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Masada's Mystery
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| So here's the next thing. | |
| So every Jubilee starts something. | |
| Everything Jubilee builds on the next one, next piece of the puzzle, each one from the time of the first one we saw, where it's just at the beginning of the land getting released. | |
| Next one, the land is given to Israel. | |
| Next one, Jerusalem, and it's going to continue on. | |
| So now there are mysteries here. | |
| And one of the mysteries in this fourth door is the mystery of Masada. | |
| And you were there, Masada. | |
| Masada. | |
| Masada with you, Rabbi, a few years ago. | |
| Yes. | |
| Yes. | |
| For those who don't know, Masada is a desert mountain fortress. | |
| And Masada is really the ancient grave of Israel. | |
| Because Israel, in 70 AD, the Romans came in, destroyed the city, as Jesus prophesied. | |
| And the fighters then went to another mountain, which was Masada. | |
| Masada is connected to Jerusalem. | |
| So now they go from Jerusalem, fall Jerusalem, to Masada. | |
| And then a few years later, they hold it out for a few years. | |
| And then the Romans come to destroy it before they're taken captive. | |
| The soldiers end their own lives rather than being taken captive. | |
| So this is the end. | |
| This is the grave of ancient Israel, Masada. | |
| But what people don't realize is there was a mystery hidden in that grave. | |
| God put a mystery in the grave. | |
| He put on Masada. | |
| He put a mystery that was there for 2,000 years. | |
| The Jewish people are scattered around the world. | |
| They're being persecuted. | |
| But on their ancient grave, God inserted, embedded a mystery. | |
| And it was waiting for 2,000 years until the Jewish people came back. | |
| Until they decided when they came back, we're going to return to Masada. | |
| So the nation returns. | |
| They send an expedition of thousands of people and they end up to uncover their ancient grave and see what's there. | |
| So they start uncovering it. | |
| As they uncover it, they uncover it and they find the mystery. | |
| There's a parchment waiting for 2,000 years in Masada. | |
| What's on the parchment? | |
| As they open it up, on the parchment, it says, it's the prophet Ezekiel. | |
| It's from his scroll. | |
| It says, the Lord took me into a valley of dry bones. | |
| Then he said, Son of man, can these bones live? | |
| And he said, this is the nation of Israel. | |
| Though it was dead, God says, I will resurrect it, raise it up from the dead. | |
| I will bring them back to life. | |
| I will bring my people back to my land. | |
| So they're reading this. | |
| Here they are. | |
| The resurrected nation is reading on their own grave. | |
| They're reading the words of God. | |
| And then it says, and I will open your grave, said God. | |
| So as they're opening the grave, it says, I will open their grave waiting for 2,000 years. | |
| Incredible. | |
| See, when God makes a promise, when God makes a promise, he doesn't forget it. | |
| It doesn't matter if it's 2,000 years with Israel, 3,000 years. | |
| He doesn't forget any of his promises. | |
| So how much more the promise is in your life? | |
| He's not going to forget it. | |
| Okay? | |
| If God is faithful to Israel, he's going to be faithful to your life. | |
| And even if something is hopeless and dead, our God is the God of resurrection. | |
| I mean, it's the only nation. | |
| We have the only Savior in the world who was resurrected. | |
| And he's the king of Israel. | |
| Why? | |
| Israel was resurrected. | |
| Why? | |
| Because a nation has to follow its king. | |
| So the only nation in the world that was resurrected is the nation that has its king who was resurrected, Jesus. | |
| That is our God. | |
| That is our God of resurrection. | |
| Awesome. | |
| It's mind-blowing. | |
| And there's another mystery in this because I told you the two mountains are connected together. | |
| First was the fall of Jerusalem. | |
| Then a few years later was the fall of Masada. | |
| So here's a mystery here that's in this, in this, and I'll just touch on it. | |
| And that is that when God brings restoration, he reverses the fall. | |
| He reverses all that happened. | |
| He plays it back in reverse. | |
| So what happens if you reverse the fall of Israel? | |
| Well, you had Jerusalem fell first. | |
| They left Jerusalem. | |
| They went to Masada. | |
| It fell. | |
| They left Masada. | |
| That was the end. | |
| So therefore it would say that Israel will return to Masada and if it returns to Masada, they will return to Jerusalem. | |
| So if you see Israel return to Masada, it's going to return to the gates of Jerusalem. | |
| And so the amazing thing is, when you look at when this happened, in ancient times, it was separated by about three and a half years, three and a half years. | |
| When did Israel return to Masada? | |
| Returned in 1963. | |
| If you add three and a half years to when they returned, it takes you to 1967. | |
| Oh, my goodness. | |