Caption transcript for The Gospel According to Isaiah: “Jesus’ Resurrection” (5/8)

• 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 WOULD ONE DAY BE
• 00:35 FULFILLED IN THE LAMB OF GOD, JESUS.
• 00:46 WELL A HEARTY SHALOM TO ALL OF YOU.
• 00:49 JEFFREY SEIF HERE WITH MY GOOD FRIEND SANDRA LEVITT.
• 00:51 SHALOM JEFF. HOW ARE YOU?
• 00:53 GOOD, AND WHAT DO WE HAVE ON THE MENU TODAY?
• 00:56 I THINK PROBABLY THE MOST IMPORTANT THING WE DO
• 00:58 IS WE TEACH ABOUT THE SALVATION,
• 01:00 THE GOOD NEWS OF THE RESURRECTION OF OUR MESSIAH.
• 01:03 YES, AND WE'RE TEACHING IT FROM ISAIAH WHO LIVED SOME 700 YEARS BEFORE JESUS.
• 01:10 A GREAT OLD TESTAMENT PROPHET WHO ENVISIONED WITH THE SPIRIT OF INSPIRATION THAT
• 01:16 MESSIAH WOULD COME AND DIE ON THE CROSS, BE BURIED AND HE'D RISE AGAIN ON THE 3RD DAY.
• 01:21 AND WE'LL CONSIDER THAT AND MORE IN THIS PROGRAM WON'T WE?
• 01:25 AMEN JEFF. AMEN.
• 01:29 WHO HATH BELIEVED OUR REPORT? AND TO WHOM IS THE ARM OF THE LORD REVEALED?
• 01:34 FOR HE WAS CUT OFF OUT OF THE LAND OFTHE LIVING.
• 01:36 FOR THE TRANSGRESSION OF MY PEOPLE HE WAS STRICKEN AND HE MADE HIS GRAVE WITH THE WICKED,
• 01:41 WITH THE RICH IN HIS DEATH.
• 01:47 "AND THOU SHALT MAKE HIS SOUL AN OFFERING FOR SIN.
• 01:51 HE SHALL PROLONG HIS DAYS AND THE PLEASURE OF THE LORD SHALL PROSPER IN HIS HAND."
• 02:01 AND UP FROM THE GRAVE HE ROSE.
• 02:05 GOODNESS, IT'S SUCH A PLEASURE TO COME TO YOU FROM THE GARDEN TOMB IN JERUSALEM.
• 02:09 IF THERE'S A MORE PEACEFUL PLACE ON EARTH I DON'T KNOW WHERE IT IS.
• 02:16 I FIND IT FASCINATING PERSONALLY THAT IN THE MIDST OF THIS STORM TOSSED MIDDLE EAST
• 02:22 HERE WE ARE IN THE CITY OF JERUSALEM WHERE THERE'S CALM, THERE'S PEACE, THE BIRDS CHIRP.
• 02:28 IT MUST HAVE BEEN JUST LIKE THIS ON THAT WONDERFUL MORNING SOME 2000 YEARS AGO
• 02:37 WHEN MARY CAME TO THE TOMB AMAZED TO DISCOVER THAT THE TOMB WAS EMPTY.
• 02:45 AS AMAZING AS THAT IS, WORTH NOTING IS THE FACT THAT THE NOTION OF AN EMPTY TOMB
• 02:52 OF A RETURNING TO LIFE OF A COMING BACK FROM THE DEAD
• 02:56 IS NOT AN EXCLUSIVELY NEW TESTAMENT NOTION.
• 03:00 THE REASON WHY I SAY THIS IS THAT IN THE 8TH CENTURY BC THE PROPHET ISAIAH HAD ENVISIONED
• 03:09 UNDER THE INSPIRATION OF THE HOLY SPIRIT THAT GRAVES WOULD OPEN,
• 03:14 THAT THERE'D BE A BURSTING FORTH OF NEW LIFE FROM DEATH.
• 03:18 IN FACT, PICKING UP IN THE 25TH CHAPTER OF THE BOOK OF ISAIAH IN THE 8TH VERSE HE SAYS,
• 03:27 AND I'LL DO THIS IN HEBREW AND THEN IN ENGLISH.
• 03:48 MY, HAVE WE HEARD THAT BEFORE?
• 03:51 JOHN, THE REVELATOR, SPEAKS OF TIME WHEN THE LORD
• 03:55 WILL WIPE AWAY TEARS FROM OUR EYES WHEN LIFE RETURNS.
• 03:59 AND HERE WE HAVE IN THE 8TH CENTURY BC WHERE THIS GREAT PROPHET SAYS MUCH THE SAME.
• 04:06 AND WHEN IT COMES TO THE RESURRECTION OF THE DEAD HE'S EVEN MORE EXPLICIT.
• 04:11 IN THE 26TH CHAPTER HE SAYS.
• 04:38 VERY EXPLICIT IS IT NOT? FASCINATING.
• 04:41 IT SOUNDS LIKE NEW TESTAMENT LANGUAGE,
• 04:43 BUT IT'S WRITTEN IN THE 8TH CENTURY BC BY THE PROPHET ISAIAH
• 04:48 WHO ENVISIONS A COMING BACK TO LIFE.
• 04:52 ARE NOT THE IMPLICATIONS OF THAT PROFOUND?
• 04:56 AND LET ME JUST SAY TO LOOK AT IT FROM THE OLD TESTAMENT
• 04:59 IS PARTICULARLY SIGNIFICANT AS WE'VE ALREADY CONSIDERED IN THIS SERIES.
• 05:04 THE NOTION OF A MIRACULOUS BIRTH,
• 05:07 THE MESSIAH'S MAKING HIS ENTRANCE ON TO THE STAGE OF THE HUMAN DRAMA
• 05:11 FROM THAT MIRACULOUS BIRTH IS SOMETHING THAT'S TALKED ABOUT BY THE PROPHET ISAIAH.
• 05:15 THE CONCEPT OF SACRIFICE FOR SIN
• 05:18 IS A CONCEPT IN THE OLD TESTAMENT THAT WE GET WITH MOSES.
• 05:22 AND HERE A RESURRECTING TO LIFE ISN'T A CONCEPT THAT'S UNIQUE TO THE NEW TESTAMENT.
• 05:28 GOODNESS, LATER ON THE PROPHET DANIEL IN THE 12TH CHAPTER OF HIS BOOK
• 05:32 WILL TALK ABOUT "MANY OF THOSE WHO SLEEP IN THE DUST
• 05:36 OF THE EARTH SHALL ARISE TO EVERLASTING LIFE
• 05:40 AND TO SHAME AND EVERLASTING CONTEMPT."
• 05:42 I THINK IT'S FASCINATING THAT DOCTRINES THAT WE TEND TO THINK OF AS BEING THE EXCLUSIVE
• 05:48 PROPERTY OF THE NEW TESTAMENT REALLY HAVE THEIR ROOTS IN THE OLD TESTAMENT
• 05:53 IN THE JEWISH BIBLE, COMING FROM JEWISH LITERATURE.
• 05:57 I THINK THAT THE PROPHET IS REALLY DOING WELL AS HE IN THE 53RD CHAPTER
• 06:06 SPEAKS ABOUT THE MESSIAH AND HE SAYS
• 06:20 ISAIAH HAS JUST FINISHED IN THIS CHAPTER MENTIONING THE FACT
• 06:23 THAT THE MESSIAH IS GOING TO BE CUT OFF.
• 06:25 HE'S GOING TO BE A SACRIFICE FOR SINS.
• 06:28 HE'S GOING TO BEAR THE SINS OF MANY AND HE'S GOING TO BE GIVEN UP FOR DEAD, BETRAYED.
• 06:32 HE'LL BE DEPOSITED IN A RICH MAN'S TOMB.
• 06:37 AND HERE I AM IN FRONT OF JUST SUCH A PLACE, A BEAUTIFUL PLACE.
• 06:42 NOT FAR FROM HERE IS GOLGOTHA, THE INFAMOUS HILL WHERE JESUS BREATHED HIS LAST,
• 06:49 WHERE HE GAVE UP THE GHOST AND SAID "IT IS FINISHED."
• 06:52 WELL IT IS FINISHED BUT IT IS NOT QUITE FINISHED.
• 06:56 "HE GAVE HIS LIFE AND HE IS THE FIRST BORN OF MANY BRETHREN"
• 07:01 SAYS PAUL IN AS MUCH AS HE CAME TO LIFE.
• 07:05 THE UNDERSTANDING IS THOSE THAT RECEIVE HIM WALK IN THE NEWNESS OF LIFE.
• 07:09 AND THEN WE TOO ARE ONE DAY DEPOSITED IN THE EARTH TO RISE AGAIN.
• 07:16 WILL IT BE FROM THIS VERY PLACE FROM WHICH THE LORD HAD ARISEN SOME 2000 YEARS AGO?
• 07:21 NO.BUT IT'LL BE A PLACE LIKE THIS FOR AS WE DIE WE'RE DEPOSITED IN THE EARTH
• 07:28 IN SOME FORM, SOME FASHION AND SOME PLACE.
• 07:32 BECAUSE HE ROSE WE TOO HAVE THE PROMISE THAT WE WILL RISE
• 07:38 AND IT'S NOT JUST A PROMISE THAT IS FOUND IN THE PAGES OF THE NEW TESTAMENT.
• 07:43 FOR AS ISAIAH THE PROPHET HAD PREDICTED IN THE 8TH CENTURY BEFORE CHRIST
• 07:48 THROUGH THAT MESSIAH'S ADMINISTRATION
• 07:51 "THE DEAD SHALL LIVE, THE BODIES SHALL RISE,
• 07:55 AWAKE OH DWELLERS IN THE DUST."
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• 08:54 I'M SURE YOU'RE SAYING IT WOULD BE WONDERFUL
• 08:58 TO COME HERE YOURSELF AND EXPERIENCE ALL OF THIS.
• 09:01 HERE WE ARE AT THE PLACE FROM WHICH THE LORD ROSE FROM THE DEAD SOME 2000 YEARS AGO.
• 09:07 IT'S A BEAUTIFUL GARDEN.
• 09:09 SPEAKING OF GARDENS I'D LIKE YOU TO OPEN UP YOUR BIBLES PLEASE
• 09:13 TO THE 19TH CHAPTER OF THE GOSPEL OF JOHN.
• 09:16 I WANT TO COMB THROUGH SOME TEXT HERE THAT TAKES US TO THIS VERY PLACE.
• 09:20 THE LORD HAS JUST BEEN CRUCIFIED AND PICKING UP IN VERSE 38
• 09:43 AND HE WAS GIVEN PERMISSION AND HE TOOK THE BODY.
• 09:47 WE'RE TOLD IN VERSE 39 THAT NICODEMUS, YOU MIGHT RECALL HIM
• 09:53 FROM THE 3RD CHAPTER OF THE GOSPEL OF JOHN,
• 09:55 THEREIN WE LEARNED THAT THERE WAS A MAN IN THE
• 09:58 THE PHARISEES NAMED NICODEMUS A RULER OF THE JEWS.
• 10:01 THIS MAN CAME TO JESUS BY NIGHT AND SAID TO HIM
• 10:03 "RABBI, WE KNOW THAT YOU ARE A TEACHER COME FROM GOD."
• 10:08 WHO'S THE "WE"
• 10:10 AND WHY DOES THIS RELIGIOUS LEADER IN JUDEA REFER TO JESUS
• 10:14 THE ITINERANT CARPENTER AS "RABBI"?
• 10:17 HE SAYS "RABBI, WE KNOW THAT YOU ARE A TEACHER COME FROM GOD
• 10:21 FOR NO ONE CAN DO THESE SIGNS THAT YOU DO UNLESS GOD IS WITH THEM."
• 10:25 JESUS HAD BELIEVERS EVEN AMONGST JUDAISM'S RELIGIOUS ELITE,
• 10:29 BUT ARGUABLE AT ONE LEVEL NOT ENOUGH.
• 10:32 BUT EVEN THAT WAS PREORDAINED FOR THE MESSIAH HAD TO BE CRUCIFIED
• 10:36 AFTER WHICH THEN NICODEMUS COMES ALONG WITH JOSEPH OF ARIMATHEA
• 10:42 A MEMBER OF THE JEWISH ELITE COUNSEL
• 10:44 AND THEY MAKE READY TO GIVE JESUS A DESCENT BURIAL
• 10:47 RIGHT HERE AT THIS VERY PLACE, ARGUABLY.
• 10:51 WE'RE TOLD THEY TOOK THE BODY OF JESUS AND BOUND IT IN STRIPS AND THEN MADE READY
• 10:56 AND JESUS WAS DEPOSITED IN THE TOMB.
• 10:59 THEN THE RESURRECTION STORY UNFOLDS.
• 11:03 NOW IN THE FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK WE'RE TOLD MIRIAM RAN TO THE TOMB EARLY
• 11:07 WHILE IT WAS STILL DARK AND SAW THAT THE STONE HAD BEEN ROLLED AWAY.
• 11:12 HERE IN THE TOMB YOU CAN SEE WHERE THERE WAS A PLACE AT THE MOUTH OF THE TOMB
• 11:18 WHERE A STONE WOULD HAVE BEEN PLACED.
• 11:21 THERE'S ACTUALLY A LITTLE, I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE WORD IS,
• 11:23 A LITTLE INDENTATION IN THE STONE DOWN THERE, A TRACK THAT THE ROUND STONE WOULD RUN UPON.
• 11:31 WELL, MIRIAM COMES AND DISCOVERS THAT THE STONE HAS BEEN ROLLED BACK.
• 11:36 IN THE WAKE OF WHICH IN VERSE 2 WE'RE TOLD THAT SHE RAN.
• 11:39 SHE WAS EXCITED AND CAME AND TOLD SIMON PETER AND THE OTHER DISCIPLE JOHN,
• 11:43 "THEY HAVE TAKE AWAY THE LORD OUT OF THE TOMB AND WE DO NOT KNOW WHERE THEY HAVE LAID HIM."
• 11:49 PETER RAN OUT AND THE OTHER DISCIPLE AS WELL AND THEY FOUND IT TO BE THE CASE.
• 11:55 WE'RE TOLD SIMON CAME IN VERSE 6 AND RAN INTO THE TOMB AND HE SAW THE LINEN CLOTH LYING THERE
• 12:05 AND THE HANDKERCHIEF THAT HAD BEEN AROUND HIS HEAD NOT LYING WITH THE LINEN CLOTH
• 12:09 BUT FOLDED TOGETHER IN A PLACE BY ITSELF.
• 12:12 THE DISCIPLES AFTER THE WOMEN HAD GIVEN THE REPORT
• 12:14 THE DISCIPLES COME AND THEY CHECK IT OUT AND FIND IT TO BE JUST AS THE WOMEN HAD SAID.
• 12:19 THEN THE OTHER DISCIPLE, JOHN, CAME TO THE TOMB AND HE WENT IN AND SAW AND BELIEVED.
• 12:27 SO WE HAVE HERE THE STORY OF THAT EASTER SUNDAY MORNING.
• 12:33 WE'RE TOLD THAT MEMBERS OF JUDAISM'S ELITE BURIED JESUS TO GIVE HIM A DIGNIFIED CLOSURE.
• 12:41 BUT THAT WASN'T THE END REALLY, THAT WAS JUST THE BEGINNING.
• 12:44 IT'S LIKE YOU TAKE A SEED AND YOU PUT IT IN THE EARTH, THAT'S NOT THE END IS IT?
• 12:50 NO, BECAUSE THE SEED SPRINGS UP AGAIN.
• 12:52 IN JOHN 12:24 JESUS SAID
• 13:02 BECAUSE WHAT HAPPENS IS THE SEED IS DEPOSITED IN THE EARTH,
• 13:05 THE SEED EMERGES FROM THE EARTH AS A PLANT AND THEN IT PRODUCES OTHER SEEDS ON IT
• 13:10 WHICH IN TURN FALL INTO THE EARTH AND CREATE OTHER PLANTS AND THE GARDEN GROWS.
• 13:16 AND IS NOT THAT THE STORY OF THE MESSIAH WHO ROSE FROM THE GRAVE FROM THIS PLACE?
• 13:21 AND NOW THE WORLD OVER THERE ARE PEOPLE THAT BEAR HIS NAME.
• 13:25 I THINK IT IS FASCINATING THAT IN THESE DAYS THE LORD IS RAISING UP A TESTIMONY,
• 13:30 A PARTICULAR KIND OF TESTIMONY IN AS MUCH AS THE GOSPEL IS A JEWISH STORY.
• 13:36 JESUS WAS A JEW, THE FIRST DISCIPLES WERE JEWISH,
• 13:39 ALL THE ACTORS IN THE DRAMA WERE WOMEN AND MEN OF JEWISH EXTRACT.
• 13:43 JESUS DIED, HE WAS BURIED, HE ROSE AGAIN FROM THE GRAVE
• 13:47 AND HIS FOLLOWERS WERE ALL OF JEWISH EXTRACT.
• 13:51 WHAT HAPPENS IS THE STORY, THE GOSPEL, SPREADS BEYOND JUDEA.
• 13:54 BUT WE LIVE IN A DAY AND TIME WHERE THE GOSPEL IS COMING RIGHT BACK TO THIS VERY PLACE.
• 14:02 FASCINATING.SO PLEASED TO REPORT THAT STORY.
• 14:05 I'M PLEASED TO REPORT TO YOU, AS WELL
• 14:07 THAT THE STORY OF THE MESSIAH'S RISING FROM THE DEAD AND OTHERS WITH HIM
• 14:11 IS A STORY THAT ISN'T FOUND EXCLUSIVELY IN THE JOANIN TEXT IN THE GOSPEL OF JOHN.
• 14:16 IT'S NOT THE EXCLUSIVE PROPERTY OF THE NEW TESTAMENT
• 14:18 FOR, AS HAS BEEN NOTED PREVIOUSLY THE PROPHET ISAIAH AND DANIEL AND OTHERS
• 14:24 FOR THAT MATTER IN THE OLD TESTAMENT WORLD HAD ENVISIONED
• 14:27 THAT THIS MESSIAH COMES AND IN THE WAKE OF HIS COMING
• 14:31 HE WILL BRING OTHERS BACK TO LIFE WITH HIM MUCH AS HE RISES FROM THE GRAVE.
• 14:35 IN VERSE 11 CONTINUING WITH THE NARRATIVE,
• 14:38 MARY STOOD OUTSIDE THE TOMB WEEPING.
• 14:42 AND SHE WEPT AND SHE STOOPED DOWN AND LOOKED INTO THE TOMB
• 14:45 AND SHE SAW TWO ANGELS IN WHITE SITTING THERE.
• 14:50 THEN THEY SAID TO HER IN VERSE 13, "WOMAN, WHY ARE YOU WEEPING?"
• 14:55 SHE SAID, "BECAUSE THEY HAVE TAKEN AWAY MY LORD
• 14:59 AND WE DON'T KNOW WHERE THEY HAVE TAKEN HIM."
• 15:02 NOW WHEN SHE SAID THIS SHE TURNED AROUND
• 15:04 AND JESUS WAS STANDING THERE BUT SHE DIDN'T KNOW THAT IT WAS JESUS, AT LEAST NOT YET.
• 15:10 THEN HE SAID TO HER, "WOMAN, WHY ARE YOU WEEPING? WHOM ARE YOU SEEKING?"
• 15:17 SHE, SUPPOSING HIM TO BE THE GARDENER, IN A VEXED, PERPLEXED STATE SAYS,
• 15:22 "I DON'T KNOW WHERE THEY'VE TAKEN THE LORD, I DON'T KNOW WHERE HE IS."
• 15:26 THEN IN VERSE 16 HE SAID THE WORD.JESUS SAID TO HER, "MIRIAM", MARY.
• 15:35 AND WHEN HE CALLED HER BY NAME SHE TURNED AND SAID TO HIM, "RABONNI",
• 15:43 AND HERE WE FIND IN THE TEXT WHICH IS TO SAY "TEACHER".
• 15:49 WHAT YOU HAVE IN THE GOSPEL OF JOHN
• 15:51 IS THE INTEREST OF EXPLAINING TO NON JEWS
• 15:54 WHAT THIS JEWISH STORY IS ALL ABOUT.
• 15:56 OF COURSE IF JOHN WAS WRITING TO JEWS
• 15:58 HE WOULDN'T NEED TO EXPLAIN TO THEM WHAT THE WORD "RABBI" MEANS.
• 16:01 BUT HERE WHAT HAPPENS IS THAT JESUS SEES MARY AND HE SAYS "MIRIAM", MARY.
• 16:10 THEN SHE TURNS AND LOOKS AT HIM AND DAYS "RABONNI".
• 16:14 VERY SEMITIC ISN'T IT--VERY JEWISH, VERY AFFECTIONATE.
• 16:18 I'M WONDERING IF THERE IS SOME NOW THAT HEAR THE LORD CALLING THEIR NAME OUT,
• 16:23 THAT IS, JUST THROUGH YOUR OWN VEXED CIRCUMSTANCES, YOUR OWN WORLD BEING UPSIDE DOWN
• 16:30 AS MARY'S WAS CERTAINLY SOME 2000 YEARS AGO,
• 16:33 HER WORLD HAD JUST SPUN AROUND 360 DEGREES AND SHE WAS DIZZY FROM IT ALL.
• 16:38 BUT THEN SHE HEARD THAT VOICE AND SHE TURNED AND REFOCUSED ON JESUS.
• 16:44 MIGHT THERE BE SOME AS A RESULT OF THE VISITING THE STORY OF JESUS' RESURRECTION HERE
• 16:51 AT THE PLACE WHERE IT ALL TOOK PLACE, MIGHT THERE BE SOME THAT HEAR THAT VOICE AS WELL
• 16:56 AND YOU'D BE MINDED TO SAY "RABONNI, JESUS, MY TEACHER?"
• 17:01 I CERTAINLY WOULD HOPE THAT WOULD BE THE CASE AND THAT IN RESPONSE TO THIS PROGRAM
• 17:07 THAT YOU'LL MAKE YOUR WAY TO A GOOD BIBLE BELIEVING FELLOWSHIP WHERE THE GOSPEL IS TAUGHT.
• 17:12 I LOVE THE GOSPEL.
• 17:14 I LOVE IT FROM A JEWISH PERSPECTIVE, BY THE WAY.
• 17:16 I BELIEVE THAT JESUS WAS JEWISH, THE DISCIPLES WERE JEWISH, IT'S JUST JEWISH THROUGH AND THROUGH.
• 17:21 I KNOW WITH THE PASSAGE OF TIME THAT WHICH WAS A JEWISH GOSPEL BECAME SORT OF UN-JEWISH,
• 17:27 NON JEWISH, AND EVENTUALLY IT EVEN SEEMED TO BE ANTI JEWISH.
• 17:30 AND SO STANDING HERE AT THE GARDEN TOMB TO TELL THE STORY OF JESUS' RESURRECTION,
• 17:34 THOUGH AT ONE LEVEL IT SOUNDS PERFECTLY CHRISTIAN,
• 17:37 THE TRUTH BE KNOWN, WITH THE PASSAGE OF TIME
• 17:41 THE CHURCH HAS LOST ROOTS OF ITS JEWISH FAITH, LOST A VISION FOR THAT.
• 17:46 BUT HERE FROM THE HOLY LAND WITH THE GARDEN TOMB BEHIND ME, WITH THE BIBLE IN FRONT OF ME
• 17:52 AND WITH THE ISAIAH TEXT INTRODUCING ALL OF THIS,
• 17:54 LET'S REMEMBER THAT SOME 700 OR 800 YEARS BEFORE JESUS CAME OUT OF MARY'S WOMB,
• 18:00 PREDICTED WAS IT THE MESSIAH WOULD RISE AGAIN FROM THE DEAD.
• 18:18 IF YOU HAD BUT ONE WORD TO DESCRIBE ISRAEL WHAT WOULD THAT ONE WORD BE?
• 18:21 "INCREDIBLE"
• 18:23 "FULFILLMENT"
• 18:24 "UNBELIEVABLE"
• 18:25 "WOW"
• 18:27 "SHALOM"
• 18:28 "FABULOUS"
• 18:30 SABABA, WHICH MEANS 'AWESOME'."
• 18:34 "LOVE, THE LOVE OF GOD."
• 18:37 "PHENOMENAL, PHENOMENAL, PHENOMENAL"
• 18:48 THAT'S ISRAEL, THAT'S HOW WE SEE IT, WE LOVE ISRAEL.
• 18:53 THE BIBLE TALKS IN REVELATION ABOUT A NEW HEAVEN, A NEW EARTH AND A NEW JERUSALEM,
• 18:59 YOU NEED TO SEE JERUSALEM.
• 19:01 JEFF, IT'S JUST WONDERFUL AND WE LOVE IT!
• 19:03 IT SURELY IS AND NOT FAR FROM JERUSALEM IS A PLACE CALLED "QUMRAN".
• 19:08 THAT'S RIGHT.
• 19:09 THE LAST TRIP WE VISITED THERE.
• 19:11 I REMEMBER IT WELL.
• 19:13 THIS IS THE SITE WHERE THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS WERE FOUND
• 19:17 AND I REMEMBER MUSING ABOUT THE MUSEUM THERE LOOKING AT A SCROLL,
• 19:21 THE PROPHET OF ISAIAH WRITTEN BEFORE THE TIME OF JESUS
• 19:26 AND THERE I WAS LOOKING AT ISAIAH CHAPTER 53.
• 19:31 THESE ARE PORTIONS OF EXTRA BIBLICAL TEXT THAT WERE WRITTEN BY THE SCRIBES AT QUMRAN
• 19:36 SOMETIME AROUND THE TIME OF JESUS' LIFE AND MINISTRY.
• 19:39 PROFESSOR WEIS CONTENDS THAT THESE TEXTS REFER TO THE MESSIAH.
• 19:44 SO WHEN YOU SPEAK OF A FIGURE BEING MESSIANIC,
• 19:49 THEY'VE READ MESSIANIC PROPHECY, THEY DON'T SAY THIS LIGHTLY.
• 19:52 THAT'S ABSOLUTELY RIGHT.
• 19:54 THEY KNOW MESSIANIC PROPHECY VERY WELL.
• 19:56 THEY COPIED A WHOLE BOOK OF ISAIAH FOR EXAMPLE.
• 19:57 THAT'S RIGHT.
• 19:58 NOW WHAT OTHER MESSIANIC SCROLLS HAVE YOU FOUND?
• 20:02 THIS IS THE FRAGMENT THAT HAS GOTTEN SOME ATTENTION.
• 20:04 IT STARTS OFF BY QUOTING THE BOOK OF ISAIAH THE 11TH CHAPTER, THE 1ST VERSE,
• 20:17 THE ROOT OF JESSE, OF COURSE, JESSE THE FATHER OF DAVID.
• 20:19 SO HERE WAS A REFERENCE TO A SON OF DAVID
• 20:22 WHICH WAS OF COURSE OFTEN A MESSIANIC WAY OF REFERRING TO FUTURE FIGURES.
• 20:27 IT HAD TO BE A SON OF DAVID IN ORDER TO QUALIFY AS THE MESSIAH.
• 20:31 IT GOES ON TO SAY..
• 20:33 THE BIBLE EVEN SPECIFIES THAT MESSIAH WHEN HE COMES
• 20:39 WHOEVER HE MAY BE MUST BE OUT OF THE FAMILY OF DAVID.
• 20:42 THAT'S RIGHT, AND THE PEOPLE KNEW THAT.
• 20:43 SURE. >>OKAY.
• 20:44 SO ANYONE THEY WOULD DESCRIBE AS MESSIAH HAD TO QUALIFY IN THAT WAY.
• 20:48 THE FOURTH LINE HERE IS THE ONE THAT'S REALLY INTERESTING THAT SAYS,
• 20:59 NOW WE KNOW FROM OTHER DEAD SEA SCROLLS THAT THE WORDS
• 21:02 (SPEAKING HEBREW) PRINCE OF THE CONGREGATION",
• 21:05 REFER TO THE MESSIANIC SON OF DAVID FIGURE.
• 21:07 SPEAKING OF THE MESSIANIC FIGURE HERE, WHO'S EVIDENTLY BEING PUT TO DEATH.
• 21:11 NOW THAT IS VERY, VERY IMPORTANT FOR US.
• 21:14 AND ESPECIALLY AS THE NEXT LINE THROWS A LITTLE MORE LIGHT ON IT.
• 21:25 AND WE DON'T KNOW WHAT FOLLOWED AFTER, AGAIN IT'S BROKEN.
• 21:28 PIERCINGS AS IN "THEY SHALL LOOK UPON HIM WHOM THEY HAVE PIERCED".
• 21:30 THAT'S RIGHT THEY SHALL LOOK UPON HIM WHOM THEY HAVE PIERCED AND IT'S THE SAME HEBREW VERB.
• 21:35 SO IT SEEMS TO BE THAT THIS TEXT IS BRINGING TOGETHER QUOTATIONS FROM VARIOUS PORTIONS
• 21:40 OF THE BOOK OF ISAIAH AND APPLYING THEM TO A FIGURE.
• 21:43 THIS AUTHOR TRUSTED ISAIAH TO THE DEGREE THAT HE'S REITERATING THIS PROPHECY
• 21:47 APPLYING IT TO A MESSIANIC FIGURE OF THE TIME.
• 21:50 BUT IT IS VERY INTERESTING TOO THAT HE APPEARS TO BE REFERRING TO ISAIAH 53,
• 21:54 BECAUSE WE DON'T HAVE EVIDENCE IN GENERAL,
• 21:56 THAT VERY IMPORTANT CHAPTER OF THE HEBREW BIBLE
• 21:59 WAS UNDERSTOOD MESSIANICALLY AMONG THE JEWS AT THE TIME OF JESUS APART FROM THIS TEXT.
• 22:04 OF COURSE THE EARLY CHRISTIANS FROM THE VERY BEGINNING
• 22:07 UNDERSTOOD THAT TEXT TO REFER TO JESUS.
• 22:09 SO THEY HAD A MESSIANIC UNDERSTANDING OF THAT PORTION OF ISAIAH.
• 22:12 BUT SCHOLARS HAVE ALWAYS SAID,
• 22:14 BUT DID THE JEWS, OTHER THAN THOSE THAT BECAME THE EARLY CHRISTIANS,
• 22:17 HAVE THIS UNDERSTANDING?
• 22:19 AND OUR EVIDENCE HAS ALWAYS SAID THAT THE MAJORITY OF THE JEWS, THE ONLY EVIDENCE WE REALLY HAD,
• 22:23 SUGGESTED THAT THE JEWS THOUGHT THE CHAPTER DIDN'T REFER TO AN INDIVIDUAL
• 22:27 BUT RATHER TO THE NATION OF ISRAEL AS THE SUFFERING SERVANT.
• 22:30 THAT'S USUALLY THE ANSWER IF ONE IS TRYING TO PROVE THAT PASSAGE TO BE CHRISTOLOGICAL TO A JEW.
• 22:36 HE SAYS, "MY RABBI SAID THAT'S THE NATION OF ISRAEL, THAT'S GOD'S SERVANT."
• 22:40 BUT EVIDENTLY WHAT YOU'RE SAYING IS THAT THE PEOPLE THAT WROTE THESE SCROLLS
• 22:43 THOUGHT THIS APPLIED TO A MAN NOT A NATION.
• 22:46 THAT'S RIGHT.
• 22:47 AND IT SHOULD BE EMPHASIZED THAT THIS IS ONE WAY OF INTERPRETING THE SCROLL.
• 22:49 SCHOLARS ARE GOING TO BE WRITING ABOUT THIS SCROLL AND MANY OTHERS FOR MANY YEARS.
• 22:53 THERE IS VERY LITTLE THAT'S ABSOLUTELY STRAIGHT FORWARD AS WE STUDY THESE MATERIALS.
• 22:58 AM I COMPLETELY CRAZY TO SAY THAT THIS IS ONE OF THE GREAT FINDS OF MODERN TIMES?
• 23:02 THAT PEOPLE ARE GOING TO TALK ABOUT OUR CENTURY AS THE TIME THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS CAME OUT?
• 23:08 I DON'T BELIEVE THAT'S AN EXAGGERATION AT ALL.
• 23:10 I'M SO EXCITED I DON'T KNOW HOW TO TELL YOU, AND I WAS FROM THE FIRST DAY THAT I HEARD OF THIS,
• 23:16 ESPECIALLY THESE MESSIANIC TEXTS.
• 23:18 WELL WE HAVE ANOTHER MESSIANIC TEXT IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO LOOK AT THAT ONE.
• 23:21 YES.
• 23:23 THIS IS A TEXT THAT STARTS OFF AT THE BEGINNING HERE SPEAKING
• 23:29 APPARENTLY IT SAYS,
• 23:31 (SPEAKING HEBREW)
• 23:42 THAT IS THE MESSIAH OF GOD, HIS MESSIAH.
• 23:49 AND THE TEXT GOES ON TO DESCRIBE SOME OF THE MARVELOUS THINGS
• 23:52 AND IT'S NOT CLEAR WHETHER IT'S GOD HIMSELF WHO IS DOING IT OR THE MESSIAH WHO'S DOING IT,
• 23:56 AND DON'T BELIEVE IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT BECAUSE THE TWO ARE SO CLOSELY FUSED IN THE TEXT
• 24:01 WHICH GOES ON TO QUOTE PORTIONS AGAIN OF ISAIAH.
• 24:03 WE HAVE HERE DOWN IN THIS LINE A REFERENCE TO..
• 24:14 LITERALLY "MAKE TO LIVE THE DEAD".
• 24:17 SO THIS IS PECULIAR ONLY OF JESUS IF THE GOSPEL IS BELIEVED.
• 24:22 THAT'S RIGHT.
• 24:24 WE DON'T HAVE EVIDENCE OF SUCH BELIEF ABOUT A MESSIAH AT THE TIME OF THE SCROLLS
• 24:27 APART FROM THE CHRISTIAN GOSPEL THAT THERE WOULD BE A MESSIAH WHO'D RAISE THE DEAD.
• 24:34 ♪IN THAT HOLY MOUNTAIN ♪IN JERUSALEM
• 24:38 ♪TAKE HIS SON, HIS SON, ♪HIS ONLY SON.
• 24:42 ♪SLAY HIM THERE AND TELL THE ♪WORLD JERUSALEM
• 24:46 ♪OF THY FAITH, THY FAITH ♪THAT IT IS DONE.
• 24:50 ♪FOR IT IS DONE ♪WE HAVE THE SON,
• 24:54 ♪THE BLESSED ONE, ♪HIS ONLY SON.
• 24:58 ♪BELIEVE ON HIM ♪AND IT IS DONE
• 25:02 ♪AND ALWAYS PRAY ♪SHA'ALU SHALOM.
• 25:10 ♪SHA'ALU SHALOM ♪YERUSHALAYIM.
• 25:14 ♪SHA'ALU, SHA'ALU SHALOM.
• 25:18 ♪IN THE HOLY CITY OF JERUSALEM ♪WE WILL PRAY FOR PEACE
• 25:28 ♪SHA'ALU SHALOM.
• 25:37 BEAUTIFUL MUSIC.
• 25:39 AMAZING STORY.
• 25:41 MICHAEL WEIS, SANDRA, IS A RESPECTED ACADEMIC AND FOR HIM TO COME OUT
• 25:45 AND SO EXPLICITLY GIVE CREDENCE TO THE ISAIAH TEXT IS FASCINATING.
• 25:50 IT IS FASCINATING.AND WHAT IS FASCINATING IS HE'S NOT A BELIEVER.
• 25:53 BUT IF YOU WATCH THE SEGMENT IT LOOKS LIKE HE REALLY BELIEVES THERE'S A MESSIAH.
• 25:59 WELL THEN HE BELIEVES THAT THEY BELIEVED THAT THE TEXT HAD A MESSIANIC GLOSS TO IT.
• 26:04 THAT'S RIGHT, AND IT'S KIND OF SAD THESE DAYS
• 26:06 THAT OTHER PEOPLE INTERPRET IT AS BEING "THE LAND OF ISRAEL".
• 26:10 IT DOESN'T TALK ABOUT THE LAND IT TALKS ABOUT A PERSON, THE PERSON OF MESSIAH.
• 26:14 I APPRECIATE DR. WEIS FOR WHO HE IS, AND I JUST HOPE MORE PEOPLE
• 26:19 COME AROUND AND DEVELOP AN APPRECIATION FOR JESUS IN THE BIBLE.
• 26:25 WE BELIEVE THAT THE MESSIAH HAS COME AND HIS NAME IS JESUS.
• 26:29 HE'S THE HOPE OF THE WORLD FOR JEWS, FOR ARABS,
• 26:32 FOR ALL OF US COMING TOGETHER HE IS OUR PEACE ISN'T HE?
• 26:36 HE'S OUR PEACE, OUR SHALOM.
• 26:38 BUT YOU KNOW HE IS OUR ONE AND ONLY ATONEMENT.
• 26:42 WE NEED NO OTHER ATONEMENT, NO OTHER SACRIFICE.HE IS THE ULTIMATE SACRIFICE.
• 26:47 CORRECT.
• 26:49 AND IT'S JUST A BLESSING.THANK YOU AGAIN FOR WATCHING.
• 26:51 THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT AND SHA'ALU SHALOM YERUSHALAYIM PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM.