Caption transcript for Shavuot—Pentecost (2007): Part 1 (1/3)

• 00:07 IT IS WRITTEN IN THE SCRIPTURES THAT WE SHOULD JOURNEY TO JERUSALEM THREE TIMES A YEAR.
• 00:12 WE ARE GOING UP TO THE CITY OF GOD TO JERUSALEM TO CELEBRATE!
• 00:22 (Zola speaking)
• 00:23 THE LORD TOLD THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL TO HONOR SEVEN HOLY CELEBRATIONS EACH YEAR
• 00:27 INVOLVING THREE JOURNEYS TO JERUSALEM.
• 00:30 EACH FESTIVAL WOULD BE UNIQUELY FULFILLED
• 00:33 IN THE COMING OF THE MESSIAH.
• 00:41 SHADOWS OF THINGS TO COME.
• 00:51 THE LORD SAID TO MOSES,
• 00:53 "COUNT FIFTY DAYS TO THE DAY AFTER THE SEVENTH SABBATH.
• 00:57 THEN YOU SHALL MAKE OFFERINGS TO THE LORD.
• 01:00 BRING FROM YOUR DWELLINGS TWO WAVE LOAVES.
• 01:04 THEY SHALL BE OF FINE FLOUR AND BAKED WITH LEAVEN.
• 01:07 ON THAT SAME DAY YOU ARE TO PROCLAIM A SACRED ASSEMBLY AND DO NO REGULAR WORK.
• 01:12 THIS IS TO BE A LASTING ORDINANCE FOR THE GENERATIONS TO COME WHEREVER YOU LIVE.
• 01:19 WELL, A HEARTY SHALOM TO ALL OF YOU.
• 01:21 JEFFREY SEIF HERE AGAIN
• 01:22 WITH MY FRIEND SANDRA LEVITT.
• 01:23 SHALOM. WELCOME.
• 01:24 WE ARE TALKING ABOUT THE HARVEST.
• 01:26 WE'VE GOT A HARVEST IN FRONT OF US.
• 01:28 WE'RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT
• 01:29 "SHAVUOT" OR "PENTECOST".
• 01:30 I FEEL LIKE EATING THE SET!
• 01:32 IT'S GREAT! AND IT'S GORGEOUS! IT IS JUST GORGEOUS!
• 01:34 THE PRODUCERS ARE GOING TO BE MAD AT US IF WE START EATING THOSE FRUITS!
• 01:36 BUT IT'S THE HARVEST JEFF.
• 01:37 WE'RE TALKING ABOUT A HARVEST.
• 01:39 YES, MANY JEWS TODAY YOU KNOW ARE DOCTORS AND LAWYERS AND INDIAN CHIEFS.
• 01:42 NOT SO YESTERDAY, HUH?
• 01:44 THEY ALL LIVE IN AN AGRARIAN SOCIETY,
• 01:46 THEY TAUGHT, THEY UNDERSTOOD WHAT A HARVEST WAS.
• 01:49 RIGHT, BECAUSE EVERYONE IS LIVING OFF THE LAND. DID I INTERRUPT YOU? GO AHEAD.
• 01:52 NO, YESHUA TAUGHT ON WHERE HE WAS.
• 01:55 HE TAUGHT THE PEOPLE THAT WERE THERE.
• 01:56 HE ALWAYS USED EXAMPLES THAT THEY WOULD UNDERSTAND.
• 02:00 YES AND THE HARVEST IS A GREAT EXAMPLE. THESE WERE FARMERS THAT SANDRA ALLUDED TO.
• 02:05 THERE WAS A SEASON WHEN FROM ALL OVER THE ROMAN WORLD -
• 02:10 YOU KNOW SOME 10% OF THE JEWS LIVED IN ISRAEL PROPER, MOST WERE SPREAD ABOUT.
• 02:15 BUT EVERY FAMILY WOULD SEND A REPRESENTATIVE TO JERUSALEM ANNUALLY FOR PESACH, FOR PASSOVER
• 02:21 AND THEY'D GET THERE BEFOREHAND AND THEY'D WORSHIP IN THE TEMPLE AND BRING SACRIFICES
• 02:25 AND THEY'D STAY OVER TILL THE END OF THE SEASON, THE END OF THE SPRING HARVEST SEASON
• 02:31 AND THIS WAS WHEN PENTECOST OR "SHAVUOT" WOULD BE CELEBRATED,
• 02:35 A FEAST OF HARVEST AND GOODNESS FANTASTIC APPLICATIONS TO THE CHRISTIAN LIFE. YES?
• 02:42 AND YOU THINK ABOUT IT.
• 02:43 THE FIRST HARVEST IS THE FIRST FRUITS.
• 02:44 THAT WAS THE FIRST HARVEST,
• 02:45 NOT AS MANY THEN.
• 02:47 YOU THINK THE SECOND HARVEST THEN IS PENTECOST, "SHAVUOT".
• 02:50 IT'S A WONDERFUL HARVEST.
• 02:51 IT'S THE FIRST HARVEST OF THE SUMMER.
• 02:53 THEN THE FINAL HARVEST IS IN THE FALL, "THE RAPTURE",
• 02:56 WHAT A WONDERFUL HARVEST WE'LL HAVE THEN.
• 02:58 HMMM, AND LET'S SEE, HMMM
• 03:01 LAST I CHECKED SOMEONE SOWS SEEDS IN THE GROUND. RIGHT
• 03:05 THAT'S THE WORD OF GOD THAT GETS SOWN IN PEOPLES LIVES. RIGHT
• 03:08 AND THEN THERE'S A HARVEST THAT'S BROUGHT IN.
• 03:10 HMMM HMMM
• 03:11 THE OUTPOURING OF THE HOLY SPIRIT INTO PEOPLES LIVES.
• 03:14 YOU KNOW THAT THERE'S A WONDERFUL LIFE AVAILABLE WHEN PEOPLE RECEIVE
• 03:18 THE "RUACH HAKODESH",
• 03:20 THE HOLY SPIRIT,
• 03:21 WHAT CAME ON THE DAY OF PENTECOST.
• 03:23 SHAVUOT, HEBREW MEANING "WEEKS".
• 03:25 I LOVE IT AT THE END OF THE SHABBAT
• 03:28 WHEN EVERYONE SAYS TO EACH OTHER
• 03:30 "SHAVUA TOV", 'HAVE A GOOD WEEK".
• 03:32 WELL THIS IS THE BEST OF WEEK;
• 03:34 THIS IS "THE" WEEK.
• 03:35 RIGHT, WHEN SOMEONE HAS THE HOLY SPIRIT IN THEM IT'S A GOOD DAY,
• 03:38 A GOOD WEEK, A GOOD LIFE, NEW BEGINNINGS, WONDERFUL OPPORTUNITIES.
• 03:41 JEFF IS GOING TO DO SOME TEACHING FOR US
• 03:43 ABOUT OUR JEWISH ROOTS AND SHAVUOT.
• 03:45 HE IS AT THE WESTERN WALL.
• 03:47 I THINK YOU'LL LIKE THIS.
• 03:50 BEHIND ME IS A SITE THAT HAS INSPIRED MILLIONS
• 03:55 AND IT IS GOING TO INSPIRE YOU.
• 03:59 JERUSALEM, WORLD CITY, CENTER OF THE EARTH,
• 04:04 THE CAPITAL OF GOD'S HOME LAND ISRAEL.
• 04:08 JERUSALEM, CENTER OF THE UNIVERSE FOR RELIGIOUS TORAH OBSERVANT JEWS
• 04:15 SOME OF WHO ARE BEHIND ME RIGHT NOW BRISTLING WITH ENTHUSIASM
• 04:19 AS THEY GO TO THE WESTERN WALL TO PRAY, TO SEEK GOD, LOOKING FOR ANSWERS TO HUMAN DILEMMAS.
• 04:25 IN THE CROWD AS WELL THERE'S CHRISTIANS MOVING ABOUT,
• 04:29 MAKING THEIR WAY TO WALK IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF JESUS.
• 04:33 BEHIND ME IS A PICTURE THAT JESUS SAW, THE WESTERN WALL, THE WAILING WALL,
• 04:39 IT'S THE RETAINING WALL
• 04:41 ATOP WHICH STOOD THE TEMPLE
• 04:43 IN JESUS' DAY,
• 04:45 THE "BEIT HA-MIKDASH"
• 04:47 IN HEBREW, "THE HOLY HOUSE".
• 04:48 ON TOP THAT SPACE NOW, HOWEVER, THERE'S THE MUSLIM DOME OF THE ROCK
• 04:53 MAKING THIS SITE OF CENTRAL SIGNIFICANCE TO MUSLIMS AS WELL.
• 04:58 IT'S A MAJOR CITY.
• 05:00 I'M SO PLEASED TO BRING YOU BRING YOU JERUSALEM.
• 05:04 OF COURSE, YOU CAN'T ALL GO WITH ME TO JERUSALEM, BUT IT'S GREAT TO BRING IT TO YOU,
• 05:08 FOR WHAT I WANT TO DO IS LOOK AT A STORY THAT CENTERS IN JERUSALEM.
• 05:14 WE'RE GOING TO BE LOOKING AT A THREE PART TREATMENT OF A MAJOR FEAST IN THE OLD TESTAMENT
• 05:21 WHERE JEWS FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD WOULD MAKE THEIR WAY TO JERUSALEM.
• 05:25 IT'S CALLED "THE FEAST OF PENTECOST".
• 05:29 IT'S FOUND AMONG OTHER PLACES IN LEVITICUS CHAPTER 23 WHERE IT'S NOTED AS A PILGRIM FEAST.
• 05:35 WOMEN AND MEN OF JEWISH EXTRACT WOULD MAKE THEIR WAY TO JERUSALEM
• 05:41 JUST BEFORE THE PASSOVER TIME.
• 05:43 THEY WOULD STAY FOR THE BETTER PART OF SEVEN PLUS WEEKS IN JERUSALEM
• 05:47 AND THEN THEY'D LEAVE AFTER PENTECOST.
• 05:51 IT'S A GREEK WORD MEANING "FIFTY DAYS".
• 05:54 THE HOLIDAY IS KNOWN TO JEWS AS "ATZERET" OR MEANING "CONCLUSION".
• 05:58 IT'S KNOWN TO JEWISH PEOPLE AS HAG Z'MAN MATAN TORAH,
• 06:02 "THE FEAST OF THE GIVING OF THE TORAH".
• 06:05 IT'S A FEAST, PENTECOST THAT IS, THAT NOT ONLY HAS IMPORTANCE FOR WOMEN AND MEN OF JEWISH EXTRACT,
• 06:11 BUT LIKEWISE CHRISTIAN FRIENDS FIND THEMSELVES
• 06:14 GLUED TO PENTECOST FOR A VARIETY OF REASONS.
• 06:19 GOOD REASONS, I MIGHT ADD.
• 06:21 CHRISTIAN FOLK' FIRST EXPERIENCE IN PENTECOST IN CHAPTER 2 OF THE BOOK OF ACTS
• 06:25 WHEREIN DISCOVERED IS THAT THE "RUACH HAKODESH",
• 06:28 THE "HOLY SPIRIT" IS POURED OUT UPON INDIVIDUALS IN PROXIMITY TO WHERE I'M STANDING RIGHT NOW.
• 06:35 CHRISTIANITY OWES ITS ROOTS TO THE PICTURE BEHIND ME.
• 06:40 IN MUCH THE SAME WAY THERE'S CERTAIN SEGMENTS OF CHRISTIANITY THAT ARE PARTICULARLY WELDED TO PENTECOST.
• 06:46 THOSE OF THE CHARISMATIC PENTECOSTAL FAMILIES OF FAITH
• 06:49 ARE MINDED OF AN EXPERIENCE 100 YEARS AGO.
• 06:52 THE WORD "PENTECOST" CAUSES THEM TO HARK BACK TO THE PENTECOSTAL EXPERIENCE OF 100 YEARS AGO.
• 06:58 THOSE OF OUR TRADITIONAL FRIENDS WHEN THINKING OF PENTECOST
• 07:01 HARK BACK TO THE NEW TESTAMENT EXPERIENCE.
• 07:04 DIFFERENT WAYS, DIFFERENT DAYS, DIFFERENT PEOPLE FIND SOME SIGNIFICANCE IN PENTECOST.
• 07:09 FOR OUR PURPOSES WHAT I WANT TO DO
• 07:12 IS GO BACK TO PENTECOST.
• 07:15 PARTICULARLY I'M MINDED
• 07:18 TO LOOK AT PENTECOST'S ROOTS IN THE OLD TESTAMENT,
• 07:22 THE JEWISH ROOTS OF THE PENTECOSTAL STORY.
• 07:27 I'LL DO THAT IN THIS SEGMENT FOLLOWED THEN IN THE SECOND
• 07:30 BY LOOKING AT PENTECOST'S BOOTS IN THE NEW TESTAMENT STORY.
• 07:35 I WANT YOU TO SEE HOW THE SPIRIT EXPERIENCE IS NOT UNIQUE TO ACTS CHAPTER 2,
• 07:40 BUT IT'S FOUND IN THE VERY BEGINNINGS OF SCRIPTURE.
• 07:43 SO WE'LL LOOK AT PENTECOST'S ROOTS IN GENESIS,
• 07:47 WILL THEN LOOK AT IT'S BOOTS IN THE NEW TESTAMENT.
• 07:51 AND THEN THIRDLY WE'LL LOOK AT PENTECOST'S FRUITS IN YOU AND I.
• 07:57 ALL THAT SAID I INVITE YOU TO OPEN YOUR BIBLES PLEASE TO GENESIS CHAPTER 1.
• 08:03 IN HEBREW GENESIS IS KNOWN AS "B'RESHIT".
• 08:06 I KNOW IT SOUNDS LIKE I'M CUSSING A LITTLE ON TV
• 08:08 BUT "B'RESHIT" COMES FROM THE HEBREW,
• 08:12 "B'RESHIT" MEANS "BEGINNINGS"
• 08:13 AND IT COMES FROM GENESIS CHAPTER 1, VERSE 1 WHEREIN THE WORD SAYS,
• 08:17 "b'reshit bara elohim et hashamayim v'et ha'aretz",
• 08:24 NOW WHAT I WANT TO DO IS LOOK WITH YOU AT "BEGINNINGS",
• 08:27 FOR IMMEDIATELY AFTER INFORMING THAT GOD CREATED THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH,
• 08:32 THEN THERE IS A LITTLE NARRATIVE WHERE WE'RE TOLD THAT THE EARTH IS WITHOUT FORM,
• 08:36 THAT IT'S VOID, THAT THERE'S CHAOS, THAT DARKNESS PREVAILED ON EARTH.
• 08:42 AND INTO THAT CHAOS COMES ANOTHER STORY.
• 08:46 IN GENESIS CHAPTER 1, VERSE 2 WE'RE TOLD
• 08:50 "v'ruach elohim m 'rachefet 'al p nei ha-maim".
• 09:04 THERE'S CHAOS, THERE'S DARKNESS IN GENESIS BUT THEN THERE YOU HAVE "v'ruach elohim",
• 09:13 "THE SPIRIT OF GOD" THERE MOVING OVER THAT CIRCUMSTANCE
• 09:18 AND THE SPIRIT OF GOD WILL BRING FORTH LIFE.
• 09:22 OH, IT'S A GREAT STORY AND THERE ARE WONDERFUL APPLICATIONS FOR US TODAY.
• 09:28 GOING BACK TO YESTERDAY WE CAN LOOK IN THE GENESIS TEXT
• 09:31 AND CONTINUE ON AND SEE WHERE THEIR CREATION NARRATIVE CONTINUES TO UNFOLD.
• 09:36 IF YOU'LL LOOK WITH ME TO CHAPTER 1, VERSE 26, THEREIN WE'RE TOLD IN HEBREW,
• 09:43 (SPEAKING HEBREW)
• 09:57 GOD IS TALKING, HE SAYS "LET US". TO WHOM IS HE SPEAKING?
• 10:01 WELL WE'VE SEEN THE HOLY SPIRIT AROUND IN CREATION ALREADY,
• 10:05 WE KNOW IN THE GOSPEL OF JOHN THAT JESUS IS AROUND IN CREATION AS WELL FROM THE FIRST CHAPTER.
• 10:10 HERE WE SEE THE MANUFACTURE OF HUMAN KIND.
• 10:13 GOD SAYS, "LET US MAKE MAN IN OUR IMAGE AND IN OUR LIKENESS".
• 10:19 A FASCINATING STORY HOW WE'RE MADE IN THE "IMAGO DEI", THE IMAGE OF GOD, A SPECIAL CREATION.
• 10:25 AS WE FOLLOW IN THE NARRATIVE WE'RE TOLD THAT WE'RE MADE
• 10:27 HEAD AND SHOULDERS HIGHER THAN OTHERS INTELLECTUALLY,
• 10:31 THAT WE HAVE A MUCH LARGER CEREBRAL CORTEX,
• 10:34 THE MIND IS GREATER, OUR CAPACITY IS GREATER.
• 10:38 SAD TO SAY, HOWEVER, HUMAN CAPACITY IS DIMINISHED BECAUSE OF SIN.
• 10:43 AND EVEN THOUGH THAT WE HAVE A LOT OF MATERIAL,
• 10:46 WE HAVE A LOT GOING FOR US, A LOT OF WONDERFUL INNATE CHARACTERISTICS,
• 10:50 THE PROBLEM IS THAT SIN ENTERS THE STAGE OF THE HUMAN DRAMA
• 10:53 AND THE RACE BECOMES VICIATED, IT BECOMES DEFILED.
• 10:57 I WANT TO CONTINUE ON IN THE STORY PLEASE, IF YOU'LL LOOK IN CHAPTER 2, VERSE 7,
• 11:01 THERE'S SOMETHING HERE THAT I THINK THAT HAS SIGNIFICANT IMPORT,
• 11:04 NOT JUST FOR "ADAM AND CHAVVAH", ADAM AND EVE, BUT FOR US TODAY.
• 11:08 WE'RE TOLD IN CHAPTER 2, VERSE 7, HERE WE HAVE ADAM, HERE WE HAVE MAN. WE'RE TOLD,
• 11:27 HAVING ALREADY NOTED HOW THE HOLY SPIRIT IS AROUND AND ACTIVE, PARTICIPATING,
• 11:33 BRINGING FORTH LIFE OUT OF CHAOS EARLIER IN GENESIS. HERE WORTH NOTING IS THE FACT
• 11:38 THAT THERE'S ADAM RATHER LANGUISHING IN SOME LIFELESS STATE
• 11:42 UNTIL SUCH TIME AS THE LORD SHOWS UP AND BREATHES INTO HIS NOSTRILS THE BREATH OF LIFE,
• 11:47 IN THE WAKE OF WHICH ACCORDING TO THE TEXT HE THEN BECOMES A LIVING BEING.
• 11:54 FRIENDS I BELIEVE THAT THERE ARE MYRIAD APPLICATIONS FOR US TODAY
• 11:57 BECAUSE I THINK THERE'S A LOT OF PEOPLE THAT LIVE BUT THEY REALLY ARE LIVING A NON LIFE.
• 12:02 THEY DON'T HAVE THE KIND OF LIFE THAT'S AVAILABLE. WHY NOT?
• 12:05 BECAUSE THEY DON'T HAVE THE SPIRIT THAT'S AVAILABLE.
• 12:10 WHAT I WANTED TO SHOW IN THIS FIRST PROGRAM SIMPLY IS THAT IF YOU LOOK AT THE GENESIS ACCOUNT,
• 12:15 GOD'S SPIRIT IS THERE BRINGING FORTH THE CREATIVE ORDER AND WE SEE THAT GOD'S SPIRIT IS THERE
• 12:21 BRINGING FORTH LIFE AND BREATHING LIFE INTO HUMANITY.
• 12:25 FRIENDS, THAT HAS A LOT OF APPLICATIONS, A LOT OF IMPLICATIONS FOR US TODAY.
• 12:33 I BELIEVE THAT THERE ARE A LOT OF PEOPLE THAT HAVE A LIFE BUT IT'S A NON LIFE.
• 12:37 I BELIEVE THAT A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE PERENNIALLY DISSATISFIED WITH LIFE.
• 12:41 YOU MIGHT NO KNOW WHAT IT IS BUT WHEN YOU LOOK IN THE MIRROR YOU DON'T LIKE WHAT YOU SEE.
• 12:44 WHEN YOU DO AN INTERNAL INVENTORY, YOU DON'T LIKE THE WAY YOU FEEL.
• 12:47 THERE'S A SCRATCH, YOU CAN'T GET TO IT. YOU'RE ITCHING BUT YOU CAN'T GET RID OF THE PAIN.
• 12:53 THERE'S A LOT OF ANGST THAT PEOPLE LIVE WITH.
• 12:57 A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE DISSATISFIED, THEY BLAME IT ON THEIR CIRCUMSTANCES,
• 13:00 THEY BLAME IT ON THEIR PARTNER, THEY BLAME IT ON THEIR SPOUSE.
• 13:02 YOU MIGHT HAVE HEARD IT SAID, PEOPLE MARRY FOR AN IDEAL, THEY THINK THEY GOT A RAW DEAL,
• 13:08 THEY GO SEARCHING FOR A NEW DEAL. IT HAPPENS. PEOPLE ARE DISSATISFIED.
• 13:12 THEY WANT A NEW SPOUSE, THEY WANT A NEW HOUSE, THEY NEED THIS, NEW COLOR CAR,
• 13:16 NEW THIS AND NEW THAT, GET THIS SURGERY, CHANGE THIS, CHANGE THAT.
• 13:21 IF YOU'LL PERMIT THIS BIBLE TEACHER, THIS JEWISH GUY
• 13:26 WITH JERUSALEM BEHIND HIM AND THE BIBLE IN FRONT OF HIM;
• 13:29 IF YOU JUST PERMIT ME TO TELL YOU THAT MAYBE THAT WHAT YOU NEED IN LIFE
• 13:33 IS WHAT'S NOTED HERE AT THE VERY BEGINNING OF LIFE. AND THAT IS,
• 13:38 MAYBE, JUST MAYBE COULD IT BE THAT WHAT YOU NEED
• 13:41 IS FOR THE LORD TO COME ALONG AND BREATHE INTO YOU HIS BREATH,
• 13:46 THE BREATH OF LIFE THAT YOU CAN BE A LIVING BEING.
• 13:51 AND THAT'S THE STORY OF PENTECOST.
• 13:53 WE SEE IT IN ACTS CHAPTER 2, BUT ONE OF THE THINGS THAT'S NOTED IN GENESIS CHAPTER 1 IS
• 13:59 THAT IT'S AVAILABLE TO YOU, TO ALL OF US.
• 14:01 SCRIPTURE SAYS, BUT TO ALL WHO RECEIVED HIM, WHO BELIEVED IN HIS NAME,
• 14:11 I'M SO GLAD TO BROADCAST THE BIBLE FROM A JEWISH PERSPECTIVE
• 14:15 AND I HOPE THAT TODAY YOU'LL TAKE A MOMENT AND ASK THE LORD TO COME INTO YOUR LIFE
• 14:20 AND EXPERIENCE AS HIS SPIRIT CHANGING YOUR CHAOS AND BRINGING LIGHT IN ORDER.
• 14:25 GOD BLESS YOU.
• 14:42 ♪(Zola playing the recorder) ♪
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• 16:38 THE WONDER
• 16:45 THE BEAUTY
• 16:51 THE SOUL OF THE HOLY LAND
• 17:05 THAT'S ISRAEL. I SAY IT EVERY WEEK.
• 17:07 IT'S THE WAY WE SEE IT JEFF. I LOVE ISRAEL.
• 17:09 AND WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE HARVEST.
• 17:11 TO BE IN ISRAEL AT A HARVEST IS A WONDERFUL THING TO SEE.
• 17:15 TO BE THERE ANY TIME IS GREAT. ANYTIME, THAT'S TRUE
• 17:17 BUT SPRING, SUMMER IS GORGEOUS.
• 17:19 IS THERE TIME FOR PEOPLE TO SIGN UP?
• 17:21 ANY TIME IS TIME TO SIGN UP. TONY WILL KILL ME IF I SAY THAT.
• 17:24 BUT GO TO ISRAEL WHETHER IT'S WITH US OR WITH OR WITHOUT US, GO TO ISRAEL.
• 17:28 IT IS YOUR HOME AND YOU WILL LOVE BEING THERE.
• 17:31 WE'RE TALKING ABOUT PENTECOST, SHAVUOT, THE HARVEST, THE HARVEST IS NIGH.
• 17:37 WE TALKED ABOUT THE ROOTS OF PENTECOST. WE'RE GONNA TALK ABOUT THE BOOTS.
• 17:43 I LOVE THIS VISUAL THAT YOU GIVE US,
• 17:45 THE ROOTS, THE BOOTS, AND THE SHOOTS.
• 17:47 WHAT ARE THE ROOTS, THE BOOTS?
• 17:49 WELL, TO MY WAY OF THINKING
• 17:51 THE NEW TESTAMENT STORY IS SO WELL ROOTED IN JEWISH LITERATURE
• 17:56 AND I THINK ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE BRING TO THE TABLE AS A MINISTRY,
• 17:59 AND NOT JUST US BUT JUST THE GOD-BREATHED
• 18:03 ADVANCE OF MESSIANIC JEWISH PERSPECTIVE IN THIS ERA,
• 18:07 WE BRING TO THE TABLE A VIEW OF BIBLICAL LITERATURE
• 18:11 THROUGH THE EYES OF THE JEW
• 18:12 AND WE SEE THE ROOTS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT STORIES IN THE OLD TESTAMENT WORLD.
• 18:17 CASE IN POINT, PENTECOST, A JEWISH HOLIDAY.
• 18:19 RIGHT, I CAN'T TELL YOU HOW MANY PEOPLE SAY,
• 18:22 "GOSH, I DIDN'T REALIZE THAT WAS A JEWISH HOLIDAY."
• 18:24 "I THOUGHT PENTECOST WAS A CHRISTIAN HOLIDAY."
• 18:26 I'M LIKE, "NO, NO, IT'S ALL TOGETHER".
• 18:29 IT IS TOGETHER.
• 18:31 WE HAVE WILL KING, OUR MAN IN JERUSALEM INTERVIEWING JEREMY GIMPEL, WONDERFUL YOUNG MAN,
• 18:35 MADE ALIAH TO ISRAEL, HAS A GREAT STORY TO TELL ABOUT HIS ALIAH.
• 18:39 HERE'S WILL AND JEREMY GIMPEL.
• 18:43 JEREMY, THE STORY OF HOW YOU CAME
• 18:44 TO BE IN ISRAEL IS REALLY A UNIQUE ONE
• 18:46 AND ONE I REALLY ENJOY.
• 18:48 AND IT STARTS WITH YOUR GRANDPARENTS. IS THAT RIGHT?
• 18:50 THAT IS RIGHT.
• 18:51 IN 1916 WHEN MY GRANDFATHER WAS ONLY 15 YEARS OLD
• 18:54 HE WALKED FROM RUSSIA TO ISRAEL.
• 18:56 IT TOOK HIM ABOUT A YEAR AND A HALF
• 18:58 AND FOR THE FIRST 6 MONTHS HE SLEPT ON THE FLOOR IN THE CENTER OF THE COUNTRY,
• 19:02 EVENTUALLY MOVING TO JERUSALEM. MY FATHER WAS BORN IN JERUSALEM.
• 19:05 AFTER FINISHING HIS IDF SERVICE HE WENT BACK TO AMERICA,
• 19:08 GOT LOST IN THE EXILE FOR ABOUT 20 YEARS.
• 19:10 AND IN 1991 AS SADDAM HUSSEIN WAS DROPPING SCUD MISSILES ON ISRAEL
• 19:15 MY TWO OLDER BROTHERS, DANIEL AND MICAH,
• 19:17 THEY DROPPED EVERYTHING THEY WERE DOING, THEY SAID, "IT'S TIME TO GO HOME."
• 19:20 AND THEY FLEW BACK TO ISRAEL AND MY PARENTS WERE LIKE,
• 19:23 "WELL, OUR TWO OLDEST CHILDREN ARE BACK AND I GUESS IT'S TIME TO GO HOME."
• 19:26 BUT WHAT I LIKE TO POINT OUT MOST IMPORTANTLY ABOUT THAT STORY
• 19:30 IS THAT WHEN MY GRANDFATHER FIRST CAME TO ISRAEL
• 19:33 HE WAS RUNNING AWAY FROM ANTI-SEMITISM IN RUSSIA,
• 19:35 THE POGROMS, THE HATRED, THE FEAR.
• 19:38 AND HE WAS RUNNING AWAY IN HOPE OF ESTABLISHING A NEW JEWISH HOMELAND.
• 19:41 WHEN MY FAMILY CAME BACK TO ISRAEL THE SECOND TIME WE WEREN'T RUNNING AWAY ANYMORE.
• 19:46 WE WERE RUNNING TO ISRAEL TO SUPPORT, TO PRAY, TO SERVE IN THE ARMY, TO LOVE,
• 19:50 TO DO ALL THAT WE COULD TO HELP ISRAEL SURVIVE.
• 19:52 AND THOSE TWO COMINGS ARE TOTALLY DIFFERENT
• 19:54 AND THAT'S THE REVOLUTION THAT'S GOING ON IN THE WORLD.
• 19:56 WITH ALL OF THE TOURISTS THAT ARE NOW COMING TO ISRAEL,
• 19:58 I KNOW THAT ALL OF THEM SAY, "YOU'RE GOING TO ISRAEL? WHAT'S GOING ON?"
• 20:02 BUT THEY'RE ALL COMING BECAUSE THEY KNOW IT'S THE RIGHT THING TO DO.
• 20:05 THEY'RE COMING TO SUPPORT, NOT TO TRAVEL.
• 20:08 WHEN YOUR FAMILY RAN TO ISRAEL
• 20:10 WHERE DID YOU ALL RUN TO?
• 20:11 WHAT AREA DID YOU SETTLE IN?
• 20:13 SO MY FATHER WAS BORN IN JERUSALEM
• 20:15 AND IT JUST SEEMED LIKE THE NATURAL PLACE TO GO RIGHT HOME
• 20:18 AND WE MOVED TO THE FRENCH HILL NEIGHBORHOOD AND WE SETTLED THERE.
• 20:21 I STARTED GOING DIRECTLY INTO ISRAELI SCHOOL.
• 20:23 AND IN AMERICA I WAS A PRETTY GOOD STUDENT.
• 20:25 AND FOR ABOUT TWO YEARS I WAS LISTENING TO A TEACHER SPEAK TO ME IN GREEK
• 20:29 AND THEN SLOWLY BUT SURELY I EVENTUALLY LEARNED HEBREW
• 20:31 AND BECAME TOTALLY IMMERSED IN ISRAELI SOCIETY.
• 20:35 AND PART OF THAT ISRAELI SOCIETY
• 20:36 IS THAT PEOPLE DO SERVE IN THE ARMY.
• 20:38 ABSOLUTELY.
• 20:40 AFTER FINISHING HIGH SCHOOL I SPENT OVER TWO YEARS LEARNING IN A YESHIVA, A TORAH ACADEMY
• 20:44 OUTSIDE OF THE CITY OF HEBRON, PREPARING MYSELF SPIRITUALLY TO ENTER INTO THE ARMY,
• 20:48 BECAUSE WHEN I WENT INTO THE ARMY I DIDN'T WANT TO JUST GO INTO THE ARMY AS A SOLDIER,
• 20:52 I WANTED TO GO IN AS A LEADER. AND VERY QUICKLY I RAISED THE RANKS IN THE ISRAELI ARMY
• 20:56 AND I BECAME AN OFFICER IN THE GIVATI BRIGADE BASED OUT OF THE GAZA STRIP.
• 21:01 AND I BROUGHT ALL OF THE TORAH KNOWLEDGE THAT I LEARNED IN MY YESHIVA
• 21:04 AND TRIED TO BRING IT TO MY SOLDIERS TO REMIND THEM
• 21:07 THAT WE HAVE THE MERIT TO NOW SERVE IN THE FIRST ARMY SINCE THE TIMES OF KING DAVID.
• 21:12 THAT'S A PERSPECTIVE THAT MOST ISRAELI'S DON'T HAVE.
• 21:15 THEY JUST WERE BORN HERE, THEY LIVE HERE,
• 21:16 THEY DON'T SEE THE MIRACLE IN THE STATE OF ISRAEL IN COMING FROM THE EXILE,
• 21:19 COMING FORM ATLANTA, GEORGIA, LIVING IN ISRAEL.
• 21:22 SEEING A COKE CAN IN HEBREW IS A MIRACLE TO ME.
• 21:25 AND I WANTED TO BRING THAT TORAH PERSPECTIVE OF THE FULFILLMENT OF THE PROPHECIES
• 21:29 OF THE INGATHERING OF THE EXILE TO MY SOLDIERS
• 21:31 TO TEACH THEM THAT WE'RE NOT JUST ON A MISSION TO PROTECT ISRAEL,
• 21:34 WE'RE ON A MISSION FOR GOD.
• 21:36 HAVING SERVED IN GAZA WHAT STORIES STAND OUT IN YOUR MIND? WHAT PARTICULAR INCIDENTS?
• 21:41 ALL OF THE TIME GOD'S HAND IS HERE PROTECTING ISRAEL.
• 21:44 I BELIEVE THE IDF IS AN INCREDIBLE, POWERFUL FORCE IN THE WORLD.
• 21:47 BUT THE TRUE FORCE IS THE GOD OF ISRAEL PROTECTING THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL.
• 21:51 AND SEEING GOD'S HAND LITERALLY PROTECTING MY SOLDIERS EVERYDAY,
• 21:54 IT'S IMPOSSIBLE TO JUST SAY THIS DAY OR THAT DAY
• 21:57 BECAUSE EVERY DAY IT WAS MIRACLE AFTER MIRACLE.
• 21:59 I REMEMBER BULLETS WHIZZING OVER MY HEAD SAYING,
• 22:01 "MY GOODNESS THAT WAS JUST A FEW INCHES AWAY!" LITERALLY FEELING THAT ANGELS WERE PROTECTING ME.
• 22:06 AND JUST THE ENTIRE SERVICE WAS ONE GIANT BLESSING FROM GOD.
• 22:10 AFTER HAVING FOUGHT AND SERVED IN GAZA
• 22:12 HOW THEN DID IT FEEL TO SEE THE LAND HANDED OVER TO TERRORISTS?
• 22:16 THERE'S SO MANY THINGS ABOUT THE DISENGAGEMENT THAT PAIN ME.
• 22:23 NOT JUST THE FACT THAT WE'RE APPEASING THE TERRORISM,
• 22:27 WE'RE SAYING, "GOOD WORK, YOU SCARED US. WE RAN AWAY."
• 22:29 "YOU BOMB US ENOUGH WE'LL LEAVE. KEEP ON BOMBING US IN JERUSALEM AND WE'LL LEAVE."
• 22:33 ASIDE FROM THAT MESSAGE THAT WE'RE SENDING OUR TERRORISTS, IT'S NOT OUR LAND TO DIVIDE.
• 22:38 GOD GAVE THE LAND OF ISRAEL TO THE JEWISH PEOPLE.
• 22:40 WHO DO WE THINK WE ARE GIVING IT AWAY TO THE INFIDEL,
• 22:44 TO THOSE WHO SEEK TO DESTROY THE JEWISH PEOPLE IN GOD'S GIVEN LAND?
• 22:46 THAT IS THE SOURCE OF MY PAIN. THE SOURCE OF MY PAIN IS THAT
• 22:50 THE JEWISH PEOPLE HAVE NOT YET REALIZED THEIR ROLE IN THE WORLD AS GOD'S CHOSEN PEOPLE.
• 22:55 WE NEED TO BRING THAT MISSION, THAT VISION TO THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL. THAT IS WHAT PAINS ME.
• 23:01 WITH THE NEWLY ELECTED GOVERNMENT
• 23:03 DO YOU FORESEE ANOTHER DISENGAGEMENT POSSIBLY?
• 23:05 THIS GOVERNMENT - ON ONE HAND IT TERRIFIES ME,
• 23:08 BECAUSE NOW THE LEFT HAVE A TRUE STRONGHOLD IN ISRAEL,
• 23:12 BUT ON THE OTHER HAND GOD WORKS IN MYSTERIOUS WAYS
• 23:16 AND SOMETIMES THE REDEMPTION CAN COME IN THE BLINK OF AN EYE. OUR SAGES TEACH US THAT.
• 23:20 AND ALTHOUGH IT LOOKS LIKE WE'RE IN THE BLEAKEST OF TIMES
• 23:22 AND IT LOOKS LIKE MORE SETTLEMENTS ARE GOING TO BE UPROOTED,
• 23:25 MORE PEOPLE KICKED OUT OF THEIR HOME AND SENT TO HOTELS AND TENTS,
• 23:28 I BELIEVE THAT THE GOD OF ISRAEL IS ON THE SIDE OF THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL
• 23:32 AND HIS LOVE FOR US IS UNCONDITIONAL
• 23:33 AND ALTHOUGH WE'RE A STIFF NECKED NATION
• 23:36 HIS LOVE FOR US WILL PREVAIL AND HE'LL PROTECT US.
• 23:38 AND ALTHOUGH WE WANT TO SEND OURSELVES ON A LEMMING TYPE SUICIDE
• 23:42 TOWARDS THE HAMAS NEW ELECTED PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY,
• 23:45 I HOPE THAT GOD WILL SOMEHOW HAVE HIS HAND INVOLVED
• 23:49 AND PROTECT US FROM OURSELVES THE SAME WAY THAT A FATHER WOULD PROTECT HIS CHILD SAYING,
• 23:53 "DON'T STICK YOUR HAND IN THAT LIGHT FIXTURE,"
• 23:55 "YOU'RE GONNA BURN YOURSELF, YOU'RE GONNA GET ELECTROCUTED."
• 23:58 I HOPE THAT GOD WILL SEND US MESSAGES TEACHING US THE RIGHT WAY
• 24:01 AND THE VALUE OF THE LAND OF ISRAEL.
• 24:36 ♪ (Piano playing) ♪
• 25:34 THAT'S ZOLA'S MUSIC. I LOVE HIS MUSIC.
• 25:37 IT IS SO INSPIRED BY ISRAEL. IT'S THE LAND OF ISRAEL.
• 25:40 WE'RE TALKING WITH JEREMY GIMPEL, THE LAND OF ISRAEL.
• 25:43 HE AND HIS FRIEND ARI HAVE A NECKLACE THAT THEY SELL THAT IS JUST TERRIFIC.
• 25:48 IT'S GOT THE LAND OF ISRAEL SO THAT YOU KEEP IT CLOSE TO YOUR HEART. IT'S WONDERFUL.
• 25:53 IT'S GREAT TO HAVE GOD'S WORD, HIS WAYS,
• 25:55 HIS WILLS IN THE HEART.
• 25:57 GOD'S HONEST TRUTH. ANY THING THAT HELPS.
• 25:59 YOU KNOW THE WORD "INSPIRATION" THAT YOU MENTIONED
• 26:01 COMES FROM THE WORD "INSPIRITUS" IN LATIN.
• 26:03 IT MEANS "TO BREATHE IN".
• 26:05 BREATHE IN.
• 26:06 AND ISN'T THAT GREAT? I THINK.
• 26:08 ESPECIALLY WHEN GIVING SOMETHING OF A WRAP ON OUR FIRST TREATMENT OF PENTECOST
• 26:11 WHEN THE HOLY SPIRIT WAS POURED OUT.
• 26:14 OH, WOULD THAT YOU WOULD BE INSPIRED AND BY THAT I MEAN,
• 26:17 OPEN YOURSELF UP TO WHAT GOD HAS FOR YOU.
• 26:21 THE REPENTANCE OF SINS, THE REACHING UP TO GOD, THE ASKING OF HIS MESSIAH INTO YOUR LIFE,
• 26:30 OH IT TRANSLATES INTO SO MANY GOOD THINGS FOR YOU.
• 26:34 OH, I HOPE YOU'LL WORK YOUR WAY TO A GOOD BIBLE BELIEVING CHURCH AND LEARN ABOUT IT.
• 26:38 AND I HOPE AS THIS PROGRAM GOES OFF THE AIR YOU'LL REACH UP TO THE AIR
• 26:42 AND ASK THE LORD TO COME INTO YOUR LIFE
• 26:44 BECAUSE IT'S A DAWN OF A WHOLE NEW EXPERIENCE FOR YOU IF YOU JUST RECEIVE THE LORD.
• 26:48 ISN'T THAT THE TRUTH?
• 26:50 IT'S THE BEGINNING OF A WONDERFUL RELATIONSHIP.
• 26:52 YES
• 26:53 WHEREVER YOU ARE AND AS YOU GO,
• 26:55 "SHA' ALU SHALOM YERUSHALYIM"
• 26:57 PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM.