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Rabbi Jason Sobel: God's Hidden Hand: From Esther to Easter | Praise

March 26, 2026 | 53:0

Rabbi Jason Sobel: God's Hidden Hand: From Esther to Easter | Praise
Rabbi Jason Sobel joins Matt and Laurie to reveal powerful connections between the Book of Esther, Passover, and the resurrection of Jesus—showing how God’s hidden hand brings redemption, reversal, and hope.
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Praise | Rabbi Jason Sobel: God's Hidden Hand: From Esther to Easter | Praise | March 26, 2026
  • Coming up tonight on praise...
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  • The tomb is a portal to the life after this one.
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  • And the womb is the gateway into this life.
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  • And so they're both doors to life,
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  • This life and the afterlife.
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  • Why is that important?
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  • Because spiritually speaking, death can symbolize
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  • The opposite of birth, right?
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  • It symbolizes is loss,
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  • The death of a dream,
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  • The death of a relationship,
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  • The death of a hope,
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  • The death of a loved one,
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  • The death of a destiny,
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  • The death of an identity. like, it's the tomb is where things
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  • Typically go to die and are lost and are no more.
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  • But here's the beautiful thing with jesus,
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  • He's in the business of
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  • Transforming our tombs into a womb.
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  • Wow. the very thing that seems like it's going to be the end,
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  • He transforms death into life.
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  • He transforms the end into a new beginning.
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  • He transforms darkness into light,
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  • Cursing into blessing.
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  • And it's out of the tomb that seems as if everything lost.
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  • That victory comes a complete
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  • Turnaround, a complete reversal.
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  • That's what god wants to do for you and me.
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  • Tonight on praise from dallas, founder of fusion global and
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  • New york times best-selling author, rabbi jason sobel.
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  • And now your hosts, matt and laurie crouch.
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  • Holy week is right around the corner.
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  • Welcome to praise, jason sobel.
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  • You're going to have to help us break down some not only
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  • Current events--
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  • I'm looking forward to this program, by the way.
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  • Current events, old testament, new testament.
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  • You're going to throw them all in a blender.
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  • Make some sense of it.
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  • And by the way, you're looking sharp.
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  • Thank you. and welcome.
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  • 2026 is upon us.
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  • Uh, right in the middle of holy week on wednesday, our, uh,
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  • Jesus in the passover program is going to be airing.
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  • And, uh, lots of jason sobel during holy week, but we
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  • Thought we'd kind of get a jump
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  • On holy week because current events.
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  • Obviously, iran is in the news, along with many other places
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  • In the world.
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  • Still the, you know, venezuela and the whole, uh, you know,
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  • Conflict between russia and ukraine.
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  • But look, the new thing that's going on,
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  • Of course, the conflict in iran.
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  • And when you and i were on the phone,
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  • You started breaking down some amazing things.
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  • Um, take over where you want to start and, uh, break some of
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  • This down for us.
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  • Really interesting stuff.
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  • Yeah. one of the things that i love about god is there is no
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  • Randomness with him and nothing happens by chance.
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  • God is in the details and part of my passion, and all the
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  • Shows and books that i write is connecting those dots.
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  • And so that is the case in this situation.
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  • So when you think about it for a moment, this conflict when
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  • The initial bombing occurred that killed the supreme leader,
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  • The ayatollah, happened on a very significant day.
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  • The day of the week was a
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  • Saturday, or on the hebrew calendar
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  • It was shabbat, the sabbath.
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  • But what's amazing about the timing is that that saturday,
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  • Jews all around the world were reading from the five books of
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  • Moses, the torah, just like they did going back to
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  • The days of jesus.
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  • He would get up on the sabbath and open the scrolls and read.
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  • And what were they reading in the scrolls that day?
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  • They were reading a passage from deuteronomy that
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  • Talks about zachor. remember what
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  • Haman did to you when you left egypt?
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  • And then it goes on to end by saying, you will blot out the
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  • Name, the memory of haman from under heaven.
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  • And why is that important?
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  • Because where did the story-- amalek eventually becomes haman
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  • In the book of esther.
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  • So haman is a descendant of
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  • Amalek, wants to wipe out the jews,
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  • The first genocide in the bible.
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  • And the ayatollah is the modern day haman, in the same place
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  • Where the actual story of the book of esther happened.
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  • And when jewish people hear his
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  • Name, they think of an illusion.
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  • They call him khomeini. right.
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  • They actually see haman in his
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  • Name, as an illusion in his name.
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  • And so the days that jewish people, the day jewish people
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  • Were reading about amalek, they take out the modern day amalek,
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  • The ayatollah, just a few days before jews around the world
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  • Celebrate the biblical holiday
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  • Of purim, which is the book of esther.
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  • So it's a replaying of the book of esther in modern times.
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  • Haymon rose up one with the spirit of haymon rose up the
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  • Ayatollah, and they're both taken out in the same
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  • Geographical location at the same time.
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  • It's all connected, and we can go deeper if you want.
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  • So it feels like when we talked, there was this almost
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  • Connection between, you know, we were discussing
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  • Politics, we were talking about this conflict.
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  • Then all of a sudden, the next thing i knew on the phone, you
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  • Were talking about holy week and kind of a connection
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  • Between us, esther, and the book of esther and holy week.
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  • Uh, why don't we progress a little bit? by the way,
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  • Just, um, want to hold up your latest book, transformed by the
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  • Messiah, jason sobel.
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  • This is also a television
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  • Series airing right here on tbn.
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  • You're invited on a cinematic, immersive journey through the
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  • Life of yeshua jesus.
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  • We can't be perfect or complete
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  • In our faith unless we learn to forgive.
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  • Okay. that's deep. [makes explosion sound]
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  • Join rabbi jason sobel and special guests in this 3-part
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  • Series as they uncover the profound connections between
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  • Ancient prophecy, jewish
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  • Tradition, and the new testament,
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  • Encountering the sacred
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  • Settings of first century israel.
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  • The fear of death is the mother of all fears, and the empty
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  • Tomb declares our fears are as empty as that grave.
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  • He's risen.
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  • Therefore, our fears are empty.
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  • He's conquered it all.
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  • He changed all of human destiny out of that tomb.
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  • From bethlehem and the southern steps to golgotha and the empty
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  • Tomb, witness the birth, life, death and redemptive mission of
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  • Our messiah, now streaming on the free tbn+ app.
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  • You know, we have a jason sobel slot on tbn and whether it's
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  • Mysteries of the messiah or jesus in the passover or
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  • Transformed by the messiah like this, or even god's appointed
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  • Times, we're running some kind of really great content with
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  • You right here on tbn a lot.
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  • Latest book, transformed by the messiah.
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  • Um, make the connection now, since we're,
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  • Our holy week is right around the corner here.
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  • Make the connection between what started as a current
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  • Event, the iran conflict,
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  • Haman, esther,
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  • And now we're in holy week.
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  • How do you, how do you make that jump?
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  • Yeah, absolutely.
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  • And it's great because the last section of transformed by the
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  • Messiah is on the passion week.
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  • It's looking at the from the triumphal entry to the last
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  • Supper to his death, resurrection, all of that
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  • Through jewish eyes.
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  • And that's what the show on tbn does that we did with
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  • Pastor allen jackson.
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  • It was a great show to check out, but this is all connected.
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  • So think about it for a moment.
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  • From a biblical perspective,
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  • Purim and passover are directly connected.
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  • What's the direct connection?
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  • Well, think about it for a moment.
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  • Purim is in the last month of the year.
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  • It's a holiday in the last month.
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  • Passover is the holiday in the first month.
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  • So there are two bookends.
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  • Passover occurs, the great redemption out of egypt, on the
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  • 14th day of the hebrew month of nisan.
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  • Why is it on the 14th day?
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  • Because in hebrew it's alphanumeric.
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  • If i say open your bible to chapter 14.
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  • There are no roman numerals
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  • In hebrew bibles. you write numbers with letters.
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  • So the two letters that you would write 14 with is the
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  • Hebrew letter yud and the hebrew letter dalet.
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  • That's how you write 14.
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  • And those two letters actually spell hand.
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  • So the way you write.
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  • 14 in hebrew spells hand.
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  • Why is that important?
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  • God redeemed israel out of egypt with a mighty hand.
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  • A [hebrew] and an outstretched arm.
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  • So passover is the revealed hand of god doing miracles,
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  • Redeeming his people at the beginning of their story.
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  • Purim is at the last month of the year.
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  • It's at the end, and the great redemption happens on
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  • Guess what day?
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  • The 14th day of the month of adar.
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  • So two redemptions, one at the beginning, one at the end, both
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  • On the number 14 day
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  • The bible tells us. why?
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  • Because we have two hands.
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  • Passover is the revealed hand of god.
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  • It's you see the miraculous.
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  • God shows up.
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  • The miracles in egypt, the signs, the wonders.
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  • But there's another hand.
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  • And that is what we see in the book of esther.
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  • It's the hidden hand of god.
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  • It's god working quietly behind the scenes.
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  • The book of esther almost doesn't make it into the bible.
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  • Why? because god's name is not
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  • Directly written in the book of esther.
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  • But that's the whole point. when you can't see the hand of god,
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  • Trust the heart of god. wow.
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  • He's working behind the scenes quietly.
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  • Sometimes he works very clearly. sometimes he works
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  • Very quietly,
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  • But that's the whole point of the book of esther.
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  • And here is the connection.
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  • Two redemptions connected to 14.
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  • Well, think about it for a moment.
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  • When yeshua dies on the cross, he dies at the time the
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  • Passover lambs are being offered, which is the 14th day
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  • Of the month of nisan, the same
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  • Time the passover lambs are offered.
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  • And then over his head.
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  • There is a sign written in latin, greek, and hebrew,
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  • And it says jesus the nazarene, or jesus of nazareth,
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  • King of the jews.
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  • And the religious leaders get upset.
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  • And why do they get upset?
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  • What do you think?
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  • You said there would be no quizzes.
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  • Okay. no quizzes. sorry.
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  • Okay. why do they get upset?
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  • They get upset because in hebrew, the first letters of
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  • Those four words,
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  • Jesus of nazareth, king of the jews, yeshua, [hebrew]
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  • Has the 4 letters of god's name in it spells [hebrew] yeshua.
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  • [speaks hebrew]
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  • So they understood that the four letters in hebrew of that
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  • Sign actually was pointing to in an acrostic, the four
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  • Letters of god's name.
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  • And they were like, how can you, yahweh, the divine name, be
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  • Connected to jesus as he's dying there on the cross?
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  • Cursed is the one who dies on the tree.
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  • Don't associate the most holy,
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  • The most divine name with this individual.
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  • And they ask pilate to change it.
  • 00:12:33.676 --> 00:12:36.278
  • And he says, what i have written, i have written.
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  • That is the theological reason why they don't like the sign.
  • 00:12:39.215 --> 00:12:42.585
  • But there's-- it's an amazing--
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  • His name is hidden.
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  • God's name. god's name,
  • 00:12:46.055 --> 00:12:47.156
  • The divine name is hidden in
  • 00:12:47.156 --> 00:12:49.124
  • The sign that pilate puts up there.
  • 00:12:49.124 --> 00:12:51.393
  • How does that connect with purim?
  • 00:12:51.393 --> 00:12:52.862
  • Remember, 14th day of nisan, sign. book of esther, 14th day
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  • Of adar, the great deliverance.
  • 00:12:59.501 --> 00:13:02.238
  • Well, god's name is not written in the book, but there is a
  • 00:13:02.238 --> 00:13:06.709
  • Verse in the book, and the rabbi see an allusion to the
  • 00:13:06.709 --> 00:13:10.279
  • Divine name and an acrostic the same way it says, esther says
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  • To the king, let the king and haman come today to the
  • 00:13:16.285 --> 00:13:23.192
  • Banquet that she prepares.
  • 00:13:23.192 --> 00:13:25.027
  • And in hebrew, there's four words in that phrase, and each
  • 00:13:25.027 --> 00:13:29.265
  • Word, the first yud, the second [hebrew],
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  • The third [hebrew] and the fourth [hebrew].
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  • And they see the divine name of god, yahweh hidden
  • 00:13:35.638 --> 00:13:38.440
  • In that verse.
  • 00:13:38.440 --> 00:13:39.208
  • In an acrostic. in an acrostic.
  • 00:13:39.208 --> 00:13:41.210
  • So god's name is hidden in an acrostic in the book of esther,
  • 00:13:41.210 --> 00:13:45.047
  • Which the salvation happened on the 14th day of adar.
  • 00:13:45.047 --> 00:13:48.684
  • And it's written and it's hidden in the sign in acrostic
  • 00:13:48.684 --> 00:13:52.288
  • Above jesus head as he dies on
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  • The 14th day of the month of nisan.
  • 00:13:55.057 --> 00:13:58.494
  • It's the two hands of god hidden in history, working
  • 00:13:58.494 --> 00:14:02.431
  • Behind the scenes, bringing about a great redemption.
  • 00:14:02.431 --> 00:14:06.368
  • Wow. okay. all right.
  • 00:14:06.368 --> 00:14:08.370
  • So-- i'm so glad he knows all this.
  • 00:14:08.370 --> 00:14:11.340
  • Seriously.
  • 00:14:11.340 --> 00:14:12.741
  • We don't have to figure it out. unbelievable.
  • 00:14:12.741 --> 00:14:15.044
  • Thank you.
  • 00:14:15.044 --> 00:14:16.111
  • So just the acrostic concept is not in english.
  • 00:14:16.111 --> 00:14:22.885
  • It's in hebrew.
  • 00:14:22.885 --> 00:14:24.186
  • Okay, so explain it briefly why there is this significance to
  • 00:14:24.186 --> 00:14:31.527
  • The first letter of a series of words that then come together
  • 00:14:31.527 --> 00:14:37.032
  • To make another one.
  • 00:14:37.032 --> 00:14:38.300
  • Because that, you know, we
  • 00:14:38.300 --> 00:14:39.368
  • Don't really do that in english.
  • 00:14:39.368 --> 00:14:41.070
  • Well, well, think about it for a moment.
  • 00:14:41.070 --> 00:14:42.571
  • It's it's in the bible
  • 00:14:42.571 --> 00:14:43.906
  • So for example, there's a number of psalms like
  • 00:14:43.906 --> 00:14:47.543
  • Psalm 145, a very famous psalm in the bible,
  • 00:14:47.543 --> 00:14:51.547
  • And there's psalm 119, where it actually is an acrostic,
  • 00:14:51.547 --> 00:14:56.151
  • Where every,
  • 00:14:56.151 --> 00:14:58.420
  • Every verse starts with a different letter of the hebrew
  • 00:14:58.420 --> 00:15:01.156
  • Alphabet, and it literally goes through the 22 letters of the
  • 00:15:01.156 --> 00:15:05.728
  • Hebrew alphabet, but it's a known technique within judaism
  • 00:15:05.728 --> 00:15:11.367
  • To use words and to hide, to kind of to allude to things
  • 00:15:11.367 --> 00:15:17.973
  • That you don't want to spell out.
  • 00:15:17.973 --> 00:15:19.641
  • It's a, it is a literary device that was used among jewish
  • 00:15:19.641 --> 00:15:23.712
  • People in the first century, and it's a literary
  • 00:15:23.712 --> 00:15:26.782
  • Device used even today.
  • 00:15:26.782 --> 00:15:27.750
  • I'm going to correct myself for a second.
  • 00:15:27.750 --> 00:15:29.551
  • You know, we do have,
  • 00:15:29.551 --> 00:15:32.087
  • Um, acronyms. right.
  • 00:15:32.087 --> 00:15:33.989
  • You know, and so it is a, it is a form of acronym.
  • 00:15:33.989 --> 00:15:37.192
  • It is a form of acronym.
  • 00:15:37.192 --> 00:15:38.360
  • So i'm thinking of, you know, our friend jay sekulow,
  • 00:15:38.360 --> 00:15:41.397
  • Christian advocates serving evangelism, case.
  • 00:15:41.397 --> 00:15:45.734
  • Yeah. what did you just say?
  • 00:15:45.734 --> 00:15:46.935
  • Nasa, nasa, national
  • 00:15:46.935 --> 00:15:49.104
  • Aeronautics and space administration.
  • 00:15:49.104 --> 00:15:51.206
  • Yes. and so that is the significance kind of like we
  • 00:15:51.206 --> 00:15:56.545
  • Have acronyms in english, the acronym above jesus spelled
  • 00:15:56.545 --> 00:16:01.150
  • The name of god. the acronym--
  • 00:16:01.150 --> 00:16:03.752
  • The first letter of each word gives an acronym,
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  • The first letter.
  • 00:16:06.055 --> 00:16:06.688
  • Okay. all right. got it.
  • 00:16:06.688 --> 00:16:08.357
  • And so you found that or scholars found that in the
  • 00:16:08.357 --> 00:16:12.528
  • Book of esther.
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  • And what was the phrase in the--
  • 00:16:13.629 --> 00:16:16.532
  • The phrase in english was, um, when, when esther is talking to
  • 00:16:16.532 --> 00:16:23.472
  • The king and she's requesting that she-- he comes for her,
  • 00:16:23.472 --> 00:16:27.543
  • It's let, uh, the king and haman
  • 00:16:27.543 --> 00:16:36.185
  • Come today.
  • 00:16:36.185 --> 00:16:38.654
  • Right? so, so, so it's it's the word let.
  • 00:16:38.654 --> 00:16:44.660
  • It's the word yavo, to come.
  • 00:16:44.660 --> 00:16:47.763
  • Uh, the king hamelech, uh, vav and haman today, hayom.
  • 00:16:47.763 --> 00:16:54.303
  • So [hebrew] yahweh is spelled through that acrostic,
  • 00:16:54.303 --> 00:16:59.842
  • Through that acronym.
  • 00:16:59.842 --> 00:17:00.976
  • Where the reversal was going to happen.
  • 00:17:00.976 --> 00:17:03.378
  • Yes. where the reversal is going to happen.
  • 00:17:03.378 --> 00:17:06.248
  • So we see it in the book of esther, a hidden allusion to
  • 00:17:06.248 --> 00:17:09.418
  • The divine name of god in the book of esther, and hidden
  • 00:17:09.418 --> 00:17:13.956
  • Allusion and the cross.
  • 00:17:13.956 --> 00:17:15.891
  • And again, here is the connection,
  • 00:17:15.891 --> 00:17:18.794
  • The book of esther,
  • 00:17:18.794 --> 00:17:21.163
  • Like what happens through the life of jesus when he dies at
  • 00:17:21.163 --> 00:17:24.099
  • The passover centers around a key word.
  • 00:17:24.099 --> 00:17:29.104
  • The turning point in the book of esther,
  • 00:17:29.104 --> 00:17:31.240
  • The real turning point is in esther 9:1, where it talks
  • 00:17:31.240 --> 00:17:35.377
  • About in hebrew,
  • 00:17:35.377 --> 00:17:36.512
  • God turned the plans of their enemies on their head.
  • 00:17:36.512 --> 00:17:40.649
  • It was a divine reversal, right?
  • 00:17:40.649 --> 00:17:43.919
  • So think about the reversals in the book of esther.
  • 00:17:43.919 --> 00:17:49.625
  • Haman wanted mordecai to bow down, but ultimately haman had
  • 00:17:49.625 --> 00:17:54.763
  • To bow down to mordecai.
  • 00:17:54.763 --> 00:17:57.099
  • Haman wanted to kill mordecai and hang him on the gallows
  • 00:17:57.099 --> 00:18:03.238
  • On a tree.
  • 00:18:03.238 --> 00:18:05.207
  • And ultimately, haman is hung on that tree.
