One For Israel - What Is Your Vision?

February 26, 2026 | S1 E12 | 27:33

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| One For Israel - What Is Your Vision? | February 26, 2026

There is one thing we cannot do without,
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God himself.
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When you understand the torah,
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It leads you to a place of relationship.
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And this is exactly what yeshua is saying,
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The spirit of god will be poured out.
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Ezra and nehemiah worked together towards a vision,
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To prepare for a move of god.
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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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You can see behind me the old city of jerusalem.
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This isn't just a historical site
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Or a museum.
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Thousands of people have built their lives here,
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Some for generations.
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Holy sites and also homes.
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It's the people that make up the city.
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But 100 years ago,
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Jerusalem looked much different.
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Jewish people around the world only dreamed
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Of setting foot here.
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And it was the vision of a few
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That made this dream a reality today.
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In nehemiah's time, the walls of jerusalem
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Had been broken down,
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And many were afraid to live within the city.
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But when nehemiah led the rebuilding of the wall,
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The people were able to dwell here again in safety.
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But what was next?
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Nehemiah didn't just think about building up walls.
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He saw god's vision for reviving a city.
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Join us as we ask: what is your vision?
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As we walk the walls with nehemiah.
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The walls were completed,
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But nehemiah didn't start celebrating yet.
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Follow-through was needed.
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Not just the outside,
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But the inside of the city needed to be set in order.
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First, nehemiah needed to establish stable leadership.
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He writes:
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Nehemiah had long-term vision.
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He knew that the king of persia wouldn't allow him
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To stay in jerusalem forever.
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He wasn't trying to exert himself
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As permanent king.
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He knew that the people needed the right leaders
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With integrity and godliness.
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Otherwise, all his work would be for nothing.
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He chose his own brother as well as a man named hananiah
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For the job.
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But these choices were not favoritism or nepotism.
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If that was the case,
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Those leaders would have quickly crumbled
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Under the pressure.
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Leading jerusalem wasn't a job for the weak-hearted.
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Nehemiah chose his brother
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Because he had proven his care and faithfulness
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For the city.
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A man named hananiah was also chosen,
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The commander of the citadel.
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He had led the defense of the city
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During the most vulnerable time,
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While the people were building.
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These two men had proven themselves for leadership,
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Not by popularity or a charismatic personality,
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But by their actions and by their character.
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After he arranged the leadership,
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Nehemiah began to make an organized record
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Of israel's population.
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He was making preparations to ensure each family was living
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In the right place,
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Either in jerusalem or in one of the villages outside.
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For long-term vision,
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It's important for people to be in the right places.
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And sometimes people need to shift
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Depending on calling, season and need.
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At one for israel,
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We have many departments
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Working in different roles.
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Our media department,
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Evangelism department,
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Discipleship,
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Arabic outreach
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And humanitarian aid.
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Our ministries to women,
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Young adults, soldiers,
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Russian speakers
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And the faculty for our bible college.
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Sometimes members of our team
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Move around to help one another.
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But we all work towards the vision.
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So leadership matters.
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Having the right people matters.
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But even with dynamic leadership
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And the most talented team,
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There is one thing we cannot do without,
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God himself.
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Without him, it's impossible to fulfill
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A god-ordained vision.
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Think about it.
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With some effort,
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Humanity can come together in unity.
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We can build remarkable things on our own.
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We can do great things and make great cities
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All without the help of god.
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That's the story of the tower of babel.
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If our goal is human greatness,
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We can achieve that on our own.
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But if we want something eternal,
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We need him.
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Without god, our cities will surely crumble.
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Nehemiah's long-term vision
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Wasn't just to build a city or walls,
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But to build a people of god.
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To build jerusalem as a city founded on god's word.
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So after the walls were completed,
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Once leadership was established,
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Nehemiah found a man who could guide israel
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In the ways and the word of the lord.
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His name was ezra.
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Nehemiah had built up the city physically.
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But now he would bring out someone
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Who could build up the people spiritually.
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Ezra.
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Ezra was a scribe and a priest.
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He had fathered the first generation of exiles
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Returning to jerusalem,
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A key spiritual leader at that time.
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He was experienced at copying scriptures by hand,
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Word for word.
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But he wasn't just a scribe.
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Ezra had set his heart to study and teach
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The word of god.
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So ezra and nehemiah worked together
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Towards a vision,
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To prepare for a move of god.
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On the biblical day of trumpets,
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Nehemiah gathered the people of jerusalem
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For an assembly.
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He had already prepared a large wooden platform
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For ezra to use.
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And so ezra went up on the platform
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In front of all the people,
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Opened up a scroll and began to read.
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He read the five books of moses
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From morning until noon.
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Nehemiah writes:
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Remember, at this time no one had their own copies
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Of the bible at home,
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And they couldn't just pull up the bible app on their phone
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And do their daily reading.
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Many of the jews in jerusalem had grown up outside the land,
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Speaking aramaic rather than hebrew,
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So they didn't even understand the language
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The torah was written.
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So when ezra read from the scriptures,
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Levites were stationed throughout the crowd.
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The levites gave the translation
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And then practical instructions to the people,
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How to live out the word of god
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They were hearing.
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This speaks to the great vision that nehemiah had.
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He knew that god had promised a revival in jerusalem.
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So he made preparations to ensure that the people
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Would hear and understand god's word.
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To make sure that their hearts would be tender
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To a move of his spirit.
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In essence, nehemiah was doing the work of discipleship.
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Just like nehemiah,
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We need to prepare for god's move.
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As a church, we need to be laser focused
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On god's vision.
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Yeshua's great commission, making disciples.
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Discipleship is more than just
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Simply hearing instruction.
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Discipleship is not simply about
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Learning rules and regulations.
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In nehemiah chapter 8,
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The word of god affected their lives.
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It says that they help the people to understand.
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And when you understand the word of god,
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When you understand the torah,
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It doesn't lead you to become religious.
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It leads you to a place of relationship.
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And they started to relate to one another.
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They became a community of people
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That did things together.
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Nehemiah, he was a religious leader,
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But he was also,
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I think his heart and his passion
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Was to focus on the walls for their protection
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To surround the city.
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Whereas ezra, as a priest,
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You can see that everything he did
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Was specifically tied to the word of god,
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To the torah.
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For years, i lived in brooklyn
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And i had a lot of interaction
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With the ultra, ultra orthodox
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Jewish communities in brooklyn.
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And what was really interesting
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Is that every community in brooklyn,
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The religious communities,
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Are defined by their rabbis.
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So if the rabbis tell you to wear certain socks,
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Everybody in that community, they wear those socks.
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They consult the rabbi on personal matters,
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On social matters.
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Yeshua calls us to that place when he says:
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"come to me all who are weary and heavy laden
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"and i will give you rest."
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Just take my teaching upon you
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And learn from me.
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His yoke is his torah, his yoke is his teaching.
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I would argue that discipleship is allowing yeshua
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To be our master teacher.
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What does yeshua teach me about prayer?
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What does yeshua teach me about loving my enemy?
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How to handle money, living in a community,
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Reconciliation.
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Within the jewish community, the religious community,
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You can kind of look at certain religious people
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And say, okay, i know who your rabbi is
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Based on how you act, based on how you dress,
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Based on the things you do.
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Discipleship is coming to a place
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That the world will look at us and say,
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I can tell that you're a follower of yeshua.
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Helping people to make that step
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From hearing the word of god to living the word of god
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Is something that only god can do.
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We are the messengers,
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But there is something that takes place that, you know,
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King david says in psalm 119:
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"open my eyes that i might behold wondrous things
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"from your law."
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You know, when i look at the story
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Of ezra and nehemiah,
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Something happened.
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Ezra was reading the word of god.
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He was reading the torah.
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People were understanding the torah.
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Suddenly, their hearts were rent.
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Suddenly, they started to weep because they realized
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That they had been living for so long,
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So far away from god.
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And so as i see our role right now
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Is we're preparing, at least at the college,
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The leaders and future leaders
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To be those that are ready on that day.
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When god moves in the hearts of the people of israel
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To understand and to receive the word of god.
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But it's, again, it's crucial that we create that moment
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By an expectation
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That we're not just reading a dead book.
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I would argue that there's things
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That we commit ourselves to,
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To study the word of god,
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To learn the word of god.
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But then there's a spiritual component
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When god opens our eyes
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And he makes that book a real book in our lives.
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We're called the people of the book.
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Paul says to us have been committed
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The oracles of god,
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And yet we spend so much time
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Not in that book.
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It's the least favorite subject by israelis in schools.
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Much of religious education
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Is studying the words of the rabbis
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And what the rabbis say about what other rabbis said,
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About what other rabbis said.
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But when you look at that moment
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In nehemiah chapter 8, when ezra is reading the torah
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And the people get it,
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And it goes from weeping to rejoicing
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Because they realize that god is real,
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That the god of abraham and isaac
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Is the hope of our people,
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That he's the reason for our people's existence.
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He's the one that's defined us as a people
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And seeing the repentance
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And then seeing the joy and then seeing the festivities.
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It's incredible to see students coming here,
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That, you know, some of them just out of the army
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After very difficult experiences and exhausted
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And they come here to study the word of god.
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And i would argue that that is the greatest joy
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Is to see people encounter the word of god
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As something real, as something living,
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And as something that can change their lives.
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And that's something i long for,
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To see growing more and more in the land of israel,
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And, of course, in the rest of the world.
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And so the bible is a book that demands our lives.
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It demands that we respond
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And it demands to, literally, to cut us to the heart
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And to change us from the inside.
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When ezra read the word of god
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To the people of jerusalem,
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Something supernatural happened.
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They were cut to the heart with conviction.
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Suddenly, they all began to weep bitterly.
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They began to awaken,
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To realize just how far they had missed god's mark.
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Could this great revival
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Point to a greater awakening still to come?
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Today we are witnessing a spiritual awakening in israel.
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Unlike anything we've ever seen,
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Hearts are being opened,
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Lives are being transformed,
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And the good news of jesus
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Is spreading throughout israel.
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Today we have over 700,000 israelis
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Subscribed to our hebrew gospel channel,
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God is opening hearts,
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Nehemiah gathered all of jerusalem together
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On the day of trumpets.
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He brought out ezra,
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The spiritual leader of the people.
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Ezra read from the torah
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And many heard god's word
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For the first time in their lives.
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As he and the levites read and taught for six hours,
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Something extraordinary happened in the hearts
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Of the people.
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They began to weep bitterly,
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The cries of mourning rang out over all jerusalem.
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They realized collectively just how far they had drifted
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From the ways of god, from the purpose in him.
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Observing this scene of mourning and repentance,
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Nehemiah cried out:
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Nehemiah stopped the weeping.
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It wasn't the day to mourn
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But to rejoice in what god was doing.
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It reminds me of the parable of the prodigal son.
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When the son returned home,
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He was ready to weep and beg his father
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For a place among his servants.
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Instead, his father ran to embrace him
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And through a celebration,
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Our father rejoices in having his sons back home.
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He rejoices in restored relationship
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And his joy becomes our strength.
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Ezra read the torah on the day of trumpets
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And went on to celebrate the joyful feast of tabernacles.
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These biblical days have eternal significance.
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God uses this biblical calendar to reveal yeshua
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As well as prophecy of the future redemption.
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Get our study guide,
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"yeshua in the biblical feasts"
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And learn more of what god says
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Through his appointed times.
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We're here with dr. golan broshi
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Who can give us a profound look
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At the biblical days called the feast of tabernacles.
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The meaning, the joy and the prophetic picture
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Of god's ultimate plan.
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Shalom golan and thank you so much
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For taking the time.
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Can you talk a little bit
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About the joy of sukkot,
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Feast of tabernacles?
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There is a theme that...
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The theme of water.
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Here in israel, we pray for rain,
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You know, but the water is something that...
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Talk about that a little bit.
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Traditionally in sukkot, there's the first rain.
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I think, "hayoreh", you know,
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The first rain comes
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During sukkot and there's of course,
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There's actually special prayers
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In the rabbinic siddur for the rain,
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And it's during sukkot that you start praying for the rain.
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But there's a tradition that was developed
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During the second temple period,
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Which is called "nisuch hamaim".
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I don't know how you can... -"the pouring of the water".
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Now, it's a tradition.
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It's not a holiday from the torah,
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But it's a tradition that was done each day of sukkot
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Where the priest were pouring the water with the wine
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On the altar.
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And that would, according to the tradition,
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That "shikfa" or... -reflected.
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Reflected the pouring of the holy spirit.
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Isn't that interesting? -so i will ask you to read
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From john 7:37-39,
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Verses that actually yeshua is taking,
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You can say, building on that tradition
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And taking it to the next level.
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So how can rivers of living water
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Flow from the heart? -exactly.
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And according to tradition,
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This pouring of water reflects or resembles
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The pouring of the spirit.
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And this is exactly what yeshua is saying.
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The spirit of god will be poured out.
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So how does the feast of tabernacles
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Points both to yeshua's first coming
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As well as second coming?
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There's an ancient rabbinic tradition,
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It's called "otzar midrashim",
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The treasure of all the midrashim,
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Which says that yeshua was born
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On the feast of sukkot.
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A rabbinic midrash,
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I'm not talking about
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The messianic writing,
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A rabbinic midrash.
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The rabbis are talking to peter
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And they're telling him:
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Peter, go and make
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The gentiles our friend
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And teach them about yeshua,
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And teach them what we know,
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That yeshua was lifted up and was resurrected.
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And of course, he was born in sukkot.
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And this is in the midrash.
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John, in chapter one, is doing something incredible.
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He says: "and the word became flesh and dwelled."
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And the word "dwelled" in greek
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Is the same word for tabernacle.
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So yeshua is like a walking sukkah.
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When we celebrate it, we are reminded
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We're waiting for a better jerusalem to come from heaven.
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That's beautiful. -yes,
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And of course, the second coming,
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Some believers are,
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They think that perhaps yeshua will return
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Between rosh hashanah, the feast of trumpets,
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And yom kippur.
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Exactly four days after yom kippur,
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When all israel is already saved, in the thousand years,
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Can celebrate with the gentiles the feast of tabernacles.
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By the way, in amos, i think amos 9,
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God is promising to...
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Rebuild, yeah, rebuild the fallen tabernacle of david.
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Of david. -and yeshua, of course, is the son of david.
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And when he will come, when he will return,
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The fallen tabernacle of david will rise again.
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That's beautiful, how everything is connected.
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Amen. -so zechariah chapter 14 tells us
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That people from all the nations
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Will come to jerusalem.
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I mean, they will come to jerusalem
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On the feast of tabernacles to worship the king of kings,
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The messiah himself.
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So my question is, for christians today,
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Can they celebrate sukkot?
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Can they celebrate the feast of tabernacles?
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What do you think?
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Of course, christians
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Are not obligated to celebrate tabernacles.
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They don't have to do it. -it's not a condition
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For salvation anyway.
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Exactly.
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But imagine, when they do it,
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How jewish people are seeing it.
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First of all, tabernacle reminds us,
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Again, as we said,
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That we're not yet
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In the promised land.
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We live in a tabernacle
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And we're waiting for the final destination.
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But second, the second reason why christians can celebrate it
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Is because they can make
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Jewish people jealous for the messiah.
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Because can you imagine a jewish person
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Would see a christian celebrating?
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Why are you celebrating it?
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Because i love you.
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Because i love your messiah.
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And because of your messiah, i love you.
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And i want to identify with you through this holiday.
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That's wonderful.
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Dr. golan borshi,
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Thank you so much for being with me today.
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It's been a pleasure.
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And for you, our viewers,
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I want to encourage you to take advantage
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Of the free resource you have on the screen.
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It will help you to go deeper in your faith,
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Understanding the biblical holidays.
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And we are praying for you to experience god's joy
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And celebration and victory in your life.
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Ezra read the torah to the people of jerusalem.
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And as one voice,
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They began to weep for their sin.
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But suddenly, nehemiah put an end
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To the mourning.
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Instead, he commanded the people to celebrate
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The feast of tabernacles,
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The most joyful festival of the year.
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So weeping turned to rejoicing.
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The people rejoiced not only because jerusalem
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Had been rebuilt,
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But because they were being revived,
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Fulfilling god's vision for his people.
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When celebrating the feast of tabernacles,
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The torah commanded us to gather branches
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From four different trees.
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Yet, nehemiah commanded israel to gather
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From slightly different trees,
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Including olive and wild olive branches.
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There is an important and prophetic difference here.
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Paul would later write the gentiles,
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Like wild olive shoots,
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Are grafted into the cultivated tree of israel.
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In nehemiah's day, both natural and wild branches
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Were gathered to celebrate god's salvation.
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Scripture says that when yeshua returns,
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Israel will repent once again.
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At that time,
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All nations will join in the feast of tabernacles.
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One people, one celebration, one tree.
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This event of repentance, joy and celebration
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Is the climax of hope in the book of nehemiah.
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The completed wall led to one of the greatest days
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Our people had experienced.
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But as we read on,
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Hope eventually became mixed with controversy.
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This celebration was not yet the messianic hope
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We were waiting for.
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This revival of the nation
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In the heart of jerusalem was still just a shadow
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Of a greater redemption to come.
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A redemption we believe is right around the corner.
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Nehemiah's vision was to rebuild the walls of jerusalem,
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Creating the infrastructure for israel
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To return and worship.
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Our vision at one for israel
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Is to bring the gospel back to israel,
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Equipping believers to reach the world from israel.
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In many ways, our vision is just like nehemiah's,
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To prepare the body of messiah in israel for his return.
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As the people of jerusalem
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Began to experience spiritual awakening,
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They started to relearn the character of god.
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Next time, we'll see what it looks like
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When a nation encounters the grace and goodness of god
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In a powerful way.
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What is the proper response to grace?
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Find out as we continue
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To walk the walls with nehemiah.
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One For Israel - What Is Your Vision?

February 26, 2026 | S1 E12 | 27:33

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