and Lord all of
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astray all of us have
sinned and all of us are victims at the
same
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time Lord we pray for a great wave of
repentance and of turning to to you
among Jews and Arabs in this country
bashem Yeshua
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and Lord we've
um we've we've gotten we've gotten used
to a
certain way of
life and it's evil Lord it's
wrong and Lord again
today two
men who whether they were shouting it or
whether it was under their
breath went out and killed Jewish people
saying
Al that God is great that Allah is
great in the name of their God killing
people killing Jewish
people and Lord we've just we've just
gotten used to it lord it's it's
terrible though we sang that you are the
way
maker we just I I come before you Lord
and ask you to make a
way and Lord to change the
situation and to give our leaders
courage to change the
situation not not just by more
violence but with
wisdom wisdom Lord your
wisdom not the politics of the world's W
wisdom but your
wisdom Lord we believe everyone in this
room believes and we declare before
Heaven and Earth today Lord that you
covenanted this land with Abraham Isaac
and Jacob and their offspring it's that
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simple and when Abraham was willing to
offer his son Isaac the son of the
promise the son of the Covenant here
on
harua you accepted his obedience and you
wrote you raised your hand in an oath to
yourself and the author of Hebrews says
God there's nobody else God God can't
swear on anybody else's name he just is
him he is he and he raised his hand and
he said because you were willing to do
this Abraham I'm going to fulfill
everything everything every word that
I've spoken to and that we've covenanted
together for you and your
Offspring and so Lord here we
are here we are Lord the off offspring
of Abraham Isaac Jacob Israel the Jewish
people and spiritually and physically
somehow the The Offspring of
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Ishmael and Lord we simply we say yes
yes to your word yes to your Zeal to
fulfill your word Lord there's no other
way to explain our being here after
2,000 years and our
continued victories in this in the face
of every
danger and every enemy there's no other
way it's Lord we give you the honor and
the
glory god we ask we ask during this time
of war and this time of tension Lord
that you would shift things that you
would move things forward in such a way
to put an end to this senseless Killing
In The Name of a false
god and Lord that you would cause us
stir your people Lord It's become
painfully
excruciatingly clear to our people from
the right from the furthest right to the
furthest left that they have no
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solution for alar they have no solution
for
this Lord we know and we
believe that you are the
solution that Yeshua is is the answer
that that he can
transform the most radical
Muslim to a lover of God and a lover of
Yeshua and a lover of Israel we've seen
it we've heard it we know it's it's
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possible and Lord we pray we pray for
that it's a supernatural thing Lord but
it's also something Lord that you've
committed to your people to do to speak
you Lord but how how will they know how
will they hear if if if someone doesn't
go and preach to
them Romans
10 Lord we pray for your us your church
your people your
your Lord we pray for the Jews and Arabs
here together with the one new man with
our brothers and sisters from the
Nations to rise up Lord in unity
and to do the work that you've committed
uniquely committed to
us Lord to bring the solution to bring
transformation God we're so small but
that's okay Paul said in Romans 11 is
God finished with his people no I'm here
I I'm of The Tribe of Benjamin I'm a pH
God's not finished with his people CU I
believe so Lord we say Yes We
Believe
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we're more than one or two or three
we're hundreds thousands
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father we want to pray for us
to remain as salt in this
nation Yeshua said if the salt loses its
flavor what's it good for and Lord we
don't want to just blend in with no
taste we want to
Salt thinking if you put salt on a on a
meal how much much salt you have to put
into it that it says whoo this is so
salty it's probably less than
.1% and Lord we just want to be that
salt we want to be that salt we just
have to hold our taste and and that it
can touch just
0.1% of this nation if the if we as the
as the followers of Yeshua are salty
then the whole nation will just be so
salty Lord help us to be the salt so the
nation has the taste of the salt the
nation doesn't have to be the salt they
have just have the taste of the salt and
Lord we thank you for the taste of the
salt going out across the whole in the
Army in in the knesset Lord God in the
industry in the high-tech in the media
Lord God in every place Lord God in
every place Lord in the kot seim in the
cities Lord we thank you that there is
salt in the in the schools thank you
Lord that the salt we are the salt and
the nation is salty because there's a
little salt in the nation hallelujah
thank you
God Lord you are the captain of the
Lord's army Lord you are the captain of
the Lord's
army and you said the kingdom of
violence the kingdom of God suffers
violence and the violent take up by
force and Lord man has no
answer and for all these years you've
been teaching us setting us under great
teachers building men and women of God
and Lord the time has
come because man doesn't have an answer
but the time has come for your
people those who are called by your name
to rise up for you said that
man does not wrestle against flesh and
blood but against every principality
power and wickedness in high place this
has to be taken Lord in the spirit
realm we're tired of this going around
in a
circle and I I declare to you Satan the
time has come and to your demonic Force
that we will rise up and pick up the
sword of the spirit The Living Word of
God and we are
here to do war against
you we're not going to take it no
more so father in yeshua's name I ask
that you would raise up a Remnant the
warrior bride and that we would go forth
covered in Your Precious Blood carrying
the Cross of Christ to do war against
these evil spirits we've had enough of
it and Lord to set the captives free so
this day Lord we want more than just a
message we want your anointing to go
out the salt that you've called us to
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be in yeshua's name
amen
anybody
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else
Lord ABA that you are stirring in the
heart of your people father not just
here in the land but in the Nations Lord
that you are prep preparing all of the
necessary conditions Lord to produce the
cry that you will
hear the cry that you so want to answer
Lord I just think of the longing in your
heart for your people
God nobody Longs the way you
long to restore and redeem and reconcile
God and we are just seeing creation
groaning
Lord and in this stirring Lord is for
that longing in your
heart I thank you for your mercy that
you're releasing in this hour even
though it's so dark right now and it's
going to get darker than this Lord
there's a mercy that you're pouring out
God as you're preparing your people Lord
From The Four Winds to come
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home oh Lord have your reward have your
inheritance and I pray Lord all over
this Earth
the way is being prepared for you in
Hearts
God raise up voices crying in the
wilderness Lord in the
states Lord in the states in
Europe in all of the Nations and the
continents God we pray raise up voices
crying out in the wilderness
Lord thank you
ABA bash Yeshua
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father I ask that you would raise up
benners in Israel father and also in the
nation among the Jewish World the Arab
world Lord and the nation benners lord
of the Gospel Lord that you will send
many laborers who just share one by one
but you also um raise up testimonies
Lord that will impact Nations Lord that
will be seen by many father that will
highlight the solution father the
solution for the Jewish people the
solution for the Arab people Lord that
yeah that there will be a testimony seen
Lord and Pierce the the hearts of
Nations father that there will be a a
way highlighted for everyone Lord to
come out of false religious systems to
come out of false sinful Lifestyles
father and father we pray that you will
raise up testimonies like this Lord that
will yeah that will bring many into the
kingdom father and do great harm to the
kingdom of darkness in yeshua's
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just before we uh close our worship in
prayer time I want to pray a prayer for
our Jewish Brethren family in the United
States I don't know how many of you read
the news follow the news
yesterday Senator Chuck Schumer who is
the most senior
uh us Jewish person in politics the
Senate Majority
Leader um gave a speech on the floor of
the Senate which is written up you can
see it on online a very impassioned and
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eloquent plea to stand against the
anti-Semitism that is he said that we've
never seen like this
before in in the United States uh it was
very
significant but many of us in this room
have
relatives uh in the
US almost all of us I
think um and L we want to pray Lord we
we've always and for decades Lord we've
been
preaching what is it from Jeremiah 16 is
it the the the the hunters and the and
the Fishers and the that whole thing
though we've known we know that we knew
that that we know that the time would
come Lord would this be this wave of
anti-Semitism that would overcome even a
country which like the United States
which has been such a a a
safe home for our people Lord we pray
for our family and others to wake
up Lord we pray for them to come
home to understand that it's what they
it's the exact opposite what they see on
the news and blah blah blah this is
actually the safest place for Jewish
people we can fight back here we have an
army we have police we have
guns Lord I pray for my family members
to wake up Lord help us to communicate
properly to them
Lord Lord we know there are many many
many many Christians in the US who
understand this and will rise up and
will stand but there's it we've crossed
a line it
seems and with the number of Muslims and
what's happened in politics and Academia
and what's happened among among the
younger generation in America it's it it
just may be too late so Lord we pray we
pray for us just for the right message
to go out for our for the whole country
to be ready to accept a huge wave of
immigration and Lord let it come it's
it's the Fulfillment of
scripture Let It Come Lord bashem Yeshua
amen well beloved I want to study today
a little bit just do a Bible study from
this week's Torah portion which is VL
and it's primarily from chapter Genesis
chapter 32 onward and we'll learn learn
a few uh lessons from that there's
actually some interesting play on words
in Hebrew which you probably don't get
for those who read in Translation so I
like to go over a few of them few of
those with you and we'll uh start with
the word
m m we'll pick this up and the numbers
are a little different in the in the
Hebrew and uh sometimes in Translation
I'm picking up in Genesis
32 and this is uh verse two in the
Hebrew it might be one in the English or
another language and says this Lord we
just thank you for your wisdom and your
grace upon us hallelujah as we study the
word of truth thank you God Amen and I
just also want to encourage everybody
you can't take this for granted does
everybody know that we believe in
reading the Bible every
day both the law and the prophets and
the New Covenant you have to read it
every day that's rule number one for a
Believer any kind of believer we have
have to particularly today that there's
so much false information in the world
and you lose your Basics the basics of
what is right and wrong and truth and
and and lies it's amazing we have to be
reading our Bible every day hu you can't
trust your impressions you can't trust
social media and you can't trust you you
just having dreams and Visions because
that's based on partly on your feelings
you have to be grounded in reading the
word of God every day amen so I'm
picking it up here Yakov with about
Jacob and Jacob went on his way and the
angels of God met him met him sort of
bumped into him there or he bumped into
them and it
says and uh when and Jacob said um when
he saw them this
is the camp of God and he called the
place that he saw there Mahan now the
word Mahan there if you hear that some
of you can know that he I am at the end
means double like Yus is a double and
and so this is he's saying it's a double
camp and he says that because he sees
this group of angels and apparently the
Angels he saw them in two camps of
angels isn't that interesting is that
fascinating and then you go down a
couple of verses and he's speaking about
God blessing his his own life and look
what he says in verse
10 in English and I think it's verse 11
here in the
Hebrew not and he says uh I am too small
for all the grace and for all the truth
truth that you have done for your
servant for I came across the Jordan
with just my rod and I've came back here
being two camps so it's interesting do
you get the first comparison here Jacob
comes over and he says I see angels in
two camps and he looks down at his
family and he says well my family is in
two camps so we have two sets of two
camps angels and the family of Jacob
it's a very interesting play on words
because this is the word that you pick
up much later on in the Song of Solomon
talking about the Bride of the Lord when
he says he looks at she says you're
beautiful as the dance of two camps and
that's the mahanan so you have now three
levels are you follow you have the two
camps of the angels two camps of the
family of Jacob and then two camps of
whatever is the Bride of the Lord as we
picked up in Song of Solomon what a
beautiful pattern this is going on at Le
leads me to a uh a concept in Jewish
interpretation of of uh scriptures which
is called um
M it says and the Deeds of the
forefathers are aign to the children and
what it means is that when we read the
stories particularly in Genesis it is a
true story that happened to a certain
group of people and yet they're in the
Bible because it is a pattern for us to
learn from it's a un ival pattern why is
it Universal because in the Book of
Genesis that was that was the only
Believers that there were so what
happened to them is relevant to anybody
else so what happens in their lives
becomes a pattern for the rest of us did
you get that did I say that so enough
what because the the Patriarchs were the
first Believers whatever happened to
them sets a pattern for what's going to
happen to all the rest of the Believers
so when we read the stories of Abraham
and Isaac and Jacob and Joseph and and
on it's yet yes it's a true story about
those people but it's a it's setting a
Biblical pattern for us to look a
pattern for our own lives and here he
says he says well there's I see a double
Camp of angels my own family has turned
into a double camp and then later on the
song of pomon said where the double Camp
is the is the people of God the Bride of
the Lord what a beautiful uh and this is
all happening with Jacob here now why is
it happening with Jacob it's interesting
that God is trying to renew the same
Covenant that he's always had God's
never changed his plan the same thing
today as it was in the Garden of Eden
puts us in the Garden of Eden said be be
fruitful and multiply what's God's plan
to have a big family in a Garden of Eden
all over the Earth hasn't changed we
human beings keep messing it up he keeps
going back to it but at this but all
this time so he got to he got to Noah
who was one man and he renewed it and he
goes in Abra is it but he never with
Jacob something different happens
because he's got 12 sons the kingdom
starts to multiply and so you have the
first time you can see God's plan for a
group of people think about this never
really happened even from even from
Abraham it's Jacob and his sons start
the pattern of what God wants for the
people of
God that was a deep Point let me say it
again that with with Jacob's sons you
start the pattern of what God wants for
all the people of God because until
Jacob and his sons there were no people
of God you just had individual Believers
I mean even Abraham had had Isaac and
then Isaac had Jacob and Esau but now
with Jacob it starts to multiply so here
be becomes starts to enter in God's
secret for what he wants for the whole
human
race through a family of people what he
wanted from Adam and Eve when he said be
fruitful and multiply
now before that time God was still
saying what the pattern was but he
couldn't do it through people cuz he
didn't have the people so what did he do
it through a
rainbow remember we had only know it was
only one person some of us went out this
last week when we flew to uh Armenia for
an amazing conference I hope we have
time to talk about it at some other time
one of the most spiritually significant
conferences I've ever been in Gering in
believer conferences for 45 years and
one of the reasons was we took a group
of people out to the the foo Hills of
Mount Ararat where Noah's Covenant was
with the human race and it's like it
wasn't anything new it's not like I read
something new in the Bible but there it
was in front of your face you know and
and mount arat is enormous I didn't know
that it's huge it Towers over really the
whole nation of Armenia and all of in
Eastern Turkey it's enormous and you
stand in front of it and we we're were
trying to imagine a big rainbow being
over it and um and just thinking there
was God was was saying this was my plan
for all the nations for all the nations
to be the different colors in the
rainbow and the promise is as solid as
that mountain I never I never got that
before it's like if this mountain could
not be there then the promise wouldn't
be there and you get well this mountain
is this mountain is non going anywhere
the promise of God for all the nations
of the world to become a beautiful
harmonious multicolored glorious
Heavenly rainbow is still there and that
promise is as solid as that mountain is
and it's not going away well he had to
do with Noah as a as a rainbow oh that
was his purpose and so now the the God's
plan for the Nations is being multiplied
into a group of people so it becomes
much more real it's got a lot more
problems now because you have real real
people but on the other hand it's more
real and now so God's plan for all the
nations of the world which he first
promised to Adam and Eve which he made a
covenant with with Noah at the rainbow
at AR now is the first time in history
is starting to multiply into a family
with real children he says now I've got
two camps of people
here I think what he meant by that was
the sons of Leah and the sons of Rachel
were forming two camps at that
particular time the sons of Leo were
little larger but let's not forget that
Joseph was in the camp of of Rachel who
then he became the leader of of uh of
Egypt and became a much larger group and
so there's a play going out now starting
between the sons of Leah and the sons of
Rachel which then goes all through the
rest of the book of of Genesis and then
into actually all the scriptures into
the history of ancient Israel because
and then you have the the wars between
Israel and Judah this is all starting
here on those two camps
because the sons of Leah are from Judah
and then the sons of of Rachel are are
become become Israel and the and it this
play begins to go out and then it seems
to be when you cross the line at the New
Covenant then that multiplies out into
what we call Israel and the church it's
amazing but the double Camp theme is
starting right here and is growing into
the Nations and we're dealing with it
today that we are here as the Messianic
community trying to hold on to the
international eklesia with one hand and
trying to hold on to our people the
nation of Israel with the other hand the
two camps are still dancing around and
we're getting it straight a little bit
better now at least uh the Christian
world is starting to speak of judeo
Christian values and even the the nation
of Israel starting to pray with with
Christians that have come up here so
amazing thing is happening through but
the pattern has to start there with
Jacob do you understand because it
couldn't be anybody else he was the
first one that had multiple children in
the Kingdom what an amazing
thought now um so God makes a
promise to Jacob of what's going to
happen all the rest of the history for
his promises to the nations of the world
now the nations of the world are the
human population and out of each Nation
becomes a group of Believers a remnant
of faith of True Believers in every
nation and those remnants of Faith be
become what they become the Ecclesia
they become the church they become the
people of God now how do we say that uh
in Hebrew how do you say the word how do
we say congregation or church in Hebrew
it's the word kahila kahila amazing well
of course that's only started after the
book of Acts didn't it no uh-uh started
with well it started with and with Adam
and Eve and with Noah but let's look at
it now with with uh with uh Jacob let's
look at this here in Jacob and uh twice
we see in this in this story with him
the a a prophecy of the church now you
may have never seen this before but when
you see it in Hebrew it shouts out at
you what it is let's look at this in two
we'll compare two verses uh 283 and
3510 now let's go back to
28 chapter 28 um verse three that I have
it in in Hebrew is that right Genesis
28:3 and this is uh Isaac uh
blessing Jacob and here's what he says
to
him wow and elai will bless you and make
you fruitful and multiply what's that
obviously quoting Genesis 1 2 and and
and so he's saying that he's basically
saying look I haven't changed but now
it's going to multiply through and then
and then he says and this has never
happened
before he says you will become a you
will become a Congregation of peoples
kahal the root of the word for Kil which
then becomes Ecclesia we come becomes a
church he basically says here if we were
to put it in modern language he will
become an International Church of people
he will become an international Ecclesia
coming out of Jacob he says I'm
promising you to that what an amazing
thought and then he says the same thing
to him again let's go back up to where
we were in um let's look at this in uh
and in Genesis
35 verse 10-
11 Genesis 35 now this is the end of the
story so 28 and 35 are kind of the
beginning and the end of the story of
Jacob you get you get the same blessing
here
um start in verse
10 and so he says that verse and says um
and so God said to him your name will no
longer be called Jacob but you but you
will be called
Israel um and and you your name will be
called Israel he say so we'll get into
that later about become a prince of God
and then he says to him and and and God
said to him I am elai be fruitful and
multiply uh the nation and become a
again he says
aalim a
a Congregation of Gentile Nations
amazing that was a promise so you see it
at the beginning of the story the end of
the story will come out of you and Kings
will come out of your loins so you have
a promise to Jacob as he be as his
family begins to multiply God says now
my purpose is that I commanded Adam and
Eve and they blew it that I made a
covenant with Noah and they blew it and
I started with Abraham Isaac and and now
this is the first time I've got a
multiplying family immediately when
happens I'm I'm promising you to see
that you are going to become ail you are
going to become a Congregation of all
the peoples in the world wow from The
Book of Genesis amazing that's what we
mean
by that the that the works of the
forefather of the Patriarchs become
assigned to to the children now our
people don't see that the Jewish people
because you have to see that in Yeshua
but you see that the promise of the
International Church that would come out
of Israel and then be reconnected back
to Israel all happened there right right
with Jacob and actually if you follow
that it's promised from Abraham through
Joseph about six seven times throughout
the Patriarchs the same covenantal
promise and even later on when the
promise comes to Joseph and he says you
you will
become that you will become the fullness
of the Gentiles is what Paul quoted in
Romans 11 I just want to say the pattern
that from the family of Israel would
then come out multiply into the Nations
and that would become a community an
Ecclesia of Believers from all the
nations of the world is right there with
the Patriarchs Allelujah now let's come
back you remember what happened right
before this this weekly portion and that
is that Jacob went out to Syria to
Lebanon for how long was he there 20
years that's a long time he goes out 20
years and comes back back this is the
pattern of what Exile and restoration
Exile and restoration that's the pattern
of the whole Bible with the people of
Israel you go to Exile you come back you
go down to Egypt you come back you go
into Syria you come back you go to
Babylon and you come back you go and
this is this is the pattern because God
wants not just Israel he wants the
Nations it's setting up that Rhythm that
something's going to start in Israel go
to the Nations then come back from the
Nations to Israel and we're living in
that today amazing so we say so he comes
back 20 years which I think is symbolic
to the 2,000 years of our Exile and then
coming back to the land it's interesting
there that he was there in Syria whereas
of course then Moses and Abraham were in
in were in Egypt and that you have this
uh going back and forth between the
Nations by the way there's another uh
rinic way of of understanding the um the
Torah and the prophets uh which seems to
me so Accord according to the New
Covenant he says that every
story of the Torah is itself a
mash is a parable or a proverb and he
says you have to read in two ways in
every Mas there is the mas and the N
there is the the story itself and then
it's its Parable meaning but of course
it could be reversed depending how you
read it what is a parable to one person
is the is the story to another person
the other person's story is their
Parable it's it the Nim the Mas flip
according to how you're how you're
reading it but he said every story that
you read you have to see it on on on
both levels what is actually happening
and what is the the
parallel spiritual symbolic meaning to
the same story what an amazing thing to
to read that that you can read every
section that way that's very important
by the way later on because a lot of the
prophecies about Yeshua are in their
place they a prophecy to David and his
sons but we understand it to be a
parable not just to David and his sons
but to about the Messiah we see the
stories of Israel also being a parable
about the church we see and but that's
but that is an accepted rinic way of
understanding the text every text you
read in the Bible he says has another
meaning to it wow what a beautiful thing
all right let's go on so now he comes
back H from these uh 20 years in Exile
and what happens is right before he
comes in I don't know if you remember
that from the previous Torah portion he
he makes a covenant with laan and and
they set a
border it's a border between Israel and
Syria an amazing thing and then he comes
back with well lean but then we said
with Esau then you have Jordan and you
have with with Egypt and then you even
have with the Palestinians the Covenant
with ABI and F and you and you see God
even with the forefathers setting up a
pattern that there's a place for Israel
to live there's a place for Lebanon
there's a place for Jordan there's a
place for Syria there's a place for
Egypt and it's all there now even back
then most of the people were evil but
every time you had a righteous person
pop up oh God could set his pattern what
he wanted for them and so now Jacob has
come back after all this time H to meet
his brother Esau and we know the
story Jacob obeyed his mother and she
said don't worry the curse will be on me
and so then he got in trouble he I
wanted to kill him for stealing his
Birthright and his Blessing but uh
anyway so now he comes back he hasn't
seen his brother in 20 years the last
thing he heard about his brother was
saying I'm going to kill you as soon as
dad dies so he's been way for for 20
years he doesn't know what he's scared
like crazy he hasn't he's still the old
Jacob here he's trying to figure out
some ways if he can manipulate uh uh
Esau and to not killing him so he comes
up there he sends someone forward to see
a messenger the messenger comes back he
says ah well your brother hears that
you're coming and he's on his way with
400 armed
men and Jacob freaks out you know he
just the old the old man is just going
crazy here he sends the whole you know
the story he sends the whole family
there there at the area of pinam and he
sends them across the
theal and he waits there alone and of
course then he has this amazing
experience there in which he meets a man
of course it can't be a man because he's
called God and he can't be God the
father because he's called a man there's
only one person there's a mutually
exclusive set where you can only be God
and man there's only one person in that
place and that's Yeshua and he appears
every single place in the Torah and the
prophets he's the central figure not
just of the New Covenant he's the
central figure of the Torah and the
prophets so he meets this guy and he
looks him and so he starts wrestling
with him it's such an incredible thing
that he wrestles with him all night and
if I understand the text it's a it
depends a little bit how you interpret
the pronouns there but I think what he's
saying is that this man who we
understand to be the angel of the Lord
or Yeshua says to him you have
overpowered me and that was Yeshua comes
and wrestles with him as a man he
doesn't come with his glory in heaven he
just mess wrestles with with him as a
man and this guy won't let go of him and
you know I always looked at this thing
about Jacob the heel Grabber as always
kind of a negative thing but you know I
was thinking today there's something
about Jacob when he's saying this guy
just won't let go you know it doesn't
I'm thinking we need to be that way we
need to be that way because guys you and
I we're all just as messed up as Jacob
is but we we we hold on to the promises
of God I mean you feel like sometimes
everything's going wrong nothing's
working out but you know what if I have
to bite you Yeshua if I have to dig my
fingernails into you I'm not letting go
of the promises of God I don't care what
I see I don't care what I know it's it's
I'm holding on to that and it's like
Yeshua wrestles with them all night and
it's almost like you feel maybe I'm
reading the text but Yeshua is like
really enjoying this come on you know by
he man this guy just won't let go so he
says all right I'll take a little bit of
divinity here for a moment Bo he knocks
his he knocks his thigh out and he just
says um but so wrestling with him all
night and then you think and then he you
know he changes his name there I won't
read the passages you know that well but
he changes his name from Jacob which is
the heel Grabber to
Israel and now I don't know another
place that that root is used as a uh as
a verb maybe once in in Hosea but it's
mostly used as a noun as a prince and he
says you I'm changing you because of
you're wrestling with me from this old
personality to being a prince with God
in in symbolic sense he went through a
born again experience at this moment he
wrestled with Yeshua his character was
changed his name was change he was born
again at this moment and received this
new identity of being a prince with God
now that's also a pattern for us folks
you know we've all got that Jacob part
of it where we're just holding on to the
promises of God nothing's working out I
know who you are you know who I am we're
just as nasty as thinking as we always
were but we're all holding on to the
promises of God but God says no no
you're a prince you're a princess in the
kingdom of God and that's our new
identity that we're holding on to
amazing I'm sharing with an Israeli
friend who's just about ready to get
baptized and I was sharing this this
passage with he says what do you want me
to do next I said you need to I said
look at this passage I said this is what
you need to do you need to go to that
man you know who that man is so you need
to wrestle with him all night and until
he changes your character and then then
and when that happens the next thing he
does he crosses the water and I said
That's you have to get immersed in water
you have to you wrestle with the man you
get your identity changed and you cross
the water and that's where you then you
come into the blessings of God of of the
promised land unsaved Israeli men he got
it totally understood every got the
point I was also thinking for us when it
says he crossed over the river what word
do you think it is in Hebrew of
course which is the same word we have
for Hebrew aval and and the name Hebrew
means to cross the river you basically
means to get baptized you know me said
everybody who becomes a Believer has to
cross through the waters you may do it
coming out of Egypt you may going
through the Jordan you may do it through
pineal at the little yook but everybody
got to wrestle with God get your
character changed and then cross the
water to go into the next stage of your
life amazing that all that's there um
with uh uh with Jacob now let's do uh we
getting close to the end here let's uh
let me skip a couple of things here
let's go down let's just do one more
point in his
reconciliation with uh Esau uh let's
look up now in uh chapter uh
33 the of course in 32 what happens is
he finishes this time wrestling this man
he comes out and he said I just saw the
face of
God the man was the face of God that's
why I know it's Yeshua but this name and
then he comes up let's go up now into
going go in
33 when he now he sees Esau he comes up
to Esau I'll just tell it so we don't
have to read the read the verses he sees
Esau
Esau's running to him and Jacob's
thinking this is it it's
over bye-bye Promises of God and Esau
runs up to him and grabs him and kisses
him and the two of them begin to weep
now we take that as Believers here in
the land as one of the many examples
that despite all the hatred there is
between Arabs and Jews that when you get
to the right place of the Covenant we're
going to hug one another we're going to
weep we're going to kiss one another and
we're going to have a joint Destiny
together and an amazing thing after he
after after they get reconciled he says
this beautiful thing in verse 10 here
and he says
um and he says and Jacob says to him uh
don't don't do that if I have found
Grace in your eyes please take this gift
from from my hand because for now I have
seen your face as the face of God and
you have been reconciled to me he uses
the same word that he used in wrestling
with
Yeshua and says I've seen the face of
God he comes
across and and deals with his struggle
with Esau is reconciled and he says the
same words to him I have seen in your
face this face of God
what does that mean just end with this
thought I the only way I can understand
it is that he saw the face of Yeshua
before it was striking to him and then
when he was reconciled with Esau he
looked at him and he saw something in
Esau's eyes that reminded him of
something he saw in yeshua's eyes and
the angel of the Lord he said wow I've
seen your the the face of God in you and
you've become reconciled with me
what I think we we need and of course
you know ornes wrote this amazing book
about the faces of God because the word
of face in Hebrew is is plural which you
don't get that in other nations so it
means the face of God you see it in
Yeshua but then you also see it a little
bit of his character in other people the
face of God is reflected in Yeshua but
also in the eyes of other people so he
was the first one to experience he saw
the face of God in Yeshua and then was
reconciled with Esau he saw at least
some something that reminded him in
Esau's face of what he saw in the face
of God so we take that um to mean a you
know that we can see God in other people
God reveals himself through Yeshua but
he can also reveal himself to us through
other people and we believe that through
faith in Yeshua that we can be
reconciled with Arabs and Jews my time
is up one more quick thought but you
know we we just had another terrorist
attack this morning we got up this
morning to a ter several people were
killed looks like there a few in the
hospital look like they're about to die
but but we but we believe that we can be
reconciled taking this as Jacob and ISO
as a pattern that we can be reconciles
as Jews and Arabs on one condition we
got to go through what Jacob went you
cannot be reconciled through politics
through diplomacy through right-wing
policy through leftwing policy you can't
be Jewish enough you can't be liberal
enough it's not going to work there's
only one way Jews and Arabs need to be
born again through the faith in Yeshua
and then we will love one another and
kiss one and let's remind ourselves of
that in all this difficult politics and
everything we're going through and our
kids and our husbands and our brothers
are all in the army fighting but the
ultimate solution is in the gospel of
Yeshua to change people's hearts you
can't make an outward agreement you
can't have a peace agreement on the
outside if people's hearts haven't been
changed on the inside first
and that's why we share the gospel When
people's hearts are changed it's easy
for Jews and Arabs to love one another
and come to real peace for eternity amen
father we thank you that we learn these
blessons from uh from Jacob and from
Esau and from pel and the whole pattern
that we see of Jacob's family then
becoming the International Community of
Faith wow thank you Lord and I just pray
that we can all continue to meditate on
scriptures understand your plan your
pattern your purpose and submit to it
and be actively synergizing with it and
participating with it in yeshua's name
amen