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

January 15, 2026 | 57:0

Rabbi Jason Sobel: The Messiah’s Birth | Transformed by the Messiah
Rabbi Jason Sobel and Nicole C. Mullen discuss the story of the Messiah in Bethlehem.
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| Rabbi Jason Sobel: The Messiah’s Birth | Transformed by the Messiah | January 15, 2026
  • 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.
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  • Oh my goodness, it's unbelievable.
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  • And again, i just think it declares that god is
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  • 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
  • 00:14:06.391 --> 00:14:11.162
  • 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
  • 00:14:26.177 --> 00:14:29.247
  • 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
  • 00:14:36.321 --> 00:14:40.825
  • 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.
  • 00:15:33.144 --> 00:15:34.412
  • Like, what's going on?
  • 00:15:34.412 --> 00:15:35.780
  • Like, where are we at?
  • 00:15:35.780 --> 00:15:36.748
  • What's going on?
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  • What's happening?
  • 00:15:37.382 --> 00:15:38.349
  • We are here in a representation
  • 00:15:38.349 --> 00:15:41.019
  • Of first century biblical bethlehem.
  • 00:15:41.019 --> 00:15:44.822
  • And the geography is important.
  • 00:15:44.822 --> 00:15:46.958
  • We are only about six miles away from jerusalem.
  • 00:15:46.958 --> 00:15:51.095
  • This is a suburb of jerusalem.
  • 00:15:51.095 --> 00:15:52.897
  • You see that cave over there?
  • 00:15:52.897 --> 00:15:55.099
  • Maybe that's like part of the shepherds fields where the
  • 00:15:55.099 --> 00:15:57.935
  • Angels appeared to the shepherds,
  • 00:15:57.935 --> 00:15:59.637
  • 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.
  • 00:16:07.145 --> 00:16:09.947
  • Wow.
  • 00:16:09.947 --> 00:16:10.848
  • So okay, so i'm overjoyed and wowed.
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  • We're here in bethlehem.
  • 00:16:13.117 --> 00:16:14.419
  • And you've been here, i'm sure, 1001 times. from the little bit
  • 00:16:14.419 --> 00:16:17.321
  • That i know, you know that we--
  • 00:16:17.321 --> 00:16:19.157
  • This is where mary and joseph comes with, you know, to give
  • 00:16:19.157 --> 00:16:21.893
  • Birth to jesus.
  • 00:16:21.893 --> 00:16:23.127
  • 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
  • 00:16:27.665 --> 00:16:34.005
  • And boaz were in, that maybe in david that eventually
  • 00:16:34.005 --> 00:16:38.176
  • Jesus came to?
  • 00:16:38.176 --> 00:16:39.644
  • Absolutely. it's for sure 100% the general location, but we
  • 00:16:39.644 --> 00:16:44.148
  • Know it's also prophetically significant.
  • 00:16:44.148 --> 00:16:47.452
  • Jesus yeshua had to be born here because it's the
  • 00:16:47.452 --> 00:16:51.489
  • 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
  • 00:17:02.166 --> 00:17:06.604
  • King david, so it had to be born in the city of king david.
  • 00:17:06.604 --> 00:17:11.142
  • 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.
  • 00:17:16.647 --> 00:17:17.882
  • No, i think that's, i think that's a really great point.
  • 00:17:17.882 --> 00:17:19.383
  • So as you said, bethlehem means [speaks hebrew] in hebrew,
  • 00:17:19.383 --> 00:17:22.220
  • House of bread, and bread is a symbol of sustenance.
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  • It's a symbol of provision.
  • 00:17:26.691 --> 00:17:28.993
  • And there's great spiritual significance in that because
  • 00:17:28.993 --> 00:17:32.063
  • From a biblical perspective, we know that man only had to earn
  • 00:17:32.063 --> 00:17:36.000
  • His bread by the sweat of his brow after the fall.
  • 00:17:36.000 --> 00:17:40.571
  • So in jewish tradition, jesus was a rabbi.
  • 00:17:40.571 --> 00:17:43.040
  • He would have been familiar with these ancient traditions.
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  • God actually provided bread without the people having to
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  • Work in the garden of eden.
  • 00:17:49.413 --> 00:17:52.316
  • Some rabbis say actually, bread grew on trees.
  • 00:17:52.316 --> 00:17:56.187
  • So think about it.
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  • If jesus was the bread of life and bread grew on trees, jesus
  • 00:17:57.455 --> 00:18:00.725
  • Being put on the cross, a tree was literally the bread being
  • 00:18:00.725 --> 00:18:03.861
  • Put back on the tree for you and for me.
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  • Okay. come on.
  • 00:18:08.566 --> 00:18:09.767
  • Right. and then,
  • 00:18:10.134 --> 00:18:11.435
  • So it looks back to eden
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  • Because he comes to reverse the curse,
  • 00:18:12.770 --> 00:18:14.972
  • But it also looks forward to the messianic kingdom
  • 00:18:14.972 --> 00:18:17.375
  • Because the marriage supper of the lamb,
  • 00:18:17.375 --> 00:18:19.844
  • We're going to feast with the lord, and he's going to provide
  • 00:18:19.844 --> 00:18:23.548
  • Again bread for us without having to work.
  • 00:18:23.548 --> 00:18:26.517
  • Wow. i love it.
  • 00:18:26.517 --> 00:18:27.451
  • Okay, i want to ask another question.
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  • Okay. we're talking about being bethlehem and being the house
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  • Of bread and jesus being the bread of life.
  • 00:18:31.822 --> 00:18:34.625
  • So was he the bread with or without yeast?
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  • And tell me why. i'm just saying.
  • 00:18:38.062 --> 00:18:40.364
  • No. he's definitely the bread without yeast.
  • 00:18:40.364 --> 00:18:42.600
  • Because leaven is a symbol of sin and he's the sinless,
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  • Spotless passover lamb.
  • 00:18:46.771 --> 00:18:48.172
  • But i think it gets to another point, right?
  • 00:18:48.172 --> 00:18:50.541
  • When we think about bread in the house of bread and jesus
  • 00:18:50.541 --> 00:18:53.110
  • Saying, i'm the bread of life,
  • 00:18:53.110 --> 00:18:54.612
  • Bread is symbolic of provision.
  • 00:18:54.612 --> 00:18:56.847
  • So we know he is the greater adam, the last adam.
  • 00:18:56.847 --> 00:19:00.384
  • But there's something more there, because think about it
  • 00:19:00.384 --> 00:19:02.453
  • For a moment.
  • 00:19:02.453 --> 00:19:03.754
  • 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.
  • 00:19:06.591 --> 00:19:09.527
  • He provided manna, bread from heaven in the wilderness.
  • 00:19:09.527 --> 00:19:12.964
  • So god provided the bread, sustained the people in the
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  • Wilderness, but the provision was only enough for the day.
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  • Jesus is the greater than moses.
  • 00:19:20.771 --> 00:19:22.573
  • So what does he do to prove it?
  • 00:19:22.573 --> 00:19:24.408
  • He multiplies the bread and the fish, and it's not just enough
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  • For one day. there's actually leftovers.
  • 00:19:28.579 --> 00:19:31.582
  • They fill the baskets and there's more than enough.
  • 00:19:31.582 --> 00:19:34.318
  • So the manna only satisfied the physical for the moment.
  • 00:19:34.318 --> 00:19:38.422
  • But yeshua, who is the bread of life, he is the one who
  • 00:19:38.422 --> 00:19:41.259
  • Satisfies our soul and satisfies that spiritual hunger
  • 00:19:41.259 --> 00:19:46.264
  • That each and every one of us should have.
  • 00:19:46.264 --> 00:19:47.898
  • I love that, you know. okay. i've always been one--
  • 00:19:47.898 --> 00:19:50.668
  • I've said in the past, you
  • 00:19:50.668 --> 00:19:51.769
  • Know, those who eat bread will spread.
  • 00:19:51.769 --> 00:19:53.638
  • So i've left bread alone for a long time,
  • 00:19:53.638 --> 00:19:56.374
  • But it's only been recently that i started learning the
  • 00:19:56.374 --> 00:19:59.577
  • Even the the nutritious value, you know, the nutrients that
  • 00:19:59.577 --> 00:20:02.947
  • Are really in the bread that are necessary for us and not
  • 00:20:02.947 --> 00:20:05.616
  • Necessarily the grain that we're consuming in the west.
  • 00:20:05.616 --> 00:20:10.554
  • You know, that is-- they've
  • 00:20:10.554 --> 00:20:12.623
  • Removed a lot of goodness from it,
  • 00:20:12.623 --> 00:20:14.659
  • So we don't get a chance to have our bodies healed by it.
  • 00:20:14.659 --> 00:20:17.962
  • But when i went back to and now i'm milling my own grain and
  • 00:20:17.962 --> 00:20:21.299
  • Making bread, you know, i'm experiencing the benefits of
  • 00:20:21.299 --> 00:20:25.636
  • Real bread, which lets me know that sometimes there's a
  • 00:20:25.636 --> 00:20:28.639
  • Counterfeit that goes on even in our lives, too--
  • 00:20:28.639 --> 00:20:32.043
  • And we know that-- to the real christ,
  • 00:20:32.043 --> 00:20:33.811
  • He is the real bread of life.
  • 00:20:33.811 --> 00:20:35.279
  • So when i was able to say, okay, the real bread that i
  • 00:20:35.279 --> 00:20:39.450
  • Consume is beneficial to me, it shows me too, that the real
  • 00:20:39.450 --> 00:20:43.587
  • Bread of life, christ, is a lot more beneficial to me in every
  • 00:20:43.587 --> 00:20:47.391
  • Area of my life.
  • 00:20:47.391 --> 00:20:48.526
  • He cleanses the system.
  • 00:20:48.526 --> 00:20:50.494
  • He heals the body.
  • 00:20:50.494 --> 00:20:52.163
  • He renews the mind, like he, um, allows us to grow in
  • 00:20:52.163 --> 00:20:56.434
  • The right ways.
  • 00:20:56.434 --> 00:20:57.468
  • And so, um, in that for me has,
  • 00:20:57.468 --> 00:21:00.538
  • You know, just knowing that he has--
  • 00:21:00.538 --> 00:21:03.174
  • He is the bread of life allows me to know that even in the
  • 00:21:03.174 --> 00:21:06.777
  • Natural, if i'm eating the real bread, it's going to help me as
  • 00:21:06.777 --> 00:21:10.514
  • Opposed to me just eating, you know, useless parts.
  • 00:21:10.514 --> 00:21:13.084
  • That's so good because we call other things bread, like money.
  • 00:21:13.084 --> 00:21:16.887
  • We call it, hey, you got to get that bread, right.
  • 00:21:16.887 --> 00:21:19.123
  • And anything else that we look to as our bread, that thing
  • 00:21:19.123 --> 00:21:23.561
  • That we think is going to meet our needs and sustain us
  • 00:21:23.561 --> 00:21:27.631
  • Ultimately won't.
  • 00:21:27.631 --> 00:21:28.466
  • There's only one bread that will.
  • 00:21:28.466 --> 00:21:30.668
  • Absolutely. and everything else, in a sense, is a
  • 00:21:30.668 --> 00:21:32.837
  • Counterfeit to really satisfy our soul.
  • 00:21:32.837 --> 00:21:35.106
  • Right. and like you're saying, that's that's yeshua.
  • 00:21:35.106 --> 00:21:37.375
  • That's jesus, the bread of life.
  • 00:21:37.375 --> 00:21:39.009
  • And one of the beautiful things is that bethlehem in hebrew,
  • 00:21:39.009 --> 00:21:42.713
  • Bethlehem, has a numerical value.
  • 00:21:42.713 --> 00:21:46.117
  • You know, i'm really into numbers.
  • 00:21:46.117 --> 00:21:47.818
  • Hebrew is alphanumeric.
  • 00:21:47.818 --> 00:21:49.687
  • There are no roman numerals in the bible.
  • 00:21:49.687 --> 00:21:51.655
  • So you actually write numbers with letters.
  • 00:21:51.655 --> 00:21:54.425
  • So if i say open up the chapter one, i'll say open up the
  • 00:21:54.425 --> 00:21:57.228
  • Chapter aleph
  • 00:21:57.228 --> 00:21:58.462
  • Because aleph is the first letter of the hebrew alphabet.
  • 00:21:58.462 --> 00:22:00.698
  • It has the numerical value of one.
  • 00:22:00.698 --> 00:22:02.833
  • So a is one? yeah, exactly.
  • 00:22:02.833 --> 00:22:05.069
  • Okay. and so the numerical
  • 00:22:05.069 --> 00:22:06.437
  • Value of bethlehem in hebrew is 490,
  • 00:22:06.437 --> 00:22:09.807
  • And that's really significant
  • 00:22:10.408 --> 00:22:11.675
  • Because think about it for a moment.
  • 00:22:11.675 --> 00:22:14.245
  • The hebrew word for nativity equals 490.
  • 00:22:14.245 --> 00:22:18.182
  • Wow. and the hebrew word for nativity equals 490.
  • 00:22:18.182 --> 00:22:23.921
  • Wow. and that same word, tamim, was used of the perfect
  • 00:22:24.989 --> 00:22:28.526
  • Spotless passover lambs,
  • 00:22:28.526 --> 00:22:30.494
  • So in bethlehem--
  • 00:22:30.494 --> 00:22:32.763
  • Come on. oh, we're going to get there.
  • 00:22:32.763 --> 00:22:33.998
  • Right? all right.
  • 00:22:33.998 --> 00:22:34.698
  • So, yeshua-- you're doing it.
  • 00:22:34.698 --> 00:22:36.300
  • You're sure you know where we're going.
  • 00:22:36.300 --> 00:22:38.068
  • Yeshua was born in bethlehem,
  • 00:22:38.068 --> 00:22:41.105
  • 490, born, 490, as a spotless, perfect passover lamb,
  • 00:22:41.105 --> 00:22:45.443
  • 490. and then, as you said, we know the story,
  • 00:22:45.443 --> 00:22:50.281
  • Yeshua says to peter not to forgive, how many times? seven.
  • 00:22:50.281 --> 00:22:55.119
  • And yeshua was not impressed.
  • 00:22:55.119 --> 00:22:56.454
  • He says, no, 70 times seven. 490.
  • 00:22:56.454 --> 00:22:59.490
  • Well, if there's a number in
  • 00:22:59.490 --> 00:23:00.391
  • The bible, it's there for a reason.
  • 00:23:00.391 --> 00:23:01.525
  • Why 490? because bread and forgiveness
  • 00:23:01.525 --> 00:23:04.895
  • Are tied together in the lord's prayer.
  • 00:23:04.895 --> 00:23:07.331
  • Give us this day our daily bread.
  • 00:23:07.331 --> 00:23:09.533
  • And the next verse is,
  • 00:23:09.533 --> 00:23:10.835
  • Forgive us of our trespasses or debts, as we forgive those who
  • 00:23:10.835 --> 00:23:14.271
  • Trespass against us.
  • 00:23:14.271 --> 00:23:15.539
  • So one second.
  • 00:23:15.539 --> 00:23:16.707
  • So you're saying those two verses actually go together?
  • 00:23:16.707 --> 00:23:19.343
  • They actually go together.
  • 00:23:19.343 --> 00:23:20.511
  • They're not separate thoughts?
  • 00:23:20.511 --> 00:23:21.445
  • No. they go together.
  • 00:23:21.445 --> 00:23:22.379
  • They go together.
  • 00:23:22.379 --> 00:23:23.280
  • Right. yeah.
  • 00:23:23.280 --> 00:23:24.181
  • Right, because bread and forgiveness.
  • 00:23:24.181 --> 00:23:25.516
  • And then at the last supper, he takes the bread.
  • 00:23:25.516 --> 00:23:27.685
  • This is my body broken for you.
  • 00:23:27.685 --> 00:23:29.353
  • And we commemorate the forgiveness that he brings for
  • 00:23:29.353 --> 00:23:31.989
  • Us with the broken bread, broken body, which ties back to
  • 00:23:31.989 --> 00:23:35.993
  • Him being born in bethlehem as the bread of life in
  • 00:23:35.993 --> 00:23:40.030
  • The house of bread.
  • 00:23:40.030 --> 00:23:41.932
  • And it ties into what peter is being told by yeshua,
  • 00:23:41.932 --> 00:23:45.836
  • 490, because think about it,
  • 00:23:45.836 --> 00:23:48.839
  • Just like man can't live physically
  • 00:23:49.640 --> 00:23:51.775
  • Without bread for sustenance of his soul. we can't live
  • 00:23:51.775 --> 00:23:55.646
  • Spiritually and and emotionally
  • 00:23:55.646 --> 00:23:57.815
  • Without the bread of forgiveness.
  • 00:23:57.815 --> 00:24:00.384
  • And in the same way, 490 equals perfect or complete, we
  • 00:24:00.384 --> 00:24:04.121
  • Can't be perfect or complete in our faith unless we learn
  • 00:24:04.121 --> 00:24:08.259
  • To forgive others.
  • 00:24:08.259 --> 00:24:10.895
  • And then, as he's forgiven us, and then ultimately for 90
  • 00:24:10.895 --> 00:24:15.032
  • Represents complete forgiveness, unlimited
  • 00:24:15.032 --> 00:24:19.336
  • Forgiveness, god's complete forgiveness for our life.
  • 00:24:19.336 --> 00:24:23.140
  • Wow. wow.
  • 00:24:23.140 --> 00:24:24.708
  • Okay. that's deep. [makes explosion sound] wow.
  • 00:24:24.708 --> 00:24:26.343
  • Okay, i have another question based on that
  • 00:24:27.244 --> 00:24:29.413
  • Forgiveness thing, then.
  • 00:24:29.413 --> 00:24:30.548
  • So then, is forgiveness the same as consequences?
  • 00:24:30.548 --> 00:24:34.652
  • I mean, there are sometimes consequences for people's
  • 00:24:34.652 --> 00:24:38.455
  • Actions when they do wrong against us.
  • 00:24:38.455 --> 00:24:41.458
  • I think the important thing, i think people get confused and
  • 00:24:41.458 --> 00:24:44.295
  • Sometimes why they don't want to forgive is because
  • 00:24:44.295 --> 00:24:46.497
  • Forgiveness doesn't mean that we absolve people of the wrong
  • 00:24:46.497 --> 00:24:52.303
  • That they've done to us.
  • 00:24:52.303 --> 00:24:53.971
  • And that's why there's a difference between forgiveness
  • 00:24:53.971 --> 00:24:56.540
  • And reconciliation.
  • 00:24:56.540 --> 00:24:58.175
  • If someone's wronged us and haven't changed or really
  • 00:24:58.175 --> 00:25:01.478
  • Repented, we don't go back into relationship.
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  • We don't have to open ourselves up to them.
  • 00:25:04.582 --> 00:25:07.518
  • We don't have to be in relationship with them if
  • 00:25:07.518 --> 00:25:09.853
  • They're not safe or they're not trustworthy.
  • 00:25:09.853 --> 00:25:12.222
  • But forgiveness is not an elective.
  • 00:25:12.957 --> 00:25:15.793
  • It is a requirement because forgiveness is not just for the
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  • Sake of the other person.
  • 00:25:18.963 --> 00:25:21.031
  • It's the best selfish gift i can give myself.
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  • It frees me.
  • 00:25:24.168 --> 00:25:25.603
  • Yeah, because unforgiveness keeps us chained to the person
  • 00:25:25.603 --> 00:25:30.307
  • And to the trauma that we've experienced.
  • 00:25:30.307 --> 00:25:32.643
  • So forgiveness releases us from that person, releases us from
  • 00:25:32.643 --> 00:25:37.948
  • That pain, and allows us to move forward into what god has
  • 00:25:37.948 --> 00:25:42.753
  • For us.
  • 00:25:42.753 --> 00:25:43.954
  • And if we don't forgive, we ultimately become bitter.
  • 00:25:43.954 --> 00:25:46.190
  • And the bread spoils, in a sense. that's good.
  • 00:25:46.190 --> 00:25:49.126
  • And i say all the time, it's it's really up to god to choose
  • 00:25:49.126 --> 00:25:51.795
  • To whether he wants to forget or quit.
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  • So my responsibility is to forgive.
  • 00:25:54.031 --> 00:25:56.834
  • Yeah. or you could say going back to what you said earlier,
  • 00:25:56.834 --> 00:26:00.070
  • Unforgiveness is like leaven in the dough.
  • 00:26:00.070 --> 00:26:03.140
  • Leaven is sour and it ultimately is a symbol of sin.
  • 00:26:03.140 --> 00:26:07.911
  • And so ultimately, if we have unforgiveness, it's the leaven
  • 00:26:07.911 --> 00:26:10.814
  • In the dough that we don't want in our lives.
  • 00:26:10.814 --> 00:26:14.451
  • We don't want spoiled bread in the house.
  • 00:26:14.451 --> 00:26:16.553
  • Okay. that's great.
  • 00:26:16.553 --> 00:26:21.225
  • Oh my goodness.
  • 00:26:21.625 --> 00:26:22.626
  • Like okay, so what's happening right now?
  • 00:26:22.626 --> 00:26:25.629
  • Nicole, are you ready to continue our journey?
  • 00:26:25.629 --> 00:26:27.431
  • We are going to go to the cave of bethlehem and see where
  • 00:26:27.431 --> 00:26:32.002
  • Jesus was born.
  • 00:26:32.002 --> 00:26:33.270
  • Ooh. can't wait.
  • 00:26:33.270 --> 00:26:39.910
  • Okay, so this is so, so cool.
  • 00:26:40.511 --> 00:26:43.981
  • Okay, so we are in a cave. am i right?
  • 00:26:43.981 --> 00:26:49.053
  • This is a cave. yeah. okay.
  • 00:26:49.053 --> 00:26:50.788
  • We're here in bethlehem,
  • 00:26:51.288 --> 00:26:53.323
  • And many people think jesus was born
  • 00:26:53.323 --> 00:26:56.193
  • In a wooden manger.
  • 00:26:56.193 --> 00:26:58.195
  • That's what we see represented in the west,
  • 00:26:58.195 --> 00:26:59.930
  • But he was actually born in a cave,
  • 00:26:59.930 --> 00:27:02.232
  • A cave just like this.
  • 00:27:02.232 --> 00:27:05.135
  • So could you actually, like,
  • 00:27:05.135 --> 00:27:06.437
  • Even live in something like this?
  • 00:27:06.437 --> 00:27:08.138
  • It's not just a hole in the ground.
  • 00:27:08.138 --> 00:27:09.373
  • Right, right.
  • 00:27:09.373 --> 00:27:10.507
  • It's interesting that you should say that, right?
  • 00:27:10.507 --> 00:27:11.675
  • Because we know that in the birth of jesus, one of the
  • 00:27:11.675 --> 00:27:14.578
  • First things we read about in the gospels is that angels
  • 00:27:14.578 --> 00:27:18.582
  • Appeared to shepherds in the field, and the sign is, you'll
  • 00:27:18.582 --> 00:27:22.953
  • See a baby wrapped in swaddling cloths lying in a manger.
  • 00:27:22.953 --> 00:27:28.092
  • And part of the significance of that, to answer your question
  • 00:27:28.092 --> 00:27:31.895
  • Is that, first of all, these weren't ordinary shepherds.
  • 00:27:31.895 --> 00:27:35.199
  • They were actually levitical shepherds.
  • 00:27:35.199 --> 00:27:37.634
  • They were tending and watching over the flock that would have
  • 00:27:37.634 --> 00:27:42.072
  • Been used for sacrifice in the temple in jerusalem.
  • 00:27:42.072 --> 00:27:46.443
  • Six miles away. six miles away.
  • 00:27:46.443 --> 00:27:47.978
  • You got it, you got it.
  • 00:27:47.978 --> 00:27:49.613
  • You got it, right,
  • 00:27:49.613 --> 00:27:51.181
  • Because think about it for a moment,
  • 00:27:51.181 --> 00:27:52.750
  • They couldn't raise them in the city.
  • 00:27:52.750 --> 00:27:54.418
  • Okay, this is the suburb.
  • 00:27:54.418 --> 00:27:56.520
  • And many people think of them as like lowly shepherds,
  • 00:27:56.520 --> 00:27:59.456
  • But again, they were levitical shepherds.
  • 00:27:59.456 --> 00:28:02.593
  • They were priestly types of shepherds
  • 00:28:02.593 --> 00:28:05.229
  • And that's so significant because when the weather was
  • 00:28:05.229 --> 00:28:07.831
  • Bad, or when it was time for one of the sheep to give birth,
  • 00:28:07.831 --> 00:28:13.036
  • They would take them into a cave just like this.
  • 00:28:13.036 --> 00:28:15.973
  • So the caves had to be
  • 00:28:15.973 --> 00:28:17.107
  • Big enough to take the sheep into them,
  • 00:28:17.107 --> 00:28:21.512
  • And so it would have been something like this.
  • 00:28:21.512 --> 00:28:24.214
  • Wow. and this is exactly what
  • 00:28:24.214 --> 00:28:25.716
  • Jesus would have been born into.
  • 00:28:25.716 --> 00:28:28.252
  • Wow. and that's part of the significance.
  • 00:28:28.252 --> 00:28:30.287
  • Think about it for a moment.
  • 00:28:30.287 --> 00:28:31.855
  • Of all the signs that the angels could have given to
  • 00:28:31.855 --> 00:28:35.058
  • These shepherds,
  • 00:28:35.058 --> 00:28:36.393
  • A baby lying in a manger wrapped in swaddling cloths--
  • 00:28:36.393 --> 00:28:40.397
  • It had to have meant something.
  • 00:28:40.397 --> 00:28:41.832
  • I'm thinking if you're telling me something that i should
  • 00:28:41.832 --> 00:28:43.634
  • Know, then it means that it's
  • 00:28:43.634 --> 00:28:45.803
  • Something that i'm familiar with,
  • 00:28:45.803 --> 00:28:47.738
  • So that sign would have been something the shepherds would
  • 00:28:47.738 --> 00:28:51.175
  • Have known, like this actually means something more than
  • 00:28:51.175 --> 00:28:54.444
  • Just on the surface
  • 00:28:54.444 --> 00:28:56.046
  • What they're telling us.
  • 00:28:56.046 --> 00:28:57.347
  • The lambs especially that were born here, were primarily used
  • 00:28:57.347 --> 00:29:02.286
  • As the passover sacrifice,
  • 00:29:02.286 --> 00:29:05.322
  • So when it came time to birth those baby lambs, they
  • 00:29:05.322 --> 00:29:09.059
  • Oftentimes bring them into a cave like this.
  • 00:29:09.059 --> 00:29:12.062
  • And part of the process was because the lambs had to be
  • 00:29:12.062 --> 00:29:15.666
  • Without spot or blemish,
  • 00:29:15.666 --> 00:29:16.900
  • You can see how jagged and rugged you can see the rocks.
  • 00:29:16.900 --> 00:29:20.871
  • If it cut itself or injured itself, it would be no longer
  • 00:29:20.871 --> 00:29:25.275
  • Fit for a sacrifice,
  • 00:29:25.275 --> 00:29:26.977
  • And so one of the things to maintain a ritual purity and
  • 00:29:26.977 --> 00:29:30.280
  • The perfection of the lamb,
  • 00:29:30.280 --> 00:29:31.748
  • There is some who believe that the lambs were actually
  • 00:29:31.748 --> 00:29:34.718
  • Swaddled in swaddling cloth because they were clumsy
  • 00:29:34.718 --> 00:29:38.355
  • When they were young.
  • 00:29:38.355 --> 00:29:39.923
  • So levitical shepherds would have come in.
  • 00:29:39.923 --> 00:29:43.460
  • They would have seen jesus born in the place that the passover
  • 00:29:43.460 --> 00:29:47.865
  • Lambs were born.
  • 00:29:47.865 --> 00:29:49.099
  • They would have seen him swaddled like one of the
  • 00:29:49.099 --> 00:29:52.169
  • Passover lambs.
  • 00:29:52.169 --> 00:29:53.637
  • And they would have understood that this is the promised
  • 00:29:53.637 --> 00:29:57.241
  • Messiah, the lamb of god,
  • 00:29:57.241 --> 00:29:59.543
  • Who takes away the sins of the world.
  • 00:29:59.543 --> 00:30:01.411
  • Not just a lamb of god, but the lamb of god.
  • 00:30:01.411 --> 00:30:06.183
  • They would see in the manger, in the trough.
  • 00:30:06.183 --> 00:30:08.418
  • Only god could have done that.
  • 00:30:08.418 --> 00:30:09.519
  • Like, really?
  • 00:30:09.519 --> 00:30:10.187
  • You know what i'm saying?
  • 00:30:10.187 --> 00:30:11.255
  • All those details. man, couldn't make that up.
  • 00:30:11.255 --> 00:30:13.257
  • In our western mindset,
  • 00:30:13.257 --> 00:30:14.992
  • For the most part, when we're thinking about the birth of
  • 00:30:14.992 --> 00:30:17.828
  • Christ, we're thinking of a wooden barn.
  • 00:30:17.828 --> 00:30:21.064
  • The earliest church tradition, the church of the nativity--
  • 00:30:21.064 --> 00:30:24.301
  • We love taking people to israel--
  • 00:30:24.301 --> 00:30:25.869
  • Yeah. it's built over that cave.
  • 00:30:25.869 --> 00:30:28.672
  • So one of the oldest churches in the world recognizes it
  • 00:30:28.672 --> 00:30:33.010
  • Wasn't a wooden structure. it was a cave.
  • 00:30:33.010 --> 00:30:35.112
  • Right? so there's not even a dispute about that.
  • 00:30:35.112 --> 00:30:38.382
  • So part of the swaddling process, every baby that was
  • 00:30:38.382 --> 00:30:43.153
  • Swaddled and every legitimate child was swaddled was also
  • 00:30:43.153 --> 00:30:47.291
  • Salted as part of that process.
  • 00:30:47.291 --> 00:30:50.260
  • So think about the significance of that.
  • 00:30:50.260 --> 00:30:52.796
  • He's born as the passover lamb in the place where the passover
  • 00:30:52.796 --> 00:30:56.433
  • Lambs and the sacrifices of the lambs were born,
  • 00:30:56.433 --> 00:30:59.436
  • Watched over by shepherds. he's the good shepherd.
  • 00:30:59.436 --> 00:31:02.673
  • But think about this.
  • 00:31:02.673 --> 00:31:04.074
  • Every sacrifice that was offered in the temple had to be
  • 00:31:04.074 --> 00:31:07.611
  • Salted as a sign of the
  • 00:31:07.611 --> 00:31:09.780
  • Permanence of god's forgiveness,
  • 00:31:09.780 --> 00:31:13.016
  • Atonement, so think about that.
  • 00:31:13.016 --> 00:31:15.819
  • Make me shout up here in the cave.
  • 00:31:15.819 --> 00:31:17.554
  • You know what i'm saying?
  • 00:31:17.554 --> 00:31:18.322
  • So listen, he's swaddled like
  • 00:31:18.322 --> 00:31:20.590
  • The sacrificed lamb, and he's salted like one of the
  • 00:31:20.590 --> 00:31:25.662
  • Sacrifices that were offered in the temple.
  • 00:31:25.662 --> 00:31:29.066
  • He's born in the city of david,
  • 00:31:29.066 --> 00:31:31.401
  • Bethlehem. yeah, we mentioned that, right.
  • 00:31:31.401 --> 00:31:33.937
  • House of bread.
  • 00:31:33.937 --> 00:31:35.339
  • When god makes the davidic covenant, he makes a covenant
  • 00:31:35.339 --> 00:31:38.542
  • With david and say, one of your ancestors will always
  • 00:31:38.542 --> 00:31:41.712
  • Sit on the throne.
  • 00:31:41.712 --> 00:31:43.380
  • That's ultimately meant to be the messiah.
  • 00:31:43.380 --> 00:31:45.749
  • And god made a salt covenant with david because salt
  • 00:31:45.749 --> 00:31:50.821
  • Symbolizes permanence.
  • 00:31:50.821 --> 00:31:52.656
  • But salt in the middle east also symbolizes friendship.
  • 00:31:52.656 --> 00:31:57.427
  • Wow. and so there's an expression,
  • 00:31:57.427 --> 00:32:00.530
  • There's salt between us.
  • 00:32:00.530 --> 00:32:02.199
  • And there was a ceremony where two people would take salt from
  • 00:32:02.199 --> 00:32:05.002
  • Their pouch, mix it with the other person's salt, saying,
  • 00:32:05.002 --> 00:32:07.704
  • May we never be able to be separated. just like our salt
  • 00:32:07.704 --> 00:32:10.374
  • Is now intermingled, we're forever tied.
  • 00:32:10.374 --> 00:32:13.410
  • Salty had a whole nother meaning.
  • 00:32:13.410 --> 00:32:15.078
  • Salt had a whole nother meaning, right?
  • 00:32:15.078 --> 00:32:16.947
  • And so through the davidic covenant, through ultimately
  • 00:32:16.947 --> 00:32:21.151
  • The new covenant, he comes to bring us into friendship and
  • 00:32:21.151 --> 00:32:26.056
  • Relationship with him.
  • 00:32:26.056 --> 00:32:27.324
  • We were at enmity with god because of our sin, but because
  • 00:32:27.324 --> 00:32:30.394
  • Of the covenant that jesus yeshua establishes,
  • 00:32:30.394 --> 00:32:33.897
  • We're no longer enemies of god.
  • 00:32:33.897 --> 00:32:35.665
  • We're now friends of god, and we have this permanent
  • 00:32:35.665 --> 00:32:38.802
  • Relationship with him.
  • 00:32:38.802 --> 00:32:40.504
  • Wow. wow.
  • 00:32:40.504 --> 00:32:42.139
  • Okay, so my mind is going in a thousand different directions.
  • 00:32:42.139 --> 00:32:45.075
  • It reminds me a little bit of just even the children of
  • 00:32:45.075 --> 00:32:48.011
  • Israel when they were coming out of egypt.
  • 00:32:48.011 --> 00:32:50.547
  • And they have this unleavened dough, didn't they wrap it, if
  • 00:32:50.547 --> 00:32:54.885
  • I'm not mistaken?
  • 00:32:54.885 --> 00:32:55.786
  • Wasn't it wrapped in cloth as well?
  • 00:32:55.786 --> 00:32:57.054
  • It may not have been swaddling, i don't know, but would that
  • 00:32:57.054 --> 00:32:59.356
  • Not have been symbolic to of--
  • 00:32:59.356 --> 00:33:01.058
  • I think that's a great point.
  • 00:33:01.058 --> 00:33:02.726
  • And there's so much more meaning here, like we talk
  • 00:33:02.726 --> 00:33:05.896
  • About in the book transformed by the messiah,
  • 00:33:05.896 --> 00:33:07.998
  • I don't even think this was ordinary swaddling cloth.
  • 00:33:07.998 --> 00:33:11.034
  • See, when the priestly garments were too worn, they would
  • 00:33:11.034 --> 00:33:14.438
  • Actually repurpose them.
  • 00:33:14.438 --> 00:33:15.539
  • They wouldn't throw them away.
  • 00:33:15.539 --> 00:33:16.606
  • They're holy.
  • 00:33:16.606 --> 00:33:17.841
  • And one of the things they would use them for was to make
  • 00:33:17.841 --> 00:33:19.876
  • The wicks of the menorah, the seven branched candelabra that
  • 00:33:19.876 --> 00:33:23.680
  • Symbolized god's light and his presence among the people.
  • 00:33:23.680 --> 00:33:28.285
  • And so i believe that yeshua, the baby jesus, was wrapped in
  • 00:33:28.285 --> 00:33:32.889
  • Used priestly garments to show not only that he was the lamb
  • 00:33:32.889 --> 00:33:37.561
  • Of god, the ultimate sacrifice, but he was actually the
  • 00:33:37.561 --> 00:33:40.730
  • Great high priest.
  • 00:33:40.730 --> 00:33:42.399
  • The question is, where did they get those garments because
  • 00:33:42.399 --> 00:33:44.801
  • Joseph and mary were not from a levitical family, not from
  • 00:33:44.801 --> 00:33:47.938
  • A priestly family?
  • 00:33:47.938 --> 00:33:49.239
  • Well, who was mary's cousin?
  • 00:33:49.239 --> 00:33:51.975
  • It was elizabeth.
  • 00:33:51.975 --> 00:33:53.443
  • Her husband was a priest,
  • 00:33:53.443 --> 00:33:55.645
  • Had an encounter in the temple.
  • 00:33:55.645 --> 00:33:58.181
  • Not far from bethlehem.
  • 00:33:58.181 --> 00:34:01.118
  • And i believe he gave mary part of his old garments, priestly
  • 00:33:59.282 --> 00:34:06.690
  • Garments for her to swaddle him, because he knew the
  • 00:34:06.690 --> 00:34:08.859
  • Messiah was not only going to be a sacrifice, but he knew he
  • 00:34:08.859 --> 00:34:11.761
  • Was going to be the great high priest.
  • 00:34:11.761 --> 00:34:13.797
  • So it points to his work as our mediator as well.
  • 00:34:13.797 --> 00:34:19.336
  • Wow. lamb of god.
  • 00:34:19.336 --> 00:34:20.904
  • Light of the world.
  • 00:34:20.904 --> 00:34:22.205
  • Great high priest.
  • 00:34:22.205 --> 00:34:23.707
  • But of course, there's one more thing.
  • 00:34:23.707 --> 00:34:26.143
  • And you alluded to it, right?
  • 00:34:26.143 --> 00:34:27.844
  • You said in a sense, the end is connected to the beginning.
  • 00:34:27.844 --> 00:34:33.583
  • Yes. right, which is
  • 00:34:33.583 --> 00:34:35.018
  • A really powerful thought.
  • 00:34:35.018 --> 00:34:35.952
  • So think about it for a moment.
  • 00:34:35.952 --> 00:34:37.487
  • At his birth, he's born in a cave.
  • 00:34:38.255 --> 00:34:40.390
  • Mhm.
  • 00:34:40.390 --> 00:34:41.424
  • At his death, he's put in a cave. at his birth,
  • 00:34:41.424 --> 00:34:45.395
  • He's swaddled in swaddling cloth, and at his death he's
  • 00:34:45.395 --> 00:34:49.199
  • Wrapped in burial cloth.
  • 00:34:49.199 --> 00:34:52.035
  • Right. we said that swaddling cloth was special.
  • 00:34:52.035 --> 00:34:55.138
  • Right? yeah. one more--
  • 00:34:55.138 --> 00:34:55.939
  • At the beginning,
  • 00:34:55.939 --> 00:34:57.140
  • You have joseph, his father, and then at the end, you have
  • 00:34:57.140 --> 00:35:00.710
  • Joseph of arimathea. you know what i'm saying?
  • 00:35:00.710 --> 00:35:03.113
  • I love just like-- i'm just saying, like--
  • 00:35:03.113 --> 00:35:04.347
  • Okay, anyway, go back.
  • 00:35:04.347 --> 00:35:05.415
  • Oh, that's so good. making those connections,
  • 00:35:05.415 --> 00:35:07.317
  • I love it, i love it.
  • 00:35:07.317 --> 00:35:08.885
  • Yeah. and so there was something special about the
  • 00:35:08.885 --> 00:35:11.488
  • Garments he was wrapped in as a child.
  • 00:35:11.488 --> 00:35:13.990
  • And there was something special about the garments that he left
  • 00:35:13.990 --> 00:35:16.893
  • Behind folded after the resurrection.
  • 00:35:16.893 --> 00:35:20.564
  • And today, many people are talking about the shroud of
  • 00:35:20.564 --> 00:35:24.334
  • Turin that they believe left an imprint of jesus on it.
  • 00:35:24.334 --> 00:35:28.205
  • So again, there is this connection between the
  • 00:35:28.205 --> 00:35:30.373
  • Beginning and the end.
  • 00:35:30.373 --> 00:35:32.342
  • It all ties together because the lamb that was born in that
  • 00:35:32.342 --> 00:35:35.845
  • Cave was ultimately born to give his life and rise from the
  • 00:35:35.845 --> 00:35:39.149
  • Dead, that we might find forgiveness and freedom on
  • 00:35:39.149 --> 00:35:41.952
  • Account of what he has done for us.
  • 00:35:41.952 --> 00:35:43.553
  • The alpha and the omega. amen.
  • 00:35:43.553 --> 00:35:45.956
  • Amen. all right.
  • 00:35:45.956 --> 00:35:49.192
  • Rabbi, that was fire!
  • 00:35:49.192 --> 00:35:51.595
  • That was so good.
  • 00:35:52.028 --> 00:35:53.463
  • Okay. my mind is like--
  • 00:35:53.463 --> 00:35:55.031
  • All right, but maybe we ought to go back to the coffee shop,
  • 00:35:55.031 --> 00:35:57.400
  • And this time i'm gonna get decaf or, you know, probably
  • 00:35:57.400 --> 00:36:00.837
  • Water or something, but that's fine.
  • 00:36:00.837 --> 00:36:02.405
  • All right, let's go get something to drink.
  • 00:36:02.405 --> 00:36:10.413
  • ♪♪
  • 00:36:10.647 --> 00:36:14.985
  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • Yeah. i mean, i think we have
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  • To talk about god's perfect timing.
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  • Think about it for a moment.
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  • We've already discussed the shepherds.
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  • 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
  • 00:36:49.052 --> 00:36:54.291
  • Same scene at the nativity, but we know they actually came
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  • A couple years later.
  • 00:36:58.428 --> 00:37:00.864
  • And i think we have to ask the question, though, why would
  • 00:37:00.864 --> 00:37:04.501
  • These magi, these pagan astrologers from the east,
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  • Care about the birth of a jewish king?
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  • Why would they make such a long
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  • Journey, bring such expensive gifts?
  • 00:37:13.910 --> 00:37:17.480
  • And i think that's an important question to be able to answer.
  • 00:37:17.480 --> 00:37:20.216
  • And i think we have to be like
  • 00:37:20.216 --> 00:37:21.818
  • Good detectives and search this out.
  • 00:37:21.818 --> 00:37:25.955
  • So the first thing that we have, the first clue we have is
  • 00:37:25.955 --> 00:37:28.792
  • That they actually come from the east.
  • 00:37:28.792 --> 00:37:31.561
  • Why is that significant?
  • 00:37:31.561 --> 00:37:33.196
  • Because east in the bible usually refers to babylon
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  • Or it refers to persia.
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  • And that's significant because think about it for a moment,
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  • How do these wise men know? why do they care?
  • 00:37:43.973 --> 00:37:46.876
  • It's because it traces back to babylon, right?
  • 00:37:46.876 --> 00:37:50.413
  • Who was the most famous wise man in babylon?
  • 00:37:50.413 --> 00:37:54.884
  • There's a book written about him.
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  • Daniel!
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  • That's right. right.
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  • Daniel, chapter two,
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  • He becomes head of the wise men after interpreting king
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  • Nebuchadnezzar's dream.
  • 00:38:07.097 --> 00:38:09.165
  • And also in the book of daniel, daniel chapter nine, he is
  • 00:38:09.165 --> 00:38:14.304
  • Praying to god.
  • 00:38:14.304 --> 00:38:15.739
  • And part of the reason he's praying is that because the
  • 00:38:15.739 --> 00:38:18.007
  • Reason why daniel is in babylon is the jewish people, according
  • 00:38:18.007 --> 00:38:22.212
  • To jeremiah, had gone into exile and they were supposed to
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  • 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.
  • 00:38:34.624 --> 00:38:35.992
  • And we said in hebrew, there's one letter difference between
  • 00:38:35.992 --> 00:38:38.795
  • Exile and redemption.
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  • It's the letter aleph, the letter that represents the
  • 00:38:40.330 --> 00:38:43.066
  • Divine name.
  • 00:38:43.066 --> 00:38:44.467
  • So when you take god out, you're left with exile.
  • 00:38:44.467 --> 00:38:47.504
  • When you invite god in, you wind up experiencing
  • 00:38:47.504 --> 00:38:50.140
  • The redemption of the lord. right?
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  • Hey. okay. right.
  • 00:38:53.143 --> 00:38:55.011
  • So now, now, now, daniel is in this exile, and he wants
  • 00:38:55.011 --> 00:38:58.348
  • The redemption to come.
  • 00:38:58.348 --> 00:38:59.916
  • The 70 years of the jeremiah prophecy is drawing to a close,
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  • And he's praying, god, is
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  • Now the time that you're going to restore us to the promised
  • 00:39:06.022 --> 00:39:08.825
  • Land, rebuild the temple, bring the messiah?
  • 00:39:08.825 --> 00:39:12.228
  • And the angel comes to daniel.
  • 00:39:12.228 --> 00:39:14.531
  • 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
  • 00:39:20.270 --> 00:39:24.073
  • Daniel 9 prophecy, it gives us the exact time of the
  • 00:39:24.073 --> 00:39:29.279
  • Coming of the messiah.
  • 00:39:29.279 --> 00:39:31.247
  • It says, from the decree to rebuild jerusalem to the coming
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  • Of the messiah and the anointed one being cut off for the sins
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  • Of the people will be six weeks,
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  • Or if you calculate and do the math, it's 483 years. from the
  • 00:39:43.126 --> 00:39:49.132
  • Time of artaxerxes decree to rebuild jerusalem to the time
  • 00:39:49.132 --> 00:39:54.404
  • Yeshua comes and dies on that cross,
  • 00:39:54.404 --> 00:39:57.607
  • It is literally 483 years. come on.
  • 00:39:57.607 --> 00:40:03.246
  • Okay. seven years short of 490.
  • 00:40:03.246 --> 00:40:07.183
  • Right, that you spoke about earlier.
  • 00:40:07.183 --> 00:40:10.053
  • Okay, so yes.
  • 00:40:10.053 --> 00:40:11.154
  • So we have 483 right now.
  • 00:40:11.154 --> 00:40:13.256
  • Wow. 483.
  • 00:40:13.256 --> 00:40:15.058
  • There's a final seven year period to come that's connected
  • 00:40:15.058 --> 00:40:18.361
  • To the book of revelation.
  • 00:40:18.361 --> 00:40:19.362
  • But we won't go there just now.
  • 00:40:19.362 --> 00:40:21.598
  • Okay. so the point being is that the wise man knew the time
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  • Frame in which the messiah came,
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  • And they were interested because they had this tradition
  • 00:40:28.771 --> 00:40:32.475
  • Going back to the greatest wise man who ever lived,
  • 00:40:32.475 --> 00:40:36.045
  • Daniel, god's man in babylon, right?
  • 00:40:36.045 --> 00:40:39.649
  • Yes.
  • 00:40:39.649 --> 00:40:40.683
  • But of course, that then begs the question.
  • 00:40:40.683 --> 00:40:42.652
  • Okay, they knew the timing, so they knew when to look for a
  • 00:40:42.652 --> 00:40:46.556
  • Sign of the birth of the king that daniel spoke about.
  • 00:40:46.556 --> 00:40:50.326
  • But then that begs another question, right,
  • 00:40:50.326 --> 00:40:53.096
  • Which is, how did they know the star was going to be the sign
  • 00:40:53.096 --> 00:40:59.035
  • That was ultimately going to lead them to the one spoken of
  • 00:40:59.035 --> 00:41:03.206
  • In daniel's prophecy?
  • 00:41:03.206 --> 00:41:04.607
  • Tell me that now.
  • 00:41:04.607 --> 00:41:05.875
  • Yeah. we get deeper into this and transformed by the messiah.
  • 00:41:05.875 --> 00:41:08.778
  • So there was another famous wise man, okay, mentioned for
  • 00:41:08.778 --> 00:41:13.883
  • The first time in the book of numbers.
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  • His name is balaam.
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  • Okay. do you remember the story?
  • 00:41:18.021 --> 00:41:19.989
  • Balaam is hired by king balak to curse israel.
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  • Instead of cursing israel, he winds up blessing israel.
  • 00:41:24.494 --> 00:41:28.598
  • Look at god.
  • 00:41:28.598 --> 00:41:29.465
  • God is so good. you can't curse--
  • 00:41:29.465 --> 00:41:30.833
  • No you can't. what god has blessed.
  • 00:41:30.833 --> 00:41:32.635
  • Amen. and we are blessed in messiah.
  • 00:41:32.635 --> 00:41:36.339
  • So what's interesting there?
  • 00:41:36.339 --> 00:41:38.107
  • He tries to curse, balaam tries to curse israel.
  • 00:41:38.107 --> 00:41:40.643
  • He winds up blessing them and he says, i see him not now, but
  • 00:41:40.643 --> 00:41:44.814
  • I see him in the distance.
  • 00:41:44.814 --> 00:41:47.083
  • He says, a star will come out of jacob.
  • 00:41:47.083 --> 00:41:51.654
  • Mhm. so this--
  • 00:41:52.021 --> 00:41:55.258
  • So balaam was from babylon, a famous wise man, and he gives
  • 00:41:55.258 --> 00:42:00.229
  • What is known as the star prophecy.
  • 00:42:00.229 --> 00:42:03.099
  • He connects the coming of the messiah with a star.
  • 00:42:03.099 --> 00:42:07.570
  • And he also connects the coming with the messiah to a scepter.
  • 00:42:07.570 --> 00:42:10.773
  • He sees a star and a scepter as a sign of the promised
  • 00:42:10.773 --> 00:42:15.144
  • Redeemer, the promised messiah.
  • 00:42:15.144 --> 00:42:17.080
  • He's a wise man from babylon.
  • 00:42:17.080 --> 00:42:19.449
  • So both the time of the coming of the messiah and the sign of
  • 00:42:19.449 --> 00:42:23.152
  • The coming of the messiah are both connected to wise men.
  • 00:42:23.152 --> 00:42:26.990
  • They're both connected to stars.
  • 00:42:26.990 --> 00:42:29.225
  • Okay. but it's so.
  • 00:42:29.225 --> 00:42:31.027
  • This is part of the reason why they know.
  • 00:42:31.027 --> 00:42:32.829
  • When i use this, i'm going to give you credit for it.
  • 00:42:32.829 --> 00:42:34.764
  • I'm just saying i'm gonna give you credit, but keep going.
  • 00:42:34.764 --> 00:42:37.500
  • But again, there's something even more interesting here.
  • 00:42:37.500 --> 00:42:41.070
  • Balaam mentions again two things,
  • 00:42:41.070 --> 00:42:42.939
  • Messiah connected to star and scepter.
  • 00:42:42.939 --> 00:42:47.310
  • What's interesting?
  • 00:42:47.310 --> 00:42:49.212
  • One other place we find the term scepter in connection to a
  • 00:42:49.212 --> 00:42:54.517
  • Messianic prophecy.
  • 00:42:54.517 --> 00:42:56.486
  • Genesis chapter 49, jacob gathers his 12 sons and he
  • 00:42:56.486 --> 00:43:01.157
  • Says, genesis 49:1, i'm going to tell you what's going to
  • 00:43:01.157 --> 00:43:04.627
  • Happen in the last days.
  • 00:43:04.627 --> 00:43:08.097
  • So he's setting up the end times.
  • 00:43:08.865 --> 00:43:10.533
  • Jacob is prophesying, genesis 49, about the end of days, about
  • 00:43:10.533 --> 00:43:15.271
  • The coming of the messiah. in his blessing on judah,
  • 00:43:15.271 --> 00:43:18.608
  • He says this, come on.
  • 00:43:18.608 --> 00:43:20.143
  • Right. a scepter shall not depart from--
  • 00:43:20.143 --> 00:43:23.012
  • Judah.
  • 00:43:23.246 --> 00:43:24.080
  • Nor the ruler's staff from
  • 00:43:24.080 --> 00:43:25.381
  • Between his feet, until who comes?
  • 00:43:25.381 --> 00:43:27.650
  • Shiloh the messiah comes, and to him will be the
  • 00:43:27.650 --> 00:43:31.854
  • Obedience of the nations.
  • 00:43:31.854 --> 00:43:34.123
  • So the genesis 49 prophecy actually also tells us the
  • 00:43:34.123 --> 00:43:38.728
  • Timeframe of the coming of the messiah.
  • 00:43:38.728 --> 00:43:40.296
  • But we're not going to get into all that here.
  • 00:43:40.296 --> 00:43:42.565
  • But it connects the messiah with a scepter which connects
  • 00:43:42.565 --> 00:43:47.103
  • To balaam's star prophecy.
  • 00:43:47.103 --> 00:43:48.671
  • And the reason why that's important, until shiloh comes,
  • 00:43:48.671 --> 00:43:52.341
  • What is shiloh mean?
  • 00:43:52.809 --> 00:43:54.310
  • Shiloh, the rabbis say, is one of the names of the messiah.
  • 00:43:54.310 --> 00:43:57.280
  • Until the messiah comes.
  • 00:43:57.280 --> 00:43:59.816
  • Another interpretation for shiloh is shi, meaning gift,
  • 00:43:59.816 --> 00:44:05.388
  • Loh meaning to him.
  • 00:44:05.388 --> 00:44:07.824
  • And they will bring gifts to him, meaning the messiah, and
  • 00:44:07.824 --> 00:44:11.994
  • To him will be the obedience of the nations.
  • 00:44:11.994 --> 00:44:15.198
  • So the wise men come from babylon, following the star,
  • 00:44:15.198 --> 00:44:21.170
  • Knowing the timing.
  • 00:44:21.637 --> 00:44:23.172
  • And what did they bring?
  • 00:44:23.172 --> 00:44:25.241
  • Gold, frankincense and myrrh in fulfillment of genesis 49,
  • 00:44:25.241 --> 00:44:31.180
  • Because the nations will bring shi, gifts, loh, to him to
  • 00:44:31.180 --> 00:44:37.553
  • Represent not only israel, honoring and receiving the
  • 00:44:37.553 --> 00:44:41.190
  • Messiah, the nations receiving and honoring the messiah, which
  • 00:44:41.190 --> 00:44:45.428
  • Is found in a number of prophecies, including in the
  • 00:44:45.428 --> 00:44:49.632
  • Book of isaiah, which they will bring gold and frankincense to
  • 00:44:49.632 --> 00:44:54.203
  • The messianic king, and they bring gold and frankincense,
  • 00:44:54.203 --> 00:44:57.373
  • Gold symbolic of royalty,
  • 00:44:57.373 --> 00:45:00.743
  • The royal messiah, the son of david.
  • 00:45:00.743 --> 00:45:04.514
  • Frankincense is used in the temple service, so it's
  • 00:45:04.514 --> 00:45:08.851
  • Representative of priesthood,
  • 00:45:08.851 --> 00:45:10.920
  • Of worship, of homage to the king.
  • 00:45:10.920 --> 00:45:13.890
  • And ultimately myrrh is associated with love.
  • 00:45:13.890 --> 00:45:17.894
  • It's also associated with death.
  • 00:45:17.894 --> 00:45:20.730
  • Think about it for a moment.
  • 00:45:20.730 --> 00:45:21.898
  • Abraham offered his son on mount moriah as a sacrifice,
  • 00:45:21.898 --> 00:45:25.902
  • Take your son, your only begotten son.
  • 00:45:25.902 --> 00:45:27.703
  • And the rabbis interpret mount moriah as the mountain of myrrh.
  • 00:45:27.703 --> 00:45:31.174
  • Wow.
  • 00:45:31.374 --> 00:45:32.041
  • Because more means myrrh.
  • 00:45:32.041 --> 00:45:33.309
  • So again, it's pointing abraham offering isaac,
  • 00:45:33.309 --> 00:45:36.345
  • Points to the death of messiah.
  • 00:45:36.345 --> 00:45:37.814
  • The myrrh they bring connects
  • 00:45:37.814 --> 00:45:39.315
  • Back to the sacrifice of the son.
  • 00:45:39.315 --> 00:45:42.084
  • He's the lamb of god, born to die for us.
  • 00:45:42.084 --> 00:45:46.422
  • Ah.
  • 00:45:46.622 --> 00:45:47.890
  • Okay. this coffee shop is not going to be the same in a
  • 00:45:47.890 --> 00:45:49.358
  • Minute if i don't calm down.
  • 00:45:49.358 --> 00:45:51.060
  • But wow.
  • 00:45:51.060 --> 00:45:52.395
  • God will provide himself, the lamb.
  • 00:45:52.395 --> 00:45:55.698
  • And yeshua is the lamb of god, born in the house of bread.
  • 00:45:55.698 --> 00:45:59.068
  • As we saw, swaddled and salted, like one of the passover lambs
  • 00:45:59.068 --> 00:46:04.507
  • Born in the place, the passover lambs would have been born,
  • 00:46:04.507 --> 00:46:07.410
  • Because he is the lamb of god.
  • 00:46:07.410 --> 00:46:09.879
  • To think over 300 prophecies
  • 00:46:09.879 --> 00:46:12.715
  • Fell into place with flawless precision.
  • 00:46:12.715 --> 00:46:15.451
  • The where, the when, the how, the
  • 00:46:16.185 --> 00:46:19.856
  • Who, so that jesus's birth became the meticulously crafted
  • 00:46:19.856 --> 00:46:25.228
  • Prolog to humanity's forgiveness.
  • 00:46:25.228 --> 00:46:28.798
  • In that single moment, god launched yeshua towards eternal
  • 00:46:28.798 --> 00:46:33.669
  • Kingship, opening the door to complete and total redemption.
  • 00:46:33.669 --> 00:46:39.976
  • So, nicole, with all that we've discussed on this venture,
  • 00:46:39.976 --> 00:46:44.013
  • Promises kept, bread broken, stars aligned,
  • 00:46:44.013 --> 00:46:48.451
  • What resonated with you the most?
  • 00:46:48.451 --> 00:46:50.720
  • So one of my favorite things from today, uh, on top of the
  • 00:46:50.720 --> 00:46:55.725
  • Plethora of knowledge that you gave me from being inside of
  • 00:46:55.725 --> 00:46:59.195
  • The cave to the swaddling cloth to the 490, to just all these
  • 00:46:59.195 --> 00:47:04.233
  • Different things was, you know, oftentimes i'm known as the
  • 00:47:04.233 --> 00:47:07.570
  • Girl who sings redeemer.
  • 00:47:07.570 --> 00:47:09.405
  • And, you know, for me, redemption is very important.
  • 00:47:09.405 --> 00:47:12.608
  • But when you said and you, you showed me that really without
  • 00:47:12.608 --> 00:47:16.846
  • God being a part of that, the difference was one letter
  • 00:47:16.846 --> 00:47:20.583
  • Between redemption and exile.
  • 00:47:20.583 --> 00:47:23.152
  • And when we don't include the
  • 00:47:23.753 --> 00:47:25.588
  • Savior, the redeemer, god, elohim,
  • 00:47:25.588 --> 00:47:28.824
  • Then really we're left with
  • 00:47:28.824 --> 00:47:30.660
  • Really bondage and we're not free.
  • 00:47:30.660 --> 00:47:33.195
  • And so for me, it was such a great takeaway.
  • 00:47:33.195 --> 00:47:36.065
  • It was such a great
  • 00:47:36.065 --> 00:47:38.100
  • Mind opener, you know.
  • 00:47:38.601 --> 00:47:40.703
  • And so i'm excited for others to read and to hear of the
  • 00:47:40.703 --> 00:47:44.707
  • Knowledge that god has deposited in you.
  • 00:47:44.707 --> 00:47:46.475
  • And so as your sister, i respect, i honor you.
  • 00:47:46.475 --> 00:47:50.246
  • You're my bro, but you're also my professor.
  • 00:47:50.246 --> 00:47:53.082
  • So i am super grateful for you.
  • 00:47:53.082 --> 00:47:55.051
  • And i'm super excited about the book.
  • 00:47:55.051 --> 00:47:57.987
  • And i really pray that other people will allow their lives
  • 00:47:57.987 --> 00:48:01.023
  • To be transformed by the messiah.
  • 00:48:01.023 --> 00:48:03.893
  • So i gotta go, but i wanted to say thank you.
  • 00:48:03.893 --> 00:48:07.430
  • I just want to thank you for taking the time and going on
  • 00:48:07.430 --> 00:48:10.733
  • This journey with me.
  • 00:48:10.733 --> 00:48:12.401
  • It's been such a joy.
  • 00:48:12.401 --> 00:48:13.970
  • I just love your music and love your ministry and the books
  • 00:48:13.970 --> 00:48:18.941
  • That you have written, but it's been so much fun because you
  • 00:48:18.941 --> 00:48:22.578
  • Are a lover of the word.
  • 00:48:22.578 --> 00:48:24.647
  • You are passionate.
  • 00:48:24.647 --> 00:48:26.315
  • As you yourself have said, you're a self-proclaimed bible
  • 00:48:26.315 --> 00:48:28.951
  • Nerd, so it's been fun.
  • 00:48:28.951 --> 00:48:30.386
  • Iron sharpens iron, digging into the word and seeing it in
  • 00:48:30.386 --> 00:48:33.990
  • High definition together.
  • 00:48:33.990 --> 00:48:35.224
  • So i so appreciate you, and hopefully we'll take another
  • 00:48:35.224 --> 00:48:38.694
  • 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.
  • 00:51:08.878 --> 00:51:12.081
  • 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.
  • 00:51:52.655 --> 00:51:57.359
  • Offer them that light that surprised and inspired you and
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  • Assure them that messiah is always ready to be found.
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  • Finally, bookend every day with prayer.
  • 00:52:08.137 --> 00:52:12.408
  • 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
  • 00:52:22.251 --> 00:52:26.522
  • 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
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  • 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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  • Next time on transformed by the
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  • Rabbi jason sobel traces the rem life of yeshua, the humble rabbi
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  • Who called ordinary people into an extra ordinary purpose.
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  • The disciples were those who didn't make the cut.
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  • I see, so the amazing thing is, yeshua calls them, he's saying,
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  • You weren't chosen by the rabbis
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  • Or you didn't have what it takes continue on.
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  • But let me tell you something.
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  • I see something in you that you don't even see in yours
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  • I've called you.
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  • I've chosen you. from the moment he turned 30,
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  • Stepping into destiny like the kings and prophets befo
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  • To the palm branches that waved not just in welcome, but in prop
  • 00:54:31.447 --> 00:54:36.485
  • Every detail of his journey speaks volumes in scripture.
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  • 30 marks joseph's rise in egypt,
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  • Coronation and jesus launch into public ministry.
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  • It's god's way of saying preparation has a finish line.
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  • Purpose starts now.
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  • We'll walk the shores of the gal climb the mount of olives
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  • And gather at the table of the last supper.
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  • Along the way, rabbi sobel revea the meaning behind the great com
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  • And how it calls us to live tran
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  • Lives of service and discipleshi
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  • Because i think jesus has many f but few followers.
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  • And that's the essence of discip
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  • It is about imitation.
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  • It's like becoming like the one who we look up to.
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