Caption transcript for The Gospel According to Isaiah: “Jesus’ Birth” (1/8)

• 00:11 HE IS DESPISED AND REJECTED OF MEN.
• 00:16 WOUNDED FOR OUR TRANSGRESSIONS AND BRUISED FOR OUR INIQUITIES.
• 00:23 HE IS BROUGHT AS A LAMB TO THE SLAUGHTER.
• 00:28 WRITTEN 700 YEARS BEFORE CHRIST,
• 00:31 ISAIAH KNEW THAT THIS PROPHETIC SCRIPTURE
• 00:33 WOULD ONE DAY BE FULFILLED IN THE LAMB OF GOD, JESUS.
• 00:45 SHALOM, HELLO AGAIN. I'M SANDRA LEVITT.
• 00:48 I'M HERE WITH DR. JEFFREY SEIF AND WE ARE GOING TO TALK ABOUT ISAIAH TODAY.
• 00:52 BUT, FIRST I'D LIKE TO READ YOU SOME SCRIPTURE.
• 00:54 IT'S FROM 2 TIMOTHY 3:16.
• 01:05 JEFF, I KNOW OF NO OTHER WONDERFUL WRITER IN THE BIBLE EXCEPT ISAIAH
• 01:10 THAT EVERYONE THAT WE KNOW OF JEWISH DESCENT, THAT COMES TO MESSIAH,
• 01:15 ALWAYS TALKS ABOUT ISAIAH AND WHAT A WONDERFUL, WONDERFUL WRITER HE WAS
• 01:18 AND HOW IN INSPIRATIONAL THEY WERE FOR HIM.
• 01:21 ABSOLUTELY, WHEN QUESTIONED,
• 01:22 JEWISH PEOPLE THAT HAVE COME TO FAITH IN JESUS,
• 01:25 WILL CREDIT THAT OLD TESTAMENT PROPHET ISAIAH MORE THAN ANYONE
• 01:29 AS THE ONE THAT HELPED THEM MAKE THAT MOVE OVER INTO A BELIEF IN JESUS.
• 01:33 I LOVE IT AND I DON'T KNOW, YOU'D THINK THERE WOULD BE OTHER WRITERS OF THE BIBLE
• 01:38 THAT THEY WOULD QUOTE, YOU KNOW THE FIRST FIVE BOOKS, MAYBE, BUT WITHOUT A DOUBT,
• 01:41 IT'S ALWAYS ISAIAH.
• 01:43 HE IS SO INSPIRATION AND SO INSTRUCTIVE IN OUR SALVATION.
• 01:47 ABSOLUTELY.
• 01:49 411 TIMES NEW TESTAMENT WRITERS ARE PICKING PIN OR QUILL AND WRITING OUT ISAIAH WORDS.
• 01:53 FASCINATING STORY.
• 01:55 IT'S A STORY WE NEED TO LOOK AT AND WE'RE GOING TO LOOK AT THE ISAIAH STORY
• 01:59 AND TELL THE STORY OF JESUS THEREIN.
• 02:02 ISAIAH IS AN 8TH CENTURY PROPHET BEFORE CHRIST
• 02:05 WHO TELLS ABOUT JESUS' BIRTH, HIS DEATH, BURIAL AND RESURRECTION.
• 02:09 BEGINNING WITH HIS BIRTH, ISAIAH CHAPTER 53, IT ALL STARTS THERE.
• 02:21 AND JOSEPH ALSO WENT UP FROM GALILEE,
• 02:24 OUT OF THE CITY OF NAZARETH INTO JUDEA UNTO THE CITY OF DAVID,
• 02:28 WHICH IS CALLED BETHLEHEM TO BE TAXED WITH MARY HIS ESPOUSED WIFE BEING GREAT WITH CHILD.
• 02:34 AND SHE BROUGHT FORTH HER FIRST BORN SON AND WRAPPED HIM IN SWADDLING CLOTHES
• 02:40 AND LAID HIM IN A MANGER BECAUSE THERE WAS NO ROOM FOR THEM IN THE INN.
• 02:48 THE PROPHET ISAIAH SAID IN THE SECOND CHAPTER
• 02:56 THE LORD'S MOUNTAIN WILL BE LIFTED HIGH IN VERSE 3 OF THE SECOND CHAPTER HE GOES ON..
• 03:14 WHAT A PLEASURE IT IS TO BE HERE IN THE HOLY LAND
• 03:17 TO TELL THE GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD.
• 03:22 WE'RE GOING TO GO BACK IN TIME TO THE 8TH CENTURY B.C.
• 03:27 AND LOOK AT THE GREATEST PROPHET IN THE OLD TESTAMENT.
• 03:31 WE'RE GOING TO PUT A NUMBER OF QUESTIONS TO THE TEXT.
• 03:34 WE WANT TO KNOW, DID THIS PROPHET SPEAK ABOUT THE MESHIACH, ABOUT THE MESSIAH,
• 03:40 WHAT DID HE SAY AND HOW DID HE SAY IT?
• 03:44 INTERESTED AS I AM IN HIS WORDS, I WANT YOU TO OPEN UP WITH ME TO ISAIAH CHAPTER 53.
• 03:51 I WANT TO READ THIS IN MY VERSION.
• 03:54 I WANT YOU TO READ IT ALONG IN YOURS BEGINNING IN VERSE 1.
• 05:32 WHO IS THIS PERSONALITY SPOKEN OF HERE IN THE BOOK OF ISAIAH
• 05:37 MANY, MANY HUNDREDS OF YEARS BEFORE JESUS?
• 05:40 WHO IS THE PERSONALITY THE PROPHET SAYS, WHO'S GOING TO BELIEVE THIS?
• 05:45 TO WHOM HAS THE ARM OF THE LORD BEEN REVEALED?
• 05:48 WHO IS THIS PERSON WHO IT SAYS THAT HE SPRUNG UP AS A ROOT OUT OF DRY GROUND,
• 05:53 THIS PERSONALITY WHO WENT ON TO THEN BE DESPISED AND REJECTED OF MEN?
• 05:59 I'D LIKE YOU TO LOOK WITH ME MORE CLOSELY PLEASE, IN ISAIAH CHAPTER 53, VERSE 2.
• 06:06 I'M PARTICULARLY INTERESTED IN THE EXPRESSION
• 06:09 "THAT HE CAME FORTH AS A ROOT OUT OF DRY GROUND".
• 06:12 LAST TIME I CHECKED, LIFE DOESN'T COME FROM THE EARTH IF IT'S NOT WATERED.
• 06:18 WHAT MEANS THE PROPHET IN SAYING THAT THIS MESHIACH,
• 06:22 THE DELIVERER COMES OUT OF DRY GROUND?
• 06:25 I THINK HE LEFT SOME CLUES IF YOU'LL LOOK IN ISAIAH CHAPTER 11, VERSE 1.
• 06:32 I WANT TO GO BACK TO ANOTHER PREDICTION HERE
• 06:34 WHERE ISAIAH SAYS THERE SHALL COME FORTH A SHOOT FROM THE STUMP OF JESSE
• 06:41 AND A TWIG SHALL GROW OUT OF HIS ROOTS.
• 06:45 HE SAYS THERE'LL COME FORTH A BRANCH.
• 06:49 HE SAYS HE'LL COME FROM THE STUMP OF JESSE.
• 06:52 AS YOU MIGHT RECALL, JESSE IS DAVID'S PARENT.
• 06:57 YOU MAY REMEMBER, AS WELL, THAT WHEN YESHUA, WHEN JESUS WALKED THE EARTH FROM THE HOLY LAND,
• 07:02 INDIVIDUALS USED TO CALL OUT "BEN DAVID, SON OF DAVID".
• 07:07 YOU MIGHT RECALL, AS WELL THAT THE BOOK OF MATTHEW,
• 07:10 THE GOSPEL OF MATTHEW STARTS OFF
• 07:12 (SPEAKING HEBREW)
• 07:19 THE BOOK OF THE GENEALOGY OF JESUS THE MESSIAH, THE SON OF DAVID, THE SON OF ABRAHAM.
• 07:25 HERE WE'RE TOLD THIS TWIG WILL SPRING FORTH FROM A STUMP.
• 07:30 THERE'S A TREE THAT'S CUT DOWN COMPARABLE TO WHAT I'M SITTING ON
• 07:35 AND OUT OF THAT WILL COME FORTH THIS BRANCH, THIS EARTH THAT'S NOT WATERED
• 07:41 AND OUT OF THAT WILL COME FORTH THE DELIVERER.
• 07:44 COULD IT BE THAT WHAT WE'RE LOOKING AT IN BIBLICAL LITERATURE
• 07:47 IS REFERENCED TO WOMB THAT BRINGS FORTH LIFE WHERE THERE SHOULDN'T BE LIFE IN THAT WOMB?
• 07:55 IF YOU'LL LOOK WITH ME PLEASE IN ISAIAH 7:14
• 08:00 THERE'S ANOTHER FASCINATING VERSE IN HERE.
• 08:02 THIS IS INCREDIBLE.
• 08:04 THE PROPHET SAYS, BEHOLD A YOUNG WOMAN WILL CONCEIVE AND BEAR A SON
• 08:09 AND YOU SHALL CALL HIS NAME IMMANUEL.
• 08:12 IN THE HEBREW VERSION, HEBREW SCHOLARS TRANSLATED THE TEXT INTO GREEK AND RENDERED IT
• 08:20 "BEHOLD A VIRGIN WILL CONCEIVE AND BEAR A CHILD
• 08:24 AND CALL HIS NAME IMMANUEL".
• 08:26 WHAT DOES THE PROPHET MEAN WHEN HE SPEAKS ABOUT THIS COMING VIRGIN CHILD
• 08:31 THAT WILL MAKE HIS ENTRANCE ONTO THE STAGE OF THE HUMAN DRAMA
• 08:34 AND WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT THIS CHILD FORETOLD, AS WELL.
• 08:53 AND THE GOVERNMENT MAY BE INCREASED AND OF PEACE THERE'LL BE NO END
• 08:58 UPON THE THRONE OF DAVID AND UPON HIS KINGDOM
• 09:01 ATO ESTABLISH IT AND TO UPHOLD IT THROUGH JUSTICE AND THROUGH RIGHTEOUSNESS
• 09:06 HENCEFORTH AND EVEN FOR EVERMORE.
• 09:09 THE PROPHET SAYS THE CHILD IS GOING TO BE BORN AND A SON WILL BE GIVEN
• 09:13 AND HIS NAME WILL BE CALLED WONDERFUL, COUNSELOR,
• 09:17 MIGHTY GOD, EVERLASTING FATHER, PRINCE OF PEACE.
• 09:21 SO WHAT DO WE HAVE WHEN WE LOOK AT THE VARIOUS CHILD TEXT IN ISAIAH, WHAT DO WE OBSERVE?
• 09:28 THAT THE MESHIACH, THE MESSIAH COMES FORTH AS A ROOT OUT OF DRY GROUND.
• 09:33 THAT IS TO SAY, UNWATERED EARTH.
• 09:36 COULD THIS BE A REFERENCE TO A VIRGIN BIRTH?
• 09:39 WE'RE TOLD IN THE 11TH CHAPTER THAT THE MESHIACH WILL DELIVER,
• 09:44 HE WILL COME FORTH FROM A STUMP THAT'S BEEN CUT DOWN, DEAD WOOD OUT OF WHICH EMERGES NEW LIFE.
• 09:51 COULD THIS SOMEHOW ALLUDE TO A VIRGIN BIRTH?
• 09:54 WE'RE TOLD IN THE 7TH CHAPTER IN ISAIAH THAT BEHOLD A VIRGIN WILL CONCEIVE
• 09:59 AND BRING FORTH A SON AND HIS NAME WILL BE CALLED "GOD WITH US".
• 10:03 COULD THIS BE A REFERENCE TO THE VIRGIN BIRTH?
• 10:06 THEN WE'RE TOLD, AS WELL, IN THE 9TH CHAPTER,
• 10:09 "FOR UNTO US A SON IS BORN, A CHILD IS BORN, A SON IS GIVEN
• 10:13 AND HIS NAME WILL BE CALLED WONDERFUL, COUNSELOR,
• 10:16 MIGHTY GOD, EVERLASTING FATHER, PRINCE OF PEACE".
• 10:20 IT'S AMAZING THAT WHEN THE PROPHECY IS GIVEN IN THE 53RD CHAPTER OF ISAIAH
• 10:25 HE STARTS OUT SAYING, WHO HAS BELIEVED OUR REPORT, WHO'S GOING TO BELIEVE IT
• 10:30 THAT GOD WOULD MAKE HIS ENTRANCE ONTO THE STAGE OF THE HUMAN DRAMA
• 10:34 THROUGH THE VIRGIN MIRIAM AND HER BETROTHED YOSEF.
• 10:40 THEY MADE THEIR WAY TO BETHLEHEM; THERE WAS NO ROOM AT THE INN.
• 10:45 AND THE PROMISE WAS DELIVERED IN A PLACE LIKE THIS SOME 2000 YEARS AGO.
• 10:50 ♪♪
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• 11:46 THEY THAT DWELL IN THE LAND OF THE SHADOW OF DEATH, UPON THEM HATH THE LIGHT SHINED.
• 11:54 IN THE 8TH CENTURY BEFORE CHRIST, ISAIAH LIVED AND MINISTERED
• 11:59 AND HE SHARED THAT AT SOME POINT IN TIME, IN THE NOT TOO DISTANT FUTURE,
• 12:04 GOD WAS GOING TO SEND A REDEEMER INTO THE WORLD.
• 12:08 HE SAID IN THE 7TH CHAPTER THAT HE BE BORN OF A VIRGIN.
• 12:12 HE SAID IN THE 9TH CHAPTER THAT HIS NAME WILL BE CALLED WONDERFUL, COUNSELOR,
• 12:16 MIGHT GOD, EVERLASTING FATHER, PRINCE OF PEACE.
• 12:20 HE SAID IN THE 11TH CHAPTER THAT HE WOULD SPRING FORTH FROM DAVIDIC STOCK
• 12:26 AND HE SAID IN THE 53RD CHAPTER THAT THIS PERSON WOULD COME FROM A ROOT OUT OF DRY GROUND,
• 12:32 HE'D COME FROM A WOMB THAT HADN'T YET BEEN INSEMINATED.
• 12:38 SO, 800 OR SO YEARS LATER, A WOMAN IN HEBREW KNOWN AS MIRIAM OR MARY,
• 12:44 CAME WITH HER BETROTHED YOSEF OR JOSEPH,
• 12:50 CAME TO A PLACE LIKE THIS, A CAVE LIKE THIS IN THE HOLY LAND,
• 12:56 FINDING NO ROOM IN THE INN, MIRIAM BEDDED DOWN FOR THE EVENING
• 13:02 AND GAVE BIRTH TO THE PROMISED MESHIACH, THE MESSIAH.
• 13:13 ONE OF JESUS FOLLOWERS, MATTHEW TELLS US
• 13:19 IN THE 1ST CHAPTER OF HIS GOSPEL PICKING UP IN THE 18TH VERSE
• 13:23 AND BY THE WAY, IF YOU HAVE A BIBLE, PLEASE TURN TO IT.
• 13:26 NOW THE BIRTH OF YESHUA HA MASHIACH, JESUS CHRIST
• 13:30 WAS AS FOLLOWS,
• 13:32 AFTER HIS MOTHER MARY WAS BETROTHED TO JOSEPH,
• 13:38 BEFORE THEY CAME TOGETHER SHE WAS FOUND WITH CHILD OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
• 13:45 AND JOSEPH HER BETROTHED, BEING A JUST MAN
• 13:52 NOT WANTING TO MAKE HER A PUBLIC EXAMPLE WAS MINDED TO PUT HER AWAY SECRETLY.
• 13:57 BUT WHILE THE THOUGHT ABOUT THESE THINGS,
• 13:59 AN ANGEL OF THE LORD APPEARED TO HIM IN A DREAM SAYING,
• 14:01 JOSEPH SON OF DAVID, DO NOT BE AFRAID TO TAKE TO YOU MARY YOUR WIFE,
• 14:09 FOR THAT WHICH IS CONCEIVED OF HER IS OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
• 14:16 AND SHE WILL BRING FORTH A SON AND YOU SHALL CALL HIS NAME YESHUA OR JESUS
• 14:22 FOR HE WILL SAVE HIS PEOPLE FROM THEIR SINS.
• 14:26 INTERESTINGLY, THE WORD JESUS IS THE ANGLICIZED VERSION OF THE HEBREW YESHUA
• 14:33 AND YESHUA COMES FROM A HEBREW VERB THAT MEANS TO SAVE, TO DELIVER OR TO REDEEM.
• 14:39 HERE THE MESSENGER OF THE LORD SAYS CALL HIS NAME YESHUA OR DELIVERER
• 14:45 FOR HE WILL REDEEM HIS PEOPLE OF THEIR SINS
• 14:49 AND NOT JUST HIS PEOPLE, THE JEWISH PEOPLE, BUT ALL PEOPLE.
• 14:53 THE REASON WHY GOD SENT THE MESHIACH INTO THE WORLD
• 14:57 WAS TO HELP ALL PEOPLE, JEWISH PEOPLE INCLUDED.
• 15:01 WE'RE TOLD IN VERSE 22 OF THE SAME CHAPTER
• 15:24 YOU KNOW, I ALWAYS KNEW, GROWING UP IN A JEWISH FAMILY,
• 15:29 I'D HEARD ABOUT THE VIRGIN MARY GIVING BIRTH TO THE CHRIST CHILD
• 15:33 AND I ALWAYS THOUGHT IT WAS JUST A GENTILE STORY, CHRISTIAN STORY.
• 15:39 I NEVER REALLY THOUGHT THAT IT HAD ITS ROOTS IN THE OLD TESTAMENT.
• 15:44 THAT ISAIAH PROPHESIES ABOUT THIS CHILD COMING INTO THE WORLD STRIKES ME AS FASCINATING.
• 15:50 I REMEMBER IT DID THE VERY FIRST TIME I LEARNED THE STORY
• 15:53 WHEN SOMEONE OPENED UP THE SCRIPTURES AND SHOWED ME
• 15:56 AND I THOUGHT THAT THE IMPLICATIONS OF THAT ARE VERY PROFOUND.
• 16:00 INTERESTINGLY, A LOT OF JEWISH PEOPLE TAKE OFFENSE
• 16:03 AT THE NOTION OF GOD SENDING THE MESSIAH IN THE WORLD THROUGH A WOMB THAT COULDN'T OPEN.
• 16:09 THE NOTION OF A VIRGIN BIRTH SEEMED PROBLEMATIC FOR A VARIETY OF REASONS, I GRANT,
• 16:14 BUT AS I PONDERED IT AS I REFLECT UPON IT NOW,
• 16:17 I'M REMINDED OF THE FACT IN THE BIBLE, IN THE JEWISH BIBLE,
• 16:20 GOD ALWAYS DID MIRACULOUS THINGS THROUGH BIRTHS THAT NATURALLY COULDN'T HAPPEN.
• 16:28 FOR EXAMPLE, WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE STORY OF ABRAHAM AND SARAH,
• 16:33 THERE'S A STORY OF A MAN WHO WAS FRUSTRATED BECAUSE SARAH COULDN'T CONCEIVE A CHILD.
• 16:38 FINALLY IN CHAPTER 15, VERSE 3, AFFIRMED TO HIM IS THAT HIS ANGST BEING WHAT WAS,
• 16:46 GOD SAYS I'M STILL GOING TO DELIVER A CHILD FOR YOU,
• 16:48 THERE THE JEWISH RACE, THE BIOLOGICAL HEBREW RACE
• 16:53 CAME FROM A WOMB THAT GOD HAD MIRACULOUSLY OPENED UP.
• 16:56 THEN WE'RE TOLD THE SON ISAAC, HE'S GOING TO MARRY A WOMAN REBECCA
• 17:02 AND WE'RE TOLD IN CHAPTER 25:21 OF GENESIS THAT SHE COULDN'T HAVE A CHILD,
• 17:07 BUT THAT THE PARENTS INTERCEDED FOR HER AND THE LORD MIRACULOUSLY OPENED THE WOMB.
• 17:13 THEN THEIR SON JACOB, HE MARRIES, HE MARRIES A WOMAN, RACHEL.
• 17:20 WE'RE TOLD THAT SHE WAS SICK WITH GRIEF IN CHAPTER 30, VERSES 1 AND 2
• 17:25 BEING UNABLE TO BEAR A CHILD AND THEN GOD OPENS HER WOMB.
• 17:29 I FIND IT FASCINATING, FRANKLY, WHEN YOU LOOK AT HE PATRIARCHS, ABRAHAM, ISAAC, JACOB,
• 17:34 THE HEBREW RACE COMES THROUGH WOMBS THAT CAN'T OPEN
• 17:37 AND HOW FASCINATING IT IS THAT THE LORD SENT HIS SON INTO THE WORLD
• 17:41 THE MESSIAH OF JEWISH EXTRACT THROUGH A WOMB THAT COULDN'T OPEN.
• 17:46 IT'S ALL IN THE BIBLE, THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ISAIAH,
• 17:49 PREDICTED HUNDREDS OF YEARS BEFORE HE WAS BORN
• 17:52 THAT THE MESSIAH WAS GOING TO COME INTO THE WORLD AND COME INTO THE WORLD THROUGH A VIRGIN.
• 18:16 ♪FOLLOW ME TO GALILEE♪
• 18:18 AND JESUS SAID UNTO THEM, DO NOT BE AFRAID,
• 18:21 GO TELL MY BRETHREN TO GO INTO GALILEE, THERE THEY WILL SEE ME.
• 18:28 IT STRENGTHENS OUR FAITH TO KNOW THAT JESUS WALKED ON THE WATER AND THAT WE CAN CALL OUT TO HIM.
• 18:33 IT MAKES THE WHOLE SCRIPTURES COME TO LIFE.
• 18:46 ISAIAH IS GREAT.
• 18:49 IT'S GREAT TO LOOK AT ISAIAH IN THE OLD TESTAMENT
• 18:51 AND IT'S GREAT TO LOOK AT SOME LIVES THAT WERE TOUCHED BY ISAIAH IN THE MODERN WORLD.
• 18:57 SANDRA, I UNDERSTAND THAT YOU WERE WITH JACOB DAMKANI IN ISRAEL
• 19:00 AND HAD A GREAT STORY TO TELL.
• 19:02 I WAS AND BEFORE WE GOT TO THE INTERVIEW,
• 19:04 WE WERE JUST TALKING ABOUT WHAT WE WERE GOING TO TALK ABOUT AND HIS TESTIMONY.
• 19:07 HE SAID, YOU KNOW, ISAIAH 53 REALLY WAS HOW I CAME TO KNOW MESSIAH.
• 19:12 COMPLETELY UNSCRIPTED, HE JUST CAME OUT WITH IT.
• 19:15 UNSCRIPTED, I HAD NO IDEA HE WAS GOING TO SAY IT.
• 19:16 WHAT WE HAD TOLD HIM WAS THAT WE WERE TALKING ABOUT TESTIMONIES AND WHAT WAS HIS TESTIMONY.
• 19:21 WHEN WE GOT THROUGH TALKING TO HIM AND WE SAID,
• 19:23 WE'RE DOING A PROGRAM ON ISAIAH AND HE SAID, YOU KNOW IT WAS A "GOD THING".
• 19:29 WE KNEW IT RIGHT THEN AND THERE THAT IT WAS A "GOD THING".
• 19:31 HE AND MILLIONS LIKE HIM, MILLIONS IS MAYBE OVERSTATED,
• 19:34 BUT JEWISH PEOPLE, SO MANY HAVE COME TO FAITH THROUGH ISAIAH.
• 19:38 LET'S GO TO THAT INTERVIEW NOW.
• 19:40 SHALOM, JACOB, IT'S GOOD TO SEE YOU AGAIN.
• 19:43 WE HAVE BEEN TALKING ABOUT YOUR PARENTS AND I KNOW YOUR PARENTS COME FROM IRAN.
• 19:47 WHAT A TIMELY ISSUE TO TALK ABOUT, COMING FROM IRAN AND COMING TO KNOW THE MESSIAH.
• 19:52 HOW DID YOU COME TO KNOW THE MESSIAH?
• 19:54 FOR ME IT ALL STARTED IN NEW JERSEY.
• 19:57 IN NEW JERSEY.
• 19:58 OF ALL PLACES, OF ALL PLACES, NEW JERSEY,
• 20:00 HAS ANY GOOD THING COME OUT OF NEW JERSEY?
• 20:02 WELL, I DON'T KNOW, YOU TELL ME.
• 20:04 FOR ME IT WAS.
• 20:05 FOR ME INDEED SOMETHING GREAT HAPPENED WHEN A MAN NAMED JEFF
• 20:09 WALKED INTO MY SHOP,
• 20:11 I WAS IMPORTING AT THE TIME FROM MEXICO, FROM ISRAEL, GIFTS, JEWELRY
• 20:16 AND ON MY DESK I HAD MY BIBLE AND WHEN I SAY MY BIBLE, I REFER TO THE OLD TESTAMENT ONLY.
• 20:23 THIS MAN WHEN HE SEE THE BIBLE IN HEBREW, HE GETS REALLY EXCITED, HE'S ALL SHINING
• 20:30 AND HE BEGINS TO REALLY CONFRONT ME WITH YESHUA.
• 20:34 WHERE WAS HE FROM?
• 20:35 NEW JERSEY.
• 20:37 HE WAS FROM NEW JERSEY, ALSO, BUT HE KNEW IT WAS A HEBREW BIBLE.
• 20:39 RIGHT, HE KNEW ENOUGH ABOUT HEBREW, HE LIVED IN ISRAEL FOR QUITE SOME TIME.
• 20:44 HE WAS KNOWLEDGEABLE SOMEWHAT OF HEBREW
• 20:47 AND FOR HIM IT WAS A GREAT SURPRISE TO MEET AN ISRAELI.
• 20:53 SO, HE STARTED REALLY SHARING THE GOSPEL WITH ME
• 20:56 AND THE FIRST REACTION LIKE MOST JEWS, WAIT A MINUTE, I'M A JEW, WE HAVE GOD, YOU HAVE THE SON.
• 21:03 I DON'T NEED YESHUA..
• 21:04 WE HAVE MOSES, YOU HAVE..
• 21:06 RIGHT.
• 21:08 BUT, THE GUY WAS VERY KNOWLEDGEABLE OF THE OLD TESTAMENT
• 21:12 AND HE BEGAN TO REALLY OPEN THE OLD TESTAMENT TO ME.
• 21:16 THIS WASN'T LIKE A WORK OF ONE DAY
• 21:19 AND HE STARTED VISITING ME ONCE A WEEK, TWICE A WEEK RIGHT BEFORE I CLOSE THE SHOP
• 21:27 AND BEGIN TO UNFOLD PROPHECIES BEFORE ME.
• 21:31 WHAT DID HE START WITH?
• 21:32 HE REALLY STARTED WITH ISAIAH 53.
• 21:34 HE REALLY DID START WITH ISAIAH 53.
• 21:36 ISAIAH 53 AND IT WAS REALLY SHOCKING TO ME FOR THE FIRST TIME IN MY LIFE
• 21:42 TO REALLY READ THAT CHAPTER WITH THE INSIGHT OF A CHILD OF GOD NAMED JEFF
• 21:48 WHO REALLY HAD ME UNDERSTAND THAT THIS IS REALLY ABOUT YESHUA
• 21:53 AND FROM THERE HE TOOK ME TO DANIEL CHAPTER 9
• 21:56 WHERE WE GREW UP TO THINK WHEN MESSIAH COMES,
• 21:59 NATIONS SHALL NOT LIFT SWORDS AGAINST NATION,
• 22:03 THE WOLF WILL DWELL WITH THE LAMB THERE WILL BE PEACE.
• 22:05 BUT, THERE IN DANIEL 9 YOU SEE THAT MESSIAH IS TO BE CUT OFF
• 22:08 AND THEN HE TAKES ME TO EZEKIEL 36,
• 22:11 WHICH WAS REALLY POWERFUL WHERE GOD PROMISED,
• 22:14 AND I THINK THIS IS ONE OF THE GREATEST PROMISED OF ALL THAT HE, HIMSELF THE ALMIGHTY ONE
• 22:20 WILL CLEANSE ME, WILL PURIFY ME, WILL JUST GIVE ME A NEW HEART, A NEW SPIRIT
• 22:28 AND IN THE LIGHT OF THIS GREAT PROMISE OF THE NEW COVENANT IN JEREMIAH 31
• 22:32 AND FEW OTHER PROPHECIES, I FOUND MYSELF WITH MY BACK UP AGAINST THE WALL
• 22:37 AND I HAD A DECISION TO MAKE, IT'S EITHER I'M GOING TO LISTEN MY FATHER AND MY MOTHER,
• 22:42 THE RABBIS I GREW WITH THE TEACHERS IN SCHOOL
• 22:45 OR AM I GOING TO GIVE ATTENTION TO THE PROPHETS.
• 22:48 I TELL YOU, WHEN I JUST TOOK TIME TO KEEP EXAMINING THAT
• 22:54 AND I REALIZED IF I READ THOSE PROPHECIES OBJECTIVELY,
• 22:58 THEY REALLY DO SPEAK CLEARLY ABOUT YESHUA.
• 23:03 THAT'S WHERE I FOUND THE COURAGE TO READ THE NEW TESTAMENT.
• 23:06 WHEN I SAW WHAT I SAW IN THE OLD TESTAMENT,
• 23:08 I FOUND THE COURAGE TO TAKE AHOLD OF THE NEW TESTAMENT
• 23:12 AND BEGIN READING IT AND I WAS SHOCKED.
• 23:15 EVERYTHING I READ IN THE NEW TESTAMENT BROUGHT ME TO GALILEE.
• 23:19 WHERE DID YOU START IN THE NEW TESTAMENT,
• 23:20 I ALWAYS LOVE TO HEAR THIS.
• 23:21 IN MATTHEW, I START FROM THE BEGINNING.
• 23:23 YOU DID START FROM THE VERY BEGINNING.
• 23:25 A LOT OF PEOPLE START IN JOHN, BUT THAT'S INTERESTING.
• 23:27 I START FROM THE VERY BEGINNING AND RIGHT THERE THE LINAGE OF YESHUA GOT AHOLD OF MY ATTENTION
• 23:31 TO REALLY SEE THAT HE DIDN'T COME FROM NO CATHOLIC POPE,
• 23:36 BUT HE'S DESCENDANTS OF ISRAEL, RIGHT.
• 23:39 HE'S A JEWISH MESSIAH.
• 23:41 I DIDN'T READ NOTHING ABOUT NO EGGS OF EASTER AND NOTHING ABOUT THE TREES OF CHRISTMAS
• 23:47 AND I DIDN'T HEAR THE SOUNDS OF THE BELLS OF THE CHURCH,
• 23:50 BUT I HEARD THE SOUND OF THE SHOFAR AND I CAME IN TOUCH WITH THE FEAST, WHICH I GREW UP,
• 23:56 PESSACH IS PESSACH AND TABERNACLE IS TABERNACLE
• 24:01 AND THE FEAST OF PENTECOST IS PENTECOST
• 24:04 AND THE SABBATH IS THE SABBATH,
• 24:05 AND EVEN HANUKKAH,
• 24:07 EVEN HANUKKAH IS THERE IN THE BOOK OF JOHN, YES.
• 24:10 AND I TELL YOU, WHEN I REALIZE THAT THIS IS A JEWISH DOCUMENT
• 24:15 AND I CAME TO UNDERSTAND THAT MY IDENTITY IS NOT BEING JEOPARDIZED.
• 24:19 I HAVE COME TO REALIZE THAT, WOW, IF THIS IS TRUE,
• 24:24 I WANT TO GET AHOLD OF THAT AND AS JEFF PUT IT TO ME,
• 24:28 YOU ASK GOD AND GOD WILL SHOW YOU AND I TELL YOU,
• 24:31 ON MY KNEES FOR A FEW WEEKS, GOD, THE GOD OF ABRAHAM, ISAAC AND JACOB,
• 24:38 IF THIS IS MY PROMISED PASSOVER LAMB,
• 24:42 IF THIS IS THE ONE THAT YOU HAVE PROMISED THAT WILL COME TO CLEANSE ME, PURIFY ME,
• 24:47 TAKE MY HEART OF STONE AND GIVE ME A HEART OF FLESH
• 24:51 AND MAKE ME A HABITATION OF YOUR VERY PRESENCE, YOU GIVE ME THAT GREAT TRUTH AND I WILL OBEY,
• 25:01 I WILL BE YOUR SLAVE, I WILL TACK MY EAR TO THE DOORPOST,
• 25:04 I WILL SERVE YOU FOR AS LONG AS I LIVE.
• 25:06 AND IN HIS GRACE AND HIS MERCY, HE HAS COME AND PAID ME A VISIT
• 25:11 1977 AND NOTHING HAS BEEN THE SAME.
• 25:17 ALL OF A SUDDEN THERE AND THERE, I REALIZED WHAT IT MEANT TO BE A JEW.
• 25:22 MY HEART CRY WAS FOR ALL MY PEOPLE ISRAEL
• 25:26 FOR THEM TO ONCE UNDERSTAND YESHUA IN A JEWISH CONTEXT.
• 25:31 INFORMATION IS GREAT.
• 25:35 INSPIRATION IS BETTER.
• 25:40 WE'VE GOTTEN SOME INFORMATION FROM ISAIAH AND INSPIRATION FROM JACOB DAMKANI.
• 25:45 BUT, HEAR ME, WHAT'S BETTER THAN INFORMATION AND INSPIRATION IS TRANSFORMATION.
• 25:54 THAT SAID, I WANT TO INVITE YOU TO OPEN UP YOUR HEART AND MIND
• 26:00 TO WHAT'S REVEALED IN BIBLICAL LITERATURE.
• 26:03 BECAUSE NOT ONLY DOES JACOB DAMKANI HAVE TESTIMONIES,
• 26:07 BUT EVERYONE AND ANYONE WHO REACHES UP TO GOD
• 26:11 AND ASKS HIM INTO THEIR HEART AND REPENTS OF THEIR SINS, THEY GET TESTIMONIES, TOO.
• 26:16 WE WANT THE BEST FOR YOU.
• 26:19 WE DON'T WANT TO JUST TELL A STORY THAT INFORMS, WE WANT A STORY THAT TRANSFORMS
• 26:24 AND I WANT YOU TO KNOW AND SANDRA WANTS YOU TO KNOW
• 26:26 THAT HE PROMISES OF GOD ARE AVAILABLE TO YOU.
• 26:29 ISN'T THAT RIGHT?
• 26:31 YOU KNOW, JEFF, WE WERE TALKING ABOUT ISAIAH AND HIS NAME MEANS, THE LORD SAVES.
• 26:35 WE'RE TALKING ABOUT SALVATION AND THAT'S GREAT.
• 26:37 WE'VE GOT MORE PROGRAMS COMING UP, WE'VE GOT AT LEAST 7 MORE
• 26:40 THAT WE'RE GOING TO DO ABOUT SALVATION, ABOUT ISAIAH.
• 26:43 PLEASE JOIN US.
• 26:45 AS YOU GO, SHA'ALU SHALOM YERUSHALAYIM PRAY OR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM.