LORD HAD GUIDED DAVID MELECH YISRAEL,
• 03:41 DAVID THE KING OF ISRAEL
• 03:42 TO THE CAPITAL CITY OF JERUSALEM
• 03:44 AND INSTRUCTED HIM TO BUILD THE HOUSE.
• 03:46 AND SO THIS WONDERFUL TEMPLE WAS MANUFACTURED,
• 03:50 IT WAS CONSTRUCTED HERE IN JERUSALEM.
• 03:52 THOSE WHO WORSHIPED IN THE TEMPLE HAD THE TORAH,
• 03:55 THEY HAD THE SCRIPTURES, WHEREIN NOTED ARE A NUMBER OF FEASTS
• 03:59 WHEN ISRAELITES FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD WERE TO COME TO THIS CAPITAL CITY
• 04:04 AND CELEBRATE GOD'S GOODNESS, HIS BLESSINGS, HIS COVENANT FAITHFULNESS.
• 04:08 ONE OF THOSE FEASTS HAS BEEN THE OBJECT OF OUR ATTENTION IN THIS THREE PART SERIES,
• 04:14 THE FEAST OF PENTECOST, A WONDERFUL OLD TESTAMENT FEAST.
• 04:18 WELL, YOU MIGHT SAY, WELL, HOLD ON PENTECOST IS A NEW TESTAMENT EXPERIENCE. WELL, YES AND NO.
• 04:23 AS WE'LL EXPLORE IN A MOMENT, THERE IS THIS SPECIAL NEW TESTAMENT TOUCHING DOWN
• 04:28 OF PENTECOST IN ACTS CHAPTER 2 WITH THIS SPECIAL VISITATION,
• 04:32 THIS MAJOR OUTPOURING OF THE HOLY SPIRIT,
• 04:34 BUT THE HOLY SPIRIT DIDN'T JUST BEGIN THE HOLY SPIRIT'S WORK IN THE NEW TESTAMENT ERA.
• 04:38 IN THE PREVIOUS PROGRAM WE LOOKED AT THE HOLY SPIRIT'S
• 04:41 ROOTS IN THE OLD TESTAMENT WORLD
• 04:44 AND THEN WE LOOKED AT THE HOLY SPIRIT'S BOOTS
• 04:46 IN THE NEW TESTAMENT WORLD.
• 04:48 WE LOOKED AT WHEN THE HOLY SPIRIT CAME DOWN
• 04:50 ON THE DAY OF PENTECOST AND PUT FEET TO HOLY SPIRIT EXPERIENCE.
• 04:54 THEN NEXT WEEK WE WILL LOOK AT THE FRUITS OF THE HOLY SPIRIT.
• 04:57 RIGHT NOW, WHAT I WANT TO DRAW YOUR ATTENTION TO IS A MAJOR OLD TESTAMENT FEAST.
• 05:01 IT'S NOTED IN LEVITICUS CHAPTER 23, WE KNOW IT AS PENTECOST.
• 05:06 IT'S KNOWN TO JEWISH PEOPLE, HOWEVER, AS THE FEAST OF SHAVUOT.
• 05:10 THE WORD "SHAVUOT" IS THE PLURAL FORM OF THE WORD "SHEVA",
• 05:13 WHICH MEANS WEEK. IT'S THE FEAST OF WEEKS.
• 05:16 IN LEVITICUS 23:15 AND ON THE STORY IS TOLD.
• 05:20 YOU MIGHT RECALL THERE ARE VARIOUS FEASTS IN THE OLD TESTAMENT WORLD
• 05:22 IN AS MUCH AS CHRISTIANS DO CHRISTMAS AND EASTER AND OTHER FEASTS,
• 05:25 IN THE OLD TESTAMENT ECONOMY
• 05:27 THERE WAS
• 05:36 SCHEDULED OUT SOME 50 DAYS
• 05:37 AFTER THE PASSOVER,
• 05:38 MAJOR, MAJOR, MAJOR EVENT.
• 05:42 IN OLD TESTAMENT TIMES ISRAELITES WOULD MAKE THEIR WAY
• 05:44 INTO JERUSALEM JUST BEFORE PASSOVER.
• 05:46 THEY WOULD SPEND A NUMBER OF WEEKS THERE AND THEN AFTER SHAVUOT, THEY WOULD LEAVE.
• 05:51 THUS THEY REFERRED TO SHAVUOT AS THE FEAST "ATZERET"
• 05:55 OR CONCLUSION
• 05:57 FOR THIS WOULD MARK THE END OF THEIR PILGRIMAGE TO JERUSALEM.
• 06:00 WHY WOULD THEY COME? WHAT WOULD THEY CELEBRATE?
• 06:04 WELL, THEY CELEBRATED GOD'S GOODNESS, HIS BOUNTY.
• 06:07 WE'RE LOOKING AT AN ANCIENT AGRARIAN ECONOMY AND PEOPLE WERE FARMERS.
• 06:10 YOU KNOW, THEY'D GO OUT THERE AND THEY'D DIG THEIR FURROWS DEEP AND STRAIGHT
• 06:14 AND THEY'D PLANT THEIR SEED IN THOSE FURROWS, BUT THEY NEEDED THE WATERS TO COME DOWN.
• 06:18 IF THERE WAS NO RAIN, THERE WAS NO GRAIN
• 06:21 AND IF THERE WAS NO GRAIN THERE WAS LOTS OF PAIN.
• 06:23 THEY WANTED TO MAKE BREAD.
• 06:25 AND HERE AT THIS HARVEST FESTIVAL THEY'RE JUST CELEBRATING GOD'S GOODNESS
• 06:28 AND SAYING, "THANK YOU FOR LOOKING OUT FOR OUR NEEDS AND INTEREST."
• 06:32 "THANK YOU FOR THE WATER, THANK YOU FOR POURING OUT YOUR BLESSINGS."
• 06:34 AND THEY WOULD WAVE THE GRAIN BEFORE THE LORD.
• 06:38 THIS IS A MAJOR COMPONENT OF PENTECOST, BUT IT'S NOT THE ONLY ONE FROM A JEWISH PERSPECTIVE.
• 06:42 THERE IS A MESSAGE IN PENTECOST THAT IS STRIKING.
• 06:47 LET ME TELL YOU WHAT IT IS.
• 06:49 JEWS KNOW PENTECOST BY THE HOLIDAY "Z'MAN MATAN TORAH"
• 06:54 WHICH MEANS "THE FEAST OF THE GIVING OF THE TORAH".
• 06:57 THE 6TH OF SIVAN IS THE DATE IN THE HEBREW CALENDAR
• 07:00 WHEN MOSHE RABBEINU, WHEN MOSES ASCENDS HAR SINAI, MOUNT SINAI
• 07:05 AND YOU REMEMBER HE GOES UP AND THERE HE IS COMMUNING WITH GOD
• 07:10 AND ALL OF A SUDDEN THE LORD SAYS IN EXODUS,
• 07:12 HE SAYS, "MOSES, MOSES GET YE DOWN FROM THE MOUNTAIN,"
• 07:16 "FOR THESE CHILDREN WHOM YOU HAVE BROUGHT UP OUT OF MITSRAYIM,"
• 07:20 "OUT OF EGYPT, THEY'VE CORRUPTED THEMSELVES."
• 07:23 AND MOSES COMES DOWN FROM THAT MOUNTAIN. MOSES IS NOT A HAPPY CAMPER.
• 07:28 HE HAS BEEN INFORMED THAT THE CONGREGATION IS BACKSLIDING NOT LONG AFTER THEY LEFT EGYPT.
• 07:33 SO CHAGRINNED IS HE, THAT WHEN HE GOES DOWN AND HE SEES THEY'VE MADE THE GOLDEN CALF,
• 07:38 EVEN AARON HAS BEEN SWEPT UP IN ALL THIS, HE TAKES THE "LUCHOT" THE TABLETS, THE COMMANDMENTS,
• 07:44 WE KNOW AS THE DECALOGUE, THE TEN WORDS.
• 07:46 HE HAS THESE IN HAND AND HE TAKES THEM AND HE THROWS THEM DOWN, HE'S SO VEXED.
• 07:50 IN CONJUNCTION WITH THAT THEN, HE SAYS,
• 07:53 "WHOEVER IS FOR JEHOVAH, I WANT YOU TO JOIN ME IN THIS ENDEAVOR"
• 07:57 AND A NUMBER OF INDIVIDUALS PUT SWORD ON THEIR THIGH
• 08:00 AND THEY GO AND THEY EXECUTE JUDGMENT AGAINST THE MALEFACTORS,
• 08:04 THOSE THAT WERE PARTICULARLY PROACTIVE IN INSTIGATING THE WORSHIP OF THE GOLDEN CALF.
• 08:10 WE'RE TOLD IN EXODUS THAT, THAT DAY 3,000 SOULS WERE SLAIN.
• 08:15 A FASCINATING STORY. I GLORY IN NO ONES DEATH.
• 08:18 WHAT HAPPENS IS WHEN THE LAW WAS FIRST GIVEN,
• 08:21 WHEN MOSES COMES DOWN FROM THE MOUNTAIN WITH THAT FIRST COVENANT,
• 08:25 BECAUSE OF THE GUILTY STATE OF AFFAIRS, 3000 INDIVIDUALS WERE SLAIN.
• 08:30 JUDAISM CELEBRATES PENTECOST AS THE DAY WHEN MOSES CAME DOWN FROM THAT MOUNTAIN
• 08:37 AND FRIENDS IS NOT IT STRIKING THAT IT WAS ON THIS DAY WHEN THE HOLY SPIRIT COMES DOWN,
• 08:43 WHEN THE RUACH HAKODASH IS POURED OUT ON THOSE ASSEMBLED?
• 08:48 WE'RE TOLD THAT ON THAT DAY PETER GETS UP AND SPEAKS.
• 08:54 AND WHAT HAPPENS? HE SAYS,
• 09:06 I THINK THAT'S A GREAT STORY
• 09:09 HOW, IN THE OLD TESTAMENT ECONOMY 3000 INDIVIDUALS WERE LOST
• 09:13 AND IN THE NEW TESTAMENT ECONOMY, 3,000 INDIVIDUALS WERE ADDED.
• 09:18 IT'S ALMOST LIKE GOD'S BALANCING THE BOOKS. HEY, THIS IS A GREAT STORY.
• 09:22 AND IT'S NOT ONLY A GREAT STORY BECAUSE OF WHAT HAPPENED BACK THEN,
• 09:26 THIS A GREAT STORY BECAUSE OF WHAT CAN HAPPEN TO US.
• 09:29 NOW, WHAT WE HAVE HERE
• 09:30 IS AN OPPORTUNITY.
• 09:31 YOU'LL SEE IN ACTS CHAPTER 2
• 09:32 HE SAYS,
• 10:04 SOMETIMES WHEN SOMEONE HAS AN ENCOUNTER WITH THE LORD, VIS-à-VIS, THE HOLY SPIRIT,
• 10:07 THERE'S ALL KINDS OF CHANGE AND INTERESTING PHENOMENON AND ACTIVITY.
• 10:11 IT'S ALL PART OF GOD'S TRANSITIONING US INTO SOMETHING ELSE.
• 10:15 HERE YOU HAVE THESE DISCIPLES; THEY WERE GATHERED TOGETHER IN A PURPOSELESS EXISTENCE.
• 10:19 BASICALLY THEY WERE AFRAID. JESUS WAS CRUCIFIED.
• 10:22 THEY THOUGHT, "OH MY GOD, WE DIDN'T SEE THIS COMING"
• 10:24 "AND NOW THEY'RE GOING TO COME AND GET US NEXT."
• 10:26 BUT, WHAT HAPPENS IS WHEN THEY RECEIVED THE HOLY SPIRIT,
• 10:29 THEY ARE TRANSFORMED, THEY ARE REJUVENATED.
• 10:32 THERE'S A REGENERATION AND THEY HAVE BOLDNESS WITH THIS HOLY SPIRIT EMPOWERMENT.
• 10:38 NOW, THE REASON WHY I MENTION THAT IS SIMPLY TO SAY
• 10:41 THAT SAME KIND OF EMPOWERMENT THAT WAS AVAILABLE TO THEM
• 10:43 IS AVAILABLE TO US, TO ME, YOU, ALL OF US TODAY.
• 10:46 I HOPE THAT YOU'RE GOING TO MAKE YOUR TO A BIBLE BELIEVING CHURCH
• 10:51 AND YOU'RE GOING TO FIND OUT ABOUT THE GOD WHO LOVES YOU,
• 10:54 WHO SENT HIS SON TO DIE ON A CROSS FOR YOUR SINS
• 10:56 AND WANTS TO COME INTO YOUR HEART JUST AS HE DID MINE
• 10:59 AND GIVE US A NEW HEART AND A NEW SPIRIT
• 11:02 AND TO REGENERATE US ON THE INSIDE, GIVE US LIFE, HOPE AND FUTURE.
• 11:07 GOD BLESS YOU.
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• 11:51 THE WONDER
• 11:58 THE BEAUTY
• 12:04 THE SOUL OF THE HOLY LAND
• 12:18 THAT'S ISRAEL. I SAY IT EVERY WEEK. IT'S HOW WE SEE ISRAEL.
• 12:21 WE GO TO THE MOUNT OF OLIVES. WE GO TO ALL PLACES ALL OVER ISRAEL.
• 12:25 IT IS A BLESSING TO BE IN ISRAEL AND SEE THE LAND.
• 12:29 YEAH, YOU KEEP SAYING, "YOU SAY IT EVERY WEEK." I DO?
• 12:31 YOU KNOW WHAT I BELIEVE AS A PROFESSOR?
• 12:33 IF IT'S NOT WORTH SAYING A HUNDRED TIMES IT'S NOT WORTH SAYING ONCE.
• 12:36 I WISH I COULD CONVINCE PEOPLE
• 12:37 HOW TERRIFIC ISRAEL IS AND HOW SAFE IT IS
• 12:40 AND HOW THEY REALLY NEED TO BE THERE.
• 12:43 WORDS ARE LIMITING.
• 12:45 PEOPLE JUST NEED TO GO THERE AND FIND OUT.
• 12:46 THEY REALLY DO. EVERYONE THAT GOES ALWAYS SAYS,
• 12:48 "I WISH I HAD GONE SOONER."
• 12:49 YEAH, BE A LITTLE BOLD AND GO. BOLD
• 12:51 REMINDS ME TOO, PETER ON THE DAY OF PENTECOST, THAT OLD BOY WAS BOLD.
• 12:56 THIS IS TIMID PETER. HE SAID, "LORD I'LL NEVER DENY YOU."
• 12:59 YOU KNOW, "COCKA DOODLE DO" WHEN IT GOT HOT HE SPLIT.
• 13:02 PETER IS KNOWN FOR HIS VACILLATING ISN'T HE?
• 13:04 BUT THIS OLD BOY GETS FILLED WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT.
• 13:07 ALL OF SUDDEN WE'RE TOLD IN CHAPTER 2, VERSE 15 THAT HE STANDS UP.
• 13:11 AND WHAT DOES HE DO? HE SPEAKS UP.
• 13:13 HE DID. YOU KNOW IT'S AMAZING,
• 13:15 PEOPLE CAN LAMENT, OH SO AND SO'S PERFORMANCE, HIS LIFE IS SO DIMINISHED, IT'S SO PROBLEMATIC.
• 13:20 PEOPLE NEED TO GET SAVED, THEY NEED TO GET FILLED WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT.
• 13:25 PRESTO, THEY CAN BE TRANSFORMED, GOD'S HONEST TRUTH.
• 13:27 BOY, AND PETER WAS. HE WAS TRANSFORMED.
• 13:30 HE WAS ON FIRE FROM THEN ON. HE WAS ON FIRE FOR THE LORD.
• 13:33 IS JUST PETER OR IS IT PAUL, IS IT MARY?
• 13:36 IS IT EVERYBODY WATCHING? IS IT ME, YOU? THAT'S TRUE.
• 13:39 CAN GOD TURN IT AROUND? ABSOLUTELY
• 13:41 NO MATTER HOW HORRIBLE OUR LIVES HAVE BEEN,
• 13:43 NO MATTER WHAT'S HAPPENED IN OUR LIVES, GOD CAN TURN IT AROUND.
• 13:46 HOW ABOUT IF YOU DISAPPOINTED THE LORD?
• 13:47 WHAT IF YOU'RE AT A PLACE IN YOUR LIFE WHERE YOU'VE BACKSLIDDEN?
• 13:50 PETER WAS A DISAPPOINTMENT TOO.
• 13:52 BUT HE CAME BACK AND HE CAME BACK STRONGER THAN EVER.
• 13:54 THAT'S RIGHT.
• 13:55 I LOVE STORIES IN THE LAND AND WILL KING, OUR MAN IN JERUSALEM,
• 13:59 INTERVIEWS DAVID RUBIN WHO TALKS ABOUT A MIRACLE IN HIS LIFE.
• 14:03 I'M ONE OF THOSE PEOPLE THAT THIS PAST YEAR AND EVERY DAY IN MY LIFE, GOD IS IN CONTROL.
• 14:08 AND THIS MAN WILL REALLY AND TRULY SHOW YOU GOD IS IN CONTROL.
• 14:15 YOU MENTIONED THAT SHILOH IS ABOUT
• 14:17 A 35 MINUTE DRIVE NORTH OF HERE
• 14:18 FROM JERUSALEM. YOU SAID THAT
• 14:20 SOMETHING HAPPENED TO YOU ONE OF THOSE
• 14:22 TIMES WHEN YOU WERE DRIVING FROM HOME.
• 14:23 CAN YOU TELL US A LITTLE ABOUT THAT?
• 14:24 WELL, THERE WERE A LOT OF TERROR ATTACKS
• 14:26 AND THE FEELING WAS ALWAYS,
• 14:29 "WELL, IT'S NOT GOING TO HAPPEN TO ME".
• 14:31 BUT, I WAS OUT ONE DAY WITH MY 3 YEAR OLD SON IN JERUSALEM
• 14:35 AND WE WERE COMING BACK IN OUR CAR WHEN SUDDENLY
• 14:38 THERE WAS A MASSIVE HAIL OF BULLETS ON THE CAR.
• 14:41 THE CAR WENT TOTALLY DEAD AND I STARTED COASTING DOWN THE HILL.
• 14:46 I SAW BULLETS IN FRONT OF MY EYES.
• 14:48 I SAW FOUR ORANGE SPARKS IN FRONT OF MY EYES.
• 14:51 APPARENTLY THE BULLETS HAD TRACES ON THEM
• 14:53 BECAUSE THE TERRORIST WANTED TO SEE EXACTLY WHERE THE BULLET WAS HITTING.
• 14:56 I FELT A TERRIBLE PAIN IN MY LEFT LEG THAT I HAD NEVER FELT BEFORE
• 15:01 AND BLOOD STARTED COMING OUT LIKE AN OPEN FIRE HYDRANT.
• 15:06 I QUICKLY TURNED AROUND TO SEE MY SON AND SEE IF HE WAS OK.
• 15:10 I TURNED AND SAID, "RUBI, ARE YOU OK?" MY SON'S NAME IS RUBI. I SAID, "ARE YOU OK?"
• 15:15 AND HE WAS JUST SITTING THERE WITH HIS MOUTH WIDE OPEN, HIS EYES WIDE OPEN.
• 15:20 I COULD SEE HE WAS BREATHING, BUT HE DIDN'T ANSWER ME WHEN I ASKED HIM IF HE WAS OK.
• 15:25 I DIDN'T SEE ANY BLOOD SO I THOUGHT THAT HE WAS IN SHOCK.
• 15:30 I QUICKLY TRIED TO START THE IGNITION AS FAST AS I COULD, BUT THE IGNITION DID NOT START.
• 15:36 THE CAR DID NOT START. I SHIFTED GEARS FROM PARK TO DRIVE TO NEUTRAL, WHATEVER I COULD.
• 15:41 I COULD NOT GET THAT CAR TO START.
• 15:44 FINALLY ON THE FIFTH OR SIXTH TRY THE CAR STARTED SMOOTHLY
• 15:49 AS IF IT HAD NEVER HAD TROUBLE STARTING BEFORE.
• 15:51 I HIT THE GAS WITH MY RIGHT FOOT. I DROVE 120 MILES AN HOUR TO GET TO THE NEXT COMMUNITY,
• 16:00 WHICH IS CALLED OFRA, WHICH NORMALLY WOULD HAVE BEEN ABOUT A 6 OR 7 MINUTE RIDE.
• 16:05 I GOT THERE IN ABOUT 2 MINUTES. ALL THE WHILE MY LEG WAS POUNDING,
• 16:08 BLOOD WAS COMING OUT AND I COULD HAVE JUST COLLAPSED FROM LOSS OF BLOOD
• 16:13 OR CRASHED FROM DRIVING LIKE SUCH A LUNATIC,
• 16:18 BUT THE FACT IS I GOT THERE AND I HAD NEVER DRIVING SO ALERTLY IN MY ENTIRE LIFE.
• 16:25 I GOT TO THE GATE OF OFRA. I SHOUTED OUT TO WHOEVER COULD HEAR ME, "AMBULANCE, AMBULANCE"
• 16:33 AND A YOUNG WOMAN SITTING ON THE SIDE OF THE ROAD STARTED JUMPING UP AND DOWN SCREAMING
• 16:41 "AMBULANCE, AMBULANCE, DON'T YOU HEAR?"
• 16:43 AND AT THAT POINT EVERYONE WHO WAS WITHIN SOUND'S REACH CAME RUNNING OVER TO THE CAR.
• 16:48 SOME TEENAGERS FROM THE BUS STOP, A GAS STATION ATTENDANT CAME RUNNING UP TO CAR
• 16:53 AND HE QUICKLY RIPPED OFF MY SHIRT AND HE STARTED WRAPPING UP MY LEG.
• 16:58 I SAID, WHAT ARE YOU DOING?" HE SAID, "I'M ALSO A MEDIC."
• 17:01 HE STARTED WRAPPING UP MY LEG REAL TIGHT TO STOP THE BLOOD FLOW.
• 17:05 HE HANDED ME HIS CELL PHONE AND HE SAID, "HERE, TAKE THIS PHONE AND CALL YOUR WIFE."
• 17:11 I COULDN'T DIAL ThE PHONE. MY HAND WAS SHAKING SO MUCH.
• 17:14 HE TOOK THE PHONE. HE SAID, "WHAT'S YOUR NUMBER?" HE DIALED IT FOR ME.
• 17:17 SO HE DIALED THE PHONE NUMBER AND CALLED MY WIFE. I SAID, "I'VE BEEN SHOT IN THE LEG."
• 17:24 "THEY'RE GOING TO BE TAKING ME TO AN AMBULANCE AND RUBI IS OK."
• 17:28 I WAS GOING TO ASK,
• 17:29 IT SEEMS YOU WERE ABLE TO GET HELP RIGHT AWAY,
• 17:31 WHAT ABOUT YOUR SON'S CONDITION?
• 17:33 WELL, MY SON, I THOUGHT HE WAS JUST IN SHOCK, BUT THEN THE AMBULANCE PULLED OUT.
• 17:37 MY WIFE SAID, "OK, I'LL TRY TO GET TO THE HOSPITAL AS SOON AS I CAN"
• 17:43 AND SHE WAS ACTUALLY RELIEVED TO HEAR THIS, THIS PHONE CALL,
• 17:47 BECAUSE SHE HAD ALREADY GOTTEN A CALL FROM THE SECURITY SERVICE SAYING,
• 17:50 "WE DON'T KNOW WHERE YOUR HUSBAND IS. WE'RE TRYING TO LOCATE HIM."
• 17:55 ANYHOW, THE AMBULANCE PULLED UP AND THE MEDIC FROM THE AMBULANCE RAN OUT,
• 18:02 ONE OF THE MEDICS RAN OUT TO MY CAR AND HE STARTED PULLING MY SON OUT OF THE CAR.
• 18:05 I SAID, "NO, LEAVE HIM ALONE, HE NEEDS TO BE WITH HIS DADDY, HE'S JUST IN SHOCK."
• 18:09 HE SAID, "NO, I HAVE TO TAKE HIM OUT." AND HE PULLED HIM OUT OF THE CAR
• 18:12 AND HE STARTED RUNNING FRANTICALLY TO THE AMBULANCE SHOUTING,
• 18:18 "HE'S ALSO BEEN SHOT, HE'S ALSO BEEN SHOT, HE'S BEEN SHOT IN THE NECK."
• 18:23 WHAT WERE YOUR IMMEDIATE EMOTIONS?
• 18:24 WAS IT ONE OF ANGER OR RAGE AT GETTING SHOT BY THESE PEOPLE
• 18:27 OR WAS IT ONE OF CONCERN FOR YOUR SON?
• 18:30 I DIDN'T EVEN HAVE A CHANCE TO THINK.
• 18:32 TO TELL YOU THE TRUTH, I DID NOT EVEN THINK AT THAT POINT.
• 18:35 IT WAS ALL - EVERYTHING HAPPENED SO FAST I WAS JUST..
• 18:38 JUST ACTING, I WAS JUST OPERATING ON INSTINCT.
• 18:42 THIS IS A STORY THAT REVERBERATES AND HAS SPIRITUAL RAMIFICATIONS
• 18:47 BECAUSE THE DAY AFTER OUR ARRIVAL IN THE HOSPITAL,
• 18:51 I HAD A VISIT FROM THE RABBI OF SHILOH, WHO CAME TO ME AND HE SAID,
• 18:57 "DAVID, I JUST WANT TO KNOW IF YOU'VE STARTED COUNTING MIRACLES."
• 19:04 AND I THOUGHT FOR A SECOND AND I SAID, "NO, ACTUALLY I REALLY HAVEN'T."
• 19:09 I HADN'T EVEN HAD A CHANCE TO THINK ABOUT IT AS I JUST TOLD YOU.
• 19:13 THEN WHEN I STARTED TO THINK ABOUT IT, IT WAS JUST SO OVERWHELMING.
• 19:17 I WAS SHOT IN MY LEFT LEG EVEN THOUGH THE TERRORISTS WERE SHOOTING FROM THE RIGHT SIDE,
• 19:23 WHICH ENABLED ME TO DRIVE MY AUTOMATIC SHIFT CAR WITH MY RIGHT LEG AS WE ALL DO,
• 19:28 TO GET TO THAT AMBULANCE.
• 19:30 THERE'S NO WAY I COULD HAVE DRIVEN WITH THAT LEFT LEG POUNDING
• 19:33 OR ANY LEG POUNDING AND THE BLOOD FLOWING OUT. THERE WAS JUST NO WAY.
• 19:39 SECONDLY, THE BULLET THAT WENT INTO MY SON'S HEAD, MISSED HIS BRAIN STEM BY 1-MM.
• 19:47 THIS WE WERE TOLD BY THE HEAD OF THE DEPT. OF THE INTENSIVE CARE, CHILDREN'S WARD.
• 19:54 THIRDLY, THE BULLET WENT INTO MY LEG AND MISSED THE BONE TOTALLY OF MY LEG.
• 20:05 SO, THERE WERE MIRACLES THAT HAPPENED TO US, BUT THOSE ARE THE HIDDEN MIRACLES,
• 20:11 THOSE ARE THE ONES THAT YOU KIND OF HAVE TO LOOK FOR
• 20:13 AND THAT PEOPLE WHO ARE NOT BELIEVERS IN GOD
• 20:18 WILL TRY AND EXPLAIN AWAY AND RATIONALIZE THEM AWAY.
• 20:21 "WELL, THEY WERE SHOOTING FROM THE RIGHT SIDE, YOU HAPPENED TO PICK YOU LEFT LEG UP". OK.
• 20:25 FIVE DAYS AFTER OUR ARRIVAL IN THE HOSPITAL I GET A PHONE CALL FROM THE CAR MECHANIC.
• 20:31 "HI, DAVID, THIS IS THE CAR MECHANIC, I JUST WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT WE HAVE THE CAR,
• 20:36 WE'VE STARTED ORDERING PARTS AND IT'S GOING TO BE A VERY EXPENSIVE JOB."
• 20:42 I CUT HIM OFF AT THIS POINT,I SAID, "LOOK I DON'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT A CAR."
• 20:46 "I'M BEING WHEELED EVERYDAY IN MY WHEELCHAIR. I'M ALLOWED A HALF AN HOUR"
• 20:51 "TO BE DISCONNECTED FROM THIS MACHINE THAT MY LEG IS CONNECTED TO,"
• 20:55 "TO GO VISIT MY SON IN THE OTHER BUILDING"
• 20:58 "IN THE INTENSIVE CARE WARD OF THE CHILDREN'S BUILDING."
• 21:01 "HE DOESN'T EVEN REMEMBER HIS SIBLINGS. HE HAS TOTAL MEMORY LOSS. HE'S LAYING IN HIS BED."
• 21:06 "HE CAN'T LIFT HIMSELF UP IN HIS BED AT ALL."
• 21:08 "HE'S SLEEPING 22 HOURS OF THE DAY BECAUSE OF THE INTERNAL BLEEDING IN THE CEREBELLUM"
• 21:14 "AND YOU'RE TELLING ME ABOUT A CAR?"
• 21:17 HE SAID, "I'M SORRY. THAT'S NOT REALLY WHY I'M CALLING."
• 21:21 "THE REAL REASON I'M CALLING IS BECAUSE I HAVE TO ASK YOU A QUESTION."
• 21:27 I SAID, "YAH, WHAT'S THE QUESTION?'
• 21:29 HE SAID, "I JUST WANT TO KNOW WHY CAN'T WE START THAT CAR?"
• 21:35 AND A CHILL WENT DOWN MY BACK
• 21:37 BECAUSE I KNOW THAT I DROVE THAT CAR 120 MPH AFTER IT HAD GONE DEAD
• 21:43 AND I TRIED TO SHIFT GEARS AND I COULDN'T START IT AND IT GOT US TO THAT AMBULANCE.
• 21:50 THEN AFTER THAT HE'S TELLING ME THE CAR WENT DEAD
• 21:54 AND IT HAD TO BE TOWED FROM THERE TO BETEL, WHERE THE POLICE STATION WAS
• 21:59 AND FROM THERE IT HAD TO BE TOWED FROM THERE TO JERUSALEM WHERE THE CAR MECHANIC WAS
• 22:06 AND I'M TELLING YOU I KNOW THAT I JUST CAN'T EXPLAIN ANY WAY HOW THAT CAR STARTED.
• 22:15 SO GOD SAVED YOU
• 22:17 AND GOT YOU OUT OF THAT SITUATION.
• 22:18 IT NEVER STARTED AGAIN.
• 22:19 WELL, IN SHORT, I HAVE TO CONFESS TO YOU,
• 22:23 I'VE ALWAYS BEEN VERY SKEPTICAL OF MIRACLE STORIES,
• 22:25 THESE PERSONAL MIRACLE STORIES THAT PEOPLE TELL
• 22:27 AND I'VE BEEN A BELIEVER IN THE GOD OF ISRAEL FOR 25 YEARS,
• 22:30 BUT ALL THAT I CAN SAY IS THAT WE WERE JUST CARRIED ON THE WINGS OF GOD
• 22:34 TO GET US TO THAT AMBULANCE AND I CAN'T BE SKEPTICAL ANY LONGER.
• 22:38 WE WERE JUST TOUCHED BY GOD, WE WERE TAKEN BY GOD AND AFTER THAT HAPPENED TO US,
• 22:45 I KNEW THAT WE WERE NEVER GOING TO BE THE SAME.
• 22:49 TELL US ABOUT SOME OF THE PROJECTS
• 22:51 YOU'VE DONE FOR THE CHILDREN IN SHILOH.
• 22:53 I STARTED THE SHILOH ISRAEL
• 22:55 CHILDREN'S FUND
• 22:56 TO DEVELOP CHILDREN'S PROJECTS FOR THE CHILDREN OF SHILOH
• 23:02 AND TO MAKE THEIR LIVES BETTER BECAUSE THEY'VE ALL BEEN TRAUMATIZED.
• 23:07 DAVID, THANK YOU FOR COMING
• 23:09 AND SHARING YOUR TRULY MIRACULOUS STORY WITH US. WE APPRECIATE IT.
• 23:22 ♪ GOD WILL HONOR THOSE HE HAS CHOSEN. ♪
• 23:28 ♪ GOD WILL HONOR THOSE HE HAS CHOSEN. ♪
• 23:59 ♪ A COMING KINGDOM, ♪
• 24:04 ♪ A COMING KING,♪
• 24:08 ♪ A TIME OF MERCY, ♪
• 24:12 ♪ A TIME TO SING. ♪
• 24:17 ♪ THE CHOSEN PEOPLE, ♪
• 24:22 ♪ A CHOSEN SHORE, ♪
• 24:27 ♪ TO LIVE A DESTINY, ♪
• 24:32 ♪ TO KNOW THE LORD! ♪♪
• 25:02 ZOLA'S MUSIC AS USUAL WAS TERRIFIC.
• 25:05 BUT THAT STORY THAT WENT BEFORE IT WAS TERRIBLE.
• 25:08 A MAN, WRONG PLACE, WRONG TIME, MALICIOUSLY ASSAULTED.
• 25:14 HE LOOKS AND HE SEES HIS CHILD AT THE THROWS OF THE GRAVE.
• 25:19 HORRIFYING IS THAT STORY
• 25:22 AND IT LEAVES A MARK ON ME.
• 25:23 MY SON WAS SICK ONCE UPON A TIME. RIGHT
• 25:25 ISN'T IT HORRIBLE TO HAVE TO LIVE LIKE THAT
• 25:27 AND GO THROUGH THAT?
• 25:28 IT IS BUT THE GLORY OF IT IS..
• 25:30 IT'S SUCH A MIRACLE.
• 25:31 THAT MAN IN ESSENCE HAS BEEN REBORN. HE'S A NEW FATHER.
• 25:35 HE THINKS DIFFERENTLY ABOUT WHERE HE DRIVES, HOW HE DRIVES.
• 25:39 HE THINKS DIFFERENTLY PROBABLY ABOUT HIS SON.
• 25:42 FROM HIS PERSPECTIVE GOD DID A MIRACLE IN ALL OF THAT. ABSOLUTELY
• 25:45 FROM HIS SON'S REBOUNDING, WITH THE VEHICLE. RIGHT.
• 25:48 PEOPLE WONDER, PEOPLE FIND THEMSELVES
• 25:51 AMIDST THE TURBULENCE OF TRYING TIMES. RIGHT.
• 25:53 BUT THE BIG QUESTION IS,
• 25:54 "IS THERE A GOD WHO CAN REACH INTO THOSE CIRCUMSTANCES"
• 25:58 "AND PULL THE RABBIT OUT OF THE HAT?"
• 26:00 WELL THERE'S A TESTIMONY ABOUT ONE MAN.
• 26:02 AND THE STORY OF PENTECOST
• 26:04 IS A STORY ABOUT A GOD WHO REACHES DOWN
• 26:07 AND POURS OUT HIS LOVE ON HUMAN KIND.
• 26:10 3,000 ARE SAVED. 3,000 IS AN INCREDIBLE NUMBER.
• 26:14 AND THEN THEY GO OUT AND IN TURN THEY WITNESS.
• 26:17 MORE AND MORE AND MORE COMING INTO THE KINGDOM.
• 26:20 THE RIPPLE EFFECT. IT'S GREAT.
• 26:22 YES, AND MAY IT BE THAT THE STORY CONTINUES INTO THE MODERN ERA.
• 26:25 AND I HOPE WHOEVER IS LISTENING TO THIS GETS DOWN ON THEIR KNEES AND ASK GOD INTO THEIR LIVES.
• 26:30 WELL, SANDRA ARE YOU GIVING AN INVITATION?
• 26:32 I COULD BE. (JEFF LAUGHING)
• 26:34 I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT.
• 26:35 I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT IN ALL OUR LIVES
• 26:36 TO UNDERSTAND THE MIRACLES THAT GOD DOES IN OUR LIVES EVERY SINGLE DAY.
• 26:40 FOR THE ASKING.
• 26:42 ABSOLUTELY.WE'RE GONNA TALK MORE ABOUT PENTECOST NEXT WEEK AND STAY TUNED AND..
• 26:45 SHA'ALU SHALOM YERUSHALAYIM,
• 26:47 PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM.