
“Humble Beginnings”
In a simple animal stall, Jesus (Yeshua) supernaturally came into the world as a baby, lived to fulfill the Law, and promised to return as the Lion of Judah. Interview: Daniel Sayag, Lead Pastor of Kehilat HaCarmel (Carmel Congregation).
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Caption transcript for Close Encounters with Yeshua: “Humble Beginnings” (2/10)
- 00:01 Hi, I'm Kirsten Hart
- 00:03 And I'm David Hart.
- 00:05 On today's program Myles will be
- 00:06 teaching at a first century manger.
- 00:09 And we have a drama with a shepherd
- 00:12 who had a close encounter with Angels and the Baby Yeshua.
- 00:16 I'm excited today.
- 00:17 We get to sing one of Zola's songs.
- 00:19 Stay with us.
- 00:29 It was not long ago our first encounter
- 00:31 on the waters of the Galilee.
- 00:33 My hand is completely restored.
- 00:36 He said, Your faith has saved you.
- 00:39 I've heard Yeshua speak in our synagogue.
- 00:42 He talked about the Kingdom of God.
- 00:45 Then He showed us His wounds in His hands and His feet.
- 00:49 I believe He really is a King.
- 01:02 Shalom, Havarim, welcome Friends to our program.
- 01:05 I'm Myles Weiss
- 01:06 and I'm Katharine Weiss and we want
- 01:08 to welcome you to our series,
- 01:10 Close Encounters with Yeshua.
- 01:12 "Yeshua" is the Hebrew way to say "Jesus"
- 01:15 And we're going to be talking about
- 01:16 His humble beginnings.
- 01:17 You know it's so easy for
- 01:19 people to think about aliens
- 01:21 and space ships and supernatural phenomena,
- 01:23 witches and warlocks, etc.
- 01:24 But to realize that the Bible
- 01:26 is a supernatural story.
- 01:28 It's a book of supernatural events including
- 01:30 God becoming man as a baby
- 01:32 in the most humble beginnings
- 01:34 And I love Mary's response to the Angel's appearance
- 01:37 when he tells her that this is going to happen to her,
- 01:40 that she's going to be the one Messiah will come through.
- 01:43 She says, Be it unto me according to Your Word.
- 01:48 And any time we're faced with
- 01:50 challenges in our life that
- 01:52 we need the supernatural
- 01:53 let that be our response,
- 01:55 Be it unto me according to Your Word
- 01:57 That's a really healthy response when you're
- 01:59 talking about a supernatural God with ultimate power.
- 02:01 The Creator of the Universe is speaking to someone.
- 02:04 I just remember when we were working on this series and
- 02:07 being there with the sheep and
- 02:09 recognizing the humility of the beginnings and how
- 02:13 the shepherds, the outsiders,
- 02:16 the ones who were simple folks, regular people
- 02:18 and God chooses them to reveal Himself to.
- 02:21 It's and incredible story.
- 02:23 So let's begin with the drama
- 02:25 going back to Biblical times
- 02:27 and then we'll come forward in time to today.
- 02:29 But let's go see what it would be like.
- 02:31 Let's imagine ourselves 2,000 years ago as
- 02:33 these shepherds are dealing with the possibility
- 02:36 that Messiah is in their midst.
- 02:46 I tell you I saw it with my own eyes.
- 02:50 We were watching our sheep near Bethlehem.
- 02:52 It was night.
- 02:55 And this unbelievable light appeared out of nowhere.
- 02:59 We were almost blinded.
- 03:01 And then this Angelic being
- 03:07 tells us not to be afraid
- 03:10 that a Savior had just been born
- 03:13 here in the City of David.
- 03:15 The Messiah, born here in Bethlehem.
- 03:20 This Angel says,
- 03:23 You'll find Him wrapped in cloth
- 03:26 laying in a manager.
- 03:28 In a manger!
- 03:30 Where we feed our sheep!
- 03:32 And then, an amazing Army of Angels above us
- 03:37 praising God saying,
- 03:40 [Speaking Hebrew]
- 03:46 Peace on Earth, good will to all men!
- 03:50 I tell you it was unbelievable!
