Caption transcript for The Miracle of Passover (2007): Part 2 (2/2)

• 00:19 PASSOVER, THE CROWN JEWEL OF BIBLICAL FEASTS,
• 00:23 SACRED TO JEWS AND CHRISTIANS ALIKE.
• 00:26 TAUGHT SINCE THE EXODUS THIRTY-FIVE CENTURIES AGO
• 00:30 AND REVERED IN THE LORD'S SUPPER, COMMUNION, THE EUCHARIST
• 00:34 AND BY ALL PEOPLES WHO RESPECT THE FREEDOM OF NATIONS.
• 00:38 HERE IS PASSOVER
• 00:40 IN ALL IT'S GLORY.
• 00:48 HEARTY SHALOM TO ALL OF YOU.
• 00:50 JEFFREY SEIF HERE WITH MY FRIEND SANDRA LEVITT.
• 00:52 SHALOM.
• 00:53 WELCOME BACK TO PASSOVER.
• 00:54 AND ON WE GO TO COMMUNION.
• 00:56 YES, AND WHAT A STORY IT IS. PASSOVER.
• 01:00 GIVE ME 28 MINUTES, I'LL GIVE YOU A WINDOW INTO COMMUNION YOU HAVE NEVER SEEN BEFORE.
• 01:07 IT'LL BE GOOD!
• 01:08 IT MAKES SENSE.
• 01:09 CHRISTIAN PASSOVER, CHRISTIAN COMMUNION,
• 01:11 JEWISH PASSOVER,
• 01:13 ONE IN THE SAME THING.
• 01:14 HERE'S ZOLA AS HE CONTINUES HIS TEACHING
• 01:16 ON PASSOVER.
• 01:19 WELL WE'RE IN THE MIDDLE OF PASSOVER.
• 01:21 LAST WEEK I EXPLAINED
• 01:22 HOW THIS 3500 YEAR OLD FEAST,
• 01:24 THE WORLD'S OLDEST FEAST
• 01:26 BY A LONG SHOT,
• 01:27 WAS STILL BEING SET UP IN JEWISH HOMES
• 01:31 AND I EXPLAINED THAT IN THE EXODUS THERE WERE 400 YEARS OF SILENCE
• 01:36 BEFORE THAT BLOOD SACRIFICE OF THE LAMB THAT GOT THEM OUT OF EGYPT,
• 01:40 COMPARABLE TO THE 400 YEARS OF SILENCE
• 01:43 FROM THE END OF THE OLD TESTAMENT TO WHEN JESUS CAME,
• 01:46 THE BLOOD SACRIFICE THAT TAKES US ALL OUT OF SLAVERY.
• 01:49 AND THEN WE WENT ON TO COMPARE THE LAMB AND JESUS, THE LAMB OF EGYPT AND THE LAMB OF GOD.
• 01:58 PRETTY MUCH THE SAME THING IN GOD'S VIEW.
• 02:01 AND THEN I EXPLAINED HOW WE HAVE A DAY OF PREPARATION TO SET UP THIS TABLE CHANGE OVER,
• 02:07 THE DISHES, GET THE LEAVEN OUT OF THE HOUSE,
• 02:09 FATHER DONS THE KITTEL, WE COME TO THE TABLE,
• 02:11 WE LIGHT THE CANDLE, WE HAD THEM LIT BY A FEMALE
• 02:15 BECAUSE A FEMALE BROUGHT US THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD AFTER ALL.
• 02:18 AND THEN WE DRANK THE FIRST CUP OF WINE, WE HID THE AFIKOMAN,
• 02:24 WE BROKE A PIECE OF BREAD THAT WAS THE MIDDLE OF A STACK OF THREE,
• 02:28 WE WRAPPED IT AND HID IT AWAY AND WE'LL COME TO IT LATER.
• 02:32 WE HAD A YOUNG CHILD ASK THE FOUR QUESTIONS
• 02:36 AND WE STARTED THE STORY OF THE EXODUS,
• 02:40 ESPECIALLY THE FOODS ON THIS PLATE.
• 02:42 THERE'S BITTER HERBS AND CHAROSES,
• 02:46 A MIXTURE OF APPLES AND NUTS AND CINNAMON
• 02:48 THAT REPRESENTS BRICK MORTAR.
• 02:51 AND THEN THE PARSLEY WHICH WE DIPPED IN SALT WATER.
• 02:55 WE POINTED OUT ABOUT THE DIPPING IN THE GOSPEL, "THE ONE WHO DIPS AFTER ME".
• 02:59 AND WE CAME THROUGH THESE FOODS,
• 03:02 THE SECOND CUP WE POUR IT OUT SO IT LOOKS LIKE BLOOD FOR THE PLAGUES
• 03:07 AND WE HAD COME UP TO THIS EGG. THERE'S AN EGG ON THIS PLATE.
• 03:13 THERE'S AN EGG IN WHAT WE CALL EASTER TOO,
• 03:16 BUT I'M GOING TO EXPLAIN HOW THIS REALLY IS NOT A VALID BIBLICAL SYMBOL.
• 03:20 IT'S NOT CALLED FOR IN THE SCRIPTURE.
• 03:22 THE EGG IS USED AS A SYMBOL OF FERTILITY.
• 03:25 NOW FERTILITY AND RESURRECTION ARE QUITE DIFFERENT THINGS.
• 03:30 YOU KNOW, EVERY PLANT, EVERY BUG IS FERTILE.
• 03:34 WE GET RESURRECTION ONLY FROM JESUS CHRIST.
• 03:38 THE EGG SEEMS TO HAVE CREPT ONTO THE JEWISH PLATE FROM THE BABYLONIAN TIMES,
• 03:42 FROM NEBUCHADNEZZAR.
