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Dr. Erez Soref: Revival in the Holy Land | Praise

March 23, 2026 | 52:9

Dr. Erez Soref: Revival in the Holy Land | Praise
Hosted by TBN’s own Matt and Laurie Crouch along with other popular personalities, Praise features the best in contemporary Christian music and worship, fresh and impacting ministry voices, engaging interviews from a wide variety of guests, and a fast-moving hour of relevant talk you won’t want to miss!
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Praise | Dr. Erez Soref: Revival in the Holy Land | Praise | March 23, 2026
  • - coming up tonight on praise.
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  • It's something that we're not talking enough about,
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  • There's a revival happening to yeshua,
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  • To the messiah among the jewish people.
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  • The messiah ship of jesus is once again front and center in
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  • The jewish world.
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  • There's a growing group of jewish people that are followers
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  • Of yeshua we're proud of that we're not
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  • Hiding who we are and we say yeshua is ours.
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  • I think many times as believers in jesus we,
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  • We take it for granted that we talk to, you know,
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  • The king of the universe and he just listens.
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  • He's our father, he's, he loves to hear us,
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  • He's accessible at all times.
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  • That's not, that's not normal for most of humanity and it
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  • Certainly wasn't for me.
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  • I was absolutely shocked.
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  • You know, it begins, this is the genealogy of jesus,
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  • Son of abraham, son of david, yeshua, jesus was different,
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  • And i felt very much drawn to him.
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  • [music playng]
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  • Tonight on praise from dallas ministry leader and president of
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  • One for israel, doctor erez sarraf.
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  • And now your host matt and laurie crown.
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  • - ok welcome to praise and doctor sore, i want to kind of
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  • Tell the audience that you and i were on the
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  • Telephone the other day.
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  • And you said a phrase i had never heard before.
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  • Ready?
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  • I had heard you say the word revival.
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  • And jewish people in the same sentence.
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  • - that is right.
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  • - i have been to israel 150 times.
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  • My parents, paul and jan crouch, had taken dozens and dozens of
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  • Tours, thousands of people.
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  • I have met virtually every prime minister since, you know,
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  • Menachem begin, and i just had never heard that phrase.
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  • All right.
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  • So let's start there.
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  • What, what are you talking about and let's get into it,
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  • Then i wanna get into some personal things uh with you,
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  • But what were, what were you saying to me and why were you
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  • Saying it?
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  • What's going on?
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  • - so if you meet a young israeli, now you go to israel,
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  • You meet a young israeli, probably under the age of 35 or
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  • 40, and you ask him what do you know about yeshua,
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  • Jesus of nazareth.
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  • He or she will tell you, oh yeah,
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  • I've seen some videos about that.
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  • I know something, i mean they may have questions,
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  • They may disagree, they may agree, they may be positive,
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  • But they heard that there's a growing group of jewish people
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  • That are followers of yeshua, and you know we say that out in
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  • The open, we're proud of that, we're not hiding who we are,
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  • And we say yeshua is ours and um over the past 15 years
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  • The phenomenon you're talking about,
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  • We call it jesus being the best kept secret in the jewish world.
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  • Nobody talks about him for almost 2000 years since the book
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  • Of acts, but it's changing and it's rapidly changing in the
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  • Last 15 years.
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  • I was born to a sephardic jewish family.
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  • My family are babylonian jews on my mom's side, and
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  • Sephardic jews from spain on my dad's side.
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  • My mom would try to drag my brothers and me to synagogue.
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  • Maybe it had something to do with our people thousands of
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  • Years ago, but god was very, very far away.
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  • In school, we would study the old testament from 1st grade to
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  • 12th grade.
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  • Study it as the history of our people, as wisdom literature,
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  • Something that one just needs to know, being jewish,
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  • But not as the word of god.
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  • After my military service, like a lot of israelis,
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  • I decided to travel the world.
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  • Initially in southeast asia, a lot of israelis are going there
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  • For the mysticism trail and the drug trail.
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  • I wanted to understand what they believe
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  • And so i was exposed to some hindu and some
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  • Buddhist literature.
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  • I got to to realize that there is a spiritual reality,
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  • But that spiritual reality i saw was very, very scary.
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  • It was negative.
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  • It was dark, but it was very real.
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  • I ended up in amsterdam, holland.
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  • And i came there with merchandise to sell because i
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  • Ran out of money.
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  • It was there that i've met a group of very enthusiastic young
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  • Believers in jesus, and i said, uh, well,
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  • I'm jewish and we don't believe in jesus.
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  • And they said, why?
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  • Jesus is jewish, and i said, i'm not sure why,
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  • But i'm sure we don't believe in jesus.
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  • As i got to know them, i noticed two things that really drew my
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  • Attention and it made me curious.
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  • One was what they called personal relationship with god.
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  • I couldn't understand it.
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  • I mean, i could see it.
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  • I could see how it works out in their lives,
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  • They would pray for one another, they would talk to god like one
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  • Talks to a friend, um, it's very foreign to a jewish mindset.
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  • So this friend said, well, would you like to pray?
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  • I said, i don't know how to pray, you know,
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  • In my bar mitzvah, they gave me a page, i read it, uh,
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  • Give me a page, i'll, i'll read it.
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  • And the second thing that was even more shocking than that was
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  • That some of them, we're familiar with passages
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  • In the hebrew scriptures that i wasn't very well familiar with.
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  • In school, we would study certain chapters and we would
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  • Skip over a lot of the, a lot of the other passages,
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  • But they referred me to passages that they called prophetic or
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  • Messianic that talk about the messiah, and i was amazed.
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  • I said, well, how come you guys know the, the hebrew scripture?
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  • I mean this is ours.
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  • And they said, no, it's, it's the whole bible is one book,
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  • And i said, well i, i have a bible at home and i've never
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  • Seen the new testament.
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  • I decided to check it out.
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  • So i read the hebrew scriptures.
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  • And i saw there was the same one as we had.
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  • I had one in hebrew, and those passages were right in there
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  • Telling when the messiah will be born, what will he do,
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  • How are we going to recognize him.
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  • Reading this, i became very curious and i said to myself,
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  • I have to read the new testament.
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  • So i actually got one in hebrew, and every morning i would kind
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  • Of look at it and then look away and go about doing my things.
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  • Finally, i said to myself, well, ari,
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  • You're a hypocrite because you would read hindu writings and
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  • Buddhist writings and whatever,
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  • But when it comes to jesus, you know, you avoid,
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  • And i started reading.
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  • I was very surprised.
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  • First of all, it took place in israel,
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  • In places i've been to many, many times.
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  • Growing up in israel, i've never ever heard anything about jesus
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  • Of nazareth.
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  • I've never met a christian person.
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  • I've never seen a new testament.
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  • I had absolutely no idea what it meant.
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  • It is particularly ridiculous because i had first degree
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  • Family living on the shores of the sea of galilee.
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  • And throughout my childhood we would visit them several times a
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  • Year, swim, fish, but i had no idea that jesus or his disciples
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  • Ever existed.
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  • We refer to this phenomenon as jesus being the best kept secret
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  • Among the jewish people.
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  • As i read about all the religious institutions,
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  • They're still very much with us among the jewish people to this
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  • Day.
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  • But yeshua was different.
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  • I felt very drawn to him.
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  • He, he did not try to do things to win men's favor,
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  • And so i started a process of comparing the prophecies in the
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  • Hebrew scriptures about the messiah and how we're gonna
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  • Recognize them and the fulfillment in yeshua in the new
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  • Testament, and to my amazement it matched.
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  • I became convinced first in my head,
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  • Then in my heart that yeshua is indeed the promised messiah of
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  • Her people.
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  • Shortly after that, i started noticing changes in myself.
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  • I had a great hunger to read the word of god,
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  • The hebrew scriptures, and the new testament.
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  • So thinking that i'm the first jewish person since the time of
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  • Paul the apostle whom i read about
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  • In the new testament, i felt that god is calling me to go
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  • Back to israel and tell my family, tell my friends,
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  • Tell my neighbors, my people, and everybody else that i meet
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  • About this great discovery that yeshua is not just the messiah
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  • Of the gentiles, he's also our messiah.
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  • After becoming a follower of yeshua,
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  • I became overwhelmed with a sense of joy on the one hand,
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  • But also urgency because i said, how come nobody,
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  • Nobody told me before?
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  • I mean, my family, my neighbors, my friends, my people,
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  • Nobody knows, nobody tells us, and i felt very strongly that i
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  • Need to go and tell my people.
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  • I decided to surprise my family.
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  • My dad was there and i told them that i believe in yeshua,
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  • The messiah.
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  • The consensus was that in some way or fashion i've lost my
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  • Mind.
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  • My dad's family, they have uh arranged for me a meeting with
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  • The chief psychiatrist in our city,
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  • And he actually formally declared me to be sane.
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  • I should have asked for that in writing.
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  • My mom's family arranged for me a meeting with a rabbi,
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  • And the rabbi promised my mom that he would prove
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  • To me that yeshua is not the messiah.
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  • The day before our meeting, the rabbi called my mom and he
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  • Canceled the meeting.
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  • To my great joy, i discovered there were other believers.
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  • I discovered there was a congregation of jewish
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  • Believers, and i started going there.
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  • And so i told them, i want to study the word of god.
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  • Is there any bible school or bible college or something like
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  • That i can go and invest some time and just study the bible?
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  • And they said, well, no, there's nothing,
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  • And i completed my doctoral studies in the united states.
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  • After that, with my wife and young children,
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  • We came back to israel.
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  • I knew that god has called me to serve him,
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  • But i didn't know exactly where.
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  • I remember very vividly how it felt coming to know yeshua and
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  • Having a deep desire to study the scriptures and not knowing
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  • How to do it, and i felt very strongly that i need to go and
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  • Provide this opportunity for israeli believers,
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  • Both jewish and arab, to study the word of god in hebrew right
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  • Where it happened.
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  • And to that i dedicate my life.
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  • - so i'm just kind of blown away because eri was raised in haifa.
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  • - right.
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  • - and you're sitting here and you've been telling us that you
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  • Didn't know anything about jesus.
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  • You didn't know his name.
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  • You didn't--
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  • I mean, explain that to people watching because then, you know,
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  • Then my head starts going,
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  • But what about all the tours and the thousands of people that
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  • Come there to follow jesus, you know,
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  • And you were just saying.
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  • - so i mean i, i could say a personal story.
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  • I remember when i was about 12 years old, you know, in school,
  • 00:11:58.374 --> 00:12:02.077
  • We would study the hebrew bible, the old testament.
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  • And uh i think it was in that context.
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  • I remember sitting at our kitchen table and i was kind of
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  • Looking, you know, towards the living room and i was like how
  • 00:12:09.685 --> 00:12:13.189
  • Can it be that uh the messiah didn't come.
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  • And i don't know, nobody talked to me about it.
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  • I was just pondering that.
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  • And uh so i thought about it for a few minutes.
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  • I didn't have anybody to ask that question.
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  • I was kind of pondering in my own mind and um and i had no
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  • Answer.
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  • And uh i would say that many years later, well not that many,
  • 00:12:31.307 --> 00:12:34.143
  • 10 years later when i was 22, was the first time that i met a
  • 00:12:34.143 --> 00:12:38.647
  • Group of christians and i heard the story of jesus for the first
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  • Time.
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  • Now, it's important to say i wasn't particularly ignorant in
  • 00:12:43.485 --> 00:12:46.922
  • My generation, it was before the internet.
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  • Uh we did have some american television, you know,
  • 00:12:49.358 --> 00:12:51.827
  • In the early 80s started coming to israel,
  • 00:12:51.827 --> 00:12:54.597
  • So you would hear on tv the name of jesus.
  • 00:12:54.597 --> 00:12:57.967
  • Um, you know, in whatever series that it may be, but, um,
  • 00:12:57.967 --> 00:13:03.105
  • We didn't study about him in school.
  • 00:13:03.105 --> 00:13:04.473
  • I've never seen the new testament, never.
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  • I heard of its existence, but i was--
  • 00:13:06.842 --> 00:13:09.912
  • Nobody ever told me anything specific about the new
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  • Testament, but i assumed
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  • That it contains terrible anti-semitic things because you
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  • Know we don't talk about that we certainly never read it and you
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  • Can't get it in the bookstore, so it's gotta be really bad
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  • Stuff, right?
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  • So that's kind of how my generation grew up.
  • 00:13:27.363 --> 00:13:29.798
  • - so you grow up in israel serving the idf you start a bit
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  • Of a travel thing going on and that's where your story meets
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  • With jesus.
  • 00:13:41.977 --> 00:13:43.379
  • But before we get right to that, make sure you tell me what's
  • 00:13:43.379 --> 00:13:49.952
  • Going on to have you say revival and jewish people in the same
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  • Sentence.
  • 00:13:56.725 --> 00:13:57.660
  • - so in terms of numbers, first of all,
  • 00:13:57.660 --> 00:14:01.397
  • In terms of numbers of exposure of jewish people to the message
  • 00:14:01.397 --> 00:14:06.135
  • Of jesus, unparalleled what is happening in the last 30 years,
  • 00:14:06.135 --> 00:14:10.072
  • Absolutely unparalleled literally since the book of acts
  • 00:14:10.072 --> 00:14:13.409
  • And um but that's exposure.
  • 00:14:13.409 --> 00:14:16.011
  • Just people talking about jesus and i don't think i exaggerate
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  • When i say that the messiah ship of jesus is once again front and
  • 00:14:19.481 --> 00:14:24.653
  • Center in the jewish world.
  • 00:14:24.653 --> 00:14:27.189
  • I mean it's something people talk about,
  • 00:14:27.189 --> 00:14:28.924
  • Some with trepidation.
  • 00:14:28.924 --> 00:14:31.126
  • Some with pleasure or or or joy, some with disdain,
  • 00:14:31.126 --> 00:14:35.197
  • And some with disdain for sure, but it's there, it's an issue,
  • 00:14:35.197 --> 00:14:38.934
  • Whereas jewish communities, and the reason you're so shocked is
  • 00:14:38.934 --> 00:14:42.237
  • Because jewish communities through most of the last 2000
  • 00:14:42.237 --> 00:14:45.441
  • Years were built in a way that the gospel,
  • 00:14:45.441 --> 00:14:49.111
  • The true message of the gospel was not able to penetrate.
  • 00:14:49.111 --> 00:14:52.414
  • You know, you had very bad and painful history of especially
  • 00:14:52.414 --> 00:14:55.818
  • The catholic church with the jewish people.
  • 00:14:55.818 --> 00:14:58.320
  • And that's where the mind of a jewish person goes right away--
  • 00:14:58.320 --> 00:15:02.658
  • - gets locked.
  • 00:15:02.658 --> 00:15:03.525
  • They're locked in a time of that--
  • 00:15:03.525 --> 00:15:05.427
  • - very terrible history and how can we cross that uncrossable
  • 00:15:05.427 --> 00:15:08.464
  • Line, but this is changing and we are seeing people that are
  • 00:15:08.464 --> 00:15:13.969
  • Coming to a saving knowledge of yeshua,
  • 00:15:13.969 --> 00:15:17.539
  • Of jesus in just incredible numbers.
  • 00:15:17.539 --> 00:15:20.075
  • - i want to tell you a story.
  • 00:15:20.709 --> 00:15:23.078
  • Jesus was the messiah.
  • 00:15:23.579 --> 00:15:25.381
  • - he wants relationship.
  • 00:15:25.381 --> 00:15:26.682
  • He wants fellowship believing in jesus is the most jewish
  • 00:15:26.682 --> 00:15:29.918
  • Thing i can do.
  • 00:15:29.918 --> 00:15:31.053
  • - i mean, to have a close relationship with god,
  • 00:15:31.053 --> 00:15:33.889
  • The truth is worth it.
  • 00:15:33.889 --> 00:15:35.991
  • Life with with yeshua would be worth it.
  • 00:15:35.991 --> 00:15:39.028
  • - i've been involved in jewish outreach for over 30 years.
  • 00:15:40.195 --> 00:15:43.399
  • This new form of evangelism that one for israel so effectively
  • 00:15:43.399 --> 00:15:49.371
  • Uses is really revolutionary in 2000 years.
  • 00:15:49.371 --> 00:15:53.075
  • The ministry of one for israel is an extremely valuable one in
  • 00:15:53.075 --> 00:15:58.113
  • Effectively communicating to the world that jesus is a jew,
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  • That jesus is the messiah of our jewish people,
  • 00:16:02.851 --> 00:16:06.121
  • And that jewish people are coming to faith in messiah.
  • 00:16:06.121 --> 00:16:09.525
  • In several different languages, but most notably in modern
  • 00:16:09.525 --> 00:16:14.063
  • Hebrew into all corners of the jewish world to a generation of
  • 00:16:14.063 --> 00:16:18.934
  • Young israelis who are in communities that would frown
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  • Upon their investigation of jesus.
  • 00:16:22.704 --> 00:16:25.340
  • Many of them have phones or have tablets.
  • 00:16:25.340 --> 00:16:28.310
  • And are viewing the one for israel videos either in hebrew
  • 00:16:28.310 --> 00:16:33.916
  • Or in english and are effectively being reached for
  • 00:16:33.916 --> 00:16:37.953
  • Yeshua, for jesus the messiah.
  • 00:16:37.953 --> 00:16:40.189
  • If you wanna be on the crust of what god is doing now,
  • 00:16:40.189 --> 00:16:44.660
  • The gospel of jesus the jewish messiah is going out from israel
  • 00:16:44.660 --> 00:16:50.833
  • To the world.
  • 00:16:50.833 --> 00:16:52.201
  • It's a revolution.
  • 00:16:52.201 --> 00:16:53.268
  • It hasn't been seen in 2000 years.
  • 00:16:53.268 --> 00:16:55.971
  • God has raised up this ministry of one for israel for such a
  • 00:16:55.971 --> 00:17:00.909
  • Time as this.
  • 00:17:00.909 --> 00:17:02.978
  • I would encourage you to support the ministry as they bring the
  • 00:17:02.978 --> 00:17:06.115
  • Good news of messiah jesus to a very dark and needy world.
  • 00:17:06.115 --> 00:17:10.986
  • I'm one for israel.
  • 00:17:10.986 --> 00:17:12.955
  • [music playing]
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  • - when i became a follower of yeshua, i was convinced.
  • 00:17:23.966 --> 00:17:28.070
  • I just never met anybody else, and i thought i was the first
  • 00:17:28.070 --> 00:17:31.874
  • Jewish person since paul or something to make this great
  • 00:17:31.874 --> 00:17:36.712
  • Great discovery and i was like i'm i'm compelled to tell,
  • 00:17:36.712 --> 00:17:39.915
  • You know, my, my parents and my brothers and my family and my
  • 00:17:39.915 --> 00:17:43.085
  • Friends because, how how can it be that nobody tells us,
  • 00:17:43.085 --> 00:17:47.189
  • So that was a big,
  • 00:17:47.189 --> 00:17:48.790
  • A big thing for me and, and i think that's where,
  • 00:17:48.790 --> 00:17:51.293
  • Why you were surprised, but yes, it's something that we're not
  • 00:17:51.293 --> 00:17:55.164
  • Talking enough about.
