Caption transcript for Dateline Jerusalem: “Sacrifices for Sin” (7/10)

• 00:01 ♪♪♪ male announcer: God could have chosen anywhere on earth,
• 00:13 but he chose Israel. He could have revealed his redemption anywhere;
• 00:16 he chose Jerusalem.
• 00:18 The house of the Lord might have been any place on earth;
• 00:22 he chose Mount Moriah.
• 00:24 Past, present, and future, the mountain of the Lord has been
• 00:28 a beacon of hope and remains a strategic site
• 00:32 for the next temple of God.
• 00:36 "Dateline Jerusalem: The Coming Temple."
• 00:42 David Hart: We're so glad you joined us today.
• 00:43 We are plowing through this wonderful series
• 00:46 and a lot more to come.
• 00:47 What's going on today, guys?
• 00:49 Joshua Colson: I love how we've been talking about the
• 00:51 prophecy, the past, the future, the Temple Mount,
• 00:53 this tiny little place with so much controversy.
• 00:55 If you want to start some controversy,
• 00:57 go up there, take a knee, and start praying
• 00:59 and see what happens.
• 01:00 I promise you it's going to go badly for you.
• 01:02 Caleb Colson: I mean, intifadas have started
• 01:04 from less than that.
• 01:05 It is the most contested site in the world because of a spiritual
• 01:08 problem that's, you know, the temple once stood there.
• 01:11 The enemy doesn't want the temple to be there.
• 01:13 The temple will be there in the future and that means Yeshua
• 01:16 will rule and reign from there one day and that just stirs up
• 01:19 the demons of hell.
• 01:21 David: We're gonna hear more about that, but right now,
• 01:23 Dr. Seif is on location at the Mount of Olives.
• 01:26 Let's go there now.
• 01:28 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Television commentators typically
• 01:30 want people to look at them.
• 01:32 Here, however, I'd like to begin by asking you to look past me,
• 01:36 look through me.
• 01:38 No doubt, the site behind me will resonate with you.
• 01:41 As you focus on it, you realize where I am.
• 01:44 It's Jerusalem, and you'll see what you're looking at,
• 01:47 the Temple Mount.
• 01:48 You would know that principally
• 01:50 because of the gold dome that's atop.
• 01:52 But it's an Islamic shrine.
• 01:54 Marwan built that in 691.
• 01:56 Well, he finished it in 691.
• 01:59 For as much as people might recognize the site,
• 02:04 S-I-T-E, what people have lost sight of,
• 02:08 S-I-G-H-T, is what the hill is really all about.
• 02:13 I mention that because the Dome of the Rock behind me was,
• 02:18 in effect, a pilgrim shrine for people to come
• 02:21 and do their obedience to Allah.
• 02:28 That wasn't quite the original intention.
• 02:32 I get that pilgrims visit the space,
• 02:36 and I don't want to be disrespectful toward my Islamic
• 02:40 cousins, but that space was designated for something other
• 02:46 than a religion that appeared here hundreds and hundreds
• 02:53 of years after Jesus.
• 02:55 When I look at this site, I look at it with a biblical lens,
• 03:00 and I'm reminded of the fact that the hekal was there,
• 03:03 the temple was there, the Beit HaMikdash,
• 03:07 and that the site is special, not simply as a place
• 03:10 for tourists to come.
• 03:12 It's a place for people to come and transact business with the
• 03:16 divine to bring front and center their sins and to experience
• 03:22 God's redemption.
• 03:25 I mention that because there's a verse that you may be familiar
• 03:28 with, not just in Leviticus where I'm reading from in 17,
• 03:32 but it's so central to the Bible in so many ways.
• 03:34 There's many chapters that deal with sacrifice on that site,
• 03:38 not tourist site, but sacrifice site,
• 03:40 where animals were brought.
• 03:43 It's so central to the biblical economy.
• 03:44 There has to be the giving of a life in order to receive it.
• 03:48 In Leviticus 17:11 he says: "For the life of the flesh is in the
• 03:54 blood," and he says, "I've given it to you upon the altar,"
• 04:01 in fact, and that's particularly true with Jesus where he gave
• 04:04 his life upon the altar of the cross,
• 04:06 "to make atonement for your souls."
• 04:09 And Jesus certainly is recognized as doing that,
• 04:12 "for it's the blood that makes atonement for life."
• 04:20 More than a tourist spot.
• 04:22 That when you look at biblical literature,
• 04:25 this was the spot.
• 04:27 People came, they brought animals,
• 04:29 they presented.
• 04:31 You know, Calvary's in proximity to all that,
• 04:33 the ultimate sacrifice.
• 04:35 Now, in this series, we're interested in the temple,
• 04:39 to be sure, and the reemergence of it in modernity is worth
• 04:44 consideration, but I don't want to walk past the ultimate and
• 04:48 that is how what was transacted here is fulfilled in the person
• 04:54 of Jesus.
• 04:56 That's the argument.
• 04:57 I'll close my point.
• 04:59 Yesterday I was by the Garden Tomb.
• 05:02 It's a sacred space for Christians to come and remember
• 05:04 the death, the burial, and the resurrection to Jesus,
• 05:07 and pilgrims sing songs, they have devotionals,
• 05:09 and the song was sung, "Oh, the blood of Jesus."
• 05:13 Well, amen to that.
• 05:15 It's popular in Christianity.
• 05:17 I'm glad it is.
• 05:19 I want it to be remembered.
• 05:20 But the place to remember the blood,
• 05:22 the transaction of giving blood for life,
• 05:24 it's the place behind me.
• 05:26 Once upon a time where once stood the temple,
• 05:29 and it may very well be standing again in the foreseeable future.
• 05:36 Caleb: When in 1831 B.C., Abraham ascended Mount Moriah
• 05:40 to sacrifice his son Isaac, he had no idea that one day
• 05:44 that site would be called the Temple Mount.
• 05:47 Two temples would eventually be built on the mount.
• 05:49 It would become Judaism's holiest site in the world.
• 05:52 Some 600 years after the second temple was destroyed by
• 05:55 the Romans, two mosques were built on the site,
• 05:58 making it Islam's third holiest site in the world
• 06:01 after Mecca and Medina.
• 06:02 Today, as discussions abound regarding the third temple,
• 06:05 the prophetic words of Isaiah become even more timely.
• 06:09 narrator: "I will bring them to my holy mountain
• 06:11 of Yerushalayim.
• 06:13 I will fill them with joy in my house of prayer.
• 06:15 I will accept their burnt offerings and sacrifices,
• 06:18 because my Temple will be called a house of prayer
• 06:21 for all nations."
• 06:24 Kirsten Hart: Okay, two Jewish brothers,
• 06:26 very knowledgeable, very smart, this is something
• 06:30 very interesting that we just learned.
• 06:32 We're always taught the third temple.
• 06:35 We don't think, as we just heard,
• 06:37 that it's a huge complex, and you guys know about that.
• 06:41 We think, one temple, not kind of a massive complex,
• 06:44 it's going to be, right?
• 06:46 Joshua: Because the question becomes,
• 06:47 what could be the problem if this temple or complex is there?
• 06:50 Why can't it just sit next to everybody else
• 06:52 on the Dome or--
• 06:53 Caleb: Yeah, I mean, a lot of people think,
• 06:55 you can build the third temple-- because there's plenty
• 06:57 of room, and Al-Aqsa Mosque and Dome of the Rock
• 06:59 will be untouched.
• 07:01 Ain't gonna happen.
• 07:02 They're gonna need that whole complex, and even when we read
• 07:04 in Revelation when John is to measure that third temple,
• 07:07 it describes an inner court, describes an outer court
• 07:10 for the Gentiles.
• 07:11 That's more than just the temple area itself,
• 07:13 even if you're saying, you know, Dome of the Rock,
• 07:15 that's where Solomon's Temple was or Dome of the Spirits,
• 07:18 they still need more territory.
• 07:20 And you know the Muslims will never allow a Jewish temple to
• 07:23 stand side by side with Al-Aqsa, or the Dome of the Rock.
• 07:27 And it's even in the times past, Emperor Hadrian in 167 A.D.,
• 07:33 he built a temple to Jupiter on that very site.
• 07:36 So everybody tries to stake claim to that territory
• 07:40 spiritually by putting their own house of worship there.
• 07:43 And even when Jeff was there, teaching at that eastern gate,
• 07:46 the Muslims were building, digging more gravesites under
• 07:50 that spot where the eastern gate was.
• 07:51 Kirsten: Well, we're seeing him right there,
• 07:53 I mean, that's coming up incredible that they want--
• 07:56 there's that claim to that land, right?
• 07:59 But it's not gonna be.
• 08:01 Caleb: Then they say it's the third holiest site,
• 08:02 but I promise you it did not become Islam's third holiest
• 08:05 site until after 1967, the Six-Day War,
• 08:09 when Israel reclaimed that territory of Jerusalem,
• 08:12 but that was when an air force came to destroy Israel and God
• 08:15 supernaturally intervened.
• 08:16 This army of ten to one, and they took more territory
• 08:20 of Judea and Samaria back, which is their God-given inheritance,
• 08:23 and then suddenly it's the third holiest site in Islam.
• 08:26 It's not mentioned anywhere in the Qur'an,
• 08:28 you know, Yerushalayim, this Temple Mount,
• 08:30 but now it's so important to everybody.
• 08:32 Joshua: So you see that constant pressure building,
• 08:34 that constant tug-of-war.
• 08:36 When you see something that doesn't make sense in the
• 08:37 natural, that's when you know it has to be a spiritual battle.
• 08:41 And that's why we're saying co-existence is not gonna
• 08:43 happen in this situation because the enemy has no desire to
• 08:46 co-exist with God, and God is not going to co-exist with
• 08:49 the enemy, and we know, because of the Bible,
• 08:51 it's gonna happen.
• 08:53 The temple's gonna happen, and everything else
• 08:55 that happens next, so.
• 08:56 Caleb: Yeah, in Daniel 9:27, he's talking about this beast,
• 09:00 this [speaking in Hebrew]
• 09:02 this antichrist figure that makes a peace treaty.
• 09:05 He confirms it with the Jews for 7 weeks,
• 09:08 for 7 years.
• 09:10 Obviously, Satan wants that temple to be built because that
• 09:12 is the initiation point of the construction of the third temple
• 09:16 for the Tribulation to begin, for him to take
• 09:18 his seat of power.
• 09:20 And so he's playing both sides here: rallying up Israel's
• 09:24 enemies but at the same time he's going to play the
• 09:26 peacemaker with Israel, representing the goy nations
• 09:29 so that they can build that third temple,
• 09:31 just so that he can abominate it later and pollute it
• 09:33 and take his seat.
• 09:35 David: Yes, the eastern gate is near that area
• 09:37 we're talking about right now.
• 09:39 Dr. Seif is there teaching.
• 09:41 Let's go there now.
• 09:44 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Behind me is the eastern gate,
• 09:47 or the old eastern gate.
• 09:48 It's the old city of Jerusalem, a fascinating spot.
• 09:54 Proximate to it is a cemetery, and I'm standing in a cemetery
• 09:58 right now, and I'm excited to do so.
• 10:01 Most people wouldn't think that's very exciting.
• 10:03 This is an Arab Muslim cemetery adjacent to the eastern gate.
• 10:11 And adjacent to this cemetery, this Muslim cemetery,
• 10:16 is a Jewish cemetery that carpets a good section
• 10:21 of the Mount of Olives.
• 10:23 Now, when I tell you I'm excited to come to you from this place,
• 10:25 that sounds, you know, a bit out of place for a cemetery.
• 10:29 But those that are buried here are excited to be at this place.
• 10:33 For comparable reasons.
• 10:35 For getting box-office seats to the greatest show on earth
• 10:40 in the Messianic era.
• 10:43 I mention that because certainly--
• 10:47 and I speak more to Jewish senses and sensibilities--
• 10:52 there's an anticipation of a resurrection to come.
• 10:57 And not only is there an anticipation of a resurrection
• 11:00 to come, and thus individuals want to be buried close
• 11:04 to the holy city, in the holy city to come is,
• 11:08 per the understanding of religious Jews for reasons that
• 11:11 we'll explore, comes the emergence of a temple complex.
• 11:17 We know that Solomon built a temple.
• 11:20 It was destroyed.
• 11:22 Exiles returned and Herod refurbished the temple.
• 11:25 That was the temple in Jesus's day.
• 11:27 Eventually that was felled, it was destroyed,
• 11:31 but there's an understanding in biblical literature,
• 11:33 both in the Newer Testament, and the Older Testament
• 11:36 that there's another temple to come.
• 11:39 And individuals believe, of course,
• 11:41 there's only one place for it to be and that's behind me here
• 11:45 at the temple complex.
• 11:48 I want to explore a text in a second that gives voice to the
• 11:51 priests that will be officiating in that temple to come.
• 11:55 But at the outset, what I want to do is overcome an objection
• 11:59 that many evangelicals have with the notion of a rebuilt temple
• 12:03 and a priesthood that is then redeveloped in the temple.
• 12:08 It's adjudged to be superfluous in that Jesus Christ died for
• 12:13 our sins and is the high priest and sacrifice.
• 12:17 Some allege that this is all a delusional fantasy because
• 12:22 there's no need--because Jesus is the priest
• 12:24 and the sacrifice, there's no need for a temple,
• 12:26 there's no need for a priesthood,
• 12:29 there's no need for a sacrifice.
• 12:32 Caleb: Historically sacrifice has always been a
• 12:35 integral part of atonement, both in the wilderness tabernacle
• 12:38 and the ensuing Jerusalem temples.
• 12:41 David Parsons gives his perspective on the third temple.
• 12:45 David Parsons: Some say, well, look,
• 12:47 Jesus is our eternal sacrifice.
• 12:50 There's no need for the sacrifice of animals there,
• 12:55 and you know, that's all good and fine,
• 12:58 and there--a lot of Jews who want to rebuild the temple,
• 13:01 they're not so interested in the animal sacrifices or whatever,
• 13:06 but recapturing that sort of glory that was there.
• 13:09 Some say we shouldn't be involved in it,
• 13:12 because it's just gonna be defiled by the Antichrist.
• 13:16 And you can actually find three places in the book of Daniel
• 13:21 where he talks about the--an abomination of desolation,
• 13:25 and each is a separate one.
• 13:28 The fact that even Daniel prophesies all three of them,
• 13:31 it was never a reason not to rebuild the temple.
• 13:35 They rebuilt it the first time and such,
• 13:37 so I don't think that's necessarily a reason
• 13:40 not to rebuild it.
• 13:41 If you don't want to be involved,
• 13:43 you don't have to.
• 13:44 It will be a very sensitive issue.
• 13:46 ♪♪♪
• 13:52 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Biblical authors in both the older
• 13:54 and the newer testament give voice to a coming new temple.
• 13:59 With Israel's reaping-- regathering as a nation state,
• 14:04 with the retaking of Jerusalem as the holy city,
• 14:08 with all of that, there are now interests in the temple's
• 14:14 redevelopment and of course, in this series,
• 14:17 we're exploring in order to rededicate a rededicated temple
• 14:22 you need to have the ashes of red heifer, and even those
• 14:24 have been found in Texas.
• 14:26 Go Texas.
• 14:28 Caleb: Our cameras were there on a Texas ranch when rabbis
• 14:31 from Jerusalem's Temple Institute carefully inspected
• 14:35 the parah adumah, the red heifers.
• 14:37 Five suitable heifers were found and later taken to Israel,
• 14:40 where again, we've documented their whereabouts.
• 14:43 There's little question that the subject of the heifers has
• 14:45 stirred considerable interest in these prophetic times.
• 14:48 So I spoke to prophecy expert, Mark Hitchcock,
• 14:51 author of the book, "The End," about his perspective.
• 14:56 Caleb: You know, red heifers, that's all you have to say.
• 14:58 Everybody's talking about them nowadays.
• 15:01 I was present at the selection process when the rabbis
• 15:04 were inspecting them.
• 15:05 It was a sobering event, just to say the least.
• 15:09 Do you think this is a prophetic game-changer,
• 15:11 their appearance after what, say,
• 15:13 2,000 years, pure red heifers?
• 15:16 Mark Hitchcock: Well, I think it is,
• 15:17 or just the fact that they're looking for them I think
• 15:19 is a game-changer.
• 15:20 You know, the fact that there's this kind of momentum
• 15:22 to be searching for them.
• 15:23 Yeah, they found these five red heifers.
• 15:25 I think it's in Texas.
• 15:26 They arrived in Israel, I think it's September of last year,
• 15:28 of 2022.
• 15:30 And they're kind of watching them.
• 15:32 They quarantined them for a while.
• 15:34 I think they're too young now.
• 15:35 They have to be at least 3 years of age,
• 15:37 so they're waiting till they're that age.
• 15:39 But I understand, too, that they believe that these red heifers,
• 15:42 the red heifer ceremony, slaying them
• 15:44 and reducing them to ashes, has to occur overlooking
• 15:46 where they can see the Temple Mount.
• 15:48 Caleb: That's true.
• 15:49 Mark: And they purchased some land over on the Mount of Olives
• 15:51 where this can take place.
• 15:53 So, all these things are in place but they're gonna have
• 15:57 to have red heifers for the purification of the priests
• 16:01 for the third temple.
• 16:03 So I think it is prophetically significant.
• 16:05 Now, whether these five are the five or not--
• 16:07 Caleb: That they stay pure or not, yeah.
• 16:09 Mark: That's right, and they could certainly be the five
• 16:12 if it's going to happen within, you know,
• 16:14 some period of time, but we don't know that for sure,
• 16:17 but to me, it's just the fact that they're trying to get these
• 16:21 red heifers together.
• 16:22 They've already got a menorah there.
• 16:24 The Temple Institute's collecting all these implements.
• 16:26 They're trying to, you know, have a priesthood established.
• 16:28 So, all these things are kind of converging at the same time,
• 16:31 but the red heifers, I think, is really an important piece
• 16:34 to that puzzle, and I do think it's prophetically significant.
• 16:38 Caleb: On a past program in this series,
• 16:40 we documented the place where the ashes of a red heifer
• 16:43 will be gathered on the Mount of Olives
• 16:46 facing the eastern gate.
• 16:47 Dr. Seif continues from that gate
• 16:49 along the eastern wall of the Temple Mount.
• 16:53 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Ezekiel, earlier in his book--
• 16:55 when I say earlier, it's 'cause I'm in chapter 44 here--
• 16:58 gave voice to the fact that Hebrews are gonna be
• 17:00 regathered from the world over and come back
• 17:05 to the nation of Israel.
• 17:06 And he's in--goes into great detail about a temple
• 17:08 that's going to be rebuilt.
• 17:10 And it's not just a model temple.
• 17:12 I want to look in chapter 44 and read a few verses.
• 17:15 Beginning in verse 15, he says: "The priests
• 17:18 and the Levites that kept charge of the sanctuary in days past,
• 17:23 they are going to come again."
• 17:26 He says in verse 15: [speaking in Hebrew]
• 17:30 "And they shall minister before Me once again."
• 17:35 There's an emergent priesthood, and there is ministry
• 17:38 of priesthood.
• 17:40 In verse 16, it's even more explicit.
• 17:43 He says: [speaking in Hebrew]
• 17:48 "And they shall enter into My sanctuary."
• 17:52 And for them to enter into a sanctuary,
• 17:53 there has to be a sanctuary.
• 17:55 If you take the Bible literally, it gives voice to a reemergent
• 17:58 complex to attend to this business.
• 18:02 [speaking in Hebrew]
• 18:07 "And they shall come near to My table,"
• 18:10 he says, [speaking in Hebrew]
• 18:13 "and minister unto Me."
• 18:16 It's very interesting that when you look at biblical literature,
• 18:20 the Ezekiel text, specifically here,
• 18:23 but it's not exclusive to this.
• 18:25 There's an understanding that in the Eschaton,
• 18:28 that is, in days future, there is going to be a redeveloped
• 18:31 temple, and it begs the question what ought Christians to do with
• 18:35 this, particularly those that it seems to offend sense
• 18:38 and sensibility?
• 18:39 A few things.
• 18:41 First of all, keep in mind that when we take the Lord's Supper
• 18:44 in church, the minister is acting,
• 18:47 in effect, as a priest, and he is, in effect,
• 18:50 remembering the sacrifice and then giving it to others,
• 18:54 akin to what priests would do in the temple complex.
• 18:58 Now, in a Communion service, Eucharist,
• 19:00 call it what you will, it's commemorative in nature,
• 19:04 it's symbolic.
• 19:05 In terms of the refabrication of a temple complex
• 19:08 and a priesthood, it's symbolic as well.
• 19:11 Evangelicals that envision there is a coming temple don't--
• 19:16 even with all that, there's an understanding that Jesus is the
• 19:18 ultimate sacrifice and high priest and that business
• 19:20 is taken care of.
• 19:22 But there's a cogent argument that there are sacrifices that
• 19:25 are instituted as a commemoration of the ultimate
• 19:29 sacrifice and that is the person of Jesus.
• 19:33 Caleb: We've already seen in this series how the altar of
• 19:35 sacrifice played an important place in the tabernacle.
• 19:38 It pictured what was to come in the temple and also served
• 19:41 as a map of God's salvation plan.
• 19:43 Ariel Simms tells us more.
• 19:46 Ariel Simms: There's so much in the tabernacle,
• 19:51 and I mean, throughout the entire Old Testament,
• 19:53 but especially in the tabernacle,
• 19:55 that points to Yeshua, to Jesus.
• 19:59 What the tabernacle really is, is it is a map of God's
• 20:02 salvation plan.
• 20:05 The beginning of the map, the start of the map,
• 20:08 where we are, is separation from God in our sin.
• 20:11 And the end point's the X where the treasure is buried,
• 20:14 where we want to get to, that's back to the Holy of Holies,
• 20:16 back to the presence of God, back to our relationship with
• 20:19 him, or back to the Garden of Eden,
• 20:21 what God originally intended.
• 20:23 And so what the tabernacle is, is that it's a map that shows
• 20:27 the process of what needs to happen if we want to get back
• 20:31 to a relationship with God, back to his presence and glory,
• 20:35 so even before we talk about Yeshua and Jesus,
• 20:40 we just see, first of all, for example,
• 20:42 the altar being the first item that we see when we come
• 20:45 into the courtyard.
• 20:46 If you want--if you want to get to God,
• 20:48 first there must be a sacrifice and it's through the sacrifice
• 20:51 that we are purified, which is what the wash base represents.
• 20:55 We cannot be purified without a sacrifice first.
• 20:58 So, it's through the blood of the sacrifice that we are
• 21:00 purified, and then we can enter into God's presence.
• 21:03 Even before the altar, we have the gate, the gate that was the
• 21:07 only way to enter into the courtyard in the first place.
• 21:10 If anyone tried to sneak in through any other way
• 21:14 into the courtyard, under the fence or whatever,
• 21:17 they would die.
• 21:19 So, the gate was the only way to come in.
• 21:21 Yeshua says, "I am the gate."
• 21:24 So, when he says, "I am the gate,"
• 21:25 he's talking to Pharisees, educated, learned Jews,
• 21:27 who know exactly what he means when he says,
• 21:29 "I am the gate," where he's referencing the gate
• 21:31 to the courtyard, basically saying,
• 21:33 "I'm the only way to get to God."
• 21:37 Yeshua says, "I am the bread of life."
• 21:39 He's referencing the shewbread where he's basically saying,
• 21:42 "I am the provider."
• 21:45 Or when he says, "I am the light of the world," he's referencing
• 21:47 the menorah where he's the light of the world.
• 21:50 The menorah represents Yeshua as the light of the world.
• 21:54 So, really, everything points to Yeshua,
• 21:56 and he references the tabernacle when he says many of these
• 21:59 I AMs throughout the Gospel of John.
• 22:03 And the ultimate purpose of the tabernacle back then was to be
• 22:07 a dwelling place for God.
• 22:09 The very first thing that God says about the tabernacle in
• 22:12 Exodus chapter 25, God talks to Moses on Mount Sinai,
• 22:15 and he says, "Build me a tabernacle
• 22:17 that I may dwell among them."
• 22:19 Them, he's talking about the Israelites.
• 22:21 So the tabernacle first and foremost is meant to be
• 22:23 a dwelling place for the Lord.
• 22:25 But the word "among" in Hebrew, when God says,
• 22:28 "I want to dwell among my people,"
• 22:30 in Hebrew it actually says [speaking in Hebrew]
• 22:33 [speaking in Hebrew] means inside,
• 22:35 not among or with or next to, but inside.
• 22:38 Why would God use that type of language?
• 22:40 Because God dwelling in the tabernacle symbolizes
• 22:43 how he dwells inside of us today.
• 22:45 That's why Paul calls us the tabernacle of God,
• 22:48 'cause God dwelling in the tabernacle symbolizes him
• 22:51 dwelling in us today.
• 22:53 Or if you add that element of us being the tabernacle to,
• 22:56 let's say, the menorah which represents Yeshua being
• 22:59 the source of light, the light of the world,
• 23:01 we are the tabernacle, Yeshua is the light,
• 23:04 just as the walls of the tabernacle reflected the light
• 23:07 of the menorah, we also need to reflect the light of Jesus,
• 23:10 of Yeshua.
• 23:12 So that's just one of many, many things of how this all points
• 23:16 to Yeshua, to salvation through Yeshua.
• 23:19 ♪♪♪
• 23:26 David Hart: Many of you watching today can say,
• 23:28 "I have stood where that tabernacle replica stands."
• 23:32 It's amazing.
• 23:34 We take you there on tour.
• 23:35 If you haven't been, it will change your life
• 23:38 like it's changed our lives.
• 23:39 We go both in the spring and the fall.
• 23:41 Please join us on a tour to Israel.
• 23:44 It's life-changing.
• 23:45 Kirsten: The whole series is about the temple,
• 23:47 and the "Dateline Jerusalem," and Ariel was teaching
• 23:50 from this tabernacle, and it's in the wilderness,
• 23:53 it's in the Timna Valley right near Eilat.
• 23:56 We go there. We stand there.
• 23:58 These wonderful messianic believers teach
• 24:01 about this tabernacle.
• 24:02 It's so important, isn't it?
• 24:04 Joshua: It can be easy for all these details to become
• 24:06 rhetoric, to become a college course.
• 24:08 My first time in Israel was the same way.
• 24:10 Everything sprung to life because of the visual
• 24:12 tangibility of everything.
• 24:14 Yeshua spoke to the Jews of that day
• 24:17 knowing that they were agrarian farmers,
• 24:19 speaking to them in a language and terminology that they
• 24:21 understood so that they could learn not just rhetoric but
• 24:24 something that would cut to their heart.
• 24:26 Terms like the threshing floor immediately spoke to them.
• 24:29 That's how we separate the good wheat from the chaff.
• 24:32 He then used that for so many different principles, and that's
• 24:35 why it's so important to be able to experience that,
• 24:38 so it gets inside of you.
• 24:39 Caleb: And there's a prophetic fulfillment in all
• 24:41 of that, in the harvest.
• 24:43 You look at Israel's three harvests that happen
• 24:45 in the year.
• 24:46 You had your spring first fruits harvest of barley,
• 24:48 your summer Shavuot harvest of the wheat,
• 24:51 and then your fall harvest of the grapes.
• 24:53 And those directly coincide with prophetic events
• 24:55 that will be fulfilled in the future.
• 24:57 So, for example, the barley harvest.
• 24:59 1 Thessalonians 4:16 through 17 is the Harpazo,
• 25:03 the Rapture of the bride of Christ.
• 25:05 We will fulfill that harvest of souls.
• 25:07 We're separated from the earth, you know,
• 25:09 we're taken to be with Messiah.
• 25:10 But then the wheat harvest is the next one that happens.
• 25:12 That doesn't occur until the end of the Tribulation,
• 25:15 in which in Matthew 24:30 through 31,
• 25:17 Yeshua sends his angels to gather his elect
• 25:19 from the four corners of the earth.
• 25:22 But they still have to endure the pressure of being in that
• 25:24 threshing floor with the sleds that pushed
• 25:27 against him to separate that wheat from the chaff.
• 25:30 So it's not fun.
• 25:32 You don't want to be a part of that wheat harvest
• 25:33 and endure the Tribulation.
• 25:35 But the final harvest is the most heartbreaking and it's the
• 25:36 grape harvest that Yeshua himself in Revelation 14:14
• 25:41 through 20, he goes, and he slices and dices with the sword
• 25:44 from his mouth at the Battle of Armageddon,
• 25:46 and he crushes those grapes, filling the valley
• 25:49 up to the horses' bridle with blood.
• 25:51 This is a horrific event, and we can choose now which harvest
• 25:55 you're going to be a part of.
• 25:57 Are you going to be a part of that first barley harvest and
• 25:59 get to be with your Messiah forever in heaven,
• 26:01 or are you going to endure the pain
• 26:03 and the suffering of the Tribulation?
• 26:04 If you don't choose, it's chosen for you.
• 26:06 Joshua: Sometimes the information can seem
• 26:07 very overwhelming.
• 26:09 This specific topic with prophecy and whatnot is actually
• 26:11 detailed out so you don't have to rewind a million times
• 26:13 to hear what Caleb said.
• 26:14 There's a book.
• 26:16 Tell 'em about that book, Caleb.
• 26:17 Caleb: Mark Hitchcock's book, "The End."
• 26:18 We're giving it to you as a free gift to anyone
• 26:20 who gives an offering to this ministry.
• 26:22 It also comes with these bookmarks.
• 26:24 It has Scriptures that are encouraging,
• 26:26 dealing with the prophetic end that Josh and I
• 26:28 came up with ourselves.
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• 26:34 in store for you.
• 26:36 Kirsten: I would also like to thank all of you,
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• 26:58 David: It's been a great day. A lot to take in, yes?
• 27:01 It's been great. It's time to end, guys.
• 27:04 Joshua: As we always say, "Shaalu shalom Yerushalayim."
• 27:07 Kirsten: Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.
• 27:11 David: Our resource this week,
• 27:13 "The End," written by Mark Hitchcock.
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