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Rabbi Jason Sobel: The Messiah’s Birth | Transformed by the Messiah

December 13, 2025 | S1 E1 | 56:45

Rabbi Jason Sobel: The Messiah’s Birth | Transformed by the Messiah
Embark on a riveting journey through the land of Israel with Rabbi Jason and Nicole, as they uncover the intricacies of biblical prophecies leading to the birth of the Messiah. Exploring ancient promises fulfilled, like the significance of Bethlehem and the symbolisms of the Wise Men's gifts, they delve into the connection between the Old and New Testaments. Through a masterful storytelling style, they decode the divine timing and purpose behind every detail, revealing a tapestry of redemption that intricately weaves the past with the present, offering a transformative glimpse into God's faithful and purpose-driven plan for humanity.
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| Rabbi Jason Sobel: The Messiah’s Birth | Transformed by the Messiah | December 13, 2025
  • I've always enjoyed road trips, ever since my elementary school
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  • Days, when my family would pile into our wood paneled station
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  • Wagon and leave our new jersey hometown for the florida coast.
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  • The open road has sparked my love of adventure, from my
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  • Unbuckled seat belt in the back,
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  • I was just excited,
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  • Excited for the unknown,
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  • From the discovery of something new.
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  • I never minded the nearly 24- hour drive. to pass the time,
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  • I'd crack open activity books, and i'd play games, my favorite
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  • Being connect the dots.
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  • There was just something so thrilling about joining what
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  • Looked like a bunch of random dots together, and slowly
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  • Watching a complete picture take shape.
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  • Today we're going on a trip of our own.
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  • Like most road trips, we'll need a map, but not one filled
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  • With highways and bypasses.
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  • This map is drawn straight from scripture.
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  • Together, we'll use the bible to guide our journey through
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  • The land of israel,
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  • Stepping back in time
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  • Just before the turn of the millennium, when caesar
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  • Augustus ruled the roman empire and herod the great
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  • Reigned over judea.
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  • On our journey, we'll connect the dots exploring questions
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  • Many of us have wondered,
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  • Like of all the places in the world, why was jesus born in
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  • A manger in bethlehem?
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  • And why, of all people, did the angels choose
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  • To surprise shepherds? and the wise men,
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  • What compelled them to leave
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  • Everything and follow a distant star?
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  • What ancient prophecies were fulfilled the moment the
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  • Messiah, yeshua jesus was born? we'll chart our path through the
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  • Old and new testaments, discovering what we followers
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  • Of yeshua jesus often miss. we'll uncover the truth, weaving
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  • Together the intricate details to reveal the whole story
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  • From beginning to end.
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  • Too often, christians prize the new, while jewish people
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  • Cling to the old.
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  • But one without the other is only half the story,
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  • Half the inheritance.
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  • The full inheritance,
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  • True blessings of beauty, wisdom and revelation comes
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  • When we link the old with the new.
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  • Only by connecting all the dots can we begin to see the
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  • Complete, full, and total picture and understanding god's
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  • Promise-filled, purpose-driven plan for us and for you.
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  • Join me on this journey where the dots come together and the
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  • Full story is revealed.
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  • Welcome to transformed by the messiah.
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  • ♪♪
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  • Hi, rabbi.
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  • How are you?
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  • Hey, how's it going?
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  • Good.
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  • How are you going?
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  • Doing great.
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  • How about yourself?
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  • Good. that looks great.
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  • Thank you so much.
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  • You know, you really can't go wrong with a solid drip coffee.
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  • Black, of course.
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  • Yes, i'm that kind of coffee drinker.
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  • You know, i firmly believe that if it's a good coffee, it
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  • Doesn't need anything added.
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  • But that's just my humble opinion, which also happens
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  • To be correct.
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  • Now, i'll admit i'm new to the coffee scene, but it didn't
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  • Take me long to become a fan.
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  • Caffeine kicks aside,
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  • I love the rich, bold flavors, the subtle notes of chocolate
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  • And fruit, and even nuts.
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  • Coffee brings with it the cafes and the atmosphere.
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  • It's not just the aroma of fresh grounds, or the clink of
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  • Mugs, or the hum of the milk frother.
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  • It's the activity.
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  • Life happens here.
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  • People pitch ideas, network, collaborate.
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  • They plan events, forge friendships, and expand minds
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  • And plot adventures.
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  • Rabbi jason. nicole.
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  • What are you doing here? how are you?
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  • Oh, fantastic.
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  • Please. so good to see you.
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  • Sit down. thank you.
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  • Thank you. ah!
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  • Oh, thank you so much.
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  • Thank you.
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  • Enjoy.
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  • Thank you very much. what have you been up to?
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  • What's new?
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  • Music, speaking, writing, all that good stuff.
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  • Do you have a new book?
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  • I do, i have a new book that's out.
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  • But what are you doing?
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  • Oh, i'm actually working on a new project, a new book called
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  • Transformed by the messiah.
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  • Check it out.
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  • Wow. looks great.
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  • Can't wait to hear all about it and read it.
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  • So excited about it.
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  • You know, we were just talking about culture.
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  • You know, this type of energy, this type of excitement, this
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  • Type of connection,
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  • That's the kind of life you'd find in the marketplaces of
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  • Jesus' day.
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  • Of course, coffee shops didn't exist back then.
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  • Coffee itself wouldn't show up for another 800 years.
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  • But the culture we now associate with cafes that
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  • Absolutely existed instead of cozy coffee shops?
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  • People gathered in ancient marketplaces.
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  • They were social hubs, cultural crossroads and public forums.
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  • Places where rabbis taught.
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  • Philosophers debated and scribes told stories where
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  • People studied, exchanged ideas, and connected with
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  • Strangers and long time friends.
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  • It was in those ancient marketplaces that jesus yeshua,
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  • Stepped into history.
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  • Long before he ever walked among us, god had
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  • Already spoken. through prophets and poets,
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  • He gave us his word.
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  • The scriptures painted a prophetic portrait of the
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  • Messiah, where he would be born, how he would teach, the miracles
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  • He would perform, the betrayal and the suffering he would
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  • Endure, and even where he would be buried.
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  • Every single detail was fulfilled in the life
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  • And legacy of jesus
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  • Among everyday people in everyday places.
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  • Okay, so what i'm wondering is, so how do those ancient
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  • Prophecies and promises actually like, what do they
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  • Reveal to us like about him, and how do they actually
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  • Shape us today?
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  • Those are great questions.
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  • Those are questions that really matter.
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  • It seems like your caffeine is kicking in.
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  • For those of you watching,
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  • Grab your favorite mug, pull up a seat, and join us as we begin
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  • At the very beginning, at the birth of messiah.
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  • This is sacred grounds where the conversations, brew and
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  • Transformation begins.
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  • You know, the times that jesus were born into were not really
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  • Much different than today.
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  • You know, there were a lot of people that had lost hope.
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  • And in the midst of that sense of hopelessness, there was a
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  • Ray of light, and that was the birth of jesus
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  • Because really, the birth of jesus is really the birth of
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  • Hope, because the incarnation, god coming in human flesh,
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  • Demonstrates not only god's faithfulness, but god's love
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  • For all of us.
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  • I mean, think about it for a moment.
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  • So many times we think of the sacrifice of yeshua,
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  • That's jesus's hebrew name, is what he did for us
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  • At calvary on the cross.
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  • But the incarnation, the birth of god in human flesh was as
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  • Much a sacrifice as his death on the cross
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  • Because think about it, his
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  • Death on the cross lasted six hours,
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  • But the incarnation is forever.
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  • You know, god left paradise and
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  • Came down into this fallen world.
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  • And he experienced pain.
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  • He experienced rejection.
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  • He experienced suffering.
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  • He experienced hatred.
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  • All these things.
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  • And therefore he can sympathize with us.
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  • And he demonstrated his love for us even in the midst of the
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  • Darkness, even in the midst of
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  • The hopelessness and the brokenness,
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  • The birth of yeshua declares, god has inextricably bound his
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  • Fate and destiny with the fate and destiny of humanity, which
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  • Each and every one of us, and it declares god is faithful and
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  • That he will fulfill every promise that he made for our
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  • Life, even if it means something as crazy as a virgin
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  • Will conceive and bear a son.
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  • Wow. that's awesome. that's awesome.
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  • You know, and even as you were saying that, i was picturing in
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  • My head like the dynamic of someone so big,
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  • We're talking about god, making himself so small,
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  • Not just as small as a baby, but now we're talking about as
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  • Small as an embryo first.
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  • You know what i'm saying?
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  • And he's still god.
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  • And he did that to bring us
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  • Hope, like you're saying, and salvation.
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  • It's the ultimate act of humility.
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  • That's why he says he humbled
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  • Himself taking the form of a servant.
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  • Right? humility is about smallness.
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  • It's about making space.
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  • But the incarnation was also a fulfillment of prophecy.
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  • Because think about it for a moment.
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  • I mean, going back to the first messianic prophecy,
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  • Genesis 3:15, right
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  • It says, the seed of the woman would do what?
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  • Crush. yeah. crush.
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  • Crush the head of the serpent. yes.
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  • But what's so interesting there is that there's something
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  • Unusual there in the hebrew
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  • Because in the old testament,
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  • In the hebrew scriptures, it's men who have seed, not women.
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  • It's the seed of abraham.
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  • It's the seed of jacob.
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  • It's the seed of david.
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  • So what does it mean?
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  • Seed of the woman?
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  • It's a very unusual phrase, but when you understand that it's
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  • Alluding to a revelation that is to come, that the messiah is
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  • Going to have a unique birth, he's going to have a virgin
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  • Birth through mary, which is again another key messianic
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  • Prophecy that we'll get into.
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  • A virgin will conceive and bear a son.
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  • So genesis 3:15 alludes to isaiah 7:14, and of course there
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  • Is that famous passage...
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  • ... that it's in bethlehem that this promised messiah
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  • Is going to be born.
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  • And i think as we think about all these promises connected to
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  • The birth of yeshua, to the birth of jesus, what it really
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  • Declares as we think about all the details and how they all
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  • Come together, is that god is faithful, that god is a promise
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  • Keeper, and that ultimately, the birth of jesus is meant to
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  • Give us hope.
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  • And i like to think of hope practically as this.
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  • That hope is the belief that your future is going to be
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  • Better than your past.
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  • And i believe our future is going to be better than our
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  • Past for one simple reason.
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  • God sent jesus, who as we see, is going to restore everything
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  • That we've lost.
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  • I love that, and i love also how it says, um, over in
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  • Romans 8 it says, for we are saved by hope,
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  • But hope that is seen is not hope for what a man sees he had
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  • Hoped for.
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  • But if we hope for that, we see not, then do we with patience,
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  • Wait for it.
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  • And how they had waited for the messiah and hope came, and now
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  • We're living out of that hope.
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  • And so there are all of these prophecies in scripture, and
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  • The idea that one person could fulfill all of these so
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  • Precisely born of a woman, born of a virgin, from the lion of
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  • The tribe of judah, going to be rejected, going to suffer,
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  • Going to be raised on the third day.
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  • I mean, there is statistical impossibility.
  • 00:13:41.099 --> 00:13:45.303
  • Oh my goodness, it's unbelievable.
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  • And again, i just think it declares that god is
  • 00:13:48.539 --> 00:13:53.278
  • Faithful to every promise that he has ever made.
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  • He'll be faithful to every promise that he's made to each
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  • And every one of us.
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  • The one who promised is faithful.
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  • Every promise in him is yes and amen.
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  • And by fulfilling these prophecies, god not only
  • 00:14:06.457 --> 00:14:11.262
  • Demonstrates that he has a purpose and an intentional
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  • Story, but he demonstrates his power, that it's his hand
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  • That's guiding history, and he's working all things
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  • Together to bring about his greater good.
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  • And that should encourage each and every one of us, because
  • 00:14:26.277 --> 00:14:29.347
  • God will work out every situation in our life
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  • Ultimately for his good.
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  • And that is good news.
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  • And i believe that seeing the fingerprints of god throughout
  • 00:14:36.421 --> 00:14:40.925
  • History and prophecy reveals his intentional plan for our
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  • Lives as well.
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  • I love that.
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  • So i'm hearing you say what he did,
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  • The faithfulness he showed is
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  • What he does, and it's who he is.
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  • So what he did,
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  • The faithfulness then, is also the faithfulness that we can
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  • Now expect and hope for and live out of in confidence.
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  • The fact that god is in all of these details
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  • Working it out shows that god is in the details and cares
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  • About every aspect of our life.
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  • Love it.
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  • ♪♪
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  • Okay. oh my goodness.
  • 00:15:33.277 --> 00:15:34.545
  • Like, what's going on?
  • 00:15:34.545 --> 00:15:35.880
  • Like, where are we at?
  • 00:15:35.880 --> 00:15:36.881
  • What's going on?
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  • What's happening?
  • 00:15:37.515 --> 00:15:38.449
  • We are here in a representation
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  • Of first century biblical bethlehem.
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  • And the geography is important.
  • 00:15:44.922 --> 00:15:47.025
  • We are only about six miles away from jerusalem.
  • 00:15:47.025 --> 00:15:51.195
  • This is a suburb of jerusalem.
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  • You see that cave over there?
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  • Maybe that's like part of the shepherds fields where the
  • 00:15:55.199 --> 00:15:58.036
  • Angels appeared to the shepherds,
  • 00:15:58.036 --> 00:15:59.737
  • Or a cave like that in which jesus was born.
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  • And just over that direction would be first
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  • Century jerusalem.
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  • So we are not far from the holy city.
  • 00:16:07.245 --> 00:16:10.081
  • Wow.
  • 00:16:10.081 --> 00:16:10.948
  • So okay, so i'm overjoyed and wowed.
  • 00:16:10.948 --> 00:16:13.251
  • We're here in bethlehem.
  • 00:16:13.251 --> 00:16:14.552
  • And you've been here, i'm sure, 1001 times. from the little bit
  • 00:16:14.552 --> 00:16:17.455
  • That i know, you know that we--
  • 00:16:17.455 --> 00:16:19.257
  • This is where mary and joseph comes with, you know, to give
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  • Birth to jesus.
  • 00:16:21.993 --> 00:16:23.227
  • But it's also the home of ruth and boaz and king david.
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  • Do you think it was the same field and, uh, area that ruth
  • 00:16:27.732 --> 00:16:34.105
  • And boaz were in, that maybe in david that eventually
  • 00:16:34.105 --> 00:16:38.276
  • Jesus came to?
  • 00:16:38.276 --> 00:16:39.744
  • Absolutely. it's for sure 100% the general location, but we
  • 00:16:39.744 --> 00:16:44.282
  • Know it's also prophetically significant.
  • 00:16:44.282 --> 00:16:47.552
  • Jesus yeshua had to be born here because it's the
  • 00:16:47.552 --> 00:16:51.622
  • Fulfillment of what the prophet micah says.
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  • You, bethlehem ephrathah too
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  • Small to be among the clans of judah.
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  • One will go forth for you to be a ruler in israel.
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  • This is that city because jesus is the ultimate descendant of
  • 00:17:02.233 --> 00:17:06.671
  • King david, so it had to be born in the city of king david.
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  • Yes, and bethlehem means--
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  • House of bread.
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  • So he's the bread of life, born in the house of bread.
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  • So, yeah.
  • 00:17:16.781 --> 00:17:18.015
  • No, i think that's, i think that's a really great point.
  • 00:17:18.015 --> 00:17:19.517
  • So as you said, bethlehem means [speaks hebrew] in hebrew,
  • 00:17:19.517 --> 00:17:22.353
  • House of bread, and bread is a symbol of sustenance.
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  • It's a symbol of provision.
  • 00:17:26.791 --> 00:17:29.093
  • And there's great spiritual significance in that because
  • 00:17:29.093 --> 00:17:32.130
  • From a biblical perspective, we know that man only had to earn
  • 00:17:32.130 --> 00:17:36.100
  • His bread by the sweat of his brow after the fall.
  • 00:17:36.100 --> 00:17:40.638
  • So in jewish tradition, jesus was a rabbi.
  • 00:17:40.638 --> 00:17:43.174
  • He would have been familiar with these ancient traditions.
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  • God actually provided bread without the people having to
  • 00:17:45.543 --> 00:17:49.547
  • Work in the garden of eden.
  • 00:17:49.547 --> 00:17:52.450
  • Some rabbis say actually, bread grew on trees.
  • 00:17:52.450 --> 00:17:56.287
  • So think about it.
  • 00:17:56.287 --> 00:17:57.588
  • If jesus was the bread of life and bread grew on trees, jesus
  • 00:17:57.588 --> 00:18:00.825
  • Being put on the cross, a tree was literally the bread being
  • 00:18:00.825 --> 00:18:03.961
  • Put back on the tree for you and for me.
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  • Okay. come on.
  • 00:18:08.666 --> 00:18:10.201
  • Right. and then,
  • 00:18:10.201 --> 00:18:11.502
  • So it looks back to eden
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  • Because he comes to reverse the curse,
  • 00:18:12.870 --> 00:18:15.072
  • But it also looks forward to the messianic kingdom
  • 00:18:15.072 --> 00:18:17.508
  • Because the marriage supper of the lamb,
  • 00:18:17.508 --> 00:18:19.944
  • We're going to feast with the lord, and he's going to provide
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  • Again bread for us without having to work.
  • 00:18:23.681 --> 00:18:26.617
  • Wow. i love it.
  • 00:18:26.617 --> 00:18:27.552
  • Okay, i want to ask another question.
  • 00:18:27.552 --> 00:18:28.853
  • Okay. we're talking about being bethlehem and being the house
  • 00:18:28.853 --> 00:18:31.956
  • Of bread and jesus being the bread of life.
  • 00:18:31.956 --> 00:18:34.692
  • So was he the bread with or without yeast?
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  • And tell me why. i'm just saying.
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  • No. he's definitely the bread without yeast.
  • 00:18:40.431 --> 00:18:42.700
  • Because leaven is a symbol of sin and he's the sinless,
  • 00:18:42.700 --> 00:18:46.871
  • Spotless passover lamb.
  • 00:18:46.871 --> 00:18:48.272
  • But i think it gets to another point, right?
  • 00:18:48.272 --> 00:18:50.641
  • When we think about bread in the house of bread and jesus
  • 00:18:50.641 --> 00:18:53.244
  • Saying, i'm the bread of life,
  • 00:18:53.244 --> 00:18:54.712
  • Bread is symbolic of provision.
  • 00:18:54.712 --> 00:18:56.981
  • So we know he is the greater adam, the last adam.
  • 00:18:56.981 --> 00:19:00.518
  • But there's something more there, because think about it
  • 00:19:00.518 --> 00:19:02.587
  • For a moment.
  • 00:19:02.587 --> 00:19:03.888
  • There was another time when god provided bread for the people
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  • Without them having to work, and that was through moses.
  • 00:19:06.691 --> 00:19:09.594
  • He provided manna, bread from heaven in the wilderness.
  • 00:19:09.594 --> 00:19:13.064
  • So god provided the bread, sustained the people in the
  • 00:19:13.064 --> 00:19:16.968
  • Wilderness, but the provision was only enough for the day.
  • 00:19:16.968 --> 00:19:20.838
  • Jesus is the greater than moses.
  • 00:19:20.838 --> 00:19:22.707
  • So what does he do to prove it?
  • 00:19:22.707 --> 00:19:24.508
  • He multiplies the bread and the fish, and it's not just enough
  • 00:19:24.508 --> 00:19:28.713
  • For one day. there's actually leftovers.
  • 00:19:28.713 --> 00:19:31.682
  • They fill the baskets and there's more than enough.
  • 00:19:31.682 --> 00:19:34.452
  • So the manna only satisfied the physical for the moment.
  • 00:19:34.452 --> 00:19:38.522
  • But yeshua, who is the bread of life, he is the one who
  • 00:19:38.522 --> 00:19:41.359
  • Satisfies our soul and satisfies that spiritual hunger
  • 00:19:41.359 --> 00:19:46.364
  • That each and every one of us should have.
  • 00:19:46.364 --> 00:19:47.999
  • I love that, you know. okay. i've always been one--
  • 00:19:47.999 --> 00:19:50.735
  • I've said in the past, you
  • 00:19:50.735 --> 00:19:51.869
  • Know, those who eat bread will spread.
  • 00:19:51.869 --> 00:19:53.738
  • So i've left bread alone for a long time,
  • 00:19:53.738 --> 00:19:56.474
  • But it's only been recently that i started learning the
  • 00:19:56.474 --> 00:19:59.677
  • Even the the nutritious value, you know, the nutrients that
  • 00:19:59.677 --> 00:20:03.080
  • Are really in the bread that are necessary for us and not
  • 00:20:03.080 --> 00:20:05.750
  • Necessarily the grain that we're consuming in the west.
  • 00:20:05.750 --> 00:20:10.655
  • You know, that is-- they've
  • 00:20:10.655 --> 00:20:12.723
  • Removed a lot of goodness from it,
  • 00:20:12.723 --> 00:20:14.725
  • So we don't get a chance to have our bodies healed by it.
  • 00:20:14.725 --> 00:20:18.029
  • But when i went back to and now i'm milling my own grain and
  • 00:20:18.029 --> 00:20:21.399
  • Making bread, you know, i'm experiencing the benefits of
  • 00:20:21.399 --> 00:20:25.736
  • Real bread, which lets me know that sometimes there's a
  • 00:20:25.736 --> 00:20:28.739
  • Counterfeit that goes on even in our lives, too--
  • 00:20:28.739 --> 00:20:32.143
  • And we know that-- to the real christ,
  • 00:20:32.143 --> 00:20:33.944
  • He is the real bread of life.
  • 00:20:33.944 --> 00:20:35.379
  • So when i was able to say, okay, the real bread that i
  • 00:20:35.379 --> 00:20:39.583
  • Consume is beneficial to me, it shows me too, that the real
  • 00:20:39.583 --> 00:20:43.688
  • Bread of life, christ, is a lot more beneficial to me in every
  • 00:20:43.688 --> 00:20:47.491
  • Area of my life.
  • 00:20:47.491 --> 00:20:48.592
  • He cleanses the system.
  • 00:20:48.592 --> 00:20:50.561
  • He heals the body.
  • 00:20:50.561 --> 00:20:52.229
  • He renews the mind, like he, um, allows us to grow in
  • 00:20:52.229 --> 00:20:56.534
  • The right ways.
  • 00:20:56.534 --> 00:20:57.568
  • And so, um, in that for me has,
  • 00:20:57.568 --> 00:21:00.604
  • You know, just knowing that he has--
  • 00:21:00.604 --> 00:21:03.274
  • He is the bread of life allows me to know that even in the
  • 00:21:03.274 --> 00:21:06.911
  • Natural, if i'm eating the real bread, it's going to help me as
  • 00:21:06.911 --> 00:21:10.648
  • Opposed to me just eating, you know, useless parts.
  • 00:21:10.648 --> 00:21:13.184
  • That's so good because we call other things bread, like money.
  • 00:21:13.184 --> 00:21:16.987
  • We call it, hey, you got to get that bread, right.
  • 00:21:16.987 --> 00:21:19.190
  • And anything else that we look to as our bread, that thing
  • 00:21:19.190 --> 00:21:23.661
  • That we think is going to meet our needs and sustain us
  • 00:21:23.661 --> 00:21:27.698
  • Ultimately won't.
  • 00:21:27.698 --> 00:21:28.466
  • There's only one bread that will.
  • 00:21:28.466 --> 00:21:30.768
  • Absolutely. and everything else, in a sense, is a
  • 00:21:30.768 --> 00:21:32.937
  • Counterfeit to really satisfy our soul.
  • 00:21:32.937 --> 00:21:35.172
  • Right. and like you're saying, that's that's yeshua.
  • 00:21:35.172 --> 00:21:37.475
  • That's jesus, the bread of life.
  • 00:21:37.475 --> 00:21:39.110
  • And one of the beautiful things is that bethlehem in hebrew,
  • 00:21:39.110 --> 00:21:42.847
  • Bethlehem, has a numerical value.
  • 00:21:42.847 --> 00:21:46.217
  • You know, i'm really into numbers.
  • 00:21:46.217 --> 00:21:47.918
  • Hebrew is alphanumeric.
  • 00:21:47.918 --> 00:21:49.787
  • There are no roman numerals in the bible.
  • 00:21:49.787 --> 00:21:51.789
  • So you actually write numbers with letters.
  • 00:21:51.789 --> 00:21:54.525
  • So if i say open up the chapter one, i'll say open up the
  • 00:21:54.525 --> 00:21:57.328
  • Chapter aleph
  • 00:21:57.328 --> 00:21:58.562
  • Because aleph is the first letter of the hebrew alphabet.
  • 00:21:58.562 --> 00:22:00.798
  • It has the numerical value of one.
  • 00:22:00.798 --> 00:22:02.900
  • So a is one? yeah, exactly.
  • 00:22:02.900 --> 00:22:05.169
  • Okay. and so the numerical
  • 00:22:05.169 --> 00:22:06.537
  • Value of bethlehem in hebrew is 490,
  • 00:22:06.537 --> 00:22:10.541
  • And that's really significant
  • 00:22:10.541 --> 00:22:11.809
  • Because think about it for a moment.
  • 00:22:11.809 --> 00:22:14.345
  • The hebrew word for nativity equals 490.
  • 00:22:14.345 --> 00:22:18.282
  • Wow. and the hebrew word for nativity equals 490.
  • 00:22:18.282 --> 00:22:25.122
  • Wow. and that same word, tamim, was used of the perfect
  • 00:22:25.122 --> 00:22:28.626
  • Spotless passover lambs,
  • 00:22:28.626 --> 00:22:30.561
  • So in bethlehem--
  • 00:22:30.561 --> 00:22:32.830
  • Come on. oh, we're going to get there.
  • 00:22:32.830 --> 00:22:34.064
  • Right? all right.
  • 00:22:34.064 --> 00:22:34.799
  • So, yeshua-- you're doing it.
  • 00:22:34.799 --> 00:22:36.400
  • You're sure you know where we're going.
  • 00:22:36.400 --> 00:22:38.135
  • Yeshua was born in bethlehem,
  • 00:22:38.135 --> 00:22:41.172
  • 490, born, 490, as a spotless, perfect passover lamb,
  • 00:22:41.172 --> 00:22:45.576
  • 490. and then, as you said, we know the story,
  • 00:22:45.576 --> 00:22:50.381
  • Yeshua says to peter not to forgive, how many times? seven.
  • 00:22:50.381 --> 00:22:55.219
  • And yeshua was not impressed.
  • 00:22:55.219 --> 00:22:56.554
  • He says, no, 70 times seven. 490.
  • 00:22:56.554 --> 00:22:59.557
  • Well, if there's a number in
  • 00:22:59.557 --> 00:23:00.424
  • The bible, it's there for a reason.
  • 00:23:00.424 --> 00:23:01.625
  • Why 490? because bread and forgiveness
  • 00:23:01.625 --> 00:23:04.995
  • Are tied together in the lord's prayer.
  • 00:23:04.995 --> 00:23:07.398
  • Give us this day our daily bread.
  • 00:23:07.398 --> 00:23:09.633
  • And the next verse is,
  • 00:23:09.633 --> 00:23:10.935
  • Forgive us of our trespasses or debts, as we forgive those who
  • 00:23:10.935 --> 00:23:14.371
  • Trespass against us.
  • 00:23:14.371 --> 00:23:15.639
  • So one second.
  • 00:23:15.639 --> 00:23:16.841
  • So you're saying those two verses actually go together?
  • 00:23:16.841 --> 00:23:19.443
  • They actually go together.
  • 00:23:19.443 --> 00:23:20.644
  • They're not separate thoughts?
  • 00:23:20.644 --> 00:23:21.545
  • No. they go together.
  • 00:23:21.545 --> 00:23:22.480
  • They go together.
  • 00:23:22.480 --> 00:23:23.380
  • Right. yeah.
  • 00:23:23.380 --> 00:23:24.248
  • Right, because bread and forgiveness.
  • 00:23:24.248 --> 00:23:25.649
  • And then at the last supper, he takes the bread.
  • 00:23:25.649 --> 00:23:27.785
  • This is my body broken for you.
  • 00:23:27.785 --> 00:23:29.487
  • And we commemorate the forgiveness that he brings for
  • 00:23:29.487 --> 00:23:32.122
  • Us with the broken bread, broken body, which ties back to
  • 00:23:32.122 --> 00:23:36.093
  • Him being born in bethlehem as the bread of life in
  • 00:23:36.093 --> 00:23:40.130
  • The house of bread.
  • 00:23:40.130 --> 00:23:41.999
  • And it ties into what peter is being told by yeshua,
  • 00:23:41.999 --> 00:23:45.903
  • 490, because think about it,
  • 00:23:45.903 --> 00:23:49.773
  • Just like man can't live physically
  • 00:23:49.773 --> 00:23:51.909
  • Without bread for sustenance of his soul. we can't live
  • 00:23:51.909 --> 00:23:55.779
  • Spiritually and and emotionally
  • 00:23:55.779 --> 00:23:57.915
  • Without the bread of forgiveness.
  • 00:23:57.915 --> 00:24:00.484
  • And in the same way, 490 equals perfect or complete, we
  • 00:24:00.484 --> 00:24:04.255
  • Can't be perfect or complete in our faith unless we learn
  • 00:24:04.255 --> 00:24:08.359
  • To forgive others.
  • 00:24:08.359 --> 00:24:10.961
  • And then, as he's forgiven us, and then ultimately for 90
  • 00:24:10.961 --> 00:24:15.099
  • Represents complete forgiveness, unlimited
  • 00:24:15.099 --> 00:24:19.403
  • Forgiveness, god's complete forgiveness for our life.
  • 00:24:19.403 --> 00:24:23.240
  • Wow. wow.
  • 00:24:23.240 --> 00:24:24.808
  • Okay. that's deep. [makes explosion sound] wow.
  • 00:24:24.808 --> 00:24:27.378
  • Okay, i have another question based on that
  • 00:24:27.378 --> 00:24:29.513
  • Forgiveness thing, then.
  • 00:24:29.513 --> 00:24:30.614
  • So then, is forgiveness the same as consequences?
  • 00:24:30.614 --> 00:24:34.752
  • I mean, there are sometimes consequences for people's
  • 00:24:34.752 --> 00:24:38.556
  • Actions when they do wrong against us.
  • 00:24:38.556 --> 00:24:41.525
  • I think the important thing, i think people get confused and
  • 00:24:41.525 --> 00:24:44.395
  • Sometimes why they don't want to forgive is because
  • 00:24:44.395 --> 00:24:46.564
  • Forgiveness doesn't mean that we absolve people of the wrong
  • 00:24:46.564 --> 00:24:52.403
  • That they've done to us.
  • 00:24:52.403 --> 00:24:54.038
  • And that's why there's a difference between forgiveness
  • 00:24:54.038 --> 00:24:56.674
  • And reconciliation.
  • 00:24:56.674 --> 00:24:58.275
  • If someone's wronged us and haven't changed or really
  • 00:24:58.275 --> 00:25:01.612
  • Repented, we don't go back into relationship.
  • 00:25:01.612 --> 00:25:04.715
  • We don't have to open ourselves up to them.
  • 00:25:04.715 --> 00:25:07.618
  • We don't have to be in relationship with them if
  • 00:25:07.618 --> 00:25:09.987
  • They're not safe or they're not trustworthy.
  • 00:25:09.987 --> 00:25:13.057
  • But forgiveness is not an elective.
  • 00:25:13.057 --> 00:25:15.893
  • It is a requirement because forgiveness is not just for the
  • 00:25:15.893 --> 00:25:19.029
  • Sake of the other person.
  • 00:25:19.029 --> 00:25:21.098
  • It's the best selfish gift i can give myself.
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  • It frees me.
  • 00:25:24.234 --> 00:25:25.669
  • Yeah, because unforgiveness keeps us chained to the person
  • 00:25:25.669 --> 00:25:30.407
  • And to the trauma that we've experienced.
  • 00:25:30.407 --> 00:25:32.743
  • So forgiveness releases us from that person, releases us from
  • 00:25:32.743 --> 00:25:38.082
  • That pain, and allows us to move forward into what god has
  • 00:25:38.082 --> 00:25:42.886
  • For us.
  • 00:25:42.886 --> 00:25:44.088
  • And if we don't forgive, we ultimately become bitter.
  • 00:25:44.088 --> 00:25:46.290
  • And the bread spoils, in a sense. that's good.
  • 00:25:46.290 --> 00:25:49.193
  • And i say all the time, it's it's really up to god to choose
  • 00:25:49.193 --> 00:25:51.895
  • To whether he wants to forget or quit.
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  • So my responsibility is to forgive.
  • 00:25:54.131 --> 00:25:56.900
  • Yeah. or you could say going back to what you said earlier,
  • 00:25:56.900 --> 00:26:00.137
  • Unforgiveness is like leaven in the dough.
  • 00:26:00.137 --> 00:26:03.240
  • Leaven is sour and it ultimately is a symbol of sin.
  • 00:26:03.240 --> 00:26:08.045
  • And so ultimately, if we have unforgiveness, it's the leaven
  • 00:26:08.045 --> 00:26:10.948
  • In the dough that we don't want in our lives.
  • 00:26:10.948 --> 00:26:14.585
  • We don't want spoiled bread in the house.
  • 00:26:14.585 --> 00:26:16.654
  • Okay. that's great.
  • 00:26:16.654 --> 00:26:21.725
  • Oh my goodness.
  • 00:26:21.725 --> 00:26:22.726
  • Like okay, so what's happening right now?
  • 00:26:22.726 --> 00:26:25.696
  • Nicole, are you ready to continue our journey?
  • 00:26:25.696 --> 00:26:27.531
  • We are going to go to the cave of bethlehem and see where
  • 00:26:27.531 --> 00:26:32.102
  • Jesus was born.
  • 00:26:32.102 --> 00:26:33.337
  • Ooh. can't wait.
  • 00:26:33.337 --> 00:26:37.574
  • Okay, so this is so, so cool.
  • 00:26:40.644 --> 00:26:44.081
  • Okay, so we are in a cave. am i right?
  • 00:26:44.081 --> 00:26:49.186
  • This is a cave. yeah. okay.
  • 00:26:49.186 --> 00:26:51.388
  • We're here in bethlehem,
  • 00:26:51.388 --> 00:26:53.390
  • And many people think jesus was born
  • 00:26:53.390 --> 00:26:56.293
  • In a wooden manger.
  • 00:26:56.293 --> 00:26:58.262
  • That's what we see represented in the west,
  • 00:26:58.262 --> 00:27:00.030
  • But he was actually born in a cave,
  • 00:27:00.030 --> 00:27:02.299
  • A cave just like this.
  • 00:27:02.299 --> 00:27:05.235
  • So could you actually, like,
  • 00:27:05.235 --> 00:27:06.503
  • Even live in something like this?
  • 00:27:06.503 --> 00:27:08.205
  • It's not just a hole in the ground.
  • 00:27:08.205 --> 00:27:09.506
  • Right, right.
  • 00:27:09.506 --> 00:27:10.607
  • It's interesting that you should say that, right?
  • 00:27:10.607 --> 00:27:11.809
  • Because we know that in the birth of jesus, one of the
  • 00:27:11.809 --> 00:27:14.712
  • First things we read about in the gospels is that angels
  • 00:27:14.712 --> 00:27:18.716
  • Appeared to shepherds in the field, and the sign is, you'll
  • 00:27:18.716 --> 00:27:23.087
  • See a baby wrapped in swaddling cloths lying in a manger.
  • 00:27:23.087 --> 00:27:28.158
  • And part of the significance of that, to answer your question
  • 00:27:28.158 --> 00:27:31.962
  • Is that, first of all, these weren't ordinary shepherds.
  • 00:27:31.962 --> 00:27:35.265
  • They were actually levitical shepherds.
  • 00:27:35.265 --> 00:27:37.735
  • They were tending and watching over the flock that would have
  • 00:27:37.735 --> 00:27:42.172
  • Been used for sacrifice in the temple in jerusalem.
  • 00:27:42.172 --> 00:27:46.543
  • Six miles away. six miles away.
  • 00:27:46.543 --> 00:27:48.112
  • You got it, you got it.
  • 00:27:48.112 --> 00:27:49.747
  • You got it, right,
  • 00:27:49.747 --> 00:27:51.281
  • Because think about it for a moment,
  • 00:27:51.281 --> 00:27:52.883
  • They couldn't raise them in the city.
  • 00:27:52.883 --> 00:27:54.551
  • Okay, this is the suburb.
  • 00:27:54.551 --> 00:27:56.620
  • And many people think of them as like lowly shepherds,
  • 00:27:56.620 --> 00:27:59.556
  • But again, they were levitical shepherds.
  • 00:27:59.556 --> 00:28:02.693
  • They were priestly types of shepherds
  • 00:28:02.693 --> 00:28:05.329
  • And that's so significant because when the weather was
  • 00:28:05.329 --> 00:28:07.931
  • Bad, or when it was time for one of the sheep to give birth,
  • 00:28:07.931 --> 00:28:13.137
  • They would take them into a cave just like this.
  • 00:28:13.137 --> 00:28:16.073
  • So the caves had to be
  • 00:28:16.073 --> 00:28:17.241
  • Big enough to take the sheep into them,
  • 00:28:17.241 --> 00:28:21.612
  • And so it would have been something like this.
  • 00:28:21.612 --> 00:28:24.314
  • Wow. and this is exactly what
  • 00:28:24.314 --> 00:28:25.849
  • Jesus would have been born into.
  • 00:28:25.849 --> 00:28:28.352
  • Wow. and that's part of the significance.
  • 00:28:28.352 --> 00:28:30.420
  • Think about it for a moment.
  • 00:28:30.420 --> 00:28:31.955
  • Of all the signs that the angels could have given to
  • 00:28:31.955 --> 00:28:35.125
  • These shepherds,
  • 00:28:35.125 --> 00:28:36.460
  • A baby lying in a manger wrapped in swaddling cloths--
  • 00:28:36.460 --> 00:28:40.464
  • It had to have meant something.
  • 00:28:40.464 --> 00:28:41.899
  • I'm thinking if you're telling me something that i should
  • 00:28:41.899 --> 00:28:43.734
  • Know, then it means that it's
  • 00:28:43.734 --> 00:28:45.903
  • Something that i'm familiar with,
  • 00:28:45.903 --> 00:28:47.805
  • So that sign would have been something the shepherds would
  • 00:28:47.805 --> 00:28:51.275
  • Have known, like this actually means something more than
  • 00:28:51.275 --> 00:28:54.545
  • Just on the surface
  • 00:28:54.545 --> 00:28:56.180
  • What they're telling us.
  • 00:28:56.180 --> 00:28:57.481
  • The lambs especially that were born here, were primarily used
  • 00:28:57.481 --> 00:29:02.419
  • As the passover sacrifice,
  • 00:29:02.419 --> 00:29:05.422
  • So when it came time to birth those baby lambs, they
  • 00:29:05.422 --> 00:29:09.126
  • Oftentimes bring them into a cave like this.
  • 00:29:09.126 --> 00:29:12.129
  • And part of the process was because the lambs had to be
  • 00:29:12.129 --> 00:29:15.766
  • Without spot or blemish,
  • 00:29:15.766 --> 00:29:17.000
  • You can see how jagged and rugged you can see the rocks.
  • 00:29:17.000 --> 00:29:20.971
  • If it cut itself or injured itself, it would be no longer
  • 00:29:20.971 --> 00:29:25.409
  • Fit for a sacrifice,
  • 00:29:25.409 --> 00:29:27.077
  • And so one of the things to maintain a ritual purity and
  • 00:29:27.077 --> 00:29:30.414
  • The perfection of the lamb,
  • 00:29:30.414 --> 00:29:31.849
  • There is some who believe that the lambs were actually
  • 00:29:31.849 --> 00:29:34.852
  • Swaddled in swaddling cloth because they were clumsy
  • 00:29:34.852 --> 00:29:38.488
  • When they were young.
  • 00:29:38.488 --> 00:29:39.990
  • So levitical shepherds would have come in.
  • 00:29:39.990 --> 00:29:43.527
  • They would have seen jesus born in the place that the passover
  • 00:29:43.527 --> 00:29:47.965
  • Lambs were born.
  • 00:29:47.965 --> 00:29:49.166
  • They would have seen him swaddled like one of the
  • 00:29:49.166 --> 00:29:52.269
  • Passover lambs.
  • 00:29:52.269 --> 00:29:53.704
  • And they would have understood that this is the promised
  • 00:29:53.704 --> 00:29:57.374
  • Messiah, the lamb of god,
  • 00:29:57.374 --> 00:29:59.643
  • Who takes away the sins of the world.
  • 00:29:59.643 --> 00:30:01.545
  • Not just a lamb of god, but the lamb of god.
  • 00:30:01.545 --> 00:30:06.283
  • They would see in the manger, in the trough.
  • 00:30:06.283 --> 00:30:08.518
  • Only god could have done that.
  • 00:30:08.518 --> 00:30:09.653
  • Like, really?
  • 00:30:09.653 --> 00:30:10.320
  • You know what i'm saying?
  • 00:30:10.320 --> 00:30:11.355
  • All those details. man, couldn't make that up.
  • 00:30:11.355 --> 00:30:13.357
  • In our western mindset,
  • 00:30:13.357 --> 00:30:15.092
  • For the most part, when we're thinking about the birth of
  • 00:30:15.092 --> 00:30:17.928
  • Christ, we're thinking of a wooden barn.
  • 00:30:17.928 --> 00:30:21.131
  • The earliest church tradition, the church of the nativity--
  • 00:30:21.131 --> 00:30:24.368
  • We love taking people to israel--
  • 00:30:24.368 --> 00:30:25.936
  • Yeah. it's built over that cave.
  • 00:30:25.936 --> 00:30:28.772
  • So one of the oldest churches in the world recognizes it
  • 00:30:28.772 --> 00:30:33.143
  • Wasn't a wooden structure. it was a cave.
  • 00:30:33.143 --> 00:30:35.212
  • Right? so there's not even a dispute about that.
  • 00:30:35.212 --> 00:30:38.515
  • So part of the swaddling process, every baby that was
  • 00:30:38.515 --> 00:30:43.287
  • Swaddled and every legitimate child was swaddled was also
  • 00:30:43.287 --> 00:30:47.391
  • Salted as part of that process.
  • 00:30:47.391 --> 00:30:50.327
  • So think about the significance of that.
  • 00:30:50.327 --> 00:30:52.863
  • He's born as the passover lamb in the place where the passover
  • 00:30:52.863 --> 00:30:56.533
  • Lambs and the sacrifices of the lambs were born,
  • 00:30:56.533 --> 00:30:59.536
  • Watched over by shepherds. he's the good shepherd.
  • 00:30:59.536 --> 00:31:02.739
  • But think about this.
  • 00:31:02.739 --> 00:31:04.174
  • Every sacrifice that was offered in the temple had to be
  • 00:31:04.174 --> 00:31:07.744
  • Salted as a sign of the
  • 00:31:07.744 --> 00:31:09.913
  • Permanence of god's forgiveness,
  • 00:31:09.913 --> 00:31:13.116
  • Atonement, so think about that.
  • 00:31:13.116 --> 00:31:15.919
  • Make me shout up here in the cave.
  • 00:31:15.919 --> 00:31:17.654
  • You know what i'm saying?
  • 00:31:17.654 --> 00:31:18.422
  • So listen, he's swaddled like
  • 00:31:18.422 --> 00:31:20.657
  • The sacrificed lamb, and he's salted like one of the
  • 00:31:20.657 --> 00:31:25.762
  • Sacrifices that were offered in the temple.
  • 00:31:25.762 --> 00:31:29.132
  • He's born in the city of david,
  • 00:31:29.132 --> 00:31:31.468
  • Bethlehem. yeah, we mentioned that, right.
  • 00:31:31.468 --> 00:31:34.004
  • House of bread.
  • 00:31:34.004 --> 00:31:35.405
  • When god makes the davidic covenant, he makes a covenant
  • 00:31:35.405 --> 00:31:38.675
  • With david and say, one of your ancestors will always
  • 00:31:38.675 --> 00:31:41.845
  • Sit on the throne.
  • 00:31:41.845 --> 00:31:43.480
  • That's ultimately meant to be the messiah.
  • 00:31:43.480 --> 00:31:45.849
  • And god made a salt covenant with david because salt
  • 00:31:45.849 --> 00:31:50.921
  • Symbolizes permanence.
  • 00:31:50.921 --> 00:31:52.756
  • But salt in the middle east also symbolizes friendship.
  • 00:31:52.756 --> 00:31:57.494
  • Wow. and so there's an expression,
  • 00:31:57.494 --> 00:32:00.597
  • There's salt between us.
  • 00:32:00.597 --> 00:32:02.265
  • And there was a ceremony where two people would take salt from
  • 00:32:02.265 --> 00:32:05.102
  • Their pouch, mix it with the other person's salt, saying,
  • 00:32:05.102 --> 00:32:07.771
  • May we never be able to be separated. just like our salt
  • 00:32:07.771 --> 00:32:10.507
  • Is now intermingled, we're forever tied.
  • 00:32:10.507 --> 00:32:13.510
  • Salty had a whole nother meaning.
  • 00:32:13.510 --> 00:32:15.178
  • Salt had a whole nother meaning, right?
  • 00:32:15.178 --> 00:32:17.047
  • And so through the davidic covenant, through ultimately
  • 00:32:17.047 --> 00:32:21.284
  • The new covenant, he comes to bring us into friendship and
  • 00:32:21.284 --> 00:32:26.189
  • Relationship with him.
  • 00:32:26.189 --> 00:32:27.424
  • We were at enmity with god because of our sin, but because
  • 00:32:27.424 --> 00:32:30.494
  • Of the covenant that jesus yeshua establishes,
  • 00:32:30.494 --> 00:32:33.997
  • We're no longer enemies of god.
  • 00:32:33.997 --> 00:32:35.766
  • We're now friends of god, and we have this permanent
  • 00:32:35.766 --> 00:32:38.902
  • Relationship with him.
  • 00:32:38.902 --> 00:32:40.570
  • Wow. wow.
  • 00:32:40.570 --> 00:32:42.205
  • Okay, so my mind is going in a thousand different directions.
  • 00:32:42.205 --> 00:32:45.208
  • It reminds me a little bit of just even the children of
  • 00:32:45.208 --> 00:32:48.145
  • Israel when they were coming out of egypt.
  • 00:32:48.145 --> 00:32:50.680
  • And they have this unleavened dough, didn't they wrap it, if
  • 00:32:50.680 --> 00:32:55.018
  • I'm not mistaken?
  • 00:32:55.018 --> 00:32:55.919
  • Wasn't it wrapped in cloth as well?
  • 00:32:55.919 --> 00:32:57.187
  • It may not have been swaddling, i don't know, but would that
  • 00:32:57.187 --> 00:32:59.489
  • Not have been symbolic to of--
  • 00:32:59.489 --> 00:33:01.158
  • I think that's a great point.
  • 00:33:01.158 --> 00:33:02.793
  • And there's so much more meaning here, like we talk
  • 00:33:02.793 --> 00:33:05.962
  • About in the book transformed by the messiah,
  • 00:33:05.962 --> 00:33:08.065
  • I don't even think this was ordinary swaddling cloth.
  • 00:33:08.065 --> 00:33:11.101
  • See, when the priestly garments were too worn, they would
  • 00:33:11.101 --> 00:33:14.538
  • Actually repurpose them.
  • 00:33:14.538 --> 00:33:15.639
  • They wouldn't throw them away.
  • 00:33:15.639 --> 00:33:16.740
  • They're holy.
  • 00:33:16.740 --> 00:33:17.974
  • And one of the things they would use them for was to make
  • 00:33:17.974 --> 00:33:20.010
  • The wicks of the menorah, the seven branched candelabra that
  • 00:33:20.010 --> 00:33:23.814
  • Symbolized god's light and his presence among the people.
  • 00:33:23.814 --> 00:33:28.385
  • And so i believe that yeshua, the baby jesus, was wrapped in
  • 00:33:28.385 --> 00:33:33.023
  • Used priestly garments to show not only that he was the lamb
  • 00:33:33.023 --> 00:33:37.661
  • Of god, the ultimate sacrifice, but he was actually the
  • 00:33:37.661 --> 00:33:40.831
  • Great high priest.
  • 00:33:40.831 --> 00:33:42.466
  • The question is, where did they get those garments because
  • 00:33:42.466 --> 00:33:44.901
  • Joseph and mary were not from a levitical family, not from
  • 00:33:44.901 --> 00:33:48.038
  • A priestly family?
  • 00:33:48.038 --> 00:33:49.306
  • Well, who was mary's cousin?
  • 00:33:49.306 --> 00:33:52.109
  • It was elizabeth.
  • 00:33:52.109 --> 00:33:53.543
  • Her husband was a priest,
  • 00:33:53.543 --> 00:33:55.745
  • Had an encounter in the temple.
  • 00:33:55.745 --> 00:33:58.315
  • Not far from bethlehem.
  • 00:33:58.315 --> 00:34:01.218
  • And i believe he gave mary part of his old garments, priestly
  • 00:33:59.416 --> 00:34:06.790
  • Garments for her to swaddle him, because he knew the
  • 00:34:06.790 --> 00:34:08.959
  • Messiah was not only going to be a sacrifice, but he knew he
  • 00:34:08.959 --> 00:34:11.862
  • Was going to be the great high priest.
  • 00:34:11.862 --> 00:34:13.897
  • So it points to his work as our mediator as well.
  • 00:34:13.897 --> 00:34:19.402
  • Wow. lamb of god.
  • 00:34:19.402 --> 00:34:20.971
  • Light of the world.
  • 00:34:20.971 --> 00:34:22.272
  • Great high priest.
  • 00:34:22.272 --> 00:34:23.807
  • But of course, there's one more thing.
  • 00:34:23.807 --> 00:34:26.276
  • And you alluded to it, right?
  • 00:34:26.276 --> 00:34:27.978
  • You said in a sense, the end is connected to the beginning.
  • 00:34:27.978 --> 00:34:33.683
  • Yes. right, which is
  • 00:34:33.683 --> 00:34:35.118
  • A really powerful thought.
  • 00:34:35.118 --> 00:34:36.086
  • So think about it for a moment.
  • 00:34:36.086 --> 00:34:38.388
  • At his birth, he's born in a cave.
  • 00:34:38.388 --> 00:34:40.457
  • Mhm.
  • 00:34:40.457 --> 00:34:41.491
  • At his death, he's put in a cave. at his birth,
  • 00:34:41.491 --> 00:34:45.495
  • He's swaddled in swaddling cloth, and at his death he's
  • 00:34:45.495 --> 00:34:49.299
  • Wrapped in burial cloth.
  • 00:34:49.299 --> 00:34:52.102
  • Right. we said that swaddling cloth was special.
  • 00:34:52.102 --> 00:34:55.205
  • Right? yeah. one more--
  • 00:34:55.205 --> 00:34:56.006
  • At the beginning,
  • 00:34:56.006 --> 00:34:57.274
  • You have joseph, his father, and then at the end, you have
  • 00:34:57.274 --> 00:35:00.844
  • Joseph of arimathea. you know what i'm saying?
  • 00:35:00.844 --> 00:35:03.213
  • I love just like-- i'm just saying, like--
  • 00:35:03.213 --> 00:35:04.481
  • Okay, anyway, go back.
  • 00:35:04.481 --> 00:35:05.549
  • Oh, that's so good. making those connections,
  • 00:35:05.549 --> 00:35:07.450
  • I love it, i love it.
  • 00:35:07.450 --> 00:35:08.985
  • Yeah. and so there was something special about the
  • 00:35:08.985 --> 00:35:11.621
  • Garments he was wrapped in as a child.
  • 00:35:11.621 --> 00:35:14.057
  • And there was something special about the garments that he left
  • 00:35:14.057 --> 00:35:16.993
  • Behind folded after the resurrection.
  • 00:35:16.993 --> 00:35:20.630
  • And today, many people are talking about the shroud of
  • 00:35:20.630 --> 00:35:24.401
  • Turin that they believe left an imprint of jesus on it.
  • 00:35:24.401 --> 00:35:28.271
  • So again, there is this connection between the
  • 00:35:28.271 --> 00:35:30.507
  • Beginning and the end.
  • 00:35:30.507 --> 00:35:32.442
  • It all ties together because the lamb that was born in that
  • 00:35:32.442 --> 00:35:35.979
  • Cave was ultimately born to give his life and rise from the
  • 00:35:35.979 --> 00:35:39.282
  • Dead, that we might find forgiveness and freedom on
  • 00:35:39.282 --> 00:35:42.085
  • Account of what he has done for us.
  • 00:35:42.085 --> 00:35:43.653
  • The alpha and the omega. amen.
  • 00:35:43.653 --> 00:35:46.056
  • Amen. all right.
  • 00:35:46.056 --> 00:35:49.292
  • Rabbi, that was fire!
  • 00:35:49.292 --> 00:35:52.128
  • That was so good.
  • 00:35:52.128 --> 00:35:53.530
  • Okay. my mind is like--
  • 00:35:53.530 --> 00:35:55.098
  • All right, but maybe we ought to go back to the coffee shop,
  • 00:35:55.098 --> 00:35:57.500
  • And this time i'm gonna get decaf or, you know, probably
  • 00:35:57.500 --> 00:36:00.937
  • Water or something, but that's fine.
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  • All right, let's go get something to drink.
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  • ♪♪
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  • So. okay, rabbi, first of all,
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  • I want to say thank you so much.
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  • You know, like, just so far, you've shown me so much.
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  • My mind is still, like, comprehending it all.
  • 00:36:21.091 --> 00:36:23.893
  • But i know you,
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  • And i know with you there's always more.
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  • So come on and give me some more of what i need to know.
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  • Oh. that's great.
  • 00:36:33.169 --> 00:36:33.903
  • Yeah. i mean, i think we have
  • 00:36:33.903 --> 00:36:35.105
  • To talk about god's perfect timing.
  • 00:36:35.105 --> 00:36:38.074
  • Think about it for a moment.
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  • We've already discussed the shepherds.
  • 00:36:39.442 --> 00:36:42.112
  • Now we have to discuss the wise men.
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  • You can't discuss the birth of yeshua, the birth of jesus,
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  • Without talking about them.
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  • Oftentimes, they're pictured as being with the shepherds in the
  • 00:36:49.185 --> 00:36:54.391
  • Same scene at the nativity, but we know they actually came
  • 00:36:54.391 --> 00:36:58.528
  • A couple years later.
  • 00:36:58.528 --> 00:37:00.930
  • And i think we have to ask the question, though, why would
  • 00:37:00.930 --> 00:37:04.567
  • These magi, these pagan astrologers from the east,
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  • Care about the birth of a jewish king?
  • 00:37:08.972 --> 00:37:12.475
  • Why would they make such a long
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  • Journey, bring such expensive gifts?
  • 00:37:14.044 --> 00:37:17.580
  • And i think that's an important question to be able to answer.
  • 00:37:17.580 --> 00:37:20.350
  • And i think we have to be like
  • 00:37:20.350 --> 00:37:21.951
  • Good detectives and search this out.
  • 00:37:21.951 --> 00:37:26.056
  • So the first thing that we have, the first clue we have is
  • 00:37:26.056 --> 00:37:28.892
  • That they actually come from the east.
  • 00:37:28.892 --> 00:37:31.628
  • Why is that significant?
  • 00:37:31.628 --> 00:37:33.263
  • Because east in the bible usually refers to babylon
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  • Or it refers to persia.
  • 00:37:37.267 --> 00:37:41.171
  • And that's significant because think about it for a moment,
  • 00:37:41.171 --> 00:37:44.107
  • How do these wise men know? why do they care?
  • 00:37:44.107 --> 00:37:46.976
  • It's because it traces back to babylon, right?
  • 00:37:46.976 --> 00:37:50.513
  • Who was the most famous wise man in babylon?
  • 00:37:50.513 --> 00:37:55.018
  • There's a book written about him.
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  • Daniel!
  • 00:37:57.187 --> 00:38:00.824
  • That's right. right.
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  • Daniel, chapter two,
  • 00:38:01.725 --> 00:38:03.293
  • He becomes head of the wise men after interpreting king
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  • Nebuchadnezzar's dream.
  • 00:38:07.197 --> 00:38:09.232
  • And also in the book of daniel, daniel chapter nine, he is
  • 00:38:09.232 --> 00:38:14.404
  • Praying to god.
  • 00:38:14.404 --> 00:38:15.805
  • And part of the reason he's praying is that because the
  • 00:38:15.805 --> 00:38:18.141
  • Reason why daniel is in babylon is the jewish people, according
  • 00:38:18.141 --> 00:38:22.345
  • To jeremiah, had gone into exile and they were supposed to
  • 00:38:22.345 --> 00:38:26.716
  • Be in exile for 70 years for disobeying god and neglecting
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  • The shmita, the sabbatical year.
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  • He's in exile.
  • 00:38:34.691 --> 00:38:36.092
  • And we said in hebrew, there's one letter difference between
  • 00:38:36.092 --> 00:38:38.895
  • Exile and redemption.
  • 00:38:38.895 --> 00:38:40.397
  • It's the letter aleph, the letter that represents the
  • 00:38:40.397 --> 00:38:43.166
  • Divine name.
  • 00:38:43.166 --> 00:38:44.534
  • So when you take god out, you're left with exile.
  • 00:38:44.534 --> 00:38:47.604
  • When you invite god in, you wind up experiencing
  • 00:38:47.604 --> 00:38:50.273
  • The redemption of the lord. right?
  • 00:38:50.273 --> 00:38:53.276
  • Hey. okay. right.
  • 00:38:53.276 --> 00:38:55.111
  • So now, now, now, daniel is in this exile, and he wants
  • 00:38:55.111 --> 00:38:58.481
  • The redemption to come.
  • 00:38:58.481 --> 00:39:00.016
  • The 70 years of the jeremiah prophecy is drawing to a close,
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  • And he's praying, god, is
  • 00:39:04.854 --> 00:39:06.156
  • Now the time that you're going to restore us to the promised
  • 00:39:06.156 --> 00:39:08.925
  • Land, rebuild the temple, bring the messiah?
  • 00:39:08.925 --> 00:39:12.295
  • And the angel comes to daniel.
  • 00:39:12.295 --> 00:39:14.597
  • Chapter nine says, not 70 years, but 70 weeks of years.
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  • Okay? until all prophecy is fulfilled. and part of the
  • 00:39:20.336 --> 00:39:24.207
  • Daniel 9 prophecy, it gives us the exact time of the
  • 00:39:24.207 --> 00:39:29.412
  • Coming of the messiah.
  • 00:39:29.412 --> 00:39:31.347
  • It says, from the decree to rebuild jerusalem to the coming
  • 00:39:31.347 --> 00:39:36.252
  • Of the messiah and the anointed one being cut off for the sins
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  • Of the people will be six weeks,
  • 00:39:40.256 --> 00:39:43.226
  • Or if you calculate and do the math, it's 483 years. from the
  • 00:39:43.226 --> 00:39:49.232
  • Time of artaxerxes decree to rebuild jerusalem to the time
  • 00:39:49.232 --> 00:39:54.504
  • Yeshua comes and dies on that cross,
  • 00:39:54.504 --> 00:39:57.707
  • It is literally 483 years. come on.
  • 00:39:57.707 --> 00:40:03.346
  • Okay. seven years short of 490.
  • 00:40:03.346 --> 00:40:07.283
  • Right, that you spoke about earlier.
  • 00:40:07.283 --> 00:40:10.186
  • Okay, so yes.
  • 00:40:10.186 --> 00:40:11.287
  • So we have 483 right now.
  • 00:40:11.287 --> 00:40:13.356
  • Wow. 483.
  • 00:40:13.356 --> 00:40:15.124
  • There's a final seven year period to come that's connected
  • 00:40:15.124 --> 00:40:18.461
  • To the book of revelation.
  • 00:40:18.461 --> 00:40:19.462
  • But we won't go there just now.
  • 00:40:19.462 --> 00:40:21.664
  • Okay. so the point being is that the wise man knew the time
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  • Frame in which the messiah came,
  • 00:40:26.436 --> 00:40:28.838
  • And they were interested because they had this tradition
  • 00:40:28.838 --> 00:40:32.575
  • Going back to the greatest wise man who ever lived,
  • 00:40:32.575 --> 00:40:36.145
  • Daniel, god's man in babylon, right?
  • 00:40:36.145 --> 00:40:39.782
  • Yes.
  • 00:40:39.782 --> 00:40:40.783
  • But of course, that then begs the question.
  • 00:40:40.783 --> 00:40:42.785
  • Okay, they knew the timing, so they knew when to look for a
  • 00:40:42.785 --> 00:40:46.689
  • Sign of the birth of the king that daniel spoke about.
  • 00:40:46.689 --> 00:40:50.393
  • But then that begs another question, right,
  • 00:40:50.393 --> 00:40:53.162
  • Which is, how did they know the star was going to be the sign
  • 00:40:53.162 --> 00:40:59.135
  • That was ultimately going to lead them to the one spoken of
  • 00:40:59.135 --> 00:41:03.273
  • In daniel's prophecy?
  • 00:41:03.273 --> 00:41:04.707
  • Tell me that now.
  • 00:41:04.707 --> 00:41:06.009
  • Yeah. we get deeper into this and transformed by the messiah.
  • 00:41:06.009 --> 00:41:08.878
  • So there was another famous wise man, okay, mentioned for
  • 00:41:08.878 --> 00:41:14.017
  • The first time in the book of numbers.
  • 00:41:14.017 --> 00:41:16.619
  • His name is balaam.
  • 00:41:16.619 --> 00:41:18.121
  • Okay. do you remember the story?
  • 00:41:18.121 --> 00:41:20.089
  • Balaam is hired by king balak to curse israel.
  • 00:41:20.089 --> 00:41:24.561
  • Instead of cursing israel, he winds up blessing israel.
  • 00:41:24.561 --> 00:41:28.665
  • Look at god.
  • 00:41:28.665 --> 00:41:29.499
  • God is so good. you can't curse--
  • 00:41:29.499 --> 00:41:30.934
  • No you can't. what god has blessed.
  • 00:41:30.934 --> 00:41:32.702
  • Amen. and we are blessed in messiah.
  • 00:41:32.702 --> 00:41:36.406
  • So what's interesting there?
  • 00:41:36.406 --> 00:41:38.207
  • He tries to curse, balaam tries to curse israel.
  • 00:41:38.207 --> 00:41:40.777
  • He winds up blessing them and he says, i see him not now, but
  • 00:41:40.777 --> 00:41:44.948
  • I see him in the distance.
  • 00:41:44.948 --> 00:41:47.183
  • He says, a star will come out of jacob.
  • 00:41:47.183 --> 00:41:52.155
  • Mhm. so this--
  • 00:41:52.155 --> 00:41:55.325
  • So balaam was from babylon, a famous wise man, and he gives
  • 00:41:55.325 --> 00:42:00.330
  • What is known as the star prophecy.
  • 00:42:00.330 --> 00:42:03.166
  • He connects the coming of the messiah with a star.
  • 00:42:03.166 --> 00:42:07.637
  • And he also connects the coming with the messiah to a scepter.
  • 00:42:07.637 --> 00:42:10.907
  • He sees a star and a scepter as a sign of the promised
  • 00:42:10.907 --> 00:42:15.278
  • Redeemer, the promised messiah.
  • 00:42:15.278 --> 00:42:17.180
  • He's a wise man from babylon.
  • 00:42:17.180 --> 00:42:19.549
  • So both the time of the coming of the messiah and the sign of
  • 00:42:19.549 --> 00:42:23.286
  • The coming of the messiah are both connected to wise men.
  • 00:42:23.286 --> 00:42:27.056
  • They're both connected to stars.
  • 00:42:27.056 --> 00:42:29.292
  • Okay. but it's so.
  • 00:42:29.292 --> 00:42:31.127
  • This is part of the reason why they know.
  • 00:42:31.127 --> 00:42:32.929
  • When i use this, i'm going to give you credit for it.
  • 00:42:32.929 --> 00:42:34.831
  • I'm just saying i'm gonna give you credit, but keep going.
  • 00:42:34.831 --> 00:42:37.567
  • But again, there's something even more interesting here.
  • 00:42:37.567 --> 00:42:41.137
  • Balaam mentions again two things,
  • 00:42:41.137 --> 00:42:43.039
  • Messiah connected to star and scepter.
  • 00:42:43.039 --> 00:42:47.410
  • What's interesting?
  • 00:42:47.410 --> 00:42:49.312
  • One other place we find the term scepter in connection to a
  • 00:42:49.312 --> 00:42:54.651
  • Messianic prophecy.
  • 00:42:54.651 --> 00:42:56.586
  • Genesis chapter 49, jacob gathers his 12 sons and he
  • 00:42:56.586 --> 00:43:01.257
  • Says, genesis 49:1, i'm going to tell you what's going to
  • 00:43:01.257 --> 00:43:04.727
  • Happen in the last days.
  • 00:43:04.727 --> 00:43:08.965
  • So he's setting up the end times.
  • 00:43:08.965 --> 00:43:10.633
  • Jacob is prophesying, genesis 49, about the end of days, about
  • 00:43:10.633 --> 00:43:15.371
  • The coming of the messiah. in his blessing on judah,
  • 00:43:15.371 --> 00:43:18.741
  • He says this, come on.
  • 00:43:18.741 --> 00:43:20.276
  • Right. a scepter shall not depart from--
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  • Judah.
  • 00:43:23.346 --> 00:43:24.180
  • Nor the ruler's staff from
  • 00:43:24.180 --> 00:43:25.515
  • Between his feet, until who comes?
  • 00:43:25.515 --> 00:43:27.750
  • Shiloh the messiah comes, and to him will be the
  • 00:43:27.750 --> 00:43:31.988
  • Obedience of the nations.
  • 00:43:31.988 --> 00:43:34.190
  • So the genesis 49 prophecy actually also tells us the
  • 00:43:34.190 --> 00:43:38.795
  • Timeframe of the coming of the messiah.
  • 00:43:38.795 --> 00:43:40.396
  • But we're not going to get into all that here.
  • 00:43:40.396 --> 00:43:42.632
  • But it connects the messiah with a scepter which connects
  • 00:43:42.632 --> 00:43:47.203
  • To balaam's star prophecy.
  • 00:43:47.203 --> 00:43:48.771
  • And the reason why that's important, until shiloh comes,
  • 00:43:48.771 --> 00:43:52.942
  • What is shiloh mean?
  • 00:43:52.942 --> 00:43:54.410
  • Shiloh, the rabbis say, is one of the names of the messiah.
  • 00:43:54.410 --> 00:43:57.413
  • Until the messiah comes.
  • 00:43:57.413 --> 00:43:59.916
  • Another interpretation for shiloh is shi, meaning gift,
  • 00:43:59.916 --> 00:44:05.488
  • Loh meaning to him.
  • 00:44:05.488 --> 00:44:07.890
  • And they will bring gifts to him, meaning the messiah, and
  • 00:44:07.890 --> 00:44:12.095
  • To him will be the obedience of the nations.
  • 00:44:12.095 --> 00:44:15.264
  • So the wise men come from babylon, following the star,
  • 00:44:15.264 --> 00:44:21.738
  • Knowing the timing.
  • 00:44:21.738 --> 00:44:23.239
  • And what did they bring?
  • 00:44:23.239 --> 00:44:25.341
  • Gold, frankincense and myrrh in fulfillment of genesis 49,
  • 00:44:25.341 --> 00:44:31.280
  • Because the nations will bring shi, gifts, loh, to him to
  • 00:44:31.280 --> 00:44:37.653
  • Represent not only israel, honoring and receiving the
  • 00:44:37.653 --> 00:44:41.290
  • Messiah, the nations receiving and honoring the messiah, which
  • 00:44:41.290 --> 00:44:45.528
  • Is found in a number of prophecies, including in the
  • 00:44:45.528 --> 00:44:49.732
  • Book of isaiah, which they will bring gold and frankincense to
  • 00:44:49.732 --> 00:44:54.270
  • The messianic king, and they bring gold and frankincense,
  • 00:44:54.270 --> 00:44:57.473
  • Gold symbolic of royalty,
  • 00:44:57.473 --> 00:45:00.843
  • The royal messiah, the son of david.
  • 00:45:00.843 --> 00:45:04.614
  • Frankincense is used in the temple service, so it's
  • 00:45:04.614 --> 00:45:08.985
  • Representative of priesthood,
  • 00:45:08.985 --> 00:45:11.020
  • Of worship, of homage to the king.
  • 00:45:11.020 --> 00:45:13.956
  • And ultimately myrrh is associated with love.
  • 00:45:13.956 --> 00:45:17.994
  • It's also associated with death.
  • 00:45:17.994 --> 00:45:20.797
  • Think about it for a moment.
  • 00:45:20.797 --> 00:45:21.998
  • Abraham offered his son on mount moriah as a sacrifice,
  • 00:45:21.998 --> 00:45:26.002
  • Take your son, your only begotten son.
  • 00:45:26.002 --> 00:45:27.804
  • And the rabbis interpret mount moriah as the mountain of myrrh.
  • 00:45:27.804 --> 00:45:31.474
  • Wow.
  • 00:45:31.474 --> 00:45:32.141
  • Because more means myrrh.
  • 00:45:32.141 --> 00:45:33.409
  • So again, it's pointing abraham offering isaac,
  • 00:45:33.409 --> 00:45:36.445
  • Points to the death of messiah.
  • 00:45:36.445 --> 00:45:37.914
  • The myrrh they bring connects
  • 00:45:37.914 --> 00:45:39.448
  • Back to the sacrifice of the son.
  • 00:45:39.448 --> 00:45:42.185
  • He's the lamb of god, born to die for us.
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  • Ah.
  • 00:45:46.756 --> 00:45:47.990
  • Okay. this coffee shop is not going to be the same in a
  • 00:45:47.990 --> 00:45:49.458
  • Minute if i don't calm down.
  • 00:45:49.458 --> 00:45:51.127
  • But wow.
  • 00:45:51.127 --> 00:45:52.461
  • God will provide himself, the lamb.
  • 00:45:52.461 --> 00:45:55.765
  • And yeshua is the lamb of god, born in the house of bread.
  • 00:45:55.765 --> 00:45:59.135
  • As we saw, swaddled and salted, like one of the passover lambs
  • 00:45:59.135 --> 00:46:04.607
  • Born in the place, the passover lambs would have been born,
  • 00:46:04.607 --> 00:46:07.510
  • Because he is the lamb of god.
  • 00:46:07.510 --> 00:46:09.979
  • To think over 300 prophecies
  • 00:46:09.979 --> 00:46:12.849
  • Fell into place with flawless precision.
  • 00:46:12.849 --> 00:46:16.319
  • The where, the when, the how, the
  • 00:46:16.319 --> 00:46:19.989
  • Who, so that jesus's birth became the meticulously crafted
  • 00:46:19.989 --> 00:46:25.328
  • Prolog to humanity's forgiveness.
  • 00:46:25.328 --> 00:46:28.865
  • In that single moment, god launched yeshua towards eternal
  • 00:46:28.865 --> 00:46:33.736
  • Kingship, opening the door to complete and total redemption.
  • 00:46:33.736 --> 00:46:40.076
  • So, nicole, with all that we've discussed on this venture,
  • 00:46:40.076 --> 00:46:44.113
  • Promises kept, bread broken, stars aligned,
  • 00:46:44.113 --> 00:46:48.551
  • What resonated with you the most?
  • 00:46:48.551 --> 00:46:50.820
  • So one of my favorite things from today, uh, on top of the
  • 00:46:50.820 --> 00:46:55.825
  • Plethora of knowledge that you gave me from being inside of
  • 00:46:55.825 --> 00:46:59.295
  • The cave to the swaddling cloth to the 490, to just all these
  • 00:46:59.295 --> 00:47:04.333
  • Different things was, you know, oftentimes i'm known as the
  • 00:47:04.333 --> 00:47:07.670
  • Girl who sings redeemer.
  • 00:47:07.670 --> 00:47:09.472
  • And, you know, for me, redemption is very important.
  • 00:47:09.472 --> 00:47:12.708
  • But when you said and you, you showed me that really without
  • 00:47:12.708 --> 00:47:16.979
  • God being a part of that, the difference was one letter
  • 00:47:16.979 --> 00:47:20.716
  • Between redemption and exile.
  • 00:47:20.716 --> 00:47:23.853
  • And when we don't include the
  • 00:47:23.853 --> 00:47:25.688
  • Savior, the redeemer, god, elohim,
  • 00:47:25.688 --> 00:47:28.891
  • Then really we're left with
  • 00:47:28.891 --> 00:47:30.726
  • Really bondage and we're not free.
  • 00:47:30.726 --> 00:47:33.262
  • And so for me, it was such a great takeaway.
  • 00:47:33.262 --> 00:47:36.165
  • It was such a great
  • 00:47:36.165 --> 00:47:38.701
  • Mind opener, you know.
  • 00:47:38.701 --> 00:47:40.770
  • And so i'm excited for others to read and to hear of the
  • 00:47:40.770 --> 00:47:44.807
  • Knowledge that god has deposited in you.
  • 00:47:44.807 --> 00:47:46.609
  • And so as your sister, i respect, i honor you.
  • 00:47:46.609 --> 00:47:50.346
  • You're my bro, but you're also my professor.
  • 00:47:50.346 --> 00:47:53.182
  • So i am super grateful for you.
  • 00:47:53.182 --> 00:47:55.184
  • And i'm super excited about the book.
  • 00:47:55.184 --> 00:47:58.120
  • And i really pray that other people will allow their lives
  • 00:47:58.120 --> 00:48:01.123
  • To be transformed by the messiah.
  • 00:48:01.123 --> 00:48:03.960
  • So i gotta go, but i wanted to say thank you.
  • 00:48:03.960 --> 00:48:07.496
  • I just want to thank you for taking the time and going on
  • 00:48:07.496 --> 00:48:10.833
  • This journey with me.
  • 00:48:10.833 --> 00:48:12.501
  • It's been such a joy.
  • 00:48:12.501 --> 00:48:14.036
  • I just love your music and love your ministry and the books
  • 00:48:14.036 --> 00:48:19.075
  • That you have written, but it's been so much fun because you
  • 00:48:19.075 --> 00:48:22.712
  • Are a lover of the word.
  • 00:48:22.712 --> 00:48:24.780
  • You are passionate.
  • 00:48:24.780 --> 00:48:26.415
  • As you yourself have said, you're a self-proclaimed bible
  • 00:48:26.415 --> 00:48:29.085
  • Nerd, so it's been fun.
  • 00:48:29.085 --> 00:48:30.519
  • Iron sharpens iron, digging into the word and seeing it in
  • 00:48:30.519 --> 00:48:34.090
  • High definition together.
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  • So i so appreciate you, and hopefully we'll take another
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  • Journey sometime again.
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  • Absolutely looking forward to it.
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  • Blessings to you. shalom.
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  • Blessings. thank you.
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  • Before we break from this journey, let's take a moment to
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  • Remember all we've seen and all that we've heard.
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  • Old testament prophecies have become new testament history.
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  • The town name centuries in advanced,
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  • The timing stamped on heaven's calendar,
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  • The royal line preserved through exile and empire,
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  • God never improvises.
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  • He orchestrates.
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  • If he supervised every detail of messiah's first coming,
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  • Guess what? he will shepherd every detail
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  • Of your life with equal mastery.
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  • Trust him.
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  • His promises are 100% guaranteed and his record is
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  • Always impeccable.
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  • In bethlehem, in that humble cave, the story of our
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  • Forgiveness began.
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  • When emptiness gnaws or shame
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  • Whispers that you're disqualified,
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  • Remember jesus was born in the
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  • Very place that shouts loudly provision.
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  • That means we can come hungry and leave forgiven.
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  • The shepherds saw the infant king swaddled like lambs
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  • Destined for the altar, and from his very first breath
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  • Jesus pointed to the cross.
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  • So your gravest sin and very
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  • Deepest wounds already stand defeated.
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  • The lamb has covered you.
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  • And that's good news.
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  • The prophetic star rose on schedule, crowning the child
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  • Whose scepter can never be seized.
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  • Herod failed.
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  • Hell cannot dethrone him, and the world's current turmoil
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  • Cannot derail his purpose and his promise for your life.
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  • That same sovereignty guides your story.
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  • So take courage.
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  • Nothing surpasses his power.
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  • The former priestly garments that became the swaddling
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  • Clothes for jesus symbolize his glorious return.
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  • Every egg for justice and every sigh for wholeness is
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  • Homesickness for him.
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  • Let that longing move you from
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  • Passive waiting to active seeking.
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  • So what do we do with all this?
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  • What should our response be?
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  • We seek him deliberately.
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  • Open the gospels and linger over the nativity narratives.
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  • Reading and rereading unto the holy spirit illuminates a
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  • Promise you can grab hold of that you can grip today.
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  • Then lay down your best.
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  • The magi brought treasures and
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  • The shepherds brought testimony.
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  • You can offer yourself, placing your time and talents and
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  • Resources at his feet.
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  • Then watch him work wonders.
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  • Share the story also.
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  • Someone in your life may feel forgotten by god.
  • 00:51:52.788 --> 00:51:57.426
  • Offer them that light that surprised and inspired you and
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  • Assure them that messiah is always ready to be found.
  • 00:52:03.098 --> 00:52:08.237
  • Finally, bookend every day with prayer.
  • 00:52:08.237 --> 00:52:13.075
  • Something as simple as come,
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  • Lord jesus, come, lord yeshua, come.
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  • Finish what you started in me and in this world.
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  • You know, a prayer like that keeps your heart tuned towards
  • 00:52:22.351 --> 00:52:26.655
  • Heaven's timeline.
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  • And i can't think of a better
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  • Way to end our journey for today,
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  • Let's pray right now. i'll start.
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  • Heavenly father of -- shamayim, i just want to pray that you
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  • Would birth a new hope in
  • 00:52:40.369 --> 00:52:42.404
  • The hearts of each and every one of us.
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  • Hope is the belief that our future is going to be better
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  • Than our past.
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  • And because you were born in that manger and gave your life
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  • On that tree to redeem me and each and every one watching, we
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  • Thank you god that things are going to be good, that you're
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  • Working it all out together for good.
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  • That even in the midst of crisis and chaos, we call and
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  • Crown you king.
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  • And we ask that you would work everything out for good,
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  • That you who began a good work, that you would finish it
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  • In the midst of it all.
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  • We pray that you would give us your shalom, your peace that
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  • Surpasses all understanding.
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  • And we pray-- [praying in hebrew]
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  • Establish your peace, mercy, goodness, and kindness upon us.
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  • In the name of the prince of peace,
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  • Sar shalom, yeshua, jesus our messiah.
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  • Amen and amen.
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  • Thank you for joining us for this sneak preview of our three
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  • Part journey, transformed by the messiah.
  • 00:53:52.775 --> 00:53:56.145
  • Tonight's trek was only the beginning.
  • 00:53:56.145 --> 00:53:58.914
  • In january, we set off on the full adventure with rabbi jason
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  • Sobel returning with nicole c.
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  • To the birthplace of jesus, bethlehem.
  • 00:54:05.621 --> 00:54:08.857
  • From there, rabbi sobel and special guest, pastor troy
  • 00:54:08.857 --> 00:54:13.162
  • Brewer, cross the waters of the sea of galilee and ascend
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  • The temple mount.
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  • You have got to be kidding me.
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  • This is not the coffee shop.
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  • We're standing on the sea of galilee.
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  • We have biblical capernaum over my shoulder.
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  • Then pastor alan jackson joins rabbi sobel as the journey
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  • Culminates at ancient golgotha in the garden tomb.
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  • The fact that it was a garden tomb is significant.
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  • Where did the fall happen?
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  • It happened in a garden.
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  • The fall happened in a garden.
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  • And so the reversal of that fall also has to happen--
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  • In a garden. of course.
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  • Tonight was only a glimpse.
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  • Experience the full encounter this january, when transformed
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  • By the messiah, continues and uncover the life-changing truth
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  • Of yeshua's birth, life, and death.
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