Caption transcript for The Gospel According to Isaiah: “Jesus’ Death” (4/8)

• 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, ISAIAH KNEW THAT THIS PROPHETIC SCRIPTURE
• 00:34 WOULD ONE DAY BE FULFILLED IN THE LAMB OF GOD, JESUS.
• 00:45 WELL, A HEARTY SHALOM TO ALL OF YOU.
• 00:49 JEFFREY SEIF HERE WITH MY GOOD FRIEND SANDRA LEVITT.
• 00:53 AND WE ARE LOOKING AT ISAIAH AREN'T WE?
• 00:56 WE ARE.
• 00:57 SHALOM JEFF, HOW ARE YOU?
• 00:58 ISAIAH IS A GREAT STORY.
• 00:59 YES, ISAIAH TELLS A GREAT STORY AND ON THE MENU TODAY, ISAIAH 53:7.
• 01:17 WHO DO YOU THINK THAT'S TALKING ABOUT?
• 01:18 MESSIAH.
• 01:20 I THINK SO, IN FACT JUDAISM SAGES THOUGHT SO FOR MILLENNIA.
• 01:24 THAT'S RIGHT.
• 01:26 WE'RE GOING TO LOOK AT THIS PERSONALITY WHO IS DESPISED AND REJECTED.
• 01:29 WHO WENT OFF AS A SHEEP TO THE SLAUGHTER AS WE CONSIDER THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ISAIAH.
• 01:36 ALL WE LIKE SHEEP HAVE GONE ASTRAY.
• 01:38 WE HAVE TURNED EVERYONE TO HIS OWN WAY.
• 01:41 AND THE LORD HATH LAID ON HIM THE INIQUITY OF US ALL.
• 01:45 HE WAS OPPRESSED AND HE WAS AFFLICTED YET HE OPENED NOT HIS MOUTH.
• 01:50 HE IS BROUGHT AS A LAMB TO THE SLAUGHTER AND AS A SHEEP BEFORE HER SHEARERS
• 01:55 IS DUMB SO HE OPENETH NOT HIS MOUTH.
• 01:58 HE IS NUMBERED WITH THE TRANSGRESSORS AND HE BEARED THE SIN OF MANY
• 02:03 AND MADE INTERCESSION FOR THE TRANSGRESSORS.
• 02:11 LUKE TELLS US THAT THE FIRST DROPS OF BLOOD THAT JESUS SHED
• 02:16 WERE SHED BEFORE HE ACTUALLY GOT TO THE CROSS.
• 02:19 LUKE TELLS US THAT HE SHED THEM HERE IN GETHSEMANE
• 02:25 ON ONE QUIET MORNING SOME TWO THOUSAND YEARS AGO.
• 02:31 SO QUIET WAS IT THAT WHEN HE TRIED TO GET HIS DISCIPLES TO GET UP AND PRAY
• 02:36 THEY WOULDN'T DO IT.
• 02:38 THE GOSPEL AUTHORS TELLS US THEY WERE HEAVY WITH SLEEP.
• 02:41 AND JESUS SAID "COULD YOU NOT PRAY WITH ME BUT ONE HOUR?"
• 02:46 JESUS WAS IN THE THROWS OF TRAVAIL, PAINED AS HE WAS ANTICIPATING THE NEXT MOVE.
• 02:54 HIS TALMIDIM, HIS DISCIPLES
• 02:56 JUST ANTICIPATED A GOOD NIGHTS REST AFTER A LONG PASSOVER SEDER, THE LAST SUPPER.
• 03:02 BUT JESUS HIMSELF KNEW THAT THE PASSOVER WAS THE COUNTDOWN TO HIS FINALE, TO HIS ENDING.
• 03:08 AND HE KNEW HE'D GO FROM THIS GARDEN TO THE CROSS.
• 03:20 HERE IN AS MUCH AS THE OLIVE OILS WOULD BE GROUND
• 03:24 AND THEN BY VIRTUE OF THEIR SO DOING PRODUCE THEIR OIL,
• 03:28 SO IT HERE JESUS AS HE'S CONFRONTED WITH HIS HORRIFIC DEMISE SWEATS BLOOD PROFUSELY.
• 03:37 IT'S HERE AT THE BASE OF THE MOUNT OF OLIVES WITH OLIVES TO MY EAST AND TO MY WEST
• 03:43 THE "BET HAMIKDASH", THE TEMPLE, THE HOUSE OF GOD.
• 03:47 YOU MIGHT RECALL, FOR LUKE DOES, THAT IT WAS MANY YEARS PRIOR,
• 03:52 IT WAS DURING THIS HOLIDAY WHEN JESUS FIRST ARTICULATED, "I MUST BE ABOUT MY FATHER'S BUSINESS".
• 04:01 AND WHAT'S THE BUSINESS OF GOD IN THE HOUSE?
• 04:03 COME PASSOVER TIMES THE LAMBS ARE LINED UP FOR THE SLAUGHTER.
• 04:08 AS ISRAELITES WOULD BRING THEIR LAMB IF THEY COULDN'T BRING ONE AFAR THEY'D PURCHASE ONE NEAR.
• 04:15 BUT OF PRIMARY IMPORTANCE WAS THE SLAUGHTER OF THE INNOCENTS, THE SLAUGHTER OF THE LAMBS.
• 04:22 NOW HERE WE'RE LOOKING AT THIS CHRISTIAN STORY,
• 04:25 BUT FROM THIS SACRED PLACE I WANT TO REMIND YOU
• 04:28 THAT THIS CHRISTIAN STORY DOESN'T HAVE IT'S ROOTS IN CHRISTIAN LITERATURE
• 04:34 FOR, IN THE 8TH CENTURY BEFORE CHRIST
• 04:38 THE PROPHET ISAIAH HAD HIMSELF FORETOLD
• 04:41 THAT THE MESSIAH WOULD COME AND THAT HE HIMSELF WOULD TRAVAIL.
• 04:46 IN HIS OWN WAY HE GIVES VOICE TO THE FACT THAT HE WILL SWEAT PROFUSELY
• 04:51 AS HE LABORS BENEATH THE BURDEN OF CALVARY'S CROSS.
• 04:56 I'D LIKE YOU TO TURN IN YOUR IN YOUR BIBLES PLEASE TO ISAIAH CHAPTER 53
• 04:59 AND I WANT YOU TO PICK IT UP IN YOUR VERSION.
• 05:02 I'M GOING TO PICK IT UP IN MINE IN VERSE 11.
• 05:11 HE WILL LABOR IMMENSELY UNDER THE PRESSURE OF INNER AGONIES.
• 05:15 BUT THROUGH IT ALL THAT HE WILL SEE SOMETHING GOOD TO COME OF IT
• 05:20 AND HE WILL EVEN BE SATISFIED WITH IT, PAINFUL THOUGH IT IS.
• 05:23 HE SAYS HE'LL SEE THE TRAVAIL OF HIS SOUL AND BE SATISFIED.
• 05:42 HE SEES THAT THROUGH HIS TRAVAIL, THROUGH HIS SUFFERING, THROUGH HIS CROSS,
• 05:48 THAT HE'LL SUFFER NO LOSS, BUT RATHER WHAT HE'LL DO
• 05:51 IS HE'LL INCREASE HIS SWAY ON PLANET EARTH.
• 05:54 HE WON'T BE DIMINISHED THROUGH HIS DEATH
• 05:56 BUT, RATHER HE WILL BRING MANY SONS AND DAUGHTERS TO RIGHTEOUSNESS.
• 06:01 AND THEN THE PROPHET IS EXPLICIT.
• 06:05 HE FINISHES THE VERSE SAYING.
• 06:14 THE LANGUAGE SOUNDS SO VERY NEW TESTAMENT,
• 06:17 BUT UNDERSTAND THAT THE CONCEPT IS ROOTED IN THE OLD TESTAMENT
• 06:23 AS WE NOTE HERE IN ISAIAH AND AS WE CAN DISCOVER ELSEWHERE IN THE SCRIPTURE
• 06:29 AS WE TRACE THE COLOR RED, THE COLOR OF BLOOD
• 06:32 FROM GENESIS ALL THE WAY THROUGH THE LITERATURE HERE TO THE BLOOD DROPS OF JESUS,
• 06:38 WHO BY VIRTUE OF HIS SHEDDING THAT BLOOD,
• 06:40 ISAIAH SAYS "HE BEARS THE INIQUITIES OF OTHERS".
• 06:44 AND HE DOESN'T JUST SAY IT HERE.
• 06:46 THE CHAPTER FINISHES UP ON SUCH THE SAME NOTE.
• 06:49 HE SAYS IN CHAPTER 53:12 IN THE SECOND PART OF THAT VERSE HE SAYS.
• 06:59 YOU NEED JESUS DIED BETWEEN TWO THIEVES WHO SAY "LISTEN, WE DESERVE TO BE HERE".
• 07:04 JESUS DIED WITH THE GUILTY THOUGH HE HIMSELF WAS INNOCENT.
• 07:08 AND EVEN THAT WAS PREDICTED ISAIAH SAYS
• 07:09 "THAT HE WILL BE NUMBERED WITH THE TRANSGRESSORS".
• 07:19 IT'S NOT JUST THAT HE DIED BETWEEN SINNERS
• 07:23 BUT THAT HE HIMSELF BORE SIN IN THE PROCESS OF HIS DEATH.
• 07:27 HE TOOK ON THE PENALTY OF SIN SO WE WOULDN'T NEED TO DO SO.
• 07:31 AND THEN IT'S MADE EXPLICIT AS THIS SECTION COMES TO A CLOSE.
• 07:43 THERE MIGHT BE SOME THAT SAY "I NEED A LITTLE HELP MISTER
• 07:47 BECAUSE I'M JUST OVERRUN WITH MY OWN SINS AND MY OWN CIRCUMSTANCES,
• 07:51 THE FRUITS OF MY BAD LIVING AND I JUST DON'T HOW TO EXTRICATE MYSELF IN THIS.
• 07:55 I DON'T HOW TO GET OUT."
• 07:57 FAIR ENOUGH, IT'S A REASONABLE QUESTION.
• 07:59 IF YOU FIND YOURSELF IMPRISONED TO SIN AND CIRCUMSTANCES AND YOU CAN'T GET OUT,
• 08:03 THE GOOD NEWS IS AS IS THERE IS A SAVIOR WHO CAME TO DIE ON THE CROSS FOR YOU
• 08:08 AND SET YOU FREE AND ENABLE YOU THEN TO WALK IN THE NEWNESS OF LIFE.
• 08:13 YOU SAY "WELL MISTER THAT SOUNDS LIKE CHRISTIAN PREACHING".
• 08:16 WELL, I GRANT THAT IT IS BUT IT'S ROOTED IN OLD TESTAMENT BIBLICAL LITERATURE.
• 08:20 IN THE 8TH CENTURY BEFORE CHRIST WE HEAR FROM THE MOUTH OF ISAIAH THAT THE MESSIAH WOULD COME.
• 08:27 AND WHAT DOES HE TELL US ABOUT THAT MESSIAH?
• 08:29 THAT HE LABORS IMMENSELY UNDER THE BURDEN OF SIN, THAT HE EXPERIENCES TRAVAIL IN HIS SOUL.
• 08:36 BUT NEVERTHELESS HE'S COMFORTED BECAUSE HE SAW YOU THROUGH THE BLOOD
• 08:40 AND HE SAW ME AND HE KNEW THAT GOOD WOULD COME OF IT.
• 08:44 HIS LIFE SEEMED TO BE COMING TO AN INGLORIOUS END BUT HE LIVES ON.
• 08:49 BECAUSE HE ROSE FROM THE DEATH WE CAN EXPERIENCE A RESURRECTION FROM OUR OWN DEATH
• 08:54 AND WALK IN THE NEWNESS OF LIFE.
• 08:56 ISAIAH SAYS THAT "HE SEES THE FRUIT OF THE TRAVAIL OF HIS SOUL AND BE SATISFIED".
• 09:01 HE SAYS THAT "BY HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS IMPUTED TO US WE ARE MADE RIGHTEOUS".
• 09:07 HE SAYS "BY KNOWLEDGE OF HIM SINNERS ARE TRANSFORMED",
• 09:10 AND OH MAY IT BE, THAT YOU'RE TOUCHED YOURSELF AS YOU HEAR THIS WORD FROM THE SCRIPTURE
• 09:16 BROUGHT FROM THE VERY GARDEN OF GESTHEMANE,
• 09:20 THE PLACE WHERE JESUS BEGAN SHEDDING HIS BLOOD SOME TWO THOUSAND YEARS AGO.
• 09:39 THE WORD "PARADISE" COMES FROM THE WORD MEANING "ENCLOSED GARDEN"
• 09:44 HENCE THE EXPRESSION GOD HAD IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN IS DEEMED "PARADISE"
• 09:48 BECAUSE YOU'RE LOOKING AT A SECLUDED AREA THAT'S CORDONED OFF FROM THE REST OF THE WORLD.
• 09:52 IN CERTAIN RESPECTS THE GARDEN OF GESTHEMANE REMINDS ME OF THAT.
• 09:58 THIS IS A GARDEN, IT'S A PLACE CUT OFF FROM THE REST OF THE WORLD AND A BUSY WORLD AT THAT.
• 10:04 HERE WE ARE AT THE BASE OF THE MT. OF OLIVES
• 10:06 AND YOU CAN SEE THE RETAINING WALL AROUND THE OLD CITY OF JERUSALEM JUST ABOVE ME
• 10:10 AND WHAT'S LEFT OF THE EASTERN GATE.
• 10:13 IT'S ALL SEALED UP RIGHT NOW.
• 10:14 PEOPLE DON'T GO IN THERE ANYMORE, BUT PEOPLE DRIVE AROUND IT.
• 10:17 YOU'VE SEEN SOME CARS OR A BUS OR MAYBE YOU'VE HEARD SOME NOISES
• 10:21 AND IN THE NEXT FEW MINUTES YOU MAY WELL HEAR THE NOISE OF ISLAM BECKONING INDIVIDUALS TO PRAYER
• 10:28 BECAUSE THIS LOUD SPEAKER IS SET UPIN THE ARAB CORRIDOR NOT FAR FROM ME.
• 10:32 SOME THINGS HAVE CHANGED, SOME THINGS HAVEN'T.
• 10:36 I WANT TO DRAW ATTENTION TO A STORY HERE IN THE BOOK OF ACTS CHAPTER 3
• 10:41 TO GO ALONG WITH THE GETHSEMANE STORY
• 10:43 WHERE JESUS BEGINS HIS PATHWAY TO HIS PERSONAL ARMAGEDDON.
• 10:47 YOU MIGHT RECALL HE SWEAT BLOOD IN THIS PLACE AND THEN HE WAS MARSHALED OUT OF HERE,
• 10:53 MANHANDLED BY SOLDIERS AND TAKEN AWAY.
• 10:55 AND BEFORE THE SUN WAS HIGH IN THE SKY THE FOLLOWING DAY,
• 10:58 AS THE SUN WENT UP HE WAS ON CALVARY'S CROSS.
• 11:01 SOME TIME HAD PASSED, HE WAS CRUCIFIED, BURIED AND HE HAD RISEN.
• 11:06 AND NOW HERE IN ACTS CHAPTER 3 IN THE WAKE OF GETTING A RUSH OF THE HOLY SPIRIT,
• 11:12 PETER AND JOHN WE'RE TOLD IN VERSE ONE
• 11:14 WENT UP TOGETHER TO THE TEMPLE
• 11:16 AT THE HOUR OF PRAYER, THE NINTH HOUR.
• 11:18 THERE WERE TIMES WHEN THE JEWISH TEMPLE STOOD ON THAT HILL
• 11:22 WHERE AUTHORITIES BECKON INDIVIDUALS TO PRAYER,
• 11:25 MUCH AS YOU HEAR THE VOICE OF ISLAM
• 11:27 BECKONING ADHERENTS TO PRAYER, THIS WAS DIFFERENT.
• 11:30 PETER AND JOHN WENT THERE TO WORSHIP THE LORD IN THE TEMPLE
• 11:34 AND AS THE STORY GOES THEY HAPPENED UPON A LAME MAN, SOMEONE WHO HAD BEEN PARALYZED.
• 11:39 AND WHAT WE KNOW HERE IS THAT THEY CONFRONT, THEY PRAY
• 11:45 AND THIS MAN RAISES FROM HIS MISERABLE ESTATE.
• 11:49 TRANSFORMED AS HE WAS LITERALLY, NOT JUST TO MENTION INTERNALLY, HE'S CLINGING ON TO THESE MEN.
• 11:57 AS WORD GETS OUT ABOUT THIS PEOPLE START TO RUSH PETER AND JOHN
• 12:01 AND AFFORDS THEM THE OPPORTUNITY TO GIVE A MESSAGE,
• 12:04 ONE OF THE FIRST MESSAGES ON RECORD TO JEWISH PEOPLE.
• 12:08 AND I THOUGHT IT WOULD BE GOOD TO LOOK AT WHAT THEY HAD TO SAY ABOUT THE NATURE OF JESUS,
• 12:13 ABOUT THE WORK OF JESUS ON CALVARY'S CROSS.
• 12:16 THEY USED THIS AS A TEACHING OPPORTUNITY.
• 12:18 THEY MAKE MENTION HOW JESUS WAS CRUCIFIED BUT DOWN IN VERSE 17 THEY SAY
• 12:28 THAT YOU WEREN'T AWARE,
• 12:29 THOSE OF YOU THAT WERE CULPABLE IN PARTICIPATED IN THE DEATH OF JESUS,
• 12:33 THE COMMONER AND RULER ALIKE.
• 12:35 YOU REALLY WEREN'T AWARE; YOU DIDN'T KNOW WHAT WAS HAPPENING".
• 12:37 HE SAYS IT WAS DONE IN IGNORANCE.
• 12:48 WE SPENT SOME TIME LOOKING AT HOW THE OLD TESTAMENT PROPHET ISAIAH
• 12:53 HAD PREDICTED THAT THE MESSIAH WAS GOING TO SUFFER.
• 12:56 AND HERE PETER SAYS "LISTEN, WE KNOW THAT THOSE THAT
• 12:59 PARTICIPATED DIRECTLY IN THE ACT WEREN'T AWARE OF WHAT WAS HAPPENING".
• 13:03 WHAT WAS REALLY HAPPENING WAS THAT GOD WAS FULFILLING
• 13:06 WHAT WAS PREDICTED BY THE MOUTH OF THE PROPHETS.
• 13:08 AND THEN HE SAYS WHAT THEY MUST DO
• 13:11 AND WHAT WAS INCUMBENT UPON THEM IS INCUMBENT UPON YOU
• 13:15 HE SAYS IN VERSE 19, IN THE WAKE OF ALL THIS.
• 13:30 THERE'S SOME BEAUTIFUL PROMISES AND POSSIBILITIES HERE.
• 13:35 THERE'S A PROBLEM AS WELL.
• 13:36 PEOPLE DON'T LIKE TO CHANGE.
• 13:38 PETER GETS UP AND SAYS "LISTEN, YOU MUST NEEDS REPENT".
• 13:43 AND THE WORD REPENT IN HEBREW, "TASHUVA", MEANS TO CHANGE YOUR DIRECTION.
• 13:47 SOME PEOPLE ARE GOING AWAY IN LIFE BUT IT'S THE WRONG WAY.
• 13:50 IT'S NOT THE WAY OF THE CROSS, ITS A WAY OF LOST TO THEM PERSONALLY.
• 13:53 THERE JUST ON A HIGHWAY TO HELL AND HE SAYS HERE "REPENT AND BE CONVERTED".
• 14:01 NOW PEOPLE HAVE COME UP TO ME AND THEY SAY "MR. SEIF HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN A CONVERTED JEW?"
• 14:05 AND I'M SO VERY PLEASED TO INFORM THEM
• 14:07 THAT I DON'T UNDERSTAND MYSELF TO BE A CONVERTED JEW.
• 14:09 I DO UNDERSTAND MYSELF TO BE A CONVERTED SINNER.
• 14:12 AND IT IS NOT A SIN TO BE A JEW.
• 14:14 IN FACT, IN MY LAST TRIP TO ISRAEL I CAME HERE ON THE HEELS OF HAVING RECEIVED A GRANT
• 14:20 TO DO A RESEARCH PROJECT ON THE MESSIANIC MOVEMENT IN ISRAEL.
• 14:23 MORE AND MORE JEWISH PEOPLE ARE COMING TO FAITH.
• 14:26 IN 1948 WHEN ISRAEL JUST BECAME A NATION, THERE WERE 20 OR SO ON RECORD,
• 14:31 JEWISH PEOPLE THAT WERE FOLLOWERS OF JESUS.
• 14:33 NOW THERE'S OVER 10,000 AND REALLY IN EVERY MAJOR CITY,
• 14:36 AND MINOR ONES FOR THAT MATTER EXCEPT FOR TWO,
• 14:39 THERE IS A MESSIANIC JEWISH CONGREGATION IN THE COUNTRY
• 14:44 GROWING IN LEAPS AND BOUNDS HERE AS WOMEN AND MEN OF JEWISH EXTRACT ARE COMING TO FAITH,
• 14:49 BUT NOT UNDERSTANDING THEMSELVES OF WALKING OUT OF BEING JEWISH IN PROCESS,
• 14:54 BUT RATHER WALKING IN TO WHAT IT MEANS TO BE FULLY JEWISH
• 14:57 BY VIRTUE OF AN EXPERIENCE WITH THE JEWISH MESSIAH.
• 15:01 PETER HERE IS TALKING TO JEWS AND HE IS SAYING "REPENT AND BE CONVERTED".
• 15:07 HE SAYS THEN, "THAT YOUR SINS MIGHT BE BLOTTED OUT".
• 15:10 SOME OF US HAVE A STAIN OF SIN AND GUILT, A CRIMSON STAIN
• 15:14 THAT JUST DOESN'T COME OUT WITH LAUNDRY.
• 15:17 THERE'S NO CLOROX TO GET RID OF IT, BUT THERE'S A BLEACH,
• 15:20 THERE'S A WAY THAT PEOPLE CAN BE BORN ANEW.
• 15:23 IF YOU'VE MESSED UP THE LIFE THAT YOU WERE BORN WITH YOU CAN GET BORN AGAIN
• 15:27 AND GET ANOTHER SHOT AT IT, JESUS SAYS.
• 15:29 THERE'S ANOTHER WAY, THERE'S ANOTHER DAY, THERE'S ANOTHER OPPORTUNITY
• 15:32 IF INDIVIDUALS WOULD BUT REPENT OF THEIR SINS
• 15:35 THEY COULD EXPERIENCE A GOD WHO WOULD BLOT OUT THEIR SINS
• 15:39 AND THEN HE SAYS THAT "TIMES OF REFRESHING WOULD COME FROM THE PRESENCE OF THE LORD".
• 15:46 HEAR ME ON THIS, THERE'S NO WEIGHT GREATER THAN A GUILTY CONSCIENCE.
• 15:52 INDIVIDUALS LABOR BENEATH THE BURDEN
• 15:55 OF KNOWLEDGE OF THE FACT THAT THEY HAVE A LIFE POORLY LIVED.
• 16:00 IT USED TO BE ON TOP OF THIS HILL IN THE ANCIENT CITY OF JERUSALEM
• 16:06 THAT PRIESTS WOULD RECEIVE OFFERINGS AND INDIVIDUALS COULD FIND IMPROVEMENT,
• 16:11 THEY COULD FIND HEALTH AND HEALING.
• 16:14 THEY COULD FIND THAT ANIMALS WOULD BE SACRIFICED IN PLACE OF THEM.
• 16:17 WELL, THAT ACTIVITY HAS LONG SINCE CEASED.
• 16:20 TODAY JEWISH PEOPLE CAN SAY "WHEN I SIN I'LL JUST GO DIRECTLY TO GOD.
• 16:24 I DON'T NEED A MESSIAH".
• 16:26 I CAN UNDERSTAND THAT THOUGHT, BUT THAT CONCEPT DOESN'T COME FROM THE OLD TESTAMENT.
• 16:30 WHEN MOSES WALKED THE FACE OF PLANET EARTH HE DELIVERED A TESTIMONY
• 16:36 THERE IN LEVITICUS 17:11 WE'RE TOLD THAT UNLESS THERE IS THE SACRIFICE OF BLOOD
• 16:41 THERE'S NO REMISSION OF SINS.
• 16:43 HE TAUGHT ABOUT THE NEED FOR SACRIFICE, FOR PRIESTHOOD.
• 16:46 AND HERE WHEN PETER SAYS "ONE MUST NEEDS UNDERSTAND THAT JESUS IS THE SACRIFICE AND THE PRIEST.
• 16:51 REPENT.
• 16:52 LET YOUR SINS BE BLOTTED OUT.
• 16:54 THEN YOU CAN HAVE A NEW LIFE.
• 16:56 YOU CAN EXPERIENCE FORGIVENESS.
• 16:58 REFRESHMENT WILL COME TO YOU FROM ON HIGH".
• 17:00 IN AS MUCH AS THE HOLY SPIRIT WAS POURED OUT ON THIS PLACE SOME 2000 YEARS AGO
• 17:05 THE HOLY SPIRIT CAN BE POURED OUT ON YOU BECAUSE OF THE SAVING OF GRACE OF THE LORD JESUS.
• 17:12 DO IT, RECEIVE HIM AND GOD BLESS YOU FOR SO DOING.
• 17:55 THAT'S ISRAEL, THAT'S WHAT WE SEE, THAT'S WHAT WE LOVE.
• 17:58 THIS IS THE HOLY BOOK OF THE HOLY LAND.
• 18:01 YOU NEED TO SEE ISRAEL.
• 18:02 IT MAKES THE SCRIPTURES COME ALIVE.
• 18:05 WE'RE TALKING ABOUT ISAIAH AND ABOUT THE BLOOD ATONEMENT JEFF,
• 18:08 IN LEVITICUS 17:11 IT SAYS
• 18:21 THIS IS NOT A CASUAL THING THAT GOD HAS SAID; HE REALLY MEANS HE WANTS A BLOOD SACRIFICE.
• 18:27 YES, AND ISN'T IT FASCINATING, WE'RE GETTING IT FROM TWO SOURCES NOW,
• 18:31 EARLIER FROM ISAIAH, WHO TALKS ABOUT THE MESSIAH BEING A SACRIFICE
• 18:36 AND HERE FROM MOSES WHO NOTES EXPLICITLY
• 18:40 THAT THERE HAS TO BE A SACRIFICE FOR THERE TO BE FORGIVENESS OF SINS.
• 18:45 IT'S A FASCINATING STORY.
• 18:47 NOW WE'RE GOING TO LOOK AT SACRIFICE AS IT UNFOLDED IN THE NEW TESTAMENT.
• 18:52 WE KNOW THE STORY OF JESUS WHO DIED ON THE CROSS.
• 18:56 IN A MOMENT OUR SENIOR THEOLOGIAN AND FIELD CONSULTANT,
• 18:59 DR. TOM MCCALL, IS GOING TO BE ON TAPE.
• 19:03 YOU'RE GOING TO SEE AN INTERVIEW WITH HIM AND JOE ZIAS WHO LOOKED AT A SAMPLING OF CRUCIFIXION
• 19:09 FROM THE FIRST CENTURY OF THE CHRISTIAN ERA.
• 19:12 IT'S A FASCINATING ARTIFACT AND I KNOW YOU'RE GOING TO FIND IT VERY INTERESTING.
• 19:19 YOU MADE A VERY RARE FIND OF AN EXAMPLE OF A CRUCIFIED PERSON.
• 19:28 WHEN WAS THIS FOUND AND WHAT WERE THE CIRCUMSTANCES AROUND ITS FINDING?
• 19:35 IN 1968 A COLLEAGUE OF MINE WAS DIGGING HERE IN JERUSALEM.
• 19:41 IT WAS ONE OF THESE ACCIDENTAL FINDS.
• 19:43 AND HERE WERE A SERIES OF OSSUARIES IN THE JEWISH TOMB
• 19:47 GOING BACK TO THE TIME OF CHRIST.
• 19:50 IN ONE OF THE OSSUARIES THEY FOUND A HEEL BONE.
• 19:52 THIS IS WHAT'S CALLED THE CALCANEUM OF AN INDIVIDUAL.
• 19:55 AND WHAT'S UNIQUE ABOUT THIS IF YOU LOOK VERY CLEARLY
• 19:58 YOU CAN SEE THIS IS AN INDIVIDUAL,
• 20:00 WHICH HAD A NAIL WHICH IS DRIVEN LATERALLY THROUGH A PIECE OF WOOD.
• 20:04 WE CAN STILL SEE TRACES OF ALL THE WOOD HERE AFTER 2,000 YEARS.
• 20:07 THEY WENT LATERALLY INTO THE HEEL
• 20:11 AND THEN WHAT HAPPENED, THIS THE RIGHT HEEL.
• 20:15 THE RIGHT HEEL OF A HUMAN FOOT WITH A NAIL THROUGH THE MIDDLE OF IT.
• 20:21 THERE'S EVIDENCE OF A PIECE OF WOOD ON THE OUTSIDE.
• 20:28 OKAY, LET ME GO AHEAD AND EXPLAIN IT TO YOU IN PERHAPS A DIFFERENT WAY
• 20:29 AND MAYBE IT WILL MAKE IT MUCH CLEARER.
• 20:31 WE HAVE A NAIL HERE.
• 20:33 THIS IS ABOUT 11 1/2 cm. LONG, THIS WAS MORE OR LESS THE LENGTH OF THAT NAIL.
• 20:36 THAT'S THE TYPICAL OF THE ROMAN NAIL.
• 20:38 IT'S A TYPICAL NAIL SQUARE SHAPED OF THE NAIL BODY ITSELF.
• 20:43 WHAT THEY DID WAS THAT THEY DRILLED THIS THROUGH A PIECE OF OLIVE WOOD.
• 20:48 IT THEN FUNCTIONS AS A WASHER.
• 20:50 NOW THAT YOU HAVE IT THROUGH THE PIECE OF WOOD
• 20:52 THEY THEN WOULD TAKE THE HEEL OF THE INDIVIDUAL
• 20:56 AND THEN PENETRATED THE HEEL GOING IN FROM THE OUTSIDE
• 21:00 AND IN THIS CASE HERE WHAT SEEMS TO BE OCCURRING, THEY THEN NAILED HIM TO THE TREE.
• 21:04 BUT WHAT HAPPENED, AGAIN, LEFT FOOT OVER HERE, RIGHT FOOT OVER HERE.
• 21:10 WHAT HAPPENED IT SEEMS THAT WHEN THIS WENT INTO THE TREE THE NAIL BENT AND IT FISH HOOKED.
• 21:16 AN OBSTRUCTION OF SOME KIND.
• 21:19 EXACTLY.
• 21:20 PERHAPS, AND KNOT IN THE WOOD.
• 21:23 THERE'S SOMETHING HARD IN WOOD.
• 21:24 WHEN IT FISH HOOKED IT THEN BECAME IMPOSSIBLE TO REMOVE IT.
• 21:26 SO THAT'S THE REASON, IF YOU LOOK AT THIS HERE WHAT YOU'RE SEEING HERE
• 21:29 YOU SEE HOW THE THING'S BENT OVER HERE.
• 21:31 AND THIS MAKES IT IMPOSSIBLE TO REMOVE
• 21:35 SO THEY BURIED THIS INDIVIDUAL WITH THE NAIL IN HIS FOOT.
• 21:38 NORMALLY, I SUPPOSE THE NAIL WAS REMOVED IF IT COULD BE IN MANY CASES.
• 21:43 YOU HAVE TO REALIZE THAT WHAT YOU'RE LOOKING AT HERE,
• 21:46 YOU'RE LOOKING AT THE ONLY CASE IN THE WORLD.
• 21:47 THERE IS NO OTHER CASE WHATSOEVER
• 21:49 WHERE WE HAVE DIRECT PHYSICAL EVIDENCE OF CRUCIFIXION.
• 21:53 THE REASONS I THINK ARE TWO.
• 21:55 ONE THING IS THAT MOST PEOPLE PROBABLY WERE TIED TO CROSSES.
• 21:58 IF YOU LOOK AT THE GOOD THIEF AND THE BAD THIEF, THEY'RE ALWAYS TIED.
• 22:00 JESUS IS THE ONLY ONE THAT'S NAILED.
• 22:02 SO NAILING WAS NOT ALWAYS COMMON.
• 22:04 I THINK IT MAY HAVE BEEN THE EXCEPTION TO THE RULE.
• 22:08 FIRST OF ALL IN JUST IN TERMS OF ECOLOGY, IN TERMS OF HAVING TO CONTINUALLY RECYCLE THE CROSS,
• 22:12 IF YOU ARE CONTINUALLY NAILING IT, AFTER A FEW CRUCIFIXIONS YOU HAVE TO MAKE ANOTHER CROSS.
• 22:17 IF YOU TIE THEM UP THERE
• 22:19 AGAIN THERE IS NO RELATIONSHIP WHATSOEVER BETWEEN BEING NAILED AND TIED.
• 22:23 THE BODY IS GOING TO GO INTO SHOCK.
• 22:25 THE SAME THING HAPPENS.
• 22:28 AND NOW FOR A CLASSIC MOMENT WITH ZOLA.
• 22:31 LET'S REVISIT HIS INTRODUCTION TO A SONG CALLED "FOR HIS NAME'S SAKE".
• 22:37 NOW I WILL BE PLAYING WITH THE TRACK.
• 22:40 IN OTHER WORDS YOU'RE NOT GOING TO HEAR JUST THIS PIANO AS A SOLO INSTRUMENT
• 22:44 BUT, WE'LL PLAY THE WHOLE TRACK, I'LL PLAY ALONG WITH IT ON THIS PROGRAM
• 22:48 AND WE'LL START WITH THE SONG "FOR HIS NAME'S SAKE".
• 22:52 ♪♪
• 24:25 WE SAW THE INTERVIEW WITH JOE ZIAS AND WE HEARD ZOLA'S WONDERFUL MUSIC.
• 24:38 ZOLA WROTE A BOOK CALLED "MESSIAH" WITH TOM MCCALL
• 24:41 AND IN IT HE MAKES THIS WONDERFUL OBSERVATION.
• 24:44 IT'S AN AMAZING STATEMENT.
• 25:03 AND THE WHOLE WORLD MEANS IN THE GREEK "THE WHOLE WORLD".
• 25:08 YOU DON'T NEED A DOCTOR'S DEGREE IN THEOLOGY.
• 25:11 I WANT YOU TO HEAR ME ON THIS, PLEASE.
• 25:13 I WANT TO BECKON YOU TO ANOTHER VERSE, A VERY FAMOUS VERSE IN SCRIPTURE
• 25:17 WHERE WE'RE TOLD THAT GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD
• 25:22 THAT HE GAVE HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON.
• 25:25 ALL POINTS LEAD TO THIS PLACE.
• 25:29 WHEN THE BIBLE SAYS THE "WHOLE WORLD", THAT'S THE JEWISH WORLD, THAT'S THE ARAB WORLD.
• 25:35 GOD'S ARMS ARE BIG ENOUGH TO INVITE EVERYONE AND SO IT IS WITH ZOLA LEVITT MINISTRIES.
• 25:41 HEAR FROM THIS JEWISH EVANGELIST NOW, PLEASE.
• 25:44 IF THE LORD IS BECKONING YOU TO MAKE A DECISION, DO IT THIS DAY, DO IT THIS WAY.
• 25:50 HEAR THE WORD PLEASE.
• 25:52 GOD PROMISED THAT A MESSIAH WOULD COME, THAT HIS NAME WOULD BE YESHUA.
• 25:57 HE WOULD BE A SHEEP LED TO THE SLAUGHTER, THAT HE WOULD DIE ON THE CROSS FOR SINS.
• 26:03 PREDICTED HUNDREDS OF YEARS BEFOREHAND WAS A STORY
• 26:07 THAT'S NOW DELIVERED TO YOU CUSTOM MADE.
• 26:10 AND IF GOD'S BECKONING YOU, IF HE'S KNOCKING ON THE DOOR OF YOUR HEART,
• 26:13 SANDRA DON'T YOU THINK THIS WOULD BE A GREAT TIME FOR INDIVIDUALS TO PRAY
• 26:17 AND SAY "LORD PLEASE COME INTO MY LIFE,
• 26:20 LET ME GET THAT FORGIVENESS AND THAT NEW SHOT AT LIFE."
• 26:22 IT'S THE ONLY TIME, JEFF.
• 26:24 TIME IS SHORT.
• 26:26 WE HAVE GOT TO MAKE A DECISION OR ONE WILL BE MADE FOR YOU.
• 26:30 THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT.
• 26:31 THANK YOU FOR YOUR PRAYERS.
• 26:33 SHA'ALU SHALOM YERUSHALAYIM PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM.