The Story of Nathaniel Session 1
BibleInteract
[{'start': '25.690', 'end': '32.320', 'text': '[Music] shalom i was recently talking with Dr\xa0\nmichael Coplitz one of our Bible Interact teachers'}, {'start': '32.320', 'end': '41.520', 'text': "he is I think an outstanding biblical scholar as\xa0\na United Methodist minister he doesn't just give"}, {'start': '41.520', 'end': '48.560', 'text': 'the same sermons every Sunday every single week\xa0\nhe researches scripture to come up with some new'}, {'start': '48.560', 'end': '55.600', 'text': 'meaning for his people in his church he also\xa0\nhas a Bible study group and he encourages them'}, {'start': '55.600', 'end': '60.720', 'text': 'to ask questions and more questions and then of\xa0\ncourse the questions lead the group into deeper'}, {'start': '60.720', 'end': '67.520', 'text': "meaning so I always enjoy talking to Mike and to\xa0\nyou know what he's working on this week well one"}, {'start': '67.520', 'end': '75.280', 'text': "week he was working on the story of Nathaniel in\xa0\nthe Gospel of John and I said you know Mike let's"}, {'start': '75.280', 'end': '80.960', 'text': "let's the two of us just dialogue on what each\xa0\nof us sees in this passage and that's exactly"}, {'start': '80.960', 'end': '87.440', 'text': "what we did so I'm going to share with you what\xa0\nI have seen and then we are also going to the"}, {'start': '87.440', 'end': '92.000', 'text': "two of us are going to dialogue together and and\xa0\nhopefully you'll you'll take advantage of of that"}, {'start': '92.000', 'end': '98.400', 'text': 'as well so you can see the perspective of both\xa0\nof us because we get we see different things in'}, {'start': '98.400', 'end': '103.600', 'text': "scripture and it's kind of fun to share what we\xa0\nsee and to dialogue about it so let me show you"}, {'start': '103.600', 'end': '111.440', 'text': 'what this will be about i call this series can\xa0\nyou uncover the depth of meaning i really want'}, {'start': '111.440', 'end': '117.760', 'text': "you to be able to to do what we do and I'll share\xa0\nwith you what I've done but but take a look at"}, {'start': '117.760', 'end': '122.960', 'text': "how I'm doing it so that that you'll be able to\xa0\ndo it too this is the story of Nathaniel in the"}, {'start': '122.960', 'end': '131.600', 'text': "Gospel of John chapter 1 46- 51 so it's only\xa0\nwhat five five verses but it led us into such"}, {'start': '131.600', 'end': '137.520', 'text': 'a depth of meaning and in such discussion in this\xa0\nsession one I just want to take a look at all the'}, {'start': '137.520', 'end': '145.040', 'text': 'echoes in the narrative now by an echo I mean that\xa0\nthere is something in the New Testament passage'}, {'start': '145.040', 'end': '152.880', 'text': "that is kicking off a thought about the Hebrew\xa0\nscriptures it's an echo it's an illusion it's a"}, {'start': '152.880', 'end': '159.040', 'text': "uh you know it's it's just in in speaking people\xa0\nyou know people at the time of Yeshua knew the"}, {'start': '159.040', 'end': '163.120', 'text': "Hebrew scriptures intimately the New Testament\xa0\nhadn't been written and and their the Hebrew"}, {'start': '163.120', 'end': '168.960', 'text': "scriptures were their their holy writings so it\xa0\ndidn't have to be cited just a little something"}, {'start': '168.960', 'end': '173.600', 'text': 'could be said and it would kick off in their minds\xa0\nsomething in the Hebrew scriptures and in these'}, {'start': '173.600', 'end': '177.920', 'text': "five verses we're going to see three different\xa0\nechoes in the narrative and you need to learn"}, {'start': '177.920', 'end': '185.760', 'text': 'how to to see these echoes so what we have here as\xa0\nwe start reading this account Jesus saw Nathaniel'}, {'start': '185.760', 'end': '191.920', 'text': 'Natani Lel it would be in Hebrew coming to him\xa0\nand said of him "Behold an Israelite indeed in'}, {'start': '191.920', 'end': '198.080', 'text': 'whom there is no deceit." Now I have highlighted\xa0\ntwo things i had never thought about it but Mike'}, {'start': '198.080', 'end': '204.400', 'text': 'said he was kind of curious about an Israelite why\xa0\nwould you say an Israelite i never came up with'}, {'start': '204.400', 'end': '209.680', 'text': "the answer to that and now that's something that\xa0\nyou can work on why would Yeshua have called him"}, {'start': '209.680', 'end': '216.720', 'text': 'an Israelite but the one no there is no deceit\xa0\nthis is something that uh Mike actually he he'}, {'start': '216.720', 'end': '224.560', 'text': 'pulled into that concept and he found it in in\xa0\nthe Psalms so Yeshua was echoing Psalm 32 which'}, {'start': '224.560', 'end': '230.560', 'text': 'says "How blessed is he whose transgression is\xa0\nforgiven whose sin is covered how blessed is the'}, {'start': '230.560', 'end': '238.800', 'text': 'man to whom the Lord does not impute iniquity and\xa0\nwhose spirit there is no deceit." Now what what I'}, {'start': '238.800', 'end': '244.160', 'text': 'want to do here this is the way you would read it\xa0\nif if you were going back in scripture by the way'}, {'start': '244.160', 'end': '250.240', 'text': 'very often in the middle margin of your Bible it\xa0\nwill give you the the source of the echo but none'}, {'start': '250.240', 'end': '254.800', 'text': 'of the Bibles have recognized this mike is the\xa0\none who saw it and well how did he see it he was'}, {'start': '254.800', 'end': '258.640', 'text': 'curious he asked the question he was curious and\xa0\nhe went into the Hebrew scriptures to see if there'}, {'start': '258.640', 'end': '264.320', 'text': "was anything in the Hebrew scriptures now that's\xa0\nthe way you read it as it you know but what I want"}, {'start': '264.320', 'end': '270.240', 'text': "to do is I want to put it in its artistic nature\xa0\nit's done in Hebrew poetry and you have to learn"}, {'start': '270.240', 'end': '278.480', 'text': 'to to be able to do this yourself so what we see\xa0\nhere is it starts out how blessed is he now we get'}, {'start': '278.480', 'end': '285.920', 'text': "two parallel lines whose transgression is forgiven\xa0\nwhose sin is covered and I'm you know it's not"}, {'start': '285.920', 'end': '291.040', 'text': 'given in the the parallel lines in the Bible\xa0\nyou you you have to just read it and and hear'}, {'start': '291.040', 'end': '296.480', 'text': "the rhythm and then you know it's in in the poetic\xa0\nform so transgression and sin are in parallel they"}, {'start': '296.480', 'end': '302.880', 'text': "mean the same thing forgiven and covered is not\xa0\nthe same thing so there's a relationship between"}, {'start': '302.880', 'end': '309.600', 'text': "them so if if God forgives he covers he doesn't\xa0\nremove the sin which is really important he he"}, {'start': '309.600', 'end': '316.160', 'text': 'covers it now what you can do is you can look\xa0\nup uh these these Hebrew words pesha is is uh'}, {'start': '316.160', 'end': '322.640', 'text': "transgression that's transgression and it means a\xa0\nrebellious act so whenever we do a rebellious act"}, {'start': '322.640', 'end': '330.400', 'text': 'it is possible to be forgiven but only this sin\xa0\nwill be covered okay and then we have hata which'}, {'start': '330.400', 'end': '338.240', 'text': "is very interesting that's sin it also is used for\xa0\na sin offering i I found that very interesting and"}, {'start': '338.240', 'end': '343.760', 'text': 'then we can take a look at the at the other words\xa0\nand we have for forgiven nasal means to be lifted'}, {'start': '343.760', 'end': '352.560', 'text': "up or taken away and yet it's not entirely removed\xa0\nbecause covered kasha is is simply to cover it i"}, {'start': '352.560', 'end': '359.600', 'text': "I think this is really um significant because um\xa0\nthere's a difference in scripture between a sin"}, {'start': '359.600', 'end': '366.800', 'text': "being covered and a sin being removed and when the\xa0\nsin is covered it's still there and you haven't"}, {'start': '366.800', 'end': '374.160', 'text': 'learned yet to totally live without that sin when\xa0\nyou when you learn to totally live without that'}, {'start': '374.160', 'end': '379.680', 'text': "sin you're never ever ever ever ever going to do\xa0\nthat sin again then it can it then the forgiveness"}, {'start': '379.680', 'end': '386.720', 'text': 'can be to to to completely remove it not to cover\xa0\nit and then you get this uh poetry continues how'}, {'start': '386.720', 'end': '392.960', 'text': 'blessed is the man to whom the Lord does not\xa0\nimpute iniquity and who in whose spirit there is'}, {'start': '392.960', 'end': '398.960', 'text': 'no deceit now this is really interesting because\xa0\nthe Lord and the spirit of course is is similar'}, {'start': '398.960', 'end': '409.520', 'text': "that's that's the parallel but we have here impute\xa0\niniquity no deceit well the um iniquity is a which"}, {'start': '409.520', 'end': '419.280', 'text': 'is is it is guilt all right and the uh uh that uh\xa0\ndeceit um is is is treachery but now what about'}, {'start': '419.280', 'end': '425.440', 'text': 'impute what does it mean not to impute iniquity\xa0\nwell you can look up the word kares which is'}, {'start': '425.440', 'end': '430.720', 'text': 'very interesting it means to it has this is so\xa0\ntypical Hebrew it has three different nuances'}, {'start': '430.720', 'end': '435.280', 'text': "of meaning they're related but they're different\xa0\nso number one it can be calculate or count number"}, {'start': '435.280', 'end': '444.000', 'text': "two is devise or plan and number three is plot\xa0\nor scheme so there's no deceit in in um we we go"}, {'start': '444.000', 'end': '450.480', 'text': "back here to Nathaniel in the New Testament\xa0\nthere's no deceit he he he doesn't plot he"}, {'start': '450.480', 'end': '457.200', 'text': "doesn't scheme he doesn't devise he's just totally\xa0\nopen and honest and and and that's this Nathaniel"}, {'start': '457.200', 'end': '464.560', 'text': "that's the one that that Yeshua is choosing to\xa0\nbecome one of his disciples he's totally open he's"}, {'start': '464.560', 'end': '469.840', 'text': "totally honest he's totally open and honest about\xa0\nhis sins when he sins he's going to recognize it"}, {'start': '469.840', 'end': '476.240', 'text': 'and say "Lord I I don\'t want to do this anymore."\xa0\nSo he acknowledges the fact in total openness as'}, {'start': '476.240', 'end': '481.920', 'text': "to who he is i I think and that's that's a trait\xa0\nthat we need to to work in ourselves and it was"}, {'start': '481.920', 'end': '488.880', 'text': 'a a trait that Yeshua found uh worthy of being\xa0\none of his disciples now this is very interesting'}, {'start': '488.880', 'end': '497.200', 'text': 'because we get um uh going back to the psalm all\xa0\nright we continue these parallel lines but what'}, {'start': '497.200', 'end': '503.520', 'text': "we're getting as the psalm continues excuse me is\xa0\nwe're getting not similarity but cause and effect"}, {'start': '503.520', 'end': '512.000', 'text': "so David who's writing the psalm says when I kept\xa0\nsilent now about my sin is in italics but it it's"}, {'start': '512.000', 'end': '518.320', 'text': "clear that's the meaning when I kept silent\xa0\nabout my sin now here's the cause and effect"}, {'start': '518.320', 'end': '523.840', 'text': "when I kept silent what happened my body wasted\xa0\naway through my groaning all day so that's cause"}, {'start': '523.840', 'end': '530.000', 'text': "and effect and we have to take note of that now\xa0\nwe want to be like Nathaniel nathaniel's not like"}, {'start': '530.000', 'end': '536.240', 'text': "this you know if if you don't acknowledge to God\xa0\nyour sin and and commit to changing then you're"}, {'start': '536.240', 'end': '542.880', 'text': 'going to waste away through groaning all day now\xa0\nfor day and night your hand was heavy on me now'}, {'start': '542.880', 'end': '550.800', 'text': "this is David talking but he's talking about God\xa0\nso when he keeps silent it it's as if God's hand"}, {'start': '550.800', 'end': '556.720', 'text': 'is heavy on him which causes his vitality to\xa0\nbe drained away with the fever heat of summer'}, {'start': '556.720', 'end': '562.720', 'text': 'salah salaz is just an exclamation that ends end\xa0\nends a thought and then it continues now this is'}, {'start': '562.720', 'end': '571.520', 'text': "what's important okay i acknowledged my sin to\xa0\nyou God acknowledge is to make it known to you"}, {'start': '571.520', 'end': '576.080', 'text': "well don't you think God knows your sin of course\xa0\nhe knows your sin but what's happening is you're"}, {'start': '576.080', 'end': '582.960', 'text': "really acknowledging it to yourself that's what's\xa0\nreally happening and my iniquity I did not hide"}, {'start': '582.960', 'end': '592.240', 'text': 'and I said "I will confess my transgressions to\xa0\nthe Lord." Confess is yadah which is to to throw'}, {'start': '592.240', 'end': '598.960', 'text': "them it's it's used for shooting an arrow and you\xa0\nthrow it you cast it away this this sin I'm just"}, {'start': '598.960', 'end': '603.200', 'text': "going to get rid of it from my life i'm going to\xa0\ncast it away and get rid of it and you forgave the"}, {'start': '603.200', 'end': '610.160', 'text': "guilt of my sin now forgave is that lifting up\xa0\nand carrying away nasa that's that's what it is"}, {'start': '610.160', 'end': '615.520', 'text': "so what's important here is that in these little\xa0\nfive verses of the New Testament we get this"}, {'start': '615.520', 'end': '621.920', 'text': 'wonderful echo and we have to go back to the echo\xa0\nto un to understand it and then we apply it to'}, {'start': '621.920', 'end': '628.320', 'text': 'Nathaniel and why Yeshua was choosing Nathaniel so\xa0\nwe go back to the story of Nathaniel in the gospel'}, {'start': '628.320', 'end': '636.160', 'text': 'of John jesus saw Nathaniel Nataniel coming to him\xa0\nand said to him of him behold an Israelite indeed'}, {'start': '636.160', 'end': '644.240', 'text': 'in whom there is no deceit and that deceit uh in\xa0\nthe in the New Testament Greek is rea or treachery'}, {'start': '644.240', 'end': '649.680', 'text': 'but I think we got a better understanding of it by\xa0\ngoing back to the Hebrew scriptures then Nathaniel'}, {'start': '649.680', 'end': '658.000', 'text': 'says "But but how do how do you know me h how do\xa0\nyou know me?" And Yeshua says "Before Philillip'}, {'start': '658.000', 'end': '663.840', 'text': 'called you," now Philillip said "You\'ve got to\xa0\ncome see this man he\'s I He\'s the Messiah you\'ve'}, {'start': '663.840', 'end': '670.560', 'text': 'got to come see him." Before Philip called you\xa0\nwhen you were under the fig tree I saw you well'}, {'start': '670.560', 'end': '677.280', 'text': 'guess what folks the symbolism of the fig tree is\xa0\nsomething very important it should kick it off in'}, {'start': '677.280', 'end': '682.400', 'text': 'your mind it\'s not in the middle margin of your\xa0\nBible but you should say "Hey wait a minute what\'s'}, {'start': '682.400', 'end': '690.960', 'text': 'this imagery of the fig tree you were under the\xa0\nfig tree Nathaniel what What is that symbolism?"'}, {'start': '690.960', 'end': '698.960', 'text': "Well let's let me keep going here first um it it\xa0\ncontinues in the Gospel of John and Nathaniel says"}, {'start': '698.960', 'end': '705.040', 'text': '"Rabbi you are the son of God you are the king of\xa0\nIsrael." Now we\'re going to go into session two'}, {'start': '705.040', 'end': '709.040', 'text': "in this session and we're going to take a look\xa0\nat what does it mean that Yeshua is the son of"}, {'start': '709.040', 'end': '715.360', 'text': 'God you take that for granted but there is so\xa0\nmuch more than your traditional understanding'}, {'start': '715.360', 'end': '719.440', 'text': "and we're going to go into it in session two in\xa0\nsession three we're going to ask what does it mean"}, {'start': '719.440', 'end': '724.080', 'text': 'that Yeshua is the king of Israel now the king of\xa0\nIsrael is mentioned in the Hebrew scriptures and'}, {'start': '724.080', 'end': '729.520', 'text': "it it he's not the father he's the son and and\xa0\nwhat does it mean he's the king of Israel and"}, {'start': '729.520', 'end': '735.120', 'text': "again don't jump to conclusions it's a whole lot\xa0\ndeeper than you probably think now what I want"}, {'start': '735.120', 'end': '742.320', 'text': 'to do is I want to go back to the symbolism of the\xa0\nfig tree all right now you were under the fig tree'}, {'start': '742.320', 'end': '748.480', 'text': "says Yeshua i saw you under the fig tree well that\xa0\nwould have been a vision or you know he wasn't"}, {'start': '748.480', 'end': '754.400', 'text': 'um literally under the fig tree it was this\xa0\nis symbolic now I have a picture here of a'}, {'start': '754.400', 'end': '762.480', 'text': "man holding up a fig leaf it's a very large leaf\xa0\nand and that the rabbis think is what was in the"}, {'start': '762.480', 'end': '770.400', 'text': 'creation account when the Adam and Eve were both\xa0\nnaked and were not ashamed and then it goes um'}, {'start': '770.400', 'end': '777.600', 'text': 'and then uh but but you know when after they sin\xa0\nthey covered themselves and the rabbis think that'}, {'start': '777.600', 'end': '783.200', 'text': 'uh they covered themselves with with fig leaves\xa0\nbecause of this um large leaf of the of the fig'}, {'start': '783.200', 'end': '789.280', 'text': 'tree and and so the covering of the sin by the by\xa0\nthe the fig leaf judah and Israel lived in safety'}, {'start': '789.280', 'end': '795.920', 'text': 'every man under his vine and his fig tree so we\xa0\nnot only have the covering of sin but we also'}, {'start': '795.920', 'end': '802.560', 'text': "have protection God's protection so this is the\xa0\nsymbolism of of the fig tree so So now what we"}, {'start': '802.560', 'end': '809.920', 'text': 'want to take a look at is is this symbolism of the\xa0\nfig tree so the the fig tree becomes a metaphor'}, {'start': '809.920', 'end': '816.480', 'text': "for Israel whom God is protecting remember God\xa0\ncan cover the sin or not cover the sin so it's"}, {'start': '816.480', 'end': '821.760', 'text': "it's a metaphor the symbol becomes a metaphor\xa0\nfor Israel whom God is protecting for example in"}, {'start': '821.760', 'end': '828.880', 'text': 'Hosea I found Israel says God like grapes in the\xa0\nwilderness i saw your forefathers as the earliest'}, {'start': '828.880', 'end': '836.240', 'text': "fruit on the fig tree so God is protecting them he\xa0\nsees in the them in the wilderness he's covering"}, {'start': '836.240', 'end': '844.320', 'text': "them but on the the opposite side the fig tree\xa0\ncan be used as warnings to Israel if you're not"}, {'start': '844.320', 'end': '849.200', 'text': "walking in righteousness I'm going to take the\xa0\ncovering off and bad things are going to happen"}, {'start': '849.200', 'end': '855.840', 'text': "to you so we see the fig tree becomes a barometer\xa0\nof the health of the nation so if they're walking"}, {'start': '855.840', 'end': '860.240', 'text': "in righteousness they're covered if they're not\xa0\nwalking in righteousness they're not covered so"}, {'start': '860.240', 'end': '867.360', 'text': "it's used as warnings to Israel and we see here\xa0\nthe fig tree becomes a barometer of the health of"}, {'start': '867.360', 'end': '877.280', 'text': 'the nation in Joel a nation has invaded my land it\xa0\nhas made my vine a waste and my fig tree splinters'}, {'start': '877.280', 'end': '883.600', 'text': 'so what we have here is we have Yeshua in\xa0\nthe Gospel of John telling Nathaniel "I saw'}, {'start': '883.600', 'end': '890.240', 'text': 'you under a fig tree." Okay now\'s the time for\xa0\nyou to start asking questions now that you\'ve'}, {'start': '890.240', 'end': '897.040', 'text': 'explored the symbolism of the fig tree what did\xa0\nYeshua mean when he said "I saw you under a fig'}, {'start': '897.040', 'end': '904.720', 'text': 'tree." Now he\'s about to select Nathaniel as one\xa0\nof his disciples right so is this imagery the fig'}, {'start': '904.720', 'end': '910.480', 'text': "tree as is as is as covering the sin so that sins\xa0\nhave been forgiven and there's no he says there's"}, {'start': '910.480', 'end': '918.400', 'text': "no deceit or is it that you know he's he he he's\xa0\ndesperately wanting to be covered by God well it's"}, {'start': '918.400', 'end': '923.760', 'text': "it's the first one it's the first one of course\xa0\nand and and in the Gospel of John it continues it"}, {'start': '923.760', 'end': '931.200', 'text': 'says Yeshua says "Because I said to you that I saw\xa0\nyou under the fig tree do you believe you will see'}, {'start': '931.200', 'end': '938.240', 'text': 'greater things than these." So he\'s he\'s telling\xa0\nYeshua um I mean Yeshua is telling Nathaniel I I'}, {'start': '938.240', 'end': '944.080', 'text': "I'm recognize you as as a man who's totally open\xa0\nand honest you give your sins to God you you"}, {'start': '944.080', 'end': '951.600', 'text': "you're you know you're a man and and and in his\xa0\nsimplicity you believed in me but guess what i'm"}, {'start': '951.600', 'end': '959.360', 'text': 'going to show you greater things and if you are\xa0\nthat kind of disciple that with that open honesty'}, {'start': '959.360', 'end': '965.040', 'text': 'you know willing to to acknowledge your sins to\xa0\nGod desiring to change to get rid of those sins'}, {'start': '965.040', 'end': '972.720', 'text': 'God is going to show you greater things also and\xa0\nthen Yeshua goes on truly truly I say to you you'}, {'start': '972.720', 'end': '980.320', 'text': 'will see the heavens opened and the angels of\xa0\nGod ascending and descending on the Son of Man'}, {'start': '980.320', 'end': '988.160', 'text': 'well did you recognize that echo that was an\xa0\neasy one that was an easy one you will see the'}, {'start': '988.160', 'end': '995.760', 'text': "heavens opened and the angels of God ascending and\xa0\ndescending on the Son of Man well that's the echo"}, {'start': '995.760', 'end': '1001.280', 'text': "of Jacob's ladder so what you have to do is every\xa0\ntime you recognize the echo you have to go back in"}, {'start': '1001.280', 'end': '1006.240', 'text': "scripture and see what this echo is all about even\xa0\nthough you know the story of of Jacob's ladder you"}, {'start': '1006.240', 'end': '1013.360', 'text': "have to go back and here I'm g I want to show you\xa0\num Jacob's ladder jacob departed from Beer Cheva"}, {'start': '1013.360', 'end': '1021.360', 'text': "i've put a red um oval around Beer Cheva it's down\xa0\nin in the Negv in the south and went toward Haron"}, {'start': '1021.360', 'end': '1030.480', 'text': 'and um and this uh shows you the route he would\xa0\nhave um crossed over um the the uh the river at'}, {'start': '1030.480', 'end': '1037.360', 'text': "at Jericho and and gone up probably following the\xa0\nking's highway through Damascus all the way up in"}, {'start': '1037.360', 'end': '1047.920', 'text': 'to Haran um which is today in Iraq and uh this was\xa0\nhis journey approximately 550 miles that he would'}, {'start': '1047.920', 'end': '1054.880', 'text': 'have walked but he stopped on the way you go back\xa0\ndown to Beva and then you just A little north is'}, {'start': '1054.880', 'end': '1064.800', 'text': 'Jerusalem just a little bit north of Jerusalem\xa0\nis Bate L and here in this Google map um below'}, {'start': '1064.800', 'end': '1069.840', 'text': "Bait L is that kind of a white area that's that's\xa0\nactually the city of Jerusalem that that white"}, {'start': '1069.840', 'end': '1075.600', 'text': "area it's not covered with trees so it's Bel is\xa0\njust a little north of Jerusalem so he's going"}, {'start': '1075.600', 'end': '1080.480', 'text': 'from Beersa probably passing through Jerusalem\xa0\na little north up through the the hill country'}, {'start': '1080.480', 'end': '1088.160', 'text': 'and he he spends the night at Bel he came to a\xa0\ncertain place he called the name of the place now'}, {'start': '1088.160', 'end': '1097.440', 'text': "the Bible says Bethl but it's not Bethl in Hebrew\xa0\nit's bait l which means the house of God now when"}, {'start': '1097.440', 'end': '1106.160', 'text': 'I was you know I I I travel to to Israel i visit\xa0\nIsrael and I will visit the Palestinian area'}, {'start': '1106.160', 'end': '1115.280', 'text': 'u which I do when I uh I hire um uh Palestinian\xa0\nuh driver and guide who live in East Jerusalem but'}, {'start': '1115.280', 'end': '1120.560', 'text': "they're licensed by the state of Israel as tour\xa0\nguides uh but of course they know Arabic they know"}, {'start': '1120.560', 'end': '1125.920', 'text': "the Palestinian area um they rent a car on you\xa0\nknow in East Jerusalem so it doesn't have Israeli"}, {'start': '1125.920', 'end': '1131.520', 'text': 'plates on it and then the three of us go into the\xa0\nPalestinian area and and I I visit archaeological'}, {'start': '1131.520', 'end': '1138.960', 'text': "sites and uh biblical sites and um I was very\xa0\ninterested there's a a kibutz in the Palestinian"}, {'start': '1138.960', 'end': '1144.960', 'text': "area that is calls itself Bel now that's not\xa0\nnecessarily the the site of Bait L we're not quite"}, {'start': '1144.960', 'end': '1150.720', 'text': "sure where that site is it's really interesting\xa0\nbecause you get a sense of the hill country so"}, {'start': '1150.720', 'end': '1155.760', 'text': "as you're standing there you you see that the\xa0\nthey're not mountains they're hills and this is"}, {'start': '1155.760', 'end': '1160.800', 'text': 'the the central spine of Israel the hill country\xa0\nand Jacob would have been traveling up through'}, {'start': '1160.800', 'end': '1168.080', 'text': 'the hill country uh stopping in Bel and then\xa0\ncontinuing farther north so we read the account'}, {'start': '1168.080', 'end': '1177.920', 'text': "about Jacob's ladder and we read here about uh\xa0\nJacob and it says he spent the night there at Bel"}, {'start': '1177.920', 'end': '1184.720', 'text': 'which means the house of God because the sun had\xa0\nset and he took one of the stones of the place and'}, {'start': '1184.720', 'end': '1189.680', 'text': 'put it under his head and laid down in that place\xa0\nnow are you curious about one of the stones i mean'}, {'start': '1189.680', 'end': '1196.720', 'text': 'would you put a stone under your head to sleep\xa0\non uh well it goes on so Jacob rose early in the'}, {'start': '1196.720', 'end': '1201.600', 'text': 'morning and took the stone that he had put under\xa0\nhis head and set it up as a pillar and poured'}, {'start': '1201.600', 'end': '1211.760', 'text': "oil on its top so what he's doing is is it's all\xa0\nsymbolic and he's creating this pillar which is"}, {'start': '1211.760', 'end': '1218.000', 'text': 'um a memorial of something very dramatic that\xa0\nhappened there okay now I want to show you we have'}, {'start': '1218.000', 'end': '1227.760', 'text': 'in Israel examples of pagan standing stones um\xa0\nstones for a pillar and and and in many cases the'}, {'start': '1227.760', 'end': '1234.480', 'text': 'the stones would be piled one on top of another\xa0\nto create a um a pillar and and this is what Jacob'}, {'start': '1234.480', 'end': '1242.000', 'text': "is doing of course he's not a pagan but this he's\xa0\ndoing these standing stones at uh atm um which in"}, {'start': '1242.000', 'end': '1248.400', 'text': "uh is knobless that's the the Roman names the\xa0\nPalestinian name is Knobus and um and and the"}, {'start': '1248.400', 'end': '1254.160', 'text': "archaeological site there uh was was an altar it's\xa0\nnot quite a standing stone it's an altar but that"}, {'start': '1254.160', 'end': '1258.880', 'text': 'shows you these these standing stones that were\xa0\ncharacteristic of that the Canaanites the pagans'}, {'start': '1258.880', 'end': '1266.800', 'text': 'used but the Israelites used them also and this is\xa0\nthe account at um Jericho joshua set up 12 stones'}, {'start': '1266.800', 'end': '1271.120', 'text': 'in the middle of the Jordan River at the place\xa0\nwhere the feet of the priests who carried the ark'}, {'start': '1271.120', 'end': '1277.120', 'text': 'of the covenant were standing and they are there\xa0\nto this day and it continues "Let this this pile'}, {'start': '1277.120', 'end': '1282.400', 'text': 'of stones be a sign among you." So that when your\xa0\nchildren ask later saying "What do these stones'}, {'start': '1282.400', 'end': '1286.880', 'text': 'mean to you?" Then you shall say to them "Because\xa0\nthe waters of the Jordan were cut off before the'}, {'start': '1286.880', 'end': '1291.920', 'text': 'ark of the covenant of the Lord." When it crossed\xa0\nthe Jordan the waters of the Jordan were cut off'}, {'start': '1291.920', 'end': '1298.800', 'text': 'so these stones shall become a memorial to the\xa0\nsons of Israel so what Jacob did then is he he he'}, {'start': '1298.800', 'end': '1303.840', 'text': 'he he slept on the stone and then in the morning\xa0\nhe took that stone and he put stones on top to'}, {'start': '1303.840', 'end': '1310.720', 'text': 'create a a a pillar of stones which was a memorial\xa0\nof this incredible thing that happened to him when'}, {'start': '1310.720', 'end': '1316.080', 'text': "he was there at Bel now what happened to him\xa0\nthis is what's important and in this echo that"}, {'start': '1316.080', 'end': '1322.640', 'text': "we've heard from Nathaniel jacob had a dream and\xa0\nbehold a ladder was set up on the earth was with"}, {'start': '1322.640', 'end': '1329.040', 'text': 'its top reaching to heaven and behold the angels\xa0\nof God were ascending and descending on it now'}, {'start': '1329.040', 'end': '1338.800', 'text': 'ascending is Allah which means to go up all right\xa0\nand descending is yan which is to come down now'}, {'start': '1338.800', 'end': '1347.040', 'text': "you need to ask questions okay this is prophecy\xa0\nyeshua says look this Jacob's ladder is prophecy"}, {'start': '1347.040', 'end': '1352.640', 'text': "something is going to happen that is still future\xa0\nto us now what is the prophecy what's future what"}, {'start': '1352.640', 'end': '1357.440', 'text': "are we supposed to look to what's ascending what's\xa0\ndescending you're supposed to be asking these"}, {'start': '1357.440', 'end': '1362.800', 'text': "questions and if you're in a group or you're\xa0\nwith a buddy you know dialogue you know ask"}, {'start': '1362.800', 'end': '1368.400', 'text': "the question dialogue come up with with different\xa0\nanswers well let's take a look i'll show you my my"}, {'start': '1368.400', 'end': '1381.360', 'text': 'thoughts here um first of all the Jewish midrash\xa0\nin the Talmud offers an an explanation they say'}, {'start': '1381.360', 'end': '1389.280', 'text': 'the latter is a bridge between heaven and earth\xa0\nthe now they say the latter represents the Torah'}, {'start': '1389.280', 'end': '1399.120', 'text': 'which is a bridge between God and his people pho\xa0\nwho was um a Jew in Alexandria who who wrote and'}, {'start': '1399.120', 'end': '1404.720', 'text': 'we have some of his writings claims that the\xa0\nsouls ascend and descend from the body which'}, {'start': '1404.720', 'end': '1411.600', 'text': 'is an indication that Pho believe believed in\xa0\nreincarnation now is this your conclusion are'}, {'start': '1411.600', 'end': '1416.800', 'text': 'you agreeing with the Talmud that the the\xa0\nlatter is a bridge and represents the Torah'}, {'start': '1416.800', 'end': '1422.000', 'text': "well that's very traditional Judeaic thinking\xa0\nbecause the the Torah is so important and that's"}, {'start': '1422.000', 'end': '1427.920', 'text': 'a connection with God but Yeshua is saying "Look\xa0\nit\'s prophetic of something still future it\'s'}, {'start': '1427.920', 'end': '1433.360', 'text': 'it\'s yes it was the Torah but now it\'s going to\xa0\npoint to something still future." And Pho was'}, {'start': '1433.360', 'end': '1440.800', 'text': 'talking about reincarnation what what is what is\xa0\nYeshua telling us well let me just tell you what'}, {'start': '1440.800', 'end': '1446.560', 'text': 'the the Christian understanding is the Christian\xa0\nunderstanding when when Yeshua said "Truly truly'}, {'start': '1446.560', 'end': '1452.080', 'text': 'I say to you you will see the heavens opened\xa0\nand the angels of God ascending and descending'}, {'start': '1452.080', 'end': '1461.280', 'text': 'on the son of man." Now if if if you go into the\xa0\nGreek on is epi with the accusative it emphasizes'}, {'start': '1461.280', 'end': '1469.680', 'text': "motion or direction all right so we've got these\xa0\nangels of God ascending and descending this this"}, {'start': '1469.680', 'end': '1478.240', 'text': "motion or direction uh um on the son of man\xa0\nso what what I'm thinking here is that that"}, {'start': '1478.240', 'end': '1486.640', 'text': "we can ascend because God has descended through\xa0\nhis son Yeshua so you you've got this motion of"}, {'start': '1486.640', 'end': '1497.840', 'text': "Yeshua descending down to the earth to us and then\xa0\nhe's here but if we are one with him he is drawing"}, {'start': '1497.840', 'end': '1512.160', 'text': 'us up to God and and I think I think this is an\xa0\nabsolutely um an exciting thing but he only he he'}, {'start': '1512.160', 'end': '1519.760', 'text': "only draws us up to God if we're like Nathaniel if\xa0\nwe have no deceit if if we're totally open if we"}, {'start': '1519.760', 'end': '1527.280', 'text': 'um we not just confess with words our sins but we\xa0\nconfess with our heart from the heart you you know'}, {'start': '1527.280', 'end': '1533.680', 'text': "comes out the words from the heart so it's from\xa0\nthe heart we we say you know this is now we maybe"}, {'start': '1533.680', 'end': '1540.000', 'text': 'we have many sins right but we only take one at\xa0\na time so you know this is something that that is'}, {'start': '1540.000', 'end': '1546.880', 'text': "part of my life that is is worldly and and Lord I\xa0\nacknowledge it i I know it's there and and I want"}, {'start': '1546.880', 'end': '1553.760', 'text': 'to work on it and I want to change repent means to\xa0\nchange so when you repent you don\'t just say "I\'m'}, {'start': '1553.760', 'end': '1562.320', 'text': 'sorry." You actually become a different person by\xa0\ngiving up that sin and by totally removing it from'}, {'start': '1562.320', 'end': '1568.400', 'text': 'your life you become more Christlike you become\xa0\na different person more like your Lord Yeshua and'}, {'start': '1568.400', 'end': '1577.440', 'text': "then Yeshua will help you draw up to God now it's\xa0\nprophetic but we have in part what we will have"}, {'start': '1577.440', 'end': '1583.200', 'text': 'um in in full at some time in the future by\xa0\nthe way when you demonstrate what you have in'}, {'start': '1583.200', 'end': '1588.160', 'text': 'part now you are demonstrating to the world what\xa0\nthey will have at some point in the future they'}, {'start': '1588.160', 'end': '1594.000', 'text': 'can have it in part now but they will have it in\xa0\nfull at some at some time in the future so I hope'}, {'start': '1594.000', 'end': '1599.440', 'text': "you've enjoyed this i think the whole point was\xa0\nto show you how in five verses listen for echoes"}, {'start': '1599.440', 'end': '1603.680', 'text': "and and you can get into depth of meaning in the\xa0\nnext session we're going to ask that question what"}, {'start': '1603.680', 'end': '1621.442', 'text': "does it mean that Yeshua is the son of God so\xa0\nI'll see you in the next session shalom [Music]"}]