- 03:52 We hurried to Bethlehem where we found a babe
- 03:56 along with His parents, Mary and Joseph.
- 03:59 I have to wonder...
- 04:03 Whom am I that I should gaze upon the face of the newborn Messiah?
- 04:11 On the 8th day according to the Law of Moses
- 04:15 He was brought to the Temple in Jerusalem.
- 04:18 It was there that He was given the Name - "Yeshua"...
- 04:23 "Salvation"!
- 04:26 I'm just a shepherd.
- 04:33 I don't know why I saw all of this.
- 04:45 The supernatural birth of Yeshua HaMashiach
- 04:48 took place in a cave like this
- 04:50 with animals like this
- 04:51 and a shepherd like this.
- 04:53 We're living out today - similar time similar place and
- 04:56 similar events as the birth of Yeshuah.
- 04:59 Here we have the sheep and goats of the era.
- 05:01 We have "ebbut", the manger,
- 05:04 a feeding troth where the animals would feed.
- 05:07 And that's the manger, the place where Yeshua was laid in.
- 05:11 A manger like this.
- 05:13 A cave like this.
- 05:15 And a place like this.
- 05:17 You know, the birth of Yeshua is a supernatural event.
- 05:20 It was prophesied by the Prophet Micah
- 05:23 and that it had to be in Bethlehem.
- 05:25 It had to be in the City of David.
- 05:27 It had to be from the line of Judah.
- 05:30 And all of the personal issues
- 05:33 that makes Yeshua the One,
- 05:35 the Promised One,
- 05:36 the awaited One,
- 05:37 took place in a setting similar to this.
- 05:39 In fact, in Luke we read that when the
- 05:42 Angels came to announce the birth of Yeshua,
- 05:45 the shepherds were so taken aback that
- 05:48 they fell on their faces because they
- 05:51 couldn't believe this supernatural announcement
- 05:53 that was coming to them through the Angelic Hosts saying,
- 05:56 [Speaking Hebrew]
- 06:02 "Today is born to you in the City of David
- 06:07 a Messiah, a Savior, the LORD".
- 06:11 The very place where it would take place
- 06:13 had to be the City of David.
- 06:15 And what was that city?
- 06:16 "Beit Lechem"
- 06:17 "The House of Bread"
- 06:18 because the "Bread of Heaven" was coming to earth.
- 06:21 "Lechem"...
- 06:25 The Bread of Life would be born in the City of Bread.
- 06:28 And we see that here.
- 06:29 We see that Micah in Chapter 5 says,
- 06:44 A promise, an eternal promise from God that
- 06:48 He Himself would come
- 06:50 and become our atonement
- 06:51 because only sinless blood can atone for our sin - like for like.
- 06:56 It had to be perfectly divine and perfectly human.
- 07:00 And that's what Yeshua brings to us.
- 07:02 And so He comes as the Lamb of God.
- 07:05 He comes to shepherds.
- 07:07 He becomes the Good Shepherd
- 07:09 and He is today that same Good Shepherd.
- 07:13 And I would submit to you today that
- 07:15 all we like sheep have gone astray.
- 07:17 These animals are not easy to control.
- 07:20 They're not easy to work with.
- 07:22 And we would say that we are similar to that.
- 07:24 We have our human will, our free will that God gave us
- 07:28 and yet He wants us to bend our will to His.
- 07:30 He wants us to bend our need to Him.
- 07:33 And I say to people, we can bow now or we can bow later but
- 07:36 the Scripture says that every knee will bow and
- 07:39 every tongue confess that Yeshua is Lord
- 07:42 to the Glory of Abba,
- 07:44 the Glory of God the Father.
- 07:46 The day is coming when the people of Israel will cry out...
- 07:50 Baruch haba B'Shem Adonai
- 07:52 Blessed is He who comes in the Name of the Lord.
- 07:56 That day is coming soon.
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- 08:35 Hello, my name is Andrea Davis
- 08:37 and I've been working with Zola Levitt Ministries
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- 09:00 And let's continue this journey together.
- 09:03 Thank you.
- 09:06 Myles - Not only was the birth of Yeshua prophesied
- 09:08 by the Hebrew prophets
- 09:10 but there were those waiting for Him in the Temple,
- 09:12 Simeon and Anna.
- 09:14 Simeon, whose name means "God hears"
- 09:16 and Anna whose name means "Grace".
- 09:18 They were waiting to hear from God
- 09:20 the message of grace that was coming to the Jewish people.
- 09:23 Yeshua said of Himself,
- 09:28 It was only much later in the story
- 09:31 that this message, this Good News
- 09:32 would go out to the Gentile world
- 09:35 and be an open door for all the Gentiles who want to,
- 09:38 to be knit into the commonwealth of Israel.
- 09:42 And that's what we see happening in the story as it unfolds
- 09:46 the promises to the Jewish people that a Savior
- 09:50 would come to the House of Israel.
- 09:52 And the promise that this would not only be
- 09:56 salvation coming to the Jewish people
- 09:58 but it would be a light to the nations.
- 10:00 It speaks of it this way,
- 10:02 [Speaking Hebrew]
- 10:06 "A Light to light the nations and the Glory of the people of Israel."
- 10:11 Now, our rejection nationally of Yeshua
- 10:15 did not mean that there were not always those
- 10:18 in every generation of my people that said "yes" to Yeshua
- 10:21 and are still saying "yes" today.
- 10:23 But because of our national rejection
- 10:26 the salvation was open to the entire world.
- 10:29 And that's been good news.
- 10:31 The Scripture says later on, if our
- 10:32 rejection has been the salvation of the world
- 10:35 what will our acceptance be but life from the dead.
- 10:38 And that's the season that we're coming into.
- 10:41 We're coming into a season of resurrection life
- 10:43 as world revival will be taking place amidst
- 10:46 the wars, the confusion, the difficulty that is coming in the earth,
- 10:50 it will also be world revival as people around the earth say
- 10:54 "yes" to the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob
- 10:57 through the promised Mashiach -
- 10:59 through Yeshua Ha Mashiach.
- 11:01 And that's the season of the preparation for the return of the Lord.
- 11:07 Simeon and Anna waited patiently.
- 11:11 Simeon was looking forward to seeing the consolation of Israel,
- 11:16 the hope of Israel...
- 11:17 wanting to touch Him, to hold Him as a baby in his arms.
- 11:20 And because Yeshua is very much the Jewish Messiah
- 11:24 He was brought to the Temple on the 8th day according
- 11:28 to the Word in Genesis 17, that
- 11:30 every Jewish male must be circumcised on the 8th day.
- 11:34 And so Yeshua was brought to the Temple to be circumcised
- 11:38 to be part of the Jewish nation.
- 11:41 I like to tell people when they come here in Israel,
- 11:43 We look to the cross to see the sacrifice,
- 11:46 the blood of Yeshua.
- 11:47 But in a blank check to the Jewish people and to the world
- 11:50 the first shedding of the blood took place on the 8th day
- 11:54 forever identifying Yeshua as a Jew.
- 11:59 He is the Lion of Judah.
- 12:00 He came first as a Lamb
- 12:02 but He is returning as the Lion of the Tribe of Judah.
- 12:06 And He will always be recognized as
- 12:09 a Jewish Messiah and the Savior of the world.
- 12:12 What a Gift to our people!
- 12:15 Because Yeshua Himself will say during the course of His ministry,
- 12:23 And everything that was required under the Jewish law
- 12:27 He fulfilled perfectly so that we wouldn't have to
- 12:30 Because we can't.
- 12:32 We do not have the ability in ourselves to fulfill the Law.
- 12:35 That's why we need a Savior.
- 12:38 In my wandering years I tried every other way
- 12:40 to self improvement
- 12:42 and to get to what I called God.
- 12:45 But it turned out that I could not do it myself.
- 12:47 I need the Grace of God like Anna.
- 12:50 I needed the Hearing of God like Simeon
- 12:53 to Hear the word of Grace and to say
- 12:55 "yes" to the One who did it all for me and for you.
- 13:12 I remember as a new believer reading,
- 13:15 "You shall call His Name "Jesus"
- 13:17 because He shall save His people."
- 13:19 And it didn't make sense quite to me until I
- 13:21 realized that "Jesus" in Hebrew is "Yeshua"
- 13:23 like you said which means "Salvation".
- 13:26 He was named for who He is.
- 13:28 And it was such a shock for me to
- 13:31 realize that all my wanderings
- 13:32 and religion and spiritualism,
- 13:34 I couldn't make my way to God,
- 13:36 that God knew that and so He came to us.
- 13:39 Right, it's not about how we obey
- 13:41 or how we follow the rules.
- 13:43 But it's how we believe.
- 13:45 It's all about faith.
- 13:47 You are saved by grace through faith,
- 13:49 not that of yourself, it's a gift of God.
- 13:52 Let's go now back to Israel and learn
- 13:55 more about how our Lord came.
- 14:01 Here we are in a cave in Israel.
- 14:03 This cave is similar to what Yeshua would have been born in.
- 14:07 We have a manger here reminding us of what humble means that
- 14:12 the Lord, the King of Glory started with.
- 14:14 He came Myles.
- 14:16 He came to all of us and
- 14:17 He came to save us all
- 14:19 from this cursed earth.
- 14:21 I's a pretty amazing story
- 14:22 that the King of Kings, the Lord of Lords
- 14:24 [Speaking Hebrew]
- 14:27 And He comes as a baby
- 14:29 and it so challenges our rational thought
- 14:33 and our natural way of looking at things
- 14:36 that God has supernaturally
- 14:38 brought Messiah as a baby into this family of promise,
- 14:42 Abraham, Isaac and Jacob who is Israel.
- 14:45 And it's really a story of patience
- 14:47 when you think about what Mariam and Joseph went through
- 14:50 and what Simeon and Anna went through.
- 14:52 I remember the Psalm,
- 14:54 Psalm 27,
- 15:03 There's patience that God calls us to.
- 15:06 He gives us a promise.
- 15:07 He gave Simeon a promise that
- 15:09 he would see the Lord, the Messiah
- 15:12 before he would pass this earth.
- 15:14 And he waited a long time.
- 15:16 And so did Anna.
- 15:17 She had gone through many, many trials.
- 15:19 She lost her husband,
- 15:20 only was married 7 years.
- 15:22 And then, she was of great age at 84 years old in the Temple
- 15:27 waiting to see the coming of her Messiah.
- 15:31 And she was fasting and praying.
- 15:33 You know, I think of our own lives.
- 15:35 That there are things that God has promised us
- 15:37 and then we get into this long season in our life.
- 15:40 And we think, Is it ever going to happen?
- 15:42 Are we ever going to see the promise that God has given us?
- 15:46 And He calls us to remember,
- 15:48 to wait patiently,
- 15:50 and we will see the fulfillment that God has said.
- 15:53 That's such a good word.
- 15:54 You know, we're not patient naturally.
- 15:56 It doesn't come to us naturally.
- 15:57 We need a supernatural enduement from the Lord
- 16:00 in order to have patience.
- 16:02 I think about our friend who is a worship leader
- 16:05 in our congregation back home.
- 16:07 How her husband, Christian husband prayed for her,
- 16:10 this Jewish gal, for 25 years,
- 16:13 until she finally said "yes" to Yeshua.
- 16:16 And now she leads worship in several places
- 16:18 and she covers for me teaching when we leave town.
- 16:21 And she's become a real pillar in the House of the Lord.
- 16:25 But it was 25 years of prayer, Katharine.
- 16:28 WOW
- 16:29 I mean she is a solid believer today.
- 16:33 And then she would bring her mother who
- 16:35 is a Holocaust Survivor, to our congregation.
- 16:38 Her mom would come but there was no outward sign that
- 16:41 she was saying "yes" to her Messiah yet.
- 16:43 It wasn't until her deathbed that she said to Michelle,
- 16:47 "I believe and I am so glad that you believe too"
- 16:50 That's so important.
- 16:52 You think about Simeon standing on the Word and
- 16:54 Anna standing on the Word and
- 16:56 Michelle standing on the Word praying for her mom and
- 16:59 her mom coming and hearing the Word of God
- 17:02 every time we gathered.
- 17:04 And we couldn't see an outward sign that she was saying "yes."
- 17:06 Remember, people who came from Auschwitz
- 17:08 often came through with no belief in God at all,
- 17:11 let alone to believe that Jesus,
- 17:13 the Christian so-called God
- 17:15 could be the Messiah of the Jewish people.
- 17:17 It's such a stretch,
- 17:19 such a long way to go.
- 17:20 And I think about God's patience with us and how
- 17:23 for 2,000 years He's watching over this Promise to Israel
- 17:28 and this Promise that He would bring us back to the Land.
- 17:30 And now the season is on us.
- 17:32 And the revival is coming to the Jewish people.
- 17:35 And we need to be like Anna and Simeon.
- 17:38 And we need to see the promise
- 17:40 and have seed form faith
- 17:43 that there will be world-wide revival
- 17:46 and that there will be a revival in Israel
- 17:49 for the Jewish people in this coming time.
- 17:52 There's such a connection between the restoration of Israel
- 17:55 and the restoration of nations through revival.
- 17:58 Think about this,
- 17:59 Yeshua Himself, He would grow up to
- 18:01 preach and to teach and to heal and to
- 18:03 walk this earth in a miraculous way.
- 18:05 And before He went to suffer at the cross
- 18:07 He said to the Jewish leaders,
- 18:22 Two promises that Yeshua brought to this world,
- 18:26 to the Jewish people and to the nations as well.
- 18:29 And we know that is happening in our day.
- 18:31 The Jewish people are getting pressed
- 18:34 to saying we need help from above.
- 18:37 It's coming stronger every day and the
- 18:39 nations are turning to the LORD.
- 18:41 Greater numbers than ever before.
- 18:44 We are looking for the return of Yeshua Ha Mashiach.
- 18:55 If you're thinking about visiting the Holy Land
- 18:57 come on a Zola Tour
- 18:59 where the Scriptures come to life as you
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- 19:43 We love going to Israel because
- 19:46 it's Israel and get to walk where Yeshua walked.
- 19:48 But even more, our baby boy lives there.
- 19:51 Sure does.
- 19:53 So that's a big draw for us to be able to go on the tours.
- 19:55 And if we can fit in some time to see
- 19:57 our boy who lives in Jerusalem it's a plus.
- 20:00 It's so hard to believe he lives there.
- 20:02 He works there,
- 20:04 he walks those streets every day.
- 20:05 It's really amazing.
- 20:06 He eats that good food every day.
- 20:08 We're excited about this next tour coming up.
- 20:11 I remember our first tour about 5 years ago and
- 20:15 we got off the plane and every where we went
- 20:19 it was just an amazing experience.
- 20:21 I remember one day getting on the bus early.
- 20:24 I think it was like 7:30 in the morning.
- 20:26 Too early!
- 20:28 Yes - we knew that we were heading to Bethlehem area and
- 20:32 so I wanted to sit by the window that day and...
- 20:34 We always fought for the windows.
- 20:35 We did - yes.
- 20:36 Cause it's the good seat.
- 20:37 So all of a sudden we turned a corner
- 20:40 and there it was...
- 20:41 Shepherd's Field.
- 20:43 And I just could picture the shepherds.
- 20:46 We sing about it, "Abiding in the Field".
- 20:49 And all of a sudden they had an encounter with the angel
- 20:51 telling the good news about what was about to happen with Yeshua.
- 20:54 It was amazing!
- 20:55 Talk about a close encounter.
- 20:57 They were right there and then they got to see the Baby.
- 20:59 Yes.
- 21:00 I love Zola's teaching but
- 21:02 we also love Zola's music.
- 21:04 And today we get to sing one of his songs.
- 21:06 Yay!
- 21:08 And you love his music too because you play the cello.
- 21:11 I do... I grew up playing the cello.
- 21:13 And I love that Zola was a classically trained oboe player.
- 21:17 And he played with symphonies.
- 21:19 I played with symphonies growing up playing the cello.
- 21:21 So the flavor in his music is so wonderful
- 21:24 because it has the Israeli sound but
- 21:26 also entwined is classical.
- 21:29 And we just love that.
- 21:30 This is a song he wrote about Yeshua.
- 21:56 ♪ Yeshua, You came unto our fathers ♪
- 22:02 ♪ Yeshua, You came to us alone ♪
- 22:08 ♪ Yeshua, the lost sheep of Israel ♪
- 22:14 ♪ Yeshua, You came unto our own ♪
- 22:20 ♪ Yeshua, the lost sheep of Israel ♪
- 22:27 ♪ Yeshua, You came unto our own ♪
- 22:42 ♪ You walked in the land of Israel ♪
- 22:48 ♪ You taught us to love our Lord ♪
- 22:54 ♪ You died for us in Israel ♪
- 23:00 ♪ For us Your blood was outpoured ♪
- 23:06 ♪ You died for us in Israel ♪
- 23:13 ♪ For us Your blood was outpoured ♪
- 23:28 ♪ For we like sheep have gone astray ♪
- 23:34 ♪ Every one to his own way ♪
- 23:40 "But You alone took the blame ♪
- 23:46 "And now we ask in Your Holy Name ♪
- 23:53 ♪ For we like sheep have gone astray ♪
- 23:59 ♪ Every one to his own way ♪
- 24:05 "But You alone took the blame ♪
- 24:11 "And now we ask in Your Holy Name ♪
- 24:23 ♪ Yeshua, return unto our fathers ♪
- 24:30 ♪ Yeshua, return to us alone ♪
- 24:36 ♪ Yeshua, return unto Israel ♪
- 24:42 ♪ Yeshua, return unto Your own ♪
- 24:48 ♪ Yeshua, return unto Israel ♪
- 24:55 ♪ Yeshua, return unto Your own ♪♪
- 25:14 We are the new faces
- 25:15 in this wonderful ministry.
- 25:17 We have loved watching some of Zola's teachings
- 25:19 from 35 - 40 years ago almost
- 25:22 and we love his music.
- 25:24 The other night we got on our couch
- 25:27 and I said, We're watching the original video.
- 25:30 So we got on YouTube, looked up Zola Levitt Presents
- 25:33 and we watched a bunch of Zola Levitt videos.
- 25:36 We did.
- 25:37 And so much of his music we absolutely love.
- 25:40 I love teaching but when the music happens
- 25:44 that's when teaching and Scripture comes to life for me.
- 25:48 I'm a musician, I'm a singer.
- 25:49 That's what happens.
- 25:51 That's what we love about Zola.
- 25:52 He was a musician.
- 25:54 He was a teacher also
- 25:55 but he came from the foundation of classical music.
- 25:59 We love his songs.
- 26:00 The feel...
- 26:01 Here's what I really think in my heart,
- 26:03 that feel, that Hebrew feel and the classical
- 26:06 is so relevant right now.
- 26:09 We love worship songs,
- 26:10 we love the contemporary
- 26:12 but there's something when you put
- 26:14 Hebrew feel into that music that it changes it.
- 26:18 And right now in 2017
- 26:20 it's the sound that we love.
- 26:22 Right - I think it's lots of songs of celebration.
- 26:24 It is.
- 26:26 And we're excited to be a part of that.
- 26:27 Well we're Gentiles.
- 26:29 I think you know that
- 26:30 if you watched our first interview.
- 26:32 But we have such a love for Israel.
- 26:35 I remember I had a moment when
- 26:37 we were on the Mount of Beatitudes
- 26:39 last time we were in the Holy Land.
- 26:41 And I was sitting up high looking over the Sea of Galilee.
- 26:44 And I thought this is the Land that God loves.
- 26:49 He made this Land.
- 26:51 And I had a moment thinking that He
- 26:53 could have picked Switzerland or Norway, Ireland,
- 26:56 any other beautiful spot in the world.
- 26:57 But for some He looked at that
- 27:00 little plot of land in Israel
- 27:02 and He said, this Land is mine.
- 27:04 And that is Zola's heart for Israel also.
- 27:07 That's right.
- 27:08 And our son lives there every day and experiences that.
- 27:10 It is so great.
- 27:11 I know.
- 27:12 I need some falafel right now.
- 27:14 I love what this program has been
- 27:16 saying for the 3 decades...
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- 27:51 Your donations to Zola Levitt Ministries
- 27:53 help these organizations
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