  • 00:18:05.207 --> 00:18:08.977
  • And as a result of that,
  • 00:18:08.977 --> 00:18:12.147
  • Mordecai is promoted, takes haman's place as the
  • 00:18:12.147 --> 00:18:16.785
  • Second most powerful person next to the king in egypt.
  • 00:18:16.785 --> 00:18:20.989
  • This is a story of yeshua.
  • 00:18:20.989 --> 00:18:23.091
  • It's a complete reversal, right?
  • 00:18:23.091 --> 00:18:25.627
  • The forces of evil want to, want yeshua to compromise.
  • 00:18:25.627 --> 00:18:31.166
  • He won't bow.
  • 00:18:31.166 --> 00:18:32.301
  • He won't bow to satan in the wilderness.
  • 00:18:32.301 --> 00:18:33.735
  • He won't bow to the political pressures of the roman
  • 00:18:33.735 --> 00:18:37.172
  • Authorities or the jewish authorities.
  • 00:18:37.172 --> 00:18:38.707
  • He won't bow.
  • 00:18:38.707 --> 00:18:39.775
  • He's a threat to their power,
  • 00:18:39.775 --> 00:18:41.376
  • So they come up with a plan to kill him.
  • 00:18:41.376 --> 00:18:43.812
  • They put him on a cross, like on a tree, just like haman
  • 00:18:43.812 --> 00:18:47.883
  • Wanted to put yeshua on the tree,
  • 00:18:47.883 --> 00:18:49.885
  • And instead of destroying or defeating him, there's a
  • 00:18:49.885 --> 00:18:52.487
  • Reversal, and it turns on its head.
  • 00:18:52.487 --> 00:18:55.123
  • And what seemed to be the end turns about to the victory and
  • 00:18:55.123 --> 00:18:58.827
  • The humiliation becomes the exaltation.
  • 00:18:58.827 --> 00:19:01.430
  • Mordecai is exalted.
  • 00:19:01.430 --> 00:19:02.731
  • Yeshua is exalted to the right hand of the father in heaven,
  • 00:19:02.731 --> 00:19:06.134
  • Just like mordecai is exalted to the right hand of the king
  • 00:19:06.134 --> 00:19:10.305
  • In persia,
  • 00:19:10.305 --> 00:19:12.608
  • Modern day iran. yeah.
  • 00:19:12.608 --> 00:19:14.409
  • Wow. but there's something more.
  • 00:19:14.409 --> 00:19:16.612
  • Of course.
  • 00:19:16.612 --> 00:19:17.446
  • Of course there's something more.
  • 00:19:17.446 --> 00:19:18.880
  • So the deliverance
  • 00:19:18.880 --> 00:19:21.883
  • Of the jewish people happened on the 14th day of adar.
  • 00:19:21.883 --> 00:19:25.854
  • But it's not the day haman died.
  • 00:19:25.854 --> 00:19:28.991
  • So haman died before the actual bigger deliverance on the 14th
  • 00:19:28.991 --> 00:19:34.863
  • Of adar, because you couldn't reverse the decree.
  • 00:19:34.863 --> 00:19:37.799
  • Once a persian decree was given, it could not, according
  • 00:19:37.799 --> 00:19:41.003
  • To the laws of the medes and the persians, you
  • 00:19:41.003 --> 00:19:42.371
  • Could not reverse it.
  • 00:19:42.371 --> 00:19:43.905
  • So the king had to give another decree saying, okay, jews can
  • 00:19:43.905 --> 00:19:46.908
  • Defend themselves.
  • 00:19:46.908 --> 00:19:48.510
  • But before that happened-- that was months later--
  • 00:19:48.510 --> 00:19:51.813
  • Before that, haman was hung when the plot was discovered
  • 00:19:51.813 --> 00:19:56.285
  • And the king saw him hanging on
  • 00:19:56.285 --> 00:19:58.654
  • Esther, he said, you're trying to, you know, attack my wife.
  • 00:19:58.654 --> 00:20:02.391
  • And so off to the gallows that you built for mordecai.
  • 00:20:02.391 --> 00:20:05.360
  • You're going to be hung on those gallows.
  • 00:20:05.360 --> 00:20:07.195
  • Well guess what? because there's no coincidences.
  • 00:20:07.195 --> 00:20:09.364
  • This is amazing.
  • 00:20:09.364 --> 00:20:10.832
  • The day that he's hung--
  • 00:20:10.832 --> 00:20:13.769
  • Again, it's--
  • 00:20:13.769 --> 00:20:15.037
  • It's mind blowing.
  • 00:20:15.037 --> 00:20:16.271
  • The day that he's hung
  • 00:20:16.271 --> 00:20:17.706
  • The biblical calendar is the 17th day of the month of nisan.
  • 00:20:17.706 --> 00:20:24.212
  • Why is that important?
  • 00:20:24.212 --> 00:20:26.581
  • Number one, it is the same day yeshua rose from the dead.
  • 00:20:26.581 --> 00:20:31.286
  • Oh, come on.
  • 00:20:31.286 --> 00:20:32.554
  • So haman is hung on the tree the same day yeshua rises from
  • 00:20:32.554 --> 00:20:38.560
  • The dead after having been hung on a tree,
  • 00:20:38.560 --> 00:20:43.065
  • Because it's the complete reversal.
  • 00:20:43.065 --> 00:20:46.568
  • It's the turnaround, right?
  • 00:20:46.568 --> 00:20:48.570
  • So haman was going to kill mordecai and destroy all
  • 00:20:48.570 --> 00:20:52.441
  • The jewish people. he thought he was
  • 00:20:52.441 --> 00:20:54.810
  • Going to bring this destruction.
  • 00:20:54.810 --> 00:20:56.611
  • Satan was going to hang
  • 00:20:56.611 --> 00:20:58.046
  • Yeshua on the tree and thought that was the end.
  • 00:20:58.046 --> 00:21:00.716
  • But on the 17th day, he rises from the dead.
  • 00:21:00.716 --> 00:21:04.052
  • Here's the point.
  • 00:21:04.052 --> 00:21:05.320
  • What was meant for death and destruction turned into life,
  • 00:21:05.320 --> 00:21:09.558
  • Salvation, and victory, both on the same day.
  • 00:21:09.558 --> 00:21:14.629
  • Because just like mordecai overcame haman, yeshua overcame
  • 00:21:14.629 --> 00:21:19.668
  • Satan, sin, and death and brought a complete reversal
  • 00:21:19.668 --> 00:21:22.571
  • And turned everything on its head.
  • 00:21:22.571 --> 00:21:25.173
  • Just like everything was turned on its head in the book of
  • 00:21:25.173 --> 00:21:28.410
  • Esther, it is a greater turning on the head.
  • 00:21:28.410 --> 00:21:31.813
  • He disarmed principalities and powers, making a public
  • 00:21:31.813 --> 00:21:34.649
  • Spectacle of him by the cross
  • 00:21:34.649 --> 00:21:36.218
  • Colossians tells us, but there's something more. because
  • 00:21:36.218 --> 00:21:39.788
  • The 17th-- the number 17 of nissan, is a day of divine
  • 00:21:39.788 --> 00:21:44.926
  • Reversal throughout all of history.
  • 00:21:44.926 --> 00:21:47.162
  • Guess what day the ark rested on mount ararat?
  • 00:21:47.162 --> 00:21:50.966
  • 19th day. ha! the 17th day
  • 00:21:50.966 --> 00:21:53.435
  • The 17th day of nisan.
  • 00:21:53.435 --> 00:21:55.437
  • So new beginning, reversing the flood,
  • 00:21:55.437 --> 00:21:57.939
  • 17th day of nisan.
  • 00:21:57.939 --> 00:22:00.275
  • Guess what day god parted
  • 00:22:00.275 --> 00:22:03.278
  • The red sea?
  • 00:22:03.278 --> 00:22:04.579
  • On the 17th day of nisan, god delivered israel from pharaoh
  • 00:22:04.579 --> 00:22:10.285
  • And the egyptians and closed the waters on them.
  • 00:22:10.285 --> 00:22:13.121
  • 17th day of nisan.
  • 00:22:13.121 --> 00:22:15.690
  • When does that connect to our gregorian calendar?
  • 00:22:15.690 --> 00:22:19.561
  • And it moves around.
  • 00:22:19.561 --> 00:22:20.729
  • But roughly what month do you think it's--
  • 00:22:20.729 --> 00:22:23.198
  • Usually april, sometimes march.
  • 00:22:23.198 --> 00:22:25.100
  • It's right around easter. within a couple of weeks usually.
  • 00:22:25.100 --> 00:22:28.103
  • So around easter
  • 00:22:28.103 --> 00:22:29.404
  • Every year is this 17th day of nisan, which largely a lot of
  • 00:22:29.404 --> 00:22:33.508
  • These reversal stories or
  • 00:22:33.508 --> 00:22:35.010
  • These amazing stories happen.
  • 00:22:35.010 --> 00:22:36.678
  • And-- and joshua crosses into the promised land with the
  • 00:22:36.678 --> 00:22:40.015
  • Children of israel, 17th of nisan.
  • 00:22:40.015 --> 00:22:42.184
  • Wow. my goodness.
  • 00:22:42.184 --> 00:22:43.819
  • In the same day, yeshua-- haman
  • 00:22:43.819 --> 00:22:45.754
  • Is hung, 17th of nissan.
  • 00:22:45.754 --> 00:22:48.156
  • Is it this year? born on--
  • 00:22:48.156 --> 00:22:49.658
  • Yeshua arises on-- no, no.
  • 00:22:49.658 --> 00:22:52.327
  • And nissan means miracle of miracles.
  • 00:22:52.327 --> 00:22:54.796
  • Literally the month means
  • 00:22:54.796 --> 00:22:55.797
  • Miracles because god did these miracles.
  • 00:22:55.797 --> 00:22:57.499
  • You know, one of the, let's step back a second, take a
  • 00:22:57.499 --> 00:23:00.735
  • Breather because he's sometimes
  • 00:23:00.735 --> 00:23:03.505
  • Like drinking out of a fire hose.
  • 00:23:03.505 --> 00:23:05.740
  • So if we step back and realize, what are you, what are you
  • 00:23:05.740 --> 00:23:09.744
  • Really doing?
  • 00:23:09.744 --> 00:23:11.379
  • You're through all the series that air on tbn, and there's
  • 00:23:11.379 --> 00:23:16.818
  • Information on the screen, uh, about, uh, a lot of the jason
  • 00:23:16.818 --> 00:23:21.823
  • Sobol content that we do,
  • 00:23:21.823 --> 00:23:23.258
  • But what i think you're really doing is you're making this
  • 00:23:23.258 --> 00:23:28.029
  • Amazing connection between the new and the old testament.
  • 00:23:28.029 --> 00:23:33.768
  • And i think largely that is piquing the interest of jewish
  • 00:23:33.768 --> 00:23:39.474
  • People that if they understand and believe and abide by and
  • 00:23:39.474 --> 00:23:45.480
  • Agree with the old testament, and all of a sudden, the new
  • 00:23:45.480 --> 00:23:50.218
  • Testament interweaves so beautifully that they're
  • 00:23:50.218 --> 00:23:54.389
  • Building a level of understanding about the new
  • 00:23:54.389 --> 00:23:57.292
  • Testament that they're going to have to question one day,
  • 00:23:57.292 --> 00:24:00.629
  • This might be real.
  • 00:24:00.629 --> 00:24:03.365
  • And if it's real, they're facing, you know, the ultimate
  • 00:24:03.365 --> 00:24:07.969
  • Question, was jesus the messiah?
  • 00:24:07.969 --> 00:24:10.105
  • I feel like what you're doing is building this amazing bridge
  • 00:24:10.105 --> 00:24:13.808
  • Between the new and old testament.
  • 00:24:13.808 --> 00:24:16.378
  • And i think the trend line in christianity is to see that
  • 00:24:16.378 --> 00:24:21.917
  • Happening is beautiful.
  • 00:24:21.917 --> 00:24:23.251
  • We've been over here in the new testament.
  • 00:24:23.251 --> 00:24:26.187
  • We, you know, as we say, as my dad would have said, we bought
  • 00:24:26.187 --> 00:24:30.091
  • It hook, line and sinker.
  • 00:24:30.091 --> 00:24:31.560
  • Uh, and we're sometimes learning about the
  • 00:24:31.560 --> 00:24:34.729
  • Old testament, and that largely does matter,
  • 00:24:34.729 --> 00:24:37.499
  • But jesus fulfilled everything, and so does it really matter?
  • 00:24:37.499 --> 00:24:41.403
  • And then you've got, you know, unbelievers, specifically
  • 00:24:41.403 --> 00:24:44.839
  • Jewish, people that are not believers in jesus.
  • 00:24:44.839 --> 00:24:47.909
  • And they understand the
  • 00:24:47.909 --> 00:24:49.411
  • Old testament, but they don't really,
  • 00:24:49.411 --> 00:24:51.713
  • They just think the new testament is a catholic or
  • 00:24:51.713 --> 00:24:55.283
  • Christian book that doesn't mean anything to them.
  • 00:24:55.283 --> 00:24:58.053
  • And you're meshing the two.
  • 00:24:58.053 --> 00:24:59.654
  • That's going to bring some people to question some things.
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  • Absolutely. i think it's a road to emmaus experience.
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  • There it is. where jesus opens the scriptures to his two
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  • Disciples on the road and shows how everything in the old
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  • Ultimately connects with him.
  • 00:25:14.269 --> 00:25:16.271
  • The rabbis say everything in the torah, everything in the
  • 00:25:16.271 --> 00:25:19.107
  • Old testament was written for the sake of the messiah, which
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  • Is what jesus is showing on the road to emmaus.
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  • He opens their eyes.
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  • They say, did our hearts not burn within us?
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  • So i think part of the hope is that when people see the
  • 00:25:29.017 --> 00:25:33.288
  • Connections between the old and the new, it would cause their
  • 00:25:33.288 --> 00:25:37.459
  • Hearts to burn in the sense of it would deepen their faith.
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  • It would deepen their passion for god, love for him,
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  • Love of the word.
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  • When you see these connections, you understand there's no way
  • 00:25:46.635 --> 00:25:50.538
  • This could be just written by an individual.
  • 00:25:50.538 --> 00:25:53.008
  • The level of intricacy involved and the intentionality involved
  • 00:25:53.008 --> 00:25:57.679
  • Shows that god is very intentional, and he's got a
  • 00:25:57.679 --> 00:26:01.249
  • Very detailed plan, and he's involved in every aspect.
  • 00:26:01.249 --> 00:26:05.053
  • And so it gives us confidence and assurance with the word.
  • 00:26:05.053 --> 00:26:08.423
  • It also lets us know that if god is involved in all of these
  • 00:26:08.423 --> 00:26:11.993
  • Details, he's also involved in every detail of your life.
  • 00:26:11.993 --> 00:26:15.597
  • He cares about every detail and thing that happens to you.
  • 00:26:15.597 --> 00:26:19.267
  • So, jason, you found jesus as your messiah when you were
  • 00:26:19.267 --> 00:26:24.639
  • A young man. yeah.
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  • And you've told that story.
  • 00:26:26.541 --> 00:26:28.643
  • But let me ask you just a
  • 00:26:28.643 --> 00:26:30.712
  • Real, very specific, detailed question.
  • 00:26:30.712 --> 00:26:34.716
  • If you were witnessing, if, if, if the understanding that you
  • 00:26:34.716 --> 00:26:39.821
  • Have about who jesus is now after all these years, and you
  • 00:26:39.821 --> 00:26:45.527
  • Were talking to the younger version of yourself,
  • 00:26:45.527 --> 00:26:51.499
  • Would there,
  • 00:26:51.499 --> 00:26:52.801
  • Would there be a very specific thing you would say to the way
  • 00:26:52.801 --> 00:26:58.573
  • You were brought up religiously?
  • 00:26:58.573 --> 00:27:01.409
  • Right, you know, largely, and
  • 00:27:01.409 --> 00:27:05.847
  • Is there some way-- would you have a very, would you have a
  • 00:27:05.847 --> 00:27:10.085
  • Key to yourself back there that you could have--
  • 00:27:10.085 --> 00:27:12.520
  • What would you have said to yourself to touch the very
  • 00:27:12.520 --> 00:27:15.523
  • First moment of messiah jesus?
  • 00:27:15.523 --> 00:27:18.626
  • I think i would.
  • 00:27:18.626 --> 00:27:19.994
  • I mean, i think it happened to me,
  • 00:27:19.994 --> 00:27:21.329
  • So i think that, so kind of a key moment in that journey,
  • 00:27:21.329 --> 00:27:27.736
  • And the overarching principle that i would say is
  • 00:27:27.736 --> 00:27:32.540
  • There's two aspects.
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  • One is understanding, what is
  • 00:27:33.541 --> 00:27:35.643
  • The job description of the messiah?
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  • According to the jewish understanding, according to the
  • 00:27:38.646 --> 00:27:41.916
  • Old testament, jewish called
  • 00:27:41.916 --> 00:27:43.351
  • The tanakh or the hebrew scriptures,
  • 00:27:43.351 --> 00:27:45.520
  • What are the key things to know
  • 00:27:45.520 --> 00:27:47.522
  • If someone claimed to be the messiah?
  • 00:27:47.522 --> 00:27:49.891
  • What would they actually have to fulfill?
  • 00:27:49.891 --> 00:27:54.195
  • I experienced that when a friend of mine called me on the
  • 00:27:54.195 --> 00:27:56.831
  • Phone and he said, my friend john, he said, jason, you went
  • 00:27:56.831 --> 00:27:59.901
  • To hebrew school.
  • 00:27:59.901 --> 00:28:00.869
  • Could you tell the difference
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  • Between the old and the new testament?
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  • And i said, sure.
  • 00:28:03.938 --> 00:28:05.240
  • He read me the crucifixion.
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  • I said, new testament.
  • 00:28:06.875 --> 00:28:07.709
  • He said, very good.
  • 00:28:07.709 --> 00:28:08.843
  • He said, let me read you another passage.
  • 00:28:08.843 --> 00:28:10.512
  • He was bruised for our transgressions.
  • 00:28:10.512 --> 00:28:12.614
  • He was crushed for our iniquities,
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  • And by his stripes we were healed.
  • 00:28:14.482 --> 00:28:16.251
  • He said, old or new?
  • 00:28:16.251 --> 00:28:17.519
  • I said clearly, that's the new testament.
  • 00:28:17.519 --> 00:28:19.687
  • He said, no, that's isaiah 53, the jewish prophet speaking 700
  • 00:28:19.687 --> 00:28:23.725
  • Years before the messiah ever walked the face of the earth.
  • 00:28:23.725 --> 00:28:27.262
  • So sometimes what i do is i say, look, i want to read these
  • 00:28:27.262 --> 00:28:29.864
  • Passages about the messiah that jewish people, our agreement
  • 00:28:29.864 --> 00:28:33.535
  • Historically, are about the messiah.
  • 00:28:33.535 --> 00:28:35.336
  • And tell me if there's anyone you think you've heard of or
  • 00:28:35.336 --> 00:28:39.073
  • Know that their life lines up with these passages.
  • 00:28:39.073 --> 00:28:44.112
  • Fit these particular promises.
  • 00:28:44.112 --> 00:28:46.514
  • Messianic prophecies. i think that is, that is the
  • 00:28:46.514 --> 00:28:50.185
  • First foundational key, i think.
  • 00:28:50.185 --> 00:28:52.921
  • And jesus matches to them all.
  • 00:28:52.921 --> 00:28:56.758
  • They just don't know that.
  • 00:28:56.758 --> 00:28:57.926
  • They just don't know. okay. got it.
  • 00:28:57.926 --> 00:28:59.194
  • They believe that it's talking about the messiah, but they
  • 00:28:59.194 --> 00:29:02.330
  • Just don't understand that it
  • 00:29:02.330 --> 00:29:03.832
  • Was fulfilled in him as the messiah.
  • 00:29:03.832 --> 00:29:07.502
  • Got it. and one reason for that, and
  • 00:29:07.502 --> 00:29:10.071
  • This is a second key, is that unfortunately,
  • 00:29:10.071 --> 00:29:14.709
  • Throughout history, jewish people have historically been
  • 00:29:14.709 --> 00:29:19.247
  • Persecuted in the name of jesus and the church.
  • 00:29:19.247 --> 00:29:22.851
  • And so many jewish people believe you can believe
  • 00:29:22.851 --> 00:29:25.887
  • Anything as a jewish person except in jesus.
  • 00:29:25.887 --> 00:29:28.756
  • There's a visceral reaction to that because of historical
  • 00:29:28.756 --> 00:29:33.528
  • Anti-christian, antisemitism and persecution.
  • 00:29:33.528 --> 00:29:36.698
  • So when christians love the jewish people and stand with
  • 00:29:36.698 --> 00:29:40.635
  • The jewish people and understand, like the jewish
  • 00:29:40.635 --> 00:29:43.538
  • Roots of their faith,
  • 00:29:43.538 --> 00:29:44.839
  • That is another key to opening the hearts of jewish people and
  • 00:29:44.839 --> 00:29:49.978
  • Impacting them and moving them in a positive direction.
  • 00:29:49.978 --> 00:29:52.647
  • Yeah, because love never fails.
  • 00:29:52.647 --> 00:29:54.382
  • Love never fails, never fails.
  • 00:29:54.382 --> 00:29:56.050
  • I mean, so at some point it's, it's, that's the, the key to
  • 00:29:56.050 --> 00:30:00.822
  • Any person, not just jewish people.
  • 00:30:00.822 --> 00:30:02.523
  • All people.
  • 00:30:02.523 --> 00:30:03.825
  • You know, i mean, that's, i was sitting with reza safa when we
  • 00:30:03.825 --> 00:30:06.761
  • Were doing a program recently
  • 00:30:06.761 --> 00:30:08.663
  • Because of the iranian conflict.
  • 00:30:08.663 --> 00:30:10.565
  • And of course, he runs our farsi language channel,
  • 00:30:10.565 --> 00:30:12.634
  • Reza does.
  • 00:30:12.634 --> 00:30:13.902
  • And love is what broke him down from being a radical muslim
  • 00:30:13.902 --> 00:30:20.308
  • Trying to make his way to america, uh, to kill americans.
  • 00:30:20.308 --> 00:30:26.381
  • And he ended up with some missionaries in a part of
  • 00:30:26.381 --> 00:30:31.185
  • Europe somewhere, scandinavia somewhere.
  • 00:30:31.185 --> 00:30:33.521
  • And he was using them because
  • 00:30:33.521 --> 00:30:36.658
  • They were showing kindness to him.
  • 00:30:36.658 --> 00:30:39.594
  • He said they're trying to win me to christianity, so i'll use
  • 00:30:39.594 --> 00:30:43.665
  • Them, let them feed me, let them house me.
  • 00:30:43.665 --> 00:30:46.434
  • And their love just wore him down until the point where he
  • 00:30:46.434 --> 00:30:50.705
  • Actually started having real conversations.
  • 00:30:50.705 --> 00:30:53.174
  • Love never fails.
  • 00:30:53.174 --> 00:30:54.475
  • Whether you're a radical this or radical that or radical or
  • 00:30:54.475 --> 00:30:57.879
  • Just a, you know, wild-eyed southern boy, you know.
  • 00:30:57.879 --> 00:31:00.915
  • I mean, it just,
  • 00:31:00.915 --> 00:31:02.350
  • Love never fails.
  • 00:31:02.350 --> 00:31:03.718
  • No, it's so true.
  • 00:31:03.718 --> 00:31:04.419
  • And it ties into what we're
  • 00:31:04.419 --> 00:31:05.553
  • Saying because these things remain,
  • 00:31:05.553 --> 00:31:07.822
  • Three remain, faith, hope and love.
  • 00:31:07.822 --> 00:31:09.390
  • And the greatest of these is love.
  • 00:31:09.390 --> 00:31:11.492
  • Why is love the greatest?
  • 00:31:11.492 --> 00:31:13.361
  • Because it's the only thing that endures.
  • 00:31:13.361 --> 00:31:15.830
  • If there's no hope in heaven, right--
  • 00:31:15.830 --> 00:31:20.568
  • And laurie speaks up. and it's the hardest.
  • 00:31:20.568 --> 00:31:24.172
  • That's pretty funny.
  • 00:31:24.172 --> 00:31:24.939
  • That's right. there you go.
  • 00:31:24.939 --> 00:31:26.474
  • Are you speaking from personal experience?
  • 00:31:26.474 --> 00:31:29.010
  • Don't ask me how i know.[laughter]
  • 00:31:29.010 --> 00:31:29.877
  • Just a joke. just a joke.
  • 00:31:29.877 --> 00:31:31.913
  • That's amazing.
  • 00:31:31.913 --> 00:31:33.581
  • That's the first thing you say.
  • 00:31:33.581 --> 00:31:36.751
  • I've been wondering what i was-- why you were here.
  • 00:31:36.751 --> 00:31:42.023
  • Oh my gosh. that's right.
  • 00:31:42.023 --> 00:31:44.425
  • So faith, hope and love.
  • 00:31:44.425 --> 00:31:45.927
  • The greatest of these is love.
  • 00:31:45.927 --> 00:31:47.228
  • Only love remains.
  • 00:31:47.228 --> 00:31:48.129
  • There's no faith or hope in heaven.
  • 00:31:48.129 --> 00:31:49.497
  • Faith is fulfilled. hope is fulfilled.
  • 00:31:49.497 --> 00:31:51.065
  • Love remains because relationship is the only thing
  • 00:31:51.065 --> 00:31:53.868
  • That endures, right?
  • 00:31:53.868 --> 00:31:55.336
  • That's why only love remains.
  • 00:31:55.336 --> 00:31:56.971
  • Only love lasts,
  • 00:31:56.971 --> 00:31:58.439
  • But there's something more.
  • 00:31:58.439 --> 00:32:00.241
  • Because we talked a little bit about numbers.
  • 00:32:00.241 --> 00:32:03.011
  • So the hebrew, the numerical value of the hebrew word
  • 00:32:03.011 --> 00:32:06.614
  • For love is 13. oh.
  • 00:32:06.614 --> 00:32:09.917
  • Why is that important?
  • 00:32:09.917 --> 00:32:11.085
  • Because it's first corinthians 13.
  • 00:32:11.085 --> 00:32:12.720
  • Because first corinthians 13 is
  • 00:32:12.720 --> 00:32:14.288
  • The love chapter, and it's 13 verses.
  • 00:32:14.288 --> 00:32:16.190
  • Hence, it's literally alluding to love.
  • 00:32:16.190 --> 00:32:19.027
  • Okay, but think about it for a moment.
  • 00:32:19.027 --> 00:32:23.998
  • Also, the fact that the word [hebrew] to be one, equals 13,
  • 00:32:23.998 --> 00:32:28.469
  • Because the essence of love is about becoming one
  • 00:32:28.469 --> 00:32:30.772
  • With the one you love.
  • 00:32:30.772 --> 00:32:32.540
  • So the goal of love is to become come one with god or to
  • 00:32:32.540 --> 00:32:36.677
  • Be one with your spouse, the two shall become one.
  • 00:32:36.677 --> 00:32:39.847
  • That's the goal of love.
  • 00:32:39.847 --> 00:32:41.315
  • But there's something more, tying back into passion week.
  • 00:32:41.315 --> 00:32:44.519
  • So what's interesting is this.
  • 00:32:44.519 --> 00:32:47.655
  • The divine name of god, which
  • 00:32:47.655 --> 00:32:49.123
  • We said was written on the cross,
  • 00:32:49.123 --> 00:32:50.925
  • [hebrew]
  • 00:32:50.925 --> 00:32:52.060
  • When it says jesus of nazareth, king of the jews,
  • 00:32:52.060 --> 00:32:55.430
  • Those four letters that spell the divine name have the
  • 00:32:55.430 --> 00:32:58.699
  • Numerical value of 26.
  • 00:32:58.699 --> 00:33:00.902
  • Those four letters add up to 26.
  • 00:33:00.902 --> 00:33:03.805
  • Why? why is that important?
  • 00:33:03.805 --> 00:33:06.174
  • Because love times two equals 26.
  • 00:33:06.174 --> 00:33:10.511
  • And there's two great
  • 00:33:10.511 --> 00:33:11.446
  • Commandments of the love commandments,
  • 00:33:11.446 --> 00:33:14.282
  • Love the lord your god,
  • 00:33:14.282 --> 00:33:16.184
  • Love your neighbor as yourself.
  • 00:33:16.184 --> 00:33:18.653
  • God's name is expressed most fully, yahweh, in love.
  • 00:33:18.653 --> 00:33:24.292
  • Love of god, love of your neighbor.
  • 00:33:24.292 --> 00:33:26.527
  • And jesus says, no greater love than this, than a man will lay
  • 00:33:26.527 --> 00:33:30.198
  • Down his life for his friends. and when he's on the cross,
  • 00:33:30.198 --> 00:33:34.068
  • He dies at the intersection of the two great commandments.
  • 00:33:34.068 --> 00:33:38.940
  • Love the lord your god.
  • 00:33:38.940 --> 00:33:41.209
  • Vertical. love your neighbor as yourself with his arms
  • 00:33:41.209 --> 00:33:45.046
  • Stretched out, and he's hanging there,
  • 00:33:45.046 --> 00:33:49.150
  • Loving god, loving people.
  • 00:33:49.150 --> 00:33:52.153
  • Forgive them, father. they know not what they do.
  • 00:33:52.153 --> 00:33:55.289
  • And most fully expressing the divine name that's hanging
  • 00:33:55.289 --> 00:33:59.694
  • Above his head tangibly through those two great loves
  • 00:33:59.694 --> 00:34:04.599
  • As he's on the cross.
  • 00:34:04.599 --> 00:34:06.901
  • I am reminded of sitting across from, um, erwin mcmanus one time
  • 00:34:06.901 --> 00:34:12.640
  • On praise, and he said, i can prove to you that love
  • 00:34:12.640 --> 00:34:17.545
  • Is greater than death.
  • 00:34:17.545 --> 00:34:20.248
  • And do you know why
  • 00:34:20.248 --> 00:34:22.083
  • You can prove that love is greater than death?
  • 00:34:22.083 --> 00:34:24.919
  • And he said, because when
  • 00:34:24.919 --> 00:34:25.920
  • Somebody dies, you still love them.
  • 00:34:25.920 --> 00:34:28.556
  • And so the idea that if death was more powerful than
  • 00:34:28.556 --> 00:34:35.196
  • Love, when somebody was gone,
  • 00:34:35.196 --> 00:34:37.265
  • Then you would stop loving them.
  • 00:34:37.265 --> 00:34:39.133
  • And sometimes the the love and the memories even grow up at
  • 00:34:39.133 --> 00:34:45.373
  • Some point when somebody's gone or when, when they're,
  • 00:34:45.373 --> 00:34:48.209
  • You know, in heaven.
  • 00:34:48.209 --> 00:34:49.677
  • So we started this broadcast,
  • 00:34:49.677 --> 00:34:57.051
  • Holy week is upon us.
  • 00:34:57.051 --> 00:35:00.488
  • Um, we started with a little bit of a current event.
  • 00:35:00.488 --> 00:35:06.427
  • There is a conflict in the middle east that is larger, i
  • 00:35:06.427 --> 00:35:10.898
  • Think, than at any time.
  • 00:35:10.898 --> 00:35:12.533
  • Is it true that this is the largest conflict in our
  • 00:35:12.533 --> 00:35:15.102
  • Lifetime that-- it's got to be.
  • 00:35:15.102 --> 00:35:17.972
  • I would say it's certainly the most consequential.
  • 00:35:17.972 --> 00:35:20.007
  • Okay. and and i think it, you know, from tonnage of bombs and
  • 00:35:20.007 --> 00:35:25.112
  • Activity and all that kind of stuff, i think this is largely
  • 00:35:25.112 --> 00:35:28.382
  • The largest conflict that we've
  • 00:35:28.382 --> 00:35:29.984
  • Seen in the middle east in our lifetimes.
  • 00:35:29.984 --> 00:35:32.987
  • And, and so we started there, holy week.
  • 00:35:32.987 --> 00:35:37.191
  • We've, we've delved into some of that. uh, we, we dropped
  • 00:35:37.191 --> 00:35:41.495
  • Into love being the hardest of faith, hope and love.
  • 00:35:41.495 --> 00:35:45.099
  • Got that clear. and look,
  • 00:35:45.099 --> 00:35:50.037
  • If it was easy-- anybody would do it, huh?
  • 00:35:50.037 --> 00:35:53.374
  • Listen, we talk about in the book like discipleship
  • 00:35:53.374 --> 00:35:57.044
  • Connected to love,
  • 00:35:57.044 --> 00:35:58.779
  • It's love in relationship is like sandpaper for the soul.
  • 00:35:58.779 --> 00:36:02.350
  • It smooths out our rough edges.
  • 00:36:02.350 --> 00:36:04.085
  • There you go. right.
  • 00:36:04.085 --> 00:36:05.853
  • So where-- what have we left out?
  • 00:36:05.853 --> 00:36:09.223
  • Uh, you know, we've got, you know, 15 minutes or so left in
  • 00:36:09.223 --> 00:36:12.893
  • This particular broadcast.
  • 00:36:12.893 --> 00:36:14.962
  • Uh, by the way, uh, all the information on, uh, all the
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  • Content that is currently airing on tbn from jason is
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  • Where, where do you want to, where, how do you want to--
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  • Let's talk about the--
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  • Well, you talk about what you want to.
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  • No. please.
  • 00:36:41.656 --> 00:36:42.623
  • But i love what this whole week is about.
  • 00:36:42.623 --> 00:36:44.558
  • And i love that when we think about jesus dying for us, he
  • 00:36:44.558 --> 00:36:50.831
  • Did it so that something could happen.
  • 00:36:50.831 --> 00:36:54.835
  • The old covenant--
  • 00:36:54.835 --> 00:36:56.404
  • Would end.
  • 00:36:56.404 --> 00:36:57.405
  • Would end and the new covenant beginning.
  • 00:36:57.405 --> 00:36:59.373
  • So the launch pad, it was like the new birth, the new
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  • Beginning of things right here on earth and bringing
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  • God's kingdom to this earth.
  • 00:37:06.147 --> 00:37:08.316
  • And so tell us some stuff about the resurrection.
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  • Yeah. yeah, sure.
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  • One thing before we get into that i think is beautiful
  • 00:37:14.522 --> 00:37:16.957
  • That i love,
  • 00:37:16.957 --> 00:37:17.958
  • And we talked about the last supper here.
  • 00:37:17.958 --> 00:37:19.327
  • Now, connected to the last supper, yeshua tells the
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  • Disciples to go prepare the passover.
  • 00:37:23.798 --> 00:37:26.167
  • Yeah. here's an amazing idea,
  • 00:37:26.167 --> 00:37:29.170
  • Thought, connection.
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  • In the days when the temple stood in jerusalem and you
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  • Actually offered the animal sacrifices
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  • And you offered the passover sacrifice in the temple,
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  • The person who offered the passover lamb that would be
  • 00:37:43.384 --> 00:37:47.555
  • Eaten at the passover meal like we air on tbn, which the last
  • 00:37:47.555 --> 00:37:51.659
  • Supper was a passover seder, a passover meal,
  • 00:37:51.659 --> 00:37:55.830
  • The person offering the sacrifice for passover, known
  • 00:37:55.830 --> 00:37:59.133
  • As the korban pesach, had to be thinking in his mind, had to
  • 00:37:59.133 --> 00:38:03.070
  • Have intentionally in his mind, in his thoughts every person
  • 00:38:03.070 --> 00:38:08.409
  • Who is going to eat that passover meal with them as he
  • 00:38:08.409 --> 00:38:12.980
  • Was offering that sacrifice, and if they were not, in his
  • 00:38:12.980 --> 00:38:17.151
  • Mind and he didn't intentionally offer that
  • 00:38:17.151 --> 00:38:20.087
  • Sacrifice with that thought of them, they could not
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  • Eat of that passover sacrifice at the meal.
  • 00:38:24.892 --> 00:38:29.630
  • Whoa. so what does that mean?
  • 00:38:29.630 --> 00:38:31.465
  • When yeshua jesus was on that cross, he had to have in his
  • 00:38:31.465 --> 00:38:36.270
  • Mind every person he would ever die for
  • 00:38:36.270 --> 00:38:42.076
  • Throughout history on his mind, on his heart, when he gave his
  • 00:38:42.076 --> 00:38:47.648
  • Life on that cross, or else we would not be able to
  • 00:38:47.648 --> 00:38:52.420
  • Participate in partake of it, of what he did with us.
  • 00:38:52.420 --> 00:38:56.557
  • But i think it goes back further.
  • 00:38:56.557 --> 00:38:58.893
  • I don't think it was just on the cross, because the book of
  • 00:38:58.893 --> 00:39:01.962
  • Revelation tells us he's the lamb slain,
  • 00:39:01.962 --> 00:39:04.231
  • What? before the foundations of the world. before the
  • 00:39:04.231 --> 00:39:07.968
  • World was ever created,
  • 00:39:07.968 --> 00:39:09.770
  • We talk about in the book, he had you and me in mind and was--
  • 00:39:09.770 --> 00:39:14.508
  • Because there's no past, present, and future with god.
  • 00:39:14.508 --> 00:39:16.577
  • It all exists simultaneously in his mind.
  • 00:39:16.577 --> 00:39:19.213
  • He thought about every person he would ever die for, even
  • 00:39:19.213 --> 00:39:23.117
  • Before the world was ever created.
  • 00:39:23.117 --> 00:39:26.420
  • Before the curse came, the cure came. before the sickness ever
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  • Entered the world,
  • 00:39:31.225 --> 00:39:32.359
  • God had already had the antidote in mind.
  • 00:39:32.359 --> 00:39:35.696
  • And that was the lamb who is willing to lay down his life
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  • For you and me.
  • 00:39:39.266 --> 00:39:40.568
  • You, laurie, you, matt, were on his mind and his heart when he
  • 00:39:40.568 --> 00:39:45.873
  • Gave himself on that cross, and everyone who's watching was on
  • 00:39:45.873 --> 00:39:49.910
  • His mind and heart. isn't that beautiful?
  • 00:39:49.910 --> 00:39:51.712
  • My goodness.
  • 00:39:51.712 --> 00:39:52.746
  • Wow. it just doesn't stop, does it?
  • 00:39:52.746 --> 00:39:55.049
  • Wow. talk about intricacy.
  • 00:39:55.049 --> 00:39:57.751
  • Okay, the resurrection is around the corner.
  • 00:39:57.751 --> 00:40:02.690
  • Give us something good about the resurrection.
  • 00:40:02.690 --> 00:40:04.558
  • Yeah. i mean, there's so many things about the resurrection.
  • 00:40:04.558 --> 00:40:07.761
  • We talk about it in the book. he didn't just-- every major
  • 00:40:07.761 --> 00:40:11.899
  • Event in the life of jesus happened on a jewish holiday.
  • 00:40:11.899 --> 00:40:15.202
  • He died as the passover lamb.
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  • And that day he rose from the dead,
  • 00:40:18.205 --> 00:40:20.474
  • The day we talked about earlier, the 17th of nisan, the
  • 00:40:20.474 --> 00:40:24.678
  • Day of coming out of egypt, the
  • 00:40:24.678 --> 00:40:27.381
  • Day crossing into the promised land,
  • 00:40:27.381 --> 00:40:29.483
  • The day haman was defeated was the day he rose.
  • 00:40:29.483 --> 00:40:32.686
  • But it was also a biblical holiday, the biblical holiday
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  • Of firstfruits.
  • 00:40:36.690 --> 00:40:38.158
  • If there was a good firstfruits, it was a guarantee
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  • Of a later greater harvest.
  • 00:40:40.961 --> 00:40:43.163
  • That's why jesus is called the first fruits from among the
  • 00:40:43.163 --> 00:40:47.334
  • Dead, because he rose.
  • 00:40:47.334 --> 00:40:49.169
  • It's the guarantee that we are going to rise one day as well.
  • 00:40:49.169 --> 00:40:54.808
  • And, uh, we're going to get more into this in another show
  • 00:40:54.808 --> 00:40:59.613
  • We're filming called breaking sunday school.
  • 00:40:59.613 --> 00:41:02.283
  • And that's part of the reason why there is
  • 00:41:02.283 --> 00:41:04.285
  • This strange detail.
  • 00:41:04.285 --> 00:41:06.487
  • At his resurrection, we read
  • 00:41:06.487 --> 00:41:08.122
  • About the first, a zombie apocalypse
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  • With-- [laughter]
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  • Saints coming out of the tomb being resuscitated, dead people
  • 00:41:13.060 --> 00:41:18.666
  • Coming back to life.
  • 00:41:18.666 --> 00:41:20.668
  • Why? strange detail.
  • 00:41:20.668 --> 00:41:22.670
  • Not the walking dead the first time.
  • 00:41:22.670 --> 00:41:24.939
  • Why? because it's historical,
  • 00:41:24.939 --> 00:41:27.474
  • Tangible proof
  • 00:41:27.474 --> 00:41:28.642
  • Not just that he rose, but those saints arising was a
  • 00:41:28.642 --> 00:41:32.112
  • Guarantee and a witness that we would physically bodily one day
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  • Be brought back to life as well.
  • 00:41:37.751 --> 00:41:41.055
  • And, uh, you know, so when he died, there was signs in the
  • 00:41:41.055 --> 00:41:45.392
  • Heavens and signs on the earth.
  • 00:41:45.392 --> 00:41:47.795
  • And that was one of the signs.
  • 00:41:47.795 --> 00:41:50.331
  • But i think probably one of the most impactful is this.
  • 00:41:50.331 --> 00:41:55.703
  • He was buried in the garden tomb.
  • 00:41:55.703 --> 00:42:00.074
  • And i know you love going to israel,
  • 00:42:00.074 --> 00:42:02.543
  • And i've loved the time we've spent in israel together
  • 00:42:02.543 --> 00:42:07.481
  • And some of the shows we filmed for tbn.
  • 00:42:07.481 --> 00:42:09.383
  • I love taking tours to israel, our rock road rabbi tours, but
  • 00:42:09.383 --> 00:42:13.087
  • The garden tomb is one of my favorite places.
  • 00:42:13.087 --> 00:42:15.556
  • Mm. but here's what's amazing.
  • 00:42:15.556 --> 00:42:18.292
  • The hebrew word for tomb--
  • 00:42:18.292 --> 00:42:20.561
  • Well, there's garden and tomb.
  • 00:42:20.561 --> 00:42:22.396
  • Why is he buried in a garden tomb?
  • 00:42:22.396 --> 00:42:24.565
  • Because, as we talked about in
  • 00:42:24.565 --> 00:42:26.100
  • The book transformed by the messiah,
  • 00:42:26.100 --> 00:42:29.103
  • The fall happened in a garden.
  • 00:42:29.103 --> 00:42:31.572
  • It all has to be reversed in a garden.
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  • He had to be buried in a rich
  • 00:42:35.943 --> 00:42:37.311
  • Man's tomb, according to isaiah 53.
  • 00:42:37.311 --> 00:42:40.848
  • It is a rich man's tomb that he is buried in.
  • 00:42:40.848 --> 00:42:44.151
  • But what's most significant is this the word for tomb in
  • 00:42:44.151 --> 00:42:48.322
  • Hebrew is [hebrew].
  • 00:42:48.322 --> 00:42:50.691
  • And why is that important?
  • 00:42:50.691 --> 00:42:52.226
  • The same word for tomb is the same word for womb.
  • 00:42:52.226 --> 00:42:56.597
  • So how can tomb and womb be the exact same word?
  • 00:42:56.597 --> 00:43:01.535
  • What's the connection between the two?
  • 00:43:01.535 --> 00:43:05.072
  • They're both doorways.
  • 00:43:05.072 --> 00:43:07.741
  • They're both portals.
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  • The tomb is a portal to the life after this one.
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  • It's the gateway to the life to come,
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  • The afterlife. and the womb is the gateway into this life.
  • 00:43:18.085 --> 00:43:23.023
  • And so they're both doors to
  • 00:43:23.023 --> 00:43:25.259
  • Life, this life and the afterlife.
  • 00:43:25.259 --> 00:43:28.529
  • Why is that important?
  • 00:43:28.529 --> 00:43:30.297
  • Because spiritually speaking, death can symbolize
  • 00:43:30.297 --> 00:43:35.402
  • The opposite of birth, right?
  • 00:43:35.402 --> 00:43:38.539
  • It symbolizes loss, the death of a dream, the death of a
  • 00:43:38.539 --> 00:43:43.210
  • Relationship, the death of a hope, the death of a loved one,
  • 00:43:43.210 --> 00:43:48.382
  • The death of a destiny, the death of an identity. like it's,
  • 00:43:48.382 --> 00:43:52.219
  • The tomb is where things typically go to die and are
  • 00:43:52.219 --> 00:43:56.056
  • Lost and are no more.
  • 00:43:56.056 --> 00:43:58.792
  • But here's the beautiful thing with jesus.
  • 00:43:58.792 --> 00:44:00.861
  • He's in the business of
  • 00:44:00.861 --> 00:44:01.895
  • Transforming our tombs into a womb.
  • 00:44:01.895 --> 00:44:04.965
  • Wow. the very thing that seems like it's going to be the end,
  • 00:44:04.965 --> 00:44:08.702
  • He transforms death into life.
  • 00:44:08.702 --> 00:44:11.472
  • He transforms the end into a new beginning.
  • 00:44:11.472 --> 00:44:15.442
  • He transforms darkness into light, cursing into blessing,
  • 00:44:15.442 --> 00:44:20.347
  • And it's out of the tomb that seems as if everything lost
  • 00:44:20.347 --> 00:44:24.985
  • That victory comes.
  • 00:44:24.985 --> 00:44:26.553
  • It's the book of esther as well.
  • 00:44:26.553 --> 00:44:28.388
  • He snatches victory out of the jaws of defeat and turns
  • 00:44:28.388 --> 00:44:34.762
  • Everything on its head.
  • 00:44:34.762 --> 00:44:36.463
  • A complete turnaround, a complete reversal.
  • 00:44:36.463 --> 00:44:40.033
  • That's what god wants to do for you and me.
  • 00:44:40.033 --> 00:44:42.569
  • And the empty tomb tells us this.
  • 00:44:42.569 --> 00:44:45.839
  • The tomb is either the place where we either go to die or
  • 00:44:45.839 --> 00:44:49.943
  • You, or you learn to fly.
  • 00:44:49.943 --> 00:44:52.012
  • Okay, it's one or the other.
  • 00:44:52.012 --> 00:44:54.014
  • The disciples, when he was in the tomb, locked themselves
  • 00:44:54.014 --> 00:44:57.217
  • In the upper room.
  • 00:44:57.217 --> 00:44:58.852
  • In a sense, the upper room became their tomb
  • 00:44:58.852 --> 00:45:00.788
  • Because of fear. right?
  • 00:45:00.788 --> 00:45:03.357
  • That all changed when he rose from the dead.
  • 00:45:03.357 --> 00:45:05.592
  • Because the empty tomb declares, your fears are as
  • 00:45:05.592 --> 00:45:08.729
  • Empty as that tomb.
  • 00:45:08.729 --> 00:45:11.031
  • That's beautiful.
  • 00:45:11.031 --> 00:45:11.698
  • There's nothing in there.
  • 00:45:11.698 --> 00:45:12.766
  • He's risen!
  • 00:45:12.766 --> 00:45:13.734
  • Jason, lead people to jesus,
  • 00:45:13.734 --> 00:45:15.869
  • That death-to-life experience.
  • 00:45:15.869 --> 00:45:17.871
  • Yeah. i just want to encourage you that if you have never
  • 00:45:17.871 --> 00:45:21.742
  • Placed your faith in jesus as the messiah, he offers you a
  • 00:45:21.742 --> 00:45:27.014
  • Great exchange.
  • 00:45:27.014 --> 00:45:28.816
  • He wants to take your failures for his promise of life.
  • 00:45:28.816 --> 00:45:33.821
  • He wants to take your sin for his righteousness.
  • 00:45:33.821 --> 00:45:37.758
  • He wants to take your mistakes, and he wants to transform it
  • 00:45:37.758 --> 00:45:41.562
  • Into the promise of a better future.
  • 00:45:41.562 --> 00:45:45.399
  • The cross declares that you don't have to stay stuck
  • 00:45:45.399 --> 00:45:48.135
  • In your pain.
  • 00:45:48.135 --> 00:45:49.570
  • You don't have to stay stuck in your past.
  • 00:45:49.570 --> 00:45:52.940
  • The resurrection declares there is hope.
  • 00:45:52.940 --> 00:45:54.741
  • Your future can be better than your past.
  • 00:45:54.741 --> 00:45:57.277
  • But that begins by receiving jesus as your messiah.
  • 00:45:57.277 --> 00:46:02.416
  • And so i want to invite you to pray with me if that's
  • 00:46:02.416 --> 00:46:05.619
  • Something you would like to do.
  • 00:46:05.619 --> 00:46:07.154
  • All we have to do is just invite him into our life, into
  • 00:46:07.154 --> 00:46:10.791
  • Our hearts, and place our faith in him as our lord and savior.
  • 00:46:10.791 --> 00:46:15.362
  • And everything begins to change from that moment forward.
  • 00:46:15.362 --> 00:46:19.399
  • So i want to invite you to pray with me.
  • 00:46:19.399 --> 00:46:21.368
  • Lord, i thank you that you gave your son jesus to die
  • 00:46:21.368 --> 00:46:26.106
  • On that cross for me,
  • 00:46:26.106 --> 00:46:29.376
  • That he was buried, and that he rose again, and that by his
  • 00:46:29.376 --> 00:46:34.014
  • Death and resurrection, my sins have been forgiven.
  • 00:46:34.014 --> 00:46:38.085
  • They've been washed away, that i have been set free.
  • 00:46:38.085 --> 00:46:41.755
  • I place my faith in you as my lord and as my savior.
  • 00:46:41.755 --> 00:46:47.761
  • Come into my life.
  • 00:46:47.761 --> 00:46:49.529
  • Come into my heart.
  • 00:46:49.529 --> 00:46:50.998
  • I believe in you. i receive you.
  • 00:46:50.998 --> 00:46:53.734
  • I ask these things in the name of your son, jesus the messiah.
  • 00:46:53.734 --> 00:46:59.273
  • Amen. and if you prayed this
  • 00:46:59.273 --> 00:47:01.241
  • Prayer, you've just been born anew.
  • 00:47:01.241 --> 00:47:05.679
  • It is a new beginning.
  • 00:47:05.679 --> 00:47:06.980
  • It is a new day.
  • 00:47:06.980 --> 00:47:08.015
  • The old is passing away and the new is coming.
  • 00:47:08.015 --> 00:47:11.985
  • That's why we do what we do.
  • 00:47:11.985 --> 00:47:14.721
  • It's what this program is all about.
  • 00:47:13.520 --> 00:47:17.624
  • And jason, thank you for what you do.
  • 00:47:17.624 --> 00:47:20.627
  • It's amazing.
  • 00:47:20.627 --> 00:47:21.628
  • Uh, latest book, transformed by the messiah.
  • 00:47:21.628 --> 00:47:25.732
  • I've never actually written a book.
  • 00:47:25.732 --> 00:47:27.267
  • You've written a lot of books, but i--
  • 00:47:27.267 --> 00:47:29.236
  • But i was going to critique this.
  • 00:47:29.236 --> 00:47:30.737
  • You have a lot of words on the front of this book.
  • 00:47:30.737 --> 00:47:32.973
  • There's a whole lot.
  • 00:47:32.973 --> 00:47:34.074
  • It's like almost a book on the front of the book.
  • 00:47:34.074 --> 00:47:36.643
  • And it says forward by dallas jenkins, creator of the chosen,
  • 00:47:36.643 --> 00:47:41.548
  • Rabbi jason sobel, new york times best-selling author.
  • 00:47:41.548 --> 00:47:44.751
  • Transformed by the messiah,
  • 00:47:44.751 --> 00:47:46.286
  • How old and new testament jesus connections reveal god's
  • 00:47:46.286 --> 00:47:48.922
  • Intentional story for your life.
  • 00:47:48.922 --> 00:47:50.824
  • That's on the hulk. that's the cover.
  • 00:47:50.824 --> 00:47:53.026
  • Rabbis don't say anything with a couple of words.
  • 00:47:53.026 --> 00:47:55.929
  • Geez. there's always more.
  • 00:47:55.929 --> 00:47:58.565
  • It's like you're saying, hey, i need more on the cover.
  • 00:47:58.565 --> 00:48:01.501
  • Wait. there's more.
  • 00:48:01.501 --> 00:48:02.402
  • There's more. truth in advertising.
  • 00:48:02.402 --> 00:48:04.938
  • It represents the book.
  • 00:48:04.938 --> 00:48:06.039
  • Truth in advertising.
  • 00:48:06.039 --> 00:48:09.309
  • It's who you are.
  • 00:48:09.309 --> 00:48:10.610
  • P.s. uh-- okay.
  • 00:48:10.610 --> 00:48:12.512
  • So, uh, this is your latest book available now.
  • 00:48:12.512 --> 00:48:16.083
  • Transformed by the messiah. also airing on tbn now,
  • 00:48:16.083 --> 00:48:20.721
  • Times and dates for that.
  • 00:48:20.721 --> 00:48:22.789
  • Also on tbn+.
  • 00:48:22.789 --> 00:48:23.757
  • Some of the episodes are on tbn+ already.
  • 00:48:23.757 --> 00:48:27.094
  • Um, and transformed by messiah.
  • 00:48:27.094 --> 00:48:29.796
  • Also airing now is also god's appointed times and seasons.
  • 00:48:29.796 --> 00:48:35.235
  • On the biblical holidays, god's appointed times.
  • 00:48:35.235 --> 00:48:37.004
  • So you want to learn about passover or purim and all the
  • 00:48:37.004 --> 00:48:39.539
  • Biblical holidays,
  • 00:48:39.539 --> 00:48:40.741
  • Tbn's got you covered.
  • 00:48:40.741 --> 00:48:42.275
  • Every major event in the life
  • 00:48:42.275 --> 00:48:44.344
  • Of jesus happened on a jewish holiday.
  • 00:48:44.344 --> 00:48:47.881
  • The jewish holidays are not
  • 00:48:47.881 --> 00:48:49.549
  • Meant to be just past remembrances.
  • 00:48:49.549 --> 00:48:52.719
  • They're actually meant to be reoccurrences.
  • 00:48:52.719 --> 00:48:56.556
  • We are going to be looking at the spiritual, historical, and
  • 00:48:56.556 --> 00:49:00.494
  • Prophetic significance of each of these biblical holidays.
  • 00:49:00.494 --> 00:49:04.664
  • I believe that it will allow
  • 00:49:04.664 --> 00:49:06.500
  • You to see jesus in high definition.
  • 00:49:06.500 --> 00:49:09.369
  • And those are all on tbn+. information is on the screen.
  • 00:49:12.939 --> 00:49:16.977
  • Last word is yours.
  • 00:49:16.977 --> 00:49:19.146
  • Modern time conflict in the middle east.
  • 00:49:19.146 --> 00:49:23.016
  • Uh, haman.
  • 00:49:23.016 --> 00:49:24.885
  • Jesus. holy week.
  • 00:49:24.885 --> 00:49:26.586
  • Final thought.
  • 00:49:26.586 --> 00:49:27.654
  • Wrap it up with really a great--
  • 00:49:27.654 --> 00:49:30.057
  • Like land the plane perfectly,
  • 00:49:30.057 --> 00:49:32.159
  • Jason, for me.
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  • I think there's a biblical principle and that is this.
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  • The end is going to be like the beginning.
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  • And so passover is god's redemption
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  • In the first month of the hebrew year, at the beginning
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  • Of israel's story as a free people. purim happens in the
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  • Last month of the hebrew year, and it points to what god is
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  • Going to do at the end of history, the last month.
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  • It points to the last chapter.
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  • And just like in the book of esther, there was a descendant
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  • Of amalek, haman, who rose up to destroy the jewish people,
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  • But failed because god was
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  • Working behind the scenes for good.
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  • In the same way, there are, there are modern haman's rising
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  • Up like we've seen in iran,
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  • But october 7th, which was the first domino that led to where
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  • We're at, was meant to wipe israel off the map, but instead
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  • It has led to them becoming freer and safer.
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  • At the end of this. every enemy that has tried to take them
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  • Out, they themselves have been taken out.
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  • They have literally been hung on their own gallows.
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  • They wanted to-- iran wanted to create a nuclear bomb
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  • To destroy israel.
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  • President trump said, give it up.
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  • And what happens? instead of them destroying israel with a
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  • Bomb, a bomb is dropped by israel.
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  • And it took out the one who wanted to take out to create
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  • A bomb and destroy them.
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  • It happened at purim.
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  • You can't make this up.
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  • You can go further.
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  • Mordecai and esther were the heroes of the story of the
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  • Book of esther.
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  • What tribe are they from?
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  • The tribe of benjamin.
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  • Why? because their ancestor, king saul, the first king of
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  • Israel from the tribe of benjamin, didn't wipe out
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  • Amalek's descendants.
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  • He disobeyed.
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  • He compromised.
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  • And god gives a second chance to mordecai and esther to
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  • Finish what their ancestors didn't.
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  • Because he's gracious.
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  • He's the god of second chances.
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  • And then today, history is playing out because who is the
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  • Prime minister of israel?
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  • It's benjamin netanyahu.
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  • Just like benjamin was always tasked to fight against amalek,
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  • There's a modern day benjamin
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  • Fighting against this current amalek.
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  • We could keep going.
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  • You can't make this stuff up.
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  • But at the bottom, at the end
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  • Of the day, this is what it's about
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  • God's name is not in the book of esther. when you can't see
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  • The hand of god,
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  • Trust the heart of god.
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  • There's many people who think they are the ones whose hand
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  • Is writing history.
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  • But at the end of the day, it is god's hand who is guiding
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  • And writing the story.
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  • We know how it ends.
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  • Jesus won.
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  • We have the victory.
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  • We don't need to fear.
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  • We can have faith.
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  • God is in control from the beginning to the end.
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  • He's already shown us how it's going to play out, and so it's
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  • Meant to give us hope.
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  • Beautiful. wow.
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  • Take that personally too.
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  • It's not the end of your story, right?
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  • Faith, hope and love.
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  • The hardest one is love.
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  • We'll see you next time.
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  • ♪♪
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