Dr. Erez Soref: The Bridegroom Returns | One for Israel

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| Dr. Erez Soref: The Bridegroom Returns | One for Israel | January 10, 2026

The thrill of a wedding.
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The bride revealed in white.
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Her eyes meeting her groom.
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If israel's rejection of yeshua
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Resulted in blessing,
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How much more blessing will come
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When they accept him?
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Why israel?
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Because god has chosen israel
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To display his love to the world.
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Jews and arabs from different backgrounds,
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He puts us together as the one human.
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I am dr. erez soref.
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I was born and raised in the heart of israel,
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But i never heard the gospel message
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Until on a journey abroad,
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My eyes were opened to the jewish messiah.
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From that point,
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My life has been dedicated
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To bringing this gospel back to my people israel,
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Equipping them to reach israel
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And the world.
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Together, as jews and gentiles,
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We are one in messiah, one for israel.
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40 days after yeshua rose from the dead,
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He ascended to heaven from this mountain
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Promising to return.
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But some of the disciples
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Were confused.
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Yeshua was not the messiah
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They had expected.
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As you read the gospels,
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You see the disciples
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Were looking for something different.
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And it's the same with my people today.
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The prophets had clearly pointed
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To a suffering messiah
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Who would take away our sins
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And transform us from the inside out.
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But we like to focus on the parts
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Where the messiah changes our external situation,
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Triumphant and victorious.
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A crucified king was and is
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A stumbling block to my people.
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Before his death,
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Peter even rebuked yeshua
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For suggesting he would be killed.
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Yeshua rebuked peter back and said:
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"what good will it be
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"for someone to gain
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"the whole world,
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"yet forfeit their soul?
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"or what can anyone give
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"in exchange for their soul?
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"for the son of man
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"is going to come
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"in his father's glory
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"with his angels,
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"and then he will reward
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"each person according to
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"what they have done."
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Yeshua affirmed that he will indeed
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Come in glory with his angels as a conqueror.
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But what good is conquering the world
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And redeeming israel
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Unless he first conquers and redeems our souls?
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The author of hebrews says,
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"messiah was sacrificed
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"once to take away the sins
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"of many;
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"and he will appear
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"a second time,
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"not to bear sin,
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"but to bring salvation
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"to those who are
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"waiting for him."
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First redemption from sin,
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Then salvation, conquering.
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Just like in ancient times,
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The groom comes to pay a price,
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Leaves to prepare a place,
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Then suddenly returns for the wedding feast.
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Many of my people do not see this.
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The fact is,
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Yeshua didn't free the jewish people
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From oppression
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Or bring world peace in his first coming.
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Since yeshua, our people have suffered
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Tragedy after tragedy.
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Our temple destroyed, expulsion from israel,
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And scattered among the nations.
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We faced persecution and anti-semitism
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That has even, sadly,
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Infected many who would claim to follow jesus.
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But even in persecution,
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God has thwarted plans to wipe us out
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And turned satan's rage into a call back home.
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Even in the darkest of days,
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There's always been a remnant
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That believed god's word and took action.
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Christian zionists were some of the most
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Influential figures that blazed the trail
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For our people to return home.
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These men and women believed god's promises
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Beyond what anyone thought possible in their day.
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Men like william heckler,
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A close friend of theodor herzl,
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Helped pave the way for the jewish state today.
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Even as early as the 1500s,
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Influential voices like thomas brightman proclaimed:
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"shall they return
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"to jerusalem again?
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"there is nothing more certain."
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And in the dark ages of the holocaust,
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True believers stood up with courage
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In the face of evil.
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People like corrie ten boom and dietrich bonhoeffer
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Who stood with our people,
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Some paying the ultimate price,
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Their love of the jewish messiah
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Provoking their sacrifice to save jewish people.
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Ezekiel prophesied of our people
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Returning to this land.
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In a vision,
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He saw a valley of dead, dry bones.
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And he saw the bones coming back together,
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Covered with muscle and flesh.
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Israel today is this miracle.
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We've been gathered back together in one place.
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Our identity, language and land resurrected.
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But as ezekiel spoke to these bones,
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There was a pause in his prophecy.
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One thing we have not seen yet.
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These bones came together just as god commanded,
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Flesh and all, but they had no breath.
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So god instructed ezekiel a second time
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To speak to the "ruach", the wind,
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The same term used for the holy spirit.
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And that spirit breathed new life
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Into those bodies, just as he did with adam.
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We are still awaiting
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The full awakening of my people,
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The breath of the spirit,
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The day when all israel
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Will be saved.
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Even now we are beginning
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To see a glimpse.
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The holy spirit
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Is starting to blow.
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My people are searching.
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The bride is awakening.
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There's so much more to discover
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In these biblical
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Appointed days,
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Such as the feast of trumpets,
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Yom kippur,
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And the feast of tabernacles.
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We've created powerful resources and podcasts
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That can help you discover the prophecies
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And promises found in these ancient holidays
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That reveal more of god's heart,
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What he's done
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And the future redemption to come.
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Get our biblical calendar guide today
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And go deeper on this subject.
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And go deeper on this subject.
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We've seen god's covenant love for israel
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As a marriage
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And how the biblical festivals
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Reveal the stages in that wedding preparation.
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Now we come to the culmination
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Of the wedding, sukkot,
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The feast of tabernacles,
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The final biblical holiday that points
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To the great wedding feast still to come.
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Sukkot is our most joyful festival.
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For seven days we live in temporary shelters
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Under the open sky,
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Remembering how god dwelt with us in the wilderness.
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But sukkot is more than remembrance.
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It's prophecy.
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In ancient israel,
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Wedding celebrations
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Also lasted seven days.
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And even today jewish weddings
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Take place under a chuppah,
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Another canopy under the open sky.
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The parallels are striking.
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One rabbi wrote:
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"with the cloud of the chuppah
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"and the shadow of the sukkah,
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"israel will commune with her god."
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The sages in rabbinic commentary
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Clearly saw the cloud by day that followed israel
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In the wilderness
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As a wedding covering like the chuppah,
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The same illustration as this temporary sukkah
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That we celebrate in today.
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And this is how sukkot points us to the final act
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In god's redemptive plan,
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The day the bridegroom returns.
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Isaiah, prophesying of the return of the lord,
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Connects sukkot to messiah's future earthly reign, saying:
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"there will be a cloud of smoke by day
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"and a flaming fire by night.
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"his glory is the wedding canopy
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"over his redeemed bride."
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But this day of the lord is not just roses.
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There is a battle.
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The prophet zechariah says:
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"on that day, the lord will gather
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"all nations against jerusalem.
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"then the lord will go out and fight those nations.
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"on that day,
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"his feet will stand
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"on the mount of olives."
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It won't look like a wedding at first.
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It will look like war.
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But as we've said before, god invites the fight.
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He lets the darkness gather to its darkest
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So that his light can break through the brightest.
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We've seen shadows of the darkness already,
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From the holocaust to the horrific october 7th attacks.
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The hatred of the nations is rising.
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But when it hits the tipping point,
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Zechariah declares:
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"then the lord my god will come,
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"and all the holy ones with him."
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But our end times view needs a harvest focus,
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Not a foreboding fear.
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It's in these days that the promised salvation
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That paul spoke of in romans 11
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Will come to pass.
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As we read in zechariah 12:10:
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"i will pour
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"on the house of david
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"and on the inhabitants
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"of jerusalem
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"the spirit of grace
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"and supplication;
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"then they will look on me
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"whom they have pierced.
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"and they will mourn for him
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"as one mourns for his only son,
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"and grieve for him
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"as one grieves
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For a firstborn."
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Nations will gather against jerusalem.
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The lord, yeshua himself,
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Will return to the mount of olives and conquer.
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My people will see their messiah,
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The redeemer of souls and champion of israel.
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This will be a time
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When great mourning turns into great joy.
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This will be the fulfillment of sukkot.
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The bridegroom will conquer and then dwell
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With his bride forever.
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And it's not just for israel.
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Zechariah ends his book by telling us
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That the nations will go up year after year
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To worship the king,
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The lord almighty, and to celebrate sukkot,
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The festival of tabernacles.
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The day when all israel will be saved.
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The believing remnant of my people will flourish
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Into a healthy olive tree,
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A glowing bride and a source of blessing for the nations.
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We now see a glimpse
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But the best is yet to come.
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We are seeing the first fruits now.
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The messianic movement in israel today
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Is a testament that god's plan
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Will come to fulfillment,
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Even when it seems impossible.
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We're sitting down
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With pastor avi mizrachi,
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A leader in the body
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Here in israel.
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He has in-depth insight
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About the believing body
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Of jews and arabs,
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The roots in the modern nation and our future.
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The heart of tel aviv, jaffa, the center of the city.
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This is the city that i was born and raised.
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That's why it's so close to my heart
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To reach out to the lordship of israel.
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A city that never stops.
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Coffee shops, nightclubs, theaters.
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We have a message of hope to the people.
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Welcome to the most beautiful city
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In the world, tel aviv, jaffa.
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This is where i was born and raised.
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This is my office and the center of dugit.
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My name is avi mizrachi.
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Avi short for avraham, abraham.
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I have four daughters
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And i have only 11 grandchildren.
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30 years ago, this is how we started,
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As dugit art gallery,
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And now we have dugit center.
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It's a beautiful coffee house
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Outreach to the city of tel aviv.
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This is where the heart of the whole operation.
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This is where our congregation
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Meets on shabbat.
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This is our prayer room.
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And we have also the distribution center
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And to the coffee house.
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Tel aviv is a very unique city.
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We have jews and arabs from different backgrounds,
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Very secular, very liberal.
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But yet when we come to know yeshua,
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He puts us together as the one new man.
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So when i came to faith 41 years ago
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As a good jew from israel,
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I was four years in the israeli air force,
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Finished my duty.
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And then i saved some money,
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And said, i'll go to america to explore america.
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My intention was to go to america,
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To go to every discotheque in town,
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To go to las vegas, gamble and become very rich.
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That was my plan.
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But god had another plan for my life.
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On my way to las vegas, i stopped to visit my sister.
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Well, sunday morning, so she knocks on my door,
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And she said: avi, come, get up, get dressed.
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Come with us to church.
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So i said, okay, good music, good people,
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Young people, singles.
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This sounds good.
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I'll go and check it out.
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When i walked in,
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I was in shock
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Because i was looking to see any statues
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Of st. peter, st. john, jesus, maria,
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And all those things.
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I didn't see any of that.
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And i was so touched.
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They sang so beautifully.
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And they were singing to god,
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Praises to god,
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To my god, the god of israel.
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I said, how could this be?
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And to make a long story short,
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This preacher was precious.
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And he said, god loves you.
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He has a plan for your life.
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It's a sin to separate from the holy god.
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That's why god sent yeshua,
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The messiah, the name of god.
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When he shared that,
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Something happened in my heart.
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And i said, this makes sense.
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We don't have the temple.
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We don't have the sacrifices anymore.
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We have yom kippur.
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But today, yom kippur
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Will be a fast, but we have no atonement,
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No sacrifices.
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I came back to israel.
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I thought i'm the only crazy jew
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Who believes in yeshua.
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And you could count
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The different fellowships
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And congregations in your hand.
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And it was a small body, but we were so excited.
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What you see today, what god has done.
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Within 20, 30 years,
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We've seen the body of believers grow so much.
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More and more congregations,
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More and more people
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Coming to know yeshua as their savior.
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Tel aviv is the city of the young people.
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Very secular, very liberal and...
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But yet, in this, i call it darkness,
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Many people are seeking faith and seeking hope.
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They're seeking the light.
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And the light overcomes the darkness.
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We're reaching out to the young israelis.
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And that's how we started.
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When young israelis came to faith
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And they start coming like in a home group.
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So we start having families.
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And the congregation has grown and grown.
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We see really the hand of the lord
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When we see more and more jews coming to faith.
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And also our believers, you know,
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Like in ezekiel 36, it's very clear.
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God said that he will bring all the jews
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From the nations and he'll bring us back
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To our home.
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But also he said
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That he will pour out his holy spirit.
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He's going to put his spirit upon us,
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Give us a new heart and a new spirit.
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"he that keepeth israel shall neither slumber nor sleep."
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In hebrew it's so beautiful.
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"lo yanum velo yishan
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"shomer yisrael."
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And we need to remind ourselves
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That god is in charge.
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He's in control.
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Yes, we need to fight, we need to do our best,
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But our trust is in the lord.
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Friends, we are living between the betrothal
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And the banquet.
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Most of my people today are still veiled.
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But they're still chosen and still loved.
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I know my god will complete what he started.
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And we have the privilege to partner with him
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In this critical hour.
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Our team at one for israel
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Works to bring the gospel back to israel,
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Equipping believers in israel to reach the world.
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And we're inviting your partnership
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To accomplish this.
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It's imperative that the church partners
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With the saints in this land
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To bring that blessing back to his people.
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Join us as we prepare the way of the lord.
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Where jesus has been hidden in plain sight,
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One for israel is making him known.
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Help us bring hope and comfort to this land
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By introducing the only one who can,
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The prince of peace.
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The prince of peace.
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We've seen that yeshua is the bridegroom
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That will come and dwell with his bride forever.
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But this raises important questions
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Many of you may be asking.
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If israel is god's bride
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And the church is also called the bride of messiah,
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Does god have two wives?
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Does god love jews more than gentiles?
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How do you reconcile this?
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In his letter to the galatians,
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Paul addressed a church of mainly gentiles
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Who thought they needed to change their identity.
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They saw themselves as second-class citizens
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In the faith
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That thought that they needed to follow
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Every jewish custom to earn god's love.
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Paul corrected this misconception.
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God's love couldn't be earned by race,
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Adherence to traditions and law,
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Gender or social status.
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There is one bride, one salvation.
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We are grafted into the same root together.
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On the cross,
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Yeshua tore down the separation
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Between jews and gentiles in all people groups
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To make us one.
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Our identity in the messiah
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Is deeper than any other identity
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We can possibly hold.
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He said:
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"there is neither jew
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"nor gentile,
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"neither slave nor free,
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"nor is there male and female,
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"for you are all one in messiah,
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"yeshua."
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Now, does that mean there are literally
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No differences between males and females
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As believers?
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No, we still have biological differences,
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Different roles in our relationships,
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Different races, ethnicities and nationalities.
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But when it comes to our salvation
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And the love of god, there are no classes,
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Division or distinction.
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As ephesians say:
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"he himself is our peace,
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"who has made the two groups one
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"and has destroyed the barrier."
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We even see throughout scripture
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How god loved gentiles,
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Naaman, ruth, rahab and many others.
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It's our identity in the messiah
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That is paramount above all.
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So looking with this perspective,
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There is a balance.
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We can maintain our distinctiveness
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While finding deeper unity in messiah.
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Paul always remained jewish.
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Before his arrest in jerusalem, he declared:
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"i am a jew", not "i was a jew".
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The land and people of israel
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Still have a role in what's to come
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With our messiah's return.
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God has a love and plan for all gentiles
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Just as he has a love and plan for jews.
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My personal calling is different than yours
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And everyone else's.
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It's not better or worse, just distinct.
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In the same way, corporately,
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God has a plan for each gentile nation
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And god also has a distinct plan
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For the land and people of israel.
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In romans, paul says that god's gifting
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And calling to israel is irrevocable.
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Our nation and people still have a role.
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Many promises yet to come
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And the whole world will be blessed
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By what god does with and through my people israel.
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The debate is raging more than any time in history.
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Is god done with my people?
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Did the church replace israel?
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I'm with dr. seth postel
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And we're going to discuss a few of these key issues
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And discover how difficult verses
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Actually point to god's role with israel as a nation today.
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Hi seth, thank you so much for joining me.
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We want to talk about some of the difficult verses
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About israel in scripture.
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As i was thinking about our conversation,
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I can't forget how shocked i was
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To discover that the vast majority of evangelical scholars
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From the leading seminaries,
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Universities in the world
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Are really holding to supersessionism,
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Replacement theology, a belief that the church
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Has completely replaced israel.
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I'll never forget
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A very well-known evangelical scholar got up
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In a group of,
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In a room filled with scholars
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And it was about 200,
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It was one of the bigger sessions
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And he said, i'm very proud to say
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That i believe in replacement theology
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And he got a standing ovation
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And i remember it wasn't even,
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It wasn't even tied to his presentation,
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It was just kind of, and i walked out with kind of,
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You know, it felt like i had a knife in my stomach.
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The question that we fundamentally need to ask is:
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Did god truly change his mind
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And abandon israel?
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A lot of kind of replacement theology
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Is kind of couched
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In more fulfillment theology.
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Yeah, the language. -so they are not actually saying
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That god changed his plan for israel
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But that he, you know,
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Israel is redefined or newly defined
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Based on faith in jesus.
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In other words, you know,
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When a gentile now accepts jesus,
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He's considered part of true israel.
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Just like, you know,
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Jesus is the new israel, the true israel
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And everybody that accepts him is true israel.
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And so now those jewish people
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That don't believe in jesus are no longer israel.
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You know, there's the verse in romans 9
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That talks about the israel of god
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And i think many times people that come from a supersessionist
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Or replacement theological perspective say,
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Well, there you go, the israel of god.
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It's not the nation of israel,
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It's the church.
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One of the biggest problems
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With that perspective is romans.
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It's interesting, he starts a discussion in romans 9
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Where paul is weeping over his people
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And he says of them in the present tense,
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To them belong the promises,
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To them belong the covenants,
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To them belong... so israel's calling
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Is based on promise.
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It's based on grace.
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It's based on god's purposes.
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So a replacement theologian has to actually explain
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How is it possible for paul
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To be weeping over a people that obviously
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Have not put their faith in yeshua the messiah.
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There are people that paul is willing
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To give up his salvation for them
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And yet to them belong the covenants,
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To them belong the promises
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And that's exactly where he ends in chapter 11.
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Because israel rejected yeshua...
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On a national level. -salvation came to the gentiles
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And so paul says in 28,
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So they are enemies of the gospel for your sake,
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For your benefit, but they are beloved
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For the sake of the fathers.
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You know, i still meet a lot of people
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And i think you do as well,
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That think that somehow, you know,
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Jewish people have a
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Not only a free ticket to heaven kind of deal
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But also that the jews are better in some way.
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The truth is that god said already
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In deuteronomy 7, 7 and 8,
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He says i've not chosen you because you're strong
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Or many of you or because you're beautiful
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Or smarter than everybody else,
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Quite the contrary,
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Because you are not those things
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That's why i choose you, to show my, you know,
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My glory, my strength.
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You know, you need to read romans 9 through 11
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50 times and then you need to read romans 100 times.
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Consider his argument,
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Has god rejected his people?
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Because right now, you know,
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You've got, you know, all these nations
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That were not god's people that are coming to faith
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And so okay, you know,
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Maybe god has rejected israel?
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And so then paul says in romans 11,
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Even in the first few verses has god rejected israel?
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May it never be.
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What's his proof?
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He pulls out his identity card.
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He says i'm an israelite.
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If god's rejected israel, what about me?
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You know, if israel's rejection of yeshua
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Resulted in blessing, which it has,
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How much more blessing will come when they accept him?
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And we read in romans 11
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That it states that all israel will be saved.
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The longing for the all to be saved
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Ought to be the longing for every believer in yeshua
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In zechariah chapter 12 and at that time
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In the future the nation.
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Right, on a national level.
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At a national level, right?
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Will recognize the one
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Whom they have pierced,
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And so the all there is a future all
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And it's in context to the present remnant.
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We believe that, you know,
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We're not saved by our good works
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And we're not unsaved in that sense
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By our bad works, right? -by failures.
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Which is the gospel.
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We are saved as a result of god's gifts
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That are irrevocable,
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And so i think one of the issues
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Replacement theology they have to overcome
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How is it possible that paul clearly states unsaved israel,
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The israel that has of paul's day
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That rejected yeshua
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Still has all the privileges, all the promises,
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All the covenants and the election
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As a people that did not believe
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In their messiah?
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I think that that is the biggest evidence
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That replacement theology simply does not work.
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Thank you so much, seth.
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It's been a pleasure,
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Always a pleasure to chat.
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Thank you. -thank you so much.
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So why israel?
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God chose israel to show the world his faithfulness
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That his love really conquers all.
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His love and faithfulness displayed in israel
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Is a reminder for you,
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A flagpole in the ground
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And an anchor for your faith
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In god's love for you.
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Yeshua will return here
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Not as the suffering servant
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But as the conquering king
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Not to a people who reject him
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But to a nation that cries out
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Blessed is he who comes in the name of the lord
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Until that day we who know him
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Must work to prepare the bride.
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Our team at one for israel
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Is bringing the gospel back to israel
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And equipping believers in israel to reach the world.
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Where jesus has been hidden in plain sight
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One for israel is making him known.
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We need your partnership
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To bring the good news to our people in israel
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And around the world.
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It's imperative that the church partners
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With the saints in israel to bring that blessing.
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Join us as we prepare the way of the lord
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And help us bring hope and comfort to israel
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With the prince of peace.
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The invitation has been sent.
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The bride is making herself ready.
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Let our prayer echo scripture's final cry.
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The spirit and the bride say, come!
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To my people and to the nations
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We cry, come to him!
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And to yeshua, our bridegroom,
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Come quickly!
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Dr. Erez Soref: The Bridegroom Returns | One for Israel

January 10, 2026 | S1:E9 | 29:12

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