My first introduction this morning was to those
of our speakers that I have known the
longest.
This one is the ones that I've known
the briefest.
In fact, the first conversation of any length
I've ever had with David Davis was on
the telephone about three or four months ago
when we spoke at some length.
And as we then had further conversation in
the month of June, I, of course, had
invited him because of very, very clear understanding
of who he and Karen were, what they
were about, what their source was, and what
the fruit of their ministry was, the character,
family, everything about their lives that you are
most interested in if you're going to platform
in any environment, but certainly in this one.
And I have enjoyed so much just the
briefest touch of sitting with them personally during
the time we had the break, which my
first actual face-to-face time with them
each.
And they're just such delightful people.
They pastor Mount Carmel Assembly.
Mount Carmel Assembly is the largest fellowship of
believers in the land.
They came in 1989, established a work up
on Mount Carmel.
And that work has become a tremendous example
of what the scriptures speak of, of Jew
and Gentile framing up a new picture of
one new man that are born together in
Christ.
Their congregation is made up of both Israeli
Jews and Palestinians, or Israeli Arabs.
And this group of believers model that unity
that is not always possible to find with
ease because of the depth with which, at
times, the strain racially in the land has
separated believers.
That is not anything that ought to be
viewed as foreign, as a challenge to those
of us in America who have a sad
record of that being the case between the
African-American and the Caucasian-American historically, as
with others, the Latino population and Asian at
points.
This is a sad commentary, of course, on
humanity and reflective of sin that sometimes is
not dealt with in the early sanctifying of
believers in their walk with Christ.
In fact, sometimes separatism has been sanctified.
And that's unworthy by any terms.
They have modeled something that has touched this
country in its own distinct way.
And it's a joy to have that testimony
of theirs.
Karen's musical gift has had a voice to
the nation as well.
Their ministry is esteemed throughout the land by
the believers everywhere.
And the gifted, prophetic, cutting-edge ministry of
David as well as his great pastoral heart
is something that makes him so welcome to
all of us today as the two of
them come.
Will you welcome David and Karen Davis.
This is Karen, in case you didn't know
which one.
Praise the Lord.
Hallelujah.
Glory to God.
We come from the mountain of Elijah, where
Elijah confronted the powers of darkness.
And the God who answers by fire made
Himself known to the people of Israel.
And we believe the Lord has called us,
as He's positioned us strategically on that same
mountain, to walk in that same legacy.
And week after week, we stand and we
proclaim that the Lord is above every other
God.
Adonai tzevaot, the Lord God of armies, has
won the victory through Yeshua the Messiah.
And He gave us a mandate from Isaiah
42 that we were to shout from the
top of the mountains to give glory to
the Lord and that He would go forth
as a mighty warrior.
The Lord would roar and He would prevail
over His enemies.
And we see Him high and lifted up.
And we see the victory of the Lord.
We use the weapons of our warfare.
That's why I tend to travel with my
tambourine.
And with loud clashing cymbals, we are driving
back the powers of darkness.
Hallelujah.
Praise the Lord.
And I just am so blessed that you
have all come, that the Four Square Association
has heard to be here.
We are, as you know, the Lord is
calling His body, the Jewish bride and the
Gentile bride, together to prepare the way for
the coming King, for the Lord is coming
soon.
And we're to look and see Him high
and lifted up.
And our hearts are not to be shaken,
even as we hear these things at lives.
And you've come to our region, where we
are facing life and death daily.
And we have rockets coming in.
As a Jewish believer, when I first met
the Lord in New York City many, many
years ago, I began to experience the unspeakable
joy of knowing Jesus.
And at the same time, He began to
fill my heart with the grief of the
Jewish people.
And He said, I will take you back
to the land of your inheritance.
And you will share this gift of love
and life with your own people.
Hallelujah.
And it's an amazing.
We're not ready for this.
I'm not ready for this.
OK, just a moment.
Hallelujah.
We're going to do that in a minute,
because I just want to explain to you
what this song is about.
The Lord really, the miracle of knowing Jesus
and of carrying the joy.
And at the same time, as we know
Him and we share in the power of
His resurrection, we also share in the fellowship
of His sufferings.
And I believe that one of the reasons
the Lord has brought all of you here
is that you would share, that He would
impart to you some of the grief that
has been in His heart for the Jewish
people for centuries.
And that through the mercy that has been
shown to you, they will be shown mercy.
As we come together, Jew and Gentile, before
the throne of grace, and we cry out
for mercy for this nation, that He will
once again reveal Himself.
He will.
This song I'm going to sing for you
in Hebrew.
It's what a miracle.
Not only is the nation of Israel been
resurrected, but the language is a living language,
the Hebrew language.
So I'm going to sing for you in
Hebrew as well.
And the song says, Lord, remember the covenant
that you've made with our fathers and return
our Redeemer.
Show us your mercy.
Avinu malkeinu, our Father, our King.
You can start.
Avinu malkeinu ma'adim shimcha b'chol ha
'aretz Avinu
shuvol-leinu Adonai v'altishv'ah v
'yit'chaleh avoteinu Our Father, return
to us again and remember your
covenant with our fathers.
Show us your mercy.
Send out your light.
Send out your truth.
Reveal the glory, your sauce, and your
compassion.
Show us your mercy, Lord.
Show us your mercy.
Avinu malkeinu How excellent
is your name in all the earth.
Avinu Return to us
again and remember
your covenant with our fathers.
Show us your mercy.
Send out your light.
Send out your truth.
Reveal the glory, your sauce, and
your compassion.
Show us your mercy, Lord.
Show us your mercy.
Avinu malkeinu
Hallelujah.
Thank you, Lord.
Amen.
My wife always leaves her weapons all around
our house.
But it's one of the joys of being
married to a psalmist.
Hallelujah.
She didn't tell you, but when I come
into our living room where her keyboard is
and she's weeping I know God is downloading
a new song on her so I carefully
go to my prayer closet and just intercede.
And this song the Lord gave her after
a terrible suicide bombing in our neighborhood.
There were body parts of teenagers.
One was a believer.
All over the streets.
And as the worship leader in our congregation
Karen needs to then go into our Shabbat
meeting and lead the people in worship.
And so the Lord gives us worship from
the Father's heart to try to minister to
the wounds of all of our people.
Up on Mount Carmel right now we have
a new congregational building where the fire has
begun to fall in small measure and we're
believing for the fullness.
And I'm privileged to not only be the
senior leader of that congregation there but I
oversee an Arab congregation in Haifa.
The pastor of that congregation just baptized 24
Arabs.
Hallelujah.
He's one of the spiritual kids that is
an Arab who loves his people of course
but also loves the Jews.
He's on Karen's worship team.
He's a great guitar player.
His name is Yusuf.
He also has an internet radio station which
is becoming a television station in Haifa.
And he has over a million hits on
his internet radio station every month from Muslims
all over the Islamic world.
So the word of the Lord is going
forth to Muslims from Haifa.
Hallelujah.
From Mount Carmel.
We're also privileged to...
Amen.
In the year 2000 when the South Lebanese
army came out of Lebanon and when Israel
pulled out of Lebanon 7,000 South Lebanese
came.
We were up there the next morning.
We planted a congregation with them.
So I also have the privilege of being
an overseer of a congregation of Lebanese.
So it was Arabs, Lebanese, there's Ethiopian Jews
congregation in Haifa where they're overseer of them.
And so it's wonderful when the Lord gives
you a vision of the one new man
of Jew and Gentile in one body.
He just keeps multiplying and multiplying and multiplying.
Amen.
Another thing that's of interest perhaps you've read
in the papers that a lot of the
Sudanese refugees that have been not just in
Darfur but a million Christians have been killed
in southern Sudan by Muslims in the last
few years.
And a lot of them have fled to
Egypt.
They've been persecuted in Egypt and several hundreds
of them have come into Israel.
And our government is trying to decide what
to do about it but they've sent us
a lot of Sudanese.
So if you happen to come to our
congregation you're up on the top of the
mountain in our women's refuge you'll see a
lot of African mothers and a lot of
African kids running around.
We just baptized seven of those and one
of them is named Mohammed.
Hallelujah.
So God...
We serve a wonderful God.
So I want to read a scripture to
you.
If you have your Bible you can turn
to Zechariah chapter 4.
If you're interested in any more of what's
happening up on Mount Carmel our newsletter is
out there a couple of my books.
And one thing I felt to just suggest
to you before you leave the conference I
think it would be very valuable to you
to pick up a book or two from
different speakers here because I know sometimes you
get excited about what's happening and you go
back and you say what did that guy
say or what was...
that you would have some more food to
take with you like Asher's books or Ari's
and some of the other things that are
out there and I just thought it might
be of value too.
So Zechariah chapter 4 the very end of
the passage verse
14 it says these are the two anointed
ones a better translation in the Hebrew these
are the sons of fresh oil who stand
beside the Lord of the whole earth.
So I want to ask you something today
do you want to be a son or
a daughter of fresh oil?
If you do raise your hand.
Praise God.
I do too.
And you've heard different testimonies different messages here
so far and mine's a little bit different
because I grew up in America in a
nominal Christian home but my father was an
orphan and his name was Davis and we
don't know where the name came we don't
know who his father was so Jewish friends
of mine say you're Jewish and Welsh friends
of mine say you're Welsh but my mother
was Irish and English so maybe I'm Jewish,
Irish, Welsh whatever but it doesn't matter because
I'm a new creation in Christ.
Amen?
And so I grew up in America and
I did not know that you could know
Jesus no one ever told me that it
was completely I knew I believed he was
the son of God but I didn't know
you could know him so I ended up
in New York as an actor and I
was in a Broadway play one time and
had everything that I had you know, struggled
for and trained for and living the jet
set life and the limousines and the whole
thing and there was a standing ovation and
bravo and all of that and I went
home that night and this thought came to
me it doesn't mean anything and I started
to weep and I started out on my
journey to try to find God and the
journey that I'm on is the journey my
specifics are different than yours but the journey
we're all on the same journey to get
deeper and deeper and deeper into who God
is through Jesus, the Messiah so I tried
to find him I went to some strange
places in New York City in Greenwich Village
where I lived he wasn't there but somebody
took me to a meeting in a recording
studio on Broadway in Times Square and I
walked in there were a couple hundred people
in there it was an upper room they
had their hands lifted they were African Americans
and white Americans there were Jews and Gentiles
there were Asians and I had been done
a number of plays about the race issue
in America and I thought we could change
America through the arts and all that kind
of thing so I walked in I saw
all these people raising their hands that was
strange to me I'd never seen that before
and they were Broadway actors and dancers and
singers and models and fashion industry you know
my kind of people that I hung out
with so I felt well I know some
of them I knew who some of them
were they were all worshiping Jesus and as
I walked somebody took me to my seat
all of a sudden I couldn't stand up
and I collapsed on my knees in the
presence of the Holy One and started to
weep and sob and shake and I looked
up and I met Jesus and He's all
light and I was dark and He forgave
my sins and I'm on my knees weeping
and sobbing and the guy that brought me
there some actor brought me there probably wondering
what's happened to David and I just kept
weeping and it was the love of God
streaming into my heart and forgiving me and
these people were just worshiping the Lord so
let me challenge you today the power of
worshiping the Lord in spirit and in truth
is what we need in our meetings up
on Mount Carmel Jewish people will come in
it happens every week they just start weeping
they don't know why they just know they're
in the presence Muslims come in Arabs come
in and we need the presence of the
Lord in our meetings and that's how I
got saved I didn't even know the Gospel
I just knew Jesus had just saved me
and I was transformed then I got baptized
in the Holy Spirit hallelujah everything changed I
started to care about people living on the
streets and cardboard boxes that I used to
step over and I didn't care about my
whole heart changed I ran through New York
trying to get to the Bible studies I
was so starving for God I felt robbed
why hadn't anyone told me this as a
little boy and I just wanted to get
it get it get it get more of
who Jesus was I fell in love I
fell in love with Jesus He was everything
I was fanatical about it my friends ran
away from me on the streets that didn't
know Him it was just I told everybody
I sent emails there weren't emails yet I
sent letters to people faxes hallelujah and I
started to learn to hear the voice of
the Lord we need to train ourselves to
know this is Him this is what He's
saying and I began to understand what He
was saying do this don't do that do
this do that and so all of a
sudden this burning compulsion to go to Israel
invaded my being I didn't know why I
didn't know what it was all about I
just knew I've got to get to Israel
I wasn't married so I got on a
plane and came to Israel I came up
from the airport like you did I saw
Jerusalem through the cab window I started to
weep I walked the streets of Jerusalem as
you're doing I saw there's over a hundred
nationalities of Jews back here they've come from
all over the world the scriptures are being
fulfilled I was undone this is the moment
that the prophets were talking about I will
bring them back to the mountains of Israel
he who scattered Israel will gather them and
not just from Babylon it's from all the
ends of the earth and so I realized
I was walking in this prophetic moment in
this prophetic city the holy spirit told me
to pray for an Arab woman who had
had breast cancer it was the first miracle
the Lord did through me she got healed
from breast cancer a Jewish doctor gave her
the confirmation of it so I was in
Israel and God started doing these miracles and
I went up to the sea of Galilee
and I asked the Lord to speak to
me I was keeping a record of all
I still have the notebooks as he just
downloaded things on me if you don't keep
a prayer journal I advise you do it
it will build your faith you'll look back
on it a year later and say oh
my God that's what he said he was
going to do and he does it so
I said Lord speak to me he didn't
say anything I was in
a car in the rental car came a
voice singing in English it is finished with
a choir behind them I don't know if
it was from Lebanon I don't know if
it was a heavenly choir I don't know
what it was but all I know is
the Holy Spirit the fire of God fell
in the car the Holy Ghost descended in
fire in my car I couldn't drive I
sobbed I had to turn the car over
to the side of the road I couldn't
I couldn't go on I couldn't I couldn't
take it anymore and it was all the
love of God and me feeling unworthy the
love of God he was saying David it's
finished it's finished it's finished he was finishing
me I'll tell you that much hallelujah it
was it was an invasion of the fire
of God I asked him to speak to
me on Mount Carmel it went on time
stopped I tried to drive again I couldn't
I couldn't started shuddering I stoped I limped
back when I got back to America I
was undone about Israel then I met Karen
and we had dinner one night with her
spiritual mother who happened to be an African
-American lady that she lived with named Mother
Jackson, who was teaching this Jewish woman, Karen,
God's purposes about the Jews.
And she was learning this from an African
-American woman, and Karen didn't know anything about
it.
Talk about a Gentile leading a Jewish woman.
They were the funniest couple in New York,
Mother Jackson and Karen.
I'm sitting in the restaurant.
Karen is telling me about her love affair
with Jesus as she soaked in the Song
of Solomon.
It's really the Song of Songs is the
title of the book.
It means there's no other song like it.
It's the love affair between the bridegroom and
the bride.
It's for the Gentiles, but many rabbis and
many sages know it's also a symbolic picture
of the Jewish Messiah coming for his people.
It's a prophetic song that is starting to
be fulfilled in our day.
It's for Jew and Gentile together.
But as I watched this lady, she was
a model and a singer and so on.
She was on the worship team in the
recording studio where we all met.
And as she told me about her love
affair with Jesus, the Lord said, this is
your wife.
I knew the voice of the Lord.
Man, I skipped back to the subway that
night.
I was going, oh, hallelujah.
I met the one I'm going to marry
and she's a Jew.
Hallelujah.
So we were married and we got involved
in ministry.
I love show business.
I was ordained a minister of the gospel
in a Broadway theater, which is now called
Times Square Church.
And I had gone there years before for
the Tony Awards.
The play where I was in was up
for the best play on Broadway.
And when I was ordained, I was back
there two weeks ago and spoke.
I'm overdone.
I'm undone every time I go there and
try to speak because the old me, you
know, used to be involved in all that
stuff.
Only God could have written my movie, believe
me.
So Karen and I got involved in ministry
and then I brought my Jewish wife to
Israel for the first time.
She'd never been here.
We flew in over Tel Aviv.
She looked out the window at the land
of her inheritance and she just started to
weep.
We came up to Jerusalem.
We had lunch with the Arab woman who
got healed.
The Arab woman who got healed made us
this beautiful meal.
And I had sent her David Wilkerson's book,
The Cross and the Switchblade.
I'd led her to the Lord.
She was a believer.
And so now I'm with a Jewish wife
and I'm with the Arab lady with her
husband and her Arab daughter.
And we're having a one new man lunch
in Jerusalem, you know, Jew and Arab and
Gentile sitting there.
And she looked at me and she said,
David, so you're working with these drug addicts
now?
And I said, mm-hmm.
And she said, we have drug addicts all
over the old city of Jerusalem.
And I was shocked because I thought this
was the Holy Land, you know.
You probably did too till you got here.
We need Jesus just the way America or
Nigeria or anybody else needs Jesus, you know.
And so I said, yeah.
And she said, she looked at me, looked
me in the eyes, this Arab woman.
She said, I can't let my daughter go
out at night.
Her daughter was 16.
There's crime all over the old city.
And she said, can you bring your church
here?
It was a Macedonian call.
It was the propulsion of the Holy Spirit.
It was the arrow of the Lord.
It's like, you know, God shot me over
to Israel to begin with and I had
nothing to do with it.
It was just, you know, it's like getting
on automatic pilot with the Holy Ghost and
letting him take you and do what he
wants to do.
And so this lady, this Arab lady said,
can you bring your church here?
I started to weep.
My wife started to weep.
We knew it was the call of the
Lord.
We knew it was Arabs and Jews.
It didn't take a prophet to figure that
out.
It was to come here and minister to
both.
So that was the beginning of the call.
And the Lord, my book that back there,
The Road to Carmel, if you're interested, tells
the whole story because people said, how'd you
leave Broadway and go to Mount Carmel?
And I don't get tired of telling it,
but the whole deal's in there if you're
interested.
So the Lord brought us up to Mount
Carmel.
We became citizens.
The Gulf War started.
As the Gulf War was about to start,
the first one, 1991, when Saddam Hussein was
firing his scuds in here.
As that was about to start, maybe you
didn't put these two together, but the Soviet
Union collapsed.
The Soviet Union collapsed.
The centuries of persecution.
And a million Jews came back to Israel.
And a lot of them came into Haifa.
And we would sit on there and watch
the boats come in from Odessa.
And here came all of these immigrants.
In the meantime, Saddam Hussein is firing missiles.
We're running through in the middle of the
night, you know, putting on our gas masks
and trying to get into our bomb shelter.
Mount Carmel is shaking.
The first rocket, the first scud that hit
Haifa missed the major oil storage area at
the port of Haifa by less than 50
yards.
The whole port could have gone up.
In the next morning, there was a rainbow
over Haifa Bay, and we were going, hallelujah,
God's going to watch over us.
But the Lord was working out His purposes.
He said, I'll bring them back from the
north.
And wham, down went the Soviet Union.
And here they came.
And we all knew what was going to
happen.
It's in the Scriptures.
People had prophesied it and marched around the
Kremlin and prayed and written books about it.
And so we saw the hand of the
Lord going and the enemy trying to stop
what God was doing.
So in the midst of this war, the
Lord gave us this wonderful old building on
Mount Carmel.
In English, it's called House of Victory.
It's still there.
It's 17 years old.
Hundreds of Jews and Arabs have come off
drugs and alcohol.
They fall in love with Jesus.
They get reconciled to the Father, and they
get reconciled to each other.
Hallelujah.
It's Jews and Arabs in the same building.
He's able to do it.
When we came to Israel, the Jewish leaders
said, who are you going to work with,
the Jews or the Arabs?
I said, both.
They said, you can't do it.
The Arab leaders in the north, in Galilee,
they said, who are you going to work
with?
You're going to work with us, right?
Not the Jews.
I said, both.
They said, it'll never work.
Now they come to House of Victory.
Now they say, hallelujah, it can work.
God can break down the walls of division.
In fact, he's already broken them down by
the blood of Jesus on the cross.
You just need to believe it and walk
in it.
He said it, and he will do it.
If God gives you a vision, don't listen
to men.
I have a PhD.
I'm a doctor of philosophy.
I look for truth everywhere.
But when I met Jesus, he's the truth,
and he's love, and he's all I need.
And I don't believe in the wisdom of
men anymore.
I believe in the power of God, and
that's what we need.
Hallelujah.
Now today, you know what's happening today?
There's a prayer shield all across northern Israel.
Our congregation, other congregations, there are congregations now
all across northern Israel.
They weren't there 10 years ago.
Arab groups, Russian-speaking groups, our group, which
is both Messianic Jewish groups, they're all across
the north.
And we have a 24-hour, seven-day
-a-week, 24-7 prayer shield going across
northern Israel and Galilee.
And there are two Lebanese congregations on the
other side of the border praying with us
that God will stop Hezbollah.
And praise the Lord, He's done it.
It hasn't happened.
And so we know that God can bring
the plans of man to nothing, and God's
Word and His counsel will stand.
I'm here to tell you there is good
news coming from Israel, not what you see
on television, not what you read in the
New York Times.
There is good news.
Jews and Arabs are getting saved in more
numbers than any time since the book of
Acts.
And it's just the beginning.
It's the early rain.
Hallelujah.
Now let's go back to Zechariah 4.
You probably think, what does that have to
do with all of this?
Well, in some ways, everything.
Zechariah 4, God wakened up His prophet.
Church, wake up.
Hello?
Wake up.
Open your eyes, your spiritual eyes.
You need to walk these streets of Jerusalem.
These Jewish people, when I saw them, it
broke my heart.
They don't know Jesus.
Go see the sites and all that.
But look at the people.
Do you know why they don't know Jesus?
I know the Lord has put a veil
over their hearts.
But do you know why else?
That veil is much harder because of what
people that have called themselves Christians have done
to them.
I was telling a young couple at breakfast
this morning from Pastor Jack's church.
I was telling them that the Crusaders came
here, called themselves Christians from Europe.
They put all the Jews in Jerusalem in
the Grand Synagogue and they burned them to
death, all of them.
And they walked around with crosses singing, Christ,
we adore Thee.
So why would a Jew want Jesus?
You see, when our nation, when there's this
national repentance and they turn to the Lord,
He's coming back.
His feet will be on the Mount of
Olives.
It's here.
So Satan is doing everything he can to
stop that.
And now that the Jews are turning to
the Lord in all these incredible numbers in
the nations and here in Israel, Satan is
furious and doing everything he can to stop
it.
So when you walk the streets of Jerusalem
or Haifa or Tel Aviv and they know
you're Christians, they're suspect because of the history.
And so it's so important that you get
a heart, that you will pray for the
peace of Jerusalem.
That means the whole nation too.
In peace, shalom comes from the word le
-shalom.
It means something that's been purchased.
When you pray for the peace of Jerusalem,
you're praying for the salvation of the Jews
and Arabs of our land.
And you need to do it for us.
We need you.
Okay, so the prophet wakes up and what
does he see?
He sees one of these.
This is called a menorah or seven-branched
candlestick.
He sees one of these and the prophet
knows what this means.
And I'm sure you know what it means
too.
In the temple, there was a seven-branched
candlestick.
The original one was made for the tabernacle
in the wilderness.
And it was made out of beaten, hammered
gold of one piece of gold.
One piece, not a bunch of pieces.
I don't know how Bezalel did it, but
he got the anointing of the Holy Spirit
to do the original one.
And there were seven branches to it.
And it represents the fullness of the Holy
Spirit.
How many of you here want the fullness
of the Holy Spirit for your nation?
This is all about the fullness of the
Holy Spirit.
You might say, well, that's the temple.
What does that have to do today?
Well, where does this show up in the
B'rith HaTosha, in the New Covenant?
The best commentary on what you would call
the Old Testament is the New Testament.
Praise God for all the great commentaries.
And where does this show up in the
New Testament?
In Revelations chapter one.
There's seven of them, which means completion, fullness.
Who's standing in the middle of it?
Jesus.
What does it mean?
He literally tells us it's the church.
So, of course, Zechariah didn't understand that.
But we know if you understand exegesis and
how to study your Bible, this is about
the church.
And Jesus has to be in the middle,
first place in everything, preeminence in everything.
So he sees this, but there's an olive
tree on each side.
And he says, what are these, my Lord?
He didn't know what the two olive trees
were.
So the Lord says, not by might, not
by power, but by my spirit, says the
Lord of armies.
Can you imagine the prophet that heard that
for the first time?
When they had stopped building the temple and
he said, tell Zerubbabel, he will finish the
temple.
It's grace, grace, grace, grace.
Don't despise the days of small beginnings.
All these biblical truths that have thundered down
the centuries and feed us and change us.
This prophet is hearing it for the first
time.
I think he got excited.
It's about Zerubbabel.
It's about Joshua.
It's about priests and kingly power.
You and I are supposed to be kings
and priests.
It's all about that.
The fullness.
I know all that.
That's for sure.
But what are the two olive trees all
about?
He didn't get it.
He didn't understand.
There was really no way he could understand.
So look what it says in verse 11.
He asked him three times, what are these
two olive trees?
Verse 12, there's silence.
Then he asked again, what are the two
olive branches?
He sees, it's like the camera zooms in
in his vision, he sees olive branches dropping
pure, beaten, virgin olive oil, golden olive oil
into the menorah, the church, if you will,
the fullness of the presence of God.
You know what it represents.
It's the fullness of the Holy Spirit.
Don't get any flies in your perfumer's ointment.
You know, make sure your ointment, your oil
is clear, is pure.
It doesn't have some junk in there.
It has to be pure.
And so he cries out again.
Verse 14, so he said, these are the
two anointed ones are the sons of fresh
oil that stand beside the Lord of the
whole earth.
And it's the end of the vision.
He never found out.
Well, I have a question for you this
morning, church.
What are the two olive trees?
And so he cries out again.
Verse 14, so he said, these are the
two anointed ones are the sons of fresh
oil that stand beside the Lord of the
whole earth.
And it's the end of the vision.
He never found out.
Well, I have a question for you this
morning, church.
What are the two olive trees?
We know that he knew who one of
them was.
It's Israel because Israel is called an olive
tree in the Psalms and in the prophets
and so on.
So he knew that, but he didn't know
what the other olive tree was.
Well, how do we determine where do the
two olive trees show up?
They show up in Romans 11.
What is my wife, my Jewish wife?
According to the truth of the scripture, she's
a natural olive tree, a cultivated olive tree,
and she is cultivated.
Hallelujah.
I'm a wild olive tree and I was
wild.
Don't laugh at me.
You were out there too.
How many of you were not a wild
olive tree?
I want to see one hand go up.
Now a wild olive tree lives out in
the desert and nobody takes care of it.
Doesn't have the prophets, doesn't have the patriarchs,
doesn't have the revelation of who God is.
These wild Gentile olive trees that lived in
California, forgive me, hallelujah, lived in wherever, but
they don't have much sap, they don't have
much oil, but they do have something, they're
alive.
And the scriptures say in Romans 11 that
the wild olive branches have been grafted, cut,
circumcised into, it's in Romans 11, into the
olive tree of Israel.
So the dead olive branches of the Jews
are falling off in the desert, but along
comes a Gentile and starts pumping some oil
and prayer and support and love and mercy
in there.
And miracle of miracles, the dead olive branches
of the Jewish people get up out of,
off of the desert and they get back
in their own tree.
And you have two, one new man, Jew
and Gentile in one body, broken down by
the blood of Jesus.
That's the way the church started.
It's in all the letters.
It wasn't until the third century that this
was lost, but we're in the last days.
We're in the days of the restoration of
all things.
It's being restored everywhere I go.
It's being restored here.
I go to Indonesia.
There's a huge revival of Muslims in Indonesia.
I go to a church of 30,000
people.
They're all young ex-Muslims.
They love Israel because they just read the
scriptures.
It's, there's a whole movement in the biggest
revival in the history of the world.
The Chinese underground persecuted church called Back to
Jerusalem.
They're sending a hundred thousand missionaries.
They've already started it because they read the
scriptures.
They go, oh no, I take my wife
to India.
They've never even met a Jew.
And they went, oh my, she's a Jew.
They put her in a sorry, they're going
to kidnap her and take her passport and
not let her leave.
They loved her so much.
And they're singing Yeshua.
Brothers and sisters, the fullness of the move
of God in the last days is going
to be the Jew and Gentile in one
body.
If you don't have Israel on your heart,
and listen, and if I don't have the
nations on my heart, my heart is shattered
for Britain when we go there and do
prophetic meeting.
My heart is shattered for America.
I love America when I see what's happening.
But if I don't carry that and you
don't carry that for Israel, you won't have
the fullness.
You won't have fullness of revelation.
You won't have fullness of grace.
You won't have fullness of power and the
anointing.
Now we want to do a prophetic act
here.
So I'm going to ask Karen to come
and I'm going to ask Pastor Anna, Jack
Hayford's wife.
We're going to light these seven candles.
It represents the fullness of the presence of
God for church on the way, for Foursquare,
for any other believers here, for us in
Israel, because we're all in this together.
And this is the church.
Gold, pure beaten gold.
Now the gospel is to the Jew first.
So if it's all right with you, I'm
going to ask Karen to light them first.
Don't you believe in miracles?
Can't you talk into a candle?
Unbelieve.
Now, if this was our messianic congregation on
Mount Carmel and we'd say, yes, we're reaching
the Jews, it's to the Jew first.
When God told us to reach Jews and
Arabs, we might have this much going.
That much anointing.
Look, we need it all.
And so do you.
So I'm going to ask Anna.
Now let's do the center one together.
Jew and Gentile bringing in the fullness.
Hallelujah.
Glory to God.
Thank you, Lord.
Praise you, Lord.
The Jewish and the Gentile bride in the
last days for the nations and for Israel.
And then he's coming back.
Now, one last thing.
This anointing.
How many of you want you said you
wanted to be sons or daughters of fresh
oil.
So I assume that's all of you.
This anointing.
Is so it's everything.
It's being led and controlled and directed and
empowered by the Holy Spirit, which I didn't
learn about till I met Jesus, and I
never knew about it.
But the cost of the anointing.
It's costly.
It means sacrificing, spending time in prayer on
your knees, weeping and travail and triumph.
It means praising the Lord and worshiping the
Lord and thanking him in the middle.
It's the anointing.
When Jesus was in the Garden of Gethsemane,
if you haven't been there, you'll probably go
there before you leave over here on the
Mount of Olives.
And as he was on his knees and
his men fell asleep and as he prayed
and cried before the father and sweated big
drops of blood, he was in Gethsemane and
Gethsemane in Hebrew, the word for it is
Got Shemin, which means oil press.
Jesus was in the place of the oil
press.
An oil press, it's still done sometimes here
in Israel.
We have oil trees, I mean, olive trees
at House of Victory and up on our
congregational building and so on.
You shake the olives, the tree, you get
the olives.
You put them in a sort of a
scooped out stone thing with a spout at
the end.
And then pure virgin olive.
It's the first pressing of the olives.
And kids, families will do it together.
They take off their shoes, they step on
them, they try to be careful not to
destroy the olives so you can eat the
olives but also get the oil.
Well, think of this for a minute.
Our blessed Savior was in the olive press,
being pressed out in pain we don't know
much anything about.
Choosing to take your sin and my sin,
all the hatred, the racism, the perversion, wars.
He took it all, he chose.
And when he walked out of that olive
press, he was ready to go and die
for us.
My friends, this anointing is so pure, is
so holy.
This last day's anointing of Jew and Gentile.
God wants to release a fresh anointing to
you in this place, at this moment.
Let's stand.
If you feel led by the Holy Spirit,
just raise your hands to the Lord in
a gesture of surrender, of supplication, and tell
the Lord if there's anything between you and
him, especially about racial division.
Oh God, give it to the Lord.
He broke it all down.
If he can reconcile Ishmael and Isaac, the
longest running family feud in the history of
the world.
He can reconcile marriages, fathers and sons, different
racial groups.
If there's anything, your heart has been a
little hard since you've been here.
You haven't got a burden for the Jews
and Arabs of the land.
Praise God.
Go and see all the stones, but look
at the living stones, the body, and all
those lost.
Now, Lord, I ask you for a download
of your spirit.
I ask you, Lord, that you will come
right now by the power of your spirit
and you will release from the throne room
of God.
Jesus, we thank you for what you did
for us, that you might give us this
anointing.
Lord, we want all seven.
We want the fullness.
We want more and more of your spirit,
more anointing day by day by day by
day for our congregations, for our walks with
you, for our marriages, for our nations, for
Israel.
Would you download, Father, in heaven?
You watched Jesus do that.
In agony, you must have gone through ABBA
in this moment in Jerusalem with all these
wonderful Gentiles that have come from the ends
of the earth.
Give them supernaturally through a broken heart, a
heart for the Jews, the Muslims and the
Arabs of the Middle East.
We ask you to do it, Lord, and
to carry it back to their nation.
Come upon us, Lord, we pray.
In Jesus' name, lift your hands to the
Lord and worship Jesus.
They're singing Kaddosh.
They're singing holy in the throne room.
Worship him.
We lift you up, Jesus.
It's all about you.
Kaddosh holy.
Kaddosh.
The Lord God of armies.
It's not by might.
It's not by your power.
It's by the Holy Spirit, says the Lord
of armies.
Supernatural empowerment, Lord.
Your troops with fresh anointing, sons and daughters,
new anointing.
Hallelujah.
Holy.
He's the Lord.
Praise you,
Lord.
We praise you, Lord.
Just continue to lift your voices and worship.
Hallelujah.
We worship you, our Father.
You are the true Lord.
Praise you, God.
Hallelujah.
Thank you.