  • 00:17:55.164 --> 00:17:56.098
  • There's a revival happening to yeshua,
  • 00:17:56.098 --> 00:17:59.234
  • To the messiah among the jewish people.
  • 00:17:59.234 --> 00:18:01.236
  • - wow.
  • 00:18:01.236 --> 00:18:02.104
  • - take us to a few years ago.
  • 00:18:02.104 --> 00:18:06.475
  • You're now just out of the military,
  • 00:18:06.475 --> 00:18:09.278
  • You're traveling trying to just have a good time as a young guy
  • 00:18:09.278 --> 00:18:12.514
  • And you bump into literally the first people that tell you
  • 00:18:12.514 --> 00:18:18.820
  • Anything authoritatively about jesus.
  • 00:18:18.820 --> 00:18:22.391
  • You knew nothing.
  • 00:18:22.391 --> 00:18:23.392
  • - right.
  • 00:18:23.392 --> 00:18:24.326
  • - ok, take us to that, that, that time.
  • 00:18:24.326 --> 00:18:27.596
  • - after about a year in southeast asia, uh,
  • 00:18:27.596 --> 00:18:30.165
  • Traveled there, i bought some artistic artifacts and i came to
  • 00:18:30.165 --> 00:18:34.336
  • Europe to amsterdam to sell those artifacts,
  • 00:18:34.336 --> 00:18:37.806
  • Make more money and go back to travel in asia or wherever.
  • 00:18:37.806 --> 00:18:40.976
  • And um you know, i was looking for a place to stay.
  • 00:18:40.976 --> 00:18:44.513
  • I looked at all the cheap places, i,
  • 00:18:44.513 --> 00:18:46.448
  • I didn't have a lot of money, it was really horrible places,
  • 00:18:46.448 --> 00:18:49.017
  • And i ended up in a christian youth hostel.
  • 00:18:49.017 --> 00:18:53.956
  • Didn't know much about what that means,
  • 00:18:53.956 --> 00:18:55.958
  • But it was much cleaner and cheaper than some of the other
  • 00:18:55.958 --> 00:18:59.194
  • Places i've seen.
  • 00:18:59.194 --> 00:19:00.529
  • The people seemed nice.
  • 00:19:00.529 --> 00:19:01.997
  • I didn't know what the christian part meant,
  • 00:19:01.997 --> 00:19:04.700
  • But as i got to know the people there, i was very surprised.
  • 00:19:04.700 --> 00:19:08.337
  • I mean they were, you know, nice young people.
  • 00:19:08.337 --> 00:19:09.871
  • I assumed that they're christians because
  • 00:19:09.871 --> 00:19:12.674
  • That's all they've ever learned.
  • 00:19:12.674 --> 00:19:14.476
  • I mean, that's, that's kinda how they were brought up or,
  • 00:19:14.476 --> 00:19:16.278
  • You know, um, through their childhood and,
  • 00:19:16.278 --> 00:19:18.947
  • And early adolescence.
  • 00:19:18.947 --> 00:19:20.349
  • But uh to my surprise, as i got to chat with them,
  • 00:19:20.349 --> 00:19:24.453
  • Some of them were into some of the stuff i was into and they
  • 00:19:24.453 --> 00:19:28.824
  • Told me that jesus changed our lives.
  • 00:19:28.824 --> 00:19:30.492
  • I was like, what do you mean?
  • 00:19:30.492 --> 00:19:31.627
  • I mean, how, what are you talking about?
  • 00:19:31.627 --> 00:19:33.462
  • And they start telling me a little bit of their spiritual
  • 00:19:33.462 --> 00:19:36.164
  • Journey.
  • 00:19:36.164 --> 00:19:37.532
  • And it was very interesting for me from uh i would call it an
  • 00:19:37.532 --> 00:19:40.869
  • Anthropological perspective.
  • 00:19:40.869 --> 00:19:42.671
  • Right, ok, that happened to you and that's great,
  • 00:19:42.671 --> 00:19:44.740
  • And i was like, no, no, it can, it can happen to you, i said,
  • 00:19:44.740 --> 00:19:47.075
  • Honestly, my life's fine.
  • 00:19:47.075 --> 00:19:48.844
  • I'm not particularly seeking change, plus i'm jewish and,
  • 00:19:48.844 --> 00:19:52.781
  • And i'm not sure why, but i know we don't believe in jesus.
  • 00:19:52.781 --> 00:19:56.718
  • So i knew that much, no one ever told me.
  • 00:19:56.718 --> 00:19:58.820
  • But i knew that much, um, however,
  • 00:19:58.820 --> 00:20:02.190
  • And this is the important thing i think for, for me to say and,
  • 00:20:02.190 --> 00:20:05.127
  • And maybe for people that have friends or neighbors or even
  • 00:20:05.127 --> 00:20:08.664
  • Relatives that are jewish.
  • 00:20:08.664 --> 00:20:10.232
  • It was through, not, not their words necessarily because we
  • 00:20:10.232 --> 00:20:14.903
  • Would argue occasionally, but it was through their life.
  • 00:20:14.903 --> 00:20:18.807
  • It was through the way they pray, you know,
  • 00:20:18.807 --> 00:20:21.243
  • I think many times as believers in jesus, we,
  • 00:20:21.243 --> 00:20:23.312
  • We take it for granted that we talk to, you know,
  • 00:20:23.312 --> 00:20:27.349
  • The king of the universe and he just listens, he's our father,
  • 00:20:27.349 --> 00:20:30.218
  • He's, he loves to hear us, he's accessible at all times.
  • 00:20:30.218 --> 00:20:34.222
  • That's not, that's not normal for most of humanity and it
  • 00:20:34.222 --> 00:20:39.094
  • Certainly wasn't for me.
  • 00:20:39.094 --> 00:20:40.562
  • And so when i heard them pray, i say,
  • 00:20:40.562 --> 00:20:42.531
  • Why do you think god is listening to you?
  • 00:20:42.531 --> 00:20:44.766
  • I mean he's ok, he's the maker of the universe.
  • 00:20:44.766 --> 00:20:47.769
  • He is, he runs the universe, he's too busy to hear your
  • 00:20:47.769 --> 00:20:50.572
  • Little, you know, minute details of help me in this, you know,
  • 00:20:50.572 --> 00:20:54.176
  • And that, and i'm feeling so and so.
  • 00:20:54.176 --> 00:20:56.712
  • Um, but they said no, you know, we are experienced with,
  • 00:20:56.712 --> 00:20:59.348
  • With god the father is that he's there and he's truly listening.
  • 00:20:59.348 --> 00:21:03.218
  • That piqued my attention and um i watched the way they lived.
  • 00:21:03.218 --> 00:21:07.956
  • They weren't perfect, but i could see a spiritual quality in
  • 00:21:07.956 --> 00:21:11.026
  • Their life.
  • 00:21:11.026 --> 00:21:11.993
  • And that really attracted me.
  • 00:21:11.993 --> 00:21:14.062
  • The other thing i can say that was absolutely shocking to me,
  • 00:21:14.062 --> 00:21:17.933
  • Shocking, is that even though they were young,
  • 00:21:17.933 --> 00:21:21.403
  • They were not particularly, you know, biblically literate,
  • 00:21:21.403 --> 00:21:24.639
  • But they knew the hebrew bible, the old testament,
  • 00:21:24.639 --> 00:21:28.110
  • Better than i did.
  • 00:21:28.110 --> 00:21:29.678
  • And that shocked me because aren't you as christians
  • 00:21:29.678 --> 00:21:32.681
  • Supposed to read the new testament, whatever it is?
  • 00:21:32.681 --> 00:21:34.916
  • I mean, i don't know what it is, but isn't that your book?
  • 00:21:34.916 --> 00:21:38.053
  • And so they told me, no, we have, you know,
  • 00:21:38.053 --> 00:21:39.788
  • The whole bible is is our book and um so that was again
  • 00:21:39.788 --> 00:21:44.793
  • Shocking to me.
  • 00:21:44.793 --> 00:21:46.728
  • And the combination of those things eventually led me to say,
  • 00:21:46.728 --> 00:21:51.400
  • Ok, when i was in asia, i wanted to understand how buddhists
  • 00:21:51.400 --> 00:21:55.604
  • Think and how hindus think and,
  • 00:21:55.604 --> 00:21:57.773
  • I want to understand how christians think and i need to
  • 00:21:57.773 --> 00:22:00.742
  • Read the new testament.
  • 00:22:00.742 --> 00:22:03.145
  • And so i actually got one in hebrew.
  • 00:22:03.145 --> 00:22:06.214
  • Which was a treat because i didn't read hebrew for a long
  • 00:22:06.214 --> 00:22:08.350
  • Time uh by then.
  • 00:22:08.350 --> 00:22:10.185
  • And i remember it kind of laid in my backpack for probably 2
  • 00:22:10.185 --> 00:22:15.424
  • Weeks and i would look at it every morning,
  • 00:22:15.424 --> 00:22:17.025
  • But i didn't pick it up.
  • 00:22:17.025 --> 00:22:18.460
  • And finally i said to myself, well ari, you're a hypocrite,
  • 00:22:18.460 --> 00:22:22.130
  • Cause you would talk about whatever with anybody,
  • 00:22:22.130 --> 00:22:24.332
  • But you're afraid of the new testament.
  • 00:22:24.332 --> 00:22:26.935
  • And, and that's when i opened it and uh i was, i was telling you,
  • 00:22:26.935 --> 00:22:32.073
  • Laura, i was shocked, i was absolutely shocked.
  • 00:22:32.073 --> 00:22:34.843
  • You know, it begins, this is the genealogy of jesus,
  • 00:22:34.843 --> 00:22:37.946
  • Son of david or son of abraham, son of david.
  • 00:22:37.946 --> 00:22:41.283
  • It's like i know david and abraham,
  • 00:22:41.283 --> 00:22:42.851
  • We studied in school about them,
  • 00:22:42.851 --> 00:22:44.586
  • You know, there are people.
  • 00:22:45.187 --> 00:22:46.955
  • - wow.
  • 00:22:46.955 --> 00:22:48.056
  • - and, um, and as i read on with trepidation and
  • 00:22:48.056 --> 00:22:51.927
  • Fear and oh what's the the terrible
  • 00:22:51.927 --> 00:22:53.962
  • Anti-semitic things i probably find there.
  • 00:22:53.962 --> 00:22:55.964
  • I didn't see any anti-semitic thing at all.
  • 00:22:55.964 --> 00:22:58.800
  • I mean it all happened in israel among our people,
  • 00:22:58.800 --> 00:23:01.403
  • The different religious groups still with us very much today,
  • 00:23:01.403 --> 00:23:05.207
  • But yeshua jesus was different and i felt very much drawn to
  • 00:23:05.207 --> 00:23:10.645
  • Him.
  • 00:23:10.645 --> 00:23:12.481
  • And so it was through a period of probably a couple of months
  • 00:23:12.481 --> 00:23:15.984
  • That uh of, of me reading the new testament and asking some
  • 00:23:15.984 --> 00:23:19.888
  • Questions.
  • 00:23:19.888 --> 00:23:21.656
  • Uh, one evening, it was right after passover.
  • 00:23:21.656 --> 00:23:24.793
  • I, um, i had a spiritual experience with, uh, with,
  • 00:23:24.793 --> 00:23:29.464
  • With the lord.
  • 00:23:29.464 --> 00:23:31.032
  • And the experience was that i felt a very heavy and condensed.
  • 00:23:31.032 --> 00:23:38.139
  • Something i can only describe as the black,
  • 00:23:38.139 --> 00:23:40.108
  • Very condensed cloud in my heart that is being
  • 00:23:40.108 --> 00:23:45.213
  • Lifted up and you know, getting out of me,
  • 00:23:45.213 --> 00:23:48.416
  • Something that is pure and clean and the kind of light is coming
  • 00:23:48.416 --> 00:23:52.654
  • To dwell in my heart.
  • 00:23:52.654 --> 00:23:54.055
  • Um, and, um i was involved in all sorts of things,
  • 00:23:54.055 --> 00:23:58.326
  • So there's maybe all sorts of interpretation of what what left
  • 00:23:58.326 --> 00:24:01.763
  • Me, but uh it was certainly something good and clean and and
  • 00:24:01.763 --> 00:24:05.867
  • Pure that came to dwell in my heart, the holy spirit.
  • 00:24:05.867 --> 00:24:08.403
  • And i have repented of my sins and that's when i thought i was
  • 00:24:08.403 --> 00:24:12.674
  • The first disciple, you know, in a long time.
  • 00:24:12.674 --> 00:24:16.945
  • - here-- - that is awesome.
  • 00:24:16.945 --> 00:24:19.347
  • - you didn't know jesus was a descendant.
  • 00:24:19.347 --> 00:24:23.251
  • Of abraham, isaac, jacob, david, you didn't know that growing up
  • 00:24:23.251 --> 00:24:28.356
  • So that out of all the tours out of all the tourism growing up in
  • 00:24:28.356 --> 00:24:34.496
  • Israel that just that escaped you completely and--
  • 00:24:34.496 --> 00:24:38.767
  • - yes.
  • 00:24:38.767 --> 00:24:39.768
  • - that was the first time you knew that.
  • 00:24:39.768 --> 00:24:41.436
  • - yes, you know, most israelis,
  • 00:24:41.436 --> 00:24:44.205
  • They don't, you know, when, when you have a,
  • 00:24:44.205 --> 00:24:46.708
  • You have a lot of tour groups of, of christians and,
  • 00:24:46.708 --> 00:24:49.311
  • And believers in christ in israel from the united states
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  • And all over the world, you never really crossed paths.
  • 00:24:51.947 --> 00:24:54.516
  • I mean, you're, you're in your, in your city, in your work,
  • 00:24:54.516 --> 00:24:57.552
  • In your school, in your university, whatever it may be,
  • 00:24:57.552 --> 00:25:00.088
  • And you just don't, don't get to, you didn't,
  • 00:25:00.088 --> 00:25:02.958
  • At least in the past, you used to hear about it.
  • 00:25:02.958 --> 00:25:04.960
  • - would you think that if we were flying on an airplane and
  • 00:25:04.960 --> 00:25:09.164
  • We're sitting next to a jewish person,
  • 00:25:09.164 --> 00:25:11.933
  • That they know nothing about jesus,
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  • That's the assumption we would make, right?
  • 00:25:14.369 --> 00:25:17.572
  • Would you, would you expect that the lord would ask you to say
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  • Something to someone or just be kind?
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  • What, what do you think is the best entrance.
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  • Because kindness started your journey--
  • 00:25:32.721 --> 00:25:35.724
  • - for sure.
  • 00:25:35.724 --> 00:25:37.058
  • - and this was a bit of a, i'm talking a few month campaign for
  • 00:25:37.058 --> 00:25:41.796
  • You, so an airplane ride may not get the job done.
  • 00:25:41.796 --> 00:25:46.234
  • What plant, what kind of seed do you maybe find yourself planting
  • 00:25:46.234 --> 00:25:50.672
  • In somebody if you have a short time with somebody?
  • 00:25:50.672 --> 00:25:53.008
  • - well, i would say that for most of the jewish people that
  • 00:25:53.008 --> 00:25:56.277
  • Have become followers of yeshua that i know
  • 00:25:56.277 --> 00:25:58.747
  • It's been a journey and they met several people,
  • 00:25:58.747 --> 00:26:02.283
  • Several stations along the way uh until they actually repented
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  • Of their sins and became disciples of,
  • 00:26:06.921 --> 00:26:08.556
  • Of jesus and um look, most, certainly most israelis,
  • 00:26:08.556 --> 00:26:13.361
  • But i think most jews are pretty talkative people and they would
  • 00:26:13.361 --> 00:26:17.098
  • Love to chat, you know, and,
  • 00:26:17.098 --> 00:26:19.534
  • And if you, if you get to chat, absolutely tell them your story,
  • 00:26:19.534 --> 00:26:23.204
  • Tell them your journey.
  • 00:26:23.204 --> 00:26:24.572
  • They would love to hear it, the personal story and a personal
  • 00:26:24.572 --> 00:26:26.675
  • Journey is, you know, it doesn't come across as forceful and--
  • 00:26:26.675 --> 00:26:30.879
  • - it feels like though that you would almost
  • 00:26:31.780 --> 00:26:35.950
  • Have to assume that they don't know
  • 00:26:35.950 --> 00:26:38.653
  • Anything that even jesus was a descendant of abraham, isaac,
  • 00:26:38.653 --> 00:26:42.757
  • Jacob, david, you maybe they'd heard that,
  • 00:26:42.757 --> 00:26:46.327
  • But what would be the biggest, let's say
  • 00:26:46.327 --> 00:26:49.531
  • Pushback that you would expect from a jewish person.
  • 00:26:49.531 --> 00:26:52.901
  • - yeah, well, first of all, i think now people know a little
  • 00:26:52.901 --> 00:26:55.670
  • More.
  • 00:26:55.670 --> 00:26:56.805
  • The internet has done tremendous and, as i said,
  • 00:26:56.805 --> 00:26:59.407
  • Providing more exposure.
  • 00:26:59.407 --> 00:27:01.242
  • And um and the, and one phrase will had part of it,
  • 00:27:01.242 --> 00:27:05.480
  • Part to play in it.
  • 00:27:05.480 --> 00:27:06.681
  • I'm not saying it's the only thing obviously.
  • 00:27:06.681 --> 00:27:08.416
  • Um, i think the biggest obstacle, however,
  • 00:27:08.416 --> 00:27:11.786
  • Is that it's not, it's not ours, it's not something it's foreign
  • 00:27:11.786 --> 00:27:17.625
  • To our people or the irony, right?
  • 00:27:17.625 --> 00:27:19.127
  • - yeah.
  • 00:27:19.127 --> 00:27:20.328
  • - but that's i think the biggest obstacle is that well,
  • 00:27:20.328 --> 00:27:23.431
  • Will i be betraying my heritage, will i be betraying my
  • 00:27:23.431 --> 00:27:28.903
  • Upbringing and bring dishonor to my family and loved ones if,
  • 00:27:28.903 --> 00:27:33.775
  • If i look into it.
  • 00:27:33.775 --> 00:27:36.044
  • I think the biggest fear is when you weigh the cost.
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  • And you think, well, it's gonna have an impact not just on me,
  • 00:27:39.814 --> 00:27:43.818
  • But on my family and you know and and and that kind of a
  • 00:27:43.818 --> 00:27:47.555
  • Thing, so that's, that's, and i don't think--
  • 00:27:47.555 --> 00:27:49.157
  • - even looking into it though, right?
  • 00:27:49.157 --> 00:27:51.159
  • For even looking into it.
  • 00:27:51.159 --> 00:27:51.960
  • - yeah.
  • 00:27:51.960 --> 00:27:53.328
  • - and ok, one for israel is your broadcast new to tbn that airs
  • 00:27:53.328 --> 00:27:59.868
  • 9:30 p.m. tuesdays and saturdays right here on tbn
  • 00:27:59.868 --> 00:28:04.973
  • One for israel.
  • 00:28:04.973 --> 00:28:06.875
  • What is one for israel doing?
  • 00:28:06.875 --> 00:28:09.444
  • Because your program is entertaining.
  • 00:28:09.444 --> 00:28:11.246
  • You're not necessarily just kind of telling us the statistics of
  • 00:28:11.246 --> 00:28:15.083
  • What's going on, uh, so love the program, and great,
  • 00:28:15.083 --> 00:28:18.653
  • Great quality i love it, uh, i love seeing it, but
  • 00:28:18.653 --> 00:28:22.657
  • Tell us about this information in hebrew that you're doing that
  • 00:28:22.657 --> 00:28:30.198
  • Feels like you're doing it out in the open for the first time,
  • 00:28:30.198 --> 00:28:33.835
  • That this isn't some hidden thing you're,
  • 00:28:33.835 --> 00:28:36.905
  • You're actually putting these videos and what,
  • 00:28:36.905 --> 00:28:39.507
  • What kind of content in hebrew are you providing and creating?
  • 00:28:39.507 --> 00:28:45.947
  • - so about 20 years ago, some of our college graduates, uh,
  • 00:28:45.947 --> 00:28:51.519
  • We have a bible college, we, we still run the only accredited
  • 00:28:51.519 --> 00:28:54.022
  • Bible college in the country, and some of our graduates told
  • 00:28:54.022 --> 00:28:57.692
  • Us, look, they put out their cell phones, their, you know,
  • 00:28:57.692 --> 00:29:00.829
  • Their 2nd generation cell phone and say this is gonna be the
  • 00:29:00.829 --> 00:29:03.932
  • Medium that everybody's gonna be using in the future,
  • 00:29:03.932 --> 00:29:08.169
  • And we have to start thinking about how we share the gospel
  • 00:29:08.169 --> 00:29:12.040
  • Through this.
  • 00:29:12.040 --> 00:29:13.675
  • And it was right around that time that
  • 00:29:13.675 --> 00:29:16.044
  • Uh, god told me very specifically.
  • 00:29:16.811 --> 00:29:19.614
  • And i don't use this expression often,
  • 00:29:19.614 --> 00:29:21.749
  • But he told me very specifically to purchase a new campus and do
  • 00:29:21.749 --> 00:29:26.221
  • A television studio.
  • 00:29:26.221 --> 00:29:27.755
  • I knew nothing about purchasing a campus and absolutely zero
  • 00:29:27.755 --> 00:29:31.292
  • About television studios, but we did over the next couple of
  • 00:29:31.292 --> 00:29:35.730
  • Years, and god provided the people and the means and all
  • 00:29:35.730 --> 00:29:38.533
  • Those kind of things, and we began to create videos that talk
  • 00:29:38.533 --> 00:29:44.105
  • About yeshua, talk about jesus.
  • 00:29:44.105 --> 00:29:46.307
  • They were done in hebrew by native hebrew speakers,
  • 00:29:46.307 --> 00:29:48.643
  • We use idioms and
  • 00:29:48.643 --> 00:29:50.144
  • And just everything about it was clear that it is our people
  • 00:29:50.144 --> 00:29:54.582
  • Telling our people about jesus, and that created to our
  • 00:29:54.582 --> 00:29:58.987
  • Surprise, a huge initial splash.
  • 00:29:58.987 --> 00:30:01.656
  • I mean we would get hundreds of thousands
  • 00:30:01.656 --> 00:30:04.392
  • And later millions of not just views but
  • 00:30:04.392 --> 00:30:06.961
  • People writing us and asking questions, some positive,
  • 00:30:06.961 --> 00:30:10.131
  • Some not so positive, and eventually we've distilled it
  • 00:30:10.131 --> 00:30:13.735
  • Down to the most common 100 questions people ask about
  • 00:30:13.735 --> 00:30:19.073
  • Jesus.
  • 00:30:19.073 --> 00:30:20.074
  • So it would be anything about um
  • 00:30:20.074 --> 00:30:24.112
  • Things about the credibility of the new testament,
  • 00:30:24.112 --> 00:30:26.381
  • It's gonna be about certain passages in the old testament
  • 00:30:26.381 --> 00:30:30.118
  • Like is isaiah 53 talking about the messiah or about the people
  • 00:30:30.118 --> 00:30:34.956
  • Of israel, the suffering servant,
  • 00:30:34.956 --> 00:30:36.324
  • Is that the messiah or the people of israel.
  • 00:30:36.324 --> 00:30:38.493
  • So different levels of sophistication,
  • 00:30:38.493 --> 00:30:40.962
  • And we wrote answers to each one of those 50s and then we turned
  • 00:30:40.962 --> 00:30:45.833
  • It into a script and we recorded it and that was our initial
  • 00:30:45.833 --> 00:30:50.171
  • Apologetic series, if you will.
  • 00:30:50.171 --> 00:30:52.307
  • And then it, it, that's kind of how it started.
  • 00:30:52.307 --> 00:30:54.575
  • Later on we added testimonials which went a long, long way.
  • 00:30:54.575 --> 00:30:57.946
  • I mean somebody telling the story in 5 minutes.
  • 00:30:57.946 --> 00:31:01.316
  • You know, you can listen, you can agree, you can disagree,
  • 00:31:01.316 --> 00:31:03.718
  • But it's engaging.
  • 00:31:03.718 --> 00:31:05.053
  • And um i mean, i, i can tell you now we're probably talking about
  • 00:31:05.053 --> 00:31:10.358
  • Israel is a country of 8 million hebrew speakers and our videos,
  • 00:31:10.358 --> 00:31:15.596
  • The cumulative number is around 300 million views.
  • 00:31:15.596 --> 00:31:20.969
  • So just how many stadiums would we have to fill?
  • 00:31:20.969 --> 00:31:24.172
  • - yeah.
  • 00:31:24.172 --> 00:31:25.206
  • - so that's what i'm saying about exposure.
  • 00:31:25.206 --> 00:31:26.140
  • - yeah.
  • 00:31:26.140 --> 00:31:27.408
  • - and then it filters down through a funnel kind of thing
  • 00:31:27.408 --> 00:31:29.043
  • And people that write to us and contact us, wanna meet.
  • 00:31:29.043 --> 00:31:32.213
  • And um--
  • 00:31:32.213 --> 00:31:34.349
  • - ok, so thus the beginning of this broadcast was the word
  • 00:31:34.349 --> 00:31:40.154
  • Revival and hebrew people and jewish people and ok,
  • 00:31:40.154 --> 00:31:46.294
  • So there is now an effort using technology,
  • 00:31:46.294 --> 00:31:52.667
  • Social media, website, you know,
  • 00:31:52.667 --> 00:31:55.136
  • Posting to social media platforms and whatever and now
  • 00:31:55.136 --> 00:31:59.207
  • Right here on tbn.
  • 00:31:59.207 --> 00:32:01.342
  • Uh, one for israel airs tuesdays and saturdays at 9:30 p.m.
  • 00:32:01.342 --> 00:32:08.883
  • Eastern.
  • 00:32:08.883 --> 00:32:09.817
  • All the information's on the screen.
  • 00:32:09.817 --> 00:32:11.119
  • In fact, uh, if you haven't caught it, uh, here's a clip.
  • 00:32:11.119 --> 00:32:15.490
  • Take a look at this from one for israel.
  • 00:32:15.490 --> 00:32:20.094
  • - every passover season, jewish families around the world retell
  • 00:32:21.329 --> 00:32:25.099
  • The story of our redemption, but many times we forget the
  • 00:32:25.099 --> 00:32:28.603
  • Background to the story, and it's important to know how we
  • 00:32:28.603 --> 00:32:32.273
  • Got here.
  • 00:32:32.273 --> 00:32:33.541
  • Before the exodus, we read about a deliverer who would save
  • 00:32:33.541 --> 00:32:37.578
  • Israel, but was ironically one of the most rejected characters
  • 00:32:37.578 --> 00:32:42.016
  • In our history.
  • 00:32:42.016 --> 00:32:43.217
  • This man was joseph.
  • 00:32:43.217 --> 00:32:45.319
  • There would be no exodus if it wasn't for joseph.
  • 00:32:45.319 --> 00:32:48.589
  • In fact, the entire family of israel would have likely starved
  • 00:32:48.589 --> 00:32:52.527
  • To death if it wasn't for him.
  • 00:32:52.527 --> 00:32:54.662
  • Joseph is so important that the jewish sages even speak about a
  • 00:32:54.662 --> 00:32:59.634
  • Figure called messiah, son of joseph,
  • 00:32:59.634 --> 00:33:03.104
  • Who would suffer and die to save israel.
  • 00:33:03.104 --> 00:33:05.873
  • This messiah, son of joseph stands out as one of the most
  • 00:33:05.873 --> 00:33:10.545
  • Influential figures in the history of israel and the
  • 00:33:10.545 --> 00:33:13.514
  • Nations.
  • 00:33:13.514 --> 00:33:14.582
  • Yet we see that more than any other,
  • 00:33:14.582 --> 00:33:17.318
  • This beloved son and savior of israel was a man of sorrow,
  • 00:33:17.318 --> 00:33:22.390
  • Rejected, exiled, and misunderstood by his family
  • 00:33:22.390 --> 00:33:26.561
  • Until he was revealed as their redeemer.
  • 00:33:26.561 --> 00:33:30.598
  • - think of it.
  • 00:33:30.965 --> 00:33:32.200
  • Joseph was jacob's beloved son.
  • 00:33:32.200 --> 00:33:34.469
  • God revealed his purpose to him in dreams,
  • 00:33:34.469 --> 00:33:36.838
  • And he then revealed this prophetic dream to his family.
  • 00:33:36.838 --> 00:33:40.108
  • Rather than following their brother,
  • 00:33:40.108 --> 00:33:42.276
  • They were stirred up with envy.
  • 00:33:42.276 --> 00:33:44.212
  • Joseph was hated and rejected by his brothers.
  • 00:33:44.212 --> 00:33:47.381
  • They didn't just shun him.
  • 00:33:47.381 --> 00:33:49.217
  • After his father sent him to check in on the flocks,
  • 00:33:49.217 --> 00:33:51.919
  • They plotted to kill him.
  • 00:33:51.919 --> 00:33:53.654
  • He was thrown in the pit to die, then raised up from the pit and
  • 00:33:53.654 --> 00:33:57.792
  • Sold to gentiles.
  • 00:33:57.792 --> 00:34:00.161
  • - as the rabbis of old testify, joseph's story foreshadows a
  • 00:34:00.161 --> 00:34:05.066
  • Greater savior to come, messiah, son of joseph.
  • 00:34:05.066 --> 00:34:09.270
  • It was just like any other shabbat.
  • 00:34:09.270 --> 00:34:11.973
  • This great teacher read from the torah and the prophets,
  • 00:34:11.973 --> 00:34:15.409
  • And as they handed him the scroll, unrolling it,
  • 00:34:15.409 --> 00:34:18.779
  • He found the place where it is written.
  • 00:34:18.779 --> 00:34:21.883
  • The spirit of the lord is upon me because he has anointed me to
  • 00:34:23.084 --> 00:34:27.922
  • Preach the good news to the poor.
  • 00:34:27.922 --> 00:34:30.958
  • He has sent me to heal the brokenhearted,
  • 00:34:30.958 --> 00:34:33.461
  • To proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight
  • 00:34:33.461 --> 00:34:37.598
  • To the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed,
  • 00:34:37.598 --> 00:34:42.103
  • To proclaim the acceptable year of the lord.
  • 00:34:42.103 --> 00:34:47.241
  • - then yeshua rolled up the scroll,
  • 00:34:48.009 --> 00:34:51.279
  • Gave it back to the attendant, and sat down.
  • 00:34:51.279 --> 00:34:54.215
  • The eyes of everyone in the synagogue were fastened on him.
  • 00:34:54.215 --> 00:34:58.986
  • He began by saying to them, today this scripture is
  • 00:34:58.986 --> 00:35:03.524
  • Fulfilled in your hearing.
  • 00:35:03.524 --> 00:35:05.293
  • His words seemed to have a very similar reception.
  • 00:35:05.293 --> 00:35:08.896
  • Isn't this ben joseph, joseph's son
  • 00:35:08.896 --> 00:35:12.066
  • They scoffed?
  • 00:35:12.066 --> 00:35:13.401
  • In a matter of moments, the mood changed from annoyance and doubt
  • 00:35:13.401 --> 00:35:17.738
  • To murderous rage, just like joseph's brothers,
  • 00:35:17.738 --> 00:35:21.809
  • They sought to kill him, trying to throw yeshua off a cliff.
  • 00:35:21.809 --> 00:35:27.181
  • - sounds just like joseph and his brothers, right?
  • 00:35:28.216 --> 00:35:30.785
  • Back to his story, as joseph was sold and enslaved by the
  • 00:35:30.785 --> 00:35:34.889
  • Egyptians, the gentiles were blessed wherever he went.
  • 00:35:34.889 --> 00:35:38.526
  • Whether it was s potiphar's house or the prison,
  • 00:35:38.526 --> 00:35:41.128
  • Joseph brought blessing and order wherever his presence was.
  • 00:35:41.128 --> 00:35:45.132
  • Years later, after interpreting pharaoh's dream,
  • 00:35:45.132 --> 00:35:48.502
  • He became the ruler of the largest empire on earth,
  • 00:35:48.502 --> 00:35:51.706
  • Bringing salvation, not just for the gentiles,
  • 00:35:51.706 --> 00:35:54.709
  • But for the sons of israel as well.
  • 00:35:54.709 --> 00:35:57.378
  • - if you were to kind of search back into these inquiries,
  • 00:35:57.378 --> 00:36:05.253
  • Let's say, and the top 10 or some
  • 00:36:05.253 --> 00:36:10.191
  • Some some of the things what give us the
  • 00:36:10.191 --> 00:36:13.794
  • Insight to what a jewish person responding to some of this
  • 00:36:13.794 --> 00:36:20.701
  • Apologetics course that you're, what kind of things
  • 00:36:20.701 --> 00:36:24.872
  • Do you think is of most interest and the and the biggest shocking
  • 00:36:24.872 --> 00:36:30.978
  • Thing?
  • 00:36:30.978 --> 00:36:32.346
  • I mean if we, if we, if we think of your own personal testimony,
  • 00:36:32.346 --> 00:36:34.548
  • Not knowing that jesus was a descendant of david and abraham,
  • 00:36:34.548 --> 00:36:39.887
  • Uh, that, that was a big eye opener for you.
  • 00:36:39.887 --> 00:36:43.324
  • Wait a second, this, i thought this was, you know,
  • 00:36:43.324 --> 00:36:45.726
  • A story for some other group of people,
  • 00:36:45.726 --> 00:36:47.928
  • Much like you might have thought hindu religion was for somebody
  • 00:36:47.928 --> 00:36:52.066
  • Else.
  • 00:36:52.066 --> 00:36:53.067
  • It's not for me, it's for somebody else.
  • 00:36:53.067 --> 00:36:54.402
  • So that was the same category, but there's this true story that
  • 00:36:54.402 --> 00:36:59.607
  • You found out about.
  • 00:36:59.607 --> 00:37:01.008
  • So what, what do you find is the prevailing mind of a jewish
  • 00:37:01.008 --> 00:37:07.481
  • Person that's seen your apologetics?
  • 00:37:07.481 --> 00:37:10.318
  • - so the israeli society is, is, you know,
  • 00:37:10.318 --> 00:37:13.788
  • There's a lot of different colors.
  • 00:37:13.788 --> 00:37:15.289
  • You have some that are very secular and some that are very
  • 00:37:15.289 --> 00:37:19.794
  • Religious and everything in between, um
  • 00:37:19.794 --> 00:37:23.397
  • And so it really depends on where the person is coming from.
  • 00:37:23.397 --> 00:37:26.734
  • I can share a, story--
  • 00:37:26.734 --> 00:37:28.069
  • - by the way, we're like that in christianity too, by the way,
  • 00:37:28.069 --> 00:37:31.005
  • - it is true.
  • 00:37:31.005 --> 00:37:32.173
  • It is true.
  • 00:37:32.173 --> 00:37:33.507
  • So you know, for some of the more secular people, they will,
  • 00:37:33.507 --> 00:37:37.411
  • Um, begin with, well, let's talk about the existence of god.
  • 00:37:37.411 --> 00:37:42.350
  • You say that god exists, you say that he sent yeshua as the
  • 00:37:42.350 --> 00:37:45.720
  • Messiah, but how do you even know that there's a god?
  • 00:37:45.720 --> 00:37:48.889
  • I mean, so it started at that level uh for most people that
  • 00:37:48.889 --> 00:37:52.460
  • Are kind of in the middle of the continuum,
  • 00:37:52.460 --> 00:37:54.328
  • The focus would be on jesus himself, on yeshua himself.
  • 00:37:54.328 --> 00:37:59.200
  • So he wasn't like, you know, some,
  • 00:37:59.200 --> 00:38:02.470
  • Some literature in the jewish world,
  • 00:38:02.470 --> 00:38:04.271
  • In the rabbinic world says he wasn't a sorcerer, he wasn't,
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  • You know, a negative person.
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  • You say he was a positive person.
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  • Why do you say that?
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  • You say that he's the messiah, say that the hebrew bible,
  • 00:38:12.546 --> 00:38:15.916
  • The old testament, is talking about how we're going to
  • 00:38:15.916 --> 00:38:18.386
  • Recognize the messiah.
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  • Explain that to us.
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  • I mean, so there's an actual conversation.
  • 00:38:20.921 --> 00:38:23.357
  • And then i think for the more religious,
  • 00:38:23.357 --> 00:38:26.660
  • Ultra orthodox and religious people that are in contact with
  • 00:38:26.660 --> 00:38:29.463
  • Us, um, it's more of it's challenging to get out of,
  • 00:38:29.463 --> 00:38:34.902
  • It's a certain way of thinking.
  • 00:38:34.902 --> 00:38:36.704
  • And all of a sudden to give the highest authority,
  • 00:38:36.704 --> 00:38:40.508
  • Spiritual authority to the bible is a stretch.
  • 00:38:40.508 --> 00:38:44.445
  • And it's a journey and when they make that journey or on that
  • 00:38:44.445 --> 00:38:48.549
  • Journey, you know, they're willing to look at who yeshua is
  • 00:38:48.549 --> 00:38:52.286
  • The new testament, you know, they read the new testament,
  • 00:38:52.286 --> 00:38:54.722
  • They recognize that this is a jewish document, but can we,
  • 00:38:54.722 --> 00:38:58.759
  • Are we allowed, what will the rabbi say if if he knew and so
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  • That's kind of the beginning of,
  • 00:39:01.996 --> 00:39:04.632
  • Of all those journeys, and uh just as an example,
  • 00:39:04.632 --> 00:39:08.335
  • I remember a few years ago, i was um,
  • 00:39:08.335 --> 00:39:11.038
  • My wife and i were having dinners with some friends and uh
  • 00:39:11.038 --> 00:39:13.941
  • There was a uh somebody who's an ultra orthodox uh person,
  • 00:39:13.941 --> 00:39:17.745
  • He just happened to sit next to me.
  • 00:39:17.745 --> 00:39:19.280
  • And he is, he belongs to this orthodox sect or section that uh
  • 00:39:19.280 --> 00:39:26.220
  • Believe that the rabbi from the rabbi schneerson,
  • 00:39:26.220 --> 00:39:29.390
  • The rabbi from lubavitch is the messiah.
  • 00:39:29.390 --> 00:39:31.826
  • So this, this guy is telling me, this gentleman is telling me how
  • 00:39:31.826 --> 00:39:35.429
  • Wonderful the messiah is.
  • 00:39:35.429 --> 00:39:37.131
  • So finally i ask him, how do you know that the rabbi is truly the
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  • Messiah?
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  • And he tells me, well he's doing this, he's done that,
  • 00:39:43.070 --> 00:39:45.606
  • It's miraculous, and he's telling me all these things that
  • 00:39:45.606 --> 00:39:47.908
  • Happened, i said, well do you know that the hebrew bible
  • 00:39:47.908 --> 00:39:51.679
  • Actually tells us how to recognize the messiah?
  • 00:39:51.679 --> 00:39:54.048
  • He's like, what do you mean?
  • 00:39:54.048 --> 00:39:55.883
  • So we went over a few things and uh it was completely,
  • 00:39:55.883 --> 00:39:59.620
  • I mean he was, he was completely shocked.
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  • First of all that i know the hebrew bible and um but,
  • 00:40:01.922 --> 00:40:06.694
  • And here's the, here's the thing,
  • 00:40:06.694 --> 00:40:07.928
  • That initial conversation did not change his mind.
  • 00:40:07.928 --> 00:40:11.665
  • He say, everything you say is very interesting and i should
  • 00:40:11.665 --> 00:40:15.035
  • Think about it more, but that doesn't change the fact that the
  • 00:40:15.035 --> 00:40:18.005
  • Rabbi is the messiah.
  • 00:40:18.005 --> 00:40:19.840
  • So it's it it was the beginning of a long,
  • 00:40:19.840 --> 00:40:22.176
  • Long journey that hasn't ended for this gentleman as far as i
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  • Know.
  • 00:40:25.112 --> 00:40:26.447
  • But, um, you know, another fresh example is a young woman who was
  • 00:40:26.447 --> 00:40:32.019
  • Heavily, and i mean super heavily into all sorts of
  • 00:40:32.019 --> 00:40:36.790
  • Spirituality but definitely in the black magic kind of a thing
  • 00:40:36.790 --> 00:40:43.264
  • In israel and um because she saw a very scary
  • 00:40:43.264 --> 00:40:50.271
  • And dark side of the spiritual world.
  • 00:40:50.271 --> 00:40:53.407
  • I mean she was convinced that there is a spiritual world,
  • 00:40:53.407 --> 00:40:56.043
  • But it was scary for her.
  • 00:40:56.043 --> 00:40:57.378
  • She didn't want anything to do with it.
  • 00:40:57.378 --> 00:40:58.879
  • That began a spiritual search for her,
  • 00:40:58.879 --> 00:41:03.117
  • Online, she came to some of our videos,
  • 00:41:03.117 --> 00:41:06.086
  • She made contact with us, uh, some of our team members met
  • 00:41:06.086 --> 00:41:09.823
  • With her in first season and she actually has become a disciple
  • 00:41:09.823 --> 00:41:15.029
  • Of yeshua.
  • 00:41:15.029 --> 00:41:16.030
  • She's going through this selfship process,
  • 00:41:16.030 --> 00:41:17.831
  • She's connected to a local congregation now.
  • 00:41:17.831 --> 00:41:20.000
  • - here it is-- listen, uh, your broadcast one for israel,
  • 00:41:20.000 --> 00:41:24.705
  • New to tbn and we're, uh, information on how you can uh
  • 00:41:24.705 --> 00:41:29.610
  • See it and when it airs and all that is on screen, but,
  • 00:41:29.610 --> 00:41:34.148
  • I have to sit here a little bit shocked still.
  • 00:41:34.148 --> 00:41:37.718
  • I started this program by saying i'd never heard anyone say the
  • 00:41:37.718 --> 00:41:42.189
  • Word revival and jewish people or jewish or you know is just
  • 00:41:42.189 --> 00:41:47.127
  • Never heard those words put together.
  • 00:41:47.127 --> 00:41:49.663
  • And then to make it even worse,
  • 00:41:49.663 --> 00:41:53.601
  • You know uh, i have many, you know, messianic jewish friends.
  • 00:41:53.601 --> 00:42:01.175
  • Who even a common friend of ours, samuel smodja,
  • 00:42:01.175 --> 00:42:05.980
  • Who runs a big company there, srl tours.
  • 00:42:05.980 --> 00:42:09.049
  • I, i don't know if, if this is exactly accurate,
  • 00:42:09.049 --> 00:42:12.886
  • But it felt like his father, who had a messianic congregation had
  • 00:42:12.886 --> 00:42:19.159
  • A handful or less of converts in his entire ministry, ok,
  • 00:42:19.159 --> 00:42:24.498
  • And he labored there as a messianic believer in jerusalem,
  • 00:42:24.498 --> 00:42:30.371
  • Uh, and, and, and saw maybe a handful of converts in his
  • 00:42:30.371 --> 00:42:36.210
  • Entire ministry for decades.
  • 00:42:36.210 --> 00:42:39.546
  • And so the thought that there's a new season of time that you're
  • 00:42:39.546 --> 00:42:47.688
  • Even getting these inquiries is just fascinating to me.
  • 00:42:47.688 --> 00:42:53.827
  • It's just beautiful.
  • 00:42:53.827 --> 00:42:55.663
  • - has it changed since the war?
  • 00:42:55.663 --> 00:42:57.898
  • - it's a great question and the answer is yes,
  • 00:42:57.898 --> 00:43:00.868
  • It has definitely increased uh since the war broke um and you
  • 00:43:00.868 --> 00:43:06.540
  • Know when, when do we call upon the lord when things are
  • 00:43:06.540 --> 00:43:09.009
  • Difficult in our lives and so i cannot exaggerate in the
  • 00:43:09.009 --> 00:43:13.213
  • Magnitude of the, the shaking that uh jewish people around the
  • 00:43:13.213 --> 00:43:17.284
  • World and israelis especially felt um and so the answer is
  • 00:43:17.284 --> 00:43:22.156
  • Yes, very, very, very dramatic spike.
  • 00:43:22.156 --> 00:43:24.992
  • And for what, what you said, uh, matt, you know, uh,
  • 00:43:24.992 --> 00:43:28.729
  • Pastor victor, whom i, i loved very, very much and,
  • 00:43:28.729 --> 00:43:31.398
  • And very amazing man and uh, uh, to some degree i'm privileged to
  • 00:43:31.398 --> 00:43:36.603
  • Call him a mentor, so his generation of pioneers
  • 00:43:36.603 --> 00:43:41.108
  • Broke the ground, i believe the ground that was very, very,
  • 00:43:41.108 --> 00:43:44.511
  • Very dry, and they began to break it.
  • 00:43:44.511 --> 00:43:47.681
  • Uh when my generation came on the stage,
  • 00:43:47.681 --> 00:43:51.085
  • We still had a part of breaking the ground in different places,
  • 00:43:51.085 --> 00:43:54.221
  • But in many parts it was already broken.
  • 00:43:54.221 --> 00:43:56.423
  • And the seeds were already in the ground and we were able to
  • 00:43:56.423 --> 00:43:59.426
  • Water it and so we're beginning to sing the fruit of it.
  • 00:43:59.426 --> 00:44:04.031
  • This revival, by the way, i've, i have a friend that says it's
  • 00:44:04.031 --> 00:44:07.234
  • Not a revival, it's survival because it didn't really happen
  • 00:44:07.234 --> 00:44:11.038
  • Since the book of acts, so it's survival.
  • 00:44:11.038 --> 00:44:13.440
  • But uh anyway, yeah, it's, it's a spiritual process.
  • 00:44:13.440 --> 00:44:18.679
  • - so the ministry of one for israel feels like--
  • 00:44:18.679 --> 00:44:29.289
  • You know, uh, we, we have hard ground in america too, ok?
  • 00:44:30.424 --> 00:44:36.263
  • And you know, uh, just think of the super bowl that's just,
  • 00:44:36.263 --> 00:44:41.235
  • You know, in our, in our rearview mirror just not long
  • 00:44:41.235 --> 00:44:43.837
  • Ago, uh, the idea that there was
  • 00:44:43.837 --> 00:44:46.673
  • A super bowl halftime show that half of the viewers of the super
  • 00:44:46.673 --> 00:44:51.712
  • Bowl turned away from, uh, and tpusa put up a kind of
  • 00:44:51.712 --> 00:44:57.751
  • God-fearing, god bless america version of a halftime show and,
  • 00:44:57.751 --> 00:45:03.023
  • And siphoned off, you know, multiplied tens of millions of
  • 00:45:03.023 --> 00:45:08.695
  • Viewers.
  • 00:45:08.695 --> 00:45:09.930
  • So we understand this very unique difference that some
  • 00:45:09.930 --> 00:45:14.535
  • People are halfway down the road in a journey and all this, but,
  • 00:45:14.535 --> 00:45:18.639
  • But the, the, the idea that we are in a season
  • 00:45:18.639 --> 00:45:25.112
  • Of time where we might see the fruit of the
  • 00:45:25.112 --> 00:45:29.883
  • Labor of generations coming to pass because it's almost like
  • 00:45:29.883 --> 00:45:35.289
  • I'm feeling this sense that you know, tbn
  • 00:45:35.289 --> 00:45:40.127
  • Does one thing with our programming or we attempt to do
  • 00:45:40.127 --> 00:45:44.064
  • One thing, jesus said if i be lifted up i will draw all men
  • 00:45:44.064 --> 00:45:49.603
  • Unto myself so the purity of answering who jesus is.
  • 00:45:49.603 --> 00:45:55.242
  • Then he takes on the work of drawing people to himself and
  • 00:45:55.242 --> 00:45:59.947
  • The idea that we would argue this uh point of religion or
  • 00:45:59.947 --> 00:46:07.020
  • That point or this prophet or that part but just talking about
  • 00:46:07.020 --> 00:46:12.092
  • What jesus is and who he is and how he is and what he is to us,
  • 00:46:12.092 --> 00:46:17.965
  • It feels like that's might be the first time
  • 00:46:17.965 --> 00:46:22.369
  • I've been in a discussion with a messianic believer with a
  • 00:46:22.369 --> 00:46:27.708
  • Ministry in israel that is simply doing what jesus said
  • 00:46:27.708 --> 00:46:34.715
  • Lift me up and i will draw people to myself feels like
  • 00:46:34.715 --> 00:46:39.186
  • That's new, ok?
  • 00:46:39.186 --> 00:46:41.154
  • And, and, and, and for that god bless you and what you're doing
  • 00:46:41.154 --> 00:46:46.793
  • And why is it just now that we've gotten to meet each other?
  • 00:46:46.793 --> 00:46:50.931
  • We should have met each other a long time, so it, it, it feels,
  • 00:46:50.931 --> 00:46:54.668
  • It feels like, uh, better late than never, but at some point
  • 00:46:54.668 --> 00:46:58.438
  • If, if there's somebody that isn't
  • 00:46:58.438 --> 00:47:01.308
  • Aware what is one for israel,
  • 00:47:01.308 --> 00:47:04.912
  • What do you do, uh, and then for more information tune in all the
  • 00:47:04.912 --> 00:47:10.984
  • Information's on the screen to the new broadcast airing twice
  • 00:47:10.984 --> 00:47:14.354
  • Weekly here on tbn, but what are, what are you,
  • 00:47:14.354 --> 00:47:17.291
  • What are you really doing and, and when did this vision start
  • 00:47:17.291 --> 00:47:19.860
  • With you?
  • 00:47:19.860 --> 00:47:21.094
  • What are you really doing and, and when did this vision start
  • 00:47:21.094 --> 00:47:22.362
  • - so i mentioned earlier that when i began became a follower
  • 00:47:22.362 --> 00:47:23.997
  • Of yeshua, i was truly shaken by the fact that i've never heard
  • 00:47:23.997 --> 00:47:27.401
  • This before and you know, my family and friends and and our
  • 00:47:27.401 --> 00:47:31.004
  • People have not heard this.
  • 00:47:31.004 --> 00:47:32.873
  • I think in a lot of ways that's the driving burden of one for
  • 00:47:32.873 --> 00:47:36.443
  • Israel, and we are essentially a group of mostly jewish
  • 00:47:36.443 --> 00:47:41.581
  • Believers, some arab believers, which i should probably say a
  • 00:47:41.581 --> 00:47:44.318
  • Word about as well.
  • 00:47:44.318 --> 00:47:45.686
  • And we get up in the morning to serve our people and as you say,
  • 00:47:45.686 --> 00:47:49.790
  • Lift jesus up so that he can draw more of our people,
  • 00:47:49.790 --> 00:47:54.895
  • Of arab people, of, you know, everyone uh to himself.
  • 00:47:54.895 --> 00:47:58.565
  • We did it through multiple means.
  • 00:47:58.565 --> 00:48:00.300
  • I mentioned we run the only accredited bible college in the
  • 00:48:00.300 --> 00:48:03.236
  • Country, so we get to serve and literally all the church in
  • 00:48:03.236 --> 00:48:07.808
  • Israel, all the believers in israel, all languages,
  • 00:48:07.808 --> 00:48:10.811
  • Subcultures as we put it, and so on.
  • 00:48:10.811 --> 00:48:13.680
  • Um, we have a, particularly since the war broke,
  • 00:48:13.680 --> 00:48:17.017
  • A very active humanitarian aid, uh, arm.
  • 00:48:17.017 --> 00:48:21.054
  • We have, uh, we publish a lot of books in hebrew,
  • 00:48:21.054 --> 00:48:24.591
  • Some translated, some original, mostly original, and, um,
  • 00:48:24.591 --> 00:48:28.729
  • We do all those things in, again, in hebrew, in arabic,
  • 00:48:28.729 --> 00:48:33.600
  • Some in english now, also on tbn,
  • 00:48:33.600 --> 00:48:36.303
  • Very important for us to reach the church
  • 00:48:36.303 --> 00:48:40.607
  • In america and say you should know this is
  • 00:48:40.607 --> 00:48:43.076
  • Happening and so um yeah that's uh essentially who we are and
  • 00:48:43.076 --> 00:48:49.416
  • What we do.
  • 00:48:49.416 --> 00:48:50.984
  • - ok what is your hope for the viewers of the broadcast,
  • 00:48:50.984 --> 00:49:03.096
  • People that engage or will look you up on social media and go to
  • 00:49:03.096 --> 00:49:07.934
  • Your website and what do we as believers in america and around
  • 00:49:07.934 --> 00:49:14.007
  • The world in christianity, how do we-- what,
  • 00:49:14.007 --> 00:49:17.544
  • What is your message to us about the jewish people and how we
  • 00:49:17.544 --> 00:49:21.681
  • Should understand maybe a new season is upon us.
  • 00:49:21.681 --> 00:49:27.187
  • - yeah, i agree, thank you for asking.
  • 00:49:27.187 --> 00:49:29.122
  • That's that's something that's very important to me,
  • 00:49:29.122 --> 00:49:30.791
  • And i will say the following.
  • 00:49:30.791 --> 00:49:32.959
  • The most jewish thing you can do for a jewish person
  • 00:49:33.994 --> 00:49:38.398
  • Is to tell him about yeshua, about jesus, the jewish messiah.
  • 00:49:38.398 --> 00:49:42.436
  • And if you have to use words.
  • 00:49:42.436 --> 00:49:45.672
  • It usually doesn't start with words,
  • 00:49:45.672 --> 00:49:47.808
  • But it gets to words and um you know i,
  • 00:49:47.808 --> 00:49:51.478
  • I meet along the way over the years i've met a lot of uh
  • 00:49:51.478 --> 00:49:54.781
  • Christians that love our people and it's very humbling to be
  • 00:49:54.781 --> 00:49:58.351
  • Completely honest, very humbling,
  • 00:49:58.351 --> 00:49:59.953
  • People that truly love israel and the jewish people and it's
  • 00:49:59.953 --> 00:50:03.323
  • Both humbling and encouraging.
  • 00:50:03.323 --> 00:50:05.025
  • And people want to do something.
  • 00:50:05.025 --> 00:50:07.227
  • And they want to give towards something.
  • 00:50:07.227 --> 00:50:09.563
  • I would, my message would be that the most
  • 00:50:10.464 --> 00:50:15.669
  • Important thing you can do for a jewish person is let him know,
  • 00:50:15.669 --> 00:50:19.539
  • Help him learn about yeshua.
  • 00:50:19.539 --> 00:50:21.875
  • Uh humanitarian aid and um all sorts of practical help are
  • 00:50:21.875 --> 00:50:27.547
  • Important, but they need to be done in the name of yeshua,
  • 00:50:27.547 --> 00:50:31.751
  • In the name of jesus, um, and so that's uh if i had to distill it
  • 00:50:31.751 --> 00:50:37.257
  • Down, the best way to bless israel is with jesus.
  • 00:50:37.257 --> 00:50:44.464
  • - wow.
  • 00:50:44.698 --> 00:50:45.232
  • - it's beautiful.
  • 00:50:45.232 --> 00:50:46.766
  • - stay tuned every saturday and every tuesday 9:30 p.m.
  • 00:50:46.766 --> 00:50:52.672
  • Eastern time.
  • 00:50:52.672 --> 00:50:54.474
  • And it is one for israel, uh, one final look, watch this.
  • 00:50:54.474 --> 00:50:59.679
  • - israel, a name that dominates the news,
  • 00:51:00.580 --> 00:51:03.216
  • Written on almost every page of the bible.
  • 00:51:03.216 --> 00:51:06.086
  • Opinions about israel arouse passion all around the world.
  • 00:51:06.086 --> 00:51:11.591
  • In one way or another, these people in this place have served
  • 00:51:12.759 --> 00:51:16.930
  • As the epicenter of history and the gospel story.
  • 00:51:16.930 --> 00:51:21.568
  • But did you ever ask the question, why?
  • 00:51:22.402 --> 00:51:25.205
  • Maybe israel has a special and unique part in god's divine
  • 00:51:25.205 --> 00:51:28.575
  • Plan.
  • 00:51:28.575 --> 00:51:30.277
  • But why did god choose this land?
  • 00:51:31.011 --> 00:51:33.113
  • Why did god choose these people, my people?
  • 00:51:33.113 --> 00:51:36.449
  • The answers to these questions will profoundly transform the
  • 00:51:37.651 --> 00:51:41.021
  • Way you see the bible and the god of the bible.
  • 00:51:41.021 --> 00:51:44.591
  • I'm doctor eris soref, a jewish follower of jesus,
  • 00:51:44.591 --> 00:51:47.594
  • Born in this land.
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  • Join me on one for israel as we ask the question,
  • 00:51:49.129 --> 00:51:52.666
  • Why israel on tbn.
  • 00:51:52.666 --> 00:51:52.666