Participants: Shelley Quinn (Host), Jeff Zaremsky
Series Code: IAA
Program Code: IAA000294
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00:31 Hello, I'm Shelley Quinn
00:32 and welcome again to "Issues and Answers." 00:35 Today, we are going to be talking about 00:38 some Jewish traditions 00:40 and looking at the spiritual analogy of these traditions. 00:44 You know, we've really been enjoying 00:47 a number of programs with Jeff Zaremsky. 00:50 Jeff, I just want to thank you for coming back again. 00:53 Now you are the president of Jewish Heritage. Right. 00:59 And that's www.jewishheritage.net. 01:03 .net. Okay. 01:04 And you're also a pastor, 01:09 rabbi teacher for the Beth-El Shalom Church 01:13 in St. Petersburg, Florida. Right. 01:16 And we're just so excited 01:17 that you've come back again. All right. 01:20 Jeff, you know what I want to do, 01:21 I want to share scripture with our viewers. 01:23 And I know you know this one, it's one of my favorites 01:26 and I think it goes along with our program today. 01:28 It's Isaiah 61:10. 01:31 Isaiah writes, "I will greatly rejoice in the Lord. 01:35 My soul will exalt in my God 01:37 for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation. 01:42 He has covered me 01:43 with the robe of righteousness." You know what? 01:45 Salvation has always, 01:48 always been by grace through faith. 01:51 And this Isaiah proves it, doesn't he? 01:53 That's right. That's right. 01:54 It's right there throughout the scriptures. Yes. 01:56 Now we've been talking with you in some past programs 02:00 about various ways to reach Jewish people for Jesus. 02:05 And we've been talking about a lot of interesting things 02:08 that have to do with Jewish customs, Jewish culture, 02:13 not only that but with the Bible, you know. 02:15 Now today we're really going to just kind of step back 02:19 and talk about some extra biblical things. 02:21 That's right. This is outside the Bible. 02:23 Outside the Bible. It's Jewish tradition. 02:24 But we see it ties in with the Bible. 02:26 We see that it has Bible principles in it, 02:28 but, yeah, the things themselves are traditions. 02:31 And you know there's a great-- 02:33 Have you noticed that there's 02:34 this great awakening 02:35 that people are really interested 02:37 in the Jewish roots of Christianity? 02:39 Yeah, that's right. 02:40 Now we have to be careful, 02:41 because we're not trying to by any means suggest that 02:46 we have to go back to all the ways of the Jews 02:48 and that's required or that keeping all the feasts 02:51 which we discussed last time. 02:52 It's impossible to do in first place, 02:54 but that this is required. 02:56 We're just looking into these things 02:58 because there is a-- 03:00 it's an avenue to spiritual enrichment 03:03 as we grow in knowledge. That's right. 03:06 So let's start with some of these traditions. Right. 03:09 And some of the ones we will be looking at now, 03:10 if not all of them were ones that Jesus grew up with. Okay. 03:15 Now again just because Jesus did them, 03:17 it doesn't mean that we have to do them, 03:18 because again they're outside the Bible. 03:20 But they were the traditions of His day, 03:22 He grew up Jewish. 03:23 And so it's interesting to know as we look at these things 03:26 of what the setting was that He grew up with. Yes. 03:29 And it does then help us to understand Him a little better 03:32 and understand the spiritual lessons 03:34 that we can learn that apply to our lives today. 03:37 And so that's what we're doing again, 03:39 so we want to make that clear 03:40 for our whole audience here that we're not judaizing the church. 03:44 We're just educating and learning 03:45 and learning from this culture of the Jewish 03:48 that Jesus grew up under. 03:50 Okay. All right. 03:51 So why don't we look at one of the first things 03:52 that we can talk about is Simchat Torah. 03:55 Simchat Torah. 03:56 And that's S-i-m-c-h-a-. Right. 03:59 Ch, if you're not, 'cause it's in Hebrew letters, 04:01 so the Ch is not a sound that we have in English, 04:03 it's the guttural German Kha sound like, in l'chaim. 04:08 Have you ever seen Fiddler on the Roof? 04:10 L'chaim, good. If you hadn't seen it. 04:12 Well, if you hadn't seen it, shame on you. 04:13 You need to watch Fiddler on the Roof 04:15 'cause it's on there-- Actually, I haven't seen it-- 04:16 Yeah, you need to watch it. 04:18 It's a great movie. It was applied with. 04:22 In it there was a song To Life, L'chaim. 04:25 I mean it's the same guttural sound. 04:27 Like in Hanukah or in Christmas, 04:29 you know, same Ch guttural sounds that Kha sound. 04:33 So Simchat Torah. 04:35 And Simchat is the word means celebration. 04:38 And so Simchat Torah is the celebration of the Torah. 04:41 Celebrating the Bible. Celebrating the Bible. 04:44 Celebrating God's word. 04:45 So that like-- 04:46 I have a program called exalting His voice, 04:48 so it's same thing. Exactly. 04:49 That's right, that's right. 04:50 And so on a yearly basis, 04:52 well, every week in the Jewish calendar, 04:55 every week the Torah is read through in portions. 05:00 And at the end of the year, the Torah is finished. 05:03 It started in Genesis 1 Bereishit, in the beginning. 05:06 In the beginning God created. 05:07 And it comes all the way around and we finished reading Torah 05:10 on the last day on Simchat Torah. 05:12 We celebrate the Torah. We march it around. 05:14 We rejoice in God's word. 05:16 And then we start all over again. 05:17 Huh, that's interesting. That's right. 05:19 So it's kind of-- 05:20 That would be an interesting thing to do at our home, 05:23 you know, with your children 05:24 and to, not gonna have to have children to do it, 05:27 but to read the Bible through every year 05:30 and as part of your personal devotions everyday 05:33 and then to celebrate the sanctity of this word. 05:36 We have the Bible story books, the blue covered by Maxwell. 05:40 We had the full 10 set volume and we read through that 05:42 with our daughter of our worship. 05:44 We read through that at least three or four times. 05:46 And every time we finish we read it again 05:48 and that's what we should do with our Bible 05:50 and that's the point I want to get at. 05:52 That we have this already Simchat Torah 05:53 and it's just a good reminder for us as Christians as, 05:57 you know, revere to believe us in the word of God, 05:59 to stay in the word of God. Amen. 06:01 It should never be, I read the Bible. Amen. 06:04 I have read it and I am continuing to read it. 06:06 Amen. Right. 06:08 And until we do that on that yearly basis 06:10 and that's a good thing for us to do. That's beautiful. 06:12 And to then honor the word of God. 06:14 Have respect for it. 06:16 And that's one of things in Rabbinic Judaism 06:19 there's this respect for the Torah, 06:21 there's respect for the word of God. It's honored. 06:24 You know where I got the title for the book 06:27 I wrote Exalting His Word of Psalm 138:2 06:30 where it says that, "God exalts His name 06:32 and His word above all things and He magnifies His word it 06:36 and above His name. That's right. 06:38 So if this is the thing that God exalts the most 06:41 and this is something that we should exalt as well. 06:43 I had a person say to me just a few weeks ago. 06:48 Young man, he said, "You know that sometimes 06:50 the Bible can get in the way of hearing God." 06:55 That is dangerous. 06:56 That is dangerous. That's what I thought. 06:58 Because the Bible is a number one way 07:00 that God speaks to us. Right, exactly. 07:02 That He's just going by impressions 07:04 and feelings. All right. 07:06 The Bible is exalted and centered stage all the time. 07:10 Jesus, of course, being the whole, 07:12 He is the word and that's a wonderful thing too. 07:15 As we think of the Torah, 07:16 the Torahs are written on lamb skin. 07:18 Yeah. Oh. Yeah. 07:19 And He is the word. 07:21 And He is the word made flesh. 07:22 And so as we celebrate Him, He is the living word. 07:26 It is very powerful. 07:27 The whole analogy, the whole symbolism there. 07:31 And so again getting us back into the word, 07:32 remembering the word, reading the word on a yearly basis. 07:36 Simchat Torah. 07:37 Right, very good. Now you're getting it. 07:38 You'll know the Hebrew by the time we're done it. 07:41 And another one that's always asked is the Yamaka. Yes. 07:44 Because it's visual, it's seen. 07:47 And it's also called that's the Irish terms is Yamaka. 07:52 Irish is a German Hebrew mixture 07:55 that came out of when Jews were living, 07:57 well, still living in Europe, but added European Judaism. 08:00 Ah, but in Hebrew it's called the Kippah. 08:03 And Kippah is the same, 08:05 has the same root as in Yom Kippur. 08:09 Yom Kippur matches up at the Day of Atonement 08:12 that literally means day of covering. 08:14 And so it's this covering, 08:15 it's just reminder that God is covering us at all times. 08:18 You know that's so beautiful 08:19 because there are so many people 08:21 who are so fearful of Yom Kippur and the judgment of God. 08:24 But He judges in favor of us 08:27 because of the atonement that the mercy-- 08:29 the propitiation of Jesus 08:31 in applying blood to the mercy seat. 08:33 That's right. And praise the Lord. 08:35 That's right that His grace covers us. 08:36 His grace covers us. 08:37 And so that's a reminder there of His covering, 08:40 His love covering us, His grace covering us. 08:43 It is beautiful analogy 08:44 that we don't have to fear the judgment. Amen. 08:46 We don't have to fear Yom Kippur. 08:47 We don't have to fear the Day of Atonement. 08:49 Now do you wear your Kippah always? 08:51 I don't. Personally, I don't. Oh. 08:53 I wear it at services. 08:54 And I'm wearing it for the show today 08:55 'cause we're talking about these things. Yes. 08:57 But no I don't. It's not in the Bible. 09:00 Oh, I mean it does mention in the Bible. 09:03 And some people get confused with these when Paul says, 09:05 "A man should not have his head covered." 09:08 Now Peter says that Paul says a lot of things 09:11 that are hard to understand, 09:12 in 2 Peter 3, one of the last verses. 09:16 He says, my beloved Paul, my beloved brother Paul 09:18 says a lot of things that are hard to understand. 09:20 And many people have taken 09:21 and twisted for their own destruction. 09:23 If Paul was saying that men shouldn't have his head cover. 09:26 He's taking about hat. 09:28 You shouldn't have his head anything on his head, 09:30 if that's what Paul was saying 09:31 and I don't believe that's what exactly what Paul was meaning. 09:34 If he was saying that then that would put him 09:37 in the classification of the false prophet, 09:39 because he'd be disagreeing with what God told Aaron to do. 09:42 God specifically told Aaron to put something on your head. 09:45 Now wear a mightier on your head 09:46 and Holiness to the Lord. 09:48 So obviously Paul was talking about 09:49 something else other than a hat on his head. 09:53 Throughout the chapter he talks more about hair 09:54 and it seems to have to do with this hair 09:56 and how they were cutting their hair 09:57 and pagan may be believes of doing their hair 10:00 or something like that more. 10:02 So it's not against the Bible but we don't need to, it's not-- 10:06 that was for the Levitical. 10:08 And again it's just that symbolism of cover. 10:10 And it's just now a tradition. 10:12 Right. It's a tradition. 10:13 And traditions that replace the Bible are bad. 10:16 Traditions that are just traditions that help 10:18 magnify the Bible or bring us back to the Bible are good. 10:20 Okay. Right. 10:21 And there are plenty of Christian's traditions 10:22 that are good 10:24 and so again traditions in and out itself are okay. 10:27 Okay, Kiddush. Kiddush is another thing. 10:29 Kiddush is a blessing that we say-- 10:33 of over the Jews. 10:36 And in the blessing we say the blessing 10:38 (speaking in foreign language). 10:41 Blessed art thou, O Lord our God, 10:43 King of the Universe, 10:44 creator of the fruit of the vine. 10:47 And that's exactly what Jesus says 10:49 in the Passover, the last supper, 10:52 the Lord's Supper recorded in the Gospels. 10:54 So He's saying again the same thing 10:55 that's been said for thousands of years 10:57 dated back before Jesus. 10:59 And in the blessing itself, it says the fruit of the vine. 11:03 Now is that sound fresh 11:05 or is that sound like something has been sitting 11:07 in a vine seller for few years. 11:08 Oh, that's fresh. Fresh. 11:10 Right of the vine, fresh of the vine. 11:12 And so the symbolism there that the grape juice, 11:14 grape juice, it's fresh and it's there for us. 11:16 And this blessing is called Kiddush. Right. 11:19 Saying the Kiddush, saying the blessing upon it. 11:23 And-- And you use this-- 11:26 For a lot of different ceremonies, 11:27 at wedding we'll have the Kiddush, 11:29 we'll have the blessing, the husband and the wife 11:32 will both drink from the cup. 11:35 On Sabbath, they bring in the Sabbath 11:36 we'll have the Kiddush cup and the-- 11:39 And as well as the hallow bread. 11:41 And hallow bread is a-- 11:43 and that's again it's a tradition, 11:46 it's not in the Bible 11:47 but it's a traditional Sabbath bread. 11:49 This is the three twisted together. 11:51 Very good. That's right. 11:52 You see the symbolism there. That's right. 11:55 It's a powerful symbolism of this bread intertwine. 11:58 In Sabbaths we have two loafs, 11:59 remembering the two double portions 12:01 on Sabbath on Friday night-- 12:03 on Friday of the manna that God poured out 12:05 so again reminding us of the Sabbath, 12:06 reminding us of the Bible, 12:08 reminding us of the three in one there 12:10 breaded together, blended together. 12:12 In some ways other than it has leaven, 12:13 it's kind of mini communion partaking of the-- 12:16 he's the bread of the life. 12:17 So every Sabbath we have that special ceremony, 12:20 partaking of the word of God, the bread, 12:22 Jesus the bread of life, who was born in Beth Lechem. 12:26 The Hebrew word for bread is Lechem. 12:30 And so Beth Lechem means house 12:32 'cause Beth is house. 12:34 House of bread, the bread of life 12:38 was born in the house of bread. 12:40 How interesting, I've never heard that before. 12:41 Right, oh yeah. 12:43 And so He's that bread of life, 12:45 born in the baker's house, born in the house 12:47 where the bread is baked 12:49 that the bread, the living bread came forth. 12:51 "Man shall not live by bread alone, 12:53 but by every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord." 12:56 That's right, that's right. 12:57 Yeah, and He said, "Eat of my flesh 12:58 and drink of my blood." 12:59 And so there again that Kiddush ceremony of the-- 13:03 with the hallow bread and the bread, right. 13:06 And so-- And that vine, 13:08 the vine again fresh juice of the wine, 13:10 juice, symbolism of his blood. Yes. 13:14 May this cup pass from me. 13:16 And you know, because it is a symbolism 13:17 of his bread and blood. 13:18 We know that it is not fermented 13:21 because it has to be the pure. 13:24 Absolutely. Yeah, it can't be dying. 13:26 You know He's the living. He's alive, right. 13:29 That whole fermented juice 13:32 destroys the whole symbolism of His blood and His salvation, 13:35 His purity, His righteousness without sin. 13:37 And so we reminded of that 13:39 again in Sabbath as we do that ceremony. 13:41 Bringing in the Sabbath that way, 13:43 reminded of His blood, reminded of His sacrifice, 13:45 reminded of the three in one, 13:46 and so it's just a beautiful little ceremony to do. 13:49 Now the end of Sabbath, 13:51 oh, there's also the Sabbath candles. 13:53 Lighting of the candles. He is the light of the world. 13:55 He brings light into our home and again the light of-- 13:59 He's the light of life and so His glory shines. 14:02 And you do that the lighting of candles Friday evening. 14:04 That's right. Okay. 14:05 Right. In the start of Sabbath. Okay. 14:07 And again these are just traditions 14:09 and they don't have to be done 14:10 but they do have some nice symbolism. 14:12 And lot-- I know a lot of Christians 14:14 who do this in the beginning of the Sabbath. 14:16 You know, to welcoming the Sabbath 14:18 and it's a nice to have these traditions. 14:21 It's good reminders. Yes. 14:22 And especially with the kids that help to train them 14:24 and it's that visual that helps them to see the living word. 14:27 And makes it enjoyable, 14:28 makes it something special and fun. 14:30 Right, right and tasteful. Yes. 14:32 So it tastes good. 14:33 You're drinking the juice, you're eating the bread 14:35 and you want to see the lights. 14:37 And at the end to the service we add the sense of smell. 14:39 At Havdalah service. 14:41 Havdalah means separation, 14:45 because God had separated the Holy from the secular, 14:50 the Sabbath from the rest of the week. Okay. 14:52 And so there is a ceremony that's ending the Sabbath. 14:57 Instead of wanting to just rush the Sabbath is over, 14:59 now I can do whatever I want, you know. 15:01 But to linger a little longer and enjoy it with the ceremony. 15:05 And in the Havdalah ceremony, there is a spice box. 15:10 They come in various shapes, forms which has spices, 15:13 when we say blessing over that, 15:15 thanking God for the various kinds of spices, 15:18 so you have the sense of smell. 15:20 And so we sniff that and it's kind of like-- 15:24 they say our sense smell is-- 15:26 we've the longest memory on sense of smell. 15:29 You smell something like, you know, grandma's cooking 15:31 and then years and years and years later 15:32 you smell that again, 15:33 your memory goes right back to it. 15:36 And so remembering of God's creation, 15:38 flowers that He created, 15:40 the ability to smell things that He is the blessing, 15:43 it's kind of like lingering, 15:44 that lingering smell that-- Aroma. 15:47 The aroma, just longing to keep the Sabbath, 15:49 to hold on to the Sabbath, did not want it to end. 15:52 And so we have that beauty of that-- 15:54 Christ, the aroma. 15:55 He is the aroma, He is-- that's right. 15:57 That sweet aroma, that's right, very good 15:59 that He's sacrifice for us, so we're smelling aroma. 16:02 Again you think of the sacrifices. 16:04 God calls that a sweet smelling aroma. Yes. 16:06 I doubt that the burning flesh 16:08 and the burning hair really was sweet smelling to the human 16:12 but the God-- because it represented Himself 16:15 dying for our sins. Amazing. 16:17 And making atonement for us, granting us forgiveness 16:20 and opening the way for us into heaven. 16:22 And that's the Havdalah. 16:24 Right, Havdalah. Say it again. 16:26 Havdalah. 16:27 Havdalah. Right. 16:28 And it's emphasis on the first syllable Havdalah. 16:31 Um, Havdalah. 16:34 I don't know whatever is there in that. 16:35 That's close, Havdalah, yeah, okay. 16:37 And then so we got the spices. 16:38 And then we also again have the juice. 16:41 And so we drink the juices, 16:43 he had the blessing on the juice, the same thing. 16:44 Then when we poured overflowing. 16:46 God's blessing, we had the Sabbath, 16:48 it's just been an overflowing time of God's blessings. 16:50 He's promised to bless the Sabbath 16:51 which we enter into, we receive His blessings. 16:54 And then we light a-- 16:55 And what are you doing overflowing, I miss that. 16:59 The juice, pour the juice in 17:00 and it's overflowing on the cup now. Okay. 17:02 Into other cup, 17:04 into like a basin or a cup under and so it overflows. 17:07 And then we take this Havdalah candle 17:09 which is a braided candle, not always three, 17:13 but it's a braided candle, 17:14 but again more than one braided together, 17:16 has to be at least more than one wick 17:18 and it's braided together like the challah bread, 17:20 twisted together, but it's one candle, 17:23 still one with several wicks. 17:25 One because it's braded as one, 17:27 it's soled in one box, it come together as one. 17:29 And it's lit and its bright light, 17:31 so all those wicks. 17:32 And again He is the light of the world 17:35 and the light of the Sabbath. 17:36 And then we take it and we extinguish it 17:40 out into the juice that overflowed 17:45 as the Sabbath is ending, 17:46 Sabbath light is being extinguished for the week 17:50 until we light it again at the end of next week, 17:53 yeah, the end of the week. 17:56 But also Jesus our light, the light of the world, 17:58 the three in one was extinguished 18:00 His blood were shed for us, He died in shedding His blood, 18:04 He's extinguished for us. 18:07 And He-- you know, 18:08 but then He has been resurrected and lives again. 18:10 And so we start it fresh and start it new 18:12 and so it's separating-- 18:14 I bet as you're explaining all of these traditions 18:16 to the Jewish person who's really never embraced the gospel 18:22 or never embraced Christ as Messiah. 18:25 It must be so amazing. 18:27 Oh, it's mind blowing, it's mind blowing 18:28 because otherwise it's just kind of the routine tradition 18:31 we just do it. 18:32 We don't know often I say now why. 18:34 When you look at it in light of the cross, 18:36 in light of the Bible, 18:37 in light of all that is there in the scriptures, 18:39 in light of-- especially in the light of the Jesus, 18:42 it's a very, very powerful as we see it. 18:45 Now at the end of Havdalah we sing a song 18:47 and the song is called Elijah the Prophet, 18:52 Eliyahu HaNavi. Eliyahu HaNavi. 18:56 Right, right. Elijah the Prophet. 18:57 And it says, "May Elijah come quickly 19:01 in our day with Mashiach ben David, 19:05 with Messiah the son of David." 19:07 This song goes way, way back and that's why the disciples 19:10 and everyone ask this to John the Baptist. 19:13 Are you Elijah? 19:15 So this song is sung at the Havdalah service-- 19:20 Havdalah service at the end of the Sabbath. Okay. 19:21 At the end of Sabbath service. 19:22 So still today and it dates back again thousands of years, 19:26 it's something that Jesus heard, 19:27 it's something that Peter heard, 19:28 Paul heard, they sung and did 19:30 and that's why again they all knew 19:33 that Elijah had to come before the Messiah, 19:36 Son of David. That's interesting. 19:38 And so it's always been there and of course, 19:40 Elijah did come, Jesus said, it was John, the Baptist, 19:44 the message of Elijah anyway and then he is the Messiah, 19:46 Son of David. 19:48 That is so interesting. That's fascinating. 19:50 And then we'll say, Shavua Tov which means have a good week. 19:53 So again very, very visual, very clear demarcation 19:57 that the Sabbath is ending, we're going out, 19:59 and we're remembering it, 20:00 pausing here before we go on into our secular week, 20:04 the Holy and the secular. 20:07 Another thing we can talk about is mezuzah. 20:09 Are you familiar with mezuzah, does it sound-- 20:11 You know, actually I don't know what the mezuzah is? Okay. 20:13 It's a-- have you ever seen on a Jewish home 20:15 a little box hung on the door. 20:17 Oh, yes. Okay. 20:19 Tilted at kind of a 45 degree angle 20:21 and this is the blessing symbols, 20:23 and we've the blessing going in. 20:25 And this tradition is taken from Deuteronomy 6, 20:28 actually few different places where-- 20:30 Put it on your doorpost. Right. 20:32 Write these laws that I command you 20:33 this day on your doorposts, 20:35 on your hands, on your forehead, 20:37 on your heart. Yes. 20:38 Now obviously He's saying write it on your heart. 20:40 He's talking symbolic all throughout. Right. 20:43 He doesn't want us to have open heart surgery 20:45 and put a little box in there with the scriptures inside it. 20:48 But traditional Judaism 20:51 or Benedict Judaism has place 20:53 with the box on the door tilting in. 20:56 And the scriptures from Deuteronomy 6 inside it-- 20:59 well, some other texts. 21:03 But there is that symbolism of having God's word 21:07 taught in our home 21:08 and that's what I believe God was meaning, 21:10 write these laws not just on the doorposts 21:13 but as you enter and as you leave, 21:15 have it spoken in your home, have it lived out in your home, 21:18 as you go out into society, 21:20 be living out the word of God. Amen. 21:23 Allowed to fill your heart 21:24 and life and comes through fully and completely. 21:28 And the interesting thing is where it says, 21:30 this is where again were the tradition goes off. 21:33 The text says, "Write these laws that I command you this day." 21:37 But you know which laws he commanded this day 21:39 that's in Deuteronomy 6 which was the laws 21:40 that He commanded that day. 21:42 Hebrews, we're viewing the Ten Commandments. 21:45 The Ten Commandments, Deuteronomy 5 right, 21:46 so obviously referring to the ones in Deuteronomy 5. 21:49 But that's not unfortunately 21:50 what's put into traditional Jewish mezuzah. 21:52 Instead of the Ten Commandments of Deuteronomy 5 put in, 21:55 the texts from Deuteronomy 6 that are the instructions, 21:58 let's say put these laws on your doorpost 22:01 that's what put inside. 22:02 But God's wanting the law not again just on the doorposts 22:05 but in the home, lived out in the home. 22:07 Sometimes it's easy to be nice at work or at church 22:11 or at services and then to be miserable at home-- 22:15 and so in the privacy-- 22:18 God wants to be lived out inside and out. 22:21 And then T'fillian, T'fillian. 22:23 Jesus talks about T'fillian, 22:24 so obviously again they were wearing it back in His day-- 22:26 T'fillian. Right. 22:30 Phylacteries is where it's translated sometimes. 22:33 It says you may broad your phylacteries, 22:35 the boxes on the head and on the arm. 22:39 And what's interesting with that, 22:41 okay, there again from the same commandments 22:43 to write these on your hands and on your forehead. 22:46 Well the Mark of Beast is on the forehead 22:50 and on the hand as well. Yes. 22:52 So here's, we got the two, 22:54 God's saying write my laws 22:56 that I command you this day on your hand 23:00 and on your forehead and on your heart 23:03 and on your doorpost. 23:04 So He's wanting His laws lived out in our homes, 23:06 lived out in society, in our actions, 23:09 in our thoughts in the forehead, in our thoughts, 23:12 that what we decide and in what we do, 23:15 all that your hand find it to do, 23:17 do it with all your mind. 23:18 And so the hand representing our actions. 23:21 So write these laws into your actions, 23:23 live them out, live out my laws 23:25 and then write them on your heart love them, 23:28 that God will write His laws into our hearts and minds. 23:31 He's not forcing us to do it. 23:32 He's not stirring up our own passion 23:37 to make us to do that's legalism. 23:39 But when Jesus is in the heart and Jesus is in there 23:41 and Jesus is then writing His law that He wrote, 23:44 it was with His finger that wrote it. 23:45 He's in there, He's living the law out of us 23:48 and through us in our actions, in our thoughts, in our life. 23:52 And so then that makes the Mark of the Beast. 23:56 I will get into that whole big topic 23:57 on your show here today. 23:58 The counterfeit is just the opposite 24:01 in a brief synopsis of what the Mark of Beast is? 24:04 It's the seal of God, it's breaking the laws. 24:06 The seal of God is write this laws on your forehead, 24:09 on your hand and then on your heart. 24:10 And the opposite is teaching 24:13 not to or breaking with your actions 24:15 and with your thoughts and choosing to break the law. 24:17 That's a simple way to put it. 24:18 Simple way to put it, right, right. 24:19 And then we can look at the prayer shawl. 24:25 Everybody has been waiting for you 24:26 to get to that. That's right. 24:27 Looking into that, the tallit. The tallit. 24:30 They are white, most of them are white. 24:32 And again the symbolism of the colors, 24:34 white representing the purity, 24:36 spotless, Jesus is pure and holy, 24:39 blue and that all meant blue, 24:41 but blue represent the law 24:42 and gold faith and these coverings 24:44 and now we see throughout the scripture. 24:46 Okay, now you said that a little bit fast. Okay. 24:48 White is purity, the blue is for the law 24:51 and gold is for faith. 24:52 Right. Okay. 24:53 Gold tried in the fire. 24:55 The faith that goes through trails 24:56 and lives through. Right. 24:58 And the royalty of the law representing in the blue. 25:02 Now we see the tallit used throughout the scriptures. 25:07 And I don't even know we have the time to cover them all, 25:09 but we see a lot, you see Elisha, 25:11 when he comes he calls Elisha 25:14 and he throws his mantle over on him. 25:17 Tallit. Yeah. 25:18 It's that authority, you gonna be 25:20 the next prophet, take my tallit. 25:23 They go down the Jordon River 25:24 and he takes it off and he-- 25:26 Slaps the river. Right. 25:27 And then he ascends up into heaven in the chariot, 25:30 and he says to Elisha, if you see me, go up 25:33 and you'll get a double portion of my spirit. 25:35 He goes up, Elisha sees him and he drop his mantle. 25:39 And Elisha picks it up, 25:41 goes back to the Jordon River and says, 25:43 where is the God of Elisha 25:46 and so that tallit, the covering. 25:49 And then when Elisha, then goes into the cave 25:55 and he's hidden in the cave. 1 Kings 19. 25:58 Right, after the Carmel experience, 25:59 Mount Carmel experience. 26:01 It says that he covered his face with his mantle. Yes. Yes. 26:04 And that's when he heard God's still small voice speak to him. 26:09 Other experiences we have, well, seeing on time, 26:12 we're going to just cut, I'll go to Jesus. 26:16 First explain, why are the knots? Okay. 26:18 Yes, the knots are, those are some traditions 26:21 and the knots on the ends here are way of counting up 26:24 to the laws in the Torah. 26:26 613 and so there is a method of a knot 26:30 and certain twist and so again back to the Bible. 26:33 Now when someone is praying with a prayer shawl. 26:36 Do they do what--Elisha did and covering their face. 26:39 That's why Jesus calls it your prayer closet. Okay. 26:42 Entering into your prayer closet, 26:43 you're cutting out and then you can physically hear through 26:45 but it is symbolism of closing your eyes, 26:47 covering your eyes, covering your ears, 26:49 covering the avenues to the soul. 26:51 Entering in under God's righteousness, 26:53 under Jesus' righteousness 26:55 and that's back to that text 26:56 that you talked that you read in the beginning 26:57 that God has cloth, that He is clothed 27:00 and then you have Zachariah, take off the filthy garments, 27:04 clothe him in righteous garments-- 27:06 These are so fascinating and I can't believe 27:08 we are already out of time 27:09 but what we've talked about today 27:11 is just these are some traditions of the Jewish people 27:16 that have a great spiritual analogy 27:18 and we're not saying you have to do them 27:20 but these are just so wonderful things to learn. 27:23 Thank you so much for being with us today again. 27:26 Thank you, Shelly. All right. 27:27 I'm sorry we are all out of time. 27:29 You know, I hope that you've enjoyed this, 27:31 I think it's been fascinating to see these are things 27:34 that Jesus did when He was growing up 27:37 and when he walked the face of the earth. 27:39 These are some of the traditions that He followed. 27:41 Now they are not in the Bible, they are extra biblical. 27:43 But they certainly don't contrary 27:46 to what's in the Bible. 27:47 Well, for now we have to say good bye. 27:50 May the grace of our Lord Jesus, the love of the Father 27:52 and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you. |
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