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

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