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

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