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Erez Soref - The Covenant of Love

November 5, 2025 | S1 E1 | 29:32

Erez Soref - The Covenant of Love
At a wedding in Cana, Yeshua turns water into wine, His first miracle and a prophetic picture of Israel’s story. Host Dr. Erez Soref explores how this sign reveals God’s covenant love and why Israel remains the display of His glory.
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| Erez Soref - The Covenant of Love | November 5, 2025
  • Yeshua chose this place to reveal himself.
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  • This was discovered.
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  • To think that we actually found one of the six parts
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  • Mentioned in the miracle,
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  • Amazing.
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  • Whatever god did in the past,
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  • Becomes a picture of what god's going to do
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  • In the future, but even better.
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  • There is power in understanding the miracle.
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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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  • This is kafr kanna, cana of galilee,
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  • The city where yeshua performed his first miracle,
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  • Turning water into wine,
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  • At a wedding.
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  • John wrote that what yeshua
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  • Did here, in cana of galilee,
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  • Was the first of the signs
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  • Through which he revealed his glory.
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  • Yeshua chose this place and this occasion,
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  • A wedding, to reveal himself.
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  • The foundation of his miraculous ministry
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  • Started at a wedding.
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  • And this beautiful church was dedicated
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  • To commemorate that event.
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  • But modern excavations have revealed that this church
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  • Was built on the foundations of an older jewish synagogue.
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  • And like this church, the bricks of our faith
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  • Were laid on the floor of the jewish land
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  • And the jewish faith.
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  • As paul said, the nations are grafted
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  • Into the olive tree of israel's promise.
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  • The root of our faith is here,
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  • In this land, and among my people, israel.
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  • This church is a powerful image.
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  • A christian church with a jewish synagogue
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  • As the ground floor.
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  • And down here,
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  • A jewish man performed a miracle
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  • At a jewish wedding.
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  • In the same way,
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  • The ground floor of our christian faith today
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  • Is the miracle of israel.
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  • The covenants, the hebrew scriptures,
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  • The hope in a jewish messiah.
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  • These two structures in one represent two people,
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  • Jews and gentiles,
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  • Brought together as one in messiah.
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  • This isn't just history,
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  • This is our shared inheritance.
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  • This isn't just a place,
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  • This is the homeland
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  • Of your faith.
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  • And today, god wants to awaken
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  • Something new inside of you,
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  • As he's bringing awakening to this land.
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  • But i think it's important to ask the question: why israel?
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  • Why did god choose this land and this people
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  • To plant the seed of this faith?
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  • Why choose abraham?
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  • Why this land over any other?
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  • Why us jews?
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  • The bible began in hebrew.
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  • Every writer was jewish.
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  • Yeshua is jewish.
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  • It was jewish believers that took his good news
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  • And the revelation of israel's god
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  • Out to the nations.
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  • But did god choose israel
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  • Because we were better than every other nation?
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  • Isaiah 44:23 says:
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  • "the lord has redeemed jacob.
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  • "he displays his glory
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  • "in israel."
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  • Israel is the display case,
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  • The vehicle that god chooses to show his glory,
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  • To show what he's doing with the world
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  • And with history.
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  • Just as yeshua chose a wedding
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  • To begin displaying his glory, god chose israel:
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  • The nation, the people, and the land.
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  • Through israel, he demonstrates his character,
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  • His love, and the redemption story
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  • Extended to all nations.
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  • We're going to look
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  • At how god's grace for israel
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  • Is connected
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  • To god's eternal plan,
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  • From ancient times
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  • Until this day.
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  • Join me as we uncover
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  • How the very existence
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  • Of israel today
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  • Highlights the endurance of
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  • God's faithfulness in your life.
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  • How israel's redemption proves
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  • That god is still working
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  • In you, in your family, and in your nation.
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  • Why choose israel?
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  • Not because of its greatness,
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  • Because god chooses the not great
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  • To display his great glory.
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  • Just like yeshua's first miracle at a wedding,
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  • When he turned water into wine
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  • In order to reveal his glory.
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  • Israel's story, exile and return,
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  • Judgment and mercy, reveal god's covenant love
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  • And faithfulness.
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  • God likes to use the little to affect the big.
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  • He uses the ordinary to do the extraordinary.
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  • He uses common water to make the best wine.
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  • That's how you see how powerful he really is.
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  • He stands out as the only one that could have done it.
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  • It must be a miracle.
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  • God delights in doing the impossible,
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  • In choosing and using an unlikely nation
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  • To build his unshakeable kingdom.
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  • Think a minute about yeshua's groundbreaking wedding miracle.
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  • There were six large stone jars
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  • Used for jewish ritual cleansing,
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  • And yeshua told the servants to fill them with water.
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  • These jars may have been used to fill a mikveh,
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  • A jewish immersion bath,
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  • For cleansing away ritual impurity.
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  • Even today, before a jewish wedding,
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  • The bride is immersed in a mikveh,
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  • A symbol of purification,
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  • Of leaving behind the old life and entering into a new union.
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  • The servants filled the jars with water,
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  • But when they drew it out
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  • And gave some to the banquet master,
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  • It had become wine, very fine wine.
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  • And he did not know where it came from.
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  • In the same way, today, billions around the world
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  • Have tasted the joy of salvation through yeshua.
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  • They have come through the
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  • Waters of baptism
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  • And found new birth.
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  • They have tasted and seen
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  • That the lord is good.
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  • Yet many, just like the banquet master,
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  • Enjoy the wine without realizing the miracle behind it.
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  • They don't know where it came from.
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  • Some might say:
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  • "why does it matter where it came from?
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  • "i know jesus, that's enough."
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  • And yes, to taste the wine is wonderful.
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  • But to know where it came from
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  • Is to understand the depth of the miracle.
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  • If you told me that you've been born again for 30 years,
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  • I would praise god.
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  • But if you shared your testimony,
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  • Maybe how god delivered you from addictions,
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  • Or maybe how he restored your marriage,
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  • Not only would i praise god more,
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  • But your story carries power.
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  • It gives opportunity for others to believe,
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  • To say yes to this jesus, and to drink for themselves.
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  • There is joy in the wine,
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  • But there is power in understanding the miracle.
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  • So, why israel?
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  • Why this little strip of land?
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  • Why our people?
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  • Because just like the water to wine,
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  • God has worked a miracle through something small,
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  • And seemingly insignificant,
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  • And through it brought his joy and salvation
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  • To the entire world.
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  • Israel is not just part of the story.
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  • Israel is at the center of the miracle.
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  • And when god does a miracle this big,
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  • He invites you not only to taste, but to understand.
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  • The banquet master enjoyed the wine,
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  • But the servants knew where it came from,
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  • And they witnessed the power of god.
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  • So, this is how messiah chose to reveal himself,
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  • At a wedding.
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  • Jewish weddings in yeshua's day
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  • Weren't just a ceremony and a reception with cake.
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  • They were full-blown celebration,
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  • Lasting seven days,
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  • Complete with food, wine, dancing, and singing.
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  • A week-long festival of joy.
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  • A groom would save for years,
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  • Not just to provide for his bride,
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  • But to provide enough for everyone invited
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  • To this massive feast.
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  • If wine ran out too early, it wasn't just a party foul.
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  • Middle eastern culture demanded that the host care
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  • For every need, every want of their guests.
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  • It was an insult if you failed to do this.
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  • Inexcusable if you didn't save enough,
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  • Or prepared enough for your guests
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  • On your wedding week.
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  • It would mean public humiliation,
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  • And lasting shame on the family.
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  • And at this wedding in cana, the wine ran out.
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  • What should have been a joyful union,
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  • Turned into shame.
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  • But yeshua's mother, mary,
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  • Looked to yeshua in hope.
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  • Maybe, somehow, he could take away the shame.
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  • There's something powerful here.
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  • Mary's name in hebrew is miriam,
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  • And cana literally means the place of reeds.
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  • Do you remember in the book of exodus
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  • What a different miriam did among the reeds of the nile?
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  • She looked after moses,
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  • In the midst of israel's great shame at that time.
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  • As slaves in egypt, there was a hope in moses.
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  • When thousands of hebrew boys had been killed in the nile,
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  • Their blood spilled in the water,
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  • Moses rose up, alive, as a deliverer.
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  • When moses grew up, he came to confront pharaoh.
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  • And he came with his first sign,
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  • Turning the water of the nile into blood,
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  • So that there would be nothing to drink.
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  • It was a sign of judgment,
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  • For the hebrew blood spilled in the water.
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  • And it was also a sign
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  • Where god began to remove the shame from israel,
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  • And bring them to freedom.
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  • Yeshua came as the greater moses,
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  • The greater deliverer.
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  • His first sign wasn't water into blood,
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  • It was water into wine.
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  • Moses took away the drink.
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  • Yeshua provided more to drink, better than before.
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  • Through moses,
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  • God brought judgment
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  • That was well deserved.
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  • But through yeshua, he brings joy,
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  • Restoration, and revival.
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  • The wedding is back on.
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  • He has taken away the shame.
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  • Through moses came the judgment on egypt.
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  • Through yeshua comes grace.
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  • Through yeshua comes grace.
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  • To get some insight
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  • On ancient cana,
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  • We are talking today
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  • With archaeologist,
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  • Danny "the digger" herman.
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  • We are not too far from nazareth,
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  • In the lower galilee mountains,
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  • In a site whose arabic name is kafr kanna.
  • 00:11:56.212 --> 00:11:59.816
  • And the last part of it
  • 00:11:59.816 --> 00:12:00.850
  • Seems to be preserving
  • 00:12:00.850 --> 00:12:02.785
  • A site mentioned
  • 00:12:02.785 --> 00:12:03.719
  • In the new testament,
  • 00:12:03.719 --> 00:12:04.754
  • In the gospel of john,
  • 00:12:04.754 --> 00:12:06.222
  • Cana in the galilee.
  • 00:12:06.222 --> 00:12:08.491
  • And that is the site where jesus performed the first miracle,
  • 00:12:08.491 --> 00:12:12.528
  • The first recorded miracle of turning water into wine
  • 00:12:12.528 --> 00:12:15.865
  • During a wedding.
  • 00:12:15.865 --> 00:12:17.733
  • Behind me is a very impressive church,
  • 00:12:18.568 --> 00:12:21.103
  • Built in the late 19th century.
  • 00:12:21.103 --> 00:12:22.972
  • Archaeological digs conducted beneath it
  • 00:12:22.972 --> 00:12:25.641
  • Have found layers from the middle ages,
  • 00:12:25.641 --> 00:12:27.910
  • From the byzantine period, and even from the 1st century.
  • 00:12:27.910 --> 00:12:31.814
  • The new testament, sadly, nor the old testament,
  • 00:12:31.814 --> 00:12:34.550
  • Never provide gps coordinates.
  • 00:12:34.550 --> 00:12:36.419
  • We never know 100% for sure
  • 00:12:36.419 --> 00:12:39.255
  • Where those events recorded in the scriptures
  • 00:12:39.255 --> 00:12:42.058
  • Actually took place.
  • 00:12:42.058 --> 00:12:43.459
  • But we have science.
  • 00:12:43.459 --> 00:12:44.994
  • We have the scientifical research of geography,
  • 00:12:44.994 --> 00:12:47.930
  • Of preservation of place names, and archaeology.
  • 00:12:47.930 --> 00:12:50.867
  • I think this is still the best location.
  • 00:12:51.701 --> 00:12:54.971
  • First of all, we are in a site whose name to this day
  • 00:12:54.971 --> 00:12:58.674
  • Is preserving the name cana.
  • 00:12:58.674 --> 00:13:00.710
  • The text in the gospel of john says
  • 00:13:00.710 --> 00:13:02.912
  • Cana in the galilee.
  • 00:13:02.912 --> 00:13:04.480
  • We are also not too far from nazareth,
  • 00:13:04.480 --> 00:13:06.415
  • And it makes sense that jesus
  • 00:13:06.415 --> 00:13:08.217
  • Would have been attending
  • 00:13:08.217 --> 00:13:09.619
  • A wedding where there was maybe
  • 00:13:09.619 --> 00:13:11.554
  • Family ties.
  • 00:13:11.554 --> 00:13:12.889
  • Remember, it wasn't just him,
  • 00:13:12.889 --> 00:13:14.624
  • It was his mother,
  • 00:13:14.624 --> 00:13:15.691
  • It was the disciples,
  • 00:13:15.691 --> 00:13:17.226
  • They were all invited.
  • 00:13:17.226 --> 00:13:18.294
  • So, it must have been
  • 00:13:18.294 --> 00:13:19.395
  • In a reasonable proximity.
  • 00:13:19.395 --> 00:13:21.998
  • Then the excavations uncovered here evidence
  • 00:13:21.998 --> 00:13:24.767
  • Of an ancient, not just church, but also a synagogue,
  • 00:13:24.767 --> 00:13:28.571
  • Proving jewish presence,
  • 00:13:28.571 --> 00:13:30.072
  • Although that synagogue is not from the 1st century,
  • 00:13:30.072 --> 00:13:32.308
  • It's from a slightly later period.
  • 00:13:32.308 --> 00:13:34.110
  • But synagogues tend to be always in the same spot.
  • 00:13:34.110 --> 00:13:40.149
  • One of my favorite parts of visiting the church of cana
  • 00:13:41.217 --> 00:13:44.620
  • Is the fact that, beneath this living church,
  • 00:13:44.620 --> 00:13:48.024
  • One can see underground here
  • 00:13:48.024 --> 00:13:50.493
  • An ancient inscription in aramaic
  • 00:13:50.493 --> 00:13:53.062
  • Dated to the 4th century thanking yosei and his sons
  • 00:13:53.062 --> 00:13:57.867
  • For donating money to a synagogue.
  • 00:13:57.867 --> 00:14:01.704
  • So, here's the english translation
  • 00:14:01.704 --> 00:14:03.572
  • Of the aramaic inscription:
  • 00:14:03.572 --> 00:14:05.408
  • "honored be the memory of yosei, son of tanhum, son of buta,
  • 00:14:05.408 --> 00:14:10.112
  • "and his sons who made this mosaic.
  • 00:14:10.112 --> 00:14:12.581
  • "may it be a blessing for them. amen".
  • 00:14:12.581 --> 00:14:14.884
  • A clear indication that jews lived here,
  • 00:14:14.884 --> 00:14:17.386
  • Had a prospering jewish village
  • 00:14:17.386 --> 00:14:19.555
  • That could donate money to a synagogue
  • 00:14:19.555 --> 00:14:22.058
  • 300 years after the time of jesus.
  • 00:14:22.058 --> 00:14:27.430
  • So, we are now inside the complex of the church
  • 00:14:28.431 --> 00:14:31.968
  • In an area where they deliberately left
  • 00:14:31.968 --> 00:14:34.003
  • The archaeological work here exposed
  • 00:14:34.003 --> 00:14:36.973
  • So visitors can see what preceded the modern building
  • 00:14:36.973 --> 00:14:40.643
  • That exists here today.
  • 00:14:40.643 --> 00:14:42.278
  • There was a medieval structure, possibly a church,
  • 00:14:42.278 --> 00:14:45.481
  • On top of another building that replaced a 4th century
  • 00:14:45.481 --> 00:14:49.418
  • Jewish synagogue.
  • 00:14:49.418 --> 00:14:51.554
  • And here, one can see how a column of that synagogue
  • 00:14:51.554 --> 00:14:55.458
  • Was later recycled into the medieval structure.
  • 00:14:55.458 --> 00:14:59.295
  • In the same way, you could argue
  • 00:14:59.295 --> 00:15:00.963
  • That the 4th century synagogue
  • 00:15:00.963 --> 00:15:02.932
  • Was replacing a 1st century jewish synagogue
  • 00:15:02.932 --> 00:15:05.968
  • Or other community center,
  • 00:15:05.968 --> 00:15:07.937
  • A place where weddings could have been conducted.
  • 00:15:07.937 --> 00:15:11.774
  • Now, it gets even better.
  • 00:15:12.341 --> 00:15:14.543
  • This area is right beneath the church,
  • 00:15:14.543 --> 00:15:17.113
  • And it was excavated in 1997,
  • 00:15:17.113 --> 00:15:20.149
  • And this was discovered.
  • 00:15:20.149 --> 00:15:22.051
  • This is a big stone vat.
  • 00:15:22.051 --> 00:15:24.920
  • The new testament tells us that the water
  • 00:15:24.920 --> 00:15:26.889
  • That jesus turned into wine
  • 00:15:26.889 --> 00:15:28.891
  • Were kept in 6 big stone jars.
  • 00:15:28.891 --> 00:15:32.762
  • And one cannot rule out the possibility
  • 00:15:32.762 --> 00:15:35.131
  • That the original use of this very vat
  • 00:15:35.131 --> 00:15:38.000
  • Was as a water container.
  • 00:15:38.000 --> 00:15:40.436
  • And that is mind-boggling.
  • 00:15:40.436 --> 00:15:42.071
  • To think that we actually found one of the 6 pots
  • 00:15:42.071 --> 00:15:44.540
  • Mentioned in the miracle, amazing.
  • 00:15:44.540 --> 00:15:48.511
  • The church today operates mostly as a pilgrimage destination.
  • 00:15:49.678 --> 00:15:53.382
  • The church actually offers the service of renewal of the vows,
  • 00:15:53.382 --> 00:15:57.086
  • And the local community even conducts
  • 00:15:57.086 --> 00:15:59.321
  • Actual weddings here.
  • 00:15:59.321 --> 00:16:01.390
  • It's very moving for a christian to come here
  • 00:16:01.390 --> 00:16:03.526
  • And get married
  • 00:16:03.526 --> 00:16:05.161
  • In the same village where jesus performed the miracle,
  • 00:16:05.161 --> 00:16:08.631
  • Or to just come here as a tourist
  • 00:16:08.631 --> 00:16:10.266
  • And renew your vows with your wife,
  • 00:16:10.266 --> 00:16:12.368
  • Where jesus originally connected two people
  • 00:16:12.368 --> 00:16:15.171
  • By vows in a wedding.
  • 00:16:15.171 --> 00:16:16.872
  • Think about this,
  • 00:16:17.306 --> 00:16:18.207
  • Jesus turns living water
  • 00:16:18.207 --> 00:16:19.809
  • Into wine,
  • 00:16:19.809 --> 00:16:21.110
  • And here is a site, alive and kicking,
  • 00:16:21.110 --> 00:16:24.280
  • And people are still coming here for weddings.
  • 00:16:24.280 --> 00:16:27.416
  • The followers of the messiah
  • 00:16:27.416 --> 00:16:28.951
  • Are here also 2,000 years later.
  • 00:16:28.951 --> 00:16:31.787
  • That sends a message.
  • 00:16:31.787 --> 00:16:33.589
  • The faith in the lord is something that will continue
  • 00:16:33.589 --> 00:16:38.060
  • And is alive with us to this day.
  • 00:16:38.060 --> 00:16:42.665
  • This was the first sign where yeshua revealed his glory,
  • 00:16:43.766 --> 00:16:47.870
  • Showing that he had not come only to take away
  • 00:16:47.870 --> 00:16:50.639
  • The shame at the wedding,
  • 00:16:50.639 --> 00:16:52.141
  • But to take away the shame of israel,
  • 00:16:52.141 --> 00:16:54.710
  • And to take away our shame today.
  • 00:16:54.710 --> 00:16:57.546
  • He was bringing about a reversal,
  • 00:16:57.546 --> 00:17:00.049
  • And reversals are there to point to yeshua
  • 00:17:00.049 --> 00:17:03.085
  • Being revealed.
  • 00:17:03.085 --> 00:17:04.420
  • Would you like to know how to pray
  • 00:17:04.420 --> 00:17:06.122
  • Into this end-time awakening
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  • For yourself or for groups
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  • Oneforisrael.org/pray.
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  • Get an understanding
  • 00:17:18.868 --> 00:17:20.102
  • And information on how to pray
  • 00:17:20.102 --> 00:17:22.471
  • In alignment with what god
  • 00:17:22.471 --> 00:17:24.340
  • Is doing right here, right now.
  • 00:17:24.340 --> 00:17:32.548
  • When yeshua turned the water to wine,
  • 00:17:33.382 --> 00:17:35.784
  • This was not just the first miracle
  • 00:17:35.784 --> 00:17:37.686
  • That he performed in his ministry.
  • 00:17:37.686 --> 00:17:39.922
  • It was the first public miracle
  • 00:17:39.922 --> 00:17:41.857
  • That anyone had performed
  • 00:17:41.857 --> 00:17:43.192
  • In israel for hundreds of years.
  • 00:17:43.192 --> 00:17:45.561
  • So, what yeshua does
  • 00:17:45.561 --> 00:17:46.729
  • Right at the start
  • 00:17:46.729 --> 00:17:48.130
  • Is key to understanding
  • 00:17:48.130 --> 00:17:49.431
  • What yeshua is doing overall.
  • 00:17:49.431 --> 00:17:52.101
  • This miracle gives us a glimpse
  • 00:17:52.801 --> 00:17:55.404
  • Into how god is renewing and redeeming
  • 00:17:55.404 --> 00:17:58.207
  • The story and purpose of israel
  • 00:17:58.207 --> 00:18:00.409
  • And your life.
  • 00:18:00.409 --> 00:18:02.278
  • Why did yeshua perform
  • 00:18:02.278 --> 00:18:03.546
  • This first sign at a wedding?
  • 00:18:03.546 --> 00:18:05.581
  • Why not at a temple
  • 00:18:05.581 --> 00:18:06.949
  • Or at a prayer meeting?
  • 00:18:06.949 --> 00:18:08.450
  • Because the wedding points
  • 00:18:08.450 --> 00:18:09.885
  • To god's relentless love
  • 00:18:09.885 --> 00:18:11.587
  • For and unyielding
  • 00:18:11.587 --> 00:18:13.355
  • Faithfulness towards his people.
  • 00:18:13.355 --> 00:18:15.991
  • To see what i mean,
  • 00:18:15.991 --> 00:18:17.293
  • Let's look back
  • 00:18:17.293 --> 00:18:18.294
  • At an astounding prophecy.
  • 00:18:18.294 --> 00:18:24.600
  • Hundreds of years before yeshua,
  • 00:18:25.301 --> 00:18:27.469
  • Israel was a much different place.
  • 00:18:27.469 --> 00:18:29.805
  • Immorality and idolatry were rampant in the land.
  • 00:18:29.805 --> 00:18:33.175
  • Prophets would come with messages from god
  • 00:18:33.175 --> 00:18:35.945
  • Preaching repentance or judgment if they refused to repent.
  • 00:18:35.945 --> 00:18:40.115
  • One of those prophets was jeremiah.
  • 00:18:40.115 --> 00:18:42.818
  • A unique phrase that jeremiah often used in his prophecies
  • 00:18:42.818 --> 00:18:46.355
  • Was that god would bring an end to the voices
  • 00:18:46.355 --> 00:18:49.792
  • Of the bride and bridegroom.
  • 00:18:49.792 --> 00:18:51.894
  • The most joyful moment, a wedding,
  • 00:18:51.894 --> 00:18:54.163
  • Would disappear from the land of israel
  • 00:18:54.163 --> 00:18:55.998
  • If they didn't repent.
  • 00:18:55.998 --> 00:18:57.833
  • Israel would be taken captive by another nation.
  • 00:18:57.833 --> 00:19:01.737
  • One of the times jeremiah mentioned this,
  • 00:19:02.538 --> 00:19:05.341
  • He described god's judgment as the wine of god's wrath
  • 00:19:05.341 --> 00:19:10.312
  • That would make first israel, and then the nations,
  • 00:19:10.312 --> 00:19:13.582
  • Stumble and fall in drunkenness.
  • 00:19:13.582 --> 00:19:16.385
  • Israel's captivity, the absence of joy and weddings,
  • 00:19:16.385 --> 00:19:20.189
  • And the whole world drunk on the lord's wrath.
  • 00:19:20.189 --> 00:19:23.892
  • But even in jeremiah's warnings, there was another promise.
  • 00:19:23.892 --> 00:19:28.030
  • Not just judgment, but redemption.
  • 00:19:28.030 --> 00:19:30.699
  • After silence, joy.
  • 00:19:30.699 --> 00:19:34.737
  • In jeremiah 33,
  • 00:19:35.104 --> 00:19:37.106
  • He reversed his familiar phrase,
  • 00:19:37.106 --> 00:19:39.375
  • Now proclaiming that, at a future time,
  • 00:19:39.375 --> 00:19:42.311
  • There will be heard once more
  • 00:19:42.311 --> 00:19:44.380
  • "the sounds of joy and gladness,
  • 00:19:44.380 --> 00:19:46.448
  • "the voices of bride
  • 00:19:46.448 --> 00:19:47.950
  • "and bridegroom."
  • 00:19:47.950 --> 00:19:49.051
  • And these things would be signs
  • 00:19:49.051 --> 00:19:51.186
  • Of an even greater miracle.
  • 00:19:51.186 --> 00:19:53.455
  • A few verses later, he says:
  • 00:19:53.455 --> 00:19:56.091
  • "in those days and at that time,
  • 00:19:56.091 --> 00:19:58.594
  • "i will make a righteous branch
  • 00:19:58.594 --> 00:20:00.562
  • "sprout from david's line."
  • 00:20:00.562 --> 00:20:02.631
  • Jewish teaching
  • 00:20:02.631 --> 00:20:03.599
  • Has long recognized
  • 00:20:03.599 --> 00:20:05.200
  • That the branch is a title for the messiah being revealed.
  • 00:20:05.200 --> 00:20:09.471
  • And when the voices of the bride and bridegroom
  • 00:20:09.471 --> 00:20:11.940
  • Are heard once again in the land,
  • 00:20:11.940 --> 00:20:14.510
  • That's when the messiah would be revealed.
  • 00:20:14.510 --> 00:20:17.413
  • Where was yeshua's first sign?
  • 00:20:17.413 --> 00:20:19.782
  • At a wedding, right here in cana,
  • 00:20:19.782 --> 00:20:22.718
  • Where he turned water into wine.
  • 00:20:22.718 --> 00:20:25.387
  • Not the wine of judgment, but the wine of joy.
  • 00:20:25.387 --> 00:20:28.824
  • As john said, this was the first of the signs
  • 00:20:28.824 --> 00:20:32.795
  • By which he revealed his glory.
  • 00:20:32.795 --> 00:20:35.264
  • God was showing signs of restoration, of reversal,
  • 00:20:35.264 --> 00:20:39.435
  • And this is the moment the messiah was revealed.
  • 00:20:39.435 --> 00:20:42.304
  • Reversals in israel are signs
  • 00:20:42.938 --> 00:20:45.808
  • That point to the revealing of the messiah.
  • 00:20:45.808 --> 00:20:54.006
  • That point to the revealing of the messiah.
  • 00:20:54.006 --> 00:21:03.455
  • God has always been
  • 00:21:03.922 --> 00:21:05.457
  • In the business of restoring and reversing.
  • 00:21:05.457 --> 00:21:08.526
  • We see big reversals
  • 00:21:08.993 --> 00:21:10.395
  • In key points of scripture.
  • 00:21:10.395 --> 00:21:12.197
  • Exile, then return.
  • 00:21:12.664 --> 00:21:14.632
  • Silence, then voices.
  • 00:21:14.632 --> 00:21:16.868
  • And when these reversals
  • 00:21:16.868 --> 00:21:18.136
  • Are happening in israel,
  • 00:21:18.136 --> 00:21:19.771
  • They're signs of our messiah
  • 00:21:19.771 --> 00:21:21.573
  • Being revealed to his people.
  • 00:21:21.573 --> 00:21:23.875
  • Reversals lead to revelation.
  • 00:21:24.509 --> 00:21:26.878
  • And what do we see
  • 00:21:26.878 --> 00:21:27.612
  • In israel in
  • 00:21:27.612 --> 00:21:28.480
  • Our day?
  • 00:21:28.480 --> 00:21:29.748
  • Today, we have dr. seth postel
  • 00:21:30.382 --> 00:21:33.017
  • To discuss that pattern in
  • 00:21:33.017 --> 00:21:34.219
  • Scripture, and in modern times.
  • 00:21:34.219 --> 00:21:37.088
  • Hi seth, thank you so much for sitting with me today.
  • 00:21:37.088 --> 00:21:40.325
  • We want to talk about reversals and escalations in israel,
  • 00:21:40.325 --> 00:21:44.329
  • Both in biblical times and today.
  • 00:21:44.329 --> 00:21:47.232
  • And i particularly think of the prophet jeremiah,
  • 00:21:47.232 --> 00:21:50.568
  • Who prophesied for 40 years,
  • 00:21:50.568 --> 00:21:52.237
  • And one of the kind of judgment prophecies was
  • 00:21:52.237 --> 00:21:55.540
  • There will not be a sound of bridegroom and a bride,
  • 00:21:55.540 --> 00:21:59.244
  • But then it changed.
  • 00:21:59.244 --> 00:22:01.179
  • So, i think that, you know,
  • 00:22:01.179 --> 00:22:02.614
  • The whole theme of reversals
  • 00:22:02.614 --> 00:22:04.416
  • Goes across the scriptures,
  • 00:22:04.416 --> 00:22:05.683
  • You know, studying the book
  • 00:22:05.683 --> 00:22:06.651
  • Of esther. -i was just thinking
  • 00:22:06.651 --> 00:22:07.852
  • Of esther. -yeah, the book
  • 00:22:07.852 --> 00:22:08.686
  • Of esther is all about
  • 00:22:08.686 --> 00:22:09.854
  • Reversals. it's really
  • 00:22:09.854 --> 00:22:10.989
  • An amazing story of,
  • 00:22:10.989 --> 00:22:13.124
  • You know, how god
  • 00:22:13.124 --> 00:22:16.027
  • Reverses all the plots that haman had plotted
  • 00:22:16.027 --> 00:22:18.797
  • Against our people,
  • 00:22:18.797 --> 00:22:20.665
  • Mordechai was supposed to be crucified, right?
  • 00:22:20.665 --> 00:22:24.002
  • But god reversed the story in such a way
  • 00:22:24.002 --> 00:22:27.338
  • That the enemy was destroyed,
  • 00:22:27.338 --> 00:22:29.607
  • And we go from terrible bitterness to great rejoicing.
  • 00:22:29.607 --> 00:22:35.180
  • On the theme of escalation, what's really beautiful
  • 00:22:35.180 --> 00:22:38.149
  • Is that whatever god did
  • 00:22:38.149 --> 00:22:40.185
  • That was really good for us in the past
  • 00:22:40.185 --> 00:22:42.987
  • Becomes a picture of what god's going to do
  • 00:22:42.987 --> 00:22:44.823
  • In the future, but even better, the exodus.
  • 00:22:44.823 --> 00:22:47.892
  • And so, god comes,
  • 00:22:47.892 --> 00:22:49.060
  • And he fights against the egyptians.
  • 00:22:49.060 --> 00:22:51.229
  • He fights on behalf of our people,
  • 00:22:51.229 --> 00:22:53.264
  • And he splits the sea for them,
  • 00:22:53.264 --> 00:22:55.266
  • And they come out of egypt with the riches
  • 00:22:55.266 --> 00:22:57.135
  • And the treasures of egypt, right?
  • 00:22:57.135 --> 00:22:59.370
  • Well, if you look at zechariah 14,
  • 00:22:59.370 --> 00:23:01.272
  • When the lord comes to fight for us, the messiah,
  • 00:23:01.272 --> 00:23:04.409
  • And he stands on the mount of olives,
  • 00:23:04.409 --> 00:23:06.344
  • It says that the mount of olives splits in two
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  • For the people to part through, so that's a new exodus.
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  • That's interesting. i didn't think about it this way.
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  • But it's an even... -same language.
  • 00:23:13.184 --> 00:23:14.519
  • It's the same exact language, and there they,
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  • You know, they plunder, and they get
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  • The gold and the silver,
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  • But there
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  • It's an even greater exodus
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  • Because, at that point,
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  • The messiah establishes his kingdom.
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  • We are a people
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  • That god constantly
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  • Reverses our situation,
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  • Turns things around,
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  • Or gives us far better
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  • Than he already gave us in the past,
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  • And i think, to me,
  • 00:23:35.940 --> 00:23:37.408
  • One of the greatest modern reversals is, you know,
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  • Three years after the holocaust.
  • 00:23:41.412 --> 00:23:44.015
  • I mean, how do you explain three years after the holocaust?
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  • We lost six million of our people.
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  • We had nothing.
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  • And god, out of the ashes,
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  • Raises up a nation.
  • 00:23:55.159 --> 00:23:56.794
  • It was a resurrection from the dead.
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  • If anybody ever sought evidence
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  • That the god of israel is a real god,
  • 00:24:01.900 --> 00:24:04.469
  • You know, the reestablishment of the state of israel
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  • Is one of the greatest miracles of all times.
  • 00:24:06.604 --> 00:24:09.340
  • But again, it's a reversal.
  • 00:24:09.340 --> 00:24:10.975
  • You know, i think about my immigration.
  • 00:24:10.975 --> 00:24:13.478
  • I had never been to israel up until i was 22 years old.
  • 00:24:13.478 --> 00:24:17.815
  • And i came to israel, and i'd heard plenty of things,
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  • And just to see this incredible thriving country,
  • 00:24:19.817 --> 00:24:22.220
  • I couldn't stop weeping.
  • 00:24:22.220 --> 00:24:23.488
  • It was just this overwhelming sense
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  • That i could be a part of a modern miracle.
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  • The thought of even being able to communicate
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  • And think and talk in hebrew, you know,
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  • I don't ever take that for granted
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  • Because i realize it's a gift.
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  • It's something that god gave to our people.
  • 00:24:35.633 --> 00:24:39.137
  • And it's just, again, evidence
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  • That the god of israel is a real god.
  • 00:24:41.639 --> 00:24:43.441
  • He's a true god, and he's a faithful god.
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  • Amen.
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  • Soon, our book,
  • 00:24:47.345 --> 00:24:48.580
  • Walking the walls with nehemiah,
  • 00:24:48.580 --> 00:24:50.281
  • Is going to come out.
  • 00:24:50.281 --> 00:24:51.182
  • We hope it's going to be
  • 00:24:51.182 --> 00:24:51.950
  • A blessing to many.
  • 00:24:51.950 --> 00:24:53.318
  • Now, among the different things
  • 00:24:53.318 --> 00:24:54.419
  • We discuss in the book,
  • 00:24:54.419 --> 00:24:55.520
  • You know, leadership lessons
  • 00:24:55.520 --> 00:24:56.788
  • And things we can learn
  • 00:24:56.788 --> 00:24:57.956
  • In terms of character,
  • 00:24:57.956 --> 00:24:59.123
  • We also look at how
  • 00:24:59.123 --> 00:25:01.759
  • The exiles that came back
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  • From the first temple diaspora
  • 00:25:03.528 --> 00:25:05.663
  • In nehemiah's time
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  • Had built a wall that was
  • 00:25:07.465 --> 00:25:08.700
  • The basis for the population
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  • Of the city of jerusalem
  • 00:25:10.301 --> 00:25:11.269
  • And, ultimately the land
  • 00:25:11.269 --> 00:25:12.203
  • Of israel,
  • 00:25:12.203 --> 00:25:13.304
  • And eventually became
  • 00:25:13.304 --> 00:25:14.872
  • The background
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  • For the messiah's first coming
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  • To jerusalem and this land
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  • And the world.
  • 00:25:21.045 --> 00:25:22.246
  • But now we're living
  • 00:25:22.246 --> 00:25:23.414
  • In a period
  • 00:25:23.414 --> 00:25:24.616
  • Where we get to be part
  • 00:25:24.616 --> 00:25:26.250
  • Of this miracle,
  • 00:25:26.250 --> 00:25:27.418
  • As you called it, of god
  • 00:25:27.418 --> 00:25:29.587
  • Gathering the jewish people
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  • Back to this land.
  • 00:25:30.655 --> 00:25:32.123
  • The parallel would be,
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  • Or the escalation would be,
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  • A preparation for the return
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  • Of the messiah the second time.
  • 00:25:36.794 --> 00:25:38.529
  • Yeah, actually, it's really interesting
  • 00:25:38.529 --> 00:25:40.298
  • Because if you think about the escalation here,
  • 00:25:40.298 --> 00:25:44.002
  • And paul actually touches on this.
  • 00:25:44.002 --> 00:25:46.137
  • He talks, you know,
  • 00:25:46.137 --> 00:25:47.438
  • What a blessing to the world
  • 00:25:47.438 --> 00:25:48.773
  • That the messiah came the first time,
  • 00:25:48.773 --> 00:25:50.875
  • The first return from exile,
  • 00:25:50.875 --> 00:25:52.610
  • And then, you know,
  • 00:25:52.610 --> 00:25:54.545
  • A couple hundred years later the messiah was born.
  • 00:25:54.545 --> 00:25:57.215
  • How much greater a blessing will it be
  • 00:25:57.215 --> 00:26:00.718
  • After this second return,
  • 00:26:00.718 --> 00:26:03.287
  • When the messiah comes again.
  • 00:26:03.287 --> 00:26:05.356
  • We're looking at a time of incredible escalation
  • 00:26:05.356 --> 00:26:08.192
  • And, you know, this expectation of the lord's return.
  • 00:26:08.192 --> 00:26:12.930
  • I think to the extent that we see the antisemitism growing,
  • 00:26:12.930 --> 00:26:16.768
  • And the hatred growing,
  • 00:26:16.768 --> 00:26:17.802
  • I think to that extent
  • 00:26:17.802 --> 00:26:18.903
  • Our expectation arises
  • 00:26:18.903 --> 00:26:20.405
  • That god's going to do something,
  • 00:26:20.405 --> 00:26:22.206
  • You know, soon and very soon.
  • 00:26:22.206 --> 00:26:23.975
  • Amen. -and so,
  • 00:26:23.975 --> 00:26:24.876
  • We're waiting for the
  • 00:26:24.876 --> 00:26:26.277
  • Revealing of the messiah
  • 00:26:26.277 --> 00:26:27.578
  • The second time.
  • 00:26:27.578 --> 00:26:28.479
  • Thank you so much, seth.
  • 00:26:28.479 --> 00:26:29.447
  • It's been a pleasure.
  • 00:26:29.447 --> 00:26:30.381
  • Thank you.
  • 00:26:30.381 --> 00:26:34.085
  • We often cry out for god
  • 00:26:34.585 --> 00:26:36.421
  • To reverse impossible situations:
  • 00:26:36.421 --> 00:26:38.756
  • Our finances, our children's hearts,
  • 00:26:38.756 --> 00:26:41.459
  • Our health.
  • 00:26:41.459 --> 00:26:42.660
  • I'm personally crying out to god
  • 00:26:42.660 --> 00:26:44.429
  • For my unbelieving family.
  • 00:26:44.429 --> 00:26:46.497
  • God loves to answer these prayers.
  • 00:26:46.497 --> 00:26:48.933
  • I encourage you,
  • 00:26:48.933 --> 00:26:50.334
  • When he does perform a miracle in your life,
  • 00:26:50.334 --> 00:26:52.904
  • Let it point you back to yeshua.
  • 00:26:52.904 --> 00:26:55.773
  • Don't just take the blessing
  • 00:26:55.773 --> 00:26:57.075
  • And move on.
  • 00:26:57.075 --> 00:26:58.376
  • Let divine reversals
  • 00:26:58.376 --> 00:26:59.877
  • Actually awaken your heart
  • 00:26:59.877 --> 00:27:01.646
  • And reveal messiah
  • 00:27:01.646 --> 00:27:03.114
  • More clearly in your life.
  • 00:27:03.114 --> 00:27:05.983
  • Yeshua's first sign
  • 00:27:06.451 --> 00:27:07.618
  • At the wedding
  • 00:27:07.618 --> 00:27:08.586
  • Also points to the fact
  • 00:27:08.586 --> 00:27:09.721
  • That yeshua himself
  • 00:27:09.721 --> 00:27:11.189
  • Is the bridegroom.
  • 00:27:11.189 --> 00:27:12.724
  • Jeremiah prophesied
  • 00:27:12.724 --> 00:27:14.325
  • That the voices of the bride and bridegroom
  • 00:27:14.325 --> 00:27:16.894
  • Would one day return to israel.
  • 00:27:16.894 --> 00:27:19.664
  • John the baptist declared:
  • 00:27:19.664 --> 00:27:21.566
  • "i am full of joy when i hear the bridegroom's voice."
  • 00:27:21.566 --> 00:27:25.770
  • He heard the voice of yeshua, israel's true bridegroom.
  • 00:27:25.770 --> 00:27:31.509
  • Next time,
  • 00:27:31.809 --> 00:27:32.777
  • We will look at this idea
  • 00:27:32.777 --> 00:27:34.145
  • Of israel being married
  • 00:27:34.145 --> 00:27:35.847
  • To the lord himself
  • 00:27:35.847 --> 00:27:37.381
  • And how it relates to the way
  • 00:27:37.381 --> 00:27:38.950
  • You experience the immeasurable
  • 00:27:38.950 --> 00:27:40.485
  • Love of god in your life.
  • 00:27:40.485 --> 00:27:42.887
  • Join us as we continue
  • 00:27:42.887 --> 00:27:44.489
  • To ask the question:
  • 00:27:44.489 --> 00:27:45.890
  • Why israel?
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