WEBVTT 00:01.890 --> 00:03.070 Shalom, y'all. 00:06.940 --> 00:09.940 So, first of all, I would like to say thank you. 00:09.980 --> 00:15.360 Thank you, Becky and Rob and David, for your invitation and hospitality and 00:15.360 --> 00:15.920 generosity. 00:17.060 --> 00:24.740 My plan for the rest of you guys today is to get you excited about the fact that 00:24.740 --> 00:34.120 after 2,000 years of silence, the Gospel is now finally being shared again in the 00:34.120 --> 00:35.020 land of Israel. 00:40.960 --> 00:47.640 And I would also share with you the three main reasons why Jewish people do not 00:47.640 --> 00:49.160 follow Jesus. 00:49.780 --> 00:56.280 As some of you already know, our ministry, One for Israel, became the leading 00:56.280 --> 01:02.340 evangelistic initiative in Israel, sharing the Gospel with millions of Jews 01:02.340 --> 01:03.700 all over Israel. 01:05.680 --> 01:11.120 But before I dive into that, I would like to apologize to you all in advance. 01:11.620 --> 01:18.580 As an Israeli Jew, English is my second language, which, by the way, I've learned 01:18.580 --> 01:20.240 mainly by watching Seinfeld. 01:22.140 --> 01:23.380 True story. 01:24.020 --> 01:24.700 True story. 01:25.960 --> 01:30.320 So, you know, if here and there I get stuck, show me some grace. 01:31.380 --> 01:39.040 Up until a few years ago, Jewish Israelis coming to know Jesus as their Messiah used 01:39.040 --> 01:42.080 to be an extremely rare happening. 01:43.020 --> 01:47.360 In fact, 70 years ago, with the reestablishment of the State of Israel, 01:48.200 --> 01:56.000 there were only 30 Jewish believers in Jesus all over Israel. 01:56.460 --> 01:57.660 Just 30. 01:58.100 --> 02:02.860 But in the last four or five years, we see a dramatic change. 02:03.440 --> 02:06.700 And that is what I will be talking to you about today. 02:07.540 --> 02:14.100 First, I'm going to show you on the screens a short three-minute video that 02:14.100 --> 02:18.820 explains kind of everything that One for Israel is because I'm only going to be 02:18.820 --> 02:20.920 concentrating on one thing. 02:21.300 --> 02:21.560 Enjoy. 02:23.900 --> 02:29.040 Over the last 70 years, Israelis have been at the center of the struggle, 02:30.040 --> 02:34.020 hungry for meaning, asking questions and searching for answers. 02:35.080 --> 02:40.880 Many find joy in the comfort of the world, while others drown in the sorrow of 02:40.880 --> 02:41.440 disappointment. 02:43.640 --> 02:49.340 But some have found the answer in one name, Jesus, or as we call him in Hebrew, 02:49.800 --> 02:50.320 Yeshua. 02:51.760 --> 02:56.260 One for Israel is an initiative of native-born Israelis who are on the 02:56.260 --> 03:02.000 forefront of high-tech evangelism, bringing salvation to Israel, raising up 03:02.000 --> 03:06.820 leaders and equipping them with the tools they need to transform their communities. 03:07.800 --> 03:12.860 And with an emphasis on winning souls, building disciples and sending leaders, 03:13.340 --> 03:18.300 we promote the kingdom of God to both Jews and Arabs throughout the land of Israel. 03:18.560 --> 03:22.900 Our Bible college has now grown into a certified educational institution, 03:23.240 --> 03:28.240 offering bachelor's and master's degree programs, bringing Jews and Arabs together 03:28.240 --> 03:33.220 in the classroom and experiencing peace and unity in the name of Yeshua. 03:33.220 --> 03:39.320 From our campus, located in central Israel, we work together to proclaim the 03:39.320 --> 03:44.360 gospel of the Messiah through websites, a radio station, a television studio, 03:44.740 --> 03:48.640 classroom instruction, and our largest Christian library in Israel. 03:49.140 --> 03:54.540 Training, equipping, and providing a platform for the gospel to go forth. 03:55.040 --> 03:59.220 Also, in partnership with local authorities, we provide humanitarian aid 03:59.220 --> 04:04.200 to Holocaust survivors, caring for each and every generation with the love of 04:04.200 --> 04:04.600 Yeshua. 04:05.660 --> 04:11.360 Israel has always been on the cutting edge of internet technology, and with more 04:11.360 --> 04:17.620 Israelis online per capita than even the United States, Israel continues to be ripe 04:17.620 --> 04:20.280 for evangelism on the digital frontier. 04:21.460 --> 04:27.500 iGod, Messiah, Isaiah 53, Ex-Rabbi, and I Met Messiah, among others, 04:27.940 --> 04:33.120 are all tools and outlets provided by One for Israel, so that Jewish people can 04:33.120 --> 04:36.800 hear, receive, and grow in their knowledge of the Messiah. 04:37.080 --> 04:41.740 We want to promote the message of the gospel in the land of Israel, through the 04:41.740 --> 04:44.400 cooperation of Christians worldwide. 04:45.180 --> 04:51.360 Together, we can care for, educate, and reach out to both Jews and Arabs in 04:51.360 --> 04:52.180 the land of Israel. 05:03.600 --> 05:08.820 As a native-born Israeli who has experienced firsthand the transforming 05:08.820 --> 05:13.800 power of the gospel of the Messiah, I would like to invite you personally to 05:13.800 --> 05:17.780 extend a helping hand and become One for Israel. 05:26.490 --> 05:32.010 Okay, on the screen you saw the president of One for Israel, my boss, Dr. El Soref. 05:32.150 --> 05:33.390 This is my other boss. 05:35.350 --> 05:40.150 And you can pray for us, and later on you will learn why and how. 05:41.050 --> 05:44.710 I myself came to know the Lord about 20 years ago. 05:45.370 --> 05:50.910 Some of you are now looking at me and asking yourself, were you even alive 20 05:50.910 --> 05:51.390 years ago? 05:52.610 --> 05:55.110 I'm actually 35, I just look young. 05:55.890 --> 06:01.850 And I came to know the Lord because I was challenged and provoked to jealousy by 06:01.850 --> 06:07.150 Gentile Christian believers, while I visited Canada for a few weeks. 06:08.070 --> 06:13.390 And God really blessed me in the ability to combine two of my greatest passions in 06:13.390 --> 06:13.690 life. 06:13.830 --> 06:18.770 One of them is my professional background, which is media and advertisements. 06:18.770 --> 06:23.570 And the other one is the world of the Bible, theology, the gospel. 06:23.870 --> 06:27.730 And I'm actually about to just now complete my doctorate with Dallas 06:27.730 --> 06:29.030 Theological Seminary. 06:29.590 --> 06:31.670 Don't worry, I'm not... thank you. 06:35.070 --> 06:37.410 I'm not pre... I'm not anything. 06:40.230 --> 06:45.730 Today my role with One for Israel is the director of evangelism and apologetics. 06:46.350 --> 06:47.850 And let's talk about that. 06:47.850 --> 06:51.210 Let's talk about evangelism and Israel today. 06:53.090 --> 06:57.530 Now, in Israel today we have 9 million people. 06:58.750 --> 07:05.670 And only 0.3% of them are born again Jewish believers in Jesus. 07:06.590 --> 07:07.810 How come? 07:08.930 --> 07:13.510 You would expect the numbers in Israel to be the other way around. 07:13.510 --> 07:17.770 Israel, after all, is where the gospel came from. 07:18.690 --> 07:21.710 Jesus was an Israeli Jew. 07:21.870 --> 07:24.010 The disciples were Israeli Jews. 07:24.310 --> 07:25.330 You know, just like me. 07:25.710 --> 07:27.190 So, how come? 07:27.210 --> 07:30.190 How come the numbers are so, so few? 07:31.230 --> 07:34.310 There are three main reasons to that. 07:35.010 --> 07:40.030 To the reason why Israel is an anti-Jesus nation today. 07:41.010 --> 07:47.210 Reason number one is replacement theology and anti-Semitism. 07:47.890 --> 07:54.550 For 2,000 years now, many in the church did not really know what to do with this 07:54.550 --> 07:56.450 concept of Israel. 07:57.090 --> 08:04.050 After all, a nation with no language, a nation with no land up until 70 years 08:04.050 --> 08:07.530 ago, is basically a nation without hope. 08:07.530 --> 08:14.730 You know that history teaches us that most nations disappear within three to five 08:14.730 --> 08:18.950 generations in that situation that we've been in for 2,000 years. 08:19.910 --> 08:25.670 So, when many of the church fathers realized that most Israel rejected the 08:25.670 --> 08:30.770 gospel, they thought God probably replaced Israel. 08:31.390 --> 08:37.450 Teaching that God changed His mind about the promises He gave Israel in the Old 08:37.450 --> 08:37.870 Testament. 08:38.570 --> 08:42.610 But in Romans chapter 11, Paul is arguing against it. 08:43.130 --> 08:44.470 Teaching about the remnant. 08:45.070 --> 08:47.850 He himself being one of the remnant. 08:48.510 --> 08:49.270 So am I. 08:49.950 --> 08:53.950 And he says, I ask then, did God reject His people? 08:54.330 --> 08:55.610 By no means. 08:56.030 --> 08:57.990 I am an Israelite myself. 08:58.310 --> 09:01.990 A descendant of Abraham from the tribe of Benjamin. 09:02.650 --> 09:06.870 God did not reject His people whom He foreknew. 09:09.450 --> 09:16.750 So, the problem is that replacement theology oftentimes leads to 09:16.750 --> 09:17.810 anti-Semitism. 09:18.610 --> 09:23.090 And if we look at the church history, that's exactly what we see. 09:23.790 --> 09:25.030 You know, a few examples. 09:25.290 --> 09:26.090 The Crusades. 09:27.310 --> 09:28.510 The Inquisition. 09:29.350 --> 09:35.010 In Inquisition, if you don't know, it's when Jews would be forced to convert 09:35.010 --> 09:37.550 to Christianity against their will. 09:37.890 --> 09:40.330 And they had to choose that or dying. 09:41.310 --> 09:41.910 Pogroms. 09:41.910 --> 09:47.610 Pogroms mainly happened in the 19th and 20th century in East Europe. 09:48.310 --> 09:53.070 Where mainly Catholics would come in the middle of the night into Jewish villages. 09:53.830 --> 09:56.530 Put the village on fire and massacre the people. 09:57.430 --> 09:59.150 Including some of my own family. 10:00.330 --> 10:01.050 Blood labels. 10:01.050 --> 10:05.790 Blood labels is when Christians used to tell one another, also Eastern Europe 10:05.790 --> 10:11.850 mainly, that during Passover, we Jews kidnap Christian kids. 10:12.710 --> 10:17.670 We kill them and we turn them into matzo balls for our Passover meal. 10:18.310 --> 10:20.690 Now, this is obviously a big, fat lie. 10:21.230 --> 10:22.270 We never did that. 10:22.770 --> 10:24.890 We turned them into gefilte fish. 10:28.630 --> 10:30.910 Another example is the Holocaust. 10:30.910 --> 10:37.090 My grandmother was able to escape the Holocaust not before she was tortured by 10:37.090 --> 10:37.610 the Nazis. 10:38.690 --> 10:42.770 Who did things to her such as pull the nails out of her fingers. 10:43.290 --> 10:45.970 Telling her that that's because she rejected Christ. 10:47.110 --> 10:53.450 If you go to the Holocaust Museum in Israel, you'll see a big picture of the 10:53.450 --> 10:57.910 Pope and Adolf Hitler together shaking hands with one another. 10:59.150 --> 11:02.410 My point is not to criticize the Catholic Church. 11:02.490 --> 11:10.430 My point is to show you how we Jews automatically associate you all, 11:11.550 --> 11:15.450 Gentile Christians, with this horrible history. 11:16.110 --> 11:19.850 We Jews think that all Christians are under the Pope. 11:20.450 --> 11:25.670 And we Jews think that, to some degree, all Christians dislike us. 11:25.670 --> 11:33.270 And that is why it's very easy for us Jews to put you all in a box and ignore your 11:33.270 --> 11:37.610 Gentile message and ignore your Gentile God. 11:41.080 --> 11:46.700 But, you know, we cannot really escape... I cannot escape my Jewishness, 11:46.780 --> 11:48.840 even as a follower of Jesus. 11:49.460 --> 11:52.900 I mean, you only have to look at my big Jewish nose to realize that. 11:54.180 --> 11:59.540 And we and our team, we are not something foreign, something different, who speaks 11:59.540 --> 12:01.140 this other language and looks different. 12:01.260 --> 12:02.380 We are one of them. 12:03.000 --> 12:04.980 You know, we are Jews ourselves. 12:05.200 --> 12:05.840 We are Israelis. 12:06.040 --> 12:06.920 We speak Hebrew. 12:07.320 --> 12:10.040 By the way, my French accent is not French. 12:10.140 --> 12:11.100 It's Israeli accent. 12:14.260 --> 12:17.200 And that all leads me to reason number two. 12:18.060 --> 12:25.020 Reason number two, I call it blind love to Israel, sometimes. 12:25.720 --> 12:30.480 And it's sometimes also known as dual covenant theology. 12:30.760 --> 12:37.500 Which basically means that we Jews are saved just because we are Jews, 12:37.860 --> 12:43.420 having nothing to do to our faith or unfaith in Jesus. 12:43.420 --> 12:48.400 So if we are saved without Jesus, nobody needs to tell us. 12:48.820 --> 12:50.840 There is no reason to tell us about Jesus. 12:51.420 --> 12:52.520 So that's reason number two. 12:53.140 --> 12:56.660 And this one is pretty much the other extreme of the first reason. 12:58.200 --> 13:05.660 It's the kind of people who love to quote to me Psalm 122, pray for the peace of 13:05.660 --> 13:06.080 Jerusalem. 13:06.500 --> 13:12.000 But they never ever quote Paul's prayer in Romans chapter 10. 13:12.000 --> 13:19.680 My heart's desire and my prayer to God for Israel is for their salvation. 13:21.870 --> 13:28.960 So I believe that the peace King David was praying for, that we all love to quote, 13:29.700 --> 13:33.800 will only happen when Paul's prayer will become true. 13:34.630 --> 13:41.220 And I know most of you probably know by heart Genesis 12.3, I will bless those who 13:41.220 --> 13:41.720 bless you. 13:42.280 --> 13:47.480 But my question is, what does it mean to bless Israel? 13:47.960 --> 13:49.340 How do you bless Israel? 13:49.720 --> 13:56.940 If your love for Israel is only expressed as a political love and support, 13:57.360 --> 14:00.940 then that is not really blessing Israel. 14:01.760 --> 14:09.060 I want to share with you the top causes evangelical Christians in the world give 14:09.060 --> 14:14.740 money to in Israel the most, thinking they are blessing Israel. 14:16.000 --> 14:20.040 And this is mainly for building Israel physically. 14:20.880 --> 14:27.760 Building religious schools, building synagogues, building settlements, 14:28.200 --> 14:28.620 etc. 14:29.480 --> 14:31.620 And I'll show you one example. 14:32.060 --> 14:36.280 A well-known guy from here in Texas, Pastor Hagi. 14:36.660 --> 14:43.400 And a couple of years ago he put together a large event where he gave over $3 14:43.400 --> 14:46.840 million to 23 Israeli organizations. 14:47.460 --> 14:49.560 By the way, that's public knowledge. 14:50.140 --> 14:52.040 Now, that is very generous of him. 14:53.800 --> 15:00.620 But guess how many of these organizations in Israel that the Christian money came 15:00.620 --> 15:03.860 from were of believers in Jesus? 15:05.260 --> 15:06.100 None. 15:06.780 --> 15:07.900 Absolutely none. 15:09.360 --> 15:17.400 So while these are not bad causes that the money goes to, we believe that if you 15:17.400 --> 15:23.780 don't bless Israel by building us spiritually, meaning if you're not sharing 15:23.780 --> 15:30.100 with us about our Jesus, our Messiah, then are you really blessing us? 15:30.560 --> 15:33.200 Or are you just sending us to hell on a full stomach? 15:38.810 --> 15:44.790 I believe that your calling as Christian Gentiles is not to buy us more tanks or 15:44.790 --> 15:46.310 build more religious schools. 15:46.310 --> 15:53.090 Your calling as Christian Gentiles is first and foremost to provoke us to 15:53.090 --> 15:53.570 jealousy. 15:54.350 --> 16:00.650 And we need to be jealous of your relationship with our God, which is only 16:00.650 --> 16:04.750 available and only possible through Jesus Christ. 16:08.460 --> 16:14.080 Okay, this leads me to reason number three. 16:14.910 --> 16:22.740 And that is what the rabbis, what our rabbis teach us about Jesus in those 16:22.740 --> 16:28.540 synagogues and religious schools that some of you maybe helped build. 16:29.960 --> 16:33.280 Okay, let's talk about the word Jesus, about the name Jesus. 16:33.860 --> 16:38.880 The connotation of Jesus in the West, you know, like Europe and here in the 16:38.880 --> 16:42.080 States, is usually pretty positive. 16:42.840 --> 16:48.500 You know, people might not like Christianity, they might not like 16:48.500 --> 16:54.100 Christians, but they're usually okay and maybe even positive with Jesus himself. 16:54.460 --> 17:00.160 If you take Jesus to Islam, he's a great prophet. 17:00.620 --> 17:04.220 It's also, it's positive, they don't see him as the son of God, but he's a prophet, 17:04.340 --> 17:04.840 it's positive. 17:04.840 --> 17:10.740 If you take Jesus to Asia, I mean, they already believe in what, 300 million 17:10.740 --> 17:11.120 gods? 17:11.280 --> 17:12.560 What's one more, you know? 17:14.320 --> 17:24.280 Only in Judaism is where Jesus has this extremely, extremely negative connotation. 17:24.600 --> 17:27.080 We already saw why, but there is more to it. 17:28.860 --> 17:32.860 I'm going to share with you a history lesson, a short history lesson. 17:33.820 --> 17:44.600 Okay, almost 2,000 years ago, back in 132 AD, a guy called Simon Bar Kokhba led the 17:44.600 --> 17:48.620 third Jewish revolt against the Roman Empire. 17:49.360 --> 17:56.040 When halfway through the revolt, Rabbi Akiva declared Simon Bar Kokhba, 17:56.320 --> 18:02.340 who by the way was a soldier famous of his barbaric cruelty, to be the Messiah. 18:02.340 --> 18:08.080 In the beginning of the revolt, the Jewish followers of Jesus agreed to 18:08.080 --> 18:13.760 help in what seemed at the beginning to be a campaign to fight for and protect the 18:13.760 --> 18:16.460 land of Israel and especially Jerusalem. 18:17.140 --> 18:23.000 However, after Rabbi Akiva's declaration that Bar Kokhba is the Messiah, 18:23.420 --> 18:27.680 the Jewish believers in Jesus had to withdraw from the revolt because 18:27.680 --> 18:30.740 obviously, this dude is not the Messiah. 18:30.740 --> 18:32.000 We are not going to follow him. 18:33.180 --> 18:39.480 Rabbi Akiva and the Sanhedrin took it really, really bad, and they considered us 18:39.480 --> 18:42.560 to be traitors of Judaism from that point on. 18:43.000 --> 18:49.180 Leading them to create rules against followers, Jewish followers of Jesus, 18:49.720 --> 18:54.480 in order to basically kick us out of the synagogues, kick us out of Judaism. 18:54.480 --> 19:01.180 These laws forbidden other Jews to even associate with followers of Jesus. 19:02.080 --> 19:09.640 Until today, three times a day in every synagogue, they repeat the Birkat Haminim, 19:10.060 --> 19:13.320 which is benediction concerning the heretics. 19:13.660 --> 19:14.760 Guess who are the heretics? 19:15.660 --> 19:20.500 A prayer that is basically cursing Jesus and his followers. 19:21.280 --> 19:25.580 And we, as followers of Jesus, we cannot pray that prayer. 19:26.420 --> 19:28.120 Therefore, we cannot be in the synagogue. 19:28.600 --> 19:32.340 Therefore, we cannot be inside the heart of Judaism. 19:33.820 --> 19:40.800 Later on, in the Talmud, the Talmud is the Jewish holy scriptures, the rabbis added 19:40.800 --> 19:45.540 awful, false stories about who Jesus was. 19:46.540 --> 19:52.420 One example, it says that his mother, Mary, committed adultery with a Roman 19:52.420 --> 19:55.680 soldier, and that's how Jesus came about. 19:56.540 --> 20:03.380 Another story says that Jesus was an idol worshipper, who got his powers from Satan. 20:04.020 --> 20:04.780 Sounds familiar? 20:06.300 --> 20:11.280 Another story is of a guy named Unculus, who was a Tanah. 20:11.440 --> 20:13.660 A Tanah is a great rabbinic sage. 20:14.580 --> 20:18.580 And in his case, he was an expert in mediumship. 20:19.040 --> 20:22.260 Mediumship is the ability to communicate with the dead. 20:22.520 --> 20:23.860 Or maybe I should be pointing down. 20:26.360 --> 20:33.480 According to that story in the Talmud, they asked Unculus to communicate with 20:33.480 --> 20:35.280 Jesus from the dead, and so he did. 20:36.480 --> 20:40.140 And he asked Jesus, again, that's according to the story in the Talmud, 20:40.400 --> 20:41.360 not my opinion. 20:42.100 --> 20:46.740 He asked Jesus, where are you, and what is going on with you? 20:47.680 --> 20:54.280 And Jesus replied, I am in hell, and my punishment is to be boiled in feces 20:54.280 --> 21:01.200 forever and ever, because I was a false messiah and a false prophet. 21:02.200 --> 21:07.480 There are more awful stories about Jesus in the Talmud, and about us, the Jewish 21:07.480 --> 21:09.360 believers, but I think you've got the idea. 21:09.360 --> 21:16.000 In Judaism, Jesus is considered to be the worst enemy of all times. 21:16.840 --> 21:23.020 Jewish people look at Jesus as the blame for antisemitism in the world. 21:23.920 --> 21:31.940 Now remember, in Jewish history, any kind of a spiritual message that 21:31.940 --> 21:37.320 somebody wanted to bring in must be first approved by the gatekeepers, who are the 21:37.320 --> 21:40.040 orthodox rabbis, who used to be the Pharisees. 21:40.140 --> 21:44.240 We see that in the New Testament, and they rejected Jesus and his message. 21:44.940 --> 21:50.260 And Jesus himself accused them in Matthew chapter 23, verse 13. 21:51.220 --> 21:56.320 Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for you shut the kingdom of heaven in 21:56.320 --> 21:57.220 people's faces. 21:57.940 --> 22:02.680 And for 2,000 years now, Jesus is kept out of Judaism. 22:04.700 --> 22:13.500 And for these three reasons, you now understand why Jesus is the best kept 22:13.500 --> 22:15.220 secret in Judaism. 22:16.460 --> 22:21.560 By the way, I realize that what I've just shared with you about Jesus in the Talmud 22:21.560 --> 22:28.180 can cause your heart to react in bitterness, and hatred even, enmity, 22:28.760 --> 22:33.580 and resentment against Jewish people, which can lead and will lead to 22:33.580 --> 22:34.240 antisemitism. 22:35.260 --> 22:40.980 But please choose compassion and grace like the heart of Jesus when he was on the 22:40.980 --> 22:41.360 cross. 22:41.360 --> 22:45.800 Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing. 22:46.640 --> 22:47.140 Amen. 22:48.040 --> 22:52.320 So now you understand why most Jews do not believe Jesus to be the Messiah. 22:52.900 --> 22:57.040 And why Jewish evangelism is so difficult like no other. 22:59.540 --> 23:05.500 Now, how is all of that relating to what is going on today and to the conference 23:05.500 --> 23:05.920 today? 23:06.820 --> 23:12.320 To make things even more difficult for you, if you take Jesus' words in Luke 23:12.320 --> 23:20.720 13.35 as futuristic, which is, by the way, the way most scholars do, 23:21.420 --> 23:27.260 this means that Jesus is not coming back until we, Jews, accept him. 23:28.060 --> 23:37.080 Luke 13.35, you will not see me again until you say, Blessed is he who comes in 23:37.080 --> 23:38.020 the name of the Lord. 23:38.600 --> 23:40.580 And Jesus was talking to Israel. 23:41.680 --> 23:45.460 So we have a problem, we all want Jesus to get back, right? 23:45.540 --> 23:45.920 Don't we? 23:46.860 --> 23:51.580 But the gospel is being kept a secret from us, Jews, for 2,000 years now. 23:52.540 --> 23:55.100 So that's why we've been waiting for so long. 23:55.980 --> 23:58.160 So I shared with you some bad news. 23:58.720 --> 24:03.240 And I told you in the beginning I want to encourage you, not to discourage you. 24:03.520 --> 24:05.040 So let's move to the good news. 24:06.400 --> 24:12.220 There is a group of us now, Jewish Israelis, followers of Jesus in Israel, 24:12.720 --> 24:18.000 who found a way around those gatekeepers, bypassing the rabbis. 24:18.720 --> 24:21.340 We no longer need their permission. 24:21.800 --> 24:24.720 Because we don't go into the synagogues to share the gospel. 24:25.580 --> 24:28.520 I know some of you who have never been to Israel before. 24:28.880 --> 24:32.960 You probably think that we still live in tents and ride donkeys. 24:33.600 --> 24:34.700 That is true. 24:34.920 --> 24:35.000 No. 24:37.420 --> 24:43.720 Some statistics, 99% of all of Israel is connected to high-speed internet 24:43.720 --> 24:44.360 connection. 24:44.360 --> 24:48.920 Even outside of the homes, even if you go to the beach or anything like that. 24:49.880 --> 24:54.960 We are first in the world in the amount of time we spend online surfing the web. 24:55.260 --> 24:58.700 60% more than the average here in the United States. 24:59.940 --> 25:06.180 Every 100 Israelis will own 122 computers, which is also first in the world. 25:06.460 --> 25:07.860 I own three computers. 25:08.100 --> 25:11.460 If you ask me why do I need three, I don't really know. 25:13.300 --> 25:18.020 We are first in the world in the amount of time we spend on social media. 25:18.500 --> 25:21.460 And specifically on YouTube watching video clips. 25:22.640 --> 25:27.200 So, you know, when your children are taking a shower and having dinner, 25:27.600 --> 25:30.220 we are on our laptops watching video clips on YouTube. 25:31.120 --> 25:33.740 So, that's not necessarily a bad thing. 25:34.000 --> 25:37.980 Because that means that we can meet Israelis where they are at. 25:38.160 --> 25:39.380 And that is not the synagogue. 25:39.380 --> 25:42.060 That is online, on the internet. 25:42.800 --> 25:44.220 Now let me tell you something. 25:45.480 --> 25:52.560 We know how to relate to Jews and Arabs because we know how to share with our own 25:52.560 --> 25:52.940 people. 25:53.360 --> 25:54.420 It's not somebody foreign. 25:54.860 --> 25:56.000 It's our own people. 26:00.300 --> 26:05.280 We don't share with them the Jesus that they were taught about, which is, 26:05.500 --> 26:06.520 you know, from the movies. 26:06.960 --> 26:13.760 Usually a Gentile Jesus, a blonde Jesus, blue-eyed Jesus, European Jesus, 26:14.180 --> 26:19.460 who has been hanged dead for 2,000 years now on a Roman Catholic cross. 26:19.900 --> 26:21.300 That's not the one we are sharing. 26:22.000 --> 26:24.260 We share with them Yeshua. 26:24.260 --> 26:24.880 Yeshua. 26:25.380 --> 26:27.760 The word Yeshua means salvation. 26:28.980 --> 26:34.600 We share with them Yeshua, the Jewish Israeli Messiah, who loves them so much 26:34.600 --> 26:37.360 that he gave his life for them. 26:37.980 --> 26:43.440 A Messiah that was resurrected, and he is alive, and he can change their 26:43.440 --> 26:44.340 lives as well. 26:44.860 --> 26:45.480 Amen. 26:50.780 --> 26:52.140 Okay, how do we do that? 26:52.220 --> 26:53.080 How do we share with them? 26:53.080 --> 26:58.160 Most of our work is in the Hebrew and Arabic language, but we also have some 26:58.160 --> 27:00.680 content in English that is available for you. 27:01.060 --> 27:04.180 I will quickly run with you over a few things that we do. 27:04.840 --> 27:10.020 When you come to Israel, or as an Israeli, if you walk into a secular bookstore, 27:10.460 --> 27:15.960 you can find any kind of book on spiritualism and religion besides one 27:15.960 --> 27:16.240 book. 27:16.660 --> 27:22.420 You will never find the New Testament in Hebrew in bookstores in Israel. 27:22.420 --> 27:28.380 So, we make sure that it is available for them in any possible way for free. 27:29.060 --> 27:34.980 We also operate the one and only Christian radio station in Israel. 27:36.780 --> 27:43.120 We produce testimonies of mainly Jewish people who came to know the Lord, 27:43.220 --> 27:45.200 but also Arabs and Muslims. 27:45.900 --> 27:46.540 Okay? 27:47.980 --> 27:53.240 And basically, we have three main testimony series that we do, Hebrew, 27:53.420 --> 27:54.380 Arabic, and English. 27:54.920 --> 28:00.500 And on the screen, you are going to watch now a two-minute short teaser of the 28:00.500 --> 28:04.400 Hebrew ones with English subtitles. 28:15.200 --> 28:16.420 I was very afraid of my identity. 28:17.480 --> 28:17.960 What would happen? 28:18.040 --> 28:18.720 Who would tell my parents? 28:19.020 --> 28:19.700 Who would tell my brothers? 28:20.200 --> 28:21.580 I didn't know how people would react. 28:22.120 --> 28:23.260 The people of Israel are a people of hardship. 28:24.100 --> 28:27.340 When you believe in Jesus, people will curse you. 28:27.600 --> 28:29.080 I was threatened with my life. 28:29.980 --> 28:33.500 To be shot, to be pushed, to be denied, and so on. 28:33.880 --> 28:36.800 We are going to do everything so that you will stop believing. 28:37.300 --> 28:39.340 Cursing, hatred, threats. 28:40.080 --> 28:42.460 I didn't want to stop believing. 28:42.460 --> 28:45.140 My father started beating me. 28:45.280 --> 28:46.100 I got beaten. 28:46.700 --> 28:48.380 Only because I believe in Jesus. 28:48.780 --> 28:49.840 I can't talk about it. 28:50.140 --> 28:52.320 And so, the instinct is to hide it. 28:52.740 --> 28:54.080 No one needs to know about it. 28:55.180 --> 28:56.100 I was embarrassed by it. 28:56.840 --> 28:57.300 It's the truth. 28:59.000 --> 29:02.240 How is it that an entire nation goes after a lie? 29:03.840 --> 29:05.600 Are they trying to hide something from us? 29:06.420 --> 29:09.880 For 2,000 years, they have been lying to my people. 29:11.100 --> 29:11.680 Listen. 29:12.240 --> 29:12.580 Jesus. 29:13.080 --> 29:14.100 A complete Jew. 29:15.040 --> 29:16.780 He lived for 2,000 years. 29:17.440 --> 29:18.840 Jesus is the God of Shaddai. 29:19.140 --> 29:19.840 He is ours. 29:20.540 --> 29:22.180 He is the Jewish Messiah. 29:22.860 --> 29:24.300 He died for all of us. 29:25.580 --> 29:27.720 Jesus jumped into the water to save me. 29:28.520 --> 29:30.060 He gave me life in his death. 29:31.080 --> 29:36.560 How can you not give your life for someone who did such a thing for you? 29:37.560 --> 29:40.720 I can't say no to that. 29:41.360 --> 29:42.580 This love. 29:44.540 --> 29:45.300 Complete love. 29:47.660 --> 29:49.000 People need Jesus. 29:50.600 --> 29:53.120 How can I keep such a thing a secret? 29:56.120 --> 29:58.400 I am a Jew who believes in Jesus Christ. 29:58.980 --> 30:01.180 I didn't look to hide. 30:01.560 --> 30:03.100 I can't reveal myself. 30:04.000 --> 30:07.200 And I decided to follow him. 30:07.640 --> 30:08.900 There is nothing more real than this. 30:09.880 --> 30:11.760 The whole country knows about this. 30:12.280 --> 30:13.560 I feel free. 30:13.780 --> 30:15.320 Really free and light. 30:25.230 --> 30:29.670 We also produced 100 testimonies in English. 30:30.450 --> 30:34.250 Of Jewish people who came to know Jesus as their Messiah. 30:35.150 --> 30:39.230 With over 50 million views on them in the past 4 years. 30:40.410 --> 30:42.290 Coming from a small team in Israel. 30:45.070 --> 30:47.190 And I'm going to let you watch one. 30:47.310 --> 30:48.470 It's about 5-6 minutes. 30:49.010 --> 30:52.250 And it's a very famous Jewish scientist. 30:53.150 --> 30:56.130 If you're into science, you'll know Dr. James Tur. 30:56.530 --> 30:58.990 His story, I think, is very powerful. 30:59.310 --> 31:02.370 Maybe if we can dim the lights this time, it would be even more awesome. 31:02.390 --> 31:02.750 Thank you. 31:08.600 --> 31:12.120 I got my PhD in the field of organic chemistry. 31:12.120 --> 31:14.460 Post-doc at Stanford University. 31:14.700 --> 31:18.760 Joined the group of a man who was going to win a Nobel Prize in chemistry. 31:19.280 --> 31:23.160 Voted one of the top 50 most influential minds in the world. 31:23.400 --> 31:25.480 I was a visiting scholar at Harvard University. 31:25.980 --> 31:30.060 I've spoken at every major university in this country. 31:30.240 --> 31:32.680 Have over 650 research publications. 31:33.080 --> 31:36.720 Voted the R&D Magazine Scientist of the Year. 31:37.080 --> 31:39.660 I'm in the National Academy of Inventors. 31:39.660 --> 31:43.760 I'm a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. 31:43.920 --> 31:45.620 Over 120 patents. 31:45.940 --> 31:48.560 Started 7 or 8 companies. 31:49.260 --> 31:55.320 We work in areas that range from medicine, to materials science, to electronics, 31:56.020 --> 31:57.840 computer memory, medical devices. 31:58.220 --> 32:00.480 We work across a broad range of areas. 32:01.240 --> 32:09.140 But more than any of that, what means the most to me is that I'm a Jew who believes 32:09.140 --> 32:12.140 that Jesus is the Messiah. 32:13.680 --> 32:16.460 I grew up just outside of New York City. 32:16.780 --> 32:17.900 I thought everybody was Jewish. 32:18.000 --> 32:20.640 I didn't even know that there was anything else. 32:21.080 --> 32:25.520 I had no particular interest in that, other than when all my friends were 32:25.520 --> 32:27.920 getting bar mitzvahed or bat mitzvahed. 32:27.920 --> 32:30.480 And then I would attend a course every week. 32:31.060 --> 32:33.100 There was never really any excitement for me. 32:34.020 --> 32:37.000 I remember once I even tried to talk to a rabbi. 32:37.320 --> 32:38.720 He just brushed me off. 32:39.180 --> 32:41.040 There was very little explanation for me. 32:42.300 --> 32:48.860 I remember when I went to college, I started meeting a number of people that 32:48.860 --> 32:52.780 said that they were born-again Christians, which was sort of an odd term. 32:53.440 --> 32:55.340 I was, what's born-again? 32:56.000 --> 32:58.480 What do you mean born-again? 32:59.640 --> 33:02.180 One person saw me in the laundry room. 33:02.300 --> 33:06.640 He said, do you mind if I give you an illustration of the gospel? 33:07.300 --> 33:10.500 And I remember we sat there, and he actually started to draw a picture. 33:10.920 --> 33:15.180 A cliff with a man on one side, and he drew a little man, and then another 33:15.180 --> 33:16.940 cliff with God on the other side. 33:17.320 --> 33:20.340 And a big chasm in between that he labeled sin. 33:21.500 --> 33:23.120 I looked at him, I said, I'm not a sinner. 33:23.800 --> 33:25.800 I've never killed anyone. 33:26.180 --> 33:27.760 I never robbed a bank. 33:27.860 --> 33:28.640 How could I be a sinner? 33:29.540 --> 33:31.260 And he had me read a verse from the Bible. 33:32.020 --> 33:35.240 For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. 33:35.800 --> 33:39.680 In modern Judaism, we never really talked about sin. 33:39.820 --> 33:42.600 I don't remember ever talking about sin in my home. 33:43.420 --> 33:45.020 So he turned to another passage. 33:45.020 --> 33:52.900 Jesus said, I say to you that everyone who looks upon a woman with lust for her has 33:52.900 --> 33:55.880 already committed adultery with her in his heart. 33:57.180 --> 33:57.760 Pow! 33:58.720 --> 34:04.920 I felt just as if I had been punched right in the chest. 34:05.100 --> 34:06.480 Here I was, new in college. 34:06.540 --> 34:07.620 I didn't think anybody knew. 34:07.920 --> 34:11.480 I would pick up these magazines, and I became addicted to pornography. 34:11.480 --> 34:13.380 It was just through those magazines. 34:14.260 --> 34:19.600 And all of a sudden, something that's written in the Bible, somebody who lived 34:19.600 --> 34:22.120 2,000 years ago was calling me out on it. 34:23.340 --> 34:25.520 And I felt immediately convicted. 34:26.560 --> 34:28.900 And that now I realized I was a sinner. 34:30.100 --> 34:35.600 When I read in the Scriptures what sin is, then I knew I was a sinner. 34:35.840 --> 34:37.200 How am I going to get to God? 34:37.940 --> 34:40.600 We Jews know this better than anyone else. 34:40.600 --> 34:45.380 Without the shedding of blood, there is no forgiveness of sin. 34:46.040 --> 34:54.360 This description in Isaiah 53 of how he will bear upon himself my sin, 34:54.880 --> 34:56.740 the things that I had done. 34:57.180 --> 34:57.960 And this was him. 34:58.220 --> 35:01.700 This was the man that took this upon himself on the cross. 35:03.360 --> 35:08.320 The perfect God comes and gives himself for us. 35:08.320 --> 35:12.920 He is the one that gives himself for us. 35:13.340 --> 35:17.760 I started to realize how Jewish the New Testament is. 35:18.220 --> 35:19.800 This book is so Jewish. 35:20.000 --> 35:21.820 The New Testament is so Jewish. 35:22.020 --> 35:23.580 It's all around Jewish people. 35:24.460 --> 35:29.580 And then on November 7, 1977, I was all alone in my room. 35:29.920 --> 35:35.860 The realization that Yeshua is the one who died on the cross. 35:35.860 --> 35:38.940 And I said, Lord, I am a sinner. 35:39.240 --> 35:40.700 Please forgive me. 35:41.020 --> 35:41.900 Come into my life. 35:43.380 --> 35:47.220 And then all of a sudden, someone was in my room. 35:48.360 --> 35:49.760 And I opened my eyes. 35:49.880 --> 35:50.620 I was on my knees. 35:50.740 --> 35:51.320 I opened my eyes. 35:51.520 --> 35:52.500 Who was in my room? 35:52.720 --> 35:56.560 That man, Jesus Christ, stood in my room. 35:57.520 --> 36:02.540 This amazing sense of God, Jesus, was in my room. 36:02.540 --> 36:03.780 And I wasn't scared. 36:04.140 --> 36:06.020 All I started doing was just weeping. 36:06.340 --> 36:11.200 The presence was so glorious because He was there in my room on that day. 36:12.980 --> 36:14.520 And I didn't want to get up. 36:15.200 --> 36:21.040 And this amazing sense of forgiveness just started to come upon me. 36:22.600 --> 36:23.200 That was Him. 36:24.840 --> 36:25.860 Finally, I got up. 36:25.900 --> 36:26.880 I didn't know what to do. 36:28.060 --> 36:29.040 I didn't know who to tell. 36:29.040 --> 36:31.540 Here's this Jewish kid from New York City. 36:31.620 --> 36:32.480 What am I going to say? 36:33.480 --> 36:35.020 My cousins were shocked. 36:35.440 --> 36:36.660 How could you do that? 36:36.760 --> 36:37.460 You're Jewish! 36:38.780 --> 36:43.320 Telling my mother how I had invited Jesus into my life. 36:43.660 --> 36:44.700 She didn't say much. 36:45.120 --> 36:45.840 She was weeping. 36:46.480 --> 36:47.480 She told my father. 36:47.700 --> 36:48.820 They weren't happy at all. 36:49.580 --> 36:54.060 And she said, I don't blame them for killing Jesus after the things that He 36:54.060 --> 36:54.380 said. 36:54.380 --> 36:59.940 Who is He to come against these religious leaders that have dedicated their lives to 36:59.940 --> 37:03.680 helping people and to tell them that they are whitewashed tombs? 37:04.400 --> 37:08.400 Who is He, this young man in his thirties, to say this to these scholars? 37:09.760 --> 37:11.320 He got what he deserved. 37:11.920 --> 37:15.500 And my mother's a very deep, pensive, careful reader. 37:16.300 --> 37:20.780 She read from Genesis right on through the Tanakh. 37:21.680 --> 37:25.520 When she got done, I said, what did you think? 37:25.840 --> 37:30.420 She said, God warned us over and over again. 37:31.560 --> 37:32.640 He warned us. 37:33.420 --> 37:37.820 When my daughter was about 15, my mother and father came to visit us. 37:39.220 --> 37:42.500 At one point, my mother went into her room for several hours. 37:43.220 --> 37:43.960 She came out. 37:44.780 --> 37:46.420 She said, what a young girl you have. 37:46.720 --> 37:48.460 She talked to me for a long time. 37:48.460 --> 37:52.820 She started reading the Bible again, both the Old and the New Testament. 37:53.640 --> 37:58.760 One day, not long after that, she called me on the phone at the age of 72. 37:59.140 --> 38:01.080 She said, Jimmy, you wouldn't believe what happened. 38:01.820 --> 38:02.860 I said, what happened? 38:03.760 --> 38:04.900 She said, I was just reading. 38:06.100 --> 38:07.000 And it hit me. 38:08.280 --> 38:09.280 It hit me. 38:09.800 --> 38:11.360 The way He gave His life. 38:11.840 --> 38:12.780 I believe it now. 38:13.040 --> 38:14.720 Jesus is the Son of God. 38:28.870 --> 38:34.570 You know, we love, inside the church, we love to concentrate on how Satan is 38:34.570 --> 38:35.270 using media. 38:35.710 --> 38:36.150 Don't we? 38:36.930 --> 38:39.090 Now you can see how God is using the media. 38:39.890 --> 38:41.750 Let me share with you a little bit more. 38:41.850 --> 38:44.250 On the screen you can see some statistics. 38:45.510 --> 38:48.490 We also do a lot of Jewish apologetics. 38:48.670 --> 38:52.470 Which is answering rabbinic objections against Jesus. 38:52.850 --> 38:57.650 And as you can guess, there are 2,000 years worth of objections to deal with. 38:57.650 --> 39:03.710 And just as no Catholic person would ever speak against the Pope. 39:04.370 --> 39:07.770 Jewish people do not speak against the rabbis. 39:07.850 --> 39:08.690 That's the authority. 39:09.430 --> 39:09.710 Okay? 39:10.350 --> 39:11.330 But we do. 39:12.190 --> 39:16.890 We came out with, so far, 150 short videos. 39:17.010 --> 39:20.670 Quoting the main rabbinic objections against Jesus. 39:21.250 --> 39:22.330 And answering them. 39:22.690 --> 39:27.030 As well as teaching the messianic prophecies in the Old Testament. 39:27.030 --> 39:28.750 And sharing the Gospel. 39:29.670 --> 39:32.470 A lot of that I turned into a book. 39:32.610 --> 39:33.870 Translated to English. 39:34.390 --> 39:35.190 And you can get it. 39:35.270 --> 39:38.150 It was released in January of this year. 39:38.450 --> 39:41.330 And it became a best seller pretty fast after that. 39:41.750 --> 39:44.650 You can get it later on. 39:46.870 --> 39:48.030 You know, in those videos... 39:48.870 --> 39:53.470 It's not videos from old religious rabbis. 39:53.650 --> 39:56.030 But from young male and females. 39:56.030 --> 40:00.050 Which is very refreshing in Judaism. 40:00.350 --> 40:01.750 Especially to see a young woman. 40:01.870 --> 40:05.530 Because a woman will not be talking about God in Judaism. 40:06.850 --> 40:09.610 And I'll share with you now another short video. 40:09.890 --> 40:13.110 An example of what we do when I say evangelism. 40:13.630 --> 40:16.750 It's an evangelistic video we produced in Jerusalem. 40:16.750 --> 40:17.490 In Hebrew. 40:18.130 --> 40:21.850 But this time we dubbed it to English for you. 40:22.210 --> 40:22.650 Enjoy. 40:31.640 --> 40:37.000 We Jews hardly know of him because he's the best kept secret in Judaism. 40:37.340 --> 40:40.780 He lived long before television or social media even existed. 40:41.100 --> 40:45.180 And yet he's the most famous Jewish man throughout all of history. 40:45.660 --> 40:47.120 He never wrote a word. 40:47.440 --> 40:50.880 But his words have inspired more books than anyone else. 40:52.040 --> 40:55.080 He wasn't a prime minister or a political leader. 40:55.080 --> 41:00.000 But his teachings formed the foundation for the law of the Western civilization. 41:03.080 --> 41:05.600 He wasn't raised among wealthy and famous rabbis. 41:05.820 --> 41:07.980 But dined with the poor and rejected. 41:08.760 --> 41:10.480 He wasn't part of the elite class. 41:11.040 --> 41:15.420 But even today great thinkers and philosophers hold him in the highest 41:15.420 --> 41:16.020 respect. 41:18.000 --> 41:21.520 He wasn't a military leader and never used force. 41:21.520 --> 41:26.560 But nonetheless he has an army of millions around the world who love him. 41:26.800 --> 41:29.240 And are willing to give their lives for him. 41:30.240 --> 41:33.500 He never studied in yeshiva nor asked to create a religion. 41:34.000 --> 41:38.180 But thanks to him millions of Gentiles now believe in the God of Abraham, 41:38.460 --> 41:39.480 Isaac and Jacob. 41:40.980 --> 41:42.580 He didn't attend university. 41:42.920 --> 41:46.460 Yet almost all academic institutions were founded because of him. 41:46.800 --> 41:49.860 And in them every day people learn of his teachings. 41:49.860 --> 41:54.020 But here in Israel it's taboo to even talk about him. 41:54.380 --> 41:56.200 He's erased as if he never existed. 41:56.840 --> 42:00.380 His name has been trampled and we've long forgotten him. 42:01.020 --> 42:05.120 While he's a star everywhere else, among us he's considered diseased, 42:05.420 --> 42:06.540 tortured and despised. 42:06.760 --> 42:10.580 But the prophets in the Bible who were also rejected by our religious leaders 42:10.580 --> 42:12.900 prophesied that this would happen. 42:13.340 --> 42:15.500 He was despised and rejected by men. 42:15.500 --> 42:17.980 A man of sorrow, acquainted with grief. 42:18.460 --> 42:20.280 One from whom people hide their faces. 42:20.660 --> 42:22.920 He was despised and we esteemed him not. 42:23.280 --> 42:26.200 Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our pains. 42:26.540 --> 42:30.120 Yet we esteemed him stricken, struck by God and afflicted. 42:30.360 --> 42:32.860 But he was pierced because of our transgressions. 42:33.180 --> 42:34.980 Crushed because of our iniquities. 42:35.140 --> 42:37.840 The chastisement for our shalom was upon him. 42:37.940 --> 42:39.500 And by his stripes we are healed. 42:39.760 --> 42:41.620 We all like sheep have gone astray. 42:41.800 --> 42:43.800 Each of us turned to his own way. 42:43.800 --> 42:47.520 So God has laid on him the iniquity of us all. 42:48.740 --> 42:52.600 In the time when the political leaders were religious and the religious leaders 42:52.600 --> 42:55.220 were the politicians, God was a hidden captive. 42:55.600 --> 43:00.120 Anyone who wanted access to God had to swear allegiance to them, bow to them and 43:00.120 --> 43:00.880 give financially. 43:01.280 --> 43:06.520 Then the Messiah, with no army or weapons, fought against this twisted oppression to 43:06.520 --> 43:11.180 make God freely available, building a bridge to God with his own body. 43:11.180 --> 43:17.020 Not just for us Jews, but for the Gentiles as well, who are also created by God. 43:18.000 --> 43:20.240 But our religious leaders did not give up. 43:20.340 --> 43:24.380 And with them, all of us, in our sin, we nailed Jesus to the cross. 43:24.540 --> 43:28.820 But the death of the tortured righteous one was considered by God to be a worthy 43:28.820 --> 43:31.880 sacrifice, an atonement for the sin of humanity. 43:32.160 --> 43:36.420 And thanks to the sacrifice of the crucified Savior, we can finally enjoy 43:36.420 --> 43:36.920 forgiveness. 43:36.920 --> 43:41.860 Because like a parent who would give their life for their children, he took the 43:41.860 --> 43:44.600 punishment that we deserved on himself. 43:46.320 --> 43:48.880 He was punished, we were forgiven. 43:49.580 --> 43:51.920 He suffered, we were saved. 43:53.160 --> 43:57.340 The death and resurrection of Jesus Christ gave us peace with God. 43:57.860 --> 44:03.200 And now, out of this peace, we can also make peace with others. 44:05.980 --> 44:10.720 Though other nations have grasped this, it's forcibly hidden from our people. 44:11.420 --> 44:14.760 But our nation's denial is no surprise to the prophets. 44:16.220 --> 44:20.980 Then I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit 44:20.980 --> 44:22.400 of grace and supplication. 44:22.600 --> 44:25.920 When they will look toward me, whom they pierce, they will mourn for him, 44:26.040 --> 44:30.600 as one mourns for an only son and grieves bitterly for him, as one grieves for a 44:30.600 --> 44:31.120 firstborn. 44:32.040 --> 44:36.440 For 2,000 years they have done everything to hide him from us in the dark. 44:36.680 --> 44:37.420 But you know what? 44:37.600 --> 44:38.380 It doesn't matter. 44:38.800 --> 44:43.200 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. 44:44.100 --> 44:48.420 Yeshua the Messiah is no longer the best-kept secret in Judaism. 44:59.980 --> 45:01.300 Okay, moving on. 45:02.300 --> 45:08.940 Ever since we started doing those videos about four years ago, we see tons of 45:08.940 --> 45:15.920 Jewish and Arabs, Israelis, coming to know Jesus as their Messiah all the time. 45:17.180 --> 45:22.440 And we are no longer today 30 Jewish believers in Jesus in Israel. 45:23.440 --> 45:29.560 Today, 70 years later, we are about 30,000 Jewish believers in Jesus in Israel. 45:34.320 --> 45:39.300 And here is one short text message, one of many that we get. 45:39.920 --> 45:43.480 Again, we've translated it from Hebrew to English. 45:43.600 --> 45:46.100 It's from a young teenager in Tel Aviv. 45:47.600 --> 45:48.200 Shalom. 45:48.740 --> 45:52.980 As you can imagine, as a child, I was only taught false things about 45:52.980 --> 45:53.400 Yeshua. 45:54.140 --> 45:59.100 Two days ago, we've learned in history class about how 2,000 years ago a new 45:59.100 --> 46:01.120 religion began, Christianity. 46:01.960 --> 46:07.040 Back at home, reading on my own, I was amazed to see how much compassion 46:07.040 --> 46:08.020 Yeshua had. 46:08.500 --> 46:13.560 The very next day, an advertisement on YouTube for your video about Jesus popped 46:13.560 --> 46:13.840 up. 46:14.260 --> 46:19.580 I always ignore these ads and just click the skip button, but I decided I want to 46:19.580 --> 46:20.700 watch the whole thing. 46:21.220 --> 46:21.960 And so I did. 46:22.280 --> 46:28.160 Your video really grabbed my attention, so I continued watching over 50 of your 46:28.160 --> 46:29.100 other videos. 46:29.860 --> 46:32.620 Long story short, I have made a decision. 46:33.280 --> 46:38.540 The truth is on your side, and rabbinical Judaism, which I grew up in, is full of 46:38.540 --> 46:42.620 agendas, false teachings, and is basically a man-made religion. 46:43.280 --> 46:47.440 Look, I don't have a unique and supernatural story to share with you, 46:47.880 --> 46:51.280 but I know that I saw the truth, and I cannot look back. 46:51.840 --> 46:54.920 It is important for me to live in truth, and not in a lie. 46:55.520 --> 46:56.900 I'm still in high school. 46:57.340 --> 47:01.720 I do not know any other Jewish believers in Yeshua, and I know people will tease me 47:01.720 --> 47:06.300 and be upset with me if they knew that I now consider myself a follower and 47:06.300 --> 47:07.220 believer in Yeshua. 47:07.720 --> 47:12.780 But it is important for me to connect and find out, how do I now live as a follower 47:12.780 --> 47:13.420 of Yeshua? 47:14.220 --> 47:15.920 Please, help me. 47:24.980 --> 47:30.840 For the sake of time, I'll just share with you some last statistics. 47:32.220 --> 47:37.680 Worldwide, we have between 90 and 100 million views on our videos. 47:38.060 --> 47:39.880 A lot of them went viral on the web. 47:40.000 --> 47:41.360 People like them, so they share them. 47:42.240 --> 47:47.200 And just take in mind that you only have 15 million Jews in the world today. 47:48.140 --> 47:53.160 And inside Israel, you have 6.8 million Jews. 47:54.080 --> 48:00.820 And inside Israel, in Hebrew, our videos have been seen 27 million times. 48:00.840 --> 48:06.720 And that is big, because after 2,000 years of nobody talking about Jesus, 48:06.920 --> 48:10.200 all of a sudden, everybody talks about Jesus. 48:10.860 --> 48:11.000 Okay? 48:13.020 --> 48:13.620 Hallelujah. 48:18.700 --> 48:23.320 So this whole situation, in the last few years, led to two things. 48:23.680 --> 48:26.480 First, people now recognize us on the streets. 48:26.980 --> 48:29.680 We've made it to the national news a few times. 48:29.680 --> 48:34.700 We basically became the face of Christianity in Israel. 48:35.480 --> 48:40.040 The second thing is that some famous rabbis are after us. 48:41.080 --> 48:44.680 We got used to getting death threats all the time. 48:45.800 --> 48:49.050 And I actually had to move, relocate. 48:49.050 --> 48:56.650 So about two years ago, this kind of famous extremist guy, religious guy, 48:57.690 --> 49:03.290 who is very involved in politics, posted my picture, my son's picture, 49:03.390 --> 49:04.490 on his Facebook page. 49:04.970 --> 49:06.870 And you can imagine the things that he wrote. 49:07.550 --> 49:13.870 The very next day, in our backyard, we found this huge bag full of feces. 49:14.570 --> 49:20.370 Which was a reminder to us that we're going to end up just like Jesus. 49:21.770 --> 49:25.950 So we decided we're going to move to a place that it's a bit more difficult to 49:25.950 --> 49:27.050 throw things into. 49:27.270 --> 49:31.730 So we moved to the 18th floor, renting an apartment. 49:33.050 --> 49:38.150 I really prayed that that guy, who is very much like when Paul was Saul, 49:38.490 --> 49:39.850 will turn into a Paul. 49:41.830 --> 49:43.270 It's not easy, I know. 49:43.370 --> 49:46.870 You can see on the screen the kind of things that they say about us and their 49:46.870 --> 49:47.290 faces. 49:47.630 --> 49:51.410 Those are rabbis that produced videos against us. 49:52.270 --> 49:55.490 And they usually don't take the highway, as you can see. 49:55.870 --> 49:58.990 But we love them, and you know what? 49:59.150 --> 50:02.990 I would give up my life to see them getting saved. 50:02.990 --> 50:06.330 Okay, last slide. 50:07.770 --> 50:09.290 Everyone talks about their books. 50:09.390 --> 50:10.590 I will talk about my book. 50:11.210 --> 50:13.550 It was released in January of this year. 50:14.510 --> 50:17.070 It became pretty fast a bestseller. 50:17.250 --> 50:21.850 It's got over 300 reviews already. 50:23.210 --> 50:25.250 And I need a small favor from you. 50:25.670 --> 50:29.010 The rabbis are sending their people to give a negative review. 50:29.170 --> 50:31.230 If you go over them, you'll see it's pretty obvious. 50:32.010 --> 50:35.490 Please get the book and give a positive review. 50:35.670 --> 50:39.130 If you promise to give a positive review, I promise to sign the book. 50:41.410 --> 50:43.290 That's a Jewish mind at work for you. 50:45.290 --> 50:48.010 And none of the income comes to me. 50:48.090 --> 50:49.550 Everything goes to the ministry. 50:50.130 --> 50:51.750 So we use it for evangelism. 50:52.910 --> 50:53.810 This is it. 50:53.930 --> 50:54.690 Time is up. 50:54.970 --> 50:57.950 I hope I was able to get you guys encouraged. 50:58.730 --> 51:00.130 Thank you very much.