
“The Jewish Wedding”
In Matthew 25:1–13, Messiah speaks in terms of Jewish wedding customs, including a midnight cry and marriage feast. He advises us to be like the five wise virgins, commanding that we “watch therefore and be ready.”
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- 00:05 Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is that they might be saved,
- 00:11 for there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek,
- 00:15 for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon Him.
- 00:39 Hi, I'm David Hart.
- 00:40 Welcome to Zola Levitt Presents.
- 00:41 And I'm Kirsten Hart.
- 00:43 We are in our series, "Watch Therefore".
- 00:46 It's all about prophecy.
- 00:49 Today's program is about the Groom, our Bridegroom,
- 00:53 that is coming to get us.
- 00:55 Today, on location in Israel
- 00:57 Dov Scwarz will be teaching,
- 00:59 as well as our good friend Chaim.
- 01:01 We'll have our weekly Hebrew Lesson, "Shalom Haverim",
- 01:04 and Dr. Mark Hitchcock will be right here at this desk.
- 01:08 All of our segments today,
- 01:10 all of the teaching,
- 01:11 is filmed on location in Israel.
- 01:15 Dov will be teaching on Matthew 25,
- 01:18 the return of the Bridegroom.
- 01:20 Right now let's go to the Sea of Galilee with Dov.
- 01:28 What an amazingly beautiful place,
- 01:31 the Sea of Galilee.
- 01:33 The water where our Savior once walked.
- 01:36 It's from this place I'd like to share a teaching with you,
- 01:39 Matthew Chapter 25.
- 01:41 But to understand this I'm going to share a little bit
- 01:44 about the Jewish Wedding Ceremony.
- 01:46 This is an actual spot where they would have today,
- 01:49 a Chuppah with a Groom and a Bride here in Israel.
- 01:55 Now, the 1st Century Jewish Wedding...
- 01:59 It begins like this.
- 02:02 The father of the groom and the groom
- 02:04 go to the father of the bride and the bride.
- 02:07 And they make an agreement.
- 02:10 The groom and the father agree to pay the bride price.
- 02:14 Messiah Yeshua, He paid the bride price,
- 02:18 His precious blood for our sins.
- 02:21 He was buried, and hallelujah on the 3rd day he rose from the grave.
- 02:26 Now the groom would go back to the father's house
- 02:30 and he would build a suitable place onto the father's house
- 02:33 and then he would go back and get his bride and take her to it.
- 02:37 Now, Messiah Yeshua said,
- 03:06 But when? What's the hour or the day of that taking place?
- 03:10 Messiah Yeshua said,
- 03:11 "Nobody but the Father knows the hour or the day."
- 03:13 That's because in a Jewish Wedding
- 03:16 the father would inspect the work of his son.
- 03:21 And only the Father knew when he would say, "Now go and get your bride."
- 03:25 What was the bride to be doing?
- 03:27 She was to be purifying herself.
- 03:28 Let me ask you this.
- 03:29 Was she to be hanging out with other guys?
- 03:32 Was she to be just complacent, and he'll come when he comes.
- 03:36 No, no, no.
- 03:38 You see this is the blessed hope.
- 03:40 The Bride was to be preparing herself, purifying herself
- 03:43 The Bible says in I John
- 03:50 Well the groom would come often times at midnight unannounced
- 03:56 and the bride, she was to be ready.
- 04:00 "Watch therefore and be ready." Amen?
- 04:03 We'll be right back.
- 04:13 We are hearing in this series
- 04:14 to live in expectation of our Lord's return.
- 04:17 Much like that of a bride
- 04:19 waiting for her groom to come.
- 04:21 He could come at any hour.
- 04:22 Can you imagine that expectation?
- 04:24 When is He coming, when is He coming?
- 04:26 Yes.
- 04:27 Right now let's go to Israel
- 04:28 and hear more from Chaim Malespin.
- 04:37 Here we are in one of my favorite places in our nation's Capital.
- 04:40 That's right, Jerusalem,
- 04:42 the undivided capital of Israel.
- 04:43 God looks at this Land
- 04:45 from the beginning of the year to the end,
- 04:47 But we know He sees the whole world with an Israel lens.
- 04:52 Do you know what I mean?
- 04:53 It says, Israel is the Apple of His eye,
- 04:55 the pupil of His eye.
- 04:56 And this is the core of, you know,
- 05:01 since Abraham came here
- 05:02 as it says in Genesis Chapter 22, Verse 2,
- 05:05 and brought his son Isaac here to the mountains of Moriah, or Mount Zion.
- 05:09 We know that much later on the Temple was built here by Solomon,
- 05:13 it says, in II Chronicles Chapter 3, Verse 1,
- 05:17 and we know that the story is not over
- 05:20 because, as we're uncovering the history
- 05:23 we're also looking forward to when the
- 05:26 Messiah will return to this very spot.
- 05:28 Down below is a 1st Century Road.
- 05:32 Yeah, Yeshua probably walked on this road.
- 05:34 We know that 3 times a year
- 05:36 Jewish people come from all over
- 05:38 to bring their offerings in through those gates
- 05:40 to where the Temple would have stood,
- 05:42 and of course somewhere along there we would have heard the trumpeters
- 05:46 trumpeting when the Shabbat begins and ends.
- 05:49 It's just amazing to see so much all together.
- 05:54 There's the Muslim prayers,
- 05:55 there's Christian bells,
- 05:57 and there is Jewish life once again here in the City of Jerusalem,
- 06:02 as prophecy foretold.
- 06:04 Let's continue to move together as One,
- 06:07 Jew and Gentile in the flow of the Spirit.
- 06:17 Our Resource this week,
- 06:18 the series "Watch Therefore And Be Ready" on DVD.
- 06:23 This 8 program series points to...
- 06:31 Each program includes location teaching,
- 06:34 Reports from Israel,
- 06:35 in studio analysis,
- 06:37 plus music from David and Kirsten Hart.
- 06:40 Contact us and ask for the DVD Series
- 06:43 "Watch Therefore And Be Ready"
- 06:48 We'll return to the program in just a moment,
- 06:50 but first I wanted to ask if you've ever thought
- 06:52 about what it takes to put this program together.
- 06:56 I can assure you it's a lot more than just lights, camera, action.
- 06:59 There's a lot of prayer and planning,
- 07:02 and our family is a lot like yours.
- 07:05 We pray and we plan,
- 07:07 and we hope that you'll be praying for us,
- 07:09 and planning to help support us too.
- 07:25 Jesus in the Olivet Discourse
- 07:27 gave His prediction of the End Time events.
- 07:30 And He said in Luke 21:24
- 07:41 That's the only place in the New Testament in the Bible
- 07:44 where the phrase "Times of the Gentiles" is found.
- 07:47 Now my personal view on the "Times of the Gentiles"
- 07:50 is it started in 586 BC
- 07:53 This is when Nebuchadnezzar and the Babylonians came and destroyed Jerusalem.
- 07:59 From 586 BC all the way through our present time
- 08:04 there has been no Davidic King sitting
- 08:07 on the Throne of David ruling Israel.
- 08:10 When Israel comes to fulfill it's destiny when Messiah comes,
- 08:14 He will reign from Jerusalem on a throne
- 08:17 which is connected with the Temple Mount.
- 08:19 We see this in Isaiah Chapter 2, Verses 2-4
- 08:22 That's the culmination of all the great promises,
- 08:25 just as Moses went to Mount Sinai to receive the Law, and said,
- 08:30 Israel's to be a Light to the nations,
- 08:32 ultimately to get the revelation to them,
- 08:34 one day Messiah will come on Mount Zion,
- 08:37 bringing the Law through Israel to the Gentile nations,
- 08:41 and reigning in that place as well.
- 08:44 So all of these come full circle with the
- 08:46 prophesies in the Old Testament.
- 08:49 Listen, we are the family of God.
- 08:52 As we go further into the End Time,
- 08:54 we will be together,
- 08:56 I'm looking forward to the day
- 08:58 when we step into the millennial kingdom together.
- 09:00 It's going to be wonderful, you know?
- 09:02 And we ought to spend that time with our Savior,
- 09:05 Jew and Gentile family of God.
- 09:08 Listen, I thank God for what the Word of God predicts for our future.
- 09:13 And again, I'm grateful.
- 09:14 That gives me such a peace in these End Times,
- 09:18 as I see all the chaos and everything that goes on.
- 09:21 But, my safety is in the authority of this Book,
- 09:26 and I judge everything I see and hear, based on the authority of this Book.
- 09:30 And if you do that, you won't go astray.
- 09:40 Our great Messiah Yeshua is speaking in Matthew 25.
- 10:01 In the Bible oftentimes oil is a picture of the Holy Spirit.
- 10:07 Now if you were to look at these 10 virgins,
- 10:10 all of them look the same,
- 10:11 but 5 did not have the oil and 5 did.
- 10:44 So these 5, they weren't prepared.
- 10:46 They weren't eagerly waiting for the Bridegroom to come in that they were not ready.
- 10:52 And that's what we see here,
- 10:54 how significant it is to be ready.
- 11:09 You know what this makes me think of?
- 11:12 In Noah's time I'm certain that his neighbors
- 11:16 would have mocked him and that were laughing at him
- 11:18 all those years he was building that boat.
- 11:21 My goodness, it had never rained before on the earth.
- 11:24 But it started raining and the waters rose.
- 11:29 And I'm confident that those people were beating on the door of that ark
- 11:34 wanting their lives to be spared.
- 11:38 No way to get away from the rain.
- 11:42 But there was no way even Noah could have opened the door.
- 11:45 Why?
- 11:47 Because it was the Lord who shut it.
- 11:50 And so it will be at the marriage ceremony in heaven.
- 11:56 Now the 5 who were wise were ready.
- 12:01 Are you ready for the Bridegroom to come?
- 12:05 It continues.
- 12:19 When we come back in just a moment
- 12:22 I'm going to share with you from another passage in the Gospel of Matthew,
- 12:26 when our Messiah said the same thing,
- 12:30 and exactly what that means.
- 12:32 Now more than ever, this is the time
- 12:35 to be ready for the Bridegroom.
- 12:45 I really do believe that faith comes by hearing,
- 12:46 and hearing by the Word of God.
- 12:48 I cannot argue anyone into the faith.
- 12:50 I love apologetics, I teach apologetics
- 12:52 I appreciate and value the importance of
- 12:55 evidentialism and rationalism and those fields,
- 12:58 and I think they have their place
- 13:00 for opening a door for the Gospel,
- 13:02 but at the end of the day, you know,
- 13:04 "My 37 Reasons for the Resurrection"
- 13:07 isn't going to get someone saved.
- 13:09 It might provide a hearing for the Gospel,
- 13:13 but it's the Spirit of God doing a work of God in their heart
- 13:15 and when they respond by faith to the Gospel, they'll be saved.
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- 14:00 Our Resource this week,
- 14:02 the series "Watch Therefore And Be Ready" on DVD.
- 14:06 This 8 program series points to...
- 14:14 Each program includes location teaching,
- 14:16 Reports from Israel,
- 14:18 in studio analysis,
- 14:20 plus music from David and Kirsten Hart.
- 14:23 Contact us and ask for the DVD Series
- 14:27 "Watch Therefore And Be Ready"
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- 15:02 You've seen Dov teaching from that beautiful spot,
- 15:06 overlooking the Sea of Galilee,
- 15:08 and we didn't know that whole area
- 15:10 around the Sea of Galilee
- 15:12 is called "The Galilee".
- 15:14 I think its one of your favorite spots in Israel.
- 15:16 It is!
- 15:17 Well, its not developed.
- 15:19 You can still walk on the rocks next to the Sea of Galilee,
- 15:21 much like Yeshua did.
- 15:23 It's just a beautiful place.
- 15:25 And you'll get to go if you go on tour with us.
- 15:27 That's right, we would love for you to join us on a Zola Levitt tour.
- 15:30 You can find all the information on our website.
- 15:32 Just go to levitt.com
- 15:34 Now let's learn some Hebrew.
- 15:43 Shalom Haverim
- 15:44 One of the words we use in Israel every day is the word Toda .
- 15:48 It means "Thank you"
- 15:50 So as somebody gives you something,
- 15:52 or as you request something
- 15:54 you can say the word Toda , "Thank You"
- 15:57 Now if somebody gives you something really special
- 15:59 like a beautiful gift that means a lot to you,
- 16:02 You can add the word Raba , which means "Great".
- 16:06 So,"Great Thanks", Toda Raba
- 16:09 So next time somebody gives you something
- 16:11 or you ask for something and you receive it,
- 16:14 you can say, Toda or Toda Raba
- 16:20 This is a great, almost Hebrew 101 easy learning words.
- 16:24 Love this word.
- 16:26 Toda is "Thank you"
- 16:28 and Toda Raba is Thank you
- 16:30 very much.
- 16:32 and Raba actually means "very much",
- 16:34 and if you are going to go to Israel
- 16:36 you just need to learn this.
- 16:37 We need to show that
- 16:38 people coming in to the Land of Israel
- 16:41 are polite and are thankful.
- 16:43 That's right.
- 16:44 You know, as you're saying that
- 16:45 I'm thinking about Yeshua.
- 16:47 If nothing else we just need to say
- 16:48 Toda Raba to Yeshua for all He's done for us in our lives.
- 16:53 That's good.
- 16:54 Let's go back to our teaching in Israel.
- 16:56 Here's Dov.
- 17:03 The 5 foolish virgins are shut out
- 17:05 of the wedding ceremony in heaven.
- 17:08 And they say, "Lord, Lord open to us!
- 17:12 But He answered and said, 'Assuredly I say to you I do not know you.'
- 17:16 In Matthew Chapter 7 Adonai Yeshua , our Lord Jesus says,
- 17:45 And here's a question.
- 17:46 Where will they go when He says depart from me?
- 17:49 They'll go to " Gehinnom " - "Hell".
- 17:54 The same place the 5 foolish will go.
- 17:59 What's the answer?
- 18:00 How do I know for sure that I'm going to be at the Wedding Ceremony?
- 18:04 It's a very good question.
- 18:06 And the Lord gives us a answer in Verse 13 of Matthew 25.
- 18:16 Watch therefore.
- 18:18 Be ready.
- 18:19 What does it mean to watch for Him to come?
- 18:22 It means to love Him more than this world.
- 18:25 To love the next life in Messiah Yeshua,
- 18:27 the Eternal Life He gives us, more than this life.
- 18:31 It means that I want Him to come for me.
- 18:34 I want to go to be with Him.
- 18:36 I love Yeshua.
- 18:38 I love Jesus the Lord.
- 18:41 Right?
- 18:42 And He said the first commandment is to love the Lord your God
- 18:44 with all of your heart, mind, soul and strength,
- 18:47 to love your neighbor as yourself.
- 18:49 To watch for Him is to love Him and to be preparing yourself
- 18:54 to spend eternity with Him.
- 18:57 It's kind of a foreign concept today in this kind of "Me-ism" Christianity.
- 19:02 Right?
- 19:04 And so, to watch for Him and to be ready,
- 19:08 that my thinking, speaking and living
- 19:11 is under the Lordship, the Headship of Messiah Yeshua.
- 19:16 It's to live a Holy life.
- 19:18 Now that doesn't mean floating around on a cloud.
- 19:20 What it means is to be set apart for Him.
- 19:24 Isn't that what a bride is to be?
- 19:26 Set apart for the groom?
- 19:29 To be set apart for Him and to be living a life
- 19:33 that says to a lost and dying world.
- 19:35 Come and go with me to my Father's House.
- 19:39 I'm waiting for my Messiah to come.
- 19:42 I'm saying no to other things that are temporal
- 19:47 and I'm saying yes to things that demonstrate
- 19:50 I believe He's coming for me any time.
- 19:54 And I'm watching and I'm ready.
- 19:56 Put your faith in Messiah Yeshua,
- 19:59 He died on the Cross for your sins,
- 20:01 was buried and rose again,
- 20:03 and follow Him until He comes.
- 20:05 Watch therefore
- 20:06 and be ready.
- 20:14 Well all I just want to say is
- 20:15 Folks, we are indeed living in the Last Days,
- 20:18 and Jesus Christ, I believe is
- 20:19 coming sooner rather than later.
- 20:21 We must, Number 1, share the Gospel with people
- 20:24 that are perishing all around us.
- 20:26 Number 2, we must pray for the Peace of Jerusalem
- 20:28 as talked about in Psalm 122.
- 20:30 Reach out to the Jewish people and show them how much that we love them,
- 20:33 and that we will stand behind them
- 20:35 until the King of kings and LORD of Lords returns.
- 20:40 I'm sure you've heard this before
- 20:41 that we are living in the Last Days of the Last Days.
- 20:44 Dr. Mark Hitchcock is here to give us
- 20:47 some great insight on that topic.
- 20:50 And we've been speaking about the Bride
- 20:53 getting ready preparing for her Groom.
- 20:55 The "Bride" is the "Church"
- 20:57 but are we just kind of getting tired of waiting?
- 20:59 Is that what you see?
- 21:00 Well, I think sometimes that's true with a lot of people.
- 21:02 In fact, I've heard people years ago say,
- 21:05 I've been hearing all my life that Jesus is coming back,
- 21:07 and He hasn't come back yet.
- 21:09 So when's He going to come?
- 21:10 I think that's what we see in that parable in Matthew 25 about
- 21:14 the Bridegroom coming and these 10 virgins who are there waiting.
- 21:17 The Bridegroom in that day would go
- 21:19 and get his bride from her family,
- 21:22 and she would be presented to him,
- 21:24 and he would go back to his father's house.
- 21:26 That pictures Jesus coming and getting us
- 21:28 and taking us to His Father's house in heaven.
- 21:31 But it pictures these 10 virgins or 10 bridesmaids,
- 21:36 and they're all bridesmaids,
- 21:37 they're all virgins,
- 21:39 they all go out to meet Him,
- 21:40 but there's one difference between them,
- 21:41 and that is 5 of them have oil in their lamps,
- 21:44 and 5 of them don't.
- 21:45 I think the main point of that parable is,
- 21:47 5 of them were ready and 5 of them weren't.
- 21:50 What's interesting too, they all fall asleep.
- 21:52 That's also interesting.
- 21:54 All of them fall asleep,
- 21:55 but some of them when they hear the cry,
- 21:57 "Behold the Bridegroom comes!"
- 21:58 they wake up and they're ready
- 21:59 because they have oil in their lamps.
- 22:01 I don't think we have to look very far in the Church today
- 22:04 to see a lot of believers are asleep.
- 22:07 Do you think our Pastors are preaching that?
- 22:10 To be ready?
- 22:11 To be ready.
- 22:12 Well, I don't think a lot of them are.
- 22:14 There's just a lot of lethargy I think, a lot of sleep.
- 22:16 I Thessalonians 5:6 says, Don't sleep as others do.
- 22:20 We need to be called and we need to be roused,
- 22:22 and we need to be awakened.
- 22:23 Again, I think the coming of Jesus Christ,
- 22:25 and talking about prophetic truth,
- 22:27 and what's happening in our world today
- 22:28 is one of the ways that people are awake.
- 22:31 We don't want to just talk about prophecy all the time.
- 22:33 There's a lot of doctrines we need to talk about,
- 22:36 a lot of truths in the Bible.
- 22:37 I always say, the sheep need a good well balanced diet,
- 22:40 but I think today in many, many churches
- 22:43 the prophetic is really downplayed,
- 22:46 if not just neglected all together.
- 22:48 I think that really fits in, or really kind of plays to
- 22:54 this lethargy that we see in the Church today,
- 22:56 and people need to be aroused and know that Christ is coming,
- 22:58 and be ready.
- 22:59 And its exciting because in Israel
- 23:01 I think there's so much prophecy coming about right now.
- 23:04 Don't you believe that?
- 23:05 Well there is.
- 23:06 And so we have every reason today
- 23:07 to be more awake than any generation.
- 23:10 That's exciting!
- 23:11 But yet I think we see maybe
- 23:12 more people asleep than at any time.
- 23:14 So it's kind of a strange irony.
- 23:16 Which I think is the reason
- 23:17 that Yeshua Jesus said, Watch!
- 23:20 Cause the Groom is excited too!
- 23:22 Oh, He is.
- 23:23 The Groom is saying I'm ready,
- 23:24 Okay Father, is the room ready?
- 23:26 Can I go get my Bride now?
- 23:28 And it would be so horrible for the Groom
- 23:30 to come back and He's like,
- 23:31 Oh, my Bride fell asleep.
- 23:33 She couldn't wait long enough for me,
- 23:36 and He's excited to come back.
- 23:38 No, that's right,
- 23:39 and I just think the whole picture here
- 23:41 is one we picture the Church as a Bride.
- 23:43 If there's one thing...
- 23:45 I do quite a few weddings at our church.
- 23:47 There's one thing with the Bride and with her mother,
- 23:49 they're getting for a wedding.
- 23:51 They're planning it, every detail,
- 23:53 and its strange to see a Bride who
- 23:56 is apathetic about what's taking place.
- 23:58 And sleeping.
- 23:59 That's right, and so I think
- 24:01 here in this parable that Jesus gives to us
- 24:04 is these Brides maids that are asleep.
- 24:07 But I think we actually see the Bride asleep
- 24:09 in many ways today.
- 24:10 Again, we can't wake people up on our own.
- 24:14 We can't make them come awake,
- 24:15 but the Holy Spirit can do that
- 24:17 through worship,
- 24:18 through the Word of God,
- 24:20 through fellowship together,
- 24:21 and all the things that we do as we
- 24:22 gather together every Sunday as God's people.
- 24:24 And that's why we're doing these programs
- 24:26 on Zola Levitt Presents
- 24:28 because we want to tell everyone,
- 24:29 Wake up, He's coming soon!
- 24:31 We need to wake the Bride.
- 24:32 Right.
- 24:33 Right now, let's go to a Zola song.
- 24:38 ♪ Sha'alu Shalom Yerushalayim ♪
- 24:42 ♪ Sha'alu, Sha'alu Shalom ♪
- 24:46 ♪ For the Holy City of Jerusalem ♪
- 24:50 ♪ We will pray for peace ♪
- 24:52 ♪ Sha'alu Shalom ♪
- 24:54 ♪ Instrument interlude ♪
- 24:57 ♪ On the holy mountain in Jerusalem ♪
- 25:01 "Take thy son, thy son, thine only son ♪
- 25:05 ♪ Slay him there and show me in Jerusalem ♪
- 25:09 ♪ Of thy faith, thy faith that God is One ♪
- 25:13 ♪ O my God, mine only Son ♪
- 25:17 ♪ But ask of me and it is done ♪
- 25:21 ♪ For in Thy mercy, for in Thy Name ♪
- 25:25 ♪ I know for me You'll do the same ♪
- 25:28 ♪ Instrument interlude ♪
- 25:35 ♪ On the holy mountain in Jerusalem ♪
- 25:39 "Take thy son, thy son, thine only son ♪
- 25:43 ♪ Slay him there and tell the world Jerusalem ♪
- 25:47 ♪ Of thy faith, thy faith that it is done ♪
- 25:51 ♪ For it is done, we have the Son ♪
- 25:55 ♪ The blessed One, His only Son ♪
- 25:59 ♪ Believe on Him and it is done ♪
- 26:04 ♪ And always pray Sha'alu Shalom ♪
- 26:07 ♪ Instrument interlude ♪
- 26:14 ♪ Sha'alu Shalom Yerushalayim ♪
- 26:18 ♪ Sha'alu, Sha'alu Shalom ♪
- 26:22 ♪ For the Holy City of Jerusalem ♪
- 26:29 ♪ We will pray for peace ♪
- 26:32 ♪ Sha'alu Shalom ♪
- 26:40 ♪ Shalom! ♪♪
- 26:43 In Matthew 24, Jesus, Yeshua Himself
- 26:46 Tells us to be ready,
- 26:48 that He is a Groom coming
- 26:51 at an hour we do not know.
- 26:53 The last time we were in the Holy Land
- 26:55 we had these little lamps given to us.
- 26:58 It's and oil lamp.
- 27:00 I know it's not a big of lamp
- 27:02 as some of the Bible times would have had,
- 27:05 but that's our lamp, we are ready,
- 27:07 we're watching therefore and being ready for the return of Yeshua.
- 27:11 We hope you'll join us next week
- 27:12 but until then,
- 27:14 our prayer today is
- 27:15 Sha'alu Shalom Yerushalayim
- 27:17 Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem.
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