Caption transcript for Rebuilding the Ruined Cities: “The Covenant,” Part 2 (3/12)

• 00:05 Joshua Colson: Abraham is the father to the Jewish people, but
• 00:07 also to the Arab people.
• 00:09 Isaac was the son of promise but God blessed Ishmael for
• 00:12 Abraham's sake.
• 00:13 Even though these two sons came together to bury their father
• 00:16 and make peace, their descendants's rivalry would
• 00:19 carry on until the end of time.
• 00:22 ♪♪♪
• 00:31 Caleb Colson: Modern Palestinians today are
• 00:32 descendants of Ishmael, Esau, and Mizraim, Egypt.
• 00:36 That's not what we want to focus on this week.
• 00:39 The Abrahamic Covenant is what matters most to the story and
• 00:42 why Satan continues to incite jealousy against the children of
• 00:45 Abraham through Isaac.
• 00:48 Caleb: We are here at the facility of Leket, Israel.
• 00:52 They are gathering all the crops that you may have just seen us
• 00:55 gather out of the farmer's field.
• 00:56 They gotta go through it, they gotta find the best of it, they
• 00:59 gotta clean it, they gotta put it on a truck and deliver it to
• 01:01 the next facility.
• 01:03 And here is Maya, she's gonna tell us everything we're doing
• 01:05 wrong, especially pronouncing our Hebrew.
• 01:07 Joshua: Now, here's the deal, I heard that produce in Israel is
• 01:10 better than anywhere else on the planet, but I'm still learning,
• 01:13 so I never knew that there was something to do to a honeydew
• 01:15 melon to get it ready.
• 01:16 What do I do to this honeydew?
• 01:18 Maya: So, what we're gonna do, we're gonna take the cabbage--
• 01:19 Caleb: Wait, wait, wait, it's not honeydew, Josh.
• 01:21 Joshua: It's cabbage.
• 01:22 Maya: Cabbage.
• 01:24 Joshua: Cabbage, okay, my bad.
• 01:25 Maya: We're gonna take the cabbage and then we're gonna
• 01:27 peel it off, like two layers, until it looks nice.
• 01:32 The leaves you can put inside of the red crate, and after that
• 01:35 you can just dump it into the blue bin.
• 01:37 Now, just make sure the blue bin goes to animal feeding, then
• 01:40 please don't put inside gloves, papers, plastic, all of those
• 01:43 stuff inside of the regular trash.
• 01:45 Yeah, exactly, yeah.
• 01:47 Joshua: Now, this stuff we take off, it's good?
• 01:50 Caleb: This is the bad stuff.
• 01:51 Joshua: It doesn't--this is why we're taking this off, that
• 01:54 makes sense.
• 01:55 Maya: Yeah, we want it to look nice when the people are going
• 01:57 to get it.
• 01:59 Joshua: And that's important because if you're receiving
• 02:00 something, you shouldn't feel like you have to receive
• 02:02 something because you're in need, you should feel like
• 02:04 you're getting the best, right?
• 02:05 I love that.
• 02:06 Caleb: This is mine.
• 02:08 Thank you for teaching us.
• 02:09 We're gonna continue on and see if we can finish this whole
• 02:12 thing here.
• 02:14 Look at this, Josh.
• 02:15 Joshua: Oh, man. Caleb: Man, look at this stuff.
• 02:17 Joshua: Genesis 12:1 through 3, "Now the Lord had said to
• 02:21 Abram, 'Get out of your country, from your family, and
• 02:24 from your father's house, to a land that I will show you.
• 02:27 I will make you a great nation.
• 02:30 I will bless you and make your name great, and you shall be
• 02:33 a blessing.
• 02:34 I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who
• 02:37 curses you, and in you all the families of the earth shall
• 02:41 be blessed.'"
• 02:43 Caleb: God blesses the children of Israel through Abraham.
• 02:47 This is the blessing, the produce of the land, isn't
• 02:49 it, Josh?
• 02:50 Joshua: It is the produce of the land, and guys, Abraham at this
• 02:52 time is pretty much, I don't know, the coolest guy when it
• 02:55 comes to talking about religions.
• 02:56 If you have one guy who isn't Jesus or God that crosses over,
• 02:59 it's Abraham.
• 03:01 In three major world religions, Abraham is known, right?
• 03:04 He's in Christianity, he's in Judaism, he is in Islam.
• 03:09 He's a big figure, but he started in humble beginnings.
• 03:13 Caleb: Well, let's say in the post-antediluvian world there
• 03:17 were relatively new concepts that were taught such
• 03:19 as idolatry.
• 03:20 You had a man named Nimrod, he was the world dictator at a time
• 03:24 and arguably still alive at the time of Abraham when Abraham
• 03:28 was born.
• 03:29 Well, he became this godlike figure that everybody worshiped,
• 03:35 and after the dispersion at Babel, Nimrod's family became,
• 03:39 like, personified, deified as a god pantheon, and the scattering
• 03:44 of languages, they just had different names under it.
• 03:46 You know, in the Egyptian pantheon you had Horus and Isis,
• 03:49 Osiris, but I believe that the name of Elohim, the God of
• 03:55 Israel, that we will soon later learn, the God that Noah
• 03:58 worshiped, wasn't lost to the people at this time.
• 04:02 In fact, in the Jewish historian Josephus's Antiquities of the
• 04:08 Jews, he explains that at this time Nimrod told the people of
• 04:12 the earth you can't keep God to his promises.
• 04:16 He's gonna break his covenant he made with Noah.
• 04:18 He's gonna flood the earth again and therefore you can't
• 04:21 trust him.
• 04:23 And so, let's build this ridiculously tall tower to
• 04:25 heaven to withstand the coming floodwaters because God's gonna
• 04:29 try to destroy us again, he's the rebel.
• 04:32 Joshua: Oh, my goodness, so whether or not the exact account
• 04:34 by Josephus is accurate or not, we know that Shem was around
• 04:38 100, right, when he has his son Arphaxad?
• 04:41 Caleb: Arphaxad.
• 04:43 Joshua: And from Arphaxad comes Eber?
• 04:47 I'm bad at the names, guys, I apologize, which is where we get
• 04:49 the term Hebrew from.
• 04:52 At this point we know that the longer life spans were there, so
• 04:57 people are still living for hundreds of years, even though
• 04:58 it's in great decline, so it's very likely that Shem was still
• 05:02 around when Abraham was born all those years later.
• 05:04 Caleb: He absolutely was, we know that through the genetic
• 05:07 timetable, but in Genesis 12 we get this important moment where
• 05:10 God speaks to Abram and calls him out of Ur of the Chaldees.
• 05:14 He calls him to a land he doesn't know, the land of
• 05:16 Canaan, and he has a promise to him that one day his children
• 05:20 are gonna be numerous, and God always keeps his promises.
• 05:23 Joshua: Yes, he does, brother.
• 05:24 Promised me that I'd do good at cabbage today and look at me.
• 05:27 Caleb: I'm really not doing that good.
• 05:29 This one's still dirty underneath.
• 05:34 Caleb: Genesis 11:10 through 11, "This is the account of Shem's
• 05:38 family line.
• 05:39 Two years after the flood, when Shem was 100 years old, he
• 05:43 became the father of Arphaxad.
• 05:45 And after he became the father of Arphaxad, Shem lived 500
• 05:49 years and had other sons and daughters."
• 05:57 Joshua: Look at this, brother.
• 05:58 I don't know if you've been to your local grocery store lately,
• 06:00 but they don't have zucchini this big.
• 06:02 Why is that?
• 06:03 Well, when we talked to the farmer, he said that the grocery
• 06:05 stores are uninterested in zucchini this big, but that
• 06:08 every farmer knows that zucchini this size is where all the
• 06:12 flavor is.
• 06:13 In fact, he said when I would bring zucchini to my mother, if
• 06:15 I brought her one that was small, she would send it back.
• 06:17 So, the people here at Leket are giving those people who need
• 06:22 things the best tasting zucchini, the best of all of
• 06:26 these things.
• 06:27 I love that.
• 06:29 Caleb: Look at them come down.
• 06:30 Those are massive.
• 06:31 You know, guys, there are ancient Jewish writers that
• 06:33 chronicle the territory, the land of the time after the
• 06:38 flood, and they give some extra information that you don't
• 06:41 normally read about in the Bible, but they're historic
• 06:43 Jewish accounts so you can take it with a grain of salt, if you
• 06:45 will, but it's very interesting.
• 06:48 One book called the Book of Jubilees describes that
• 06:51 immediately after the flood that God told Noah to divide the land
• 06:55 by lot to his three sons, and that's what they did.
• 06:58 He divided the land into threes, and then Noah's sons, Ham, Shem,
• 07:02 and Japheth divided that territory to their sons, and
• 07:05 they all had to make a promise, everybody stay within your land,
• 07:08 don't war and take other people's lands.
• 07:11 This was a covenant that they had to swear unto.
• 07:16 Well, this is interesting because this is actually defined
• 07:18 and mentioned in Genesis 10:25 and said in the days of Peleg
• 07:23 the land was divided.
• 07:24 Some people took that to be continental drift dividing.
• 07:27 It was talking about dividing the territories of the land, and
• 07:30 thus it is very interesting that that territory of the river of
• 07:35 Egypt up into Lebanon that was so fruitful and fertile, that
• 07:38 land of Israel that we know today, the former territory of
• 07:42 Eden was so plenteous everybody wanted it, but it was promised
• 07:45 to Shem and to his lineage.
• 07:47 Well, here comes Canaan around, he comes onto Shem's territory
• 07:51 and he's like, oh, wow, that's really good.
• 07:52 He takes that land for his inheritance, starts squatting
• 07:56 on it.
• 07:57 Ham and his sons say, no, Canaan, you can't do this, you
• 07:59 can't take someone else's land or you're going to place your
• 08:02 descendants under a greater curse.
• 08:04 He doesn't care, he does it anyways, and this would give
• 08:08 stock to why in the future God calls Abraham to that land of
• 08:12 Canaan and promises that land as his eternal inheritance because
• 08:16 it was already promised to Shem to create bountiful zucchini
• 08:22 like this.
• 08:23 Joshua: If you don't believe that this is the land of milk
• 08:25 and honey and promise, look at all the vegetables.
• 08:26 Caleb: This is amazing.
• 08:28 Joshua: I'm pretty sure this is what the original Joshua and
• 08:29 Caleb saw when they were like, yeah, this is the place we wanna
• 08:31 go eat dinner at, ha, ha.
• 08:32 Caleb: Let's go to see some more.
• 08:39 Caleb: Yeah, so what do we do with these carrots?
• 08:42 How do you say carrots in Hebrew?
• 08:43 Joshua: These are leeks.
• 08:45 male: Those aren't leeks, we're doing carrots over here.
• 08:48 Caleb: So, how do you pronounce carrot in Hebrew?
• 08:51 [speaking in Hebrew]
• 08:58 I'm not getting this, carry on, captain.
• 09:01 male: We got 3 categories, we've got good, and we have bad, and
• 09:05 we've got good in the hands of a professional.
• 09:07 Joshua: What is this category?
• 09:08 male: That's category of come back to me when you figure
• 09:11 it out.
• 09:13 Caleb: That is a bad category.
• 09:14 Joshua: Tastes okay.
• 09:15 Caleb: That doesn't even look like a carrot.
• 09:18 male: If it looks good but it's not whole, it's only good in the
• 09:22 hands of a professional, a chef who knows how to use it, but
• 09:24 I don't.
• 09:25 It's gonna go in here.
• 09:26 It's gonna go to one of the 300 organizations we work with that
• 09:29 will go to people who need it.
• 09:31 But we want to give to families directly, no middleman.
• 09:35 Caleb: Then what do you do with it after it's full?
• 09:37 male: We place it on this table.
• 09:39 Caleb: Show us what we do at this table.
• 09:40 male: We place it on the table where Noga is going to operate
• 09:45 the conveyor belt.
• 09:46 We activate the machine with this green button.
• 10:02 The machine takes every portion of carrots that we made, wraps
• 10:08 it up in net, ties it, cuts it, and at the end it comes out and
• 10:14 it's poured into this empty crate at the end.
• 10:17 Let's see what we can make happen.
• 10:19 Joshua: If you've ever wondered how the bag of carrots gets to
• 10:21 the store, this is how.
• 10:22 It looks like a prawn.
• 10:25 Caleb: This is what you're looking for here, a smaller bag
• 10:28 of carrots.
• 10:29 I don't know if they're supposed to drop.
• 10:30 Are we supposed to help them down?
• 10:32 male: There you go, yeah.
• 10:33 Caleb: So they don't fall, okay. male: There you go.
• 10:34 Caleb: And we don't stick our fingers in right here.
• 10:36 male: We don't stick our fingers in unless you want to make
• 10:38 a stew.
• 10:40 Caleb: I don't want to make a stew.
• 10:41 I definitely don't.
• 10:44 male: It's much better.
• 10:45 You got it, sort it out, stop it, take a breather than to lose
• 10:49 a hand.
• 10:50 Joshua: Okay, that makes sense.
• 10:51 Now guys, I don't wanna get into the genealogy specifics right
• 10:54 now, but let's be honest, when we're talking about modern
• 10:57 Palestinians today, in no way whatsoever does their genealogy,
• 11:01 DNA, or anything harken back to the Canaanites.
• 11:03 It's just not the case.
• 11:04 Caleb: Well, that's an amazing segue out of nowhere from
• 11:07 carrots that you got into that topic, but we want to look back
• 11:09 at Genesis 12.
• 11:11 That's when God called Abram all the way from the land of
• 11:13 Chaldees into a land that he didn't know.
• 11:16 He told him that he would have children, but it wasn't
• 11:18 very specific.
• 11:19 By Genesis 13, he said that his descendants would be more than
• 11:23 the grains of sand on the seashore, and he was gonna give
• 11:25 them this land that we're living in now.
• 11:28 Let's read Genesis 13 and hear about that promise.
• 11:32 Joshua: And then I can show you my awesome segue skills from
• 11:34 carrots into Palestinians.
• 11:37 Joshua: Genesis 13:14 through 17, "And the Lord said to Abram
• 11:43 after Lot had separated from him, 'Lift your eyes now and
• 11:46 look from the place where you are, northward, southward,
• 11:50 eastward, and westward, for all the land which you see I give to
• 11:55 you and your descendants forever.
• 11:56 And I will make your descendants as the dust of the earth so that
• 12:00 if a man could number the dust of the earth, then your
• 12:03 descendants also could be numbered.
• 12:05 Arise, walk in the land, through its length and its width.
• 12:09 For I will give it to you.'"
• 12:12 Caleb: We're here at the facility of Leket, and here is
• 12:15 the founder of Leket, Joseph Gitler.
• 12:18 Thank you for allowing us to come and volunteer today.
• 12:21 Joshua: I'm grateful because what I've learned from
• 12:23 volunteering is that I'm no good at it, but that's the beauty of
• 12:26 this program, right?
• 12:27 Anybody can come and volunteer and be a part of what y'all are
• 12:29 doing to bless Israel.
• 12:30 Joseph Gitler: Anyone can come and volunteer.
• 12:32 I'm not a great volunteer either, that's why I do--most of
• 12:33 my time is spent doing exactly what you guys are doing, which
• 12:36 is talking, and that's fine.
• 12:38 My mother used to say to me, "You're good at talking, do
• 12:40 something with it," so I'm being respectful to my mother, which I
• 12:43 know you guys will appreciate.
• 12:44 Caleb: That's amazing, sounds like you're a storyteller and we
• 12:46 want to know the story of how this all began.
• 12:49 Joseph: So the idea of Leket, which I would say is really a
• 12:52 biblical idea, because of course we have the story of Joseph in
• 12:55 the Bible, not that I'm comparing, and we have
• 12:58 commandments in the Bible about not wasting.
• 13:01 We have commandments in the Bible about making sure that
• 13:03 crops are utilized to feed the poor, and so I think when I
• 13:07 started this 20 years ago, the idea was here we are in this
• 13:10 western country, like other western countries we have a lot
• 13:13 of poverty, a lot of people suffering, but also a lot of
• 13:16 waste, and you know, how dare we?
• 13:19 Really, that's what it is.
• 13:20 We can't seem to solve the problem of poverty, we better at
• 13:23 least use the resources that are just being given to us, or in
• 13:27 this case wasted, and that's really the Leket origin story.
• 13:31 It bothered me.
• 13:32 I used to go to weddings and bar and bat mitzvahs and we would
• 13:35 all comment on the same thing, which was what are they doing
• 13:38 with all this food at the end of the event?
• 13:40 And the answer was, you know, the old heave-ho as they say,
• 13:44 and that's painful, and that seems to be what goes on in most
• 13:48 of the western world.
• 13:49 And I just kind of woke up one day and said I can't, I can't
• 13:53 bear it anymore to see people struggling while we're throwing
• 13:56 away food.
• 13:58 And so, but we have an amazing team in Israel, over 150 people
• 14:02 working for us.
• 14:03 We will probably this year have 60,000 to 70,000 volunteers who
• 14:08 come work, and of course I should note it's more necessary
• 14:13 than usual, okay, because what you're experiencing here is what
• 14:17 I would call Leket's classic volunteering.
• 14:20 Groups, individuals from all over the world and from Israel
• 14:23 coming and volunteering.
• 14:24 The big change I would say since October 7 is that a vast
• 14:28 majority of the volunteers that we've recruited, we are sending
• 14:30 to farms to help farmers.
• 14:32 Normally when we send volunteers to help farmers, we take the
• 14:35 crops to feed the poor.
• 14:37 What's changed over the last seven months is that what we're
• 14:41 gathering they're using for their own purposes, selling,
• 14:44 often we'll even buy it now if we hear that they're in trouble,
• 14:47 having trouble selling it.
• 14:48 So, we've changed everything that we're doing because
• 14:52 certainly October 7 didn't do anything to help the poor, put
• 14:56 them in a better situation, and the challenge for us has frankly
• 14:59 been that many of the people we deal with are now in different
• 15:03 places in the country, and so we've really had to change our
• 15:07 entire operation to try to help those people.
• 15:09 Caleb: Look at all these amazing volunteers here spending their
• 15:13 own time, their own resources, to work for the greater good
• 15:16 of Israel.
• 15:18 Joshua: In fact, those over there, I talked to them, they're
• 15:19 from Mexico, so they're actually even a little further than we
• 15:21 are coming from Texas to be here in Israel, which is
• 15:24 so incredible.
• 15:25 As God finally makes his covenant with Abram, okay, he
• 15:29 goes to Abram and he lays it out in Genesis 15.
• 15:32 In fact, he gives him the entire game plan.
• 15:34 He says this is Canaan.
• 15:35 This is the land that I'm gonna give to you and this is how long
• 15:38 it's gonna take for your children to move into it.
• 15:40 He lets him know your children, your ancestors, it's gonna take
• 15:43 400 years.
• 15:44 They're gonna be taken captive, they're gonna be held, they're
• 15:47 gonna be abused, unfortunately, and then after those four
• 15:50 generations, as they come out of that land, Egypt, into Canaan,
• 15:55 then they're going to receive what he has promised for them.
• 15:58 God was trying to give Canaan as much time as possible to repent
• 16:01 because he knew he was going to have to wipe them out.
• 16:04 Caleb: Now, God made a specific promise with Abram, it's
• 16:07 a covenant.
• 16:08 It involves cutting, it involves blood.
• 16:11 He told him to take five animals.
• 16:12 There was a cow, there was a ram, a goat, a turtle dove,
• 16:16 and pigeon.
• 16:17 He had to cut the large animals in half, lay one on either side,
• 16:21 then God himself in the form of a glowing furnace, a lamp,
• 16:25 walked through the pieces of those bloody animals to secure
• 16:29 the covenant with Abram, and these are the terms of the
• 16:33 covenant and the territorial distance that that land he
• 16:38 promised to Abram in verse 18.
• 16:40 Genesis 15:18 through 21 says, "On that day, Adonai cut a
• 16:46 covenant with Abram, saying, 'I give this land to your seed,
• 16:50 from the river of Egypt to the great river, the
• 16:52 River Euphrates.
• 16:54 That includes the Kenites, the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites, the
• 16:57 Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaites, the Amorites, the
• 17:01 Canaanites, the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.'"
• 17:06 Caleb: Now, which river in Egypt is that scripture describing?
• 17:09 Some people say it's the Nile River and some people say it's
• 17:13 the Brook of Egypt.
• 17:14 Well, I like to look at Joshua 1:4 as a description when it
• 17:17 describes the River Euphrates's boundary.
• 17:21 And so people say, well, is that the River Euphrates to the north
• 17:24 or the River Euphrates all the way to the east in Iraq?
• 17:26 It should encompass all of it, guys.
• 17:30 From this River Euphrates, everything west of it
• 17:33 encompasses all of Israel's territory that God intended for
• 17:37 his people to have in Joshua 1:4.
• 17:39 That would include parts of Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan,
• 17:43 Saudi Arabia, and even Egypt today.
• 17:45 Joshua: As we're here at Leket Express, everything you've been
• 17:48 seeing up to this point, how we've been getting the food from
• 17:51 the farmers, giving it to the farmers, how it's being
• 17:53 processed and put together into packages, it's all for this
• 17:56 moment right here.
• 17:57 The people who need it the most are in line and they're about to
• 17:59 go through one at a time and receive their bags of food for
• 18:02 their family.
• 18:03 It's an incredible moment.
• 18:05 You see, moments like this are God ordained, and when you look
• 18:08 at the Bible again, at the boundaries of Israel that were
• 18:10 ordained by God, you see that it's not the same as the
• 18:13 boundaries for Israel today.
• 18:15 Obviously the borders were way bigger, and we know that God is
• 18:17 going to fulfill that in the Millennium, but if you look at
• 18:20 the so-called West Bank, which was Judea and Samaria, you look
• 18:22 at the Gaza Strip, those were all originally parts that were
• 18:25 intended to be Israel's territory, and we're at
• 18:28 one point.
• 18:29 We know this, blood was spilled, a covenant was made, it is
• 18:33 resolute and for all of time, and it will be Israel's again.
• 18:42 Caleb: Now, unfortunately until then there are squatters in
• 18:46 their land.
• 18:47 You know, the size of modern state of Israel is the size of
• 18:51 New Jersey.
• 18:52 It is estimated that it's 638 times smaller than the territory
• 18:57 of the Arab states around it.
• 18:59 They're 638 times larger.
• 19:00 Now you can see the comparison, why people are confused when he
• 19:03 says they want a right to this land or they want a right
• 19:06 to territory.
• 19:07 You hear this subject matter declared on college campuses,
• 19:11 this mantra if you will, "From the river to the sea, Palestine
• 19:15 will be free."
• 19:16 Well, how about we go back to Joshua 1:4, the true designation
• 19:21 of boundaries and territories from the Euphrates River to the
• 19:25 Mediterranean Sea, God's people should be free.
• 19:28 Joshua: That's really catchy, brother, I like that.
• 19:29 You know, the problem is is that the jealousy from Ishmael is
• 19:32 alive and well today, because Isaac was the son of promise
• 19:37 that God's blessings are being channeled through that's spoken
• 19:39 about in Genesis 13:2.
• 19:41 And so, we see in Genesis 13:2 that Abram was a wealthy man
• 19:45 because God had blessed him in all his ways.
• 19:47 And as we see, as the Jews have gone out to all nations of the
• 19:50 world, we see that they have been blessed with that same
• 19:52 wealth and abundance wherever they go, but we also see that
• 19:54 this incites jealousy in other nations around the world.
• 19:58 But you see, Ishmael's descendants, the Arabs, they
• 20:00 have wealth as well.
• 20:01 You look at their natural resources and the amount of oil
• 20:03 that they have and the wealth that comes from it, it is vast,
• 20:06 and yet they're still not satisfied with the blessings
• 20:08 that they've received from being still a part of that blessing
• 20:12 of Abram.
• 20:13 They still want the birthright of Isaac that is promised to the
• 20:15 Jewish people.
• 20:18 Joshua: Hebrews 9:22, "In fact, the law requires that nearly
• 20:23 everything be cleansed with blood, and without the shedding
• 20:25 of blood, there is no forgiveness."
• 20:28 Verse 28, "So Christ was sacrificed once to take away the
• 20:32 sins of many."
• 20:34 Caleb: Blood was necessary to make a covenant with Abraham.
• 20:39 This was an unconditional covenant with the Jewish people,
• 20:42 something that cannot be broken, just like the Noahic Covenant
• 20:44 that we talked about.
• 20:46 There's also another covenant that is referred to as the
• 20:48 Mosaic Covenant.
• 20:50 This is a covenant God made with his chosen people on Mount
• 20:52 Sinai, but there are terms and conditions to this covenant.
• 20:55 It was conditional.
• 20:57 They had to fulfill their end of the bargain.
• 20:59 They had to be obedient to God's laws and commands, and if they
• 21:02 weren't, then there's a list of curses that would be poured out
• 21:06 upon them, but they swore an oath to fulfill the terms of
• 21:10 that covenant.
• 21:11 This is of course called the Old Covenant or the Old Testament as
• 21:15 you have heard.
• 21:16 Joshua: Thankfully though, there was a better covenant, a new
• 21:19 covenant, one made with Yeshua, but it still required blood.
• 21:22 This covenant is talked about in Jeremiah 31:31 through 33.
• 21:26 Caleb: "Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I
• 21:29 will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the
• 21:32 house of Judah not according to the covenant that I made with
• 21:36 their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to lead
• 21:39 them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke,
• 21:43 for I was a husband to them, says the Lord.
• 21:46 But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of
• 21:48 Israel after those days, says the Lord.
• 21:51 I will put My law in their minds and write it on their hearts,
• 21:56 and I will be their God, and they shall be My people."
• 22:02 Caleb: As we'll continue to explain throughout this series,
• 22:05 the Israelites have throughout history and will continue to
• 22:08 suffer anti-Semitism, persecution, and hatred incited
• 22:12 by Satan just for being a Jew.
• 22:15 There are also times that the Israelites have and will suffer
• 22:18 for their disobedience, breaking that Mosaic Covenant with God,
• 22:22 but God will always be faithful to keep his promises to Abraham
• 22:27 and to his descendants forever.
• 22:31 This is an eternal covenant that God will keep.
• 22:42 Joshua: In modern times today, man has focused more on the idea
• 22:45 of a contract than a covenant.
• 22:47 A contract is something that two or more people come into under
• 22:51 this type of an agreement, an if-then agreement.
• 22:54 If you do this, then this party does this, and they come upon
• 22:57 this agreement, and generally this agreement has a specific
• 23:00 list of requirements or specifications over a certain
• 23:03 period of time before they then reassess that to see if it's
• 23:06 being fulfilled.
• 23:08 The problem with the contract is if one party or the other party
• 23:12 decides to go default and not fulfill it, then it's null and
• 23:15 void, and then the two are fighting in court or whatever it
• 23:18 takes to try to get this contract to be upheld.
• 23:21 The beauty of a covenant is that it can be one-sided.
• 23:25 A covenant is something that one person could simply say I give
• 23:29 to you and all you have to do is receive.
• 23:32 You saw the covenant in the Bible in the Old Testament that
• 23:35 God made with Abraham.
• 23:37 The Hebrew people could not do anything on their own to break
• 23:41 God's covenant because his covenant was resolute.
• 23:45 That means that when he made a promise with them, it lasts
• 23:49 forever and ever, no matter what they did or will ever do, his
• 23:53 promise will remain.
• 23:55 When he sent his Son, Yeshua, to die for you, that was a covenant
• 23:58 which he said the only requirement I have is that you
• 24:00 accept this covenant, and if you do, you live forever.
• 24:03 You have to accept that this is the same God in both situations,
• 24:07 because if for some reason God could go back on his covenant
• 24:09 with Israel, then that means he could go back in his covenant
• 24:11 with you, and you may not spend an eternity with him.
• 24:14 That'd be a terrible idea.
• 24:16 Today we've been with Leket Israel, where their covenant is
• 24:19 to give to the people of Israel in need.
• 24:22 Behind me you have people who have only one requirement, show
• 24:25 up and receive.
• 24:27 And so, they have facilitated presenting the needs of these
• 24:30 people in all different forms or fashion so that all these people
• 24:33 have to do is show up and come and accept.
• 24:36 No matter where you are in life or what you think you have
• 24:38 figured out, you are in need.
• 24:41 You're in need of a Savior and you're in need of the New
• 24:43 Covenant of Yeshua.
• 24:45 So, today when you're looking at your life and you're reading
• 24:49 about Old Testament God and New Testament God and all these
• 24:51 things that might cause you confusion or think I don't need
• 24:53 it, I've got a great job, great money, great this, know that the
• 24:57 only thing resolute in life is God's Word.
• 24:59 It's the only thing you can count on, the only thing you can
• 25:02 depend on, it is never ending.
• 25:04 And if he's made a covenant with you, there is absolutely nothing
• 25:08 in this universe, including your sin, that can stop it, because
• 25:13 his Son was sent and lived a perfect life to pay the price
• 25:16 for that.
• 25:18 Today, ask yourself, since I've been given this free gift, am I
• 25:21 going to choose it?
• 25:23 And once you choose it, the question is to ask how am I
• 25:25 going to give to others?
• 25:33 Caleb: Man, filming this episode brought me the most joy during
• 25:36 our entire trip.
• 25:38 This was an amazing experience because we were physically able
• 25:40 to serve and bless those in need, and Ray and Rosalind
• 25:44 MacDonald and Leket truly love and support the Jewish people,
• 25:47 and they graciously granted us access to all their facilities
• 25:50 to document their efforts.
• 25:52 Joshua: James 1:27 says, "Pure and undefiled religion before
• 25:55 our God and the Father is this, to care for the orphans and the
• 25:59 widows in their distress, and to keep oneself unstained by
• 26:03 the world."
• 26:04 It's always been God's heart to bless and provide for those in
• 26:07 need, to protect those who can't protect themselves.
• 26:10 Psalm 146:7 says, "He upholds the cause of the oppressed and
• 26:14 gives food to the hungry."
• 26:17 And although God does this supernaturally, he still calls
• 26:20 upon us, Yeshua's hands and feet, to do his work by taking
• 26:23 care of the needy.
• 26:25 Caleb: That's right, and Zechariah 7:10 says, "Do not
• 26:27 oppress the widow or the fatherless, the foreigner or
• 26:30 the poor."
• 26:32 Joshua: See, this was also a result of God's everlasting
• 26:34 covenant, okay?
• 26:35 Caleb: A b'ri'ah olam.
• 26:37 Joshua: That's the one, the word I never can say, Caleb knows.
• 26:39 Part of that covenant was to bless those who bless the Jewish
• 26:42 people, and for the Messiah to come through Jewish blood to
• 26:46 bring salvation to the world, now this is the time to stand
• 26:49 side by side with Israel, not to say, no, Israel's in the wrong,
• 26:54 not to sit there and speak all of these horrible lies, but to
• 26:57 defend her from her enemies.
• 26:59 Caleb: Yes, it's time to bless her just because God commands us
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• 27:07 We act as your conduit to Israel, but most importantly
• 27:10 God's conduit to share the love of his Son, Yeshua, to the
• 27:15 Jewish people.
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• 27:27 we continue our journey
• 27:29 to rebuild the ruined cities.
• 27:31 Joshua: So, as you go, [speaking in Hebrew].
• 27:33 Caleb: Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.
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• 27:40 of God."
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• 28:02 Caleb: Join us as we ascend Tel Gezer, a giant
• 28:07 Canaanite metropolis.
• 28:11 This was one of the largest tels, and the ancient word of
• 28:15 tel is like a man-made hill of sorts with layers of
• 28:18 civilization, one built on top of the other.
• 28:22 Joshua: Does ascend mean climb?
• 28:24 Is there an escalator or a moving sidewalk?
• 28:25 Caleb: Nope, it's time for exercise.
• 28:27 Joshua: I don't want to exercise.
• 28:28 Okay, exercise is what I wanted.