Caption transcript for Close Encounters with Yeshua: “Mountaintop Experience” (7/10)

• 00:01 I'm Kirsten Hart.
• 00:02 Welcome to Zola Levitt Presents
• 00:04 And I'm David Hart.
• 00:05 Today's drama mentions one of
• 00:07 my favorite Bible Characters as a child,
• 00:09 "Zacchaeus".
• 00:10 Remember that song?
• 00:12 The end of the song he says
• 00:13 "Zacchaeus, you come down."
• 00:15 [David and Kirsten singing] "For I'm going to your house today."
• 00:17 Myles and Katharine will be teaching in northern Israel.
• 00:21 And we'll have an interview with a Jewish believer
• 00:23 who searched years for truth.
• 00:25 Stay with us.
• 00:35 It was not long ago our first encounter
• 00:37 on the waters of the Galilee.
• 00:39 My hand is completely restored.
• 00:42 He said, Your faith has saved you.
• 00:45 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.
• 00:55 I believe He really is a King.
• 01:08 Shalom Havarim,
• 01:09 Hello Friends, I'm Myles Weiss
• 01:11 And I'm Katharine Weiss.
• 01:12 Welcome to "Close Encounters with Yeshua"
• 01:14 "Yeshua", the Hebrew word for saying "Jesus".
• 01:17 Yeah, I love this part of the story because
• 01:20 we're going to see the way that God comes to the least among us
• 01:24 and changes our lives.
• 01:25 Right
• 01:26 It's a true story.
• 01:27 We took time for people to identify who Jesus is.
• 01:30 And it's the same today.
• 01:32 He wants to bring us healing,
• 01:33 He wants to bring us new life.
• 01:35 But we have to wrestle with the identity.
• 01:37 I feel like sometimes we're similar to Paul on the Road to Damascus
• 01:41 asking, Who are you Lord?
• 01:42 Right, we try everything,
• 01:44 but God says, No, try Me and I will save you.
• 01:47 I love Zacchaeus.
• 01:49 He really knew he needed a Savior.
• 01:51 I think that's what we all need to come to.
• 01:53 It says in Luke 19,
• 01:59 But he also made the effort.
• 02:01 He climbed the tree.
• 02:02 He made the effort to see
• 02:04 "I'm a sinner in need of a Savior".
• 02:06 Yes, it was an urgency about seeing who Jesus is,
• 02:09 finding out if He's the Promised One.
• 02:11 Right
• 02:11 So let's go to our drama.
• 02:13 We're going to be seeing how the people
• 02:15 are inquiring about this miracle that's
• 02:17 happening in Zacchaeus' life.
• 02:19 Not a well-liked man and transformation comes to him.
• 02:22 So let's pick up our drama right now.
• 02:32 He healed another man today...
• 02:35 a blind man.
• 02:38 And he healed me.
• 02:39 Which is why I have been following him for days.
• 02:42 [sighs]
• 02:45 The big stir here in Jericho
• 02:46 concerns a local tax collector
• 02:48 named "Zacchaeus".
• 02:50 A wealthy man, full hearty...
• 02:53 a "sinner",
• 02:55 like all the other tax collectors
• 02:57 but I must admit I admire him,
• 03:00 eh - short of stature
• 03:01 but big of heart.
• 03:04 Wanted to see Yeshua so badly that he
• 03:06 climbed a tree to get a better view over the crowd.
• 03:09 Yeshua spotted him
• 03:10 and told him to get down because
• 03:12 he had to stay in his house.
• 03:14 There was an immediate muttering
• 03:17 about his going to a house of a sinner.
• 03:20 I don't know what happened there.
• 03:24 But I do know that Zacchaeus is a different man.
• 03:29 He says that Yeshua told him,
• 03:31 Salvation had come to his house because
• 03:34 he was [speaking Hebrew] "a son of Abraham".
• 03:39 I know he can heal.
• 03:43 He healed me!
• 03:45 And I...I now better understand this "Salvation".
• 03:50 Yeshua gave us a reason to live.
• 03:54 Sin...is dead.
• 03:58 Like Zacchaeus, I have a new life...
• 04:03 will never... never be the same.
• 04:06 [Sighs in relief]
• 04:18 Wherever Yeshua went lives changed whether
• 04:20 it was down in Jericho with Zacchaeus, we read about in Luke 19, or
• 04:25 up here in the north where things are going to get very interesting
• 04:28 as Peter is about to come to a specific
• 04:30 revelation about the person of Yeshua.
• 04:35 There's several levels of understanding that we see in the world.
• 04:38 And I want to go over them with you
• 04:40 because I think it's really fascinating.
• 04:42 The first level of understanding has
• 04:43 to do with information.
• 04:45 We can gather that
• 04:46 from the Internet,
• 04:47 from libraries,
• 04:48 from reading.
• 04:49 The next level is knowledge,
• 04:51 direct experience.
• 04:52 The kind of witness that you'd see in a court case.
• 04:56 "I saw this happen",
• 04:57 this is direct knowledge.
• 04:58 And then a little higher than that is wisdom
• 05:01 which comes from integrating the Scriptures
• 05:04 and seeing things through the
• 05:06 conglomerate understanding of the Bible.
• 05:09 That's wisdom that comes from above.
• 05:11 And then beyond that,
• 05:12 which Peter is about to experience
• 05:14 is revelation knowledge,
• 05:16 direct revelation that comes out of heaven.
• 05:20 We come to Caesarea Philippi
• 05:24 which was the portion of the north that was
• 05:26 dedicated to Philip of the Herodian line.
• 05:29 So he was partly Jewish but the city was a pagan city.
• 05:33 In fact, Yeshua didn't even go all the way into the city.
• 05:35 It says in Matthew 16,
• 05:42 It's a very demonic kind of place
• 05:45 that back then was known as "The Gates of Hell"
• 05:47 allegedly that the god of "Pan" dwelt there.
• 05:52 And there was human sacrifice and orgies
• 05:54 and all kinds of wantonness given there
• 05:58 to appease the gods of the underworld.
• 06:01 So it was known as a place of deep superstition.
• 06:04 And somewhere Yeshua would demonstrate
• 06:08 that He is above and beyond all of that.
• 06:11 We come to Caesarea Philippi
• 06:14 and Peter is confronted with
• 06:18 the question that Yeshua asks,
• 06:20 "Who do men say that I am?"
• 06:23 And the disciples offered different examples...
• 06:26 Perhaps you're Elijah, or you're John come back.
• 06:30 They're fishing so to speak.
• 06:33 Fishermen are fishing for an answer.
• 06:35 And then we see Peter
• 06:39 in his first instance as that
• 06:41 solid rock that he is going to become.
• 06:44 He looks at Yeshua
• 06:45 and he says,
• 06:50 Yeshua's testimony to him is,
• 06:52 Simon "Bar-jonah",
• 06:54 Simon "son of Jonah"
• 06:56 identifying him with that renegade prophet
• 06:58 who did come back to purpose of God,
• 07:00 as Peter will.
• 07:02 He said to him,
• 07:07 In other words, this is not information,
• 07:09 this is not knowledge,
• 07:10 this is not even wisdom.
• 07:11 This is revelation.
• 07:13 My Father in Heaven has revealed this to you.
• 07:22 And it is from that understanding
• 07:25 that we see that Yeshua is about
• 07:28 to give authority to the disciples.
• 07:30 And if you are a believer,
• 07:31 if you're a disciple,
• 07:32 if you're a follower of Yeshua
• 07:34 then you also have this authority,
• 07:36 and he says, the gates of hell
• 07:38 will not prevail
• 07:39 against my [speaking Hebrew] community of faith.
• 07:43 That's a great testimony.
• 07:45 And Peter in expressing that gets the name "Petros"
• 07:48 He says "Kaifa" - "Rock"
• 07:50 in Greek "Petros".
• 07:52 That you are a "Rock" as well.
• 07:54 And it's interesting to note that although
• 07:57 the Church is not built on Peter the person,
• 07:59 he played a very seminal role in being the Pastor
• 08:02 in Jerusalem to the Jewish people
• 08:03 and also at the house of Cornelius in Acts Chapter 10
• 08:07 bringing the Gospel to the Gentiles for the first time.
• 08:11 The voice of God is beginning to speak directly to Peter.
• 08:15 What a fantastic change that he's about to through.
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• 09:39 We're here at the foot of Mount Tabor
• 09:40 up in the north in the Galilee area
• 09:43 where the main ministry of Yeshua started.
• 09:46 It was really throughout the northern part
• 09:48 but at the Galilee of the Gentiles he began his ministry
• 09:51 He was ministering to those who had been in darkness
• 09:54 according to Isaiah chapters 8 and 9.
• 10:00 And that is what is happening here in the north
• 10:03 as we get into Matthew 16 and 17
• 10:05 from Caesarea Philippi up to Mount Hermon
• 10:09 God is doing these amazing things with the disciples
• 10:12 We know that Tabor is a round small mount obviously.
• 10:17 It also means "a drum", "a small drum",
• 10:19 the same root word for a drum.
• 10:21 And it was actually used as a signal area by the Sanhedrin.
• 10:26 They would light signal fires
• 10:28 communicating that the holidays, the festivals were beginning.
• 10:31 And then that would go through the Land.
• 10:34 But that's one of the reasons why people believe,
• 10:36 some scholars believe,
• 10:38 that this might not have been where
• 10:40 the Transfiguration took place because
• 10:42 there was too much activity here.
• 10:44 And in the Scriptures it talks about Yeshua taking the Disciples,
• 10:48 Peter, James and John,
• 10:50 up to a high place and there's a reference
• 10:54 of solitude or a sense of solitude there.
• 10:57 So the disciples are about to come into
• 11:01 this unique and one of a kind
• 11:03 moment of revelation.
• 11:05 But not before Peter blunders
• 11:07 having just received the revelation,
• 11:10 "You are the Messiah, the Son of the Living God",
• 11:12 he immediately brings another voice to bear
• 11:15 by trying to dissuade Jesus from going to the cross, may it never be.
• 11:19 And that's where Yeshua says the most salient and incredible pointed
• 11:24 admonishment that we see where he says to him,
• 11:28 Get thee behind me Satan.
• 11:30 You're speaking from hell.
• 11:32 You're speaking from a different point of view
• 11:34 than what my ultimate destiny is, which is
• 11:36 to provide Salvation by my own suffering,
• 11:39 by my own Sacrifice,
• 11:41 because of the purity of my blood.
• 11:44 So Peter goes from recognizing the Messiahship of Jesus
• 11:47 to trying to talk him out of what he's about to do.
• 11:50 And now they're heading up to a high place,
• 11:52 to a high mountain.
• 11:54 Now we first read about this area,
• 11:56 especially Mount Tabor.
• 11:58 We read about it in Joshua.
• 12:00 It's really noted as the boundary
• 12:02 between the Tribe of Issachar and the Tribe of Zebulun.
• 12:06 And then we see it again
• 12:08 in Judges Chapter 4, verses 6 through 15
• 12:11 where Deborah steps up and leads the Army
• 12:15 against the General Sisera
• 12:18 because none of the men would step up.
• 12:20 Barak, the General, was not ready and so
• 12:22 the Hebrews had to have Deborah step up.
• 12:25 A great instance of a woman becoming a leader and taking
• 12:29 the role of a military leader
• 12:33 because the men did not step forward.
• 12:36 and there was a great defeat of Sisera at that time.
• 12:40 When the Disciples come up to this high place
• 12:43 it's interesting to note that when we hear the voice of God
• 12:47 recognizing from heaven the beloved Sonship of Jesus
• 12:52 we first hear it at the baptism by John
• 12:56 [Speaking Hebrew] John the Immerser
• 12:59 down near Jericho near the Jordan
• 13:02 near the Dead Sea and the lowest place on earth
• 13:05 we hear,
• 13:09 And then now, in the highest place in Israel, Mount Hermon,
• 13:12 we're going to hear it again
• 13:14 and the Disciples are going to hear it.
• 13:16 They're going to hear the voice from heaven once again,
• 13:19 "This is my Beloved Son: hear Him."
• 13:21 Now, not only did the Disciples hear
• 13:24 the voice of the Father acknowledging Yeshua
• 13:27 but we also see the appearance of Moses and Elijah.
• 13:44 Yeshua took his disciples up to
• 13:46 the Mount of Transfiguration
• 13:48 where God is going to have an impact,
• 13:50 strong impact upon the disciples.
• 13:53 We believe it's Mount Hermon in
• 13:54 the north of Israel.
• 13:56 It's the highest mountain in Israel of 9,000 feet.
• 13:58 And the voice is going to come.
• 14:01 We are familiar with Mount Hermon
• 14:04 from Psalm 133.
• 14:06 [Myles speaking the verse in Hebrew]
• 14:09 It speaks about unity among the brethren.
• 14:11 It also goes on to speak about
• 14:13 the anointing of the Lord.
• 14:14 Right
• 14:15 The dew of Herman coming down over his disciples,
• 14:19 The anointing.
• 14:20 Over Aaron's beard all the way down his garment.
• 14:24 So a picture of the "Head" - "Yeshua"
• 14:26 and the "Body" - the "Disciples",
• 14:28 and the Anointing of the Lord.
• 14:30 It's hard to imagine what it would be like
• 14:33 to be on the mountain.
• 14:34 To be those disciples
• 14:35 and to see Yeshua transfigured before their eyes.
• 14:39 Here they were asleep
• 14:41 but God Himself visited them on the mountain.
• 14:44 He came
• 14:45 and He came with Moses
• 14:47 and He came with Elijah,
• 14:48 the "Law" and the "Prophets"
• 14:50 Yeshua said,
• 14:52 "I did not come to abolish the Law and the Prophets,"
• 14:55 "but I came to fulfill it."
• 14:57 "I came to make it complete."
• 14:59 And he begins his transformation
• 15:01 which he will complete on the road to Emmaus to his disciples.
• 15:05 He begins to show them the end from the beginning.
• 15:08 "I am from above"
• 15:09 "but I'm here to take your sins away."
• 15:12 He talks about that he will suffer many things
• 15:15 by the hands of the religious leaders and he will die.
• 15:17 But there is a place that he's
• 15:19 preparing them and preparing us for.
• 15:21 It's glory.
• 15:23 We were made for glory.
• 15:25 And even Moses on the Mount of Sinai
• 15:27 went up to get the Law and when he came back
• 15:30 his face was shining with so much Shekhinah
• 15:33 the people said, "Put a veil over it!"
• 15:35 And I think we've experienced the Glory of the Lord.
• 15:39 I know that I hope all of you have
• 15:41 experienced the Glory of the Lord
• 15:43 because we're changed from Glory to Glory.
• 15:45 I love the connection with
• 15:47 Aaron the High Priest
• 15:48 and the Chief High Priest, the Great High Priest, Yeshua.
• 15:51 We see that Mount Hermon picture
• 15:54 of the dew, the anointing on Aaron's beard
• 15:56 going down through the body covering his whole garment,
• 15:59 and then Yeshua, himself transfigured as Light,
• 16:03 so much so that it was overwhelming to the disciples,
• 16:07 and Peter seeing that, saying "Let's build Tabernacles here."
• 16:12 And sometimes you hear a preacher mock that
• 16:14 but really, I believe Peter was seeing something
• 16:16 about where we are going
• 16:18 in the fulfillment of all things.
• 16:20 If you remember, it was after 6 days
• 16:23 that we came up on this mountain and
• 16:24 Yeshua brought the disciples up on the mountain.
• 16:27 And it's really looking forward...
• 16:29 It's a picture of the 7th day of rest.
• 16:32 The millennium that's coming
• 16:34 at the end of 6 days,
• 16:36 the 7th day will be that 1,000 year reign
• 16:38 of Sabbath Rest with Yeshua as The King.
• 16:41 It's connected to the Aaronic blessing
• 16:44 and the Light of God shining upon all those who hear,
• 16:48 from Numbers 6:24,
• 16:50 and also a Blessing being on them.
• 16:53 What a picture!
• 16:53 You know, God is saying,
• 16:54 "Arise and shine,"
• 16:56 "for the Glory of the Lord is risen"
• 16:58 "upon you."
• 17:00 The King is coming.
• 17:43 Back in 1979, a long time ago.
• 17:47 I was going to say just a couple of years ago.
• 17:49 I had the privilege of recording a song entitled
• 17:51 "I Walked Today Where Jesus Walked"
• 17:54 Some of you may have heard it.
• 17:55 Maybe I'll even have a chance to sing it
• 17:56 on this program sometime.
• 17:58 It wasn't until our first trip to Israel
• 18:01 that the song came to life.
• 18:04 And we would love for you
• 18:05 to experience a Zola Levitt Tour with us.
• 18:08 You can find all the information on levitt.com
• 18:11 We have tours both in the Fall and the Spring.
• 18:13 We would love for you to join us.
• 18:15 We love when people want to send their
• 18:16 Pastor and his family to Israel.
• 18:19 If you can't go send your Pastor.
• 18:21 If you think your Pastor preaches great now,
• 18:24 wait till he has experienced the Holy Land.
• 18:27 It will be a whole new level.
• 18:29 That's right.
• 18:30 And now we'll hear from a
• 18:31 Jewish believer who made Aliyah.
• 18:35 Well, it was quite a journey.
• 18:37 I grew up in America.
• 18:40 I came from Tipp City, Ohio.
• 18:42 And didn't really grow up...
• 18:44 wasn't very religious in any way.
• 18:46 One parent was from a somewhat Christian background,
• 18:51 the other Jewish, but it was more of a secret.
• 18:54 It was a family secret really.
• 18:56 And I have two older brothers.
• 18:58 And I remember when I was very little
• 19:00 hearing them talk about us being Jewish.
• 19:03 And then I said something about it,
• 19:04 "Be quiet, be quiet".
• 19:05 "Don't mention it around Dad.",
• 19:07 that we weren't even supposed
• 19:08 to mention that we were Jewish.
• 19:10 So I didn't know what that meant.
• 19:12 And then, I remember when I was in 5th Grade Social Studies Class.
• 19:17 They said, "Is anybody in here Jewish?"
• 19:19 And I thought for a moment.
• 19:20 "I wonder if I'm supposed to raise my hand?"
• 19:22 And then she said, "Yeah, I didn't think we had anyone Jewish."
• 19:25 They said, "This is what Jews are like."
• 19:26 And she started describing religious Jews.
• 19:28 And I thought, "I've never heard any of this stuff."
• 19:31 So that confirmed in my heart,
• 19:32 "I'm not Jewish, whatever that means."
• 19:35 But then when I went to college,
• 19:36 I went to Ohio University,
• 19:38 And when I was there I went to a Church service.
• 19:41 And I had been looking in all
• 19:42 kinds of different directions...
• 19:43 New Age, Hinduism, all kinds of...
• 19:46 I was open to anything.
• 19:49 And I went to this Church Service.
• 19:50 And as we worshipped you could feel the
• 19:52 Presence of God come into this place.
• 19:55 And with all my New Age stuff
• 19:57 that I was into and things like that,
• 19:59 I had to admit that this was something different,
• 20:02 that there was something real here,
• 20:04 that I knew that God was there.
• 20:06 And so, they gave an invitation
• 20:08 for anybody that wanted to know
• 20:10 that they would go to heaven if they died.
• 20:13 And I thought, "Well, sure I'd want to know that."
• 20:14 Anyone that wants to know God?
• 20:15 "Sure I want to know that."
• 20:17 So I went forward and I prayed.
• 20:18 And then, I guess you'd say I became a Christian,
• 20:21 I became a Believer in Yeshua...In Jesus.
• 20:24 And then I started reading my Bible.
• 20:27 And as I read my Bible
• 20:28 I saw all this stuff about Israel.
• 20:30 And I got to Leviticus
• 20:33 and I'm reading about these Feasts.
• 20:35 And I asked my Pastor, my campus Pastor,
• 20:38 I said, "Well I'm reading about all these holidays in the Bible."
• 20:42 "Why don't we do these things?"
• 20:44 And he said, "Well, because we're not Jewish."
• 20:47 And I thought, "Well, so what?"
• 20:49 I said, "It's in the Bible."
• 20:50 "Why aren't we doing what's in the Bible?"
• 20:52 And then I really started thinking about it.
• 20:53 I thought, "But wait a second,"
• 20:55 "I guess I'm kinda Jewish."
• 20:57 "Does that mean I'm supposed to be doing those and he's not?"
• 21:00 So I just started really getting interested in the holidays and the Feasts.
• 21:03 And from there God just took me one step at a time
• 21:07 until we got to a point where I felt like the Lord just spoke to me,
• 21:12 very directly and said, "You need to acknowledge that you're Jewish."
• 21:15 And I said, "Okay Lord, whatever that means I'll embrace it."
• 21:19 Came to visit Israel,
• 21:21 and God really just brought a lot of things alive in my heart.
• 21:25 And then sometime after that,
• 21:27 a number of years after that,
• 21:29 I felt like God was saying, "It's time to come home,"
• 21:32 "time to take my family to Israel to make Aliyah",
• 21:36 the term "Aliyah" meaning "Coming back to the Land of Israel as a Jewish person",
• 21:41 And to raise my family Jewish.
• 21:43 And that's what we've done.
• 21:45 It's an amazing story Chaim.
• 21:47 So you made Aliyah.
• 21:49 And how long ago was that?
• 21:50 And what's your current life like here?
• 21:52 What's your work like?
• 21:54 We made Aliyah to Israel 8 years ago.
• 21:57 And so we've been here for 8 years.
• 21:58 Now I'm here with my wife and our children.
• 22:01 We have 7 children.
• 22:03 And actually 2 of our children were born here
• 22:06 in Israel, in the Land of Israel.
• 22:08 So we're excited about that.
• 22:10 So we came to Israel
• 22:12 and we started a Bed and Breakfast while we're here.
• 22:15 And it's a wonderful business.
• 22:19 It's a wonderful chance
• 22:21 to welcome the people to
• 22:23 the Land of Israel.
• 22:24 And the Bed and Breakfast
• 22:26 is in a very significant town.
• 22:29 Tell our viewers a little bit about Abu Ghosh.
• 22:31 We're in a very unique place.
• 22:33 We're in a...
• 22:34 It's actually a Muslim Village.
• 22:36 It's called "Abu Ghosh"
• 22:38 But it was also a Biblical village.
• 22:39 It was called "Kiriath Jearim" in the Bible times.
• 22:43 And some wonderful things happened there.
• 22:45 The Ark of the Covenant was there for 20 years
• 22:47 before King David came and brought it up to Jerusalem.
• 22:50 But also the Gibeonites were there.
• 22:53 And the Gibeonites were the people that went to Joshua.
• 22:57 And Joshua came into the Promised Land.
• 22:59 He crossed the Jordan River.
• 23:00 And the Gibeonites tricked him.
• 23:02 And they said, "We come from far away."
• 23:04 And they had old bread that was moldy and old clothes.
• 23:07 And they said, "We've been traveling for so long."
• 23:09 And so Joshua said, "Okay, we'll make a peace agreement with you."
• 23:14 And it turned out that they were from our village.
• 23:17 They were from around the Jerusalem area.
• 23:20 And when Joshua found out he said,
• 23:21 "Why did you lie to us?"
• 23:23 And they said, "Well, we heard about your God"
• 23:25 "And how He delivered you from Egypt"
• 23:27 "and how He gave you victory over the kings"
• 23:31 "on the other side of the Jordan."
• 23:32 "And we want to be in a peace agreement with you."
• 23:36 And Joshua said okay.
• 23:37 He said he would honor that agreement.
• 23:40 And the Bible says, in the Book of Joshua
• 23:41 that in all the Promised Land
• 23:43 No one made a Covenant of Peace with the Israelites
• 23:46 accept for the Gibeonites.
• 23:49 Now, we're in a village today.
• 23:50 It's called "Abu Ghosh"
• 23:51 and it's a Muslim village.
• 23:53 But the unique thing is
• 23:54 it is also the only "Pro-Jewish" Muslim village.
• 23:59 Isn't that amazing!
• 24:01 It is amazing.
• 24:02 The only"Pro-Jewish" Muslim village in all of Israel.
• 24:05 And it's a parallel really to what happened in the Bible.
• 24:09 Yes.
• 24:10 That today, here we are...
• 24:11 This is over 3,000 years later after the time of Joshua.
• 24:14 Again, the same location.
• 24:17 The people there are the only ones,
• 24:18 the only Muslims in all the Land of Israel
• 24:21 who welcomed the Jews back the second time.
• 24:24 WOW
• 24:25 The Gibeonites the first time
• 24:26 welcomed the Israelites into their land.
• 24:28 Here we are 3,000 years later,
• 24:30 they welcomed the Jews back the second time.
• 24:32 What a picture of the fact that God
• 24:34 is a Covenant keeping God.
• 24:36 Yes.
• 24:37 Joshua made a Covenant
• 24:38 and 3,000 years later you're benefiting and
• 24:40 the Muslims of that village are benefiting from that anointing,
• 24:43 that Covenant with God.
• 24:44 That's right.
• 24:46 That's an amazing story that I hope our viewers get excited about.
• 24:49 I hope so too.
• 24:50 It is a story that needs to be told.
• 24:52 It needs to be heard.
• 24:53 And it's not publicized.
• 24:55 And the rest of the Muslim world doesn't want it publicized
• 24:59 Right, right.
• 25:00 because it is living proof
• 25:02 that anyone, that any Muslim, any person can
• 25:04 have peace in Israel if they want peace.
• 25:07 That's right.
• 25:09 It is the most peaceful village.
• 25:11 They know that we're Jewish there.
• 25:13 they love us being there.
• 25:14 They welcome the Jewish people into the village.
• 25:17 And Jewish people flood the village.
• 25:20 They come to the restaurants.
• 25:22 I'm sure you've eaten in the restaurants.
• 25:23 Yes.
• 25:24 And it is peaceful.
• 25:26 They said there's never been one incident of problems,
• 25:30 not violence or anything between Jews and Muslims in that village...
• 25:34 in the history of Israel.
• 25:44 ♪ Mashiach, Mashiach ♪
• 25:47 ♪ Yeshua HaMashiach ♪
• 25:51 ♪ The One whom the Prophets foreknew ♪
• 25:58 ♪ The love that you brought me ♪
• 26:00 ♪ The message you taught me ♪
• 26:02 ♪ I know in my heart it is You ♪
• 26:06 Choir: ♪ The love that you brought me ♪
• 26:08 ♪ The message you taught me ♪
• 26:11 ♪ I know in my heart ♪
• 26:13 it is You! ♪♪
• 26:23 This whole series is been about
• 26:25 close encounters with Yeshua.
• 26:28 Myles just taught about the transfiguration
• 26:31 of Christ on Mount Hermon. [Airmone]
• 26:35 I called it [Herman] once
• 26:37 and I learned that it is not the right way...
• 26:39 We're learning.
• 26:40 We're learning our language.
• 26:42 But what an amazing event!
• 26:45 Yeshua brought a few disciples up on the mountain.
• 26:49 And all of a sudden he transfigured into
• 26:52 the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords.
• 26:55 They got to see Yeshua in His fullness.
• 26:59 And along with them, there's Moses and Elijah.
• 27:02 I would have never wanted to leave either.
• 27:05 If I were a disciple
• 27:06 I think what I would do is
• 27:08 run down the mountain
• 27:09 and get you and our children
• 27:11 head back up and never leave.
• 27:13 What an amazing encounter!
• 27:15 Thank you so much for joining us today.
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