• 03:44 IT SEEMS TO HAVE CREPT INTO RESURRECTION SUNDAY THE SAME WAY.
• 03:49 IN OTHER WORDS THAT SUNDAY IN THE BIBLE IS CALLED "FIRST FRUITS".
• 03:54 WHEN WE SAY "EASTER" WE ARE PRONOUNCING THE NAME
• 03:58 OF A BABYLONIAN GODDESS OF FERTILITY, "ISHTAR".
• 04:01 THIS LEAKS OVER FROM A PAGAN RITE AND THE BABYLONIANS HAD A FERTILITY RITE EVERY SPRING.
• 04:08 THEY HAD A VERITABLE ORGY.
• 04:10 THEY HAD TO GET AHEAD OF THE PLAGUES THAT WERE KILLING THEM ALL THE TIME
• 04:13 BECAUSE THEY DID NOT HAVE THE LAW OF GOD AND DID NOT LIVE IN A CONTINENT WAY
• 04:18 AND THEY HAD WHAT THE LORD CALLED "THE DISEASES OF EGYPT"
• 04:21 AND THEY WERE DECIMATED ALL THE TIME,
• 04:23 SO IN THE SPRING THEY WOULD ENCOURAGE A LOT OF FERTILITY AND HAVE THE FERTILITY GODDESS,
• 04:27 THEY WORSHIPPED THE THINGS IN NATURE OF FERTILITY,
• 04:30 THE TREES WERE PUTTING ON NEW CLOTHES, SO THEY BOUGHT NEW OUTFITS,
• 04:34 THE RABBIT WHO WAS SO HEROICALLY FERTILE, WE STILL HAVE THIS EASTER BUNNY.
• 04:39 YES, AND WE PLAY WITH EGGS TOO, THE PRIME SYMBOL OF FERTILITY. WE COLOR THEM, WE HIDE THEM.
• 04:46 NOW LOOK, I'LL TELL YOU A TRUTH, AN EGG HUNT IS AN ATTEMPT AT PREGNANCY, THAT'S WHAT THAT IS.
• 04:54 WELL, THINK ABOUT THAT. AND IT'S ALMOST FUNNY WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT IT.
• 04:57 AND WE'RE DOING THIS BABYLONIAN RITE EVERY SPRING
• 05:02 AND CONFUSING IT WITH RESURRECTION SUNDAY, "FIRST FRUITS".
• 05:06 IF WE WOULD ONLY CALL IT "FIRST FRUITS" BY ITS BIBLICAL NAME, A MUCH GREATER TRUTH EMERGES.
• 05:11 IF THERE'S A FIRST, THERE'S A SECOND, A THIRD. WE'RE TALKING ABOUT RESURRECTION HERE.
• 05:16 IN FIRST CORINTHIANS CHAPTER 15, VERSE 22 THE SCRIPTURE SAYS,
• 05:34 JESUS IS CALLED BY THE NAME OF A FESTIVAL.
• 05:36 HE HAS A NUMBER IN THIS RESURRECTION.
• 05:39 HE'S THE FIRST MAN PERMANENTLY RESURRECTED AND HIS NUMBER IS ONE. AND WE ALL HAVE A NUMBER.
• 05:46 EVIDENTLY, YOU GO INTO ONE OF THOSE CROWDED STORES WHERE THEY GIVE YOU A NUMBER,
• 05:50 YOU'RE CONFIDENT THAT YOU'LL BE SERVED AND YOU WILL BE SERVED.
• 05:53 WELL, IN THIS RESURRECTION IT SAYS THE DEAD IN CHRIST WILL RISE FIRST.
• 05:57 WELL, OBVIOUSLY THEY HAVE LOWER NUMBERS. (Audience laughing)
• 06:00 WE GO IN ACTUAL RANKS IN THIS RESURRECTION. IT'S THAT ORGANIZED.
• 06:04 YOU HAVE A NUMBER, AND I HAVE A NUMBER,
• 06:06 THE SCRIPTURE SAYS THE HAIRS OF YOUR HEAD ARE ALL NUMBERED.
• 06:09 SOME OF YOU HAVE HIGHER NUMBERS THAN I DO.
• 06:11 (Audience laughing).
• 06:13 BUT REALLY THE EGG IS A FERTILITY SYMBOL
• 06:17 AND FERTILITY AND RESURRECTION ARE REALLY QUITE DIFFERENT.
• 06:20 IT'S A LITTLE CRUSADE OF MY OWN. I WISH WE COULD CALL THE FESTIVAL "FIRST FRUITS".
• 06:24 I REMEMBER A CHURCH WHERE THEY ASKED ME TO SPEAK ON "FIRST FRUITS".
• 06:29 A PASTOR CALLED AND SAID, "COULD YOU SPEAK TO US ON FIRST FRUITS?"
• 06:33 I WAS SO HONORED THAT FINALLY I HEAR SOMEBODY USE THE RIGHT NAME
• 06:37 FOR THE BIBLICAL NAME FOR THE FESTIVAL.
• 06:38 I SAID, "I'LL BE GLAD TO COME".
• 06:40 I CAME TO THE CHURCH,
• 06:42 ON THE WAY IN I BROKE A BRANCH OFF A YOUNG TREE TO WAVE OVER THE CONGREGATION,
• 06:45 CAUSE THAT'S WHAT YOU DO ON FIRST FRUITS.
• 06:47 A THANK OFFERING FOR THE LORD MAKETH THE LAND FERTILE AGAIN AFTER THE EXODUS.
• 06:51 A DEACON TOLD ME, "BROTHER LEVITT, WE JUST PLANTED THOSE TREES."
• 06:55 I SAID, "YOUR SUPPOSED TO PICK A SACRIFICE!"
• 06:58 (Audience laughing)
• 07:02 I REMEMBER THAT MORNING I SAT ON THE PODIUM,
• 07:04 THE PASTOR WANTED TO DO EVERYTHING RIGHT AND HE SAID TO ME,
• 07:06 "HOW DO I INTRODUCE YOU BROTHER LEVITT?"
• 07:09 "DO I CALL YOU A MESSIANIC JEW OR A COMPLETED JEW OR A HEBREW CHRISTIAN, A JEWISH CHRISTIAN?"
• 07:14 "WHAT ARE YOU?
• 07:15 AND I THOUGHT A MINUTE AND I SAID,
• 07:17 "YOU KNOW WHEN MY PEOPLE WERE SAVED IN THE FIRST CENTURY THEY CALLED US CHRISTIANS."
• 07:22 (Audience laughing).
• 07:24 THAT'S ALL THERE WAS TO THAT.
• 07:25 WELL, THAT IS THE PLATE INCLUDING THE EGG AND THIS IS HOW IT IS SET UP.
• 07:31 WHEN FATHER IS TELLING THE STORY
• 07:34 WE'VE PARTAKEN OF EACH OF THE FOODS AS HE COMES TO THAT ISSUE IN THE STORY.
• 07:38 SO WE DIPPED FOR THE RED SEA AND SO ON.
• 07:41 BUT THIS WHOLE PLATE IS A STORY OF SALVATION.
• 07:44 IT REALLY TELLS OF YOUR WHOLE.
• 07:46 THE BITTER HERBS BEFORE YOU WERE SAVED.
• 07:48 THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB,
• 07:51 YOUR COMING TO CHRIST.
• 07:53 THE RED SEA.
• 07:56 YOU KNOW WATER KILLS BUT THE HEBREW NATION WENT IN THERE AND CAME OUT SAFELY.
• 08:00 WHEN YOU WENT INTO YOUR BAPTISM AND WENT OUT SAFELY, YOU COULD DROWN IN THERE
• 08:04 BUT YOU CAME OUT SAFELY LIKE THEY DID.
• 08:06 AND NOW YOU'RE IN THE WILDERNESS WALKING ALONG IN THIS TOUGH AREA OF SO MUCH LAW
• 08:11 WHERE IT'S SO HARD TO GET FOOD AND WATER BUT WE'RE EVER HEADING TOWARD HEAVEN, JERICHO.
• 08:17 HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE EVERY SEEN JERICHO?
• 08:19 IT'S A BEAUTIFUL PLACE.
• 08:21 FLOWERS AND GRAPEFRUITS AND ORANGES HANGING OFF THE TREES
• 08:24 AND COLD WATER RUNNING UP AND DOWN THE GUTTERS.
• 08:26 THIS IS WHERE GOD CHOSE TO SHOW HIS CHOSEN PEOPLE THEIR PROMISED LAND.
• 08:31 JERICHO IS A SYMBOL OF PARADISE, OF HEAVEN, OF THE END OF THE EXODUS JOURNEY,
• 08:36 OF THE END OF OUR JOURNEYS IN THIS LIFE.
• 08:39 THE CLINCHER IS THE NAME OF THE LEADER.
• 08:42 YOU RECALL WHEN THE CHOSEN PEOPLE WENT INTO THE PROMISED LAND AT JERICHO
• 08:46 IT WAS WITH SHOUTS AND TRUMPETS AND THE WALLS FELL DOWN.
• 08:49 AND THE NAME OF THE LEADER WAS JOSHUA, GENERAL JOSHUA.
• 08:53 WELL, WHO'S GOING TO TAKE OUT THE CHURCH?
• 08:55 WE CALL HIM JESUS BUT HIS NAME IN HEBREW IS "YESHUA".
• 09:00 IF YOU TRANSLATE THAT DIRECTLY TO ENGLISH WITHOUT THE GREEK TRANSLITERATION OF JESUS,
• 09:05 "YESHUA" MEANS "JOSHUA".
• 09:07 WE LOSE A BIBLE TYPE, A SYMBOL THAT'S WONDERFUL HERE.
• 09:11 THE FACT IS ONCE AGAIN JOSHUA IS GOING TO TAKE HIS CHOSEN PEOPLE TO THE PROMISED LAND
• 09:17 AT THE SOUND OF THE SHOUTS OF THE TRUMPETS.
• 09:28 SO IT'S A REPEAT PERFORMANCE.
• 09:31 THE RESURRECTION OR THE RAPTURE OF THE CHURCH IS LIKE THE ENTRY INTO JERICHO AFTER THE EXODUS.
• 09:38 WELL, AFTER ALL THOSE FOODS WE THEN HAVE THE REAL MEAL.
• 09:42 THESE ARE JUST APPETIZER FOODS OBVIOUSLY
• 09:44 AND NOW WE SERVE THE BEST MEAL OF THE YEAR
• 09:47 AND IT IS NOT LAMB THOUGH.
• 09:51 THEY USUALLY OMIT LAMB BECAUSE YOU KNOW YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO TAKE YOUR LAMB TO THE TEMPLE,
• 09:55 OFFER IT TO GOD, HE HAD A PORTION, THE PRIEST TOOK A PORTION.
• 10:00 GOD LIKES LAMB EVIDENTLY.
• 10:02 THEY FEEL LIKE THEY'RE EATING IN FRONT OF HIM AND SO THEY HAVE CHICKEN OR BEEF
• 10:05 OR SOME OTHER KOSHER MEAT AND THEY EAT A WONDERFUL FEAST.
• 10:09 AND THEN AT THE END OF THIS FEAST FATHER GETS UP AGAIN, THE SERVICE GOES ON.
• 10:16 I MEAN WE'VE EATEN FOR TWO HOURS NOW, PICTURE, THIS IS A LONG EVENING, I CAN TELL YOU.
• 10:20 AND AT THE END OF THIS MEAL THE LAST THING EATEN IS THAT HIDDEN AFIKOMAN.
• 10:27 YOU REMEMBER THE PIECE OF BREAD WE BROKE LAST WEEK?
• 10:30 WE TOOK THE MIDDLE PIECE OUT OF THIS BAG, BROKE IT,
• 10:33 WRAPPED IT UP IN A WHITE CLOTH, HID IT AWAY.
• 10:36 FATHER NOW BRINGS IT FORTH AGAIN, GETS IT OUT OF ITS HIDING PLACE.
• 10:45 AND THIS PIECE OF BREAD
• 10:48 AND THE THIRD CUP OF WINE, THE CUP OF REDEMPTION,
• 10:52 IS THE LORD'S SUPPER. IT'S NOT LIKE IT, IT IS IT. IT'S THE ORIGINAL.
• 10:57 IT'S THE COMMUNION, THE EUCHARIST, WHATEVER YOU WANT TO CALL IT.
• 11:02 THIS RED, AND THIS PARTICULARLY WINE,
• 11:05 YOU SEE I TOLD YOU IF YOU COULD SEE THE WHOLE SERVICE YOU'LL APPRECIATE IT BETTER.
• 11:09 SO THIS IS HOW IT COMES OUT OF THE SERVICE.
• 11:13 AND LET ME SAY A FEW WORDS ABOUT THE BREAD AND THE WINE.
• 11:17 WE CAN PICK UP JESUS DOING THIS IN THE GOSPEL.
• 11:30 NOW WHAT DID HE SAY IN THAT BLESSING?
• 11:32 WELL THE BLESSING OVER BREAD HAD BEEN THE SAME FOR 1500 YEARS.
• 11:36 "Barukh atah Adonai eloheinu melekh ha-olam,"
• 11:38 "ha-motzi lechem min ha-aretz."
• 11:40 "BLESSED ART THOU, O LORD OUR GOD, KING OF THE UNIVERSE,"
• 11:44 "WHO BRINGEST FORTH BREAD FROM THE EARTH"
• 11:46 AND SO THERE WAS A PROPHECY IN THAT BLESSING.
• 11:50 MEN, DON'T WORRY IF THEY TRY TO PUT MY BODY IN THE EARTH THIS WEEK.
• 11:54 THIS BREAD IS MY BODY BUT GOD BRINGS FORTH BREAD FROM THE EARTH.
• 11:58 YOU CAN'T BURY A KERNEL OF WHEAT. SOMETHING COMES UP AGAIN.
• 12:03 WHEN HE SAID THIS BREAD IS MY BODY IT'S NOT JUST A METAPHOR.
• 12:06 THE BREAD IS UNLEAVENED. IT'S PURE LIKE HIS BODY.
• 12:11 IT HAS STRIPES.
• 12:13 YOU HAVE TO GRILL IT.
• 12:14 "BY HIS STRIPES ARE WE HEALED."
• 12:17 AND IT'S PIERCED WITH HOLES
• 12:18 LIKE A PIE CRUST IS PIERCED.
• 12:20 YOU CAN SEE RIGHT THROUGH IT.
• 12:23 HE SAID, "I AM THE BREAD OF LIFE."
• 12:26 HE WAS BORN IN BETHLEHEM, "BEIT LEHEM", "HOUSE OF BREAD."
• 12:30 HE WAS BURIED ON THE FESTIVAL CALLED "UNLEAVENED BREAD".
• 12:32 THIS IS THE ONLY PICTURE WE HAVE OF OUR LORD
• 12:35 AND WE GET OUR SALVATION SIMPLY LIKE THIS.
• 12:42 HIS BODY IS BROKEN FOR US. WE PARTAKE OF IT
• 12:47 AND WE INGEST THAT QUALITY OF RISING FORTH FROM THE EARTH.
• 12:51 THAT'S THE WONDERFUL PIECE OF BREAD THAT WE HID AWAY.
• 12:55 IT WAS THE MIDDLE OF THE THREE.
• 12:57 IF IT'S THE TRINITY, THEN THAT WHOLE CEREMONY WAS PERFORMED WITH THE BODY OF THE SON.
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• 13:56 YOU CAN BE CHANGED.
• 13:58 THE WHOLE PURPOSE OF THE PASSOVER
• 14:00 IS TO REMIND THAT GOD TOOK PEOPLE OUT OF SLAVERY AND TOOK THEM INTO FREEDOM.
• 14:04 THAT STORY THAT HAPPENED BACK THEN IS AVAILABLE TO ALL OF US TODAY.
• 14:08 OH WOULDN'T YOU BUT JUST APPRECIATE WITH ME HOW JESUS IS REVEALED IN THE PASSOVER STORY.
• 14:14 AND WOULDN'T YOU, LIKE THEY IN A BYGONE ERA,
• 14:16 APPROPRIATE THE BLOOD OF THAT LAMB AND BE SET FREE FROM SLAVERY
• 14:20 AND GO ON ROUTE TO THE PROMISED LAND THAT GOD HAS FOR YOU.
• 14:23 STAY TUNED. THERE'S MORE TO COME ON THE PASSOVER.
• 14:27 WELL, WE JUST TALKED ABOUT THE BREAD AND HOW IT SPEAKS TO RESURRECTION.
• 14:31 WHEN WE INGEST THAT BREAD WE INGEST THAT QUALITY OF COMING FORTH FROM THE EARTH OURSELVES.
• 14:37 WHEN HE HAD SAID THAT BLESSING THEY'D SAID IT FROM TIME IMMEMORIAL,
• 14:40 BUT HE REALLY GAVE IT A NEW MEANING.
• 14:42 NOW, THE CUP. HE SAID,
• 14:44 "BARUCH HATA ADONAI ELOHENU MELLECH HA'OLAM,"
• 14:47 "BORAY PERI HAGAFEN."
• 14:48 "BLESSED ART THOU, OH LORD OUR GOD, KING OF THE UNIVERSE,"
• 14:51 "CREATOR OF THE FRUIT OF THE VINE."
• 14:53 WELL HE'D ALREADY SAID "I'M THE TRUE VINE. THE DISCIPLES ARE THE BRANCHES."
• 14:57 IT'S US, THE CHURCH, THAT IS THE FRUIT OF THE VINE OR THE FRUITS OF THE VINE.
• 15:01 AND WE'RE BRANCHES, TOO, AND WE BEAR FRUITS, BUT HE IS DRINKING A TOAST TO US. AND WHY?
• 15:07 BECAUSE A CUP OF WINE WAS THE WAY THAT A BRIDEGROOM PROPOSED MARRIAGE.
• 15:13 HE DRANK A TOAST TO THE BRIDE. HE SET IT BEFORE HER.
• 15:16 IT WORKED LIKE THIS. SEE, THEY DIDN'T HAVE DATING AND COURTSHIP IN ISRAEL.
• 15:20 THE LAW WAS TOO STRICT FOR THAT.
• 15:22 THEY JUST PROPOSED ON THE FIRST DATE.
• 15:25 MY FATHEPROSED TO MY MOTHER ON THEIR FIRST DATE.
• 15:28 YOU KNOW THEY DIDN'T THINK ANYTHING OF MARRYING STRANGERS.
• 15:31 IN "FIDDLER ON THE ROOF" THERE'S A SONG, "THE FIRST TIME I SAW YOU WAS ON OUR WEDDING DAY".
• 15:36 THEY SAID NO MATTER HOW LONG YOU KNEW EACH OTHER YOU STILL ALWAYS MARRY A STRANGER.
• 15:41 (AUDIENCE LAUGHING)
• 15:44 SOME PEOPLE ARE LAUGHING.
• 15:46 (MORE LAUGHTER)
• 15:49 (ZOLA LAUGHS)
• 15:50 YOU KNOW REBECCA MARRIED A STRANGER WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT IT.
• 15:54 REMEMBER REBECCA. SHE'S LIKE AN ILLUSTRATION OF THE CHURCH.
• 15:57 SHE'S IN HER PLACE IN HARAN AND HERE COMES A SERVANT SENT BY ABRAHAM.
• 16:01 ELIEZER COMES TO HER AND SHE WATERS HIS CAMELS
• 16:04 AND HE SHOWS HER BEAUTIFUL THINGS THAT A PERSPECTIVE BRIDEGROOM HAS SENT.
• 16:08 SHE SEES THESE THINGS AND SHE'S WOOED AND WON AND WILLING TO GO OFF AND MARRY HIM.
• 16:12 THAT'S OUR POSITION. WE HAVE NOT REALLY SEEN JESUS CHRIST,
• 16:16 BUT WE HAVE SEEN THE GIFTS BROUGHT BY THE HOLY SPIRIT
• 16:19 AND WE'RE WOOED AND WON WILLING TO GO OFF AND MARRY THIS JEWISH PRINCE WE KNOW NOT WHERE.
• 16:24 SO REBECCA IS REALLY AN ILLUSTRATION OF THE CHURCH. IT'S A BEAUTIFUL STORY.
• 16:28 A PERFECT STRANGER COULD SPOT ANY LADY IN THE MARKET THAT DIDN'T HAVE A VEIL ON
• 16:34 AND FOLLOW HER HOME OR LEARN WHERE SHE LIVED AND COME TO HER HOUSE WITH A MARRIAGE CONTRACT.
• 16:39 HE WOULD ALSO BRING SOME MONEY. THEY HAD A BRIDE PRICE.
• 16:42 HER FATHER WAS ENTITLED TO RECEIVE A PRICE FOR EACH DAUGHTER.
• 16:46 IT WAS THOUGHT THAT IF YOU RAISED SONS YOU HAD DEFENDERS AND WORKERS ON YOUR PLACE.
• 16:51 NATURAL ADVANTAGES. BUT THE MEN THAT RAISED DAUGHTERS HAD NOTHING BUT LIABILITIES.
• 16:55 SOME OF YOU MEN MAY SYMPATHIZE WITH THAT.(Audience Laughing)
• 16:58 BUT WHEN THE GIRLS GOT BIG ENOUGH THE BOYS WANTED TO MARRY THEM,
• 17:02 YOU COULD KIND OF CONSOLIDATE YOUR LOSSES. (Audience laughing)
• 17:06 WELL, THE YOUNG MAN WOULD COME IN. NOW IT DIDN'T HAVE TO BE A STRANGER.
• 17:08 IT COULD BE THE KID FROM THE NEXT FARM.
• 17:10 IT COULD BE A FELLOW AT WHOSE FEET YOU DROPPED A MAP TO YOUR HOUSE IN THE MARKET PLACE.
• 17:14 (Audience laughing)
• 17:16 BUT ANYWAY, WHOEVER IT WAS HE WOULD COME IN AND SET DOWN THIS OBVIOUS ENVELOPE
• 17:20 WITH A CONTRACT WITH A BUNCH OF CASH IN THERE AND SET A CUP OF WINE BEFORE YOU.
• 17:26 THERE YOU ARE LADY, TAKE ALL THE TIME YOU NEED. TWO MINUTES, THREE MINUTES...
• 17:30 (Audience laughing)
• 17:33 READ THE CONTRACT, COUNT THE MONEY. (Audience laughing)
• 17:37 BUT EITHER LIFT UP THAT CUP AND DRINK IT OR IF YOUR INTUITION TELLS YOU SOMETHING ISN'T RIGHT
• 17:42 YOU DON'T HAVE TO DRINK IT, JUST WITHDRAW.
• 17:45 THAT GUY WILL PICK UP HIS STUFF AND LEAVE AND HE WON'T BE BACK.
• 17:50 OKAY. THAT'S HOW IT WORKED.
• 17:52 LET'S SAY IN OUR STORY THE GAL PICKS UP THE CUP AND SIPS FROM IT.
• 17:57 WELL, THEN THE YOUNG MAN WOULD JUMP UP AND SAY, "I GO TO PREPARE A PLACE FOR YOU."
• 18:00 AND HE'D GO BACK TO HIS FATHER'S HOUSE AND BUILD HER A LITTLE MANSION,
• 18:04 A BRIDAL CHAMBER FOR THEIR HONEYMOON.
• 18:06 NOW,YOU CAN SEE THIS IS THE GOSPEL. THE LORD CAME FROM HIS FATHER'S HOUSE TO OUR HOUSE.
• 18:13 HE BROUGHT THE CONTRACT. "BRIT HAHADASHA", THE NEW CONTRACT, NEW TESTAMENT WE CALL IT.
• 18:19 DON'T LOSE YOUR NEW TESTAMENT. THAT'S YOUR MARRIAGE LICENSE.
• 18:22 HE POURED THE CUP HERE AT THE PASSOVER TABLE,
• 18:27 SET IT BEFORE US. THEY DRANK IT THAT NIGHT, THE CHURCH AND IT'S SET BEFORE YOU OFTEN.
• 18:33 AND HE PAID THE PRICE, THE HIGHEST POSSIBLE PRICE, THE VERY LIFE OF AN INNOCENT MAN.
• 18:40 YOU CAN'T PAY MORE THAN THAT.
• 18:42 AND HE MADE THAT SPEECH,"I GO TO PREPARE A PLACE FOR YOU", AND HE WENT BACK TO HIS FATHER'S HOUSE.
• 18:47 AND HE SAID IN MY FATHER'S HOUSE ARE MANY MANSIONS.
• 18:50 THERE'S ENOUGH FOR THE WHOLE CHURCH THERE.
• 18:53 WONDERFUL. AND RIGHT NOW HE'S BUILDING A BRIDAL CHAMBER. WE DON'T KNOW WHEN HE'S COMING.
• 18:57 IT COULD BE TONIGHT. NO REASON WHY NOT TONIGHT.
• 19:00 MORE LIKELY TONIGHT THAN LAST NIGHT.
• 19:03 HE DIDN'T COME LAST NIGHT.
• 19:05 THERE WILL BE A NIGHT HE COMES.
• 19:08 A MAN DOESN'T PAY A PRICE LIKE THAT FOR A BRIDE AND NOT GO AND GET HER.
• 19:11 BELIEVE ME, THE YOUNG MAN WHOSE CUP SHE DRANK ALWAYS CAME BACK FOR HER, NO QUESTION.
• 19:17 WELL, SHE WENT ABOUT HER BUSINESS WEARING A VEIL IN THE TOWN. THE VEIL IS HER FAITH.
• 19:22 THAT'S WHAT COVERS HER. THEY DON'T RECOGNIZE HER, BUT THEY KNOW SHE'S ENGAGED.
• 19:27 THAT'S WHAT KEEPS THE WORLD FROM RECOGNIZING US REALLY.
• 19:30 OUR CONTRACT BEHIND THE SCENES WITH THE ONE WE LOVE AND ARE WAITING FOR.
• 19:34 THE CONTRACT SAID SHE HAD TO BE WAITING EVERY NIGHT.
• 19:37 SHE TRIMMED AN OIL LAMP. THEY LIKED TO COME AT MIDNIGHT.
• 19:40 THEY LIKED TO COME LIKE THIEVES IN THE NIGHT.
• 19:43 SHE WAS CALLED CONSECRATED, SET APART, BOUGHT WITH A PRICE.
• 19:47 SHE'S NOT HER OWN. THAT'S HOW PAUL DESCRIBES THE CHURCH.
• 19:50 HE SAID I WOULD PRESENT YOU A VIRGIN BRIDE TO MY LORD.
• 19:53 THAT'S THE STORY. AND WHEN THE CHAMBER WAS FINALLY DONE
• 19:57 IT WAS UP TO THE FATHER OF THE GROOM WHEN THE CHAMBER WAS PROPERLY FINISHED.
• 20:01 YOU COULD SEE THE LOGIC THERE.
• 20:03 IF IT WERE UP TO THE YOUNG MAN HE WOULD THROW UP SOME KIND OF LEAN-TO AND GO GET THE GIRL.
• 20:06 (Audience laughing)
• 20:08 HIS FATHER TOLD HIM WHEN IT WAS DONE. SO IF YOU SAW A YOUNG MAN BUILDING A CHAMBER
• 20:11 YOU MIGHT SAY TO HIM, "WHEN IS THE BIG DAY?"
• 20:15 BUT HE WOULD SAY, "I DON'T KNOW. ONLY MY FATHER KNOWS."
• 20:18 WHICH THE LORD SAID IN THE GOSPEL, YOU SEE.
• 20:21 WELL, THE BIG NIGHT WOULD FINALLY COME. THEY'D SLIP UP TO HER HOUSE IN THE DARK
• 20:26 MAKING SURE EVERYBODY IS ASLEEP.
• 20:28 NOW THE RULES WERE THEY COULDN'T JUST RUSH IN AND GRAB YOU OUT OF YOUR BED.
• 20:31 I MEAN THIS IS YOUR WEDDING NIGHT. YOU MIGHT HAVE COLD CREAM ON YOUR FACE.
• 20:34 THE RULES WERE THAT WHEN THEY WERE CLOSE ENOUGH TO BE HEARD
• 20:38 SOMEONE IN THE WEDDING PARTY HAD TO SHOUT.
• 20:42 WHEN SHE HEARD THAT SHOUT SHE KNEW HE'D BE IN THERE IN A MOMENT.
• 20:45 SO THE PARABLE OF THE TEN VIRGINS IT SAYS IT WAS MIDNIGHT AND A CRY WAS MADE.
• 20:49 OR THE GREAT RAPTURE SCRIPTURE,
• 20:58 AND THEY'D RUSH IN AND GRAB THE BRIDE AND ALL THE GIRLS
• 21:00 AND RUN THEM OUT OF THE TOWN AND THROUGH TOWN INTO THE BRIDAL CHAMBER AT THIS FATHER'S HOUSE.
• 21:07 NOW I TELL THAT STORY TO ILLUSTRATE THE IMPORTANCE OF THIS CUP.
• 21:09 THIS CUP IS THE LORD'S PROPOSAL TO YOU.
• 21:12 IF YOU'RE WILLING TO WAIT FOR HIM EVERY NIGHT AND GO WITH HIM WHEN HE COMES,
• 21:15 THEN WHEN THEY SERVE YOU THIS CUP, DRINK IT.
• 21:18 NOW YOU LADIES HAVE HAD MORE CUPS POURED FOR YOU THAN YOU CAN POSSIBLY LIFT. THAT'S NORMAL.
• 21:24 IDEALLY YOU PICK UP ONE GOOD ONE.
• 21:28 BUT YOU KNOW, THE CUP YOU DON'T DRINK, LIKE I SAID, THAT FELLOW WOULD TAKE HIS STUFF AND GO.
• 21:32 HE'S NOT GOING TO COME BACK AGAIN.
• 21:34 THE ONE CUP YOU LIFT AND DRINK, THAT YOUNG MAN WILL ALWAYS COME BACK.
• 21:38 SO WHEN THEY SERVE YOU JESUS' CUP, DRINK IT AND WHEN HE COMES, HE'LL STOP AT YOUR HOUSE.
• 21:45 NOW THAT IS COMMUNION. THAT'S THE BREAD. THAT'S THE WINE.
• 21:48 I BROKE UP THE PIECE OF BREAD BECAUSE THAT'S HOW WE GET OUR SALVATION. THAT'S SIMPLY IT.
• 21:54 HIS BODY BROKEN FOR US. THAT CUP.
• 21:57 YOU KNOW, WHEN WE SIN SO WE RENEW OUR VOWS SO TO SPEAK. WE DRINK IT OFTEN.
• 22:03 OUR LORD PUT DOWN HIS CUP AND SAID "I'LL NOT DRINK THIS WINE"
• 22:06 "UNTIL I DRINK IT NEW WITH YOU IN MY FATHER'S KINGDOM."
• 22:08 HE DOESN'T SIN, BUT HE'S WAITING TO DRINK ANOTHER CUP WITH US.
• 22:12 THE LAST CUP HE HAD WITH THE CHURCH WAS THEN ON PASSOVER NIGHT.
• 22:15 IMAGINE, HE MUST BE LOOKING FORWARD TO IT.
• 22:18 THAT'S THE THIRD CUP. AND THE FOURTH CUP IS FOR ELIJAH.
• 22:21 ELIJAH HAS A CUP OF WINE IN FRONT OF AN EMPTY CHAIR
• 22:25 AND WE'RE WAITING FOR HIM TO COME AND ANNOUNCE THE MESSIAH.
• 22:28 MALACHI SAYS,
• 22:34 WELL, WE UNDERSTAND THAT TO BE THE SECOND COMING,
• 22:36 BUT THE JEWS HAVE NOT RECEIVED JESUS AND ARE STILL WAITING FOR ELIJAH.
• 22:40 THEY SEND A YOUNG CHILD TO THE DOOR, OPEN IT, LOOK OUT INTO THE STREET, SEE IF ELIJAH'S THERE.
• 22:45 IN MY TURN I WOULD WALK DOWN TO THE CORNER.
• 22:47 THERE WERE GENTILES LIVING BETWEEN US AND THE CORNER.
• 22:49 I THOUGHT MAYBE ELIJAH WOULD PASS BY AND NOT STOP AT OUR HOUSE.
• 22:53 WE HAD A TABLE SET. I MEAN DISHES, SILVERWARE, COFFEE,
• 22:58 EVERYTHING FOR ELIJAH IN CASE HE CAME.
• 23:00 HE NEVER DID COME AND WE DON'T EXPECT HIM UNTIL THE SECOND COMING.
• 23:04 HE MAY BE ONE OF THE TWO WITNESSES.
• 23:07 AND THAT'S WHERE WE GO INTO THE HYMNS.
• 23:09 IT SAYS IN THE GOSPEL THEY SANG A HYMN AND WENT OUT TO THE MOUNT OF OLIVES.
• 23:13 I WANT TO TEACH YOU A HEBREW HYMN. IT'S EASY ENOUGH TO LEARN.
• 23:16 IT ONLY HAS ONE WORD, "DAYENU".
• 23:19 SAY THAT, "DAYENU". (Everyone speaking)
• 23:21 "DAYENU" MEANS ENOUGH. AND IT'S AT THE END OF THIS LONG SERVICE.
• 23:25 BUT IT REALLY REFERS TO WHAT GOD DID FOR US IN THE EXODUS.
• 23:29 THE SONG IS LIKE... THE FATHER SAYS SOMETHING LIKE,
• 23:32 "IF HE'D ONLY BROUGHT US OUT OF THE LAND OF EGYPT IT WOULD HAVE BEEN ENOUGH!"
• 23:37 AND YOU SING, "ENOUGH, ENOUGH, ENOUGH." TO THIS TUNE,
• 23:40 ♪ DAY-DAYENU, DAY-DAYENU, DAY-DAYENU, DAYENU, DAYENU! ♪♪
• 23:46 AND TWICE LIKE A FIGHT SONG. ALRIGHT?
• 23:48 AND THEN HE SAYS ANOTHER QUEUE AND YOU SING ANOTHER VERSE AND IT GOES ON AND ON.
• 23:53 SO LET'S TRY IT. READY?
• 23:55 IF HE HAD ONLY GIVEN US THE LAW IT WOULD HAVE BEEN ENOUGH!
• 23:58 ♪ DAY-DAYENU, DAY-DAYENU, DAY-DAYENU, DAYENU, DAYENU! DAYENU! ♪
• 24:05 ♪ DAY-DAYENU, DAY-DAYENU, DAY-DAYENU, DAYENU, DAYENU! ♪♪
• 24:11 COME ON, I WANT YOU TO SING LIKE JEWS THAT HAVE HAD FOUR CUPS OF WINE! (Audience Laughing)
• 24:17 IF HE HAD ONLY GOTTEN US THROUGH THE WILDERNESS IT WOULD HAVE BEEN ENOUGH!
• 24:20 ♪ DAY-DAYENU, DAY-DAYENU, DAY-DAYENU, DAYENU, DAYENU! DAYENU! ♪
• 24:27 ♪ DAY-DAYENU, DAY-DAYENU, DAY-DAYENU, DAYENU, DAYENU! ♪♪
• 24:33 (APPLAUSE)
• 24:41 AND THAT BRINGS PASSOVER TO A CLOSE. THEY SING THAT HYMN.
• 24:46 AND IT MAY HAVE BEEN THE SAME. THAT'S AN OLDIE BUT GOODIE.
• 24:50 THAT'S BEEN SUNG IN EVERY CULTURE IN EVERY GENERATION. PASSOVER ENDS ON AN UPBEAT NOTE.
• 24:56 OH, THERE'S MORE HYMNS THAN THAT IN THE PASSOVER BOOK. WE SANG A TON OF THEM.
• 25:00 YOU WOULD BE AT THE TABLE FROM SUNDOWN UNTIL MIDNIGHT ON A REAL PASSOVER.
• 25:05 YOU WOULD HEAR HOURS OF TEACHING.
• 25:07 YOU WOULD EXPERIENCE THE EXODUS ALL OVER AGAIN AS IF YOU WERE THERE.
• 25:11 IT WAS A THRILL. IT WAS A WONDERFUL FAMILY HOLIDAY.
• 25:15 IT ENDS WHEN FATHER PRONOUNCES THIS GREAT BLESSING,
• 25:18 "L'SHANAH HABA'AH B'YERUSHALAYIM," NEXT YEAR IN JERUSALEM.
• 25:24 AND, YOU KNOW, FOR 2,000 YEARS - I REMEMBER INTERVIEWING THE MAYOR OF JERUSALEM.
• 25:29 WE SAW THE FOOTAGE. AND HE SAID, "IS THAT POLITICS, 2,000 YEARS OF YEARNING LIKE THAT?"
• 25:36 HE'D BEEN ACCUSED OF IT'S PURE POLITICS, THAT THE JEWS WANT ISRAEL AND SO ON.
• 25:40 NO, THEY HAVE PRAYED, THEY HAVE CRIED, THEY HAVE WEPT.
• 25:43 AND NOW THAT THEY HAVE JERUSALEM AND CAN GO THERE FOR PASSOVER
• 25:46 THE PRAYER HAS BEEN SAID SO LONG THAT IT CONTINUES BY MOMENTUM. IT'S STILL IN THE HAGGADAH.
• 25:51 SO THEY SAY EACH TIME, "L'SHANAH HABA'AH B'YERUSHALAYIM",
• 25:56 NEXT YEAR IN JERUSALEM.
• 25:58 WE WONDER IF THEY'RE NOT SAYING, NEXT YEAR IN THE NEW JERUSALEM.
• 26:02 AND I ALWAYS SAY, SHA'ALU SHALOM YERUSHALIAM,
• 26:05 PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM. AMEN.
• 26:27 ONE OF MY FAVORITE PARTS OF THE PASSOVER STORY, JEFF,
• 26:30 IS THE GROOM PROPOSING TO THE WIFE WITH THE CUP OF WINE.
• 26:34 IT'S THE WAY ZOLA PROPOSED TO ME
• 26:36 AND IT WAS JUST THE SWEETEST, DEAREST THING.
• 26:38 I UNDERSTOOD WHAT IT MEANT.
• 26:41 HE WAS ASKING ME, REALLY, TO BE HIS WIFE,
• 26:44 JUST LIKE MESSIAH ASKS US TO BE HIS BRIDE. I LOVED IT.
• 26:48 GREAT STORY.
• 26:49 IT IS A WONDERFUL STORY.
• 26:51 THANK YOU FOR WATCHING AND AS YOU GO,
• 26:53 SHA'ALU SHALOM YERUSHALIAM,
• 26:55 PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM.