Caption transcript for Close Encounters with Yeshua: “Jewish Context” (3/10)

• 00:01 I'm Kirsten Hart.
• 00:02 Welcome to Zola Levitt Presents
• 00:04 And I'm David Hart.
• 00:05 Today, on "Close Encounters with Yeshua"
• 00:07 Myles is teaching at the Southern Steps in Jerusalem.
• 00:10 And we have another wonderful reenactment using an Israeli actor
• 00:15 who is a Priest who has an encounter with the young Yeshua.
• 00:19 Plus, we have an interview
• 00:21 with the Carmel Congregation Worship Leader.
• 00:24 Stay with us.
• 00:35 It was not long ago our first encounter
• 00:36 on the waters of the Galilee.
• 00:38 My hand is completely restored.
• 00:41 He said, Your faith has saved you.
• 00:44 I've heard Yeshua speak in our synagogue.
• 00:48 He talked about the Kingdom of God.
• 00:51 Then He showed us His wounds in His hands and His feet.
• 00:54 I believe He really is a King.
• 01:09 Shalom Havarim,
• 01:10 Hello Friends.
• 01:11 And welcome to our program.
• 01:12 I'm Myles Weiss
• 01:13 And I'm Katharine Weiss.
• 01:15 And we want to welcome you to our series,
• 01:16 "Close Encounters with Yeshua"
• 01:18 Yeshua is the Hebrew way of saying Jesus.
• 01:20 And it is our desire to present Jesus in His Jewish identity.
• 01:25 Yeah, all the prophecies from the Hebrew Bible,
• 01:27 all the stories in a Jewish context.
• 01:29 He was born into a Jewish community
• 01:32 and now in our day people are confronting that.
• 01:34 It's beginning to become a reality around the world.
• 01:36 Right, right.
• 01:37 I mean, I love it.
• 01:39 He came to a low place because He doesn't
• 01:41 want anyone to every say that Jesus can't identify with us
• 01:45 in the most humble beginnings that we have.
• 01:47 He was born in Bethlehem,
• 01:49 grew up in Nazareth.
• 01:50 And it was said that nothing good could come out of Nazareth.
• 01:53 But yet in that time and in that place
• 01:56 He grew with God in wisdom and in stature
• 01:59 and in favor with God it says in Luke 2:52
• 02:02 That's true.
• 02:03 And we see that the names, the context, the places,
• 02:06 if you put them all back in their Hebrew context
• 02:08 you see, for example, His mother's name is Miriam,
• 02:11 His brothers Yokov, Yosef, Shimon, Yehuda...
• 02:14 I mean that's a Jewish family.
• 02:16 So let's go now to a drama.
• 02:17 We're going to look at what it would be like
• 02:20 for the doctors of the law, the priests, the rabbis, the wisdom guys;
• 02:23 what would it be like for them to confront this young man and to
• 02:27 try to understand who He is.
• 02:29 Let's go there now.
• 02:40 I've seen him before on occasion.
• 02:45 At least once a year He comes here
• 02:47 to Jerusalem with His family at Pesach, as do I.
• 03:04 Such was the case this year.
• 03:09 He was here in the Temple every day,
• 03:11 for 4 or 5 days listening closely to what we had to say.
• 03:19 We don't see children his age confronting our precepts with such...spirit.
• 03:28 He has such keen insight,
• 03:32 asking us questions that left us speechless.
• 03:36 His name is "Yeshua"... "Salvation".
• 03:43 An astonishing young man.
• 03:47 I honestly was concerned about him after a few days
• 03:50 because he was no longer with his parents.
• 03:52 It turns out that caravan was on it's way back to Nazareth
• 03:57 then they suddenly realized he was not among their friends.
• 04:01 Upon their return here I overheard his mother scold him,
• 04:05 only to hear him say that he was simply concerned about his father's affairs.
• 04:14 I believe he was referring to Adonai, his Heavenly Father.
• 04:23 His parents didn't seem to understand, nor do I.
• 04:35 But it does make me wonder.
• 04:56 Even from a young age
• 04:58 the authority that Yeshua walked in
• 04:59 caused many to wonder about him.
• 05:01 Could he be who he seemed to be?
• 05:03 In Luke 2:42 we see him coming up with His family
• 05:07 to keep the Feast of Passover.
• 05:09 And again, this for us puts such
• 05:12 a Jewish cultural context around His life.
• 05:15 It seems odd that through the centuries
• 05:18 that was stripped away
• 05:20 and that this religion became such an other
• 05:23 when it's so obviously a Jewish context.
• 05:25 I mean, we're here on the Southern Steps of the Temple.
• 05:28 Behind me you can see the Holy Gates,
• 05:31 the gates through which the pilgrims would enter.
• 05:33 They would come up from the South and enter
• 05:35 to go in to bring the sacrifice into the Temple itself.
• 05:39 The Jewishness of Jesus is on the horizon.
• 05:42 It is being known and noised abroad throughout the world right now.
• 05:46 In fact, many of the archaeological
• 05:48 discoveries that are coming up right now
• 05:50 are 1st century discoveries verifying the reality
• 05:54 of Jesus as a Jewish person.
• 05:56 We must understand that.
• 05:58 The pilgrims would come up 3 times a year
• 06:01 for the Shalosh Regulim, the Pilgrim Feasts.
• 06:04 They would come for Passover.
• 06:06 Then again, for Shavuot and
• 06:07 finally at the 7th Feast of the year,
• 06:09 the 3rd biggest one,
• 06:11 and that is Tabernacles, or Succoth.
• 06:14 His parents were keeping those Feasts.
• 06:17 Yeshua was with them because they were an observant family.
• 06:21 The Temple was the center of all Jewish life at the time.
• 06:24 And so they were keeping the faithfulness of what they had learned from
• 06:28 Leviticus 23, where it's mandated that we come up 3 times a year
• 06:33 to bring sacrifices before the Lord.
• 06:36 Yeshua as a young person, 12 years old when he was here,
• 06:41 In Luke 2:42 we read,
• 06:46 Now some people would like to say
• 06:47 that was a bar mitzvah
• 06:49 but we believe the actual form of bar mitzvah
• 06:51 developed later in the centuries.
• 06:53 But there was a time of dedication,
• 06:55 a time of coming to majority.
• 06:58 As a young person the sacrifice would be a turtle dove.
• 07:01 But when he became a man it would be a lamb.
• 07:05 and so that all took place right within these walls.
• 07:08 The money was exchanged.
• 07:10 The shekelim were changed for Temple tax
• 07:13 and they would go up and sacrifice.
• 07:15 And here's the irony and the beauty of this story.
• 07:19 This place which eventually after His death, burial and resurrection
• 07:23 would become the place where the Church would be born,
• 07:26 the community of faith would be born.
• 07:28 Now think about this, 12 year old Yeshua
• 07:30 interacting with the doctors of the Law,
• 07:33 with the wise men in the Temple.
• 07:35 And who was he?
• 07:37 As a 12 year old He came up with a turtle dove.
• 07:39 But he would soon be coming up with a lamb.
• 07:42 And he would eventually become the Lamb of God.
• 07:53 The steps to the Temple are purposefully uneven.
• 07:56 You can't just run up here in your own strength.
• 07:58 It takes a thoughtful glance and a time to
• 08:02 contemplate the ways of God, the holiness of God.
• 08:04 Because the Psalms of Ascent were sung as the pilgrims would come up to the Temple.
• 08:09 And so it's just an odd feeling.
• 08:12 You're checked, you're out of balance,
• 08:14 your aware of your own frailty before a Holy God.
• 08:17 And it's on purpose built that way.
• 08:20 This whole scene, this whole picture of the Temple
• 08:23 back in the day.
• 08:25 If you could picture the pilgrims thronging up
• 08:27 through the Holy Gates
• 08:29 and the amazing press of people ready to
• 08:33 come for the sacrifices in the Temple.
• 08:37 Yeshua was a controversial character from 12 years old on.
• 08:42 And the idea that He might be the prophet
• 08:47 that Moses spoke of was always in the background.
• 08:55 And there had to be parallels between Moses and Yeshua.
• 08:57 And there were many.
• 08:59 One of the things that is so incredible to me is that
• 09:02 the New Agers who are looking at the
• 09:04 18 silent years between 12 and 30,
• 09:07 imagining that Yeshua went off to study in the East or something.
• 09:11 That's totally inconsistent with the Jewish way of life.
• 09:15 Remember, the cultural context,
• 09:17 the historical context,
• 09:19 the family context,
• 09:21 the Torah based context,
• 09:22 is completely Jewish.
• 09:24 Those 12 years, those 18 years
• 09:27 when Yeshua was not spoken of
• 09:29 between age 12 and age 30
• 09:31 when He began His ministry,
• 09:33 were the years where He grew in stature,
• 09:35 in favor with wisdom from God
• 09:38 and He was growing as a person,
• 09:40 as a business person,
• 09:41 as a carpenter, stonemason working in His Dad's business
• 09:44 and preparing for the release into ministry.
• 09:47 And that's why when He would come up as a man
• 09:51 He would bring a lamb with Him.
• 09:53 Picture this...
• 09:54 The Lamb of God bringing a lamb up for sacrifice
• 09:58 knowing where He would be going one day.
• 10:02 And that's what Yeshua would do,
• 10:04 Jesus Himself.
• 10:05 And then we see Him going out to the desert
• 10:08 down south from here to be baptized, immersed
• 10:12 by [speaking Hebrew], His cousin, John the Immerser, the Baptister.
• 10:16 John the Immerser saw Him; he said,
• 10:19 [Speaking Hebrew]
• 10:27 John had the revelation that the One who previously
• 10:30 would take a lamb up to the Temple
• 10:33 was become, had become and will forever be
• 10:36 the Lamb slain from before the foundation of the world.
• 10:39 That call went out 2,000 years ago but
• 10:42 the call is still going out today.
• 10:44 Even here in modern busy Jerusalem
• 10:47 the call is going out to all who would believe
• 10:50 that Jesus is the Lamb of God.
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• 13:09 And now, let's go to our dramatic reenactment
• 13:12 of a 1st Century encounter with Yeshua.
• 13:26 I'm told that the words of the Prophet Isaiah
• 13:28 were read today in our synagogue.
• 13:33 [Speaking Hebrew]
• 13:53 Apparently it was read perfectly by Yeshua Ben Yosef.
• 13:58 I've known Yosef for years.
• 14:00 He's a simple carpenter.
• 14:02 And his son Yeshua seems to be a fine man,
• 14:07 blessed with special wisdom.
• 14:12 Reports are that Yeshua had a
• 14:14 remarkable immersion in the River Jordan recently
• 14:18 where the heavens opened up and the
• 14:21 very voice of Adonai was heard.
• 14:26 After His reading, Yeshua proclaimed
• 14:28 that the Words of Isaiah had been fulfilled.
• 14:33 Good News for the poor,
• 14:35 the imprisoned,
• 14:38 the blind.
• 14:41 I want to believe it,
• 14:44 I really do.
• 14:46 But here in Nazareth
• 14:48 we need to see it first.
• 14:51 Then we believe.
• 15:05 Katharine - You know, I love how archaeologists
• 15:07 and how science are validating the Word of God.
• 15:10 We as believers know that the Word is true.
• 15:13 But it's so amazing how the stones are
• 15:15 testifying of our Lord and of our Savior and
• 15:18 of the time of His birth,
• 15:20 and of His identity as a Jewish man.
• 15:22 Myles - Yes, science and faith are finally coming together.
• 15:25 I like to say that the headlines are
• 15:27 catching up to the Bible.
• 15:29 Right.
• 15:30 Now Yeshua was 30 years old
• 15:31 when He officially began His ministry.
• 15:33 And it was after the baptism,
• 15:34 south of here,
• 15:36 when He the Ruach [Spirit] led Him into the wilderness.
• 15:38 Right, well it was after the baptism with John
• 15:40 that He was immersed and then when He came out
• 15:43 it says that the Holy Spirit drove Him into the wilderness.
• 15:46 God, Himself, allowed Himself to be tempted as a man so that
• 15:51 He could take back everything that the devil stole in the Garden.
• 15:54 He came to Eve and he said,
• 15:56 "Hath God said"
• 15:58 and he took the Word of God and he twisted it
• 16:01 for his own advantage to get her to act out independent from God.
• 16:06 God wants us to be in Him,
• 16:09 dependent upon Him,
• 16:11 and filled with the Holy Spirit
• 16:13 enabled by the Word of God
• 16:15 to continue to overcome with what He's already overcome for us.
• 16:18 Exactly,and there was another parallel with Moses.
• 16:20 Just as Moses went up to Mount Sinai for 40 days and 40 nights,
• 16:24 Yeshua was in the wilderness
• 16:26 tempted by the Devil for 40 days and 40 nights.
• 16:29 And He never broke.
• 16:31 In fact, He spoke "It is written"
• 16:33 back to the enemy
• 16:35 in order to correct him.
• 16:36 And it is our weapon as well.
• 16:37 That's it, that's the weapon of our warfare.
• 16:39 The Sword of the Spirit is the Word of God and
• 16:42 it's the thing that enables us
• 16:44 to bring down the lies that come against our mind,
• 16:47 the lies that the enemy brings
• 16:49 against who we are,
• 16:50 our position in God,
• 16:52 our destiny, and
• 16:53 even our security.
• 16:55 God has so secured us in Himself.
• 16:58 He took every test that we could ever face.
• 17:01 And He's faced it for us.
• 17:02 So if we go to Him
• 17:04 He will overcome through His own life in us.
• 17:08 Yeah, in fact, the last temptation was back up on the Temple
• 17:12 when the Devil brought Him up to the pinnacle here.
• 17:14 But I tell you, this testing soul, spirit, body
• 17:18 was testing in everything that we are cause we're
• 17:21 made in the likeness and image of God.
• 17:23 And so that overcoming that Yeshua did there
• 17:26 and then he would begin His ministry in the Galilee.
• 17:29 He would go up and begin to enter the synagogues,
• 17:31 and officially begin the work of God.
• 17:35 I love how it says that when Satan came to Him
• 17:38 and tried to get Him to cause these stones
• 17:41 to become bread, it says,
• 17:48 And that's the Foundation Stone for us as believers
• 17:51 that we need to be in the Word.
• 17:53 We need to know our security in Him
• 17:55 and know where we're fed.
• 17:57 We're fed in the Word.
• 17:59 And after that last temptation Yeshua would arise to Galilee
• 18:02 where He would begin to speak in the synagogues.
• 18:06 Imagine - Luke 4:18
• 18:07 He's reading Isaiah 61.
• 18:09 The Living Word is
• 18:11 reading the older Testament
• 18:12 and creating the newer Testament
• 18:14 He is bringing Life to all who would agree
• 18:17 and would say "yes" to Him.
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• 19:11 fascinating lives of
• 19:12 some of God's key men
• 19:14 from Abraham, Moses and David
• 19:17 to the Messiah and the Apostles.
• 19:20 An informative and stunningly beautiful history
• 19:23 of the people God chose
• 19:25 and the special men among them
• 19:27 that He used for His purposes.
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• 19:39 where the Southern Wall is.
• 19:41 Jesus would have come up that way
• 19:44 and gone into the Temple.
• 19:46 He came as a man and
• 19:48 He came to restore all humanity to Himself.
• 19:52 He came for the whole world it said.
• 19:54 "God so loved the whole world."
• 19:56 But He came through a line.
• 19:58 He came through Abraham Isaac and Jacob.
• 20:01 That's right.
• 20:02 Jesus is David's greater Son.
• 20:03 He had to be, according to Scripture.
• 20:05 He had to come from the Tribe of Judah,
• 20:06 from the House of David
• 20:08 to sit on the throne of David forever.
• 20:09 It's a Jewish story from start to finish.
• 20:12 And that wrestling match that we see going on in the drama,
• 20:15 as we see it going on today as well
• 20:17 for believers, for Jewish people
• 20:19 it's so important for us to understand
• 20:23 that He belongs to us and we belong to Him.
• 20:25 We're going to go to Mount Carmel now
• 20:27 and hear Karen Davis' story,
• 20:28 some of our dearest friends,
• 20:30 David and Karen Davis on Mount Carmel.
• 20:32 And Karen's going to tell Katharine the story
• 20:34 of her struggle, her wrestling with faith
• 20:37 and then coming to know Yeshua as her Messiah.
• 20:39 Let's go there now.
• 20:42 I grew up in an upper middle class Jewish home,
• 20:45 very typical Jewish home in the United States in Detroit, Michigan.
• 20:49 And we were very much a part of the Jewish community,
• 20:52 belonged to... actually it was the
• 20:54 oldest reform synagogue in the United States.
• 20:56 Temple Bethel.
• 20:58 And we celebrated all of the holidays.
• 21:01 But I remember going to the Synagogue every Shabbat.
• 21:08 And just the reality of God...
• 21:10 I did not experience the reality of God.
• 21:14 But I began playing the piano when I was 4 years old and
• 21:18 I was always moved by music and beauty, the beauty of nature
• 21:23 and I knew there had to be...God.
• 21:27 There had to be some kind of Creative Force that moved my soul.
• 21:31 You know, I'm moved to tears by music.
• 21:33 I'm moved to tears by the beauty of creation.
• 21:36 So there began to be a real deep longing to know God...a search.
• 21:42 Really a search for truth.
• 21:44 Right.
• 21:45 But of course also I came from a very scientific family.
• 21:47 My grandfather and my father were automotive engineers.
• 21:51 I kind of inherited a mathematical mind.
• 21:54 Wonderful.
• 21:55 And so I was very aware of science.
• 21:58 And so God for me at that time,
• 22:00 it made sense that God was some kind of energy force
• 22:04 and the force behind things.
• 22:06 So I began a very intensive search.
• 22:10 It says God sets eternity in our hearts.
• 22:13 Yes.
• 22:14 And there's that place in every Jewish heart that is looking for God.
• 22:18 That is so good.
• 22:19 God has built eternity into everyone's heart, Jew or Gentile.
• 22:23 But I think especially with the Jewish people
• 22:25 we have a calling to know our God
• 22:28 and then to share Him with the nations.
• 22:30 Beautiful
• 22:31 And so I began the search but as I said,
• 22:34 I didn't find Him in the synagogue at that time.
• 22:36 What was the turning point?
• 22:38 So I ended up in New York City because of the arts.
• 22:41 And one day I just...
• 22:44 I woke up one day and I realized my life was not working.
• 22:51 There was not one area of my life where I was feeling satisfaction.
• 22:55 Nothing was working.
• 22:58 And I had always prided myself on being an independent feministic woman
• 23:02 that could just pick herself up and go on.
• 23:04 But life creates disappointments.
• 23:06 Right.
• 23:07 And my mother had died of cancer
• 23:09 and different things that had happened
• 23:12 but I literally came to the end of myself.
• 23:14 I had no answers.
• 23:15 And so that morning I said...
• 23:18 One person's name came to my mind.
• 23:20 And I thought...
• 23:21 Her name was Camille.
• 23:23 And I thought, maybe she has some good advice for me.
• 23:25 This young lady lived in my building in New York City.
• 23:28 She was a...
• 23:31 Occasionally I'd see her carrying a Bible.
• 23:33 But she was a comedian and a singer who worked
• 23:36 with Jim Henson and created Sesame Street characters.
• 23:39 She defied every stereotype that I had as a Jew of a Christian.
• 23:45 But the love of God streamed through her.
• 23:49 And she just loved me unconditionally.
• 23:52 So I went to her.
• 23:53 I knocked on her door that day.
• 23:55 And I just poured out my...she was there,
• 23:57 just totally available.
• 23:59 Turned out she had been praying all morning.
• 24:02 And so I began to pour out my troubles.
• 24:05 And she says to me, would you like to pray?
• 24:10 And I said, Okay, I'll try it.
• 24:13 I've done everything else.
• 24:14 I didn't even know how we were going to pray.
• 24:16 Right.
• 24:17 And so she begins to lead me in a prayer
• 24:20 and I repeat after her.
• 24:22 And the pray starts with Jesus...ha
• 24:25 The name that Jewish people don't say, right?
• 24:28 So I said... I was so open, I said,
• 24:30 Jesus is probably the only thing I hadn't tried at that point.
• 24:33 Right, He's the last one.
• 24:35 I was into Buddhism and even Sufism and every "ism" that there was.
• 24:38 But not Christianity.
• 24:41 Because of so many things
• 24:43 that your viewers probably know
• 24:45 about the history of Christian anti-Semitism.
• 24:47 It's a big wall for Jewish people
• 24:49 to even begin to say His Name.
• 24:52 But I was willing to try it.
• 24:54 I said, I have nothing to lose.
• 24:55 So I said, "Jesus..."
• 24:56 And the next line was, "I invite you into my heart."
• 24:59 "I invite you into my heart."
• 25:01 "I ask you to forgive me for my sins."
• 25:04 I had no idea what my sins were but I said these words.
• 25:08 Until you see the holiness of God you can't even recognize your sin.
• 25:12 And so I said this, and then I said, "I ask you to save me."
• 25:16 And that was it.
• 25:18 And immediately I knew I was in the presence of truth.
• 25:24 It was like the Spirit of truth was in the room.
• 25:28 And it pierced my heart.
• 25:29 It pierced beyond every intellectual objection
• 25:34 I'd ever had to Christianity, the Name of Jesus.
• 25:36 It defied all my preconceived ideas.
• 25:40 And somehow I knew I had touched on the truth.
• 25:46 Karen just shared that she was searching for peace and for answers.
• 25:50 And I love that she just ran into her neighbor who brought her to faith in Yeshua.
• 25:56 We need to be ready.
• 25:58 We have people all around us that are searching for peace and for their answers.
• 26:02 We need to be in prayer constantly
• 26:05 and ready to share news and that we have peace to give.
• 26:10 That's a great testimony and I love that.
• 26:12 I also love Myles teaching at the Southern Steps today.
• 26:15 I know for myself, one of my close encounters with Yeshua
• 26:19 was at the Southern Steps not very long ago.
• 26:22 Also, I read a story today about a man that you know by the name of Neil Armstrong.
• 26:29 And the story is that he went to Israel back in 1994.
• 26:34 And he asked his tour guide, he said would you take me to the steps where Jesus walked.
• 26:39 And the first place that he took him was to the Southern Steps
• 26:43 right where Jesus taught and where He healed.
• 26:46 So when Neil got there he felt the presence of Yeshua.
• 26:51 It said that he went to his knees and kissed the ground.
• 26:55 I did the same thing when I was there.
• 26:58 Neil said that moment was even more powerful than walking on the moon.
• 27:03 I love that story.
• 27:05 I hope that you've had a close encounter with Yeshua.
• 27:08 We'd love to hear your stories.
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