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

• 00:07 IT IS WRITTEN IN THE SCRIPTURES THAT WE SHOULD JOURNEY TO JERUSALEM THREE TIMES A YEAR.
• 00:13 WE ARE GOING UP TO THE CITY OF GOD, TO JERUSALEM TO CELEBRATE.
• 00:21 (ZOLA LEVITT SPEAKING)
• 00:23 THE LORD TOLD THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL TO HONOR SEVEN HOLY CELEBRATIONS EACH YEAR
• 00:27 INVOLVING THREE JOURNEYS TO JERUSALEM.
• 00:30 EACH FESTIVAL WOULD BE UNIQUELY FULFILLED IN THE COMING OF THE MESSIAH.
• 00:41 ██ SHADOWS OF THINGS TO COME...
• 00:51 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 2 WAVE LOAVES. THEY SHALL BE OF FINE FLOUR AND BAKED WITH LEAVEN.
• 01:07 ON THAT SAME DAY YOU ARE TO PROCLAIM A SACRED ASSEMBLY AND DO NO REGULAR WORK.
• 01:12 THIS IS TO BE A LASTING ORDINANCE FOR THE GENERATIONS TO COME WHEREVER YOU LIVE.
• 01:19 A HEARTY SHALOM TO ALL OF YOU.
• 01:21 GLAD YOU'RE WITH US.
• 01:22 JEFFREY SE HERE WITH MY FRIEND SANDRA LEVITT
• 01:24 SHALOM, WELCOME BACK.
• 01:25 WE'VE GOT A HARVEST ON THE TABLE AGAIN.
• 01:27 YES WE DO.
• 01:28 AND GOD'S GOT A DEAL ON THE TABLE.
• 01:30 DOESN'T HE? SaLVATION FOR ALL.
• 01:32 THAT'S RIGHT. IT'S A WONDERFUL STORY.
• 01:34 YES AND THAT'S THE STORY OF PENTECOST BY THE WAY. WHAT DO I MEAN BY THAT?
• 01:38 GOD HAS POURED OUT HIS SPIRIT.
• 01:40 NOW WE KNOW THAT NEW TESTAMENT STORY.
• 01:42 RIGHT WHAT PEOPLE DON'T KNOW IS
• 01:43 THAT IT'S ROOTED IN THE OLD TESTAMENT.
• 01:45 LEVITICUS CHAPTER 23
• 01:46 TALKS ABOUT ALL THE FEASTS
• 01:48 AND IN IT IS SHAVUOT-PENTECOST.
• 01:51 AND THE WAY THOSE FEASTS CORRELATE
• 01:52 WITH THE NEW TESTAMENT IS FANTASTIC.
• 01:55 IT PUTS IT ALL TOGETHER.
• 01:56 YES, NOW WE PUT SOME OF IT TOGETHER IN THIS SERIES,
• 01:58 THIS MINI SERIES WHERE WE'RE LOOKING AT THE SPRING FEASTS.
• 02:02 IT'S A GREAT STORY BY THE WAY. WE LOVE TO TELL IT.
• 02:05 IT'S ALL ABOUT THE HOLY SPIRIT BEING POURED OUT ON A PARTICULAR DAY.
• 02:09 PENTECOST WAS A JEWISH HOLIDAY.
• 02:11 ABSOLUTELY, THE JEWS,
• 02:13 THAT'S WHY THEY WERE FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD. THAT'S RIGHT.
• 02:15 THEY WERE THERE IN JERUSALEM.
• 02:16 IT WAS ONE OF THE 3 HOLIDAYS THEY WERE COMMANDED TO BE IN JERUSALEM.
• 02:19 RIGHT, IT'S CALLED "Z'MAN MATAN TORAH"
• 02:21 AS YOU MIGHT RECALL FROM LAST WEEK, THE FEAST OF THE GIVING OF THE TORAH.
• 02:25 AND ON THAT DAY GOD GAVE A NEW LAW WRITTEN ON HEARTS.
• 02:28 ██ WRITTEN ON THE HEARTS.
• 02:29 PEOPLE CAN BE TRANSFORMED, BECOME NEW CREATURES. AMEN!
• 02:31 IT'S WONDERFUL - WRITTEN ON THEIR HEARTS NOT ON STONE. YES
• 02:34 GAVE THE COMMANDMENTS ON STONE AND NOW THE SPIRIT IS IN THEIR HEART.
• 02:38 AND WE HAVEN'T EXHAUSTED THE STORE. WE'RE GONNA LOOK AT IT SOME MORE. AREN'T WE?
• 02:41 WE ARE AND HERE'S JEFF AT THE WESTERN WALL WITH HIS TEACHING ON PENTECOST.
• 02:44 I KNOW YOU'LL ENJOY IT.
• 02:48 IT'S SUCH AN HONOR TO STAND HERE ON ONE OF THE MOST SACRED SPOTS ON EARTH.
• 02:55 YOU SEE BEHIND ME, THE CITY OF JERUSALEM.
• 02:59 YOU SEE THE WESTERN WALL, THE WAILING WALL BRISTLING WITH ACTIVITY.
• 03:05 THIS IS A SPOT WHERE THE BETTER PART OF 2000 YEARS AGO,
• 03:09 THE HOLY SPIRIT TOUCHED DOWN ON PLANET EARTH IN A VERY NEW AND SPECIAL WAY.
• 03:17 SINCE THE CLOSE OF THE OLD TESTAMENT ERA,
• 03:19 JEWISH SAGES HAD ENVISIONED THAT ONE DAY THE "BAT KOL" WOULD BE RESTORED.
• 03:26 IT'S A HEBREW EXPRESSION,
• 03:27 THE DAUGHTER OF THE VOICE,
• 03:29 THE VOICE OF PROPHECY.
• 03:31 IT WAS UNDERSTOOD THAT PROPHECY CEASED WITH THE CLOSING OF THE OLD TESTAMENT CANON.
• 03:37 IT WAS BELIEVED, AS WELL, THAT IN THE MESSIANIC ERA THERE WOULD BE A NEW DAWNING, A NEW OUTPOURING.
• 03:43 AND IT'S IN PROXIMITY TO THIS VERY PLACE SOME 2000 YEARS AGO THAT A SPECIAL OUTPOURING TOOK PLACE,
• 03:51 ONE THAT HAS BEEN THE OBJECT OF OUR ATTENTION IN THIS 3 PART SERIES WHERE WE'VE LOOKED AT PENTECOST.
• 03:58 WE'VE LOOKED AT THE "RUACH HAKODESH", THE HOLY SPIRIT.
• 04:01 WE NOTED HOW THE HOLY SPIRIT
• 04:03 HAD THE HOLY SPIRIT'S ROOTS IN THE OLD TESTAMENT.
• 04:06 AND THEN IN THE SECOND SERIES, WE SAW HOW THE HOLY SPIRIT HAD THE HOLY SPIRIT'S BOOTS
• 04:10 IN THE NEW TESTAMENT AS A SPECIAL TOUCHDOWN,
• 04:14 A SPECIAL COMING DOWN TO EARTH TO DO A MARVELOUS AND NEW WORK THROUGH INDIVIDUALS.
• 04:19 WE CONSIDERED THAT IN THE SECOND PROGRAM AND NOW IN THE THIRD,
• 04:23 TO BRING CONCLUSION TO THIS SERIES ON PENTECOST.
• 04:27 WHAT I'D LIKE TO DO IS LOOK WITH YOU AT SOME BIBLICAL TEXT TO SEE,
• 04:31 NOT JUST WHAT THE HOLY SPIRIT DID THROUGH JEWS IN A BYGONE ERA,
• 04:35 BUT WHAT THE HOLY SPIRIT WANTS TO DO WITH "YOU'S", WITH FOLK LIKE YOU AND I IN MODERNITY.
• 04:41 I'D LIKE TO BEGIN THE STORY TODAY BY LOOKING AT ONE OF THE APOSTLE PAUL'S LATER EPISTLES.
• 04:47 HE WROTE TO AN INDIVIDUAL NAMED TITUS.
• 04:51 AND HERE'S WHAT HE SAID IN THE 3RD CHAPTER AND I'M LOOKING IN THE 5TH VERSE,
• 04:57 FASCINATING TEXT HERE THAT'S WORTH SOME EXPLORATION.
• 05:00 HE SPEAKS HERE ABOUT WHAT THE LORD HAS DONE AND HE SAYS,
• 05:15 I WANT TO TALK TO YOU ABOUT, BUT FOR A MOMENT.
• 05:17 HE SAYS HERE THAT THROUGH GOD'S MERCY,
• 05:20 HE SAVED US THROUGH THE WASHING AND THROUGH THE REGENERATION OF THE HOLY SPIRIT.
• 05:28 THE WORD MERCY IS A VERY INTERESTING WORD.
• 05:30 IN HEBREW, "RACHAMANUT" OR MERCY COMES FROM THE WORD FOR WOMB
• 05:35 AND IT HARKS TO THE SAME KIND OF COMPASSION THAT A WOMAN HAS FOR HER OFFSPRING,
• 05:41 FOR HER CHILDREN THAT COME FORTH FROM HER.
• 05:44 IN AS MUCH AS A MOM MAY BE DISCONCERTED WHEN THE BABY CRIES AT 2 O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING
• 05:49 AND SHE HAS TO GET UIN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT,
• 05:51 KNOWING SHE HAS TO GO TO WORK IN THE MORNING SOON,
• 05:53 STILL THOUGH, SHE MIGHT BE SOMEWHAT CHAGRINNED TO HAVE TO GET UP.
• 05:56 SOON WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN IS HER LOVE AND AFFECTION FOR THE CHILD
• 06:00 IS GOING TO OVERRIDE HER OWN DISCONSTERNATION OVER LOSING SOME SLEEP. WHY?
• 06:06 BECAUSE SHE HAS MERCY. THERE'S A FILIAL BOND THERE.
• 06:09 IN MUCH THE SAME WAY WORTH NOTING IS GOD OUR HEAVENLY FATHER IS PREDISPOSED TOWARD MERCY
• 06:16 AND SO WE READ IN THE TEXT THAT PAUL SAYS IN HIS MERCY HE SAVED US THROUGH THE WASHING,
• 06:24 THROUGH THE REGENERATION IN THE HOLY SPIRIT.
• 06:29 WHAT I'D LIKE TO UNDERSCORE WITH THE WORD SAVED IS THE FACT THAT
• 06:32 THE GREEK WORD SAVED OR "SOSO",
• 06:34 ISN'T SIMPLY HIM SAYING THAT HE SAVED OUR SOULS.
• 06:38 TRUE THOUGH THAT IS, WHAT GOD IS MINDED TO DO THROUGH THE REGENERATION OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
• 06:44 ISN'T TO SAVE OUR SOULS AND SOULS ALONE, BUT TO SAVE OUR WHOLE LIVES.
• 06:49 THERE'S THIS WONDERFUL REBUILDING PROCESS WHERE OUR MIND IS RESTORED,
• 06:54 WHERE OUR MIND IS RENEWED, WHERE OUR BODY CAN EXPERIENCE REINVIGORATION AND HEALTH AND HEALING.
• 07:00 I BELIEVE THAT THERE'S SO MUCH INVOLVED IN THE PACKAGE.
• 07:04 YOU KNOW, A LOT OF PEOPLE WANT TO KNOW IF THERE'S LIFE AFTER DEATH,
• 07:07 BUT I THINK A LOT OF PEOPLE WANT TO KNOW WHETHER THERE'S LIFE BEFORE DEATH.
• 07:10 THERE A NUMBER OF US THAT HAVE MADE SHIPWRECK OF OUR LIVES
• 07:13 AND THE GOOD NEWS IS THAT WE CAN EXPERIENCE GOD'S MERCY
• 07:17 THROUGH THE WASHING AND REGENERATION OF THE HOLY SPIRIT.
• 07:23 IN OUR 3 PART SERIES HERE, WHERE I WANT TO LOOK AT HOW THE HOLY SPIRIT WANTS TO BE AT WORK IN US.
• 07:30 WHAT I WANTED TO DO IS BEGIN HERE IN TITUS
• 07:32 AND THEN I WANTED TO SPEND THE BETTER PART OF MY SHORT TIME WITH YOU IN THE GALATIANS TEXT.
• 07:38 THIS IS INTERESTING FOR A VARIETY OF REASONS.
• 07:40 TITUS ARGUABLY IS ONE OF THE LATTER EPISTLES THAT PAUL WROTE.
• 07:45 WHEREAS, BY CONTRAST, GALATIANS MAWELL HAVE BEEN THE FIRST, IF NOT ONE OF THE FIRST.
• 07:50 AND THE WAY HE BRINGS THIS DOCUMENT TO A CLOSE IS FASCINATING FOR A VARIETY OF REASONS.
• 07:56 IT MAY WELL BE THAT THIS IS THE FIRST ATTEMPT, THE FIRST TIME, RATHER,
• 08:02 WHERE HE PUTS PEN TO PAPER TO WRITE WHERE THE HOLY SPIRIT'S WORKING
• 08:05 THROUGH AN OFFER TO COMMEND TO WRITTEN TEXT WHAT THE LORD IS SAYING AND DOING
• 08:10 AND HERE HE'S TALKING ABOUT THE WORK OF THE HOLY SPIRIT.
• 08:14 HERE THE HOLY SPIRIT IS TALKED ABOUT IN CONTRAST WITH THE WORKS OF THE FLESH.
• 08:18 PAUL WILL TALK ABOUT THE WORK OF THE FLESH AND THE WORK OF THE SPIRIT
• 08:23 AND HE HAS THESE IN TENSION WITH EACH OTHER IN THE FIRST CENTURY WORLD,
• 08:28 MUCH IS THAT'S THE CASE TODAY.
• 08:30 AT THE END OF THE DAY IF WE WANTED TO LOOK AT BIBLICAL DOCTRINE OF ANTHROPOLOGY,
• 08:34 A DOCTRINE OF MAN AND WOMAN, WE ASK THE QUESTION "WHAT IS OUR CONDITION?"
• 08:38 ALL OF US ARE IN THIS TUG OF WAR BETWEEN VICE AND VIRTUE.
• 08:42 THOSE OF US THAT HAVE THE LORD WITHIN US, THERE'S THIS TENSION BETWEEN FLESH AND SPIRIT.
• 08:47 WHICH ARE GOING TO SATISFY, PARTICULARLY?
• 08:50 WELL, HERE PAUL IS MINDED TO EXHORT THE BELIEVERS TO WALK IN THE SPIRIT
• 08:55 AND WHEN SOMEONE HAS RECEIVED THE SPIRIT,
• 08:58 WHAT THEY MUST NEEDS DO IN THE WAKE OF SO DOING, IS TO PRACTICE WALKING IN THE SPIRIT.
• 09:04 I'M REMINDED OF THE JOANINE PASSAGE, JOHN CHAPTER 1, VERSE 12, WE'RE TOLD,
• 09:17 WHEN SOMEONE RECEIVES THE LORD, THEY ARE THEN INVIGORATED ON THE INSIDE
• 09:21 WITH THE PRESENCE OF THE "RUACH HAKODESH", THE HOLY SPIRIT.
• 09:26 IN THE WAKE OF THAT EXPERIENCE THEN, IT'S INCUMBENT UPON BELIEVERS TO STAND UP AND TO BEGIN TO WALK OUT A NEW LIFE.
• 09:32 AND IF YOU'LL LOOK PLEASE IN THE 5TH CHAPTER, PICKING UP IN THE 22ND VERSE,
• 09:37 THERE'S A PASSAGE HERE THAT I THINK REALLY IS WORTHY OF SOME EXPLORATION.
• 09:42 SO I APPRECIATE, IN ADVANCE, YOU GIVING ME 5 MINUTES TO UNPACK THIS FOR YOU.
• 09:45 I HONESTLY THINK THIS WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE.
• 09:48 HE SAYS HERE IN VERSE 22,
• 10:08 AND HE GOES ON TO SAY, AGAINST THIS, THERE IS NO LAW.
• 10:11 PAUL WOULD SAY THAT FUNDAMENTALLY,
• 10:13 WHEN SOMEONE HAS THE SPIRIT OF GOD RESIDENT WITHIN THEM,
• 10:17 THERE ARE CERTAIN FRUITS THAT MANIFEST WITH THE PASSAGE OF TIME, AS WELL.
• 10:21 NOW, BY THE WAY, IN READING THIS I AM REMINDED OF THE FACT THAT I HAVEN'T PERFECTED THIS.
• 10:25 YOU KNOW, I'VE BEEN MARRIED FOR 20 YEARS.
• 10:27 MY WIFE AND I WILL FUSS AND USUALLY IT'S MY FAULT.
• 10:30 SO, I DON'T STAND BEFORE YOU AS THE EPITOME OF PERFECTION.
• 10:34 BUT, I DO WANT TO REMIND YOU AND I NEED TO REMIND MYSELF AND THAT IS,
• 10:38 IT IS INCUMBENT UPON US TO BEAR THE FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT.
• 10:41 YOU KNOW, IN AA MEETINGS ALL OVER THE COUNTY, IF NOT THE WORLD,
• 10:45 PEOPLE TALK ABOUT WALKING THE WALK AND NOT JUST TALKING THE TALK.
• 10:48 TO USE BIBLICAL LANGUAGE, JESUS SAID, YOU'LL KNOW THEM BY THEIR FRUITS,
• 10:53 NOT JUST THAT WE'LL KNOW THEM BY OUR TOOTS - EVERYONE CAN TALK,
• 10:57 BUT HERE'S WHAT THE WALK LOOKS LIKE, THE MANUFACTURE, THE BEARING OF FRUIT.
• 11:01 HE SPEAKS HERE OF THE FRUIT OF LOVE. IF YOU'LL PERMIT FOR A SECOND, A CRITIQUE.
• 11:07 ABRAHAM MALAMAT, A PROFESSOR AT HEBREW UNIVERSITY, JERUSALEM ONCE WROTE THAT
• 11:12 "FOR AS MUCH AS CHRISTIANS TALK ABOUT LOVE,"
• 11:15 "THERE SEEMS TO BE A LOT OF MISUNDERSTANDING ABOUT THE WORD."
• 11:18 IS LOVE A FEELING? IS IT THIS IS IT THAT?
• 11:21 WHAT HE HARKS BACK TO IS THE HEBREW WORD FOR LOVE,
• 11:24 IT'S THE VERB "AHAV" MEANS "TO LOVE".
• 11:27 BUT, IT'S NOT ABSTRACTED IN THE SENTIMENTALITY
• 11:30 AS CAN BE THE CASE IN GRECO-ROMAN CULTURE.
• 11:33 WHEREAS LOVE IN HEBREW COMES FROM A VERB, IT MEANS TO DO GOOD ON BEHALF OF.
• 11:38 HENCE ELSEWHERE OUR NEW TESTAMENT WRITER SAYS,
• 11:44 IN OTHER WORDS, LET'S NOT JUST HAVE SENTIMENT,
• 11:46 BUT LET'S PUT SOME PRACTICAL FEET ON ALL OF THAT.
• 11:50 THE FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT, NUMBER ONE, IS INDIVIDUALS WILL BE MINDED TO LOVE OTHERS.
• 11:55 WHEN SOMEONE HAS THE HOLY SPIRIT IN THEM,
• 11:57 WE REALIZE THERE'S A WHOLE WORLD BEYOND THE BORDER OF OUR OWN NOSE
• 12:01 AND WE BEGIN TO REACH OUT TO THE BROADER CULTURE,
• 12:03 TO REACH OUT TO OTHERS AND TO BEGIN TO PRACTICE LOVE.
• 12:07 OH, IF ONLY INDIVIDUALS KNEW THAT IT'S AVAILABLE, IT'S A FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT.
• 12:12 THERE'S A JOY, THERE'S A PEACE THAT PASSES UNDERSTANDING,
• 12:16 THERE'S THIS INTERNAL REGENERATION THAT'S AVAILABLE TO INDIVIDUALS THAT WILL REPENT OF THEIR SINS AND WALK WITH GOD.
• 12:23 HE SPEAKS HERE OF JOY, OF PEACE, OF LONG SUFFERING OR PATIENCE.
• 12:27 HE TALKS ABOUT KINDNESS, GOODNESS, FAITHFULNESS.
• 12:31 I'M REMINDED THAT THERE IS THIS REGENERATION THAT'S AVAILABLE TO INDIVIDUALS THROUGH THE WORK OF THE HOLY SPIRIT.
• 12:40 I'M BRINGING CLOSURE NOW TO A THREE PART TREATMENT OF PENTECOST.
• 12:45 PENTECOST IN THE HEBREW, "SHAVUOT",
• 12:47 IT'S THIS FEAST OF OUTPOURING
• 12:49 WHEN ISRAELITES CELEBRATE GOD'S GOODNESS,
• 12:52 THEY CELEBRATE THE RAIN BEING POURED OUT AND THE BRINGING FORTH OF THE CROP.
• 12:57 YOU KNOW, YOU CAN SOW ALL THE SEEDS IN THE WORLD,
• 12:59 BUT IF THE RAINS DON'T COME DOWN AND WATER IT, IT'S ALL FOR NAUGHT.
• 13:02 WHEN THE WATER IS POURED OUT, THE EARTH COMES TO LIFE.
• 13:06 AS WE BRING THIS TO A CLOSE, I WANT TO REMIND YOU THAT GOD HIMSELF
• 13:09 WANTS TO POUR OUT THE POWER OF THE HOLY SPIRIT UPON YOU
• 13:13 AND CHANGE YOU AND REGENERATE YOU AND GIVE YOU A MARVELOUS LIFE BEYOND YOUR WILDEST DREAMS.
• 13:20 GOD BLESS YOU.
• 13:48 ██ (♪ ZOLA PLAYING THE RECORDER ♪)
• 14:02 FOR INSIGHTFUL PERSPECTIVES OF ISRAEL AND BIBLE PROPHECY,
• 14:06 ASK FOR OUR FREE MONTHLY NEWSLETTER, THE LEVITT LETTER.
• 14:09 WHEN YOU CALL, BE SURE TO ALSO AS FOR OUR FREE CATALOG
• 14:12 WITH THE LATEST VIDEOS, BOOKS AND MUSIC.
• 14:15 OUR CORRESPONDENCE COURSE, THE INSTITUTE OF JEWISH-CHRISTIAN STUDIES INCLUDES
• 14:20 READING PACKETS, TEACHING CDs AND MAIL-IN TESTS.
• 14:23 YOU MAY WANT TO JOIN US ON AN UPCOMING TOUR OF ISRAEL, GREECE
• 14:27 OR THE HOLY LAND EXPERIENCE THEME PARK IN ORLANDO, FLORIDA.
• 14:30 PLEASE CONTACT US FOR MORE INFORMATION.
• 14:39 THE WONDER
• 14:45 THE BEAUTY
• 14:51 THE SOUL OF THE HOLY LAND
• 15:05 IT'S A BEAUTIFUL PICTURE OF ISRAEL. AND YOU KNOW WHAT?
• 15:08 THERE'S ROOM FOR YOU IN IT.
• 15:11 IF INDIVIDUALS MAKE ROOM IN THEIR HEART FOR GOD'S WAYS, HIS WILL, HIS LAND,
• 15:16 IT'S AMAZING WHAT CAN HAPPEN TO THEM. RIGHT?
• 15:18 IT'S A WONDERFUL LAND.
• 15:19 I LOVE IT WHEN PEOPLE GET IT.
• 15:21 THEY GET THE CONNECTION BETWEEN THE BIBLE,
• 15:23 THE LAND, THE SPIRIT;
• 15:25 HERE WE'RE TALKING ABOUT HARVESTING
• 15:27 AND SHAVUOT, PENTECOST.
• 15:29 IT'S THE SPIRIT AND THE LAND TOGETHER.
• 15:31 YES, IF PEOPLE COULD ONLY DEVELOP A SENSE
• 15:33 OF TAKING THE BIBLE LITERALLY.
• 15:36 GOD SAYS HE'S GIVEN THE LAND TO THE JEWS.
• 15:38 THAT MEANS WHAT IT SAYS. EXACTLY WHAT IT WAS.
• 15:40 GOD SAYS HE WANTS TO SAVE PEOPLE'S LIVES
• 15:42 AND GIVE THEM HIS SPIRIT.
• 15:43 HE MEANS WHAT HE SAYS.
• 15:45 AND DID AT PENTECOST.
• 15:46 LOOK AT 3,000 WERE SAVED.
• 15:49 ALL JEWS, ALL SAVED.
• 15:51 RIGHT. AMEN. AMEN.
• 15:53 I LOVE TO HEAR STORIES ABOUT THE LAND
• 15:55 AND ABOUT PEOPLE MAKING ALIA TO THE LAND.
• 15:57 THE GREAT STORIES OF HOW THEY GOT THERE
• 15:59 AND WHAT GOD DOES WHEN THEY GET THERE,
• 16:02 THE BUSINESSES THAT THEY DO.
• 16:03 THIS ARI YEHUDA IS A PARTNER WITH JEREMY GIMPEL
• 16:07 AND THEY STARTED THIS LAND OF ISRAEL WITH
• 16:09 THE NECKLACES WITH THE DIRT,
• 16:10 JUST REGULAR, OLD DIRT FROM ISRAEL,
• 16:14 FROM EILAT ALL THE WAY UP TO GALILEE.
• 16:16 THEY PUT IT IN A LITTLE VIAL
• 16:18 AND IT'S TO KEEP IT CLOSE TO YOUR HEART.
• 16:20 IT'S JUST A WONDERFUL PICTURE OF THE LAND.
• 16:23 I LOVE I
• 16:24 WILL KING IS OUR MAN IN JERUSALEM.
• 16:26 HE DID THE INTERVIEW WITH ARI YEHUDA.
• 16:29 I KNOW YOU'LL LIKE IT.
• 16:30 BACK AFTER THIS.
• 16:33 ARI, AS A FELLOW TEXAN,
• 16:34 I KNOW HOW I GOT HERE
• 16:35 BUT TELL US ABOUT HOW
• 16:37 YOU GOT TO BE IN ISRAEL.
• 16:38 WELL, I WAS A 4TH GENERATION TEXAN.
• 16:40 WAY BACK, MY GREAT GRANDFATHER WAS
• 16:43 ACTUALLY ONE OF THE FIRST JEWISH COWBOYS.
• 16:45 AND RIGHT AFTER HIGH SCHOOL,
• 16:46 AS MY NAME IS ARI YEHUDA,
• 16:48 IT MEANS IN HEBREW, "THE LION OF JUDAH".
• 16:50 SO, THERE'S NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE
• 16:51 WITH THAT SORT OF NAME.
• 16:53 EVEN MY GRANDMOTHER COULDN'T REALLY PRONOUNCE IT,
• 16:54 SHE CALLED ME "ARI" AND I ALWAYS GREW UP FEELING
• 16:56 ALTHOUGH I LOVE TEXAS WITH ALL MY HEART,
• 16:58 I FELT DIFFERENT,
• 17:00 I FELT LIKE IT WASN'T REALLY MY HOME
• 17:01 AND I WAS ALWAYS DRAWN TO ISRAEL.
• 17:03 AND RIGHT AFTER HIGH SCHOOL I CAME TO ISRAEL,
• 17:05 I LEARNED TORAH IN THE YESHIVA, IN THE PLACE OF LEARNING IN JERUSALEM
• 17:09 AND AFTERWARDS I JUST DECIDED THIS IS WHERE I NEEDED TO STAY.
• 17:12 AFTER A LOT OF NEGOTIATION WITH MY PARENTS, I CAME BACK, I JOINED THE ARMY HERE.
• 17:18 I WAS IN THE GOLANI BRIGADES AND AS A MATTER OF FACT,
• 17:22 JEREMY GIMPEL IS MY COMMANDER NOW IN RESERVE DUTY.
• 17:26 DURING THE GAZA DISENGAGEMENT, TELL US WHERE YOU WERE.
• 17:29 I WENT DOWN. I WAS IN GADID RIGHT OFF OF NAVED DEL CALIM.
• 17:32 I WAS ELECTED TO BE ONE OF THE SPOKESMEN FOR THE RESISTANCE
• 17:37 IN GUSH KATIF.
• 17:38 I WAS INTERVIEWED ON ALL OF THESE DIFFERENT STATIONS,
• 17:42 ON ABC, CBS, CNN WHEN THE WHOLE CITY WENT INTO LOCK DOWN,
• 17:46 I WAS THE ONLY REPRESENTATIVE THERE ON THE ROOF OF THAT BUILDING WITH ALL OF THE MEDIA.
• 17:50 THE INTERVIEW THAT STICKS OUT THE MOST IN MY MIND WAS WITH THE BBC,
• 17:55 A STATION THAT I'M NOT SUCH A FAN OF, TO BE HONEST. I DON'T KNOW IF I CAN SAY THAT NOW.
• 17:59 NOT VERY POPULAR IN ISRAEL. YES
• 18:01 AND THE ANCHOR WOMAN SAID, "WHY ARE YOU STANDING AGAINST THE ISRAELI ARMY?"
• 18:07 I SAID, "STANDING AGAINST THE ISRAELI ARMY, GOD FORBID, I'M A SNIPER IN THE ISRAELI ARMY."
• 18:10 "I'M IN THE ISRAELI RESERVES. I'M STANDING HERE TO DEFEND THE PEOPLE OF ENGLAND."
• 18:14 AND AS I THOUGHT, SHE SAID, "THAT'S PREPOSTEROUS."
• 18:16 "HOW COULD YOU THINK ABOUT DOING A THING LIKE THAT, DEFEND THE PEOPLE OF ENGLAND?"
• 18:19 I SAID, "THE SAME PEOPLE THAT ARE SHOOTING KASSAMS AND ROCKETS INTO ISRAEL"
• 18:23 "AND BLOWING UP OUR BUSES ARE BLOWING UP YOUR SUBWAYS"
• 18:27 "AND WE'RE HERE TO DEFEND"
• 18:28 "THE GLOBAL APPEASEMENT OF TERROR"
• 18:31 "AND TO DEFEND WHAT IS RIGHT AND WHAT IS GOOD."
• 18:34 AND SHE SAID, "BUT, COME ON, THERE'S 8000 JEWS."
• 18:36 "THEY'RE SURROUNDED BY 1.5 MILLIONS ARABS.'
• 18:38 "ISN'T THAT JUST IMPRACTICAL?"
• 18:40 AND THAT'S A POINT THAT I REALLY THINK IT'S IMPORTANT FOR THE WORLD TO UNDERSTAND,
• 18:44 THAT ISRAEL, WE'RE 5 MILLION JEWS
• 18:46 SURROUNDED BY HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF ARABS IN 22 DIFFERENT ARAB COUNTRIES.
• 18:49 WE ARE SUPPOSED TO DO WHAT IS RIGHT AND WHAT IS JUST AND WHAT IS GOOD,
• 18:53 NOT WHAT IS NECESSARILY PRACTICAL IN THE CONVENTIONAL SENSE.
• 18:57 AND TO DIG UP JEWS FROM THERE-
• 18:59 THEY DUG UP JEWISH GRAVES BECAUSE THE CEMETERIES WOULD BE VANDALIZED.
• 19:03 THEY DESTROYED EVERYTHING.
• 19:04 WHAT HAPPENED THERE WAS AN INJUSTICE, A TERRIBLE INJUSTICE
• 19:08 AND I FEEL LIKE IT'S VERY IMPORTANT TO CRY OUT AGAINST WHAT HAPPENED THERE,
• 19:11 WHAT HAPPENED IN ARMONA AND, GOD FORBID, WHAT THE GOVERNMENT MAY INTEND ON DOING NOW.
• 19:16 SO ARI, I GUESS THE QUESTION IS, "WHAT CAN WE DO TO BALANCE THE REALITIES THAT WE TALKED ABOUT,"
• 19:21 "THE 1.5 MILLION PALESTINIANS VERSUS OUR BIBLICAL BELIEFS?"
• 19:25 WHEN IT COMES TO REALITIES,
• 19:27 THOSE WHO SAID WE NEED TO HAVE A JEWISH STATE IN THE ANCIENT JEWISH LAND OF ISRAEL,
• 19:31 THEY WERE LAUGHED AT. WHEN IT COMES TO PRACTICALITY, I'M NOT A BIG FAN OF THAT WORD.
• 19:36 I BELIEVE THAT WHAT'S HAPPENING IS A SPIRITUAL BATTLE, A SPIRITUAL WAR
• 19:40 AND JUST AS THE GENERATION OF JEWS THAT WAS BORN AFTER THE EXODUS FROM EGYPT IN THE DESERT,
• 19:45 THEY GOT THEIR FOOD, MANNA, FROM HEAVEN.
• 19:48 BUT, THEY WERE BORN INTO THAT REALITY. THEY DIDN'T SEE THE MIRACLE IN THAT.
• 19:51 THE JEWISH PEOPLE HERE IN ISRAEL, THEY DON'T KNOW THEIR BIBLE,
• 19:55 THEY DON'T KNOW WHERE THEY'VE COME FROM
• 19:57 AND ONCE THEY UNDERSTAND THE JEWISH CONNECTION TO HEBRON
• 20:00 IS THE SAME AS THE JEWISH CONNECTION TO TEL AVIV,
• 20:02 IT'S THAT GOD GAVE IT TO US, THAT IS THE SOLUTION TO OUR PROBLEMS.
• 20:06 IT'S NOT CONVINCING THEM ON A STRATEGIC, PRACTICAL LEVEL,
• 20:10 IT'S TEACHING THEM THE IMPORTANCE OF WHAT THE LAND OF ISRAEL IS,
• 20:13 THE INEXTRICABLE CONNECTION BETWEEN THE JEWISH PEOPLE,
• 20:16 THE GOD OF ISRAEL AND THE LAND OF ISRAEL.
• 20:18 SO THE JEWS BORN IN ISRAEL TODAY DON'T EVEN REALIZE THE MIRACLE THAT ALLOWS THEM TO BE IN THE LAND AGAIN.
• 20:25 THAT'S CORRECT. THEY DON'T SEE THE HAND OF GOD IN THIS BLATANT MIRACLE THAT I CAN'T -
• 20:31 IN WEST POINT, THEY DON'T EVEN STUDY THE SIX DAY WAR,
• 20:33 BECAUSE IT DEFIED ALL LOGIC.
• 20:36 GOD HAS HAD HIS HAND, JUST LIKE IN THE STORY OF PURIM IN THE MEGILLAH
• 20:39 WHEN GOD SAVED THE JEWISH PEOPLE FROM THE EVIL HAMAN.
• 20:42 GOD'S NAME ISN'T MENTIONED ONCE AND SO TOO,
• 20:45 WHEN I LOOK AT THE FOUNDATION OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL, GOD'S NAME,
• 20:47 HE'S NOT NO BLATANT SEA-SPLITTING.
• 20:50 BUT HOW CAN YOU NOT LOOK AT THESE BATTLES
• 20:52 WHEN THE JEWISH PEOPLE HAD A SPITBALL GUN AND A CANNON
• 20:55 AGAINST THE ENTIRE ARAB WORLD AND WE EMERGED VICTORIOUS.
• 20:59 I SEE THAT AND I SEE GOD IN THE WORLD WITHOUT A DOUBT.
• 21:02 AND NOW YOU CONTINUE TO WORK WITH YOUR FORMER COMMANDER.
• 21:06 YES. OUR GOAL IS, WE HAVE SO MANY DIFFERENT GOALS,
• 21:10 BUT THE MAIN GOALS ARE, AS WE SAID, TO BRING THE TORAH, THE BIBLE BACK TO THE JEWISH PEOPLE
• 21:15 AND TO TEACH ABOUT THE BEAUTY AND THE DEPTH AND DIMENSION OF JUDAISM ALL OVER THE WORLD.
• 21:20 WE'VE GONE AND WE'VE SPOKEN IN CHURCHES AROUND AMERICA,
• 21:22 TEACHING ABOUT THE BEAUTY AND THE DEPTH OF JUDAISM AND THE TORAH
• 21:26 AND WE BELIEVE IT'S VERY IMPORTANT TO BUILD CONNECTIONS WITH OUR CHRISTIAN BROTHERS
• 21:31 BECAUSE IT'S NOT OUT OF FEAR THAT WE'RE JOINING TOGETHER,
• 21:34 BUT OUT OF COMMON VALUES THAT WE UNDERSTAND THAT WE'RE EMERGING FROM EASY TIMES
• 21:41 INTO A TIME OF WAR WHEN THESE MUSLIMS IN THE WORLD,
• 21:44 THEY ARE SAYING, "THE SATURDAY PEOPLE FIRST AND THE SUNDAY PEOPLE SECOND."
• 21:48 WE'RE IN THE SAME BOAT TOGETHER.
• 21:49 ABSOLUTELY.
• 21:51 HAVE YOU FOUND CHRISTIAN AUDIENCES TO BE FAIRLY RECEPTIVE?
• 21:54 I BELIEVE SO. CHRISTIANS HAVE BEEN VERY CURIOUS.
• 21:58 A LOT OF THEM ARE TRYING TO RECONNECT TO THEIR JEWISH ROOTS, THEY EXPLAIN TO ME.
• 22:02 THEY WANT TO UNDERSTAND THE TORAH AND THE BEAUTY OF THE HEBREW LANGUAGE.
• 22:06 WE ARE SITTING HERE RIGHT NOW IN JERUSALEM, WHICH IN HEBREW, AS YOU KNOW, IS YERUSHALAYIM,
• 22:10 ONE OF THE BEAUTIFUL THINGS ABOUT THE HEBREW LANGUAGE IS EVERY LETTER HAS A MEANING,
• 22:13 HAS AN IDENTITY AND AS YOU KNOW, ONE HAND IN HEBREW IS A YAD, TWO IS YADIM.
• 22:18 ONE LEG IS A REGEL, TWO IS REGELIM.
• 22:21 A WORD WHEN IT ENDS IN "AIM" IT HAS AN EQUAL AND EXACT OPPOSITE.
• 22:24 AND YERUSHALAYIM HAS AN EQUAL AND EXACT OPPOSITE.
• 22:26 THERE'S JERUSALEM OF THIS WORLD,
• 22:28 THE PHYSICAL, MATERIAL JERUSALEM, YERUSHALAYIM SHALAMALA
• 22:31 AND THE SPIRITUAL JERUSALEM.
• 22:32 THIS IS WHERE THE PHYSICAL
• 22:34 AND THE SPIRITUAL COME TOGETHER.
• 22:36 WHEN CHRISTIANS ARE FLOCKING HERE ON THE FEAST OF TABERNACLES,
• 22:40 THERE ARE PROPHECIES THAT SAY THAT IS THE FEAST FOR ALL THE NATIONS TO COME
• 22:44 AND SACRIFICE AT OUR TEMPLE AND SEEING THESE PROPHECIES COME TRUE, IT'S DAZZLING.
• 22:50 HOW CAN ONE NOT SEE GOD EVERYWHERE IN THE WORLD RIGHT NOW IN THESE TIMES THAT WE'RE LIVING IN?
• 22:56 AND YOU ALSO CONTINUE TO WORK WITH JEREMY ON THE RADIO, AS WELL.
• 23:00 YES, WE HAVE A SHOW ON ISRAEL NATIONAL RADIO.
• 23:03 ONCE UPON A TIME, ARUTZ SHEVA, WHICH IS ISRAEL NATIONAL RADIO,
• 23:06 WAS RAPIDLY APPROACHING THE NUMBER ONE RADIO STATION IN ISRAEL.
• 23:10 IT'S A RIGHT WING VOICE, WHICH I THINK IS RELATIVELY LOGICAL
• 23:14 WHEN YOU'RE SURROUNDED BY NATIONS THAT WANT TO KILL YOU,
• 23:17 YOU SHOULD TRY TO DEFEND YOURSELF,
• 23:19 BUT THE ISRAELI GOVERNMENT IS A LEFTIST REGIME
• 23:22 AND THEY DO NOT WANT THAT VOICE TO COME OUT SO THEY MADE ARUTZ SHEVA AN ILLEGAL RADIO STATION.
• 23:28 SO, NOW IT'S BROADCAST OVER THE INTERNET
• 23:30 AND WE'RE TRYINGTO BRING THE LIGHT OF ISRAEL OUT TO THE WORLD TO SAY WE ARE THE JEWISH PEOPLE,
• 23:35 WE ARE NOT IN ISRAEL, AS MANY ISRAELIS WOULD SAY,
• 23:38 BECAUSE OF THE UNITED NATIONS RESOLUTION 425, WHATEVER IT IS.
• 23:42 WE ARE IN ISRAEL BECAUSE THE GOD OF ISRAEL HAS BROUGHT US BACK TO THE LAND OF ISRAEL
• 23:46 AND WE ARE HERE TO BE THAT LIGHT UNTO THE NATIONS AND TO DO WHAT IS RIGHT.
• 23:50 WHEN ISRAEL BOMBED THE OSIRAK REACTOR IN IRAQ, THE WHOLE WORLD CAME DOWN ON THEM.
• 23:54 20 YEARS LATER, THEY'RE ALL THANKING THEM.
• 23:57 WE NEED TO NOT TRY TO COW TIP AND TO APPEASE THE WORLD,
• 24:00 BUT TO DO WHAT IS RIGHT AND THEY WILL THANK US FOR IT.
• 24:03 ARI, THANK YOU FOR JOINING US.
• 24:06 THANK YOU WILL.
• 24:09 ♪ WE ARE BACK NOW IN OUR LAND. ♪
• 24:11 ♪ WE'RE DELIVERED BY OUR GOD'S ALMIGHTY HAND. ♪
• 24:14 ♪ HE HAS CALLED, US, CALLED US HOME. ♪
• 24:16 ♪ HE HAS SANCTIFIED HIS PROMISE AND HE'S CALLED HIS CHILDREN HOME. ♪
• 24:20 ♪ SHALOM, SHALOM ♪
• 24:23 ♪ THE MIGHTY GOD OF ISRAEL'S BROUGHT US HOME. ♪
• 24:25 ♪ AM YISRAEL CHAI B'SHALOM ♪
• 24:28 ♪ FOR THE MIGHTY GOD OF ISRAEL'S IN HIS MERCY BROUGHT US HOME. ♪
• 24:41 ♪ HE HAS SANCTIFIED HIS PROMISE AND HE'S CALLED HIS CHILDREN HOME. ♪
• 24:46 ♪ SHALOM! ♪♪
• 24:49 THAT'S ZOLA'S SONG, "WE ARE BACK" IN THE LAND.
• 24:51 AND THEY ARE. THEY ARE BACK IN THE LAND
• 24:53 BIGGER AND BETTER THAN EVER.
• 24:55 YES AND THEY'VE TURNED THAT LAND INTO A GARDEN.
• 24:57 HAVEN'T THEY?
• 24:58 THEY REALLY HAVE.
• 24:59 EVERYWHERE WE GO IN ISRAEL
• 25:00 YOU SEE GREENERY THAT WASN'T THERE.
• 25:03 THEY HAVE REALLY, LITERALLY MADE THE DESERT BLOOM.
• 25:05 A DESERT LAND OF A BYGONE ERA RIGHT
• 25:08 IS NOW EXPORTING FOOD ALL OVER THE WORLD AND TECHNOLOGY AND ALL SORTS OF THINGS.
• 25:12 WHEN GOD HAS HIS HAND IN SOMETHING HE MAKES IT TO PROSPER.
• 25:16 I THINK OF THAT AS WELL
• 25:17 WHEN MARY PRAYS IN THE GOSPEL OF LUKE
• 25:21 AND THIS IS A PROPHECY ABOUT WHAT WILL COME WITH THE LORD.
• 25:31 HE FILLS THE HUNGRY WITH GOOD THINGS. MY GOODNESS, THAT DOESN'T JUST MEAN PHYSICALLY.
• 25:36 THERE IS A KIND OF BOUNTY THAT'S AVAILABLE TO EVERYONE I BELIEVE
• 25:40 IF THEY WOULD BUT RECEIVE THE LORD, REPENT OF THEIR SINS.
• 25:43 IT'S NOT JUST PHYSICAL BUT IT'S SPIRITUAL, IT'S EMOTIONAL, IT'S INTELLECTUAL.
• 25:47 THERE'S SOME PEOPLE WITHIN THE SOUND OF MY VOICE I BET ARE FILLED WITH BAD THINGS.
• 25:51 BUT THE GOOD NEWS IS THAT THERE IS GOOD NEWS.
• 25:54 GOD AND CLEAN IT UP, CLEAR IT OUT AND GIVE NEW BEGINNINGS. IT'S FOR THE ASKING.
• 25:58 WHEN WE'RE TALKING ABOUT PENTECOST,
• 26:00 THE SPIRIT CAME INTO MAN.
• 26:03 WHAT A WONDERFUL PICTURE FOR US
• 26:04 TO SEE THE SPIRIT COMING INTO OURSELVES.
• 26:07 WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE FEAST.
• 26:08 THIS IS THE 4TH FEAST IN A SERIES OF 7 FEASTS.
• 26:12 AND HERE MESSIAH FULFILLS 4 OF THE 7 FEASTS.
• 26:16 YOU'VE GOT TO KNOW THAT WHEN THEY WERE WITNESSING
• 26:18 HOW EXCITING TO SAY,
• 26:20 "SEE, YESHUA FULFILLED,"
• 26:22 CRUCIFIED ON "PASSOVER",
• 26:24 BURIED ON "UNLEAVENED BREAD",
• 26:26 ROSE ON "FIRST FRUITS",
• 26:28 SENT THE HOLY SPIRIT,
• 26:29 "PENTECOST".
• 26:30 WHAT A STORY AND WHAT A DEAL. OH, AMEN!
• 26:32 PROPHECY IS BEING FULFILLED IN OUR DAY. YES.
• 26:34 MIRACLES ARE HAPPENING TODAY. YES.
• 26:36 A NEW LEASE ON LIFE IS AVAILABLE TODAY.
• 26:39 BOY THAT GOSPEL MESSAGE IS GOOD NEWS.
• 26:41 AND IT IS WONDERFUL. THINK ABOUT THE RAPTURE'S COMING, TRUMPETS, BE A TERRIFIC, TERRIFIC STORY.
• 26:47 AND REMEMBER THIS AS YOU GO,
• 26:49 SHA'ALU SHALOM YERUSHALAYIM
• 26:51 PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM.