Sid: There’s something going on it’s almost in the atmosphere it’s by the Spirit of God. Christians that have never had a burden for the Jewish people or Israel are supernaturally getting this burden. One of the things that many Christians are finding is that our roots, the roots of our Biblical faith were hijacked by this character Constantine. We’ve been anemic in intimacy with God ever since, but as God is restoring the original roots of the faith; as God is bringing the Jew and the Gentile together; as God is breaking down that middle wall of separation the intimacy is being restored with God. That’s why I got so fascinated when last Passover I was in Israel and I met my friends the Morey’s and I saw their calendar that they had proposed to come out for the beginning of the month of September, it’s called The Zechariah Prophecy Calendar. I literally fell in love with it. This calendar is produced and printed in Israel. It’s 13.5 x 26. A Russian artist did the artwork from prophecies in Zechariah in English as well as Hebrew. I know that I’m always wondering what is the exact date of Yom Kippur or Passover? Also the exact scriptures that are read in the synagogues on each of these Biblical festivals. So you have this very beautiful calendar, the artwork is literally suitable for framing. Some of you will probably tear it apart but don’t do it it’s too beautiful. This calendar… and there’s actually room to write your… it’s a large enough calendar to write your appointments or things you have scheduled…. This is a 16 month calendar and it starts in the month of September because that’s the Jewish New Year and we have so many festivals that begin in that month and it’s about time you start understanding your Jewish roots and identifying with Jewish people. I have Eric Morey on the telephone; I’m speaking to him at his office in Tiberias, Israel. On yesterday’s broadcast we were talking about why he chose the book of Zechariah to have illustrated. It’s not just pretty pictures, I mean each… there’s a presence of God on this. Eric and his wife Terri have been living in Israel. Eric is not Jewish from Denver, Colorado. His wife Terri is Jewish and you have been there… did you tell me what 19 years?
Eric: Yes Sid.
Sid: Living in Israel. So you’ve seen a lot of changes in those 19 years.
Eric: Hmm, it’s true we’ve been here for more than a third of the lifetime of this country.
Sid: Just off the top of your head, from the day you arrived until today what’s one of the biggest changes you’ve seen?
Eric: Well we see especially recently a real opening to the gospel here. We see that as a developing thing but we’ve seen recently, very recently actually, an acceleration in that that’s very very exciting.
Sid: Well I believe that the scripture, the word of the Lord, will go about from Zion. Is literally going to be fulfilled in our lifetime. Fiery evangelists like Paul the Apostle are going to be literally knocked off their horse, rabbis are going to come to the Lord and the word of the Lord will go out from Zion. These Jewish believers are going to breathe new life into the church, that’s what I see happening. However, we were talking about Zechariah the 12th chapter yesterday and I was reading from the 3rd verse about what is actually occurring before our very eyes. I’ll read it again “And it shall happen in that day that I will make Jerusalem a very heavy stone for all peoples. All who would heave it away would surely be cut in pieces though all nations of the earth are gathered against it.” So I said to Eric yesterday “Eric, aren’t you a little concerned you and your wife living there right in the center of a place that God says ‘All the nations of the world are going to come against you?’ Isn’t it a little scary?” And you said “Yeah the scary part means all the United States of America.”
Eric: Hmm. Yeah we… when we did this painting actually we did this painting twice of Zechariah 12:3 of the nations gathered against Jerusalem. We did one was kind of timeless where they were sort of dressed in Biblical costume and it was kind of a mythical Jerusalem there in the center that they were attacking. Then I began to realize that we’re talking about something that’s about to happen. In fact, it is happening. You can see the nations of the world lining up against Jerusalem. For example, go back to 1947 the United Nations voted General Assembly voted 2/3 to have a Jewish state created in what was then called Palestine. So 2/3 of the General Assembly voted for Israel in 1947. In the last few votes in the General Assembly, and there is an inordinate number of votes, hugely unbalanced number of votes concerned with Israel, always against Israel. The votes today are usually something like 153 to 2, or 153 to 3, and 3 are usually Israel, the United States, and Micronesia or something like that. It’s unbelievable, it’s supernatural. 153 nations usually don’t agree on anything in this world, yet against Israel they will agree. Yet if you recall a few months in the Security Council they had a… when Israel was going into Jenin and the United Nations of course had to discuss this and express their views about it. They voted in the Security Council 15 to nothing against Israel, Israel must immediately withdraw from the cities which they had entered out of self-defense. There were bombers coming out of these places killing civilians. The United Nations got up and said “No, you have to leave now.” 15 to nothing means the United States voted against Israel.
Sid: I happen to believe in Genesis 12:3, I was very grateful that our president delayed the formation of a Palestinian state. I used to be a stockbroker Eric with Merrill Lynch. There is something called “selling the market short,” in effect you bet the stock market will go down as opposed to going up. I said to a number of my friends “If the president of the United States votes for an immediate Palestinian state you can make a fortune, sell the market short it’s going to go south. I think forever.” We were given a little grace in the United States and that was stalled and I’m going to believe that God has a great plan for America and America will not, as you just illustrated, be on the wrong side of the fence when it comes to the vote for a Palestinian state.
Eric: Eventually they’ll send for Zechariah 12:3 to come to pass for all the nations of the world to come against Jerusalem. Again as you see these conflicts developing it is clearer and clearer that Jerusalem is the focal point of this whole conflict; not only Jerusalem but the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. This whole Intifada started the day… Ariel Sharon wasn’t even Prime Minister yet walked up on the Temple Mount. The Camp David process with Barak and Clinton broke down, and Arafat broke down because they would not release the Sovereignty Act… Barak was willing to give some autonomy in Jerusalem but he wasn’t willing to give sovereignty and Arafat would not accept anything less and that’s when it broke down. So Jerusalem is the focal point, the core of this conflict is the Temple Mount. Why? Because the Temple Mount is God’s throne on earth. The devil, whom I believe is one and the same with Allah, wants to dethrone God from His throne on earth on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. You can read all about it in Isaiah 14.
Sid: Let’s go back to Zechariah, I just believe… now you call it the Zechariah Prophecy Calendar but I believe it’s just purely a prophetic calendar. Zechariah it reads like to me like today’s newspaper of some of the things it says. I’m looking at Zechariah 14 “For I’ll gather all the nations to battle against Jerusalem. The city shall be taken, the houses rifled, the women ravaged, then the Lord will go forth and fight against those nations and in that day His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, the Mount of Olives will be split in two.” I’ve been told there’s a geological fault on the Mount of Olives that could very well be the beginning of that splitting in two.
Eric: Yeah I understand that too. I’ve seen some drawings in fact of that. It is going to split in two, and it’s going to go to the north and it’s going to go to the south. There’s going to be a valley created in between and the Jews, the survivors who are left in the siege and destruction are going to flee out to that valley. At that very moment, and this is another painting in this calendar, at that very moment Zechariah 14:5 it says “And the Lord my God shall come and all the holy ones will see.”
Sid: Describe that painting I see it too it’s beautiful.
Eric: Yeshua is coming on the clouds of heaven on a white horse, exactly how He is described in Revelation. In fact this painting is triggered from Isaiah 14:5, Zechariah 14:5 but it combines descriptions from Matthew 24, from Isaiah 63, and from Revelation19 because they all describe the same scene of the Lord coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. There’s 2 angels blowing trumpets, as He comes this the trumpet the last… you talk about the last great shofar, this is it. The armies of heaven behind Him coming on the clouds it’s an exquisite painting. Yeshua is saying something because Revelation 19 says He’s got a sword in His mouth. Well you suppose He has a literal figure, actual metal sword coming out of His mouth? I don’t think so, I think it’s the word of God because the word of God is a sword of the Spirit. It’s described as a sword in many cases it divides between soul and spirit. So we pondered over this “What would He be saying, what words would be coming out of His mouth at that moment?” Then we discovered in Isaiah 63 that scripture, interpret scripture, and in Isaiah 63 there’s a dialogue and the narrator asks this question “Who is this coming from Bozrah and Edom with His robes dyed in red?” Describing the Messiah, you’ll see in this picture His robe is dyed in red. Then He answers…
Sid: Hold that thought.
Tags: its supernatural, Sid Roth
Tags: its supernatural, Sid Roth