I have set the Lord before my eyes,
so my heart will not be shaken.
I have set my will to seek His
light.
I will wait upon the Lord.
I will lift my eyes up to the
hills, to the God of all creation.
I will lift my heart and worship Him.
Yes, I will glory in the Lord.
I will praise the Lord.
I will lift my eyes to the Lord
on high.
And I will praise the Lord.
I have set the Lord before my eyes,
and so my heart will not be shaken.
I have set my will to seek His
light.
I will wait upon the Lord.
I will lift my eyes up to the
hills, to the God of all creation.
I will lift my heart and worship Him.
I will glory in the Lord.
I will praise the Lord at all times.
I will praise the Lord.
I will lift my eyes to the Lord
on high.
And I will praise the Lord.
Hallelujah.
I will praise the Lord.
Hallelujah.
I will praise the Lord.
I will lift my eyes to the Lord
on high.
And I will praise the Lord.
The Lord is mine.
He is my defense.
I shall not be moved.
Hallelujah.
The Lord is the strength of my heart.
Hallelujah.
He is my song in the night.
He is the lifter of my head.
He is my defense.
I shall not be moved.
The Lord is the strength of my heart.
Hallelujah.
He is my song in the night.
The lifter and the glory.
He is the lifter of my head.
He sets my feet on the rock.
Hallelujah.
High above my enemies.
I will praise the Lord.
I will lift my eyes to the Lord
on high.
And I will praise the Lord.
I will praise the Lord.
I will lift my eyes to the Lord
on high.
And I will praise the Lord.
Hallelujah.
And this afternoon at 3 o'clock, Pastor
Peter, co-founder, will be sharing from the
Word of God about Israel.
Tonight he will be sharing again.
He'll be going in the Old Testament and
the New Testament.
And tonight we'll have a shouting time and
Karen will be able to sing with us
again.
Hallelujah.
Then Tuesday night we'll be doing, my wife
and I will be doing what we're calling
a musical presentation here called A Song in
the Night.
We live in a dark place, the Middle
East.
We've come through wars.
Last summer, the summer before last, 4,000
rockets hit our area.
We ran to the bomb shelter 10 times
in one day.
So we need a song in the night,
you know, a victory song.
And so do you.
You need it for the darkness of New
York or wherever you've come that we sing
a song of victory in the midst of
encroaching darkness.
Amen?
And so if you have Jewish friends and
you're from the New York area, you may
want to bring some of them here.
I know some are coming, people that don't
know the Lord yet.
It might be a good thing for you
to bring them to hear a nice Jewish
girl from Detroit sing who now lives in
high fall Mount Carmel, you know.
And, of course, the Lord will be lifted
up and we're going to believe the Lord
will meet with us on Tuesday night.
Each time I come back here, I have
to fight being overwhelmed because I have history
with this place.
I was here many, many years ago before
I knew the Lord and came to the
Tony Awards that the play that I was
in on Broadway was up for some awards.
And it was this wasn't a church yet.
This was a theater.
So I go all the way back to
that.
And I remember the day when Times Square
Church got control of this place.
A few of us walked in back there.
It was David Wilkerson and his wife, Gwen,
and a few others.
And the men that were the union stagehands,
they were throwing the scenery of a play
that had just closed, an abomination of a
play that had just closed that we'd been
praying about.
All the scenery was going out on 51st
Street and the saints were coming in the
front door.
Hallelujah.
It was tremendous.
And I was ordained a minister of the
gospel at the spot.
It's over overwhelming to me that it would
be in a Broadway theater where I came
as a heathen, you know, many years.
And my wife and I, Pastor David Wilkerson,
laid hands on us at this spot.
And he spoke 19 years ago and he
spoke that this church, this congregation will stand
with Israel according to his word.
And that this is the first fruits because
the gospel is to the Jew first and
also to the non-Jews.
And that this church would be ascending church.
So we were the first.
And when I come back here and go
up in some of the offices and I
see people with backpacks and suitcases and I
hear what's happening in Jamaica and Africa and
all the other, it's just wonderful to see
how God is not only impacting New York
City and the metropolitan area but that he
is reaching the nations and that he is
restoring the need for the church to stand
with Israel in these last days.
So if you'll open your Bibles, let's look
at 2 Peter.
As you're turning there to the 2nd epistle
of the Jewish apostle Kepha was his name.
Peter, Petros, Rock.
If you're interested, my books and Pastor Peter's
books are back there about what's happening in
Israel and other things.
Our newsletters, CDs and DVDs.
If you're interested more about what God's doing
in Israel and getting involved, you're welcome to
go, you know, check all that out.
Okay, 2 Peter chapter 1, verse 19.
And we have the prophetic word confirmed or
made more sure, which you do well to
heed as a light that shines in a
dark place until the day dawns and the
morning star rises in your hearts.
We are encouraged here by the apostle Peter
that the prophetic word is our light in
the darkness in which we live.
So you can watch the news about Israel
or read the New York Times or whatever
and you'll get certain kinds of information.
But we need to know what does the
word of God say about Israel and the
Jewish people, especially in these last days.
So that we are aligned with God's word
and with his heart.
And it's a warning here that the prophetic
word of God is sure.
And we need to heed it until the
morning star, Jesus, Yeshua, keeps rising in our
hearts and we see the prophecies fulfilled.
Now, I have a PhD.
I was a seeker of truth.
I'm a doctor of philosophy.
And I had all the books, every philosopher
you ever heard of, I had a whole
library trying to find truth.
But when I met Jesus, I met the
truth and I found the truth.
And so all the other stuff didn't matter
anymore.
This matters.
And I had felt, I felt robbed for
why didn't anyone tell me years before?
And so I devoured the word of God.
And so as I began devouring the word
of God and learning to get filled with
the Holy Spirit and learning to hear the
voice of the spirit, the spirit told me
to go to Israel.
I wasn't married.
I could pick up and go.
I got on an airplane and I went
to Israel.
And when I got to Israel, I drove
up to Jerusalem, I started to weep.
My father was a historian and I love
history.
And Jerusalem, there was something different.
It wasn't New York or London or Naples.
There was something about this place.
And as I got there and went into
the Jerusalem, I saw all of these Jews.
And I was reading the history of what
had happened about the War of Independence in
48 and the Six Day War and the
Yom Kippur War and all of that.
And I saw this back from a hundred
nations.
They came from all over the Middle East
and Europe.
And I see all these Jewish people here.
And so I read, for instance, look at
Isaiah 11 or I'll just read it to
you if you just want to listen.
For instance, as I as I searched the
scriptures there in Jerusalem many years ago, there
are many, many scriptures you could look at
about this.
But Isaiah 11 really spoke to me clearly.
It was the prophetic word of God made
more sure to me that was light in
the dark darkness that I was trying to
understand.
What is it about Israel?
What does all this have to do with
anything?
And so in verse 11, Isaiah 11, 11,
it says, it shall come to pass in
that day that the Lord shall set his
hand again a second time to recover the
remnant of his people who are left from
all these different nations that are named there
all through the Middle East and so on.
And a lot of the Jewish people had
come from Muslim nations where they had been
persecuted and had to flee.
They come back to the to the nation
after it was established miraculously in 1948, after
they escaped from the Holocaust and so on.
They had a safe place to be.
And he says, verse 12, he will set
up a banner for the nations, a sign.
It's a sign for the nations.
And the Lord was speaking to me about
all of this.
And he will gather the outcasts of Israel.
I saw that over 50 times in the
scriptures, it says that he who scattered Israel
will gather him.
And I stood there and I said, this
is now, this is the prophetic word.
You know, biblical prophecy is simple.
It's simple.
God says he'll do it and then he
does it.
You know, he says he's coming on a
donkey.
He came on a donkey.
700 years before the Messiah was born, he
said, it's going to be Bethlehem.
He came to Bethlehem.
I've stood with Orthodox Jews in Jerusalem and
says, look, it says Bethlehem.
No, no, that's Christian.
No, no.
I said, look, it's Micah, Micah.
And they'll say, oh, I better go talk
to my rabbi.
I don't understand that.
But God said he was going to do
it and he does it.
We have the sure word of prophecy that
Peter was talking about.
Jerusalem is mentioned 900 times in the Bible.
How many times do you think it's mentioned
in the Koran?
It's not there.
Do you understand this is this?
What is going on is about the word
of God and the fulfillment of God's word.
Now turn to Acts chapter one.
When Jesus left before he comes back the
second time, he was on the Mount of
Olives.
And you would think that the last words
that the son of God would say to
his followers and disciples would be a very,
very important.
And I'm wondering if everybody here knows what
the last words were.
It wasn't the Great Commission.
It was verse eight.
Acts 1 8.
You shall receive power when the Holy Spirit
has come upon you.
You shall be witnesses to me in Jerusalem,
in all Judea and Samaria and the ends
of the earth.
My wife and I and Peter, we are
here as God's witnesses.
We are witnessing to you.
We will teach the theology, but we will
witness to you what we have seen, what
we have tasted, what we have experienced.
Biblical prophecy is empirical.
That's a big academic word means that you
can prove it.
If he said he's going to do it
and he does it, that's the word of
God.
That's what's happening.
So he says, you will be witnesses to
me or my witnesses.
And if you look at the end of
it, well, let's read verse 11.
He also said, men of Galilee, this is
the Jewish Messiah, the root of David and
the offspring of David, Jesus.
The lion of the tribe of Judah.
He is the lion of the tribe of
Judah.
Still, Judah means Jew.
It means praise in heaven.
He's the lion of the tribe of Judah.
That's what revelation says.
Hallelujah.
He's the lamb of God on the throne,
but he's also the lion.
And he's coming back.
He won't be coming on a donkey, folks.
He's coming in glory to judge the nations.
Hallelujah.
Men of Galilee, why do you stand gazing
up into the heaven?
This same Jesus who was taken from you
into heaven will so come in like manner
as you saw him go into heaven.
He's coming back exactly as he left.
And we know that from Zechariah chapter 14,
his feet will be on the Mount of
Olives.
The very place that he left.
He's coming.
Hallelujah.
I'm sorry to tell you, he's not coming
to Central Park.
You pray that there's an outpouring of the
Holy Spirit at Central Park.
But he's coming to Jerusalem and he's coming
to the Mount of Olives.
The Lord will fight against all those nations
that come against Jerusalem.
Zechariah 4, 3 and 4 says, and his
feet will be on...
He's coming back to the exact place where
he left from.
You know, as I stood on the Mount
of Olives, I'd go down into the Garden
of Gethsemane and read all the four accounts
of what happened there.
What he went through in getting close to
the heart of Jesus years ago in Israel.
And then go on the Mount of Olives
and I would read these things.
And I would realize, this is what's happening
today.
We're moving toward this now.
And I am privileged to live in these
last days, the end times.
And somehow God is giving me this tremendous
burden and burning about Israel.
Now, when will his feet stand on the
Mount of Olives?
Well, turn to Matthew 23.
We're interested in this.
And his disciples were interested in this.
They asked him, how will we know when
you're coming back?
Well, you know the great chapter, Matthew 24,
which is...
If you want to study what's happening in
the last days, Jesus told us in Matthew
24 and Luke 21, study those two chapters.
It's all there.
And we get some of it.
Sometimes, you know, there's going to be great
deception.
The heart of many, agape love of many
is going to grow cold.
All those things, earthquakes and all the rest
of it.
You know all of that.
But look at verse 13.
Matthew 24.
He who endures to the end shall be
saved.
And the gospel of the kingdom shall be
preached in all the world as a witness
to all nations.
And then the end will come.
Now, praise God that this church is getting
the gospel out as a witness to all
the nations and many other churches around the
world.
Now, for those of you that maybe, if
there are any people of Arab background here
or have a concern about that.
I want to tell you something.
We have a congregation on Mount Carmel that
is Arabs and Jews.
We oversee an Arab language meeting that will
be meeting tonight in Haifa on Mount Carmel.
We planted a Lebanese church that speaks Arabic.
I've been to Indonesia.
I've been in a church that has 30
,000 people and most of them are ex
-Muslims.
There are 30 new evangelical congregations in Baghdad
alone.
There are 30,000 new believers in Iraq.
There is a revival going on among the
Kurds.
There is a revival going on in Egypt.
God is moving all over the Muslim world.
And these Muslims that we come to the
Lord, they read the scriptures and they understand
God's purposes for Israel and we embrace one
another.
Hallelujah.
So the gospel needs to go to the
ends of the earth.
And it is.
And we need to keep praying and sending
and sending and stay back with the baggage
and pray if you can't go.
But get involved in it.
Hallelujah.
That's tremendous.
But there's something we miss.
There are no chapter numbers when Matthew wrote
this on a scroll.
You know, Levi was his name.
So go back to the beginning of Matthew
24.
Well, the end of Matthew 23.
Matthew 23, verse 37.
Here's Jesus and his heart for Jerusalem.
And look what he says.
Oh, Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the one who kills the
prophets and stones, those who are sent to
her.
How often I wanted to gather your children
together as a hen gathers her chicks under
her wings.
But you were not willing.
See, your house has left you desolate.
For I say to you, you shall see
me no more until you say, blessed is
he who comes in the name of the
Lord.
There's an until there.
The Jews have been set aside as all
the Gentiles come in until he's speaking to
Jerusalem.
He's speaking to the Jews.
He's speaking.
He's weeping over Jerusalem.
He's jealous for Jerusalem.
That's his heart.
And he says, you're not going to see
me until you say in Hebrew, it's Baruch,
Haba, B'Shem, Adonai.
We sing that.
We prophesy.
There are now approximately 15,000 Jewish believers
in Israel.
More Jews are turning to the Lord now
than any time since the book of Acts.
But when they say that when there is
a national repentance and crying out to the
Lord, whatever it takes for us to get
there, when there is a national anthem of
Baruch, Haba, B'Shem, Adonai, he's coming back.
His feet will be on the Mount of
Olives.
So this is two-pronged.
Pray that the gospel goes to the ends
of the earth and pray that the Jews
turn to their Messiah.
So he'll come back.
Hallelujah.
Now look at chapter 24, verse 32.
Now look, he's talking about the end times.
He's talking about what we're all about here
today.
Jesus, this is Yeshua, Jesus, the Messiah, the
Son of God talking.
Verse 32.
After he tells us all these things that
are going to happen, you know, he said
it will be like the days of Noah.
You know, giving and buying and selling and
going to parties and marrying.
I was praying in Central Park yesterday.
Pastor Carter happened to call me while I
was praying there.
I was watching all the people.
You know, I used to play softball over
there, you know, the Broadway show league and
all that stuff.
And I was watching the kids go start
in baseball.
All these Asians are jogging and keeping in
good shape and, you know, people are ice
skating.
And I thought, this is the days of
Noah.
They don't know what's coming.
Praise God for the remnant of people that
know the Lord out there.
But they think Broadway and taking pictures and
all that is important.
But my friends, Jesus tells us what's going
to happen.
And as the Jews turn to Jesus, we're
getting closer to the end.
Israel is the key to the end times
to see all of this.
Now, look at verse 32.
Now, learn the parable from the fig tree.
Israel is the fig tree.
Why do I say that?
Because Israel is called the fig tree in
the Old Testament over and over and over.
And there's a great longing in the heart
of Jews for centuries that they read the
Scriptures and the Psalms.
We'll come back to the land and sit
under our fig tree.
Now, we have a drug rehab.
We established the first one in Israel and
it's called House of Victory.
It's on Mount Carmel.
We have fig trees there.
They've been pruned.
And when you see the fig tree bud,
look what it says.
When the branch has already become tender and
put forth their leaves, you know that summer
is near.
So you also, when you see all these
things, know that it is near at the
doors.
Assuredly, I say to you, this generation shall
by no means pass away till all these
things take place.
Heaven and earth will pass away, but my
word will by no means pass away.
My friends, the fig tree can be Israel
in biblical understanding.
The best interpretation of the Old Testament is
through the New Testament.
And here, Jesus says, when you see the
fig tree blossoming, know that I am near.
In 1967, Israel did not want the six
-day war.
It was a miracle.
If you've ever read what happened, it's a
joke in Israel.
We fought for six days, and on the
seventh day, we rested.
And it was miraculous.
And I met three of the paratroopers that
went in there.
They were at a conference we did in
Jerusalem last summer.
They're older men now.
The famous picture of them at the wall,
weeping and so on.
The Jews had longed to get back to
the Western Wall, which is the retaining wall
of the Second Temple.
The Jordanians kept bombing Jerusalem, and Israel was
asking Jordan to stay up, and they did.
So they went in and they took the
wall.
Israel finally reunited Jerusalem after centuries.
After the Romans had destroyed the place.
After the Romans had killed or put into
slavery two-thirds of the Jews.
The Romans crucified 90,000 Jewish people.
And they stopped because they ran out of
wood.
And for the Jews to then be thrown
out of the country.
The Jewish believers, there were thousands of them
in those days.
They knew what was going to happen.
They knew it.
It's all in the Scriptures.
But when they took the old city.
You know, when Pastor David Wilkerson came out
to dedicate our new building.
We built a new congregational building up on
the top of Mount Carmel.
We had the 10 stones around the altar.
A skylight for the fire to fall.
We're restoring the altar of the Lord on
Mount Carmel.
Like you're restoring the altar of the Lord
in New York or wherever you're from.
Hallelujah.
But Pastor David Wilkerson, after we dedicated the
building, we went to Jerusalem.
And I said, what would you like to
do?
And he said, are those believers from Germany,
do they still have that?
Two ladies, two sisters, have that prayer house
on the Mount of Olives?
I said, yeah, they're still there.
So he said, let's go there.
So it was Karen, myself, and Pastor David,
and his wife, Gwen.
We met with these two German sisters.
And they told us the story.
They lived in this little house on the
Mount of Olives where he's coming back.
And they were there in the Six Day
War.
And they said when the bombardment started, they
went down in their cellar.
After it was over, it was quiet.
They came up.
The Jordanians were all gone.
All the equipment was left there.
And the two German ladies' building had been
destroyed.
And the only thing they said left standing,
the Bible was standing up on the floor
of the place, these elderly ladies.
And they said, the Jews were back.
And we realized Luke 21, 24 is being
fulfilled.
That Jerusalem will be trampled down by the
Gentiles until the time of the Gentiles is
fulfilled.
That is being fulfilled in this very day.
So that was 1967.
Do you know what happened in 1967?
Those of you that were alive.
It was the big, the hippie thing started
out on the west coast in San Francisco.
And the Summer of Love and all that
stuff, drugs and free everything.
But out of that came the Jesus Movement.
And you know what happened in the Jesus
Movement in the 60s, late 60s?
Hundreds of Jews turned to the Lord.
They were in the New Age looking for
truth.
You see, the fig tree started to blossom.
We're right, we're tracking.
We are now about to celebrate the 60th
anniversary of the nation of Israel.
When we go back, President George Bush is
coming.
Now listen to this.
Three divisions of the Syrian army have just
moved up close to the Israeli border.
There's warnings all across the north.
Hezbollah now has 3,000 rockets, according to
the Secretary General of the UN.
10,000 long-range rockets.
They fired 4,000 two years ago.
I mean, that's what we're going back to.
Why?
Why is the enemy so furious about Israel?
Why little Israel?
You know it's smaller than New Jersey.
I mean, people come there and say, my
God, just drove across.
At one point we're nine miles wide.
You know, surrounded.
There's 6 million Jews surrounded by 300 million
people that don't want them there.
I mean, that's the reality on the ground.
So what is it about all of this?
Well, the 60th anniversary.
The Lord downloaded all this to me years
ago.
I mean, it's been growing over the years.
I come back to New York after that
first time in Israel, and I meet her.
Hallelujah.
And we made up for lost time.
We fell in love, and we got married,
and she's a Jew, and I'm a Gentile.
And we're the one new man.
That's what this conference is all about.
Now, the church started as the one new
man.
That's the way it was.
I mean, why does the church, why do
Christians, why do Gentile believers have a debt
to the Jews?
Have you read Romans 9, 10, and 11?
I mean, where would we be without the
patriarchs, without Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob?
Where would we be without the prophets?
Where would we be without the Word of
God?
They're the curators.
They're the ones that guarded the Word of
God and wrote it down, note by letter
by letter, century after century after century.
What a debt we have to them.
The covenants, the law, how to live a
godly life in an ungodly world.
The one true God of Abraham, Isaac, and
Jacob in a world that was filled with
idolatry and godlessness, and still is.
All of this came from the Jews.
And greatest of all, the Messiah.
The human channel for the Messiah to come
and save the world.
Oh God, the one new man.
You know, it says we're being built together
a dwelling place for God in the Spirit.
That's the way it all began.
Read the New Testament.
The first, I was reading this just the
other day.
The first piece of theology in the great
Roman letter is what?
You know what it is?
It's Romans 1, 16.
I'm not ashamed of the gospel of God.
It's the power of God to salvation.
To the Jew first.
And also to the Greek.
I've heard it quoted everywhere.
I'm not ashamed of the gospel of God.
It's the power of God to salvation.
Yeah, but you leave out the Jews.
What did Paul do?
Paul made himself, he said, a prisoner for
the Gentiles' sake.
He was in jail.
The Jewish apostle to the Gentiles.
Where would we be if he hadn't obeyed
the man from Macedonia that said, come to
Europe.
Hallelujah.
He was all Jewish apostles.
I've been to India.
I've been on the mountain where the Hindus
crucified and skinned alive the apostle Thomas.
And people there say, we go all the
way back to Thomas.
That Jewish apostle brought the gospel to India.
Now there's a huge revival going on there.
We have a debt to the Jewish people.
The church started that way.
Let's read Ephesians 2 quickly.
Part of it.
I know Pastor Carter read it a minute
ago.
But I just want to read part of
it again.
Verse 11.
Ephesians 2, 11.
Therefore remember that you once Gentiles in the
flesh who are called on circumcision by what
is called the circumcision made in the flesh
by hand.
That at the time you were without Messiah,
without Christ being aliens from the commonwealth of
Israel.
The world, the Roman Empire didn't know anything
about the commonwealth of Israel.
They didn't know anything about temple worship.
They didn't know anything about Psalms.
They didn't know anything about the God of
Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
They didn't know anything about covenants.
They didn't know any of that.
We're aliens.
Verse 13.
But now in Christ Jesus, you who once
were far off have been brought near by
the blood of Christ.
Jesus Christ.
Yeshua the Messiah.
Which we sang about today.
He brought the Gentiles in.
The Jewish Messiah through His blood.
He Himself is our peace.
Verse 14.
He's made both one.
Jew and Gentile.
My wife and I.
But the church.
You know, the Jews are the fathers.
They're the patriarchs.
They're the older brother.
They were.
It was all one.
Look what Paul.
Paul's writing it.
It's our theology.
In Ephesus.
There were Jews and Gentiles in that great
revival up in Ephesus.
So He says, He Himself is our peace
and made both one.
Broken down the middle wall.
Verse 15.
Having abolished in His flesh the law of
ordinances and so on.
And made in Himself one new man.
New.
Chenos.
When I met Jesus, I became a new
creation.
Old things passed away.
Behold, all things were new.
Pure.
Virginal.
Never before touched.
That's what the word means.
A new man.
But now I married her.
We're a new unit.
Hallelujah.
She's still a Jew and I'm a Gentile.
But we're one.
Hallelujah.
That's the way the church was supposed to
be.
The Jews are the repository of all this
church.
All this truth.
And they all went out and got crucified
and killed and martyred to give it to
the Gentiles.
That's how it all started.
Now look what He says.
Verse 16.
And they might reconcile them both to God
in one body.
Through the cross.
Thereby putting to death the hatred.
Our Arab pastor is on our DVD and
he testifies.
He hated the Jews.
Then he met Jesus.
The Lord showed him this scripture.
And He said, if this hatred is alive,
it needs to be killed.
And he said, kill it.
Now he went to Auschwitz with our Jewish
pastor.
They're both in their 30s.
They're both from Haifa.
One's a Jew and one's an Arab.
They are the one new man.
And they went to Auschwitz together.
Because our Arab pastor, Joseph is his name,
said, I want to see what my Jewish
brothers went through.
Because I don't know enough about it.
He broke down the wall of division.
Any division you're going through in a marriage.
Listen, if he can break down the wall
of division between Isaac and Ishmael, he can
break down any division.
It's the longest running family feud in history.
Now listen, the covenants come through Isaac, but
there are tremendous promises for the Arab people
through Ishmael and Hagar.
You read it.
Just get out a map and look at
it.
Gigantic oil and power and so on.
Okay, so let's go on.
He came and preached peace to you who
were far off and to those who were
near.
Verse 17.
Verse 22.
In whom also you are being built together
a dwelling place for God and the Spirit.
Now look at chapter 3, verse 1.
Remember, there was no chapters when it was
written.
For this reason, I, Paul, a prisoner of
Jesus Christ for you non-Jews.
Hallelujah.
I mean, that beat up little Jew would
walk into a town with his back stripped
and beaten and almost drowned and starved and
stoned to death and then got up and
whistled and went in and said, Anybody want
to be an elder?
I mean, that guy breathed the power of
the Holy Spirit.
And he would go into a town and
go into a synagogue.
He was the Jew first.
He'd get the scroll, he'd read Isaiah 61.
This is about Yeshua.
I know all about him.
He appeared to me on the Damascus road.
Some of them believed, some of them didn't.
Then the Gentiles came, planted a church.
It was Jews and Gentiles.
Everywhere he went.
It's just there.
I mean, it's undeniable.
So then, verse 6.
Verse 3, 3, 3.
How that by the revelation he made known
the mystery as I've already written to you.
Look at verse 6.
What is the mystery?
That the Gentiles should be fellow heirs in
the same body and partakers of the promises
in Messiah through the gospel.
Verse 9.
And make all see what is the fellowship
of the mystery.
Look at verse 10.
Why is God doing Jew and Gentile together?
That the manifold wisdom of God might be
made known by the church to the principalities
and powers in the heavenly places.
The power of God that rested on the
first century church was Jews and non-Jews
worshipping Jesus in spirit and in truth.
It changed the Roman Empire.
It turned it upside down.
And they didn't have e-mails and iPhones.
They had sandals and blisters and boats.
And they went and preached and changed the
empire.
And God wants to do it again.
Look, it's the stewardship of the mystery is
what it says.
I'm a steward.
Okay?
A steward is a waiter.
I simply come and say, Here, it's the
one new man.
It's always been Jew and Gentile.
I deliver it to you.
I'm like the guy that brings the pizza
here, you know?
Here, open it up.
It's the mystery.
This is what Paul says.
It was a mystery to him.
I mean, he'd been an Orthodox Jew.
He was a rabbi.
Imagine when the Lord said, Now go and
tell the Gentiles about the Jewish Messiah.
But he went just like Peter.
He was always Jew and Gentile.
Turn to Jeremiah 31 for a moment.
Jeremiah 31.
When Karen and I moved to Israel, an
amazing thing happened.
The Soviet Union collapsed.
Boom.
Back came a million Russian Jews.
We knew it was going to happen because
it's written.
I know people who walked around the Kremlin
and prayed for it.
I know a man who wrote a book
and prophesied Exodus 2.
Well, it happened.
All of a sudden, Russians were everywhere.
Getting off the boat at Haifa, we'd sit
on the porch at House of Victory looking.
Here they came from Odessa.
The Ukrainian security people had taken all the
money and taken all their watches and wedding
rings and they had plastic bags.
But here they came.
And we knew why they were coming.
Because they were going to meet their Messiah
on the mountains of Israel.
Hallelujah.
We lived through this.
We saw it.
It's still happening.
Now, look at Isaiah 31, verse 3.
This, in its context, is to the Jews.
Of course, it's also for you if you're
a born-again believer.
The Lord has appeared of old to me,
saying, Yes, I have loved you with an
everlasting love.
God's love, long-suffering for the Jewish people,
is so...
He's their husband.
I was a father to Ephraim.
Any father here ever had a rebellious teenager?
Well, how would you feel if it was
going on for 4,000 years and it
was million?
I mean, imagine what the father's heart is.
But now, in this day, they're coming back.
He's regathering them.
He's restoring them.
They're going to repent.
There's going to be a renewal of the
Holy Spirit like we've never seen.
Paul says it'll be life from the dead.
Now, in our day, at this moment.
So, look what he says.
Again, I will build you.
Verse 4.
And you shall be rebuilt, O virgin of
Israel.
You shall be adorned with your tambourines.
Here she is.
She's got her tambourine.
Hallelujah.
We dance on the mountains of Israel.
Praise the Lord.
You come and join us.
We'll get you dancing too.
Praise the...
We got to dance in Israel.
I mean, what we're facing over there.
We just praise...
Everything that has breath, praise the Lord.
Put him under your feet.
Hallelujah.
Okay.
What do you do about this?
Look at verse 7.
For thus says the Lord, Sing with gladness
for Jacob.
Do it.
We were singing, Awake, O Israel.
Imagine this roar going up into the heavenlies.
God will do something with it.
Shout among the chief of the nations.
America is the chief of the nations, at
least for now.
I won't go into that.
But I'll tell you this.
Anyone who divides the nation of Israel, any
government, look out.
All you have to do is look at
the history.
Anyone who divides Jerusalem, you pray for your
government.
Pray for Condoleezza Rice.
You pray for President George Bush.
They're believers.
I've read their testimony.
Pray, you know, pray for America.
Because God is called the recompense of God
for the cause of Zion.
God will judge the Jews, but God forbid
that some nation starts having us make a
suicide pact with an enemy that wants to
drive us into the sea.
Okay.
Proclaim and give praise, O Lord.
Save your people, the remnant of Israel.
That's what the church needs to do.
Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.
Peace in Hebrew, shalom, means something that's been
purchased.
It means the salvation of the Jews and
Arabs of Israel.
Pray for the peace, the shalom.
You can't have shalom with God unless you're
right with Him.
The wicked, there is no shalom.
They will bless.
You will be blessed.
Who loved Jerusalem, who care about the Jewish
people.
Now look at verse 8.
I will bring them from the north country.
They came.
We were sitting there.
We saw this.
And gathered them from the ends of the
earth.
Among them, the blind, the lame, the woman
with child.
A great throng will come there.
Oh, I could tell you stories of drug
addicts that were living on the streets.
Their sores running out.
One of them was an artist and Stalin
had sent thousands of Jews out to Siberia
to die.
He lived out there with all those Jews.
But when the Soviet Union collapsed, he was
able to come to Haifa.
He got saved.
His marriage got restored.
He now has a child.
He lives a block from me and Karen.
He works at House of Victory.
He's a fulfillment of all this.
He found furniture on the streets.
He's an artist.
He fixed it all up.
He loves to have us to dinner there.
His wife cooks for us.
They have a decent life.
It's the fulfillment of these scriptures.
He said, I will bring them back to
the mountains of Israel.
Ezekiel 36.
I will pour clean water on them.
I'll put my spirit in them.
I'll cause them to walk in my ways.
And then New York will know.
Then all the nations round about will know
that I'm the Lord.
Of course, that's new covenant theology.
That's for you.
But it's for us too.
And it's happening today.
I did a wedding once.
A young lady came to the Lord.
A Jewish woman.
She married one of our workers at House
of Victory.
He's an American.
She's a Jew.
He's not a Jew.
He's a one new man.
Hallelujah.
We're doing a wedding.
The mountain of Carmel is there.
The Mediterranean Sea is there.
It's out of doors.
And as I'm doing the wedding, I'm looking
at 300 Jews that don't know the Lord
and about 100 of our people.
And the Holy Spirit said, preach your gospel
to them.
So I started telling them about Nicodemus and
the new birth.
And she came back.
And she has clean water.
And the Holy Spirit's in her.
And they're sitting there like, what kind of
wedding is this?
Her father's sitting in the front seat and
he paid for it, right?
His name's Mordecai.
Wait a minute.
Listen to what happened.
The dancing at that wedding was our worship
team.
We got 400 Jews singing, Yeshua, Jesus.
It was a prophetic wedding.
Mordecai holds up the cup to bless his
daughter.
And you go, L'chaim, which means to
life.
And Mordecai stands up on the platform with
a microphone and says, L'chaim and hallelujah.
Means praise Jehovah.
You know what happened?
She calls me and she said, you remember
my father Mordecai?
I said, how can I forget him?
L'chaim and hallelujah.
By the way, he was a tax collector
at the port of Haifa.
Jesus loves the tax collectors.
Amen?
She said, he's watching the video of the
wedding and now he believes in Jesus.
Hallelujah.
This is happening.
He says, I will cut a new covenant
with the house of Judah and with the
house of Israel.
Of course, it's the new covenant we celebrated.
But it's for them and they think it's
some Christian thing.
We had a drug addict at House of
Victory years ago.
Her name is Bracha, which means blessing.
She was a hardcore heroin addict.
We read Jeremiah 31, 31.
She said, I was speaking Hebrew.
She said, oh, that's the Christian Bible.
I said, here, read this.
Gave her an army Bible.
Here, read this.
She read it.
She got saved.
She said, it's my Bible.
It's to us.
A couple years ago, I was at a
wedding.
This lady comes up to me and she
says, do you remember me?
And I said, yeah.
You're Bracha.
How you doing?
She said, I'm still walking with Yeshua, Jesus.
My husband's a believer.
This is it.
And these are my two daughters.
I'm telling you, these scriptures are being fulfilled
today.
Now, let me ask you something.
If it all started with the one new
man, how did it get lost?
What happened?
In 325 A.D., Constantine, the emperor, they
had a big council called the Council of
Nicaea.
They would not allow, they were Jewish leaders
all through the congregations, all over the Middle
East.
In Europe, they wouldn't let him come.
They put him out.
He was anti-Semitic.
So the creed, the Nicaean Creed, which maybe
you remember as a kid was written, has
nothing to do with the whole Jewishness of
how all this happened.
And you know what?
When they put the Jews out of the
church, it was the first, and I believe,
most grievous split.
How many denominations are there now?
I read somewhere that there's 200,000.
Could that be true?
Shortly after the Council of Nicaea, you know
what happened to the Roman Empire?
It split right down the middle.
Constantinople then became Istanbul.
Islam overran the Middle East.
They lost the power of God.
They lost the word of God.
They lost the moving of the Holy Spirit.
They put the Jews out.
And the church descended into the Dark Ages.
And the Jews became the people that had
brought the light.
In Norwich, England, Elijah started.
Constantine changed the calendar and created Easter.
Now we celebrate Resurrection Day, but it's at
Passover.
Read the New Testament.
Jesus was the Lamb of God who was
slain before the foundation of the world.
They were killing the Passover lambs.
He was raised from the dead after three
days.
It's at Passover.
We call it Resurrection Day.
But Easter was put in the new Roman
calendar.
It's so many days after the vernal equinox
or something like that.
Because Constantine was bringing all of this pagan
stuff into the church.
And so Easter is named after the god
Ishtar, a Babylonian Roman god.
So we don't call it Easter.
But you know why it's difficult for Jews?
Because it was at Easter for centuries, the
lie went forth from Norwich, England, that Orthodox
Jews kill Christian children, take their blood, make
matzo, the unleavened bread that we eat at
celebrating the Passover, and they're demonic.
So what happened?
Jews were hounded, slaughtered, anger, incitement, mass murders.
One of the founding fathers of the church
in those days, the greatest preacher of his
day, listen to what he said.
The Jews are worse than wild beasts.
They worship the avenging angels.
They're men possessed by the devil.
They have the manners of a pig and
lusty goat.
They kill and maim one another.
You think, okay, well, that was the Roman
version of the church.
Well, let me read you another one.
Destroy their homes, forbid rabbis to teach, tear
their tongues out through the back of their
necks.
If they teach, there will be pain of
death and life or limb.
You know who wrote that?
Martin Luther, just before he died.
Now you think, well, what does this have
to do with it?
You see, the Jews were put out.
You know, it's too painful to go through
it.
Hitler quoted this.
Hitler said, this is the national church of
Germany.
He quoted it.
He said, well, that's what the founder said.
You know that as six million Jews were
systematically slaughtered.
You know, the Crusaders came to Jerusalem and
burned all the Jews in the synagogue and
walked around with crosses singing Christ we adore
thee.
The Jews know that.
We learn it in the schools.
It's history.
Not only that, they killed every Jew they
could find as they went across Europe.
And they chanted kill a Jew and go
to heaven.
Christians, people that called themselves, carried crosses, sang
hymns at one of the camps on Christmas
Eve.
All the guards were in the barracks singing
Christmas carols as the Jewish women were taken
into the gas chambers and children were ripped
away from them and burned alive in a
fire outside the chambers to save a little
gas.
And so the women, as they died, they
heard this.
Silent night, holy night.
There should be a gasp if you don't
know these things.
This is what the church, so-called Christians,
have done to the Jews when it should
have been Jews and Gentiles.
It didn't have to be this way.
But now, thank God for the nows, now,
now, where is the church going to stand?
What will the church do in these end
times?
The true church of Jesus Christ.
In the dark ages, they neglected or they
rejected the prophetic word of God that Peter
was talking about.
It's right there to read.
So when finally people were burned at the
stake and we got the Bible, like Wycliffe
and Tyndale and people like that, John Hus
and others.
And British people read the Bible and the
Puritans got and said, look at this, they're
going back to the land.
They're going to meet him on the mountains
of Israel.
There was this pure stream that was really,
there's always been a torch of the testimony.
You can find it, I have a book
called The Torch of the Testimony that traces
the true church throughout all the dark ages
and so on.
But now, what are you going to do
about it?
What is the church going to do about
it?
I'm convinced, I was telling Pastor Carter, there
is a divine mandate, especially on Times Square
Church.
Why?
You are in a city where there are
more Jews than any place in the world,
than anywhere except Israel.
They're all around you.
I look at the picture of these three
guys and we're singing, Oh, Awake, Oh Israel.
I'm saying, Lord, pour your spirit out on
those rabbis and let them start dancing and
meeting their Messiah.
It happened to Paul, why can't it happen
to others?
Praise the Lord.
God is looking at His church and saying,
Where will you stand in these last days?
The Lord wants to rekindle what was lost
and release the simplicity and the purity and
the power of the first century church.
That's all we're trying to do in Israel.
Get back to the way it was supposed
to be.
And the glory of the latter house is
greater than the first house.
Hallelujah.
Now I'm going to end with Zechariah chapter
4.
We don't have time to turn there, but
you study it when you go home.
Zechariah chapter 4, he wakes up the prophet
and says, What do you see?
And Zechariah says, I see one of these,
a seven-branch golden candlestick.
We call it a menorah in Hebrew.
He knew what it represented.
It represents the fullness of the Holy Spirit.
You know in the Old Testament and New
Testament, seven spirits before the throne of God.
It represented the fullness because the priest had
to keep it lit 24 hours a day
in the temple.
The first one was made by a name
in Betzalel in the tabernacle in the wilderness,
had this awesome anointing and made it out.
One piece of beaten, purified gold.
So that prophet knew about that.
But on each side, he saw an olive
tree.
So he said, What are these, my Lord?
And the Holy Spirit keeps speaking to him
and he says things like this.
It's not by might, it's not by power,
but by my spirit, says the Lord of
armies.
Now I know you love that scripture and
I love it.
He heard it for the first time because
Zerubbabel had stopped building the temple.
And so the Lord was prophesying to the
prophet, you tell him to finish the house.
God wants to finish his church so he
can come back.
So he says, It's not by might, and
he says, It's grace, grace, grace.
This mountain will be removed.
Don't despise the day of small beginning.
All these wonderful truths that feed us in
our walk with the Lord.
And he keeps saying, But what are the
two olive trees?
He said, Don't you know?
Three times, he sees two olive branches from
the two trees pouring golden oil into the
bowls that keep the candles lit.
We know what that is.
It's the Holy Spirit.
It's the anointing of the Holy Spirit.
So he sees that and he says, What
are these?
And the Lord speaks to him and here's
what he says at the end of Zechariah
4.
These are the sons or daughters of fresh
oil who stand beside the Lord of the
whole earth.
It's not just about Israel, Jewish prophet.
It's the whole world I'm talking about.
Now he knows what one of the olive
trees was.
It's Israel.
Because it says so in the Old Testament.
What's the other olive tree?
He didn't know who the second olive tree
was.
But we should.
Because the best commentary in the Old Testament
is the New Testament.
Let me quickly read it to you as
we finish here.
I'm going to read Romans 11.
Chapter 24.
Romans 11, verse 24, excuse me.
Romans 11, 24.
The Word of God.
If you were cut out of an olive
tree which was wild by nature, he's talking
to non-Jews.
I'm a wild olive tree.
Hallelujah, I admit it.
And were grafted contrary to nature and it
was contrary to my physical nature when the
Lord got a hold of me.
Into a cultivated olive tree.
Here's my cultivated olive tree.
Hallelujah.
The Jews.
Why are they cultivated?
Because they had the Word.
They had the temple worship and all the
Gentiles didn't.
How much more will those who are natural
branches be grafted back into their own olive
tree?
They're coming back into the tree, the Jews.
For I do not desire, brethren, that you
should be ignorant of this mystery.
It's a mystery but now it's revealed to
us.
That don't be wise in your own opinion
that blindness in part has happened to Israel
until, here's another until.
The fullness of the Gentiles has come in
and so all Israel will be saved as
it's written.
The deliverer will come from Zion.
He will turn away ungodliness from Jacob and
this is my covenant I will make with
them when I take away their sins.
For the gifts and calling of God are
irrevocable.
The call of God on Israel is irrevocable.
That's what the context is all about.
Now the fullness of the Gentiles yes, it
can mean pluroma, it can mean the full
number but it also means the fullness of
the spiritual life of God's true church.
Are you part of it?
These two olive trees.
Now I'm going to ask two olive trees
to come over here for a moment.
Karen, why don't you come?
Here comes my cultivated olive tree and Pastor
Carter you'll have to forgive me but you'll
have to argue this out with the Apostle
Paul.
He called you a wild olive tree.
He was a policeman.
He wasn't that wild.
So what we're going to do here is
we're going to the two olive trees.
This is the church.
How do we know that?
Revelations chapter one.
There's seven of them.
Jesus is standing in the middle of it.
This is the church the true church.
It's Jew and Gentile.
If you want all seven I mean you
can have three if you want but if
you want all seven I mean we need
you.
And you need you need to get your
arms around the revelation that the Jews are
coming in to get the fullness of what
God has for your life and your church.
So Karen, why don't you light three of
these first?
It's to the Jew first, okay?
Hallelujah.
Here come the Jews.
Here come the Gentiles now.
Let's put our hands together and light the
middle one.
Okay.
Hallelujah.
Thank you.
Let me say one more thing as we
close here.
This represents the full anointing of the church
of Jesus Christ in the last days.
You need the fullness for your life.
When Jesus was in the Garden of Gethsemane
on the Mount of Olives where he's coming
back as he wept as he fell on
his face as his men fell asleep he
was in a place called, Gethsemane in Hebrew
got shemin it means oil press.
It was a, they carved out a stone
thing and they shook the trees and they
got the olives and they put them in
there and families took off their feet and
they carefully pressed the olives.
We have olive trees around our building on
Mount Carmel and at House of Victory you
know, we do this.
And so you get pure olive oil which
is the anointing.
Now listen to me.
He was crushed for our iniquities.
He went through that on the Mount of
Olives that you could be a green olive
tree in the House of the Lord.
Even in old age it says, hallelujah, flourishing.
Now I know you need a new anointing.
You need a new anointing to even absorb
some of what you've heard today.
But besides that the Lord wants to give
you a fresh touch of His Holy Spirit.
If dead flies in a perfumer's oil make
it smell bad it's sin.
If you need to be set free from
anything if you've been struggling with anything and
you want to just for a couple of
moments have God really get a hold of
you I'm going to ask you to let's
all stand I'm going to ask you to
come down here quickly we're going to pray
over you and we want to seal that
the whole church will get the revelation of
this one new man and the two olive
trees.
If you're desperate for a new anointing and
you haven't experienced victory in any area of
your life you just come quickly.
If you don't know Jesus come.
You can meet Him right here, right now.
Hallelujah.
Thank you for the anointing Lord.
It's the anointing that breaks the yoke.
Lord I ask you that you will release
upon everyone here a desperation for more of
you Jesus.
You tell Jesus you love Him now.
If you don't know Him tell Him you
love Him and you want to know Him.
Just tell Him you love Him.
Let's pray this prayer out together.
Lord Jesus I love you.
Thank you for dying for me.
Thank you for what you went through in
the garden.
Thank you that you were crushed for my
sins.
Forgive all of my sins.
Set me free.
Fill me with your spirit in a new
way.
I want a song in the night.
I want to worship you in spirit and
in truth in all the darkness around my
life.
Now let me pray for you.
Lord Jesus you see these people.
You brought them here today to this beautiful
place.
Don't let anyone leave here without having received
an impartation of your love your faithfulness you've
been faithful to Israel and you're faithful to
us.
We can walk with you we can endure
to the end through you Lord.
Lord impart into each one supernaturally by your
spirit fresh oil.
Make us all sons and daughters of fresh
oil who will stand with the Lord of
the whole earth in these last days even
like these two olive trees.
And I pray over Times Square Church that
all seven the fullness of God's destiny for
this church will be released in such measure
as they stand with Israel as they cry
out for the Muslims as they stand for
the nations and the city of New York
and all the other things you put upon
them Lord.
Thank you that you have brought us together
as Jew and Gentile in one body a
dwelling place for God in the spirit.
May the mandate from heaven be picked up
and may you release the fullness to this
church that's been in your heart before the
foundation of the world.
In Jesus wonderful wonderful name.
Amen.
Hallelujah.
Let's worship him.
Just take a minute.
Kadosh.
Holy.
We're singing with the angel.
The Lord God almighty who was and is
and is to come.
Hallelujah.
Kadosh Holy Kadosh
Kadosh Kadosh Kadosh
Kadosh Kadosh Adonai
Elohim Tz'vor The Lord God almighty Adonai
Elohim Tz'vor He was and he is
and he is to come He was and
he is and he is to come He
was and to is and to is to
come Kadosh Kadosh Kadosh
Holy Kadosh Kadosh
Kadosh Adonai Elohim
Tz'vor The Lord God almighty Adonai Elohim
Tz'vor He was and to
is and to is to come Hallelujah Hallelujah
to is to come Lord Jesus He was
and to is and to is to come
Hallelujah Hallelujah to come He
was and to is and to is to
come